Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 294, Decatur, Adams County, 15 December 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIU. No. 294.

POLICEMEN DELIVER TWINS i ■ ’ 4P -•- jg& JM

MANY A POLICEMAN has helped to deliver a baby in an emergency but how many have helped to deliver twins? New York officers Joseph Landfish (left) and Joseph Viola look mighty pleased after the Job as they hold the new arrivals in Maimonides hospital. Mrs. Jean Smith is the mother, and everybody involved is doing fine. The Smiths have five other children. i

Sen. Knowland Political Plan ~ Is Unchanged California Solon Doubts Eisenhower Will Run Next Year WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland’s qualified determination to enter the presidential race was unshaken today by White House medical opinion that President Eisenhower should wait until mid-February to decide his own political course. Friends said Knowland still intends to become a candidate if Mr. Eisenhower has not announced whether he will seek reelection by the end of January—-pre- .. . ferably by the Jan. 23 deadline for entering the Illinois presidential primary. In the Democratic camp, Gov. Frank J. Lausche of Ohio will seek his state’s “favorite son” designation in the May primary. Lausche, who has served five terme as chief, executive of the Buckeye State, would have 58 delegates at his command for the Democratic presidential convention if he wins the primary. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Ky.) who won half of Ohio’s delegation in 1952, will throw his hat in the ting for the nomination at a Washington news conference Friday. And Adlai Stevenson, the current front-runner for the nomination. said Wednesday night his name will be entered in at least five presidential primaries — in California, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Illinois as well as. Minnesota. Knowland has said he will support President Eisenhower if the Chief Executive decides to run for reelection. But. the Californian’s friends said: . 1. Knowland is more convinced than ever in his belief that the President will not run because of his heart attack and does not think he will delay his decision for purely political reasons. 2. The mid-February point of decision suggested as the earliest for the President by Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, his personal physician, would “nullify” at least five presidential primaries for other candidates. The deadlines ofr entering primaries In Illinois, Ohio, New Hampshire. West Virginia and Minnesota all fall in the intervening period. Minnesota’s deadline is Feb. 15. while the others range from Jan. I 23 to Feb. 11. 1 3. If Mr. Eisenhower should 1 wait until “June or July” as pro- ’ posed by presidential assistan Harold E. Stassen, it would nullify most of the Republican presi- 1 dential primaries, If other possi- ! ble candidates held off in deference to the Chief i Executive. «. 1 Knowland contends it is unfair 1 to other candidates and the vot- 1 ers to delay a presidential deci- ’ sion beyond the date when it is i possible to enter the early presi- 1 dential primaries. 1 Sen. Prescott" Bush (R-Conn.) i who lunched Wednesday with White House assistant Sherman < • Adams; said he lias 'been “forth 1 fied” 1n his belief that President i Eisenhower will run again. He i explained that his meeting with Adams was "not significant” in < this connection. a I - _. . 1 —. ( 14-PAGES _ !

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UE Submits Plan To Westinghouse Submits Proposal To Settle Strike PITTSBURGH (INS) —The Independent United Electrical Workers Union disclosed today that it has submitted a proposal for settlement o fits eight-week-old strike against Westinghouse Electric Corp. i A union spokesman said that the company has not yet replied to the proposal. Details of the union’s proposed settlement were made public by James J. Matles. director of organization for the UE. The proposal calls for the UE’s more than 10,000 strikers to return to work at some 14 company plants under the existing contract —which would run until Oct. 1956 --but with a three percent wage - boost. = This offer apparently amounts to acceptance by the union of the first, 12-month section of the fiveyear contract on which’ the, company has insisted. Matles said that immediately following the return to work, negotiations could continue and would inclure wages, pensions, insurance and other issues. Meanwhile, there was no report of progress in the between Westinghouse and the CIO AFL International Union of Electrical 'Workers. The lUE’s 44.000 Westinghouse members have been oin strike a week longer than the UE. since Oct. 17. Appropriations Are Approved By State County auditor Frank Kitson to day received a letter from the state board of tax commissioners approving recent additional appropriations passed by the Adams county council. Appropriations were made in several departments to complete payments of various bills and salaries before the year’s end. All of the funds received the state board’s approval as requested, Kitson said. Dr. Lehman Heads Medical Society Berne Physician Is Elected President Dr. Harold B.' Lehman, Berne physician, has been elected president of the Adams county medical society for 1956 and will assume the duties of that office January 1. Dr. Gerald J. Kohne ofr Decatur was named vice-president and Dr. Robert Boze, Berne, was chosen as secretary-treasurer of the society. The Adams county* group also recommended Dr. Gerald Kohne as chief of staff at Adams county memorial hospital for 1956. The board of trustees of the hospital names the chief of staff, btit that group always has accepted the recommendation of the To cal society. All officers elected by the physicians will serve for a one-year period. The Adams county society is affiliated with the state medical society. The group meets monthly to discuss its business and special meetings are held when necessary. All physicians of Adams county holding licenses to practice medicine are members of the medical society.

