Hamilton Daily News Journal (Newspaper) - August 30, 1954, Hamilton, Ohio A Strone Buv United States Bonds United and latter an HAM I LTD N JOURNAL HAMILTON IN 1791-rw-:wiw M 14, it tt Mirth AUGUST 3 0. 1954 VOL. 68-NO. 215 PRICE FIVE CENTS News family of 22 PAGES WEATHER HAMILTON AND CLOUDY AND COOLER TONIGHT AND LOW TONIGHT 55-82. PRESIDENT URGES MILITARY BUILD-UP French Often Debate On European Army Proposal PARIS - French advocates j cleared of rearming Germany within a European army marshaled their defenses in the National Assembly today after Premier Pierre refused to delay the crucial debate any Opening the treaty debate Mendes-France maintained his attitude regarding the European Defense Community Pact but he choked off several attempts to stall discussion and the wav for the i would ask Me the other faction to have its Mayor Defends Plan Former Premier Rene Mayer was the first to accept the challenge with an urgent plea for adoption of the With 69 more speakers to be heard the debate is expected to last at least until There appeared some chance that before voting to ratify or reject the the Assembly Atomic Energy Measure Signed By Eisenhower WASHINGTON Eisenhower today signed the atomic energy legislation and declared it will speed the time when the atom be wholly to peaceful The which ignited one of the hottest congressional fights of the overhauls the 1946 Atomic Energy Act. One of the changes permits the under Church Assembly To End Tuesday 111. - The momentous second General Assembly of the World Council of Churches neared its end today after ringing declarations calling for living of the East and West and placing the church adamantly against racial segregation and use of nuclear This assembly of church leaders representing 163 denominations from 48 countries ends tomorrow after almost continuous sessions since Aug. 15. The principal major task remaining was that of the in or church Over the the assembly accepted reports Appealed to Communist and non-Communist nations to recognize they must in order to head off their march toward a cataclysmic deep the conflict may the council is not necessarily an insuperable bar to living Mankind is sick of and wants to be at Urged upon nations of the world the abandonment of as an instrument of policy beyond existing Termed Communism a snare of but warned the West against Called on all nations to that they will refrain from the threat or of nuclear weapons against the territorial integrity or independence of any Urged new efforts for international inspection and prohibition of hydrogen and other weapons to end arms race of unprecedented MILAN CARDINAL TAKEN BY DEATH Italy OB - Alfredo Cardinal Roman Catholic archbishop of died today of a heart He was 74. The aged who was elevated to the College of Cardinals and took over his archbishopric in 1929, had been in failing health for some He died in the papal seminary at near The cardinal had suffered from heart trouble for months but became seriously ill only while on a visit to the seminary near Heart specialists attended him and he appeared late last week to be he suffered another attack last night and died just before His death reduced the College of Cardinals to 68, two under its full membership of 70. MILD WEATHER FORECAST TODAY CHICAGO OB - Clear skies and mild weather was the order of the day for most of the but there were Temperatures were mainly in the 60s and 70s early The upper Mississippi had some brisk low 50s, and the ther ranged in the 50s also in upper New York State and New Missouri had some vigorous thun which brought around a half-inch of rain to many sections and to There were half-inch showers in the and light showers in the far North to seek | feat of EDC would in no way solve | the question of German Problem Of Germany problem of Germany and its rearmament won't be automatically he or the problem will arise again in one form or He is indeed flippant who would vote today for or against without re- certain security to give nuclear information to America's The new legislation for the first opens the door for development of a private atomic power industry within the United Takes Note Of Debate in a took note of the warm debate in Congress over these He said he feels were revealed during the and want our people to know that these provisions are designed eventually to relieve the taxpayer of the enormous cost of the commercial aspects of the while fully protecting the public interest in atomic these provisions carry into effect the 1946 policy declaration of the original Atomic Energy that free competition in private enterprise should be Eisenhower expressed confidence that the new measure will be a boon to public and private development of atomic It will he to greater national undertaken as a result of this new the President help us progress more rapidly to the time when this new source of energy will be wholly devoted the constructive purposes of 107,000 Attended Fair On Sunday Ohio 0B - An estimated 107,000 persons thronged the Ohio State fairgrounds here yesterday as veterans joined with the military to stage a colorful salute to the armed Although short of the record 124,-000 attendance a year ago yesterday's crowd was the largest of the 1954 which opened One highlight was the of a pill box by 20 Marines using a bazooka and a A parade and drum and bugle corps demonstrations were other One casualty of the fair was 4-year-old Elizabeth Rupp of who died yesterday of injuries received when