Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 20 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 42.

ZIONISTS PROTEST TANK SALE \ 1 ‘ • A*. ■' "If ■' ■ Zionist YOUTH organisations form picket line on Brooklyn, N. Y. pier in protest to sale of 18 light tanks to SaudL Arabia, which are on a lighter (background-right) awaiting loading. Because of such staunch protests the state department announced SIIO,OOO worth of auto and air repair kits are scheduled for shipment to Israel.

Israel Fears War By Egypt By End Os Year Israel Government Fears Attacks; 18 Tanks Go To Arabia WASHINGTON (INS) —lsraeli sources said today that their government tears that before the end of this year Egypt will hnrl jet warplanes into a massive and possibly crushing assault ou Israel Ambassador Abba Eban appeared to give official support to this estimate of war danger when he said Sunday that ,as Egyptian power grows, the temptation to attack Will become overpowering. Bb«n was interviewed on the CBS teloviwd program. ‘Face the Nation" U, S. officials are trying to take a calmer view of the situation although admitting its gravity. But another Israeli official declared in an interview: "We expect Egypt to attack as soon as she is convinced she can win quickly. In a week or-so, with smashing blows from the air. That's why we want jet fighters. . . to ward off their bombers from the air. "We believe that if Egypt continues to build up military strength and Israel Is not permitted to buy arms from the West, the attack will eome before the end of this year "The feeling is so general that the people in Israel are now building bomb shelters.” One U- «. official said this country is trying to determine whether J the Russiian-built arms sent to Egypt by Chechoslovakia have given the Egyptians the power to strike a crushing blow. He said the study is part of»the ■work underway in consideration of the Israeli request for permission to buy 50 million dollars worth of arms from the United States. Meanwhile, as the freighter S. S. James Monroe sailed for the Middle East carrying f 8 light reconntissance tanks to Saudi Arabia, congressional protests mounted against American aid to the Arab states. Sen Hubert Humplffley (D Minn.) declared that secretary of state John Foster Dulles ’’should be called — summoned even -*L before the senate foreign relations committee to explain” the tank shipment. Chairman Walter F. George (D Ga..) of the committee said that he expected both Dulles and under secretary of state Herber Hoover, Jr., before the group as soon as possible. Dulles is vacationing in thp Bahamas and will return to the nation's capital Wednesday. Rep. Emanuel Celler (D N. Y.,) declared that congress "must” investigate the sale of tanks of Arab nations, and he accused Hoover of representing oil interests in advising President Eisenhower to rescind bis original ban ou the tanks for Saudi Arabia. Celler made his charge on NBC’s televised “Youth Wants to Know” Eban said that the feared arms race already vs underway In his (Continued on alight) INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. «.t; Little change In temperature — except colder south portion tonight Low tonight 12-17 north, ■ 17-24 south. High Tuesday 32-37 north, 37-43 south.

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Pro-Western Greek Premier Is Winner j Narrow Victory In National Elections ATHENS (INS) — The proWestern government of premier Constantine Karamanlis has won a narrow’ victory in the Greek national elections. With the results from all but one district announced, the premier's National Radical Union has won 154 seats in the 300-seat parliament. The Democratic Union opposition party, a seven-party left-of-center coalition which includes the Communists, won 146 seats in Greece’s intricate proportional electoral system. • The result in the one unannouned district cannot change the seating distribution. Although the premier held onto control of the government in Sunday’s balloting, It could not be considered a smashing victory since in the last parliament his followers had held 236 seats. Karamanlis had called the election Greece’s “battle against Communism." Some four million Greeks were eligible to vote in the election. About two million of them were women voting for the first time. The women were credited with accomplishing the defeat of the opposition forces headed by George Papandreou. Such a defeat had been onsidered virtually impossible a few hours before the voting began. The women, defying the political leanings of their menfolk, turned the tables on the Democratic Union and barely to keep Greece on the West’s side. Karamanlis, aside from leading his followers to victory, won election for himself in his constituency of Serves. (Continued on cain Six) Theodore Kleine Dies Sunday Night Funeral ServicesTo Be Wednesday Theodore Kleine, 58, of Hoagland, died at 9:40 o’clock Sunday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill for the past year and hospitalized for two weeks. Born in Allen county Feb. 8. 1898, he was a son of Fred and Emma Prange-Kleine, and was married to Sophia Fuelling June 4. 1922. _He had lived in Hoagland for the past 28 years. He was an employe of International Harvester a‘t Fort Wayne and for maiiy years a member of the Hoagland fire department. Mr. Kleine was a member of the St. John’s Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters, Mrs. W’lbert Gallmeyer of Ossian, Mrs. Paul Schroeder of Decatur route 1, and Angeline. at home; one son, Erwin, at home; seven grandchildren; one brother, William H. Kleine of Hoagland, and one sister, Mrs. Esther Morton of Hoagland. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. Edwin Jacobs officiating. Burial will be in ths church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral homa after T o’clock this svsning. 16 Pages

