Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 23 April 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LIL No. 96.

......... Senate Quiz On McCarthy-Ariny Begins IF ■h? Shafi b vAWkt Mht. GENERAL VIEW of the Senate caucus room in Washington as the much-publicized Investigation into the controversy between Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and the army got underway. The largest assemblage of news, radio, and TV correspondents in years helped to fill the jampacked, kleig lighted room.

First Airlift - Plane Arrives In Indochina Bolster Battered French Defenses; Disaster Threat dreds of French paratroopers, airlifted half way around the world by American planes, began arriving today to bolster the battered defenses of Dien Bien Phu where a French communique revealed a new disaster threatened. A terse French communique said that an entire French company has been surrounded by the Red attackers in the middle of the fortress' vital airstrip. The reinforcements which reached Saigon today are the vanguard ©t approximately IjOOfr men being ferried to the battik "-front from French bases in France and North Africa. Shortly after thein arrival, the French high command announced that rebel Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap’s forces, after a day and a night of fighting, had isolated and surrounded a dug-in French company which was defending the "key northwest hinge’’ of the defense perimeter. 4 An estimated battalion of enemy troops was entrenched on the airstrip after fierce hand-to-hand fighting.at Dien Bien Phu. Jhe first airlift plane to reach Saigon discharged 200 fully equipped colonial officers and men. i Four more planes were flying the final lap of the 12,000-mile emergency mission, between Colombo, Ceylop, and Saig on. Three others were reported refuelling at Colombo. The giant C 124 Globemaster had taken off on Monday from Paris and French North Africa. Their arrival was delayed byrefusal of India’s prime riiinister Jawaharlal Nehru to permit the planes to land or fly over India en route. The first of the big planes touched down on a steel-mesh runway and taxied to a high screen where each unloaded some 200 paratroops and fighting equipment: They will be rushed as fast as French transport planes can be made available to Dien Bien Phu. where French Union defenders were fighting with Communist rebels in the center of* the main airstrip. The airlift, which started in Paris only four days ago, was the longest in military history. By using double shifts of American crewmen, the pilots stopped only for refueling. Reports from Dien Bien Phu said the Communist Indochinese rebels had sent assault spearheads to a distance less than 2,000 feet from the heart of the bastion. The double - decked, bus - like Globemaster made a 3,000-mile run around India after prime minister Jawahrlal Nehru had refused to permit them to fly over the subcontinent. Plane No. 1 landed at Hanoi as reports in Colombo, Ceylon, said the airlift of 800 men which started from Paris’ Orly Airport Monday now was passing through the royal air force station of Katunayake. Reports at Colombo said Burma also had refused landing rights to the American planes. Two Qlobemasters took off from Colombo at the same time that three others loaded with reinforce-' meats arrived in the British commonwealth. The planes were believed to have flown from France byway of Dha(Turn To rage Eight)

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Bidault Scores Red Bid To Join NATO JU - * Declares Red Menace Is Strong As Ever — PARIS UP — French foreign minister Georges Bidault told the North Atlantic council today that Russia’s proposal to join NATO was contrary to "the rule of common sens/” Bidault opened today’s session of the council by branding unrealistic both Russia's bid for an allEuropean security system and membership In the Atlantic pact. Bidault spoke as chairman of the alliance as the west prepared to dispatch its reply Monday to the Russian proposition. — He said the menace of Communist aggression still is as bad as ever —as France knows first hand from the Indochina war —and that the free world must not be turned aside from its chosen path of solidarity forever — ■ “This should W .prevent us from seeking patiently a security system as valid for the others as for us, and in which we could all participate together,” he said. “But such a structure—the hope for which must never be discarded — can only be founded on exact appreciation of ’the realities,” he said. “It is not by confusing everything together that they can be solved.” Bidault spoke as chairman of the alliance as the council met to reevaluate Soviet intentions. Earlier it had heard Lord Ismay, NATO secretary - generqj, warn thaUlhe west is entering upon a’ "difScult phase” of trying to decide whether Russia wants peace. Meeting with the council are U;S,' secretary of state John i Foster Dulles and British foreign secretary Anthony Eden. Tri-Stafe Students Speakers At Rotary Tells Os Customs In Native Countries Engineering students from TriState college, Angola, told of customs and described a few of the living conditions in their native countries, reaching all the way from Quebec, Canada, to ancient Iraq and Lebanon, to members of the Rotary club last evening. Principal talks were given by William Marvez of Caracas, Venezuela. S. A., and (Robert Levonian of Beyrouth, Lebanon. Salem Charles of Quebec and Mahrous Fauzi of Baghdad, appeared on the program. In Venezuela the American dol--lar is equal to about 30 cents to the bolivar, the national coin. It is one place in the world where the dollar is discounted. Oil is the country”s greatest resource. Customs many centuries old are still observed in Arab Lebanon, but the city of Beyrouth is as modern as today, the speaker said. Clarence Ziner presented the speakers. Admits Robbery Os Crowded Supermarket EAST CHICAGO, Ind. UP — Severiano Reyes, 24, admitted Thursday he robbed a crowded supermarket a day earlier, police announced. Reyes, a laborer, was arrested on the basis of a description by the cashier who was robbed of about >l,lOO. Three detectives noticed Reyes outside the store before the holdup, officers said, About S9OO of the loot was reported recovered.

