Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1955 — Page 1

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‘DOG TAGGED’ FOR ATOM WAR * rSft lU* -'yw V'■ '■'-• ’ fi Pw/. r " tltWWw W A ' ■ i *Wk El . . TVxl' 4,.i5lA j . tl ▼ x v , «K< ‘ ■ a.- - ->■— "iMfIH 1. jKjffrffSw CIVIL DEFENSE ADMINISTRATOR Vai Peterson, who landed his helicopter (right) in a Las Vegas, Nev., school yard, issues “dog tags ’ to pupils. The 15,000 school children of Las Vegas are the first in the nation to be “dog tagged" against possible nuclear warfare. Metal tag is worn on chain.

Huge Atomic Test Blast Is Delayed Today Operation Cue Is Now Scheduled For Dawn On Wednesday LAS VEGAS, Nev. (INS)—The men who control one of man’s most powerful forces —the atomic bomb—were to meet today with those who plot the whims of nature’s most potent force — the weather — to decide whether a multi-million dollar atomic test explosion can be carried out Wednesday. 1 A weathir briefing was scheduled at the atomic energy commission’s proving ground. 75 miles north of Las Vegas, to determine whether nature will allow atomic scientists to proceed with the already once postponed “Operation Cue" at dawn Wednesday. The “open shot,” a test detonation from a 500-foot steel tower over a typical-though uninhabited — American community to be witnessed by some 5000 test personnel, troops, civil defense workers and newsmen, originally was scheduled for 3:20 a. m. (EDT) this morning. It was postponed after a weather evaluation Monday because high winds threatened to blow Xadipractivejfjll-out from the blast over small towns northeast of the test site. And the rumor in Las Vegas’ jam-packed hotels, motels and casinos was that Wednesday's weather also would be unfavorable for a “shot." Strong winds whined and blustered through the desert gambling area early today, whipping up whirlwinds of dirt and paper scraps and blinding dust into the eyes of the thousands of persons gathered -Tor the test. The winds reached velocities up to 60 miles an hour at Camp Mercury, on the test site, Monday night and blew down a number of tents. None of the army and civilian personnel stationed there awaiting the blast suffered serious injury, and repair crews set to work' immediately to set the tents up again. The air force invited newsmen to an air show at Indian Springs, near the test site, Monday and then was forced to call off the event because of the weather. The delay in the much heralded “shot” gave at least a brief reprieve to Doom Town, the desert hamlet built to be smashed by the detonation, and to the men of “Task Force Razor,” a tank outfit which will carry out a mock attack on a simulated enemy stronghold immediately after the detonation. It also provided a breathing spell for the newsmen and civil defense personnel who will witness the blast from the tanks, from trenches as near as 3500 yards to the tower and from News Nob, a vantage point on the Yucca Flat proving ground but out of range of the heat and bone-jarr-ing concussion of the blast. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight. Wednesday partly warmer. Low tonight 40-48 north, 4654 south. High Wednesday 75.82.

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Secretary Benson Tours Dust Bowl Five-State Drouth Area Is Inspected DENVER (INS) — Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson will make a personal tour of the dust bowl today after assuring harassed farmers the federal government has a “moral responsibility" to help lick drouth problems. The secretary told Colorado and Wyoming drouth committees at a meeting Monday night that his swing through a five-state drouth area is designed to get ideas from those men “who are closest to the problem." Benson spoke in Denver shortly after his department conceded that the drouth problem is equally as serious as that of the early 1930’5. The cabinet member addressed an open forum presided over by K. L. Scott, director of federal agricultural credit service, one of a group of experts accompanying the secretary. Paul Swisher, Colorado commissioner of agriculture, emphasized at the meeting that the stales plagued by five years of continuing drouth must have outside financial assistance. He declared: “If we are to maintain the economy of the. eastern plains region, we must be able to look forward to longer term credit. We need to turn some lands back to grass, but the question Is —what lands?" Swisher said he meant that complete surveys and classification of all drouth-potential lande should be cmopleted as quickly as possible as a basYs for intelligent withdrawals from production. Sen. Gordon Allott (R-Colo.) who flew from Washington with the Benson party, spoke out for what he called "a reappraisal of the (crop) insurance program." He added: "Let’s not use it as a basis for subsidy." Benson, is known to be considering some such proposal in view of tremendous losses sustained on -Wheat crops in the drouth area. Henry Christensen, representing the Colorado State Grange, predicted that uriless relief, comes quickly “we are going to see a lot of'farms sold this summer and fall.” Christensen said smaller acreages will be gobbled up by what he called “suitcase farmers.!’ persons with no long-term interest in farming who invest in land for speculative purposes. Between now and Thursday Benson will tour the hardest hit areas of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. He plans to get the information he needs to build a program that will drouth in the great plains in indi(Continued on Pajje Five) Local Man's Brother Dies Os Injuries Harmon Mills, 41, of near La- . Grange, died Monday at Sacred Heart hospital in Garrett from injuries suffered in«»a traffic accident northwest of Garrett last Friday. He is survived by his wife; four children, all at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Mills of Fort Wayne; a sister, and five brothers, including Kenneth Mills of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Valley Bethel Church of God, east of LaGrange. The body Isjß the Williams funeral home.-Wolcottville, where friends may call.