16 Countries Are Seated In U. N. Assembly Soviet Russia Bows To Majority Will For Initial Time UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —Sixteen countries, Including Italy, Austria, Ireland- and Spain, were formally welcomed and seated today alongside 60 other member states of the United Nations general assembly. The revitalized assembly moved into its last two days of session in a festive mood, visibly strengthened by the fact that Russia had bowed for the first time to the will of the majority in the security council and waived the veto against 12 free states. The others voted into the world organization at Wednesday's dramatic sessions of the security council and general assembly were: Ceylon. Nepal, Inland, Libya. Portugal, Laos. Cambodia, Jordan and Communist Albania, Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania. The election to fill a 1956-57 vacancy on the security council will be held Friday. A number of UN diplomats deplored Japan’s omission from the ranks of the new member states, caused by Russia’s vetoing of the Japanese candidacy. Hope was expressed that Japan would take its place in the UN at the 1956 assembly session. The council will meet today at 3 p.m. test) at the request of U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., to vote on his motion to admit Japan at next year’s Assembly session. Russia had given as the pretext for her 76th veto in ten years that Japan had not yet signed a peace treaty with the Kremlin but said he favored Vokyo's admission at the 1956 assmebly. Actually, Moscow was holding up Japanese entry as a bargaining point for communist Outer Mongolia's entry. , Nationalist China vetoed the red satellite in the ' counclT balloting Tuesday and thfe Soviet promptly followed by using the veto on each of 15 pro nosed free world nations. Farm Bureau Voles On Soil Bank Plan Designed To Reduce Commodity Surplus CHICAGO (INS) — The American Farm Bureau Federation was to vote today on a soil bank plan designed to reduce the commodity surplus and slow down crop production. The 163 voting delegates were expected to approve the soil bank plan which was included in a report by the resolutions committee at the closing meeting of the 37th annual meeting of the group in Chicago. If it is approved, the plan will be the official policy for the nation’s largest farm group of more than 1,600,000 farm families. Under the plan, farmers would be required to plant an unspecified percentage of their acreage in soil improving crops such as grasses, trees and legumes to qualify for government price supports. As an inducement, farmers would be offered negotiable options to purchase government stored commodities at some low. unspecified price. Cash payments also were recommended under the plan. The committee pointed out that the primary objective of the soil hank plan is “to dispose of surpluses and balance production with demand.” It seeks to solve the farm problems of overproduction, declining prices and dwindling income. Another committee recommendation reaffirms the federation’s stand favoring the agricultural act of 1954. That act provided the flexible price support system which is a feature of the Eisenhower farm program. X William Doehrman Dies At Fort Wayne William Doehrman. 81, native of Adams county and a former Decatur police officer, died at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. He served for 20 years as detective for the GR & I railroad. retiring 12 years ago. Survivors Include his wife, May; two daughters: three sisters and three brothers. Funeral services will bo held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Getz & Elkenberry funeral home, with burial in the Lindenwood cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 15 1955.

