Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 290, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1954 — Page 1

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Red China In Accusation At United States Chinese Reds Warn k Ruthless Blows To Be Aimed At U. S. TOKYO (INS) — Communist China accused the United States today of inheriting the Japanese role as “militarist expansionists" in Asia, and warned that Formosa would be taken and America .(lealt "ruthless bows ' if she tried to interfere. The blunt Communist warning was made in an editorial of the Peking People’s Daily, official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, and was broadcast by radio Peiping. — The editorial, amplifying the threats of Red China’s’ Premier and Foreign Minister Chou En-Lai, stated: "The Chinese people will carry through their just struggle for the liberation of Tatway Formosa. "If the American aggressors insist on imposing was on the Chinese people, they will be dealt ruthless blows." The Communist editorial, supporting in full the new , Red Chinese Hue. sought to equate the V. 8. alliance with Nationalist China with Japanese actions in China before World War Two. "The Chinese people who refused to allow the Japanese militarists to occupy Mukden in Manchuria then, "the editorial said, "will not allow the American aggressors to occupy Taiwan now,” The Communist Party newspaper said the U. S. promise to defend Formosa against possible Red attacks meant "occupation" of the Nationalist island. America was blamed for al) world tension. Peiping radio stated: “Tension in the world today is caused by nothing less than the war policy frantically carried out in recent years by the U. S. aggressive clique in Asia, Europe and everywhere in the world." In stressing its warnings to America, the Peking People's Daily indicated a possibility of a diplomatic offensive to force the U. 8. from the Formosa area bef&re at tempting military action. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder tonight. Saturday Increasing cloudiness and a little warmer, followed by rain south and rain or snow north In afternoon or evening. Low tonight 12-20. High Saturday 35-40 north, 40-45 south, l/kWPPiNcy] 'dy r

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762 Packages To Mental Patients More Than 2,000 Articles Donated A total of 762 packages, containing over 2,000 separate articles, has been donated by Adams county people for the Christmas present project of the,. Indiana association for mental health. Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, chairmah of the county chapter, and Mrs. Harry Raudenbush, drive chairman, said today. A group of ladies frpm the Adams county organization spent Thursday sorting the gaily decorated packages, and placing them in boxes for delivery to the Fort Wayne training school. Each gift is tagged so that psychiatric personnel will be able to select the right gift tor thb right person. A total of $136.75 was also collected in the county, and this provided 101 Christmas packages, some of them containing three or four separate gifts. "On behalf of the county committee, I would like to thank all those who helped with gifts or work in this drive”, Mrs. Raudenbush said. "When you consider that one out of five families at some time or another will have somebody in a state institution, you can well understand that it is patients from our own county that we are remembering at Christmas. All of us who worked on the Christmas project this ygjir feel that this will be a truly Merry Christmas for those we have remembered.” - Members of the gift committee who worked at the Farm Bureau office in Monroe yesterday included Mrs. Lowell Harper. Mrs. Ralph Gentis, and Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, of Decatur; Mrs. Ralph Johnson, Mrs. Frema Habegger. Mrs. Lillian Steiner, Mrs. Paul Lobsiger, and Mrs. Harry Raudenbush, of 'Monrqe; Mrs. Ernest Lehman, Mrs. Lester Sipe, and Mrs. Forrest Tucker, of Berne; and Mrs. Charles Wetkel, of Linn Grove. Among the many organizations whose members helped' make this drive a success were: from Decatur. Trinity E.U.B. church; Bethany Circle E. U. B. church; byterian church; St. Mary’s tiJwm ship Farm Bureau; Root township home demonstration club; Bethany E.U.B. church; Young adults class of E.U.B. church; Tri Kappa Sorority, active and associate chapters; Delta Theta Tau sorority; Adams county nurses association; Rose garden club; Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Delta Lambda chapter; Rotary club; Kum-Join-Us class of Bethany E. U. B. church; Preble home demonstration club; Psi lota Xi, active end hofiorary chapters; Women's association of Trinity E.U.8.; Union township Farm Bureau; Union township women’s club; Adams county rural youth; Dutiful daughters class, fiethany E.U.B. church. From Monroe, Blue Creek township Farm Bureau and the pnion U. B. - — ' From Berne, Women's Missionary Society ’of Calvary Bible church; men’s fellowship of Calvary Bible church; Swiss Village home demonstration club; Mt. Hope Nazarene Sunday school?Women’s Guild of the Reformed church ; v and Business Women’s club. Geneva. Llmberlost home demonstration club; Mothers study club; Nazarena church, W.S.C.B. of Methodist church; E.U.B. Sunday school; Wabash township (Continued on t-agn Five)

