Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1956 — Page 1

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Soviet Leaders Attend Debate In Parliament Russians Appeal To Eden To Help Repeal Free World Embargo LONDON (INS) - Nikolai Bulggnip apd Nikita 8. Khrushchev ho d ths novel experience today of hearing a free parliamentary de bate in a real democracy. The visiting Soviet premier and Communist party first secretary watched "question time” from the distinguished visitors’ gallary of the honse of commons. The Russians heard prime minister Sir Anthony Eden tell a questioner that his government would issue a full statement on the current Anglo-Soviet talks as soon as they were completed. Bulganin and Khrushchev drove to parliament from a two-hour conference with Eden at 10 Downing St. The Russians appealed to Eden to help end the free world's embargo on strategic trade with the Soviet Union. A foreign office communique said the disarmament problem and the possibility of Anglo-Sov-iet cultural exchanges also were discussed. While Bulganin and Khrushchev watched Eden and his ministers answer questions in com- ( mons, debate also was in progress in the house of lords. Lord Pakenham called on the government to discuss with the Russians the fate of Baron Moc-sonyi-Styrcea who aided the allies during World War II and is now imprisoned in Romania on political charges. Monday night, Khrushchev turn ed down a request by Laborites for information on the fate of 200 Social Democrats known to be imprisoned in Soviet satellites. Khrushchev angrily told the La* borites that Russia could not interfere in the activities of other states. The drama of the commons session was heightened by the appearance of Sir Winston Churchill. The former British prime minister gave the Russians a long look before settling into his frontrow seat and studying some documents. Eden was at his parliamentary sharpest in parrying questions, some of which dealt with the supply of arms to Egypt by various countries. / The foreign office announced earlier that Bulganin and Khrushchev had postponed until Friday, their scheduled day of departure, p news conference originally planned for Wednesday. No reason for the postponement was given but it was decided upon after Khrushchev had become embroiled in an angry outburst with leaders of the British Labor party Monday night following a public, speech that was heavily larded with threats. The communique on this morning's meeting at No. 10 Downing St- mentioned simply that the subjects discussed ware cultural exchanges. trade, and the disarmament problem. (Continued on Page Five)

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Craig Battling To Retain Party Helm Seeking Defeat Os Handley As Nominee INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Governor George N. Craig is one of the busiest political leaders in Indiana today. He is scurrying about the state on a county-by-county tour in which he already has visited 23 counties » in the past few weeks and is holdr ing numerous private conferences I apparently with the following ob- ■ Jectivq*: 1. To retain control of the Repub--1 lican state committee In the face r .of a seizure attempt led by former i Governor Ralph F. Gates. r 2. To defeat his arch-enemy. _ Lieut Gov. Harold W, Handley, tor - the GOP gubernatorial nomination, i 3. To make himself available for t a cabinet post if President Eiseni hower is reelected. s Gates, who is national committeeman. also would like to be state » chairman. He also is quietly manr aging the gubernatorial bid of - Handley. He is handicapped by the > lethargy of Senator William E. i Jenner, who had been expected to i help overthrow the governor’s control of the state organization. s The governor is working almost i frantically against Handley, who is - far ahead in the gubernatorial s standing, according to polls of both the Indianapolis News and Indian- - apolis Times. r. Many of Craig’s aides have been ■» booming state revenue cornmisi sioner Frank T. Millis for governoor, but there are some indica- > tions that Dr. Frank H. Sparks, in- » dustrialist and former Wabash Col- ■ lege president, may receive state - house backing, if Millis continues I to Slip. i A poll of both opposed and unopposed candidates for delegates to the GOP state convention, taken i by the Indianapolis Times, Monday > showed the following lineup for ! governor: Handley, 56.09 per cent; . Millis, 21.18; Sparks. 12.46; former - South Bend Mayor John A. Scott, ■ 3.26; Dan Cravens, former alco- ■ holic beverage commission member. 2.48, and Roy Amos, former Indiana American Legion commander. I.®L— The Indianapolis News poll sevi (Continued on Page Five) Musical Program At School Friday Night The annual variety musical pro- . gram presented by Decatur public i school instrumental groups, under he direction of Clint Reed, will be 1 held Friday at 8 p. m. in the aud- . itorium of Decatur high school. The program for the evening will feature classical, jazz and novelty ’ numbers by the Decatur high school orchestra and band and the ■ iunior band. Members of the Fort i Wayne Philharmonic orchestra . will play with these groups. i No admission will be charged tor ' the program but a free will offer- . ing will be taken for band expenl' see., The program for the evening will be announced later. INDIANA WEATHER Fair with scattered frost tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and warntor. Low ’torrtght IS--'S 3. ' Hiah Wednesday SM0 ’ north, 60-61 south. * :

