Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 17 March 1955 — Page 1

Vol. UH. No. 64.

OUT OF LINES — nw ihiliii i nimi M| •1 ICWKUV JM b«t ■. -IwIL &• ; 4 •>>■'■ >■ .’ Jit W* ♦ . ' fifo* * ' -— - J J-°NG DISTANCE operator Betty Christian and PBX repairman K. T. Humphries symbolize the situation in the Southern Bell Telephone company in nine states as they picket the Atlanta. Ga.. plant. Guard is J. H. Watson. Some 50.000 ClO-Communications Workers are striking Southern Bell.

Warns On Need Os Extending Excise Taxes Warns Os Windfall For Industries If Tax Not Extended WASHINGTON (INS) —Rep. Daniel.A- Reed (R N. Y..) declared today a few U. S. Industries would |et a 200 million dollar windfall it presept MfiUe r«jU* are not extended before April 1. Reed, ranking republican on the tax-writing house ways and means committee, said 132 millions of the “windfall" would go to the liquor industry alone. The measure extending current excise and corporation income rates for one year beyond April 1 is now before a house-senate conference committee. / The veteran legislator referred to reports the Democrats planned to force the senate to agree to a personal income tax cut by keeping the conferees deadlocked right ‘ up to the April 1 deadline Re« d ' said:’ ”tt Is difficult’-foP me to believe that the responsible leadership of the Democratic party would lend itself to such shotgun tactics.*’ The house tied a 320-per-persop individual income tax cut to the measure ‘extending present rates on liquor, beer, wine, cigarettes, gasoline and automobiles as well as corporate income. The latter are scheduled to drop back to pre Korean rates April 1. The senate voted the extensions but rejected any tax cut plan. Wednesday,—the house voted to send the measure to a conference committee. Fugitives Caught By State Trooper Jail Breakers Back In Jail At Kqkomo KOKOMO. Ind. (INS) —Three men who staged a jail break Tuesday were back in the Howard county bastille today after the remaining two fugitives were captured by a state trooper near Indiana's famed Santa Claus. First Sgt. Joseph O’Brien of the Jasper police post saw Roy Boatman, 31, of Richmond, and Eljie Broughton, 33, of Kokomo, walking along Ind. 345 between Dale and Santa Claus. The two fugitives surrendered to him even though they had obtained a revolver since their escape. It was purchase of the revolver in Santa, which led to the . tip ..kkcames -werr-ih’ the vidlnity. k The firsj at the .trio toAacapa by threatening to kill a turnkey with a knife fashioned from a bed was captured the same day near Kokomo. He is Daul Quinn, 39, of Kokomo. Boatman and Broughton acquired an additional charge that will not be faced by Quinn as a result of their longer spell of freedom. They are charged With kidnaping James Polling, of Kokomo, and forcing him to drive them in his (Continued on Page Five)

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Struck Railroad Halls Operations Labor Unions Sued By Struck Railroad LOUISVILLE, £y. (INS) — The strike-bound Louisville & Nashville railroad virtually ceased operations today and sued unions involved in the labor trouble for 31,290,000. Two suits were entered Wednesday night after the railroad announced it was forced to cancel •11 of its scheduled passenger train runs .and half of its freight trains in 13 southern and central states. One suit asked for 3645,000 damages from 10 striking non-operat-ing unions — 3215,000 for each of the three days of the Strike. A second bill seeks the same amount from other unions whose members refused to cross the strikers’ picket lines. The road claims this was a "breach of con tract." The railroad's double-barreled action followed by a few hours circuit court Judge Stuart E. Lampe's decision that non-strikers must honor picket lines. zJudge Lampe had issued a tern-, ’tforfcry ‘ fnjuhctW Tuestfay" drffijF ing non-strikers across the-picket lines. He dissolved that order Wednesday. The strike, in addition to idling some 15,000 union members, may result in the layoff of 13,000 coal miners in eastern Kentucky and layoffs in plaiits depending on the road to transport their merchandise. The non - operating workers struck Monday over a two-year dispute concerning health and welfare plans. Sunday pay and vacations. L&N, in its suit, claims the ■strike is illegal and charges that the unions used coercive means to try to get compulsory health and welfare programs in defiance of state and federal law. Federal mediator Frank W. Switzer of Washington, said there has been "absolutely no progress” in his attempts to settle the dispute. Depot Is Closed EVANSVILLE. Ind. (INS) — The Louisville and Nashville railroad depot at Evansville was closed today for the first time in recollection as a, result of the 13state strike by non - operating union workers. There is no freight service in or out of Evansville on the L&N now and only the local shifting of cars are operating. Trainmen said someone threw eggs at the switch engine Wednesday night and “some men in a car threw a rock through a railroad crossing tower^window” but no one was hurt. It was the third act of violence in the strike at Evansville. «' *• ■ .. „ -' - • • ■ ■ ■ *->• INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional rgin central and south portions and rain, sleet or snow .extreme north portion tonight and not so cold tonight. Warmer south •- and, east-central portion Friday. LoW tonight 30-35 north, 36-42 south. High Friday 35-40 extreme north to near 60 extreme south. 12 Pages

