Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1955 — Page 1

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News From Red China IhSJSm RETURNED from his "Mission to Peiping" U. N. Secretory General Dag Hammarskjold is surrounded by some of the 200 newsmen who covered his first news conference on his discussions with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai. Hammarskjold reported “no deals of any kind" but an “opening of the door” which be said could be kept open for further discussions.

Legislature Delays Action On Toll Roads Action On Hottest Problem Os Session Delayed By Senate INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana lawmakers were back at their homes today jingling lots of salary cash but worrying about redhot issues to come. The legislators, in week-end recess today, were paid S6OO each just before they went home. They will receive another S6OO in February. When they come back Monday they will consider a senate bill to hike their pay another S6OO a year. They also may vote themselves a per diem, perhaps ranging from sls to SBS a day. Their salaries are $1,200 a year, regardless of whether the general assembly ia in session. They also are paid mileage fees of 20 cento per mile for one trip to and from Indianapolis. - Many of the hottest issues of Uie session were introduced into the form of bills during the first actual wording week of the session. A decision on the warmest problem of the session has been delayed until Governor George N. Craig returns from a trip to Washington week after next. The senate roads committee has agreed to defer a decision on the bill to hamstring the Indiana toll road commission until the governor brings back information from President Eisenhower and others as to whether Indiana will have the big St. Lawrence Waterways port on Lake Michigan. This measure would force legislative approval of each toll road project and stipulate that a pay road must begin at one state boundary and end at another, thereby outlawing the proposed north-south road. Other super-heated bills already introluced are: The 1956 voters’ referendum on eastern standard time. Letting youngsters 19 years of age or older vote. The home-rule amendment to the constitution permitting cities and towns to choose their own forms of government. A resolution urging the federal government to cancel its gasoline tax. • Repeal of the merit system for all state workers except state policemen, conservation officers and highway department technicians. Making life imprisonment the penalty for repeat violators of the narcoticsacL —- Returning sl4 million from the general fund to the highway fund. This sum of money has been diverted from roads in past years. Increasing by SI,OOO the gross income tax exemption for persons 65 years old or older. Appropriating $5,000,000 for a state veterinary school at Purdue (Continued on Page Five) Band Booster Fund Previously reported $512.47 Mr. and Mrs. Bob Zwick— 10.00 A Booster .... 2.00 $524.47 Contributions can be made by sending -..any amount to Band Booster fund, care of Hugh J, Andrews, principal of Decatur high school. All money received will go toward the purchase of new unl ; forms for the Decatur high school band.

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Senate Democrats Shrug Off McCarthy Wisconsin Senator Makes New Attack WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate Democrats shrugged off Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy's latest attack today by saying their party’s record in fighting Communism "will speak for Itself” in 1955. Sen. Russell Long (D-La.) who tangled with the Wisconsin Republican Friday, told newsmen: “There is a determination among the Democratic leaders to expose Communism wherever it might be.” Long was presiding over the Senate Friday when McCarthy charged that “some” Democrats who co-sponsored a resolution for continued investigations of Communism were "trying to get some dirt off their hands.”

The Louisiana Democrat ordered McCarthy to take his seat but this was overruled unanimously by Other senators on the floor. Later, Long and McCarthy left the chamber together, smiling, after a mild debate on the matter. In assailing "some” of the 55 sponsors of the resolution. McCarthy—a co-sponsor himself—said he would wait with interest to see the extent to which the Democrats chrry it out. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) McCarthy's successor as chairman of the senate investigations subcommittee. told reporters. “The record the sqbcommittee will make in the 84th congress, I hope, will be a good one. At any rate, it will speak accurately when it is made."

Meanwhile, McCarthy announced that he had turned over to Gen. Mark W. Clark information on alleged Communist infiltration and corruption in the central intelligence agency. Clark heads a Hoover commission unit assigned by President Eisenhower to study CIA operations after McCarthy announced that his subcommittee was going to investigate th6 hush-hush agency. McCarthy thereupon called off his inquiry and promised to turn over his data. Daring Holdup Nels Three Men $22,900 Stage Daring Raid On Cleveland Bank CLEVELAND (INS) — Baffled Cleveland police were searching today for three bandits who staged a daring holdup at a West Side branch of the Cleveland Trust Company and fled with $22,900. The three masked men, armed with two pistols and a sawed off shotgun, held 54 persons—including 40 customers — at bay late Friday afternoon as they pulled one of the slickest holdups in Cleveland history. One of the men — armed with the shotgun—told the customers not to move or he would blow their heads off. Another turned his attention to the manager while the third scooped up the money. The bandit with the shotgun kept glancing at a stop - watch which led police to believe the bandits had timed the period it would take police to reach the scene after the alarm was turned In. A stolen car used in the getaway was found a few blocks from the bank, but police roadblocks failed to net the daring bandits, who wore handkerchiefs over their faces.

