Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1956 — Page 1

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Stalin Policy y Is Lashed By Soviet Leader One-Man Leadership Os Stalin Assailed At Soviet Congress MOSCOW (INS) — A top-rank-ing official of the Communist party and Soviet government has attacked Joseph Stalin by name, charging the late premier with misjudging the vitality of- capitalism and rewriting history. The renunciation, made Thursday by deputy premier Anastas Mikoyan in an address to thie 20th congress of the Soviet Communist party, was published today by Pravda and other organs of the Soviet press. -.-wr?------ ■ ,The unprecedented assault by name on the hitherto deified Stalin • backed up an earlier attack on one-man leadership made by Communist party first secretary Nikita Khrushchev. Mikoyan declared: "For twenty years ,we had no collective leadership. The cult of the personality flourished among us. a cult already condemned by Marx and then by Lenin /. . “After a long interruption, a collective leadership has been created in the party and in a very short time, the principles of Lenin have been re-established in the party, from the top right down to the rank 1 and file .>» ." fa In an address to the more than I. congress delegates. Mikoyan scored the Stalins rewriting of history in the book. “History of the Party, a Short Course.” This is a standard textbook for Communist training. Mikoyan, a member of the liman presidium of the party, echoed Khrushchev’s call for a new text to replace Stalin’s work and urged the writing of a new history book “without varnish.” He also asked for a new look at the Russian revolution and “the alleged treacherous activity of individual party leaders of that time who unjustly were declared enemies of the people many years after the event described.” Referring to a book by Stalin on economics, Mikoyan said the late premier’s assertion on the future of capitalist production “does not explain the complex, contradictory phenomena of modern capitalism and the fact of the rise of capitalist production in - many countries after World War 11. He said the “theory of absolute stagnation of capitalism is alien to Marxism and Leninism." Well-informed sources said Mikoyan’s speech created a sensation with its straight-forward account of affairs under Stalin and plainly Stated a “break with the past.” The deputy premier referred to “mistakes" over relations with Yugoslavia but ditf not mention former minister of interior Lavreritf Berta who was executed fitter Btalln’s death. Krushchev, on his visit' last yew to Yugoslavia, charged Berta with responsibility for Yugoslavia being ousted from the Cominform (Continued on Page Five)

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Dillin Is Seventh In Governor Race Formally Announces Democrat Candidacy INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—S. Hugh Dillin, Petersburg attorney and former legislator, is the seventh entrant the Democratic gubernatorial race today. Dillin formally announced his candidacy at a news conference late Friday in the presence of Elmer Hoehn, eighth district Democratic chairman, who said: “Mr. Dillin’s comprehension of legislative and administrative problems, -together with his outstanding ability as a public speaker, brought recognition to himself and his party In 1951 when he was voted “the most Valuable member” or tub 1951 house of representatives by newspapermen who covered the sessipn. We believe he is a blue ribbon candidate and possesses the honesty and sincerity of one of Indiana’s greatest governors, Henry F. Schricker.”.Dillin said he did not believe Schricker would run for governor again because he had told Dillin and other Democratic aspirapts that he would not run. Dillin added: “I am in this race until the finish and will not settle for another nomination. 1 intend to travel over the state and attempt to develop support’ in districts other than my own district, the eighth. “The Democrats have an excellent chance to win this fall. The people are not satisfied with the national administration under which many farmers and laborers are going broke and both Democrats and Republicans are sick of the mess in the state house. I feel also that many possible delegates to the state convention have not yet made up their minds a tout the Democratic nominee for governor, although there now are seven candidates in the field.” Dillin, who is 41 years old was elected to the house of representatives in 1936 while he was in the Indiana*’University school of law. He represented Pike and Knox counties la the 1937, 1939 and 1941 legislative sessions. Following the 1941 session, be became secretary of the Indiana public service commission, but resigned -to join the army from which he was discharged with the rank of captain at the end of World War 11. In the 1949 legislative session, Dillin was attorney for the house and legislative advisor to Governor Schricker. He again was elected to the house and was Democratic floor leader during the 1951 session. He also has served as secretary of the commission on interstate cooperation and as a legal member of the interstate oil compact commission. Dillin has served as roastmaster for the Evansville gridiron show and for the 50th anniversary dinner of the Indiana society of Chicago last December. Dillin also is a farmer and a member of the Presbyterian church. He is married to the former May Eloise Humphreys, of Bloomington, and they have one daughter. Others in the largest field of .Democratic hopefuls for governor tn the memory pt veteran politicians are state senator Matthew E. Welsh/Vincennes; Mayor Ralph (Continued on Page Five) :

