Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 44.

COMPARES AIR FORCES ■ » 9ki J GENERAL NATHAN TWINING (left) Air Force Chief of Staff and Air Force Secretary Donald Quarles arrive for Senate Armed Services committee hearings on air power. Twining compared by category the current air strength of the U. S. with that of Russia and advised the lawmakers the Pentagon is concerned over possible Soviet narrowing of the margin of our air superiority.

Handley Tosses Hat Into Race For Governor • • . • » Lieutenant Governor Enters Republican Race For Governor INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Lt. Gov. Harold Handley announced today he will seek the nomination for governor of the “united” Republican party of Indiana. Handley said he will run op his cwq record but added he will run also on the "many good things" accomplished in the administration of Gov. Oeofge N. Craig. The lieutenant-governor, who estimated he has spoken to as many as 700 meetings in the past three years, said: “I will run on my own record. I am proud of it, and It is crystal clear on all public issues. I have neither asked for, nor received any specific encouragement from any special group in the Republican party. It is iny desire to be the candidate of a united Repub lican party.” He said he has received encouragement from a “good many Re publican state senators:" has the endorsement (given at the state convention) of AFL Indiana President Carl Mullen, and is “certain of my home county of LaPorte.” Handley was elected to the Indiana senate from LaPorte and Starke Bounties in 1940 but resigned after the 1941 session to serve with the 85th infantry division in World War 11. He was re elected to the senate in 1948 and served until his election as lieu-tenant-governor in 1952. The LaPorte Republican said he just made up his mind to seek the nomination 10 days ago and ’ hasn't had time to draw up his stand on state government. He said he will not waver f?om his stand for "“saKr"'bridges"" ; aW adequate free highways,” stiff! cient classrooms locally financed and” managed and a balanced state budget but added: _ “I want to spell out in detail my stand on public issues so there will be nd doubt and no mistake." ; Returning ta the plea for “united" support, Handley said his differences with Craig during the last three years “have been honest differences of opinions on policy not- personality” and he con-' eluded: “I am running .without the blessing of either side but I have (Continued on Page Five) March Os Dimes Balance last report ——56668.19 Decatur Cannisters (add.|,l 39.10 Donut Shop March of Dimes 23.00 St. Mary’s Twp. (Addi.) Mrs. P. Riejj, chairman 16.29 Kirkland Twp. (Addi.) Mrs. F. Arnold chairman 6.00 Parking Meters — City of Decatur —6.0(1 Psi lota Xi — Toll Bridge 11.27 Decatur High School (Addi.) Krick-Tyndall Employees . 78.00 jotal -e-—-V--H860.M - ' •

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Subdivision Plat Submitted To City *- Plan Subdivision South Os Hospital The plat and dedication df a .new subdivision for the city was submitted to the city council Tuesday night by Anthony Faurote, represented by attorney Robert Anderson. The'subdivision, to be known as the Highland Park addition to the city of Decatur, section A, is located facing Mercer avenue between Mercer and High streets south of the Adams county memorial hospital. It includes nine lots. According to the plat, lot frontages range from 70 to 125 feet. The restrictive covenants are similar to those of Stratton Place. Future plans are to submit a plat for section B, which will be toward High street. The plat, dedication and restrictive covenants were referred to the planning commission. A letter from the district geologist of the U. S. department of the Interior was read at last night’s meeting requesting that the council meet with the geologist Tuesday night, Feb. 28, to consider ground water sources in Adams county. This meeting will be another step in the council’s study of a solution to the water-shortage problem of Decatur. — ; Also concerned with the water source situation was a letter from the Layne-Northern company concerning the company’s electrical earth resistivity measurement which would direct the location of wells for the city now and in the future. The company’s proposal was S9OO to SIOOO for the survey, with the SIOOO maximum. The letter stated that the survey would trace underground gravel deposits from Yost’s closer to Decatur. It would point out the most likely place for the test well. The company also submitted an offer to do the test drill for $4.50 per foot. The test well would indicate the quality and quantity of the water available and "the type of permanent well necessary. This matter wgs referred to the board of works with power to act. A petition by Lase Grimm for an electrical line extension to his property was referred to the electric light and power committee in conjunction with the superintendent. Anthony Gase appeared before the council to request that something be done abmit the alley running south from St. Mary’s street between Fifth and Walnut streets. The' alley stops at another alley and buildings set at the edge of property lines make it impossible to turn a vehicle at the intersection of the two alleys. The master was referred to the street and sewer committee. Millard E. Tydlings Seeks Senate Seat ANNAPOLIS, Md. (INS) —Millard E. Tydings has filed as, a candidate forth» Democratic nomination for the senate from Maryland as the kickoff in a race to regain from Republican Sen- John Markhall. Butler ’he seat Tydings held from 1927 to 1961

