Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 29 June 1955 — Page 1

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SHADED CIRCLE represents an area of approximately 100,000 square miles which, it is estimated, could be blankpted by deadly fall-' out of one U-bomb. The U-bomb, or uranium superbomb, uses an atom bomb trigger, a hydrogen core and a jacket of natural uranium. There are reports thpt the Russians have experimented with such a bomb. Facts about the fall-out area were revealed by AEC Commissioner Willard F. Libby in the course of speech in Chicago. ■ ’ . ■ i< - - ■ ‘ r - , -

-- - - -i—- V Eisenhower In Statement On Air Incident Sees Soviet Attack On U. S. Plane Mere Local Occurrence WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower said today he is sure the Bering Sea airplane incident was just a- local occurance, rather than a deliberate act on the part of the Soviet Union. • The President said in his first public statement on the matter that it was very encouraging to have Russia respond to our demand for damages in a completely different way than they have treated such instances in the past. On another subject at his news conference, Mr. Eisenhower showed unusual anger when he ripped into congressional critics of his proposed atomic merchant ship. Ho pulled a typewritten sheet out of bis pocket and recited a list k of a doxen legislative "masts’' still awaiting gciion do Capitbl Hill. F Mr. Eisennower declared that the atomic merchant ship, whichwould cruise the world with an atoms for peace exhibit, is vital to relieving the world’s fears of an atomic war. • He coined a new phrase, war for peace, in a bitter, table pounding discussion of the project, defeated Tuesday in the senate. The President was in a much calmer mood as he discussed the forthcoming Big Four conference and joked with newsmen about his recent “teasers’’ on his plans for 1956. When a reporter commented that the people of New , England gave the impression last week that that they wanted Mr. Eisenhower to run for reelection, Mr. Eisenhower laughed good naturedly. He replied that the reporter saw his (Eisenhower’s) friends along the roads and we don’t know who was behind in the alleys.' On the Big Four meeting, the Chief Executive said , nobody knows whether Soviet premier Nikolai Bulggnin wheels the real authority in Russia and will be able to speak for the Soviets at the conference. The question of whether Bulganin or Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev actually controls Russia is one of the puzzles in the Big Four meeting, he added, saying that we can only hope that the Soviet representatives will have the power of decision. Mr. Eisenhower expressed hope that the "summit” conference starting July 18 in Geneva will produce some decision. But he emphasized again that he does not expect any solutions to specific problems to be reached at the parley. * The President reiterated that he is trying not to expect too much from the Big Four meeting. But f he added there is obviously some change in the Soviet attitude which might make it easier to work and live with Russia than it has been in the past. » Striking the table for emphasis, Mr. Eisenhower said that no one —believes that the Marxian goal of world revolution has been abandoned. However, he said,' the chances for reducing world tensions appear to be better today than they were two months ago. The President’s list of legislative “musts” included the administration's highway, housing and education programs, military reserve bill, Hawaiian statehood, amendment of the refugee program, the mutual security bill and the proposal to Increase the minimum wage. /: B .

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Republican Mayor Candidates Meet Likely To Run On Eisenhower Record f INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indi- , ana Republican candidates for mayor met in Indianapolis today and indications were that they would run on the record of President Eisenhower. More than 300 mayorality nominees and GOP city, county and i district chairmen and vice chairmen gathered at the Hotel Severin today for a campaign workshop sesi sion, sponsored by the Republican state committee A number of speakers at, panel sessions urged an appeal to the voters to choose GOP mayors to build a strong organisation in Indiana for the 1956 presidential cam--1 paign. There was little doubt among those present that next 1 year's standard bearer would be ■ President Eisenhower. ( Four years ago, the Republicans waged a similar campaign — and . it worked. Most of the local nominees ran against Democratic Pres- > Ldewt Harry S. Truman, who in I 1951 was at the lew mark of his career. State and local issues were minimized while the candidates for ' theU4He-Honor” titles went into a violent frenzy against Truman. , The upshot was .that the GOP elected 70 mayors and the Democrats only 32. Two independents won that year, At stake were 104 posts. As usual, the meeting was affected by the constant battle between Republican factions headed by Senator William E. Jenner and Governor George N. Craig. Alvin Cast, GOP state chairman, in a harmony gesture, scheduled leaders of both groups as chief speakers. The orator at the luncheon was Mayor Alex Clark of Indianapolis. a Jennerite, and the speaker at the banquet session will be the governor himself. Other party biggies on the speaking program Included Mayor John A. Scott of South Bend, often men--1 tioned as a 1956 nominee for governor or lieutenant governor; Mayor Vernon Anderson of Hammond, first district chairman and Jenner group member, and H. Dale Brown, eleventh district chairman and (Continued on rage Five) Andrew Fuelling Dies This Morning I Funeral Services Friday Afternoon I Andrew Fuelling, 79. a native of ' Adams county, died at 8 o'clock this morning at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne fol- 1 lowing a long illness. Mr. Fuelling operated a farm in , Adams county until his retirement 11 years ago. when he moved to Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife, Amelia; two sons, Erwin Fuelling of Union , township and Hugo Fuelling of Fort Wayne; three daughters, Mrs. Flora Lenz and Mrs. Ludella Wiese < of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Adele j Schmidt of Huntington, and one < brother, Louis Fuelling of Wood- ( burn. The body was removed to the j Rodenbeck funeral home in Fort ( Wayne, where friends may call aft- , er noon Thursday until noon Friday, when the body will be taken , to the Bethlehem Lutheran church, i Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the church, the Rev. Arno i Scholz officiating. Burial will be in i Concordia cemetery at Fort Wayne. .... - - < INDIANA WEATHER -f Partly cloudy and warm to- i night and Thursday, with scat- j tered (thundershowers. Low . tonight 65-68. High 1 88-90. <

