Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 279, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1955 — Page 1

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Ike Discusses Politics With GOP Chairman Hall Believes Ike To Run Again For . President In 1956 GETTYSBURG. Pa. (INS) — GOP Chairman Leonard W. Hall said after conferring with President Eisenhower today he believes the Chief Executive “will be a candidate in 1956, if he feels he is able.” Hall “talkdd politics” with the President at his Gettysburg office for 45 minutes this morning. The GOP chairman then told a news conference: “As far as I am concerned there is no other candidate. “I think he will be a candidate if he feels he is able.” Hall said that on the basis of his conference with the President, he is “very much encouraged” that Mr. Elsenhower will run again. Hall emphasized that he was “expressing my own personal opinion.” He said flatly that he and the President did not specifically discuss the possibility of Mr. Eisenhower’s candidacy in 1956. Hall told reporters: “I’m happy to say that all reports about the President’s condition were confirmed. He looks a million per cent. “I never saw him looking better. “He’s keeping in touch with his job. We discussed foreign affairs generally, preparations for the Republican contention and party finances. Hall said that Mr. Eisenhower praised Vice President Richard M. Nixon and that as far as he (Hall) is concerned, the GOP ticket in 1956 would again be Eisenhower and Nixon. Asked whether the President indicated he will be the GOP candidate in 1956. Hall replied: “I’n> very much encouraged . , . ”1 think he will be a candidate if he feels he is able.” “Did the President say that?” Hall was asked and he replied: “I’m merely giving my own opinion.” Hall said the President, even during his illness, “never relinquished leadership of his party.” adding: “He has stayed in active touch. I brought him up to date this morning on Republican party business, finances and convention plans.” Newsmen repeatedly pressed Hall in an attempt to learn whether the President had mentioned whether he will run again. “Has he made up his mind?” one reporter asked, to which Hall replied: “You know he has that physical examination coming up in January.” “When will he announce?” another newsman inquired. 'Continued on Page mgtitr Buys Health Bond Help Fight TB ? 1955 CHRISTMAS X GREETINGS 1955 ? Buy Christmas Seals The Odd Fellows lodge has voted purchased of a $5 health bond, officials of the Christmas seal sale campaign in Adams county announced today. All proceeds from the annual Christmas seal sale are used in the fight on tuberculosis and to provide free clinics and otherwise carry on the fight against 'the “white plague.” The sale is conducted by the Adams county tuberculosis association.

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Judging Is Opened On Grand Champions Over 50,000 Attend Stock Show Sunday CHICAGO (INS) —‘Open class judging begins today for grand champion titles at the 56th international livestock exposition in Chicago. The grand champion wether of the sheep show will be named today and the grandchampion steer_ — always the most colorful and spectacular event of the show — • will be chosen Tuesday. The grand champion barrow of the swine show will be named Wednesday. Two teenage girls—Janice Hullinger. 17, Manly, lowa, and Nancy Turner, 16, Champaign. lll.,—will show their steers in open class competition against the best steers developed by their elders. By special act of the show’s directors. Janice's steer, an Aber-deen-Angus named Shorty the 11, has been granted permission to compete in the open class. The steer had been ill and was unable to compete in the junior 1 show. Last year, Janice's entry, Shorty the First, won the grand championship. Miss Turner’s Aberdeen-Angus, Julius, won the grand championship of the junior show and thus became eligible for the most sought after title in livestock competition. More than 50,000 persons jammed the International Amphitheater for Sunday's program which featured a horse show. Since the opening Friday night, 104.000 persons have attended the exposition. A team from lowa State College, won the livestock judging contest with a score of 4,384 out of a possible 5.000. Oklahoma A & M College was second and Purdue University, third. Members of the Purdue team included James Bake, Winchester; David Budd, Lebanon; Verle Chap(Continued bn Haire Eight? Convoy Youth Dies As Auto Overturns Gerry Wilkin Killed Early Sunday Morning Gerry Wilkin, 18, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Gaylord Wilkin of near Convoy. 0., died at 7 o'clock Sunday morning ftr Van -Wert county hospital of injuries sustained in an auto accident early ’ Sunday mdrning. The youth's death was caused by a skull fracture. 2 The Ohio highway patrol said young Wilkin apparently . fell asleep and ran off the—Jaft side of the road, hit a bridge, ran into the ditch and rolled dver. The accident is believed to have occurred about 1:30 a. m. two miles northeast of Convoy on the Dix-on-Cavette road. The car was found by two passing motorists. Virgil Adkins and Donal Harris, both of Haviland, 0., who were attracted by the headlights shining up from the ditch. Surviving in addition to the parents are two sisters, Mrs. Jeanne Gamble of Van Wert and Carol, at home; three brothers. C. Marshall and David Eugene, at home, and Richard of Neptune. O.; and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Wilkin of Convoy and Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Tarlton ot Van Wert. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday in the Sugar Ridge Church of Christ, the Rev. Paul Tewell and the Rev. Robert Dye officiating. Burial will be in the Convoy IOOF cemetery. Friends may call at the Alepach funeral home in Van Wert until noon Wednesday.

