Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 84, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LUI. No. 84.

FIGHT AGAINST POLIO > ■p 4rBB J I r I .' ' '*' isl Bb- * ■r w/Wf s es M J; * *'■ : > ,! pi . » Wi LABORATORY technician Leo Schneider of the biological division of Wyeth Laboratories at Marietta, Pa., examines one of the hundreds of bottles of virus being grown in the continuing fight against polio. The virus is used in the manufacture of Salk-type vaccine and is now being produced at peak capacity. Church Bells • Hail Easter Anniversary

(By Internati<|nal News Service) Church bells peal around the Christian world today to herald the Easter anniversary of Christ’s resurrection. Somber Good Friday, marking the crucifixion, and the quiet period of mourning, gave way to preparations for Sunday’s Joyful celebration ‘ « At the same time, persons of Jewish faith are attending special synagogue services to mark Passover. Generally fair weather will prevail oyer most of the U. S. But some Easter paraders may have to walk in scattered showers. Egg hunts, chocolate-sticky children’s fingers, new bonnets, visits to the_zood and large dinners also traditionally mark the weekend. Flowers are banked on the al- ’ tars of Rome’s hundreds of churches. Mourning y«U» , -have been stripped from statues and pictures. gSome 25,000 pilgrims have come to join more than a quarter of million Italians in the Eternal City’s church services. Some 5,000 pilgrims visited holy land sites in Jerusalem after a Good Friday procession along the path followed by Jesus Christ on his way to Calvary. Spanish theaters, closed since WdSSesday, opened with new shows as Spaniards turned from mourning to celebration. Visitors poured into Madrid and Seville to witness some 3,00 S Easter processions. Britishers flocked to the coast, countryside and across the channel for their Easter holidays. More than 100.000 tourists arrived in Paris for the spring weekend. Orphans from Stuttgart, in West Germany, planned to join American servicemen’s children in egg hunts. In Dresden, East Ger(Continued on Pa Ke Five) Ohio Child Killed By Dad's Tractor URBANA. O. (INS) — Virginie Oelker, 14 months, was killer' when her father. Richard, backer a tractor over her at their farir near Urbana Friday. The child was rushed to Chil dren’s hospital in Columbus but was dead on arrival. > Pre-School Clinic At Adams Central Mrs- Glen, Stucky has announced April 13 as the date for the Adams Central pre-school clinic. It will be held from 8 a. m. to 9:30 a. m. in the new Adams Central grade school in Monroe. Doctors, dentists, and optometrists will be present for the examinations and next year’s first grade teachers will be available for consultation. Parents are asked to bring a robe or towel in which to dress the child for the examination. Children who are six years old before January 1, 1956, are eligible for the school term which begins in September, 1955. NOONEDITION

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Gen. MacArthur Views To Be Made Public Pentagon Plans To Release Files On Soviet War Entry WASHINGTON (INS) — The defense department will make public secret wartime material bearing on whether Gen. Douglas MacArthur urged Russian entry into the war against Japan at the time-of the Yalta Conference. — indications are that a “narrative” of “relevant” material on the controversial issue will be released soon. The former Far 'Easter commander has requested that messages between him and the allied chief of staff be released to the public to settle the dispute over whether he recommended paying Russia’s price to get her aid. MacArthur has emphatically denied assertions that he urged giving concessions to 'Russia at the Yalta meeting in return for Red aid. A Pentagon announcement Friday said the department is studying its files "to collect papers pertinent to the question of Russia’s entry into the Pacific war.” It added: "This survey is being carried on expeditiously, and the information relevant to the subject will be made public. The department of defense believes that, in the meantime, the release of separate Items connected with Russia's entry into the Pacific war would confuse rather than clarify the situation. 5 ’ The controversy began when Sen. Herbert Lehman (D-N. Y.) old the senate that the sweeping ’oncesslons made to Russia at Yalta by the late President Frankin D. Roosevelt were based in >art on MacArthur’s recommendations. MacArthur called Lehman’s statement “utterly unfounded and’ without the slightest basis in fact." — Fair, Mild Weather For Easter Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Hoos iers may put on their Easter bonnets and leave the plastic protectors in the closet for the traditional Sunday stroll this year. Weathermen saw' no rain -in sight for the weekend, forecasting fair tonight and Sunday and continued mild. ’ . Highs today are expected to range from 66 to 70 degrees and for Sunday from 60 to 73. . r?— , ■ INDIANA WEATHER Fair and continued mild tonight and Bunday. Low tonight 40-44. High Sunday 6073.

