Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 223, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1955 — Page 1

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SURRENDER SHIP AND SANCTUARY ttW’ ■ “iOkf tjik : 'J ' — * ' :fV:A: ’W* ! T* , *T*V ■■'*■’ 14 ; ' ' *■"-- ';,■; ’'MB ' . .■ ■ '■■ ■'' <' ■' "■■ **•.•■. • vV' r- ■ . .> ■■ 1 £ Hi*' wfe--WITH REBEL ADHERENTS mopping up oppositionln the city of Hue non Aires, leaders of the military junta which succeeded abdicated President Juan D. Peron brought his government to an end with acceptance of terms of surrender aboard the cruiser “17 of October” (top), the former U.S.S. Phoenix. Meanwhile, after three attempts to leave the harbor of Buenos Aires, the Paraguayan gunboat “Paraguay,” tied up and. according to reports, surrendered Peron to the rebel high command.

Peron Congress Dissolved By New President General Lonardi To Be Inaugurated President Friday BUENOS AIRES (INS) — The Ueronista controlled Argentine congress was dissolved today by Maj. Gen. Eduardo Lonardi, the provisional president who is scheduled to be inaugurated Friday. Lonardi issued a decree at his headquarters at Cordoba, 400 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, as a prelude to his expected triumphal entry in the capital city. -The 59-year-old career army man who aided in deposing President Juan D. Peron after a decade of power also decreed the reestablishment of the names of La Pampa and Chaco provinces. —fca Pampa had been named Eva Peron after Juan Peron’s late wife during his reign. antLChaco’s name had been changed to Peron. Mountains of junked pictures of Peron and Eva Peron were piling up in Buenos Aires and throughout the country as the successful rebels stripped them from public offices and front stores and business firms. It still is impossible to 1 give even an of the casualty toll in the-arme<-forces-dur-ing the revolt that began last Friday and ended with' Peron's resignation last Monday. But it is probably no exaggeration to say that upwards of 2.000 civilians lost their lives throughout the country. » Lonardi’s exact arrival time is not known, but he is due to be inaugurated Friday. - ... The ceremonies had been scheduled originally for noon today. The new government announced late Wednesday night the inauguration had bee« postponed for 24 hours. No explanation was given, but it was presumed Lonardi wished to rest a day before the ceremonies, an event which climaxes his five-year-long fight to oust the long time dictator. The national holiiday declared for today was canceled and rescheduled for Friday. Observers here were waiting to see whether the worker members of the Peronist confederation of labor CGT would return to their jobs. Most of them stayed away Wednesday In protest over the final collapse of the Peron regime. Lonardi was quoted as having said in Cordoba Wednesday that he had no intentions of trying to bring Peron to trial. He was said to believe the fallen strong man must “be judged by posterity.” Peron himself still was under the protection of the Paraguayan embassy. That nation granted the ex-president political asylum on Monday when a Peronist military junta sued for peace with the insurgent army and navy leaders under Lonardi. Peron spent Wednesday aboard a Paraguayan gunboat at a Buenos Aires dock. He was reported in a state of near physical collapse. This morning, Peron was believed either still aboard the vessel or in the embassy building. Paraguayan authorities were believed waiting for a safe conduct pass to be Issued before taking faff® Five) 12 Pages

