Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 262, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol. LII. No. 262.

Headed Home After “Slap” Incident MRS. KARL SOMMERLATTE, held undesirable by the Soviet government following a "slapping" Incident in Moscow, arrives with her husband at Helsinki, Finland, enroute home. She and her diplomat husband, second secretary at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, are met by Congressman Victor Wickersham (right) of Oklahoma. The Sommerlattes refused to discuss the incident that sent them home.

Light May Be Key Point In Murder Trial State To Attempt To Prove Sheppard * Lied About Attack CLEVELAND (INS) — A tiny light that failed may be one of the key elements in the trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard. The state hopes to use lights—or file lack of them — as an important weapon in its efforts to send the baby faced osteopath to the electric ch&r tor the murder of his wife, Marilyn. An authoritative source told International News Service today the state .will try to convince a jury that Sheppard was lying when he said he was attacked in the darkened hallway of his home. -— The source, who asked that bis name not be used, said that wit- . nesses will be summoned to prove the state's contention that it was “the usual practice" for the Sheppards to burn a small night light. This light was located in the upstairs hallway in front of the door to the room where sevenyeanold Samuel, Jr., slept, the night his pregnant mother was clubbed to death in the adjacent bedroom. ~ Sheppard testified at the coroner’s inquest that he was asleep on a downstairs couch, was awakened by his wife’s, cries, and rushed upstairs. The society editor said through his attorneys in their opertfng statement Thursday that he was “clobbered" while grappling in the dark with the unknown assailant. The prosecution source declared the state is ready to dispute Dr. Sam's story by putting on the stand persons and neighbors familiar with the Sheppard family’s habits. These witnesses would include their neighbors, Mr. and .Mrs. Don Ahern. They were the last persons —excluding the murderer—to see the pretty Sunday school teacher alive. Others would be the part-time maid, Elnora Helms, and Dr. Lester Hoverfteifi of Los Angeles. All four have already been subpoenaed along with 21 other potential witnesses. Dr. Hoverstein is reported ready to talk about "other wbmen" in the outside love life of the handsome osteopath: The doctor, a long-time pal of Dr. Sam’s, was angered by sug gestions from the Sheppard family that he might be Implicated in the Fourth of July murder. Police cleared him. The prosecution is also expected to hit hard at the 30-year-old defendant's story of the darkened house. Their appearance will wait the end of cross-examination of dep uty coroner Lester Adelson whol will undergo more questioning by the defense. He testified that a "multiplicity", of blows killed the victim rather than any one particular one. The defense spent' Friday trying to show errors in the autopsy and loose methods on the part of the coroner. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warmer tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 35-42. High Sunday 5358. NOON EDITION

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Committee Posts To Return To Morse Democrats Likely To Return Posts WASHINGTON (INS) — Democratic sources said today that independent Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon is virtually certain to be returned to the two influential committee posts denied him when he bolted the Republican party two years ago. Morse, whose key vote assure the Democrats of senate control when the 84th congress convenes in January, was ousted by the Republicans from the major senate labor and armed services committees when the OOP took over at the outset of the Eisenhower administration. ~ Democratic senate leader Lyndon Johnson, returning to Washington late Friday night, declined to commit himself flatly on what assignments would be given to Morse but commented: “I respect Morse's ability, seniority and capability to serve. Morse is well eqhipped in al Irespects." Morse himself smilingly refused to comment on what specific committee posts he seeks. There have been suggestions that he might ask for an assignment on the equally-powerful foreign relations committee. Meanwhile, Johnson prepared to meet immediately with Republican senate leader William F. Knowland of California this weekend to work out questions which might arise not only in the new congress but in the special session convening Monday on the proposal to censure Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis ) Upon his arrival in Washington, Johnson expressed belief that President Eisenhower should be able ttr work harmoniously- with the Democrats during the next two years. He noted that the President “got on with Democrats during the 20 years he was in the army” and added: “I see no reason to believe he won't now.” - *.

