Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 35.

HANDS FULL? JUST STEP ON IT THE POST OFFICE'S new foot pedal mail box. for people who have ■\ their hands full, is demonstrated 3 in Washington by Alberta C. Moran.

Battle Lines Being Drawn On Farm Bill North Dakota GOP Solon Doubts Ike To Veto Measure WASHINGTON (IN§J — The White House has hinted at a veto of the pending Senate farm bill/if rigid 90 per cent price supports on basic crops are approved. _ White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said Friday that President Eisenhower has not veered "one iota" from backing of the administration’s flexible program. But Sen. Milton R. Young (RN. D.) an exponent of 90 per cent props, said on CBS' "Capitol Cloakroom” Friday night that he beHeves the President will sign the bill. Young added: "It contains everything that he asked for in liberal measure ... I think on final considerations that, weighing all the farm matters, the low income farmers are getting now, and what priee supports would do to increase farm prices this year . . . He Will sign it." These developments indicated that battle lines are firmly drawn for a bitter fight when the senate begins debate Feb. 20 on legislation approved by its agriculture committee. Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson said the price support provision would offset the "good features” —a "soil bank” which is designed to pay farmers for taking craps out of production. Referring to the huge, current farm surpluses, Benson said: “The ■* soil bank would empty our warehouses, .but 90 per cent of parity would fill them again. : ,i'Theae two Sparta of the .senate bill are inconsistent. The congress will have to decide which way it wants to go. We cannot go in both directions at the same time.” Benson said he thought the senate could rewrite the bill so as to "strike the bad features and retain the good." Plumping for high supports. Young said that price pegs for cotton, corn and wheat were at or slightly below 90 per cent last year. •?. . He added: "... I don't think that the President would jeopardize ... a good farm bill, just because of a few percentage . pointe.’’ 'i ' \ Meanwhile, the National Farmers Association asked the President again to approve an emergency program to purchase live hogs and cattle as a relief measure for mid-west farmers. J ; ’ CORRECTION The Decatur post office will observe regular hours Monday i and regular mall deliveries a 100 will be made. The court house, with the exception of the dork’s office, and the First State Bank will observe the day aa a legal holiday.

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Alabama Students Oppose Violence Campaign Launched By Student Leaders TUSCALOOSA. Ala. (IlNS) — Student leaders at the University of Alabama launched a campaign today to prevent further violence in the event Negro co-ed Authorise Lucy returns to the campus. The 26-year-old Birmingham sec- > rotary, first Negro ever admitted , to the university in its 125-year--1 history, was barred from classes after a series of riots. University officials ' claimed the demonstrations nearly resulted in her lynching. Attorneys for Miss Lucy have . filed two .petitions in federal district court at Birmingham in hdr fight for reinstatement. In the suits she seeks a total of $3,000 damages and possible jail sentences for university officials if she is not readmitted. She also charged that university officials, in "a cunning strategem” allowed the racial disturbances to continue as a means of forcing her exclusion from the school. A group of student leaders on the campus, headed by student body president Walters Flowers, are making individual approaches to classmates who have threatened mob action again in case Miss Lucy returns. / Flowers said: “Every organization is being urged to take a stand against further uprisings. We are talking to the ones we know are involved, trying to convince them that mob rule can accomplish nothing in a lasting sense.” He added: "We feel that the majority of the students involved now are convinced that mob rule is not the way to accomplish their purpose.” Full blown floting erupted on the campus Mdnday against Miss Lucy. She was hitf' by an egg and the car in which she was being taken to classrooms stoned by a mob estimated at about 3,000. That night the board of trustees temporarily banned her from classes because of the threat of violence to the Negro co-ed, students and faculty members. Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael, university president. Friday denied charges in Miss Lucy’s court petitions that school authorities created the disturbance or allowed it to continue. He stated: “The allegations that the authorities of the university conspired to create a situation or allowed It to be created are untrue, unwarranted and outrageous.” Carmichael added that the university will take ’ whatever steps are necessary, including possible use of state troopers, to protect Miss Lucy if and when she returns to classes. At his first full news conference since the controversy flared, Carmichael said he planned to punish the students who were involved in the riots; . ,•’. . . • INDIANA, Rain or enow ending - early tonight Cloudy tonight end Sunday. "fcowr tonlghf 28-32. High Sunday 35-36. I

