Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1956 — Page 1

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NEWEST RUSSIAN JET FIGHTER . ' ; • - -£z«> ip > , rww 't 1 • '4 ! MB •■■ W • SSjft •< > JcCki./i- : y>'7<RK^ y . <x^SwwTO%<aiMF' 1 I ■ . ■•■ HEIRE ARE TWO VIEWS ot the “Flashlight,” Russia’s newest allweather jet fighter. The craft is a gwept wing, twin jet, dual placed fighter. It gives the appearance of being an effective interceptor. These pictures are from Naval Aviation, an official publication.

Supreme Court May Hand Down New Decisions Court Meets Today After Two Weeks Os Decision Writings WASHINGTON (INS) — The supreme court today upheld a 1954 law permitting courts and congressional committees to compel testimony from fifth amendment witnesses by offering them immunity. The 7-2 decision affirmed the contempt conviction of William Ludwig Ullman, named in congressional testimony as .a key member of a world war two espionage ring in Washington. WASHINGTON (INS — The rupreme court meets today after two weeks of decision writings and may hand down a series of rulings involving Communists and investigations of communism. It is expected to rule on whether it will review conviction of two men as being party members with knowledge of the Communist aim to overthrow the government by force and violence. They are Irving Junius Scales, North Carolina Communist leader, who was sentenced to six years, and Claude Mack Lightfoot ot Chicago, who received a five year prison term. Both have been party officials. They were prosecuted under the “membership” clause of the Smith act—a section never tested in the high court. In their appeals they, challenge the constitutionality of the membership section and argue also that it is nullified by a provision in the more recent internal security act that even being an officer in a subversive organisation is not in itself an offense. 0 Included among several cases awaiting decision are: 1. Pennsylvania’s appeal against that state’s supreme court ruling that sedition is exclusively a fed:. _ eral matter, and that the law under which Steve Nelson, Pittsburgh Communist leader, was convicted is unconstitutional. Nelson was found guilty in a lower court and sentenced to 20 years in prison under the state sedition law. After the state’s high court overruled the conviction. Penn sylvania officials appealed. Nelson also received a five-year sentence in federal court under ’ the Smith act. and has another appeal pending. 2. A test of" the 1954 act requiring that testimony be given in federal courts under immunity from prosecution. In a New York court. William Ludwig Ullman — named by former red spy courier Elizabeth Bentley in 1947 as having bene a source bf information while he was a wartime army air corps major — refused to testify and was given a six-month term sentence for corrtempt of court. He appealed the conviction. 3. A question of whether the Chief Executive can extend secur(Contlnued- on Pare Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight, a little colder southeast. Tuesday mostly cloudy, occasional showers south by afternoon or night. Occasional rain north portion. Low tonight 30-38 -a—., north. 384 S south. High Tuesday 42-90 north to the 90s extreme south.

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Governor Offers To Debate Democrats Grills Is First To Accept Challenge INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Arrangements for Governor George N. Craig to meet his Democratic critics - face—to face were being made today. The governor has offered to debate his own administration with the eight-Democratic aspirants for governor on _a television program, adding: “Most of these anonymous men have claimed that the Craig administration is the issue of this compaign. I am happy o accept that issue and to debate it With them." Nelson Grills, Marion county Democratic chairman, was the first of his party’s hopefuls to accept the governor’s challenge, but he suggested that he and timohers face one by one. Qrills, an -Indianapolis attorney, said: “All good Hoosiers know that it is easier for one person to catch a greased pig than a lot of people. Governor Craig spoke disparagingly about the knowledge of government of the Democratic candidates. I can’t speak for all of the Demo eratic candidates, but I was working in State government When Governor Craig was parlaying his ability to parade and party into a political jackpot." Grills suggested that there be six subjects for debate: The general attitude of both political parties toward the people. Spending and axing. Education. Toll roads and highways. A labor program for the state. What can state government do for the farmer. Another Democratic aspirant for governor, state senator Matthew E. Welsh, of Vincennes, also jumped into the fray, saying: “It seems to me that governor Craig’s current fight is with the (Continued on F«<« Six) Young Couple Admit Wholesale Forgeries Three Os Worthless Checks Cashed Here INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—Wholesale forgeries were admitted by a young Chicago couple held in jail in Indianapolis today. Frederick L. Hile. 27, and his wife. Leslie, 25, were seized in Bedford Saturday after allegedly cashing checks totaling several thousand dollars in more than 40 Indiana counties since last November. Among the counties in which they operated was Adams county where three of the fraudulent checks were cashed at the Schafer store and Meyer’s Home and 'Auto Supply in Decatur and the Mennonite Book Concern in Berne. Prosecution will be started in Decatur if the couple is released without conviction from the Bedford episode. They said they had intended to cash just one more Worthless check in Bedford before returning to Chicago. The couple maintained the check spree was staged because of large doctor bills Tor Mrs Hile’s daughter by another v marriage. The couple chose a children’s Clothing store in Bedford and were seized after trvfng to pav for a child's coat with an SB7 eheck signed by a fictitious "Rev. H. Willis.” -

