Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 213, Decatur, Adams County, 10 September 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIIL No. 213.

TRUMAN FORMULA ~ POLITICS isn’t the only thing at which former President Truman is expert. Asked how he keeps his trim figure at age 71, the former Chief Executive explained his system to Chicago newsmen, with gestures. It’s exefcise, he said. You just push yourself away from the table. "Like this,” he demonstrates.

Soviet Leader Refuses Talks On Prisoners No Discussion Os Prisoners Unless East Germans Bid MOSCOW (INS) — Soviet premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin told West Germans today he would not discuss the question of German prisoners of war held in Russia unless the East German Communist regime participated in the Moscow conference. Thus an early deadlock loomed on this issue in the historic talks which opened Friday with West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer's demand that the prisoners be released as a step toward normalizing diplomatic and other relations. Bulganin was quoted as denying that Russia even held any German prisoners of war. Official West German figures estimate that 100,000 Germans are missing. .Bonn has conceded that many may be dead but believe that a great many are being held in the Soviet Union or in other Communist ruled states. German informants said there was “very heated" discussion in the three and ona half hour conference which began at 10 a.m, and ended at 1:30 p.m. (6:30 a.m. EDT). There was also some blunt speaking. The erect, 7 9-y ear-old Adenauer looked grim and tired as he left Spiridonovka Palace, part of the Soviet foreign ministry, where the talks are being held. The Bonn leader warned in his opening statement Friday that normal relations with Russia were “unthinkable” unless the PQiys were released. He also demanded the reunification of Germany and said normalization of relations as such could not be attained prior to reunification. No meeting was scheduled this afternoon. The next one will be Monday. The questions of the POWs and of reunification were not on the agenda proposed by Russia at the time Moscow initiated plans for the current parley and invited Adenauer. The invitation was based on establishment of diplomatic relations between Moscow and Bonn. In view' of Adenauer’s stated prerequisites for this, observers do not exipect final agreement during the current talks. BULLETIN Three persons, an 11-year-old girl, and two Michigan men, were brought to the Adams county memorial nospital after the Michigan men’s auto crashed into the rear of a wagon loaded with tomatoes, and pulled by a tractor, a short distance east of Preble about 1(1:30 o'clock this morningi Vicki Fawbush, 11, riding on the wagon pulled by the tractor driven by her grandfather, Albert Bieberich, appeared to be seriously injured. The Michigan men, riding In a car with Michigan license plate CX-97-81, apparently were less seriously hurt Their identities were not learned at press time. Both vehicles were headed east. Bieberich escaped with minor injuries. The accident Is being investigated by state trooper L. D. Coppes.

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Stale Fair Closes, Plan For Next Year New Board To Meet On November 16 INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Reorganisation of the Indiana state fair board as provided by law, was the next step in the advance toward the 1956 event. The re-organized board, following elections in districts where the present member’s term is expiring then will undertake the task of planning the successor to the 1955 fair which closed Friday night. A likely opening day of Aug. 29. 1956 has been suggested by some board members, but that decision •Will not be made definitely until after Nov. 16. That is the date for the first planning session of the new board. 1 . The 1955 fair, which raa for 10 days, gamed a paid admission total of 596,509. which exceeded the nine day 1954 fair by 30,407. However it was considerably short of the 1952 record of 659.454 although single day records were set on three days. The actual attendance is a figure much higher than the paid attendance, since on various dates special groups are admitted free. In final judging, Pine Angus Farm, of Anderson, showed the grand Champion Landrace sow, and Stanley B. Mussellman, Noblesville, the reserve champion. Grand champion Brahman bull was shown by L„H. Stucky, Woodburn, and the reserve by John H. Capterton, Crestwood. The grand champion female of the same breed was entered by Charles Contris, Lafayette, O.