Westinghouse, Union Leaders Meeting Today Union And Company Leaders Attending Mediation Meeting WASHINGTON (INS) — Union and- company officials were to meet today for what federal mediators hope will be “an all-out effort” to end the 127-day strike of 54.000 empoyes of the Westinghouse Corp. ; Mediation service director Joseph F. Finnegan summoned representatives ofthe company and the International Union of Electrical Workers. Both sides have agreed to be present pt 2 p. m. (EST) in his office. ’ -« Finnegan said that “as of now, we hope to work out something while they are in Washington” and added: “We are sure going to pitch for a settlement.” The company has refused to submit its standard for time studies of non-incentive daytime workers to arbitration or to a fact finding panel. 2 Union president James B. Carey has insisted that the company must agree to some procedure for disposing of this question. Another issue was raised Sunday night by a company spokesman in Pittsburgh regarding the reinstatement of strikers. The company official said: “The problem of strikers discharged for lawless acts is now the most important point in the negotiations as far as we are concerned . . . settlement of this point . . . must come first.” The electrical workers want blanket reinstatement of all strikers. while the company says it will only arbitrate each case of violence separately. Westinghouse'reportedly is willing to submit to arbitration any down-grading of an employe who does not meet its time study standard. But it will not agree to arbitration or fact-finding regarding the standard itself. Employes Fired PITTSBURGH (INS)— Westing house announced today that it has fired seven employes and sus pended two others as the result of i picket line disorders at the Sharort. Pa., plant. Discharged were Vincent Pisani, Domenic Derosa, Andrew D, Ratvasky, Albert Linonis, Laurence A. Smith, Rocco Arcade and Eugene C, Koss. Their notices cited violence on the picket line, damaging com'pkny property and endangering the lives of supervisors and employes. Alexander Deciancio Jr. and Walter E. Ballut were notified of their suspension pending review of their cases after the strike is settled. A Westinghouse spokesman told (Continued on Page Five) Local Lady's Brother Dies At Springfield Mrs. A. M- Anker has received word of the death Sunday of her brother, Oscar Smith, of Springfield, O„ following a heart attack suffered last Thursday. He has been retired for a number of years after of coal mines at T.sylorVfUe, lIL , Surviving ere hie wlfb, Grace: one brother and one sister. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 20, 1956.