Dulles States Congressmen Asked Release Gives Reason For Ordering Release Os Yalta Papers WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today he ordered release of cause of a general desire of both the controversial Yalta papers because of a general desire of both Republicans and Democrats in congress for their publication. The secretary said he did not expect publication of the long-se-cret documents to still the furor over the Yalta agreements. He said: “I expect the controversy to go on through the ages." Shortly before boarding his plane for a three-day official visit to Canada. Dulles blew up at a newsman who again asked him why he released the Yalta papers at this time. The question was put to him by Peter Clapper, of the Columbia Broadcasting System, when Dulles was standing before a microphone alongside Canadian ambassador Arnold Heeney. Dulles had been asked the question twice before by individual newsmen while Clapper was not present and also while he was not before the microphone. When the CBS correspondent asked Dulles about publication of the Yalta papers, the secretary grew angry, stamped away from the microphone, went over to Clapper standing nearby and told him: "I’m not going to stand here at this time and make a statement about Canada and have a question like that shot at me.” Then Dulles, visibly angry, stalked off to the airplane leaving the Canadian ambassador standing in front of the microphone. Clapper later told other newsmen: “I asked the question because that was the story.” . A few minutes earlier when the secretary was asked why the papers were published, he told a flporter: —‘ “We sent word to congress that they were ready three to4our days ago. The general reaction of congress was to publish them rather than hold them on a restricted basis. This was the view of Republicans and Democrats.” Dulles said the papers were released "because they were ready."

Three-Year-Old Girl Returned To Mother Grave Decision Byu South Bend Judge SOUTH BEND, Ind. (INS) — A decision termed by the judge as “the most grave of my career” today sent three-year-old Cathy Ruth Major back to the mother from whom she had been separated at the age of one. Judge F. Kenneth Dempsey of St. Joseph superior court late Wednesday ordered Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Welch to return Cathy to her mother at the climax of a two-year-long custody battle. The transfer w-as effected amid' the tears of the foster parents, the mother, Cathy and court aides. Judge Dempsey was bitter in his condemnation of the absent father, Stephen Major, 3ff, of Chicago, who, the judge said, had given Cathy to the Welchs when she was a one-year-old baby. Judge Dempsey said that charges made by the father that his wife had abandoned Cathy and two other children were wholly false. Mrs. Major said that when she returned to her trailer home and found the little girl missing, her husband tried to force her to sign adoption papers but she refused. The Welchs cared for Cathy during the two years the custody argument went on in the St. Joseph superior court and the Indiana supreme court. The state’s high court reversed a decision by the former judge of the superior court, J. Elmer Peak, to allow Cathy to remain with her foster ptfriftits; and ordered aW trial, which ended with Judge Dempsey’s |B-pagp. opinion Wednesday. LATE lULUUNS TAIPEH (INS) —Nationalist China’s air force announced late Thursday night that its plane* had sunk or damaged eight Chinese Communiat gunboats In two strikes against a rad fleet of more than 200 vessels north of the Mateu lalands.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 17, 1955,

