Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1956 — Page 1

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‘ATTACKED’ BY MISFIRED SABREJET ROCKETS ’ p ' -‘~Sri W'l ' - £!nl I*■ U T"*. 'JK' ’ * . k “*■■■ ..■ L .- 1 ' /W" w. / Jl. JU J‘’- -Jh I 'J • HBK o. iwUi B • 3K I B IMmBI# <t j; >y SE3f 'v JL _ j A SHERIFF'S OFFICE detective examines damage (left) in the Donald DePew home after it was struck by fragments of 22 rockets misfired from a U. S. Air Force Sabrejet at Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, Mich. In home at the time were (right) Mrs. Shirley DePew, 24, and the two DePew children. The DePew home is a mile from the base. The deadly rockets sprayed over a residential area occupied by thousands, bnt only three airmen were injured, only slightly. \

British Deny Two Soldiers | Are Executed Chaitenges Claim • Os Retaliation By Cypriot Movement NICOSIA (INS) — The British military governor of Cyprus today challenged a claim by the outlawed Cypriot EOKA movement that it hanged two English soldiers in retaliation for the execution of two young rebels. Field Marshal Sir John Harding said there has never been, “the slighted evidence" that the soldiers the rebel Cypriots allege they killed were even EOKA -prisoners. HardMlg «Kd the rebels were trying to capitalise on the known absence of the pah from their units. Leaflets issued by EOKA Friday announced "with regret” the hanging of Corporals Gordon Hill, 22, and Ronnie Shilton in “an eye-for-an-eye” reprisal. The only violence in the past 24 hours came when a British patrol shot and killed a young Cypriot distributing the leaflets near Metaxas square in the capital. The rebels warned that in their fight for self • determination — which for Cypriots means union with Greece — the would "answer banging with hanging, torture with torture.” A new crisis appeared likely if the British went ahead with the planned execution of two more Cypiots they hold prisoner. Cancel Fleet Visit ATHENS (INS) — A spokesman for the U. S. embassy announced today a proposed visit of units of the American sixth task fleet to Suda Bay, Crete,- has been cancelled at the suggestion of the Greek foreign ministry. No reason for the cancellation was given but the Greek newspaper Vima earlier today reported the Crete Greek naval high command requested that Americans 3 not be allowed to go ashore during the visit because of ’“Crelan public opinion and emotion owing to the execution of two Cypriots." Hear Test Suit On Bus Segregation 4 ' Four Negro Women Fight Segregation MONTGOMERY. Ala. (INS — A federal court in Montgomery was today studying a “test” suit filed by four negro women which attacks segregation on the city’s bus line. The court adjourned Friday without making a decision after hearing the four plaintiffs and arguments by opposing lawyers. City attorneys, in their arguments against integration, attempted to show that Negroes have been willing to live under segregation laws until recent weeks. However, the Negro women testified' they are against segregation in any form and always have been. Tn explaining the ew fight agaist segregation in Alabama, one of the plaintiffs, Claudette Colvin, said: “Some of us didn’t have the guts to stand up before.” Montgomery has been the scene of ft six-months bus boycott by Negroes as a protest against segregation.