Newsman Tells Committee Os Spy Activities CBS Correspondent Admits Being Red Member Before War WASHINGTON (INS) — Winston Burdett, a Columbia Broadcasting System news correspondent, told senate investigators today he was a Communist spy at the outset of World War 11. Burdett testified that he joined the Communist party in August, 1937, while on the editorial staff of the Brooklyn Eagle, and remained a Red until March, 1942, when he “broke with the movement.” The newsman testified that the Russians instigated the, “political assassination” of his wife in Iran within a month after he broke with, the I|eds. However, he said she was killed because she herself “knew too much” about the political situation in Yugoslavia. He said she was “an anti-fascist Italian journalist” named Lea Schiati. . He named a dozen other individuals as members of the "Brooklyn Eagle Unit” of the Communist party. He said one was Charles Krutzner, now on the news staff of the New York Times. The CBS commentator said he himself became an espionage agent in February, 1940, and remained one until he quit the party two years later. His first assignment, he said, was in Finland. Burdett testified before the senate internal security subcommittee. Chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) said that Burdett was disclosing a “phase of the Communist conspiracy which has not been told before. The senator said: “we are deeply grateful to this witness, anti welcome his courageous effort to roll up the iron curtain protecting the Communist conspiracy in the highly important area of his competence." . In addition to Grutzner, Burdett named these persons as fellow members of the Brooklyn Eagle unit of the Communist party; Nat Einhorn. Victor Weingarten, Violet Brown (who_later married Weingarten), Charles Lewis, Hy Charnik, Herbert Cohn, Melvin Barnett, David Gordon, Lyle Dowling, Gladys Bentley and Larry Adler. All except Adler and Miss Bentley, he said, were editorial department employes, and Dowling was a “very high executive.” The witness said the individuals also were affiliated with the CIO American Newspaper Guild but he added: “it was a unit in no way connected with the Newspaper Guild but directly connected with the Communist party." Burdett said Einhorn, a fellow (Continued on - Page Six) Orders Soldier Be Freed From Prison Release Ordered By Court Os Appeals TERRE HAUTE. Ind. (INS) — A 24-year-old soldier serving 20 years in Terre Haute’s federal prison for attempted rape of a Korean woman has been ordered released. The U. S. circuit court of appeals in Chicago directed officials at the Indiana prison to release Carl Andrew DeCoster, of KauKauna, Wis., who has been held at Terre Haute since 1951. His release will be granted as soon as the U. S. federal court in Indiana issues a writ in compliance with the higher court's ruling. Judge William Steckler, at Indianapolis, had denied a petition last Aug. 30 in which DeCoster’s attorney charged the conviction had been a "typical army court martial raw deal.” DeCoster was found guilty June 9, 1951, by an army court martial on two counts of murder and rape. The charges stemmed from a “liberty”! in Chu dong Ni in which a woman was raped and later found dead after villagers engaged in rifle fire with DeCoster and two buddies. On appeal, the murder conviction was set aside and the life sentence was suspended “all but 20 years." The defense charged the ' board of review cab only reduce sentences —not fix them. The reduction was illegal, ac- 1 cording to defense, because the i lifer sentence actually was set ■ aside and no sentence ever was < imposed on the rape count. i The sentence being served was I held void by the court and. De- < Coster was ordered released. < ’■■a ■

