Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIII. No. 132.

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Senate Plans Measures For Free Vaccine Senate Committee Will Hold Hearings For Two Measures WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate labor committee agreed unanimously today to hold two days of hearings oh differing bills .to provide free Salk polio vaccine" to children. Democrats on the committee had been anxious to vote today on their bill for free vaccine to all children up to 20 years of age. - But they went along with Republicans in the decision to hold limited hearings on their measure and the administration’s bill which * would authorize 28 million dollars to buy vaccine for needy children only. Chairman Lister HUI (D-Ala.) denied that the two days of hearings were arranged at the request of the administration. But he said the committee would vote on a bill as soon as the hearings end. Hill said he is hopeful the hearings can be started and possibly completed this week. He said witnesses will include a spokesman for the health, education and welfare department which is handling the vaccine program. In addition, Hill said, the committee will hear from the American medical association, the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis — if it desfres to testify — and representatives of state governors. Hill stressed that the hearings will consider only the Democratic sponsored bill and the administration measure. The Democratic bill originally called for standby controls on distribution of the vaccine but this provision has been junked. • Later in the day, the entire senate was to take up the annual appropriation bill for the health, education and welfare department. This was expected to touch off new debate on the stop and go anti-polio inoculation program. Surgeon general Leonard A. Scheele and wetfare secretary Oveta Culp Hobby are scheduled to report to the nation on the vac- . cination program Tuesday night over radio and television. Late in the week, a detailed “frank" report will be made public on the steps the government has taken and will take to insure that all future vaccine is safe. The report first will be submitted by Scheele to Mrs. Hobby. Sunday night, Scheele advised communities across the nation to continue their inoculation programs during the summer months except when polio epidemics threaten. In an interview on the NBC television program, "Meet the Press." the surgeon general said new testing standards will make the vaccine "even safer than before.” INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, occasional showers and thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday. Low tonight 60-65, High Tuesday 72-78.

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Few Highway Deaths Reported In State Traffic Death Toll Is Low In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Death almost took a holiday on Indiana roads during the week end after Governor George N. Craig ordered state police to step up the highway safety program. However, John S. Draper, 62-year-old Marion county home inmate. was killed as he was return- ' ing from his first night out in five months. He Was killed instantly while crossing ißoad 52 in front t of the home after alighting from a bus. A car driven by George McAhren. 18, of Morristown, struck him. Also, Stephen Pollak, Sr., 41, of Indianapolis, was injured fatally in a two truck crash just outside Highland, 111. A one car accident cost the life of George E. Maehler, 23, of near LaPorte, on Road 2 at Pinhook. He was driving at a high rate of speed and his automboile turned over on a curve, striking a utility pole. The car crashed down on him. killing him instantly. Anabell Watts, 8, of near Logansport, died of injuries suffered when she was run over by an automobile driven by her brother, Maurice, 20. Also, Robert Szymanski, 18, of highland, was killed in a car which ran into a ditch and then into a field near Swanville, Minn. Drowning* Deaths INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Hot weather brought pleas for caution in the water today, * as Indiana tallied at least three drowning deaths this weekend. James Stoner. 19, son of a Richmond bank vice president, drowned in his frogman outfit in the Wehtiwater memorial state park lake. The body of the youth, his diving mask filled with water, was found in three and one half feet of water by another bather. Efforts to revive the boy were futile. James Allen, of Terre Haute, also 19, lost his life in another swimming accident at a strip mine south of Seelyville. Lloyd Welker, 20, of Terre Haute, who was swimming, with Allen, said he was able to grab the drowning youth once, but lost his grasp on him. Another water death was reported from DeKalb county. The body of Mearl Roy Pate.e, 51, of Auburn, was found in Cedar Creek, near Auburn, under circumstances which led Dr. R. Perry Reynolds, DeKalb coroner, to surmise that Patee had deliberately drowned himself. Railroad Officials To Present Program Officials of' the Erie railroad will present the program at the regular dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions club Tuesday evening at the K. of P. home. E. J. Roblsch, superintendent of the railroad at Huntington, will speak. With him will be Harold Johnson, division freight agent, and Vincent Abrams, traveling freight representative from Huntington. W. M. Bumgardner, local agent, will also attend the meeting. —Y-~- -

