Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 36, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 36.

DENY TURNCOAT LABEL MR tbrfJE r SMIwIMRRW?' lit ■ ‘?" Wi F r -IMI gL tt Hk WL&j KgtU. BOTH GUY BURGESS (left) and Donald Mac Lean, British diplomats once stationed In Washington who disappeared behind the Iron Curtain five years ago, reappear in Moscow. Suspected of peddaling Western secrets, although they admit being Communists, they insisted they fled to Russia to “work for better understanding between. the Soviet Union and the West."

British Doubt ■M»w Russian Truth On Diplomats Turncoat British Diplomats Reveal Presence In Russia LONDON (INS) — The British government officially questioned the truthfulness of Soviet leaders today in the mysterious case of the. turncoat British diplomats, Ouy Burgess and Donald Mac Lean. Foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd did this in the house of commons even at a time when "active preparations” are under way to entertain Soviet premier Nikolai Bui«aul Rnviat Onmtnnniftt nartv gnilln ctiitl OuYlCi v/VTiTttixzrttnt |m«i tv boss Nikita Khrushchev when they visit Britain this spring. The reappearance of Burgess and Mac Lean in Moscow Saturday after their disappearance nearly five years ago touched off questions by the Laterite opposition. Lloyd rapped what he called the Soviet “laclruf candor” ht the case. He cited the fact that Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov told Harold MacMillan, then British foreign secretary, last October at the Big Four Geneva foreign ministers’ conference that he was unable to give any Information on Burgess and Mac Lean. He also mentioned Khrushchev’s recent claims- that he knew nothing ■ of the missing diplomats. "The house.” said Lloyd, “must be prepared to draw its own opinion about the veracity of these statements.” One angle that aroused a storm of criticism In London was Burgess’ statement that he was con- — netted with the MI-5, or British counter - intelligence organization, despite the fact that he never made any secret about being a Commu nist. The strong implication through out the Burgess-Macljean state ment was that the two had access to top-secret material, including the activities of the cloak and dagger MI-6. Burgess and Mac Lean claimed in their Saturday statement they never bad been Soviet agents al though admitting they were Com munists from university days. One-time Soviet spy Vladimir Petrov said in Canberra, however, that the two took large quantities of secret data with them when they fled to Russia in 1951. British ambassador to Moscow Sir William Hayter sent the report on the Saturday reappearance of the men to London. Hayter, after examining the sig ■ natures of the two <nen on the bottom bf their prepared statement, said he recognized Mac Lean’s handwriting. He said he could not attest to Burgess’ signature be cause he did not think he had ever seen it before. Eric Williams, a leading British handwriting expert, said he doubted the authenticity of both signatures. After making a study of the signatures, Williams said ‘‘my examination shows a number of basic features which are different . . . ” Two London newspapers also questioned the authenticity of the statement. The Daily Mall asked “Has Guy Burgess Changed Handwriting?” while the Dafly Sketch displayed this headline, "It it Big Phoney?" INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, not quite so cold tonight Tuesday mostly r cloudy and warmer, with occasional rain likely south portion by Tuesday afternoon or night. Low tonight 85-30 north, 30-35 south. High Tuesday 38-45 north, 45-50 south.

