Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 277, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1955 — Page 1

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\ * The Christmas season will be officially opened in Decatur Saturday afternoon at 1 o’clock, when the annual holiday parade, led by Santa Claus riding in a sparkling .new. __con vert i hie, will be held in downtown Decatur. The parade will start at Five Points and will move north on Second street tor Marshall, thence east to First street, where it will be disbanded. Santa will head the parade, followed by the two Decatur high school bands, directed by Clint Heed. William Bowers, parade marshal. asks that all parade participants report at the starting point well ahead of 1 o’clock, in order that the parade is not delayed. All merchants are asked to be represented by floats or other exhibits or displays of their merchandise. Immediately following the parade. Santa Claus will return to the court house, where he will greet the children and distribute Candy treats for all tHe'youngsters. The retail merenants committee today expressed thanks to, the cooperating merchants who aided in Christmas decorations for the city by their contributions. For the first time, decorations have been placed on 13th street and on East Monroe street to the river bridge. Decatur merchants have stocked their stores liberally with Christmas merchandise and urge residents to do their holiday shopping early. List Store Hours Christmas shopping store hours have also been established by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. Beginning next Thursday, Dec. 1. stores will be open each Thursday afternoon through Dec. 22. Stores will return to their usual Thursday noon closing effective Dec. 29. : Retailers will be open nightly until 9 o'clock beginning Monday. Dec. 12, continuing through Dec. 23. All stores will close at 5:30 p. m. Christmas Eve. Dec. 24, and also at 5:30 p. m. New Years Eve Dec. 31. Accidental Death Verdict Returned / ' The death of Eudon Hill, 24, of near Decatur, who was fatally injured in a” traffic mishap Oct- 27 a closed part of U. S. highway 27 four miles south of Fort Wayne, has been ruled accidental by Allen county coroner H. Paul Miller. Hill was killed when his car crashed head-on with a car driven by Harod E. Thieme, 3< of Decatur. Thieme, his wfie, two daughters and a son were injured in the accident Dr. Miller said that Hill veered into the worng lane of traffic and that the cause of the accident was an operational failure. Thieme, his wife and a daughter, Karel, are still hospitalized at Fort Wayne but they are reported improving. Mrs. Thieme and Karel will probablybe dismissed this weekend. Harold expects to be released by Dec. 1

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ICC Chairman Hugh W. Cross Resigns Post Resigns Position — Under Fire From Senate Probers GETTYSBURG. Pa. (INS)—lnterstate commerce commission chairman Hugh W. Cross, under fire in a senate investigation, resigned today. His resignation wad accepted, effective immediately, by President Eisenhower. Cross’ letter of resignation, dated Wednesday, and the President's acceptance were announced by the temporary White House at Gettysburg. Assistant White House News Secs ret ary Murray Snyder was asked whether Mr. Eisenhower asked Cross for his resignation. Snyder replied: “To the best of my knowledge. he has not.” Snyder also said there would be “nothing today" on announcement of a successor to Cross. In. his letter. Cross described as "baseless” the conflict-of-interest charges which had been aired against him by the Senate investigations subcommittee. ” He told the President he would have remained in the government post and defended himself “to the end" except for his own and his wife's ill health, his concern for the ICC. and his “regard and respect for you and your administration.” Cross was questioned in closed session by the senate committee concerning his rjile. in a contract between a group of mid western railroads and a private firm for carrying passengers from one railroad station to another in Chicago. Parmalee Transportation Co. had held the contract for years. Another firm, Railway Carriers and Railway Transfer Service, Inc., headed by John L. Keeshin, got the new contract, however. Cross is reported to have admitted to the subcommittee that he was guilty of “indiscretion” in speaking to the railroads involved concerning the contract. Slight Damage Done By Fire Thursday The second fire within a week damaged property at the Central Soya company -Thursday morning. City firemen were called at 8:55 a. m. after a fire broke out in a bulk storage room. The blaze destroyed some beans which werqstored in the room and damaged the temporary retaining walls. A company spokesman staid that the loss was slight Exact cause of the fire has not been determined hut it is believed that faulty wiring might have caused it. I