Former Soviet Official Says Revolt Looms Declares Campaign Against Stalin Is Breakdown Signal WASHINGTON (INS) — A former Soviet intelligence officer declared today that the current Communist campaign to denounce Joseph Stalin means “the revolution of the Russian people against the Soviet system has begun.” Nikolai E. Khokhlov, who left Russia two years ago and says he has maintained close contact with underground sources within the country, gave his views in a copyrighted interview with U.S. News and World Report. Khokhlov said the Communist party congress held in February “openly and publicly confirmed that dictatorship cannot exist any longer in the Soviet Union.” ■ He added: "Without publicly saying so. it actually confessed the complete bankruptcy of the Soviet system." The former intelligence officer said the action of the central committee showed that the rulers can no longer control the people by methods of dictatorship. Khokhlov said: “So they have taken what appears to them to be the only way jnit: They have denounced one-man dictatorship and tried to make Stalin the scapegoat tor all the troubles of the Soviet people. “They are trying desperately to shift the blame for the intolerable conditions off their own shoulders. And they are trying to offer the people some hope that maybe things now are really going to change for the better.” Khokhlov predicted the Russian leaders “will probably succeed” in fooling the masses “for a while.” Then he declared: “The people of the Soviet Union, sooner or later—and I think soon—are going to rise up and free themselves from Communist rule.” » ,- : L___LLL* Cancer Crusade To Start Next Monday Annual Drive For Funds Is Planned The 1956 cancer crusade starts next Monday, April 2, throughout the United States, Miss Joan Wemhoff, president of the Adams county cancer society said today. Cannisters will be placed in stores in Decatur, Berne, Monroe and Geneva and also in industrial plants, to receive contributions, it was announced. The Adams county society receives SI,OOO from the Decatur Community fund and the balance of the county’s quota to the state and national societies is derived from the cannister contributions. Ajpril 15,1 s designated as cancer Sunday and churches of the county will be asked to assist in the annual drive for funds. Adams county’s quota for 1956 is $2,995. The slogan for this year’s campaign is “Fight Cancer with a checkup and a check.’’ Mrs. Walter Schindler, Berne, is chairman for the fund drive in that city and she will ba assisted by the Berne Girl Scout troops. In Geneva, Mrs. Harold Zimmerman is chairman and she is being aided in the drive by the Mother’s Study club. The society locally assists cancer patients who do not have sufficient funds of their own and the group also has a hospital bed with is used by cancer patients in their homes. In addition to this part of the program, each year the society furnishes the latest circulars and news pertaining to advancement in the control of the disease to all school children of the county. The cancer message also is taken to many service Clubs and women’s organizations by means of motion pictures and speakers. Heart Attack Fatal To British Actor HOLLYWOOD (INS) —British actor Robert NeWton whose characterization of the chanty-singing perglegged pirate, John Silver, in “Treasure Island” made him a favorite with a generation of youngsters, is dead. Newton, 40, died Sunday of a heart attack in fiis west Los AnTteles home. His wife, the former Holly wood publicist Vera Budnik, said they wefe Ulktng quietly when Newton suddenly clutched his chest and slumped in his-chair.

