Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1955 — Page 1

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DECATUR BOY SCOUTS TO BEAVER ISLAND ■BSw '“ s ’» ~ T T^’ !S ‘*L' --' T - ”1.* DECATUR’S BOY SCOUTS journeying to Beaver Island, Mich., are shown on the steps of the Methodist church after an early morning service Sunday. Front row, left to right: Jerry Mclntosh, Oayton Strickler. Ronnie Highland. Herb Banning and Macklin. Second row: Mike Beery, Nick Conrad. Leroy Ratliff and Dave Sheets. Third row: John Krueckeberg, Bob Frauhiger, Ned Baumgartner. Joe Smith and Barry Ellis. Back row: Steve Edwards, Jim Burk and Dick Linn, advisor. Other advisors are Gerald Smith and Steve Everhart on the left and George Rentz and Alva Lawson on the right. ’

Freed Airmen Make Shopping Tour Os Japan Tell Os Physical, Mental Torture In Communist Prisons TACHIKAWA AIR BASE, Japan (INS) — Eleven American flyers took another step today on the road back from 32 months of physical and menial tdrtufdL in the prisons of Communist China. Like many another air force man, they went shopping and sightseeing in the nearby town of Tachikawa. With only a reminder to return at a “reasonable hour” to the base hospital, the eleven men were driven off by air force “gray ladies." The airmen, due to leave for the U. S. Wednesday, enjoyed (heir first time free of close supervision the day after an emotion packed news conference. Before a crowd of reporters and cameramen they told for the first time Sunday of their long days of solitary confinement, endless interrogation — and for thefr leader cruel physical torture. _ Col, John Knox Arnold, the commander of the ill fated B-29, recited a harrowing story of beatings and the use of ingenious torture instruments by his captors. He, along with nine other crewmen, were forced to sign incriminating statements. J. Arnold’s story was echoed by the other members of the bomber crew captured when their plane was shot down on a leaflet dropping mission, but Maj. William H. Baumer of Lewisburg, Pa„ refused to sign an incriminating statement. Baumer, 33, said he defied the Reds even though he was beaten, threatened with death and forced to crawl around his cell when his captors took away his crutches he needed to navigate on a leg crippled by a wound and frost bite. Arnold’s story was the dramatic highlight of the emotion packed interview Sunday. In a choked voice, he described torture “gadgets” that cut off circulation in the hands and feet and left him screaming with pain. The colonel repeatedly insisted he was responsible for the signing of statements by the men under him. saying he had set an example. He praised Baumer for refusing to give in to the Reds and led the crowd of newsmen in applause for the major. Arnold said his hands were tied together behind his back and circulation virtually cut off. He said that when his hands were in this condition, his guard “would walk up behind me and they would take my fingers and milk them .like you would a cow.” He added that “at the same time they bound my foot as you would for a sprained ankle and forced me to stand for 30 hours. (Continued on Pnxe Two) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 5865. High Tuesday 84-88.

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Clamp Secrecy On U.S.-China Talks Say Some Progress Made This Morning (GENEVA (INS) —American and Red Chinese negotiators reportedly made “some progress” this morning as the clamped secrecy on talks about returning civilian nationals. <U. S. diplomatic trouble shooter U. Alexis Johnson and Red China’s Wang Ping Nan held thefr longest session so far in the Geneva talks aimed at easing far east tensions. In a jofht hnnbuneemetrt, the two diplomats declared all their discussions had been confined to repatriation of civilians by both countries. This excepted only Wang’s initial statement that Red China would release II American flyers. The conference will be resumed at 10 a. m. (5 a. m. EDT) Wednesday. The two Ambassadors said they will refrain from any public statement concerning developments at each meeting unless both agree or notify each other earlier. Red Chinese sources said some progress was made at this morning’s two hour and 25 minute session. They reported Wang had proposed India act as consular agent for his government in the U. S. This would enable Chinese students in America who wish to return to the China mainland to apply to the Indian consulates for a special passport.