Russian Youth Changes Mind, Returns Home Fled From Russia Three Weeks Ago, Asked For Asylum BERLIN (INS) — Youthful Russian Valery Lysikov, who three weeks ago fled and denounced the "yoke of Communism,” returned today behind the Iron Curtain., No immediate reason was given for his return to control of the government he said he hated and the father he said he feared. The 17-year-old son of a Russian Air Force Lt. Colonel was rushed from American headquarters in Berlin in a Soviet-made sedan. He could be seen chewing gum, sitting in the back seat of a car with his parents. He showed no signs of tenseness. An eyewitness at the youth's reunion with his family at the main building of the United States headquarters in Berlin, said Valery greeted both his mother and father joyfully. When asked after his defection If he would agree to see his parents, the youtp had protested i "My father will kill me with a chair if he is in the same room with me.” _ He finally agreed but rejected a plea by them March 26 that he return. He said he intended to go to the United States as a political refugee. In Bonn, the office of the U. S. high commission announced Lyskkov's return, and said a news, conference would be held shortly. Last Monday, Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov asked for return of the youth to his father, Lt. Col. Alexander I. Lysikov, who is assigned to „a Soviet air transport regiment just outside East Berlin. Molotov, in a note handed to U. S. ambassador Charles E. Bohlen in Moscow described the seheelbey as "unstable'' and inserted he wished to return but was restrained. The state department in Washington promised to “give consideration” to the Russian demand. Eyewitnesses at the reunion at noon Berlin time said Valery’s mother appeared at a high emotional pitch but happy. His father also appeared very happy. Several Additions Made To Egg Tree Egg Tree Is Easter Feature At Library Several new and interesting additions have been made this week to the egg tree which is an Easter feature at the Decatur public library. Mrs. Ruth Mayer Comer and Mrs. Naomi Mayer Martin of San Diego, Calif., sent six eggs including two golden ones in honor of the library’s 50th anniversary. One was an egg basket in honor of Mrs. Martin’s grand-daughter. The egg is decorated with delicate pink flowers and the names of all the Decatur relatives are painted in tiny letters on the cradle. The other eggs represent other members of their family. An autographed and painted *egg has been sent by Clara Ingram Judson, author of many books for children including the biographies of Washington, Lin■join, Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. Another autographed and painted egg is from Esther Meeks, author of children’s books and now children's editor of WilcoxFollett Co. Stan Williamson has * also autographed both of these eggs, x A picture of the Krick-Tyndall Tile factory now appears on the tree honoring Virgil Krick, who annually finds the sessafras tree on which the eggs are hung. It was painted by Mrs. Lawrence Linn, who also presented an'egg representing the story of the “Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs.” Den No. four of the Cub Scouts brought in a donation of several ' eggs which have been hung in one long string., Many others by children and adults have added to the beauty of the tree. The librarians were thrilled to receive word from J. Jay of Denver, Colo., that he was sending an egg for the Decatur tree. Jay has sent painted eggs to the White House since Franklin Roosevelt was president An article in the American magazine tells of his (Contlnueo on rage Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 9, 1955.

