Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 24 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 277.

Pasadena Provides Rose Bowl Princesses For ’55 £^<Vsil 0 2.<’ 'Sii^. ... ' wK Mimi Fa x R H i r fr — J 11 w flfl k J| "■*■ | a|L * ’- IHt - w v WK Jr- , KNOWN TO THE JUDGES for the 1955 Tournament of Roses only as numbers until today, these seven comely Pasadena City College co-eds have been selected as the Princesses of the annual event. They were selected from the student body of 1800 women. They are (1. to r.) Roxanne Boyd of Grand Island, Neb.; Marilyn Smuin, Glendale. Cal.; Joan Gentry, Pomona. Cal.; Joanne Martin, Napa, Cal.; Patricia Scott, San Antonio, Tex.; Sheila Breault, Minneapolis, Minn., and Susan Quarness, also of Minneapolis.

Four Ohio Men Enter Guilty Pleas in Court Enter Guilty Pleas To Charges Filed In School Breakin All four Lima, 0.. men charged with robbing the Pleasant Mills high school on November 7 have now entered pleas of guilty before Judge Mylps F. Parrish, who han taken the cases under advisement to decide upon sentencing. List man to appear before Judge Parrish was Cecil Eugene Perrine, 26, who drove the getaway car which didn't show up, leading to the arrest of the men. Judge Parrish severely questioned Perrine after his attorney entered a plea for leniency after his confession. Perrine stated that he had been out of work since February and that his wife, had left him with their two babies, and had had another baby a month ago whose name he did not even know, fie said that he was working in a cigar store and pool room and became acquainted with the other three men. In the early morning of the robbery he met the men at a local Lima tavern and they decided to play some poker. But they stopped tor gas before going to the private home Where the game would be held, and when they got back tn the car one of the men said, ‘‘Let’s head west.” Perrine said that nothing was said at the time about what they would do. but that he had heard that these men were a small gang involved in breaking and entering. He took over the driving when they got outside of town about 40 miles, and didn't know where he was driving until they got to a small town. (Monmouth.! He let the three others out behind a barn, and drove around for 30 to 45 minutes before picking them up. They had a sack of money with them wirtch they had gotten from the Monmouth school. Then, Perrine continued, he drove to Pleasant Mills, and let them out again a few blocks from the school. He drove around awhile, then stopped, and couldn't get the car started for nearly an hour. When he returned to the school, the men were not there. (The other three were captured after they left the school building, and ran into a nearby field.) Perrine was originally charged on two counts; accessory before, the fact to entering to commit a felony, and accessory before the fact to commit grand larceny. The latter charge was dropped by ■prosecuting attorney Lutz Smith when Perrine's plea of guilty to the first count was accepted by the court ...... Perrine' had been arrested November 8 in Lima, 0., where he returned in a car belonging to Richard Judy, one of the other bandits. He waived extradition, and was returned several days later to the Adams county Jail. He was represented by Severin H. Schurger, (Continued on Pag* Six) ? . IE" ■ —-TINDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, windy and cold tonight and Thursday with snow mixed with rain north and east tonight and snow flurries north Thursday. Low tonight 30-34. High Thursday 36-42.

