Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIU. No. 306.

SPARTAN ROOTERS HIT ROSE TOWN i p! •' jjLn .31 W r i /Wrw Hr W W®* (■ '?*■' H ' '’/ ▼ ? ■■’W- ■■'■ ®>...- - 3| * »7Jbv -'W JL JiSl jfhKfli MICHIGAN STATE rooters, 2,000-strong in the first contingent, pour from four special trains into Los Angeles Union Station. Three additional trains, bearing students, faculty and alumni bound for the Rose Bowl meeting between the Spartans and UCLA, are enroute.

Ike Finishing Up State Os Union Message Message Scheduled For Reading Before Congress January 5 KEY WEST, Fla. (INS) — President Eisenhower began putting the final polish today on the state of the union message outlining his election-year legislative program. He went to work at his Key West vacation headquarters with his chief speech writer, Kevin McCann, who arrived from Washington with the latest draft of the message scheduled to go to Congress Jan. 5. The President’s brother. Dr. Milton Eisenhower, also sat in on the conference in the Chief Executive’s office in the administration building of the Key West naval base. Milton is president of Pennsylvania State university and an expert on farm problems, one of the thorniest issues to be dealt with in the state of the union message. The President was decked out in the sportiest attire he has worn since his arrival in Key West as he walked the two blocks from his quarters to his office trailed by a score of newsmen. ■ He wore a light tan, nubby weave sport coat, yellow and grey plaid sport shirt, brown figured necktie, tan slacks and crepe-soled shoes. The conference on the message to Congress began at 9:30 am. (EST) and was expected to last most of the morning. Meanwhile, the President gives promise of joining the ranks of such celebrated White House walk ers as Calvin Coolidge and Harry Truman. For the second day in a row Thursday Mr. Eisenhower fepent an hour strolling around the Key \yest Naval base, where he Is spending a work-and-play vacation in the Florida sun. His pace wasn’t as brisk as Mr. Truman's and his interested comments on everything he saw along the way probably would have been annoying to “Silent Cal” Coolidge, who window-shopped - Washington stores in wordless solemnity. But it was obvious he was thoroughly enjoying himself as he looked over “Truman Beach,” examined a V.I.P/S fishing launch and ogled a huge crane loading fire hose aboard a dock-side ship. Admiring the trim fishing boat tied up next to a next of submarines, the President declared half wistfully: “That would be my idea of life in the navy—-to take care of a boat like that.” Today - Mr. . Eisenhower planned his first serious session of work since his arrival in Key West Wednesday. With his chief speech-writer, Kevin McCann, he was to put the finishing touches on the state of the union message outlining his 1956 legislative program. . i The President was in high spirits as he finished his walk Thursday with a short-cut across the Admiral's backyard. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and colder tonight with chance of a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Saturday fair, somewhat warmer northwest portion In afternoon. Low tonight 6-16. High Saturday 25-32.

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Arkansas Seeking Kill Crazy Maniac Find Body Os Third Victim Os Murderer LITTLE (ROCK, Ark.’(lNS) — A “kill crazy maniac" was sought in central Arkansas today following the discovery of a third murder victim within walking distance of U. S. highway 67. Clark county sheriff Buren HardiA. who joined in the huge man hunt, said three slayings have been committed in the past three days and they “may have been done by some kill crazy nut traveling down the road." The body of the latest victim, an unidentified woman, was found Thursday in a ditch along highway 67 in Clark county, ndar Gudon, Ark. She had been shot through the head. An examination ie being conducted to determine if she had been sexually attacked. Tuesday, a search party discovr ered the body of 14-yeas-old Joe King, who had been missing from his Jacksonville. Ark., home since last Friday. He had been strangled, apparently by a person with strong hands. His body was found by a search party near a country road just west of highway 67. Wednesday, two rabbit hunters discovered the body of an unidentified man, about 50, just 200 yards off the highway, some 12 miles south of Little Rock. Coroner Howard Dishongh of Pulaski county who examined both the body of the boy and Unidentified man, said the latter victim had been beaten savagely and then strangled with a. leather belt. A retired railroader was found “beaten to death in a ditch off the highway three weeks ago. He w’as F. B. Jobe, of Blue Island, 111. apparently slain by blows from a hammer which was found covered with blood nearby. Police are hunting a scar-faced hitchhiker who had been seen riding with Jobe in his auto. The killer apparently Escaped in the victim’s car which still is missing. Jet Pilot Averts Possible Tragedy Pilot Is Rescued In Ice-Jammed Bay MERRICK, N. Y. (INS) —An air force pilot, fearful of making a forced landing on densely populated Long Island, guided his jet plane out to sea Thursday night and then bailed out oyer ice-jammed Merrick Bay. 1 — Lt. Richard L. Edwards was pulled from the water an hour later and asked “did the plane go out to sea? Was anyone hurt?” He was told his unselfish act apparently' had caused the jet to crash into the "sea somewhere off the south shore of Long Island. Edwards had flown the F-86D from Ohio enroute to Stewart air. force base at Newburgh, N. Y., and was told to try'to land on Long Island because Newburgh had "closed In." A short time later, hfe "thdioed LaGuardia field that the plane was out of fuel and he Would have to abandon ship. Edwards headed the plane out to sea and when the land lights winked out he parachuted. A few minutes afterwards, Richard Green of Merrick was told by his mother-in-law. Mrs. Ruth Fiedler, that she heard “someone (Continued on Page Six)

