Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 274.

Red Suspect Seized s mifr* ■isl 7 a i ' -*4 ’ jhfhbi ' KKLr ITT MBBz || • WKZ 11! EW jfVFF I 1/ -. IK'I j '3kJKI IK ARRESTED by the FBI at Memphis, after a hunt beginning in October, 1951, Junius Irving Scales, 34, is brought to jail handcuffed to an officer. The FBI said the grandson of one-time North Carolina Governor A. M. Scales had been conducting underground Communist activities in Tennessee and the Carolinas since he disappeared from Carrboro. N. C. He is held under 3100,000 bond.

Discrepancies In Sheppard's Death Version Switched Story On 11 Major Points In Murder Os Marilyn CLEVELAND (INST -Dr Samuel Sheppard switched Ms stories on 11 major points concerning the murder of his wife in various statements to the police. The discrepancies were revealed by veteran Cleveland homicide detective Robert Schottke Friday tn testimony before the court where Sheppard Js being tried for the July 4 murder. Schottke told of the existence of a secret statement made by the handsome osteopath which was sworn to and signed on July 10. Schottke, the first Cleveland detective to investigate the case, confronted Dr. Sam on the afternoon of the murder and told him: "The evidence points very strongly toward you. In my opinion you are the one who killed your wife.” To this, the detective told the jury of seven f men and fire women, the defendant replied In a calm voice: "Don't be ridiculous." These were the .spoint-by point variations in the story told by Dr. “Sheppard as outlined by Schottke. 1. Battle with assailant: Ur. Sam told him orally on the morning of the murder he "saw a form working over his wife and was knocked out by something else." In his written statement he spoke of fighting a form and made the same claim in talks with other police officers who have testified '2. Scene of attack: Witnesses have quoted Dr. Sam as saying he was attacked inside his wife's - bedroom. 1 n—the—upstairs—h a 1 Iwa y and at the entrance to the murder bedroom. 3. Assailant: In interviews with (Bay Village paitrohnan Fred Drenkhan, cornorer Samuel Gerber aud Schottke, the figure was a “white form” or “dark form." One officer was told he didn't know whether the afesailajit was animal or human, dressed 'or undressed, male or female. Another version was that it was a man with a big head, "'bushy-haired" about six foot three. 4. Doors: Dr. Sam's sworn statement was that the doors in his Bay Village house were "never locked:" Schottke said that when he examined the home he found a chain-locked door on the den" Mrs. Nancy Ahern, a neighbor, told the court she doubled-locked the front door to the house a few hours before the murder. 5. Narcotics: Dr. Sain and his brother, 'Dr. Stephen, claimed narcotics were stolen by a drug-ad diet * burglar. In his signed affidavit. the defendant said he. "neven kept drugs in the house." except perhaps a sample or two. 6. Son Chip: The brain surgeon told Drenkhan and Gerber that after he found bis wife murdered he checked to -»see how his son, "Chip,” 7,- In the next room was. He never mentioned this move In (Continued on Pago Four) • NOON EDITION

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CROP Canvass InAll Os Townships Plan County-Wide Canvass Next Week Plans are being carried out in every township of Adams county for the CROP (Christian rural overseas program) canvass on November 22. 23 and 24, so grain commodities swh as corn, wheat or soybeans or cash can be given to alleviate hunger and suffering in the most needy areas of the world ‘through the Christian action program of all churches. The two fold emphasis of “Plows for India" and “Share Our SurplMti Food," present a worthy challenge for Christian action. In the plows for India program, three bushels of soybeans or four bushels of wheat or five bushels of corn would be approximately equivalent to the cost of producing a Shabash steel plow and helping to show an India farmer the proper methods tor using it to increase hiS production on a small Indian farm plot. In the "Share our Surplus" plan of giving assistance to peoples iq Korea, India. Pakistan, Japan, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Italy and other grains as well as monetary gifts go farther tiff’s year than ever before. For every dollar, or grain equivalent thereof, given to the CROP program, the U. S. government will give twenty times that much in surplus grain commodities for distribution by the churches iu its program of relief. CROP gifts are solicited by the aid of the Christian churches in America cooperating together and the church also distributes the gifts to needy regardless of race, creed or color —solely on the basis of greatest need. Since 1947, CROP has, shipped overseas, gifts of food and fiber in excess of J17,000.000. Township mairmen in rne ronnity have selected solicitors who ■ will contact the families of their immediate locality* who can give i to the CROP program by grain or cash gifts. Any gift can be designated for a -preferred distributing j relief agency it other than church world service is desired. Such other would be national association of j Evangelicals, Mennonite central committee. Catholic war relief services. Lu tire ran world relief. : American Friends service cam- | mittee or Jewish joint distribution ! committee. Moat denominations distribute their donations through the channels of church world service which is a cooperating relief agency, of many groups together, i The FFA of Adams Central will assist in thejiickup of grains donated. in township. The ■ rural youth will assist th pickup of grain in Kirkland township November 27, Root township Novem ber 29, Preble township December 1 and t'nlon township December 2. In the other townships the cha|nnen are arranging for canvassers and other to assist. Churches in the county are giving opportunity to persons who are not living in rural areas where the solicitiations are being made, whereby cash donations may be given and turned in for the invitation to Christian action to "Do unto others as ye would have oth era do unto you." AU donations are turned into (Continued on Page Six)

