Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 276, Decatur, Adams County, 23 November 1954 — Page 1

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One Lima Youth Enters Guilty Plea In Court Confessed Robber Os Pleasant Mills School In Court BULLETIN Richard Lytle, 27, entered a plea of guilty to burglary in the second degree at 1:45 o'clock thia afternoon and hie attorney, Ed A, Busse, stated that Lytle realized that he had done wrong, had fully confessed, and would be satisfied with the sentence imposed by the court. Lytle was one of f|Our Lima, 0„ men arrested for the Pleasant Mills school breakin November 7. Judge Myles F. Parrish took sentencing under advisement. Richard Judy, 26, and Cecil Eugene Perrine, also arrested as the result of the Pleasant Millt and Monmouth school . break-ins, were to appear later this afternoon to enter pleas. Thomas J. Kelley, Is. of Lima, O„ represented by Ed A. Bosse, entered a plea of guilty Monday afternoon to one of the four charges filed against him as a result of the recent Pleasant Mills break-in. His plea of guilty of the second degree burglary charge was accepted by Judge Myles F. Parrish in Adams circuit court. The other charges against him. grand larceny, entry to commit a felony and auto banditry were dismissed. Judge Parrish took the matter of sentencing under advisement after hearing evidence for mitigation from Bosse and tor punishment from proseciiting attorney Lewis Lutz Smith. Bosse called three witnesses to the stand in an attempt to show the court that Kelley was a young boy. who, because of lack of parental guidance, drifted into the wrong crowd. The attorney claimed that the boy was ’e’ntitled to a fresh start.” The witnesses were Kelley, his father, who resides near Los Angeles. Calif., and hi? mother, who lives in Lima. The questioning brought out the fact that Kelley’s parents were dL vorced and that Kelley had "been his own boss’’ since the age of 14. He has not lived with either of his parents since that time. Kelley, who testified that he was planning marriage in the near future. described “the square” in . Lima which he says is the hangout for several organized gangs. He stated that the gangs specialized in armed robbery, dope peddling or nitro safe cracking. Prosecutor Smith, In his plea for punishment, pointed out that the state had taken into consideration Kelley’s age and environment and had dismissed the other charges against him. 4 The prosecutor reminded the court of the seriousness of the offense and stated that Kelley needled the reformation period of two to five years in the reformatory. Three other Lima men bqlng held in the county jail have not yet entered a plea but they are ex(Continued on Pare Six) BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) — The UN political committee approved unani..mously today President Elsenhower** vetoless atoms-for- , peace plan. The 60-to-none vote came after the seven western sponsors of the resolution for activating the Elsenhower plsn rejected all proposals by Russia and India to Invoke the security council veto over Its basic operations.

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Another War Threat In Central America U. S. Concerned On Danger Os Warfare WASHINGTON (INS) — Another threat of war in Central America—this time involving Costa Rica and Nicaragua—was causing U. S. officials considerable concern today. Authorities were inclined to the view there would be no violent eruption, despite a weekend of alarming reports, but they conceded anything could happen. Privately, a wish was apparent that onq of the agrived parties would invoke the Rio de Paneiro non aggression pact so the whole issue could be aired publicly. It was made clear that the U. S. — with the Guatemalan situation still fresh in memory—wants no more war in that volatile area linking the North and South American continents; Publicly, there was no comment on the charges and counter-charges being bandied back and forth between President Joee Figures, of Costa Rica, and President Anastasio Someza, of Nicaragua, who have been feuding for some time. State department spokesmen said the dispatch of six U.S. jet fighters to the Panama canal zone was a T'outine flight.'.’ in line witl) a normal replacement of equipment. Costa Rican sources said they were sent down to protect Costa Rica, which has neither army nor air force, against a Nicuraguan invasion. Nicaraguan sources charged that President Figueres' real concern was an attempt by former Costa Rican President Utilio Ulate to return to power. Costa Rican informants called attention to the fact that Nicaraguan President - Somoza recently purchased 25 World War II Mustang fighters from Sweden, for'delivery in December. They claim that Sbmoza was impressed by the success the current Guatemalan President Castillo Armas had in deposing the pro-Communist regime of Jacobo Arbenz with only four makeshift planes. Both Costa Rican ambassador Antonio A. Facio and Nicaraguan ambassador Guillermo Sevilla— Sucassa visited the state department to argue their respective versions of the issue whidh has developed. Meanwhile, paid spokes men for each country have been busy spreading alarming reports about the activities of the other. Ostermeyer Child Is Taken By Death Rebecca Ann Ostermeyer. six-month-old daughter of Marvin and Bern Ice Bulteinier-Ostei meyer.' three miles south of Fort Wayne on road 27, died at 12:30 p. m. Monday at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. The child had been ill since birth. Surviving are the parents; one sister, Bonnie Lou, 5, at home, and the grandparents. Mrs. Lauia Bultemeier of Madison township, Allen Ijounty, and Mr. apd Mrs. Martin^Ostermeyer of Wells county. Fyneral services will be held at 2:15 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 3. p. m. at Suburban Trinity Lutheran church on the Decatur road, the Rev. L. J. Fuchs officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. Schools Close For Holiday Vacation Decatur and Adams county schools, public and parochial, will be closed from Wednesday afternoon until next Monday morning for the annual Thanksgiving vacation.