Scientist Says Russia Deduced H-Bomb Secret • British Scientists Say Deduction From U.S. Announcements LONDON (INS) The London Daily Express science editor said today British scientists believe Russia “deduced” the secret of the super H-bomb from official U. S. announcements. Chapman Pincher, reputedly cue of the best informed science “writers in Britain, said the announcements apparently were harmless but actually revealed vital-information to Soviet atomic scientists. The Soviet Union announced Saturday it had exploded the “most powerful of all” its hydrogen bombs. A Tass release quoted Communist party boss Nikita S. Krushchev as saying the explosion was equal to “several” millions of tons of TNT. Pincher said the Moscow announcement . Clearly confirmed that the Russian super bomb was not a straightforward H-bomb but a “uranium blanket bomb,” and even more terrible weapon. —Pincher further said it now can be revealed safely that the socalled H-bomb the U. S. exploded on the Pacific island of Eniwetok in March, 1954. really was a uranium blanket bomb. He said the bomb was a “bril- ' liant new idea' 1 and the west’s most valuable secret. He asserted that the atomic energy: commission unwittingly revealed its existence in a statement which gave facts and figures about the fallout of radioactive dust after the international outcry which arose following the Enimetok test. From the information in the AEC statement, Pincher said, British scientists were able to deduce that the weapon depended or. the exploding of uranium to produce a blast equal to 10 to 15 million tons of TNT. The scientists also were able to determine, Pincher asserted, that to free about a half-ton of the deadly radioactive dust the weapon must be surrounded by a blanket of up to ten tons of 1 uranium metal. The British are convinced that Russian scientists were able to make the same deductions and begin work on a blanket bomb if they had not already done so. Pincher said the fact that the Russians took more than two years from their first test of an ordinary H-bomb to explode a su-per-bomb supports the view that tContinm-n on Puce Eight) Annual County Music Festival December 8 Plans were announced today for the annual county music festival to be presented by the combined bands and choral groups from each of the county schools Thursday. Dec. ■s, at the Adams Central high school gym. Guest conductor for the event will be Merton Utgaard, assistant professor of music and director of bands at Ball State Teachers college- The programs will be announced later. The participating schools and the music instructors from each school include Geneva, Peter Figert; Hartford, Walter Hinkel; Jefferson, Ed Heimann; Adams Central, Donovan Gerig; Monmouth, Darrell Gerig, and Pleasant. Mills, Helen Harrison. Figert is chairman of the ©ommlttee of the county music group which is making arrangements for the concert.

