Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 195.

Marks Historic First For Negro Race 1 ~ — ' -..-WWW ■ \ • sh ...... ■ ■ -■ ■ IMP - v j I aßb mtw ~ jJMfi 11 I I X | TaloL '' # * I B ®!MB *** v MARKING THE FIRST participation by a Negro In a presidential cabinet meeting, dignitaries at the White House surround James Ernest Wilkins, assistant labor secretary who attended in the absence ot labor secretary James Mitchell. In the group are (1. to r.): postmaster general Arthur Summerfield; Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary of health, education and welfare; attorney general Herbert Brownell; Wilkins and vice president Richard M. Nison.

Two Barns Are Destroyed In Severe Storm

Two barns in Adams county and two tn nearby counties were destroyed by lightning in two violent storms Wednesday morning and Wednesday night. The same storms brought 2.10 inches of rainfall within 24 hours and raised St. Mary’s river from 2.10 feet to 7.45 feet. Blakey Farm Lightning struck a barn on the John W. Blakey farm northeast ot Decatur on state highway 101 at 8 p m. Wednesday, completely destroying the barn, its contents, a nearby, hen house and a woodshed. About $25,000 worth of farm produce. equipment and buUdings was lost in the fire. Blakey, aformer county commissioner, said that it was only partially insured. Also destroyed by the fire were three head of cattle, 600 bushels of wheat. too bushels of oats, 25 tons of hay, five tons of straw, a wagon and rack, a grain elevator,, a hen houtNkaud 100 chickens and a wood shed. The storm also wiped out the partial repair of another small building which was badly damaged in the severe windstorm several weeks ago. The Blakey house was from the intense heat but it W not burn. Decatur fireman and neighbors battled for three hours to put out the expensive blase. Deputy sheriff Merle Affolder and the Info police directed traffic on 101. New Barn Destroyed A new barn, only five years old, on the Frank Braun farm on route four south of Decatur, was completely consumed by flames after lightning, struck at about 2 a.m. today. Damage rap into thousands of dollars as farm produce and equipment went up in smoke. Lost in the fire were 500 bushels of wheat. 150 bushels of oats, several tons of baled hay, a combine, a tractor,' a digger and a corn planter. One end of a garage was slightly scorched. \ Decatur firemen were called and. with the assistance of neighbors. were able to douse the fire in about two hours. Most of the loss was covered by insurance. Other Fires A barn on the Ben Chileote Jr farm, three-fourths of a mile east of Glenmore, 0., was struck by lightning at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. It was a complete loss but no estimate was made on the damage. A tractor was taken from the harn but other farm equipment including a new grain drill and combine was destroyed. Some hay and straw was also consumed in the fire. Another lightning-caused fire near Monroeville destroyed a barn on the Frank Girardot farm at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday. About |2.000 worth of hay and farm machinery was lost and the estimated value of the barn was ft sß.ooo. The loss was partially covered by Insurance. Heavy Rain With the dstructlve lightning came heavy rain. According to Herman "Hi" Meyer, weather observer, .78 inches of rain fell Wednesday morning and 1.32 inches came down Wednesday night and early Thursday morning. The river. which has risen over five feet, ia still rising, he said. Charles Ehlnger of the Citisens (CsstlaarS Oa Pa«« Five)

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Government To Ask Indictment Os Lattimore Federal Grand Jury Ta Study Purported New Red Evidence WASHINGTON * (INS) Govern ment prosecutor Leo Rover announced today he will seek another federal grand jury indictment of Far Eastern expert Awen Lattimore on charges he lied to senate investigators. The U.S. attorney told newsmen that beginning Sept. 13 he will present brand-new evidence concerning Lattimore’s “alleged promotion of Communism and Communist interests.” The former John-Hopkins university professor was indicted in December. 1952, on seven counts of perjury. One count accused him <?f falsely denying to the senate internal security subcommittee that,he .had ever promoted Red causes. This was the key charge against him, but a federal judge and, latifi the U.S. court of appeals threw it out. In announcing his new move. Rover said he will not ask the supreme court to reinstate the ’’key’’ charge. Lattimore a prime target of Sen. Joseph R.' McCarthy (RWis.) and other congressional investigators, has pleaded not guilty to all the perjury charges against him. During the senate probe, he denied having been a Communist, and he was not indicted on that count. The 54-year-old Lattimore, a onedepartment consultant, was originally indicted on seven counts qf perjury, before the senate subcommittee during its investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations. U.S. District Judge Luther Youngdahl later threw out four of the seven counts - 'including the key charge that Lattimore lied when he denied promoting Communist causes and being a Red sympathiser. The U.S. court of appeals upheld Youngdahl’s dismissal of this key charge, as well as one other, but reinstated two of the counts which the judge had thrown out. In explaining his latest move, Rover said “there is. . .evidence to Indicate he (Lattimore) did perjure himself." The U.S. attorney said he expects the grand jury to report by the end of September and he hopes Lattimore will go to trial early in 1955. Royer explained that the government is prepared to go to court on the fly* counts now pending against Lattimore if the grand jury falls to come up with a new indictment. Should- a new indictment be made, It would be combined with the five pending counts against Lattimore.

