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HERALD-REVIEW ATUR Index to Today's Herald Editorials Page 4 Sports Pages 11-12 Society Page 13 Movies Page 7 Household Page 13 Radio-TV Page 9 Vol. 74 No. 297 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1953. 20 PAGES 5 CENTS IB BUSINESS OFFICE MondiT-Satnrday 8:30 a. m.

to 5 p. m. DECATUR STORE HOURS Saturday -Spcciil Open until 8:30 p. n. Monday Noon to 8:30 p.

m. Tuoday-Sarorday 9:30 m. to 5 p. m. BANK HOURS Mraday-Fnaay 9:30 m.

m. to 2:30 p. m. Samiday 9:30 m. to noon.

DIG HERALD to ac nrea Flier, Old Pane Before Tak-off at Bloomington Hollywood Group Guards G1 Morals; Beauty's Bikini Misses Trip to Korea 3 Navy Fliers Survive Iceland Bomber Wreck Reykjavik, Iceland, Dec. 18 (AP) The wreck of a U. S. Navy Ike Says Tax Cuts Permitted By Economies Washington, Dec. 18 (AP) President Eisenhower said tonight that economies by his administration have paved the way for the tax reductions which are to take effect Jan.

1. TfTOTO I I QjJ I took off from Bloomington Friday on a flight to Dallas, Tex. The flier later was reported over Guard Officer Resigns Over StrattonCut Springfield, Dec. 18 (AP) Gov. William G.

Stratton declined comment today on a sharply worded statement by Maj. Gen. Harry C. Bolen, who resigned in protest against Stratton's plan to merge the Illinois National Guard's two infantry divisions. Bolen declared the governor's plan to consolidate the 33rd and 44th divisions was "contrary to the best interests" of the guard.

Stratton announced the program Thursday and said it would bring "better defense, better security and tremendous savings." Bolen has been 44th commander since 1950 and headed the division when it was called into federal service early in 1952. Most of the officers and men now are back home. The governor's office said no action has been taken on the resignation, which was sent by telegram from Bolen's home in Cairo, 111. Bolen said the governor's decision to merge the divisions came as a "shock and a surprise" and that Stratton was "ill advised on National Guard matters." The guard officer said that when Stratton visited the 44th at Ft Lewis, in August, he told the senior commanders that "he desired them to reorganize the division upon their return to Illinois." "A plan to do so was approved," Bolen added, "and the members of the division have been proceeding according to the approved plan." William W. an administrative aide to Stratton, said the governor found after his return from Ft.

Lewis and a study of the matter that consolidation "is the better plan." Downey said the governor still would be saving the taxpayers' money regardless of what the "top brass says." Stratton's claim that the would mean "tremendous savings" was challenged by Bolen. The governor said the move, which is subject to federal approval, would save more than three million dollars in the 1955-57 fiscal period. Pilot 1917 Plane Missing Terry Moure and Bikini fair, Warmer DECATUR AND VICINITY: Fair and warmer Saturday. Sunday partly cloudy, little change in temperature. High Saturday 38, low 25, high Sunday 42.

LOCAL WEATHER Fri. Thur. Fri. Thur. 7 a.

m. 6 0 Precip. Noon 26 13 -Sat. Sun. 7 p.

m. 26 10 Sun- Highest 32, 15 Rises 7:11 7:1.1 Lowest 3 0 Sets 4:34 4:35 TEMPERATURES Hollywood, Dec. 18 (AP) The people who have the last word on such things cluck-clucked at lerry Moore white-Fur Bikini, so she headed for Korea today with out it. The voluptuous movie beauty assured actor George Murphy, presi dent of the Hollywood Coordinating Committee, that the controver sial get-up was not her luggage as- she and eight other entertainers left by plane. The committee supplies Holly wood talent for entertainment of GIs.

Murphy said he sent word to her Thursday that the costume nar row bra and tieht-httins shorts shouldn't go. He said church people had been upset by reports that Terry planned a strip tease in an ermine Bikini. They didn think it was proper entertaiment tor their boys overseas. "My feeling is that some press agent tried to take advantage of our UaU Christmas tours to get publi city for one person," Murphy said. -fhis 1 resent.

