Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 9 February 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LUI. No. 33.

HEAR RUSS SHAKEUP : *.*• tlnK« TOP LEGISLATORS in Washington heard with surprise the sudden shakeup in Russian leadership. Foreign relations committee chairman Walter F. George (D) , Oa., (center-top) tells newsmen that "it looks like a tougher policy inside and outside Russia" will result from Bulganin’s assumption of the Premiership. Sen. William F. Knowiand (R), Calif, (lower-left) and House minority leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R), Mass., left a White House discussion of the shakeup with President Eisenhower and Knowiand said they found it too early to “know just what significance” could be attached to the change.

House Studies All-Time High State Budget .. .... o . -« — State's Education Problem Raised In Upper House Today INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The house of representatives met today to consider the all-time high state biennial budget while the senate was asked to consider the all-time low-state of schooling in Hoosierland. The house met as a committee of the whole to go over the budget which was set at $669-million by the state budget committee but "boosted" to |675 - million by the house ways and means committee. Sen. Chales R. Kellum raised the education problem with a warning that Indiana is inviting federal intervention unless action is taken. The Mooresville Republican took the floor in a point of personal privilege to say his education committee has 50 bills dealing with the problem and pointing up its seriousness. Kellum said Indiana has fallen from sixth to 13th among the states with regard to teachers’ pay and that 20 state legislatures now in session are considering cost-of-living salary increases for teachers. Said Kelum: "We cannot continue to lose Indiana-trained teachers to other states any more than we can continue to have thousands of Hoosier children compelled to attend half- ' day schooling sessions because of classroom shortages.” The senator advocated the use of the state common school fund to set up a state school bulding fund. He said money borrowed could be amortized through state aid. Kellum said only local property tax now is available for classroom expansion. Rep. Laurence Baker said his ways and means committee transcended party lines and operated solely on an economic basis. The Kendallville Republican urged fair treatment of the bill brought to the house three weeks ahead of 1953. One item leading to the increase in the bdget above the figure asked by the state budget committee was expansion of several state governmental units. Indianapolis Man Commits Suicide INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —A 30-year-old Indianapolis man died Tuesday of a bullet wound selfinflicted after his wife tried to have on charges of assault. Everett Allen, Jr., fired a shot through his head Monday ending an argument with his wife, Patricia. 24, who had been denied the warrant by police.

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Decatur Seniors To Capital Thursday Senior Students To Visit State House Fifty-seven members of the senior class of the Decatur high school, students in civics and sociology classes taught by Hugh J Andrews, principal, and Deane Dorwin, will pay a visit to the Indiana general assembly Thursday. The students will leave the Decatur high school at 7 o’clock Thursday morning, make a breakfast stop at 8 o’clock, and are scheduled to arrive at the state house at 9:15 a. m. CST., where they will remain until 12 noon. They will be allowed free time in Indianapolis until the return trip at 3 o’clock, and are scheduled to arrive in Decatur at 6 o’clock tomorrow evening. The students will view a film and hear-an introductory talk at 9:30 a. nr, and will then visit both the house of representatives and the senate, where they will be introduced to the state’s lawmakers. Students making the trip are Stanley Allison, Gerald Bair, Phil Baker, William A. Baumann, Marilyn Braun, R. Eugene Butcher, Patricia Ann Byrd, Joan Clark, Roger Cookson, Dana Mae Dalzell, Roger Daniels, Donald Duff, June Elaine Edwards, Doyle Lee Egly, Roger Eichenauer, Roger Bryan Eley, David C. Embler, Jr„ Joyce Franklin. Shirley Garner, Sara Ann Gerber, Gerald Grote, Janette Hahnert, David Halterman, John Hammond, P. William Hancher, Gwendolyn Sue Hilyard, Max Hilyard, James Holt, Nola Isch, Kay Johnson, Charles W. Judt, Jerry W Keller, Carl Lehrman. Joyce Colleen Lobsiger, Barbara Mcßride, Fred McDougal, (Continued on Pture Eight) Many Auto License Tags Still Unsold Feb. 28 Deadline To Buy New Tags With February 28 set as the final deadline for use of 1954 automobile license tags, Mrs. Dale Death, manager of the Decatur* auto license branch, said today that more than 66 percent of Decatur motorists still were using their old license tags. Mrs. Death said that it would be necessary to sell more than 200 new tags a day from now until the final date if all people get their new tags on time. The local branch is not set up to take care of that many customers, Mrs. Death said, and a lot of last minute applicants for 1956 tags will be disappointed unless they come in immediately. All applicants are urged to bring their tax receipts with them, because no, tags will be issued without current receipts, in accordance with the law, the manager stated.

