Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 234.

Dulles Home From Conference ■■■■.. ......... |e i BACK FROM the Nine Power Conference in London. Secretary "oF State John Foster Dulles is greeted by Herbert Hoover, Jr. (left) new assistant secretary of state and Walter Bedell Smith, the man he replaces in. that poet. Dulles expressed satisfaction with the London conference bn sovereignty for West Germany.

Admits Giving French Secrets To Red Newsman Frenchman Claims Information Given To Help End War PARIS (INS)—'Roger Labrusse. handsome confessed peddler of French military secrets. today he relayed such information to Communist journalist Andre Baranes to “help bring an end to the Indochina war.” The 40 • year -old Labruwse, arrested chief of the civil protection department in the national defense committee department in France’s sensational espionage case denied that he was a "Communist spy." But he admitted giving the secret data to Baranes. who worked on the Red newspaper Liberation. Übrw was qtazzed by military tribunal magistrate JPan de Heespguier and tlhdn Meed with his accuser. Baranes. Details of the latter dramatic meeting were not immediately available. Baranes hhnaelf seemed to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown in the relentless grilling in a Communist espionage c ae e which has rocked all France and shakeij French premier Pierre Mendes-Fra nee's regime. “Give me news of my wife," he kept repeating. "Give me news of my two little girls. I absolutely have to see my. wife again to explain things to her. I feel sure she forgives me.” Baranes. suffering from a bad kidney ailment, was put in a prison hospital before being taken out to face La.brus'se. eels-described intellectual and idealist. Labruese told the magistrate that Baranes asked him to give military secrets last March but Labrusse claimed he never knew the secrets of the national defense committee — Prance’s top ■secret group — was going to the Communist party. Labruese said he got the military information from Rene Turpin. the chief of cabinet of the secretary-general of the defense committee. Turpin also is under arrest for endangering national security, and his superior, Jean Mohtt secretary - general to the committee. Iws been suspended and faces trial for negligence. ; ■ h Commissioners In Monthly Session The Adams county commissioners met Monday at the county court, house for the regular session allowing bills. The law firm of Voglewede and Anderson, representing Rd Kukelhan and others, presented a petition for a short ditch in Root township. Joseph H. Geels and Ollie Kreps, were appointed viewers with Herman Moellering county surveyor. Van Wert Farmer Is Fatally Gored By Bull Albert Am, 74. was gored to death by a Holstein bull in a fiejd near his home one and one-half miles west of Ven Wert, 0., Monday afternoon. His Ixxly wan found by hik son, Kenneth. He suffered a crushed chest and internal injuries. Surviving in addition to the son, who resided at home, are another eon. Walter Am of Convoy, 0.; a daughter, iM-ra. Waldo Noffslnger, Continental, 0.; 10 grandchildren and three brothers, Ernest of Van Wert. Fred of Columbus Grove, 0., and Charles of MoMenvllle, Ore.

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Discuss Wednesday Night Store Hours Merchants To Vote On Night Opening About 45 members of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce crowded the city hall Monday night to discuss the question of business houses remaining open on Wednesday night in Decatur. No decision was reached at the meeting, but post card ballots will be mailed to all paid-up Chamber members by Friday of this week, so that each of the nearly SO merchants can vote on the question of staying open until 8 or 9 p.m. for a trial period, Five ministers and a lay representative of the Associated Churches of Decatur appeared before, the retail merchants, and asked that they be given ample warning so that they may re-set their church activity schedules for Wednesday nights. The church group was particularly worried about choir practices and other general .meetings held on Wednesdays, which might include some of the late workers. Both aides of the question of remaining open were represented at the orderly meeting. The trial period was set from the date of acceptance by the merchants until January 1, 1955. The merchants decided that rather than have employes work two nights a week, a method of staggering working hours at night would be used by each store, so that the workers would get every other Saturday pight oft, and would work the same number of hours each week. The election of store hours will be decided by a majority of the cards returned. Alt cards must be returned by Wednesday, October 13, Cliff Brewer, president of the retail division, said. Kenneth Shannon, chairman of the Christmas program committee, which arranges for city Christmas decorations and Santa Claus each year, stated that the following merchants would serve on his committee: Frank Lybarger, Ixmis Jacobs. Harold Niblick. Ben Webster, and William Gass. Clarence Ziner, chairman of the fish fry, which will be held one week from Thursday, reported that all arrangements have been made for the annual fish fry. More fish will be served this year, and more stoves will be used to get the fish to the customers faster, Ziner stated. Also, more waiters will be used. All merchants, whether or not they are contacted, will have jobs at the annfial affair. All retail merchants should report to the gym at 2 p.m. Thursday. Dale Morrissey and George Litchfield reported on the Calithumpian parade. They presented the idea of having art students in junior high classes at both city schools paint fall scenes on the city’s business windows. Prizes would be offered for the best scenes painted. Individual merchant# will be contacted to determine the amount of interest in the idea. Art Students To Aid Community Fund Drive Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art teacher at Decatur high school, has agreed to assist the publicity committee for the Community Fund drive which begins Oct. 12. Miss Kauffman will supervise the preparation of poster* advertising the Red Feather drive. The posters will be created by students in the art department. The publlcity»commltteo includes the Rev, Ray Walther. Louis Jacobs and Jo* Kaehr. E. W| Lahkenau is chairman of the 1954 drive, which has a goal of $111,645. T. C. Smith is fund president.

