Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIU. No. 137.

MORE LIGHT PLANE TRAVEL L . I flk MMPia os * -;jS ■ L tß®* ■• 1 jFJ jBE *' ■ - ■ ? "'.Jjffll? . .* » "j. . Jf. <* ■ • . ! , >••>. •■ . ! :•• •. ’ • •.. .•'• ' fV'- ■ -:. '■ ■'. '.>■':; '•' • .•; ■'•.<<•• x?- . ... .. *w - A. . * '*''•*'■ Jt-.fr. ~ - MAKING GOOD USE of his new, light, 2-engined plane, President Eisenhower relaxes in his shirt-sleeves as he embarks on a flight to Pennsylvania State University, accompanied by James Rowley, chief of the White House Secret Service detail. Mr. Eisenhower will speak at commencement exercises during his 24-hour visit to State College, Pa.

Senate Probers Are Told CIO Leader Is Red Asserts Political * Action Director Os CIO A Communist WASHINGTON (INS) — Possible perjury action loomed today In a senate investigation of charges that CIO steelworkers political action director John Mullen is a former, Communist. John Mazzei, of Pittsburgh, who said he was an FBI undercover agent for 12 years, told the internal security subcommittee Friday that Mullen was a Communist and that he, tried to frame Pennsylvania supreme court justice Michael Musmanno. Mullen, former Clairton, Pa,, mayor, denied the Communist allegation in sworn testimony behind closed door? last August. He ment in public today. Meanwhile, acting subcommittee chairman Sen. Price Daniel (D Tex.), told newsmen: "If Mullen stick? to his story, the testimony will be in direct conflict with Mazzei’s and we will be obliged to send it to the justice department for perjury ac-A--tton." Mazzei testified that Mullen participated in a strategy meeting at Communist party headquarters in Pittsburgh. He said the parley was called to try to "get something” on Musmanno, an outspoken antiRed.’ Shortly afterwards, he said. Mullen publicly accused Musmanno of asking him to drop pending bribery charges against two Clairton councilmen and a cool operator. The prosecutor in the case, he added, charged Musmanno with allegedly interfering with a witness, but it was later dismtesed by a three-member court. Musmanno, however, testified that he made no such request to Mullen. He said Mullen went to his hotel room in February, 1953, and they discussed plans for a memorial service tor the late CIO President Philip Murray. Matt Cvetic, of Pittsburgh, a former undercover sleuth, said Mullen’s name was listed at Communist party headquarters with the notation “no card” and that he contacted him either by telephone or by correspondence. Another witness, Flavian Stazer, a Pittsburgh factory foreman, said a friend boasted to him in 1937 that "we finally got John Mullen” into the Communist party. He said Mullen was active in 1933 in the “Unemployed Council,” which he identified as a red front. Ossian Woman Hurt In Accident Friday An Ossian woman was seriously injured in an accident on the Winchester rodd near Fort Wayne at 7:10 p. m. Friday in which a car driven by Kenneth P. Birch, 26, of Decatur route six, was totally demolished. The accident occurred when a car driven by Rheua L. Valentine, 61, of Ossian route one. attempted to pass an unidentified auto and collided with the approaching - Birch cdr. Valentine’s wife. Chloe, 61, was badly cut about the face and suffered from shock. She was taken to the Lutheran hospital. Birch and Valentine were not injured. Valentine was charged with improper passing.