Committee Os French Assembly Favors Accords Three-Day Debate In Assembly Slated To Open December 20 PARIS (INS)—The French national assembly's foreign affairs committee recommended today ratification of the Paris accords on West German rearmaments and the "Europeanization” of the Saar territory. . At the same time, the chairmen of all assembly committees confirmed that a three-day debate on the ratification would begin Dec. 20. ' * . * •«- While the development was not expected, it underlined the opinion in Paris that the latest Soviet note warning against ratification would fall to prevent it. Almost simultaneously in Bonn, the West German Bundesrat approved the accord creating WEU on its first reading. But the upper house of parliament failed to take a decision on the iSaar agreement. The action in the West German capital came under the shadow of a political setback to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bavaria which eventually could upset his tworthirds majority in the upper house. The committee took three separate votes on the treaties involved. approving the creation of the Western European Union, which would include a German national army, by a vote of 16 to 15, with 11 abstentions. The slim margin for unconditional ratification of the WEU pact indicated that Premier Pierre Mendes-France might have difficulty getting national assembly support for the treaty without attaching some conditions. The premier was reported confident, however, he could secure unconditional ratification after the withdrawal in the committee Tuesday of a Gaullist proposal to bub pend implementation of the treaty tor three months to permit new east-west negotiations. As an intended aid to Mendes France in securing ratification, the U. S. government was under stood to have given him assur ances that it would strongly sup port his plan for an armaments production pool within WEU. Such a pool would give additional international control over German armament. According to reliable sources, those assurances were given the premier by U. 8. Ambassador C. Douglas Dillon when they conferred last Wednesday night. The U. S. was said also to have promised to consider sympathetically—and in most cases accept the recommendations of the WEU council concerning aid among the seven members of the alliance. The committee's other votes ap proved: 1. Restoration of West German sovereignty. 24 to 15, with three abstentions. 2. The agreement on the future status of the Saar territory, 24 to 6, with 12 Abstentions. The Bavarian setback to Adenauer, who is determined to bring the Federal republic into the Atlantic alliance, was the signing of a preliminary coalition deal among the opposition Social Democrats and three smaller right wing parties which would exclude the chan(Continued on Page Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, December 10, 1954.

