Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 265, Decatur, Adams County, 10 November 1955 — Page 1

VoI..LUI. No. 265.

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Ike Appeals To Soviet Russia To Keep Peace President To Leave Denver Friday For Washington Return DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower began his last day in the hospital today after a personal appeal to the Soviet Union to help bring peace to the Middle East. The chief executive was ready and eager to leave Fitzsimons army hospital Friday and fly back to Washington after an absence of 13 weeks. Wednesday was one of Mr. Eisenhower’s busiest days since he was stricken with a heart attack 48 days ago. The chief executive received a state visit from the President of Guatemala and took a personal hand in the explosive Middle East situation. He also prpved with a half-iozen, trips up a 20-step fire exit that he is more than ready to climb the 19-step ramp to his personal plane, the Columbine 111, Friday morning. After his visit with President Carlos Castillo Annas of Guatemala, Mr. Eisenhower conferred for a half Itour with undersecretary of state Herbert Hoover Jr. "He then issued a prepared statement declaring the United States is willing to consider requests for arms for "legitimate self-defense" in the Middle East. He added, however, that this country would not contribute to pn arms race between Israel and her Arab neighbors which would add' to the peril of war. The President was also keeping a close watch over developments at the Geneva conference, which appeared stymied over the issue of German reunification. Hoover gave him a confidential briefing on the progress of the Big Four foreign ministers meeting. The President looked “lean and sharp” in the eyes of an onlooking reporter. It was the second time he had had his picture taken at close range since his heart attack. When the “pool" reporter volunteered that the press corps was ready to return east, Mr. Eisenhower replied with a smile: "If I might say so, the Eisenhower corps is ready to go back (Continued on Page Seven) Former Decatur .Lady Dies Wednesday Night Mrs. Marie Olinske, daughter of liouis H. Miller of DeCatur, died Wednesday night at her home in W’ickliffe, 0.. following a long illness. Surviving in addition to her father are two daughters in Wickliffe, a son in California, two sisters and two brothers. Her husband, Carl Olinske, preceded her tn death. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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Ease Restrictions On Housing Credit Announce Removal Os Down Payment Boost NEW YORK (INS) — The Elsenhower administration today repealed part of the credit restrictions imposed on the housing industry last July to curb inflationary pressures. Effective immediately, the federal housing administration announced removal of a two per cent boost on down payments on new housing projects built under the government’s broad anti-slum program. Announcement of the changed credit rules was made by FHA commissioner Norman P. Mason in a speech prepared for the 48th annual convention of the national association of real estate boards in New York. The action represented a relatively minor modification in the government’s over-'all housing program, since homes usually purchased under the FHA or veterans programs are not affected. FHA and the veterans administration will continue to require most buyers to pay off their loans in 25 years instead of the 30 years allowed before the restrictions. The two per cent down payment boost on these types of home loans will remain in effect. But officials said that FHA’s action was significant because: 1. It was the second step the government has taken in recent weeks to loosen the reins on housing credit. The federal national mortgage association has suspended its sales of government housing loans to make more investment funds available for new projects. 2. The relaxation will provide a new shot in the arm for the administration’s urban renewal program by making it easier for builders to obtain financing for rehabilitation of apartments in slum areas and low-cost new housing for families evicted from slums. Simultaneously, Mason said that housing administrator Albert M, Cole has approved new low-cost housing projects in eight cities un(Oontinued on .Page Seven) Mark Veterans Day In Decatur Friday Veterans Day (formerly Armistice Day) will be observed Friday in Decatur and throughout the nation. The American LregiOH will hold the annual 11 o’clock service Friday morning by the firing squad, with the Rev. O. C. Busse speaking briefly. The Veterans Day dinner will be held at the home Saturdayevening. , The Veterans of Foreign Wars ’will observe the day with a potluck supper and entertainment at the post home Friday evening. Public offices, the First State Bank and the post office will bee losed for the day. There will be no city or rural mail dellverlee and the ‘ lobby will be open on the usual | holiday schedule.

