Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1954 — Page 1

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Federal Agents Uncover Dope Ring >u' 1 atPrl A1 ■ a jm BpilmL' I r BBldPtl k kBHRr B tinaW/ **jr jwlh .W&T ■ «cs> VwlVuißrf v»l r« < U a - 'lrn Ml \»i ’ bSuJI GrJpW*‘ >£■ MhL &. ,yg-a»y FOURTEEN “VICE PRESIDENTS” of a nationwide wholesale dope syndicate that did a yearly business of more than 130,000,000 have been arrested by Federal Agents In New York. Here, James> C. Ryan (left) district supervisor of the bureau of narcotics. White Plains, N. Y., police chief William A. Sullivan and deputy sheriff John McCarthy look over a table covered with heroin and other drugs seized in a series of raids in the New York area.

Senate Passes Bill Outlawing Red Party Here Surprise Move Is Facing Uncertain Fate Before House WASHINGTON (INS) — A surprise congressional move to outlaw the Communist party in the-United States faced an uncertain fate in the house today despite its unanimous approval by the senate. • Democrats, who moved into the forefront in demanding legislation declaring the Communist party illegal, and a Republican house leader agreed that there were several blocks tn the way of, final approval of the measnrw. * - -—- Rep. Harrison William* Jr., (N. J.) announced he would introduce a bill outlawing the Communist party Monday and at the same time charged that the administration is attempting to sidetrack it. However, Rep. Chauncey Reed (R Ill.), house judiciary chairman said his group would have to approve the legislation and added that he would have, to consult with other house leaders before any action is taken. Attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr., testified against the proposal last spring before a house judiciary subcommittee, contending such a move would drive the Reds underground. The bill, approved 85 to 0 by the senate, would outlaw any organizations seeking to overthrow the U.S. government. It would apply to any group created to succeed the Communist party itself. Under the measure, members of the Communist party who commit any act to carry out its purposes would be subject to five years in jail and (10.000 fine. Tied into the measure are. provisions to deny bargaining rights to any Communist-dominated union or business, and to prohibit Communists from holding office in any labor organization.. The labor provisions also complicate the outlook in the house. The house judiciary committee has tabled a bill calling for authority to abolish, In effect. Red-infiltrated unions. However, a separate bill to outlaw the paity has been approved by a house judiciary subcommittee aud is now pending in the full judiciary committee. In the senate debate, the question of the constitutionality of outlawing the party was raised Brownell has noted that this question exists pending a supreme court ruling. The senate bill provides the fine and imprisonment for anyone who “knowingly, wilfully and intention ally becomes or remains" a member of the Communist party or similar organizations and “commits any act designed to carry into effect “the purposes" of such groups. As finally approved by the senate, the bill Is a far cry from the original administration measure which waii aimed only at banning bargaining rights for. Red-infiltra-ted unions, ‘ Eighteen Democrats and Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind. Ore.), offered the substitute providing tor outlawing of the party. The bill still bears, however, the name of Sen. John Marshall Butler (R Md), who sponsored the original antl-Red union measure.

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Emergency March - Os Dimes Drive Detailed Plans Os Drive Aug. 16-31 With polio incidence mounting throughout the nation and March o* Dimes funds exhausted, the citizens of Adame county are rallying in support of the emergency March of Dimes, Lyle Mallonee and M. J. Pryor, co-directors of the campaign, declared today. Mallonee and Mrs. Ralph Hobbs, county chairman of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralyels. announced that Mrs. Harold Owens. of Monmouth, has been appointed Xp sell tickets in her area for the March of Dimes dance August 25 at Sunset Park. Also appointed was Mrs. Roy Price, Wash-' incton township. Volunteers have addressed , 8,sW)jt letters. under the direetlpn of Mrs. Hobbs, which will be matted to every home in the county on Monday. The letters are a convenient. wxiy of contributing to the emergency March of Dimes, and will be mailed to the county treasurer of the fund. Herman Krueckeberg, at the First State Bank of Decatur. John Porter, of Berne, was appointed to help Roger Augsburger. as co-chairmen of the March of Dimee in Berne. Mrs. Thurman Baker has been named chairman for Geneva. March oi vimes cannisiers will be distributed to merchants of Decatur, Berne, and Geneva. Mallonee, said. The local drive starts Monday, and will last until August 31. Mallonee pointed out that it will be necessary to raise Tn Adams county to pay the county's ehare in the national drive. If $20,000,000 is not raised throughcut the country, either the polio patient care plan, or the gamma globulin and vaccine Tfleld trials, will have to be cancelled. MatIcnee said. Last January the March of Dimes raised only $55,Q00.000 of an estimated $75,000,000 necessary to carry on the two-point polio program. This lias necessitated the drive to raise an additional $20,0(H).000, so that the program will not lag. Adame county’s share in the two-point program is only $2,000. Mallonee pointed out. and one-third of that money staye here in the county to help local patients. Additional funds may be obtained from the Nationol Foundation in case of an epidemic, as has been necessary occasionally in the past. Mallonee eaid. “The emergency March of Dimea must succeed. The thousands who are seriously, disabled end now depend upon their fellow Americans' generosity constitute a public trust that must be fulfilled,” Mallonee said. Rev. Ray J. Walther Is Rotary Speaker The (Rev. Ray J. Walther, pastor of the First Presbyterian church in this cWy, an the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. Wilbur Petrie was chairman of the program. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair north, partly cloudy south, warmer, tonight and Saturday except little change In temperature , extreme southwest tonight. Low tonight 55-82. High Saturday 8047.