Request Lot Owners ’ I To Cut Down Weeds Ordinance Provides For Action By City City officials today issued their annual request that all owners of vacant lots in the corporation limist have the weeds cut immediate iy. A city ordinance provides that after a request has been issued by city officials and has gone unheeded, city workmen shall cut the weeds and the cost shall be assessed against the property owner. There are several spots in Decatur where the weeds have grown almost out of control. The orddk always is issued early in August in an effort to destroy as many weeds as possible, prior to the hay fever season. Mayor John Doan, in issuing the request, said that no action would be taken by city employes for the next 10 days, in order to give all property owners ample time to comply with the ordinance. The mayor also suggested that property owners trim their shrubbery where it extends around corner lots and obstructs the view of motorists. Boy Scouts Arrive In Charlevoix Sunday Steve Everhart, in charge of the Boy Scout trip to Beaver Island, has informed his wife that the group arrived at Charlevoix, Mich., at 6:30 p. m. Sunday. They stayed overnight at the American Legion home there, and ferried across to Beaver Island this morning; —

UN Secretary Urges Greater Usage Os Group Urges Centralizing Global Conferences In United Nations UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold called today »for the centralizing of global conferences in the UN security council by “periodic” meetings at the foreign ministers' level. The top UN official proposed that these periodic security council sessions deal with pertinent world problems such as Germany, the Far East and disarmament He pointed out in his annual report to the general assembly that the foreign ministers of the HI nations constituting the security council could thus have “increased continuity and intensified contact in the treatment of certain questions of world concern.” Hammarskjold’s proposal, if adopted, could put an end to the “junketeering” from one capital to another of the Big Four foreign ministers for conferences on the cold war. One such session is scheduled for Geneva in October. Another effect of “periodic” meetings by foreign ministers of the security council would be to broaden consultations by the Big Four powers into the wider field of small power participation. A meeting on the basis proposed by Hammarskjold this year would include the following members and their foreign ministers: the U. 8., Russia, Britain, France, China ‘Nationalist). Belgium, Brazil, Iran, New Zeland, Peru and Turkey. Stiff opposition to Hammarskjold’s proposal was anticipated from some of the big powers on the grounds that it would curb their prerogative of seeking solutions in which they are primarily concerned. However, the five permanent members still would control the council through the veto privilege. Hammarskjold’s report stressed that the 10th year of UN showed a striking tendency toward lessening world tensions and a return drift toward stronger support (Continued on rage Six)

Decatur Man's Mother Dies At Union City Mrs. Lola Haney, 86, Union City, mother of Charles Haney of Decatur, died Saturday night in the Union City hospital at about 7:30 o’clock. Death was caused by peritonitis, following an appendectomy. The Haneys were married August 8, 1894. The husband, William Haney, survives. In addition to the son there are three daughters. They are Mrs. Florence Doherty, Geneva; Mrs. Ethel Russ, Union City and Mrs. Inez Milburn, Chesterfield. Three brothers, nine grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren survive also. The body is at the Fraze funeral home in Union City and funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon at the funeral homo at 2 o'clock. Burial will be in the Union City cemetery. - 5 .

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United States Assumes Leadership At Opening Os Atomic Conference > . . ■ , ■ ■’**

Ike Appeals For Peacetime Use For Atom Reaffirms Pledge By United States For Peaceful Use GENEVA (INS) — President Eisenhower urged the world’s top scientists today to develop peacetime atomic energy in order to wipe out “the dark breeding places of disorders and wars.” The President reaffirmed America’s pledge to do everything possible to help harness nuclear energy for the peaceful benefit of mankind by combatting “disease, ignorance and lack of economic opportunity.” In a message to the United Nations conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy being held at Geneva, Mr. Eisenhower declared : "All of tne enlightened nations of the wdrld are spending large sums every year on programs of health, education and economic development. They do so because they know that disease, ignorance and the lack of economic opportunity are the dark breeding .of disorders and war. “Every scientific tool available has been brought to bear in this effort. "Atomic science is the newest and most promising tool of all.” Atomic energy commission chairman Lewis L. Strauss was scheduled to read the President’s message to some of the world’s top scientists at the opening session of the 12 day meeting in Geneva. The conference actually dates back to Dec. 8, 1953, when the President suggested in a dramatic speech to the UN general assembly the establishment of an inter(Continued on Page Three)

