Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 66, Decatur, Adams County, 19 March 1956 — Page 1

Vol. I,IV. No, 66.

RADAR POST NEARS COMPLETION ■ irWi EuH ■ THE TEXAS TOWER PLATFORM built to serve as an early warning radar station for the U. S. Air Force is nearing completion off the coast of New England. This is one of the first of the tower showing the radomes inflated. A United States Air Force helicopter is visible on the deck of the tower platform.

Secy. Dulles. x ; Finishes Tour Os Far East Tells Japan U. S. Is Not Necessarily Opposed To Trade TOKYO (INS) — U. 8. secretary of state John Foster Dulles, ending a tour of the Far East, was reliably reported today' to have told Japan** leaders that America is “not necessarily” opposed to Japan's expansion of trade with Red China. " Highly-placed government informants said Dulles expressed this view during a 90-tnlnute meeting with premier Ichiro Hatoyama and other top officials prior to his. departure for the U.S. At the airport, Dulles declared that his talk with Japanese leaders was marked by "mutual confidence” which “advanced still further” joint efforts of the two nations toward "future peace and human welfare.” Informants said that Dulles made his statements on trade with Communist China in response to Hatoyama’s sounding out the American secretary on prospects of easing the free world trade em(Continued on Page Six) Malenkov To Meet With Anthony Eden May Explain Recent Attacks On Stalin LONDON (INS) — Georgi Malenkov was to meet this afternoon with British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden. Diplomatic circles speculated earlier that such a meeting would take place and Malenkov might "explain” the significance of recent Kremlin attacks on Stalin to Sir Anthony. A spokesman at No. 10 Downing St. announced that Malenkov was to see Eden this afternoon. The diplomatic circles also speculated that Malenkov's role at the ■ meeting might be limited to hinting that things were different now in the Soviet Union. Malenkov presumably also would tell Eden that the speech by Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev denouncing Stalin signified the discarding of the Russian policies of the Stalin era end a return to the first principles of Leninism. f The. repudiation of Stalin, may also give Malenkov an opportunity to take an “all Marxists together” approach to British Socialists when he is the guest at .1 Labor party dinner tonight. Diplomatic circles expect that Khrushchev and Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin, who visit Britain next month, will appeal for _ stronger Anglo-Soviet ties while loading the blame for as many past mistakes as possible on Stalin. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and eold tonight Tuesday fair and warmer. Low tonight IMO north, 20-25 south. High Tuesday 44-52.

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Annual Girl Scout Program Held Here Capacity Crowd At Community Center A capacity crowd attended the annual Girl Scout Juliette Lowe program marking the 44th anniversary of the national organization Sunday afternoon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Main speaker of the day was Mrs. Arthur Sleimons, of Indianapolis, who took a troop of Girl Scouts to Europe last summer. She described the plans and activities which led to the trip and also told about the troop's experiences in the nine countries they visited. Also a feature of the Sunday afternoon program was the presentation by each girl of a penny for each year of ner age. The amount collected in this manner is sent each year to the world friendship fund. Mrs. Doyle Collier, president of the Decatur Girl Scout council, introduced the girls who will represent Decatur at the national Girl Scout round-up in Pontiac, Mich., this year. The girls are Twanette Magley, Sarah Eichenhauer, Jane Bedwell and Connie Baxter, with Judy Rhodes and Deanna Small as alternates. The adult leaders In charge of round-up plans are Mrs. Kenneth Small and Mrs. Robert I Railing. I The local girls were selected on the basis of Girl Scouts and camping skills and knowledge of American tradition and folklore. The four will form a patrol with four other girls from Fort Wayne, Mrs. Lowell Harper, chairman of the Little House project which Is promoting completion of the shelter house at Hanna-Nuttman park, reviewed plans of the committee (Continued on Pare Five) Mrs. Nell Buck Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Wednesday Morning ——r *' — —.'.~7. ——- : » Mrs. Nell Buck. 73, retired retail clerk, died at 1:30 o’clock this morning at the South View nursing home at Bluffton. Death was attributed to heart failure and was unexpected, although she had been in failing health for the past three years. She was born Sept. 8, 1882, in Champaign, 111., a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Killer. She made her home here with a brother-in-law, Frank Gillig, until becoming ill. Her husband, Charles Buck, preceded her in death. ' Mrs. Buck was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Rosary society. One daughter also preceded her in death. Only survivors are several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. SSimetz officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed to the iGilllg and Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o'clock this evening until time of the serviceß. The Roeary society will meet at the funeral home at I j. a. efal home at 8 p. m. Tuesday. —-*■■■

