Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1955 — Page 1

Vol. UH. No. 178.

MAID OF THE MIST HI READY FOR ifwww. t = ''ww^ ,ti, y r : 4hA ' 1 ACCOMPANIED BY CEREMONY just like for a warship or ocean liner, the Maid of the Mipt 111 is launched at Niagara Falls. N. Y. She’s a replacement for the two which burned in April. This one is an all-metal craft for taking tourists and honeymooners to the foot of the falls.

Scientists To Launch Plans Os Satellites American Genius Is Committed To Early Launching In Space WASHINGTON (INS) — American scientific genius is committed today to the early launching of awesome "flying basketballs” which will race around the earth in outer space as probable forerunners of rockets to the moon. Men of the same giant breed as those who split the atom and created a new age are embarked with President Eisenhower’s blessing upon bold preparations to hurl "small, unmanned, earth circling satellites” 250 miles into the sky within two years. World savants and the common man alike reacted with a strange mix tare of excitement and trepidation to Friday's electrifying Whie House announcement of the satellite project. In some men, a haunting fear of the unknown was stirred by the word that man has at last moved close to fulfillment of the centuries old dream of space conquest. Scientists of international renown were virtually unanimous in asserting that the satellite program is the vital first step to interplanetary travel, perhaps on a scale paling the most fantastic fiction. The man made “moonlets” announced at the White House will be launched from bases in the U.S., sometime in 1957. Roughly the size of basketballs, they will be rocket borne to the orbiting area where they will begin their 18,000 mile an hour circuit of the globe. The government’s two chief scientific advisory groups, the national academy of sciences and the national science foundation, are joint sponsors of the 10 million dollar project. German V-2 rocket experts, now developing *U. S. intercontinental guided missiles, jubilantly acclaimed , the satellite experiment as “just the first step to the moon." Physicists, astronomers, and other wizards of science agreed that the orbiting "basketballs” will show the wwy to achievement of a huge satdllfe in a permanent orbit. Such a satellite not only would be a necessary way station for journeys to the moon and other planets, but would give the nation possessing it world domination. The pioneer space vehicles are expected to disintegrate within a period of days after they begin their whirling series of 90 minute circuits of the world but their existence will be long enough to open the path to outer space for more ambitious devices. The immediate purpose of the whirling spheres, 19 and one-half inches in diameter, weighing 110 pounds, and embalzoned by the sun's light, will be to unfathom violet rays and other extra terrestrial secrets. Quick benefits would come in knowledge of what causes radio static,' better methods of predicting the weather and similar mundane matters — always underscored by the knowledge that earth men are nearing the interplane'tary age. Some scientists predict space travel by 1980. (Continued on Page Six) NOON EDITION

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Aluminum Co. And Unions Sign Pad Agreement Reached Over Pay Increase PITTSBURGH (INS) — Aluminum Co. of America has reached agreement on pay raises of about 15 cents an hour with the two big unions which represent some 25,000 of its employes. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers, was to sign his union's pact today while seven locals begin needed ratification of the agreement for the AFL Aluminum Workers Union. The CIO Steelworkers represent some 15,000 employes and the AFL Aluminum Workers about 10,000 more workers in ALCOA plants in 13 states. The Alcoa pacts with both unions were reached witb-only slightly more than 48 hours remaining for bargaining. Both groups cooperating in the negotiation* for the first time in history—- — have been free to strike at midnight Sunday. Z Raises actually will begin at about 11% cents an hour for some workers, but will range up to 20 cents for others. In addition to their hourly wage boosts, the USW workers will each get some 360 In a lump sum. This payment is based on a wage study agreement reached Friday night and providing three cents an hour Gertrude Parsons . - 1 . '•«>. Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Gertrude Parsons, 65, a former Tocsin resident, died Friday in a hospital at Kankakee, 111., following a long illness. She had been in ill health for the past five year A She was the daughter of Richard and Sidney Ashcroft Cochran. Surviving are two sons, Charles Wolfe bf Linn Grove and Robert Wolfe of Toledo, O.; two brothers, Hubert Cochran of Decatur and Clarence Cochron Os Huntington: a half-sister, Miss Oma Hall of Tocsin and three grandchildren. Funeral services .will be conducted at 2 p. m.'Sunday at the Elzey &~Son funeral home at Ossian, the Rev. Homer Studebaker officiating. Burial will be in the Tocsin cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. Three Trainmen Are Injured In Wreck INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Three Indianapolis trainmen were reported in fair condition today after beings injured Friday night when a switch engine struck a string of cars in the Hawthorne yards of the PennsylvanitfArailroad in Indianapolis. Those hurt were Raymond L. Feezle, 55, the engineer; Harry F. Fleehearty, 33, the fireman, and Claude E. Newhouse, 41, the brakeman. Shortage Os Copper May Cause Layoffs Indianapolis hns) — officials of the Bridgeport Brass company said today that 1,200 Indianapolis workers may be laid off because of mine and: smelter strikes that have resulted in a terrific shortage of copper.