Russia Agrees To Parley On Austrian Pad Ambassadors Os Big Four To Meet In Vienna On May 2 MOSCOW (INS) —Russia agreed today to a Big Four ambassadors’ meeting in Vienna May 2 as a step toward a foreign ministers’ conference “to sign a state treaty with Austria." The United States, Britain and France proposed to Russia last Friday that a Big Four ambassadorial conference be called in the Austrian capital next week to do preliminary work toward a treaty restoring Austrian sovereignty and independence. The Soviets on April 19 had proposed that a Big Four foreign ministers’ conference be called, and the new note to the Big Three today said: “The Soviet does not share the opinion that the convocation of a conference of ambassadors in Vienna in the present conditions is the shortest way of reaching necessary agreement on the Austrian question. “Since the Western powers however considered such a preliminary conference of ambassadors necessary for certain preparation work the Soviet is ready to meet this wish.” The note added that the task of the ambassadorial meeting would be “to insure in the near future a convocation of a conference of foreign ministers ... to examine and sign a state treaty with Austria.” It added Moscow’s hope that a four power foreign ministers’ meeting would “make possible the restoration of an independent and Democratic Austria.” Big Three officials are scheduled to meet Wednesday in London and the foreign ministers May 8 in Paris to work in preparing a Big Four foreign ministers' conference with Russia. The “bid & Russia would be to discuss the German and other problems. In western circles a Big Four foreign ministers’ conference, on Austria or any other subject, is not considered likely before June because of the North Atlantic treaty organization council meeting beginning in Paris May 9, and the British elections May 26. An Austrian mission to Moscow two weeks ago gained Soviet eco(Clontinued on Page Six) Quick Action Seen On Atom Ship Plan f Early Approval By Congress Foreseen WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower was assured today that bis proposal for an atomicpowered merchant ship will receive “overwhelming support” in congress. Republican congressional -leaders gave the assurance to Mr. Eisenhower at their weekly White House conference when he told them that plans for the vessel will proceed without delay. Senate- Republican leader William F. Knowland, of Calif., said the President reported - that the revolutionary ship “would be built forthwith.” Knowland expressed confidence that congress will act swiftly to vote the necessary appropriation for the nuclear-powered vessel, ex pected to cost around 20 million dollars. In discussing the ship with the GOP leaders, the President ex panded somewhat on his New York speech Monday when he announc ed plans for the vessel. He said that it will be a traveling exhibit of what the United States is doing in peaceful uses of atomic energy, in such fields as medicine, agriculture and industry. The exhibits apparently will include radioactive isotopes used in medical research and in other fields, along with other demonstra tions of nuclear energy at work for mankind. Rep. Melvin Price (D Ill.), chairman of the joint congressional subcommittee on atomic power, said he is confident that the house and senate will grant without delay whatever funds are required. Price said: "This is something we can do —there is no question aboqt it. Building the atomic merchant ship will be easy compared to the construction of ihe atomicpowered submarine Nautilus which has proved such a success.” C. C. Mallory, chairman of the committee of American steamship QContlnued on Page Six)

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Dulles Says Cease-Fire First Requirement For Discussion On Formosa