Hopeful Os Averting Westinghouse Strike Midnight Os Sunday Is Strike Deadline PITTSBURGH (INS) — Top level meetings between union and management representatives in Pittsburgh have sparked hope for a possible settlement of the Westinghouse Electric dispute before the Sunday midnight deadline. James C. Carey, president of the CIO International Union Qf Electrical Workers, and vice president R. D. Blasier, of Westinghouse, met in Pittsburgh Friday in last ditch efforts to avert the strike which would hit Westinghouse plants from Connecticut to California. . / The high level discussions were scheduled to continue today. The dispute stems from a strike by Local 601 at the Westinghouse East Pittsburgh plant which began last Aug. 8. Some 2200 day shift workers there walked out in protest against a company job time study. The union s Westinghouse conference board, after attempts at settlement of the dispute proved futjle, ordered 28 locals, with some 45,000 members at Westinghouse plants, to take a strike vote. Also in town to take part in the last minute peace efforts was John R. Murry, of Philadelphia, said to be one of the top trouble shooters of thejtederal mediation and conciliation service. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers today, turning much cooler. Cooler tonight. Sunday mostly fair and quite cool. Low tonight 52-58, high Sunday 65-70.

Seek To Avert Deadlock Over Disarmament Russian Delegate Balks At Efforts Os Western Powers UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The western atomic powers conferred today in an effort to fight off a threatened deadlock with Russia over disarmament proposals. The U. S., Britain, France and Canada held private talks on ways of preventing the Soviet from stalemating the two weeks old UN disarmament subcommittee negotiations which resume Tuesday. Soviet delegate Arkady A. Sobolev balked at western efforts to obtain a clear cut indication from the Russians on the problem of global atomic inspection, high point of the Eisenhower “watchdog” plan. The Russian, on the contrary, charged the U. S. with beclouding the disarmament issue through its action in shelving all previous disarmament proposals in favor of the Eisenhower aerial survey plan. U. S. sources dismissed Sobolev's charge ga another Soviet move to delay agreement on the key question of setting up safeguards against sneak atomic assault Western spokesmen .indicated impatience with Sobolev’s stubborn refusal to endorse the “watchdog” principle and to answer searching queries on this point put by the four western allies. British minister of state Anthony Nutting said he was “sadly disappointed” with the Russian’s behavior and remarked: “You can not have progress so long as one chap refuses to 'answer questions.” Nutting disclosed to newsmen after Friday’s meeting of the disarmament subcommittee that Sobolev complained the western diplomats were asking too many questions and bring up too manydetails on control and inspection. Sobolev, for his part claimed the U. S. had not answered completely his questions regarding the American attitude toward the Soviet disarmament proposals of last May 10. These called for step by step disarmament, a ban on al Inuclear weapons and use of ground inspectors to ward off attack. Sobolev said he asked presidential aide Harold E. Stassen whether the Eisenhower proposal envisioned the exchange of information on non-atomic as well as all thermo-nuclear weapons. U. S. sources assured that it did. Armed Forces Aid Forest Fire Fight Lass In California May Total 20 Million SAN FRANCISCO (INS)—Fresh reinforcements from the army, the navy and the marine corps manned firelines today in California forests where 320,000 acres have been burned in six days. United States forest service officials said the total loss throughout the state might be $20,000,000 —the worst damage in 31 years. The three most serious fires were raging in the Klamath national forest near the Oregon border, in the Sequoia national forest in central California, and in the Los Padres national forest in coastal Santa Barbara county. Five hundred marines from Camp Pendleton and 160 sailors from Pt. Magu arrived to help fight the Los Patres blaze, bringing the total number of firefight ers to about 2,000. The Los Padres blaze was burning on a 70 mile primeter with 17 miles of it out of control. Forest service officials said it may be completely controlled by Sunday afternoon. Much Cooler Weather Forecast In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana thermometers will hit the downward slide of a roller coaster today, to the tune of scattered rain showers. Temperatures reached a high of 99 in the state Friday at Evansville, but are forecast to start scooting to the lower 50s by tonight. Readings today were in the nineties. For most of Indiana Sunday will range in the 60s.