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Highway Death Toll Is Heavy In State Snow Blanket Over Northern Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Bad weather was partly responsible for a heavy highway death toll in In-, diana during the past week-end. There was a snow blanket from Kokomo to Michigan, but central and southern Indiana were free of i snow. The snow was more than 1 one foot deep in parts of the Lake 9 Michigan region. f Cloudy today and rain Tuesday f was tfie unfavorable forecast of the Indianapolis weather bureau 1 today. g Many northern Indiana highh ways remained slippery today, .. causing state safety officials to warn motorists to drive carefully. P Larryßridwell, 17,ofnearVincennes, was killed when a speeding automobile failed to make a j turn on a county road near Viar cennes, upset on its side and struck a utility pole. Injured were ® the driver, David R. Byers, 18; y Melvin P. Williams, 19, and his wife, Unda Jo, 18, all of near Vin- • cannes.- '■ James D. Fleming, 38, of Wayne. . Mich., died when his loaded automobile transport truck left Road 3 and plunged down an embankment ® three miles south of Vernon, in ' Jennings county. Coroner Charles 3 Helm said Fleming apparently 8 went to sleep. A head-on crash on ißoad 27, 8 eight miles south of Coldwater, ? Mich., caused the deaths of Fred Ehinger, 26, of Fort Wayne, and 1 two Coldwater residents, Levi Wil- ’ liams, 32, and his son. Dale, 12, 9 and inlured eight other persons. Henry E. Risley. 62, of India1 napolis, died when bis car struck a utility pole in Indianapolis. Colonel L. Sutton, 39, and his 1 wife. Norma L„ of Detroit, Mich., '■ died when their automobile skid2 ded on Road 37 and struck a tree north of Rigdon, in Grant county. Harrison L. Cox, 20, of Fair Oaks, was killed when the car in which b« was riding struck the » rear end of another automobile 8. and then crashed into a utility r pole on a narrow county road nine miles north of Rensselaer. Fred 1 L. Yates, 18, of Fair Oaks, driver i of the car. was injured critically. A blinding snowstorm was responsible for the death of Mrs. Gertrude Mathena. 44, of Hami mond. Her car skidded across four , lanes of Road 20 near Chesterton j and struck an automobile driven r by Joseph Williams, 27, of Chesterton. / , r James Braden, 24, of Gary, died , (Continued BUI:. r • Safecrackers Obtain $4,000 At Indianapolis J INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Some t 34,000 was obtained by safecrack- . ers who paid an eraly morning ■ visit today to the Best (Grand Laundry, of Indianapolis. ( A merchant policeman found a . rear door glass broken and inves- . tigation disclosed that two safes in an office had been cracked and . the contents stolen. • 4 Lenten Observance JI At Catholic Church r Observance of the season of Lent . will begin Ash Wednesday in St ! Marys Catholic church with the . blessing and distribution of ashes after the 7:20 a. m. mass and following evening servicesThe Wednesday evening service wi-H feature S sermon and will begin at 7:30 p. m. The Way of the Cross and benediction will be conducted 'Friday beginning at 7:80 p. m. and each Friday during the Lenten season. Services will also be held ecah Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. during Lent

Soviet Russia Builds Up Far East Air Power Keeps Astonishing Total Os Air Bases Ready For Attacks TOKYO (INS) — Gen. Laurence S. Kuter disclosed today Russia is maintaining within striking range of Japan an astonishing total of 100 bases capable of sending jet bombers against Asia’s key industrial power. * The Russians have at the same time built up their Far East lightbomber fleet, according to other sources, to almost 1,000 twin-jet IL-28s, a slick, all-weather war-’ plane. Kuter, chief of U. S. Far East air forces, released the information on the Soviet potential in response to specific questions relating to Japan’s defense build-up, now underway with U. S. aid. Kuter said that overall Communist air power in Asia, including Russian, Red Chinese and North Korean, is on the increase and in lumbers of combat aircraft is ahead of the U.S. by two to one—roughly 5,000 Communist warplanes to 2,500 American. But the U. S. air force, in Outer's mind, has the necessary edge in quality—in men, machines and know how — to defend the Far East. Much of the Communist air strength was presumed to have been concentrated in areas closely associated with the Formosa Straits area. However, Kuter evplained: j "Along with the continual buildup of Soviet air capabilities, I am sure that the number of jet-cap-able air bases within.,radius of Japan is increasing and now numbers morethan 100.” The main close-range bomber threat to Japan, with its strategic complex of industrial and shipping centers, is posed by the IL-28, a fairly modern light bomber. Because the IL-28 has a range of 1,200 miles, Knter’s statement was token to mean that the Russians have built the 100 bases throughout eastern Siberia, Manchuria, North Korea, and the Sakhalin and Kurile Islands, just north of Japan. Russian MIG-15s, fighter escorts for the bombers, have been seen at intervals within striking range of Japan in substantial numbers. U.S. air force weather reconnaissance planes have been jumped by Russian fighters over northern Japan in the past. The last incident took place Nov. 7, 1954 when MIGs destroyed an American RB-29. The fRB-29, a weather reconnaissance plane, wns riddled with bullets over Japanese territory. Other MIGs have tangled with U. S. Sabre jets in the Yellow Sea area—both in spring and summer of 1955 — coming off second best each time. These attacks suddenly ended when Moscow decreed its pre-Ge-neva spirit of peace. Kuter said his most recent reports bear out that the Soviets have inexplicably halted what were once frequent illegal air incursions over Japan. “You may be sure our radar systems are active and alert to Soviet intrusions,” he said. “Our air defense force is ready (Continued on Page Five) Paul Schmidt Wins Oratorical Contest Wins County Contest Sponsored By Legion RaUl Schmidt, a junior at Decatur high school, won the 19th annual oratorical contest sponsored in Adams county by the American Legion post 43 today at Decatur high school. Second place in the contest, which features talks on the subject of the American constitution, went to Dan Stably, a student of Geneva high school. Shirley Bleeke, a Monmouth high school student, took third place. There were no other contestants. The winners will receive cash prizes of 815, |lO and 35 respectively, from the Legion post. Schmidt, as first place winner, will com.-, liete in the regional oratorical contest. Judges for the contest were Thurman Drew, Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton, M. J. Pryor. O. ;M. McGeath and Miss Marlene Laiirent. Ed Jaberg of the Legion was chairman of the project and introduced the contest and the participants. All schools of the county were invited to participate but only’ MOntnoutb. Geneva and Decatur high schools responded.

