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Jeremie, Haiti, After Hurricane Hazel Wd i»-My 1 " j M-.y 'JjJHWgMPSWSTI WB t>wm .ir^J^^nS'i' 1 > sJSi H^MHSI RHiv-a Oi H | BUILDINGS OFF foundations, roots ripped off and boats strewn along the beach Is this scene of havoc in Jeremie, Haiti, in the wake of hurricane Hazel. .1

Farm Troubles Blamed By Ike On Democrats Eisenhower Makes Major Address At Indianapolis Friday WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower was back at his White House desk today after chiding Republicans to stop their gloomy talk and step up their fight, to hold control of congress. . The chief executive, before refusing to Washington to conclude hta vacation, followed up a pep talk to party leaders in Indianapolis Friday night with a major farm speech blaming the Democrats for the fall-off in farm income—an address aimed at helping out GOP candidates in the farm belt. He told some 600 party workers and Republican office-seekers he has been Vstonished” in his recent travels around the country at the amount of gloomy talk he has heard from Republicans about campaign prospects. Mr. Eisenhower declared he has never gone Into any fight with the idea of losing it and warned his party: “We have got to get on our horses, get the spurs in the grease, and get to going.” The President reported back to work bronzed and rested from his eight-week work and play vacation in Colorado. He flew on to Washington late Friday night after his two Indianapolis speeches. Mr. Eisenhower put in a word of sympathy for unemployed workers in industrial and farming areas in an apparent effort to ease the boiling controversy over defense secretary Charles E. Wilson's recent "bird dog” remark on unemployment. >He told a cheering audience of 16.000 which filled every corner of Butler University’s big field house to hear his farm speech: “My heart truly goes out to every one of our citlsens who wants to work and has no Job, or who. In other ways, suffers these economic hardships.” The President said his administration is working tirelessly tc help out distressed areas where the transition from a wartime to a peacetime economy has created unemployment. He recited a list of what he termed 16 "bold, progressive steps” taken by the Republican-led 83rd congress to help the nation's farmer’s in his radio-television address. The speech had originally been billed as non-polltlcal. but Mr. Elsenhower called on farmers to help elect a OOP congress to as sure completion of his program. He said Republicans have gone far toward building "a foundation of enduring prosperity" for agriculture during their 21 months In control of the government, and criticised Democrats for not taking the same steps while they had the reins. The President smilingly recalled In his earlier pep talk that Jack Dempsey ‘‘beat the tar” out of (Contlnund on Page Six) NOON IEDITION

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Union Heads Favor Consolidation Idea AFL, CIO Leaders Working On Plans WASHINGTON (INS) —Leaders of the AFL and CIO are now working on a plan to unite the two giant lalior combines while maintaining the identity of individual unions in each organization. The principle of consolidation and separation was approved by AFL and CIO officials at a harmony luncheon Friday. A six man subcommittee—three men fron^each organization—will noon be created to work out detail! of the plan. Under the program worked out at the luncheon, a constitution will be drawn up for a single American labor organization including all of the national and international union now In the CIO and AFL.. This would mean there would be a few rival unions in the new ■'house of lHbor.” They could merge if they wanted, but the Issue would be left up to each union. AFL president George Meany and CIO president Walter Reuther said that when terms of the constitution are formulated' they will be submitted to a unity committee for approval. If* they receive the committee's okay they twill be passed on to OTO and AFL conventions for ratifications.’ Once that step has beef cleared the terms would go to a joint convention of the AFL and' CIO for final ratification of tie long-sought-for unification. 5 Meany and Reuther expressed the hope that the terms will be ready for approval by next year’s conventions. One hitch in the unification move was the still-open question of whether the powerful CIO steel workers will go along with the “one big family” idea. The steel workers have so far refused to sign a ''no raiding" pact with the AFL and have shown a tendency to go along with United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis on certain issues. In case of a showdown, there is a prospect that the steel workers and possibly the teamsters union might Join forces with the independent miners to form a new labor group.