Reveal Slave Labor One Os Russian Aims Yalta Papers Show German Slave Labor Sought By Russians WASHINGTON (INS> — Publication of the final Yalta Papers showed today that Soviet Russia included use of German slave labor as one of its war aims as early as January, 1945. . The release of 40 previously secret notes and messages added to evidence that U. S. officials were growing fearful of Soviet motives even while the nations were fighting a common enemy. One document disclosed that Gov. Averell Harriman, of New \ork, then ambassador to Moscow, wrote the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt on January £l, 1945, that the Russians were talking of taking two or three million into their country as forced labor for a period of ten years. The ambassador wrote that he was told by assistant foreign minister I. M. Maiski that the slave labor would be considered reparations. Further suspicions of Soviet objectives were sharply expressed in April, 1945—a months before the end ot the war against Germany —when Harriman wrote: “Aside from the major questions which »are causing concern in our relations with the Soviet Union there has been an accumulation of minor incidents which rtarted some six weeks ago.” ■ He 'cited failure to make any progress in getting Soviet approval for U. .S. air teams to visit Russian-controlled territory for appraisal of bomb damage or for an American naval team to visit the Baltic port of Gdynia. £larriman added significantly: “Both proposals were agreed to at Yalta.” The state department, in releasing the documents supplementing the two volumes of Yalta papers released last March, said they were located by “scraping she barrel” of the Hyde Park collection of the late president and by a final search of various departments in Washington. Other highlights of the supplementary documents: 1. China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek attempted without success to arrange a 1945 meeting with Roosevelt and Churchill ip India to build up morale in his country. 2. Prime minister Tomasz Arziszewski of the Polish government in exile, sent a fervent plea to Roosevelt to protect Poland from Communist seizure. Written while the Yalta conference was underway, and while Russian troops had taken over Poland, the prime minister warned that “if peace in Europe it to be durable, it must be based on principles of justice, on respect of law, on good neighborly relations as well as honesty in international life.” (Oonunued on rage Six) Tyndall's Condition Reported Unchanged The condition of John W. Tyndall. well known Decatur citizen who has been confined to his home the last two weeks, is reported today as unchanged. Mr. Tyndall is able to sit up for a each day. but his condition is still regarded as serious. — 8 _ Local Union Again Rejects G. E. Offer Employes Vote To Reject Contract Employes of the General Electric plant in‘ Decatur who are members of the United Electrical Workers union Local 924 voted Thursday to go along with national union officials in rejecting the proposed GE. five year contract. The voting was on a local basis and was conducted in membership meetings -Thursday afternoon and evening. Henry Stauffer, president of Loca) 924, stated today that about two-thirds of the?' votes ckst favored rejection of the company proposal. The f contract has also been rejected by national U.E., which is the bargaining agent for several General Electric plants. Other unions including I.U.E. (C. 1.0. have accepted the G.E. proposal which has been in effect for them since eairly fall. Thursday’s vote here is a repeat of an earlier decision to join with the national utiirtn in refusing the proposed contract.

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• Decatur, Indiana, Friday, December 30, 1955.