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Accuses U. S. Steel Head Os False Statement Union Head Charges False Statement On Forcing Os Strike PITTSBURGH (INS) —David J. McDonald, United Steelworkers president, today accused President CHttord Hood of U. S. Steel, of making “false and unwarranted” statements in charging that the USW is forcing an unnecessary strike. McDonald said “If Mr. Hood were participating in negotiations instead of spending his time going over publicity released in his headquarters, he would know that the Steelworkers Union is doing everything within its power to avert a nationwide steel strike.” McDonald called on Hood and other industry leaders to join in “the practical task of hammering out an agreement that will be just and fair to the workers, to’ the industry and to the public.” The union president said there still is ample time to conclude a settlement by genuine collective bargaining with the real people in authority. , > McDonald explained that he was calling on the leaders of the industry’s “Big Six” to take part personally in the negotiations. He eaid he referred not only to Hood, but to board chairmen Roger M. Blough, of U. S. Steel; E. G. Grace, of Bethlehem, C. M. Whitel, Republican; Ben Moreell, to Jones and Laughlin; J. L. Block of Inland, and president J. Lester Mauthe of Youngstown Sheet and Tube. International New service learned on good authority that as McDonald issued his statement the industry chiefs he referred tow’ith the possible exception of Grace-were meeting. The group reportedly had gathered at U. S. Steel's Pittsburgh headquarters, across .the street from the hotel where the negotiations are being carried oh. Steel firms today continued banking their furnaces In preparation for a nationwide walkout which was described as "imminent” by* U. S. Steel. The authoritative trade publication Iron Age, meanwhile, predicted in its current issue that a peaceful settlement in the controversy appeared likely. The magazine said it looked as though the union would get a total (UonUnuM on Kkge Six) High School Student Dies This Morning Baumgartner Rites Friday Afternoon Miss Mildred Baumgartner, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Baumgartner, of three miles east of Bluffton on state road 124, died at 2:15 o’clock this morning at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. She had been ill two weeks with a cerebral tumor, and underwent surgery Monday. She wap born in Wells county Feb. 17, 1940, a daughter of Samuel and Mary Reinhard-Baumgartner. She was a freshman at the Bluffton high school, where she was an honor student. • Surviving in addition to her parents are a brother, Thomas, and a sister, Dorothy, both at home. There are many relatives in and near Decatur. * Fwreral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton, and at 2 p.m. at the Apostolic Christian church, the Rev. Samuel AeschlK man officiating. Burial will be In the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral* home after 7:30 o'clock this evening.

Kefauver Assails Dixon-Yates Pact Charges Cover-up By GOP Administration WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) went ahead today with his investigation of the Dixon-Yates power contract despite White House refusal to hand over budget bureau files on the deal. Kefauver said he plans to speed , up the inquiry on the heels of a j hot political fight over the admin- , istration’s decision not to allow . Kefauver's investigators free ac- , , cess to the Dixon-Yates records. ( Then Tennessee Democrat accused President Eisenhower of , “trying to cover up the full facts” ( on the 100 million dollar private ( ' power pact after giving assurances , last year that all data wou|d .be ‘ available. L , Kefauver coupled the blast with a charge that the control was ‘ “scandalous” and that there is “a ! very strong suggestion that the ’ ' criminal code may have been vio- j 1 la ted” in negotiations leading up ' to it. Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland, Calif., rejected Kefauver’s charges, declaring that “this 1 is not a corrupt proposition.” ' Knowland accused the southern Democrat of attempting to “embarrass” the administration. Republicans regard Kefauver's accusations as the opening bell in* a drive to block the appropriation of 36,500.000 for construction of Dixon-Yates lines and thus kill the West Memphis, , Ark., project. Wildcat Strike At GM's Flint Plant FLINT, Mjch. (INS) —Leaders of the CIO United Auto Workers Union today strove to end a wildcat strike of skilled employes at the General Motors Ternstedt Division in Flint, Mich. Receives Check For Light Bulb Profits Profit From Lions Sales Over $6,000 Ronald Parrish, Decatur, comptroller of Indiana Lions clubs, to- 1 day received a check for 36,052.84, 1 as net profit from the light bulb 1 project which was participated in by all Indiana Lions clubs. The check represents the net I profit from the house-to-house sale i of electric light bulbs in Indiana sponsored by every one of the clubs. Decatur members of the 1 service group took part for two weeks early this spring in the project. I The money will be divided and | placed in two state projects which Lions clubs assist in financially. The division is as follows: Leader dog fund, 32,767.18, and cancer fund, 33,285.66. Money Is used from the leader dog fund to purchase seeing eye dogs for blind I persons in Indiana. The money < from the cancer fund is used to < aid in cancer research. i ' i To Recommend City Build Sewage Plant City attorney Robert Anderson j today received a letter from John. ( Prout, the member of the stream pollution control board who sat as judge during the hearing June ( 16 to determine whether the city , of Decatur is polluting St. Mary’s river. In the letter Prout states that ( he will recommend to the state ; stream commission that a sewage • disposal plant be built in Decatur ( on or before Jan. 1, 1967. « His recommendation Is being < made on the basis of testimony j: heard during the June 16 meeting. I It will be presented at a meeting 1 of the full stream pollution control < board. , 1 , . ‘-.4 '' ■

