Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1954 — Page 1

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Death Toll In Sea Disaster Nearing 100 Board Os Inquiry Will Launch Open Hearing Saturday QUONSET POINT, R. 1.. UP — The death list in the aircraft carrier Bennington explosion and fire climbed rapidly today toward the 100 mark which Its skipper had iet as the probable toll of the disaster. As more victims succumbed to burns and>. injuries at Newport Naval hospital, a four-man naval hoard of inquiry prepared to open public hearings Saturday into the tragedy. No decision on what caused the disaster is expected so- at least three weeks. Soon after Wednesday's tragedy, Capt. William F. Raborn Jr., commander of the Bennington, said he believed the death toll would be about 100. Five more deaths of the critically wounded Thursday . night and today brought the toll to 96. They were: Jesse’ H. Ramey. EM2. husband of Aiminto Ramey, Chillicothe, ~ Ohio. ■ ~ Raymond C. Demers, chief radio electrician and husband of Donna Demers, Norfolk, Va. Lt. (JG) Paul 8- Tondo, New Britain, Conn. Chief pay clerk Stanley Capisti’ow. Burlington, Vt. A man whose name was withteld temporarily because his wife was en route here to visit him. Thirty-six of the 201 men injured remained in critical condition at the hospital. Adm. Robert B. Carney, chief of naval operations, made a personal inspection of the wreckage Thursday night. He described the explosion as “freakish.’’ Navy secretary Charles S. Thomas. who flew back to Washington alter inspecting, the Bennington was quoted by Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) as saying the navy had "some pretty good ideas” about what caused the blast. But*Saltonriall said Thomas told (’mm Tn Faare Sl*) Copies Available Os Church Edition Extra copies of the St. Mary’s church dedication section, giving pictures and descriptions of the new church, are available at this office and at the local newsstands. The sections are priced at 5 cents. Copies should be obtained as quickly as possible, for the supply is limited. Mrs. Fred Grote Is Taken By Death Mrs-. Fred Grote, 81. a native of Adams county, died early this morning at the-'fintheran old people’s home at Kendallville She had resided in Fort Wayne most • of her life. Survivors include a son, Harry, and a daughter, Mrs. Al Schultz, both of Fort Wayne; a brother, Louis Koldewey of near Decatur, and a sister, Mrs. Bertha Bleeke of Fort Wayne. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but services will be held In Fort Wayne. ' 12 PAGFS

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Graduation Rites Held Last Evening Philip Maxwell is Graduate Speaker Philip Maxwell of Chicago Thursday nigfit urged graduates of the Decatur high school to believe in God. believe in self and have the faith and ambition to be someone. Maxwell, e d it o r i a 1 promotion manager and director of the Chicagoland Music Festival, was the main speaker' at the 73rd commencement exercises of the high school in which 48 seniors received diplomas. The speaker was introduced by Dick D. Heller, president of the Decatur Daily Democrat and a personal friend of Maxwell. Graduates were told by Maxwell that names are not important “If you can contribute something to mankind through your community," he said, “you will be remembered. It’s what you do that counts,” he added. He told the graduates that they might he smart but they had to be able to cooperate with others to be successful. In his informal address. Maxwell quoted poetry and had the audience raising their hands, singing and standing to prove his points. Maxwell’s talk followed the invocation by the ’Rev. W. H, KirkPatrick of the Church of God and choral music by the high school choir. Diplomas were presented by George D-. Hhlm, president of the Decatur school board. The Rev. Herald J, Welty of the First Missionary church gave benediction. Another Toll Road Proposed In State Southern Indiana Route Is Proposed INDIANAPOLIS UP — A third Indiana toll road is in the making through southern Indiana from incennes to It would comprise about half of a St. Louisdo-Cincininati superhighway being boomed by Illinois state officials. Albert Wedeking, director of Indiana’s toll road commission, said Illinois Gov. William G. Stratton requested a two-state conference in the near future to discuss the project, Wedeking said Stratton will set a meeting date “soon.” The toll road “probably" would enter Indiana from Illinois in the vicinity of Vincennes, Wedeking said. Illinois officials are to announce detailed Yeports on toll road plans today. Stratton scheduled an afternoon news conference to report on surveys of feasible .routes for Illinois toll roads. Reports from Springfield. 111., said a route from St. Louis to Indianapolis also is “under speculation.” In Springfield, Stratton said, he talked to Wedeking and a Hoosier delegation about a month ago and “at that time, .we said we would like to have a toll road acrosssouthern Illinois.” He confirmed the St. Louis-to-Cincinnati turnpike conference will be held with Indiana nad said he had .requested similar toll road talks with other states which adjoin Illinois. A southern Indiana toll road would be the state’s third. An eastwest route across northern Indiana is near the building stage, and the (Turn To Page Eight)

