Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1956 — Page 1

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Dulles Feels War In Mideast Can Be Averted Says United States Has Not Made Any Change tn Positron WASHINGTON (INS) — Secre tary of state John Foster Dtilles said today he feels that war van be avoided in the Middle East. » The secretary told a news con ferencb he believes the chances are that there will be no war but it would be rash to spy there is no risk of war in that area at this time. Dulles said the U. S.- has not changed its position on the pro priety of the United Nations play Inga leading role in the search for peace in the Middle East and weltomes a Soviet statement support ing the mission of UN secretarygeneral Dag Hammarskjold. He said, however, that he has not yet seen< a full text of the Soviet announcement and the U. S. has learned to read the fine print in Soviet statements before taking a formal position. Asked if reports he had received from Hammarskjold indicate the secretary general is being success-’ ful in clearing up Middle Eastern troubles, Dulles said he feels that Hammarskjold is making good progress. It would be over-optimistic, he added, to assume that the immediate troubles had been cleared away. —Bitt Dulles said Hammarskjold has made a good start on the issues of obtaining greater -free dom of movement for UN inspection teams and a separation of • forces along the armistice boundaries of Israel. The secretary also made these other points at his news conference: 1. The U. S. has no intention of trying to establish a boycott on the shipment of arms to Israel by other free world powers. 2. The. primary responsibility for £ permanent settlement in the Far East rests with the countries im mediately concerned, hut the UN can and should play a decisive role in any such permanent peace 3. The danger of Communist sub version in Latin America lias sub-> sided in the past two years, yet there is a need to improve methods of exchange of information on Communist tactics in the Americas. 4. The U. S. looks with concern upon action by two southern states . — South Carolina and Alabama — boycotting Japanese textile im- . ports and this could lead to reciprocal boycotts by other countries against U. S. goods. 6. He doubts the feasibility of placing Cyprus under NATO control. 6. The administration Is still working actively to push long term foreign aid and the President probably will discuss this in his talk Saturday.

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One Man Killed In ♦ Pennsylvania Storm 11 Others Injured During Freak Wind WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (INS) — Damage was estimated at more than 1100,000 from a freak wind of hurricane velocity which swept through Horsham township, near Philadelphia. (Monday, killing one man and injuring 11 others. The wind, clocked at 86 miles s per hour at the Willow Grove * naval air station, leveled buildings, damaged roofs of homes and business establishments, felled s wires and uprooted trees, t Seven men were buried under i tons of cinder blocks, bricks and i steel beams as the wind roared across the naval air station and t toppled a 150-foot long wall at . the partly completed Kellett Aircraft Corp, building Five other men were struck by flying pieces of the wreckage. One Os them was killed instantly. He - was Thelbert T. White, Jr., 45. The wind also ripped off a cori nep of a new supermarket under ■ construction, and flung a threestpry barn on top of an adjacent t smaller barn. Begin Resurfacing 01 Monroe Street Highway Route Is Being Resurfaced r —— There was limited traffic and no I parking in effect on Monroe street . today as workmen prepared the street for, a resurfacing job which . will extend to Second street from - 13th street. State hignway employes were preparing the street and Meshberger Stone Co. will be in charge of the resurfacing. Residents along the street are asked to re- ' frain from parking their automobiles on the street until the work is completed, which will be Friday night provided the weather per- ■ mits the work to be done. Workmen start at 7 o’clock in the morning and vehicles parked at that time will be towed off the . street. Monroe street west through Decatur also is two federal and state, highways. They are 224 and , 33. Trjue Andrews, state highway i sub-district superintendent, said that the street improvement would be made east from 13th street to Second street and if there was ’ sufficient material, the improvement would be continued to the Monroe street bridge. \ INDIANA WEATHER Frost warning south portion. Partly cloudy north, generally fair with some scattered frost south tonight. Wednesday mostly fair, continued 0001. Low tonight 2833. Hlnh > Wednesday 50-55 north, 55-60 south.

