Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 212, Decatur, Adams County, 9 September 1955 — Page 1

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DEFENDS “TOUGH” TRAINING - tFSSurIC?! * , i n-«r Pt Kfc t -IKohI ■ K» f » I I jl iL^fir-'TSI ’ t' i s . -. W '. f 1 feHflfll >' ‘ ■ 1M i J e W iili j* x ■ . ft Si jyaf • i ? J Hnl jZ a i *v ■ '•■ xidiiir i CALLED TO WASHINGTON for questioning, Col. Burton McKenzie (left) and Maj. John Oliphant, his director of instruction at Stead APB near Reno, Nev., stoutly defend training methods in which men were “toughened up” to withstand “brainwashing" in a 17-day escape and evasion course, A national magazine had called the course “brutal.” Col. McKenzie said the training would continue.

Press Reds For Views On Ike's Watchdog Plan Russian Delegate Admits Needs For Adequate Safeguard UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —'The U. S. will press Russia today for its views on the Eisenhower “watchdog” plan following Soviet admission of the need for adequate <safeguei>ls agfainst surprise attacks. Presidential advisor Harold E. Stassen prepared some searching questions to ask Russia's Arkady A. Sobolev at today’s session of the UN disarmament subcommittee (at 2:30 p. m„ EOT). He will be seeking to determine whether the Soviets will back the Elsenhower proposals for an .exchange of aerial and ground inspectors and of blueprints of military installations. In what was described as a ’ ‘ significant _ - Sobolev indicated Wednesday to the five nation group that Russia was ready to discuss international inspection of armaments and an “early warning system.” U- S. spokesmen declined official comment, but American sources said Sobolev’s statement represented a degree of “progress.” The informants said the talks now have “come into closer grips with the realities of the situation and the problem of surprise attacks.” The Soviet envoy’s remarks were under careful joint study by the four western delegates. -In Moscow, Tass, the official Soviet news agency, quoted Sobolev as telling Stassen and the delegates from Britain, prance and Canada that the Moscow government believed effective international armaments control was possible because "modern war was unimaginable without vast concentrations of land, air and naval forces. ' “Atomic weapons by themselves, and without the active cooperation of all other arms," Sobolev said, “cannot be effective:" “Used by themselves they would not decide the outcome of war.” In other words, any preparations for an effective surprise attack by a major power could be spotted by inspectors. Tass quoted Sobolev as assertIng organ with posts at large ports, airfields and strategic communications centers “must have the right o demand from states the necessary proof that they have carried out a reduction in weapons and armed forces and must enjoy free access to all data referring to burgetary expenditure and military needs.” An international organ with that information presumably would have advance warning if a nation were planning an attack. Lone Picket Placed At Yost Gravel Pit ■w A picket, representing Operating Engineers, local 103, was placed at the Yos't Construction Co. gravel pit and offices today. Tire man on duty said that the purpose of the picketing was an effort to organize the gravel pit workers into the Operating Engineers union. The picketing is being done under the name of the American Federation of labor. The picket on duty walks a distance, about the length of the Yost buildings, and ( then returns. The name of the picket was ■ not given and he stated that he did not know how long the picket ing would continue. No other division of the Yost Company is being picketed.

