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CAROL HEISS, 1«, of Oxone Park, N. ¥., world’s figure skating champion, returned to school a day after her return from Europe. Here, she is lifted up by her classmates in a welcome-back session at the Professional Children's School in New York City.

Ike Confers On Strategy Os Campaign Initial Strategy Session Held For Winning Election WASHINGTON (INS)— President Eisenhower today mapped strategy for wooing Democratic and independent voters to the Republican banner in the Presidential campaign. In the first strategy session of his campaign for a second term, he conferred with Brig. Gen. John Reed Kilpatrick, new chairman of the national citizens-for-Eisenhow-er group. Kilpatrick said the reactivated citizens’ organization plans to set up units in each of the 48 states, as it did in 1952. Kilpatrick, ehairroan of the board c f Madison Square Garden, said he had no discussion with Mr. Elsenhower as to who will be the GOP vice presidential candidate. Four top Republicans — all assigned prominent roles for the 1956 campaign—have named Vice President Richard M. Nixon as the almost-certaln No. 2 man on the GOP ticket with President Eisenhower. Rumors that Nixon might be dropped were discounted by GOP national chairman Leonard Hall, senate Republican leader William F. Knowland, Calif., house GOP loader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Mass, and Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) Hall, on NBC’s "Meet the Press”, predicted flatly Sunday that Nixon would be President Eisenhower’s running mate. He said the “team of Eisenhower and Nixon carried 39 states in 1952. and it is stronger than ever now.” Knowland. interviewed on CBS’ "Face the Nation.” said: "I have assumed that if President Eisenhower were renominated, the ticket would be the same as It was in 1952." He added: “I would be very much surprised if Dick Nixon took himself out of the race.” Martin, while also predicting Nixon would be renominated as the vice presidential candidate, warned that the only thing that couRI defeat the GOP this year would be overconfidence. The speaker said there will be “no tussle” for the vice presidential nomination at the San Francisco GOP convention. Goldwater who stepped down ns chairman of the senate GOP campaign committee to become a member of the special lobbying investigations committee, said: of right now, the feeling of the convention will be for Appearing on the ABC-TV program, “College Press Conference,” the Arizona senator said that if “some people" should get Mr. Eis-, enhower to disavow Nixon “it would do irreparable harm to the Republican chances in November." He added that if Nixon were repudiated by the convention. “the party would accept 4t.” Knowland urged that President (Continued On Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER, Partly cloudy except mostly cloudy .near the northern border and mild with scattered showers and. possible thunderstorms tonljjht Tuesday showers and thunderstorms ending and turning copier over most of state by evening. Low tonight 40s north to the 50s south. High Tuesday mostly in the 60s and ths 70s south.

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Sudden Thaw Brings Dangers To Europe Flood Catastrophes Feared In Europe BONN (INS) —Europe, buried until recently under the snow of the worst winter in a century, suffered today because of too much heat. , A sudden thaw has melted countless tons of snow and sent huge chunks of ice careening down rivers already swollen far above normal. More than 1,500 persons in the German town of Passeau have been made homeless by the rising waters of the Danube and Ina rivers. Major flood catastrophes were feared in other parts of western Germany. The situation in Vilshofen, also on the Danube, was desperate. The town is flooded and without drinking water and in acute danger of epidemic. Avalanches and flood* were reported la many parts ot Austria’s Styria province, where the main road to Trieste has been flooded. The villages of Ottensheim. Goldwoerth and Feldkirchen have been surrounded completely by floodwaters. -Tbe Danube River was 17 feet above normal and flood alarm warnings were sent out to many parts of upper Austria In Vienna itself, monks armed with buckets, mops and shovels were busy over the weekend in the Capuchin CrypL trying to save the soffins of 11 former emperors and empresses of Austria Water'pouring in from outside threatened the coffins. County Board Votes Voting Place Change South Washington Precinct Changed County commissioners took action this morning during their regular meeting to change the voting poll of South Washington precinct from ißinaker school house to the 4-H building in Monroe. Legal advertising on the proposed change will appear in the near future. The commissioners also allowed claims this morning and accepted a report from George Fosnaugh on the county home. The report shows ah income Tor the month of February of $987.70. Eight women and 19 men were residents during the past month. Two petitions for cleaning and repairing drains were filed with the commissioners today. Both drains are in French township. One is the Waldo E. Smith dtain and the other is the Heyerly drain. During the afternoon session the commissioners were to receive bids and award the contract on a new truck for the county highway department. Bandit Nabbed Soon After Bank Holdup RICHMOND. Ind- (INS) -William Leonard Brouse, 28, of near Fountain City, is in the Wayne county jail today after admitting he robbed a Fountain City bank and shot and seriously wounded its manager, Lawrence Strickler. 64, Saturday =' Brouse was seized less than an hour after he obtained nearly $3,600 in the holdup of the Fountain City branch of the Peoples State Bank of Cambridge City. Most of the loot was recovered.

