Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 18 January 1956 — Page 1

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WEARING A SMILE which shortly disappeared, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles strides down the auditorium aisle at the State Department to face the best attended press conference of his career. Dulles, before he called a halt to questions on his controversial Life Magazine article, said the piece gave him too much credit for avoiding war, over-simplified and over emphasized some hot issues, and told nothin# new.

State Auditor Rardin To Tell Bribery Story Rardin Scheduled As Witness Before Jury Nest Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —State auditor Curtis Rardin will tell his version of the toll road bribe to the Marion county grand jury next Tuesday morning. After an hour-long conference with Marion county prosecutor Johtj Tinder today, David M. Lewis, former Democratic prosecutor for Marion county, said he will, advise his client to testify; — ■ Lewis pointed out that ’he never said Rardin would not testify but simply that he would not appear last Monday. Rardin is scheduled to go before the jury next Tuesday at 9:30 a. m„ CST. At that time, he will tell his ' side of the story concerning his meeting with state toll road commission chairman Albert Wedeking in Wedeklng’S hotel room last April 18. Wedeking previously told the grand jury that Rardin asked for mopey for the deciding state finance committee vote to transfer state highway funds to the toll road body. Rardin:- publicly has said that much is true hut has maintained he suggested the bribe in a futile effort to trap Wedeking and expose the toll road. Tinder still would like to hear from William Sayer, a former ad ministrati ve. assistant to Gov. George N. Craig. Sayer now is a resident Os Sebring, Fla., but Tin der said he believes he could subpoena him if it came to that. Grand Jurors got a look at the financial picture of the toll road and learned that 1358,000 was approved for use by the toll road under Gov. Henry F. Schricker. Os this amount, $325,000 was used to survey the east-west road and that account was closed with the repayment following the sale of bonds for the northern road. Still outstapding is an allocation of $250,000 made under Craig In Feb. 2. 1954, while Frank MUlis was still state. and > member of the state finance board, and $475,000 total allocated Dec. 21, 1954. May 9. 1955, and July 18, 1955, after Rardin took office. • , Toll road spokesmen said most of this money has beeq spent for surveys on reports for a northsouth toll road. — Asks Special Session INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — State Sen. Warren W. Martin today urged Gov. George N. Craig to call a special session of the state legislature to probe the toll road commission “from its inception to date." The 1955 Democratic minority leader said the legislative advisory commission was right in believing free roads were important hnt he added that the question of the moment concerns 101 l roads. Martin said he supposed the Indiana toll road commissio# had informed the legislative advisory commission all about the alleged bribe attempts. He said a general assembly investigation would give the press a chance to give the people the entire story. Said Martin: 'The present political skirmish among Republicans in Indiana is casting an immoral complexion upon the government of Indiana (Continued on Page Five)

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Farm Group Opposes Ike's Farm Program Seek 100 Per Cent Os Parity Support WASHINGTON (INS)—The National Farmers Union today denounced President Eisenhower’s program tor lifting farm income and asked instead 1 Oil per cent of parity price supports for all agricultural commodities. James G. Patton, president of the organization, said that as far as helping-'Tarmers’ income, phase one of the President’s soil bank plan was “nothing more than a wheelspinning exercise in futility.” In testimony prepared for delivery before the Senate Agriculture committee, Patton asked defeat of this provision. It is the program which would cut back production of wheat, corn and other surplus crops this year. Payment would be in cash or in> kind from surplus stocks. Patton charged that the surplus would be dumped on the market at bargain basement prices and on 1 '- further depress farm income. The Farmers Union asked expansion of the conservation phase of the administration’s soil bank plan, which Patton said was only onethird the size needed to help raise income. Patton declared that the “only solution" to low farm Income is to repeal flexible price supports and substitute “mandatory” 100 per cent of parity prices for all commodities produced on the “family farm." Parity is the ratio between prices farmers receive and the cost of what they buy. Meanwhile, Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D N. Mex.), charged that the soil bank will fail if Congress makes it voluntary, as Mr. Eisen hower proposes. Anderson, Agriculture Secretary in the Truman Administration, tol< newsmen that around 1936 the country tried to get a voluntary reduction of farm production 'a'nd it didn’t work very wel.” He said that “only as we have light controls of production and re duce surplus will we do farmers any good.” He said he would tie soil bank participation to price support eligibility. But Sen. Humphrey (D Minn.), said he favors making the soil bank voluntary. Humphrey told newsmen he believes the committee will approve a rigid 90 per cent price support pro vision, which the administration opposes. Opponents said this may result in a veto of the farm bill. Humphrey charged that the ad ministration’s farm bill “ignores” the major areas of farm price decline. which he listed as hogs, beef cattle, and dairy products. He sai it is'“going to take more than a few political aspirins”' to raise farm prices. Warren H. Trimm Dies Tuesday Night Warren H. Trimm, 42, of Fort Wayne, died suddenly last night. He was a veteran of World War 11. Survivors include his wife, the former Martha Summers of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs- Dwight Gallimore of Pretty Lake and MrsRobert Clark of Columbus, O.; a step-daughter, Beverly Foulk of Fort Wayne; three sisters, Mrs. Martin ZeZulla of Warren, Mrs. Lucile Smitley of Fort Wayne ana Mrs. Charles Ladig of NeW Haven, and three brothers, Virgil.‘Joseph and Bernard, all of Port Wayne. Funeral service will be held at 1:80 p. m Friday at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort Wayne, with burial in the Decatur cemetery between 2:30 and 3 p. tn. . ..... VX.-

