Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 168, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1954 — Page 1

Vol. 111, No. 168.

_* [ __Two_r>rowned As Boat Capsizes sHMEmL. * .>■-v. > '■■"'■ C ;'^ ABT GUAR D RESCUERS lift aboard their craft Huri-y Heidick. skipper of the ID-fated Norah V, a 45-foot fishing boat which, capsized in Delaware Bay. Del. Two women were drowned and a man is still unaccounted for. Six survivors, including the skipper, were taken to a- hospital tar treatment of shock and exposure after having spent more thun six hours in the water.

McCarthy Says Staff Members Offer To Quit Committee Slated To Meet Tuesday; Showdown May Come BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS)—Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt.), announced that he will postpone until July 30 nis demand that the senate vote to censure Sen. McCarthy. The.showdown on Flanders’ sot I-McCarthy resolution had been set for Tuead<y. ——- ‘W*?. ** WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen Joseph R. McCarthy said today that a ’ number" of members of his subcommittee staff have "offered their resignations” to him and he is still trying to dissuade them from leaving. A *r McCarthy made the announce ment at a public hearing where he resumed his investigation of Communist infiltration into defense pterrta - with -the tedUmeay -cl--a-- - former FBI undercover agent who said he had belonged to a secret Red cell at the General Electric plant at Lynn, Mass. James W. Glatts of Boston said he was assigned to the cell in 1950 while a member of the Communist patty, which he joined at the FBl’s request, motivated partly by the fact that Red guerrillas had murdered members of hfs family in Greece in 1944. McCarthy interrupted the hearing to declare: "Today or tomorrow I will have a statement hav ing to do with certain members of the staff of this committee." His subcommittee is scheduled to meet Tuesday for what is expected to be a showdown vote on moves aimed at ousting several employes considered unacceptable by subcommittee members — some as a result of the McCarthy-Anny hearings and others because of , their failure to obtain security clearance from the Pentagon. • Another showdown faced by McCarthy Tuesday is an aniclpated "clear-cut on McCarthyism" which Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R Vt.), has said he will try to force by offering a motion calling for censure of the Wisconsin Republican. McCarthy said the employes he referred to were “men whom I consider have done most ontstand ing jobs" and without naming’ ' them, he said: "A number of thefii have offered their resignations to me.” He said: "It’s not because they, felt there was any merit to the smear attacks made upon them but because number one. abuse of ■ their families is running out of all proportion to the good tljey <*ould. ' do the committee, and number two. they felt that their service In the * committee after the fantastic smear attacks. would not be of benefit.” Stressing that he has been "urg- ' ing them not to resign.” McCarthy said: "I have .taken the position that if they Were to resign, it ' would be one of, the greatest vic- i tories fl the Communist party could achieve” Meanwhile, Sen. Ralph E. Flan- < dorp (R-Vt.), sensed notice he will . call for immediate consideration Tuesday of his motion to censure : (Turn To Poe* Two) I

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Girl’s Body Found In Hotel Dresser Body Discovered In Indianapolis Hotel z ‘ INDIANAPOLIS (IN) —A hunt was pressed today for a man who last occupied a room of Indianapolis’ famed Claypool hotel where the half-nude body of an attractive teen-aged girl was found crammed Into a dresser drawer. The young woman was identified as Dorothy Poore, a 19-year-old June graduate of the Clinton, Ind. high school who had come to Indianapolis seeking stenographic work. The body of Miss Poore, clad only in a filmy slip, brassiere and jranUes, was found in a sixth-floor ’roStn Sunday by a -watciypaa Inspecting newly-inatalled air conditioning units when he noticed a peculiar odor and opened the drawer. ----- ----- The 5-foot 6-inch girl had been jackknifed and crammed into the large bottom drawer of an old fashioned golden oak bureau with her head turned over the right siioulder. . ■Police Immediately launched a search- tor a man *rho registered in the room Thursday as Jack O'Shea and gave a phony address in New York City. O’Shea paid in advance through Friday and apparently left the .hotel late Friday. Officers also have asked New York authorities to trace the ownership of a Buick sedan car with New York license plates which wad checked into the hotel garage Thursday and driven away the following day on the chance that the auto may have been O'Shea’s. Meanwhile, police awaited the results of tests on the girl’s viyjl organs by Indiana University pathologists to learn the cause of her death. Marion county deputy coroner William J. Pierce reported that an autopsy failed to show the cause of death, but added that Miss Poore had been dead for ‘‘three or lour days" and decomposition may have concealed injuries on the head or throat. Pierce said he believed the girl may have been suffocated or the victim of an overdose of narcotics. Two hotel maids told pollca O’Shea snt on a bed and chatted with them as they cleaned his room Friday afternoon. They said O'Shea pointed out a spot of blqod on the bed and explained that he had sinus trouble and bad suffered a nose bleed. Coroner Roy B. Storms said that If the girl had been smothered with a pillow the spot could have been her blood. Authorities also considered the possibility that Miss Poore may have been strangled with a plastic belt found snapped in two in the dark recesses of the room closet. The belt is being checked for fingerprints. -. ■ > Besides the bolt, only a pair of blue jeans, a white blouse and the girl’s purse were discovered in the room. MIM Poore was Identified through a high school class ring on her finger and a social security application card tn the handbag. The handbag also contained a package of chewing, gum. a nickel and an address book’which Is being studied by police. i The girl’s grandmother, Kirs. Lilly Dancy. 89. said at the family (Continued On Page Five,