View Ike Veto As Evidence Os Plans To Run Political-Minded Washington Views Veto An Indication WASHINGTON (INS) — Polit-ical-minded Washington viewed President Elsenhower’s veto of the natural gas bill today as strong evidence that he will be a candidate for reelection. Some ranking Democrats said they were impressed with the political overtones of the veto because it involved “pulling the rug from under some of his strongest supporters’’*—oil and gas leaders who favored enactment of the gas bill. One veteran Democrat said the President “lined himself up” with consumer groups in killing the legislation. Another privately called his veto message a "masterpiece of carrying water on both shoulders.” ~7 ■ Most' Democrats confessed the veto would hurt their party in the presidential election year. One thing was certain —the bill to free natural gas producers from strict federal regulation was dead for this year, and perhaps several to come. The house, where it passed by a mere margin, planned no effort to override the President’s veto. Mr. Eisenhower said acted because of what he termed “arrogant” efforts to influence passage of the bill, which he otherwise favored. He referred to a 32,500 "political contribution” offered to Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) by an attorney for the Superior Oil company of California. The Case incident is now under investigation by two senate committees and a federal grand jury. In his angrily worded message sending the legislation back to congress, Mr. Eisenhower said the alleged attempts to influence congress were “so arrogant and, so much in defiance of acceptable standards of propriety as to risk creaUag doubt among the American people concerning the integrity of governmental processes.” _ He Pointed out that investigations into the Case "campaign contribution” could not be completed during the ten-day period in which heThad to consider the bill and added : - A believe I would not be discharging my own duty were I to approve this legislation before the activities in question have been fully investigated by the congress and the department of justice. “To do so under such conditions would well create long-term apprehension in the minds of the American people. It would be a disservice both to the people and to their congress." ■ Cries of “politics” came from some supporters of the bill when news of the veto hit Capitol Hill. (Rep. Hale Boggs (D-La.) said the veto was "an announcement for reelection" by the Chief Executive. But even some of the most disturbed Democrats and Republicans admitted that disclosure of the $2,509 offer and the circumstances surrounding it provided the President with a “tailor-made” argument for rejecting the bill. If his action hurt the Democrats, (Continued on Page Three) College Freshman Found Dead In Pond Score Fraternity Initiation Stunts CAMBRIDGE. Mass. (INS)—The grieving father of college freshman Thomas L. Clark made* ready today to take his son’s body home to Harvey/111., but the echoes of the youth’s acidental drowning in a Waltham Reservoir reverberated on every college campus in the area. Most important was the pledge of Massachusetts Institute of. Technology president. Dr. James R. Killiam Jr., that any fraternity initiation stunts deemed harmful to the mental and physical health of any student will be discontinued at once. In addition, there were indications that other schools which have “Hell Week” as part of their college life will conduct a careful examination of their hazing practices. Some, such as Northeastern university. have replaced "Hell Week” with “Help Week" when all pledges are assigned some constructive task or project as part of their initiation into a fraternity. Although a preliminary gutopsy showed no evidence of foul play in (Continued on sa*e Three)

