Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LU, No. 233.

' - /' ■ ■r ■' ■ ‘ " 1 » T. r ■ X ■. < ■ V;, 1 . joint Chiefs Os, Staff Meet In Washington t NJs < '..xv, v ., ■ i Jkl HERE IS THE LATEST PICTURE of the Joint Chiefis of Staff a» they conferred in Washington, I>. C. In the group (left to Adm. Arthur W. Radford, U. s. Navy, chairman; Gen. Matthew B. Rldg'i * 'Staff, i, S. Army; Gem Lemuel C. Shepherds, Jr., Commandant, U. S. Marine Corps; Adm. Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval and Gen. Nathan E. Twining, Chief of Staff, U. S. Air’Force. . _ nL ._ PlVe „ “* COIWMI,ted °« mattera pertaining to the UnJ ted States Marine Corps.

Powers Reach Agreement To Rearm Germany Historic Agreement Reached Sunday In London Conference LONDON (INS) —■lnternational teams of high-ranking experts begin work this week on the multitude of technical detail# involved in Sunday's historic nine-power agreement to bring a sovereign and rearmed West Germany into Europe’s defense system. Conferences are expected to begin in Bonn almost Immediately among representatives of the West German Federal Republic and offi- • iaiw of the French, British and Amrelcan high commissions. Secretary at auie John Foster Duties, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden, West Ceiman chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French premier Pierre MendesFrance are expected to meet in Parle Oct. 20 to study the reporta emerging from the Bonn negotiations. . Representatives of all nine London conference powers will review the experts’ reports on the following day and the results on the following day and the results of both meetings will be taken up at a meeting of the North Atlantic treaty organisation council on Oct. 22.

Although delays and disagreements may develop in the tedious task of working out the details, Sunday’s agreement marked the climax in West Germany's long climb from a defeated notion to a responsible and important member of the family of free nations. The already have acknowledged this fact by instructing their hlxfc coinmisaioners in Germany to refrain generally from using their occupation powers. While the wheels Were set in motion which will grant West Germany her sovereignty the three western powers reaffirmed that their "essential aim” is a peace settlement with a unified Germany. This can be accomplished only through a negotiated agreement with Russia. Britain, Frante and the also defined maintenance of their troops in Berlin as "one of the essential elements of iteace” and said the troops would stay tdere ■so long as "their responsibilities require it." ‘ Twelve Germnn divisions, total ing some 6000:000 men, will take their place in the ranks of the Atlantic security system as part of a tree world force which eventually will number more than seven million men. Under Sunday’s agreement, this wiH ibe accomplished through the North Atlantic treaty organisation (NATO) and through the Brussels pact, a defense alliance signed more than six years ago by Britain, France, Holland, Belgium and Luxetnbaug. The pact will be enlarged to include July and West Germany. . Western Europe’s defense potential under the new agreemeq will be even greater than it would have been under the European defense community treaty (EDO) which the French parliament killed. Thus the t'oinmunbrts, wlu> helped to defeat EDC, saw their efforts boomerang. iMendeedfrahce summoned an extraordinary session of the (French parliament for this Thursday, apparently in line with his promise to seek parliamentary approval of the London agreement ■within a week.

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World War I Vets * : Hold Reunion Here Columbus Man Will Head Association More than 150 veterans of World War 1 and their wives crowded the American Legion hall Saturday night for the 29th annual convention of the 139th Field Artillery, Indiana’s national guard outfit in the first world war. The group enjoyed a banquet of chicken, prepared by the American Legion Auxiliary. The Rev. O. C. Busse, ■pastor of the Preble Lutheran church, made the major address of the evening. Rev. Busse, a veteran of both World Wars, and former state, district and present chaplain of the American Legion, Adams Post 43, praised the veterans for their unselfish and patriotic service during the first World War, "The English language,” said Rev. Bhmm, ’'knowsno noblerwoed, no word of deeper significance, than the word ‘service.* Loyally In response to your country’s call you marched to camp and battlefield, faithfully you performed your duties in order that the tyrannical foe which threatened the liberty of our nation might be crushed.” James K. Staley, president of the 139th field artillery association, presided at the banquet. Mayor John M. Doan officially welcomed the group to Decatur, and pointed out some of the improvements that had been made in the city since the 139th marched away in 1918. Walter Koeneman. commander of the American Legion, Post 43, Rufus Sommer, commander of the Disabled American Veterans, Post 91, «frid Leslie Wunteh!-commander of the local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, were guests at the banquet, and made short welcoming speeches on behalf of their organizations. Members were present from each, of the batteries in the organization, including the band, and medical and ordnance detachments. Col. Robert L. Moorehead, former commander of the 139th, was present, and each of the former officers present made short speeches. Dr. Harry "ike” Nagle, secre-tary-treasurer of the organization, (Continued on Pag# Six) Tonight Deadline For Registration Clerk's Office To . Be Open Tonight The clerk's office will be open until 9 o'clock this evening to permit late registration* for voting, Edward F. Jaberg, clerk of the circuit court, said today. Today is the hurt day for registration. J a berg emphasized, and | the hi»t day to transfer registration for those who have moved since the last election The state law requires a person to re-regie ter if they fail to vote in a coneecu- i live primary and general election, « Jaberg pointed out. Therefore, those who did not vote in the primary this May, nor in the presidential ejection in 1952 wiieo Etoenhbwer defeated Steveneon. ere no longer registered, and must re-register. Thoee Who voted t tn one or both of the above electtone. and have not moved, are still ; ragieteredi, he etated. Anyone who ha® become 21 years of age since the bet ejection, or who will be 21 on or before November L or who has never voted before, or who did not vote In the teat general and primsry •lections, should ragteter thia evening. Jaberg reid.