Craig Faction Is Beaten In Senate Caucus Senator Van Ness fleeted President Pro Tem Os Senate

INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Sen. John W. Van Ness was named president pro tem for the 1955 general assembly in a precedent-sett-ing contest which might be titled: “The Man Who Didn't Come to Caucus." The battle between Sen. Van representing the Jenner? Capehart faction of the Indiana GOP, and Sen. Roy Conrad, of Monticello, Craig standard-bearer, went to a 17-17 tie Friday night in Indianapolis at the majority senatorial organization meeting. Not one of the 34 senators present would budge. Lieut. Gov. Harold W. Handley then cast the deciding vote in favor of the Valparaiso senator, who has been president pro tem since 1944. Sen. Conrad was named caucus chairman, and Sen. Samuel C, McQueen, of Brazil, home town of Gov. George N. Craig, was chosen patronage chairman. The selection of both Conrad and McQueen, also considered a friend of' the Craig administration, was unanimous. Handley Ttdnrttted that so far as he knew, the lieutenant governor never before had decided a contest for president pro tem. He explained: "There was nothing else for me to do. I am the presiding officer of the senate. But Sen. Brown (Sen. Kenneth J. Brown, Jr. of Muncie) certainly put me in a spot by not being here.” It was Sen. Brown who didn’t come to caucus, even though a telephone call to his home in Muncie brough the information that he had gone to Indianapolis to attend a Republican meeting at the Claypool Hotel. Actually, there are 36 Republican senators, but Sep. John 0. Tinder, who shifted to the Marion county prosecutor's rave after the death of the GOP candidate, Frank Fairchild, sent word that he did not consider it cricket of him to vote in the organization meeting. *> He is to resign shortly as a senator in order to be sworn in as prosecutor. That left 35 senators -to choose up sides in what was viewed as a test of strength between U. S. Senators Homer Capehart and William E. Jenner, on one hand, and Gov. Craig on the other. But when only 34 appeared for the voting, and they split 17-17. Lieut. Gov. Handley was forced to take his controversial action. Van Ness proposed that Conrad be named caucus chairman, and the Monticello restaurant owner-farm-er was seen to confer with H.. Dale Brown, Craig political advisor and eleventh district GOP chairman. Conrad went back to the caucus room with the suggestion that a unanimous vote be cast for McQueen also for patronage chairman. Acceptance of his compromise eliminated three other senators who had been in the race for caucus chairmen. They were Senators Charles R. Kellums. Mooresville:- Frederick Landis, Logansport, nnd Lucius Somers. Hoagland. (Continued on Page Four 1 ) '

Defense Test On In Washington Today Top-Secret Plan To Disperse Agencies WASHINGTON (INS) — The government's top-secret plan to dis perse key agencies outside of Washington in the event of an enemy attack will be put through its paces today. Some 2,000 federal employes were to report at 10 a m. to emergency sites in' cities and towns extending 80 miles west and north of Washington and about 200 miles south. The government will be "run" at these points. The exact locations are secret. However, employes from- some 30 top agencies will be involved In the test. President Eisenhower Is expected to take port by communicating with various officials, either from his White House office or from the special bomb shelter located somewhere on the White House grounds. Arthur S. Fleming, director of the office of defense mobilization, said the test la designed to make certain thgt the government can operate during an emergency without any interruption of Its essential functions.

