Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 95.

SHIP SINKING MAKES BOTTLENECK OF RIVER f •■ , ■.,. . ' '' s " k_ 3HH SEVEN SHIPS, bound for ports up and down the Great Lakes, lie at anchor off Detroit, Michigan, fob lowing the sinking of the vessel, A. W. Byers tn a collision in the St. Clair River. No traffic can move on the important Great Lakes link until the wrecked vessel is removed from the channel.

Frank Sparks Puts Name In Governor Race Former President Os Wabash College Enters GOP Race - IN MAN APO LIS (INS) — Dr. Frank H. Sparks, educator and businessman, today formally an* nuunced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Governor. Dr. Sparks, who was born on a farm near Gas City and who became president of Wabash College after retiring from a successful business career, is being boomed as a compromise candidate to relieve the factional tension in the Indiani ILO.P. ranks. This tension arises from the rivalry of two gubernatorial aspirants, Lieut. Gov. Harold W. Handley. the front-runner on the basis of newspaper polls who is a political enemy of Governor George N. Craig, and state revenue commissioner Frank T. Millie, who is backed by many Craig lieutenants. Other GOP candidates are Dan Cravens, of Franklin, former member of the Indiana alcoholic beverage commission, and Francis T. McCarty, farmer-industrialist of Brimfield, Noble county, who ran for the title unsuccessfully four years ago. State, representative Merrett R. Monks, of Winchester, first announced sos the GOP nomination but a tew weeks ago said he had withdrawn from the GOP and now is an "independent Republican” aspirant. In hia announcement. Dr. Sparks said': "Thia decision has been reached by me and Mrs. Sparks after careful consideration and is based on the favorable reception given me in meetings held in the 11 congressional districts in the last two weeks.” "I am convinced that I can help unite the Republican party in Indiana and strengthen its position in the fall election. “Many factors have entered into this decision but the chief one is a deep-seated desire to help main tain those Institutions which have contributed so largely to the greatness of America. "If the people of Indiana think me worthy of this high office, both of us pledge ourselves faithfully _ to endeavor, to fulfill their expectations remembering always that one’s capacity to serve is in direct ratio to his understanding and acknowledgement of God as the source of all intelligence, wisdom and strength.” Dr. Sparks, now 65 years old. and a companion developed a company manufacturing automobile tire pumps when they were young men. The enterprise became Nob-litt-Sparks Co., now Arvin Industries. After making a fortune, Dr. Sparks decided he wanted more than a high school education. So at the age of 39 he enrolled in an English class at Butler University. Later he attended the universities of Ariton a and Southern California, winning a Phi Beta Kappa key. The candidate became president of Wabash In 1941 and made that little college nationally famous. He Is close to President Eisenhower and is chairman of the national committee of the White Hanse conference on education. He Is opposed to federal aid for education. (Continued on Par* Five) NOON EDITION"

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Margaret Truman To Wed This Afternoon To Wed Newsman In Church Ceremonies INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (INS)— It is Margaret Truman’s wedding day—and the town is wrapped In sunshine, and the bride is rapt in love. The “career girl" fell and suddenly she la all soft eyes and . intuitive woman. —, I Asked if she would follow tradi- - tlon and stay away from her pro- . spective husband Clifton Daniel . Jr., until time for the wedding i march, the bride shuddered inl voluntarily. “No.” She said. “I don't expect to try.” The rest of the Truman clan, > observing Margaret’s willy nilly > status, arc tending to frantic last minute preparations for their 4 ■ p. m. “family-only” marriage in Trinity Episcopal Church. While Margaret and her fiance i visit with their wedding party in - the Truman house on Truman . road, her mother is decking out the parlor of the old fashioned i home where Margaret was born--32 years ago. It is to be bowered i in pink apd white confection col- • or, designed to please the 150 or ■ so reception guests who will flood . in shortly after the ceremony. t Outside the quaint brick church, i a canopy is being strung up and -a plush carpet laid down. A small core of Independence . police are standing by to make certain that Harry S. Truman’s i orders “keep it dignified" are carI ried out. Hundreds of admirers will clump around the church for a peek at their local girl who made a good match in the big i city. Relatives of the Truman and Daniel clans —one from Missouri, the other from North Carolina — have arrived in Independence for the wedding. Shortly after the informal buffet reception, Margaret and Cliff leave for Nassau and a two weeks honeymoon. "He said he’d teach me to swim,” brags Margaret, throwing her fiance ont of these raptured looks the painters long to capture. Margaret's fiance,. like herself, appears to be unusually devoted —particularly considering that he is a long-standing bachelor employed in the blase newspaper business. . Friday night, at the first press conference at which the two had joined hands in dialogue, they delighted reporters with their informality. Describing their first meeting last November. Margaret confessed she loved Cliff because "he was a tease.” Cliff said he fell for Margaret because "she was pleasingly pretty.” Daniel admitted, "Thank the Lord I am not” assigned to t a story like this one—like his marriage to Margaret Truman, expresident’s daughter. “But I covered the coronation of the queen of England.” he said gallantly, “And it's much the same type of thing.” Lions To Entertain Ladies Monday Night The Decatur Lions club members will entertain their ladies at the joint dinner meeting with the Adams county musk association Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock at the Youth and Community Center. Speaker for the evening will be Miss Jang Marks, a .representative of the Clvle Cdneert Service, Tne. All Lions clnb members and their wives are urged to be present.