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Special Hearings In Senate On Case Gift Ended Abruptly Today

— ’ Ike To Study Decision On Second Term Undergoes Thorough Medical Examination At Army's Hospital BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — The White House indicated today that Preaident Elsenhower -will not announce his second term decision until after he returns from a, brief Georgia vacation, probably around Feb--22. ■; . - WASHINGTON- (INS) —President Eisenhower begins today the crucial two-week period during which he may make the most momentous personal decision of hia lifetime. The Chief Executive, after a cab-; inet session today and medical report Tuesday will leave Washingtom later in week for the pesbei and quiet of south (Georgia. There he will decide if his phyai- ; cal recovery from the Sept- 24 ■ heart attack and his “own feelinga” ' allow him to seek a second term in the White House- ‘ Mr. Eisenhower indicated at his new conference last Wednesday that fie will reach his decision and 1 probably announce it to the nation by March 1. The date of the next regularly ’ scheduled news conference is Wed- ( nesday, Feb. 29. t Saturday, the President under- ' went an exhaustive medical checkup at Walter Reed army hospital —his fourth examination since leaving his hospital bed in Denver. The President has come through the earlier checkups with pronouncements by his physicians that he was making steady progress toward recovery and that no complications had developed ~A medical consultation on the results of Saturday’s checkup will be held at the White House TuesdayDr. Paul Dudley White of Boston, the President’s top heart specialist, will examine Mr. Eisenhower at 11:30 a. m- and will then consult with other physicians attending the Chief Executive. (Continued on Page Five) To Complete Girl Scout Headquarters Build Little House At Hanna-Nuttman Plans were announced today by adult leaders to complete the Little Hotee, proposed summer headquarters for all Decatur Girl Scout troops at Hanna-Nuttman park. The concrete foundation was constructed some time ago and completion of the building has been delayed until sufficient funds could be obtained. The building, when completed, wHi be summer headquarters for all of Decatur’s 450 young girls in the Scout program. Each Decatur troop has agreed this year to give two-thirds of its profit from the annual cookie sale to the building fund and several local adult organizations have signified willingness to assist financially, those in charge report. There will be no compaign for funds, leaders said, because the Girl Scouts are members of the Community Fund and therefore .surrender their rights for a separate drive for funds. The Hanna-Nuttman bulging will be used all during the summer for the outdoor programs and the troops will continue to use the Youth and Community Center for winter headquarters. Completion of the building under supervision of the adult leaders will be the culmination of a 10-year program, during which time the building fund has been set up.

Thomas H. Baltzell Dies This Morning 99-Year-Old Man Is Taken By Death Thomas Huffman Baltzell, 99. one of Adams county’s oldest residents, and a former county auditor. died early this morning at his home in Washington township. in declining health be reuse of his advanced age, he had beau fairly well and his death was unexpected. Born in Blue Creek township, Dec. 20, 1856, he was a son of John and Rebecca Jane RubyBaitzell, and lived in the county practically his entire life. He was married Sept. 2, 1882, to Emnia Jane Andrews. Mrs. Baltzell died Jan. 12, 1942. . Mr. Baltzell, after spending his i boyhood in Wells county, moved : to a farm in Washington town- . ship immediately after his mar- ( ilage and lived the rest of Ms life there with the exception of the , years of 1913 to 1917 when he WTs . Adams county auditor. Mr. Baltzell, one of the county's ~ best known farmers,,was an importer and breeder of Shropshire . sheep. He was a member of St. Luke’s > Evangelical and Reformed church ! at Honduras, and of the Elks lodge of Decatur. f Surviving are four sons, Walt- ; er Thomas Baltzell df f HL, John Clifton Baltzell and Dent ( Oberlin Baltzell of Decatur route 6, and Victor Lowell Baltzell of Decatur route 4; four daughters, Mrs. Carl Adler and Mrs. Ruth Williams of Monroe route 1, Mrs. Ervin Lochner of Decatur route 4, and Mrs. Walter J. Elzey of [ Decatur; 17 grandchildren; 29 f great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Belle Leikauf of Los Ant geles, Calif. One daughter, three sisters, one brother and a grandt son preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Lewis Minsterman , officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after o’clock ' this evening until time of the ' services. Decatur Lions Club Meets This Evening The weekly dinner meeting o£ the Decatur Lions club will be held at 6:30 o’clock this evening at the Youth and Community Center. Dr. H. R. Frey will talk and show pictures of his recent trip to Mexico. Agreement Reached On Mallory Strike Union Membership To Study Agreement INDIANAPOLIS (INS)— Members of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workersa re expected to meet toon and ratify a new agreement leached Sunday to end the P. R. Mallory & Co. strike. The union represents 3,200 wo-kers who walked out on Jan. 4 after a .breakdown of contract negotiations.— ... Officials of the union ond of the company reached the new agreement after 13 hours and 45 minutes of negotiations, ending near midnight Sunday. A joint company-union statement said: “Satisfactory agreement by the company and the union in negotiations over the week-end has been reached. The union committee has agreed unanimously to recommend settlement to the general membership at a meeting to be arranged as soon as possible." “An agreement was reached laat month but the union membership rejected it on Jan. 28. A statement said members opposed it because of compulsory overtime, (Continued on Page Five)