Westinghouse, | Union Leaders In Agreement Compromise Plan On Lengthy Strike Is Up To Council WASHINGTON (INS) — Union and management officials were disclosed today to have agreed on a new five-year work contract which is expected to end the 155day Westinghouse Corp, strike. The compromise settlement plan is subject to approval by the 75-man Westinghouse conference board of the AFL-CIO International Union of Electrical workers. The board will meet in Washington at 8 o’clock (EST) tonight to vote on it. Belief that the board will approve the settlement is based on reports that IUE president James B. Carey, who conducted the negotiations on behalf of the union, will recommend adoption. The new work contract dates from last Oct. 15, and calls for a three percent pay raise annually for the five-year period, with a minimum boost of 25 cents an hour during that time. It will affect 44,000 IUE members. The company negotiating team, headed by AVestinghodsfe vice president Robert D. Blaster, is said to have accepted the new contract. It was wirtten by a three-man panel of federal mediators in weekend conferences with company and upion groups. The settlement plan reportedly ’ calls for screening at the local ' plant level of chargee against 36 workers discharged by the company for strike violence. Cases of those not reinstated through the screening would be submitted to arbitration. Disposition of the charges * against these strikers was said to ' have been the biggest last-minute stumbling block in the way of a 1 settlement plan. , . £ Other terms of the proposed * settlement are said to include: . A plan for time studies by the company of the work of non-incen-tive employees, with a permanent ' umpire set up to arbitrate work - standards .established for not more than 3,000 employees engag--1 ed in direct production operations. , Authority on the part of the union to reopen supplementary plant contracts annually for wage negotiations, with the union allowed the right to strike if agreements are not reached. Power to ‘ reopen the contract on a nationwide basis at any time for discussion of non-economic issues, without the right of the union to strike. Freedom on the part of the (Continued on Page Five) Minnesota Primary Scheduled Tuesday Report Kefauver Is Making liyroads MINNEAPOLIS (INS) — Adlai E. Stevenson returns to Minnesota today for a final appeal to the voters in Tuesday’s narrowing Democratic presidential primary election. Stevenson's opponent, Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) had to give up the field to return to Washington to vote on the farm bill, but Kefauver lieutenants kept up hte battle in bis behalf. ... .. It appeared that the campaign which began as a Stevenson "blitz” — organized by Democrat-ic-farmer-labor party leaders — was closing with real uncertainty. Front-running Stevenson was still favored to win most of the state’s <57 delegates being chosen on Tuesday, but no one knew what effect Kefauver’s person-to-person campaign technique was having. He swept the New Hampshire primary last Tuesday, defeating a Stevenson slate of delegates in an election which Stevenson personally had boycotted. The senator left Minneapolis last night with a prediction that he would carry four or five of Minnesota’s nine congressional districts and that, given good weather and a big vote turnout, he had a “real chance to carry the state.** Gen. Orville L. Freeman, a Stevenson sponsor, revised his victory prediction from 3-to-l to “somewhere between 2 and 3-to-l.” Appearing on the NBC-TV show, "Meet the Press,’* Sunday, Freeman said be was less confident of a sweeping Stevenson victory because of the throat of independent and Republican voters moving into the primary to vote for Kefauv■er. ■' 1 ‘ . ... .. - -----V. 1 ft

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 19, 1956.