Dulles Says Russia Has Opened New,Cold War Front In Middle East

Egypt Premier Threatens War Against Israel Full-Scale Warfare Threatened If Any Further Aggression CAIRO (INS)—Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser threatened a full-scale war against Israel • today in case of further Israeli ■ "aggression.” He said that if there is any i “further aggression.” by Israel on • the Egyptian and Syrian froni tiers “Egypt will throw the whole ■ of her armed strength into action against Israel.” ; Nasser issued hilt statement af- ’ ter the Sunday night Israel attack on Syrian troops near the i northeastern coast of the Sea tjbf ■ Galilee. Scores of Syrians were killed cr wounded in the attack which the Israelis said was staged bei cause of Syrian shelling of Israel li fishing boats in the sea. Egypt recently signed an agreement with Syria for a unified : military command. Some observers have expressed belief that the Israel reprisal at- , tack might have been aimed to test the effeotiveness of that 'agreement, and also was an indirect warning to Lebanon not to join the Syrian Egyptian pact. A dispatch- from Tel Avlvi said that Israeli and Egyptian forces exchanged heavy machinegun fire today along the Gaza Strip territory near Beeri. An Israeli army spokesman said that the Egyptian post first fired on an Israeli patrol which returned the fire. No Israeli casualties were reported. In the Syrian capital of Damascus American ambassador James Moose visited premier Said El Ghazzi Wednesday night and was , reported to have expressed regret at the Israeli raid Sunday night on the Syrian army posts. He was quoted as warning that “provocative, retaliatory acts and the use of force” would hinder the improvement of the middle eastern situation. In Cairo Haj Amin El Husseinl, chairman of the Palestine Arab higher committee and former Mufti of Jerusalem, cabled King Hussein of Jordan and also the Jordanian government to warn (Continued On Page Five) Ralph Thomas Takes Scholarship Tests Is A Semi-finalist In National Tests Ralph Thomas, senior at the De- < catur high school, has been named one of the semi-finalists for merit scholarships, according to word received by Hugh J. Andrews, high school principal. Approximately 460 four - year scholarships are awarded each year by the National Merit Scholarship Corp., sponsored by a number of the nation's leading industries and ' educators. 4 . , Thomas will take the scholastic aptitude test of the college entrance examination board, which will be given at Fort Wayne Saturday, Jan: 14. From these tests will be chosen the some 400 students from throughout the United States who ■ will receive the highly valued fouryear scholarships to colleges or universities of their choice. The Decatur entrant is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Benj. G. , Thomas His father is pastor of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church in this city. Young Thomas, one of the top students in the Decatur high school, is president of his senior class, is also president of the teen council, which assists in managing affairs and activities for the ybuttf of the city at the Decatur Youth and Community Center.

No Definite Date For Ike Decision Disclaims Part In Reported Assurance GETTYSBURG, Pa. (INS) — The White House today disclaimed any part in reported assurances to New Hampshire Republicans that President Eisenhower will not bow out of the 1956 presidential race before their March 13 primary. After checking the report with Sherman Adams, Mr. Eisenhower's chief deputy and former governor of New Hampshire, news secretary James C. Hagerty declared: “I do not know of the origin of the report. To my knowledge nothing of this sort has originated from anyone in the White House." Hagerty put in dr to Adams a few minutes after the matter was raised at his morning news conference in Gettysburg. The news secretary said he did not discuss the subject with the President, indicating he felt there was no need to do so. Asked if Mr. Eisenhower would make up his mind on a second term before the Feb. 2 filing deadline in New Hampshire. Hagerty shrugged his shoulders and said: "How do I know? I don't know any more than you do ’’ -. . a Entire State Is Hit By Winter Weather. Hazardous Driving Conditions Result INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Winter weather, with the beauty of snow and the deadly danger of ice paid Indiana a pre-Christmas visit today. At least one fatality occurred among the thousands of accidents that resulted when highways became skating rinks beginning Wednseday evening. Ben Kirby, 41, of Alexandria, lost his life this morning when two cars skidded into each other. The hazardous condition of highways began at the time many Hoosiers were homeward bound from work.® and continued today in some places. However, the Indiana state highway and municipal street departments reported that chemicals and cinders were being used to clear the highways and streets. Traffic was reported moving today. But Wednesday night, traffic became snarled in many spots, and thousands of persons were hours late in reaching home. Hills were impassable for some vehicles that became stalled, and then piled up traffic behind them. Accompanying the snow and ice was a thermometer drop that skided as low as four at Lafayette and seven at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne. Thermometers were expected to climb to 18-25 today in northern Indiana, and to 25-30 in the south, with a dip back to 8-15 tonight. ~ Additional snow flurries were likely in the north today, and Friday. on top of snow which fell overnight. Test |-ard Lining For Road Cushion 4. INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —lndiana state highway chairman Virgil Smith said a new lard< lining is being tested as a cushion for highways. r Smith said the lard is being used as a waterproofer, on an experimental basis, to keep water from seeping under the cement and cracking it in freezing weather. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cold tonight. Occasional snow flurries north portion, especislly near Laks Michigan. Friday fair . south, ' partly cloudy north, some local anow flurries extreme north. Continued cold. Low tonight 8-18, high Friday 18-25 north, 22-28 south.

