Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 148, Decatur, Adams County, 24 June 1954 — Page 1

* Vol. Lil. No. 148.

. .. J. , Floods Hit lowa Farmlands jp ' WnMMtaMHF ■ X,; ’) j P5?-V . 1. Z ? FLOODWATERS of the. Des Moines river, -which have inundated the area around, Ft Dodge. lowa, moved into the northwest section of the city, where Dick Kreiman, 31, stands chest-deep in the water as he tries to fasten a chain to a tractor.

G. 0. P. State Convention To Be Held Friday Two Contests Loom As Certainties At State Convention INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The harmony atmosphere for the Republican state convention Friday was disturbed somewhat today when Pan) Cyr, recently ousted as GOP state chairman, announced he was considering running for state auditor. Cyr obtained a candidates application blank from John Sellers, state committee secretary, and sgid: '*l' am considering running for auditor but have not yet reached a final decision.” < Withim miriqtes after Cyr’s announcement, the forces of Gov. George N. Craig announced they were considering running B. W. Johnson.Jormer state senator from Owensville. for nomination as superintendent of public instruction against Wilbur Young, an ally of the forces of Sens. Homer E. Capehart and William E. Jenner. A short time later, Cyr announced he would not run for auditor. if Cyr had run, there would have been an out-and-out battle between the Capehart-Jenner forces on one hand and the Craig forces on the Many weeks ago Curtis Jtardin, of Rensselaer, announced for auditor, saying he had the backipg of the Craig forces. Cyr, who was named state chairman in a coup d’etat of the Capehart - Jenper group, several weeks ago was oustthe Craig faction and replaced by by the present chairman, Alvin C. Cast. There also was some question whether the two senators would appear at the "cookie and punch"'" harmony reception which the Governor is staging in the rotunda of the statehouse Pais afternoon. However, Lt. Gov. Hafow Handley, a Capehart-Jenner man. who is running for Governor in 1956, said he would belhefre. Also invited to the governor’s party were the 10 Indiana GOP representatives and the first district Republican nominee, Robert H. Moore, of Gary. The peaceful motif was enhenced by the fact that three state officials of the Capehart-Jenner faction apparently will not be fought for renomination by the Craig forces at Friday’s conyention. They are secretary of state Crawford F. Parker, of New Castle: state John Peters, of New Albany, and state superintendent of public instruction Wilbur Young, of Osgood. There is some possibility that lieutenants of Robert Wyatt, secretary of the Indiana State' Teachers Association, will enter a candidate against Young before the deadline at 1 p.m. CST today. Two contests are certain, however. Mrs. Mabel Lyons, of Auburn, Craig-faction former state vice-chairman, late Wednesday paid her candidate’s fee and will run against Thomas C. Williams, of Jeffersonville, who seeks renomination as clerk of the supreme and appellate courts. The other certain contest is for judge of the appellate court, first district. The present two judges of that district,: Donald E. Bowen, of Bloomington, and Wilbur A. (Tarn To Txe — 14-PAGES