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Indiana State Fair Will Close Tonight Proposes Extra Day For Fair Next Year INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Tonight marks the end of the 103rd Indiana state fair which dismantles after a 10-day run. Many exhibits and concessions moved out during the day, without waiting for the finale. •- A proposal that the 104th fair run for 11 days instead of the nine or 10 which have been the run during recent years came from state fair board president Walter H. Wimmer. Wimmer commented that the 1955 fair was improved by the addition of the 10th day since it gave more time for 4-H activities. He opined that the addition of another day would give 4-H members more, time to exhibit their livestock. However, he noted that the decision on the length of the 1956 fair will be up to a new fair board, which will be re-organized Nov. 1. Thanks to the extra 24 hours, ibis 10 day event, will surpass by several thousand paid admissions the 1954 nine-day fair. Total for the first nine days of this event was 573,319, compared to 566,102 for the 1954 fair. But it apparently was the city folks who gave the edge to this fair. Big gains in attendance this year over last came on Saturday, Sunday and Monday—holidays for the urban workers. The 1952 fair, which also wasa 10-day event, will remain the record year, since there did not seem much likelihood 86,140 persons would pay to get into the dying last day. This was civil defense day, and it made a big noise anyway, whatever the attendance. The world’s largest siren let loose with a blast in observance of the occasion. A parade of Indianapolis Marion county civil defense police, and the Fort Harrison army band was to pass in review before Col. Edward L. Strohbehn, state civil defense director, at 7 p. m. CDT. Demonstrations of equipment for meeting local or national emergencies were also part of the civil defense program. A parade Thursday brought top honors to the Johnson county youth band, the Cass county rural youth, and three-year-old TommyDean Emmons, of Jackson county. They were first place winners respectively of the band division, float division and pet section of the farmer's day parade. Some judging still was in process today. Brahman cattle. Landrace hogs, and swine entries in open Indiana class and gold medal classes were judged. Winner of the Charles J. Lynn award Thursday was Kenneth Dunbar, of Osgood, youthful Berkshire hog raiser. The award is a Purdue scholarship. Lynnwood Farms, of Carmel, showed the champion Berkshire sow, and Robert and John Hines, of Sheridan, the reserve champion. Among other winners: Fred J. Nesius, Rensselaer, Indi<Continued on Page Kight) Boy Drowned When Rowboat Overturns MiISHAWAKA, Ind. <INS) —The death by drowning of nine-year-old Byrl Wilson marked the second time in five years that the family has been bereaved through accident.

An older sister of Byrl was burned to death while the family, lived in Huntington, W. Va. Then Thursday, the second child of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson lost his life in a water accident on a gravel pit near their home. He was drowned when a rowboat in which he and four other boys were riding, overturned.

West Germany Opens Talks With Russia Adenauer Stresses Reunification And Prisoner Release MOSCOW (INS) — The Soviet West German talks opened in Moscow today with Bonn chancellor Konrad Adenauer stressing the need for German reunification and the release of German war prisoners. Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin in his opening address to the hour long meeting said that Russia was ready “to exchange opinions" on reunification. But be warned that serious obstacles had arisen from the Paris agreements whereby West Germany was being rearmed. ~ The first working session of the four or five day conference was held this morning in the Marble walled room of Spiridonovia Palace. j Acco/ding to the West German news agency DPA, Adenauer told Bulganin that normal relations between West Germany and Russia were "unthinkable" as long as the problem of the release of German war prisoners was unsolved. As for reunification, the 79-year-old Bonn government chief was quoted as saying it was not his intention to confuse progress towards German reunification by opening up bi-lateral talks indipendantly of negotiations among the Big Four powers. “But, it is my urgent duty,” Adenauer said, “to make use of this encounter to show you the seriousness of this question.” The chancellor said there could be no real security in Europe without German unity. Adenauer led off his remarks with a thank you to Bulganin for inviting him to Moscow and said: “I come here with honest will to conduct talks openly even though it can only be a beginning,” Then, with the comment, “let’s try to get to the root ot things," the chancellor made his comments on tie over riding problem of the two Germanys. The Soviet premier, however, stressed in his o°pening speech the policy spelled out in the last two days by the government and party newspapers, Izvestia and Pravda. Bulganin said he hoped the talks will “lead to the normalization of relations between the Soviet Union and the German Federal Republic" with a Russian embassy in Bonn and West German embassy in Moscow. The marshal, who as host presided at the first session, said Russia has always believed the problem of unification was primarily one for Germans themselves. This was a reference to previous Moscow suggestions that the East and West German governments confer on the problem. After the speeches by the two delegation heads the conferees adjourned until 10 a. m. Saturday when Adenauer will be in the chair. (Continued on Page Eight) Injuries Fatal To Mrs. Elias Reineck Husband Still In Serious Condition Mrs. Fannie ’Catherine Reineck, 59, of Bluffton route 4, died at 3:45 p. m. Thursday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. She had been in critical condition since Labor Day from injuires sustained in a headon collision near oFrt Wayne. William H. Teeple, 61, of Indianapolis, died several hours after the accident. Mrs. Reineck’s husband, Elias, 64, remains in serious condition at the hospital. Mrs. Reineck was born at Vera Cruz and had been married for 35 years. She was a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving in addition to her husband are the following children: Mrs. Justine Hurt of Bluffton. Homer Reineck of Toledo, 0., Kenneth and Richard Reineck of Los Angeles, Capt Raymond Reineck. USAF, stationed at Munich. Germany, and Dale Reineck of Bluffton; two brothers, Edward and Charles Meyer of Vera Cruz, and three sisters, Mrs. Emma Moser of Bluffton, Mrs. Marie Hurt of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Lula Klopfenstein <yf Toledo, O. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Sunday at the Jahn funeral home in Bluffton and at 10:30 a. m. at the Apostoßc Christian church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. ?

