Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1955 — Page 1

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RESCUE TRAPPED RUNAWAYS sMMBMk "** &O. v ' NEW YORK POLICE (right), haul Joele Weber, 16, from a cave where she, Ronald Tevlin, 15, (top left), and her sister, Jacqueline, 13, (lower left) were trapped by a cave-in since Saturday. The three had run away from home and were using the cave under a Washington Heights superhighway as a hide-out when the cave-in trapped them. They faced starvation until a playmate worked up enough courage to tell police of their plight. r

MacArthur Says Japan Beaten Without Reds MacArthur Denies Ever Consulted On Russian Entrance NEW YORK (INS) — General Douglas MacArthur declared today that Japan was a beaten nation months before the Yalta conference and it was “fantastic” that Rtissia should be given dny concessions at that time to enter , the Ear East war. In his first public statement since release of the controversial Yalta conference papers, the former supreme commander in the Far East declared he was never at any time consulted on the advisability of Russia’s entrance into the-war in 1945. MacArthur said that in official reports to Washington more than four months before the Yalta conference in February of 1945, he reported that Japan had "neither the imagination nor the foresighted ability to continue total war" and that “defeat now stares her in the face,” "Had my views been requested with reference to Yalta,” the five star general stated, “I would most emphatically have recommended against bringing the Soviet into the Pacific war at that late date.” Gen. MacArthur's statement on Yalta and analysis of the Far East military situation at the time of Yalta completely backed up a statement to I.N.S. last week by Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby USA, (Ret), who was MacArthur’s top intelligence officer. Willoughby, in an interview with INS published March 18, said MacArthur and his staff had determined—and so informed Washington—“that without Russia, even without the atom bomb, the Japanese were finished.” Apparent Maniac Is Object Os Manhunt Indianapolis Police Appeal To Citizens INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indianapolis police today appealed to the public to help in the detection of an apparent maniac before he strikes again. Police said this morning that they are running down all the leads they get as quickly as they •can, but no nearer learning the identity of the man who Monday gained entrance to the home of Mrs. Elisabeth Koretz, 58, through a ruse, and then stabbed and beat her. Mrs. Koretz remains in serious condition in an Indianapolis hospital with wounds inflicted with a screw driver and an iron skillet. The belt of the man's trench coat, and fingerprints lifted from a glass of water the housewife had given the man she thought to be a detective were two sets of clues being checked. Still another open avenue that may turn up an identification is the checking of pictures by neighbors who were approached by the man before he gained entrance to (Continued on Page Eight;

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Three Persons Die In Car-Truck Crash Blame Icy Highway For Fatal Accident INDI AN APOUS (INS)—An icy spot remaining on Indiana’s fastclearing roads following a blizzard Tuesday, today cost the lives of three persons in a car-truck crash. A car driven by Ernest Clarence Julow, 57. of near Greentown, struck an icy spot on state road 35 one mile west of Greentown today and skidded broadside into a truck. Julow; his son, Ernest Edgar Julow, 36, and the son’s wife, Marjorie Julow, 33, were killed almost instantly, state troopers reported. The truck driver, Thomas Artis, of Kokomo, was not hurt in the crash. Rising temperatures came too late for the Julows. Snow and ice left from a blizzard Tuesday brought traffic to a crawl or standstill in northwestern Indiana, but (Continued on Page Eight) Rev. Feller Heads Easter Seal Drive . Annual Campaign Is Underway In County The Rev. William C. Feller will again serve as ccn&ty chairman for the Easter seal campaign to help crippled children in Adgms county. The 1955 campaign is now underway and will • continue through Easter Sunday. Rev. Feller has announced that the seals will be mailed to every resident of the county. , This annual campaign for crippled children and adults is expected to be the most extensive in the society’s history. Approximately 80 percent of the funds collected here will remain in Adams county (or examinations, hospitalization, treatment and equipment. The people of Adams county haVe responded with open hearts to this cause in the past and Rev. Feller has expressed confidence in the people for support of the 1955 campaign. Werst Is Candidate For City Councilman Chalmer T. Werst, General Electric employe for the last 12 years and a Republican precinct committeeman for 10 years, today announced his intentions of being a candidate for councilman at large subject to the decision of voters in the Republican May primary election. Werst, 44, is a native of Decatur and a graduate of Decatur high, school, _ Ha_ja_ married and the Worsts have two children. The candidate is a member of the Decatur Church of the Nazarene and Adams Post of the American Legion. He stated that he planned to make an active campaign for the post he seeks. The Wersta reside at 728 Schirmeyet street. BULLETIN BERLIN (INS) — Soviet officials today demanded the immediate return of 17-year-old Valery Alexandrovich Lysikov, who fled to the west last Friday and was granted political asylum In the U.S. sector of Berlin Tuesday.

