Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 43.

CAN’T QUITE BARGE THROUGH ALL THAT ICE I EH •■**-*•-* ft 1 ' I ...... • ' J fflsj "* * K | ' ■ ’■ ‘ THE FRIGID WINTER in Europe makes this traffic jam on the Danube river just about the granddaddy of them ail The ice-bound barges are shown at Passau, Germany. K

Nebraska GOP Officer Gives Report On Fund Discuss Resuming v Public Hearing On Neffs Activities WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate "influence” investigators callefl a “procedural" meeting today to de cide when to resume public hearings on the political activities of oil lawyer John M Neff. Chief counsel Charles W. Stead man of the special senate committM probing the Neff situation announced a meeting of the four-man group at 11:45 a. m. (EST) to chart the next step in the investigation. . . Steaßman made tne announcement after Joseph Wishart, Nebraska etat% GOP committee treasurer. gave the senate group's staff a report on Neffs $2,500 contribution to the Republican unit last month Details of Wisehtfrt’s testimony were not revealed. Wishart was called before the committee headed by Sen. Walter JL George (D iGa.), amid these other developments: f 1. Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland of California, announced he would ask the Republican policy committee to endorse the decision of the senate Democrats for a new special senate group to look into campaign contributions, lobbying and other legislative “improprieties" The GOP policy group scheduled a noon meeting to discus the matter. The Democratic policy committee late Monday en dorsed the idea of a new select bipartisan group to conduct the inquiry. * 2. George said his blue ribbon investigating group would hear testimony again from Howard B. Keck, president of Superior Oil Co- bf Calif., and Elmer Patman, the firm's chief attorney, after Wishart completes his testimony. 3. The George committee called for further hearings after learning that Neff, who also represented Superior Oil, offered U- S. attorney Donald R. Ross 1500 for arranging a meeting between Neff and Nebraska's two senators in connection with the gas billRoss, who later resigned as U. S. attorney at Omaha, said Neff mailed him five pass books from a bank in Lexington, Neb., for Ross's five children. The witness said he spurned the mnneyand denied he was guilty of anything “illegal” or “unethical" in his relations with Neff. 4. The former government official also said he persuaded Neff not to make campaign contributions to Nebraska- Republican senators Roman L. Hruska and Carlt T. Curtis. But Ross, who. termed ; (Continued on Page Five) Photostat Machine Is Bought For Recorder A bid on a photostat machine for the county recorder’s office was accepted at a meeting of the county commissioners Monday at the court house. The bid submitted by the Photostat corporation was for $1,500. It was the only one submitted. The submitted bld was given the approval of the commissioners. The machine will be delivered to the recorder's office in six to eight weeks. The commissioners also agreed to advertise for bids on a dump truck for the county highway department. The bids will be accepted March 5 at the auditor’s office. Specifications on the struck are available at that office.

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~ wrrrß ftMThfi Wfi Pentagon Concerned On Red Superiority Air Force Chief Is Heard By Senators WASHINGTON (INS)—Get}. Nathan F. Twining conceded today that the Pentagon is “concerned" over Soviet action in narowlng the U. S. margin of superiority in air power. The air force chief of staff told the senate armed services committee: "I cannot dhny thgt the Soviets are narrowing our margin of superiority. They have long since passed us in quantity and ithey are marking remarkable strides in quality. “The Soviets are attempting to 'close this gap by greatly increasing their research and development efforts. That is our real concern. It is apparent that they are putting more men apd money into this battle of the laboratories than we are.”,Twining testinea oemnd closed doors but bis prepared statement to the legislators was made public. The genearl also said that nu-clear-powered aircraft will !><■ k "priceless asset for 4t enable us to keep more of our force in the air at all times." He explained that it “represents a potent counter weapon even when" the intercontinental ballistic missiles "come on the scene." Twining gave no Indication in his statement of when nuclearpowered aircraft would be a reality. The general, who was accompanied by air secretary Donald Quarles, said that the U. S. is on schedule now with the ICBM "but no one can guarantee that our fu ture schedule on these ballistic missiles will be met." ' _ •«. .. ~ ’’l Henry Ashbaucher Dies Monday Night Berne Native Dies Monday At Hammond Henry Ashbaucher, 78, a native of Berne and a resident of Hammond for many years, died at 11 p.m, Monday at a Hammond hospital, where he has been a patient since Saturday. He was born in Berne June 24, 1877, a son of Peter and Mary Luglnbill-Ashbaucher. He was married to Edna Barnett, who precedin death. A ’ veteran "oF the Spanish American War, he was retired several years ago from the Pullman Car company. . , Surviving are a son, Claude of Milwaukee, Wls.; two brothers, Fred and Ed Ashbaucher, both of Decatur; four sisters, Mrs. Elma Goodin and Mrs. Lillian Burroughs of Decatur, Mrs. Ella Studebaker of South Bend and Mrs. Della VanCamp of Jackson, Mich. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at .the Snyder funeral home In Hammond. Burial will also be in Hammond. Forecast Cold Wave Continues In State INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana's cold wave will continue for at least five days, according to the forecast of. the Indianapolis weather bureau today. The prediction was for temperatures two to four degrees below normal. Mtximiim normals are 41 to 52 degrees and minimum normals are 28 to 80 degrees" Indications were for rising temperatures'Friday. ” “

