Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 37.

PASSES SECOND YEAR IN COMA 5| BrrßLz % A > «* <5 W ‘/ x ?, t ] :-’!<~-WeF ■ ? : ..A -;. .. AGAIN, AS SHE HAS for the past two years, Mrs. Anna Brookhouse visits her husband, John, who has been In a coma for 730 days. A Chicago cab driver. Brookhouse was slugged in an $lB robbery on Feb. 13. 1964 and has never regained consciousness. His wife is working to support their three children, The assailant is still at large.*'*'»<

City Problems Presented For Industry Heads Industrial Leaders Pledge Assistance To City Officials A graphic picture of the problems which confront the city of Deeatur was presented at a lunchmeeting of the industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce Monday noon at the Community Center. ' :~f Quests at the meeting were Mayor Robert Cole, city attorney John DeVoss and councilman Norbert Aumann. The meeting featured an outline of tacts and figures concerning the three utility problems of the graying city of U U the first of a serifs designed to provide the assistance of industrial leaders of the community to the city administration in finding the solution to the existing problems. — A committee of the Industrial group conducted an extensive survey of the city's economic life to uncover the exact proportion of the problems and how they affeet the city. - r The first part of the survey revealed the part that industry plays in the health of the city’s economic life It was shown that although the 13 industries of the city represent only five percent of the total businesses in Decatur, & they produce 83 percent of the total output and services. Os the 190.009,000 in goods and services produced in 1965, industry produced 175,000,000. It was further shown that $7,600,000 or 82 percent of the $9,214,000 annual payroll in Decatur comes from industry. Industry contributes 29.5 percent of the taxes. These figures were presented to emphasise the dependency of the city upon industry and of industry on the city. A harsh picture was drawn of what the city faces in giving adequate service to the industry which is so vital to its growth and development. According to the figures gathered by the industrial division committee, the city produced 320 million gallons of water last year. Os this total, 68 million was used by industry. In addition to this amount, a local industry used another 62 million gallons not produced by the city. It was also pointed out that the cost to the consumer here w-as considerably higher than the average. Outlining the problem of electrical consumption, it was shown that 36,700,000 kilowatt hours were produced and sold by the city in 1965. Industry used 42.7 percent of this but an additional five million kilowatt hours not produced by the city were consumed by a local industry. Another snag noted in the electric power situation was the breakdown of city equipment which is costly to industry. „ Addressing the members of the cify administration, the industrial group requested that the importance of the industry to the city and of the city to industry not be minimised. It was also stated tbs'!, while the problems cannot be solved overnight, something must be done immediately and long range plans muarKe made If the City of Decatur sis to continue ini the category ♦ of growing citisa with the soluHom of these problems. It was predicted, DecgWr couHfe»grow half (deeHtfuee as Page Eight)

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Maclean Had Access To Atomic Secrets American Account On Mac Lean, Burgess WASHINGTON (INSi — British turncoat diplomat Donald MacLehn had access to atomic energy commission offices “at any time of. the day or night” during hTs Washington tour of duty. This was reported Monday in the first American publication of "The Great Spy — an account of the careers of Mac Lean and his colleague. Guy Burgess. The ex-diplomats came to light again last Saturday at a Moscow news conference after disappearing behind the Iron Curtain in 1951. ■ The American version of “The Great Spy Scandal" is published in copyrighted form in the Feb. 17 isspe of U.S. News and World Report, by arrangement with the Lon‘dea Rally Express, publishers pt the book in England. Disclosures made in the book include: Burgess, while serving as second secretary in the British embassy in Washington, "managed to acquire the blueprints of the 3250 million psychological warfare planned by Washington to reach behind the Iron Curtain.” Mac Lean was in a position of "extraordinary responsibility” as secretary of the combined policy committee on atomic developments and has a pass admitting him to the atomic energy commission “at any time of {he day or night.” Mac Lean was "able to tell the Soviet regime how the western -al‘Continues on Ware Eirnt) Adlai Stevenson Is Unhurt In Accident Snow Caterpillar Overturns Monday GOVERNMENT CAMP. Ore (INS) —Adlai Stevenson heads for Seattle today after narrowly escaping serious injury or death when a snow-caterpillar rolled 35 feet into a gully on Mt. HBBd, 50 miles east of Portland The Democratic presidential candidate braced his hands ' against the side of the ski-equipped caterpillar as it toppled over a snow cornice in a blizzardatTttffberline, more than 6000 feet above sea level. Stevenson’s five companions also escaped injury as the vehicle, rolled completely over. They had to climb out of the gully in the raging blizsard and then wade through snowdrifts a fourth of a mile to Timberling Lodge. Afterward he quipped: “I have crashed in a helicopter In the Malayan jungle and been in an automobile accident on the equator bu,t never anything like thisI believe in the future I’ll confine my politics to more temperate climes ” Stevenson was taking a breather in the preparation of the speech he will deliver at Seattle tonight. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday, with showers and thunderstorms south and east central sections this afternoon and tonight and extreme south Wednesday. Colder Wednesday and In north and csntral sections tonight. Low tonight ranging from 80-28 northwest to 82-39 southeast. High Wednesday 2836 north, 36-42 south.

