Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 206.

Bnurricane i oppies Landmark ? ® ' ir - > ' <* 3 ’ .. . * : *. , ■ j : : f . ' ’ 11 r < j' O I■ ■ m “I" *“' '•-“'Stad -1 v ■ BO’WOfl’S OLD NORTH CHURCH, famed In Ajnerican Revolt!tionary War lore, ■suffered heavily when Hurricane Carol struck the area. The famed steeple from which twin lanterns hung to warn Paul Revere of the coining of the British in 1775 was toppled . tQ th« street Ity the howling winds that tore Into the city.

Ike Io Sign New Security Measure Today Adds 10 Millions To Notion's Social Security System FRASER. 4Ma.<-(iN8) — Preai- . dent Elsenhower signs into law today the administration bill adding almost 10 million persons to the nation's social security system and increasing benefits along with the taxes to pay for them. White House news secretary James Hagerty announced that the chief executive will formally approve the measure at Byer’s Peak Mountain Ranch, in Colorado, where he and ex-president Herbert Hoover are fishing. The signing was scheduled for about 4 p.m. EDT. The President worked his way through 63 bills Tuesday, signing 60 and vetoing three. Today he was to affix his signature to several more, including the social security bill. Mr. Eisenhower has called the legislation, which congress passed a few hours before adjourning on Aug. 20, the ’'cornerstone" of his program to promote the individual security of all Americans, particularly In their old age. Included in the system for the first time are about 3.600,000 farm operators; 2,100,000 farm workers; 3,500,000 employes of state and local governments who want to be covered; 250,000 domestic workers; 100.000 accountants, engineers, architects and undertakers; 50,000 fishermen and 260,000 clergymen on an optional basis. They will bring to nearly 80 million — 90 percent of the nation’s gainfully-employed workers — the number of Americans included in the old-age and survivors insurance program, whose benefits to retired workers and their dependents now total more than onequarter billion dollarg a year. First effects of the new taw will be felt in October, when 6,550,000 persons now receiving pension payments will find their monthly checks from 35 to $13.50 larger than in the past. To help pay for these and other increased benefits, the social security tax withheld from an employe’s < paycheck—as well as his employer’s matching contribution — will be collected on the first $4,200 of Income starting next Jan. 1. Since It is now levied at tax) percent of the worker’s wages. It will mean an Increase of up to sl2 a year for those earning more than $3,600 annually, the current taxable baas. The new benefit scale will raise minimum monthly pensions to S3O. They have been $25. Maximum payments, which havd been SBS monthly for single pensioners and $127.50 for married ones, will go up to $98.50 and $147.80 respectively. In addition, tha new law allows social security beneficiaries to earn up to $1,200 a year In out(CestlseeA Ou Page ■!■>

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Legion For Break In Red Relations Resolution Slated For Action Today WASHINGTON (INS) — American * Legion officials said today that their convention will demand that the U. S. immediately break off diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia and its Communist satellite. , . . The demand was expected to be ■ voiced in a resolution presented r to the organisation’s’ 36th annual > meeting today. 1 Legion officials took the posi- • tlon that U. S. action in severing diplomatic relations with the Com- ’ munist world would serve as stern • notice to the Reda that this nation does not propose to countenance any further aggression. The veteran leaders privately expressed the view that somq such action by President Eisenhower is needed to counter the effect of the Communist victorias. They cited the Berlin and Geneva conferences, the Reds’ "grab” of 12 million more people and large territories in Indo-China, and France’s’ repudiation of the European defense community, which it originally proposed. Resolutions on foreign affairs and a wide range of other subjects will come up for approval as the Legion resumes its formal meetings after a record-breaking parade that consumed the attention of the veterans and the nation's capital Tuesday. The organization is expected to insist on enactment at the next session of congress a universal military training program which would require basic training for every youth. In view- of the present world situation, the Legion contends this is an' imperative need. The spectacular parade began it 2 p.m.. Tuesday, and ran into the Wde hours this morning, setting an all-time high in some ways for marching pageants, stimates of the number participating ran aS high as 125.000. Washington police chief Robert V. Murray estimated that 750,000 viewed at -east part of the 12-hour spectacle. Public Library To Close For Holiday The Decatur public library will be closed Labor Day, according to Miss Bertha Heller, librarian. Tues day, the library will return to its winter schedule. Hours after Day will be noon to 8:30 p. m. every day except Thursday. wrp , ». L Tonight Is Deadline To File Candidacies 5 V' As late as 1 p. m. today r.o candidacies had l>een filed with the county clerk for the November election. Political parties have until midnight to fill the vacancies on their ticket*. While none have filed It is believed probable that e few will be filed before the midnight deadline. /