French Leader Requests Big Four Meeting French Senate Opens Debate Today Over Ratifying Accords PARIS (INS) — Premier Edgar’ Faure hopes to win the French senate’s unconditional approval of the Paris accords with (he announcement he has asked the U.S. and Britain to work for a Big Four conference as soon as possible after ratification. The senate, or council of the Republic, opens its decisive debate on, the accords today. A western diplomatic source disclosed today that Faure Tuesday had strongly urged the British ambassador and American charge d’affaires in Paris to copvey to their governments the French view that such a conference was essential. Other sources close to the premier confirmed that this was the substance of his conversations with Britain’s Sir Gladwyn Jebb and America’s Theodore Achilles.Faure did not press Washington and London for immediate replies to this proposal as a precondition for the senate ratification of the pacts admitting a sovereign, rearmed West Germany into the western alliance. But the premier did tell Jebb and Achilles that unless London and Washington reeponded favorably it would be difficult to obtain senate ratification without amendments. Such amendments to the ratification bills passed by the national assembly would throw the fate of the pacts back into the lower house and mean further delays in implementing the agreements. The premier's statement to the allied envoys was regarded as a strong hint that Faure would like to be able to announced during the debate that a Western Big Three meeting to prepare for the fourpower conference would b» held shortly after ratification. Faure already has told one senator that the government plans to request the three-power session as soon as the senate votes approval. An atmosphere of urgency arose about the question when it appeared probable that the premier may be forced to make a statement this afternoon shortly -after the 316 senators convene in the more than 300-year-old Palais Du Luxembourg. The British government has supported the idea of a four-power meeting after ratification of the accords is completed. The final position of the U. S. is not known, although the Democratic chairman of the senate foreign relations committee has come out in’ favor of the meeting. Nevertheless, American diplomatic quarters were certain the accords would be approved by a comfortable majority when the vote is taken sometime Friday. Favorable action would mean final French acceptance of: 1. The end of the occupation of West Germany and the restoration of sovereignty to the Bonn Federal Republic. 2. Rearmament of 500,000 German soldiers within the sevennationWestern European union (Continued on Page Eight) Living Costs Are Reported Unchanged Take-Home Pay Os Worker Increases WASHINGTON (INS) — The government reported today that the cost of living in February remained unchanged for the third consecutive month while the take home pay of the average factory worker rose to a new high. The labor department said its cost of living index stood firm at 114.3 per cent of the 1947,-49 average in mid-February. This was sixtenths of one per cent than It was a year before: The take-home pay of the average factory worker with three dependents, was 369.71 per week in February, and for the worker with nO dependents, $6i.91. This was a gain of about five per cent during the year. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with rain or snow south and central late tonight or Thursday and a few sprinkles or snow flurries extreme north. Colder Thursday. Low tonight 20-30 north, 30-36 south. High Thursday 30-35 north, 35-40 south.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, March 23, ,1955.