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Slain Boy's Mother Identifies Picture Weeps On Witness Stand During Trial SUMNER, Miss. (INS) —Mrs. Mamie Bradley wept on the witness stand as she identified a police picture of the body of her son, Emmett Louis Till, 14-year-old Chicago Negro boy who was murdered in Mississippi for allegedly ( “wolf whistling” at a white worn- ’ an. my son,” she said soft- ( iy. Tears welled in her eyes. Then she bowed her head. She ran her , hand quickly across he eyes as ( tears trickled down her cheeks. t The two white men on trial for I the murder — Roy Bryant, 24, a storekeeper, and J. W. Milam, 36, 1 his half brother — set just back of the defense counsel table less [ than 15 feet from the bereaved . mother. Bryant looked at the witness with no sign of emotion, Milam, who i was attired in a sports shirt and > khaki pants, occupied himself by i reading letters that had come to him. He was crewing gum and ' smoking a ciga ret. Mrs. Bradley testified that the ■ slain' boy’s father — Louie TillI died in the European war theater ' in 1945. He was a veteran of the ■ African and Italian campaigns. On a finger of the body when i it was fished out of the river three days after Till was abducted was ■ a silver signet ring bearing the initials “L T.” That ring, according to Mrs. Bradley, belonged to the boy's late father. Since she was slated to be a ' witness for the prosecution, Mrs. Bradley was not in the Sumner courtroom when “Uncle Mose” 1 Wright, the boy’s great uncle, dramatically pointed out-Bryant and Milam as the two men who broke into his house in the dead of the night and seized the boy. The next time “Uncle Mose” saw the boy, he was dead, lying on the shore of the Tallahatchie River near the town of Phillip after having been taken out of the water. “Uncle Mose” said the ring with the initial “L. T.” was on his great nephew s hand when the body was found. Two officers who subsequently arrested Bryant, operator of a gem eral store at Money, Miss., and Milam, a one time grocer, testified both men admitted they had spirited young Till away from "Uncle Mose's" home but claimed they later turned him loose. Sheriff George Smith of Laflore county told the all white jury he went to Bryant’s store on the afternoon of Aug. 28, the day after Till was abducted, and talked to Bryant. They sat together in the sheriff’s car outside the store. "I asked Bryant why he went to Mose Wright’s home to get the Negro boy,” Smith related. “He told me he had only brought the boy to his store, and when his wife said he was not the boy, had turned him loose.” It was at the Bryant state that young Till a few days before allegedly made “ugly remarks” and “wolf whistled” at pretty, 21-year-old Carolyn Bryant, the defendant’s wife. - - -» — INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers tonight and Friday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 50-60 extreme north and 65-70 central and south. High Friday 70-75 extreme north to around 90 central and south.

Ike Receives Message From Soviet Leader Personal Message Believed To Deal With Disarmament WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower has a personal message from Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin. Content of the note has not been disclosed. ' P It was delivered to the Chief at his vacation headquarters in Fraser, Colo., Wednesday morning. Acting White House news sercetary Murray Snyder said there would be no immediate comment. A similar message from the Russian premier was delivered to British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden in London. British sources said it was concerned with the disarmament talks underway at the United Nations in New York, and that Bulganin expressed disappointment over results thus far in the negotiations. Washington sources said the Russian official also was sending a message to premier Edgkr Faure. It was indicated that Eden and Faure received copies of the letter addressed to President Eisenhower. It was assumed that the note — because it was sent to all three nations —dealt with an issue or issues of concern to western powers. Disarmament, now being discussed by a U Nsubcommittee in New York, is one of these. Others are German unification and a European security treaty. Evansville Faces Transport Strike EVANSVILLE, Ind. (INS) — Evansville faces the prospect of walking instead of riding next week unless federal and state labor conciliators can produce an agreement between the Evansville City Coach'-Lines and Local 878 AFL Motor Coach Union. The union voted, 87 to four, to strike at midnight Sept. 30 if no settlement is reached/ ■ .». State Polio Total Is 285 For Year Last Week Increase In Indiana Is 32 INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana’s polio report today showed a statistical upturn in the number of cases — but Indiana state board of health officials said it was of no practical significance. The new total announced today was 285 for a period from Jan. 1 to Sept. 17, with the increase last week amounting to 32 cases. Os the 32, however, only three had their onset in the past week and the other 29 became ill before Sept. 10. Delay in getting reports to the state board of health 'and checking to determine if the illness is a positive case contribute to the delay. There had been 27 cases reported for the previous week, of which eight began during the week. The deaths remained at seven, a level rached Sept. 10. Indiana’s polio level continues lio'reinaln far below the number of cases for the past three years but officials said it still is too soon to say to what extent this is due to the use of Salk polio vaccine. The level in 1954 at the same time was 435; in 1953 it was 481 and in 1952, the cases had reached 635. Lake, with six additions this week, has a revised total of 35 cases on the current report One case counted previously was removed after the illness was found not to be polio. Grant, with five new cases for a total of 31 was relatively much harder hit since its population is only about one sixth of Lake's. Allen listed three new cases this week for a total of 8. Two each were recorded by these conntips for new totals:* Jefferson, 2; Madison, 7, and Marion, 26. Three counties recorded polio cases for the first time this year, to bring to 64 the number of counties affected. New additions, with one case each, were Greene, Posey and Putnam counties. Other counties reporting one additional case this week and their new totals, after revision, were: Bartholomew, 3; Boone, 3; Dearborn, 5; Randolph, 2; Ripley, 3; St. Joseph, 15; Tippecanoe, 5; Vanderburg, 5; and Wayne, 5. =■

