Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol 111. No. 260.

Ike Grin — Truman Smile "T”~~77 HiE3Eh ■KI I ST IHK« ffi ■ .. a. HHi . WITH A WRY SMILE, President Eisenhower leaves the White House with his press secretaries Murray Snyder (center) and James Hagerty as they headed for the Chief Execi’tive's regular news conference and undoubted questions on the effect of Tuesday’s elections. In the lower picture, Harry S. Truman in'Kansas City, reacts with a broad smile to published announcement of Democratic victories which saw the hquse of representatives change complexion and a tight race for command of the Senate.

Sam Sheppard Portrayed As Vicious Killer Opening Statements By State, Defense Lawyers Made Today CLEVELAND (INS) —Dr. Sam was portrayed' today as a vicious philandering killer and a gentle healer who. lovAd his family The .cold accusing finger was pointed by the state at his first degree murder jtrial while the warm picture was painted by the defense. In their opening statements to the jury, the state charged the handsome defendant smashed in his pregnant wife's skull with 25 blows behind two closed doors he,acus,e cC his inf Stuart ton with "other women." ~7 The defense described the society osteopath a ' "man possessed of a gentle nature..and declared: “He was a man who devoted his life to saving lives and not a man who would take life from anyone." The state listed Sheppard's intimacies wt:h actra-Live Susan ■ Hayes- affir‘”otKer women”” ams asserted he talked of divorce be’'Two, the July 4th murder. The defense sad J "the four months before the murder -were the happiest in the lives of Marilyn and Sam Sheppard." The brain surgeon's associate counsel, Fred Garnione. told the seven men and five women on the jury that Sam turned over his pay checks to his -wife. - bought their $31,500 home in her name arid made out big insurance policies in her favor. Then he asked: "Does that kind of testimony add up to murder." He hit repeatedly at the theme than the state’s ease will be indirect, declaring 'it will be based on “conjectures" and “inferences upon inferences." The attorney appealed to, the juty not to be biased against the 30-year-old defendant because of his “activities with other women." rethinding them that they had said su<Titestimony- w*OuTd’ri<st prejudice them against Dr, Sank The state began its case against the brain surgeon after the defense lost attempts to writ a mistrial, 'dismiss the jury, change the trial site and postpone it indefinitely. The solemn state prosecutor John Mahon, gave the outline of the case he expects *to prove, by declaring: The July 4th murder happened behind locked doors. There was no evidence of a st ruggle-or-hou.se breaking.Dr. Sheppard had affairs with “other women," and was "Infatuated" with pretty medical technician Susan Hayes. ■„ Sheppard spoke of divorcing his wife because of his infatuation. Nothing was missing from the (Continued oh Page Six) 12 PAGES ' -unAw

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY ' .

Speculate On Role Os Speaker Martin Must Step Down As Speaker For House WASHINGTON (INS)—The role to be played by GOP leader Joe Martin in the hext sessiori of congress w r as a matter of speculation today as the Democrats prepared to take over control of the new house when it convenes in January The veteran New England Republican, who must step down as speaker of the house for the. second time since 1946. has indicated he will take a back-seat, elderstatesman assignment and allow Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R Ind.)-, to continue as GOP floor leader. However, with the new house divided between 232 Democrats and 203 Republicans, Martin will maintain an influential position in the chamber, even if he declines a titular role. He is recognized as. one of the most adroit legislative compromisers in congress and is particularly effective in dealing with conservative southern Democrats.® i’ ” Halleck has proven himself a hard-punching floor leader during the first two years of the Eisenhower administration and is warmly regarded by the President. When the Republicans lost control J 1 ? quished the floor leadership to become Republican whip. “However, it may develop this time that Martin, will feel ft best to keep the Hoosier, as titular leader. giving himself greater opportunity to deal with behind-the-scenes vote-getting tactics. There is no question about the Democratic leadership line • up. Rep. Sam Rayburn (D Tex:), will return to the speakership, an offlce.. he has held longer than any other man in congressional history. Rep. John McCormack (D Mass.), a needle-sharp debater,, will become majority leader. While McCormack has always allied himself with Roosevelt-Tru-man programs, most of the house committee chairmanships will fall to southerners of a definite con-, servative tinge. Chairman of the powerful rules committee will be Rep. Howard Smith (D Va. 1. who in the past 1 battled frequently against legislation sent to the hill by Democratic presidents. Rep.- Jere Cooper, a slow-moving Tennessean, becomes chairman of the tax writing ways and means committee. Other veteran southerners who take over control of committees are Rep. Carl Vinson (D Ga.), armed services’ Rep. James P. Richards (D S. D,), foreign affairs; Rep. Brent Spence (D Ky,), banking and currency, and Rep. Clarence -Cannon (D Mo ), approprlations. . Rep, Francis E. Walter (D Pa.), Is slated to head the un-American activities committee but he told newsmen in Easton, Pa., that he favors ending its independent status. Walter, an Influential house Democraf, said he would prefer to see the committee's functions assigned to a special house judiciary subcommittee, even though such a (Continued on I’age Eight)

