Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1955 — Page 1

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France Ready To Follow Up Ike Proposal Willing For Aerial Inspection Offer Os Bases To Russians mier Edgar Faure declared today GENEVA (INS) — French preFrance is willing to make the same aerial inspection offer to Russia as made by President Eisenhower. In the first and only exclusive interview granted by one of the Big Four heads of government at Geneva, Faure summed up what he thought would prove to be the conference's main accomplishments. The premier’s action in coming quickly to support President Eisenhower’s plan was expected to electrify the "summit” conference in the last 24 hours of its existeaee. ----- - - Faure said in an interview with this correspondent and INS correspondent Elie Maissi that such an offer by France as well as the United States should serve M « satisfactory guarantee to Russia that the west has no aggressive intentions. z - , v -- — He noted his willingness to have France join with the United States in making such an offer would naturally depend upon approval of Allies. It would also be within the framework of the North Atlantic treaty organization. Mr. Eisenhower dramatically surprised the conference Thursday with a proposal that the United States and Russia exchange blueprints of military establishments and permit flying of aerial photography reconnaissance as a guard against any sudden attack. The French premier predicted the most important results of the conference wuold be: 1. The beginning of collaboration for disarmament. 2. Establishment of certain demilitarized zones separating the armed forces of east and west . in Europe. 3. A war alarm inspection system. 4. Improvement of relations between Russia and the west based on creation of a certain atmosphere of comprehension. Faure received this correspondent and Maissi on the terrace of his Villa Prevorzier overlooking Lake Geneva, just prior to receiving British prime minister Sir Anthony I£den for lunch. He paid glowing tribute to Mr. Eisenhower’s plan as a great, inspirational and, at the same time, realistic proposal. The French premier disclosed he proposed to President Eisenhower just before Thursday’s ’’summit” session that data gathered under the President’s proposal should be made public. He included in this suggestion data gained by aerial reconnaissance inspection and by broader inspection is agreement on that can be reached. , The only other person present at the interview with Faure, besides this correspondent and Maissi, was Miss Elaine Bicart, his personal press attache for the foreign press. She speaks several languages, including Russian, and studied foreign languages in the ■same class with Faure during their college days. Faure’s expressed willingness to duplicate the President’s offer to Russia concerning a reciprocal aerial inspection system was confined to metropolitan France. He answered affirmatively the question whether he thought Soviet aerial reconnaissance over France on a reciprocal basis would serve to reassure Russia that French territory was not being used by the NATO powers as a build-up area for any aggressive attack on the Soviet Union. Faure disclosed to International News Service that Soviet leaders “'Br (Oou*ai*«e oh rage Five) . _—B. — -

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Mystery Deepening On Missing Woman Evansville Woman Missing Nine Months CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind. (INS) —A wife who wouldn’t talk provided the latest obstacle to scores of police who are tgjjng to solve what rapidly is becoming the state's major mystery. The mystery: Where is Mrs. Pearl Hartlage? The 56-year-old mother of an exconvict has disappeared from the Evansville, Ind., home she shared with the son and his family. Friends say they have not seen her for more than nine months. The son. Clifford Watson, 40, moved out of the Evansville combination residence business building the day after he was questioned about his mother’s absence by police July 4, and Crawfordsville detectives were sure Thursday they had about located him when they stopped his wife, Waneta, on a local street. But Mrs. Watson and her three children refused to slfy where the husband and father was staying. Police have no charge against Mrs. Watson and released her after fruitless efforts to get an answer to the mystery from her. The police do have a warrant against Watson as a device for locating him.- He is charged with illegal removal of mortgaged property. A water cooler he was buying on payments was removed from the Evansville home. The cooler was found Thursday in a farm house in Montgomery ccunty, near Shades state park. Neighbors told Montgomery county sheriff Merle Remley that Watson, using his correct name, rented the property two weeks ago. But when pbliee arrived, Watson and his family were gone, just as they had been when officers followed a previous tip and called at the Monroe county farm home of relatives July 19. Left behind in the Montgomery farm home were the family’s clothing and considerable furniture. ■ At the time police first queried Watson about his mother 18 days ago, be told them she had married an Indianapolis realtor and goififr on an extended honeymoon. Indi-' anapolis police investigated this report and said they were unable to verify such a marriage. Friends have expressed fear that the 56-year-old widow, who inherited considerable property and money from her husband, has met with foul play. Finalists Selected For Miss Universe 14 Are Selected From Foreign Lands LONG BEACH, Calif. (INS) — Carlene Johnson, the blonde bombshell from Vermont and the new Miss U.S.A., got set today to fight it out with 14 beauties from the four corners of the world for the coveted title of Miss Universe. The 14 foreign finalists who will contend with her were selected Thursday night. The countries they represent encircle the entire globe. Finalist Maribel Arrieta, the luscious Marilyn Monroe type blonde from El Salvador, won the title of Miss Friendship, in addition to being named a Miss Universe finalist. She was selected by a popular (Continued on Page Five) Gross Receipts Os Farmers On Decline WASHINGTON (INS) —Farmers’ gross receipts from marketings in the first six months of 1.955 are estimated at four per cent less than last year, for the most part because of ’the continuing decline in prices. - Nearly all of the decline took place in livestock, including hogs and other meat animals. _

