Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1954 — Page 1

Vol. HI. No. 155.

Indochina To France Via U. S.

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SMILING and apparently in high spirits, wounded French veterans or the Indochina war arrive at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., en route to their homeland. Here. Sgt. Andre Granet, who lost his right arm, is greeted by the French consul general In San Francisco. Louis de , , Guiringued. Sergeant Granet and 48 others were iruthe contingent. * 1 ■■■!■■■■■; | ■ ■nßßwrrhir -i n— ir- Ar*' iwr’rm-'-r '.-,.=r.*.--— ~

House Moving To Final Vote On Farm Props Two-Price System Is Approved Today For Wheat In 1956 WASHINGTON (INS) — The house moved toward a final vote j i on flexible vs rigid farjn price props today after approving a twoprice system for wheat in ~1956. Administration leaders were confident the house will uphold by at least 10 votes Thursday’s tentative approval of a compromise support plan for five basic farm commodities. However, farm bloc spokesmen insisted they have the strength to overturn the decision and approve another year of supports at 90 per-, cent of parity for wheat, cotton, corn, peanuts and rice. ......- Meanwhile, the House shouted down a move by Rep. Gerald Ford (R-Mfcli.). to eliminate the farm bloc's two-price plan for wheat from the omnibus farm bill. Under this plan, farmers would “ get government supports at 100 percent of, parity for wheat sold to millers for consumption in the U.S. However, they would get only the lower world market price for - wheat grown for export. Agriculture committee chairman Clifford Hope pR-Kana.), said the two-price system would eliminate the huge subsidies now paid by the government to dell wheat abroad Farmers would have the choice next year of accepting either the new system or a continuation of the present one. The house also approved tentatively the recommendation of President Eisenhower and agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson for setting aside two and one-half billion dollars worth of govern-~ment-owned surplus farm commodities. < These set-asides would not he counted in determining supply when price supports are fixed under the proposed flexible system. This would have the effect of keeping government props at a! higher level. Commodities affected ar* wheat-upland cotton, cottonseed oil. butter, non-fat dry milk solids, cheese and corn. The house then approved, a change In present law that ■would , allow a gradual shift’ to the so- , called modernized formula for determining parity. The shift is to begin Jan. 1, 1956. Under the new formula, the. propiulor, wheat, cotton, corn and peanuts jwould drop slightly. The house voted 179, to 164, for a compromise that would drop the (iwrs T« race «Urtn . .. I County Council To Meet On July 12 " , The meeting of the county council to consider additional appropriations,* which was originally j scheduled for July 8. will take place July 12 at 9 a-m. In the county: court house. Taxpayers may- attend the meeting. Emergency appropriations determined by the council will be referred to the state tax board. The requested appropriations irA .elude 2100. clerk; 11.100. treasur-. er; 2450. assessor; >730. Washington township assessor: 2450, prosecuting attorney; 1200, election board: 11.110, county commissioners. and 220,175, county highway department. » <1 ■ '