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Fight Assessments On Drain Benefits Over 100 Persons Profest To Ditch Disgruntled Adams county farmers appeared in the Adams county court house today to attend a hearing on the assessed benefits Os the John Barger petition for drainage? Well over 100 farmers have filed objections to their assessments on the proposed drainage. The controversial ditch begins in the northwest corner of Kirkland township, runs in a -general southeasterly direction under the.Nickle Plate railroad, then turns In a general easterly direction into Washington, where it creeses U.S. highway 224 and then funs in a general northeasterly direction 'to St. Mar ye river. Objections The most common objection was that assessments were too high in comparison to the benefits . derived. Ttiey further claimed that assessments were Inequitable. Many of the farmers claimed that there is ho need for the drainage clearance except forth> s portion affecting land owners by Jhe petitioners. A few alleged: fhartbey would even be damaged by the drainage project. Objections heard this morning will be examined by Walter Oilliom. engineer for the project. According to law he must listen to the objections and then draw up a final report which is filed in circuit court. Remonstrances to this report will then be filed within ten days. (More Filed Several new remonstrances and objections were filed Wednesday and earlier this morning, including objections by the Erie Railroad Co. and the Krick-Tyndall Co. Atty. Henry Heller filed objections to the viewers report for Mabel E. Marshall. Bessie June Weldy, Bryce Weldy and Mpx Weldy. A remonstrance by Michael Biberstein was filed by Atty. G. Remy Bierly. Other remonstrances were filed by Ted Reinhart and Charles and Josephine Robenold. The law firm of Custer and Smith has also entered to file objections to the viewer’s report for Samuel and Henry Henecher. Hugh and Ella M. Landis, Richard and Dovie Hill, Daniel and Sarah Kuhn, Homer and Lulu Arnold, August- and Sarah Yake. Evan E. Yake, Velma Skoein. * Floyd W. Ehrman, Abel Gerber. Theodore and Janet Heller. Lewis L. and Lucinda Sauder, Homer and Mary Gerber, Ray and Ida Aschliman. Albert F. Dick. Howard L. Habegger, Elva and Dora Aschliman. Samuel M. Beaver, Emil and Roselena Steffen, William and Rhea Bryan, Clifford and Helen Heyerly, Millard and Herman Aschliman, Voyle and Marcile Hill. Norman Steffen, Wil-liam-'and Lydia Aschliman. Josephine and Katie Gerber, Sophia and Sylvia Meyer. Ida Troxel, William Troxel, Fred Troxel. Charles D. Meyer, John Frauhiger, Lester Adler, Fred Adler, Glen Adler, Daniel and Clara Fiechter, Daniel Lantz, Ray and Vergene Reinhard, Aaron and Irene Reinhard, John Fiechter. Homer and' JJinnie Aschliman. Edna Gerber, Emanuel Gerber. Elmer and Emma Gerber, Glennes E. Steffen, John Leyse. Elmer and Minnie lech, Ezra and Matilda Kaehr. Harold and Aldine Moser, James Berry, .Fred and Naomi Kaehr, William R. and Ida Steffen, Joe and Sarah. Aschliman. David and Hilda fiechter, John Grouse, Harry V. Martin, Lydia Steffen and Louie Gerber. ( ( The plaintiff* in the petition have filed motions to sttike the re-j (Turn To Pose Six)

Churchill And Eden Enroufe To Washington Present Two-Point Plan Os Peace In Southeast Asia (INS) — Prime minister Sir Winston Churchill and foreign secretary Anthony ,’Eden take off for Washington today with a new, ,two-point British plan for peace and stability in Southeast Asia tucked away in their diplomatic Juggage. The"79-year-old Sir Wineton, and his long-time political heir and chief aide will leave in a chartered plane at 7:45 p.m. BST (2:45 p.m. EDT) for the weekend of talks with President Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles. The British plan as outlined in the house of commons Wednesday by Eden is: 1. An agreement by both the Communist and free nations of the west and Asia banning aggression. 2. The creation of a Southeast Asia security pact similar to the North Atlantic treaty organization. and including India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Burma and Indonesia. Eden said the two plans would be "quite different” but "in no way ineons Ist ent.” The proposal for a permanent Southeast Asian defense organization has been a main objective of U. S. policy, but ‘Eden denied strongly that Britain had delayed action on gorging the pact. He maintained Britain had helped create the necessary conditions for getting agreement on the security system, by preventing any “precipitous move.” The comment obviously was a criticism of Dulles who had sought action before the Geneva conference began. Eden did not once mention Dulles by name during the course of his long speech, although he did praise U. S. undersecretary of state alter Bedell Smith for his cooperation at Geneva. Bedell Smith took over after Dulles left. The London Daily -Express political commentator'seized upon the foreign secretary’s failure to mention Dulles and said that everything in Washington "will depend on the good will existing between Churchill and Eisenhower ” The rest of the London ’Press described Idden’s speech as a great personal triumph. The Washington talks which begin on Friday will cover a wide range of problems, but their basic purpose is to examine and cure if possible the ills of the Anglo-Amer-ican alliance. Bell Funeral Rites Are Held Wednesday Dr. F. D. Whitesell of Northern Baptist Seminary staff, returned by plane to Chicago after conducting funeral rites for Clarence E. Bell at the Black funeral home Wednesday afternoon. Dr. Whitesell chose for his text a verse from Paul's epistle to. Timothy: "I have fought a good fight; 1 have finished the course; I have kept the faith”, and then drew a parallel with the life lived by Mr. Bell. ' Burial was made in the Decatur 1 cemetery. t

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 24, 1954.

