Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LI I. No. 127.

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France Sends Reinforcements To Garrison Blast Path Through Rebel Besiegers To Aid Garrison HANOI, Indochina UP — A powerful French armored force has blasted a path through Communist besiegers to the encircled outpost of Yen Phu with reinforce raents for the hard-pressed garrison, the French high command announced today. Tanks, armored alligators tor navigating the flooded rice paddies and motor-borne infantry slammed through two divisions of Communists who had wormed their way to within 100 yards of the barbed wire and brick blockhouses of the strategic post 40 miles south of Hanoi. The French Union force routed the Reds from their advance positions after French fighter-bombers roared in at low level in concern tiated bombing and strafing attacks to soften up the Communist defenses. ’ 826 bombers dropped 1,000pound bombs and flaming jellie gasoline on the rebel Viet Minh bases in the limestone hills just across the Day River front the fortress which has been encircled and under siege for three weeks. The attack, one of the greatest displays of French force since the fall of Dien Bien Phu, came whije French anny sources were hinting that the vital defense post might have to be abandoned To the steadily encroaching rebels. It was the second relief column to ram its way to Y6U Phu within a week. A powerful striking force drove through Red lines last Friday, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy with the amphibious alligators laying down a deadly barrage of 75 millimeter shells. Since then the high command has supplied the outpost by air. dropped hundreds of paratroops reinforcements and using helicopters to bring out the wounded so there would be no repetition of Dien Bien Phu where some 2.000 wounded were captured. Last reports from the fighting front seven miles south of the city of Phu Ly — gateway to Hanoi’s southern defenses — said the battle was still raging with the French trying to clear the entire besieging force from the Yen Phu area. strength was put at “several thousand” troops. Daily Democrat To Switch Tuesday To International News Effective next Tuesday, June 1 the Daily Democrat will receive its national and international news over the leased wires of International News Service. The teletype machine .already has been installed and a test run ’ on the new service has been completed. The INS news dispatches will be used exclusively in place of the former United Press news service. Several weekly features also are Included in the service written by world famous feature reporters. The INS service will start at 1 o’clock each morning and news .flashes from all over the world: sports news; market news and general hews will arrive at the Daily Democrat office continuously each day except Sunday. . INS also will cover news happeningsl in every county in Indiana and will have Hoosier'stories of* unusual interest at short intervals.

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TB Officials Are Reelected Friday All Directors And ~ Officers Reelected All officers and directors of the Adams county tuberculosis association were reelected Friday evening in a meeting held in Decatur high school. The officers are: Robert J. Zwick, president; Charles Fuhrman, vice-president; Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary; Dr. Roy Archbold, treasurer. The directors m: Mrs. J. Ward Calland, Charles Fuhrman, Mrs. Nellie Coppess, Helen Kenny, E. M. Webb, Mrs. Xariffa Walters,' MarySchlagenhauf, John B. Stults, Hugh J. Andrews, Dr. James Burk, Mrs. Ernest Reicheldeffer, Mrs. Lloyd Byerly, Mrs. Eli Graber, Mrs. Carl J. Kuhn, Rev. Robert Contant, Dr. Norman E. Beavers, Theodore Grotrian, Harvey Haggard, Mrs. Murray Holloway and Gail GrabiU. The executive board is composed of the eRv. Robert Contant, Dr. James Burk, Mrs. Ernest Reicheldeffer, John B. Stults and Hugh J. Andrews. ' Seal Receipt! $5,099.27 Mrs. Brown reported that receipts from the Christmas Seal sale totaled $5,099.27, of which the state and national organizations receive 18 percent, leaving $4,181.40 for the local chapter. At 4-H Fair The secretary also reported that the next visit of the mobile unit to the county would*be Aug. 2 to 6, and that the unit would be stationed at the 4-H fair in Monroe, Aug. 4-5. Last February 995 persons Visited the mobile X-ray unit. The secretary’s report showed that seven films showed irregularities, four suspected and two active cases of tuberculosis in individuals. Mrs. Brown reported two Adams county patients in Irene Byron Sanitorium and one in.Healthwind, Indianapolis. The secretary also reported that two clinics were held during the year, visited by 37 persons. Appreciation to Miss Marie Felber, county health nurse, was extended by Mrs. Brown. Annual Memorial Day Services On Sunday Afternoon