Pave Way For French Return Into Assembly Committee Votes To Shelve Debate On Algerian Issue/"* UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —The UN political committee opened the way to France's return to the general assembly today by voting to shelve debate on Algeria. The committee approved unanimously an Indian motion “not to consider further” the controversial Algerian question which precipitated the eight - week -old French boycott of tire global forum. The scheduled assembly session was put off until noon (EST) to permit the political committee to debate and approve the proposed compromise plan. The committee met at 11 a.m. Under the proposal, the political committee recommended to the assembly that it shelve debate on the Algerian question and regard the issue as no longer before the world body. The proposal was drafted after three days of negotiations Jed by India with the Arab-Asian bloc and French representatives. It reportedly has the approval of both sides in the controversy. The French delegation w-alked out of the assembly on Sept. 30 when the item to discuss Algerian claims for independence was placed on the agenda by a vote of 28 to 27. The Paris government Algeria to be a part of metropolitan France and claimed the UN "was interfering with a French internal affair. Passage of the compromise resolution also would avoid prolonged and angry debate on the Algerian controversy, something which both France and the Moslem states were anxious to do. Four Latin states proposed deletion of the item under a parliamentary ruling which permits such action by a simply majority vote. The U. S. said it would support erasure of the item. w Deadline For Art Exhibit Is Monday Annual Display At School On Thursday Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art instrfictor in the Decatur public schools, has announced that the deadline for entering the art exhibit planned for next Thursday is Monday. She has stated that any person in Decatur or the area is invited to participate by exhibiting paintings,., sketches or ceramics. She has requested that any local artist who is interested in participating contact her no later than Monday. The exhibit is an annual event sponsored by the Decatur high school Art club. The public is invited to see the diplay from 2 to 5 p.m. and from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday at the Decatur high gym. Last year’s exhibit featured oil and watflfr paintings, inks and pastel sketches and ceramics by 34 : artists. Miss Kauffman stated that she expects this year’s display to , he even larger.

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South Vacation For Eisenhower Now Unlikely Permanent Return To Washington By Christmas Period * GETTYSBURG. Pa. (INS) — Ryesident Eisenhower is looking so well that his personal physician now believes he may be able to return to the Whites House permanently at Christmas time. Mr. Eisenhower is scheduled to go back to Washington Dec. 22 for a family Christmas. However, it was originally Thought he would have to return to Gettysburg or go south after the holiday to continue his recuperation from the heart attack he suffered Sept. 24. He waij, not expected to return to Washington on a permanent basis until sometime in the new year. But signs now point to a steady and speedy recovery. His personal i physician, Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, who has examined the President at least once daily since he left the hospital Nov. 11, reports consistently that the President’s "pulse and blood pressure remain normal” and that he has suffered no fatigue from his steady increase of activity. Col. Thomas Mattingly, chief heart specialist of Walter Reed army hospital, who has given Mr. Eisenhower two weekly checkups at the farm, said Wednesday: “The President continues to convalesce satisfactorily. There are no complications. There have been no symp-: toms or evidence of fatigue » . ; The two doctors thought so much I of Mr. Eisenhower’s condition that ’ they allowed him to ignore his | strict diet to join his family at their Thanksgiving dinner of “turkey and all the trimmin’s.” Mr. Eisenhower has been on an 