Guatemala Appeals For U. N. Security Council To Study Bomb Threats

—, —- Four Honduran Towns Bombed From Planes Honduras Reports Towns Bombed By Unidentified Planes TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (INS) —The bombing of four Honduran towns Wednesday by unidentifiedplanes was reported today by official government soufees in Tegucigalpa. The announcement of the new attacks was released on the heels of a formal Honduran protest to the left-wing Guatemalan government against the bombing of San Pedro de Copan on Tuesday. In Guatemala City, the foreign ministry denied Wednesday nightj that airforce planes had crossed: the border and bombed Honduran territory. In San Salvador, Agence France Presse monitored a Honduran radio broadcast which said the planet carrying out Wednesday’s raids were Guatemalan. Despite the reported Guatemalan air raid, university students demonstrated Wednesday night in Tegucigalpa in support of the Communist ■ backed Guatemalan government. At least seven persons Wert woundelf when police opened fire oh the crowd of more than a thousand who gathered in the Plaza Llbertad in front of the national university. After communicating its, protest to Guatemala City, Honduras informed the UN security council, the organisation of American States and all foreign offices in Tegucigalpa of the incident. A foreign office spokesman said, however, that no formal protest had been seijt to the UN. The protest to the Arbenz regime said that an unidentiied plane had flown out of Guatemala at 1:25 p. m., Tuesday, and dropped three bombs over the landing field at San Pedro de Copan, 6’ miles inside the Honduran border. The government sources eaid that San Pedro was hit again Wednesday. The other target® were reported to be Santa Rosa de Copan, 9 miles north of San Pedro, Macuelizo and Belen-Gual-cho. ' The towns are near the Guatemalan border over which the antiCommunist “liberation” force s crossed to make their currently stalled attempt to overthrow the ( • ura To Page sevea) Urges Atom Pool Without Russians Rep. Sterling Cole Calls For Action ANN ARBOR. Mich. (INS> -rRep. Sterling Cole called on Presi- > dent Eisenhower today to take steps immediately toward setting up an international atom pool with- ' out Ru-ssian participation. The New York Republican, chairman of the joint congressional committee on atomic energy, declared that in six months Russia "has responded only with its eternal ’no’ ” to the President’s plan . to bring the benefits of the atom to the world. Cole declared that if prompt action is taken the atom can be generating electricity in power-starved areas within five years, and that it may "divert history from its present ominous course.” Cole’s remarks were prepared for delivery before the international congress on nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan, < Apn Arbor. Due to comspittee work in drafting a proposed; nfew atomic ■ energy act, he was unable attend the Ann Arbor session. INDIANA WEATHER ir Fair and warmer tonight < and Friday. Low tonight 6268. High Friday 90-97. '/ ■.

Clark Scheduled To , Enter Plea Friday Berne Bank Bandit In Court OCfriday D. Burdette Custer, court-ap-pointed counsel for Richard K. Clark, staled today that a plea will be entered Friday morning in the Adams circuit court in connection with tW charge of Armed robbery against Clark. An affidavit was filed last week by prosecuting attorney Louis L. Smith charging the 27-year-old Celina, 0., man with robbery of the First Bank of Berne May 29. Custer declined to give any hint as to what the plea will be. The defendant also faces an indictment by the federal grand jury in South Bend on the same robbery. The Friday hearings is a continuation of Clark’s arraignment in which he was formally charged with the crime. In a later hearing. Judge Myles Parrish set his bond at SIO,OOO and appointed Custer as pauper attorney. Clark, who is married and -the father of three children, signed statements admitting the robbery. He said that he needed the money to take care of family expenses. His arrest came Tuesday, June 15, in Celina after extensive investigation by Indiana, Ohio and federal authorities. After waiving extradition be was brought back to Adams county where he is being held. He has been uhable to cover the SIO,OOO bond. Planning Airlift * Os French Wounded TOKYO (INS)—U. S. Far East air forces headquarters announc-' ed today that American C-124 Globemaster planes will begin an airlift of French wounded from the Indo-China war on Saturday, June 26. The' announcement said the wounded will be evacuated from Indo-China at ’ the rate of 100 a day and will be flown to the United States via Clark Field in the Philippines and via Japan. Propose Surtax By Local Governments Proposal Made By Study Commission INDIANAPOLIS (LX'S) — Thq Indiana tax study commission members went home today to prepare reports for the legislators to look over before the general assembly convenes next year. Before a final comprehensive report is prepared for lawmakers, however, the commission will conduct public hearings June 28-29 at Purdue and the statehouse, respectively. One point the commission will ask the public to consider seriously is a recommendation that Hoosier communities be empowered to levy a surtax on gross income to finance education and other local governmental service®. This surtax would be similar to that levied to pay the World War II bonus to Hoosier soldiers. The tax proposal suggested it be subject to referendum db,local citizens. Also on the second half of the report were recommendations that the 15-cent property tax levy be ’’reworked;" that real end personal property assessment rates be equalized, and that household goods J* exempted from property taxation. On gasoline, the group suggested cutting from three to two per cent the allowance given gasoline distributors to cover losses in handling and evaporation, and tightening of administration, enforcement and penalties covering .motor fuel tax refunds on non-hig^iway-used gasoline. * ■ _.lt also auggested .counties be per-, rutted to levy a property tax for road repair and that the filing deadline for gross income tax be changed from Jan. 31 to Feb. 28.

