Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 26 November 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 278.

Sentenced As Spies By China a _• -■ * SV W\/ |r:--' -I r .< i Richard George Fecteau Lt Wallace L. Brown HERE ARE TWO of the 13 Americans sentenced as spies in Communist China, according to announcement. Fecteau, along with John Thomas Downey, another civilian also sentenced, had been missing since taking off on a flight from Korea to Japan during the .Korean war. Brown was a member of a USAF plane crew of 11 shot down near the Valu river Jan. 12, 1953. Fecteau, 27, Lynn, Mass., was sentenced to 20 years. Brown got four years.

Four Ohio Men Sentenced For School Breakin Four Sentenced To State Reformatory By Judge Parrish Judge Myles F. Parish today sentenced the four -Pleasant Mills school robbers, giving terms of from 2 to 5 years to the three accused of second degree burglary, and 1 to 10 years to Cecil Eugene Perrine, 26. for driving the getaway car. All were sentenced to the state reformatory. 'Sentenced to 2 to 5 years, were Richard Lytle. IW. Riche rd Judy? 26, and Thomas Kelley, 19, who In addition to confessing to the Pleasant Mills breakip, also admitted the Monmouth theft the same, day. and earlier entries and thefts at Adams Central and Berrf>. They admitted some 10 Indiana breakins and 21 in Ohio, for a total loot of around 165,000. The four, in their confessions, implicated some 18 to 20 others in four, or five gangs working out of Lima, O. So far, 12 persons have fled from Ohio. Many school and tavern robberies in northeastern Indiana and northwestern Ohio have-been cleared up by the group, which has been operating since last April. Headquarters for the gangs seems to have been a particular cigar etore and pool hall in Lime. 0.. where two of those involved worked. Police chief James Borders and sheriff Robert Sbraluka went to Lima. 0., Wednesday and checked stories by other arrested criminals on old Decatur thefts. Cleared up at that time were the breakins at Ash'baucher’s Tin Shop Kocher’s Lumber Company, and Macklin’s garage on the night oi November 2. Nothing was taken from the first two, but some cash and a new 1954 Chrysler were taken from Macklin’s. Arrested and charged with transporting an automobile over the state line, a violation of the Dyer act. were Frank E. Stratton, 21, and a 16-year-old boy. _ The two, accompanied by Slratton’s wife, Jean, left Lima. 0., the night of October 30 by bus after Stratton was involved in a shooting at a Lima tavern. They went first to Fort Wayne, and then came to Decatur. Here the three stopped at a drug store for coffee,, and searched the newspaper for rooms for rent. Finding one. they walked there and rented it for a week. The three remained here in Decatur until the night of Nov. 2. and then the two men went downtown and started searching for money. They broke into Ashbau(COntlnuea on Cage Kight) SHOPP|NC\| 7 JMS LEFT OX\ wS") iw

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House Caucus Names Craig Supporters Indianapolis Man Is House Speaker INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Two men of opposing factions in the Indiana Republican party will head the house and the senate during the 1955 general assembly. Rep. George S, Diener, Indianapolis, was named speaker of the house at a Thanksgiving eve caucus in which legislators friendly to Gov. George N. Craig gained the principal posts. In addition to the speaker, these were Rep. John R. Feighner, of Marion, GOP majority leader, and Rep. Phillip C. Johnson, of Mooresville, caucus chairman. All three are young men in their 30s. Diener, 1 who owns an advertising and public relations agency, is 38; Feigner, an insurance agent, is 33. and Johnson, an orchardist, is 34. - Earlier, the senate had named a friend of the GOP faction headed by U. S. senators Homer Capehart and William E. Jenner as president pro tern. He is Sen. John W. Van Ness, of Valparaiso. The division of strength between the forces of the governor and those of the senators was so slight that Lieut. Gov. Harold Handley cast the deciding vote in a 17-17 tie'in order to keep the senate leadership from going to a Craig ally, Roy Conrad. ‘ Diener sought to minimise the GOP divergence within the house, saying the- majority party is all one faction, but when asked how he expected to get along with a senate, headed by anti-Craig lead ers. the new' speaker said: “As of two weeks ago. the lieutenant governor and I agreed that there would be cooperation between the houses —time will, tell." The house vs. senate situation was made even more interesting by indications that both Handley and Diener have their eyes on the governorship, two years hence. Gov. Craig's strength in the house appeared greater in 1955 than in 1953, judging by the vote which elected Diener to the speakership. He got 36; Rep. James D. Allen, of Salem, the 1953 speaker and anti-Craig candidate, received 14. and Rep. W. O. Hughes, of Fort Wayne, the 1951 speaker, garnered 12 votes. b Feighner was chosen without opposition, while Johnson won over Rep Ralph G. Hines, Portland, 43 to 19. _______ Also named to posts In the house were William G. Brummett, Jeffer : sonville, chief clerk, and Gilbert Ogles, Greencastle, chief doorkeeper. ' Younq Mother Shot Fatally By Child KANSAS CITY (INS) — A young Kansas City mother was accidentally shot to death by her four-year-old son in a Thanksgiving Day tragedy. Mrs. Delores Lawrence was cooking the Thanksgiving dinner when her son. Clell Jr., fatally wounded her while playing .with his father’s rifle. The father was away when the shooting occurred. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, with rain o> snow tonight and Saturday. Little warmer Saturday. Low tonight 32, high Saturday 40-48.