Congress Meets Today In Drive To Adjournment Unusual Saturday Sessions Are Held Today By Congress WASHINGTON (INS) —The senate and house hold unusual Saturday sessions today in a home stretch drive to adjourn. Majority leader John McCprmack (D-Mass.) announced that the house will meet Monday to consider a “heavy” schedule of legislative work. But otner entertains did not rule out the possibility that both the -house and senate, in a last minute rush to home, may clean their slates and quit tonight. Acting senate majority leader Earle C. Clements (D-Ky.) said Friday that "our goal . . is still Saturday”—The target date for adjourning the first session of the 84th congress. The house convenes at 10:30 a. m. (EDT) and the senate a half hour later. The senate met until 11:50 p. m. (EDT) Friday night in an effort to whittle its backlog of legislative business. Although routine bills dominate the agenda of both chambers, the house and senate must still act on a conference agreement on the President’s housing program. The conferees meet this morning amid indications that a noncontrovjw'sial report' may be sent to the house and senate for action today. Nominations and a house passed bill to increase the salaries of some legislative employes top the senate docket. The house is scheduled to act on a measure to provide 60 million dollars for free Salk polio vaccine for needy children. The lower chamber must also consider measures approved by the senate last night. These include: A conference report raising the national legal minimum wage from 75 cents to 31 an hour, effective next March 1. A bill allowing the Commodity Credit Corp, to increase its borrowing authority from 10 billion to 12 billion dollars. A measure to permit sale of excess CCC cotton stocks for unrestricted use at urrent market prices in the 1955-56 marketing year. j A bill to give up federal ownership of Oak Ridge. Tenn., and Richland, Wash., sites of atomic installations, and allow residents to set up self governments. The senate Democratic policy committee removed a formidable obstacle to adjournment when it decided to shelve the house passed bill exempting natural gas producers from direct control of the federal power commission. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer tonight Sunday mostly fair, hot and humid. Low tonight 70-75. High Sunday 95-98. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS)--The government today ordored a -two percent increase in minimum down payments required for purcha|e of homes with loans Insured by the federal housing administration. At the same time, It reduced the maximum maturity period for FHA-insured home mortgages from 30 years to 25 years. ;

Decatur. Indiana. Saturday. July 30. 1955.

