Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 105.

CAPITAL BIDS ALBEN BARKLEY GOODBYE ' W ’‘OniirOff WITH PRESIDENT EISENHOWER in the van. the national capital great and near-great paid last homage to Senator Alben W. Barkley at funeral services in Washington. Funeral services for the beloved "Veep” were held at Foundry Methodist Church after which his body was carried out (right) to begin its journey to Paducah. Ky., for final interment.

Barkley Paid Final Tribute In Home Town Funeral Rites And Burial Today In Paducah, Kentucky PADUCAH, Ky. (INS) — A sorrowful Paducah pays a farewell tribute today to its moat beloved citizen. Sen. Alben W. Barkley, former president of the United States. A special 10-car funeral train, carrying his body from IVashington, was to arrive in the beloved Kentucky Democrat’s home town of Paducah at 12:20 pin. (EST) for the funeral an hour and half later. Barkley, known affectionately as The Veep, collapsed and died of a heart attack Monday while addressing a mock convention of Washington and Lee cpllege students at Lexington, Va. He was 78. A Kentucky national guard escort of 24 men commanded by Maj. Royce Gregory was to meet the train and head the funeral procession from the Union station to the Harris funeral home. The Rev. William Evans was to officiate at the funeral in the Broadway Methodist church. Brief but touching funeral rites were held in Washington Wednesday before The Veep began his final journey home. Among those on hand to “pay final tribute to the senator were to be former President Harry S.‘ Truman, with whom Barkley served as vice president, Adlai Stevenson, a distant relative of Barkley’s and New York Gov. Averell Harriman. Following the services, the funeral procession was to pause briefly in front of the Barkley home, “The Angels,’’ a beautiful sprawling house almost hidden from the highway by trees and flowers. It would then continue to the Mount Kemton cemetery at Paducah. He will be buried beside his first wife. Dorothy Brower Barkley, who died in 1947. Kefauver Invades Indiana Saturday Seeks Biq Vote In Tuesday's Primary INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —lndiana aides of Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver today planned for his Saturday invasion of Indiana in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Kefauven is the only entrant in the Hoosier Democratic presidential primary and is certain to have Indiana’s entire delegation on the first national convention ballot. However, the goal of the Indiana Kefauverltes is to roll up as large a vote as possible in comparison with the total President Eisenhower will garner in the GOP pres(Continued on Ffcife Five) 12 Pages

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Hold Baccalaureate Exercises May 20 Rev. Welty Speaker For Baccalaureate The Decatur high school baccalaureate services will be held Sunday evening, May 20, at Decatur high school auditorium, with the Rev. Herald Welty, pastor of First Missionary church, delivering the sermon, it was announced today by superintendent W. Guy Brown. The annual services, preceding commencement exercises, scheduled for Thursday, May 24. always open the commencement week activities at the local school. A complete program of the event will be announced later, it was stated. Rev. Welty will be assisted in the services by several of the Decatur ministers. Members of the graduating class will occupy the seats of honor and part of the auditorium will be reserved for parents and relatives of the seniors. The unreserved part of the auditorium always is open to the public. Superintendent Brown said that a complete program for the baccalaureate services as well as the balance of commencement week will be ready for release soon. f Teacher Signed For New Lutheran School Concordia College Graduate To Teach Miss Evelyn Nussbaum has been assigned by the synodical assignment committee of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod to serve as teacher of the local Zion Lutheran school, which will be established tn September. Miss Nussbaum has had two years of teaching experience and then returned to Concordia Teachers College at River Forest, 111. She will graduate with a B. S. degree tn education June 8. She is a native of Gordonville, Mo. Herman Krueckeberg, chairman of Zion’s board of parish education, said that the local congregation was unusually fortunate in securing such a capable teacher at a time when parochial teachers are so difficult to obtain. “Arvin Hahn, director of placement at Concordia Teachers College, tells us MisfC Nussbaum is highly capable, and we are especially pleased that she has had actual classroom experience plus a degree in education,’.’ Krueckeberg stated. Members of the board will be present Friday and Monday nights from 6:30 to 8 p. m. to receive registration of children who will enroll next September. Pre-Season Polio Toll Still Seven INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Tndianai’s preseason polio toss remained at seven cases for the third straight week, according to a report today by the Indiana state board of health. The seven tasas are all that have been reported thus far in' 1958 and the tally has not changed since April it.

