Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1954 — Page 1

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Washington Fireworks Continue |BB|B Bj| JBBEb| * OsHI ■hr 'Wail .< b< -: aS I L\ • s? ’ a ■•*w '*"sa 'wo »* at —-J .—IeIS .»^aSSE^O-h-.. . .-■■*■■*— WHILE SENATOR RALPH E. FLANDERS (left). Vermont Republican, charged before the senate that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy is dividing his country, his church, and the Republican party and “could not have done a better job for the Communists” if he were in their pay, the junior Senator from Wisconsin poured oil on the flames of controversy before the Army-McCarthy hearings. A boxful of data from McCarthy’s files, purporting to show that Pvt. G. David Schine did monumental work while on special pass from basic training, is presented to the investigating committee by the Senator and his counsel. Roy M. Cohn. The fireworks came when McCarthy kept the foments out of the record until he could screen it to protect his sources of information.

French Submit New Armistice Control Plan New International Armistice Control Plan Is Submitted GENEVA (INS) — France submitted a new international armistice control plan today at the resumed secret sessions on the IndoChina war problem. The plan was aimed to counter the Communist proposal that tne eommfssion to supervise any ceasefire be composed of India, Pakistan, and the Red-ruled nation® of Poland and Czechoslovakia. BhJetrtt’s plan’was understood toeliminate the participation of the Rod bloc nations but envisages including India. - The three associated states of Tndo-China are very reluctant to see any supervisory commission dominated by India, since they feel they cannot rely on the latter’simpartiality. For instance, V. K. Krishna Menon, the Indian envoy but nonparticipant at Geneva, has consulted with all Communist bloc delegations at Geneva, but has Ignored those of two of the associated states, Cambodia and Laos. The U. S. delegation, remembering the obstructive participation” of Czechoslovakia and Poland on the Korean supervisory commission, opposes inclusion of any Communist bloc nations on an In-do-Chinese control team. Delegates of the nine nations met on the control problem while Franco-Vietnamese and the Communist - led Vietminh military delegatee met for the first time in another conference room. The job OT the military committee is to try to formulate “regroupment” zones in which the opposing armies Would be quarantined after a cease-fire and pending a political settlement. An authoritative source said that the U. S. delegation remains opposed to any form of partition (Continued On Pune Kight) Costello Is Named Premier Ofdreland DUBLIN (INS) — John Costel 10, leader of the Fine Gael (United Ireland) party, today was elected prime minister of Ireland to succeed defeated Prime Minister Eamon de Valera. The vote in the Dall, or parliament, was 79 to 66. Costello and coalition parties in the general elections May 18 won at least 80 Os the 147 seats in tjie new parliament, 49 of them going to Fine Gael. Farewell Friday For Rev. Emerick Family An appreciation and farewell . meeting for the Rev. Samuel Emerick and family will be held atthe First Methodist church Friday evening at 8:15 o’clock. Rev. Emerick has been transferred to the pastorate of the First Methodist church at Bluffton. All members are invited to attend and friends outside the church membership will be web . come. A short program will be given, refreshments will be served and Rev. Emerick ■will conduct a viewing of the part of the ' new chapel building completed by that time. ;■ r ■

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Ammunition Dump Blast Rocks Saigon Vietnam Capital Is Rocked By Blasts SAIGpN (INS)—Three violent explosions in a nearby French Union ammunition dump rocked the Vietnam capital of Saigon early today. The first blast set off a flare 300feet into the early morning sky and was followed by a tall tower of smoke. There was no immediate information as to whether the explosion resulted from Communist - Vietminh sabotage or an accident. The destruction at the dump in Phutho, a Saigon suburb, was estimated at one-tenth of the total munitions stored there. There were no reports of the nurpber of casualties, if any. Saigon, the headquarters of the French civilian and military commanders in all Indo-China, is in southern Vietnam. The rebel Vietminh guerrillas have operated outside the city all during the eightyear old war. rr - Several anmy units were rushed to the scene to try to bring the situation under control. Agence France Presse said two theories were being evplored as to the cause of th explosions. The first is that a single Vietminh terrorist slipped into the munitions storage area and planted a delayed action bomb; the second, that the blast was the result of spontaneous combustion. Only one magazine was blown wide open, -but that explosion touched: off limited damage in other magazines.,i City Council Meets Here Tuesday Night No Remonstrances To Appropriations An ordinance for additional appropriations was proposed at the meeting of the city council Tuesday night. No remonstrances have been filed against the appropriation but, lacking a quorum, the council could not pass the ordinance. The additional appropriations call for S4BO for the general fund, $5,387.39. for the street and sewer depaitment and $27,862.29 for the revolving sewer fund. Revised estimates on the Phil Sauer and Harold Rhinehart laterals were submitted-to the council by Ralph Roop. Cost of house connections and filler was included In the revised plans. The Sauer lateral will cost $9,000 and the Rhinehart lateral will cost $10,700, according to. the new estimates. These estimates were accepted and approved by the city council. Contracts for the Phil Sauer lateral will be let the latter part of June. An application for reappointment to the Decatur school board by George Heim was approved and placed on file. This is the only ap--1 plication for the board post received by the council. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with showers and scattered thunderstorms beginning tonight and continuing Into Thursday. A little warmer extreme south tonight. Low tonight low 80s north to low 60s south. High Thursday 6266 north, 66-74 south.