Spain Cracks Down On Riots From Students Two Articles Os Bill Os Rights Are Suspended MADRID (INS) — The Franco government suspended for three months today two articles of the Spanish bill of rights in a crackdown on anti-Flangist rioting by university students. The suspension, announced by the Spanish cabinet after a daylong meeting, was coupled with the disclosure that seven persons involved in Thursday’s rioting had been arrested. Chief of state Francisco Franco, in a separate statement, said his government was determined to “use the sternness of the law against those who directly or indirectly have perturbed or intend to perturb the order, peace and unity of Spaniards.” The cabinet meeting was called after five persons were wounded Thursday in a’ battle between members and nbn-members of the Falange party at the University of Madrid. The two suspended articles, dealing with of travel and protection against unlawful arrest, were articles 14 and 18 of the Spanish bill of rights, ratified in July, 1945. Article 14 states: "Spaniards have the right to fix their place of residence in any part of Spanish national territory.” Article 18 declares: “No Spanish national may be arrested except in those cases and in such manner as prescribed by law. Any person who Is arrested shall be released or handed over to the judicial authorities within seven-ty-two hours after his arrest.”* The outbreak of gunfire against the Falange, only political party allowed to function in Spain, was the first such incident in Spain since the end of the Civil War j in 1936. | Police said the seven parsons ! arrested today included some prominent Falangists known to . be leftwingers including Falang- . Ist Poet Dionisio Ridruejo Jimenez. Enrique Mujica Hertzog, Ramon Tamanes Gomez and Miguel Sanchez Mazds, the son of a prominent Falangist. The seven, being held “at the disposition of the authorities,” all were among the signers of a petition last week, asking for rapid reform in “the desolate panorama” of Spanish university education. The cabinet announcement also said the ministers had agreed to take “academic disciplinary measures and other procedures" as a result of the disturbances. r 10 Airmen Die In Two Jel Crashes Separate Crashes Being Investigated RAPID CITY, S. D. (INS) —Air force oficials today investigated two separate crashes of B-47 longrangp jet bombers in South Dakota and Kansas in which 10 airmen were killed. Six were killed in the strategic air I command atom bomb carrier craft which crashed shortly after takeoff Friday from Ellsworth air force base, Rapid City, S. D. "the jet, attached to Forbes air force base, Topeka, Kas., burned so fiercely that rescue work was impossibleThe other four airmen were killed in the fiery, l , crash of a B-47 in a field near Westmoreland, KasWreckage of the bomber, attached to the SlOth bomber wing, Smoky Hill air force base, Salinas, Kas-, was scattered over a mile area. Victims of the Rapid City crash were identified as: • Capt. Floyd Ray Shirk, 29, aircraft commander, Rapid City: l Capt. William L Youman, 29, pilot, Columbus, Ohio; Capt- Robert Eugene Lanbiaso, 38, observer, Peoria, ni-; Ist Lt Joseph E. McHugh 81, Mobile, Ala.; 2nd Lt. Charles Gosney, 24, Kahsas City, and 2nd Lt. Joseph L Petek, 23. Pueblo, Colo. The dead at Westmoreland were: Lt. Col- Frederick <G. Wheeler, 35, Menlo Park, Calif.; Capt- Thomas H. Wagner, 27, Pilot, New Castle. Ind.: Ist Lt. Jack J. Platt, 26. Jersey City. N- J, and Airman Ist Claes Kennsth R Patterson, 21, Detroit NOON EDITION