Heart Experts Report Today To Eisenhbwer Specialists To Aid > President To Make Decision On Term WASHINGTON (INS) — Heart specialist Paul Dudley White arrived in Washington today to help give President Eisenhower a verdict which may decide whether he will run for a second term. The Boston physician told newsmen: “We’ll let the President know what We find, and give him our recommendations in general, but he will be the one to make the decision.” g White arrived at the Washington aii*port at 11:30 a. m. (EST), aboard a military air transport plane from California. After a brief talk with reporters, he went to the White House to examine Mr. Eisenhower and then consult with other physicians. The medical examination, scheduled as a “definite” checkup on the President's convalescence from his Sept. 24 heart attack, was set for, 1:45 p. m. (EST). White said the doctors’ recommendations on whether the Chief Executive is physically able to undergo, the strain of a campaign and a possible second term “will depend oh what we find.” He emphasised that up to the present, “the President has made a satisfactory recovery.” White ndded: “Today’s is an important examination.” The panel of physicians began study of the results of the medical tests Mr. Eisenhower underwent Saturday at Walter Reed army hospital. The doctors expected to tell the Chief Executive, and probably the nation through a late-afternoon conference, how well his is withstanding the strain of what has been called the world’s toughest job. As Dr. White put it when he last examined the President Dec. 17: "We can only advise the ident medically. He must make his own decision.” Participating in today’s consultation along with Dr. White will be Maj. Gen. Howard McC Snyder. the President’s personal physician: Col. Thomas W. Mattingly, chief Os cardiology at Walter Reed: and Col. Byron E. Pollock, who holds the same post at Fitzsimons army hospital in Denver. They are the four doctors who have directed the President’s treatment since his Sept. 24 heart attack. Mr. Eisenhower’s last complete medical check-up was on Dec. 10. Since returning to the White House five weeks ago, Mr. Eisenhower has carried the full burden of the Presidency with only minor concessions to his physical condition. His appointment schedule has been lightened and his job pruned of some time-consuming paper work. But he has borne the full weight of executive responsibility, with all of its mental and emotional pressures. (Continued on Page Eight)

Murdered Scout May Have Been Tortured Blood-Stained Cap Is Important Clue WHEELING, W. Va. (INS) —A Wheeling detective admitted today that he isinvestigating to determine whether nine-year-old cub soout David Powell was tortured before he was beaten to death in Wheeling. Sgt. Ray Lucas said that the torture may have been inflicted by B-B pellets fired from a rifle or sling shot against the abdomen of the victimLucas said that there were three small, black indentations on the abdomen when the body was found last weekLucas theorized that the little scout may have been clubbed to death to silence his cries brought on by the torture- Authorities are awaiting a report by Dr. George Little, a staff member at the Ohio Valley Generat hospital, who performed the autopsy. Dr. Little has submitted a verbal report but is still drafting his written report. In the West Virginia crime laboratory at Charleston, state police are examining a blood-stained cap which is considered an Important clue in the murder- Police say that the cap belonged to Thomas Williams, one of the 14-year-old twins who have been charged with killing (ContlnuM on Page Eight)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 14, 1956.

