Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 171.

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U. S. r Britain Plan Parley On Asian Defenses Call International Conference Soon To Form Defense Pact WASHINGTON (IN)^—Authorl- . tattve sources said today the U. S. and Britain have agreed to call an international conference in about eix wueks to hiftnmer out a collective defense pact for southeast Asia. Among the nations which reportedly will be invited to the conference are India, 'Pakistan, Ceylon. Burma and Indonesia. The agreement was eaid to have been reached in the last .days of the Geneva conference as the IndoChinese cease-fire was being negotiated. Originally, participants in the Southeast Asia defense organization were expected to be the U. S„ Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Phillippines and Thailand. But Britain argued that the alliance would hot l>e effective unless India, Pakistan, Ceylon. Burma ; and Indonesia join it. since they are the nations most directly threatened by Communist aggression in the area. 'Meanwhile, officials were still trying to assay the over-all effect of the Indo-Chinese truce. Administration sources, while revealing progress on the hoped-for Asiatic program, also said that the truce represented a tiade of u "one-round loss” in a long fight against the Communist threat in exchange for assurance that western Europe would remain united. Officials pointed out that France obtained an end to a seven and-one-half year old war which was bleeding her to death economically but is still holding firm to a unity of purpose with the U. Sk and Great Britain in Europe. French Premier Mendes-France has pledged that he will bring the issue of ratification of the European defense community-a key< stone of U-. S. and Allied foreign his parliament in advance of its adjournment in late August. ' . . So far as southeast Asia is concerned. defense talks were reported held in Geneva between under secretary of state Walter Bedell Smith, Mendes-France and British foreign secretary Anthony Eden just after the signing of the ceasefire agreement. The talks, held before the officials deported for their homes, were described as following a pattern set by President Eisenhower and ; British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill in their recent Washington meeting. President Elsenhower said Wednesday: “I am glad that agreement hoe been reached at Geneva to stop the bloodshed In Indo-China, in which thousands of brave men. while defending freedom, have died during the last Severn years . . . (Cast!■■*< On Faga Flv»> 12 PAGF*

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Surprise Inquest In Sheppard Case Bay Village Mayor First To Testify CLEVELAND (INS) — The mayor of Bay Village, Ohio, said today his wife was the first to see the mutilated body of 31-year-old Marilyn Sheppard when they were awakened by the anguished telephone call of (he victim's husband. Mayor J. Spencer Houk of the suburban community outside of [ Cleveland was the first witness in j a surprise inquest. It was called by 1( Cuyahoga county coroner Dr. Samuel R. Gerber in a move to solve thg baffling Fourth of July slaying. Houk related that Dr. Samuel Sheppard, 30-year-old prominent osteopath, telephoned him first of the tragedy. The mayor, who lived three houses .from the Sheppard home, said the call came shortly before 6 a.m. (EDT). He testified he woke his wife and that they arrived at the Sheppard home about ' five minutes later. Houk 8aM;~ " "We found Dr. Sheppard half slumped, half sitting in a big chair of his study. He was wearing only pants." Houk said Mrs. Houk went up stairs and then came down, gasping: "Spen, call the police. Call the ambulance. Call everybody. Something terrible has happened." More than ICO spectators throng--1 ed the Normandy school auditorium where 15 witnesses were due to appear. Dr. Sheppard was in the anteroom and is among those expected to testify. 1 Mrs Houk followed her husband - to the stand and- described the 1 scene in the attractive brunette's ■ bedrooms She said : "I saw Marilyn lying on the ' bed. The sheet was up to her waist. Her face and hair and the ■ ijed were covered with blood.” ~ The mayor's wife, a slight woman, wearing a beige suit, said she took the victim's wrist and felt for a Ttrtßiß heat. She added: “I wouldn't have known whether Marilyn was dead or alive. I just . felt for her pulse." Then she said she rushed down- , stairs and told her husband to call t the authorities. Dr. Sheppard, she related, kept complaining of a "terrible pain" . in the back of his neck. She went to the kitchen, she said, and brought back a glass of whiskey for Sheppard. But he declined, she said, muttering: "That won't help me think. I’ve 1 got to think." “I told him.”, she said, " 'Don’t think. Don’t try to think.’" Wm. Christen Dies At Home In Florida Word has been received here of the death Sunday of* William - Christen at hia home in Melbourne, Fla., following an extended illness. > A native of Decatur, he was the > eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Ali bright ■Christen, and a brother of . the lata Charles Christen. I Survivors Include his wife and one sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Vaughn of Chicago. Funeral services and burial were held In Melbourne Wednesday.' - - | .......