Oppenheimer Is Held Loyal But Security Risk Special Board For Atom Commission Opposes Scientist WASHINGTON (INS) — The nation’s five-man atomic energy commission begins consideration today of a special board’s 2 to 1 finding that Robert Oppenheimer is a “loyal citizen” but also a security risk. The threei-member board’s 15,000 word report recommended that Oppenheimer be barred permanently from secret data bicause of Communist associations and "disturbing conduct” bMieved to have delayed the H-bomb. Oppenheimer, famed director of the institute for advanced study at Princeton, N. J., and known as the “father” of the atomic bomb, dumped the case in the commission's lap by refusing to appeal-to the special security review board. The scientist revealed the full text of the board’s report late Tuesday. No government announcement had been made. Oppenheimer said through his attorneys that he did not care for further review "since the commission in any event is to decide the case.” The commission, headed by Adm. Lewis L. Strauss and including thrpe appointees from the previous administration, was urged to make its decision befbre June 30. Oppenheimer pointed out that his term as an atomic advisor expires on that date. The result of the special board’s investlgatiorf of Oppenheimer was released by attorney Lloyd K. Garrison, who represented Oppenheimer during four weeks of highly secret hearings following his suspension as a government atomic advisor. Garrison, in a letter dated June 1 and addressed to AEC general manager K. D. Nichols, disclosed that the board reached its decision May 28. Garrison said : “The board unanimously found that Dr. Oppenheimer was a loyal citizen, but by a 2 to 1 vote. Dr. Ward V. Evans dissenting, recommended that Dr. Oppenheimer’s clearance should not be reinstated.” The report revealed that Oppenheimer testified he became a “fellow traveler” in 1937. He was quoted as saying his interest had "tapered off" "in 1942, but that he did not finally renounce all Communist sympathy until 1946. Oppenheimer testified that he never was a Communist and never accepted Communist dogma, but 'his contributions to the Communist party between 1938 and 1942 were placed at SSOO to SI,OOO a year. The special board’s finding was without any conclusion that Dr. Oppenheimer had been responsible for giving away atomic secrets. In fact, the two-man majority report stated: “It must be said that Dr. Oppenheimer seems to have had a high degree of discretion reflecting an unusual ability to keep to hfinself vital secrets.” . , But the, board summarized a long list of Communist associations, including those of his excommunist wife and including left-wing scientists he employed as wartime director of the A-bomb project. The report saidr "We have, ■> (Turn To Page .—■ i -

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 2, 1954.