Lawyer Swears Oil Lobbyist Offered Fund lowa Lawyer Says $2,500 Offered To Sen. Hickenlooper WASHINGTON (INS) — lowa lawyer Wendell T. Edson swore today that oil lobbyist John M. Neff offered $2,500 for Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper’s campaign if the lowa senator would vote for the natural gas bill. Edson made the statement before a special senate committee investigating charges that Neff attempted to influence the gas bill vote of Sen. Francis Case (R S. D.), with campaign donations. Neff has denied emphatically that he ever offered funds for Hickenlooper's campaign while trying to learn the senator's views on the controversial bill. Edson, ot Storm Lake, lowa, was the first witness in the investigation to charge that Neff had offered campaign money if a senator would vote for the gas measure. The young lawyer said that Neff appeared in his office between last Oct. 20 and Nov. 7 and identified himself as a lawyer with the Superior Oil Co. of California. Edson said Neff told him he or the company or “they” were interested in the gas bill. The witness declared: “Neff said he would contribute $2,500 to Sen. Hickenlooper's campaign fund or to any Republican fund in lowa if Hickenlooper would vote for the bill.” Meanwhile, Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.). a member of another special committee investigating lobbying, said that he accepted a campaign contribution from Howard B. Keck of Superior Oil. Goldwater, interviewed on ABCTV’s “College Press Conference,” added: "If I cared to, I could name you tour or five Democrats who receives! contributions from Mr. KeckC as well as Republicans. After all, it coats money to run a campaign. You don’t go out and run it out of your own pocket. None of us is that rich.” It was an offer of such a contribution to Sen. Francis Case (R S. D.), from a man identified as a lobbyist for Superior Oil, headed by Keck, that touched off two senate probes now underway. The same development resulted in President Eisenhower’s veto ot the natural gas bill. Goldwater declared that the fact he received such a contribution should not bar him from serving as a member of tire special eight-man committee. He said: “If Mr. Keck like the (Continued on Fare Kight) .. ' y Man Asphyxiated In Moving Automobile MUNCIE. Ind. (INS) —A former Muncie man was aspyxiated in a moving car Sunday while three companions thought he was just sleeping in the back seat. The fellow travelers from Frankfort, Ky., to Mt Pleasant, Ind., home of the victim, Ernest Conley. 68, did not discover the death until they arrived at his home. Mrs. Agnes M. Snow Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Here On Wednesday Mrs. Agnes Mylott Snow, 69. native of Adams county and a former resident of Decatur, died Saturday at her home, 6135 ..Sheridan Road, Chicago, 111., after an illness of several months of complications. She was born in Adams county Jan. 3. 1887, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Mylott, and was married in this city to Horace Snow, who survives. The family left Decatur many years ago. Mrs. Snow was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church and the Rosary society. ' Surviving in addition to her husband are two children, Bill of Hammond. and Kathleen, of Canada, and three sisters, Mrs. Katherine Thompson, Mrs. Josephine Adams and Miss Celeste Mylott, all of Chicago. Two brothers and three sisters are deceased. services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be In tbe Catholic cemetery. Tbe body will be brought to the Gllllg & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock Tuesday evening until time of the services. >

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 5, 1956.

