Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIII. No. 153.

< PATCHIN* UP THAT CRACK if • • • • < ,lr ' Lx J3I r ■ ■ hhmf DOUGLAS VAUGHAN, 11. makes like Davy Crodkett patchin’ up the crack In the Liberty Bell in Prospect Heights, 111., to remind you to keep a safe and sane Fourth of July. Incidentally, the Liberty Bell and firecrackers here are of popcorn.

Hope Increases One Os Missing Airmen Is Safe New Radio Signals Increase Hope For Safety Os One Man TOKYO (INS) — Three new radio signals from an emergency trausmiUer increased hope today that at least one of four missing marine airmen is still alhre after four days on a tiny life raft in the Western Factfte The SCth air force rescue squadron reported that “Mayday” distress signals were received at 5:40 a. m. (1 p. m. Wednesday PDT) and at 9 a. m. (5 p. m. Wednesday PDT.) An air force spokesman said that the third signal was received 'at “midafternoon." failing to pinpoint the time and described it as “faint," but in approximately the same position as 4he two previous ones. The air search was halted by darkness at 8 p. m. (4 a, m. PDT) but a spokesman said: “We will resume the search at daybreak Friday. We have not given up hope." One marine officer expressed doubt that the missing leatherneck airmen had emergency transmitters on the basis of an Inventory of normal equipment -aboard leatherneck planes. A navy spokesman however, said later that the inventory could have been in error or the airmen "might, have had “unlisted" radios. The air force, directing the search, said the signals definitely were coming from an emergency type transmitter. The air force proceeded on the theory that the signals were coming from a three by five foot raft on which one of the marines took refuge Sunday, leaving him afloat for more than 84 hours. Two marines disappeared Sunday in a twin jet fighter. A third was lost Tuesday in a fighter which joined a wide search for the missing pair and a fourth Wednesday when a search helicopter crashed. „ It was believed the man, fighting a grjm battle against terrific odds on the raft, was Second Lt. David W. Bell, of Minneapolis. Air force sources said voice contact had been made with the man in the raft supporting previous indications that he was Bell. These sources said' test questions were asked such as “what is your wife’s middle name?" and the answer fitted Bell. Despite the air force reports, Lt Col. John D. Howard of Cedar Rapids, la., commander of marine air group eleven, ■ told newsmen an inventory of equipment aboard the first missing plane “indicated” there were no emergency radio transmitters on the liferafts. Howard also said that the man aboard the raft would have ,had no food. Lieutenant Bell, son of General Mills Corp. President Charles H. Bell, was flying with Captain Hodgen P. Montague of- Jackson, Miss, when their night fighter (Continued on Page Five, „ NO PAPER MONDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat, fallowing a custom of many , years, will not publish an edittea Meastey. J*ly 4. wMeh la Independence Day.

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Acts Os 1955 Are Received By Clerk General Assembly Acts Are Received The acts of 1955, statutes passed by the 89th Indiana general assembly and enacted into law, have been received hero by county clerk Ed F. Jaberg And,are now being distributed in accordance to law. As soon as volumes of the laws are received by every county clerk in the state the secretary of state will notify the governor and the lattbr will declare all statutes in full force. The 1956 volume contains 1.306 pages and contains an acts, reaotntions and memorials. Chapter one is the statute which provides funds to pay expenses and salaries of the general assembly. The last act in the book is chapter 346 and it pertains to cities of the fifth class. T)?e office of city judge is abolished and the job is mandatory on the mayor. The mayor shall receive no additional compensation for acting as city judge, according to chapter 346. The last several pages of the acts contain resolutions and joint resolutions. Jaberg has returned his receipt to the secretary of state, attesting the*Apct that Adams county has received copies of the acts. Acts In EffectINDIANAPOLIS* (INS) — The acts or the' recent general assembly went into effect today — the earliest since 1939. Gov. George N. Craig promulgated the 129 bills into effect when delivery of the last acts was made to the Marion county clerk’s office this morning. A total of 217 already had gone into effect by virtue of emergency clauses. The stateCfcrecord $642 million budget for operations during the next two years was one of' the acts made effective by the completion of the promulgation procedure. The Korean bonus and its companion measure to create a veterans memorial school constructionfund were among the laws with emergency clauses. Somd pay raises for local and state government also become effectvie today, although a number of these carried emergency clauses? "X . K The Hasbrooa-Martin measure imposing strong penalties for' professional gambling also becomes enective today and faces likely court test over a clause concerning pinball machines. Increased jobless pay, occupational disease and workmen's compensation benefits also go into effect today. Other now effective laws include: 'f . Bans retail alcoholic beverage permittee from holding a federal wagering tax stamp. Permits drug stor.es and liquor package stores to sell one customer 12 quarts of wine or liquor at a time, an increase of eight quarts over the former limit. Creates new Wilbur Wright memorial commission and appropriates SIO,OOO to build a memorial to the famed aviation pioneer at his Henry county birthplace. Legalizes sale of gypsum rock and other minerals underlying state lands by the conservation department. (Continued on Page Five) • rf ' , 12 Pages v