Eden's Appeal Fails To End British Strike Crippling Railway Strike Continues In Great Britain LONDON (INS) —• Hopes that prime minister Sir Anthony Eden's radio appeal to end the crippling British railway strike would succeed word dashed today. - i President Noel Pinches of,.the striking Amalgamated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen declared that nothing Eden said Sunday had changed the situation. Pinches said: “The suggestion that the strike should be called off so negotiations can proceed will find no favor with my executive.” The ASLEF executive committee met this morning to consider the situation. Meanwhile, the government was expected to take swift steps to break the strike deadlock which threatens the nation’s prosperity. Industrial sources believe labor minister Sir Walter Monckton will call leaders of the two rail unions and the British Transport Commission into a final, all out conference to settle the dispute. The Trades Union Congress’ general council was to meet tihs afternoon in emergency session to discuss the situation. Monckton conferred at length this weekend with prime minister Sir Anthony Eden at Eden’s country residence. Chequers. The prime minister appealed by radio Sunday night to the 70.000 striking railwaymen to end their Walkout and prevent a “smashup of hard earned prosperity.” Eden said his government would not hesitate to use its special emergency powers to deal with the strike, now in its ninth day. He said the, transport commission which controls the nationalized railroads was ready to discuss grievances with the strikers after they return to work — and “the quicker the better.” The prime minister, newly returned to office in the May 26 elections, stressed the danger to British trade from an extended walkout and pointed to the threat of mass unemployment. He said in the broadcast: "When you lose export orders you lose future markets. That is how the stoppages are weakening the nation . . . every hour the strike lasts we are slipping behind in the race with foreign competitors.” Mrs. Mildred Foley Attendance Officer 'Mrs. Mildred Foley was unanimously re-appointed attendance officer for the Adams county schools at a meeting of the county board of education Saturday morning. She has served in that capacity since 1952. „ Other routine business was on the agenda for the meeting. This included a discussion of the financial and attendance reports, which will be sent to the state office of education.

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Supreme Court Ends 1954-55 Session Today Dismisses Suit On Denial Os Use Os School Building WASHINGTON (INS) — The supreme court dismissed today a suit challenging the right of a school board to deny use of a building to one organization while granting its use to other groups. The 5 to 4 decision threw out a suit by the “Yonkers committee for peace” which claimed that the school board’s denial was discrimination and infringed on the right of free speech and right of assembly. v » Justice John Marshall Harlan, who wrote the supreme court’s majority opinion,, said the record was inadequate for decision of a constitutional question. Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Tom Clark dissented. They held that the allegations were “sufficient to state a case of discrimination.” In another decision, the court sustained, 7 to 1, the federal power commission’s approval for a dam on the non-navigable Deschutes River in Oregon by the Portland General Electric Co. The question was whether a license by FPC could permit erection of a dam when it is opposed by a state. The court’s decisions today wind up its 1954-55 term. The next term begins Oct. 3. Heard so long ago that observers are speculating t>at justices could not agree and further arguments may be ordered is the case of for-' mer airman Robert W. Toth of Pittsburgh. Toth is challenging the right of the air force to arrest him after his discharge and force him to stand court martial for the murder South Korean civilian. Expected to be decided today is whether the former loyalty review board could label Dr. John P. Peters, Yale university medical man, a security risk on the basis of secretly received information from unnamed informants. Peters, former public health service consultant, was dismissed after the loyalty review board, which no longer exists, held a hearing in which no derogatory information was presented. The board acted on privately obtained information. Close Highway 27, Berne To Geneva True Andrews, subdistrict state highway superintendent, announced today that U. S. highway 27, from Berne to Geneva, will be closed Tuesday for a four-day period to permit resurfacing work. Miss Mary Brodbeck Dies This Morning Funeral Wednesday For Former Teacher Miss Mary E. Brodbeck, 93-year-old retired school teacher, died at 9:15 o’clock this morning at her home on Decatur route 5, following an illness of several weeks. She was born in Union township May 18, 1862, a daughter of Michael and Barbara Shaffer-Brodbeck, and was never married. Miss Brodbeck taught for many years in schools in Union and Preble townships until her retirement. She was a member of the Mt. Victory United Brethren church, six miles northeast of Decatur. Miss Brodbeck made her home with a sister-in-law, Mrs. Anna Brodbeck, who survives. Only othsr near survivors are a number of ' nieces and nephews. Four brothers and four sisters preceded her in death i ( Funeral services will be conducted at l:3(ip. m. Wednesday at the Black funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Mt Victory United Brethren church. Burial will be in the Clark's Chapel cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services.