Favor Plan To Divert Billion For Highways Divert Taxes Paid By Motorists For Road Improvement WASHINGTON (INS) — The administration is reportedly favoring a plan today whereby a billion dollars taxes paid by motorists every year would be used for highway building and[ improvement. Officials said the plan is looked on with favor by a special presidential commission headed by Gen. Lucius Glay which is charged with finding away to meet the nation’s future road needs. As the diversion idea now ap-, pears, the government would set up a roads authority which would issue government - guaranteed bonds to pay the government’s share of the projected ten-year road buiding program over a long period of time. The government’s share will probably run to 35 billion dollars over and above its current contributions to road building. These bonds would be repaid from federal taxes on gasoline and lubricating oil now bringing the federal government a billion dollars.a year in revenue. The plan has the advantage of spreading out over a great number of years the cost of a program which could not be paid for from regular revenue. The Clay committee has had this proposal, among others, under consideration for some time. Mr. Eisenhower presumably will submit to the new Democratic-con-trolled congress in January whatever program the Clay committee recommends. Arguments in favor of the landissuing authority, with revenue from highway users earmarked to pay principal and intereat include: 1. The plan would speed largescale highway construction and at the same time avoid ne* taxes of any increase iu statutory debt Unit. If Ue bonds are Xold by a special authority they would not become part of the national debt — although they would have government backing. — 2 The program would mean using revenues obtained directly from highway users for payment of needed roads. The federal government will haVe to increase its proportion of financial contribution to the national highway system if the inter(Contlnuea on Page Two) Auction School To Open Here Monday Winter Term Opens Here Next Monday The Reppert s school of auctioneering opens Monday for the 1954 winter session, according to Dr. Roland Reppert, owner and director of the school. The usual staff of instructors will teach the various courses offered by the school. Q. R. Chaffee of Towanda, Pa., will be dean. Other instructors are G. L. Pettit, Bloomfield. Id.; Clyde M. Wil son. Marion, 0.; C. B. Drake, De catur, Ill.; H. W. Sigrist, Fort Wayne; Walter Carlson, Triumph. Minn.: Ray Elliott. Portland; George Borum, Centralia. HL; Guy Johnson. Columbus, O.; I tonaid Rolfe, Orient, O.; H. B. Sager. Bozeman. Mon.; Homer Pollock Delphos, 0.; Earl W’right, Mount Gilead, 0., and Carey E. Jones, Oak Park, 111. Dr. Reppert stated that the attendance for this session would probably be average but that no exact figures could be given until after registration Monday. Most of the student auctioneers iwill arrive in Decatur Saturday and Sunday. Dr. Reppert said that one had already come from New York. Several practice auctions will be arranged for the students during this session. One will be a charity auction sponsored by Psi lota Xi sorority. This auction will probably take place Dec. 11 and will be held at the Sprunger and Bixler highway auction barn on U. S. highway 224, near Preble. Dean Chaffee arrived in Decatur Thursday night. He and Dr. Reppert were conferring today on the winter session of the school which was founded by Dr. Reppert’s father, the late Fred Reppert. The Decatur Chamber of -Commerce will continue a policy started at the last session of welcoming the students to the community. Bob Heller is in charge of arrangements.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 26, 1954.

