Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 242, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIU. No. 242.

IKE’S BROTHER IN FOR VISIT <Wv ■ *■■ ! ! ■ - 7jMl®fl||A >' ~** s *r r ' ■' ■’-fT£ _,J$? L -i <* s ’< ■• /i <■' : f DR. MILTON EISENHOWER, President Eisenhower’s brother, hands his brief case to Col. Robert Schultz, the President’s aide, on arrival at Fitzsimons Army hospital, Denver, for a visit. Dr. Eisenhower is president of Penn State.

Ike Celebrates 65th Birthday In Hospital Quiet. Gathering Os Family Planned To * Observe Birthday DENVER (INS)—President Eisenhower awoke this morning “refreshed and cheerful,” ready for a quiet celebration of his 65th birthday. The 9 a. m.(EST) hospital bulletin said the President had a good night’s sleep of more than eight hours. The bulletin included the usual phrase: "His condition continues to progress satisfactorily without complication.” A quiet family get-together, complete with birthday cake and presents. was planned for the President's bedside today. Mrs. Eisenhower and her mother, Mrs. John 8. Doud, were expected to be with the President, along with the first lady’s sister, Mrs. 0. G. Moore. They were to open their own and other gift packages for the President and join him in eating a special low-calorie cake with an icing inscription of “Happy Birthday, Ike.” Greetings from all over the nation poured *n to the hospital. How mapy messages or gifts Mr. Eisenhower will see right away was for hie doctors to decide on the basis of how strenuous it wauld be. Reassuring new indications that the President is gaining strength and moving farther toward recovery , developed Thursday. Among them: 1. The Denver White House announced he will meet Monday with defense secretary Charles E. Wilson and Admiral Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Thus, for the first time since his illness, he may take a ' personal hand in defense and security matters. 2. The President, after sunning himself on a terrace for 35 minutes. waved to fellow patients and photographers eight floors below in his first “public” appearance, so to speak, since he was stricken 20 days ago. 3. Mrs. Eisenhower left the hospital for the first time since Sept. 24,» the day the President was taken there. She had an hour and one-half automobile ride during which she visited her mother at Mrs. Doud's home in Denver. More than two thousand patients and hospital personnel were to help celebrate the President’s birthday by eating portions of 24 huge cakes baked from the same ingredients as the one given Mr. Eisenhower. The President’s own cake —a three-layer, two-tier affair about 10 inches high and 16 inches in diameter —was covered with plain white icing touched off by miniature American flags. Because the Chief Executive is on a diet of 1.600 calories a day, the cake had to be made from a special recipe and he was to be alowed only a sliver of it with his lunch. Service Clubs Hold Joint Meet Oct. 20 Decatur's service clubs, ißotary and Lions, will hold a joint dinner meeting at 6:30 o'clock next Thursday evening, Oct, 20, at the Youth and Community Center. Dr. Wayne F. Geisert, head of the economic and social science department at Manchester College, will be the guest speaker. The Lions club will forego its usual meeting Monday meeting next ° week to attend the joint meeting.

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Royal Engagement Believed Certain Townsend Cotts On Princess Margaret LONDON (INS) — Peter Townsend's broad grin and happily dazed comments after a 90-minute visit with Princess Margaret provided an eloquent answer today to Britain’s royal romantic riddle. “You don’t know what a state I'm in,” was the RAF group captain’s final remark to newsmen after his return Thursday night from a talk with Margaret and the queen mother at Clarence House. *- But the British press and public thought they certainly did know what “state” he was in. Townsend’s demeanor, despite his 40 years, was that of a boy in love who had just seen his girl after a long separation and found be was still her man. The reunion of the 25-year-old princess and the divorced commoner came more than two years after he was “banished" to the air attache's job at the embassy in Brussels. When Townsend returned to the apartment of friends with whom he is staying while on leave from the Brussels post, International News Service reporter Wallace Hullett asked him, “Are you happy today?” The captain's reply was a brief. “Yes’ I am,” And when Townsend admitted he had seen the princess, Hullett said: “I hope you will be happy together.” The slim and handsome war hero said nothing, but a broad grin spread across his face and spoke for him. As for .Margaret, a portrait painter for whom she sat just before Townsend arrived in answer to a summons from the royal household said he never had seen the princess looking ‘so radiantly happy.” There were strong reports in court circles that constitutional lawyers finally had thrashed out "all the implications of the princess’ betrothal to a divorced man. These reportedly were presented to the couple Thursday night. It also was said that it had now become possible to prepare an early official statement resolving the question happily for the couple and ending for some 50 million Britons more than two and a half years of frustrating speculation. Queen Elizabeth’s arrival from Scotland next Tuesday assumed special significance. Since the question pf a negative answer seemed impossible at this point, the engagement announcement most likely will take the form of a message from the queen to commons, which reconvenes on Oct. 25. More Below Normal Weather Forecast INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Five more days of below normal temperatures were forecast today for Indiana. The extended outlook called for. temperatures averaging two to five degrees below normal highs of 64 north and 70 south and normal lows ’of 43 north and 46 south. Weathermen said it will be rather cool throughout the period with only minor changes. Scattered light showers are expected around Tuesday. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued cool tonight and Saturday. Local light frost tonight. Low tonight 34-40. High Saturday. 6065.