Tax Revision Bill Approved By Congress Administration Tax Income BUI Faces One Final Hurdle WASHINGTON (INS) The administration income tax bill faces one final hurdle before It becomes law. The compromise measure, including a controversial 350 nfif-lion-dollar a year break for oofporation stockholders, was approved by a house-senate conference committee late Wednesday. OF* Still ahead is an expected close battle in the talk-weary senate over the stock dividend provision. The debate is expected to come in the late days of the session—sometime in early August. The measure, which makes more than 3,C00 major or minor changes in present revenue law, gives some relief for practically every person who pays income taxes. ; The contested dividend section would exempt the first 50 dollars of Block income Jtrom federal tax and provide an additional credit of four percent on all remaining dividend income. For example, a single person with an income of $6,000 a year, of which SI,OOO is from dividends, would normally pay a tax of $931. The four percent credit, after deducting the first SSO in dividend income, wuold be S3B subtracted from his tax bill, so he would pay $893. Other major changes include: An increase in allowable deductions for medical and dental expenses. A change in tax return filing dates from March 15 to April 15, allowing an extra month—both for final returns on the previous year’s income and the estimated tax for the current year. Exemption of all types of retirement income up to $1,200. Allowable deductions for child care up to S6OO for a working mo* ther or widower. Additional deductions for farm* ers on conservation expenses. Permits any dependent under 19 or any student to dam any amount and still be claimed as an exemption by his parents. Numerous other changes provide benefits for business firms, many of them technical in nature. The measure also continues the corporation income tax at 52 perqpnt until next April 1. Under present law, the levy would have dropped to 47 percent effective last April 1. Estimated cost of the revision program is more than one and onethird billion dollars in t*t?e first year, and more in years to come. Senate finance committee chairman Eugene Millikan (R-Coio), said the measure as finally worked out “is an excellent bill,’’ and predicted senate approval. South Carolina 6irl Miss United States College Senior Is Winner Os Contest LONG BEACH. Calif. (INS) — South Carolina's Miriam Stevenaiti, a curvy blonde with a soft southern drawl, was named "Miss U. S. A." Wednesday night at the Miss Universe contest to pick the most beautiful girt in the world. The wholesome-looking 21-year-old college senior, ecstatic over being crowned the most gorgeous girl in the United States, could only sigh, ”1 can't believe it. I can't believe It.” as the crown was placed on her head. .The new "Mias U. S. A.” weighs 120 pounds and is five-feet, sixinches tall. She boasts a 36-lnoh bust, a 24-inch waist and 36-inch hips. The Winnsboro, S. C., girl was chosen from among five finalists to represent the United States in the Miss Universe contest in Long Beach on Friday night. She is a senior at Lander college in South Carolina, where she is majoring in home economics. The still flustered queen ot American beauties lost some of her luggage on her way to Long Beach, and when she was called upon, as all the contestants were, to answer the question. "What is the most important thing in life?" she listed health, happiness and getting back her luggage. After regaining her composure, tCeatilißea <•■ !'■*• Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday.' Low tonight 68. High Friday In the 90s. *

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_ Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 22, 1954.

Senate In Continuous Session As Debate On Atomic Bill Continues -XS* * • ...

