Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LUI. No. 16.

Arends Gets Symbol Os Office Jml * |kb f - HOUSE MINORITY LEADER Joe Martin (right) presents a symbol of office to Rep. Leslie Arends (R), Illinois, in Washington. Arends is minority whip, with duties of "whipping’up” votes for administration measures.

Labor Measures Are Submitted To Legislature Bi-Partisan Bill Provides Fine For FEPC Violations ~ INDIANAPOLIS UNS) Labor and management were warned, praised and protected by legislation introduced today in the Indiana general assembly. A battle over a resolution to have the two-cent federal gas tax repealed, a pay bill and recodifying measure also hit the house and senate hoppers but labor made the biggest news. A bi-partlaan bill molded teeth for the currently toothless Indiana fair employment practices act. It was introduced by Sen. Robert L. Brokenburr, Indianapolis Republican, and William Christy, Hammand Democrat. Anyone found violating the Indiana FEPC would be considered guilty of a misdeamor and subject to SIOO-SSOO fines and-or six months in jail, Brokenburr referred questions to Christy, who said. ~ " SttSfe Practices foment domestic strife and unrest and threaten the rights and privileges -of the inhabitants of the state and undermine the foundations of a free democratic state.” The farmers’ welfare was considered in .a bill by Glen Neaville, ■* Sharpsville Republican (himself a * farmer), to establish a division of industrial agricultural commodities research. Neaville's bill would set up a five-member advisory committee consisting of two farmers, two industrialists and one John Q. Public, to be named by the governor to work with the Purdue agriculture experiment station. Neaville claimed only through finding additional uses for agricultural products and present waste, not through subsidies, can the farmers’ economy be stabilized. Sens. Albert W. Wesselman. Evansville Republican, and Arthur S. Wilson, Princeton Democrat, introduced a resolution urging congress to impose tariffs on oil imports to stabilize the domestic oil industry. Democratic Sen. Paul P. Boyle, of Sullivan, said coal miners also were seeking protective tariffs against "scab labor” oil imports that are ruining the coal and gas producing industries. < „.. s reS6luti6n Somers. Hoagland Republican, memorializing congress to repeal the two-cent federal gas tax fared not so well. Sen. John W. Van Ness, .Valparaiso Republican, moved that it be a special order of business, Jan. 25. Minority Leader Sen. W. W. Martin, of Clarksville, called the Republicans inconsistent in asking for harbors and roads and at the same time wanting the federal government to give up the gas tax. Albert Sellemeyer To Hospital At Columbus Albert Sellemeyer, retired Decatur school teacher, who has been ill for the past week, was •_ transferred from the Adams county memorial hospital today to the Ohio State University hospital at Columbus, 0., for observation and treatment His condition is reported as serious.

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Report Is Given On Donations To CROP More Than $3,000 Donated In County The people of Adams county have donated a total of $8,252.94 this year for the Christian rural overseas program (CROP), designed to help needy persons all over the world receive the necessities of life through the churches, the r Rev. John D. Mishler, county ■ chairman, said today. A portion of the proceeds will be used in the self-help program for “Plows for India" so farmers there ' can be trained in using better [ plows to produce more food for the ’ masses of people in India. Most of the money will be used In the ’ "Sharf Our Surplus” program of sending food to the starving pen--1 pies. The U. S. government releas--1 es surplus grain in a proportion -of 20 to 1 for gifts to this project. In reality for every dollar contributed. S2O worth of food is sent to ' famine areas. R. t E. Glendening, of the First ■ State Bank of Decatur, served as I treasurer for the second year. Rev. Mishler organized the county with each township having a chairman, and each chairman got as many volunteers as he could to help him. The Adams county rural youth and the Adams Central FFA asi Bisted in picking up the donated grain from the farms of the county. Donations by townships were as follows: Preble; the Rev. H. E. Settlage, chairman. $182.45; Root, Clifford Mann, chairman. $136; . Union, Wilbert Thieme, chairman, $135; Kirkland, Samuel Yager and Edwin Bryan, chairmen, $592.32; Washington. Mrs. Henry” Heiman, chairman. $383.46; St. Mary’s Ermil Shifferly, chairman. $114.08; Blue Creek. Harry Raudenbush, chairman. $100.78; Monroe, Lores Steury, chairman, $550.89; French, Palmer Mosser, chairman. $390.90; Hartford, the Rev. Robert Schrock, chairman, $224.43; Wabash, Sol Moser, chairman, $277.37; Jefferson, Carl Amstutz, chairman, $165.23. Many churches in the county emphasized the CROP program during the fall campaign. One of the most important parts of the program is that it is carried on by the churches, and distribution is made by the church relief agencies cooperating together. Donations designated for special agencies will be channeled through them in areas of need. Some of the agencies which handle CRQP materials are; Mennonite central committee, Catholic war relief services, national association of Evangelicals, Lutheran world relief, and American Friends service committee. Many churches direct their materials through the church world service as a united relief agency. The theme, “In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” shall carry through in giving life to those in need. State Policeman To Speak Here Tonight William Hunter, of the Indiana state police department, will speak on "safety education" at the meeting of the Lincoln parent-teachers association at 7:30 o’clock this evening at the Lincoln school. Suggestions for a name for the new northwest elementary school will also be received during the - meeting. — -

