Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 25 October 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LU. No. 251.

Saved From Black Widow Death

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New Sheppard Defense Moves Are Overruled Moves To Halt Or Move Murder Trial Rejected By Judge CLEVELAND (INS) — The defense made and lost new motions today to halt indefinitely the wife- ■ 7— murder trial of Dr. Samuel Sheppard or move it out of Cleveland. Shouting dramatically that “the odds are against us," chief defense counsel. William Corrigan told Judge Edward, Blythin j,. “You never May anything like it in whole existence. The press handling of the Sheppard case produced his arrest and indictment. 1 don’t think the authorities were going to do anything aboutit." In rejecting the emotional appeal, Blythin ruled: “We will proceed in a businesslike. fair and legal manner to select an impartial jury." Pointing at the empty jury seats in his third attempt to postpone the trial indefinitely. Corrigan bellowed: .. "I raise my voice in protest.” The tension in the Courtroom eased when the jurist, who is running for re-election, interrupted the white-haired defense lawyer dur ing his argument. Corrigan began relating how Judge Blythin never saw such publicity "in al ithe important positions your honor held.” He reeled off the posts of mayor, law director and treasurer of Western Ke serve university. Blythin chided him and with a grin declared: '’Please don’t forget to mention the transit board job I held." The handsome osteopath, accused of the Fourth of July bludgeon murder of his pregnant wife, appeared at ease as the argument roared around him - lie. wore a charcoal grey business suit and sat with his hands clasped before him. Prosecutor John J. Mahon, in fighting back successfully against the defense moves, replied to Corrigan’s charges about "poisoned," atmosphere by asserting: "You cannot stop publicity. The court has no control. If the case were continued (postponed) today to six months from today, as the date of the trial approached we would have the same situation. It would be postponed indefinitely. The case would never come to trial.” The elderly prosecutor, with a record of SO percent convictions, banged on the empty jury box and. in a heated tone, said: "It is not the public trying the case, but 12 men and women in this Jury box who swear they will be guided solely by the evidence beard in this courtroom,” After ruling, the Welsh-accented judge adjourned court at 11:30 a.m. until this afternoon, when both sides were to begin their peremptory challenges of the seven-wom-an, five-man tentative jury. When starting his motion, during which he claimed the press was turning the public against the defendant Corrigan turned and pointed to IN3 columnist-reporter Bob t Considine, who was covering the session for the first time’, and with a low bow declared: (Continued on Page Five)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Heavy Death Toll On Indiana's Highways Highways Crowded In Perfect Weather INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The rains came to Indiana today after a perfect week-end weather that drew many thousands of motorists to the highways. The Indianapolis weather bureau forecast for tonight and Tuesday was scattered showers and thunderstorms and continued mild. As the ideal Indian summer prevailed, many persons were killed and Injured on the roads. Three Edinburg residents were killed and another was injured critically., when their automobile eaught fira after a collision on Road 31 two miles south of Franklin. The victims were Beckham Burton. 39; Albert Batilt, 19. and Barbara Littlejohn, 15. Imogene Burton. 28. was injured gravely. When Daviess county deputy coroner Walter S. Williams went to the scene of a two-car crash near Plainville, he learned that his sister. Mrs. Bertha M. Huff. 62, of Odon, was killed and another sis-” ter, Mrs. Alma Osborne, also of Odon, was injured slightly. - Two women died when a panel truck in which they were riding collided with an automobile on the Calumet Expressway in Illinois. The victims were Mrs. Kathleen Gault, of Lowell, and Mrs. Donna Manno. 35, of Shelby. Lake county. Joseph Riley. 32. of Chicago, died in a head-on crash on a hill one mile west of Atwood on Road 30. The death of Lacy G. Allen, 19. of near Charlestown, occurred when a car was crushed by an overturning tractor-trailer on Road .62 just north of Charlestown. ~ While riding alone on a country road near Mulberry, Beryl Widener. 54, of Frankfort, was killed when he lost control of his automobile which overturned. Oscar Davis. 70. of Pulsaki County, met death when struck by an automobile while he was walking along Road 14. nine miles west of Winamac. Miss Jessie Mae Stafford, 66, of Shelbyville, was killed when struck by a grocery truck backing around a corner In Shelbyville. She was the first Shelbyville traffic fatality in 921 days. A car-truck collision on Road 31 three miles north of Kokomo cost the life of Dequilla Butler, 45, of Grand Rapids, Mich. His wife. Colie. 47. was injured critically. Two young men were killed in a car-truck crash Sunday on U. S. 24 near Cicott in Cass county. They are Verlyn L. Wilken, 19. of Fowler, and Kenneth Ivan Honn, 24, of Brook. . State police said a car driven by Wilken collided headon with a truck driven by William H. Huges. 38, of Monticello. Huges was treated for burns and released. Ray Cooper, 24. of Brook, a passenger in the car, suffered a concussion and was!'taken to Memorial hospital at Logansport. George Reed, 48, of Akron, was fatally injured in another car-truck accident on Ind. 14 yest of Rochester. Police said a truck driven by Will T. Conley, 27, of Rochester, was making a left turn and was (Continued on .Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday. Somewhat warmer tonight. Low tonight 55-60, high Tuesday 64-70 except 70-75 extreme south portion.