Bulganin Says Soviet System Will Prevail New Five-Year Plan Outlined Today By Premier Bulganin MOSCOW (INS)—Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin claimed today .that the Communist economic system “will win" in its historic competition witfi capitalism. Such competition, the premier told the 20th Soviet Communist party congress, should be peaceful. He added: "Our party and all the Soviet people are firmly convinced that in the historic competition of the two systems the socialist system will win as being more advanced and progressive.” Bulganin made the assertion in a three - and -a ■ half hour Kremlin speech in which he gave details of the sixth Soviet five-year plan which is to go into effect In the spring. He summed up the plan in these words: “The sixth five-year plan is based on the predominant importance that heavy Industry, technical progress and increased labor productivity will guarantee the further mighty growth of the national eeonagriculture and thereby insure a considerable improvement in the material well-being of all our people." The new plan, Bulganin said, will result in a “superabundance of consumer goods.” Nevertheless, Bulganin echoed previous speakers in stressing that the first purpose' of the plan is' to boost heavy industrial output. He said that the Soviet Union intended to build about 4.000 miles of railroad track and to electrify about 5,000 miles of rail lines. “Work productivity” in industry will be raised 50 per cent by automation and other new techniques, 'the premier predicted, and agricultural output will rise even higher. * Total national income will go up about 60 per cent in the 1956-1961 period, Bulganin went on, and state investments in the national economy will be boosted six per cent. He stressed the need for skilled technicians and scientists, forecast that Soviet schools would graduate more and more of them in the next half-decade and disclosed that the government was going to make high school education compulsory for all citixens, . Bulganin walked to the rostrum shortly after tfte 20th congress opened its second week of meetings. The first week was devoted almost exclusively to the international and domestic policy report of party first secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev. Monday, the congress unanimously approved the report which laid down the idea of “collective leadership” in the Soviet Union as opposed to one-man rule. Khrushchev was appointed head of a commission to dggft a resolution on the report. The details of the new five-year plan which goes into effect this spring were published in the party newspaper Pravda on Jan. 15. The plan calls fort a 65 per cent average increase in industrial output and a 100 per cent increase in agricultural production. Reflecting the views ot Khrushchev as opposed to those of former premier Georgi Malenkov, the plan places heavy emphasis on the production of capital goods as opposed to consumer products. Increases in the latter, also, are included.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, February 21, 1956.

