Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 181, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 181

' t II ■■ ■»■■■■ ■■ » , »l II! ■ „„ Seized As Red By FBI Wwl wrr *' MRS. PATRICIA JULIA BLAU, 42 one of five top Communist party leaders seized by the FBI, confers with her attorney Ben Margolis after her arrest In Los Angdles. Mrs. Blau, described by Federal agents as a Red courier having direct contact with the underground and Moscow, Is charged with, conspiring to violate- the Smith Act by teaching and advocating the violent overcrow of the U. S. government. She is being held In lieu of *29.000 bond despite bitter protest.

Arrest Os ReT Party Leaders Is Continued Two More Held In Denver, Roundup By FBI To Continue DENVER (INS)—The arrest of additional Communist party members looms today In the FBl'* newest crack-down on Red leaders in the L’nited States. Seven alleged Reda have been arrested in the latest roundup. - bringing to UT the number of Cbfhmunista seized under the Smith act since 1949. ' v < AU seven were charged under the act with conepl ring to teach and advocate the violent ow throw of the United States government Special agent Charles Brown, in charge of the Denver FBI office. Identified the two latest persons arrested as Joseph William Scherrer 34, and* hie wife, Maia. 34. Brown said Scherer was arrested Monday at hie home h» Pueblo, Cck>.. and his wife was taken into custody at the Stapleton Municipal Airport In Denver. The FBI man said the Scherrer home was the scene of many Communist party meetings. The Scherrers were arraigned before U. S. commissioner Joseph Nets and remanded to the Denver county jail when they were unable to furnish 1100.000 bond each. Four party leaders arrested In Denver Sunday night also are being held in lieu at >IOO,OOO bond. The seventh alleged Red seized in the roundup, Mrs. Patricia Julia Blau. 42, was held In Loe Angeles jail in lieu of *20,000 bail despite protects that the bond was too high. Mrs. Blau, identified by the FBI as a Red leader, was arrested in Loa Angeles Sunday night. ' She had been arrested* twice previously uii chargee in connection with her alleged Communist activities, but was acquitted both times, she last was changed with harboring Red leaders Robert Thompson and Sidney Steinberg in a mountain hideaway when they were fleeing from authorities. Scherrer waa described by the FBI ee being actively engaged In ('immunise p*rty activities in Pueblo. The FBI identified his wife a* the daughter of a Russian immigrant. a native of Brooklyn and a Communist party worker and leader for more than a decade. The FBI said Mrs. Scherrer wman officer of the Communist political association in Buffalo. N.Y., in 1944 and later worked with the Denver branch of the civil rights ccngreM, listed by the U. S. attorney general as a subversive orgtinization. Federal inveetigators said Mrs Scherrer currently is section organizer of the Communist party tn Pueblo. Scherrer was described as a member of the American Youth lOeaitaaed Ob Pa*e Five) INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy followed by showerg at night, possibly beginning northwest portion In ths afternoon. Warmer southwest portion Wednesday. Low tonight 6M2 north, 62-M south. High Wednesday 80-M rtorthsast, around 90 southwest.

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Petitions Are Filed With County Board Commissioners In Regular Session Two petitions for blacktopping of roads in Adame county and a petition for a closed tile drain affecting a large part of the city of Berne were presented to the Adams county board of commissioners at the regular August ’ meeting Monday afternoon. The drain petition, signed by Sylvan Habegger and others, i would give sewage disposal to about a third of the city of Berne, i The petitioners were represented , by Howard Baumgartner, Berne ■ attorney. it was murw tut a ms monstrance against construction ' of the proposed drain would be * filed In the next few days. At Monday’s session, the commissioners accepted the petition and will aet the matter for hearing at a later date, after time for a remonstrance has elapsed. More than 300 property owners in the south part of the county signed a . petition for the hard surfacing of a stretch of road running east and west for two and a half miles, past the Catholic church in Jefferson township to th4 Ohio state line. The. petition was signed by Dr. M M. Moran, the Rev. Walter R6th, Altha M. Duer and others. More than 20 interested persons were present Monday when the petition was presented to the commissioners. Several spoke In behalf of the proposed project. > The petition was ordered filed and action will be taken at a later date ’ ‘ ~ Another road surfacing petition for a half mile pt black-top just south of Berne, was filed by Ferd Mettler and others. The action was asked to make possible the opening of several acres of land on each side of the proposed ■ road for building lots, it was stated. This petition also wak ordered made a matter of record and. will be called down for action at a later date. The board also voted to raise Lhe price of bogid gnd room* fqr county home residents who draw social security from *l9 a month to *2O a month, effective October 1. George Fosnaugh, county home superintendent, reported that there were 22 male and nine female residents at the present time. Miss Marie Felber, county health nurse, also filed her monthly report. The hoard will meet In special session next Monday to consider the budget for next year. Harry Irwin Heads City School Board Harry Irwin, Decatur public ichool board member, was elected president of that board at the annual reorganization meeting held it Decatur high school Monday night. Irwin succeeds George Heim as president. He is co-owner of Engle and Irwin, Studebaker auto sales agency of thia city. Everett G. Hutker was named secretary of the board for 1954-56 and* Helm was elected treasurer for the one-year period. Following the reorganization of the board, member* studied the proposed budget during the balance of the meeting, the annual budget will be ready for publication later this week, it wm learned.

