Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 61, Decatur, Adams County, 13 March 1956 — Page 1

Vol. UV. No. 61.

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Greece Calls For U. H. To Act On Cyprus Greece Asks United Nations Assembly To Act On Question UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —Greece called on the United Nations today to act on the Cyprus question at the 1966 general assembly next fall. Greek delegate Christian X. Palamas personally placed the Greek government's demand before UN i,ecretary-generai Dag Hammarskjold. He accompanied his request with a memorandum.“ Palamas filed a "most energetic protest” with Hammarskjoid Saturday against the deportation of Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Knoeis union with Greece movement ©n the British Mede terraamn island. , .V ” The Greek diplomat charged Ip the protest, circulated to sdl M UN members, that Makarios’ removal to a remote British island in the Indian ocean gravely threatened peace in the Near East Palamas told International New* Service the Greek govern ment also was considering raising the Cyprus Issue before the Security Connell. Meanwhile, U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was to return today from a three-week whirlwind tour of Africa and Europe. ? He will meet newsmen at 5 p. m to toll of his visit to Libya and Sudan. Lodge toured the two African nations on behalf of the UN Technical Assistance Organization to inspect global aid programs in the countries. Study Problem WASHINGTON (INS) — The U. 8. tried to calm its British and Greek friends today in hope that time would help heal the bitter dispute over the strategic Medi terranean island of Cyprus. Officials admitted privately that there was little hope for an early settlement now that the British have deported Archbishop Makarios and the Greeks have with drawn their ambassador from London. -- — Also privately, some Americans doubt etdhe wisdom of the British order to deport Makarios but said that they still did not know the full story of the British reasons. The state department said that as tudy of the problem is being made in Washington now and that presumably recommendations will he forthcoming. . s But officials said the U. 8. will avoid a public announcement of its stand on the Cyprus problem because, as one explained It,' “our usefulness Would end” as soon as a public position was taken. t The American intention is' To work privately with the Greeks and the British to try to bring, them together. The Greek charge d'affalrs Phedon Cavalierato said Monday afternoon that “we are as interested as anyone else in the defense nf the area; and possibly more.” 1 . Gen. Maxwell Heads Air National Guard V INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —AdjGen. Harold A. Doherty today announced the appointment of Brig. Gen. Allison Maxwell as chief of staff of the Indiana air national guardMansell succeeds Brig- Gen. Oliver H. Stout- Col. William R Sefton, base commander at Fort Wayne’s Baer Field, will take Maxwell’s place as commander of the 122nd fighter-interceptor wing. - : \ ‘ - ■■■ ■ ' " ' ' *

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Outlines Plans To Aid Water Supply Program Outlined By City Engineer A three point program to improve the water supply In the city of Decatur was described by city engineer Ralph Roop at a meeting of 1 the industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce Monday noon at the Decatur Youth and Community l Center. The program calls for finding i gravel wells to produce badly need- - ed additional raw water, to put in a larger water main from (he soft- - ener piant across St. Mary’s river t and to erect a one million gallon ’ storage tank to more evenly dls- - tribute the pressure in the mains - and as a safety factor In the event of power failure. To what extent the proposed pro--1 jects. will affect the tax rate or the i water bill for the city’s residents t cannot be estimated since it is pos- ■ sible that water from the gravel - wells would be cheaper to treat. Roop, in his talk to the Decatur j Industrialists, explained the exlst--1 lug water system of the city pointIng out where It Ms proved taade--1 quate. ——-2_ ... . r He stated that at the present r time the city has seven producing wells east of St. Mary’s river which I produce a total of 1.244,160 gallons per day. The average grains hard- : ness of the water from these wells - is 35.2. Roop said that during the winter months this amount is usr ually adequate but during the sumi mer months from June through - September the city has a serious . water shortage. . During these months it is necesI sary for the city to draw additional water from two other wells in the i city. These standby wells include • one at Short street and the Penn- > sylvania railroad which pumps 165 i gallons per minute and is 65 grains hard and one at Line and Studebaker streets which pumps 115 gal- . lons per minute and is 70 grains l hard. These wells are used only in emergency except the Short street well which supplies the Third street reservoir and the swimming pool. Roop further described the distribution system which includes 415 control valves, 208 fire hydrants, 2,541 water meters and approximately 28.2 miles of water mains from two-inch to 16 inch diameter pipes. He said that the six-inch water main from east of the Monroe street bridge to .the corner of Monroe and First streets, which supplies the city with treated water, is too small and should be enlarged to 12 inches and re-located under the river. Roop also stated thal lt has been suggested that the city erect an elevated storage tank. This would serve the purposes of adding additional water storage for the city, more evenly distribute the pressure in the water mains and give a safety factor to the city in event of a power failure. The local treatment plant includ- . es storage, a chlorine machine, furnace, store room, meter testing equipment, salt storage binds and three units with a total capacity to soften 903.6 gallons per minute or 1,080,000 gallons per day. (Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness north, cloudy south portion with rain or sleet extreme south portion tonight « Cloudy with occasional rain south portion and rain developing north portion probably beginning as sleet north portion .Wednesday afternoon or evening. Not so cold eentrat and north portions tonight. Low tonight 2532 north, 30-86 south. High Wednesday ranging from mid 30s extreme north to mid 40s extreme south. '