Scrap Looming On Appointment Os Committee Conflict Looms On Recommendation Os Hoover Commission WASHINGTON (INS) — A conflict loomed today over the Hoover’ commission's recommendations for a congressional watchdog committee to check on the nation's supersecret intelligence agencies. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Mont.), said he will now press for hearings on a resolution he and 35 other senators introduced on Jan. 14 to set up just such a joint committee. ' He said he had been holding up action Until the Hoover commission’s task force on the central intelligence agency — which was headed by Gen. Mark W. Clark — had filed its report with President Eisenhower and congress. But Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R Mass.), said he sees no need for the proposed watchdog committee. Saltonstall is a member of the senate armed services subcommittee on the CIA. ■ He said: “If this subcommittee is doing its duty, there is no need for another committee. If It isn’t doing its duty, it is up to the senate to complain. “I opposed Senator Mansfield when the question of a watchdog committee came up before the rules committee a year ago and I feel the same way now.” Saltonstallalso pointed ont that the CIA is ah agency whose work must be reviewed with caution and secrecy because of its delicate nature. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D Va.), another member of the armed services’ CIA subcommittee, said it seems to him the group “can do a good job,” indicating he does not believe a watchdog committee is necessary. The hoover commission charged that diplomatic timidity is keeping U. S. intelligence from obtaining vital information about Russia’s military strength and plans. It urged a “bold" policy in gathering information even at the risk of diplomatic embarrassment. Sen. Karl Mundt (R S.D.), who has been active for'years in congressional probes of communism, declared that the “CIA has been cloaked in too much secrecy.” Mundt, a co-sponsor of the Mansfield resolution, said that the charges of laxity in gathering data about Russia is al Ithe more rea(Contlnued on Pa«e Five) William E. Clouse Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon William E. Clouse, 70, of 227 South Seventh street, died at 8:45 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital.* He was a retired lineman tor the Erie railroad and ’ formerly operated a grocery at Seventh and Adams streets for several years. He was born in Van Wert county, O„ June 14, 1885, a son of Wil-* liam and Fredrika Reidel-Clouse. His wife, the former Edna Christenberry, died Oct. 10, 1946. Mr. Clouse was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in this city and the Masonic lodge at Lima, O. Surviving are three brothers. D. W., Ernest and Leslie Clouse, all of Ohio City, 0.. and a sister, Mrs. Nellie West of Rockford, O. Two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be at Ohio City. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock Thursday evening.