Faure'Facing Stiff Test In Vote Tuesday Poses Question Os Confidence On Plan On Algerian Reform PARIS (INS) — French premier Edgar Faure ended more than 14 hours of angry debate and parliamentary bickering in the national assembly today by posing a constitutional question of confidence on his Algerian reform plan. The vote will be taken beginning at 3 O’clock next Tuesday afternoon. If the radical socialist (Moderate) premier’s middle-of-the-road program for the unsettled North African territory does not win the support of a plurality of those voting, France almost certainly will be plunged into one of her worst political crises since the war. Faure .who has been accused of temporizing in,his efforts to pacify both Algeria and neighboring Morocco, decided at 4:15 this morning that he would have to force the assembly to take action. Afer the sixth recess during the session, the leader of France’s 21st post-war cabinet took the rostrum and declared: "Each one must take his responsibilities and the government has taken its.” Sinte twv> o’clock Thursday, the deputies had been trying to decide which of six motions on the government’s Algerian policy it should vote on first. The assembly finally debated itself into a stalemate. Faure denounced these “great maneuvers" which he described as an attempt to defeat the assembly’s decision last Sunday on a reform program for Morocco. That program can not get under way in earnest until the Algerian question also is solved.' Faure had hoped to win support for the Algerian proposals, as he did for the Moroccan ones, on -a simple motion approving theim. Tuesday's vote will be on a radical socialist motion which can not be amended and must be accepted completely, not In part. Although Faure’s opponents need an absolute majority of 314 to overthrow the government automatically, if the premier fails to win his plurality it was expected he would resign. -' If 314 votes were cast against him. the premier would have the right to dissolve the assembly and order general elections which now are scheduled for next spring. Farm Outlook Meet At Monroe Tuesday Purdue Economist Will Speak Tuesday Adams county farmers’ will soon have an opportunity to discuss prospects for profits in. 1956. County agricultural agent L. N. Seltenright has announced that Robert Suter. Purdue University agricultural economist, will speak at the annual outlook meeting at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 18 in the Co-op building at Monroe. Seltenright says the program is designed to help county farmers plan ahead for a successful 1956. "Will average hog prices be still lower next year? What is expected to happen to corn prices? Will cattle feeding profits continue low? What will be the milk and egg price situation?” Suter will place special emphasis on these questions as he analyzes the farm price situation for the year ahead. With farm prices now at about 84 percent of parity, farmers will also want to hear what is likely to happen to the prices of machinery, fencing, building materials, fertilizer and other farm cost items. Suter will discuss the possibilities for continued full employment, high wages and incomes for the people who consume farm products. He wil lemphasize prospects for continued increases in consumer borrowing and spending. Other topics to be covered Include the outlook for turkeys, (Continued nn Pare 81 x) Indianapolis Tavern Robbed Os $2,500 TNDIAiNAiPODIS (INS) —Two masked gupnmen locked an Indianapolis tavern owner and a customer in a rear room and fled with $2,500. Glen Marshall, 48, tavern owner, and Charles Fisher, 44, of Monrovia, were locked in the room by the two bandits who carried a revolver and a double-barreled shotgun; JL. ■ '>;

