Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 31 March 1956 — Page 1

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TANKER BLAST PERILS TEXAS TOWN ■ uu - ■* Ji e ft?"*?' Jp, '44‘-. _^t*lW>—.. . --'I • ■ gaaSuag?. t '’’ S9I &- • ’ fl WHITE HOT FIRE burns aboard the Esso Paterson, 10,000-ton tanker, which exploded while loading kerosene at a refinery at Baytown. Tex., injuring two men and bringing about a disorganized flight such as that which leveled Texas City. The blast by residents of the area who feared another disaster was felt 26 miles away and civil defense organizations, going quickly into action, averted mass hysteria.

Soil Bank Plan Given Approval Os Conferees 1.2 Billion Dollar Plan Approved By Conferees Friday ‘ WASH I NOTO Nl INS) — Senate house conference approval of President Eisenhower’s soil bank gave the administration a major victory today in its bid for an election ■ year farm bill. The conferees, hoping to wind up their work by next Friday, approved the 1.2 billion dollar plan Friday night and also authorized 600 million dollars a year to buy surplus > perlsnable farm commodity. The group delayed a decision unU Ui next week on whether to make the soil bank voluntary, as Mr. ”> Eisenhower has requested, or mandatory, as tfid senate has provided. Under the program, farmers would be paid for taking surplus crops oiit of production. Payments this year would be made by the Commodity Credit Corp., thus making it unnecessary for the administration to ask congress for funds. The purchase of perishable tfroduets, such as beef and pork, is de signed to bolster farm prices. The Agriculture department has about 700 million dollars on hand for this purpose. Conferees, who have met almost every night this week, except that the biggest hurdle to agreement will be the corn and small grains provision of the amnibus farm bill. Besides approving the soil bank financing, agreement was also reached on details of a 450 million dollar conservation reserve, which could run for 15 years. Under this section, farmers would be paid to divert marginal crop lands to soil conservation crops. The conferees adopted elastic dollar ranges for commodity payments under the 750 million dollar four-year soil bank program for reducing production of surplus crops. Limits oil commodities in the emergency program would be: Wheat, 200 to 250 million dollars, corn. 150 to 220 millions, rice, 18 to 20 millions, and tobacco and peanuts. about 15 million dollars. More Polio Vaccine Doses Are Released WASHINGTON (INS) —The publie health service rleeased more than three and one half million doses of Salk polio vaccine Friday, the largest single allocation since the program began almost a year ago. Surgeon general Leonard A. Scheele sai dthat with the release, 43,809,204 Salk shots have been or soon will be distributed to private doctors an dstate and local health << agencies. Overcast But Warm — Is Forecast Easter INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —An overcast but warm dry day awaits Hoosier Easter paraders providing they don’t wait until evening to display their finery. Weathermen florcast showers possible by Sunday night for practically all sections of the state However, the showers will be April ’ variety-light and brief. Despite the' overcast condition forecast, weathermen said temperatures wQI rise to the 60s hroughou Indiana for most of Easter Bunday. . NOON EDITION

