Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1955 — Page 1

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Atom-Powered Sub Nautilus On Sea Trial Surface Sea Trial First Use Os Atom For Propulsiori The Nautilus gets its first taste of salt water today in a surface sea trial marking the first useof the atom for propulsion. The blunt-nosed, fish-shaped vessel was to cast off from its dock in the Thames river at 11 a.m. EST) and head toward Long Island sound and the Atlantic sea lanes for a cruise to last two to four days. Newsmen and photographers aboard the submarine rescue ship Skylark were to follow as far as the sound to observe the historic departure. The navy said that, if all goes well, the revolutionary submarine, after returning to its dock in midweek, will put to sea a second time next week for underwater tests. Aboard the sub for its first cruise were to be Rear Admiral H. G. Rickover, who as navy nuclear chief has been engaged on the Nautilus project for seven years, and Comdr. Eugene P. Wilkinson with a crew of about 100 men. The keel of the Nautilus was laid in 1952, and the vessel was launched Jan. 21, 1954, but its shakedown cruise was delayed when a steam pipe exploded Sept. 18 and faulty piping was Tound buried throughout its hull. A new schedule for the testing yas advanced two months by a sudden announcement issued from navy headquarters Friday night. The 300-foot, 55 million-dollar Nautilus, which will be the largeet submersible in the fleet, is designed to cruise around the world without surfacing at a constant speed of 20 to 25 knots—substantially more than the short-time maximum for conventional subs. Each pound of its nuclear fuel will generate as much power as 360.000 gallons of gasoline. Navy men believe it will be possible to build nuclear ships that will never refuel—the original fuel outlasting the vessels. //'T;3 Except for a "black box” contaming -the -heat-generating reactor, and for shielding against radiation, the construction of the Nautilus is similar to other steampowered ships. The principal advantage is that the engine, without burning oxygen, can maintain a constant head of steam without strain. The vessel carries machinery to extract oxygen from sea water for the crew., i Hailed as a deadly if not invincible weapon, the Nautilus emerged as America’s answer to Russian claims to have inaugurated the atomic power age. The Navy’s announcement Fri(Continued on Page Five)

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Lay Groundwork For Atom Energy Parley Advisory Group Os UN To Meet Today UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) — The UN begins laying the groundwork today for the 1955 scientific conference proposed by President Eisenhower to take up peacetime use of nuclear energy. Scheduled to meet for the first ?« .advisory committee set up by the general* assembly Dec. 4, when it adopted unanimously Mr. Eisenhower’s atonis-for-peace program. The committee will issue invitations to countries eligible to send scientists and technicians to the parley. Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold will welcome the delegates, .vyho will hold future meetings behind closed doors. The scientific conference, which will represent the greatest international effort toward harnessing the atom for global peacetime uses, will lie held, sometime before next August, probably in Geneva. The Eisenhower proposals envisioned summoning of the scientific congress to be followed by establishment of an international agency for the exchange of nuclear data and materials. .The project was given a mighty boost last fall when the U.S. announced it was contributing 220 pounds of fissionable material for use in experimental nuclear reactors to be located-in foreign countries. Britain subsequently declared it would earmark 40 pounds of nuclear fuel for the project. A few- hours before the advisory committee met. the Soviet Union announced it planned to supply fissionable material to five Communist nations and help them develop atomic energy for peacetime uses. The Moscow foreign ministry said the Soviet Council of Ministers had voted to supply atomic aid for industrial purposes to Red China, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania and East Germany. Russia had announced last Friday it was ready to furnish “scientific and technical experience” allegedly gained in six months of operating an atomic power station. While the announcement was welcomed at UN as an indication of Soviet cooperation in the atom(Contlnued on Page Eight) _• T“" Local Man's Father Is Taken By Death Robert Kraft, 87, father of Harmon Kraft, Decatur grocer, died at 2:25 p.m. Saturday at his home near Spencerville, O. Surviving are his wife. Verna; one other son. Clair J. Kraft of Buckland, O.; six grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Christian Chapel Methodist church, of which he was a member, with burial in the church cemetery. The body has been removed from the C. G. Miller & Sons funeral home to the residence.