Federal Deficit For 1954 Less Than Expected Deficit For Year i 245 Millions Less _ Than Anticipated WASHINGTON (INS) — The administration reported today that the federal deficit for fiscal 1954 was three billion. 29 million dollars — 245 millions less than President Eisenhower had originally expected. The lower figure was achieved despite a decrease of more than three billion dollars in anticipated tax revenue between July 1, 1953, and June 30, 1954, including a drop of about one billion dollars in individual income tax receipts and one billion, 326 million in corporation income taxes. The administration cut spending three billion, 323 million below its budget estimate, holding expenditures to 67 billion, 579 millions. Mr. Eisenhower hailed the yearend figures as a “better showing than expected” and noted that the government came over two-thirde of the way toward balancing the budget. The deficit for the previous fiscal year, under a Truman budge* modified by ths first six months of the Eisenhower administration, was nine billiop, %00 million dollars. Mr. Eisenhower prefaced the ftscal figures with a ringing note of confidence in the nation’s economic future. He declared: “our people have new confidence. We are laying a firm base for, a healthy and expanding economy for better national security, and for more jobs for more people." He said the administration had achieved the lower deficit while making tax cuts of seven and onehalf billion dollars and halting inflation. The president noted that the budget proposed by the Truman administration was cut “by mere than 10 billion dollars, while actual spending was reduced six and one*half billion dollars from expenditures for the previous year, Vietnam's Foreign Minister Resigns Show Dislike For Peace Settlement GENEVA (INS) — The diplomatic representatives of free IndoChina underlined their displeasure with the Geneva peace settlement today, by pointedly staying away from the airport when French premier Pierre Mendes-France left the conference city. A crowd of diplomats, including U. S. undersecretary of state Waiter Bedell Smith, were on hand to say farewell to the man who was most responsible for achieving the cease-fire agreements. But no one from the Cambodian, Laotian or Vietnamese delegations showed up. Vietnam's foreign minister Dr. Tran Van Do announced he had sent his resignation to premier Ngo Dinh Diem in Saigon. Do said that “w-bat happened at Geneva was not my fault." but admitted sadly that he had failed in his mission to prevent the partition of his nation. > Restrict Visits To Hospital Patients'' iMrs. Floyd Kriek, business manager of the Adams county memorial hospital, announced today that visitors at the hospital are again restricted to members ot the immediate family. This Is necessary. Mrs. Krick emphasized, because overcrowding has necessitated the keeping of patients in the hallways of the hospital. ..

• Taj”™:- ~ Dne Girl Is Dead « I In Suicide Pact \ 'lk ' ■ ' Report'Second Girl Is Near To Death NEW YORK (INS) Police and heart - broken parents tried today to unravel the mystery of a , suicide pact which brought death to a pretty, 19-year-old blonde and left her 18-year-old girl friend clinging precariously to life in a > New York hospital. t The girls are believed to have [ attempted suicide twice and tn the . second attempt Wednesday one of t them found the death .they both •sought. The dead girl was Madeline Jean I Sommer, 19, daughter of Mrs. Irt ene Sommer ot Bergenfield, N. J. I Her companion in the apparent . suicide pact was Helene Jacobs, > 18. daughter of prominent Chicago ■ attorney Joseph M. Jacobs. i Both girls left suicide notes in - the gas-filled Manhattan apartment where they were found. One 5 note was brief and blunt; the oths er lengthy and emotional. Helene remained in critical condition early today and doctors at - Roosevelt hospital said they still 5 did not know If she would live or s get-her expressed wish to die. s The two girls were found in the s apartment of Rose Fried, proprietor of the Rose Fried art gallery, . who is in Europe. It had been ? tfeoned to Helene by MUg Frier’s t sister, a friend of tne Chicago girl’s parents. Both girls were lightly clad, Helene in shorts and a halter and Madelene In shorts and a light . blue blouse. The Sommer girl was lying with her hgad on a pillow beside the ( gas stove in the small kitchenette; the Jacobs girl was found , between the kitchen and the door, as though she had changed her ’ mind at the last moment and tried to escape from the lethal atmosI phere. , An empty, half-gallon sauteme . bottle and a half-empty half-gallon . sherry bottle were found together with two tumblers which contain(roßtianed Oa Pace Five) I Blind Broommakers I Continuing Strike Sitdown Strike Is Idling Hundred Men PITTSBURGH (INS) — Appar entljr no immediate action is plan ned against 20 blind broommakers whose sitdown strike is idling about 100 sightless employes at a Pittsburgh workshop. James Wrigley, manager of the Oakland workshop of the Pennsyl- ’ vania association for the blind, said today that no attempt would be made to put the men out of the building as long as they remain ordetly. However. Wrigley stated,' a prolonged strike could be costly to the workshop. The manager explained that even the shipping de partrnent is closed down by the broommakers’ pickets and none of the shop’s products are being delivered. Wrigley estimated that a monthlong strike could coat the workshop and its employes a loss of from $12,000 to $14,000. The blind workers, about half the number employed In the brooinshop, spent their second consecutive night in the workshop cafeteria and continued to man picket lines around the association building. Arlie L. Fox. president of the Pittsburgh branch of the association, commented last night that the workers were "striking against a shop which was created only to help them." The broommakers have been ’ idle since March 2nd in protest ■ of a suggested cut in the prices 1 they are paid for tlieif brooms. The sit-down began Tuesday aft- ■ er an announcement that the > broomshop would be closed and > that most of its workers probably • could find jobs in other, departments of the association. I ■ ■ "

