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Flood Threats Easing Along Ohio River yy“'“ ” - ■; Rampaging Ohio Is Losing Worst Punch 1 As Threats Easing MARIETTA. O. (INS)—The rampaging Ohio river appeared today to be losing its Sunday punch which forced thousands of families from their homes along its headwaters. The river, swollen by raine from the back last of Hurricane Hazel, missed its anticipated crest at Marietta today by four feet. The waters had been expected . tohlt ♦L fe«l tear ly today but instead halted at .37 feet, a Coot above flood stage. "He” high waters tarred shop o» tiers to remove Mocks from, the basements of their lowland stores to first and second story heights. There were no evacuations as was feared earlier. Effective flood control along the Muskingum, river, which flows into the Ohio at Marietta, was credited with preventing a sudden rush of water at the junction of the two rivers. Just above Marietta, at Bridgeport. 0., the water was reported falling at the rate of one-half foot per hour. Highways which were inundated Sunday are reported passable now . Observers said the river level . is low below Marietta and flood waters can be taken in stride. A river forecast at Cincinnati said the Ohio would crest far below flood stage at various times' thia week from, Portsmouth. 0.. to Markland. Ind. The Cret will be seven and a helf feet under flood at Portsmouth and 10 feet under at Cincinnati. The flood crest at Duffy, north of Marietta, eaohed 42.5 feet. 4.5 above flood level. Further north, flood waters are beginning to recede. No deaths were reported in either state, but at least 10. persons died in Pittelningh where the flood struck Saturday. As the crest of the flood apbusinessmen and home owners in the river towns are moving everything out of basements and first floors to upper Morine. Many of them are sand- — bngjflng the bttHdingw against damage by flood currents. Meanwhile, a-» dramatic fight against time is taking place on farms in the Portsmouth, 0., area, about Midway between Marietta " and Cincinnati. Large gangs of workers have been working since dawn Sunday to hand pick a bumper crop of 700,000 bushels of corn, valued at 1750.000, before an expected crest * of 45-feet hits the area Wednesday night. Mechanical pickers cannot be used because heavy raine have made the fields a sea of mud. Along the river in the 15-mile Mreteh between Portsmouth and New Boston, electric pumps have been put into operation In the battle against the upsurging river. Even as worker# battled to eave their homes and property, the weather bureau;, predicted scattered showers for the stricken area. , Tte flood crest at Wheeling ' ” marked the highest water that the chy of CB.OOO had since March 8. < 1945. when the Ohio reached 47.3 feet. Although property damage was high, resident* wise in the wave of the Ohio, took it in «tride. Hardest hit was Wheeling Island and South Wheeling. The two-and-a-haW m|]e long Ohio river intend, with a population of 10.000, was about two-thirds under water.

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Defails Difficulties Os Sewage Problem Position Outlined By City Attorney City attorney Robert Anderson has sent a letter to the state stream pollution control l>oard at Indianapolis exptaining the most recent diMiculty in tilie progress of the sewage treatment program in Decatur. The letter was sent after city officials received word from the board that they were to appear in Indianapolis Oct. 38 to show cause why the city has not yet begun construction of the disposal plant. In his letter Anderson gave a resume of the correspondence to date on the problem of building the interceptor sewer over Erie railroad rigflit of , wtny. On July 27, Consoer, Townsend associates, cbhswKing engineers on the proj«t. advised city officials n<« to sign an agreement with the milroed on a mon-tWy rental basis. The railroad company on Sept. 31 wrote to the city council again offering the rental plan and stating that it would be difficult and time-consuming to obtain perpetual easement. Another letter from ■tilie engineering flirm Sept. 30 suggested that the city insist upon perpetual easement. They advised, and the city council members agreed, that it would •be unwise tn invest a million dollars worth at taxpayers* money across land Wherein they have only a month rental proposition. Anderson's letter to the