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90 DECATUR HERALD Movies Radio-TV and Programs Amusements Page. Page 13 7 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1955. 18 PAGES -5 CENTS Warren Declares Self Out of Politics 3 Coles Men Killed in Plane Crash April 15 (Staff) Two Mattoon men and from Charleston were Thursday night when their plane crashed in a pasture South Bend, Ind. The bodies of Frank N. lespie, 21, and Tom Falk, 28, Mattoon; and Lloyd L.

30, Charleston were found the wreckage early today. three Coles County men were ployes of Midwest Homes Inc. Mattoon. Walter Reasor Jr. of Charleston, Midwest president and owner the plane, said they had been South Bend to attend ceremonies marking the opening of a sales office.

En route home the plane by Mr. Gillespie took off St. Joseph's County Airport South Bend at 9:30 p. m. day.

It crashed a half hour later. Two men who were nearby said they heard the in the fog and thought they lights dip and heard an explosion. They searched with flashlights gave it up when they could nothing. Their footprints were within 100 yards of the plane. The Associated Press that Donald Wyant sighted plane across the field from home near the Kankakee River of South Bend.

The plane's was buried in the ground. An streak along the underside of fuselage showed the plane have had engine trouble before crash. The ignition had been cut before the plane crashed. Mr. lespie's and Mr.

Patheal's were in the front seats and Falk's in a rear seat in the place craft. Mr. Patheal was formerly ance director of the community unit schools in Charleston. resigned at the end of the first mester of the 1954-55 school He leaves his wife, Naomi; children, Dillynn, 5, and 17 months, and his parents, and Mrs. Lloyd Patheal Sr.

Mr. Falk, former owner drive-in theater in Charleston, assistant sales manager of west Homes. Mr. Patheal was in the sales department. Mr.

Falk leaves his wife, daughter, Georgia Ann, mother, Mrs. Grace Falk, son; a sister, Mrs. Gerald Stewardson; and a er, John, Tupelo, Miss. Mr. Gillespie came to from Gallatin, last tember.

He leaves a brother sister in Tennessee. The body of Mr. Falk will in the Schilling Funeral Mattoon, where friends may from 1 to 9 p. m. Other arrangements are plete for all three men.

Wreck Found In Indiana Pasture $65,000 SLED INJURY CLAIM DENIED IN PIATT Monticello, April 15 (Staff) A Piatt County Circuit Court jury today denied a $65,000 claim brought against Dean Valentine, White Heath farmer, in a personal injury damage suit. The suit had been filed by Dean McCartney, White Heath, on behalf of his son, Dean Edwin, who was injured Jan. 2, 1952, when a sled on which he was coasting struck a car driven by Valentine after the sled had slid from a driveway into the highway. 'The boy's sister, Luella, then 6, was on the sled but escaped uninjured. The boy was 9 at the time.

The trial got under way before a jury early this week, with Circuit Judge Grover W. Watson, of Farmer City, presiding. The case went to the jury late today. A verdict was returned after hours of deliberation. No Need for Alarm Pueblo, April 15 (AP) Firemen battled flames in a railroad boxcar three hours yesterday.

Then they discovered it was filled with fireproof insulating material. Soviets Pledge Early Freedom For Austrians Vienna, April 15 (AP) Chancellor Julius Raab came home triumphantly from Moscow today with Russian promises that Austria may be free of Big Four occupation no later than the end of this year. Raab, Premier of seven million a people, indicated he was confident the Russians meant what they told him in Moscow. "We will be free after 10 vears of hope and struggle," he told a cheering crowd of welcomers. The Soviets promised, in three days of talks, they would agree that their 44,000 trooos, together with 23,000 of the United States, Britain and France, be withdrawn as soon as a treaty of independence is signed, and in anv case not later than Dec.

31, 1955. They also made of big economic concessions. For a long time the Western powers have been pressing Russia for agreement on an Austrian treaty including withdrawal of occupation forces. But withdrawal by the end of 1955 even if no treaty is signed apparently would need new four-power agreement. The news Raab brought from Russia had been announced a few hours previously in a joint Austrian-Russian declaration.

