Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1954 — Page 1

Vol. Lil. No. 283.

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Bids Rejected For Building Os New School All Bids Rejected As Totals Exceed Appropriated Fund All bids oh the new northwest public elementary school were rejected by the Decatur school board late Wednesday afternoon because the total of blds ran over the amount appropriated for the building. The school board will readvertise for bids for December 22 at 2 p.m. Two new alternates will be added to the general bid, allowing for the omission of the multi-purpose room, with the option of reiiijrtating it next year, and also foi*vhe omniission of the second boiler. The alternate bid will allow the school board to go ahead with the building progrtgui, while the cost of the multi-purpose room (combln- , ed gymnasium and auditorium on a small scale) will be added to next ) ear's budget. No additional appropriation could be made this year. By waiting for next year's appropriation, it is hoped that no additional tax levy will be needed. At present the school building fund receives 75 cents on every SIOO taxable property in the city. The legal limit of this tax would be $1.25 on The second boiler, which will be omitted in one .of The alternates of the next bid; would have been installed to make provisions for the addition to the new school which was recommended by the survey. Actually, only one boiler would be necessary In the new school, it was pointed out, but it would be considerably cheaper to install two now than to wait and install a second one later. ■ About 50 men gathered at the high school to hear the reading of the bids’by the school board. Also present were superintendent \V. Guy Brown, Hugh Andrews, principal of the high school, and Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln school. The board withdrew from the group to make its decision on the bids. The new competitive bid will allow several of the contractors to make adjustments to lower their bids, as some were very close to being the lowest bid. A total of $300,000 has been appropriated, and is available, for building the new school at the present time. Yesterday’s bids ran between $48,102 and $60,632, including architect's fee, over what was anticipated. Low bidder on the general contract was Bultemeier Construction company, of Decatur, at $239,840. With six possible alternates deducted, the bid wax still $230,365. (Continued on Page Five I wOf

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Major Overhaul Os Highways Planned Road Modernizing Needs Emphasized WASHINGTON (INS) — A major overhaul of the highways connecting America’s major cities has been assigned top priority by a presidential committee mapping plans for a multi-billion dollar road construction program. This was disclosed today by a . source close to the special advisI ory committee headed by Gen. . Lucius D. Clay. . The group, which will submit its . recommendations to President Els- . enhower later this month, is giving special emphasis to the need for modernizing the 37,600-mile in- . terstate highway system. The trunk road network links to- , gather 209 of the 2JV* cities in the nation that have a population of , over 50,0 W. It is estimated that” these h tgh ways carry 20 per cent , of the annual truck and auto traft sic in the country. The federal government may elect to underwrite full costs of this phase to assure complete success of the 10-year project. One of the committee’s principal chores is to find ways of raising funds which will be needed in addition to the 50 billions which federal, state and local governments ordinarily would spend for highway improvements during the next 10 years. Clay announced in Philadelphia Tuesday that the federal highway program would be about 24 billion dollars with funds derived from Issuance of revenue- bonds on a "pay as you go" basis. States and cities would have to devise plans to pay for the additional 26 billions called for by engineering estimates. Indications are the group may recommend that the federal governmenfassume financial responsibility for improving the interstate highways. Estimated cost for this work is nearly 25 billion dollars. This course would permit states to divert to other roads the 100 million dollars spent annually on the interstate system. As a means of making the mo(Continued cn Page Five) Central Soya Honors 10-Year Employes T-wenty 10-year employes of the Central Soya Company will be honored this evening at a banquet to be held at the Allen county Wai Memorial Coliseum and later be guests at the double-header basketball game. The group includes: Abner Tyson, Clifton Kohler, Victor Eicher. Eli C. Engle. Hiram Wittwer, Edwin Spichiger, Thomas Mclntoeh, . Opal Drum, Neil McKenney, George A. Zuercher, -Raymond Rolston. Jr., Don Bollenbacher, Gale A. Me Claim Angeline Sharpe, John Bayles, Karl Scare, Margarites Canales. Rafael Canales, Ray Walters, Glen ft.- Straub, Jr. Newell Wright, MAR Super intendent at the local plant, will be toastmaster. The awards will be presented by Dale W. McMillen, Jr., president of the Qentra) Soya company. C. I. "Scotty" Finlayson, Decatur plant manager, will also give a brief talk. Guests will include Art r Burris, training director, and Diki Eddleman, employment manager. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness and cold tonight. Friday partly , cloudy and not quite so cold. Low tonight 22-28. High Friday 36-42.

