Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 275, Decatur, Adams County, 22 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 275.

Contributes To March Os Dimes SSjpL&r. ** ■r >’ Ok jßK||f Pi* -'''..al ACTRESS HELEN tfAYES, a leading volunteer in the fight against polio, makes a contribution to Mary Kosloski, 1955 March of Dimes Poster Girl, at Miss Hayes' home in Nyack, N. Y. Mary was stricken with polio at the age of five months and has never taken a step without the aid of crutches and braces provided by the March of Dimes.

Pledges Fight To Kill GOP Farm Measure Says Program Will Cost Farmers Three Billions By 1956 WASHINGTON (INS) — The incoming chairman of the house agriculture committee charged today that the administration farm program will cost U. S. farmers more than three billion dollars by I>s«. Rep. Harold Cooley (D M> C.)> who headed the committee in the 82nd congress during 1951 and 1932. pledged an all-out fight to kill the entire law passed last year. Cooley challenged agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson to disprove his three billion loss estimate. He said the drop in support prices to 82% per cent of parity on next year's basic commodities will mean a $1,517,000,000 loss in farmers’ which has been dropping steadily for the past three years. ... The decrease in the following year to 75 percent as now’ scheduled, he said, will cause a similar fall in income. . : . Besides, Cooley argued, ■the change in determining the base for parity that’is’bet-for Jan. 1, 1956 under the new lawwillmeanstill another five percent drop in support prices. Parity is a formula that measures farmers income in relation to the things they buy. The five basic commodities affected by the support change are wheat, cotton, corn, rice and peanuts. Cooley said he believes the new Democratic - controlled congress will re-install the mandatory support level of 90 percent of parity on the five crops next spring, and make it retroactive to Jan. 1, 1955. Cooley said he doesn't think President Eisenhower would veto such a bill but added that if he does, "he'll (resigning his political death warrant." Benson, however, has claimed (Continued on Page Five) Decatur Firemen Porchlight Drive Here This Evening Decatur residents arte reminded to turn on their porch lights tonight beginning at 6 o’clock if they wish to donate to the muscular dystrophy campaign for funds. ■ The burning porch lights will be invitations to members of the Decatur fire department and the ladies auxiliary who are assisting Ju the collection. Proceeds from the city-wide canvass will be sent to the Muscular Dystrophy Association of America, Inc., for research in the crippling dierase which attacks the muscles. s INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, a little colder . north portion tonight, a few light showers or snow flurries southeast and extreme east early tonight. Tuesday considerable’ cloudiness, a little warm-er north portion. Low tonight 30-37. High Tuesday 4662.

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Work Progresses On 4-H Fair Grounds » 4 Prefab Building Moved To Grounds Work is progressing on the 4-H fair grounds in Monroe. Peter B. Lehman, chairman of the grounds committee, reported to the extension meeting last week. The prefabricated building purchased from Adams Central, and previously located adjacent to the old Monroe school, was moved recently to the new grounds, Lehman said. He added that no damage was done to the cement floor in moving, and that only two email panes of glass were broken. The building was set on a cement foundation, and both Yoet Construction and Acker Cement Works donated gravel and cement at less than cost to the project, Lehman stated. A total of $264.36 worth of 4-inch pipe was used to connect the water line with tile building, and Lehman told the ladies present, "You can hold the fair Monday as far as water in the kitchen building is concerned." A shut-off valve for the water was obtained at special rates from the P & H company in Fort Wayne. Yost also installed the water line. Harvey cut the ditch’for the fair grounds. In some places five feet deep, and contributed his Irervice free.to the community prolecL..Lehman said. __ , Also, the Krick-Tyndall tile mill donated 42 rods of 8-inch tile and five _rpds jiL4-ineh_-tile Jtat the ditch, which was installed by volunteer labor on the part of several members of the building committee. Lehmans in Berne provided 380 feet of copper -pipe at cost for the water line. Lehman'; sajd. He 'reported on the total net value of the property at present, and on the work which is now beinif done by members of the building committee. Lehman also explained that he. Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, and Dick Heller, Jr., had appeared before the county board of commissioners, who stated that they would allow the county road superintendent to provide workers to spread stone on the 45-rod, 20-foot wide road which has recently been graded through the fair grounds. The” road will provide a second exit for the Adams Central parking lot, which will greatly reduce congestion at school affairs and basketball games, much in the same manner that the recently built county road near Monmouth high school provides relief and service. Lehman expressed his thanks to all firms and all persons who are helping In the project, and called on the extension committee members to redouble their efforts in behalf of the 4-H project. Four Teen-Agers Held In Robberies / INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Police today questioned four teen-agers in un effort to get, a complete list of the filling station robberies committed by the quartet. Thomas H. Knight, 18, of Indianapolist, the oldest of the group, is in Marion county jail ou a charge of second degree burglary, while two 16-yaar-olds and a 17-year-old were turned over to Juvenile court authorities.

