Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 88.

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76 Listed As Graduates Os Decatur High Annual Exercises For Decatur High School On May 24 The list of 70 candidates for' graduation at the Decatur public high school was announced today by Hugh J. Andrews, school principal. The annual commencement exercises will be held in the high school gymnasium • auditorium Thursday night, May 34. Speakers for the baccalaureate and commencement exercises and programs for both events will be announced at a'lat-' er date. The complete list of the 76 senior class members Qarolym Jo Aumann, Thomas Franklin Aurand. Sharon Kay Baker, Michael Edwin Beery, Myra Elene Black, Alan Neal Bogner, James Duane Bowman, Gertrude Brandyberry, Donald Rings Brewer, Wayne Allen Brunner, James Adam Butcher, Joyce Elaine Callow, Nancy Ann Cole, Jon Harold Corey, Janet Joan Courtney, Daniel Eugene Cowans, Phillip Alphas Deßolt, Marlene Kay Dellinf|er|, Davjid Edward EUlttworthj Gladys Grate Ewell, Robert Wayne Flora, Marilyn Ann Foor, Sara Jane Frank. Judith Lea Franz, Arlen Lynn Fuelling, Gerald Walter Gattshall. Ruth Ann Girod, ThortTas Kent Grimny. Mildred Sophie Roger Franklin Hawkins, HarryHarold Hebble, Barbara Jean Heller, Jacqueline Louise James. Deanne Johnson. Judith Kay Kelley, Robert Allen Keller, BettyAnn Knavel. Sharon Kay Kreischer, Dan William Krueckeberg.. Janet Sue Lane, Luanne Kae Leh man, Judith Lee Locke. Ervin ReRoy Martin. Sondra Ellen May J Sylvia Jean Mazelin, Terry Lee Murphy, Don Max Myers. BeverlyAnn Poling. Thomas Allan Rambo, Richard Lee Raver. Robert Winston Rawley. Rentz, Helen Marie Roth, Billy Lee Roth, Jeannlne “Carol Sclninz, Daniel Beery Shackley. James Allen Sheets. Dannie Allen Simerman. Lorna Louise Smith, Mary Jane Smith, Harold Melvin Sommer, Rosemary Strahm. Roger Kent Strickler, Mara Dee Striker, Joyce Evelyn Sudduth, Dorcas Louise Suntan, Marlene Thieme. Ralph Benjamin Thomas Ruth Allison Townsend, Donna Faye Venis, Shirley Ann Wass, Rex Gene Werst, Watler Gene Werst. Vergil Allen Wolfe, Larry Lee Worden, William Harlow Zwick- 4 One Man Is Injured In Ohio Train Wreck BELLEFONTAINE, O. (INS) •— One man was hurt today when 14 cars of an east bound New lork Central freight train were derailed in Quincy, 0.. near Bellefontaine. Both main lines of the Indianapolis divisio were blocked by the train’s 1 helper engine. - ■, Hnginieman Ddrrnld Humphrey was taken to Mary Rutan hospital in Bellefontaine iwth minor injur- • ies. « INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer Saturday. Low tonight 32-38. High Saturday 65-70 north, 70-75 south.