Five Survive Plane's Crash In Wilderness Two Killed, Five Survive Crash In East Wilderness BERLIN, N. H. (INS) — Five survivors, including the pilot, CapL Peter Carey, were found today in the wreckage of a twinengine Northeast Airlines plane, discovered In the old Specs-Graf-ton Notch wilderness area across the state line in Maine. Allan Pope, administrative sistant to Governor Hugh Gregg, who took personal charge of the search, said two were dead. He identified them as co-pilot George McCormick, 37, Kingston, N. Y„ and John McNulty, 39, Boston, airlines flight supervisor. Carey was found conscious and able to talk, although suffering from exposure. He was the first to be removed aboard a helicopter that brought a doctor and other rescue workers to the scene, and was taken to St. Ixrnis hospital, Berlin. __ Pope said the other four survivors were being brought to the airport by helicopter. Extent of their injuries, or those of Carey, were not known. They wsre: Mary McEttricmk, 23, of Boston, the hostess, and passengers: James W. Harvey, 52, Belmont, Mass.: W. Miller of Philadelphia, and Daniel H. Hall of Montclair, N. J. Finding of the plane came almost 48 hours after the ship vanished on the 68-mile final leg from Laconia, N. H„ to Berlin of a flight from Boston. Search for the plane had been hampered by freezing temperatures and snow squalls, which at times reduced flying visibility almost to zero. The wreckage was sighted by Capt. Peter Dana, of Winthrop, Mass., a Northeast Airlines pilot, flyipg one o( five company aircraft in the aerial search. - A coa#t guard helicopter from the Salein. Man., base was -.Aw patched to the scene. A man was dropped near the plane by parachute. The helicopter landed In a clear area a mile away and other rescue workers began a trek through the wilderness to the scene of the wreckage. Veteran woodsmen marvelled that there were any survivors In the freezing temperatures. Snow squalls have prevailed in the area since Tuesday morning when the plane, piloted by Capt. Peter Carey, of Swampscott, Mass., took off from Laconia, N. H„ on the last leg of a flight from Boston to Berlin. ‘ » Red Bloc Nations Adopt Declaration Single Command Os All Armed Forces MOSCOW (INS)**— The eightnation East European Communist security conference ended today with a joint signed declaration calling for organizing armed forces under a single Command. This was the Moscow conference’s answer to the western allied intention to ratify the Paris agreements calling for a rearmed West Germany within western defenses. The ten-minute signature ceremony occurred at 5 p.m. (10 a m EST) in the Kremlin, and the dec laration was 17 pages. Czechoslovakian Premier Viliam Siroky in a final speech at the four-day conference said: "The participants with all firmness state their unshakeable determination in case of ratification of the Paris agreements to implement immediately joint meas ures in the field of organization of their armed forces and their command and other measures necessary to reinforce their defensive capacity." West European nations and United States declined to attend the conference which began Monday, but have not ruled out the possibility, of an all-European security conference some day after the Paris agreements are ratified. The Paris agreements, to which Russia and other east European nations object bitterly, call for controlled West German rearmament under a Western European Union and the larger western defense organization, the North Atlantic treaty organization. (Editor’s note: Russia already has a web of mutual security alliances with various satellite states in eastern Europe. Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky, head of (Ooottnued en Page Five)