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GOP Chairmen Os All Slates Meet With Ike Chairmen Breakfast With Eisenhower At Denver White House DENVER (INS) — Republican chairmen from all the 48 states sat down to breakfast with President Elsenhower today brimming' with confidence —on the surface at least —that he will lead the party to victory again in 1956. Mr. Eisenhower, in the role of old pro, was to give the heads of the Republican state organizations some tips on how he thinks the GOP should go about winning next year’s elections. He won’t answer the big question — whether he will head the party ticket —but most of the GOP bosses are ready to answer it for him as they arrived in Denver by chartered plane Friday night after graduating from a campaign “college” in Washington. Republican national chairman Leonard Hall put it in these words: “I assume he is going to run, and that is enough for me." - No ohe was ready with an answer as to what would happen if Mr. Eisenhower dediced not to seek reelection, but it was a thought that sent cold shivers down the spines of the Republican leaders as they assembled in Denver. The breakfast meeting was the idea of the President, who thought it would be a good way td get the party leaders together for an informal talk about how to go about beating the Democrats in 1956. As a White House spokesman put it: “The President will indicate some of the areas he thinks Republican camp planners and field generals should concentrate on to build party enrollment and win the election of 1956, federal, state and local.” Before leaving Washington, the chairmen dispatched a telegram to Mr. Eisenhower endorsing him for a second term and declaring, “We Like Ike Better Than Ever.” Both Mr. Eisenhower and hiS staff at the Denver White House were officially silent on the telegram, but it pointed up the mounting pressure on the President to declare his second term candidacy. Ball also made these points at a news conference after arriving in Denver: 1. He doesn’t think any Democrat would be tough for the President to defeat—"l think Mr. Eisenhower will beat any Democrat by a larger vote than in 1952." 2. He thinks Governor Averell Harriman of New York is "coming forth pretty strongly” in the contest for the Democratic nomination. He expects that Vice President Richard M. Nixon will again be Mr. Eisenhower’s running mate. Representative Richard Simpsoh (R-Penn.) chairman of the house Republican campaign committee, predicted confidently that the GOP will win control of the house in 1956. He said Republicans should pick up seats in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Illinois, Wisconsin and other states. 11-Year-Old Boy Is Killed By Automobile FRANKFORT, Ind. (INS)—Elev-en-year-old James Ricker lost his life when he rode his bicycle out of a driveway into the path of an automobile on a road northeast of Frankfort t' The little bby died Friday in Clinton county hospital where he was rushed after the accident. Driver of the car, Guy H. Snodgrass, 18, of R. R. 2, Frankfort, was not held.

Official Tax Rales Listed For Decatur Adjustment Board Will Meet Monday Here are the proposed total official tax rates for Decatur which will go to the Adams county tax adjustment board Monday for action prior to the final action to be taken by the state tax board September 29: Decatur-Washington, total, including poor relief, $5.27. Decatur-Root, total, including poor relief, $5.30. The final official figures vary slightly from the estimates because the poor relief figures are not in the original township budgets. A complete breakdown of the proposed budget for DecaturWashington is: General county, 59 cents; welfare, 11 cents: hospital, 3 cents; township, 3 cents; poor, 13 cents; special school, 69 cents; tuition, 98 cents; school bonds, 24 cents; cumulative building, 75 cents; recreation, 3 cents; library, 14 cents; corporation, $1.22; parks. 8 cents; recreation, 5 cents; police pension, 3 cents; firemen pension, 2 cents; state, 15 cents. Total $5.27. Here is a breakdown of Deca-tur-Root: General county, 59 cents: welfare, 11 cents; hospital, 3 cents; township, 6 cents; poor relief, 3 cents; special school, 69 cents; tuition, 98 cents; school bonds, 24 cents; cumulative building, 75 cents; recreation, 3 cents; civil bonds, 10 cents; library, 14 cents: corporation, $1.22; parks, 8 cents: recreation, 5 cents; police pension. 3 cents; firemen’s pension. 2 cents; state, 15 cents. Total, $5.30. « Figures previously given did not include the poor relief rates which are to be added to the total rate in each township. The poor relief' rate in Decatur-Washington, is 13 cents and in Decatur-Root, is three cents. Report Approval Os Morocco Peace Plan Reports Ex-Sultan Has Approved Plan PARIS (INS) — Premier Edgar Faure appeared today to have the necessary support to put into effect his compromise “new deal” to bring peace to Morocco. Written approval of the plan reportedly has been received from the exiled former Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef. Gen. Georges Catroux, who was sent to Madagascar to confer with the Moroccan leader, told newsmen of the agrrement Friday night at Antsirabe. He quoted Ben Youssef as backing the Faure policy of establishing Morocco as a free sovereign country tied to France with a pact of interdependency. This paved the way for the removal —probably early next week —of the present sultan. Sidi Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa. He would be replaced by a council of the throne under the Faure plan. The only stumbling block seen likely now to halt execution of the Morocco settlement before Monday’s deadline was opposition by French conservatives. To cope with possible violence in the event the settlement cannot bq effected on schedule, the French have rushed additional troops and equipment to Morocco and Algeria. ——-- New violence erupted Friday night in the Arab quarters of Casablanca. • A homemade bomb exploded killing three Moroccans and wounding four others. In a second Incident a Moroccan was wounded by several revolver shots. This shooting was followed by a house to house check by troops. NOON EDITION

