Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1955 — Page 1

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“What’s My Line” Winner Loses r""7" A ’A a* ” z, WWjgMKi , wHHKx / f ■"■ / mA JBMiLMr IS m .ra| .« JD| "sUNDAY NIGHT, as Jimmy Mitchell, be won the full SSO on the “What's My Line” television show in New York City. Tuesday, under his rightful name, James Marshall Showers, 27, he lost before a second panel, of F. 8.1. agents. Here, as Mitchell, he rides the elephant of the Arabian Nights show in New York City for which the TV panel identified him, although he was awardee) the full >SO prize. Identified a second time, as Showers, he appeared before a U. S. commissioner in Brooklyn on charges of driving a stolen automobile across a state line.

Give Warning Os Danger In Nuclear Work Scientists Warn Os Dangers To Workers In Nuclear Energy GENEVA UNS) — Science took time out today from predictions of wonders to come when the atom fa harnessed to peace to warn of the dangers facing those who work with nuclear energy. Two British scientists told the third session of the atoms for peace conference the release of a large amount of radio activity from an atomic power station could kill* anyone within a two kilometer radius. Russia described the treatment it developed to save the life of a worker who suffered a “lethal" dose of radiation in a reactty accident. The U. S. presented evidence of the potentially great genetical danger to mankind from exposure to nuclear radiation. The somber themes of the papers read at today’s session were in sharp contrast to the opening reports in which the U. S. and Russia unveiled closely guarded secrets to tell of impressive progress made in the development of new atomic fuels, improved ° reactors and nuclear power stations to supply great amounts of electricity. The report made by the Soviets today described the most serious accident so far recorded in connection with peacetime atomic devices. About two years ago a Soviet worker sustained an amount of radiation listed in the U. S. as fatal —450 roentgents—“when the rules of operating an experimental reactor were violated." Soviet doctors credited the heavy use of penicillin and bl<>od transfusions with saving the mah's life after four agonizing months of treatment. Another Russian who was less seriously injured in the sgmt accident recovered after three months of treatment in which up to 800.000 units a day of penicillin were applied externally and internally to the victims. The American report presented (Continued on Page Five) — President Supports Safe Driving Period WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower has thrown his support to a nationwide safe driving campaign, Nov. 20 to Dec. 1. Mr. Eisenhower Tuesday told. Harlow Curtice, president of General Motors Corp, and chairman of the President’s committee for traffic safety, that he will be “happy to participate" fn the campaign. Highlight of the safety drive will come Dec. 1— “S-D (Safe Driving) Day.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, scattered, showers and local thunderstorms south and central. Clearing tonight. Thursday mostly fair and pleasant Low tonight 65-70. High Thursday 80-87.

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Adlai Stevenson, Harriman Confer Democratic Party Leaders In Meeting CHICAGO (INS) — The 1956 Democratic presidential candidate may have been decided at a secret conference betjyeen the two leading contenders — Adlai Stevenson and New York Governor Averell Harriman. The two party leaders met for three hours and 40 minutes Tuesday night at Stevenson’s home at Libertyvßle, 111,, near Chicago, and emerged smiling to pose for photo graphers. The word is that Stevenson came out of the “summit” conference in the No. 1 position. In addition to Harriman. Stevenson has had visits from four governors during the state chief executives meeting in Chicago. The four who have paid calls to the titular party head are Gov. Dennis J. Roberts of Rhode Island, Gov. A. A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, Gov. William C. Marland of West Virginia and Gov. John F. Simms of New Mexico. In addition to Harriman, Stevenson has received solid enunciations of support from such powerhouse governors as Frank Lausche of Ohio, George Leader of Pennsylvania, Ernest McFarland of Arizona and Edwin Johnson of Colorado. Five Men Testify Against Sergeant Point To Gallagher As Gl's Murderer ■NEW YORK (INS) —Five embittered and angry witnesses pointed to Sgt. James C. Gallagher Tuesday as the murderer of two disease wracked fellow captives in a Korean prisoner of war camp. One by one, the five men testified they had seen the 23-year-old defendant throw Cpl- John William Jones and Cpl. Donald Thomas Baxter, put into 40 below zero weather at Camp Pyoktong in February, 1'96.1. The pair, both weakened by dysentery, were left to die. The witnesses all experssed regret that they had been too weak and afraid to intervene. The prosecution was expected to wind up its case against the Brooklyn sergeant today, the seventh of the general court martial- at first army headquarters, Fort Jay, on New York’s Governors Island. Gallagher also is accused of beating to death another sick POW and collaborating with the Communists during his imprisonment. He faces a maximum sentence of. life at hard labor. Herbert Hoover Is 81 Years Old Today NEWBERG; Ore. (INS) -Former President Herbert Hoover observed his 81st birthday today as guest of honor at ceremonies dedicating his boyhood home in Newberg as a national shrine. Hoover, born in lowa, lived with relatives in Newberg after bis parents died. *