UN Secretary Confers With Israel Leader • Assurances Sought Egypt Will Stifk .? By Her AgreemenU JERUSALEM (INS) —Premier David Ben-Gurion questioned Dag Hammarskjold closely today about assurances that Egypt would stick by her agreement to keep peace on the tense Israeli-Egyp-tian borders. Israeli foreign ministry sources said the tough, old premier also did some plain talking about extending the scope of Hammarskjold's “peace mission” to matters beyond a border cease-fire. Ben-Gurion, noted for his blunt, straight - forward approach, received the UN secretary general in his office in the center of Jewish. Jerusalem. Joining in the talks were foreign minister Moshe Sharett foreign ministry Arab specialist Gideon Ralphae. armistice representative Joseph Tekoah and senior UN representative Modrecai Kidron. The foreign ministry sources said that before getting Into any detailed work about how many yards Israeli forces would be pulled back from the border under a truce plan, Israel wanted to know what assurances Hammarskjold has that Egypt’s current quiesence is not merely temporary. Hammarskjold flew in from Beirut this morning and was met at Lydda airport by Sharett. They drove directly to Jerusalem and the conference with Ben-Gur-ion began immediately. The UN chief will live in the renter of “no-man's land” as a guest of Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, the Canadian who is truce chief, tn a rambling, lonely “Government house.” Hammarskjold again refused to talk to newsmen. A spokesman said Hammarskjold's plans still fluid and that he did not know bow long he would remain in Israel. Ben-Gurton reportedly had little confidence that Hammarskjold would |ind a solution to the ArabIsraeli crisis. - - Ben-Gurion. was said to be suspicious of Hammarskjold’s peace mission because it is limited to finding ways of easing the border tension that has caused several dangerous clashes btween Egyptian and Israeli forces. Ben-Gurion’s demands go much further as he showed in a letter to Hammarskjold which was revealed Monday. He demanded that the UN chief get Egypt to lift its blockade of Israeli shipping through the Suez Canal and to find out if the Arab nations still consider themselves at war with the Zionist state.

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Eisenhower Soil Bank Proposal Facing Cool Reception In Congress

Cominform Dissolved By Soviet Union • Reports From Back Os Iron Curtain State Dissolution PARIS (INS) — Reports from behind the Iron Curtain tonight said that the Soviets have dissolved the Cominform, which the-west-ern allies have accused of being a subversive group. The Paris newspaper FranceSoir first reported the story in a Budapest dispatch. A later dispatch from Prague said that an official announcement might be published Bi Wednesday’s’ newspapers. *.r ’ The French foreign office said it had no confirmation of the report. and a spokesman at the Soviet embassy in London said “no comment.” France-Soir's brief Budapest dispatch said the dissolution was announced in a series of 15-minute mass meetings of a “spontaneous” type. It said that the Cominform newspapers “for a lasting peace,” ami “for a peoples democracy,” would cease publication. The Cominform was established (Continued on Page Five) Speed Driver Lauds Safety Check Plans INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Ab Jenkins, champion speed driver, has praised the Indiana vehicle safety cheek program to be held next month, saying: “Any driver in a defective automobile is a reckless driver and should be dealt with as such. A good driver with an unsafe car is just as dangerous as a reckless driver with a safe car.” May 7 Deadline For Spring Taxes Spring installments on property tax payments are due» now at the county treasurer’s office, according to county treasurer Waldo E. Neal. The final day for payment is Monday, May 7, and any payments not made by that date will become delinquent and will have a penalty amount added. The office is open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to noon. On the two Saturdays preceding the tax payment deadline, April 28 and May 5, the office will remain open until 4 p.m. Plot To Assassinate Mendes-France Fails Two Frenchmen Are Seized In Morocco RABAT. Morocco (INS)-r-Former French Premier Pierre MendesFrance escaped unharmed early today from an apparent assassination attempt in Rabat by two Frenchmen armed with revolvers. A guard at the residency house in Rabat/ where Mendes - France had been staying, was wounded when he surprised the two men as they approached the building. The guard returned the fire and seriously wounded one of the men. The other escaped (but was picked up later in a bar in Rabat. Police said Mendes-France had left the residency house several hours before the attack and returned to Paris. The former premier, who now is minister of state in the Guy Mollet cabinpt, was in Rabat to attend a political convention. The residency house guard had < been reinforced after reports reached police that an attempt would be made to murder the former premier, apparently because of his advocacy of liberal policies to- : ward the Nationalist movements in French North Africa.

