Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 21 November 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LI 11. No. 274.

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Russia Charges Allies Backed Down Al Talks Charge By Bulganin During Address To India Parliament NEW DELHI (INS) — Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin charged before the Indian parliament tonight that the Big Three western allies “backed down” at the Geneva conference “from what they themselves proposed at the beginning of the year. Bulganin and Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev both addressed the 700 members of parliament in New Delhi, where they are on a state visit. The chunky Khrushchev said the "spirit of Geneva still causes indivestion” to certain people. He said these unidentified people were trying “to carry out a policy of threats backed by atomic weapons.” Bulganin said of the failure of the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference that “to our great regret our efforts to end the deadlock on. the question of disarmament and prohibition of atomic and hydrogen weapons have not so far brought about positive results." "The Soviet government,” he said, "is against the policy of creating military blocs and is for the liquidation of those blocs already created." He charged that “certain circles" had broadened the Southeast Asia treaty organization and created a military bloc "in the near and Middle East and near the borders of India and the Soviet Union." This was a reference to the Baghdad defense pact nations of Britain. Turkey. Pakistan, Iraq, and Iran whose leaders are holding their first council meeting today in Baghdad. As for the North Atlantic treaty organization the Soviet premier said that “in refusing to-accept the U.S.S.R.” into the pact "the selective and aggressive character of that organization was demonstrated.” Bulganin said that the Russians "resolutely repudiate war" and stand for “peaceful regulation of unsettled questions by negotiations.” Khrushchev told the Indians that what he termed “colonialist" attempts to divert the people of India, China and the Soviet Union —comprising more than, half of humanity—from paths were “destined to failure," Khrushchev said that' Soviet Communist party members now total 8,000 and "the nation and party are inseparable.” He said “reactionary forces" wanted to undermine peace but concluded by expressing faith in "the victory of peace." Some form of economic and technolotical assistance from Moscowis expected to be announced at the end of the state visit of the Soviet leaders. > Detailed talks will begin Dec. 8 when Bulganin and Khrushchev are scheduled to return from a trip to Burma. Before ■ addressing parliament, Khrushchev today advised Indian youths at a Boy and Girl Scout rally that if they wanted real independence they should prepare themselves for quick development of their nation. * The seemingly tireless Ukrainian party chief declared that a (Continued on Page Five)

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Stale Traffic Toll Nears 1,000 Deaths Highway Death Toll Mounts In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana’s highway death toll neared the 1.000 mark today after additional road slaughter occurred during the past week-end. Indications were that the 1,000 total would be reached well before the second annual safe driving day on Dec. 1. A head-on collision of two cars at a county road intersection seven miles southeast of Albion cost the lives of Elden B. King, 41, of Albion, and Mrs. Marguerite Katheline Leiter. 26, of LaOtto. Leiter was in critical condition. Lee J. Galloway, 46, of Newton, met death when his automobile struck a tree on a curve of Road 55, 10 miles northwest of Crawfordsville. He was en route home from the Indiana-Purdue football game at Bloomington. Glenn E. Scowaen, 32, of Battleground, was injured fatally when his pickup truck struck a culvert as he was driving home from Lafayette. Mrs. Rene Gertrude Carpenter, 70, of Anderson, died of injuries suffered Nov. 4 in a tow'-car col-' lision in Anderson. Two Clarks Hill residents met death while test driving a used car one of them was planning to buy. Bob Killian, 17, and Jack Maroney, 27, were injured fatally when the automobile was struck by a New York Central System passenger train at a crossing half a mile south of Clarks Hill. Four Persons Dead In Bombay Rioting Over 225 Injured In „ Second Day Os Riots BOMBAY (INS)—At least four persons, were killed and more than 225 injured today in the second day of bloody Bombay rioting. The demonstrations over the New Delhi government’s, proposal to split Bombay state into three states coincided with a one - day strike called by left-wing political organizations to protest the partition plan. Workers .« from textile mills, banks, and gas works, as well as students w r qre available to swell the crowds which roamed through the business center of the west coast city. Sunday, a hundred were injured and 90 persons arrested. Police opened fire in the city this morning to disperse a mob of about 15.000 stone-throwing demonstrators. The rioters already had burned out three buses. By noon, public transport was at a standstill in this city of nearly three million on the west coast of the Indian subcontinent. o» Rain Predicted In State For Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Temperatures, moderated in Indiana today after a frigid and snowy weekend- ? The Indianapolis weather bureau predicted <kin for Tuesday or Tuesday night.

