Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1956 — Page 1

Vol. UV. No. 99.

EXHIBIT MODEL OF PLANE IN AIR-BOMBING TRIAL Hr DENVER district attorney Bert Keating displays a model of the United Airlines DC-6B plane which crashed near Longmont, Colo., November 1 allegedly because of a dynamite bomb explosion in a luggage compartment. John Gilbert Graham, son of one of the victims, is on trial for murder. The model was fabricated at a cost of 12,500.

Red Economic Offensive May Be Backfiring Leaders Os Western ‘ Nations Alarmed At Implications WASHINGTON (INS) — The Soviet Union may have outsmarted itself with its new economic offensive against the West. Some highly ■ placed diplomatic sources in Washington argued that ■way today. They said the economic offensive from Russia has alarmed the leaders of the free nations in much the same way that the communist military aggression in Korea alarmed them six years ago. ATtned aggression in Korea spurred the Western leaders, to develop NATO taMo as effective force for military defense. The economic offensive already has touched off the most purposeful drive yet for political and economic integration of the free world. Three times this week secretary of state John Foster Dulles declared there must be greater unity quickly through NATO. Among other things he called for a lowering of tariff barriers between free nations, stimulation of free world trade, and much closer political lies. Wednesday night Dulles called for a more effective code of international law to be applied regionally. in organisations like NATO initially, and globally later. What the secretary wants first is the means to settle such disputes as the one between Britain and Greece over Cyprus and the one between France and Germany over the- Saar. Dulles talked within the general framework of the concept of Atlantic Union. Other Western leaders had spoken out before Dulles. President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy and premier Guy Mollet of France were ahead of him in public statements. The British favor the new concept. And on the other side of the world, so do the Indonesians. The first concrete result of the new effort to meet the changed form of the Russian cold war offensive is expected to coroe through NATO In Paris next week, the NATO foreign ministers will consider the problem. Dulles said Tuesday the permanent representatives of the NATO council were sounded out a week ago and seemed receptive. The need for action is urgent. The Russians are making strong headway. Aid and offers of aid were sent broadside around the world — to Egypt, India. Afghanistan. Burma. Syria and other states, even Including the staunchly anticommunist Pakistan, a member of two free world defensive alliances. The Soviet diplomatic and economic move into the Middle East threatened the flow of vital Arabian oil to Western Europe. BULLETIN Mrs. Gertrude Mitchel, 44, wife of Kenneth Mitchel of three miles east ‘of Monroe, died suddenly of a heart attack at 10:30 o'clock this morning at a Richmond hospital The body will be returned to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. 14-PAGES

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Indiana GOP Fears Democratic Trend Factional Fights Also Plague GOP INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Whether President Eisenhower’s bid for a second White House term can stop a pronounced Democratic trend in Indiana is the leading topic among the politicos today. Hoosier Republicans were a gloomy crew before the President made his big announcement and they had good reason for their sadness. The GOP had suffered its worst defeat in the nation in the election last November and waa plagued wwh a farm vote defection and bitter factional fights within the party. Lt. Gov. Harold W. Handley, one of the leading candidates for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, outlined the debacle of his pasty at the polls graphically in a recent statement urging the Republicans to go to work. Handley pointed out that in 1952 the GOP elected 69 percent of the township trustees and only 51 percent in 1954, when the party, also lost one congressional seat. The most crushing blow was suffered in the municipal elections last fall. The number of Republican mayors elected dropped from 70 percent in 1951 to 30 percent ■ last November, which Handley said "was probably the worst Republican defeat in the entire nation.” There are now almost twice as many Democratic as GOP announced candidates for governor, the totals being nine and five. Sen. Homer E. Capehart has told newspapermen frankly that be is “running scared” this year. He seems sure of renomination, but re-election is another matter. The only announced Democratic candidate for senator is former agriculture secretary Claude R. Wickard, and he also Is probably certain of nomination. Wickard is epeaking almost daily all over the state and is capitalizing on slipping farm prices. The factional issue has arisen because of constant battles between Sen. WiMiam E. Jenner and Gov. George N. Craig for the past four years oyer control of the GOP state organization. Jenner did nothing for the Republican mayoralty nominees last fell and lias sat oh filshands so far this year. He has told friends that the GOP state organization, now controlled by Craig, has not asked him to participate. Craig also has antagonized other veteran party leaders and has been assailed often because of high salaries and performance bonds and insurance awarded to high politicos in connection with the |2BB million northern Indiana toll road, which will be the last link in a Chicago-tb-New York pay thoroughfare. Craig entered Mr. Eisenhower’s name in the presidential primary May 8. His only/competition will come from Lar Daly, a Chicago manufacturer who has campaigned in the state wearing a striped, red-white-and-blue Uncle Sam suit. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee is the only name listed on the Democratic ballot, and as such is a sure winner since write-in votes are not permitted. Under state law. the state’s 26vote delegation must support Kefauver on the first ballot at the Chicago convention. After that, they may vote «s they choose and since the state party organization Is friendly te Adlal E. Stevenson, he Is expected to plek up most of the 26 votes. <- (Continuso On Pegs Five)