Dulles Report On Radio, TV This Evening First Meeting Os Cabinet Ever On Radio, Television WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower today opened to television and radio tonight’s special cabinet meeting to hear a report from secretary of state John Foster Dulles on the western European defense accord reached Saturday in Paris. The secretary, who is returning to Washington today, will deliver his report simultaneously to the cabinet and a nationwide radio-TV audience. The President will introduce Dulles and then turn the cabinet meeting over to the secretary, who may submit to questioning by cabinet members at the end of the half-hour session scheduled for 7 p.m. (EST). Never before has a cabinet meeting been broadcast or telecast. But the President earlier broke precedent by announcing he would personally greet Dulles at the airport today when he returns from the European conference. At Paris, agreement was reached among the western powers on a formula for rearming and restoring sovereignty to West Germany. The full cabinet will be- present for tonight’s meeting, which will be held in the cabinet room of the "White House. Cabinet meetings have always been held behind closed doors, though Mr. Eisenhower appeared on television with several members of his cabinet last year to present a special report to the nation on the progress of his administration. The Chief Executive announced from his Catoctin mountain retreat near Thurmont, Md., Sunday that he would personally meet Dulles at the airport at noon, est. This marked the first time that President Eisenhower has greeted any-one-foreign dignitary orfl.' 8. official—flyfrig into the nation’s capital. Only on one occasion has Mr. Eisenhower gone to the airport to see anyone off. This was when his brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, left on a good will tour of South America. The extrardinary cabinet meeting required interrupting political campaigning of several members in various parts of the country. White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower believes “all Americans join him in rejoicing at the action tak(ContUvued on Pace Eight) Transport Missing With 21 On Board Fpar Plane Crashed Into French Alps NICE (INS) transport plane with 21 persons aboard was missing on a flight from Rome to Lyons today and reports said it may have crashed in the French Alps. While U. S. and French search planes combed the area around Corsica, scene of the missing plane's last radioed position re port, a team of mountaineers left Nice to check unconfirmed infor mation that an airplane had crash ed in the Alpine regions. Villagers in the small Alpine towns of Peone and Beuil, some 30 miles northeast of Nice, told of hearing an airplane pass over head some time after midnight an a loud explosion a few seconds later. The missing, twin-engine trans port was said to be carrying five crew members and 16 passengers and was on a navigation training flight from Mansion airfield, England. Annual Forty Hours Devotion Scheduled At Catholic Church The annual Forty Hours Devotions of St. Mary's Catholic church wil Ibe held Friday, Saturday and Sunday, according to the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Selmetz, pastor of the church. Masses on Friday and Saturday will be at 5:45, 7 and 8 a.m. Sunday Masses will follow the usual schedule of 6, 7:30 and 9 and 10:15 a.m. A Holy Hour will be conducted each day from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. and services will begin at 7:30 p.m. each evening. The Sunday night service will be the solemn closing of Forty Hour*.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 25, 1954.