board enclosed copies of the correspondence to date. The problem of the sewer easement is the latest snag 1® the sewage disposal project 'wtifcfli has been ordered by tae state board since 1944. Schools Close For Annual Convention Teachers To Attend Thursday, Friday Decatur and Adams county public schools will be closed Thursday and Friday of this week while faculty members attend teachers conventions in Fort Wayne and Jndianapolis. Official delegate for the Decatur schools is Hubert Zerkel, Jr. He and the county school delegates will attend the Indianapolis session to hear speeches by Dr. Y. C. Yang. Korean ambassador to the U. S.; Dr. James McCaskill, legislative director of the national education association, and Dr. Willard E. Sutton, superintendent-em-eritus of Atlanta. Ga„ schools. Most of the local teachers wilt’ attend the meeting bf the northeastern district of the Indiana state teachers' association at Fort Wayne. Speakers there will be Dr. McCaskill; Dr. Murray Banks, of Long Island University. N. Y„ and Dr. Paul Witty of Northwestern University. On the agenda for the Fort Wayne conference will also be several special workshop sessions. Fort Wayne Boy Is Drowning Victim FORT WAYNIE, Ind. (INS) — Indiana's floodwaters claimed the life of a spectator in a? tragedy near Fort Wayne. / Fourtecn-yeer-old Frank D. Martin wwi drowned when he slipped from an abutment at a dam on the Maumee river Sunday. He and his brother, Jamas Martin, 20, nad gone to see the skirling flood wnateiw. He was carried away by the torrential river before bystanders coutd grab him. >

Says Massive Red Spy Ring Now In France Dides Says Massive Espionage Ring Now Operating In France PARIS (INS) — Paris, police inspector Jean Dides, who touched off one of the biggest spy investigations in French history, declared today that a “massive” Soviet espionage ring still is operating in France. Dides charged, fff'an" exclusive interview with International News Service, that the disclosures of a past few weeks were merely “a small side" to the rest espionage going on. He declared that the information on national defense eommittse affairs which two committed officials, Rene Turpin and Roger LaBrusse, admitted leaking merely “confirmed’’ what the Communists had learned ’elsewhere. Dides declared: “In France today yon have espionage on two planes, the technical plane and the political-diplo-matic plane.” The tall, athletic police officer who is known as a pro-American, charged that the real Communist espionage network exists on a very high level in the government through a bloc of what Dides called • Dides’ suspension as a police inspector, allegedly for carrying on his anti-Commun|st activities after he had been assigned to other duteis, began a chain of events that led to exposure of the leaks from national defense committee meetings. •Security agents seized Dides and found national defense committee documents in his possession. He said he had obtained them from a one-time Communist as proof that the Reds were receiving defense secretas. At first the case was known as “the Dides affair," but so many other persons, many of them prominent. crowded into the confused picture that the militantly antiCommunist inspector was all but — A by product of the investiga tion, however, was the discovery that Dides had been working with one Alfred DeLarue, also known as “Monsieur Charles,” who was sentenced to prison as a wartime Nazi collaborator and escaped. Dides and DeLarue reportedly made a trip to the United States together in 1953. As a result Dides has been charged with, harboring a fugitive from justice. Dldes charged today that the (Continued on Page Five) Father Os Decatur Lady Dies Saturday Services for HersOhel Mauck, 72, of Clear Lake, father of Mrs. IMnx Spencer. 1334 Master Drive, this city, will be conducted Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. in the ChalfantPerry funeral home, Fort Wayne. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery Mr. Mauck’s death occurred Saturday in Elmhurst hospital, Angola. ‘He formerly was superintendent of tihe Maywood. Ml., Baptist home and was a member of the Clear Ijake Baptist chunoh and the Knight Templar Home Ixxige. Fort Wayne. He was a charter member of the Fort Wayne YMCA: Surviving besides the daufjhter in this city, ate the widow, Cora, and a second daughter. Mrs. Elizabeth We stain. Mamcathn, Venezuedfc, SA.

