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78 NO. 9. DECATUR, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1955. 28 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS. Russians May Release Third TWA Plane Ike Upholds Stassen on Ladejinsky Washington, Jan.

12 (AP) President Eisenhower said Collide; 15 Killed. ltfl COro $AN COST A RICA pocr-jk'j 7 UtfNA III I -v ij IAUr- rebels. Villa Quesada is at the upper end of a 50-mile highway which leads to San Jose, the country's capital This map locates Villa Quesada, 40 miles from the Nicaraguan border, which Costa Rica charges was seized by Captive Soon Washington, Jan. 12 (AP) Pvt. William Verdine, a prisoner of the Russians for five years, may soon be back in with the mother there ever was." The State Department announced late Tuesday that the So viet government had agreed to turn over the 28-year-old soldier to U.

S. authorities in Berlin. The date for Verdine's repatriation will be set later. Less than two weeks ago, the Russians said blandly erdme whereabouts were not known. But since that time, two other Ameri cans freed bv the Soviets after years in captivity have reported seeing Verdine at the notorious Vorkuta slave labor camp in Arctic Russia.

One of these newly freed John H. Noble, 31, of Detroit, told a Berlin news con ference yesterday believes eight American Navy airmen shot down over the Baltic Sea nearly five years ago may be alive in Soviet prison camps. The Navy has listed them as dead. who spent 9Vi vears as a Red prisoner, and Pvt. William C.

Marchuk, 30 of Aornstown, who like Verdine was held for five vears, were freed by the Russians last Saturday. A four-engine Navy Privateer vanished April 8, 1950, while on a training mission over the Baltic. The United States charged Russian fighters had shot down the unarmed craft. A year later, the Navy-announced that it considered the 10 missing CTewmen legally But Noble said it was common knowledge at Vorkuta that some Americans who came down in the Baltic were in a Soviet prison. When news of Army Pvt.

Verdine's impending release reached his home town, Mrs. Willie Ver- Costa Rica Raid Plane Shot Down plane that collided in midair with a TWA airliner near Cincinnati today. The pilot and co- pilot, only persons in it, and 13 in the other plane died in the crash. (AP VVirephoto) Drouth Still Not Broken Geological Survey Finds Ground Water Low U. N- was informed from San Jose that invading forces captured two small port cities on the ra-cific Coast.

The delegate, Ambassador Benjamin Nunez, identified the cities as Puerto Soley, near the Nicaraguan border, and Puerto Cortez, in the southern part of Costa Rica. He said also invading planes had machine gunned Turri-alba and Cartago. Costa Rican troops launched an attack at dawn upon the armed band which seized the Villa Que sada area yesterday. There were unconfirmed reports one brought in by a government plane from the front that -the troops had regained the town after a battle of less than three hours. The com mand headquarters, however, fused confirmation and said action was continuing.

Costa. Ricajacking an ait force, was using a Cessna for observa- ton and requisitioned Lacsa transports for combined machinegun and small arms fire against the foe at Villa Quesada. The Costa Rican command announced the rebel force various- Washington, Jan. 12 (AP) The U. S.

Geological Survey (with the possible exception ofl streams close to the Canada 1 Canada was excessive generally. reported Tuesday there had beenlrer- 1 contrast, runoff in no general relief up to the end of Aeldine, a 55-vear-old widow, ex December from drouth conditions! October Secretary of the which prevailed in two-thirds of Interior McKay said the survey's the nation last fall. records showed that a drouth of "RiirmPP mntin'noj hnajor proportions, comparable to Ac tower operator stated to- day he has reached no judgment personally in the Wolf Ladejinsky case, and that Foreign Operations Administrator Harold E. Stassen must take full responsibility for whatever is the eventual outcome of keeping Ladejinsky in govern ment service. The President discussed the con troversial security case at his news conference and emphasized that he had only one side of the storv when he once remarked to Secre- tarv of Agriculture Benson that Ladejinsky 's background was the sort that would scare him.