Eisenhower Is Optimistic On Business Rise Asserts Maximum Employment To Be Expected This Year WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower declared today that “maximum employment” may be expected this year and at the same time warned stock market traders that excessive speculation will not be allowed to jeopardize the business rise. In his annual economic report to congress, the President painted an optimistic picture of the business recovery that began last fall. He declared that, in view of the continuing economic expansion, it is “reasonable to expect" in the coming year national output will reach the goals of “maximum employment, production and purchasing power” envisaged by the 1946 employment act. That apparently would mean a business advance sufficient to wipe out a large portion of current unemployment, now estimated at more than three million.

The 1946 law requires the President each year to submit to congress an economic legislative program Intended to promote full employment. In his report, the President listed 33 recommendations, most of which he has advocated in previous messages. They included his proposals for cutting tariffs, extension of the 52 percent corporation tax and the excises expiring April 1, and boosting the national minimum wage from 75 to 90 cents an hpur. Mr. Eisenhower insisted that the anti-trust laws should be strengthened to keep the economy competitive and growing. He said the maximum fine that may be imposed under the Shefman antitrust law should be raised “substantially.” * He said the federal government creates a climate favorable to economic activity when it encourages private initiative and "curbs monpoolistic tendencies, whether of business or labor.” This indicated that the president may favor applying the antitrust laws to labor unions. He declared the recent federal reserve board action in raising the margin requirement on stock purchases from 50 to 60 percent of the purchase price shows that “the government is mindful of its great responsibility to help assure "balanced economic growth?’ The President added: “It is essential to keep a close watch on financial developments. ContiMM economic recovery must (Continued on Pace Five) Government Rests Case In Red Trial Defense Asks For Directed Verdict CHICAGO (INS) —Arguments of a defense motion for a directed verdict of not guilty will be heard in federal court today in the trial of Communist leader Claude M. Lightfoot. The government rested its case Wednesday against Lightfoot, executive secretary of the Communist party of Illinois, after the concluding witness testified he once heard the Communist leader tell a party school class. “Be ready to die. This is not a matter of individual benefiting. We will try to avoid bloodshed, but we won't be pushed aside. If we have to spill blood, we will.” This was the evidence offeied in the Chicago trial against Lightfoot, who is being tried under the Smith act for being a member of an organization knowing it advocates the violent Overthrow of the United States government. The testimony was given by John Brzek, a Milwaukee long - shoreman planted in the Communist party by the FBI. Two other ex-Communists testified that they knew Lightfoot as a party functionary. They were William iGarfield Cummings of Toledo, O„ who also entered the party at the request of the FBI, and Miss Shirley Skinner of Lbs Angeles, former clerk in the party's Chicago headquarters. INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness and somewhat warmer tonight. Friday cloudy with light snow or drizzle north and light rain or drizzle aouth. Low tonight 20-28 Jiorth, 25-30 south. High Friday 32-38 north,- 35-40 south.