Eisenhower Plans To Extend Vacation In Georgia To Saturday

Senate Group Calls Public Fund Hearing Investigate New • Aspects Os Funds Contributed Case WASHINGTON (INS) —A special senate committee called a public hearing today to invesetigate some “new" aspects and ex, plore the “pattern of purpose" behind the $2,500 oil company campaign contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) Chairman Walter F. George' (D-Ga.) announced the 2:30 p.m. (EST) hearing as three different senate groups met to consider inquiries into lobbying. George saia tnat former U. S. district attorney Donald Ross, who resigned his Nebraska post as a result of the Case affair, may be today’s witness. But he reported that Howard Keck, president of the Superior Oil Co., which furnished the $2,500, and Elmer Patman, one of his attorneys, also would be' recalled. Meanwhoe sen. Albert Gore (D.Tenn.) chairman of the senate elections subcommittee which has been planning a board ItfvfXWfe tion of “influence” lobbying, said he had "no comment” on reports his probe might be Sidetracked. And Sen. John F. Kennedy (DMass.) called an afternoon news conference to outline a “full investigation of all phases and types of lobbying activities and pressures" by his government reorganization subcommittee. Despite the apparent inter-com-mittee battle over who is to investigate lobbying and campaign contributions, a top Democratic source said the question would be resolved by one of two methods. He predicted the probe would be assigned to a combined subcommittee or to a new select committee, with membership drawn from the chairmen and ranking Republicans on the groups concerned —elections, government operations and judiciary. Cloud of Guilt WASHINGTON (INS) —House Democrats charged today that President Eisenhower cast “a cloud of guilt" over members of congress in his veto message on the natural gas bill, Democratic floor leader John McCormack, of Mass., demanded that Mr. Eisenhower state pub(Continued on Page Five)

Lenten Meditation ■A•■ . ■ . - (By Rev. H. E. Settlage, Salem Evangelical and Reformed Cburch) “The Somersaultj or, The Power of Quick Recovery” Text: "A righteous man falieth seven times, and riseth up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity." , —Proverbs 24:16. The righteous and the wickets have one thing in common: both suffer fails and calamities. The Christian life does not guarantee smooth sailing. Devout persons meet with adversity, shocks. ; 4 losses add disappointments as others do. How to take the falls and calamities? We can learn a lesson from athletes, who, along with their ability to perform feats of strength and skill know how to take falls and bumps without serious injury, and make a quick recovery. The boxer learns to “roll with the punch." The trapeze artist knows how to keep himself limber when he loses his balance and takes the fall with a somersault, thus easing the fall. Missionary and author E. Stanley Jones relates that through the years he has suffered many shocks and disappointments, but has learned to recover his peace and poise within a very short time, aften an hour or less. Many find it extremely difficult to recover from losses, sorrow, ; or misfortune. Some “lose their faith;” others question God’s goodness; men have been known to spend years brooding over financial reverses?' sorrow has led to prolonged invalidism, are unable to get up a-fter life deals them a hard blow. The power of quick recovery lies in a vital faith, by which we can surrender our lives to God and relax. Our plans must be adjustable to divine providence. In Christ we are God’s children, subject to His wise guidance; events are only partially in our control. Our topes and alms must not become so firmly fixed, or our mind and spirit so tense and rigid that we fail to sense the leading of the Holy Spirit. By trusting, listening, following .Christ, keeping relaxed and sensitive to His Spirit we can learn to accept the bumps as well as the boosts of life with grace, confidence and victory. a,..--. ~ •

I Fresh Blizzards Are Moving Over Death Toll Mounting From Severe Winter LONDON (INS) — Fresh raging blizzards swept across Europe today boosting the death toil of the continent’s coldest winter in 100 years. The latest onslaught of the polar cold wave sent the death toll above 450. Unofficial death toll tabulations throughout Europe showed: Italy 75, Yugoslavia 101, France 124, Holland 5. Britain 28, Denmark 32, Belgium 11, Austria 45, West Germany 26, and Switzerland 1?. The latest blizzards of the three-week-old cold wave caused a major British maritime disaster and hampered rescue operations in southern Italy where 200 villagers are marooned. Eight sailors of the steamer “Corchester” were lost and seven others w’ere presumed lost following a collision between the “Corchester” and the steamer "City of Sydney” off the Norfolk coast in storm-tossed seas. In Switzerland, armies of rats, starved by the heavy snow on the ground, overran farms in the Lausanne area, gourging themselves on pantry food, carpets and bedclothes. IcepacKs on the Danube at Vienira continued to build t(p. ’’flag' a complete riverSOaffic tieup? The icepack, which started forming in Hungary, has now reached the city of Hainburg near the Aus-tria-Czech border. Charles Hockemeyer Dies In Michigan Charles Hockmeyer, 76, native of Adams county, died at noon Saturday at his home in Midland, Mich-, where he had lived for 46 years. Survivors include six sisters, Mrs. Louise Scheiman of Dqcatur, Mrs. Minnie Reiter, Mrs Sophia Lepper. Mrs. William Wiehe. Mrs. Henry Kiess and Mrs. Adela Rebber, all of Fort Wayne, and a brother, William of Staplehurst, NebFuneral services will be held at 2 p. m. Tuesday in Midland, with burial there. BULL E T I N Mrs. Maude Kimble, 84, of Decatur route 1, died at noon joday at tne Adams county memorial hsopital. The body was removed to the Thoma funeral home at Bluffton. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