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Party Committees To Name Chairmen Republican State Leader May Be Out INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Precinct committeemen of both major parties met today to choose county chairmen while reports circulated that unique political . events are forthcoming. 1. Republican state chairman Ali vin C. Cast, of Kentland, may be - ousted. He belongs to the Govs ernor George N. Craig .faction and - may be dethroned by a movement > led- by former Governor Ralph F. 3 Gates. 2. Democratic chairman I Charles E. Skillen, of Winamac. 5 may be permitted to retain his ‘ post, despite admitting he re--5 Reived nearly $25,000 in beer whole- ’ salership fees from Winamac dur- » ihg a Republican administration. 8 3. Paul M. Butler, who is both 1 Democratic national chairman and Indiana national committeeman. - may quiet his committeeman post * and permit Frank M. McHale, of - Indianapolis, former national com- ■ mitteeman, to have it again. Through fast work by Gates in 1 the first, second, fourth, sixth. 1 eighth and eleventh districts. Cast : may lose his Craig-backed job and be succeeded by Leland L. Smith, Cass county chairman, former second district chairman and former secretary of state, according to the 1 politicos. The governor slipped badly in. the primary in the eiggth and eleventh districts. Gates and Senator William E. ( Jenner, who at that time had Senator. Homer E. Capehart allied with them, lost control of the state committee to Craig in May. 1954 by the close vote of 12 to 10. Skillen is said to have made his , peace with McHale after a conflict j with former Governor Henry F. ‘ Schricker. McHale’s political en- , emy. McHale Friday predicted Skillen’s reelection. A few days ago all Democratic . county chairmen received a tetter i from Butler saying he would re- . sign as Indiana national commiti teeman. if he is permitted to re- . tain the national chairmanship. In i that event. McHale would be eligible for reinstatement in hid long- ’ time post as national committeeman. A Butler - Skillen - McHale alliance would be an innovation in Hoosier politics, to say tfce least, but it may be involved in their support of Adlai E. Stevenson for the presidential nomination. On the other side apparently is former national chairman Frank E. McKinney, of Indianapolis, who is boosting New York Governor Averell Harriman for president, apparently with the backing of former President Harry S. Truman. McKinney, a former political bedmate of McHale, is financing to a large extent the candidacy of state senator Matthew Welsh, of Vincennes for the party's gubernatorial nomination. As the chairman elected today meet next week to choose district chairman and they in turn assemble to pick a state chairman, we may see again peculiar instances of Hoosier political musical chairs. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight and Sunday. ’ Low tonight in the 60s. Scattered thundershowers likely in extreme north portion tonight and Sunday. NOON EDITIOhT

Japan Warned On Signing Os Russian Pact Pro-U. S. Forces Warn Os Possible Diplomatic Trap TOKYO (INS) — Strong proAmerican forces in the Japanese government warned today that Tokyo may be walking into a diplomatic trap by signing a hasty fisheries agreement With the Soviet Union, Signing of tne agreement was scheduled to be held in Moscow. Saturday but reports in Tokyo said it may be delayed because of “difficulties.” Japan’s foreign minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, who has been forced to take a back seat in the Moscow - Tokyo negotiations because of internal politics, warned against hastily concluding fisheries agreement for the sake of a larger background issue — deadlocked Soviet - Japanese peace talks. The peace talks between the two nations were adjourned in London early this spring, apparently given up as hopeless. Prime minister Ichiro Hatoyama and his followers/however, hope that a fisheries agreement will lead to a speedy resumption of the London peace talks. Hatoyama is politically committed to early recognition of the Soviet Union, and to get recognition in return. The foreign minister, who favors a tough front towards the Kremlin. indicated the government should carefully study the entire question of relations with the Soviet Union before giving approval to the fisheries agreements. A .. Plan Questioning Os Wealthy Oilman Senate Probers To Query Howard Keck WASHINGTON (INS) — Senate “influence” investigators said today they are planning to question millionaire oilman Howard B. Keck in connection with lobbying o the natural gas bill. Keck, president of the Superior Oil Co. of California, was a key figure in a blue-ribbon senate inquiry into the $2,500 campaign contribution offered Sen. Francis Case (R„ S.D.), during the gas bill fight in the senate. Funds for the political donation were traced to the personal accounts of Keck who made the money available to Elmer Patman, Superior’s chief attorney, and law-yer-lobbyist John M. Neff. Informed sources said the staff of a new senate committee investigating all lobbying on the vetoed , gas bill planned to interview Keck and possibly Neff and Patman. ’ Chairman John L. McClellan (D., Ark.,) announced after a closedsession of the lobby group that the staff had beery instructed to follow-up the investigation conducted by the committee headed by Sen. Walter F. George (D., Ga.) McClellan also announced that the committee has agreed to check a charge that Sen. Milton Young (R., N.D.,) “sold out” in voting i for the gas bill.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday May 12, 1956.