Annual Memorial Day services, sponsored by local veterans organizations, will be held Sunday afternoon. Members of the organizations and their auxiliaries are asked to meet at the American Legion by 1:15 p.m. At 1:30 o’clock, the veterans will hold services at the grave of Clarence F. Herber in the,;, Catholic cemetery, and at I:4s'p.m. at the grave of James B. Kitchen in the Decatur cemetery. The memorial parade will leave the Legion home at 2:30 p.m. for the Monroe street bridge for services in memory of navy and marine dead. Led by the Decatur high school band, the parade will move to the court house square, where services will be held at the Peace Monument. The Rev. L. T. Norris, pastor of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, will deliver the memorial address replacing the Rev. Otto C. Busse, unable to speak because of a conflicting engagement. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and cool tonight and Sunday? Low tonight 50-55 _ _■ - -».a- * ■ . nortn, □x-oo south. .. NOON EDITION

11 th Session Os Indochina Talks Underway Western Delegates Dislike Attitude Os Playboy Ruler GENEVA, Switzerland, UP y Amerlcan delegate Walter BeddU Smith has suggested an early meeting with Emperor Bao Dai of Viet Nam to impress upon the playboy monarch I the need for more forceful leadership of his embattled nation, authoritative sources said today. The 11th session of the Indochina pMdiTam got trader wy art p.m. with Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov In the chair. - U. S. secretary of state Smith Ur S. undersecretary of state Smith broached the idea of a talk early week at nearby Evian, France, where Bao Dai made his headquarters during a brief stay in the early stages of the conference. The Emperor returned to Cannes more than two weeks ago and has remained oh the Riviera since. Western diplomats have not disguised their discontent over the continued absence of the Emperor both from his homeland and the conference. The United States, a strong supporter of Vietnamese survival as an independent nation, is pouring almost one billion dollars yearly Into the defenses of the country. Unconfirmed but persistent reports have circulated herb fdr some time about the possibility of the Emperor being deposed if he does not live up to his title as “chief of state.” The nine nations attempting to negotiate a cease-fire in Indochina called off a meeting of Far East experts and put the responsibility for ending the shooting on the foreign ministers themselves. The expert?, two from each nation, held their first meeting Friday in an .attempt to draft a -docH, went listing; points of agreement and disagreement in rival peace plans. The stumbling block was the method of starting actual military talks on drawin cease-fire lines without an agreement on carving up all three states of Indochina—* Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Western delegates adamantly opposed the partition of Laos and Cambodia because no Communist rebels movement exists in the small kingdoms. The west contends that the fighting involves Invaders from 'Viet Nam. Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov and 'Red China’s premier-foreign minister Chou EnLai were holding out for partition(Tnrn To Pace F®»r > Benson Promises Study Os Prices Price To Farmers Below Guarantees WASHINGTON UP —Secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson today promised to “take a look” at farmers milk prices to see if government buying prices on butter, cheese and dried milk should be Increased. A > farm price report Friday showed that prices farmers were getting for manufacturing milk in mid-May averaged -about $3.04 per 100 pounds, down about 10 cents from the price supposed to be guaranteed them under the dairy support program. Under the support program, the gcvernment buys the three manufactured products at* prices designed to allow processors to return to farmers $3.15 per 100 pounds on their mitk used for manufacturing. ... Asked about the Maj price report, Benson at first said ""no Comment.” Then, he added he hasn't bad a chance to study the report and promised# to “take a look” at the situation. In the current issue of Country Gentleman, „ Benson notes that farmers prices on manufacturing nvilk in April were below $3.14, at $3.0’8. But he wrote that “one month isn’t enough to tell the story.” • .- . ■’' ' He promised, in the article, to increase manufactured product prices if necessary to see to it that farmers get their full return. Any in-grease in Jthe govern* ment’s- buying price for butter, cheese and dried milk would hot men Benson would up the pei* cent of parity support on milk. He would, just increase the buying prices of the three products to the extent he deemed necessary ja return full 75 per cent of parttFon manufacturing milk to farmers.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 29, 1954.