Pupils March On City Hall In Baltimore Protest Admission Os City's Negroes To Public Schools Baltimore (ins)—two thou■sand high school students from the north and northeastern (Sections of Baltimore marched on city hall today and then beaded for the scene of last Friday’s rioting over the end' to racial segregation. They remained outside city baU tor only a short while, shouting their demands that Negroes) be barred from previously aH-white schools. Baltimore ende< BOhiool segregation in September, but prodid foot begin Hull last week. The high school demonstrators carried placards reading ‘‘Help eave our schools” a® they traveled by foot and automobile to Southern high school, where six were arrested and several slightly Injured in a riot last Friday. T»x> arrested were made near the school today as police, armed with night stick® and re-enforced by 600 additional officers, stood guard throughout the city. There were no incidents of violence when classes resumed this morning after . the weekend recess. However, anti-integration picketing spread and at least 20 schools were affected by a stay-at-home campaign that resulted in thousands of absentee®. Near Southern high, a Negro boy was picked up on charges of carrying a knife. A white man described by police a® an “agitator” was nabbed -when he showed up at the school despite warnings last Friday not to come back again. Only 200 of Southern high school's 1,780 pupils were at their desk® tills morning. Sympathy Gesture WASHINGTON ((INS) — More than 300 students at two Washington high schools refused to attend classes today in a move said by school officials to be a "sympathy" gesture toward Baltimore youtlis protesting the end of racial segregation there. At Anacostia high school, an estimated 200 student® massed at the entrance to the building and shouted they would not go to close. Meanwhile, a similar demonstration was staged, by about 100 stu dents at MlcKinJey high school, but the principal. Dr. Oharlee Blah, succeeded in persuading some at the boye and girls to, report to thedr classrooms. Heavy Rainfall In City Over Weekend Decatur received more than an inch and three-quarters of rain in a 24-hour period up to 8 a. m. today, Herman “Hi” (Meyer, local ■rain gauge reader, reported. Rain was measured at 1.78 laches, Meyer said. The heaviest downpour came Sunday morning, continuing up to about noon. Rain fell early this morning and a drizzle continued through 10 o’clock. St. iMary'e river was rising today and the atream measured 3.55 feet, Meyer said. NEW SERIAL STORY "Tears For The Bride’’, oy Robert Martin, is the name of the new aerial story which will start In Tuesday's Dally Osmoorat It's an Interesting story • w>hlon all readers will enjoy.

— —— — — 4 Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 4, 1954.