U. S. Orders 4 Divisions Out Os Korea Decision Brings Loud Protest From Republic Os Korea WASHINGTON 01 NS) — The U. S. has ordered four combat infantry divisions out of Korea in an apparent effort to create the mobile striking force which President Eisenhower has said must stand guard in Asia. Announcement of the decision oms.’per oguodr Ih be urttttsoh brought loud protests from the Republic of Korea whose officials said that the U. S. has failed so expand the kOK aWny WT'flP placement. * „ The Pentagon announced late Wednesday that four of the six U. S. divisions now in Korea will be re-deployed during the next several months. department said the troops will be shipped! “to other areas where it is believed they will better serve the strategic interests of the United States.’’ It was believed that one division will go to Okinawa, one to Hawaii, one to the U. S.. and the fourth either to the U. S. or Che island of Guam. The withdrawal move met mixed comment on Capitol Hill. Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (DOkla.l, said he believed the move "would weaken our defences in the entire Far East." and invite further Red Chinese aggression. However. GOP senate policy chairman Homer Ferguson (RMich.) declared there was no change in Far Eaetern policy in-, volved in the move and referred to President Eisenhower’s statement last December in which he called for a mobile force located strategically for defense of ourselves and our allies. Parade In Seoul SEOUL (INS) — More than 100,000 persons paraded through the streets of Seoul today in a government • sponsored mass demonstration in protest against the projected withdrawal of four American combat divisions from Korea. The demonstration wa» organized by Republic of Korea leaders who denounced the US. plan as a move which will leave the country vulnerable to an attack from Communists in North Korea. The government ordered all business establishments and schools shtft down for the day in order to gather as many people as possible for the mass demonstration which was climaxed in a meeting at Seoul stadium. ROK President Syngman Rhee declined to comment publicly on the Washington announcement but a presidential spokesman said "you can be sure the president is very unhappy about the matter." Foreign minister Y. T. Pyun (CoatlaaM Os Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Party cloudy tonight, scattered showers and thunderstorms south portion. Somewhat cooler extreme north. Friday partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers dbutnwest and west-central. Low tonight 68M north, 68-72 south. High Friday ranging from lower 80s extreme north to mid 90s extreme south. 12 PAGES

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 19, 1954.

Senate Passes Measure 1 '• . ’>* ' • -7 ' ■>. ■ ■''' I ■’ Unanimously Today To Outlaw Red Partv Here