188-calorie daily diet to hold his weight at a steady 172 pounds. He has maintained this weight since he left his hospital bed. His work schedule, with intervals for rest, has become almost as heavy as the days he customarily put in at the White House before his heart attack. Thursday, out on his farm to give his grandchildren a pony cart ride, the President looked lean and fit. His face was ruddy and his eyes sharp. He was in a gay and happy mood. Franklin Store Is Destroyed By Fire Murphy Co. Store Destroyed By Fire FRANKLIN. Ind. (INS) —Firemen from nine central Indiana communities, today battled a halfmillion dollaTTire that destroyed a store loaded with Christmas toys and threatened the entire Franklin business district. The fire, which burned for three hours before being brought under control, completely destroyed the Strickler building, valued at $200,000," which contained the J. C Murphy company shop loaded with $350,000 worth of Christmas merchandise. L’anam shoe store, next door, reported SIO,OOO smoke and water , damage. Lord’s women's shop and offices above it on the other side reported extensive damage' but had no estimate. Helping Franklin firemen were units from Indianapolis. Shelbyville, PePrry Township. Edinburg. Greenwood, Whflteland, Marietta and Bargersville. For several hours the entire downtown business district was threatened before fTlemen subdued what they described as the worst blare in the city’s history. An explosion early this morning started the fire- Officials said they (Continued on Page Eight)

Guards Return To New Castle Plant — Resume Negotiation Talks On Saturday NEW CASTLE. Ind. (INS) —National guard — enforced peace reigned at the Perfect Circle Corporation’s New Castle foundry as negotiators planned ways to settle that disunite in Chicago. Representatives of the firm and the CIO-UAW are scheduled to resume talks with federal mediators in Chicago Saturday and possibly Sunday. The 18-week-old strikp once involved two plants at Richmond and the home office at Hagerstown. These were taken out of the dispute when a NLRB- ordered election resuited Tn the decertification of the CIO-AL’W as bargaining ag£Ut. Indiana guardsmen wer£ sent to the New Castle strike scene Oct. a by Gov. George N. Craig when strikers and non-strikers wounded eight persons in an exchange of gunfire. The martial law also extended to Hagerstown and the Richmond plantsTroopers were withdrawn from all areas. The last of the troops left New Castle last Thursday. They were sent ack to Craig Wednesday following a renewal of night-riding vandalism and violence against the homes of nonstrikers. The troops split into two shifts and ate 86 pounds' of turkey in a (Continued on Page Eight) Time Schedule For Schools Is Changed New Time Schedule For Grade Students W. Guy Brown, superintendent of Decatur public schools, has announced a change in the schedules for the two public elementary schools in j>ecatur. The schedule was arranged through Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln grade school. and Hubert Zerkel Jr., principal of the northwest elementary school. The change is being made in order to avoid the traffic caused by change of shifts- at the General Electric plant at 3:30 p.m. and to keep the time schedule at the elementary schools uniform. No change is made in the schedule at the high school building. The new schedule will be effective Monday fthen the students return from their Thanksgiving vacation. The morning hours for the schools include 8:15 to 11 a.m. for third, fourth, fifth and sixth grades; 8:30 to 11 a.m. tor grades one. two and kindergarten, and 8:05 to 11:05 a.m. for the Lincoln school seventh grade. In the afternoon the schedule will be 12:15 to 3 p.m. for grades three through six; 12:30 to 3 p.m. for kindergarten and grades one and two. and 12:05 to 3:05 for the Lincoln school seventh grade. • Young Boy Saves Six Brothers And Sisters CHICAGO HEIGHTS. 111. (INS)— A heroic eight-year-old ChicagoHeights boy saved six younger brothers and sisters when. fire swept their home Thursday night. The hero. Joe Bradley Jr., made a futile attempt to save another Sister, 15-month-old Denise, but she was dead before he reached her. Youthful Hunter Is Accidentally Slain CONNERSVILLE, Ind. (INS) — Thirteen-year-old Larry Patterson, of Laurel, died late Thanksgiving day of a shotgun wound accidentally inflicted on a hunting trip. . The youngster accidentally shot himself in the left armpit with his 12.gauge shotgun while hunting with his brother,. Wayne, 15, and a neighbor, Ray Gordon, 12.