First Witness Is Called In Censure Probe Senate Committee Studying Charges Against McCarthy WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate committee studying censure charges against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy called its first witness today—a newsman who testified concerning charges that the Wisconsin Republican "abused” Sen. Ralph E. Flaader (R-Vt.) The witness was B. L. Livingstone of the Associated Press. He testified that during a noon recess of the army-McCarthy hearings last spring, he asked McCarthy to comment, on a speech Flanders had made to the senate. Livingstone quoted McCarthy as replying: “I think they should get a man with a net and take him to a good quiet place.” McCarthy’s attorney, Edward B. Williams, asked the reporter if the speech on which McCarthy was commenting was the one in which Flanders "spoke of civilization coming to an end.” Livingstone said he did not recall. He explained that he had underlined some parts a copy of the Flanders ’ speech and had shown the whole thing to McCarthy. He said that “my only interest was in his comment,” - Williams explained that he was trying to establish the “context” of the speech which caused McCarthy to comment as he did. A second newsman, Joseph W. Hall Jr., also of the AP, testified that McCarthy attacked Sens. Thomas C. Hennings (D-Mo.) and Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) as “left wingers and called Sen. Robert C. Hendrickson (R-N. J.) a "living' . miracle . . . without brains or r guts.” I Hall said that McCarthy gave : him the statement by telephone - on the evening of Jan. 2, 1953, in - commenting on the Senate subcommittee’s report Into McCari tby’s financial affairs. Hennings was chairman and Hayden and Hendrickson were members of the subcommittee. Hall, referring to his notes, said that McCarthy attacked the report as “dishonest beyond words’* and challenged the three senators to attempt to remove him from the senate “if they believe it.” Before calling the first witnesses, the committee read into its record excerpts from the official army - .McCarthy transcript in which McCarthy referred to Fland(Tara Te Page Fa«r> Premier Os France Seeks Hew Policy Assembly Agrees To Delay Debate ■PARIS (INS) —France’s agile, intellectual Premier Pierre MendesFrance began a search today for a new defense policy to replace the wreckage of iEDC. For the second time in his brief tenure, he was working once again under a self-imposed mandate of time. —— At the premier’s request, the national assembly voted Tuesday night to postpone debate on the government's foreign policy until Nov. 3. That gives him two months to work out with France’s Allies - and her feared neighbor West Ger-many-a European defense formula that can win the support oi the rejected defense con^niunity’s ardent supporters and opponents He baa twice as much time ar he had when he promised lost June to achieve an Indo-China truce or resign, but his difficulties are many times more formidable. The assembly's decision by the wide margin of 148 to 162 was another resounding political vic tory at the end of a day in which he was criticized severely for hie fence-etraddling position on EDC. Mendes-France gave some indication of the lines along which he will work. He told the deputies that France "shall seek more complete engagements to guarantee the British presence on the continent.” The premier is known to have discussed recently , with prime minister Sir Winston Churchill a (European coalition army including the signers of nhe EDC trrity and Great Britain. London baa held beck traditionally from direct involvement in any continental power blocs, preferring to retain freedom of action to thro her weight wherever it seemed wisest. *

