Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 34, Decatur, Adams County, 10 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 34.

SEEK MIDDLE EAST FORMULA * BIG THREE diplomats stand before a map in Washington, pondering a formula to end war tension in the Middle East. From left: French Ambassador Maurice Couve de Murville, Deputy U. 8. Undersecretary of State Robert Murphy, British Ambassador Sir Roger Makins.

Leslie Irvin Is Nabbed In San Francisco •Indiana's Mad-Dog Killer Captured In Pawn Shop Thursday %AN FRANCISCO (INS) — A self-achieved delay in his journey to the electric chair was at an end today for Leslie Irvin, Indiana's "kneeling executioner" of six holdup victims. The handsome 31-year-old slayer, sought tor a month in a nationwide police dragnet, was captured Thursday in a San Francisco pawn shop by inspectors John O’Keefe and Leo T. Ferrogiaro. Neatly attired and sporting a crew hair cut, the burly fugitive was unarmed and surrendered meekly but did not admit his true identity for several hours. “In a. jtay. I’m glad K's all ofer,” he signed at police headquarters. He said he escaped recognition five times previously, most recently near Ventura, Calif., last Wednesday when a traffic officer stopped the car in which he had hitched a ride and warned the driver about speeding. During his trip across the country he said he cashed two bogus checks —for 110 and S2O in Missouri. Irvin, described by Indiana's director of corrections as “a homicidal maniac whose violent nature is so well hidden it seems fantastic.” escaped from the Gibson county jail in Princeton. Ind., last Jan. 19. He accomplished his amazing escape on the eve pf his scheduled transfer to the state prison for execution in the electee chair June 12. "Any man in his right mind , don't want to be kept locked up.” the so-called "executioner” explained to San Francisco police. His method of escape was simple. He said he made “some keys to my cell and to the cellblock ... out of the covers from some paper bound books glued together with tinfoil.” He said he used the keys while ' sheriff Earl Hollen "was up front watching television.” Inspectors O’Keefe and Ferrogiaro approached Irvin in the pawn ■ shop while he was attempting to pawn a diamond ring and a pair of ear rings he picked up in a recent Los Angeles burglary. 1 At first he calmly identified 1 himself as Victor Davis, a pianist with Tex Williams' orchestra. I Flashing a disarming smile, he | produced a musician's union card and an insurance identification card, both issued to Victor Davis. But O’Keefe was unconvinced. The inspector contacted Los Angeles police and learned that Davis had been robbed by a hitch- 1 hiker whom he transported from Las Vegas, Nev., to Los Angeles. /Confronted with this informa- ’ tion, Irvin shrugged and asked: ' Don’t you know who I really am?” ' , Then he volunteered his iden- 1 tity, adding: “I wasn’t surprised. lt had to ' come. I've been expecting to get picked jip for quite a while.” Irvin was convicted and sen- 1 tenced to death for the killing of a (Continued on Page Seven) INDIANA WEATHER 1 Partly cloudy north, mostly < cloudy south tonight and Bat- 1 urday with chance of rain mixed with snow extreme I south tonight and Saturday 1 morning. Little change In tern- 1 peraturs. Low tonight 23-30 < north, SGM south. High Sat- I urday 36-44. 1

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Barred Negro Files Actions On School Negro Co-ed Fights University Ouster BIRMINGHAM. Ala. (INS) — Negro co-ed Autherine Lucy has filed two new federal court actions against University of Alabama officials in her fight for reinstatement. Attorneys for the 2G-year-old co-ed, who was barred from the Tuscaloosa campus of the university after her admittance to classes resulted in three days of disorders and a full blown riot Monday brought the suits in U. S. district court in Birmingham Thursday. Miss Lucy asked for a total of $3,000 damages in the two suits and for possible jail sentences for university authorities if she is not readmitted to the school. Judge Hobart Grooms set Feb. 29 for a hearing. The suits also accused university officials of intentionally permitting the recent rioting on the campus and using it as a “cunning etrategem to maintain racial segregation.” The new legal attack was launched upon the expiration of an ultimatum issued by her attorney, Arthur Shores, who had demanded Ther reinstatement within 48 hours of her temporary suspension from the university by the board of trustees following Monday’s rioting. Filing of the new suits came only a few hours after a second Negro woman, Mrs. Polly Myers Hudson, 23, had, in effect, been denied admission to the university by Judge Grooms’ dismissal of a contempt citation sought for the refusal of school officials to admit her. The suits asked for monetary damages even if Miss Lucy is reinstated. Shores said the $3,000 in damages was to reimburse Miss Lucy for the university’s failure to grant her living and dining privileges at the school, for her required traveling between her home in Birmingham and the University at Tuscaloosa. 58 miles away, and her attorney’s fees. Officials of the institution hotly denied charges of 'intentionally permitting” a series of disorders "to assimilate an air of riot and disorder and rebellion . . . as a substitute" for excluding Miss Lucy. (Coniinuea on Pare Eight) City Officials Will Be Luncheon Guests C. Os C. Industrial Division Will Meet Mayor Robert Cofe, city attorney John DeVoss and board of works member Norbert Auman will bee special guests at the Monday noon luncheon meeting of the industrial division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, It was announced today. Tom Allwein, Central Soya. John Welch, Electric, and Lowell Harper, Bag Service, are In charge of arrangements for the affair. The meeting is scheduled to start promptly at 12 o’clock Monday noon at the Youth and Community Center and the round-table discussion will be preceded by a luncheon. Municipal departmental operation In relation to Industry will be the chief topic of discussion, it was announced. All members of the Industrial division and their guests are invited to attend and take part in the discussion.

