Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 45.

< AITERE KIDNAPER IN GINIiATTLE THOROUGHLY CHASTENED and wounded in the leg, Eugene C. Hurst, 28, is dragged to a police car by Colorado state patrolmen after his losing gunbattle near Pueblo. Hurst is being held for kidnaping Mrs. Robert A. Jackson (right), 28-year-old mother of three children, whom he drove around the Pueblo area while attempting to extort money from her husband.

Senate Plans Wide Inquiry Into Lobbying Bipartisan Group Will Make Sweeping Probe Os Lobbying WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate leader* planned today to name the eight members of a new bipartisan committee to conduct a sweeping investigation into “illegal" or “improper” lobbying activities. A resolution authorizing the $350,000 inquiry was overwhelmingly approved by a 79 to I senate vote, but a laat-miftute hitch among GOP leaders prevented announcement of the senators who will participate in the tton.Senate majority leader Lyndon B. Johhson of Texas, was reported ready to recommend his slate of four candidates to the group ordered to make the far-reaching examination of efforts to influence senators.Informed sources said this would include: senate elections chairman Albert Gore of Tennessee, and Sena. John Kennedy of Massachusetts, John McClellan of Arkansas, and Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico. GOP sources said senate (Republican leader William F. Knowland of Calif., was planning to name policy chairman Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, campaign chairman Barry Goldwater of Arizona, and Sen. Edward J. Thye of Minnesota to the special committee. ~ Names suggested tor the fourth GOP candidate were not revealed. In setting up the committee, the senate gave the group unlimited power to study "campaign contributions, political activities, lobbying or any and all activites or practices” concerning the problem. It instructed the committee specifically to search for efforts to influence "improperly or illegally” the senate, senators, senatorial candidates and government officials and employes. Despite Johnson’s appeal for complete support of the investigation, Sen. William Langer (R-N. D.) cast a lone vote against the inquiry. Langer said:“l don’t like it.” i Demands ior tne sweeping investigation stemiped from the $2,500 campaign contribution offered Sen. Francis Case (RS. D.) by an oil lobbyist favoring passage of the natural gas bill. Senate leaders made it clear that the new qommittee could look further Into the Case affair after a blue-ribbon senate group, headed by Sen. Walter F. George (D-Ga.) completes Its study March 10. & The committee was ordered to report its findings by next Jan. 31, and some Democrats said that the first phase of the projected inquiry could be completed in 90 days. They said this might cover recommendations on possible legislation to tighten up lobbying laws. Open Investigation On Vital Secrets WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate investigators have begun s sweeping inquiry to determine whether turncoat diplomats Donald McLean and Guy Burgess were in a position to give vital U. 8. secrets to Russia- ■ ■ , Internal security subcommittee ohalrmap James O. Eastland (D fifjaa). investigation Is bated on information supplied by th* state department.

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Continue Roundup Os .Indicted Negroes Boycott Os Transit System Continues MONTGOMERY, Ala (INS) — The arrest of some 80 Negroes charged with boycotting Montgomery buses failed today to end the protest action against segregation laws. Deputy sheriffs went into a second day of mass roundups under grand jury indictments but the Negro boycott of the city’s transit system was as srong as ever. , The Montgomery county jury returned on Tuesday 11 true bills naming 115 persons. Under state law their 'identities can not be disclosed until after their arrest. Meanwhile, city officials were scheduled to answer In federal court today an action seeking to have segregation seating laws declared unconstitutional. Many Negroes believed the threat of bix-months Jail terms and fines otNjLOftO on coavictipp under the charges would solidify rather than break up the boycott. , “There is Just no way in the world that they can make us ride the buses." a stout, well-dressed Negro woman declared, “we’ll walk and walk until kingdom come if necessary” Another remarked: ’*We harbor ill-will tor no man. There are a good number of Negoes who don’t agree with us and they are riding the buses. We’re not going to do anything to stop them. But it is now a matter of consicence“There has been no effort to pull them off the buses and there won’t be anything like that. But a lot more people will join the protest now. And those who don’t may find themselves ostracized by the Negro community.” Comment from white residents ranged from “the people of Alabama will Jlst not permit it and end to segregation” to predictions that economic boycott would break the costly bus protest. Deputy sheriffs cruised Montgomery’s Negro section for 12 hours Wednesday, arresting boycott leaders and participants charged under a law designed to protect businesses from damage in labor di*putes. Caught in the dragnet Wednesday was the d'ore of the city’s 35,000 Negro population, most of whom have refused to ride buses since Dec- 5, when seamtress Rosa Parks was fined for violating “Jim Ciow” laws. *7— r‘ Conduct Heart Fund Drive Through Mail Mrs. R. C. Hersh, chairman of the Heart fund drive, announced today that the Decatur solicitation will be conducted by mail. A door to door canvass planned in the city Sunday afternoon was cancelled because of a lack of volunteer solicitors- - Anyone not receiving a letter may make contribution through the Heart eannlsters In various stores or by mail to Mrs- R. C. Hersh, 344 South First street. Decatur high school contributed sll-3.98, Geneva high school $24 32. Total collections are now $288.30. 1 ”" 1 0 INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and warmer tonight. Chanoe of aome light rain or sleet south tonight. Friday oloudy and warmer, rain or anew likely north and shower* likely south, Low tonight 28-90 north, 30-36 south. High Friday 35-40 north, 40-46 south.