Says Charge By Army In Schine Battle Made To Halt McCarthy Probe

Ike Refuses Any Comment On McCarthy Tells News Parley He Has Said Last Word On Dispute WASHINGTON (INS) — President Elsenhower summed up his administration’s achievements in ridding the government of Communists today and then declared he has said his last word on the dispute with Sen. Joseph R. McCar-) thy. '< Mr. Eisenhower noted at a news conference that the task of removing Reds from the federal pay roll must be accomplished without sensation. He said everything his administration has done to combat subversion has been done with due process of law. Despite the President’s declaration that he would have no more to say on the subject, one reporter asked whether the President thought McCarthy had hurt the administration’s program. The Chief Executive stared grimly at his questioner for a moment and said: Next question. He also refused comment on the decision of a special security board that atomic scientist Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer should not be .reinstated aS a consultant to the gow ernment. Mr. Eisenhower noted that he previously had expressed great admiration for what the famed physicist has done in the past. But he pointed out that the case is still going through quasi-judicial procedures and that he would have no comment ’oh it at this time. The President declared in a prepared statement that the constant surveillance of Communists in this country is “a 24-hour, seven-days-a-week, 52-weeks-a-year job.’’ He added: ‘.‘lt is. carried out by the appropriate federal agencies, in conformance with due process of law. It is being done quietly and relentlessly and those Who best know its effectiveness are the Communists themselves.” His summary, prepared by the justice department, said orders for deportation have been issued against 268 persons with records of subversive activity or affilliation since the administration took office. It also pointed to the conviction of 41 Communist party leaders and the inttictment of others. The President called attention to the statement issued in the name of attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr., last week declaring that the executive authority for maintaining the nation's security against the threat of Communism (‘turn To Page Eight) Distribution Made Os Tax Collections Spring Collection Distribution Made Distribution of tax money collected in the spring taxpaying period has been made, according to an announcement by Frank Kitson, county auditor. The total tax collected amounted to $787,254.74. Os this total the state .received $37,230.76; county, $85,100.32; welfare, $22,394.82; hospital, $6,718.45; poor relief, $12,202.18; Decatur library, $9X>59.26; Berne library, $4,352.97, and Geneva Library, sl,143,99, Corporation shares Include Decatur, $93,645,09; - Berne, S4L--353,06; Geneva, $5,290.77,’and Monroe, $2,007.71. Distribution to schools by townships were Union, $15,760.70; Root, $31,605.45; Preble, $12,523.37; Kirkland, $931.77; Washington, $1,924.70; St. Marys, $21,856.44; Blue Creek, $11,998.78; Monroe, $1,949.85; French, $987.06; Hartford, $20,666.81; Wabash, $37,615.16; Jefferson. $20,335.31; Adanis Central, $90,049.59; Decatur. $130,390.14) and Berne-French, $67,762.83. ...

Scientists Blast ,\■• • • • Board's Findings Assail Oppenheimer Finding By Board . CHICAGO (IM'S)—Leading scientists have blasted the majority decision of a three-man board which Refused to reinstate th* security clearance of famed atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. They vigorously attacked the binding ot the atomic energy com- ‘ mission’s special personnel secur* 1 ity board as “illogical." “absurd,” ' "disturbing" and “politically ex- ! pedient.” Dr. Ward V. Evahs, dissenting ’ member ot the board and a professor of chemistry at Loyola uni--1 veriity in Chicago, said that “no ’ one on the board doubted. Oppenheimer’s loyalty" and therefore the refusal to reinstate him was “il- ’ logical.” ( He defended his minority decision as "based on fact, not on outj side pressure" and called the ma- , jority recommendation a “black 's mark on our country.” Dr. Evans added that he had misgivings about the effect of the decision on the nation. [ The atomic scientists of Chicago . branded the ruling as “absurd" and called it “an attempt to nyif- , fie a sincere And legitimate qritif." I The group added: t “By initiating these hearings the - government has laid itself open - to the'serious charge . ... that it.hasdragged put old and well-worn ac- > cusations at a time when they can - serve no othef purpose except - those of political expediency.” 1 Dr. Samuel K. Allison, director i of the institute of . nuclear studies I at the University of Chicago, as- > serted that the decision Indicated “something was wrong somewhere ■ in the government.” He predicted it would be "hard" ‘ for the government to get first- ’ rate scientific advisors as a result of the ruling. 1 ' Dr. Cyril Smith; director of the 1 institute of metals at the Univer--1 sity of Chicago, said that if the AEC "pays attention” to President 1 Eisenhower’s Columbia speech, it 1 will disregard the security board's recommendation. ' 1 He referred to a speech at Co1 lumbia university Monday night in which the President warned against "conformity by compulsion" and reminded that there is (Turn To Pane Eight) Oldenburg Bank Is Victim Os Bandits $5,600 Loot Token From Indiana Bank OLDENBURG, Ind. (INS) —The Oldenburg bank was robbed of $5,600 today by three men who escaped in a. dark-green automobile ' bearing Indiana license plates. State police said the robbery occurred 1 at 10:05 a.tn. CDT. They said the three men locked three bank employes in the vault and escaped with $5,600 in small bills. Names of the employes were not available. The two men who entered the bank were described as 30, 5-foot-6, and 170 pounds -wearing dark glasses and a blue sweater, and 30. 5-foot-ft, 140 pounds, wearing dark glasses and a tan jacket and bat. The third desperado stayed in the car used in the getaway. • He wore dark glasses and had a dark complexion. Henry I. Rumple Hospital Trustee Henry I. Rumple, prominent Jefferson township ,farmer, has been appointed to the Adams countymemorial hospital board of trustees to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lester W. Stuckey.. Rumpie’s appointment by the county commissioners was made Tuesday. Stuckey's resignation because ot Illness was effective Immediately. The term runs until January 1, 1956.

