Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 17.

AFTER YEARS—A TOWN REAPPEARS DRATCH WILSON, a native of Loyston. Tenn., visits a scene of his childhood lie never expected to see again. He is one of a bumper erop of visitors to the skeleton of Loyston, revealed when severe drought and unprecedented demand for electric power in the Tennessee Valley turned Earned Norris Lake into a pock-marked, waterless waste. An arrow (right) points out a traffic stop-sign, still in good condition, at what was an intersection when Loyston was abandoned by its 25 families in the early 1930's to make way tor the TV A project

Ike Political Future Still A Question Mark Tells Republican Party Workers He Is Still Undecided WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower's political future big a question-mark as ever today, but the GOP had his promise that as candidate or “worker in the ranks” he will fight with al Ibis atrength for victory in 1958. Mr. Eisenhower, speaaing to ctoee to 100,000 party workers assembied Friday bight at fund raising dinners across the nation said that his role was 'as yet undetermined. Almost wistfully, the Chief Executive expressed the wish that the American people could “point out the path of my true duty," but concluded he must answer the ques ; tion alone. Mr. Eisenhower made his first political appearance since his Sep-,, tamber heart attack at a SIOO-a---plate dinner in Washington’s Sheraton - Park hotel. The Washington event was linked by closed-circuit television and radio with similar rallies celebrating the President’s third aniversary In office. The dinners raised 15,000,000 for the Republican campaign chest. The President was visibly moved by the televised tribute from his party, but he gave no hint in his 10-minute prepared speech as to whether he will accede to a secondterm draft. ’ Promising to announce his decision as soon as his mind is made up, he said: “As we move toward the solution of existing problems, my own future role in our party remains undetermined; whether to be a candidate for your nomination or a worker in ranks. “1 could devoutly wish that there were some method by which the American people could, under the circumstances, point out the path of my true duty. But it appears that this is a question that first I alone must answer.” 1 The first lady, wearing her rhinestone “Ike” earrings, accompanied the President on his 45-min-ute visit to the Washington rally. Before his own speech, Mr. Eisenhower looked on in obvious enjoyment as the television camera flicked to 10 other cities to pick up glowing tributes from Well-wishers at other dinners. . > In Chicago, Vice President Richard M. Nixon delivered a stinging attack on Adlai E. Stevenson as a “sniper", “quibbler” and “quavering critic" of the President. The chorus of Republican oratory was led by eight cabinet members and other top administration officials epeaking at other JIOO-a-plate dinners from Los Angeles to Boston. Speaking to 15,000 New York and New Jersey Republicans in Madison Square Garden, treasury secretary Geo’ge M. Humphrey hailed Mr. Eisenhower .as the greatest American of his time and the “outstanding figure in the world today.” Agriculture secretary Errs Taft Benson came closest to urging the (Continued on Fags Five) NOON EDITION

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Johnston, Branigin Uncertain Os Race Two Lafayette Men Are Stitt Undecided INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —■ Two Lafayette Democrats sweated it out today trying to decide whether to run for their party’s gubernatorial nomination in the face of heavy geographical odds. They are Thomas R. Johnston, publicity director of Purdue University, and Roger D. Branigin, attorney and former president of the Indiana state bar association. The senatorial candidacy of Claude R. Wickard, of Camden, hangs over both men heavily because Wickard is nearly sure to obtain the nomination from the Democratic party. And Wickard. the same congressional district, the second. (Senatorial and gubernatorial nominees rarely come from the same district. Johnston appeared to have taken the most definite steps to run. He has sought and obtained the consent of the Purdue board of trustees for a leave of absence to bld for the nomination, but has withheld an announcement. Botfi Johnston and Branigin have made phone calls and visitsTb'The leaders of their party in recent days. The shadow of the White Hat also hdngs over the district Former Governor Henry F. Schricker, of Knox, also in the second district, has said he would not run, but the politicos recall he has done that before and then has appeared as a candidate. Schricker also has said he is neutral in the gubernatorial struggle, although Johnston backers have claimed Schricker is for the Purdue man. Meanwhile, state senator Matthew' Welsh, of Vincennes, is waging his governor bid energetically. He is reported to have the support of Frank McKinney. Indianapolis banker and former Democratic national chairman. McKinney’s close associate, Frank McHale, former national committeeman. however, is said to favor Branigin. Other announced candidates are Mayor Ralph Tucker, of Terre Haute, and Nelson Ortlls. of Indianapolis. Marion county chairman, both comparatively inactive candidates. The hopefuls also eyed the situation in South Bend, home town of national chairman Paul M. Butler, who a few weeks ago hinted he might be interested in running for governor. There was some belief, nevertheless, that Butler was striving only to prevent commitment of the third district organization to any other candidate until the situation becomes more crystallized. Despite the candidacy of Grills, Marion county sheriff Robert O’Neal may become a candidate, according to his friends. Another Indianapolis possibility is B. Howard Caughran, former federal district attorney. Also Bartel Zandstra, former Lake county clerk, now apparently running for lieutenant governor might switch to governor. /- The two Indiana Democratic congressmen likewise usually arementioned for governor. They are Ray Madden, of Gary. amj Winfield K. Denton, at Evansville. (Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WKATHBR Mostly cloudy and ooldsr through Bunday. Snow flurries tonight Low tonight S-IS. High Sunday JD-M.