Dulles Gives New Warning To Red China Reminder Given By Dulles During News Query On Tuesday WASHINGTON (INS) —A new “massive reminder” -to red China to keep hadds off the Nationalist islands of Quemoy and Matsu is a direct result of’ the week-long “brink of war” foreign policy controversy. / . ... ...: Secretary of state John Foster Dulles gave the reminder Tuesday in answering barbed questions at his news conference. letter, one U- S. official said he thought it was a good thing to remind Communist China “now and then” that they are likely to be met by American ships, guns and planes if they attempt to use Quemoy and Matsu as stepping-stones toward Formosa. The official said that “sometimes it seems the Chinese tend to forget the warnings that have been given in he past, so it doesn’t hurt now and then to give them a sort of massive reminder." Dulles issued the new warning to the Peiping regime in answering questions about a Life magazine article stating that he never had any doubt that If red China attacks the off-shore islands Presiden Eisenhower would order JB. S. forces to help contain them. The secretary refused to confirm that statement, but he did say that be believes the Chinese think that “if an attack is started there, which comprehends a claim to take by force Formosa and .the Penghus, that we will fight." Democrats continued their attacks on the Dulles program In SL Paul, Minn., Adlai Stveenson, campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, declared President Eisenhower should either repudiate the “brink of war” statement or fire the secretary. \ House speaker Sam Rayburn, in a talk at Baltimore, renewed his attack on Dulles and called the secretary’s statements in the magazine "a pitiful performance,” which will rob the U- S. of friends abroad. , A . Sen- Hubert Humphrey (D Minn.) said in a Senate speech that the President must now assure the world again that “our design is not dangling on the precipice of peace by threat of some retaliatory war.” Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson questioned use of the words, “brink of war” in the magazine article on Dulles. Wilson told his news conference Tuesday: “If you take r what most, people mean by ‘brink,’ I never thought we were that close ” But Wilson added that he thought Dulles’ “fine statement” at his news conference should “clear up the matter.” Talk Compromise On Foreign Aid Plans Senate Democrats Talk Compromise WASHINGTON (INS) —. Senate Democrats began talking compromise today on the administration’s controversial request for authority to combat Russia’s economic offensive with long-term foreign aid projects. Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D Minn.) a senate foreign relations committeeman, said he would favor anexpresslon of support for longrange aid but with the understanding that projects would be handled separately "like U.S. public power projects.” “I’d hope for a compromise,” he said in an interview. „ Vice President Richard M. Nixon backed up the administration’s bid tor foreign economic aid to match Russia’s activities in this field wa warning that the Soviet program is "potentially just as dangerous and in some ways more dangerous* than a military attack. He said in a Philadelphia speech: “If we want to our freedom ognize this threat and deal with it and our independence we must recimaginatively, boldly and effectively" Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Mont.), indicating that there is a rough road ahead for the long-range request. said he has “grave doubts that an, all-inclusive, ten-year program will be approved.” Under secretary of etate Herbert Hoover, Jr. urged the foreign relations committee Tuesday to authorize long-term commitments of up to ten years for such projects (Con tin use oa r*r» ZMgnt)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, January 18,1956.