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 9, 1955.

Longshoremen Strike At Port Os New York Appears Breaking Up

No Sharp Cuts In Spending On Military Power Joint Staff Chief Holds Conference With Eisenhower DENVER (INS) — Admiral Arthur W. Radford said after talking with President Eisenhower today the administration plans no sharp cuts in spending for military power in the next year. The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff conferred with the Chief Executive in Denver as former President Harry S. Truman wae charging in a Chicago speech that "unjustified and most dangerous" cuts are being made in the nation’s military power. Replying to Mr. Truman, Radford declared: “From a standpoint of security the country has never been better off.” He said the recent stories that the administration plans reductions in defense spending which would reduce military strength “are not correct.” The Pentagon will concentrate during the next year on effecting economies in operations, Radford said, apd will make ng "basic military program s.“ He said defense spending in the next fiscal year will run over 34 billion dollars, but said no one can predict at this time just what the figure will be. Radford flew to Denver late Thursday after sitting in on a meeting of the national security council, the first held since Mr. Eisenhower shifted his summer headquarters to Denver. Forty eight (Republican state chairmen who have been attending a GOP campaign “clinic” were due to arrive in Denver by chartered plane tonight. They will have breakfast with Mr. Eisenhower Saturday morning and talk over campaign strategy for 1956. The Denver White House has said there will be no announcement during the session of Mr. Eisenhower’s 1956 plans, but the (Continued on Page Eight) Regular Meeting Os Legion On Monday The regular meeting of Adams Post 43, American Legion, will be held at 8 o’clock Monday night at the Legion home. Lunch will be served following the meeting, and all members are urged to attend. ♦ ■ ' Religious Census Sunday Afternoon Decatur Residents Asked To Cooperate _ Every home in Decatur will be visited Sunday afternoon by more than 200 volunteer workers to make a religious census of the entire city. All churches of the city are cooperating in the every-home canvass and workers have been assigned from each church. All residents of the city are asked to cooperate in the census, and to have some one at home during the afternoon from 2 o'clock until the census taker, has called. In event residents are unable to be at home Sunday afternoon, they are asked to fill out a card, which is printed on page four of today's Daily Democrat, and leave the card at a conspicuous place at the entrance to their home. The volunteer workers are asked to report at the Decatur Youth and Community Center not later than 1:30 p. m. Sunday, and the canvass is scheduled to get underway promptly'at 2 o’clock. The mote than 200 volunteers, working in teams of two each, will be assigned specific territories before starting the census Sunday.

County Tax Rate Not Out Os Line Rate Is Compared To Previous Years Adams county's part of the proposed tax rate as it now stands at 73 cents for county, hospital and welfare, is not out of line when compared with rates here for the last 10 or 20 years, followers of the tax structure report. With the aid of Waldo Neal. ; county treasurer, some interesting figures of the past are revealed, i In 1946 the Adams county rate • was 71 cents and in 1950 the rate was 81 cents. Last year, because ■ of a lai<e surplus, the rate was reduced to 53 cents. Because of the 53-cent rate last year, payable in 1955, many observers felt that the low rate •would prevail again this year. The general opinion of residents in all parts of the county is that the council did an excellent job this year in holding the total rate at 73cents. This rate is broken down into the three parts as follows: County, 59 cents; welfare, 11 cents and hospital three cents. Following are the county, welfare and hospital rates each four years since 1938: 1938, 50 cents; 1942, 47 cents; 1946, 71 cents; 1950, 81 cents and 1954, payable this year, 53 cents. two factors which males Decatur’s rate Over the $5 mark are the school and civil city rates. It has been necessary to in- , crease the school rate because of the increased enrollment each , year and also because of the cum- ' ulatlve building fund, approved by . the citizens some time ago. The civil city, while reducing 1 the rate this year, still will raise the largest budget in Decatur’s , history. This is deemed necessary ’ because of the growth ot the city , and the increase in number of employes, and the increased cost of operation of government. The 73 cent cqunty rate will go . to the county tax adjustment board next Monday for further scrutiny and then the entire rate will be studied September 29 by the state tax board. Borden Purcell To Speak To Teachers To Discuss Social Security Aspects Borden Purcell, director of professional relations of the Indiana state teachers association, will be the principal speaker at a meeting scheduled for Adams Central gymnasium, Wednesday night, it - was announced today. The guest speaker’s subject will 1 be "Social security aspect for teachers.” Purpose of the meeting is to exiplain advantages and disadvantages ot Indiana teachers becoming part of the federal social secuflty organization, so that teachers would receive those benefits. A state wide referendum on the matter will be conducted among Indiana teachers in November. The meeting will- be open to the public, county superintendent Gail Grabill stated, and a special invitation is extended to all teachers, including both rural and city teachers. Considerable Interest has been shown among the teaching profession concerning the social security question and superintendent Grabill arranged the meeting in onder that all ( teaqhers of the county could receive first-hand information prior to the referendum. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and wariper tonight Saturday partly cloudy and warm with Scattered showers likely late afternoon or night. Low tonight 64-68 northeast to the low 70s extreme southwest. High Saturday in the 90s.