Eisenhower Favorable To Talks Leading To Big Four Conference

Baruch Says Inflation Is Chief Threat , Says Stock Market Boom Not Leading Threat To Nation BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS)—Bernard Baruch told senators today that the President should be given standby authority to invoke wage-price controls and that all tax cuts should be banned until the federal budget is balanced. WASHINGTON (INS) — Bernard M. Baruch told the Senate banking committee today that inflation and not the stock market boom is the nation’s chief economic threat. The renowped elder statesman urged a ban on further tax cuts until the federal budget is balanced as part of a three-pronged program to “preserve out national security and our national credit.” He called for a defense program "adequate enough to deter aggression” and said Americans should “discipline ourselves to whatever is required to win the cold war and a real peace." Baruch, the final witness in the first phase of the banking committee’s Wall Street investigation likened the stock market to “a mirror of the economy” reflecting the nation’s economic health. 4 He said: “If our general economic and security policies are sound, the stock market will adjust to them and we will not need to worry about a possible collapse of the market.” The New Yosk financier said some suggestions for safeguarding the stock market “have value.” But he cautioned against “attempting to legislate against human folly, or against the adventurous spirit which helped to make America great." Baruch contended that "the most important single factor determining the behavior of the stock market remains the condition of the economy, which, in turn, is dominated by the continuing cold war." He said that “if any economic dangef threatens today, it will be found not in the stock market itself but in the effects of this inflationary heritage” built up over the past 15 years. The 84-year-old Baruch pointed out that over the years proposals have been made to “halt or reduce needlessTnTTatlon.”" He commented: "The burden of our national debt would be hardly one-half of what it is now if effective measures to prevent inflation had been taken at the outset of both World War II and the Korean war. “Our whole economy would be In a healthier state if taxes had not been reduced so hastily after each of these two wars. I opposed the tax reduction that was voted last year. That my position today.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. H. A. Davis, Pleasant Mills Methodist) DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE • • • • ««. 2 Cor. 4:1-6 Great souls have great faith and shrink not from declaring it. In this letter to the Corinthians Paul sets forth his faith in unmistakable terms. Light will triumph over darkness without doing a shameful - thing. Truth will prevail without. the use of deceit. Uprightness will get the victory over craftiness. An enlightened good conscience needs no camouflage. Darkness cannot quench the light of the -glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. "Such is ifiy faith” says Paul “and I will have nothing to do with underhanded methods.” A forthright, open, above board life is always best. God has made it that way through Jesus Christ. The pursuit of such a prograta of life sustained by the power of God, brings the reward of wisdom, power and glow of satisfaction. Hence Paul repeats the declaration of independence from subterfuge that he made in his first letter to these same people. (1 Cor. 1-5) It was the way of Jesus Christ “I am determined not to know anything among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified." This he lived until crowned in a martyr’s triumph.

Removing 66 Bodies From Crashed Plane Resume Grim Task At Honolulu Site HONOLULU (INS) —Salvage crews are scheduled to resume the task today of removing bodies from a military air transport service plane which carried 66 persons to their deaths. Twenty-two bodies were moved from the still smouldering wreckage of the big four-engine R6D plane by nightfall Tuesday. A MATS spokesman said the locale of the wreckage on a ridge 20 miles northwest of Honolulu and the fact that the debris was still hot made work In tl)e dark inadvisable. The plane exploded in flames early Tuesday morning after it had turned back on a flight from Honolulu to Travis air force base north of San Francisco. The pilot decked to return after the plane’s radar system failed. The plane was only four minutes from the safety of a landing at Hickarn air force base when it slammed into the ridge on the levy’s top-secret Lualualei ammunition depot. An eyewitness said the mountainside “lit up like daylight" when gasoline tanks exploded. The pilot apparently wandered off course on the return flight to Honoxulu. The R6D, a navy version at the commercial DC-6, was being escorted Back to Hickarn another MATS plane. A. military board was named to determine the exact cause of the crash. ‘ It was the worst mid-Pacific air tragedy in historyCasualties included 64 servicemen and two military dependents, a mother and her small daughter. Most of the servicemen, aside from the crew of nine, were enroute to the U. S. mainland for new assignments. Eyewitnefis reports indicated the ROD pilot knew just before the crash that he was headed for trouble. Marine PFC Joseph T. Price of Carlbad, N. M., a sentry at the ammunition depot, said the pilot turned on his landing lights and the big transport just missed a 700foot radio tower as it roared by at an altitude of about 600 feet. Price said the pilot swerved the plane frantically apparently after he spotted the mountain ridge looming in front of him. But his action was too late and the plane rammed into the mountainside with a thunderous impact. Its fuel tanks exploded, scattering debris over a wide area. File Petitions To Become Citizens Three residents of Adams county filed petitions in Adams circuit court to become citizens of the United States. Endre Sipos, one of the three, is a native of Hungary and resides at 310 Winchester street in Decatur. He has been in this country since 1949. Also Seeking citizenship are Pawel Gorb and his wife, Julia, who reside at Monroe. They and their daughter and son are Ukrainians who arrived in the United States in 1949.