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Mendes-France Delays Departure To Discuss Indo-China Situation

Morse Sees No Compromise On Censure Move Senator Morse Says Debate Delay Kills Any Compromise WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind. Ore.), said today that a 10-day delay in debate has "killed chances for a compromise" on censure of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. That was Morse's reaction to Sen. Everett M. Dirksen's view that "time is a great healer" and the senate ma.y~be in more of a mood to' soften the censure resolution when It reconvenes Nov. 29. The Illinois Republican said he will propose a compromise as soon as the senate returns. It adjourned Thursday because of the illness of McCarthy, who was reported to be improving gradually at Bethesda naval hospital where he is under treatment for an injured right elbow. Morse, one of three senators whose censure charges last July led to the current debate, said that chances for blocking a vote are also dead. he said that an “overwhelming number” of senators could prevent a filibuster —which McCarthy supporters insist they will not try. He added: "As far as I’m concerned, 1 think the senate owes a moral responsibility to the American peo,ple to adopt whatever parliamentary procedures are necessary in fairness to all concerned, which will require a vote by Dec. 24.” That is the deadline the senate set for itself in a resolution providing that final adjournment must be reached before Christmas. Morse told newsmen: "I am satisfied that there are a group of pro-McCarthy senators who will not hesitate to adopt dilatory tac tics in Order to prevent a vote if they think they can get away with it. But I think they will be blocked, in their attempt.” (Continued on Page Six) M. M. Agler Is Dead Alter Long Illness Prominent Retired Ohio City Man Dies M. M. Agler. 84, jrrominent re tired Ohio City. 0.. resident, died about noon Friday at Findlay, 0., following a year's illness of complications. ~ He was a former Ohio City banker, taught school for 13 years in Willshire and Liberty townships, served one term as an Ohio state representative, was a former member of the Van Wert county election board, county board of education. a former chairman of the Van Wert county Democratic central committee, served at one time on the Ohio City board of educa tion, and had been a member of the Van Wert county foundation since its organization in 1925. He was born in Willshire township Feb. 6, 1870, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Agler. and was married to Arminda Johnson Oct. 12. 1902. Mrs. Agler died in 1923. Mr. Agler was a member (if St. John's Lutheran church at Ohio City, and a former trustee of the church. “ Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ruth Taylor of Ohio City: one son, Kermit Agler of Hicksville, O.; three grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.* One. son, one daughter and six brothers and sisters preceded him in death: Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at John's Lutheran church at Ohio City, the Rev. E. P. Conrad officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Ohio City. The body will be removed from the Cowan & Son funeral home to the residence In Ohio City, where friends may call after 4 o’clock this afternoon.

Propose Hospital At Berne, Geneva ♦ " a Plan Erection Os Private Hospital More ’ than 70 businessmen, farmers, and civic leaders from the southern half of Adams ' county met Thursday night in the Marine room of the Berne auditorium and formed a committee to raise mon(i«y to provide a private slsff,ooo, '27-room hospital for that area of . the county. No county money will , be used in the project. Joe Brewster, president of the L Berne Lions club, was chosen president of the group. Other of- ( iffcers include Claude Monee. Linn r Grove, Edison Lehman, Monroe lk township farmer, and Eli Stucky. t Geneva, vice-presidents; Lester . Sipe, of Blue Creek township, secretary. and Earl Habegger, presi- ( dent of the Berne Jaycees, treast urer. I Directors will be Elmo Stucky, , Monroe; Menno P, Eicher. L. Lu- , ther Yager, Mayor Forrest Balsiger, and Howard Baumgartner, all of Berne; Ralph ’ Baumgartner. Chattanooga. O.; Brayton Pyle, Jefferson township; Herman E. t Sprunger, Wabash township; r Leonard Grandlienard, Hartford . town sh ip; Raym on xt Moser, French township; and s Corwin Newcomer. Geneva. 5 Two. mass meetings wUUhe. held * soon in Berne and Geneva to explain the project to the public. Plans have been maturing for ■ the project for over a year. The building will probably be one and a half stories high, with a full basement. All local labor and contracting will be used, to keep costs reasonable. It is expected 1 that the private, nonprofit hos- [ pltal can be built much cheaper as a community project than could * be accomplished by any govern- ’ mental unit. Several Berne and Geneva doctors were present at the meeting, and they spoke on the need for a 1 hospital in the south half of the county, pointing to the distance of ' certain points -in Jefferson, Wabash, and Hartford townships to the county hospital in Decatur. The new private hospital will not add to county taxes, it was pointed out, and may eliminate the construction of a big and costly addition to the county hospital in Decatur, though it was admitted at the meeting that many improvements and new facilities and equipment are needed county hospital. (Continued on Page Six) Convict Officer Os Abusing Trainees Officer Convicted By Court Martial CAMP GORDON, Ga„ INS) — An army second lieutenant has Iteen convicted of maltreating trainees at Camp Gordon and dismissed from the service. A court martial board which deliberated two hours Friday also found 2nd,,. Lieut. Charles R. Anerson, formerly of St. Louis, guilty of conduct unbecoming an officer and of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline. The sentence of dismissal and forefelture of all pay and allowances is equivalent tb dlshohbr- , able discharge. The penalty is subject to review by higher military authority. Anderson was convicted undet the 93rd article of war with mal-' treating Pvt. Jesse A. Wyatt, Pvt. Rodney iR. SteMand Pvt. Paul Ferguson. The officer ordered Wyatt strung up by his heels from the limb of a tree. Steel covered with dirt and Ferguson to take a “sandbath” and. perch in a tree and shout obscene phrases. Anderson claimed he ordered i the unusual punishment because, while in Korea, be vowed never to permit undisciplined or unconditioned men to go into combat if he could help it.

