Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 227.

Report Op, McCarthy Censure J w 'V ' s®-5’ . ■ > *yiw3u; •■L-jgJgpr Bbp- ** J SENATORS Arthur V. Watkins (left). chairman, and Edwin C. Johnson, took over in toeir Washington office the report of their special (■onwnittee that has been nudying demands for cennure of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (RrWia) The report wm unanimous. The Senate will be convened in special session on Nov. 8, six days after Election Day, to consider the possible censure of the Wisconsin Senator.

1,500 Killed When Typhoon Hits Jap Ship . 58 Americans Are Among Victims Os Japanese Typhoon TOKYO (INS) — The bodies of 1,500 persons — including 58 Americans drowned in what may be history’s second largest peacetime shipping disaster — were strewn over the northernmost Japanese Island of Hokkaido today by a typhoon weathermen once called “moderate.” At least 1.127 persons were considered drowned when lit) ■ mile • an- hour gales slammed int</ the crowded and top - begvy ferry Toys Mani just off Hokadate harbor. The disaster apparently was second only to the 1912 sinking of the liner Titanic in the North Atlantic in peacetime maritime tragedies. Most of the remaining casualties were aboard four slightly smaller boats when the seas off Hokkaido suddenly went wild or were trapped in fires and floods on the island in the wake of the typhoon. The Japan National Railways Corporation said 209 ships were sunk by the typhoon, and at least 1,140 others damaged. The announcement said only 103 ,crew members amOhg 511 manning the five largest boats escaped. Forty persons were burled for 16 hours in a landslide on Hokkaido, but only 10 were in serious condition when rescuers dug them out. Meanwhile, authorities throughout Japan totaled up damage from the typhoon and reported 635 known fatalities, 957 injured and 1,050 missing persons. Most of the missing were lost in the sea off Hokkaido and presumed drowned. The Railways Corporation estimated damage from the sinking of the Toy a Maru and four other ships at $13,900,000. Passengers aboard the Toya Maru were tossed into the churning seas when a group of bulky railroad coaches shifted, throwing the terry off balance. ~ - The bodies of 442 persons werw known to have been recovered, among them 13 Americans. Hundreds more were washed ashore on Hakodate Beach. Two Americans survived the disaster, Pfc. Frank Goedkin, 21, of Dubuque, la., and Donald Orttb identified as a missionary. Goedkin told authorities he grabbed a life preserver and “drifted ashore on the wind and tide." Ooedkin said be was “not sure how I got out but I believe 1 escaped through a porthole.” He was carried to an emergencyhospital by a Japanese who found him sprawled la a warehouse where he had crawled when he reached shore. Among the Americans listed aboard the Toya Maru were Dean Leeper, 33. a YMCA secretary, and T. M. West, 60. manager of the. Max Factor cosmetics firm In Japan. Most of the U. S. passengers aboard (he boat were military personnel.' Damage reports were still coming in from the battered city of Hakodate. V. S. Army Col. Henry C. Ahalt reported extensive damage throughout the community, and a total failure of lights and power hampered a final assessment of (Continued on Page Five)

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Methodist Addition Dedicated Sunday Chapel Addition To Church Is Dedicated The new chapel addition to the First Methodist church was dedicated at special services Sunday by Bishop Richard C. Raines, Methodist bishop of Indiana. Speaking for the churches under his jurisdiction, he sail!. “We congratulate you for the way in which you have dreamed of better things for this church. We are grateful for your sacrifice, your vision, for the able way In which you have organized yourselves, and the generous way in which you have given. Give even more generously, pray even more earnestly, attend even more regularly for our day and generation will perish it we do not do so. It will be redeemed if we do.*’ A large crowd spilling over from the sanctuary Into the lecture room heard Bishop Hyungki Lew of Korea give the main address at the morning worship service. After complimenting the local congregation on the completion of the new structure, he told of the rebuilding program of the Methodist church in Korea. In emphasizing the great task of the Christian church in combating Communism Bishop Lew said, "When the Communists came down from North Korea in 1950, they smashed the Christian work. They will continue to try to do so. Some of our friends in various parts of the’world have felt that Christianity and Communism can coexist. We have found that they cannot! We strongly compete with Communism. And unless we are more evangelistic, more enthusiastic about our gospel, we are going to lose ouL You cannot shoot Communism! The only way to combat It is to change its adherents. The we will but use it right!"