One Os Field Brothers Cleared Os Trumped-up Spy Charges In Poland

1954 Election Campaign Now At Its Peak Both Major Parties In Late Efforts To Win Nov. 2 Election WASHINGTON (INS)—The 1954 election campaign reaches its peak this week before the Nov. 2 climax with both major parties making last-ditch attempts to sway voters to their sides. The Republican national committee prepared to wind up its preelection activities with more than 250 speeches in 36 states topped with talks by President Eisenhower and cabinet officers. Although the Democrats issued no similar statistics, the party's titular head, Adlai Stevenson, as well as Democratic senate and house leaders can be counted on to make appeals for votes during the next "eight days. Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson, answering a series of questions submitted by International News Service, predicted a. “strongly Republican*’ farm vote and said the GOP should pick up three or four senate seats and "as many as 25 in the house." ■% The secretary said he expect* that “farmers this year wilt vote pretty much as they have in the past—heavily Democratic throughout much of the south and strongly Republican in most other states." He also said he would not resign should the farm vote go to the Democrats. Speaking on a CBS TV show Sunday, house Democratic whip John McCormack. Mass., charged that the administration recently lowered the number of U. S. manufactured goods banned for shipment to the Communists from 1,450 to 787. He asserted that Russian agents are now free to buy such items in the U. S. as Diesel locomotives, machine tools, alcohol for explosives and scrap iron. McCormack’s blast was directed at a GOP charge made on the same program by Republican house whip Leslie Arends, 111., that a Democratic-controlled congress would mean that “all efforts to deal with the Communists in our midst would be blocked." Meanwhile, welfare secretary Oveta Culp Hobby expressed hope on NBC’s “Meet the Press" that a Republican majority will be returned to congress. GOP national chairman" Leonard W. Hall, meanwhile, said a special 10-state survey made at his request shows that 52.8 percent of a proportionate cross section of voters consider foreign policy the top campaign issue compared to 47.1 percent who listed Communism in ' (Continued on Page Five) Merchants Reject Wednesday Opening Vote Down Proposal To Open Evenings By a vote of 20 to 15, Decatur’s retail merchants have turned down a proposal to remain open Wednesday nights for a trial period starting January 1,-Cliff Brewer, chairman of the retail division of Ci? Chamber of Commerce, said today “The issue has been definitely closed by the vote,” Brewer announced. The merchants regular Christmas program will start on the third Wednesday of November as usual, Brewer said. At that time stores will be open on the evenings of November 17 and 24. and December 1, 8 and 15. Starting December 15, stores will be open every night. A total of 36 balolts were sent out to a previously agreed on list of stores, and Fred E. Kolter, secretary of the Chamber, personally gathered up the Wednesday night ballot*. Only one store did not return a ballot.

Election News To Be Provided Here Recording Machine To Speed Service Election news all through Tuesday night, Nov. 2, with the latest count on Adams county offices and state and national returns, will be ’ given to the public by use of a tape recording telephone system. |The service will be offered by Citizens Telephone Co. and the Dally Democrat. The tape will be changed each time the count of a new local precinct is received, so that users of the system will know the local vote totals all evening until final counts are tabulated. The telephone number is 3-2171 and patrons may call as often as they desire. There is a one minute cut-off on the tape so that more patrons may get the current election news. Several trunk lines will he connected with the recorder so that ; there will be fewer busy signals. 1 Several improvements have been made in the system since last spring when the recorder was first tised. Charles Ehinger, president of Citizens Telephone Co., explained. Several trunk lines were tied up when it was discovered that ths circuit would remain open if the user ept tkhe phone off the hook. This has been remedied now by a one minute time limit. The person making the call will be cut off after a minute and the circuit will be open for other users. The regular Daily Democrat telephone, number 3-2121, will be kept open to receive results from the 39 Adams county precincts. Election boards will be provided with special return blanks and each board is asked to telephone the totals as soon as possible to the Dailey Democrat so that county totals can be reported. Says Republicans Copy Stalin Line Republican Policy Is Scored By Klein “The Republicans are copying the party line of Stalin when they tell us only in time of war can the American economy be prosperous," Joseph Klein, candidate for clerk of the supreme and appellate courts, told a crowd at Democratic headquarters Saturday night. Klein criticized the Republican administration for “offering alibis instead of a program to relieve those out of work for the past 20 months.” Not since Warren G. Harding, Klein said, has a government been so full of mediocrity, “Within 48 hours after Elsenhower made his blanket indorsement of all Republican candidates, one in Utah publicly confessed that he was a fraud, and was removed from the ticket. Congressmen should be voted for on their ability,” Klein said. . Klein was introduced by attorney G. Remy Blerly, who had been a member of the state house of representatives with Klein. Blerly, in his closing remarks after Klein s speech, pointed out thst in Elsenhower's original cabinet there had been nine millionaires and one plumber, who quit shortly afterward. “But in examining the stink in Washirigton now'," Blerly said, “it might have been better if Eisenhower had kept the plumber and gotten rid of the millionaires.” William J. Kruse, candidate for state representative, spoke briefly, arid explained that under the present Eisenhower tax, a worker making $5,00'0 a year with two dependents pays J 425 in taxes, while a man with two dependant* who earns $5,000 a year in,-stock dividends. pays only S2OO in taxes. After the meeting, coffee and doughnut* were served, and plans were made for the Democratic caravan which will be in Adams county today.