she fell from a ramp during a children's style show Fair officials said the girl slipped and fell about five feet during the show at the Arts and Crafts She died at Children's Hospital after a brain Winners in the drum and bugle corps contest were Massillon American Legion Post 221 which took the first Bellefontaine American Legion Post 134 was second winning and post 318 at Forestville took for third MEAT PACKING EXECUTIVE DIES Minn. C. 61, head of the George A. Hormel meat packing died early today following a long new concessions from five prospective members of the alliance - West the Netherlands and Mendes-France failed to get the changes he wanted in his talks with the other five foreign ministers at Brussels earlier this Three-Hour Speech In his three-hour speech yesterday he still refused to take a stand for or against the But he warned that West Germany cannot be denied sovereignty much He said that if the EDC treaty is he will call the Assembly back to ratify the Bonn the companion pact to give the Germans virtually full control of their own Now drafted to take effect only when EDC the Bonn Accord does not alone give the Germans the right to create an Mendes-France declared that de- his Mendes-France spoke bitterly of the Brussels labeling it and but he said the Assembly must take a position on EDC so France's allies will know where she Leading off the Mayer pleaded with the Assembly not to do what the United States did in rejecting the Versailles Treaty after World War I. That May fleeting on all the consequences ofj er delayed the by 30 Hall Gives Opening Talk At Cincinnati GOP Rally McCarthy Returns For Senate Hearing WASHINGTON McCarthy flew in today from Los Angeles to defend himself in a new Senate investigation of his conduct and to learn the on a prior Senate probe of his pleading weariness after the declined to discuss the cases with a He was accompanied by Mrs. McCarthy and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Vogeler is the American businessman whom the Hungarian Communist government imprisoned two years A reporter asked whether Vogeler will join McCarthy's Senate investigation subcommittee staff or have any part in the is just a good the senator A special bipartisan committee headed by Sen. Watkins planned a meeting later in the day to complete plans for the scheduled start tomorrow of public hearings on a resolution to censure McCarthy for what Sen. Flanders has charged was conduct a and tending to bring on the On another the three Democratic members of the Senate Investigations subcommittee sought to complete before a 5 p.m. deadline their minority report on the 36-day hearings which ended last June 17. BATCHELOR TRIAL TO OPEN TODAY SAN Tex. OB - An attorney for Cpl. Claude J. said he will tell a general court-martial here today that the Army Batchelor im munity and then went back on its Batchelor's trial opens today in a building at Ft. Sam Defense Atty. Joel Westbrook of San Antonio is eager to clear himself with the American 22, of is charged with collaborating with the enemy and informing on his buddies during his 31 months as a prisoner of war in North He was one of 23 American prisoners who decided to stay with the Communists after the Korean But he changed his mind and came back to the Allied side last Jan. 1. The only other American of the 23 who came back was Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson of Big Stone Va. He was convicted by a court - martial last May 4 on charges similar to those brought against Of the other 21, one has been reported dead by the Chinese CINCINNATI Chairman W. Hall keynoted a Republican party campaign pep rally here today by accusing congressional Democrats of using in attempts make our legislation Hall called on party committeemen and state chairmen to our standing pledge of campaign But he said in a speech prepared for a workshop conference here that the Republicans are going to hang up the in what President Eisenhower said was the control of Blasts Demos As a possible example of what he had in Hall said he was happy to report that the Republicans have bobtail hangers-on of the left-wing ADA for Democratic persuasion to confuse us with calls for recognition of Red China and for scuttling the administration's hard-hitting Tlie GOP chairman did not spell indictment but his thrust about making legislation obviously was aimed at Senate headed by Sen. Hubert Humphrey of who Airman Beaten By son of the founder RUNS WILD the had suffered more than a year with heart | Surviving are his three George A. Hormel formerly married to actress Leslie 24, a Coast guardsman stationed at San Diego and 21, student at THREE PERSONS WOUNDED IN MIDDLETOWN SHOOTING Ohio continued their search today for a mystery man who wounded Mrs. Lee 29, and her 4, as they sat on a neighbor's porch The Mrs. Jane 65, also was None was seriously Ala. 0B - A brutally beaten airman remained in serious condition today as Air Force and city officials prepared to take drastic action to halt a series of attacks here by on military Mayor W. A. Gayle and Col. James G. wing base commander at Maxwell Air Force scheduled a meeting today with other city officials and officers from Maxwell and Gunter The meeting was spurred by an attack Saturday morning on Hubert B. Ward of 21-year-old Maxwell who suffered a brain probable brain hemorrhage and possible fractures of the skull and face Ned 17, and Butch 14, were held without bond on charges of robbing and assaulting