Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 16 November 1955 — Page 1

Vol. Lili. No. 270.

ADLAI ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY

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FIRST TO S ENTER the lists in the 1956 presidential campaign. Adlai E. Stevenson (left! gets a handshake from Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley as he announces his candidacy at Democratic meetings in Chicago. Mr. Stevenson said he assumed his announcement came as no surprise.

Tornadoes And Heavy Rain In Much Os State

INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Hail, tornadoes, torrential rain and heat wave turned Indiana’s winter into a inid-suinmer nightmare during the past 24 hours. A father and daughter. John W. Pratt. 56, of Spiceland, and his daughter. Alice, 19, were killed as an indirect result of high winds that injured a score of persons and caused thousands of dollars worth of property damage throughout the state. Pratt and his daughter were killed when winds blew down their television antenna near midnight Tuesday. The antenna touched high power lines and when the daughter screamed for help, the father rushed out and also w’as electrocuted. Today's forecast called for rain changing to snow or sleet in the north and rain changing to snowflurries in the south with -much lower temperatures. Tornadoes and high winds blasted Spiceland, Gentryville. Huntsville, Evansville, Polk’s Park east of Boonville and Indianapolis and heavy rains brought a flood threat to Anderson. The farmhouse of Charles Hall, 61. of near Huntsville was toppled by winds and Hill, his wife, son, daughter-in-law and three grandchildren were taken to Randolph county hospital at Winchester for treatment. Trees, wires, fences and television antennas hit the ground in the Huntsville area. 'Rooftops and porches were pried loose in Evansville. Oddities turned up in the Pocket City's 25-block storm area, Mrs. Alton Cherry was cut when a beer, case was blown through the picture window of her living room and Mrs. Jack Newton saw chunks of cement ripped from a neighbor’s garage. Evansville had 75 mile an hour winds and a temperature of 80. an all time high for Nov. 15. Indianapolis had a minor tornado on the south side. A garage was lifted in the rear of Donald Turpin’s home. The garage was split into four pieces and splintered against a neighboring building. Four persons were injured. Streets throughout the state were flooded by ' the freakish weather Tuesday night and early this* morhing. , Anderson residents feared the water-in-the-streets routine might take on a semi-permanent color. The weather bureau reported 2.35 inches Tuesday night, the heaviest rainfall in a decade and it sent White River to 9.72 feet as compared with a normal 7.00 reading. Observers said the river is still rising and there is a danger of some flooding. Weathermen said Indianapolis had 2.49 inches of rain in six hdurs and Evansville had 1.31 in the same time. More rain or snow is expected today and drivers were warned that there is a danger of the rain covered highways becoming ice covered before the day ends. , INDIANA WEATHER Cold wave warning. Cold wave today and tonight with temperature falling by Thursday morning to 10 to 15 north and 15 to 20 south. Partly cloudy with slowly dimin-[ ishlng winds tonight and Thursday. A" few snow flurries extreme north, continued cold Thursday with high ranging from 22 to 28 north to near 30 extreme south. •