21 Governors' Offices Held By Democrats Victories Project Harriman, Lausche, Williams To Fore WASHINGTON (INS) — Detno crats projected three men into the presidential possibility spotlight today .with their victories in gubernatorial races Tuesday when they recaptured a majority of the nation’s governorships. Democrats will now hold 27 of the executive seats tn the 48 state capitals, while only a year ago they had only 19. They scored victories in New Jersey last November, in Maine in September and made the rest of their gains two. days ago. W. Averell Harriman, who ended the Republican reign in Nes York; Gov. Frank J. Lausche, who won a fifth term in Ohio, and Gov. G. Mennen Williams, with a smashing fourth-term victory in Michigan, achieved new political stature. Equally dramatic were the successes of Democrat George M. leader in Pennsylvania, first member of his party to head the state administration since 1934, and Abraham Ribicoff's defeat of Connecticut’s popular Republican governor, John Davis Lodge. Harriinan, Lausche and Williams loom as presidential possibilities because of the powerful delegations their states will send to the party’s national Although Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 presidential nominee and former governor of Illinois, is regarded as well out in front for the 1956 nomination, the New' York - Ohio - Michigan trio may emerge as formidable challengers. The only consolation for the Republicans in the gubernatorial bat--1 ties was the achievement of Mary--1 land's Theodore R. McKeldin in ' becoming the first GOP standardbearer to be sent back to the state house at Annapolis for a second i term. ► H was a personal triumph for I McKeldin as Democrats swept ■ most other state offices in Maryland and the state changed its con- . gressional delegation from 4 to 3 Republican to 4 to 3 Democrat Republican Governor Goodwin i Knight of California entered the presidential picture on the GOP side with a sizable triumph. In Colorado, Sen. Edwin C. i, Johnson (D), who retired from the Washington arena because his wife was homesick for the western mountains, was elected goverJ nor. Unemployment figured impor tantly in at least 4wx> of the key races. The jobless in Detroit’s auto industry were regarded as a political asset to Williams, and widespread unemployment in the Pennsylvania coal fields was a factor there. James Gales Enters Guilty Plea Today Sentence Delayed By Judge Parrish The sentencing of James Gates. 27. Wells county, who entered a plea of guilty to a charge of re : celving stolen property in the Ad ams ciycull court this morning was postponed while Judge Myles Parrish took the matter under advise ment. Gates signed a statement which 1 was introduced as evidence by prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith. In the statement Gates ad mitted accepting the stolen check i from a companion, William Booher. 30. of Hartford City. Gates further stated that be forged the name of James Baker to the check and cashed it in Berne. The theft and forgery allegedly occurred April 24. i Evidence presented this morning showed that Gates has served two sentences at the Indiana state penal farm at Putnamvllle. One was , on a bigamy conviction and the other on a charge of petit larceny. He was released Oct. 20 after haying served the second sentence. Adams county authorities apprehended Gates immediately on his release on a warrant as a result of the theft and forgery in this county. ~ Deputy sheriff Merle Affolder and detective sergeant Truman Bierie of the state police were sworn in as state's witnesses during this morning's hearing. They described the investigation leading np to Gates arrest. They also stated that they were present when Gates signed the statement admitting guilt. n

— * j - — Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 4, 1954.