GOP Leaders Warn On Veto Reaction Midwest Heads Say Veto To Hurt Party WASHINGTON (INS) — Midwest Republican leaders pulled no punches today in warning a GOP campaign conference that President Eisenhower's farm bill veto will make their 1956 race “tougher” in, the farm l?elt. (leorge F. Etzeli, Republican national committeeman'*from Minnesota, said this was the consensus of closed-door reports from Kansas and South Dakota GOP leaders who are concerned about the farm problem. In his second major speech in 24 hours, President Eisenhower ' will address the party leaders from 48 states tonight. The Chief ; Executive defended his farm bill veto Monday night in a radio • television - «peeeb In which- he termed the legislation a “hodgepodge.” Etzell’s, statement was in sharp contrast with GOP national chairman Leonard W. Hall’s assertion that the President’s veto will “help the Republican party" because it would show that the Democrats were “playing politics with the farmers.” A parade of other big farm state leaders before Etzeli;s seven-mem-ber GOP committee was scheduled today, as the campaign conference winds up. Party chiefs! from Colorado. North Dakota. 'Minnesota, lowa and Nebraska were to appear in that order. Six other committees, eath representing national committee members and Republican members of congress, were meeting at the same time. Decatur Student Is State Youth Officer Agler Is Selected As Vice President DeWayne Agler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Agler of 608 Patterson street, was elected vice president <;>f the state youth recreation association at the annual meeting in Indianapolis Monday. Agler, who is president of the junior class at Decatur high school, attended the meeting as representative of the Decatur Youth Center, where he is one of the members of the "Teen Council.” Fourteen members of the Youth Center, accompanied by their adult advisors, attended the conference which was held in connection with the governor’s conference on recreation. The group discussed six major problems facing most Youth Centers: 1. What can be planned for after-school recreation in our center? 2. How can we Interest youth in our center? 3. How can youth take an active part with adults in planning for the center ? 4. How can we show our parents and civic leaders the value of our center? 5. What special activities and projects can we plan for our center? 6. How can we financially support our center? Following a morning of discussion and business meeting, the group joined the adult conference to hear Dr. Kenneth McFarland speak on the subject: “Leaders (Continued on fare Five) Forecast Cool Wave Continuance In State INDIANAPOLIS (INS)—The cool wave will continue in Indiana for the next five days with temperatures six to eight degrees below normal, according to the forecast of the Indianapolis weather bureau today. Normal maximums are 60 to 70 degrees and normal minimums 40 to 47 degrees. The forecast was for unseasonably cool Wednesday and Thursday followed-by a slow warming trend Saturday and Sunday.

Soviet Pledges U. N. Support To Keep Peace Soviet Government To Support Action To Maintain Peace MOSCOW (INS) —The Soviet Union today pledged “necessary support” for any United Nations measures to achieve an Arab-Is-raeli peace. A Soviet foreign ministry statement said that the government will i “support any UN action to I strengthen peace in Palestine.” “The U.S.S.R. considers,” the I statement added, “that measures should be taken to this end without any outside Interference. "The Soviet government calls upon all interested parties to do nothing to upset lines of demarcation between Arab states and Israel.” The first reaction In London was that the statement was an Important bid by the Russians to prevent aw orsening of the situation in the Middle East. Moscow said that “the Palestine question should be settled, taking into account the interests of lai ■ ' ÜbvWt government,” It said, “is ready to assist in helping achieve such a settlement.’ The Kremlin statement came as ’ a surprise. ; First reaction of western observ- ’ ers was that the statement apparently was intended to win the “peace initiative” in the Middle East. The statement called on the Middle Eastern nations to refrain from actions capable of worsening the situation along thp Arab-Israeli frontier. It was issued on the eve o.f the arrival in Britain of Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist party secretary Nikita Khrushchev. It also occurred at a time when the Paris newspaper France Soir carried a Budapest dispatch saying that the cominform, or Communist information bureau, had been dissolved. The propaganda bureau which links red-ruled states long has been under attack by the West. Its dissolution would be a placating move by Moscow. Eight New Members Inducted By Lions Weekly Meeting Is Held Monday Night Eight new members were formally inducted into the Decatur Lions club at the weekly dinner meeting Mondaj’ evening at the Youth and Community Center. Joe Brewster, of Berne, Lions deputy district governor, formally inducted Merle Affolder, Ernest Atkinson, John Brecht, Gordon Hooper, Dick Kershner, Leo Seltenright. Richard Evans and Ralph Smith. Jr. Don Brewer, Decatur high school student, gave a brief talk on the aims of the Adams county civic music association, with whom the Lions will hold a joint meeting next Monday. Frank Lybarger, club president, announced that tickets for the three-ring circus, sponsored by the Lions club, are now on sale. Tickets for the circus, which will, be presented at Hanna-Nuttman park Tuesday. May 8, are priced at 50 cents for children and $1.20 for adults. Entertainment for last night’s meeting was provided by the Decatur Music House Dixtecats, who specialize in Dixieland style music. Members of the six-piece band are Chuck “Fingers” Kester, Jerry “Ycaehr. Frank Carlyle, Tony Kelly, John Paul McAhren and Mamie] Mendez. The band is available for dances, entertainments, banquets and similar events.