Nixon's Former Manager Denies Influence Used Murray M. Chotiner Denies Influence To Aid Manufacturers WASHINGTON (INS) —Murray M. Chotiner, campaign manager for Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1952, denied today that he ever used "influence” to help two uniform manufacturers “blacklisted” by the army. The Los Angeles attorney told senators investigating charges of graft in military clothing procurement that he made inquiries at the justice department in connection with troubles the garment makers were having with the government. But he swore: . “At no time . . did I try to use influence with anyone whatsoever at the ’ justice department or any other department in representing my clients." Chotiner said there was another point he wanted to make “very clear." He declared: “I have made it a distinct policy ... to never discuss clients or cases I represent with Mr. Nixon. I am satisfied he had no knowledge of any of my cases . . . because I never discussed client business with him." The clients, key figures in the inquiry being conducted by the investigations subcommittee, under Sen. John L. McClellen (D-Ark.) are: 1. Samuel and Herman Kravitz, of Atlantic City, N. J., who invoked the fifth amendment almost 200 times last week in refusing to tell about their business or financial activities or about their relationship with Chotiner. 2. Joseph Abrams, of Great Neck, N. Y„ who also refused on grounds of possible self-incrimin-ation to tell about uniform contracts his companies had with the army before he, like the Kravitzes, was “blacklisted" on charges of stealing government material. Chotiner told the subcommittee that Herman Kravitz, Samuel’s son, first spoke to him in April, 1953. asking him as a lawyer to find a new plant location In Los Angeles. •» He said they agreed in this long distance telephone call to meet in Washington on May 19, 1953, at which time Kravitz “talked about other matters that I was to represent him on” and gave the lawyer a $5,000 check for fees and travel expenses. At a second meeting on May 28, 1953, in New York. Chotiner said Kravitz discussed “a numbef of situations” and made him familiar “with all their business situations." Chotiner said that in February, 1955, after Kravitz had been convicted on the theft charge, he visited the justice department to leant the status of » second charge that his client had filed a false statement with respect to the material.

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Arab Nations Agree To Cease-Fire On Frontier Os Arab Lands, Israel — ; - - - . - - -- -- -- — . *' _

House Group Okays Funds For Defenses $33.5 Billion Fund . Is Approved For . National Defense r WASHINGTON (INS) — The house appropriations committee today approved the spending of more than 33 a’nd one-half billion dollars for national defense during twelve months beginning July 1. The committee okayed the full 248 and one-half million dollars requested by President Eisenhower for stepped-up production of B-52 bombers but warned that unless the U.S. expands the air force rapidly, “Soviet Russia will probably equal the U.S. in offensive airpower capability within a very few years.” On the senate side of the Capitol, however. Sen. Styles Bridges (R N.H.), urged the public to await the story of the navy’s "powerful” air arm before judging the adequacy of the administration’s defense program. The senate GOP policy chairman told a reporter he believes the navy's story "will show the picture the other way” from , the grim forecast made by Gen. Our* tis E. LeMay, head of the strategic air command. LeMay told the senate subcommittee investigating air force strength that the Soviet Union’s long-range striking power may surpass that of the U.S. “by 1958-60." The house is expected to take up the gigantic military appropriations bill next week and Democrats may seize the opportunity to attack the administration for ask- < ing too little for air power. i The bill approved by the committee would give the air force 1 $15,479,125,000, the army $7,497,- 1 583,000, and the navy $9,999,534,000.

