Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 16, Decatur, Adams County, 20 January 1956 — Page 1

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IKE FACES FIRST FULL-SCALE PRESS CONFERENCE

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FACING HIS FIRST full-wale press conference since his illness. President Eisenhower addresses a jam-packed meeting in Washington. In the center, facing the reporters is White House press secretary James Hagerty and his assistant Murray Snyder.

GOP Will Hold Rallies Tonight In 53 Cities Eisenhower Marks Third Anniversary Os Inauguration WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower marked the third anniversary of his inauguration today as a man about to. be placed on the nation’s primary ballots—but still uncertain whether he wiH be a candidate for reelection. The GOP rallies around Mr. Eisenhower tonight in a giant series of “Salute to Ike” dinners embracing 62 cities and designed to raise between four and five million dollars — before expenses —for the party. The PretrtdetH will address thy. diners over a closed-circuit television hookup which will also feature speeches from 10 other cities. Party headers will closely watch the Chief Executive’s remarks for any additional clue tb his 1956 plans. Meanwhile, the President has made it clear to intimates that if he is a candidate for reelection he will again want Vice President Richard M. Nixon as his running mate. Mr. Eisenhower invited entry of his name into a number of presidential primaries by announcing that he would not object to being placed on the preferential ballot in New Hampshire, or in similar contests. If his action was intended to clarify the 1956 presidential situ ation and dis own intentions, it did not succeed with many cam paign leaders. Republicans whe thought Mr. Eisenhower would run, said their belief was streng thened. Those who had doubts found support for their fears in his language. - The Illinois ’popularity contest’ primary has an entering deadline of Jan. 23, next Monday, while’ Aslaska's deadline is Feb. 1. Sen ate GOP leader William F. Know land must decide by Monday whether to adopt the President’s own approach and acquiesce tc entry of his name by someom else, with all its risks, or repudi ate any such move in his behalf. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) senate GOP campaign chairman said the President’s action meant that “Republicans now will he bound” to enter him in other pri mary contests. The President emphasized in his telegram to New Hampshire’!-'' deputy secretary of state that “lack of Objection" to entry of his name in that primary “cannot be construed” as meaning he has reached a final decision on his candidacy. Some Republicans felt ft could be a “holding action” to preserve party control in case the President does not run. X BULLETIN LONDON (INS) —A royal, air force meteor Jet fighter crashed In flames today on the roof of p crowded store in the main street of Wadhurst, East Sussex. A large casualty toll was fearedSeveral stores and a hotel were eet afire by the oraen and an eye-wltnees. said "a lot of people were inside all the buildings when the plane crashed on the roof of the International Store"

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Artillery Duel Off Red China Mainland Red Gunners Pound Nationalist Quemoy TAIPEI (INS)—An artillery duel continued today just off the Com munlst China mainland after red gunners Thursday unleashed their heaviest pounding of nationalistheld Quemoy since September, 1954. More than 3,000 Communist shells exploded on Quemoy and its satellite islets Thursday. Chinese Nationalist military sources tn Taipei said, however, they did not believe the bombardment was a prelude to an attempted red invasion of the strategic outpost island. Nationalist batteries oh Quemoy. 120 miles across Formosa Strait from central Formosa island, began their counter-tire almost immediately after the Communists opened their furious barrage. The ■mftlei-y exchanges were resumed late Thursday night and continued sporadically today. A Nationalist military spokesman said that the communist artillery attack, despite its intensity, wasapparently “a harrassing. nuisance bombardment, not a preinvasion overture.” Friedt Funeral Is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held at the C. M Sloan & Sons funerab home in Fort Wayne this afternoon for Edward J- Friedt, brother of Jack Friedt of this city, who died Wednesday night. Burial was in the Scipio cemetery. - . John Martin Myers Is Taken By Death John Martin Myers, 78. retired farmer of near Convoy, O, died Thursday at the Adams county memorial hospital. Surviving are his wife, Jennie; two sons. Herbert Myers of near Ohio City and Clifford Myers of near Convoy; three brothers, Joseph, Albert and William, all of near Convoy, and a sister, Mrs. Anna Atchison bf Van Wert, O. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m Sunday at the H- D. Smith funeral home at Convoy, .the Rev. Albert Straley officiating.’ Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery at Convoy Chrysler Announces Additional Layoffs Reduced Production Is Announced Today DETROIT (INS) —- Chrysler Corp, today announced additional layoffs of 10.350 employes in Detroit and Evansville. Ind., because of reduced production. A company spokesman said 1.350 workers at-the Lynch Road i'asembly plant in Detroit and another 2.000 at the Evansville plant where 1,100 were furloughed Just week would be laid oft, along with 7.000 in the automotive body division. — Chrysler said the cutback results from attempts to readjust Plymould field stocks at the dealer, level. ' It brines to more than 24.000 the number of employes laid off bv the big three producers—Chrysler. Ford and General Motors — as they readjust production schedules In line with demand for 1956 models. ~

