Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 256.

7 ‘Sure’ GOP Governors, 7 “Sure’ Democrats 7 I VtJ-V J I —r D V-^ ss r? r>SJ ( / / Ula <x a. LiZJI \ I I —r-~-— I | ind lohio, a A/* N 1 r \ / /cotsv\ I I, \ I* TSasl o * l * Lrk X ttL ® iii — p**. ? J*»x oa*v 1 -* ~"w "W \ A [miss. _ r\- '“>SctA » *\ X j* • s?£r v■ _\ —-— Vv\ \Z^’^A. : ' r, iA*-*vv4 ■ - X» vj. . ±_ <V\ H <?•*> E THE SEVEN states with elephant symbols are considered "sure” to elect Republican governors Nov. 2, and the seven with donkey symbols are considered "sure” to elect Democrat governors, according to a news survey. The four TR's” indicate Republican probables, and the “D's” Democrat probables. Shaded states are holding gubernatorial elections. There are now 29 GOP, 19 Democratic governors.

Ike Planning Chain Letter Phone Calls Last-Minute Drive By Republicans To Capture Election WASHINGTON (INS) — Presi dent Eisenhower, it was learned today, will launch a nationwide) telephonic "chain letter” in.a dramatic move to get out the big vote he is confident will bring a Republican victory in the election. The plan backed by the Republican national committee will follow up Mr. Eisenhower's declaration at the end of his 1,400 mile campaign tour through four states Friday that the GOP will keep control of congress if everyone who approves of the Republican program goes to the polls. < A White House sources said that the chief executive plans to place ten telephone calls to voters around the country asking each to be sure and turn out to vote next Tuesday. Each of the ten will be asked to make ten more calls in what the GOP hopes will develop into a landslide of Republican votes on election day. Mr. Eisenhower said after his long day of campaigning that he is convinced that a majority of Americans like the way Republicans are running things in Washington and want them to win the election —but the problem is to get them to turn out and vote. ‘ As Mr. Eisenhower put it to his last audience of the day, a cheering crowd of 2,500 assembeld in an airport hanger at Wilmington. Delaware: "If everybody votes, we are in!” He told the group that "if everybody here in this audience would go home this evening and start calling up—would call ten voters and ask them to call ten voters, it would cover Delaware with every man. woman and child in it in about ten hours. “You would reach millions in that time. That is what we want.” Presumably other Republican leaders will join the President in starting the chain calls. In his speeches Friday. Mr. Eisenhower appealed to "open-minded independents and understanding Democrats" to join the Republican cause and assure election of a congress which will carry through his peace and prosperity program. White House political strategists were highly satisfied with the results of the President’s one-day barnstorming trip which they Mlt gave the GOP campaign a badly needed shot in the arm. The hurriedly-planned tour turned into an unabashed drive by Mr. Eisenhower to push the Republican campaign over the top and he threw himself into it with the same zeal that marked his own campaigning in 1952. While his airport crowds were unexpectedly small. averaging about 2.000 each In Cleveland. (CMntlnUM «" v*see Fight) ELECTION RETURNS For county election returns Tuesday night, call Dhone number 3-2171. The tape recorder will be up to the minute with returns and will be changed each time a new result Is received. Mark down the number, 3-2171. NOON EDITION