Chicago Area Reported Hit By Tornadoes Heavy Rainstorms Lash Indiana, No Tornado In State By UNITED PRESS Tornadoes struck the heavilypopulated Chicago area last night and rain atorms, driven by howling winds, lashed the metropolis and three midwest states. The worst damage centered in the Aurora, 111., region, 40 miles west of Chicago. A tornado cut through rural areas and flicked the northeast corner of Aurora, ripping off three roofs and moving several homes off their foundations. Another tornado funnel appeared closer to Chicago, 10 miles west of O’Hare Field on the city's outskirts*. However, it disappeared before causing any damage. Chicago was raked by a violent rain storm during the danger period. At least seven homes were struck by lightning, and a bolt knocked a bridge over the Chicago River out of commission, preventing a large ship from passing. Violent storms were also reported in lowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. Tornado warnings were issued for all three states for a while, as well as the Chicago area and parts of Kansas, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and South Dakota. Heavy Rainstorms INDIANAPOLIS UP — Heavy rainstorms lashed Indiana Thursday night as upstate Hoosiers watched for tornadoes which didn’t show up. Weathermen feared the twisters which struck the Chicago area during the night might move into extreme northern Indiana. But a warning issued at 7:07 p.m. CDT was lifted four hours later. More than two inches of rain soaked parts of the state. Monticello recorded 2.32 inches in a 24hour period ending this morning. Wabash got 1.58, Newberry 1.50, Kokomo 1.40, Peru 1.38 and Logansport 1.18. The rain hit all parts of Indiana, although Indianapolis got only .02 inch and Evansville .03. It helped relieve a rather dry situation over the state which handicapped farmers in their spring work and damaged pastures. Forecasters said scattered showers and thunderstorms are due today aud tonight, with warmer temperatures in north and central areas. Thundershowers will diminish Saturday and temperatures will go down, the weather bureau said. The three-day Memorial Day weekend will bring cooler tures and possible rain. A five-day outlook calling for “possible rain Monday or Tuesday” threatenedj't'o put a damper on the 500-miie Indianapolis Speedway auto race, which this year is being run May 31. Temperatures Saturday-tbrough-Wednesday were expected to average four to seven degrees below normal. maximums are 79 north, 84 south, and minimums 56 (Turn To Paae Six) INDIANA WEATHER Showers and thunderstorms, mild tonight Saturday partly cloudy and turning cooler, - with showers “■ diminishing. Low tonight 55-60 northwest 65-70 southeast. High Saturday 70-75 north, 75-80 south.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May.2B, 1954