Cosfa Rican Troops Fight Rebel Forces Report New Clash Near Santa Rosa, Planes Enroute SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (INS) — Costa Rican troops fought rebel forces in a new clash near Santa Rosa today while four U. S. fighter planes streaked toward San Jose to aid in the battle against the invaders.’ 1 , Costa Rica’s urgent need for the fighter planes was underlined by reports that enemy aircraft were taking part in the struggle in the Santa Rosa vicinity. At the same time, however, newly - installed anti-aircraft batteries beat off another raid on the northern city of Liberia. In another move to aid embattled Costa Rica the oiYanization of American states (OAS) voted Sunday night to set up an international patrol along the Costa Rica-Nicaragua frontier to block arms shipments to rebels. The four World War II F-51 Mustangs were sold to Costa Rica by the U. S. for one dollar each after the council of the organization of American States authorized the transaction at an emergency meeting eaily Sunday morning. The planes took off Sunday afternoon from Kelly air force base in Texas. An enemy ”DC-3 transport plane, possibly damaged by anti-aircraft fire, was seen to make a forced landing near the northern town of Alamo. Observers said uniformed men scrambled from the plane and then set it afire, presumably to destroy any markings which might indicate the country from which it came. Residents of the northern village of Villa Quesada, which was occupied for two days by enemy troops reported that they saw several Nicaraguans among the invaders. The government of Nicaragua has claimed that the fighting in northern Costa Rica is purely an internal affair, while Costa Rica exiles mounted the invasion with the knowledge and assistance of , Nicaragua. .. ' ■" ■'■ ■ ■ . Nicaraguan President Anastasio Spinoza denied Sunday that his nation was supporting the invaders and urged an investigating team of the organization of American • (Continued on Page. Six) Miss Eva J. Acker Dies In California Served Many Years As School Principal Miss ( Eva Jane Acker, 82, for many years principal of the old South Ward school in this city until her retirement in 1940, died Friday rndrni ng at the home of a sister/Mrs. Minta Acker-Blissner at Calif. Death rolTowed Uh iTThess of two and one-half years. Miss Acker had made her home with her sister for a number of years; Born in St. Mary's township Nov. 30, 1873, she was a daughter "Os Irvin and Jane Smith-Acker. Miss Acker graduated from the Bobo grade school and taught for two years in St. Mary’s township. She then attended the Decatur high school, graduating in 1895. Miss Acker attended Terre Haute Normal. Valparaiso University and Denver University. The prominent teacher served as principal of the South Ward school here from 1917 until 1940, when she retired, and prior to 1917 tought in primary schools of the city. - Also highly active in civic and social circles, • Miss Acker was a charter member of the Dramatic department of the Decatur Woman’s club and was a member of the Eastern Star, the Ladies Shakespeare club and the Research club. She was also the founder of the parent-teachers association, which held its meetings at the South Ward school while she i was serving as principal. Miss Acker was a member of the First Christian church of Decatur. The sister is the only near survivor. One—sister and two brothers are deceased. - ’ ’ The body will be brought to the Zwick funeral home late Wednesday night and services will be held at the funeral home at 1 p.m. Thursday, the Rev. Traverse Chandler officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Thursday.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 17, 1955.