British Labor Party Delays Bevan Ouster Compromise Move By Executives Os British Loborites LONDON (INS) — The British Labor Party's National Executive Committee postponed kicking out left-wing rebel Aneurin Bevan today pending his promise of being "a good boy.” The 28-member executive decided in a compromise move to appoint an eight-member subcommittee to interview the 57-year-old former miner and seek assurances' about his future conduct. The subcommittee will report back to the executive group next Wednesday. • The fiery Welshman was kicked out as, a Labor party representative in parliament last Wednesday for party disobedience. This is the organization of Labor members of the house of commons. Today’s meeting ostensibly was to decide whether he was to be booted out of the national ranks of the party. But the group met In secret behind locked doors at Transport House for three hours apd 16 minutes without taking any final action. Bevan is a violent critic of American foreign policy and the policies of right-wing Labor party leader Clement Attlee, former prime minister. Obviously the national executive was alarmed at the prospect of being caught split wide open over the Bevan issue and suffering a crushing defeat at the polls if prime minister Sir Winston Churchill’s Conservatives suddenly announced new .elections. The official statement by the Laborites said the executive group discussed last week’s parliamentary party action against the Welshman who had been accused of insulting Attlee on the house of compions floor. They then approved a resolution to appoint a subcommittee to interview Bevan. It was understood that a proposal that Bevan should be expelled completely from the party was made at the secret meeting but was not put to a vote. This could not be confirmed because op leaders were not talking to the scores of reporters and photographers camped outside Transport House. I. U. Dean Speaks To Decatur Lions Explains Method Os 4 Student Counseling Clum Bucher, assistant dean of the junior division of Indiana Unityeraity, addressed the Decaftur Lions club at their Tuesday night meeting at the K. of P. home. Subject of his talk was “Counseling At Indiana University. Bucher explained the method of for prospective students. starting with their senior year in high school and following the plan through the student's first year at the university. 'He explained that a counselor aids a new-studen t4n plawrrtng -hie course; selecting his hours; managing his study and leisure time all through his first ,year. Bucher also told of the growth of Indiana University from 3;500 students in 1929 to more than 11,000 this yea’r. He also stated that while there are more than three times more students, each gets much more faculty counseling and advice. The guest speaker had spent most of Tuesday conferring with prospective Indiana University students now attending Decatur high school. Superintendent of schools W. Guy Brown and Wilbur Petrie, (Continued on Page Eight)