Asks FBI To Make Probe Os 'Phony Wire Senate Committee Continues Hearing In Housing Scandal WASHINGTON, (INS) — The senate banking committee asked the FBI today to investigate a "phoney” telegram .wfaioii brought two St. Louis court officials to Washington to testify on the criminal record of an ousted federal housing official. Disclosure of the telegram came after an Oklahoma builder testified he paid a retired army colonel J37.6®d for help in securing a. federal housing administration loan on an air force housing project- at Dayton, Ohio. Committee counsel William Simon called it a “five percenter” deal. The fraudulent telegram purtpored to order St. Louis circuit court clerk James McAteer and his deputy, T. J. Kavenauirh, to "testify from your court record in the case of Clyde L. Powell . . . July 19 in committee room senate build-' ing Washington, D.C, The message state the committee would pay expenses and the wire would "serve in lieu of subpoena." It was signed "Homer E. Capehart, chairman senate banking committee.” Capehart heatedly told newsmen he did not send the July 16 telegram nor was it authorized by the committee. “* ' . Powell was fired as assistant commissioner in charge of the scandal - rocked FHA aparttnent program just after President Eisenhower disclosed* irregularities in the program in April. Meanwhile, Link Cowan, Shawnee, Okla., builder and David Muss, of New York and San Antonio, Tex., testified on their dealings in the {17477,500 Page-Manor housing project, located at the Wright-Patterson air base, Dayton. Mum said a the project was built for {909.000 ie’ss than the mortgage loah approved by the FHA. Under questioning, however. Muss said sponsors of the project who also included New York builder Norman K. Winston and Clint W. Murchison, Jr., son of the wealthy Texas oil man, elected to distribute profits in the form of loans instead of dividends to the owners. Capehart said the committee probably will spend theneatEwo days investigating dealings of Winston and Murchison in "at least 20 projects" in various parts of the country. ' Winston, called from Europe by Capehart to testify in the housing probe, appeared before the committee Friday in executive session but, in line with rules barring discussion of such Interviews, declined comment on his meeting with the investigators. Capehart said the New Yorker and Murchison, operator of a worldwide construction company with headquarters in Dallas, have dealt in mortgage loam in virtually all of the' FHA’s rental housing programs. Committee sources said one of the 20 projects up for consideration, the Page Manor development in Dayton was involved in a house (ivra To Paste Blcht) Agreement On Iran Oil Is Announced To Return Huge Oil Stocks Onto Market TEHRAN (INS)—The Iranian government has announced the conclusion of a tentative agreement with a group of eight major oil companies to bring Iran’s huge oil stocks back on the world market. The flow or Iranian oil to the world’s consumers was cut off in 1951, when the regime of Premier Mohamified- Mossaaegn seized the properties of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Following the overthrow of the Mosaadegh government, Iran opened negotiations with the British government and began talks with the oil companies on April 20. Finance minister Dr. All Amini announced Sunday after the 19th meeting between his government and representatives of the eight firms that an agreement had been reached "in principle." The consortium, consisting of the Anglo-Iranian OU company, one Frepch firm, one Dutch firm and five U.S. companies, will make an Initial investment of 100 million dollars M the Abaden refinery to start the oil flowing again after the three-year shutdown.

Decatur/ Indiana, Monday, July 19, 1954.