Ike And Nixon Hold Private Talks Today ; No Announcement On Possible Political Future For Nixon WASHINGTON (INS) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon held a half-hour private talk today with President Elsenhower. No announcement was made by the White House as to whether Nixon discussed his political future with Mr. Eisenhower. However, the President said recently at a news conference that he had told Nixon to “chart his own course” on whether he wants to run for reelection as vice president. Nixon stayed behind at the White House after the President held his weekly legislative conference with Republican congressional leaders. They talked in private about a half hour. Meanwhile, GOP national chairman Leonard W. Hall charged today that Democratic presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson has been “deliverately distorting facts ' and figures” on the nation's farm economy in order to win rural ' votes. . Hall called upon Stevenson instead to urge Democrats in congress to pass the administration ! farm bill. But the Republican chairman ad--1 ded: “This is perhaps too much to expect with Adlai and Estes Ke- ' fauver attempting to outshout and i outbid each other in various Dem- - ocrat presidential primaries.” i The first test of Stevenson-Ke : fauver strength comes today in New Hampshire’s presidential prl • mary. Stevenson is not entered in > that state’s preferential contest i and has not campaign in Neu ■ Hampshire but. a slate of strong I pro-Stevenson delegates is run ning. Kefauver, who won the 1952 ■ primary, is entered in the prefer - entlal race and has a full slate o| - delegates on.the ballot; * Hall’s criticism of Stevensoi was based upon « statement the t Democrat Issued after making j ; campaign tour through Minnesota t which holds the second primarj ! of 1956 one week from today. Hall said: “Adlai cited aS evi ( dence of what he called the ‘farm , depression' a decline in bank de . posits In Minnesota, U.S. treasury . department figures show an actual , increase in total bank deposits In , Minnesota from $3,696 billion on Dec. 31. 1954 to $3,704 billion on Dee. 30, 1956. During the last six months of 1955, total bank deposits in that state increased by nearly $l6O million.” He said Stevenson also had reported that farm machinery manufacturers are laying off workers because of declining sales. Hall said labor department statistics show that in February 1956 the industry employed 165.400 workers as compared with 157,600 for the same month in 1955. He said the figure for February 1954 was 1465600. . , • Hall concluded: “As for the liquidation of farmers. U. S. census reports show that the nation's farm population increased by one per cent during 1955, reversing a long-time downward trend.” Order Tokyo Rose To Leave Country Leave Country Or Face Deportation CHICAGO (INS) —Mrs Iva Toguri D'Aquino, familiar to World War II Gls in the Pacific as "Tokyo Rose,” was told today to leave the United States or face deportation action Robert H- Robinson, district director o fthe immigration and naturalization service in Chicago, sent the Los Angeles-born woman a notification, saying: “She may depart from the United States voluntarily by April 13, 1956 — or the immigration service will set a date for a deportation hearing.” 1 Mrs. D'Aquino has been living with her brother In Chicago since she was released from a federal prison in Alderson, W. Va., after serving a term for treason. She could not be reached immediately for comment. Mrs- D’Aquino was born in Los Angeles, July 4, 1216, and went to Japan before World War II began. She -was identified as one of a half dozen women who staged the Tok/o Rose propaganda broadcasts aimed at demoralizing U. S- troops during tbw war. She returned to the United Stat(Continued on Page Vive)

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- . ' Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 13, 1956.