Transfer Prisoners To Bluffton Jail Five prisoners In the Adams county jail were taken to the Wells county jail at Bluffton Friday night to escape the cold of an unheated 'building. The fiye were taken by sheriff Robert Bhnaluka, assisted by state police. Shraluka stated that the move was neceasary because the boiler in the heating system was not working and the parts for Its repair have not yet arrived. iSbraluka stated that he hoped to have the Boiler repaired early next week. Among the five who were taken to Bluffton were Richard Clark, alleged robber of the Berne, bank, and the 17-year-old sailor who stole and wrecked a car here early this week. INDIANA WEATHER Rarity cloudy and ooet tonight. Sunday meetly fslr and somewhat warmer. Low tonlfht 36-41.

Atom-Powered Carrier Plans Being Pushed Award Os Contracts Seen Forerunner Os Huge Construction WASHINGTON (INS) — The government's announcement of two contracts for design of an atomic-powered aircraft carrier Was described today as the forerunner of a big-scale construction program to be submitted to the next congress. B The move, almost certain to receive bipartisan congressional backing, is expected to result in atomic steam power for a 60,000 ton, Forrestal class aircraft carrier by 1960. —Navy and atomic energy commission sources said that the first step, which itself may cost 100 million dollars or more, will be construetion of full-scale prototype engines to be installed in a “mockup” hull on land, probably at the AEC’s reactor testing station <«t Arco, Idaho. Both the aircraft carrier Itself and duplicates of the prototype engine for power at sea. these sources said, can be built on schedules running a few months to a year behind construction of the “mock-up,” which may take three years. The joint AEC-defense department announcement issued Friday said Westinghouse Electric Co., has been awarded the contract for engine design and development, while the Newport News, Va., Shipbuilding Co., and Bethlehem Steel share a contract for the land-based hull. No dollar value was placed on the hull contract, but Westinghouse was allotted one and a quarter million dollars for the engine designs. The contracts can later be expanded for actual construction work. The announcement said Westinghouse was selected because of the firm's experience in building the nation's first peacetime atomic power furnace, to be completed at a cost of 40 million dollars In 1967. The statement specified that the seagoing power furnaces are to be of the same type as the peacetime model at Shipplngport, Pa. Navy eourcee said the chain reaction furnaces tor the carrier will almost duplicate the so-caii pressurized water reactor at Shippingport. Present plans are to Install four of them, each capable of producing more than 46,000 horsepower for steam propulsion, in the hull (Continued on Page Five) Denies Motion To Quash Murder Count lENiDtAiNAiPOLIS (INW) —Victor H. Lively, 35-year-old confessed slayer of Dorothy Poore, 19, of ■Clinton, loot a legal battle before Criminal Judge Saul I. R&bb Friday. Judge Rabb overruled a motion to quash a third murder count against the Texas defendant who allegedly strangled the young woman to death and crammed her body In a dresser drawer st the Clay-pool Hotel.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 16, 1954.

Toll Os Death, Damage From Hurricane Hazel Mounts; 69 Are Killed ' _ ■ ** *

Adams Central Dedication Is Slated Tuesday Formal Dedication Tuesday Night For Consolidated School The program for the formal dedication of the new $800,009 Adams Central school, Tuesday evening. Oct. 19, was announced today by school officials. ? .. There will be an -open house from 6 to 8 p. m„ when the program starts. The dedication speaker will be Dr. Joseph Wagner of Ball State Teachers college. Gail Orabill. county school superintendent, wRI be chairman of the program: The program follows: Music—-High school band. Invocation —The Rev. John Mishler. Presentation of keys — Robert Yost of Yost Construction Co., general contractors. Acceptance of keys for the school board —Lester Adler, president of board. Acceptance of -keys for Adams Central School Building Corp., Chris Inniger, president. Address- - Dr. Joseph Wagner. Music—High school hand, Robert Ray, director. Benediction — The Rev. Ralph Johnson. The new school plant Is located on a 20-acre tract, one-half mile west of Monroe along state road 124. The district is comprised of Monroe, Kirkland and Washington townships, exclusive of Berne and Decatur. There are four units in the school plant. The gymnasium will seat 2,509 people. This unit also contains the cafeteria, industrial arts, home economics and music room. The other three units each have eight classrooms. The east and west buildings house the grades and the building just east(Coatlaord On Pace Six) Wickard Speech At ✓ Geneva Over Radio. Claude R. Wickard At Geneva Tuesday The speech of former secretary of agriculture Claude R. Wickard at the Geneva high school next Tuesday night will be broadcast over the Portland station, Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman, said today. The speech will be recorded and broadcast at a date and time to be announced. Winfred Gerke, well-knowp Root township farmer and head of the county ASC program here for 16 years, will introduce Wickard, an Indiana farmer who served in the department of agriculture or REA for 29 years. Wickard, who was born on a Carroll county farm In 1893, was elected to the state senate In 1932 and then resigned to help set up President Roosevelt's farm policy a year later. Wickard served In successively higher positions until 1940, when he succeeded Henry Wallace ss secretary of agriculture with full cabinet rank. In 1946 President Truman named him head of the rural electrification administration, and he served in that capacity until 1963. A large crowd is expected for the meeting, which will include Adams, Jay and Wells, counties. Wickard’* Geneva speech will be part of the grass-roots reply to President Eisenhower's farm speech last nighL Both Wickard, and Clarence J. McCormick, former undersecretary of agriculture, will meke a tour of the state during the next two weeks, to answer the President point by point In 19 major farm speeches.