Benson Charges Farm Program Is Smothered Under Food Surpluses

Hagerty Boils Over On Query Over Decision Ike's Secretary Says Eisenhower To Name Own Time THOMASVILLE, Ga. (INS)— A White House spokesman, weary ot being asked when President Eisenhower will make his second term decision, declared today: “The President will make his announcement at his time and nobody else’s.” The President’s news secretary, James C. Hagerty, boileji over when reporters pressed him for any scrap of information on when and how Mr. Eisenhower will announce his big decision to the nation. Exasperated at repeated efforts to draw out on the subject, he told a news conference in Thomasville : “Let’s do it very slowly in words of one syllable. “I am not going to discuss this. I om not going to make any comment on it and 1 thing you all know that I’m not.” Asked if Mr. Eisenhower will announce his decision at his next news conference, which probably will be Feb. 29, the press secre tary replied heatedly: "There is absolutely no reason to believe that one way or the other." Hagerty said "if you gentlemen want an announcement at the press’ conference you had better leave it as it is. “I know of no better way not than to keep pressing.” The President has said he probably will make his announcement at a. news conference. He also noted, however, that it might be necessary to make a fuller “explanation" elsewhere. , This'presumably would be in a television address to the nation, possibly the same day as the news conference. Mr. Eisenhower went quail-hunt-ing again today with treasury secretary George M. Humphrey, his host at Milestone plantation. He has enhanced his reputation as a hunter with jeach new foray into the quail-laden palmetto sage. Monday he bagged another eight quail to boost his total since arrival in George last Wednesday to 27. The limit is 12 a day. If the President has made up his mind about a second term, he has not confided his decision to th# small staff which accompanied him from Washington. He decided Monday to stay on at the plantation for the rest of the week. According to present plans, he w|U fly back to the Capital late Friday or early Saturday. Humphrey has a speaking engagement in New York Wednesday but will return to Georgle for another day or two of hunting with the President. Mr. Eisenhower probably will switch to golf on Wednesday while the secretary. who doesn’t play, is out of town. There has been no direct indi(Contlnued on Page Five)

Lenten Meditation “SUCCESS IN LIFE” (By Rev. Robert W. Contant, St. Mary’s Catholic Church) Many people today place the greatest importance on being a success in life. Almost without realizing it they have come to measure success in terms of money and the luxury which money can purchase. if a person does not believe in God and considers the end of this life to mark the end of existence —then this outlook on life is most reasonable. *To the person <who does believe in God-and the immortality of the soul, this life must be considered simply as a preparation. To such a one success in life must be measured ultimately by the salvation bf his soul. Certainly there is nothing wrong in desiring happiness in this lite and taking means to obtain it. The important thing to remefnber is that no amount of money or luxury of life will provide perfect happiness or success —that is to be found only in eternity. "For what does it profit a man. if he gain the whole world, but suffer the loss of his own soul?” (Nrarlc 8. 36). ’

Twin Brothers Are Charged In Murder Joint Indictment In Cub Scout's Slaying WHEELING, W. Va. (INS) — An Ohio county grand jury today, returned a joint indictment charging murder against 14-year-old twins in connection with the slaying of nine-year-old Cub scout David Powell. The grand jury, which was called back into special session to consider the Powell case, was In the jury room about two hours before returning at noon with the indictment against Joseph and Thomas Williams, young Wheeling Island neighbors of the slain boy. The body of the cub scout, who had been bludgeoned to death, was found in a cellar beneath the porch of the Williams home on Feb- 10. The office of county prosecutor Joseph A. Gonipers has said that West Virginia law could permit the death penalty for the two teenagers if they are convicted of first degree murder at their trial, Gompers so far has declined to say whether 1 he will ask the death penalty. Detective Sgt. Ray Lucas, and patrolman Eugene Roman of the Wheeling police force, both appeared before the gyand jury. They headed the police investigation of the slaying. William Hollandsworth, county investigator on the prosecutor’s -staff, went into the jwry room carrying the bloodstained clothing belonging to one of the twins on which much ot the official statements bn the case so far have centered. Gompers has declined to reveal whether state police crime laboratory tests on the clothing show that the stains match the young victim's blood type. Also called before the grand jury today was assistant prosecutor ►Don Wolf, who has headed the prosecutor's office investigation. Earlier today, the grand jury was told to ignore sentimentalism and appeals to emotions in its deliberations. Judge E. A. McKee told the jury that "the least consideration in your findings” is the age of the victim or the accused because the “Heinous nature of the offense” excludes it from juvenile law. He used 133 words in his instructions, to the panel. School Problems Are Discussed In Union A discussion of school problems of Union township was conducted at a meeting of township residents Monday night at the Luckey school. The meeting was called by a group of interested school patrons of the township. The main point discussed was the inadequate facilities provide,fcby the two grade schools of the township, Luckey end Schnepp 5ch0015..... Most of those attending agreed That bfcTtef necessary for the elementary pupils of the township. Ways of accomplishing the needed improvement, such as re-organization, transfer and consolidation were studied. No definite action was taken last night but, another meeting will probably be called in the future.