gospel of Jesus Christ will do it if Need Mlealonarlea The Korean bishop made a special plea for young missionaries to come for Christian service in his country. "Materially, you have helped us immeasurably. We will never forget! But money is not everything,” he said. “Money canhot build the church, money cannot build a personality, money cannot build the Kingdom of God. We appreciate your gifts, but what we need most ft personal help. We appreciate yourprayers but we also need your missionaries! Then we can build as you have built." At the conclusion of Bishop Lew’s address the new building was presented to Bishop Raines for dedication. Alva Lawson, chairman of the board of trustees, made the presentation. He said, “We present to you this building to be dedicated to the glory of Almighty God. and to the purposes of worship, fellow(Cosvtlnurd on Page Two)* Frank Gibson Dies Saturday Afternoon Frank Gibson, 84, of Monroeville. a retired farmer, died Saturday afternoon at the Alleh county home. Surviving are two brothers, Simon Gibson of Decatur and Charles of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Scott Mapes of Wayne, G., and Mrs. Alice Jentry of Toledo. O. Funeral servlcw will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in St. Rose Catholic* church, Monroeville, the Rev. Augustan Kondziela officiating. Burial will be In the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville.

No Change In County's Tax Levy For '55 Reductions Made In Township Levies By State Tax Board . No change was made in the three county tax levies this morning as George Gable of the state tax board' began review of the 1955 tax rates for Adams county. Sitting in on; the review sessions: is Cy Steele, a representative of toe Indiana taapuyensi association. The county levdew a* approved by the state board wdR be 39 cents for county general, Il cento for welfare and three cents for hospital, tor a total county levy of 53 cents. The board: is now in the process of reviewing township levies. Townships already studied include Blue no change; Preble, a one-eent cut in the tuition tor a total of 2.46. Poor relief was reduced' one cent in Monroe township. The total levy tor this township has not been determined since the Adams Central school levy has not been (studied. The Union township tuition levy was reduced one cent to make a total rate of $2,441. The $2.80 levy proposed for Root township was l not changed. St- Mary’s township total levy was reduced to $2.84 with a eeven-cent cut in the special scluool levy and a four-cent reduction in the tuition levy. Jefferson township’s tuition levy was cut six cento and residents of that township will now pay a total levy of $3.22. No changes were made in the township and poor relief levies for Washington. Kirkland. and French townships. These, however, may be Changed when the .board studies Adame Central school and Berne-French school levies. Vote For Strike At Anderson Factory ANDERSON. tofl. tINS) —Ottlcials of the (80 United Auto Werbers aaM today toe 81 percent of the workers voted Sunday for a strike wt the Detoo-Remy Division of General Motors Corporation in Anderson. Gene Pitts, union, local president, said a speedup is. the chief grievance but added that the 10,000 workers will not strike unless the walkout is authorized 1 by the national union organization. One Accident Takes Five Lives In State Head-on Collision At Lebanon Bypass INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — If it had not been for a head-on collision on the Lebanon bypass of Road 52, in which five died, Indiana would have had the lowest highway death toll of the year this week-end. However, Raymond Bueter, 57, a Fort Wayne automobile dealer, was Injured fatally at the junction of Roads 313 and 6, one and onehalf miles horth of Syracuse.

