Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 282, Decatur, Adams County, 1 December 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LI 11. No. 282.

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Ike Confers With Leaders On Spending Budget Matters In Health Department Discussed Today GETTYSBURG. Pa., (INS) — ‘ President Eisenhower today conferred with top officials on federal spending for the next fiscal year on education, social security and health programs. Mr. Eisenhower met for an hour at his Gettysburg office with welfare secretary Marlon Folsom and budget director Rowland Hughes. The conference took place "prior to the President’s departure by automobile for Camp David, his mountain-top retreat near Thurmont. Md., for a hush-hush meeting with the national security Council. Presidential news secretary James Hagerty said the discussions with Folsom and Hughes dealt “solely with budget matters” of the department of health, education and welfare. Meanw-hile, the temporary White House declined to confirm or deny reports that the President has twice appealed to Nationalist China’s Generalissimo Chiang KaiShek not to veto entry of Outer Mongolia into the United Nations. Mr. Eisenhower arrived at his office in the Gettysburg postotfice building at 9:30 a.m. (EST) for his conference with Folsom and Hjighes. - He was up at 7:30 a.m.. breakfasted at 8 o’clock and then conferred with aides at his farm before motoring into Gettysburg. He was to leave after lunch for Camp David. ...Almost every high-level administration official has been summoned to the conclave behind barbedwire at the presidential retreat near Thurmont, Md. The two-hour meeting, scheduled to start at 2:30 p.m, (EST) at Camp David, will work out in virtually final form the key portions of Mr. Eisenhower’s state of the union message to congress in which he will outline his administration’s legislative program for 1956. - t - ... - The results will be laid before congressional leaders by th? President during a long weekend at the White House in Washington Dec. 12 and 13. Mr. Eisenhower will first give a “sneak preview” of his foreign policy and defense recommendations to Republican leaders of the senate and house on Monday, Dec. 12. On the following day, he will go over these key national policy recommendations with Democratic congressional leaders who will join in a bipartisan conference. The Chief Executive expressed the hope this week that foreign policy will not become an issue of partisanship in next year s presi(Conrinued on Pare Five) i4TPAGES

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Detroit Newspapers Shut Down By Strike Three Daily Papers Unable To Publish DETROIT (INS) — A strike by the stereotypers union, local 9. AFL, early today shut down all three of Detroit’s daily newspapers for' the first time in the city’s history. The struck papers are the Detroit Tinies. Free Press and News. The 120 stereotypers walked out at 4:30 a.m. EST after rejecting a proposal by the newspaper publishers association to continue negotiations. The two-year contract between the union and the newspapers ended at midnight Wednesday night. Principle issue hi the walkout is not wages. It revolved, .around two points. The 120 stereotypers voted to press their demands for: 1. Extra crews to process color plates and that the -workers receive a full day’s wages no matter how short the work is. 2. Overtime pay for handling any material not published on the same day. —— _—- — —- The newspaper publishers association branded the demands as “unreasonable.” Strike At Zanesville ZANESVILLE. O. (INS) — A strike so 50 International Typographical Union Members at Zanesville’s two daily newspapers today did not prevent the city’s 37,500 newspaper readers from getting at least one edition. — Officials of the company which publishes the Zanesville TiiriesRecorder, and the evening Zanesville Signal said that editorial employes helped get out an edition of the Recorder today and most likely will be abe to get the Signal on the streets tonight. The Record? er usually runs four editions. A spokesman for Local 199 of the union said members were asking a wage scale of $103.13 for day work and SIOB.BB for night employment. Present scales are $92.50 day and $98.25 night. _ The company claimed, however, that the unipn was also demanding that (hey be allowed to set in type finished forms supplied by the advertisers. This was termed a “make-work” clause by the Re-corder-Signal management. A company request that the (Conunuea on Lage Eight) Accident Reported Early This Morning Decatur’s chances for an acci-dent-free safe driving day went down the drain early as an accident was reported to city police at 12:10 this morning. A car driven by Stanley Sprunger, of Berne, was hit by an auto operated by Steed D. Toth of Richmond, at the intersection of Thirteenth street and Washington street- Sprunger was headed south on 27 and turned off the highway, and Toth struck the left rear of the Sprung-" er vehicle. Damages In the early morning accident will cost Sprunger S3OO and Toth SSO.