Senate Group Okays Formosa Defense Pact Committee Urges Ratification Os Treaty Os Defense WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate foreign relations committee called today for prompt ratification of the Formosa defense treaty to deter Red China from "reckless” aggression nad tell the world that America will not abandon the Nationalist Chinese. The committee filed a 15-page formal report on the defense pact as the senate prepared to open debate which, its leaders hope, will bring tonight or Thursday. At the same time, legislators aimed "sharp” questions at the nation's military chiefs on the issue of cutting U. S. strength in the face of war threats by Russia and tßed China. The questions were ready for defense secretary Charles E. Wilson and Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who are to testify before the senate armed services committee. The foreign relations group said: "There is cogent reason to expedite the senate’s action on the treaty, to the end that the Mao Tse-Tung regime may be deterred from reckless attempts to ‘liberate’ Formosa in the face of our pledged word to help keep it from falling into unfriendly hands.” The committee said it is of “great importance” that U. S. policy to defend the Aleutian-Austra-lia island chain be “supported by a concrete undertaking” for defense of Formosa and The Pescadores. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) a committee member, said questioning of the chiefs about military manpower cuts is "bound to be sharper” as a result of Soviet Premier Malenkov’s resignation and the selection of defense minister Bulganin to succeed him. Senators also are interested in the relationship between this latest Russian policy shift and Red China’s threat to Formosa. Their concern was expected to be reflected in debate today when the senate formally takes up the Formosa defense treaty, approved by an 11-2 vote of the foreign relations committee Tuesday. Sen. Wayne Morse (Ind.-Ore.) opposing the pact, said he would try again to revise it but would not delay a final vote. He said the committee strategy of placing clarifying language in its report on the treaty does not have any "legal meaning” in international law. Morse wants a reservation adopted to eliminate from the pact a reference to extending U. S. defense to territory other than Formosa and the Pescadores through mutual agreement. Symington sounded a prelude to today's session with Wilson and Radford when he told the senate that "war is inevitable” unless the Chinese Communists or the Eisenhower administration change their position on Formosa. He noted that in Russia the “head of the Soviet military has (Continued on Page Eight) John W. Thatcher Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon John W. Thataher, 92-year-old resident of Bobo, died at 5:30 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital following a critical illness of one month. - Hevts -a- retired farmer and blacksmith and served for many years as janitor of the Mt. Zion United Brethren church at Bobo. He was born near Willshire, 0., Nov. 7, 1862, a son of John and Bell Ruby-Thatcher. Mr. Thatcher was a member of the Mt Zion United Brethren church at Bobo and a Sunday school teacher there for many years. Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Jane Troutner; one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Wachlie of Bobo; one grandchild; two great-grandchildren; two brothers, James H. Thatcher of Fort Wayne and Otto Thatcher of Colorado, and one sister, Mrs. Pearl Cox of Fort Wayne. * Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Black funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Mt. Zion U. B. church at Bobo, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Thursday.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, February 9, 1955.

American Plane Shot Down By Anti-Aircraft Fire; Three Men Saved

Soviet Russia Pledges Help j To Red China New Russ Premier Denounces American Policy On Formosa MOSCOW (INS) —New Soviet premier mrashal Nikolai Bulganin in his first speech as head of the government today pledged the Soviet Union’s “full support” of Communist China in its demand for possession of Nationalist-held and American-protected Formosa. 'Deputies applauded stormily when he denounced American policy and said “the Chinese can count on the help of its true friend, the Soviet Union.” Bulganin told parliament that “lunatics are brandishing atomic weapons and must be called to order.” George Malenkov, the resigned predecessor of Bulganin, was appointed a deputy and a minister for electric power stations and endorsed by the supreme soviet (parliament) deputies. Malenkov Tuesday had stunned the deppties by resigning with a confession of “guilt” for agricultural shortcomings and lack of administrative experience. Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, the World War Two conquer of Berlin and wartime friend of President Eisenhower, was unanimously approved as new defense minister to fill the vacancy caused by Bulganin's elevation to the premiership. He had been first deputy defense Minister. The white - goateed Bulganin charged that the United States was following “a dangerous road” with its policy on Formosa, which he called a “lawful” part of Communist China, In his first speech as new head of the government premier Bulganin followed the line of previous speakers with attacks on the allegedly aggressive policies of the western nations. The United States, Bulganin charged, is following “a dangerous roid” with its policy on National-ist-held Formosa. He said Formosa was a “lawful” part of China. In backing the Chineset Communists’ demand for Formosa, the new premier said the role of the United Nations on the question was “astonishing.” “So far,” he said, “they (the United Nations) have not con - (Continued on Page Six)