More Fighting Erupts Along Dangerous Gaza Strin: Fearful Os War

Eden Attacks Government Os Jordan Today Orders Recall Os British Officers In Arab Legion LONDON (INS)—British prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden attacked the Jordanian government today and ordered the recall of about 15 British officers serving in the Arab Legion army of Jordan. He told the house of commons that the Jordanian firing of Gen. John Bagot Glubb, the commander of the British-subsdiized Aftfb Legion, was "against the spirit of the Anglo-Jordan treaty.” He said British officers in Jordan on the active list would be recalled and "the future of those on contract with the Jordan government will be discussed witl| that government.” There are approximately British officers on the active list in Jordan out of a total of more than 60 Britons. ~£ Young King Hussein fired the 58-year-old Glubb, or Glubb Pasha as he also was known in Jordan* last Friday and named a Jordanian. Lt.*Geu. Rahdi lnn|ifc, a* feta successor. The royal decree also dismissed two other British officers, Col. Sir Patrick Coghill as chief of intelligence and Brig. Walter Hutton as chief of ordnance, in an action cheered by Jordanians and hailed by other Arab nations. The prime minister bitterly reviewed the Glubb ouster and Its possible effects on the dangerous Middle Eastern situation. He said that the situation, in which many fear an all-out renewal of the Arab-Israeli war, is being discussed “with our allies.” There were fears that the firing of the general increased the likelihood of an Israeli-Arab war because Glubb had exercised a restraining influence. Gen. Sir Gerald Templar, chief of the imperial general staff, was called in as a consultant at the cabinet session, and air chief of staff Sir Dermot Boyle also attended. It was General Templer who visited Jordan last December on a special mission to try to persuade that British-subsidized country to join the five-nation anti-Communlst Bagdad pact. Rioting Arab mobs caused the overthrow of the Jordan government and prevented any move to join the pact. Johnson Funeral Is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Gillig & Doan funeral home for Lewis Ed Johnson, who died Friday at his home- The Rev. H. J. Welty officiated and burial was in the Decatur cemetery. The name of his wife, the former Maude Kurtz, was unintentionally omitted from the list of survivors.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Traverse W. Chandler, First Christian Church) o “ON OUR HOLDING FAST” < • * _yx . . A ■ Hebrews 8:1-6 I ' ' . : ' ■' A member, of a racing shell team asked his coach, “What shall I do when we are still a long way from the finish line, and I feel that I can last no longer?" To which the coach replied, "Take a deep breath and pull with all your might each time the coxswain calls stroke.” So It is in the Christian life. We have set our faces toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Each ope of us must know that often we will be spent., famished, and worn out if.wa resolutely press on toward the accomplishment of our high adventure in Christian living. We shall learn that in the actual practice of daily devotion to Christ Jesus, the Lenten season becomes a continuing experience. But thanks be to God for Hfs unspeakable gift, for by it we shall become members of His house if we hold fast our faith, our strength, and our .glorying in Him who is our hope of eternal life.

Highway Death Toll Rises On Week-end Rainfall, Colder Forecast Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana temperatures climbed as much as 20 degrees from Sunday’s marks in Indiana today and skies generally were clear. The springtime weather will continue until Tuesday when rain and a drop in temperatwre w’ere forecast by the Indianapolis weather bureau. .' .. The highway death toll rose the past week-end. Mrs. Bessie M. Breshahan, 75, of Bridgeport, was killed when struck by an automobile as she crossed Road 40 in Bridgeport to attend church service. Jose L. Berrios, 24. of St. Louis, driver of the car, was not held. . Robert M. Schoen, 55. of Carmel, Indianapolis realty firm official, was killed and his wife and three members of an Indianapolis family were injured in a two-car crash at Road 37 and 116th St., at the Hamilton-Marion county line. Injured were his wife, Notie, 50, and David F. Milligan, 45; his wife, Dorothy, 41, and their daughter, Lucinda, 13. Milligan, a former public relations director for WFBM, Indianapolis, now heads a television station at Cadillac, Mich. William Gephart, 67, of Warren, Ind., wa-j killed and three other persons wetie injured in ta three-car accident on Ind. 5. State troopers said Gephart, driving alone, was hit by a car driven by Edward Russey, 49. of Muncie, as the former was making a lefthand turn into the driveway of the Gephart home. The impact knocked the Gephart car into another automobile, driven by Leslie Sparks. Police said Sparks had brought his car to a halt before the ricochetting auto struck him. Russey; Mrs. Katherine Russey, 46, and James R. Baldwin, 8, all of Muncie, were taken to Huntington county hospital but were not believed seriously hurt. Percy Purdue, 33, of Noblesville, was killed in a one-car accident on Ind. 238 one mile southeast of Noblesville, when he failed to make a curve and hit a pole and three highway signs. Adrian Sweeney, 29, of Noblesville, a passenger, was injured in the crash. Indiana police today planned to question six persons Injured in a Grant county smashup which Saturday night claimed the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Ice, of Fairmount. The two vehicles, one drive by Ice and the other by Mrs. Neida Royce. 33, of Marion, collided with such force that investigators were not even able to tell from which direction the cars had been traveling. ' Injured and taken to Marion General Hospital were the three daughters of the dead couple and the husband of one of them, and Mrs. Royce and Omer Riddle, of Marian, owner and a passenger in the second car. Mary Schweindling, 56, of Lafayette. was injured fatally, and her husband was hospitalized when their car went out of con(Oonnnuea on Pare Algbt)