A communique said: 1. The Soviets have agreed pull their troops out by Dec. 31,, 1955, or sooner if a state treaty is signed. 2. They will allow the Austrians to "buy back" with goods, instead of cash, 300 industrial enterprises which the Soviets have been in the Soviet zone since 1945.

The Soviets placed their value at 150 million dollars. 3. The Russians will return to Austria the big Zistersdorf oilfields and refineries they have been exploiting under the contention they are former "German assets." The Russians said they would give them back "in exchange for the delivery of crude oil in an amount to be agreed on between the two states." 4. The Russians said they would return to Austria the properties of the Danube Shipping including ships and river port installations, for a sum yet to be agreed upon. 5.

The Kremlin agreed that the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) also would consider favorably the return home of 384 prisoners of war, 450 civilian internees and about 200 ethnic Germans with relatives in Austria. As for the Austrians, they agreed not to join any military alliances or to permit military bases on Austrian soil. FIRE IN STORE CAUSES DAMAGE SET AT $50,000 Chicago, April 15 (AP) Fire swept through a store in suburban Prospect Heights today and caused an estimated $50,000 damage. Five other stores in the building were threatened by the flames. One fireman suffered minor injuries.

Its Thanks on file and the words polio. victory." Gov. George M. Leader of Pennsylvania said he would award to Salk the state's Medal of Meritorious Service, usually reserved for military heroes, "as a meager expression of vour commonwealth's In Hohokus, N.J., a "nonorganized citizens committee to thank Dr. Salk," sprang up.

A real estate man painted "Thank you, Dr. Salk," in foor-high letters on his office window. In Winnipeg, Canada, radio station CKY asked listeners to send in dimes for a thank-you telegram to Salk. Salk was named 1955 winner of the $10,000 Mutual of Omaha Criss Award and gold medal. His accomplishment "may well be the greatest contribution to medicine Court Ruling on Ward's Board Favors Wolfson Springfield, April 15 (AP) Louis F.

Wolfson gained strength in the Illinois Supreme Court today for his showdown battle with Sewell L. Avery for control of the 700-million-dollar Montgomery Ward Co. The court ruled all nine director positions will be up for grabs on a vote basis at the annual meeting of Ward stockholders in Chicago April 22. The ruling was a victory for Wolfson, who sued to knock out Mother, Baby Of Sullivan Killed in Crash Sullivan, April 15 (Staff) Mrs. Herman Kirkwood, 24, and her six-week-old daughter, Vicky Marie, were fatally injured Thursday in a head-on automobile collision'; in Kentucky.

Herman Kirkwood, 25, was reported in critical condition tonight in St. Joseph Infirmary in Louisville, with injuries received in the accident. Also killed in the crash was Samuel Hagan, 37, Elizabethtown, Ky. State police said the accident happened at 3:45 p. m.

Thursday when the cars driven by Kirkwood and Hagan collided headon on a curve on Route 60 near Hardinsburg, 50 miles southwest of Louisville. Mrs. Kirkwood, 24, and the baby, Vicky Marie died shortly after being taken to Breckinridge Memorial Hospital, Hardinsburg. Hagan and Kirkwood were treated at the Hardinburg hospital and then taken to Louisville where Hagan died about midnight. Kirkwood had been employed as a loader in the starch packing and shipping department of the A.

E. Staley Mfg. Company in Decatur since August, 1953. Relatives in Sullivan said that the Kirkwood family was en route home after visiting Mrs. Kirkwood's grandparents in Kentucky.

Mrs. Kirkwood was the former Pauline Moxley of Bement. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. M.

Moxlev, Bement. Double funeral services will be held at 2 Tuesday in the McMullin Funeral Home, Sullivan. Burial will be in the Keller Cemetery. ARMY RESCINDS ORDER BANNING KITCHEN HELP Tokyo, April 15. (AP) The U.