Seek Buildup Os Southeast Asian Group Eisenhower To Try To Persuade Eden Os Buildup Needs WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower will try to persuade a reluctant iprime minister Anthony Eden to agree to a military and economic buildup of the Southeast Asia treaty organization. This was learned today from diplomatic sources who said that the West is at the crossroads where it must either give real security to Southeast Asia or watch Asian countries turn to neutralism or even to alliances with Soviet Russia qr Communist China. The U.B.*has decided th*t at the March 6 Karachi meeting of the SEATO foreign ministers it will go ahead with plans' for a permanent military headquarters and an integrated economic program with or without British support. ( Mr., Eisenhower will make his direct appeal to the British when Sir Anthony visits him at the White House on Jan. 30 to begin several daya of conferences. The Asian members of SEATO, the Philippines. Pakistan and Thailand, always have wanted A NATOtype military organization and stronger economic cooperation. They did not get this at the Manila conference in September, 1954 when SEATO was formed. One Asian army chief of staff was so disappointed that he left the conference in tears. The United States has come around to the Asian way of thinking and has acce-pted as facts that America must put up or shut up at the forthcoming Karachi conference. One Asian source said Karachi "will be the test of survival for collective security in Asia and will determine whether there will be collective security or whether the programs of the neutralists and the Soviets will prevail.” An American official said: I see it: the U.S. is at the crossroads in Asian policy, and must take positive action at Karachi or back away from effective military and economic programs.” The military planning has. to a large degree, been completed. Army and navy leaders of the eight member nations made considerable progress In a meeting at Melbourne this week and are ready to move ahead once they get a green light from the politicians. • Formally that go-ahead cannot be made until the Karachi meeting. The U.S. and the three Asian members already have decided to push forward and set up a military headquarters in Asia. Australia probably will supsport the plan too. The second problem to be faced at Karachi Is to develop an economic program good enough not only ,_to meet the, needs nf Thailand. Pakistan and the Philippines, but also to attract neighboring nations which are- not members of SEATO. The intensified economic warfare of the Soviet Union and Red China has added a sense of urgency to the consideration of a regional economic plan.' INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy through BaL urdav with occasional snow flurries north portion.'* Bomew|i«t eoldpr tonight Low tonight 18-22. .High Saturday :■ 25-32. ~

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Decotur, Indiana, Friday, January 20, 1956.

