Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 3 February 1955 — Page 1

Vol. till. No. 28.

IKE GIVES VIEWS OWL THIS EXPRESSIVE series of photographs were made as President Eisenhower faced reporters in his Wednesday news conference in Washington. He made it clear that the U. S. won't let the Reds get Formosa; insisted that peace is his goal; would not discuss defense plans, and said he does not forsee the use of American ground troops in defense of Formosa. He said further that he has not changed his decision to reduce the strength of the army.

Much - Amended Toll Road Bill May Pass Today Leaves Commission Free To Continue Toll Road Program BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana senate gave Its blessing today to the toll road commission's current plans when it passed the former ripper bill, 33-16. INDIANAPOLIS (INS) A much-amended bill whieh would leave the Indiana .toll road commission free to continue its plans for two additional superhighways is expected to pass the senate, possibly today. The Brokenburr-Ehichhorn measure. as amended on second reading Tuesday by its Republican coauthor, Sen. Robert Brokenburr, gives the administration of Gov. Genree N. Craig ample leeway for north-south toll road construction. me amendment also takes the hobbles off an east-west road across southern Indiana. Amputated from the onetime clipper bill, Big Casino, was a proviso that the north-south road be dependent upon federal construction of a Lake Michigan terminal port. Also cut away were, the strings which made the southern Indiana east-west road dependent upon action by Ohio anu Illinois. An apparent stumbling block was fastened to the north-south road with a provision that if the route terminates in the vicinity of Liston, feeder freeways must be built connecting the southern end to the Indianapolis area,. Estimated cost of such construction is $25 million, which would have to come from toll road funds. But Sen. Roy Conrad, Monticello Republican and Craig floor leader, said that an effort will be made by the administration later in the house of representatives to extend the toll road from Lizton to Ind. 100, whieh he believes will eliminate entirely the necessity of the toll road commission building a freeway feeder road. Conrad pointed out that the state highway department already has completed the north leg of Ind 100, part of the east leg, and Is now purchasing land and wrecking buildings along the route of the weir leg> "No. TOO is intended tc be a border highway around the entire state capital. For a while Tuesday afternoon, it appeared that the Craig admin (Continued on Page Five) William Hicks Dies At Lansing Hospital Charles A. Andrews, Decatur, has received word of the death this morning of his brother-in-law, William Hicks, more than 80 years of age, at a hospital in Lansing, Mich. A former Adams county resident, Mr. Hicks and his family moved to Dimondale, Mich., approximately 35 years ago. Surviving are his wfie, the former Sadie Andrews; and two daughters, Mrs. Lulu Scarlett and Mrs. Flossie Whitney, both of Michigan. Two sons preceded him in death within the last four years. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Dimondale.

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FHA Ends Dealings With Seven Firms Action Is Taken To Stamp Out Abuses WASHINGTON (INS) —The federal housing administration has severed, business dealings with seven firms in ths first action of its kind under a law designed to stamp out abuses in the FHA program. This was disclosed today by FHA comtn issionfer Norman P. Masort who said that additional actions are pending against “a substantial number of persons and firms.” A spokesman said the number would run into "the hundreds.” iFHA dealined to reveal the charges agaihst the seven firms, but officials said Mason took the action after hearings were held and decisions made that there were violations of federal housing laws. (Mason's order stemmed from a law proposed last year by the senate banking committee as a step to safeguard FHA and prevent further abuses in the massive loan insurance program. The statute empowered the FHA chief to deny benefits to all FHA programs to any persons or firms "who knowingly and willfully violate the national housing act” or fail to carry out their contractual obligations. Officials said FHA has never before taken such drastic action to reprimh’nd companies ’“accused 61 alleged improper business dealings with the agency. Mason barred ,the FHA program to the following firms; Stanley Homes, Inc., of Miami, Fla., and its President Maurice Corenblum, Vice President Sam Silver and Secretary - Treasurer Ida Corenblum; Harley Welsch, owner of the Broadway Plumbing and Heating Co., Maryville, Tenn.; Ralph Lyldon and J. K. Lunsford of Lunsford & Lyndon, Knoxville, Tenn.; J. A.- Maggard, owner of the Acme Plumbing & Heating Co., Richmond. Ky, Also: Edward Murphy of the W. F. Higgins Co., Richmond, Ky.; E. H. Vitt of the Vitt Construction (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. NettiezL. Hill Is Taken By Death Mrs. Nettie Louise Hill, 63, a native of Decatur, died at 3:45 p. m. Wednesday at Parkview memorial hospital. Fort Wayne. She had lived in Fort Wayne for the past 36 years. Surviving are her husband, Grover; three sons. George, Joe and Thurman, all of Fort Wayne; her mother, Mrs. Amanda Dean, Fort Wayne; a brother, Raymond Dean of. Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Bobbie Ferrel of Gary and Mrs. Virgil Trim of Fort Wayne. Services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the First Mennonite church in Fort Wayne, with burial in the Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the Klaehn funeral home until noon Saturday, when the body, will be taken to the church to lie' in state. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — The house armed services committee today approved legislation to extend the draft law for another four years beyond Its June 30 expiration date. The unanimous action, by a vote of 32 to 0, came after only two days of public hearings where there was little ppposltion by witnesses.

