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Major Issues Developed At Democrat Meet Signs Pointing To Ad lai Stevenson As Candidate In 1956 INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—Observers at the week-end Democratic midwest rally in Indianapolie agreed today that Adtai E. Stevenson, chief guest, showed nil tugM of being a candidate for the 1956 Democratic presidential nomination. There ateo were indications Chat Indiana, national committeeman Paul M- Butler land the party’s ■state committee were lining up beWnd»«eii(H—tt Mil A number ot possible asptranta for vice president also were among a gataay of party notables who came to IndtenapoHs from all parte of the nation. They included Oovernore Frank Clement of Tennessee. G. Mannon William* of Michigan and Gov. elect Edmund S. Muekie of Maine. Clement's speech rut the banquet session Saturday night drew a® much applause as Stevenson received. Muskie also scored a big 'band at the banquet, and Williams was enthuataHtkally received when he addressed the luncheon, of the Indiana Democratic editortai association Saturday. A number of major issues were developed for the fall campaign in various speeches and meet in gw Friday and Saturday. Unemployment seemed to be the major one, but "bungling kdernational policies," containment of term income and' the so-called "Republican give away program" with respect to taxation and natural resources also were mentioned. Former Governor Henry F. Schricker quickly checked an indmwetntart by Stevenson for the 1956 gubernatorial nomination. The 1962 presidential nominee had eaid: “I'm for Henry Schricker for anything, at any age. at any time. 1 love that man." But Schricker. now 71 yeans old. mid: "That wn» very generous of Mr. Stevenson, but I am not a candidate. We have plenty of young men who can rtep forward The next governor tyiU have n rough job on hie hande.” Stevenson's attack# on the foreign policy of President Eisenhower drew great applause at the banquet. Stevenson said: "At Geneva and eteewhere the Republicans have succeeded 1 In con ▼inclag many of our friends tfhait we are rigid and' inflexible, either unwilling or unable tn negotiate or compromWe. and that only the United State* stands In the way of a peaceful world. "All around tihe world American presitge-our good ntame and the revpect of botlh friend and foe—(ha® suffered, and the initiative, which the administration boasted it has Mteed. ta firmly In Com(Continued on Pawe Six) y: Romulo Will Head Filipinos In U. N. UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (IN8» — President Ramon iMogsayaay of the Philippine! today named ft Gen. Carlos P. Romolo aa chief of that country'# delegation to the UN as•emWy. Romulo received the special appointed by oable shortly after arriving In New York this morning.

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Four Persons Drown In Indiana Waters Traffic Death Toll Light Over Weekend INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Four persons died in Indiana waters during the past week-end. Included was Lenny D. Milter, 17, of Elkhart, wtio died for tack of oxygen in an attempt to eet a driving recond in Stone Lake near Elkhart using a navy rebreatihtag mask. The youth died .standing in 1& feet of water 30 feet offshore. He had worn a w-eigihted belt and was trying to surpass the hour be hadspent under wtater Saturday. Friends became alarmed ert. the end of an 'hour and 15 miwutee and called <for help. Willis G Stephenson. ctf Geshe®. dived into the take and raeovemd the body.' state pclfceinan Unary Cripe worked for an hour in a vain attempt to revive the bpy. WHlfasn D. WrW. 13. of Chicago drowned when he was pulled down by an undercurrent in Lake Mk-hdgan white ewimming at the GAry Boat Club in Porter county. Scoutmaster J. T. Mauer, who directed 18 Scout® on a wbek-end outing, swam to Wright and held his head above waiter for 10 minutes before he lost hie grip on the boy. Frank Farley. 60. of Lake James drowned in the lake near Angola. He had Ijeen riding, in a power boat which overturned- Eart Stahl, riding with dvirrt. ewam to ehore after the accidtart. Richard Allen Woseon, 9. of Winchester. davwned in a gravel pit on the J. D. Miller farm near Winchester. The youth tripiped and fell into 20 feet of water while playing with other boys who tried to rescue him l>y holding a tree limb over the pit for 'him to eeice. William Batmen recovered the body 20 feet from shore an hour end a half latter. He was the son of Mrs. Ruth Wooson of Winchester. In contrast only a few persons died in highway accidents during the week-end. However. Charley T. Baldwin, 29 of Hartford City, was injured fatally three mites west of that city on road 22 when his automobile left the highway, craalred into a utility ]K»le and turned over three times. WiNiert Martin. JO, a passenger, escaped with minor injuries. Lew Wallace 111 36. of Indianapolis. a great grandson of soldierauthor Gen. Lew WUtace and an attorney, died of injuries suffered when Ms car coasilted l into tire rear of a truck on road 40 a mile east of Manhattan.