Federal Grand Jurors Launch Investigation In Case Contribution

For Governor Von A. Eichhorn

Von Eichhorn Is Candidate For Governor State Senator From Adams, Wells And Blackford Counties INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Evans villa Mayor Vanee Hartkc'? boo* for a Democratic ticket of former Governor Henry F. Schricker for governor and ' Congressman Winfield K, Denton for senator failed to halt the numerous gubernatorial hopefuls today. In fact, S. Hugh Dillin, of Petersburg, former state representative, said he would announce soon. Dillin, Mayor Hartke and Denton are all in the eighth congressional district. Also, Thurman DeMoss, of Franklin. Johnson county Democratic chairman, predicted that Roger D. Branigin, Lafayette attorney and former Indiana state bar association president, would return to Indiana Monday or Tuesday from a Florida vacation and say yes or no concerning the governorship bid. DeMoss sponsored a huge reception for Branigin during the Jeffer-son-Jackson Day celebration Saturday. Branigin is a former resident of Franklin. Dillin said he was surprised at Mayor Hartke’s proposal because Schricker had: outlined to him “several compelling reasons why he regarded it as impossible for him to seek office again,” and Denton had told him he would fil£. for cognress again and promised to back Dillin for governor. Dillin added: "Certainly I have always found both of these gentlemen, in my association with them through the years, to be men of their word. "There are doubtless many peo pie in the state who would share the view as to the qualifications of Congressman Denton and Gov ernor Schricker for the offices for which the mayor proposes them. “However, because of the personal conversations I have so recently had with these gentlemen. I cannot believe they would do anything to further the proposal. So, since my own plans are made, I see no reason to change them. I will announce my caAdidacy for governor soon.” State Senator Von Eichhorn, of Uniondale, today became the sixth aspirant to announce formally for Governor. Eichhorn, who is 49 and , operates an electrical store in his home town, has served 18 years tn the state senate. J4e was co-author of the bill to clip the wings of the Indiana toll road commission in the 1955 general assembly and of a bill to place Indiana on year-round eastern standard time. Both bills were defeated. He has served on Governor George N. Craig’s traffic study and education commissions. In 1948, Eichhorn ran for lieutenant governor, but was defeated for the nomination by John A. Watkins. Bloomfield publisher, who I (Oonunuea on Fa** Elgnt)„..... i L

Cify Utilities Show Profits During 1955 Power Profit Lower, Water Profit Higher The city electric plant showed a net profit of $27,607.75 In 1955 and the water department had a profit of 319.025.89*. it was revealed Ist the annual report filed today by . Edwin Kauffman, auditor for *>th utilities. TJie electric profit is 60 percent | than the $69,471.11 reported ' as profit in 1954. The water department profit is a gain over the W 72.25 figure of 1954 of 180 percent. . ‘ , A- Total assets of the water department are reported to be $655,193.83 and electric department assets are set at $4,168,345.45. The water department has a bonded indebtedness of $60,000 and the light department has outstanding bonds totalling $786,000. Biggest operating expense in the water department was cost for purification of water which amounted to $85,969.48. Total water department revenue for 1955 was $104.006.69 against operating expenses pf $83,276.72. The electric department had a total income during the year of $698,465.99 and total operating expenses of $646,643.60. Operating costs were up 10 percent compare ed with 1954 and income showed a loss of 45 percent. , \ ( oh! cast the citjr $i|5,342.16. during the year and diesel fuel oil cost $87,860.39. The steam plant generated 25,634,000 k.w.h. at a net cost of .014828 per kilowatt and the diesel plant generated 14,390,000 k.w.h. at a net cost of .014153 per kilowatt. Commercial and industrial power gave the electric department its biggest source of revenue with a total of $244,244.44. Second biggest income producer was rural sales with a total of $139,903.39. Decatur residential consumption was divided into two incomes, residence lights at $94,423.90 and combination at $65,550.84. Congressman Hits Out At Foreign Aid Spends Millions On Foreign Production WASHINGTON (INS) —A key congressman on farm legislation charges that the U. S. has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to promote world production of commodities already in plentiful supply. Rep. Jamie L. Whitten (DMiss.) chairman of, the house appropriations subcommittee cm agriculture, hit out at foreign aid progress during closed-door hearings on agriculture department appropriations last month. The hearings were made public by the committee today. Whitten asserted: "We have mistakenly tried to reduce world supplies by cutting the American farmer—while this government at the sgme time was spending hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars increasing, world product tion and therefore world supply.” The, congressman said, that investigations on commodity credit corporation operations show that the agriculture department is "furnishing 738 agricultural specialists, paid from foreign aid funds....who are working in foreign countries to increase production of the very commodities that this nation is having trouble witlf today.” , r . s He declared: “I am convinced from these committee investigations that we have just about ‘disposed’ the former into an economic straitjacket that he can’t stand up under. "Through disposals, gifts, and by sales for foreign. currencies in lieu of. and as a substitute for, keeping our supplies on the market* of the world for sale for dollars. we have peen putting the American farm program out of (.Oontinuen on Fag* Eight)