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Score Chinese Red Sentencing Os Americans United States And Great Britain Lash Red China's Action UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (INS) —U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and British minister of state Anthony Nutting have scored Red China for sentencing; 13 Americans to prison as "spies.” Lodge blasted the Chinese Communist regime for “a new act of barbarism" and declared indignantly that the action was still another reason why "the unspeakable gang” in Peiping is “unfit” to be seated in -the UN. The bitter statement and the vehemence of Lodge’s denunciation Thursday were regarded as the forerunner of a U. S. protest and challenge to the assembly to condemn the Peiping action. Earlier, Nutting denounced the sentencing in Peiping as “outrageous” and said Britain would do everything possible to cooperate in getting the fliers released. Lodge asserted in his bristling statement: "The Chinese Communist sentencing of 13 Americans on false charges is a new act of barjmrissn which has rightly arouaed indignation not only among the American people hut all over the world. It, compounds the original crime of detaining these Americans in flagrant violation of the Korean armistice agreement. "It adds still another item to the long list of reasons why the unspeakable gang in Peiping is unfit to sit in the UN.” American sources irately declared also that the 13 Americans undoubtedly had been “forced to confess to trumped-up and utterly false admissions written out for them by their tormentors." Specific reasons for timing* the' outburst to take place at moment ■when the cold war is on "slow’’’ flame was,not clear but many at the UN assumed it was partly in’ retaliation for U. S. opposition to Red China’s seating in UN and Continued on Page Seven) Fort Wayne Man Is Held As Murderer Stepson Slain, 2nd Critically Wounded FORT WAYNE. Ind. (INS) — A 45-year-old man was held on a murder charge today after a Thanksgiving dinner table shooting in which he; killed his teen-age stepson and critically wounded the dead youth's brother. Police identified the dead youth as Gerald Landis, 16, of Logansport, Ind., and said his brother, Glenn, was near death in Parkview hospital in Fort Wayne. Held for murder was Eeverett King of River Haven, a suburb of Fort Wayne. Officials said the boys were children of Mrs. King by her first marriage. She has seven children by her second marriage. Sheriff Harold Zeis said the shooting took place in King’s home where the Landis brothers were visiting their mother for Thanksgiving dinner. The sheriff said Mrs. King told everyone to wash up and King snarled: “Feed the hogs first, i'll eat the leavin’s.” An argument followed and King ran to a shed and returned armed with a pistol and shotgun. The other children said ’King killed Gerald at the dinner table, shot Glenn and yelled: “I’ll kill off the whole mess of you." ! . Police were called by Mrs. King who fled to a neighbor’s home when her husband ran into the house waving the guns. Officers said King had not been drinking.

Community Fund's Goal Oversubscribed Some Reports Still To Be Made In Drive E W. Lankenau, 1954 chairman at the Decatur Community Fund drive, announced today that the campaign had been successful and ’that Decatur has again exceeded its goal. A total of 112,123.50 in cash and pledges has been reported to date. This exceeds the drive goal by J 458.50, with several tardy Kepprts still expected within a few ays. Lankenau expressed his thanks to the many workers who assisted. “It is gratifying to note our goal was again exceeded,” he commented. “Decatur has fulfilled its obligation to all nine worthy agencies. We are certainly proud and grateful. It is another example of fine community cooperation." Industry, under the chairmanship of Newell Wright, had accepted a quota of $7,000. It reported a total of $7,375.25. The Central Soya Col topped this division in total contributions. The division also reported several industries participating for the first time this year. The next highest division was the retail business group, which netted $3,577.25. Approximately ten percent of this total was from retailer employes. Fund officials had emphasized this gi*oup in the curren.t campaign and some improvement Was noted 4b employe participation.’ - » School personnel reported $255, and city employes contributed $66. Seven of Decatur’s doctors have reported $l3O to date. Ministers contributed $53.50. Twenty-four women's organizations gathered a total of $299.50. Mailed contributions. clubs and lodges made up the balance, Earl Caston, fund executive secretary, pointed out that contributions may still be made and should be forwarded to him at the First State Bank. Amounts contributed are a matter of public record and all contributions made to the Decatur Communist Fund may be deducted for tax purposes since the fund has beet), approved by the internal, revenue _ Alger Hiss To Be Released Saturday Uncertain Future Is Faced By Hiss LEWISBURG, Pa. (INS) Alger Hiss will be released from the fedleral penitentiary at Lewisburg •Saturday to face an uncertain future. The 50-year-old former state department official, convicted of perjury for denying he passed secret government documents to Communist agents, is expected to be met •by his wife, Priscilla, his lawyers and maybe some close friends when he emerges from behind the grim walls of the prison. Heavier and much grayer, he will have served three years and eight months of a five-year sentence, having been given a year and four months off for good behavior. Earlier, he had been denied parole. Hiles' release will follow by six days the fatal beating by two Lewisburg, inmates of William W. Remington, who was serving a three year term on. an identical perjury conviction. Possible motives for the murder of the one-time commerce department economist ranged from the pending release of Hiss to petty thievery and prison cliques. Remington’s funeral in Ridgewood, N. J., is scheduled to be held about the time Hiss walks to freedom through the penitentiary gate. Hiss, presumably, is broke and he will be out of a.job. Having been disbarred, he can not practice law. He has made no plans for employment, according to his lawyers. Being on “conditional release.” he will not be able to travel outside the jurisdiction of New York (Contlauei Ob Page Eight)