S. 9th Corps has rescinded a recent order which would have put troops back on kitchen police duties. The change would have cost 225 Japanese their culinary and dish washing jobs. The Army explained, "we would rather have them (the soldiers) out training than dish Dr. Salk our generation," the announcement said.

Other less tangible rewards were legion. Five Central American republics said they would decorate Salk in a Washington ceremony. They were El Salva-1 dor, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. This Sunday, Chicago Protestant churchgoers will offer prayers of gratitude. The City of Pittsburgh, where Salk did his research, planned a mammoth welcome for him on his return from Ann Arbor, where the announcement was made.

In country after country, plans were set to start producing the vaccine. Only Moscow was silent. There has been no public reaction to the announcement from Russia. Chief Justice Won't Run for Presidency one killed light near Gilof Patheal in The emof of in new piloted from at Thurs- fishing plane saw but find found wrecked Wreckage of a light plane in which two Mattoon men and reported one from Charleston were killed the is shown near South Bend, Ind. his west nose oil the may the off Gilbodies Mr.

four- guid- had seyear. two Jeffery Mr. of a was Midalso Eileen; his StewardBrum- broth- Mattoon Sepand be Home, call Saturday. incom- Sabotage Seen In Rail Wreck Nashville, April 15 (AP) The northbound Dixie Flyer, passenger train of the strike-crippled Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, was wrecked near here tonight.

A railroad detective said the derailment was "undoubtedly Some of the estimated 30 passengers aboard were shaken up but no injuries were reported. Tom Dunn, railway detective, said the derailment was "undoubtedly sabotage." Spikes had been pulled from the inside rail on the outside of a curve. Several plates bolting rails together also had been removed and tossed into a ditch, the state highway patrol reported. W. P.

Sensing, superintendent of transportation for the railroad here, said the derailment was "definitely Nine cars of the train were derailed. The engine and the car immediately behind it stayed on the track. The Flyer, which ordinarily runs between Chicago and Jacksonville, has been running between Atlanta and Nashville only during the current strike. The is a subsidiary of the Louisville Nashville Railroad. Nonoperating employes of both railroads have been on strike over a health and welfare plan since March 14.

The engineer, D. B. Horner, a non-striking trainman, was the target earlier this week- of a brick tossed through his window. Later a shotgun blast was fired at his home. HOPE FOR PROTECTION FROM FALLOUT SEEN Washington, April 15 (AP) Chairman Lewis L.

Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission said today there is some hope of developing protection against the deadly fallout from hydrogen bomb explosions. Strauss told the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy the greatest radiological authorities in the country are working on the problem, adding: "A good deal of promising experimental work is being carried on by the commission looking toward the protection of cell structures from radiation." Strauss and other top AEC officials went before the committee mainly in an effort to allay fears that harmful radiation is being loosed by the current atomic weaUpon tests in Nevada. The dead were Frank M. Gillespie, 21, and Tom Falk, 28, of Mattoon; and Lloyd L. Patheal 30, Charleston.

The Fair, Warmer DECATUR VICINITY: Generally fair, warmer and rather windy Saturday. Sunday partly cloudy and warm followed by scattered showers. High Saturday near 80, low in the low 50s, high Sunday upper 70s. LOCAL WEATHER Fri. Thurs.

Fri. Thurs. 7 a.m. 51 53 Precip. .12 Noon 61 55 Sat.

Sun. 7 p.m. 60 53 SunHighest 70 65 Rises 5:20 5:19 Lowest 49 49 Sets 6:32 6:34 TEMPERATURES High Low Chicago 56 44 Cincinnati 63 52 Detroit 52 47 Indianapolis 58 51 Memphis 82 53 Milwaukee 43 38 Kansas City 85 50 St. Paul 67 37 Omaha 76 47 Atlanta 80 55 Boston 75 57 New York 73 53 Washington 72 56 Fort Worth 86 58 New Orleans 80 55 Denver 75 43 Phoenix 88 53 Los Angeles 73 52 San Francisco 62 38 Seattle 57 34 Winnipeg 62 48 ACTRESS IMPROVED Oxnard, April 15 (AP) Actress Loretta Young's condition has improved slightly, her doctor said today. The actress was admitted to St.