Over 7,000 Scouts In Scout-O-Rama Fort Wayne Site Os Event May 11 And 12 More than 7.000 Scouts, a record number, will take part in staging the third annual Scout-O-Rama Friday and Saturday. May 11 and 12, at the coliseum in Fort Wayne. Scout officials said that 136 Boy Scout units from nine counties of the Anthony Wayne council will be represented in this year’s show, sponsoring a total of 156 booths depicting the many phases of Scout activities. Last year's show had 146 booths. Scout-O-Rama will be presented May 11 from 7 to 9:30 p. m. and May 12 from 2 to 5 p. m. and 7 to 9:30 p. m. Sales of advance tickets, which are in the hands of Scouts throughout the council area, are reported good, indicating this year’s attendance goal of 36,000 will be reached or surpassed. 'Purpose of the Scout-O-Rama is to give the general public, parents and Scouts themselves an opportunity to see live demonstrations of the scope and value of the citizenship training program of the Boy Scouts of America. From this demonstration, it is anticipated that additional adults will become volunteer. Scout leaders, committee members and den mothers. Acting under their unit supervisors, Scouts themselves will set up and man the various Scout-O-Rama booths during the show. Adams county Scout troops will have the following displays; rabbit raiding, signalling, animal husbandry, firemanship, models, etamp collecting, neckerchief slides, first aid Archery, weather, radio, aviation, things Cubs can do, bottom of tie eea, flags of all nations, electricity.

Find Missing Couple Victims Os Slaying .... Brother Os Woman Admits One Slaying HARTFORD CITY. Ind. (INS) —A 22-year-old man who said he killed his sister’s husband was taken to Indianapolis today for a lie detector test at State Police headquarters today. Police said there were discrepancies in the story of Chester Schlegel who made his confession Wednesday a few hours after skin divers had recovered the bodies of Schlegel’s brother-in-law. Darrell Spade, 42. and his wife, Mary. 23, from a deep, water-filled gravel pit near Hartford City. Officers said Schlegel may have been irate at both his sister and* her husband because of money they collected from him while he lived at their home. Schlegel had been subjected to another lie detector test in Indianapolis last week, but the finding was negative. The couple had been missing since a week ago last Tuesday. According to his confession, Schlegel said he killed Spade with a shotgun April 24 when he found him beating hie wife with a pickax. Schlegel told police that, on finding his sister dead from the beating, he loaded the two bodies into Spade’s car and ran it into the gravel pit. The bodies, covered with tarpaulin, were found on the back seat of the car. They were taken to Ball memorial hospital for an autopsy. The couple was reported missing from their home last Wednesday when neighbors found their two children, Robert 4, and Janice, 3, abandoned. A posse of 60 persons had searched for several days without finding any trace of th> couple. Police indicated they were not satisfied with Schlegel’s story of the tragedy. They questioned Mrs. Morton Schlegel, the man's mother, who said: "Chester had complained he had been giving the Spades all the money he made until six months ago when he started saving to get married. He said the Spades owed him several thousand dollars and they had better pay it.” Also the Rev. Myrl Moore, pastor of the Dunkirk Church of Nazarene. described a dramatic confession Schlegel made before the congregation of his church last Sunday. The minister said Schlegel cried and said: “I just can’t hardly stand this. There is so much on me. Nobody (Continued Un Pago Five)

Decalur Foundation Directors To Meet Annual Meeting Os Group Also Slated Directors of the Decatur Memorial Foundation have been called to a meeting by president Ward Calland next Thursday night. May 10, at the Youth and Community Center at 7:30 o’clock, It was announced today. At the same time it was announced by Mrs. IRoy Kalver, secretary of the Foundation, that the annual meeting of the Foundation for the purpose of electing directors and also the annual election of' officers by the directors is scheduled for June 4 at 7:30 p.m. at the Youth and Community Center. Next week’s meeting is for the purpose of receiving reports on the tree and shrubbery planting and other projects sponsored by the Foundation. Improvement plans also will be discussed at next week’s meeting, including the proposed purchase of window shades and draperies. All donors to the original Foundation fund are members of the Foundation and are - entitled; to' vote at the election of directors, it was pointed out. Directors then name officers for 1956-57. ' “ ' I