UN Diplomats Applaud Ike's Dramatic Plan Exchange Os Aerial Reconnaissance Is Warmly Applauded UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —UN diplomats applauded today President Elsenhower’s dramatic proposal to exchange aerial reconnaissance with Russia. Key delegates at UN headquarters said the proposal at the Geneva Big Four conference dramatized the main provision of the UN atomic weapons control agreement. They made these other major .points: 1. The Russians in the past have rejected the “aerial survey” provision. The late Soviet delegate Andrei Vishinsky denounced such aerial photographing as “camouflaged spy peeping” by American military factions. The Soviet Union. he said, would never agree to such “bamboozling” by the Pentagon. 2. Soviet agreement to such aerial reconnaissance could cancel out the iron curtain barrier between East and West. It could lead. UN diplomats believe, to other basic political solutions dividing the Communist and free world. 3. The “aerial surveys” by UN . inspectors would be the only fairly “safe” answer to guarding against future clandestine production of atomic weapons. 4. British and French sources quickly gavb approval to the principle of the President’s proposal, , which would form part of the “alarm” system ip the western blueprint for eventually outlawing ■ atomic weapons. 5. The Kremlin has shifted its stand, slightly, after standing pat : on demands that deadlocked arms ■ reduction efforts for nine years. Soviet deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko proposed- "control : posts” at the- recent London five ’ power talks on nuclear weapons 1 control. 1 He suggested the posts be set 1 up at railway junctions, big sea--1 ports, motor roads and airfields. A UN agency would be chafged with preventing surprise attacks on others. But western representatives noted the proposal of "control posts” specifically avoided free inspection like aerial reconnaissance. The Kremlin’s position in answer ta President Eisenhower’s offer 1 remains to be seen. But the Soviet position on aerial surveys was outlined by omission in the “control posts” proposal. Two In Fight For Legion Commander State Convention Opens At Capital INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Alton Cochrane, of Crown Point, and Emery Boyd, of Angola, appeared to be the leading candidates for commander gs the annual state convention of the American Legion began in Indianapolis today. As the gathering began, Governor George N. Craig, a former Legion national commander, appealed to the Legionnaires to provide personnel for his state internal security corps, which would replace the 38th national guard division to cope with state disorders and disasters in the event the guard division is mobilized for national service. The 40 and 8, playtime organization, which has sought to sever relations with the Legion, however, will stage its annual parade tonight. The official Legion parade will be held Saturday night. State officers will be elected and installed Monday morning in the Lyric Theater. Republican political enemies of the governor have predicted that he will be able to organize a new political machine, if the Legion agrees to man his internal security corps, but the governor says his group will be on the up and up. Man Is Killed In Car-Train Accident VALPARAISO, Ind. (INS) —John M. Zytka, 30, of Chicago, died late Thursday in Porter memorial hospital at Valparaiso of injuries suffered in a car-train accident. Zylka was injured Wednesday when his car skidded into the path of a train at the Grand Trunk crossing one mile north of U. S. 30 near the Lake Porter county line.