Ike Maintains Hands-off On Censure Move « ■ .jj 5 ‘ ♦ McCarthy Censure Move Referred To Special Committee ’ WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisen bower maintained a hands-off attitude today toward the question of censuring Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy which, has been referred to a special senate committee. Senate majority leader William P. Know land (R-Calls.) told newsmen after the weekly meeting of GOP legislative leaders* at the White House that Mr. Eisenhower voiced no Criticism of the senate vote which calls for a non-partisan six-man committee to decide the 4fc»ue. , Knowland and house •speaker Joseph W. Martin. Jr., (R-Mass.) both suggested that the senate might have to stay in session after the house ad journs in order to consider any recommendations made by the special group. Concerning the President's reaction, Know land commented: “Hia poritlon has been consistently that it was a matter for the senate to handle and not a matter for the executive department ’to inject itself into.” Subsequently, White House news secretary James C. Hagerty Mid he does not know whether Che chief executive would consider postponing hie vacation until the senate disposes of the censure resolution. Present plane call for Mr. Eisenhower to leave for Colorado around- Aug. 16. Meanwhile, McCarthy hailed the committee proposal, declaring it will give him a chance to show up his crltice m "coneummaLe liurs." t >. Sen. Ralph Flanders (ft-Yt. I author of the original resolution to eensure McCarthy, Mid the senate's action represented a ’great gain over what the situation was ten days ago.” But he warned that a hasty report by the special committee would "only result in a whitewash” of McCarthy. Opponents differed over the action taken by the senate after three days of turbulent, namecalling debate. Flanders voted against it, but Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.) another bitter McCarthy opponent, supported ft. The climax to the first attempt in 25 years to censure a senator came Monday night when the senate voted 75 to 12 to have a special committee of three _ Republicans and three Democrats investigate and report back its recommendation on whether McCarthy should be condemned. The resolution by senate Republican leader William F. Knowland directs the committee, which will be apppointed by Vice President R.cLard M. Nixon, to complete its work before the senate adjourns “sine die.” Knowland said be thought the committee would be appointed in 4X hours, but said he did not know it a report could be made by the time congress expects to quit, or if i> special fall session of the senate will be needed to pass upon the censure recommendation.

All Os Townships In Slate Reclassified Blue Creek Lowered One Classification INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — State examiner R. r. Wickersham announced today that the state board of accounts has reclassified all townships in Indiana as required every four years. The new classifications are effective, Jan. 1, 1956. y. Seventy per cent of the classification is based on population of* the township, and 10 per cent each on valuation, number of teaching units and area. Townships are divided into 1* classes with the class!fixation determining the salary, clerical help and expense, and township office rent permitted the township trustee. Salary of a township trustee runs from 16.000 a year In Center township, of Marlon county, the only class 1 township In Indiana, to 1960 a year in the 131 class 10 townships. There are 1,009 townships in Indiana, LaPorte county with 21 has the most while Blackford end Ohio counties share the least title with four each. (Tara ra rate rtves

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 3, 1954.