52 Are Killed In Crash Os French Plane Airliner Crashes And Burns On Desert Near Cairo, Egypt CAIRO (INS) — Fifty-two persons, including 12 children, were killed today when a four-engined French airliner crashed and burned on the desert near Cairo. Six passengers and six crewmen, all suffering injuries, were rescued and taken to hospitals. The operators of the DC-68, Intercontinental Air Transport Co. (TAI) said in Paris that all the passengers were French. The airline said the plane was believed to have carried 41 adults, 11 children, three infants and a crew of nine! The crash occurred a few minutes before the plane was due to land at Cairo airport. It was enroute from Saigon to Paris. The pilot had contacted the airport. and had received permission to land when the accident happened. The plane broke up on hitting the desert and burst into flames. The nearest road from the spot of the crash is two miles, thus forcing Cairo airport officials to use two light planes and helicopters to fly doctors and medical supplies to the scene and return with survivors. The crash reportedly -was discovered by William Judd, a TransWorld Airlines pilot who recently flew his own small plane across the Atlantic. Hearing reports of the crash, Judd boarded his private plane and searched the desert region around the Cairo airport until he found the plane. Judd brought three survivors of the crash to a French hospital In Cairo and then returned to the scene with medical assistance. ■■■■■ 111 — Simeon Hain Dies At Home This Morning Long-Time Decatur Businessman Dies Simeon -J. Hain, 78, one of Decatur’s veteran businessmen, died at 7:30 o’clock this morning at his home, 217 North Sixth street. He had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Hain, a lifelong resident of Decatur, had been in the retail meat business in Decatur for 57 years until ill health forced his retirement. He operated meat markets in downtown Decatur for more than 10 years and then located his store bfi West Monroe street in 1918, where he continued in buslnes until (inly recently Mr. Hain was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and was a charter member of the Knights of Columbus council in ttjjjg cJUU IL' was born in Adams county July 8; 1877, a son of Simeon and Gertrude Hain, and was married to Anna Bertel in Jamestown, N. D, in 1907. Mrs. Hain preceded her husband in death. Surviving are three sons. Bernard Hain of Decatur, Herman Hain of Detroit, Mich., and Simeon Hain, Jr, of Decatur, two daughters, Mrs. Alice Ryan of Chicago and Mrs Helen Keller of Washington, I) C.; seven grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. T. J. Durkin of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a- m. Thursday at St- ■ Mary’s Catholic chuffch, with burial in the Catholic cemetery. The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz will officiate The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock Tuesday evening until time of the services The rosary will be recited at 8 p. m. Wednesday. ’