Resume Effort To End Long W. E. Strike Federal Mediators Resume Talks With Company And Union WASHINGTON (INS) — Federal mediators today resumed their talks with management-labor representatives in an effort to end the 118-day-old Westinghouse Corp, strike. Officials of the company and the international union of electrical workers gathered at the headquarters of the mediation service at 10 a.m. (iEST) to continue their joint meeting. The joint session, a continuation of a four-hour conference held Monday, was called to go over the ground of the prolonged dispute. Mediators said it is customary, when new individuals enter a dispute, to review the record, which In the case of the Westinghouse strike Is voluminous. The new participants are former federal mediation director David L. Cole and Dr. George W. Taylor, of the University of Pennsylvania. These top-ranking leaders in the labor relations field, both of whom have seen extensive government service, have been enlisted by federal mediation dii-ector Joseph F. Finnegan to help try to end the Westinghouse walkout. Both men are members of a special panel set up by Finnegan to carry through an “all-out effort” ' to settle the dispute. Chairman of the panel is mediator John R. Murray. who has been seeking an end to the controversy from the be- ; ginning. Mediators are hopeful that before many days have passed they will have worked out an agreement, or at least will have established a basis on which a settlement can be worked out in new negotiations in Pittsburgh. However, Finnegan is trying for an agreement before the current talks end. The Westinghouse strike originally involved about 55,000 employees, but the company says that 6,500 have returned to work, so that the number idle now is something more than 48,000, Os these, about 38,000 are reported to be IUE members. Forty plants are (Continued on Page Five) Mrs. Maud Kimble Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Maud J. Kimble. 84, died shortly before noon Monday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She bed been ill the past five years with heart trouble and hospitalized for two days. She died on her "84th birthday. _ . T She was born in Wells county Feb. 20. 1872, a daughter of Henry and Martha White-Poffenberg-er. Her first husband, Charles Mettler, died fn 1922, and she was later married to John W. Kimble, who Wurvives. She had resided in Fort Wayne since 1923 until six months ago, when she moved to Decatur route 1. ’ " Mrs. Kimble was a member of the Methodist church. Surviving in addition to her husband are a daughter, Mrs. Cecil Busching of Fort Wayne: seven grandchildren: 19 great-grand-children; two stepbrothers. Charles and Fred Grove, and a stepsister. Mrs. Ethel of Bluffton. Ope daughter, three brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Thoma funeral home fn Bluffton. the Rev. A. N. Christie officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Three Persons Hurt Al Struck Factory Renew Violence At Jet Fighter Plant FARMINGDALE, N. Y. (INS)—Three non-strikers were injured today and six pickets arrested in a renewal ot violence at the strikebound Republic Aviation Corp., jet fighter plant in Farmingdale, L.I. Police said two men and a woman were beaten by pickets as they attempted to enter a plant. The latest arrests brought to 64 the number of pickets seized by police. Charges of assault or disorderly conduct were filed against four pickets arrested at the east gate and twd at the southwest gate. < Gov. Averell Harriman reportedly rejected an appeal for national guard troops made by Suffolk county authorities. The walkout, involving members of the International Association of Machinists, began with maintenance men at midnight Saturday and spread to 12,000 production workers Monday. Some 50 pickets were arrested Monday and 20 others were injured in a day-long series of melees with police .and sheriff’s deputies. Union officials said company aides posted in towers were using binoculars to spot union officers for arrest by the police, Justin Ostro, president of striking Lodge 1987 of tho International Association of Machinists, said because of the arrests "we have a mob of men without leadership.” Ostro, among those arrested for disorderly conduct, said the company “must be held responsible for whatever results" from the arrests. The arrested pickets all were released in bail. It did not appear *that any of the pickets who suffered injuries were hurt critically. The union has been asking for a 19-cent* wage boost while the company has offered five cents. The walkout began Saturday night. Decatur Air Scouts To Sport Uniforms Elks To Assist In Uniform Purchases' Decatur’s Air Scouts will soon be decked out in new nnHerm* air force blue, the official color for Air Scouts. The, Decatur Elks lodge, sponsor of the troop, recently voted to pay, half the cost of the uniforms, with the balance to be paid by the Scouts. The Air Scouta visited the control tower and weather station at Baer Field Monday night, and were‘shown all operations of the control tower in a highly interesting field trip. The troop has also received an official invitation to visit WrightPatterson air force base at Dayton, 0., and will make the trip on a Sunday this spring, with the definite date yet to be determined. The troop also plans to conduct a model airplane meet at Decatur’s new airport, east of the city, in the spring. As a feature of this meet, there will be two demonstration parachute jumps. The next meeting of the troop will' be held at the Elks home on North Second street Monday night, March 5. L U. Cancer Research Coordinator Is Dead INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Dr. Edwin A. Lawrence, 45, Indiana University cancer research coordinator and professor of surgery, died Monday night of the disease he devoted most of his life toward fighting. Dr. Lawrence was born at Norwalk. O:. and was a graduate of Oberlin College and Western Reserve University school of medicine. He had been on the I U medical staff since Jan. 1, 1950.