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1 Senate Debate Scheduled On Housing Bill Scandal-Proof Bill Approved By Senate Banking Committee By UNITED PRESS The way has been cleared for senate debate next week on an administration-backed “scandalproof” housing bill. The measure was sent to the Senate, with some minor revisions, by the senate banking committee Friday. It contains provisions aimed at correcting recently disclos'd irregularities in govern-ment-guaranteed construction and home improvement loans. ( The bill also calls for 800,000 public housing units, the original plan approved by a Democratiecontrolled congress in 1949 but never fully carried out. President Eisenhower asked for 140,000 public housing units over the next four years, but the house included no public housing provisions in its version of the bill. The public housing provision is certain to spark sharp senate debate next week. Sen. Burnet R. Maybank (D-SC). ranking Demo j crat on the banking committee, plans the public housing program from the bill. Although a strong public housing champion in the past, Maybf nk has turned against the program because of a supreme court ' ruling against segregation in public. housing units. May bank said he would be forced to oppose public housing if “local control” cOuld not be exercised over it,--Other congressional news: Shakedown: In another housing development, Sen. John J. Williams (R-Del) charged in a senate speech Friday that 18 veterans administration home appraisers have “shaken down” thousands of veterans and contractors for excessive fees in "flaring disregard of the law.” Williams attacked the VA for permitting the "racket.” Taft-Hartley: Sen. Barry M. Goldwater (R-Ariz.) charged that senate Democrats voted to kill Taft-Hartley labor law changes in order to keep the act “alive as a political issue.” In a senate speech, he accused Democrats of "a shameful kind of politics" and said Northern and Southern Democrats formed a “strange alliance” in their solid vote to help defeat the proposal. Finance: The senate finance committee has .rejected a house proposal that would have restricted efforts of some Southern states to lure manufacturers away from Ci-urn To I’aae Six) Indiana Lashed By Electrical Storms Cooler Weather In Store For Indiana INDIANAPOLIS UP —Severe electrical storms struck most of -Indiana Friday night in the wake of the second tornado warning in two nights. No tqrnadoes developed. A weather bureau warning said the upper two-thirds of the state was ripe for twisters. The warning came at 8 p.m. CDT and was lifted several hours later. More than an inch of rain bit parts of the state for the second night in a row. Wabash got 1.57 inch Tn a 24-hour period ending this morning. Logansport 1.43, Anderson 1.05 and Fort Wayne one inch. Forecasters said cooler temperatures were in store today with possible light showers in the extreme southeast." "'Tonight and Sunwill,be mostly fair and cool, they said. • Temperatures rose to 82 at Evansville and Terre Haute Friday afternoon and to the high 70s else-, where.. Today’s expected highs were 65-70 north and 70-75 south.

To Dedicate Church Ou Monday Morning St. Mary's Church Dedication Monday Many visitors .former members of the parish and clergy, are expected here Monday for the formal dedication of the new St. Mary’s Catholic church. F The religious rites will begin at ,10:30 a.m. with the blessjng of the exterior and interior of the imposing edifice by the Most Rev. .Archbishop John F. Noll. D. D„ bishop of Fort Wayne. i The dedicatory solemn high massrToram "Episcopo, will follow, with the Rev. Vincent Ehinger, a member of the Passionists order, Chicago, as celebAnt. Archbishop Noll will give the sermon. The St. Mary’s men’s choir, under the direction of the Rev. Lawrence Heimdnn, director of music at St. Joseph’s college, Rensselaer, and Lawrence Pursley of this city, will sing the mass. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor, will be Archpriest of the mass. In formal dress, more than 60 .members of the Fourth Degree of the Knights of Columbus, will be an honor guard to Archbishop Noll and lead the procession Into the .Msgr. Seimptz will be lioqj tb Archbishop Noll and vfsltinp“elergy at dinner in the home economics room in the Catholic school. A dinner for Fourth Degree Knights and visitors will be held at the K. of C .hall following the dedicatory services. Confer Sainthood On Pope Pius X Ist Pope Canonized In Past 242 Years ROME UP — Pope Pius XII confers sainthood - today on Pope Pius X a modest man who never wanted to be a bishop, a cardinal pr a pope. He is the first pope to be canonized in 242 years. The Pontiff will - proclaim him “Saint Pius X” and elevate to the highest honor of the Catholic Church the village postman’s son whose humble love of his people inspired miracles. Pius X. who appointed the pres ent Pope a monsignor, was born Giuseppe Sarto. He was a priest who became patriarch of Venice and later was elevated to pope. Today an estimated 350,000 persons in Rome and millions sitting by their radios throughout the world will see or hear, the solemn ceremony as Pius XII reads these words in Latin: " “For the honor of the Holy Trinity, for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and for the growth of the Christian religion, by authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and by our own authority, w-e decree and define saint and