Two Are Killed By Explosion On Submarine Flash Explosion In Submarine At Naval Shipyard Today PORTSMOUTH. N. H. HNS)— Two civilian painters were killed and a sailor seriously Injured today in a flash explosion in the submarine Sirago at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. The blast, heard for three miles, occurred In the main ballast tank, according to naval officials, who said the men were spraying a plastic substance. Killed were Raoul Senechel. Somersworth, N. H., and Joseph E. A. Rousseau, Portsmouth. Identity of the sailor was not made public. pending notification of his family. Six other men at work in the drydocked vessel escaped injury. The shipyard fire department dragged the victims from the vessel. They were rushed to the yard hospital, where the two civilians were pronounced dead on arrival. The seaman, who was on watch duty at the time, suffered burns about the head and hands. The cause of the blast was not iurmediately determined but a board of inquiry was oohvened a short time after the tragedy. The submarine was not damaged to any great extent, according to Capt. Robert S. Cronin, commander of the shipyard. The Sirago is in Portsmouth to undergo a routine overhaul after long duty with the fleet. The main ballast tank is located between the outer and inner hall. One of the dead men was working inside the tank and the other, outside. The sailor-guard was making a periodic check of that section dT the ship when the blast occurred. This was the second time in a week that a navy* vessel was involved in a fatal blast in New England waters. Last Wednesday the carrier Bennington was rocked »y explosions 75 miles off Quonset Point, R. 1., with a toll of Ml dead. A navy spokesman said the explosion was a gigantic "poof” that lasted but a second or two. House Votes Wider Security Proposals Increase Benefits For Many Citizens WASHINGTON (INS) — Quick senate action was assured today on the house-approved administration social security proposals broadening coverage and raising benefits for millions of retired citizens. Senate finance committee chairman Eugene Millikin (R-Colo.), said hearings will be held “as soon as possible” on the hill given a 355-to-8 send-of in the house Tuesday. Millikin called the bill "generally acceptable” and indicated hearings would begin about the middle of this month. The finance committee must first finish action on a huge bill revising internal revenue laws. As yet, no organized opposition has appeared against 4 any provision of the- bill. 'What little disagreement there was in the house debate concerned the inclusion of nearly five million farmers in the system. However, under house rilles, nothing could be done about it. To pay for the increased benefits, higher payroll taxes would be Imposed on both employers, and employees, effective in -1955. The taxes would <remain at their presnt 2 percent, hut they would be applied to the first s42oo'earned by a worker instead of the first $3600, as at present. This would mean an additional sl2 a year in such payments for many people. —— - ' -I—.