Reporter Says He Quit Reds' Party In 1940 Denies Story Filed From Korea May Have Cost American Lives WASHINGTON (INS) — A New York Times reporter swore today he quit the Communist Party in 1940 and hotly denied a charge that a dispatch he filed from Korea in 1950 “may have coat American lives.’’ Charles Grutzner, the newsman, told the senate internal security subcommittee he was only in the party for three years, from 1937 to 1940. He insisted he has never “aided and abetted” Red causes since 1940. . t But subcommittee chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) eaid that a story Grutzner wrote as a war correspondent for the‘Times in 1950 lost the U. S. air force a “tactical advantage” in Korlea. Eastland said that Maj. Gen. L. C. Craigie ordered Grutzner removed from that war theater because of the dispatch but Grutzner snapped back: «“I challenge that." Qrutzner said his newspaper's records would show that he was set to return home prior to filing the story, which told how American Sabre Jets show down A Communist MIG- near the Yalukriver. He conceded his story was the only one sent to the if S., but he said three other newsmen representing the wire services also had agreed to file it despite the veto of dn air force colonel in Tokyo. Grutzner was one of a dozen 'former Brooklyn Eagle employes named Wednesday by Columbia Broadcasting System newsman Winston Burdett as fellow members of a Communist party unit in the 1930'5. Victor Weingarten, another of those named by Burdett, preceded Grutzner to the witness stand and was threatened with contempt action for refusing to say whether he had been a member of the party. Both Grutzner and Weingarten, who is now a Pleasantville, N. Y„ publicist, told the subcommittee that they are not now Reds. The CBS newsman told a tingling tale of espionage and political intrigue in Europe and. the Middle East to which he was exposed after agreeing to go to Finland as a spy for the Communists in 1940. He said he served as an Eagle correspondent as a “front” but within two years got fed up with the Reds and *broke with the, movement." Meanwhile, he 1 became a war correspondent for CBS. Wednesday, the network said Burdett , had disclosed his past affiliations more than four years ago. CBS expressed its full confidence in him, said it is sure his break with the Reds was complete and that he is a “loyal and honest citizen.”, j Shortly after breaking from the Reds in 1942, Burdett testified, So(Continuea on rw Five) Ike And Democrats Differ On Congress Legislative Work Criticized By Ike WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate OOP policy chairman Styles Bridges accused Democrats today of showing their “true colore” by “picking and choosing” the,parts of President Eisenhower’s program they wish to support. The New Hampshire Republican, backing the Chief Executive in his criticism of the Democratic legislative record to date, said Mr. Eisenhower's statement “clearly indicates the need for a Republican congress.” The President and senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson, Texas, exchanged verbal shots Wednesday over the question of whether congress has or has not compiled an impressive record of handling key legislation at the current session. At his news conference, the President read off from a typed sheet 12 legislative “musts” which, he said, still await final congressional action. Johnson sharply retorted that the senate will not carry out the Presideht's legislative demands “like a bunch of second lieutenants," , The Democratic leader promised “fair, just, reasonable consideration” of White House requests but added: “That doesn’t mean we’re going to gulp them down and swallow them in toto."

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 30, 1955.