New York Crippled By Truckers Strike General Strike In Metropolitan Area NEW YORK (INS) — A crippling general truck strike bit the metropolitan New YoTk area at 12:01 a.m. today after special mediators failed to settle the wage dispute. Though foodstuffs and essential fuels were expected .to continue moving into the nation's largest city, civic, authorities said the strike of more than 29,099 AFL teamsters would have a “disastrous” effect on general commerce. There were no immediate plans for peace talks over the weekend. The 19,099-member Local 897, which has held firm for a 25-cent package embracing wage and welfare contributions, meets today In Manhattan center at 9:30 am. to give endorsement to the wage demand. The employers, totaling some 1,500, have stuck to their offer of a 10-cents-an-hour Increase package. Efforts to avert the walkout collapsed even with the personal intervention of Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York City/ Light Showers In Knox Flood Area 15,000 Acres Os Farmland Flooded »■ > KNOX. Ind. (INS)— Light showers hampered workers manning slippery-witih-mud dikes along the flooding Yellow River which is expected to hit a 14 foot crest today at Knox. Words of hope were expressed by sheriff Lee James after volunteers built dikes around the city’a sewage disposal plant and a 300bome riverside housing project. James said: “I think well be all right now." Things were not all right west of Knox where the rampaging Kankakee River has extended its boundaries to two-mile widths in spot* and flooded' 16,090 acres of farmland. Although the bridge over the Yellow River on U. S. 35 has been reopened, the river etlll controls an eight-mile st ret oil of Ind. 8 and a three-mile stretch as Ind. 23 and several hundred homes in Plymouth. Some bridges and roads in St. Joseph, Lake and Starke counties have fallen before the onrushdng flood heads of the normally amall and relatively tame rivers that have damaged several million dallars worth of property so far. Northern Lake county Is engaged primarily In mopping up the mud left when the Little Calumet River flooded. It has returned to its normal ohanmeL Conservationists found a lone note of consolation in the Kankakee River rampage. Said the woodland* and wildlife offiicale: "The flood undoubtedly will lead to better duck hunting this winter In marshy Kankakee game preserve." Plan Hearings On TV Crime Shows WIAjSHINOTON (INS) — Sen. Robert C. Hendrickson (R N. J.,) has announced that public hearings will open Tuesday into charges that television crime ehaws eaert a bad influence on school-age youngsters. Hendrickson, chairman of the e nate juvenile delinquency subcommittee. said nearly a score of expert witnesses, Including network officiate and psychologists, will testify at the bearing*, which will continue for two days.