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Proposes Wright As Governor Candidate Annual Meeting Os Republican Editors INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A past president of the Indiana Rei publican editorial association got the IREA’s annual spring meeting off to a lively start by proposing that Noland C. Wright, of Anderson. be chosen GOP gubernatorial candidate. , Claude Billings, publisher of the Akron News and a former secretary of the Indiana Republican central committee, said in an editorial column that "leading Republicans of Indiana . . . would do well to look at the record established by Noland C. Wright.” Wright, a former mayor of Anderson, and a former GOP state chairman and national committeeman from Indiana, had not previously been included in out-loud speculation about candidater for governor. ■. Thd AKron publisher's effort to get Wright's name Into gubernatorial consideration was bound to be a topic of discussion as political candidates and Republican editors gathered for the one-day meeting Saturday. The official program features a luncheon address by Congressman Charles A. Halleck, of Rensselaer, liefore a joint session of the UREA and the Republican state committee. Then Senator Homer E. Capehart and Governor George N. Craig will share oratorical honors at a Saturday night banquet, following separate afternoon meetings of the IREA and the GOP central committee. But the Claypool Hotel already was filling today with politicos anxious to learn the reaction of the powerful Republican editors to their candidacies. The selection of a nominee for governor was one of the more provocative topics. Three men have been in that race for some time. ; The.v are state revenue commissioner Frank Millis, Lieut. Gov. Harold W. Handley and Dan Cravens. of Franklin, who resigned from the alcoholic beverage commission to campaign. MHlis. who has been given some support by Craig’s aides, has had to watch anxiously in recent days as a potential rival for the governor’s political affectiqps went racing about the State. Dr. Frank H. Sparks (just call him Frank) industrialist and former president Os Wabash College, dined with eighth district Republicans at Evansville, Thursday night. Similar sessions have been held or will be staged In all 11 districts. Dr. Sparks hasn’t announced formally as a gubernatorial candidate but all Indications point tp such a step next week. In addition, another industrialist, Francis T. McCarty, Os Brimfield. already is in the GOP gubernatorial race in which he made an unsuccessful bid four years ago. And looming on the horizon is former Mayor John A. Scott, of South Bend, who still could be tabbed by Craig forces as the man to beat Handley when the GOP state convention delegates meet June 29. r The governorship is not the only office for which contests already have developed. Two men have announced as candidates for nomination as lieutenant governor — Crawford F. Parker, now secretary of, state, and Dan W. Smith, former Marion county sheriff. Three men seek the hid to oppose the Democratic nominee for (Ooanaoeo on PM* JElgbt)

Ike To Confer With Benson On Farm Bill Reports Rife Ike Will Veto Measure Passed By Congress AUGUSTA, Ga. (INS) — President Eisenhower called agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson to Augusta today for a weekend conference amid reports he will veto the farm bill. Benson will be accompanied by undersecretary of agriculture True D. Morse and four other administration aides, including Kevin McCann, the President’s chief speechwriter. McCann could be along simply to help draft a statement outlining Mr. Eisenhower’s objections to the bill which would reestablish rigid 90 per cent price supports on basic agriculture crops. Even it he should sign the bill, the President would undoubtedly issue such a statement. It is more nxeiy, nowever, that McCann is on hand to help with a (veto message explaining to the nation’s farmers why the administration feels the catch-all bill passed by congress must be rejected. Washington teemed with unconfirmed reports that Mr. Eisenhower will go on television next week to discuss the reasons for a veto. The President is not expected to act on the farm bill one way or the other until he returns to Washington early next week. In view of the.sizeable margins by which the measure passed the house and senate, chances of overriding a presidential veto appear good. Urge Signing DES MOINES (INS) — Gov. Leo Hoegh of lowa said today that a group of midwestern Republican governors plans to fly to Washington to urge President Eisenhower to sign the farm bill recently passed by congress. Hoegh, who made the announcement to newsmen in Des Moines, said that he and three other governors have a tentatively scheduled appointment with the President set up through presidential assistant Sherman Adams. Other governors who have confirmed with Hoegh that they plan to make the trip are Governors Hall of Kansas, Foss of South Dakota, and Anderson of Nebraska. 30 Zionists Invade Egyptian Consulate Protest Killing By Arabs In Tel Aviv NEW YORK (INS) — An estimated 30 members of a Zionist youth organization today invaded the Egyptian consulate in New York and staged a protest demonstration. The youths, members of Brit Trumpeldor, protested the killing by Arabs near Tel Aviv, Israel, of three children and a rabbi. The demonstrators held a mass prayer meeting in Hebrew. While employes of the consulate strove to evict them, one the servants was kicked and pummelled. The policeman on duty there was unable to restore order and sent for I four more officers.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, April 13, 1956.