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Wheat Referendum Scheduled June 25 Growers To Vote On Marketing Controls WASHINGTON (INS) — Wheat farmers across the nation have exactly two weeks to decide whether they want to continue marketing controls on their crops next year. The referendum is scheduled June 25 and wheat growers already have been told what they can expect. If two thirds of those eligible and voting approve controls, their wheat acreage will be limited and their yields supported at a national minimum average price of sl.Bl a bushel. - If more than one third reject controls, they may plant as much as they like and take their chance selling on the open market. Or they may accept acreage allotments and still have a $1.19 bottom price. , The agriculture department Mid .Friday afternoon the 1956 support price .will' average 31.81 or 76' percent of parity. The level this year is 32.06, 82 per cent of parity. The 1966 support level will be the lowest since the 1946 rate of JL49 a bushel which was SO per cent of parity at that time. Under the farm law, parity may be trimmed by five per cent a year—starting with 1956. The bottom price for growers who accept acreage allotments is 50 per cent of parity. Wheat acreage allotments will stay in effect —regardless of whether supports are continued —until the secretary of agriculture abolishes them. The 1956 crop will be 55 million acres, the same as this year and the minimum established by law. v ... Regular supports apply to 36 commercial wheat producing states. Up to 75 per cent of the support level will be allowed in the other 12 states — Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi. Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Nevada, Rhode Island and Vermont. Current estimates are that 1,860,000,000 bushels of wheat will be available for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1955. More than one billion bushels of the total supply will be carried over from previous crops. The 1955 winter and spring yield is estimated at 845,215,000 bushels. Because of the dry, cool weather early this year, the crop is 13 per cent less than last year and the smallest since 1943. The winter wheat crop is expected to be off one fifth at 639,224,000 bushels. The spring wheat harvest of 205,991,000 bushels will be 15 per cent more than 1953 but still the second smallest crop since 1939. Domestic use and exports of wheat for the fiscal year starting July 1 are estimated at a little over 900 million bushels. When the 1955 crop is in, there will be enough wheat on the market and stored in warehouses to meet all expected demands for the next two years. • Kentucky Man Dies In Highway Accident INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Billy Hall Barr, 24, of Barlow, Ky„ was killed Friday night when he was thrown from his smashed car on U. S .52 northeast of Indianapolis. Barr lost control of his automobile on the rain swept highway and it skidded into the path of one driven by Mrs. Delores Arlene Bowman, 26, of Greenville, Tenn., who was in fair condition in Methodist hospital. _.

Menon Launches India's Drive For Mediation Seeks Recognition As Mediator For East-West Tension UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —V. K. Krishna Menon launched India's drive for recognition as neutral mediator between east and west at a conference with UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold today. The roving Indian envoy outlined to the UN chief the results of his recent talks in Peiping with Premier Chou En Lai. Menon, who claimed credit for Peiping's release of four American jet pilots, informed Hammarskjold of Chou’s fatest position on the 11 U. S. airmen still languishing in Chinese jails as “spies.” The Indian was said to have been told by the Peiping premier that a visit from families of the jailed men would be among the first steps leading to their release. Hammarskjold said recently that he does not consider such visits advisable at this time. Hammarskjold has been widely credited with inducing .Chou to free the jet pilots. He currently is awaiting a reply from Chou on expediting release of the other 11 fliers. Menon showed a flash of his familiar temper Friday night when he arrived by plane from Ottawa and London. Asked by newsmen to comment on his eastwest go-between mission, he snapped: “I am not a messenger for any body." He conceded, however, he would tell all to the state department in Washington next week, including the results of his visit with Chou. Menon saw a change of attitude in Red China’s release of the four American jet pilots but declined to comment on other releases of captives such as the 11 U.'S. airmen; ■»-- He said peace is being speeded Up by the current easing Os teip and urged all governments to help this trend. The special emissary for prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru was said to have in his diplomatic pocket also far reaching suggestions for settling the Formosa problem through direct negotiation between the U. S. and Red China. Labor Legislation Battle In Indiana GOP House Speaker Denounced By CIO INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—The labor legislation battle waxed hot in Indiana today. CIO officials denounced Republican house speaker George Diener and Alvin C. Cast, Republican state chairman, assailed Democrats who had charged that OOP legislators defeated Democratic efforts to enact a guaranteed annual wage law in the 1955 general assembly. A CIO statement said: “Mr. Diener once again is acting in his usual demogogic manner by attempting to leave the Utterly false allegation that any monies received from the state unemployment fund would be a cost and burden upon the taxpayers of the state. “Any person in the position of Mr. Diener knows full well that the more than 3200 million now in the state fund was made possible by the consumers of Indiana through the employers of the state and is not a state of Indiana fund as Mr. Diener falsely alleges." xCast said the Republicans had hiked jobless compensation, workmen's and occupational disease compensation and had enacted other important labor legislation during the legislative session. He added: “The Republican party will place its record against that of the Democratic party and let the workingman decide who has been his friend in fact rather than a friend by claim.” Dutch Bus Explodes, Two Persons Killed OSNABRUECK, West Germany (INS) — A bus filled with Dutch children burst Into flames and exploded today killing two persons and injuring 20 osiers. A police spokesman said 43 children and four adults on a trip from Denekamp, The Netherlands, were on the bus. »■ ■ ■