Mrs. Chas. Malony Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services Set For Wednesday Mrs. Clara Malony, 56, of one and one-half miles west of Decatur, wife of. Charles W. Maloney, Decatur rural mail carrier, died at 10:53 o'clock Sunday night at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton following an extended illness. She was born in Hartford township Nov. 14, 1898, a daughter of Edward and Rosa Earhart-Kratzer, and was married to Charles W. Malony Nov. 4, 1919. Mrs. Maloney was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church and the National Rural Carriers auxiliary. Surviving in addition to her husband are her father, who resides in Berne; two sons, Robert J. Malony of Scherrerville, and Richard E. Malony of Decatur: two grandchildren, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary McClain and Mrs. Ida Dro, both of Berne, and Mrs. Pearl Nyffler of Monroe. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwfck funeral home, the R4v. Benj. G. Thomas, officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening...... — . . i--

Funeral Held Today For Jonas Liechty Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Hardy Hardy funeral hpme for Jonas Liechty, 77, for the past five years a fireman at the Adams county home, who died in hte sleep Friday night. Surviving are a sistar, Mrs. Anna Pursey, of Deme, and several nieces and nephews. Burial was in the Evangelical Mennonite cemetery near Berne.

Sex Fiend Hunted In Savage Murder Body Os Kansas City Woman Found Sunday KANSAS CITY, Mo. (INS) —Police and FBI agents hunted for ,a sex fiend today in the savage murder of Mrs. William R. Allen, 34- ■ year-old Kansas 6ity society matron. The nude, beaten body of the woman, with two bullet holes in ; the Back of her head and her hands tied behind her, was found Sunday in a meadow near Stanley, Kas., just across the Missouri line. Johnson county (Kas.) coroner David S. Long said it may not .be possible to determine if the attractive mother of two’ Children had been raped because Os decomposition of the body. Police, nowever, believe the crime was the work of a sex fiend and are concentrating their investigation in that area. Long said Mrs. Alien died same time Thursday afternoon or evening. She disappeared early Thursday afternoon while on a shopping trip in Kansas City. The woman’s" knuckles were bruised, indicating she tried to fight off the killer before he bound an shot her. Fingernail scrappings were taken for laboratory examination that may reveal iome clue her slayer; 'Police believe the killer’s • face was badly scratched by Mrs. Allen during her struggle for life. dlei* body was found half hidden in a hedgerow by farmer Clifford Erhart and his son, Milton, 15, barely a mile from the spot where little Bobby Greenlease was murdered after his abduction from a Kansas City school two years ago. The two cases have another parallel in that both the Greenlease boy’s father and Mrs. Alien’s hustyh.nd, William, ai> wealthy Kansas City auto dealers. Mrs. Allen apparently was abducted in her own car by the killer. The car, bloodstained and containing most of her equally bloody clothing stuffed in the trunk, was found early Friday parked under a viaduct near Union Station in Kansas City. This touched oft a wide Search, with hundreds of polite, air force men and volunteers combing the two-state area. The searchers turned up two additional items of her clothing Saturday -a blue straw purse found along the shoulder of U. S. Route 69 about 12 miles from Kansas CTty and her stockings located three miles down the road near the banks of the Blue River. (Continued on Page Five)

Commissioners In Study Os Budgets County Board Meets In Special Session The Adams county bo rad of commissioners met in special session today to start piecing together the request for funds from the various county officials and deparments, preparatory to submitting the 195556 budget. Most of the county officials and departmental' heads already have submitted their requests. The two which will be submitted late today are expenditures for the county jail and for the commissioners themselves. The Adams county 4-H club committee has asked that a two-cent levy be placed in the budget for "extension programs’’ and the 4-H clubs of the county have asked for. $2,500 for operation of the annual fair. —«■ Qtto Thieme, Adams counity chairman tor farmers institutes, has asked for an appropriation of 1100 for those events. It is highly probable that she commissioners will not complete their work In special session until some time Tuesday. The county budget must be submitted for first publication not later thee August 19.