Truman Scores GOP Slash In Armed Forcer ‘Lashes Eisenhower Administration For Dangers Slashes CHICAGO (INS) — Forme* President Harry S. Truman accused the Elsenhower administration today of making “unjustified and most dangerous” cuts in the nation’s military power. He said the administration policy is based on the “basic fallacy of the doctrine of massive retliation” and warned: “The power of massive retaliation alone is far from enough. The kind of military strength that’will do the most to help establish a just and enduring peace without the world destruction of a nuclear war is represented by ground forces on the spot.” Truman made the assertions In a speech prepared for delivery at a luncheon meeting ot the Chicago Executives club. He told the members, mostly Republicans, that he spoke “as a former president of the United States who learned some important lessons from hard experience,” and not "primarily as *. Democrat." Truman presented a three-point plan for pre venlion of World War 111, in which he stressed the need for a large defense force. The three points: 1. “We must and should confer with the Russians." 2. “We must and should look for peaceful solutions, but never at the price ot justice and freedom.” 3. “Above all, we must keep up our guard.” The former president took note of recent stories that Soviet aircraft development and production had taken air superiority from the United States, terming the reports “enormous and dreadful.” ’ He compared this with the unsuccessful administration attempts to cut the marine corps budget, and successful cuts in the ground forces, commenting: (Continued on Page Six) Two Workers Treated After Inhaling Gas Ellis, Call, qnd Ronald Hill of Decatur were taken to the Adams county memorial hospital Thursday after inhaling excess gas fumes while working on the elevator at the Decatur water works. Hill was dismissed immediately and Call was dismissed today after treatment. Mrs. Marie Eckhardt Dies Last Evening Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Marie Eckhardt, 89, died at 5:40 o’clock Thursday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. L. R. Meyer, seven miles north of Decatur on U. S. highway 27. She had been seriously ill two days following a cerebral. hemorrhage. She was born in Kirkland township Jan. 19, 1866, a daughter of Ernest and Charlotte BicknessKirchner. She had made her ho'me with her .daughter for the past 23 years. Mrs. Eckhardt was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church and the ladies aid of the church. ■Surviving in addition ,to the daughter are two grandchildren and three’ great-grandchildren. The last member 'of Her family, she was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at St. John's Lutheran church, the Rev. Edwin Jacob officiating. Burial will be in Concordia cemetery. Friemjs may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Objections Filed To Union Election Here IUE Petitions For New G. E. Election George Gould, of Fort Wayne, field representative for IUE (CIO), stated today that the IUE has filed objections with the national labor relations board in Washington on conduct of .the bargaining election held Aug. 31 at the General Electric plant in this city. In the Aug. 31 election, UE (Ind.), which has been the bargaining agent for local G.E. ent ployes for 14 years, was winner with 366 votes against 294 cast for IUE and 19 for no union. Gould stated that the IUE. in its petition, has asked the NLRB order a new election. He said the objections were based on alleged intimidation and coercion by the UE on workers in the plant. He said the NLRB is expected to order a complete investigation of the charges; Gould also reported that in an NLRB-supervised election Thursday at the Tiffin, 0., plant of the General Electric, the IUE received 422 votes, the UE received 270 votes, and 30 votes were cast for no union. The UE has been the bargaining agent for more than nine years. \He also stated that the UE now represents only 960 workers in G. E. plants iq Ohio, whereas R represeuted 5.M3 five years ago. Jobless Pay Claims Increased In State UNDHANAIPOLirS (INIS) —The Indiana employment security division reported a 5,000 increase in the number of claims — citing short time inventory layoffs as the 1 major cause. Director William Stalnaker said 11 of the division’s state offices reported decreases in initial claims last week with Anderson, Connersville, Evansville and. New Castle areas providing the inventory increase. Registration showed 8,092 newly unemployed and 15,243 continued claims with the overall total reaching 25,170 compared with 60,555 received the same week last year. More Awards Made At Indiana's Fair Nine Awards Given To Peter B. Lehman Guernsey cattle owned and shown at the Indiana state fair by Peter B. Lehman of Adams county received nine awards headed by a second and two third place ribbons, according to the judging (sheets released by fair officials in that classification. Second place award went to Signets Loraines Valorons, a bull owned by Lehman in the four years of age and over class, Indiana division. The same animal was judged third in the open class. In the Indiana class, in the co<w over four years of age and under five, division, Valorons Q Tilda received third place. Other Lehman animals were judged as follows; Cows, three years of age and under four, eighth place; get of sire, fifth place; get of sirb, junior, eighth place; produce of dam, sixth place; produce of dam,-In-diana division, fourth place; Cows, four years of age and under five, eighth place. William H. Kohne and Sons, Adams county, received the following additional awards in the Red Poll breed: Senior yearling bull, calved in 1953, eighth place; senior bull calf, calved between July and December 1954, ninth place; junior female calf, third and sixth place; pair of calves, seventh place; junior bull calf, seventh place; get of sire, seventh place; produce of dam. seventh place, and pair of yearlings, fourth place.