Orders FBI To Run Down All I FHA Swindlers Eisenhower Orders Swindlers Tracked , Down By FBI Agents WASHINGTON UP — President Eisenhower has ordered the FBI ] to run down the “swindlers, cheats ] and crooked salesmen” involved in ( a home improvement loan racket , that swindled "thousands” of home owners annually, senate investiga- ( tors were told today. Asst. Atty. Gen. Warren Olney , made the disclosure in testimony before the senate banking committee. Olney, in charge of the justice dicated that criminal prosecutions may result from‘the “lAery- widespread" home improvement loan frauds. He listed several criminal laws which “may have been violated” by the high-pressure dealers and salesmen. Olney also testified the rental apartment project loan program, which expired in 1950, allowed “unscrupulous builders to pocket hundreds of millions .of dollars in windfall profits.” Olney said he had no exact idea of the total nuhiber of homeowners who have been defrauded, but qjnce the government-backed home improvement loan program started in 1935. he said, there have been “a great many thousands" of cases. Under the program, home owners get loans from private banks for home improvements. These loans are guaranteed by the FHA. In many cases, it has been brought out, the workmanship and materials which went into the improvements were far below standard and below the amount of the loan. * Olney told how high • pressure salesman, known as "dynamiters” or “suede shoe boys" complete with , Cadillacs and fancy clothing, would sell “shoddy repairs” to homeown- j ers at “exorbitant prices." ( Olney said he first became “aware” of these home improve- ( ment loan frauds last spring. Arthur J. Frentz, in charge of the home improvement program since 1947, was fired Thursday by housing chief Albert M. Cole, Who said he has “no evidence of any illegal activities on the part- -of- < Frentz." Asked why the FHA had not stopped the abuses, Olney said the FHA took the position that it was a* lending agency and not a "public service agency.” He said the agency contended that it has “no responsibility for victims of the swindlers.” As long as the government suffers no loss on thF loans, he said, the FHA has taken the position it “can wash its hands of all responsibility.” 21 Million Surplus In State Bonus Fund EVANSVILLE, Ind., UP — State treasurer John Peters made some suggestions Thursday night on what Indiana might do with $21,500,000 in its soldier bonus fund. He told a Vanderburgh county Republican audience the funds should be held in trust to see if the 1955 legislature enacts a bon- ( us law for Korean veterans, and , if not, it might be refunded to ( taxpayers. The money came from taxes ( paid fater the bonus surtax law ( expired last Dec. 31. 1

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Stevens Continues To Present Testimony In McCarthy-Army Probe