Policeman Is Slain By Two Armed Bandits Kentucky Policeman Slain, Pair Stage Reign Os Terror HENDERSON, Ky. (INS) —A Henderson policeman was shot and killed today after two bandits had staged a reign of terror along U. S. Road 41 in Indiana, beginning in Sullivan county "Sunday night-' Jack W. Rainer, 24, was shot fatally when he and Sgt. Sherman Hill approached a stolen truck in a used car lot in which the robbers were hiding. The robbers previously had participated in a gun battle with Indiana state policemen Dan Oakes and William Sharer near the St. James Catholic church adjacent to the Gibson-Vanderburgh county line. The bandits, who had been in an automobile, abandoned it after the melee with the state officers and fled on foot. Then they seized the truck from John Bersanger, farmer of near HaubstadtIn the abandoned car, the Indiana officers found 15 pistols, two shotguns, a rifle and 1,600 rounds of ammunition. The Automobile bore Oklahoma license plates. The bandits had broken into filling stations in Sullivan county, . .Bicknell-and Fort Branch before the state oficers saw them in Fort Branch. Three bullets entered the body of Rainer, who died an hour later in a Henderson hospital. The truck was abandoned a block from the scene of the slaying and Kentucky state and local police then took up the bandit trail. Seize Suspects WASHINGTON, Ind. (INS) — Two 19-year-old youths were arrested today as possible suspects in the slaying of a Henderson, Ky policeman. Washington police saw twoyouths who answered the description of two bandits who staged a reign of terror along Highway 41 in Indiana, hitchhiking along U. S. 50 near their city. The youths refused to give any information other than their names and addresses. No money nor identification was found on them. Indiana state police detectives were en route to Washington to take the suspects into custody. Names given by the two youths iContinuea on Page Eight) Telephone School In City Tuesday 50 Representatives Will Attend School Fifty nepreslentatives of telephone companies from Indianapolis north to Chicago, will attend an all-day school Tuesday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Instructors will be furnished by Ansonia Wire and Cable Co., which concern anhuaTTy holds similar schools in Indiana and Illinois to demonstrate the latest improvements in telephone wire and cables. Citizens Telephone Co. of this city will act as host to the visitors. First classes will start at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning, and the morning periods will be devoted to the showing pf plastic cables and the improvements made in that field since the beginning of 195-5. A luncheon will be served at the Center at noon and in the afternoon instructions will be given on how to splice the various plastic -cables. Telephone .executives and linemen have been invited to the annual conference and several experts in the field of plactic elecronics will be present at the morning and afternoon sessions. Loses Two Fingers In Corn Picker Accident Another Adams county farmer was injured in a corn-picker accident Friday- Harvey Bucher. Kirkland township farmer, lost two fingers on his left hand in the accident. He tvas rushed to the Adams county memorial hospital where he is still a patient. The fingers which were cut off by the cornpicker were the ring and -little fingers. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Warmer north por-' tion Tuesday. Low tonight 3236 north, 36-40 south. High Tuesday mid 50s north to the 60s south'*.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, November 21, 1955.