Discovery Os A New Wonder Drug Reported

ATLANTA, Ga. (INS) — Scientists announced today the discovery of a new wonder drug which may be of substantial help in the fight against tuberculosis and. genito urinary tract diseases. •4t is a new antibiotic which the scientists reported had produced “impressive” improvement in severe- pulmonary tuberculosis cases and “good" results in stubborn infections of the genito-urinary tract. Three New York clinicians made the disclosures concerning TB in a paper read before the 14th veterans administration •— army-navy conference on the chemotherapy of tuberculosis, which is being held in Atlanta in cooperation with the national tuberculosis association. The new antibiotic, known by the trademark of “seromycin" and the genric name of “cycloserine" was discovered in research laboratories of Commercial Solvents Corporation at Terre Haute, Ind. This concern arranged for a joint research project with Ell Lilly & Co ? Indianapolis Pharmaceutical manufacturer. The scientists are Dr. Israel Epstein, Dr. K. G. S. Nair and Dr. Linn J. Boyd. The paper was read by Dr. Epstein. Officials of the two companies issued a statement warning that

Arraign Three On Burglary Charges . Pauper Attorneys Appointed For Trio The three men arrested Sunday night and charged with the breakin at the Arthur Bertsch home in St. Mary’s township, were arraigned Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. Charles Johnson, 22, of Decatur, and Raymond Fair, 26, of Van Went, 0., appeared in Adams circuit court Tuesday afternoon to hear the charges against them and to be advised of their rights. Both were placed under 33,060 bail. Attorney Robert Anderson was named pauper attorney for Fair and attorney Robert G. Smith was appointed to represent Johnson. Both were remanded to the Adams county jail pending further proceedings in the case. The affidavit against Johnson is on three counts, auto banditry which carries a sentence of 10 to 26 years on conviction,, accessory before Che fact to entry to commit a felony with a one to 10 years sentence, and accessory before the fact to first degree burglary, with a possible sentence of 10 to 20 years. Fair and the third fan involved, Robert E, Grimm, ul, of Decatur route six, face charges of auto banditry. entry to commit a felony and first degree burglary. Grimm, whb was thought to be represented by a Fort Wayne attorney, testified in his arraignment this morning that he did not have .the means to employ counsel and asked for a court-appointed attorney. Hubert MeClenahan will represent him. The bond on Grimm was also set at $3,060. The arrest of the three men cleared up a series of recent farm home breaking in Adams, Allen, Wells and Van Wert, 0., counties. Property taken from the Bertsch home was found in thje possession of all fhree. iGrimm and Johnson are both under a $2,000 bond pending a grand jury indictment in the Fort Wayne federal court on a charge of violation of the Dyer act which prohibits transporting a, stolen car across the state line. ' INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild tonight. Thursday cloudy, with rain or snow north, turning colder northwest and extreme north, and partly cloudy and continued mild south. Low tonight 32-38 north, 38-42 south. High Thursday ranging from 34-38 extreme north to around 60 extreme south.

although early tests are “promising", it is still too early to define the medical usefulness of the drug. Tlffe statement added: “Other drugs which at first produced remarkable results were hailed prematurely as 'cures*' While some of these drugs subsequently have found their places as valuable therapeutic agents, their llmitiatlons are now understood.” The statement said this past history dictates caution and added that months of additional clinical work will be necessary before a decision can be made about marketing “seromycin.” The veterans administration announced that it will conduct a pil£t study of the new drug's clinical effectiveness. Officials said they hoped it would be as effective against tuberculosis as streptomycin, PAS and isoniazid. Tlte paper said that the ne.w drug had been administered to 37 severely ill pulmonary TB patients over a three-month period with ■the following results: 1. Thirty-six patients showed clinical Improvement; that is, they looked and felt better. ’ 2. X-ray showed some improvement of the Infected lung areas in 28 patients. 3. Thirty patients gained in (Continued on Page Six)

