Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 30, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1956 — Page 1

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Report Soviet Bloc Building Up industries Bloc Threatens To Overtake Industrial Power Os West Lands WASHINGTON (INS) — High administration officials said today thgV the Soviet bloc n»xw threatens to overtake the industrial power of the United States and the West. The statement was made after Russia revealed a plan of forced draft expansion of Siberia and the A»ian provincas of the Soviet Union. it&wever, officials pointed out that they have known of the ' threatlor some time. Congress has received a partial warning from the administration. Committees have been told in secret that, for the first time since the industrial revolutions, the power of modern productive techniques is being used against Western nations which formerly had a virtual monopoly In this field. The congressmen-were told that Western dominance tn the world during the past 200 years was based on the fact that the West hept ahead of the rest of the world in mass production proces80S. But now. the congressmen were told, the Soviet Union and some of her satellites have advanced so far in modern industry that they are able to challenge the U. S seriously in the field of foreign aid and technical assistance in the Middle East and Asia. To some in the administration, this means a Soviet advance of the same general importance as the Russian successes in developing nuclear weapons and long range jet bombers. z The reason is that traditionally American strategic thinking was based on the assumption that the U. S. could outproduce any industrial nation in the world. That assumption no longer is unquestionel _ ... The Russians «ave been work ing feverishly ever since World War II to nfake the Soviet Far East economically independent. Since 1945 newspapers in European Russia regularly have car-, rfed advertisements offering al' aorta of inducements to Russians with professions or particular skills to "go east,” where the economy was booming. By 1948 Russia already had made important industrial advances in the- Soviet Far East. " ‘ 1 “W Junior Red Cross Purchases Two Cots The Junior Red Cross of Adams county has purchased two cots for the Red Cross first aid group as their project this month, according to an artnouncement made today by Miss Glerfnys Roop, junior Red Cross chairman. The cots will be uspd by the Red Cross, in setting up first aid booths at the 4-H fair, tourneys and other events. Junior Red Cross’ members contribute In .other projects of the chapter each year. Miks Roop is assisted by Mrs. Mildred Foley in guiding the Junior organization.

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Slick Glaze Os Ice Causes Accidents Two Schools Closed By Hazardous Roads A slick glaze of ice which covered streets and roads of the area was responsible for several accidents this morning. It also resulted in closing two schools, Adams Central and Monmouth, because travel on the county roads was so hazardous. ± Ernest S. Merica, 85, of Decatur, patient at the Adams county memorial hospital suffering a fracture of the left hip as a result of an accident at about 6:30 a.m. today. ' « Merica was attempting to turn off 13 th street onto Second street extended. He was unable to make (he turn and skidded into a field. The resulting accident did no damage to his car but caused the fracture. City police Investigated. Ice was also blamed for an accident at 1:40 am. two miles north of Decatur on U.S. highway 27 at the Monmouth road intersection. Cars driven by Adolph Bauman, 64. of Decatur, and Budry D. Frank, 21, of Willshire, 0., route one. were involved. Both cars were going south. The Bauman car slowed down behind - an unidentified third car and Frank, following Bauman, was unable to stop because of the ice. Damage was not extensive. The accident was investigated by sheriff Merle Affolder. —Another injury due to slippery conditions was caused to Myron Lehman, coach at Pleasant Mills high school. Lehman was going out to his car this morning when he slipped and fractured his right shoulder. He was treated at the local hospital and released. . Also Injured in fails this morning were Mrs. William L. Johnson, of Decatur route three, who slipped at her home and sustained a back injury, and Joseph Spangler, 73. of Studebaker street, who fell on the ice and injured his left shoulder. Both were taken to the hospital for observation and treatment. Lester E. Lehman, of Berne, sustained an injury to his arm in’ a fall in front of the Berne post office. The. freezing drizzle started last | night and by morning had coated everything with the extremely slippery ice. hi addition to the accidents reported, automobiles ; all over the area were sliding into ditches. - Rising temperatures by midmorning began to melt the ice off the main highways and streets but side roads remain hazardous. City, county and highway crews have been working to sand intersections and spread salt along busy streets and roads. • Colchin Funeral Is Held This Morning COLCHIN FUNERAL IS Funeral services were held this morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church for William P. Colchin, retired Deeatur businessman, who died Friday night at his home. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiated. with burial in the Catholic cemetery. , The names of three brothers were unintentionally omitted from the survivors listed tn Saturday's Daily Democrat. They are John "and Herman Colchin. both of Decatur. and Anthony Colchin, of Kingfisher, Okla. K

Ike And Dulles Confer On New Bulganin Note Matters Os Foreign Policy Discussed At Session Today WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower conferred for ap hour and a half today with secretary of state John Foster Dulles on Russia’s friendship treaty proposal and other foreign policy matters. Dulles told newsmen as he left the White House that he did not know when the U. 8. would reply to the latest note from Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin renewing the proposal for a 20-year, nonaggression pact. The secretary was asked what he had discussed with Mr. Elsenhower. He replied; "All the matters you would guess that we would discuss.” < Dulles also laid before the President the Soviet protest against alleged use of photographic balloons by the U. and Turkey over Russian territory. The Chief Executive scheduled his conference with Dulles immediately after flying back to Washington from Gettysburg, Pa., where Mr. Eisenhower spent the weekend at his farm. Dulles entered the White House by a side entrance for his 10:15 a m. (EST) appointment with the President. The cabinet member carried a typewritten manuscript several pages in length, presumably a draft of the U. S. reply to Bulganin’s latest proposal for friendship treaties. Presidential iFe w s secretary Jgmes C. Hagerty said the President and Dulles discussed _theJU.B. reply to the latest Bulganin note, renewing Russia’s bid for a 20year non-aggression pact, at the morning conference. Hagerty announced that the President will not spend next week end at his Gettysburg farm- He indieated that Mr. Eisenhower will remain ffi Washington over the weekend to undergo his physical and medical checkup at Walter Reed army hospital. Hagerty also said the President will hold his regular weekly news conference at 10:30 a.m. (EST) Wednesday. The conference was cancelled last week because of Mr. Eisenhower's talks with British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden. Mr. Eisenhower and Dulles had discussed the Bulganin proposal by telephone during the President s four-day stay at Gettysburg. The President arrived at the * Washington airport at 8:19 a.m. (EST) in his small “commuter" plane’ and went directly to the White House. Atomic energy commission chairman Lewis L. Strauss had an 11:30 a.m. appointment with Mr. Eisenhower. Democrat Governor Contest Speeds Up Two Developments Increase Interest INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The Democratic gubernatorial contest became hotter today with two week-end developments. I One was the unanimous indorsement of Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker by the sixth district committee at a meeting in Crawfordsville. - 1 ’ Another was the possibility that Johnson county, in the seventh district. will sponsor Roger D. Branigin, Lafayette attorney. Brpnigin was born in Franklin. The Johnson county chairman. Thurman M. Demoss. is a Branigin man and will stage a reception for him- during the Jackson-Jefferson Day celebration in Indianapolis Saturday. Branigin's race for governor has been handicapped to date because he lives in the second district, which Is backing Claude R. Wickard, of Camden, former secretary of agriculture, for senator. Another possibility, Thomas R. Johnston, also of Lafayette, Purdue University publicity director, faces the same geographical setback. Branigin’s shift of tactics will be weakened somewhat by the fact that another seventh district man now is the pacemaker in the gubernatorial struggle. He is state senator Matthew Welsh, of Vincennes, Other announced Democratic aspirants are from Indianapolis. They are Nelson Grills. Marton county chairman, and Robert O’Neal, Marion county sheriff.

