Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 6 April 1954 — Page 2

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* . - Says Penal System Needs Improvement Crime Conference Is On In Indiana JNDUNAPOLIS UP — Increased personnel training on the state and local levels emerged today as one ot the chief problems coafrostIng Hoosier law enforcement officers attending a three-day crime conference. Hugh P. O'Brien, state corrections chief, spoke Monday night on his efforts to improve Indiana's penal system in the year since his office was created. Main speaker tonight will be Dr. Walter W. Reckless, professor of social administration at Ohio State University. ■* O'Brien said the corrections department plans to expand its program of personnel training which he called» his agency’s "most

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pressing problem." Earlier, delegates to a sectional meeting on police personnel and training passed resolutions appealing to the next Indiana legislature to provide funds for more adequate recruit and in-service police training, increase the else of police forces and study the need for more sheriffs' aides. About 400 persons attended the | opening session of the governor's conference on crime, the criminal and the ot criminal justice held at the Indiana state fairgrounds. Speakers at the police meeting . were Capt. Timothy Curley, Gary, i and Lt. Kenneth Waldrop, Fort i Wayne. i Curley said police departments urgently need more funds to bring their police forces above the present ratio of 1.78 officers per 1,000 population. Waldrop described the need for better training, declaring, “we owe it to oar police officers, our eomtnnnitiee and even to the criminals themselves."

Another sectional meeting beard Supt. Sydney H. Souter, Jr., of the Indiana Boys School, tell of overcrowded conditions at the institution. He said expansion was "imperative" because the 485 boys now at the school represent 55 more than its capacity. He suggested a better system of segregating older delinquents from younger ones. Warden J. Bills Overlade said the state’s new correction system hasn’t "eliminated the crime school potentialities” at the state prison. He indicated hardened criminals influence newer and younger prisoners. "We have a number of boys under 21 that do not belong there,” Overlade said. He renewed his appeal for establishment of a new intermediate institution for first-offenders between 16 and 21. With the help of the paddle-like hind toe, diving ducks can go down deep below the surface for food.

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School Attendance Crackdown Planned Cites Penalty For Failure To Attend A crackdown on school attendance in Decatur, Berne and Adams county schools was indicated today by Mrs. Mildred Foley, Adams county attendance officer. A young Decatur youth was charged in juvenile court last Saturday with absenting himself from school on several occasions and his parent was also taken into court. Mrs. Foley pointed out that when any pupik under 16 years of age violates the compulsory atendance statute the parents also may be prosecuted as contributing factors to the pupil’s delinquency. The attendance officer said that while there is no wholesale violation of the statute in Adams coun-