Firestone Co. Is Struck In Wage Dispute Over 25,000 Strike At Firestone Plants Throughout Nation By International News Service Some 25,500 CIO rubber workers struck today against the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. in e wage dispute while Studebaker auto workers voted to take a pay cut to save their jobs. These two developments headed a list of important settlements and disputes on the labor front ftom coast to coast. The rubber workups walked out 4>t one mftrate pa«t midnight in eight cities. They join 23,000 Goodyear workers who have heen out since July 7th. making a total of 48.000 rubber workers now on strike. Company and union representatives continued negotiations in Cleveland right up to the time of the strike but reported they w’ere just as far apart as ever. The union seeks 10 cents hourly pay increases. The company has offered she cents. Akron. Ohio, was hardest hit by the walkout. Nine thousand Firestone workers are employed in the plant there, and 13,000 Goodyear employes already were out in the city. Other plants idled by the walkout ere located in Noblesville and Newcastle. Ind.; Fall River, Mass. Memphis, Ten®.; Pottstown. Pa., and Loe Angeles. In other developments on the labor front: 1. American Airlines, whose planes sere grounded by a pilots strike, announced in New York that all employes “including management” would be cut off the payroll by Aug. 16 unless the pilots' strike is ended. The strike by 1,200 fliers started July 30 in a dispute over the scheduling of transcontinental flights which required more than eight hours o. consecutive flying. 2. The railroad yandmasters o America accepted increases paralleling those agreed upon earlier by trainmen, conductors, firemen switchmen and dispatchers. 3? New YoFk City’s milk supply Was threatened by the strike of 400 drivers of milk tank truck? based at Orange County. N Y. AFL Teamsters president Dav* Beck said it was not an authorized strike. Auction Graduate Exercises Today Students and Instructors of the Reppert school of auctioneering began to leave Decatur today, follow ing the graduation’exerclsea In the K. of P. home early thia afternoon which ended a three-week session. r A few of the auctioneers will be here until tomorrow but motit of them will have gone by this evening. One student, A. G. Williamson, who is on a spacial leave from Air Force Base in Virginia, will leave from Fort Wayne on a B-29 plana being sent here from the base. This summer's group of 86 student auctioneers represented 24 ■tatee and two provinces of Canada Youngest of the group was an 11-year-old boy and oldest was a 64-year-old man.

— ■ Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 13, 1954.