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Civil Defense Meet Held Here At Noon Outlines Plans For Dec. 8 Operation Several members of the Adams county civil defense organization met at noon today at the Fairway Restaurant to hear a report by. Jack Gordon on the area meeting at Marion Tuesday. "Operation Smoothout” scheduled for Dec. 8 was the main point of discussion at both the Marion' and local meetings. The operation will be a test exercise for Indiana and Adams county will be expected to participate by taking care of 22.0(h) people evacuated from the critical target areg of Fort Wayne and Allen county. The evacuation will operate under the assumption that two hours warning time will be given before the actual attack. All residents of Fort Wayne will be moved out to the surrounding counties. Transportation will be handled by the Allen county civil defense organization. Adams county will handle the imaginary 22,000 in a dispersement plan worked out by advisory counsel members and other key civil defense personnel. Deputy sheriff Merle Affolder, witfi the assistance of police in the county, will, be in charge of-the traffic problem. The first 12.000 people will be sent to the southern part of the county and rural areas. The remainder will stay in Decatur. All homes in the county vrill be asked to lodge and feed as many persons as possible on a 24-hour basis. Other evacuated people will be placed in churches, lodges and other buildings where facilities are available for mass feeding. The purpose of the test, which is being carried out entirely on a paper basis, is to indicate to civil defense authorities the strength, facilities and personnel available in the event of a real disaster. A test earlier this year pointed out major plaws in the civil defense organization and it is ’hoped that the December test will correct these problems, —— B U L L E T~I N BOVEY, Minn. (INS) — Four persons were reported to have perished today in a fire that destroyed a 40-year-old v hotel in Bovey, Minn. A number of guests were rescued by passerby. Causes of the fire has not been determined. Bovey is in northern Minnesota near Grand Rapids, Minn. Holiday Shopping Season Will Open In Decatur Friday The Christmas shopping season will formally open in all Decatur 'stores Friday. Today's edition of the Decatur Daily Democrat (16 pages) is crammed with many suggestions and bargins for the Christmas shoppers; City electric department workers completed the stringing of Christmas lights In the business section Tuesday, ail ready i for tire formal Chlrstmas opening. Decatur stores will be open tonight, as every -Wednesday evening until Chrlstmaa eve. Beginning Monday. Dec. 13, stores will be open every evening until the day before Qhristmas, when they will close at 5:3« p. m. Beginning next week, the stoies will. aiso be open every Thursday afternoon until Christmas.

North Dakota Solon Lashes Censure Move Republican Senator Says Resolution Is Free Speech Threat WASHINGTON (INS)—Sen. Milton R. Young (R-N. D.) attacked the censure resolution against Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today as a threat to free speech and said he will vote against it. Taking a stand publicly for the first time on the issue, the North Dakotan said it "deals with one el the most cherished and important provisions of our federal constitution—that of freedom of speech, including the right to criticize.” He insisted that when McCarthy criticized members of committees which investigated him. he "broke no standing rule" of senate precedent. -Voting added: "I have oftentimes f6lt that many of the accusations leveled against me were more vicious, unreasonable, and untruthful than those embodied in the pending censure resolution." Meanwhile, McCarthy spent his eighth day in Bethesda naval hospital, recovering from an elbow injury which caused the senate.|otake a 10-day recess which ends Monday when It will resume the censure debate. A special committee headed by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah.) based the censure resolution on charges that McCarthy was in “contempt" of a subcommittee that investigated his finances in 1952 and “abused” Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. Young said he is “not greatly disturbed" about McCarthy’s treatment of Zwicker, who testified before the Wisconsin Republican last Feb. 18 about the promotion and honorable discharge of accused “Fifth Amendment Communist" Maj. Irving Peress. Young commented: “General Zwicker was an arrogant, evasive witness. If provocation in any degree justifies harsh words, the army. through .General Zwicker, certainly deserved it" He contended that the army goaded McCarthy into his actions by turning down the Wisconsin lawmaker's request to hold up the discharge of Pereas. Sen. Francis Case (R-S. D.) a member of the Watkins committee who is against censure on the Zwicker count, issued a statement, meanwhile, denying that political considerations influenced him to take that stand. He declared; “Any rule of, the senate, or a state or.a federal law. ta curb such criticism, of neces sity, must limit in one form or another the people’s right of free (Continued on Page Five) - - Court House Offices Close For Funeral The Adams county commissioners, meeting In special session this-’afternoon, announced that the court house offices will be closed from 2 to 3 o'clock Friday afternoon during funeral services for Mrs. Hazel Gallogly, court house matron, who died suddenly late Tuesday afternoon. L The commissioners also anndunced that Mrs. Leo Eh Inger has been named to serve as matron until January 1.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday November 24, 1954.

