Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1955 — Page 1

Vol. Uli. No. 269.

HIS BOMB KILLED MOM AND 43 ABOARD AIRLINER B., r -A ■ 1 - i A- - • Wte; 1 w L / \ ; r -«dk GUARDED by two FBI qgftnts (left) John Gilbert Graham. 23-year-old college student and father, enters Denver federal building for his arraignment following his confession that he put aboard a United Air Lines plane a dynamite bomb which killed all 44 persons aboard, including his mother. Graham was named beneficiary in a $37,500 air travel insurance policy written for the mother, Mrs. Daisy King, (right) who hoarded the ill-fated plane just before the November 1 tragedy.

Peron Labor Strike Fails In New Move Minor Clashes With Police Are Not Confirmed BUENOS AIRES (INS) — A nationwide general strike called by Beronista labor leaders met only’s meager response t6day in the Buenos Aires' area, where a fewminor clashes occurred. One unconfirmed report said twA policemen were shot paint factory north of Troops with tanks guarded key industrial areas. t The fact that the strike was limited was pointedly emphasized when the General Confederation of labors CGT own newspaper. El Lider. which apparently was strike-bound-lag| night, appeared at the usual hour today. * Moreover It carried an editorial exhortation for everybody to go to work. This must have perplexed some CGT leaders who ordered the strike at midnight against the two-day-old regime of provisional President Gen. Pedro Aramburu because it said the government was intervening against the organization's newspapers and promoting “free” labor action. A check of industries in greater . Buenos Aires indicated that at least- 50 per cent of the workers went to jobs at a normal hdur. In the industrial towns of Avellandea. Gerli, and others, armed troops patrolled gateways to factories to guarantee the safety of workers. in some cases police forced undecided workers hanging around factory doors to enter. The government had w-arned against “politically” motivated work stoppages and threatened the arrest of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT.) chiefs who ordered the walkout. The troops were called out to prevent violence and safeguard the “right to work” of those who refused to heed the CGT's ordersThe strike call appeared most effective in the capital’s industrial suburb of Avellaneda, site of packing houses, a Firestone rubber plant and otherUieavylndustry. At the time the strike call went into effect at midnight (11 p.m. EST I. the work’ stoppage there was complete. Public transportation in Buenos Aires, however, was normal in the early hours of the morning. The Railway .Workers union was one of several whose leaders were opposed to deposed Dictator Juan Peron and urged their rank amj file to pay no attention to the strike call issued by men who were Peron's Hose supporters. First reports from interior cities said all was normal. However, there was no itnmedi- j ate news from the nation’s second i (Continued on ease Six) Crown Point Woman Is Held For Murder CROWN POINT. Ind. INS) — Mrs. Bertha • Carlyle. 36. of East Chicago, was under a murder indictment today for the ■ fatal shooting of her 38-year-old husband. Pennsylvania Carlyle. She is being held without bond at the Lake county jail in Crown Point. ~ Detectives said Mrs. Carlyle pumped four bullets from a .45 caliber pistol into Pennsylvania when he returned from work Sunday morning.