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■■■—■■■■■■■■ i ■ Sovereignty Os West Germany Up To NATO United States Will Leave Decision Up To NATO Ministers WASHINGTON (INS) —The U. S. was expected today io inoge firmly but cautiously in proposiißj sovereignty for West Germany lnits to leave the ultimate decision on thethorny issue to a meeting of North Atlantic treaty ministers. Diplomatic informants predicted that secretary of state John Foster Dulles will delay a fofmal proposal for a special meeting of NATO ministers for aoout a month. Before taking off for Manila to confer with representatives of seven other powers on a Southeast Asia defense pact, Dulles it med a formal statement on the European crisis. He announced that the NATO meeting would be sought promptly-ahead of the schedule December conference of European foreign minsters. The secretary termed the French rejection of the European defense community-cornrstone of American policy for that "tragedy . . . abetted by Communism” which endangers all Os Europe. He declared it requires the U. S. to “reappraise it* foreign policies” looking toward quick rearmament of West Germany. However, officials* said a month’s delay ip the suggested NATO conference would result in more conference would result in more conference would result in more careful thinking by "11 concerned on what next to do toward granting sovereignty to Germany. Informants added that the V. S. apparently is shaping a policy of dropping the entire West German question into the laps of the NATO ministers. Dulles also said that early consultations would t»e held with Gen man Canceller Konrad Adenauer. He declared: "the Federal German Republic should take its place as a free and equal member of the society of nations." (Tara Ta Page Fear) Abraham Chasanow Cleared 01 Charges 22-Year Veteran Os Navy Work Cleared WASIHNGTON (INS) — Abraham Chaeanow, who was suspended from his civilian job In the navy as a security risk after 22 yeans of service, was cleaied of aU charges today with the navy ad tnitUng a "grave injustice" had been done him. The navy announced that Cliassnow will be“ restored at ence to the $8.630-a-year job in the hydrographic office from which he was dropped last year. In clearing Chasanow, assistant navy secretary James H: Smith, who personally Investigated the security case, called the veteran government employe an “above average loyal American citizen." “Any contact with individual* or organizations alleged to be eub veraive, which Mr. Chasanow may have had. were at a time -when such individual* or organizations were not generally considered to be subversive. The contacts were isolated, short, or casual and were brought about by Mr. Chasanow’s normal civic activities." Smith said the finding wm "clearly consistent with the interests of national security." Chasanow claimed that charges of Communist associations, reedin* CoramutaM literature and cotk tributlng to Red organisation* were brought against him by per sone who bad a grudge against him because of a cooHnunitiy dispute at nearby Greenbelt, Md.

Heart Attack Fatal To Senator Maybank Democrat Senator Dies Early Today FLAT ROCK, N. C., (INS) — Sen. Bqrnet R. May bank (ILS. C.) .died In Flat Rock, N. C, of a heart attack early today. The 55-year-old senator had beena patient at Hendersonville, N.C., , hospital until a few days ago. . Maybank is the eighth member j. the senate to die during the * 83rd congress. The others were t> | «ns. Willis Smith (DN. C.), Char j W Tobey (■R-N. H ) Robert A. f Taft (R-Ohio), Dwight Griswold (R-Neb.) Clyde Hoey (D-N. C.) I Lester Hunt (D-Wyo.) and Hugh Butler (R-Nebr.) Technically, Maybank’s death ’ leaves the senate with 46 Democrats, 48 Republicans and one In--1 dependent. However, South Carolina Gov. James F. Byrnes is al--1 most certain to pick a Democrat to succeed the late senator. While the successor will serve 1 only until next January and the senate has adjourned, a session presumably will be called this year to take up the censure charges against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wia.) Maybank, an Episcopalian, was elected to the senate in 1941 to finish the unexpired term of Gov. James F. Byrnes who (>eoime secretary of- stoto. ‘.The senator was reelected in 1942 and again tn 1948. He would have faced reelection again thia coming November., Maybank was the senior minority member of the senate banking and currency committee and a member of the appropriations committee. ■ Sen. Morse Terms Ike'Reactionary' President Unaware Os Economic Facts INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Sen. Wayne Morse, (Ind.-Oregon) denounced President Eisenhower today as a “black reactionary” in a speech before the Indiana Federation of Labor. The former Republican lawmaker charged the President with being a “political and economic” reactionary and said his failure to take action has brought the labor situation to a serious condition. Morse Mid the greatest hops for the country would be the election of overwhelming majojrlties for the Democrats in both senate and house. He said he expects the Democrats to take a big margin in the house and a one or two bulge in the senate. He told 1.000 delegates to the 69th annual Indiana Federation of Labor convention in Indianapolis that he was actively compaigning for liberal Democratic lawmakers He said: “I would campaign for liberal Republicans as opposed to reactionary Democrats, but 1 can't find any.” ’ * Morse claimed Eisenhower is unaware of the economic facts of the country saying "we have a President who is oblivious to the unemployment situation which is getting worse." (Tarn T» Pa<r Three) Reports Are Mailed From X-Ray Tests Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the Adams county tuberculois association, reported that the results are now being mailed from thd x-rays taken in the county, August 2-6. The partable x-ray unit spent two days at th ei-H fair In iMooroe, and was also located near the court house In Decatur for one day. - iMns. Brown reported that 1,128 xrayy war* taken her*, and that results) showed four case* of suspected tuberculosis, and eight cases of otherdiseases Individual r*porta ore mailed tq ecab eraon xrayed.

