Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 8 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 263.

Three Men Are Arrested For School Breakin

Three Lima, 0., men were prehended Sunday morning immediately after breaking into Pleasant Mills high school and robbing the sehoolOf several hundred dollars. Richard Judy, Thomas Kelley, 19, and Richard Lythe, 27, were discovered ransacking the building at about 7:45 a. m. Sunday when the school custodian, John Surnan, arrived to take care of the furnace. Surnan entered the front of the school and, as he policed a door forced open and a soft drink vending machine broken open, he heard a noise in the back of the school. He ran to the industrial arts department, where the three men had Just left through a window. Sunian ran out of-the building and called to nearby Warren Wolfe for help. Sheriff Shraluka was called and in the meantime Surnan and Wolf kept close watch of the cornfield in the back of the field where the thieves had taken cover. Within a short time the field was surrounded with city, county and state police. Several neighboring farmers were also on the scene. Fred Bauman, one of the farmers, saw one of the men attempt to reach a dark blue late model car driven by an unknown fourth man. The car was later found in Lima. 0., with the motor still warm. It is owned by Judy. The three, when captured,. had about S6OO in their possession. Most of it was probably taken from the safe and a cash box in the Pleasant Mills school. The front of the safe had been battered and broken to get inside. Investigation showed that several - doors in the school had been forced open and some of the money was taken from the office of Glen Custard, principal. The safe is in the home economics department. The same type of break-in was reported at Monmouth high school where about $l9O was missing and . - several doors' were forced open. This break-lh was discovered by Miss Bly th Terwilliger, Monmouth music instructor, at about 4:30 p. m. The exact amount taken was not determined. The thieves have not admitted the Monmouth break-in nor will they reveal the identity of the fourth man. Lima police were in Decatur today to assist in the investigation of the Identity of the driver of the car. Authorities are also checking on the possibility qJ/ a connection of the three with other robberies. Lytbe is out on a S4OOO bond as a result of a burglary charge in Lima. Prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith said that charges would be ! filed against the . then as soon; as the investigation has been com-1 pleted. i ... • I Among those ‘assisting Sheriff' . Robert Shraluka Sunday were dep-1 uty sheriff erle Affolder. state j <C®Btianed Oa Paqe Eight) Mrs. Lottie Collier Dies In California Mrs. Fannie Hitchcock, of Marshall street, has received word of the death of her sister, Mrs. Lottie Collier. Mrs. Collier was a former resident of Decatur, where she lived for about 15 years on Jefferson street. Mrs. Collier died Saturday in Patton, Calif. Other survivors Include a son. who is living in the west. New Auditors, Clerks Meet At Indianapolis ‘INIMAN'APOLIS (INS) —The state board of accounts will meet NOv. 19 in the house and senate chambers of the statehouse with all new-ly-elected county auditors! and clerks of the circuit courts. State examiner R. R. Wickersham said the meeting is planned to familiarise the new officials with the responsibilities of their offices, and instruct them in the proper method of keeping records and the /better conduct of public business j Fourth District Wins Membership Contest James K. Staley, prominent De-1 catur Legionnaire, received word I today that the fourth district has; again won the membership contest of the Indiana department of the American legion. This is the 17th consecutive year the fourth district, which includes Adams county, has won the membership contest,. Lee Hirsch, Angola, district commander, will represent the Indiana department at ceremonies in Washington. D. C., onThursday, which is Veterans Day. i