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Denounce Dulles For Ouster Os Edward Corsi Rep. Celler Lashes Secretary Dulles For Corsi Ouster WASHINGTON (INS) — Rep. Emanuel Celler (D N.Y.), scathingly denounced secretory of state John Foster Dulles today for his ouster of Edward J. Corsi as deputy chief of the refugee relief act. Reached at Saratoga Springs, N. Y„ the house judiciary committee chairman told a newsman: “I can make a man with a better backbone out of a banana,” and added: “I am speaking of Dulles.” Celler said that if Dulles intended to alter the setup he should have made Scott McLeod, head of the bureau of security and consular affairs, "walk the plank.” McLeod, he said, “has mismanaged the refugee relief act of 1953 so as to make the nation look ridiculous in the eyes of the world.” Corsi, meanwhile, weighed Dulles’ offer of a new job involving a survey to determine the possibility of settling immigrants in Latin America “and other areas." His original assignment, which began Jan. 10 and now is being ended Sunday, was a study of the refugee relief program. In that connection, he visited Italy, Greece, Germany and other European countries. Celler said that Corsi, a Republican and former New York state industrial commissioner, "was on his way to help make the refugee act a success.” . He added: “Now Dulels fires him not on good grounds, but on coffee grounds.” In New York, a district Republican club on Manhattan's lower east side, joined the protest against Dulles* action. In a telegram to the secretary, the GOP organization charged Dulles with a “disgraceful flipflop in firing” Corsi. It added: “With millions of Americans of foreign birth and the first generation all gratified with the original Corsi appointment because it clearly signified liberalization of the refugee act, you now crush that hope ...” His removal was also criticized by the anti-defamation league of B’nai B'rith and by Americans for Democratic Action. The state department said that Dulles and Corsi conferred Friday. It added that the secretary “reiterated his confidence” in Corsi and “denied reports" that his status “involved questions of security.” Corsi had drawn the fire of house un-American activities committee chairman Francis E. Walter (D Pa.),’who charged that the official had been associated with Communist-front groups. Corsi has denied the allegations. (Continued on Page Five)

Lenten Meditation ... (By Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, Bethany Evangelical r — United Brethren Church) “Challenge of Easter—New Life” Read Matthew 28:140 and 1 Peter 1:8-9 The approach of spring is heralded by bird and flower and tree. The robbins come. The crocuses bloom. The buds of trees and bushes, swell. We know that new life has come. Spring is here. ; . But Easter Is come. Christ is risen I How shall we give evidence of that faot in our lives? The Apostles and disciples gave evidence to the glorious fact of Easter by the transformation from sorrow to joy, from apathy to new life. They called to one another: "Jesus is risen from the dead!" They spread the news. Jesus is no more in the tomb. Christ Is risen! "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.** 1 Peter 1:3. If there is aught that should mark us. Christians, it is New Life. Have we been indifferent about our spiritual life? Eastel* is here! Christ Is risen from the dead I Turn from the past. Come to the house of the Lord. The challenge of Easter is NEW SPIRITUAL LIFE from the Risen Lord.

Fair Weather For Easter Predicted Fair Weather For Most Os Nation CHICAGO (INS) —You can leave your umbrella at home when you enfer the Easter parade Sunday. That's the good word today from fthe Chicago weather bureau which predicts fair weather for the weekend for most of the nation. New England and portions of New York State may be chilly, however, and the same outlook is in store for Wyoming- At Big Piney, Wyo.; the temperature hit 22 this morning. Most stations reporting in New England listed readings lu the 20s. Toppers may be in order in some southern states. Temperatures in the southeast are slightly on the chilly side for April. Greensboro, N. C., had 38. Chattanooga. Tenn,, 42 and Savannah, Ga„ 44 early today. Southern Florida listed readings in the 70s with Miami reporting 75, the wannest in the nation this morning. Texas and Louisiana had some thundershowers. A belt of rain hit the Pacific Northwest with Seattle measuring 86 of an inch. ft was 44 in New York, 40 at Denver, 56 at Los Angeles, 49 at San Francisco, 48 at Seattle and 52 at Chicago. - - s U “I' II- . .Y - . A . Begin Landscaping For Youth Center Volunteers Work At Community Center "Operation landscaping” started early this morning at the Decatur Youth and Community center and the committee in charge expressed hope that by nightfall, the entire area around the building would be filled in and ready for planting. Trucks and men arrived almost at daylight and soon a group of 15 Explorer troop Boy Scouts were on hand to help with the work. Earlier this week the committee conferred with several landscaping specialists as to just how the fill should be made and driveways alio were located. Drains to provide exits for surface water have been placed completely around the building and filling in the entire area is the final work, preliminary to seeding and planting of shrubbery. Trucks were donated for the project by local industries and more than 20 workmen volunteered their services in addition to the Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts Sell Artificial Lilies Decatur Girl Scouts are assisting the Adams county society for crippled children today by selling artificial lilies in the Decatur business district. All proceeds will help finance aid for the crippled children of this county.