Four-State Dragnet Is Seeking Recapture Os Slayer Leslie Irvin

Israel Ready To Appeal To U. N. Council Security Council Censures Israel ■< For Post Attack UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INST —lsrael was ready today to appeal immediately to the UN security council should Syria launch new "provocations” in the Sea of Galilee. Israel served notice before Thursday's unanimous vote censuring her for the Dec. 11 attack on a ‘Syrian outpost that future Arab interference in the sea will be reported at once to the council. The Israeli government said the raid in which 62 persons were killed was In retaliation for Syrian harassment of fishing in the seg, which Is inside Israeli territory and a portion of which borders on Syria. Ambassador Abba S. Eban told the council his government will continue to take "measures of law” against Syrian intruders until a legal understanding is reached regarding use Os the biblical sea. K Eban challenged Syria’s claim tb fishing and water “rights” in tig sea, also known as Lake Tiberias •He reaffirmed Israel's willingness to grant permits to Syrians to use | the body of water for their needs. Israeli spokesmen claimed Syria has refused to accept such permits because it Would imply recognition of Israel, whose legal existence the Arab stated refuse to recognize. The 11-nation council, in addition to voting censure, also warned Israel in strong ternfs that any new offenses will be dealt with according to the UN charter. Russia, which had insisted on harsh punishment of . Israel, joined at the last minute in voting for the censure motion, sponsored by the U. S„ Britain and France. Leo Curtin Speaks At Rotary Meeting Leo Curtin, of the research department of Central Soya Co. and McMillen Feed Mills, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotfijy club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. . Curtin discussed the great changes and improvements made in recent years in feeding of meat animals, reducing feeding time and costs and resulting in better products- R. (G. Childs was chairman of the program. Jefferson-Jackson Banquet Is Planned Tickets Available Here In Short Time Tickets for the annual JeffersonJackson day banquet, to be held at Indianapolis February 11, will go on sale in Adams county in a few days, it was announced today by Dr- Harry Hobble. Adams county Democratic .chairman. Mrs- Theron Fenstermaker, Geneva, Democratic vice-chairman who has headed the ticket committee for several years, again will have charge of t,he sale. Sen. ‘Hubert Humphries. Minnesota, will be the principal speaker at the banquet. Tickets will sell, as usual, for $25 each, and proceeds' will go to the Democratic state committee campaign fund. Adams county has led other northern Indiana counties in purchase of tickets for several years. Mrs. Fenstermaker said- The Geneva woman stated that she would visit Democratic leaders end party workers early next week In past, years between 10 and 26 Adams county Democrat? have attended the function. '- .

Stoner Farm Sold At Public Auction . Only One Parcel Os Farm Is Unsold —,—, • ■ ■ ■ ■■ Heavy snow and almost impassible roads failed to stop the ’ sale of the Stoner farm, southeast of Decatur Thursday, in one of the biggest public auctions ever held in Adams county. The farm, 744 acres, was divided into seven parcels and all but parcel number three, 239 acres, were sold. The unsold farm was placed last on the list and lateness of the hour prevented the sale. This parcel will be sold privately in the next few days . from bids to be accepted by Kent , Realty and Auction Co., which , firm handles the sale. 1). S. Blair, Gerald Strickler and Phil Neuenschwander were k the auctioneers and Charles Kent , was sales manager. Mrs. Pauline L Hougk served as clerk of the sale. , The total tor the 505 acres was i near $92,000. The personal property sale, ' held Wednesday, t brought in about $25,000,' prelirn- ! inary figures disclosed. , Parcel number one. 43 acres, was purchased by Tony Faurote, Decatur home developer, for a high bid of SBSO an acre. This ’ was the highest per acre offer- ' ing on any of the farms. x Farm number two sold to t Ham Kuknle for $285 yan artjkl j This farm consisted of 5? acres. Number three, 239 acres, was to be offered last, and was not offered publicly because of the time element. Number four, 73)6 acres, went to Lewis Wise on -a high bid of $l4O, and number five. 127 acres went to Roy Price for a per acre bih of $lB5. v Howard Evans was high bidder on farm number six with a bid of $l4O per acre for 82 acrea, and Marvin Stoutenberry purchased the 120-acre number seven parcel for $122 an acre. H. H. Stoner, owner of the large farm, said today that the unsold parcel would ( be offered immediately through the Kent (Continued on [ Page Five) Completing Work On Hospital Petitions Little Opposition To Bond Petition Volunteers in every township, city and town in the country, are completing their work of getting signatures of freeholders to supporting petitions for the request of the trustees of Adams county memorial hospital for a bond issue before the end of this week. Indications are that signatures will total far over the expected quota and to date there have been Jess than a fraction of one percent refusals, according to petition carriers. Signers, have been almost unanimous in their support In Decatur and several townships boast the sa.me ratio. There has been no organized oppositipn-in ahy“tb»hWP, volunteers report. The petitions will be collected over the week-end and will be turned over to the trustees to accompany their request for the bond is/rne when it is turned into county auditor Frank Kitson. According to hospital trustees, "she“ S4SOWTBorB~ issue, if granted, will, give the board sufficient money tb enlarge the patient room size of the hospital and provide for the proper hospitalization and operating facilities. No major improvements have been made at the hospital since It was first opened in 1922, it was pointed out. Even with outmoded accomodations, board members said, no applicant for admission has evar bean turned away. • 1 Trustees will receive the petitions next week and prepare their formal request for approval of the bond issue.