Fail To Reach Compromise On Soil Bank Plan House Heading For Showdown Vote On Farm Legislation WASHINGTON (INS) — Hopes for a edrripromise between Democrats and Republicans on proposed advanced soil bank payments faded today as the house headed for a showdown vote on new farm legislation. Republicans held fast to the prepayment plan, which would allow agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson to make 50 per cent payments to farmers this year for cutting back next year’s crops. Democrats refused to go along with the plan, which they labeled a "vote buying scheme.” However, there still appeared to be a possibility of some compromise between Republican and Democrats on feed grain and corn provisions of the bill. House speaker Sam Rayburn (D Tex.), told newsmen late Wednesday that he and assistant GOP leader Charles A. Halleck of Indiana were studying compromise proposals. He emphasized, however, that no settlement had been reached at that time. The house has already voted twice on farm legislation — first on April 11 when it approved the omnibus farm bil iwhicfi was later vetoed by the. President. On April 18, however, less than a simple majority voted for the motion to override the veto. The new farm bill, introduced by agriculture committee chairman Harold D. Cooley (D N.C.), would set up a one billion, 200 million dollar soil bank and grant Presi-

Jess Monttinger Dies Al Van Wert Father Os Decatur Resident Is Dead Jess Clark Monttinger, 59, a resident of Van Wert, 0., for the past seven years, died Wednesday at 4:30 p. m. at the Van Wert county hospital, where he had been a patient for three weeks. Death was caused by cancer. A native of Ridge township in Van Wert county, he was a resident of Liberty township in that county until moving to Van Wert. He was born Jan. 25, 1897, the ton of Carnley and Edith Hartzog Monttinger. He was married Jan. 17, 1930, to Lucille Hart, who survives. He was employed at New Idea in, Coldwater, 0., and was a veteran of World War I. Also surviving are * son, Richard Monttinger of Van Wert; tour daughters, Mrs. Mary Stoll and Mrs. Ann Pantie of Van Wert, Mrs. Batty Smith of Celina, 0.. and Mrs. Pauline Smith of Decatur; a brother, John of Ohio City. O.; three sisters, Mrs. Grace Fleming of Rockford, 40., and Mrs. Betty Clouse and Mrs. Bessie Hilman of Ohio City, and 11 grandchildren. One daughter preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p. m. at Cowan and Bon funeral home in Van Wert,- With the Rev. George Thompson of Ohio City officiating. Burial will be in the Mohr cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. , INDIANA WEATHER 4 Partly cloudy with scattered showers north and west portions tonight. Friday mostly cloudy and somewhat cool- ■ er with showers and scattered thundershowers south and east-central. Low tonight 4349 north, 49-55 south. High Friday 55-63. ; IX/Z

President To Speak In Texas May 25 Baylor University Will Confer Degree WASHINGTON White House announced today that President Eisenhower will deliver an important foreign policy speech at Baylor university in Waco, Tex., on May 25. The Chief Executive will fly to Waco to accept an honorary doctor of laws degree at the school’s commencement exercises. White House news secretary James C. Hagerty said the speech, at the commencement exercises, “will deal with important phases of international affairs." The occasion also takes on political overtones because of the Republican campaign to carry Texas for Mr. Eisenhower again this year. Hagerty said he did not know whether Gov. Allan Shivers, who broke with the Democratic organization in 1952 to support Mr. Eisenhower, would be at the commencement ceremonies, saying that was “entirely up to the university.” The President plans to make the round-trip from Washington in one day. taking off by plane at about seven a. m., and flying back to the capital aftpr his speech. May Avoid Mountains WASHINGTON (INS) — President Eisenhower said today he may not go fishing in the Colorado Rockies this summer as he has in past years. Democratic Gov. Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado called at the White House to present Colorado’s most distinguished vacationist with the state’s No. one 1956 fishing license. Grinning, the President said: "I hope I get to use it. As a matter of fact, if I get out there, I will use it but I may not go up in the mountains.” Some doctors advise heart patients against spending even brief periods in high altitudes, where the air is thinner. Mr. Eisenhower suffered his heart attack last Sept. 24, just one day after returning to Denver from a week of trout fishing at Fraser, Colo., where (he altitudf is about 8,000 feet. New Affidavil Is Filed On Ostrander New Kidnap Count Filed Here Today A new affidavit on the kidnaping count against Charles William Ostrander, 37-year-oid Bluffton man charged with the kidnaping, robbery and rape of a young Decatur couple, vias filed in Adams circuit court today by Lewie L, Smith, prosecuting attorney. JJJ The new affidavit was made necessary after a motion to quash by GJ Remy Bierly, defense counsel, was sustained. In sustaining the (motion, the court ruled that the kidnaping charge against the defendant was not specific enough since it did not give the exact place from which the couple was kidnaped and did not allege felonious intent. A legal description of the exact spot from where the couple was allegedly taken by Ostrander and an accomplice is included in the new also charges that Ostra£Bi feloniously and forcibly arrested, imprisoned, carried off and kidnaped the couple with felonious intentions. The alleged accomplice In the crime was Kenneth Thompson, 15-year-old Bluffton youth, who is being held in the Adams county jail on a charge of kidnaping. The other two counts of rape and robbery were not filed against him since these two offenses must be heard in juvenile proceedings. Ostrander is being held under $15,000 bond and Thompson's bond is $5,000. Neither has entered a