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President May Have Medical Check Today Series Os Medical Exams To Provide Answer To Decision WASHINGTON (INS) —President Eisenhower may begin today a series of medical examinations, which are expected to provide th< crucial Information for his decision on whether to seek reelectionThe tests will determine the ex* tent of his recovery from his Sept, 24 heart attackWhite House news secretary, James C. Hagerty declined to say definitely whether the President will go to Walter Reed army hospital this afternoon for the important medical checkupHagery merely said Mr. Eisenhower will spend this morning at his office and that he has “no formal schedule” today. In view of the announcement that the President’s four specialists will confer Tuesday on a progress report, It was considered possible that the examination will be made this afternoon The new checkup and the experts' report could provide important clues i concerning the Resident’s decision to seek reelection Apart from the medical phase, however, Mr- Eisenhower has stressed that he alone will set his future course. The Chief Executive is tentatively scheduled to leave Washington at noon Wednesday to spend!a week or ten days at treasury secretary George M. Humphrey's plantation at Thomasville, Ga. Hagerty said the results of the latest checkup will not be an(Continued on Fug’s Three) Kef a u ver Enters Minnesota Primary ST. PAUL, Minn. (INS) —Sen. Estes Kefauver has entered the Democratic presidential preference primary in Minnesota against Adlai Stevenson. The Tennessee senator filed a full slate of 57 Democratic party convention delegates Friday at St Paul for March 29 primary election. Decatur FFA Plans Week's Observance National Week Is , Set Feb. 18 To 25 Future Farmers of America ehapters.Jttsrosghout the nation are scheduled special activities to focus public attention on the work of their organization during national FFA week, Feb- 18 to 25. Locally, members of the Decatur F. F. A- chapter are planning a parent-son banquet and will also set up window displays. The banquet will be held in April. Membership in F. F- A- is made up of farm boys who are students of Vocational agriculture in high school- The organization’s activities are designed primarily to help develop rural leadership and good citizenship and to stimulate the boys to better achievement in their study and work towards establishment in farming. The Decatur F. F. A chapter has 19 members. Officers include Gerald Grote, president: Leroy Martin, vice-president; Richard Marbach, secretary: Chal me r Relnking, treasurer: Arlen Fuelling, reporter, and Ivan Roth, sentinel. William H Journay, vocational instructor at Decatur high school, is the chapter advisor. \ The national F- <F. A. organization hte more than 363,009 members in f 8 states. Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Membership in Indiana totals 331 active chapters with 9.324 members-

Europe's Siberian Winter Worsening Temperatures Drop, Death Tolls Climb LONDON (INS) —Europe's Siberian winter worsened today. All across the continent temperatures dropped and death tolls climbed. A fresh cold wave hit Greece and another 12 persons died. Snowstorms hampered planes trying to • drop supplies into snowbound vil- ’ lagesi Six persons reportedly have died I Irom exposure in France in the last i 24 hours- The temperature in central France fell Friday to 25 de- | grees below zero, s , in Germany, an East Berlin newspaper said three persons were ’ killed and 22 others were seriously ’ poisoned in Halle by a gas leak i at a home for the agedBlizzards in Britain isolated some ’ towns in the southeast and midland areas. In the Straits of Dover, ships ■ moved at a snail's pace and had 1 their sirens wailing as snowstorms • eut the visibility to 60 yards. A royal air force helicopter rescued all ten crew members from t the British tug “Rumania,” which • reported it was sinking fast after s being badly damaged and stranded I on a sandbank off the Suffolk coast. The crew had been unable ■ to leave the tug because the life- • boat was smashed en 4>ute to as- • sist the Brazilian vessel “Loide Honduras," which was grounded - on a sandbank during the night- [ ’ Opposition To Any ' Middle East Force Russians Likely To Oppose Any Action UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —The Soviet Union can be expected to veto any Western attempt to have the.jUN approve the use of foreign armed forces to maintain peace in the Middle East. This is the opinion of top UN dipi lomats today following the recent suggestion by British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden that armed units from Canada, the Netherlands and other Western nations be posted along the troubled Palestine frontiers. Equal opposition to such a move in the UN would eome from I-srael and the Arab states, with the backing of a majority of the Afro-Asian bloc, now the strongest political group in the 76-nation world body. Eden, while stressing that a solution of Arab-Israeli differences lay in compromise and conciliation, said armed forces could be used to prevent further frontier outbreaks which have cost so many lives. Arab and Israeli soirees, however, have strongly opposed such proposals. The Arabs, diplomatic sources said, look with disfavor upon the prospects of foreign * especially British — troops returning to their areas. Egypt’s battle for British evacuation of the Suez Canal zone is cited in regard to this. The Israelis, on’ the other hand, it is said, are concerned lest the presence of outside forces on their borders hamper Israel's ability to defend itself against armed incursions by the Arabs. It was recognized at the UN., however, that the U.S., Britain and France could act to maintain peace in case fighting breaks out under " (Continued on Page Three) Mary C. Chenowethr h Taken By Death Mrs. Mary C. Chenoweth. 89, a native of Adams county and former resident of Bluffton, died Friday at the Sacred Heart home at Avilla. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edna Parks of Detroit, Mich., and a brother, Zack Smith of Bryan. O. ■•». Funeral services will' be<.conducted at 1 p. m Monday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton' Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. ' , st w 3 ' x X.