Senate Investigators Subpena McCarthy For Files On Schine Gases

White House in Challenge To Sen. McCarthy Says President's Powers Cannot Be Usurped By Anyone WASHINGTON. UP — The White House in a challenge to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy declared today that the President's powers “cannot be usurped by any individual who may seek to set himself above the laws of our land.” White House press secretary James C. Hagerty issued a statement at the direction of Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell, Jr., and approved by President Eisenhower, answering a McCarthy appeal to informants within *the administration. Under .the constitution, _ the. statement said, the executive branch has “the sole and fundamental responsibility" for enforcement of laws and presidential orders drafted “to protect" the security of our nation.” Hagerty said the statement w'as issued in response to inquiries about statements made by the Wisconsin Republican senator at Thursday’s army-McCarthy hearings. McCarthy had addressed to the two million employes of the executive branch an appeal for any information they might have about “graft, corruption; Communism, treason.” , - ' , At one point McCarthy complimented those who, he said, placed their oaths, to defend the country “above and beyond any presidential directive.” —On this score the White House statement said presidential responsibilities “cannot be usurped by any individual who may seek to set himself above the laws of our land or to override orders of the President of the United States to federal employes of the executive branch of the government.” Eight Persons Die In Indiana Traffic State's Slowdown Is Ended Abruptly INDIANAPOLIS UP — A twoweek slowdown* in the Indiana traffic- death rate ended abruptly Thursday with a rash of crashes which killed at least eight persons in less than 24 hours. Six accidents at or near Waterloo, Fort Wayne, Greensburg, Goshen, Elkhart and Crawfordsville claimed an average of one life every three hours. For two weeks ending last Sunday midnight, the rate was one every 13 and ohe-half hours. One of the day’s most tragic accidents was near Greensburg, where 17-year-oid Robert Buerger was killed a few hours before he was to receive his high school diploma. Two other .m'e'mbeFs of the Greensburg class were injured, Two Cleveland, Ohio, men were killed'fiear Fort Wayne in another accident. x In addition, a woman was killed by a train while walking, across railroad tracks at Osgood, a woman died at Valparaiso as a result of an accident last Saturday, and a man injured in a , Wednesday accident died at LaPorte. At least 13 traffic deaths have been counted in Indiana t since Tuesday, and three Hoosiers were killed in a single accident at Cedar Rapids, lowa, to further raise the toll of wrecks in the state and those outside involving Indiana ' NO PAPER MONDAY The Decatur Dally Democrat, In accordance with annual custom, will not publish an edition Monday, May 31, the legal holiday for Memorial Day..

France Issues Call To 45,000 Draftees Early Call To Free Men For Indochina PARIS UP —- France today ordered 45,000 draftees called up five months early so “several” divisions of regular troops will be free to join the fight to save Indochina from communism. Government sources said the 45,000 or more recruits will be in uniform within six weeks. Normally they would not have been called up before October. The action was taken as the first several steps designed to curb the growing threat of Red Viet Minh forces to the vital Red River delta of Indochina and the Tonkin capital of Hanoi. The cabinet acted swiftly to put into effect recommendations of French chief of staff Gen. Paul Ely. One of these was for a speedy call-up of new draftees, to release well-trained regulars for the defense of Indochina. The cabinet ordered a cpll-up of the second half of the 1954 class of conscripts—-all 20-year-olds. French draftees must serve 18 months, starting at the age of 20 years. Premier Joseph Laniel was expected to call another meeting of the cabinet shortly to consider Other recommendations pt the Ely import. . The cabinet acted amid bitter charges Qiat a high French official had “leaked” major provisions of th? Ely recommendations 4o a Paris magazine.— Police raided the offices of the leftist publication “Express” on orders of defense minister Rene Pleven and confiscated copies of Saturday’s edition. Informed sources said Plevln has sworn out a' warrant against the magazine’s unidentified “sources.” Ex-Communist To Sue Two Newsmen PauL Crouch Plans Million Dollar Suit WASHINGTON UP — Former Communist Paul Crouch, under investigation by the justice department for possibly giving conflicting testimony in two federal cases, said today he will file a onemillion dollar suit “in less than 30 days” against two newspapermen. Crouch said the suit will be filed against Joseph and Stewart Alsop. brothers who write a syndicated column-. Crouch, a veteran government witness against Reds, also said heis submitting to Atty. Gefi. Herbert Brownell Jr., FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, and the commissioner of immigration a detailed answer to “14 derogatory allegations” published about him during the past two months. Brownell reluctantly disclosed Thursday that Crouch is under investigation. He made the disclosure a few hours after a Crouch report on communism in the armed services touched off a row in the army-iMcCarthy hearing. Brownell said he was “sorry” the investigation had become public and he emphasized that it“does not mean that a person is guilty” of any- 1 charge. He had been asked at a news conference al>out published reports of Jdseph Alsop that there was a direct conflict between testimony Crouch gave' in the 1949 perjury trial of west coast longshore leader Harry Bridges and the testimony he gave in the current Philadelphia trial of 12 “second string” Communist leaders. Crouch said in his statement today that he is asking Brownell aud Hoover to make a thorough and complete investigation of allegations made against him by the Alsop brothers, columnist Drew Pearson, the Daily Worker, the Honolulu Record. The .Nation, and (Continued on Pace Elaht)