One Killed In Toledo Blast This Morning Four Buildings In Downtown Toledo ■ Leveled By Blast 1 TOLEDO,-a JINS) —At least one person wdt killed, two were ; seriously injured and one man left t unaccounted for today after a - blast leveled four buildings in ! downtown Toledo, causing more s thah a million dollars damage. i Toledo firemen were probing 1 the ruins of the three-story Beegle meat .products division of the Hys Grade Products Corp, and three 1 smaller buildings to determine if - an unidentified worker and per- - haps others lost their lives in the » city’s worst blast in recent years. > The one known, dead was identls fled as Paul Borcherdlng, 54, of Toledo, an employe of the Beegle s firm. James Dunn, 40, and Stanley - Bamschroeder, also 40, were seris ously burned and wjre in fair condition at Mercy hospital. s A fourth man was in the plant ! when the blast occurred, but haa 3 not been found. . . Early reports said that at least . three persons died in the explo- , sions, but these wei*e discounted t bj’ Lucas cb|nty/eoroner Paul , Hohly. f Baifischroeder told authorities that he reported to work at 4 a.m., i walked into the meat cooler room and as he lit a cigaret the exploj sion occurred. r Toledo fire chief A. Papenhagen ( said there was a smell of ammonia in the area. The chief estimated damage would exceed a million 5 dollars. Not much of a fire developed after the blast, but 16 fire compa(oontinuM on t*a*« B!xy . Mrs. Louise Buuck : Dies Early Sunday I Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Louise Buuck, 89, a lifelong resident of Preble township, died at 1 a.m, Sunday at the home ’ pf her. son, Rudolph Buuck, eight miles northwest of Decatur. She had been bedfast for the past four years and blind and deaf for a number of years. She was born in Preble township Aug. 9, 1866, a daughter of .Frederick and Marie KummerDecker, and was married to Fred Buuck in 1890. Her husband died Jan. 25, 1924. Mrs. Buuck was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheitn and the Ladles Aid . .of . the church. Surviving are three sons. Rudolph. August and Albert Buuck. all of Preble township; one daughter, Mrs. Martha Gallmeyer of Preble township; 12 grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Buuck and Mrs. Anna Fuhrman, both of Preble township. One brother and three sisters are deceased. * /. .... Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. the Rev. A. A. Fenner officiating. Burial will be in the church ceinetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. ■ » - Meeting Os Woman's Club Is Postponed The general meeting of the Decatur Woman’s club, which was scheduled for tonight at the Youth ' and Community Center, has bfeen postponed for one week. Mrs. Herbert Storck of Fort Wayne, the guest speaker, became ill and will be unable to attend tonight’s scheduled meeting. The meeting has heen moved up to Monday, t February 2d. " I