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President Says Prospects For Peace Better Eisenhower Speaks Before Council Os Catholic Women BOSTON (INS)—President Eisenhower Said today prospects for peace are than at any time in years, despite such "instances of provocation" as the shooting down of an American B-29 by Russian MIG fighters Sunday. The chief executive expressed hope in an address before the National Council of Catholic Women in Boston that his proposal for a world atom pool will launch a “new phase” in our relations with the Soviet Union. He departed from his prepared text to refer to the attack on an American plane off the coast of northern Japan, declaring: “Despite such instances of provocation as that which occurred yesterday off the coast of Japan, all of us are profoundly thankful that the terrible spectre of war looms less threateningly over all mankind.” Mr. Eisenhower deviated from his text at another point to stress ! the importance of the values taught in the American home in the struggle for world peace. He declared that unless peace is taught by every mother to her chillren. “my friends, there is going to/be no peace." Th* President added emotionally: - “If American mothers will teach our children there is no end to fighting for better relations among the peoples of the world, we shall have peace." . Mr. Eisenhower in his address to some 2.500 Catholic women assembled in the Boston Symphony Hall called for a greater understanding among the peoples of the world. Only such understanding, he warned, can convert the “uneasy global armistice" to enduring peace. He stressed, however, that powerful military forces are still essential to our survival “in a world partly dominated by men who respect only guns, planes and | tanks.” The President’s new plea for ! peace came as Soviet leaders, cele- ■ bra ting the 37 th anniversary of. I the Bolshevik revolution, were all . so talking of peace and world und- ! erstanding — though with no evidence their words carried any greater sincerity than in the past. Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov offered a toast at a Kremlin banquet Sunday night “that both Soviet and American diplomats should strive for better understanding between our two countries." He declared tn the speech delivered at the Boston Symphony Hall: "I know all Americans are hopeful that our proposal for an international pool of atomic energy resources will inaugurate a new phase in negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union. “I deeply neneve tiitit, regardless of the Soviet decision, the cause of peace will be furthered as we gd ahead with friendly nations to turn this new science to the arts of peace.” The United States replied last week to Russia’s September proposal for a resumption of negotiations on the “atoms for peace , plan” which was cold-shouldered by the Soviet in a series of coni ferenc.es last spring. New talks are expected to be- ' gin shortly, barring an unexpected "hitch. Mr. Eisenhower took note that today is the 12th anniversary of j the landing Os the first American troops in North Africa, where he ; commanded the first allied inva- ■ sion force of World War ll—_ He declared: “As we look back on that day and on the most terrible war in human history, we again resolve that there must never be another war." He spoke hopefully of the improving prospects for peace, bolstered by the end of the Korean war. the easing of cold war ten(Continued on. Page Five)

Senate Meets To Consider - ... Censure Move Special Session Is Called To Act On McCarthy Censure WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate reconvened today in a special session called to decide, after what is expected to be long and bitter debate, whether to censure Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.) The battle of words is expected to begin late Tuesday or Wednesday morning, after a brief session today and a series of amenities including eulogies Os senators who have died since last August, when the legislators recessed. Before graveling the senate to order for the first time since last Aug. 20, Vice President Richard M. Nixon told newsmen that senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland expects the session to last two weeks. Nixon added: "My guess is that it could break sootier than that and if it doesn’t, It might go a month.” Before the senate went back into session, a new censure resolution was drafted by the special committee headed by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R Utah.) However, the committee refused to make it public because one of its six members — Sen. Sam Ersin. Jr., (I) N. C.) — was absent due to the death of North Carolina’s Gov. William Umstead. Watkins said, however, that the five senators who attended a session in his office had agreed on wording of an amendment to the censure resolution originally submitted by Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R Vt.) As amended, the resolution is expected to repeat the committee’s recommendation that McCarthy be censured on two specific points, namely that he: 1. Was in “contempt” of a subcommittee which investigated his finances in 1952 and used “vulgar and abusive” language with reference to Sen. Robert C. Hendrickson (R N.J.) 2. Was "reprehensible” in hie treatment of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker in questioning him about the promotion and honorable discharge of accused “fifth amendment Communist” Maj. Irving Peress. In its original form, the* Flanders resolution was p broad demand for censure. Watkins said that the amendment is “very important" — evidently because it would narrow the issue to the two specific points. Meanwhile, Watkins told newsmen he still expects to testify before McCarthy’s investigations subcommittee next Monday on one phase of. the committee's report which he filed offlciaßy today. •This deals with the coinmittee’s (Continued on Page Eight) Annual Open House At School Friday Public High School Plans Observance . In celebration of national education week, the Decatur high school will present a one-half hour choral concert and an open house Friday night aj 7:30 o’clock. Hugh Andrews, principal, announced today. Included in the program will be “Praise Jehovah” by Pearsall-Lund-quist; "Hospodi Pomilui ("Have Mercy, O Lord”) by Lvovsky; and “Let Us Break Bread Together”, a Negro spiritual. Also by the choir will be: Hahn's “The Green Cathedral” and Simeone’s “Penny Parade." A double trio, including Sheila Ahr, Jane Rentz. Anita Smith, Dorcas Thieme. Dana Dalzell, and Greta Erekson, will “Down Mobile," a Southern song, and "I Ain’t Gwlne Study War”, a Negro spiritual. A boys quartet, with David-Eni-bler, Jr., Robert Sprague, Ralph Thomas, and Roger Eley, will sing. "Ah, Meadow, Meadow", a Bohemian Marching song, “Night and Day", by Cole Porter, and Vincent Youmans' "Great Day”. The choir is directed by Miss Helen Hau.bold, and accompanied by Jane Rentz. After the musical program, parents will till out a card with their child's classes on it, and will then attend each class on a ten minute schedule/' so that they* may see what their children are accomplishing. All parents are Invited to attend the annual open house, Andrews stated. * ...

