Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1955 — Page 1

Vol. Uli. No. 111.

THREE MEN — THREE MIGS ■Nr \ -’ . i nl eo*’ «.* K sEk X, JU? wb ■BBI • '*ll Bw j ¥ ; w^^mSwBhSHBiI IIL i HERE ARE THE THREE U. S. airmen credited with downing two and possibly three of 16 Communist MIGs which jumped them off the North Korea coast. At the left, checking his aircraft is Lt. B. C. Phythyon of Wadsworth, Ohio. At the right are (top) Capt. R. V. Fulton of Bernardsville, N. J. and Lt. James E. McInerney of Garden City, L. L

Ike Expresses Faith In Salk Polio Vaccine Expresses Belief Salk Vaccine Will Eliminate Polio WASHINGTON (INS) —President Eisenhower declared today he firnriy believes the Salk vaccine Will eliminate polio in the United Stales, within a measurable tljae. The Chief Btaebtive Spoke out strongly in support of the vaccine at his news conference despite the recent recommendation of the public health service that all inoculatipne be temporarily suspended. He said in reply to a question he believes absolutely that the Salk vaccine can prevent polio, just as the original tests showed. Mr. Eisenhower said he thought scientists have probably tried to take a shortcut to put the vaccine on the market as quickly as possible, and may not have put it through the exhaustive tests needed tor a double check of its effectiveness. He pointed out that scientists and doctors were under great pressure to bring the vaccine out. before there was reason to believe it was really useful and effective. ■But he made it clear his confidence in the vaccine has not been shaken. The President said the public health service recommendation to suspend inoculations was a doctor’s decision and represented the informed opinion of medical ex-perts-not his own. He repeated his statement of last week that no child will be denied the vaccine because of inability to pay for It. Speaking with strong emotion, the Chief Executive said the second he finds out any child has been denied inoculation because of inability to pay he is going to move as hard as he can. 'He said he has no particular plan, however, to have the federal government take over financing of the vaccine shots in such cases, beyond seeking the necessary authority from congress. He said he should be in a position by next Monday or to determine whether he should take any further action on the problem. He noted that he will receive a detailed report on the whole mattel- this week from welfare secretary Gveta Culp Hobby. 'Meanwhile, the public health service reported 10 new cases of polio among inoculated children today, bringing the official nation wide total to 62. (k Os these, 51 received vaccine shots from 'the Cutter Laboratories, while 10 were inoculated with Eli Lilly vaccine and one received a shot from the Wyeth Laboratories. Influential Republican congressmen have expressed fear that the current stop and go confusion over the Salk vaccine may be doing the Eisenhower administration political harm. Some GOP members of the house and senate believe the situation could become “political dyna-mite”-especlally if some children have to go without the vaccine and the voters decide it is the admin(Ooattnuea on Page Eight)

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Steel Union Heads Meet On Wage Hike Union Will Demand Increase In Wages PITTSBURGH (INS) — Leaders of the 1,200,000 members of the CIO United Steelworkers meet today in Pittsburgh to seek the wage boost they claim is justified by the strong condition of the steel industry. The big union's executive committee scheduled a meeting this morning and the 170 member wage policy committee was to meet this afternoon in closed door strategy sessions. None of the USW leaders, including President David J. Medonald, has said how much of a raise they want. But some veteran observers say the industry is bracing for a 10 cent an hour demand while the union might ask as much as 20 cents. A 20 cent raise, if won. would be the biggest single hike the union ever has obtained. The talks today, and Thursday if necessary, will be aimed at plotting demands for, raises for about 600,000 members in the basic steel industry. Only the wage question can be brought up this year. All other provisions of the current two year contract remain in effect until June 1956. Optimism among the union officials reflects the same feeling expressed by industry leaders—that the steel picture is bright and possibly growing brighter. Last week, just before retiring as chairman of the board of U.S. Steel, Benjamin F. Fairless predicted record production this year. His successor, Roger M. Blough, also says that both the present and Tong range outlook is favorable. The pattern for the basic industry usually depends oh. the result of negotiations with “Big Steel.” Some industry figures, particularly Adm. Ben Morrell, of Jones and Laughlin, say a wage boost might have to be followed by price increases. At least one union officer, international secretary treasurer I. W. Obel, warns that there might be a battle over the increase even though the near capacity operations of the industry put the wage committee, in a good position. -. •< < . - Union spokesmen argue that optimism is justified since last year's negotiations, Which .won a 12% cent package inchftling a five straight raise, took place with the industry operating at about 70 percent of capacity. Moat steel ' facilities are close to 100 percent now. Negotiations can begin anytime after the union demands are framed and since it gave notice of the reopening of wage talks, the union has the rlghtf' to r strike if there is no agreement by June 30. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly Cloudy, occasional rain or showers southwest portion this afternoon, over most of state tonlaht and In south and east portions Thursday morning. Warmer tonight Low tonight ranging from 4460 extreme north to near 60 extreme south. High Thursday 64-68.