UN Assembly Speeds Toward Condemning Red China Violation

Sam Sheppard Denies Killing Wife Marilyn Says Accusation Os Slaying Wife False On Witness Stand CLEVELAND (INS)—In a low, firm Voice, Dr. Sam Sheppard declared today he was not the killer of his pregnant wife, Marilyn. “The accusation of murder is false," roared chief defense counsel William Corrigan. "That’s right,” replied the babyfaced defendant, who the state of Ohio is trying to send to the electric chair for the July 4th bludgeon murder. Earlier, in almost painful tones, the osteopath related how a large bushy-haired form slaughtered the attractive mother-to-be and knocked him out in two battles. The accused wife-killer spoke in a casual voice as he testified about his first encounter with the whitefronted form. But he hesitated and stuttered when he mentioned “Marilyn” for the first time and declared “she was badly beaten and F felt she was gone.” The handsome osteopath said the form clobbered him from behind in the upstairs bedroom of his Bay Village home where Mbs. Sheppard was clubbed to death with 35 savage blows. Before starting his story of the morning of July 4th. Dr. Sam declared he had "an extreme haziness” about recollecting the events. Dr. Sam said he was clobbered from behind when he rushed to his wife’s aid after hearing her scream. When he came to, he related, he chased the large bushyhaired silhouette to the beach. There another struggle Occurred, he declared, and he again was knocked out. When chief defense counsel William Corrigan asked him to tell his story “in your own words," Dr. Sam replied: “The first thing I can recall was hearing Marilyn cry out my name once or twice, which was followed by loud moans and noises of some sort. I was awakened by her cries. My drowsy recollection was stimulated to go to Marilyn, which I did as soon as I could navigate.” Q. Did you have a thought at that time about what made her cry out? A. “My nrst thought was that she was experiencing a convulsion. "As I went up the stairs and into the room I felt I could visualOContinued on Page Four) 11 th Fire Death At Indianapolis Today ~ Lady 11th Victim In Last 14 Days INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indianapols tallied its 11th tire death in 14 days when a fatal blaze claimed the life of 32-year-old Irehe Elliott. The body of Miss Elliott was found in her locked apartment which was partially destroyed by fire. Her body, burned on the head and arms, was behind the front door. The fire had originated In the kitchen, which was damaged severely. •»»»... Firemen believe that something caused the fire in the kerosene stove to flare up, and that the burned woman ran for the front door, then collapsed. The two cooking utensils on the stove were so badly burned they could not determine if grease might have been in one of them, Miss Elliott worked as a bus girl at the snack bar of the Indiana University- medical center's student union building. In addition to the fire which cost the life of Miss Elliott Thursday, Indianapolis has had two home fires which killed four persons each, and one which killed two children. . i - „

Navy Moving More Strength To West 34 Warships, 8,000 Men To West Coast WASHINGTON (JNS) — The navy announced today that it is transferring 34 warships and 8,000 men and their families from the Atlantic command to the Pacific theater. The navy called its order ”apertftion welfare”, emphasized that it was providing everything from baby sitters to special trains for families and declared emphatically that the shift of warships had “no military significance.” it was noted, however, that the decision upsets, the usual navy peacetime policy of dividing its forces equally between the two oceans. The transfer came while Chinese • Communists were making new threats in an effort to get the U. S. to remove its fleet guarding Formosa. Red Chinese Premier Chou EnLai hinted the U. S. would suffer "grave consequences" if the guardforce were not removed. The warships being transferred to the Pacific are the 45,000-ton aircraft carrier Midway, two cruisers, 16 destroyers and and 15 amphibious ships, Ten of the vessels have already left east coast ports for the west coast and- the others will follow soon after Jan. 1. Presumably, the navy order was occasioned by the menacing situation in the Far East — which is now' being accepted as permanent. The navy said the movement at families is from the Norfolk, Va„ and Boston-Newport areas to the ships' new home ports at San Diego and Long Beach, Calif. The announcement said special transfer arrangements will cost no more than individual travel. The announcement, pointing up benefits for personnel, said: "Under current plans, participating dependents will be transported to the west coast by special trains, with such added extras as medical attendants,, movies, games, lounge spaces and facilities for feeding children of various ages. "On arrival on the west coasts special services will include baby sitting, temporary housing and storage, and assistance in enrolling children in schools and in locating permanent housing.” Children To Attend Life Os Christ Film Showing For Adults Here Monday Night Every child in the Decatur schools will be the guest of Decatur businessmen and the city police at a special showing of the technicolor motion picture of the life of Christ, based on the original Oberammergau passion play, next Monday. The movie will be shown for adults, at 8 p.m. Monday in the high school auditorium, and tickets are now available from any of the city pqlice. The movie is nonsectarian, and is considered to be the best film of its type available in the field of religious education. The Decatur police contracted for the showing of the passion play as a combined public service and fund raising project for their charitable activities. In the process, an advance sale ofUcomplimentary tickets for children of school age was solicited by telephone from the city’s businessmen. This sale was large enough to guarantee every child of school age in Decatur of seeing the movie. The schools have offered their cooperation by arranging for the dißinisnal of school for the show, which will be held at 2:15 o'clock Monday afternoon for the children. , The showing of the film has met with great success in other communities. and it is only sponsored by civic organizations, such as police and firemen's associations and service clubs.