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Stevenson Pleased On California Trip Says Fine Meetings Held In California CHICAGO (INS) — Adlai E. Stevenson Friday night termed | his brief California visit “a great trip with some fine meetings.’’ The aspirant tor the Democratic presidential nomination arrived in Chicago late Friday by . plane from San Francisco. He was met by one of his sons, John Fell, 20. They will spend the Easter weekend at their Libertyville, 111., home. Monday Stevenson addresses a Springfield, 111., luncheon sponsored by the Democratic state central committee. Then father and son will go to Florida far a visit of several days. Stevenson said he made the short California campaign trip to answer charges he was “the bos- . sos’ candidate. 4 He added: “Evidently, evgrywho prefers me for president is a boss tn California.” Stevenson plans to resume his California campaign in May for two weeks of campaigning. Kefauver Sees Gain NASHVILLE, Tenn. (INS) — Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who overwhelmed Adlai E. Stevenson in two presidential primaries, believes the former Illinois governor still is the Democratic party’s strongest candidate. Kefauver made the statement Friday on arriving in Nashville for the opening of the Kefauver-for-President headquarters. However, the senator declared ho felt he is gaining on Stevensoh and said he felt his chances iu the coming California primary are “good.” The presidential aspirant advised Stevenson to follow his example of a hand-shaking grassroots campaign. Overturned Tractor Kills Two Children Only Children Os = Couple Are Killed WASHINGTON, Ind. (INS) - A grief-stricken Washington couple today mourned the deaths of their only two children who were crushed beneath an overturned tractor oh a Daviess county farm. Elmer Wilson, 37, a bakery employe, was plowing the farm of his father, Morton Wilson, 10 miles southeast of Washington when the tragedy occurred on Good Friday. His two children, Marilyn Kay, 8, and Eugene Wilson, 11, were riding on the tractor behind their father when the farm equipment struck an object, went out of control at the edge of a field and overturned down a steep hill. The childrep were crushed by the overturning tractor. The father was taken to Daviess county hospital suffering with shock and a shoulder injury. Motorist Killed MADISON, Ind. (INS) — A 26-year-old motorist was killed and six other persons were injured in a three-vehicle crash today .on U.. S. 421 one-half mile north of Madison. Delmare Louis Waddle, 26, of Hanover, was killed when the car he was driving hooked the trailer of a tractor-trailer truck he was trying to pass and spun broadside into the path of an oncoming car. State police said that Waddle was thrown and dragged for some 200 feet In the fatal accident Mary Turner, of Madison, a passenger in Waddle's oar, was believed the only one of the sit In(Coatlnued on Pa«e Five)

Unifed Slates Stands Firm On Arms To Israel l To Withhold Amis From Israel; Eban Appeals For Arms ! WASHINGTON (INS) — The i U. S. stood firm today on its policy to withhold arms to Israel — • at least for the present. , Israeli's Ambassador Abba Eb- ■ an conferred with the state de- . partment Friday for the second : time this week in an effort to get the U. S. to sell Israel 64 million > dollars’ worth of planes and arms. . It was learned, however, that > the U.S. once again rejected the > plea on grounds that further ship- - ments to Israel might inflame the already tense Middle East. Eban met Friday with assistant - secretary, of stpte George V. Allen after conferring Wednesday with s secretary John Foster Dulles, r After Friday’s parley, state department spokesman Lincoln White reiterated the American view—that U.S. shipments to Israel under existing conditions Sould not promote peace in the iddle East. ' This development came amid reports from Paris that France has shipped some of the 12 Myt stere jet fighters destined to be ( sent to Israel. There were also indications that Canada and Britain appear [ to be leaning toward" the idea that ( Israel should, get arms. , Eban reportedly restated his ' contention that Israel needs military equipment to offset Communist sales to Egypt and other Arab countries. ■' Although the envoy was silent about details of his talk with Allen, he said he elaborated on the subjects he had discussed with Dulles. Jordan’s ambassador Abdul Nonem Rifai conferred for about 30 minutes Friday afternoon with Allen, but dismissed the talk as “not of any particular significance." Recent events, including Jordan’s dismissal of Lt. Gen. John Bagot Glubb, organizer of Jordan’s famed Arab Legion, have in(ConUnueo on rear* Btx) Charges American System In Danger Candidate Attacks Eisenhower, Craig CLINTON, Ind. (INS) — Nelson Grills, of Indianapolis, one of Indiana’s eight Democratic gubernatorial candidates, charged that Governor George N. Craig and the man he ‘h’as carefully emulated”— President Eisenhower—are endangering the American system, Nelson, the Marion county Democratic chairman, told a Clinton party rally that Eisenhower and Craig are trying to replace the American democratic system with “an aristrocracy of self-seeking, appointed representatives of big business.” Most of tM attack was aimed at Craig. Grills charged.: “The governor has reorganized the highway department, the department of corrections and the department of health. He has concerned himself particularly wlth fi the division of mental health. He has placed at the heads of these departments, with the exception of the department of health, men and women whose primary loyalties are to their own friends rather than the people of Indiana.”