DePauw Student Is Killed In Accident Three-Year-Old Boy Dies In Home Fire INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —A number of persons died accidentally in i Indiana acidents during the past 24 hours. John Lind, 20, a DePauw University student from Evanston, 111., was injured fatally when his convertible automobile left a county road seven miles eouth of Greencastle, dropped down an embankment and overturned. ■ , . .. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Lind, were expected to meet him in connection with a special Dad’s pay program on the occasion of the DePauw-Indiana State i football game today. i Jerry I. Whltrldge, 24, of Muncie a former Indianapolis resident, met i death when his automobile ran off Road 35, five miles northwest of L Richmond. Investigators said they believed he fell asleep at the wheel. Fire caused the death of three-year-ojd Larry Piper, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Piper at their small home In Heanhlogaom. . A gas explosion set fire to the house while the mother bad left the child alone briery while visiting in the home ot neighbor, Isaac Fox. The 24-year-old mother and Mr. and Mrs- Fox ran to the Piper (Continued on Pare Fire)

Senate Opens Debate Monday On McCarthy Special Session To Debate Over Move WASHINGTON (INS) —Senators flocked back to Washington today for Monday's launching of a special session to decide whether to censure Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. The Wisconsin Republican spent the. weekend completing largescale preparations to combat the move. Meanwhile, he resumed open warfare with-army secretary Robert T. Stevens after a lull of about five months-since the end of the army-McCarthy hearings. E . In a letter to the secretary, McCarthy accused him od "ducking and dodging and mutating of the facts” -and declared the tactics were reminiscent of Stevens’ testimony at the televised sessions last summer. % McCarthy’s comments were contained in the latest series of letters he has written to Stevens demanding the names of officers responsible for the promotion and honorable discharge of Irving Peress. The former army dentist, described by McCarthy as a "fifth amendment Communist,” figures somewhat in the fourtjhcoming censure session. One of the charges against the senator is that he “abused” Peress’ former commanding officer. This charge resolves around McCarthy's questioning of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker, former commandant of Camp Kilmer, N. J., about the Peress case. A special senate committee which investigated thfs and other chargee against McCarthy described his treatment of Zwicker as "reprehensible.” The Senate will reconvene Monday at noon to begin debate on the stormy question of whether McCarthy should be censured for the Zwicker incident and for alleged "contempt” of a subcommittee which investigated bis financial activities in 1952.

Fire This Morning At Central Soya Co. Fire In Bean Dryer Here This Morning A 2t4 hour fire this morning in the bean dryer at the Central Soya elevator brought out the members of the Soya volunteer firemen's association and the two city fire trucks to restrict the fire to dam age in the dryer itself. C. I. Finlayson, plant manager, stated that an accurate estimate of damage done cannot be made until men can get Into the still-smould-ering dryer and test the equipment, but that it will probably run into several thousand dollars. The dryer seems to be materially damaged. he said. Not many beans were present In the area of the fire, so that the bean loss will be small, he added. The fire department was called at 7:40 o'clock thia morning, and the Soya company fire whistle, which summons its volunteer firemen. sounded soon after. The fire trucks did not return to the fire station until nearly 10:15 o’clock. The number of company volunteer firemen was estimated at 15, in addition to the city fire force. V