Says Britain To Ship Vital Good To Reds Britain Wins U. S. Approval To Ship Strategic Material By RUTH MONTGOMERY (I. N. S. Special Correspondent) WASHINGTON (INS)—-The sen ate investigating committee will rock the nation next week with a revelation that Britain has won U.S. approval to- ship highly strategic 60,000-kllowatt generators — essential for atomic and hydrogen bomb development — to communist Russia. ' This correspondent has exclusively learned that the startling testimony was presented behind locked doors this week. It is due tor public airing by the committee in open hearings beginning Tuesday. A committee member told this writer that the senate investigating group has been stymied by the commerce department in Its efforts to learn whether such shipments have already begun. He said commerce secretary Sinclair Weeks will undoubtedly be summoned before the committee after .Other government and non-govern-meat experts have been heard. But the generators are only a part of the story: Senate probers have heard evidence that Britain — with U. S. sanction — has already shipped to Russia at least one horizontal boring mill, a “must” for basic drilling on all airplanes and tanks, and several more are on order. "Nothing on this earth is more strategic for war than horizontal boring mills,’’ the committee member confided. "Yet the U.S. government, which forbids its own people to engage in strategic trade with Red Russia, hat told its allies to go ahead.” The committee further discloses that Britain in the last 18 months has sent the Soviets more than 206,000,000 pounds of highly strategic copper wiring and 1 large quantities of other copper essential for making shell cases and other instruments of war. Copper is in such short world supply that even the U.S., one of the largest producers, is an importer of the metal. “The incredible story has been carefully concealed from our investigating committee for many months,” a member disclosed. “The administration refused to pro(Continued on Page Six) e Wickard Lambasts Ike Administration Huntington Hears Senate Candidate HUNTINGTON, Ind. (INS) — Claude R. Wickar/i, who as a former secretary of agriculture had been expected to lambast President Elsenhower’s farm policies, opened up. on all fronts irvan address at a Democratic meeting in Huntington: Wickard, who also “was former rural electrification administration head, is the likely Democratic choice to oppose Senator Homer Capehart in the battle for Capehart's seat. Wickard started in blasting Eisenhower before he was nominated in 1952 and proceeded op through some of the past headlined stories, including Tideland Oil. Dixon-Yates, Hell's Canyon and the recent resignation of general services administrator Edward Mansure. The former cabinet member dtiring the terms of both the late Franklin D. Roosevelt and exPresident Harry Truman, told the Thursday night rally: “Never before in our historyhave we seen as much influence by big business in our federal government as we have seen during the Eisenhower administration. We have the full application of the ‘trickle down theory’ of operating government.” Wickard called passage of the bill which took the tidelands oil away from the federal government and gave it to the states a “payoff" for the swing of the Texas Republican delegation at the national convention in Chicago which nominated Ike in 195 ft He called the cancelled DixonYates plan "a nefarious contract . . . whereby S7O million of the taxpayers’ monSy would be pumped into the coffers of the two power companies Involved ..." The Eisenhower administration's support of the Idaho Power company, in the Hells Canyon hydropower site fight hb charged was a stand in favor of “big business.” 9

