Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 252, Decatur, Adams County, 26 October 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 252.

/ . r-V -P residential Precedent ■ ■■F \zaha||RM jy* 8 * IteS a w JB ■ lißHk > AFTER SETTING one precedent in meeting his homecoming Secretary of State at Washington’s National Airport, President Eisenhower rides with John Foster Dulles into the capital. Another precedent was set when Mr. Eisenhower received with his cabinet Secretary Dulles’ report on his Paris activities at a meeting at which radio, television and newsmen were present.

Says Wreckage Atop Mountain Not Transport Wreckage Found In French Alps Not U. S. Transport NICE, France (INS) — An American air force officer said today that wreckage discovered atop Authion Mountain in the French Alps was not that of a U. S. C-47 transport plane, missing with 21 persons aboard. Col. John De Groot flew over the area 25 miles northeast of Nice arid eaid that the wreckage was that of a smaller plane which must'have crashed at least six month«;ago.; - ifowever ft Is planned to drop parachutists over the area for a closer check. A plane carrying a parachute rescue team left the Nice airport for the crash scene. Officials said the rescue team would be parachuted if signs of life were detected near the reported wreckage. Home sign of the plane had been sought over a wide area around , the Franco-Italian border. Spotting of the wreckage was reported by one of 19 Air Force planes which took off at dawn to I search for the aircraft which van- , ished Sunday while on a naviga-, tion training flight from Rome to • Lyons, France. A squadron of U. S. destroyers ; also had joined the search, scouring the Mediterranean sea be- I tween Corsica and the French j mainland. The plane, a twin-eiigine C-47 j was last heard from over Corsica I Sunday afternoon when it radioed j its position. It had fuel left for eight hours Os flying when it took off from Rome. The transport was based at j Mauston, Kent county, England. 183-Mile Section Os Thruway Is Opened NEWBURGH. N. Y. (INS) - The New York state thruway today became the nation’s longest operating toll highway as Gov. Thomas E. Dewey officially opened a new, 183-mile section of the highway. With the completion of the latest link from Newburgh to Westmoreland, N. J., just west of Utica, the super road now extends 366 miles, to Buffalo. When another section to New York City is completed next year the four-lane main thruway route ! will run 427 miles across the state, j _— Council Meeting On Time Change Tonight More than 98 percent of the ballots returned to date favor fast time,"Mayor'JtJlin M. l)oan said Chi# morning. The Latest’ tallyshowed 1.349 favor the time change on Saturday, and 31 oppdse it. The city council will meet in special session tonight to plan the city’s action. BULLETIN LONDON (INS — Radio Cairo aald tonight that an unsuccessful attempt was made on the life of Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser ss he was delivering a speech In Alexandria. The broadcast said a young man fired at the premier but missed. -O f ■

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Democratic Rally Here On Saturday Will Feature Local Candidates At Rally Adams county Democrats will gather at the Knights of Pythias home Saturday at 8:15 p.m. for a rally sponsored by the Democratic central committee, The Jefferson club, the Young Democrats and Democratic women. The program, which will featurelocal candidates and entertainment, will be arranged by Dr. Harry Hebhle and Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, county chairman and vice-chairman, and Mrs. Harry Hebble and Mrs. Merle Affolder of the Jefferson club. - The committee in charge of refreshments will include Mrs. Mabel Striker and Miss Rose NessWald of Democratic Wojne® jtud •STiss Rosemary Spangler and Miss’ Marlette of Yonng Demo- . crats. Each club is asked to notify its I own members by post card. Candidates and their wives and pre- ■ cinet committeemen and women will be notiffed by the central committee. The general public is also invited to attend and meet Democrat candidates. — - Women In Missouri ■ Slate Prison Riot Second Disturbance In Women's Prison JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (INS)— I The Jefferson city fire department ■ and Missouri highway patrolmen | rushed to the women s state prison i today after officials reported the' I inmates had set fire to the sewing j ; room. It was the second disturbance at the institution, apparently in sympathy with the series of uprisings ■ by convicts at the state penltenI tiary neat by. Meanwhile, armed highway pai troimen ringed the riot-torn state ; penitentiary and patrol chief Col. Hugh Waggoner said they will be stationed inside and outside dining halls sos all meals. Inmates of the prison have staged three disturbances in four days -all at meal times. About 1,000 convicts-niiany 'of them jeering and yelllng-joined in Monday’s uprising when they refused to leave their cells for the noon meal. At least one warning shot was fired by the highway patrolmen as order was restojgd. | No one was hurt. Indianapolis City Council To Study Change In Time INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indi anapolis city council is slated to I get a proposal to put the Hoosier j capital on year-at-pund fast time ■ following the lead set by Fort Wayne. » Recently, Fort Wayne and most other communities in the eightcounty northeastern section of Indiana voted to go on eastern standard time, equivalent of yeararound central daylight time. Observers said councilman J. Wesley Brown, Republican, and Christian J. Emhardt. Democrat, will introduce the motion and the council Is expected to act favorably on the motion at the same time. It would take effect Nov. 14. t

