Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 24 February 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 46.

DISC JOCKEY AIRS PROTEST U■, - < ■ £ ■ h" • B ;- jy< .feffijy. K ' k R »T ■ J* ■ ill jl NATIVE MISSISSIPPIAN Al Benson (right), now a Chicago disc jockey. launches his personal protest against segregation in his native state as he hands packages containing copies of the United States Constitution to pilot Peter Dekelalta who was hired to scatter the copies over the southern state. Benson said he took the action to “wake up the citizens of Mississippi.”

British Sub, Feared Lost, Reported Safe Vast Air-Sea Hunt Is Abandoned After Sub Reports Safety LONDON (INS) — The British submarine Acheron, believed missing in the icy waters between Greenland and Iceland, reported she was safe today and a vast airsea search was called off. The Acheron radio message was heard by the royal nav? minesweeper Coquette, which had sped to the submarine's last reported position, The six onicers and 4 59 tnen aboard the submarine presumably v ere all «M» and well. The hunt for'the Acheron, which had been conducting trial dives cad other maneuvers at a point about 270 miles northwest of Reykjavik, Iceland, began at 12:05 p. m7~ At that time, two hours had passed since the Acheron was to have radioed her position to her base. When no message was received, the admiralty flashed the dread ‘'sub-sunk" signal to all shipping in the gale-swept North Atlantic- i Immediately, every vessel within steaming distance of the submarine sailed at full speed to her last position. The admiralty announced later that the sub’s skipper reported he had kept “plugging away” sending the routine check signal. But bad atmospheric conditions, the royal navy explained, prevented the radio messages from reach ing other ships or shore stations. The admiralty established search headquarters in Scotland and the Coquette, commanded by Capt. A. D. Robin, took charge of the surface hunt. Royal air force and U. S. air force crews stood by to aid the search. Even while ordering the search, the admiralty said there was hope, that the Acheron had reported her position on schedule but that her message had been blocked by atmospheric disturbances. All radio stations in Greenland and Iceland broadcast hourly messages to the Acheron. The Conquette, meanwhile, kept up a running broadcast to the submarine to report her position. At about the same time, the Conqqette and the submarine base et Rothesay, Scotland, heard a message from the Acheron. A short time later the Conquette was in direct contact with the Acheron. The naval station at Portsmouth, England, announced the happy end of the hunt and the admiralty promptly cancelled further search. Gale to moderate force winds prevailed in the area where the Acheron was conducting her SubArctic exercises. Depth of the Atlantic there was about 840 feet. The Acheron made her last dive at noon on Wednesday. She was r.ot scheduled to report by wireless until 10:05 this morning (5:05 a.m. EST). Nothing was (Continued «n Fes* Five) INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional rain or drixsle tonight. Warmer southeast tonight. Saturday cloudy, somewhat oold north portion. Low tonight near SO extreme northwest to mW 40s extreme seutheaet. High Saturday In low 90s extreme northwest to mid 40s extreme southeast.

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17 Corporations Are Dissolved By Court Legal Action Taken In Court Thursday A total of 17 old Adams county corporations were officially dissolved in legal action taken Thursday in Adams circuit court. Judgments finding that each t of the corporations have failed to file annual reports were submitted to the court. The judgments stated that notices were sent out to the officers of the corporations and that no answer was received from any of them. The court has ruled that the articles of incorporation be forfeited and that the corporations have no further legal rights except to wind up their affairs and dissolve. - — The defendant corporations, their officers and the years they ■failed to file annual reports, include the Adams county agricultural society; George Krick, 1935 to 1954, Adams Co. Detective Association of Adams county, Mathias Miller, 1935 to 1954; Aetna Oil and Supply company, John Humpie. 1922 to 1955; Alberson cemetery, Lemuel Heller, 1935 to 1954. H. H. Baumgarten Manufacturing Company, F. E. Ninde, 1928 to 1954; the Berne-Adams club, Lemuel S. Colbert, 1935 to 1954; Berne Adams club, William Shackley, 1935 to 1954; the Bowers Realty company, E. Claud Swoveland. 1911 to 1914, 1919, 1920, 1928 and 1947 to 1955. Decatur G.P.O.E. 933 Building Association, David M. Hensley. 1935 to 1954; Decatur Country Club, George Stults, 1935 and 1939 to 1954; Decatur Free Street Fair and Agricultural Show, Inc., Robert Morrissey, 1942 to 1946, 1954 and 1955. Decatur Gospel Tabernacle, Orville Sudduth, 1935 to 1954; Decatur Industrial Association, Charles S. Niblick. 1935 to 1954; Reliable Marriage Benefit Association, James T. Merryman, 1935 to 1954; the Filer Store, Raymond Filer, 1929 and 1944 to 1955; Berne Pastime Club, Hose Marti, 1935 to 1954, and Beta Sigma Alpha, Clarence J. Beavers, 1935 to 1954.