UN Diplomats Wary Os Red Peace Plans Suspect Red Plot Aimed At Wrecking German Armament ‘ UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —Western UN diplomats looked with reserve today at Russia’s , latest peace blueprint and suspected a Red plot to wreck German rearmament. Some said they recognized in the proposals a long awaited Soviet bid to counteract mounting allied strength gained with the enactment of the Paris agreements. Others pointed out that any direct action by the UN on the Moscow blueprint could not come before the next general assembly meets in mid-Septem'ber. The Kremlin’s intention to go before the assembly with an itemized proposal for withdrawing foreign troops from Germany was looked on at the UN as a skillfully camouflaged strategy of delay and obstruction. Those wno Know tne Russians maintained that the withdrawal of allied troops—especially American —would soon clear the way for mass demonstrations, infiltrations and political coups by carefully organized East German Communist units masquerading as 'patriotic West Germans. Qualified European sources believe the Russians hope to stir up trouble for Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and for the Big Three by inciting West Germans to support the Moscow offer for foreign troop withdrawal. Soviet proposals for banning nuclear weapons and setting up inspection posts in all countries were described at the UN as “the same old routine" dressed up in a new approach. Observers notea tnat previous experience with Moscow has shown that major snags always crop up and result in a deadlock after the Communist propaganda barrage has run fts course. UN veterans recalled that Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov dramatically presented a gio(Continued on Page Elgtrt) City Clean-up Week Scheduled May 24-27 Mayor John M. Doan announced today that the city's annual cleUfiup week will be observed from May 24-27 (inclusive). Wet weather has slowed .patching of streets in the dity and thus delayed the clean-up Campaign for one week from the earlier announced tentative date of next week. The schedule for pickups by city trucks of containers of rubbish and trash will be announced next week. • ----- Carl Hammond Dies Tuesday Evening Lifelong Resident Os Decatur Is Dead Carl I. Hammond, 53, of 621 Nuttman avenue, well known Decatur man and a lifelong resident of this city, died at 6:30 o’clock Tuesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital following a month's illness with a heart ailment. Mr. Hammond had been employed for a number of years as a federal grain inspector. He was born in Decatur Oct. 14, 1901, a son of Lewis and Kate McCullough-Hammond, and was married to Miss Edith Kabisch June 7, 1921. Mr. Hammond was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, the Masonic lodge, B. P. O. Elks lodge, Eastern Star, Scottish Rite and the Shrine. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Richard Hammond of Chattanooga, Tenn., and John Hammond, at home: two daughters, Mrs. Ruth Christen and Mrs. Dorothy Schnepf, both of Decatur; eight grandchildren;, one brother, HermaA Hammond of Decatur,* and three sisters, Mrs. Vera Fritzinger of Decatur, Mrs. Lewis Kerr of Coleman, Mich., and Mrs. Ethel Rayer of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Benj, G. Thomas officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the service. Friends are requested to omit flowers but may make contributions to the church or to the heart fund.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 11, 1955.

