Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1954 — Page 1

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A Return To Mother-Land hf * <-' eV A’ * ■ SUCCESSFULLY masking the seriousness of his visit. Sir Winston Churchill, who flew from his "fatherland to my motherland" with his foreign secretary and ptotege, Anthony Eden, lolls on the White House lawn with his old friend, President Eisenhower. Sir Winston’s reference to his '‘mother-land’* was his oft-repeated reminder that his mother was a native of Brooklyn. N. Y. ’ r—- - ---- ■ -, ~ ■ -_■■ -.■ .- ■-- , > --■• - — " ' "■

No Speeches By Senators At Convention Capehart Jenner Gagged At Party's State Convention INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Candidacies flourished like the proverbial green bay tree at the tranquil Republican state convention in Indianapolis Friday. Back at home today, the delegates mulled over the prospects of aspirants for political honors in 1956. Regardless of factional membership, the delegates had to admit that Lieut. Gov. Harold W. LaPorte. who has been running for governor/ for two ’.’years, received the biggest convention ovation. J He is allied with the COP faction headed by Senators Homer E. Capebart and William E> Jenner, who also received substantial applause when they were Introduced but not permitted to speak at the gathering. It is a sad fate for a United States senator to be gagged and the two Hoosiers showed their chagrin. The voting honors were even for the Craig and the Capehart-Jenner factions. Mrs. Mabel Lyons, of Auburn, former state vice-chairman and Craig adherent, defeated incumbent Thomas C. Williams, of Jeffersonville. a Capehart-Jenner aide, for clerk of the supreme Sod appellate courts, 1,340 to 1,123But another Craig -leader, Lloyd D. Griffin, of Bloomington, failed in his drive to be nominated for judge of the appellate court. The incumbents, Donald E. Bowen, of Bloomington, and Wilbur Royse, of Indianapolis, were victorious for the two posts at stake. The count was Bowen. 1,479; Royse, 1,337, and Griffin. 1,270. . The applause for the senators and one of their chief backers, Lieut. Gov. Handley, led some observers to believe that the Craig leaders were wise in refraining from battling the renomination of other Capehart-Jenner state officials. including secretary of state Crawford Parker, state treasurer John F. Peters, of New Albany; state superintendent of public instruction Wilbur Young, of Osgood, and second district appellate court judge Harry L. Crumpacker, of Michigan City. An out-and-out Craig man. Curtis Pardin. of Rensselaer, was nominated for auditor, without chai lenge. Other unopposed nominees were appellate court judge Harold E. Achor, of Anderson, for judge of the supreme court, and John W. Pfaff, of South Bend, as Crumpacker’s running mate for the two second district . appelate judge ships. Despite Handley’s terrific reception. he may be in trouble two years hence because two other Capehart-Jenner faction leaders appear to be running for governor, thereby splitting the vote of that group. They are Samuel Harrell. Indianapolis industrialist, who made a surprising showing in 1952, and Parker. \ Frank T. Millls. of Campbellsburg. state auditor, seemed to be the leading aspirant for governor among the Craig chieftains. Millis was credited with doing a good job as convention permanent chairman. He has a long career of public service and also Is known r to many thousands because of hun- ' drede of speeches he has delivered in GOP campaigns. There also is talk that three other Craig leaders may aspire (Tara Ta Pa«e Six) ■ --U, -----— —

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Study Travel Ban On Agents For Reds OAS May Consider Ban On Communists WASHINGTON (INS) —Capitol Hill sources believe the organisation of American states may be asked to consider an Informal travel ban against Communist agents operating out of Guatemala. Lawmakers said that the OAS might recommend that each of its member states scrutinize travelers from Guatemiherand bar entry to those on a sublfersive mission. The possibility of such action, it is explained, follows complaints that Guatemala is being used as a base from Which Red agents with wide financial resources spread out to other Latin American countries to propagandize and foment subversion. A foreign rleations expert said the action would amount to an informal closing of the borders to tbe agents. Tha speculation followed overwhelming senate approval Friday of a resolution warning Russia against Interfering in the internal affairs of the western hemisphere. - The resolution, offered -by senate minority leader Lyndon Johnson (D-TeX;.) now goes to the house where speaker Joseph W. Martin. Jr. (R-Mass.) predicted speedy passage next week, possibly Monday. The senate vote was 69 to 1, with Sen. William E. Langer (RN . D.) dissenting. Langer, declined to explain his opposition, but said he would issue a statement today. ’ During debate. Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.) a former U. Sk, delegate to the United Nations. asked whether there was any implication that the administration would intervene in the Guatemalan revolt. Senate GOP leader William F. Know-land. Calif., remarked: “I do not interpret it as a blank check for any specific action." Johnson said his resolution will (Tara To rage Six) f Auto License Office Closed On Wednesday ■Mrs. Dale Death, manager of the Decatur automobile license bianeh, will go to Columbia City next Wednesday for a district meeting .of all license branch operators. Mrs. Death said the local branch office would be closed all day next Wednesday and the state examiner would not be here. The examiner will resume his regular Wednesday schedule the following week, Mrs. Death said. . 1 One Man Is Killed By Texas Hurricane | Hurricane Moving On Across Mexico BROWNSVILLE. Tex. (INS)— The first hurricane of the season killed one man and injured at least one other person along the gulf coast .at the Texas-Mexico border. The storm, dubbed “Alice” by weathermen, moved on across northern Mexico and apparently diminished Friday night. Heavy rains and winds buffeted Brownsville, Tex., and the lower Rio Grande valley but no serious property damage was reported. , Salvador Villereal, a case owner in the border village of Matamoros, was killed when’struck by falling utility wires and a pole.