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—— ? n-.-sy Senate Probe Is Likely In Tank Shipment Probe Looming In I Abortive Shipment Os Tanks From U. S. I WASHINGTON *(INS) — A senate investigation of the Eisenhower administration’s abortive shipment of 18 light reconnaissance tanks to Saudi Arabia loomed to< day. ’ The inquiry took shape as both Israel and Saudi Arabia denounced the “temporary” U.S. ban on arms shipments to all Middle Eastern countries, except Iraq, a member of the Baghdad paet. Chairman Walter F. George (DGa.) of the senate foreign relations committee, said he will ask secretary of state John Foster Dulles for an explanation when he returns from a vacation In the Bahamas. Seeking to broaden the inquiry, Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.*) said the committee should determine whither a full-scale invest!- ' gation is needed into American policies in the Middle East. With the tank shipment held up at a Brooklyn pier, the administration began to review the program • to export licenses tor arms to all 1 Middle Eastern states. The lone exception is Iraq, a signatory of the Middle Eastern defense treaty which includes Turkey, Iran and Pakistan. Iraq will continue to receive mutual defense aid. * ‘ .... i The embargo, However, drew equally Indignant outbursts from an Israeli embassy spokesman and Saudi Arabian ambassador Abdullah Al-Khayyal. The Israeli source called the ban “a very grave shock and disappointment to us” and the ambassador said it “will necessarily create an unfortunate Impression" in the Arab world. Although the Israeli spokesman said the order will have no immediate effect on his country’s military strength, action will be delayed on Israel’s three-month-old request for some 50 million dollars worth of arms. Israel asked the U.S. for weapons after Egypt announced last September that it had bought arms from Communist Czechoslovakia. Irvin Is Placed In Indiana Death Row Convicted Slayer At Indiana Prison MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (INS) — Leslie Irvin, Chinese execution murderer of six, was in death row at the Indiana state prison today. Irvin is scheduled for the prison’s electric chair on June 12. His only death row companion is Elmer J. Flowers, 44, of Terre Haute, who has been sentenced to die June 7 for the murder of his wife. Soon after "Mad Dog” Irvin was brought to the prison Friday afternoon, warden J. Ellis Overland said: “Irvin is just like any other prisoner, and we’re not going .to make a hero of him. If he escapes from here, there will be three or four persons fired.” Irvin, who was convicted of the slaying of W. Wesley Kerr, Evansville filling station attendant, also has confessed five other murders during which he tied the hands of victims behind their back and forced them to kneel before he shot them. / He escaped from jail at Princeton, Jan. 18, using a pasteboard key, and was recaptured at San Francisco, Feb. 9. Irvin was brought to Chicago by train and then by automobile to Michigan City. He was shackled to Gibson county sheriff Earl Hollon, and there were 15 guards in the four ears that moved across northern Indiana with thfi slayer.

Plan For Primary Election In May Preliminary Plans By Election Board The Adams county board of election commissioners composed j 4>f David’Macklin, chairman; C. E. I Peterson, vice-chairman, 1 and I Richard Lewton, Adams circuit I court clerk, secretary, met Friday ufternoor; to make preliminary plans for the primary election to be held' Tuesday, May 8. Delegate districts for candidates of both the Democratic and ‘ Republican parties as delegates to * the state conventions were tentatively set up. Therq will be 12 Democratic delegates and 10 Republican delegates. The number ris determined by the number of votes cast in the county at the last general election for secretary of state. This vote also is used when precinct inspectors are named for election day, the party whose candidate for secretary of state receiving the largest number of votes in the county being entitled to name the inspectors. The electiop commissioners decided to present their delegate district Allocations to both the Republican and Democratic chairmen for suggestions before formally acting on the matter. Delegate districts will be officially formulated next week. February 28 is the (first day op t which * candidate foi county office can formally file his rtiteu tion of candidacy with the clerk, Lewton stated today. Last day for a ■ candidate to* ■file «s March 29. Candidates for delegate to the state conventions can file Individually or a group of voters can file a complete slate, according to state election If any present election precincts are to be changed, these changes must be made prior to February 28 by the county commissioners. It is not believed that any are contemplated prior to the primary election. The election board plans another meeting next week to complete the delegate districts at which time they will be made public. Westinghouse Plans State Ruling Fight Terms Pennsylvania Ruling As Political PITTSBURGH (INS) — Westinghouse Electric Corp, prepared today to fight a state ruling that its current labor dispute is a lockout and that 23,900 Pennsylvania employee therefore are entitled to unemployment benefits. A total of some 55,000 employes in five states are involved in the dispute. The company said it will appeal what it described as a “practical" ruling Friday that the 125-day work stoppage has been a lockout since Dec. 19 as far as Pennsylvania workers are concerned. If the company appeal is denied it will mean that members of the International Union of Electrical Workers and United Electrical Workers will be entitled to up to $35 a week in benefits, retroactive to Dec. 27. However, the company spokesman who announced the appeal plans said that even in what he called the "unlikely event” that the "lockout” ruling is upheld, compensation could not" be paid for at least two months. He referred to the long series of steps which would be needed before the workers would collect. The original referee’s decision on the appeal could be taken to a board of review, whose findings m turn could be appealed to the state superior court. The bureau of unemployment security of tiro state feptof labor And' industry made ftr ruling a day after the federal mediation service offbrefr to’ return to the 11 (oonunuoa on page 3t*y

