Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 89, Decatur, Adams County, 14 April 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 89.

LOOK WHO’S HERE r jr--.., , ■'■ ' JKfS , " i**' At JAMES A. FARLEY, former postmaster general and top politico in the FOR administration, is showjL(right) with Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield at House postofflce committee hearing in Washington, where Farley endorsed the administration’s bill to boost rates by more than 1406.000,000 a year. ' This is Farley’s first appearance before a congressional committee in more than 15 years.

Press May Be Barred From Royal Rites Conduct Os Certain Europeans May Lead To Barring Os Press MONTE CARLO (INS) —Prince Rainier and Grace Kelly took off for Nice today in one of his fastest sports cars while police- held back photographers and correspondents to prevent a recurrence of Friday’s picture-taking The conduct of certain European and free-lance photographers assigned to the Kelly-Rainier wedding already has- caused the prince to consider barring the world press from next week’s two-ay nuptials. Grace and the prince left the palace today in a blue Lancia sports car, one of the fastest owned by Rainier, while police blocked all the sklddy, rainswept rSads from the palace area. Several minutes later the blockade was removed atfd two earloads of photographers went roaring off in the direction of the prince’s car. Prince Rainier still is furious over the tactics of some photographers Friday when he took Grace and her parents to luncheon at his sister’s villa. When he refused tp escort the film star to the balcony for pictores, a French cameraman stood Ip the garden singing off color songs about the couple at the top of his lungs and when the prince angrily appeared at- the window he got his picture. Later, when leaving in his car. the prince with Grace at his side ■was confronted by roadblocks Os photographers three deep. To fortify a block even more on lensman tipped over his motorscooter in the path of the car. Another man pretended to have had his foot run over by the front wheel of the prince’s car. The prince jammed on tne brakes and sullenly posed until he could clear an opening. Then he slammed back to the palace at a speed that paled Grace, who thinks anything over 40 miles an hour especially on the winding roads of this mountainside area is ■wanton madness. . < Tne prince’s first act upon reaching the palace was to call his press chief Jean Mercury and ream him out. Mercury’s voice soon was heard on the loudspeaker in the Maison de la Presse sternly announcing that no photographers hereafter would be permitted in the palace area. Respectable news, radio and television agencies fear the prince now has reached the point of exasperation which could easily cause him to drop an impenetrable curtain about his civil and cathedral weddings. No one doubts for a moment that he has authority to do so. Rainier's word is Monaco’s law. There would be no appeal apparatus for news outfits which’spent in the aggregate, approximately one million dollars to cover the story. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with ' little change in temperature, showers south portion. Mostly cloudy and cooler Sunday with chance of showers. Low v tonight 38-48. High Sunday 54-62. ~NOON EDITION

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Lobbying Probers Will Meet Monday Probe New Incident Relating To Bill WASHINGTON (INS)' — The senate lobbying investigations committee meets Monday to take up a new incident relating “indirectly" to the natural gas bill. Chairman John L. McClellan told a newsman that the matter “came to my attention from another senator" and that “it indirectly relates to the natural gas bill.” _ He would not identify his informant, but the committee has asked all senators for any information they have on “wrongdoing” similar to the attempted “influencing” of Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) McClellan said the new information “merits early attention” by the committee and declared it may result in the group’s first public hearings. * The eight-man bipartisan McClellan committee was created by the senate in the aftermath of the disclosure by Case that he bad been offered a >2,500 campaign contribution by an oil lobbyist during the gas bill debate. 4 This led to a veto measure by President Elsenhower and the appointment of a special four-man committee to investigate Case’s charge. This latter group last week Max Stanley Named Hartford Principal To Succeed Jackson At Hartford School _ Max Stanley, principal at Jefferson high school for the past three years, has been named to succeed Burney Jackson as principal at Hartford high school next year. Jackson, who has served in the post for the past seven years, has resigned because of ill health. Jefferson high school will not be reopened next year.? Announcement has also been made that two Geneva high school instructors have resigned their posts effective after the end of the current school term. They are Peter Figert. instrumental music teacher and band leader, and Vern Huffman, industrial arts, science and. mathematics teacher. Both have been at the Geneva school for four years. Huffman is resigning to go into industrial training for a vocational license or specialized teaching. Figert will work on his master's degree this summer and has not announced his plans after that. To Resurface Part Os Monroe Street Work will start next Tuesday on the resurfacing of west Monroe street which also is a state highway, it was announced today by True Andrews, sub-district superintendent of state highways. The street, is being scraped and made ready for the hot asphalt by state employes and will be turned over Tuesday morning to Meshberger Stone Coif which firm has the contract to apply the surfacing material. -— Andrews has asked that the street be cleared from Thirteenth street east to Sixth street by 6 o’clock Tuesday morning. It win be necessary to move all motor vehicles from the part under construction if they are parked in the restricted area Tuesday morning. Work will progroes east at least as tar as Sixth street next week.