I don think Terry had any intention of doing any thing that would offend, but I think possibly she was badly advised. He said all her material had been "checked by the Army and the co ordinating committee. Only one sketch was deleted, at the suggestion of a committee representative." Two Killed In Greenup Wreck Greenup, Dec. 18 (Staff) Two young men were killed and a third one injured at 7:45 p.m. to day when their car ran off Route 40 near here and rolled down a 60-foot embankment.

The dead are Jack Edward Greenway, 22, Miami, and a man tentatively identified as Ralph Crowell of near Bixby, Okla. John Clarence Finney, 29, Shel- bina, was to be transferred to night from St. Anthony Emergency Center, Effingham, to Clay County Hospital, Flora, because of lack of room in Effingham. According to Cumberland county Sheriff John Mock, the men were in a 1952 Oldsmobile going east. The driver apparently lost control about a halt mile east of Oreenup.

1 he car ran down the embankment and rol led ouu feet, throwing all the oc cupants out. The car is in Crowell's name. ureenway was an enlisted man in the Navy. The two bodies are in the Bishop Funeral Home, Greenup. There are no arrangements.

RANSOM TIPSTER' GETS SUSPENDED SENTENCE Kansas City, Dec. 18 (AP) A Sedalia, youth who tried to sell purported information to the Robert C. Greenlease family about the missing Bobby Greenlease ran som money, was given a three-year suspended sentence today in U. S. District Court.

Benny Bruce Hatfield, 18, plead ed guilty Dec. 4 to a charge of using the mails to defraud. Hatfield's letter asked Greenlease to place an advertisement in the Sedalia Democrat indicating whether he was willing to pay $10,000 for information on the missing ransom. DRIVER DIES AS CAR RUNS OFF HIGHWAY Nashville, Dec. 18 (AP) A soldier on his way home for Christmas was killed near here today when his automobile plunged from the highway.

State highway patrolmen identified him as Pfc Charles Hauser, 21, of East St. Louis. A companion, Pfc. Ellis Rains- berger, 21, also of East St. Louis, was injured.

Rainsberger said they left rt. Kenning 1 hursday night. Police said Hauser apparently fell asleep at the wheel. CRUISER DOCKS Long Beach, Dec. 18 (AP) The heavy cruiser Quincy return- ied today to her home port from six I months of operations off Korea.

bomber was sighted on a mile-high glacier today and at least three of the nine-man crew were reported alive. American fliers and Icelandic rescue parties raced to the bleak scene on the glacier, 110 miles southeast, of Reykjavik, in an effort to reach the wrecked plane tonight. News from their efforts was expected in', early morning. The bomber, a two-engine Lock heed Neptune, disappeared Thurs day on a patrol flight from Ketlavik luipuri. A U.

S. air rescue plane this afternoon spotted the which it described as "badly brok- en up," on Myrdalsjokull Glacier after a 24-hour search through blizzards by 10 planes and at least 2 ships. The U. S. 53rd Air Rescue Squadron in Iceland quickly ordered another plane to fly an Icelandic ground rescue party, including expert skiers, to a small air field at the foot of the glacier, a sprawling mass of ice centered near the south coast 110 miles southeast of Reyk javik.

The glacier is 30 miles long and from 10 to 20 miles wide. It rises as high as 5,466 feet above sea level. The wreckage lies deep in its snowy wastes. It is feared some if not all the reported survivors may be suffering from injuries or exposure to the cold. The last message from the plane, radioed at 2:17 p.m., said it was about 10 miles southeast of Keflavik and made no mention of any trouble.

An Air Force spokesman said it is not known here how far the ground party will have to- travel to reach the wreckage, but the trip may take hours. Rescue planes presumably will drop supplies to help keep any survivors alive. The Neptune normally carries emergency food and medical supplies, but these might be lost in a bad crash. GI GOES OVER TO REDS, GERMAN PAPER REPORTS Berlin, Dec. 18 (AP) The official East German news agency, ADN, said tonight an American soldier has entered the Soviet zone and asked for asylum.