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Democratic Rallies Planned This Week Meetings Planned For Four Nights Democratic rallies will be held in all parts of the county this week, so that everyone may meet the Democratic state and local candidates this year. Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman, said today. Tuesday night Claude R. Wickard, former secretary of agriculture, wilt speak at the Geneva high school. The Geneva band will present a program starting at 7 o’clock, and at 8 o’clock Winfred Gerke, prominent Root township farmer, will introduce the main speaker. Also to be present at the meeting will be Fred W. Greene, candidate thls dlstflct, and John Walsh, congressional candidate from the fifth district. K. O. Reiff, of Portland, Jay county ehah man, Joe Eichhorn, of Bluffton, Wells county chairman, and James L. Koons, of Avilla, fourth district chairman, will all be present at the meeting. Dr. Hebble said. 1 Wednesday hight there will be a rally at the Luckey school at 8 p.m.. with Lewis Lutz Smith, Democratic candidate for prosecuting attorney, as the main speaker. Candidates will be introduced, and refreshments will be served after the. meeting. ’ Thursday Warren W. Martin, Sr., of Boonville, candidate for judge of the appellate court, southern district, will be the main speaker at a rally in Berne. Pat H. O'Hern, of Linton, will also be present at the meeting; O’Hern is candidate for state auditor. * All state candidates will be present in Adams county at one time or another during the campaign, Dr. Hebble explained, eo that voters may meet them. Floyd E. Harper, candidate for secretary of state, visited in Berne on the opening day of the Berne festival, together with Herbert I. Lamb, of Terre Haute, candidate for superintendent of public instruction. Saturday night there will be a rally at Democratic headquarters, with either Arthur Kinser. Candidate for state treasurer, or Joseph (Continued on Page Five) Demands Powell Be Found In Contempt Federal Grand Jury Makes Demand Today M’ASHI'NGTON (INS)—A feden al grand jury demanded today that ousted federal housing official Clyde L. Powell be found' in contempt of court and Jailed until he answers questions about his alleged activities in the FHA "windfall" scandal. The grand Jury charged that Powell former deputy commissioner of Che federal housing administration, has "blocked the search for truth" by his silence. Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts, who has twice ordered Powell to answer the question#, echeduled arguments on, the grand Jury’s move for 10 a. tn. (EST) Wednesday. The grand Jury has been Investigating changes of widespread corruption and bribery in the FHA rental housing program, which Powell headed for a number of years. He was fined from the agency last April. The questions which Powlel allegedly refused to answer related to official documents and diariee which the government believes he took with him when be left the FHA,

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Three Promoted At Central Soya Plant Supervisory Staff Promotions Listed Three promotions In the supervisory staff at Central Soya company were announced today by C. 4 Finlayson, local plant manager. Newell Wright, personnel director since last November, has been named superintedent of maintenance and, repair. Bob Syster, auditor at the company's Marion, Ohio, .plant, becomes tffie new personnel director succeeding Wright. Joe Azbeli, superintendent of maintenance and repair, has been promoted to assistant chief engineer, succeeding the late Chester Dalzell. The changes are effective immediately. Finlayson announced. Prior to coming to Decatur last year. Wright served three years as an egineer for a Chicago firm and the U. S. navy. He’ holds a mechanical engineering degree A former manager of the local office, Syster began his career with Central Soya in U 942 as auditor at the company's Harrisburg, Pa., plant. He also served as personnel director at the Marton plant from 1949 to 1951. He, has a BS degree in chemistry from Dickinson colhas done graduate work at Penn State University. Mrs. Syster, their 18-year-old daughter and six-year-old son will move here in the near future. In X 947, Azbell joined Central Soya us cost reduction engineer at the local plant. Later he was promoted to superintendent of the M & R department. He has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Purdue University. > Joe Thompson is chief engineer of Central Soya Co. and McMillen Feed industries. Distribution Made Os Highway Funds Nearly 15 Million Tax Distribution INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —State auditor Frank Millis today announced the quarterly distribution of nearly >ls million in motor vehicle highway funds to Indiana state, city and county units. The sum available for dlstribution was yi4,886,887.96, which is 14.42 per cent higher than the same sum parceled out a year ago. Total receipts fair the period from July I; to Sept. 30 amounted to 9t7.W1J124.80. -—^7 — — Os thds. f 1.863,507.76 was refunded te non-highyuy users who bad paid the tax on gaisollne and to others entitled to get fees back and the remainder went for administrative costs and other expenses. The state highway deportment's share at the distribution Is 37.890.050.62; the counties get 34,763,804.15, and the cities and towns 32,333,033.19. These proportionate shares are set by state law. The distribution by»counties inoliided: Adams 341,929.32. Allen 3132,922.40. Dubois 345,873.08. Grant 362.792.47. Distribution by cities and towns Included: Berne 31,998.62. Decatur 36,382.07, Dunkirk 32.675.36. Fort Wayne 3117,272.59, Marlon 326.403.48, New Haven 32,050.41, Port(Continued on Page Five) • BUULETIN NEW DELHI (INS) —The India Preaz Trust said today that India and Franca will algn an agreement Tueaday providing for do facto tranafer to India of the email French aettlement of . Pondicherry, KerIkel, ahe end Yenaon-all raHee of the 17th century empire founded by the French Indie compeny.