President And Benson Confer On Farm Bill Secretary Benson Bitterly Opposed To Farm Measure AUGUSTA, Ga. (INS) — President Eisenhower and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson began a conference today which may decide the fate of the bitterly contested election-year farm bill. Benson and five other administration aides who flew down from Washington Friday night met with Mr. Eisenhower in his tiny office ' above the golf shop at the Augusta National Golf club. The group posed for pictures as the meeting got underway at 8:15 a.m. (EST) and then got down to business. Benson was expected to meet with newsmen at the conclusion of the conference. Benson said on arrival in Augusta that he still considers the bill passed by both houses of congress earlier this week to be “unaccept£ble.” He would nbt say, however, whether he would recommend a veto to Mr. Eisenhower. He told newsmen who met his plane he did not know whether the President ( would sign or veto the vpdMtieally ( explosive measure. i Most observers were of the opin- . ion that Mr. Eisenhower has already decided on a veto. But there i' were mounting* pressures on him i to sign the bill into law despite . its objectionable Four Republican governors from the midwest announced plans to ■ fly 'to Washington for a personal ■ appeal to the President to sign the . measure, which would restore farm ' price supports to 90 per cent of - parity for one year. . ‘ They were governors Hoegh of ■ lowa, Hall of Kansas, Foss of South ' Dakota and Anderson of Nebraska, r The President was considering ; going on radio and television nett week to explain his position to the - American people. White House r news secretary James C. Hagerty, f however, said that this did not I necessarily mean he was going to i veto the bill. * — Deputy Governor Os t {Lions Speaks Here 1 Joe Brewster, of Berne, Lions deputy district governor, will induct new members of the Decatur Lions club at the weekly dinner meeting of the local service club Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Youth and Community Center. The Lions will also be entertained by the DecaterMusic House Dixiecats, five Decatur boys who have formed the organization to propagate Dixieland music in this area. Ail members are urged to attend. i ■ 16 Decatur Youths Will Attend Parley Attend Governor's Youth Conference Sixteen Decatur young people will attend the governor's conference on youth and recreation in Indianapolis Monday. Among those going will be Dewayne Agler, William Beal, Kathleen Baker, Betsy Burk, Don Rumschlag, David Heimann, Fred Locke, Ralph Thomas, Dee Dee Striker, Jackie James, Leah Brandeberry, Jay Gould, Nancy Mies, Ronnie Meyer, Elisabeth Miller and Phil Reed. They will be accompanied by Mrs. Roy Kai ver, Mrs. James Burk, Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Everhart. Mr. and Mrs. O. M. McGeath will also attend the conference, going to Indianapolis Sunday to attend a planning sesslop. Dewayne Agler, William Beal and McGeath will take part on the.program. Agler and Beal are candidates for office in the state youth recreation association. The keynote speaker for the conference this year is Dr. Kenneth McFarland of Topeka, Kansas, who was the keynote speaker at the dedication of the Youth and Community Center last June. The sessions of the conference will be held in the auditorium of the state board of health building and the Medical Center union building. During the afternoon the young people attending the conference will have a chance to swim in the i beautiful new union swimming pool. L v I The first 13 days of April have been the busiest at the Youth and < Community Canter since dedication i week with over 10.000 people tn St- 1 tendance at various activities dut- < Ing the period. ■

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 14, 1956.