Controversy Rages On Publication Os Long Secret Yalta Papers

Yalta Release Sensation In London Circles

British Objected To Present Release Os Yalta Documents LONDON (INS) — British prime minister Sir Winston Churchill said today that there were "serious mistakes” in published reports he had seen of the American State Department version of the 1945 Big Three conference at Walta in the Crimea. The 80-year-old Churchill, only survivor of the top statesmen who attended the wartime conference, told house of commons, questioners that Britain “does- not accept responsibility of the American version” of the parley. Growing British bitterness against the late President ißoosevelt was reflected in editorial comment published just before Churchill was asked about the state department records. The conservatvle London Evening Standard, first newspaper to comment editorially, said Britons will be shocked and astonished by the American report which “shows that the United States policy under Roosevelt was based on tlw maxim: ‘Teach/ the Russians to trust us — cut the throats of the British’.” Churchill said he “did not decline to agree to publication of the papers,” but he added that he warned in general against publication of detailed conversations at Yalta among himself, President Roosevelt and Soviet Premier Stalin. '

He said that if such publication "became an established practice it might hamper the free exchange of views in future conferences” by world leaders, .... ttad .before Washington release of the Yalta documents as opposing their publication for various reasons, Including a belief that the hostile anti-German comments at the time would not be received Well among Germans who are now about to become allies in the North Atlantic treaty organization. “It is of course the American version,” said Churchill of the state department release, "and in no sense an agreed official record of the* powers concerned." Asked If the British should not publish their record of the conference the prime minister said “it 1 ought to be considered, but I want to see the U.S. document first.” It was believed the publication ' of the proceedings of the February, 1945 Big Three meeting would , discourage the Soviet Union from joining in top-level talks now and impede the West German rearmament plans. A foreign office spokesman admitted that the British government had been informed in advance of. the department’s intention *to release the documents de- 1 spite strong British objections. He said the government had pointed out its view that it was 1 (Continued on Page Five) 1

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Charles Collier, Antioch United Missionary Church) GOOD COMPANIONS II Peter 1:10-15 Tife t&ree-fold iSstFuctidn ttom C»*rist*To "feed ftiy rOibs" ? so indelibly impressed upon the Apostle Peter that he never for.B°} , As. be remsined in the his earthly body he felt' that he need not make excuses for the inessage delivered to him. ..Always and everywhere he warned people of the “Precious faith” and "Precious promises” which are in Christ Jesus. Salvation is not so much like nothing that we can have it and not know it. If we are sensible to the fact that God has forgiven us our sins because we have confessed them, and forsaken them, then It is with all diligence that we are' urged to strive for that abundant entrance of which Peter speaks. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people. Those who go there must be Companions' of the Saints to whom this gospel was once delivered. Axe you ready to stand up and be counted a companion of Christ? Are you ashamed to speak His name publicly? What did you do today to make your election and calling sure?

Henley Will Serve Only Part Os Term Only Two Months On Supreme Court INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Speculation over the successor to the successor to the late Supreme Court Justice Frank E. Gilkison was aroused today when judgedesignate George W. Henley, announced he will serve only two months. The vacancy created by the death Feb. 25 of Judge Gilkison was believed filled until the end of the Washington justice’s term, Jan. 1, 1957, with the appointment of Henley, prominent Bloomington attorney. At the time Gov. George N. Craig announced selection of Henley, nothing was said to Indicate otherwise, but late Wednesday the designated successor let it be known he plans to serve only until the end of the current term. May 21> Henley said that he was “deeply appreciative of appointment to the highest court of my state” but asserted that the two-year period remaining in the Gilkison term ‘Ms far longer than I care to be divorced from a busy and pleasant law practice.” Henley indicated that Craig had been unwilling at first to agree to his serving only a part of the Gilkison term, but later acquiesced. The Bloomington attorney, who Is to be sworn into his temporary office Friday, said the arrangement he proposes will give Craig time to choose a permanent successor. Among those mentioned as successors to the Gilkison successor are Paul Wever of Evansville, now Vanderburgh county prosecutor, and Norman Arterburn, of Vincennes. The name of John E. Sedwick, Jr., of Martinsville, Morgan circuit court, also was mentioned," “Decause it was known that he had "Cfr red the Jl&OiP by the governor and had declined. Sedwick, contacted today, confined that he had withdrawn his name despite the high honor because he felt his incompleted duties in Morgan county were of greater importance than an interim appointment to the supreme court. He has completed only two years of a six-year term as Morgan circuit judge. He said: "As far as I am concerned, the matter is closed. I am not now trying to get the appointment.” The indicated quick turnover in the one supreme court judgeship also revived interest in another (Continued on r-age Five) Two Children Die As Home Destroyed AKRON, O„ (INS) —... Two small children died but six others were led to safety when a coal stove exploded and set fire to a two-family dwelling in Akron Wednesday afternoon. The victims were Charlene Winters, 3, and Harold Simpson. 4. They were found by firemen in separate upstairs bedrooms, each huddled under blankets. Suffocation was the cause of death.