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Bitter Vote Battle Is Underway In Assembly On U.N. Council Seat

Vice President And Cabinet In Session Today Knotty Political Farm Problem One Os Major Issues WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower’s cabinet under the leadership of Vice President Richard M. Nixon will probably take up the knotty political problem of farm policy today among other issues. This is the third meeting of the administration leaders since the Chief Executive suffered a heart attack Sept. 24. Nixon conferred Thursday with agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson at a 75-minute luncheon in the vice president’s capitol office. Benson, who talked with newsmen afterward, declared that the Eisenhower cabinet is ‘TOO per cent” behind his farm price policies. The secretary also denied that there has been any pressure from within the Republican party to “do more” than he has about the agricultural situation. Benson conceded, however, that there have been “expressions of concern” over the squeeze between farm income and farm costs. The secretary said he discussed, the farm situation with Nixon, as wel as the question of his own plans for a European trip next month. Benson said he will go ahead with his tour as scheduled. As for Democratic charges (Continued on rage Five) 4-H Recognition Dinner November 8 November 8 is the date set for the adult 4-H leaders recognition dinner sponsored by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The dinner will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, announces Martin Sprunger, chairman of the event for the Chamber of Commerce. The recognition dinner is an annual event sponsored each year by the Chamber of Commerce in recognition of the adult 4-H leaders’ work in Adams County. At the meeting, leaders are cited by -awards for length of -service and other outstanding contributions. The county extension office announced that the Rev. H. H. Wester, of Huntertown, has been secured as speaker. His topic will be "Strengthen Thou My Hands”. All adult 4-H leaders are requested to attend. Minnie Bloemker Dies Last Night Funeral Services - Sunday Afternoon Miss Minnie Bloemker, 85, a resident of Preble township most of his life, died at 8:30 o’clock Thursday night at her home one-half mile south of Magley. She had been an invalid since suffering a frac-' tured hip in a fall last December. She was born Aug. 6, 1870 in Preble township, a daughter of Earnest and Bernadina LindemanBloemker, and had never married. Miss Bloemker was a member of the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church. She is survived by many nieces and nephews. She was the Jast surviving member of her family, three brothers and three sisters having preceded her in death. • 'Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. H. E. Settlage officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Legion To Continue Communism Fight New Commander Is Michigan Attorney MIAMI (INS) *— A World War II navy lieutenant vowed to keep the American Legion straight on its course of battling communism as he took over the helm today. J. Addington Wagner, 41-year-old Battle Creek, Mich., attorney, was elected national commander as the Legion closed its 37th annual convention Thursday in Miami. The Legion has combatted communism for 36 years. Wagner said, and added: "During the next year we will prosecute that policy without reservation, without fear or favor, and with all of the force and vigor that we can possibly muster.” The Legion went on record during its convention as opposing the United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization (UNESCO). But in a bitter fight Thursday turned down an Illinois-sponsored resolution calling on the United States to withdraw from the United Nations. After an equally torrid argument, Legionnaires rejected a proposal that they support a SIOO-a---month pension for all World War I veterans over 60 years of age. That, too, was sponsored by the llllnl, whose spokesman, Charles Falkenberg of Chicago, said “a pension to a veteran is as much a part of the cost of war as the (Continuea on rage Five) Hungary Archbishop Released From Prison VIENNA (INS) — Communist Hungary announced Thursday night the release from prison and confinement to a church building of Roman Catholic Archbishop Josef Groesz. The archbishop, top-ranking prelate in Hungary following the imprisonment of Joseph Cardinal Mindzenty in 1948, was sentenced to a 15-year jail term in 1951 On a charge of treason.