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Somber View Pictured Over Civil Defense Threat Os Nuclear Missile Attack Is Voiced By Peterson By EDWIN DIAMOND (I.N.S. Science Writer) CHICAGO (INS) — The awful arithmetic of ICBM adds up to one conclusion for Americans—scatter out and dig down. This is the somber view of federal civil defense administrator Vai Peterson, who is being forced to take a long new look at this country's defense system under the threat of the ICBM—inter-conti-nental ballistics missile carrying a nuclear warhead. Sens. Stuart Symington (D Mo.), and Henry Jackson (D Wash,), recently warned that Russia will have ready an ICBM capable of ranging up to 1,500 miles before the end of 1956. Traveling at supersonic speeds, these ICBM’s could deliver an atomic or hydrogen warhead on a pinpointed target. The mealing of this for Americans living in or near the nation’s large cities — prime targets.jp a nuclear war — was clearly shwu, tbday by Peterson in an interview with International News Service. Tjie civil defense chief offered these chilling calculations: “Today we assume a U. S. city can get at least one hour advance warning from our Mr raid interception system fob enemy planes flying at today s bomber speeds of 500 miles per hour.' “When our DEW system — distant early warning radar — is completed we expect this warning time to be increased to from three to six hours, or long enough to evacuate safely almost any potential large city target “But these figures are calculated on the basis of the speeds of the fastest existing or planned bomber (uonunuM on Pam 3!x) Fraudulent Check Passed In Berne Merchants Warned 4 On Cashing Checks A check passed Ki Berne last Saturday has prqvbd to be fraudulent, according to a report made Thursday afternoon to sheriff Merle Affolder. The check for SBS was cashed by a young woman at the Mennonite Book Concern in Berne. It was drawn on the account of a fictitious minister in the Anthony Wayne Bank of Fort Wayne. It is the third of its kind to be passed in this county. Two were passed here in December by a young woman who also used a minister’s name. It has been reported that 41 of these bogus checks have been cashed in the Fort Wayne area since last October. The checks are usually cashed by a woman about 30 years old, vho signs her name as Dorothea Andrews. She is described by witnesses as weighing about 125 pounds and standing five feet, two to four inches in height. Other details of her description vary since she apparently dies her hair frequently and some(Continued on Page Two) Next Monday Legal Holiday In State Lincoln’s birthday, which is a legal holiday falling on Sunday, will be officially marked by the bank, court house and other offices on Monday. Among the offices to be closed Monday Iff honor of Lincoln are the offices of the county court house, the First State Bank, federal offices including the selective service board, and the post office.

Big Freeze Returns To Western Europe 111-Equipped Europe Suffers From Cold LONDON (INS)—Western Europe from Sweden to southern Italy shivered again today with the return of last week’s “big freeze." ■ Although bitter cold and more 'snow were forecast for the United Kingdom during the next 48 hours, conditions were worse on the .continent. No respector of political opinions, the new cold wave swept in from Siberia through Eastern Europe and over the iron curtain. Hungary closed schools for a month. The Prague radio broadcast instructions on how to preserve frostbitten fingers, toes, noses and ears. Italy was in the grip of its worst winter in a half century. The new snow and cold come while rescue efforts were still under way in central mountains and southern areas where the predominantly rural population is completely unprepared for such conditions. Italian military planes were scheduled tp parachute food this morning to villages snowbound since last weekend. Troops and helicopters aided columns of rescue workers fighting their way to ; isolated farmsteads. In Cyprus, which lies south of : ! k' r W'k.ey,, < two Jlritish commandos 'were frozen to Jeath dur ing a blizzard -in the mountains. 1 Galkeustein in northern Bavaria registered a temperature of 28 be- ■ low zero Thursday. , Today thermometers in Sweden . went down in some areas to 33 i below. Large portions of the Eibe and Danube rivers were either frozen . or blocked with ice. , • Temperatures in Britain dipped , to six below freezing today. Most roads are sheathed with ice and snow covers much of Kent county, the Midlands and northern England. Railroads are running “ghost trains" equipped with anti-icing devices, including flamethrowers. The British coastal steamer Conlea sank today off the channel islands. Six of the seven persons aboard the 261-ton vessel were rescued despite heavy seas and a blinding snowstorm. The seventh man was swept overboard. Switzerland also reported rec ord low temperatures with the mercury in Licerne dropping to 11 below zero. .....n" G.O.P. Chairman Feels Ike To Run Reiterates Belief Eisenhower To Run WASHINGTON tiNSI — Repub lican national chairman Leonard Hall said today he feels more strongly than ever that President Eisenhower will run for a second, term if he is physically able. Hall made the comment, to newsmen after conferring with several presidential aides at the White, House. He did not see Mr. Eisenhower personally, however. The GOP chairman has said repeatedly that he thinks the Presi dent will run for reelection If he gets a green light from his doctors. Asked today if this is still his opinion, he. declared: “I haven’t changed my mind one bit—if anything I feel a little bit better about it.” Hall added that he has never talked with the President specifically about a second term, although he Indicated the subject has figured in their general political discussions. ~ The Republican chairman said he does not know exactly when Mr. Eisenhower plans to announce his decision. He noted, however, that he had Mid earlier that late February or early March would be soon enough. The President indicated at his (Continued on Page Five) *