Senator George Favors Bid Os Chou Accepted Says United States Should Undertake Formosan Parley WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Walter F. George declared today the U. S. could undertake a conference on Formosa even if Nationalist China and the Chinese Communists refuse to meet face to face. The chairman of the senate foreign relations committee said Saturday night that the U. S. should be “big enough and great enough” to accept Red China Premier Chou En-Lai’s offer to talk directly about Formosa. Clarifying his position, the Georgia Democrat said in an interview that: 1. There should be genuine ceasefire — abandonment of “any military effort to take Formosa” — while, such talks are proceeding. 2. Before the talks begin with Red China, this government should conduct “exploratory talks” with friendly governments in Europe and in Southeast Asia. 3. If the free world is in accord on proceeding, this might help im duce Chiang Kai-Shek to participate in discussions —> even if through the United States or some other “third party.” He conceded that both Chjang and Chou might refuse to meet “at the same conference at the same time.” 4. Neither Chinese leader should be asked to “give np their sovereign rights” to Formosa, as they see them. George conferred with secretary of state John Foster Dulles by telephone Monday following the secretary’s return to Washington. Dulles called the chairman, the senator said, to ask if in his address to the nation’s editors Saturday he meant that President Eisenhower should confer with Chou on the Formosa issue. George said he assured Dulles he was “not thinking of Mr. Eisenhower.” In fact, said the senator, he felt initial talks with Red China should proceed at a lower level than that at which they might conclude. Clarifies Plan Os Polio Vaccination County Chairman In Statement On Plans Mrs. Robert Hess, chairman of the Adams county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, issued a statement today to clarify the polio organization’s recommendation that children in the first and second grades receive two rather than three shots of free Salk vaccine. Mrs. Hess stated, “The national foundation has obligated itself to offer protection from polio to nine million children in 1955. Our program is Intended to stimulate vaccine production and see that the most susceptible group is protected, thus gaining one year in the prevention of paralytic polio. “Until April 12 it was believed that a series of three shots would be required for protection during the 1955 polio epidemic season. However, in his report On that date, Dr. Salk Indicated that the first two shots, properly spaced, induce sufficient primary stimulation of antibodies for protection this year. The booster. Or third ehot, administered at least seven months later, is for protection in 1956 and for some period thereafter. “Actually, Dr. Salk’s recommendation is a break for everyone concerned,” said Mrs. Hess, "because it enables the national foundation to meet Rs obligation to the nine million children selected, offer booster shots for 1955 protection to those who participated in the (.Continued on Page Five)

Clinic Saturday To Give Polio Vaccine To Children Missed At Original Clinics Dr. Harold Zwick. president of the Adams county medical society and medical chairman of the polio vaccine project in this county, announced plans today for the administration of makeup shots to those children who were absent from their schools on the day of the vaccine clinics. A clinic staffed by local doctors will be set up at Adams county memorial hospital Saturday at 9 a.m. Children of the north half of the county will receive their makeup shots there. This will include pupils of Kimsey. Blue Creek Lincoln. Monmouth, Bobo. Schnepp, Adams Central, Decatur Catholic, Decatur Lincoln, Pleasant Mills and the five Lutheran schools. Only first and second grade pupils whose parents have signed the request form and who were absent from school because of illness will be eligible to receive the make-up shot. Pupils at schools in the southern part of the county will receive their make-up-shots through Berne and Geneva doctors. These physicians will set up their own program to take care of the extra clinic. • \ Dr. Zwick stated that the date for the second series of clinics has not yet been determined. All of the Children who received the shots in the first series will get the second shot within four weeks. See Compromise On Foreign Trade Bill Senate Committee Likely To Accept WASHINGTON (INS) — Two watered-down trade bill amendments—both acceptable to the ad-ministration-are reported ready for adoption today by the senate finance committee. One is a “general’’ substitute for the proposed oil quota plan. It would invite the President to act if there has been “certification” that a complaining industry has been hurt by foreign competition. The other compromise, worked out by Sen. Eugene Millikin (RColo.) would strengthen the “escape clause” provision of the reciprocal trade law by Improving procedures of the tariff commission. This amendment is designed to reduce the number of "split decisions” in the commission, so that more cases involving injury from foreign imports may be adjudicated. The President Monday declared in New York that the trade measure, which provides for a gradual reduction in tariffs over the next three years, is necessary for our "hopes for global peace.” . The finance committee meets this afternoon to act on the new language. Members admitted privately the formula was little more than a “face-saving" device for supporters of ill-fated amendments designed to impose quotas on oil and other imports. One senator said the fact that backers of the oil amendment were seeking such a compromise was a "victory” for President Eisenhower in itself. He said it indicated clearly the oil quota proposal .would be beaten-if called up in committee, as would other quota proposals. A GOP member of the committee said the compromise drafters were "trying to find language that would enable everyone to go back home.” Seventeen senators co-sponsored the oil amendment of Sen. Matthew Neely (D-W. Va.) It would limit import* of foreign oil to Iff percent of domestic .U.S. production. Another quota was proposed for fluorspar. Finally it Was decided to try to cover (Continued on Page Five)