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GOP Leaders Seek Speedup ByCongress Republican Leaders Report To Ike On Legislative Status WASHINGTON (INS) — GOP ' congressional leaders gave President Eisenhower an up-to-the-min-ute report on the status of his legislative program today and then rushed back to Capitol HUI to speed up action. After the White House conference, senate majority leader William F. Knowland said only that congress could not adjourn Aug. 1 if there is floor debate on the motion by Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt.) to censure Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wls.) Such a debate, Knowland declared, would “obviously Obstruct the entire legislative program.” He promised to make "several sugTuesday when the Flanders resolution is due to come up. The majority leader rf js expected to move to table it, Otherwise, the leadership headaches now appear to spring mainly from two sources—the farm and foreign aid bills. Both are almost certain to produce nome extenswe debate—and amendments. * **9 Both fit* may for senate action, with the foreign aid measure due to follow (he atomic measure now under consideration. After these issues, congress still will have to dispose of the tax revision. housing, social security, unemployment compensation and supplemental appropriation bills—plus a catalogue of secondary measures. - Secretary of state John Foster Dulles and foreign operations administrator Harold E. Stassen both Medal, Citation For Major Bemont Decatur Officer Honored By Army A bronze star medal and citation for "meritorious service” in connection with his military service in-ltorea, has been awarded by the TT. S. army to Major Richard L. Bemont of this cityl An officer in the regular army, Major Bemont is a veteran of 2ff years service and of World War 11. He is the husband of the former Mias Erna Lankenau, dauglb ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Lankenau of route four. The citation iz for service against an armed enemy in Korea and covers the period from Sept. 15, 1953 to June 30, 1954. Major Bemon suffered a heart attack in Korea last June and later was moved to a hospital in Tokyo, Japan. The citation reads: "Assuming the responsibility of Group 54, Ma-" jor Bemont immediately proceeded to acquaint himself with all phases of the operations of the group and consistently displayed outstanding knowledge in thee execution of his duties. His ability to anticipate supply shortages and his energetic efforts ‘to eliminate these shortages was a distinct factor in the early completion of its many construction projects. Major Bemont’s energy, enthusiasm and sound judgment served as an inspiration to hfn associates and gained him tfeely wholehearted respect and admiration. The meritorious service rendered by Major Bembnt throughout this period reflects great credit on himself and the military service.” - Major Bemont is attached to the engineers corps. During the last war he saw service in Europe, Alaska, the Panama Canal Zone and on islands in the Pacific. His wife and two children. Joan and Richard, reside at 227 N. Fifth street. Major Bemont is expected home tn the near future.

Nine Traffic Deaths Reported In Indiana Four Persons Die In Head-on Crash INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—At least nine persons met death in highway accidents during Indiana’s! s-welt-<ring weekend. Four persons, died in a head-on crash of two automobiles on Road 220. six miles west of Michigan ’ [xsity. , The mercury neared the century . mark again today with little or no relief expected from thunder- ( storms predicted. The Indianapo- , lie weather bureau predicted; partly cloudy and hot and widely scat- . tered thundershowers for Tuesday. Among the temperatures Sunday were Terre Haute 106. Evansville 101, Indianapolis 100, South Bend . 9? and Fort Wayne 87. l The four victims of the LaPorte county accident were John F. King, 28. of Evanston, 111., who was believed to have fallen asleep t at the whepl of bis car; Louis Col- ’ tins. 16, of LaPorte. driver of the ' second car, and his passengers. _ Queen Esther Osborne, 32, and Joseph R. Osborne. 61. also of Laj Porte. Gilbert Sieg. 59, of Sunman, was killed when he was struck by a , New York Central System train at ! a crossing in Sunman. Deborah Sue Bowker. 2, of Lawrenceburg. was injured fatally when struck by ad automobile near her home. Roy L. Foster, of Linton, met denth when, a cur driven by his son, James A. Foster, left a curve on Road 59 a mile north of Linton and etruck a gaeoline pump in front of a filling station. The eon was injured seriously. Mildred Smith. 12, of near Jeffersonville, was. killed when ehe was thrown out of a truck that rounded a curve on a Clark county too faS. Her. father, James A. Smith, 66, driver of the truck, was charged with drunken driving. Earl Renner, 21. of Fountain City, was injured fatally,, when his motorcycle overturned and threw him into a ditch. Hoosiers also died in out-ofetate accidents. Walter G. Chandler. 45; of South Bend, new development engineer for the Bendix Aviation Products (Cuatlnnrd Oa Pace Five! Four Persons Hurt In Three-Car Crash Three Vehicles Are Involved In Wreck Four persons were injured in a three-car collision Supday at 12:20 p.m. on U. S. highway 27 south of Decatur. Fred H. Koeneman. 63. of route two, was traveling south and turned left at the Winchester road, colliding with a northbound car driven by Cyril MoEldowney, 39, of payton, O. After McEldowney struck the Koeneman vehicle, another northbound car crashed into the rear of the McEldowney car. The third ear was driven by James Endicott; 37. of Darlington. The injured were Mrs. Betty Endicott, 33. of Darlington and Mrs. Rachael Manges, also of Darlington. who were riding with Endicott; McEldowney and Lindsey Phelps, 49, of Dayton, a passenger in the McEldowney car. Mrs. Manges received bruises qn the right hip. shoulder and neck. She was released from the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday night. Mrs. Endicott, who sustained a fractured vertabra in the neck and multiple bruises, was transferred to the Parkview Memorial hospital in Fort Wayne Sunday night after treatment in the local hospital. The other two Injured persons were treated for lacerations and abrasions and then released. Koeneman was also checked and released. ’ State trooper Gene Rash, who Investlgatlond with sheriff, Robert Shraluka, estimated a total damage of >6OO to the three cars.