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Senate Leader - — — —-i- -1 Pledges Speed On Farm Bill Urges Eisenhower Listen To Advice From Congressmen WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate Democratic leader Lyndon Johnson promised today that the Democrats will “do everything we can” to speed final passage ot the controversial farm bill. The Texas Democrat said he hopes -President Eisenhower wttt “listen to the advice of congress and to’ the advice of the farmers who seem to be making their feelings abundantly clear’’ before de ciding whether to accept the bill. Johnson told newsmen: “The President seems to be getting a lot of, advice on the bill, even though he hasn't had time to see a printed copy of it yet. His secretary of agriculture says the bill is unworkable. H>» chief eco-1 nomic adviser, Gabriel Hauge, says’ it is time to get rid of the smalll farmers anyway. ' “I only hope that before the; President makes his.final decisionj he will listen to the advjce of con- 1 .gress and to the. advice of ehe, farmers who seem to be making their feelings abundantly clear.” Johnson said he and house speaker Sam Rayburn (D Tex), have conferred about the farm measure and “are going to do everything we can to expediate action.” He declined to predict whether the bill could be finish oil before congress starts its 10-day Easter recess Thursday night. President Eisenaower’s hopes for a balanced budget would be wrecked if the senate-approved farm bill should law. — Hog Prices Higher LAFAYETTE. Ind. (INS) — A Purdue University authority said today that an upturn in hog prices because of curtailment in receipts was the highlight of the farm situation during the past two weeks. He is M. Paul Mitchell. Cattle prices were stronger during the week of March 12, but (Continued On Page Five) 149 Persons Nabbed In Narcotics Ring Biggest Roundup In History Os Nation er American flyweight champion fighter Keeny Teran and Billy Anderson. son of comedian Eddie (Rochester) Anderson, were among 149 persons nabbed over the weekend in what authorities called the biggest roundup of drug peddler suspects in the nation’s history. More than. 100 federal, .state, county and city police joined in a series of raids that brought about the arrests plus the seizure of $500,000 worth of heroin and other narcotics. Routine arrests bagged 25 alleged users, making a total of 174 addict and seller suspects jailed from Friday through Sunday. Police said that the baby-faced. 24-year-old Teran was the “trigger” suspect of the entire group. They described him as ‘‘one of the biggest dealers in town.” Arresting offeiers reported that the former boxer had two ounces of heroin on him, worth SIO,OOO at retail, when he was bagged. He was arrested after Roy Wells, state narcotics inspector, allegedly paid him S6OO as a “down payment” for the drug. Anderson, former Compton college track star, told police he was arrested while in the army in a narcotics case in 1952 and was given a two-year suspended sentence and placed on probation for five years in federal court in Louisville, Ky. r # _ ,— ——:

I five Persons Hurt In Accident Sunday Autos Sideswipe North Os Decatur Five persons are patients in the Adams county memorial hospital Suffering injuries sustained in an accident at about 6 a.m. Sunday on U.S. highway 27 about two. and a half miles north of Decatur. The injured are James A. McBride, 40, of Decatur, driver of one of the cars involved, who sustained a cut over the left eye and a laceration on his leg: Donald Dale, 21. also of Decatur, the other driver, bruises on his knees and leg lacerations, and. three passen- . gers in the Dale car. Carl Irwin of Decatur, owner of the car, a possible back injury; Margery Dailey. 16, of Willshire. 0., route one. abrasions on the face, laceration of the right eyelid and loose teeth, and Catherine Dailey, 19, Os the same address, lacerations on the left arm and abrasions on the face. None is in serious condition. The accident occurred when Dale drove to the left of the cenI ter line. Mcßride, who was travelling north on his way to work, j saw the approaching Dale vehicle ;Lta the wrong lane and tried to £ swerve out of his path. | He was unable to avoid the col- ■ lision, however, and the vehicles y aidetwiped. The cars werg carried almost 360 feet from the point of impact. The Mcßride car was then overturned in the ditch. Both vehicles were totally demolished. About $25 damage was done to the fence pn the Robert Rice property. A shoe which one of the girls was wearing landed on the porch of the Rice home and the two girls were thrown from the car and landed just beneath the dining room window of the home. Dale was arrested on a charge of driving to the left of the center .■ line. He will appear in city court later Investigating officers were > sheriff Merle Affolder, deputies Charles Arnold and Roger Singleton and state trooper Al Coppes. Another Accident Another accident which occurred at 10:30 a.m. Sunday on a county road southw-est of Berne was reported to the sheriff’s office. A car driven by Jerry Wayne Thompson, 17, of Bluffton route one, was totally demolished when it skidded out of control and overturned. No one was injured. Holy Week Services i - p 1L !■ Evening Services Thursday-Saturday The schedule of services for Holy Week at St. Mary’s Catholic church including .Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday was announced Sunday. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday all services will be held in the evening and there will be no morning mass. The Holy Thursday Mass wilLbe at 5 p. m. Com munion will be distributed during and after mass. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is scheduled following the mass until midnight Services and veneration of the cross on Good Friday will begin at 5 p. m. Communion will also be distributed during these services. On Saturday beginning at 11 p. m. will be the Easter vigil service. The Easter mass will begin at midnight. On Easter Sunday masses will be at 7:30, 9 and 10:15 a. m. There will be no mass at 6 p. m. Sunday. Confessions will 'be heard from 2:30 to 4:30 p. m and at 7 p. m. Wednesday, from ..2 to 4 p. m. Thursday, .from 2 to 4 p. m. and at 7:30 p. m. Friday and from 2 to 4 p. m. and 7 to 9.p,jm. Saturday.

