Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 123.

Heated Exchange At Mac-Army Quiz r « J IN A HEATED 19th day in the renewed McCarthy-Army hearings in Washington, committee counsel Roy Cohn (left), Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, and hie staff director. Francis Carr get their heads together as they question secretary of the army Robert T. Stevens. Stevens (right! entered into a hot exchange with the senator when the latter termed his ••contradictions” an exhibition of "poor memory” or perjury.

IL 5. Rushing Arms Shipments To Two Nations Two Planeloads Os Arms Shipped To Friendly Nations WASHINGTON UP —Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that the communist arms shipment to Guatemala could be intended for use in building up a military strongpoint near the Panama Canpl. Dulles said that the important question in connection with the Guatemalan situation is whether Guatemala is being subjected to communist colonialism. "The extension of communist colonialism to this hemisphere would in the words of the Caracas resolution, endanger the peace of America," he said. _ Dulles said that if SestHtttes should break out in the Central American area, we would expect collective actipn under treaty_obligations to stop them. He said that -a meeting of the American nations could be called on 24 hours’ notice and, in such an event, he would anticipate possible action speedily. More U.S. arms are expected to follow two rush planeloads dispatched to neighbors of Guatemala, military sources said earlier. The United States acted with uncommon speed to fly small arms, • ammunition and jeeps to Nicaragua and Honduras, demonstrating a the grave view this government takes of a recent, 2,000-ton weapons shipment from the Soviet sphere to Guatemala. State and defense department officials disclosed the airlift operation Monday. This country's military aid agreement with Honduras was signed only last Thursday and a similar agreement with Nicaragua is scarcely more than a month old. Often it Is a matter of months before actual delivery of military equipment to an ally follows signing of an agreement. In case, the government was moved to almost immediate action by the receipt of Red supplies in Guatemala within the past 10 days and "rumors” that two other ships may be en route with more. lAsked whether the air shipments were hastened by Guatemalan developments. state department press pfficer Lincoln White said, "Yes.” He added that action on the arms, agreements with the two countries was being “facilitated as ; rapidly as possible.” So far as the air force knew today, the airlift was a "one-shot operation" involving two huge C 124 J- Globemaster transports each Os which can carry 25 tons. But White called it “an initial shipment” and defense <lepartment.officers indicated that the next material probably will go by sea. .... —.—— u—. r ■ ■ ■* r Dinner For Clergy To Be Held At School The dinner for the Most Rev. Archbishop John F. Noll. D. D., bishop of Fort Wayne and clergy gubsts of the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Selmetz. pastor, who will be here Monday for the dedication of St. Mary’s church, will be served in the Catholic school building. The home economics classroom will serve as the dining hall and women of the parish will serve the banquet. The dinner for members and visitors of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus will be served at the K. of C. hall following the dedicatory services.