Dies Today HF ’Si HL Mrs. Catherine Lose Mrs. Charles Lose Dies This Morning Prominent Decatur Woman Dies Today Mrs. Catherine Louise Lose, 68, 615 Mercer avenue, prominently known Decatur lady and wife of Charles C. Lose, died at 6; 10 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospitaU following an illness of three months of complications. Mrs. Lose had been highly active in civic, social and political activities in Decatur, Adams county and the fourth district for many years. Rhe had served as vice chairman of the Adams county Democratic central committee, was a former president of the Adams county Democratic Women’s club, a charter member of the Jefferson club, and had held offices in the local and district organizations of the ladies auxiliary of the American Legion. Mrs. Lose also served several years ago as manager of the Decatur auto license bureau. Mrs. Lose was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Rosary society of the church. sbe was born in Celina. 0., Jan. 24, 1886, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kriegel, and was married to Charles C. Lose, well known Decatur barber, in 1913. Surviving are her husband; one daughter, Mrs. Loretta Eichhorn of Decatur; three sons, Carl and Norbert Lose, both of Decatur, and Edward Lose of Cincinnati, O.; seven grandchildren; three brothers, Carl and Raymond Kriegel of Lima, 0., and Frank Kriegel of Gallon, 0., and one sister, Mrs. Margaret Braun of Decatur, One son, Johnny, and a sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 3 p.m. Saturday until time of the services. The Rosary society will meet at the funeral home at 8 p. m. Sunday to recite the rosary. Hospital Chaplain Is Rotary Speaker The Rev. W. P. Schnedler, chaplain of the Fdrt Wayne Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne for the past three years, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary Club Thursday evening. Rev. Schnedler, who served Lutheran pastorates in Huntington and the state of Washington before entering the army as a chaprain, discussed the duties of a hospital chaplain and of the need of cooperation among all hospital chaplain and of the need of cooperation among all hospital attaches and physicians. E W. Lankenau was chairman of the program. Gene Rydell, club president, announced that the club will observe ladles night next Thursday.

Attempt To Double Reds' Prison Terms First Red Released Faces Second Trial WASHINGTON (INS) —The Eisenhower administration took the first step today in an apparent attempt to double the prison tertps of top U. S. Communist leaders who were the first convicted under the Smith act. This became known when officials at the ( federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan.,* released one of the first eleven and immediately handed him over to U. S. marshals pending a second trial on related charges. The prisoner was Irving Potash, one of the original 11 top-flight Red party leaders convicted in New York in 1949, who was released on good behavior in advance of the expiration of his fiveyear prison term. Potash and the others were convicted for teaching and advocating forcible overthrow of the U. S. government in the lengthy and historic trial presided over by Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, now a second circuit court of appeals judge. Since then, 39 other Reds have been convicted and several more indicted. However, since the New York case was the first to be brought before a grand jury, the original il were also indicted on anoth^ - section of the Smith act “just in case.” That part of the law makes it a crime to be a member of an organisation which plots the overthrow of the government. Justice department officials maintain that the indictment on the other section of the law still stands and that the original “top. 11," the only ones to which this applies, can be tried on the second charge when they are released from prison. Now, the government is using the "membership” clause only to pick up underground Red leaders. A high justice department source said “it can be assumed" that the action to be taken against Potash will also extend to the other Communists Convicted at the same trial, 56 Are Enrolled In Auction School Closing Session Os School Next Friday A total of 56 students are attending the current three week session of the Reppert school of auctioneering, which will end Friday, Dec. 17. Twenty-five states and one Canadian province are represented. The students in addition to regular classes have attended and participated in several auctions. They have visited public auctions at Fort tßiecovery, O. f Van Wert, 0., and near Bryant. Saturday at 2 p.m. and at 8 p.m. the student auctioneers will conduct a charity sale for Psi lota Xi sorority, The auction will be held in the old Firestone building at the corner of Third and Monroe streets: Attending this session are Herbert Albrecht, Pigeon, Mich.; Theodore Augustine, Salina,-Kan.; Seymour Barris, Irgington, N. J.; Everett Booth, Brunswick, Oa.; Hubert C. Bell, Fieldon, III.; Joe O. Bushong, Falrfied, III.; Hubert Carey, Rose Hill, Ky.; Billy Don Carr, Bethpage, Tenn.; Robert Conkel, Celina, O.; S. C. Copeland, Mobile, Ala. Henry D. Darnell, Cynthiana, Ky.; B. L. Demmitt, New Carlisle, O.; Floyd A. Demmitt, Jr., New Carlisle, O.; Bruce Flora, Idaho Falls, la.; John F. French, Com cord, N. H.; A. J. Frenier, Andover, O.; Paul L. Glackin, Bel Air, Md.f Donald A. Graham, Springfield, Ky.; Lowell Hagedorn, Spencer, la.; DaleyHanshew, Noblesville: John Cr'HerremanS, Walkerville, Mich.; Raymond W. Huber, Montpelier, O.; Richard D. Humphrey, Lakeville. O.; G. Jennings (Continued on Pago Five)