Outlaw Racial Segregation On Trains, Busses e Sweeping Reversal Os Prior Decisions Made By Commission d WASHINGTON (INS) — The in- “■ The ICC declared in a sweeping 6 terstate commerce commission to- >' day outlawed racial segregation on interstate busses and passenger '■ trains. d The ICC declared in a sweeping l - reversal of former decisions that e separation of passengers by race or “ color is “unlawful.” e The ruling was directed against 12 railroads, a railroad terminal 0 and a bus line, but was expected to 5 apply also to all land transporta--11 tion involving interstate traffic, d The ICC declared that the pracd tice of placing Negro passengers : in separate coaches or waiting e rooms subjects them to “undue and unreasonable prejuidce and disad1 vantage . . . ” 3 The decision, which, does not af- ’• feet travel within the boarders of a 8 single state, discards so - called f “separate but equal" decisions '• handed down by the ICC in similar cases since 1887. (Continued on Page Eight) sj “ . — Farmer Burned To Death In Home Fire HANNA, Ind. (INS) —Arthur Smith, 66, was burned to death Thanksgiving Day when his LaPorte county farm home near Hanna was burned to the ground. An overheated stove was believed responsible for the blaze which destrayed the two- room frame home near Hanna. t . s Jobless Pay Claims [ Decrease Slightly B INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The 1 Indiana employment security diI vision today’ reported a slight - decrease in unemployment despite seasonal declines in con1 struction, quarrying and food 1 processing. 1 Total claims dropped 1.600 last > week to 18.978 which was less - than half the 44.496 reporting for > (compensation during the same t week of 1954. Former Local Pastor I Dies Last Evening I H Rev. Cyrus J. Miner Is Taken By Death | , The Rev. Cyrus J. Miner, 89. f former pastor of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in , this city, died at 5 o'clock Thurs- , day evening at the Otterbein home at Lebanon. O. He was born in Kosciusko coun : ty Nov. 18. 1866, -and retired from the active ministry in 1935. Rev. Miner attended Manchester college and entered the. ministry in 1893. serving churches in the , former St. Joseph conference for • 37 years. > ißev. Miner was pastor of the Trinity church here from 1917 un- . til 1922 and was instrumental in • starting the building fund for the erection of the present church [ building, which was dedicated in 1924. ' 1 Surviving are two sons, Dewey I Miner of Kansas City, Kans., and Wallace Miner of DeKalb, Ill.; 1 four brothers. Oscar of Atwood, Otis of Peoria, 111.. Merle of Rich- I mond and Bram of Etna Green, and one sister, Mrs. Charles Ricker of Warsaw. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Warsaw Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. James Weber officiating. Burial will be , in Mentone. Friends may call after noon Saturday at the Paul M. Bil,by funeral home in Warsaw.

International Stock Exposition Opened World Famous Farm Show Gets Underway CHICAGO (INS) —The 56th international livestock exposition opens today in Chicago with American and Canadian exhibitors vying for a chunk of the SIOO,OOO in cash prizes. More than 11.160 cattle, hogs, sheep and horses, all aristroeats of the agriculture industry, and 1,500 exhibits of grain and hay. have been shipped to Chicago for the nine-day world famed farm shop. A jury of 85 experts from 20 states and Canada will undertake the huge task of selecting top expositionchampions, — The value of livestock transported to the 10-acre International Am-pmphi-theater is estimated at more than $5,000,000. Exhibitors represent 38 states and two Canadian provinces, with Illinois, lowa, Indiana and Ohio holding the most stalls. The show's premier tonight features the first in a series of horse shows in which top horses wilPcontend for rich purses, grand championships and regional honors. Exposition visitors, expected to shatter all past records, will see judging of six breeds of cattle, 10 breeds of sheep and eight breeds of swine. The farm show goes into full swing tomorrow when 382 youngsters from 13 states parade 490 steers and 66 hogs into the junior judging ring. The junior steer champ will compete later for the exposition’s most coveted honorthe grand champion steer award. This award has gone to junior showmen 12 times in recent yearsAmong the junior contenders is Shorty 11, a black angus steer owned by 17-year-old Janice Hullinger. of Manly, Ta. Last year another black angus she exhibited took the farm show's highest award and sol dat