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Secy. Benson Testifies To House Group Urges Approval Os Administration Plan For Aid To Farmers WASHINGTON (INS) — Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson told congress today the administration’s farm program is “smothered” under surpluses built up by rigid price supports. Benson made the statement before the house agriculture committee. which consistently has favored high-level supports instead of the administration's flexible price support program. He asserted that staggering farm surpluses robbed American farmers of more than $2 billion in income last year. Benson added that this amounted to nearly 20 percent of net farm income. Despite his strong criticism of what he termed “our past proi grams,” the secretary did not state bis opposition to the senate bill to restore rigid price supports, nor did he suggest the threat of a I presidential veto. | Benson's statement primarily was an affirmative approach, in which he urged congressional approval of the soil bank and eight other proposals sent to congress by President Eisenhower. He declared: "The nine-point program offer no nostrum or panaceas. Our farm folks want none. Rather, it includes a sound, logical attack on our most urgent problem, the surplus. It strikes at both sides of the price-cost • : Benson noted that some of the President’s proposals—such as expanded government pork purchases and higher supports for soybeans, cottonseed and flax — are “being accomplished administratively.”. Pointing out that this year's crops already are being planted in the south, Benson urged the house group to act with “maximum speed” on the proposals. He maintained that the Eisenhower program “offers convincing evidence that farm prices and incomes will be strengthened by a direct attack on the surplus problem itself.” He said that the soil bank, tied tb“ 'fß® support ■ - system - now on the books and accented by a stepped-up surplus disposal operation, would accomplish this goal. The senate bill combines the administration’s soil bank proposal with a restoration! of rigid high price supports, which President Eisenhower and Behson strongly oppose. House agriculture committee chairman Harold D. Cooley (DN.C.) said the hearings which open today are intended to seek ~ ways to “increase farm income and restore stability to the farm economy.” - ----- — He explained they will take a "comprehensive” look at the entire farm picture. Benson has not appeared before the house committe epreviously this year because the senate committee has been handling farm legislation. Cooley, however, wired the secretary late last year that he would reconvene the house committee in November or December, 1956, if the secretary would present specific recommendations to aid the farmer.' ' „ *, Benson turned down the proposal, explaining that he wanted to submit his farm plan to congress through regular channels in January of this year. , ' . ; INDIANA WEATHER Fair to partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with chance of snoW flurries near take Michigan. Colder tonight and extreme south Wednesday. Low tonight 8-15 north, 15-25 south. High Wednesday 26-32 north. 32-38 south. ~