W-i Compromise Farm Measure To Be Offered Senate Committee Chairman To Offer Farm Compromise WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate agriculture committee chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) disclosed today he will offer a compromise on the' compulsory-vs-voluntary soil bank dispute. Members of his committee have said this controversy will be one of the biggest hprdles in writing logislation to set up the soil Wk —a plan designed to raise farm income and prevent new surpluses. Basically, Ellender’s compromise, if passed, would, require farmers to set aside some of their highly-productive land in an acreugg reserve—and be paid for it —and allow them to decide whether to put ? other poor , land into a conservation reserve. The acreage reserve part of the soil bank is intended to curtail production of wheat, corn, cotton snd rice beyond the restrictions now lift posed through acreage allotments. Ellender told ’an interviewer that where acreage allotments already have been voted on, it may not be possible to make the acreage reserve compulsory this year. But, he said, it could be required in future years. Under the present administration proposal, both sections of the soil bank would be voluntary, derending on the government payments to attract farmers. Sen. Edward J. Thye, in a separate interview, Bal’d 'he thinks the comptblnise “is the only answer.” Both Ellender and Thye said that production of surplus crops will not be curtailed unless the pro gram is made compulsory. Thye also agreed that the shortrange program for cutting back surplus crops should be made mandatory by being tied to price supports. Under the compromise, farmers would not get support prices for w-hat they raised unless they agreed to cut back production. The plan met immediate opposition from Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) top GOP member of the agriculture committee who commented that "there may be a compromise but I don’t believe you should compel a farmer whose acreage has been allotted to cut ’■beyond” his quota. First Aid Class Is Planned In Decatur Plans were announced today for the formation"bf a first aid class in Decatur. The class will be taught by Mrs. Betty Singleton, with the assistance of, Miss Catherine Andrews. Both are- accredited Red Cross first aid instructors. The initial meeting of the class will be Monday, Jan. 30. The time and place of the meeting will be announced later. The course will include three hours of instruction one night a week for six weeks. Any person who Is Interested in joining the class Is asked to contact Mrs. Singleton, who resides at 1043 Master Drive, or the local Red Cross office. The class is open to any person interested,

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Decatur, Indiana, Satur day, January 21, 1956.