U. S. Policy Unchanged By Red Shakeup President Speaks On Dramatic Shift In Russian Leaders WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower said today the ouster of Georgl Malenkov as Soviet Premier obviously shows dissatisfaction with what has been going on in Russia but does not necessarily mean the Kremlin has adopted a tougher policy toward the free world. The Chief Executive told his new's conference it is impossible to say yet what the Russian shakeup means but he emphasized that it does not change basic U. S. policy toward the Soviets or.his own determination to pursue the quest for a just and permanent peace. —- # Mr. Eisenhower made these top points in his detailed discussion of the dramatic events in Moscow and of the Formosa situation: 1. He declared there is no proof that Russia’s atomic strength is now superior to that of the U.S. as claimed by Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov Tuesday after marshal Niklai Bulganin succeeded Malenkov as premier. 2. The President said the peaceloving nations must pursue with all their might efforts to find a way to end the threat of atomic devastation. 3. He indicated he might be willing to renew his 1946 invitation to his wartime friend, Marshal Georgi Zhukov, to visit the U. S. Zhukov, Russia’s new’ defense minister, expressed a desire for such a visit in an interview with publisher William Randolph Hearst Jr. and Kingsbury Smith of International News Service. 4. The President said that Zhukov’s account of their World War II talks, as related in the interview, was remarkably accurate. He praised Zhukov as a splendid military leader. 5. Mr. Eisenhower disclosed that in advance of Tuesday’s shakeup he had received confidential reports indicating dissension in the Kremlin, but said there had been no prediction that Malenkov would be ousted as Premier. 6. He said, in reference to. the Formosa situation, that evacuation of the Tachen Islands under protection of the U. S. seventh fleet is proceeding according to plan, that there have been no untoward incidents of any importance, and that the operation should be completed very soon. John C. Braun Dies Tuesday Evening Funeral Services Friday Morning John Carl (Charles) Braun, 82-year-old retired cabinet maker of Berne, died at 8:55 o’clock Tuesday night following a year’s illness of arterio sclerosis. He was born at Vera Cruz June 17, 1872, a son of Jacob and Louise Neier-Braun, and was a lifelong resident of the Berne community. Mr. Braun was a member of the Reformed church. , Surviving are his wife, Gertrude Alice; two daughters, Mrs. Ira D. Rohrer of Dayton, 0., and Miss Edna Braun, a registered nurse, now caring for her invalid mother; two grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; and two sisters; Mrs. John Hilty of Berne and Mrs. Rufus Hawk of Superior, Wis. Two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services wilt be conducted at 10:?0 a.m. Friday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the Rev. C. A. Sehrtfid officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Thursday.