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Adlai Denies Any Deals In I ■ : His Campaign Stevenson Agrees To Enter Primary Race In Minnesota “ CHICAGO (INS) — Adlai E. ’ Stevenson declared today he has made “no deals" in his announced 1 campaign for the Democratic presl- * dehtial nomination. The former Illinois governor announced he has agreed to enter the Minnesota presidential primary but said he has reached no decision ’ i about other state contests determl ining delegates for the 1956 Demoi cratic national convention. Stevenson told his first news • conference as an announced 1956 ’: democratic presidential candidate: ' 1. He believes that a heart attack • should “in no way limit” the future ’ i activities or usefulness of a public. 1 I figure. He made it clear this included President Eisenhower and said : | that he, as a candidate, would "never make health an issue” in , ' his campaign. I 2. Pennsylvania secretary of ‘ state James A. Finnegan. 48-year- I i old Philadelphian, will be his cam-| ’.paign manager with Hyman B. Raskin. 46. of Chicago as deputy b | campaign director. , 3. His decision to seek the Demo- , ; cratic nomination was “largely made" before President Eisenhower suffered his heart attack, reach- . | ing its culmination at the governI ors’ conference in Chicago last August. ( ; 4. He believes that former Pres- . ident Harry S, Truman meant J what he said when he "made it entirely clear he would be neutral” I toward all Democratic presidential ; aspirant and accent the choice of ' the convention. Stevenson said that Jas far as he knows there is—- ! ' disagreement ’between Truman and ■ himself. i 5. His policy toward the Commit- . nist world would he one of hoping I to preserve peace but that there i would be "no disposition on my ; ' part to submit to the demands of international comjnunlsm. here or elsewhere.” As things now stand. Stevenson will enter primaries in Minnesota, I California. Florida and Pennsyl- ' vania. He is expected to duck New Hampshire’s test, first in the nasl. tion. because it involves only a ; small number of voters and is pro ■ ■ (Continuer) on Page Six) ' I J’ ~ : - Louise Gallmeier ; Is Taken By Death Mrs. Louise Gallmeier. 79, of near Ossian, died Monday night at the Davis nursing home in Bluffton. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran church : at. Friedheim. Surviving are a brother, Fred H. Bradtmiller, and three sisters. Mrs. Sophia Kohlenberg. Mrs; Minnie Gick, and Mrs. Pauline Nahrwold, all of Fort Wayne.- *—■ Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Elzey Sons funeral home in Ossian, the Rev. A. A. Fenner officating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Ike Forced To Cancel Meeting Because Os Fog Important Foreign Affairs Parley Is Set For Thursday GETTYSBURG, Pa. (INS) <k .— President Eisenhower cancelled all appointments today because of a thick fog in the Gettysburg .area but set an important foreign affairs conference for Thursday. White House spokesmen anJohn Foster Dulles wil larrive in nounced that secretary of state Washington from the Geneva Big Four meeting at 3:30 p.in. EST Thursday and will fly immediately to Gettysburg for a 4 p.m. date with the Chief Executive. A "t>ea-souper” which shrouded the region forced Mr. Eisenhower to call off plans to go for the first time to his suite in the Gettysburg post office. " He postponed until Thursday morning his scheduled talk with commerce secretary Sinclair Weeks. Mr. Eisenhower also arranged to begin Thursday with budget director Roland Hughes a series of conferences on the government’s 1957 spending program. The White House announced that Dulles will remain in Gettysburg overnight and confer with the President again Friday before making a radio and television report to the nation Friday evening'on his parley with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Russia. Dulles will return to Washington -to make his report to the nation. Initial plans for him to speak from Gettysburg were cancelled because of technical problems involving availability of broadcast circuits. Presidential news secretary James C. Hagerty said that the exact time Dulles will go on the air Friday has not been set. The conferences between the President and Dulles wil be held at the Eisenhower farm in the Chief Executive’s first floor combination bedroom-study. •emh frofr xyiofr wdofo Mr. Eisenhower made it clear that his recovery from his Sept. 24 heart attack has progressed far enough to permit him to resume personal command of U.S. foreign policy. His objectives are a salvage job on the unsuccessful. Big Four parley at Geneva and the prevention of war in the Middle East. Mr. Eisenhower was obviously ; concerned over Russia’s failure to honor the “spirit of Geneva.” He asked Dulles to lose no time in giving him a personal report on the breakdown of efforts to reunify Germany and reach agreement with 1 Russia on arms limitation. (Conunoea on Page Eignt) Heated Battle At | “ ~ ~~ State Traffic Meet State Police Head Scored At Meeting INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — State police predicted today that Indiana’s bloody highway death toll may reach 1.200 this year, compared to 1.077 last year. The forecast came after a heated battle of safety officials at a meeting of the legislative traffic safety study commission Tuesday afternoon, during w'hich lack of tehtmwork was admitted among state police superintendent Frank A. Jessup, state traffic director Joseph L. Lingo and state motor vehicle commissioner Morris J. Carter. The traffic death toll reached 978 Tuesday. At the commission meeting, Carter charged that from 50 to -70 per cent of the more than 15,000 Hoosiers whose licenses have been revoked continue to drive. Also, Lingo said that Jessup has ignored his recommendations that a full-time squad of state troopers be assigned to check on suspended drivers, that radar be used to trap speeders and that crash-injury research by state police was on the wane. Lingo recommended that the next legislature create the position of state safety commissioner with overall control over the traffic duties of the state police and motor vehicles bureau, each of which would be headed by a “career” man. Jessup - maintained that more and better roads are the chief solution of the highway slaughter problem. He added: _ , ■‘W’e*ll never get all the bad drivers off the no matter how many policemen we have or how tough a driver examination program we have.” (Continuea on Page Eight)

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‘Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, November 16, 1955.

