Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 15, Decatur, Adams County, 19 January 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LUI. No. 15.

Chinese Reds Capture One Os Tachen Islands

Ji ITyichan& lr' IACHEN WENCHOW 111 * • a J**""*" K-«. / F r • MA’W I PfaKMMAM Jw taip£io\ , CHUANCHOW J I F-. , / ) ( FORMOSA — rauMin ) e “w J J ARROW indicates Yichang island, captured by Chinese Communists. The attack is believed a possible beginning of an allout Red drive to capture the whole Tachen group, which the Nationalist Chinese hold as a guard of the Formosa bastion.

Craig Backing Os Toll Roads Given Setback Craig's Faction Fails In initial Test For Program INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The bill to clip the wings of the Indiana toll' road commission seemed certain of senate passage today following the first oratorical fireworks of the session Tuesday. The forces of Governor George N. Craig failed to recommit the measure to the senate roads committee after a running debate lasting an hour and 40 minutes during which many aspects of the toll road problems were presented. Only 14 senators voted for recommittal and 33 were against. Air of the senate Democrats voted against recommittal. The measure now is on second reading where it may have to run the gauntlet of amendments. Then it comes up for final senate passage, afterwards for house action and then goes to the governor. The house and gubernatorial hurdles w-ill be the hardest. 7he original form of the blil . would force legislative approval of each pay road project and stipulate that a toll road must start at. a state boundary and end at another. The roads committee Tuesday amended it to give automatic legislative sanction to the north-south road, provided the federal government allows appropriations and lets contracts for an Indiana port on Lake Michigan and to the Vincehnee-.Cincinnatl bay highway after the states of Illinois and Ohio have taken tangible action to construct their segments of the route from Cincinnati to St. Louis. These - • are two mighty road blocks and may delay building of additional Hoosier toll roads for many years, according to all indications. Among the ton roao declarations during the lengthy debate were: President pro tern John W. Van Ness, Valparaiso Republican—toll roads are experimental to date. The one now under construction will be in competition with four free highways, 30 and 20, both four-laned, and 6 and 12, and the proposed north-south route would compete directly with the present Roads 52 and to a lesser extent with Roads 41 and 31. The pay roads may become outmbded just as the canals were supplanted by the railroads, and the interurbans were downed by the busses and private cars. Air travel, with helicopters taking off from the state, house parking lot, may discount the toll highway travel. Republican senator Roy Conrad of Monticello —The bill was railroaded through the senate roads committee and is an ambush attack. It is backed by a coalition of anti-Cralg Republicans and the Democratic minority. It will delay all toll road construction infinitely. GOP factional politics Is raising its ugly head. The Democrats like the bill because they hope to win next year, seize the important toll road patronage and take credit for, constructing a fine p.ay road system. Republican Senator Robert L. Brokenburr, of Indianapolis—Toll roads will ruin some of the most productive farmers in Indiana. I am not against the governor nor against progress and I am not an obstructionist. The amendments to the bill say in advance construe(Continued on Page Six) 1