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I State Police Head {Target On Traffic Charge Jessup With Blocking Programs INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — State police superintendent Frank Jessup was a major target as the Indiana legislative study commission for traffic safety met today. The attack on Jessup was predicted by a commission member, state senator Eugene Bainbridge, Munster Democrat, who said: * “It seems to be cotpmon knowledge among safety and automobile men that Jessup is blocking the safety program through refusal to cooperate with other state officials working for safety.” Bainbridge cited the practical certainty that Indianals highway death toll will greater in 1955 than last year. The Munster senator voiced the following specific charges against Jessup. 1. He has opposed and ridiculed the use of radar speed detectors. Bainbridga said that in Indiana cities in which radar was used, Ihe .death toll dropped 29 percent last year, while the toll in ruAl regions patrolled by state officers decreased by only eight percent. 2. Jessup has fought the inventory program of the national safety council because it has criticized parts of Indiana's program. 3. He has refused to permit state police safety education officials to aid cities and towns in compiling and presenting these safety inventory reports. 4. Jessup has -refused to pursue the “crash injury program” during his three years in office, although Indiana had been leading in this type of research. 5. Jessup has failed in efficiently keeping off the roads motorists whose driving licenses have been suspended. 6. State police last year investigated only 43 of 100 accidents compared" to an average of 76 out of 100 accidents in other states. 7. Jessun assigned safety education troopers to patrol duty, a move contrary to the original plans and orders of Governor George N. Craig. ‘ \ Expected to attend the meeting nre Jessup; Morris Carter, director of vehicle registration; Virgil Smith, chairman of the state highway commission, and Col. Evans Burritt. head of the highway department’s traffic engineering di- - Former Local Lady Hurt In Fatal Wreck Mrs. Simon Heemstra Is Injured Monday , The condition of Mrs. Simon Heemstra, Fort Wayne, formerly of Decatur, injured in an automo-bile-truck accident in Fort Wayne late Monday afternoon. remained fair today at Lutheran hospital. The mishap claimed the life of Charles K. Hill. 34. Payne. O: truck driver. Leßoy Notzingen Fort Wayne, route 13. who was learning the bottling company route and was a passenger in the truck, was not injured. The accident occurred at the intersection of Hanna and Rudisill in Fort Wayne. Police reported that the streets were not slippery and the vision at the intersection is good. Mrs. Heemstra suffered severe injuries to her left eye. right hip arid both ankles. - She also was treated for shock at the hospital. Traffic division officials of the Fort Wayne police department are investigating the accident.

Rest Schedule Planned For Ike At Farm Few Conferences Are Scheduled At Gettysburg Home GETTYSBURG, Pa. (INS)—President Eisenhower today set the early pace of recuperation from his heart attack on a work-a-little. rest-a-lot schedule. Back at the white brick farm house which he said “Will be our permanent home on retirement, God willing,” the convalescing Chief Executive began seeing official visitors on a one-day basis. For the first part of his six-week stay here, the President expected to devote an hour or two a day to work and the balance to rest and relaxation. The work pace probably will be stepped up later. But for the balance of this week, the President is scheduled to receive only three Washington visitors. The announced schedule may have additions. He will confer with presidential assistant Sherman Adams this afternoon. secretary of commerce Sinclair Weeks Wednesday morning, and secretary of state John Foster Dulles Friday. The President has sent his own plane, the Columbine 111. to Geneva to fly Dulles home' from the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference. Dulles is due back in Washington Thursday evening according to the White House schedule, and press secretary James Hagerty said he will fly to the Eisenhower farm Friday morning. Dulles’ arrival fresh from the Geneva meeting of foreign ministers will confront the President with the first big foreign policy (conr:nuea on Page Six) Annual Art Exhibit Planned At School Exhibit By Local Artists December 1 Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art instructor for the Decatur public schools, has announced plans for the annual art exhibit by local artists which will be held Thursday, Dec. 1, at the Decatur high school gymnasium. Sponsored by the Decatur high school art club, the exhibit will feature paintings and ceramics. It will be open to the public from 2 lo 5 p. m. and from 7 to 9:30 p. m. Dec. 1. Miss Kauffman stated that any person in Decatur or the Decatur 4,r.ea is invited to display art works in the exhibit. Those who wish’to participate are asked to contact her by Monday, Nov. 29, so that arrangements can be made for the display. Last year the exhibit featured oil, paintings, water colors, inks and pastel sketches and ceramics by 34 local artists. Miss Kauffman expressed the hope that even more would be exhibited this year in the display. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and turning colder tonight. Showers east and south portion and showers possibly changing to snow flurries north portion and light showers or snow flurries south portion. Low tonight 28-32 northwest to near 40 southeast. High Wednesday near 32 to 40.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 15, 1955.

Adlai Stevenson First To State Candidacy For President Os U. S.