His car collided with an automobile driven by Jay Miller, 26. a reporter for the Cleveland Press. Miller was hurt seriously and Edward Monahan, of Fort Wayne, riding with Bueter, was injured critically. They were taken to a hospital at Goshen. The five killed near Lebanon were Lawrence G.Blenkenfblp, 24, and his wife, Aiene, 17, of Indianapolis; Clem Cecil Guy, 45, driver of the other automobile, and Omer Bowman, 48, and his wife, Pheba, all of Jefferson City, Tenn. Injured were Grace Boyman, 16 and Billy Joe Bowman, 20, both reported in satisfactory conditions today. Twenty-three persons have died in accidents on the flve-mile strip of uncompleted highway since it was opened in 1950. Ten were killed this year. Also, William Sturdevant, 28, of Alexandrta died in Long Hospital in Indlanapolisofmjurtes"suffered in a collision on Road 28 near its (Continued on Page Six) Young Pilot, Girl ! Die In Plane Crash . MT. VERNON, hsi. (INS) — A young airplane pitot and his 18-year-dld girt friend have been killed In a plane crash 11 miles northeast of Mt. Vernon. The dead were Homer Ted MIUs. 25, of Newburgh, Ind., and Emily Mae Raley, 18, of Evansville, Ind. State police said the plane, which had taken ott from Evansville, apparently developed engine trouble and noee dived to the ground.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 27, 1954.

Committee s Report Recommends Censure Os Senator McCarthy

Quick Accord Is Sought At London Parley Report U. S. Favors Britain's Plan Os / Quick Agreement LONDON (INS) —Authoritative sources reported today that the U. 3. has accepted Britaiu's plan for trying to obtain a quick ninenation dkreement in principle at the London conference on the restoration of 'West reignty. British foreign secretary Anthony 'Eden’s agenda also is designed to bring about a rapid accord on inclusion of West Germany in Brussels pad and th or th Atlantic treaty organizatWm (NATO)'. The U. S. delegation also is expected to support Eden’s bid for chairmanship of the nine-power meeting which begins Tuesday. Since no Communist nations are represented at the conference no reason was seen in American delegation circles for a rotating chairmanship. The U. S. and Britain nope to obtain an agreement in principle on GermanVearmament before toe conference has 'a chance to bog down in controversial details. _ Preach sources disclosed on tw eve of the nine-nation meetfug that Premier Pierre Mendes-France intended to 'bring up the longstanding problem of the Saar wftti West German Chancellor Konrad Adeneuer.

Mendes-France, these sources said, will request that France must have assurances of a satisfactory settlement of the Saar question before the French parliament can be expected to approve the rearmament of West Germany. But it probably will be extremely difficult for Adenauer to promise any concessions T6~France“on the Saar problam during the London conference for two teasons. He must consider his dangerous political position at home, and he is faced With, the fact that the Saar was linked closely with the European defense community (EDC) plan which France rejected. The French delegation in London also is pessimistic about indications that Britain will refuse to assume any new military obligations beyond those to which she already is committed in the North Atlantic treaty organization (NATO.)

The British government is prepared to accept a system lor control of armaments, provided it applies only to European allied forces on the continent and not to (Continued on Page Six) Charges Pentagon Fosters Monopoly Senator Assails Secretary Wilson WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Henry M. Jackson charged the Pentagon today with fostering monopolistic conditions in the auto industry by concentrating military contracts to General Motors Corp., formerly headed by defense secretary CbarlesE. Wilson. The WasHtogton Democrat said tn a gtSttobeift issued by 'his office Sunday that in tbe first 18 months of the GOP administration GM’s defense contracts increased by sl.700,000,000 while auto industry competitors had a net of $395,000,000 worth of orders cancelled. Jackson declared: . Wilson’s reversal of the Demo; cratic policy of broadening the defense production base is a matter for great alarm.” He Mid tbe matter of awards "has been reversed so sharply that J can only conclude that the concentratidn of these cpntrfcta . . must reflect a settled procurement poljcY of the defense depsrtment under secretary Wilson."