” " jg'.; Former Italy Premier Dies This Morning Alcide de Gasperi, Rebuilder Os Italy, Dies Early Today ROME (INS) — 1 Former Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who rebuilt a war-torn nation and dreamed of a community of nations, died early today of a heart attack at his summer home in northern Italy. The 73 - year -old statesman's death came only a few hours before the leaders of six countries met in Brussels for a conference which could decide the fate of the European defense community which de Gasperi described as "our only salvation.” De Gasperi suffered a alight attack Wednesday afternoon, but recovered quickly.,. But this first seiture was followed by an agonizing attack early this morning, ending with his death' at 2:35 a.m. in his vacation retreat at Sella Vai Sugana. The last words of the former premier, a dedicated Catholic, were "Jesus, Jesus. Jesus." He passed Last Sacram»'nu. wj A member of de Gaspari's family told International News .Service that he had been troubled by rheumatism and frequent colds, and added "that’s why we came up here.” De Gasperi became the premier of his defeated and divided nation in 1945. He headed a succession of governments until 1953 when bls seventh and last cabinet collapsed. But he felt a duty above and beyond even the difficult task of guiding his country out of the shadows of war and Fascism. From his summer home in the Venetian Alps, where he was supposed to be resting, he kept in constant touch with the progress of the European defense community plan. He found time to relax, to read and to walk through the cool forests and play with his grandchildren. But he fretted about the difficulties hampering and delaying the implementation of EDC. “Only the other day.” hia son-in-law told International News Service, "he telephoned Scelba in Rome and warned him that he must ‘convince the French in Brussels that European unification is our only salvation; it’s a united Europe now or never.’ ” Premier Mario Scelba, Informed of de Gasperi’J death, immediately (Tara Ta Page Five) Pleads Not Guilty To Hotel Slaying Judge Refuses To Quash Indictments INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Victor Lively today entered a plea of not guilty to the dresser-drawer murder of 18-y ear-old Dorothy Poore after a judge overruled three efforts to quawh indictments agninst him. The 25-yearold Texan, in whose hotel room the crumpled body of the Clinton, Ind., girl was found stuffed in a dresser drawer, appeared today in Marton county criminal court No. 2 <for arraignment on first degree murder indictments returned by a grand jury. The red-haired Lively has confessed In statements to police that he amothered Dorothy with pillow July 16 when she fought off his sex attack. The June high school graduate had coma to Indianapolis seeking employment. When Judge Saul Rabb asked him if hit name were Victor Hale Lively or “Jack O’Shea."„ the defendant answered: ~ "Victor Lively . . . Victor Hale (Csatiaasd sb Page Kight)

flofio Benefit Dance i Here On August 25 Proceeds To Go to ~ Emergency Drive Arrangements for the polio bemefit cabaret dance next Wednesday evening are nearly complete, according to Ben Webster, dance chahmian. The dance, open to the public including teenagers, will take place from 9 p. m. to midnight at Sunset 1 payiHon ■ The music Os Jimmy Stier and his eight piece orchestra -will be featured. Stier, one of the popular orchestra leaders in the Fort Wayne area, is now playing at Hamilton lake. Orchids, flown in from Hawaii, arrive sometime Wednesday and will be given to each lady attending the affair. In addition to the orchids, several door prizes will be awarded. A highlight of the evening will be an auction which will include donations from local merchants. T. D. Schiefqrstein and J. F. Sanman, auctioneers, will conduct the <sale which will augment the polio fund. Tickets for the event are available at Newl>erry’s Store, the Morris store. Miller and Jones shoe store, the Why store. Holthouse drug, the Gaas store and Holthouse Co, in Decalur; Mrs. ’Fhurman Baker in Geneva *hd John Porter in Berne. Bob Holthome and Bill Gass of Decatur and John .Porter are in charge of solicitation for donations to the auction. Other committees include cannisters, iKenny Shannon and Bob Tracy; orchids, Ben Webster, Jane Laureniand Honora Brown; tables. Gene 'Ryde!!; prizes, Paul F. Wallischfok. ' Lyle Mallonec and Mike Pryor, co-chairanen of the emergency fupd drive, urge Adams county residents to read “Our Daughter Had Polio” in the Aug. 21 iasue of the Saturday Evening Post. The article points out the necessity of the polio fund. Adams county goal in the nationwide emergency drive is SI,BOO. (Caatinaed Oa Page Five) Three Promotions At McMillen Feed Company Officials List Appointments Three promotions at McMillen Feed Mills of Central Soya Co., were announced today by company officials. John Ebersole, who joined the company in 1949 and was head nf the analytical laboratory at Harrisburg, Pa., is the new supervisor of the feed mill in this city. He moved to Decatur in 1951 and since July, 1952. has been supervisor of the quality control department. Ebersole served 42 months as a pilot in the air corps and following the war received his BS degree from Franklin and Marshall college. The Ebersoles reside on Washington St.. Lowell Noll, native of this county, who joined the feed mill division in 1939, has been promoted to supervisor ot the quality control division. With the exception of four years served in the’ U. S. army, he has been constantly with the company and in 1952 was promoted to inspector of the quality control department. Robert B. Justus, formerly of Allen county, has been appointed inspector ot quality control at the local plant. A native of Tennessee, he and his parents later moved to. Fort Wayne. He served four years in the combat engineers division and thqn entered Purdue University, where he received his B.S. degree in agriculture In 1951. During the last three years he was vocational agriculture instruqtor tor veterans In Lafayette township. A|l apopin ttnents are effective Aug. 28, officials announced.