Cry Political Persecution At Senate Hearing Top Ike Officials Refuse To Testify On Recommendations WASHINGTON (INS) —A cry of political persecution arqse today at a stormy senate hearing where top administration officials again, refused to testify on secret east-west trade recommendations. Commerce secretary Sinclair Weeks told the senate Investigations subcommittee that the adminisration is willing o give it “in executive session, closed to Communist ears” the “whole picture of 1954 trade control revisions” But he and other officials, including defense secretary Charles E. Wilson and acting secretary of state Herbert Hoover Jr., said in a letter that this would not include the working papers of a joint U. S. inter-agency questionnaire. Subcommittee chairman John L. McClellan (D Ark.,) questioning Weeks, Hoover and foreign aid chief John Hollister, “ordered and directed” an’answer tp the question. . t '-rAt this point. Sen. Karl Mundt (R S. D), cried out: “If this is going to a political persecution, I am not going to just sit here. , . This is purely a political rally. I want my chanee to make a stump speech.” McClellan had asked that he be allowed to examine the witnesses without interruption so that the, record could be made clear. He told Mundt: “The Republican side interrupted first. . .1 am not interested In politics.” Sen. George—Bender (R Ohio,) protested at another point that this ’is “a shocking performance when members of the cabinet are not permitted to complete a sentence.” His protest came when McClellan old Weeks he was not interested in a “brief” as to the reason why the administration would not reveal the Inter-agency working papers. -—-4 —; Emil Schladenhauffen Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Wednesday Morning EmtT W: Schladenhauffen. 75. retired Kirkland township farmer, died at 4:10 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Adams county me- i morial hospital after an illness of 10 days of complications,. He was born in Girard, -0., Dec. ’ 12, 1880. a son of Karl and Mary Ann Burkee-Schladenhauffen. and 1 was married at Vera Cruz Dec. 10. ' 1905 to Lillie Feisley. They had 1 resided in Kirkland township 44 years. Surviving hre his wife; three 1 daughters. Miss Esther Schladen- 1 hauffen of Bluffton, Mrs. Edith ' Stultz, at home, and Mrs. Clara Fieehter of Tocsin; five sons. Amos of New Haven. Sam and 1 Warren of Fort Wayne, and Ever- ' ett and Harold of Bluffton; 16 _ erandchildren; a sister. Mrs. ‘ Mary Governor of Venice, Calif.. < and two brothers, Sam and Louis j Schladenhahffen, both of Girard. O. One son, two brothers and one sister preceded him in death, i Funeral services will be con- ’ ducted at 10 a. m. Wednesday at I the home, one-half mile south of the former Kirkland high school, end at JO:80 a. m. at the Apos- ‘ tolic Christian church, the Rev. 1 Samuel Aeschliman officiating. 1 Buriat will be in the church cetne- < tery. The body was removed to the Jahn funeral home and will be taken to the residence, where 1 friends may call after 5 o’clock J this evening. * !

