Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1954 — Page 1

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’ A-Bomb Test Alerts Chicago (Almost)! Ip, i|| lIRF JgplimßLJw I ThS ' i I Kg /Or’' A. / * # ,ir • ■ ! •;■ <- .v «• " V ■ Yf*>y •J x ■ t-t> :>•-..; - : >»»c ■ I • _■_• .'iiirrin ~ * ” — ’ ’" ' WaMK 1, THE FIRST WAIL of sirens heralding a continent-wide atomic air-raid drill cleared Chicago’s “world’s busiest corner” promptly of all vehicular traffic and sent many thousands into designated shelters. Chicago, however, made a poor showing, with a good l number of shoppers strolling along the sidewalks, and thousands at office building windows viewing the unusual quiet in the streets below.,

Civil Defense Planners Term Drill Failure Say United States / Is Unprepared For Enemy Bomb Raid WASHINGTON (INS) — Federal civil defense planners frankly admitted today that the US. is unprepared to meet evert 1 a "mock" atomic attack and mapped a series of city-by-city evacuation tests aimed at saving lives should the real thing collie. Theoretically, at least more than six million persons lost their lives and nearly three million were injured in a fake enemy bombing raid (Monday which laid in ruins 41 uA- citiee, eight in Canada, two in Alaska and one each in Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands. It was %he first extensive 1 a southage air raid drill ever staged on the American continent and it •tested the home-front readiness in the United States, its territories and OfttHMlFFederal civil defense adminisralor Vai Peterson, while paying tribute to the national-state-local operations which are still going on today-bluhtly commented: “‘Today's nationwide test has thus far proved effectively what we. had. assumed —that the nation’s civil defense team stillhasalong way ‘to go in the field of operational readiness." — ■ .Peterson added :■ “Civil defense exacuation drill is in store for every American target city." He did not specify when suqh tests tor moving civilians from the heart of industrial centers to safety in the outskirts will be held, but officials said it will be .tried on a single city basis rather than as the mass drill operation held ' this week. Peterson took occasion to emphasize the importance of evacuation in the over-all program. '» He commented: "Aside from if number of citywide air raid drills in Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and other large cities, perhaps the most dramatic incident occurred in Mobile, Ala., where they staged a large-scale test evacuation prior to the attack. Some 16,000 people moved by foot and by car from a 450-block area in downtown (Mobile.” Across the nation 'Monday, air raid sirens shrilled at various moments and millions of Americans, including President .Eisenhower, sought shelter. While the President briskly led a White Floifse contingent to a bomb proof underground shelter, non-compliance and foul-ups marred other civilian drills. 'Perhaps the worst occurred in the Pentagon, nerve center of the nation's delense department, when the raid alarm system conked out and workers in M? e vast structure were shepherded 'to shelter zones by wardens. Residents of Honolulu, which ■was struck by the brunt of the first Japanese attack in World 11, slept through the mock raid for the most part because the alarm sounded at 4 a.m. Hawaiian tinie. IMesaages'Trom allegedly stricken cities trickled in slowly to the nation’s control center at Olney, Md. — some of them two, three, or more hours after they had been hit in’the sham raid by more than 400 bombers. Civil defense officials at Olney worked around the clock, even though for the man tn the street, (Torn Ta Page Sts)

