Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 2 June 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LUI. No. 129.

THE REAL THING — SOON! J| k > Wgft Ifv MRS. EDWIN L. HELLER, of Wynnewood. Pa., gazes at a large picture of her recently released POW husband, Lt. Col. Edwin L. Heller and the three others set free by the Communist Chinse governmnt She is seated in an army automobile enroute to a quick air flight to her husband at Honolulu and a reunion after two years of separation. She Will be joined by relatives of the other men at Omaha from where all will fly to Hawaii.

Polio Vaccine Program Faces Further Delay More Production Awaits Retooling By Manufacturers WASHINGTON (INS) — The nationwide mass anti-polio inoculation program appeared headed for further delay today despite release of some 200,000 shots of Salk vaccine late Wednesday. Officials pointed out that the backlog of vaccine awaiting clearance by the newly formed committee of experts includes only three million doses while 12 million shots will be needed to complete the Inoculation of all first and second graders. < Further production must await "retooling" by the vaccine manufacturers to meet the new safety standards worked out last week in a series of conference of experts and producers at the national institutes of health. Even the release of the 200,000 shots—an admitted trickle in the reservoir of supplies already available or now being processed — was subject to reservations. . / The public health service announced late Wednesday that Salk vaccine produced by the PitmanMoore Co., of Zionsville, Ind., and the Wyeth Laboratories of Marietta, Pa., which had been withheld since May 8. was being released for immediate use. A spokesman said a short time later, however, that “one or two lots” of the firms' vaccine were being held up for further testing. Still later, this was corrected by a government spokesman to read "three or four lots." The 200,000 doses produced by the two firms were among “left over" portions of batches which had been released before the middle of May. Surgeon general Leonard A. Scheele said the reclearance of the first 200,000 doses “will permit completion of first vaccinations in a number of communities in which Immunization programs were interrupted." He emphasized that the delay in approving the Pitman-Moore and Wyeth products was no reflection on those companies. He said that ail firms producing the Salk vaccine "pave cooperated to the fullest in the effort to see that vaccine will begin to be available in ever large quantities for the children in the susceptible age groups." Climbers Conquer 3rd Highest Peak LONDON (INS) —A British team of mountain climbers has conquered 28,446 foot Mt. Kanchenjiinga in the Himalayas. The expedition was reported to have climber within five vertical feet of the summit on May 25. It . went no further to avoid offending the local Nepalese people who believe their gods live at the top of tlie Kanchenjiinga. The jagged, wind swept peak is the third highest in the world. INDIANA WEATHER <■ Partly cloudy tonight and Friday, occasional showers and possibly thunderstorms northwest portion late tonight or Friday. A little warmer tonight. Low tonight 58-65. High Friday 80-88. 12 Pages

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GOP Factions Seek Control In Indiana Rival Factions Are Lining Up Counties GOP FACTIONS SEEK INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Although it is a year until the Republican reorganization meeting comes, the two Hoosier GOP factional groups already are lining up forces in the counties. Partisans of both Governor George N. Craig and Senator William E. Jenner are creating county organizations in many areas. Both sides are trying to elect county chairmen who will choose the congressional district chairmen who comprise the state organization. The latest Craig move has been in the fifth district, which has been in the Jenner camp. Tn a bold bid for power, the Craig group offered a post on the Indiana highway commission to Robert Ray, mayor of Gas City and Grant county chairman. The offer was reported to have been made by state representative John R. Feighner. of Marion, GOP majority leader of the house, and by -state commissioner of revenue Frank.T. Millis, who is a candidate for governor. The appointment was rejected by Ray. who has been associated with the Jenner faction. The politicos said that the Craig faction now is using highway commission patronage because all of the juicy jobs in the toll road commission already have been passed out, chiefly in Craig’s successful bid for the seventh and eighth districts that led to the election of a Craig man, Alvin Cast, of Kentland, as GOP state chairman. There is a prospect for additional pay road patronage, however, if and when the north-south and southern Indiana east-west toll roads come into being. The Jennerites, on the other hand, have little patronage and are relying on good generalship and past ties of friendship in (Continued on Page Five) Payer And Macklin In Democrat Posts Named As Officers Os City Committee * Boyd Rayer, prominent Decatur barber and business man, today was named secretary of the Decatur Democratic .central committee, and O. W. P. Macklin, treasurer of the county committee, was named to serve as treasurer of the city committee. Appointments were made by Bernard Clark, city Democratic chairman. Mrs. Everett Hutker is vice-chairman. These four officers of the city committee with the regular members will have charge of the municipal election campaign. Robert Cole, mayoralty nominee, Mrs. Merriam Parrish Hall, ClerkTreasurer candidate and ocratic councilmanic candidates expressed approval of the appointments of Rayer and Macklin and Clark said he would call a meeting of the entire city committee soon. A platform committee has been working . for several weeks and Clark said a tentative report from that group would be ready for the city committee and 'candidates soon. The platform will not be completed, ft was announced, until representatives of several local groups including labor, industry. Chamber of Commerce and church organizations are given an opportunity to offer suggestions, the chairman said. .