Two Dead, 21 Missing And Presumed Dead In Oil Tanker Explosion

New Violence In Bombay In Nehru Protest Change In Political Status Protested By Bombay's Citizens (INS) — Four more persons were killed today and at’ least 38 others injured as police clashed for the third straight day with demonstrators protesting the new political status of Bombay. Police said 38 persons were w known to have suffered bullet wounds in today’s wild melees but it was estimated that up to 100 more were injured by gunfire or police clubs. Many of the mob hurled rocks at the charging police. Some 400 rioters were held by authorities. The death toll since Monday had reached nine by evening. The demonstrators were protesting the New Delhi, government’s decision to administer Bombay directly from the capital The police opened firq on three separate mobs today. Two of today’s casualties were in Poibwadii the industrial section in the north of this giant west coast port. Poib'.vadi. where there is a heavy concentration of mills, was placed under immediate curfew until 6 a. m. Thursday. A dusk-to-dawn curtailment of the public's freedom was imposed for the next four night in wide areas of central and northern Bombay. The city’s police commissioner banned the assembly of more than four persons during the next four days. The general strike called by leftist labor leaders paralyzed the harbor today. Twenty thousand dock workers stayed off their jobs, tying up 53 ships. Most factories and businesses in northern and central Bombay were hit hard by the work stop(Qontmuea on P*«« Slgnt) State Traffic Toll Above Previous Year INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A state police report today showed 50 highway deaths through Sunday midnight compared to 29 deaths for the same period in 1955. Supt. Frank Jessup said enforcement by state troopers is at an all-time high and about the only wgy to cut fatalities now is-for drivers and walkers to take more interest in life. Bids Received For Auto License Plate All Proceeds To Go To March Os Dimes Bids are being for automobile license number JA1956 and will remain open until January 26 at 11 p.m. when the highest bidder will be announced at the annual March of Dimes dance to be held at the Youth and Community CenteE All proceeds from the sale of the license plate will go to the polio fund, it was announced. It was- pointed out that the successful bidder would be required to pay the annual state fee, -whatever the amount is on his automobile. in addition to the bid. Bids will be received at the Decatur auto license bureau by Mrs. Dale Death, branch manager. High bidder each day will be posted in the window of the license bureau and at the Daily Democrat. All automobile owners are eligible to bid on the plate and all of the bid will be placed in the Adams county polio fund. Those in-charge bad originally planned to sell the 1956 plate at the annual dance, but tbe new system was devised so that all persons would be eligible to bid, with-out-.attending the dance.

Petitions Are Filed To Abate Nuisances Petitions Are Filed With City Council Two petitions requesting the abatement of nuisances in the city of Decatur were filed with the city council at the regular meeting of the council Tuesday night at city hall. One petition requested abatement of a nuisance in the lot at (the corner of 12th and Jaqjtson streets at the rear of Hammond fruit market. Part of the nuisance is in the form of a 500 gallon tank of gasoline buried in the lot by the Sinclair OH company. The presence of this tank is in violation of-city ordinance as well as state law. The neighbors who signed the petition also wish the removal of trash which clutters the lot. The matter was referred to the city plan commission in conjunction -with the fire chief. It is understood that the company plans to file a petition for a zoning variance to permit them to keep the tank in the lot. Another petition concerning the dumping of garbage in a lot in the south part of the city. Neighbors who signed the petition stated that it constitutes a menace to health and reduces the value of surrounding real estate. .They also complained that the area is infested with rats, flies and stray dogs. They requested that tl» city arrange to dump garbage in another locality farther away from the homes of residents. The matter was made a matter of record and will receive further attention wben_the garbage contract is let at the end of the month. In other business Tuesday night the council accepted the certification of the appointment of Robert D. Cole, Ralph Roop (Continued on Page Five) Red-Owned Schools Given Federal Fund Four Schools Named By Senate Probers WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate investigates today named a New York art school and an Allentown, Pa., trade school among four Com-munist-owned or dominated institutions getting federal funds for veterans' tuition. The Cartoonists and Illustrators School. Ine.. of New York, and the Radio and Television Technical school, of Allentown, were identified at a public hearing by the senate investigations subcommittee as still getting government money. The Robert “Louis. Stevenson School, of New Y'ork, and- the California School, of San Francisco were named as having gotten payments from the veterans administration in the past. John J. Huber, employed in the promotion department of the New York Journal-American, testified that Dr. Annette Rubinstein, former owner of the Stevenson school, had been a Communist. Huber said he learned this while an undercover Red for the FBI from 1939 to 1947. Huber testified after Paul J. Tierney, a subcommittee staff investigator, named the four schools as .thpse in which the group headedby Sen John L. McClellan (DArk.) is "primarily” concerned. In a statement opening the hearings. McClellan said the inquiry involved “four schools approved to train World War II and Korean war veterans which reportedly are or have been owned by Communists." , He said: “It appears that .these schools alone have received over three million dollars from the United States government for veterans tuition since 1945.” Tierney testified that the Cartoonists and Illustrators school had gottsn $1,176,T12 from the VA since 1947 to train veterans under the “GI bill of rights.”