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Rotarians Install New Club Officers Rydell President Os Decatur Rotary E. E. Rydell, of Bag Service, was installed as president of the Decatur Rotary club at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. He succeeds Robert Ashbaucher. who has served for the past year. Other ne wofficers are: M. J. Pryor, vice president; Joseph Kaehr, secretary: Robert G. Smith, treasurer; Robert Ashbaucher, W. Guy Brown and Earl C, Fuhrman, directors. The retiring president, who was presented with a past president’s pin by Rydell, gave an interesting report on the annual convention of Rotary International, held last month at Seattle, Wash. Committees and committee chairmen appointed by the new president include: , Clqb service activities — M. J. Pryor, chairman. — Program committee — Clarence Ziner. chairman; Avon Burk, J. Ward Calland. Colin Finlayson. Earl Fuhrman, Lowell Harper, A. iR. Holthouse, Roy Kalver, Leo Kirsch, Adolph Kolter, E. W. Lankenau, George Litchfield, John Welch. Bulletin committee — Louis Jacobs. chairman; Robert Ashbaucher, Sim Burk. Dr. Harry Hebble. Jerry Leita, Donald Norquest, M. J. Pryor, William Schnepf, Kenneth Shannon, T. C. Smith. Dr, Ray Stingely. Ivan Stucky. Attendance chairman — Harold Engle. Classification and membership chairman — James Newton. ' Magazine chairman — James Elberson. Golden anniversary, chairman — Clarence Ziner. Fellowship committee Cal Peterson, chairman; Leo kirsch, A. It Ashbaucher. . Public Information — Robert Heller. -- ' Rotary information — Rev. W. C. Feller. Sergeant-at-arms — Wilbur Petrie, W„ Guy Brown. Vocational service — Robert Ash- ! baucher. Song leader .r- Robert Macklin. Pianist — Albert Seilemeyer. International service — Earl Fuhrman. \ Student projects\— Cottn Finlayj son. ~ J Community service — W. Guy Brown. Rural-urban — William Gernand. Student guests — Gail Grablll. Youth committee — James L. Kocher, Jr., institutional representative; Dr. Ralph Allison, chairman: Dr. Harry Hebble. Dale Al-' j ber. Louis Jacobs. Car) Gerber. ( ' t.’ . ■ • Suspend Business Here Next Monday Monday will be a legal holiday since July < fslls on Sunday. Most offices and businesses in Decatur I will be closed in observance of our I national independence. No mail deliveries except special deliveries will be made Monday although the post office lobby will be open. County and city offices will be clOKed, the bank and public, library will also be closed. Taverns will remain open. ’ *■ ,A NO PAPER MONDAY Tlje Decatur Dally Democrat will not, publish an edition Monday/ July 5, the official observance of the Fourth of July holiday. ( • n

Monzon Heads New Junta To Rule Guatemala Anti-Red Leaders Agree On Temporary Monzon Leadership SAN SALVADOR (INS) — Guatemala’s two rival anti-Red leaders agreed today to form a new five-man military junta headed temporarily by Col. Elfego H- Monzon. chief of the current Guatemala City regime. Gen. Carlos Castillo Armas,' leader of the “Liberation” invasion, will be No. 2 man. Monzon will head the junta for 15 days and then*the members will elect a permanent president. The other members of Guatetahla's fourth government withijp a week are: Col. Mauricio Dubois, chief " 4 of foreign affairs under Monzon. Col. Jose Luis Cruz Salazar, chief of national defense under 'Monzon. i - Maj. Enrique Aliva,-minister of the defense in Castillo Armas' provisional government. Cruz Salazar, however, was reported favorable to Castillo Armas. and could swing the election •to the intense, 39-year-old officer whose “revolt to freedom" launched two weeks ago today led to the overthrow of Guatemala's Commu-nist-backed government. The accord reached this morning after a lengthy conference In thej residence of Salvadorean president Oscar Osorio also finalized the cease-fire, 1 between troops of the two factions which went into effect last Tuesday night. , i The new government leaders leave for Guatemala City Saturday. For Castillo Armas it will be a triumphant return after years in exile. _ U, S. Ambassador to Guatemala John A Peurifoy sat in on the parley which began Thursday nlght, and was believed to have played a major role in the solution of the deadlock, A; t Peurifoy berried to Saa Salvador by piano Thursday morning to take a personal hand in settling the wrangle between Castillo Armas and Monzon which developed during the flrst round of talks Wednesday night and Thursday morning. 'A'. The American diplomat, who has a reputation as a troubleshooter. had been asked to join the talks at the beginning, but declined in the hope that the principals could reach agreement without outside help. The new government faces the task of cleaning out the remains of former president Jacobo Arbenz Guzman's Communist - infiltrated regime. Reports from Guatemala City shortly after the anti-Communist army crossed the border said the Arbenz government had issued new weapons to peasant and work- > er groups, but withheld them from the army. It was not known if these weapons were .part of a huge shipment which the Arbenz government received from behind the Iron Curtain. Presumably, however, they still are in the hands of the groups w-hich are being urged by Communist elements |o continue the battle against the new government. Monzon's junta ordered the return of the weapons under threat of summary execution. Today's agreement apparently ended the period of upheaval which began 14 days ago when the (Cnstlsae* Os Page Kight) • IUE Is Winner In Schenectady Vole UE Is Defeated In _ Bargaining Vote The International Union of Electrical Workers (CIO) won out in a national labor relations board election at General Electric's plant In. Schenectady, N. Y. The election was held Wednesday, which resulted in the defeat of the United Electrical Workers Union (Ind.) in a vote of 9,005 for IUE to 5.179 for UE. With a total of 14,434 ballots cast out of 19,668 eligible voterg, 267 voted for no union. 32 votes were declared void and 33 Votes were challenged. Union members pay frpm >600,000 to >BOO.OOO in dues annually. With Wednesday’s victory. IUE is claiming that -it now represents 100,000 G, E. employes, against 20.000* represented by UE. Neither IUE or UE has yet accepted thb company's wage offer. The IUE baa petitioned the NLRB for elections at G. E. plants in Auburn. N. Y„ Rome, Ca., and Montreal, Canada.