Wildcat Strike Closes Ford's Plant In East Menaces Renewal Os Negotiations In Detroit Today DETROIT (INS) —A wildcat strike dosed Ford’s Mercury assembly plant in Metuchen, N. J., today and menaced > resumption of negotiations in Detroit. The walkout was precipitated by 30 maintenance men, who threw up picket lines, barring the way to the day shift. They complained of "stalling tactics" by the company in the contract talks. Some 2,750 employes are affected. The parley was to resume at 9:30 a. m. to work over Wednesday's concession on a phase of the guaranteed annual wage' by the company. The new offer delayed a strike by 140,000 employes across the nation, threatened last midnight, but CIO United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther warned he would call a strike at 12:01 a. m. next Monday unless agreement is reached by then. A statement issued Wednesday by Reuther and UAW Ford director Ken Bannon less than H 2 hours before the deadline said: “Yesterday Ford Motor Co. made a new proposal to the union. Obviously there has not been sufficient time to explore details of the new proposal." Details of the new Ford proposal were not disclosed but it rehad a clause supplementing jobless pay for laid off workers • a key point of the union’s campaign for a guaranteed annual wage. The statement noted that the two sides are "still far apart on many importent issues.” It added that the five day extension in talks was given “to give negotiators additional time to explore the company’s new proposal." However. Reuther declared that “the contract win not be extended beyond Monday, June 6” and warned that "if agreement Aas not been reached between now and that date, a strike will begin.” The extension of the Ford strike dtadline put added emphasis on the UAW’s simultaneous negotiations with General Motors Corporation. ~ The G. M.-UAW contract was to 1 expire May 29. But the union delayed filing termination notice so it is not free to strike at G. M. until next Tuesday midnight. Thus there now is 48 hours or less between the union's showdown deadlines with the auto industry’s two biggest companies. Any settlement reached with (Continued on P»<« Five) Clifton A. Wasson Dies At Cincinnati Clifton A. Wasson, 73, a native of Wells county, died at Cincinnati, 0., where he had lived for many years. Surviving are two brothers, Leo Wasson of Craigville and Clem Wasson of Antwerp, O. ... Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Tocsin cemetery, the Rev. C. L. Davis officiating. British Cabinet To Study Rail Strike Hope Os Settlement Resting With Union LONDON (INS) — Britain’s cabinet meets today to discuss the rail strike crisis, but hopes for ending the five - day -old walkout rested with the Trades Union Congress. The TUC council conferred Wednesday with leaders of the striking Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen. The 70,000 man ASLEF Is seeking wage increases to maintain its higher level of pay over the less skilled members of the National Union of Railwaymen. Today the council of the Central Union Organization will meet with leaders of the NUR and may schedule a joint session with the two rival groups. Prime minister Sir Anthony Eden and the members of his cabinet will receive a full report from labor minister Sir Walter Monckton on the prospects of the strike’s ending. -, - The effects of the walkout were growing daily more serious for the nation's economy. It was feared that at least a million persons will be unemployed if the strike continues for another week.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 2, 1955.