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School Calendar Is Set For Next Year Public School Term Calendar Announced The 1954-55 public school term will open in Decatur September 7 with a teachers’ organizational meeting and classes will »tart at Lincoln and Decatur high school on September 8, the tentative calendar for next year reveals. A two-day vacation will be held on October 21 and 22 for the annual teachers meeting and*another two-day recess is scheduled for Thanksgiving on November 25 and .26. Christmas vacation will start at noon on Decmeber 23 and classes will resume January 3, 1955. Easter vacation is scheduled for April 7 and 8, 1955. The school term will close May 27, 1955. Following is the complete tentative schedule: Sept. 7— Opening of school, teachers’ organizational meeting, hACin. “ OeL*' 15 End of first 6 weeks period. Oct. 21 & 22 — Indian* State Teacher, Associating November 24 — End of second 6 weeks period. Nov. 25 & 26 — Thanksgiving vacation. _ y — Dec. 23 Noon — Christmas vacation begins. Jan. 3, 1955 — Classes resumed. January 14 — End of first semester. January 17 — Second Semester begins. Feb. 25 —lEmd of fourth 6 weeks period. ” , April 6 —End of fifthsrtF’WWkg' period. - April 7 & 8 —Eastern vacation. May 22 — Baccalaureate service. May 26 — Commencement. •Mag 27 — Close of school. Walter Koeneman Heads Legion Post Annual Election Is Held Monday Night A discussion of “(McCarthyism” by John Hoffman Jr., Fort Wayne attorney, and the election of officers for the coming year were the highlights of the meeting of the American Legion Post 43 (Monday night at the Legion home. Walter Koeneman, only candidate for commander, will head the post- Other officers elected were Wendell Macklin, first vice--1 command; Frank Detter, second Vice-commander; Fred Bieberich, third vice - commander; Robert Smith, fourth vice - commander; Francis Noack, finance officer; T. H. Gehrig, adjutant; and Charles Morgan, trustee. Delegates named were O. C. Busse, J. K. Staley, Charles Morgan, A. J. Baker, T. H. Gehrig, T. D. Schieferstein and V. J. Bormann. Harbld Hoffman, the ’outgoing commander, and the new commander are automatically delegates. Last night’s speaker, John Hoffman who is a veteran of -World War 11. called McCarthy the advance publicity man on the. infiltration of • Communists into the American government. He pointed out that before 1950 .McCarthy'was unknown nationally? .Earlier congressional committees, Hoffiman stated, had conducted investigations like McCarthy's but their findings were.not publicized or acted upon. McCarthy's main achievement was to make the public aware of the full extent of Communist infiltration. Hoffman maintains. List(Turn To Page Five)

Dulles Expects Great Britain To Join Pact Secretary Os State Gives Conditions For Intervention “ WASHINGTON UP — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today the United States has every expectation that Britain will join in the proposed formation of a collective defense system in Southeast Asia. r _ Dulles, at a news conference, also restated conditions under which the United States would consider intervention in Indochina. He said that the United States would join in a collective action to defend freedom — not to defend colonialism; that it would not go it alone; that other nations in the area would have to realize the peril; that the_JUnited Nations would have to give some form of moral approval, and that congress would have to approve any intervention. Dulles also said that France has not requested the United States to intervene in Indochina but he said current American - French discussions center on the conditions which might make American action possible. He said the French were told of the conditions that had been spelled out previously and which he reiterated today. Os Britain’s previous reluctance to Join now in a Southeast Asian alliance, Dulles said we have every expectation that if the alliance is organized Britain will play a part in it. Dulles also: 1. Said the prospects look somewhat better for bringing the United Nations into the Indochina picture. 2. Shggested that the Communists at Geneva may be stalling in order to press their military campaign in Indochina. 3. Said discussions are under way on holding military talks among the United States. Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand on the Southeast Asian crisis? No final decision has been made. 4. Said the United States is par ticipating in separate military talks with Thailand and the Philippines. 5. Denied that the United States has made any proposal to France that an American supreme commander be appointed to direct war strategy in Indochina. All-Night Party Is Planned For School Seniors AU night graduation festivities being planned for graduates o. Decatur high school Thursday by Decatur organizations. After the dance at the high school which follows the commencement exercises, the senior class will be entertained with a buffet supper at the Elks home. The Elks lodge jind Moose lodge are in charge of the supper from midnight to 2 a.m. The supper will be followed with a movie* at Adams theater Where Roy Kai ver. manager, will present “Crazy Legs,” which is a college football story. “ The night-long party will end with a breakfast at the Legion home prepared and served by members of the Lions club. The post graduation event has become an annual affair in Decatur. The graduating class of Catholic high schoolJwffl also be feted with an all night party after their commencement June 4,

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 25, 1954.