Democrats Os Indiana Hail Landslide Win List Many Factors Involved In Huge Democrat Victory INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Democrat fc leaders flexed their muscles for 1956 and Republican chiefs licked their wounds today following the Democratic landslide victory in the city elections Tuesday. Municipal machines in 73 cities, captured Tuesday, will spark the Democratic comeback effort next year, while the Republicans have control of only 29 city halls. The Democratic chiefs predicted publicly that if President Eisenhower does not run, the Demo>cratic presidential nominee is a cinch to win Indiana in 1956 and that he may be victorious anyway. But sober reflection discloses that the Democrats have a long way to go, with Republicans now in charge of the state house, the state legislature and most counties and bolding both United States senate seats and nine of the 11 hoosier congressional posts. Among the factors iistd by observers as responsible for the GOP debacle were: 1. The constant desire of the voters in municipal elections to oust the “ins.” There were 70 Republican “ins." 2. Dissatisfaction of small-town voters were the GOP farm program. Slipping farm product prices have disturbed the economies of a number of smaller communities. 3. The CIO and AFL professionals showed political power in their support of many Democratic bigcity winners. Cities included Indianapolis, South Tend, Terre Haute, Evansville, Anderson, , Kokomo, New Castle, Gary, Hammond, and Muncie. 4. Antagonism, within the Rupublican party chiefly, to Governor George N. Craig, whose arch enemy. Senator William E. Jenner did nothing in |he campaign. Jenner backers likewise sat on their hands in many localities. Senator Homer E. Capthart, on the other hand, spoke for municipal candidates for a month. He runs for reelection next year and Jenner has no reelection gauntlet facing him until 1958. 5. Voter reaction against the operations of the governor’s toll road commission. Craig has packed the toll road setup with high-salaried political and American Legionnaire appointees. 6. An uneasy feeling that if Ike retires, no Republican can begin to fill his shoes. Among results of the election predicted were: 1. Senator Capehart will be in danger for reelection next year, with former secretary of agriculture Claude Wickard as a possible opponent. 2. Congressmen Charles Brownson, of Indianapolis; Shepard J. Crumpacker, of South Bend, and John V. Beamer, of Wabash, all Republicans, may be unseated and (OoiKanueo on Page Seven) Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Nov. 18 Volunteers Sought To Contribute Blood The next visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile in Decatur is scheduled for Friday, Nov. 18, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. at the American Legion home. According to Mrs. Ed Bauer, Adams county chairman of the blood program, the quota for this visit is 110 pints. She added that It is imperative that this quota be met since the blood is badly needed at the Fort Wayne regional blood bank which services this area. To insure the quota it is necessary to schedule at least 150 donors, she stated. The work of calling prospective donors and setting up the schedule is being done this week under the direction of Mrs. T. C. Smith, chairman of the staff aides. The Red Cross has issued its usual appeal for new donors, those who have never given blood before. Mr A Bauer pointed out that not every person can give blood each time and it is necessary” to have a long list of willing donors in order to fill the quotas each time. _ One pint of blood might save a life, she emphasized, and every person who is able to give is urged to do so. Any one who desires to give is asked to contact the Red Cross office in Decatur.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 10, 1955

Inmates Os Ohio Prison Farm Stage Sitdown On Demands For Pay Hike

Israel, Egypt Are Warned Os Reprisal Move Warnings Part Os Heavy Diplomatic Pressure By West WASHINGTON (INS) — Israel and Egypt have been warned the U.S. will take stern reprisal action against either or both if they start war in the Holy Land. The British and French are understood to be supporting the U.S. The warnings were part of the heavy diplomatic pressure the Western powers are exerting to prevent a Middle East war. In Washington officials said they believe there is a better than even chance that war will be averted. But if a conflict does come: 1. Economic sanctions almost certainly would be placed against either or both countries. 2. Efforts would be made to embargo arms shipments, but U. S. officials admit that such an e'mbargo without a blockade would be of little value unless Soviet Russia agreed to it. They see little likelihood of that, in view of Soviet approval of the sale of vast amounts of arms to Egypt by Red Caechoslovakia. 