Says America Musi Lead To World Peace Eisenhower Speaks At Convention Os 7 United States Press NEW YORK UP — 'President Eisenhower said Thursday night that America muqt take the lead in developing the genuine understanding among the peoples of the world that will lead to an enduring peace. “Nowhere on this planet today is there an impregnable fortress, a continent or island so distant that it can .ignore all the outer world,” he said. ‘lf this is not to be the age of atomic hysteria and horror, we must make it the age of international understanding and cooperative peace. , .."Even the most rabid Marxist, the most ruthless worshipper of force, will in moments of sanity admit that, international understanding, however, like domestic unity, depends in large part—on the free, full flow of information and its balanced presentation.” —The President spoke at the coneluding event of the 68 th annual convention of the Atherican news-' paper publishers association —the annual dinner of the ANPA bureau of advertising. He called on the newspaper publishers to provide the framework of world understanding and of domestic strength by giving all the facts in balance and in their truthful perspective. This also applies, he said, to magazines, radio, television, and the newsreels. The President said he believed “most earnestly" that the press should give emphasis to the things that unite the American people equal tb that which it gives to the things that divide them. In what might have been a reference to the dispute between Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and top army officials, he said: “If the day comes when personal conflicts are more significant than honest debate on great policy, then the 4ame of freedom will flicker low indeed.” Mr. Eisenhower said that "if proposed laws and policies are described as mere battle grounds on which individuals or parties seeking political power suffer defeat of achieve victory, then indeed is the American system distorted for us and for the world. Mr. Eisenhower said three-quar-(Tura To Page Elaht) District Bankers Hold Meeting Here First State Bank Host To District The First State Bank of E>eca_ur was host to the Northern Indiana conference of bank auditors and comptrollers Thursday night it the American Legion home. The meeting opened W'ith round table discussion on "Personnel Administration." A social hour and dinner' followed. Earl -M. Caston, assistant cashier at the Decatur bank and secretary-treasurer of the organization, was in charge ot arrangements. The panel discussion was presented by Vyron B. - Detamore, assistant cashier and auditor of .he First National Bank in Maribh; Ralph E. Kenner, assistant vice-president of the Lincoln National Bank and Trust company in Fort Wayne, and Franklin H." Lorenz, assistant cashier at the St. Joseph’s Valley Bank in Elkhart. Officers of the organization are Curtis E. Altman of the First National Bank in Huntington. president; John B. Collins of the Peoples Bank of Claypool, vice-presi-dent, and Earl M. Caston, secre-tary-treasurer.

Saturday First Day For Absentee Ballot Permit 111 Voters Cast Ballots Now Saturday is the first day that Adams county voters may east absentee ballots for the May 4 primary here. The absentee ballot voting will continue until May 1. The election board, Bdward Ja■iberg. David Macklin and Cal E. announced that the ballots may be cast at the office of the count y clerk in the court house. Proper applications must be submitted before any voter may cast an absentee ballot. These applications must be signed by two registered voters in the precinct and properly notarized. No application will mean no absentee ballot. For the first time under a new law, voters who are ill and unable to come to the polls may vote by absentee ballot. The same application must be presented but in addition a physician’s certificate attesting to the inability of the voter to come to the polls must accompany the application. After the application and doctor's certificate are received, an absentee ballot will be forwarded. Students away at school may vote by absentee ballot as well as serviepfaen The latter, however, do not need a formal application but the request for an absentee ballot mhst be certified by an officer. Businessmen expecting to be absent from the county on May 4 may vote by absentee ballot provided the proper application is presented. Nickle Plate Rail Crossings Repaired Annual Spring Work Nearly Completed Ed Highland, Decatur agent for the Nickle Plate railroad, stated Thursday that employes of his railroad in the Decatur area already had started the annual spring work of inspecting and repairing crossings at street intersections. Highland explained that his company’s policy was to start the work Immediately when requested to do so by city officials and he further explained that it was felt no reply to such a request was necessary in writing “as long as the work was done immediately and with satisfaction.” "There are nine Nickle Plate crossings in Decatur,” Highland said, “and seven have already been repaired, inspected and found to be in good condition.” ' The other two will bear traffic at a speed of 50 miles per hour, the local executive stated, which is considerably above the Decatur speed limit. The two crossings, which have a base of black top, will be repaired as soon as weather permits the use of the material for repair work. With Highland's report on the Nickle Plate improvements, the council request to all three railroads has been carried out. Marion Vine Rites Saturday Afternoon Marion Vine, 88, former Pleasant Mills resident, died unexpectedly Thursday at the Adams county home. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Clara Snavely of Kenton, 0., and two dons, James and Charles of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 2 p m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Ralph Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER * Cloudy with occasional rain tonight. Somewhat warmer extreme north. Partly cloudy and warmer Saturday, showers north portion and over south portion at night. Low tonignt 44-60 north, 50-60 south. High Saturday 70-75 north, 75-85 south.