Mediator Gives Up Efforts On W. E. Strike Westinghouse Strike Now 118 Days Old; Efforts' Abandoned PITTSBURGH (INS) — The Westinghouse strike, already the longest and costliest in the company’s history, today wae right back where it started four months' ago- ■ 1 •Federal mediator John Murray Friday abandoned his long efforts to find a pathway to settlement of the bitter labor dispute, and both sides immediately blamed the other for the breakdownin pulling out of the negotiations, Murray said: "I am convinced that no useful purpose will be served by my continued participation at this time. I am withdrawing ... to give the parties an opporunity to assume their full responsibilities for continuance or settlement of the strike” The strike now is 118 days oldWestinghouse, in placing : the blame on the union, said union leaders had “arrogantly’’ tried to reWrite the original recommendationsby the federal mediation service. “By so doing," a Westinghouse spokesman said, “The union’s leader shave proved conclusively that their acceptance . . . was deceitful and hypocritical.” A statement by the International Union of Electrical Workers said: “The company has been attempting to use the mediation service as a cloak for its own reprehensible efforts to deceive the public” Witft government mediators out of the picture, there was no indication when the company or the , union will get together againSenate Passes Bill For Disaster Relief WASHINGTON (INS) —The senate has approved a bill providing 25 million dollars for disaster relief for New England areas hit by floods and excess reans last fallIn addition, the measure, which now goes back to the house for agreement on minor amendments, would give the area >34,436,000 for flood control construction. Girl Scout Cookie Sale On Next Week Annual Girl Scout Sale Planned Here The annual Girl Scout cookie sale will be held next week and the young ladles will call at every Decatur home to solicit orders, it was announced today by Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry, cookie chairman. The cookies will be delivered Girl Scout week, which is from March 11 to March 17, Mrs. Brandyberry said. Neighborhood chairmen to supervise the various troops in the annual solicitation include: Mrs. John Mays, troops 21, 10, 16, 8 and 22. Mrs. L>yle Mallonee, troops 12, 3,7. 9, and 13. Mrs. Joseph Azbell, troops 5, 18, 4, 17, and 14. Mrs, Don Cochran, troops 2, 20, ,24, and 23. Mrs. Gus itelly, troops 6, 11, 1 and 26. Troop number four, under the direction of Mrs. Watson Maddox, will conduct the cookie sale in the business section of the city Saturday, March 17. No previous solicitation will be made in this section of Decatur. Three types of cookies will be sold this year including sandwich, sugar wafer and chocolate mint. Boxes will sell for 35 cents each or three for si, it was annpunced.