Hagerty Reports Ike In Excellent Health, Checkup Is Completed

Hydrogen Bomb Test Is Now Slated Monday Observer Group Is Given Hint Os Big Blast Destruction By 808 CONSIDINE RUNIT ISLAND, ENIWETOK PROVING GROUNDS (INS) — A handful of newsmen and civil defense officials — clad in coveralls, canvas boots and white cloth caps that made most of us look IJke followers of Nehru — moved to within 75 yards of a crater made, by the May 5 atomic test blast on Runit island. This was the first shot of socalled "Operation Redwing” which will be climaxed with the drop of America’s first aerial hydrogen bomb. The H-bomb test — postponed five times because of unfavorable weather — is set for Monday morning about dawn (approximately2J»,m. Sunday EDT). A weather report issued aboard the communications ship Mount McKinley Saturday night announced no change in the time for the H-bomb but said enigmatically conditions looked better for TuesOn RuniL the observer group was preceded by atomic energy commission personnel armed with “ion chambers” — boxlike devices to measure lingering radiation. Our little troop was given a hint of the mightier atomic destruction to come when the H-bomb is dropped on Namu islet. The May 5 atomic blast was produced by what was called “a nuclear device” of a power NOT revealed. It was a surface shot and reduced to splinters and twisted steel the temporary laboratory in which it was assembled. (Continued on Page Five) Four Persons Killed In Crash At Auburn Five Others Hurt Critically Friday AUBURN, Ind. (INS) — Four persons. Including a clergyman, were killed and five others injured critically Friday night in an auto accident near Auburn. The dead were the Rev. James Johnson, 33, pastor of the DeKalb Cedar Lake Church who was driving one of the cars; Glenn Forest, 50; DeKalb; his daughter, Joan, 14; and Tom Ord, Fort Wayne, driver of the other car. Critically Injured were Mrs. Dorothy Johnson, 31. wife of the clergyman, their daughter, Judy. 9, and their sons. David, 7, and Denriy, 4; aud Mrs. Forest, 39. The injured were hospitalized at Souder Hospital, Auburn. The Johnson and Forest families had jumped into the Johnson automobile to drive southward when they feared tornado-like clouds were approaching their rural homes. A tornado alert had been posted for the area by the Indianapolis Weather Bureau, but the warning was lifted early Friday night by the Bureau. The two-car collision occurred at the top of a sharp hill during a heavy rain. Ord’ was alone in his automobile. Film Star Dies On Location In Japan HOLLYWOOD (INS) — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio reported in Hollywood that film star Louis Calhern, 61, died today in Japan. The studio said its representative in Japan cabled Hollywood that Calhern died in the town of Nara, where be was on location tor shooting the film “Teahouse of the August Moon,” with Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford.

British Apologize For Crabb Incident Apologize To Russia In Frogman Incident LONDON (INS) — A British apology to Russia for the unauthorized snooping of a royal navy frogman placed the Eden government today in a difficult position for a crucial commons debate. Moscow radio disclosed Friday i night an exchange of diplomatic notes between Britain and the Soviet Union on the international incident involving Cmdr. Lionel Crabb. Russia, it was reported, asked on May 4 for an explanation of why a frogman had been permit- - ted to operate close to three Soviet naval vessels in Portsmouth harbor. The foreign office reply five days later expressed the regrets of the British government and explained Crabb’s actions had been without authority. Disclosure ot the notes paved the way for a new Laborite effort to Force prime minister Sir Anthony Eden to break his silence and reveal full details Os the frogman case In the parliamentary debate ' starting Monday. Laborite leader Hugh Gaitskell ' is expected to ask the government why only the Russian version of the case should be known. , Some spectthrtton wits prompted , by the Soviet note which reported Crabb dead without qualification. The only British announcement to date listed the 46-year-old veteran diver as “missing and presumed dead.” Russian Criticism MOSCOW (INS) — The news paper Izvestia today described the (Contin ueo on P»r« 8lx) Repair Bath Houses At Municipal Pool Repairing and cleaning of the bat houses at the municipal swimming pool have started this week under supervision of B. J. Clark, street commissioner. City employes are painting and repairing ' thq locker rooms and doing other work around the swimming pool, preparatory to the opening shortly after*, schools are dismissed the last of this month. Hubert Zerkel, Jr„ supervisor at the pool, will announce the summer schedule soon. _ Graduation Tuesday For Adams Central Baccalaureate Rites On Sunday Evening ♦ Forty-three members of the senior class of Adams Central high school will receive diplomas at the annual commencement exercises scheduled for the school auditoriuin at Monroe Tuesday night at 8 o’clock. Following is the program: Processional, high school band. Invocation, the Rev. Ralph Johnson. Monroe Methodist church. Music. Introduction of speaker, principal John O. Reed. Address, the Rev. Karl A. Rest. Emanuel Lutheran church. Manchester, Mich. Music. Awards, by principal Reed. Presentation of diplomas, Floyd Mitchel, chairman Os board of education. Benediction, the Rev. Vernon Riley, Monroe Friends church. Recessional, high school band. The baccalaureate services are scheduled for Sunday night at 8 o’clock with the Rev. Carl Shaw of Wesleyan Methodist church delivering the sermon. Invocation will be given by the Rev. Louis Klotzbach and the benediction will be given by the Rev. John Mishler; Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. A girls’ trio and the high school band also will take payt in the annual services.

