Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 180, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1955 — Page 1

Vol. Lili. No. 180.

REDS AND U. S. OPENUENEVA TALKS _____ JI W |W RED CHINA'S Ambassador to Poland. Wang Ping-nan (arrow leftt and I nited Stales Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. U. Alexis Johnson (arrow-right), confer at the Geneva meeting between the two nations. Johnson opened the conference with the American demand for release of 41 civilians and 11 airmen held captive by the Peiping government. Just prior to the opening talks. Red China announced her intentions of releasing the airmen, starting the talks on a note of optimism. Wgth Ping-nan and Johnson are other ambassadors from the two countries.

Raybum Says Congress May Quit Tonight Speaker Indicates Congress Session To Quit Tonight BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — The house ignored the objections of President Eisenhower today and sent him a housing bill providing for the construction of 45,000 public housing wMi. — ——- The compromise housing legislation worked out by, housesenate confsfsa*was . passed by a vote of 187 to 168. The senate adopted the compromise Monday night. WASHINGTON (INS) — House speaker Sam Rayburn (D Texas), indicated today he expects* the first session of the 84th congress to adjourn tonight. Rayburn told newsmen that acting senate majority leader Earle C. Clements (D Ky.), will introduce an adjournment resolution today and that after the senate adopts it, "we’ll see what we can. do here.” I Rayburn predicted the house •will approve the housing compromise worked out by house-senate conferees and approved by the senate Monday. It provides for federal financial aid for the construction of 45,000 public housing units in a year. The speaker declined to comment on President Eisenhower's threat to recall congress in special session unless it passes a satisfactory housing bill before quitting. Rayburn said he does not know whether congress will complete action on controversial sugar quota 1 legislation. He told newsmen that it depends on how swiftly the senate takes up the house approved measure. He indicated congress will not-delay adjournment because of it. Housing, sugar and defense production measures are the chief stumbling blocks to sine die ad-, journment. Sharp disputes ‘over these issues may keep the first session of the 84th congress from packing up tonight as hoped. House and senate were called into early meetings this morning with a view toward clearing the calendar and going home. The house worked until 6:12 p.m. (EDT) Monday night and the senate until 11:30 p.m. Mr. Eisenhower met with Re publican legislative leaders at the White House before congress began its work today. (Continued on Page Six) BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — The air force announced today that the 11 American flyers to be released by Communist China will be flown directly from Hong Kong to the Philippine Islands for medical and administrative processing before being returned to the U.S. Immediately after the airmen have been processed at Clark air force base in the Philippines, it is planned to fly them directly to the west coast where arrangements will be made to reunite them with members of their immediate families.

Decatur Dollar Day, Wednesday 9 A. M. to 9 P.M.

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Six Counties Finish Second Inoculations Will Meet Friday To Set Yardstick INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—At least six Indiana counties have completed their two shot inoculations of first and second grade school children with Salk anti-polio vaccine. Dr. Wendell Anderson, director of the Indiana state board of health’s division of chronic diseases, said today that six counties have signified to the state board they have fulfilled the National Foundation tot Infantile Paralysis program. He said there- may be others of the 3| counties which have indicated they are working toward program completion boob who already have completed the main portion of the NFIP program but have not yet notified the board of health. He added that "makeup" shots—shots for children who were unable 1 to be present at the time the sec- ' ond round clinics were held, also remain in nearly all of the coun--1 ties who have completed second shots for the bulk of their first and second graders. The six who have the word “completed” noted after their names as far as state board of health records are concerned are: Carroll, Blackford? Fulton, Pulaski. Ohio, and Starke. In the meantime, the governor’s polio vaccine advisory committee 1 announced plans to meet Friday to establish some sort of yardstick for commercial distribution. The first amount to be released since the NFIP requirements for the state were ascertained, amounts only to 18,000 shots. Dr. Bertram Groesbeck, Jr., Indiana health director, who is chairman of the advisory committee, said i the amount is so small he would suggest to the committee that it (Contlnuea on Page Six)