Eisenhower Asks For Five Billion Dollars In Foreign Aid Funds 4 — ......... . . '

■■Tri New Blizzards ; Hit New York, New England Foot Os Snow Adds To East Coast Woes Os Transportation NEW YORK (INS) —An end-of-winter blizzard dumped up to k foot of snow on large areas of trig East Coast today, crippling New York, Boston and much of New England. Transportation in the nation’* largest metropolis was seriously snarled as nearly a foot of heavily drifting snow piled atop Friday s 4.6 inch snowfall. A partial state of emergency was decreed in Boston and Mayor John Hynes ordered the police department to prepare roadblocks for a possible order to turn back all nonessential motor traffic into the hub city. : ~ The new snow in New York, coming only a day before the advent of spring, was the heaviest since 1948. Surface and underground transportation was delayed and thousands of city’s oommutera walked part way to work. .1Thousands of New York City firemen, policemen and sanitation department workers were thrown into the huge task of trying to keep streets open for travel on aa around-the-clock basis. Police set up rescue operations with chain-equipped radio cars and patrol wagons and also called on the transit authority which -proviced five buses for shuttle service to pickup points. Sweeping into the Middle and North Atlantic States from West Virginia, the storm, with winds ranging up to 40 miles an hour, forced police to close parkways and other expressways. Thousands of motorists bogged down on Long Island and had to be evacuated from their snowbound cars. The New York Central railroad, reported that service had been suspended into New York on the Harlem division beyond White Plains, where an electrical breakdown blocked the tracks. ..... Through N.Y.C. trains from the west were delayed up Jo two hours, with only the Commodore Vanderbilt reported on time. The crack 20th Century Limited was running an hour late and the Ohio State Limited was delayed two hours. The New York transit authority reported many of its subway trains were running late and many divisions were temporarily out of service for much of the morning rush hour period. Outside of New York City, the automobile club of New York reported highways in Nassau and Suffolk counties blocked by drifts. Westchester county parkways traffic halted by ice and snowdrifts or moving slowly. In Connecticut, the club said the Merritt parkway was covered wttn ice and snow drifts and in New Jersey many highways and the New (OonUnueu on Page Six)

6:36 p. m. on U. 8. klghwt Lenten Meditai’ “X »" S"‘ tiler of Monroe route tt <■, R.v. Louis Klot.b.ub, St. Paul *J*» BEING A WIT«X“ ...Lb “"JWX It was the object of God in calling th.* them his "peculiar people” to secure the “ a not be left without a witness. The Israe * wo T e .S. .7* > A-p« as a light in a dark world .. . giving a c‘~*Y_ at J* 6 0 testimony for God. They were His witnesses and 'confessor* even to torture and death. “ ~- — -4. \i Christianity has much to tell in this present day. It forms a second witness and a wider, fuller, and deeper testimony because of Christ. - “Te are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: That ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am ne: f>exn« me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after m<”' God Is still depending upon us as Christians to be His witnesses. ft is our duty and our privilege to tell others of Him.

Jke Braves Snowy Roads To Return Washington Return Delayed By Storm WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower braved slippery, snowy packed highways today to return to Washington from a weekend at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm. The Chief Executive arrived back at the White House at 11:30 , a. m. (EST), after a two hour (and 25 minute drive from Gettysburg; where he bad been since last Friddy. 'Chains were put on the President's car for the first portion of the trip, from Gettysburg to Frederick, Md. The highway from Frederick to Washington was slushy but cleared of heavy snow. The party included Gen. Alfred M. Gfjuenther, supreme allied commander in Europe: William E. Robinson, president of Coca-Cola; and Maj. Gen. Howard Snyder, the President’s physician. TheTFirst Lady and her mother, Mrs. John S. Doud, remained at the farm. A conference with acting secretary of state Herbert Hoover Jr., was rescheduled for 2:30 p. m. (EST). Adm. Lewis W. Strauss, * chairman of the atomic energy commission, had his appointment postponed until ' Mr. Eisenhower is expected to * discuss the crisis in the Middle 1 East with Hoover and William H. Jackson, his recently appointed i special adviser on foreign policy I coordination. Two major problems involving the crisis are whether — and how — to lay the ten.se Israeli-Arab controversy before the United Nations, and whether to agree to sell arms to Israel for defense. Purdue To Receive Huge Project Bids LAFAYETTE. Ind. (INS) —Purdue University will open bids on March 29 for a huge housing project to cost nearly |6 million It will include 946 apartments for married students and 69C units for single male students. The project will be on State street from the west edge of the campus to the Purdue airport road. Local Man's Brother Dies At Ligonier Ray F. Mathew. 62, of Ligonier, died unexpectedly Sunday. He had been in ill health for some time but his death was sudden. Surviving are his widow, Hila; two sons, Richard and Robert, both of Ligonier; two grandchildren; two brothers, Albert Mathew of Decatur and C. H. Mathew of Lima. 0., and two sisters. Mrs. Martha Wiseman of Van Wert, O„ and Mrs. Nellie Cowgill of Ohio City. O. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the UlreySedgwick funeral home in Ligonier, the ing. Burj aiig* property damai cemeteryg injuries were cag«ed to into Aoltetan Sunday .1