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 8, 1954.

United States Makes u . - w •’ Strong Protest Over Red Attack On Plane

Marshall Plan Proposed For Asian Nations Four Billion Yearly Plan Proposed By Japanese Premier WASHINGTON (INS) — Japan-! ese Premier Shigeru Yoshida proposed today a four-billion-dollar-a-year Marshall Plan for Asia to put Asiatic nations “on their own feet in freedom .’. resisting the inroads of Communism." Yoshida warned that “Southeast Asia will fall to the Communists without a struggle” if Red China is allowed to "outstrip her neighbors substantially in the years ahead” in economic development. He said Southeast Asia has been receiving about 400 million dollars a year from the world bank, the foreign operations administration and the Colombo plan. The Japanese premier added that this represents only about “a tenth of what is required to keep pace with Communist China. Somewhere, somehow, away must be found to increase this help if these under-developed areas are to survive in the free world family.” Yoshida, wno arrived in Wash-ington-late Sunday, declared in a speech prepared for delivery to the National Press Club that Japan “would do everything in our power" to guarantee the success of an Asiatic economic development program. Earlier, Yoshida conferred with secreatry of state John Foster Dulles and foreign aid chief Harold E. Stassen about Japan’s economic problems. Bloodmobile Unit At Berne Friday Decatur people have been asked to help Berne meet the’ 150-pint quota of the bloodmobile visit Friday. The visit, sponsored by the Red Cross, will be at the Berne auditorium. Physicians assisting ill be Dr. H. P. Hinchman, Dr. Robert Boze, Dr. Norman Beaver, Dr. Harold Lehman, Dr. Luginbill and Dr. Schetgen. Those interested in giving blood Friday may contact the local Red Cross office or Mrs. Lester Lehman at Berne. Mrs. Ed Bauer is county chairman of the Red Cross blood program]

Commander Os Bomber Gives Story Os Attack

(Editor’s note: The following first hand account of the shooting down of an American reconnaissance bomber by Soviet jets is told by Capt. Anthony F. Fieth, commander of the ill-fated aircraft. Fieth. who learned of the dangers of the cold war at first hand, tells in an exclusive interview with International News Service why he ordered his men not to shoot back at the Soviet attackers.)-* By CAPT. ANTHONY F. FIETH TOKYO (INS) — When our plane took- off on a routine mission to map northern Hokkaido we did not give the problem of Russian proximity any thought .at all. We had no reason to anticipate trouble. Even after the MIOs attacked 1 ordered the crew not to shoot back because I wanted to complete our mission — photographing map lines. I thought of shooting back — It took more willpower than I thought I had to tell my men not to fire. Had my mission bein com plated I would have been much more prone to shoot, but our job was to take pictures over Japan, not to tangle with 'Russian planes. We used every possible device ■.' . V ■ \'

To Snub Reception Given By Vishinsky Symbolic Protest On Plane Incident UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) • —Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and all members of the U. 8. team to the United Nations will snub ’ Andrei Vishinsky s reception tonight observing the 37th anniversary of the Communist revolution ■ 4n Russia. Lodge said when asked whether he would attend the reception that he was scheduled to leave for Boston this afternoon to fulfill a long standing speaking engagement. A spokesman for Lodge emphasized however that none of the U. S. delegation would show up at 680 Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan, scene of the Vishinsky reception. The American delegation made no bones of the fact that the snub was a symbolic protest against the shooting down by Soviet MIGs over Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido of a U. S. photo reconnaissance B-29 plane. Lodge is understood to be anticipating in the next few days instructions from Washington to do some heavy table pounding at UN in blasting Moscow for the persistent attacks by the Soviet air force on American planes. TJie most likely spot for the blast will be in the UN political committee when double - barred propaganda charges against the U.S. come up for discussion. Draft Board Office To Close Thursday An announcement has been made from the local draft board office that there will be no call for Induction during the month of November. No call will be made for physical examinations. The office will be closed Thursday, Veterans .Day.Local Lady's Father Dies Sunday Night Jesse M. Clark, father of Mrs. Ralph Smith of this city, died at 11 o'clock Bunday night after suffering a heart attack at the home of another daughter. Mrs. Ron RichardsOh, Jackson, Mich. Mr. Clark had come to Decatur only three weeks to make his home with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and had gone to Jackson for a visit. Funeral arrangements are incomplete but services will be held at New Albany.