Russia Plans State Funeral For Vishinsky Vishinsky's Body To Be Returned To Moscow By Plane MOSCOW (INS) —A state funeral arranged by high-ranking members of the Soviet government will be tendered Andrei Vishinsky when his body is returned to Moscow. The Soviet ,U. S. delegation in N. Y. said that “the body wiuld be placed aboard an American airliner due to leave at 5 p. m. EST for Parris, where a Russian plane will pick it up for the trip to Moscow. It was believed that Vishinsky, a first deputy foreign minister as well as chief of the U. N. delegation, will receive q. funeral in Red Square with full honors. There were reports his body would be laid to rest in the Kremlin wall along with other Sovist* heroes and behind, the tomb of Lenin and Stalin. A joint statement isued Monday night by the council of ministers and the central committee of the Communist party announced "with deep sorrow” that the “outstanding statesman” had died suddenly in New York. The foreign ministry said Vishinsky’s death had “profoundly affected’’ ministry members and it extended condolences to members of the diplomat’s family. The council and the central committee also decreed the establishment of a commission headed by deputy premier Mikhail G. Pervukhin to arrange the funeral. Other members included deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, who it was indicated in diplomatic quarters might succeed Vishinsky in the U. S. poet. — Russian ambassador to London, Jacob Malik, who like Gromyko has experience in U. N. affairs, also was reported a possibility for the New York sopt. Two others whose names were imerotioned were deputy foreign ministers Vasily Kuznetsov and Valerian Zorin, one time U. n. delegate. Allied diplomats In Paris said regardless of who was selected to fill Vishinsky’s place. Russian goals at the U. N. would remain the same, There was speculation, however, that the new man Imght be someone who would fit better into the seemingly new Soviet flexibility on some policy matters. Vishinsky died hours before he was to hAve performed an act typical of his more than 30 years in the failbful service of world communism: The white-haired, mustachioed chief of the Soviet U. N. delegation was scheduled to vote in concert with the west on setting into operation an American-sponsored plan for the peaceful use of atomic energy. ~ For years, in angry tirades at U. N. meetings, Vishinsky’s biting skill at debate had been used to attack and condemn almost every U. S. move in the wdrld forumand particulatly those dealing with nuclear maiterials and disarmament. But the word had come from Moscow-sdpport the American plan. And Vishinsky-drawirig on his years of unquestioning obedience-; was prepared to do hie masters’ bidding. It was that way from the moment sophisticated, opportunistic Vishinsky decided his future was with the Bolsheviks and not with the more moderate Mensheviks of pre-rovoluUonary Russia. The Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks were opposing groups which broke away from Russia's old so(Continued- on Page Rix)

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14 Americans, Alleged Spies, Sentenced By Chinese Red Tribunal

