Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 18, Decatur, Adams County, 23 January 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 18.

DUTCH FAMILY FLIES TO U. S. HOME

.£■ ” HL • ‘ 1 •T*B A HAPPY LANDING for Mr, and Mrs. William Tinkelenberg and their two children. Hendrikus. 14, and Carola, 8, as they arrive from Holland at Idlewild Airport, New York, on the Royal Dutch plane, “The Emigrants Special." They were among 59 Dutch refugees flown to America for resettlement. The Tinkelenbergs were sponsored by Nathaniel M. Cuptill of New Center, Mass., where they will make their home. The father is a former pilot in the Dutch Air Force.

Ike In Session With National GOP Chairman Eisenhower Still Debates Decision On 1956 Election WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower, still debating whether to run for a second term, will with Republican national chairman Leonard Hall. Also scheduled to participate in the White House conference was J. Clifford Folger, chairman of the Republican national finance committee. A spokesman said the meeting was Jo <|.ve Mr. JEisenhower a report on-the success of the nSflon-r-vjrlde. “Salute to Eisenhower” fundraising dinners Friday night. The dinners raised an estimated $5 million for the Republican cam paign chest. Halt has said repeatedly he is confident Mr. Eisenhower will run for re-election if he is “physically able.” -rr The 3:30 p.m. (EST) meeting was added to the President’s schedule this morning. Mr. Eisenhower also conferred today with his top national security advisers. The White House said this conference was called to receive national security council reports of a “routine nature.” Meanwhile, the President’s top assistant, Sherman Adams, met with the lowa congressional dele gation at the White House. This meeting was concerned with the question of what to do about slumping cattle and hog prices, a hot issue in the farm belt. Late in the afternoon he will meet with senate foreign rela tions committee chairman Waiter F. George (D G*.), in what is viewed as an attempt to restore bipartisanship in the handling of foreign affairs. Sometime this week, possibly Tuesday, the President will send his annual ecdnomic report to Capitol Hill, It is expected to be generally optimistic but to include several notes of caution in planning for the future. The secret 10 a m. session tpday was described by the White House as dealing with “special national security reports on an undisclosed subject.” 4, There was some speculation that the-White House meeting would discuss limitation on the size of nuclear bombs to be tested in the Pacific this spring. The U,S. recently announced that’ "smaller” nuclear tests would be conducted — as compared to the super bomb exploded in 1954 — but has rejected a Russian proposal to ban all such experiments. Two important issues are considered certain to come up during (Continued On Page Five) March Os Dimes BoY Scouts, Sale of Crutches —--—>214.135 Berean Class of Baptist church . —-- lO.ffO Woman’s Club of Decatur _ 10.00 Girl Scout Sale of Balloons 231.36 Adams Co. Basketball Tour- « ney - 6*-37 Beta Sigma Phi Polio Toll Bridge ——- 36.60 Dime Cards at The First State Bank 16-20 Teenage Peanuts Sale.--. 160.74 - L Total .1743.40

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Sheriff O'Neal In Race For Governor Marion County Man In Democratic Race INDIANAPOLIS (INS)— There were four candidates for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination today and there may be even more soon. The latest entrant was Marion county sheriff Robert A. O’Neal, of Indianapolis. Another Indianapolis man has been in the race for more than a month. He is Nelson Grills, attorney and Marion county Democratic chairman. The other aspirants are state senator Matthew E. Welsh, of Vincennes, a former federal district attorney, and Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker. Others contemplating taking the plunge include Thomas R. Johnston, Purdue University publicity director, and' Roger D. Branigin, former Indiana sthte bar association president, both of Lafayette; state senator W. W. Martin, ■ of Clarksville, and B. Howard Caughran, of Indianapolis, former federal district attorney. O’Netl w’ho is 41 years old, is a former superintendent of the Indiana state police and member of St. Christopher’s Catholic church. His announcement said he Is affiliated with the “Paul M. Butler-Schrlcker-Phillip L. Bayt wing of the Democratic party.” Indianapolis Mayor Bayt said “he’d make a real good governor.” When D'Neal was elected sheriffin 1954, he was the only Democrat to win office in Marion county. He has four sons and his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Riley O’Neal, was a cousin of the Hoosier poet, James Whitcomb Riley. His father, the late John J. O’Neal. Sr., was chief of the Indianapolis police department. o’Neal sa.id he announced after a* "serious statewide survey showed numerous persons receptive” to his candidacy, adding: "They approved my record with the state police and experience in state government, where I received valuable knowledge of conduct in office during the administrations of Governor Henry F. Sehricker. — — O’Neal announced a five-point program, as follows: (Continued on Page Five)/ 1 Homer Kern Dies Al Hospital In Toledo Native Os County Dies Sunday Night Homer Kern, 59, of Toledo, 0.. a native of Adams county, died at 9 o’clock Sunday night at St. Vincent hospital in Toledo, where he had been a patient since the first of the year. He had been in failing Jiealth for two years and in serious condition since entering She hospital. He was born northeast of Decatur, the son of the late Charley and Cora Mumma-Kern. Surviving are his wife. Mary; three sons. Donald. Jack and Kepneth Kern, all of; Toledo; several grandchildren: one brother, Russell Kern of Toledo, and a sister, Mrs. Hattie Stralhm of Fort Wayne. ” , Mrs. Robert Garard and Thomas Kern of this city are aunt and uncle of the deceased. Funeral arrangements have not been completed but probably will be held in Toledo Wednesday.