Geneva Meet Deadlocked In Final Hours Russia And West Unable To Work Agreeable Plan GENEVA (INS) —The West and Russia sealed with bitter words today their complete disagreement on whether and how to tear down the Iron Curtain. Thus, the last item on the Geneva foreign ministers’ conference agenda joined German unity-Euro-pean security and disarmament on the list of issues which remained deadlocked after three weeks of talking. A final attempt at reaching a. compromise on ways to increase East-West contacts collapsed at the morning meeting in the Palace of Nations barely a day before the talks were to end. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov rejected a new Western memorandum on the free exchange of ideas and men presented late Monday by' French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay. And Secretary of State John Foster Dulles turned down a familiar Soviet proposal covering Moscow’s conditions for improved East-West relations. The Russian and American ministers talked privately for 15-min-utes before the session got under way. Whatever they discussed did not lead to friendly words in the conference room. There Dulles told his Russian counterpart: “Peace is not solidly based unless peoples of different countries can have access to what other peoples believe and think. “To base peace on the power of a government to dictate what people shall think about each other is in our opinion a very dangerous condition.” The linked German reunification and European security problems were to be revised at an afternoon session set for 4 p. hi. to 10 a. in. EST. U. S. Ambassador to Bonn, Dr. James B. Conant, arrived in Geneva at Dulles’ summons just before the session started and immediately joined the American delegation in the conference room. Charles E. Bohlen, the U. S. ambassador to Moscow, was understood to have warned Dulles to expect Molotov to come up with a “surprise stunt” aimed at placing the blame for the conference's failure on the West rather than on Russia. The next to the last conference session got undey way at 4:30 a.m., EST. But Molotov slammed the Iron (Continued on Page Five) Gerald Durkin Is Reelected By Club President Os First Aid Instructors Gerald Durkin of Decatur, president of the Adams cou/ity first aid instructors club, was re-elected to that office at a meeting of the club Monday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Also re-elected for the coming year were Lehman of Berne, vice-president, and Viola Lehman of Berne, secretary. A talk on how first aid ties in with plans of the Adams courity civil defense organization was presented by Miss Marlene Laurent, secretary of the civil defense advisory council. She explained the scope of the organization in this county, showing th&t It will largely be centered on eniergency care and mass relief. She pointed out that the first aid group is contributing to the civil defense organization by training people tn first aid. A discussion period on first aid's role in civil defense followed her talk.

Two Rome City Boys Are Burned To Death Ignore Pleas From Father To Jump ROME CITY, Ind. (INS)—Two young sons burned to death today as their father pleaded with them to leap from the burning home as he had done. . Fire broke out in the home of Harold E. Lucas, 30, of Rome City, who works as a mechanic in Fort Wayne, early today and he ran upstairs to save his two sons, Thomas, 6, and John, 11, and his daughter, Sharon Kay, 8. Fire trapped all four on the second floor. Lucas broke out a window and told the children to follow him and he would catch them. The daughter leaped and was caught by the mother, Helen Marie, 35. Sharon Kay was burned critically before she jumped. But the two boys refused to heed their father’s plea to lehp to his arms. Instead they hid under the covers on their bed and were burned to death. Lucas told Noble county coroner John D. Hall that he believed a fuel oil heater, which had caused trouble before, was responsible for the fire. Mother and daughter were taken to McCray memorial hospital at Kendallville. Sues City To Force Payment Os Damages INDIANAPOLIS (INS* — Walter H. Imel, 37, who was awarded $22,500 damages from Indianapolis in 1954, has filed suit to force the city to pay up. Imel won damages in Clinton county circuit court, Feb. 16, 1954, for injuries suffered to his knee in an auto accident caused by a chuckhole. City corporation counsel P. K. Ward said the city has less than $1,500 of its SIO,OOO annual budget for such payments. Imel asked a mandate to force payment of the award and interest of six per cent during the period of non-paypient. Annual Drive For J _ . <| Used Clothes Here Catholic Church Is Sponsor Os Campaign The annual drive by St. Mary’s Catholic church for used clothing which is a part of the annual Thanksgiving clothing campaign, sponsored by the Bishops of America. is underway this week. The ninth annual drive this year is being conducted in 19,000 parishes throughout the country. Clothing, shoes, bedding, blankets and other relief items will be distributed to the needy all over the world through the Catholic Relief Service of the National Catholic Welfart Council. In Decatur members of the Rosary society will do the work of porting and packing local donations to the drive. Any person who wishes to contribute items is asked to take them to the auditorium of the Catholic school. All good used and usable items will be accepted. • The items collected are sent to w'arehouseH of the N. ('. W. C. and then are distributed to all parts cf the world. They are given to the needy regardless of race, creed or national origin. To Reconstruct 38th Street In Capital INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —State highway officials said today that 38th street will be reconstructed from Fall Creek to Capitol sometime' in February. Officials said they hope to have turned the 20 blocks widened into six lanes arid divided roadway before the 1956 state fair.