Eisenhower Stresses Big Four Meet Still InExploratory Stage

Molotov Will Meet With Big Three Leaders Accepts Invitation For Dinner Meeting In Vienna Saturday PARIS (INS) — Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov has accepted an invitation to dine with * the U. S., British and French foreign ministers in Vienna Saturday night. The word of Molotov’s acceptance was revealed by a highly authoritative source in Paris today as the 15 ministers of the North Atlantic pact nations gathered for the final session of the Atlantic council. The Soviet foreign minister’s willingness to confer in an informal, friendly manner with his Western counterparts was interpreted in NATO circles as implying virtual Soviet acceptance of Tuesday's allied note proposing a Big Four conference this summer. That parley, possibly in Switzerland during July, would include a meeting of the chiefs of state. The identical three power note delivered in Moscow proposed the foreign ministers should take advantage of their presence in Vb enua this weekend in connection with the signing of an Austrian state treaty to confer informally on a plan for a top level Big Four meeting this summer. __ It now was expected that Molotov will agree with the western ministers to set the time and place for the summer meeting. There was the possibility that Molotov would raise some stumbling block at the Saturday night dinner conference. He might propose that Communist China should attend the top level talks, thus endeavoring to make them a Big Five conference. Such a move might be made for propaganda purposes even if the Soviets did not intend to insist on the participation of the Communist Chinese. Russia invited a Communist Chinese observer to attend the Warsaw conference on establishing an East European unified military command which opened in the satellite capital today. If Molotov raises the question, Dulles will oppose ft adamantly and serve notice that Russian Insistence on the point would result in President Eisenhower’s withdrawal of his offer to meet with the Soviet premier and the British and French leaders. (Continued on Page Eight) Jefferson Club In Meeting Last Night -■ Club Reorganized At Meeting Here A re-organizational meeting of the Adams county Jefferson club took place Tuesday evening at the Hob Nob Restaurant near Decatur. Attorney Severin Schurger gave the opening remarks and pointed out the Democratic principles on which the organization is based. Dr. Harry Hebble, county chairman of the Democrat central committee, Was the main speaker. Hebble spoke on the organization for city campaigns in connection with the November elections in Decatur. Berne, Monroe and Geneva. He stressed the importance of polling to get everyone registered and -then to organize a system of getting these people to the polls on election day. Each candidate who attended the meeting was given the opportunity to express his or her views on a successful campaign. Plans were made for a pot luck picnic at Lehman park in Berne Thursday, July 7. The Berne members of the club will be in charge of arrangements for this meeting.

Air force Denies Red Battle Story American Sabrejets Wholly Undamaged _ TOKYO (INS) —The U. S. air force .formally denied today a Communist version of a battle between American Sabrejets and Chinese communist MIGs in which the Reds claimed one U, S. plane was shot down. A Peiping radio broadcast asserted one American plane was destroyed and two others damaged in the Tuesday and also claimed the jet fight took place over "territorial air” of northeast China, or Manchuria. U. S. air force spokesman in Tokyo denied the Red version, point by point. The Communist broadcast made no mention of Red losses but the U. S. air force said two MIGs were destroyed and one probably destroyed in the clash over international waters of the Yellow Sea. The air force spokesman, in his blanket denial of the Red story said: ’There wasn’t a single solitary bullet hole or scratch on any of our airplane*. “They all returned safely.” ’He added that the Sabrejets were on a combined training and operational mission which was “strickly routine.” The spokesman said th'e Sabres ’Sighted tha MIGs, W to 16 of them, at a point about 50 miles (Continued on Page Eight) Arthur 5. Kelsey Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Arthur’!-!. Kelsey, 86-year-old retired farmer, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at his home on Monfoe route 1 following an illness of eight months of complications. He was born in Michigan Sept. 14, 1868, a son of Edgar and Ellen Fisher-Kelsey, and was married to Armenda Rowland March 19, 1900. Mr. Kelsey was a member of the Salem Methodist church. Surviving are his wife; one son, Ctair E. Kelsey of Salem; one daughter, Mrs. Minerva Riffle of Decatur; four grandchildren; one great-grandchild; one brother, Alfred Kelsey of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Ima Heffron of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Abbie Young of Rockford, O. Two brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. H. O. Davis officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Thursday. Statehood Measure Apparently Doomed WASHINGTON (INS) — The chanches that either Hawaii or Alaska will become a state this year were apparently doomed today by house refusal to let them both into the union at the same time. By a decisive vote of 218 to 176 late Tuesday, the house sent the Hawaii-Alaska statehood bill back to committee, a move equivalent to killing it at least for this session of congress. 14th Atomic Blast Is Postponed Today LAS VEGAS. Nev. (INS) —The 14th and final atomic detonation of the current Nevada test series was postponed for the third time today when a last minute weather cheok showed that conditions were unfavorable. * The atomic energy commission said the postponement was called because of unacceptable wind patterns. Another weather evaluation was scheduled to-determine whether the blast can be triggered at dawn Thursday.

