Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 59, Decatur, Adams County, 10 March 1956 — Page 1

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' j.’ ** We*^*^****** - - 4-Tt. «_ || • Where 12 in Family Perished in Fire HERE ARE RUINS of the tarpaper dwelling in Oxford. Pa., where 12 members of the family of 39-year-old John L. Twyman (right) perished in flames. Dead are the truck driver's wife Catherine, 35, nine, children and two grandchildren. | jg Twyman was on a trip to Haltimre when the fire broke out at night, and did not know of the tragedy till he returned.

Nixon Breaks Senate Tie On Farm Measure Casts Vote To Save GO.P.'s Flexible Farm Price Plans WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate Democrats disclosed today they are considering staging a new fight for a one year return to 90 per cent price supports on basic farm crops. The development arose in the wake of tense drama at a night senate Mfaion Friday when Vibe President Richard M. Nixon broke S a tie vote to save President Eisenhower's flexible farm price support program. By Nixon's action, a 46 to 45 vote killed 90 per cent supports on this year’s harvest of millable wheat. The closeness of the vote was a surprise to many observers and an encouragement to the Democratic majority. ———— —— The outcome contrasted with the 54 to 41 vote by which the senate Thursday beat down a two-year restoration of 90 per cent props on ‘ -ftther basic crops. - J —Hubert'4L Humphrey (D Minn.), told newsmen that the ra xor • edged vote on the wheat amendment might foreshadow a new attempt to restore 90 per cent, supports on all basic crops for only one year. Humphrey said: "We are talking about it. We want a little more arithmetic dn-it and a little more consulting. If we make the move, it will come just before the final vote on the farm bill.” The,final vote Is expected some time next week. Sen. Albert Gore (D Tenn.), told the senate he may press for a new vote on the wheat amendment. This vote was announced originally — and erroneously — as 46 to 45. The senate used a parliamentary device to nail down the verdict before It was disclosed that the actual vote was 45 to 45. Gore challenged Nixon’s right to break the tie after the result was announced. But the Tennessean got little support from other Democrats on the floor. Referring to Nixon’s vote, senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson told the senate: “I assume he is going to pay a big enough price for that vote anyway.” This was a reference to the Democrat’s contention that defeat of high fixed price supports will boomerang against Republicans in the presidential elections. „. '•’V ■ joint Lions-Rotary Meeting On Monday The Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs will meet in joint session at 6:30 o’clock Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Lewis Armstrong, former Decatur resident, now president of the St. Joseph Valley Bank at Elkhart, will speak on "Attracting ’ new industry to your community.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with rain possibly mixed with snow. Rain, windy and mild Sunday. Low tonight S 8 north, 80s south. High Sunday 40 north, 64 south.

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Easter Seal Drive Launched In County Annuo I Drive For Funds Is Underway The 1956 Easter Seal campaign officially opened today in Adams county. The campaign will continue through April 10, and will provide an opportunity for residents of Adams county and accross the nation to contribute fi--5 nancial assistance for crippled j children's services. r Leslie Sprunger and the Rev. t William C. Feller, co-chairmen of the 1956 drive, stated that some e SI,BOO will be needed in 1956 if t crippled children in Adams counB ty are to receive the care necesB sary for their rehabilitation. i. More than 90 percent of the t funds faisod remain m the state for direct service, the remainder 5 going to the support of a nation--5 wide program of education, direct B service and research, including the national Easter Seal research 3 foundation. The Easter Seal sos ciety, nationwide, has been serve ing the crippled for 35 years. Here in Adams county last ? year, money collected from the » Easter Seal campaign enabled the society to aid 40 children in a j, speech clinic conducted last summer. . Since, the organization of ) the Adams county society for - crippled children and adults in t 1949, contributions have purchast ed a much used air-lock resuscii. tator Tor the Adams county mer mortal hospital, sent a number of children to camps, purchased - special equipment, artificial limbs, > hearing aids, wheel chair, medical > supplies and served in many other > various ways to give aid to the > crippled and handicapped children throughout the county. s Rev. Feller stated that the Decatur Boy Scouts, under the supi erviston of Dick Linn, were in the ' process of distributing the Easter i Seal coin containers in the business district today and these would be distributed throughout the country the first of next week. The school children of the area . will be contacted March 14 by Gail M. Grabll, county superini tendent of schools, and treasurer i of the Adams county society. Blue and Red Easter seals — i crippled children’s colorful messengers for 1956 —will be mailed ©ut to 12M residents of the cdunty by the middle of next week. A group of high school girls have joined forces with Deane Dorwin, president of the society, in getting these letters ready to mail. Those girls helping with this project include Linda Gamsby, Barbara Suttles, Janice Voshell, Beverly Singer, Helen Bolilnger, Janet McKean, Elaine Evans, Vera Roop, Betsy Embler, Sara Brunnegraff, Marilyn Jefferies, Sue Petrie, Ellen Welch, Twanette Magley, Sharon Michaud, and Kathryn Schafer. ,1 An active campaign is being planned for they county, and again for this summer, plans are being (ComnwuM on rturx Mx) State Police Blame Speed For Fatality MARION, Ind. (INS) — State police said today that speed on a curve caused an accident in which ‘Doris Floyd, 37. of Montpelier, met death on Road 18 near Marion. Robert Riggs, >B, of Keystone, driver of the automobile involved, was injured critically. NOON