SEATO Heads Conferring On Asian Problems Warns Communist Subversion Major Threat To Asians KARACHI (INS) —The foreign ministers of eight Southeast Asia treaty organization countries will open discussions on top secret plans for defending the area against Communist subverion. The first annual SEATO report, to be delivered at the opening of the three-day conference, will warn that “communist subversion remains the major threat in this area.” The meeting will be the second of the SEATO foreign ministers and experienced observers were of the opinion that the key problem facing them was this: Find a new and bold forumula on watch free Asia fall more and more rapidly into neutralism or even alliance with Russia and red ChinaVirtually all of the delegates of SEATO’s member states — the U S., Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand and Pakiston — already have arrivetllta RafcfetkVs capital. U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles flew in early today. In an apparent effort to sooth In an apparent effort to sooth ruffled Pakistani feelings toward the U. S.. Dulles said the American people and government were following with “interest and admiration” Pakistan’s “great strides in developing its political, economic and defensive strength.” He then plunged into a daylong series of meetings to stem a growing undercurrent of Pakistani dissatisfaction with the recent trend of relations.with the U. S- , Informed sources said itw as apparent that Moscow was urging the red Chinese to concentrate on Pakistan while Russia centers its big guns on prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. Nehru is outspoken in his opposition to SEATO- —, Ivan Fpdevich. the new Soviet ambassador, arrived in the capital Thursday and proclaimed that his primary mission'' was to promote “friendly relations.” He offered the Moslem country "Complete economic, tecnnlcal and cultural cooperation.” Pakistan, which needs Russian steel, has adopted an attitude of “we are ready so long as there are no strings.” Mrs. Wilma Stauffer Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Here On Wednesday Mrs. Wilma Irene Stauffer, 44, of Homestead 22, died at 6:10 o’clock Saturday evening at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, where she was taken after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage at her home Saturday noon. She was born in Decatur Ofet. 8, 1911, a daughter of James and Nannie Meese-Chronister, and was married to James W. Stauffer June 30, 1934. ' Mrs Stauffer was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed ehureh, and highly active. In church afafirs. * Surviving in addition to her hus band are her father, James Chronister of this city, and one daughter. Judy Stauffer, at Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the/ Black funeral home and at 2 p m. at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. William C Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. >

Study Details Os Westinghouse Plan Federal Mediators Offer Package Plan WASHINGTON (INS) — Union and company officials meet with federal mediators today to go over details of a new government “package” plan to end the 141-day-old Westipghouse strike. James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical Workers, and James D. Blasier, Westinghouse vice president, told i mediators Sunday they would hold up any decision on the plan pending clarification of certain details. • The settlement proposal was pre- ; sented to the disputants Saturday by a special three-man panel of mediators. Its terms have not been < made public. » > The mediators have been conferring with union and management since Feb. 20 in an "all-out effort" to settle the Westinghouse strike, which has idled about 48,000 company employes. Carey, ip a telegtam to media tion director Joseph F. Vinnegan, said Sunday shat after various points in the recommendations are explained, the union’s negotiating committee “will then determine its position.” He said it will make its own recommendations to a special meeting of the union conference board tonight. | Five-Yea* Contract PITTSBURGH' (INS)—Westing house announced today that it has signed a five-year contract with Local 1585 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers covering 385 production and maintenance workers at its Meadville, Pa„ plant. The pact calls for pay increases each year and other benefits. Westinghouse also announced signing of similar contracts with two other unions. Local 1526 of the IBEW represents 20 salaried workers at the Irwin, Pa., plant Local’ 6 of the CIO-AFL International Union of Operating Engineers represents 30 employes at the Kansas City, Mo., plant. A total of 37 small unions representing about 26,000 workers, now has signed five-year pacts with the firm. Operating Profit Shown By Hospital Monthly Financial Report Is Released 11 The Adams county memorial hos- , pita! showed an operating profit of ( 81,691.46 in February, according to the monthly financial report made to the board of trustees by Thur- ] man Drew, business manager. The operating cash balance at t the Start of the month was 818, 898.07 and February cash received , totalled 821,698.13, making a total t of 840.596.20. j Total expense for the month Including merchandise, food and sal- i aries was 820,006.67, leaving a cash f balance of 830,598.53 at the close of the month. I On the first day of February there were 36 adult patients and eight babies. There were 184 adult patients admitted during the month and 53 babies. Eight patients died at. the hospital during February 1 and at the end of the month there were 31 adults and five babies. Os the 53 babies born during February. the records show that 28 1 were girls and 25 were boys. A. report was received by the * board from Frank Kltsoa, county < auditor, advising more than half 1 of the hospital addition petitions have been examined and the work is progressing steadily. A state health board inspection ' report was also received, calling at- ' tention of the board to faulty plumbing, unsatisfactory method of , dish washing and unsanitary method of garbage disposal, and conges- 4 tion of hospital facilities. Bid for four cars of stocker coal was awarded to the Burk Elevator (Continued on Page Five) * 1