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 6, 1954.,

Fired Diplomat State Department To Make Charges Public

U. i, Allies Draft Plan On Atom For Peace Seek International Clearing House On Atomic Materials UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The U. S. and six western al-, lies drafted today a UN resolution for setting up an international “clearing house" to gather atomic materials and data for peaceful uses. Britain, France, Canada, Australia,* Belgium and South Africa agreed to co-sponsor with the U. S. a resolution launching President Eisenhower's historic "atoms for peace" program, now in th# blue-print stage. Other member countries were expected to affix their signatures to the joint proposal which calk for: ■ —- 1. Creation of international atomic agency through a treaty open to all governments — UN members and non-members alike. The agency is to serve as an ex* change post for nuclear matter and information which could be Utilized tor humanitarian purposes. s 2. Convoking of an international scientific conference under UN aegis next year to thrash out the problems of harnessing the atom for non-mllitary uses. The resolution, as recently drafted, calls on the UN to issue invitations to all governments interested in the "atoms for peace" project to send their best scientific and technical brains to the conference, which probably will be held abroad. Britain has suggested the meeting be held in Geneva next July. The joint proposal will be formally submitted to the political committee sometime next week. Western delegations were watching Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky for signs of support of the measure. It was hoped that, in view of Russian agreement to hold private disarmament talks with the west, the Kremlin may be inclined to go along with the “atoms for peace" resolution. In any event, U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and other western spokesmen made it clear that the project 4111 be pursued regardless of Russia's participation or boycott. Emergency Food Drill In Chicago - Civil Defense Corps Holds Drill Today CHICAGO (INS)—Chicago will dish out food under battle conditions today in the nation's first big city emergency feeding drill. The civil defense corps, aware that civilians, like soldiers, travel on their "stomachs," Is tackling the problem of hiw to feed city dwellers after a possible bombing attack has knocked out food plants, transportation, electric power and telephone facilites. The first test will be run for 10,000 persons. In mud ovens built out of bricks, rubble and debris and gas ranges supplied by bottled or tanked gas—roast beef, baked ham and potatoes will be prepared. Defense director Anthony J. Mullaney said officials have collected a ton and a half of meat, 30 sacks of onions and 30 sacks of potatoes. He explained that the answer to the food problem is to store provisions at "out-of-thebombing" points arid to set up communications between the shelter sites. The simulated ."refugees’* will collect at four rendesvous points to eat their "wartime" meal. The estimated 10,000 persons on the receiving end of the feed are participating on a voluntary basis(Coattaeve a* Pace «ta)

10 Million Drop In Gross Income Taxes Economy Wove In State Government INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — An economy wave was noted in state government today after gross income tax officials predicted a drop of $lO million in tax collections during the fiscal year. Budget officials said the decease is a delayed reaction from joblessness, layoffs, strikes and overtime slashes last spring. The decrease will be the greatest since the gross Wome levy went into effect in 1934, according to budget director Donald Hi ( lark. The drop was disclosed with the receipt , of. figures for the July-through-Sepfember quarter, the first of the fiscal year. Incofhe tax officials estimated that total collections for the fiscal year will be SIOO million, compared with about sllO million for the last two years. The state budget committee postponed its study of the 1055-57 budget to tackle the current fiscal situation. However, budget committee chairman Laurence D. Baker, of Kendallville, expressed hope that the crisis can be met without slashing the number of state workers or curtailing vital services. j The state now haa a |S2 million surplus but nearly J2d million of this will be used to meet mental hospital and education needs, it was said. Queen Mother Moves To British Embassy Strenuous Day Spent Friday By Elizabeth WASHINGTON (INS) — Queen Mother . Elizabeth moves today from the White House to the British embassy and it is a good thing that her majesty does not have to do her own packing. . She had a strenuous day Friday and it she isn’t tired, she should be —by ordinary, common towr-fnt standards. T ,.......... Britain’s Queen Mother was on her feet for an hour shaking hands with upwards of 1,000 Washington correspondents. The .task was compounded by the fact there wasn’t a receiving line — eager reporters just about mobbed the Queen but she seemed to have a good time. The reception came after the Queen and Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower toured the Smithsonian Institution and the National Gallery of Art, no easy jaunts in themselves. The Queen and her party dined privately with the President and Mrs. Eisenhower Friday night and saw the wovie, “White Christmas," starring Bing Crosby and Britishfavorite Danny Kaye and featuring Irving Berlin music. The party began with speeches at the head table but afterward the Queen stepped down to "meet some of you personally.” The Queen asked many questions. She wanted to know what various reporters covered. She ask ed about the states they were from and she was curious, especially, about what covering Capitol Hill is like. One woman rather startled the Queen by saying: "I have beau tiful color movies of your pals." It turned out the woman had filmed the changing of the guard at Buckingham palace. Elizabeth fold her, "I do hope it was a lovely day'— we have some that aren't, you know." / Named Supervisor For Carrier Boys Ronald Robinson, Decatur high school student haa been appointed supervisor of Dally Democrat city carrier. boys, effective today. Ronnie will have charge of the distribution of all papers in the city and wtl direct the work of 23. Daily Deomcrat newsboys.