Reds Protest U. S. Plans On Nuclear Tests U. S. Expected To Reject Protest By Russians On Tests WASHINGTON (INS) — The U. S. is expected to reject a Soviet protest over the American plan to hold nuclear weapons testa around Eniwetok Island in the Pacific May 8. The note charged that the tests would “endanger the life and wellbeing of the populations of trusteeship territories as well as the populations of a number of states in Pacific area." , It added that the testa art “incompatible with the aims and principles" Os the United Nations trusteeship system and would “violate .the most important principles of international law.’’ Radio Moscow made the note public Friday night, although a Soviet embassy courier casually dropped it at a state department reception desk on Wednesday. ’- The department said the protest would be answered “in due course," but officials privately reguarded it as another effort to set up a roadblock In the way of the U.S. nuclear weapons program. Operate In IH7 UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) '—UN officials predicted today that the international atomic energy agency, resulting ftom President Eisenhower'S “atoms - tor - peace” plan, will be Operating full blast by the summer of 1957. ' j A blueprint for the creation and structure Os the agency was agreed upon by twelve'nations in Washington this week. The governing charter they drafted will be approved for ratification by the governments at a UN headquarters congress of 84 countries next September. The proposed agency, closely linked to UN but not subject in any respect to the security council veto, will function as both a bank and brokerage house for non-wea-pon grade fissionable materials. lOMtanusa on t*ar« ■&> Willshire Garage Destroyed By Fire A new garage, just built a year ago, at the home of Ed Anderson in Willshire, 0., was destroyed by fire late Friday afternoon. The ear, tools and other items in the garage were also damaged beyond repair. Willshire firemen who were called were able to prevent the fire from doing extensive damage to the house adjacent to the garage. Flames touched one corner of the home but damage was slight. Anderson is .< mechanic at Macklin’s garage in Decatur. One Accident, Two Arrests Reported One accident and two arrests were reported by the city police Friday. The accident Involved a motorcycle driven by Jerry Baughman of route three, Decatur, and a tractor operated by John R. Lengerich, rural route five, Decatur. The collision occurred at the intersection of Second and Monroe streets. Lengerich was arrested after the accident tor failure to yield the rfght-of wiy. Frederick Lengerich, rural route one, Decatur, was arrested tor reckless driving on Monroe street St JW Re Win appear in court later.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 21, 1956.