Big Four’s Ministers Acknowledge Failure As Conference Closes

Israel Lists Arms Sought From America Specific Arms List Presented By Israel To Offset Red Arms WASHINGTON (INS) — Israel told the United States today just what weapons it wants to buy to offset Communist arms being shipped to Egypt throught Czechoslovakia. The specific list of arms was given to acting secretary of state Herbert Hoover Jr., by Israeli ambassador Abba Eban in a 10 a.m. (EST) meeting at the state department. Before entering the conference, Eban told newsmen he carried with him the specific list of arms Israel believes are necessary to defend itself under the new situation created by the shipment of arms from Czechoslovakia to Egypt. Meanwhile, 10 members of the Illinois congressional delegation appealed to secretary of state John Foster Dulles to furnish arms to Israel. Rep. Thomas J. O'Brien (D-I1I.) made public a statement signed by himself and nine other Democratic and Republican representatives which he had forwarded to the state department. Simultaneously, Rep. William A. Barrett (D-Pa.) released the text of a letter from Dulles in response to his appeal that further shipments of arms to Egypt by the Communists be blocked. Dulles wrote Barrett that he had warned Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov of “the dangerous consequences which it is bound to have on the attitudes of the free world toward those who have taken such action." The statement signed by the ll(Oonunuea on Page Eight) Argentine Strike Leaders Arrested BUENOS AIRES (INS) — About 200 leaders of the Argentine general strike were in jail today as the provisional government struck back at labor union chiefs who called the walkout in defiance of a peace appeal. The violence-studded walkout was only spottily effective as it went into its'second day, but army and police forces remained on the alert. Christmas Seals Are Mailed To Residents - Annual Christmas Seal Sale Opened The 1955 Christmas seals of the tuberculosis association were mailed today to individuals and business houses throughout the county, according to an announcement by Mrs. W. Guy Brown, secretary of the association. . \ ... Also mailed were the health bonds which are sent to the various clubs and organizations of the county, Mrs. Brown stated that between 5.000 and 6.000 seals were mailed. Preparation for mailing was supervised by Mrs. Brown with the assistance of Maynard Hetrick of the Decatur high school commercial department. Students of the high school helped work. It was pointed out that the Christmas seal sale is the sole method of financing the T.B. association’s program which includes health education, X-ray surveys, patch testing in schools and rehabilitation. The X-ray unit will be in Adams County in January, it was learned. Those persons who did not receive the seals through the mail are urged to contact any of the schools in the eounty where they are available from the teachers.

Proposed Plat For Addition Rejected Irwin Resigns From City School Board A report by the city plan commission recommending rejection of the proposed plat of the Lewis addition to the city of Decatur was accepted by city councilmen at their regular meeting Tuesday night at city hall. The commission recommended rejection because the width of the street in the proposed addition does not comply with the city ordinances. The plat was submitted by Eugene and Harriet Durkin, who will be advised to revise it to comply with city ordinances. Irwin Resigns The council also accepted the resignation of Harry O. Irwin from the Decatur public school board, effective Dec. 1. Irwin is resigning after serving four years on the board because he is moving out of the city. An application for the post Was submitted by Dr. J. M. Burk and made a matter of record. No action on appointment will be taken until the next regular council meeting in the event that others wish to submit applications. Re-zoning Appeal A petition to amend a zoning ordinance was submitted to the council by the Adams county board of commissioners who seek to rezone the county property on which the hospital Is located from R-l, residential, to C-/ commercial. The commissioners plan to erect the new county garage on the prop-. erty if the petition is approved. The I property in question is adjacent to i the hospital and’is near the Nickle ■ Plate railroad. The petition was referred to the city plan commission. Additional Appropriations A resolution for a public hearing on additional appropriations amounting to $2,766.36 was adopted : by the council Tuesday night. The i public hearing was set for'Tues-i (Continued on page Six) National Education Dinner On Thursday Program Is Listed J For Joint Meeting . The program for the national j education week dinner meeting at the “Decatur Youth and Community Center Thursday at 6:30 p.m. was announced today. The banquet is being co-sponsored by Decatur organizations in observance of education week here. ets for the dinner would be available at the door Thursday evening. The sponsoring groups include the Lions and Rotary clubs, the i Business and Professional Women’s club, the Decatur Woman’s club, the Lincoln P.T.A.. the school faculty members and members of the school board. J. Ward Calland will serve as master of ceremonies for the banquet program. The pledge of allegiance will he led by Lawrence Anspaugh and the invocation will be given by the 'Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick. ' ' The main address of the evening will be presented by Prof. C. E. Dammon, Purdue University registrar. His topic will be “Education. An Investment in People.” Professor Dammon will be introduced by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools. The program, will also feature dinner music by a D.H.S. instrumental ensemble. Later in the pro- 1 gram this group of seven students will present “When the Saints Go Marching In” and a “Dixieland” number. - 1 Jack Dailey, a student at Decatur high school, will present a trumpet solo, the “Song of Jubilee” by Hansel, and the Decatur high school choir will sing “The Happy Wanderej - ” by- Moller and “Deep Purple” by Deßose. The choir is driected by Miss Helen Haubold. Accompanists are Sylvia Mazelin at the piano and Ann Kocher on the vibraharp. - -