Eisenhower Requests Record Expenditures On Military Air Arm

13 Are Feared Dead In Crash Os Navy Plane Navy Constellation Plane Crashes Off Newfoundland Coast ST. JOHNS, Nfld. (INS) —Thirteen persons were believed killed today when a U. S. Navy Constellation plane crashed off the Newfoundland coast after reporting engine failure. Search planes and vessels sent to the scene reported they found no survivors although lite rafts were sighted. ,The 1.3 persons aboard the plane included five crewmen and eight passengers. In Washington, the Navy Department said that names of the persons aboard the four - engine plane will be made public after the next of kin have received official notification. The plane reportedly developed engine trouble about two hours after it left Harmon field. Officials said that the plane was based at Patuxent and was attached to Air Transport a—- — Os Soybeans Reported Last Night valued at $171.30, were stolen from the Merlin Beer farm on route 2, Geneva, some time during the night, sheriff Merle Affolder reported today. The sheriff and state trooper Walter Schindler are investigating. Sharp Earthquake Jars Central Japan : TOKYO (INS) —Central Japan was jarred today by a sharp earth-" quake, but nO damage -was reported. The tremor lasted only about five seconds, centering just north of Tokyo. Tokyo, Yokohama and other areas near the capital felt the shock. The_ central meteorological observatory said the earthquake had an intensity of four in the scale used by the observatory. Seven is the strongest shock in the measurement scale. Floyd Baker Dies Sunday At Hospital Funeral Services Here On Wednesday Floyd V. (Posey) Baker, 55, native of Decatur and a veteran of World War I, died at 5:40 o’clock Sunday evening at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient since last Tuesday. He was born in Decatur Nov. 10, 1899, a SbiTof Thomas and Emma Myers-Baker, and had never married. Mr. Baker served in the United States nayy for three years during World War I. He had been an employe of the Colonial restaurant in Fort. Wayne since 1945. He was a member of the Masonic and Elks lodges in Decatur, and of Post 47, American .Legion, at Fort Wayne. Surviving are three brothers. Ora C. Baker of Arcadia, Calif,, Lloyd and Adrian J. Jlakpr, both of Decatur. One sister and one brother preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the iZwick funeral home, with biirial in the Decatur cemetery. Adams Post 43, American Legion, will conduct military rites at the grave. Friends may call at the funeral home after 8 o’clock this evening until time for the services. Dr. Gerald Jones, pastor of the Wayne Street Methodist church, Fort Wayne, will officiate.

Putting Teeth Back In Narcotics Laws Penalties Left Out Os Bill Last Year WASHINGTON (INS) — The bquse passed without debate today a resolution closing a loophole in the law which left the government powerless to prosecute narcotic violators. The measure now goes to the senate, where similar quick action is anticipated. The legislation is expected to reach the White House Tuesday for President Eisenhower's signature. • The house action took only a minute. Chairman Jere Cooper (D-Tenn.) of the house ways and means committee, explained that the resolution simply corrects an inadvertant error.” The section' of the old tax laws that dealt with penalties for drug law violations was inadvertently left out of. the huge revenue revision act approved by congress last year. The act went into effect Jan. 1. As a result, the government has been unable to try violators of narcotics laws since them Today is the first time congress has had the opportunity to correct the mistake since committees have not been organized to handle any legislation until now. Government efforts to hush up the omission failed 'when reports of the mistake circulated in the lesource coniirmefl the reports ’ia< Saturday. Seeks Increase In Smith Act Penalty Heavier Penalty On Red Party Members WASHINGTON (INS) — Attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr., asked congress today to sharply increase the Smith act penalties for membership in the Communist party and for plotting the violent overthrow of the U. S. government Brownell said the present "totally inadequate” penalties should be uniformily increased to a maximum 20 years imprisonment and $20,000 in fines for each offense. The proposal would apply to Reds who belong to the party, knowing its aims and beliefs, as well as to party leaders convicted of conspiring to teach and advocate overthrow of the government by force violence. In addition, the attorney general asked congress to provide a similar increase in the penalties for seditious conspiracy, the law which has recently been used against members of the fanatical Puerto Rican Nationalist party. BULLETIN CHICAGO (INS)—Sen. William F. Knowiand, (R-Calif.) today called UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold’s mission to Red China for release of 11 American fliers a failure. Knowiand, in a fiery address before 700 members of the Newspaper Advertising Executives Association convention in Chicago, said: "The mission of United Nations secretary general Hammarskjold was not a success. And in my judgment no service is done the American people or those of the free world by pretending that it was.”INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and cold tonight aiSd Tuesday with snow central and snow mixed with freezing rain or rain extreme south late tonight and Tuesday. Snow flurries extreme north. — Low tonight 15-20 north, 20-25 -south! High Tuesday 24-30 nortbrßO-35 south,