U. S. Endorses Pope’s Christmas Appeal For Nuclear Disarmament

Three Dionne Quints Home » ■ For Holiday Fourth Surviving Quint Not Well Enough For Trip • CALLANDER. Ont; (INS) —. Yvonne, Cecile and Annette Dionne came home today to spend, the' New Year’s holiday with theirs “heartsick” mother and their fath? er who said they were "drawing away" from the family. According to one member of the big Dionne family, the three quints did not tell their parents that they were arriving today. •Maurice Girouard, the girls' brotheNfai-law. saißfl the family learned of tfheit plans by bearing a radio report. The three girls left the other surviving quint — Marie — at their apartment in Montreal. Marie reportedly did not feel strong enough to make the. long trip. The car carrying the quints first reached the gate of the Dionne. property at 5:15 a. m. EST, but it, roared past when they spotted the eight newsmen and photographers huddled at the roadside in the chill, gray dawn. The car went up the road severer hundred yards to a public telephone booth where a hurried call was made to the house, asking someone to come down and open the gate. Girouard, husband of the Quints' older- sister Rose, walked down the driveway between four - foot high banks of snow and opened the gate. The car carrying the girls sped through and reporters could notice only that the quints were wearing fur coats. Girouard told newsmen that Mrs. Diotine was too well. He said she was “heartsick" awaiting some word from her famous daughters. >. (Girouard also said the family learned the three quints were coming home for New Year's — a big family holiday in French Canada — only through a radio news Father Oliva Dionne said earlier this week that none of the four (Continued On Page Five) Scout Honor Court Held By Rotarians Honor Court Held At Dinner Meeting Decatur Rotarians honored members of. Boy Scout troop 61, sponsored by the service club, at a court of honoroheld Thursday evening’aLihe weekly dinner meeting of the Rotarians at the Youth Community Center. Dr. R. E. Allison presided at the court of honor. Tendertoot badges were presented by W. Guv Brown to Rudy Kleinknight. Ronald Kleinknight, Larry Andrews. Mike Drake and Danny Drake. Second class badges were presented by Watson Maddox, assistant commissioner, to Steve Carlson and Mike Beery. First class, badges -were presented by Bill Phillips, executive for the Anthony Wayne area, to Leroy Ratliff and Denny Mertz. A merit badge in woodworking was also presented to Ratliff. Gene RydelL district Boy Scout chairman, presented the Star Scout badges to Nick Conrad and Jack Dailey. Conrad was also presented with merit badges in fingerprinting, marksmanship, lifesaving, art and dog care. Merit badges in coin collecting, citizenship in the home, stamp collecting, bugling and swimming, were presented to Dailey. Maddox also presented the charter for troop "61 to M. J. Pryor, club president, and various awards for troop excellence, to Kenneth Shannon. Scoutmaster tor the troop alnd also a member of the Rotary club.