Benson To Keep Wheat Support At 80 Percent Benson Indicates Support Price To * Stay At 80 Percent , WASHINGTON (INS) — Agriculture, secretary Ezra Taft Ben- ' son indicated today he will not let the 1955 wheat support price fall below 80 percent of parity despite congressional action or inaction on the issue. The secretary made his statement as the nation’s wheat farmers prepared to vote Friday on production controls for next year’s wheat crop. If controls are accepted, the fanners will be eligible for the full -.support price, which can- ' not be established until congress 1 acts on farm legislation. ’ On Capitol Hill, Sen. Milton R. 1 Young (R-N.0.) introduced a reso- • lution calling for a 30-day postponement in the wheat quota election. He told the senate that farmers lacked information on what 1 would happen to Wheat supports L under various circumstances. ; Yeung was supported by Sen. Karl Mundt (R-S.D.) '— * , Benson told his weekly neWe conference he is “very sympathetic? wkh RUeuhower’s announcement that the White House will not tet supports fall below 80 percent of parity next year. Under the Flexible Support Art of 1949. which would become effective should congress fall to pass new legislation, Benson could set wheat supports anywhere between 75 and 90 percent of parity. Benson said he considers “80 percent of parity a pretty good adjustment (or 1955.’’ The current level is 90 percent of parity. At current prices. 80 percent of parity would mean a support price of 11.99 per bushel. The current price is 12.24 per bushel Senate agriculture committee chairman George Aiken said he would propose a substitute today <C«atlaaeZ Oa Page Elcht/ Posl Cards Mailed To Young Democrats Nominate Officers At Aug. 6 Meeting More than 900 double post cards to Democrats between the ages or 21 and 35 were mailed out this weekend to all parts ot Adams county by the Young Democrats. Miss Rosemary Spangler,. chairman of the membership committee, said today. The cards ask interested persons for their suggestions and ask them to attend the next meeting. August 6. at 8 p.m. at the Monroe town hall. They also announce that the Young Democrats are cosponsoring the Democratic rally at Clem’s Lake pavilion Thursday at 8 p.m. at which Charles E. Sktlien.* Democratic state chairman, will speak. , Permanent officers of the club will be nominated at the August 6 meeting, and the election will be held the first Friday In September. A new constitution was recently adopted. Members of the membership committee who prepared the cards from voting records, in addition to the chairman, are: Henry Getting, Root township; Marlene Laurent, Harry Hebble. Jr.. Rheta Butcher, Decatur; Anne Stahly, Herne, and Shirley Fenstermaker, Geneva. The membership cqjnmittee also 1 announced that a drive lor members younger than 21 will begin immediately. . — i INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair, warmer north tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and hot with widely scattered showers. Low tonight 87-73 north, 72-77 south. High Tuesday 94-99 north, 9S-103 south.