Secret Agreements In London Parley Saving Germany For The West

Dulles Idakes | Plea For U. S. Ratification * - Secretary Os State Dulles Back From London Conference WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster DulleeTeturned from the nine-power conference in London today with 4 strong plea for U. . ratification of the agreement reached there for a unified defense of western' Europe. The secretary emphasized that the treaty signed Sunday was the work of European statesmen but added it “wiM be very much in our national interest” to cooperate with the defense system and the plan which will free West Germany and pemit her to rearm. Such cooperation would mean the continued deployment of six American infantry divisions and some tactical air force unit on the continent of Europe. Dulles said the new agreement "can preserve and strengthen the Atlantic community by giving it a hard core of European unity.” He added: “Thus it salvages many of the values of the EDC (European defense community) plan, and win give opportunfty tor the others to lie achieved by further effort.” Dulles stressed the fact that the new agreement was signed 33 days after the French national assembly killed the (FjDC plan. He said thia "shows the vitality of the Atlantic community.” (He said thqt under the new plan: "German sovereignty will be restored, and beginning today the allied high commissioner wiH forego the exercise of most of their occupation rights. "Germany will Join NATO and make an indtepensible contribution to the defense-of the west. This will be done within a cnolinental system of armament control. “Western European unity will be developed within the framework of the Brussels treaty. The mem-, bres of the treaty will became (JContlnued on Pag# Four) Lawrence Hermann Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Lawrence C. Hermann, 60, who resided in Allen county, seven miles south of Fort Wayne on U.S. highway 27, died suddenly of a coronary occlusion at 9 o’clock Sunday morning. Mr. Hormann was stricken while attending servictes at the Suburban Trinity Lutheran church and was taken to the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he was pronounced dead on arrival. He had been in falling health for some time. He was born in Marion township, Allen county, Aug. 4, 1894, a son of Henry W. and Lizette Bulte-meier-Hormann, and was married to Mathilda Schroeder June 30, 1930. Mr. Hormann was a member of the Suburban Trinity Lutheran church, and the Poe volunteer fire department He bad been employed in the shipping department ot International Harvester since 1935. Surviving in addition tq his wife are a son, Franklin D. Hormann of Marion township; four brothers, Albert and Henry of Fort Wayne, and William and Edward, both of Marion township. One brother and one sister are deceased. (Funeral services wiH be conducted at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 o’clock at the Suburban Trinity Lutheran church, ths Rev. L. J. Fuchs officiating. Burial will be in ths church cemetery. Friends may call at ths funeral home after 7 O’clock this evening.

—..-— U. S. Supreme Court .■Opens Fall Session Facing Myriad Os Judicial Problems WASHINGTON (INS) — The suprteme court, which declared public school segregation uneonstltutwnal last spring, open® its fall term today to decide how the controversial order should be carried out. Promptly .at noon, the nine jus- ■ tices entered the ornate "cham- : ber on Capitol Hill to open the i new session which promise® to be i just as important as others in re- ' cent years, ( ' Oblef Justice Earl Warren, -who is celebrating his first anniverwary • on the high i>ench. and his eight 1 associates face a ■myriad of ju- ■ tMcial problem®. The most pressing is a decree spelling out an end ’ to school segregation. The tribunal ie also 'being asked to tackle anew protests over state fair trade laws, questions regard--1 ing the statue of state anti-sedition ■ laws and a hot fight over cowboy 1 flln». 1 Hewing to tradition, the court will transact no business at the ! opening session except to admit ’ about 100 attorney® to the bar of the highest tribunal in the land.. After the short 16-minute session. ’ the court Will recess toy a week' - then knuckle dowMkto an «ver- ' growing docket of case®. ' The public school segregation ie-

r — —■ — ” ‘V we will come up tor a new took by the court Dec. 6 when hearings 1 start on tihe technique the tribunal 1 should follow in ordering states to wipe out segregation practices. Among otiher things, the court ie being asked to rule on lie the decision of the Pennsylvania supreme court which etruck down the conviction of Steve Nelson, PittsburgOi Communist party leader accused of violating the Pennsylvania eedition act. Neteon was fined 110,000 and sentenced to 20 yeana in jail, but the Pennsylvania count , reversed the action on grounds that the state law was superseded by a federal (Continued on Pa|e Five) Air Crash Kills Four Fort Wayne Residents FORT WAYNE. Ind. (INS) — Funeral arrangements were made today for four Fort Wayne residents who died Saturday when a light plane crashed in a field 15 miles east of Buffalo, N. Y. The victims were Richard W. Spencer, 48; his wife, Evelyn; Claudia Jane Myers, 17, and Theron W. Judd, 34, the pilot. They were en route from Fort Wayne to see Kenneth Spencer, the Spences’ son and fiancee of Mlbb Myers, who is a trainee at Sampson Air Base, N. Y. • ■■■*.—.- , . — ——i —i .—_— Plan Entertainment Al Fish Fry Oct. 14 Organ Recital To Precede Meeting Miss Georganna Mcßride, a junior at Decatur high school, will present organ music at the sixth annual city-rural fish try at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, according to Lyle Mailonee, program chairman. Miss Mcßride, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mcßride, has studied prgan in Fort Wayna. She will play from the time the doors open until the program begins. The Decatur Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the affair, which is expected to draw over 1,200 people. Tickets for the event are now on sale throughout the county. Main feature of the program will be entertainment by Jack Kurkowski’s Xylophone band. Robert Heller will be master of ceremonies. The retail division of the Chamber will meet this week to complete details for the fish try. Clarence Ziner is general chairman for the event. \