Probe Denials Os Passports By State Dept. McLeod Admits One Passport Denied On Anonymous Charges WASHINGTON (INS) — State department security chief Scott McLeod conceded today that a decision to deny a nansport to-u famed scientist last year “probably” was based on anonymous charges. McLeod was asked by senate investigators if the passport office’s conclusion that Dr. Linus C. Pauling was a Slavish follower of the Communist party line was based on information from unknown sources. The state department official replied: "It is perfectly possible. It probably happened in this case. 1 don’t know.” » Sen. Thomas C. Hennings (DMo.) asked McLeod if any additional information on Pauling came to the state department’s attention between Oct. 1, when the passport was refused, and Nov. 19, when it was granted after Pauling had won the Nobel prize. McLeod replied that he had no personal knowledge of additional information and the files on the case did not disclose any. Asked to explain the state department's reversal, McLeod said: “We read the newspapers and we i don’t live entirely in an ivory J tower." Hennings told newsmen he wants to find out who in the state department made the final decision in three disputed passport cases. But McLeod told newsmen he Is not sure he can do this. He said he believes the infbrmatiin is banned under President Eisenhower’s letter —written during the aYmyMcCarthy hearings—holding that discussions among top government executives are confidential. The thre ecases on which Hennings demanded the names are those of Judge William Clark, Dr. Linus C. Pauling and Dr. Martin Kamen. Clark, former judge in the occupation government of Germany, had a row with the state department and was ousted from his • post. Hennings blasted the action of unnamed state department officials who had Spanish police seize Clark's passport in 4953. while he was on vacation in the Spanishowned Canary Islands. Hennings said this amounted to unusually bad treatment of a distinguished (Continued on Page Five) Student Day Sale In City Saturday D. H. S. Seniors To Hold Student Day The senior class of Decatur high school has completed' plans for the annual student day sale in Decatur which is co-sponsored by retail merchants of the city: The sale is scheduled for. Saturday. Ralph Thomas, president of the senior class, is chairman of the project. He is being assisted by! the other class officers, Wayne Flora. Jackie James 'and Shirley Wass. A .conjjnittee of twelve contacted the merchants. This committee included Bill Zwick. Joyce Callow, Mara Dee Striker. Carolyn Auman, Janet Lane, Dan Krueckeberg, Mike Beery, Jon *Corey, Luanne Lehman. Harry Hebble-, Judy Locke and Dan Cowans. Miss Charlotte Vera, sponsor of the senior class, and Hugh J. Andrews. principal, will meet with the students to cheek their assignments to the various stores and to instruct them. Wages paid to the student clerks are turned over to the senior class treasury. The project is sponsored each year to raise money for the class. # ~ ' 0 .. . ,