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Russia Gives Details Os New Proposals For World Disarmament

Capehart And Jenner Endorse Two For Judge Politicians Puzzle Over Endorsement Os Democrat Judge - INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—lndiana politicians puzzled today over the significance of the state’s two Republican senators endorsing a Democrat as one of two mutual candidates for a federal judgeship Separate letters which Senators William E. Jenner and Homer E. Capehart had written to President Eisenhower about the vacancy on the seventh circuit court of appeals at Chicago were made public Friday. Both men agreed upon one Republican—Judge Lynn Parkinson, of Lafayette, now a federal judge in the northern Indiana district ’ But also included on both senatorial lists was the name of a J Democratic judge, Luther Swygert. ’ of Hammond, senior judge of the northern Indiana district. - > Some observers felt the end result would be appointment of Part kinson to tne seventh circuit court I vacancy left by resignation ! Judge J. Earl Major. But unanswered by the letters • was the burning and difficult quesi tion of who is to be named to i the northern Indiana federal dis- - trict vacancy should either Par- » kinson or Swygert bq elevated. > Senator Capehart's letter con tained the names of five other men, I in addition to those of Judges Swy- > gert and Parkinson, but' Senator - Jenner listed only the two names > in his letter to the President. Capehart's letter was viewed as i. meaning that the five men appar- ’ ently being recommended by him -for Judge Major's post, in addition to Judges Swygert and Parkinson, i had his blessing for a vacancy in ■ the northern Indiana federal district court. > 4 Those named were: John S. Hastings, Washington. Ind., attorney and personal friend of Capehart; Robert A. Grant, of i South Bend, a former congressman; Judge Arch N. Babbitt of the Indiana supreme court; Judge Lloyd Hartzler of the Allen coiinty ' superior court, and John A. Royse, Indianapolis attorney. Capehart is behind a political eight-ball since ,he is campaigning 1 for re-election and each of the six Republicans named in his letter has strong support from some element of the GOP. Jenner, whose office doesn't come up for grabs until 1958, is reported to favor Judge Hartzler for the northern Indiana district (Continued On Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday. Showers likely by Sunday night. Low tonight 35-46- .<-■ High. Bunday

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Virgil Wesley Sexton. First Methodist Church) HOW SHALL WE WITNESS? .• , .. - v "Ye shall be my witnesses.’ Acts 1:8. In a court of justice accurate testimony Is essential to the rendering of a just verdict. However learned the judge or bril a Bant the prosecution and defense, if the witnesses are confused or untruthful, the verdict of the jury may be a miscarriage of justice. 1 The quality of the testimony determines the character of the decision. Judges, attorneys, and juries all recognize the pivotal place of the witness in the pronouncement of judgment. Christian disciples are called to be witnesses for their Lord. The success of Christ’s claims upon men rests upon the kind of testimony we give. This testimony is not only oral. It is practical as well. It«must be sustained by a consistent life. What we do is as convincing as what we say. sometimes more so. Multitudes of Christians who cannot speak fluently are nevertheless testifying eloquently fpr Him by the character of their Christian living. • Witnessing for Jesus is both a glorious privilege and a solemn responsibility. If our witness-bearing is clear, true, and consistent: toen will acknowledge His claims. If It is vague and uncertain. those clams may be rejected, hut ours will he the greeter condemnation for having betrayed, our trust. 1 .'.l ■ - ’ ' ■ ' ,

Rore Time Changes Sunday And Monday Northwest Indiana To Change April 29 INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — So you think you know what time it* is? Check again, for another I batch of Indiana cities and towns I change clocks this week end. The first Sunday in April has been a customary time for Hoosiers to shift to daylight saving time, but this year the number using that date is heavily reduced. Some cities, like the state capital, Indianapolis, have been on CDT throughout the past year. Others, such as Evansville, have had so many headaches on the question of time that city fathers have tossed the problem to the voters and will wait until after May 8. And ip northwestern Indiana. Chicago with its April 29 switching date is influencing Indiana cities and towns nearby. The same is true in the Louisville area. , where clocks move to daylight time also on April 29. April 29 also is change-over time for Terre Haute, Brazil and Vin-. . cennes. - In addition, church opposition developed to making a time change on Easter Sunday, because of the first-day edjifusion, and * some cities and towAs who have been changing clocks Saturday i midnight will wait uptil Sunday ■ midnight. > Bedford, Bloomington, Craw- ■ fordsville. Attica, Delphi, Greencastle, Frankfort, Fowler, Logansport, Lafayette, Peru. Rochester, Seymour, Morocco and Winamac , are among those having CST on Sunday but changing to CDT on Monday, because Easter falls upon i April 1. ■ But Monticello, Rensselaer and i Monon figured their folks would make it to church on Sunday, even i with the time change and will do their clock-shifting April 1. Leon Gass Funeral At Lima, O. Monday Funeral services for Leon Gass, native of Decatur, who died Thursday night at a hospital in Lima, 0.. following a Jong illness, will be held at 9:15 a.m. Monday at St. John’s Catholic church at Lima, with burial in Gethsemane cemetery in that cityi Friends may call at the Siferd & Son funeral home, 712 S. Main street, Lima, until time of the services. Decatur Lions Club Meets Monday Night Joseph R. Fugett. of the Freedoms Foundation, will be the guest speaker at the dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions club Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Youth and Community Center. Fugett will explain the Valley Forge panorama exhibit, which will be on display at the Center ’ Aprij -143. ’Roy Price will be chairman of the program.