Sen. McCarthy Blasts Censure Group Members Charges Three Os Group Committed Fraud On Senate WASHINGTON (INS)—Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy charged today that three of the six senators who investigated censure charges against him committed “a fraud upon the senate" by not admitting bias. In a torrid letter to Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) who headed the special committee which recommended censure of the Wisconsin Republican, McCarthy. said--"It now is unquestioned that three of the members of the committee. including yourself, indicated prejudice towards me before you were selected to act on that committee and failed to tell the Vice President of your statements in that regard before he appointed you . . .” The Wisconsin Republican named no one except Watkins but apparently referred also to Sens. Edwin C. Johnson (D-Colo.) and Sam Ervin (D-N. C.) both of whom he had previously criticized for past statements. it w’as McCarthy’s strongest attack to date on members of the committee which recommended that the senate censure him for alleged “contempt" and for "abuse”, of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. ♦ He said that the failure of Watkins and two others to tell Vice President Nixon “that they had made anti-McCarthy statements was "a deliberate deception . . and : a fraud upon the sehate which obviously intended that an unprejudiced committee be a p - pointed.” The senate will reconvene Nov. 8 in a special session to consider the committee’s recommendation. McCarthy's letter was occasioned by Watkins’ weekend acceptance of his invitation to testify about the promotion and honorable discharge last year of former Maj. Irving Peress, an army dentist described by McCarthy as a “fifth amendment Communist." However, Watkins told newsmen that prior commitments prevented him from appearing before Me Carthy’s senate investigations subcommittee before Nov 8, and he suggested also that his colleagues on the censure panel be called. In his latest letter to Watkins. McCarthy asked the Utah Republi can for a specific date, and in doing so hinted that he might hold hearings on the issue while the senate is bolding the special censure session. He told Watkins: "... Yow could, of course, besubpoenaed to appear before the Bth of November. However. 1 have decided not to issue a subpoena for you. "Therefore, will you tell me what day after Nov. 8 you can appearo. It has been announced that the senate sessions will start (Continued on Fags Five) Berne Will Follow Decatur Time Action The Berne city council, meeting Monday night, recommended that the city adopt eastern daylight time in event such action 1* taken by the Decatur city council at its special aeasion tonight. The change would be effective at mid- , night Saturday night. .. I V