Lobby Inquiry May Relied In Election • Influence Probe May Rattle Some Political Skeletons WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate launched an “influence" investigation today which may rattle political skeletons and even affect the outcome of the 1956 election. Less than a month ago, no one ( familiar with senate programs or politics would have forecast that the legislators would be rushing i into a lid-lifting checkup on camI paign contributions and influence i lobbying in a presidential election . year. The prospect is hardly comforting for either political party for i no one knows where such a,broad* , gauged inquiry may lead. , There are 435 house aid $2 senate seats at stake in the 1956 election — not to mention the presi- ' dency itself. Political division of ’ the 84th congress is so close — a Democratic margin of two seats in ; the senate and 27 in the house — that any unknown factors are disquieting to campaign leaders. Senators who have urged a change in the campaign contributions statute point out that the I very nature of existing law forces ■ a candidate to accept financial > help from sources which may later ’ prove embarrassing. Sen. Richard Neuberger (D-Ore.) i said this week that no candidate should have to "arrive” in the senate w-ith the financial help of union "political education” committees as he did, or through dollar aid from the “lumber interests” which he said wbnt to his Republi- , can opponent. Neuberger noted that he received $23,000 from a labor committee in his 1954 campaign. He has introduced a bill to provide for federal government underwriting of campaigns. The sweeping investigation now proposed grew out of the disclos(Continued on Page Three) Israeli Fishermen Fired On By Syria Lodge Protest With U. N. Commission ' JERUSALEM (INS) — A military spokesman said today that a Syrian position on the shore of the Sea of Galilee had opened fire about midnight on Israeli fishermen. \ He said the fishermen were 200 yards from the shore when the firing started. The Israelis abandoned their net* and withdrew beyond the range of the fire. It was the first Sea of Galilee incident reported since last Dec. 11, when the Israelis carried out a large-scale attack on Syrian positions in “retaliation” for a long string of Arab harassing actions against fishermen. Israel promptly lodged a protest with the United Nations armistice commission. Reports reaching Jerusalem said that when the Israeli fishermen returned later in the morning to try to find their nets Syrian fishing boats were in thb are*. Israeli observers Mid the new incident might be * serious Syrian challenge to Israel’* right* on the fabled inland seaThe DSc. 11 incident, which resulted in the death of 56 Syrian (Continued on Page Tbree)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 23, 1956.