Rebel Forces Draw Nearer Key Outpost Creeping Network Os Trenches Only 750 Feet Away HANOI, Indochina UP — Advance elements of two Communist divisions, attempting to crack the southern defenses of the Red River delta, today drove their “creeping network” of trenches to within 750 feet of the key outpost of Yen Phu. Loss of Yen Phu would open the way for Red attacks on Phy Ly and Nam Dinh and on Hanoi itself. The French high command said the Reds attacking Yen Phu_h»ye pushed their main force to within SOO yards of the main defenses of the little rice market town only 40 miles south of Hanoi. The advance elements have closed half that distance, the high command' said, by employing the burrowing methods they used to capture the northern Indochina fortress of Dieh Bien Phu. French military sources said there will be no last ditch stand in the ruins of Yen Phu comparable to the two-months epic defense of Dien Bien Phu by Gen. Christian de Castries and Ills- isolated forces. Instead, these sources said, the garrison probably will be pulled back for a determined defense of Phu Ly, only seven miles to the north. The French command already has begun destroying and pulling out of isolated garrison posts and assembling all available tanks and artillery todtorm a mobile reserve, of striking power to meet a major Communist offensive in the delta area, expected about June 15. The French have some 2,000 small outposts scattered over Indochina. The high command said a number of these were blown Up and abandoned today and that they are being destroyed and abandoned at a rate of four or five daily. Tanks, armored cars and artillery? until now scattered along the curving defense line, were ordered to assemble in units large enough to fight back and avoid the risk of (Contlnurd On Pagr Eight) Selassie Speaks To Congressmen Today Ethiopian Emperor Calls For Security WASHINGTON UP —Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie today called upon the world to apply “fearlessly” the. principle of collective security to assure world peace, “We have the sacred duty to our children to spare the Sacrifices we have known,” the African monarch said. “I call upon the world for determination fearlessly to apply add to accept as you and we have accepted them — the sacrifices of collective security.” The little bearded man who heads the world's oldest .independent state made his plea before a joint session of congress. He spoke with the recollection that. Ethiopia was overrun in 1936 by the forces of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. He asked help then from the League of Nations but didn’t get it. The principle of collective security was proved successfully in Korea, Selassie said, "for Ethiopian troops fought with distinction along with United States' and othJr. United Nations troops.” “Having successfully applied the system of collective security in Korea,” he said, “we -must now, wherever in the world the peace is threatened, pursue its application more resolutely than ever and with courageous acceptance of its burdens.” He thanked Congress for lendlease assistance during World War 11. and for mutual security aid, and (Tor* To rase Eight)

Milan Man Is Named To Succeed Essex Sayer To Retire, ■ Moore Appointed INDIANAPOLIS, UP — Governor Craig today appointed Virgil Smith of Milan to the Indiana state highway commission and announced that*" conservation director Doxie Moore will become the governor’s administrative asslst- . ant. Smith succeeds Harry Essex, j Decatur, whose resignation was announced Thursday at the time , Craig named Neil R. Godwin of [ Franklin as chairman of the highway commission. ; Moore will take over about July 1 the duties assigned to William E. Sayer of Indianapolis since Craig was inaugurated in 1953. Sayer is retiring from his $12,-GOO-a-year job mostly tgr health reasons, Craig said, and-will spend most of his time in Florida where he has real estate interests. Moore will leave tim conservation department, where he earns $10,300 a year, very shortly to spend some time with Sayer “learning the ropes.” It wae reported Craig plans to name Jack Mclntyre, Bloomfield, former state commander of the American Legion, to succeed Godwin as personnel director for the highway commission. Smith is an insurance agent and treasurer of jthe Bfpley county Republican organleatlbn. He will i get $9,800 a year, - I Sayer is a former-assistant na- [ tional adjutant of the Legion. He > was appointed by Craig in 1948 when the governor was national ■ commander of the veterans orgen- , ization. I Moore is a former Purdue Uni--1 versity athlete. He also was an ■ executive in the National Proses- ■ sional Basketball Association and l a referee in that loop. ; Pope Pius X To Be Canonized Saturday Proclaim Saint Os Catholic Church VATICAN CITY UP — A village postmans son who rose to become a greatly beloved pope will be proclaimed a saint of the Roman Catholic church Saturday afternoon. ? J Pope Pius XII win announce the elevation of Pope iPius X to sainthood, in the presence of a crowd expected to total 350,000 massed in the great square in front of St. Peter’s Church. It* 1 will be the first time in 242 years that a pope has been made a saint and the first outdoor canonization of a pope in the 1,900 — year history of the church. The ceremony will be one of the most colorful in the 15-year reign of Pius XII, just recovered from an illness which, it was feared for a time, might cost his life. (Even before his death, brokenhearted. In 4914 when World War I engulfed Europe, Pius X was being called saint. His simplicity, his modesty, his devotion endeared him to churchmen and laymen alike. ." He was made a saint on the basis of two miracles officially attested after a long inquiry. The first occurred in Naples on the night of Aug. 26, 1951. Francesco Belsani, a lawyer, suffering from a dangerous lung abcess, offered prayers to Pius X. His physician said the abscess was cured at once. The second occurred when Maria • Ludovica Scorfiia, a nun, prayed to Pius X for aid against an attack of meningitis on May 14, 1952, and was cured. “Papa Sarto” was- born in the village of Riese on June 2, 1835, as Giuseppe Sarto. Sarto means tailor. When people used to call him “Pio Santo” (St. Plus) In later life, he would say: "I am not a saint. I am a tailor.” He used to say he never w-as (Tura To Face Elsht) „