Congressmen Hail Release Os Documents Withhold Comment Until More Time To Study Papers WASHINGTON (INS) — Members of congress today generally welcomed publication of the Yalta papers but most leaders withheld comment until they had an opportunity to go through the 834-page document. While Democrats and Republicans alike hailed release of the long-secret details of the controversial Big Three conference of World War 11. new political ammunition was already being made from the papers. Such men as senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) senate foreign relations chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.) house GOP leader Joseph W. Martin (Mass.) and senate appropriations chairman Carl Hayden (D-A iz.j said they wanted to read the papers before commenting. But other congressmen opened the new phase of political controversy—which has been raging for years. Sen. Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) a foreign relations committee member, declared: "As I have said many times, it was an unpardonable and dangerous error that Roosevelt made.” Capehart referred to the many concessions given then-Soviet Premier Josef Stalin by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Indiana senator said it was “unfortunate” that Roosevelt “was not up to his usual self” at Yalta Vid that “his judgment was not good.” ~ Sen. Nuae Manstieid (D-Mont,) WhtoMmil. coimterejl that it was the military leaders •gainst Japan and applied preswho insisted Russia join the war sure for concessions to Russia. “I hope that is emphasized,” said Mansfield, who added that he was eager to begin reading the official document. r Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) defended the concessions made as designed to "save thousands of lives of our boys.” He commented: “I am not going to criticize. I am convinced that President Roosevelt was willing to do almost anything to get Russia into the war. He believed that if Japan had to fight on two fronts, the fighting would wind up sooner.” However, Rep. Lawrence E. Smith (R-Wis.) of the house for-" (Continues on Page Five) —

Harlan Approved As High Court Justice Senate Confirms John M. Harlan WASHINGTON (INS) —John Marshall Harlan, confirmed as a supreme court justice by a senate vote of 71 to 11, is expected to make his first public appearance on the high bench March 28, its next decision day. Senate approval of the' 'nominee Wednesday night removes a c'burt logjam that has been growing for months. Among the most important issues held up until a full test* is pres&gt-are-beafring!! "bn' how to implement the court’s decision against racial segregation in» the-schools. - , T Harlair, a New York circuit court judge and former corporation lawyer, was appointed by President Elsenhower last Nov. 8 to succeed the late Justice Robert H. Jackson. Opposition to the 55 - year -old namesake and grandson of a former supreme court justice, centered on charges he was an internationalist who might rule that a treaty over-rides state law.