Soviet Seamen Deny Return To Russia Forced Charge Beatings, Threats By Agents For United States MOSCOW (INS) — Five Russian seamen denied today that Soviet agents forced them to return home and charged they were beaten and threatened by U. S. agents to make them betray their country. 1—- ----- "Agents from the' United States,’* the sailors told a news conference, “came to Formosa and tried every horrible means to suborn us into choosing the so-called free way of life.” / The U. S. Wednesday ordered two members of the Soviet delegation to the United Nations to leave the country because of the roles they allegedly played in getting the five seamen to leave the American asylum they sought last October. The five appeared at the conference in an obvious reply to the U. S. charges. They claimed that reports that they were compelled to leave the U. S. were "provocative inventions of the American press.” . The quintet admitted openly they had contacted Soviet authorities in the U. 8. Mikhail Shishin said that U. S. officials “did not forbid us to contact Soviet autharities but we well understood we would have trouble if we did.” According to the sailors, they were told almost every day that their relatives were being tortured in Siberia. Shishin said that one day he went to see members of the Soviet UN delegation and that "the next day the rest fallowed." The five were crewmen aboard the Soviet tanker Tuapse which was captured by the Chinese Nationalists in June, 1954, when it was bound tor Communist China with a cargo of Jet fuel. Their statement added: "We were surrounded by agents and people hostile to the Soviet Union. We soon realized our escape would be no, easy matter.” ,U... -S.. reports made it dear that the Russians had ample opportunity to move about and see whomever they wished. They even at tempted to persuade another Tuapse seaman who sought asylum to return with them. The Russians said that they had been treated roughly by a (Continued on Page Five) Johnson Funeral Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Charles C. Johnson of Bobo, who died Tuesday aftternoon, will be held at 3 p. m. Friday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons fuheral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. Vern O. Smith officiating. Burial will be in Hatfield cemetery. Two Women Killed In Car-Truck Crash LAGRANGE, Ind. (INS) — Mrs. Clarence Edgil, of Royal Oak, Mich., was killed Wednesday night and Mrs. Florence Evans, 52, of Royal Oak, died this morning, of injuries suffered tn a car-truck collision. Injured critically were Edith Evans, 22, and Kathleen Evans, 26. both also of Royal Oak. tad truck driver Stanley Leroy Ferry, 33, of Benton Heritor, Mich.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 26, 1956.