Treasury Head In Dark Over Ike Decision Eisenhower Keeps Political Decision Strictly A Secret THOMASVILauB, Qa. (INS) — President Eisenhower is keeping his big political decision so secret not even one of his most trusted advisers knows it. Treasury secretary George M. Humphrey said that after seven days as the Chief Executive’s host in Georgia he still has ‘no idea” what Mr. Eisenhower’s secondterm decision will bs. Humphrey said the President has not discussed the problem with him during the week MT- Eisenhower has been his gues. at Milestone, the Humphrey pantation near Thomasville. Humphrey made these remarks to newsmen Tuesday night as he boarded the President’s plane, Columbine 111, for Washington. The cabinet officer will return Thursday after addressing a dinner of the American institute of metalurgical engineers at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York tonight. Reporters waylaid Humphrey at Spence airbase near Moultrie, 36 miles from Thomasville, Tuesday night. It was their first direct access to him since the President’s arrival last Wednesday. The secretary was bombarded with questions as he stepped from the President’s car in which he was driven from his plantation. “Do you think the President will run again?" he was asked. Humphrey replied: “I have not. We have been quail He was then asked: “Have you talked "with the President about his decision while you have been down here with him?" “I have not. He had been quail shpoting- We have had a good time. He looks fine.” A report in the Chicago American said toaay it nas learned “from several unimpeachable, sources” that President Eisenhower “has made up his mind” to seek a second terrain a story written by its political editor, Charles Finston, the American identified its informants as “close long-time friends of the President.” Irvin’s Attorneys Preparing Appeal To Prepare Appeal Os Death Sentence PRINCETON, Ind. (INS) —Attorneys for Leslie Irvin condemned “Mad Dog” killer of six persons, prepared today to appeal his death /tentaneeJudge A- Dale Eby of Gibson circuit court ruled Tuesday that Irvin, who was scheduled to die in the electHc chair June 12, was entitled to appeal despite his recent escape from the Princeton jail and recapture in California. The jurist reappointed Theodore Lockyear Jr., and Jfanes Copp, Ev ansville, Ind., attorneys who represented Irvin during his trial, to prepare an appeal from the death sentence. Lockyear said that they would need “considerable time” to ready the appeal. The time required to carry out the appeal was expected to necessitate a cution date. Irvin was sentenced to die for the murder of Wesley Kerr, Evansville filling station attendant. He also has admitted five other “Chinese type” execution slayings in Indiana and Kentucky. AH the victims were shot through the head after being forced to kneel before him. Irvin was returned last weekend to the state prison at Michigan City after three weeks of freedom following hte escape from the Princeton jail Jan. 18 with a key fashioned of cardboard, glue and tinfoil. Re was recaptured by San Francisco police in a pawn shop after a nation-wide manhunt IN DI ANA WEATHE R Sunny and cold tnis afternoon. Fair and continued cold tonignt- Thwaday partly cloudy. High today 25. Low tonight 12. High Thursday 30. BULLETIN All tickets for the Adams county sectional basketball tourney at Adame Central for tonight and Thuroday night have been cold. It wae announced thio afternoon by tourney offieiale.