Hebble Is Elected President Os Union s Vernon B. Hebble President Os UE Vernon B. Hebble was recently elected president of United Electrical Workers Local 924, which is the bargaining representative for employes of the Decatur General Electric company. Hebble succeeds Harry Stauffer. Other newly elected officers of the local union include Walter Ryf, vice-president; Buddy Moran, financial treasurer, and Mrs. Virginia Diehl, recording secretary. Raymond Franz was named to the executive committee and Robert Kenworthy was elected trustee for the local union. Hebble issued a statement Thursday emphasizing that the new official group has pledged it* self to work for the people of the General Electric plant here. He stated, "Wa have each signed the non-Communtst oath required of union officers,” and added that all work as officers would be aimed for the benefit of ths G.E. employes.

Senators Plan Law Change On Contributions New Contribution Law On Elections Planned In Senate WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate leaders disclosed today they are working on a new election contributions law to provide “honest” modernized controls for the 1956 campaign. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson said that a three-point bill would be passed at this session without waiting for a final report of the special committee investigating lobbying. The bill would: 1. Exempt political contributions up to 8100 per person or S2OO for husband and wife, from income taxation. 2. Permit nationwide television and radio networks to provide equal "free time” to major pqjltical parties. 3. Provide “very stringent, reporting requirements," on campaign contributions and expenditures, including some ceiling on both. Johnson said the objective is to “put all contributions in a goldfish bowl.” ....... Meanwhile, lobbying by organized labor shaped up as a key element in the sweeping investigation of efforts by pressure groups to influence senators and government officials. Senate leaders have already indicated their hope that the eightman special committee in charge of the $350,000 inquiry will check the lobbying methods employed by business as well as labor organizations. , . «• ■ A number of senators nave made it clear that they want a complete and thorough examination first of oil and gas industry lobbying, since the entire investigation was the result of an oil lawyer’s offer of a $2,500 campaign contribution th Seh. Francis Case (R 5.0.). / iu ’ < Annual Elks Cancer Parly On March 3 ' • Di Moose To Co-Sponsor This Year's Affair

The annual cancer fund party, sponsored for several years by the Decatur Elks lodge, will be sponsored jointly this year Saturday, March 3, by the Elks and the Loyal Order of Moose. The event will be held at the Moose home since the fire at the Elks home last summer gutted the third floor, cutting down the attendance potential. Hubert Schmitt, Jr., exalted ruler of the Decatur Elks, has named Oran Schultz, past exulted ruler, as general chairman for this year’s cancer party. Schultz has announced that will be dancing on both floors of the Moose home with the regular Moose orchestra, “Spec" Hebble’s band, downstairs, and a five piece orchestra yet to be named upstairs. A donation of $1 to the cancer fund will be asked for each ticket to the event The tickets wtH entitle the doner to be eligible for door prizes. A floor show is also planned during the evening. The ticket committee includes Robert Holthouse, William Gass and Dale Death. Joe Kelly will head the entertainment committee. Co-chairmen of the gift and solicitation committee are Jesse Sutton and Mike Pryor. Tickets will be available next week, according to Schultz. All proceeds from the event are turned over to the cancer society to finance the fight against cancer. Schultz expressed the apprecia(ContlnuM on Paaa Kight)

Red Cross Director Is Rotary Speaker J. A Lien, field director of,the American Red Cross in connection with the veterans administration at Indianapolis, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth,and Community Center. Lien discussed various phases on Red Cross work with the VA and also in times of disaster. He explained the 25 percent increase in Red Cross budgets this year is due entirely to the vast amounts necessitated tor work tn disaster areas, depleting the organiMtldn's disaster funds. Carl Braun, t**trman of the Adams county Red Croas fund drive this year, was chairman of the program.