Dulles, Nehru Continue Talks In New Delhi Indian Press Still Critical Os Views Os Secretary Dulles NEW DELHI (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles and Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru met again today while the Indian press maintained a frosty view toward the visit of the American diplomat. Dulles made the traditional pilgrimage today to the spot where i the late Indian leader, Mohandas : Gandhi, was cremated- after his ' assassination in 1948, Dulles and U. S. ambassador John Sherman Cooper carried : wreaths of roses in their stockinged feet to the Tajghat memorial on the banks of Jumnar river. Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev had made a. similar visit during their tour in India last year. Dulles and Nehru spent more than three hours in “friendly, cordial” conversations Friday and met again today. No statement was issued after Friday’s meeting but- well-inform-ed sources said their friendly. . smiling bandshake when they parted suggested that they "got to the heart of a lot, of things.” But the friendly relations evidenced between the two leaders who have been in the past on the opposit sides of the fence tn many matters did not thaw the hostile Indian press. The influential Times of India accused Dulles of sticking to “brink of war” theories and said flatly that the talks were not expected to yield “any spectacular results.” The central theme in current Indian thinking seems to be that all security pacts are outdated in view of the new Russian "peace” offensive. , Dulles came to India from Pakistan where he attended a meeting of the Southeast Asia treaty organization. Craig Backs Nixon For Vice President Says Nixon Victim Os Smear Campaign INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Governor George N. Craig stood squarely behind Vice President Richard M. Nixon for renomination today, saying: ■ - “I would not run against Nixon, As long as he is under consideration, I am not a candidate for Vice-President. Nixon is the best man for the position and he is entitled to it on the basis of his record and high esteem that President Eisenhower holds for him.” Nixon is a victim of the Democratic party line, according to Governor Craig, who added: "The Democrats are afraid to attack the President, so they have made Nixon the whipping boy of the administration and have leveled their attacks on him. Nixon has been ths victim of a consistent, ruthless smear campaign of national scope.” Craig maintained that Nixon has (Continued on Pago Six)

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Britain’s Get Tough Policy Toward Cyprus Touches Off Violence