Cyprus Council Assails Exile Os Archbishop Denounces Charges ‘ Archbishop Back Os j Cypriot Violence ) NICOSIA (INS) — The anarchy r council of Cyprus today denounced - British charge* that deported * Archbishop Makarios was in back of Cypriot violence on the eastern - Mediterranean island. t The council, in *• 3,000-word . memorandum on the deportation, ! said "Britain’s allegations concernt ing the archbishop’s connivance with violence are not supported by , any proof that would be acceptable in any court of justice." The council added, "that perhaps explains why exile was preferred to a trial.’’ 2. . The British shipped the archbishop, spiritual leader of hte Cy- ' priot drive for union with Greece, to the Seychelle islands In the Indian Ocean. The deportation touched off ri- > ots in Greece and increased violence on Cyprus. . Meanwhile, British security forf cas resumed hunt for four masked t terrorists who invaded a church Sunday and shot to-death a Cypriot s choir slhger. e The Brltisn also are hunting for * the terrorists responsible for a 1 series of attacks on the security V forces and civilians during the weekend. < The masked then appeared days ing the regular Sunday morning ’ service and forced the congrega- * tion of 40 persons to face the wall 1 as they killed the singer. The chorister was singled out by the men who shot him without concern for the screams of horrified worshipers. The incident took place In a church in thetown of Kythrea, about eight miles north of Nicosia. Meanwhile, British Governor Sir , John Harding declared that the western world will benefit from (Continued on Page Five) - V-" , Mrs. Geo. Wemhoff Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services Wednesday Morning Mrs. Osa M. Wemhoff, 77, widow of George E. Wemhoff, died suddenly at 10 o’clock Sunday night at her home, 309 North Eighth street. Although she had beenjn failing health for a number of years, her death was unexpected. A lifelong resident of Decatur, she "Was born in this city Aug. 22, 1378. a. daughter of W. H. and Phebe Mathewson-FranceShe was married Jan. 12, 1897, to George E. Wemhoff. Her husband, prominent monument deal~rdinp>r'cuuarwn. nay waftStth „ jail by the sheriff's departmei * . When* he is being held under $5 * bots- ■ ray „ —.—— on ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■aauMSieeaea - ■ ■.< ■ , ' ~ NOTICE *• All Flight Instructions • will be Discontinued at ver our Airport on Hi<hjir Wd/27. is* Official Notice will be • r given' when InsfrMipna St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The Rosary society will meet at the funeral home at 8:30 p. m. Tuesday.