Gaitskeil Is Named To Head British Labor Right Wing Leader Heads Labor Party To Succeed Attlee LONDON (INS) — Forty-nine-, yeat-ojd Hugh Gaitskell’s* election to the leadership of the British Labor party may have signalled the beginning of another 20-year reign in the post. The party’s members of parliament selected the right wing leader Wednesday by a margin ot 87 votes over his nearest competitor, left-wing leader Aneurin Bevan. The mild-mannered pro-Ameri-can Gaitskeil succeeds Clement Attlee, who held the leadership from 1935 until his resignation and elevation to the peerage as Earl Attlee last week. British politicians said today that unless there w-a# a complete change in mood among the laborite M.P.’s, the new leader’s position would remain unchallenged for many years to come. Gaitskeil will become prime minister in the event of a Labor party victory in future national elections. On the “morning after,” the big -question intriguing political observers was what the future held for the two defeated candidates. Attlee's long-time deputy leader Herbert Morrison, 67, came in a poor third with only 40 of the 267 ballots cast. He immediately resigned the deputy’s post, and there were reports that the bitterly disappointed Morrison might resign from the party. The 58-year-old Bevan showed surprising strength.in gaining 70 votes to Gaitskell’s 157. The vitriolic Welshman might run for the deputy leadership in the postChristmas balloting. Observers viewed it as a "considerable achievement” and an indication that there was still considerable support among the laboritqs for a definite left-wing policy. Sentence Youth For Reckless Driving INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —A 20 year-old Indianapolis youth was convicted of reckless driving by a criminal court jury Wednesdaynight and was sentenced to 30 days in jail. Gene Edwin Fuller also lost his driver's license for a year and was fined SSO and costs in the ' Dec. 1, 1954. traffic death of sev-en-year-old Daryl Myers. Franklin D. Herman Is Taken By Death '■* ' ' Funeral Services friday Afternoon Franklin D. Herman, 65. well known Hartford township farmer, died Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he was admitted Tuesday after suffering a stroke at his home. He was born in Hartford township March 1, 189(1, a son of Amos and Elizabeth Pontius-Herman, and was married to Jessie Kave Nov. 1, 1917. Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters. Mrs. Virgil Bixler of Decatur, Mrs. Alton Wable of near Monroe and Mrs. Burvil Watkins of Pleasant Mills; five sons, Donald F. Herman of Linn Grove, Merlin Dale Herman of, Mfcw Corydon, Daniel F. Herman ot Berne, Robert L. Herman of near Geneva, and Alvin Wayne Herman at home: 18 grandchildren, and two brothers. Charles Herman of near Geneva and Bert Herman of Columbia City. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the Rev. Herald J. Welty officiating. Burial will he in AJberson cemetery hear Linn Grove. --