British Back Rearming Os West Germany Soviet Opposition To Rearmament Is Termed 'Cynical' UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —Britain defended In UN today the rearming of West Germany in the defense of Europe and bluntly reminded Russia that Communist East Germany has raised an army of about 90,000 men. British minister of state Selwyn Lloyd, speaking before the UN general assembly, declared that Soviet opposition to the integration of West Germany with the free world is “quite cynical.” Pointing to the existence of an East German armed force, Lloyd' said: s “Under the guise of police forces, there is an East German army. It consists of about 90,000 men. They are organized into two Soviet type rifle cqrp«. ®ach of two infantry and one mechanized division. *• “There is in addition one inde- .< sgpndent mechanized division. It is ‘eetipated that altogether about 1.2Of) tanks and self-propelled guns are heW by these forces itnff wbewt

: the same number of field, antitank and anti-aircraft gyns. "This is a police force, mark > you.” Lloyd added: "Since October, 1952 these men i have ceased to wear police uniforms and now wear an olive green one with a mixture of old Soviet and Wehrmacht features, "Police ranks have been dropped and military ranks* and insignia adopted. In addition there is a navy of 6,000 strong, an air force called the ’People’s Air Force’ training on Soviet aircraft. Quite apart from all this there are the security, frontier and ordinary police. "In view of these facts the Russian campaign to deny western Germany the opportunity to have any military forces at all, is, I repeat, just cynical. There is no other suitable epithet.” Lloyd struck back at Soviet arguments tbat the western allies are seeking to revive German “militarism” for war — like pur(Conttnned on Paae Five) Harlo V. Mann Dies Late Sunday Night Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Harlo W. Mann, 80, well known retired fanner of Root township, died at 11:30 o'clock Sunday night at the Berne nursing home. He had been seriously''ill since Friday. He was born In Root township Jan. 2, 1874, a son of Joseph and Louisa Kiess-Mann, and was married in 1897 to Auora Cook, who died Nov. 4, 1946. Mr. Mann was a member of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. Surviving are • two daughters, Mrs. Florence Grossman of LaFontalne and Mrs. Louise Egan of Holland, Ind.; four sons, Roy Mann of ißosemeade, Calif., Carl Mann of Ossian, Clifford Mann of Decatur,and Wilson Mann of Monroe; 24 grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; two brothers, John Mann of Decatur and Dr. Frank Mann of Rochester, Minn., and four sisters, Mrs. Lulu Vance of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Ethel Grandstaff, Mrs. Nettie Singleton and Mrs. Verna Sprague, all of Decatur. Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home the Rev. John D. Mishler officiating. Burial will be tn the Decatur" cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock Tuesday evening.

Marilyn Monroe And DiMaggio Separate Career Conflicts Blamed For Rift ■■ ■ . ■ HOLLYWOOD (INS) —Marilyn 'Monroe revealed through her studio today that she and former baseball star Joe DiMaggio have separated. The shapely blonde afar who rose to fame with the aid of a nude calendar picture eaid she is consulting her attorney. Jerry Giesler, and will file suit for divorce in California. The break-up reportedly resulted from the conflicting demands of their careers. (DtMaggio, one time famed "Yankee Clipper" of the N&w York Yankee baseball team, and the famous “blonde bombshell’ w ere married at hte San Francisco city hall on Jan. 14, 1954. Her studio, 20th Century - Fox, said Marilyn informed ft of the separation when she called in this corning and said she would be unable to report for work on the film “Seven-Year Itch.” ~ The separation came as a shock to divorce-hardened Hollywood. Ai though there had been whispers of domestic dlfificulties in the DtMaggio household, the couple had repeatedly denied there was any trouble, and their triends insisted the athlete and the star were blissfully in love, : Not 4eag age ehe told reporters