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Craig Use Os Troops At New Castle Says Martial Law Extreme Measure, Refuses Request* INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Gov. George N. Craig tossed the hot potato of enforcing a Henry circuit court order against mass picketing in the Perfect Circle strike back to local law enforcement officers today. Meanwhile, another critical labor situation arose at Richmond today when some 1,000 persons staged a mass picketing demonstration in front of the Crosley plant of the strike bound Avco Manufacturing Company in violation of a Wayne circuit court injunction banning mass picketing. As a result, work was stopped in the plant which had been operating with only a few workers. The automobile of a non-union man was overturned. Richmond police appeared in front of the plant but they withdrew after they saw the huge force of pickets. The mass .picketing followed a meeting of Local 1127, AFL Broth- ' erhood of Electrical Workers at which a company proposal to end ‘ the walkout was rejected. The foundry of the Perfect Cir--1 cle Corporation at New Castle re--1 mained closed today for the fourth consecutive day. This strike began on July 25 and has affected the company’s plants at New Castle, Hagerstown and Richmond. Governor Craig rejected a request for national guardsmen made by Henry circuit court Judge Wesley W. Ratliff and sheriff Robert Padgett The governor said: “The matter of martial law is an extreme measure that suspends all civil law and should be used only in extreme emergency. It is damaging to the community and does injustice to many people. The counties should use their own authority and only when life and property actually is involved, should martial law be invoked.” The governor said that both national guard and state police observers have been watching the Perfect Circle strike, adding: “We can get there within an hour,, but local government never should be superseded by the military or the state executive unless absolute necessity demands it.” The governor’s statement came after the national labor relations board ini ndianapolis had dismissed a charge of unfair labor practice leveled by the CIO United Auto Workers against Perfect Circle. Predicts Democrats Will Sweep House Ohio Congressman Makes Prediction WASHINGTON (INS) —The chairman of the Democratic national congressional committee predicted today that his party will sweep the house in 1956 with a 60 seat majority. Rep. Michael J. Kirwan (DOhio) said: “Next year will be our best, as far aa the house of representatives is concerned, s in c e 1948.” Seven years ago, when former President Harry S. Truman won his surprise victory, the Democrats carried the house with a majority of 92. Kirwan’s prediction, if borne out. would give the Democrats their biggest majority in the house since '4B. In 1950 they exceeded the Republicans by 35. In 1952 President Eisenhower led the GOP to an eight-seat margin of control in the house. The Democrats recaptured It last year with a majority of 29. The present lineup is 231 Democrats, 203 Republicans and one vacancy.

Dewey Retained By Turkey As Counsel Dewey's Law Firm Retained By Turkey WASHINGTON (INS) — The government of Turkey has retained former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and his law firm as its U. S. legal counsel at an annual fee of $150,000. This was disclosed today in doc--1 uments filed with the justice department under the foreign agents registration law. Dewey will take personal charge of Turkey’s legal interests in this country. The ex-governor and GOP presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948 announced in New York Tuesday that he would leave Saturday for a four week air trip around the world. He said he would visit five countries — Turkey, Pakistan, India, Burma, and Thailand —for the first time, and would also stop in Italy, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Japan and Hong Kong. He described his trip as "entirely personal” and added that the first fourth of it would be concerned with legal matters. After, stepping down as New York governor, where he served three terms, Dewey became head of the firm of Dewey; Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer and Wood. The law firm was established in- 1909 and employs 50 attorneys. According to the documents on file for public inspection, the contract with Turkey for legal services of an unspecified nature was signed late last month by Haydar Gork, the nation's ambassador to the U. S. Officials said it is not unusual for law firms to represent foreign nations on such a basis.-A study of reports filed last year showed that the highest individual legal fee during 1954 was paid to the law firm of former secretary of state Dean Acheson. The firm, Covington and Burling, received about $84,600 from the government of Columbia. However, a year earlier the same firm reported receiving $200,000 from the government of Iran. Details of the specific purpose of the Dewey retainer were not immediately available. An embassy spokesman said only general legal activities and counseling were contemplated. Demurrer Filed To Suit Against City Legal Motion Filed By Defendant City A demurrer against the complaint for injunction and damages filed by Alvy Buffenbarger against the city of Decatur, was filed by city attorney Robert S. Anderson in Adams circuit court Wednesday. The demurrer is a legal motion which claims that the plaintiff’s complaint is not made on sufficient or proper grounds. The city alleges that the complaint for both the injunction and damages, the plaintiff has not set out proper grounds. The demurrer states that it is not sufficient to seek damages by merely alleging that the defendant has operated a plant. The defendant’s motion states that it is necessary to- show that the damage was caused by negligence oh the part of the city in operating and/or constructing the plant. Buffenbarger seeks $10,006 damages to. his property which he claims result from the operation of the city's diesel plant at the corner of Dayton avenue and Seventh street. No date was set for argument of the demurrer. In three other complaints for damage filed against the city as the result of operation of the diesel plant,- motions by the defendant to strike and make more specific have not yet been ruled upon.