Senate Group In Accusation Against Stassen Charge Reprehensible Conduct To Stassen During Hearings WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate investigators accused Harold E. Stassen today of “reprehensible” conduct during hearings into a Pakistan grain storage contract. The investigations subcommittee, headed by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) issued a blistering report marked by severe criticism of President Eisenhower's top adviser on disarmament. Stassen's activities while director of the foreign operations administration, prior to getting his cabinctrank position last year, were’ involved in the inquiry. The report charged: “He was most uncooperative for a public official, as illustrated by his at-t-’mpts to binder and impede the’ legitimate functions of this subcommittee.’. * This was evidenced, the subcommittee said, In his initial refusal to provide documents and to allow subordinates to testify, and then delaying compliance with tjje committee request. Sen. George Bender (R-Ohio), was the only one of the seven subcommittee members to dissent. Bender called the report “inaccurate and unfair,” and added: “Mr. Stassen is an honorable, capable, and patriotic man, and there is absolutely no evidence to the contrary in the record of the hearing ...” The su committee’s majority, however, denounced what it called “Mr. Stassen’s irresponsible and unsubstantiated implications in open hearing against Mr. Gideon Hadary of the Columbian Steel Tank Co., and Howard P. Morrison, an FOA official.” McClellan's group jsaid Stassen had suggested “that there might be some unethical activity on the part of Morrison and Hjuiary," whose Kansas* City, Mo., firm was the low bidder on the disputed contract. Stassen testified on May 3, 1955, that he had ordered an investiga# tion of the Hadary-Morrtson role, and the report said that on Nov. 17, 1955, an investigative report showed “no evidence to substantiate the impltc&tions” Stassen had made. I ■ i* The subcommittee pointed out that Stassen overruled Morrison and other FOA aides to direct his agency to negotiate the contract for three 10,000-ton grain elevators with the Agricultural Con(Continued on Page Five) Mobile X-Ray Unit Is' Now In County

Week's Schedule Os X-Ray Unit Listed The complete schedule for the Adams county visit of the mobile T.B. X-ray unit' his’been released by the Adanm county tuberculosis association,' which sponsors the visit. The unit will be in the county this week and will visit each school. There is no charge to any’ individual since the project is financed through the sale of Christmas Seals. Today the unit, is in the south part of the county at Hartford. Jefferson and Geneva high schools. Tuesday it will- be at Berne high school in the morning and in the afternoon at the General Electric company in Decatur. Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 to 4 p.m. ft will be at Central Soya company. Thursday from 9 to IT a.m. it is scheduled for Decatur Castings company and will be at Decatur high school in the afternoon. From 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday students of Monmouth high school will be XJayed. Adams Central school is scheduled from 2 to 3 p.m. and the public and industry will be scheduled from 3 to 4:30 p.m, at the local high school. Friday morning it will be at the high school for the X-rays of students of Decatur high school. Pleasant Milla high school and Decatur Catholic high school. From 40-,-to 11:30 a.m. the public will be allowed to visit the unit. All juniors and seniors of the high schools will be X-rayed. No one, under 15 will be X-rayed Unless they are reactors to the patch test, they are in contact with active tuberculosis or they are sent by physicians. Mrs.' W. Guy Brdwn, secretary of the T.B. association Is in charge of the project. —

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, January 23, 1956.