Six American Gl's Hurl In Korean Riots r South Koreans Stage Demonstration Over Reds' Commission SEOUL (INS) — Rock throwing South Koreans staged a violent day long demonstration against Communist members of the armistice commission today and the eighth army announced six American soldiers had been injured in the rioting. The army said three military and three military firemen were hurt in the struggle to protect the Communist housed in the “Haileah compound” of the neutral nations supervisory commission at Pusan. More than 2,000 South Koreans were still demonstrating at sundown of the second day of the rioting. An army spokesman said the U. S. soldiers were not seriously injured turning back South Koreans from the gates of the NNSC compound in Pusan as the rioting began Sunday in an attempt to oust Polish members of the commission. The spokesman also dented reports that American GTs bayoneted three South Korean civilians. Violence spread in Pusan today and threatened to erupt In the port city of Inchon. An angry crowd of some 1,000 persons stormed the compound in Pusan but was hurled back by American sentries using fire hoses and tear gas. Other sentries stood by with leveled guns. Tension mounted in Inchon, where the NNSC compound on the island of Wolmi in the harbor was threatened by a direct attack by 300 former Communist soldiers. -The soldiers, who refused to return north after being captured in the Korean fighting, were waiting in the harbor in small boats. They were expected to attack Wolmi Do at high tide. At Kangnung, another neutral nations inspection port, a small number of South Koreans followed a U. S. army jeep into the NNSC compound but were forced out by American MPs with tear gas. Lt. Col. Charles Brandt of the U. S. eighth army explained the official position \>n the riots. He said: “The eighth army Is obligated to protect members of the neutral inspection teams under the armistice agreement—and we shall do so.” The demonstrations supported a demand by President Syngman Rhee for the ouster of all mem(Contuntea on rage Five)

Frank Gleckler Dies Here Sunday Night Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Frank Gleckler, 81, of Union township, died at 9:30 o’clock Sunday night at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he bad been taken earlier in the day following a heart attack. He had spent his entire life on the farm where he was born, approximately six miles south of Monroeville. Mr. Gleckler, a retired farmer, was a member of dark’s Chapel Methodist church. Surviving are his wife, Bertha; a daughter, Mrs, Margie Shaffer, at home; a granddaughter, and a sister, Mrs. Bertha Ainsworth of Monroeville. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville, the Rev. Howard Reese officiating. Burial will be in the Monroeville IOOF cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

Accidental Death Toll High In State Indiana Toll Heavy Over Past Weekend INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana's accidental death toll ran high during the past week end, with at least eight deaths in automobile accidents and four drownings. Two men were killed instantly When an automobile was crushed by a tractor trailer on Road 212 at a county road intersection just east of Michigan City. The victims were Antonio Lara, 50, of Gary, and Jose Trejo, 64, of Chicago. Earl H. Slingerland, 75, a pedestrian, was killed by an automobile as he walked across Road 20 near Road 49 in Porter county. When his automobile skidded on wet Road 19 south of Mentone, Harry Dean Witham, 26, of Mentone, met death. The car struck a tree, flipped end over end and fell upside down in a ditch. His wife, Violet, 24, w*ho was thrown out, was not seriously hurt. Miss Charleen Miller, 27, a telephone company clerk at Bay Village, 0., died in a Kendallville hospital of injuries suffered Friday when her car struck the rear of a gasoline tank truck on Road 6, four miles east of Kendallville. Her companion, Napcy Roberts, 26, of . North Homestead. O„ was injured Blightly. ■ While walking across the street in front of her home. Miss Amanda Voekler, 84, of Terre Haute, was struck and killed by an automobile ' driven by Glen R. Price, 45, of near Terre Haute, who was charg--1 ed with operating a motor vehicle 1 while under the influence of liquor. One-year-old Benjamin W. Shul--1 lenberger, son of Mr. and Mrs. 1 Gale T. Shullenberger, of Indianapolis, died when he tumbled from ’ a seat in his parents’ automobile ’ in a driveway at thefr home. His 1 head struck the concrete driveway. The parents had put him and his brothers, Paul 7, and Mark, 4, into the car. Drowned were: Robert L.-Stevenson. 17. of Michigan City, in Lake Michigan. Chester M. Payton, 44, of Mitchell, in a quarry two miles northeast of Mitchell. Jamas A. Tomblin, 6, of near Indianapolis, in a pond on the Jennings county farm of Ralph Kastner. Calvin Ansbury, 15, of Atlantic, In Secrist Lake near North Webster when he fell off a rubber innertube. Also, Joseph Burke, 13, was crushed to death when a tractor (Continued on Page Two)