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Dynamite Found In Congressman's Auto Bender Says Labor Probe Likely Cause CLEVELAND (INS) — Two unexploded sticks of dynamite were ■discovered today in an auto belonging to Congressman George Bender, who indicated the "scare” attempt was a result of his subcommittee’s labor racketeering probe. Only the priming cap of the ; bomb exploded, strewing paper and powder dust throughout the back seat of the auto, which was parked 20 feet from Bender's bedroom at his suburban' Chagrin Falls home. A six-foot fuse was attached to the bomb. Bender. Republican candidate for the unexpired term of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, called the FBI, the Cuyahoga county sheriff's office and Chagrin Falls poll’B The bomb, which waa discovered by his wife this morning, apparently was placed during the night Ballistics experts said the car would have been ‘blown to pieces” if the dynamite had exploded. Bender’s subcommittee recently completed lengthy hearings in Cleveland and several top labor leaders were summoned to the probe. "I don’t know who did it." Bender said, “but I am sure it has no political significance.” He is opposing Democratic Sen. Thomas A. Burke at next Tuesday's election. Burke was apopinted by Governor Lausche to the senate after Sen. Taft's death. "Someone was trying to scare me." he said angrily, “but they are not going to get away with it. I don't scare easily/'. The senatorial candidate said he went to bed about 1 a.m. after attending several political rallies Friday night. None of the members of his family heard the priming cap explode, but the odor of burned paper and upholstery in the car was evident. Bender said he has a personal body-guard with him at all times, but added: "I'm going to get some to stay at the house from now on." Den Will Open For Season Monday Night Steve, Everhart, supervisor of the Den, Decatur's younth center on Madison street, announced today that the center will be .open Monday night for the fall and win-,, ter season. ” The Den will be open Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights from 7 to 10 o'clock, and Friday and Saturday nights from 7 to 11 o'clock. It ill .be open Saturday afternoon from 1 to 4 o'clock. The Den is for all.teen-agers of Decatur and community, i 6 McCormick Child Dies In Washington Funeral services ere conducted Friday at Port Angeles, Wash., for John Robert McCormick, 2H, son of Mr. and Mrs Jack McCormick of that city. Surviving in addition to the parents are a sister, Alyce Kathleen, and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Chapman of Decatur route 3. The body was cremated, with the ashet'to be sent here for burial. Memorial services .111 be held at 11:30 a. m. Sunday, Nov. 14, in the chapel of the First ethodiet church, the Rev Virgil Wesley Seaton officiating.

Voter Apathy Is Reported In Many Quarters See Light Voting, In This State In Tuesday Election INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Apathy was evident in many quarters today as Indiana’s off-year election campaign neared its end. Despite shots in the arm from both Republican and Democratic state organizations, which scheduled many national oratorical big guns in the state, indications are that less than 1,600,090 of the nearly 2,500,000 Hoosier voters will go to the polls. For many years the politicos have striven to arouse the voter* in off-year elections, but the absence of aay senatorial or guber natorial contests always has produced wide yawns on the part of those eligible to go to the polls. “ The highest office at stake this year is that of congressman. This office is followed by a few minor state offices, plus state legislators and county and township officials. The Republicans have tried vigorously to sell the people on the thought that President Eisenhowey needs a GOP congress badly, but the upshot is that the Republicans seem nearly sure- to lose the third and egihth congressional districts and are scared to death in the fifth, seventh and ninth districts. Indiana's only Democratic congressman. Ray J. Madden, of Gary, first district, is sure of reelection even in the opinion of the more astute GOP observers in that district. On the surface, however, the Republicans seem to have the inside tracks in the second, fourth, sixth, tenth and eleventh districts, which they now hold. All of the big shots in both major parties have spoken in Indiana during the campaign, including President Elsenhower, vicepresident Nixon, house speaker Joe Martin, house majority leader Charlie Halleck, Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson, vice - presidential nominee John J. Sparkman and house mln ority leader Sam Rayburn. A host of cabinet members, senators and congressmen also have toured the state. These major speakers have drawn fair crowds but most of the Hoosier spellbinders have had audiences of only a few hundred. The Republican aspirants have grabbed frantically at the coattails of Ike and have stressed the Communism issue. There also has been a rather spirited attempt to extoll the recently Republicancontrolled congress. The Democrats have emphasized unemployment and lower farm prices. They also have slashed with gusto at the administration of Republican Governor Gedrge N. Craig, whose toll road commission has been a special target. Many of the oldtime Taft faction Republicans have been sitting on tbeir hands during the campaign and some of the Me-Hale-McKinney group Democrats likewise have been lukewarm. INDIANA WEATHER . Variable cloudiness and continued cold tonight. Some light enow likely southwest and scattered enow flurries elsewhere. Sunday partly cloudy and continued cold with enow flurries. Low tonight 28-32. High Sunday 45. . .. > •

) Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 30, 1954.