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31 Nations To Ask Moroccan Debate Shelved Nations Seeking To Speed Return For France To’ Assembly UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —Thirty-one nations will call on the UN political committee formally today to shelve debate on Morocco and thus speed France’s return to general assembly. The 31 Latin American and Arab-Asian states have drafted a resolution which notes current French political reforms in Morocco and calls for postponement of discussion on the question. It is expected to pass by an overwhelming majority. Chief French delegate Harve Alpband is waiting for the political committee to dispose of the question before taking his seat in the body. Alphand received instructions from Paris last week to return only after the Moroccan item is cleared away. The 31 states agreed last Friday to move for postponing the item after France announced she would resume participation in the assembly as a result of its unanimous vote to drop the Algerian question from the debate. t “ France maintains Algeria Js_part of the French republic and outside foreign jurisdiction. The French did not object strenuously to inclusion of the Moroccan question on the agenda, since the North African protectorate hqs a different status. _ _ _ __ In the past, the French have sat in on committee debate on Morocco but refused to enter into the discussion. With disposal of Morocco, the political committee wi|l be left With three agenda items to finish up before the scheduled Dec. 10 assembly adjournment date. These are disarmament, the Dutch - Indonesian dispute over (Continued on Swiss Composer Dies At Home In Paris PARIS (INS) —Famed Swiss composed Arthur Honegger, who wrote the dramatic psalm “King David,” died today in Paris at the age of 63. Honegger succumbed at his Paris home after a lengthy illness. Appropriations Are Approved By Council Requests Approved By County Council In a special session Saturday at the court house, the Adams county council approved requests for emergency appropriations totalling $5,412. Approval was given on all of the requests submitted which included $2,500 for county home operatingexpenses; $2,300 for tbeV: <xj)ense of inmates in tuberculosis hospitals; SSO for attendance officer traveling expenses; S3OO for Washington township assessor salary; sloff for social security; $35 for county council per diem and $7 for health officer operating expenses. In other business during the emergency session Saturday, John W. Blakey was re-appointed to a one-year term on the alcoholic beverage board. Other members of the board are Boyd Rayer. appointed by the county commissioners, and Curtis Hill, appointed by the city council. The county council also voted to turn back to the state a portion of the permanent endowment fund. The amount to be turned back is $1,079.17. The county must pay four per cent interest on the fund, Which is for the purpose of loans. Another $1,625 in the fund has been loaned out and is paying its own interest.

Coldest Weather Os Season Hits State Five Above Lowest Reported In State INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The coldest weather of the season came to Indiana early today. Temperatures dropped from 35 to 40 degrees Sunday night to the near zero region and there were fierce, chitling winds and light snows over the state. Snow and ice covered many streets and highways, and state police warned automobile drivers to proceed with caution. Among the low temperatures over the state were five at South Bend, six at Fort Wayne, seven at Indianapolis, eight at Lafayette and 11 at Evansville. The Indianapolis weather bureaupredicted that the cold wave would continue for several days. The forecast was for partly cloudy and continued cold tonight Tuesday. with snow flurries continuing in the extreme north. Cold Arctic Air CHICAGO (INS) — A wave of “very cojd” Arctic air tightened Its icy grip today on an area of the nation extending from the Rockies to the Appalachians and Canada to the western gulf states. The wintry blasts tumbled temperatures to near or a little below zero in Wisconsin, Minnesota. North Dakota and Minnesota and under 10 degrees as far south as northern Kansas, northern Missouri and central Illinois. The ice box of the nation was Havre, Mont;, with a reading of eight betow zero. Snow blanketed the lee shore of Lake Michigan to a depth ranging from one to five inches. Gusty winds and snow flurries swirled through most ot the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley and the middle and upper Mississippi valley. Hospital Trustees To Name Architect Addition Planned To County Hospital An architect will be selected next Friday by the board of trustees of 'the Adams county memorial hospital to draw plans for the proposed Improvement and addition to the hospital, it was learned today. The board members and the hospital executive director, Thurman I. Drew, have visited several northern Indiana hospitals in the last several weeks, to ascertain the needs locally. Attorney John DeVoss has been authorized to prepare a contract to present on behalf of the board to the designated architect. Selection will be made at the regular monthly meeting of the trustees scheduled for Friday night at the hospital. In the last several weeks the trustees have had informal meetings with the county commissioners and county council concerning the estimated cost of the addition, which will give more rooms and added facilities to, the county hospital. The present, plan, to (’. E. Peterson, president of the board of trustees, is to circulate petitions in every township of the county, starting the first week in December. A petition is required for a bond issue. District Governor At Lions Meeting The Decatur Lions club will observe district governor's nigh L-at its weekly dinner meeting at 6:30 o'clock this evening at the Youth and Community Center. George Sockrider, of Auburn, district governor, wfll make his official visit to the club and aeliver the principal address. It will also be ladies night and all Lions and Lionesses are to be present.