Continue Probe Os Beme Bank Holdup Question Witnesses To Saturday Holdup Sheriff Robert Shraluka, one of a dozen law enforcement officials taking part in the probe of the lone bandit holdup last Saturday afternoon of the First Bank of Berne, reported today that there are no new developments. So far, federal, state, county and Berne law enforcing units, which have combined their forces in an effort to solve the hold up. have been baffled by the boldness of the lone young man who herded Elmer Baumgartner, bank president and 10 bank employes into the basement of the building and made off with more than $12,500 last Saturday. Witnesses, including bank employes and those outside the building who got a good view of the bandit, were questioned most of Tuesday and this morning. A good description oftthe bandit has been obtained, investigators believe. An effort also is being made to trace movements of the robber after he left the holdup scene. Shraluka said that the probe would continue and all possible clues would be followed through. He said that it was doubtful it any official statement concerning progress of the probe could be issued for several days. Those in charge have promised, however, to keep the public informed when information divulged will not tend to slow the investigation. Accident Victim's Funeral On Friday 1 Funeral Friday For Mrs. Nellie Mumma • Funeral serVices will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at- the Zwick funeral home for Mrs. Nellie Mumma, 39, of Elnora, who was killed instantly Tuesday morning In the collision of two autos at a county road intersection in Union township. The Rev. Harold Miles, pastor ot the Christian church at Plainville, of which Mrs. Mumma was a member. will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday until time gt -the services. The victim's husband, George Mumma, a native and former resident of Adams county, and their three sons, all injured in the crash, are reported improving at the Adams county memorial hospital, where they were taken following the accident. Further examination has disclosed that George Mumma. driver, sustained a broken collar bone. Gustav Krueckeberg, 64, of Decatur route 4, driver of the other car, was not badly injured. Mrs. Mumma was born in Daviess county Sept. 13. 1914, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Allegree. Surviving in addition to the husband and three sons are another son, Robert Lee Mumma; a daughter, Miss Phyllis Jane Allegree, Elnora; three stepsons, M/Sgt. George Mumma, Jr., Camp Hood, Tex., Norman Mumma ot Plainville and Dean Mumma of Washington, Ind.; three step-daughters, Mrs. Doris Mallette ot Odon. Mrs. Modesta Meyers of Martinsville (Continued on Pace Kight) Ladies Entertained By Lions Tuesday Wives and sweethearts of Lions club members were entertained last evening at the K. of P. home at dinner and a program provided by the Rev. Raymond King, a Baptist minister of Liberty Center. A musician and entertainer. Rev. King entertained at the piano in a repertoire that Imitated notables of the stage and screen. His selections included skits on Victor Borge, Liberate and Jimmy Durante. Hugh J. Andrews chairmaned the pftfcram.'

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Repeats Under Oath Charges Against Army Charges Planned Attempt To Halt > McCarthy's Probe t BULLETIN , WASHINGTON (INS)—Sen. j McCarthy declared today that > he has information in trte cen- . tral Intelligence agency and In hydrogen bomb plants. I He told senator* investigating his dispute with Pentagon [ officials that the information "disturbs me a great deal” and that It is “much more serious” than Red infiltration in the army. — > • I'- r WASHINGTON (INS) — Roy M. Cohn swore today that the army’s charges in the battle over Pvt. G. David Schine were launched in a “planned, premeditated, dishonest" attempt to block San. Joseph R. McCarthy’s probe of possibile Communists and spies on the Pentagon payroll. The McCarthy chief counsel repeated. under oath, his allegation, that army secretary Robert T. • Stevens and department counselor I John G. Adams used Schine .as a . “pawn” in a scheme to force ter- , mination, ot the inquiry into aus- • pected espionage at the Fort Men--1 mouth, N. J., radar center. Cohn’s testimony came under cross-examination before the senate subcommittee investigating the McCarthy-army dispute. Earlier, the investigators agreed to seek modification of President Eisenhower’s executive secrecy directive, to permit introduction of records of monitored phone calls between Stevens and Maj. Gen. Kirk B. Lawton, Fort Monmouth commanding general. ---— McCarthy and Cohn said that 1 the transcripts were needed to sup- ’ port their contention that Stevens ' intended to dismiss La wton from ( his command because of his *‘co- ’ operation” with the senator’s investigation of the radar center. [ The senator and his chief counsel • also asserted that Sitevens and ' Adams have withheld records of • other monitored calls, relative to 1 Schine. The transcripts are to be introduced In evidence later, un1 less the McCarthy side, on the ground that some records have 1 been held out, blocks their introduction. Cohn's testimony this morning, under the cross-examination of all 1 senators on the subcommittee, and under the highly complimentary Interrogation of McCarthy, covered a wide varity of issues. Highlights included: Questioned by army special counsel Joseph N. Welch, Cohn admitted that he was "anxious” to get a commission for Schine when it became evident that the 26-year-old McCarthy committee consultant was slated to be drafted. But he denied that a commission, for Schine, had it been granted, would have bad any effect on the committee's probe of Communists in the army. He asserted that Stevens and Adams had the "mistaken notion" that the committee “exposure of Reds and spies would be a personal reflection” on their administration of the Army. Cohn said the committee’s decision io investigate the army resulted, in February, 1953, from "oral information” given by an. army officer whom he did not name. At this point, McCarthy said that he also- had information about "Communist infiltration" in the central intelligence urgency and. the atomic and hydrogen bomb ' programs, but the luncheon recess was called before that point waa amplified. Cohn, questioned by Sen. Henry M. Dworahak (R-Idaho) said that he and Schine, in their 1953 tour of Europe, were targets of what be called a “deliberate smear” (Cnattaued On Page Bl*kA)