Dr. Harry Lofton H. Harris. 35, of Evansville, was killed and his wife. Etale, was injured seriously When tihelr car and a truck collided near Evansville on road 65. Third Division To Return To States SEOUL (INS) lEighth Army Commander Gen. 'Maxwell D. Taylor announced today that the U. S. third division would return home next month in another step in Americans massive redeployment of armed forces in the Far East. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, scattered thundershowers tonight and Tuesday. A little warmer tonight Turning cooler west and north portions Tuesday. Low tonight 60-65 north, 65-70 south. High Tuesday 75-60 extreme north to near 90 extreme south. General outlook for Indiana Wednesday: fair and cool.

U. S. r Britain Oppose U. N. Seat To Reds General Assembly. To Open Tuesday; Oppose Red China ' . . UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —Britain and U. S. conferred on final moves today to strengthen the western front against Russia in the expected battle <frer seating Red China in the UN assembly. U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and British ambassador Sir Pierson Dixon conferred privately: and solidly agreed to stand against any attempt by Russtaw Andrei Vishinsky to have a ehowdown on seating Red China or ousting the Nationalists. One U. S. problem was cleared up with the announcement by Prince Wan of Thailand that his candidacy for the presidency of the ninth UN assembly starting Tuesday is withdrawn. This leaves a clear field for ambassador E. N. van Kieffens of The Netherlands, and saves the U. S. the embarrassment of supporting a losing candidate from southeast Asia. Lodge paved the way for the Soviet propaganda drive on the Peiping regiine by listing for UN consideration 39 “war - like acts of Chinese Communist piracy” committed since 1950. The official list, submitted on the eve of today’s closing session of the eighth general assembly and the opening of the ninth assembly tomorrow, Included five incidents involving the U. S. Also listed were 26 incidents involving the British flag, two involving Denmark, two involving Panama and one each involving Norway, France and Portugal. Lodge declared in an accompanying statement: "I am making public for the first time an official list, recently completed, which shows that the shooting down of an unarmed British airliner off Hainan island last July 22 was the latest of at least 39 warlike acts by the Chinese Communists against the ships and aicraft of free nations in the last four years. "This is issued for the information of the public. It speaks for itself. 11 — — The head of the American delegation said "this series of acts of piracy must be viewed as part of a still larger pattern.” He asserted: "I refer to the Chinese Communist record in Korea; the campagins of extermination against the Chinese -people themselves, in which millions have lost their lives; the boast of the Chinese Communist leaders that they have the second largest army in the world—second only to the Soviet Union.” Barring the unexpected, the assembly both today and tomorrow will beat down all Soviet attempts to oust the Chinese Nationalists and replace them with the Peiping regime. At 3 p.m., KDT today, assembly president Mme. V. L Pandit will call the delegates to order for her closing statement. Mme. Pandit will yield the chair to her successor—expected to be E. N. raff Kieffens, Dutch Ambassador to the U. B.—after hie election following the opening of the ninth assembly tomorrow st 3 p.m.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 20, 1954.