Defense Hike Proposed For Soviet Russia Increased Defense Expenditure Asked In Budget For Year MOSCOW (INS) — The Soviet Union parliament met today and was handed a 1955 budget calling for increased defense expenditures. In a policy change finance minister Arsney Zverev announced that defense spending would be increased by 11,800,000,000 rubles, from 100,300,000,000 rubles last year to 112,100,000,000 rubles for 1955. ,« This represents an increase of $2,950,000,000 at the U.S.S.R, exchange rate, from $25,075,0007000 in 1954 to a total of $28,027,000,000 in 1955. (Editor’s note: The Soviet Union sets its own rate of a ruble being worth 25 U. S. cents, but its purchase power is less than that.) The defense hike represents a changed policy since both the 1954 and 1953 defense expenditures represented a reduction in comparison to 1952. Zverev said the spending on “national economy” in 1955 would be sharply reduced, totalling 222.400,000,000 rubles ($55,600,000,000 at the Soviet exchange rate) compared to 326,70,000,000 rubles ($81,675,000,000) in 1954. Both houses of the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, convened within the snow-capped, red-wall-ed Kremlin and quickly approved a three-point agenda. The first item was the new budget, but there will be other decisions on Soviet internal and extended polity, made amid calls for greater emphasis on heavy industrial output. Top Kremlin leaders, including Soviet premier Georgi Malenkov, Communist party secretary Nikita Khrushchev, President Klementi Voroshilov, defense minister Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, were pres-l ent. Soviet foreign minister V M. Molotov was not present, but deputy premier Anastas I. Mikoyan was on hand. The latter resigned last month from his ministry of trade, which was in charge of light industry turning out consumer goods. This specially summoned session of the Russian parliament, with its thousands of delegates from 16 Soviet republics was believed to have called together to approve major policy decisions taken during the past week by the central committee of the Soviet (Con-tlnued on Pure Five) Recruiting Upsurge During Last Month Increase Reported From All Branches WASHINGTON (INS) — the Pentagon reported today that a rush to qualify for benefits under the GI bill of rights brought 25,000 army enlistments in a four-fold recruiting upsurge during January. The air force, meanwhile, had 17,917 volunteers, against a quota of 14,000, despite an air force cutoff preventing enlistment after Jan. 21. The navy and marine corps exceeded recruit quotas totalling more than 17,000. Altogether, more than 60,000 volunteered for the armed services in January, compared to 38,000 in January, 1954. The army’s total quadrupled its 6,169 figure for December and was nearly three times the 9,574 for January of last year. The army said the enlistment rush would have no immediate effect on the 11,000-unan-per-month draft. Jjowever, there may be a further reduction in draft quotas for May and June if recruiting continues high during the spring. Volunteers who got into one of the services before Jan. 31 —the expiration date for the GI bill of rights—are certain to qualify for at least some of the educational and other benefits. Boy Scout Week To Open Here Sunday Sunday will mark the Opening of national Boy Scout week, the 45th anniversary of the founding of the organization. All Decatur Boy Scouts are requested to attend the church of their choice Sunday, dressed in full uniform. Scouts not having full uniforms are asked not to wear partial uniforms, at request of national leaders.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thurs day, February 3, 1955.