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Big Four Leaders Face Apparent Deadlock On Major Cold War Issues

Talbott Case Is Still Open Despite Offer Talbott Offers To Give Up Lucrative Private Business WASHINGTON (UJJS) — Senators investigating the business affairs of air secretary Harold E. Talbott said today the case is "still open” despite his offer to give up a lucrative private partnership. The senate investigations subcommittee has taken under advisement Talbott’s offer to quit as a partner in Paul B. Milligan and Co., a New York efficiency firm, if the senators want him to. Opinion among subcommittee members was split, only the Republicans commenting publicly. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, Wis., said Talbott should not give up his business; Sen. George Bender, Ohio, said he should and Sen. Karl E. Mundt, S. D?, was doubtful. Testifying at his own request Wednesday in a specially called public hearing, Talbott swore he i never used his Pentagon post to , get business for his company, from which he earned about 150.000 a year since becoming air force secretary early in 1953. But he said he could not remember whether he had air force general counsel John A. Johnson call a Radio Corp, of America attorney to complain about RCA’s termination of a contract with Mulligan. Talbott did admit calling RCA board chairman David Sarnoff in 1954 on behalf of Mulligan when RCA failed to renew its contract. He said he asked SaVnoff to see his partner. The secretary said he learned several months later that RCA had questioned the propriety of con- • tinuing its contract with Mulligan while Talbott was a partner. Talbott said he complained about this to anpther RCA representative whose name he could not recall,. All Republican members of the subcommittee exonerated Talbott of any wrong doing in accepting profits from Mulligan while he was a government official. Democrats were non - committal about whether there was any conflict of interests involved. The firm has no contracts vyith the government itself, but it does business with companies that do. Air Force Accepts Wool's Resignation Accused Os Taking Bribe Os $50,000 WASHINGTON (INS) — The air force today accepted the resignation “under conditions other than honorable” of Capt. Raymond Wool, accused of taking a $50,000 bribe from hatmaker Harry Lev. The tair force dropped cour martial charges against Wool but said the resignation will bar him "“from veterans benefits to the same extent as a dishonorable discharged effected by” a court martial. The statement added: “Acceptance of this resignation will in no wise handicap the department of justice with respect to any procedures it may desire to take with regard to Capt. Wool’s activities.” Both Lev and Wool denied to senate investigators that any $50,000 bribe had ever been paid. But the air force previously had announced that Wool would be court martialed on charges including one that he “accepted gifts and gratuities.” Leon M. Levy, a Brooklyn textile dealer, told senators during the probe of Lev’s activities that he had information W’ool had received the $50,000 bribe. » The atr fwce, which has been (Connmiec on >a«o Eight)

Volunteers To Aid Bloodmobile Visit Bloodmobile Unit Here Next Monday The Red Cross office today released the names of the local volunteers who will assist at the 'bloodmobile visit Monday at the American Legion home. It was •also announced that there is still u need for more donors to fill the 110-pint quota. Anyone wishing to donate blood may call the Red Cross office today or Saturday or visit the Legion home Monday while the bloodmobile is here. . Physicians who will-be on hand to help with examinations will be Dr. G. K. Kohne, Dr. H. F. Zwick, Dr. J. C. Carroll, Dr. James Burk, Dr. Norval Rich and Dr. Richard Parrish. L Nurses and nurses aides will be Mrs. Joan Hawbegger, Mrs. Burdette Custer, Mrs. Joe Azbell, Mrs. Tom Lutes, Mrs. J. Dierkes, Mrs. Robert Hess, Miss Margaret Eiting and Mrs. Edna Myers. The group of staff aides will ini elude Miss Fan Hammell, Miss : Florence Haney. Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg. Mrs. W. E. Brant, Mrs. T. C. Smith, Mrs. Hersel Nash, Mrs. Arnold Ostermeyer and Mrs. Joe Hunter. The motor service wi|l be handled by Mrs. Dan Tyndall. Mrs. Robert Macklin and Mrs. Robert Railing. Junior Red Cross members who will assist with loading and unloading will be Wayne Brunner, Max Myers and Ty Ballard. Assisting in the canteen will be ' Mrs. R. C. Hersh, Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mrs. Charles Beineke, Mrs. Roscoe Glendening, Mrs. Bert Ha-' ley, Mrs. George Meyers and Mrs. Edgar Reinking. Cravens Is Logical Successor To Owen May Turn Down Job As ABC Chairman INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Dan Cravens, of Franklin, may face a hard decision soon, according to indications today. Cravens may have to determine whether he will accept a post as chairman of the Indiana alcoholic beverage commission or continue his campaign for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. Cravens, who is a member of the ABC, is the logical successor to H. DeWitt Owen, of Terre Haute, who resigned as chairman Thursday to resume his law practice at home. Cravens indicated that if he felt acceptance of the chairmanship would kill off his gubernatorial bid, that he would turn the job down. The ABC chairmanship generally is considered a political graveyard. The gubernatorial candidacy of Cravens has been fought by mem-, bers of the “palace guard”, legion(Continuea on Page Eight) To Petition Vote At Decatur G. E. John G. Ramsay, CIO community relations, of Washington. D. C.. was a Decatur visitor today. He Is enroute to Minnesota where- he will be a teacher in a summer boys’ camp for two weeks. The Decatur visitor said that he understood that a petition would be filed soon with the labor relations board asking that board to set a date for an election at the Decatur plant of the General Electric company to ascertain which union would have the right to represent employes. At present tjie UE is the controlling union in the Decatur plant. Ramsey said that IUE hrould . question the present group’s right of representation in an election, the date to be set soon. The Washington min said he would return to Decatur early In Aug.mjt tb ..confer with local people. -«•- ■■ ——