- ’ Greek Students Stage Riots As Protest To Act 3,000 Students And Police In Athens Clash In Rioting -ATHENS (INS) —Greek students rioted in Athens and Salonika today in protest against the deportation of Archbishop Makarios from the British island of Cyprus. Three thousand students clashed with police in Athens in a massive demonstration against the forced exile of Makarios and three other pro-Greek churchmen from Cyprus. Athens police threw guards around the British and American embassies in the capital city in a bid to prevent the demonstrators from reaching them but in some places the mob broke through the cordons. Britain’s Union Jack was burned by students in the courtyard of, Athens university. s < The rioters attacked police ar-‘ mpred cars with clubs and stonea, wounding several officersMore than two thousand students broke through the police and army cordon and reached the center tof ‘the City Where -they large-scale rioting. The police chief appealed for army reinforcements for the platoon of soldiers guarding the British embassy- ‘ In Salonika, ten persons were injured as students clashed with police and Army unitsThe armored cars used to protest the police were heavily stoned by the students who used telegraph poles and barels in an attempt to penetrate police cordons. . . ..... Archbishop Exiled .. MAKE, Seychelle Islands (INS) —A. British spokesman announced today that Cypriot Archbishop Ma, karios was en route to the Seychelles aboard a Royal Navy warship. , The announcement confirmed unofficial reports in Cyprus and in London that the Cypriot nationalist leader had been exiled to thia Indian ocean colony. Makarios was arrested and deported Friday by plane but his destination was unannounced. The spokesman said the ship was tn route from Mombasa, Kenya, East Africa where the churchman was taken Friday. Supermarket Robbed By Armed Bandits INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Police today helped witnesses scan mug shots in an attempt to identify two pistol packing bandits who rcbbed an Indianapolis supermarket of thousands of dollars. The pair escaped with the loot Friday afternoon and eluded a seven-car police cordon that moved into the area within minutes of the robbery.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. John E. Chambers, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church) DOUBLE TIME "Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil." Ephesjans 5:15, 16 >, We are living in busy days. We go many places, see many sights, do many things. But the question the Apostle Paul would ask us is 'Are you making the most of the time?” Are you spending your time wisely? Are you using your moments and your days for the things that are air Important? Many times we ask people why they, do not attend the services of the Church. And many times the answer, either directly or indirectly, indicates that people do not have time. We have time for business, time for pleasure, time for recreation, time for ourselves—but so tittle time for the things of Ood. These Lenten days should call us to deeper loyalty and consecration to Christ and His Church. "Juat one life: ’twill soon be past 1 Only what’s done for Christ will last.” Prayer: “O Thou who art the giver of our days and the guardian of time, help us to honor thee in- every shining, precious hour. Amen.”

♦ ; —— — Interior Secretary Seeks Senate Post Douglas McKay To Seek Morse's Seat WASHINGTON (INS) — A “showcase” test of the political appeal of President Eisenhower's natural resources policies was assured today with Interior Secretary Douglas McKay’s entry In the Oregon senatorial contest. McKay's decision to resign from ■ the Eisenhower cabinet to run for the seat of Sen. Wayne Morse (DOre.) puts him up against his own sharpest critic — as well as the man who has most loudly denounced administration power and resource programs. > Morse, who left the Republican party in protest against Mr. Eisenhower’s early political actions, welcomed McKay’s candidacy. For months the ex-Republican exindependent senator has been accusing McKay of administering a “give-away” of natural resources. But McKay’s decision cut the recent Odds favoring Morse in the Oregon election. A few weeks ‘ ago the senator’s chances zoomed as a result of the sudden death of Oregon Gov. Paul Patterson, who had shortly before announced his Intention to seek Morse’s seat. Removal of the popular Patter- ■ son f£pm the scene left McKay, in f the Rps atom of GOP strategists, as the only flepublican with much ' chance of unseating Morse. Morse • welcomed his 62-year-old foe to ■ the campaign. He said: “The campaign will ■ clearly draw the issues on the • giveaway record made by this administration . . . McKay, as tfte - handpicked candidate of the I White House and agriculture seci retary Ezra Taft Benson, will disi cover that not only Democrats and independent voters but a great many .-Oregoa .Republicans will welcome the opportunity at I the polls to repudiate his record as secretary ot the interior,’’ » McKay joined the battle with the statement that: “I am coming back home to bring to a showdown in Oregon the question of whether the President’s program is to be jeopardized in the future, as it has in the past, by those seeking personal gratification and notoriety at the expense of the national welfare. “I can think of no more appealing task in public life today than to bring before the people of Oregon this opportunity to choose between the honor and objectives of the Eisenhower administration and the slippery philosophy of (Continued on Tage Six) Young Pedestrian Is Killed By Auto COLUMBUS, Ind. (INS)—While walking along a country road near Jonesville, Donald Clark, 7. of near Columbus, was struck and killed by a ear driven by John Ferguson. Jr., also of near Columbus." “

