Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 167, Decatur, Adams County, 18 July 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LID. No. 167.

LOCAL PASTORS RETURNED TO CHARGES Al >k_-l .. / _ _ ' t /, ■■■■ Rev. L. T. Norns Rev. John E Chambers

22 Are Killed In Crash Os Big Airliner

CHICAGO (INS) —An Inquest was called for today to try to uncover the cause of Chicago's worst air crash which took 22 lives and Injured 22 pther persons. A twin engine Convair plane of Braniff International Airways, carrying 40 passengers and a crew of three, crashed in flames at busy Midway airport yesterday morning after striking a 15 foot high service station sign while coming In for an instrument controlled landing through a dense fog. Twenty passengers, the pilot and stewardess were killed. The remaining 20 passengers and the copilot miraculously escaped with injuries ranging from minor cuts and bruises to head and internal damage. A woman sitting in a car at the crash site also was injured. The force of the concussion blew her out Os the car and spun her around on the asphalt highway like a toy top. Cook county (Chicago) coroner Walter E. McCarron, who called the Inquest for M a. m. (EDT) to hear evidence from survivors, asserted: “Reports of* an engine fire at Wichita and the obvious fact that the plane should have been rerouted because of the wield weather conditions justifies the closest scrutiny of events leading to this accident.” Air line officials said there was a slight carburetor overflow fire when the plane stopped at Wichita but insisted it did not damage the engine. ” - John D. Worrall, chief controler at the alrjlort, said the pilot, Capt. Allen Tobin of Dallas, Tex., received clearance for the instrument landing and reported again two miles from the field. He added: “In neither case did the crew indicate any emergency or anything wrong.” AH transcripts of radio communications between the plane and airport tower were impounded by the civil aeronautics authority pending an investigation. The plane, carrying 40 passengers and a crew of three, was on a flight from Dallas to Chicago and had made stops at Wichita and Kansas City. Six of the passengers wwe naval reservists enroute to Quantico, Va„ for two weeks of training. ' . Among the dead were two football players-Troy Lindsey. 23. of Mhdwest City, Okla., who was carrying a contract to play professional football with the Chicago Cardinals, and Chester A. Wynne Jr., 21, of Oak Park, 111., who was making a name for himself at Notre Dame university. The plane was coming in for a landing at the northwest corner of the field at about 80 miles an hour when its wing struck the sign. It nosed out of control, ploughed through the airport boundaryfence just across busy 55th st., and rolled over. The right wing dug into the grass and ripped off and the gas tank exploded; a motor and landing gear sprayed out. The 48,000 pound craft then began skidding and bouncing over a column .of two-foot high electric runway guid elights, dropping parts along the way until there was nothing left but the fuselage and part of the left wing. Finally, the remaining section at the plane somersaulted 100 feet onto the asphalt run-way and landed upside down.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Soviet. Russia Delegates Are Guests Os Ike President Invites _ Soviet Delegation To Dinner Meeting GENEVA (INS) —Dwight D. Eisenhower, who ten years ago led a mighty army to defeat tyranny, launched a new “war for peace” today at Geneva banquet and conference tables. In a surprise gesture of good will. President Eisenhower invited Soviet delegates to dine with him after the first sessions of the Big Four “summit” conference. Among the guests at the second, top level east-west banquet will be Mr. Eisenhower’s old comrade in arms and fellow professional soldier, Soviet defense minister Georgi Zhukov. There should be no lag in the conversation at the ladened table of the President’s luxirious villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. First, the dinner will come only hours after the two first formal conference sessions, opened and chairmaned by Mr. Eisenhower. And among those present, besides Zhukov, will be garrulous Nikita S. Khrushchev, the Soviet Communist party first secretary and behind tire scenes boss who has beein spouting peace talk recently on all possible occasions. Also gathered around the table of the ornate dining room will be white goateed premier Nikolai A. bulganin, stone — faced' foreign minister V. M. MoiotOv. who often has leveled violent harangues,, against the west, and colorless Andrei (Gromyko, deputy foreign minister. The Russian leaders were guests at an amiable dinner Sunday night, their first night in Geneva, at the villa of French premier IMgar Fan re Mamie Eisenhower performs her first social assignment of the conference today. She joins other wives at a luncheon as guests of Mrs. Paure. The dinner tonight will be the first meeting of President Eisenhower and Zhukov since their last cordial discussion of the problems of occupied Germany on Nov. 7, 13M-5. That was at a Soviet cocktail party in bombed out Potsdam. The question in the minds of millions of people of the free world was whether the friendship of the two old soldiers could help relieve the bitterness and distrust spawned In ten years of the cold war. During the French dinner party Sunday night, one' diplomat asked Zhukov how he felt about disarmament. The Soviet marshal replied: “I am in favor of it. I know what w’ar means. I have been engaged in four wars.” Khrushchev did most of the talking at the party, although Bulga(Continued on Page Five) — • INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. A few scattered shower* and thunderstorm* south and central portions. *A little cooler northeast Tuesday. Low tonight 65-70. High Tuesday 8045.