U. S. Protests Accusations By Adenauer Press Reports Say Adenauer Accused Ambassador Os Bias BONN (INS)—The U. S. was reported today to have made the strongest representatives to West Germany over press reports that chancellor Konrad Adenauer had accused the American ambassador in Moscow of "bias.” The newspaper Abendpost, published in Frankfurt, said Adenauer had cast aspersions on the objectivity and accuracy of ambassador Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen’s reports to Washington on the chancellor’s talks in Moscow with the Soviet leaders. The representations —diplomatic language for a protest — were made to the Bonn foreign office by the U. S. embassy. Abendpost published what it claimed were the essential details of an off the record press brief held by Adenauer in the chancellory, last Tuesday to seven American reporters. While those presen# were honor bound to confidence, Abeedpost, which was not represented, quoted the chancellor as believing Bohlen's reports were "colored” and “more alarmist than circumstan- . ces warranted.” • The paper also said Adenauer stated Bohlen’s “bias" was the result of a "sharp, temperamental exchange of words” between the envoy and Bonn diplomat Herbert Blankenhorn during the Moscow talks. The exchange allegedly took place when Blankenhorn reported to Bohlen a Soviet protest to the Germans about the launching of anti-Cdmmunist propaganda balloons. Such balloons have been launched from West Germany for years by private anti-Communist organizations such as the free Europe committee. Three Youths Leave For Armed Service Three Adams county young men left this morning for Indianapolis and active induction Into the nation’s armed forces. The local selectives service board listed the youths as Richard Dale Swygart, Richard Harvey Allspaw and Douglas Duane Schindler. Employment Gain Reported In City Major Industries Report Increases ’ There were 194 more people em- i ployed in seven Decatur industries < during August, 1955, than in the same month of 1954, according to i figures released today by the i Chamber of Commerce. The total i was 1,525 for this year compared with 1,331 a year ago. Payroll figures for July, 4955, i were $330,805 compared with $335,- i 125 a year ago. It was pointed out i that several industries were oper- 1 ating overtime a year ago, which i makes the difference in total amount of payroll. ' Other 1955 figures for July include telephones, 5,959 compared i with 5,803 in 1954; electric meters, < 3,873 in 1955 and 3,435 in 1954; water meters, 2,485 this year compared with 2,450 in 1954; gas meters, 2,267 this year and 2,245 last year in August. There were 97 births reported ■ compared with 71 in August a year ago. Deaths totalled 12 this year and 11 a year ago in August. Carloadings in were 614 compared with 1,164 in 1954 and carloadings out totalled 1,286 compared with 1,238 tn August of 1954. Express shipments were up this (Continued on rage Five)