Eisenhower In Pledge To Aid GOP Campaign Wires Committee Os All Possible Aid In Campaign CHICAGO (INS) —President Eisenhower declared today that he would do “everything 11 my power next year” to aid the Republicans ffcae political campaign. In a telegram sent to the GOP national committee in Chicago. Mr. Eisenhower said: “\ye must not stand still, absorbed in . the contemplation of what we have done.” The President said that he would do everything he could “to help you report the record accurately and fully to the country." He said that continued progress in the healthy expansion of the nation’s economy must remain “our goals.” The President added: “'ln striving toward these goals you, and the Republican candidates everywhere, will be motivated by a common conviction in the imperishable principles of the American system“So inspired, you will present to the American people both a record of brilliant accomplishment and specific proposals and plans for the futrre that are worthy of their acclaim and their vote.’ Meanwhile, agriculture secretary Ezra Tat!t Benson charged that the Democrats are proposing “quack remedies and discarded nostrums" to solve the nation’s farm problems/ In a hard-hitting speech prepared for delivery before a Republican national committee meeting in Chicago. Benson accused Democratic leaders of practicing "smart politics to capitalize upon agriculture’s troubles.” The cabinet member declared: "Despite the basically sound health of American agriculture, I seriously doubt that it court! survive the witch's brew now being stirred up in the Democrat cauldrons.” Codceding that the farm problem is a difficult one, Benson maintained the administration has made “substantial progress” in aiding the U. S. farmer. He said the GOP has been kept busy for nearly three years “putting out the fires, cleaning up the debris* and attempting to rebuild our agricultural economy upon a solid foundation.” Benson flayed Democratic leaders Adlai Stevenson and Gov. Averell Harriman of New York for what he described as their “ludicrous” efforts to “outbid each other” in the realm of “what, they think is agricultural planning.” (Contlnuea on Page Five) Foreign Policy To Be Campaign Issue Democrats Laying Issue Groundwork WASHINGTON (INS) —The Democratic national committee laid the groundwork today to make the administration’s handling of foreign affairs a major 1956 campaign issue. President Eisenhower, secretary of state John Foster Dulles and other administration and GOP leaders have urged in the past week that foreign policy be kept out of political debate. _ The Democrats, however, answered with a “fact sheet” of quotations from Republican speeches, statements and advertisements from 1948 through 1955 hitting at past Democratic administrations' conduct of international affaics. The “fact sheet” was released without comment. However, it appeared to back up Democratic national chairman Paul M. Butler’s “challenge" to the administration to drop all claims on. achieving world peace or face debate on foreign policy. Meanwhile, the candidacy of New York Gov. Averell Harriman for the Democratic presidential nomination was given a further boost by Carmine De Sapio. De Sapio, New York’s secretary of state and Democratic leader in the Errtpire ‘State, told the National Press club Wednesday that governors of New York normally exert strong influence on party conventions. He said his state would propose Harriman at Chicago next August. He recalled the fact that exGov. Thomas E. Dewey was twice nominated for the presidency by the GOP, and added: “That may dispel the idea that Governor Harriman is only a token or favorite son candidate.” i

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 1, 1955.