Put Pressure On British To Join In Pad Pres. Churchill in Second Day Os Conference WASHINGTON (INS)—The second day of the historic Eisenhow-er-Churchill conversations at. the White House opened today with mounting pressure on the British to join in a collective security pact against Communism in southeast Asia. The British have said they favor such a pact‘but so far have made no public move to get it organized. Foreign minister Anthony Eden said Wednesday he thought it was a good' thing that British caution had prevented the U. S. from taking an over-hasty move in southeast Asia. The U. 8. government view is thatt he United front for which secretary of state John Foster Dulles called on March 29 is more Important now than ever. * The U. S. contends that the deteriorating military situation in indo-China and the threat to K>e political strength of the western powers requires positive steps to bring a halt to Red expansion. In addition to U. S. pressure, the Australian External affairs minister, Richard G. Casey, is due in Washington shortly before noon for a series of talks that will not .be included in the Eisenhower- ! Churchill parley but which are expected to have an important bearing on it. The Australians have hot concealed the fact that they disagree with British hesitpnce to put the united 1 action plan into effect. 1 Casey plans to confer with Commonwealth and U. S. officials while he is in Washington and it was an open ‘-secret that he would try to sell the united front idea. / The Australians feel themselves directly threatened by the southward thrust of the Communists on the Aslan mainland 1 . Churchill arrived in Washington Friday morning and announced a modest objective by saying “If we work together, we may get along all right.” White House news secretary James C. Hagerty reported that the President and the prime minister, with Dulles, Eden and the ambassadors of each country, met for almost two and a half hours Friday afternoon. Hagerty said the discussions were devoted "primarily” to the European defense community treaty and to an exchange of atomic Information. —.• • There was little disagreement on these issues between the two countries so it appeared the President and the prime 'minister were -seeking areas of agreement before getting down to the issues on which there is basic disagreement. These include the diplomatic and (Continued On Page Five) Secret Sessions On New Steel Contract Working In Secret To Beat Deadline PITTSBURGH (INS)—Steel industry bargainers worked secretly today to beat a Wednesday midnight deadline , for writing a 1954 wage-con tract pact. Neither the United Steelworkers Union nor the Vnited States Steel Corp, would admit officially that any bargaining sessions are taking place. However, International News Service learned yesterday that secret sessions were being held in an effort to avert a possible strike which would deal the nation’s economy a paralyzing blow. A high ranking union officer told I.N.S. that there "has been an indication of a change” in the corporation’s attitude since the wage policy committee last Tuesday rejected an original cost package offer of less than five cents an hour. He said further that the secret negotiating sessions, attended by only a few top level representatives of both sides' have “been moving along." He predicted that the next few days “will determine" the outcome. USW President David J. McDonald was quoted yesterday as saying the and if it comes, would not beyjtfyjt called "revolutionary." Speculation is that the union and "Big Steel" will finally arrive at a worth about eight cents an hour — five for Improvements in pensions and insurance and three cents for wages.