Five Rations Oppose French EDC Proposal Inform France Plan To Revise Treaty Is Unacceptable BRUSSELS (INS) — European defense community foreign ministers bold France today at their opening session that “nine-tenths” of the French EDC modification plan was "unacceptable.” Nepierlands foreign minister Johan W. Beyen, speaking in behalf of five nations, made the statement at the first session of the conference of six foreign ministers called to consider French premier Pierre Mendes-France’s plan. The first session of two hours and 25 minutes ended at 1:25 p.m. (8:25 a.m. EDT). Mende>France would alter many provisions of the present EDC treaty which has been ratified by all except France and Italy. His revisions call for postponing tor eight years the clauses that would pool the troops of six nations under a supranational command. Ln hopes of getting the treaty ratified by the Paris national assembly early next month he also would Institute, veto rights In the body governing the fused army which was to Include a half-million West German troops. The army would be allied to < Authoritative Informants said the United States was backing The Netherlands. West Germany, Italy, Belgium and Luxembourg in their opposition to the proposals or any amendments which would involve submission of the treaty again to the four parliaments which already have ratified it. .U-S. .ambassador C. Douglas Dillon was said to have Informed Mendes - France before he left Paris for Brussels that the United States considers the proposals unacceptable. The reliable informants said the U. S. also was not prepared to give the same guarantees tor the modified plan as it had promised in rr»n To Paco Six) BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INB)—The house voted new appropriations of two billion, 781 million dallars today for the foreign aid program—6s7 mllliona less than President Elsenhower requested. The bill, approved by a vote of 188 to 77, now goes back to the senate where quick passage ia anticipated. Bristol Bank Robbed For Second Time Second Robbery In Period Os Month BRtSTOL. Ind. (INS) — State police searched today tor a 200pound Negro who robbed the Citizens State Bank at Briiffol lof $2,000. . Two white men robbed the same bank of 83.800 on July 15; Mrs. J. Harry Browning, president of the bank, seized a shotgun and ran into the street too late to fire at the bandit who dashed away in a two-tone rust and creamed colored automobile which had been stolen from a parking lot In Benton Harbor, Mich. The subber approached Mrs. Nadine Olinger, a teller and handed her a paper sack, saying: “This is a atickup. Don’t feel around for little money. Just give me the big stuff." Mrs. Olinger obeyed the» order and the bandit seized the money and drove out of Bristol east on Road 120. Mrs. Olinger described the bandit as light skinned, 30 to 40 years rlsburg, Pa., is the ne wsupervlsor mustache, tan clothing, light hat and very nervous.