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Pope Pius XII Reported As Seriously 111 Pope Unconscious Several Minutes, Condition Worsens VATICAN CITY (INS) — Ailing Pope Pius XII lost consciousness for several minutes late this afternoon. The Pope was brought back to consciousness by his physicians, who 'administered an injection. Agence France Presse said Vatican officials feared a dangerous weakening of the PopeCs heart. Vatican informants said that his condition has taken a turn for the worse with a serious recurrence of vomiting and hiccoughing. Early tonight the Pope’s nephew, Prince Carlo Paceili, and a lifelong friend, Count Enrico Galeazzi, who is a half-brother of the Pope’s personal physician, were summoned to the papal apartment. The Vatican secretariat of state, whose offices are close to the' Pope’s apartment, was fully manned long after normal closing time.' The informants said the Pope's personal physician. Dr, Riccardo. Galeazzi-Lisi, was in constant at* tendance to the 78-year-old H was learned that the Pope was having difficulty getting the needed rest to regain his strength because of the gastritis attacks that so weakened him last winter. The Pope, who was ordered to take an absolute rest when he returned during the week-end from his summer palace outside Rome, had" been reported improving in the last 24 hours. But informants Said that the recurrence of his illness occurred after the physician had permitted him to take a short walk through the private apartment on the fourth floor of the Vatican palace'. There have been conflicting reports all week about the pontiff.' Who Obvioffsly has been - greatly fatigued by a heavy work schedule which he has been reluctant to relinquish since last winter. Official informants have stressed all week that there is no cause for alarm and that the current djktress of the Pope is less serious than the original attacks. $ ■ Contracts Awarded By Commissioners Printing, Highway Contracts Awarded Haywood Publishing Company of Lafayette was awarded the 1955 contract on printing and office materials for the county offices at a meeting of the county commissioners Wedne«dty afternoon. Haywood, the only bidder, holds the present contract. The commissioners are meeting today to award contracts for the highway department and others. Highway department contracts awarded during'this morning and early afternoon session included the stone contract to Meshberger Bros, and the J. W. Karch Qo„ both of Adams county. The Meshberger company was also awarded the.coqixact for oil ■and bituminous road binding materials. Contract for bridge planks went to Yoder Sawmill. Pearl Oil Co. of Berne received the sixmonths contract for gas. D. A. Lubricant Co. of Indianapolis was low bidder among seven on the oil contract which was awarded to the company. Phillips Petroleum Co. was given the contract for grease. ' The contract for tires for the highway department was given to Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., low bidder among three. Grader blades will be purchased from the American Steel and Supply Co. of Fort Wayne, which also received the contract on calcium chloride. (Continued on Page Five)

|anta Claus Comes To City Saturday Court House Lobby Is Scene Os Visit . Santa Claus will arrive in Decatur Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock. and will be in the lobby of the court house until 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and from 7 o’clock until 8 o’clock Saturday night, it was announced today by - the retail division of the Decatur i Chamber of Commerce. • ' All children of Decatur and the Decatur trading area are invited i to visit the court house and re- , ceive a candy treat from Santa. The welcome 'visitor will arrive ■ by automobile and will leave his i car in front of the court house, escorted by members of the retail i committee, and will establish Sati urday headquarters in Decatur, i Decatur retail stores will remain open each Thursday afternoon during December until regular , closing hours, it was announced. ■ They also will remain open 'each i Wednesday night until Christmas i until 9 o’clock. Starting December 13,' retail stores will remain open every , night until 9 o’clock to accomor date Christmas shoppers who do ■ not have an opportunity to shop . during the regular day hours, it i was announced by the committee, i . ....... I-. Quick Senate Approval Seen On China Pact I Would Send Forces In Action In Event Formosa Attacked • WASHINGTON (INS) — Quick senate approval seemed assured today for the treaty which will al- ■ most automatically send American ships and planes bombarding Red ■ China if the Communists try to 1 capture Formosa. Unanimous approval was exI pressed by top Democratic and ! Republican senators who said they wore filled in on the treaty de- ’ tails well before they were made public Wednesday afternoon by secretary of state John Foster Dulles. In announcing the treaty Dulles said it was highly probable that the U.S. will strike back at China herself if the Reds attack Formosa. He also left the door open for a U. 8. naval or air blockade of the China coast to try to force Peiping, to release 13 Americans Jailed on "trumped up" charges of spying if peaceful pressures fail to bring their release. The secretary added, however, that he was confident the men could be freed without a Blockade. Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland, who has opposed the Eisenhower administra--1 tion by demanding blockade, said Wednesday night he expects the senate to ratify the treaty shortly 1 after the new session begins in 1 January. 1 Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) who is to be chairman of the for- • eign relations committee |f — as expected—the Democrats organize 1 the senate, said the treaty was 1 of extreme Im-porjars-e because It ‘ Win let all Aslan nations know 1 just where the V. S. stands In the 1 Far East. Dulles was. surprisingly frank at his afternoon news conference - Wednesday in setting forth Just r what the treaty will mean. i In effect, he once again enuncii ated "massive retaliation” as a ■ cornerstone of American * policy, although he steered clear of the > phrase which raised such a storm > of controversy last winter. , In explaining "retaliation.” Dul- ■ lee said: J *it is a retaliation of ) sufficient severity to make it dead f that the aggressor cannot gain by I bis attack more than he loses. I think that is the Important prtncb pie to establish."