Israel Charges Four Murdered By Egyptians Charges Civilians Are Murdered By Egypt Commandoes JERUSALEM (INS) — Israel charged today that Egyptian commandoes operating out of Jordan murdered four Israeli civilians Monday night in an ambush on a road along the Jordanian border. Foreign secretary Moshe Sharett sent an “urgent” note to UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold in Damascus charging- that the attack had all the signs of being another Egyptian commando raid “whatever territory the murderers may come from.” Albert Grand, a spokesman for the UN truce supervision organizations said truce observers already were investigating the incident that occurred near Beer Menuha on the Beersheba-Ellath road. The civilians were shot while driving in an automobile. The car was burned by the raiders, according to an Israeli army spokesman.. The victims of the ambush were three surveyors and a driver employed by the Israeli water planning authority. The attackers stole their rifles and personal effects, then set fire to the vehicle with the bodies inside. Hammarskjold was in Damascus conferring with Syrian leaders in his quest for peace in the Middle East. He was tentatively scheduled to fly to Jordan later in the day tor another round of ’ conferences. ' . The attack came less than a week after Hammarskjold had i successfully negotiated a renewed i cease-fire between Israel and I Egypt. ;*X Egypt agreed at the time to keep semi-military unite such as - the Fedayeen (suicide squad commandos) .under, . SyNa Accepts , DAMASCUS. Sjrrla (INS) - r Syria announced today conditional acceptance of the ceasefire , terms already arranged by Dag r Hammarskjold with Egypt and , Israel. / : . ' r The government announced . Syria would respect the cease-fire if Israel would abide by United . Nations security council resolut tions to maintain peace oh the . Syrian-Israeli frontier. t The UN secretary general end- » ed his two-day conference at Damascus.and prepared to fly to > Amman for talks with King Hqs- . sein and Jordan government leaders. Key to the problem is the Sea i of Galilee, scene of one of the . most bitter battles of the Arab- [ Israeli fighting. The sea is whol . ly within Israeli territory but is only ten yards from the Syrian , frontier at its northeast shore. Israeli Premier David,' Sen-Gur-ion reportedly offered to keep Is- . raeli fishermen on the fresh water seh from approaching too elose . to the Syrian Shore and to permit , Syrian farmers to water their i flocks there. Junior Town Meet Held This Morning Recording Will Be Broadcast Saturday “Are the morals of teen-agers deteriorating?”—That was the topic of discussion at Decatur high school, as members of the high school speech class and visiting speech students from Peru high school, conducted another junior Jown meeting this morning. Ron Ross, public service director of WOWO, acted as moderator and producer of the program which was recorded. Ross was introduced, by Don Brewer, from Decatur high, and , be explained the techniques of making the recording, and also gave a brief background of the The meeting was called to order by Stan Kirkpatrick. John Wold, a member of the Peru speech class, was the first speaker, stating that he definitely believed that the morals of teen-agers are deteriorating. Janet Lane, the second speaker, disagreed with him, saying that teen-agers do know and are taught right from wrong, and they know bow.to choose. The third speaker, Ralph Thomas from D.H.8., emphatically vetoed his opinion that, according to statistics, the morals of toen-agtog ars. ddtoriorating. and that beeaßke this Is An qge of prosperity, teen-agers hgve their (Continued on Pago Two)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 24, 1956.