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Bi-Partisan Probe Is Imminent As Senate ' , < ■ W: < " Leaders Favor Move

Arms Problem Probed Today By Committee Dulles Forced To Quit Vacation And Return To Hearing WASHINGTON (INS) —The controversy over tanks for Saudi Arabia and arms for Israel moves to Capitol Hill today. The house foreign affairs subcommittee on the Near East, headed by Rep. Thomas Morgan (DPa.) launches full-scale hearings with assistant secretary of state George V. Allen as the principal witness. Meanwhile, secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who has been vacationing in the Bahamas, was en route back to the nation’s capital. .Both the senate foreign relations committee, headed by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) and tße Morgan subcommittee have announced plans to call on the aifcretary for testimony on the Mid die East crisis. ~- Dulles was understood to be set to resist pleas for additional arms 1 shipments to Israel and to defend vigorously the sale of 18 light . reconnaissance tanks *-to Saur’. Arabia, on grounds that the latter nation has been offered and has rejected arms from the Soviet bloc. • Rep. James P. Richards (DS.C ) chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, warned Tuesday that World War 111 could start in the desert sands of Arabia. Richards, who on the previous day blasted the Eisenhower administration for allegedly ignoring the house of representatives in its foreign policy decisions, deU. S. cannot afford the appearance of indecision that camartwith the “off again, on again* shipment of tanks to Saudi Arabia. Morgan told a newsman that his subcommittee plans to make “a thorough review of the situation in the Middle East." He was asked whether his group intended to go into the snafu over the shipment' of tanks to Saudi Arabia. The congressman replied: “We certainly do.” He added: “We want to know specifically when this deal was arranged and by whom? “We want to know if there had been any shipments to other Middle East countries and whether (Continued on Page Five)

Lenten Meditation ' f.'-M’.ai l , ll l ,'Ttr,* l ". l * l ‘ u ::'t*T-. , ‘*zst:J.£v!!UC l .l l .. l . l ;SSrgaßywr!Tl¥ff ,lf 1,111M , 111 r , n rwm—wu (By Rev. John D. Mishler, Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren) “MEN OF VALOR” "These were .... men of valor, famous men.” 1 Chro. 5:24. Read I Chro. 5:23-26.* Brave men have often lived miserable lives. Valor is more than bravery. It is a strength of spirit which enables one to face danger and tension with firmness. This is the kind of victory which every ‘person can find. We can find COURAGE in disCOURAGEment if we look for it. An office worker who sees red when he makes a mistake and is rebuked openly by a fellow clerk, and then retaliates openly to defend himself, has shown his weakness rather than his strength. It takes a man of valor to win a victory..; First, take time to cool off before speaking. Then, be willing to express regret for the incident to the other person ks soon as possible. A different relationship will begin to form. Treat that person as a friend and he will generally respond i» a sijnilar way. * Previous to Pearl Harbor, a church bishop went uninvited to a mass meeting sponsored by a group of mistaken people who were filled with prejudice. In that hall filled with hate, he pointed out the error of white supremacy, anti-Semitism and the belief of. prejudice. Hostility mounted. As- he finished and walked down the aisle, a hysterical woman screamed with anger and cursed him. She blocked bis path and spat vigorously in his face. He did pot wipe it off but turned the other side to her and waited. The woman froze still and hundreds of snarling faces changed and heads were lowered. He walked out amid silence. There will be few victories in a person’s outer ilfe which are satisfactory unless there have been victories of the inner soul. Even men of God lose out when they turn to physical strength and personal desires and prejudices for power. God does not always promise victory of the physical life, but through faith in Jesus Christ there is promise of a spiritual victory. May God help us not to whine about discouragement.

Kokomo Boy Admits To Derailing Train Confesses Throwing Switch At Kokomo KOKOMO, Ind. (INS) — An 11-year-old Kokomo boy, one of 13 children in the family, has confessed throwing a switch which derailed a Pennsylvania railroad passenger train. Twelve persons, seven crewmen and five passengers, were injured when the 11-car passenger train ’roiled Onto a siding and flipped over after striking a gondola on Feb. 6. . - The boy confessed but retracted his statement when he thought someone had been killed. Then he confessed again, saying he didn't know what he had done. He said, he was on his way home from a grocery the night of the wreck when he stepped on a pedal loosening a lock. He said he pulled the lock open and threw the switch . Fifteen minutes later, the train, carrying 250 passengers, rolled into the siding, flipped on its side, crashed Into five dump trucks, knocked down one end of a metal building and several power lines. . A truck caught fire g few yards from a thousand gallons of gasoline and diesel oil spilled in the wreck but firemen controlled the blaze. _ Hospital Visitors Limited To Families Visitors at the Adams county memorial hospital will be limited to close relatives only, it was announced today by Thurman Drew, business administrator at the hospital. This limitation is due to crowded conditions and will continue until further notice. Five Crewmen Killed In Air Force Crash WEST PAIM BEACH, Fla. (INS) —All five crewmen were killed when an air force KC-97 StratoFreighter crashed in flames during an emergency landing at Palm Beach air force base Tuesday. . The huge aircraft was approaching the field when it struck a telephone pole about 390 yards from the runway and plunged ground afire. BULLETIN Setional tourney: First game: Monmouth 45, Hartford 41. Final Score.