3. As * last resort, the U. S. sixth fleet, based in Italy, and the British Mediterranean naval forces might be ordered to blockade the seaports of Israel or Egypt, or both. No firm decision has been made on just what steps will be taken if war is renewed. That is because the U S. is so confident that armed conflict will be avoided. Assistant secretary of state George V. Allen delivered the stern warnings to the Israeli and Egyptian ambassadors in Washington Saturday. He did not tell them in detail what the western powers would do in case of war. But he did say the U. S. would be "most angry” with anybody who started a war in the Middle East. That is blunt, tough talk for diplomata. On the next day, Allen punctuated the warning for all the world to hear. On a nationally televised program he said the U. S. would be “angry” with any Middle Eastern aggressor. The basis of western policy in the Middle East is the British-French-American declaration of May 25, 1950. President Eisenhower said yesterday that this declaration outlined the policy "which we believe would best promote the interests and security of the peoples in the area.” (Oouunuea on Page Eight) Woman Sought For Passing Bad Checks Two Os Bad Checks Passed In Decatur A woman who cashed two checks in Decatur and 23 others in cities all over the northeastern part of Indiana is being sought by authorities. The two checks here were cashed at Schafer’s Hardware store and at the Firestone store. All 25 bogus checks were drawn on the Anthony Wayne Bank in Fort Wayne. Detective Sgt. Truman Bierie of the state police, who is conducting the investigation in this area, stated that the woman is an attractive blonde who changes her hair color to red for som6 of her dealings. About a month ago she cashed a bad check at a Huntington children’s stora where she was described as a redhead. Later the same day, as a blonde she eashed a fraudulent check at a Bluffton children’s store. Witnesses have described her as attractive and petite.

Two Brothers Freed In Till Kidnaping Widely-Publicized Till Case Is Ended GRENWOOD, Miss. (INS) — The widely-publicized Emmett Till case is over. Two half brothers —J. W. Milam, 36, and Roby Bryant, 24 — were cleared of charges of kidnaping the 14-year-old Chicago Negro boy by the Leflore county grand jury yesterday. The 20-member r all-white grand jury returned the “no bill” to Circuit Judge Arthur Jordan six weeks after the two men were acquitted of murdering young Till in neighboring Tallahatchie county. Four witnesses were heard by the grand jury before it announced the decision freeing the two white men of any complicity in the case which had nation-wide repercussions. The witnesses were Mose Wright, Till’s great-uncle from whose home the youth allegedly was abducted on Aug. 28, Willie Reed, an 18-year-old Negro youth, Sheriff George Smith, and Deputy Sheriff Ed Cothren. Wright identified Bryant and Milam as the two men who took young Till away in pre-dawn darkness after announcing they wanted “the boy who did the talking at. 1 Money.” / It was at Bryant’s country store in Money, Miss., that a Negro youth had allegedly “wolf whistled” at Bryant’s 21-year-old wife, Carolyn, four days before Till’s disappearance. Reed testified he saw Milam ■with Till at a farm operated by Milam’s brother, Leslie. Reed said he later heard "hollering” coming from a barn on the farm. The officers testified the two men admitted taking Till from Wright’s home but/that the pair insisted they freed him unharmed when they discovered he was not the Negro they w-anted. Three days after Till disappeared from his uncle’s home, the body of a Negro youth, shot through the head and beaten, was found in the Tallahatchie river. At the murder trial, Till’s mother, Mrs. Mamie Bradley of Chicago, identified the body as that of her son. Wright also said the body was Till’s. Adlai E. Stevenson To Announce Plans Announcement Is Scheduled Tuesday WASHINGTON (INS) — Adlai E. Stevenson, ready to announce his cnadidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in a few days, arrived in Washington today but said he had no plans to confer now with other potential candidates. The 1952 Democratic presidential nominee said he had a luncheon date with former secretary of state Dean Acheson and would proceed to Charlottesville. Va., either tonight or Friday. He speaks Friday night at the University of Virginia, commemorating the Woodrow Wilson centennial. Stevenson confirmed personally the Chicago announcement that his decision on the 1956 candidacy will be announced in Chicago next Tuesday. Asked if he had made a "definite decision” he replied with a -smttet —- : — “Yes, I’ll make the announcement Tuesday. I’ll say what I’m going to do.” The announcement that Stevenson will formally his intentions was made yesterday by Roger Tubby, his press agent. - Stevenson is slated to meet Saturday in Chicago with Sen. Estes Ketauver (D Tenn), when both will attend an Israel bond drive dinner. t The former governor is timing his announcement on tha eve of an important Democratic confab beginning next week in Chicago.