Senator Case First Witness In Fund Probe Says $2,500 Offer Suggested Aboormal ‘ Interest Over Bill i WASfilxJ-R# (INS) - SenFrancis Oast, (RS. D.), told senate ■ investigators today that a $2,500 1 offer made to him suggested “some 1 abnormal interest” in the natural gas bill and his own attitude toward 1 the measure. * He said his< decision to make a ' public statement on the senate * floor explaining his resultant opposition to the gas bill was made on I the advice of John Griffin, a cam- ’ paign fund aide who took custody ; of the $2,500. 1 Case was the first witness in 1 the senate's special Inquiry into ' his charge that he was offered the ’ “political contribution" by John M. Neff, a Lexington, Neb., attorney, ! who favered passage of the gas 1 bill- Case voted against the bill 1 when it passed the senate. 1 The senator, promising to cooperate “to the best of my ability”' ’ with' the four-man investigating committee, gave a detailed account f of his personal campaign setup and of the cojavihuUop incjdenL After being sworn as a witness. Case told the special committee 1 headed by Sen- Walter F- George ‘ (D Ga.,) that "I’ll be glad to cooperate with the committee to the j best of my ability.” • ' Case emphasized he has made no “allegaion of a bribe” In his charge concerning the twenty-five 1 SIOO bills Neff offered him the week preceding the senate vote on * the gas bill- ' The senator had charged that 1 Neff, who was “interested in passage” of the measure, had left an 1 envelope containing the money with an aide of Case in South Da--1 kota, saying it was for his election 5 campaign. Case noted that during debate on r the creation of the George committee, he had insisted that he money was not "a bribe” but rather that an “attempt to Inflence my poslion on legislation before the ’ U. S- senate.” (Continued on Page Four) Jefferson School I Election Tuesday Clerk's Office Open Monday To Register Richard Lewton, Adams county clerk, announced today, following consultation with Judge Myles F, “Parrish of the Adatns circuit court, that the clerk’s office will be open during regular tours Monday to permit registration of an/ JSHefiion tojfftSWp" refidehts who wish to vote in the school referendum next Tuesday. The clerk’s office normally would be closed all dey Monday because of the legal holiday for Lincoln’s birthday, which falls on Sunday this year. However, in order that all eligible voters of Jefferson township may have the opportunity to register in order to vote, Lewton will keep his office open as usual, but no other business will .be transacted. The Feb. 14 election In Jefferson is on the proposed consolidation of that township's school system with Wabash township schools at Geneva. Polls in the township will be open from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. CDT, with voting places at the Jefferson school and . the frame school building at the southeast corner of section 17 in the township. Votes cast in the election will be counted by tbe township trustee, Hugh David Mouser, and tbe township advisory board . members, Robert Lautzenheiser, Floyd Baker and Del mas Bollenbacher. lat 10 a. m. Wednesday.