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Eisenhower’s Doctor Says Chief “Executive Is In Fine Condition

Five Dead In Pennsy Wreck In Maryland 96 Others Injured As Crack Passenger Train Jack-Knifes FORT MEADE, Md. (INS)—An all-out investigation to determine the cause of the wreck of the Pennsylvania railroad’s crack Washington to New York passenger train, "Embassy.” was launched today. Five persons — three of them passengers — were killed and 96 were hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to critical when the 14-ear express jackknifed while rounding a curve near Fort Meade, Md., at 5:26 p. m. Thursday. The injured were treated or hospitalized at Fort Meade, at Annapolis, and in six hospitals in Baltimore. Others received treatment at the scene. The express, which normally carries 400 passengers, was traveling at an estimated 80 miles an hour when the dining clar—midway in the train—swerved off the rails, slammed into a steel girder and plunged down a 15-foot em bankment. , . The dining car was split in two. The three cars immediately behind it also hurtled down the embankment while the last three were derailed. Some of the victims, both living and dead, had to be removed with the aid of steel-cutting torches. J. A. Schwab, regional manager for the Pennsylvania’s Chesapeake region said today: "Every effort is oeing made to find the cause of (be accident . . 7 We shall, of course, continue our intensive tnvestigatipn and will collaborate fully with the public authorities in reaching a conclusion. “In the meantime, we are doing cur Best to look after the comfort and well-being of those involved in this tragic accident.” Former Senator Herbert R. O'Conor of Maryland, a passenger, said: “It happened so suddenly. The car overturned and we were thrown to the floor. The seats were overturned. The men helped the ladies out first, although one man sitting next to me was mortally injured.” O’Conor suffered cuts, abrasions and minor shock and was released after treatment at a Baltimore hospital. Michael Beraov, whose home is near the scene of the wreck, said he heard “asplintering noise,” and then saw “one car leap up in the air. and strike a pole." He called to his wife to notify police, and then went to the scene to aid victims. Emergency equipment was rushed from all parts of Prince Georges and Anne Arundel counties and from Washington. Doctors and surgeons were summoned on an emergency basis from Washington and Baltimore as well as from nearby Maryland areas.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Louis Klotzbach, St. Paul Missionary Church) “THE GOODNESS OF GOD” Read Isaiah 54:4-10 For a small moment He had forsaken, but with great mercies He would comfort His people. Against the “little wrath in which his face was hidden there was to be set the “everlasting kindness with which He would redeem them. We see the great goodness of the Lord in this natural world. There is a great deal of misery beneath the sky. How could it be otherwise when there is so much cruelty and sin? But if we look long at all that happens as the direct result of God’s handiwork, we shall find that “mercy triumphs over wrath.” good over evil. There ia a blessed superiority of light over darkness, of pleasure over pain, of joy over sorrow, of hope over despair, of confidence over distrust, of plenty over poverty, of lite over death “For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.” (Ipaiah 54:10.)

Negroes In Alabama Continue Boycott Total Walking Day Observed By Negroes MONTGOMERY, Ala. (INS) — Negroes observed a “total walking day” in Montgomery today to underscore their protests over mass jprrests in the dispute over segregation on the city’s bus system. The Rev. Martin L. King, Jr., i and other ministers among those i indicted on charges of attempting > to injure the bus company’s bus!t ness by a boycott urged "passive ■ resistance." — ’ Eighty-nine members of the negro community — including the i .honorary mayor, two dozen minisi W,‘ scHooltesfctiers, insurance i men, chauffeurs and maids — were I to be arraigned today on the indictments. \ The Montgomery county grand jury returned II true bills naming 115 negroes on Tuesday and deputy ; sheriffs have been conducting : whoesaie roundups of those indicti ed during the past two days. Leaders asked negroes" not to go to the courthouse during their “day of walking* or to congregate in any particular place. i. But they were urged to -walk ■ about their normal business on i their “pilgrimage” instead of riding ' in car pools and in negro taxicabs. The Rev. Mr. King Thursday . night told some 5,000 negroes who filled the First Baptist church from . unfinished basement to balcony • and overflowed onto the sidewalk i at a protest meeting: “The word boycott does not comI pletely describe this movement ’ That word is a little too small. This is a protest depending on. . moral and spiritual forces.” . He urged negroes to approach this new protest against the arrests > “armed with the power of love.” Slight Decline In r Diving Costs Shown l Auto Workers Will Suffer Cut In Pay WASHINGTON (INS)—The gov- • ernment announced a slight drop in i U. S. living costs today and one 1 million auto workers will suffer a one-cent an hoOr pay cut as a i result of the downswing. 1 The labor department said that its living cost index dropped one1 tenth of one per cent from midl December to mid-January. It de--1 clined to 114.6 per eent of the 1947-49 average, the lowest mark 1 since August. The automatic pay reduction for auto workers, effective in March, results from an escalator clause in 1 their work contract based on the cost of living index. Wage adjust meats are made every three Commissioner of labor statistics Ewan Ciague told a news conference that-the cost of living decline from December to January was due largely to a slight drop in food prices. This reduction, he explained, results from the long (Continued on Page Five)