Ike Sees No Soviet Intent To Keep Peace Says No Evidence Russia Sincere In Drumming For Peace WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower said today he sees no evidence that the Soviet Union is any mgre sincerely interested in peaceful so-existente with the western world than it has been in the past. The chief executive gave assurance that his administration is on guard against any “Trojan Horse” in the Communist world’s drumbeating for peace, but he again stressed that the United States is ready to talk with anyone in the interests of peace. At his news conference, the President declined to take issue with senate Republican leader William F. Knowland of California, who has proposed a review of the administration's foreign and military policies. Mr. Eisennower declared that anyone has a right to explain his o<n particular position, just as Jte explains his side of the issue. But he stressed that responsibility for foreign policy-is vested in the President, who must decidewith the secretary of state what is best for the nation. The President said that coexistence has a relatively simple meaning — you either live with someone in this world or you are fighting and trying to kill him. He added emphatically, however, that there is no tendency on the part of his administration to take anything for granted in appraising the sincerity of Soviet peace talk. Other points made by Mr. Eisenhower at his news conference were: . ’ ~ 1. The Communists must show some evidence that a Big Four meeting would be fruitful, such as signing the long- postponed Austrian peade-treaty. Mr. Eisenhower repeated that in any event a Big Four meeting should not be held until .after the Paris agreements have been ratified. 2. The senate should act promptly on nominations whe(e there is no real controversy instead of putting them over to the new congress. The chief executive made it clear he includes in this category the nomination of Judge John - on Page Five) Postpone Probe Os Government Charge Delay Investigation On Charge Os Bias WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate judiciary subcommittee abruptly postponed today an investigation into the government charge of bias against Federal Judge Luther W. Youngdahl in the Owen Lattimore perjury case. Subcommittee chairman William Langer (R N.D.), ordered the delay when Sen. Alexander Wiley (R Wis.), failed to appear at the public hearing as a member of the investigating unit. Langer said he saw no reason to proceed without the.full membership of the three-man subcommittee. Wiley left Saturday for an International economic conference at Rio de Janeiro. Langer, who claims he’s the only man ever arrested for accusing a judge of bias, said: "I don’t want to proceed without Mr. Wiley in a matter this serious . . , we wilf postpone the hearing until he gets hack.” The North Dakota Republican said that Wiley is expected to return front South America on Dec. 1. Langer ordered the Investigation to learn why the department filed the unusual affidavit of prejudice against Youngdahl which the jurist dismissed a* "scandalous.”

South Bend Votes For Eastern Time Change Effective Early Next Sunday , SOUTH BEND, Ind. (INS) — Some 200,000 more Indiana residents will be living on eastern "taadard time after Sunday. The Sototh Bend city council Monday night vote#" unanimously ( to adopt a resolution which will have 1 the effect of putting South Bend on EST. effective at 2 n.m. Sunday. Since the neighboring city of Mishawaka already had adopted a resolution contingent on South Bend’s decision, the vote moves both cities into the fast-spreading area observing EST on a yeararound basis. The South Bend resolution “requests” the citizens to move their clocks up one hour, in obvious deference to a state law which specifies that the only legal time in Indiana is central standard. However, the measure passed by the 1951 general assembly, had its teeth removed before it became legal, and has been disregarded each summer by most of the Indiana cities and towns. At first, the practice was to advance clocks an hour for CDT (the. same as EST) observance each April, then move th£ timepieces hack again, usually in October or November. Bat the action of several cities recently- has been to make the 'fast time” permanent. Suspend Business Here For Holiday Church Services To Mark Thanksgiving Most business will be suspended in Decatur Thursday tor the Thanksgiving holiday. Retail stores, offices, city and county offices, the First State Bank and the library will be closed the entire day. The post office windows will be closed and no deliveries will be made, except tor special delivery. The lobby will be open on the usual holiday schedule and mail will be dispatched as usual. The Decatur Daily Democrat will follow its custom of many years and no edition will be published on Thanksgiving day. Exceptions to the suspension of business will be some grocery stores, confectioneries, theaters, service stations and taverns. Special church services and family gatherings will feature the hollThe annual union Thanksgiving service, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held at 9 o'clock Thursday morning at the Church of the Nazarene, with the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton, pastor of the First Methodist church, delivering the sermon. Two services wil be held at the IZon Lutheran church, at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday and at 9 am. Thursday, with the pastor, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, speaking at ..both services. The regular week day sched ule of masses wil ibe held at St. St. Mary’s Catholic church. Decatur retail stores will be open Wednesday evening, following the holiday shopping schedule started Jast week - — ' I Thompson Funeral To Be Held Wednesday Funeral services for Joseph J, Thompson, chief engineer tor the Central Soya Co., who died Monday morning, will be held at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home. The Rev. Ray J. Walther will officiate and Masonic rites will also be conducted. The body will be cremated. Friends may call at the funeral home 'until time of the services, end are requested to omit flower*.