Propose Rigid Supports For Hogs, Cattle To Provide Further Battle For Senate Farm Bill Debate WASHINGTON (INS)—A surprise amendment to apply 90 per cent price supports on hogs and beef cattle provided further fire today for the senate's battle on the farm bill next week. Sen. Walter F. George (D Ga.),— dean of (be senate — and Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D Okla.), joined in sponsoring the rider to give pork and beef producers the high, rigid, mandatory price props. A major fight in brewing over the senate agriculture committee’s decision to defy President Elsenhower *and restore 90 per cent supports for wheat, cotton, corn, rice and peanuts. Mr. Eisenhower wants to retain flexible price supports. The com mittee’s action has brought warnings of a Presidential veto. Kerr told newsmen he and George decided to try to extend the mandatory high supports to hogs and beef because, they said, agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benin’s program to raise livestock prices tats been Ineffective. Kerr said? “Hogs are selling at less than 60 per cent of parity. The ordinary run of cattle is gelltng at less than 59 per cent of parity. "Benson has spent over 300 million dollars on what he said were programs to boost the price of hogs and cattle. The record proves he has done nothing but help the packers." Other amendments on tap when senate debate opens Tuesday Include: 1. By George and Kerr, £ 500 million dollar fund to support prices of perishables. The committee approved a 250 million dollars. 2. By Kerr, to put cottonseed under 90 per cent price props, and another to support prices of grain sorghum, barley, oats and rye at the same level as the feed value of corn. 3. By George and Kerr, to require meat packers to certify that they had paid farmers the support price — or, if there were none, "a fair price as determined* by Benson —for any livestock which the government buys as processed meat inits program to bolster live(Continued on Fags Six) Pilot Is Killed In Jet Trainer Crash Jet Crashes Near Dayton Base Friday DAYTON, O. (INS)—A T-33 jet trainer crashed minutes after takeoff from Wright-Patterson air base Friday afternoon following a radio report from the doomed pilot that he could not “keep the plane in the air.” The plane disappeared from the field radar screen and was found tn wreckage on a farm about 10 miles east of Dayton with the dead pilot still in his seat. There was no identification made of the victim. The air force would only say he was en route to Dow air force base, Bangor, Me., from some other point It was not clear whether the pilot referred to himself or the plane when he informed the tower as soon as he was off. the ground that he was unable to remain in flight. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder later this afternoon ‘ and tonight. Sunday increasing cloudiness with rain or enow by afternoon< Low tonight 12-26. High Sunday 82-38.

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Indiana Republican Leaders In Session J Will Sign Petitions For Ike In Primary INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—lndiana Republican leaders, marshalled by Governor George N. Craig, met in Indianapolis today to sign petitions placing President Eisenhower on the May 8 presidential preferential primary ballot. Under the Indiana primary law, ■ signatures of only 509 voters are I required before a candidate’s name i Is placed on the ballot, but more i than that number of Hoosier party required before a candidate’s name is placed on the ballot, but more than that number of Hoosier party chiefs assembled today. The state election board has ruled that fire’s name can be placed on the ballot unless he specifically ’ forbids it. i Governor Craig refused to say . what he would do if the President . decides not to run. but state sena- ) tor Roy Conrad has Announced he will enter Congressman Charles A. i Halleck (R Ind.) in the presidential primary in that event. Halleck, . a former GOP national house floor leader, has refused comment on 1 that maneuver to date. I The Eisenhower petition will be j signed by district and county chair- , men and vice-chairman, state offit ctals and Young Republican leaders . at a huge meeting tonight at the . Indiana atata followt lag an addrew W