Contracts Awarded rFdr Adams Central » Bultemeier Is Low On General Conrtact Bultemeier Construction Co., I Decatur, was awarded the general r construction bid, less plumbing, heating, ventilating and electrical. I for the new unit at Adams county | Central consolidated school at | Monroe on a bid of $148,830, it was I announced today. The totrf’ bid ■ Was reduced by $4,000 by removal ’ of construction of a parking area (Ijetyind the new unit. ffaugk Plumbing and Heating of Decatur was low bidder on the i plumbing, heating and ventilating, with a combined bid of $29,292. McKay Electric Co., Fort Wayne, ‘ was low bidder on the electrical installation with a price of $13,744. The total cost of the new project will amount to about $190,000. Construction will start as soon as weather permits, the successful bidders announced. Other bids on the building included, Yost Construction Co., Decatur, $194,816 and this bid' included the building complete and ready for occupancy; Ashley-Hawk builders. Fort Wayne, less plumbing, ; heating and electrical, $161,486; iW. A. Sheets and Sons, Fort Wayne, less plumbing, heating and electrical, $178,900. A Hattersley and Sons, Fort Wayne, bid SB,BOO on the plumbing. $20,894 oh the Seating an« ♦16,722 on the electrical work. This concern also submitted a combined bid of $44,277. Custer and Smith, Decatur lawfirm, handled the legal procedure pertaining to the receiving and ac* cepting of bids and that firm today completed the signing of contracts with the successful bidders. Westinghouse Strike Is Now In 75th Day Five Strikers Are . Taken In Custody PITTSBURGH (INS) — Picketing incidents at four plants and firings of six employes highlighted developments today in the 75-day-old Westinghouse, Electric Corp, strike. Five strikers were taken into custody- at Sharon, where Pennsylvania state police commissioner Earl Henry said Thursday that regular patrols of troopers were not currently justified. Local police declined to identify those arrested —all nfembers of the International Union of Electrical Workers — pending the filing of formal charges. All five allegedly were: involved in incidents when other employes tried to return to their jobs at the company's huge transformer division. ® Other incidents were reported at Lima,' 0., where two more • IUE strikers were arrested, and at Winchester, Ind., where a thrown rock cut the lip of company attorney Joseph Armstrong, of Pittsburgh. At Columbus. 0., bottles of “oil were tossed into the homes of two employes who had joined a ■ socalled back-to-work movement, Westinghouse announced that it at Sharon and at Greenville — was firing six striking employes another plant in Pennsylvania's Mercer county. The company claimed that the firings were due to picket line incidents. One of the discharged men was identified as ’a Greenville Westinghouse em-. ploye of 26 years standing. Bargaining talks between the company and the CIO-IUE—-whose 44,000 Westinghouse members struck on Oct. 17—recessed again Thursday with no progress report. (Oontinuea Un Page Five)- ■ NO PAPER MONDAY The Decatur Daily Democrat will follow its usual custom of not publishing an edition Monday, Jan. 2,' which I* the legal holiday for New Years day. Most of the city’s retail store* will close at 5:30 p. m. Saturday, New Years Eve, and will also be closed all day Monday.

Estimate 420 Traffic Toll Over Holiday Many States Move To Redute Traffic Toll Over Holiday CHICAGO .(INS)—The national ; safety council estimated today 1 that the traffic accident death toll for 1955 will be 38,500 and warned that 420 will perish on highways during the New Year’s weekend. The 38.500 death toll' is about seven percent and 2,500 lives greater than the 1954 traffic death toll of 36,000 and is the highest since 1941 —the yea(- that the alltime record of 39,969 was established. In the history of automobile travel, only four years have i brought more than 38,000 deaths' — in 1936, 1937, 1941 and now, I 1955. The council’s 1955 estimate is I based on actual reports for 11 ; mouths, with a death toll of 34,690 [ for that period, an increase of i seven percent from 1 the same 11-< I month span in 1954. Last November traffic deaths I increased 10. percent. It was the I ninth consecutive month in 1955 to show an increase over the corresponding month last year. The November death total of 3,680 was (he highest for that month since 1941. Officials in many states have .mobilized law enforcement agencies for stringent enforcement of traffic laws to cut down the estimated toll of 420, which ( would be a record for New Year holidays. The holiday death count begins at 6 o’clock tonight and ends at midnight Monday. Arizona, which called out the national guard during the Christman weekend, again will use the troops to cut down the bloody tpll on the highway at the turn of the New Year. Several other states, including Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin; are following identical patterns of safety enforcement with national guard MP’s. Among the main reasons for the all-time 1955 Christmas holiday toll of 609, which also was a record for any national holiday, were office parties and the “hurry to get home.” But still another important factor, many authorities believe, is the inadequate American road system, now in - the pro< 1 f > ss of being improved. Ben Shirk Dies At Home In Fort Wayne Native Os County Is Taken By Death Funeral services will "be*"“held Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at Klaehn funeral home, Fort Wayne, for Ben F. Shirk, 65, former Adams county resident, who died Thursday night at his home in Fort Wayne following a stroke. Mr. Shirk spent his early days in Adams county and moved from Monroe to Fort Wayne many years ago. Surviving are his wife, Blanche; a daughter, Mrs. Ralph Bogardus. Fort Wayne; four brothers, Robert and John, West Palm Beach, Florida; Carl and Lynn, Fort Wayne, and one grandchild. Mr. ShiHc was a prominent Fort Wayne realtor and owned a business in Berne. He was a member of First Church of Christ Scientist. the Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite and Shrine and was a past president of the Fort Wayne real estate hoard and the Indiana real estate board. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Klaehn funeral home tonight and until tirry» for the funeral services Saturday,