Lodge Brands Soviel Russia Charge As Lie Vishinsky's Charge Os Aggression On China Branded Lie United nations, n. y. (ins) — U.S. Ambassador Heury Cabot Lodge brauded as a "lie" today charges by Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky in UN that the United States has committed "aggression" against Red China. Lodge speedily denounced the accusation which Vishinsky- presented as a formal item for inclusion on the general assembly’s agenda under the heading off: “Acts of aggression against the People's Republic by China and responsibility of the U. S. Navy in those acts.” Another bitter incident Involving Vishinsky and a western delegate occurred late Friday night at the annual dinner of the UN correspondents association when the white haired Russian snubbed the current assembly president, Dr. Eelco Van Kleffens of The Netherlands. Van Kleffens made a speech to the 390 assembled diplomats and newsmen in New York's WaldorfAstoria in which he said the recently concluded London accords on West German rearmament were in full compatibility with the sovereignty of the signatory powers. Vishinsky protested angrily against the speech and from his spot at the head table insisted it was a political address. The Russian said Van Kleffeng’ words were unfriendly to the Soviet Union and he would have stayed home if given advance notice of the speeche's contents. As the dinner broke up, Van Kleffens sought to approach VI-, shinsky to'talk with him, but the Soviet delegate turned his back and walked away. Lodge, British delegate Sslwyn Lloyd. French socialist leader Jules Moch and secretary • general Dag Hammarskjold were among those present at ths dinner. Vishinsky's charge against the U. S. was based on a Chinese Communist communication to UN accusing the U. S. of aggression against Formosa. The Russian said that the U. 8. seventh fleet had committed "aggressive acts" in aId(CMtIHM Oa Pur Six) .*£_ - .- r- ... I" . Verl Laulzenheiser Heads Farm Bureau Annual Meeting Is Held Friday Night Vert Lautzenheieer, Washington township farmer, was elected head of the Adams county Farm Bureau Friday night at the annual election meeting at Adams Central ecbool. l-a/utzenheiser will succeed Silvan Sprunger, Monroe township farmer, who has served as president for the past year. Other new officers include: vlcedhalrman, Hatfry FUudenbuAh, Blue Creek; S A E leader, Mrs. Clarence M Rebel, Washington township; assistant S 4b E lender, Mrs. Forest Tucker, rtf Berne; treasured, Orval Neuenechwander, U Washington township; secretary, Glen DUbaab, of LlnnOrove; pet and hobby loader, Mrs. Walter Tbleme, at Union township; assistant leader, Mrs. Forest Sprunger, of Monroe. Larry Brandon, retired (rice-pres-ident of the Indiana Farm Bureau, former state senator, and prominent farm leader nfOrn DoKalb county, spoke ait the meeting. An estimated crowd of 200 took part In the annual election.

Community Fund Is Aid To Playgrounds One Os Agencies Benefited By Fund One of the several agencies providing direct benefits to Decatur's youth which are Included in this year’s bydget of the Decatur Community Fund is the playground equipment committee. Sylvester L. Everhart has headed this committee for the past several years. 1 During the past year, the new Stratton. Place park and playground haa been greatly Improved. During the past summer a swing set, merry-go-round, and a slide were erected. A new back-stop and Little League diamond will be completed this fall. John R. Worthman recently gave the city an additional 350 feet of ground which will he added to the original 2.6 acres of this newest Decatur park. The tennis court at Homestead was resurfaced this summer, and the hack-Btop there was repaired. This playground equipment committee has been following a long term program to provide a well balanced, city-wide plan. Equipment is placed In the vhrious parks te provide maximum use per dollar Invested.. Sturdy and well built pieces are purchased. They are carefully maintained, often painted, and stored inside during the winter to insure many years of service. Safety is another Important factor always considered by the committee. “When your children swing, use the slides or merry-go-rounds, play bal lon the diamond, or join you at one of the many picnic tables, they are benefiting directly from your contribution to the Decatur Community Fund,” a Fund spokesman commented, "Let's remember everybody, benefits —and everybody gives.- Qlve generously and wear your Red Feather proudly.*' Students Decorate Store Windows Here Halloween Art On Decatur's Stores Deoatur'e business house windows become art galleries late Friday afternoon as students of tihe public and parochial schools used store windows for canvasses hi the Halloween art contest being sponsored by tihe Chamber of Commerce. T.’p and down the streets, students gathered In groups of two to tbur in front of store windows to mark them with the approval of the owner or manager. Stores which will feature the Halloween pictures will be Holthouse Schulte' Co., Kohne Drug Store, E. F. Class store, Kaye's shoe store. Western Auto store, I Miller Jones 00., Sutton’s Jewelry store, Stults Cigar Store, the Schafer store, the Kiddle Shaft Gamble store, Firestone store, Be : gun‘a Clothing store, the Decature Democrat Co., Fortney hoe shop, 'Morris store, Peterson clothing. 'Smith Drug Co., Haflloh and Morrissey shoe store. Janl Lynn, Lane's Shoe store, Niblick and Co., Stewart's Bakery, Two Brothers, Wiallfls Bakery. WertUberger confectionery, Holthouse, Ino., LAO Shop, Bob's Confectionery Bower's Jewelry •tore, Decatur Music house, Cole's 'Meat Markt, Family Restaurant.. The Pioneer, Wylie Furniture Onl, Beavers Oil Service, Decatur Gift Center, Oenber’s Market. Kiane Paint and wallpaper, Uferlck Brothers, Deoatur Hatohery, Hahegger Hardware, Phil L. Mack Hn 00., Maxelln Heating Service, ttfolienkopf and Biting, Steffen Implement Co., Haugk Heating and Appliance, The Why, Sobwart* Ford Co., Lee Hardware 00., CHlsene Telephone Co.. Commercial (Continued oa Page Five)