Israel Premier Makes New Offer To Confer With Egypt’s Leader

... — Ostrander Bond Set At $15,000, In Court Today Pauper Attorney Is Named; Youth Also In Court Today Bond on Charles William Ostrander, 37, of Bluffton, who ‘is charged in circuit court with* kidnapping, rape and robbery of a young Decatur couple last week, was set at $15,000 Friday in Adams circuit court. The bond was set by Judge Myles Parrish during arraignment proceedings which were 'continued to thia morning. Friday afternoon Osti rander told the court that he would secure his own counsel but this morning he reversed his testimony, stating that he had no means to employ legal counsel. The court appointed G. Remy Bierly to represent Ostrander. The Bluffton man has not yet entered a plea and will not do so until he has had a chance to confer with Bierly. The affidavit against him is on three counts, kidnapping, which - carries a mandatory life sentence • on conviction, rape, which carriw '■ two to JI years, and robbery, which > carries 10 to 25 years. ! An affidavit on one count, kidnapping, was filed Friday afternoon by prosecuting attorney Lewis • L. Smith against Kenneth T* ■ Thompson, 15, also of Bluffton, who • was arrested with Ostrander Wednesday night in Decatur by ; local authorities. i Arraignment proceedings on Thompson were being held this morning in circuit court at press time. He has obtained his own counsel, John F. Decker, a Bluffton attorney. The two are alleged to be the men who attacked a young Decatur boy ahd girl, robbing the boy and raping the girl, on the night of April 12. , Employment Gain Shown In Decatur Industrial Payroll Also Increases Here Industrial employment in seven Decatur manufacturing plants showed a gain to 1,570 on March 31 compared with a total of 1.390 in the same Industries in March, of 1955, according to the monthly Chamber of Commerce report. The payroll jumped to $593,418 compared with $562,159 a year ago. There 29 persons on direct poor relief compared with 75 in March 1955. Electric meters totalled 3,899 compared with 3,842 a year agoj_ water meters showed a gain from 24,444 to 2.514 in March 1956 and gas meters jumped to 2,325 from 2,259. Telephone installations totalled 6,064 compared with the March 1955 total of 5,852. There were 11 t (Continued on Page Three) Authorize flection Payment Schedules In a special session this morning at the court house, the county comm4«gsonere authorised the schedule payments for members of the precinct election boards. The schedule Includes sl2 for election judges and clerks, $9 for sheriffs and $22 for inspectors. The comisslonera also approved the transferal of the voting poll tor precinct 1-D. Voting in this precinct this year will ba in the rear of the Erie Restaurant, it was formerly at Arnold Lumber company. la other business this morning the commissioners approved the return of Mrs. Jewell Ehlnger from her Jeave-oPabsence from her duties as court house matron. She will reuiuat duties immediately.

Editors Will Hear j Ike And Stevenson Major Address By Eisenhower Tonight WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower and Adlai E. Ste- | venson square off before the Ameri lean society of newspaper editors ■ today in what amounts to a debate on U.S. foreign policy. Mr. Eisenhower will deliver a . major foreign policy address at 10 I p.m. (EST) over a nationwide . radio-TV hookup. It will be carried t "live” on television by Columbia Broadcasting System. i Stevenson, who invades Washington for the first time in his ( 1956 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, will apt pear at a 12:30 p.m. (EST) luncheon meeting. He said his speech will “center primarily on foreign ' policy.” The President’s speech at a ban- , quet concluding the editors’ threeday convention will be his first foreign affairs talk since he suf- ! sered a heart attack Sept. 24. I, Indications are he will discuss the significance of present Russian policy and the anti-Stalin ’ campaign, and the Middle East , crisis. t He will have an opportunity to t answer charges made by Stevent son. including his assertion in Philadelphia Thursday that the Eisenhower administration relies on “bluffs, threats, boast, brinks. ( or military pacts" in trying to achieve world peace. ’ ... Reports are that Stevenson will .. continue his attack on administra- , tion foreign policy by criticizing statements by Secretary of State ( John Foster Dulles several months ago that diplomacy involves moves ’ close to the “brink” of war. i Cooler Weather Is Forecast Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Sunny skies and warmer temperatures today gave Indiana’s week-end a favorable start. However, the forecast of the Indianapolis weather bureau was for party cloudy tonight and Sunday with cooler Sunday. Low temperatures tonight will range from 34 to 38 in the north and 38 to 44 in the south, according to the prediction. Indiana Labor Head Refuses To Resign Hinkle To Stay On Despite Demands SOUTH BEND, Ind. (I NS) — Indiana labor commissioner George F. Hinkle said Friday no "Democratic labor boss will dictate to the Republicans" as he repeated his refusal to resign tor his French Lick speech to the Indiana Chamber of Commerce. Hinkle told the French Lick gathered he favored legislation to bar the use of union dues in political campaigns. Hinkle, a member of Studebaker Local 5. UAW, warded off new demands for his resignation saying: “In my opinion, the rank and file union member believes with me that dues should not be used to swell coffers of political parties." Answering a charge by Stanley Ladd, president of St. Joseph country industrial union council, that Hinkle’s talk ruined any chance John Scott, former South Bend mayor, had of the GOP nomination for governor, Hinkle said: “Neither Stanley Ladd nor Dallas Sells nor Carl Mullin nor any other Democratic labor boss will dictate to the Republicans who will be their nominee for the office Os governor.’’ —‘ ~ ” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tohight and ' Sunday- Coolor Sunday. Low to»v night 32-42. High Sunday 48* 57. ‘ ■..<*/ ..