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Israeli Plane Shot Down By Syrian Guns New Fighting After Sunday Killings Os Israeli Policemen JERUSALEM (INS) —Syrian machinegunners bagged an Israeli plane today and fresh fighting erupted along the dangerous Gaza Strip frontier. A military spokesman announced in Jerusalem that the Syrians, who Sunday killed at least three Israeli policemen on the Sea of Galilee, this afternoon and wounded the forced down the Israeli aircraft pilot. , He said that the plane was flying over Israeli territory at the northeastern tip of the country when it was fired on and the pilot made a forced landing. The new violence followed Sunday’s killings of Israeli policemen by Syrian soldiers on the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee. A military spokesman in Jerusalem said that Egyptian troops in the Gaza Strip sector along the Mediterranean coast fired on an Israeli outpost in the Kissufim area and Israelis returned the fire. He said Egyptians then used mortar and shell fire on the Israeli position and the sporadic duel\st-■ j ed more than an hour. Amid the fear of an Israeli-Arab full-scale war in the Middle East. UN truce supervisor Maj. Gen? E. L. M. Burns met with Walter Eytan, director general of the Israeli foreign ministry. A spokesman said the two discussed the Syrian-Israeli clash but that the main topic was the Gaza Strip because of the concentration of Egyptian troops who are being supplied with arms from the Soviet bloc. Eytan drew Burns’ attention to repeated incidents along the Gaza Strip border. ;The spokesman said he thought Burns would fly to Cairo Tuesday to talk with Egyptian leaders. An Israeli spokesman said that the death toll of Israeli policemen killed at the Sea of Galilee was three, with another wounded Israeli policeman still missing. .Israeli police boats with UN observers aboard were searching the northeastern shore area for the missing policeman after the Syrians handed the bodies of three Israelis and * patrol boat to UN observers in response to an urgent request by Burns. Israel had warned that it was ready to "take measure” to rescue the captured policeman. Deplores Attack WASHINGTON (INS)—The U.S, has told Israel and Syria it "deplores’’ Sunday's border clash near the Sea of Galilee. The state department said the U. S. view was expressed to the two countries late Sunday and early today. - Department spokesman Lincoln White, in announcing the U. S. action, said: "The United States deplores this incident which resulted in loss of (Continued on Page Five) Red Cross Campaign Rollie Crozier, Union Twp. Sec. 15 8 15.00 Mrs. C. Bertsch, Hartford Twp. Sec. 25 3.00 Dewey Plumley, Union Twp. Sec. 10; 9.00 Obed Steffen, French Twp. See. 4 9.00 Mrs. Oscar Geisel, Washington Twp. Sec. 7 41.00 Ben Kipfer, French Twp. Sec, 14 ....: 16.00 Mrs. Carrol Bassett. Mrs. Carl Adler. Washington Decatur Res. 6.00 Twp. Sec. 30 - 81 1075“ Women of the Moose .... 10.00 Advanced Gifts —... 417JW Total —.8537.25 ,H. H. Stoner— Special 75 membership.