Red China Proposes A Pacific Security Pact, Invites This Nation

Chinese Reds Propose Talk By Ike, Mao Hints Red China To Propose Meeting Os Nations' Leaders BERLIN (INS) —Red* Chinese sources in East Berlin indicated today Red China will propose President Eisenhower meet Mao Tse Tung before the end of this year. The sources hinted the proposal will be made at next week’s talks in Geneva between U. S. and Red Chinese representatives on the problem of Americans still held by Communist China. According to the informants, the meeting of President Eisenhower and Red China’s premier would be proposed for sometime this year somewhere in the Pacific “in order to improve the atmosphere.” The sources said Wang Ping Nan, who will represent Red China at the Geneva talks starting Monday, intends to 'ask that secretary of state John Fostef Dulles and Chinese Communist premier Chou En Lai hold an immediate conference on all outstanding issues. The locale for such a meeting would be the Pacific area. Wang also, the informants said may propose the holding of a Far Eastern conference to consider ways of relaxing tension in the Orient and to discuss a Far Eastern security pact. The Communist informants explained that the Peiping leaders would like a meeting with President Eisenhower because they regard him as the only American with w’hom they can settle differences. The Peiping chieftains reportedly consider Dulles too difficult to negotiate with. The sources said the Chinese Communists wil lattem.pt at Geneva to secure U. S. agreement on sending an official or unofficial delegation to Red China to finish negotiations on the release of Americans still detained. At the same time a Chinese Communist mission would go to the U. S. to determine how many Chinese students there want to return to the Chinese mainland. The sources said the Reds at Geneva will express willingness to avoid friction in the Formosa area and to follow peaceful ways of settling the Formosan issue. However they would not abandon their cl&im to the island. The Communists also would demand that the Nationalist evacuate immediately the coastal islands of Matsu and Quemoy and their transfer to Peiping’s control.

Mankind On Threshold Os Fliaht Into Space

By International News Service Mankind stood today on the threshold of flight to outer space and other planets. Scientists everywhere hailed a U. S. plan to send tiny, man made satellites shooting 18,000 miles an hour, circling 200 to 300 miles above the earth, once around every 90 minutes. They said the White House announcement of plans for a 1957 or 1958 launching of such instrument packed “flying basketballs’’ had put mankind on the door&tep of a new frontier —flight in vacuous space. Prof. ’M. Nicolet, executive secretary of the international committee of geophysicists, termed the U. S. decision “a milestone in the history of human science.” Nicolet, who is in Brussels, predicted that more and bigger earth satellites would be launched in the future. Leo Hansen, vice president of the Danish interplanetary society, was quoted by the London News Chronicle as saying the U. S. announcement “staggered us all. We had thought it would take at least

New Persecutions In I Soviet Satellites To Counteract U. S. Demand For Action UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) ’-'-Soviet satellite states were reported today staging new trials and terror campaigns to counteract U. S. demands for action on the captive areas. The Free Europe committee reported today on “show trials” and “confessions” by so-called “western agents." The incidents have taken the spotlight in recent weeks in Poland. Hungary, Czecholsovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. The committee, constituting the anti-Communlst organizations of Radio Free Europe and Free Europe Press, said the new persecutions apparently were ordered by the Kremlin in opposition to demands in the U.S. for action on the satellite countries. It was recalled that Soviet Premier Nikolai A; Bulganin sharply rejected all efforts In Geneva by President Eisenhower to raise this key question of captive nations. A Free Europe Committee survey in recent weeks disclosed that almost two dozen people have been sentenced to death behind the Iron Curtain on charges of having been western "spies and agents.” One of the most brutal of the cases reported concerned fifteen relatives of Lajos Hajdu Nemeth, a former vice president of the Hungarian Peasant Union. His wife and children escaped from Hungary last year under a hail of bullets from the border police. His aged father, sister, broth-er-in - law, two nieces and one nephew together with his wife’s relatives were suddenly loaded Into police cars and locked into railroad cars going East. They have not been heard from since. Funeral Rites Monday For Edward B. Raub INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Funeral services will be held in Indianapolis Monday afternoon for Edward B. Raub. 84, board chairman of the Indianapolis Life Insurance company and civic leader who died Friday. Raub, who was born at South Raub, 10 miles south of Lafayette, studied at Valparaiso University and was graduated in 1894 from DePauw University with the doctor of philosophy degree. He was graduated from the Indianapolis law school the next year and began the practice of law in Indianapolis.

five years and cost up to 356 million.” The American project is expected to cost 310 million. There was speculation that the satellite might be built cigar shaped like a rocket rather than round. Prof. S. F. Singer of the Universityof Maryland said in Copenhagen that the size and weight of the proposed 110 pound special object is ideal for present demands. Singer, a strong advocate of space satellite projects, was quoted by the London Daily Telegraph as saying: “What we want is to get something, anything at all, up into space at a height of some hundreds of miles so we can see how it behaves.” » Two American scientists, Dr. Alan H. Shapley and Dr. A. F. Spilhaus, said the satellite project will provide knowledge needed before man can venture Into space. They said the launching of an instrumented satellite will enable mankind to view the universe from above the masking layers of the atmosphere.