Education Conference Urges Higher Pay For Teachers, Federal Aid

Stale Records J Traffic Death Early Today First Traffic Death Os S-D Day Recorded Early This Morning INDIANAPOLIS (INS)— Twentyseven minutes after safe driving day began, Indiana had recorded its first traffic fatality. The shock of being one of the first, if not the first state in the nation to mar the death - free record sought for the day, apparently deterred other motorists however.Nofurther deaths had been reported up to 9:15 a.m.-CST in addition to that early victim. He was 44-year-old Robert M. Johnston, of near Centerville, whose unlighted car ran beneath a truck on U. S. 40 west of Richmond. Wayne county officials, who investigated, said the headlights on Johnston’s automobile were not operating at the time he rammed the rear of a truck driven by Charles E. Senig, 25, Terrie Hill, Pa. Senig was not hurt. The death lutensined efforts of state officials to keep the state’s drivers from killing each other and themselves. They urged that tnoftnists be sure their vehicles are in good mechanical condition before •starting out, and to “drive defensively” and at moderate speeds. The weatherman added an addi tional warning that snow and rain are likely before the day is over. Governor George N. Craig and all state departments, county and city officials and many civic organizations were active in trying to reduce highway fatalities to the absolute minimum in this state. Governor Craig has bet a SIOO hat with Governor William Stratton of Illinois that there will be fatalities in Indiana today than in Illinois and many Hoosier cities staged safety -contests. State police early today began issuing hourly reports concerning accidents to press associations, which informed' newspaper readers, radio listeners and television viewers about the state’s safety record. J, Addington Wagner, American Legion national commander, marshalled Legion posts and issued a safety st at emen t urging posts to sponsor safe driving courses ift their community schools. He said: “Our traffic toll is a national tragedy. Its prevention calls for more engineering skill in building our highways and a greater, inculcation of safety principles in every American man. woman and child. Traffic laws must be rigidly enforced. To all I emphasize the (Continued on page Blgbt) Demand Guarantees Os American Safety Stern Protest Sent On Maltreatment WASHINGTON (INS) — The U.S. is demanding today that the Soviet Union continue to guarantee the safety of Americans in East Berlin and East Germany. The demand is being made in a stern diplomatic protect to the Russians against the maltreatment of a group of Americans by East German police in East Berlin earlier this week. . The U.S. does not recognize the East German communist regime and argues that Russia must abide by the 1945 agreements in which the World War II allies divided Germany into four zones. Britain and France are deliver ing similar demands. _ U. S. Ambassador James B. Conant is to deliver the U. S. protest to Soviet ambassador Georgi Pushkin in Berlin. — "~ Conant will release the text of the protest to newsmen in Berlin after it is delivered.

labor Conventions To Ratify Merger AFL, CIO Holding Separate Meetings NEW YORK (INS) — The AFL and CIO opened today separate conventions to ratify and put into effect the merger of the two organizations into one giant labor fedenjjtion. New York Mayor Robert F. Wagner was scheduled to start the AFL convention with an address of welcome. The remainder of the day will be devoted to discussion of the merger agreement and presentation of resolutions to be referred to the merged federation’s first convention next week. The Art/-metal and building trades may offer at the meeting a plan to set up a committee to study the best means of organizing nonunion plants. CIO president Walter P. Reuther was the main speaker at the initial session of his organization’s convention. — — Before the CIO delegates got down to business this afternoon, they were to witness a pageant depicting the 20 years of the CIO. Meanwhile, the United Mine Workers, taken by UMW boss John L. Lewis out of the AFL to form, the CIO in 1935 and, then withdrawn from that organization to become Independent, rhanded the CIO a $1,665,000 bill. In a letter signed by UMW sec-retary-treasurer John Woens and handed personally to CIO secre-tary-treasurer James B. Carey, Lewis demanded repayment of the “loan . . . before you dissolve your organization.” Carey replied with a souvenir book on CIO history and a note which said in part: “You have achieved the momentary ripple of publicity which you sought to relieve the boredom of your isolation from the democratic labor movement.” He added this postscript: “I trust that you enjoy reading the ClO’s book on 20 years of the ClO’s constructive achievements which I have sent to you by your own courier.” The newly-burgeoned AFL-CIO starts its first convention Monday. President Eisenhower wil Italk to the convention over a telephone . hook-up from Gettysburg. Pa. Adlai ' Stevenson and New York Gov. A yereUHarrim an. „ will. ..boJater speakers.