Freed Fliers Predict Better Treatment For Prisoners Os Chinese _____ ' — 1 1 j. l '».*■ l —

Three Persons < Die As Dallas Building Falls Fear Other Bodies May Be Found rn Building Wreckage persons were killed and 10 others injured Wednesday night when an abandoned three story Dallas building collapsed and crushed an adjoining structure. Authorities expressed fear that other bodies might be found in the wreckage of the smaller building where all the victims were trapped when an avalanche of bricks and concrete cascaded through the roof and onto the street. The dead were identified as Luther Gonzales, 32, Alvis Bailey Simmons, 40, and William E. Kirby, 42, all of Dallas. Three of the injured were reported in serious condition. Two of the more than 200 firemen who were aided by rescue volunteer workers were injured while extricating the victims frbm the one and a half story building housing a music store and Harry’s Bar and Grill. . A wall of the three spry building which was being razed suddenly gave way just after rush hour traffic had subsided from the 1300 block on Elm St., in downtown Dalias. One of the men trapped in the rubble, Lloyd Cornett, was pulled (Continued on >-age Five) x

Released Vaccine Is Already Used Statement Made By Pitman-Moore Co. INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A spokesman for Pitman-Moore company said today that so far as the firm knows the Salk polio vaccine "released” Wednesday evening by federal health officials already has been used. All of it has been shipped to state boards of health, some of whom may still have supplies on hand. This also was the case in the previous announcements “clearing” vaccine produced by Eli Lilly & Company and Park Davis pharmaceutical laboratories. The clearance followed inspections of the manufacture of the vaccine by of- . cials of the nuicna! irsti'utcs of health and was a reconfirmation of previous approval given before the vaccine was shipped. Some 200,000 cubic centimeters of vaccine were reported released by the public health service in Washington from lots manufactured by Pitman-Moore, of Indianapolis and Zionsville, Ind., and Wyeth Laboratories, Marietta, Pa. However, the Pitman - Moore spokesman explained that the announcement did not mean that any more vaccine was available for immediate shipment. He said Pitman-Moore already has shipped 700,000 ccs. of the vaccine for use in the National Foundation for Paralysis program for vaccination of first and second grade children. He said that until the NIH sends the company the lot numbers covered by Wednesday’s clearance report, he would not be able to say in what states the vaccine was distributed. The spokesman added that reapproval of the remaining shots of vaccine produced and already shipped by Pitman-Moore was expected as the “clearing” process continues. The inspection by Dr. William Workman and other NIH officials at Pitman-Moore was made May 19-20 but announcement of their approval of the already manufactured vaccine was held up until Wednesday pending meetings of medical and pharmaceutical repin Washington last week.

{Dedication Dance Planned June 21 Part Os Community Center Dedication The Bel Aire dance orchestra, with Charlie Powell, well known television musician and entertainer, were announced today as headliners for the dedication dance to be held at the Youth and Community Center Tuesday night, June 21, as part of dedication week of the new building. Richard Saylors, of Saylors Motor Co. of this city, publicity chairman for the event, said that tickets for the big evening which will start at 9:30 o’clock and last until 12:30, could be purchased for sl.lO each, tax included, through any Decatur sorority, the decode club or the Women’s Business and Professional club only. The publicity committee, in addition to Saylors, includes Mr. and Mrs. Leland Smith, Mr. and Mrs. August Kelly, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Zintsmaster, Mr. and Mrs. D. Burdette Custer, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Anspaugh. Dr. and "Mrs. Melvin Weismann, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith, Dr. and Mrs. Joe Morris. Mr. and Mrs. Al Riehle and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Sheets. Mrs. Roy Kai ver, general chairman for the dedication da&ce name'll the decoration committee to include: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nelson, cochairmen, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kaehr, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Mayclin, Mr. and Mrs. James Basham, Mr. and Mrs. David Kaye, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Zerkel, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ehlnger and Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Frey. The refreshments committee includes: Mr. and Mrs. John DeVoss, cochairmen; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gentis, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Schafer, Mr. and Mrs. Andy Appelman, Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Mies, Dr. and Mrs. John Terveer, Mr. and Mrs. Dave Terveer, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Kalver, Dr. and Mrs. Gerald Kohne and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cole. The presidents of each of Decatur’s sororities will act as hostesses for the dance. Refreshments will be included without charge in the price of the admission ticket, it was announced. Charlie Powell, well known entertainer, will present several special features during the intermissions. The entire evening is being planned especially as an informal social evening for adults of Decatur and this area, it was said by those in charge. City Ordered To Pollution Hearing City Ordered To Hearing June 16 INDIANAUOLIS (INS)— The stream pollution control board bas scheduled hearings and issued orders on a number of pollution questions in Indiana. The city of Decatur was directed to be present at a hearing June 16 to determine whether the city is polluting St. Mary’s river. At the same time, the board has taken under advisement an objection to its April .15 hearing and order for Plymouth to abate pollution of Yellow river. The board approved plans to facilities to eliminate chance of accidental discharge of cyanide from the Sarkes Talzian, Inc., tuner division plant at Bloomington. It also approved construction plans (or anti-pollution facilities at Hobart, Winona Lake ftnd the Northern Indiana Public Service company’s unit four station in Gary. Board members said bids for an improved sewer system at the Madison state hospital were received and bids for construction of a sewage treatment plant there (Continued on Page Five)