EUB Pastors Are Relumed To City Conference Closes Sunday Afternoon The Revs. John E. Chambers, Benj. G. Thomas and Lawrence' T. Norris were returned to their churches at the closing session of the annual Indiana conference north, Evangelical United Brethren churches, at Syracuse Sunday afternoon. Rev. Chambers returns to the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Rev. Thomas to the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, and Rev. Norris to the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church. Rev. Thomas was also named conference director of Christian education. Eli Stucky, of Geneva, was appointed ,to the conference board of evangelism. Only two changes were made in the Fort Wayne group. The Rev. Fred Pflugh, of Etna Green, replaces the Rev. C. L. Davis at the Craigville circuit, and the Rev. W. E. Dye, of Atwood, will become pastor at Linn Grove, succeeding the Rev. C. R. Smith. Rev. Davis will go to Greentown and Rev. Smith to Young America. • The Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church, east of Decatur, is yet to be supplied. The Rev. James Thomas, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Benj. G. Thomas, of this city, served as student pastor this, past year, but will enter the seminary this fall and will not be assigned a charge. Other pastors returned to their charges • include the Rev. Howard Ross, Monroeville circuit; the Rev. Lewis Strong, Ossian circuit; the Rev. A. E. Givens, Berne; the Rev. A. B. McKain, Geneva. The Rev. E. I. Petznik, pastor of the First Evangelical United Brethren church in Fort Wayne, was named group leader of the Fort Wayne group, east district. House Group Okays Minimum Wage Hike To Boost Minimum To $1 Per Hour WASHINGTON (INS) — The house rules committee today approved a bill to raise the minimum wage from 75 cents to one dollar an hour. The action cleared the way for a house vote tfhd speaker Sam Rayburn (D Tex.), said the measure would be called up later this week. The bill calls for the same increase in the hourly wage voted by the senate. House Republican leaders plan a fight for the 99 cent wage advocated by President! Eisenhower. The rules committee limited the housh to acting on the size of the increase and on the effective date. It barred amendments to broaden the scope of the program to cover additional workers. The senate voted to make the increase effective next Jan. 1, but the house bill would postpone it until March 1, 1956. Disneyland Fqrmally Opened To Public ANAHEIM, Calif. (INS) — Walt Disney’s Disneyland, called the world’s most fabulous entertainment center, throws its gates open to the public today. The 60 acre, 017,000,000 amusement park, will be open from 10 a. m„ to 110 p. m., and the management has made preparation for a crowd of 60,000 during that 12hdur period. The park was taxed to the limit of its capacity when an estimated 28.000 attended Sunday’s premier* and dedication.

ONLY DAILY NBWtPAPKR IN ADAMO COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 18, 1955.