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Giant Atomic Power Station Is Proposed Proposal Urged As — Step For Breaking Congress Deadlock WASHINGTON (INB)—A giant power station that would generate 250,099 kilowatts of electricity a fifth as much as Hoover Dam on the Colorado River — was urged today as a step toward breaking the congressional deadlock on the atomic energy bill. The new proposal, which might satisfy both sides in the heated controversy that caused a twoweek senate filibuster, is to be given further consideration by house-senate conferees in all-day sessions. The conferees, seeking to reconcile house and senate differences, reached no agreement in two three-hour sessions Monday. Failure to agree on a unanimous compromise report could delay adjournmwot of congress. Rep. W. Sterling Cole (R N. Y.) and Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) majority and minority leaders of the atomic committee who are also oh the conference group, said the proposal for one “demonstration” atomic plant offers the best hope of agreement so far.

The hope is that the compromise can be worded to satisfy both those who believe the atomic energy commission should be kept out of the utility business and those who contend the government should assure development of bigscale peacetime power, >, The AEC is already building a 60,000-kilowatt generating furnace at Pittsburgh. But it is believed that to compete successfully on a cost- basis with conventional fuels atomic power stations will have to be about four times as large. Second Protest Is Sent To Red China Second Protest On Airjiner Shooting WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretory of state John poster Dulles reported today that the U. S. has sent a second protest to the Communist Chinese government over the shooting down of a British airliner off Hainan island with a loss of three American lives. Last week, the U. S. through the British charge d’affaires at Peiping sent the Red regime a strong-ly-worded note of protest over the al; Incident. They also sent a note protesting a Red fighter plane attack on U. S. aircraft aiding in. the search for the victims of’the airliner. Dulles said he could not make the details of the latest protest public because the note has not yet been delivered. Violate Armistice WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state’ John Foster Dulles \juyged today the Communists have violated the Korean armistice in several ways but said that as far as he knew there were no violations serious enough to warrant resumption of the fighting. He said that the U. S. would fgvor the dissolution of the neutral nations supervisory commission because he said at present it provides Communist Czechs and Poles opportunity to carry on activities in South Korea which are not consistent with the armistice agreement. The secretary said the Swedes and Swiss who serve on the commission with the Czechs. Poles and Indians, .have indicated groat dissatisfaction with the conditions CfrMa Te Page Sts)

Doctors Pronounce Dr. Sheppard 0. K. Four Top Cleveland Physicians In Exam CLEVELAND (INS) — Four top Cleveland doctors agreed today there. lt. ''nothing seriously wrong” medically with Dr. Sam Sheppard, the"young-osteopath accused of savagely slaying his pregnant wife. “Dr. Sam" was spirited away from his jail cell Monday night ans submitted under protest to a thorough medical examination at City hospital. The purposes of the exam: 1— -To investigate the condition of a neck injury tt|e prisoner claims to have suffered in fighting off an “intruder” the night his wife, Marilyn, was bludgeoned to death. 2— To determine his present state Os health, so defense attorneys can not claim he was manhandled during police questioning about the July 4 murder. The handsome neurosurgeon virtually was carried out of Cuyahoga county jail Monday night and rushed by police car to the hospital, where be was examined Jay three pbOMclans and Dr. Spencer Braden, famed brain specialist. His attorney, William J. Corrigan, j immediately protested to sheriff Joseph Sweeney and demanded that Sheppard be returned immediately. Sheppard, on the advice of Corrigan. had refused medical examination last Saturday morning, the (T«rn T» l*aae Three)

White House Denies New Draft Program Reserve Officers Demand Build-up BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) —De'fense secretary Charles E. Wilson declared today that the present reserve system would be "aacandal” If the United States became involved in a war and said there must be compulsory service in the reserves. Wilson said that the plan to eet up a three million man reserve to back a three million man active armed force, advocated by former assistant secretary John A. Hannah, was "accepted in a broad sense but ’subject to detail." been offered. WASHINGTON (INS) — The White House has denied that it has approved a new draft program requiring military and subsequent reserve duty for every able-bodied American youth. A reserve officers association spokesman, meanwhile, demanded that the armed forces start building a three million-man reserve under existing law without any long wait for new legislation. Presidential news. «/cre ta r j James C. Hagerty declared Monday that no.plan for4a universal draft and compjilsory reserve, outlined by a retiring Pentagon official, had been approved and re-' fused to say whether it was even under consideration. John A. Hannah, Michigan State College president who left his post Saturday as assistant defense secretary in charge of manpower, told a farewell news conference that the new draft — reserve program would be submitted to congress next January. Hannah reported that it had already been cleared by the national security council — President Elsenhower's top planning group on defense strategy. „ Hagerty, while apparently reluctant to contradict Hannah, said the entire manpower problem bad been referred by the security council to the office of defense mobilization and the defense department for full study.