Full Day Os Testimony On Dixon - Yates Seek Solution For Power Controversy Before Committee WASHINGTON (INS)—The congressional atomic committee scheduled a full day of testimony today in an effort to solve the Dixonhalf of the committee leaves for Yates power controversy before Australia next week. Brig. Gen. Herbert D. Vogel, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority; Adm. Lewis L. Strauss, and Gen.. K. D. Nichols, chairman and general manager respectively of the atomic energy commission, and Frank H. Weitzel of the general accounting office are the witnesses for the day. Eight or nine of the 17 members of the atomic committee, it was learned, are planning to take off next Wednesday on a six-week trip to inspect uranium mines and processing centers in Australia and visit,other Pacific, sites. • TJuj .only questicftr before the committee is whether to; grant immediate approval of the half-bil-lion dolalr Dixon-Yates contract by waiving a provUlou that the agreement must lay before Congress in session for 30 days. A committee man. who asked (Continued on Page Rix) Two G. E. Employes Retire From Duties The Decatur General Electric employes retired from their duties November 1, it axis learned today. Clarence "Bill" Dellinger, with 29 years of service, most of the lime in the inspection department, became a pensioner. Gladys Tumbleson, with more than 10 years service in the flange assembly section, was the other employe to take advantage of the retirement plan of the local plrfnt.

South Bend Council Studies Time Change Sentiment Spreads Throughout State SOUTH BEND, Ind. (INS) — The spreading sentiment favoring eastern standard time in Indiana got a boost in South Bend today. City attorney Irving A. Hurwich said the common council had asked him to prepare a resolution for Monday night presenfation which would fix 2 a m. Thanksgiving Day •as time for a change n-om central standard time to EST or daylight saving. Council president Walter C. Er ler said a hearing on the resolution will be held Nov. 22. Impetus to the change-over was given by spokesmen for South Bend's three largest industries, when they said the change-over in time would not affect the administration of their businesses. Harold S. Vance, chairman of the Studebaker-Packard Corporation .executive committee; George E. Stoll, general manager of Bendix Aviation Corporation, and Martin J. Lefler, plant manager of the Oliver Corporation, were the industrial spokesmen. Ecuadorian Diplomat Is Taken By Death BUTLER, Pa. (INS) —Funeral Servlets will be held In outler county for a inpmber of Ecuador's diplomat delegation who died Thursday after a long Illness. Manuel Crespo-Ordonez, minister counselor at Ecuador’s embassy in Washington, will be buried after private services in West Sunbury, Crespo-Ordonez is survived by his widow, ths formqr Hally Hunter of Verona. Pa. a retired schoolteacher.

Student Nurse Is Slain In Hospital Rape-Killer Sought At Mental Hospital KALAMAZOO, Mich. (INS) — Safety department guards today maintained a tight watch at the Kalamazoo state hospital fol* mental patients in the fear that the rape-slayer of a 20-year old student nurse may still be in the Institution. Attractive, blond Marilyn Kraai of Holland, Mich., was found dead Friday night in a hydrotherapy laboratory in the basement of the institution's receiving hospital. The young nurse had been raped and strangled with a red hospitalissue necktie. Kalamazoo police theorized the crime was committed by someone in the hospital; Hospital superintendent Dr. R. A. Morter said a force of attendants was searching the men's section of the institution for a ring of pass-keys the nurse was known to have been carrying. The keys were not found on the body. Dr. Morter said the hospital's safety department mfcn have been posted in all wards but that no armed guards have been assigned. . Two unidentified persons, one a patient and the other an attendant, were kept under surveillance at the hospital during the night. They were to take Be detector JMt at tbe Paw Paw. BUte police post today. The body with most of the clothing torn off, was found at 8:45 p.m. Police said there was no sign of a struggle in the laboratory. The missing keys give access to the laboratory and other wards and rooms.