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Says British Planes Viewed H-Test Sites Churchill Jeered For Politics In H-Bomb Debates LONDON UP — Prime minister Winston Churchill revealed today that the United States permitted British planes to inspect American H-bomb test sites in the Pacific “a few hours” after both the March 1 and March 26 explosions. Churchill, who was under vigorous fire, even from the Conservative party press, for having accused former Laborite prime minister Clement Attlee of dropping a previous Anglo - American agreement to discuss development and use of atomic weapons, made his disclosure to the house of commons. “No British technical observers watched the H-bomb explosions," Churchill told a questioner. "But the U. S. authorities had agreed that we should have certain facilities for collecting certain scientific data bearing on their effects.” ChurchiH was greeted with a tumult of cheers and jeers as he entered commons amid one of the greatest political tempests of his long career. Angry Socialists demanded that Churchill resign for injecting party politics into the big debate Monday in the house of commons on the hydrogen bomb. The political storm was the fiercest since Churchill qgturned to office in 1951 and possibly the biggest since he first replaced Neville Chamberlain as prime minister in 1940. On British front pages the Churchill statements dwarfed President Eisenhowers declaration of Monday night that' the United States was not going- to use the hydrogen bomb first in any war. Conservative party followers of Churchill declined to speak out against the 79-year-old prime minister publidy but it was apparent some of them resented his upbraiding of former prime minister 1 Clement Attlee. Churchill’s injection of party polities into a debate begun by Attless with a non-partisan speech spurred many of the Socialist demands that he get out of office. The prime minister said that he and President Roosevelt had ai greed at Quebec in 1943 to conj suit on the- construction and use ■ of atomic weapons. After he was I defeated, Churchill said, the Labori !te government under Attlee de-j | faulted Britain’s right to consult ' with the United States. +~ ■ - . Mrs. John Peterson Reported Satisfactory 1 ■ Mrs. Jolin S. Peterson, well i known Decatur lady 4 who suffered j a fractured leg in a fall at her | 1 home last week is reported to he'[ resting well at Lutheran hospi.al.i ! Fort Wayne. I Mrs. Peterson is room :pumbeij ;210. The fracture has not been I [set but her attending physician' i reports that her condition is satis[factory. The injury 'occurred. ' while the Decatur was recovering from a hip injury suffer-1 ed several monihs ago. XOFHE OF ABMIMSn’KATIOV . - Vv. 41135 IN TITO .VTTAMS CIUCI'TT COPRT OF AI’AMS rot'NTY, INDIANA Notive-fs- hereby given- I4wrt J<mu Ij. DeVoss was bn the 2-'nd day <>! March,.JJ&L.appointed, u-cecutor .ut. the lais« Will and Testament of UathC'Tiiie Sackett, d<"-ea>ed. All persons havingn'laims against IhH es ate, wlHtflier or not now due. must file the same in said Court Within . Six months from the dat'e of the first piEHication of this notice or said claims will be ,forever barred, . 1 htted at. Deratur, Indiana, this 22nd diiy of March, 1951. EDWARD F. JABEIIG Clerk of the Circuit Court for Adams County,- Indiana De\ I>SS. SMITH & MACKDIN Attorney S/28 —30 4/ti

Juin Is Criticized By NATO Council French Marshal Is Rebuked By NATOPARIS (UP) — The 14-nation North Atlantic treaty council. In an unexpected rebuke to a high officer, criticized Marshal Alphonse Juin of France today for statements "contrary to the expllcft and repeated dedaraUfths "of policy." The NATO council issued a brief communique disclosing its censure of the outspoken marshal who has challenged French government and NATO policies with his recent attacks on plans for a European defense community. "The North Atlantic council expresses its profound regret at the public statements made by the commander - in - chief, central Europe, on 27 March 1954 and subsequently reiterated," the communique. “These statements are contrary to the explicit and repeated declarations of policy issued by the council under whose authority all NATO commanders hold their appointments.” Juin’s criticism of the sixnation European defense community, which would link West Germany into the Western European defenses, led to his being fired from all his French military positions. 7 The French government stripped him of his posts because of his defiance of premier Joseph Laniers order to explain his speech attacking the . European army plan. It appeared inevitable he would resign from his NATO positions. His political intimates said he would then join forces with Gen. Charles DeGaulle to engage in an all-out fight to defeat the Ameri-can-backed plan. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.

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Commissioners In Monthly Meeting Regular Session Held Here Monday County commissioners met Monday at the court house for their regular meeting. V. T. Bollenbacher. R. F. Schumm and J. H. Caffee of Black Creek township in Merced county. Ohio, appeared to request the biac’ktdpptng of 55 rods ot H road which runs into Chattanooga. The 55 rods ih question are owned by Adams county. The commissioners agreed to place the project on the 1955 budget. Harry Sheets discussed more about the proposed water softener for the county home. He will investigate the cost and report to the commissioners. The county health nurse's report was accepted. An inspection of ditches in Preble, Root, Kirkland and Hartford townships was also planned by the commissioners. The group agreed to clean and repair three other ditches. They are" the William G. Smith ditch in French, Monroe and Washington townships; the William Kern ditch. Jefferson township, and the Barney Hackman ditch, St. Mary’s township. Trank Kitson, county auditor, and Lewis WortKman, one of the commissioners, are making an inspection of several voting precinta today. • f. The longest United States series of postage stamps was the 1938 regular, or definitive, issue of 82 stamps. U.S. presidents are pictured. USE STOP THAT COUGH “OUR OWN” COUGH SYRUP Kohne Drug Store