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* Diplomats Os d Israel Doubt Dag Success Hold Little Hope Os Success*For Peace f Mission In Mideast •. WASHINGTON (INS) — Israeli diplomats held out little hope today for success of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold’s Middie East peace formula. * The Israeli objected to some points in Uammarskjold's set of “five working proposals” and said they doubted that the Egyptians would accept others. Reports from Cairo said the United Nations official has suggested the plan as a basis for easing tensions and eventually bringing peace to the strife - torn Middig East. One proposal provides for withdrawal of frontier forces beyond immediate firing range, thus creating a demilitarized no - man's land along the 600-mile Arab-Israeli border. Another calls for a high-level, face-to-face conference of Israeli and Egyptian leaders, probably in Geneva and possibly in Italy. Meanwhile, other reports said th* U.S. and Great Britain may ask Soviet Russia to join in an embargo on the shipment of heavy armaments to Israel or Egypt. The Israeli reaction, to all of these reports was negative. Israeli has made -it clear ahe fears any plan to set up a noman’s land. The suicide commando raids of the Feyadeen from Egypt during the past week have increased Israel's reluctance to accept the proposal. The Israeli argue that Jewish farms are located within inches of the frontier and that withdrawal (Continued on t-awv Btx) Marine Corps Pilot Dies In Plane Crash EL TORO, Calif. (INS) —A marine corps pilot killed in a plan# ciash at El Centro was identified at his El Tor base today is Ist Lt. Robert R. Dewey, 25, of Chicago. “ The young officer died Friday when his F9F Panther jet caught fire in the air and crashed. He was on maneuvers with attack squad ron 323. Drivers Injured As Two Autos Collide Cars Destroyed By L_JFire After Crash Twp cars were destroyed by fire and the drivers injured as the result of a collision at a county road intersection two miles south and one mile krest of Decatur at about 4:10 p.m. Friday. The injured were Frederick Evans, 21, of Decatur route four, who sustained fractured ribs, a collapsed lung and a small laceration *ver his left eye, and Betty Sterling, 22, of Fort Wayne who suffered a fractured jaw and an injury to her left shoulder. Both are patients at the Adams county memorial hospital. Bvans was going west and the Fort Wayne woman was travelling north when they collided at the Intersection. Stop signs were posted on the north-south road. After the crash both cars caught fire and it was necessary to call the Decatur fire department to the scene of the crash. Both vehicles were totally demolished by the crash and flames. Also damaged were fence on the Ed Kohne farm and two utility poles. Betty Sterling was charged with failure th yield the right of way. She will appear In city court April 30? Deputy sheriff Roger Singleton and state trooper Gene Rash investigated the accident.

* | Halleck Says Ike To Veto Farm Bill Congressman Speaks At Editors Meeting INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Congressman Charles A. Halleck, (R---of Indiana) flatly predicted today that President Dwight D. Eisen- , hewer will veto the politically explosive farm bill, despite some I GOP pressure to sign it. j ’ Halleck, minority whip in the Abuse and a golf-playing friend of Mr. Elsenhower, addressed a joint luncheon meeting of the Indiana Republican editorial association i and (he Indiana Republican state ! central committee, in Indianapol lis. i The measure now is in the hands of the President in Auguai tn, Ga., and Republican governors of lowa, Kansas, South Dakota : and Nebraska have urged him to ; sign it despite objectionable sea- : tures. Halleck commented: "The measure contains many I good things asked by the Presi- . dent, but it was loaded with many i other features detrimental, not i only to farmers, but to the country as a whole.” The Indiana congressman labeli ed as “particularly obnoxious” ! what he called “the completely uiwarranted two-price ' arranget meat on wheat, which) if, enacted t into law, would further weaken j an already depressed corn situa- . tion.” ’ . 7 ■ Rep. Halleck accused the Demos crats of deliberately “maneuvering for a presidential veto rather j than for a good bill" to gain partisan advantage. He declared: “The senate stalled so long in f its consideration of the original , bill that little, in any. advantage . to farmers * would have resulte'd . trom the soil hank this year. “I predict a presidential veto.” ( Halleck challenged the Demos cratic majority in congress "to 1 (Continued On Page Five) Citizens Telephone Seeks Rafe Review t Petition Says Phone Rates Inadequate j ’ WT * BWSfaj. '* ' -ISO OFT*The Citizens Telephone Co., has petitioned the public service commission for that body to review its complete rate structure, stating in the request that “current rates are insufficient and too low to produce a fair return on the fair value of the company’s property.” The request for the rate review was made only on Citizens and does not involve the Argos and Nappanee utilities which Citizens owns. The petition was submitted pursuant to chapter 161 of the acts of 1951 which sets up procedure. If the state governing body finds that the statements in the petition are correct, a complete audit of the local company can be ordered and new rates can be set by the commission. The petition, which will appear as a legal advertisement the first of next week in newspapers in the area served by Citizens, was singed by Charles D. Eh Inger as president of the company and attested by Arthur E. Voglewede as secretary. * If a complete audit is ordered, probabilities are that it will take several months for the commission to make a formal report of the request. Deadline For*Filing Exemptions Is May 7 Frank Kitson, county auditor, issued a reminder today that mortgage and soldier’s exemptions on property taxes should be filed with his office in the next three weeks. The final day for filing the applications tor exemption is Monday, May 7, and after that date none will be accepted. He urged that the applications be filed as soon as possible.