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Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur July 2 Appeal Issued For Additional Donors Another visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile to Decatur will take place Friday. July 2, according to word received by (Mrs. Wapda Oelberg. executive secretary of the Adams county chapter. Accompanying the announcement is an appeal for additional blood donors. Mrs. Oelberg and Mrs. Ed Bauer, ounty chairman of the blood program, have stated that the need for more donors in Adams county is becoming more and more acute. The local office desperately needs at least 100 new donors if they are to fill the quota set for each visit of (he bloodmobile. 'Mrs. Oelberg said that there are about 500 county residents who regularly offer to donate blood but restrictions sometimes disqualify many of these. -The blood donated hers serves both local and national needs. XVMIe most of. it is qent to the blood.bank in Fort Wayne, it is available to anyone in the county when needed. During the first three months of this year alone, 52, pints of blood were adminwteredtoAdamscounty people. The blood donated by each person has the life-saving qualities of many modern drugs. Besides besides being a replacement in cases of severe loss of blood, it is the source of gamina globulin used in fighting polio, measles and infectious hepatitis, The national blood program of the Red Cross' has been set up in sections. Decatur and Adams county are connected with the Fort Wayne until it is about three weeks old and: it is then made into plasma or gamma globulin. All three forms of the blood are needed tn huge quantities for national, local and personal emergencies. (Mm. Oelberg has added Jhat in addition to the need for more donors in this county there is a need for more staff aides. Each visit of Che bloomolfile necessitates almost 200 hours of volunteer service. To add to the present staff of volunteer workers, classes will be held later this month at the local Red Cross center. * CarJ Braun To Head Decatur K. Os C. Officers Elected Here Monday Night Carl A. Braun was elected grand knight of the Knights of Columbus at a meeting Monday night in the K. of C. hall. Braun succeeds Severin Schurger. Others named to office were Edward Heimann, deputy grand knight; R. Dale Morrissey, recording secretary; Robert Boch,-treas-urer; Gerald -J. Martin, chancellor; Neil Voirol, advocate; Elmer Wendel, warden; John.klntz, Jr., and Jerome Heimann, guards, and' Severin Schurger. trustee. These men will assume office July j. Formal installation wiYl.be held Ipter, The election meeting also featured reports on the state convention by Schurger and William Lose, Jr., delegates. Gerry Martin and Bill Lengerich were in charge of the snack which followed. INDIANA WEATHERPartly cleudy. continued warm and humid tonight and Wednesday. Chance of.a few scattered afternoon or evening thundershowers. Low tonight 68-74. High Wednesday In’ the 90s. » •

Sen. McCarthy Lashes Out At Army Officials Says Officials Gave Aid To Communisf Party By Tactics WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy asserted today that the army officials who filed misconduct charges against him and his key aides gave the Communist party a “great victory” by blocking his probes of Reds in military installations and defense plants. The Wisconsin senator made the statement while questioning his staff director, Francis P. Carr, as the televised army-McCarthy- dispute hearings went into their 34th day. t W McCarthy also indirectly Renewed his attack on Seri. SrtuarH. Symlngiqp.. L0t0.,) with whom he ' ‘cTSsned fiercely late Mont Ay. wheh he accused Symington of “dishonestly smearing" members of the McCarthy staff. In affirming his intention to protect his investigators. McCarthy, without naming Symington, referred to men who are “unwitting megaphones” for the Communists in what he called Red efforts 'to "smear” those who are seeking to expose the Communist conspiracy. Carr, whose cross-examination is expected to be completed later today. agreed with McCarthy that the charges by army secretary Robert T. Stevens and counselor John G. Adams had done the Communists a great service by allowing subversives to remain bnexposed. Stevens and Adams accused McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy M. Cohn — and, originally, Carr —of exerting improper pressure in behalf of the senators former consultant. f Pvt? David SChine. In counter-charges, the McCarthy side accuses Stevens anti Adams of using Schine as a "hostage” in a “blackmail” plot aimed jat thwarting (the senator's spy hunts. Under questioning by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.,) Carr agreed that the charges and counter — charges achieved one good result. McClellan said, and Carr agreed, that if the McCarthy side’s countercharges were true, they were "serious and grave” and "called the attention of the country to a condition that cannot be tolerated." The word "smear” was heard frequently as Carr’s cross-examin-ation continued. McCarthy said he had warned Carr that when he left his FBI job in New York to become chief investigator for the senator, he would be “smeared” in every conceivable way. Carr said that was so, but later, when being questioned by McClellan. remarked that “anybody who comes to; Washington runs, the risk" of. being i'ameared." Earlier, McClellan said' Schine could have, done “in just a few, hours” the senate committee work for which he received a series of weekend and evening passes over several months; Accident Victims Reported Improved Mrs. Hilda Weersing. of Grand Rapids. Mich., critically injured Sunday in a wreck- three miles north of Berne, regained consciousness at the Adams county memorial hospital today. Her condition was listed by attending physicians as fair. Her husband, James Weerelrig, is reported slightly improved. » 1

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesd ay, June 15, 1954.