School Boycotted By White Students Delaware School Is Ordered Reopened MILFORD, Del. (INS) —Eight Negro pupils in a private car motoroase escorted by two police ears drove up to the Milford high school today to attend classes which were boycotted by two thirds of the white pupils, qwo ' others arrived in the r?gulp,r echool bue. Only about a third of the 680 white students were reported present for the reopening of the high school (which had been closed all last week when bitter racial feeling threatened to erupt into violence over the ban on segregation. The school (board, which had ordered integration in the public schools, resigned last wees, and the state board of education ordred the reopening todav, promising protection for the 11 Negro students who ate enrolled. One of the 11 was absent - - The 11 had enrolled in the 10th grade of the "white” high school after being graduated from the 9th grade of a segrated school. The Negro high school is 20 miles ’ aay in Dover. The parents of white students ' were urged at a Sunday rally at ' the Harrington Airport to keep ' their children home today. And it F was apparent when the first school : buses started arriving that most ; of the white students were boycotting classes. The first bu» discharged only 10 , pupils, the next had three, and so . bn. Ordinarily, there is standing room only on the buses which i accommodate about 40. Meanwhile, 25 state troopers - aided by 10 Milford policemen . patrolled the area around the t school, where about 60 residents . had 1 gatered when- the ecboofl oi>ened. The Sunday rally of 3,000 was . <*U*4 the national asauciation for the advance of the white people, headed by Bryant W. Bowles.

Says Strauss Sought To Bar Publication Strauss Sought To Protect Scientists WASHINGTON (INS) -The coauthor of the 'book. The Hydrogen Bomb, has disclosed that atomic energy commission chairman Lewis L. Strauss tried to bar its publication until after the deaths of Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and others of whom it is critical. James R. Bhepley, Washington bureau chief of Time (Magazine who wrote the book with Time’s Pentagon correspondent. Clay Blair Jr., said that Strauto - motive to suppress the book were of the highest. Shepley aeoerted Sunday on the NBC's television program, "Comment." that he could only surmise that the AEC chairman 'was under "very great pressure and that he wished to shield his scientists from public controbersy." straues . was reported to have generally confirmed Shepley’s remark to the effect thst he. StrauM, offered to buy the manuscript of the book and keep it for 25 years “or at least until most of the individuals concerned'"’are dead. 6nd then let it b«rpublished." - WWE tol* publisW WuST day, charges that ■ Oppenneimer - dubbed the "father of the atomic bomb” by Washington! news corpe-together with some amoclates "almost destroyed” the balance of atomic power between Soviet Russia and the U. S. by ills original opposition to development of the hydrogen (bomb. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Tussday. Not quite so oooi north tonight. A little cooler north nortion Tuesday. Low tonight 62-66 north, 55-60 south. High Tuesday around 80 north, mid 80s south, x ~