Mediator May Quit Westinghouse Talks No Progress Made In Strike Session PITTSBURGH (INS) —Reports that the U. S. mediation and conciliation service again is considering a withdrawal from deadlocked negotiations in the 117-day Westinghouse Electric Corp, strike circulated today in Pittsburgh. Federal mediator John R. Murray continued talks today with the company and International Union of Electrical Workers, but Informed sources said that no evidence of progress could be seen. - • The first report that the mediation service might withdraw came before Joseph F. Finnegan, director of the agency, summoned both sides to Washington for talks last week. '. The Washington sessions resulted in agreement to drop the troublesome “time study” issue temporarily. That point involves the company's demand for the fight to study the jobs of certain nonIncentive workers. Negotiations then resumed in Pittsburgh aimed at settling the questions of wages, length of contract and procedure to be used for possible arbitration. Settlement of those questions would mean that the lUE's 44,000 strikers, whose walkout last Oct. 17 tollpwed. by » strike of 10,000 members ot the unaffitiated United Electrical Workers, could return to work. Z A 90-day truce period would then follow during which the time-study question would be discussed. No progress reports from the conference table where the remaining issues are being debated apparently led to the rumors of the possible withdrawal of the mediation service. However, Winnegan, who is in Washington, has declined to comment on tbe possibility. Kefauver Favorite In New Hampshire Stevenson Delegates Are Mo re P rom i nen t WASHINGTON (INS) — Adlai E. Stevenson definitely plans to avoid a personal campaign in New Hampshire and will depend on the popularity of pro-Stevenson delegate candidates in that prHhary. The gamble, if successful, could kill off the presidential candidacy of Sen. Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.), in the nation's very first primary. Whereas Stevenson is the recognized front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in the nation as a whole, Kefauver is the admitted favorite in New Hampshire's March 13 primary. He is entered in the state’s preferential race and has a slate of candidates iff the delegate primary. But his undoing could be the fact that the Stevenson delegates list is headed by four of the state’s best Democratic vote-getters. On the other hand, Kefauver must stick with his formerly successful. b\it less prominent, delegate supporters. Should the Stevenson delegate slate take all or most of New Hampshire's 12 delegate spots, which involve the (state’s eight votes at the Democratic national (Continued on Pax* Two) Jo£ Levine Speaks At Rotary Meeting Joe Levine, executive secretary of the Fort Wayne Jewish federation, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. • Levine, who visited Israel and other Middle East and European countries last summer, spoke on "Present Day Israel.” relating the difficult problems which residents of that nation face. Roy Kai ver was chairman of the program.

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Senate Group Renews Rigid Price Support Hagerty Declares Eisenhower Stand Has Not Changed WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate agriculture committee early today approved a farm bill restoring rigid 90 percent of parity price supports on basic crops and the White House reacted with an implied veto threat. News secretary James C. Hagerty said President Eisenhower has not ehanged his position against rigid supports “one iota” and pointed to the Chief Executive's statement that he would be "gravely concerned" if congress abandoned the flexible support system. • , The agriculture committee, by an after-midnight vote of 12 to 3, cleared a farm measure built around the high price props the President opposes and the soil bank plan Mr. Eisenhower has requested. Hagerty emphasised that the President In a letter to Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.) expressed his vigorous opposition earlier this week to any attempt to tie rigid supports to the soil bank plan, which is designed to boost farm prices by decreasing production. In another development, presidential assistant Sherman Adams met with members of the National Farm Organization," a group reportedly urging price supports on livestock. The senate committee’s action touched off a bitter election-year battle. The measure authorizes $1,600.000,000 in government payments to farmers this year. It would also put hundreds of millions of dollars into farmers* pockets by the increase in support prices and a return to the old parity formula on which they are based. The parity formulas are yardsticks determining how much a farmer should get for his crops to balance his costs of production. Approval of the bill came shortly afjer midnight. Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) said at an hour-long news conference afterward that the bill probably will not be called up in the senate untfl Feb. 30, J. The 11,600,000,000 total authorized by the bill includes fl, 100,000,000 in payments to farmers for reducing production under the soil bank. There is also $250,000,000 for support of beef, pork and ether perishables which now do not have any prop. Another $250,000,000 is authorized for continuation of the present conservation payments to farmers. Major changes made by the (Continued on Page Three) March Os Dimes Balance last report $5806.88 Preble Twp. Addtl. (Mrs. Martin Gallmeyer, co- *. . chairman 13.75 Monroe Lions Club 17.00 Adams Central School — 143.33 Monroe Organizations 10.00 Monroe Coin Cannisters (Monroe Chairman, Mrs. Russell Mitchel) 25.54 Monmouth School - 82.41 St. Peters Lutheran School 27.60 Brownie Troop No. 2*; 1.60 Mothers March, Root Twp. Mrs. Robt. Hammond .. 99.11 Decatur Cannisters 171.07 Jefferson High and Grade School 28.63 Jefferson Twp., Mrs. Warren Augsburger, Chrm. 80.82 Mrs. James Meriwether, Chrm. Preble Twp. Schools Friedheim Lutheran schl. 28.99 St. Pauls Lutheran schl. 18.46 St. Johns Lutheran schl. 23.12 Kitnsey School - 17.35 Lincoln School --- 13.36 Blue Creek Twp. (Mrs. Carl Schug. Chrm.) 59.28 • u i