Churchill And Eden To Meet With Eisenhower ’ I In Washington June 25

Mendes-France Seeks Approval Os His Cabinet Goes Before Divided National Assembly To Seek Approval PARIS (INS)—Pierre Mendes - France, v who would be* France’s 20th post-war premier, apparently will go before a divided and critical national assembly Wednesday or Friday to seek approval of his cabinet and program. The 47-year old Radical Socialist (moderate) party leader took time out from a rapid series of consultations with military dnd diplomatic officials to announce he would report tonight to President Rene Coty on his progress. Mendes-France said he expects to begin drafting his address to the national assembly Wednesday, and will announce definitely after his talk with Coty when he plans to seek the assembly’s investiture. He will see French ambassador Jean Chauvel, who has taken over temporary leadership of the French t delegation at Geneva, later today before attending a meeting of,Radical Socialist senators and depu- . tiee. '■-■■,■ . ....-i-Mendee-FHtnce, who favors immediate peace in todp-China but . claims he opposes capitulation to , the Communist-led Vietminh, met first with chief of staff Gen. Augustin -Guillaume, and then with the chie'te of the three services—- ' army, air force and navy. The talks were held against a background of the increasingly serious Indo-China situation. ' Mendes-France also hopes to confer with tfie French officers who are negotiating at Geneva with Vietminh representatives on the military preparations for aig Indo-China cease-fire. The candidate for the troubleladen premiership has urged the government in the past to negotiate directly with rebel Communist Ho Chi-minh. Such direct contact, it is generally agreed, would lead to a delayed, but eventual. Ftench withdrawal from IndoChina. Mendes - France was reported hepeful of obtaining a large bloc of support from his own party and the left of center Socialists. The Christian Democratic Popular Republican Movement (MRP) was still hostile to his candidacy, chiefly on the grounds of foreign policy. Mendes-France has been bitterly critical of MRP foreign minister Georges Bidault's policies on Indo-China. Monday night, the MRp came out flatly opposed to any government that would tend to reverse the nation’s foreign policy. Safe Driver Award To Herman Heimann Milk Truck Driver Wins Safety Award Herman Heimann, a milk truck driver for about 17 years, has been awarded a safe driver award in -this year's courtesy, eampaigp - sponsored by the Chicago Motor Crab. For his careful driving, . Heimann receives |5. The award was made by Joseph Kaehr, one of the judges in the current campaign. Kaehr followed Heimann Monday morning down Mercer avenue, on to Second street and then .down Monroe street. . In the afternoon Kaehr had an. opportunity to ride, with Heimann and observed that Heimann at dll times was a careful driver. Jleimann’s award' is the first of several which will be made to careful and courteous drivers in the county. The campaign .to being Conducted under the supervision of Marion Kirkpatrick, local director of Chicago Motor club activities.

Autos Collide At Road Intersection Woman Badly Hurt; Unborn Child Dies For the third time this year, an unmarked county road intersection was responsible for a serious accident today at 5:50 e.m. Cars driven by Robert Franks, 25, of Willshire, O„ and Mrs. Elvera L. Crosby. 22, of 927 North Fifth street, collided at an open intersection five miles north of Decatur near the Winifred Gerke residence. Mrs. Crosby, wife of James Crosby, is in serious condition at Adams county memorial hospital as a result of the accident. She is suffering from a severe head laceration, shock and the loss of her unborn son, Steven Wayne. Franks received lacerations on the lips and head and minor bruises. Both drivers were alone. Sheriff Robert Shraluka, who investigated with state trooper Gene Rash, stated that Mrs. Crosby was traveling west and the Franks car was going north. After the impact both cars careened into a post and utility ■pole at the northwest coiner of the intersection. The vehicles were practically demolished. ■ — ' *■ L ..... . ’ rd Rev, Carl Baker To Farmland Methodist The Rev. Carl Baker, *son of Mr. and Mrs. Miles Baker of Fort Wayne,, preached his first sermon as minister of the First Methodist church in Farmland last Sunday. Ordained at the recent conference in Kokomo, Rev. Baker was given this first pastorate by Bishop R. C. Raines. The young minister is a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. James Gattshall, 828 Walnut street. The grandparents attended Sunday’s service at the Farmland church. The parents of Rev. Baker formerly lived in this city. Over SI,OOO Profit On Spring Festival Reported This Year The Decatur spring festival made .a net profit of over $1,066, 49 percent more than last year, Clifford Brewer, retail chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, announced today. The festival, an annual event sponsored by the retail divlsion of the Chamber, took place May 1722. and included an amateur contest. f rides, concessions, and Exhibits on Madison, Court, and Third streets. Although the weather was generally cool -and an occasional shower interrupted the festival, large crowds of people attended. Total receipts, .. before expenditures, amounted’ to $2,408.52. Expenditures were $1,366.23. leaving a net profit of $1,042.29. General chairman for the event this year was Lyle Maljonee. and Kenneth E. Shannon headed the amateur contest. Various other committees and individuals took an Relive part .in making the festival a” success; Brewer statedT Montpelier Girl Is Killed In Accident MONTNPEUER, Ind., (INS)— Mary K. Shannon, 19, of Montpelier, was killed Monday night and three companions, were injured when'their caf left Ind. 18 near Montpelier and overturned into a ditch. Not seriously injured were Robert bee Green, 24, and Jerry J. Arnold, 21, both of Portland, and Melinda Ball, 19, of Montpelier. Police Hid Greeh was driving and apparently lost control of the car.