Westinghouse And UE Sign Contract Five-Year Contract Is Accepted Sunday PITTSBURGH (INS) — Westinghouse is on the road to full production following the end of-a five-month strike by the independent United (Electrical Workers Um ion. « ; The UE’s 38-member conference board accepted a five-year contract Sunday night in Pittsburgh. But the strike at the company’s Lester plant, near Philadelphia, will continue untn S local Issue Is settled. Some 6000 employes are involved. Originally about 10,000 workers represented by the UE struck’ ten plants. The new contract palls for essentially the same terms as those accepted last week by the AFL.CIO International Union of Electrical Workers, whose 44,000 members had struck 30 plants last Oct; 17. UE Local 107 at Lester had walked off the job last Oct. 14, about two weeks before other units, because of a dispute-over incentive pay: Officials of Local 107 ara expected to meet with management today in ah attempt to settle the strike. Local president Carl Gray has charged that the Company "refuses to settle the Lestaf dispute on any basis other than unconditional surrender to its demand for a completely revised wage system.” He said this would mean an average 20 per cent wage cut for each worker. Indiana Parade To Fast Time Started More State Cities Will Change Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Indiana’s parade to fast time began Sunday and will continue during the next few weeks, with southwest Indiana a possible holdout. Cities that changed to daylight savings time Sunday included South Bend. Mishawaka, Plymouth, Bremen, LaPorte, Knox and Kokomo. The next switcheroo will take place on Easter Sunday, April 1 and cities affected will include Rensselaer, Monticello and Monon. On the following day, April 2, fast time will start for Rochester, Logansport, Lafayette, Frankfort, Crawfordsville, Greencastle, Attica, Delphi, Winamac, Fowler, When Chicago changes to fast time on April 29, Gary, Hammond and other northwest Indiana cities will follow suit The little town of Santa Claus will move up the clocks on May 6. -- - . The Peru city council will consider the vexatious time issue at a meeting April 2. That city now is on slow time. At Evansville, city referendum on time, which will be held in connection with the May 8 primary election, probably will set the entire pattern for uncertain southwest Indiana. All of eastern Indiana will remain on fast time, according to all indications. Counties comprising the western boundary of this zone are Elkhart, Kosciusko, Wabash. Grant, Tipton, Boone, Hendricks, Morgan. JohnsOh, Shelby, Decatur. ißipley and Jefferson. — ; y- — Six Soldiers Killed In Headon Collision BISBEE. Aris. (INS) —Six soldiers from the army’s Ft. Mahuachuca, signal corps research center, were dead today as the result of a possible deadly game of “chicken.” They were killed when their cars collided head-on. 16 miles from Bisbee. 6ft state highway 92 early Sunday. r

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Seek To Slow UN Decision On Peace Move ■ Newspaper Reports Outright Gift For Israel Is Planned UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —The Arabs at the United Nations moved quickly today to forestall an immediate security council de- . . ! cision on. sending secretary gen- \ eral Dag Hammarskjold to the | MlddleEast as. a trouble shooter ----- | and peace mediator. i The six Arab states at UN — I Syria. Lebanon. Egypt. Jordan, i Yemen, and Saudi Arabia —ached- „„ uled an emergency ipeeting among themselves at 2:00 p.m. (EST) to i maj strategy for a voice in the | security council’s decision of the | Hammarskjold mission. I The security council meets at 13:00 p.m. (EST) to discuss the ; Palestine situation. i The Arab states, which have no security council seat, are urging the Soviet Union to champion their demands for participation in debate on a U. S. resolution in granting Hammarskjold.his mandate for a peace mission and fact-finding tour of Israel and the Arab states. Arab and Israeli capitals to talk with the individual leaders. A series of sessions this week, may yet enable the council to pave the way for his mission before April 3. 1 Outright Gift V NEW YORK (INS) — The New York Journal-American said today ' that the United States is preparing to make an outright gift of $4,000.000 to Israel as "concrete proof of our basic friendship." The money is to be used for cultural, scientific and educational purposes, it was revealed in an exclusive interview with Bernard Katzen, New York attorney and special consultant to secretary of state John Foster Dulles. Katzen just returned from a 16day trip to Israel during which he discussed with prime minister David Ben-Gurion and foreign minister ’Moshe Sharett how the $4,000.000 gift was to be allocated. The money was accumulated by the United States in Israel during the past three years through the U. S. Information agency's “Guaranteed Media Program.” Through this program, American book publishers have supplied Israel with $7,000,000 worth of books on subjects dealing with this country. The federal government footed the bill, hut ism. ■ was recoupled by sale of the books to citizens of Israel. This is the money the United States will now give to Israel. The book program was Initiated as a means of “neutralizing" Communist Russia’s book and magazine selling operations in Israel. Since we started our “literary invasion” of Israel, this country is outstripping the Communists in reaching the people of Israel, Katzen declared. A state department spokesman told the Journal - American: "This $4,006,000 gift should be ample evidence that whether our arms-selling policy turns out to be good or bad in the eyes of the Israelites, it has nothing to do with our basic friendship toward them. & “It's obvious that when secretary Dulles sends a special ernis(Continued on Page Five) Bedford Man Freed ’ In Fatal Shooting BEDFORD. Ind. (INS) —Elmer Robertson, 76, was freed today in the fatal shooting of hjs son-in-law, Bart Mitchner, 46. - -- - » Police said Mitchner was drunk and began firing at the older man near Helton ville- after demanding to take his estranged wife home.' Robertson was wounded slightly. • . —■■