FBI Join Search For Mass Killer Irvin As • •. . * ■ • ? Reports Are Mounting

Report Riots | Are Spreading Across India" Bombay Police Kill . Two More Looters As Riots Spread BOMBAY (INS) — Bombay police, ordered to. “shoot to kill,” shot dead two more looters today as anti - government rioting spread across India. The sixth straight day of violence broke out in Bombay after an early morning lull. ’ ' The police opened fire on crowds attempting to loot shops in the nothern section of the west coas| city, India’s second largest. Two persons were killed and at least two persons were injured, raising the death toll in the embattled city to 44. T Earlier, police arrested six more Communist leaders. A majority of industrial workers have defied a <;all made by their union leaders to return to work. The riots began Monday when crowds protested the Indian government’s decision to administer Bombay as a separate district. Many workers groups hoped the city would become the capital of a Marathi-speaking state. Meanwhile, violence and workers strikes spread across the nation. In Calcutta, a general strike paratyzed businesses and transportation. The entire fleet of 400 trolleycars in India's largest city was idled and no state or private buses were operating. Sixty ships, mostly foreign, were idled at Calcutta’s piers as the dockworkers joined the strike. In the town of Berhampur, 18 miles from Calcutta, an armed guard fired on strikers attempting to set fire to a factory and killed one man and injured several others. In Cuttack; on the same coast, a radio station was forced off the air, apparently by student mobs. At Nasik. northeast of Bombay, a new outburst Friday resulted in two deaths. And at Kolhapur, south of Bom bay, 18 were injured in rioting. Mothers March On Polio January 30 Beta Sigma Phi To Sponsor Activity The annual Mothers March on Polio in Decatur has been set this year for Monday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m. according to an annoypaement by Mrs. Robert Lane, chairman of the project. The march Will again be sponsored by the local chapters of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, with the assistance of su-eral other organizations in the city. A large group of “mothers” will canvass the entire city, going frpm door to door to solicit donations to the 1956 March of Dimes fund. In past years the mothers march has been most successful and it is hoped that this year it will enable the city to reach its 33,060 goal. Mrs. Lane stated that the sorority is again requesting assistance from volunteers. She announced that all organizations are being contacted and that any person who would agree to help in the march could contact her. The city will be divided Into small sections so that no person will have more than an hour’s work to contact the residents of each section. For this reason it is necessary to have a large corps of volunteer “mothers.” Mrs, Lane has Issued an appeal for volunteers who can donate an hour of their time to this project of the fund drive. <

J Nixon Fires Blasi Al Adlai Stevenson - i , , _ & _ Stinging Attack On Democratic Hopeful CHICAGO (INS) — Vice President Richard Nixon delivered a stinging attack on Adlai Stevenson Friday night, terming the Democratic presidential hopeful a sniper, quibbler and quavering critic of President Eisenhower. > Nixon’s remarks were made to a ’ salute to Eisenhower.” dinner bei fore 6,000 persons at Chicago’s InI ternational Amphitheater where both the vice president and Stevens son were nominated in 1952. r A record - breaking $500,000 was raised at the largest political fund i raising dinner ever held in Chis cago. Half of the money goes to the t Republican national fund for the 1956 national elections and half t was retained for the Illinois cam- , paign. There was speculation that Nixon’s frontal attack on the front » runner for the Democratic presidential nomination carried the api pro/al of the White House, r Stevenson declined to make an . immediate reply. He will enter the i Illinois presidential preference pri- - mhry on the Democratic ballot ■ Monday. Gov. William Stratton of Illinois 1 already has filed petitions to place 'President Eisenhower’s name on the Republican ballot In the April ■ 10 primary thus offering a popularity contest between them and any others who might be on the two ballots. Nixon’s attack on Stevenson was seen hy some experts as drawing the political battle lines for 1956. again, it is almost certain that the If the President decides to run vice president once more will be his running mate. Should Mr. Eisenhower not be a candidate, it is believed that Nixon will be a top contender for the GOP presidential nomination and will secure the President’s backing. The vied president said Stevenson seems to be “leading the chorus" criticizing the Eisenhower-Dul- ’ les foreign policy and added that the former Illinois governor offers “nothing except a return to the Acheson foreigri policy.” Nixon flailed Stevenson for “indecision, weakness, retreat and surrender” in dealing with communism. Nixon also touched on matters relating to business, labor unions, minorities and farmers. The vice president said some Republicans believe the GOP administration is (Continued on Page Five) Kefauver Declares Dulles Is Boasting Kefauver Speaks To Press Association ‘ BOSTON (INS) Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) said today he got the "impression” that secretary of state John Foster Dulles was "boasting” when he made his "brlnk-of-war” remarks. The Democratic presidential candidate told the New England weekly press association in a prepared speech that he “cannot doubt that Mr. Dulles wants peace,” and added: “It only seems to me that he takes the most dangerous means of achieving it.” tßeferrlng to Dulles’ statement in a Life magazine interview that the U. S. was brought to thd “verge of war” three times in the Far East. Kefauver said: “A few more blunders like this and Secretary Dulles will have outlived his usefulness “He admits his artulness, and rather boasts about, when the times cry out for honesty and plain speaking and I might say good- wiH.” -—7 —~ ~ Keftuver’s allusion to Dulles’ peaceful alma was an apparent reference to President Eisenhower's support of the secretary as a man of peace. ,