French Forces Ease Pressure On Hanoi French Offensive Slowing Up Rebels HANOI (INS) — The French high command announced today that a new offensive is makipg “good progress’’ against Comma-nist-led forces menacing Hanoi from the northwest. At the same time French troops . within Hanoi and the city of Saigon were alerted against possible native uprisings when the full terms of the armistice agreement now being drafted in Geneva are announced. The in>L r rench offensive, similar to a two-pronged drive" last week, was aimed at rebel units threatening Hanoi’s defenses near the northwest towns of Phucyen and Vinhyen. The high command ■ said 5,000 French and native Viet- ■ namese troops, heavily supported i by tanks, armored cars and fighter planes, were taking part in the • drive. French officials feared that Viet- ■ namese troops might turn against • the French is final agreement is • reached at Geneva for division ot t Vietnam. t ; r " LATE BULLETINS WASHINGTON (INS)—The American Red Cross reported d today that about 200 persons were driven from tneir homes this morning in Richwood and Fenwiek, w. Va„ by flasn Floods. Torrential rains sent the Cherry and Gauley .rivers over their banks In the area which is about 50 miles east of Charleston. The Red Cros* said it was checking reports of another flash flood at Burnsville. LONDON (INS) — A Reuters dispatch reported today that the U.S. aircraft carriers Boxer and Hornet left Manila suddenly and may be enroute to northern Indo-China to evacuate Americans and other foreigners from the Red River Delta area. The dispatch said the carriers were escorted by four destroyers but officials did not divulge their destination. Slight Employment Increase Is Noted Six Percent Boost Over Month Os May The business barometer of the Decatur area, fiiftred monthly by Fred E. Kolter, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, shows that June industrial employment in Decatur increased 6 per cent over the May figure, but Is only 88 per cent of last June's employment. The industrial payroll showed a 858,298 decrease over June ot 1953. but increased almost >100,600 over the May figure, according to the Chamber calculations. The number of water meters and electric meters increased sllghtly last month, while the number of gas meters and telephones showed a slight decline. There were 18 cases of direct poor relief, affecting 48 persons, and costing a total of >7Ol, or >14.50 per person. ? £—Z - ' There were 53 births and 14 deaths reported, as compared with 52 births and eight deaths a year ago. ” ’ Carloadings, both in and out ot Decatur, railway express shipments, and postal receipts, all showed considerable increases over last month's figures, but were still under the figures of one year ago. The number ot building permits has decreased from 25 last June to 13 this June, but the value of the buildings has Increased from >37.345 to >64.704.' I

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Geneva Parley On Indo-China Nears Climax Assurpece Made By Vietnamese Seen As Removing Obstacle BULLETIN GENEVA (INS) — Communf ist sources said today talks at. Trung Gia, Indo * Coins, on ceasefire zones have ended. Representatives of the Franco Vietnam and Vietminh high commands participated in- the Trung Gia talks* which were geared to the negotiations at - Geneva. GENEVA, (INS) — Authorita--1 tive sources said today the Viet- . namese government has assured , the United States it will neither sabotage nor formally accept a . contemplated armistice agreement : partitioning the country. i This assurance appeared to ?«• ! move one of the last obstacles barring conclusion of a peace settlement for Indo-China Tuesday. The Geneva conference moved, toward a dramatic climax with the clock ticking away the remaining .hours before French premier Pierre Mendes-France’s self-imposed deadline Tuesday. '■ • The partition deal tentative!? agreed to by France and the Communists would give virtually all of northern Indo-China to the Reds. The French would remain ia control, temporarily at least, of the southern part pending the outcome of the proposed general elections which might or might not be held within a period of IS months to -two years. i — These elections would be intended to bring about unification of the country. But it is considered far more likely in conference circles that the agreement, now scheduled to be concluded at a formal plenary session Tuesday, will lead to a permanent partition of the state of Vietnam. There also were strong indications that Russia and Communist China succeeded in blocking U.S. plans for early creation of a southeast Asia security pact. Both Mendes-France and British foreign secretary Anthony Eden promised Soviet foreign minister /V. M. Molotov and Chinese Communist premier Chou En-lai that they would not join with America in such a pact in the immediate future. They agrecu also that no part of what is left of free Indo-China would be included in a southeast Asia security pact or in any other Allied defense organization set up to safeguard the area. However, it still is not cipar whether France and Britain will jojin with the U. S. in a temporary, three-power arrangement calling for collective military action (f the Vietminh Communists ignore the armistice and try to over- * run all ot Vietnam or again invade Cambodia and Laos. V. 8. undersecretary of state Walter Bedell Smith assured the delegates of Cambodia Sunday that the U. S. would Include their state within the security zone covered by the defense system America is trying to organize for southeast Asia. But Smith could give no assurances as to when such a system actually would be organized. Therefore. the delegations of the Associated States fear that America’s “guarantee" Will be limited for some time to the warning Smith issued Sunday. The undersecretary told the conference that the U. S. would view "with grave concern” any new Communist aggression in violation of the anticipated armistice. There were indications that the French government Intends to conclude the agreainent aven if the state of Vietnam refuses to go along. * The French are taking th* position that they have not yet signed (Caattauea ua Pace Five)