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Subpena Calls On McCarthy For All Files Senator Declares " Demand Only For Work Done By Schine WASHINGTON. UP—Senate investigators today served a subpena on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for files on all cases on which G. David Schine worked. McCarthy showed newsmen the subpena as he arrived for the afternoon session of the army-Mc-Carthy hearings. He said it would be "clarified” shortly. The subpena, sighed in green ink by hearing chairman Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.J, called on McCarthy to "deliver forthwith" to special counsel Ray H. Jenkins all subcommittee files pertaining to the Voice of America ■ the overseas information service; the government printing office; Communists and subversives in the aimy, "and all other files.” Despite the sweeping nature of the subpena, McCarthy eaid, Mundt had assured him the armyMcCarthy investigators did not want the complete files of the past McCarthy investigations, but only the portions representing work done by Schine, a former unpaid sub-commfttee ebnsuitant yho is now an army private. Roy M. Cohn, McCarthy subcommittee counsel,, had testified this morniffg that Schine worked on several of the cases at nights and on weekends after be was drafted into the army last fall. He was given many passes from Fort Dlx, N. J., in order to do this work. McCarthy said all the file moterial which Schine had produced was sent to Mundt. "If we interpreted it as it originally appeared it would be impossible to carry on committee work," McCarthy told reporters. Cohn, close personal friend of young Schine also had testified that he had "no recollection” of e>er saying “this is war” with the army in a fit of anger. He also denied that he had claimed current access to FBI files. Cohn denied the celebrated quotations during testimony on hia role in the army-McCarthy dispute. In the witness chair for the second consecutive day, Cohn was questioned by subcommittee counsel Ray H. Jenkins about testimony of Col. Kenneth E. Belieu, personal aide to army secretary Robert T. Stevens. The incident at which Cohn made his alleged threats against the army occurred Oct. 20 when he accompanied Stevens, S?en. Joseph R. McCarthy and others to the army signal corps center at Ft. Monmouth, N. J. Cohn is chief counsel of McCarthy’s subcommittee, which was *t the time investigating alleged security risks in the secret radar works at Ft. Monmouth. Cohn was among a group of persons denied admission to a secret laboratory on the base that day because the army had not cleared them for access to secret areas of the laboratories. * • Belieu testified this week that Cohn said “this is war” and "we’ll investigate the heck out of the army” when he was barred. Belieu said Cohn also claimed that he had (Turn To Pace Two) Gernand Inducted As Rotary Member William Gernand, classification farm management, was formally inducted as a new member of the Decatur ißotary club at Its weekly, meeting Thursday evening. Avon Burk, .first president of the Decatur club, had charge of the Induction ceremony.. Gernand and three other members of the club, recently Inducted, gave brie'f autobiographies. The others are James Newton, manager of Baber Jewelry store; ( Dale Alber, manager of the Goodyear store, and Gail Grablll, county school superintendent.