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President Os Panama Ousted After 12 Days Charge Complicity In Remon's Murder To New President PANAMA CITY (INS) — Panama’s president for 12 days, Jose Ramon Guizado, was impeached by the national assembly today and formally arrested for complicity in the machinegun assassination of his predecessor, Jose Antonio Ramon. •' f Authorities said that the Jan. 2 ambush slaying of Rapion was motivated by politics, the desire for more power by those who did it. District prosecutor Francisco Alvarado told the national assembly that the triggerman in the slaying was 4-year-old Üben Iro, an attorney who confessed and implicated President Guizado and Rodolfo Saint Malo, a man prominent iff social and intellectual circles. < Besides President Guizado. the former vice president who automatically moved into the presidency when Remon was shot down, others under arrest were: Jose Ramon Guizado Jr., son of the president; Iro, the lawyer who named Guizado; Saint Malo, a brother of a former director of the National Conservatory. The new president named by the national assembly is Ricardo Arias Espinosa, who was sworn into office at 6 a.m. He is the third president in 12 days. Remon was at the Juan Franco racetrack entertaining some friends when a blast of machinegun fire from the darkness struck him down. He died in a hospital two hours later. * Guizado moved into the presidency. Now that he has been impeached Arias Espinosa, a former second vice-president who had, moved into the first vice-presiden-tial post, takes over. The dramatic developments in the investigation of the slaying began Friday night when Guizgdo was forced from office and put under virtual arrest while authorities urgently summoned a special assembly session. Because of the late hour it was (Continued on Page Five)

Sex And Narcotics Scandal Rocks City Massachusetts City Rocked By Exposure * SOMERVILLE. Mass. (INS) — Somerville rocked today with shocking details of a group of 25 young girls who first organized as a disc jockey club only to turn into a ’teen-age cult which made sex and narcotics the first order of business. Four young girls have been arrested and members of the Somerville police juvenile bureau today are questioning a score of girls and their parents in a probe which has secretly been going on for nearly two weeks. Many more girls, and a number of boys, are scheduled for court appearance. First rule of the club, according to investigators, was that members must be "initiated” by participating in an immoral act with at least one member of a male auxiliary which soon organized. Girls who balked under fire were branded as “unfit” for membership. Lt. Thomas O'Brien, heading the probe with detectives Allen ColHns and James Carrol, uncovered the problem situation after a 14-year-old girl was threatened with violence for “telling tales" about actions of members. As a result, a 17-year-old girl was arrested and charged with astault and threats to do bodily harm. She was bailed in S2OO after Judge Francis Brine continued the case for hearing one week from today. Lt. O’Brien had heard rumors about the young female organization and already had questibned a number of girls and their parents when the first break came. In addition to a.wierd and varied sex program with the male auxiliary, a number of the girls were reported to have tried the milder narcotics. Some tried "goof balls” and others marijuana. — Os prime importance to probers was the sources of the drugs. It was reported that at least one of those arrested had given information which may lead to the suppliers.