Khrushchev In New Bid For Co - Existence Tells 20th Soviet Red Congress Russ Working For Peace BULLETIN MOSCOW (INS) —The Soviet Union said today it would agree to halt hydrogen bomb test “pending agreement on major questions of disarmament." The announcement was made in the six-hour speecn delivered by secretary Nikita 8Krushchev to the 20th congress of the Soviet Communist partyMOSCOW (INS) — Birst secretary Nikita S^ Khrushchev opened the 20th Soviet Communist party congress today by warning that Russia will not be outstripped by the West in the field of arma l ments. .! At the same titye, however, Khrushchev told the first party congress since the death of Joseph Stalin, the' Soviet Union is work- : Ing to improve relations with the United States, Britain and France. He called for increased East-West cooperation in the technical and i, csflturaV spherM. -.. Making another Dfd for co-exist-ence, the Communist chieftain said that “all countries not adhering to aggressive pacts can live in perfect friendship with the USSR.” He stressed the friendly relations between the Soviet Union and the eastern European countries and India, Burma and Afghanistan. After Khrushchev had spoken for four hours and 25 minutes the more than 1,500 party delegates recessed for two hours for lunch. Khrushchev was scheduled to continue his address in the great hall of the Kremlin following the lunch period. The party congress began with a tribute to the late Premier Stalin. Then the agenda was adopted and Khrushchev began pis report to the delegates. Western correspondents are barred from the congress sessions. Reports on Khrushchev’s speech were transmitted by Tass, the ot” ficial Soviet news agency. At the same time, the dispatches of west(Continued on Page Eight) Charles Hill Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Charles Taylor Hill, 78. lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 12:40 o’clock this morning at the-Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for the past six weeks and serious since Saturday. He was born in 1 Adams county Dec. 11, 1877, a son of Joseph and Hannah Coleman-Hill, and was married to Minnie R. Beaty Dec. 24, 1902. Mrs. Hill died Aug. 29, 1926. Mr. Hill was a retired cement contractor. Surviving are five sons, Donald. Richard and Charles Hill, Jr., of Decatur. Raymond Hill of Fort Wayne and Kedron Hill of Ceylon; three daughters, Mrs. Mildred Stoneburner of Lima, 0., Mrs. Audrey Ballard and Mrs. Gyneth Baker of Decatur; 23 grandchildren; 13 great grandchildren, and four brothers, George Hill of Decatur. Grover and Ben Hill of Fort Wayne, and Daniel Hill of New Haven. Three sons, two sisters and five brothers are deceased. reFuneral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Candidate WOW ■■ . |||F ■x > j C 1 Km L. F. (Lew) Sapp, Adams county farmer and business man, recently announced his candidacy for Adams county commissioner, first district. The candidate, a Democrat, resides east of Decatur on rural route five.