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Senale Group Favors Rigid * Price Support Battle In Congress Is Foreseen Over Mandatory Support WASHINGTON (INS) — The question of how to put money into farmers’ pockets before the elections in November harrowed today to a congressional battle over high, mandatory price supports. The senate agriculture committee late Saturday voted 8 to 7 for 90 percent price supports for wheat, cotton, corn, rice and peanuts — the so-called basic crops. The administration wants to retain flexible. 75 to 90 per cent price props. The committee’s action is subject to change before a final vote Thursday on its omnibus farm bill* which it has tentatively approved. However, no one expects any switch in committee on the price support issue. Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.j top GOP committeeman. and spokesman for the administration in the unit, said a vigorous attempt will be made to knock out ( the high price props when the bill gets to the senate floor. Aiken contends that it is "ant* of the question'' for congress to approve both the 90 per cent price props and the soil bank which is a major provision of the bill. He ijaid that when farmers “start using a pencil and paper to figure their payments under the bank,” they will realize that its benefits "far overshadow 90 percent supports." But advocates of high, mandatory price supports argue that the bank will be set up too late to have any real effect in bolstering farm income this year. The 90 perI cent price supports voted in committee would apply to 1956 and 1957 crops. The administration blames high supports for what it contends is (Continued or. Page Eight) New Technician Is Named Al Hospital McCuddy Resigns Hospital Position Ralph McCuddy. medical technician at Adams county memorial hospital, has resigned his post after more than three years service and will be succeeded by Miss Patricia Lucas, Portales, New Mexico. The action was made official at the Friday meeting of the hospital board of trustees. Miss Lucas will assume her duties here in the next few days. _ The trustees also unanimously passed a resolution of appreciation to Mrs. Roy Kalver and O. W. P. Macklin of Decatur, who acted as city and county volunteer heads of the recent successful drive to obtain freeholder signatures to support the petition of the trustees for authority to issue hospital improvement bonds. More than 4,100 signatures were obtained bj the big army of volunteer workers under organization guidance Os Mrs. KalVer and Macklin. A resolution commending the Daily Democrat for its editorial and news story support of the volunteer drive also was adopted. The board also approved the selection by the Adams county medical society of Dr. Gerald J. Kohne as chief of staff for the hospital during 1956. Dr. Kohne was unanimously recommended to the post by the medical group several weeks ago. The board of trustees, with the aid of business manager Thurman Drew, superintendent of nurses Miss Marie Felber, and board attorney John De Voss, is preparing its formal request for the bond issue kttd will present the matter to the county commissioners and county council soon. ----- -

•' J. w Russians Protest American Balloons Protest Balloons Sent Over Russia WASHINGTON (INS)—The U.S. was considering a reply today to Soviet charges that American military, balloons carrying radio equipment and cameras have been sent over Russian territory. The Soviet protest also complained that the U. S. government has done nothing to stop the launching of balloons by private American groups. Tass, the Soviet news agency, said the protest was delivered Sat urday in Moscow to U. S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, and that a similar protest went to'the Turkish government. A State department spokesman pointed out that the U. S. Air Force announced recently that it was expanding its high-altitude weatherballoon program. The weather balloons carry weather instruments, cameras, and _ radio equipment to relay conditions ■to the ground. The Soviet note charged that use of the balloons is a “gross violation of Soviet air space ... contrary to obligations assumed by the United States government in accordance with the UN charter and with normal relations ; between states.” balloons haVe been *'bekt up by tbfr Free ' Europe committee, a private group 1 which operates Radio Free Europe. The Russians charged Thursday that the propaganda balloons were ’ a "serious danger to planes” flying , j in the Soviet area of Germany. The note also recalled that a similar protest had been sent.to the last September but that no action had been taken. Sudan Bidding For U.N.Membership Security Council To Consider Bid UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (INS) —Sudan’s bid for UN membership .will be taken up today by the security council. The 11-nation council meets at 3 p.HL at the request of the U.S., which asked that the “well quail fied” African republic be favorably considered for admission. Even if Sudan should be recommended by the council for membership. she still would have to wait until fall for the general as sembly’s endorsement. Sudan, which had been governed jointly by Britain and Egypt for more than half a century before •becoming an Independent state on Jan. 1, would be the 77th UN mem ber. The U.S. stole a march on Rus sia in calling for security cmiiici! consideration of Sudan’s member ship The step deprived the Soviet, which has been wooing the AfroAsian nations, of being the first to sponsor Sudan's admission and thus make propaganda capital out of the move. The Soviet was expected to support Sudan but there was some be lief she might try to link it with the pending Japanese and Outer Mongolian applications, both previously rejected. ' President of the security council this month under the rotating system of chairmanships is Soviet delegate Arkady A. Sobolev. Mrs. Will Nachtrieb Dies At Ohio Home Mrs Will Nachtrieb, 92. widow of a former Decatur druggist, died at Delta, O. recently, according to Decatur friends, who received the message Mrs. Nachtrieb, who formerly resided here, died at a rest home fa Delta and burial was fa the cemetery near that town. A sen, George Nachtrieb at Good land, Pa., and formerly at Deeatur, survives-

IUE Leaders Discuss Plan Os Settlement Negotiators Talk t Over Federal Plan In Strike At W. E. < PITteWiRGH (INS) — Top > for the CIO-AFL Ini ternational Union of Electrical Workers vote today in Pittsburgh . on a federal proposal for temporary settlement of the 113-day • strike of 44,000 employes at 30 i Westinghouse Electric Corp. plants. Failure of Westinghouse io ac--1 cept all phases of the proposal by ' the federal mediation and conclll- ’ ation service could influence the union vote. The company agreed Sunday to permit resumption of production while bargaining continues for 90 days on wages and length of contract. Bargaining on the crucial ‘ time study rtf dayworkers issue ’ would be held off for 90 days. R. D. Blasier. a Westinghouse ! vicepresident, declined to go along with the mediation service propos--1 al that if agreement on the time 8 study dispute is not reached after 60 days a fact-finding panel would 1 take .qjtar. He ’ stated, that the 6 company would decide what to do f after the 60 days wefrt up. '• Previously Westinghouse had V stated that it would never permit B an outside body to rule on the * time study issue. The IUE In its appeals to the public by newspapers, radio and television had cons tended that it cannot permit the 3 studies without a guarantee that no jobs will be lost as a result Labor observers admit the possibility that company refusal on fact finding at this time may be a face-saving act paving the way tor capitulation in five months when the strike no longer 4s a public issue. Length of contract is not up for discussion under terms of the cur-rent'two-year contract which expires in October. The union is i seeking a 15-cent honriy pay im > crease. Westinghouse wants thes IUE to accept a five-year pact with a pay boost each year. I- .. < Mrs. Sephus Melchi Is Taken By Death 1 ■_l ■' Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Mrs. Nettie May Melchi, 81, of 810 North Third street, who died at 11:15 a. m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital after a long illness of complications. She had been seriously ill for the past year. She was born at Bobo Jan. 7. ' 1875, a daughter of Henry and Josephine Ehresman/ and was a lifelong resident of Adapis county. She was married March 19, 1893, to Sephus Melchi, former Decatur police chief. Mrs. Melchi was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, and was very active for years in chlifch and civic affairs. Surviving in addition to her husband are three sons, Russell and Cecil Melchi, both of Decatur, and Harold Melchi of Muncie; tarp daughtqys. Mrs. Floyd Death rtf Fremont and Mrs. Hubert Cochran of Decatur; 11 grandchildren: 15 great-grandchildren; one brother, William Ehresman of Fort ’ Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs AnI na Bunner and Mrs. Rollie Smit- > ley of Decatwr. , : Services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Glllig & ■ Doan funeral home, the Rev. John » E. Chambers officiating, Burial ■ will be in the Mt. Tabor ceme- > tery. Friends may call at the I funeral hrtme until time of the services. i , ——-—

20 Persons Killed In Texas Blizzard Worst Blizzard In Stafe In 50 Years AMARILLO, Tex. (INS) —Snowbound residents of west Texas began digging out of their worst blizzard in half a ceptury today, hoping for sunshine and warmth to ease their taskSnow measuring more than two i feet, whipped by high winds into drifts nine feet high, have caused 20 deaths in the past five days. The U- 8- weather bureau forecast calls for above freezing temperatures in the snowbound section today and Tuesday and only partly cloudy skies. However, the weatherman said a low pressure front now hanging over California and Arizona could bring more snow Wednesday, but stressed there is "nothing definite” now. Transportation was paralyzed and at least two towns were cut off from outside highway communication over the weekend by the heavy white blanket which ‘extends from the Panhandle to the Big Bend country. Sixteen persons’stranded in a bus , close to the New Mexico border r west of Amarillo were rescued be- ’ cause of the heroic efforts of the j driver, John Herron, who walked ' eight and a half hours through I waist-deep snow to summon help. , Two