17 ii Urge Fair Treatment For Job Applicants Senate Group Calls For Fair Treatment WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate investigators called today for fairer treatment of applicants for federal or defense jobs who have “derogatory" security information against them. The internal security subcommittee headed by Sen. James O. (D .Miss.,) recommended: il. Creation of machinery by which such persons can get a preliminary evaluation of any charges against them and a chance to reply without automatically being barred* from employment. >2. Clarification of the attorney general’s list of subversive organizations because, according to the senators, it has been stood and misued”*to bar applicants from jobs. Eastland issued a statement Tuesday saying that “a real hardship” has been imposed “on individuals who may be able to explain derogatory reports satisfactorily and quickly." He said: “The fact that the num- ■ ber of such individuals is relatively small is no argument against doing something to help solve their i problem.” Eastland issued Ns statement as , a supplement to a b&toeomhftttee report which also recommended that the justice department crack dawn within a year on so-called Communist front organisations and labor unions considered to be under red control. ! DAV Will Install ■ Officers Thursday County Chapter To Install Officers Adams county chapter number I 91 of Disabled American Veterans ; will install officers Thursday night , at 8 o'c the D.A.V. hall, it i was announced today. Past state commander of the group. Harley Ward, Fort Wayne, will act as in- ; stalling officer. Gordon Brodbeck. Monroe, first Korean war veteran in Indiana to serve as a commander of a D.A.V. post, will be installed as head of the Adams county organization. Other new officers who will assume their duties Thursday include: A James Cochran, senior vice commander; Morton Railing, first junior vice commander; Ralph Conrad, second junior vice commander; Royal D. Bollinger, treasurer; Ed Kiser, chaplain; Herman Smith, trustee for three years; Guy Allen, officer of the day, and Victor Steiner, adjutant. Chapter appointive officers also will be announced Thursday by the new commander. Refreshments will be served following installation and Ward and state senior vice commander Gerald Smitley of Decatur will head a speaking program. The speakers will give a resume of national and state legislation which affects disabled veterans. Late Bulletins QUONSET POINT, R. |. (INS) — Two Navy men, the pilot and a crew member, were killed today when a pro-pellor-driven Ad Sky raider crashed during takeoff from the naval air base. Identities of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. BUENOS AIRES (INS) — Argentina lifted today the two week old state of siege clamped on the nation when naval airmen revolted June ~ ' 16. ' - The Argentine radio announced the.resignation of interior minister Angel Gabriel Borlenghl. _ ' , 4., *. .

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Pacific South Os Tokyo Site Os Vast Hunt Hope Is Held For' One Man Believed Afloat On Liferaft TOKYO (INS) — The number of marine airmen missing in related mishaps in the fogbound Pacific south of Tokyo rose to four today but hope was still held for at least one of them afloat, in a flimsy liferaft. As darkness closed in this evening, search planes were recalled but ‘ navy surface ships continued to scour the seas. New radio signals were received during the day from an emergency transmitter believed operated by one airman on an emergency life raft hardly bigger than an ordinary automobile inner tube. An air force spokesman said searchers still have high hopes of locating the raft, adding that the radio signals indicated “there’s a man alive out there.” The fourth marine, not immediately identified, was reported missing in the crash of a helicopter in the sea from which three other leathernecks were rescued unhurt. The hellcoptar, flying from the USS Whitemarsh, crashed about 120 miles southeast of Tokyo while trying to locate the man oh the life raft who was believed to be 2nd Ueut. David W, Bell of Minneapolis, Minn. An air force search pilot, Lieut. Sid L. Williams of Alice, Tex., who returned to his Japan base after 16 hours and 45 minutes of scanning the white capped ocean at a 200 foot altitude, reported: “The man on that raft has not panicked. He is saving his radio. “The dear Lord must be looking after this boy. If he’s stayed out this long, we think we will pick him up. We have not given up hope." Williams said the heavy seas made Visual sighting “impossible,” adding: “we’ve been chasing porpoises and ocean trash, thinking it might be the fliers.” An air fleet of 70 planes and a three nation Navy surface force was taking part in the search for the three men missing earlier when the helicopter plunged into the water at noon today (8 p.m. PDT Tuesday). The three were Identified as: Second Lieut. David W. Bell, Minneapolis, Minn. Capt, Hodgen Montagus, Jackson, Miss. First Lieut. Alan Murdock McAneny, Yonkers, ,N. Y. Bell is the son of Charles H. Bell, president of the General Mills Corp, and Mrs. Bell is the daughter of John R. Kimberly of Meenah, Wis., president of the Kimberly Clark Corp., manufacturers of paper products. McAneny’s father-in-law is Bradley C. Barnard, publisher of the Rome, N. Y. Sentinel. Bell and Montague disappeared at 10 p.m. Sunday over the ocean near Oshima island, 60 miles south of Tokyo, while on a routine mission in a twin jet marine night fighter. McAneny disappeared in a cloud bank at 2 p.m. Tuesday while taking part in the dramatic search for Bell and Montague, one of whom has been in sporadic .radio contact with the search parties. Morse signals from the one spotted life raft spelled out the name “Bell" and officers reported that at one time the raft was within 500 yards of a destroyer but fog forced the search to be broken off temporarily. Bell’s wife, expected her second child in three months, arrived in Tokyo Tuesday unaware her husband had crashed. She was tn se-' elusion today at Atsugi naval air station, home base of all three fliers. With Mrs. Josephine Bell was (Continued on Page Five)