Long Dispute Over Triesfe Ended Today Nine-Year Dispute Ends With Pact By Italy, Yugoslavia LONDON (INS) — The nine-year-old dispute over strategic Trieste was settled today in an agreement initialled by Italy and Yugoslavia aided by American and British diplomacy. s— Under the “memorandum of understanding” ’ltaly gets zone A of the Trieste free territory, approximately 86 square miles with a population of 300,0G0 and which includes the city and port of Trieste. Zone A now is occupied by American and British troops/ Yugoslavia gets zone 8, approximately 119 square miles of hinterland below Trieste city with a population of 75,000. Marshal Tito’s troops have occupied that zone since the war. The text of the four - power memorandum was accompanied by an annex and a rough map which was labeled “approximate.’’ It did not specify the small territorial change understood to be involved. The memorandum and annex chiefly were devoted to protection of populations on both sides, notbaly minorities. The memorandum said that the Italian and Yugoslav governments will immediately appoint a boundary commission to effect “a more precise” demarcation than is vided on the map. Representatives of the Allied and Yugoslav military governments will carry out preliminary demarcation moves not later than three weeks from today. Once the boundary adjustments are effected all military government will be terminated in both zones and the Italo-Yugoslav governments will extend civil administration into the areas for which they are responsible. The 8,000 American and British troops occupying Zon§ in the city at the head of the Adriatic Sea are preparing tp withdraw and British Governor Brig. Gen. Sir John Winterton will soon hand over his duties to an Italian administrator. Points in the memorandum: Italy undertakes to maintain a free port at Trieste in accordance with provision of* the Italian peace treaty. Italy and Yugoslavia undertake not to prosecute or discriminate against the person or property of any resident of the various areas for past political activities. Both agree to negotiate within two ‘months promptly an agreement regulating border traffic. The agreement was concluded almost a year after the United States and Britain announced their intention of withdrawing troops from Trieste. Anglo - American troops are expected to withdraw in a month. The agreement is a de facto one rather than a de jure accord and is not equivalent to a formal treaty. A treaty would have necessitated a modification of the peace treaty with Italy with the participation of Russia, one of the treaty signatories. Pack Os Roving Dogs Is Damaging Sheep Five Damage Claims Reported Last Week A pack of roving dogs in three square miles of northeastern Root township has been doing great damage to sheep herds, August Selking. Root township trustee, said today. Five claims for damage to sheep have been reported in the past week, with the last report claiming seven sheep killed by the dogs,. Selking said. Any farmer who sees dogs running his sheep is asked to contact Selking immediately so that action may be taken. According to the state law, Selking points out, “If any dog shall be found roaming over the country unattended by his master or owner or his owner's agent, it shall be lawful to kill such dog." Also, Selking quoted from the law, “It shall be lawful for any person at any time, to kill any dog which may be found running, worrying, or injuring sheep.” The latter is from an 1851 statute which was reenacted in 1947. Selking asked the cooperation from all Root township farmers in ending the menace by keeping their dogs tied, and by promptly reporting and killing any dogs actually seen killing the sheep.

Decatur, Indiana, Tues< ay, October 5, 1954.