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 26, 1954

Last-Ditch Campaign Tour By Eisenhower To Help Candidates

Drop In Living Costs Reported By Labor Dept. Slight Decrease In Cost Os Living In Month Os September WASHINGTON (INS) — The* labor department reported today, that the cost-of-living dropped three-tenths of one percent during September, reaching the lowest point since last April. The department said that declining food prices reduced the index during the month to 114.7 percent of tha 1947-49 average. It was the second consecutive month that the figure has gone down, each time because of lower food prices. In mid-September, the index was six-tenths of one percent under the ’ ail-time high of 115.4 recorded in , October, 1953. Meanwhile, labor secretary James P. Mitchell reported that . the average factory worker could buy more In goods and servieea with his take-home pay in Septkm- . ber than in any other September, since World War 11. Mitchell said that the average earnings of factory workers ro®, 'to per week. atF' all-time ’ high for the month. He > saickthat the buying power of the pay enveli ope in September was the highest since 1944. 1 The labor department said that in the month ending in mid-Sep-tember food prices dropped 1.3 percent to 112.4 percent of the 1947-49 average. Food prices at the mid--die of the month were 1.2 percent lower than a year ago and 3.6 percent below the record high of August, 1952. However, they were still 11.8 percent higher than in June, 1950, just before the outbreak of the Korean war. Aside from foods, there was a i decrease during the month in costs . of transportation and reading and recreation. Prices of clothing house furnishings, medical care, residential rents, fuel and personal care advanced. German Chancellor Enroute To Stales Konrad Adenauer On Quick Flying Visit BONN (INS) — West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer left Bonn today for a quick flying visit to Washington. The 78-year-old statesman took off with his party of advisers from Cologne shortly after eight o’clock J this morning (2 am. EST). The U. S. high commissioner at 1 Bonn, Dr. James B. Conant, also ( was aboard. Before leaving on a special U. S. air force plane, Ade- , nauer told newsmen: “In the U. S., I will have the opportunity of expressing to the American people the thanks of the federal republic and, 1 believe, of the German people for all the help ( given to us by the U. S. and President Eisenhower himself during the most difficult years we have experienced since the Avar." The flight will cross the Atlantic via Keflavik in Iceland where the chancellor will hold a news conference at the German legation this afternoon. The plane will stop at New foundland overnight, and will arrive in Washington on Wednesday. j Adenauer undoubtedly will receive a warmer welcome in the American capital than the farewell he got in his own. In Washington, the chancellor will be greeted as a statesman who by bis foresight and willingness to compromise did much to ineurd the success of last week's j negotiations In Paris Those discussions opened the door for West Germany’s entrance into the Atlantic Alliance as a (Continued on l’age Five)

Annual Halloween Parly On Thursday Parade, Festival Thursday Evening Members of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce and the Lincoln school parent-teacher association have completed plans for the annual Halloween celebration in Decatur Thursday night. j Festivities wil lopen with the chllithumpian parade at 7:30 p.m. The parade, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce will take place on the downtown streets of Decatur. The chamber will award 32 cash prizes amounting to almost S2OO to the top bands, drum majors and best dressed entries. Parade entrants have been ask- . ed to meet at the jail yard on First street where the parade will be formed with the assistance of William Bowers, Clyde Butler and Martin Sprunger. chairman of the parade. 11 bands According to Sprunger, general of the area have already entered the parade which will be headed, by a police escort, the Decatur fire truck and the American Legion color guard. Two judges stands will be set up along Second street The parade route will be Second street to Marshall street, then right to First, south to Jackson and than back to Second street. Also a feature of the Chambersponsored activities will be the awarding of prizes in the windowpainting contest. Participants in this contest are junior high students of the public and Catholic schools. In groups of from two to four they painted Halloween scenes on the windows of Decatur stores. Contest and parade winners will receive their checks at the Chamber of Commerce office from Fred Kolter, executive secretary. Following the parade will be the PTA fall festival at the Decatur high gymnasium where food and entertainment booths will be featured. Members of the PTA under the-chairmanship of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Magley and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hancher will have charge of the various booths. The public is invited to attend the festival which raises’ money to finance PTA scholarships. Five Indiana Counties Disaster Flood Areas r INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Gov. George N. Craig today announced receipt of information that five northwestern Indiana counties have been declared disaster flood areas. Craig said he received word that President Eisenhower has declared Lake, Elkhart, Marshall. LaPorte and Starke counties disaster areas and made them eligible for federal flood relief. Jet Pilot Killed In Wells County Crash Jet Falls On Farm Near To Zanesville FORT WAYNE, Ind. (INS) — An F-80 jet fighter pilot was killed today when his plane crashed and burned on a farm near Zanesville, Ind. Authorities at Fort Wayne’s Baer Field, the pilot’s destination from Stewart air force base in Tennessee, withheld identification of the pilot pending notification of next of kin Investigators hurried to the fogenshrouded wreckage site on the Charles Glass farm In Wells county. They said the pilot was decapitated in the crash which scattered the plane over a wide area. Baer Field spokesmen said the pilot had been In contact with the field’s tower 26 minutes before the crush and that the pilot reported he was preparing to come in through the thick fog for an instrument landing at the time.