-- - - ■ Ike Confers With Dulles On German Problem Dulles Leaves For Paris Tuesday For Rearmament Talks WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles mapped strategy with President Eisenhower today for a crucial week of delicate negbtiations on the subject of German rearmament. The secretary, who leaves for Paris Tuesday, parried a question on whether he is “optimistic” about the rearmament talks. As he left a breakfast conference with Mr. Eisenhower at the White House, he told newsmen: “I’m not going into the optimism game. We will just go ahead and do the best we can." Dulles noted be had not seen the President for a month and said their conference covered a wide range of matters. The secretary wm Mr, EUen--hower’s first caller today on a long ‘catch up” appointment Hat, which also Included an 11:30 a.m, (EST) meeting with Dulles, defense secretary Charles E. Wllzon and the joint chiefs of staff. Lengthens Speeches WASHINGTON (INS) — The White House said today President Eisenhower has lengthened two addresses he will deliver in New York this week into major speeches, hut insisted they will be "non-politlcal” in nature. The chief executive iz scheduled to address the American Jewish tercentenary dinner at the Hotel Astor Wednesday and the Al Smith memorial dinner at the WaldorfAztoria Thursday. He originally planned to make only brief speeches at both events. White House news secretary James C. Hagerty would give only this explanation for the decision to extend the addresses into major half-hour speeches: "What the President wants to say can't be covered In a short time.” Charles F. Smitley Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Charles F. Smitley, 75, farmer residing southeast of Berne, died Saturday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been bedfast since breaking a leg In a fail April 14. He was a native of Ohio but had lived In Adams county for the past 69 years. Mr. Smitley was a member of the Bethel Brethren churdh. Surviving are his wife, Katie; a daughter. Miss Nora M. Smitley. at home; two brothers, Floyd and, Rollle Smitley, both of Decatur, and three sieters, Mrs. Leanna Collins of Portland. Ore., Mrs. Ella Speakman of New Holland, 0., end Mrs. Clara Edgell of near Decatur. A sister, Mrs. Bertha Foreman at Decatur, died last Monday. Funeral services will ba held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Bethel Brethren church, the Rev. Ord Gehman officiating. Burial will be tn Mt. Hope cemetery. The body has been returned from the Yager funeral home to the Where friends may call until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and cool tonight with frost most sections. Tuesday fair end not quite so cool. Low tonight 30-34 north, 33-36 south. High Tuesday 58-62.

General Election Only Two Weeks Off Clerk's Office Busy On Election Plans With the election only two weeks and “both political parties stepping up the tempo of the campaign, the county clerk's office has became quite a busy place. Today clerk Edward F. Jaberg and David Macklin, Democratic member of the Election board, went to Indianapolis to pick up the state ballots. Three parties are listed on the ballot this time, Jaberg stated, with the Republican eagle heading the ballot on the left side. The political party which carries the position at secretary of state gets its emblem and candidates on the left elde of the ballot, Jaberg explained. This year the Republicans have that honor. The Democratic rooster is centered on the ballot this year, with its candidate for secretary of state, Ftoyd Harper, of Tipton, at the ■top. Severin H. tto-hurger, Decatur attorney, appears at the bottom of the ballot in the Democratic lists: On the right side of the ballot will be the Prohibition Vefcet. which carries a full state ticket this year, but has only a congressional nominee on the local ballot. Ateo, the deputy clerks are busy today removing names from the registration lists, and getting them up to date. Before each election, county health officer Dr. H. F. Zwick certifies to the clerk the names at those who have died since the last election. These names are removed from the voter's lists. This year a list of 69 persons was given to the clerk, and 31 names were removed from the list of qualified voters. The other 29 persons were not registered in this county. Also removed from the voters lists today were some 46 persons who 'have moved from the county, and registered in other counties. When that is done, a certificate Is mailed from the new county to (Coattauea 0i Pa««, sic) Reds Defeated