Annual Fish Fry Is Held Last Evening Big Crowd Attends Annual Event Here More than 1,100 persons, one of the largest crowds in the event’s history, attended the annual Chamber of Commerce-Adams county fish .fry. held Thursday evening at the Decatur high school gym. It was a hungry crowd, too. as more fish was consumed than at any of the previous affairs. Seven hundred and fifty pounds of fish were fried, under the direction of the Jonah club of Silver Lake, and Carl Gerber and George Litchfield, heads- of the kitchen committee. All the fish were consumed, plus a sufficient amount to feed the 33 patients at the Adams county home, to whom the fish are sent every year. The big crowd jilso enjoyed an excellent program of entertainment, featuring the men’s chorus of the Northern Indiana Public Service Co., and Clint and Ruth Milliken,- magicians from South Bend. Louis Jacobs, chairman of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, presided as master of ceremonies. Various distinguished guests were presented, but speeches were kept to a minimum. Included In those introduced were Clarence Ziner, general Chairman of the fish fry; Mayor John M. Doan; Fred Kolter, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and his office staff. M. J. Pryor, president of the C. of Ci. presented the men’s chorus, and Jacobs presented the Millikens. The volunteer workers had all traces of the big event removed and the gym cleared and swept, by 10:15 o’clock, an hour after the program closed.

German Unify Key Hem At Geneva Parley State Department Pessimistic Over Chance Os Success WASHINGTON (INS) — The state department is speaking with two voices about chances of persuading the Soviet Union to agree to a unified Germany. The issue is one of the key items on the agenda of the’foreign ministers meeting in Geneva later this month. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said publicly last week that he would be disappointed if some agreement to unite Germany in conjunction with a European security system is not achieved. iPrivately, department officials are almost universally pessimistic about such a prospect,. The main reason for the pessimism is Moscow’s repeatedly expressed attitude that she would not agree to unifying Germany except on conditions firmly opposed by the west. A second reason for lack of optimism is that the western powers themselves cannot agree on the best plan for persuading Russia to go along with unification of Germany. The western powers are together on certain principles regarding Germany. There are: That a united Germany must be free to join the North Atlantic Alliance if it wants to; the North Atlantic Treaty Organization will not be scrapped, and there can be no European security system without German unification. The Soviets disagree, particularly with the western view about the future of a unified Germany. The Kremlin wants a .whole Germany kept neutral and has shown no inclination to change that position, t Report Polio Season Is Rapidly Ending WASHINGTON (INS) — The "public health service reports that the number of new polio cases dropped 18 percent last week. It added that the polio season is rapidly ending. There- were 1,038 cases of polio in the nation last week, compared with 1,260 the week before.

Delbert Haviland Dies Early Today Funeral Services Monday Morning Delbert J. Haviland, 43, an employe in the maintenance department of the Central Soya Co., died suddenly of a heart attack at 1 o'clock this morning at his home on Decatur route ?. He was born in Geneva June 21, 1912, a son of Thomas and Nettie Haviland, and was married to Edna Wall .Aug. 10,1946. Mr. Haviland was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society and the Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving-are his wife; his parents, who reside at Geneva; two sons, Janies and Thomas Haviland, at home; two brothers, David Haviland of Richmond and Claris Haviland of Toledo, O, and two sisters, Mrs. Floyd Hautz of Dayton, O„ and Mrs. Glen Armentrout of Geneva. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Selmetz officiating. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 3 p. m. Saturday until time of -the services. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at 8 p. tn. Sunday.