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County Extension Group To Organize Committee To Meet Next Monday Night Fifteen new members will take their seats at the organizational meeting of the county extension committee next Monday night, and five new officers will be elected, including chairman, vice-chairman, secretary, tresaurer, and director. The committee is the policyforming body for the county extension office, which includes the county agent, home demonstration agent, and 4-H club agent. Also, It 1s epected that two groups affiliated with extension work, the poultry committee and the sheep committee, will ask for seats on the group, which now numbers 60 members. If admitted, Benjamin Mazelin will represent the sheep committee, and Truman Baumgartner, poultry. The 25 perceht chaiigeoVUf Witt see Mrs. Noah Habegger and Mrs. Bert Haley replace Mrs. William Kruetzman and Mrs. Leonard Wag ley as representatives of the home demonstration council; Harold Schwartz replace Dan Striker as crops committee representative; Verl Lautzenheiser, new Farm Bureau chairman, replace Silvan Sprunger; Mrs. Ernest Lehman, new county S&E leader, replace Mrs. Clarence Mitchel;Also, county commissioner John A. Kintz will replace Lewis Worthman; Paul Yoder, of the swine committee, will replace Ralph S. Myers; Roger Koeneman and Shirley Gerke, of the rural youth, will replace Legora Markle and Paul Busse: the Rev. Ralph Johnson, representing the Adanis cohnty ministerial association, will replace the Rev. John Mishler; Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Fuelling, of Union township, will replace Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Grote; Mr. and Mrs; Edison Lehman, of Monroe township, will replace Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Mazelin;. and Mrs. Dwight Schnepp and Alton Corson, of Washington township, replaced Mr. and Mrs. Ralph' Bluhm. Each service club, bank, booster club or Chamber of Commerce, and each 4-H project committee is entitled to one member on the extension board if the extension committee agrees to seat them. Each township elects two rural members, the rural youth sends two members, and the home demonstration club sends several representatives. The nominating committee for officers, consisting of the 1953 extension chairman, the 1953 home demonstration council president, and a member appointed by the present chairman, met this 'week and nominated a slate of two for each office. Nominations will also I be open from the floor. Members 1 of the committee were Holman Egly, Mrs. Albert Beineke, and Peter B. Lehman. Holdover members of the extension committee include: Mrs. Robert Stuber, 4-H council representative; P. B. Lehman, 4-H council representative; from the home demonstration council, Mrs. Albert Beineke, Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, Mrs. Harold Zeigler. Mrs. R. C. Hersh, and Mrs. Floyd Baker; Also, from the dairy project committee, Henry Aschleman; Henry Rumple, beef project committee; Mrs. Walter Egley, 4-H club council; Ralph Bluhm, 4-H club council: Henry Dehner, county council; Gail Grablll, superintendent of county schools; William Schnepf. Jr., Decatur Rotary club; Roy L. Price, Decatur Lions club; Leo> Lehman, Berne Rotary club; Gl4n Workinger, Monroe on Page Five)

UN Secretary, Dulles Confer t On Prisoners Dag Hammarskjold In Washington To Report On Mission BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) —UN secretary Dag Hammarskjold told secretary of, state John Foster Dulles today that he hopes “given restraint on all sides,” it will be possible to win release of U. S. flyers imprisoned in Red China. • -, At the same time, Dulles told Hammarskjold that so long as the negotiations for the prisoners are being pursued by the United Nations, the U. 8. will "leave the handling of this matter to the UN.” WASHINGTON (INS)—UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold arrived in Washington today to give secretary of state John Foster Dulles a firsthand briefing on his trip to Peiping to try to secure release of captive U.S. airmen. Hammarskjold was accompanied by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., chief of the U. S. mission to the United Nations. Immediately upon landing at Washington’s national airport, they drove off to the State Department to confer with Dulles. Dulles is expected during the talks to set a deadline on UN negotiations with the Red Chinese, after which the IT. S. will take over with its own efforts to free the airmen. On his arrival, Hammarskjold refused to comment on the case. He said, “I have nothing to add to what I have already said previously.’* - „ Lodge was equally reluctant to comment on the case. Five Are Inducted Into Armed Forces Five Adams county young men left Decatur this morning fon'lndlanapblis for induction into the armed • forces. They are Robert Lewis Lane, John Maurice Cook, Russell ‘Wayne Birch, Palmei Louis Schwartz and Raymond Willis Seitz. Accompanying them to Indianapolis Were Richard Saylors, Charles Fredrick Crosby and Robert Lee Ellenberger, who will receive their physical examinations Mrs. William Mapes Dies In California Mrs. Theodore Grallker has received word of the death of her cousin, Mrs. William Mapes, who died Tuesday of a heart attack at Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Mapes was the former Jessie McLean and was employed as bookkeeper at the Boston store until moving to California with her mother. She was married to William A. Mapes, who preceded her in death four years ago. Only surviving relatives are several cousins. Funeral services and burial will be in Los Angeles Friday morning. INDIANA WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy and a little colder tonight. Thursday generally fair. Low tonight 10-18 north, 15-22 south. High Thursday 30-36.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 19, 1955.