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Suspend Navy Patrol Flights At Bering Sea Navy Commander At Alaska Frontier In Suspension Story BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS)—The defense department said today . that U. S. patrol flights over the Bering Sea will continue despite last week’s Incident in which an American plane was downed by Russian fighters. A top spokesman said flatly of published reports: “The statement that the patrol flights have been halted is untrue.” __ < KODIAK, Alaska (INS) — Suspension of Navy patrol flights over the Bering Sea between Soviet Siberia and Alaska whs disclosed today by Rear Adm. K. Craig, commander of the navy’s Alaska sea frontier. Craig told International News Service the navy flights were sus, pended last Friday pending complete investigation into the attack ■ on a Navy Neptune petrol plane by Soviet MIG jet fighters. The American'aircraft, aflame and riddled with gunfire, was forced to crash land on remote St. Lawrence Island th the Bering Strait, causing Injuries to eight of 11 crewmen aboard. Three were wounded by shell fragments. Craig emphasized that the suspension of navy patrol flights in the vital Alaskan defense region of the Bering Sea was only temporary. He added-that the navy expects to resume such flights at “any time." The admiral refused to say where the order to suspend the flights came from, but he did say the expected order to reinstate them would come “from elsewhere.” The order indicated that Alaskan commanders took a serious view of the Soviet MIG attack on a plane flying close to the northern gateway to the North Americarf continent. .. ‘ It also suggested military com-' manders were studying plans for greater protection of slow flying aircraft assigned to patrol hazardous Bering Sea waters and report oig ice conditions. Terre Haute Man Is Sentenced To Death Jealousy Slaying Os Former Wife TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (INS) — A 4’-year-old Terre Haute man today was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the jealousy slaying of his former wife. Judge Herbert R. Criss of Vigo circuit court today handed Elmer J. Flowers the death sentence after, an all male jury found him guilty of premediated murder in the fatal shooting of his ex-wife, lone Flowers, last October 4 in the backyard of the apartment house where both lived. The penalty was not announced by the judge until today? after studying the case since the jury returned its Verdict June 16 at the end of a Week Iqng trial. Criss’ defense during the trial had been temporary insanity induced by jealougy of the woman he killed. Flowers had sent word to his ex-wife to come to the backyard oecause "someone is waiting for you there.” When she stepped into the yard, he shot her. The sound was heard by officers in a passing police car. As officers came around a corner, looking for the source of the shot, Criss reportedly called to them: j_. , ■■ “Here I am. I’m over here.”

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Steel Strike Would Hit Auto Industry Cut Off Production Within Six Weeks DETROIT (INS) — A steel strike of any duration would hit quickly at the heart of the automobile industry and cut off practically all production in a matter of six wqpks. This was the consensus among industry men today while they kept a close watch on the Pittsburgh scene where the big steel companies and the steelworkers union bargained against a midnight strike deadline. “Members of the “Big Three" car makers — General Motors, Ford and Chrysler — are pretty secretive about stock inventories at any time, but even more so when a crisis threatens. When questioned as to how long they could continue to operate with their steel supplies shut off spokesmen for GM and Ford said they would have “no idea” until a strike actually started. Chrysler Corp., however, said that it has a “normal inventory of steel that would assure 45 days of interrupted production if steel supplies were cut off tonight.” A spokesman for Ford pointed put that the company approximately one half of Its own steel, but that it "has not been able to stockpile beyond normal requirements. An industry' observer, however, said that all the big auto compares "are eating steel from hand to mouth” and that “quick shortages of various items would cripple them in a hurry.” GM and Ford both have lost considerable car. production due to wildcat strikes before and after new contract settlements with the CIO United Auto Workers union. In some cases these companies have reinstated the usual third quarter cutbacks to make up for an estimated loss of around 75,000 cars in June. Ordinarily, their steel orders also would have been (Continued on Page Elgbt) No Freshman Autos On Purdue Campus LAFAYETTE. Ind. (INS) —Purdue University will not permit freshmen students to have cars on campus this fall. Recently, Indiana University banned use of autos by freshmen saying first-year college and cars didn’t mix. , • Purdue spokesmen said the “new ruling results from a lack of parking space around the'eampus and is not an attempt to restrict student privileges.” Four New Cases Os Polio In Indiana Elkhart County Is Still Hardest Hit INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The number of polio cases in Indiana .has climbed to 34, an increase of. four over the figure a week ago. The division of communicable disease control of the Indiana state board of health reported today that up to June 25, its records show 34 cases in 21 counties, with Elkhart still the hardest hit with six cases. The . four new cases are one each in Lake, Lawrence, Marion, and Monroe counties,/ Twenty six cases of the crippling disease had been recorded last year up to June 25. In 1953, the polio rate was much higher at the same time—63. Meanwhile. Indiana’s program for vaccinating all first and second grade school children against polio, which bogged down after no more Salk vaccine became available, still was stymied today. Until further supplies of the vaccine are released by federal health officials, there is no chance of resuming the program under w’hich only one of two scheduled shots has been given.