Hall Denies Published Reports Ike Revealed Decision To Run Again

Ike Releases Uranium For Peaceful Use Billion Dollars In Uranium Ordered To Peaceful Purposes WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower’s order committing 88,000 pounds of uranium-235 to peaceful purposes over the next 40 years cleared the way today for huge financing operations to build nuclear power plants. The commitment Is also expected to provide a powerful counterweight to Russia’s claim that peace-time atomic energy will promote world communism. The Russians have recently offered atomic aid to Egypt and Yugoslavia as well as Soviet bloc countries. Lack of longtime fuel assurances had previously been given a* one of the principal factors holding up atomic power construction both at home and abroad. Many plants to generate electricity from the atom in the free world are to be financed by bond issues with 40-year maturity. The President'* action assures that at least a billion dollars worth of nuclear fuel will be available for “sale Os lease” to private power stations (hiring the expected life-time of the plants. ; A much larger proportion of uranium output is expected to be devoted to peaceful purposes from now on. The atomic energy commission said earlier this week that commercial power will provide “the real market” for constantly increasing uranium production. Every precaution will be taken against the diversion of the material to military purposes. The U-235 is to be mixed with ordinary uranium, and only the U.S. and Britain in the West world have plants capable of separating the explosive isotope. The President's order specified that the initial 88,000 pounds shall be divided equally between domestic and friendly foreign producers of atomic power. Sen Hubert Humphrey (D-Mlnn.) approving the president’s action, (Continued on Page Three) ._ K - BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — The house ways and mean* committee today tentatively approved a'one-cent boost in the federal tax on gasoline and diesel fuel and an Increase in the tax on truck* and busses. Ths action came as the committee moved toward final approval of legislation to pay for a multi-billion dollar federal highway improvement program.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. W. C. Feller, Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church) “THE CARPENTER’S SON” “Is not this the carpenter’s son? Matthew 13:55 Jesus' fame as a teacher and miracle worker had become widely known. Upon his return to his home country he entered into the synagogue and taught, so that the home town folks were filled with wonder and amazement. The question of our text is one of several questions of unbelief born of familiarity. The people admitted the wisdom of his teaching and the reality of his mighty works, but the fact that he was one of them made them angry and suspicious. “Where did this man get his wisdom and these mighty works?” They seem to have had the same opinion as Nathanael —that no good thing could come out .of Nazareth. Their difficulty is almost a universal one. No one finds It easy to believe that some village child, who ha* grown up beside him and whose life he knows, has turned out to be a genius or a great man. The people of Nazareth had seen Jesus grow up, and to them he would always be ‘the carpenter’s son’. , - As a result of this unbelief Jesus’ power was limited; he could do no ‘mighty works because of their unbelief’. The power was there, but it required some measure of faith for its exercise. Man can and doe* thwart God. Faith opens the door, and unbelief shuts it in His face. ’ •- • Christ still confronts the world and challenge* ft to account, for him. Men still ask, “By what authority?” “Is not this the carpenter's son? Where, did he get this wisdom and power?” Faith cries. "Hs was and is* the Word and Power, of God.” May. we have that faith. :. -r-

Roger Branigin In Gubernatorial Race Lafayette Attorney in Democratic Race INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Roger D. Branigin today tossed his hat •into the circle crowded with seven other Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls’ homburgs as a no-deal, no-faction, party-line candidate. The Lafayette attorney said he considered it. “presumptuous of any candidate to define issues” but pledged himself “to the full support of the platform drawn by the Democratic party at its June convention”. He said he will wage a strenuous pre-eon ven t ion campaign and will carry one in the same manner “against the record of the current administration” if he is nominated. Branigin said as governor he would favor study commissions for determining what steps should be taken to prevent further loss to the south of industry and he would look to tihe party to determine its stand on so-called right-to-work laws. Although he didn't express a personal opinion, he did say both parties would have to have planks in their platforms dealing with taxes and with federal aid to education. He said he felt it was the obligation of local communities to .build schools and added he didn’t s 'beliavt there “is any uhanimitj; In either party regarding federal aid.” Branigin said he is not aligned with any faction in the party and in fact doesn't recognize that factious exist. He said he doesn’t believe the fact that Purdue publicity director Thomas (R. Johnston also being from Lafayette and seeking the gubernatorial nomination or Claude Wickard, also coming from the second district, seeking the senatorial nomination poses too serious a geographic barrier. Indianapolis also has two Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls: sheriff Robert O’Neal and Marion county Democratic chairman Nelson Grills. Others seeking the nomination are State Sen. Matthew E. Welsh, of Vincennes: Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker; Petersburg attorney S. Hugh Dillon; State Sen. Von Eichhorn, of Uniondale. Branigin, former president of the Indiana state bar association, is one of the best-known emcees in Indiana. ■ He has addressed partygatherings in nearly all of Indiana’s 92 counties. He was born in Franklin and was graduated from Franklin College and Harvard law school The 53-year-old attorney practiced law in Franklin-and has practiced In Lafayette since 1938. He served in the army from 1942 to 1946, as chairman of the Indiana state conservation commis- . (Continued an Pa<* Three)