Eisenhower In Favor Os UN Seeking Cease Fire Pact In China

Boston Prison Inmates Still Hold Hostages Plea By Convict's Daughter Fails To End Prison Revolt BOSTON (INS) — A slim palefaced. spunky 16-year-old girl today made an apparent futile face-to-face plea to end the 30-hour rebellion of four desperate inmates at Charlestown state prison. Toby Green, daughter of ring leader. Theodore “Teddy” Green, bank robbery and escape artist, made the unusual and dramatic plea to her Daddy after the quartette defied W'arden John J. O’Brien’s starvation order, the arrival of a national guard tank and continled to hold five guards and six fellow-prisoners as hostages. Toby was Drought unannounced into the main prison building with her mother, and then went alone to see' her father through a barred kitchen window in the beseiged, isolated Cherry Hill section. She was brought out as quickly as she entered, and what was said between father and daughter nobody was able to hear. Dr. Samuel Merlin, -who accoinp panied the girl, said: “Toby was there only a few minutes. What was said between father and daughter nobody was able to hear. I’m not sure how close they were to each other, but they were able to talk to each other.” Merlin also said food was brought to the hostages this forenoon. He said the convicts heard by radio about the tank brought lip to the prison from Fort Devens and are “very uneasy about it.” “I make an hourly check by phone on the condition of guard Eugene Wills, the hostage, who is running a fever and has a heart condition," Dr. Merlin said. “I will go in to see him any time his condition worsens." W'ith their grim fortress ringed by a cordon of heavily armed state troopers 2nd Boston police and the national guard tank outside the prison walls, the reckless four still held somewhat of a whip hand in stalemating authorities by their threats of death to a hostage for every shot fired against them. They had made only one continual request—safe conduct to a (Continued on Page Six) Fighting Renewed In Costa Rica War Government Troops Reported Advancing SAN JOSE. Costa Rica (INS)— The Costa Rican government announced today its troops advanced five miles north of Santa Rosa in renewed fighting against rebel invaders Tuesday. A headquarters communique said the high command estimated 5b of the enemy were wounded in the third battle in the Santa Rosa area within four days. One loyalist soldier was wounded. The number of Invaders killed in Tuesday’s action in northwest Guanacaste provine was not known. The communique added that government forces captured a considerable amount of equipment including one truck. ,The high command also announced the capture of Miguel Ruiz, who was identified as having opened the invasion by leading the rebel attack on Villa Quesada last week. Six other invaders were taken by the government troops. The Costa Rican general staff reiterated today that Teodor Picado Jr.* son of a former Costa Rican president and one-time leader of the invading forces* was

Financial Report Listed By Auditor Annual Report Made By Auditor Kitson Total receipts of dams county for the year ending December 31, 1954, were $351,476.58, and disbursements were $264,827.19, leaving, a balance on hand of $86,649.39, according to the annual report released today by Frank Kitson, county auditor. The report will be published in full in legal form in the Daily Democrat in a few days. — . Receipts ana disbursements of each office ’are itemized. Largest single departmental expenditure in the welfare department, which is itemized in another article appearing in the Decatur Democrat. Disbursements at the county home totalled $28,272.94, and receipts for the year were $27,464.90. The balance at the start of 1954 was 1130,403.26 and the amount received, from the 38-cen property tax was $152,875.31. The county’s share of intangible taxes amounted to $6,452.16 and the bank and building and loan tax totalled sl,881.61. In addition to the property tax., there also was a 10-eent welfare tax and a 3 cent hospital tax, making the total county tax 51 cents. Receipts and risbursements of each department and office are included in the Kitson report, and accounting of all miscellaneous county funds also is given. The county’s bonded indebtedness is SIB,OOO on 1 % percent county home bonds issued in 1942. Last of these bonds will become due in 1959. There are no other county bonds outstanding, the report shows. The primary and general elections of 1954 cost the county approximately $1'3,500. This does not include the expenditure of about $1,500 for voters registration. — ——..—— ■ — ——— "■ — Cancer Control Head Lions Club Speaker Henry Kilpatrick Is Speaker Last Night — ■Henry Kilpatrick, vice-president of the Lions cancer control Tund of Indiana, presented the Decatur Lions with a certificate of appreciation for its many donations over' the past few years, and explained the purpose of the fund at Tuesday night’s meeting. 1 Kilpatrick, a member of the Central Lions club of Fort Wayne, was accompanied by Dr. John R. White, who showed movies on the department of radiology building at the Indianapolis I. U. medical center, which was built largely by the Lion cancer fund. ——=i A total of 15,000 cancer patients were treated at the center last year, including many previously considered hopeless. Also, 30,000’ patients were diagnosed there to discover cancer. The'radiology center has a one million unit X-ray machine, one of the largest now being used, but plans are underway to construct a building which will hold a cobalt machine and a 20 million unit X-ray, to give Hoosiers the finest in cancer treatment. Kilpatrick emphasized that cancer, if it is caught in its early stages by a medical check-up, is as easy to cure as appendicitis. However, since people do not get yearly check-ups, one out of every five persons will die of cancer. Kilpatrick explained that his mother and (Continued on Page Six) BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — Foreign aid chief Harold Stassen said today he favors “a slight expansion" of trade with the Soviet Union but would not include “highly strategic items.” Stassen did not mention specific products but did say he agrees with defense secretary Charles E. Wilson that the proposal to trade U. S. surplus butter for' Ruskian manganese is a good one. r , ,