But Eisenhower said he upholds Ladejinsky despite the Agriculture Department's ousting of the man on security and technical grounds. Ladeiinskv, 55 vear old Rus sian born naturalized American became agricultural attache in Tokyo as a State Department employe. Benson refused, on security and technical grounds, to accept Ladejinsky when a new law transferred jurisdiction over agricultural attaches to Benson's department. Stassen 's organization then hired Ladejinsky for a land reform job in Communist-threatened Viet Nam. Ladejinsky previously had been cleared twice under the State Department's security program In discussing the case, Eisenhower said Benson came to him and read him a summary.

After hearing it, Eisenhower said, he had some doubt as to whether Ladejinsky should be given security clearance. The President stressed, however, that he did not know what he called the other side of the story. For he added, he didn't know Ladejinsky is the author of an anti-Communist book. This was Eisenhower's first news conference since Dec-15, i and the discussion ranged over many topics. They included: Nixon Eisenhower praised Vice President Nixon who is under fire from Democrats for his campaign tactics.

The President said Nixon is loyal and patriotic, and has assured him that Nixon never made anv sweeping demnation of any political parry durino the .1954 congressional campaign. Political conventions Eisenhower said he personally believes it would be a good idea to shorten the 1956 presidential campaign, as now planned by the Republican National Committee. Instead of holding the national party convention in June or July, as in the past, the committee is proposing a September session. The Democrats have tentatively set Aug. 27 for their convention.

Atomic weapons Eisenhower said that normally he would not favor the use of atomic weapons on a. tactical basis in what he referred to as a police action war. He was talking about a small war something far short of a general conflict. Security program As for the administration's general security program covering government employesa program which Democrats in Congress have criticized sharply the President said in response to a question that he does not see at this time how a review of the program by a special commission could be in any way helpful. 3 FATHERS CONVICTED Minister In Group Permitting Children Late Hours Ann Arbor, Mich, Jan.

12 (AP) Three faAers a minister, a toolmaker and a wallpaper cleanerwere convicted Tuesday of permitting Aeir children under 16 to violate Ais city's 10 p. rri. curfew. Municipal Judge Francis L. O'Brien fined Ae Rev.

William Landers, a' Pentecostal minister, and Louis Karnes, Ae wallpaper cleaner, $50 each because he said he was convinced Aey had' been "someAing less than forthright" in Aeir- testimony. Toolmaker Jesse R. Nodine, whom the judge fined $10, had been "frank and honest." ly estimated between 40 and lOOiWife Has Remarried No Survivors In Cincinnati Airport Crash Burlington, Jan. 12 (AP) Fifteen persons were believed to have been killed today in a midair crash between two large airplanes several miles southwest of the greater Cincinnati Airport. The airport is 12 miles southwest of Cincinnati.

One of the planes was a Trens World Airlines ship enroute to Dayton and Cleveland. TWA identified the crew members as Capt. J. W. Quinn, 41, Edgement Belleville, R.

Childress, co-pilot, Ann Arbor, and Miss Pat Stermer, hostess, Ypsilanti, Mich. The other plane, a Douglas DC-3, had taken off from Battle Creek, with pilot Arthur (Slim) Werkhaven, Sturgis, and co-pilot Edward Ag-ner, Battle Creek, aboard. Paul D. Strahm, Columbus, TWA passenger representative, said it was the first domestic accident experienced bv TWA airliners since Dec 1, 1944. The Civil Aeronautics Author- itv control tower at the Greater 'Cincinnati Airport said it had no knowledge there was any other plane but the TWA within miles of the area.

"As far as we knew the' TWA plane was the only one in the "We had no calls or flight plan to indicate any otner plane was within miles of Ae In New York, a Civil Aeronautics Administration spokesman said Aat radio messages from Ae TWA I plane Aortlv after it took off at Covington, indicated Ae pilot was "alarmed and excited." The spokesman said Ae pilot was cleared for Ae takeoff, and to make a "right turn out." As the plane climbed, Ae offi- rr 1 seir ana ms voice iraueu uu anu faded and he seemed to be alarmed and excited." The CAA spokesman said there was no record of a flight plan for Ae oAer plane, a twin-engined DG-3. The planes fell. two miles apart, according to John Hedrick, operator of a riving service. One of the first men to fly over Ae scene, he said he doubted Aere were any survivors. He said he saw bodies King about a 200 yard area.