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Deny Request ) By Board To I Study Revolt Guatemala Refuses Committee Request > For Revolt Study DENY REQUEST WASHINGTON (INS)—The inj ter-American jgeace committee t<A 1 day considered)6fyatertrala’s refusal to allow a fact-tifttfing board to ! make an on-the-sppt investigation of the Guatemalan'revolt. The Red-ringed Guatemalan 1 eminent bluntly told the five-nation committee and, indirectly, its parent body — the organization) of American states —that they have no authority to handle “an act of aggression.” , The note said the proposal was , rejected because Guatemala had already submitted its' case to the . United Nations security council. . The council, however, over Rusi sian protests, refused Friday to > intervene in the dispute. The message apparently was s sent to the committee before the - council had aated. i The Guatemalan, government maintained thht only the council i has the right and competence » i intervene. Moreover, It added, the I committee cannot take drastic : measures in the matter, while the council can. Guatemala has contended that Honduras and -Nicaragua inspired the revolt against the Arbenz government and thus engaged in an act of aggression. One source close to the committee said Guatemala’s action pre- ' sents "a very perplexing prob- ’ lem.” . . The group must act on Guatemala’s rejection and decide what, if anything, should be done about the request submitted by Honduras and Nicaragua for the fact-finding commission. The committee - composed of representatives of the U.S., Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Cubaagreed Thursday to send the mission if Guatemala would accept the idea. BULLETIN CHICAGO (INS) — A giant Lake Michigan wave surgad over a north side Chicago pier, today and police said that several persons fishing on dock were swept into the water. - Eyewitnesses reported ..that between six and 16 persons, were on the pier at the time. Mrs. Douglas Haney Is Taken By Death - Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Douglas Haney. 50, a. former resident of this city, died Unexpectedly in her home, 4817 Spatz Ave., Fort Wayne, at 11 o’clock Friday morning. She had been doing; household chores when stricken. Death was . Instant, presumably from a stroke. . She had suffered from high blood : pressure for a few years. Her. maiden name was Elizabeth Mae Baker. Following her marriage she and her husband, also formerly of this city, lived in Alb’on, later moving to Fort Wayne. Mr. Haney Is an invalid. 5 • She was a m.ember of the Methodist" church, the White Shrine of . Jerusalem artd Trinity chapter. Order of the Eastern Star of Fort Wayne. Surviving besides the husband, ’ are a sister, Mrs. Edith Legendre, Evansville, and two brothers, Walter A. and Richard W. Baker of Fort Wayne. Service# will be conducted in the D.. O.McComb & Sons funeral home Monday at 1:30 p. m., with ■ the Rev. Willard Doyle officiating. Burial will be In the Decatur p emetery. _

t Former Red Police Officer Deserts Granted Asylum In U. S. German Zone MUNICH (INS) — A congressional committee disclosed today that a former Soviet secret police lieutenant colonel has deserted » the Soviet Union and bpen grant- ; ed political asylum in the U. S. ; zone of Germany* f A spokesman for the committee i under Rep. Charles J. Kersten," f Wisconsin Republican, said that the former colonel, whose identity nas not been disclosed, will be heard publicly by the committee Monday "as one of the most Im-' portant witnesses to come before the committee.” International News Service learned that the former officer has told U. S. intelligence agenci ies of hitherto unknown details of the inner workings of the "Kremlin terror machine" that “a whole year of the closest attention to Soviet affairs has so far failed to give.” Details about the Identity of the man, whose defection hitherto has been kept secret, are expected to be released just before he takes th stand Monday to give fresh evidence about thd working of the Soviet government system, ’ The escaped officer whose colonel rank in the M,VD, or secret po- ' lice, is equal in seniority to that of a brigadier general of the army, has been in United States hands for several months. Presumably he fled to the west after former MVD Capt. Nikolai Khokhlov, the man who was assigned to kill Georgi Okolovich, head of a Russian sWlgre antiSoviet organization known as N.T. S. Khokhlov, instead, surrendered last February to U.S. authorities. The former officer’s story to he presented publicly for the first time next week is expected to give details of the Soviet system of mass extermination and forced deportation of. “class enemies" both inside Russia and the satellite states. He is expected to testify that (Continued On I’nire Five) High Seas Piracy Charged To U. S. Soviet Newspaper Continues Charge LONDON .(INS) — The Communist party newspaper Pravda continued to accuse the United States today of “piracy on the high seas" despite an announcement that a Chinese Nationalist warship was responsible for seizing a Russian freighter earlier this week. _ The Soviet government charged in a blistering notfe to the United States Thursday that a U. S. destroyer had seized the ‘Russian ship Tuapse. Friday the Nationalist government on Formosa said . the freighter actually had been seized by a Nationalist destroyer. There was no direct mention.of . the Nationalist announcement in the Moscow press this morning. I The only indirect reference was a t paragraph in the Pravada article which claimed that the "Chiang Kai-shek hangers-on" of the United States had been using Formosa t for many years as a base for “pir- . atical attacks on ships of many > countries.” The seizing of the Tuapse, Pravda charged, was “one of a series of acts of piracy on the high sees . carried out by the United States.” The Communist ’newspaper added: “These attacks have not been confined to the Far East . . , At the end of May the French ship Wyoming was seized while en route through the Panama Canal ’ and illegally searched for arms for Guatemala.” i -The Wyoming actually was not "seized," but only refused permisi sion to enter the canal until U.B. authorities were satisfied that she was not carrying an arms shipment.