United States Draws Defense Line In Asia Definite Defense Line Drawn Today By Administration WASHINGTON (INS) — The United States drew a definite defense line in Asia today. The Eisenhower administration, through secretary of state John Foster Dulles, revealed that it will fight to defend Formosa and the Pescadores but will not take action if other Nationalist Chinese islands closer to the China coast are attacked. Islands which would not be defended include the Tachens where an estimated 40,000 of Chiang Kaishek’s troops are on guard and Quemoy which lies close to the Communist port city of Amoy and has been a constant thorn in the sides of the Chinese Reds. The new administration decision was revealed by Dulles at a news conference which came on the heels of a long talk he had with President Eisenhower Tuesday morning.. Dulles said Tichangshan taken by the Chinese Communists Tuesday “is without any particular importance.” On the Tachens he declared in answer to a query. “I would not say that the Tachen islands are in any sense essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pesca-' dores, which we do regard as vital to us.” When asked whether those outlying islands are useful in the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, the secretary replied. “Well, that would call for a mil itary judgment rather than one I would try to expres as a civilian." He added that he believes that there is a radar station on the Tachens “which is perhaps of some utility," but that he does not know whether it could pick up a possible air attack in advance of the Formosa radar system. Dulles went from the White House to his news conference where, in answer to questions, he wrote off the importance of the sinal [islands. Conflicting opinion came from the Pentagon, where a high official said it would be most difficult to refuse a request from Cbiang Kai-Shek for help in de(Contlnued on Page Six) Chris Brackebush Dies Early Today Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Chris Brackebush, 82, died unexpectedly early this morning at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. H. Kirkpatrick, 704 Cleveland street, where he had been visiting for some time. Mr. Brackebush, a retired farmer, lived at Fillmore, 111. He was born in Bingham, 111., May 1, 1872, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Brackebush. He was married twice, to Ida Becker and later to Minnie Kleinschmidt, who died in 1944. Mr. Brackebush was a member of the Methodist church at Fillmore. Surviving in addition to the daughter are a sister. Miss Tillie Brackebush of Cincinnati, 0., and two grandsons, Stanley Kirkpatrick of Decatur and the Rev. Paul Kirkpatrick of Flint, Mich. The body was removed to the Zwiek funeral home, where friends may? call after 7 o’clock this evening. The bpdy will be taken early Thursday to the Allen funeral home at Fillmore. Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Fillmore Methodist church, with burial In the Fillmore-Glendale cemetery at Fillmore.