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- Eden Reports To Cabinet On J Russian Talks ' Soviet Leaders To Leave Friday For Return To Russia LONDON (INS) — Prime minister Sir Anthony Eden reported to his cabinet today on the Anglo-Rus-sian conferences as Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita S. Khrushchev flew to Scotland for a brief visit. Eden summoned the cabinet to report on his week-long talks with the Soviet premier and Communist party first secretary. He reportedly felt that, despite the lack of many significant results, the meetings were beneficial because each government -now had a better understanding of the other’s viewpoint. Bulganin and Khrushchev departed tor Edinburgh aboard a speedy Viscount of British European Airways. Because they were behind schedule they had to skip an inspection of the new buildings at London airport. They did, however, shake hands with the crewmen of three Soviet TU-104 jetliners at the airport. One of the sleek Russian planes returned to Moscow today with minor Soviet officiate. The Bulganin-Khrushchev Scottish schedule called for stops only in the Edinburgh area. They are to sail for home Friday. Before leaving for Scotland, the Soviet chiefs received a delegation, of labor party leaders who came to their hotel for a formal farewell which lasted more than an hour. Labor leader Hugh Gaitskell said at the end of the meeting that “the goodbyes were cordial.” Before they met with the labor party leaders. Bulganin and Khrushchev went to London’s Highgate cemetery to place a wreath on the tomb of Karl Marx. The wreath waa inscribed: (Continues on rage Five) Ohio Dairy Fanners Given Price Boost Fort Wayne Area Is Included In Order COLUMBUS (INS) — Ohio’s dairy farmers have been granted the price Increase they asked for last Friday on’ Class I milk sold for bototling. The U.S. department of agriculture issued an order late Wednesday which for the most part restored the 46-cent cut on milk sold wholesale by the hundtedweiglrt and foretold increases in consumer prices. Some 25,000 dairy farmers in all sections of Ohio except the Toledo area are affected by the order. Included were three sections with representatives at the Friday hearing which were Wheeling, W. Va., Ft. Wayfle, Ind., and also Clarksburg 1 , W, Va. The increase per hundred pounds of milk is the same as the cut in price which went into effect three months ago. However, the 46 cents extra applies only over May and June. The increase will be reduced to 26 cents for July. The agriculture department announcement came as promised before the end of the month and was more or less in line with what the farmers had requested. Milk dealers protested the entire procedure and at the federal hearing Friday made every attempt to break up the proceedings with legal maneuvering. As issued by the department, the increase comes on top of a tencent hike in support prices under a presidential executive order issued at the time the farm bill received * veto. Prices on home delivered milk ere expected to go up a cent or two per bottle throughout the state « effective the first of next week. ■. ■ ■ ‘ .... ' t

Good Response For Civic Music Drive Membership Drive Will End Saturday Response all over the county to the drive for members by the Adams county civic music association is good and the number of memberships turned in by the middle of the week-long campaign indicates a successful drive, according to the campaign chairman. A large corps of workers is canvassing the county In an attempt to personally contact all music lovers with an invitation to join the association and become eligible to attend a series of concerts in Decatur next fall and winter. A reminder has been issued that the membership drive will close at 7 p.m. Saturday and after that no memberships will be available. No single session tickets will be sold for any of the concerts and only members may attend them. Each member is entitled to fill out a ballot indicating his or her preferences on concert programs. At the end of the membership drive these ballots will be tallied and will be used by the talent committee to schedule the concerts. The concert series will include at least three programs and possibly more if the number of memberships give an adequate budget. Membership dues are l >7.sfi for aduHs and |4for students. Several sordrities in the city are sponsoring student memberships for youngsters who would otherwise be unable to attend the concerts. AH of the artists available to the Civic music association are nationally and internationally known as among the best in the concert field. The artists include top vocalists, cellists, guitarist, harpist, (Continued on Page Five; Lewis Addition Is Ready To Develop Newest Residence Division Approved Decatur’s newest residential subdivision, Dewis addition, located In the northwest part of the city, oft North Second street and across from the Central Soya plant, which has received approval of the plan commission, is ready for development. The new addition, with some 12 or 14 residential building sites is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Durkin. The entire area is ready for development with street, sidewalks and sewer connections as soon as final approval is made by the city council. In- past instances of new additions the council has accepted the report of the plan Several minor changes were offered prior to final acceptance by the plan commission, it was learned, and all of these were agreed to by all parties concerned and the favorable recommendation will go to the next regular meeting of the council. A petition of Citizens Telephone Co. for permission to erect a pay station telephone booth on the sidewalk in front of the business office of the Citizens building was withdrawn and will be re-submit-ted to the council, it was reported. At suggestion of commission memlbers, the location will be changed in the new petition for a permit to construct the station at the northwest corner of Monroe and Third streets, just west of the Citizens office. This will necessitate consent of the council and board of works because the station would be constructed on city property. It is likely that if construction is agreeable, an annual lease will be worked out. Citizens representatives in the original petition said that It has been customary to leave the lobby of the Telephone ,Co. office open at night* where % pay station te available on • 24-hoar .basis, but that much damage to .the building's interior has reeufted. <