Administration Stands By Aid Sent To India Continues Stand For Foreign Aid Despite Action On Planes WASHINGTON. UP — The administration today stood by its request for 104 million dollars in foreign aid to India despite that country's refusal to let U. S. planes fly Indochina-bound French troops across its territory. But powerful congressional opposition boiled up to prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s action and put the India aid program for next fiscal year in jeopardy. Republican leaders angrily assailed the Indian leader on the senate floor Thursday. Senate GOP leafier William K. Knowland compared him to a man who would cut a fire hose strung across his lawn to a burning neighbor’s house. Chairman Styles Bridges (R-NH) of the senate appropriations committee urged the administration to remember India's action when making future recommendations for foreign aid.. . —— But foreign aid chief Harold E. Stassen told a news conferftice ha will continue to Support the Indian aid program. He said he and other officials will be prepared to discuss this country’s policy toward India when the aid request is presented to Congress. Stassen said the United States ,as a free world leader must be able to respect different points of view within the other free nations as to, the best means of achieving peace. State department officials, meanwhile disclosed that an official U. S. request for permission for the Indochina flights to cross India had been turned down before Nehru made his public statement Wednesday night. They said this enabled prior arrangements to be made for a 3,000-mile detour of the flights. The U. S. airlift planes are flying French commandos from France to relieve the hard-pressed French garrison at beleaguered Dien Bien Phu In Indochina. BULLETIN MOSCOW, UP — The Soviet Union broke off diplomatic relations with Australia todly in protest against the “kidnaping" of diplomat Vladimir Petrov. Mrs. Clara Lambert Is Taken By Death Local Lady's Mother Dies At Bluffton Funeral services for Mrs. ClAra Deam Lambert, 68, Bluffton, mother of Mrs. Eugene Durkin of Decatur, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the First Methodist church, Bluffton. Mrs. Lambert, a resident of Wells county most of her lift, died Thursday at Clinic hospital, Bluffton, of a heart ailment. She had been In ill health for more than a year and had been confined to the hospital for three days. She was a member of the Methodisfichurch of Bluffton and the Rebekah lodge of that city. Surviving ”in addition to Mm. Durkin are two other daughters; Mrs. Frank Kish, Chicago, and Mrs. Arthur Rose, Fort Wayne. Three brothers, Rollle W. Deam, Bluffton; Earl Deam, Wells county, and Clarence E. Deam, Fort Wayne, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. - -V- ■ ■ -r - The body was taken to the Thoma funeral home at Bluffton where friends may call until 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at which time the body will be taken to the church. Burial will be In Fairview cemetery.