Mayors Warned By Eisenhower On Atom War Says Major Cities Front Line In Any Atomic Warfare WASHINGTON (INS) —Presi-, dent Eisenhower said today that the appalling destructive force of the atom W'ould place the nation's major cities in the “front line” of an atomic war. The chief executive addressed some 240 mayors invited to Wash' ingtou for a briefing on national problems, with the accent on* national security against the threat of a Soviet H-bomb attack. The mayors are to be briefed later by a team of top administration officials, including secretary of state John Foster Dulles. Mr. Eisenhower warned the mayors that “some of the modern weapons of war are capable of destruction to appall the imagination." This, he said, Increases the necessity of dose coordination between the federal government and the cities which would bear the brunt of an attack, launched by Communist planes carrying atomic destrprilon. ...Gen. B. W. Chidlgw, commander •as the rontlnental air defence, told the mayors that the outbreak of gjobal War could mean ”100 pinpointed minutes of atomic hell on earth” for the nation's largest cities. He declared that if war occurs, the U. S. will be attacked before any of its allies are hit and declared that a sneak Communist attack would most likely come only after this country had been lulled into a false sense of security. Chidlaw asserted: "The greatest threat to the physical security of : the United. States and your city is . the combination of the Soviet Un- . ion's long-range air force and-thelr i .stockpile .of. weapons of mass deI strucfion." ■ ■ • The President said local governments typify a concept in which ■ he fervently beHeves-“decentrali-ration.” He warned against the concen- ■ tration of too much authority in i the federal government, quoting ’ the statement that "decentraliia- ■ tion is the refuge of fear." Mr. Elsenhower said the national i and local governments must work together to solve such problems as education, crime prevention, jt/nvenile delinquency and betterment of the nation’s health. The chief executive expressed ' hope that the current conference wifi produce "some clearer underi standing of democracy, which is i the solution of group problems by (Continued on Page Five) Heart Attack Fatal To Florida Solon ! Rep. Dwight Rogers Dies After Speech i FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (INS) — U. 8. Representative . Dwight*’ Rogers (D-Fla.) died i Wednesday night after suffering . a heart attack at a Junior chamber i of commerce meeting in Fort I,auderdale. The 68-yearol<r congressman i had delivered a speech to the group and was still on the platform when he was stricken. ) He died an hour later at North i Broward General hospital. Rogers, in his sixth term as . congressman from Florida's sixth t district, had not been ill before , the attack. ’ > He w-as born In Reidsville, Ga., i and studied law at Mercer university. He practiced law In Georgia 1 from 1910 until 1926 when he I moved to Fort Lauderdale. He ' was senior member of the firm of I Rogers, Morris and Griffis. Surviving are bis wife. Florence, and three sons.