Soviet Leaders View British Atom Research Britain's Atomic Research Center At Harwell Inspected LONDON (INS)—Soviet leaders Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev inspected Britain’s atomic research center at Harwell today and their aidps began hammering out point-by-point a joint proposal on the Middle East. r Russia's Andrei Gromyko called on Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick this morning and together the two men began the task of drawing up a' blueprint of a Middle East understanding between Russia and the West. The proposal was to be based on preliminary discussions between prime minister Anthony Eden and Bulganin and Khrushchev during the first two days of their visit. While talks between Eden and the Russians were intensive they only outlined the general situation in the troubled Middle East. The blueprint was expected to be detailed and specific, including some hard proposals and many technical points at issue. It was believed the draft of proposals will be handed to Eden and the Russians at the next meeting at 10 Downing St. next Tuesday. Meanwhile Eden and his touring guests have an opportunity to re view the Middle East and German reunification problems over the weekend. They will motor to Sir Anthony’s country home, Chequers, for a weekend of consultations expected to cover the full range of BritishSoviet relations and world Affairs. British observers say Eden is likely to press the pair for some practical application of the disarmament message Khrushchev delivered Friday night. The Communist chief, addressing high - level British diplomats and military leaders at a dinner at the Royal Naval college at Greenwich, said the “only way out” of the present (Continued on Page Three) Mrs. Frank Kitson Dies This Morning County Auditor's Wife Dies Today Mrs. Frank Kitson, 60, of 808 West Adams street, and wife of the Adams county auditor, died at 7:30 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had beten in failing health for several months and seriously ill for the past few weeks. Born Tn Portland March’ls. 1896. ’ she was a daughter of Dawson F. and Louise Losch-Suman, and had been a resident of Decatur since Nov. 10, 1910. She was married to Frank Kitson July 10, 1919. Mrs. Kitson was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Pythian Sisters, Needle club, and the grand lodge. Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Mrs. Marguerite Von Gunten of Berne and Mrs. Patricia Brunnegraff of Jasper; two sons, Lloyd Kitson of Decatur and Herbert Kitson of Decatur; seven grandchildren; one brother, Wilbur Suman of Monmouth, and three sisters, Mrs. Gladys Crownover of Monroe, Mrs. Rath Ehrsam, in California, and Mrs. May Case of Decatur. • Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the. Black funeral home and at 2:30 p. m. at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. John E. -Chambers officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends iflay call at the funeral home after 8 p. m. < Sunday until time of the services.