City School Board J Reorganized Monday Everett Hutker Is Elected President Everett Hutker was elected president of the Decatur city school board at the annual reorganization meeting of the board, held Monday night at the Decatur high school. Other members -are George Helm, secretary, and Harry Irwin, treasurer. During the preceding year. Irwin was president, Hutker was secretary and Helm served as treasurer. W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the public schools, also announced today that George Stallings has resigned as a teacher in the junior high school. Stallings had previously taught in high school and preferred to return to that field, and will teach in the Hartford township high school this year, Stallings was instructor in science, mathematics and health, and also coached the junior high school basketball team. Brown stated that this is tbe only vacancy in the teaching staff of the local schools. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair, hot and humid with chance of thundershower* during the afternoon or evening today and Wednesday.. Low tonight 72-74. High Wednesday 94-97. ,

Demands Reds Release Those Held In China Red Sources Claim Peiping Plans For An Early Release GENEVA (INS) — The United States today demanded the immediate release of 40 American civilians held by Red China. Communist sources said Peiping plans to release them “very soon.” Information obtained from Communist diplomatic informants in East Berlin and relayed to Geneva said that the Chines* government already has ordered the -40 civilians put in one camp near Peiping to await release and repatriation. The Chinese anonunced Monday they have released 11 captive American airmen who were down oyer Korea in January, 1953,. and who last November were -sentenced to prison terms on “spy" charges. The United States demanded immediate release of the 40 civilians today during the second session Os the "Little Geneva” ambassadorial talks. The next meeting will be Thursday. The informants said that the Chinese Communists want to get rid of this issue as quickly as possible and discuss “bigger issues.” They said Peiping intends to ask the United States to make a bilateral agreement pledging no use of violence to solve any international questions. The informants reported that the Chinese negotiator at Geneva, Wang Ping Nan was ready to give conditional assurances that the Chinese Reds would not resort to force to “liberate” Formosa. The conditions are: That the United States agree to get the Chinese Nationalists to evacuate the offshort islands of Quemoy and Matsu: and get the Nationalists to recognize Peiping’s claim to Formosa island. The sources stressed that the Chinese Communists will refuse to agree to any plan to “internatlonalize” Formosa. They concluded that Wang had been instructed to press hard for a meeting between U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles and Chinese Communist premier Chou En Lai in September "to settle all outstanding issues” between the two nations. Today's Geneva meeting lasted an hour. A Communist delegation spokesman said the only subject discussed was the detained Americans and the Chinese students whom Peiping claims are being held in the United States. The Chinese said the next session of the conference, which openen Monday with the dramatic announcement that China was freeing 11 captive American airmen, would be held Thursday morning. He said there would be no Wednesday conference. • The delay in the conference, according to. sources close to the Communist delegation, was at the request of Chinese ambassador Wang Ping Nan who needed time to consult Peiping. Other sources indicated the Chiness had proposed that the U. S. send a delegation to Red China to settle final details concerning the release of the 40 Americans while allowing the Communists to send a mission to the United States to determine how many Chinese stu(uonnnueu on rage Six)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 2, 1955.