Study Conflict Over Views On Navy's Power Eisenhower And Air Force Chief Offer Different Picture WASHINGTON (INS) — Senators‘said today they will explore in the next few weeks an apparent conflict between President Eisenhower and Gen. Nathan F. Twining over the navy’s air-striking power. Twining, air force chief of staff, told thS* senate military appropriations subcommittee Friday that the navy could contribute only “small” striking power if a strategic air offensive became necessary. This appeared to be at odds with Mr. Eisenhower’s emphatic statement at his May 4 news conference. He said: “We have the most powerful navy in the world. There is no navy thAt even approaches It in power, and it features one thing, air power.” The President made the comment in explaining his position that it is not necessary for the I U-8. to match Russia in the production* of intercontinental bombt ers. Democrats in the senate have I charged tlWrt the adminlstraUon is I not doing enough to maintain U.S. air supremacy. Their charges led to the current Symington subcom(Continues OB Pwro JClgbt) Harry G. Ault Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Harry G. Ault. 78, tarmer and lifelong nesident of Willshire township, died suddenly at 7 o'clock this morning at the Sawyer <»anitoriam at Marlon, O. Weath was attributed to a cerein al hemorrhage and followed a week's illness. He was born in Willshire township Sept. 13, 1878, a son of Conrad and Louisa Dull-Ault, and was married to Nelline M. Brown Jan. 28, 1914. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Harry Neate of route 5. Van Wert, and Mrs. Roger* Foust of Lima, O.; three grandchildren; and three brothers, John D. Ault of route 4, Van Wert, Charles D. Ault of route L Willshire, and Otho Ault of Nashyille, Tenn. One brother and four sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Cowan ft Son funeral home tn Van Wert, the Rev. Albert Straley officiating. Burial will be in Wo&drawn eemeterr at Ohio City. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Sunday until time of the services. Telephone Hearing Is Set For June 7 Hearing by the Indiana public service commission on a recent petition of Citizens Telephone Co., Decatur, for an investigation and determination of rates and charges by the commission has been set for Thursday morning, June 7, at Indianapolis at 10 o’clock. Legal notice of the hearing will appear in Monday’s Daily Democrat. The notice Os hearing has been signed by Paul M. Tingle, secretary. Some time ago a petition was forwarded to the commission by the local utility asking that the commission investigate the present rate structure and set new rates and charges. The June. 7 hearing is open to the public and will be held in room 401 at the state house. It is believed likely that the commission will hear the evidence and then take the matter under advisement for farther study. - --'-77— :