Lodge Assails Soviet Russia Stand In UN Says Logic Would Point Expulsion Os Russia From U. N. WASHINGTON (INS) — U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., said today that "from the standpoint of logic” Russia should be expelled from the Hotted Nations. * Lodge defined the purpose of the United Nations charter as creation of an organization of "peaceloVing nations” who would “try to prevent aggression, in the first place, and, if an aggression occurred, would get together and repel it." The U. S. ambassador, in a copyrighted interview with U. S. News and World Report, said: “If we had known In San Francisco the way they (the Russians) were going to act, I don't think we would have ever been in favor of admitting them.” Lodge, however, pointed out that Russia’s membership in the UN has its advantages. He said: “It gives them a chance to make an exhibition of themselves, and that’s a chance of which they take very frequent advantage. And part of the effect of their making an exhibition of themselves is a unifying of the free world. “I’ve seen it happen many times —the free nations, being free, start to drift apart, and everyone follows his own way. The politicians in the free nations start attacking each other. “But when it gets to that point, the Soviet representative will say something that is so monstrous, so shocking, so irritating, that the free people start pulling together again. If they were to leave it would not be the end of the UN." Lodge said he thinks Russia’s present “soft" approach to the UN and the world is "superficial." He added: "It’s very evident. T see it every day. But the basic premise hasn't chained a bit.’’ The U. S. ambaeMdor said the Soviets “want to take over everything that they possibly can." He declared: "They don’t want to do the way we have done the past 150 years and develop their own resources.- 1 don't know why they don’t. They’ve got a great big continent there to develop. They have this mania to go out and subvert and conquer.” Bank Robber Taken To State Reformatory Sheriff Robert Shraluka travelled to the Indiana state reformatory at Pendleton today with Richard E. Clark 26, Celina. 0., who begins a 10-ytear sentence for bank robbery. Clark was given the minimum 10year sentence by Judge Myles Parrish in Adams circuit court Thursday when a plea of guilty to the May 29 robbery of the First Bank of Berne was entered by the Celina man. He had been held at the county jail since June 16. J. Ward Calland Is Head Os Foundation Named To Succeed Arthur Holthouse J. Ward Calland of this city, managing director of the National Soybean Crop Improvement Council and vice-president of the De catur Memorial Foundation, Inc. has been elected president of the Foundation to succeed the' late A. R. Holthouse. C. I. Finlayson. Decatur plant manager of the Central Soya Co. and Glenn Hill, member of the Leland Smith Insurance Co. have been named first and second vice presidents. Dick Heller of the Dai ly Democrat was named to fill the vacancy on the 16-member board until next May 1. The Foundation Is the guiding hand in construction of the Decatur Youth and Community Center, nearing completion on East Monroe street. Completion of the building is expected shortly after the first of next year and the officers and directors then will face the task of equipping the building. The new president of the Foundation has long been interested In local community affairs. He said that each board member would be named chairman of a committee on some phase of the preparation for completing and dedicating the building. Calland said these committees would be named at an early meeting of the group.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 22, 1954.