Invite George To Confer On Foreign Policy Eisenhower Seeks To Heal Rift With Senate Democrats WASHINGTON (INS) —President Eisenhower confers Monday with Sen. Walter F. George (D Go,) in an apparent effort to heal the rift with senate Democrats over U. S- foreign policy. George, chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, was invited to the for a review of the world situation in the wake of rising criticism of the administration's stewardship of foreign affairs. Sen. Mike Mansfield (D Mont-,) touched oft heated senaite debate Friday when he charged that the administration has failed to meet the challenge of Soviet diplomacy in Asia and the Middle East. Referring to secretary of state John Foster Dulles’ “bring-of-w’ar” interview in Life magazine, Mansfield said: “The senate’s role is to advise as well as to consent to foreign policy, and this administration, is deeply in need of advice" 4fansfiled said that the interview, whether it was intended dr not, has set in motion a reappraisal of U. S. foreign policy. George, who has never commented directly on the article, described Mansifeld’s spegch as “a very dispassionate, sober statement worthy of a great deal of respect.” However, he indicated that he would not call for the “complete review” that Mansfield requested, but declared that foreign policy will be discussed in the senaite until the election. To remedy what he called "a policy stricken with a poverty of ideas,” Mansfield urged that congress and the administration conduct a "long overdue” examination of foreign policylie emphasized, however, that such a review should be conducted without either party attempting to gain political advantage. Miss Margaret Hoyer Dies This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon - Miss Margaret Hoyer, 77, lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 7:15 o'clock this morning at her home, 1027 Line street. She had been in serious condition since suffering a stroke three weeks ago. . < - She was born in Decatur June 29, 1878. a-dwufhter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hoyer. She was a retired telephone operator and bookkeeper. _ Miss Hoyer was a meinber of the First Presbjterian church. She had made her home for many years with a niece, Mrs. Cecil Melchi. Her only sister, the former Mrs. Ed Ashbaucher, preceded her in death. ’ Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Monday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Ray J. Walther officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Sunday until time of the services State Temperatures Are Below Freezing INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana temperatures remained far below the freezing point today and the Indianapolis weather bureau predicted fire degrees above zero for northern Indiana tonight. ..The result was that there was little melting of the heavy snow blanket all over the state. ■ The forecast for Sunday was increasing cloudiness and cold with another snow.

Director Os Budget Hughes Quits Post Hughes' Deputy Is ■ Appointed To Post WASHINGTON (INS) — Budget director Rowland R, Hughes, President Elsenhower's second budget chief since he took office, has resigned his post for “compelling personal and family reasons.** President Eisenhower accepted • the surprise resignation Friday ' with the comment that Hughes > could take “vast pride in the balI anced budgets now at hand.” i The Chief Executive named Hughes' deputy, Bruns dage, to succeed him as director i on April 1, the effective date of i Hughes’ resignation. i The resignation eame less than a a week after Mr. Eisenhower's sub- ■- mission to congress of the government's first balanced budget in five ) years, which was prepared under B Hughes' supervision. e Despite recently published ret ports of conflicts between Hughes ,■ and other government officials, the exchange of formal letters between e him and the President gave no hint > that dissension was in any way in- . volved in the budget director’s de- , cislon to return to private life. > Hughes, who was with the Na- . tional City Bank of New York be- • fore coming to Washington in April, of 1953,succeeded Joseph M . Dodge as budget director in April, 1954. Brundage was appointed his assistant the following month. Brundage,, who is 63, is a Republican, and before entering govern- ’ ment service was senior partner of Price, Waterhouse and company, one the nation's largest aceount- , ing firms. * . Brundage’s appointment does not require senate confirmation. Says SEATO Lands To Meet Aggression Five-Day Conclave Os Advisors Ends • MELBOURNE (INS) — U. £. Adm. Felix B. Stump said today there was no doubt the eight Southeast Asia treaty nations “will act” to meet aggression in the area. . The commander in chief of the IL S. Pacific fleet spoke at the conclusion of a five-day SEATO military advisors conference in Melbourne. Adm. Stump said the meeting of high ranking officers representing Britain, France, Thailand, Pakistan. Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and the U. S. had been “fruitful.” He added: “We have taken steps to enable iflCto be ready to take prompt ►action if the necessity arises . . ‘‘‘We have made plans on such complications as force .require inents, communications, psycho logical and unconventional warfare." << . The military advisors of the eight nations signed military plans to resist any possible aggression In Southeast Asia. The plans, the details of which were not announced, will be presented for approval to the foreign ministers of the eight countries when they meet in Pakistan in March. Air Marshal Sir John McCauley (Continued on Page Five) Postmaster Present High License Bidder Leo Kirsch, Decatur postmaster, is presently the high bidder' for automobile license plate number J A 1956. Proceed s ffpm the sale of the plate will go so the polio fund an<T the final bid will be received at 11 p tn. January 26. The present bid of 320 is in addition to the regular cost of the license plate for any type automobile the bidder has. Bids on the special number are being received by Mrs. Dale Death, manager of the Decatur branch of the auto license bureau.