Mediators And Union Leaders Discuss Strike All-Out Effort To Settle Westinghouse Strike Is Underway WASHINGTON (INS)— Governnjent mediators met with officials /Os the International Union of Electrical workers today in their “ailcut effort" to settle the 129-day-old Westinghouse Corp, strike. , The union group headed by James B. Carey, called at federal mediation service headquarters ‘ for a special talk with a threeman mediation panel on the points in dispute. The company group, led by Westinghouse Vice President Robert D. Blasier, will stand by while the mediators talk over various points in the dispute with the union representatives. Indications are that this inter- . mittent succession of Theetings i with union and company groups will go on until some conclusion i baa been 'reached. Mediation dl- ■ rector 'Joseph F. Fihnegan has * called' for “an all-out effort" to 1 work out an agreement. Dr. George W. Taylor, of the CniversU) of Pwjnsylyania, a member of the mediation panel, said: "There is nothing to report. We are exploring all possibilities.” The panel is headed by mediator John R. Murray, who has been on the Westinghouse case from the start. The other member is ■ former federal Mediation Director David L. Cole. One of the main stumblingblocks to an agreement is reported to be the company’s refusal to accept a union demand that; performance standards for some daytime employes should be made subject to arbitration. Westinghouse is said to be willing to agree that the application of these standards to individual employes shall be subject to established arbitration procedures, but notthe standards themselves. There are other knotty problems, such as a union demand that nearly 100 discharged strikers be rehired. (Continued on Page Kight) Heart Attack Fatal To Harold 6. Merkle Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Harold George Merkle, 51, lifelong resident of Van Wert county, died suddenly of a heart attack , Tueß|g_aCtflra<>onat his home, three miles east and one and one-half miles north of Willshire. He had not been ill and had worked until noon yesterday at the Container Co., Van Wert, where he had been employed the past 10 years. o He was born at Glenmore, 0., July 16, 1904, a son of William and Mary Seigle-Merkle, and was married to Mildred Giessler Jan. 23, 1934. Mr. Merkle was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm. O. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Charles Johnson of Decatur; two sons, Eugene F. and H.,La Vaughn Merkle, both at home; one grandchild; one brother, Edwin Merkle of Toledo, 0., and tiro sisters, Mrs. Oscar Germann of Harrison township. Van Wert county, and Mrs. Esther ißeinking Os Preble. One Brother and one sister are deceased. - Funeral services will be conducted at 1:15 p.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Schumm. the Rev. Andrew Makes officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this»evening. —