McCarthy Will Leave Hospital Sunday Night Senate To Resume Debate Monday On McCarthy Censure WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy’s hftvyer said today the Wisconsin Republican will be discharged from the Bethesda naval hospital Sunday night and “definitely” will be present when the senate resumes debate Monday on proposals to censure him. At the same time, hospital authorities disclosed that McCarthy was able to leave the institution for a Thanksgiving Day auto ride, but he returned that night for further treatment of thd elbow injury which forced a 10-day recess in the censure debate. Attorney Edward Bennett Williams told newsmen: “The senator is in good shape and will definitely be on hand when the censure session is resumed Monday. But he will have to wear some kind of cast on his right arm.” Williams gave no hint of McCarthy’s strategy in the censure battle, but senate backers of the Wisconsin legislator are expected to lose np time in launching thair attempt to scrap the resolution asking that he be reprimanded. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.) will offer as a substitute for the censure resolution a proposal that the senate go on record with an “impersonal” declaration aimed at all senators who when under pressure use intemperate language. Meanwhile. Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah) chairman of the censure committee, declared he would not be swayed by the petitions being circulated nationally—with a goal of 10 million signatures —opposing any rebuke to McCarthy. Watkins said he would pay no heed either to the pro-McCarthy petitions or to those being circu(Contlnued on Pare Eight) Mrs. I. F. Yaney Reported Critical •Mrs. I. F. Yancy, one of the oldest residents of Kirkland township. is reported critically ill at the Lutheran ’ hospital in Fort Wayne. She became suddenly ill last Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. John R. Worthman, where she had gone to spend the winter, and was taken to the hospital Tuesday for a blood transfusion. Frank H. Garard ~ Dies At Fort Wayne Former Decatur Man Is Taken By Death Frank Henry Garard. 68, Fort Wayne, formerly of Decatur and a brother of Robert Garard. Daily Democrat employe, died Wednesday night at 10 o’clock at the West Berry street nursing home, following a stroke of apoplexy suffered .15 weeks ago which paralyzed his whole left side, Garard was born in Decatur, but for the last 35 years he has resided in Fort Wayne, where he had been employed in the water construction department of the City Utilities. Surviving are his widow, who was formerly Miss Clarice Noll: a daughter, Mrs. Dortha Crawford, Fort Wayne; a son, Frank V. Oarard. Fort Wayne; two brothers, Robert Garard, Decatur, and John Garard. Toledo. 0., and a sister, Mrs. Mont Fee, Greenfield. He was a member of Bethany Presbyterian church Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock In the Tom Mungovan funeral home, on south Calhoun street, with the Rev. John Crawford officiating. Burial will be In the Decatur cemetery.