Leaders Brush Off Defiance By Red China Soviet Filibuster * Seeking To Block Red Condemnation UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) -qJN assembly leaders brushed Communist defiance today art# sped toward'overwhelming approval of a condemnation of Red China for violating the Korean truce by the imprisonment of 11 American flyers. A spokesman for British minister of state Anthony Nutting said that Peiping broadcasts — echoed by Soviet bloc speakers in th,e UN — against yielding by Red China to forthcoming UN demands will not deter the assembly from firm action. The 60 — nation forum resumed final debate on the resolution of the 16 Korean allies at 10:55 a. tn. (BST) after withstanding Thursday night one of the most concerted Soviet bloc filibusters experienced in the cold war. The filibuster, led by Russia's Jacob Malik, seeks to block the condemnation and censure of Red China for violating the Korean armistice. The censure resolution demands release of the American airmen-as well as all UN personi hel held prisoners since the Korean war by the Communists, Angry and scowling, Malik delivered a 90-mlnute attack on /he U. S. and her Korean allies. He charged that the 11 members of the U. 3. air force had "contesed to espionage," and he condemned the U. S. for trying to "palm them off to us here as UN personnel." Then, serving notice that he Would speak again before the balloting, Malik sent the satellite delegates from Poland, the Ukraine, and Czechoslovakia to the rostrum. U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Britain's Anthony Nutting, Australia's Sir Percy Spender and France’s Henri Hoppenot headed an impressive list of western delegates who laehed back at the Communist bloc speakers and Red China for "mocking human suffering” and trampling on the terms of the truce. The anger that marked the plenary session of the assembly also was found in Thursday’s meeting of the special political committee. It was set off by the introduction of a Soviet resolution asking the UN to condemn the U. S. for “acts of aggression” against Red China. American delegate C. D. Jackson branded the charges as false propaganda and said they might ■be part of a cover-up for Red "Intentions to commit or push-button further aggressions in the Far East.” At the plenary session, Lodge singled out Malik's repeated allegations of espionage by the Imprisoned Americans and said: "The Soviet representative talked for an hour in the subject of American espionage. I could talk for more than an hour on the sul>ject of Soviet espionage. It is a subject on which Urge amounts of money and thought have been devoted in the Soviet Union." Spender struck the same keynote. He pointed out that his government presently was engaged in investigating espionage activities directed by the Soviet embassy in the Australian capital. He emphasized that Soviet espionage activities are worldwide, and » ■ (Continued on Page Five) ■ One Man Killed In - Two-Truck Collision hInNA, Ind. (INS) — Dennie Varga, of Chicago, was killed in a two-truck collision along U. 8. 30 three miles east of Hanna today. Varga's truck slid off the road and the cab was crushed by the trailer when berried to avoid a collision with a truck driven by Robert L. Gulick, 86, of Peoria, ill. Gulick’s truck had slid on icy pavement and jackknifed in front of Varga.

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