Donor 01 Case Gift To Give Testimony Key Witnesses Are Called For Evidence WASHINGTON (INS) — Three key witnesses were summoned to testify today in a senate investigation of a $2,500 “campaign donation” to Sen. Francis Case (R S.D.), in the midst of the natural gas bill fight. ■ Topping the list is the donor, i John M. Neff, a Nebraska attorney, who was also subpoenaed to ap- : pear before a federal grand jury which will investigate lobbying in behalf of the measure. Chairman, Walter F. George (D Ga.), of the blue-ribbon committee, said the others are newspaper executive Ernest J. Kahler, the' intermediary, and druggist John Griffin, who accepted the money. Case, who spurned the contribution, charged Friday that prior to senate passage of the bill Monday he received a “fictitious” telegram bearing Griffin’s name urging him to support the legislation. George said that when today’s hearing begins he will first call three women employes in Case’s senate office to testify on their dealings with Neff, who favored the bill. Hoping to wind up the inquiry tonight, George arranged the unusual Saturday Aeaaton as the “exploratory survey” of lobbying in support of the bill. The measure relaxes federal price controls on natural gas producers. Meanwhile, there were these other developments: , 1. Case urged the committee to investigate the sender of the telegram Griffin, who handles campaign funds for Case, said he did ■ not send the wire which urged Case on Jan. 14 to vote for the gas . bUt '**'”*’ *'„* 2. Case described as “sort of fan- > tastic” the $2,500 contribution from Neff, who left the money with Kahler, business manager of the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, for delivery to Griffin. Neff, a registered lobbyist for (Continued on Page Five) Accused Slayer Os 44 Tries Suicide Graham In Attempt To Commit Suicide DENVER (INS) — Teams of Denver county jail guards worked in relays today, carefully watching John Gilbert Graham, accused of killing 44 persons, for fear he will make another attempt to take his own life. Less than a month before his trial in Denver district court on a plea of insanity, Graham Friday night threw the ancient brownstone jail into a turmoil by attempting to strangle himself. Using a device he made from his socks and the cardboard from a roll of toilet paper, he cut off his breathing and Was unconscious for more than 10 minutes. Warden Gordon Dolliver said the 24-year-old youth devised a method of attempting to kill himself with the same genius a time bomb was fashioned that blew a United Airlines mainllner plane out of the sky last Nov. 1, after the DC-6B luxury liner left Denver’s Stapleton airport. Dolliver said Graham wrapped the socks around bis throat and used the cardboard roll, tourni-quet-fashion, to cut oft his breathing. Aboard the death plane was Graham’s heavily-insured mother. Mrs. Daisie E. King and 43 other persons. AH were literally blown to bits over a Longmont, Colo., sugar beet field. Graham has been either under federal or state custody ‘since his arrest Nov. 14, and on March 5 he will appear at a sanity bearing and 1f found sane will be tried oh specific charge of the murder of bis mother, in what district (CentimuM on Page Three) i •

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■ , Leaders Voice Victory Hopes Friday Night Thomas R. Johnston Formally Announces Governor Candidacy INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Op-, timistic Democrats of Indiana gathered in Indianapolis today for their biggest rally of the year until the state convelton June 26. All leaders voiced victory predictions prior to the luncheon of the Indiana Democratic editorial association and the annual Jeffer-son-Jackson Day $25-a-plate dinner tonight. The woods were full of candidates for governor, of whom five have declared formally, and three or four more appeared to be ready to go. All eyes were centered on Roger D. Branigin, of Lafayette, former Indiana state bar association president, who seemed likely to take the gubernatorial plunge today or within the next few days. A huge reception was held for Branigin at the Claypool Hotel today, sponsored by Democrats of Johnson county, Branigin's former homq. Anpther Lafayette man, Thom- — as K Johnston, Purdue University publicity director, made formal announcement for governor Friday. The other avowed aspirants are state senator Matthew E. Welsh, of Vincennes, Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute; and two Indianapolis men, z Marion county sheriff Robert O’Neal, former head of the Indiana state police, and Nelson Grills, Marion county chairman. State senator Von A. Eichhorn, of Uniondale, said he had toured the state and may announce for governor any time. Fay Leas, Fort W’ayne attorney and son-in-law of the late R. Earl Peters, former state chairman, was reported to be “available.” And there are still others who may toss their hats into the ring. They include Senator Warren W. Martin, of Clarksville, Democratic floor leader of the senate; Mayor Thomas L. Lemon of Bloomington; S. Hugh Dillin, of Petersburg, former state representative,'; and B. Howard Caughran, of Indianapolis, former federal district attorney. Huge pictures of the announced candidates and various signs adorned the lobby walls of the Claypool Hotel and headquarters r were scattered about the various rooms. Claude R. Wickard, of Camden, former secretary of agriculture, is the only candidate for the nomination for United States senator to date. National chairman Paul M. Butler, Wickard, and the announced hopefuls for governor are scheduled to speak briefly at the editors’ luncheon. More than 1,500 Democrats are expected to attend tonight’s Jef-ferson-Jackson Day dinner at which Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey will be the chief speaker. . Butler told a meeting of the state committee late Friday that he would resign as Indiana national committeeman if he retains his post as national chairman. The committee voted to choose 44 delegates from the 11 congressional districts and eight at large - to the national conveiton, each delegate to have one-half vote. Assessments for candidates were hiked in line with recent salary increases, but practically all of them were under the GOP assessment figures. _ The assessments were senator and governor, $2,000 each; supreme court judges, $1,500; appellate court judges and lieutenant governor and attorney general; SI,OOO each; secretary of state, auditor, treasurer, and superintendent of public instruction, $750 each, and reporter of the supreme (Continued an Pa«« Three) i