Spot Missing Planes With Missionaries 16 Missionaries Are Reported As Safe In Cuban Village MIAMI (INS) — Six small planes carrying 16 missionaries who were missing on a 250-mile fllgift ovqz the Caribbean were spotted on the" ground today at the tiny- village of Niquero on the south coast of Cuba. All the persons were reported safe. - The report that the planes had been found was made by the civil aeronautics administration in Havana, which jelayed the information to the-CAA ofice in Miami. A CAA spokesman said Niquero is “so smal llt’s not even on our charts" but that the town is near Santa* Cruz on Cuba's south coast. The spokesman said further -details are unavailable due to poor communications from the area where the planes were sighted. The missionaries, flying on a goodwill mission to several islands in the Caribbean, left Camaguey, Cuba, Thursday afternoon for a three-hour flight to Kingston, capital cljy pt Jamaica. Nine piunes 'departed and only three planes, carffthg eight mis sionaries, landed safely at the British resort island. The missionaries, including four women, represent the Church of God of Prophecy of Cleveland, Tenn. Twenty-four members of the religious group left Tennessee last Friday on the tour. They had planned to visit Cuba, Jamaica, Dominican Republic. Puerto Rico and the Virgin islands. bulletin WASHINGTON (INS) — The senate finance committee, today approved a bill estimated to save farmers 60 million dollars a year by lifting the two-cent federal tax on gasoline used in farm machinery. A committee membar told newsmen that the bill was substantially the same aa the measure previously approved by the house. Farmers would pay the gasoline tax and then apply to the internal revenue bureau for a refund. Decatur Bank Given Five-Star-Rating Ranked Among First 1,500 Banks In U. S. The First State bank of Decatur was given a five-star rating and ranked in the first 1,500 banks of the United States today by American Banker, a daily newspaper published in New York tor the banking profession. The Decatur bank reported deposits of $14,240,141 as of December 31, 1955, and was rated as number 1,494 jn size in the nation. This compared with a rating of 1,584 at the end of 1954. The American Banker disclosed its list of ffve-star banks today and placed the Decatur bank in that category tjecausd with its climb of 90 places in a year it reached its highest rank in its history. The local bank, which has withstood depressions and business slumps, long has been highly regarded in Indiana and midwest banking circles. It was established in 1883. Present officers in : elude E. W. Busche, board chairman; T. F. Grallker, president: G. W. Vizard, vice-president; H. H. Krueckeberg, cashier: R. E. Glendening, E. M. Caston and William Lose, Jr., assistant caskiera.- , Directors are: E W. Busche. Earl C. Fuhrman. T. F. Grallker, H. H. Krueckeberg and G. W. Vizard.