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- k ■ Is Linked To FHA Project Charge Pressure By Sparkman For Essex Apartment Project INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A charge that Senator John J. Sparkman (D Ala.) 1952 Democratic’ vice-presidential nominee, -texerted "pressure” to obtain federal housing administration approval at the Essex apartment house project in Indianapolis was hurled today. ..... The allegation came during a senate banking committee hearing in Indianapolis during which committee chairman Senator Homer E. Capehart (R Ind.) charged law violations and “windfall” profits to promoters of some $116,-000 iu the Essex deal. Janies F. Swan, former chief evaluator of the Indiana. FHA, a witness said: "It was understood and was common knowledge about the FHA office in Indianapolis that pressure tor the approval of the -Essex house project came from Senator Sparkman and from Washington officials.’; The charge was made a few hours after attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr., in -Washington ordered a special., grand jury investigation into "windfall” projects and other alleged criminal conduct tn the FHA program. The late R. Earl Petero, of Fort Wayne, former Indiana FHA director, partly confirmed the charge, before his death, according to 'testimony of W. Robert Fleming, Fort Wayne attorney and son-in-law of Peters. Fleming testified, that during a talk with Peters while Xhe latter jivas ill in Florida, Peters denounced the Essex project as a law violation and said he would oppose it. Fleming added: "He told me that pressure for the Essex undertaking came from the etate of Alabama and from Washington, D.C.” «•<**€ Another witness, Leslie Colvin, Indianapolis contractor, testified Peters said to him: “1 would give a thousand dollars of my own money if I could block the Essex deal.” William Simon, banking committee counsel, charged repeatedly in questioning that the Essex deal violated the law, as follows: The FHA guaranteed loan was (Continued on Page .->ix) State Tax Board ’- '7 - ■ Hearing Sept. 27 Review Budgets Os Local Taxing Units Representatives of (be state board of tax commissioners will hold hearings at the auditor's office in the court house -all day September 27 on proposed budgets, tax levies and rates tor the various units of the county, according to a legal advertisement appearing in today's Daily Democrat. Township units will be heard in the morning starting at 9 o’clock’ in the following order: Blue Creak, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Kirkland, Monroe, Preble, Root, St. Mary's, Union, Waahington, Wabash. In the afternoon Che following bearings are scheduled in order: Berne city, Berne school corporation. Berne library, Geneva civil. Geneva library, Monroe civil, Decatur civil, Decatur school, Decatur library and Adams County Central consolidated school. The notice provides that all officials and taxpayers may present any information on budget items which in their opinion should be reduced. The notice Is signed by A. L. Foesler, chairman of the state tax board. J • \

f ; AFL Opens Annual Convention Today Eisenhower Leads List Os Speakers LOS ANGELES (INS) — The powerful American Federation of Labor, with 10,200,000 members, swings today into the first national convention it has held on the west roast in 54 years. Seven hundreds delegates and more than 3,000 visitors are in town for eessioms that wm contiaMe through Sept 28. It ts tihe • federation's 73rd annual meeting, i President Eisenhower heads an r IMnstirious list of speakers elated to address the convention. Others include secretary of labor James P. Mitchell land foreign opera- . towns administrator Harold E. Staeeeni. i Top state, city and county officials are to welcome the delegates* to Ix>s Angeles. Among those slated to deliver welcoming addresses , are Gov. Goodwin J. Knight and Loe Angeles Mayor Nbrris Poul* - SOn. I—— The keynote address is to be delivered by the federation's general president, George Meany. His earlier statements end a 3'48-page report submitted Sunday J>y the fedreation’e executive council indicated Meany would warn that peaceful co-exieteuce ;■ wteh toe OommMAtate te tajuml- , We, toot the AFL would seek a 36-hour week and would be critical of both the foreign and domestic 1 policies of the Eisenhower administration. ’ In a pre-converatton statement, the labor leader declared that “the loss of American prestige abroad. ! the disintegration of our defenses ' in Asia, the weakening of our ties ' to European allies — all point to ' virtual collapse of American for--1 eign policy.” The executive council called for a 35-hour week as a means of i spreading employment. It asserted • that the country “is now faced with- a tremendous deficit in purchasing power” because of the Eisenhower administration's failure to act on its promises to maintain full prosperity. i The council accused the administ ration of being "closely geared to fit the desires of the business community” in its new legislative i and administrative policies. Air Raid Scare On Island Os Formosa Nationalists React By Pounding Amoy TAIPEH (INS) — Nationalist China reacted to its second air raid scare in two weeks today with a two-hour bombardment of Communist