Andrei Vi shinsky, One Os Top Red Statesmen, Dies Suddenly Today

Arguments On Sen. McCarthy Are Continuing One Senator Doubts McCarthy's Illness Serious As Reported WASHINGTON (INS)—The senate marked time today on the isaue 1 of whether or not to censure Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy but arguments over the Wisconsin Republican continued outside the chambers and lobbies of the capital. The senate session, considering only the report of its special committee which recommended an official rebuke on two counts, will not reconvene until a week from today, and McCarthy remained confined to Bethesda naval hospital for treatment of an elbow injury. However, Sen. Francis Case (RS. D.) the one committee member who has announced a partial dissent from the group’s official report, declared there is growing support for his claim that one of the two counts shall be dropped. Meanwhile, the nature of McCarthy's ailment itself became a mattar of dispute over the weekend when one of his principal senatorial critics accused him of more than once going to a hospital avoid embarrassment.” Sen. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) one of three senators who originally called for a vote of censpre earlier this year, implied on the CBS televised and broadcast "Face the Nation" that the Wisconsin Republican might be “feigning” illness. Fulbright quoted "someone, a newspaper I believe” as saying "there is an old custom in the Bethesda naval hospital, that senators and congressmen make their own diagnosis.” He added: “I think there is somethihg to it.” The hospital • reported that McCarthy’s’ condition "remained satisfactory." The Wisconsin senator went to. the famed naval institutiqn last Thursday for treatment of an elbow infection, which he said resulted from banging it against a glass-top table while he was shak-, ing hands with an admirer in Milwaukee a week ago. Official senate physician Dr. George W. Calver, reported that McCarthy’s elbow was injured and that he had treated it. Physicians at the navy hospital said that unless the senator remained under treatment throughout this week, a permanent injury might result. Fulbright, who voted against the current recess, said in his TVradio interview: "This wouldn't be the first time that he (.McCarthy) has gone to the* hospital to avoid (Continued on Page Five) Releases Figures On Tax Collection November Payment Higher Than 1953 Waldo D. Neal, county treasurer, has announced that a total of sl,394.122.03 in taxes was collected in Adams county Aji 1954. Last year's total tax collection was $1,237,608.15. Taxes this year were paid on over 40 million dollars worth of real and persona) property in the county. Neal stated that while no totals had been made, delinquents were fewer this year than last.* He attributed this partly to the fact that taxes must be paid before a vehicle or operator's license can be obtained. In order to purchase a license the tax receipt, properly stamped by the county treasurer, -must be presented at the license bureau. Fall taxes were payable up to and Including Nov. 1 of this year. The treasurer’s office was closed during the following four days to handle the bulk of posting and totalling payments.

Joseph J. Thompson Dies This Morning Chief Engineer At Central Soya Co. Joseph J. Thompson, 48, of 235 South First street, chief engineer for the Central Soya Co., Inc., died unexpectedly at 2 o’clock this ! morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. MY. Thompson suffered a severe coronary occlusion six weeks ago ■ but had shown steady improvement in recent days and had expected to return to his home shortly. His condition became worse, however, . late Sunday night, with death coming a few hours later. Mr. Thompson had been chief engineer for Central Soya since 1946. He graduated from high , school at Decatur, 111., and attendi ed Millikin University in that city, i He was employed with General • Foods in the Post division at Battle Creek. Mich., from 1935 to 1937, and from 1937 to 1946 was associated with the Igleheart Co. of ' Evansville, leaving that company • to join Central Soya as chief engi- ■ neer. He was born in Homer, 111., July 11, 1906, a‘ son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thompson, and was mar- • ried to Dorothy Filson Feb. 23, ’ 1929. r Mr. Thompson was, a, member of the Masonic' lodge, t(ie Scottish Hite and the Shrifie. Surviving are his wife; two sons, John Clair Thompson, attending the Harvard business school, Boston. Mass., and Douglas P. Thompson, midshipman at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.; one brother. Charles Thompson of Detroit. Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. Harry Pettibon ot Urbana. 111., and Mrs. Edd Fagaly of Fithian. Hl- Two brothers preceded him in death. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, Friends are requested to omit flowers, but may make contributions at the funeral home to the Decatur Youth and Community Center, in which Mr. Thompson was vitally interested. Unde Confesses To Slaying Niece 11-Year-Old Girl Is Found Murdered LEBANON, Mo. (INS) —Thurman Priest, a m'ild-looking 48-year-old Fort Worth. Tex., auditor, was scheduled to be charged' with first degree murder in I-ebanon today for the slaying of his 11-year-old niece. The body of Jeannette Earnest Was found shot in the head Sunday night after an intensive eighthour search of three states which began when Priest told police he had killed her, Jeff Weber, a Joplin, Mo., detective, found the body on Beai Creek HUI, four-milee east of Lebanon, about '3OO yards off U. 8. Highway 66. Seized on a kidnap charge Wednesday, Priest, who has a teenage daughter, maintained he could not remember what happened to Jeannette. However, belief that the girl had been harmed arose with the positive identification of a bloodstained blouse as belonging to Jeanuette, 12 miles east of Lebanon on U. S. Highway 66. Priest was implicated further by his wife of, eight months, Etta Mae, who identified the girl's, blouse and said her husband had shown “an abnormal interest” in the maturing girl. . The inldd’le-ag< d twain finality broke down Sunday and admitted to Mount Vernou, Mo., police that he shot the girl and burled the body In Miami, Okla. Mlseouri, Texas and Arkansas police joined in * motorcade which took Prleet to the epot where he on Pegs Four)