High Speed Is Blamed In Los Angeles Train Disaster Fatal To 29

Engineer Dies, 25 Injured As Train Derailed Crack Train Leaves Rails On Curve Near Williamson, W. Va. WILLIAMSON, W. Va. (INS) — The crack Norfolk and Western, passenger train “Pochohantas" left the rails on a. curve near Williamson today, killing the engineer and Injuring 25 persons. The 10-car train was en route from Norfolk, Va., to Cincinnati, X)., with a heavy load of passengers when suddenly the engine jumped the tracks and skidded down an embankment, dragging one pessenger car with it into the *Tug River. Six cars in all were derailed. Killed when his engine plunged over the embankment at Cedar, W. Va., about 20 miles east of Williamson, was Walter D. Willard, 63, of Princeton, W. Va. Os the 25 persons injured, only nine were hospitalized. The rest were treated at Williamson memorial hospital and released. Miss Tura Satana, a 24-year-oM dancer on her way to Cleveland for an engagement, told Interna ttonal News Service that she reading a book on the train when “all of a sudden I felt a jolt and everything went black. Mothers were screaming for their kids and we realized we were in water but didn’t know how deep.” Miss Satana said she and a companion worked with the aid of a soldier aboard the train trying to get people out. She said that when the crash occurred, “people went flying all over. One lady flew over a couple of seats and landed in my Lap.” The railway said that an investigation of the accident was underway. Cause of the derailment was not immediately determined but a spokesman at Roanoke, Va., the line’s headquarters, said “it apparently wasn’t speed.” He pointed out that the accident occurred in a “very rough section" of terrain. The West Virginia wreck followed by hours a crash near Los Angeles which took 29 lives. Those admitted to Williamson memorial hospital were identified as; , ~ * Ernest Hoback, 27. of Bluefield. W. Va., fireman on the train; William Brock, age unknown, Cincinnati, O.: F. C. Conrad, 57, Bluefield; W. Va.; Fred Harrison, 59, Williamson; ’Mamie . Miller, 52, Lynchburg. Va.; Mrs. Beatrice .Hughes, 32. Mrs, Miller's daughter, also of Lynchburg; George H. Ha(Continued on Page Five) Albert Lehrman Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Albert Lehrman, 86. of 222 North First street, died at 4:45 a. m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital after an illness of only one day. '. .. He was born in Allen county April 19, 1869, a son of Ferdinand ■end Verna Ehrman-Lehrman, and was married to Clara Weiland Dec. 28, 1918. Mrs. Lehrman died July 23, 1955. Mr. Lehrman mover to Decatur in 1942 after retiring from his farm. Surviving are one son, Roy Lehrman of’Decatur: two grandchildren; one brother, Charles Lehrman of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Sophia Schaanerloh of Monroeville. Four brothers preceded him in death. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon < at a time and place to he announced later.

Six Persons Killed In Auto-Truck Crash 1 ——-x - — Three Others Dead In Indiana Crashes INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The Indianapolis weather bureau today predicted zero weather for tonight in Indiana. Light snow also v*s forecast. Hoosier farmers rejoiced in the fact that the heavy snow blanket has not melted and run off fast into streams because it will help relieve a serious drought situation in the state. However, the slippery roads accounted for a number of the nine highway deaths during the weekend. Six persons met death and two others were injured critically when their automobile and a truck collided on Road 136, two miles west of Brownsburg. The dead were James Henry Faulk, Jr., a printer employed by the Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Star; his wife, Edna, 30: their sons, Charles, 7; Steven, 6. and John. 3. and John Wesley Buxton. Jr. 26. In critical condition were Jfrs. Pauline Buxton, 24, wife of John Buxton and sister of Mrs. Faulk, and their 10-months-old daughter, Lieh Buxton. A two-car collision was responsible for the death of Miss Joan Tarrett, 25, of Francisco, on Road 64 just west Os Franciscan. She was riding with Kenneth Filch, 28. of Princeton. The other car was driven by James Eubanks, 22. of Winslow, who apparently went to sleep at the wheel, according to state police. Fitch, Eubanks and Richard Ev> ans, 2.2, of Arthur, a passenger in Eubanks’ car, were injured seriously. Marshall R. Moore, 10. of Chicago, was killed when an automobile driven by his uncle, Robert Moore, 30, skidded into a ditch at the intersection of Roads 66 and .75 in Spencer county. Seriously injured were the uncle, and the boy’s father, Denver Moore, 28, and his mother, Eleanor, 27. (Continued on Page Five) Final Report Given By Community Fund Annual Fund Drive Is Short Os Quota The final figure of 111,891.10 raised in Decatur fry* the Decatur Community Fund. In<w was announced today by Robert Boc.h. treasurer _oL_Jhg.organization., Otto Beehler, general chairman for the 1956 drive, said that while the drive fell short by $598.90, he was well pleased with the retponse received throughout the city. The total 1956 budget had been Set at $12,490, so cash grants to each sustaining organization will be only a few dollars below the requests for 1956. Here are the final report figures: Retail, business and professional. $3,381.25. Retail employes. (143 contributing), $309:35. industry, $2,958.00. Industrial employes, $3,873.25. Schools, $252.50. City employes, $39.00. Ministers, $54.50. organizations (21 giving), $245.00. Lodges and clubs (four contributing), $60.00.. Doctors (seven donating), $135. Received in mail (19 persons), $375.35. Postal and county 'employes, $158.00. Presbyterian deacons fund. $50.00. Total $11,891.10. Officers of she< Community Fund accepted the report and gave a unanimous vote of appreciation to Chatrma n Beehler;who organized the solicitors and headed the entire fund raising activities. ''