Dag Seeks Assurances From Israel On Order Against New Attacks

—— t Real Progress Reported From Peace Mission War News Is Played Down By Controlled Egyptian Newspapers ■ CAIRO (INS) —The controlled Egyptian press played down the war news today as Dag Hammarskjold reportedly made real progress in his quest to restore peace in the Middle East. The -United Nations secretary general conferred again today with Egyptian foreign minister Mahmoud Fawzy in preparation for his meeting Saturday morning with premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. Hammarskjold reportedly has already obtained Nasser’s approve al of the first draft of a five-point plan to prevent an all-out ArabInraeli war. Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, chief UN truce supervisor in worked on' technical details of the draft with Egyptian officials, ir»eluding Col. Salah Gohar, director of Palestine affairs at the Egyptian war ministry. The Cairo press was unusually restrained. empharizW Hammac rkjold and the pfospects for peace. The papers did not play up Thursday’s Egyptian-Israeli air battle in which both sides Claimed the destruction of an enemy plane. The official Middle Ea«t nek'B agency also reported that an Israeli patrol crossed into the Gaza strip at Tel El Gubn and was driven off with “heavy losses.” But. with editorially and in its news columns, the governmentcontrolled press concentrated on Hammarskjold's peace mission. Members of the Hammarskjold UN mission, cheeted by the personal cease-fire pledges of the Egyptian leader and of Israeli prime minister David Ren-Gurion, remained unusually tightlipped about the negotiations under way in Cairo. * But reliable Egyptian sources told International News Service that the “working proposals” were drawn up at a 60-hour day aud night conference. The plan is believed to provide: 1. Withdrawal of frontier forces beyond immediate firing range, thus creating a demilitarized “no-man’s land” along the 600-mile Arab-Israeli border. 2. Limitation of front-line arms to short-range weapons. (Contlnurd es Paae Eight) Clean-up Campaign Opens Here May 1 Decatur's Spring Clean-up Planned Decatur’s spring clean-up campaign has been set for May 1,2, 3 and 4, it was announced today by Mayor Robert Cole and Bernard J. Clark, street commissioner. Rubbish, tin cans and all types of trash will be picked up from every Decatur home in the fourday period, It was announced. Residents are asked to have their rubbish in containers as near alleys and streets as Is possible. Permanent containers and baskets will be emptied and left at the premises. Cardboard boxes and cartons will be hauled away, unless owners otherwise instruct. Following Is the schedule of pick-ups: May 1: North of Monroe street and west of Fifth street. May 2: North of Monroe street and east of Fifth street. May 3: South of Monroe street and east of Fifth street. May 4: South of Monroe street and west of Fifth street. Reeldents are asked to check their pick-up date and' have all trash ready for the collectors Ute the night before or early on coL leetion day.

{ ■■mi I !■ > ■■ ■ ■ Norstad Named To Succeed Gruenther Appointed Supreme Allied Commander AUGUSTA. Ga. (INS) — The White House announced today that air force Gen. Lauris Norstad has been named to succeed Gen. Alfred , M. Gruenther as supreme allied ’ commander in Europe. The Uprise appointment was ' announced simultaneously in Aufgusta and at headquarters of the North Atlantic treaty organization in Paris. The shift in command will take place late this year when Gruenther, one of President Eisenhower’s closest personal friends, win retire from the army. Norstad will become the first air force officer to serve as supreme commander of allied de- ; tenses in Europe. Only 49, he was i one of the youngest American gen- - erals to serve in World War 11. 1 White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said Gruenther, , who is 57, was retiring from the ' army for “persona! reasons.” He . underwent a medical check-up ref centiy in the army’s Walter Reed - hospital in Washington and there have been reports that he Is not in the best of health. Norstad's appointment was ap- ’ proved today in Naris Uy the North -f Atlantic council - . •- i In a letter to the council, Mr. • Elsenhower said “General Norstad I is an officer of outstanding ability.” i i L I Music Association ‘ Plans Member Drive 1 Meeting Tuesday To Plan Member Drive Final preparations for member- ' ship week of the Adams county , civic music association will be cbm- ( pleted next week when a representative of the Civic Concert Service will be in Decatur to assist the ‘ newly-formed local organization. A meeting of the executive officers and campaign captains is scheduled for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the office of the Leland Smith insurance agency. The meeting has been called by Glenn Hill, president of the association, to give the campaign workers final instructions on membership plans. Invitations to membership in the association will be sent to persons all over the county. Membership will entitle the holder to attend a guaranteed minimuum of three top concerts and possibly more, depending on the size of the membership. Every effort is being made through an extensive organization to make personal contacts of possible members but any person who is interested in joining may do so at one of the two headquarters which will be established during membership week. These will be at the Decatur Youth and Community Center and the Berne Witness office. It has been emphasized that memberships will be available only during membership week which extends to Saturday. April 28. A,f ter that date no membership will be sold and absolutely no single session tickets will be available for the concerts. Membership dues are $7.50 for adults and $4 for students instead of $4.50 as was previously announced. These dues are used en-tirely-to-bring prominent artists to Decatur. The civic music association is a non-profit organization. Every member will have the opportunity to vote on the concerts they would like to have brought to the community. The artists available through the civic concert service with which the local association is affiliated are all of national and international prominence. Membership week will be opened officially with a banquet Monday, April 23, for all campaign workers. O. M. McGeath is chairman of the banquet which will be held at the Community Center. tl • (M*