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Byrd Opposes Permanent Hike In Debt Limit ? Virginia Senator Deciares Nation Is Mortgaged To Hilt WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.), declared today that the nation is “mortgaged to the hilt” and that there should be no permanent increase in the public debt above the prELent 275 billion dollar ceiling. Byrd warned l againet continued deficit spending as the senate began debate on the bill to boost the debt ceiling temporarily by six billion dollars, with a provision cutting it back to 275 billion next June 30. This is a compromise plan approved by the senate finance committee by a vote of nine to six. The administration had asked for a 15 billion dollar permanent increase in the debt ceiling. Byrd agreed to the temporary six billion boost, pointing out that It is necessary because the next’ five months are a lean period for federal tax collections. He added: that the first half of each year is a period of receipts. He' declared that, even aseumIng the govenment has a $4,400,000,000 deficit in the current fiscal year, it should be able to stay within the 275 billion limit and still have a six billion' leeway in remainng borrowng authority and money In the bank. The Virginian emphasized, however. that the present federal debt, which is close to the ceiling. is nearly two and one-half times the combined debts of 12 European countries, most of which are receiving aid from the U. S. He declared that the present debt “is equivalent to the full value of all the land, all the buildings, al the mines, all the machinery, all of the livestock—everything of tangible value -r in the United States.” To Build Driveways For Church Parking Improve Parking At St. Mary's Church ..A Driveways to the parking lot on Lhe north side of new St. Mary's church will be constructed from Fourth and Fifth streets, the Very Rev. Megr. J. J. Seimetz, pastor,, explained today as work proceeded in razing the parsonage from the site. The driveways will be on church property, connecting with ‘he streets, leaving the alley between the Catholic school and ch-urch grounds as an additional traffic lane. The east boundary of the driveway will be set back to conform with tiie church property line on Fourth street. The lawn will be extended in this area. The west boundary will be the driveway to the garage in connection with the rectory. The parking lot also will lie used as a playgrounds for children of the Catholic school. The school iz on the north side of the alley. Tbe area will be black-topped ■nd construction of the pavement will be done by Baker and Schultz, local contractors. Work on demolishing the two Uory brick parwonage building Is being done by the Martin Wrecking Co., of Fort Wayne. Much of the brick and uitsalvaged material will he used to fill the basement under tbe house. Megr. Seimetz said he hoped to have the parking end playground area completed for the opening of school next month.

Disqualifies Barber in Sheppard Hearing Bay Village Council Head Is Disqualified BULLETIN CLEVELANO(SNO)— Bay Village Mayor J. Spencer Houk was picked up by Cleve- , land police today for question- >. jng in connection with the j July Fourth murder of Marilyn Sheppard. Police chief Frank Story said that the mayor, a butcher by trade, la undergoing his third hour of questioning by- - investigators. CqSVELAND (INS) —Suburban Bay Village council president Gersfrotn Barber was disqualified today as magistrate for the preliminary hearing of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, who is accused of hacking his wife to death on July 1 Fourth. Common Plede Judge Frank J. 'Merrick, who made the ruling, transferred the hearing to the common pleas court of Judge William K. Thomas, who immediately announced that the hearing would be held Monday at 9:15 a. tn. Judge Merrick's decision upholds an affidavit of prejudice filed by William Corrigan, chief counsel for the 30-year-old osteqtMrth, who had charged that Berber .was "biased and prejudiced.’ Judge Merrick, in handing down the non-appealahle decision, said: • -Barber, the magistrate, had an 1 opinion in the case which would 1 require .some evidence to dislodge.” Judge Thomas immediately cleared his calendar and called a closed meeting of attorneys in the case for this afternoon to discuss the case. in the preliminary hearing, the state will attempt to show prob(Coatlaa*4 Page Twb) Five Convicts In Escape From Prison Rookie Guard Taken Along As Hostage NORFOLK, Mass, (INS) — Starch for five convictw who fled from Norfolk prison colony with a guard-hostage centered in the city of Pawtucket, R. 1., today when their getaway sedan was found almndoned at a nearby cemetery. Two of the desperadoes, who broke out —a repeat performance by four of the quintet — were known to have friends in the Rhode Island city. Cordons of Pawtucket, Providence, Central Falls and' other police threw up road blocks around the city of Pawtucket and possible hideouts were searched. The abandoned car was owned by Walter D. DeAdder, 26. the rookie hostage-guard. A Rhode Is land registered blue sedan with plates 949 was reported stolen a quarter of a mile away. Frank B. Coughlin. superintend ent of tike prhtou colony, eaid four ot the escapees planned a break last week using him us a hoetage. Coughlin said that plot, was discovered. Hundreds of police in the six New England states Were on or ders to "shoot 'to kill”. Massachusetts officials used TV facilities to broadcast photographs and descrlptfone of Hie escapees and ta> sue an appeal to citizens to ata tew enforcement officers by reporting promptly if they see the escapees. -- , HoMage-guard beAdder. fathw o' a baby girl, had been on duty for only three months. The break wae the second at Norfolk In three months. Master mind of the break was Ruasdfl T. Halliday, 25. of Cambridge, serving 12 to 15 years on a charge of assault with intent to kill a policeman. Halliday virtually was in control of the prison during the half-hour before be and four others. all of whom took part In the break lam May 25, walked out th* gate.