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French Evacuation Os Red River Delta Area Completed Today . * . — ••

U. S. Fearful Withdrawal Is r Part Os Deal Fear Withdrawal Is ■ Deal For Indo-Chinb feeace WASHINGTON, (INS)— U, S. officials fear today the French troop withdrawal from the southern quarter of the Red River delta , is part of/a secret deal with the Communists for a truce in Indo- ' China. Thursday, the state department said that it had had no advance warning of the French military a fight thousands of square miles ' withdrawal that. forfeited without of the rich rice bowl to the Reds. , There was a big question mark in official quarters as to why the ' French placed strict press censorship on the troop withdrawal three dayw before ft was officially announced. ’ Authorities pointed out that the ’ move must have been observed by the Vietminh as soon as the evacuJ atlon began because the Reds havle ’ many agents and guerillas in* the area. 1 State department * spokesman Henry Suydarn, commenting on the withdrawal that will deliver some two*mflH<»n Indo-Chinese into the ' hand* of the Coffirnttphrt-led ’ els. said: - “The United States government is watching the situation carefully and the state department • presumes that as the French plans unfold we will be informed." ‘ French command headquarters in Indo-Chlha have claimed the move wa« necessary to bolster the defenses of the Hanoi-Haiphong rail and road line, the last major French outlet to the sea. Another aspect of the withdrawal that is baffling American officials is that the action weakens (CoßtißWeg ob Page Kight> -1> Sen. Hugh A. Buller Dies Laie Thursday Nebraska Senator Dies After Stroke WASHINGTON (INS) Sen. Hugh A. Bulled (R Neb.) djed lute Thursday night after physicians at the Bethesda, Md., naval hospital failed to revive him from a stroke •suffered earlier in the day. Hospital officials said the 76-year-old legislator succumbed at 11:30 pjn. EDT Thursday. Word of his death stopped senate debate on the tax revision bill. Butler suffered the fatal stroke at his home in Washington early Thursday morning and was rushed immediately to the ■hoftpital where attendants placed him in an oxygen tent. He did not regain consciousness before his death. Butler was the fourth member of the senate to die this year and the seventh since (be beginning o( the 83rd in January, 1953. His death leaves the senate lineup at 47 Republicans, 47 Democrats and one Independent (Sen. Wayne Morse, Ofe.). , However. Gov. Rbbert B. Crosby of Nebraska is expected to fill the void left by Butler with another Republican,,-tlius maintaining the GOP majority in the senate. This is the second time' in less than four months that Crosby has had to fill a senatorial Vacancy because of death. In April, Crosby chose Mrs. Eva Bowring to fill the term of Sen. Dwight P. Griswold who died April 19. ' Butler was chairman of the senate interior and Insular affairs committee and a methlter of the senate finance committee at the •time of his death. He was first , elected to the senate in 1940 and was reelected in 1946 and 1952. He entered politics aa a Republican national committeeman after building «p a flour milling and grain business into a multi-million dollar enterprise. 1 * . -* . ' ■/' .. - ' . '• ■'••• “ ' •