Secretary Os State Reports On New Pact Dulles Gives Notice To Russians Os New Bargaining Powers WASHINGTON (INS) — John Foster Dnlles served notice on Soviet Russia today that he wil not negotiate with the Reds on Germany or Austria until west European unity is achieved and he can bargain from a position of strength. The secretary of state, in a re.port to the first cabinet session ever watched by all of America—via radio and television — clearly indicated that in past talks with Moscow the U, S. has argued from weakness. The nation’s top foreign policy official said in discussing Soviet reaction to the Paris agreement on west European unity: "When we create, as I hope we will, a position of solidity and strength for western Europe, then there may be a new basis for discussion, which doesn’t exist at the present time. “At least we can nope that then there can be talks more satisfactory than those that exist, when the only object of the Soviet Union is, by trick or device, to try and break up the European unity.” President Eisenhower — who declared at the public cabinet meeting that Dulles deserved a "standing ovation” for his work at Paris and London — met with the national security council today. The White House said the council would meet two days ahead of its usual Thursday date. It was apaprent that the President wanted his top strategy board to begin work immediately on the new and more hopeful situation created by the Paris agreements to form a western European union to include a soverign and rearmed West Germany. The call for the council meeting was issued during a day of downright jubilation in Washington, and a day in which precedents were passed by the board wholesale. Home Owners Hold Banquet On Monday Awards Are Made To McMillen Owners Twenty awards for home beautification were made at the annual McMillen home owners banquet Monday night In the Moose home. Attending the event were 170 home owners and guests. The program for the evening included entertainment by Freddy Caserlo of Chicago and talks by George Ross of the University of Michigan and Mrs. Ruth White. Wolf and Dessauer interior decorator. Also speaking on the program was I). W. McMillen, Sr., founder of the home owners group. The award were.preeented by Paul Hensel, vice-president of the Central Soya company. First place awards went to Robert Martin, south Master section; Mervin Stahl, north Master section: Wayne Ford. Mix avenue section, and Dovle Bedwell, Central addition section. ■Other wkniversi were Howard Myers, Francis Zimmerman, Robert Theobald, Augustus Dailey, Carl Kipfer and Lloyd Sheets of the south Master section; Jack Rosenberger, Duane Wheeler, Paul Hilyard and Daniel Miller of the north Master section; Vic Magsamen, Paul Morgan and Raymond Thieme of the Mix avenue section, and Watson Maddox, Cliff Steiner and Adrien Girard, St., of ths Central addition section. The dinner was prepared and served by ladles of the Moose. The banquet and program was followed with dancing. Jimmy Stier and his orchestra provided the music. ° . . ) V •» 1 •