New Hampshire Result Under Close Scrutiny By Political Leaders T : ;

r '"'-T—■ ; Senate Slated t ■For Votes On Wheat System le Two-Price System Amendment Slated I- For Senate Action j s WASHINGTON (INS)—Tfie sens ate was slated to vote today on a n two-prlee system for wheat a<s i( J continues consideration of the farm bill. - >■ Sen. Frank barlson (R Kan.), i" author of the two-price amend--11 ment, said that if he can win the support of southern senators he bel" lleves his proposal has a good h chance of adoption. >- j The administration in the past has opposed the plan—which calls for one price for wheat sold in the U.S. for food and another for exn ported grain. However, it has not j. made any all-out tight against the n proposal, as it did in battling 9(1 (t per cent price supports. w Carlson’s amendment calls for g 100 per cent of parity prices oji what sold in the-domestic market Parity is the yardstick tor measurr. ing fair farm income in terms of buying power. i The difference between the mafn ket price and 1W per cent of parity ie would be made up by the governa ment, but it would get this back a> from the miller, who in turn prey sumabiy would pass it on to the consumer. The transactions would L be handled with marketing certin ficates. Export wheat would sgll at > competitive world prices. y Sen. George D. Aiken (R VL), d who has led the fight for the adn ministration on the farm bill, said n he has no plans to speak against n the wheat proposal. He said he x will “listen “arid ■ _ Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D f N.M.), who also has fought the administration’s battle on the price ” support issue, indicated he has no 1 ‘ plans to oppose the amendment. 8 The senate late Monday approv--1 ed the Williams - Jenner - Russell 8 amendment putting a ceiling of SIOO,OOO on the government pay--8 rnents to any person under the 8 farm price support program. - 5 The amendment also limited to $25,000 the payments anjr one farmer could receive in any one state and in any one year for cutting ’ back his crops under the acreage * reserve phase of the proposed ’ soil bank. Both limitations were aimed at curbing benefits which huge corporation - type farms can receive from the government — at the expense of the family - sized farm, according to the senators’ arguments. The acreage reserve part of the soil bank is its major provision, aimed at reducing surpluses. The farm bill provides for payments up to $750 million a year for reduc(Continued on Fags Five)

i- 1 ■ 1, ,- 1 * ■ Lenten Meditation B z . (By Rev. Ray J. Walther, First Presbyterian Church) - “THE HAPPY ONES” >, 1 ”... to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy , for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of 1 heaviness.” Isaiah 61:3. 6. ' / 1 What man or woman wouldn’t like to be able to do all of these things with their life as are stated in Isaiah—to be beautiful, joyful, and praising in every situation? * e But when there are ashes we seem to get mixed up with the e duty part of them; when there is death we are in the sorrowing i part of it; and when there' is a situation of heaviness we are borne down by it rather than ever lifting it up. Life is like that, it seems. But Isaiah gives us the key at the outset In chapter 61:1, ' “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me. because the Lord has annotated me . . . ” This is the different. This accounts for the 8 happy ones upon this earth. Without the “Spirit of the Lord 0 God” upon us life is worldly and beastly. But with the “Spirit” ' life is blessed and happy and we are able to bring the beauty out a of life’s hardest times; able to make life smoother even at times a of death; and We are able always in the times of heaviness and s despair to give God the praise. s If you are not a happy one-let the Spirit of the living Lord change your life. Read Matthew 5:3-13 and insert “happy” for t- “blessed” and ape if this doesn't make you want to be a happy one of God. . k

Mollet Wins Four Confidence Voles French Cabinet To Convene Wednesday PARIS- (INS)—The French cabinet will meet Wednesday to draft an urgent plan of action designed ■i to meet a possible all-out rebel of- " fensive in Algeria. Stepped-up fighting in the troubled North African spot was almost -a foregone conclusion after preJ mier Guy Mollet Monday night won , four overwhelming votes of coni fidence on a special powers bill designed to end the year-aud-ataalf- . old rebellion ta Algeria. The bill goes to the committees i of the council of the republic today and it is expected that the council I will speedily approve the powers. Algerian resident minister Rob- ■ ert Lacoste has expressed fears of i a generalized outbreak of rebel ass saults in all sectors of Algeria. The cabinet meeting Wednesday, ; therefore, will devote special at- : te n tlo n to immediate secu ri ty meas- • ures, especially military reinforcements to give Lacoste absolute au- ' thority over the police and admjni istration of Algeria. Mollet won the first three votes —dealing with various parts of the f bill on special powers—and the final vote, on the bill ap a whold, ■ all with more than 450 in his r favor. The nays never totaled more than 76. C The bill, which will probably be approved no later than Friday by j the council of the republic, will give the government far reaching powers. - - ■ The powers, to be turned over to Algerian resident minister Robert . Lacoste, will permit the decree of I military measures to reestablish ; order and impose economic meas- , ures to improve the well-being of Algeria’s eight million Moslems. , Mollet also won the support of therCommunTsts altfibjigh the Poujadists and the ultra-conservaties opposed him. The Communists apparently backed hhn because they were determined to avoid a split with the Socialists that would end whatever possibility exists for the establishment of a popular front. Locate Wreckage Os Air Force Amphibian ST. JOHN’S, Nfld- (INS) -r Searchers located today wreckage of a U.S. air force Grumman amphibian that crashed Monday after taking off at Newfoundland. The wreckage was found in Placentia Bay. The plane, with six persons aboard, had taken off from the Argentia naval station. It exploded almost immediately after . takeoff. : One body had been recovered early today, but a gale was interfering with operations.