Marshal Trio Abandons Base Soviet Policy Report Tito Has Apparently Dropped Revolutionary Idea BELGRADE (INS) — High ranking allied diplomatic sources said today Marshal Tito apparently has abandoned the basic Soviet concept of the international revolutionary movement — to achieve ultimate Communist domination of the world. Western envoys in Belgrade consider this to be the most outstanding development in the week-long talks between the Yugoslav president and the visiting Russian rulers. They feel it may have a far reaching Impact on the world Communist movement Yugoslav officials have indicated to western ambassadors that Tito’s shift away from the idea of eventual red domination of the World has become part of Yugoslav policy. This ia now believed to have been one of the main reasons tor the decisions of the Soviet leaders to visit Belgrade. It’ls thought Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin and party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev hoped to dissuade Tito from renouncing the international revolutionary movement. This is the diplomatic interpretation now being given Khrushchev’s speech on his arrival in Belgrade last week. Khrushchev stressed the strongest ties are those which exist between socialist states whose political activities are based on the teachings of Marxism and Leninism concerning the methods of achieving final victory of socialism. Western diplomats are convinced Tito rejected the Soviet overtures. This is believed to have been reflected in the repeated statements in the Yugoslav press during the past week expressing strong opposition to ideological blocs. Tito’s historic decision is believed by the diplomats to have (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Lena Hollman Dies Al Fori Wayne Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death \ Mrs. Lena J. Hoffman, 81, mother of Mrs. H. P. Schmitt of this city, died unexpectedly Wednesday at her home, 1120 South Anthony boulevard. Fort Wayne. She was born at Heesen Cassel and was a lifelong resident of Allen county. Her husband, John F. Hoffman, who died in 1927, was a general contractor. Mrs. Hoffman Was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church at Fort Wayne, its Altar and Rosary societies, Legion of Mary and 52 club. Surviving in addition to the daughter in this city are three other daughters, Mrs. William H. Bettes of Los Angeles, Calif., who is enroute by plane to attend the services, Mrs. Larry E. Blue of Columbia Qlty and Mrs. Dale Snyder of Fort Wayne; a son, John J. (Jack) Hoffman of Fort Wayne; three brothers, Frank Berg, Anthony Berg and Clem Berg, all of Hessen Cassel; three sisters, Mrs. William McDonnely of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Mary Fox and Mrs. William Denzel, both of Fort Wayne; 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the Mungovan & Sons mortuary and at 9 a.m. in St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. Nicholas Allgier officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne. Friends may catt~at the funeral after 7 o’clock this evening.