1,000 White Students In Nation’s Capital Cutting Class Today

Reveals Heavy Bank Deposits Made By Powell Senate Committee Told Os Deposits Exceeding Salary BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — A banker, a bookmaker and a homebuilder testified today that Clyde L. Powell bet more than SIOO a day on horses, borrowed $7,500 from the holder of a federal housing administration mortgage and banked much more than he earned as an FHA official. WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate banking committee was told today that Clyde L. Powell, ousted federal housing official, made bank deposits totalling $138,365 more than his government salary over a 10-year period. The committee also heard evidence that, during those 10 years, Powell reported on his federal tax returns no income other than that received from the government. The senate group, which is investigating housing scandals, was told that from 1945 until he was forced out of the federal housing administration last AprtT, - Powell made deposits totalling $218,630 in the Riggs National Bank in Washington. Committee chairman Homer E. Capehart (R Ind.), said that Powell, former assistant FHA administrator in charge of the rental division, would be given an opportunity to testify “and to refute any statements that have been made.” John R. Cocker. Riggs bank rep-, resentatives, testified under questioning by Simon that on June 2, 1948, Powell obtained a draft of $8,486 payable to Rocco Degrazia, who has been identified as a Chicago gambler. Mrs. Degrazia is one of 11 witnesses scheduled to testify todaybefore the committee headed by C&pehart. He said he wanted to find out from Mrs. Degrazia where her husband is, but he added that up to this time she has insisted she does not know. Capehart said he wanted to find out why Powell sent Degrazia a cashier's check for $8,700 in 1950, He declared Powell obtained the check from Washington’s Riggs National Bank with eight SI,OOO and seven SIOO bills. The senator said he intends to call Powell to the stand a third (Continued On Pnqe Eight) Another Heavy Rain Here Monday Night 1.27-lnch Rainfall Reported In City The local area was soaked with another heavy rain during the night, precipitation measuring 1.27 Inches, Hi Meyer, local rain gauge reader, announced this morning. With Sunday’s downpour, Decatur has received 3,05 inches of rain .in .48 hours. Farm fields are soaked, the combining of soybeans has stopped and the countryside has too much moisture, farmers report. Today’s rain started after midnight and became a downpour early this morning, Meyer said. St. Mary’s, river was on a rampage. flowing at 4.34 feet, a hike of more than a foot in 24 hours. City street crews have been sweeping leaves and opening manholes along the streets sothe flood of water can run away. (Residents complained of flooded basemeijjs, although no great damage was reported. It will take several days of dry weather before harvesting of soybeans can be resumed and in some cues the heavy downpours did damage to the crop.

Say Prison Guards Are Set For Strike State Prison Guards All Ready To Strike INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Union officiate announced today that guards at the Indiana state prison at Michigan City will strike “by Friday" unless the state recognizes their union. However, Merlin W. Griffith, vice-president of the Independent Guards Union, said 37 men would be left in the prison to maintain security and that there would be no walkout at the state reformatory at Pendleton. Griffith said the union seeks a 0-hour week, correction of unfair working conditions and rehiring of four guards who. he contends, were discharged for union activity. Governor George N. Craig has refused to recognize the union, has mobilized five companies'of the Indiana national guard and has warned that any guard walking off the job will be fired automatically. State police also have been readied for action. Nevertheless, Griffith said: “If the state does not make some effort to talk to us about recognizing our union by Friday morning, we are going to walk out. I’m still hoping for a last-ditch meeting with somebody from the state government, but ! haven’t heard a word so (ar. ' "I might not be able th hold up some of the guards until Friday, because strike sentiment is urrinlng strongly." (Coatlaurd On Page Kleht) Democrat Campaign Caravan Opens Tour In Fourth District October 23 And 25 Workers leaving factories, shoppers along Main street. Indiana, farmers at crossroads throughout the state, will hear the Democratic story directly from .state and congressional candidates from a campaign sound truck which left Indianapolis this morning. Joining the group this afternoon, in time for the kick-off rally in Valparaiso this evening, will be Severin H. Schurger, Democratic candidate for judge of the Indiana appellate court. Schurger is the first state candidate from Adams county since Judge Huber DeVoss in 1938. The sound truck, which will lead the Democratic caravan, is emblazoned with signs proclaiming the value of a Democratic vote, and urging support for the party’s congressional candidate through whose district the truck passes. The campaign will start in the second district, where Democrat James H. Berg, veteran of World War II and the Korean war. and a (ormer director of public relations of the Indiana department of veterans affairs, Is challenging the 20-year reign of Charles A. Halleck, Republican of Rensselaer. The truck’s schedule calls for an average of 25 brief stops each day. with two days being spent in each congressional district. Local candidates will swing in behind the caravan as it crosses their counties. Brief stops will lie made at factories. town squares, crossroads and “wherever we see people," according to Democratic state headquarters. Twenty-three days of grass roots campaigning, coun-ty-wide caravans, and short speeches are planned with a hoped-for 575 stops. i . The caravan will be in the fourth district, which includes Adams county, on October 23 and 25. In the fourth district, Fred W. Greene, Fort Wayne attorney and veteran of World War I, in which he was injured in a plane crash, and a graduate of Tri-State college, and Democratic candidate for the house of representatives, is opposing incumbent Republican E. Ross Adair, Both men are wellknown In Decatur. 'j