Report France To Reject Red Bid To Parley Join United States And Great Britain In Rejecting Bid PARIS (INS) —- Important French diplomatic sources said today that France would join with the U. S. and Britain in rejecting Russia’s proposal for a Big Four conference in November to discuss German unification. These sources said the French government shared the AngloAmerican view that the latest Soviet notes to Britain, France and the U. S. contained nothing new. In fact, the French diplomats added, the notes were so lacking in any spectacular offer as to lead to the conclusion that Moscow was not seriously interested in fourpower talks but made the suggestion merely for propaganda purposes. The notes were received by the three western powers Saturday, only minutes after 15 western nations signed an accord in Paris which will brTng a free and rearmed western Germany into a unified, European Defense system. However, this agreement still must be ratified by the parliaments of the 15 nations. While France wishes to leave the door open for a possible Big Four conference, diplomats sources said the French government probably would wait until Premier Pierre Mendes-France returned from a visit to Washington in the latter part of November before deciding what answer to give Moscow. Mendes-France personally wants to discuss with President Eisenhower the possibility of high-level talks with Russia next, year after enough western nations have ratified the Paris agreement •to assure «that it will be carried out. Meanwhile, leading members of French non-Communist opposition parties are predicting French parliamentary ratification of the historic accord linking a sovereign Germany with the North Atlantic treaty organization. v (Continued on Page Five) $7,894 Contributed To Community Fund Top Donation From Soya Co., Workers A total of $7,894.40 has been reported to date in the Decatur Community Fund campaign and leaders are confident the goal will again be attained, according to Earl M. Caston, fund executive secretary. This total is slightly less than 70 percent of the $11,665 budget for 1955. The largest single contribution to date has been made at the Central Soya Co., where employe* gave approximately $1,600 and the company matched this amount dollar for dollar, to bring their total to $3,200. Dike Eddleman, chairman of the drive at Central Soya said that credit for the large amount raised should go-to the solicitors in each department. Many of the departtwenty exceeded their, $5.00 a man quotal, Eno Ijinkenan, general chairman, also expressed hi* thank* to the Soya employes who assisted In the drive. The 22 employes of the First State Bank participated 100 percent In the drive, with am average of over $5 each. Emphasis this year has been to urge every employe in every business, large or small, to participate. E. W. Lankenau, drive chairman urged area worker* to report a* soon as possible. Individuals who have not been contacted are asked to call Earl Caston or the drive chairman, and special arrangement* will be made to pick up their contributions.