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Service Clubs To Hold Joint Meeting L. V. Phillips To Speak Here Tuesday L. V. Phillips, Indiana high school commissioner of athletics, will be the principal speaker at a ’ joint meeting of the Decatur Lions and Rotary cluba at the KWP B. home next Tuesday night at 6:15 o’clock, it was announced today 1 by program chairmen of the two ‘ clubs. Phillips, whose office conducts ’ all athletic events of Indiana high schools, has held the top Indiana job since the death several years ago of Arthur Trester, first Indi- ’ ana commissioner of athletics. 1 The speaker is a former long f time principal of Vincennes pub- ’ lie schools. He will speak on ths ' operation of his office. The outstanding feature of the i. athletic commissioner’s annual i- job is the conduct of the Indiana i high school basketball tourney, s which is the outstanding net clas- • sic of the nation. The joint meeting of service 1 clubs was planned so that a larg--1 er number of local people could r heaT the guest speaker. Hugh J. Andrews, Depatur high school - principal and ’ program chairman > for the Lions club, will preside. W. I Guy Brown, superintendent of DeI catur schools, represented the Rotary club In making arrangements for the joint meeting. Most Os Indiana To Go On Daylight Time Make Time Change Late Saturday Night INDIANAPOLIS, (UP) — Most cf Indiana goes on a daylight saving spree this week-end in the annual April process of tampering with time. _ Effective at 2 a. m. Sunday, most Hoosiers will move their clock and watch hands ahead one hour. Thus, 2 a.m. becomes 3 a. m. central daylight saving time. The clocks stay that way until the last Sunday in September. All of Indiana except a portion si the southwestern section, which ■tays on standard time, and the extreme southeast, which operates son eastern standard time because of its proximity to Cincinnati, will make the switch. Daylight time is “illegal” for Indiana governmental units. A 1947 state law made central standard the official time for Indi(Tarn To PMte Two) Indiana Revenue 6 Percent Higher INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Indiana state revenue for the first three quarters of the current fiscal year jumped more than six percent above a corresponding period last year. The state revenue department revealed today collections to March 31 were $174,830,763, compared with $164,644,966, an increase of more than 10 million dollars.

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Says McCarthy Changed Stand On Schine Bid Monitored Phone Conversation Is Protested By Joe WASHINGTON, (UP) — Army secretary Robert T. Stevens said today that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy privately vetoed a request by hie chief counsel in Pvt. G. David Schine's behalf lest it be “misinterpreted." Stevens said the Wisconsin Republican did so, reversing his own previous stand, in a telephone conversation with the secretary which was monitored by the army. The army secretary said that in the monitored conversation on Nov. 7 McCarthy told him Schine was “one of the few things he had trouble with Roy M. Cohn about." He quoted McCarthy as aaying in effect at that time that Cohn “thinks that Dave tought to be a general and operate from a penthouse on the Waldorf Astoria." Stevens* testimony on thia Joint—set off a row at the senate investigating subcommittee’s televised hearings on the running feud between McCarthy and his counsel, Roy M. Cohn, and the army. The army has accused McCarthy and Cohn of using "improper means” to get preferential treatment for Schine, former unpaid consultant of the subcommittee. Their efforts to get Schine a commission or a job as Stevens’ special assistant failed, and Schine was drafted last Nov. 3. , t After Schine’s induction, Cohn requested a furlough for him so that he could assist in the subcommittee's investigation of alleged espionage at Ft. Monmouth, N. J., Stevens said. The secretary said he offered to have Schine assigned to two weeks’ temporary duty in New York. Cohn checked the offer with McCarthy and called back to say it was okay, Stevens said. — Stevens then testified about the monitored telephone conversation which he said took place Nov. 7. He said McCarthy asked him not to assign Schine to the subcommittee lest the act be “misinterpreted." McCarthy leaped on the disclosure that his call had been monitored. He charged that such action was “improper, . indecent, and Illegal” without notifying the other party involved. ' McCarthy added, however, if the army had a verbatim transcript of the conversation it should be placed in the hearing record. Stevens testified that an aide took notes on the conversation in line with regular procedures in the army secretary’s offte®, John N. Welch, army attorney, mid the monitored transcript of the conversation had been brought to the hearing under subpena. He asked that the subcommittee vote to put it in the record. McCarthy objected that it could not be put into the record unless it were a verbatim account. And he started another uproar by calling monitored conversations “indecent . . . illegal . . . improper . . . dishonest.” Steven* also told how Cohn “declared war" on the army. Oct. 20, Stevens said, he flew to Ft. Monmouth for an inspection accompanied by McCarthy, Cohn, and others, including two other senators. - —, ■ ■ ■ They visited various installations, Stevens said, and came to a super secret laboratory which only highly cleared persons could enter. Stevens ruled that Only he and the senators could go in. Cohn, he said, was incensed. He quoted him as saying: “This means war. Don’t they think I am cleared for classified information? I have access to FBI files when I want them. They did this on purpose to embarrass me. He will really investigate the army now.” Under questioning by Jenkins, Stevens also testified: (Tnra To Pago Klgkt)