Study New Policies On Congested Areas Change In National Policy May Follow WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower may announce a new national policy early next year designed to make America's congested cities leas-tempting targets for a possible Soviet atomic, attack. The President’s program would reportedly call for planning along these lines from every agency or group that could conceivably play a role in decentralizing industry and population. As an example, informed sources said that the housing and home finance agency is reviewing its various programs to see what can be done to reduce over-populated areas in big cities. The agency has already had this purpose in mind in carrying out its slum clearance work and other programs, but officials, said that the massive destructive power of the hydrogen bomb makes a new review of the situation essential. One spokesman pointed out that there was no intention of adopting any “urban abandonment” program since that would create more problems than it would solve. Instead, they have in mind a continuing dispersal of new population, housing hospitals and other community facilities. Mr. Eisenhower mtght decide to ti’y encouraging state, local and federal departments and agencies as well as private organizations to devise ways to reduce population densities, facilitate traffic and Improve accessibility in the cities. These developments were spurred by a report to members of congress that industrial metropolitan areas "are extremely vulnerable to attacks which are known to be within the capability of the Soviet Union.” The report made by the office of defense mobilization said the concentration of people and economic resources in a relatively few cities “has continued almost unabated.!’ Third Inmate Held In Remington Death Charged With Fatal Beating In Prison LEWISBURG, Pa. (INS) — The FBI announced today that a third inmate of the federal penitentiary at Lewisburg has been charged with the fatal beating of William Remington, former U. S. commerce department aide, jailed for perjury in denying he passed U. S. secrets to Russian spies. Norman H. McCabe, special FBI agent at Philadelphia; identified the latest suspect as Lewis Cagle. Jr.. 17, of Chattanooga, Tenn., who is serving a sentence for car theft, and for the first time indicated that robbery was the motive behind the slaying. McCabe said Cagle admitted that he and two other prisoners entered Remington's cell to ransack the room Monday morning and that the assault then took place. The two other men, George Junior McCoy, 34. of Grundy. Va.. and Robert Carl Parker, 21, of .Washington, D. C., also convicted car thieves, were charged with the murder Wednesday. Asked if robbery was the Only reason for the attack on Remington, assistant warden Mark 8. Richmond told International News Service: “This, you might say, is one of several motives.” Richmond refused to enlarge on this statement, citing the fact that the FBI is still investigating the slaying. i The assistant warden said Remington would have only commissary items like cigarettes and candy in his cell and that prisoners are not permitted to carry money (Costlaued On Page Eight)

Red Invasion Os Strategic Isle Repulsed Nationalist Forces Repulse Attempt By Reds Against Isle TAIPEH, Nov. 27—(Saturday)— (INS) —Nationalist Chinese troope, aided by artillery and planes, beat back a strong Communist invasion assault Friday against the tiny but strategic isle of Wuchiu on the western side of Formosa Strait. The Nationalist high command in Taipeh announced late Friday night that Communist Chinese amphibious forces which landed on Wuchiu’s beaches were completely routed after a furious battle that lasted nearly three hours. The communique, issued in the Formosa Nationalist capital of Taipeh, declared: “This morning at 1:06 a. m., five enemy gunboats and many motorized junks and wooden boats began attacks on Wuchiu from three sides—the West, 4 south and north. “The defenders, in conjunction with air force support, resisted and by 4 „a. m.. repulsed the enemy who fled toward the mainland. ... *‘Our air force continued attacking Communist shipping." An air force communique said that up to Friday evening Nationalist planes “sank six motorized junks, destroyed more than 30 wooden boats and damaged more than 50 vessels of different typos.” The Red move caused an invasion scare on Formosa, only about 100 miles east of the fighting, but according to all Nationalist reports the Communists failed to gain a foothold. Nationalist military sources said small groups of Communists tried to land on the beaches of Wuchiu whfch is just 15 miles off the Chinese mainland coast and not under direct protection of the U. S. seventh fleet which patrols the Formosa strait The fleet Is charged/by presidential directive with the duty of protecting Formosa itself from Communist invasion. The Communists staged the amphibious landing attempt against Wuchiu after the islet was first bombarded before dawn by 10 Communist gunboats. The Nationalists said the Red gunboats Jater withdrew in the face of attacks by quickly marshalled air and sea power called tor by the defenders. Nationalist military sources were unable to say' definitely whether the attack was merely a harrassing raid or a definite invasion attempt. "X The Nationalists claimed part of the landing party had been wiped out and many prisoners were taken. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek’s planes blasted the Red warships just off Wuchiu beach and the Nationalist navy was rushing ships to the island. Wuchiu. a miniature island barely one mile long and half a mile wide, lies approximately 100 miles northeast of once-belieged Nationalist Quemoy and just 13 miles south of Red-held Nanjih island. Quemoy and the Nationalist Tachen islands, some 200 miles north of Formosa, have been blasted repeatedly during recent months iu the Nationalist-Red China "vest pocket” war. Nationalist defense minister Yu Ta Wei warned only two days ago of the danger of a Communist invasion attempt. He pointed to a reported troop buildup of half a million men along the Red China coast. v ■ ' —-—• ■ ii "' i ,a BULLETIN WASHINGTON, (INS) — The state department said today that Red China still has not agreed to meet U. S. offl-clals-at Geneva on the case of the 1$ Americans sentenced to prison for alleged espionage.

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