positions around the crumpling port crty of Amoy. Four • engined P4Y bombers spearheaded the assault on Amoy a short time after the entire island of Formosa was plunged Into a i blackout when a lone unidentified I plane approached the Nationalist fortress. • The island was blacked out for ; 45 minutes, but the plane diaapl peared west of Taichung in cen- , tral Formosa without crossing over the coast. warships, idle for four days, rejoined the attack to- ' day. They bombarded Point Weitou on the mainland northeast of Quemoy Island while planes were unloading one-ton blockbusters on Amoy. Meanwhile. Nationalist Thunderbolt fighter-bombers ranged along the south China coast tn a search for Communist warships and junk fleets, The Thunderbolts were credited with crippling four Red warships in Sunday's fighting. The Nationalists also reported increased Communist artillery fire on Tatang, one of four in the Quemoy group The shelling was described as the most intense since the Sept. 3 duel for Quemoy which started in miniature war. Another smaller, artillery duel was reported near the Tachen Island, group 200 miles north of Tal(Contlausd on Page Two)

■ ■ ■ ■' French Leader Calls For New Defense Plan Plan Would Include Germany And Italy On An Equal Basis STRASBOURG (INS) — French Premier Pierre Mendes - France called today for a new European defense plan to include Germany and Italy on on equal basis and with Hanger British participation in coutinenital defenses. Mendes-France drew heavy applause tn >bis. speech go the consultative assembly of the European council, Europe's unofficial parliament, in Strasbourg. “We suggest,” be eaid, “that in the framework of the Brussels treaty, and conforming to the program of the North Atlantic treaty organization, the maximum number of soldiers and armaments be fixed for each participating country. “Orders for material should be made under tihe same rules in each country. "Therefore no country would be permitted to manufacture war material or create armaments fac:'W—Bill liliMM—grgmwt- coaaaaan program. “Inspection and oontrod would be handled by the same common authority which would set up the common* program.” He said tlaat if Ms plan were accepted* "the entry of Germany into NATO" would no longer raise the anxiety and opposition of the present time.” ” Mendes-France arrived in Strasbough Sunday night and went into a huddle with Belgian foreign minister Paul-Henri Speak which Husted until an early hour this morning. Following tote discussion, Speak hiad a long talk With British delegate Airtihqjty Nutting, and diplomatic sources said they picked over the French memorandum. Wbidh will l>« submitted to tihe nine-power conference opening in London Sept 28. Mendes-France came directly to Strasbourg from the French city of Nevers, where 'he offered a broad hint as to hie viewpoint in a speech at the dedication of a monument to waotithfo resistance heroes. At least three significant pointe were noted in the premier e speech at Nevens: 1. lay great stress on British cooperation in any European defense plan. 2. He will demand “severe ami efficient controls” on German rearmament. 3. He fa well aware that the necessity for French cooperation fa imposed l»y the geography of Western' Europe. Diplomatic sources in London said tilhe French memorandum (Continued on Page Six) Hansel Kreigh Dies Suddenly Saturday Dies Mowing Lown At Home In Tocsin Hansel (Spot) Kreigh, 82, bookkeeper for the Bprunger Implement Co. In this city, died suddenly at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon while mowing the lawn at hid home in Tpcein. Mr. Kreigh operated the Kreigh service station in Tocsin for many years and also was formerly employed for a number of years at the Al Schmitt motor safes in this city. Mr. Kreigh was affiember of the American Legton poet at Bluffton. Surviving are hie wife, Georgia, and a brother. Claude D. Kreigh of Tocsin. . i Funeral services were conducted this afternoon at the Elzey & Sone funeral home In Ossian, the Rev. C. L. Davis officiating. Burial waa in Oak Lawn cemetery at Oeetan. < - ■ • , ' ..*■ • ■ _ .

Three Men Stage Evansville Holdup Saving And Loan Company Is Robbed EVANSVILLE. Ind. (INS) — Three men, armed with .38 revolvers held up an Evansville Having and loan company today and escaped with several thousand dollars after imprisoning five persons in the bank vault. The five, including three employes and two customers of the Howell Savings and Loan Association. of Evansville, were rescued shortly after the utunrieked bandits ■shoved them into th* vault and closed the door. * v Wlien the company manager, B. J. Schenk, arrived and found no one in sight, he opened the vault and found toe five men and women. Schen'k said he would l not be Immediutely able to determine tihe amount of toe loot, but an unofficial' source estimated it might run around $5,000. Road blocks were out for a 1960 black Lincoln car with license plates EK8646 after e witness told police he saw the bandits abandon Chair getaway car, used in the holdup, and enter the second car. It sped west out of Evansville, officers were told. Financial Report From 4-H Group Substantial Profit Made At 4-H Fair A detailed financial report of the 1964 4-H Clube and Extension Exhibits, lnc„ woe