McCarthy And Army Hit In Senate Report Report Puts Blame On All Disputants In Long Controversy WASHINGTON (INS) — Senators who investigated the armyMcCarthy controversy leveled blame at all of the disputants today and said the justice department L must determine whether any prose--1 cutibns are called fop. 1 Both the majority and minority reports on the marathon investiga--1 tion, which was aimed at deter- ’ mining which side was lying, agreed that conflicting testimony indicated perjury may have been committed and the department must decide it. In addition, the Democrats in ‘ their minority verdict claimed that the espionage law may have been violated by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy -or whoever gave him an ' abstract of a confidential FBI re-

port. While the four Republicans on the subcommittee which held two months of tumultuous hearings last spring cleared McCarthy of personal'wrongdoing. tbese other features marked the two major seta of “findings" on the case. 1. The GOP members, along with the three Democrats on the group, criticized army secretary Robert T. Stevens and army counselor John G. Adams for "appeasement" of McCarthy and his former investigations subcommittee counsel, Roy M. Cohn. 2. Majority and minority members, in separate sets of findings, also contended that Cohn went too far in seeking favors from the army for Pvt. G. David Schine, a personal friend and former unpaid chief consultant of the subcommittee. » . , 3. Senators from both parties maintained that McCarthy failed to exert sitfflctant control over Cohn — but except*ft»r Sen. Charles E. Potter (R Mich.), the Republicans were milder on this, score (Tara Te Pace BIX) Three Rotary Clubs Hold Joint Meeting Golf And Meeting Held At Bluffton Marc du Lac of Arles. France, a French student who ha.< been living on farms in the Berne area for tha past six weeks, gave a Short talk at the joint meeting of th* Berne, Decatur and Bluffton Rotary clubs at the Bluffton Country club last evening. The informal program followed an afternoon of golf between club members of the three Cities. A graduate of Parts Uuniverslty, the student was presented by L. Luther Yager, state representative, with’ w'hom he has made his home for a couple of week*. Selected by French authorities to represent hie country in the student exchange program, the young man's trip from New York waw sponsored by the Berne Rotary club. He will return to France Sept. 14. Gerald- Heller, pre»id|pnt of the boit club, was chairman of the meeting. A film of mountain lake and deep ■Hea fibbing In South American countries was shown. The Decatur club was represented by Gene Rydell, president, with a majority of the members ’ngINDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday, chance of a few scattered showers extrema north late tohlght or Thursday. Warmer tonight and south portion Thursday. Low tonight M-M, high Thursday around 90 northwest to 90 southeast.

Oversl,s4B HetteT By March Os Dimes Total Is Short Os SI,BOO County Goal A net totoj of $1,548.83 has been obtained so far in the county emergency March of Dimes, Herman H. Krueckeberg, treasurer of the organtzatiou, announced- today, as the march drew to a close. The drive officially ended Tuesday, but it will be several days before all the envelopes are in, and an exact total can be given. The total does •bt reflect what will be taken -from the 50 cannisters which are still out in> the county, nor the additional envelopes, he said. Persona who wave • forgotten to mall their envelope* ■ are encouraged to. do so now. and , If die envelope has been lost, a contribution may be mailed to Her- ( man H. Krueckeberg, First State Bank. Decatur. An additional report of $209.30 from envelopes swelled, the total received from that source to ■ $1038.75. Postage to mail the en- : velopes amounted to $85,07, leaving a net total from the envelope I drive at $953.68. 1