auction for $16,500. She may have trouble with Shorty II this year, however. The animal Is being nursed through a siege of pneumonia. — American and Canadian growers will match samples for blue ribbons in wheat, oats, rye, barley, soy beans, hay, alfalfa and other products, but the corn king, as in the past, will be decided among Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and lowa, exhibitors. Another feature of the show is the exhibit .of beef, pork and lamb cuts, as well as the ready-to-serve meat varieties- Dave Crockett, (Conuuuea on Page Eight) Heart Attack Fatal To Dr. E. D. Cline Native Os Decatur Dies At Fort Wayne Dr. E. D. Cline, 50, Fort Wayne dentist, aifd a native of Decatur, died Thursday afternoon in St. -Joseph's hospital after suffering a heart attack late Wednesday night at his home. Dr. Cline, who had offices in the Medical Center building, was born in Decatur and graduated from the Indiana University school of dentistry. He had practiced in Fort Wayne since 1927. Dr. Cline was a member of the First Methodist Church; the Isaac Knapp dental a society and the Xi Psi" Phi dental fraternity. Surviving are his wife, Virene. and his’mother, Mrs. J. C. Cline of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a m. Monday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. E. Stanley McKee officiating. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. Warsaw. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4' p.m. Saturday. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight. Partly eloudy Saturday. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 15-23. High Saturday 40-45 north, 45-50 south.

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Spring Tests As Answer To Russian Blast Enormous Russian Blast Revealed On Thanksgiving Eve WASHINGTON (INS) —The top congressional atomic authority indicated today that the U. S. will stage new H-bomb tests in the Pacific to answer Russia's apparent mastery .of the secret i of super-bombs. Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D- . N. M.) chairman of the joint sen-ate-house atomic committee, said the enormous Russian explosion revealed Thanksgiving Eve, only emphasized that America must continue to test and improve the most destructive of all weapons. Preparations for new hydrogen tests in the Pacific have been ' underway for more than a year. The staging reportedly was delayed because of a desire to emphasize “atoms for peace” in 1955, but now is expected to be held next spring. Administration sources, meanwhile. saw a new government policy emerging from the atomic energy commission’s sudden deci-I sioh to announce that Russia has set off a blast equal to millions of tons of TNT —a feat possible ■ only with large H-bombs. i The policy ftivolves an attempt ■ to persuade the American people • that they can have security, even ■ though Moscow has the power tn - order the complete destruction of . the U. S. — provided the U. S. • maintains a similar ability to completely destroy Russia. i Air force secretary Donald A. - Quarles, a leading scientist with . the Bell Laboratories before he . entered the government, has alI ready paved the way for such a policy. He declared that America will be “no less secure" in this condition of atomic “stalemate." Quarles’ thesis is that neither side will dare start a nuclear war. and that stalemate therefore offers ‘the best hope for peace.” But he concedes that there will lie no chance of either side to win a war if the peace fails. Anderson, a leader in advocat- . ’ng the development of hydrogen weapons, showed no surprise at the report that Russia had set off a bomb comparable in size to the U. S. model which spread lethal amounts of radioactivity over 7,000 square miles in 1954. Reached M his home in Albuquerque, the senator said: “I think this recent Russian test is pretty good evidence of lhe intention of the Russians to go ahead with an aggressive program in spite of all these smiling faces. “It is an added reason to keep up our testing of nuclear weapons.” Lt. Gen. Leslie R. Groves (ret.) who directed the “Manhattan Project" which produced the first Abomb in 1945. said the Russian super-blast means “some way” must be found to avoid nuclear war. Groves declared that now is “a valid moment” for the U. S. to announce that it is “ready to discuess anything relative to the safe-guarding of the world against nuclear dangers, be they experimental or all-out war." The rbelief that a .new adminis(Continuea on Page Elgnt) —Help Fipht TB ffIOPSPi < 1935 CHRISTMAS $ GUETDKS MW •«Buy Christmas