| GOP Senators Seek Ouster Os Air Secretary Assert Talbott Is Political Liability, Must Leave Service WASHINGTON (INS) — Air force secretary Harold E. Talbott’s denial that he would quit has spurred a backstage Republican drive for his ouster. Several GOP senators, asking anonymity; predicted Talbott’s resignation would be announced Friday night But Talbott told a newsman there was “no validity” to the reports, and a White House spokesman declared: “We have nothing before us.” Other GOP senators, who also refused to be identified, said they bad not heard that his resignation was imminent but they expected it soon, possibly next week. Amid these developments, a growing number of Republican senators, many of them facing re-elec-tion next year, insist, privately that Talbott has become a political liability and that he must go. _ They say they fear the senate investigation into Talbott’s private business affair* will produce political repercussions in their own campaigns. According to some reports, Talbott has made up his mind not to leave unless President Eisenhower forces him to. The Chief Executive, in Gettysburg for the weekend, has staged that he will decide Talbott’s case on the basis of “the ethics involved.” He has been given a transcript of the senate investigations subcommittee’s four days of hearings, which ended last Wednesday. The secretary has admitted he was “mistaken” when he made telephone calls and wrote letters from his Pentagon office on behalf of Paul B. Mulligan and Co., of New York, a clerical efficiency firm he half owns. He has resigned his partnership in the company; effective Sunday, but Democrats have fired pew blasts at him over his method of disposing of stock prior to taking office. Friday night Sen. Wayne Morse (D Ore.), produced testimony in which a house subcommittee was told in 1952 that Talbott, a GOP finance committeeman, accepted 320,000 as a campaign executive. Morse, who has been demanding for days that Talbott quit or be fired, maintained this was proof of Talbott’s “insensitivity” in money matters. Republicans have been more sympathetic than critical toward the secretary but in off the rec(UonunuM on Face Six) Gas Distribution Checks Received r •- ■ County, City Share Below Previous Year County auditor Frank Kitson stated today that he has received a check for 350,176.21, which is the county’s share in this quarter's gasoline tax distribution. A check for 37,667.74 was received by the city clerk-treasurer, Vernon Aurand. The county share Is 33,721.07 less than the amount of the 1954 corresponding quarter. The amount received by the city for the same quarter last year was 38,218.72. Aurand stated that an estimated 334,111.58 will be received this year by the city of Decatur from gasoline tax. This Is lees than the 334,904.08 total of last year. A total of 335,734.05 is anticipated for 1956. The distributions are made out of the state auditor’s office to city and county units every three months.