Democrat Chairman Scores Eisenhower Accuses President Os Lacking Courage CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (INS) — Democratic national chairman Paul M> Butler charged today that President Eisenhower "would rather be popular” than make bold decisions in domestic and foreign affairs. Butler, in a prepared speech before an intercollegiate mock political convention at Harvard university, accused Mr. Eisenhower of lacking the “courage” of his predecessor, Harry 8. Truman. * He added: "Truly it can be said cf Dwight Eisenhower, that he would rather be popular than be the dynamic civilian leader of the American people . . . “I fear that history will record of the last four years that we have had a President who has been unwilling to make the hard decisions that this country has needod in a critical period.” Predicting the election of a Democratic president next fall, Butler said hts party is “wellequipped to resume the reins of government.” He said he based the outlook on available leadership, past achievements, the Democrats “unusual record of constructive opposition" during the past four years, and party victories since 1953. Butler contended that Mr. Eisenhower has failed to act boldly on national defense, racial issues, cold war problems, and security in government. Branding Mr. Eisenhower a “part-time President” and supporter of “special 4nterests,” Butler said: _ “The American people want a restoration to the White House of active, vigorous leadership in the interests of all the people — and they are going to get it by electing a Democratic president In November.” Infant Boy Saved By Young Cousin : Child Saved From Drowning In Pond INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — A 20-month-old hoy is alive today because of the determination of his frightened two-year-old cousin. David Wayne Fox ran fast to his grandmother ants brought the rescue of Robert Allen Anderson, from 18 inches of water in a fishpond, only a few seconds from death. Mrs. Ethel Anderson, 43, Robert's grandmother, waded Into the fishpond and pulled the child out. She said: “David ran up to me, as fast as his little legs could carry him. He kept crying: 'Bobby! Bobby! Bobby!’ and I knew something was wrong. I ran to the fishpond and saw Bobby. His head was half under water and one arm was floating on top of the water.’* Mrs. Anderson said she screamed and David’s father. Police Sgt. Wallace N. Fpx, and the officer's brother. Russell C. Fox, 30, of Greenfield, came running. They had been building a fence. Russell Fox began administering artificial respiration while Sgt. Fox phoned for sheriff’s deputies and a resuscitator crew from the Wayne township fire department. (ContinuM on Six) Two Navy Men And Civilian Drowned PORT HUENEME. Catif. TINS) —Two Navy men and a civilian were drowned Friday when a helicopter crashed into the sea off San Nicholas island, 80 miles south of Port Hueneme. Port Hueneme naval base identified the dead as Lt. Cmdr. John R, Widmer, naval airman James Richard Garber and civilian Charles G. Erickson. Home addresses of the victims were not at once available.

Thorough Exam Discloses Ike In Good Health Intensive Checkup Completed Today At Army Hospital WASHINGTON (INS) — Presidential news secretary James C. Hagerty reported results of President Eisenhower’s complete physical examination show him to be in "excellent” health. Hagerty made this brief pronouncement this morning at the conclusion of the examinations at Waiter Reed army hospital.* He said: "I think the results of the examination were excellent.” Hagerty gave that thumb-nail preview of the doctor’s findings as the President prepared to have lunch at Walter Reed hospital and then go directly to the Burning Thee golf course for an after- ' noon of golf. The President’s news secretary said that after the President I leaves the hospital, Hagerty would go to the White House ( and make public an extensive medical report by the doctors givI I ing the results of their two-day complete physical examination of the President. The President entered the hospital Thursday night for the “head-to-toe” checkup, including examination of his mended heart. Hagerty said the medical report "will be extensive.” He said the report would run about 800 to 900 words in length and that he will make it public at the White House. He said: "I’ll put it out Just as Soon as 1 can get it from the doctors and can have it mimeographed at the White House.” When Hagerty disclosed that the President would go directly to the golf course for an afternoon of golf instead of returning to the White House, newsmen interpreted this as indicating the medical examination showed the President to be in “good shape.” Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower expects to spend Sunday at his farm in Gettysburg, Pa., where Mrs. Elsenhower and her mother, ’ Mrs. John S. Doud, went Friday. Churchill Address Praised By Russia West German Leader Opposes Suggestion MOSCOW (INS) — The Soviet Union today praised Sir Winston Churchill for > his Aachen speech which suggested that Russia "join in the spirit” of NA.TCU if she has sincerely turned away from Stalinism. The IT. S. state department threw its backing behind the former British* prime minister’s pro- . posal in a statement Friday. A statement published in the Communist party newspaper Pravda said that Churchill “who cannot be considered an admirer of the Soviet Union is forced to ac- * knowledge the favorable influence” of Soviet policy on the international situation. West German foreign minister Heinrich Von Brentano rejected, the inclusion of Russia in NATO Friday as “not suitable at this time.” He called the Churchill suggestion "premature.” Th? State Department statement of the Aachen declaration said the IT. S. “welcomes the spirit and substance" of Churchill’s proposal. It noted that the British states- S man had said that any linking of » the Western alliance and the Soviets "is for the future” and that in the meantime, the West should ; “patiently and surely” reinforce the arangements which so far gov- S ern NATO.

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