Uneasy Peace Settling Over Guatemala City Truce Between Two Anti-Red Factions Reached Last Night GUATEMALA CITY (INS) — An uneasy peace settled today over Guatemala City, bloody fighting between the regular army and Carlos Castillo Armas “liberation” troops left a reported 100 persons dead. A truce between the two antiCommunist factions was reached Monday night after intermittent clashes from dawn to dusk. The shooting began early in morning when cadets from the Guatemalan military academy attacked a group of recently arrived "liberation” troops on the grounds of the Roosevelt hospital in the southwestern section of the • city. The cadets claimed they were 1 fighting for the, “honor" of the army, aad the army soon came to their aftf with mortart nd tanks. The truce provided for dissolution of the “liberation army" which Castillo Armas organized for his successful uprising last month against the Communist-dominated government of former President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. Castillo Armas is president of the military junta which has ruled Guatemala since the Red-backed regime was ousted and peace restored. The cease-fire, arranged by Roman Catholic Archbishop Mariano Roesell Avellano with the aid of U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoyr was announced in an army communique. *4-1 ' ,

The, military high’’-’command promised subordination to the Junta under provisional President Castillo Armas, but praised the "glorious polytechnic military school and all its valiant sons" for defending the army's honor. The truce also provided that there be no reprisals against the cadets who set off the uprising. Lake County Reports Initial Polio Death CARY. Ind. (IN) —Fitteen-year-old James Ye>tee, of Lowell, died in Cary Methodist hospital of what has been diagnosed as polio. We is the froimAolio in county Reported thlltyear. * V •——»■ - Burket Twin Dies Suddenly Monday Funeral Services Thursday Morning Lowell Burket, io • week -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Burket, 1102 Cottage Ave., Fort Wayne, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart W. McMillen of Valley Farms, died unexpectedly at 2:30 p.m. Monday in Lutheran hospital. Fort Wayne. Survivors besides the parents and mattrnal grandparents Include a twin sister, Llxbeth, and another sister, Leslie, the paternal grandfather, F. C. Burket, Union, Ky., and the great-grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Dale W. McMillen, Fort Wayne. , The body Is at the Gets and Cahill funeral home, where friends, who are asked to flowers, may call after 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Services will be held at the funeral home Thursday at 10 a.m., with ths Rev. William J. Hanuum, of the First Presbyterian “church, officiating. Interment will be In Lindenwood cetpstery.

County's 4-H Fair Opens This Morning Opens Today Despite Monday Night Rain The Adams county 4-H fair started promptly today despite fains last nlgh-t which drenched the field. Paul Zurche-, Arthur Rrudenbush, and Homer Winteregg helped put a pump to work draining the field, and several loads of corn cobs and dust filled in the low places in the fiMd. All exhibits in the school and in the many tents on the field were covered during the rain. First event of the fair was the judging of the handicraft exhibits ou the second floor of the Moni*oe school. Sixty-eight .exhibits in three classes were shown. M. L. Moake, Allen county recreation director, started judging the handicraft exhibits at 10:30 this met ning. Dallas Neuenschwander, Roger Koenetmm. Carl Bluhm, Ralph Busse, Herb Morbach, and Ronald Stucky helped put up the cattle and pig pens yesterday. Several large tents have been set up to hcuse the many animals, which started arriving at 7 this morning. Michael Lehman was the first to arrive with his Guernsey calf. Excitement at the chicken- and rabbit tent occurred when a pheasant got away from Kent Girod of the Preble Happy Warriors. Kent was pretty disappointed, but a few minutes later Herman Bittnes came up with the bird under his arm—he had caught it in a nearby fence row. Kent is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Girod, of near Magley. Martin Watson and Ray Shanding worked all day yesterday decorating the small building south of the Monroe school for the electric projects. Over 100 projects will be exhibited there