Opposition To UN Discussion Os Peace Pact Diplomats Contend U. N. Should Adopt Hands-off Policy UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —Strong opposition to assembly discussion of the Indochina truce developed in the UN today with many diplomats contending It should adopt a “hands off* policy. There was a feeling in the wake of the Geneva agreements that a settlement had been made and the less said about the partitioning of Vietnam the better. Many UN diplomats believed at the same time that establishment of the dividing line at the 17th parallel would not prevent the Communists from infiltrating the test of Indochina and sooner or later putting it behind the Bamboo Curtain. * • Meanwhile, Thailand still is considering a poll on an August session of the assembly, but her foreign minister. Prince Wan, is consulting the U. S. and other western powers before making a final decision. Recall of the assembly — prior to its .annual meeting In September — would require 31 favorable votes from the f>o member governments. UN diplomats pointed out that the Geneva settlement ruled out Prince Wan’s proposal that UN observers survey the threat of a Red attack on Thailand from neighboring Laos and Cambodia. Both nations signed agreements at Geneva and by doing so made it awkward to dispatch neutral observers to their borders, a move the Communists undoubtedly would denounce as unfriendly. The Geneva truce pact drew mixed reaction at the UN. The French UN delegate to the disarmament commission endorsed it white Free China's representative bitterly denounced it. Jules Moch of France, presiding over the 12 - nation disarmament commission, took time out of Wednesday’s debate on nuclear weapons to call for a salute to the 92,OG’O French troops who fell in battle during the eight years of fighting in Indochina. Senate Action On Farm Bill Delayed Charges Democrat Leaders Delay Bill WASHINGTON (IN) -Senate agriculture committee chairman George Aiken (R. Vt), said today that Democratic leaders have forced a delay in senate action on the farm bill until next Wednesday and this may kill the legislation. Aiken told a ne-ws conference that senate Democratic leaders notified him Wednesday night that they will not permit action on the farm bill until after the primary involving Sen. Allen J. lEllender (D La.) 'Ellender's primary is next Tuesday which would make next Wednesday the earliest date at which the senate could consider the farm bill. Aiken said that this "dime'* chances that the measure will reach a vote In the senate but « • ara Te P«q» seven) Democratic Rally Here This Evening Final arrangements were made this afternoon tor the Democratic rally tonight. William J. Kruse, general chairman, said today. Speaker for the meeting will be Charles S- Skillen, Democratic state chairman. The meeting will be at Clem’s lake pavilion at 8 o'clock this evening.