New York Port Is Crippled By Strike Today Longshoremen Walk Out, Stalling All Cargo Operations NEW YORK (INS) — The vast port of New York was hit today by a crippling (strike of 25,000 longshoremen who walked out for the second time in six month*. The strike will stall all cargo operations and make particularly difficult tihe unloading of two giant ocean liners, the Cunard Line's Queen Mary and the American Export Line’s Independence, due to dock thte morning. • The surprise wbiokut was called following a breakdown in contract revewal negotiations between t’he old- International Longshoremen's Association and the New York Shipping Association. The dockers gave quick approval to their leaders’ recommendations to 'halt all work in the nation’s busiest port. Union leaders said picket lines would be set up at air piers with the execption of the Brooklyn Army base. The nefr strike came six months after the 'ILA ended the longest and eaetlieso walkout 4ft tlie grort'® Idstory. On April 4, longshoremen returned to their jobs after a month-long stoppage. Shipping industry leaders reportedly fear that the fresh tie-up will mean the permanent shifting of millions of dollars of shipping iMuriness to other ports. Many large companies already have taken their commerce business to more (peaceful ports. December Draft Call Unchanged At 23,000 WASHINGTON (INS) — The defense department asked the selective service system today to draft 23.000 men in December, all of them for the army. • The call continues the rate which has prevailed since last July. For five months before that, it had been 18,000 men monthly. In 1953- they also were 23,000 a month. • The new call will bring the number of men drafted since the beginning of the Korean war to 1.885,400. L. L. Ray Dies At Home In Willshire Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon L. L. (Roy) ißay, 68, a resident of Willshire, O„ for the past 41 years, died at 7:45 o’clock Monday evening at his home in that town following an illness of five years. He was born in Salem March 13, 4886, a son of A. J. and Mary Ann McAlhany-Ray, and was married to Eva Workinger Dec. 25, 1907. Mr. Ray, a carpenter qpd clerk, was a member of thef Union Evangelical United Brethren church, two miles southwest of Willshire. Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters, Mrs. Wayne Troutner of Decatur, Mrs. Harry Troutner of Toledo, O„ and Mrs. Ray Jones of Willshire; seven grandchildren; one great-grand-child, and three brothers, Cleo Ray of Celina, 0., Albert Ray of Fort Wayne and Curtis Ray of Bluffton, O. Funeral services will be held at 12:45 p.m. (EST) Thursday at the residence and at 1 p.m. at the Union EUB church, the 'Rev. Harry L. Smith officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral rhome to the residence. where friends may call after 1 p.m. Wednesday. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock tonight until noon Wednesday.