Westinghouse And Union In New Parleys 1 Company And Union Negotiators Meet ■ In Capital Hotel - WASHINGTON (INS) —Manage--1 ment and union representatives ■ met today in an attempt to write a 1 new five-year work contract end- ■ Ing the 149-day Westinghouse Corp strike. s Company negotiators headed by r Vice President Robert D, Blasire I conferred with a group from the . AFL-CIO International Union of - Electrical workers, including its I president, James B. Carey. The conference, offering some hope of an early settlement of the prolanged dispute, was held in a ’ Washington hotel while federal me . diators stood by to help if called upon. Some persons close to the case . said it will take four or five days at best .to work out contract lanB guage, it the parties succeed in , doing his at all. However, Carey has suggested that the job should ’ be completed in two days. ' The new meetings denote a 0 change from the situation which existed last wefek, when the company accepted a strike settlement e plan advanced by a three-man panel of mediators and the union’s ! Westinghouse conference board K ruled it “unacceptable,” The change apparently has come o about as a result of a conciliatory t attitude revealed by Carey in suhf sequent correspondence with medi--1 a tors In this correspondence, the ! union leader said a “clarification” f by the mediators with respect to changes in wage payments plans L constitutes “ a satisfactory basis • for reducing this matter to con--5 tract provisions.” At a news conference last Thurs- ' day, Carey insisted that any chang- • es in wage payment plans should ■ be subject to arbitration. Blasier ’ declared at the same tirhe that the company would not agree to this. Blasier and Carey are meeting at the request of federal mediation director Joseph F. Finnegan, who contended that the settlement proposals of the mediators “are sound.” ''Li ■ 1 i ri i ini ri Elkhart Banker Is Speaker Last Night Joint Meeting Held By Lions, Rotarians Lewis Armstrong, president of the St. Joseph Valley bank at Elkhart, presented an interesting and highly informative picture of "Industrial development” at a joint dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Armstrong, a native of near Geneva, and former Decatur bank employe, is also vice president of the Indiana bankers association. The Elkhart- bank executive, quoting views of leading economists of the nation, pointed out these economists are painting continued tremendous growth in the;, nation’s productive output, with almost fantastic increases in individual incomes. Armstrong cited the highly diversified industrial pattern which has been developed in Elkhart and gave a detailed outline of the value of such diversification to a community’s well being. The speaker also outliijed some of the needs of a community in seeking new industries, highly important now because Os the almost universal trend of locating factories in smaller dties because of housing and traffic problems, the realization of the growing import- , 9 •- -L & *