Final Report Submitted By Hoover Group Declares Budget Can Be Balanced WASHINGTON (INS) — The second Hoover commission concluded its two year task today with a claim that its recommendations can balance the budget for the government and lower taxes for the American people. In a final report to congress, the 12-man group said its proposals for better government would also return to the treasury a lump sum of more than 10 billion dollars from the sale of surplus property, recovery of invested money and elimination of unnecessary liabilities. Submission of the report at least tentatively rang down the curtain on the long public career of former President Herbert Hoover, the commission’s 81-year-old chairman. He steered the second commission through its long, laborious chores, as he did the first group, which submitted its reports -six years ago. > The first commission, like the second, made lepgthy proposals aimed at putting the sprawling federal establishment on a more ■business-like basis by cutting waste and improving efficiency. The second commission did not attempt to guess how much money the programs outlined in its 18 reports would save. However, its task forces — which did the spadework on the recommendations — said their proposals could chop more than seven and onehalf billion dollars from federal expenses. The parent group said these estimates were a little high since some of them overlapped, and some of the recommendations were hot passed along by the main Hoover commission in their original form. South Bend Test Is Termed Successful First Large Scale Trial Evacuation SOUTH BEND, ,Ind. (INS) — The first large scale trial evacuation of a large city was termed a success today by civil defense officials. - ——— But the question of what happened to at least 15,000 of almost 35,000 persons who left a 50-block area in South Bend’s “Operation Exit” Wednesday may never fully be answered. A minimum of confusion attended the operation which was accomplished in 8,000 "private and public vehicles in 40 minutes. The group went seven miles out-of the city. A few traffic jams developed following the mass evacuation to the countryside when the vehicles headed back. ** Some 15,000 persons in the test “vanished” and authorities wondered what happened to them. The area left by the trial evacuees was empty of life except for stray cats and dogs. But sidewalks at the north edge Os the evacuation area were jammed with spectators. And bars outside the area reported a brisk business. That may have accounted for some of the "missing” persons in the test. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid tonight and Friday. Scattered showers Friday or Friday night. Low tonight 70. High Friday 90. X