Cabbie Confesses To Rape-Slaying Confesses Slaying Os Illinois Child SPRINGFIELD. 111. (INS) — State police officials reported early today that Lloyd E. Miller, 26-ytar-old cab driver, has confessed, the rapeslaying last Saturday of Janice May, 8. in Canton. 111. James Christensen, superintendent of the state bureau of criminal identification and investiga tion, said Miller broke down late Wednesday night after a lie detector test and nearly 24 hours of questioning. . He added that Miller signed a statement in which he described how he accosted the girl on a street, lured her to a place between two railroad coal cars and then raped and beat her. She was found unconscious by her two brothers and died two hours later in a Canton hospital. Christensen said: “Miller told us Janice started to cry when he began molesting her and that he struck her and she fell and hit her head against a rock. —-"After the attack he disposed of his bloody clothing by throwing them into an open box car'of a moving train.” Fulton county state's attorney Blaine Ramsey said he will swear cut a murder warrant today against Miller.

Premier Faure Is Kicked Out Os Own Party Ousted From Party For Dissolution Os National Assembly PARIS (INS)—French premier Edgar Faure was kicked out of his Radical Socialist party by an overwhelming vote tonight because of his order dissolving the national assembly. « The official tabulation was that the vote was 19 to 1. His enemies meanwhile moved to halt dissolution -of the assembly and to block any new elections held under the old proportional representation and party affiliation system. The Socialists demanded and obtained convocation of the assembly’s steering committee Friday afternoon to discuss convocaTioif ‘ oT limited agenda. Members of Faure’s own Radical Socialist (moderate) party joined the Socialists in demanding the national assembly meet to try to abolish the 1951 election system under which any new elections would be held. The old system is weighted against right and left’ extremists and Faure’s enemies want a single constituency system which they believe would entrance their election chances. Assanea By Reds PARIS (INS) — The French Communist party sought to make : the most today of the government decision to dissolve the national assembly. —ln a front-page statement in L’Humanite, the party’s political Jntreau proposed the Socialist par-, ty join them in an alliance that Would insure a "victory of the left "in the election of a new lower house of parliament. The Socialist executive committee was to meet today to discuss the party’s tactics. At present, it appeared unlikely the Socialists would accept the Red proposition. The decision to decree the assembly dissolution under, a procedure not used in 78 years was taken by a majority of the cabinet of premier Edgar Faure Wednesday night. - the—election would be held on Jan. 8, al- , though the final decision on that point had not yet been made. Since elections must be held within '3O days after the dissolution decree is signed by the president, that act may be delayed by president Rene Coty until next week. Since elections traditionally are held on Sundays, were Coty to sign the decree before Dec. 8, the . (Continued on Page Six) Grand Champ Steer Sold For $16,125 Prize Steer Sold At sls Per Pound CHICAGO (INS) — Julius, the grand champion steer of the International’' Li v es to c k Exposition, brought his pretty teen-aged owner $16,125 with an assist from her little sister. The prize aberdeen angus was auctioned off today before a record crowd of more than 3.000 spectators for sls a pound to the Pfaelzer Bros., meat packing firm of Chicago, for the Howard Johnson chain of restaurants. The Ellard Pfaelzer announced that he had been instructed to make sure Julius’ owner, 16-year-old Nancy Turner of Champaign. 111., got the most for her money by adding the weight of her sister, Jan, 13, to that of the steer for the official weight. Julius, who weighed about 986 pounds, was weighed in “officially" with Jane. 89 pounds, for a total of 1,075 pounds.

11 Early Deaths Are Reported In Nation Second Annual Safe | Driving Day Today CHICAGO (INS) — The nation, driving more autos than any other country, launched its second annual safe driving day today but death failed to observe it. Traffic crash reports, compiled at 10 a.m. by the national safety council on the basis of press association reports, listed 11 fatalities. Four of the deaths occurred in Ohio. S-D day negan at 12:01 a.m., and will end at midnight tonight by proclamation of President Eisenhower, who appealed to the nation lo "demonstrate that we can —by our own, personal efforts —'reduce the accidents on our streets and highways.” A death toll of 69 victims across the nation was counted on a similar work day. The count was taken Nov. 17, as a practice or “dry run” S-D Day, and was compiled- by the three major press associations. The first S-D Day was Initiated Dec. 15, 1954. The traffic death toll ran 51, a drop of 15 per cent from the usual workday toll of 60. Yet safety experts Insist an acci-dent-free 24 hours is as easy as lifting the foot from the gas pedal —ls each drive,r cooperates. Ned H. Dearborn, president of (he national safety council, said: “S-D Day is U one-day effort to wake people up. The auto is here to stay, but I have my. doubts about a lot of drivers.” “The need is obvious and urgent. Last year an American man, woman or child was killed in traffic every 15 minutes. Someone was injured every 35-seconds. And. this year, the record is worse: More people are dying; more are injured and crippled.” The President at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm, stressed the importance of "year-round public support” to safety programs. He said S-D Day is “directed to the development of that kind of support.”