U. S. Official Makes Secret Quemoy Visit Continue Talks On Red China Buildup Opposite Formosa TAIPEI (INS) — U. S. assistant secretary of state Walter S. Robertson made a secret flying visit today to Quemoy Island, only about four miles off the Red China coast. Upon his return from the hurried six-hour trip, (Robertson went into a late evening conference with Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek, continuing talks on the Red Chinese military buildup on the mainland opposite Formosa. Robertson who is in charge of Far Eastern affairs for the state department was accompanied on his trip to Quemoy, 100 miles west of Formosa, by Nationalist defense minister Yu Ta-Wei and foreign minister George Yeh. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, who came to Taipei last week with Robertson on special assignment of .President Eisenhower, remained in Taipei because of a slight attack of influenza. Radford, however, attended the secret evening conference at Chiang Kai-Shek’s 0 suburban residence. This was the second closed-door conference the Americans and Chiang have held. Seeks Islands TOKYO (INS) — Asian observers are betting that Red China premier Chou En-Lai is shooting for the Quemoy and Matsu islands even though he proposes to negotiate the bigger question of Formosa directly with the United States. The reasoning is that while Red China's possession of Quemoy and the Matsus would not entirely remove the last vestiges of Chiang’s troublesome island blockade. An end the blockade would reopen mainland China’s ports to full scale international commerce, a long cherished goal of the Reds. Such an event, it is further reasoned, would give Communist China a vast and much needed economic transfusion while Chiang’s (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Telsa Schindler Dies This Morning Former Employe Os Decatur Hospital Mrs. Telsa Schindler. 68, former employe of the Adams county memorial hospital, died suddenly about 8:30 o’clock this morning at her home in Vera Cruz. Mrs. Schindler had backed her auto from the garage at her home, preparatory to keeping an appointment with a Berne physician later this morning. Her body was found on the ground beside her car. Cause of death has not been definitely determined. She was born in French township May 16, 1886, a daughter of Pete and Rachel NeuenschwanderMoeschberger, and was a lifelong resident of this county. She was employed for many years as a dietician at the local hospital until her resignation last July. Her husband, Levi R. Schindler, preceded her in death. Mrs. Schindler was a member of the St. John's Evangelical and Reformed church at Vera Cruz. Surviving are a brother, Martin Moeschberger of Berne route 1; two sisters, Mrs. J. Henry Graber of Decatur route 2 and Mrs. Edwin Beer of Berne, and a number of nieces ahd nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the •Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the St. John’s Evangelical and Reformed cemetery in Vera Cruz.