The" National Carbon Coated Paper Co. of Sturgis, identified the DC-3 as a plane belonging to Aat firm which took off at 8 a. m. from Kellogg Field at Battle Creek. The plane was to have proceeded to Lexington, to pick up Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick VanLen-nep, wealthy Detroit race horse owners. Mrs. Van Lennep, the former Frances Dodge, is an officer in Ae firm which owned Ae plane. The plane Aen was scheduled to canx Ae Van Lenneps to Del Ray, Fla.

Both Werkhaven and Agnar are married and each has two children. They were employed as test pilots on bombers produced at Willow Run Airport outside Detroit during World War II. ROCKEFELLER GIFT New York, Jan. 12 (AP) John D. Rockefeller Jr.

has given 20 million dollars' worth of securities to aid Protestant theological education in Ae United States. The gift was made Tuesday to the Sealantic Fund a philanthropic corporation Rockefeller established in 1938. Mendes Sees Pope Vatican City, Jan. 12 (AP) Pope Pius XII received French Premier Pierre Mendes-France to- idav in the first audience granted Ibv Ae 78-vear-old head of Ae Roman Catholic Church since his grave collapse last month. claimed she was the "happiest mother eyerjyas.

She promised' a "biii party TT when he comes home." Marchuck and Verdine were picked up by the Russians in Soviet-occupied East Germany in 1949. "when he Baltic Plane Airman's Passaic, N. Jan. 12 (AP) One of eight Navy airmen shot down over the Baltic Sea in 1950 and possibly still alive in a Soviet prison camp, was married to a Passaic girl who since has rewed, it was revealed todav. -Joe H.

Danens formerly of Cut Bank, one of the crew aboard the plane which vanished April 8, 1950 while on a training mission, was married on reb. 2. 1948 in North Africa to the former Ruth Feinberg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Feinberg, of Passaic.

One year later, the family related todav in an interview, Aeir daughter, RuA, was notified bv the IS aw that JJanens was pre- sumed dead. She was working for the government at Ae time in Casa- men was outgunned and with drawing slowly under assault of troops bolstered by ammunition flown in by a Costa Rican plane from the Panama Canal Zone. Villa Quesada and some nearby villages were taken over Tuesday bv airborne units which government spokesmen described as "presumably Nicaraguan." A small detachment of the civil guard there was overwhelmed. The 21-nation Organization of American States ordered a five-nation commission to fly here today to investigate. Costa Rica blamed neighboring Nicaragua for the uprising, a charge denied by the Nicaraguan government.

The OAS named a commission composed of representatives of the United States, Brazil, Mexico, tcuador ana raraguay to visit ootn Costa Rica and Nicaragua. They were due in San Jose tonight. both San Jose, Costa Rica, Jan. 12 (AP) An air raider described as "a Venezuelan pursuit plane which came from Nicaragua" machine-gunned San Jose today that then was shot down by antiaircraft fire, the civil guard announced. The raider, which looked like the American-built P47 Thunderbolt of World War II vintage, buzzed the downtown area of this capital city and loosed machine-gun bursts at a residential sector.

This came as government troops battled in the north to clear a rebel band from the Villa Quesada area, about miaway Detween aan Jose and the Costa Rican-Nicara-gua frontier. Three bursts were aimed into the Costal Rican White House, the home of President Jose Figueres. The plane was climbing rapidly as it passed the San Jose airport control tower. A lumbering DC3 of the Lacsa Airlines, armed with machineguns in its. side doors, took off pursuit.

A Civil Guard communique said the raider was shot down by anti-aircraft artillery and fell in a river called Los Ahogados (The Drowned near Liberia, a town or 3,500 about 100 miles northwest of San Jose. Though the plane approached San Jose from the south, the command said it came from a Nicaraguan airfield. Costa Rica's delegate to the Nationalists Bomb Reds Taipeh, Formosa, Jan. 12 (AP) Nationalist China's air force headquarters said its four-engine bombers had "excellent results" in a three-wave attack today on Com-. munist-held Toumen and Tienao islands.

