Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 27 April 1954 — Page 1

Vol., till. No. 99.

Short Session Opens Geneva Conference '• • r * ■ ixwSnffiy JBT THE 19-NATION East-West conference at Geneva, Switzerland went into motion with a nlneteen-minnie session devoted entirely to acceptance of procedure forms. Among those identifiable in the upper picture are: Chou En-Lal (left-foreground) Red China’s Premier and in rear, Soviet delegates Andrei Gromyko and Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov (right). In the lower photo. American Secretary of State John Foster-Dulles confers with assistant Secretary t>< State Walter Robertson shortly after winning a diplomatic point in excluding Red China from presiding at any of the sessions.

More Troops, Supplies For French Forces Reds Hacking Away At Outer Defenses Os French Garrison HANOI, Indochina. VP — The French parachuted ©pre men.aßd supplies into the ever-dwtntfHWg circle of Dien Bien Phu's defenses today under cover of Americanbuilt fighters and beta bets and early morning mists. Up to 100 men a day are being dropped into the besieged garrison. providing a measure of the high command's determination to rebuild the strength of the besieged fortress against the next Communist assault. The Reds hacked away at the garrison’s outer defenses, strikith? at isolated ' “Isabella" fortress which guards Dien Bien Phu from the south. Heav# artillery preceded the new attack. Violent ■ local storms signalled the approach of the monsoon season but did not prevent French pilots from setting a new record for sorties over Dien Bien Phu in a single day. Mbnday they chalked up 136. Corsair fighter bombers, fourengined Privateers and B-26 bombers, all supplied by the United States, took part in the French abactions. The Corsairs were reported to have cut tw<s enemy supplyroads over which materials were being brought in from Red China. ■Reports in Hanoi said the U. S., aircraft carrier Wyndham Bay was due to depart from Alameda, Calif, soon, with more planes for Indochina. The carrier Beileau Wood, on loan to the French, was steaming through the Indian Ocean sen route to Indochina with sorelyneeded aviation spare parts. The high command said it was unable to confirm reports from Hong Kopg that 10.000,Communist Chinese “volunteers" crossed the frontier into Viet Nam March 25 and were integrated into the Communist Viet Minh armies. In Hong- Kong, the civil air. transport airline announced that Raul Holden, 32. of Greenleaf, Kan., became the first American casualty on the Dien Bien Phu airlift. Holden, CAT's chief pilot, was wounded seriously by anti-aircraft fire Saturday while dropping supplies to the fortress. -*— Newly supplied American Carsair fighters, fastest planes In the Indochina War. carried out scorching raids on the Communists’ supply route leading to Dien Bien Phu from the South China border. Their chief target was the twoton Russian-style Molotov trucks which have been bringing supplies to the 40,00 c Red troops encircling Dien Bien Phu. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, commander of the rebels, warned over the Communist radio that an allout battle for Dien Bien Phu is near. “Before long," the broadcast said, “De Castries’ men and those of -Communist chieftain Ho Chi Minh will find themselves face to face." v

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High School Groups Give Show Friday Orchestra, Band To Present Show Patriotic marches, classical compositions, modern ballads, jazz, comedy and novelty numbers are planned for the musical varietyshow at Decatur high school Friday at 8 p m. The show, “Variety in Rhythum”, will take place in the high school gymnasium. The Decatur high school orchestra and juhior band will present the program under the direction of Clint Reed. Guest artists who will be soloists are Eugene Killinski, violinist; Geor g e Riseborough, trumpet player, and Arlene Adams, vocalist. - . . Also featured will be Robert Sprague, vocal soloist, and the Melodiers Quartet composed of Sheila Ahr, Jane Rentz, Anita Smith and Dana Dalzell. Some of the selections t<L in this musical variety show include “Under the Double Eagle” by Wagner, excerpts from Brahms Symphony No/ 1; “Begin the by Cole Porter, “Les Preludes” by Liszt, “St. Louis Blues”, by W. C. Handy, "Secret Love” and “Stars and Stripes Forever” by Sousa. Orchestral arrangements and transcriptions were w-ritten byClint Reed. Lowell Smith will be in charge of lighting. Art decorations were planned by Miss Kathryn Kauffman. Members of the high school orchestra are flutes, Dana Dalzell and Mary Kay Kocher; flute and vibraphone, Ann Kocher; oboe, Anita Smith; clarinets, Sheila Ahr. Janalee Smith, Barbara Kalver, Claudia Caetpn. Nancy Doyle, Conny Baxter, Gloria Wall and Jean Huffman; bass clarinet, Judy Stauffer: saxaphones, Jerry Kaehr, Marilyn Foor and Karen Jefferies; clarinet and saxaphone, Ruth Townsend and Jane Rentz; accordion and bells, Donna Kay Small; percussion, Robert Ochsenridev. Kathy Cole and Gretchen Lankenau. Guitar, John Paul McAhren; string bass, Peter Dalzell; piano. Sunny Reppert; trombones. Ronnie Robinson, Harold Summers,-Mary Rentz, Mike Kaehr, Jane Styverson and Rita Rumschlag; bari- . tones, Brenda Summets.. John Heb.-.. ble and Monica Rumschlag; horns. Judy Smith, Cheryl Ashbaucher, Ann Uhri’ck and Madge Scheiderer; trumpets, Stanley Alger, Jack (Turn To I’nire Chew Funeral Rites Wednesday Afternoon Services for Charles W. Chew, 64, prominent business man of Geneva, and a leader in the canning industry in Redkey and Geneva, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Hardy and Hardy funeral home. Mr. Chew's death occurred Sunday in the Jay county hospital following a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been a resident of Geneva for 35 years and started the Caar Garment company in that place. Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Charles Chew, Jr., of this city: "Three daughters and two sisters also survive. Burial will be in Westlawn cemetery at Geneva.