CROP Goal $5,000 For Adams County Township Chairmen Plan For Campaign The township chairmen of the Adams county Christian rural overseas program met at Adams Central school Thursday evening -to plan the fall campaign for farm gifts Nov. 32, 23 and 94. The campaign will solicit gifts of commodity grain or cash from each farm family in the county. Sectional workers will contact every family in the rural area during the three-day drive. iFamllles desiring to donate several bushels of corn, wheat or soybeans can designate their intention and members of the rural youth will assist in the collection. Those who prefer to give cash donations may do so. The Rev. John D. Mishler, county CROP chairman, has announced a goal of >6.000 for Adams county. The Indiana goal is (76,000, (20.000 which Is to be used for plows for India. Rev. Mishler has announced that in recent legislation of Congress nearly 300 million dollars worth of surplus grain are available for relief distribution. A gift of |5 to CROP will release about 1100 worth of the U. 8. surplus grain for starving people of the world. R. E. Olendenlng will serve as treasurer for the county CROP, according to Rev. Mishler. 'lßiursday's meeting also featured a talk by Ralph C. Werner, state CROP chairman. o - Query McCarthy On TV Show On Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —lnternational News Service Indiana Chief Jep Cadou will be one of four top reporters tossing questions at Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R ,Wis..) Sunday. Cadou, William Lawrence, of the New York Times; BUI Hines, of the Washington Bur. and Frank Olbney, of Newsweek Magasine, will make up the first news panel on CBS’ new weekly show, Face the Nation, to debut over WFBMTV, this Sunday at 1:30 p. n>.

Davies Seeks Public Record By Department Dulles Dismisses Vet Diplomat With 23 Years* Service WASHINGTON (INS) — The state department refused to say to day whether it would make public the charges on which career diplomat John Paton Davies Jr., was fired from the foreign service. Davies asked secretary of state John Foster Dulles to make public the full record so that history could Judge whether he had been wronged. |JS He made the request during the fateful quarter-hour when Dulles told him face-to-face that he was dismissed from the foreign service in which he had served for 23 .years. . ; : Dulles called Davies home from his post as counsellor of embassy in Lima. Peru, to tell him he was fired. Aides said Dulles took on the "unpleasant task" himself rather than notify the senior diplomat more coldly be message or through ordinary department channels. 'The secretary absolved Davies of pro-Communist leanings, but ■aid that under the law, v Davie* had to Ke dismissed because he ha<J Kone beyond : privileged boundaries” in making known his disagreement with official state department policy. The charges apparently were based on attitudes Davies expressed during the Truman administration. Davies himself, in a statement he typed after»his talk with Dulles Friday afternoon, said that one of the things he hoped the secretary would reveal .was that in 1950 Davies recommended that the ts. S. seek a “preventive’’ showdown with Soviet Russia. Ag Secretary To Hold News Parley May Provide Clue To Future Policies WASHINGTON (INS) — Agriculture secretary Kara Taft Benson may provide a key to his future policies when he meets with news representatives Tuesday for the first time in many weeks. Benson, who already has expressed approval of the way farmers voted on Tuesday, may be encouraged now to expand his program of removing the government more and more from the agriculture picture. One of the first big Jobs on his agenda is development of a new support and surplus disposal plan for dairy products. Congress this year ordered him to make recommendations on such a plan when the new congress convenes in January. Between now and January, the secretary and his assistants probably will be working at a rapid pace to prepare a full report on agriculture activities, including many new recommendations, for the congress. Benson already has expressed interest in doing something for small farmers whom he says do not benefit fro mthe present price support program. • ' ' ' ' 20 Percent Layoff At GE Plant Here A layoff of about 20 percent of the local workers at the Decatur General Electric plant was announced Friday in a Decatur plant information letter Issued to all employes. Cancellation of a large order for motors for an oil burner was given as the immediate cause and the letter expressed a hope that the lay-off would be temporary.

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