Conference On Education To Open Tonight Chairman Denies Meeting Stacked Over Federal Aid WASHINGTON (INS) — The chairman of the White House conference on education sharply denied at the ou|set today tfyat .the meeting will be “stacked” either for or against direct federal aid to schools. Neil McElroy x>f Cincinnati de- 1 dared that the careful selection of almost 2,000 delegates. "precludes any possibility of stack- ' ing,” as charged by some labor leaders and Democratic members cf congress. McElroy, who is head of Proc- 1 tor and Gamble, made it plain 1 that he does not intend to bow 1 to any demands for a floor vote 1 by the delegates on the heated issue of federal aid. I He said it would be too “diffi- i cult” to change/ the conference : program to permit floor votes or ; dobate on any of the six issues , to be discussed by the deelgates a ta series of round-tables. ’ i On the question if federal aid, i McElroy declared: "No one 'i doubts that this country can finance the kind of education it decides it wants. Once the determination is made, the money will be found.” Although most of the controversy centers on federal assistance, McElroy said that the most ““stubborn problem” is "how to find the teachers that are needed.” He explained: “You can vote taxes anr build a building with the money; it takes years to train a qualified teacher. And without good teachers in adequate numbers, we cannot have good schools.” The conference formally opens tonight with a filmed welcome message from President Eisenhowed prepared last week at Gettysburg. Vice President Richard M. Nixon will then address all delegates. By the time the conference ends Thursday night, representatives of educational, civic, labor and other groups from 53 states J and territories will have covered 1 (Continued on Page Six) ' .„ ' ] Lee Hilyard Dies Today At Hospital Decatur Man Dies After Long Illness Lee Hilyard, 65. of 110 South First street, died at 11:43 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for several years and critical for the past three days. ( A native of Adams county, he | was a son of Pierce and Laura A. t Hilyard. and was married to Le- , nora Mercer. Mr- Hilyard was an employe of i the Schafer Wholesale Co. until , ill health forced his retirerfient. t Surviving in addition to his wife i are a brother, Earl Hilyard of t Decatur 1 ’ and two sisters, Mrs. iVel- < ma Fortney of Decatur and Mrs. | Mabel Bolinger of .Van Wert, O. ( Three brothers and sisters are de- t ceased. 1 The body was removed to the j Black funeral home, where friends ] may call after 7 o’clock Tuesday i evening. Funeral arrangements ( have not been completed.' —__ , | INDIANA WEATHER 3 Continued cold and partly , cloudy tonight and Tuesday, t with* occasional snow squalls ( near Lake Michigan. A few I J snow flurries elsewehere in ] north portion this evening. ] Low tonight zero to 5 above , north, 5-10 above south. High Tuesday 15-20. A