Power Os Free Nations Tops Russian Bloc Dulles Tells House Committee Power Os Free Nations Grows WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today the free nation? have built up a military power "vastly” exceeding the Soviet bloc’s but the U. must follow liberal trade policies to keep this advantage. Dulles told the house ways an.d means committee that the military strength of the western allies is “a powerful deterrent to war” and represents “the key to our peace policy.” But he warned tnat military might alone is not sufficient to build a strong alliance for peace and urged that < the Reciprocal Trade Agreements law be broadened and extended for three years. Dulles declared: “In my opinion, the failure, at this stage of world affairs, to rededicate our nation to liberal trade policies, and to do so for a three-year term, would have grave consequences." The trade law, first enacted In 1934, expires in June. Dulles was the first witness as the committee launched two weeks of public hearings on the .proposed wxten:siruff,' i ii?rstmajbr iiefirot •Fremem' Eisenhower’s legislative program to be taken up by the new Democratic congress. Dulles' reference to the free world’s great military strength in comparison to the Communist powder came during the first few minutes of his prepared testimony. (Continued On Pace Six) i Omer Butler Dies Saturday Evening Omer Butler, 82, of Sweetser, a former resident of Decatur and Adams county died Saturday evening at his home after an illness of about two years. A retired farmer and former school teacher in Adams county, Mr. Butler was the step-father of Mrs. W. Guy Brown of Decatur and Mrs. Forrest Ripley of Willshire, O. Mrs. Jack Kline and Robert Haugk of Decatur are grandchildren of the deceased. (Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p. m. at the Owen funeral home in Marion. Friends are requested to omit flowers. Dallas Hunsicker Dies In Florida Former Resident Os Decatur Dies Dallas A. Hunsicker, 70, former Decatur business man, died Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Palmetto. Florida. He had been in ill health for several years and a blood clot was given as the immediate cause of his death. Hunsicker was born in Decatur August 19, 1885, a son of- the late Mr. and Mrs. David Hunsicker. For many years he was in the confectionery business in Decatur and later formed a partnership with his brother, the late Bert Hunsicker, in a wholesale fruit business. He was married to Grace McWhirter, formerly of Hoagland, who survives. A sister, Mrs. William Barber of Decatur, also survives. The Hunslckers moved to Butler more than 30 years ago and operated a five and ten cent store. For the last several years, they have resided at •< Hamilton Lake during the summer months and in Florida in the winter. An aunt, Mrs. Mary Ahr of Decatur, also survives, as do several nieces ans nephews. Funeral services will be held at Palmetto and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. later this week. Exact date of the burlil has not been learned.