President Conferring With Top Advisers On Home, Foreign Issues

Baghdad Pad Members Hold Council Meet Express Hope U. S. To Join Defensive Alliance Countries BAKHDAD (INS) — The five members of the anti-Communist Baghdad ’pact held their first council meetings today and expressed hope that the United States would join the defense alliance on the-southern frontier of Russia. The alliance is often referred to as the “Northern Tier," meaning the northern rim of a grouping intended to embrace most nations in the oil-rich Middle East —a vital area where the Soviet Union now is engaged in a political and economic offensive. A public session or. the premiers of four middle eastern nations and Britain’s foreign secretary first was held and United States observers then were invited to join secret conferences. British foreign secretary Harold MacMillan termed the first halfhour closed meeting of the three-day session a “highly successful exchange of views. The main purpose of the meet; ing was to establish a permanent council at Baghdad composed of the “member nations” ambassadors in the Iraqui capital. Military and perhaps economic committees also will be formed. The U. S. announced two days ago it was willing to establish military and political liaison with the defensive alliance. The American ambassador, Walter Gallman. and Adm. John Cassidy, commander-in-chief of the U. S. sixth fleet based in the Mediterranean, are sitting in as observers. It was considered unlikely the U.S. would join the pact in the near future. The conference got under way this morning in the Qasr Alhzuhur or Palace of Roses with general statements by MacMillan, Iraq’s Al-Said, Turkey’s Adnan Menderes, Iran’s Hussein Ala and Pakistan’s Chaudhri Mohammed Ali. Then closed sessions began at three levels — political, economic and military. The importance of this first meeting of the so-called "northern tier” mutual defense pact lies in that it provides the first Middle East link between the North Atlantic treaty organization (NATO) and the Southeast Asia treaty or(Continued on Page Two) Dorolhy Haggard Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Thursday Morning Miss Dorothy Haggard, 44. of 1333 Mix avenue, died at. 10 o'clock this morning at her home. Death was caused by carcinoma. She had been seriously ill for the past six weeks. She was born at Mbnroe Dec. 18, 1910, a daughter of John A. and Amelia Wilker-Haggard. She had been employed for several years at the Wayne Novelty Co., making her home with her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Glenford Beitler. Miss Haggard was a member of the Wesleyan Methodist church, southeast of Monroe. Surviving in addition to the sister are a half-sister, Mrs. Addie Gilbert of Monroe, and a half-brother, Samuel E. Haggard of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 10 a.m. at the Wesleyan Methodist church, the Rev. G. E. Shaw officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery west of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral hojne after 7 p.m. Tuesday until time of the services. K -

Devise Safety Plan For School Pupils Pennsy To Provide Crossing Watchman City and school officials met this morning with Pennsylvania railroad officials to devise a safety plan for pupils of the new Northwest Elementary school. It will be necessary for all pupils who reside east of the Pennsylvania tracks to cross the railroad going to and returning from the new building. Those attending today’s conference included Mayor John Doan, chief of police James Borders, northwest principal Hubert Zerkei, Jr., W. G. Willet, assistant Pennsylvania trainmaster, Robert G. Jordan, sergeant of Pennsylvania railroad police, ant W. finy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur schools. A suggestion by principal Zerkei that all pupils be instructed to use the Dayton Avenue railroad crossing at all times when coming to school and returning home and that the railroad furnish a watchman during the hours of dismissal and conveneing of Classes, was agreed to. The rennsyivania officials agreed to furnish a man at the Dayton avenue crossing at all times when there was pupil traffic. It .was pointed out, however, that a watchman would not be at the Dayton avenue crossing at all times, only when there was pupil traffic. School authorities stated that it was imperative that all parents of Northwest pupils help with the safety measure by instructing their children to use the guarded crossing. Chief Borders’ suggestion that schedules of convening and dismissing the school be set up so that they would not conflict with the General Electric traffic, was accepted. School authorities promised to arrange the school schedule so it would not interfere. Work of moving into the new school building will start Tuesday morning, and superintendent Brown (Continued on Two, Military Display In Cily Saturday Reserve Unit Will $ Be Organized Here A display of military equipment was set up at the county court house in Decatur Saturday morning to interest local young men in the reserve Unit which will be organized. in Decatur in the near future. ' The unit will be the service battery of the 424th field artillery battalion. Three other units, firing batteries, are included In the battalion. Battalion commander Lt. Col. Earl F. Englebrecht stated the local unit will include three officers and 65 enlisted men. Until a local man can be appointed, a Fort Wayne officer will serve as commanding officer of the unit, it was announced. Among those who will belong to the new unit are the approximately 25 Adams county men who now belong to the reserve unit in Fort Wayne. These will be transferred to the Decatur battery but it was pointed out that there are still openings in the local unit. Major Robert B. Mcßride, regular army advisor for reserve units in 10 northeastern Indiana counties, emphasized that the reserve unit will be especially convenient for high school boys who wish to take advantage of the new reserve forces act of 1955. (Under this act, youths who are now between 17 to 18% years of age may join the active reserves for a period of seven and a half years and putting in six months of full time army duty after their graduation from high school. The local unit will meet temporarily at the city hall until more permanent quarters can be secured. Full information as to meeting night and other plans will be announced in the near future. Any interested person may contact the army reserve office at Fort Wayne.