School Program Is Under Sharp Fire Ike Program Under Fire Os Democrats WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower’s billion-dollar school program came under sharp fire today from Democrats on the senate labor committee where ,Jt eventually must face its first test. Chairman Lister Hill (D Ala.), attacked as a "meager dole’’ the 200 million dollars in the program for direct aid to school construction over the next three years. He said this would be only a “paltry” sum of about 66 million dollars a year. Sen. Patrick McNamara (D Mich.), termed the amount “peanuts.” Hill said he will press for committee approval of his own bill, which provides 500 million dollars in direct federal aid over each of two years. He has 29 co-authors — -nearly bne-third of the senate. Democrats hit also at the part Os the President’s program under which local school districts would get federal loans for classroom construction. The bulk of the federal money—7so millions—would go to purchase bonds for this constructton. McNamara said that school districts already are heavily in debt and this would be asking “our children to pay the bill.” Hill declared there would be “Interminable delay” in getting as well as under a third peg of the schools built under this proposal Eisenhower program. The third peg calls for creation of state agencies to build schools and rent them to local districts. The federal government would share the interest payments on construction loans the first year. Acting senate Democratic leader Earle C. Clements. Ky„ said the administration program is more a state than a federal-aid measure. He said it would pile up additional debts on states which “they cannot repay.” Three Firemen Are Killed At Muncie Wall Collapses On Firemen At Muncie MUNCIE, Ind. (INS) — Three firemen were killed and a fourth was injured seriously today when a brick wall collapsed on them as they were fighting a raging fire at a Muncie paper factory. The fire in the Schwartz Paper company set off an explosion which caused the wall to collapse upon the men, all Muncie firemen. Loss may run as high as a million dollars. The dead were Identified as Vernon Lutton, 32, Doyle Upchurch, 34. and Pete White, 50. all of Muncie. In Muncie Ball memorial hospital with a broken leg .and shock was Eugene Sanders, 25, also of Muncie.. A spokesman for the company said that the loss might range anywhere from a to a million dollars. r Cause of the conflagration was not known, but the fire apparently began in a warehouse for printing papers. ’ - Frederick W. Greene Is Taken By Death * Frederick W. Greene. *SB, Fort Wayne attorney and Democratic candidate for congress, fourth district, last year, died 'Tuesday afternoon at his home near Yoder. He had been in poor health two years with a heart ailment. Surviving are his widow, Griselda, and 4 son, Frederick W. Greene, Jr. Funeral services will be held at 9:1'5 a. m. Thursday at the Mungovan & Sons funeral home and at 16 a. m. in St. Aloysius Catholic church at Yoder, with burial in the church cemetery.

Ist American Plane Loss In Formosa Move All Three Crewmen Rescued; Military Evacuation ,Goes On TAIPEH (INS) — Evacuation of some 15,000 Chinese Nationalist troops from the Tachen islands got underway in full swing today and the operation was marked by the first loss of an American plane to Communist anti-aircraft fire. _* The military evacuation from the Communist-menaced islands, 200 miles north of Formosa, went into high gear after more than 17,000 civilians were moved out safely. The loss of the navy plane was reported from the U.S.S. Estes, amphibious command ship, by INS Far Eastern director Marvin Stone. The plane, a carrier-based Navy Skyraider attack bomber, was hit by Red ground fire about 20 miles southwest of the Tachens and forced to ditch in the East China Sea. All three men aboard were rescued. The navy classed the incident—* and a preceding one in which a navy patrol plane Was slightly damaged—as “not hostile” and no retaliatory measures were planned. The navy explained that the planes were “off limits”—outside the prescribed area for planes protecting the evacuation. The Nationalist defense ministry at Taipei, reporting on the evacuation, said that a total of 17,133 civilians had either arrived at the North Formosa port of Keelung or were aboard American and Nationalist ships at sea. Correspondent Stone, reporting from the Tachens, said that American sallo: and marines landed on upper Tachen to. take over the military evacuation' Stone reported that explosions shattered the quiet of the island as Nationalist troops destroyed everything of military value. LL Gen. Liu Lien Yi, Nationalist division commander, said stone houses in the villages would .be left untouched, explaining: “We will come back some day.” The Chinese general said the military evacuation should be completed by Thursday night, after which time the Communists will move into the islands, abandoned by the Nationalists under President Eisenhower’s redeployment plan for defense of Formosa. —- In a report On the civilian evacuation, Vice Adm. Alfred M. Pride, seventh fleet commander, announced that the “last organized group” of civilians boarded the U. S. S. Bexar this morning. (Continued on Page Eight) BULLETIN MIAMI (INS) — Presidents George Meany of the AFL and Walter Reuther of the CIO announced today that they have reached a “satisfactory agreement” on recommendations leading to a merger of the two labor organizations. MARCH OF DIMES Previously Reported $6110.45 Monmouth School — Additional 2.00 Coin Cannisters Monroe —Mrs. Russell Mitchel Chrm. 33.21 Adams Central School— Additional 3.66 6th Grade Methodist Church—Decaturl_ 5.50 St Mary’s Twp.—Mrs. Paul Rich & Mrs. Glenn Mann, Co.-Chrm. Coin Coll. —Bobo-St. Mary’s Twp. 8.51 Coin Coll.—Pleasant MlllsSL Mary’s Twp. 6.55 Bobo School—St. Mary’s Twp. 16.00 Pleasant Mills School — St. Mary's Twp. 28.32 Pleasant Mills Methodist ~ church 5.00 TOTALS $6,313.97

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