Big Four Move To Problem Os Disarmament Deadlocked German Unification Issue Shelved At Geneva BULLETIN GENEVA (INS) — Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov today rejected President Eisenhower’s “open skies’’ inspection plan with the claim it exposed nations to surprise atomic attack. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles described the plan as the key to practical disarmament and a nuclear weapons control system. GENEVA (INS)—The Big Four foreign ministers shelved the deadlocked Gerpiap reunification issue today and tackled another stalemate, the problem of disarmament. The ministers took up the second item on the three-point agenda after the western allies blamed Russia for shattering the “spirit of Geneva" because of the Soviet refusal to consider free elections to reunite Germany as part of a European security plan. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles, British foreign secretary Harold MacMillan and French foreign minister Antoine Pinay originally asked for a final adjournment of the first item debate. But Russia's V. M. Molotov — whose rock-like resistance to the Allied plan for German reunification shut off profitable discussion —managed to keep the item open for later debate by introducing some warmed-over proposals on reducing foreign troops in East and West Germany. The western Big Three are determined to resist any conciliatory gestures by Molotov later in the conference unless the Soviets reverse themselves completely and accept the Allied demand for free, all-German elections. The tougher western policy — demonstrated by the bitterly critical speeches of Dulles, MacMillan and Pinay yesterday—was expected to be carried over into this afternoon's discussion of disarman ent Dulles was to make clear that President Eisenhower’s pre-dis-armament proposals for mutual air inspection and an exchange of military blueprints between the U. S. and Russia is the key to solving the long deadlock on arms limitation. Dulles and Pinay, embittered by Molotov's scornful rejection of the allied plan on Germany, reportedly would like to end the conference on Saturday. (Continued on Page Seven) Mrs. Minnie Sonner Dies At Fort Wayne Funeral Services Saturday Morning Mrs. Minnie Sonner, 73, died shortly before noon Wednesday at her home. 820 Lavina street, Fort Wayne, after an illness of several years. She was born near Uniondale and had lived in Fort Wayne since 1929. Mrs. Sonner was a member of ttrer Kort waync trospei and its Grace Bible class. Surviving are her husband, Arthur Sonner; a daughter, Mrs. Jacob Garmire of Fort Wayne; a son, George W. Sonner of north of Decatur; and 1 two Blstors, Mrs. Floyd McCague and Miss Laura Black, boh of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Elzey & Son funeral home at Waynedale, the. Rev. Forest WedAle officiating, Burial will be in .Prairie Grove cemetery. Friends ■may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Rigid Security For President's Plane Rigid Clamps Cover Eisenhower Plane DENVER (INS) — Presidential security officers, in the wake of evidence that sabotage caused the crash of a United Air Lines plane Nov. 1, were taking no chances with the Presidential plane scheduled to leave Denver tomorrow. Rigid new security clamps'l'covered both the President’s personal plane, the Columbine HI, and a United DC-7 which will carry newsmen and members of the White House staff back to Washington. Meanwhile, federal and air line investigators worked,in a United hangar at Stapleton airport, a short distance from the Summer White House, completing their reconstruction of the DC-6B that crashed near Longmont, Colo., more than a week ago. Other probers were still combing the fields near Longmont picking up bits of metal spread over a two-mile area where 44 persons lost their lives. Denver FBI chief Webb W. Burke denied today that fragments of a bomb had been found at the crash scene, although the fact that a bomb-type explosion in cargo compartment No. 4 ripped the plane apart in flight 11 minutes after takeoff has been admitted by DAB agents. While new instructions were being issued, a blackout on information of the Longmont inquiry took effect. CAB -investigators on the scene refused to answer any questions. Burke would admit only that a second shipment of objects found in the wreckage had been made to FBI laboratories in Washington. He said the laboratory would attempt to find out “what type of explosive was used — assuming there was an explosive.” Charge Favoritism To General Motors Allege Favoritism , By Federal Agencies WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate hearings on General Motors Corporation gave» signs today of branching off into a probe of pos sible favoritism by World