Chinese Reds Reject U. N. Invitation For Cease-Fire Conclave

Mendes-France Faces Another Crucial Test „ Highly-Criticized North Africa Policy Defended By Leader PARIS (INS) —French premier Pierre Mendes-France was expected to go on the offensive ip the national assembly today in defense of his govenynent's heavilycriticized North African policy. The premier, whose seven months in office have been a long series of crises, may demand a vote of confidence on the issue at the conclusion of his speech. The chances of the government surviving this test, however, were considered the poorest of any it has faced. Mendes-France is known to be determined not to let Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria turn into a sequence of “Indo-Chinas”. The government has made concessions to some Nationalist demands and has been negotiating with Tunisians on more home rule for that protectorate. Those concessions came under scorching attack Wednesday as the debate opened from the diehard colonists, most of them members of the assembly The popular Republicans tMRP) on the other hand offered two motions hostile to the government which criticized delays in the Tunisian negotiations and demanded social reforms in Morocco. On the extreme left, the Communists accused Mendes-France's regime of carrying out a reign of terror to perpetuate French rule in the area. The opposition to the premier all across the political spectrum was not confined to the North African issue. Several groups were using the issue because of differences over other policies and personal animosity to the dynamic and blunt premier. One powerful faction of the MRP holds Mendes-France responsoble sot; the defeat of the European defense, comriiunity. The Communists, of course, are bitterly opposed because the premier drove the ratification of the Paris accords on West German armament through the assembly. Other factions were anxious to defeat Mendes-France before he has an opportunity to institute his far-reaching plans for reviving the French economy. The main hope for the government’s survival was believed to be his own parliamentary skill in political in-fighting, and the fact (Continued on Page Five) • Civil Defense Post * 1 To Miss Ivetich Chief Os Aviation’ For Adams County The appointment of Miss Josephine Ivetich to the post of Adatns county chief of aviation for civil ' defense was announced today by Jack Gordon, county civil defense director. Miss Ivetich is owner of the De- ' catur airport and has been active in aviation work in the -eounty for several years. Gordon explained that civilian ' pilots and planes will play an important part in an effective civil defense organization and opera- : tton in the event of disaster. They could provide aerial observation* of the flow of traffic and since ' evacuation traffic would probably ' choke the highways, the planes \ would probably be the only means , of transportation out of the county. Miss Ivetich will be responsible for organizing local pilots into a civil defense unit, keeping the county director informed of aviation potentialities and relaying civil defense information and instruction to the local pilots.

Escaped Convicts _ Believed Trapped Alabama Patrolmen Scour Wooded Area DADEVILLE, Ala. HNS) - Alabama highway patrolmen aided by bloodhounds cautiously searched today for five heavily armed escaped convicts believed trapped In a wooded lake section near Dadeville. ff • In the late morning, the blood- . hound* were still unable to pick i up a scent of the five whcaescaped ■ from a south Georgia prison Fri- ■ day. Officers proceeded with caution i through the mountainous area since repqjts indicated that the . men had a machine gun and at least three pistols. Patrolmen, with orders "to shoot to kill if the men resist arrest,” i have ihe entire area, cut off by road blocks. Patrolman W> F. Hancock was held at gun point by the men Wednesday when he made a routine check of their car’s registration. They overpowered him, took his gun away, and carried him :o Dadeville where he was released unharmed. The car in which the fugitives fled was discovered abandoned near Dadeville near the .Goldmine Hill beach resort area bordering Martin Lake. There the search wqs coneehtrated. All available law officers were summoned, bloodhounds were brought in to trail the desperadoes and roads, leading out of the area were blocked off. The search for the dangerously armed men were made more difficult because the resort area afforded ideal hiding places. It is heavily wooded and dotted with lake cabins. Many boats are scattered along the shores of the lake and the escaped convicts may have used them to throw the bloodhounds off their scent. , - — The escapees were listed as Hen ry G. Armstrong. 38; C. H. Cartlett, 22; Harlan Leßoy Estes, 40; Bobby Funderburk. 23, and John L Hott. All were listed as felons serving sentences lor serious crimes. Annual Heart Fund Drive Is Underway Drive Is Extending For Entire Month Mrs. R. C. Hersh, chairman ot the heart fund drive in Adams county, today announced the opening of the annual drive, sponsored by the Indiana heart foundation. The drive extends throughout the month of February. The 1855 quota for the bounty has-been set at $1,850. Contributions will be solicited, from all indivlduals and organizations in the county. Sunday, Feb. 20, has been declared Heart Sunday and plans are being formulated for a door-to-door campaign on that day. Volunteers throughout the county will participate in this project. Mrs. Hersh announced that cannisters are being placed around the county in stores and other business places. Contributions may also be mailed to the Heart fund in care of the local post office. Assisting Mrs. Hersh for the Decatur campaign are Mrs. Myrtle Filson, Mrs. Roy Friedley and Dr. Geralcf Kohne. On the county committee are Mrs. Glen Stucky of Monroe, Mrs. Herbert Burdg and Mrs, Opal Klpfer of Berne, and Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker of Geneva. ‘ INDIANA WEATHER ?. Partly cloudy and continued cold through Friday. Low tonight 5 below to 5 above extreme north and 5-15 above elsewhere. High Friday 20-25 north, 25-30 sguth.