Investigate lease Os Game Preserve State Geologist Is . Preparing Data INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — State geologist Charles F. Deiss today prepared technical data |o determine whether the proposed lease of the 900-acre Hovey Lake game preserve to oil drillers will ruin fishing and hunting in that reservation. A tentative lease has been obtained by the Mulzer Brothers, of Tell City, by a split decision of the state conservation commission, but Governor George N. Craig has stopped further action pending an inyastlgaHon —— — The delay resulted from allegations by Alfred A. Kiltz, of Evansville, commission chairman, concerning possible damage to hunting and Ashing. However, Raymond Keim, of Chili, a commission member maintained that the offset method of oil drilling would preclude any possible chance of contaminating the lake. Wells will be bored diagonally from the shore under the lake. Keim, who is president of the state conservation advisory council, said: “I would rather see oil wells on the Indiana statehouse lawn, as in Oklahoma, than any loss of the Hovey Lake property as a conservation spot. I insisted on a clause in the lease which would require stoppage of oil drilling immediately if the preserve’s natural attractions are damaged.” p - T ,„, Decatur Students On TV This Afternoon A group of Decatur high school students, all members of either the high school orchestra or the choir, will appear on television this afternoon. They are scheduled to appear on the “Teenage Tempo” program over Waterloo at 4:45 p. m., following the TV baseball game of the week. Seeking Jurors In Plane Murder Trial Defendant Graham Appears Unconcerned DENVER (INS) — The jury which will try John Gilbert Graham, 24, for the murder of his mother in an airplane dynamiting which cost 44 lives is expected to be obtained today—the sixth day of the trial. All week lawyers for the prosecution and defense have been picking, choosing and maneuvering to determine who should and who shouldn’t be on the jury. But they're now running out of peremptory challenges and soon both sides will announce: "Jury acceptable.” The cool, poker-faced defendant who looks like a high school senior, seems to be taking the battle over the jury in stride. He is brought to court each day, heavily manacled, but his shackles are removed just before he enters the courtroom. He no doubt realizes he is on a spot, accused of perpretating the biggest mass murder in the nation's history. But he looks less worried than a student who has flunked his exams. He listens with undisguised interest to the interrogation of prospective jurors—men and women - and now and then whispers advice to his lawyers. When h bit of humor crops up- in the proceedings he’s as fast as anyone in breaking into a smile. No one, just looking at him and not having read the newspapers, would suspect that this young man Is accused of having with premeditation planted a 25-stick dynamite time bomb in the luggage of his mother. Mrs. _ Daisie King, as she was about to board a United Air Lines Mainllner last Nov. 1.

New Offer By Ben-Gurion To Discuss Peace r Expresses Belief ’ Face-To-Face Talk May Bring Results JERUSALEM (INS) — Israeli ■ premier David Ben-Gurion has t made a new offer to meet faee-to-i face with Egyptian Premier Gamal . Abdel Nasser. In an effort to heal i the Middle East split. i Israeli sources reported today that Ben-Gurionexpressed belief. • during a conference with Dag ■ Hammarskjold Friday that a ses- • sion with Nasser might • the opportunity to air Arab aJI Israeli grievances and work ' system of coexistence. The Arabs have been cool to ’ previous overtones of a meeting ’ with Israeli officials, but observers ; felt there was a chance they might agree to a meeting at this time--i possibly in Rome or Geneva — under United Nations sponsorship. • The United Nations leader. de- • dined to comment on the possibility of an Israeli-Egyptian summit 11 meeting. s The UN secretary general aM. ’ Ben-Quriott conferred on a wide - range of regional and other iriat- • ters for 90 minutes at the pre--9 mier’s modest Jerusalem home. - Later Hammarskjold ended the - first phase of hie dramatic Middle East peace mission by returning to his temporary headquarters at Beirut, Lebanon. ! Noted Playwright : Dies This Morning !• Charles MacArthur f Is 111 Short Time n NEW YORK (tNS) - Charles MacArthur, playwright, film writer and husband of actress Helen Hayes, died this morning in New York hospital. Co-anthor with Ben Hecht of the famed “Front Page,” a hilarious play about newspapermen, the former newsman was stricken last Tuesday with nephritis, a kidney ailment, and severe anemia. New York hospital, where he died at 7:01 a. m. (EST) said he suffered hemorrhage early this morning. At the hospital when he died was Miss Hayes, to whom he had been married since 1928. - MacArthur'was 60 years old. The hard-drinking, exuberant, one-time madcap of Chicago journalism was the son of a Scranton, Pa., Presbyterian minister. _ In his boyhood, MacArthur lived at Nyack, N. Y., where he attended Wilson Memorial Academy. Later he and Miss Hayes had a home there for years. When his father transferred to Chicago in 1914, the playwright began his fabulous windy city newspaper carreer, which ran until 1923. He was a rewrite man on the Herald and Examiner staff of the late famed editor Walter Howey, the prototype for Walter Burns of "The Front Page." which MacArthur coauthered with fellowstaffer Ben Hecht. Hecht and MacArthur, crackerjack reporters and practical jolFers, later teamed up to write five plays and 15 film scenarios. Ho came to New York where he worked for a time on the old New York American and on the American Weekly. Miss Hayes and MacArthur were married in 1928 after his divorce from Caj-ol Frink, in 1926. In 1936, his first wife filed a SIOO,OOO alienation of affection suit against the actress, which she later dropped.

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