John's Hospital last Sunday, suffering from peritonitis. Grateful By The Associated Press Honors, awards, prayers and the humble thanks of a grateful world are showering about the thin shoulders of Dr. Jonas Salk, the man who conqured polio. The announcement Tuesday that Salk's polio vaccine can virtually end the crippling disease was received as a blessing everywhere. Salk, a modest, hard-working 40-vear-old University of Pittsburgh scientist, gets no money from his work.

The vaccine is not patented. It belongs to the Americans who made it possible through the March of Dimes. It belongs to the world. In Richmond, sales engineer M. B.

McRevnolds proposed a fund of thanks for Salk. He mailed a. dollar for each of the three members of his plane crashed Thursday night in this pasture shortly after leaving the South Bend Airport. (AP Wirephoto) Eden Calls For Election May 26 London, April 15 (AP) Prime Minister Eden tonight called a nation-wide election for May 26 to stabilize the nation after Sir Winston Churchill's retirement. Nine davs after taking office, the new Prime, Minister thus challenged the divided Labor party to a political fight that could spell the end of his administration.

Speaking in a clear firm voice over the country's radio network, the Prime Minister declared: "The Parliament elected in 1951 is now in its fourth year. It is therefore not surprising that with a change of prime ministers there should be expectation of a general election. "Uncertainty at home and abroad about the political future is bad for our influence in world affairs, bad for trade, and unsettling in many ways. I believe that it is better to face this issue now." Eden said the present Parliament would be dissolved May 6, less than three weeks after reassembling from its Easter recess, and the newly elected House of Commons would be opened in state by Queen Elizabeth on June 14. Peoria Doctor Dies Peoria, April 15 (AP) Dr.

Milo T. Easton, 70, a Peoria physician for 48 years, died today in Methodist Hospital. World Showers to Salk. McReynolds struck a chord in many hearts. This, he said, was the least he could do for a man who received "not a red cent besides his meager college pay." The New York Daily Mirror snapped up McReynolds' idea: In an editorial today, the newspaper proposed a three-month campaign asking its readers to send $1 contributions to a Salk fund.

In Mount Vernon, the Junior Chamber of Commerce mailed an $85 thank you gifta dollar from each of its members. In Congress, Rep. Derounian (R-NY) introduced a bill to award a medal "to this great doctor and humanitarian for his brilliant achievement." Sen. Barrett (R-Wyo) asked Congress to authorize a special 10-cent piece, to bear Salk's as unconstitutional Ward's system of electing only three of its nine directors each year. The court held the system unconstitutional.

This gives either side a chance to elect a majority. Under the old system Wolfson could, at best, have placed no more than three of his director candidates on the board this year. Ward's stock jumped a points on the New York Stock Exchange after the ruling. Both sides predicted victory in the showdown a week from today. Edmund A.

Krider, Ward's president, said the present management forces led by 81-year-old Board chairman Avery already have enough proxies to assure a majority of the director positions. Krider reported Thursday that management holds proxies for more than 51 per cent of the 700,000 shares Ward stock. Wolfson, 43-year-old New York and Florida financier, claimed his side has four. directors "in our pocket today." In a jubilant mood, he predicted the "momentum" he said the decision created in his favor will make Avery "a minority director." He contradicted Krider's statement that management had proxies for 51 per cent of Ward's outstanding stock. At a news conference in New York, he insisted neither side knows at this point whether it has a majority of stock to be voted.

Under the cumulative voting system to be followed, each shareholder gets one vote for each share of his stock for each director. The shareholder can concentrate. his votes on one director or distribute them over several, up to as many as nine candidates. Both sides have announced ninemember slates of director nominees. However, since only five director positions are needed for a bare majority, the opposing sides can cast their proxy votes where they will do the most good.

The- Illinois Supreme Court is the last resort in the case because, Ward lawyers said, a. state constitutional provision was at issue and is beyond the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Robert S. Cushman, one of Ward's lawyers, said the management hasn't decided whether to ask for a rehearing.