trains stopped along their 1 routes to rescue stranded motorists Saturday night, taking about 20 j persons to safety .: t At Plainview, where additional , snow Sunday brought the unofficial ' total fall to 30 inches, Mrs Maria <Perez and her infant son died in childbirth because help could not 5 reach them at their Isolated farmt house five miles from town. j Lincoln Day Rally ‘ Held Here Saturday Thomas Gallmeyer Principal Speaker i e**"— "mo ** < < Thomas Gallmeyer, Allen conni ty Republican chairman, addressed a group of 150 Adams county lite- ’ 'Publicans attending the annual Lincoln Day dinner Saturday night at the Knights of Pythias home. J,’ln his talk Gallmeyer referred to the G.O.P. as standing for conservatism and promoting the pro tection of the individual. He attacked the liberal wing of the Democrat party, claiming that it is pushing the country into socialism. Gallmeyer also scored the practice of unions contributing to the political campaigns of various candidates. He urged that the G.O.P. precinct organizations work hard to promote the conservative attitude es the party and to accept the challenge of putting the party over locally as well as nationally. In addition to Gallmeyer’s talk, brief remarks were made by Harry Essex, Adams county chairman; Mrs. Eleanor Snyder, vice-chair-man, and Roy Jones of Topeka, fourth district chairman. Lee Neuen, Republican member of the Berne cRy council, served as toastmaster. Invocation was offered by the Rev. Lawrence Norris. Among the guests introduced were Kenneth Meyers, Steuben county chairman; Mrs. Cora Holland of Steuben county, fourth district secretary; Dwight Hostettler and Don Nelson, former LaGrange county chairmen, and Judge Donald H. Hunter. LaGrange county judge. Also introduced were several persons active in G.O.P. work in Adams: county INDIANA WEATHER Freezing rttlff warning extreme north. Gradually clear, ing tonight although some areas foggy. Tuesday partly cloudy and a little warmer. Lew tonight 26-32. High Tuaoday 3M4. '

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Langer Blocks Senate Action On Resolution Early Consideration By Senate Blocked As Langer Objects WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate action was blocked today on a resolution ordering an investigation of Spn. Francis Case’s claim that he was offered a |2,500 "political contribution” by a lawyer favoring the natural gas bill. Sen. William Langer (R-N. D.) prevented immediate senate consideration of the move by objecting when senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson asked for the vote. Under senate rules, one cbjection blocked the vote. Johnson served notice he would move for approval of the inquiry as soon as the senate had completed work on the gas bill itself. Johnson pressed for a showdown vote on the gas bill despite a reported Republican move to delay action pending an investigation of the CSse charge. Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) a foe of the measure which would exempt natural gas producers from direct (federal controls, said a GOP bloc would attempt to send the bill back to the commerce committee. X . But .Johnson insisted that by delaying the balloting until a probe is made, the senate “would indict itself.” Case identified the mystery donor as John M. Neff, a Lexington, Neb., lawyer, who has denied doing anything improper in offering the money toward Case’s political campaign. ( » Case read to the senate a long telegram which the senator said he received from Neff. In it, Neff said he was "amazed and shocked” and "incensed" over Case’s charge because the money was offered ‘with no strings attached.” '■ The telegram said that Neff “was interested in the passage of the Harris bill and still am” but denied that he was part of "any shady deal.” ~Sen. Roman L. Kruska (R-Neb.) told newsmen today that Neff also had talked to him both in Nebraska and in Washington "giving me the reasons why I should vote for* the gas bill. Asked if he know of any contributions" made to senators by Neff, Kruska shook his head. He said he could not recall Neff “saying anything" about whom he represented. Senate GOP policy chairman Styles Bridges (R-NjH.) said the leadership is "going forward with the bill and the resolution of investigation.” He warned that he had in his hands “plenty of stuff on the other side" —, those opposing the gas bill-and indicated a folder which he said contained lists of labor union contributions to senators. He said the union contributions Were for the 1954 congressional campaign. y Bridges said the furor over the Case incident had “changed some votes on both sides” In the fight over the gas bill. But Johnson told newsmen the Neff statement "doesn’t change the situation.” Johnson hoped to win unanl(Oontlnueo on Page Sight) Robert S. Nachtrieb Dies In Philadelphia Robert S. Nachtrieb of Philadelphia, Pa . who was well known in Decatur, died last week at his home, according to word received here by friends. He was a government employe for many years and burial was In Arlington cemetery. D. C. Richard Archbold; Coldwater. Mir** ■ *nd Mrs Byron, Elkhart son and daughter of Dr- Roy Archbold es Decatur and nephew and niece of Mr. Nachtrieb. attend- c ed the Philadelphia servil«?