Geneva Peace Talks Viewed As Collapsing Announcement Os Churchill Visit To Ike Leads To Views GENEVA (INS) — The Korean 'phase of tne Geneva conference ended today. The conference began April 26. The 16-non-Communist nations decided it waa useless to continue the deadlocked Korean negotiations at Geneva. The Communjst bloc has refused to permit UN supervision of all-Korean elections, the heart of the dispute, but sought to keep the conference alive to the end. — _ ■* < GENEVA (INS)-Prime minister Churchill’s announcement that he and foreign secretary Eden will fly to Washington to visit President Eisenhower was interpreted as a clear sign of Britain's recognition that the Geneva peace talks are collapsing. The announcement in London created a flurry among the Communists. who are trying to keep . the talks going. - . In the resumed full 19 - nation conference on Korean unity today Gen. Nam fl/'North Korean foreign minister, 1 submitted a new sixpoint proposal for a settlement. The six-point North Korean plan still did not call for UN supervision o( all-Korean elections. . The adamant refusal of the Communist bloc to permit genuinely free elections for the unification of Korea is the cause of the deadlock which now’ threatens to doom the country to continued partition. The 16 United Nations Allies, whose forces fought the Reds to a standstill on the Asian peninsula, were agreed to bring the Korean talks with the Soviet bloc to ait « at today’s plenary session unless there was a drastic and unexpected change in the Communist policy. The Soviet Union requested today’s plenary session and the pos(Turn T« Face Six) Martin Bienz Dies Here Monday Night Funeral Services Thursday Morning (Martin Bienz, 78, of Preble, died at 7:50 o'clock Monday night at the Adams county memorial hospital 'He had been ill for the past seven months and hospitalized for the last three weeks. He was born in Van Wert cpunJan. 13, 1875, a son of John and Magdalina Schumm-Blenz, and had lived at Preble since 1902. He was never married. Mr. Bienz was a member of the St. Paul’s Lutherafl church at Preble. * Surviving are one brother. (Emmanuel Bienz of Plymouth, and one sister, Mrs. Lena Hobrock of Decatur... ■ ~ 1 „ Funeral services wiil be conducted at 10 a m. Thursday at the •Zwick funeral home and -at 1,0:30 a.tn. at the St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble, the Rev. Otto C. Busse officiating. Burial , will be te the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. Man Is Electrocuted On Huge Transformer GARY, Ind. (INS) — A Greenville, S.C. man who apparently climbed atop a huge transformer in Gary was electrocuted while a crowd of some 400 horrified persons stood by helplessly Monday night. The victim was tentatively identifiedas Paul Gaines, 27, of Greenville, S. C. ♦