Charges Eisenhower Misled On Advantage Os Dixon-Yates Pact

Sheppard Case Confused Over Legal Furore , Discovery On Juror Puts Murder Trial 4 In Legal Furore CLEVOLAND (INS) Dr. S. Sheppard was all but forgotten today in the legal furore caused by the discovery that a juror who could decide his life or death has the same name and address as a man convicted of a sex offense. The trial of the young osteopath for the murder of his wife became, in effect, the trial of an obscure real estate agent, and the state. The police discovery appeared to put the prosecution behind a huge legal eightball. It forced an abrupt halt fn the trial Friday until Monday while the law books are pored over. A fine-haired legal question of possible double jeopardy raised by Judge Edward Blythin promised to keep the entire case simmering in a sea of uncertainty for many, many months — even if the trial I continues. Under the law no person may be tried twice tor the same crime, and Blythin expressed his view $t Sheppard's position this way: "This man is in jeopardy now, and you can put that in your pipe and smoke 1L” I The state can ask for a mistrial or that the juror under investigation remain seated. In either event the prosecution faces trouble. If it asks a mistrial it faces the cry of “double jeopardy." If it allows the male panelist to keep his seat it faces a defense move in the court of appeals to throw out an adverse verdict on the grounds that a Juror who perjured himself Judged the doctor. The veteran Judge told newsmen that in his opinion Dr. Sam was in jeopardy from the moment the jury was sworn in. The stunned prosecution, which is keeping a tight-lipped silence over the development, apparently feels the jeopardy begins the moment the testimony begins. In any event, the judge said if a mistrial is declared, it will be at least a month before a new one can start —barring appeals to the higher courts to prevent it. Chief defense counsel William J/orrigan. looking like the cat who ■swallowed the canary, cheerfully indicated to newsmen that he might ask the juror stay. It could be his legal ace in the 1 (Continued on Page Eight) 1 ■ . I James N. Loudon Is Taken By Death Funeral Services J Sunday Afternoon A native of Adams county, , James Nelson Loudon, 75. of Elnora, died Thursday at 5:15 p.m. of a coronary thrombosis suffered on his way home from a grocery. Loudon was born March 30, 1879, in Adams county to James , E. and Mary McKibben-Ixiudon. ■ He resided here about 40 years. , He was a. farmer during his residence in this county. His wife, the former Anna R. , Walker, whom he married in 1899, preceded him in death. A daugh- ( ter and son are also deceased. Surviving are a son, Frank V. of Mercede, Calif.; three daughters, Mrs. Hettie Burdg of Terre ' Haute, Mrs. Mildred Noack of ' Waynedale and Mrs. Lee Anna , Hobson of Elnora; 16 grandchil- , dren and 18 great-grandchildren. The body was brought to the Elsey funeral home at Ossian ' where friends may call after 7 1 p.m. today. The funeral will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. CDT 1 at the funeral home. Burial will 1 be In the Ossian cemetery. I

Asserts Free World Must Build Strength German Chancellor Leaves Washington WASHINGTON (INS) — West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer leaves Washington today convinced that the free world must build up its strength as a *basis for demanding world-wide disarmament. Adenauer, during his three-day visit to Washington, freely expounded his conviction that world peace can only be reached after international disarmament but that this can be attained only when Russia is made to realize that further aggression is impossible, He deeply feles that only then will it be possible to bring the Communist bloc into a binding non-aggression pact. This viewpoint of the chief of the federal republic of Germany was elaborated on by his official spokesmen a few hours before his 10:30 a.m. (EST) departure for New York City following a series of highly successful conferences with President (Eisenhower, secretary of state John Foster Dulles |and other ranking American officials. Chancellor Adenauer is cutting short his scheduled stay in the U. S. because of the Unexpected Aeatb’’ of- Dr nermann Ehlers, president of the Bonn Bundestag, close friend and political associate. He will remain in New York through Sunday afternoon in order to receive an honorary degree from Columbia university, but at 6 p.m. Sunday evening he will emplane for home byway of Bermuda and the Azores. A major address In New York and other engagements were cancelled in order that me might be in Oldenburg, Germany, on Wednesday for the funeral rites of Dr. Ehlers. In a major policy address, delivered at the National Press Club, Dr. Adenauer said the free world nations must build themselves up defensively to a dominant military and economic position. McCarthy Planning Censure Move Reply Senator Concedes Defeat In Senate WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy mapped plans today to use Communist attacks against him as "exhibit number one" in his reply to a move to censure him when the senate reconvenes November 8. Associates revealed this strategy to newsmen and McCarthy confirmed today that, at his own expense. he has had hundreds of copies of articles about him printed Tn the Daily Worker and other Communist papers made into a pamphlet. The 19-page pamphlet In which the copies of clippings are assembled has a pink cover sheet on which is emblazoned: “Throw the Bum Out — Official Communist Party Line on Sen. McCarthy.” The Wisconsin Republican told newsmen that the pamphlet is be ing "sent to "all the senators so that they can get the Communist line on this thing.” He said copies also will be sent “to a sizeable number of newspapers" but doubted that 9.000 copies were being made, as one associate reported. McCarthy’s staff prepared the document as an answer to the censure effort even though McCarthy already has conceded defeat. Referring to his foes, McCarthy said: "I think they will have sufficient votes to vote censure. MostJDamocrats will vote for it along with most self-styled liberals.” McCarthy said that he will not offer a "defense” as such on the senate floor although be promised to "make the record clear *o the **nate wll know what'* going on."