Oppose Indian Bid For Major Role In Plan U. S., Britain And Russia Reject India Bid On Atoms Plans UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) — The U. S., Britain and Russia stood together today id opposition to India's bid for a major role in the operations of President Eisenhower’s atoms-for-peace project. V. K. Krishna Menon of India succeeded late Friday night in blocking a scheduled vote in the UN on the seven-power resolution activating the Eisenhower blue print. The expected 60 to 0 approval was left hanging until Monday. Before adjourning, U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and British Minister of State Anthony Nutting rejected Menon’s demand for direct participation in setting up the proposed international ''clearing house" agency of atomic materials and data. Lodge took under fire Menon's eleventh-hour amendment for expanding to all UN members and countries belonging to specialized UN agencies the work of organ i«ing the operations and machinery of the proposed agency. He said: "This could mean negotiations of more than 60 nations—all UN members and specialized agencies. As we have made plain several times, we are opposed to this type of proposal which we believe would delay matters tor such a long time as very seriously to jeopardize this whole project—ls not indeed to destroy it. “But this emphatically does not mean that we are not eager actively to consult all governments and to get their views.” He emphasized that all interested governments would be consulted by the atomic agency negotiators before the Eisenhower blueprint is actually placed before national parliaments for ratification. -.Russia's Andrei Visbinsky, while remaining silent during most of the final Friday afternoon debate, let it be known that he is ready to vote for the Elsenhower blueprint as it stands. He was not asked to sponsor it. Consequently its signatories are the U. S., Britain, France, Canada, Belgium, Australia and South Africa. Thus far, Vishinsky has failed to follow the United States and Britain in announcing any Russian allocation of fissionable material for" the peaceful development of atomic energy. Jesse Koos Dies At Hospital Last Night Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Jesse Koos, 78, retired firmer and a resident of Adams county practically his entire Me. died at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital, following an illness of six months. He was born in Adams coduty Oct. 18. 1876, a sou <rf Phillip and iSaifah Jaokfon-Koos. Six yeans ago he moved to Mulberry Grove, 111:,’ but returned to Adams county thiree months ago. . making his home with a cousin, Mrs. Paul Rich in Bobo. Mr. Koos was a member of the Mt, Tabor Methodist church. There are no near relatives surviving. One sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. onday at the Zwick funeral home apd at 2 p. m. at the Mt. Tabor Methodist church, the Rev. Edgar Johnston officiating Burial will: be in the Mt. Tabor ducted at 1:30 p. tn. Monday at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. '