ADN identified the soldier as Clifford Murphy. No address was given. 1 he agency quoted a letter it said was written by Murphy. It read in P8 1 have come to trie tast Ger man republic as I reject being a soldier any longer, for I know that America is planning a third world war against Russia. The letter, ADN said, was dated Dec.

CHANUTEGI ADMITS TH0MASB0R0 ROBBERY Danville, Dec. 18 (AP) Harvey E. Stetson, 19, an AWOL Chanute Air Force Base airman, pleaded guilty today to robbing the first National Bank ot 1 nomas boro of $3,000 on Nov. 10. His case was deferred to January by Judge Casper Piatt in U.

S. District Court to allow time for a pre-sentencing investigation. Jotm Morton Jones, U.S. district attorney, said Stetson is to be arraigned within a few days on a charge of robbing a bank in Town-send, of $5,000 early in the tall. FARMER IS SENTENCED IN SLAYING OF BOY, 16 Geneva, Dec.

18 (AP) George Gould, 45, an 01. farmer, has been sentenced to one to two years for manslaughter for shootings a 16-year-old boy June 20. Gould was accused of firing a shotgun blast into a group of four boys on a lonely road near his farm. William Handel was killed. The defendant, said he thought the boys were chicken thieves.

due at Alton, which was to have been his first stop. (AP Wirephoto) p.m., according to Art Larnahan, Bloomington Airport manager with whom Tibbs filed a flight plan. Reporters who witnessed the take off said that instead of heading southwest toward Springfield, one of his checkpoints, Tibbs disappear ed over the honzon to the southeast toward Champaign. Just before the takeoff, Tibbs told reporters, my instruments are a dol lar watch, a yardstick and a Rand McNally map. The temperatures were in the 20s and iibbs cut out two holes in chamois which he put over his face to prevent it from freezing the open cockpit.

Tibbs had intended to make the flight Thursday the anniversary of the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 50 years ago, but sub- zero weather prevented the flight. Charleston Mail Man Fined S500 Danville, Dec. 18 (AP) Charles G. Glass, 61, a former Charleston postman, was placed on probahon for three years and fined $500 today for stealing packages from the mails. Judge Casper Piatt of U.

S. Dis trict Court assessed the penalty on Glass plea of guilty. Prosecutor John Morton Jones said Glass had taken between 300 and 500 packages into his home over a 12-year period. A fire in the dwelling on aept. 4 led to his undoing.

Firemen found the house littered with packages, many of them unopened. Glass, a mail messenger, did not use or try to sell any articles obtained from those he did open. Glass told the court he was unable to explain why he took the mail. A postal inspector estimated that the merchandise was worth about $5,000. It included such things as clocks, buttons and electrical appli ances.

Many of the goods were still in their original wrappings. 100 Proof Cough Syrup Toronto, Dec. 18 (AP Peter Luscoe did a booming business of selling cough syrup in northern Ontario until police investigated. Today on the basis of police reports that some of his product assayed 50 per cent alcohol, the 44-year-old Toronto man was charged with selling liquor without permission. High Low Chicago 26 0 Cincinnati 19 0 Detroit 23 15 Indianapolis 23 -1 Memphis 38 19 Milwaukee 23 4 Des Moines 39 10 Kansas City 47 23 St.

Paul 29 2 Omaha 45 19 Atlanta 35 13 Miami 65 46 New York 28 16 Washington 31 17 Fort Worth 51-41 New Orleans 43 38 Denver 56 30 Phoenix 69 46 Los Angeles 65 45 San Francisco 58 52 Seattle 50 43 Winnipeg 19 3 On that date personal' income taxes go down about 10 per cent and the excess profits tax on corporations is abolished. The question of who is responsible for the reductions is a matter of political controversy. Democrats have pointed out that tax legislation passed by the last Democratic-con trolled Congress provided for the re ductions, while Republicans have replied that the curs could not be allowed except for Republican economies. After an all-day conference with Republican leaders of Congress on problems to come up at the new congressional session opening in January, Eisenhower said: Because ot reductions in ex penditures already made and pres ently planned, it was agreed that the way was cleared for January tax reductions in personal income taxes and excess prohts taxes. The administration made known some time ago that the cuts would be permitted to go into effect without any attempt to delay them by new legislation.