Time Change Is Effective Here Tonight Some Rural Schools Change Schedule As Clocks Moved Up Relatively few problems will result from the time change here tonight a survey of Adams county shows. The Preble, Root and XTnion townships schools will go on fast time, with their present school hours. Pleasant Mills and Bobo are considering going on fast time, but delaying opening of school one-half hour. Blue Creek township school will follow the lead of Pleasant Mills, it is believed. Adams Central school has already announced that they will go on fast time, but will change their schedules to open one-half hour later. Berne is expected to adopt fast time, also, but change their present schedules by 20 minutes. County school superintendent Gail Grabill pointed out that at present none of the schools are uniform on opening hours, because each school faces different problems. " Most offices in the coualyuourt house will open Monday on slow time, meaning they will open at 9:30 a.nu and etose at 5:30 p.m. fast time. They will await action by the county commissioners before changing their hours. The only exception to this will be the attendance officer and county superintendent of schools, who will move to fast time with the majority of schools. Only the school's in the southern three townships have been hesitant to adopt fast time, and action is expected from Geneva and Hartford township, and possibly Jefferson township. The Decatur post office reports that it will open at 8 am. fast time, and close at 6 p.m. fast time. Thia will possibly delay mail arriving from the Fort Wayne star route, postmaster Leo Kirsch stated, as the star route will -re(Conttnued on Page Five) First Snow Flurries In Decatur Friday (Decatur experienced Us first snow flurries of the season Friday afternoon -and today. The first brief flurry Friday was shortly after 1 p. m. Occasional flurries were evident this morning, and the wecther man forecast additional flurries and continued-cold weather. British Dockers To End Strike Monday Paralyzing Strikes Settled In London LONDON (INS) — British dock era at all strike bound ports voted today to resume work Monday. Nearly 50,000 workers at one time were out in the paralyzing strikes that began Oct.. 3 in London and dealt a severe blow to Britain's economy. It was estimated a half billion dollars worth of exports and imports were tied up. Losses ran into hundreds of millions of dollars, ft Perishable cargoes rotted on the piers and in the holds of ships and the government seriously considered sending troops ontq the waterfront to act as stevedores, a step which the Labor Ministry was reluctant to take. Thousands of dock workers stayed off the Job despite pleas from the leaders of their -union, the transport and general workers union ,to return to work. At the heart of the strike was a campaign by the waterfront workers to win the right to refuse overtime work with its highly-tax-ed overtime, pay.