German Unify Plan Sought By Big Three Workable Formula For Reunification Os Germany Sought WASHINGTON (INS) — The U.S., Britain and France are bending every effort to devise a workable formula for German reunification and European security. The formula they seek must be not only workable but one that the Russians could accept at the foreign ministers’ meeting which begins Oct. 27 in Geneva. The state department announced Friday night that “a wide range of possibilities" has been covered in preliminary talks by the three powers. The U.S. target date for reunification of Germany is two years from now, sometime in late 1957. Top officials in the state department believe the date can be met. State department spokesman Henry Suydam, in a brief statement Friday night, indicated the amount of preparatory work has already been done. He said the currant exchange of views is but “preparation for the detailed study which will be made by working parties" before the foreign ministers meet. He also said that secretary of sta,te John Foster Dulles, foreign secretary Harold MacMillan of Britain and foreign minister Antoine Pinay of France will work on the problem in New York on Sept. 27 and 28. Mystery Witness In Death Os Heiress Mother To Appear In Court Monday PHILADELPHIA (INS) — A “mystery witness” reportedly is among the 10 to 15 persons who will testify Monday when Mrs. Gertrude Silver appears before a magistrate to answer charges arising from the death of her heiress daughter. Although the names of all ot the witnesses for the state are a guarded secret, the identity of one aroused particular speculation when he kept his face hidden after leaving the office of district attorney Samuel Dash Friday. Mrs. Silver has been charged with conspiracy and being an accessory before the fact to an abortion which caused the death of her daughter. 22-year-old Doris Jean Oestreicher, a bride of two months. Asked how soon he expected to arrest other persons believed to be criminally involved in the case. Dash replied: "As soon as J have enough evidence.” Dash told newsmen that if Mrs. (Centlnuea on Page ffiigbt? John H. Heller Named To Adjustment Board John H. Heller, chairman of the board of the Decatur Democrat Co., has been named to the Adams county tax adjustment board, by Judge Myles F. Parrish to fill the vacancy made by the inability of W. P. Robinson to serve at the meeting Monday. Both Heller and Robinson are Democrats. Other members who will meet Monday to prepare the total tax rate to present to the state board of tax commissioners September 29 include: - Louis Reinking, Sr., Democrat and Brice Bauserman, Berne, and Tressa Jeanette Glendenning, publicans, named by the court. Others are, William Linn, Washington township trustee, to represent the trustees; H. Vernon Aurand, clerk-treasurer of Decatur to represent the city, and Henry Dehner, county counciL