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Criticism By Senators Over Dag's Report Eisenhower Pleads For Restraint In Case Os Prisoners WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower's plea for restraint failed today to stem an outburst of bitter congressional criticism of Dag Hapimarskjold’s “first report" on efforts to obtain the release of Americans imprisoned in Red China. The President nimsen confirmed the "disappointment” voiced by congressional leaders but the legislators were more than just disappointed. They indignantly charged that Red China was using “human extortion" to get a seat in the United Nations. Some feared that Secretary-gen-eral Hammarskjold's first statement on his Peiping mission might mean that future negotiations would proceed on that basis. 1 Hammarskjold told a news conference in New York that while he made “no deals of any kind" with Chou En-lai and the Red premier made no formal proposal for release of the U. S. prisoners, "the door has been opened and can be kept open, given restraint on dll sides.” Sen. Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) spoke of possible “independent action" in view of the opening development. He said: •“It’s terribly discouraging. It seems to me that if the UN is to be successful it must become more powerful and more potent with a greater voice than it has displayed at the moment. ’ Otherwise, it seems to me the U. S- must act independently in matters so vital to its interest." Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland (R-Calif.) who previously demanded a blockade of Red China if necessary to free the imprisoned Americans, declined immediate comment He said he wanted to learn more of Hammarskjold’s report — presumably from secretary of state John Foster Dulles — before commenting. Knowland’s attitude apparently was taken out of respect to Mr. Eisenhower’s appeal for restraint. The President said all Americans “must never forget one fundamental thing. We want our airmen returned safely to their homes.” But he later adtied: “It will not be easy for us to (Continued on Page Five)

Mrs. Anna I. Bowen Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs- Anna lona Bowen. 78, died at 12:10 o’clock this morning at her home, 804 Winchester street" Death was attributed to complications. She had been an invalid for several years. ty, 0., Jan. 115, 1876, a daughter of She was born in Van Wert counJohn and Eliza Jane Tyndall-Har-mon. and was married to L. W. Bowen in 1987. Mr. Bowen preceded her in death. Mrs. Bowen was a member of the Wren United Brethren church and was active in church affairs until moving to Decatur 35 years ago. Surviving are a daughter. Mrs. Florence Smitley of Decatur; two grandchildren, the Rev. Lester Smitley of Parkersburg, W. Va.. and Mrs. Paul Zuercher of Berne, and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services, will be conducted at 2 p.tn. Monday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Paul Parker and the Rev. Wllilam C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the mausoleum at Wren. Friends may cal lat the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Opposition Mounts To Stale Sales Tax Opposition Grows More Formidable INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—Formidable opposition developed today to the sales tax bill, scheduled for Introduction in the general assembly next week under authorship of Republican Representative Merrett R. Monks, of W’inchester, and Democratic Representative William F. Condon, of Greentown. The measure would substitute a flat three per cent sales levy for the present gross jpeome tax. All groceries would be exempted from the tax However, a tax would be paid on meals at restaurants and such services as gas, lights, water and various labor services. House ways and means a chairman Laurence D. Baker. Kendallville Republican, said: "I will vote against a sales tax. I campaigned on the promise that I would not support any- bill to raise taxes or vote lor any new ones. I Would get run out of town if I did otherwise.” Anson S. Thomas, legislative representative of the Indiana Farm Bureau, and Carl H. Mullen, president of thg Indiana Federation of Labor, said their respective groups would fight any sales levy with all their resources. Fred Isch Is Named As City Policeman Fred Isch, 1956‘graduate of Decatur high school, has been appointed a member of the Decatur police force on a temporary basis, replacing Raymond Seitz who has been called to the armed forces for two years service. Usch, who is married to the former Nola Lehman of Monmouth, will be 23 years old soon, and is a veteran of two years military duty. He will start effective January 16, the date of Seitz's leave of absence from the force. The appointment was made by Mayor John Doan to keep the police force at its strength of 11 members.

Transport Strike Delayed Six Days New Wage Offer By Philadelphia Co. PHILADELPHIA (INS) —A public transportation strike which would have halted all trolley, bus, subway and elevated service in Philadelphia at midnight was postponed Friday night for six days. The executive board of Local 234 of the ClO-Transport Workers Union voted the postponement to give its members an opportunity to vote secretly next Wednesday on a new wage offer from the Philadelphia Transportation Co. The tentative settlement was announced just four minutes before the Id p. m. negotiating deadline set by the union. The strike itself had been-Scheduled for 12.01 a. m. tBST) today. ■>» Management negotiators made the new offer of five cents an hour, retroactive to last Dec. 16. and an additional two cents payable in January. 1956, at a conference in the office of Major Joseph S. Clark Jr. The offer represents a total hourly wage increase of seven cents across the board for the transit company’s 8,900 operating and maintenance employes. Union bargainers apparently accepted the offer because St substantial fringe” benefits accompanying it. These reportedly im. eluded job security for 2,500 employes who might have been laid off in PTC's proposed conversion to one-man cars. Albert M. Greenfield chairman of tha PTC board oft directors, announced the company would seek a fare boost to pay for the wage increase. He made no mention of the amount that would be sought. NOON EDITION