Ike Displeased At Release Os Military Data Tighten Controls Over Information By Defense Dept. WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower’s belief that military information of value to Russia has been released dealt another blow to the Pentagon public relations setup today in the midst of a news “blackout.” Officials said there is increasing evidence that the President’s displeasure was communicated to defense secretary Charles E. Wilson ten days or two weeks ago and played a part in his tightening of information controls. Wilson, ill with a cold the first four days of this week, returned to his office Friday, but said he would have no comment until his regular news conference jext Tuesday. White House secretary James C. Hagerty’s statement that Mrs. Eisenhower believes government officials have released too much technical and military data was the latest incident in a two-week series of events, including these: 1. Newsmen protested that quantities of information they had never been able to get about the atomic submarine Nautilus had been included in navy articles sold to a national magazine. 2. Mr. Eisenhower disowned a prediction that the Red Chinese would invade the Matsu islands by mid-April—-a forecast allegedly made at a background news conference by Adm. Robert B. Carney, chief of Naval operations. There was no suggestion, however. that Carney bad given out too much information. 3. Wilson issued a flat order that military information chiefs must be-replaced by civilians and that all news releases must be cleared by his office. This order, greeted with some resentment, has been inte'rpreted so strictly that little information has been available since it became efefctive March 29. There was speculation that Hagerty’s latest statement may refer to news releases that were made public several weeks or several months ago. Since Hagerty specified that he was referring to "technical” matters, it was recalled that a vast quantity of exact specifications on guided missiles has reached the public in recent months. This information included a re(Continued on rage Five) Miss Nima Medaugh Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Miss Nima Louella Medaugh, 81, of North First street, a resident of Decatur for many years, died at 2 o’clock this morning at the Colonial rest home at Rockford, 0., following an illness of two yearsShe was born In Rockford, 0., Feb. 24, 1874, a daughter of John and Emily Carter-Medaugh, and had never marrier. Miss Medaugh, a member of the First Presbyterian church in this city, moved to Decatur in 191«. Surviving are two brothers, W. M. Medaugh of Willshire and Glen Medaugh of Spencerville, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Greenbrier United Brethren church near Glenmore, 0., with the Rev. Ray J. Waltei, pastor of the First Presbyterian church here, officiating. Burial will be in the Greenbrjer cemetery. The body Was removed to the Cowan A Son funeral home in Van Wert. Q„ where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. - .'-wi <- w .