Lively's Trial In Recess For Weekend Jury Selected For Indianapolis Trial INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The jury which will hear full details of the murder night from accused dresser-drawer killer Victor Hale Lively was in recess for the weekend. A panel of II men and one woman was seated Friday and opening statements were given by defense and prosecution in the July 16 slaying of 18-year-old Dorothy Poore. Lively is charged by the state with strangling the Clinton. Ind., girl when she resisted his advances, raping her, hiding her body in a dresser drawer and fleeing the hotel room and Indianapolis. Defense contends the 25-year-old Beaumont, Tex., man was led by Miss Poore to believe she was a streetwalker and that he was drunk when he strangled her. Defense Attorney Ferdinand Samper said: » “This boy will take the stand to give a face-to-face and true account of happenings in Room 665 of the Claypool Hotel on the night of July 16. “The state might be surprised when it discovers we are not going to try to fool a jury as to whether Victor had a date with Dorothy. They went ttf the rOomr together under conditions of friendliness which had almost reached the realm of public love-making. “They both knew what they had In mind when they went up there.” Prosecution, headed by John Daily, is demanding the death penalty. The chief deputy Marion county prosecutor said: "He lured this innocent girl to his room. He tried to rape her three times, by his own admission. She started to scream. He put his hands around her neck and strangled her. 1 "Then he took her clothes off. He raped her. put her underthings back on and sat down with a bottle of • gin and proceeded - get i drunk.” Lively was arrested at Clayton, ' Mo., July 23. following discovery of the body, July 18. Muscular Dystrophy Campaign Monday Porchlight Canvass By Decatur Firemen Decatur residents wishing to donate to the muscular dystrophy campaign for funds are reminded to turn their porchlights on Monday evening. Members of the Decatur fire department and the ladies auxiliary will conduct the canvass here, starting at 6 o’clock, stopping at all homes where the porchlights are lit. The Decatur canvass is part of the nationwide campaign. Last year, it was conducted by the city mail carriers. Proceeds from the campaign go to the Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America, Inc. Last January, research grants totalling 11,000,000 weje made by the associations. Authoritative estimates show.a conservative figure of 200,000 men, women and children in the United States suffering from the crippling disease. Muscular dystrophy is a'chronic disease of the muscles, and is manifested by gradual weakening of the voluntary muscles. Over a period of years the wasting and resultant weakening becomes progressively apparent and the patient is Confined to a wheelchair and eventually to bls bed. More than half of the known victims In America are children between the uges of three and 13. INDIANA WEATHER Partly Cloudy tonight and Sunday, Cooler tonight. Low tonight 35-40. High Sunday 6258. ;

Red Buildup In Violation Os Armistice . French Premier And Dulles Meet Today For Further Talks WASHINGTON (INS)—U.S. and French leaders worked overtime today to strengthen free IndoChlna to meet the new thraat of tank-reinforced Communist units in northern Vietnam. The reported Red buildup —a direct violation of the Geneva armistice —caused French premier Pierre Mendes-France to delay until this afternoon his scheduled departure from Washington. Mendes-France and secretary of state John Foster Dulles met this morning to put final touches on the need for maintaining joint cooperation on economic, military, cultural and public information programs in IndoChina. Informed sources said the Corn* munists have received tanks, guns and other weapons from Red China to eqalp two new armored divisions and a third infantry division. The Communists also are said to hays infiltrated deeply into the civil 'population of southern Viet- . nam. These reports prompted MendesFrance to prolong his talks with Dulles in an effort to nail down a joint plan of action to keep the Associated States out of the Communist orbit in southeast Asia. During two days of discussions, Dulles and Mendes-France reached wide agreement on problems of defense and security in western Europe, French North Africa and Southeast Asia. The only Jarring note came when DullSs. informed MendesFrance that the U. S. will Insist on retaining control of the distribution of American arms for the defense of western Europe. Dulles explained that the U. S. will supply information on arms and support the authority of a western European arms agency. He added, however, that the U. S. will decide what nation > gets its weapons. Dulle's statement reportedly was a disappointment to the French premier, who urged that America's contribution be put into an arms pool functioning in Paris. The knotty problem of U. S. - French agreement on Indo - China is complicated by conflicting views over the methods required to deal with the Communists* breach of the truce. „ Mendes-France was said to have counseled against any abrupt U.S. moves to counter the Red arimstice violation for fear that it might give the Communists a pretext for Invading southern Vietnam. The U. S. has proposed that Its military mission in Indo - China take over the training of the native forces from the French. But this proposal is complicated by French reluctance. Mendes-France was said to have argued that it might do more harm than good If the U. 8. suddenly took over the training program without the good will of the French officers now s in charge. Noted World War II Correspondent Dies SAN FRANCISCO (NS)^—Laurence (Larry) Meier, 48. noted World War II correspondent, died early today at his San Francisco home. An attending physician said Meier succumbed to the aftereffects of a head wound suffered when be accompanied allied * troops on the celebrated Dieppe commando raid in France on Aug. 19. 1942. He represented the American press and radio as correspondent for International News Service on the raid.

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