Adams County Man Is Electrocuted Today At Monroe Fair Grounds

Ike Declares No Deal Made To Free Flyers Colleagues Score Bitter Attack By Senator McCarthy WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower said today the administration made no "deal” with Communist China to obtain the release of 11 American flyers. He gave the assurance to Republican legislative leaders, including senate GOP leader William F. Knowland, Calif. Knowland told newsmen Mr. Eisenhower thus endorsed his own statement on the senate floor Monday, made in reply to a bitter attack on administration foreign policy by Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R Wis.) McCarthy said in a speech that “we may be sure” the Chinese Reds demanded the Nationalist held offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu at the recent Big Four conference in Geneva. Knowland, quoting the Ptesldent, said: “He said there had been no deal, no trade made for the prisoners of war. “He endorsed my statement that we entered no deal at Geneva to sell out our Chinese Nationalist and Vietnamese friends.” McCarthy charged Monday on the senate floor that Mr. Eisenhower “betrayed" America’s trust at the Big Four “summit” meeting in Geneva, -j, Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.), who vigorously opposed the move to censure McCarthy late last year, declared the Wisconsin senator’s latest remarks were "not wise nor were they timely.” Kimwland. and McCarthy’s three Repunlican colleagues on the senate investigations subcommittee, also took the floor to criticize his remarks. Sen. George Bender (R Ihio), of the subcommittee, called on his Wisconsin colleague to “mend his ways and join us in the fight against communism.” McCarthy, in his severest attack on the Chief Executive to date, declared Mr. Eisenhower said he was going to the Geneva parley partly to be enlightened about the Soviet attitude. He then said: “The conference not only failed to enlighten him but ce(CoßT:nuea on Page Six) Approve Increase In Judge’s Salary * County Board Votes $1,200 Yearly Pay The county commissioners Monday afternoon approved a countypaid salary of $1,200 per year for the Adams county judge. This amount is to be added to the judge’s state-paid salary of $7,200. The petition requesting the salary increase for Judge Myles Parrish asked for a $3,300 raise. The amount* approved by the commissioners is effective Monday. No county council approval is necessary for the increase. Until now, the county has hot paid any part of the judge’s salary. In other action yesterday the commissioners authorized county surveyor Herman Moellering to repair ditches on the Floyd Stoneburner farm in Kirkland township and the Herman Heuer farm in Washington township. They also engaged Harold Youse and Alfred Hirschy to clean ditches for the county highway department. . The commissioners are meeting again today to review the budget requests which will be submitted to the tounty council and to prepare their own budgets.

Three Budgets Are Filed With Auditor Increases Sought By Clerk, Sheriff A budget request of $12,004 was filed Monday afternoon with the county auditor by county clerk Ed Jaberg. The request, which will be submitted to the county council in September, is a $£,304 increase over last year’s appropriation. The increase is caused by sta- ■ tutory salary raises. A total of i $8,496 is asked for salaries of the S clerk and two deputies and for other compensations. Jaberg’s budget also includes • $383, operating expenses; S2OO, repairs; $1,476, office supplies; sl,400, current charges, and >SO, furn- . iture. i Jaberg has also filed budgets for • the registration of voters and for the county election board. These budgets are more than double last ■ year’s appropriations since 1956 will feature county-wide elections. t The $2,056 request for registra- > tiou of voters includes $996.60 for t senrices personal; S6O for fees Tor f clerk; $250 for fees for deputies; r Liso for arranging card? and typing and S4OO for printing and kdvertis- / lag- ) Included in the $14,827.50 request i- for the election board is $8,795 for services personal, $3,400 for printt ing and advertising. SIOO for oper--3 ating expenses, $1,682.50 for oft ifice supplies, $750 for current charges and SIOO for properties. i Sheriff* Budget , A request for a second deputy is t the main cause of the increase in • the budget to be submitted by sheriff Merle Affolder. His total re- , quest is $17,426.50 for 1956. This » year’s' appropriation for the office t of sheriff was $11,393. Another cause for the increase is L the statutory raise in the salaries for the sheriff and the first deputy. ! The total request for salaries in- ■ eluding that of the second deputy . is $12,085. i Other items in the budget are operating expenses, $1,950; repairs, , $475; meals for prisoners. $1000; i Office supplies, $100; other exi penses, $250, and $1,545.50 for new . equipment including a car radio for the second deputy, a camera, • office furniture, a walkie-talkie • set and a fingerprint set. (Continued on Page Six) $5,500 Estimate On City Plant Damage Finds Fire Caused By Defective Tube Lester Pettibone, superintendent of the city light and power department, stated today that $5,500 is a rough estimate of the damage caused by the fire at the Third street power plant Thursday morning. The damage wgs to wiring, motors, a force draft fan and other items. The boiler itself was not damaged except for the tube which burst and caused the fire. Pettibone said that J. Wagstaff of Indianapolis, boiler inspector for the Maryland Casualty Insurance company, has thoroughly inspected the boiler and found no evidence of negligence. The inspection established the fact that the fire was caused entirely by a defective tube which could not be seen. It was pointed out that the incident could have happened with a new boiler and tube. - * The boiler had been inspected in June and was found at that time to be in first class condition. Last week was the first time it had been fired up since the Inspection. Pettibone said that insurance would probably cover the entire amount of the damage in addition to medical bills for the treatment of Mickey Ladd. 23-year-old city employe who yas severely burned when the tube'burst.