Craig Announces Sherwood Quitting Craig's Chief Aide Will Quit Politics Indianapolis uns> — Governor George N. Craig disclosed Wednesday that hie chief lieutenant, Elmer W. (Little Doc) Sherwood. is “retiring from politics' on Sept. 16.” The governor at a news conference volunteered the information twice and it sounded to newsmen a* startling as if Damon had discarded Pythias. Sherwood has been the closest of all person® to the governor, and this situation has aroused the ire of a score of so-called professional politicians who have stuck out their necks In the governor’s behalf. They have charged that Sherwood has advised Craig badly and hats been chiefly responsible for the governor’s bpd press and even worse relations with Indiana's major Republican leaders. Sherwood was largely responsible for Craig being elected American Legion national cdimriander and also was a big factor in nominating and electing Craig for governor. An early successful supporter of Ralph F. Gates for governor was Sherwood and he became adjutant general under the Gates regime. The two drifted apart later. During Sherwood’s palace guard days with Gate® and Craig, be developed a flourishing public wlatioim business with clients having business to do with the state government and the general assembly. such as the small ioane business. There was many a dry eye among GOP leaders after the governor announced Little Doc’s retirement because they have been jealous of his prerogatives. Robert E. Sherwood, son of the political leader and president of Sherwood Associates, the publicity firm, said his father had decided to reduce his political activites. ('fan Te ra®» Kl*ht) Eisenhower Speaks To Illinois GOP Addresses Rally At . Illinois State Fair SPRINGFIELD. Hl., (INS) — President Eisenhower declared today the country is "sick and tired of listening to the clack-clack of the prophets of doom.’’ His statement was made in his opening bid for re-election of « Republican congress in November and appeared to be aimed particularly at Democratic Sen. Paul H. Douglas of Illinois. Douglas has been one of the leading forces In the chorus of Democratic recession talk. Mr. Eisenhower teed off on Democratic depression forecasts in an address prepared for delivery before a Republican day rally at the Illinois state fair in 'Springfield. His chief reason for visiting Illinois was to give a boost to the campaign of GOP senatorial candidate Joseph T. Meek, who is seeking to unseat Douglas. He told a story about Abraham Lincoln to Illustrate what he called "crooked fence politics” on the part of Democratic prophets of depression. Lincoln liked to tell a tale, Mr. ( Eisenhower said, about a hog who got so confused trying to get through a crooked fence that it , sometimes seemed he was coming out the same side. Mr. Eisenhow- , er asserted : ( "That story is quite applicable today because certain politicians regardless of the economic facta, always seem to he coming out on the same side of the economic fence —the side of depression.” Lt seems to him. he saM, that the nation is getting prfStty tired ot crooked fence politics as well a® prophets of doom. Mr. Elsenhower’s remarks, In the form of notes, were given to 1 newsmen Ini advance of hie scheduled speech at the fair, where he wae assailed Wednesday by Ad- 1 lai Eflevenson.

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Bill Jo Strip - Red Party Os Legal Status Agreement On Bitt Clearing Stage For Early Adjournment BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INB>—The senate unanlmouely passed a compromise. bill today to outlaw the Communist Party by > stripping away its legal status and compelling Its members to register or face Jail terms. The vote was 79 to 0. A, WASHINGTON (INS) f- Settlement of a dispute over the Com-munist-outlaw bill cleared the stage today for adjournment of the workweary 83rd congress. Leaders said the windup conceivably could come tonight but more likely will be on Friday. ’ A deadlock over extension of social security is yet to be broken but most lawmakers expect this to melt as adjournment fever mounts. They pointed out the increased benefits in the bill will be a good talking point in the election campaigns this fall. A house-senate agreement ap- , preprinting two billion, 781 million dollars for A;merica‘a Alites in the . cold war against Communism was i to be rushed through both houses . today. > The big hurdle in the way of adjournment was cleared by a back- ► stage agreement on the embattled - bill to outlaw the Communist par- ■ ty. Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland predicted President Eisenhower now will be able to sign the bill. Technical changes in an amendment by Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D Minn.), were said to remove administration fears that the measure would destroy existing legal weapons against Communism. Sen. William E. Langer (R N.D.) who heads the senate conferees in the dispute, said: "I have signed the agreement and others are doing likewise." As originally approved, the bill' would make membership in the Communist party a crime. The administration had agreed to support legislation that would have n.o more than denied legal and political rights to the party itself. The compromise would make party members subject to the penalties of the Internal security act. They would not be allowed to obtain passports, federal Jobs or work In defense plants. But they would only go to Jail —for fife years — and pay a fine — SIO,OOO — if they failed to register with the government as members of "Communist action" groups. The oompromise provides: ' 1. WMMful membership in the party makes an individual “subject to all the provisions and penalties of the internal security act of 1950 ... as a member of a ‘Communist action’ organisation.” i. A Jury may consider not only (CeetlaeeO Oa Page Kicht) Rev. Neuenschwander Funeral Saturday Funeral services tor the Rev. Elmer Neuenschwander, native of Berne, who was killed Wednesday morning when struck by lightning on the Brookwood golf course near Fort Wayne, will be held at 1:39 p. m. Saturday at the First Missionary church in Fort Wayne. Dr. 8. A. Witmer, president of the Fort Wayne Bible College, and the Rev. Jared Gerlg will officiate. Burial will bo in the MRE cemetery at Berne. Rev. Neueneohwander. son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Neuenechwander of Berne, was student dean at the Fort Wayne Bible College. The body was removed to the D O. McComb * Sone funeral homo, whore friends may call after 7:30 p. m. today. The body will bo removed to the ehurch at noon Saturday.