Picture Kicks Off Storm At - i'-.' A Army Hearing Stevens And Schine Photo Called Fake By Army's Counsel WASHINGTON, UP — A blownup picture of army secretary Robert T. Stevens and Pvt. G. David Schine today- kicked off the stormiest session of the armyMcCarthy hearing to date. The army side cried “fake,” the McCarthy side retorted with “lying.” The fakery charge was hurled by special army counsel Joseph N. Welch at the start of today’s session of the senate investigating subcommittee’s hearing into the angry feud between Stevens and his aides and Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wls.) and his. Roy M. Cohn. McCarthy’s chief counsel, testified under oath that he caused the allegedly doctored picture to be supplied to hearing counsel Ray H. Jenkins. .« But he asserted he did not see the photograph after it had been blown up. At first he said a third person Iftid been’ cut out of thfe Schine-Stevens photo by the McCarthy staff. Later he said he did not know whether or how the picture was altered. In any event, he said McCarthy himself had nothing to do with it. The army side has accused the other of using “improper means” of trying to get special favors for Schine. former McCarthy consultant. The McCarthy side has replied with the charge that Stevens and his associates tried repeatedly to sidetrack McCarthy’s investigation of alleged espionage at Ft. Monmouth. As part of this attempt, it is charged, Stevens tried to appease McCarthy by being “tender” toward Schine. In that connection he is accused of having asked to be photographed with the army private. The session, seventh aihee the hearings started last Thursday, also produced: 1. A statement by Stevens that he could not personally substantiate army charges that Francis P. Carr joined with Cohn and McCarthy in trying to pressure the army into giving special treatment to Private Schine. But he said, and Jenkins agreed, that Carr should not be absolved as a principal until the rest of the army evidence is in. 2. Cohn said the present hearings are delaying subcommittee investigation of ISO cases of suspected Communisms in war plants.? Asked why these cases could not be turned ovef to another group. Cohn said the McCarthy subcommittee had developed them and “are ready to proceed.” , - Decatur Man Given lowa Prison Term Five-Year Sentence For Stealing Auto KEOKUK, lowa UP — James Franklin Summers, 28, Decatur, Ind., magazine salesman, began a five-year prison term today after pleading guilty to an auto theft charge. Summers was arrested at Alexandria, Mo., on a charge of stealing a car at Keokuk Friday, short-, ly after, abandoning another car stolen in Cedar Rapids the day before. Has Record Here — — Local police records reveal that Summers had a long juvenile record here. After he ceased to be a juvenile, he was arrested in April 1945 on a.charge of public intoxication. This case w.as continued and in’ a few days he was arrested for Breaking and entering. Summers was fined $lO and costs and sentenced to 90 days at the state farm. Later in 1945 he paid a fine of SI.OO and costs for public intoxication. In 1948 he was arrested here and turned over to .Tipton authorities on an assault charge. In 1949 he was arrested here on a reckless driving charge and in February of this year he was arrested, while visiting here, on a charge of dis orderly conduct. He was fined $5 and costs and sentenced to 10 days, in jail. A few months ago, police were informed that he had been arrested in Tell City on a charge Os assault He has been a magazine salesman for about three yiears, local police said and he has returned to Decatur about every four or five months to visit. I

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 27, 1954.