Three Killed In Air Force Plane Crash Two Are Critically Hurt In Crash At Airport In Oregon KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (INS) - Three members of the air force were killed and two others, one a woman, were critically hurt Friday night in the flaming crash of a C-45 plane at Klamath Falls airport, — — ; :'■ Witnesses said the light plane took off in a rainstorm and the# clipped a hill nearby with one wing, flipping over on its back only a few yards from a warning beacon. The two-engine craft burst into flames when it crashed. The two survivors were identi.lied as Ffc.LeroyD.Wlgglesworth and A2c Virginia F. Mowman. They were taken to Klamath valley hospital where they were reported in critical condition. They reportedly live in the Portland area and were flying home on an Easter furlough. The survivors, were riding in the tail section of the plane and were thrown clear of the main wreckage. The three dead were burned beyond recognition. Names were withheld pending notification of next of kin. The plane was en route from Norden air force base at San Bernardino. Calif., to Portland and had stopped at Klamath Falls to refuel. Report Os Influence Committee Delayed WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate investigators are holding up a report on the $2,500 campaign contribution offered Sen. Francis Case (R SI D.) — to sharpen criticism of three oilmen who offered the money. , The blue ribbon committee had planned to issue its final report on the “influence" incident this weekend, but chairman Walter F. George (0 Ga.,) said Friday it is being “erwrltten’ and will be made public next Thursday or Friday. County Council To Convene Next Week Consider Reqbest Os Hospital Bonds The Adams county council will meet in special session next Friday and Saturday for the purpose of considerating the request of the board of trustees of Adams county memorial hospital, approved by -the board of county commissioners. for permission to issue improvement bonds in the sum of $450,000. The proposal, ft approved by the council, will then go to the state board of tax commissioners for -final action. To date ho remonstrance has been filed. The sustaining petition bearing about 3,850 bonafide names of freeholders of Adams county will accompany the request of the trustees at next Friday’s meeting. Triday has been iet as the day for the council to hear any objections to tHe improvement’ request. It was pointed out by county officials, that while an effective remonstrance would have to bear more names than the sustaining petition, any freeholder of the county has a right to appear before the council and. be heard. The council will study the matter Friday and return next Saturday morning to act en the resolution already passed unanimously by the commissioners. „ --- —......