Calls Cabinet For Briefing On Ike Plan Most Congressional Leaders Approve Os Dramatic Proposal WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower's cabinet was calleH together today to be briefed on “complete blueprints” with Russia on U. and Soviet military his dramatic offer to exchange establishments. Most congressional leaders — some of whom were advised in advance that the President would make the surprise military inspection offer at Geneva — applauded the move but expressed doubt Russia will accept it. Top ranking Democrats led in praising Mr. Eisenhower for his bold step, and there was little doubt that this would be the tone of the reaction reported at today's cabinet meeting. The meeting was called by Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the Chief Executive’s absence. Acting secretary of state Herbert Hoover repent at the slon on latest developments at the Big Four conference. The senate's three highest ranking Republicans declined comment on the President's offer. They are minority leader William F. Knowland. Calif.; policy chairman Styles Bridges, N. Y., and conference chairman Eugene Mllikin, Colo. ....But Sen. Leverett SaJtonstall, Mass., GOP whip, called the offer a “further step toward ending the cold war,” adding: “I hope the Russians will see the light and accept It” Sen. John Sparkman (D Ala.), expressed doubt the Soviets will accept, but he said: “If they do, it will be a long step toward our ultimate objective of international inspection.”. House speaker Sam Rayburn (D Tex.), commented: "This is a great experiment if it will, or can, work.” House foreign affairs committee chairman James P. Richards (D S. C.), called the President’s idea “a bold arid daring plan to make the Russians put up or shut np ...” There were Indications that some Republicans on Capitol Hill feel Mr, Eisenhower’s offer went “too far.” But it was apparent that those who feel this way are determined to remain silent so they, will not embarrass the President during the Geneva talks. Democratic praise was led by senate foreign relations committee chairman Walter F. .George, Ga.), who said the offer provides an “acid test” of sincerity for the Big Four powers at Geneva. George stressed that the U. S. has “nothing to lose” by the move, since it “lives in a fishbowl” as (Continued «s Page Bight) 11,000 Homeless In Texas And Mexico Several Persons Missing In Flood EL PASO, Tex. (INS)—An estimated 11,000 persons were homeless today its the border towns of El Paso and Juraez, Mexico, where swirling flood waters caused at least one death and millions of dollars in property damage. Several persons were reported missing. . 1 The unidentified body of a woman was found in the flood’s wake in Juarez, which bore the brunt of the damage. Some 10.000 of the Mexican city’s residents were routed from their -homes and forced to find shelter in fire stations, jails and other municipal buildings. Even as the flood waters receded, authorities warned of a new danger, ...=t=. A possible epidemic from stagnant waters. . .