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; Public Airing Is Likely On Polio Program 1 Await Version Os Dr. Jonas Salk On Controversial Report WASHINGTON (INS)—A public airing of the public health service’s controversial report on the ' Salk anti polio vaccine program appeared imminent today. 1 In New York, Basil O’Connor, president of the National Founds 1 tion for Infantile Paralysis, said Dr. Jonas E. Salk's version must be awaited before “an intelligent ; conclusion” can be formed. The report, submitted to President Eisenhower Friday, said that some cases of polio developed r among inoculated persons because the “built in factor of safety” achieved in research failed to 1 work on a mass production basis. The argument arose as government officials disclosed that no 1 new vaccine is ready for release ■ or even being considered for f clearance. t Dr. William A. Shannon, asso- ‘ ciate director of the national institutes of health, said that »a. ( 16t es testing remains to be dene” a are pending. Officials said, however, that ’ they are about midway toward the goal of administering two shots to 1 eight or nine million school chil--1 dren before the polio season hits’ ! its peak. Although the vaccine program 1 has struck another snag, officials pointed out that some temporary 1 interruptions were anticipated when the new safety tests were Bet up two weeks ago. Plea Os Abatement Entered In Court Charles R. Johnson, 22, Decatur/ has entered a plea in abatement to the charge of third degree burglary filed against him in Wells circuit court, it was learned here ’ today. Bluffton attorney George C. Davis entered an appearance for the I defendant to file the plea, which has been set for hearing June 28. 1 In the plea Johnson states that he , participated in a series of burglaries in Adams and Wells counties ’ at the “request and insistence of certain peace officer® for the purpose of assisting in the apprehension’ of Robert Grimm and Raymond Fair. Both Grimm and Fair are now serving sentences for the burglary of a Wells county farm. 10 Airmen Die In Crash In Germany Killed Friday Night As Bomber Crashes STUTTGART (INS) —Ten U.S. airmen were killed Friday night when, their four-engined B-29 bomber crashed and burned in a forest near Owen, Germany. The U. S. air force at Wiesbaden confirmed the crash and said the plane, on an instrument training flight, had just made a low approach to the Stuttgart airfield and was climbing away when radio contact was lost. The names of the crew members were withheld pending notification of their next of kin. The plane belonged to the 582nd aerial resupply group of the third air force based at Molesworth, England. It was on a routine non-stop night training flight with the task of making an aerial supply drop. The air force is investigating the cause of the crash which occurred on a mountain in the Swabian chain of the Alps. Police said heavy fog hampered a search party looking for survivors. — . • I ■ ■■■

- - * - ■ Sorrell Named To Stale Commission Knightstown Man On Highway Board INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — William H. Sorrell, of Knightstown, is the new Republican member of the state highway commission today by appointment of Governor George N. Craig. For the past two and one half years, Sorrell, 51 years old, has been maintenance superintendent of the highway department and will be succeeded in that post by Lloyd E. Poindexter, of LaPorte, State highway engineer for the LaPorte district. Sorrell was graduated from Purdue University, taught in Knightstown high school, served as Henry county surveyor for 16 years and worked for the army corps of engineers in Kansas City. Poindexter, a former Martin county surveyor, served with the interstate commerce commission during World War I and also has been engineer of the Vincennes district of the highway department. Sorrell was named to fill a vacancy left when Virgil Smith, of Milan, a Republican, was appointed chairman after the resignation of Neil R. Godwin, of frknklin, : irom the commission. j Smith reported to the governor that changes, approved or in the reorganization prografh of the commission will save taxpayers 35,799,000 in the next two years. ’ The savings in payroll reductions will be 32,750,00, in taking advantage of federal money due Indiana for supervision and inspection of projects, 31,497,500, and by switching from mowing to spraying highway weeds, 3375,000, according to Smith. The governor said such savings can he reallocated to other projects. Denies Religious Freedom In China Says Chinese Reds To Wipe Out Church HONG KONG (INS) — An American Roman Catholic priest, just released from Red China,-said today the church in that Communist nation “will be wiped out in time like in Russia.” Father Frederick A. Donaghy, a 50-year-old Maryknoll priest, said a statement by Red Chinese Premier Chou En Lai that complete religious freedom exists in the country was “absolutely false.” The New Bedford, Mass., priest was freed Friday by the Peiping regime after being imprisoned 4% years ago. He declared today at a Hong Kong news conference: “I am telling you only the bravest man will become a Christian in China today. „ “Youngsters, as soon as they go to school now, can almost be written oft. “The church will be Wiped out in time like in Russia.” Fr. Donaghy, who looked thin and pale from his long imprisonment, was a missionary in China for 26 years and served as bishop of Wuchow in Kwangsi province. He said 60 per cent of his congregation still attended mass in Wuchow but that Catholic rural areas were intimidated and even forbidden in some places tq go to church. - The priest said the Reds used seven Catholic missions in his diocese. as government offices and grain stores. Fr. Donaghy said the Chinese in Wuchow remained friendly and the children smiled at him in the streets. He stressed that he did not think anti - American sentiment was very deep. NOON EDITION * ' "'' I .