Air-Sea Hunt Is Pushed For Missing Ship Freighter With 24 Aboard Is Missing During Heavy Storm BOSTON (INS) — The coast guard today pushed an air-sea search off Glouchester for the 3300-ton freighter Daytona and her crew of 24. whose fate has been cloaked in silence sirice sending out distress calls at the height of a gale, accompanied by blinding snow. The freighter was bound from Nova Scotia to Philadelphia with a cargo of gypsum. It was one of a number of craft to call for help during the storm, one of the worst in years. Planes took off at dawn from the coast guard Salem air base* [o join the cutters Evergreen and Acushnet in the hunt as officials expressed fears the Daytona had long since foundered. The last message from the Daytona was received at 8 a. m., Sunday when her master. Captain Lief Markeson, a Norwegian, radioed that he was unable to steer, that the vessel was listing badly to starboard and that all ballast pumps were in operation in the fight to keep afloat. Since that time all that has been found were several'’bits of wooden wreckage, picked up by the S. S. American leader of the U. S. lines, which heard the distress call and sped to the scene. In other missions, the coast guard was more successful in a Storm which saw the winds zoom to 80-miles-an-hour around the Texas tower. 110 miles off Cape Cod, where 37 technician-visitors still were marooned, along with the workers and regular crew that number 50 men. One of the big seas that struck that floating island was by actual measurement 61 feet high. The navy reported six destroyers were damaged in Newport harbor while 55-mile gusts sank a pile-driver and cast adrift three launches and a 60-foot barge. The barge and launches went ashore. Mrs. Flossie Boroff Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Flossie Boroff. 57, of 808 East Sycamore, Van Wert. 0., a native of Adams county, died at 7; 30 6’clock Sunday evening at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne after an illness of six weeks of a brain tumor. She was born i!n Adams county Sept. 5, 1898, a daughter of John and Della Jack-Miller. Her first husband. Oran Standiford. died Dec. 8, 1918. She was later married to Vern Boroff. who died Jan. 20, 1941. Mrs. Boroff, an employe of the I). W. G. Cigar Co. in Van Wert, was a member of the Trinity Friends church in thfit city. Surviving are two sons, Richard Standiford of Rockford, 0., and Gerald Boroff of Charleston, W. Va.; one daughter, Miss Betty Boroff of Van Wert; four grandchildren; a brother, John Miller of Willshire. 0.. and a half-brother, Jess Michaud of Willshire. One daughter, two half-brothers and a half sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Trinity Friends church at Van Wert, the Rev. Paul Riser officiating. Burial will be in the-Wttlshire cemetery. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesda. The body will lie in state at the church from 1:30 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services.

Find More Evidence On Plane Saboteur Find Purchases Os Material For Bomb DENVER (INS) —Denver dis trict attorney Bert M. Keating continued today to "tie up loose ends” in the state’s case against accused mass murderer John (Gilbert Graham. As a result of a weekend’s work by Keating, his five-man staff and more than a dozen FBI agents, a number of dmaaging facts against Graham have been compiled. The 23-year-old father of two children is charged with planting a time-bomb in the suitcase of his mother just before she boarded a United Airlines plane in Denver Nov -f. The bomb exploded in midair near Longmont, Colo., killing his mother, Mrs. Daisie King, and 43 others. Latest developments in the case mainly consisted of a series of revelations as to where Graham purchased the materials used in the bomb. The owners of a store-in Kemmling, Colo., told FBI agents they are “pretty .sure” Graham is the man who purchased 25 sticks of dynamite and two blasting caps Oct. 29. A Denver store owner said Graham bought an electrical timing device which could have been used on a bomb, while the proprietor of a Denver electric shop said he employed Graham temporarily last month. He said Graham told him he wanted the job to gain experience In electrical devices and expressed interest in buying a timing, device from the firm. Longtime Convict Is Nabbed After Escape Faked Heart Attack To Obtain Freedom INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —A 56-year-old longtime convict was to appear today in municipal court on a charge of jail escape, after he was recaptured in an exciting drama that plagarized another plot of a month ago. Leroy Clifford Allen sought to use the same procedure that earlier had brought temporary freedom to his partner in an alleged holdup but both men were back behind bars despite the cleverness of the scheme. Allen faked a heart attack while b'eing held in the Marion county jail Sunday on charges of robbery and auto banditry. When be was taken to Indianapolis general hospital, Allen picked the lock on his leg irons and fled. He was armed with a spoon that had ben sharpened to knife-edge thinness in his jail cellThe weapon was used to keep one doctor at bay ..as he raced after the escaping prisoner. Dr. Joseph B. Mishler, 25, sought to warn passing motorist being hailed by Alien not to stop, but Robert *E. Burns. 51, of Indianapolis, failed to hear the shouted words, and pulled to a halt. The escapee commandeered the car. Doctors and police joined in the chase, which ended 20 blocks awayBurns rolled out of his car, unhurt, and Allen surrendered to officers who had forced the commandeerer auto to the curb. Allen’s escape attempt gained him less freedom than had been achieved by Willis Scott, 21, of Chicago, last Oct. 26. Scott, who had been arrested with Allen after a filling station holdup last September, also faked a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. He. too, picked his leg irons and fled. Scott was re-captured--a w r eek- later in Chicago, where he still is being held on charges facing him in the Windy city Allen demonstrated to general hospital attaches after he was returned how he picked the lock on his leg irons a strip torn (Oonunuea oh Pace fcignt)