McCarthy's Backers Plan New Proposal Senator's Bid For Free Television Time Is Rejected WASHINGTON (INS) — Supporters of Joseph R. McCarthy firmed up plans today to propose an "impersonal” new code of senate conduct to replace the pending censure resolution against him. Their intention was made known as the Wisconsin Republican spent his seventh day in Bethseda naval hospital wjiere he is recovering from an injured right elbow. McCarthy reported Monday that he will be there until Nov. 29, when the senate is scheduled to reconvene for renewal of debate on a censure resolution proposed by a special committee which investigated misconduct charges against him. Meanwhile, McCarthy’s bid for free television time to make a national Thanksgiving day address, requested by his wife Jea(i, wa,s turned down Monday night by the National Broadcasting company. A spokesman for NBC gave no reason for the network’s decision. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.) a leading McCarthy proponent, disclosed that past plans to seek a compromise have been ditched and he will offer a substitute for the censure resolution instead when the senate comes back into session. He declineu to make public the text in advance of presenting it to the senate but he said it “does not mention Sen. McCarthy by name." Another leader in the McCarthy camp said it woulfl be an "impersonal'’ item which would express disfavor for Intemperate senatorial speeches, would propose changing senate rules to provide for this, and Would note that the senate has been lax in enforcing existing rules in the past. McCarthy said that he had undergone an operation Monday morning to remove glass fragments from his injured elbow and that he might have to go through one again today.

Man Arrested On Bad Check Charge Checks Passed In Geneva And Berne Another Ohio man was arrested in Adams county Monday. He is Urban G. Wirkner, 43, of Fort Recovery, 0., who is alleged to have passed bad checks In Geneva and Berne. Wirkner, wno was released from the Columbus. 0.. prison in February and claims to be a Celina, 0.. carpenter, cashed a check at the Moore Home Grocery store in Ge neva about noon. The check, for |32.50. was signed T. B. Rhoades, payable to William Miller. Wirkner then went to Berne where he cashed a check for 632.25 in the IGA store. Wirkner was apprehended in Berne through the alertness of Preston Pyle. Geneva town marshal. Glenn Moore of Geneva be came suspicious of the man when he cashed the check and'notified Pyle. ’ The two went to Berne and iden tified him on the street after he had cashed the check in that community. Wirkner was brought to the Adams county jail. Prosecuting attorney Lewis Lutz Smith was conferring with the owners of the two stores todayto prepare an r affidavit against Kirkner. An affidavit for forgery may be filed or there is a possibility that the man may be returned to Ohio authorities fpr< violation of parole.

Union Speaker The Rev. Virgil W. Sexton, pastor of the First Methodist church, will deliver the sermon at the annual union Thanksgiving service, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, at the Church of the Nazarene Thursday morning at 9 o'clock. Union Thanksgiving Service Thursday Union Service At Church Os Nazarene The annual un|ou Thanksgiving service, sponsored hy the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held at 9 o’clock Thursday morning at the Church of the Nazarene, Seventh and Marshall streets. The Thanksgiving sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Virgil Wesley Sexton, pastor of the First Methodist church in this city. Other pastors of the city will assist in the service, and special music will be provided. The committee, consisting of the Rev. William C. Feller, of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. John E. Chambers, of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren, church, and Chalmer Boilenbacher, today announced the program will be as follows: ... Organist—Mrs. Leo Roe. Invocation —The Rev. C. E. Lykins, pastor of the host Church of the Nazarene. Hymn — “Praise Him, Praise Him.” Scripture—The Re. W. H, Kirkpatrick- Church of God. Special music — Duet by Mrs. Otho Suman and Mrs. Gene Bebout. Morning prayer—The Rev. Stuart IL Brightwell, First Baptist church. Thanksgiving proclamation —■ Ralph Kenworthy, president of Associated Churches. Offertory appeal and prayer — The Rev. Ray J. Walther, First Presbyterian church. (Offering will go to the Christian rural overseas program). Hymn—" America the Beautiful" Sermon—Rev. Sexton. Hymn — “Savior Again to Thy Dear Name.” Benediction—The Rev. Herald J. Welty, Missionary church. Mrs. Eugene DuPont Is Taken By Death WILMINGTON, Del; (INS) — Mrs. Eugene" De]>ont. 73, died at Memorial Hospital Monday where ehe had been confined since Christmas Day four years ago. Mi-s. Dupont, the former Ethel Kle. nntrried into the widelyknown chemical family in 1913. Her husband, Etigene, was exexecutive in the firm for 15 years and more recently had served as a director. ' She is survived by four children, including n daughter, Mrs. Francis D. Wetherill, who lives in the Chestnut Hill section of PhiladiM ph la. INDIANA WEATHER Occasional rain, possibly mixed with some snow north tonlgnt. Not quite so cold south. Wednesday cloudy, windy and cold with Snow flurrls* ~ or light showera north and east. Low tonight 30-37. Hlgn Wednesday 38-43. '*