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Chinese Reds Reject Indian Plan For Truce Cease-Fire Plan Os « India Rejected By Commuhist China « GENEVA, Switzerland, UP — Communist China rejected prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru's proposal for an immediate - cease-fire in Indochina, Informed Geneva conference sources disclosed today. Red Chinese premier - foreign minister Chou En-Lai personally turned down the two-point plan after it had been presented to him. by V. K. Krishna Menon, India’s roving ambassador. The plan, according to thd sources, called for: < 1. An immediate halt in the fighting. 2. Formation of a good offices committee composed of Asian neutrals to aid the two sides in working out a political settlement Once the truce became effective. Chou’s action was disclosed as the east and west prepared to start the mechanics of a cease? tire at the ninth session of china peace talks. Agreement to get down to details on the cease-fire w-as reached at Monday’s .session after French foreign minister George Bidault offered a formula' that bypassed the deadlocked issue of treating two of the Indochinese states — Laos and Cambodia — separately from the third, Viet Nam, as the west demands. Bidault presented his plan after urgent weekend consultations with premier Joseph Laniel's French cabinet. Optimism over the (Red agreement to get to work after weeks of stalling was offset, however, by the controversy over separate settlements for Laos and Cambodia. tj, S. undersecretary of state Walter Bedell Smith had wanted to take up the Laotian and Cambodian issues ahead of the Viet Nam problem because they would be easier to resolve, permitting the conference then to concentrate on the area where most of the fighting is taking place. But it was believed that Bidault was trying to prove one way or another without delay whether the Communists will negotiate a settlement or are bent on dragging (Continued on Pace F.lgUt) Jane Lichtenberger Dies Monday Night Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Jarte Lichtenberger, 80, of Decatur route 5, died at 9 o’clock Monday night at the Davis nursing home at Bluffton. Death was attributed to complications. She had been in failing health for several years and serious for the past three weeks. She was born in Union township Aug. 9, 1873, a daughter of Frederick and Henrietta Handenlang. Her husband, -Sherman Lichtenberger, preceded her in death. Mrs. iJchtenberger was a member of the Calvary Evangelical ’United Brethren church, east: of Decatur. Surviving are two sons, William H. of Decatur and Dallas of Wren, O.; one daughter, Mrs. Bessie Gould of Monroe; 16 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and one brother, Frederick Handenlang of Spencerville, O. One son is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at "the Gillig & Doan funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Carl Finley and the Rev. Vernon Riley officiating. Burial will be in the East Salem cemetery, Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening..

Memorial Speaker F \ ■ rs: JHHB IIIbIIIIIB WliWr Rev. Otto Busse Memorial Day Rites Sunday Afternoon Annual Service By Vets Organizations Memorial day services will be held Sunday afternoon in this city and at the Decatur and Catholic cemeteries, local veterans organizations announced today. Co-sponsored by the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Spanish-American War veterans and their respective auxiliaries. the rites will begin with visits to the two cemeteries. The Rev. Otto Busse, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran church, Preble, a past Indiana department chaplain of the American Legion and currently a member of the armedservices commission, will deliver the memorial address at the Peace Monument. Members of the veterans organizations and auxiliaries are requested to assemble at the American Legion home not later than 1:15 p.m. At 1:30 p.m. the veterans will go to the grave of Clarence E. Berber in the Catholic cemetery and at 1:45 to the grave of Richard Mahan in Decatur cemetery, where military rites will be conducted. Returning from the cemeteries, the memorial parade will leave the American Legion home at 2:30 p.m. The march will be to the Monroe street river bridge where services will be held in memory of navy and marine dead. Led by the Decatur high school I band, the parade will proceed to the court house whfere tlie memorial address will be given by ftev. Busse. Commander -Harold Hoffman of Legion Post 43 will be marshal of the parade and will preside at the rites in front of the Peace Monument. ■■■■■: ; • - Boy and Girl Scouts will sQso march in the parade and assisUin the prograip. The public is invited to particl pate in the memorial service and observance of the day set aside to honor those who served their country in time of war. The Memorial Day holiday will be observed on Monday. It was decided, Rev. Busse stated, to hold the parade and memorial rites on Sunday so there would not be any conflict with dedicatory services, at the new St. Mary’s church, scheduled, for 10:30 a.m. Monday. ■»' '•* Girl Scout Shelter Contract Awarded ~*• f.. < • The contrapt for construction of the foundation of the Girl Scout shelter house has been awarded to Baker and Schultz, according to an announcement by Mrs. C. L. Dalzell, president of the Decatur Girl Scout council. Construction of the shelter house at Hanna-Nuttman park will begin next week. Girl Scout leaders hope to have it completed in time for summer camping activities.