UN Security Council Downs Soviet Attempt Rejects Effort To Force Intervention In Guatemalan War UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —The UN security council washed its hands of the Guatemalan war today after U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge warned that any other step would wreck both UN and the organization of American states. The dramatic showdown came in the security council Friday night with a vote which rejected Russia's demands that the Guatemalan war be placed on the agenda for full-dress discussion and that Guatemalan UN delegate CastilloArriola be heard. r * Castillo had already renewed charges that Nicaragua and Honduras connived in “aggression” against Guatemala and failed to comply with the security council's edict of last "Sunday to refrain from helping either ’side in the fighting. The vote was five against, four in favor and two abstentions. This left the way clear <or OAS to deal with the problem, Those who voted against were the V. 3.. Brazil, Colombia, Turkey and Nationalist China. Those in favor were Russia, Lebanon. New Zealand and Denmark. Britain and France abstained. Lodge preceded the vote by which the council refused to consider the Guatemalan vote with a declaration that destroying the UN and OAS “is precisely the objective of the Soviet Union.” Soviet UN delegate S. K. Tsarapkin stamped angrily out of the UN building after falling to get UN intervention and also to have the Guatemalan delegate invited to the council table for a statement of his grievances. Previously, Tsarapkin denounced the council’s action as a violation of the UN charter. Lodge'reminded the Guatemalan government of its obligations as a member of the organization of American states. He said that afted years of using all its privileges as an OAS member, Guatemala now is renouncing its duties as a member of the organization. He said this was a clear examide of “duplicity.” He said to permit the Guatemalan regime to back out of the OAS would constitute affording it a “veto” over the organization. He (<'oß<lnue«l Ob Pace Five) Haggard Named In Two Damage Suits Suits Outgrowth Os Fatal Auto Accident Two suits have beert filed in Welle circuit court naming Dean Haggard, Ossian route one, as defendant. Both complaints are the outgrowth of an auto accident on US 224. three miles east of Decatur on May 15, 1953, in which Ralph Van Osdale, Jr., was killed. One complaint was filed by lona I. VanOsdale, Allen county, administratrix of the Ralph Van Osdale estate, asking damages of $15,000, and the second suit-; is brought by the American Indemnity CO., for $895. The complaints aver that VanOsdale was driving west on US 224 at the time of the accident and cars operated by Haggard and Leo Sheets of Decatur, were allegedly racing in the eastward direction at. the time of the crash. Sheets was killed in the accident. Van Osdale is survived by bls wife and three children. The see-, ond complaint seeks to recover the amount paid by tgo Insurance company as damages for the car Van Osdale was driving.