I during the fair. t The sdll conservation and wild . life tent is under the direction of . Gordon Adamson, Adams Central farm veterans instructor. The tent will be filled with interesting exhibits by this afternoon. Everett Rice reported that the dairy tent, of which he has charge, is already almost full of calves. The deadline for bringing calves to the tent is 7 o’clock this evening. Several crews of Adams county ladies under the direction of Mrs. R. C. Hereh, Mrs. Clarence Mftch(CMtlneed Oa >*a*r Five) Smith On 40th Year As Rural Carrier ad Six Rural Routes Total 394.1 Mile* Ray Smith, well known Decatur postal employe, has completed 39 years of service as a rural mail carrier and started Monday on hie 40th year. Smith is the oldest carrier In length of service at the Decatur office. There are now six rural routes out of the local office. Rural route number one. which until the middle of last month was the longest route in the Decatur system with 74 miles, was reduced to 68 miles. The six miles were added to other routes. Hurbert Zerkel is the route one carrier. A>t the present time the six local routes total 394,1 miles. The mileage is divided as follows: , Route 1, 68.2 miles; route two. 71.7 miles; route three, 67 miles; route four, 60.4 miles; route five, 64.1 miles and route six, 62.2 miles. Rural box holders total 1,767 and they are divided as follows: Route one, 285; route two 283; route three, 309; route four, 257; ropte five, 380 and route six, 293. It was pointed out that while there are only 1,767 box holders, Uwe are 1,811 families receiving service. This U because tn 111 in- < stanceb two on more families! get tihelr mail at one rural box.

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French Liner Crashes Today In Connecticut 28 Passengers, Baby And Citw Os Eight Escape From Crash I *' BULLETIN NEW fORK (IN) —A jetfighter crashed today into a ■ rgw of house* at suburban Wantagh, near New York City on Long Island's south shore. • The Wantagh fire department said the crash touched 1 off a blaze in the town’s residential section and that fire 1 departments from four neighboring communities were rac1 ing to the scene. A spokesman said "ambulr ances are taking out the Jn- ‘ jured" but he could give no count of Injuries or fatalities. - ■ •• 1 " NORWICH, Conn. (INS) -An • Air France Constettotion airplane, 1 bound from Parte to New York, • with 28 paaMOgers, Ar;«i»by, aud a crew of eight, crash-landed near . Noifich today and burst into flames after (hose aboard escaped. ’ The plane had been scheduled to land at Idlewild airport. New York, at 8:15 a. m. EDT. The scene of the craeh was H milee east of Norwich and 40 miles west of New London. The huge aircraft apparently* hho been experiencing trouble and M*e. Elizabeth Bennett, who reported the crash to Connecticut state police at the Oroton barracks, said she saw pieces of the plane falling a» it skimmed ore? her farmhouse. ; Mrs. Bennett eaid she wae at work in the kitchen of her home grhen she heard the thunderous roar of the low flying plane. Rhe rushed from her house to the highway and sew the big aircraft heading directly toward the farmhouse. She said* ft skimmed the rooftop, Juet missed a garage behind the house and then gained some altitude and circled twice around, the field in the rear of the buildings. “I could see small pieces failing from the plane,” she said. "A piece of the propeller landed In the front yard.” The transatlantic airliner glided tc the ground, bounced high in the air end then came down again with a craeh. Mrs. Bennett said she could see P&wengers pouring from the door of the plane after the crash. She rushed into her home and telephoned etate police and the tire department. Meanwhile, private cars stopped U'MtlnoM Os Page Five) Benefit Auction Sale On Saturday Afternoon, Night Beginning Wednesday afternoon, the Den, 121 '.Madison St., will be open each afternoon and evening and all day Saturday, where merchandise and articles for the Reppert auction student eale, sponsored by St. Mary's parish, can •be delivered. The second annual benefit eale be conducted Saturday by the studentp c* the Reppert school of auctioneering, under the direction of Col. Quentin Chaffee, dean of the school. Student* will start selling at 2 p. m., followed by an evening evasion at 7 p. m. The platform will be located in front of the Reppert office oniMadteoh street. Much merchandise luis already been donated for the sale. Mrs. William Kohne, ohalriMn of the gift committee, stated. The sale •will be continued Monday evening, if all the merchandise te not sold Saturday. .