Haile Selassie Arrives Today For U. S. Visit Ethiopian Emperor Visiting America On Eisenhower Bid NEW aO*K, UP —Haile Selassie I, emperor of the ancient African land of Ethiopia, arrived today for an American visit that was regarded as a gesture of friendship with the west and of non-sym-pathy with Communism. The frail, black-bearded emperor came here at the invitation of President Eisenhower and will fly to Washington in the President’s private plane Wednesday for three days of state ceremonies, including an address to. a joint session of congress. Heightening interest in the visit in this atomic age was the emperor's announcement last week that his country—the oldest Christian realm on Earth — now has been found to contain high grade uranium ore. It was expected that during the emperor’s two-month visit it would be announced thgt he has reached agreement granting the United States nilitary bases in Ethiopia for 99 yebrs. Ethiopia and the United States have signed a mutual security agreement, and since May 1953, a U. S. military mission has been advising Ethiopian units in the* use of modern U. S. equipment. He’s 225th Ruler Haile Selassie is making hi! first state visit outside his country since he was restored in to the throne which he ’claims by . right of royal descent from the union of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba nearly 3,000 years ago: Haile Selassie I is the 225th ruler of the line. The emperor originally was invited to visit here by President Roosevelt in 1944. President Eisenhower renewed that invitation this year. Haile Selassie said he also is coming because of a longstanding admiration for the United States, which was one of the countries that did not recognize the Italian annexation of Ethiopia from 1936 to 1941. The five-foot-four-inch Negus NgusF tking of kingrt, who will be 62 in July, rose to world prominence as a fighter in 1935 when he led his nondescript, barefoot (Turn Tn Page Hight) Herbert M. Fuelling Dies At Farm Home Funeral Services ; Thursday Afternoon Herbert M. Fuelling, 47, lifelong resident of Root Root township, was found dead this morning at his home, five miles north of Decatur. Mr. Fuelling, a bachelor who lived alone, had been ill for the past three weeks with a heart condition. He was found by a brother. Carl, wittr whom he farmed. The brother had 'visited him late Monday evening and then returned late this morning. » Mr. Fuelling was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church.He was born in Root township March 26, 1907, a son of Jacoband Mary Reichert-Fuelling. Surviving are four brothers, Carl and Gustave Fuelling of Root township, Oscar Fuelling of Union township and Martin Fuelling of Monroeville;, one sister, Mrs. Jlugo Blakey of Union township and a half-sister, Mrs. Fred Scherer of Union-township. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at St. Peter's Lutheran church, the Rev. F- W. Droegemueller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may rail at tj}w funeral home after 2 p.m- .Wednes-

No Remonstrances To School Sites No Objections At Hearing Last Night No remonstrances were filed at the public Hearing held Monday night by the Decatur school board on the notice for an additional appropriation of 151,405 for the purpose of buying two building sites in Decatur. The matter now will be presented . to the state board of tax commissioners through, the county auditor and under the statute, that body will set a date for a hearing in Decatur within 15 days. • it no remonstrance is filed at that time, the state board will make the funds available. The money is already in the cumulative building fund and the process of hearings is to make it legally available to purchase the two sites. Warranty deeds ‘for the land on which options were recently obtained are being held in escrow for the school city by Robert H. Heller, local real estate and insurance dealer, escrow agent for the board. The building sites, one in the northwest part of Decatur and one in the south part of the city,-were selected following a report of the survey by the Indiana university school survey group which recommended the construction of two additional elementary school buildings In Decatur. . The total expenditure .Os $51,405. includes a $10,200 sewer assess--1 ment on the land to be purchased ' in the northwest part of the city. The school city’s assessment for ( the Porter-Homewood sewer will 1 be on the same basis as other property owners, which is fixed at ' approximately $l7O a standard lot. The northwest site is equivalent ' to 60 building lots. After the land has been legally acquired the next action of the school board will be to select an architect to present plans for the first of two proposed buildings. This first school building Will be (Turn To Paste Klabt) Annual Clean-up In Decatur Next Week Annual Campaign To Start Next Tuesday <Decatur’s annual *clean-up campaign will start next Tuesday, city officials announced today. All rubbish, cans aud other discarded materials will be gathered up from all homes in Decatur. Following is the collection schedule of city trucks: Tuesday, June 1: Fire Ward 4; north of .Monroe street and west of Fifth street. . ’ Wednesday, June 2: First fire ward; north of Monroe street and east of Fifth street. Thursday, June 3: Second fire ward; south of iMonroe street and east of Fifth street. Friday, June 4: Third fire ward; south of Monroe street and west of Fifth street. (City employes will man the trucks and it is estimated the work can be completed with one day’s collection work in each fire ward. However, "officials said, it , more time is required, the.,'drive will continue until the entire city has been covered. " Residents are asked to observe their day in the schedule, and have all rubbish placed in containers in alleys where possible and at the street curbs in instances where there are no alleys. The city makes no charge for the annual clean-up collection. u INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with showers and thunderstorms south, partly cloudy north tonight. Wednetr day* mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderatorma south and central portions. A little cooler tonight. Lbw tonight 48-52 north, 52-56 south. High Wednesday upper 60s north, low 70s south.