Gen. Ridgway Under Fire By Ike, Radford Declare Military Program Was Given Unanimous 0. K. WASHINGTON (INS) t- Farmer army chief of staff Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway was under fire today from both President Eisenhower and joint chiefs of staff chairman Adm. Arthur W« (Radford. The comman,<ier-in-chief and his principal military aide said Thursday they believed the administration’s “new' itfok" military program had been “unanimously recommended" by the joint chiefs of staff in 1954. - Ridgway has accused Mr. Eisenhower of misleading the public by telling Congress in his 1954 State of the Union message that the shift from massive ground troops to a fast-striking, more compact force —and the resulting cut in army manpower — had the approval of all three service chiefs. Radford told newsmen Thursday as he returned from an around-the-world trip, that he believes the record will show that the chiefs — } including Ridgway — were in complete accord on this program when ft b-as drafted in UISS. However, there are indications that the program was changed In some respects after this JCS approval was given and before President Eisenhower made his address to congress. This may explain the statement by defense secretary Charles E. Wilson in a news conference Tuesday he thought Ridgway was correct. In view of the difference between Wilson and Radford, Penta- ... (Continued on Page Five) Peter Spangler Dies Thursday Evening fWell Known Farmer Is Taken By Death Peter J. Spangler. 63, prominent Kirkland township farmer residing four and one-half miles southwest .of Decatur, died at 8:40 o’clock Thursday night at the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor,

M H‘h. Death was caused by a pulmonary embolism. He was taken to the hospital Jan. 3, and had been in a coma since Monday. Bor u.. in J ett arson to w nship Aug. 4, 1892, he was a son of John and Amelia Kahlig-Spangler, and was married to Mary Elting May 19. 1920, in St. Mary’s Catholic church. Mr. Spangler was a veteran of World War I, enlisting June 25, 1918, and was given his discharge Sept. 16, 1919. He was highly active in affairs of Adams Post 43, American Legion. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society and the American Legion. in addition to his wife are two daughters. Misses Mary Catherine and Rosenjary Spangler, both at home; five brothers, Frank and Michael Spangler, both of New Corydon, and Joseph, Anthony and Leo Spangler, all of Decatur, and five sisters, Mrs. Anna Tricker, Mrs. Amelia Miller, Mrs. Rose Mil--Lair, aeul M r .^Victor. yaßLp sU- OFDecatur, and Mrs, Nicholas Schorer of St. Anthony. O. One son and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral’ services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic chureh. the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery, with military rites conducted by the American Legion. The was returned to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Saturday until time, of the services. The Holy Name society will recite the rosary at the funergl home at 8 p.m. .Sunday.

Sayer Will Testify Before Grand Jury Former Advisor To Craig To Testify INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — William Sayer, former unofficial advisor to Gov. George N. Craig, •will testify before the Marion county grand jury investigating an alleged attempt by state auditor Curtis Rardin to solicit a bribe from the Toll Road.' Toll road commission director Albert Wedeking said Rardin asked for money for his vote which could approve or reject transfer of $70,000 from the state highway department to the toll road. Rardin admits the solicitation but said he was trying, without success, to trap Wedeking and expose the toll road Operation. At a meeting subsequent to the April 18 solicitation. Rardin voted with Craig for the transfer against- state treasurer John Peters. the third member of the state .budget committee. Sayer told Marion county pros' acutor John Tinder in a telegram that he had only hearsay knowledge of the bribe attempt which was hushed up for six months. However, Tinder contacted Sayer by telephone at the Lake Okeechobee, Fla., fishing resort and told him a subpoena was waiting for him at his home in Sebring, Fla. Sayer said hp would make arrtiffgenTehts "tb' tetufh m testify at once. Rardin will follow the governor. Wedeking, state revenue director Frank Millie, Peters, Sayer and other officials to the witness chair next Tuesday.