Guard Graham Against Any Suicide Move Plane Saboteur Is Under Close Guard In Jail At Denver DEN VER (INS)- Denver county jail guards kept a close watch today on . admitted saboteur John Gilbert Graham for fear the 23-year-old spoiled mother's boy, alone for the first time against adversity, may attempt suicide. Always before when Graham ran into trouble, his mother, 53-year-old Daisy King would protect him. Once she even reimbursed a Denver concern for money lost when Graham wrote some $4,200 In forged checks. But Mrs. King, whose only crime apparently was in over-protecting the six-foot-two-inch handsome college student, was dead. She died, along with 43 other persons, • board the United Airlines DC-6B which was ripped to shreds by a tune bomb young Graham admitted placing in the plane. Graham was charged Monday with violating the federal law against sabotage. He waived preliminary hearing tiefore a U. S. commissioner and was ordered confined to Denver county jail In lieu of a SIOO,OOO "bond. _ There w_a®..S4 mother to protect him, and Graham was heard to mumble he planned to taker his own life “as soon as they stop watching me.” It is believed to be the largest muss murder in U. S. history. Two additional strange twists to the already bizarre and unbelievable case came to light today; 1. Unless some way is found to (Continued on Page Five) A. B. Riley, Retired Builder, Dies Today Was Long Time Resident Os County Albert Brenton Riley, 83. _ Blue Creek township resident and well known in this area as a barn builder, died at 4:20 o’clock this morn Ing at the home of his son Norris Riley. Decatur,’ route six. t-Ths Adams county contractor had been ill since last April. Born April 26, 1872, Albert Brenton Riley was a son of George and Lydia Danner Riley. He was born in Blue Creek township and resided at the time of his death a quarter mile west and a half mile north of Salem. . -v. He was married November 21. 1896 to Clara Davis who preceded him in death June -26. 1934. Mr. Riley during his lifetime was the contractor in construction of more than 400 barns In Adams county and the surrounding area. He also was head of a house moving crew (or many years here. ~A brother James P. Riley, Willshire, O. survives and three brothers and a sister are deceased. The following children survive: Rev. Vernon Riley. Monroe; Nolan D. Riley. Fort Wayne; Reed R. Riley, Decatur, route six; Dale R. Riley, near Bobo; True B. Riley; Fort Wayne; Merle W. Riley, Mon roe; Alton J. Riley. Fort Wayne; Wilmer I. Riley, Pleasant Mills and the son Norris R., at whose home he died; Mrs. William Brown. Monroe and Mrs. Glen Rupert, Decatur route six. A daughter is deceased. Twentyfive grandchildren arid 24 great grandchildren also survive. The body was brought to Zwick's Funeral home in Decatur where friends, may call after 7 o'clock tonight. Funeral services will he conducted from the Zwick Funeral home Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev. Elwood Botkins, pastor of Union Evangelical United Brethren church officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery.