Kefauver Blasts Eisenhower Theme Peace, Prosperity , Theme Is Assailed OKLAHOMA CITY (INS)—Sen. Estes Kefauver blasted the peace and prosperity theme of the Eisenhower administration today at the national convention of young Democrats in Oklahoma City. In a keynote speech prepared for delivery before some 5,000 delegates at the three-day meeting, the possible Democratic presidential aspirant from Tennessee warned: — “This so-called prosperity cannot continue and more unemployment is bound to result unless the farmer is put on a par with industry and labor." On the issue of peace, Kefauver served notice that he will refuse to abide by what he called “pious expressions of hope by some Republican leaders that foreign policy would not be an issue in the current campaign.” He declared: "Republicans are making mistakes —very grave ones in the administration and conduct of our foreign affairs at a crucial time in world history. “We Democrats will point to thoke mistakes in order that they can be corrected by the voters.” The Tennessee lawmaker charged the Geneva conference “ended in failure” and alleged that the state departmerft has alienated millions in southeast Asia by allowing the U. "S. to be branded “the foremost supporter of colonialism.” In the domestic field, Kefauver urged restoration of the 90 percent' parity support program for farmers and the development of other agricultural programs.

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Urges Higher Pay level For U. S. Teachers Favor Federal Aid To Schools, Oppose Imposed Controls WASHINGTON (INS) — The , White House conference on education today urged higher pay-. for teachers and prepared a formal recommendation for unfettered federal aid to schools. The 1,400 delegates agreed that three basic conditions must be met if the teachershortage is to'TSeF" solved. The conditions are: 1. Teachers* “prestige and standards" must compare with those of Other professions. 2- “The salary structure must be high enough and flexible enough to compete effectively with other fields for ftuality manpower.” , i 37 The teachers job must be made attractive enough to “challenge and attract the interest of talented people.” Two top-level round-table groups at the conference reported that the majority of delegates want federal aid for schools but with the stipulation that government controls must not be imposed on education. •One group determined that its half of thfe convention favored the federal aid proposal by more than 70 py cent. The second round table said its share of the delegates supported the plan by better than two to one. The delegates were almost unanimous in agreeing that the federal funds should be utilized primarily for school constructionOpinion- was sharply divided, however, on two other points: Whether the IT. S. treasury shouhLpay any part of local school operational costs and whether funds should go to all states or only those with proven need. President Eisenhower, who sponsored the conference, suggested Monday evening that the federal government should be ready to extend leadership and financial aid to schools that needed it\

The chairmen of the two finaj round table groups are now writing a final report summarizing the - meeting's feelings on the controversial federal aid to edccation Issuer Their report will be presented to the conference tonight. The two late-night round table groups combined the opinions expressed in 166 previous round table gatherings of the delegates- The final tables were headed by Mrs. Pearl Wanamaker, Washington state superintendent of public instruction and former president .of the National Education Association r and Edgar Filler, executive secretary of the NEA's council of chief state school officers. The two tables found that a heavypreponderance of delegates felt that some states lacked resources (Continued on Pare ElgUt) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasional snow beginning tonight, mixed in extreme south with rain. Friday occasional rain southwest and rain or snow elsewhere. . Somewhat warmer. tonight and Friday. Low tonight 2430. High Friday ranging from 32-38 extreme norths to 38-42 extreme south.

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