British Forces To Leave Suez Canal Fighting Forces To Leave This Weekend CAIRO (INS) —The last British fighting forces will leave the Suez Lower and Miss Elizabeth Petpower in Egypt. ing 74 years of British military By Monday morning the British army no longer wjll be able to ex- ) ert a direct restraining influence 6 on Egypt and Israel. The entire 1 canal zone will be under Egyptian ' army control. r Without ceremony or fanfare, the ’ last 1,500 British soldiers will file aboard the troopship Devonshire ' bound for Britain. -.. -l-S——— -- , Their departure from port Said t late today or early Saturday car- , ries vast strategic implications for the whole turbulent area. So long as even a token fighting force remained in Suez the British - were able to cut the only Mne of - communication between Egyptian - military headquarters in Cairo and - the Israeli frontier. f Not even a full-scale Arab-Israeli ■ war would authorize Britain to reoccupy Suez. ! Under the terms of the Anglo--5 Egyptian agreement signed in October, 1364, Cairo guaranteed Brlt1 ain’s right to reactivate its Suez 1 base ortly in the event of an “altned 1 attack by an outside power” on and Arab League state or Turkey. 1 British minister of war Antony Head recently told a news confer * once that Israeli was not considered an “outside power.” a , * Pilgrims Prepare To Observe Easter Fear Overshadows City Os Jerusalem e JERUSALEM (INS) — Pilgrims ■’ in the holy land prepared today to celebrate the most joyous occae sion in the Christian year—the res--1 u erection of Christ. 9 But Jerusalem, the scene of the first Easter, was overshadowed by * the fear of war as pilgrims re-en--1 acted the death and then the re- ■ birth of the Prince of Peace. Friday the pilgrims prayed the i 14 stations of the cross as they ‘ walked along the Via Dolorosa and recalled the incidents of the crucifixion. Meanwhile, Israeli and Arab soldiers faced each other across the barbed wire running through the ancient city of Jerusalem. The glory of Easter was not being celebrated only in the holy land. Christians the world over will sing the praises of Jesus Sunday. In Vatican City, Pope Pius XII will climax Easter week by giving his blessings to hundreds of thousands of persons crowding St. Peter’s square. In addition to the blessing, “Urbl Et Orbi,” the Pope will give his traditional Easter message which will be relayed to hundreds of mll- _ ; v Three Children Die In Pennsylvania Fire MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (INS) — Three perished today when fire destroyed an apartment over a bowling alley in Mechanicsburg. The parents. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shearer, and their 11 - year • old daughter, Mary Ellen, escaped without serious injury. Bolted Down Safe Is No Deterrent YONKERS, N- Y. (INS) — The safe in the Lighthouse restaurant here was bolted down as a deterrent to muscular thieves, but it didn’t do any good. Intruders mastered the obstacle Friday making off with the safe, the $2,b00 it contained, and a part of the restaurant floor. , I * ~

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Proposes Half To All Nuclear Tests As Once Entire Plan Offered To Subcommittee At I Meeting In London ; MOSCOW (INS) — Russia dis c’osed today that it has proposed an immediate halt to thermonuclear tests and the banning of nuclear weapons within East and West Germany and their neighDomiK slates., The Soviet news agency Tass said the proposal was offered Tuesday in conjunction with, but independent of, a new Soviet disarmament plan. The entire plan was offered to the five-nation disarmament subcommittee sitting tn London. _ The Soviet disarmament proposals urged the discussion of a separate basis of the questions of reducing nuclear weapons and conventional arms. The proposals also allowed for consideration of President Eisenhower’s “opgn skies’’ plan for aerial reconnaissance as a meth- . od of controlling arms building. ( , Officials in western capitals ( no# are considering the Soviet i plan w&lcfi Tiiss said WW offered as away out of the present “blind alley” on disarmament. ■ Tass said the five nations (the • U.S., Britain, France. Canada and the Soviet Union) meeting at London should reach an understanding to discontinue thermonuclear tests immediately. Tass also said Russia proposed that any formal agreement should contain a ban on all types of atomic and hydrogen within a zone of limitation whicfT would include both parts of Germany and their neighboring states. s According to Tass. the question > of reducing armed forces and con- • ventional weapons would not be i made conditional on an agreement on atomic warfare. The proposal provides that measures for reducing armaments Os the conventional type and of the armed sprees should be carried. out during the years 195657. The plan likewise provides that during the first three months after the agreement enters * force the signatory states would undertake not to increase their armed forces and conventional armaments as compared with the level of armaments and armed forces existing Dec. 31, 1955, and not to increase assignments to the armed forces and armaments as compared with the level of expenditure “of the year ending Dec. 31, 1955. Tass said the Soviet plan proposed that after the thre#3aohtlis term, the U. S„ Russia and Communist China would “start to realize measures aimed at a reduction of their armed forces to a level of one million to one-and-one-half million men, and Britain and France to 650,000.” Tass said armaments of the "unusual type” and credits for armed forces and armaments of the "usual type” would be reduced correspondingly. . ... . , The Russian plan also balls for the proportion of the reduction of armaments and armed forces of other countries to be established at a world conference. The plan, howeveg, called for the level of the armed forces of these other states “not to exceed 150,000 to 200,000 men.” Tass said joint inspection of tinned forces and arms “would be created to ensure the reduc- i tion of armaments” and also that the .Soviet proposals allowed for the consideration of the use of aerial photography as a method of control. The Soviet plan listed - the rights and powers of the international control organ to supervise the reduction 'of conventional arms and armed forces.