On City Board • Norbert Aumann Norbert Aumann On Public Works Board Councilman-Elect Is Named By Cole Norbert Aumann, operator of Auman Electric Co. in Decatur and councilman-elect from the second councilmanic district, today was named as the third member of the board of public works and safety by Mayor-electßobert Cole. The appointment will become effective January 1. 1956 and councilman Auman, Mayor Cole and city attorney John DeVoss will compose the new body in Decatur. The board of works operates the municipal utilities and has wide discretionary authority in operation of several municipal departments. Mayor-elect Cole also said that the new works board and all five councilmen-elect would have an informal meeting in a day or two. Chief purpose of the first meeting of the newly elected city officials is to get acquainted, the new mayor said. All councilmen will be asked to designate their preference of committees and chairmanships for next year. It was learned. While the new officers have no official part.in the operation of the city’s government until January 1, preliminary plans will he discussed so that each member of the official family will know the genera! plan and his particular duties in the new administration. The first meeting will also include a study on future plans tn all governmental departments. Auman, third works board memiter. has been active in political, civtr: and church affairs Os Decatur for many years. He is a native of Adams county and for the last 20 years he has'operated his own electrical service in Decatur. In accepting the post he said: “This is my first elective office. I ran for the post of councilman because I want to be of service to the people of Decatur. I will accept the added duty as a member of the board of works and safety with the same thought In mind.” Elderly Pedestrians Are Killed By Autos INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Two elderly Indianapolis residents were killed Monday night when they _ were struck by cars in separate auto-pedestrian accidents. Mrs. Bertha J. Davidson, 82, was killed when she was hit by a car on 38th street in front of the state fairgrounds. She was hurled 50 feet when struck by an auto driven by Mrs. Carol Anderson. 38, of Indianapolis, who was driving home froiri a church meeting. Joseph Hoelle, 97, was impelled, on the hood ornament of a car driven by Leland R. Lucas, 28, of Indianapolis. Hoelle died in Methodist hospital tM4e hours after the accident. Lucas was not held i

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1952 Candidate Seeks Support Os All People Says Democrats Should Return To Full Control CHICAGO (INS) - Adlai E. Stevenson announced today he is a candidate for president. »,'■ Stevenson formally announced he will seek the Democratic nomination on the eve of a series of high level post-election party conferences in Chicago. The unsuccessful 1952 nominee, whose candidacy came as no surprise, said he based his decision on three reasons: 1. It is important for the Democratic party to “resume the executive direction of national affairs;" 2. He is assured his candidacy will *”be welcomed by representative people" throughout the nation. 3. He believes "any citizen should make whatever contribution he can to the search for a safer, saner world.” Stevenson’s announcement, read to newsmen at the Conrad Hilton hotel, follows: "I shall be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president- next year. “1 shall do all I can to persuade my party to entrust that immense responsibility to me again, because “First, I believe it important for the Democratic party iw«ume_ the executive direction of our national affairs. “Second, I am assured, that my candidacy would be welcomed by representative people in and put of my party throughout the country. "Thi|d, I bqlleve any citizen should make whatever cqptribution he can to the search for a safer, saner world.” "It is of first importance to return the executive branch of our government to the Democratic party because it is apparent that wisdom and responsibility began to reappear In the conduct of our affairs only with the return of Congress to Democratic leadership In the 1954 election. “Seldom before has the United States faced a period of greatre opportunity— and greater danger. “Our great opportunity lies in tlje fact that our prosperity and wealth can now be used to give all our people the higher standards and wider opportunities which are mankind’s universal dream. These are now within our reach, not simply for the favored few, but for every family in America. “Our danger lies in the ambition of a now tyranny for mastery of the world, and in Communist extents of the two-thirds of manidoitation of the hope and dlsconkind who now demand a share in the good things of life. In partnership with our friends and allies, with confidence born Os strength and influence born of magnanimity, we must work to uproot the deep causes of conflicts and tension and to outlaw the very means of wnr in this atomic age. “The task of the Democratic, parly is to make ‘prosperity and peace’ not a political slogan but an active search for a better America and a better world. “I am ready to do what I can to that end either as a worker in the ranks or at the top of the ticket Tf"my party sees fit so honor me.” . His declaration of candidacy comes on the eve of Democratic conferences In Chicago, beginning Wednesday and running through Saturday. Supporters of the 1952 party,' nominee and former Illinois governor believe he-is-so “far ahead" in the race for the 1956 nomination that he will win handily. But* they are aware of a general demand for an “open -convention” and are proceeding carefully.