.J -- - ' n U Hospital Petition Approved By Board Bond Issue Approved By Commissioners A resolution approving the $450.- - 000 bond issue to finance improvement of the Adams county memorial hospital was adopted by the county commissioners at their regular meeting today. The commissioners accepted the f resolution adopted by the hospital 1 board of trustees showing the ne--1 cessity for enlarging the hospital i and requesting funds tor this puri pose. Also filed was the petition by 3780 owners of taxable real estate 1 in Adams county requesting the is- , suance of bonds to provide the • funds for the hospital project. s In approving the bond issue the ' commissioners also approved the i ordinance that states that the bonds shall bear Interest at a rate i not exceeding three per cent per I annum and shall be payable as follows: SIO,OOO on July 1, 1957: $lO.- - 000 on Jan. 1 and July 1 in the - years 1958 to 1967 inclusive, and > $12,000 on Jan. 1 and July 1 in ■ the years 1968 to 1977 inclusive. The appropriation called for by - the commissioners at the request ' of the hospital board is now subject to the approval of the Adams u county council and the state board 1 of tax commissioner*. ‘ 1 A Special session <jf the county 1 council hue been* called tor April 6 and 7 for the purpose of authorizr ing the additional appropriation a and the bond issue. Legal notices r of the council meeting will appear e March 21 and 28. Following action by the county ’• council will be a 30-day waiting 8 period. If no remonstrance is filed i- (Continued on Page Six) 1 r Four-Year-Old Boy - Is Blamed For Fire V i I WASHINGTON (INS) — District t of Columbia police have blamed a , four-year-old playing with matches . for a $200,000 apartment house fire r which caused the death of a fire- ► man Thursday. i Police said Sunday the boy told his parents that he set fire to a mattress in the basement of the Randle apartments with a box of matches he and a six-year-old companion found- : Officials said no one could be •legally charged with responsibility for the blaze, which left 125 people homeless. Senate Begins Final Drive To Farm Vote 10th Day Os Voting Is Scheduled Today WASHINGTON (INS)—The senate begins a final drive today to ! bring Its prolonged election - year : fight over farm legislation to a i close. Before beginning its 10th day of • voting on the measure, howeverd .0 JF I ■nt. ijMMB W \sj WHITER TH Ell ARD AS B Silicon* wash < For walls, woodwor l d. hru«h marks, easy to q fat itre SWHWy wSwOifsystem for wheat — opposed by the administration — and then changed the base for figuring parity, the formula on which price supports are figured. Parity is a ratio between the costs of farming and prices received for crops; under the senate amendment, wheat farmers, in particular, would receive more money.

' — l ? Asks Congress To Appropriate Five Billions Special Message To ’ Congress Requests New Foreign Funds j 1 WASHINGTON (INS) — Presi- . dent Eisenhower asked congress to--1 day for nearly $5 billion in new . foreign aid funds. r Mr. Eisenhower coupled his re- , quest with a warning that the chief . purpose of the Soviet Union “is j still to disrupt and in the end to dominate the free nations." i He declared in a special message , that the U. S. must not falter now i in the decade-long effort to build , "peace with justice’’ through mili- • tary and economic aid to other na- . tions. The President asked for author- , ity to spend up to SIOO million a I year for the next 10 years to assist i underdeveloped countries in longterm projects. r This is the controversial proL posal for long-range foreign aid . commitments which already has i touched of fprotegts on Capitol ! Hill. Mr. Eisenhower requested au- , -thority to spend a total of $4,859.I- 975,000 during the 1957 fiscal y ßnr starting July 1. This Includes, howj ever, authorizations granted but 5 not fully used in prior years. - ■ r He asked for new appropriations of $4,672,475,000, compared with f $2.7 billion sought for the current ? fiscal year. 1 Military aid, including defense support assistance, would account for $4,130,700,000 of the spending figure. Direct economic assistance in the Near East, Africa, Asia and Latin America represents only $l7O milt lion of the total. ‘ Another $157.5 million was asked * for the technical cooperation pro- ’ gram. Part or me miinary assistance would go to provide Atlantic Paet allies with the atomic weapons, jet “ planes and guided missiles already ’ in use by American forces. The President discussed at some length the new Soviet policy stressing economic assistance and trade" pacts with other countries. He said the U. S. would welcome this program if there were any reason to believe the Soviet leaders had abandoned their "sinister objectives , . But he pointed out, Russia and its satellites are continuing to build up their armed forces and show no signs of deviating from the Marxian objective of world domination. The President said the foreign aid program' is as indispensable to the security of America as it was when it was launched nine years ago. He said the recent shift in Soviet policy, with a temporary abandonI ment of aggression through force, is "significant testimony” to the I BUCCQSS of _ dr* ******* l w , HaN-AMEIj IAN PORCELAIN IAKED ENAMEL io reinforced to make it as easily as a china dish. rk, furniture ... Leaves na » apply. Your choice of nonJohn D. Harper, general manager of ALCOA’s smelting division, explained that several locations are being considered. He said that no decision wjll be reached until ALCOA has assurance jot an adequate'fuel supply and satisfactory site. An Ohio Valley location is under consideration.

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