Bradley Architect For New Buildings Fort Wayne Man To Design New Schools Architect Leßoy Bradley, of Fort Wayne, was awarded the contract as architect for the new north school building during a special meeting of the Decatur school board last night, W. Guy Brown, superintendent of public schools, announced today. Bradley is well-known in Decatur, having designed the Lutheran parish hall, missionary church, and Legion and Moose homes. He was also architect for the BerneFreflch township school in Berne. Eight applicants were carefully considered by the board, whose members are George Helm, president; Harry Irwin, secretary; and Everett G. Hutker, treasurer. Brown stated. A committee including Brown, the school board, and several teachers visited a number of schools in northern Indiana before the selection was made. Preliminary work on the building will begin Immediately, and will progress as fast as is possible, Brown stated. A schedule for the building program will be arranged soon, he added. ‘ Specifications will be prepared ’ by Bradley personally, and he will supervise the construction. His chief assistants will be Robert E. i Kain. chief draftsman, and Frank 111. Coe, Jr., mechanical engineer,' all members St Bradley’s firm. Bradley has managed bis own firm for 26 years, and before that had seven years experience with the firm of Griffith A Goodrich, grees in architecture from the University of Illinois, while Coe has a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue university. Architect Bradley, Brown, and the school board will meet today with Dr. Paul Seagers, building consultant of Indiana University, to get the plans under way.Flag Day Services Held Monday Night Fort Wayne Mayor Is Speaker At Services 'Robert E. Meyers, Fort Wayne mayor and guest speaker at the Elks Flag Day ceremony Monday night, reminded those who attended that the American flag represents a firm belief in the economic enterprise whic hhas brought the nation the highest standard of living in history. The flag, he said, was conceived in? troubled times and has survived several major conflicts going into the world as a symbol of liberty. Proof that the flag stands for freedom, he added, is the fact that this country had no imperialistic ambitions in entering the three international conflicts during the past 56 years. The mayor spoke briefly of the dangers of Communism, ix>inting out that the real enemy was not idealistic Communism but Russian imperialism. 'He emphasized, “we should honor the ’ flag by dedicating ourselves to the preservation of the free system for whicb it’ stands.” The speaker is the son of Judge and 'Mrs. iEd Meyers of Fort Wayne, formerly of this city. He became mayor recently upon the death of Mayor Harry Baals. His address was the highlight of Idle flag day program which is presented annually by the Elks lodge. Also on the program were music by the Decatur high school band, introductory exercises by exalted ruler Oran Schults and officers, a prayer by Elks 'Chaplain Herman Keller, Che history of the flag iby David Macklin, the response by Geoi-ge F. Laurent, and the altar service by Elks officers.

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British Heads Os State Meet With President Informat Talks At White House Over World's Problems WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today that he hoped the igr formal talks between President Eisenhower and British leaders In Washington will do much to create a meeting of the minds concerning collective security in southeast Asia. He made the statement after an announcement that British prime minister Sir Winston ChurchiH. and foreign minister Anthony Eden will visit the President at the White House the week-end of June 25. Dulles told a news conference there have been some indications that the British now feel the Geneva talks on Indo-China have been barren and that the time has come to consider alternatives. The secretary said that the talks will be informal, like good friends! sitting down with a cigar after dinner, and that he hopes they 1 will lead to a closer meeting df the ro*nds which will permit fur- ■ tbelr discussions oh a southeast Asian security pact with other nations. Dulles refused to discuss the question of whether or not the U.S. has softened its attitude on Indo-China but did say the U. S. has not given up Ilk view that the situation in all southeast Asia would be improved by the creation of a collective security system. He emphasized that he hopes the talks between the chiefs of state of Britain, and the U. S. will help, Dulles spoke, at length about the problem of collective Security in Europe and said that Information reaching him indicates the French national assembly is more disposed than ever before to act favorably on the European Defense Community treaty. He cautioned against optimism however,, by saying that at the same time the obstruction against a vote on the treaty is stronger than ever and that the IndoChinese crisis has increased the possibility of further delay. Dulles indicated belief that the Geneva conference will be over or reduced on importance by the end of nexa week. Dulles said he does not believe the French will participate in the talks and pointed out that there have been previous instances when the President met with French leaders without inviting the British. - Dulles said flatly the forthcoming visit does not grow out of any emergency. A spokesman said the meeting will cover "many things,’’ but The President and Sir Winston presumably will discuss the critical Indo-China situation as well as other phases of the global struggle against Communism. Presidential news secretary James C. Hagerty said the invitation for Churchill and Eden to visit the U. S. was extended “some weeks" ago. Hagerty said the visit will be an “informal meeting.” He de«* clined to discuss any specific items which may come up for discussion. - . Youse Funeral Rites Thursday Afternoon Funeral servcies for Mrs. Carrie Youse, of Hoagland, who died Monday after a brief illness, wHI be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Paul Schmeidel officiating. Burial will be in the Antioch cemetery. The Order of Eastern Star will hold memorial services at the funeral home at 8> pm. Wednesday. Friends may call at. the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.