Indict Man As Kidnap-Slayer Os Daughter Charge Kidnap And Murder Os Child To Baltimore Attorney BALTIMORE (INS) — James T. Roberts, Baltimore attorney and one • time labor leader charged with the kidnap - murder of his seven-year-old daughter Judith Ann, was turned over to Florida authorities today when he waived extradition proceedings. Two Dade county, Florida, detectives took him to their waiting automobile and began the journey back to Miami, where his daughter's beaten and nearly nude body was found last July 7. . Judith Ann, with her father and mother, had come to Florida to visit the home of her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Roseqberg. . Judge H. H. Murray released (Roberts to the custody of deputy sheriff William McCrory and detective Earl Venno. Roberts’ wife was l with her husband at the Towson, Md.; court house. She brbke Into'tears as her handcuffed husband was placed in the autq. He clutched four mystery magazines hi one hand. (Earlier in the day. Roberta had talked to reporters in his cell and had denied that he was guilty of the crime. To the question "Did you do it?" Roberts replied; "No. Furthermore I don't know who did. No. I didn’t do it. I have no idea who did unless it was one of those men who work around the place down there. I’ve got a clear conscience and I’m glad it came.out because it would have hung over me all the time.” Roberts surrendered early today to authorities at Towson; Baltimore county seat, three, hours alt[er police had broadcast an alarm for his arrest. 3 ' He was to be arraigned before Judge Howard Murray, Baltimore eounty state's’ attorney John S. Raine said Roberta advised him he would not fight extradition to Miami, Fla., where the little girl was slain last July 7 two days after she arrived with her family on vacation. Judith Ann was abducted from the Miami home of her grandfather, Harry Rosenberg. The girl’s beaten and nearly nude body was found about a mile from the Rosenberg home within a few hours after his disappearance had been discovered. Tbe child was taken from a sofa on which she was sleeping and the kidnaper drove off in the Rosenberg automobile after taking the (Ctontfnued. on Page Raymond H. Bueter Dies In Auto Crash Fort Wayne Man Is Victim Os Accident Services for Raymond prominent Fort Wayne auto dealer, who was killed in an auto crash Saturday night, will be conducted Wednesday at 10 a.m. in ®t. Jude’s Catholic church, Fort Wayne. The V. Rev. Msgr. Charles.. F. Girardot wilLofficisjs. MurlaLjKilL-bfLUiAiMti Catholic cemetery. ; , Mr. Bueter and Ed Monahan were returning to Fort Wayne from South Bend where they attended the Notre Dame-Texas U. football game. Jay Miller, 26 of Cleveland, driver ’df tha bther car, Was not seriously hurt The fatal crash occurred at the intersection of state road 313 and US 6, two miles north of Syracuse at 9 p.m. Monahan remained unconscious this morning. He is a brother-in-law of the deceased. Mr. Bueter is survived by hie wife, four daughters and one son, and five sisters. He has a number of relatives in this county.

Baby Sitter, Charge Murdered Saturday 14-Yeor-Old Girl And Boy Murdered SPRINGFIELD, Mows. (INS) — Investigators today reported defi«lte progress in the probe of the krtife murders last Saturday night of 14-year-old( baby sitter, Lynn Ann Smith (and her charge, Stephen Goldberg, 4%. Authorities expressed beMef they were “on: the track” of the murderer. One investigator declared: ■’ll to early yet (to say just what we know, but we’ve made definite progrese and we might have something hot before tang.” Lynn Ann, daughter . of Paul Smith, employment manager of the Pratt and Whitney Divieion of United Aircraift Ctorp., and , Steixhen, son of Bernard Goldberg, wholesale meat dealer, police eeid were clubbed 1 and stabbed by a maniacal killer in the modest Goldberg home in the Forest Park section. District Attorney Stephen Moynihan appealed to toe 'public for dues it) toe double murder. Springfield's entire detective force of 25 concentmted on a hunt for a six foot men seen ringing toe front doorbell of the Goldberg home shortly before the girl and boy were elain. - ’ ’ . Bneetteutora. headed by Oapt. James McCarthy, were advised he probably has a ‘badly aciwU|ied. . toce aa all at Lynn Am/a Anger- . nails were torn, an indication Whe put up a terrific fight before euccumbl ng to 38 etab wounds. David was stabbed 24 tonett. Tire victime werb clubbed, even ! after they were dead. The club ’ and toe knife have not been found. “ Stephen’s brother, Robert, 6, probably escaped death by keeptog quiet. He was aeleep in a rear • bedroom but was awakened by 1 Lynn Ann’s ecreanne. Heaaid: "I waa too scared to see what was happening. I crawled jmder the covert# as my bed and put a pillow on tap of me. r kept quiet until the nbtee ended." Police <said toe killer apparently did not know the Goldberg’s (OootlnuMt on Page Three), Old 139fhTo Hold Reunion In Decatur 29th Reunion Here Saturday, Sunday The 29tih reunion of the 139th Held artillery, of World War I, wili be held in Decatur next Saturday and Sunday, October 2 end 3, ut the American Legion home, Jwnrw Staley, president of the 139th field artillery nretactotlon, eald today. The meeting has been arranged' by SOaley andi Dr. Han't 1 "Ike” Nagle, of Ind'tanapcdft, treasurer of toe organisation. Aliout 150 veterans of the World War I outfit are expected to attend. Any members of old Company A. of tlhe 4*h Indiana infantry, which was tatter Incorporated into toe 139th field artillery, are invited to make reservatioua, for toe affair. A banquet will be held at the Legion hall Saturday night with the Rev. O. C. Busse making toe principal address. A business meeting will be held Sunday morning. Das tyear’e reunifan wee held at Rushville, when Staley was elected presddent. TVU» tbq pecopd Clms t ta» muipn.>s. , been, held in Decatur. Originally, volUnteere from Indiana ent listed tn the 4to Indiana infantry. but this wub later changed to toe 139t)h field artillery, which was made up of six batteries, a headquarters supply company and medical detachment. Coi. Robert L. Moorehead, former commaurier of toe uniV will attend from his home in Indianopolie Member* of the regiment are now located in aid parts of tihe country, and some will come tang dtatancee tor the annual convention. I-ocal members of the group include; Barnard Keller. Joseph L. McConnell. Deila* Brown. Leo Bogner. Racy Burrell. Cheater Byran. (Continued on