Secretary Os Treasury Advises President Tax Cut Ruled Out For Year ■

Dulles Urges Expansion Os Atlantic Pact Enter Political And Economic ’ Affairs 1 Or Risk Decline WASHINGTON (IN8) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles declared today the North Atlantic treaty organization most enter political and economic affairs or risk a decline. He said the military aspects of NATO will continue as a major factor for some time but that it is necessary now to expand into other fields. Dulles also told a news conference that his proposal for expanding NATO was discussed with the permanent representative of the organization in Paris and was given a favorable hearing. The secretary said he envisioned activities in which NATO would help countries outside Europe with both trade and aid. Other points made by Dulles included: I. The greatest single task of post-war statesmanship is to heal disunity which in the past has led Jtb«war among Western nations. ■« J. The fact that * general war with Russia appears more remote , now than it did a year ago represents a solid advance for the free world in the cold war. 3. Russia now appears more tab- ; erant, more liberal and less fearsome than it did a year ago and that is a great victory in the cold war. f. The state department will protest to Russia if the current FBI investigation discloses that the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, Arkady Sobolev, acted improperly in persuading five Soviet seamen to drop their plea for political asylum and return to Russia. 5. The Russian hold on satellite nations appears to have been weakened by Soviet acceptance of the Titoist idea that a nation can have a communist government without being subservient to Moscow. (Continued on Page Five) Trees, Shrubbery Planted At Center Beautify Grounds At Community Center Sixty five volunteers, headed by Lowell Harper with technical assistance by county agricultural agent Leo Seltenright and Norman Marty and Henry Gilbert, landscape engineers of the extension horticulture department of Purdue University, almost 200 trees and pieces of shrubbery were planted at the Youth and Community Center today. Local manufacturing concerns and the city of Decatur donated equipment and men and many local men volunteered for the project. Several students from both Decatur high schools also volunteered their services. Included in today’s planting were 17 shade trees of various types and seven large evergreen trees. More than 100 evergreen shrubs and moraine locust of the decorative type also were planted. Shrubbery was placed along the driveways and across the front of the parking lot. Others were planted to obscure the trash cans near the kitchen door. The trees and shrubbery were purchased by the Foundation and all were part of the original plan. Money for the project was taken from the balance in the Foundation fund. At 2 o’clock this afternoon most of the work had been completed, and a few men remained to set up the last of the decorative shrubbery. The task of watering all of the new plantings was scheduled for late this afternoon.

Primaries Today In Two Stales, Alaska Massachusetts And Pennsylvania Vote WASHINGTON (INS) — Voters in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and balloted today in three of tbe nation's least decisive presidential primaries. AdlaL £. Stevenson and President Eisenhower apparently stand to benefit most from the “popularity” scorings. Each is unopposed in Pennsylvania, which offers a fat bloc of 74 convention votes to the Democratic candidate and 70 to the Republican. As a new resident of Pennsylvania, Mr. Eisenhower may turn out a big vote in the GOP side of the preferential primary. The President drove to his Gettysburg farm Monday night and .planned to be among the first to cast a ballot at his polling place. Pennsylvania is important to Stevenson as a means of dramatizing his “sure” strength in delegates and to offset the drubbing he took from Sen. Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.), in the March 20 Minnesota primary Kefauver’s "upset” victory there gave him 26 of Minnesota’s 30 votes. , , Massachusetts has 40 Democratic End 38 Republican convention votes, but elected convention deli ; , gp.tes aye not legally boufcd by the outcome of the preferential primary. * Alaska has a popularity contest between Stevenson and Kefauver in its preferential voting, but its * Democratic delegates, who will ■ have six convention votes, will be I named at a state convention. President Eisenhower will get the territory’s four GOP convention votes. Sen. William F. Knowland (R Calit), was entered in the primary but no longer is an active candidate. Alaska voters may elect convention delegates but do not participate in actual voting for president in November. This franchise is limited to the 48 states. o Plan Speech Clinic Here This Summer Plans Discussed At U Meeting Os Society “ Tentative plans for the speech clinic to be conducted in Decatur this summer, was the main topic of discussion at the meeting of the Adams county society toj-crippled children and adults, held last evening in the annex of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church.* £ An important financial report was given by the treasurer, GAil M, Grabill, who stated that after all the returns are turned in for the Easter Seal campaign. Adams county would more than likely exceed its goal of SIB,OOO. Mrs. Evelyn Wachstettef. direc tor of education from the Indianapolis state office for crippled children, was present for the meet ing. She congratulated the gropp on their fine achievements in helping crippled children, and also remarked that Adams county’s chap ter was one of the most active in the State. The dates for the speech clinic in Decatur have been provisionally set as the third week in June, with the testing being done the previous week. The society is hiring three trained therapists this year, and the clinic will be conducted vbry much like last year. A survey Is being made in the Berne schopls to find out the direct need to sponsor a clinic in Berne to help children in the southern part of the county. Teachers throughout Adams county will be given infpr* mation later with which they may contact the parents of children in need of aid. The Rev. W. C. Feller and Lester, Sprunger, co-chqfrmen 61 the-19$£, Easter Seal drive, especially voiced their thank* to the local hUfi, school people who did the ihlmeo* on Thg** Five)