75 Persons Injured As Train Derailed Crack Train Wrecked hr Nebraska Friday, HALLAM. Neb. (INS)—At least 75 persons were Injured Friday night when the Rock Island railroad’s eastbound Rocky Mountain Rocket left the tracks east of Hallam, Neb., and plunged down an embankment. None of the 250 passengers was killed and Col. C. J. Sanders, chief of the Nebraska safety patrol, said 14 of the injured were dismissed after emergency treatment. Sixtyone passengers were hospitalized at Lincoln and Beatrice, the nearest cities. Lincoln general hospital reported only one of the passengers in critical condition. The victim is an elderly woman who[ has not been identified. The train was speeding across southern Nebraska as a 72-mile an hour clip when two diesel units and eight of 11 passenger cars left the rails. z Engineer Roy Ensign of Fairbury, Neb., said: "1 don’t know what happened. k The train started to shimmy and 1 all of a. sudden 1 was thrown ■ against the controls.” A passenger, Mrs. Harold Segard of St. Louis, Mo., said the car in ‘ which she was riding “didn't hit hard U. ftk» a log into watar.” .* Lancaster county sheriff Mede Karnopp said damage to ties over a long stretch of the track "indicated that something was dragging.” • Authorities also theorized that Friday’s record heat wave may have caused the raite or roadbed' (Twra To Paire Three) Adams County Girls Attend Girls State - Four Adams county girls leave this weekend for Hoosier Girls state at Indiana University at Bloomington. The week-long session will give instruction and information in affairs of government. Kay Bormann and Marilyn Braun will represent the Decatur American Legion auxiliary and Ann Stally and Karen Luglnbill are ■ being sent by -the Berne auxiliary. Mrs. Melvin Nussbaum of Berne will sdrve as government counselor during Girls State. She will be ■ among 38 counselors who will instruct tiie girls. Funeral Monday For Mrs. Sam Ralston Widow Os Former Governor Is Dead INDIANAPOLIS, (INS) — Funeral services will be held in Indianapolis Monday afternoon for Mrs. Jennie Craven Ralston, 92, widow of the late Samuel M. Rak ston, fonner Indiana governor and United States senator. Burial will be in Lebanon, her former home. She died at the Indianapolis home of a daughter, Mrs. W. Stuart Laßue. Mrs. Ralston became Indiana Democratic national committeewoman in 1934 and served until a year ago when she resigned. Her husband was governor from 1913 to 1917 and senator from 1923 to 1925, when he died. _■ ' Mrs. Ralston was graduated from the old Danville Normal College in 1881 where she met Ralston. They were married in 1889 and lived in Lebanon where he practiced law. Their three children were born in Lebanon. A son, Emmett Ralston, was vice-president and general manager of the I&dianapolis Power & Light Company when he died in 1939. The other son, Julian, practicedjaw ip Indianapolis. HftJdled in 1935. Mrs. Ralston has served as vicepresident of the Indiana Federation of Women’s clubs and on the board of trustees of the Indiana girls' school at Clermont.

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Slashing Air Raids Made On Guatemala City Show-Down Battle May Be Imminent In Guatemala War TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (INS) —Liberation army warplanes-have put an abrupt end to the weeklong “eoM war” in Guatemala with slushing air attacks on Guatemala City and army Installations at the key rail point of Zacapa. At the same time Liberation leaders announced the formation of a 1 provisional anti-Communist government in newly-captured UM»iquimula. These two developments offered a strong Indication that the early, indefinite phase of the Guatemalan invasion had ended and that a show-down battle may be imminent between the Liberation forces and the Communist-backed government /ot President Jacobo Ar» benz Guzman. The provisional government apparently is intended to serve as a rallying point for antl-Commwnists throughout Guatemala. Its appeal is aimed especially at the Guatet ewlan army’s officer corp*.- which Liberation leaders hope to win over to their side. The air strikes against Guatemala City and Zacapa indicated that the Invading forces led by Gen. Carlos Caetillo Armas will try to end the war by bombing if transportation difficulties hamper their ground troops. Authoritative sources In Honduras said planes of the Liberation air force bombed and strafed Matamoros fortress, an army base in Guatemala City, and scored direct hits on army barracks in Zacapa. The Zacapa barracks rdpertedly was destroyed whep an ammunition store exploded. The Liberation forces claimed that Chiquimula, a town located about 30 miles south of Zacapa and some 20 miles inside Guatemala from the Honduran border, was captured ’Friday morning. ■ Details of the capture were” scarce but the few reports avail-' able indicated that the battle for Chiquimula may have been the first real shooting clash of the war. The secretariat of the National Liberation 'movement eaid there had been “bloody fighting” before the' town fell. The secretariat claimed Chiquimula was not an open town, as the Arbenz government bad claimed, but was heavily defended by government artillery .which had to be knocked out by air attacks. The Liberation leaders underlined the beginning of . their air offensive by declaring that the bombing attacks were launched "to prove that we are ready to go to any extremes to defeat Arbent agdi return to the Guatemalan people their liberty.” The Arbenz government, in turn, claimed that the" Liberation army’s warplanes had machine-gunned civilians in Guatemala City and Chiquimula. A communique from Guatemala City also declared that government troops were pursuing fleeing Liberation forces in the mountainous border regions. The government claimed that the Liberation army's planes had used “fire bombs,” apparently a reference to incendiary bombs. Meanwhile Eduardo Valenzuela, the foreign minister of Honduras, disassociated his* country offlically from the Liberation movement. Valenzuela called newsmen together in Tegucigalpa Friday and emphasized that Honduras is maintaining a policy of striqt ndn-inter- x vention in the struggle. He declared that Gen. Castillo Armas will be -expelled froiri Honduras if he returns from his Liberation headquarters on Guatemalan soil. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair, hot and humid tonight and Sunday except not quite (o hot north portion Sunday. Low tonight mid 70a.