Crumpacker Not To Seek Re-election South Bend Mayor Is Mentioned For Post INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The way was paved for a political future for Mayor John A. Scott of South Bend at a meeting of the third district Republican organization in South Bend today. The situation was created by the announcement at the meeting that Republican Congressman Shepard J. Crumpacker, 38, will not be a candidate to succeed himself when his term expires at the end of 1956. Crumpacker, who is serving his third term in congress, said he always had intended to serve only six years and that “increasing family obligations” also led to his decision. He added that he intends to return to the practice of law in South Bend. Crumpacker said he made his announcement now to insure that all aspirants for the GOP congressional nomination will have ample time to campaign. The name of Scott came’to the fore at once. Scott was defeated for reelection as mayor by only 2,000 votes in normally Democratic South Bend, the county seat of St. Joseph county. Scott has powerful friends over the state and he has been mentioned often for the GOP nomina'tion for governor and lieutenant governor by leaders of both the Governor George N. Craig and opposing factions of the Republican party. Scott is an excellent speaker and toastmaster and has a good mayoralty record. Furthermore, Scott's personal mentor is one of the most astute politicians in the state. Thomas E. Bath, former secretary of state and St. Joseph county GOP chairman. If Scott runs and is elected congressman, he will be eminently eligible for higher political honors later, according to his friends, who maintain he is the most promising young GOP leaders in the state. Others mentioned for the congressional nomination include Lieut. Gov. Harold W. Handley, and Charles W. Ainlay, Goshen attorney and third district GOP chairman. The other three counties in the district are normally Republican. They are Elkhart, Marshall and LaPorte. It has been pointed out that if Scott can maintain the same vote prowess for congressman as he did for mayor, he could be elected easily, because he probably could keep the Democratic lead in St. Joseph coupty down and profit from the normal GOP leads in the other three bailiwicks. County Rural Youth Banquet Held Here County Officers Are Installed Saturday Rural youth officers of Adams county for 1956 were installed at a banquet program Saturday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The banquet also featured a talk by the Rev. Ralph Johnson of the Monroe Methodist church, whose topic was “Take Time.-” He urged the 87 rural youth present to “take time to live because it is the secret' of success; to think because it is the source of power; to play because it is the secret of youth, to read because it is the fountain of knowledge; for friendship because it is the source of happiness; to laugh because it helps lift life’s' load, and to dream because it hitches the soul to a star.” A short talk was also presented by I)ick Tomkinsori, state rural youth consultant from Purdue university, who reminded the group that it takes the cooperation of the officers, members and advisors to have a strong organization. He also stated that Adams county has one of the outstanding rural youth clubs in the state. Mrs. Harry Crownover, Farm Bu(Continued on Page Four)

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Congressmen, Wife Os One, Under Arrest Army Planning For Vigorous Protest To Red Officials BERLIN (INS)—U.S. Army authorities disclosed today that two American congressmen and the wife of one were arrested at gunpoint by East Berlin Communist police Sunday and held for four hours. — The Army planned a vigorous protest to-Soviet officials. -— Rep. Harold C. Ostertag, (R , N.Y.), his wife, and Rep. Edward P. Boland (D Mass.), were arrested as they toured East Berlin on a sightseeing trip in an American army sedan equipped with radio telephones. “This was sbme of the 'Gestapo treatment* which I had heard that the Communists use,” said Ostertag. ‘Those young Communist police had a trigger-happy look in their eyes.” The army said the Red police halted the car at the Soviet War Memorial in East Berlin and told the Americans “it is against the law ... for any foreign power to have and operate a radio-telephone in a vehicle.”* The car was equipped with tws telephones to be used in case of emergencies. Congressman Boland left Berlin this morning for Frankfurt and Naples. Ostertag left Berlin after a news conference for the United States army headquarters at Heidelberg. Informants said Ostertag’s wife still was quite upset by the incident today. The American commanding officer in Berlin. Maj. Gen. Charles L. Dasher, will deliver a “vigorous protest.” in writing and verbally, to Soviet Maj. Gen. P. T, Dibrova over ■ the “four hours” detention and unjustified mistreatment” of the Americans. Dasher deliberately was riding to Soviet headquarters in East Berlin in an army sedan equipped with a radio-telephone. A U. S. state department official said even if East Germany had a law against operating radios in East Berlin it would not apply to any army or American personnel or vehicles. He stressed that Americans and the allies retain legal freedom of movement in the Soviet sector of East Berlin. Ostertag, 59-year old lawmaker from Attica. N.Y., said his wife was "rather nervous.” He declared: “It was a harrowing experience for me.” The 44-year-old Boland, who comes from Springfield, Mass., accompanied the Ostertags. The police who stopped the car pointed a cocked pistol at 2nd Lt. James T. Mac Queen. of Mullins, S. C., and demanded the car keys. McQueen gave up the keys and ” Insisted that they see a Soviet officer. When the Russian officer arrived he ordered the Americans to Soviet army headquarters in East Berlin. By that time the American provost Marshal had been alerted by radio telephone and also came to the Soviet headquarters. (Continued on Pane Three)

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