Four Children Dead In Waler Tragedies Wells County Child Is One Os Victims INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Two water tragedies took the lives of four small children in Indiana late Thursday. ■ The tiny victims included two brothers ahd their girl companion, five to seven years old, who were • i drowned ip a peat swanib on In- . dianapolls’ northeast side, and ani .other seven-year-old wfeo ,was i drowned near Bluffton* when he i stopped to play in a ditch. But for a fourth set of parents, another near-drowning ended happily when a five-year-old boy was rescued from a cistern. A demand for action which would lead to better protection at Bacon’s swamp arose in Indianapqljs today after Steven Reasner,; .six, seven-year-old brother, Dennis, and , five /ear-old Susan Hennessy were drowned there. A six - year -old boy, David Beckom, who saw the tragedy, said that the two Reasner brothers ran ■ after their pet dog, Boots, across l the partially-frozen swamp water. When the ice cracked, their i screams brought little Susan runi nlng The ice broke , and all three fell in. * i David ran for help, and all three • bodies were recovered within 20 minutes, but respiration efforts , failed. At Chester Center, near Bluffton, children were released from school early Thursday because of the high ■ school basketball tourney. Seven- ’ year-old Larry Lee Leist stopped . to play in a water-filled ditch enroute home, fell into five feet of water, and drowned. But for five - year -old Bobby Wright, who fell into a cistern near his Indianapolis home, the story ended without tragedy and grief. Hte father, Robert, who was standing nearby, immediately dived into the cistern and rescued the boy. Scientists Record Cosmic Ray Shower West Hemisphere Stations Alerted ■f By EDWIN DIAMOND (I. N. S. Sciance Writer) Th* sun etuck a great flaming arm out into space to trigger the greatest burst ot cosmic ray ’shower ever recorded—and science was ready for it. Less than 12 hours after the arm — called a giant solar flare—shot up from the gaseous surface of the sun, high altitude balloons were aloft recording the data. A string of "sun-watching” stations throughout the Western Hemisphere were alerted. The s<riar, phenomena—an important opportunity to capture cosmic rays — was recorded by astronomers at the London Observatory Thursday morning. : / ' - , It was possibly equal in force to a million hydrogen bombs. Simultaneously in Chicago a five-year long 24-hour a day monitor paid off when an electric bell that had never rung before broke the laboratory silence at 9:45 fi.in. ‘ CST in the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Institute. The bell was set off by cosmic ray intensity just as if the sun’s flaming arm had reached down to trip it off. . As soon as the bell rang, Dr. John A. Simpson, the,physicist ' who devised the monitor system, set In motion a series of long planned events. By working all night he and his assistants were able to watch a balloon flight with cosmic r»y detection apparatus from Stagg Field at the of Chicago at 6:45 a.m. Thursday. 1 The flight carried a special neu- ' tron counter and a radio which reports recordings by short wave to a receiving station hi the Fermi Institute. Dr. Simpson also alerted scien(Oontinuea on F*S* MgbtJ'

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Ike Safer To Run Now Than Before Attack McC. Snyder Says Ike Will Be More Cautious Os Health THOMASVILLE, Ga. (INS) -r President Eisenhower’s doctor said today it might be ’safer” for Mr. Eisenhower to run for a second term now than it would have been before his heart attack. Maj. uen. Howaru McC. Snyder, White House physician, apparently meant the President will naturally be more cautious in guarding his health because of his coronary. Snyder told newsmen the President is in "very good shape” after his Georgia vacation, which has included a deliberate and vigorbus test of his physical stamina. He ducked an answer as to whether he thinks Mr. Eisenhower will run again, but gave this reply when asked if the President is “physically” able to serve" a second term: “These physical accidents come out of nowhere and he has no guarantee in trying this thing again that it won’t happen again. “All ha can do is trust in God v with . •Ww w t/wrW k/t) Wai any new man coming in. Even many young men die-of heart attacks.” The Chief Executive motored e ten miles to another plantation today to try his quail-hunting luck in new territory. In jovial spirits, Mr. Eisenhower joshed with photographers as he posed for pictures. Snyder was asked how Mr. Eisenhower felt after his vigorous day of physicial activity Thursday when he played 18 holes of golf and then went hunting. He replied: “He is in very good shape. He hasn’t been fatigued at all down here." , Mr. Eisenhower Is flying back to Washington Saturday. He is expected to take off from Spence air field, near. Moultrie, at about 11 a. m. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower will attend a birthday party Saturday night for secretary of state John Foster Dulles. The dinner party is at the home of the secretary, who will be 68. This test stood out today as a key factor in the Chief Executive’s secret second-term decision, which dally is the subject of much speculation. White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said flatly Thursday the President had not communicated his decision to anyone in Washington. But, as to whether that statement ruled out Hagerty hie Georgia host, treasury secretary George M. Humphrey, the Presidential aide replied : - “No, but-1 wouldn’t tell you if I knew.” Both the President's personal physician and Hagerty agree that in the past ten days Mr. Eisenhower has learned he has recovered sirice Ws sept. 24 heart attack much of his former energy and physical drive. Hagerty was asked: ' v ' “What is the President learning about his physical stamina—is he pleased with what he has found?” Hagerty replied: “Yes, I think it has been fine. The golf that he has played, he has thoroughly enjoyed, and there have been no evidences of any fatigue, or anything like that.” Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, the President’s personal physician remarked Thursday after Mr. Eisenhower's second 18-hole golf game: . “He did all right and looks fine. Everything is. all right and happy,” ilk . ■ ■ , The President has driven himself hard physically during his so(Continued on Page Eight)