Parental Requests For Vaccine Shots Request Forms For Second Polio Shots „ Mrs. Glenn Hill, cqunty volunteer chairman of the polio vaccine project here, stated today that parental request forms ' for the second shots are being sent out today and Friday from Adams county schools. The sups will be given to all children who received the first free shot during the last school term. Parents of the children are requested to fill out the slips, giving the name of the child, their own names and indicating by writing ’yes' or ‘no* whether they wish their child to receive the second shot. The request forms are to be returned by the children to their respective schools Monday, Mrs. Hill stated. The shots will be given in the schools Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week. The second round of shots will be administered by Adams county physicians on a volunteer basis as they were last May. Dr. Harold Zwick, county medical chairman, is in charge of the project. The vaccine for the shots is provided free of charge to all children who were in the first and second grades last year. The cost of the project is being handled by the Adams county chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The schedule, as announced earlier this week, will be Geneva. Berne, Kimsey, Lincoln of Blue Creek, ’ Monmouth, Bobo and Schnepp schools on Wednesday; Jefferson, Hartford, Adams Central and Decatur Catholic schools on Thursday, and Lincoln of Decatur, Pleasant Mills, Zion, St. John's, St Peter’s, Emmanuel and St Paul’s schools on Friday. Outlaw Court Venue To Stall Settlement Order Is Issued By State's High Court INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The Indiana supreme court has outlawed the use of change of venue to stall settlement of civil cases in Indiana’s county courts. The high court’s order came at the request of the state bar association and followed failure of the 1955 general assembly to pass a bill with a similar goal. Chief Justice James A. Emmert said the new ruling will speed handling of cases and prevent abusive use of venue. But he added that the litigants’ rights will be preserved throughout. Effective Jan. 2, no change of venue will be granted from a county court unless it is asked within 10 days after issues in a case are determined and It is ready to be set for trial. A county judge can prove the cause could not have been discovered before the 10-day deadline. At present, attorneys may ask a change of venue any time before the opening of trial and the judge must grant the request Rep. David W. Dennis, Richmond Republican, Introduced the measure that failed to pass the recent legislature which would have accomplished essenltally what has been done by the state supreme court. “Some insurance companies” were singled out at the time as leading offenders In using the change of venue to delay, if not defeat, justice and to force clients to settle on the insurance companies’ terms. BULL E T I N SAN FRANCISCO, (INS) — Receipt of a written note demanding $5,000 ransom for the return of kidnaped slx-day-old Robert Marcus was disclosed today by San Francisco police. Police said >a package was left at a place specified In the ransom demand note writer apparently made no attempt to pick up the package.

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Dulles Voices Hope Os Peace At U. N. Meet Offer Strong Pact Today For Price Os Reunified Germany UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —Secretary of state John Foster Dulles on behalf of the western powers offered Russia a strong European security pact in the UN today for the price of a reunified Germany. Dulles, speaking before 1,000 delegates to the tenth UN anniversary assembly including Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov, voiced the hope that “the next decade shall be known as the healing decade of true peace." The secretary of state followed Brazil's Cyro Freitas Valle to the rostrum amid rolling applause in which the Soviet bloc joined wholeheartedly in evident demonstration that “the Geneva spirit” is dominantly present Facing a crowded chamber and with TV cameras grinding away. Dulles spoke in carefully couched language but drove home strongly the U.S. insistence on releasing captive nations behind the Iron ' Curtain from Soviet bondage. ’ Dulles, while urging Soviet participation in a European security pact warned that “this unprece- ’ dented opportunity” to solve the ’ German reunification problem has a time limit He had in mind that the solution should be achieved at ’ the Oct. 27 conference of foreign ministers in Geneva. Dulles turned in the direction of Molotov at one point and said Iron Curtain satellites must be set free if “the spirit of Geneva is genuine and not spurious.” Dulles made the following points: 1. The “Present opportunity” for German unification is “so unusual and so full of constructive possibilities that it can be hoped that the forthcoming fourpower foreign ministers meeting will find a solid basis for the reunification of Germany within a frame work of European security.” MORE MORE MORE MORE MOR However, Dulles warned, the present favorable situation may not always exist and “it cannot be assumed that the western powers, including the United States, will always be ready to enlarge' their present commitments to meet Soviet concern about European security." 2. Soviet satellites: What Russia does about granting freedom to East European satellites will be "a barometer of the Soviet’s real intentions.” ~~ 3. Aerial surveys: President Elsenhower's “open skies” proposal offers a “beginning” toward disarmament by providing early safeguards against sneak attack. He urged assembly support of the U.S. position that the start toward disarmament should be made "simply” and “quickly.” 4. Atoms For Peace: Dulles announced the U.S. will propose the holding of a second UN conference on peaceful uses of the atom as a result of the “outstanding” success of the world nuclear congress in Geneva last month. He noted Russia “is now taking a more co-operative attitude” toward global efforts to develop the atom peacefully. 5. Atomic radiation: Dulles said the U.S. also plans to propose establishment of an “international technical body” to study the effects of atomic radiation upon human health. India, in particular, has complained that U.S. nuclear tests were contaminating the atmosphere. The secretary of state pointed out that it is difficult to establish cordial relations between governments "when one is seeking by subversion to destroy the other.” Dulles added: “The head of the Soviet government took the position that these problems were not a proper sub(CouUnued on Page Five)