Dulles Urges Reds Renounce Use Os Force Calls On Red China To Renounce Use Os Force In Government WASHINGTON (INS) Secretary of state John Foster Dulles called on Communist China today to renounce the use of force and learn to live with the idea of having the Nationalist government on Formosa. Dulles also told a news conference that the U.S. will not drop any of its mutual security commitments in southeast Asia as the price for peace with the Reds in the Far East. He warned that if Peiping continues to use force to satisfy its ambitions, there will surely be war, the limits of which cannot be predicted. Dulles said he can see no likelihood of any legalized solution of , the Formosa problem in the im--1 mediate future, but he said the Chinese Reds could clear the way , for a solution by renouncing the ’ use of force. ' The cabinet officer also told reporters it is too early to say whether Peiping will follow the same new .policies as Russia has in or|der to ease world tensions. But he said the U.S. and the free world would welcome any evidence ’ pf such a change by the Chinese 1 and that there have been some encouraging signs, such as Monday’s release of the 11 American ’ airmen. Dulles added that the release of some 40 U.S. civilians still being ’ held in China would be another ' encouraging step. But he warned that in the past, ' the Chinese Communists have seemed more addicted to force than Russia. Dulles said that the U. S. and the free world welcome Russia's new attitude of counciliation but that it is not completely clear that any great conversion has taken place among the Kremlin’s leaders. He said that if Red China follows the same course, that would also be welcome but it would not necessarily follow that the U.S. would believe the Sled Chinese have permanently changed their spots. Dulles declined to lay down any specific formula for high-Jpvel talks between the U.S. and Red China on settlement of Far East(Continued on Page Six) Heart Attack Fatal. To Decatur Woman Mrs. Letta Annen Dies This Morning Letta Annen, widow of Lee Annen, and a lifelong resident of Decatur, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at 8:30 o’clock this morning at her home, 1122 West Monroe street. Mrs. Annen was mowing her lawn when she suffered the fatal seizure. b She was born in Decatur, a daughter of Titus and Hattie Sew-ell-Ernest. Her husband died July i, 1946. Mrs. Annen was a member of the First Methodist church. ‘Only survivor is a sister, Mrs. Mary Doehrman of Fort Wayne. Three brothers and four sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 o’clock Thursday morning at the Zwlck funeral home, the Rev. Virgil W, Sexton officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon.