Government Protests

Long Prison Sentences On Americans By China

Jail Beating Is Fatal To W. Remington Former Government Official Killed By Mysterious Beating LEWISBURG, Pa. (INS) —W’RHam Remington, former government official jailed for perjury in denying he had passed U. S. secrets to a Russian spy ring, died today from a mysterious beating at the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg. It was learned that an inmate was being questioned by the FBI about the assault, but prison officials declined to give any details. Warden Fred Wllginson announced that the 36-year-old, SIO,OOO-a---year one-time commerce department, aide succumbed after an operation had been performed yesterday afternoon. Wilkinson said Remington, accused by former Communist courier Elizabeth Bentley as a Communist. was found Monday with serious head injuries inflicted by a brick encased in a sock. In Washington, both the FBI and federal prisons bureau refused to identify Remingtons assailant, although admitting that the slayer has been tentatively identified. Nor was there any motive advanced for the savage attack, but one informed source pointed out that prisoners linked with Communism are regarded as "social outcasts” by rank and file inmates. He pointed out that numerous small incidents have occurred wherever Communist leaders, or those connected with the Reds, have been thrown together with bank robbers, thugs and other criminals. It was speculated that Remington“and Alger Hiss, former* state department aide who will be released from Lewisburg Saturday, were placed in the Pennsylvania prison because its inmates are composed of offenders like embezzlers and car thieves rather than violent desperadoes. Hiss, one-time top state department aide, who was also convicted for lying about his Red associations. is to be free on parole after serving three-and-a-half years. Officials explained that a joint FBI-prison bureau investigation is still going on and that they can make no statement until completion of a study into circumstances of the crime. —— CCohtTnuedbn Page Six) Election Report By Political Parties Committees File Election Reports Both Democratic and Republican county committee treasurers filed their election reports Monday, indicwting that $3,272.35 was collected by the two parties during the campaign. Individual reports by candidates are still being filed The two parties spent $3,172.05. - The Democrats' collected a lota! of $2,007.35 during the campaign from 83 donors, While the Republicans collected a total of $1,365 from only .20 persons. The average Democratic contribution in this campaign was $24.18, while the average Republican contribution was $63.25. The Republicans, according to the county central committee, Cal E. Peterson, spent $1,146.71 during the election. The Democrats spent a total of $2,035.34, according to the statement filed by O. W. P. Macklin, treasurer of the party. Largest single contribution was that of Harry -ssex to the Republican party—s 326. Largest Democratic contribution was listed as from a Friend—s3o2.36,

Pre-Legislative Study Ends Today Governor Asks New Penal Institution BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (INS) — Gov. George N. Craig’s unusual experiment in pre-legislative study ends today at Indiana University. The sixth and final in a series of conferences planned to acquaint the 1955 general assembly members with the problems facing the various state departments and institutions, concerns civil defense, the work of the adjutant general, the aeronautics commission and the commerce, industry and farm duties of the lieutenant governor. While many of the veteran leaders of the Indiana general assembly have been absent' from the aeries, the parleys have been fairly well-attended. Gov. Craig tom tne legislators at Tuesday’s meeting that he hopes they will appropriate enough money to get started on a seven - million-dollar intermediate penaf institution. The state department of correction had recommended only that the 1955 general assembly set up a study group to see for itself what pie penal authorities are claiming—that Indiana needs an institution to handle first-time offenders too "tough" for the Plainfield Boys School and too young and impressionable to be sent to the reformatory, or penal farm. But Craig said 'he thought enough money was available to get started on the, project in the 1955 assembly. He recommended that males 16 to 21 be sent to the (Continued on Page Two) L. Luther Yager Is Lions Club Speaker Speaks On Bills In Next Legislature L. Luther Yager, of Berne, state representative from Adams and Wells counties, spoke to the Decatur Lions club last night bn the next state legislature in January. Yager was introduced by Glenn Hill, program chairman f<y the week. Ron Parrish, chairman of the program committee, announced that next week would he ladles night, and that a well-known Hoosier humorist from southern Indiana would be the speaker. Yager said that he thought one of the. moat important bills .would., decide whether .r'jyr’*. have the right to highways through the cities. Yager said that more toll roads would lessen the chance of higher taxes on trucks to widen present highways and build stronger, wider bridges. He also spoke about a more stringent bill for overweight truck violations. Yager said that mental health would be a big question in the legislature. and that while he favored making treatment in all Indiana mental hospitals standard, he opposed making Indiana the nation's proving grounds of experiments in mental health. Yager also spoke against state aid for the building program est public schools, and said that he would introduce a law to permit consolidated school boundaries to be made on other than township boundaries. Yager also briefly explained his proposal to adopt the Ohio type ballot in Indiana for township, county? amt state ballots, whicir would list the names of all candidates. regardless of party, alphabetically, making it impossible to vote a straight ticket by just making one mark, and forcing the voter to vote for each office in the .township, county, state and federal ballot by name. New members Jay Markley, Dr. Melvin Weisman, and Don Stover were introduced by president Ben (Continued on Page Two)