GM, Union Resume Talks For Contract ~ Talks Resumeddn Attempt To Beat Strike Deadline DETROIT (INS) — General Motors and CIO United Auto Workers negotiators resumed contract talks today in an effort to beat a Sunday midnight strike deadline. Friday night's talks ended .at 1:30 a.m. (EDT) with neither side issuing any statement concerning a reported offer by OM which “equals or betters” the recently negotiated Ford Motor Co. pact. In the face of a news blackout which will end at 4:27 p.m. Sunday, negotiators merely stated that “we are still working.” CIO President Walter Reuther, who spearheaded the Ford talks and is now fighting for a guaranteed annual wage from GM, offered a light touch at the close of the meeting. He told reporters: “We broke off early so you boys can get off early.” Full talks were scheduled for 1 p.nv with sub-committee-talks slated,far 9 a.m. and Ift a.pk Tire subconmiittee sessions were to deal with skilled trades, local issues, and rules and working hours. Meanwhile, the end of the wildcat strikes which forced GM to close 20 plants and idled 60,000 workers until Monday was expected to present a more conciliatory atmosphere for the talks. The union, .representing 325,000 GM workers, is demanding a con(conunuea on rage Six) Reopening Os 27 Is Delayed To Monday U. S. highway 27, from Berne south to the Wabash river bridge near Geneva, will remain closed until Monday, True Andrews, sub<kl<t'ridt highway superintendent said today. The delay in opening the road, following a job of resurfacing, is due to the inclement weather this week. The resurfacing has been completed, but there has not yet been sufficient time for the material to set and Andrews said he believed the road would last much longer if there was a 48-hour delay in reopening it to traffic. Spring Festival To Open Here Monday Hours Are Changed For Amateur Show Kenneth Shannon, chairman of the amateur show which will be held Tuesday through Saturday in conjunction with the annual spring festival sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, has announced a change in the hours for the nightly shows. The starting time for the show Tuesday through Friday will be at 6:30 p. m. when the group of entrants under the age of 12 years will complete. The older group will begin competition at about 7 p. m. on these evenings. The grand finals in Saturday for the younger group, in which the winners of the previous four nights will eompete, will begin at 6:30 p. m. For the older group the Saturday final will be held at 10 p. m. Prises will be awarded to the nightly winners of each group in addition to the final grand prize in each Saturday night The spring festival Itself, of which Lyle Mallonee is gefidral chairman, will begin Monday evening. In addition to the amateur talent show, it will feature 50 rides and concessions and free acts.