French Leader Asks For Vote Os Confidence U. S. Consulate In Tunis Stormed And Sacked During Riot PARIS (INS) —Premier Guy Mallet, with new unrest in Tunis added to his Algerian headache, called today for a vote of confidence on his Algerian policies of pacification and reform. Many observers believed the Socialist premier’s chances of winning the confidence vote were greatly improved by the disturbances which Friday rocked Paris and the heretofore relatively quiet North African territory of Tunisia. Some seven thousand Algerians went out on strike to march through the shocked French capital in support of the revolt in their homeland. French police arrested about 2,700 of the demonstrators. Meanwhile, in the city of Tunis an anti-nationalist mob of French settlers stormed and sacked the U. S consulate general and information center late Friday, ripping down and burning the Stars and StripesNo American was injured, but one of the rioters was killed by shots believed fired by a frightened TunisianEuropean settlers in North Africa generally regard Americans ’ as being anti-colonialist and pro- ‘ nationalist in their sentiments. In Washington, the state department said it had expressed its 1 “concern” over the incident to the 1 French government. 1 The French high commissioner in Tunis, Roger Seydoux, telephoned the American consulate in Tunis to state his “deep regrets." Millet’s demand for a vote of confidence Came at the end of a stormy night session in which the assembly debated the government’s request for special powers to restore peace in revolt-swept Algeria. The vote will be held Monday. Meanwhile, French military authorities in Algiers announced 63 rebels were killed and 22 others were captured during clashes throughout Algeria Friday. The votes of confidence are on articles which would give the minister resident in Algeria the wdi(Continued on Page Five) , Six Persons Killed In Head-on Crash Seven-Year-Old Boy Is Only Survivor COOPERSVILLE, Mich. (INS) —Six persons, including a couple and their two children, were killed Friday night Fn a head-on collision on Route 16, four miles west of Coopersville’, Mich. Police said the accident occurred when a paroled convict swerved his car. into the wrong lane on a curve. The parolee was among the victims, The dead were: Donald Maitner, 34, a .Grand Rapids, "Mich., purchasing agent; his wife, Alberta, 33; and daughters, Sharon Lynn, 10. and Donald, 2; Theodore J- Vogt, of Grand Rapids, a passenger in the Maitner car, and tie parolee, Abram Phillips. 43,' of MuskegonThe only survivor of the crash was Gary Lee, the Maitners’ seven-year-old son He was reported In critical condition at a .Grand Rapids hospital. _ Witnesses said Phillips had passed several trucks shortly before the drash. Rounding a curve, he tried to swerve and miss the Maitner auto, but Maitner swerved too and plowed head-on into Phillips’ car. ,

Fear Three Priests Are Killed By Fire Lay Brother Is Also Missing After Fire LENOX. Mass. (INS) — Three priests and a lay brother were feared dead, six clerics were injured and 115 others, including 98 scholastics, were driven from their beds today in a million dollar blase that destroyed Shadowbrook, famed Jesuit novitiate on the Lenox - Stockbridge line. Missing and believed buried in the ruins of the 400-foot long, marble, stucco and wooden structure were Rev. Stephen Mulcahy,, S. 3:, former dean of arts and sciences at Boston college, a professor of English at Shadowbrook; Rev. Arthur Tribble, S. J., of Malden, administrator; Rev. Henry Muollo, S. J., 54, of Boston, and brother Henry Perry, S.J., 72, of Benedict. Maine. Although the scholastics were led to safety by a member of the faculty, several priests were forced to jump from a second floor ledge when fire cut off their escape. Eight were rescued over a ladder by a’ fire fighter. The fire was discovered about 1 a.m. by two priests, Fr. Carroll and Rev. Patrick Sullivan, who had quarters directly across the corridor drom each other on the second floor of the S-shajfed building. They were awakened by smoke seeping up through the floorboards ; of their rooms and ran into the hall to find it blanketed with smoke. They made their way down to the ‘ first floor, saw the fife had gained such headway that it had already worked into the center and east (Continued on nn nix) ' Westinghouse Strike Nowln 146th Day Says Union Demands Block Peace Moves PITTSBURGH HNS) — The top negotiator for Westinghouse says that union demands that all workers discharged for strike violence l>e rehired immediately and the attitude of two big locals of the International Union of Electrical Workers are blocking peace moves. Vice president Robert D. Blasier said refusal of the IUE to accept proposals by a federal mediation panel for handling cases of the discharged workers was prolonging the strike of 44,000 Westinghouse employees. The strike is now in its 146th day. The federal mediators had suggested that 59 of the 95 discharged workers be reinstated immediately and the other cases be submitted to arbitration. The company accepted the complete peace plan but the IUE rejected it on the basis of “some of its provisions" Wednesday night. Blasier commented that much of the opposition to accepting the peace plan came from IUE locals 601, representing workers at the big East Pittsburgh plant, and 617, at Sharon, Pa. No negotiating meetings are expected over the weekend. Birch Infant Dies Early This Morning ~ Pamela Sue Birch, 18-month-old daughter of Kenneth and Catherine Birch, died at 6:15 a. m. today at the home, 1039 Elm street. The child was bom here Aug. 20, 1954. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother. Kenneth Eugene; two sisters, Nancy Ann.ahd Pamela Kay; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Dick Baker and Mrs. Ethel Birch of near Decatur One sister is deceasedFuneral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Black funeral homfs, the Rev. i Gai*! Shaw officiating. Burial will be in Spring Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the- funeral home after 3:30 p. m Sunday.