Senate Drives For Foreign Aid Vote Amendments Moy Cut Final Total WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate drives for a final vote today on the administration’s three* billion 400 million dollar foreign aid bill. Amendments to be proposed, however, could cut the amount as much as one billion dollars. The first test is expected to come on an amendment by Sen. Charles E. Potter (R Mich.), to require that three fourths’of the economic’ aid be extended in the form of loans rather than grants. Louisiana’s two Democratic senators — Russell B. Long and Allen J. Ellender — announced they will lead battles to slash the authorizations in the bill. Long said he will try for a one billion dollar general cut and if he fails in this, he will propose a SSOO million reduction. He noted that last year he failed by four votes to chop the bill by one billion dollars and then succeeding by four votes in winning a SSOO million cut in foreign aid. Ellender said that he will make “every effort to cut as much as possible, especially in aid for Europa.” He said the amounts he will propose will depend on some Information he hat been trying ‘Tor weeks” to get from the administration but has now been promised at the "last minute.” Stevenson Assails GOP Administration Handling Os Polio Problem Is Scored NEW YORK (INS) — Adlai E. Stevenson accused the Eisenhower administration today of cutting off grants for private medical research because of loyalty questions even when no security is involved. — J “What sickness, what awful timidity,” asked Stevenson, “is this that is now permitted to stop even inquiry into the secrets of biology and of man’s physical survival?” The 1952 Democratic presidential candidate lashed out at the administration for failing to anticipate the tremendous demand for the Salk anti polio vaccine and for refusing to spend more on medical research. Stevenson called It “strange” that the department of agriculture is spending $10,000,000 more for research on plant and animal diseases than the public health service is spending for study of cancer, arthritis, mental illness and heart disease combined. ( • The foymer Illinois governor sounded his criticisms in a speech prepared for delivery at the dedicatory exercises of the New York University Bellevue medical center. Discussing the bogging down of the antlfpollo distribution program, Stevenson said: “I had not thought to enter the vaccine controversy but if anything were predictable in our uncertain world, it was the immense and imperative demand for anything which promised to check the dread source of polio. “I don’t think it required any special clairvoyance to estimate the demand for the vaccine, the supply and the hazards of production and distribution, or to foresee, with the happiness and lives (ContliraM cn Fare Eight) Young Fremont Man Is Drowning Victim FREMONT, Ind. (INS) —Lamar Voee. 34, of Fremont, drowned late Wednesday in Clear Lake when he lost control of his motor 1 boat and fell out. Vose was a good swimmer but apparently developed cramps. His body was recovered 350 feet from shore in 50 feet of water by two Fremont men. Edward Mintzer and George Hees. „

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Airmen Relate Experience In Chinese Hands Foresee Treatment To Be Improved As Propaganda Moves BULLETIN HONOLULU ‘(INS) — Nine relatives of the four Jet pilots released from Red Chinese imprisonment arrived in Honolulu today for reunions with-the fliers. » An air force Constellation, carrying the relatives from the United States, landed at Hlckam air force base at 7:46 a.m. (1:45 p.m. EOT.) HONOLULU (INS) — “Real good treatment” for U. S. airmen still in the hands of Chinese Communists was forecast today by one of four jet pilots freed by the Reds last Monday. Lt. Roland Parks of Omaha, Neb., said he believes 11 airmen serving jail sentences as "spies" in Red China will start getting better treatment because of the "propaganda” value to the Communists. The three other pilots released with Parks are: Capt. Harold E. Fischer Jr., of Swea City, Iowa; Lt. Col. Edwin L. Heller of Wynnewood. Pa.; and LL Lyle W. Cameron of Lincoln, Neb. All four resisted Communist “brainwashIng" tactics during more than two years of captivity. They landed in Honolulu Wednesday on a flight from Hong Kong where the Reds “deported" them and will have a happy reunion today with their families. ■ • The pilots’ relatives are due in Honolulu at 2 p. m. (EDT) on a flight from the mainland. After dinner Wednesday night the four pilots were summoned to a hush-hush "bebriefing” session with air force officials to tell of their experiences with the Reds. Before dinner, Parks said that he feels that good treatment of prisoners by the Reds Is prompted by propaganda motives. He said he believes the 11 airmen remaining in Red China prisons will “start getting real good treatment” now. / “We were the ones they were using for publicity purposes so they treated us good. Now they will be building the others up the same way.” Parks and his three mates, apparently in good physical condition, and in obviously high spirits, answered most questions freely at their news conference which was held in the garden of the Hickam field officers* club. They said they were subjected to a Communist "trial” for “intrusions” of Manchuria’s air and were given prepared confessions to sign. .' Asked whether they signed the "confessions,” Fischer said “not at the trial itself.” A reporter wanted to know whether any confessions were signed before the trial and Fischer smilingly responded: “I think I’ll wait and see my lawyer.” Another question developed the fact that each had spent many months in solitary confinement, ranging from eight months for Parks' to 26 months for Heller. The latter was confined most of the time to a hospital room. The pilots were asked: “Were you brainwashed ?” '. Fischer answered: “That’s a tricky term, but there were definite attempts to indotrinate us. Cameron was more emphatic, saying: “Attempts were made by teaching us the theory of Communism, but they failed to show me how it would work." A reporter interposed a question as to whether the Communist tactics worked, and Fischer grinned: “I don’t think I’ve changed since z I was shot down.” (Coatmueo on Fage Eight)