The balloon sale in Decatur added another $107.93 to the total, • while the polio dance netted $313.74. Employes of the Central Soya ■ company contributed $173.48, in i Che nano of two dotfo victim*. Homer and Marceda Whetstone, children' of a Soya employe. It wae hoped that Adame county would raise SI,BOO for the Emergency March of Dimee, as that was ks allotted share. The money is necessary to carry on the two-point anti-polio program of treatment for victims and prevention among those who have not yet suffered. Already the seriousness of the financial condition of the National Foundation for InifatMile Paralysis has made it necessary for hospitals to carry some polio patients on credit, awaiting the out-come of the national drive for more funds. A current break-down on mail i contributions from post offices in the county, include many rural contributions, follows: Decatur, 385 contributions, totaling $737.44; . Monroe, 25 contributions, $51.16; Pleasant Mills, five contribution*. $9 50; Preble, two contributions. $2; Berne, 108 contributions. $170.25; Geneva, 41 const ributioife, $62.40; Linn Grove, three contributions, $6. A total of 569 contributions from all parts of the county were received, Krueckeberg said. Theater To House GOP Headquarters Republicans To Use Cort Theater Here Republican, headquarters will be opened in the Cort theater, 136 N, Second street, Sept. 11, it was announced today by the Adams County Republican central committee. Mrs. Cleo Linn, weir known Decatur woman, will be in charge of the headquarters. The theater does no\ operate during the summer and early- fell months. Equipped with a few hundred seats and stage, the theater will also serve for political meetings during the campaign which will be launched after Labor day. Mrs. Linn stated that she would be at headquarters during the campaign and that a telephone would be installed next week. The secretary also said that the OOP's program of campaign activities would be announced shortly after the opening of headquarters. In both parties, the county tickets are beaded by their respective candidates tor congress, and in addition to the campaign for county offices, headquarters will bq the site for the congressional nom tieea. The election will be Nov. 2.

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At Leas? 46 Dead, Damage Into Millions New Hurricane Is Building Up Off Coast Os Florida BOSTON (INS) — Fears of a new hurricane building up off the Florida Coast stalked the northeast today as the area, battered by hurricane Carol, counted at least 46 persons dead, 42 In the six New England States alonge. * Damage, from the storm, which blew itself out over Canada today after killing two persons io Que* bee province, was estimated at more than half a billion, dallors, most of It in New England. Two other persons were killed in New Jersey by falling power lines. Fears of another devastating blow touched off today when the Miami weather, bureau reported that another violent skorm .ias been sighted about 675 miles off Daytona Reach Fla., the same gen-

. eral afea Where hurricane Carol formed. The new hurricane, hipknamed Dolly, is packing winds of 65-to-70 miles per hour and. Is moving ig i northward at about IS to 20 miles . pep Lour. . , The damage from hurricane. Carol in Rhode Island alone was es» , timated 'conservatively at SSO mil- . lion and may reach a much higher i total because of power failures, j. which have left over 100,000 job- ; less. Officials .say it may take days ■ before all electricity is back in ; normal operation. It is estimated that the total > damage in New England will apI proximatb SSOO million. This in- , eluded crop damage and loss of services due to transportation breakdowns, and disruption of power and telephone facilities. The New England Telephone and Telegraph Co. reported that 220,. 000 of its 2,632,000 instruments were still out of order today. The company had 3.500 of its owq workers busy restoring Service, and another 1,000 from outside New England are expected to arrive shortly to aid in the repair work. Dead by states; . Rhode Island 18 Massachusetts 16 New Hampshire 3 Maine 3 Vermont 1 Connecticut 1 A food crisis loomed for countless thousands lacking refrigeration and utilities for cooking, as a third of the area’s ten million population was without poder. A state of emergency existed la hundreds of communities. Fully 1,060 towns in the si xstate area suffered disrupted utilities. Nearly 200,000 telephones were dead. — Many persons returned to some 50,000 damaged or wrecked homes and summer cottages. Rhode Island, where army and national guardsmen took over after martial law was declared, and the Cape Cod section of Massachusetts, were most savagely hit by the 100-mlle an hour hurricane and torential rain which struck. Tuesday morning. The mounting toil of deaths and damage continued to trickle in at civilian defense centers, but the complete story remains untold, complete story remains untold. Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard islands off the Massachusetts shore, were isolated. Communications were still out in many northern New England qdfnmunitWs. Although the property damage may be as high as New England's worst hurricane, that of September, 1938. it’s death loss wll not approximate the total of 588 who lost their Ilves in that disaster. Rhode Island, suffered the worst damage and highest loss of life in 1938 and again this time bore the brunt of nature’s savagery. The damage In Rhode Island alone was estimated at SSO million. The Rhode Island River, swelled by a '’(Ceatlaeeg Paa*