Red Invasion Fleet Headed Toward Tachen New Red Chinese Invasion Fleet Is Reported At Tachen TAIPEH (INS) —A new Chinese Communist invasion fleet was reported heading today toward the Tachen islands which Nationalist troops are scheduled to evacuate shortly under President Eisenhower’s defense plan. Nationalist reconnaissance pilots reported a substantial buildup of Red landing ships northeast of Yichangshan, the island whiclf was captured last week by the Reds in an amphibious operation. Yichangshan lies just eight miles north of the main Tachen island and slightly more than 200 miles north of the Chiang Kai-Shek bastion of Formosa. The Nationalist air force announced that Its planes bombed two Chinese Red ships-described as of ‘‘fairly large size"-north-east of Yichangshan Wednesday night. ~ Returning Nationalist pilots said there was a large formation of, Red ships nearby. The two Red vessels hit were apparently badly damaged since the Nationalist .airmen said they spotted explosions amidship on both craft. In other action off the China coast, the Nationalist defense ministry said Nationalist artillery on Quemoy island. JOO miles west of Formosa, shelled enemy positions on Amoy and Taten islands and also scored hits on an unspecified number of Red ships neat Hsiastun island just north of Amoy. The Nationalist navy, ever watchful of a new invasion attempt by the Reds, announced the arrival of a n American torpedo boat at. the south Formosa port of Kaohsiung Wednesday. This was the thirtieth torpedo boat handed over to the Nationalist by the U. S. navy during re-Ce-tit months. Amid .the war tension, the U. S. seventh fleet and the Formosabased U. S. air force 18th fighter bomber wing were standing by awaiting orders to assist in the evacuation of 10,000 Nationalist troops and about 15,000 civilians from the Tachen islands. Nationalist circles were generally heartened by President Eisenhower’s statement on Formosa (Continued on Page Five) John B. Miller Dies At Home In Monroe Funeral Services Sunday Afterndon John B. Miller, 76, retired Monroe blacksmith, died at his home in that town at 9 o’clock Wednesday night following a cerebral hemorrhage. He had been in poor health for several years but had not been serious until stricken last evening. He was born in Indiana April 27, 1878, a son of Mathias and Barbara Hane-Miller, and had lived in Monroe for many years, operating a blacksmith shop until his retirement. His wife, the former Inez Andrews, preceded him in death. Mr. Miller was a member of the Monroe Methodist church. Surviving are two sons, Frederick Miller of Larue, O„ and Leo L. Miller of Washington, D. C.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at l:3u p. m. Sunday at the Lobensteln funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Monroe Methodist church, the Rev. Ralph Johnson and the Rev. Ralph Davison officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. Friends may call at the. funeral home after 7 p. m. Friday until time of the services.