Fiist Major Slash In Craig's Budget Cut Made In Mental Health Department INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The first major cut in Governor George N. Craig’s proposed $669 million budget was made by the- house ways and means A committee, which is considering departmental, budgets for later recommendation to the general assembly. Committee chairman Laurence D. Baker, Kendallville Republican, said the group voted to cut $3,095,468 from the mental health department’s budget for personnel services. A biennial appropriation of $31,917,284 was asked. The cut was expected to bring a loud outcry from the Indiana Mental Health Association as well as from Dr. Margaret Morgan, state mental health director. The House Ways and Means A Committee planned to consider the remainder of the mental health budget today which covers construction and operating expenditures. Baker said that committee members are anxious to have an expansion of the state's mental health program but want to keep the costs within our ability to pay.” He said Dr. Morgan would be asked to re-allocate the approved funds and submit a new budget to the committee. The members did suggest, however, that Dr. Morgan be sure that the Fort Wayne State School get more financial assistance than it has been receiving'. The important committee also began consideration of the Department of Correction budget late Tuesday, but did not announce any decisions. Sdme of the time was expended in a protest by Rep. John F. Shawley, LaPorte Republican, over the handling of a recent strike of guards at the Indiana State Prison. Annual Report Made By Chief Os Police Report Presented To City Council A total of 5,313 complaints and calls were handled by the Decatur police department during 1954, chief Janies Borders reported to the city council last night. Criminal investigations opened totaled 74, and 38 of these were completed. Arrests for criminal offenses were 59, while traffic arrests ran up to 259, totaling 318 arrests. More than 100 o warnings were issued. Radio traffic during the year included 1,029 messages originating at the station, and 1,817 dispatches to the cars. John Dierkes appeared before the council and asked that the council take action because his brother, Herman’ Dierkes, had not removed outside storage from a lot behind John’s home, as directedjjjrthe city zoning board. Mayor John Doan stated that he would investigate and refer the matter tothe zoning board. He explained that if the zoning ordinance had been violated, it was Dierkes’ duty as complaining witness, to see the prosecuting attorney and sign an affidavit against his brother. Dierkes also complained that the tiles which drained his front yard had been removed when a water line was installed. City engineer Ralph Roop stated that he did not know about this, and would investigate to see what could be done to provide drainage. The appointment of Fred Isch as a temporary officer on the police force replacing Raymond Seitz, who was called to the arm--6d forces, was approved. After the reading of the bills the council adjourned and held an informal discussion of business which will come before it in the future, including plats, sewers, the wage scale in the city light and power plant, and the new diesel plant.

Asserts Small Islands Not Defense Core To Use Influence To Obtain Release Os American Flyers WASHINGTON (INS) —President Eisenhower said today he would like to see the United Nations try to effect a cease-fire agreement between Communist China and the Chinese Nationalists. He emphasized, however, that tnilitany experts do not consider the Tachens and other small Na-tionallsts-held islands in the China Sea essential to the defense of Formosa, to which the U. S. is committed. Mr. Eisenhower also told his news conference that he will use his influence to try to obtain the release of any Americans who are unjustly held as long as they are imprisoned. He said he does not agree that UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold’s mission to Peiping is a failure, although he added it cannot be considered a success as long as the 11 American airmen are still prisoners. The President said Hainmarskjold should have a full chance to 4o what be can to achieve the release of the captive airmen. JHe declined to put a time limit on the negatlations, but endorsed the remarks of the secretary of state John Foster tiulles who said Tuesday the United States cannot stand aside ‘'forever” waiting release of the fliers. Mr. Elsenhower expressed some doubts over whether the United Nations would be able to negotiate a cease-fire between the Chinese Reds and Chiang Kai-Shek’s- Nationalists, noting that each side might consider the dispute an internal matter. He said, however, that the fighting between tjje two is a powderkeg which, like any such situation, could explode into major proportions. On the subject of the 11 airmen held by Red China, he said to concede failure of the Hammarskjold mission now would be like admitting defeat in the middle of a battle. He said we must not forget that the lives of the II men are at stake, and declared that our purity of motive is not always understood by other countries. Mr. Eisenhower was asked what compliance could be expected from Red China to a cease-fire agreement in view of its past record as an aggressor., He replied that we should seek to obtain some evidence of sincerity in deeds, rather than relying on the word of the Chinese Reds. fiuch evidence, he said, could be the return of American prisoners, the withdrawal of Communist troops from North Korea, or a halt in aggressive acts by Red China. The Chief Executive also summed up some of the major achievements of his administration on the eve of his second anniversary in office. Mr. Eisenhower was inaugurated two years ago Thursday. He said that his administration is well on the way to balancing the budget and cutting government spending to 60 billion dollars annually, the goal he set daring the campaign. Mr. Eisenhower said the foreign situation generally looks better and < Contlnhwsd on Page Six) Band Booster Fund Previously Reported 1566.47 Lee Hardware 25.00 Mr., Mrs. Ernest Uhrick - 10,00 TOTALS6OO.47 Contributions can be made by sending any amount to Band Booster fundi tare 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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