Expect Russia Will Challenge Two Expulsions Two Red Members Os UN Delegation Expelled By U. S. UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (INS) —Russia was expected today to challenge the expulsion of two members of her UN delegation for their part in forcing the return home of five Soviet seamen. UN sources said a diplomatic hassle might erupt between the U.S. and Russia with the communists insisting the two Russians were innocent of the charges against them and adding that the seamen returned of their own free The state department called in Soviet ambassador Georgi Zaroubin late Wednesday to notify him that Aleksandr K. Guryanov, an attache to the UN delegation, and Nikolai Turkin, third secretary of the Soviet UN headquarters, had been declared “persona non grata.” It was the first time the U.S. has taken such drastic action against any UN personnel and it will bar the two men from serving in any diplomatic ppst in this coun- • tty. ■ The protest by secretary of state John Foster Dulles also sharply complained about the actions of ambassador Arkady Sobolev, head of the Russian UN delegation, in the return of the seamen. Sobolev and other Russians at the UN declined to comment on the situation Wednesday night. The UN itself indicated it would take no action ih the matter on the grounds it involves the U.S. and Russia. Dulles acted under terms of a special headquarters agreement between the U. S. and UN signed when the world organization headquarters was established in New York. The international incident was prompted by the “redefection” of the five seamen who took asylum in the U.S. last October but sudden(Continued on Page Five) Motion Is Filed To Quash Kidnap Charge Ostrander Attorney Asks Charge Dropped A motion to quash the count on kidnaping in the affidavit against Charles William Ostrander, 37, of Bluffton, was filed this morning by G. Remy Bierly, attorcircuit court. The motion, which was filed with Judge \Myles Parrish, has been set for argument Monday at S a. ni. by agreement of the defense and the prosecution. Ostrander is charged on three counts of kidnaping, rape and robbery of a young Decatur couple on the night of April 12. An accomplice, Kenneth Thompson. 15, of Bluffton, is charged with the one count of kidnaping. The motion filed today by Ostrander's counsel was on two statutory grounds. ” The first paragraph of the motion states that the facts, as related to the kidnaping count, are not sufficient to constitute a public offense. , The second paragraph claims that the allegations on the count do not state the offense with sufficient certainty. Ostrander is being held in the Adams county jail under a 115,000 bond. Thompson's bond is 15,000. They have been held since their arrest by local authorities last week when they were charged with the vicious attack on the Decatur boy and girl. _ Arraignment proceedings were started on both of them last weekend -tat-neither has entered a plea..; Thompeon, is represented by John Decker of Bluffton.