Israel Tense Despite Lull In Fighting Jordan Accused Os Breaking Fight Lull On Israel Borders ’ JERUSALEM (INS) —lsrael ref mained tense and apprehensive to- - day on the eve of its eighth annii versary of independence despite ' two nights without incident along 1 the strife-torn Egyptian frontier.Jordan, however, was accused Friday night of breaking the lull in ' Arab • Israeli border fighting at three point?. ’ An army spokesman said an Is--1 raeli youth was wounded by rifle ' fire from old Jerusalem which is occupied by Jordan. The spokesman also claimed that Arab Legionnaires attacked an Israeli patrol pear Nir Elliyahu and charged Jor- ’ dnians with firing on an Israeli r former along the northern border. Israeli's top leaders, meanwhile, consulted on a polite but firm message from Dag Hammarskjold ' again seeking assurances that orders would be issued to her troops ' to abstain from offensive actions" ' along the Egypt ion border. 1 The UN secretary general In a • letter to premier David Ben-Gur-ion released Friday, expressed ft- - gret that no such assurances had been forthcoming. He noted that r Egypt has promised to comply with - the armistice. j The Israeli independence anniI versary — determined by the Jew--3 ish calendar — falls on Monday j and may coincide with-the arrival of Hammarskjold on the second • phase of his peace mission. H The birth of a free state of Isj rael was proclaimed in Tel Aviv on May 14,1943 as the British evacuated Palestine. Meanwhile, the Israeli army officially denied that one of its planes wet shot in Thursday’s air battle with Egyptian jets over the Negev desert, northeast of the El Auja demilitarized zone. Cairo claimed one Israeli plane was destroyed in the fight which was the last known incident between Egyptian and Israeli forces. Social Workers Will Meet At State Park Red Cross Chapter Secretary Attends Mrs. Wanda Oejberg, executive secretary ,pf the local Red Cross chapter, will represent Adams county at the northeast regional conference of social workers at Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon park in Steuben county May 1. The conference chairman is Miss Ruth Smith, public health nurse for LaGrange county. Mrs. Lucile Buss, welfare visitor In SteAben county, is in charge of the program. . Coffee hour and registration will begin at 9 a.m. and will be followed by the film. “Modern medicine looks at the heart.” Dr. Charles E. Jackson, a Bluffton physician, will discuss “Present day concepts in the management of diseases of the heart and blood vessels.” This program is in cooperation with the Northeast Indiana heart foundation. The, role of this organization will be explained by Dr. T, A. Kleckper of Fort Wayne. The luncheon will be at 12:30 p.m. in the dining room. Reservations for this are being handled by the Steuben county department of public welfare. Organ music and a men’s quartet will be followed by the afternoon speaker. Roy Davis, who is director of public relations for Goodwill Industries at Indianapolis. Twelve counties will be represented at the meeting, to which the public is invited.