In Austrian Election Lose Even In Red Occupied Zones VIENNA (INS) — Final returns in Austria's provincial elections showed today that the Communists, who had open Russian support, lost ground even in Sovietoccupied Both the Reds and Austria's right ■ wing extremists suffered what interior minister Oskar Heimer called a “smashing defeat” in Sunday's voting. The Socialists gained ground while the conservatives held fast. More than two and one-halt million Austrians went to the polls in American-occupied Sulzberg, Soviet • occupied Lower Austria, French • occupied Voralberg and in Vienna, which rates as a province. They cast their ballots for 214 deputies to provincial legislatures. The Communists lost up to 79 percent of their strength In some areas and suffered a set-back even in the Russian-dominated lectors. Helmer declared after the ballots were counted that the ißeds had been reduced to "a .ridiculous minority." In the Soviet-occupied area of Lower. Austria" the Communist!, who rolled up only 6.2 percent of the total valjd votes in previous elections, dropped to 5.6 percent. In the key Vienna area the Communists, who held seven parliamentary seats, were reduced to six. The Socialist* Increased their margin from 52 to 56 seat*, mainly at the expense of the Independents, sometimes called the neoNazis, who lost all of their eix seats.

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Judge Orders Selection Os Jury Members Judge Refuses To Slow Murder Trial Os Alleged Killer CLEVELAND (INS) r-Judge Edward Blythin refused today to delay the bludgeon-murder trial of handsome Dr. Samuel 11. Sheppard and ordered the immediate eelec, tion of a Jury. t The jurist, sitting in a gloomy, sweltering courtroom, held in abeyance ruling on a motion to move the case, full of unsolved mysteries, out of Cleveland because of alleged "hostile atmosphere” created by the prose. The socialite osteopath followed the proceedings Intently in the jammed courtroom, and the only indication of hie nervousness appeared tn his constant Scratching ' of his nose, ohln and upper lip. In refusing to go along with de- . feme motions for a change of ve. , nue, the Welsh-accented veteran : Judge declared: • 7' *‘W» muet make an inquiry of . the people themselves. If we don't ' try this method, we will show a * lack of faith in the jury system—i it to one of the shining lights of . our democratic procem. “I believe on the baete of my > experience we cam get a fair and [ impartial jury. We will not con. > tlnue with the trial in thie county if it appears the defendant cannot ■ get a fair trial." The judge ordered the start of the examination of the 75 veniremen at 1:15 p. m. today. Although sex will play a big role in the trial, the many unanswered questions wlilcaet important shadows over the first degree .murder case, in which “Dr. Sam" face® the electric chair. Chief defense counsel William Corrigan opened the trial by pointing at the ewarm of newsmen in the 26 by 42-foot shadowy courtroom and said it demonstrates his contention of the "atmosphere which has poisoned the minds of the people against the defendant." Looking dramatically at the blank-faced 30-year-old defendant, who is accused of clubbing his pregnant wife to death with 27 blown, Corrigan declared: "He was convicted before he was Indicted. There has never been * caaq in the etate of Ohio, and I doubt in the United Statee, that has received the publicity thia murder has received. The atmosphere is such that I don’t see how he can get a fair, impartial jury.’’ Judge Blythin agreed with prosecutor John Mahon, who said the best test of whether an unbiased jury can be selected would be to examine them. Blythin, fft-year-old former mayor of Cleveland, in overruling the defense motions at this time, eaid he has "never yet found any way in Che world of quieting down newspapers and news media” be(Continued on Page Two) Check For SI,OOO Given To Hospitol (Lee T. Miller, Wells county, presented Cal E Peterson, president of the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital, with a check for fl .000 for the hospital Saturday. The money was left to the Adams county hospital by the late Willison W. Miller, father at Lee MlHer, who died recently. Peterson received the SI,OOO on behalf of the hospital board and lw acid the money would be placed in the hospital improvement fund. The late WiUtam MHler bad •previously been a patient tn the hospital and at that time ho told Ms eon that bo desired to make a contribution. Miller was an Ad* ams county resident almost all of his life. v