inscribe in the Book of Saints the blessed Pope Plus X and order that his memory be celebrated in all years to come with pious devotioil in the universal church on August 20.” This will be the moment just before sunset of one of the greatest ceremonies Os the Marian Year. The crowd will be among the biggest here in history, and the estimated 50.000 foreign pilgrims in the throng will-be a record. Some 300 newsmen are covering the event. A group o of 260 American pilgrims led by. Francis Cardinal Spellman, 1 archbishop of New York, and Samuel Cardinal Stritch, archbishop of Chicago, journeyed to Rome for the canonization. It is the first canonization ever televised, and will be seen on thq. Italian Ytate television network. There will be rebroadcasts in the United States and radios will carry the ceremony in 20 languages to both side* of the Iron Curtain. ” The five-hour ceremony will be, one of the shortest canonization ceremonies. It was streamlined ‘to (T«ra To Page six>

U. S. Highways Are Jammed As Holiday Opens Rainy Weather In Much Os Nation On, Memorial Weekend By UNITED PRESS Holiday motorists jammed the highways today but rainy weather over much of the nation apparently kept down both driving speeds and’the traffic death toll. Director Ned Dearborn of the national safety council which estimated that 340 persons would be killed in traffic accidents during the three-day holiday said that “drivers were meeting extra hazards with extra caution.” A survey showed 24 persons had been killed in traffic accidents since 8 p.m. Frlday Three persons drowned and two died from injuries suffered in other accidents. A tornado whipped through the Lake of the Ozarks before the holiday began lifted' a 36-foot excursion boat into the air, turned it over and sent it crashing to the bottom of the lake. Three persons were drowned, three others were missing and^belie ved drowned and ty/o Memorial Day traditionally opens the summer vacation and holiday season. This year and holiday falls on a Sunday but is being observed on Monday. Railroads, bus lines and airlines all reported heavy passenger bookings. The rush started Friday afternoon. they said, and continued through the night. Rain made highways slippery over the Eastern half of the country. Fierce thunderstorms battered scattered areas of the Midwest. A driving rain pounded Spring Bay. and Metamora, 111., toppling trees and power lines and smashing window’s. Hail stones the size of “tennis balls” fell along with the rain in Peoria, 111. On ly residents along the East Coast, the Southwest and West enjoyed pleasant weather and nonbazardous driving conditions. The safety council’s advance estimate of highways deaths compared with 251 persons killed last Memorial day which covered only two days' Elect School Board Member On Tuesday Election of a member of the Decatur sghool board is scheduled as an official item of business before the city council Tuesday evening. The term of George Helm ex pires. Although he has not filed h's candidacy with the city clerk, it was reported that he will be a candidate for reelection. The term of a school board is for three years. the new., .term. lie:, ginning next August. Over 300 Enrolled In Reading Projecf Summer Project To Start Next Tuesday More than 300 Decatur children have registered at the public library for the summer reading program and more are expected to sign for the project in the next few days. Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, said, todaiy. The .public library theme this summer will be “Ride Your Hobby Horse Across America.” All local, people, young and old, are asked to send a postal card to the library from various states during summer vacation trips. Several cards already have been placed oh the library tree and It is the hope of those in charge that every state in the nation and all provinces in Canada will be represented by the close of The summer months. Jay H. Martin, postal employe, bent the library a folder from the Eisenhower Memorial, Ablleen, (Tur* Ta Page Four)

Ship's Commander Testifies To Board Explosive Mixture Theory Advanced QUONSET POINT, R. 1. UP — Capt. William F. Raborn Jr., commander of the ill-fated >air<f.af? carrier Bennington, told a navy board of inquiry today that an “explosive mixture” carried by the. ventilating system may have touched off the blast and fire that kills ed 99 men. “The cause of the disaster has not been determined by me,” Raborn said. "There are several .theories but I don’t propose to add to the speculation.” He said his inspections "seem to indicate that an explosive mixture of some sort, carried by the ventilating system to the various parts of the ship affected was somehow touched off.” Captain Raborn, an Oklahoma Ci|y, Okla., resident, announced that he would lead memorial services for the dead on the flight deck of "Big Ben" Monday at 11 a.m. These Memorial Day ceremonies will be attended by relatives and surviving officers and men of the carrier. The skipper said that his theory would account for the "searing sheet of flame, flash fire and blast’” that rocked “Big Ben” Wednesday While it was 75 miles at sea. ‘ - Raborn, the first witness at the . public hearing, told the board that the explosion, demolished the officer’s wardroom, and “practically . all officers’ quarters on the ves- ’ sei.” He said that the damage was I mainly on the second, third and fourth decks. : ~ •'■,-••• ■ Raborn recounted in a low voice . the six-hour struggle of the men . and officers against the flames that roared through the Benning- , ton's bowels. He described the ac- ■ tlon of officers and men in res- - cuing shipmates and controlling fires as “stupendous,” and said the crew "rivals the finest of World War II.” There was no evidence, Raborn said, that gas lines, magazines or other combustible parts were involved. He said “the ship would probably have been a total loss" if that had been the case. Raborn said that the blast at first knocked out the ship’s gyrocompass and communications ays(Tar* Ta Pare Five) Bible School Planned By Lufheran Church Vacation School To Open Next Tuesday Registration for the vacation Bible school to be conducted at ( Zion Lutheran parish hall will be ] held Tuesday morning from 8 to 8:30 o’clock. The vacation school , will open with a devotion in the . church at 8:30, conducted by the : pastor and superintendent of the , school, the Rev, Edgar P. Schmidt. Registration will be in charge , of Mrs. Reinhold Sauer, who will /serve the schooj as secretary- . treasurer, and the secretaries of . the four departments, Carolyn Au- , mann, Carolle Nelson, Mrs. Harry , Sheets, and Mrs. William Kenney. , After the opening devotions the children and teachers will march . in procession to the location of their classes. Each day the school will opey with a short morning devotion in the church. The Lutheran vacation Bible school staff is composed of the j following: senior department — , . the Rev. Walter Bauer, teacher: < Mrs. Roger Schuster and Mrs. ] Gary Schultz, handicraft: and Mrs. Norman Geiger, Mrs. Walter , Bauer, Mrs. Reinhold Sauer, and i Carolyn Aumann, assistants. Jun- / lor department — Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg, teacher; Mrs. Kart I Bischoff and Mrs. Richard Be- j mont, handicraft; and Phil Sauer, < Mrs. Marlow Schlefersteln, and 1 Jane 'Rentz, assistants. Primary i department —“Mrs. Karl Reinking, i teacher; Mrs. Don Burke, handi- i (Turn Te Page Fear)

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Battle Looms As McCarthy Defies Ike Missouri Senotor Cites Threat For National Security WASHINGTON UP — Sen. Stuart Symington said today Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s bid for federal workers to defy the President and give him secret information would destroy the nation’s security. The Missouri Democrat spoke as McCarthy appeared willing to battle the whole Elsenhower adminis(ration. He invited government employes to furnish him informet’km despite presidential directives. “This is the decision.” said Symington, who tangled with McCarthy Friday in the senate investigating subcommittee. “It’s developing Hfto a clear-cut issue as to the positions of the executive and legislative branches.” “You just couldn’t run our defense department under McCarthy’s rules," said Symington, a former secretary of the air force. “From the standpoint ot the de(lertse denarttnent. you just wouldn’t have any American se- - purity." . But McCartny renewed his hid for information in the televised hearings Friday in the face of a White House ’statement that anyone Who sought to override presidential secrecy orders was trying "to set himself above the laws of our land." The Wisconsin Republican said he intends to get information about Communism and corruption from anyone he can, and he promised to protect his informants “to the fullest.” < • ' Temporally chairman Karl E. Mundt (R-SD.) backed up McCarthy's stand. Mundt said most congressional Investigation* start from classified information leaked by government employes and he doesn’t care if President' Eisenhower did call it reprehensible. “That’s the way you play the game," Mundt told reporters. Mr. Eisenhower told a news conference May 12 that it was reprehensible for any officer ot civilian to give away information involving national security. Republicans on the subcommittee voted' Wednesday, over Syifiington’s cries of "whitewash” to dismiss charges against Asst. Defense Secretary H. Struve Hensel and McCarthy’s staff director Francis P. Carr. The vote also dismissed them as witnesses, but McCarthy announced Friday he would call Carr later as a witness for his side. McCarthy's frequently-repeated promise to protect his informants led to a two-hour wrangle Friday tn which the subcommittee issued a subpena for its own files, replaced it with another and then put the document on ice when McCarthy agreed to furnish files so long as Mundt kept McCarthy’s sources secret. Cohn testified Friday that he and McCarthy asked the army to let Pvt. G. David Schine have time off to complete work on subcommittee reports of Investigations in which he had a hand. Cohn swore that his friend Schine worked for the committee in his time oft and did not go to Florida “or anything elee.” Once the issue wa§ narrowed to that, McCarthy agreed. But -he took the ocacsion for a defiant oration that he would not let Democratic members see subcommittee files, because Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said Thursday that both McCarthy and the person who gave him a secret extract from an FBI report probably were guilty of a crime. When the subcommittee served Its suhneua on McCarthy, for all material prepared bv Schine. he countered with one ot bls own end demanded that Mundt elpn It. McCarthy’s would require the army to surrender its files on Fo"t Monmouth, N.J., site of McCarthy’s (T*n To Pace Three)