Severe Cold Wave Plaguing Europe New Disasters Are Heaped On Continent LONDON (INS) —Europe entered the third week of its most severe cold wave in 100 years today as nature heaped pew disasters on a frozen continent. A huge avalanche buried hydroelectric installations in Yugoslavia ; near the Albanian border- At least i 30 Yugoslav workers were believed buried and it was feared that more . than a hundred might have been ; caught in the snow slide. The icy weather was reported to have taken 59 lives in Paris over the weekend. The cold spell has caused the price of fresh vegetables in France to skyrocket. Fourteen crew members aboard a Greek air force plane were believed lost in the stormy Aegean SeaAn SOS message was broadcast from the plane as it was returning from a mercy mission to the snowbound villages of northern Greece All efforts to locate the plane have failed. The first planes of a 40-piane American "mercy lift” arirved in Rome from U S. installations in West Germany. They were carrying thousands of tons of blankets and food for isolated villages in southern Italy. Although the temperature climbed a little in Great Britain, weather forecasters predicted another cold spell with biting winds soon would set inIn Turin, Italy, a school mistress beat off a starving wolf with a school catalogueAnd in uairo, a nousewife was hospitalized with serious burps. She told police she dellberately/set herself afire to keep warm in Egypts cold wave. “ Local Man's Mother Killed In Accident Mrs. Marie Siegej*, 70, mother of Leon Sieger of 'Decatur, died Sunday morning at Bellevue, O„ of injuries sustained Saturday when the taxicab in which she was a passenger was involved in a collision with a truck. Mrs. Sieger, who had visited at the home of her son here on numerous occasions, is also survived ' by two daughters, Mrs. Ralph Cobble and Mrs. Fred Collins. The body was removed to the Foos funeral home at Bellevue. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Governors Suggest W. E. Arbitration Two Arbitrators Are Named By Governors PITTSBURGH (INS) —The governors of five states are qwaiting reaction today to their selection of two arbitators who will conduct a fact-finding into the 120-day Westinghouse strike. Governor George M. Leader of Pennsylvania announced appointment of attorney David L. Cole of Paterson, N. J., and Dr. George W. Taylor, professor pf industrial relations at the University of Pennsylvania. Acting with Governor Leader are: ’ Governors Averill Harriman, of New York; Abraham Ribicoff. of Connecticut; William C. Marland, of West Virginia, and Robert Meyner, of New Jersey. Governor Leader said that the purpose of the inquiry is to investigate the facts and to determine the unresolved issues. He said that the findings will be presented to the public, labor and management and the governors. The - Pennsylvania chief executive intends to meet early this week with Taylor and Cole to discuss what they will be paid and the number of assistants they will require. —- f Governor Leader acted two days 1 (OpauauM oa race Six)

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Recess Public Hearing After Neff Testifies See Possibility Os Resuming Hearings Within Next Week WASHINGTON (INS) —The special senate hearings on a $2,500 campaign contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) were abruptly ended today but there was a possibility they may be reopened next week. The blue-ribbon committee headed by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Gtn—Tecessed its public hearings after John M. Neff, who offered the *2,500 to Case’s fund, testified he did not give money to the personal campaign funds of any other senator. After Neffs testimony, the committee went Into closed session to consider testimony taken in the inquiry to determine whether an attempt was made to influence Case's vote on the natural gas bill. ■ ■ Meanwhile, Sen. Thomas 0. Hennings (D-Mo.) resigned today as chairman of the committee hearing the case to set the stage for new inquiry into lobbying activities on the natural gas bill. Hennings madet he announce ate committee prepared to up public hearings on a *2.60« campaign contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) by a lawyer favoring the gas bill. Last week, Hennjngs became embroiled in a running dispute with the special committee, headed by Sen. Waiter F. George (DGa.) over which senate group had jurisdiction over- the Case incident. Hennings called off his probe temporarily after George claimed “exclusive jurisdiction” over the Case affair. Demands also were made that Hennings resign from the elections subcommittee on grounds he could not continue;, as i a member under senate precedent ' because he faces reelection this i year. L || In a letter to senate rules chairman Theodore F. Green (D-R&) 1 Hennings noted that the rules i group would not permit the elections subcommittee to proceed with its investigation of expenditures made by proponents or opponents of the gas bill, “as long as I am chairman or a member of the subcommittee." Hennings said in a separate statement that his resognation, effective immediately, was tendered s o that “nothing may impede, impair or delay the inquiry which I started into expenditures to influence legislation.” - The Missouri Democrat said that the elections subcommittee Wuura Cuntfmtv uiratsr cwn. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) who is expected to succeed Hennings as chairman. ’ - St On Saturday, the George group “pinned down” the source of the ' *2,500, finding out that the sum came from the “personal funds” of Howard Keck, president of the Superior Oil Co. of California. Keck said the contribution was made without his knowledge by the firm's chief lawyer, Elmer Patman. In turn, Patman delivered the money to John M. Neff, a Nebraska lawyer kho gave it to (OoMtnuM on raae Six) Tuesday Deadline For Gross Income INDIANAPOLIS (INS —Midnight Tuesday night will be the deadline for payment of the Indiana gross income tax- - Persons who fail to pay by that time will face a penalty of 10 per cent of their bill, or *2, whchiever is largerJan. 31 la the usual deadline, but an extension until Feb 14 was granted to enable all workers to obtain their earnings statements from their employers. —-J&zsß