New Jersey Primary Election On Today Underdog As Usual TRENTON, N. J. (INS) — About a million New Jersey voters go to the polls today in a primary contest that finds Sen. Estes Kefauver as usual, the underdog. The predicted few light showers could cut even further into the turnout of a fraction of 2,600JK)0 registered party members the Garden state. The voters have two duties —to pick delegates to the national conventions and to express their preferences in the so-called "beauty contests," where —in fact — there are no printed contests. Democratic voters have the most work In picking delegates to the convention. There is no delegate contest on the Republican ticket. Delegates pledged to Kefauver sought votes against the organization slate of Democratic Governor Robert E. Meyner. State chairman George E. Brunner said. "We are conceding no delegates to Kelauver.” However, observers believed that the Tennesseean might collect two, four or even more delegate votes. The senator said he would pick up at least ten delegate votes. The organization Democratic slate is uncommitted, although Meyner is regarded as a aupporter of Adlai Stevenson.'-L;' -- Tn the “beauty contest” preferential vote, observers believed Kefauver might total more than the 154,964 ballots he received in 1952. He’s unopposed in the Democratic preferential; President Eisenhower is unopposed in the Republican. But the voters can write in names of men they would like to see nominated.

To Plan Civic Music Drive This Evening Meeting Tonight To Map Detailed Plans Final details of the Civic Music Association membership campaign which extends from April 23 through 28 will be planned and explained at a meeting of campaign officials at 7:30 o’clock this evening at the Leland Smith Insurance office. Glenn Hill, president of the local association, will be in charge of the meeting which will feature a discussion of the membership campaign by Mrs. Edith Lowry, a representative of the Civic Concert Service with which the association is affiliated. Tonight's meeting will be attended by executives of the association, committee chairmen, division chairmen and campaign captains. All captains have been urged to make a special effort to be present for the meeting. —___— —— Miss Jane Marks, another representative of the concert service, will be in Decatur next week during the membership campaign to assist members of the local organization in completing a successful drive for members. The membership drive officially opens with a kick-off dinner Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. All officials of the association and workers in the campaign are invited to attend the dinner. Reservations for the event are due by Thursday evening and can be made with O. M. McGeath, director of the center, who is in charge of dinner arrangements. All campaign captainfl have been asked to contact their workers and report to McGeath on the number who will attend. Membership dues are 67.50 for adults and $4 for students. They entitle the -holder to attend at least three concerts by nationallyknown , artists. Memberships will not be available after Saturday,' April 28, and absolutely no single session tickets will be sold for the concerts next season.

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Sen. Ellender Says Proposal Pure Politics Democrats Burned Over Eisenhower's Farm Measure Veto BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS) — House speaker Sam Raybum (D-Tex.) conceded today that Democrats In congress will be unable to muster enough votes to override President Eisen* hower's veto of the farm bill. WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower and GOP congressional leaders mapped strategy today for getting his "pay-in-ad-bank planthrough con* gross. But the proposal, which could put an extra half billion dollars in farmers’ pockets this year, faces a cool reception on Capitol Hill where Democrats are burning over the President's veto of the farm bill. Republican leaders said after meeting with Mr. Eisenhower at the White House that they see no reason why Democrats who supported the soil bank proposal in the vetoed bill should refuse to bach the Senate- GOP leader William. P, X Know-land. Calif., deolared: "We can see no reason, if there is a real desire to help the farmers of the country, why they should not help advance this program... “I can’t believe that purely for political purposes . . . that they would now turn around and oppose something they previously supported. "If there is going to be obstructionism or foot-dragging, that is something the country will have to judge.” House Republican leader Joseph W. Martin, Jr., Mass., said he will call a conference of house Republicans in an effort to obtain unanimous support of the President’s proposal. Both Knowland and Martin said they are confident the President’s veto will be sustained by a big margin .if an effort is made to override the action. Knowland said the soil bank plan could be approved by the senate within two weeks if there is a “desire and will” to enact it into ,aw - Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) senate agriculture committee chairman, however, labeled the proposal "pure political poppycock.” Ellender added in an interview: "I would not trust the secretary of agriculture with a billion dollar soil bank.” He charged that the farm law is now being "dishonestly administered.” Meanwhile, influential house members said the controversial farm bill may be buried without the formalities of a vote on overriding the veto. At the same time, house Democrats made it clear that if any new farm legislation is launched, they will try to Include some form of 90 percent price supports. One said this might be a modified version of the controversial Brannan plan. Mr. Eisenhower told his nationwide audience that, he vetoed the bill calling for high price supports because he will not permit the farmer to become “a political football.” He said the measure sent to him was a "hodgepodge.” The President urged prompt action on a soil bank—also included in the vetoed farm bill—and proposed that farmers who sign up for the program be paid immediately 50 percent of the promised government payments. Under the plan incorporated in the rejected measure, farmers would not receive payments for taking land out of production until the start of the next crop year. Mr. Eisenhower said in arguing for his new plan: "If farmers generally psrtk-ipate In the soil bank (OonunuM on Fa*e StgUt)