Farm Prices Still Continue To Drop Two Percent Drop In Latest Report WASHINGTON INS) — Farm prices have registered a slight tumble that may have greater political significance than some of the larger declines of the past two years. In its last official report before next Tuesday’s congressional election, the agrciulture department reports that prices received by farmers for their products declined nearly two percent during the month ending Oct. 15. The report also lists a one percent drop in parity ratio, which indicates the farmer's buying power in today's economy. Parity ratio for the month is set at 87 percent, compared with 88 percent in mid-Septembpr and 89 percent in mid August. The overall drop in prices is attributed directly to lower prices for potatoes, hogs, citrus fruit, poultry anti eggs, corn, and cattle. These declines were only partly offset by increases in prices paid farmers for milk and commercialvegetables. Much of the decline was seasonal — especially where hogs, corn, and cattle are concerned — but the department notes that the drop in citrus prices was "sharper than usual." J While prices were taWng two percent during the month, the index of farm operational and living costs dropped just one percent. The decline was due to reductions in feed prices and seasonally lower wage rates for farm laborers. In the last minute battle for the farm vote, the department's report could become an important issue. Both parties in the past have used this particular monthly survey as political ammunition, and an additional decline in farm prices just before election could work to the disadvantage of the Republican party. S. S. Convention November 7 And 8 . Annual Convention Planned In County The Adams County Sunday school convention will be held Sunday and Monday, November 7 and 8. The first session will be held at the Bethel Brethren church, located six miles east of Berne, Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Sunday evening session will be held at the First Mennonite church at Berne at 7:30 o'clock and the last session will be held at the Adams Central gyin at Monroe at 6:30 p.m. Monday. This will be the annual banquets for all Sunday school workers, young people, pastors and everyone interested in the work of the Sunday school. The price of the tickets is only $1.25. The meal will be served by the Adams Central PTA. Reservations should be made with Miss Frances Burkhalter. county secretary, Berne, or Earl Chase, president of the asso elation, not later than Thursday, Nov. 4. An interesting program his been arranged and it is expected that a large number will want to attend. Those who find it impossible to attend the banquet should feel free to come for the program which will be given after the banquet. (Excellent talent has been secured for this convention. Speaking at every session will be Dr. Faris D. Whitesell, head of the department of practical theology, Northern Baptist Seminary. He has supplied pulpits all over the middle west and has held evangelistic meetings practically from coast to coast. He is an author of numerous books used by pastors and Christian workers and is wellqualified to give helpful messages at this convention. Also spbaklnsist both the afternoon and evening sessions on children’s and young people's de(CuaUaueS Oa Page Kight)

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rormer neaa 01 IVA Makes Charge Today Budget Director Is Charged With Misfeeding Data WASHINGTON (INS) — Gordon Clapp, former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, accused budget director Rowland Hughes today of “misleading’* President Eisenhower about the advantages of the proposed DixonYates power project. Clapp tol<V a senate anti-mono-poly subcommittee that a memorandum Hughes sent the president last April 24 recommending approval of the Dixon-Yates plan “approaches dereliction of duty.” Clapp called the Hughes memorandum “an exceedingly slanted presentation of the advantages and disadvantages of the project.” He said it was “notable” for the things it omitted. He said Hughes "played down the disadvantages and resolved all doubts in favor of Dixon-Yates and by skillful innuendoes would leave the reader to believe the TVA does not know much about the power* - business.” Clapp aal<| "If I didn't know mueh about: the TVA." he imagined he would have been inclined to approve the proposed DixonYates contract on the bHik of the Hughes memorandum. The unnsual Saturday session was held after testimony that the controversial power pact did not receive whole - hearted approval from the full atomic energy commission. Clapp described the twenty-mil-lion dollar-a-year contract as “unconscionable" and “shocking” and accused both the AEC and the federal budget bureau of acting an “promoters and sponsors of the private utilities in an attempt to destroy TVA.” Arthur Holthouse Services Tuesday Funeral eerviees for Arthur R.- - Holthouse, Dally Democrat editor, who died Thursday night in a Louisville hospital, will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock at St. Mary’s Catholic church with the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 o'clock tonight. The Holy Name society will meet at the funeral home Monday night at 8 o'clock. 129 Absent Voters Ballots Cast Here - Today Last Day To Apply For Ballots A total of 129 absent voters ballots bad been returned by 10 o'clock this morning, for the election Tuesday, Edward F. Jaberg, clerk of the circuit court, reported today. Today is the last day anyone can apply for an absent voters ballot, or vote by absent ballot fa the clerk’s office. Jaberg said. The Clerk stated that he expected several more to be returned before . the deadlin, and that thia. year's total was high compared with most off-year elections. In the 1952 Elsenhower-Stevenson race, only 148 ballots were voted absentee. Also this morning Inspectors were picking up their election supplies for Adams county’s 39 precincts. Only 15 inspectors had hot picked up their supplies by 10 o'clock. The inspector receives $22 for all the work which he has in arranging the precinct election, gathering the election materials ' from the clerk’s office, then staying at the polls while balloting in - going on. and then staying until the ballots are counted, and reporting the certified total to the clerk's