Candidate Ed Bauer Bauer Is Candidate For City Councilman Seeks Renomination On Democrat Ticket Ed Bauer, house salesman for the Schafer Co. for the last 32 years and just completing his first term on the Decatur city Council, today announced his intention of seeking reelection on the Democratic ticket. Bauer has served his first term as a councilman from the third district, but this year he will be the councilman at large candidate. The candidate, long active in the American Legion, is a past commander of Adams post and has received state recognition from the Legion. He also is the child welfare representative of the local post. He is a member of Zion Lutheran church of Decatur. During his first term as a councilman. Bauer has served on numerous city committees and has taken an active part in the operation of government affairs. Mr. and Mrs. Bauer have two daughters, Vera and Margene. Bauer has been active, in Democratic politics in Decatur and Adams county for some time. He also has taken part in numerous civic affairs. The candidate is a veteran of World War I. Fine Safely Record At Casting Company Today Marks Year Without Accident— The Decatur Casting company today has completed one full year without a lost time accident. This represents a total of 109,360 accident free man hours and is a record of which the management and employes are justly proud. As the foundry industry progressed from the old type foundry to the new machine-age type foundry, there were many problems and one of these was to improve working conditions, to make the foundry a better and safer place to work. With this thought in mind the Decatur Casting company in 1935 started its “Safety and Hygiene” program. This program has progressed to a point where all employes are working as a team with , management to eliminate as tar as possible any condition which might cause an accident or be injurious to health. Employes of the Decatur Casting company represented by a rotating “Safety and Hygiene” committee made up of one man from each department in the plant, meet with management once a month where various suggestions are submitted by employes and are evaluated and acted on. AU first aid and any doctor’s cases for the month are reviewed and in this way the employes of the company with the help of management run ’heir safety program. The success of this program is (Continued on Page Eight)

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Ike Expresses Willingness To Concede Points Favors Conference If Paris Accords Voted Ratification WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower said today he favors exploratory talks toward a Big Four conference as soon as the Paris accords on West German rearmament are ratified. Mr. Eisenhower told a news conference he would be willing to make a lot of concessions in the preliminary talks and made it clear he would not insist on the specific demonstrations of good faith he has demanded in the past. All he wants, he said. Is some indication from the Russians that they are interested in talking business, and not just using a Big Four meeting for propaganda purposes. The President noted he has often said he would travel any place on earth in the interests of peace. His views as stated today appeared to leave only a minor difference between the administration’s position and the proposal by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) who recently called for such a itieetiht. Meanwhile, senate Republican leader William F. Knowland, who at the time he spoke was unaware of the President’s comments, said a new conference with Russia would result “in more people and more territory passing into the hands of the Communists.’’ Knowland expressed unequivocal opposition to what he described as a “new Yalta-type and Mu-nich-type” meeting of the major powers. ” — 1 He voiced his opposition in a talk today before the American Legion legislative commission. He declared: “We will soon be hearing new proposals from some of our ap-peasement-minded allies for another Yalta-type conference. I’m opposed to our entering such a conference. Russia has not honored any of the Yalta agreements.” Mr. Eisenhower said the acts he has previously cited as demonstrations of good faith by the Russians were only examples. He indicated he will not insist on Soviet agreement on an Austrian peace treaty, free German elections or the ’ other specific steps he has mentioned in the past. The President drew a distinction between a Big Four meeting by chiefs of state and a lower- . level conference, pointing out that preliminary talks should be held before the heads of state enter the scene. But If a meeting at a lower level produced any promise of results, he declared, he would go anywhere to join the talks. Mr. Eisenhower said in answer to a question that he would in-. (Continued on Page Eight) 'Day Os Tribute" At Adams Theater Tuesday, March 29 “A Day of Tribute,” the colßr and sound film record of the 20th anniversary celebration held last fall in honor of all Central Soya people, D. W. McMillen, and Master Mix dealers, will be shown at the Adams theater in this city* next Tuesday, March 29. There will be four showings, at '12:'30, 3:15. 6:30 and 8:45 p. m., and the public is invited to attend. There will be no admission charge and tickets may be obtained at the Decatur Daily Democrat, Holthouse Drug, Adams theater box office, or the personnel office at the Central Soya company. There will be no regular shows at the Adams Tuesday. Highlights of the anniversary show are Herb Shriner, singing of the Purdue glee club, and presentation of awards to the 20-year men of Central Soya dompany.