to signal to the MIOs that our Intentions were peaceful. I even turned the tail of my plane to the MIGB as a maneuver to Indicate that we were not trying to enter their territory. But nothing worked — they came at us and in four passes shot up our plane so badly that I had to oruer the crew' to Jump. At the time — and there is no question about it — we were clearly over International waters and far closer to Japan than to the Russian-held islands to the north of us. The incredible thing seemed to be that they attacked at all when we were so clearly engaged on a peaceful mission ... / I was interested but didn’t give It too much thought when one of our gunners spotted the two MIGs. When he spotted them — perhaps Just because It was American - type curiosity — I looked out th? window' to glance at them. Then I sat down on my seat because we had work to do. I wasn’t disturbed or anxious — I thought they were Just going to look us over. I remember how the gunner used an air force phrase: “We’ve company — Our friends over there to the north are around.** I didn’t think much of It — but (Continued on I*a«e Eight) I 1 V- .

Deputy Coroner Still On Stand In Murder Case Sheppard Attorney Is Continuing Slow Detailed Questions CLEVELAND (INS) — Defense counsel William Corrigan continued his slow, point-by-point questioning of Dr. Lester Adelson at the murder trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard today as he attempted to cast suspicion on the deputy coroner’s autopsy of murdered Marilyn Sheppard. Dr. Adelson, a Harvard • educated pathologist who is considered an autopsy expert, took the stand for the third day as the widely-publicised trial of the accused osteopath entered its fourth week before common pleas Judge Edward Blythin. Corrigan, attempting to prove the state "bungled’’ in its investigation of the slaying, continued to challenge Dr. Adelson on every phase of his autopsy repdrt. In this morning's session, he tried to force the deputy coroner to admit that a bruise on the bridge of the dead woman's nose might not have been inflicted when she was clubbed to death, July Fourth. , »■. "Doesn't the fact that the bruise had a purple and blue coloring when you examined her (Marilyn) indicate that she could have received it some time before her murder?" Corrigan asked. "My belief Is that the blow was struck at the same time she received the other wounds,” Dr. Adelson replied. ' Corrigan drew fire from the state at one point during the extensive questioning of the mustached coroner. The silver-haired defense attorney had asked Dr. Adelson-a qnes-' tion and before the witness could finish his answer, Corrigan snapped : "Well, I’m not going to spend a lot of time on the subject." Assistant county prosecutor Saul Danaceau then said to Corrigan: “Atr lang as you’re doing alt this questioning, at least let the man answer you." Defective Healers i-; • f/ Kill Dozen Persons - Brooklyn Couple Is Found Asphyxiated NEW YORK (INS) — A Brooklyn couple was found asphyxiated today, bringing to 12 the number of persons killed by defective water heaters in New York City over the weekend. The deaths by carbon monoxide poisoning of 10 persons, including six children, in a west side Manhattan apartmeift brought police investigation of possible negligence. Eight members of one family and a young couple, died early Sunday in their beds when a hotwater heater consumed the oxygen in the apartment although two windows were open. Teats showed the gas heater burned with an. unusually high flame because the gas pressure had been increased. Assistant health commissioner Jerome Trtchter said the heater produced enough carbon monoxide to kill a squadron of men in a halt hour. He said his Information would be turned over to the district attorney's office for possible action against the landlord. Farmer Is Suffocated While Starting Fire DEER CREEK. Ind. (INS) — Bruce Erwin, 70, of Deer Creek, was suffocated Saturday while trying to start a fire with gasoline at his Carroll county farm home near Deer Creek.