Ullman Goes Before Federal Grand Jury Testify On Charges Os Defense Secrets WASHINGTON (INS) -William Ludwig Ullman west before a special federal grand jury today, reportedly to testify about charges he slipped vital defense secrets to members of a wartime Soviet espionage ring. Neatly dressed in a light brown suit, white shirt and green tie. the former government official had no comment about his appearance before the panel. He told newsman: “Sorry, I have nothing to say. No hard feelings?" Ullman apparently will be the only witness to testify today. Informed sources said that a mysterious second witness of “national prominence” who had been requested to appear could not make today’s session, but might be recalled at an early date. The grand jurors 4 reportedly called Ullman to ask him about charges that he slipped vital defense secrets to fellow members of a Soviet underground group op-< erating in Washington during World War 11. Ullman was described In FBI reports as a key source for the ring with important contacts at the pentagon where he was stationed as an air force major. Governor Bypasses Republican Editors Governor Is Absent From Annual Dinner INDIANAPOLIS (INS)-Indlana Republicans rejoiced today in the prospect of last-minute campaign oratory from Senators Homer E. Capehart and William E. Jenner. The two senators to date have done less to date in this Hoosier apathetic campaign than they have in any past election race in the memory of veteran politicos.. However, they will make only two or three speeches each. Strangely, however, the senators were present but Govrnor George N. Craig was absent at the banquet of the Indiana Republican editorial association Saturday night. Craig sent word he was busy attending a homecoming at his alma mater, Indiana University. The writer cannot recall any editors' banquet in the past at which a governor has failed to appear. Most of the GOP editors are sympathetic to the two senators, who are bitter political enemies of the Governor. Most of the Republican minor politicos were conspicuous by their absence at the editors’ banquet which drew the smallest crowd in many years. In all fairness, ft must be said, however, that the GOP state organization only a week before had mustered a huge crowd to greet President Elsenhower. Nevertheless, practically all of the congressional and state candidates attended the banquet and were rewarded by hearing the speaker, secretary of the treasury George M. Humphrey, urge the voters to support them on Nov, 2. Humphrey, who was applauded frequently, called for a GOP con gress to hold up the hands of President Eisenhower, saying: “What we must do now is insure the election and reelection of Re(Caatlaued Oa Page Kight) BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) —The supreme court for the second successive year refused today to oorisider the conetltutlonality of "fair trade" law* enacted by 45 states to prevent price-cutting on standard-brand merchandise. The state laws, which permit manufacturers to make price agreements with one or v more retailers and require all retailers. Including non-elgner* of the agreements to observe the same minimums, were authorized by the federal McGuire, act of 1952.

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Hermann Field Is Freed From Polish Prison Fate Os Three Other Members Os Family Is Still A Mystery HERMAN FIELD zh LONDON (INS)—Communist Poland announced today that Hermann Field, one ot four members of an American family who vanished mysteriously behind the Iron Curtain, has been cleared of trumped-up spy charges and released from a Red prison. An official communique, broadcast by Radio Warsaw, failed to indicate whether the one-time Cleveland, 0., man would be returned to the west. The U. S. embassy in Warsaw reported by telephone to London that it had been advised of Field’s release in accordance with the Polish announcement. But the embassy added that it had “no information whatever at the present time” of Field’s whereabouts and is making every effort to locate him. ; Still shrouded -fit mystery are the exact whereabouts of Hermann's brother Noel and Noel’s wife, Herta, and the Noel Fields* adopted daughter, Erika, who vanished. one by ode, over a two-year period. The Field mystery is similar to the strange circumstances surrounding the disappearance of British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Mac Lean and Mac Lean’s wife. The Burgess-MacLean case never has been explained and it is not definitely known whether they are behind the Iron Curtain. The Polish communique blamed the arrest of Hermann Field, who vanished five fears ago. on Josef Swiatlo, former police secret police official who fled to the west last September and was given asylum in the U. S. The Radio Warsaw announcement. delivered with a flood of anti-American propaganda. although establishing that Hermann was alive, failed to mention the Noel Field family. After announcing Hermann's release Radio Warsaw launched into a violent denunciation of Swiatlo. "American agents provocateurs” and even of the Paris agreements to grant West Germany sovereignty and the right to rearm. The broadcast said Hermann is receiving “full amends” for his imprisonment and added that "some Polish citizens’’ who were jailed as a result of "unfounded accusations’’ also have been set free. After Swiatlo fled to the west, he revealed he had headed the secret police squad which arrested Hermann at the Warsaw airport in 1949. Last month. Swiatlo told a news conference that Boleslaw Beirut, a top Polish Communist Party leader, expressed the opinion that Hermann Field “lives too long." This grim phrase from a Commn(Con tinned on Page Five) Meet Tuesday Night On Time Question Voting; ob the fest time question- is running 36-1 In favor of making the change October 30, Mayor John M. Doan said today. Ballots received over the weekend totaled 187 fro the change, and 7 against, bringing the grand total to 1.088 for, and 30 opposed. The mayor met this morning with officials of the schools of the north six townships of Adams county and reported that school officials intimated that they would go along w|th the change, but that schedule at some of the schools, including Adams Central, might have to be adjusted. All Decatur schools have signified that they will follow the city’s lead in going on fast time. A special session of the city council has been called for Tuesday night to consider the question. \ ‘ .