Wilson Claims New Military Stability Defends Military Policies Os Nation WASHINGTON (INS) — Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson claimed a new stability for American military strength today and said nothing foreseeable can impair U.S. ability to inflict “vast destruction” on Russia. The Pentagon chief, in an adi dress prepared for the national press club, charged that “feast and famine policies . . . not so long ago were weakening our armed forces and squandering public money and effort.” He conceded that Russia may have gotten ahead of the U.S. in ' certain missiles, but said “no recent development and no foreseeable development will basically i change" America’s deterrent mil- : itary position. Wilson said: “Deliberately we have shifted the entire defense effort away from arbitrary, unrealistic, short-range goals to longrange objectives adjusted to expected needs . . . We have the tremendously strengthening factor of stability.” The secretary apparently was referring to military planning under the Truman administration for a “year of greatest! danger,” at one ► time set for 1955-56, and also deU tending the neM aircraft budget, * which Is somewhat below last t year’s. The “year, of greatest danger” s policy was abandoned ta favor of i the “long pull” shortly after the Eisenhower administration took » office . r Answering critics who have call- - ed for more funds to increase B-52 - jet bomber and other military s plane production, Wilson said: “It ’ would be a serious error to return > to policies that inflate our -defense ; requirements today and collapse j them tomorrow. : ”Mdre> specifically, we should not race far ahead today in air- . craft production, only to close . down the plants tomorrow or so reduce their production that their operation will become erratic and independable,’’ jL,., . Wilson contended that "w have today, and we win have for the foreseeable future, the capability of inflicting vast destruction upon any aggressor anywhere in the .world,” and that “thbS capability t cannot be thwarted.” He said: “Retaliatory force of! vast proportions can be applied regardless of massive surprise at-1 tacks on our country and regard-1 less of defensive maneuvers of the aggressor . . . This fact is the key deterrent to war.” Says Big Business Runs Administration Wickard Speaks At Democratic Rally AUBURN, Ind. (INS)—Former secretary of agriculture Claude R, Wickard charged Monday night that big business and monopoly are ruling the Eisenhower administration. Wickard, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States senator, addressed a Democratic rally at- Auburn. The speaker said that President Eisenhower has named men to the cabinet and other powerful adpnta’istrative posts who are representatives of or at least in sympathy with big business, adding: “For the first time in history, we have had what has been termed a millionaire cabinet, all. of whom seem to feel that big business should be permitted or even encouraged to get bigger an<t more powerful while small business gets smaller and smaller.” Wickard also criticized Ike’s appointments of persons who regulate industries and utilities, saying:! “The Eisenhower administration in this category has followed the principle which has been likened to (Continued On Page Five) f

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Seen As Test For Stevenson And Kefauver First Primary Os Election Campaign Drawing Interest MANCHESTER, N. H. (INS)-— A logging boss in the tiny White Mountain hamlet of Minefield today cast the first vote of the 1956 presidential campaign when he dropped his ballot into a cracker box under the light of an oil lamp. First man to vote in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primaries was Elmer Annis, logging boss and Coos county Republican leader. The New Hampshire primaries were under close scrutiny across the country as the arena for a test of strength between former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois and Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee in the Democratic primaries. President Eisenhower has no | opposition in the preferential phase of the Republican primary. ' Stevenson took the only two 1 Democratic votes cast in Mills- ’ I field. Republicans gave their two votes to President Eisenhower. early-vp|ing mountain I j conrrnunity was Ellsworth, where the President was given five , votes, with one blank ballot cast. f Write-In votes for vice presiden- , tial preference marked the EHs- ( worth contest. Vice President Richard Nixon got one’ write in vote, as did New Hampshire’s Re- , publican Senator Styles Bridges. ‘ Clear, cool weather prevailed t for the primary and led to revi- ( siotr tjf the estimated state wide > vote. Observers now expect about , 120,000 to turnout, Lack of a •brisk Republican contest, howt ever, wm expected to keep the . vote below the 1952 record of , 136,159. > Highlights oft he primary were: ■ 1. Brisk fight for 12 delegates with eight votes to the Democratic national convention between U. S. Senator Estes Kefauver of Tennessee and former Governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. 2. Write-in sentiment for vice president. ~ J „ President Eisenhower was running unopposed on the preference ballot and was expected to get all 14 GOP convention delegates. Os the 48 candidates on the Republican ballot, seven were favorable to U. S. Senator William F. Knowland of California and one to Chief Justice Earl Warren of the supreme court. Their names were entered before Mr. Eisenhower officially announced he was willing to seek a second term. Stevenson- by-paesed—-New Hampshire, but Ids backers filed a full slate of delegates “favorable” to the 1952 Democratic presidential nominee. The Stevenson candidates included most of the state's most prominent Demo-, cratic leaders and office holders. Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (INS)—The house voted overwhelmingly today to postpone for another year scheduled reductions In tax rates on corporation income, alcoholic beverages, cars, gasoline and clgarets. The bill, which now goes to the senate, will save the government an estimated $3 billion in the coming year. WASHINGTON (INS) — The army today issued a request for 12,000 draftees in May, doubling the rate of in- , 'ductions established for the first five months of this year. The army said that as a result of the increased draft, it will be possible to grant releases to about 8,000 soldiers In June, a month before their service terms are scheduled v to end. - •”'L'.