Long Winner By Landslide In Louisiana Earl Long Wins By Landslide Tuesday In Primary Voting NEW ORLEANS (INsA-Sixty-year-old Earl K. Long has barnstormed his way again Into the Louisiana governor's mansion that his brother Huey built. Long won a landslide victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary which, in Louisiana, is tantamount to election. He defeated his closest opponent, 43-year-old Mayor Delesseps S. Morrison of New Orleans, by a margin of 3 to 1. Long, younger brother of the late Huey P. “Kingfish’’ Long, took ah early lead and never lost it, although it seemed at first that Morrison would face him in a runoff. Long will succeed Robert Kenno, pro-Eisenhower governor who could not succeed himself. Kennon's candidate. Fred T. Preaus, came in third. The latest returns showed Long with 326,429 votes with 1,648 out of the state's 2.038 precincts reporting. The vote tor Morrison was 156.942. A runoff in the primary was avoided when Long got more than one half of the total votes CMt. He had four opponents. It was the first time a governor has been elected in a Louisiana primary without a runoff election since 193 6when Gov. O. K- Allen got the post the same way. Election observers said the total vote will be more than 800,096, a record for a Louisiana primary. The record was established when some 550,000 negroes, twice a many as had ever gone to the polls since the reconstruction period following the Civil War, cast their ballots. . - < , Long first served as governor in 1939 when he stepped up to the executive mansion, “the house that Huey built.” from his position as lieutenant governor. He took over as chief executive when the then governor, Richard W. Leche, resigned after being charged with mall fraud Louisiana scandals. He served until May, 1940. when he was defeated in an election. He ran again in 1948 and won, com(Continued on Page Five) Francis W. Howell Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Francis W. Howell, 54, of 921 West Monroe street, lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 8:15 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for three years with a heart ailment and his condition had been critical for the past five weeks. Born in Adams county Aug. 13, 1901, he was a son of Charles and Bertha Elzey-Howell, and was fiiarried to Helen Whltwright Feb. 26, 1926. Mr. Howell was a member of the First Methodist church and Hte~ Masonic outd-EJki He. was employed as a toolmaker at the Fort Wayne General Electric plant. Surviving are his wife; his mother, who resides in Marion; one son, William Howell of Decatur, and four grandchildren. One sister is deceased. Funeral 1 services will he conducted at ’ z >. m. Friday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Masonic rites will be held at the funeral hoffie at 8 ,p. m. Thursday. Friends may call at the, funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening until time of the services.