mailed Friday to members at toe county externslon' committee. Income of the group tor toe year waa listed' at 114,015.24, including a 14,000 loam; $6,668.47 from the food* tent and rural youth tent at toe 4-H fair; $1,765.25 from the sale of display epoch at toe fair; $1,442 from advertising in tihe catalog; *5110.12 from donatione, and $29.49 Dram 4-H clubs tor toe national 4-H center In Washington, D. C, Expenses included* $818.67 for printing and me Hing the 4-H club catalog; $3,956.95 tor the food and rural youth tente; $117.50 for parade prizes; $94 for entertainment festival prizes; $421.35 for services; >130.65 tor Insurance; $2,013 for rentals. $275.99 for uttoorilaneous expenses, $426.12 for new equipment, and $6,641 for the 4-H ctob grounds (this includes the payment of $4,000 for the land, and then repayment of $2,500 to Peter B. Ijebman, wl»o loaned* the money for toe purchase. It afao Include* toe survey, examination of abstract, and seed for toe ground.)' Total expenses for toe year amounted* to $14,894.23, while Income amounted *U> only $14,016.24, which meant a decrease in cash of $878.99; tote wn® more than balanced, however, by the increase in tihe inventory of property now belonging to the 4-H clubs and extension exhl bite. The inventory showed the addition of the 4-H grounds, which, inchiding toe $3,000 paid tost year, hae a total value of $7,049.90, includdng what has lieen invested in the improvement of the land. Akao, $425.12 worth of new equipment hae been added to toe $265.58 worth of equipment already owned by the 4-H committee. The net worth of the organ illation wu* figured at $9,042.91. A total of $1,720.91 profit waa made, on toe fair this year, about S7OO more than ha* ever been mode before. Several thing* were atoo purchased for toe organisation before toe profit was figured, so toot the dub actually cleared over $2,000 tote year. The pre-fabricated building owned by Peter B. Lehman and moved to toe new ground* will be paid for in 1966 with fund* to be received from toe one-cent tax levy. Price of toe prefab wee $2,850, and the expected Income from taxee to s4*ooo,

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Jury Probe Os FHA Scandals Ordered Today Attorney General Orders Grand Jury Call In Washington WASHINGTON (INS) —Attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr.* ordered a special grand jury investigation today into ‘‘windfall” 1 profits, bribery and other alleged criminal conduct in the federal housing program. The attorney general said evid--1 ence shows that the home and apartment building program “be--1 came riddled with corruption under the prior administration.” He said a grand jury will be convened promptly in Washington to hear evidence “specifically” on the activities of Clyde I* Powell, former FHA assistant commissioner. Brownell also said that he would call upon U. S. attorneys throughout the nation to present “full testiitoony concerning criminal conduct uncovered 'by the admintotration‘< investigation in their , districts.” . „ .. | Tbe attorney general said that Powell, Who entered FIU In 1938, * rose to assistant commissioner “despite knowledge of toe former administration of an arrest record, including conviction tor jewel theft.” x Before he was fired 'last spring, Powell was in charge of FHA's rental housing program, which, according to the justice department, resulted in “windfalls” exceeding 51 million dollars in 285 cases ’ which have been investigated up to now. The (justice department eaid 1 that, no date has been set for the ’ opening of the special grand jury to foe conducted in Washington by U. S, attorney Leo A. Rober. However, it waa understood that Powell was subpeonaed Friday night for appearance before the grand Jury Oct 5. Brownell declared that a housing and houee finance agency report on the housing administration “shows how the huge federal agency upon which the nation depended for stimulating home building and (housing construction became riddled with corruption un- ' der the prior administration." Brownell eaid that the department has received a “vest amount ” of material indicating maladministration" both from eongrcasional investigating committees and from toe housing and home linanM agency. He added: “While the majority of toe employes were loyal and faithful, there was disintegration of personal Integrity among others in th§ housing program." Brownell said that the practice of receiving “gratuities" from contractors andjQthers doing business with the agwncy “was almost an accepted form of operation in many FHA office*." • He aald that toe FBI has been investigating FHA maters since early 1953 and assumed “primary investigative responsibility” in April, 1954. 6o far the government has ordered foreclosure proceedings on (Continued on Page Five) Union City School Girl Dies Os Polio UNION CITY. Ind. (TNB) — Private funeral services ware hold this afternoon in Portland for- IV year-old Ruth Hanna Hoover, Who died of polio and pneumonia complications. , The Union City high school senior became ill with bulbar polio two weeks ago and had been la an Iron lung at toe Bal) Memorial hospital in M anole, where she died Saturday afternoon. Tbs mother, Mrs. Virgie Hoover, and a sister, Mra. Samuel Beals, Saratoga, survive.