Living Costs Show Slight October Drop Two-Tenths Os One Percent Decrease During October WASHINGTON (INS) — The labor department reported today the cost of living dropped twotenths of one percent during the month of October. At the end of the month the eonsummer price index was pegged at 114.5 percent of the average level between 1947 and 1949. The decrease lowered the index to eighttenths of one percent below the peak reached in October, 1953. The drop in the cost of living, as reported by the department, will mean a loss of one cent an hour in wages for one million, 300 thousand workers, mostly' in the automobile industry. October marked the third successive month of decline for the overall index. Apparel prices showed a slight seasonal increase , but food prices were off one-half of one percent Mrs. Aryness Joy Wickens, head labor statistics commissioner, said preliminary reports "indicate a continued downward trend" during November. Mrs. Wickens also said the cost of the traditional Thanksgiving dinner will be less than in 1953 although the department’s usual (Continued on Page Five) Contributors May Call Fire Station Decatur firemen announced today that any person who were missed in the firemen’s "porchlignt ’ campaign for funds for the muscular dystrophy drive,*'and wish to contribute, may call the fire station. phoue 3-3134, and their contributions will be picked up. Heart Attack Fatal To Hazel Gallogly Court House Matron Dies At Home Here Mrs. Hazel .Gallogly, 60, matron of the women's lounge in the court house for a number of years, died suddenly of a heart attack at 4:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon in the kitchen of her home, 811 South Winchester street. She had not been ill and her death was unexpected. She was born in Ohio Sept. 30, 1894, a daughter of George and Jennie COark-iSm|tley. Her husband, Lawrence D. Gallogly* died several years ago. Mrs. Gallogly was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, the Pocahontas lodge, the Rebekah lodge. Eagles Auxiliary, Women of the Moose, the American Legion auxiliary and the Gold Star Mothers. Surviving are two daughters. Mrs. Betty Andrew® and Mrs*. Claudine Noll, both of Decatur; two sons, Lawrence C. Gallogly of Decatur .and Stanley., serving with the U. S. army In Germany; her mother, Mrs. Jennie Smitley of Decatur; three* grandchildren: four brothers, Melvin Smitley of Corunna, Mich., Marshall Smitley of Fort Wayne, Gerald and Russell Smitley, both of Decatur, and one, sister, Mrs. Catherine Baker of Decatur. One son was killed in service with the army. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at the Black funeral home, and at 2:30 p. m. at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Benj. O. Thomas officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cenjetery. Friends may call at the funeral home'aftcr 7 o'clock this evening.