U. S. Opposed To Seating Red China Building Position Against Campaign ♦ UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The United States is quietly but intensively at work today to build a strong position against an anticipated drive 1n next September's UN assembly for seating Communist China. Authoritative indications were that U. S. opposition, to the Peiping government either “shooting or smiling" its way into the global organization this year will standregardless of Soviet, neutralist or allied pressure to the contrary. U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge emphasized repeatedly in past months that release of jailed U. S. fliers would not absolve the Chinese Communists from their violation of the Korean armistice. All captives were to be freed in 1953 under the war prisoner repatriation agreement signed at Panmunjom. The UN assembly last December overwhelmingly condemned the violation and in- ; structed Hammerskjoitl to engage ‘ in “continuing and unremitting et- , forts” to free dll UN captives of , the Korean war. ( In preparing to resist tty-drive to seat the Chinese Reds, the U.S. . also had on tap the 1951 condem- , nation of Red China as an ag- , gressor, and the assembly’s de- . nUßCiatton of atrocities committed by the Communist? -in Korea ( against UN prisoners, > The U. S. position continued to , be that Red China is not “fit” to . sit in UN and will not be accep- . table until it solemnly pledges [ and demonstrates by deeds Its intention to comply with UN charI ter principles. Bodies Os 58 Are Put Aboard Train • TEL AVIV (INS) —The bodies of the 58 persons, killed when Communist Bulgarian anti-aircraft gunners shot down an Israeli .passenger plane, were put aboard a train in Sofia today en route to Istanbul in Turkey. The dead included 112 Americans. An Israeli communique said the bodies of the 51 passengers and seten crewmen will be flown from Istanbul to Jerusalem in a civilian and two military planes. County’s Plowing Contest August 9 County Farm Chosen As Site Os Contest The Adams county plowing match will be held at the county farm on Tuesday, August 9. Fourteen contestants have submitted entries, and nearly every make of farm tractors and plows will be in use at the contest. The county farm is located two miles southeast of Decatur. Ail contestants must be at the field by 10 a. m. for practice plowing. instructions, and safety inspections. The contest proper will start about noon. Each contestant must plow one-half acre of land. A plow will be allowed 66 minutes to finish the plot, and a three-bottom plow 44 minutes. Contestants will be judged on the quality of opening and closing furrows: on furrow straightness, conformation, and uniformity; on quality of tillage surface and land ends; and on trash coverage. Lester Hill, extension agricultural engineer from Purdue, will head the board of judges. The winner of this contest will receive a trophy and will be eligible to enter the area level land plowing match in LaGrange county August 23. From there the first and second place winners will go to the state contest at (Oontaawea on rage eix)

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Marion McKean Is Killed Al Monroe Today Aiding In Readying Grounds At Monroe For 4-H Club Fair Marion McKean, 42, of a half mile west of Coppeas Corners, was electrocuted at about 1:15 p. m. as he was working at the 4-H fair grounds at Monroe, marking the opening day of the fair with trftgody. McKean was killed instantly when he touched a high voltage wire, sending 7500 volts through his body. He was assisting with electrical connections at the fair. The body remained on the pole for 15 or 20 minutes before it could be brought down. Decatur firemen were called but by the time they arrived two doctors had examined the man and pronounced him dead. The physicians were > Dr. John Carroll and Dr. Janies • Burk. t Hundreds of Adams county children and adults who were on th®; ■ fait grounds saw the incident. . whieh occurred on a transformer - pole. The victim was a farmer, plumb.er and electrician. Until two I years ago he was employed at the i Schafer company in Decatur. He was married to the former Anna > Baumgartner, who survives. They , have five children. Also surviving . are two brothers. Calvin and Ross 1 McKean. The body was taken to the . Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Annual4-H Fair Opens Al Monroe Today Three-Day Fair Is Underway, Parade Features Tonight The annual Adams county 4-H fair opened today at the 4-H grounds at Monroe for three days of exhibits and judging. The exhibits' and displays will! be the results of the various projects studied by the more than 950 4-H club members during the past £: year including foods, clothing and home improvement for the girls and livestock, farming and other projects for the boys. - Today’s highlight will be the parade at 7:15 p. m. The parade will feature the 4-H band and floats entered by the various 4-H clubs. Following the parade the first half of the entertainment festival will be presented by amateur talent of Adams county. This will be continued Wednesday at 8:10 p.m. Exhibits open daily are handicraft, home economics,- poultry, electric, sheep, rabbits, dairy, beef, pigs, pheasant and quail and wildlife, soil conservation, forestry, bees and entomology. Climax of the three day affair will be Thursday evening when the sale of livestock and the dress review are scheduled. The sale will be at 6 p. m. and .the dress review will begin at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Hilbert JHolle of Hoagland will present organ music during the review and it will be narrated by Gloria Koeneman. Mrs. P. B. Smith of Waynedalo and Mrs. Chester Moore of Fort Wayne will select the honor group. A senior dress review champion, a reserve champion and a junior champion will be named. The top girls in each division (Continued on Page Six)