France Urges Menacing Crisis In Indochina Be Given Geneva Priority

Radford Home > For Conference 1 On Indochina Chairman Os Joint I Chiefs Os Staff To / Meet Eisenhower ; WASHINGTON UP Adm. i Arthur W. Radford came home t from Europe today ter emergency < talks with President Eisenhower and said hte hopes "the French can i hold on” in Indochina. 9 The chairman of the joint chiefs e of staff will canvass the Indochina t crisis with the President and other s officials. I Radford told reporters at the airport that he does not have an en- v gagement with Mr. Eisenhower “that I know of.” t But it was learned reliably that ® Radford would meet with Mr. 1 Elsenhower this afternoon after a u lunch conference with defense secretary Charles E. Wilson. They were expected to discuss a ’ possible new role for the United States in Indochina. j. The question before policy-mak-ers was, in general, when and bow a far the United States should go to save Indochina from Communist * conquest. The gravity of the sifua’ tion tras sharpened by French ep* a peals from American air interven- f tion at Dien Bien Phu, key French ( outpost which seems likely to fail . to Red rebel forces at any moment. , Mr. Eisenhower said Monday that the outcome of the war in 1 Indochina was going to be of "the greatest significance for us, possibly for a long time to come.” He said this is a "time of great deci- I sions.” Fresh from talks with high French and British leaders, Rad- I ford expected to hold early confer- | ences with President Eisenhower, defense officials, and the national security council, 'the admiral cut short his European trip by about a week ppon hearing grave reports on the IndoChina situation. Defense secretary Charles E. s Wilson, retired Gen. James A. Van r Fleet, and Asst, defense secretary W. J. McNeil planned to meet with Mr, Eisenhower this afternoon. It was possible Radford would go to the White House with the three r who are leaving soon for a Far Eastern trip. The national security council meets Thursday. Informants said an immediate J problem confronting the Eisenhow- £ (Continued on Page Elglit* ' Will Meet Tonight ‘ On Disposal Plant > Informal Meeting J Os City Councilmen t John Ward, member of the en- a gineering firm of Consoer-Town-send and Associates, Chicago, consuitants on proposed new sewage disposal plant for Decatur, will meet informally w’ith the city p council tonight. t Purpose of the meeting is to discuss the estimate of $1,100,000 g made by the Chicago firm recently c when plans, specifications and g prints of the proposal for Decatur were presented here and with the t state board of health. ’Councilmen, at the time of re- r ceipt of th? estimate, were amazed at the proposed cost of the project and all five indicated firm intentions of resisting efforts to construct such an elaborate plant. Several proposals in the. plans submitted indicate a misunderstanding, city officials pointed out. The proposed bond issue submitted by the engineering firm includes money for acquisition of a site for the plant and the site has t been held for several years by the ’ city. , - | Tonight’s meeting will include an effort of councilmen to trim the estimate down to a point S where both the engineers and of- J ficials can agree on proceeding o with construction. i<

Heavy Rains Flood Rivers In Upstate Additional Rainfall Forecast Wednesday INDIANAPOLIS. UP — Scattered showers were due in Indiana again today, supplementing* heavy rains which spelled upstate rivers ,and flooded several families from their homes. * Forecasters said cooler northwest temperatures will accompany today’s showers and more rain is expected upstaW Wednesday. A number of Elkhart families were forced from their homes Monday as the Elkhart River spilled over the southeastern part of the city. The St. Joseph River also flooded two parks in South Bend. Many low spots in the Mishawaka area were inundated. South Bend Reported only a trace of rain in a 24-hour period ending this morning, but Rochester, about 36 miles south, soaked up 1.34 inch. Monday’s temperatures surged to the 80s. An 85 at Indianapolis was two degrees short of an alltime April 26 high set in 1915. Lafayette got 86, Evansville 85, Fort Wayne and Terre Haute 84 and South Bend 81. The weather bureau said one to two inches of rain will hit the state during the next five days. Temperatures were expected to average two to four degrees'below normal north, and near ..normal south. Normal readings for the period are maximums of 65 to 71 and minimums of 43 to 49. The showers were expected Wednesday, Thursday and during the weekend. IHSAA Head Speaks In Decatur Today Students, Service Clubs Hear Phillips L. V. Phillips, Indiana commissioner of high school athletics, made his first official visit to Decatur since assuming the role in 1945. The high school athletic boss visited Decatur briefly a few years ago for a long enough time to look at the Decatur high school gymnasium. Phillips arrived in Decatur shortly before noon today and was joined in an informal lunch by superintendent of schools W. Guy Brown; principal Hugh J. Andrews head coach Robert Worthman. Rev. Robert Contant, Dave Terveer, D.C.H.S. head coach and several other local persons. The commissioner addressed a joint special convocation of both Decatur and Decatur Catholic high schools at 1:30 o’clock this afternoon at Decatur high school auditorium. He will be the principal speaker at a joint meeting of the Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs at the K. of P. home at 6:15 o’clock. Phillips, a former Vincennes, Linton and Rochester high school principal, succeeded the late Arthur Trester as top man in Indiana high, school athletics after having served on the IHSAA athletic council and board of control for several years. His two addresses in Decatur today will pertain to the problems encountered by his office, and a report on the various state athletic championship contests. > I ——— t . INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight with showers ending southeast this evening. Wednesday considerable cloudiness and cooler. Low tonight 45-50 north, 50-60 south. High Wednesday mostly in the 60s. Change Voting Place In Monroe Township -i. — —' 7- S ' Voting place for yoters in the South Monroe precinct will be the Muensterberg school No. 9 instead of at . Election school as was previously announced and advertised.