Hurricane May Hit Carolinas Coast Tonight Hurricane Connie Pauses For Breath Off North Carolina W'HjMINiG-TON, N. C. (INS) — Hurricane Connie paused for breath off the North Carolina coast today, threatening to unlease her strongest winds of 135 miles per hour on the area. The Miami weather bureau reported winds at Frying Shoals, southeast of Wilmington, have increased to 50 to 66 MPH and will continue, to increase slowly today from Charleston northward, reaching hurricane force tonight along the North Carolina coast north of Cape Fear. Chief hurricane forecaster Gordon Dunn of the Miami weather ■bureau said the possibility was “quite good” that the center of the erratic howler would slam in to some point on the North Carolina coastline when she started moving again. Connie ground to a virtual standstill about 225 miles southeast of Wilmington after bumping up against a strong high pressure system moving eastward across New England. She had been traveling in a west northwest and northwest direction. Dunn said the giant storm is now "delicately adjusted” and the big question is: “In what direction will she head when she starts up again?" He added: “If she continues on the course she was following before slowing to a standstill she will head in the general direction of Cape Hatteras. We regard the entire North Carolina coast as "critical’.” Tides are running two to four feet above normal on the coast of the Carolinas. Weathermen said these will increase and become abnormally high from the North Cab olina coast northward to Chssapeake Bay. Hurrican warnings are displayed from Cape Fear near Wilmington to the Virginia Capes and northeast storm warnings are up from Savannah to Block Island. Rhode Island with a hurricane alert extending as far north as Provincetown. Mass. The Miami weather bureau, plotting the advance of the tropical howler, warned that hurricane winds could hit the Carolinas this afternoon if some acceleration of the storm takes place. Otherwise, the high winds will strike tonight. Connie is still carrying winds of up to 136 miles an hour. North Carolina highway patrolmen, Red Cross disaster specialists, civil air patrol personnel and coast guardsmen stood by for rescue work as the hurricane approached. The storm thus far has taken the same general path as last year’s destructive hurricane Hazel. That hurricane first hit the North and South Carolina coasts, as Connie threatens to do today, and then hit most of the eastern states and Canada.

Sheriff To Return Martin For Trial Will Face Charges In Circuit Court Sheriff Merle Affolder will go to Westville Friday morning and return Howard Wayne Martin, who hps been a patient at the Norman Beatty memorial hospital, to face charges in Adams circuit court in September of burglary and. petit larceny. Martin was committed to the mental hospital by Judgee Myles F. Parrish in January, 1954, after examining physicians recommended treatment. Judge Parrish, on recommendation of Beatty hospital officials who reported this week that Martin was now considered fcured, ordered the man returned here to face the two charges in September term of court. Martin was arrested January 11, 1954 on a charge of entering the Fritz Ellsworth Hi-Way garage on January 4 of that year with intent ty burglarize the office. Following his order of committment to the Beatty hospital, Martin spent Several weeks in the county jail, awaiting admission by hospital authorities. His bond Is >I,OOO and sheriff Affolder said he would have to remain in custody until bond was furnished. Severin H. Schurger was named by the court as pauper attorney for Martin when charges were first filed.