Two Air Force Officers Are Among Spies 22 Alleged Spies Sentenced To Die Or Life In Prison HONG KONG (INS) -The Chinese Communists said today that a U. S. air force colonel and major were among 22 alleged American spies sentenced to deat or itnprisomnent by a Chinese Red Military tribunal. The Communist New China News Agency said in a dispatch reaching Hong Kong that 14 .of the 22 condemned were actual American citizens. It said the others were Chinese nationals. The agency said all were convicted "of a crime seriously jeop- „ ardizing the security of ChUia." It claimed that one espionage group was led by Lt. Col. John Knox Arnold, Jr., fl, of Washington. whom it identified as commander of the U. S. 581st air supply and communications wing. Under him, it said, was a Maj. William Hurl Baumer, 32, from the state of Pennsylvania. The agency said he was an officer of the U. S. far entft air force and belonged to the 91st strategic reeonnatoaaiiee «tuudroa. In fhd second spy group the agency said those involved included John Thomae Downey, 24, identified as Connecticut-born, and, Richard George Fectau, 27, described as a native of Massachusetts Both were rescrlbed u central intelligence agency special agents. The Communist agency said Arnold and Baumer were captured ■when a superfortress plane wga shot down over northeast China, rt said 14 airmen parachuted from, the palne and 11 of them were captured. Downey and Fecteau were said to have worked with the Atsuki (Japan) element of the C4A. In the spring of 1952 the agency said Downey selected and organized two teams td Chinese Nationalists ‘Team Wen" and ‘Team Shen,” which later parachuted into Kirin and Liaoning provinces of the mainland. In October, 1952, R said, Downey also had Li Chun-Ying, another agent, parachuted Into Kirin to conduct liaison and subversive activities. The Communists claimed that earlier, in August, 1962, Downey went into Kirin province in an American plane in order to drop food and supplies to "Team Wen.'’--They said that Downey and teau were captured the following November when they entered northeast China In an American plane, contacted and supplied agents previously parachuted, and attempted to pick up Li- Chun • Ying. The Reds said the plane was shot down. • Officers Long Missing * WASHINGTON (INS) —TJie air force said today that two U. S. officers sentenced to death or Imprisonment by the Chinese Reds as “epiee" have 'been mleskng since Jan. 13, 1953 when their B--29 failed to return from a combat mission over North Korea. The officere, whose sentences were announced by the Communist China News Agency were identified, as Lt. Co). John Knox Arnold, Jr., and Mjj. .William Hurl Bau m er. Arnold, 41, lived at 8709 Sundale Drive. Silver Spring, Md., while Hamner, »2, resided at 124 St. Anthony St., Lewlvburg, Pa. . Nine other air force officers and enlisted men were aboard the B-29 bomber and the air force said they all have been held as "alleged political prisoners” by th Chinese Reda. (Continued on Page Five) , "" 11 1,1 T . NO PAPIR THURSDAY Following a custom of many years, the Decatur Dally Demaorat will not publish an edition Thursday, Nov. 25, Thanksgiving Day.

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