Candidate h *-■ - ■ > ’flk isis Richard F. Bleeke Richard F. Bleeke Seeks County Office To Seek Democratic Commissioner Post Richard F. (Dick) Bleeke, Union township farmer, long active in township and Adams county agricultural affairs, today announced I > that he would be a candidate for i commissioner of Adams eountyJ first district, subject to the decision of voters at the Democratic primary election in May. The candidate, who owns And supervises his own farm, is married and Mr. and Mrs. Bleeke have two daughters, both married. He is a member of Immanuel Lutheran church in Union township. Bleeke has served on two occasions on Union township election boards and also has been a member of the township advisory boaijd for 12 years. He has never held a county office. The candidate said he planned to make a thorough canvas of voters prior to the primary election. He has resided all of his lite in Union township and has been a farm owner for many years. Tax Statements Are Mailed By Treasurer Spring Payment Is Due Monday, May 7 Tax statements for payment of May and November taxes on real estate and personal property have been mailed to all Adams county taxpayers by Waldo Neal, county treasurer. . ' The statements, which have been ready for several days, were held up until the end of the month so that motor vehicle license applicants would not confuse them with the current receipt which must 4>e shown to obtain the 1956 auto license plate. Payments can be made at the treasurer’s office any time after receipt of the statements through the mail, Neal said today. Deadline js May 7 for the spring installment and November 5 for the fall installment. Adams county taxpayers have been in the first 19 counties in Indiana for the.last two years to receive their statements, state records reveal. Washington Birthday Is Legal Holiday Wednesday is the legal holiday in observance of Washington’s birthday and several offices will be closed in Decatur. Among those •which will not be open are the county offices, federal offices ideluding the selective service board, and the First State Bank. The post office windows will also be closed and there will be no regular mail delivery. The doors of the post office will be closed at 5 p.m. The public library will be open for the regular hours.

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Delay Likely To Next Week On Decision Eisenhower Offers U.S. Surplus Food To Western Europe THOMASVILLE, Ga. (INS) — President Eisenhower plans to extend his Georgia vacation until Saturday ajid It appears highly unlikely he will make any second term announcement before next week. White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said today Mr. Eisenhower tentatively plans to fly back to Washington Saturday morning after several more days of quail-hunting and golf. There is some possibility he may return late Friday. A report that the President might announce his second term decision from Thomasville Friday night was squelched by Hagerty, who said: "There isn’t a thing to it.” Hagerty said he "assumes” Mr. Eisenhower will hold his regular Wednesday news conference on Feb. 29. This will apparently be the President’s next question-and-answer session with newsmen and may be the magic date on the second term question. — TtfF rTOßt<tFnt nas saia ne win probably make the first disclosure of his plans at a news conference with a fuller “explanation" later, if that is necessary. The explanation will probably come in a television address to the nation, possibly the same day as the meeting with newsmen. Mr. Eisenhower signed eight bills today, including the measure putting the Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, N.Y., on a permanent basis. The academy, which has been operating on year-to-year appropriations, will now have status comparable to West Point, Annapolis and the new Air Force Academy at Colorado Springs. The President sent congress a supplemental appropriation request for >278,678,596 today to cover the cost of salary Increases the lawmakers voted themselves and other government employes last year. After disposing of this and other routine items of business flown down from Washington he set out quail - hunting at 8:30 a.m. with treasury secretary George M. Humphrey. Yesterday, the President offered U.S. surplus food to aid western Europe which has been hit by the most severe winter of the century. The action, taken at Mr. Eisenhower's Georgia "vacation” spot, was another dramatic example of one factor which may weigh heavily in his decision on a second term. The Chief Executive is finding out once again that the President of the United States can never escape, even for a few days, the constant crises to the world’s most den manding job. - He flew to treasury secretary George M. Humphrey’.s Milestone plantation last Wednesday to detach himself so far as possible from White House pressures as he makes his momentous decision on whether to run again. From his plantation retreat, the President directed the delicate diplomatic maneuver which reversed a sudden state department embargo on the shipment of 18 tanks to Saudi Arabia. And, while “relaxing” from the burdens of the White House, he also drafted the veto on the natural gas bill, one of the most volatile political issues with which he has had to deal since his heart attack. Mr. Eisenhower obviously is thoroughly enjoying his stay in Georgia, where he has been mixing quail-bunting with golf. He spent a quiet Sunday at the plantation and had no definite plans for today.