Seeks Farm Measure Os Direct Payments Democrats Regain Offensive On Bill WASHINGTON (INS) —House Democrats regained the offensive today in the hectic see saw battle to determine which political party will put the most money*into the farmers' pockets before November. Trapped temporarily by an administration move to grant farmers advance soil bank payments this fall, the Democrats fought back by resurrecting the major feature of the once-discarded Drannan plan — compensatory payments. House agriculture committee chairman Harold D. Cooley (DN.C.) told newsmen he will seek passage of legislation granting President Eisenhower “everything he wants" plus a system of di lect payments to farmers to make up the difference between the flexible support level and 90 percent of parity on basic commodities. Cooley emphasized that agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson already is employing the direct payment system for sugar and , wool, which, he added, are the two major crops in Utah, the sec- ; retary’s home state. Included in the Cooley bill would be a fl .204 Hi on. soil bank i advocated by Mr. Eisenhower and ' Benson, but without the advance t payments designed to provide I farmers with money this year for i cutbacks in 1957 crops. Until late Wednesday, the soil bank was the lone farm measure before the house. But, with Republicans almost certain of victory on a showdown vote over the pre-payment plan, the house rules committee sidetracked it. New Telephone Books To Be Mailed Friday New Directories To Go To All Patrons Telephone directqries, bearing a May, 1956, date-line and totalling 6,419, will be mailed Friday to patrons of Citizens Telephone Co., Charles D. Ehinger, president and general manager, announced today. Listings include all patrons of Citizens in Decatur, Berne, Bryant, Linn Grove, Monroe and Pleasant Mills. The green covered book contains over 60 pages and the 1956 edition contains 31 new business listings. Several important additions have been made this year, the book reveals. There is a new listing under ‘‘Emergeae lea” whieh is the telephone number of the-state police at Fort Wayne. Under service calls, the telephone number of the Citizens Telephone Co.-Daily Democrat night news service is listed. The popular number which was used more than 175,000 times during its first year, 3-2171, also is listed under Citizens Telephone Co. and Decatur Daily Democrat Co. The news number gives night news bulletins, election results athletic t event scores and other interesting items during the nights, week-ends and early mornings. The name "Miller” is the most popular in the Decatur section of the directory with 50 listings and the name “Sprunger” outdistances other patrons in Berne with 93 listings. The 1956 edition also contains eight more pages in the yellow section, which includes business listings, services and advertisements. All new books will be in tile mail prior to Saturday noon, president Ehinger stated. 1 - T INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Friday mostly cloudy and warmer i with scattered showers. Low < 'tonight 40-46 north, 46-54 i south. High Friday 62-70 north, 1 70-75 south. i

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House Before Aid Arrives Parents Away From Home; Six Os Dead From One Family WHTTEFORD, Mich. (INS) — Seven children, six of one family, burned to death today in a fire in Monroe county, a half mile north o fthe Michigap-Ohio state line. The fire destroyed their cementblock home in a rural section before''firemen could get to the scene. Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper, parents of six of the dead children, of the Michigan-Ohio state line. The dead are Brenda Jpyce, •; Jacqueline, 6; John 4; Sherely Jean, S; Georgia Marie, 2. and Carter Stephen, two month*, all children of the Coopers, The seventh child was Harrison Leonard Cooper, a 9-year-old cousin. The bodies of four of the children were recovered in their beds. The others, apparently trying to escape the flames, were found sprawled in a hallway. The parents were to be questioned today to determine if there was any negligence. Cooper said he diove his, wife to work and was {returning home when the fire 1 - ! broke out. Seek Hotel Victim* WARREN, Pa. (INS) —Searchers continued to probe The ruins of an ancient Warren Hotel today for two Ohio men missing since a fire which claimed the lives of two others Wednesday. A Warren police department spokesman said today that crews worked through Wednesday night in an effort to locate the bodies of the missing men. identified as M. D. Plnney, of Jefferson, and Ray J. Semite, of Columbus. Searchers recovered the bodies of the two other men late Wednesday. Police chief Michael Evan identified them as H. V. Dwight, 38, and B. J. Stotts, 48, both of Akron. The workers had to wait until the charred debris of the 107-year-old. four — story Carver House had cooled before trying to recover the bodies. < . Sixty one guests fled from the burning building, some using bed sheet ropes leading from lower windows, other being rescued with fire department ladders. Chief Evan credited night clerk Edgar McClen, bartender Harold Nealy and another man identified as Raymond Roger with heroically saving many lives. The three men went from room to room pounding on doors and used the telephone to rouse other guests. _ '*:■ ___ Lutheran School Registration Set The Board of Education of Zion Lutheran Church, West Monroe Street, In meeting last evening set Friday, May 4, and Monday, May 7, as the, dates when they will receive registrations of children of the first and second grades tor the parish school to be opened next September. Herman Krueckeberg, chairman of the board, stated that members of his committee will be at the parish hall on West Monroe street from 6:30 to 8 p. m. on the above dates to accept the registrations. Members of the Lutheran congregation who have children eligible to enter grades one and two next fall, and non-member parents who are interested in the Lutheran parish school, are asked to consult with the board of education members at the dates and hours stipulated, in ‘one of the class-rooms of the parish hall. Although official confirmation has not been received by the pastor. th* Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, assurance has Keen given that the congregation will have an experienced woman teacher holding a B. S. degree in education to teach in its Classroom this fall.