Film Star Is Found Unconscious In Home Apparent Overdose Os Sleeping Pills HOLLYWOOD (INS) — Actress Susan Hayward was rushed in an ambulance to Cedars of Lebanon hospital today unconscious from an apparent overdose of sleeping pillk The red-haired actress divorced her husband, Jess Barker, in a bitter court battle last year and who failed in an apparent reconciliation attempt Monday, was found sprawled on the living room floor of her lavish San Fernando Valley home. Detectives, summoned by the actress’ mother. Mrs. Ellen Marrener at 3:30 a.m. PDT, broke into Miss Hayward's home and found her in pajamas and a robe. In a bathroom nearby, officers said they found two empty bottles which apparently had contained sleeping tablets. The actress was taken first to North Hollywood Receiving hospital where physicians began pumping her stomach. By 5 a.m. she still had not regained consciousness and was moved in an ambulance to Cedars of -Lebanon hospital. In asking detectives to investigate, Mrs. Marrener excitedly told the desk sergeant: “My daughter is Sttsan Hayward. I’m afraid she is go|pg to coipmit suicide, she told me, 'Don't Worry mother. I’m taken care of.’ ” Officers Kenneth Brondel. and G. W. Wilkerson sped to Miss Hayward's home and found the- front door locked. When they called out, they said they heard someone repeat, “Yeah." The officers went around to a patio door and burst into the living room. They found her doubled up on the floor unconscious. She was wearing powder blue pajamas and a quilted white housecoat embossed with red hearts. In a nearby bathroom the officers found what they said appeared to be two empty bottles of sedatives. The officers placed her in their squad car and took her to the Receiving hospital. At the time there were 3 servants, 2 maids and a gardener asleep in another wing of the bouse and her twin children were asleep in a room upstairs. Mrs. Marrender and Miss Hayward’s brother, Walter, said she had been upset over quarrels with Barker over raising their children and was worn down by working on two films at two different studios simultaneously. A Script of “I’ll Cry Tomorrow," which she is to make for MGM, was found near her on the living room floor when police broke in. Houser Guest Artist At Program Friday Indiana Professor School Band Guest Roy Houser, assistant professor at the Indiana university school of music, will be guest artist for the musical variety program to be presented by the Decatur high school band Friday at 3 p.m. in the school gymnasium. Houser joined the Indiana university faculty in 1948 as instructor in bassoon. He became an assistant professor in 1951. Prior to receiving a degree at thd Eastman school of music in Rochester. N.Y., he won first place in a national contest in 1937. ■ He also won the National Broadcasting company prize, a scholarship to the Interlochen music camp. He received his master's degree from Columbia university in 1953. Houser has played with the Rochester Philharmonic 'Orchestra, the Rochester civic orchestra, modern American symposiums, the Birmingham civic orchestra, the Adolph Busch chamber symphony, the Paul Whiteman orchestra and other famous musical groups. He has also played in several musical shows including “Brigadoon.” "AlCContiaued on Page Six)

Dulles Willing To Negotiate With Red China Must Be Convinced Over Sincerity Os China Communists WASHINTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today he would negotiate a Formosa cease-fire directly with Red China regardless of whether the Chinese Nationalists participated. But Dulles told his news conference that he would have to be convinced first that the Chinese Reds were sincere. And he said again that after a cease-fire was arranged, the Nationalists would have to join in any further discussions concerning their rights and territories. Dullps made it clear that a cease-fire is a first requirement for any discussions on a Formosan settlement because the United States will not negotiate with a cocked pistol at its head. The secretary seemed more optimistic and in better humor than he has been at any recent news conference. He made a number of pleasantries. He read a prepared statement in which he said: "I feel that developments of the last 10 days may in detrospect seem of decisive importance both in Europe and Asia. “The Bandung conference, as we had hoped, seems to have exerted a restraint on the Chinese Communists.” Dulles said that the Peiping regime, “confronted with the opin? ion of the free nations of Asia,” seems to have been impressed. He added: “There seems now a chance that the Communist Chinese may be deterred from pursuing the course of violence which has characterized their action in relation to Korea, to Tibet, to Indo-China. and, more recently, in relation to the Taiwan (Formosa) Straits.” Af{er he read his statement, Dulles said the U. S. government intends to find out how sincere the Communists were in their talk of a settlement. He said that he believes that a good deal of credibility was given to the proposal of Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai because it was made both publicly and privately to a large group of nations. Dulles said that inquiries can be made through friendly governments to find out what the Chinese Communists have in mind. He indicated he was particularly interested in Chou's Sunday statement that the talks would not affect the "sovereign rights" of Red China to "liberate" Formosa. He said that if that means the Chinese Communists are not willing to talk about a cease-fire, then obviously there is no occasion to sit down and talk with them. Dulles stressed that the U. S. is not going to talk about the interests of Nationalist China behind its back. . The secretary talked with President Elsenhower for 45 minutes late Monday after his return from a brief holiday at Duck Island in Lake Ontario. During the holiday, the diplomatic crisis over Formosa developed. Red Chinese Premier Chou EnLai scored a diplomatic coup at the Bandung conference of AfroAsian nations by winning broad Asian support for his' proposal that Red China and the U. *B. confer to relax tension around Formosa. Two stauKch American allies supported the Chou proposal. They were prime minister Mohammed Aii of Pakistan and prime minister Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylbn. ' . 4 Sir John even chided the United States for what he said was an ov-er-hasty brush-off of the proposal. Saturday. Just six hours after (Continued on Pace Six)

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