Young Decatur Couple Robbed And Kidnaped Armed Thugs Kidnap i Young Couple, Girl Is VtvvrtW Os Attack A young Decatur couple were ' subjected to a night of terror i last night when they were kidnaped by a pair of unknown arm--1 ed thugs, forced to drive into the ■ country, robbed, and the young ■ girl raped twice. City, county I and state law officers have been on the job ever since first learning of the sordid crime, but no ■ trace of the pair has turned up yet. i All railroads and empty cars ■ have been searched, the hotel and all motels, the sheriff’s depart- ’ ment was checking all highways, . and all taverns were investigated. > but no men fitting the description s were located. The horrible ride began for the ' young people about 9:45 p. m. ! when they stopped fqr a stop sign at the intersection of Elm and Thirteenth streets. The two as- ’ sailants ran from the high weeds “ near th*street and.jumped into the ‘ Wr‘*TOi» ’■ - was then forced to drive southwest from town, into the country. One of the pair was armed with a revolver and the other carried a two foot length of pipe. -In the course of the ride, the young man had his watch and billfold stolen. The pair then each assaulted the girl. The two attackers then told the driver return them to town. They left the car in an alley between Eighth and Ninth streets and near Adams. It is not believed that the pair are still in Decatur, but police * said it is a possibility. Anyone seeing a. pair fitting the following description should notify police at s once. They are armed. Number one, seemingly the leader of the affair: about 22 years of age, five s feet ten or eleven inches tall, 160 1 to 180 pounds, dark hair, no hat,, leather jacket, blue Jeans, engi- ' neer boots, called Bill by hia com--1 pahion. long nose and thick lips. This man is the one armed with the revolver. Number two: five feet nine Inches tall, about 150 pounds, dark cloth jacket, blue jeans, long dark (Cont'nued >n Pag* tulght) I , Local Lady's Father Dies At Huntington William Brebaugh Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Robbins funeral home. Huntington, for William Brebaugh, 87, lifelong resident; of that city and father of Mrs. Frank Braun of Decatur. Death, following a long illness, came Thursday afternoon at the Brebaugh home in Huntington. A heart attack was given as the direct cause of the death. A native of Huntington, William Brebaugh was a machinist for the Ortop! Crane and Shovel company for 3ff years prior to his retirement in 1932. He was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church of Huntington. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Braun are three other daughters: Mrs. A. L. Engle, Fowler, Mrs. John C. Austin, Phoenix, Artz., and Mrs. M. C. Anderson. Huntington, and two sons, Harry J. Brebaugh, Chicago, and William Brebaugh, Jr., Huntington. Nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren also survive. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the funeral Saturday. The Rev. Arthur Ziegler will conduct the services and burial will be in the Pilgrims Rest cemetery.