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Favor Censure Os Senator On Two Categories Report Os Special Committee Sharply Critical Os Senator ' WASHINGTON (INS> — A spc- ■ cial committee recommended today that the senate censure Sen. '■ Joseph R. McCarthy on two of the * five categories of misconduct * charges against him. Even though the committee made no recommendation of cen« f sure on the other three, it used * language sharply critical of the I Wisconsin Republican on each one. The senate will reconvene Nov. > 8 to take up the unanimous report ’ by the six-member committee - headed by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) which held nine days of ' public hearings on the five aets of ' accusations. If the report is approved, McCarthy will stand rebuked by the ' senate on the two counts but the censure will not mean either expulsion or loss of his committee chairmanships. Only three senators have ever been ensured by* tife'senate in its 185 years. r McCarthy's lawyer, Edward Ben- ‘ nett Williams, told newsmen that 1 the senator will wage “a vigorous * and lengthy" fight in which "a ' number of senators" will support * him whan the issue reaches tho 5 senate floor. At Denver, the White House de--1 dined comment * The report recommended censure of McCarthy on charges that ‘ h®: it Was in "contempt of the senr ate or a senatorial committee" ’’ when he failed to respon to requests to testify in 1952 before a 1 subcommittee which investigated r hie finances and other personal 1 activities. ’ 2. Abtfced Brig. Gea. Ralph W. Zwicker, former commandant of Camp Kilmer, N. J., in questioning 1 him about the honorable discharge granted ex-Maj. Irving Perera, an army dentist described by McCarthy as a "fifth amendment Communist." The report, totalling more than 60,000 words, said nine days of public hearings failed to produce evidence which would warrant censure on charges that McCarthy: 1. Encouraged federal employes to violate the law or their oaths of office when he asked them over nationwide radio - TV during the army-McCarlhy hearings to give him evidence of wrongdoing even if it is secret. 2. Received and used an abstract of a “confidential” FBI report on possible espionage at Ft. Monmouth, N. J., scene of one of the most famous and most controversial investigations by McCarthy last year. 3. Abused senate colleagues by making derogatory statements about Sens. Ralph E. Flanders (IRVt.) and Robert C. Hendrickson (R-N. J.) Flanders is the author of the censure resolution which the senate will return to consider Nov. 8 in the light of the Watkins committee report. Hendrickson was a member of the subcommittee which made the 1962 investigation. During the Watkins committee’s hearjjwp,- McCarthy and. bl» towXftUWftrd Bengett Wllliaun, put, (Continued on Page Two) BULLETIN t WASHINGTON (INS) ~ Patrick J. Hillings (R Calif)., said today the 10-m|lllon dollar 8 shipment of Iron Curtain arms to Guatemala before last June’s revolution is now in the hands of Red labor leaders for a counter-revolution "whenever tney feel the time Is appropriate." Hillings made the statement during the opening session of hearings into the Red conspiracy that dominated the Central „ American nation for nearly 10 years.