Democrats Edge Into Control Os Senate On Triumph From Oregon

Tuesday Vote Blow To Three State Leaders Charles A. Halleck Faces Demotion In Democrat Congress INDIANAPOLIS (INS) "-r- Ma* jor casualties In Tuesday’s election were Congressman Charles A. Halleck, of Rensselaer; Paul M. Butler, of South Bend, Indiana Democratic national committeeman, and Governor George N. Craig. The Democratic upsurge will bring about the demotion of Halleck from house majority leader, to assistant minority leader, unless house speaker Joseph Martin decides to refuse the minority leadership, as has been reported. The eyelash reelection of Republican Congressman Shepard J. Crumpacker, of South Bend, third district, over John Brademas, of South Bend. Democratic nominee, probably will demolish Butler’s chances to become Democratic national chairman. His enemies are certain to use hte fact that Butler could not put over his home district congressional nominee, Brademas, against him. Governor Craig suffered when the Democratic strength was increased substantially in both houses of the general assembly, which will meet in just two months. Also, his potittcat enemy, senate president pro tern John W. Van Ness, of Valparaiso, was reelected handily and the voters also returned a number of his other foes in both houses. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers joined in smashing the governor's sweeping -governmental program to fragments. Indications are that he will suffer the same fate at the 1955 legislative session. Also, there Is the constant that the Capehart - Jenner group will recapture the GOP state organization from the governor. } The Democrats gained 17 seats in the house and five in the sen- . ate, but the GOP will manage both houses. The senate count w ill be pS’ to 15' and the house 63’ to 37 1 It was progress for the Democrats and they w’ill use the momentujp lin the 1955 municipal election, unless a skip - election law is passed. (Continued on Page Five) Schurger Leader On State Ticket Here Decatur Attorney Leads Ticket Here Severin H. Schurger, Decatur attorney. led the state ticket in Adams county Tuesday by totaling 4.992 votes to his oppenent's 3,625, running 1,367 votes ahead. This was a higher lead than any Democratic county victor, opposed by a Republican, ran up, except for Harley Reef in the commissioner's race, aud also a higher total vote than any opposed Democrat except sheriff-elect Merle Affolder. who totaled 5,087 votes, and Reef, who totaled 4.992 votes. Floyd Harper, Democratic candidate for secretary of state, carried Adams county by 854 votes, which means that in the next election the Democrats will have the inspectors in Adams county. For the last three elections the Republicans have carried for secretary of state, and chosen'the 39 precinct election inspectors. _ Schurger, who was running for appellate court judge, left the county with 513 more votes over hie opponent than Harper had over Crawford Parker. Republican candidate for secretary of state, (although Schurger had Just 276 more votes than Harper. Schurger was the only candidate on the state ticket for whom many Adams county people voted. f

Urge Approval Os Dixon-Yates Pact Hughes And Strauss Ask Immediate Okay WASHINGTON (INS) — Bud«et director . Rowland Hughes and ■ atomic energy chairman Lewis L. Strauss asked today for immediI Mte congressional approval of the ‘ Tontroversial Dixon-Yates contract . to supply private power to the I Tennessee Valley Authority. At the same time, Strauss flatly , denied that the proposed power contract guarantees a nine percent profit to the private utilities involved. He said the contractors might even lose money. Strauss was the first witness as the joint atomic committee opened hearings oh the pact. Hughes, the second witness, declared that the 20-million-dollar-a---year contract “complies with the President's instructions. Hughes said: “The proposed contract does not change the status of TVA .. I emphasize this point, Mr. Chairman: We have satisfied ourselves that the contract is entirely fair as a business prop- ' osition for the government." Strauss defended the contract . with the middle south and south- . 4rn utilities companies, who would . wild a lOT-mlllion-dollar generat- . ifag plant at West Memphis, Ark. The AEC Chairman was excused ( jk-khout questioning to£ keep an. . afrpaintment, but will testify again" ( Friday. The immediate congressional , approval the witnesses sought could be granted « the joint committee waives a provision of the . atomic energy act that such con- , tracts must lay before congress •' in session for 30 days. Central Soya Names Officers, Directors Present Officers, Directors Elected All present officers and directors of the Central Soya Co., Inc., were reelected at the company's annual meeting in the Fort Wayne executive offices.Wedhesday. _ Directors renamed were H. W. McMillen, board chairman; Dale W. McMillen. Sr.. Dale W. McMillen, Jr., Charles W. Crowe. Wilbert E. Tuge, Edward T. Scheie. John D. Shoaff and Cole J. Younger. Company officers are H. W. McMillen. chairman; Dale W. McMillen, Jr., president; Charles W. Qrowe. Paul E. Hensel, Wilbert E. Huge, Jake L Krider. Norman F. Kruse and George D. Mac Lean, vice presidents; Edward T. Scheie, secretary and treasurer; John L. Andreas, assistant secretary and assistant treasurer, and Richard N. Allen, assistant secretary and controller. ‘ The board chairman termed the past year “highly successful." He singled out particularly a 36,793,145 increase in working capital, an increase in shareholder equity ' from 329.54 to 334.29 per share, and sales of 3153,055,800, highest in company history. President Dale W. McMillen, jr.. announced that constructiori'of the ■ company's new $5,000,000 soybean processing plant and feed mil! at 1 Chattanooga, Tenn., is well under--1 way and completion is scheduled for next April. On completion of the Chattanooga plant, McMillen said,? the company’s combined soybean proces1 sing capacity will be more than 40.000,000 bushels annually, grain , storage capacity will be 20,000,000 bushels and feed manufacturing ■ capacity more than 1,000,000 tons annually. Central Soya operates (Coatieued Oa I‘aqe El*ht) * !■ I M I "aTTgia . Gen. Lawton Collins : Enroute To Vietnam WASHINGTON (INS) — Gen. J. Collins. Is on his way I to Vietnam oh a special mission 1 to determine for President Eleen--1 hower how U. 8. aid can best be used to guard the Indo-Chinese state from the Communists. »