12,458 Registered To Vote In County More Eligible Than Registered In Spring A total of 12,458 persons are registered to vote in the election next Tuesday, Edward F. Jaberg, clerk of the circuit court, announced thia morning. This compares with 11,757 who were eligible in the spring. Many new voters were added during the registration drive this fall, and many voters were purged from the 1 lists because they had taken voting residence elsewhere, or had died since the election. Berne C, all of the city of eßrne south of Main street. Is now the largest precinct in the number of eligible voters; there are 610 registered in that precinct. Decatur 3-A, the precinct north of Monroe street and east of Fifth, which j votes as the county garage, was formerly the largest, and is now second largest with 572 registered. South Blue Creek is the smallest precinct in number of voters with only 137 qualified. This is less than one-fourth as large as Berne C. Other precincts with their registered voters are: Decatur LA, 394; LB, 336; 1-C, 274; 1-D, 447; 2-A, 474; 2-B, 350; 2-C, 274; 3-B, 441; 3-C, 339; Decatur-Root, 347; Berne A. 369; Berne B, 515; Geneva A, 404; Geneva B, 338; East Union, 193; West Union, 192; East Root, 814; West Root, 336; North Preble, 242; South Preble, 284; North Kirkland. 233; South Kirkland, 162; North W’ashington, 415; South Washington, 349; North St. Marys, 274; South St. Marya, 326; North Blue Creek, 209; South Blue Creek, 137; North Monroe, 391; South Monroe. 360; French, 245; North Hartford, 309; South Hartford, 158; North Wabash, 233; Ceylon, 141; East Jefferson, 140; W’est Jefferson, 167. India Asks For Ban On Use Os Nuclear Weapon Asks Major Atomic Powers For Pledge Not To Use Weapon UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) — India’s V. K. Krishna Menon called on the major atomic powers In UN today for a pledge never to use nuclear weapons—-not even for defense against aggression. Menon, windup speaker in the lengthy disarmament debate in the political committee, declared that atomlc-hydrogen weapons threatened the destruction of humanity and that "under no circumstances" should they be used. V. K. Krishna Menon, chief Indian delegate, wound up the political committee discussion on disarmament by urging also that' Red China be included in any move toward an arms truce. Menon was prevented from taking the floor Monday night by Soviet delegate Andrei Vishlnsky’s three-hour statement on Russian arms policy and nuclear weapons control. Vlshinsay staged a violent attack on the London and Paris agreements to rearm Germany and charged that allied moves In Europe contradicted UN efforts toward global disarmament. The Russian attack coincided with President Eisenhower’s dramatic display to the world through television the historic importance of the Paris agreements. Vishlnsky took issue with U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles' statement praising the Parle agreement and said all efforts to revive West German military power were counter to current UN attempts to launch east weat private talks on nuclear weapona control.

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Indicates Ike To Make last Minute Tour Campaign Tour To Half Dozen States To Aid Candidates ~ WASHINGTON (INS) — The White House strongly indicated today that President Eisenhower will make a whirlwind campaign drive thia week-end in a half dozen states where Republican congressional candidates are locked iu tight battles. Presidential news secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Elsenhower wants to make the flying trip urged by GOP leaders but added that a definite decision must be held by the chief executive until the President appraises his Washington workload. The decision may be announced Wednesday morning at 10:30 a.m. when Mr. Eisenhower holds his first news conference in 10 weeks. The chief executive fired up the campaign Monday night by announcing a 400,000 drop in the number of unemployed within the last month. He made the surprise announcement at a unique televised cabinet session. The unexpectedly sharp decline in unemployed left the number of jobless workers at 2,700,000 and was certain to be used by GOP campaign orators to counteract Democratic salvos on the unemployment issue. Both the extraordinary cabinet meeting—the first ever opened to television and radio audiences — and the President’s speech hailing the nation's robust economic health were billed as “non-pollti-cal.” But both were designed to boost Republican chances in the crucial congressional elections Nov. 2 by pointing up the achievements o> the Eisenhower administration in the cold war against Communism and the economic struggle on the home front. The President, it was learned Monday night, is considering a flying foray into several key states this weekend in an«*ll-out effort to push the Republican campaign over the top. White House aides have mapped out an itinerary which would carry the chief -executive into Kentucky. Michigan, Delaware and possibly Ohio, Illinois, New Jersey, lowa and Massachusetts in two days of whirlwind campaigning Friday and Saturday. # They still have to sell the idea, however, to Mr. Eisenhower — who has stated repeatedly that he will not do any barnstorming for individual candidates. All of the states on his proposed Itinerary have tight senate battles which could go either way— and which could make the difference between Republicans winning or losing control of congress. - Mr. Eisenhower painted a rosy economic future for the nation Monday night as he accepted the James V. Forrestal award from the national security industrial association for his efforts in behalf of world peace. He declared confidently that the annual national output—total production of goods and services—can be boosted to 500 billion dollars in 10 years, an average increase of more than $3,000 for every family. National output Is presently 356 billion dollars a year. This, the president asserted, will mean higher living standards and a “better, happier future" for Americans — who, he noted, have just enjoyed "the most prosperous peacetime year In history” under his administration. INDIANA WKATHIR Considerable oloudlneea with showers and scatter-ad thunderstorms tonight and ending Wednesday. Low tonight 60>‘sß. High Wednesday In upper 50e northwest to mid 60s south.