Probing Team On Inspection In Nicaragua Charges Materiel Os War Shipped Into Costa Rica SAN JOSE, Costo Rica (INS) — An inter-American investigating team prepared to leave San Jose today for an inspection trip to Nicaragua after charging that war materiel had, been sent into besieged Costa Rica from its neighbor to the north. The visit is being made at the request of Nicaragua’s President Anastasio Somoza, who has maintained that the fighting in northern Costa Rica is an internal affair only. \ Despite this claim th^ v investigating team sent to Cosh, Rica by the organization of states charged Friday night, after visits to the besieged areas, that “a substantial part of the war materiel” entering Costa Rica had come across “the northern frontier.” ■ While the report did not mention Nicaragua by name it indicated clearly that the investigators believed the arms had come from Costo Rica's bigger neighbor to the north. The team is expected to spend cne or two days in Nicaragua and then return to Costa Rica for continued observation of the tense situation. Meanwhile Costo Rican government forces continued to advance cautiously today toward the rebelheld areas in the north. The military headquarters in San Jose denied reports that enemy forces had occupied Liberia, capital of the province of Guanacaste on the northwest border. At the same time U. S. navy patrol bombers, flying as OAS observation planes, continued their sweeps over the troubled north Costo Rican area. An apparently hostile plane, flying from the. direction of rebelheld La Cruz, spotted the international patrol planes Friday and roared hastily back in the direction from which it had come. A C-47 transport plane from Ecuador, that nation’s contribution to the International Air Patrol, Is scheduled to arrive in' San Jose today carrying observers of the Ecuador army and air force. Costa Rican military leaders claimed that they had information from Honduras about the leadership of the anti-government forces. (Continued on Page Five)'

Girl Scouts To Aid In Polio Collection Collect Donations At Theater Next Week Girl. Seout troop four 'will assist in the current March of Dimes campaign for the polio fund by collecting donations at the Adams theater during the coming week. The girls who will participate are Barbara Burk and Carol Norquest, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday; Delores Schroeder and Bonnie Hake, 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday; Linda Sexton, Cassie Strickler and Janice Aumann, 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Kay Burk and Delores LongerTjone, 7 to 9 p.m. Monday; Elaine Cochran and Jean Hoffman, 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday; Becky Maddox, Marie Barlett and. Sara Runyon, 6:30 to .9 p,m'. Wednesday. Nancy Helm and Diane Baker, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday; Elizabeth Bodkin, Linda Sexton. Mary Bodie and Janet Foor, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m Thursday; Diane Saver and Barbara Johnson, 7 to '9 p.m. Friday; Elinor Miller and Betty Hauck, 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday; Barbara Burk and Carol Norquest, 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, and Elizabeth Bodkin and Kathy Patrick, 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday.

Dag Hammarskjold Continues Parleys Holds Conference Over Peiping Talks UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —UN secretary general Dag Ham marskjold was slated today to continue a round of conferences with western diplomats on the results of his Peiping talks on freedom for U. S. fliers and other UN soldiers. He was scheduled to meet first with Tingfu F. Tsiang. Nationalist China's chief delegate to UN. Later, he will confer with Indian delegate Arthur S. Lail and Turkish representative Selim Sarper. Other engaments with leading western and Asian representatives were tentatively booked. > On Sunday, the UN chief plans to relax at his country retreat in Brewster, N. Y., and go over reports oiT 'fels mission and public reaction to his statements that he had made progress in his talks in Peiping on the captive prisoners question. Hammarskjold has not revealed yet his next moves following completion of his "first stage” of efforts : Attainment of full and frank discussions with Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai. His next goal Is to draft a report on his mission for distribution to all the 60 UN member states. ( - Meanwhile UN officials were concerned over the initial skeptical response in Washington to Hammarskjold's visit to Peiping. While welcoming President Eisenhower's declaration warning against impetuous words and deeds” and urging continued support of UN efforts to free the jailed fliers, the officials were perturbed by criticism on Capitol Hill that Hammarskjold had failed to get immediate release of the airmen and that Red China was laying down impossible conditions for their return. Sheppard Case To Court Os Appeals May Be Moved To Ohio Penitentiary CLEVELALND (INS) — Convicted wife-killer Dr. Sam Sheppard prepared today to spend what could be his final weekend in Cuyahoga county jail before his transfer to the Ohio penitentiary. If the county court of appeals does not grant a stay of his life sente'nce. the 31-year-old osteopath will be taken to Columbus to begin his term..’ Common Pleas Judge Edward Blythin paved the way for a quick trip to prison for Dr. Sam when he lifted a court order staying the execution of sentence. However, the neurosurgeon, found guilty of second degree murder Dec. 21 for the bludgeon slaying of his wife, Marilyn, will remain at least until the appellate court rules on two motions filed by his attorneys. The lawyers have asked for a stay of execution and bond for Dr. Sam while the case is reviewed by the court of appeals. In ending the stay of execution, Judge Blythin said that he has nothing to do with the case, now that it has been taken to the court of appeals. *. Sheriff Joseph Sweeney said that if the court of appeals turns down the two motions, Dr. Sam will be taken to the penitentiary to begin his life sentence Tuesday or Wednesday. Meanwhile, the father of the convicted slayer, Dr. Richard A. Sheppard, is still in poor condition at suburban Bay View- hospital, suffering from a lung ailment. - INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder tonight except for a few snow flurries close to Lake Michigan. Sunday mostly fair. Low tonight 12-18.