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Increase Os 31 Cents In County Tax Rate Asked From Proposed Budgets

Dulles Warns South Korea On Violence Warns South Korea Against Violence In Ejecting Reds WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles warned South Korea today against using force to eject Communist members of the neutral nations supervisory commission. Dulles told a news conference the U. S. is obligated to protect the members of the neutral inspection team, and intends to carry out that obligation. At the same time, he said the U. s. sympathizes with South Korea In Its attitude toward the team’s communist members. He said they may have been operating as spies for the Reds. Dulles said that during the past few weeks the U.S. has been discussing the problem with the 16 United Nations countries that participated in the Korean confliet, as well as with Sweden and Switzerland. He said that no new conclusion has been reached so far. Dultot) said the U.S; is giving serious consideration to the possibility of working out some change in the inspection arrangement set up temporarily by the Korean armistice. The secretary denied that the U.S. is giving tacit consent to the partition of Korea by not insisting that the country be unified. He said conditions exist in a good many countries which the U. S. does not like or approve, but which it does not believe should be resolved by force. Turning to the U. S. —Red China negotiations in Geneva, Dulles said that unhappily expectations for a quick settlement have not been realized. He confirmed reports that the Communists have raised the whole question of the more than 100,000 Chinese residing in the U. S„ and insist that Washington recognize Peiping’s jurisdiction over these people. The cabinet officer also told reporters the U.S. Is considering whether to put out a “white paper" disclosing in full detail Chinese treatment of the 11 U.S. flyers recently released. Investigates SEOUL (INS) — America’s top military commander in the Far East felw to Seoul today from his Tokyo headquarters for an on the spot investigation of Republic of Korea demonstrations against Communist truce inspectors. Gen. Lyman I. Lemnitzer was expected to confer with ROK President Syngman Rhee on means of halting violence which has resulted in minor injuries to 13 American soldiers and 45 Koreans. (Continued on Page ffirht)

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Await Court Rule Over Closed Shop Non-Union Workers Fighting Provision INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Judge Walter Pritchard will wait until week before he issues a far reaching decision on the closed shop provision of a national labbr contract. * The Marion county superior court judge directed that a temporary ban on enforcement of the closed shop provision of the contract between General Motors Corporation and the CIO United Auto W’orkers remain in effect until “earl ynext week.” He asked attorneys for CMC, and the union and for 200 non-union employes of GMC to tile written arguments by Saturday, and said his decision would be announced “early next week.” Attorneys for GMC and the CIOUAW objected to extension of the restraining order which prevents firing of employes who do not join the union by Aug. 26. George Rose, attorney for the 200 non-union employes, declared: “This contract denies a worker a full, free choice on whether he wants to jofii a union or not.” GMC attorney Frederic D. Anderson claimed that so long as ,q>e non-union members "donated” the'lnitiation fee and >2.50 monthly dyes to the union they wouldn’t bte fired even though they did not “join” the union. UAW-CIO attorney Lynnville G. Miles brought out the point that the non-union workers were bound by the new three-year contract even though non-union members because they received and accepted benefits from the contract. V. R. Smith, an Allison division employe, in whose name the injunction suit was filed, admitted he got pay raises, paid holiday and other benefits as a. result of former union contracts. • Mississippi Bank Robbed Os $37,000 ACKERMAN, Miss. (INS) — The Ackerman, Miss., bank was robbed of >37,000 today by a lone gunman who was waiting inside the office when cashier John Keen arrived. The robber was masked and dressed in khaki clothes. BULLETIN , TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (INS) Two air national guardsmen , were killed today when their jet plane crashed in Vigo county not far from their home base, Hulman Field at Terre Haute. The plane had taken off for Chanute Field, 111., at the time of the crash. The T 33' jet trainer crashed In a field four miles southeast of Riley. Indiana state police said the dead were identified tentatively as a Capt. Jetton and a Tech. Sgt. Humble.