President Eisenhower Opens Historic Big Four Meet In Geneva

Recall Banker In Probe Os Dixon-Yates New York Banker Is Called For Further * Senate Testimony WASHINGTON (INS) — New York banker Adolphe H. Wenzel! was recalled for further questioning today by Senate investigators of the Dixon-Yates power contract. Also scheduled to testify before the senate judiciary subcommittee headed by Sen. Estes KeFauver (D Tenn.), was Wenzell’s former boss. George D. Woods, board chairman of the First Boston Corp. First Boston served as financial agent for the Dixon-Yates syndicate whose controversial 107 Aillion dollar private power contract with the government was cancelled by President Eisenhower a week ago today. Wenzell was a vice president of sirst Boston at the time he was serving the budget bureau as an unpaid consultant on the DixonYates contract. The senate investigators have charged Wentell may have violated the "conflict of interests” law barring government officials from doing business with private firms with which they are connected. The administration has insisted Wenzell’g role was perfectly proper. -— 15 Counties Accept Supply Os Vaccine Smaller Counties In Indiana Get Supply INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Fifteen of the 30 counties to whom an immediate supply of Salk anti polio vaccine was offered had accepted this morning and were preparing to complete long stymied programs to give first and second grade children two shots without charge. Two other counties informed Indiana state health officials they would not be able to take up the offer at this time, but planned to do so alter. As a result, Decatur county, next in line, will be offered the vaccine. The entire supply of 16,000 cubic centimeters, left over from the first shots given in April under a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis program, is expected to be parceled out to the smaller counties in the state by Tuesday. Dr. Wendell C. Anderson, director of the chronic diseases division of the Indiana state board of health, explained that Union county officials advised him they wish to wait until Wayne county carried out its second round shots Under" the NFIP program before completing their shots. Dr. Anderson said that Union mostly is served by Wayne county doctors and has a joint medical society. Therefore the smaller county finds it more feasible to coordinate its vaccination program with the larger one. The second cbunty not presently able to accept the offer is Scott. In this county, officials said they wanted the vaccine, but could not begin shots again until the Scott county nurse returns from a month’s vacation. A total of 8,305 shots of the vaccine remained to be either distributed or earmarked for distribution this morning, Dr. Anderson said. Starke county already has called for its 494 shots which may give it a head start in being the first county to complete the NPIF program. Newton county with a request for 405 shots, and Carroll county, 1 with 504 ccs., were added today to the list of 13 counties who had taken up the offer Saturday. The 13, in addition to Starke, .(Coatmure on rage Five)

Heavy Toll Os Lives On State Highways Four Persons Die In Head-on Crash INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—A headon crash near Plymouth in which four persons met death led a large total of highway deaths in Indiana ‘during the past week-end. Also, three persons drowned. Victims ot the Plymouth crash were a young honeyriioon couple, airman Donald Otto Stein, 19, and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fountain Stein, 19, of Kenosha, Wis.: Mrs. Kathryn Courtright. 37. of Westerville, 0., wife ot Monroe Courtright, publisher of the Westerville Press and Westerville Public Opinion, and airtitan Theodore J. Bullman, of near Galesburg, 111. Bullman, according to state police. drove into the left lane on a hill to pass another car and struck the Courtright automobile head-on on Road 30, five and one-half mile west of Plymouth. Courtright was in serious condition and Dr. Harry Moore Neuman, 37. an osteopath, and his wife, Eloise, 34, both of Westerville, who were riding with the Courtrights, were in fair condition at the Parkview hospital in Plymouth. Albert Guard, 71, of BusS Creek, died in a Lafayette hospital of injuries suffered in a two-car crash near Lafayette on June 27. Lester L. Conner, 33, of Cortland. Ala., met death when his automobile crashed head-on into one i driven by Richard L. Myers, 19, ofHanna, on Road 30, 10 miles Least of Valparaiso. Mrs. Ethel Royal. 35, of near Waterloo, was killed when she. was hurled from a rolling car that had run off Road 427, four miles north of Waterloo. Injuries suffered when his automobile struck a tree on Road 26, three miles north of Winchester, caused the death of Richard Lee Stanton. 25, of near Portland. When an automobile ran off a curve and struck a bridge abutment and a tree on Road 66, three miles_west of Rockport, May Lou Kinder, 16, of Rockport, was killed. James Maths. 28, Os Hardentown, Dearborn county, died of injuries suffered in a two car crash (Continued on Page Five) Congress Hopes To Adjourn July 30 Long Hours Os Work Slated This Week WASHINGTON (INS) — The S4th congress buckled down to long hours of work this week in hopes of winding up its first session by the end of the month. Most of the work was piled up in the house, where action was scheduled for. legislation dealing with social security, minimum wages, housing, highways and an atomic power merchant ship. The senate, mostly marking time waiting for the house to catch up with it, found only two major items on its agenda for this week —bills extending the defense production act for two years and providing free distribution of the Salk vaccine. Leaders in both houses were confident that a little hard work was all that was needed to clean the legislative desk and go home by July 30. Likely to be sacrificed in the pish to get out of Washington is President Eisenhower’s fede ra 1 school construction program and the Democratic bill to increase social security benefits. The school aid measure may not even get out of the house education committee. The social security bill was scheduled to clear the house today but senate action is unlikely. 1 Biggest roadblock to adjournment is senate approved legislation continuing the government’s housing programs. The house rules committee has so far refused to clear It for house floor action.