Mendes - France Offers Parley After Signing Premier Os France Addresses Plenary Session Os U. N. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —French Premier Pierre MendesFrance today offered Russia a four-power conference in May to be held in Paris after all signatories have ratified the agreements rearming and restoring sovereignty to West Germany. The dynamic chief of France presumably had in mind the highest level participation in the proposed conference among the United States, Britain, France and Russia. He emphasized that the United States and Britain must take part in such a conference. Mendes-France warned that any hasty conference of that nature without adequate preparation would be dangerous. He said the Paris ’ conference would be negotiated among the projected participants and "would be loyally prepared to the exchance of. views, barring noisy propaganda maneuvers.” *' The French statesman addressed a plenary session of- the UN assembly attended by all lop del* egates except Rsusia’s Andrei Vishinsky. In Vishlnsky's seat was second rank member of the Soviet delegation A. A. Sobolev, and he arrived 15" minutes after "MendesFrance began to speak. Vishinsky’s absence caused curious glances from all corners of the jammed auditorium. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, flanked by the other members of the U. S. delegation, followed Men-des-France’s important foreign policy address with Intensive attention. The main British delegation seat was occupied by minister of state Anthony Nutting.* - - Mendes-France again reiterated in the assembly that such a conference would be fruitless. He also rejected outright foreign minister Molotov’s proposal that a European conference be held two weeks after Nov. 29. He finished amidst tremendous applause after 35 minutes. The assembly, then recessed. - • Christmas Savings Checks Are Mailed Nearly $140,000 In Savings From Bank Today, 1,892 Christmas checks amounting to $139,758.25 were mailed to Christmas savings club customers of the First State Bank. The number of accounts exceeded that of last year while the amount was just a small fraction less than the previous year. Checks mailed ranged from $12.60 to SSOO. Christmas clubs of the entire nation reached a new high record thia year of $1,080,000,000. The average check this year amounted to $88.62. About 41 percent of Christmas savings money will be used for Christmas purchases, another 31 percent will be placed into permanent savings, while the balance yvill be used for year-end bills,. taxes, mortgage payments, insurance, and other miscellaneous expenditures. Christmas savings clubs for 1955 are now open. Payments to these accounts are made weekly over a period of 50 weeks and „may be made in amounts of 25 cents to $lO per week. The most popular" accounts are the $1 and $2 per week payments. The First State Bank encourages all of its customers to avail themselves of the Christmas savings club and thereby assure themselves of a "happy, debt-free Christmas for 1955."

Governor Os lowa ■ • p ...... Is Traffic Victim Governor Beardsley Killed Sunday Night DES MOINES (INS) — lowa Gov. William S. Beardsley, a tireless worker for highway safety, was fatally injured Sunday night when the car he was driving rammed a truck on highway 60, just north of Des Moines. The 53-year-old Republican governor’s wife, Charlotte, who was riding with him, was injured, but her condition was not believed Serious. The Beardsleys were returning from Ames where they had gone to visit their son, Dan. He learned of his father’s death through a radio broadcast after coming home from a movie. Highway patrolman Gleen McDole reported that Beardsley hit a truck driven by 54-year-old John Gardner Jr., of Des Moines Just over the crest of a hill. McDole said that Gardner had slowed down to answer a plea for help from another Des Moines motorist, 21-year-old Samuel Bradley, Jr., who had pulled off the road because of ear trouble. The patrolman said witnesses told him the governor’s car was not traveling at an excessive rate Os speed. Skid marks were short. The governor was pinned behind the steering wheel. When the first witnesses arrived, 2tfrs. Beardale* was sitliag on the ground holding her husband’s head in her hands. She suffered shock, but was conscious and apparently was not seriously hurt, although hospitalized at Des Moines with back and head injuries. Gardner was shaken up by the impact. His 217-year-old daughter, Janice Louise, and 17-year-old stepdaughter, Rose Jane Evans, escaped serious injury. Bradley and Clandine Brown and her sister Deloris were not hurt. Lt. Gov. Leo Elthon of Fertile, like Beardsley fl Republican, will take over in the statehouse until the expiration of Beardsley’s term in January. The governor did not seek re-election and would have passed over his officfe to his GOP* successor, attorney general Leo Hoegh. at that time. ; Beardsley was a constant worker for highway safety, but ironically, his death brought to 543 the (Continued on Page Five) William Bollinger Dies Late Saturday Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon William Alfred Bollinger, 72. of Monroe route 1, died at 11:25 o'clock Saturday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health since August and bedfast since Thursday. Mr. Bollinger, a lifelong resident of Adams county, was a member of the Winchester United Brethren church, southwest of Monroe. % Surviving are ms widow, Miranda; two daughters, Mrs. Albert Hollinger of Monroe route 1 and Mrs. Gordon Burkhart of Decatur route 6; a foster son, Harry D. Bollinger of Monroe route 1; nine grandchildren; three great-grand-children; four half-brothers, Arley and Walter Bollinger of Decatur, Pete Bollinger of Geneva and Vilas Bollinger of Rockford, O.; three half-sisters, Mrs. Lula Barkley of Decatur, Mrs. Ida Meyers of near Bluffton and Mrs. Mary McClure of Huntington, and a stepbrother. George I*autzenhelser of Bluffton. Funeral services will be held at, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Winchester United Brethren church, the Rev. Lawrence Dellinger and the Rev. Lawrence Mlddaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. The body was removed to the Yager funeral home, Berne, where friends may call until time of the services.