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Eisenhower May Ask Air And Navy Forces To Protect Formosa

Four Convicts In Notice Os Duel To Death Barricade Selves In State Prison Os Massachusetts ' BOSTON (INS) —Four convictmutineers served notice today that they expected 'a duel to death as they barricaded windows of their isolated Cherry Hill building of embattled Charlestown state prison with steel doors ripped from solitary confinement cells. In answer authorities wheeled into the prison yard a carload of explosives, then hurriedly removed them to a safer area when It was realized that impulses from police radio car transmitters combined with the bitter cold air might detonate them prematurely. - All two-way radio equipped automobiles in Boston were ordered off the air as the delivery. and later transfer were being made, as the rebellion of four hardened convicts entered the third day. Experts said use of two ■ way radios was halted because dynamite caps could be touched off by electrical impulses. An ordnance officer, who aqconypanied the explosives, brought to the prison In an army staff car, said cryptically. "There’s enough here to blow} out < a whole wall at Cherry Hill.” Hope of a possible end to the two-day holdout of the four prisoners, holed up in the Cherry Hill solitary confinement wing, was shattered as they pledged they will die rather than surrender. The note of defiance was struck by Fritz Swenson, convicted Boston cop-killer, as the- seige entered its third day. Swenson, an equal partner in the rebellion with Theodore Green, bank robber and escape artist, gunman Walter Balben, and Joseph A. Flaherty, rapist, told his brother. “We're going to stick it out. They’ll kill us anyway. We have enough ammunition to hold them off.” Swenson told his brother, Russell, who came to the prison to plead with him to surrender, that if state troopers try to shoot their way into Cherry Hill they will find the five hostage-guards shackled to windows and doors. The brother quoted Swenson as saying: “If they get us they’ll get them, (Continued on Page Five) Lists Annual Report For County Hospital Report Is Released By County Auditor Adams county memorial hospital started 1955 with a balance of according to the annual report being prepared for the «tate board of accounts by Frank Kitsoh, auditor. Total receipts for last year were and disbursements were $229,816.66. The report* shows that the balance at the start of 1954 was $lB,707.02. The general three-cent property tax netted the hospital a tte tai of $12,069.09 and the bank, building and loan tax brought in another $148.55. The balance of the receipts, totalling $210,764.99, was obtained from patients. The operating expense is reported as one total item. There was no breakdown as to salaries, material and equipment. The breakdown is not required In the annual report. / The figures show that the hospital was within S2OO of being classified as self supporting, since the balance on hand is within that much of equalling the amount received from taxes. Board members expressed the belief that in the next year or two the local hospital would have as large an annual Income from patients as the total cost of operation. —

Three Men Killed In Bomber Crash B-26 Bomber Crashes During Snowstorm UTICA, N. Y. (INS) r- An air forcer twin-engined B-26 bomber crashed on an upstate New York farm in a snowstorm early today and all three men aboard were killed. The crash occurred near the village of Boukville 35 miles from Utica. Residents of the area 1 told police they heard a loud explosion just before the crash. Bodies of the victims were found in the plane, which was severely damaged, but not destroyed. Turner air force base authorities in Georgia identified the victims as: Maj. Harold E. Carlson, 37, of Dekalb, 111., pilot and squadron commander. Staff Sgt. Joe D. Cherry, 27, crew engineer, of Sulphur Springs, Tea. - And Staff Sgt. George A. Linton,a passenger aboard the plane, of Havertown. Pa. » The plane, from the 12th Radar Bomb Scoring Squadron at Turner. was on a routine flight from Atlanta, Ga„ to Rome, N.Y., when the crash occurred. A board of inquiry from Griffith AFB, near Rome. N. Y„ was sent to the to attempt to find the' cause of the crash. Three Arrested For Robbery Os Market MARTINSVILLE, Ind. (INS) — Two men and a teen-ager were arrested in a police trap today on charges of burglarizing the Gosport supermarket owned by Harold Snodgrass. Captured by date and Martinsville police on Ind. 67 near Paragon early this morning were Alfred A. McKinney, 16. of Indianapolis, and two Camby men, Charles Schlegeter, 29, and Louis F. Catellier, 30. Police said the car in which they were riding contained merchandise taken from the Gosport supermarket. Open Mass Assault On Dope Peddlers Narcotics Agents Round Up Peddlers - PHILADELPHIA (INS) —An army of narcotics agents kicked off a dawn zero “Hour today by launching a mass assault at rounding up 101 dope peddlers in Philadelphia. Simultaneously other raiders were reported in action in New York, Pittsburgh, Chester, Pa. and Atlantic City, N. J., to bring in repurted wholesalers supplying the illicit drugs in the Quaeker City. 'More than 100 agents took part in the Philadelphia raids, including federal men from the alcohol tax 'unit, customs guards, narcotics •agents, and local and state police. They were led by Joseph Bran*" sky, agent in charge of the federal Marcottes bureau's Philadelphia area, who said: . "This is the result of five months 'of undercover work by agents.” The agents banged on locked bedroom doors of rooming houses, (invaded plush apartments, and posted themselves at« homes of suspected peddlers for whom they had 101 warrants. More than 25 were rounded up in the first two hours, and were brought to the U. S. customs house for questioning. During the raids, police also knocked oft a still in one south Philadelphia house, arresting James Walker, and confiscating the still and four barrels of mash. They also selfed two revolvers in what they described as an “elegantly furnh|iedt” apartment where they arrested Irene Waters, 40. Bransky said thert* agents had made between two and five buys of illicit drugs from every persons named in a warrant.