Swollen Rio Grande Gradually Receding Continue Hunt For Bodies Os Victims LAREDO. Tex. (INS)—The rginswollen Rio Grande river receded gradually today while the search tfontinued for victims of the greatest flood in the history of the — Authorities said the flood claimed 55 known dead. Ninety others tire missing but that figure could be increased by at least 400 more. It ix believed that some 400 Mexican (Arm laborers were, at the border town of Piedras Negras waiting to cross* the international bridge to Eagle Pass. Tex.,* to get work in the United States when •the river flooded. These still is no way of determining the actual number of bodies that floated down the river. Estimates of damage ran into the millions but authorities refused an accurate accounting until further inspection is made. All international bridges between the flooded border points connecting Mexico and the South Texas area were knocked out and this damage alone could exceed 25,600,000. Residents of the vast area inundated by the raging flood dug out of the silt and mud as the river receded. The crest ot the Rio Grande at Laredo, Tet., fell by 1 Almost 30 feet from tttFTrecord high of 62.21 f#et as the overflow was absorbed by the Falcom dam reservoir 100 miles downstream. More than 20,000 persons in the area are homeless. President Eisenhower declared the stricken sections in Texas a disaster area — allowing the victims to receive federal relief. Volunteer Workers At Red Cross Unit Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Today The list ot volunteer workers who are assisting today for the visit of the bloodmobije at the American Legion home has been released by Mrs. Ed Bauer, blood program chairman; Roscoe Clendenlng, chairman of the local Red Cross Chapter, and Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary. Mrs. H. Engle is chairman of the staff aides, who are Mrs. Joseph Hautier, Mrs. Francis Monahan, Miss Fan Hammeli, Mrs. Freda Heyerly, Mrs. Evelyn Ostermeyer. Mrs. Frances Magley. Mrs. Meta Krueckeberg and Mrs. Genevieve Brant* V The canteen committee under the direction of Mrs. R. C. Hersh includes Mrs. Mildred Nash, Mrs. Bert Haley, Mrs. R. Glendening and Mrs. L. E. Archbold. Mrs. R. Railing is in charge of the motor corps and Junior Red Cross members assisting are Janet Lane, Judy Lane. Max Mey?r. Dick Kaiser and Wayne Brenner. Local physicians who are making the examinations of blood donors are Dr. Harold Zwlck, Dr. John Carroll, Dr. Arthur Girod, ~ Dr.\ James Burk, Dr. John Terveer and Dr. Gerald Kohtie. Assisting nurses are Miss Margaret Siting, Mrs. Erma Bernant, Mrs. Lois Sharp, Miss Agnes Nelson, Mrs. Mary Gauck, Mrs. William Meyers, Miss Mary Meyers and Miss Marie Felber. " * , The kitchen committee is Composed of ladles from the Zjun Evangelical and Reformed church. They are Mrs. R. Krkhhofer, Mrs. ,N. Roth, Mrs, V. Ross, Mrs. E. Jaberg, Mrs; H. Frauhiger and Mrs. E. Borne. Six nurses and two custodians frotn Fort Wayus are in Decatur with the bloodmobile unit. Faps ere being supplied today Klenk's hardware.