U. S. Plans To Reduce Far East Troop Strength Okinawa To Become Major Bastion Os American Forces WASHINGTON (INS) — The U.S. is planning to reduce its troop strength in the Far East from four to three divisions with Okinawa instead ot Japan the major bastion for American forces. The plans are being made against a background of official hope that the Big Four conference opening in Geneva today will result in long term peace for the world. Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson outlined the redeployment program Sunday following his annual three day “secretary’s conference” with top military and civilian defense officials at the marine base in Quantico. Va. He also made it clear that President Eisenhower supports his plan for reducing the size of the marine corps, in defiance of congress, and he hinted that some troops may eventually be withdflkn from Europe, if world conditions permit. Wilson said he has reason to hope that the Big Four conference will lead to a long term peace, but he also warned that the situation could take a turn for the worse at any time. Concerning the move to Okinawa. the defense chief commented that “Japan is no longer an occupied country" and “should take its place in the world.” He said American forces to maintain harbors and bases will remain in Japan, and that the 508th airborne regiment and other U. S. units will be there at least for a long period of time. Eventually, however, Okinawa will be the headquarters for the entire third marine division and a major portion of the army troops remaining in the Far East. Mrs. Howard Cadle Is Taken By Death INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Funeral services will be held in the Cadle Tabernacle Wednesday for Mrs. Ola M. Cadle, 68, widow of the late evangelist Howard Cadle, founder of Cadle Tabernacle, who died in her Indianapolis home Sunday, after an illness of one year. William Michaels Suicide Victim Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon William (Wid) Michaels. 69, a retired farmer, took his own life with a shotgun early Sunday morning at his home on Monroe, route one. He had been ill for several years and despondent since the death of his wife, Goldie, in 1954. Coroner Harmon Gilligr who investigated said that he aimed the shotgun at his head. He died at about 6 a.m. and was later found by his brother, Marion Michaels of Decatur route four. The body was removed to the Gillig and Doan funeral home. Born Nov. 2, 1885, in Illinois, he was the son of William and Mary Vanderker Michaels. His father Is still living and is 96 years old. He was married in December, 1914, to Goldie Sovine. Surviving in addition to his brother hnd father are two other brothers, James of Monroe route one, and Harry of Columbia City. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at’ 2 p.m. in the Gillig and I>oan chapel. The Rev. Stanley Peters will officiate and burial will he in the Elm Grove cembtery at Bluffton. ~~L“;L