Candidate W JU Carl Gerber Carl Gerber Seeks Councilmanic Post -.*’ * • * Seeks Democratic Nomination In May Carl "Gerber. owner ot the Gerber Market on South Second street, filed a declaration of candidacy for the office of councilman of the first district on the Democrat ticket this morning in the office of county clerk. Gerber, who has never before run for any public office, will seek nomination by Democrat voters In the May primary. He is the second Democrat to declare intentions to run. A native and life-long resident of Decatur, Gerber has operated his own meat market for 20 years. He is a member of the First Methodist church and also belongs the Rotary tJhrb’. He is married to the former Isabelle .Hoyger .and is the father of four daughters and one son. He and his family reside at 121 South Fifth street. A graduate of the Decatur public schools, Gerber was well-known as an athlete' during his high school days. He also attended Indiana University. 20 Indiana Youths Will Be Honored Decatur Dairyman To Receive Honor INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Twenty Indiana youths will be honored at a luncheon March 25 in Indianapolis as outstanding young dairymen. The 20 were named by G. A. Williams, ot Purdue University, K. W. Kilts, Future Partners ot America secretary-treasurer, and J. C. Ralston, 4-H club leader, as winners in the efficient production contest sponsored by the national dairy products corporation. The winners will receive a plaque and |lO each at thq March 25 event. They include: John E. Leininger, Tipton; Don Cloutier, Farmersburg; Harry Elliott, Brownstown: Charles Nicholson, Greencastle, and Carl Jarrett, New Augusta, all 4-H club members. Roger McGriff, Argos; Ben Crocker, Plymouth, Kenneth Orem, •Hurßnghpiti: '■ ; ißwk-Hager-v-' town, and Larry Hixson, Garrett, all of the FFA. Beeler, Bluffton, David D Habegger, Decatur; George H. Neiees,'Crown Point; Myron Short, Goshen; Herb Stelter, and J. C. Parke, South Bend, all members of the dairy herd improvement association. Named as winning supervisors were Lyle Brought, Burnettsville; Joe Martin, (Goshen; Melvin Munk, Albion; Mr. and Mrs. Harold Norton, Bluffton,, and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Wiess, South Bend.

{Concessions To Reds Revealed By Documents Publication Shows Broad Concessions By U. S., Britain WASHINGTON (INS) — Worldwide controversy raged today in the wake of publication of the longsecret Yalta papers detailing tiie broad concessions made by the U.S. and Britain in return for Russian entry into the war against Japan. | Secretary of state John Foster I Dulles said he expects the dispute over whether the late Presi- — dent Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill bowed too deeply to Soviet Premier Josef Stalin to ■ “go on through the ages.” Dulles, departing on an official visit to Canada, said he ordered release of the exposive documents because of a general desire of both Republican and Democratic congressional leaders for their public disclosure. The White House said President —7 Eisenhower had never examined the documents personally nnd that the Chief Executive had nothing' to do with Dulles’* decision to lift the 10-year curtain of secrecy. The action was taken over the objections of Churchill, only surviving mqmber of the triumvirate which met at Yalta in February, 1945. The documents disclosed that U.S. military leaders believed at the time that the war with Japan coujd not be won for at least a year and a half after Germany was beaten, and that there was no mention at Yalta of the atomic bomb. The papers went into the most jninute details of formal tfhd im > formal dlseusaions&and.ptainwng at' « a meeting ot Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin that began Feb. 4, 1945 near the Crimean resort city. There has long been a demand by Roosevelt critics for publication of the papers on the conference which they charged set the stage for present-day woes m both Europe and Asia. The main Anglo-American concessions in Asia gave the Kuriles, Southern Sakhalin, control of Manchuriah railroads. Port Arthur and Dairen to the Russians. _ In Europe the Soviets got what they wanted in Poland by scuttling the chances of the Polish government in exile in London and paving the way for the Lublin group of Communist-led Poles to take over the rule of the country. The papers revealed that the reason Roosevelt and Churchill were so anxious to get R t»tian help against the Japanese was a whole series ot miscalculations of the military situation. At Yalta itself the combined British-American chiefs of staff advised Roosevelt and Churchill ‘hat it would take 18 months after Germany surrendered to win victory over Japan, even if Russia helped. * The American leaders knew the atom bomb probably would be ready by August, 1945, but were told by Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, head of the Manhattan project, that the second bomb probably wouldn’t be ready until the end of the year. Stalin laid it on the line at Yalta. On Feb. 8, he told Roosevelt flatly that if his conditions were not met “it would be difficult for him and ■lQvittWsaeS .OK' Five) . • ■ . Band Booster Fund . Previously Reported -——31336.47 ' Benny & Tommy Rash .. 1 2.00 I TOTAL ——31338.47 Contribution* can be made by sending ’Sny amount to Band 1 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 I)6catur high school band.

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