Sen. Knowland To Speak On China Policy Full Dress Senate Debate -Likely On Policies In Asia WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate GOP leader ’William F. Knowland said today he will speak in the senate Friday on the China policy issue and a full dress floor debate on administration steps concerning Asia is expected to be underway by next week. If Knowland’s remarks do not trigger the foreign policy debate, expected consideration of the eightnation treaty for the defense of southeast Asia is likely to do so next week. -I Senate foreign relations chairman Walter F. George (D Ga.,) said he hopes to bring the Manila pact to the senate floor for ratification in the next few days. And Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Mont.,) a foreign relations committee member, declared the SEATO treaty is likely to touch •off the “big debate” which Knowland has made clear he wants to see at an eprly date. MansfielS said. “It seems to me things are building up to some climax. It is likely the big debate will come at the time the SEATO pact is up, and ff not then, when the Formosan treaty is before the senate.” " ' There were indications that ■Knowland, who has repeatedlychallenged administration policy towards Communist China and negotiations for release of imprisoned Americans, was further upset by a statement of President Eisenhower Wednesday. At his news conference, the Chief Executive endorsed a possible “cease fire” move to curb fighting between Red China and the Formosa Nationalists. The California Republican conferred late Wednesday with secretary bf state John Foster Dulles but refused to discuss his meeting. Later, at nearby Alexandria, Va., the senator told a chamber of commerce dinner that the U. S. and free world must soon decide whether “they are going to retreat before Communist pressures." However, he made no reference ito the aeasefire proposal and (Continued on Page Five) Three Children And Baby-Sitter Killed Philadelphia Home Destroyed By Fire WALLINGFORD. Pa. (INS) — Three small sisters and their woman baby sitter perished today in a fire that destroyed a $39,000 ranch house in Wallingford, in suburban Philadelphia. The children were daughters of Mr.and Mrs. Robert Spencer, who were in Atlantic City. N. J. Mrs. Nellie Wingate. 65, of Media, was the baby sitter. The sisters were Stephanie, seven; Selby, six, and Hillary, three. All four bodies were found out of bed. Authorities said they were apparently felled by the smoke after they were awakened by the fire. Four children were burned to death Tuesday in adjacent Montgomery county when their three room North Hills home was destroyed by fire. Spencer is employed in the Chester printing firm of his father, John Spencer’s Inc. The ranch home was built about six years ago. Charles Stewart, 34, a neighbor, telephoned the alarm when he discovered the blaze shortly after dawn. Firemen donned gas masks to carry out the victims. More than 160 firemen battled the blaze, which chief Charles Getz said could have started from embers from the fire place. Nothing but the walls of the home remained standing some three hours later.