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Gov. McKeldin Willing To Run For President Expresses Belief Eisenhower To Run And Win Reelection CHICAGO HNS) -Gov. Theodore R. McKeldin pt Maryland declared today he is willing to head the 1966 presidential ticket if President Elsenhower declines to run. in response to an International News Service survey at the 47th annual governors’ conference in Chicago, McKeldin disclosed he would accept the nomination for either the presidency or the vice presidency if he were drafted or otherwise approached. The 54-year-old McKeldin was elected to his second four-year term as Maryland’s chief evecutive last November by a 62,000 vote margin over his Democratic opponent, Harry C. Byrd. In revealing hTs willingness to head the party ticket, McKeldin emphasized that he expected Mr. Eisenhower -to be the nominee, with Vice President Richard Nixon Mr running mate. He said “I would be willing to run if President Eisenhower were not a candidate, but I hope with all my heart that he will be-and I believe he will be." McKeldin' said he believed the Democrats will nominate Adlai Stevenson and Gov. Frank G.’Clement of Tennessee to head their ticket. Major issues of the 1956 campaign, he said, would be: 1. The maintenance of an honorable peace. 2. A stable, prosperous economy, "conducive to continuing public confidence.” - Commenting on the maintaining of "an honorable peace.” McKeldin observed! “Foreign policy, of course, is the main element. I believe the people have strong faith in President Eisenhower’s, policies and .the success of those policies to date. “Certainly the circumstances and the freedom of this nation from a shooting war through these Eisenhower years will be stressed in the campaign.” McKeldin said he though the Democratic — controlled 84th congress failed chiefly on four counts. These he listed as: 1. Failure to enact the President’s good highways program. 2. Failure to admit Hawaii to (Conranuea on rage Five)

Local Lady's Brother Is Taken By Death W’m. Humerickhouse . Dies At Hammond William C. Humerickhouse, 60, of “Munster, a former resident of Craigyille, died Monday night at a hospital in Hammond following an illness of only a few hours. He was born near Craigville Oct. 10, 1894, a,»on of H. E. and Olive Edelman-ftumerickhouse, and was married to Eunice Ernst He was a graduate of the Craigville high school, a veteran of World War I and a member of the Bluffton Moose lodge. Surviving in addition to his wife are his father, who lives at Rapid City, Mich., two daughters, Mrs. Wilbur Bieeen and Mrs.' Mike Grimmer, and a son, Robert E. Humerickhouse. all of Highland; three sisters, Mrs. Ellis Call of Decatur, Mrs. Elva Neuenschwander of Rapid City, Mich., and Mrs. Ben Cunningham of Huntington, and four grandchildren. Two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at a funeral home in Highland, and burial will be at Highland.

Eisenhower Sighs % Reserve Measure Will Seek Revision From Next Session WASHINGTON (IN9) President Eisenhower has instructed defense secretary Charles E. Wilson to draft amendments to correct what he termed “deficiencies” in the new reserves law. Mr. Eisenhower signed the measure Tuesday, but he said it “falls short of the program" he originally requested, and asked Wilson to prepare some changes for submission to congress next January. Under the bill, the "minuteman” reserve forces will be increased from 800,000 to 2.900,000'and the second line standby reserve will go up from 200,000 to 2,000,000. all within four years. The President complained that the measure fails to provide for bringing trained men into the national guard and denies authority to draft men for the six months’ training plan if there are insufficient volunteers. The law makes reserve training compulsory for the first time in IT. S. history and sets up a voluntary six months’ training program for youths aged 17 to The volunteers are exempt from the draft, but they must serve seven and one half ganized reserve unit. Non-volunteers will be subject to six years’ military obligation—two years “on active duty, three In the reddy reserves and one in the | standby reserves. Men now in uniform are exempt from the six-year obligation. After their discharge, they will remain in the standby reserves until the eigth anniversary of their original induction.