European Nations Fight Floodwaters Urgent Warnings Os Floods Are Issued LONDON (INS) — Southern Britain, large areas of France and western Germany battled today against widespread floodwaters which spilled over thousands, of acres of ihW; deeds of towns. Urgent flood warnings were issued early today to several towns in southern England as rivers, swollen by a sudden thaw, poured over their banks. French authorities described the situation in the Seine valley as "critical.” Deep water has flooded farmlands, cut scores of roads and inundated 40 towns near Troyes and hundreds more in Burgundy. Reports from West Germany say river traffic on the Rhine has been halted, as well as all ferries in the Bonn area, because the water level is twice as high as normal. Flood waters are threatening the U. S. Navy Rhine patrol headquarters near Wiesbaden and the station’s personnel are working frantically to shore up installations and build sandbag dikes. Several villages in the Moselle region were evacuated and are now cut off by the flood waters. Furious storms lashed Germany’s North Sea coast Sunday night and distress calls were received from several ships. All deep sea tugs were ordered to stand by -Ss.' vessels. A Dutch steamer rescued a 25-year-old American, his British wife and two English crewmen from a sinking yacht in the stormy Atlantic Sunday night. , Fred Wichmann, from South Carolina, and his 22-year-old bride were picked up by the steamer Prins Bernhard shortly after they sailed from England on a honeymoon voyage. Figures Listed On State Distribution Total Os $787,562 Returned To County Schools and civil governments of Adams county received a total of $787,562 in five types of state aid distributions during the 1953-54 fiscal year, according to a tabulation contained in a new publication of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. The state distributions amounted to $35.17 per capita in ’the county, as com pared to a statewide average of $52.7« per capita, the cbanjber said. Os the total funds sent to the county, schools received the largest amount, $386,694. Other distributions were: For highways and streets, $261,943; public welfare, $125,885; excise tax (alcoholic beverage fees) to civil units. $6,905; intangibles tax to civil units, $6,135. The total of all state distributions for the same purposes was $128,650,057, divided as follows: Schools, $££,340,956; highways and streets, $35,549,*790; public welfare $26,125,792; excise tax, $2,238,727, and intangibles tax, $894,792. The grand total of state aid for the year was $135,041,324, including distributions for such purposes as aid to tuberculosis hospitals, vocational education, school lunch programs and special school classes, for which county figures were pot available, the chamber said. Funds sent to local units were equal to 42 percent of total state expenditures during 1953-54, exclusive of unemployment compensation. Pointing out that proposed expenditures by the state may well be leading toward new taxes. in the near future, the chamber publication said: “An increase in ‘state aid’ should not be considered either by citizens or local public officials as coming to them in the form of ‘free money’ and does not mean 'less taxes,' as has been suggested by some of its advocates." (Continued on Fare Eight) . ■

Budget Os 62 Billion Asked By Eisenhower Biggest Peacetime MihtgiY v t - Mfr |«v W err □otfgn“ WASHINGTON (INS) — Presi- - dent Eisenhower submitted to congress today a 62 billion, 400 million dollar budget providing for the greatest peacetime expenditure in American history for military air ' power. It was the third red-ink budget to be presented by the Republican administration. It went to a Democratic Congress which critically eyed Mr. Eisenhower’s failure so far to put the government in the black. The President forecast a deficit for the new fiscal year of two billion, 400 million dolalrs, compared* to an estimated four billion, 500 million dollars in the current 12month period which ends June 30. The administration’s first-year deficit was three billion. 100 million dollars. The accent in the new spending budget, which will carry the administration through the pefTbd from July 1, 1955 to June 3Q. 1956, was heavily on air strength—both defensive and offensive. entire budget was allocated to build up the combat air strength of the air force, navy and marine corps. The President emphasized that Itrepresented the lar- ' gest allocation for this purpose in American peacetime history. Mr. Eisenhower declared that “the peace in which we live is an insecure peace,” but warned that “a surprise enemy attack would find us with increasing readiness to resist attack and retaliate with devastating effect." He told congress: “Our air defense forces, as well as the strategic air command and naval air power, are being kept on an alert basis . . . This budget continues the emphasis on the development and maintenance of an effective nu-clear-air retaliatory power of the air force and naval aviation as the principal deterrent to military aggression.” — The President held out some hope for tax reductions next year, but none this year. He said further tax cuts must depend upon savings in governmental expenditures or increased revenues resulting from an expanded economy. The president stated: “Further tax reductions remain a firm goal of this administration and our policy is directed at achieving both the savings in expenditures and the economic growth that will make such reductions possible. “I hope that tax reductions will be so justified next year.”. Because of the deficit, however, the President recommended again that increased excise consumer levies and corporation income taxes, both boosted during the Korean war, be continued for another year after their scheduled April 1 expiration date. Three billion dollars in annual revenue is involved. Mr. Eisenhower said he will urge congress to increase again the national debt limit. It was temporarily boosted last August from 275 to 281 billion dollars, but is scheduled to revert to 27’ billion on June 30. The President indicated he may (Continued on Page Eight) Band Booster Fund Previously Reported $524.47 Ed F. Berling, Insurance 20.00 Fried of Band ..... 20.00 Total $554.47 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 uniforms for the Decatur high school band.

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