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Union Leader Gives Hint Os End To Strike Advises Members To Be On Alert For Development NEW YORK (INS)—Cracks appeared today in the solid fropt of striking longshoremen who have closed the port of New York for three days. Capt. William V. Bradley, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, indicated that he may be ready to call off the walkout that had threatened to cripple all major ports from Canada to Texas. • Bradley told union members at a mass meeting this morning to “listen to the radio" for any new developments in the strike, an apparent reference to court injunction proceedings. Two full injunctions against the strikers were being sought in New York supreme court. Their three , day protest strike against the bi-state waterfront commission, meanwhile, prompted sympathy work stoppages at Baltimore and Philadelphia docks ■Thursday. k® Boston and Norfolk piers wero expected to be enveloped, today as union leaders warned the tieup would spread to all important ports between Canada and Texas. A Brooklyn waterfront boss predicted: "If this is not settled in a few days, I think even Liverpool. England, will go out.” Only a few hundred men handling army cargo were on the Job in New York harbor, where the strike was costing shipping interests an estimated one million dollars a day. The walkout climaxed months of protests by the ILA against the bl-state waterfront commission established by New York and New Jersey to rid the New York port of crime and gangster elements. ILA President Capt. William V. Bradley issued a ■ virtual ultimatum to the chief executives of the two states demanding a meeting with them to discuss the union's . alleged grievances against the commission as the price for ending the costly tieup. Both, however, quickly rejected his approach and no quick settlement appeared in prospect. U. S. secretary of labor James P. Mitchell said Thursday the federal government had “no plans for intervening” at present. The cabinet member told newsmen in Washington there had been no requests “from anyone to do so." New York Gov. Averell Harriman Thursday night called on the 30,000 idle New York area longshoremen to end their walkout immediately. He advised the ILA to “cool off” and submit specific grievances to the waterfront commission. Both Harriman and New Jersey Gov. Robert B. Meyner emphasized they would not accede to the ILA demand for a meeting with them. ' Meyner, in a statement at Trenton. said: “The chief executive of New Jersey doesn’t knuckle under to any group especially when it is in contravention of a statute passed almost unanimously by the legislature.” But Bradley said he would do nothing to bring the New YorkNew Jersey dockers back to work until the two governors listen to union grievances. The strikers earlier had disregarded a New York state supreme (Continued on Page Four) Wayne Novelty Roof Is Damaged By Fire Firemen made a call at 2 o’clock this afternoon to Wayne Novelty Co., where a fire had started at the southeast corner ot the root of the main building. Flames were confined to a small portion of the roof.