22 Are Killed By Earthquake In Philippines Central Philippines Reported Rocked By Strong Earthquake MANILA (INS) i» A strong earthquake rocked the central Philippines today and as many as 22' persons were reported killed in the stricken area southeast of Manila. The hardest hit city was Sorsogon, 240 miles southeast of .Manila, where a cathedral collapsed killing an undetermined number of worshippers. The Philippine News Service reported that the death toll reached 20 in Sorsogon and that two other i dead were reported in Albay proI vince which lies to the northwest. The Philippine constabulary es- • timated from its information that • scores were injured. — Earlier reports from the Phllip--1 pine Red Cross and dispatches to ) the Manila Daily Mirror said that from six to nine persons were kill- ■ ed in Sorsogon. t A dispatch received in Manila ' three hours after the tremor • struck said the tower of the Sorsogon cathedral collapsed, crushing “an undetermined number" .of churcjfhoers. The Daily Mirror said that eighty percent of the city’s buildings were “reduced to rubble." BULLETIN CLARK HILLS, N. Y, (INS) —Six. persons were believed to have been killed today* when < an air force jet plane crashed into an automobile and two houses in Clark Mills, a village near Utica. * the two houses were badly damaged by fire that followed the crash. ( Borg-Warner Corp. Chairman Is Dead CHICAGO (INS) — Charles S. Davis, 77-year-old board chairman of the Borg-Warner Corp., died Thursday night in Paris, France, according to word received today by his 1 son, Johnson B. Davis of Chicago. The son said his father and* mother, Mrs. Grace Davis, had been var.atUming' in Europe for about a month when he became ill a few days ago. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Clarence S. Shock Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Clarence S. Shock, 60, retired farmer, died Thursday at his home near Rockford. 0., following a heart attack. He was born near Rockford Aug. 29, 1893, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Shock, and was a lifelong resident of the community. Mr. Shock, a veteran ot World War .l, was a member of the Rockford American Legion post. Surviving are his wife, the former Cecil Wilson; his mother; (our daughtere, Mrs. BernieCe Roth of Decatur, Mrs. Ruth Fhtnnalxerry of near Rockford. Mrs. Faye Spry of Van Wert, 0., and Mrs. Dorothy Hone df Celina, G.; six grandchildren; three stepgrandchildren, two great • grandchildren two sisters, Mrs. Dolly Wilhelm and Mrs) Goldie Rumple of Rockford, and >bree brothers. Harvey an<| Roy of Rockford and Francis-of Foinpeil, Mich. Funeral service*! will be held at p.m. Saturday at the Rockford lEvangellc&t United Brethren church, the Rev. Robert Fast officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery at Rockford, with the American Legion conducting military - — Friends may call «t the Ketcham funeral home In Rockford until time of the service*.

Presents Plans For New School Building Preliminary Plans Presented Thursday Architect Le Roy Bradley presented the preliminary plana for the north school building to the school board, teachers, PTA eommittees and other interested persons, at an open meeting at the high school last night. Several ■ alterations ware made at the sug- . gestion of various persons present, and the plans will be redrawn by Bradley, and then submitted to Dr. Puul Seagers, school building consultant from Indiana University. ....A . ./ . \ A. After receiving Dr. Seagers’ suggestions, the plans will be submitted to Dr. Henry Lester Smith, of the state school house planning board for further* consideration. The school board approved the specifications for the acoustical treatment of the high school music room last night. The room as it ■ now stands will be divided, and the south: part treated. The extra ■ room will be made available to ’ the sixth grade from Lincoln '■ school, and will make it unneces- ■ sary to rent outside quarters. This procedure was recommended ‘ by the Indiana university survey • commission. •Petitions also were received at : Thursday's meeting signed by more then SO taxpayers request-, fri# the hoard to issue bohds. not to exceed 2183,000, to be used in construction of a new school building In the northwest part of Decatur. The board complied with the petition and adopted h resolution authorizing issuance. Bonds will bear interest at a rate not to exceed 3V4 percent per year and will be paybale in a period of 10 years. Local description of the building •is contained in the statutory legal advertisement appearing in today's Daily Democrat. The bond issue must be approved by the state lx>ard of tax commissioners before the bonds are sold. Auction Students To Hold Benefit Sale Donate Proceeds Ta St. Mary's Church The second annual benefit parish sale conducted hy students 'of the Reppert school of auctioneering will be staged* here Saturday. Aug. 7, Mrs. William Kohne. cochairman of the event, announced todayf * Mrs. Kohne stated that arrangements for the sale have been cleared with Dr. Roland Reppert, manager, and Col. Quentin Chaffee, dean of the auction school who conducts the community sale as a training course for the stu dente. Proceeds from the sale will be donated to St. Mary’s church. Last year the sale netted abou? 21.100 and the fund was used to\vard the purchase of the oil paint ings of the stations of the Way ot the Cross in the new church. The sale will be held afternoon and night on Madison street, with a carry-over to Monday night if all the merchandise isn't sold. Assisting Mrs. Kohne in arrange ments is Mrs. Jack Hackman, cochairman for the church benefit sale. . A lunch stand will be erected on the street and sandwiches and soft drinks will be sold throughout the day. The public is ifcvlted to attend the sale. The chairmen repeated appreciation for the wonderful response given the sale last year and stated that merchandise and articles would be solicited frem stores and individuals, -j. "We want anything that will sell at a public sale,” the chairmen explained, ■ ■ Every student enrolled in the school will have the opportunity to auction at least one Item during the sale, the women stated. >