Four-Cent Increase For Soya Employes Contract Is Signed By Union, Company A contract extending to June 30, 1956, which can be reopened next June and providing a tour cent an hour wage increase for local employes, retroactive to July 1, was signed last evening by Central Soya Co., and Local 261 (CIO) of the Brewery and Agriculture workers union, it was announced today. The contract affects more than 475 workers at the Decatur plant Negotiations were underway for a few weeks and agreement was reached late yesterday. Newell Wright, personnel director, represented the company and Albert Tinkham, president, and Kenneth Hirschy, negotiator, represented the union. , ■. The four cent an hour wage increase is in addition to the 14-. cent cost of living adjustment, which was incorporated Into the base rates. There will not be any sliding scale for cost-of-living in the future, it was explained. The wage boost is retroactive to July 1, but due to the bookkeeping detail, the increase will not show in employe checks until next week. Buzz Rupert of the payroll department said the increase would be added to next week’s, checks and that the back pay would be paid within the next two weeks. Operations at Central Soya are in high gear. Carloads of newly harvested soybeans are arriving daily. A trainload of 100 cars of beans arrived in the city yeetarday, workmen said. Judge Homer Byrd Scores Republicans National And State Policies Are Scored - Pointing to the accomplishments of the Republican congress as having brought "the highest living costs with the lowest farm prices and increased unemployment," Judge Homer Byrd sharply criticized the Republican administration at a Democratic rally at Democrat county headquarters, one-half Jilock north of the Second street stoplight. Judge Byrd, of the Welte circuit court, addressed the monthly meeting of the Adams county Jefferson club. Mrs. Walter Koos, vice-president of the club, presided in the absence of president Gerald "Doc" Vizard. Judge Byrd was introduced by Robert H. Heller, local realtor and former speaker of the Indiana house of representatives. Comparing John Foster Dulles' many trips abroad with Gulliver's Travels, Judge Byrd pointed out that in 18 months Dulles has traveled 130,000 miles creating disorder and killing American prestige abroad. Judge Byrd stated that today, after just two years of Republican government, there are over four million unemployed in the country, and 141 distress areas. Judge Byrd had some sharp words for Republican governor George Craig, whose boycott of the Indiana state fair, irate words and attempted interference with the Bluffton street fair, and the use of practically uninhibited trusties from the state prison in the Wells county game preserve, have infuriated local people. Judge Byrd stated that prisoners, who used to sing, "If I had the wingri of an angel, o'er these prison walls I would fly " “re now singing. “If 1 had the ear Os the governor, through these prison gates, I would walk.” Judge Byrd added, ’lt seems that Gov. Craig is trying to build tolroads to roll him into the White House, but he’s running into trouble. It seem* that Capehart and Jenner are erecting a street fair of their own right in the (middle of the governor’s toll road to (Continued An Pa« Eight)

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Mass Protest From Students On Integration Washington Police Break Up Protest On Negro Students WASHINGTON (INS) — More than 1,000 white students at. Washington senior and junior high echoote cut classes today in protest against racial integration and officiate said “unidentified adilts” .were urging the teen • agers to stage demonstrations. Police broke up a mass protest by some 300 students at Anacostia high school with the stem warning that "mob rule" would not ba tolerated. They arrested four demonstrators, two of them juveniles, one 20 years old and the other 21. The older two will be charged with disorderly conduct and agitation. Board of education spokesmen said the protest group at Apacoetia was "larger than yesterday’s." Disturbances at Anacostia and McKinley senior high schools Monday were the first outbreaks in the District of Columbia since integration of Negro and white students began last month. The protest movement spread today to (Eastern and Sousa high •schools, and to Kramer Stuar, Stuart. McFarland, Hine, and Taft junior high schools. (Eastern reported 200 absentees; Kramer, 200; Sousa, “a few ’; Stuart, 60; McFarland, 75; Hine, 200, aud Taft, 600. Appeals by principals at the -respective schools resulted In some desertions from the milling ranks of anti-integration groups. In Baltimore, where white students rioted last Friday and staged a "protest march" on the city hall (Monday, the situation eased and absenteeism decreased. Young Baltimoreans in groups of 20 to 50 were clustered in various parts of the city, but police kept them on the move. In Washington, school officials expressed regret that students and parents had seen fit to ignore President Eisenhower’s plea that the nation's capital serve as a .* “model” for orderly transition from segregated to non-segregated schools. / Meanwhile, officers of Anacostia’a cadet corps absented themselves from their classes to beg their fellow students to end their "strike" and, instead, sign a petition to the board of education, listing their grievances. Cadet Col. Melvin Long, 17, told the demonstrators, "we think this is hurting Anacostia.” He said that if the protesting group would sign the petition, he and other cadet officers would take the document to the board. T. (Police, (in breaking up the mass protest, seized one 'boy and thrust him into a patrol wagon, where he was detained for 15 minutes. There were reports that a group of students from another high school planned a " march'' on the tribunal's ban on segregated education, but superintendent of schools Hobart M. Corning said he had no knowledge of any such move. Deputy chief inspector George W. Wallrodt estimated that shout 300 teen-agers were involved in the Anacostia demonstration. Wallrodt told the youths: "there is not going to be any mob rule around the area of tills school or any other school.” (His warning went uniheeded by the cat-calling youngsters until the patrol wagon arrived. The students •then withdrew to a point about halt a block from AnuoosUa high, where they were joined by several hundred younger pup4J« from Kra- ’ mar junior high school INDIANA WEATHER, Cloudy with occasional rain tonight and in couth and central portions Wednesday. Continued 000 l north. Cooler south tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 48-54 north, 55-63 south. High Wednesday ranging from the 60s north to the Ms south.