May Order National Guards info Action Survey Ordered By Alabama Governor BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (INS) — Two Alabama cities—the scenes of violence in connection with a telephone strike —today faced the possibility of being patroled by national guard troops. Gov. James E. Folsom ordered a survey of the situation In Birmingham and Bessemer Friday night after eight Alabama state legislators called on him and recommended the dispatching of troops to the strife-ridden cities. The legislators’ call on the governor came after a pistol shot barely missed a woman employe of the strike-bound Southern Bell Telephone Company, culminating 26 days of Violence in the form of cable bombings and fist fights. Earlier, Jefferson county sher-’ iff Hplt McDowell and Bessemer Mayor Jap Bryant had also asked Folsom for guardsmen to assist in law enforcement. ( The survey of the two cities will be headed by public service director W. D. Lyerly. Three general strikes and several local walkouts have strained labor relations in the southern cities. Some 50. WW telephone workers in 10 southern states have been on strike for 27 days. The day the phone workers walked out, 25,000 employes of the Louisville and Nashville railroad also struck. And last Wednesday, 750 AFL motor coach employes struck the Atlantic Greyhound lines. Communications union leaders have already met with McDowell and Police Commissioner R. E. Lindbergh in Birmingham to ward off the possibility of troop movement to the city. Equipment Needed For Youth Center Receive Inquiries From Contributors _JO. M. McGeath, director of the Dqcatur Youth and Community center and J. Ward Calland, board chairmen, today announced a list of equipment still needed prior to the opening of the new building. The list was released because both McGeath and Calland have received inquiries the last several days from people in the area who wish to make a contribution to the center. Following are the items which are needed: Folding chairs, 300; folding tables, 30; card tables, 15; speaker’s rostrum; apartment size electric stove; apartment size electric refrigerator; small sink; four folding tables for youth club room; two wall display cases for youth room; cash register; adding machine; duplicating machine; 16 m. m. motion projector; slide projector; tape-recorder; silver tea service; unusual vases, bowls and platters; brass; silver and glass candlesticks; handicifefft equipment; athletic equipment* magazine and newspaper subscriptions; check room equipment and janitor equipment. Any individual or groups who are planning to make a contribution are asked to contact either director McGeath or chariman Cal-| land. Several have expressed a desire to contribute furnishings rather than cash, so the list of needs was prepared with this in mind, it was announced. Donate Wheel Chait To Local Hospital Members of the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hos pital and the staff have expressed appreciation to the Xi Alphd Xi and Delta Lambda chapters of Beta Sigma Phi sorority for the wheel chair which they donated to the hospital. The badly needed piece of equipment is now in use.

Inifial Blasi Os Scheduled Double-Header Explodes In Flash Os Gold On Steel Tower In Nevada LAS VEGAS, Nev. (INS) — A baby afnm bomb exploded in a flash of gold atop a steel tower before dawn today on the Nevada desert in the first detonation of an atomic double-header. The blast was triggered on top of a 300-foot steel tower at Yncca Flat, on he atomic energy commission’s desert proving ground. In Las Vegas, 70 miles south 4>f the test site, the flare of the bomb resembled a flash bulb poping atop the mountains. It appeared smaller than those of previous detonations and lasted only about three seconds. Another, larger detonation is scheduled to be fired from a 400foot tower at Frenchman's Flat on the proving ground at noon . (EST) in the second two-shot-a-day program of the test series. The first blast was seen in Los Angeles, 300 miles southwest of the test site, as have all pre-dawn detonations of the test series. A few minutes after the explosion, a very gentle shock wave ripped into Las Vegas and made windows buzz for between 45 seconds and a minute. Observers on Angel's Peak, a 9,000-foot mountain some 55 airline miles from Yucca Flat, felt no shock wave. They said the familiar mushroom cloud rose from the blast but did not soar as high into the aky as the clouds of previous detonations. From Angel's peak, the fireball seemed to blossom in a white flash that boiled down into an orange cloud and then turned a brilliant red. There was little to indicate what the test was intended to demonstrate, and atomic scientists appeared to attach greater importance to the second scheduled blast in today's twin-bill. * A large number of vehicles, fortifications and other military _1 equipment and supplies will be exposed to that detonation, which may be the most powerful of the current series. Plans call for at least three remote controlled drone jet planes to be used in the target zone, two of which are expected to be consumed in the fireball or blown to smithereens by the force of the blast. The experiment was termed a “major weapons effect” test and “very important to army logistics’’ by the AEC. The equipment and vehicles have been placed at vantage points surrounding the' blast area to determine how well they can take a nuclear haymaker. Armed air force jets will be posed outside the test area to shoot down the drones if they escape from their controllers on the ground. One hundred and 70 soldiers and military observers will participate in the test. They will be Issued the army’s new ’’hot-dry’’ uniform, which is now undergoing its final testing. ■ : The troops will.he stationed five and one-halt miles from the blast tower. President To Attend Washington Church WASHINGTON (INS) — The White House announced today that President Eisenhower will atteud Easter services in Washington Sunday but said Mrs. Eisenhower will not accompany him. The announcement was made as the President left Washington this morning by automobile for. Gettysburg, Pa., where Mrs. Eisenhower is recuperating from a recent illness and is working on their new home.

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