Dulles Facing Questions On U.S. Policies Senate Committee To Hear Secretary Dulles On Friday WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles today prepared the Tgase with which he hopes to placate congressional leaders protesting the administration's Middle East tactics. Dulles, refreshed by' a ten-day vacation of fishing and swimming in the Bahamas, planned to step into the breach where one of his assistants apparently failed. The cabinet officer will attempt to explain his Middle Eastern policy on Friday to the senate foreight relations committee headed by Sen. Walter George (D-Ga.) Assistant secretary George V. Allen talked tor three hours with the house subcommittee on the Middle East Wednesday but left the congressmen unsatisfied and grumbling. Subcommittee chairman Thomas Morgan (D-Pa.) said flatly that the Allen explanation of the deal which sent 18 light tanks to Saudi Araoia,. was not satisfactory. Other members, including some Republicans, said the administration did not have a policy that was either clear or firm enough to meet the problems of the Middle. East. Those problems have several facets. Soviet Russia is moving in with offers Os arms and economic aid for any Arab state that wants them. Great Britain and the U. S. are at odds over some aspects of policy toward oil-rich Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Baghdad pact. The most immediately explosive problem, however, is the hostility between Israel and the Arab states. The weakness of the administration's casq before congress is that no one has yet been able to figure out away by which the Arabs and the Israeli could settle their differences. There is great pressure on the administration to sell larger amounts of arms to Israel. The Israeli embassy said last month that February had been designated the “crash” month to win approval of Israel's November Tequest to buy 50 million dollars of arms from the United States. So far, the Israeli have received no answer to their request. <Continued on Page Three) Ross J. Mallonee Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Ross J. Mallonee, 79, well known retired carpenter-contractor, and a lifelong resident of Decatur, died early this morning at the home of his son, Lyle Mallonee, 316 Stratton Way, where he had resided for the past several years. He had been In falling health for the past two years but his death today was unexpected. He was born in Decatur Aug. 31, 1874, a son of Joseph and Susan Dunafon-Mallonee. His wife, Myrtle, to whom he was married July 3, 1894, preceded him in death Aug. 24. 1942. . Mr. Mallotfee was a member of the Decatur Elks lodge. Survivors include the son; a granddaughter, Kathleen Mallonee, at home, and a Sister, Mrs. Ella Teeter of Berne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday until time of the services.