5 Apartment Firms Resist Federal Order Resisting Orders Aimed At Recovery Os Windfall Profit WASHINGTON (INS) — Housing officials said today that five apartment firms are resisting a government order designed to recover nearly seven million dollars in windfall profits raked in on federal housing loans. Four of the five were reported to have notified the federal housing administration they will not comply with a directive of FHA commissioner Norman P. Mason while the fifth showed no signs of cooperating with the agency. To settle the issue. FHA officials said Mason soon will act independently to take control of the corporations to recover the alleged windfalls and reduce renjs in the projects. At the same time, an informed official predicted it will take “months” before the government 1 Obtains a clear court ruling on whether it acted legally in forcing builders who netted million-dollar profits on a shoe-string to . pay back the profits. This same official, who asked not to be named, also said FHA has uncovered “many more windfall" cases since the government reported in September that builders collected 110 million dollars in profits on 1,410 FHA - insured apartment projects. The apartment sponsor was reported to have voluntarily informed the FHA he raked in a windfall on a project although previously there was no indication the development was built on a loan which exceeded the actual cost of construction. The five corporations were said to be turning down Mason’s directive of Oct. 25 to call meetings of the preferred stockholders within ten days to elect new boards of directors under government control. The projects, located in widely scattered areas in five states, are: — The Clifton Park Manor project at Wilmington, Del., listed for an '(Continued on Puga Eight) 9,313 Votes Cast Here On Tuesday 74.7 Per Cent Os Eligibles Voted A total of 9,313 voters braved cold weather in Adams county Tuesday to help elect their township, county, and state officers, a check of the records shows today. This means that 74.7 per cent of the 12,458 eligible voters went to the polls Tuesday, about 900 less than the some 10,200 out of 12,744 voters eligible in the 1952 presidential election, when 80 per cent of the voters turned out. However, it was much better than in 1948 ( when only 9,400 of 13,000 voters turned out for a 72.67 per cent showing. South Blue Creek precinct led all other precincts in percentage of total voters voting, with 89,78 per cent. In that precinct 123 out of the 137 eligible voted. North llfte Creek was third highest, with 81.82 per cent voting. The high vote resulted from a very close trustee’s race between Democrat Frank Myers and Republican Don Raudenbush, with Myers winning by a vote of 155 to 131. Myers, who lives in South Blue Creek, which is normally Republican. carried his precinct by 22 votes, while carrying normally heavily Democratic North Blue Creek, where Raudenbush lives, by only two votes. Lowest precinct in the county was South Kirkland, where only 57.41 per cent of the voters turned out. However, in North Kirkland. (Continued on Fajw Five)