115 Are Indicted ./ For Negro Boycott Launch Roundup Os Indicted Persons MONTGOMERY, Ala. (INS) —A Negro Baptist minister was the first person arrested today as deputies began rounding up 115 persons indicted at Montgomery for a Negro boycott of city buses. The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, a spokesman for leaders of the 12? week-old boycott and pastor of the FjrSt Baptist church (Negro), was booked on charges of violating a 1929 law which bans boycotts ip strikes. Two others brought in at the same time were listed as Aaron Hoffman and R. James GlascoThey and the others accused in the true bills returned late Tuesday by a grand jury face jail sentences of six months and fines of SI,OOO if found guilty. The county grand jury said, fti returning the mass indictments, that the boycott has contribued to ‘racial tension" which would “inevitably lead to violence.” As the roundup of boycott leaders continued, Negro workers and shoppers continued to avoid using city transit buses They walked or made use of car pools and taxisDr, Abernathy declared that only “the people” themselves could halt the boycott that began Dec. 5, to protest segregation in buses. City commissioner Clyde Sellers, meanwhile, called for a‘ study of the proportion of’Negro and white taxis operating in Montgomery before any new Negro cab drivers are licensed. He said, “We don’t want to get overloaded with them.” City officials nad police are accused in a federal court suit of using threats, intimidation and harrassment to break up the segregation protest. Montgomery county sheriff Maxwell C. Butler marshaled all his deputies today to make the arrests. He planned toplek up those charged and book them by the carloads. Under state law, identity of those indicted in the 11 true bills returned by the grand jury of 17 white men and one negro remains secret until they have been taken into custody. State Traffic Toll Is 147 To Date INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —lndiana state police records today disclosed that 147 persons have been killed in state traffic this year compared to 118 deaths in the same period last year. Supt. Frank A. Jessup said rural collisions claimed 114 lives while towns and cities were held for 33 deaths. Eighty-five of tbe rural victims were killed in federal and state highway pileupa- County road crashes claimed 29 lives. Pledges Effort To Obtain Industries Gov. Craig Makes Activities Pledge EVANSVILLE, Ind. (INS) — Obtaining new industries for southern Indiana will be a major activity of Governor George N. Craig during coming months. The governor made that pledge in an address before the Evansville Chamber of Commerce and cited his recent formation of the Indiana industrial development commission as a st#p toward that end. Craig said he and commission members will talk to many of the top industrialists of the nation in an effort to “sell’’ them on Indiana and would use the 14-volume survey of “Indiana's Economic Resources and Potential”, issued by Indiana* University. He added that the survey was useful in recent discussion with .Ford Motor company officials which led to the location of a new Ford plant in Indianapolis. „

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Eight Member | Inquiry Board Will Be Named Leaders Os Both Parties Favorable To Thorough Probe WASHINGTON (INS) — Overwhelming senate approval was expected today for a sweeping investigation into '‘illegal” or “improper” efforts to influence the outcome of legislation in the senate. Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johnson called up his resolution authorizing the $350,000 in- ' cjuiry after both Democratic and Republican policy committees unanimously approved the proposal. The measure, an outgrowth of the- Case "influence” incident, would create an eight-man, bipartisan committee to conduct a yearlong inquiry into "attempts to in-* fluence improperly or illegally the senate or any member thereof.” The far-reaching investigation would hover “campaign contributlonß, political activities, lobby- ■ ing or any and all other activities i or practices.” Senators backing the resolution said it was broad enough to cover lobbjdng activities of. business tions and empower the group to look further into the offer of a *2,500 campaign contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) Appointments to'the new investigating committee would be made by Vice Resident Richard M. Nixon. Reliable sources said the four Democratic members may include Sens. Albert Gore of Tenn., John Kennedy of Mass., John McClellan of Ark., and either Clinton P. Anderson of N. M., of Mike Mansfield of Mont. Republicans were reported considering Sens- Edward J. Thye of Minn., and Leverett Saltonstall of Mass., as two of the GOP’a four candidates for the special committee. The Senate gave another special committee an extra ten days to wind up its investigation of the ease "influence” afafir which, touched off the continuing controversy over campaign cojrftrjbutions and lobbying. VW Chairman Walter F- George D Ga., of the four-man special committee announced the group would resume public hearings next Tuesday by recalling oil lawyer John M. Neff, whose offer of twenty-five SIOO bills were spurned by Case during the fight over the natural gas bill. George said the committee would also call Howard B. Keck, president of Superior Oil Co. of California. Elmer .Patjnan, the firm's chW lftbraey, and Nebraska "GOP Treasurer Joseph Wishart who was also offered a $2,500 campaign contribution by Neff. (Conunuea on Page £lgbt) Jofin Hovarter Dies At Lutheran Hospital John W. Hovarter, 77, Fort Wayne, retired Pennsylvania railroad employe died this morning at Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of 10 days. Born in DeKalb county in 1873, deceased lived the last 35 years in Fort Wayne- He was married in 1900 to Susie Limenstoll who survives. A daughter. Mrs- William Aker, Fort Wayne and two sons Ralph, Terre Haute and Floyd, Fort Wayne also survive. Two brothers are living and a brother and three sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at Black Funeral home in Deeatur Friday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock with Rev William C.Feiler. pastor of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in charge. Burial will be at Pleasant Dale cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening'but they'are asked to omit fleers.