Senate G.O.P. Leaders Irked At Secy. Dulles Reported Ready To Explode Fireworks At Tuesday Session By RUTH MONTGOMERY WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate GOP leaders — boiling mad al secretary of state John Fostei DUlles—are set to explode souk fireworks on Capitol Hill Tuesdaj that may well split the Republic an party wide open in this cru ciai ejection year. This writer has learned on to] authority that senate Republicai leader William F. Knowiand, an< chairman Styles Bridges of th< GOP senate policy committei have read the riot act to Dullei over his appointment of Rober Bowie as an assistant secretary. The two leaders summoned Dul les to the Capitol for a huslvhusl session last week, immediately al ter Bowje’s nomination was ar nounced. Dulles privately com mented later that “they gave mi a very, very unhappy day.” Bridges and Knowiand, I an told by an unimpeachable source bluntly accused Dulles of beak iug the jildrjt ot an agreement tc consult the GOP senate leaderahij; before a nomination requiring senate confirmation is publicly imnounced. The secretary had tipped them off abont Bowie, but when they turned thumbs down, he made the nomination anyway. The agreement stems from an other party split, early iri the Eisenhower administration, over the appointment of Charles E. (Chip) Bohlen as our ambassador to Moscow. At that time, despite the honeymoon period, 11 Republicans voted with two Democrats against Bohlen's confirmation. It carried 74 to 13. Because of the bitter feelings, liowever,- Dulles reportedly promised thereafter to sample leadership opinion before, not after, the White House nominations for the state department go to the senate. The system has worked smoothly except in one instance. This occurred last year when Bridges and Knowiand, apprised that Dulles in leaded to appoint Julius Holmes as ambassador to Iran, warned him that the nomination (Continued oh 1-age Five) Christina Wicks Is Taken By Death Prominent Decatur Lady Dies Saturday Mrs; Christina Vail Wicksp 92, of 249 North Seventh street, lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 10:25 o'clock Saturday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mrs. Wicks had been in critical condition since sustaining a fractured hip in a fall eight days ago. A native of Adams county, she was born July 1, 1863, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Railing. Her husband, Edward, preceded her in death. Mrs. Wicks wgs one of the most active members of the First Methodist church in this city and was also prominent for many years in social and civic affairs in- tlecatur. Surviving are two sons, Daniel R. Vail Fla., and Forreaj, E. Vail of Leesburg; one grandchild and four great-grand-children. One son, Thomas Vail, and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. .Tuesday at the First Methodist church, the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillie X- Doan' funeral home; where friends may call after 4 o’clock this afternoon until time of the services; ■'