Join Egypt And Israel To Agree To Cease-Fire Dramatic Victory For U. N. Secretary In Mideast Crisis JERUSALEM (INS) - Dag Hammarskjold scored a last-min-ute diplomatic triumph today, obtaining agreement by Jordan, Lebanon and Syria to an unconditional cease-fire on the Arab-Israeli frontier. The United Nations secretary general's dramatic victory meant that these three countries, as well as Egypt and Israel, have agreed to respect the cease-fire terms of 1 the 1949 armistice. Hammarskjold announced his success in a preliminary report on 1 his mission to the UN security ' council, which released its text at • UN headquarters in New York. The report hinted that the secI retary general might ask authorization to return to Middle East later to seek broader agreement : by the disputing countries, i Hammarskjold reported on his success in a two-hour meeting with Israeli Premier David BenGurion. From Jerusalem he flew to Cairo for a conference with Egyptian foreign minister Mahmoud Fawxy. Late tonight he was to fly to Rome, remain there two days, then return to UN headquarters in New York. The Israeli foreign ministry said that the Hammarskjold-Ben-Gurion conference dealth with “all aspects of the armistice agreements." Israeli officials, including foreign minister Moshe Sharett, looked serious following the conference. But Hammarskjold wore a satisfied smile. Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, with the support of Egypt, previously had refused to agree to a ceasefire similar to that in force between Israel and Egypt since April 18. It was not known if Syria had signed the cease-fire without obtaining Israeli agreement not to begin work on the Jordan river development. Lebanon and Jordan had held back their cease-fires in sympathy with Syria’s stand. Syria has threatened to go to war if Israel attempts to divert the waters of the Jordan but Israeli leaders have given no indications that they planned an immediate start on the irrigation development. Hammarskjold had been informed by Israeli officials that there would be no work on the project at least in the very near future but they had refused to allow him to pass on this face-saving word to the Syrians, at least up to Wednesday. The new cease-fire agreements added to what already has been a successful mission for Hammarskjold. When he left New York on April 6. his task appeared almost (Continued on Pag® Five) Indianapolis Woman Found Dead In Home INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —An autopsy was to be performed today on the body of a 51-yera-old housewife at suburban Beech Grove, was found dead at the foot of a stairway in her home. The body of Mrs. Gertrude Marie Fishero was found by her husband Raymond, Wednesday night when he returned home from work. It was lying amid scattered groceries. Showers Forecast For State Tonight INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Mild and partly cloudy weather prevailed in Indiana today, but the Indianapolis weather bureau predicted showers and possible thunderstormd tonight and partly cloudy and cooler for Friday. The forecast for tonight's low temperatures waa 46 te 50 in the north and 50 to 5o in the south.

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