Widen Out Search

For Missing Boy .Armed Forces Aid Civilians In Hunt CRANE, Ind. (INS) —The army the navy and the marines, aided by civilian police, today spread out their hunt for a missing three-year-old boy into all the tragic possibilities that might befall a little tyke who “just disappeared.” Ronnie Weitkamp, one of four children of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Weitkamp, last was seen shortly before noon Tuesday as he played near his home in Crane Village, a housing development occupied by employes of the Crane naval ammunition depot. Despite the search, which has been both intensive and far-flung, there has been no positive trace of the little boy since then. Another search of a woods adjoining the area where ißonnie and several playmates were frolicking Tuesday before lunch, was carried out Thursday by Capt. Louis E. Shelton, operations officer of the school for troops at Fort Knox, Ky., and his dog, Spooky. The dog had been trained to retrieve wounded soldiers. When the animal and his master, his army uniform ripped to shreds by briars and underbrush, emerged from the woods late Thursday, the question of what happened to Ronnie was still unanswered. Capt. Shelton said: “If Ronnie or any other human being were In there, we would have uncovered them.” The search already had been broadened Thursday to include the possibility that the little boy jnlght, have been kidnaped or fallen prey to a sex deviate. The return to the woods, searched Intensively previously by several hundred marines, sailors and civilians, came after one of Ronnie's playmates said the missing child “went off into the stickers.” The child, four-year-old Debbie (Continued on Page Eight) $20,000 Damage Suit Is Near Completion Jury May Receive Case Later Today Indications are that the $20,000 nuto-train accident damage suit being tried nr Adams circuit court before Judge Myles F. Parrish this week would go to the jury about 4:15 o’clock this afternoon. Following the hearing of the plaintiff’s testimony, attorneys for the defendant New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad moved for a directed verdict late Thursday but the motion was overruled by Judge Parrish. The defense witnesses were then called and this morning, following completion by the defense, plaintiff’s attorneys recalled one rebuttal witness. The witness, Mrs. Henderson, refuted evidence given by a railroad conductor yesterday that a passenger in the plaintiff’s automobile had told him that the gates were down and they heard the train whistle, Final arguments were limited this afternoon to 45 minutes for each side and Judge Parrish indicated that his instructions to the jury would last about an hour. If this time schedule is enforced, the jury will get the case late this afternoon. The cause is entitled Ollie J. Henderson vs. New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Co., and it is a damage suit in the sum of $20,000 alleging permanent injuries as the result pf an automobiletrain accident at the Nickel Plate tracks and Anthony Boulevard in Fort Wayne November 10, 1953. The cause was brought to Adams circuit court on a change of venue from Allen couitfy, and has been in progress all this week. The law firms of Batton, Harker and Rauch, of Marion, and DeVoss, Smith and Macklin of Decatur, represent the defendant, and Neiter and Smith of Fort Wayne and Severin Schurger of Decatur represent the plaintiff.

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Philippine Bid For Seat Near Victory In UN Outdistances Poland After Four Ballots But Lacks Majority BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The UN assembly postponed today a final decision on the bitter race for one of three security council seats after Russia shifted support to Yugoslavia from red Poland in an effort to beat the U.S.-support-ed Philipines. Assembly president Jose Maza of Chile suspended the session at the request of Britain and Russia after six rounds of secret balloting brought the Philippines to witnin one vote of required two-thirds majority for election. Soviet first deputy foreign minister V. V. Kuznetsov engineered the surprise of the dramatic assembly balloting by ordering the Russian bloc during a 20-minute recess In the midst of the vote to switch to Marshal Tito’s Communist regime UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The Philippine bid for a UN ' security council seat fell short of two votes in the assembly today as' four ballots drove the Pacific nation within reach of victory over Communist Poland. The U. S.-supported candidate quickly out-distanced the Soviet satellite after the first ballot tallied 34 for Poland aqd 33 for the Philippines. The outran Poland on the second ballot getting 35 votes as against 23 for the Communist state. On the third, the Manila delegation got 38 and on the fourth 36 votes. Poland’s tally remained at 20. Cuba, and Australia won on the first ballot, succeeding Brazil and New Zealand respectively for the 1956-57 council term. Cuba got 53 and Australia 42 votes. The content between the Philippines and Poland is over the third remaining seat being vacated by Turkey at the end of the year. U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge headed off a Soviet attempt to block an immediate decision today by having the assembly postpone the balloting until another day. Australia, with 42 votes, and Cuba with 53 were speedily assured of election to succeed New Zealand and Brazil respectively. These posts were not contested. The secona round of balloting was limited to the two rivals, which were but one vote apart in one of the closest assembly elec-’, tions in years. In the absence of France 59 ballots were cast. There was one abstention leaving the totql of 39 votes as the required two-thirds majority. The big’ battle centered on whether Poland, the official Soviet choice, or the anti-communist Philippine Republic is to get the two-year post being vacated by Turkey. A two-thirds majority vote is needed for election. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., announced U. S. support of the Southeast Asian country as the only one of the two qualified for a voice in council affairs. Lodge declared that Poland is neither peace-loving nor fit to serve the international community. Britain also threw its weight be* hind the Philippines, followed by the powerful Commonwealth bloc, as a result of intense campaign by Lodge together with Chief Philippine delegate Carlos P. Romulo. Romulo is credited with having turned the trend in favor of the Philippines amid growing conviction that Southeast Asia should have a vbice in the counctL