Passenger Train Derailed In Ohio ' I Six Cars Derailed, Report One Injured SALEM, O„ (INS) — Six cars of the crack Chicago-to-New York Gotham limited were derailed a quarter of a mile east of nearby Leetonia today and police said one person was injured. The state highway patrol said that none of the cars of the speedy Pennsylvania railroad train overturned. The patrol reported that one ot the wheel carriages apparently broke and caused the derailment. A considerable amount of track was torn up. The accident occurred»at 7:45 a.m. (EST) shortly after/the train stopped in Salem. Its next stop was to have been Pittsburgh. Many ot the passengers - were forced out into sub-zero weather. A Pennsylvania railroad spokesman in Pittsburgh disputed the police injury claim and said none of the passengers was harmed in the accident whcih involved five pullman cars and a baggage cars The train was carrying 111 passengers, thirty-six of them traveling by Pullman, the remainder by coach. The spokesman said the Pennsy’s morning Steeler, running from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, will pick up the stranded passengers in the tiny town and bring them to Pittsburgh. Passengers heading tor New York will be put on a special train which is being made up in Pittsburgh. Decatur Polio Fund Drive Is Near Goal City, County Fund Figures Incomplete A total of $2,545.88 was collected in Decatur during the 1955 March of Dimes campaign according to an announcement by Herman Krueckeberg, polio fund treasurer. This total excludes the amount brought in by the polio benefit dance at sunset park last week. Cliff Brewer, chairman of the dance, stated that the exact amount has not been determined but that it will probably total around $135. The collected total is close to the $3,000 goal which was set for Decatur In the campaign. Lyle Mallonee and Mike Pryor, general chairmen of the Decatur drive, expressed their appreciation for all of those whose cooperation contributed to the success of the drive. Largest amount of the drive came from the Mothers March, which resulted In donations totalling $1,260.21. Sponsored by Beta Sigma Phi sorority under the chairmanship ot Mrs. Robert Lane, this project was conducted with the aid of more than 95 Decatur men, women and Boy Scouts. Sources of other contributions to the .drive in this community include schools, $374.36; coin cards and cannisters, $92.34; march of dollars at Holthouse Drug store and the Donut Shop, $196; balloon sales, $268.72; organizations, $198.50, parking meters, $17.50, and others. $139.25. The current county total is now over $4,000. However, this is far from a complete total since many of the county divisions have not yet reported returns. The county goal, including Decatur, is $6,000. Band Booster Fund Previously Reported $816.47 Joe Smith (Band Member) 5.00 Total $821.4? Contributions can be made bj sending any amount to Band Booster fund, care of Hugh J. An drews, principal of Decatur high school. All money deceived will go toward the purchase ot new uni forms for the Decatur high school {land.

Chou Rejects Invitation To . Discuss Issue Radio Peiping Says i Cease-Fire Move Is t Denounced By Reds ’ TOKYO, Feb. 4 — (Friday) — - (INS) — Communist China today rejected the United Nations invitat tion to send representatives to New ’ York to discuss a New Zealand - resolution for a cease-fire in the : Formosa strait before the UN Security Council. ’ The Red refusal to accept the bid was reported tn a Radio Peiping broadcast quoting a letter r £ ro ® Com nninist Chingse premierforeign minister Chou En-Lai to UN secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold. C Chou advised Hammarskjold the j Peiping regime would send repre- . sentatives to the UN security council only if that body would con- . sider a Russian resolution calling . for withdrawal of American forces - from Formosa, and only if Nationalist China were ‘‘driven out” ot . the council. F-- The Peiping broadcast, heard in ; Tokyo, quoted Chou's letter as de i nouncing the New Zealand ceasefire resolution as merely intended ’ to “cover up the acts of aggresI sion by the U.S. against China.” 1 Chou termed it “especially intol•rable’’ that Red > China does not belong to the UN, while the Nationallst government is a member, and continued: Such an extremely unjustified situation makes it impossible for the People's Republic of China to take part in discussions of questions concerning China in the UN. Therefore, the government of the People’s Republic of China cannot send a representative to take part ' in the discussion of the New Zea- ' land proposal In response to the invitation of the UN security coun- ; ci,; ■ Chou went on to warn that without a Communist Chinese representative “participating in the name of China in the discussions , of the UN security council, all decisions taken in the security council on questions concerning China would be Illegal and null and void.” The (Red premier’s letter to the UN declared that “only for the purpose of discussing” the Russian resolution and only when Nationalist China has been unseated while the Chinese Communists are recognized before the international body han the Peiping government “send a representative to take part in the discussions." Chou claimed the Peiping retime “consistently works for the casing of tension in the Far East and the safeguarding of international peace.” His letter to Hammarskjold, as quoted in the Red broadcast, “The tension in the area of Taiwan (Formosa) was brought about _ >y U. S. occupation of Taiwan and ntervent in China's internal af'alrs. “All genuine international ef‘orts to ease and eliminate the ension created by the U. S. in this rrea and in other areas of the Far Sast will receive the support of he (Communist) People’s Repubic of China.” . Chou’s letter began with an atack on the U.S. saying: “The United States aggression against Chinese territory of Taiwan (Formosa) has all along been the source of tension in the Far East . . “Recently, after it concluded the so-called ‘mutual security treaty’ with the traitorous Chian Kai-shek clique, the United States dispatched units of naval and air forces to the area of Taiwan and the Taiwan straits and openly made war threat and war provocations against the Chinese people in preparation for an extension of aggression against China, thereby further aggravating the tension in the Far East."

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