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Ike Transfers Headquarters ~ To Camp David To Spend Two Days J At Closely Guarded Mountain Retreat k d GETTYSBURG, Pa. (INS) — a President .Eisenhower briskly tacX Heda load of <)esk work today as a for conferences [. with his top advisers on foreign a policy and domestic issues* * 9 The Chief Executive drove to a his Gettysburg office shortly ber fore 10 a. m. EST., to handle corl_ respondence and other matters g before going to Camp David for a j 2: 30 p. m. session with the national security council. B Mr. Eisenhower will spend two f days at the closelyguarded Presij dential retreat in the Catoctin ( mountains, 25 miles from his farm. His schedule calls for the most intensive activity permitted him since his Sept. 24 heart at- * tack. f The President’s mood matched today's bright, crisp weather. He gave newsmen a cheery '“good morning” as he strode into his downtown headquarters in the Gettysburg post office building. The Chief Executive meets with his cabinet at 9 a. m. Tuesday. r The Camp David sessions will give the President his first opportunity to preside over na--1 tional security council and cabin--1 et meetings since he left Wash- ; ington Aug. 14 for his Colorado vacation. Mr. Eisennower was to go by automobile to the Catoctin retreat with Allen W. Dulles, director of the central intelligence agency. Dulles planned to give the President a detailed up-to-the. minute report on the world situation to prepare him for the afternoon session of the NSC. Many of the two dozen members of the Eisenhower “team” • were to fly from Washington to i the lodge near Thurmont,. Md., by helicopter. Among them was Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who was flying to the nation’s capital from Florida, and was transfer to a small helicopter at National Air- . port. Other NSC and cabinet members were to board three ! ’copters at the Pentagon helioport for the 65-mile “egg beater” lift to a special landing strip recently completed a short distance from the presidential lodge. The NSC meeting will give the (Continue*! on Page Elgnt) Democrat Mayors To Be Honored Tuesday Robert D. Cole, mayor-elect of Decatur, will be on of eight Democrats in the fourth district elect--, ed as mayors Noy. 8, to be honored at the monthly dinner meeting of county chairmen and vice-chairmen of the eight counties of the district Tuesday evening. The dinner meeting will be held at 6 p- ill. Tuesday in the supper room of the Plantation at Auburn. Announcement of the dinner was made Sunday by James L. Koons, of Avilla, chairman of . the fourth district Democratic central committee. Senior Civics Classes Visit Ceunty Offices The senior civics pubils of the Decatur high school, taught by Hugh J. Andrews an,d Deane T. Dorwin, are visiting various Offices in the county court house this week. Each of the county officials will explain duties of his office to the studentsToday, the students visited the offices of county clerk Ed Jaberg and county recorder Mrs. Mabel Striker; Tuesday they will visit county assessor Walter Koos and county treasurer Waldo Neal, and Wednesday county auditor Frank Kitson and Judges Myles F. Parrish of the Adams circuit court.