Senate Group Rejects Ike's Farm Program Plea For Flexible - Farm Price Support Rejected By Group WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate agriculture committee rejected President Eisenhower’s flexible farm price program today and set the stage for a heated senate fight over the issue. The committee voted 8 to 7 for a one-year extension of the present 90 percent of parity pricesupport program on six basic farm commodities—corn, cotton, wheat, tobacco, peanuts and rice. The house agriculture committee has also defeated Mir. Eisenhower's plea for flexible supports which would vary between 75 and 90 percent of parity, depending on supply conditions. 'Parity is the figure at which it is considered the farmer would be receiving a fair return on his investment In any one crop. Sen. Milton Young (R-N. D.), a bitter opponent of the administration’s farm program, said he offered the motion to continue high, supports. - Conferees Agree WASHINGTON (INS) — Housesenate conferees agreed today on a military appropriations bill of $28,800,125,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The compromise figure, which now goes back to the house and , senate for final approval, is five billion dollars lees than congress appropriated for the current year. The conferees allowed 150 million dollars more than was voted by the house and 400 million dollars less than was voted by the senate. The final figure is $1,075,000,000 less than President Elsenhower requested in his budget message. Both the navy and air force were granted more money by the conference committee than had been provided for them in the house bill, but there was no increase in the original house figure for the army. The army is scheduled to decrease from 19 to 17 combat divisions during the next 12 months. Christine Schurger Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Morning Miss Christine Schurger, 76, lifelong; resident of Adams county and a member of a pioneer county family, died suddenly at 11:50 o’clock Wednesday night at her home a short distance west of Decatur on U. S. highway 224. Death was attributed to a heart attack. She had been in failing health for some time from complications. She was born in Adams county Sept. 11, 1877, a daughter of John and Agatha Schurger, and had never married. •Miss Schurger was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church, the Rosary society and the Catholic Ladies of Columbia. Only survivors are two sister®, Mrs. Louise Kuerber of Delphos. 0., and 'Mrs. Lena Rohr of Pine River, Minn. Three brothers and two sisters are deceased.- — Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Revi Msgr. J. J. Seiimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to theGillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The Rosary society will meet at 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Big Super-Highway Program Proposed North-South Roads Proposed In State • INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —A vast program for dual-laning four main traffic free highways crossing the state north-to-south has been revealed by the roads subcommittee of the Indiana legislative advisory commission. • ‘ . Sen. Robert Lee Brokenburr, subcommittee chairman, told a Wednesday afternoon press conference following a meeting of his group that the body agreed to make these two recommendations: 1. To mandate the state highway commission to construct dual lanes on all sections of U. S. highways 52, 41, and 31 and state road 37 which are not now of such su-per-highway construction. 2. That money borrowed some years ago from the highway fund be repaid from the present SB2 million general fund surplus. The unpaid loan is variously estimated from $8 to sl6 million. The Indianapolis Republican, who previously had objected to the rate at which Gov. George N. - Craig and the Indiana toll road commission have been advancing i plans for constructing toH roads, ■ said the subcommittee agreed * more should be done to improve , the state’s freeways. When newsmen noted the four roads be had named were all . north-soutlr highways and ques? tioned whether the dual-laqlpg might not detract from the attractiveness of bonds for a proposed north-south toll road, Sen. Brokenburr said: “We didn’t meet on toil roads today. And when you talk about things like bonds, we’re very innocent on complicated things like that." Sen. Brokenburr noted that the state highway department is having difficulty matching federal funds available to it now for road construction and that the amount available from the federal govern(Coatlnned On Page Five) Complete Training As Red Cross Aides Eight Women Added To Local Volunteers Eight women have completed the requirements to become volunteer staff aides for the Adams county chaptkr.of the American Red Cross. They include Miss Fan Hammel, Mrs. Evelyn Ostermeyer, Mrs. Frances Monahan, Miss Florence Haney, Mrs. Meta Krueckeberg. Mrs. Mildred Nash, Mrs. Helen Sauer and Mrs, Freda Beyerley. These women attended classes Monday and Tuesday evening at the Legion home. Their instructors were Phil Sauer, disaster; Mrs. Ed Bauer, blood; Mrs. Walter Winchester, home nursing; the Rev. Lawrence Norris, home service; Leo Kirsch, fund drive; Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, orientation; Mayor John Doan, civil defense; Mrs. Frank Ritchey, field consultant, and Mrs. Bennett of Fort Wayne, mobile unit. The local Red Ctoss is now planning classes in first aid in connection with the civil defense program: Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary, said that more information on these classes will be announced later. Interested persons are asked to contact the Red Cross office. Mrs. Oelberg also stated that to date their has been very little response to the recent appeals for more blood donors. She urges' people to support this vital part of the Red Cross program. Truman Continues To Show Improvement KANSAS CITY, Mo. (INS) — Former President Truman contlnued to Improve today in his recovery from an emergency operation for removal of the gall bladder, and appendix five days ago. . — k ■