Federal Juiy Convicts Nine Alleged Reds Nine Philadelphia Communists Found Guilty By Jurors uN.,» — A federal jury today convicted' nine alleged I'hiludelphla Communists on charges on conspiring to teach and advocate the overthrow of the government by force and violence. The jury of five> men and eeven women, which deliberated since noon yesterday, returned the verdiet to Judge J. Cullen Gauey. They heard 47 days of testimony In the trial which was the longest in the history of the federal court In Philadelphia.' Convicted were David Davis, 46; Joseph Kuzma. 41; Sherman Laboms, 29; Thomas Nabried, 51; Benjamin, Weiss, 39; Irving Katz, 35; Robert Kloneky. 35; Walter Lcwenfels, 56. and Joseph Robert's 44. Counsel for the defense demanded that the jurors be polled, and each one pronounced the verdict of “guilty" In a strong voice under the impassive stares of the defendants. Judge Oaney in accordance with a request by defense counsel * Thomae Mcßride set Aug. 23 as the date to hear arguments on a 1 motion for a new trial. I He then thanked the jurors and ■ dismissed them, and continued the 210,000 ball for each of the defend- ■ ants except Kuzma and Klonsky, I who have been under $20,000 ball, i The jury had bean locked up . since noon Thursday and extra precautions were taken during the , night to prevent them from learn- . Ing that the senate had passed a measure outlawing the Communist party. They began their deliberations with the warning from Judge Ganey that: “The charge made against the defendants here in the bill of indictment strikes directly ait the heart and vitals of sovereignty as well as to the orderly process of change provided within the constitution of the United States." The defendants each face a maximum penalty of five years' in prison and-or a 110.000 fine. Their convictions came a few weeks more than a year after they were arrested in a series of surprise raids by FBI agents last summer. tCeatlnooa Oa Pa*r Five) Annual G. E. Picnic Scheduled Aug. 21 Family Picnic Is Slated At Sunset The Decatur General Electric club family picnic bos been scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 21, at Sunset Park. Oran Bdhultz Is serving as general chairman of the picnic which is an annual affair In charge of food and drinks ore Jay Moser. Harriet Pollock and J. K. Eady. Entertainment Is being planned by Rosemary Miller, C. Snell and J. J. Baker, Herman Keller is in charge of arrangements. The board of directors, headed by Francis Eady, will again serve as the welcoming and registration committee. A box lunch will be served at 11’30 with huge quantities of hot dogs and Ice cream. A special ''and will be erected to dispense pop and popsicles. Prizes valued ai(,.jpore than s<>2s will be Awarded to contest winners and door and registration winners. Among the already scheduled events ore Kenny Maines pony rides, and the mwdust scramble. Schults ba* Indicated that he Is planning on an atteodenca of over 2,000 and that he expect* this program to be the biggest end best since the affair was begun.