Some Violence At Westinghouse Plant ' •- * Company Reaction Awaited By Union PITTSBURGH (INS) — Smallscale violence broke out again tW morning at the “Westinghouse plant in Sharon, Pa., where some 100 pickets scuffled briefly with employes entering the plant. Police report that one car was overturned and that some stone throwing occurred. But officers said that no injuries resulted at the « northwestern Pennsylvania’ plant. In Pittsburgh, labor observers are waiting for the company’s reaction to an announcement from the governors of five states that twoarbitrators have been hired to conduct a fact-finding intoXhe 121day strike. The International Union of Electrical Workers is on record with a pledge to Gov., George M. Leader of Pennsylvania to cooperate with attorney David Cole and Dr. George Taylor. Leader and the governors of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, and West Vir- . ginia will make the results of the inquiry public. Although the results will not be binding on either party, the factfinding undoubtedly will act as a lever to get the strike off dead center. The outburst at Sharon this morning was the second in as many days. A company radio broadcast Sunday asking employes to return to work set off the melee Monday. . Sheriff Richard Knowles of Mercer County was knocked down by a company supervisor’s auto during the scuffling. But he escaped injury Monday. Two pickets were arrested. The company announced Monday that It has fired a member of the IUE executive board of Local 601 and a union steward for strike activity at the east : "Pittsburgh plant. Harley Wright Dies In Florida Saturday Harley Wright, 72, of New Madison, O, died Saturday at Punta Gorda, Fla- He is survivied by his wife, Agnes DeVor Wright: one son, Gerald, of New Madison, O ; two stepsons, Dr. Harold DeVor of Decatur and Frank DeVor of BronsOn, Mich., and two stepdaughters, Mrs. Helen Kelly of Decatur and Mrs. Mary ajne Smith of Columbus, O Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p m Wednesday at a New Madison funeral home. BULLETIN Mrs- Homer Smitley, 66, of South First street, died at 12:26 V o'clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. The body, was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. ■

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Federal Jury Calls Three To Testify Justice Department Opens Inquiry In Unusual Secrecy ■ WASHINGTON (INS) — Three witnesses were called today to testify in the federal grand jury investigation of the |2,500 campaign contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R-S. D.) Alj three told newsmen as they appeared at the federal courthouse in response to subpoenas that they were ready “to answer any Question” and had “nothing to conceal". The three witnesses were John M. Neff, Nebraska attorney who offered the $2,506 to Case’s campaign; Sheriff Paul Whaley, of Dawsoir county, Neb., and Elmer Patman, lawyer for the Superior Oil Co. The three men, all of whom testified in the special senate Inquiry into the Case affair, chatted with newsmen and posed , for photographers while waiting for government lawyers to call the jury into session. The justice department opened . its inquiry in an air of unusual t secrecy. The grand jury members f went -to -their--meeting room > through a maze of back corridors. ! However, it was reported that the investigation would be cons ducted by two of the government’s . top prosecutors. i They, were identified as assist- ; ant attorney general Warren Olney, head of the justice department’s criminal division, and Wil- ( 11am Paisley, chief of the division’s trial staff. , The justice department ordered the probe within hours after a i blue-ribbon special senate commit- . tee wound up public hearings on the Case incident and put off fur- . ther action on the matter until next week. Announcement of the grand jury probe came from committee chief counsel Charles W. Steadman who also said the justice department requested a transcript of the Case hearing. The department officially had no comment whatever on the action. Steadman said that' the grand jury would meet at 10 a.m. to hear “certain witnesses.” These include Superlod Oil Co. lawyer John M. Neff, who offered Case the money after inquiring about the senator's attitude on the natural gps bill. ■Names of other witnesses subpoenaed by the grand jury were not disclosed, but Case’s office said the senator had not been invited to appear and had gone to South Dakota to fulfill Lincoln Day speaking engagements. Case was not expected back In ington until next Monday. The grand jury was understood to be planning to center its probe on the Hatch act which prohibits corrupt practices in election campaigns. The senate committee has been attempting to learn whether an alleged attempt was made to influence Case's vote on the gas bill. Meanwhile, Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Ill.) called for an “all-around investigation” of lobbying to learg whether similar contributions were made to other senators and to determine if other oil interests besides Superior, of California were involved. Douglas, in an interview with INS-Telenews. said the probe should go back to the 1954 and 1952 election campaigns. He added that “a great deal of lobbying is legitimate, because people have the right of petition . . . But when they use money«to attempt to influence votes and give money to senators or their friends for their campaigns, and expect a favorable vote in return, tpen the danger signals are up.” As the blue-ribbon senate hearings ended, Neff testified that Case was the only senator to whom he had offered a direct cam- ... .. on. ..... . w