NATO Council Hopeful Os Red Policy Changes Hopeful Os Soviet Flexible Policy As Aid Toward Peace PARIS (INS) — The North Atlantic council expressed the hope today that progress towards signing an Austrian state treaty was the first sign of a “more flexible Soviet policy." The communique of the 15 nation council on its three-day session “welcomed the indications that the Soviet Union now intends to join in concluding” the pact ending the 10 year Austrian occupation. The text of the communique, which International News Service obtained while the final council session was still in progress, said the ministers “hoped the progress on an Austrian state treaty presages a more flexible Soviet policy which would open the way for a constructive discussion of other outstanding problems.” The ministers also agreed that any “flexibility” in Soviet policy could be attributed to the policies followed by the west in building and maintaining, its strength and unity. The communique expressed the Atlantic alliance’s resolve to continue these policies. ' The statement also welcomed the initiative of France, the United Kingdom and the U. S. in proposing to the Soviet Union negotiations to find means of resolving outstanding issues. The council added that it hoped the negotiations would lead progressively to agreements which would remove sources of . conflict between east and west. The communique said the negotiations also could contribute to the security and liberty of all peoples and extend the enjoyment of national and human rights to those peoples and states now held in subjection. This was a reference to the satellite nations of Eastern Europe, a subject which the U. S. intends to bring up for discussion at the Big Four conference to which Russia has been invited by the Western Big Three. The council compiunique also expressed the hope that four power discussions might: 1> Bring about the peaceful unification of Germany in freedom. 2. Promote progress towards the reduction, under effective safe guard, of armaments and armed forces. The ministers emphasised that this required careful preparation. According to the communique, the council also stressed the sig nificance they attach to the entry of the Bonn federal republic “as (Continued on Page Eight) Auto —_ ■ -v’ vi i Resume Negotiations Union Seeks Offer Guaranteed Wage DETROIT (INS) »- Ford and the CIO United Auto Workers resumed contract negotiations today, with the union wielding a strike vote in an effort to pry an offer of the guaranteed annual wage from the company. Although results of a strike poll ordered among the 465,000 UAW members at both Ford and General Motors is not expected until late next week, CIO President Walter Reuther was expected to use the threat in today’s talks. Reuther told the Ford and GM councils of the union Mopday there has been no progress In discussions on the GAW. Today’s bargaining Is the first between Ford and the union in a week. Talks with GM are off until Monday.

Adams Central High Graduation May 18 29 Will Graduate At Adams Central Twenty-nine members of the senior class of Adams Centra] high school will take part in the baccalaureate services Sunday, May 15, and the graduation exercises Wednesday night, May 18, it was announced today by officials of Adams County CHr“ consolidated school. 2 The baccalaureate service will be held Sunday night at 8 o’clock with the Rev. Ralph Johnson, pastor of Monroe Methodist church delivering the sermon. Invocation and benediction will be given by the Rev. John Mishler, pastor of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. The Adame Central choir will provide the music and Mrs. Ralph Johnson will preside at the organ. Dr. Herman Shibler, general superintendent of education of Indianapolis public schools, will deliver the commencement address at the ceremony at the Adams Central gymnasium Wednesday night, May 18, at 8 o’clock. The Adams Central choir under direction of Robert Ray will furnish the music. The Rev. Carl Shaw will give the invocation and the i (Rev. Harlan Shady will give the . benediction. Allen Lehman, eo» of Mr. JMid Mrs. Warren Lehrtian, Deektur, rural route three, will act as valedictorian and Ardola Parrish, daughter of Kerneth Parrish, Decatur. rural route four, will serve as salutatorian. Following is the list of Adams Central graduates: Donald Barger, James Bauman Roderick Beer, John Bluhm, Frederick Fox, David Helmrich, Florina Hfrschy, Goldie Hollopeter, Dorothy Lambert, Allen Lehman, Dave Liby, James Lobsiger, Howard Michaels, Ardola Parrish, Vernon Ratcliff. John Ripley, John Rowdon,Dick Rumple, Bernd Van Ruschen, Larry Schwartz, Janet Shady, Mary Jane Shaw, Gordon Singleton, Elaine Stultz, Patsy Uhrlck, Ruth Mae Weber, Ronald Wagley, Kay Ann Wittee, Miles Zimmerman. Dr. Shibler, commencement speaker, is a native of Ohio. He has been a teacher and school administrator tor 33 years. He also is the author of several books. Dr. Shibler has been Indianapolis school superintendent since 1950. Albert Egly Dies At Home At Convoy, 0. Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Albert Egly, 70, a retired farmer, died at 4:30 p. m. Tuesday at his home at Convoy, 0., following yin UhuMs of three weeks. Mrt Kgly was a member of the WdbdsMChapel Evangelical United Brethren 'church. Surviving are six sons, Elmer Egly of Tucson, Arlx., Howard, Herman, Chester and Paul Egly, all of Fort Wayne, and Harold Egly of Garrett; two daughters, Mrs. Dorotha Bingham of Churubusco and Mrs. Edith Densel of Convoy; 36 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; five brothers, Levi Egly of Convoy, Glen Egly of near Ohio City, 0., Walter Egly of Decatur, Noah Egly of Monroe and Lewis Egly of Bluffton, and five sisters, Mrs. Walter Conrad and Mrs. John Barkley of Decatur, Mrs. Charles Merkey and Mrs. Alvin Miller of Bluffton, and Mrs. William Mittmer of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at the Woods Chapel U. E. B. church, the Rev. Albert N. Straley officiating. Burial will be in the Zion cemetery near Craigville. The body was removed to the H. D. Smith funeral home at Convoy, where friends may call until time of the services.