Further Tax Cuts Planned When Possible Director Os Budget Says Cut Planned As Conditions Warrant WASHINGTON UP - Thk Eisenhower administration will call for further tax cuts as soon as the budgetary situation warrants them, budget director Rowland R. Hughes said today. "It is our determined purpose to make further reductions in taxes —but only as rapidly as those reductions are justified by prospective revenues and reductions in expenditures,” Hughes told the 42nd annual meeting of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. President Eisenhower signed — although his administration had opposed — legislation that cut federal excise taxes a billion dollars a year on April 1. But he is vigorously fighting a Democratic attempt in congress to boost personal income tax exemptions. * Hughes was one of several government and congressional figures chamber's annual meeting. And economists- the Federal housing chief Albert M. Cole said the “windfall” profits disclosed recently on 608 rental housing projects financed through loans insured by the federal housing administration may have been legal. But he said. “They were wrong . . . and bad for government and bad for .business." i He said such practices are “being corrected promptly and with the utmost vigor,” He said FHA programs "are entirely sound.” Chairman John W. Bricker (ROhio) of the senate commerce committee told the chamber the future of the American merchant marine demands that construction be started now on new ships in U. S. yards. Dr. Charles E. Kellogg of the agriculture department said that prospects are that Americans will continue to have plenty to eat in spite of many farm problems. But Dr. Paul B. Sears ftf Yale University said he is “gravely concerned” whether enough food can be raised to feed the nation adequately in the indefinite future because of the rapid growth in popu-_ lation. , Earlier, A. L. Mills Jr., a member of, the Federal Reserve'Board, said the board will continue “easymoney” policies until business akes a definite upturn. Hearing May 10 On Tax Reassessments State To Conduct Hearing On Appeal The state board of tax commissioners has Monday morning, May 10, at 9 o’clock as the time for the meeting to hear appeals for reassessment of real estate and improvements filed by 13 Adams county persons. Estimated reductions requested in the petitions total $£3,7,64. Petitions filed with the state board include sjx from Monroe township; six from Washington townsjiip and one from Wabash township. The notice of the scheduled meeting—will appear in* the Daily Democrat in lekal form Wednesday, April 28,'and again on Wednesday, (May 5. It is signed by Adolph Fossler, chairman of the state board, and attested to by William Hardwick, secretary. Either a member of th? board or a representative of the board will conduct the hearing in the office of county auditor Frank Kitson, in accordance with the statute. Names of those filing appeals are on file in the office of the county assessor.