Community Fund Is Reported Near Goal 92.5 Percent Os Quota Subscribed A total of $10,788.00 has been reported to date in the current Decatur Community Fund drive, according to Earl CaSton, fund executive secretary. This is approximately 92.5 percent of the drive goal of $11,005 and a special effort , is being made to exceed the goal . within the next several days. The industrial division, under chairman Newell Wright, reports $7,266.75, which oversubscribes Its , division quota of $7,000. The November meeting of the Fund’s board of directors will be held Thursday evening at the First State Bank. Thomas C. Smith, Fund president, expressed the hope that the drive goal could be ex- > ceeded by that time. E. W. Lankenau, 1954 drive chairman, also expressed his hope 1 that Decatur would again oversubscribe its budget requirements and 1 urged all workers to report before ■ Thursday. A few area solicitors still have some call backs to make and these should be handled at once. "A little extra push during' ! the next several days will insure a successful campaign.” Lankenau said, “and we urge every worker Id complete Ms solicitation at once." Caston pointed out that contributions from lodges, organisations \ and individuals contacted by mail ; are still below expectations and especially reminded treasurers ’ whose organisations have authorixed contributions to forward their cheeks at once. He also asked ' that if there are any Individuals who may have been missed, that they bring or mall their contributions to him at the bank. “This is truly a community project and every single individual has his civic obligation to it.” Caston commented, “We do not wish to miss anyone.” . Governor Revises Conference Plans Invites Legislators Meet At Indiana U. INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Gov, George N. Craig has revised his plans for pre-leglslative conferences with Indiana’s lawmakers. The governor, without mentioning criticism about his plan to have members of the general assembly confer w|th him at his Brown county state park cabin, announced today the conferences will be held at Indiana University instead. Another change was to schedule the conferences on a group basis, rather than an idividual basis. Gov. Craig said that the conferences were switched from Brown county to I. U. because there were facilities at Bloomington for the meetings to which the 100 members of the house of representatives and 50 state senators have been Invited. He said the meetings, expected to begin a week from today, will seek to provide lawmakers vHth information about prospective legislation. Department chiefs will explain legislative proposals affecting their department. Veteran members of the general assembly who have become specialists in . mental health, education, traffic safety, and other governmental fields, also will aid in the pre-legislative briefings. The meetings will be open to the press, Craig advised. Earlier, state Democratic chairman Charles Skiilen had announced that he would oppose any Democratic legislators attending meetings at the governor’s Brown county cabin. <l9 INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. Somewhat cooler north portion. Low tonight 28-34. High Tueeday 52-58 north, 58-65 south. k- \

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Demands Full Reparations Os Soviet Russia U. N. Commander In Far East Denounces Attack As Piratical WASHINGTON (INS) —Th® state department announced today it will demand “full and complete’* reparations from Soviet Russia for losses suffered when two Russian jet fighters shot down a B-29 photo reconnaissance plane over Japan ese territory Sunday. The announcement came after Amsbassador Charles Bohlen delivered a protest to the Russians in Moscow earlier this morning. The short preliminary protest which Bohlen delivered said: “The United States government strongly protests this action. It will expect the Soviet government to make all such moral and material reparations as lies within its power. “The United States government ’ will communicate further with the .Soviet government when the facta regarding human and mkteriAl losses are mere fully known." "Piratical" Attack TOKYO (Tuesday) (INS) The U. 8, Far East commander Monday denounce! as “plratrcttr* - I the downing of a reconnaissance I bomber by Soviet MIGs and Ameri lean pilpts were expected to re- ■ ' . ceive new order* to fight back tn- ' > stantly if they ar* again attacked by Russian plane*. One airman fell to his death and the other 10 .members of an 11-man crew parachuted safely on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido Sunday as a four - engine RB-29 Superfort crashed in flames after being hit by fire from two MIG jets. - Copt. Anthony F. Feith of Chester, Pa., pilot of the big plane, said he ordered his'’ gunners to withhold their fire because he wanted to complete a photo-map-ping mission. But he added: “If it happened again. I’d order them to shoot." Fieth’s commanding officer, CoL Albert M. Welsh tit Dalton City. • 111., head of the 6007th reconnaissance group, explained that U. S. pilots were under instructions to fire back if fired upon. But in the case of Sunday’s incident, Welsh said: “You must understand this was a routine mission'. No one conceived of difficulty." Welsh said Fieth was apparently confused when he failed to order his gunners to open fire. The colonel, however, indicated that Capt Fieth would be briefed to take immediate counteraction in the event of attack in the future. The state department in Washington announced that a protest over the shooting down by the Russians of the sixth American plane in four years had been sent to the U. 8. embassy in Moscow for relay to the Kremlin. Sunday’s crash brought to 30 the total of persons known to have died as a result of Soviet fighter attacks. An additional 16 airmen are either miasln, believed dead or captives of the Russian*. Gen. John E. Hull, chief of all UN Far East forces, declared in a blistering statement: “It is with the utmost indignation that I must denounce this shooting — without provocation these piratical planes pounced. wlthouj warning upon an American aircraft which was peacefully engaged on a routine mission. “Any claim by Soviet attackers that our plane was over what they consider their territory is negated by the fall of the plane and survivors who parachuted on Hokkaido soil." The attack came so close to Hokkaido that residents of coastal villages reported hearing the gunfire. The American fliers whoa* reconnaissance superfort was shot . down by Russian warplanes Sunday charged that the Communist (Continued on Fag* El gut )