Non-Strikers Enter Republic Aviation Non-Strikers Move To Plant By Rail FARMINGDALE, N. Y (INS) — Train riding non-strikers today swept into the main Republic Aviation Corp. plant at Farmingdale. L. 1, in surprise maneuver which stunned union pickets and threatened to break the strike. - Close to 1,200 workers alighted j from two Long Island railroad i trains at the Republic station and - quickly entered plant gates directs ly adjoining the railroad property. The firs* train, at 6:35 a.m-, carried 360 non-strikers and a fiver car local arriving an hour later unf loaded an estimated 800 workers. > Fifteen railroad policement armed s with night sticks and revolvers were on guard to prevent any int terference with the passengers by - pickets. On Tuesday, pickets prevented 1 non-strikers from entering gateways to the~rallroad property but . no attempt was made to block the i entrance early today. s 1 In a talk with railroad officials t Tuesday spokesmen said they 1 "were in sympathy with our strike and would even suspend the Re i- public’s stop” t Observers said if the workers 1 continued to pour into the plant by 1 roalroad, production might be resumed and the strike broken. St is - seeking an injunction against mass t picketing at the plant. A show - i cause order has been served on • Pascuale Vitale, treasurer of the striking union and is returnable 1 today before state supreme court 5 Justice Henry Clay Greenberg. In the strike, the union seeks a t 19 H cents an hour pay increase, 1 while the company has offered five > cents. The union claims present > wages average 61.97 an hour, while s the company places the average at 52.23Open Senate Debate : Over Farm Measure I Corn Amendment Is > Submitted To Bill , WASHINGTON (INS) —Backers , of high rigid farm price supports . indicated today they hope-to pick . up senate votes through a satis- . factory solution to the corn dis- [ pute. The senate opened debate late I Wednesday on its bipartisan bill to boost farm income by establishing a soil bank to cut production . and restoring 90 per-cent price supports on basic crops. The central controversy is over the mandatory high price props, which the administration opposes. It wants to retain sliding price, supports. A side dispute over corn failed of settlement in the senate agriculture committee. Sen. Bourke BHickenlooper (R la,) brought it to a Tnont-stage position by introducing his corn amendment. The amendment would remove , the present 43 million acre allotment on corn and substitute the “historic base,” which is 56 million acres. Corn farmers would still get flexible price supports, now at 81 per , cent of parity, and be able to participate in the,soil bank. Opponents claimed this is “having your cake and eating it too”! because acceptihg acreage allot- ’ ments has been a condition for (OontinuM on t-axv Six) Plan Investigation Os Anti-Trust Violations i WASHINGTON (INS) — A house* "'judiciary subcommittee plans to make a sweeping investigation of whether the airline, tele- : vision, power. railroad and shipping industries are violating antiI trust laws. . Chairman Emanuel Celler (D- --: N.Y.) told newsmen the hearings ! will begin Monday and are expected to continue for several months.

GOP Chairman Denies Report Over Decision Believe Decision Will Be Announced By Ike Next Week WASHINGTON (INS) —Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall said today that President Eisenhower has not told him of his Intentions regarding a second term in the White Rouse. Hall issued a statement from Republican national committee headquarters denying published re- ‘ ports that he had informed some Republicans that the President will run again. Hail said: “As I have said many times, I have not asked President Eisenhower whether he would be a candidate for a second term, nor has he told me his intentions. He alone will make the decision and when he arrives at it, he will let the American people know as soon as possible. “My own personal opinion is surely no secret. I have expressed it often. I have been making plans for the convention and the campaign Eisenhower would be the candidate for a second term. I also have> said that I personally believe “that he would run if he felt he : ' was Able."" ' ' Declsion Secret THOMASVILLE. Ga. (INS) — The people with whom President Eisenhower has talked during his Georgian sojourn were reported today to be convinced he will accept a second • term nomination. They expect the Chief Executive to announce such a decision, provided he continues in good health, shortly after returning to Washington this wekerid. As of now. they also # Mr. Elsenhower to indicate to*Republican leaders that he will accept Vice President Richard M. Nixon again as his running mate. The next presidential news conference, scheduled for Feb. 29, is said to be at this moipent the most likely occasion for Mr- Elsenhower’s announcement that he is willing to run for re-election. The President will address the liation by television the evening of the day on which he. announces his decision on a second term. He will give the American pepole a full explanation of" the many factors he has weighed in reaching that decision. So far as is known, Mr- Eisenhower has not said in so many words to any visitors to Milestone Plantation, where he is guest of treasury secretray George M. Humphrey, that he will ran again. He Is reported to have emphasized that he first must -be convinced himself of his ability to carry on the duties of the Presidency with full ennegy for another term. The belief that Mr. Eisenhower will accept the GOP nomination again is the conclusion of others, presumably in a favored positionAny affirmative decision by the President could still be reversed by any inner conviction on hla part that he might not have the physical stamina and reserve energy to carry on his exacting tasks for another five years. Observers here point out, however, that Mr. Eisenhower has appeared to have sailed through the physical testa he has set for himself during the past week hereWednesday, he played 18 holes of golf, and his personal physician propounced him to be in “fine shape.” The President’s face wan burned red from his all-day quail-shooting expeditions and golf, and he appeared to be in robust health. Presidential aides have been making almost superhuman efforts to bottle up the most dramatie political story of many years, until Mr. Eisenhower is ready to announce bis decision At a news conference Wednesday afternoon,. presidential ‘ news secretary James Hagerty dehied (Continued on Page Three)

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