11 American Airmen Are Enroute Home Due To Arrive In California Friday TOKYO (INS) —Eleven American airmen, recovering from the rigors of Chinese Communist jails, left Japan for home today in two air force transports. t , Their planes took off from Taehikawa air force base near Tokyo Tuesday and headed across the Pacific with stops scheduled at Midway Island and Honolulu before they set (town at Travis air force Base in northern California Friday morning. They are due at Honolulu at 2:30 p. m. today, Hawaii time. The airmen who were shot down in a B-29 over North Korea Jan. 13, 1053 and captured by the Reds, appeared in good physical shapemuch better at least than when they reached freedom at Hong Kong last Thursday. At Tachlkaiwa they were given thorough physical examdnarttotne and quizzed at length by intelligence officers on what they saw and experienced behind the Bamboo Curtain for 38 months. Their Red captors “convicted” them of spying and gave them prison sentences, some of which were served in solitary confinement and included torture treatments. Variance Petition Is Denied By Board A petition for a variance by George Heare in order that his property at 515 Cleveland street could be converted into a trailer *camp, was denied by the board of zoning appeals Tuesday night. The property in question is in an R-l area, and adjoins the present Simmerman trailer camp. The plan was to Join the two. Several heme owners residing in the area appeared at Tuesday’s - hearing and opposed the petition for variance. ° The property in question is at the rear of the present trailer camp and south of it.

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Big Increase Toße Asked Os County Council 84-Cent Tax Levy Will Be Presented v To County Council A total county tax rate of 84 cents, including welfare and hospital, compared with last * year’s rate of 53 cents will be presented by the county commissioners to the county council September 5 and 6" tentative figures compiled in the office of Frank Kitson, auditor, revealed today. The county revenue tax proposal is 69 cents compared with the present rate of 39 cents. A onecent' increase in the welfare budget request adds the penny to make the increase total 31 cents. The hospital request remains at three cents. An unofficial estimate of all tax levies which comprise the total rate show that with all figures remaining the same, the rate in Decatur-Washington would total about >5.32 compared with the present rate of $5.08, and Deca-tur-Root’s rate would be about five -cants .-Mgber . C&. $6.37. - . Adams county’s valuation -In $42,563,340 and the county must raise $357,532, if all amounts remain in the budgets unchanged. The meeting of the county coun- . cil scheduled for September 5 and 6 is a public meeting and day taxpayer has the right to appear. The legal notice, setting out requests of each county official and department and also each township request, will be published ht .the Daily Democrat prior to August 19. amount requested in 1955 by the county was $216,317- Following the final adoption by the county council, the new budget goes to the state board of tax commissioners before final setting of the new rate. Chief among the various requests for increases in expenditures were statutory raises in salaries of officials, $25,000 for construction of an elevator in the court house; an addition of several thousand dollars as the county's share for sanitarium patients and a $3,000 amount for tuition for Adams county boys and girls sentenced to correctional institutions. The latter is also in compliance with a new law. It is the general opinion among those close to the taxing situation that the council will reduce expenditures some, but indications are that the total tax rate will be considerably higher than at present. Release Additional Salk Polio Vaccine Over Million Shots Are Released Today WASHINGTON (INS) —The government has releasejd 1477,068 doses of Salk anti-polio vaccine to the states and territories. The vaccine, to be used by private doctors and public health agencies under the /voluntary” distribution plan, was produced by the Wyeth Laboratories of Marietta, Pa. In addition, the public health service announced release of some 287,000 shots produced by the Pitman Moore Co., of Zionsville, lad. This vaccine will go to the National Foundation flor infantile Paralysis for use in the mass rnvvintttiOu Os I irst aHu SeCviM* grade school children. The shots released Tuesday under the ''voluntary'’ plan were allocated among the states in proportion to the number of vnvaecsinated children in the top priority five through nine age group*