Jones was one of five fined each 10 clays ago for attacking another Several high school students have been arrested in a series of recent incidents which airmen reported they had been attacked for dating local One airman said he had been tortured with lighted cigarettes by a group of forced through a measure to strip the Communist party of its legal The Democrats did not succeed in getting final approval of their original proposal to make membership in the party a The as stripped the Communist party of But Democrats nailed its passage as a political coup which would an- to 1'nRe 10. - High Farm Prices Goal Of Demos SIOUX S. D. candidates for Congress from 15 Midwestern states today pledged to work for re-establishment of rigid price supports on farm Though they got no support for their views from Adlai the three dozen nominees for the Senate and House made the pledge yesterday in a joint ment after a party agricultural conference J Rigid price supports wore knocked out by the administration's new farm signed only last Saturday by President the 1952 presidential nominee and titular leader of the indicated in his speech closing the conference Saturday night that he did not know the permanent formula for keeping farmers he solution does not lie in just the alternatives of the so-called flexible supports demanded by the administration and the 90 f per cent ' The Democratic leader did denounce President Eisenhower for what he called a and total breach of to farmers in obtaining enactment of the based on flexible price Under this price guarantees are high in time of shortages to encourage production and low in times of surpluses to discourage His own Stevenson was that the high should have been kept this as a stabilizing AT BOAT CLUB R. 16-foot skiff with an outboard motor threw two fishermen overboard yesterday and ran wild near 100 sailboats off the Bristol Yacht To keep from getting Edward J. Sanchas and Joseph both 24, had to dive underwater each time their boat roared by with its throttle wide Two Bristol rescue squad boats made a vain attempt to halt the rampaging The men finally swam to a sailboat as two Coast Guardsmen in a motor launch pursued the circling One finally grabbed the bow the other jumped aboard and shut off the ELECT NEW COMMANDER MIAMI Fla. - A disabled former Rufus H. Wilson of Falls is the new commander of the Ameri can Veterans of World War II and Korea who at 28 is the youngest man ever to head the 10-year-old was elected yesterday after a close contest with Harold Koch of St. Mrs. Jackie Voelkl of was elected vice commander at Miss Sandy of was selected Saturday night as AMVET of 1954." The 19-year-old blonde beauty is 5 feet 9V4 inches and weighs 124 Her measurements are 36, 24, 36. To Vt. - The youngest and oldest polio victims In compare notes on their treatment with Dr. Carroll B. 94, hero of the 1894 Otter Creek Valley Sarah 62, in a was the youngest victim in that first recorded mass attack of polio in the United Beside her is Ralph 4. Their recovery is being aided by the National Foundation for Infantile now conducting an Emergency March of Phenix City Trial ect 500 Indictments MOTOR MUNCH 54 PERSONS MISSING MANILA OB - The Philippine News Service reported today that 54 persons are missing after a motor launch capsized and sank yesterday in Illana Bay off del Sur Sixty persons were reported aboard and six survivors were | said to have been picked up OHIOAN SLAIN NEAR PAULDING Ohio today questioned a 27-year-old man who they said told them he was asleep in a car at the gas station where Harley 47, was shot to death Parson's body was found in a washroom with three bullet wounds in the Police said no money was taken from the cash register and no weapon was Parson operated the all-night gas station and ice cream stand on U. S. 127 just south of The Indiana man was quoted by police as saying he heard no gun shots while sleeping in his He said he had asked permission earlier to sleep at the Parson was married and the father of three His body was found at 6 a. m. Sunday by four youths who stopped for Two of the youths were from New Lebanon and two from both in the Dayton The four were released yesterday after questioning by LOST FOUND IN CALIF. FOREST RED Calif. James Marshall wandered three days in rugged country where even Indians have been known to lose their Two Service men found him yesterday in primitive Mendocino National He became lost Thursday on a hunting trip with his Planes and bloodhounds had aided 203 men in the James was reported PHENIX Ala. 0B - A dramatic new chapter in the tale of vice and corruption in fabulous Phenix City unfolded today with a grand jury report expected to contain more than 500 Special Judge Walter B. Jones called Circuit Court into session to receive the first presentment three weeks after the 18-mari blue ribbon jury began its investigation of widespread Picked teams of National Guardsmen stood ready to arrest VICTORY PLEASES PRESIDENT DALLAS - President is at the re-election of Texas Gov. Allan a conservative Democrat who supported Republican Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential Democratic National Chairman Stephen Mitchell says he does not consider victory an indication of any national trend or of about Shivers rode a record Texas primary vote Saturday to victory over Austin Atty. Ralph who was backed by liberal Texas It was a runoff election in which Shivers won an unprecedented - in Texas - third elective two-year term