Youth Nabbed Here Early This Morning Stolen Artkies Are Found In Car Prompt action by officer Fred isch of the Decatur police department resulted in the apprehension of a 17-year-old Shelbyville youth who is being held on a reckless driving charge, pending investigation of the car and items found In the auto. Isch was making the rounds of Decatur industries about 5 o’clock this morning, when a car bolted out of the alley by the Wayne Novelty company. The local policeman noticed that the car had out-of-town dealers’ plates and was traveling at a high rate of speed, so he took up the chase. The apprehended youth started west on Washington street and turned north on highway 27, with Isch in pursuit. The race continued down the highway past the river bridge and suddenly the suspicious auto veered off the road on the left hand side and down over the bill. Officer Isch ran to the car, but the driver had fled through a field. A call was made to the police station and the sheriff and his deputy joined in the hunt . About an hour later. Isch caught the youth as he was attempting to hitch a ride near Engle and Irwin's on 27 south. The young man implied that another youth was with him, but Isch did not see him and only one door of the suspect's car was open. The youth, being held in the Adams county jail, admitted that he had served five years in the state boy's school. After contacting Shelbyville officials, local authorities learned that the car was stolen from a Shelbyville used car lot and the license plates were taken from another used car lot in that town. In the car were found fdur pen and pencil sets, tie bar and cuff link sets and four watches. Two watch cases were also found and the young man was wearing one of the watches. Investigation showed that all of (Continued on Page Five) PTA Scholarship Award Announced Miss Anita Smith Given Scholarship Miss Anita Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Smith, DecatUr, received a SSO scholarship to Ball .State Teachers college, awarded by the. scholarship committee of the Lincoln parentteachers association, it was announced today. Four additional scholarships were renewed for 1955-56, the committee reported. The renewals, each for SSO, were given to .Carolyn Alger, -North Central, Naperville, lit; Carol Bowman, Ball State; Carol Elzey, Indiana, and Janet Everhart, North Central. The awards are made each year and are based on the student's scholarship ranking. If the recipient continues to make sufficiently high grades, the award is renewed. Applicants for the scholarships must be in the top half of the graduating class scholastically and remain in the top half of the college class. Applicants also must agree to train for the elementary teaching profession; The five recipients of the awards have been notified by the local committee that they will receive the SSO prior to the start of the 1955-56 school term. Commissioners Meet In Regular Session The county commissioners met today at the county court house for their regular, mid-monthly meeting. In addition to the payment ot bills, plans were made to inspect the John Baumgartner ditch in French township. ‘

Price Five Cents

. 11 ; ----- L --' Seven - Point Statement Is Given By Ike Urges Frank Talks By World's Leaders On Concrete Issues BULLETIN GENEVA (INS) — Soviet , premier Nikolai Bulganin proposed to .the Big Four conference today a two-point European security plan, starting with the “freezing” of NATO and Its East European counterpart at their existing strengths. A Soviet source said that the second phase of the Bulganin plan envisages progressive dismantling and eventual liquidation of both the 15 nation western alliance and the eight nation group established in Warsaw last May. GENEVA (INS) — President Eisenhower opened the historic Big Four conference today with a call for “frank talk about concrete problems.” including a war alarm system to prevent sneak atomic attacks. The President’s seven • point statement stressing a reunified Germany under free elections was followed by French premier Edgar Faure’s submission of a farreaching plan for European security and disarmament. British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden at the opening of the afternoqn session then came up with another idea —a five power European security pact composed of the Big Four nations, the United States. Russia, Britain a n d France, plus a united Germany. Soviet premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin’s opening day speech was to follow that of Eden. Soviet delegation quarters expressed "disappointment” at the speeches by Mr. Eisenhower and Faure. - - The first rift in allied unity at the Big Four conference developed at the opening session. American delegation circles expressed astonishment at Faure submitting detailed proposals without getting prior approval of the United States and Britain on a common front basis. President Eisenhower, who presided as first chairman and who technically is the only chief of state at the conference, .set the American attitude when he said: “We are not here to repeat the same weary exercises that characterized most of pur negotiations of the past 10 years. “It is necessary to talk frankly about concrete problems which created tension between us and about the way to begin in solving them.” ? He listed the problems to be taken up at the historic Palais Des Nations, where the world once failed to find peace in the bld League of Nations, in thia order of importance: 1. Unification of Germany. 2. Security. 3. Restoration of freedom of the capitve states of Eastern Europe. 4. Removal of the Iron Curtain. 5. Cessation of the subversive activities of International Communism. . He warned the Russian delegation that the world “cannot ignore the distrust” created by International Communism. And he declared that the American people “feel strongly” that the peoples of Eastern Europe should be given their freedom. French Premier Edgar Faure, speaking after the President, also emphasized the problem of German unification. “So long,” he said, “as the Ger- 1 man problem remains unsolved there cannot be a true harmonization of international life.” He asserted the solution to thia problem is a prerequisite to end the cold war. He proposed that a united Germany should not have armed forces superior to those envisaged (Continued on Page Tt>r»«)

the crete