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Rebel Forces Already Move On Territory Frejich In Denial •: Withdrawal Part Os .; Plan To Surrender HANOI (INS)—The Frertch high command announced today that ’ thousands of French and native Vietnamese soldiers had successfully completed their withdrawal from 1,600 square miles of the vital r southern Red River delta area in . north Indo-dhina. ‘ ‘ ' Reports said at least two divisions of Communist-led Vietminh rebels already' have moved into a large part of the rice-rich area abandoned by the French Union forces. The Franco-Vietnamese troops* ’ are now in roughly the same stra- ! tegic position they held seven and 1 a half years ago when the war against the Communtet-led Viet---Z 1, . X • funnt irtfgan. An estimated- 50 to 60 thousand ' civilians and soldiers managed to . escape from the surrendered area around the cities of Nam Dinh, h Thai Binh, Bui Chu and Phat Bien, ’ southeast of Hanoi. ' Tlie Vietminh radio heard in ’ Hong Kong reported' that Red r/b---ei troops had entered the four cit- ! les. • _.i The cotton mills in Nam Dirih are among the largest industrial concentrations in the delta area. Thousands of other French and Vietnamese civilians .from other delta towns poured in behind the ring of French tanks and bayonets that form a semi-circular defense around Hanoi and its port city, Haiphong. The French denied that the with* draws! was a preparation for abandoning all of northern Indo China. In Washington, a state depart* ment spokesman said the U. S. was not informed of the French withdrawal plans* in adavnce. He added that the U. 8; “is watching the situation carefully’’ and -presumed it would be kept informed as'the plans unfold. ' The defensive regronping did not affect the 200 U. 3. air force technicians who service French aircraft at bases In the Hanoi-Hai-phong sector. Vietminh Gen. Vo -Nguyen Giap has a reported 100,000 troops at his disposal ip northern Vietnam. Sixty-thousand of the Red rebels are believed ready for attack. a The French have roughly the same number ot troops to defend the area, but their forces include a large number of Vietnamese militiamen d-hose reliability in combat has been, questioned. Gen. Rene Cogny, commander in north Ihdo-Ohina, was known to have requested at least an additional two divisions in reinforcements if he was to hold the entire delta. When they were not provided, the regrouping of the FrancO-Vletnamese units was ordered in whet, was described aa — /a 'grave decision.” The withdrawal provides the Vietminh With their biggest spoils of the war. An estimated two amt a half million persons and some of the richest rice land |n the world now fall under Communist control. The French air force and naval units covered the evacuation which began op June 23. Planes blasted Vietminh formations which harassed the ground troops aa they sought to pull back out of the area. The evacuated garrisons destroyed their defense positions and burned quantities of U. 8. equipment which they were unable to - bring out. INDIANA WEATHER „ Partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered thundershowers tonight. Saturday partly cloudy, hot and humid with local thundershowers and turning oooler In extrema northwest In afternoon. Lew tonight 68-74. High Saturday 64-99. . tt. ‘ J ... -• » ■ , ; .