Stevens Replies To Senator McCarthy * Petess Cose Turned To Justice Dept. WASHINGTON (INS)—The army has told Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy that it took little action against officers who promoted and honorably discharged Maj. Irving Peress, but said it turned the entire case over to the justice department. Army secretary Robert T. Stevens told the Wisconsin Republican in a letter that two officers were "reprimanded” for delays in handling the discharge of the controversial dentist who refused to tell McCarthy whether he was ever a Communist. Stevens did not identify the officers publicly. Replying to questions put by McCarthy earlier, Stevens wrote that Peress could not have been courtmartialed as McCarthy demanded because the action "could not have been substantiated.” Stevens said the army did not have enough evidence “to prove actual membership of Peress in a subversive organization.” The Peress discharge cropped up in both the army-McCarthy hearings and later in hearings by a special senate committee that recommended McCarthy be cehsured by the senate. The senate begins debate on the censure recommendations on Monday, January Draft Call Unchanged At 23,000 WASHINGTON (INS)—The defense department asked selective service today to draft 23,000 men in January, all for the army. The 23,000-man call continues the rate which has prevailed since July, 1954. The 23,000 will bring the total draft calls since the out,, break of the Korean War to 1,858,400. Bender's Margin In Ohio Is Now 9,179 See Possibility Os Recount Lessening COLUMBUS (INS) — The possibility of a recount in Tuesday's election of Republican congressman George H. Bender to the senate seat of the late Robert A. Taft lessened today. Secretary of state Ted Brown's tabulation of the vote as reported by each county via the U. Smails gave Bender a 9,179-vote margin over Thomas A. Burke, the interim senator appointed by Gov. Frank J. Lausche (D). The vote gave: Bender 1.257,749; Burke 1,248,570. At the same time, Governor Lausche’s historic fifth-term plurality was a smashing 212,151. His victory was expected and Bender's win caused no surprise, as his down - state margin knocked out Burke's nearly 100,000 vote margin in Cuyahoga county. But ffiere was one major upset —and it was by a Democrat, in what was otherwise, in Ohio, a Republican year. That was the defeat handed Republican Supreme Judge Henry A. Middleton by young, aggressive James F. Bell. When the mail vote was counted today, Bell picked up 1,000 votes in a telephone error from Union county and enough others to come out with a 2,922 • vote margin. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, snow flurries northwest and light snows south and east except moderate snow likely with accumulation up to 2 to 4 inches extreme southeast tonight. Friday considerable cloudlneee. Snow flurries extreme north. Not much change In temperature. Low tohlght 30-35. High Friday 35-40. . ‘ * I

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Capture GOP Seal To Take Senate Control - Possible Recounts Hinted In Oreggn And New Jersey WASHINGTON (INS) — Demo- • crats edged into control of the i senate In the 84th Congress today i on the basis of near-final returtut indicating they have captured the GOP seat of Sen Guy Cordon in Oregon. Possible recounts in both Oregon and New Jersey, where the Republicans claimed a narrow victory could alter the results. But the line-up apparently will be 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans and one Independent Democratic leaders confidently went ahead with plans to organise the senate as well as the house when congress convenes on Jan. 5. Reports that the Democrats 1 might not want to take control by . a one-vote margin were discounted r by party sources in Washington. , One official said flatly: , "We intend to organize the sen--3 ate, if we have the votes. Having . asked the country to give us that B responsibility, >e conld not think of failing to assume it once it had Seen given.” 'tr..— White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said President Elsenhower — who has stated his intention of cooperating with Democratic leaders in the house — has no comment on the probability that ’ the Democrats would also control 1 the senate. ( The off - year shift in control, coming just 22 months after the ‘ first GOP administration in 20 ' years took office, gives the Dem- 1 i ocrats chairmanships of vital committees, including some investigative groups which could, shape is- , sues for the 1956 presidential campaign. Republicans are expected to challenge the senatorial outcome in Oregon. But Democrats were just as ready to contest the razor - thiu margin of victory scored by Rep. Clifford Case (R) in New Jersey over Rep. Charles R. Howell (D). Tuesday's election spelled a re- . turn to Washington of former Vice President Alben W. Barkley, . overran Sen. John Sherman Coop- . er (R), and of former Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D Wyo.), who reclaimed a senate seat for his state ( from Republicans. Democratic newcomers will be Neuberger. If his apparent narrow ) victory is finally confirmed; Pa- , trick McNamara of Michigan. ' steamfitter and AFL union official; Alban Bible of Nevada, protege of . the late Sen. Pat McCarran (D), and J. Strom Thurmond of South . Carolina, who was the States* Rights presidential candidate in 1948. Thurmond won as a write-in ’ candidate against the regular | Democratic nominee in his state. Missing from the Republican ranks will be Sen. Homer Ferguson, (Mich.), chairman of the GOP senate policy committee. Cooper and Cordon —If the unofficial Oregon tally is confirmed. Freshmen Republicans will be Gordon Allot, Colo.*, Rep. Thomas E. Martin. Iowa; Carl T. Curtis and Roman Hruska, Nebraska, and George H, Bender, Ohio. ~ V 1 Committee-wise, the changeover to Democratic control wil knock Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.l. from his chairmanship of the investigations subcommittee and give the post to Sen. John L. McClellan (D Ark.), who was re-elected for a six-year term Tuesday. McCarthy remains In the forefront of the news, however, because the present senate reconvenes Monday to take up the censure resolution against him. The actual composition of the senate for the McCarthy censure session will be little affected by the election —except tn the case of Wyoming and Ohio. O’Mahoney (Coattanad Oa Pace Six) r. ' < I ' ’ ' ' ' 1 ' .