City's Assessable Valuation Decreased Certify Figure For Taxation Purposes Decatur’s net assessable valuation slipped downward $202,230 this year, rounding out at $10,216,210, compared with the 1953 total, $10,418,440. The figure has been certified to the city hall for taxation purposes and will be the new base in arriving ut the civil city’s tax rate. The drop in valuations came in personal property assessments this year. Two units comprise the Decatur corporate tax, Washington township in which the city is located and a slice of Root township that Includes Central Soya Co., and the adjacent residential district. County auditor Frank Kitson’s valuation aheet, prepared for all the taxing units in the county, i shows these valuations: Decatur-Wash. $8,161,100 Decatur-Root 2,055,110 Total $10416.210 Included in the city's taxable . values are the state’s assessment ■ of railroads, pipe lines and utilities. In Root township this amount- - ed to $75,070 and in Washington I township, $443,170. The abstract of taxable)), exclu- • sive of the state’s assessments shows a net .of $7,717,130 In Deca-tur-Washlogton and $2,080,510 in Decatur-Root. The loss in personal property assessments offsets a gain of $123,700 in Improve menu on real estate, including new- buildings. The net loss in personal property is listed at $109,880. Mortgage and soldiers* exemptions account for the difference, the auditor's office explained. West German Leader Reported Missing Suggest Dr. John Kidnaping Victim BONN (IN) —The chief of West German intelligence operations was revealed today to have disappeared in Berlin on Tuesdaynight. The Bonn government made a flat announcement that Dr. Otto John had been missing since that time, but the government press office that he had been kidnaped. John would be a natural target for Communist agents. The announcement said John attended a West Berlin memorial service on Tuesday for the victims of the 1944 antl-Hitler revolt in which his brother had participated. John left his hotel in a taxi and neither lie nor the taxi has been seen eince. The West German government representative in West Berlin said be had no knowledge of the disappearance. Dr. John’s title Is chief of the office for the .protection of the West German constitution. The office, which he Joined in 1950, collects information on movements which are endangering the federal republic’* constitution. As such, it is a clearing house for data on Communist subversion and espionage in 'East Germany. John also participated In the iilfated assassination attempt against Hitler. He eluded the Gestapo and escaped to 'England via Spain and .Portugal. His brother was caught and hanged. . The doctor returned to West Germany In 1949. i ' " BULLETIN HIGHTSTOWN, N. J. (INB) —Two persons were reported killed and at least three Injured today In an explosion at the Unexcelled Chemical Co. plant in Hightstown. One man had been listed tentatively as probably killed was found unharmed.

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Debate Passes 24-Hour Mark; Stay In Hall Sen. Morse Leading |n Opposition Ta Atom Energy Bill WASHINGTON (INS)—Fortified by gulps of hot tea. Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.) “keynoted'’ the senate’s weary progrese today through its longest session of the yew as debate on the administration’s atomic energy bill passed the 24-hour murk. Morse, the senate's champion fllibusterer held a cup of tea In. one hand, a slice of lemon In the other, while oratoricaUy assailing the proposed legislation. He finally succeeded in squeezing the lemon into the cup.The Oregon Independent finished speaking at 11:30 a. m. EDT after six hours and 14 minutee on his feet. But he said he was in “wonderful shape” and could “still be used later In the parade” of opposition to the measure. Shortly after 10 a. m. (EDT). senate majority leader William F. Knowland (R-CHff.) repeated his dictum that “we are going t« remain in continuous session until we pom this bill” and unouaoeA that two Democrats. were clamorlag <> epeak when Home had had enough. They were Sens. Albert Gore, Tenn., and Lister Hill, Ala*. both, stout-lunged foes of the President's atomic energy law revision proposals. Gore began speaking at 11:54 a. m. (IDDT). Morse's assistants, operating in relays, kept him supplied with tea. hot water, and notes. The Oregonian, who set a senate record last year when be talked for 22 hours and 26 minutes against the tidelands oil bill, showed no sign of wiKing. Morse took the floor at 5:16 a.tn. (EDT). He eaid- he wasn’t aiming to break his own record, and that be thought he might wind up in six hours or so. The subject up for discussion — as it has been for more than a week dow — is the administration's Mil to revise the nation’s atomic energy law. The talkathon is being waged by those who don't like those tea* tunes of the legislation which would cut private Industry in on government power and atomic secrets. Senate Republican leader William F. Kno wand warned when the senate session began ait 10 a. in. (EDT) Wednesday that he would keep H in continuous session until the revision bill is passed. Just to show he meant it, Knowland had a bunch of cots brought into the senate cloakroom. Attendants said they were well filled during the night, although most senators preferred sleeping oo the softer couches- in tbelr offices. Most of them did manage to get quite a bit of sleeping done, since there were never more than about tour senators on the floor during the overnight debate. However, there were two quorum calls, which required the senate sergeant-at-arms to comb Capitol Hill for snoozing U. S. senators (Tara Ta Face Six) Two Draft Groups Leave This Morning Thirteen Adams county young men left tor Indianapolis today, six for physical examinations and seven for Induction Into the armed forces. The eeven inductees are Loren. David Moser, Thomas Edward Grogg, Ralph John Steffen, Walter r Leßoy Graber, Vtyiyne Yoder, Glen Delbert Strahm and Donald Lee Buman. Those who will take their physical examinations . include Joseph Leo Braun. Norvin Bultemelar, Bdwln Kruackeberg. Jr.. JoM Edward Overholser. Earl DeWayne Baker and Emil Martin Kiefer, Jr.