Bloodmobile Unit Here Next Tuesday Schedule Complete With 138 Donors I - Mrs. Ed Bauer, jeounty chairman of the Red Cross blood program, announced today that the schedule for Tuesday's visit of the bloodmohile has been completed with 138 donors and 22 standbys scheduled. Among those scheduled is Mrs. George Alton whose rare blood type matches thait of the child in Fort Wayne who is suffering from a blood disease and needs transfusions. Parents of the child appealed for donors to save her lite. Mrs. Alton’s blood will be sent to Fort Wayne to be given to the child free of charge. All blood donated through the Red Cross is medically valuable and in many instances saves lives. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the Adams county Red Cross chapter, stated that many pints of blood are required in this county. All blood received here is the gift of a donor in this locality and the Red Cross. Only charge made is the hospital administration fee. The cost of collecting and distributing the blood is carried by the county Red Cross. Mrs, Bauer and Mrs. Oelberg both expressed thanks for the cooperation of local residents in filling the schedule for the visit Tuesday at the American Legion home. An appeal is now being made, for nurses and nurses aids to assist in taking the blood Tuesday. Mrs. Oelberg pointed out that from 30 .to 35 persons are needed for leach visit of the bloodmobile. These include nurses, nurses aids, doctors, canteen workers and other volunteers. Failure to recruit sufficient volunteers for the visit will necessitate hiring professional workers from Fort Wayne. This will drain moneyfrom the blood program fund which is no longer aided by federal money. Each county supports its own program. Grabill Soldier Dies In Accident FORT WAYNE, Ind. (INS) — John R. Kryder, 21, of Grabill, a soldier leave, was killed today when the car in which he was riding tore down two telephone poles, struck a concrete abutment and overturned. Driver Don E. Martin, 22, also of Grabill, suffered only minor cuts. He said Kryder said Martin’s car should be able to hold itself in a curve at 80 miles an hour. Martin said he was traveling at least 70 miles per hour when he hit the curve and lost control of his auto. Russians Release American Soldier Private Released After Six Years BERLIN (INS)— The Russians today released Pvt. William A. Verdine of Starks, la., after nearly six years of Soviet captivity. He was handed over to U. S. officials in Berlin. The 28-year-old Verdine had been on duty in West Germany when he disappeared. The Russians on Jan. 8 released John H. Noble, 31, a civilian of Detroit. Mic.h., and Pvt. William T. Marchuk, 38, of Norristown, Pa. Noble since has returned to the United States while Marchuk must face army charges of being absent without leave when he disappeared Feb. 1, 1949. Verdine was reported absent without leave in Europe on Feb. 3. 1949. Noble, who was arrested in Dresden in 1945, told of the hardships in the slave labor camp at Vorkuta in the Russian Arctic and how special guards killed and wounded hundreds bf camp inmates who rebelled — with secret police .Instigation—after the Kremlin purged secret police chief Lavrenti P. Beria.

Study Plan To Ask Congress For Authority China Nationalists Claim Troops Still Battle On Yichang WASHINGTON (INS) —Congressional leaders were told today that President Eisenhower may ask congress to authorize use of U. S. air and naval forces to protect Formosa and the Pescadores from Red invasion and provide “cover” for evacuation of the Tachen Islands. This was reported on reliable icongressional authority, as the highlight of a morning conference between secretary of state John Foster Dulles, Adm. Arthur W. Radford, and congressional leaders of both parties. A decision on whether Mr. Eisenhower will ask congress to adopt a resolution authorizing him to protect Formosa behind a specific line reportedly may be reach- _ 4kil ♦■Maw ' : Last year when North Vietnam was under Communist assault, a similar "feeler” for congressional authorisation for use of air and naval power to protect that area was quickly rejected by congressional leaders approached at that time. f Today’s proposal, still on a possibility basis, was viewed as more serious and more likely because of- this government’s commitment to protect Formosa as laid down it! the pending mutual defense pact with Nationalist China. For several days, administration leaders — including Radford, chairman of the joint Chiefs of staff — have been wrestling with the problem 't>f what to, do about protecting the Formosan Strait. An estimated 46,000 to 50,000 Nationalist troops are in the Tachen area adjacent to the smaller offshore island captured this week by the Chinese Reds. The tentative administration proposal would be to provide an umbrella of fighter plane cover and adequate naval protection to permit Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek to evacuate these Nationalist forces to Formosa £r some other area behind a line*s>f protection which is still to be drawn. Holding Positions - TAIPBH (INS) —The Chinese Nationalist high command announced tonight that the defenders of Ylchangshan Isle, “fighting against great odds," were etill holding their key positions after 56 hours of “combined" assaults by invading Red troops, planes and warships. A Taipeh communique claimed that some 1,500 of 5,506 invading Communist marines and soldiers had been killed but added that the 720 Nationalist “guerillas” defending the island, more than 200 miles north of Formosa, also suffered' “heavy" casualties. 7 The war bulletin was issued as swarms of Nationalist planes bombed Red invasion flhet concentrationsalong a46ft- —mite ■ stretch of the China mainland coast for the second straight day. The communique said the defenders of Ylchangshan, eight miles north oL the invasion-men-aced Tachen islands guarding the northern approaches of Formosa, were still, “keeping their important defense works intact" as of 5:36 p. m. today (4:30 a. m. EST). Nationalist shore batteries were IContinXMMl on Page Six) Band Booster Fund Previously Reported $600.47 High School Commercial Club 50.00 Yost Construction Co, ... 20.00 TOTAL $670.47 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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