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Protests Two Army Charts Shown Today i Accuses Army Os Dishonest Attempt • To Distort Facts l WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Jo- . seph R. McCarthy accused the r army today of a "dishonest, phony t attempt” to distort the significance i of passes given to Pvt. G. David Schine during his basic training at t Ft. Dix, N.J. > McCarthy angrily protested the i exhibition of two army charts show- - ing, in calendar form, a record of - weekend and evening passes for - Schine and for an "average trainee” at Ft. Dix during the same i period of November to January. Maj. Gen. Cornelius E. Ryan, • commandant of Ft. Dix, was in the . witness chair during McCarthy’s • attack. The senator said he exempti ed the general from blame for the • charts, whiqh he denounced as . “dishonest,” “phony” and a “rfc . diculous waste” of money. Ryan declared, however, that i the charts were not dishonest. "They are not inaccurate and -» ■ misleading,” Ryan said in reply ■ to a question by Sen. John L. Me- ■ Clellaa (D-Ask.). Ryan testified he stopped week- , p.ight. passes Jor. Schine* on -Dec. ’8 • , after Svchine had been out on six 1 of seven consecutive nights. Ryan . said he feared Schine wasn’t getr ting enough rest and might acci--1 dentally kill himself or some otter r trainee while learning to handle t weapons. Schine, the central figure In the t angry army-McCarthy wrangle, was an unpaid staff consultant to MeF. Carthy's investigating subcotnmlt- » tee before he was drafted last Nov. 13, a As today’s session opened, two i. huge charts were put on display 3 by the army in the heading room. One was headed “Pvt. G. David Schine — U.S. 5128604” (Schine’s army serial number. - It contained a calendar-form record “of absences and telephone messages to the commanding general . . . while Schine was assigned to Ft. Dix, N. J., for the period 3 November, 1953, to 16 January, I (Turn To Pace Six) X— Church Conference To Open Wednesday Annual Methodist Church Conference The North Indiana annual conference of the Methodist church will convene Wednesday in the Grace Methodist church, Kokomo. For five days reports of the church from home and abroad will be heard and business conducted. The conference will conclude Sunday, May 30, with a 10:30 worship service and sermon by Bishop Richard C. Raines of the Indiana area. This service 'and the 2:30 p.m. service of ordination will be held in the memorial gympasium. ’ During the week the morning and evening worship addresses will be given by Dr. Donald Spivey. minister of Wesley Chapel, Cathedral Churctjof world Methodism/ England. The Saturday evening lecture will be given by Dr. T. Z. Koo, general secretary pf the world student federation, and professor at lowa State college. Thursday afternoon. Dr. Wili Ham Shaw, veteran missionary to Korea, and Bishop Raines, recent visitor, to Korea, will give A full report on the work of Methodism in Korea. A premiere shoeing of the recently made film “John Wesley,” will be given following Dr. Spivey’s address Friday evening. The local church will be represented by the pastor, the Rev. Samuel Emerick, and Fred Busche, lay member. Noah Steury is the reserve lay member. •r P - ' -