President Marches With Class Of'ls ’ Alumni Ceremonies Held At West Point WEST POINT, N. Y. (INS) — /•resident Eisenhower — with the Ifrst lady waving proudiy*from the side lines—marched with the class sis 1915 today in traditional alumni ceremonies honoring West Point dead. It was appropriately the anniversary of D-Day and many of the officers who served under Mr. Eisenhower in the Normandy invasion Joined him in the alumni march to West Point's Thayer monument. The oldest graduates led the long column and Mr. Eisenhower, a relative youngster, was in the ,25th row with Gen. James A. Van Fleet, a classmate and former commander of the U. S. eighth ». .army in Korea. ‘ The President responded with a broad grin when Mamie waved a greeting from the curb where she watched the parade with other alumni wives. Mr. Eisenhower stopd with bared head as the mournful notes of taps echoed over the shrine where , West Point annually pays homage , to its fallen heroes. 4 The President will deliver the commencement address to this : year’s 469 graduates Thursday. ( Class members and their wives. i led by the President and Mrs. Eisenhower, dined Sunday night at the nearby farm of New York restauranteur Gene Leone, an honorary member of the class. Ano--1 ther dinner party was scheduled 1 for tonight, after a busy day of June week activities. 1 Mr. Eisenhower personally pre--1 sented the Eisenhower award for excellence in military pbychology > and leadership to cadet captain t ’Delbert H.- Jacobs, of Geitfle. The i Chief Executive, who stood 61st ■ in his class and failed io - make ' the awards list, looked on admiringly as a score of honor graduates stepped forward to receive awards. ‘ Cadet Lee D. Olvey of Hines Ville, Ga., was both honor man (Continuea on Page Five) Woman Accused Os Robbery Hangs Self Found Hanging In Hospital Doorway INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —An accused feminine bank robber, held tn Indianapolis General hospital for a mental examination, was found hanged today from a metal grating in a hospital doorway. Margaret Yuhas, 33, who also used the name of Margaret Murray, was charged with the attempted holdup of the First Federal Savings and Loan Association, Sept. 1, 1954. She was arrested iii Denver, Colo. May 4 after a nation-wide search, and was returned to Indianapolis, where a Judge ordered a mental examination before trial. An attorney for the woman told Indianapolis officials she had been discharged from the Royal Canadian air force in 1945 because of mental illness, and had been adjudged insane in 1954 at Milwaukee, but fled while awaiting admission to a hospital. The woman apparently hung herself Just after a night nurse checked the ward early today in which she was confined. Student ’ nurse Hasel Thurston, 30, said she of sheeting from the grating shortfound the body hanging by a strip ly after she had checked the ward. Miss Yuhas had been admitted to the hospital June 2 for a mental examination by Drs. E. Rogers Smith and Frank W. Countryman, ordered by Federal Judge William E. Stockier. The psychiatrists had conducted examinations Friday and Saturday and planned to continue the examination today. At the time Miss Yuhas was returned to Indianapolis to face 1 charges in the attempted bank ' h°ldup, she gave her address as Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. However,, she was believed to have been a native of Missoula, Mqnt., and to have later moved to Canada. She left Canada and • camo to the United States in 1951. The Indianapolis bank holdup attempt failed when the suspect I fled after a bank official grabbed > her gun. A dropped purse led to . a bag in a locker, and fingerprints I on a toothpaste tube in the bag I were identified as those of Miss Yuhas. — »'• • - /