— *■ ■' _ . ■ ... - - Senate To Pay For McCarthy Attorney Will Pay Cost Os Defense Attorney WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy won his fight today to have the Senate pay the costs of bis defense counsel at the forthcoming hearings on’“misconduct" charges filed against him. Chairman Arthur V. Watkins (R I Utah), said the expenses will be $ paid out of the $30,000 the senate I voted his special six-man commit i tee for the probe. s He originally Had platjued to ask . $20,000 but upped this to $30,000 t after his unit decided to help Me- > Carthy with legal fees. McCarthy - had said he would not have an attorney unless the senate paid the coSt. Watkins said be expects his committee will hire as a member of its staff an attorney designated by McCarthy and then assign the lawyer to the Wisconsin Republican. He said this procedure has the approval of senate GOP leader William F. Knowland, Calif., and 1 Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson Tex., as well as senate rules ' chairman William E. Jenner (R Ind.) ; Edward B, Williams, a Washington attorney, has represented McCarthy in libel suits and may 1 be the senator’s choice tor the ! inquiry. j Watkins said he doubts that th* j investigation will review a report by the Washington Evening Stai j to the effect that the internal rev f enue service may soon bill Me- . Carthy for $25,000 in back taxes and interest. McCarthy charged that the story > was a "complete and vicious libel." > He added: “there has been no in- • dication by anyone in internal rev- ' enue that I owed a dollar. In fact, i there is strong indication that 1 ■ may be entitled to a rebate, which was overcharged under the last ‘ administration." Other developments involviug ( McCarthy: 1. Informed sources said the Mc- , Carthy investigations subcommit- . tee will start a new probe of Com- - rnunist infiltration ot the army after the Mundt committee Issues its report on the army-McCarthy z hear(Tara Te Fas* Sis) Foreign Aid Bill Up To Eisenhower Bill Is Compromise By Senate, House WASHINGTON (INS) —The sen ate has passed on to President Elsenhower another ot the Rems on the administration's "must" llet-a measure approving a three billion, 54 and one half million dollar foreign aid program for the current fiscal year. The final bill, passed by* a senate voicy vote late Thursday night, represents a compromise worked out by senate-house conferees. It allows -$814,040,000 more than the senate initially provided and only slightly less than the three billion, 100 million dollar over seas assistance program original ly requested by the administration. The measure merely authorizes the foreign military and economic aid program. Another bill giving the President money to carry out the specific projects for the current fiscal year is still pending in congress. The bouse has approved an approp lat ion bill allowing the actual spending of two bllloln, 896 million dollars and the senate appropriations committee raised the amount to two billion, 991 millions. At one time th* senate cut a half billion dollars from the authorisation measure but, shortly after President Elsenhower told a new* conference that the slash was too deep, th* conference committee rstord 314 million dollar*.

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Three Negroes In Holdup Al Andrews Base t « Eight Employes And r Customers Herded Into Bank's Vault it. e WASHINGTON (INS) —Three e gunmen ■ bandits held up a bank t- at Andrews air force base today and escaped With $137,000 after k locking Cour customers, and four 0 employes ini the vault. The bold daylight robbery occury red- at the air base branch office i of the First National Bank c< f» Southern Maryland. The FBI reported that three Ne- • groes, all ot them well dressed f and armed, entered the ■ bank i shortly after it opened at 9 a.m. • EDT. They produced pistols and herd--9 ed the eight employes and cusr tomers into the vault at the rear I of the premises and locked them. • in. The bandit trio then scooped 9 up money from cashier cages ih < the bank and mode their getaway. '■ D. K. Brown, special FBI agent II in charge ot the Baltimore office, y issued 'the following descriptions * 6 of the three holdup men who are the object of an intensive police 0 search: 1 1. Colored male, 179 pounds, six r feet, two inches tall, dark brown complexion, gray rayon three- > button Jacket, blue slacks, carries a German luger. 2. Colored mole, 5 fem, 6 inchi' *s tall, 140 pounds, medium brown complexion, blue slacks, Mulsh- '• bown checked jacket, sun glass- - es, brown brief case, armed. , 3. Colored male. 140 pounds, 1 stocky and very short, five test, i two inches tall, medium brown t complexion, brown coat, sun glasses, 45-callbre nickel ■ plated : automatic. Brown eaid a re-check by bonk - employes showed a total of $137.- - 000 was missing. He said that when the bandits - left the scene, a Negro woman i was seen in the getaway car. FBI - agents said they had no description of the make and color of the automobile and no. definite leads ar. to the direction the trio took In their escape. The adjutant's office at the base reported that the eight employee and customers were confined hi the vault for about 19 minutes. They freed themselves from the inside by means of a special escape release mechanism. They immediately summoned air force police. The adjutant's office promptly began an inventory of the bank's funds and reported thart the loss is “apparently over $89,999.” FBI agents in Baltimore immediately entered the case and began intensive questioning of the eight employee and customers. The agents Initially estimated the loot at $160,000. PoHce authorities in Washington. Maryland and Virginia were alerted and a'fi intensivs search was under way. . Maryland -state police threw up a network of road blocks in the vicinity of the base in the hope of halting the getaway' ■ ' * I't Jefferson G|ub To Hear Vice-Wnairman Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, of Geneva, Democratic county vicechairman. will speak on "Women In the election campaign” next Monday night at the monthly meet- ' hig of the Jefferson club at Coie pess Corner at 7:30 p, m. The Jefferson club, a monthly Democratic dinner club, was founded last December hy Democrats who were Interested In meeting together socially throughout the year, Gerald “Doc" Visard, club president, explained. All Democcrats ar* Invited to the meeting, he added.