Intense Heat Wave Broken In Decatur Rain And Cooler Weather In City One of the longest and most Intense heat waves ever recorded in this area, during which time the temperature rose to above the 90 degree mark for 20 consecutive days, was broken Saturday evening. Rain, reported to be general oyer Adams county, accompanied by thunder, lightning and wind, arrived here at about 6:30 o’cloak Saturday evening, dropping the temperature readings ! from the middle 90’s to about 75 degrees. Rainfall during the evening and early Sunday morning was more than one inch. Temperatures all day Sunday remained comfortable and the highest mark was 86 degrees. The Daily Democrat thermometer at ; 6 o’clock Monday morning showed a very comfortable 69 degrees. Forecasters predicted normal summer temperatures for today and Tuesday. The long heat wave and drought apparently did not do any extensive damage to crops. Farmers report most of their crops in excellent condition. The Saturday and early Sunday rains were a boon to the parched lawns in Decatur.

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Announce Two Steps To Aid Other Nations Offers To Sell Or Lease Material For Usage In Research GENEVA ,(INS) — The United States quickly assumed inspirational leadership today at the opening conference by announcing two steps to aid other couhtrles. Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the U. S. atomic energy commission, told a special news conference after the formal opening meeting of delegates from 72 nations that: 1. The American government is willing to sell or lease to other countries uranium and heavy water for use in research reactors. 2. The Ford fund will establish a million dollar fund to finance an annual atoms for peace awards to the scientist of scientists —’“without regard for nationality or political belief’— considered to have made the most important annual contribution to peaceful development of atomic energy. President Eisenhower in a message to the opening session called on scientists to wipe out "the dark breedfng piaces of disorders and wars:” He said that “if men will ofily allow it” nuclear ehergy is ready to become an obedient and tireless servant. Soviet premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin also sent a essage stressing Moscow’s interest in harnessing the atom for the benefit and not the destruction of mankind. Strauss then announced the offer to lease or sell uranium and heavy water fuels and quoted prices. He said that uranium, enriched with 20 percent of U-235, which is a wariant or isotope of uranium, will be leased at a price of $25 per gram. Norma) uranium will be sold for S4O per kilogram (2.2 pounds). Heavy water will be sold at S2B per pounds. i Strauss said the offer was good only for countries concluding bilateral agreements with the United States specifying purposes for which the materials will be used. He said 27 countries already had concluded such agreements. In view of whether Russia might bo eligible, he was asked whether any country with whom the United States maintains diplomatic relations would be eligible to conclude such agreements. “That is a diplomatic matter* he said. “I must consult diplomatic advisers before replying.” The Ford fund award of $75,000 annually was announced through Strauss on behalf of Henry Ford 11, president of the Ford Motor Co. and the Ford fund, which is supported by the company and members of the Ford family. He and his brothers, Benson and William Clay Ford, Intend the award as a memorial to their father and grandfather. They said it was in response to President Eisenhiwer’s call for private business and professional men to give an incentive to find new ways that nuclear energy “can be used for the benefit of mankind and not for destruction.” A message was read also from Russian premier Nikolai Bulganin stressing "the great importance” which the Soviet Union attaches to “development of the widest international cooperation in the field of using the great scientific discoverines of oUr times not for war purposes and for destruction but for constructive purposes for the ’ benefit of mankind and for raising the standards of living and for the prosperity of all peoples.” , The meeting of. more than 2,000 scientists and observers from East and West stems directly from Mr. Eisenhower’s 195$ address to the UN general assembly inviting the nations of the world to pool what they knew of atomic energy’s peaceful uses.