Russia Has Plans To Build Satellite Early U. S. Plans Surprise Russians LONDON (INS) — A top Russian scientist said today Soviet experts have plans to build and launch ,an artificial Satellite into space and he thought they were “at the same stage’’ of preparation as the United States, A. G. Karpenko, scientific secretary of the commission for interplanetary communication in the Soviet academy of sciences, said it was "news” to the Russians, however, that the Americana planned to build their satellite "so soon.” He said in Moscow that Soviet experts were “in principle” ready to cooperate with Americans on the lines opened up by President Eisenhower's announcement Friday on the plan to launch an object in 1957 or 1958.' Soviet newspapers up to late today had not yet published the sensational American announcement of shooting an unmanned, basketball - sized satellite 200 to 300 miles above the earth. Last April the Russians established a committee of eminent scientists for inter - planetary communications. The announced plan was ”to coordinate and guide nil work on a solution of the problem of masterlug cosmic space.'” ’ "7 ' ’’ l Three Are Injured In Wrecks Last Night Dixon, Ohio Youth Seriously Injured Paul Busse, 24, of route two, and Paul Johnson of Bluffton, route four, were injured at 10 p. m. Friday when Johnson rammed into the rear end of the car driven by Busse on U. S. highway 224 four miles west of Decatur. Busse sustained a sprained ankle, deep lacerations on his head and bruises on his body. He was treated at the Adams county memorial hospital. His wife, Leona, 10, a passenger in the car, was treated for minor cuts. Still a patient in the hospital is Johnson, who is suffering with a knee cap and head and body lacerations. His condition is reported fair? The accident occurred wheni Bussee slowed to a left turn off the highway. Johnson was following him and could not stop his car. Ttotal damage was 3750 to the two vehicles. The Adams county sheriff's department and state police investigated. Seriously Injured Harold Waltmire, 212, Dixon. 0., is in serious condition at the Adams county memorial hospital as the result of injuries sustained in an accident at Monroeville at 1:15 a. m. today. He sustained lacerations on the face and body, bruises on the body and’ shock when his car went out of control at a curve on state road 101 in Monroeville. He was unable to tell about the accident but investigating officers stated that he apparently lost control at the curve, skidding 134 feet. His car, which was totally demolished, cut off a light pole and knocked down the sign at the Sinclair station which is on the curve. Investigating officers were R. W. hoelle of the Allen county sheriff’s department and Orts Cagnet of the Monroeville police department. Hoosiers May Gain Heat Relief Monday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Relief from the terrific heat wave may come to Hoosiers Monday. The Indianapolis weather bureau predicted today that rains Sunday will precede a cool wave Monday. However, hot and humid weather prevailed today and will continue through most of Sunday, according to the forecast,

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Also Forecast Freedom For U. S. Civilians Red Premier Also Seeks Liberation Os Formosa Isle BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS)—The state department today refused Immediate comment on Red China's call for direct talks with local island authorities about the “peaceful liberation'' of Formosa. HONG KONG (INS)—Red China proposed today a Pacific “collective security pact” to jnclude the United States, and forecast re> lease of American "civilians” detained in China. Chinese Communist pretnier Chou Ku Lai also proposed direct talks with Chinese “local authorities” for the "peaceful liberation” of the Nationalist-held island of Formosa. He saia the coming AmericanChinese Communist talks at Geneva next Monday are on the ambassadors’ level but Peipingwould try to make them “pave the way for further negotiations between China and the Untied States.” Chou foresaw no difficulties tn settling at Geneva talks next week the problem of American civilian* detained in Red China. He said tne "number of American civilians is small and this question should be easily settled. Chou spoke in a foreign policy address before the Red Chinese peoples’ national congress in Petping. His speech was reported by the Communist New China News Agency. The Red premier also made these points in the speech reported by the Communist New China News Agency. 1. The Big Four “summit* conference at Geneva produced “positive achievements.’* Russia showed “a sincere and candid attitude” while the Western powers demonstrated their “willingness to cooperate.” 2. The U. S. should abandon its extremely unjust embargo” against Communist China and agree to evacuate its armed forces from the Formosa area. 3. He demanded the “removal of barriers to free communications and peaceful trade among nations.” He said Red China welcomes peaceful competition with other nations with different social systems. 4. He demanded abolition of all foreign military bases and military blocs and urged "an end to the cold war and the elimination of the threat of a new war.” 5. He endorsed Russia’s disarmament proposals of May 10. He aid if Russia’s proposed world conference on disarmament and prohibition of nuclear weapons is successfully convened, “China will be ready at that conference to undertake its obligations along with the other countries.” 6. However, he urged Red China to strengthen its defenses, saying “we can not but take into account the possibility of being attacked suddenly.” 7. Chou said that relations between Red China and Japan should be normalized and trade developed. He Mid Peiping had made many approaches to Tokyo but the the Japanese response ‘was pot favorable, . .. $2 Million Budget Approved By Valpo VALPARAISO, Ind. (INS). /— A 32-millioa budget, largest in the school’s history, has been approved by the Valparaiso University board of trustees for the 1965-66 school term. The board adopted the budget and said it expects no deficit on the basis on an anticipated enroUmedt for the entire year, including summer school, of 2,004 students.