The excess profits levy had been due to expire six months ago but was extended at the administration's request after a hot fight with Rep. Reed (R-NY), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The reductions effective Jan. 1 will not require new legislation because they are automatic under existing law. There is always a possibility that Congress could vote later a retroactive bill rescinding the cuts, but that is considered out of the question unless there is some big new emergency.

Taxes, atomic energy, agriculture and foreign affairs shared emphasis as the President and his Capitol Hill advisers plowed through the second day of a three-day conference on the 1954 legislative program. The conferees also covered the St. Lawrence seaway, Hawaiian statehood and public works. At the end of the day Eisenhower summed up the points of discussion in a statement. Eisenhower said Secretary of Agriculture Benson reviewed ad ministration accomplishments on the farm front and made "certain proposals" for a farm program, Chairman Aiken (R-Vt) of the Sen ate Agriculture Committee told reporters there was "more discussion than decisions" on this program.

It will succeed the present agri cultural law, which requires high price supports for major crops, ex piring at the end ot next year. of Commerce Weeks, Eisenhower said, outlined a program for better roads. While Ei senhower omitted any hints as to what the administration plans for the fanner, he recited what he called the past year's accomplishments in the agricultural field: 1. Removal of livestock and meat controls. 2.

A drouth emergency program that put more than a million tons of feed into stricken with the help of reduced rail rates. 3. Government purchase of 249 million pounds of beef in a stepped-trp buying program. 4. Extension of necessary price supports even when no storage facilities were available.

5. Expansion of grain storage facilities. 6. Reorganization of the Agriculture Department, creation of independent Farm Credit Administration, and establishment of a bipartisan agricultural advisory committee. Chairman Hope (R-Kan) of the House Agriculture Committee said that only "general propositions were discussed" for the farm program ahead.

Ashley Bank Burns Ashley, 111., Dec. 18 (AP) The Ashley State Bank was gutted by fire today. Departments from nearby Centralia and Nashville were called to help battle the flames. Burrell Tibbs of Grand Prairie, stands in front. of his 1917 model Jenny biplane before he U.N.

Appeals By Letter to Pro-Red POWs Panmunjom, (Saturday) Dec 19 (AP) U.N. Command today appealed by letter to 22 American captives converted to communism to make a "really intelligent and informed" decision about returning home. J-- It asked the Indian command to deliver copies of the 12-page appeal to each of the American prisoners. They are in neutral custody in the Korean demilitarized zone. Korean prisoner protests over the conduct of explanations have stalled Allied interviews.

The explanation period ends next Wednesday midnight. The U. N. Command said the appeal was a "statement of principle" which it had planned to read to the Americans during interviews. An Indian command spokesman said he could not immediately say what would be done with the letter.

He said it might go to the neutral commission for review. GOOD BEHAVIOR DIDN'T EXTEND BEYOND VAN ALIA Peoria, Dec. 18 (AP) Herman L. Cross, 45, of Peoria, who was released Wednesday from the Illinois penal farm at Vandalia for good behavior, behaved badly later in the day and was again sentenced to return to the farm. -Cross, who had received 11 days time off for good behavior, was arrested Wednesday night for pilfering a few hours after his arrival in Peoria.

He was sentenced Thursday to serve a six-month term. two policemen arid a visitor. And in the indictment, the grand jury said: "The testimony of Elmer Dolan, as he then and there well knew and believed, was untrue and false in that the suitcases mentioned containing the ransom money were not taken into the police station at the time or in. the manner alleged in the Dolsn appeared before the grand jury last month when it began its inquiry into the handling of the ransom money. So had Shoulders.