Dulles Doubts Early Ease Os World Tension Warns Against Any False Hopes sjrom Big Four Meeting COLUMBIA, S. C. (INS) —Secretary of state John Foster Dulles expressed strong doubt today that the forthcoming big four meeting of chiefs of state will relax world tensions quickly. Dulles, in a commencement address at the University of South Cbrolina* warned againef fafee hopes from the meeting of the U. S., Russia, Britain and France. And he said “1 believe we shall need for sometime yet to live as a nation that is imperiled.” The secretary told the graduates: "The Soviet rulers refer to the forthcoming meeting as designed to ‘relax’ international tensions. The meeting will, 1 hope, serve to identify the present causes of tension and set a course which may lead to eliminating threats to peace and freedom. “But I am doubtful about tire ‘relaxing’ part of the Soviet formula. “It will take more than words, and more than the meeting, to create conditions which will Justify relaxing the efforts which we have been making.” Dulles said that the goal of American foreign pilicy is to stop aggressors “without actually having to fight them." Three Freed Fliers Are Enroule Home Fourth Remains In Hospital In Hawaii HONOLULU (INS) —Three of the four American Je‘ pilots released by Red China last week leave Honolulu today in company with their families on the final leg of their flight home. t The fourth, Lt. Col. Edwin L. Heller of Wynnewood, Pa., will remain in Tripier army hospital for 10 days of physical therapy on the leg he broke when he bailed out of his disabled jet over Korea 20 months ago. His pretty wife, flown to Hawaii along with families of the other three pilots for a reunion Wednesday, will remain with him. The rest of the group - 11 persons • will board an air force constellation for the flight to the U. S. and a huge homecoming celebration for Capt. Harold E. Fischer Jr., of Swea City, Ia„ Lt. Lyle W. Cameron of Lincoln, Neb., and Lt. Roland Parke of Omaha. Swimming Pool To Open On Wednesday List Hours/Rules At Municipal Pool The Decatur swimming pool at the city water works will open Wednesday, weather permitting, at 1 p.m. The pool hours this year will be 1 to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday. The adult night which was featured last year will not be included this year. Hubert Zerkel, Jr., pool supervisor, will be assisted by (Robert Doan. They 'have announced that pool regulations will be the same this year as in previous years. All swimmers will be required to take a shower before entering the pool. Children must pass a 50yard swimming test before they are permitted to go beyond the rope. Running and tag games will not be allowed on the concrete walk around the pool. Only one person at a time may be on the diving board. No pushing of any kind will be tolerated. Parents are advised that children under six years of age should be accompanied, by an adult or a responsible older child. Children should not stay in the pool more than one hour at a time, in order to avoid chilling apd fatigue. Money and valuables should not be left in the dressing rooms.