Civic Music Group Opens Member Drive Dinner Last Night Opens Week's Drive For Members Here The membership drive of the Adams county Civic Music Association was officially opened Monday night with a kick-off dinner for campaign workers at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The drive for members will extend to Saturday at 7 p. m. and after that no memberships will be available. Membership entitles the holders to attend at least three concerts next season and more if the budget permits. It has been emphasized that absolutely no single session tickets will be sold at any of the concerts. Headquarters for the drive are at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, telephone 3-3116, and at the Berne Witness office, telephone 2-2 MI. A large organization of volunteer membership solicitors will,canvas* the county for members but any person who la not con--1 tacted may call at either of the ' headquarters for membership. Anmral due* are s7.%fr Tot. adults and $4 for students. These points and an explanation at the history and organization of r clvie music associations through- ’ out the - country were presented ’ last nighCby Mia* Jane Marks, a ’ representative of the Civic Concert Service with which the local association is affiliated. Miss . Marks stressed that civic music is non-profit and all dues go ' into the budget to pay for the concerts. She stated that every membership increases the value of other memberships and urged all campaign workers to make the effort necessary for a successful drive. The program for last night’s dinner also featured the singing of the Capehart Choraleers, prominent industrial choir from Fort Wayne. Rebecca Stucky of Berne presented organ music during the (Continued on Page Three) Scout Camporee At Bluffton June 1-2-3 Local Boy Scouts To Area Camporee Boy Scouts from Decatur and vicinity are expected to be among the nearly 2,000 troop members attending the Anthony Wayne council’s annual camporee at the Wells county state forest and game preserve near Bluffton," June T, 2, and 3. The three day. camping and scouting skills event is the year’s largest outdoor Boy activity in the nine' county council are?. The Bluffton site is being prepared tor more than 15.000 guests Sunday, June 3, the final day of the camporee. when parents and friends of the scouters will be Invited to visit the camp-site. Several hundred adult scout leaders and members of Bluffton service clubs will supervise the activities at the camporee. Members of the Bluffton national guard r pln* r police, Bluffton po,il«e. the Wells county sheriff’s office, ministers antt doctors of the Bluffton community will assist. The 1956 camporee Is the 2?th to be held in the Fort Wayne council area. The theme of the event will, be “Conservation,” an appropriate choice considering the fact that the huge tent city will be set up at one of the state’s most prominent and beautiful forest* and game preserves. Buffalo, deer, moose, elks, pheasant, quail, raccoons and many other animals and.bird? ire raised on this game Drfsdrve and Viewed by , at the'Cgrfitoree. , Flu 9 ingam Bluffton dairy tof the