Dies Thursday Bk B John B. Stoneburner j , — John B. Stoneburner Dies Thursday Night City's First Movie Proprietor Is Dead John B- Stouebufner, 85, retired farmer, owner of Decatur's first moving picture theater, and former Washington township trustee, died at 11:16 o’clock Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for the past four years. Mr. Stoneburner opened this city’s first motion picture theater in 1905, in fact one of the first such houses of entertainment in the country, and operated a theater here for a number of years. He served two terms as Washington township trustee, from 1943 to 1954. Born in Washington township March 20, 1870, he was a son of Israel and Catherine Weldy-Stone-burner. He was married to' Mary E. Barnett April 17, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. Stoneburner resided on a farm two miles west and one mile north of Monroe. Mr. Stoneburner was a member of the Monroe Methodist churcli, was a 50-year member of the Masonic lodge and a member of the Order of Eastern Star. His wife is the only near survivor. Ofne daughter, Mrs. Louva Waltz, died in 1942, and four sisters and four brothers also preceded him in death. The body was/removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening until 1 p. m. Sunday, after which it will lie in state at the Monroe' Methodist church. Funeral services wilp Be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at the church,-'the Rev. Ralph Johnson officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Governor Seeks To Run Ike In Primary Problem Studied By Election Board INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The Indiana election board today considered problems involved in Governor George N'.’ Craig’s attempt to run President Eisenhower in Indiana’s presidential preference primary May 8. The question is whether the President himself must approve such a course because there is some ambiguity in the statute. The law' also apparently says that the filing must/be done by March '2B. The governor at a surprise special news conference Thursday afternoop, said: “I still believe President Eisenhower will run and hope to have all 32' ot Indiana's delegates to the Republican national convention pledged to support his renomination." Republican state senator Roy (Continued On Page Five)

Government In Endorsement Os Appeal By Pope Christmas Appeal Os Pope Endorsed By United States WASHINGTON (INS)—The U.S. government today endorsed the Christmas appeal by Pope Pius Xll—for worldwide nuclear disarmament. A Voice of America broadcast gave the first official U.S. reaction to the Pontiff’s message calling for ending nuclear weapons experiments, renunciation of such weapons and general armaments controls. The broadcast said: “The achievement, of al Ithree in conjunction would be a great step towards real peace and real disarmament.” The broadcast was prepared by the U.S. information agency/and transmitted throughout the world, including areas behind the iron curtain. The broadcast also charged the Communists with “violating” and "distorting” the spirit and meaning of the Pope's appeal. It said the “communists who have always been the bitterest enemies of the Pope and the Roman Catholic church have attempted to pull parts of the Pope’s message out of context and to make propaganda capital out of this.” The VOA broadcast said the three steps called for by the Pantiff “are desirable goals no thoughtful and feelingful person could deny. "The achievement of all three in conjunction would be a great step towards real peace and real disarmament. “But just there is tne problem: To achieve these goals together. “Soviet leaders and communist spokesmen elsewhere have talked a great deal about verbal pledges in relating to the renunciation of nuclear weapons but unhappily they have not shown an equal interest in the measures of control and inspection which would give force and certainty to such verbal pledges/’ Suspend Business In City For Long New Year Holiday Most busineas»will be suspended in Decatur over the long holiday week-end as residents of the city celebrate the arrival of the new year. Most of the city’s retail stores will close at 5:30 o’clock Saturday, New Years Eve, and will remain closed until Tuesday morning. Many of the city’s churches will hold watch night services late Saturday/night, and clubs and lodges in* the city plan anmnd New Years Eve parties. Schools of the city and county, both public and parochial, win resume classes Tuesday morning after the 10-day Christmas holiday. Two Reappointed As Jury Commissioners Judge Myles Parrish Thursday appointed. Ed F. Berling, Democrat, and James G. Gattschall, Republican, as jury commissioners for the Adams circuit court during the year 1956. - Both are re-appointments. Gattschall has served during the past year and Berling’s appointment is his eighth under Judge Parrish. , The third member of the jury commissioners will be Richard D. Lewton, who takes office as Adams county clerk Sunday. The clerk serves as a commissioner by virtue of his office. The three men will receive Instructions duriijg a ceremony Saturday at 9:30 a-m the court room. Judfce Parrish Will give the instructions dnd will administer the oath of office.

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