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Violence Is Reported In ’ ■ ■ Cyprus, Greece British Crack Down By Deporting Four Orthodox Churchmen LONDON (INS)—Britain’s "get tough” policy toward Cyprus today touched off new violence on that island and in Greece. . Britain cracked down hard Friday on Cyprus by deporting Archbishop Makarios and three other Greek Orthodox churchmen who were leaders of the Greek-Cypriot drive for enoMs (union) with Greece. A British spokesman In Mahe. Seychelle islands, reported today that Makarios was on his way to that British colony in the Indian ocean. On Cyprus, today British troops tangled with a Cypriot mob and were forced to use tear gas bombs to disperse the demonstrators. The outbreak of violence at Kyrenia came as factories, affices and shops began to Mose throughout the capital city of Nicosia in what apparently was a spontaneous walkout by Cypriots. J Still« iwaall war t tras, wnose recall aniiouitceu » in Athens Friday, called at the foreign office this morning. No explanation for his visit was given. Meanwhile, in Greece, students i rioted jn Athens and Salonika and shouted anti British slogans. In Athens, they wrecked the offices of the British European Airways which are Ideated in the Hotels Agenterre and Grande Bretagne. Students in the courtyard of Athens university burned the union jack and the police chief appealed for army reinforcements for the platoon of soldiers guarding the A statement issued by the British governor, Field Marshal Sir John Harding, said Makarios was a "major obstacle to peace” and accused him of purchasing explosives for Cypriot nationalists with money he had collected in Greek communities in the U. S. during a 1954 visit. It was believed the four churchmen were on their way to the Seychelle islands, Britain's Indian ocean colony. Greek reaction — one the island and in Athens — was son strong that little doubt remained that peace was a long way off for Cyprus and that London-Athens relations would hit a new low. Snub By Jordan But thinks took a happier turn for Britain in the sisxling iMddle East. Jordan's King Hussein, who dismissed British Gen. Sir John Glubb as head of his Arab Legion ten days ago. snuooea ettorts oy jsgypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia to Woo him further away from Britain. The British attitude toward the young monarch, aside from recalling a few other British officers from Jordan, had been to ‘‘wait and see’ how things developed before taking any drastic moves. King Hussein Friday turned down an offer frotSt the three other (Continued on Wage ax) - William A. Rayer Seriously Injured „ William A. Rayer of Van Wert, 0., a brother of Boyd Rayer and Mrs- Frank Singleton of this city, was seriously injured in a railroad accident at Ansonia, 0., at about 8:30 a. m- today. /layer, a brakeman on the New York Central railroad, lost both legs below the knees when the—wheles of a train passed over him. Details on the accident were not available. He was rushed to a hospital at Greenville. O. No report on his condition was available. Railroad officials in Van Wert were unable to. give any more information on the accident.