Five Cents

Says Meeting Should Be At Neutral Site Believes Meeting Os Leaders Would Be Only Brief ( Washington (ins) -Preeisent Eisenhower said today he thinks a Big Four conference could wind up its work in three days, confining itself to, a broad effort to relieve world tensions. The Chief Executive said he has no personal preference as to the time and place for a meeting with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and other Big Four leaders, except that it should be in a neutral country. He stressed at his news conference that the Big Four parley is still in an exploratory stage. At one time, he used the phrase, if it is held at all. If he aoes attend such a meeting, Mr. Eisenhower said emphat- , ically, he will not go into it with . any expectation that the world is L going to be turned around in a r few hours or a few weeks. , The most important result which , could be accomplished at a Big Four meeting, he said, would be for the chiefs of state to define the lines their foreign ministers • eouM'biter pursue towards a lee- ’ sening of world tension. • The President said that there ' should certainly be ho agenda for 1 the meeting at the summit, except in the most generalized form. i Under questioning, he said that he doesn’t see how the subject of relieving tension could be covered without a discussion/*of disarma- , ment. On the other hand, he said, disarmament would not necessarily be a part of the general agenda. He parried a question on whether he though the Big Four should assembly again after the foreign ministers’ more detailed conference, saying that would depend on whether there was any accomplishment worth signing into formal agreement. Mr. Eisenhower said in response to another question that he doesn’t know yet whether he would favor taking some members of congress along to a Big Four meeting. He emphasized, however, that if such a conference produced any formal agreement or treaty it was always profitable to have congressional representatives along. The President said he thought it would be proper for the four chiefs of state to let their discussions range around the world. There might be an agreement, he conceded, however, to limit the talks to certain areas, with a possible ban, for instance, on discussing the Far East. Mr. Eisenhower reiterated his readiness to go anywhere in the world at any time if he thinks any good can be accomplished. The President sounded a not of caution against expecting too much out of a Big Fdur meeting, one of the concerns which has kept him from becoming too enthusiastic about such a conference in the past. But he noted that there has been a growing sentiment in the world for a meeting between the leaders of the Kremlin and the Western chiefs of State. Give Lions Reports On State Convention Roy Price, Ron Parrish, Paul Hancher and Frank Lybarger, delegates to the recent Lions state convention presented reports of the convention at a dinner meeting of the Lions club at the K. of P. home Tuesday night. One guest. Merle Affolder attended. The Lions club will sponsor graduation breakfasts for the senior classes of Abth Decatur high schools on the morning following their commencement exercises. Committees for this project will be named at the meeting next week. The program for the next meeting will be presented by students of Decatur high school.