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Chief Soviet Delegate To U. N. Is Dead Death Announced In U. N., Apparently from Heart Attack IGNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (INS> —Death of Andrei Vishinaky, fierytongued chief of the Soviet delegation at United Nations, and one of Russia’s most celebrated #statesmen, was announced in the UN today. The announcement of the passing of the pre-revolution lawyer who made the switch to Communism and earned worldwide fame as Soviet prosecutor in the “purge trial of the 1930’5,” was made known to the 1,000 assembled delegatee and spectators by E N. Van Kleffens, UN assembly president. Death of Vishinsky apparently was due to a heart attack. The announcement followed by only a half-hour a UN speech in which French Premier Pierre Mendes-France proposed a fourpower conference in May to be held in Paris after ratification of the agreements re - arming and restoring sovereignty to West Germany. Vishinsky assertedly suffered the heart attack as he was preparing to leave the Soviet estate at Gten Cere, Long Island, for the assembly meeting. Van Kleffens rapped for order and in dramatic voice announced at 12:40 p. m. (BST) that “it is with great regret that I have to report the sad news that Mr. Vishinsky has died." A shocked silence descended upon the huge auditorium. The assembled delegates and spectators rose slowly to their feet and stood in silence with bowed heads. He told the delegates that "ample opportunity" would be granted later to express condolences. Vishinsky was 70 years old. Mendes-France had left the assembly by the time Van Kleffens. received the information on Vishinsky’s fatal heart attack. The information ended speculation on the curious absence during Mendes-France’ appearance on the rostrum of most key delegates from the Iron Curtain countries, some of whom took their seats 15 to 20 minutes after the French diplomat began to speak. Vishinsky was several times foreign minister of the Soviet Union. He was last replaced in that capacity by V, M. Molotov soon after the death of Joseph Stalin, which caused a top-to-bottom shakeup in the Kremlin that put Georgi Malenkov in as premier. Before Vishinsky entered the Soviet foreign ministry, <he gained a reputation as Stalin’s “terrible prosecutor” because of the grim purges he conducted in the Soviet secret police courts, sending literally hundreds of thousands to slow death in the Siberian concentration camps. Vishinsky had been chief U N delegate more or less sfiwe 1947, although as foreign minister ' he came to the UN assembly only during the three months of its annual session. The Russian had been complaining In the past years of recurring Illness, and at one time subjected himself to heart treatments by a New York specialist. ■' Last year he purchased for his personal residence a house in the fashionable east side section of New York City, where he has been living— except for weekends at Glen Cove. L. I. — with his wife and 36-year-old daughter, Zinaida. Vlshlnsky’s chief deputy currently is A. A. Sobolev, who several years ago was assistant UN secretary general. Vishinsky actually was born Andrei Yanuarievich Vishinsky In 1883. and as a young man practicing law Joined the Mensheviks. The Mensheviks wore originally a powerful party directly opposed to the Bolsheviks led by Nikolai Lenin, Leon Trotsky and later Joseph Btalin. • Vishinsky succeeded, however, (Continued on Page Five)