Lively Convicted For Hotel Murder Life Sentence For Indianapolis Killer INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Victor Hale Lively was found guilty early today of the dreser drawer murder of 18-year-old Dorothy Poore in Indianapolis and was sentenced •to life in prison. •A jury of 11 men and one woman returned the verdict after de- ’ liberating more than nine hours at the Marion county courthouse. The jury recommended the life •sentence after hearing final instructions from Judge Saul Rabb. The judge, upon hearing the Jury's recommendation, sentenced Lively and ordered that he be .sent to the Indiana state prison.. at. Michigan City. Lively, inoictea on three counts of first degree murder, was found guilty of the third count-murder during perpetration of a felony. Lively, who had Joked with officers on the way io the court room, brokedown and cried on the shoulder of his attorney. Ferninand Samper,after hearing the verdict. Ironically, the verdict came on the 13th day of the hearing. The state had asked the death sentence for the 25-year-old itinerant salesman from* Beaumont. Tex., while the defense demanded an acquittal. Dorothy’s half-nude'" body was found last July It -Ruffed into a Greaser " drawer m 1 ndianapol is' Claypool hotel. The state charged Lively lured the pretty girl into his room on the pretext of giving her a Job and then killed her when she fought his advances. , Dorothy, a recent high school graduate, had come to Indianapolis from Clinton, Ind., to look for a secretarial job. Lively had testified during the trial he didn't remember the four different statements he signed ad- ’ milting strangling the girl. - The confessions were admitted as evidence against the defendant. Donate 550 Gifts To Mental Patients $108.50 In Cash Is Also Donated Here About 550 gifts and >108.50 in cash have been received from all parts of Adams county for the Christmas gift program of the Indiana association for mental health, Mrs. Harry Raudenbush, county chairman, stated today. Decatur reported a total of 275 gifts which were collected at the county extension office. Mrs. Ixiwell Harper was chairman of the Decatur drive. Berne reported about- 200 gifts received, while Geneva reported GO and Monroe. 25. It is hoped by the association that each of tbe 18,000 mental patients in the state will get at least two presents this year, as many of them never see a visitor or have any contact with the outside world. Last year 30,000 presents were collected in the state. Adams county’s effort this year represents better than onefiftieth of tbe whole contribution, considerably more than its per capita or county unit share, based on last year's contributions. Gifts will now be divided into men's gifts and women’s gifts before being taken to the central collecting spot. Also, the money collected will be spent on suitable gifts for the patients. Young Boy Killed By Father's Truck CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind. (INS) —Three-year-old William Edward Merrill was killed Wednesday when he darted from between parked cars and fell beneath the rear wheels of a pickup truck driven by his father, William Merrill. Tbe accident occurred at the Merrill farm eight miles north of Crawfordsville.

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Committee In Withdrawal Os Abuse Charge Proposes Revising Count; McCarthy Loses First Vote WASHINGTON (INS) - The special senate committee today withdrew its recommendation for formal censure of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for “abuse” of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. However, it proposed revising this count to provide that the senate "disavows and condemns the denunciation” of Zwicker by McCarthy. Eliminated from the original count would be the words “ . , . and censures him for that action.” Thus, it would condemn McCarthy's conduct without censuring him personally for it. The Zwicker charge is one of two remaining censure charges against McCarthy, the other being that he attacked tbe special senate committee which recommended his censure. The senate voted, 67 to 20, Wednesday to censure McCarthy on the first count against him —that e was contemtuous toward a senate group which investigated his finances ip 1Q62., . . WJP leader William F. Knowland and Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson predicted that the senate would reach a final vote on the McCarthy issue today and adjourn early tonight. Knowland, who voted against the first count, declined to say how he would stand on the remaining two censure proposals. But he told newsmen he does not think his support of McCarthy Wednesday puts him at odds with the administration. He said: *T think it is accurate to say that it has always been made clear that they .the White House) thought it was a senate problem and the expcMiye branch should not interfere?' ' Knowland said he thought it "a fair estimate" that the special senate censure session would adjourn for the year about 6 or 7 p. m„ today. The GOP leader was asked about his reaction to the fact that while he is the majority leader, the bulk of his own party voted opposite to him and for censure on Wednesday. He replied that the censure issue has never been considered a party matter. He said: "I don't believe it is a matter of party determination but something for each individual senator to determine for himself." The. Wisconsin Republican’s colleagues voted Wednesday night to formally rebuke him for "contempt" of a subcommittee which investigated his finances in 1952. McCarthy said it "came as no surprise" to him, vowed to continue operating "roughly in the same fashion" as before, and added that he will resume hearings Monday on Communist infiltration of defense plants. He told newsmen: “I don’t think that the American people are at all fooled. They know that I'm being censured because I dared to expose Communism and treason in government." On reconvening at 10 a. m. (EST), the senate was to be faced with two further censure counts - both ifestined for hot opposition from McCarthy supporters. These would rebuke McCarthy for: 1. Alleged “abuse" of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker in questioning him about the promotion and honorable discharge of accused “fifth amendment Communist” Maj. Irving Peress. 2. Attacking a special committee headed by Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah), and particularly abusing its chairman, after they recommended censure of McCarthy on the foregoing counts. McCarthy supporters forecast (Oon tinned on Par* Five) 12 Pages