Craig. The two Indiana Republican sen- . atore, Homer E. Capehart and Wll- . Ham E. Jenner, have been invited to attend. They said they had pre- . vious Lincoln Day speaking engage- . meats but would try to break them, i A number of Indiana's nine GOP i congressmen are expected to be present. Jenner is reported to savoy Senator William Knowland (R. Calif.) for President lf,lke decides be is unavailable. If Ike decides to seek a second term, petitions asking that he be i placed on the ballot can be filed beginning Feb. 29. The presidential candidate with the largest num- . ber of votes in the May 8 primary l is entitled to the support of Indit ana's 32 delegates at the national ; convention—on the first ballot i only. In 1952, 30 Hoosier delegates voted for Senator Robert A. Taft and only two for President Efsen(Continued on Page Five) ( ”■ ■■ ■ Approve Funds For State Institutions Budget Committee Approves Projects. INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The state budget committee Friday authorized expenditure of nearly IL--800,000 at the state school for the deaf, including $700,000 for a newelementary school building. $350,000 tor a new powerhouse at the Indiana girls’ school at Cler- , mont. $185,000 for additional power house rehabilitation at the Logansport state hospital. $65,000 for sewage plant improvements at the Madison state hospital- , $75,000 for a new turbine generator at the state prison. $27,000 for a sewage plant at the Lincoln state bank. $23,000 for family units at Shakamak state park. $21,000 for family units at Brown county state park. $45,000 for kitchen and bakery rehabilitation at the state reformatory. $38,000 for new well and piping at Richmond state hospital. The committee granted salary increases of S6OO a year to superintendents of mental hospitals. Also the monthly mileage account of 100 conservation officers was hiked front $125 to $l5O. The committee reduced a proposed Appropriation of SIO,OOO for furniture at the superintendent’s home at the Logansport state hospital to $5,000.

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All On Board Plane Die In Crash Friday Pilot, Apparently Flying Blind, Hits Face Os Mountain NILES. Caltf. (INS)—Bodies of 38 marines will be removed today from the charred wreckage of a four-engine marine corps RSD plane which rammed into the near-perpendicular face of a 2,000foot mountain east of San Francisco bay. The big plane was headed for naval air station on the bey and was only about six minutes flying time away from its destination Friday afternoon when it crashed and burned, killing all aboard. Visibility was poor due to fog banks and mist, and the pilot, apparently flying blind, failed to clear the peak by some 400 feet. Scene of the crash was only a ■ short distance from the place , where a United Alrlihes plane crashed in 1951, killing 50 per- , sons, and where a Transocean air- . liner carried 30 to their deaths in . 1953. i Crash of the marine plane was , the second military air tragedy .in northern California in two ■days, - B-S2 eight-W intercon- . tinental bomber exploded in flight and crashed Thursday near Tracy about 20 miles to tne west of the Niles canyon area where the marine plane came to disaster. Four of the eight men aboard the B-52 were killed. The marine plane was given clearance by the tower at Oakland International airport shortly before 1:45 p. m. A few minutes later several persons telephoned the Alameda county sheriffs office to report a crash. It was almost two hours before a coast guard helicopter located the burned wreckage on the mountainside. By that time It was dusk and too late to try to remove the bodies. The navy said the bodies will be carried to the top of the mountain today and then lifted by helicopter to a temporary mortuary cither at Niles or nearby Decoto. Thirty-two of the marines aboard the crashed plane were enroute from Camp Pendleton, Calif., to new assignments at Kaneohe, Hawaii. There were five crewmen from the El Toro marine air base in southern California and one “hitch-hiking” passenger enroute home on leave. The crewmen and passengers were all from California. Identification of the Hawaiibound marines was delayed because they were carrying their (Continued on rm Btx) ~ Decatur Lions Hear Worker In Bolivia Miss Carolyn Muselman, a social worker in Bolivia, will be the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions club at 6:3(Vp. m. Monday at the Youth and Community Center. Miss Muselman will speak on her' work in the South American country and also show pictures of that territory. All members are urged to attend- . t ; Two Airmen Believed Buried Under Plane TOWER HILL, 111. (INS)—Air' force officials and Shelby county sheriff’s officers worked today to recover the bodies of two airmen believed buried under a jet trainer plane which crashed near Tower Hill. Sheriff Cecil Clausen, who was among the ftrsita, arrive at the scene of the crash Friday? 1 pieces, of a human body were found near the plane along with several pages from a log book.