and Yarborough failed a second straight time to unseat The latest tabulation of the Texas Election an unofficial showed Shivers had a lead of 93-240 771,569 for Shivers to 678,329 for LETTER CARRIERS OPEN CONVENTION CLEVELAND National Assn. of Letter whose members recently learned they would get no pay raise this opened its 39th biennial convention here The question of wages ranked high on the list of convention business as some 10,000 delegates represented approximately 103,000 letter carriers in the Congress recently approved a five per cent pay boost for postal but President Eisenhower vetoed the The President said he felt a pay raise would be unwise since Congress failed to authorize a boost in postal 100TH BIRTHDAY MARKED BY CALIFORNIA WOMAN Calif. Anna Jane recipe for a long right with yourself and the defendants named In the probably the greatest number ever returned by a grand jury in Until the arrests ire the names of those indicted must remain Multiple Indictments Multiple indictments against some of the gambling big shots were expected to account for many of the anticipated 500-odd true As many as 50 Indictments were believed likely against Still others may come later in the continuing vice Special Solicitor George C. Johnson said the jury would go right back to work as soon as the initial report was It was almost a foregone that the first Interim report would contain no indictments for the murder of crusader A. L. whose death on June 18 started the unprecedented vice purge in Phenix where wide-open gambling and other rackets flourished for Secret Testimony Stale authorities directing the search for Patterson's killer haven't completed their Grand jury testimony is protected by closely guarded but the identity of many witnesses subpoenaed in the past three weeks indicated the nature of the 21 FREIGHT CARS LEAVE TRACK Ohio Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars left the tracks here today and for a time blocked N. Main Railroad officials said one car jumped the causing the others to be No one was The derailment caused a temporary shutdown of part of the Ohio Brass Co. plant when one car crashed into the company's carpenter damaging the air A spokesman for the railroad said no passenger traffic would pass through Mansfield for two days while tracks are LEGION CONFAB HEARS TALK BY IKE Stresses Failure To Keep Strong Reserve CHIEF EXECUTIVE Says Political Timidity Must Not Bar Program Essential To Defense WASHINGTON OB - President Eisenhower told the American Legion today that creation of a mighty military reserve as a bulwark against communism will be a No. 1 on his 1955 legislative have failed miserably to maintain that ready military reserve in which we have believed for 150 the President declared in a speech prepared for delivery at the legion's annual at long we must build such a And we must maintain it. thinking and political timidity must no longer bar a program so absolutely essential to our Then he of an adequate reserve - an objective for which the American Legion and other patriotic organizations have vainly fought for a generation - will be a No. 1 item submitted to the Congress next No Unfair Burden In his speech to fellow many of whom served under supreme commander In Europe during World War the chief executive reserve will not unfairly burden men who have already This administration will see to The President said that for a century and a half the United States has prided itself its refusal to maintain large standing military have upon the civilian But we have done so without being fair either to the private citizen or to the security of the No Detail He went into no detail about the nature of the military reserve he wants to He made no mention of the plan for a powerful reserve outlined a few weeks ago by John then assistant secretary of defense in charge of manpower and now returned to the presidency of Michigan State That plan called for every able-bodied young man to put in a military service stint and then join the The White House said 10, ABERDEEN MAN'S BODY FOUND NEAR HIS HOME Ohio OB - The body of William 30, of Rt. 1, was found in a ravine near his farm home yesterday and the Brown County coroner ruled the death a Beasley had been sought since Friday when his Mary 29, was killed and his 3-year-old Officers said Beasley himself N. C. ALERTED FOR HURRICANE Fla. OB - Hurricane warnings were ordered up along the North Carolina coast north of Wilmington to Manteo today as the third tropical storm of the moved slowly northward with increasing winds now clocked at about 100 miles an Storm warnings for winds of less than hurricane force remained on display south of Wilmington to S. but Forecaster Grady Norton In the Miami Weather Bureau said the South Carolina warnings were SEPARATED IN HITCHHIKING JOURNEY INDIANAPOLIS 0B - Police arranged yesterday to reunite a hitchhiking 8-year-old girl with her Ohio Mrs. Florence L. 42, of Bowling The mother said she and the Elsie accepted separate rides in trucks near because they had too much baggage to ride She said they planned to go to Bowling Green to the home of her James The girl was put out of the truck before the driver was arrested for drunk driving in police The drivers had planned to meet neighbors and worship She went to church yesterday on j with the same shotgun used in the | her 100th I slaying of his Inside Among Sick Amusements Births Columnists Churches Classified Comics Crossword 19 14 19 10 8 18-19 21 5,