Peanut Sale Saturday To Aid Polio Drive A group of Decatur teenagers from Decatur high school and Decatur Catholic high school will assist in the 195 G March of Dimes campaign with a peanut sale Saturday beginning at 9 a. m. The sale will be conducted on the downtown streets of Decatur Teams of the teenagers will be stationed on the streets throughout the day until all of the peanuts are sold. Rhlph Thomas, a student of Decatur high school and president of the teen council, Is in charge of the project. The list of participating students will be announced Monday.

Decline Reported In Cost Os Living Decline Is First Since Last August WASHINGTON (INS)—The government reported today that living costs declined three-tenths of one per cent between November and December. The labor department, in its monthly cost-of-living report, attributed the decline to lower prices for transportation, food and inßThe department said that the decline. the first since August, reduced the cost of living index to 114.7 per cent of the J 947-49 average. This was three-tenths of one per cent above December, 1954. At the, end nf 1955 th« raport. said, the purchasing power of the average factory worker’s paycheck was rriore than six per cent higher than a year earlier. The decrease In transportation costs, a major factor in the December decline in living costs, was attributed chiefly to a 2.4 per cent drop in prices of 1956 cars and 3.1 per cent reduction in used car prices. Food prices were tjjree-tenths of one per cent lower than in November. and at the lowest point ’since December,, 1950. The main reason for the decline was a drop in prices of fresh meats. ’ 2i.

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Report Irvin Is Now Headed For Lima, Ohio Confessed Killer Os Six Escaped Jail At Princeton PRINCETON, Ind. (INS)—Alert midwesterners swamped police with tips in their efforts to aid a four-state dragnet which seeks to recapture doomed mass killer Leslie Irvin. - —lrvin, confessed killer of six persons, escaped from his Gibson county jail cell at Princeton, just a few days before he was to be transferred to death row at the state prison. Five persons told Montgomery county, Ohio authorities they are sure that a man who stopped at a motel near Dayton, then later robbed another man, was the hunted killer. ■ . Another report Came from Wateseka, 111., where employes and customers of a bar declared that Irvin had been in the place Thursday night. These promising clues and many others were being followed by police, who expressed appreciation for the response of the public to their pleas. Widespread distribu'iToif was given to pictures and description of Irvin, a 300-pound husky man, five feet, .fl inches tall, with brown eyes and dark brown, wavy hair. ' I • ' The Ohio report said a man who stopped at a Vandalia motel for coffee early today and one of two men who robbed anothey man resembled newspaper pictures of the escaped killer. The fugitive maae his break sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday during a heavy snowstorm and roadblocks and police patrols yrere set out in Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri in an effort to snare him.

Police said Irvin, a 31-year-old Evansvilel, Ind., pipefitter, was more dangerous now than ever and probably would not be taken alive. Irvin, known as the "mad dog killer” was convicted Dec. 20 for one piurder and is under indictment for five other slayings. He was slated for execution in the electric chair June 12. Officiate guessed that Isvin had outside help in his escape and. when news of the killer’s prison break became known, nervous citteens and witnesses who helped! convict Irvin began arming themselves. At Henderson, Ky., where Irvin admitted he kflled three members of the Goebel Duncan family, sheriff Lee Williams said the killer may seek revenge against three witnesses at his murder trial. The sheriff criticised Indiana authorities for allowing Irvin to es* cape and added that if Irvin is captured in Kentucky, “We’ll try him ourselves and send him to the chair.** Irvin gained his “mad dog” title because his victims were shot to death from behind while in a kneeling position. His conviction came on the murder of W. Wesley Kerr, 30, an Evansville filling station operator, Dec. 23, 1954. He also was indicted tor the murders of Mrs. Wilhelmina Sailer. 47, of Posey County, Ind.; Mrs. Mary Holland, 36, Evensville liquor store operator; and three nitsnipcira m a- itA TPonij iii' Ticu- ' tucky. Goebel Duncan, 53, his son. Raymond, 20, and another son’s wife, Mrs. Doris Ray Duncan. 19. Total toot from the six robberyonly $243. was scheduled to be moved from the county jail to the Indiana state prison Monday. Reported Near Lima LIMA, O. (INS)—Mass killer Leslie Irvin. believed sighted three times in Ohio earlier today, was reported headed towards Lima by a man who picked up two hitchhikers —one of them resembling Irvin. (Continued on rage Bight)