Shoulders said at one time he' and Dolan had brought the money-stuffed suitcases to the police station at the time Hall was brought in. Later the former police officer. said he had "slipped" the suitcases into the station 10 minutes after the kidnaper was booked. After today's action, the grand jury recessed until Dec. 29, when it.

is scheduled to resume-the ran som inquiry. Bloomington, Dec. 18 (AP) A pioneer flier took ff for Dal las, today in an ancient Jenny biplane without compass or radio and was overdue at Alton, his first planned stop. The pilot headed away from Alton after his takeoff. Burrell Tibbs, 57, of Grand Prairie, cleared the Bloomington Municipal Airport at 12:19 p.m.

in his 1917 model open cockpit plane. The old biplane had none of the modern navigating aids such as ra dio, gyroscope or even compass that works, Ihe compass the craft is out of order. Lacking a radio, Tibbs could not maintain contact with Civil Aero- nautics Authority stations on his; route, as is customary on long flights, He was due at Alton about 3 1 Arizona's First Congresswoman, III for Year, Dies Tucson, Ariz, Dec. 18 (AP) Isabella Greenway King, a friend of presidents and the only woman ever elected to Congress from Ari zona, died today at the age ot 67. bhe had been ill tor a year.

Before her election to the House of Representatives 1934, she served six years as Arizona national committeewoman. As such, she was instrumental in the unit support which Arizona's delegation gave 1 16 Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1952 convention. She seconded his nomination. Born Isabella Selmes, she knew Theodore Roosevelt and, with her motner and nurse, visited him the White House in 1901.

ST. LOUIS TV STATION READY T0.HANDLE COLOR St. Louis, Dec. 18 (AP Television station KSD-TV an nounced with approval of compatible color television standards by the Federal Communications Commission, that it is fully equip ped to handle color telecasts. "Installation of color transmit ting equipment has been completed, along with modification of certain units of black-and-white equipment," said George M.

Burback, general manager of the station. Burback added that transmission lines of the American Telephone Telegraph Co. between Chicago and at. Louis have been modified to handle color network programs. CHRISTMAS TREE BURNS IN LOBBY OF THEATER Joliet, Dec.

18 (AP) A Christmas tree in the main lob by of the Rialto Theater burst into flames today and forced 100 patrons to flee. 'Manager Marvin Stockwell brought the flames under control with a "small extinguisher but not af ter there was considerable damage from smoke. -He blamed a faulty electrical connection as the cause of the fire. Accident Kills Carmi Gl Carmi, Dec. 18 (AP) and Mrs.

Ed-J. Winter of Carmi were notified by the Defense Department today their son, Pfc. Clarence Winter, 21, died last Tues day in an artillery accident in Korea. Officer Who Helped Arrest Kidnaper Indicted for Perjury in Ransom Probe 3 HURT SERIOUSLY IN EFFINGHAM COLLISION Effingham, Dec. 18 (Staff) Three persons were seriously injured in a three-car collision this afternoon on Route 40 near Woodbury east of here.

James Hastings, 19, Muncie, William Bordington and his wife, Adelide, Reading, are in St. Anthony Emergency Center here. Hastings' car collided head-on with Bordington's car. The Bordington car was 'struck from the rear by his daughter, Janet, White Plains, N.Y.,- who was following in the third car. money were not taken to a police station with him.

Later $303,720 of the ransom money was missing. The policeman insisted both suitcases were to the station. Following are some of the questions and answers on which the perjury indictment was based: When- did you know there were two suitcases involved in this case? A When I got to the police station. Did you take them out? A I took one of them and Lt. Shoulders took the other.

-Was this immediately after you got to the station? A---Right after I got to. the station. The lieutenant was going into the station with the prisoner and I had taken one of the suitcases out. Previous witnesses who were in the police station, had testified they saw no suitcases brought into the station when Hall. was brought" in to be booked.

Included were at least Kansas City, Dec. 1 8 AP) A federal grand jury probing the missing Ureenlease ransom money today indicted a suspended St. Louis policeman on a charge of Action against the 25-year-old of ficer, Elmer Dolan, came less than 15 hours after the execution of the kidnapers he had helped arrest. Dolan, suspended last week hy the St. Louis Police Board pending a hearing on charges growing out of his handling of the arrest, appeared before the jury 'less than five min utes this Two deputy U.S.

marshals took him into custody. He was placed in jail, after his in, default of a $25,000 Dolan and Lt. Louis Shoulders, since resigned from the police department, took kidnaper Carl "Austin Hall into custody at a St. Louis hotel Oct. 6.

Hall contended two suitcases, containing' the' ransom 60V CHRISTMAS SEAIS'.

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