State Republicans To Select Speaker Three-Man Battle In Republican Ranks z INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The 63 Republican members of the Indiana state house of representatives tonight decide a three-man battle for the powerful post of speaker. After that battle among the GOP senators in their organization caucus last week which developed into a tie resolved tn a precedentsetting manner, a "wait and see" attitude was prevalent on the subject of tonight's outcome. SlyGeorge S. Diener, Indianapolis public relations expert, is’ the • speaekr candidate being backed by the forces of Gov. George N. Graig, other two candidates — Reps. James D. Allen, Salem attorney. and W. O. Hughes, Fort Wayne attorney—say for publication that they are Independents. But Allen, who was the Craig choice for speaker in 1953 and won, obviously now is on the other side of the fence. He opposed Gov. Craig in the spring party reorganization after the primaries which saw the governor’s forces win control of the GOP state comIf Rep. Allen can’t be forthrightly tagged as the choice of the governor’s political foes, U. S. Senators Homer Capehart and William Jenner, he can safely be called anti-Cralg. Rep. Hughes, who was speaker in 1951 and was floor leader of the Republican minority in the lower house in 1949, insists "I’m just a Republican. I have no tastes for factions." Hughes reportedly turned down a suggested offer from the Craig camp that Hughes throw his support'to Diener for speaker, in return for the job of house majority on Page Seven) Testifies To Light In Sheppard Home Neighbor Testifies In Sheppard Trial CLEVELAND (INS) —A woman neighbor testified today she saw lights on in the Sheppard home the morning Marilyn Sheppard was murdered. The accused wife-killer, Dr. Sam Sheppard, has claimed he fought in the semi-darkness a bushy-hair-ed figure who invaded his suburban Bay Village hbme. Mrs. Doris Bender, testifying at Dr. Sam’s first degree murder trial, said she drove past the |»L---500 Sheppard home “about or Just after” 2:16 a. m. oh July 4 and that “the lights were on downstairs and upstairs." The cornorer has estimated the murder was committed between 3 who “dusted" the murder bedroom said he found no fingerprints in the room except one belonging to Dr. Sam. The detective, Jerome V. Poelking, told the Jury at the osteopath’s frist degree murder trial he found no prints of the pregnant mqrder victim or her seven-year old son. "Clrip,” I. Under defense cross-examlna-the FBI-trained fingerprint expert said he could not find even a "blur” of a fingerprint in the upstairs death chamber. Under state examination Tuesday, the lean, good-looking pSltce officer. told of finding the left thumbprint of Dr. Sheppard one inch from the top of the right side of the headboard on the single, bed in which the pregnant woman was found. The testimony indicated someone had carefully cleaned off all fingerprints in the room. Lt apparently hit at Dr. Sheppard's testimony that a burglar had committed the bludgeon murder July 4 and escaped quickly after knocking out the defendant.

New Friction Between U. S. And Red China State And Defense Departments Issue Angry Denunciation BULLETIN HONG KONG (INS) — Red China announced today it has killed or captured 230 "spies" allegedly air-dropped on the mainland since 1951 by the U. S. agency and - Chine* Nationalists. A communique from the Chinese Communist public security ministry said 105 of the alleged spies were put to death by Communist "security organs and security forces.” WASHINGTON (INS) — Friction between the U. S. and Red China today reached k its highest point since the end of the Korean war as the Chinese announced that 13 Americans have been given long prison sentences as "spies". Aqgry denunciations of the Chinese were hurled by the state and defense departments and Franklin C. Gowan, American consul general in Geneva, was instructed ”to make the strongest possible protest." Geneva Is the only place in the world where U. S. and Red Chinese diplomats have direct contact. Under special arrangement the two consuls can talk about prisoners and detained persons, but that is all. The announcement of the sentences ranging from four years to life pointed up the difficulties the U. S. has had in trying to win freedom for an estimated 82 American civilians and 21 American military men Relieved held In Communist China. These figures do not include fre-quently-voiced suspicions that the Chinese also held back several hundred Americans captured during the Korean War. The anger generated in America by announcement of the sentences handed out to 11 American U. S. airmen and two civilians threatas it increased the pressure on the Eisenhower administration to take drastic action. The first to voice this demand, was Sen. Herman Welker (R Ida.), who declared that the U. S. should act “with the only thing the Communistsfear—namely force." A more temperate proposal canle from Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Mont.), who urged secretary of state John Foster Dulles to take the case to the United Nations. The defense department charged the Chinese Communists have been holding the 13 "as political prisoners in violation of international law, the rules of war and the Korean armistice agreement,” and added: "The Peiping raido report of the conviction of these U. S. prisoners on the charge of ‘spying’ is all too reminiscent of numerous other false, charges previously made against the U. N. command.” The State Department bitterly pointed out that the Chinese never before gave any indication that the two civilians, John Thomas Downey. 24, of New Britain, Conn., and. .Richard G. Fecteau, 27, of Lynn, Mass., ever were prisoners, in China, despite the talks about the whole prisoner question at Geneva last June. The Pentagon flatly denied that the 13 men flew over Chinese territory as Peiping charged. The Chinese charged that the airmen had organized one group of (Chinese agents and parachuted them Into China and that the two civilians had helped organise another group. 16 Pages

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