War II government agencies. Chairman Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.) of the senate antimonopoly subcommittee, said he intends to find out the make-up of agencies which restricted the output of some business firms during World War II while giving a possible "great advantage" to a competitor. His announcement was touched off by testimony that two firms had their diesel locomotive production limited to switchers while, they said, General Motors was giVen a free hand to produce the locomotives for freight hauling. William F. Lewis, vice president of Alco Products, Inc., testified that this gave GM a “protected position" and a "tremendous head start" in capturing postwar customers. He said railroads Which bought from GM during the war were inclined to continue to do so after the war. De Gray Vanderbilt, vice president of the Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp., said his,firm was similarly restricted by the government in the war years and this gave GM a "running start.” v (Continues on Pare Eight) Annual High School Open House Friday The annual open house and choral concert will be held at the Decatur high school Friday evening, with parents of the students and the public inited to a|tend. The program will open with a 30-minute eoncertt high school choir, beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Following the concert, the parents and others interested will visit the various class rooms in the school.

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Move Spreads To Nearly All Os Prison Area Refuse To Work In Form Field; Lousche Backs Superintendent LONDON, O. (INS) —A “sitdown” strike of zinmates at the London prison farm spread to almost the entire camp today as authorities clamped on a "no work no eat” order in hopes of starving ■ the men into submission. (Governor Lausche backed up the superintedent with a strick order that no negotiations will be carried on with the men until they give up their rebellion. Some 233 prisoners refused to work Wednesday when taken into the fields and were returned to their barracks. After breakfast today the strike spread from one barracks to four more housing a total of 1200 men. Supt. Roderick Eckle locked the men in their barracks and posted guards as Ohio national guard units were alerted to stand by at the London armory. Some 70 state patrolmen were on the scene. Eckle said that the prisonersail members of one dormitorywho refused to work Wednesday when they were brought into the farm fields, received no dinner last night, no breakfast this morning and will receive no food whatsoever until they relent on their demands. In Columbus. Goemor Lausche backed Eckle to the hilt saying: “I ordered no negotiations of any character whatsoever — and I did it with great positiveness — while they are challenging the duly-con-stituted governmental authoriiies. "There shall be no consideration given to their complaints while they are engaged in a sit - down strike.” The London farm, about 35 miles west of Columbus, was reported quiet but tense, with prison guards on 24-hour duty, the state patrol standing by and the Ohio national guard on the alert. Eckle denied earlier reports that he was negotiating with the 233 along with state department of corrections chief Maury C. Koblentz. He told International News Service that he had issued an edict to the group and was prepared to wait the prisoners out The prisoners, who receive up to eight and one-half cents per hour if they have dependents and four cents if not, are demanding they be credited with a minimum of 200 hours per month. They are presently paid according to the numbers of hours they actually work, but in many cases taat is below the 200-hour figure because of bad weather, illness, etc. The rest of the 2,200 prisoners at the farm carried on their normal day's actiities today and were working in the fields. There were no report of violence and guards had free access to the rebel dormitory. Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Leo M. Kreber, the Ohio national guard adjutant general, spent the night at the London armory with Brig. Gen. Kenneth Cooper, his assistant, ...nJ Col, Oliver H. Gibson, commander of the 166th regimental combat team. The 166th Was prepared to move into the farm at a moment’s notice. Eckle said the balking prisoners were returned to their domitories immadiatol v whon tVsay £zw rni ilitstx j w iiVi u tuvj iuiuuvu w~ go to work Wednesday. He said they have not tried to put reprein contact with him and he refuses to contact them. “They come to our terms, or they don’t eat ... no work, no eat,” Eckle said. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional showers tonight. Lew 3540. Friday, showers and turning cooler. 16 Pages