Airliner Is Landed By Use Os Compass Radio And Lights Failed At Takeoff NEW YORK (INS) —A twin-en-gined airliner, whose radio and lights railed shortly after takeoff, landed at Laguardia field Tuesday night after a nightmarish threehour, 10-niiuute flight from Boston. The plane carried 24 persons, including a 22-nfonth-old baby girl. The Northeast Airlines plane, normally scheduled to make the run in 55 minutes, lost its communications when its electrical system went out shortly after takeoff4n ■* blinding snowstormThe pilot, Capt. Robert Francis of Scituate, Mass-, ruled- out a return to Logan International Airport after the mishap because of the enowstorm. Flying only on magnetic compass Francis during the next three hours made repeated dives through fog and snow which blanketed southern New England in an effort to fix his ship's location. He finally learned he was out over the Atlantic ocean and later on another dive spotted Montauk Point on the eastern end of Long Island. Meanwhile,, his passengers, instructed by stewardess Barbara Crowley of Belmont, Mass,,, on the use of the planefs escape hatch, sat terror-stricken in the darkAt one point, somewhere over the ocean with the plane's fuel supply dwindling, Miss Crowley fixed the bean of her flashlight on a piece of paper, while a sales manager scrawled a goodbye note to his young wife. Six military aircraft, equipped with radar, were seeking the plane, but the three-man crew, attempting to handle the craft in a pitchblack cockpit were unaware of the (Continued on Page Five) Link Brink's Gang To Danvers Looting Federal Grand Jury Meeting In Boston BOSTON (INS)—Federal grand Jurors gathered Jn Boston today amid reports the FBI ts ready to act against alleged suspects in the $681,000 looting of an /rmored car in Danvers in 1952 as a result of information obtained from Joseph “Specs” O’Keefe. 7_U. S. attorney Anthony Julian announced he planned to present cnly routine business to the grand jury. It was noted, however, that a special panel of jurors, assisted exclusively to hearing evidence in the Danvers armored car looting, largest such cash haul in history, was awaiting a call to reconveiie. A call to this panel to reconvene would appear to be an fndication the government is ready to act in the Danvers — on the heels of the roundup last week by the FBI of six suspects in the $1,218,211 Brink’s robbery. The roundup reportedly was staged as a result of information obtained from O'Keefe and led to the indictment by Suffolk county authorities of the six, plus O’Keefe and four otherff, two of whom are missing and another dead. O’Keefe was reported to have told FBI he knows who staged the raid on the armored car in Dan'vere According to Ote’—re? ports, he told authorities he did not participate in the looting of , the car but said he had a good idea who did and that he was ready to talk. O'Keefe reportedly was friendly with George D. O’Brien of Woolaston, who was found shot to death in Franklin Park two months after being acquitted by a federal court jury of any complicity in the Danvers armored cm i»tmr. 7 —; ~ — - - FBI officials declined comment cn reports of a definite link, supplied by O’Keefe, between the Danvers and Brink’s jobs. .

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Tanker Is Set Afire By Blast In Louisiana Nine Others Hurt In Explosion, Fire Aboard Oil Tanker LAKE CHARLES, La. (INS) — Two men were known dead, nine were injured and 21 others missing and presumed dead in an explosion of a Cities Service Oil Co. tanker. The tanker, the S- S. Salem Maritime, was fully loaded with 150,000 barrels of gasoline, kerosene and fuel oil when it was set afire by the blast Tuesday night at the Cities Service Calcasieu River refinery dock six miles from Lake Charles, LaBits of burning debris set afire to three large barges that were docked nearby. They, in turn, also exploded. No reports of casualties were reported from the later explosions. Sgt. E C- Hill of the Louisiana state police said 21 men of the 41man tanker crew were not accounted for and presumed dead. He added that nine crwemen were in Lake Charles on shore leave at the time of the explosion. , Flames lit up the night sky for jniles anft hundreds of persons rushed to the scene where firemen battled against losing odds to save theb urning vessel. The intense heat kept searchers from boarding the still-smouldering tanker hours after the flames were brought under controlThe tanker was to have sailed this morning for Norfolk, VaA story of how three men miraculously escaped death in the vessel Enfolded as details of the disaster began to be known. The men-Fred Gentry, George Emely and Frank Tote— were trap- v pd in the hold of the ship for four and one-half hours. They remained there until the flames died dcjwn. then went to a port hole and yelled for help. A tug pulled up alongside and „ the men dashed up to the burning deck and leaped upon the waiting vessel. They were carried to shore and given first aid, but none was injured seriouslyThe three survivors told rescue to board the stillburning tanker that they -believe they were he only ones to escape alive form the vesselOne of the survivors picked up earlier when he was blown by the explosion .from the fan tail of the tanker into the water was identified as John Klepadlo. He was saved by a tug and taken to a hospital where he told authorities: "I was standing on, the tan tail with two other men. I don’t remember what happened after that.” - Tiiga hogan dragging th* Calcasieu River for bodies this morning. At least four men were believed to have jumped from the ship along with two others who (Continued on Page Five) Brother Os Decatur Man Dies Suddenly Frank Niblick. 81, former Adams county resident, died Tuesday at Fort Wayne a few hours after suffering a heart attack. Surviving are a son, Edwin, address unknown: three brothers, John Niblljfk of Celina, O. Jesse E. Niblick ,of-Decatur and. Fred Niblick of Muskegon, Mich., and a sister, Mrs. Minerva Lane of Sanford, N.C. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Elzey & '. Son funeral home in Ossian, with burial in Oak Lawn cemetery at, Ossian. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, scattered light snows Thursday and west portion tonight. A little anow, — sleet or freezing rain extreme south portion tonight and early Thursday. Little change In temperature. Low tonight 20-27. High Thursday 28-35.