Dedication Speaker Sen. Homer E. Capehart Sen. Capeharf Will Dedicate Youth Center Indiana Senator To Deliver Address At Formal Dedication 1’ ' . Indiana’s senior United States senator, Homer E. Capthart, will deliver the principal dedication address at the formal ceremony dedicating Decatur’s Youth and Community center Sunday afternoon. June 19, at 3:30 o’clock. With the acceptance of Sen. Capehart to be the principal speaker, the entire week’s program has been completed, Glenn Hill, general chairman for the dedication week celebration, announced today- ®- W. Lankenau, of this cit’y, is chairman for the Sunday affair. A complete program for every day of the dedication week, June 19 to 25, will be delivered to every home in Decatur in the next few days. The formal Sunday afternoon program, which will start promptly at 3:30 o’clock, will be the kickoff of a week of Impressive programs, bringing to Decatur several of the nation’s outstanding speakers and top entertainers. At the formal program, Dave Embler and the G. E. choir will lead the singing of “America.” Invocation will be given by the Rev. B. G. Thomas, pastor of Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church and president of the Decatur ministerial association. The G. E. choir will present several numbers and J. Ward Callan d, president of Decatnr Memorial Foundation, will serve as master of ceremonies and will introduce Sen. Capehart, who will give the dedication address. Calland then will present the building to the people of Decatur and a response will be given by Mayor John Doan. Benediction will be given by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimets, St. Mary’s Catholic church. Prior to the forma! program, open house will be held at the Center and the public is invited to come early and visit all of the rooms of the building. Session Is Opened By Board Os Review The board of review opened its 30-day session today at the Adams county court house to review property assessments in the county during 1955. Taxpayers will have the opportunity to appear before this board if they are not satisfied with their assessment. County auditor Frank Kttson, ex officio member of the board stated that a legal advertisement will 'I be published soon giving the hearing dates for each of the townships. The board also includes Richard Buidg, Mfrs. Catherine Ocheenrider, county treasurer Waldo Neal and county assessor Walter Koos. Patterson Funeral Tuesday Afternoon (Funeral Services for dharles Patterson, who died Friday night at his home in Fort Wayne, will be held at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Tom Mungovan funeral home in that city, the Rev. J, Frank Lansing officiating. Burial will be In Elm Grove cemetery at Bluffton.

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Historic Pact Made By Ford, Auto Workers Establishes Auto Industry's First Guaranteed Wage HISTORIC PACT v DETROIT (INS) —Ford Motor company and the CIO United Auto Workers reached a contract agreement today establishing the industry’s first guaranteed annual wage. The historic pact was settled some 12 hours after a Sunday midnight strike deadline which sent 68,000 of Ford’s 140,000 workers on a walkout from plants across the nation. A three year contract was agreed upon. This was a compromise between the company proposal of a five-year contract and the union’s demand for a two-year one. The agreement climaxed several days’ debate between UAW President Walter Reuther and Ford industrial relations vicepresident John Bugas. The outcome was announced when Reuther and Bugas, flanked by other negotiators, strode from the silver room of the Detroit Leland hotel where details were thrashed out Newsmen shouted: “Who won?” Reuther and Bugas grinned and clasped hands, saying: “We both won." Bugas added: “This is a very historic agree* ment. These have been the most complex sessions that we ever have been in.” Reuther said back to work telegrams are being sent to UAW locals whose members went on stride—6B,ooo of the 140,000 am- ■ pioyes in plants across the nation —while negotiations were still in progress. Reuther and Bugas shook hands warmly at the end of the final chapter in the marathon negotiations. Reuther said: “It (the agreement) is worth more than 20 cents an hour." Reuther referred to the basic principle of the epoch making issue of a guaranteed annual wage, improved pensions and improved insurance benefits; an annual improvement factor: and what officials termed a “bewildering array of minor benefits.” The issue of tie gAw was resolved this way: The company agreed to set up a 55 million dollar fund which it termed a supplement to an employe’s unemployment compensation during the auto industry’s seasonal layoff period. A Ford worker idled in the near future would draw unemployment benefits plus enough from the fund to equal 65 percent of his regular take home pay for the first four weeks. For the remaining 24 weeks of unemployment, a latd-off worker would be given 60 percent of his average take home pay. , After the fund accrues to 49 percent of the 55 million dollar total, the 65 percent average take home would be extended eight (Continued on Page Five) UTE BULLETINS IONIA, Mich. (IN8) — A report that several guard* had been Injured In a riot at at the lonia state reformatory was received by state police today. Stats polios were rushed to the scene and the reformatory later reported that the riot was under control. No other details were available Immediately. WASHINGTON (INS) — The state department announced today the foreign minletora of the U.S, Britain and France will hold a two day meeting in New York next week to discuss the forthcoming big four meeting at the summit and other problems. 'WASHINGTON (INS) The supreme court held today 7 to 2 that Yale University Prof. John P. Peters was Improperly labeled a loyalty risk by the government and ordered his record cleared. But the high bench did not rule on the key Issue In the caee — whether the government oan oonoeal the Identity of a secret Informant against s person Involved In a loyalty case. >'• - ‘