Here Thursday , ff 1 r S Andrew Jacobs Reservations, for the dinner meeting of the Adams county Democratic women’s club in honor of all Democrat candidates in the county can be made until Wednesday afternoon at 4. o’clock, it was announced today. The dinner will be held Thursday evening at the American Legion home at 6:30 o’clock. Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis attorney and former member of congress, will be the principal speaker and following the program all Democrat candidates for county office will be introduced. The ticke,t committee has asked that all reservations be made by Wednesday afternoon with Mias RoWh- fit nt , county recorder. Her telephone number is 3-3856. 11,757 Registered To Vole In Primary Registration Less Than 1952 Primary A total of 11,757 Adams coanty residents have registered to vote in the 1954 primary election Tuesday, May 4. This is over 500 less than the 12,279 who registered for the primary in 1952. Only the city of Berne with 1386 registered shows an increase over the 1952 registrations. That community had 1,379 registered then. Decatur, Geneva and Adams county rural registrations decreased. Their totals are Decatur, 4,207; Geneva, 685, and rural, 5,479. Rural registrations by precincts are East Upion, 183; West Union, 174; East Root, 295: West Root, 323; North Preble 223; South Preble, 264; North Kirkland, 234; South Kirkland, 158; North Washington, 379; South Washington, 327; North Blue Creek, 191; South Blue Creek, 122; North St. Mary’s, 266; South St. Mary’s, 306; North Monroe, 386; South Monroe, 326; French, 231; North Hartford, 283; South Hartford, 157; North Wabash, 218; Ceylon, 137; East Jefferson, 130, and West Jefferson, 166. - Registered voters for the Decatur precincts are: 1-A, 363; 2-A, 438; 3-A, 578; 1-B, 275; 2-B, 341; 3-B, 413; 1-C, 385; 2-C, 280; 3-C, 340; 1-D, 461, and Decatur Root. 330. Berne and Geneva include: Berne A, 338; Berne B, 472; Berne C, 576; Geneva A, 378, and Geneva. B. 307. Steve Everhart On Panel Os Speakers Steve Everhart of the Decatur high school staff, youth and recreation director, was one of the panel speakers today at the eighth annual governor's conference on recreation in Conducted by the advisory committee on recreation, Indiana economic council, Everhart appeared on the morning panel which discussed ‘‘Starting a recreation program.” Other state leaders who shared the platform with him were H.jEiigene Chubb of Portland, Mrs. Jpan Daly of the state board of health, Indianapolis; Jackson M. Anderson and Richard H. Colston of Jeffersonville. Everhart is also a leader in the Decatur Boy Scout organization and is a member of the Anthony Wayne area council.

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Indicate Big Three Willing For Partition French Eager For Some Solution To Indochina Crisis GENEVA (UP) — An alarmed France urged today that the men- . if tfcing military crisis in Indochina be given priority at the Geneva conference, ahead of Korea. Indications mounted that France, the United States and Britain might be willing, in hastily arranged Indochina talks, to agree to partition of the war-torn peninsula as a last resort to end the S-year-old war. France was known to be eager to start work on some formula for ending the fighting before the French military situation declines further. As originally arranged, a permanent solution for divided Korea was to have been discussed before the problem of 'lndochina was considered. French foreign minister Georges Bidault, pressing for early consideration of Indochina, conferred for 40 minutes today with Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov and offered three possible plans for holding early Indochina peace talks. French sources said Bidault suggested three possibilities: I—A1 —A conference of the Big Four, Red China, the three Associated States cf Indochina and representatives cf Communist Vietminh. 2—A conference with Burma and Thailand added, or, 3—A conference adding Indonesia, India and Australia to the list. Then he discussed the Indochina cMsis again over lunch with U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles and British foreign secretary Anthony Eden. The efforts to get the Indochina peace talks started were spurred by reports reaching responsible western delegation sources that the fall of embattled and surrounded Dien Bien Phu now seems "inevitable." Western diplomats are aware of the tremendous psychological reactions that would follow in France from such a development. The United States was said on high authority to be working to get some form of united action to bolster the French resistance in Indochina. But action by the United States alone has been ruled out. The American and British delegations were reported willing to consider the partition of Indochina only as a last resort to end the war. Previously the ‘’United States had opposed partition under any circumstances, but Britain in the past had studied ways of dividing Indochina and removing France from the seven-year war. Bidault was reported prepared to consider partition only if the line of demarcation could be fixed in such a manner that the rich Red River delta, now infested with •• Reds, would not fall into Commulist hands. Bidault was expected to make the first top-level East-West soundings on Indochina during his conversations with Molotov, who will preside as chairman at this afternoon’s meeting. at which South Korean foreign minister Pyun Yung Tae was listed as principal speaker. Two Convicted For 'nduction Failure SOUTH BEND. Ind. UP — Two upstate youths faced prison terms today following conviction on charges of failure to report for induction into the armed services. Ronald Leroy Wrightsman, Sidney, and Carl Orville Nead, Goshen; both 20, claimed they should have been classified as conscientious objectors. They are members of the 01 d German Baptist Brethren church.