Interest Rates On Loans Increased Increase Ordered By Federal Reserve WASHINGTON (INS) — The federal reserve system has ordered another increase in the interest rates bri loans by its regional reserve member banks to check inflationary trends. ■ It is the fifth boost In the re- , serve bank discount rate in the • last year. The action represents a continuation of the Eisenhower adininisi tration's tighter money policy—a • brake on the boom which has seen '■ nearly all business indicators soar to all-time highs. The discount rate applies on loans by the 12 regional reserve banks to the thousands of banks that are menfhers' of the nation’s reserve system. These 12 banks constitute the U.S. central bank system. Beginning today, nine of the regional banks will start charging an interest rate of 2% per cent on loans to member banks. Two others — those located In Minne--1 apolis and San Francisco — will start charging three per cent. The 1 Chicago bank has not acted yet, 1 but presumably will also increase ’ its rate. ' The reserve system discount ’lrate has a .strong influence on in- ' ter?st ratejs generally, and thus f affects the credit lifelines on • which business relies. ’ Fugelf Is Speaker ■ At Rotary Meeting t Freedoms Foundation i Exhibit Explained Joseph R. Fugett, representative r of Freedoms Foundation, was the B guest breaker at the weekly dinner 9 meeting of the Decatur Rotary club ; Community Center, 1 Thursday evening at the Youth and r Fugett, who is in charge of the 5 exhibit' which has been on display ’ at the Center for the past six 1 weeks, spoke briefly on the flags ' of the 48 states which are included in the exhibit, showing the flags and describing the meaning of the insignia on the various flags. The exhibit, sponsored by the Freedoms Foundation, a non-profit corporation organized to foster the American way of life, has been visited by most of the school children in the northern part of the county. Fugett also described the insidious ( ways In which Communists seek to influence the thinking of Americans, particularly their efforts to undermine the nation’s youth. Two new members of the clAb were introduced. They are Calvin Yost, head of Yost Construction Co., and Endre Sipos, of the Central Soya Co. Leo Kirsch was chairman of the program. Solons Completing Highway Bill Work Clear Way To House Vote In Next Week WASHINGTON (INS) — The house public works committee planned to finish action today on a multi-billion-dollar highway bill and clear the way for a house vote on the measure next week. Sponsors of the legislation — the largest highway, building bill in history— said they would work all day in an effort to remove the last roadblocks to committee approval. House speaker Sam 'Rayburn of Texas said he wants to begin ' house debate on the bill Wednesday and finish voting Thursday or ' Fri Say. Meanwhile, senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson predict- * ed flatly that congress .will pass 1 soon a “good” highway construe- J on rage Elgbt) ■

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UN Secretary Asks Israel For Assurance Security Council Informed Pledges By Israel, Egypt U.sh?D NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —Dag Hammarskjold called on Israel today for assurances it has issued orders to its troops against launching new attacks in the Egyptian held Gaza Strip. The UN secretary general at the same time stated in a communication to Israeli premier David BenGurion he does not feel recent Egyptian commando attacks inside Israeli territory cast “doubts on the sincerity” of Egypt's pledge to avoid use of force. This was in reference to Hamtnarskjold’s notification to the se- z curity council Thursday that both Israel and Egypt had pledged to refrain from warlike acts and to abide by the Palestine armistice provision- barring ufce of force. Hammarskjold at present is tn Cairo carrying out the security council’s mission to prevent an Arab - Israeli war. He has had round-the-clock talks with Egyptian leader*, including-Col. Gamal. Abdel Nissef. Hammarskjold’s continuing exchange of communications with.the Israeli and Egyptian leaders were . disclosed by U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge who, as president of the security council for April, is being kept informed of hourly events in the UN chief’s Mid-East peace efforts. In surprisingly blunt language. Hammarskjold informed Ben-Gur-ion he would seek assurances from Egypt that it had issued cease fire orders- to Egyptian troops after similar guarantees have been received by him from Israel. He said in his communication from Cairo: "You ask whether and what assurance have been obtained from Col, Nasser guaranteeing the fulfillment of his present undertaking. “You certainly are aware that in negotiations of this kind, the representative of UN must take the given word of any member government to the representative as binding for them in relation ot the organization. “That is true of Egypt as well as of Israel. , “You further ask whether I have the certainty that orders ‘had’ been issued to alt Egyptian force* to obsreve certain rules defined in your message. “You will in this contest remember that I have asked you for jour assurance that you will issue orders to the same effect as promised by the goternment of Egypt. “I regret that so far I have not received such ■ assurances. “As soon as such assurances , have been received, I will, in relation to the ogvernment of Egypt as well as in relation to your government, ask for confirmation of the fact that the orders indicated have been issued.” UN sources meanwhile indicated (Conuiiuea on Pago fitgnt) Pre-School Roundup In Decatur April 26 The annual roundup for preschool children of Decatur will be conducted Thursday, April 26. at the Lincoln school gymnasium. It will feature the physical examination of all children who will enter kindergarten next September. Decatur physicians and optometrists will give the examinations. Girls will be examined from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m. and boys will be examined from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Children taking the examinations must be five years of age on or. before Sept. 15, 'A/MJ The annual round-up is a project of the Lincoln parent-teacher association. Mrs. James Burk is general chairman of the project this year.