Frank I. Millis Is Governor Candidate To Seek Nomination At GOP Convention INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Frank T. Millis, state commissioner of internal revenue, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for governor. Millis was the first important aspirant in both GOP and Democratic parties to say he is running for governor next year. He is a close lieutenant of Governor George~& Craig, but has strength in other quarters, developed during his 20 years in public life. His announcement said: “In the-last few months I have traveled through each of Indiana’s 92 counties, discussing my candidacy with Republicans on all levels of our party organization. 1 have found a very good reception. "Our s:ate, in the four years beginning in January, 1957, will face great problems in the fields of taxation, schools, roads and mental health, as well as serious problems in other fields. I feel : that my experience in both administrative and legislative divisions of state government fits me to face these problems. . “If nominated, I pledge to the people of Indiana a forward-looking administration dedicated to service for all, and an administration which will be operated with fotir things constantly in mind;, integrity, honesty, economy and efficiency.” Millis, who sent letters to more than 8,000 precinct workers and party leaders, pledged “strict ad- , herence to the doctrines of party responsibility and foil cooperation . with the regular GDP organization.’’ Millis was born near Paoli 00 (Conr.nuea on Page Six) Need Blood Donors 1 For Friday Visit Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Friday Announcement was made today that there is still a need for at least 25 blood donors to complete the schedule for the visit of the •Red Cross bloodmobile Friday at the American Legion Home. Mrs. Ed Bauer, chairman of the county blood program, stated that there is a special need for persons who can be scheduled for the afternoon hours. She also repeated her request for new' donors. Several new donors have been scheduled for Friday’s visit but she pointed out that there is need for more. She explained that many persons who have donated in the past are unable to give more blood for various reasons and these prospective donors must be replaced. It was also pointed out that the successful blood program is a valuable asset to the community. Mrs' Bauer explained that 21 pints of blood were given to residents of this community in area hospitals last month and that additional pints were given to local people in other hospitals of the country. j She suggested that the friends; and neighbors of those persons, who received the blood might be I willing to donate blood to replace 1 that- which was taken from the Fort Wayne blood bank. She urged any person who would like to donate blood to contact the Red Cross office in Decatur. Lewis Borne Dies In Michigan Home has been received here of the death Monday night of Lew- ; is Borne, 75, who died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Muskegon, Mich. Survivors include ; three brothers, Edward of Decatur and Henry artyi Gust of Fort i Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. An- ( na Mechling of Bluffton and Miss : Christina Borne of Goshen. i Funeral services will be held at i 2 p. m. Thursday at Muskegon.

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Vital Problems Are Turned Back To Governments Toss German, Other Vital Problems To Government Heads BULLETIN GENEVA (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles accused Soviet premier Nlkotat Bulganin of apparent bad faith today when the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference collapsed in failure. He told the final session that Bulganin sent Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov to Geneva ‘‘apparently under orders not to discuss seriously the matter of .German reunlfica'tion." GENEVA (INS)—The embitter- c ed Big Four foreign ministers acknowledged failure in a final session today and tossed the German and other vital problems back to their heads of government. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles won a battle within the western allied camp to omit from the terse, generalized communique any reference to any new Big Four conference. Representatives of the Big Four ministers met earlier to draft the wording of the communique reflecting the failure to’agree on the related problems of German reunification, European security, disarmament and improved EastWest contacts. The ministers then met at 9 a. m (EST) to sign the communique ending the three-week conference which dissolved the "spirit of Geneva” created at last July’s conference of President Eisenhower, Soviet premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden and French premier Edgar Faure. Thd communique, to be released later, reflects the United States’ view that each foreign minister will report to his own head of’ government and let that superior decide through diplomatic channels whether and when any new Big Four talks occur. Dulles himself plans to leave by plane tonight to report to President Eisenhower Thursday. The decision to omit setting a date for a new conference was achieved by Dulles in argument 1 with British foreign secretary Harold MacMillan and French foreign minister Antoine Pinay. Dulles told them that the Soviet Union was not ready, not willing, anti not able to negotiate either a compromise or a practical solution of the twin problems of European security and German reunification. One contributing factor in Dulles’ conversation of his western colleagues was the advice of West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Bonn foreign minister Dr. Heinrich Von Brentano. The two German leaders told Pinay that summoning any new conference in face of the failure of the present one would cause a tremendous adverse reaction ‘ among the West German people. (Continued on rage Sight) Miss Louise Trier Is Taken By Death Miss Louise M. Trier, 66, of Allen county, died Tuesday at the Lutheran convalescent home after a long illness. She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran church at Soest. Surviving are a brother, Martin Trier, with whom she.lived, and three, sisters, Mrs. Anna Zwick of Decatur, Mrs. Amelia Zwick of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Frank Bremen of New Haven. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the E. Harper & Sons funeral home in New Haven —... and at 2:30 p.m. in Immanuel Lutheran church, the tßev, Otto A. I. Mueller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.