Bowling Green, 0, Is Without Wafer Break In Main Line Shuts Off Supplies BOWLING GREEN, O. (INS)— The 9,000 residents of Bowling Green were left completely without water today and Mayor Clarence W. Dick declared a state of emergency as a result of a break in the main 20 inch line carrying water into the city from the Maumee river. The break, which occurred about midnight Friday, was discovered this morning when residents awoke to find their faucets gave forth with nothing but noise. Plans were immediately made to round up every available drop of the precious (when you don’t have it) liquid from surrounding areas. Bowling Green university supplies and a well at a big quarry near the city were brought into play, but are not expected to fill the pipes until sometime this afternoon. However, the state health department warned that the unprocessed water, even when it does come in small doses, must be boiled before it is usable for drinking purposes. The H. J. Heinz factory at Bowling Green, which employes around 800 persons, was forced to shut down and all large water users, such as factories, etc., were requested to suspend operations at least for the day. Tank trucks from nearby Haskins, O. —which is on the same line from the Maumee river, but is between the Maumee and the point of breakage in a farm field near Bowling Green — rushed into the city with water supplies. When one resident was asked what he was doing-about the water supply, he replied: “Going thirsty, unshaven, uncombed and, if you’ll pardon the expression, uncleaned for the day.” Bowling Green’s population is 12,000 when the uniiversity is in session. The break was expected to be repaired and normal service restored sometime this evening. Plane Crashes Into Yard, Boy Killed Small Plane Crashes Into School Yard BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (INS) — A six-year-old boy was killed and his sister critically injured Friday night when a small plane in Which their father was riding crashed in a school yard at Sanders, near Bloomington. Ind. Little Thomas Eugene Bouher was killed instantly and his eight-year-old sister, Twyla, was taken to Bloomington hospital where her condition was described as serious. The accident occurred when the plane, piloted by Mac Manion, 33. of Crawfordsville, Ind., in which the children’s father, Homer, 26, was a passenger, apparently hit an air pocket after taking oft in a nearby field. The children's mother, Geraldine, 24, said the plane had climbed only a few yards in the air and crashed into a teeter totter in the school yard whore the children were playing. Bouher and the pilot escaped from the small craft with minor bruises and lacerations. Columbus Woman Dies In Two-Car Accident COLUMBUS. Ind. (INS) —Mrs. Neva M. Huntington, 26, of Columbus, was killed late Friday and her i3-month-old baby, Nelva, was injured seriously in a two- car collision nine miles southwest of Columbus, on Ind. 58. \ Witnesses said Mrs. Huntingtofr apparently lost control of her car and It swerved into the path of another automobile. She was on her way to pick her husband up at work.

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United States Wins Release Os Prisoners Chinese Spokesman In Announcement Os Agreement Today GENEVA (INS) —The United States won a Chinese Communist promise today to release 28 or more American civilians unjder arrest or detention in China. A Chinese Communist spokesman himself announced agreement on the repatriation issue prior to issuance of a communique later today. “We have reached agreement on point one," he said, “and have now finished with this item on the agenda.” . Item one concerned the repatriation of civilians of both countries in the negotiations that began Aug. 1 in Geneva. Under item two, the negotiators will discuss “other practical matters” of interest to the two countries. This means the explosive Formosa issue in which the United States is working for a cease fire in the Formosa Strait dividing the Red-held mainland and the island, held by Chinese Nationalists. It Alexis Johnson. American ambassador to Czechoslovakia, and Wang Ping Nan, Chinese envoy to Poland, who have been doing the negotiating in Geneva, will meet next Wednesday to take up item two, which presumably also will include talks on east-west trade. Johnson and Wang met for two hours and 16 minutes today, their 14th meeting. Details of the position taken on the Chinese students still in the United States were not revealed immediately. But Washington reported early today that the United States -has given renewed assurances that any student may return home it he desires, and the Indian embassy will represent on a humanitarian basis any student who feeis the U. S. is barring unfairly his return. The Indian* embassy thus would act as an intermediary between the U. S. and China. The Washington report said that China will act “expeditiously” in releasing the American civilians, “subject to Chinese law.’’ This means that the Americans now imprisoned would have their terms changed to deportation, parole or suspended sentence. When the talks began Aug. 1 the Peiping government suddenly announced the release of 11 American airmen who had been jailed on spy charges. The airmen had been captured during the Korean war and the announcement of the charges-denounced by the state department as false-was made last November by Peiping. The next good news for Americans occurred last Tuesday when Wang promised that 12 American civilians would be freed. Nine of these Americans already had applied for exit permits. They included four women and two young girls. The Chinese said they could leave at once and three other Americans might leave as soon ,as tliew were able or willing. Among the latter three was the most Rev. James Edward Walsh, 64, Roman Catholic bishop in China, and a member of the Catholic foreign mission society of America, known as the Maryknoli Fathers from their headquarters in Maryknoll, N. Y. Bishop Walsh had wanted to remain and die in China as a martyr, but the society ordered him to return home. He was in charge of the CatholkT bureau in Shanghai when it, was suspended by the Reds In June, 1961. MySt of the 12 Americans are expected to leave China later thia month by British ehip, bound for Hong Kong but with a possibility they might land at the Japanese port of Yokohama. Os the determined 28 persona (Continued on Page Six)