Uneasy Quiet Is Reported In Bombay Plead For Calm In Industrial Areas w BOMBAY (INS) — An uneasy . quiet settled over strife-tom Bombay today where at least 65 persons, and possibly as many as 200, died during week-long riots. Shops began to reopen as political and. union'leaders pleaded for calm in the industrial areas which > have been, the center of the dis- ! turbances. But across Ute Indian sub-con- , Unent in the ' town of Cuttack, , troops were positioned to guard . strategic points after anti-govern-ment demonstrators attacked the home of an official. j Another contingent of troops j was rushed to the iwly town of j Puri to quell other disturbances. B The demonstrations were stirred B up by Prime Minister Jawaharlal s Nehru’s efforts to settle regional boundary feuds. The 17-man working committee . of Nehru’s congress party met ’ Sunday in New Delhi to consider ' the situation which appears to be the sharpest political crisis India has faced in her six years of freedom. B The committee refused today to change its decisions on reorganizing. Indian state boundaries and ’ said it would not "surrender to ’ terrorist methods.” A resolution, believed pergonal- ' ly drafted by Nehru, cited the ' "vast damage” done in Bombay and warned that the riots "imperil the future of India and her people.”, Six Persons Injured In Bus-Truck Crash ONARGA, 111. (INS) — Six passengers were injured when a douGreyhound bus crashed 1 into the rear of a truck-trailer oh U.S. highway 45 near Onarga, 111. The Chicago-bound bus careened across a ditch and onto a railroad embankment Sunday as bus driver, C. W. Murphy of Riverside, 111., sought to swing around the stalled truck. Civic Music Group Will Meet Feb. 1 To Plan Membership Campaign In County A meeting of chairmen and advisory members of the Adams county Civic Music association has l»een scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 8:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The purpose of the meeting will be organization and discussion of plans for the membership campaign. Mkrtha Moore Smith, regional director of the Civic Concert Service, will be in charge of the meeting. Glenn Hill, president of the local association, has announced that the meeting is an important oneand all committee chairmen and their workers are urged to attend. The meeting was originally scheduled ftuj L3O p.m.. but for the convenience of those persons who have other meetings to attend that night, the time has been changed to 8:3(7 p.m. The association has been formed for she purpose of sponsoring a series of concerts by artists of national and international reputation. Only members may, attend the concerts and. memberships will be available during the campaign week, which will be determined at the Feb. 1 meeting. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, few snow flurries extreme north and chance of light snow extreme southeast tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy. Little change in temperature, Low tonight 2-10 above north, 10-2 b south. High Tuesday 18-25 north, 22-29 south. / • ' . -'T ' '

Excessive High Speed Blamed For Disaster Many Others Badly Hurt As. Passenger Train Is Wrecked LOS ANGELES HNS) —Coroners surgeons today set about the maeabre jig-saw puzzle of piecing together a jumble of torn bodies in an attempt to identify all of the estimated 29 persons who died in the wreckage of a two-car train in Los Angeles. Only 12 of the dead have been positively identified. Another 17 are believed to have been ground to death when a veteran engineer apparently blacked out at the controls of the Santa Fe San Diegoan and the speeding twin-diesel train tipped over at a ' curve in East Los Angeles. Os the 170 passengers aboard, 137 others were injured, some so critically that the death toll may go higher. Only a handful escaped the wreckage unscathed. Company officials declared flatly that the derailment was caused by high speed. Santa Fe president Fred G. Gurley said in a statement in Chicago : ■ ' ' ■' r i ' 1 "All Indications are that the accident was caused by undue speed approaching a 1.0-degree curve.” He added-that a seasoned man was at the controls and that the disaster, the worst train wreck in Southern California’s history, was "Un incomprehensible thing.” At the controls was 61-year-old Frank B. Parrish, a veteran of 37 years with the road. He said that he started to slow down as the train approached the curve on which the speed was supposed to be reduced to 15 miles an hour. Then he said he must have blacked out because the "next thing I knew we were toppling over.”, _ „iU-.-.... Raymond D. Shelton, general manager of the Santa Fe’s coast lines, said Parrish estimated his speed at about 50 miles an hour. The wreck took place at 5:42 p. m. (PST), 12 minutes after the train, carrying about 170 passengers. left the Los Angeles union passenger terminal. It occurred orily four miles from the station. Those who were eye-witness to the disaster said that after the train toppled over it slid along the roadbed on its side, throwing (Continued ca Page Eight) Peanut Sales Aid To Polio Campaign $160.74 In Sales To March Os Dimes The peanut sale conducted Saturday by students from the two Decatur high schools brought in a total of $160.74 to the 1956 March of Dimes fund campaign. Under the chairmanship of Ralph Thomas, president of the teen council, the teen-agers worked air day Saturday in the business district soliciting donations to the polio fund. Those who participated included Judy Parrish, Margie Kohne, Leanida Mies, Roseanne Litchtlgld, Barbara Bruhnegraff, Robert Murphy, Bonnie Hake. Gretchen Lankenau. Mike Cole, Joe Morris, Dorrie Kintz, Ramona Rousseau. . ’ Tom Mills, Mike Ehler, Agnes Barlett, Jane Stiverson, Mary Lou Voglewede, Judy Ellenberger, Leah Brandyberry, Karen Call, Janalee Smith, Judy Smith. Carol Heiser, Pat Kintz. Janice Auniann, Sharrpn Sheets. Helen Elliott. Pat Sovtne, Diane Baker, Sarah Gass. Geraldine Schultz, Linda Norris, Jo Ann Jones. Linda Sextan. Elizabeth Bodkin and Joan Stiverson.

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