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Appeals To 11 Members Study Alleged Threat Goes Over Head Os Lodge To Appeal To 11 Council Members UJfITED NATIONS. N. Y. (INS) —Guatemala went over the head of U. S. Ambassador Lodge, June security council president, and telegraphed an appeal today to all 11 members for an Immediate meeting to consider alleged threats by the anti - Communist liberation forces to bomb Guatemala City. Guatemalan UN delegate Castillo - Arriola stated in his“telegrams that his country "lacks the means" to repel the threatened air raids. Lodge gave no Immediate reply either in his capacity as president or as UN spokesman for the Eisenhower administration. He ignored Wednesday’s appeal by ’ the Guatemalan for a second council meeting after warning him that Guatemala is becoming the. catspaw of Soviet meddling in the western hemisphere. Some of the western council delegates said they would carefully study the Guatemalan request Shortly before noon Soviet delegate S'. K Tsarapktn called on Hammarskjold, presumably to add. pressure to the Guatemalan demand for an Immediate council meeting. In demanding that the council meet this afternoon, Castillo proposed that an observation commission be sent to Guatemala “as soon as possible to faithfully report on the invasion to the council so that it may take drastic measures.” Guatemalan UN delegate Cas-tello-Arriola telegraphed his latest request to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold for relay to Lodge this morning. In demanding the council meeting not later than today, he said this was necessary “in view of intense air attacks on open cities in Guatemala where civil population has been machine gunned and bombed with 100-pound explosives and the warning of the aggressors broadcast through their clandestine radio station of being about to unleash heavy bombing of Guatemala City and other important cities.’/ The UN in the meantime received a cable from Honduras protesting the bombing of Honduran towns by aircraft “from the direction of Guatemala." The message to UN was a copy of the protest sent by Honduras to the Guatemalan foreign minister. J Lodge, os council president this month, refused to be stampeded Wednesday into 'an “urgent and immediate" meeting of the 11-na-tion group as demanded by Guatemalan delegate Eduardo CastilloArriola. The U. S. viewpoint, maintained both by Lodge and the majority of Latin-American delegates, is that the organization of American states should first deal with the Guatemalan revolt. All expressed regret over Russia's veto to the Colbmbia - Brazil resolution last Sunday referring the Guatemalan outbreak to the OAS. The U. S. has rejected Guatemalan insinuations and Soviet charges that there was’ any connivance or camouflaged'American support of the “liberation forces" currently challenging the Redtinged regime of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Man Falls Asleep, , Killed In Accident WINDFALL. Ind. (ENB) — Keith J. Harvey. 25, of Windfall, was killed Wednesday night whSn he fell asleep add his car left Ind. 21$ and struck a bridge abutment north of Windfall. ■ , ■