Report Irvin Seen In Many Midwest Spots Cardboard-Tinfoil Key Made By Irvin To Open Cell Door PRINCETON, Ind. (INS) —FBI agents joined the search for doomed mass killer Leslie Irvin amid scattered reports by midwesterners who claim they saw desperate fugitiveAmong the latest such report was \ one turned in by Charles Billeck. a gas attendant on Chicago’s south i side, who said the confesed killer of six persons pulled into his sta- . tion Friday and asked directions to > Gary, Ind. ■ Some five hours earlier, Irvin was reported visiting a tavern at ■ Watseka, 111. > Chicago homicide chief Lt- > James McMahon put out an alert i following Billeck’s tip and assigned '■ squads to hunt the killer. Meanwhile, FBI agents, who entered. the case through a warrant which state Irvin fled the Gibson county jail at Princeton, Ind., to Mt. Carmel, 111., checked a report in St. Louie, where a woman said .she saw Irvin early Thursday ttightThe tipster, Mrs. Ruth Patton, said Irvin used to frequent a Louisville, Ky., restaurant where she formerly worked. St Louis is about 200 miles southwest of Watseka and officials said he could have driven there by the time he was spotted by the tavern patrons in the Illinois city. At the same time, five persons told Montgomery county, Ohio, authorities they are sure that one of two men who stopped at a motel near Dayton and later robbed another* man, was the vicious killerMeanwhile, Indiana state polity found an ingeniously made card-board-and-llnfblT key Irvin apparently fashioned to open his cell door. The key was found hidden above the shower in the cell Irvin had occupied. Coupled with the discovery of the key was the disclosure that Irvin had broken out of- several army and civil jails and boasted that no jail could hold him. Irvin, a husky 200-pounder, five feet, 11 inches tall, was waiting execution next June for the slaying Dec. 23, 1954, of W. Wesley Kerr in Evansville, Ind. The 31-year-old former pipefitter also was charged with the murders of Mrs. Mary Holland, Evansville, Dec. 2, 1954: Mrs. Wilhelmina Sailer, Posey County, Ind., March 21, 1955; and a week later the triple slayings St Henderson, Ky., of Goebel Duncan, 53, his son, Raymond, 20, and another son's wife, Mrs. Doris Ray Duncan, 19. The search later turned to the area near Springfield, Mo., after a motorist told the Missouri highway patrol Friday night that he had seen the criminal hitchhiking westward on Road 166, five miles west of Springfield. The motorist said he was from New Harmony, Ind-, and was a personal friend of one of Irvin’s victims. The motorist said he was tanililar with Irvin’s appearance through seeing many newspaper pictures. A filling station attendant nearby said he saw a man wearing a gray topcoat leave an automobile. Irvin was wearing a gray topcoat when he left Princeton. State police said that Irvin had mailed three letters from Mt- Carmel, 111., a little more than -Anhour after his escape. They were addressed to friends and relatives and thanked them for doing favors for him. An automobile was stolen in Mt. Carmel about the rtine the letters were mailed. It was a blue-green 1949 Dodge sedan with 1956 Itttnots license plates 7389. The car has not yet been found. Hugh F. O'Brien, chairman of the Indiana state correction board, (Continued on Page Five) .

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