Resigns Rev. H. J. Welty

Rev. Welty Quits Church Pastorate Missionary Church Minister Resigns Rev. Herald J. Welty, serving his - ninth year as pastor of First Mis- • sionary church in Decatur ha* re- > signed, effective August 81, it was - announced today! Rev. Welty is 1 the second oldest taiinister in years of service in Dechtur. i The Welty family will move to f Fort Wayne, Rev. Welty said, late i- in the summer, and he will enroll i in Fort Wayne Bible college where i he will take additional theological t work. >- After completing his Bible college work. Rev. Welty said that a he had not definitely decided on > the future. There is a possibility - that he will continue his college . work at Indiana University. r Rev. Welty has seen his local . church grow in membership durt ihg his tenure. He was the organizer of-the Sunday school parade, . an event used to stimulate attend- > ance at all Sunday schools, whose . churches are members of the Assocated Churches of Decatur. He has also served in the several offices of the Decatur ministerial association during his almost nine years in Decatur. The Missionary church uses the call method of selecting a new minister and no date has been set yet for hearing of candidates for the Ibcal post. Rev. Welty will continue to head the local church until the last Sunday in August, he said today. Testimony Supports Claims By Russia Close To Achieving Interoceon Missiles WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) disclosed today that secret testimony before congress has supported Soviet claims that they are close to achieving intercontinental missiles with H-bomb warheads. Anderson, chairman of the Joint congressional atomic committee, said the testimony “persuaded many of us that Russia had a missile capability that was prettt impressive,’’ and that it was based upon "accurate Information.” Sen. Walter George (D-Ga.) chairman of the foreign relatiop* committee, also warned that Communist boss Nikita Khrushchev's boasts about Russia's progress toward ocean-spanning guided missiles are "not idle talk.” The comments of the two topranking senators came after air force secretary Donald A. Quarles said Khrushchev’s statements in England were “very revealing as to his attitude,” and that America therefore must continue to maintain a "position of strength.” Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) former air force secretary, called Khrushchev’s- statements “a significant and terrible threat.’’,. Khroehchev said Russia was first to test an H-bomb dropped from a (Continued on Fage Five)

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Humphrey Says Election - Year Tax Cuts Out Battle Over Farm Legislation Moves Into Rules Group WASHINGTON (INS) —Treasury secretary George M. Hinn- - phrey has advised President Eisenhower that present indications on federal income -rule out” any new tax cut at this session of congress. This was disclosed today by senate Republican leader William F. Knowland. of Calif., after GOP congressional leaders held their weekly legislative conference with the President at the White House. Commenting on Capitol Hill proposals for an election-year tax cut, Knowland said: "All present indications are that there will not be sufficient reserve to justify tax cuts at this session of congress." . _ X . Knowland explained that this was the “consensus” of the President and his cabinet as well as of the legislative advisers. 1 Knowland pointed out that the 5 administration will not know until 1 the treasury reports-,>iy 20, on" '*' income fax returns just whatfed- ’ eral revenues will be. ‘ But, he said. Humphrey has * told the President that he consid- ' ered earlier estimates of the government’s surplus “too high” at this time. * Farm Bill Battle 1 WASHINGTON (INS) —The J election-year battle over farm legislation was to move into the ' house rules committee today. . Democratic leaders seek a green light for house action on a ’ $1 billion, 200 million appropriation for the administration-re- ' <>uested soil bank without additional language spelling uot de- ’ tails of the bank. Republicans want committee permission to write in President Eisenhower’s full program of payments to farmers for taking land out of cultivation, and to add a provision for advance payments this fall. Democrats contend that full authority for the soil bank is contained in the “new deal” form bill of 1936 and that all agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson needs is the funds to put it into effect. Benson has angrily denied that he has such authority and noted particularly that he cannot, under present law, make advance payments as the President asked. Meanwhile, the 1956 farm debate was carried a step further with a charge by senate Democratic” ■ tender 1-yndunH Johnson — that the administration “is-now pushing us into a third farm depression.” The Texas senator spoke on na-tion-wide radio and TV networks Monday night in reply to President Eisenhower’s talk last Monday explaining his veto of the Democratic sponsored omnibus farm bill. Johnson played back a recording of excerpts from M. Eisenhower’s 1952 campaign speech at Kasson, Minn., in which the GOP candidate said: “A fair share for farmers is not merely 90 percent v, (Gon uu ova on P*«e JElgat) Rites Thursday For Mrs. Celia Hummer Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at £ o'clock at the Hickory Grove Church of the Brethren in Pennville for Mrs. Celia Hummer, 92, mother of Ed Hummer of Decatur and grandmother of Jack Kiltie of the advertising department ofthe Dally Democrat. Mrs. Hummer died at the home of a daughter in California Sunday. The body is being returned to the Bender funerkl home at North the Clayborn cemetery, Jay county.