Military Reserve Compromise Bill House Will Take Up Measure On Monday WASHINGTON (INS) — Congress moved a step closer today to final approval of legislation designed to give the nation a combat ready military reserve of two million, 900 thousand men by 1960. House and senate conferees agreed Thursday on a compromise bill not quite as strong as President Eisenhower requested but which has “real possibilities for building up a ready reserve,” in the opinion of former senate armed services chairman Leverett Saltonstall (R-Mass.) The conference report will be taken up in the house Monday. If approved early enough in the day, the senate may send it to Mr. Eisenhower for his signature by nightfall. Under the legislation, men now in uniform would not be required to take part iu ready reserve training upon their discharge from active duty, as will those who enter service after the bill becomes law. — — However, present members of the- armed forces could 'reduce their active duty time or their over-all military obligation by volunteering -for the reserves when they get out. Governor Os Rotary Visits Local Club Official Visit Is Paid To Rotarians Fren Musselman, of Delphi, governor of district 224, Rotary International, made his official visit to the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the service club’s weekly dinner meeting at. the Youth and Community Center. The governor launched his official visit during the afternoon with a conference with M. J. Pryor, president; Robert Smith, secretary, and other officers and committee chairmen of the local club. Rotary clubs in 92 countries and geoprophical regions throughout the world are united in an eifteavor to promote international understanding, good will and peace. This was the message of the governor. In addition to the activities., of Rotary’s 8,700 clubs within their own communities to promote this objective, Musselman explained, Rotary International has spent more than $1,750,000 in recent years through its program of student fellowships, which enable outstanding college graduates to study for one year in countries other than tfreir own, as ambassadors of good will. Since 1947. when this program was established, 709 Rotary fellowships have been awarded to students in 57 countries. “With fellowship and service to others as its keynote. Rotary provides a common ground for 414,000 business and professional executives throughout the world, regardless of differing nationalities or political or religious beliefs,” the governor emphasized. “In addition to the promotion of international understanding,” Musselman continued, “special emphasis is being placed by Rotary clubs this year on activities of their own communities which will furnish leadership in youth programs, false standards in businesses and professions, promote traffic safety, develop good citizenship and build better rural-urban relationships.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, a few widely scattered thunderstorms north and west portions tonight. Saturday partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms turning cooler extreme north portion. Low tonight 70-75. High Saturday 8793.

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Spokesman For Soviet Voices Dissatisfaction Big Pour 'Summit' , Leaders Are Facing Apparent Deadlock BULLETIN GENEVA (INS) — The Big Four chiefs of state completed their sixth session at 6:30 p.m. (1:30 p.m. EDT) today after , meeting for more than one hour and a half. BULLETIN GENEVA (INS) — President Elsenhower called on the Russians today to permit other peoples to travel more freely in the Soviet Union and to make trade with Russia easier. GENEVA (INS)—The Big Four “summit” leaders faced an apparent deadlock today on all major cold war issues, including President Eisenhower's held offer to Russia for mutual serial inspection of military establishments. President Eisenhower took the chair at the sixth session of the Big Four leaders ip Qeneya to discuss the report of the foreign ministers who struggled In two long earlier meetings to mate. The Big Four meeting was postponed for an hour from the usual time of 4 p. m. (11 a. m. EDT). The foreign ministers met for three hours and 20 minutes in their tiht session and then resumed their talks at 3 p. m. * (10 a. m. EDT) prior to the fop meeting. A Russian spokesman, shortly before the top leaders met, expressed dissatisfaction with the Eisenhower plan, but said it would be studied, along with other proposals aimed toward eventual disarmament. The Soviet delegation arrived at the Palace of Nations shortly before the 5 p. m. (noon EDT) session. Defense minister Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov rode in the same closed car with Soviet premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin and Communist party secretary Nikita Khrushchev. Zhukov beamed as he stepped from the car. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman Os the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, and assistant defense secretary Robert Anderson attended the second session of the foreign ministers’ meeting. President Eisenhower, who ar, rived at the palace at 3:37 p. m. (10:37 a. m. EDT) spent the postponement interval working in his office at the building. A senior member Os the Soviet delegation said that the MoscdW government is not satisfied with the President’s proposal to exchange military blueprints. The Soviet spokesman said that the government did not doubt the sincerity of the President’s proposal but declared it by-passed the basic issue — prohibition of nuclear weapons. The delegate nevertheless said the proposal would bear examination along with the Soviet and 2 British proposals in the attempt to reach a solution. President Eisenhower offered to Russia mutual aerial inspection of military establishments in each country, as well* as exchange oT military blueprints. Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov responded to the dramatic Eisenhower plan only with some general remarqs on the subject of disarmament during a session that lasted .three hours and 20 minutes. With the conference drawing to a close the United States, Russia, Britain and France gave no indication they had budged from their basic psitlons. The conference ie expected to end by Saturday. President Eisenhower is scheduled to leave at 8 p. m. (3 p. m. EDT). Saturday 'and arrive in Washington Bunday. j (Continued on Page Three)