Jenner, Craig Are Absent From Parley Capehart Host To Indiana GOP Rally INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —President Eisenhower will solve the problem of slipping farm prices and pavh the way for a Republican victory in 1956, according to speakers at a GOP rally Wednesday at which Senator Homer E. Capehart was host. Senator William, E. Jenner and Governor George N.‘ Craig were conspicuous by their absence, but many other GOP bigwigs were present and participated in the meeting. Included were former Governor Raluh F. Gates, national committeeman; state chairman Alvin C. Cast, congressmen John V. Beamer, William Bray, Earl. Wilson, Ralph Harvey and Charles Brown- ' son, Lieut. Gov. Harold W. Handley and many state officials. The Hoosier Republicans immediately began to outline plans . to recuperate from the 1955 municipal election debacle. Senator Capehart announced he would meet with farm chiefs and GOP leaders on Dec. 22 and the state committee indorsed Capehart’s suggestion for Lincoln Day rallies in all 11 congressional districts at which precinct committeemen and committeewomen will be guests of-honor. t .. . Also, state committee treasurer announced a tIOO-a-plate state dinner would be held in Indianapolis Before the primary, with receipts divided equally between the state and national party organizations. He also predicted that additional money would be raised by sales of 150,000 to 200,000 Eisenhower birthday cards next year. Destruction of factionalism in the Indiana GOP was stressed by many speakers. Capehart said: “We've got to quit beating the brains out of people we Republicans have elected to public offices. We must unite and cooperate.” H. Dale Brown, of~lndianapolis, state committee member, said: “We have been fighting other Republicans ever since the 1952 Eisenhower Taft and Craig and anti-Craig disagreements. Let’s stop fighting other Republicans and start fighting Democrats.” State auditor Curtis Rardin said he had been disillusioned by the Republican political bickering since he came to the state house and pointed out that Jenner and Craig were not present and "should be here.” (Continued On Pag*.Five) Teachers Will Vote On Social Security Statewide Vote Is Planned On Friday Adams county teachers will join teachers in every public school system in Indiana Friday in voting on whether to become eligible for social security. The statewide referendum will determine whether the teachers ot Indiana will continue only as members of the teachers retirement fund or will become eligible for both. Opinion in Adams county is sharply divided among the teachers, the younger group being opposed to the social security plan and the older teachers favoring its adoption. All voting will be secret, but each teacher must sign the record of votes cast to show that a vote j has been cast. All teachers in Adams county and in the state who do not cast a vote will be recorded as voting against the proposal. The social security, if adopted, would not take the place of the teachers retirement fund, but would supplement it, giving each retiring teacher a larger pension. It also includes survivor benefits as does regular social security. The votes will be counted on a statewide basis. Polls will be open at each school house in Adams county all day Friday.

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NATO Council Is Warned Os Soviet Threat Says Zig-Zagging Policy Os Russia Posing New Threat PARIS (INS) — U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles told the NATO council today that “zig-zag-ging Soviet policy” has opened a new cold war front in the dangerous middle eastern area and also in South Asia. The military committee of the North Atlantic treaty organization also warne’d that the Soviet military threat facing the West is greater than ever. Dulles told the 15-nation group at the opening of a Paris meeting that the Soviets have three main “surpluses” — obsolescent arms, 1 technicians, and words. The American secretary spoke just before receipt of a Cairo dis- ' patch quoting Egyptian Premier Gamal Abiel Nasser as saying that if there is “further aggression” by Israel he wil Ihurl the entire Egyptian armed strength “into action against Israel.” Egypt is receiving Communist arms from the Soviet satellite state of Czechoslovakia. British foreign secretary Harold MacMillan told the house of commons in London this week that Russia has a great amount of obsolescent weapon’s to peddle in the critical middle eastern theater. Dulles said that .Soviet policy in the “kaleidoscopia year” of 1955 presented puzzles that may be , solved only by future historians. He said he thought Soviet policy was a mixture of a sense of i strength, a sense of fear, and a revival of Stalinist philosophy. Dulles said the Russians present- ■ ly have giVen no indication of a desire to resort to direct action, , as they had in the years after World War 11. He said the Soviet ■ threat is more indirect since it is : political and "The tactics,” he said, “have 1 changed, but there is no change in purpose.” Dulles told the council that the Paris and London agreements which restored full sovereignty to West Germany and put that nation into NATO as the 15th nation had softened Soviet policy. He said the agreements resulted in Soviet agreements to pull out of Austria and the pilgrimage of Soviet leaders to Belgrade to try to heal the 1948 break between the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. On the recent unsuccessful Big Four foreign ministers’ conference in Geneva Dulles said that “a major lesson we learned” was the undependability of Soviet agreements. The morning session, which heard the military committee report, lasted for nearly four hours. The committee pointed out that in nuclear development the possession of a bomb in the megaton million ton class is no longer exclusively western? This was a reference to the re- ’ xently exploded Soviet hydrogen bomb which had a power of more than one million tons of TNT. The military leaders of the alli(Oontlnued On Pace Five) ...Help Fight TB ... (WO? ..Buy Christmas Seals.. Decatur Stores Open Evenings for Christmas Shoppers