The. Nationalists said all planes returned to Formosa, 200 miles souA of Ae islands, despite antiaircraft fire and Red air force fighters. t. This was Ae third straight day's strike againt Tienao, which is almost next door to Ae Nationalist's Tachens, which were attacked by 100 Red planes Monday. The Nationalist Defense Minis try said 10 Communist lighters and light bombers buzzed the Tachens in four waves this morning but did not attack.

HEATER FUMES FATAL TO OIL FINANCIER Ventura, Jan. 12 (AP) The death ot financier and former State Department official Halvern N. Norris, 58, whose body was found in his office Tuesday, has been classified by Coroner Virgil Pavton as acci- dental. Payton said was due to carbon monoxide poisoning. He said Norris', office was shut and a gas heater was burning.

Norris founded Ae Norris Oil Mrs. V. G. Farris of Cham- paign, 111., and Mrs. Broom of Effingham, 111.

William This big crater, with a seaion of the plane still burning, shows the remains of the DC-3 private 71 Parachute Safely in Two C119 Mishaps Sewart Air Force Base, Jan. 12 (AP) Engine blazes in two CI 19 Fly- Boxcars marred a paratrooper airlift to Alaska Tuesday with' a crash here and a forced flaming landing in Montana. A total of 68 paratroopers and 3 airmen parachuted to safety from the two planes, but the pilot and co-pilot of the plane which crashed here were listed as dead. The public information office identified the two as Capt. John Raspet 30, of Mt.

Clements, the pilot, and co-pilot Ross W. Richards, 30, of Jacksonville, Fla. Parts of their bodies were removed from the burned wreckage. Thirty five airborne, infantrymen and three crewmen jumped when an engine burst into flames shortly after the twin-engine craft took off here Only hours earlier, 33 paratroopers used their chutes when an engine caught fire on their plane near Miles City, Mont. Pilot-Capt.

T. G. Johnson of Sewart AFB then guided the plane to Ae Miles Citv airport without The two Boxcars were part of a flight of 80 ferrying 3,000 airborne troops from Ft. Campbell to Alaska Operation Snowbird, a winter exercise. Para- were meniuers or me jujiu borne Infantry Regiment.

The crash scene here was about three miles from Ae. base. Witnesses said the plane spun nose first into the earth, Aen burst into "a great mushroom of fire and smoke." Second Lt. James Reynolds, Melbourne, platoon leader of the paratroopers' aboard, said his men thought it was a drill when the crew chief ordered them to prepare to jump. The troopers bailed out at 8.000 feet.

One man, Pfc. Richard L. Dalton, Benton Harbor, was hospitalized overnight with minor in juries. The troopers in Montana landed on both sides of Ae Yellowstone River. Thev jumped from a' height of about 600 leet.

The big Boxcars have been taking off at 30-minute intervals from here since 6 a. m. Monday with the last flights clearing early today. Two Killed in Crash Of Jet Trainer -Appling, Jan. 12 (AP) A T33 jet trainer crashed near Appling Tuesday, killing its two based, he said, on the fragments, scattered over a two-acre area.

i Warner Kobins Air force base identified one of the dead asv Capt. raul M. Komm ot West chester, 111., member of Ae 1708 Ferrying squadron. 'jblanca, and in August 1952, wasitroopers involved in both jumps i i A. m3nied another ariff 'gmstfWieTeTge "at nr noar rernrA f- over the southern half of the United States," the December review said.

"Few water supply shortages were reported, however, possiblv because of greatly redued demands for agriculture and cooling in winter. "Of greater significance perhaps is the lack of replenishment of surface and ground water stor age tor use next summer. "There was no excessive runoff in the United States in the West, Pair Accused As Boy Dies Chicago, Jan. 12 (AP) Foster parents of a 4-vear-old boy who died after a beating are in custody charged wiA murder. An inquest was set for today.

The boy, Gregory Lennon, and his brother, 2, were wards of William and Janice Cheterbok, both 22, of suburban Naperville. The couple took Ae older lad to Illinois Research and Educational Hospital Monday' night after "he had become unconscious following a spanking. Doctors found he had suffered cuts and bruises on Ae head. shoulders, arms and legs and a possible brain concussion. He died Tuesday.