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Four Teams In Race For Nel Championship Monmouth Defeats Pleasant Mills And Adams Central Wins , Geneva vs Decatur Commodores ’at 1 p.m.! Monmouth vs Adams Central at 2:15 p.m.! That was the lineup for this afternoon's semi-final games in the annual Adams county high school tourney at the Adams Central gym, following victories by Monmouth and Adams Central in the final first-round games Friday night. Winners this afternoon will clash at 8:15 o’clock tonight for the county championship, held for the last two years by the Geneva Cardinals. As a preliminary at 7 o’clock this evening, the Monmouth and Berne second teams will battle in the final game of the county second team tourney. The Geneva Cardinals and Decatur Commodores won their way to the semi-finals with? victories Thursday night over Hartford and Berne, respectively. Eagies Triumph The Monmouth Eagles, after a woeful start in which they fell 13 points behind in the first jive min-

utes of play, staged a great comeback to win, going away, oyer the Pleasant Mills Spartans, 63-47. Paul Fuhrman of Monmouth scored? the game's first points with a field goal, but Pleasant Mills then hit 15 points in a row, paced by Leon Byer with nine, and the Spartans looked like they were going to breeze in after only five minutes of play. The Eagles, however, suddenly came to life and scored nine consecutive points to trail by only four, 15-11, at the end of the first quartre. The second quarter was nip and tuck, the lead changing hands seven times and the score tied five times, with Speakman hitting to give the Spartans a 30-28 advantage at the half. Monmouth limited the Spartans to only two field goals and five foul tosses in the third quarter, and the Eagles had built up a 4439 -bulge at the end of the period. The >Eaglee steadily pulled away in the closing eight minutes for their 16-polnt victory and inflict Pleasant Mills’ third loss of the season.

The Eagles showed a well-bal-k anced scoring attack. Norb Witte , tallied 14. Clint Fuelling 13 and ( John Myers 12. Byer topped the . Spartans with 18, although sitting out quite a bit of the third and I fourth periods with four fouls on him. Dee Wolfe, with 11, was the ’ only other Spartan in double fig- . ures., Greyhounds Advance The nightcap was strictly no contest, as the Adams Central . Greyhounds walked away with an easy 61-43 victory over the Jefferson Warriors. Adams Central built up a 14-4 first quarter lead, and Jefferson did not hit its first field goal until Rog Lefever connected from the floor after five minutes of the second period. The Greyhounds led at the half, 26-12. The Greyhounds continued to dominate the game until fate in the contest, when a late flurry 1 , particularly by Bobby Caffee, shoved Jefferson’s total to 43. The Greyhounds also received finely balanced scoring, John Rowdon leading a quartet of mates in double figures, with 15. Caffee scored a like number to be outstanding tor Jet for sou.*. Monmouth FG -FT TP Fuhrman 3 1-3 7 Myers 5 2-3 12 Witte -.-i.... 7 0-2 14 Schnepf 0 0-0 0 Fuelling 6 3.4 13 Worthman 1 1-13 Keuneke 2 1-2 5 Macke 1 o-o 2 Brown ' s-3 1-2 7 (Contlniued on Page Blx)