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Violent Storm One Os Worst Ever Recorded Communities From South Carolina To Canada Are Hard Hit NEW YORK (INS)—The toll of death and destruction left in the wake of hurricane Hazel mounted swiftly today as communities from South Carolina to Ontario. Canada, plunged into the mamoth task of rescue and reconstruction. At least 69 persons loot their live* in the U. S. and Canada as a result of the violent storm whose path and range of destruction was one of the worst on record. In the U. S. the toll,, which might possibly go higher in later reports, stood at least 47 dead. In Ontario, Canada. 22 deaths were attributed to the hurricane. After tearing up the Eastern Seaboard of the U. S.. Hazel churned across Lake Ontario late Friday night to whip rain-sodden Toronto and southern and central Ontario province with winds that Will \>«re Wehlfch as 79 miles an hour. . By morning the skies were clear over the path that Hazel followed since sweeping in from the Atlantic Friday morning to smash against the Carolina shore. The winds at its core then were raging at 130 miles gn hour. Civil defense authorities, police and the American Red Cross tended to scores of Injured and thousand’s left homeless. In the aftermath, there was the threat of further loss of life and property from floods in the valleys of the Alleghany, Monongahela, and Ohio rivem Towns along the first two rivers were already flooded as the heavy rains forced the water over their banks. The Pittsburgh weather bureau said that the water level where the Alleghany and Monongahela meet to form the Ohio at the city's doorstep was expected to reach 30 feet —five above the flood level. Property damage was estimated in multi-millions of dollars along the broad scar that Hazel left . through South and North Carolina, Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland. Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. Power and telephone lines were down In many areas leaving thousands without light and heat to ward off the cold of dropping temperatures that followed the storm. , The center of the storm passed to the west or the major cities of the Eastern Seaboard, although Richmond. Washington, Baltimore. Philadelphia and New York were battered by winds that in gusts reached more than 100 miles an hour. Early today the death toll ■> by states was: Pennsylvania, 13; N. Carolina, 7;. New York, 7; Virginia, 6; Maryland. 6; Delaware, 4; New Jersey. 6; and District of Columbia, 1. The New York weather bureau wrote Hazel’s obituary at 11 p. m. (BIST) Friday. But the bureau warned that high tides were building up along New England coastal areas, and urged precautions be taken through the morning. Hazel, born last week over the southern Caribbean, was a killer before it hit t/he U. S. mainland between Myrtle Beach, S. C., and Wilmington, N. C., shortly after nine o'clock Friday morning, ft had left 22 dead In Haiti earlier this week as it churned north: wards. Carolina beach resorts were littered with the wreckage of splintered hotels, houses, boats and heaps of seaweed: Miraculously there were no deaths or serious Injuries In Myrtle Beach, but. damage in the beach arses waJ so widespread (Continued <Jn Page Five)