Fort Wayne Woman Is Held For Murder Confesses Killing Husband With Ax FORT WAYNE, Ind. (INS) —A Fort Wayne housewife, who confessed she killed her husband with an ax because she was "fed up with Id years of an unhappy marriage,” was held today in the Allen county jail. Indiana state police detective John Nye said the woman, Mrs. Lucy Leora Baysinger, 51, would be charged with murder. L Mrs. Baysinger admitted to police Wednesday night that she killed her husband, Clarence A. Baysinger, 60, a watchman for the Fort Wayne structural steel corporation, June 18 while he slept in his underwear after returning from work. Nye quoted the woman as saying: **l did It. I did it with my hands. I threw a coat over his head and hit him with the ax several times. I couldn't bear to see his face as I hit him. I knew he was gone.” According to the confession, she then .went about her household duties. The next day, the woman rolled her husband’s body into a piece of canvas and towed tt by a rowboat 800 feet downstream on the St. Joseph river, where she deposited the body on the bank. When Baysinger’s employer asked about him, she explained to them that he had “gone fishing.” 'Nye said Mrs. Baysinger told them that the last quarrel was over |2OO which her husband had hidden in the house. Sheriff Harold Zeis said a partly burned ax handle was found in the Baysinger home. Fourth Toll Road Proposal Studied Fort Wayne Seeks Connecting Link INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —An incompleted proposal for a fourth Indiana toll toad diagonally connecting two arterial pay as you go routes was under consideration today in Fort Wayne and Indianapolis. -* The springboard for projecting the northeastern toll road plans into the state’s highway picture was a meeting in Indianapolis Wednesday of a Fort Wayne better road committee delegation with members of the Indiana toll road commission and representatives of engineering firms which have handled feasibility surveys for two toll road projects. The Fort Wayne delegation asked for-and redpiced-Uin estimate of the survey cost to determine the feasibility only of a 45 mile spur extending from the east-west toll road, now under construction, to Fort Wayne. But as Paul W. Seitz, thairman of the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce's better roade committee, explained, it is obvious that any toll road ending at Fort Wayne would- create an impossible traffic problem. ' He expressed hope the 45 miip segment might become the opening wedge of an artery connecting the east-west toll road with the much discussed north-south toll road, now contemplated to run from Hammond to a spot east of Indianapolis. Engineers who made the preliminary surveys upon which bonds wefe sold for the east-west route, apd who are making a third survey on the north-south route, gave a price of $28,500 to the Fort Wayne businessmen for a 45 riiile feasibility survey. Nothing was said as to the coet of surveying a possible continuation of the proposed route from Fort Wayne to join the proposed Hammnd-Greenfield area road. But* executive director Albert J. Wedeking. of the toll road com(CvntlnoeO « Page Kight)

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Midnight Is A Deadline For Steel Strike All-Out Negotiation Resumed In Effort To Avert Strike PITTSBURGH (INS) — Resumption of all-out negotiations between the United Steelworkers and the basic steel industry raised hopes today that the wage crisis might have passed and a national strike averted. Belief that the bargainers had rounded their most difficult turn and now were headed toward a settlement before the midnight deadline was bolstered by reports from the bargaining rooms where from the bargaining rooms where USW president David J. McDonald and U. /S. Steel vice president John A. Stephens were meeting. McDonald reportedly presented a “more realistic” figure at this morning’s sessions, presumably something between the average 10 and a half cent hourly raise offered by the industry originally, and the some 20 cents he had wanted at first. In addition, a reHobte source in one of the bargaining camps reported that he understood "something will break” this afternoon and I. W. Abel, a top aide of McDonald, told a meeting of the union's negotiating teams that he hoped to have “something more definite” to tell them at a meeting scheduled for tonight A union spokesman said that McDonald and U. S. Steel vice president John A. Stephens, chief bargainer for the nation's number one producer, were la continuous bargaining sessions. Industry bargainers indicated they might compromise—possibly with an offer of 12% cents. Tension continued to mount, however, since it was problematical whether the 3% cent gap between that figure and the 16 cents at which the union was reported ready to compromise could be closed before the deadline. * McDonald earlier had said he expected the steel companies to match the Ford and General Motors agreements in wage increases for their 600,000 employes. Steelworkers now get an average hourly wage of $2.32, which is higher* than Ford and GM employes are paid under the new contracts negotiated earlier this month by the CIO United Auto Workers. Blast furnaces of the steel,firms were slowly being cooled in anticipation of a walkout. Food and cots jContmuea on lage Sight) Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (INS)—Congress quickly passed and sent to the White House today a 31 billion 800 million dollar appropriation bill for the armed forces. Both the house and senate approved the measure by a voice vote. WASHINGTON (INS)—The house moved toward passage of President Eisenhower’s foreign aid proposals today after defeating a move which sponsors of the All charged would wreck the program. The house voted 129 to 111 against an amendment to the $3,285,800,000 bill that would have cut off aid to any nation refusing to turn over*to U. S. courts American Gl’s accused of crimes. . - BONN (INS) — West Germany accepted In principle today the recent Soviet Union’s Invitation for discussions on establishing diplomatic, economic and cultural relations But the note delivered to Russia via the German embassy In Paris proposed that Informal discussions first be held In Psrls.