- at u studio news conference that •he and DiMaggio had made a t happy home life and that she hoped to have a baby “as soon as possible.” ’ i DiMaggio was reported to be in . Hollywood, but he could not be t located immediately for comment A studio said Joe covered the World Series as a newspaper re- . porter. He also has a television ■program in New York. .Last month, Marilyn and Joe b went together to New York, where (Continued on Page Five) Man Sentenced For Beating Daughter Jefferson Township Farmer Is Sentenced Arthur Osborne, 35, Jefferson township farmer, drew the maximum penalty of a >SO fine and 30 days in the county jail for cruelty to his own child, from Mayor John Doan, in city, court this morning who described the case as "one of the worst offenses in the seven years I’ve been judge of this court.” > Osborne, father of five daughters, entered a plea of guilty to beating h‘ls 12-year-old daughter with a broom handle and then forcing her to eat cow manure from the floor of his barn. Os-

borne, who accepted bis penalty stoically, told the mayor hft dld it because ehe talked back to him, and told him she didn’t have to clean the barn again. The incident occurred September 19, and was reported to prosecutor Lewis Luts Smith Saturday morning by Mrs. Osborne. Osborne wws arrested about 3:45 o’clock Saturday afternoon by Smith, deputy sheriff Merle Affolder, and state trooper Walter Schindler. Smith filed the affidavit against Osborne under the 1889 cruelty to children statute. Mayor Doan and Smith both remarked at the enforced leniency ‘of the law provides for a maximum penalty of 850 fine and 30 days in jail, lees, as Smith pointed out, than can be given for killing a pheasant out of season. Smith stated that Osborne had previously beaten his daughters with a log chain, according to the mother, but that no charge would be tiled at this time for the earlier offenses. Also in mayor’s court this morning Frank Straub appeared and paid a fine totaling 818 for public intoxication; Straub -was arrested a week ago. and the case was continued until today. Walter Kruse, of route ♦, paid a fine of 85 and costs for public Intoxication, having been arrested Saturday.

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Secret Pacts Play Part In London Accord e Diplomatic Sources Admit Agreements Reached In Secret LONDON (INS) — Authoritative diplomatic source® admitted today that pertain' secret agreements f played a part ini the titotoric London conference accord saving Germany for the west. These agreements were not mentioned 1 in the lengthy “final act” and other documents made public Sunday at the conclusion, of the successful nine-power meeting because the issues involved in them were not eettled completely. , However, International New® Service Is able to disclose that the two most Important problems on which secret understandings in principle were reached were the long-standing Saar dispute, and the so-called emergency powers, or rights reserved by the U. S., Britain and France in western Germany. A 'tentative understanding reached by French premier Pierre , Mendes-France and West German chancellor Konrad. Adenauer provide that the coaA-rich Saar area . . zx v ■yvllOlllii I>r* i*/i I r r n.l Tri7w‘fl WlT.fi'l 11 < irt’

wiqiiiu w ivurtypßciTPizJHi wkihii rrre framework of the Brussels’ pact. The plan they discussed—end on which they reached agreement in principle — envtatone replacemen t of the French high commiaßioiner in the Saar with a Franco-German commissariat which would be re* sponsible to the Brussels pact council of mtntotere. Under this plan France’s. economic intereetw in the Saar would be protected while the inhabitants of the area would enjoy political autonomy and be protected’ agafnat de-Germanlza.tlot». A secret underatandlng on emergency powers wae reached among Adenauer, MendawFrenoe, British foreign secretary Anthony Eden and U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles. It provide® that these power® shall be modified to restrict the right of the allied nations to reimpoee the military occupation and aeeume plenary powers anytime they f®lt a threat existed to their force® wtationed ini Germany, Britain. France and the U. S. would have enjoyed these rights under the European defense community treaty (EDC), which the French parliament killed. A» 4t (Continued on Page Two) Two Persons Killed In Fire At Detroit DETROIT (INS) — A four-alarm fire at the Edgewater Park ballroom in Detroit Sunday night killed at least two persons, razed the 8250,000 building, and caved tn the hall's roof only moments after 550 dancers had fled to safety. The fire was touched off by lightning which struck the top of the building during a violent thunderstorm. Police still are probing the rubble for bodies of other per* sons possibly kilted. Washington Bank Is Victim Os Holdup WASHINGTON (iNßj* — A youthful gunman staged a. 81,000 holdup today in Washington's famed Riggs Bank, which la jual across Pennsylvania Avenue from the U.S. treasury and less than a block from the White House. The Riggs Bank, one of the capilal’s oldest financial institutions, has numbered' among its patrons most U. S. presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, who often stepped over from the White House to conduct his banking business in person. INDIANA WKATHBR Partly cloudy with scattered showers tonight and Tuesday. Little change In temperature. Low tonight 63. High Tuesday SS.