Says Britain May Lose Ceylon Bases Prediction Made By Ceylon Ambassador UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —Ceylon’s UN ambassador predicted today that British bases in the island dominion and its mutual defense pact with Britain will be liquidated “witltin the next year.” Sir Senarat Gunewardene maintained that the Ceylon election, which dusted the government of pro-west premier Sir John Kotelawala, will not effect the Indian ocean state’s determination to keep • friendly relations with the U.S., Britain and other Western nations. Kotelawala was replaced by 8. W.R.D. Bandaranaike, who heads a left-of-center coalition bent on following a neutralist course between the tree and Communist worlds. The new government also is considering withdrawing from the British Commonwealth. Gunewardene, who is also Ceylonese ambassador to the U.S., said the new premier probably will visit the U.S. this fall after the presidential election and meet President Eisenhower in Washington. Gunewardene said he has ask- . de Bandaranaike to address the UN assembly session beginning in’No- ,■ vember. The Ceylonese ambassador claimed that the'ouster of Kotela--1 wala's national unity party, which had ruled Ceylon for 25 years, was ’ due to its failure to “keep up with ' the demands of a vociferous, liter- ’ ate and intelligent population.” ' Gunewardene said Ceyoln will establish diplomatic relations with . Russia, red China and other Soviet . bloc states. He said there were r no official Jinks with the red bloc I previously because the Soviet UnI ion had repeatedly vetoed Ceylon’s admission to the UN. Ceylon was admitted into the world organization last December . in the “package deal” that brought in 12 free world and four Communist states. Macklin To Assume Offerer Practice Move Into Office In Boch Building » David Mhcklin of the law firm of DeVoss, Smith and Macklin will assume the law practice of the late Ferd L. Litterer and will move into the latter’s offices in the Boch building Monday, it was announced today. Macklin (purchased the Litterer office several weeks ago and during Mr. Litterer's fatal illness he assumed his legal responsibilities. John DeVoss and Lewis Lutz Smith will continue to be associated in the DeVoss building as DeVoss and Smith. The firm is not a partnership, it was pointed out, but the two attorneys will continue to share the reception rooms and clerical assistants.' The firm originally was organized several years ago as Nelson, DeVoss, Smith and Macklin and from the beginning was operated separately with each attorney sharing the reception rooms and other facilities. After the death of the late Nathan G. Nelson, the other three continued as DeVoss, Smith and Macklin. Macklin said today that he planned to continue to serve as the Democratic member of the county board of election commissioners and also as county attorney. (Oonuiiuwt on Fate Five) Four-Year-Old Girl Crushed By Tractor DUNKIRK, Ind. (INS) -Four-year-old Linda Colene Reid was , crushed to death beneath the ( wheels of a tractor on her par- ■ ents’ farm one mile west of Dunkirk. | The child fell Worn the tractor ( being Operated by her father. She ( died several hours later in the j Jay bounty hospital at Portland.

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— Speculation On Possible Hitch At Cairo Talks No Annduncement Os Reaching Agreement On Peace Formula ’CAIRO (INS) — UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold ended the first phase of his dramatie middle east peace mission today asserting “I have done in Cairo what I came for.” He made the statement following a 31-mtnute meeting with Egyptian premier Gamal Abdel Nasser. The briefness of the meeting and the grave manner used by Hammarskjold led to speculation, however, that an unexpected hitch had developed in his Cairo talks. The cryptic statement was Hammarskpold's first comment on negotiations he had had this week In Cairo In an httempt to coo) off the threat of a hot war between the Arabs and Israel. There was no announcement ae to whether he had obtained any type of agreement with Nasser on a formula for easing tension. .Hammarskjold was scheduled to fly to Beirut, Lebanon, this after- ' nopff for weekend consultations with -M*-«taff. En route.’ it was believed, he might stop to inspect the strife-torn Gaza coastal area. The UN secretary general was reported cautiously optimislct as he started the talks with Nasser today. Diplomats In the Egyptian capital had forecast he would obtain endorsement by Nasser of a “pocket formula," which reportedly included withdrawal of troops from the immediate border area and limitations on the number of troops and the type of arms they could carry in the frontier area. Therfrwas also no word on whether the world organization chief had approached Nasser on the subject of a face-to-face Arab-Israeli meeting. The world organization leader was understood to be hopefur-of climaxing his present dramatic peace mission with some type of agreement to get the Middle East adversaries to sit down together, probably at Geneva. There had been no comment, official or otherwise, by Egyptians on Hammarskjold’s reported project, but neutral diplomats in Cairo doubted that even strong man Nasser could risk agreeing t© attend such a session in view of the climate of intense hatred among Egyptians. Terms of Hammarskjold’s peace proposals have not been officially disclosed, but the plan to ease tension is understood to include a withdrawal of troops from the immediate border, limitation of the number of troops on the frontier and restrictions on the type of arms they carry. Fear Victor Riesel May Lose Eyesight Columnist May Not Recover His Sight NEW YORK (INS) “Signs of regression” shadow the hope physi. clans held earlier that labor columnist Victor Riesel, victim of an acid throwing attack, would recover his sight. A medical bulletin issued Friday at St. Care’s hospital, New York, sai<j: “The next several days are highly critical ones in the fight to save Victor Riesel's sight. “Today, there were regrettably signs of regression in Mr. Riesel’s ability to distinguish bedside visitors.” « The labor columnist's eyes had been seared by sulfuric acid when a still uncaptured, assailant dashed the fluid in his face as he was leaving a Broadway restaurant (Continued on Page Five)