He expressed doubt it could be disposed of before the April 22 meeting. a verdict in, Circuit Judge Harry The high court's ruling upheld M. Fisher of Chicago. It held the staggered system of electing only a third of the directors each year is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court said: "Where all nine members of the board are elected at once, a minority holding 49 per cent of the stock could elect four; and the majority holding 51 per cent of the shares, by cumulating their votes in the most advantageous manner possible, could elect no more than five our of the nine directors.

"If only three members of the board are elected each year, however, the holders, of 49 per cent would be able to elect only one director at each election and could never have more than three directors on the board at one time. "Classification of directors, in fact, impairs even majority. representation by requiring the majority to wait for two or three years before it can secure representation proportional to its strength." ILLINOIS WOMEN, 60, BACK FROM WORLD TOUR Chicago, April 15 (AP) Two Illinois women arrived home today. after a four-month, trip around the world. Miss Inez Webster of Highland Park and Miss Catherine Bagby of Rushville agreed, "It's been every bit as good as we imagined." The women, who are in their 60s, once were classmates at Knox College at Galesburg, Ill.

They said they decided on the tour because can't take our savings with us." Washington, April 15 (AP) Chief Justice Earl Warren declared todav he has turned his back on party politics for the rest of his life and would not be a candidate for president "under any circumstances or conditions." Warren, former Republican governor of California 1948 GOP candidate for vice president, issued a formal statement after 1 nationwide poll reported he was the top choice of Republican and Independent voters for the GOP nomination if President Eisenhower failed to seek re-election. His statement was believed unprecedented for a Supreme Court justice. The 64-year-old Warren said that when he accepted the chief justiceship of the. United States "it was with the fixed purpose of leaving politics permanently for service on the court. That is still my, purpose.

It is irrevocable. I will not change it under any circumstances or conditions." Friends had predicted Warren might issue such a statement after the Gallup poll said on Wednesday that the chief justice ran ahead of Vice President Nixon and all Republicans as the second choice--after Eisenhower--for the GOP nomination in 1956. The poll said 25 per cent of the Republicans and 31 per cent of the independents surveyed were for Warren. Nixon ran second with 19. and 11 per cent respectively.

Only once has a Supreme Court Justice been a nominee for president. Charles Evans Hughes left the court while an associate justice to run on the Republican ticket in 1916. He returned to the court as chief justice following his defeat by Woodrow Wilson. Warren was the first three-time governor of California, a state that usually had been Democratic. Twice he was- a leading contender for the GOP presidential nomination.

He accepted the vice presidential nomination as Thomas E. Dewey's running mate in 1948 after refusing it four years earlier. Eisenhower appointed Warren chief justice Sept. 30, 1953, and the Californian took office the following month. TEST A-BOMB DAMAGE Supplies, Remote-Control Jets Exposed to Blast Las Vegas, April 15 (AP) An atomic explosion today tested the ability of weapons and battle vehicles to take it, while three unmanned jet planes roared close to the nuclear inferno.

three of the remote controlled jets survived the immediate blast effects above the Atomic Energy Commission proving grounds, 75 miles from here. But one crashed into nearby mountains and the other was crashlanded on a dry lakes. The AEC had anticipated losing both. Their effects data were to have parachuted to the ground. The third drone was safely landed by its control aircraft.

One hundred strategic and tactical bombers and fighters of the Air Force, Navy and Marines conducted a coordinated simulated attack after the giant burst fired at 11:15 a.m. Spread out- across Frenchman Flat from point zero. were many kinds of weapons and vehicles. The exercise was chiefly to determine their ability to withstand the searing shock of an atomic detonation. APRIL 22 START SET ON CHICAGO HOUSING UNIT Chicago, April 15 (AP) Construction will begin April, 22 on the largest low-rent public housing development ever to be built in Chicago.

Costing 26 million dollars, the development, the Cabrini Extension, will cover 35 acres on the Near Northwest Side. Fifteen buildings will contain 1,925 apartI ments..