■ ■ • Lev Is Called To Testify Fifth Day Continue Inquiry In Alleged Graft WASHINGTON (INS) —Weary senate investigators today were to call Harry Lev, millionaire Chicago military hatmaker, to the witness stand for the fifth, and possibly final, day of questioning. The senate investigations subcommittee continued its inquiry to determine whether Lev bribed or influenced federal personnel involved in millions of dollars worth of cap contracts which he fulfilled for the armed forces. Lev denies any knowledge of “payoffs" which other witness have ascribed to his subordinates and insists that he wouldn't accept a government ’contract unless he got it on his merits. Friday, he said he deserves “a congressional medal” for losing 65 pounds while showing unskilled 1 Puerto Rican laborers how to carry out a $2 million contract ' for him. 1 The contract involves 6,823,000 white sailor hats. A civilian in- ; spector for the navy testified Friday that 280,000 “seriously substandard" ones “slipped by” him 1 while Lev’s company was paying his hotel bill. Lev stoutly denied getting an advance tip on the sartor hatven- . M offers* ~m. mission of the senate” to give Sen. George Bender (R-Ohlo) any profits from the deal. Bender accepted the offer o n behalf of his favlrote charity, forgetting that Lev and other witnesses have indicated no profits will accrue. Steelworkers May Gain Big Increase Negotiation Talks Are Now In Recess ► ) PITTSBURGH (INS) —An atl mosphere of cordial optimism lin- ■ gered in empty bargaining rooms today as the first week of basic steel industry wage talks wound , up in Pittsburgh. i Although CIO United Steelworki ers have presented firm demands t for a good sized pay boost to the nation's leading six producers, no . signs or portents of strain have . appeared so far. ! Union President David J. McDon- • aid huddled in a closed session with his negotiators Friday after the union argument for a substantial raise based on industry prosperity was placed before Inland Steel Co., last of the “Big Six.” The talks are now recessed and ’the companies, presumably with mammoth U. S. Steel acting as pacesetter, are expected back with a reply, probbaly an initial offer, some time next week. Unofficial sources quoted Mc- ’ Donald as telling the bargaining teams that the companies first offer might be “in the neighborhood of 7*4 cents” and that the USW would reject that as not a “substantial” raise. However, after the weekend began, McDonald was not available to comment and official USW spokesman Vincent Sweeney remarked that the union had “no comment; no comment at all” on the rumor. In the light of orderly progress of the meetings so far, and cordial relations apparent at the bargaining tables, veteran observers were disinclined to view the unofficial report as an indication of any kind of tension. • Both sides have expressed confidence that an agreement will be reached before the official June 30 > bargaining deadline. i The observers predict that with 1 the Industry at near record production and in glowing financial t health, the 600,000 basic industry 1 workers will win one of the best ' hourly increases in history. To help support this they cite * the fact that only hourly rates, and 1 no other issues such as the contcxraunueu on Pag* Six)

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Proposes U. S. Give Reactors At Half Cost Renews Invitation To Soviet Russia > For Atomic Pool UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. (INS) —President Eisenhower proposed in a dramatic extension of his atoms for peace program today that the United States give atomic research reactors to friendly nations at haN cost. He said he also will ask congress to approve the U. S. teaching other free nations how to build and operate the much more complicated power reactors which convert the energy of the atom into electric power. The President made the proposals in a commencement address at Pennsylvania State university in which he renewed his invitation to the Soviet Union to join in “an international pool to harness the atom for man’s good.” He declared his complete confidence, however, that the atoms for peace program will achieve a more abundant .life for the world’s peoples “with or S(r . ". it-*;-. , ushji’air Mr. Eisenhower outlined his latest plan to share the fruits of our atomic progress with other countries after accepting from his youngest brother, Dr. Milton Eiaeinhower, the first honorary doctor of laws degree ever conferred by the university. Milton is president of the school, which is celebrating its centennial. The Chief Executive said he will submit both of his proposals to congress, which has set broad restrictions on how much of this country’s atomic know how and resources can be shared with other nations in the atomic energy act. He is convinced, he said, that the new program reflects “the spirit and intent of law and of the American people.” , , The United States already has initialed agreements with 10 countries under which she will provide them with small amounts of enriched uranium, teach them how to construct and operate their own research reactors and exchange other atomic information. Under the new plan Washington also would pay half the cost of building such reactors, which are used for experimental purposes, in what the President called “the spirit of partnership.” It had been expected that the U. S. would extend the agreements to cover information on power reactors as well, but there was some question of whether this could be done without the express approval of congress. Mr. Eisenhower declared: “The two proposals I have outlined here are the gateway to a (Continued on Wag* Six) Local Lady's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Edith A. Bump, 78, mother of Mrs. William Wight of Decatur, died Friday at McCray memorial hospital in Kendallville, where she had been a patient two weeks. Also surviving are two other daughters, Mrs. Alfred Bender of Big Long Lake and Mrs. Clarence W. Hale of Fort Wayne; a sister, Mrs. Harry Falls of Big Long Lake; three brothers, Lester and Roy Mingus of Lansing, Mich., and William Mingus of Ray; two stepsons, Ernest Bump of Fremont and Alvin Bump of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Beams funeral home at Fremont, the Rev. Carl Wlrey officiating. Burial will be in the ißay cemetery. INDIANA WBATHKR Cloudy and cool with showers and local thunderstorms tonight Bunday cloudy and continued cool with showers In the north and east. Low tonight In the 60s. High Bunday 60-70.