Cheterbok, a "200 pound draftsman for a Chicago firm, was placed in DuPage County jail. His wife, who had been released on her own recognizance before Ae child died because she said she was recovering from pneumonia, later entered Cook County Hospital and was placed in a ward. William J. Guild DuPage County state's attorney, said the two boys had been placed with the Cheterboks in October through Ae Catholic' Home Bureau. DEMOCRAT ELECTED West Palm Beach, Jan.

12 (AP) v. 'Democrat Paul G. Rogers is go1 ing to Congress to fill the 6A District seat vacated the death of his father Dwight L. Rogers. Complete, unofficial returns from the 217 precincts of the 11- countv district gave Rogers, a 33- i vear old West falm beach at-, was OUUQing up in Uie Southern and Central States.

The December review said the drouth had not been broken in Illinois, Kansas and Texas. It said ground water levels were below average in the western part of Michigan, in southern and central Indiana, and at a record low in one well in Missouri. In its state-by-state discussion, Ae review said Ae level of many other key wells reached record lows or new lows for anv Decem- iber. Other states with such I included Indiana. 'Little Stinkers' Start Arriving, 2416 Counted Today Entries started pouring in for this week's "Little Stinker" puzzle contest today, with 2,116 counted Ais morning.

Only 784 came in Monday and Tuesday. Today's noon total of 2,900 falls short of Ae 3,598 Wednesday noon total last week, i when 35,775 entries came in. Three winners split last week's $100 prize. Deadline for this week's $100 contest is 9 a. m.

Friday, when entries must be in Ae Herald and Review office. Snow Flurries Decatur and vicinity: Cloudy and colder tonight with scattered snow flurries. Thursday mostly cloudv and colder. Low tonight 15-20. High Thursday mid 20s.

Low Thursday night 15. DECATUR VVEATHFR Compiled by The Review High Tues. 39 7 a.m. Wed 7 p.m. Tues 33 Noon Wed 30 33 .0 Low Wed.

30 Precip. Relative humidity Wed. noon, 56 Wind at last night, today: 6 p.m. 7 a.m. noon Velocity 5 7 7 Gusts Direction' ssw sw 7 p.m.' 12 m.

7 a.m. noon Bar. 30.00 29.95 29.95 29.00 Sun rose 7:15, sets 4:53 p. m. Degree days 30 Vi; since Sept.

1 2229 same period year ago, 221o: 26 vear average for Noon lake level at d.im ..22 ft. above; .14 ft. (Additional weather on page 20) I I Parsons Lists 11 Red Counts Decatur Man Prosecutor in Communist Trial t0 Casablanca, Robert J. Miney, 'chief petty officer. lames B.

Parsons said Lightfoot "is convinced Aat the Communist party he has tound a political organization which not only preaches but practices full equality for all Both Lightfoot and Prosecutor Parsons are Negroes. Conviction calls for a maximum of 10 vears in prison and a $10,000 fine. Chicago, Jan. 12 (AP) The first individual to be tried for Communist party membership alpne under an untested section of the Smith Act knew the party plot ted to wreck the U. S.

govern ment, a prosecutor says. Claude" 44, executive secretary of the Communist party in Illinois, is on trial before a jury in Ae Federal Court of Judge Philip L. Sullivan. The jury was completed Tuesday with seven women, five men. Asst.

U. S. Atty. James B. Parsons listed 11 counts in his open mS ing statement supporting -three principal parts of the indictment.

The Aree are that Lightfoot (1) belonged, to the party, (2) knew it hoped to wreck the government i and i) aimed to further that objective. James B. Parsons is a graduate of Decatur High School and Millikin University. His' brother, Mason lives at 1062 W. Sunset Ave.

George VW. Crockett De-. trait, Lightloot's defense attorney, in his initial statement, however, Nodine 1 3-year-old and had lived here since 14-year-old son and 13-year-old 1948. He served Ae State De-nephew, with Landers' son and partment in Asia and-Europe. Karnes' son, both 15, were arrest-1 Among his survivors are his sis- tornev, 30,131 votes to period 2435.

ed last June. Police said Aev chased them up to hour in a stolen car. 100" miles an lor his Republican opponent J. Herbert Burke, of Hollywood, in Tuesday's special election..