Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 116.

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“I BELIEVE we can stay ahead of them,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Arthur Radford says of the Russians' air power as he testifies before the Senate foreign relations committee in Washington. Beside him is Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who voiced the same opinion, and also urged support of the administration's *4,900,000,000 foreign aid program, warning that any substantial cut would present serious rifts.

Seeks To Head Off Enthusiasm For Arms Cuts 4 Russian Manpower Reductions Short Os Any Assurance WASHINGTON (INS)—The Elsenhower administration made a major effort today to cushion the free world against the propaganda shock of the Russian announcement that Soivet military forces would be cut by l,200,0<)0 men in a year. The obvious objective was to head off in advance any possible enthusiam for arms cuts among free world nations. Cabinet members and other leaders in congress and the Pentagon insisted that Russia remained at least as dangerous as before and perhaps even more so, if they make a more eficient pse of ibeir manpower. The administration was ait-sei and ready to go. since the announcement bad been anticipated so confidently that a committee of experts had been working several weeks to prepare the American reaction. In a nutshell, the U.S. reaction was: 1. The Soviet manpower reductions fall far short of giving the free world the assurance it - needs that it is rid of the threat of Communist aggression. 2. The planned reduction is being made not to ease world tensions but to permit the Soviets to solve some basic agricultural and industrial problems by moving men out of the army into farms and factories. 3. There can be no real feeling of security from Communist aggression - as long as Russia continues its all-out effort to develop modern weapons, continues to refuse to agree to a reduction of armaments and continues to reject President Eisenhower's “open sky” adrial inspection plan and other methods to police any disarmament agreement. Thomas Gallmeyer District Chairman Thomas' A. Gallmeyer, Fort Wayne attorney, was elected chairman of the fourth district (Republican central committee at a meeting in Kendallville Tuesday afternoon. Gallmeyer is Allen county GOP chairman. Mrs. Louetta Ifer, of Wells county, was named district vice chairman. Mrs. Cora Holland, Angola, was reelected secretary, and Charles H. White, Columbia City, was reelected treasurer. Attending from Adams county were Harry Essex, county chairman, and Mrs. Eleanor Snyder, vice chairman. —., — — * Hospital Bond Issue Hearing Set May 23 The Indiana state board of tax commissioners has notified. Frank Kitson, Adams county auditor, that a board representative will • conduct its hearing on the proposed *450,090 bond issue for expansion and improvements to the Adams county memorial hospital in the county auditor's office at 10 am. Wednesday, May 23. This will be an open hearing and any taxpayer in the county may appear to state any remonstrance to the bond issue. This issue has been approved by the county commissioners and county council and only final action by the state is necessary before the bond issue can be sold and actual work started.

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Busy Session Held By City Councilmen Council Approves Subdivision Plat The dedication and plat of an area in the south part of the city to be known as J. Henry Faurote second subdivision were presented at the Tuesday night meeting of the city council. Also filed was a report of the city plan commission recommending approval of the subdivision. The council also received a report from the board of works approving "the subdivision. A resolution adopted by the council last night approved the dedication and accepted tho plat filed by Faurote. A report by the board of works accepting the retirement of Adrian Coffee and the appointment of James Cochran to replace him in the parking meter department was accepted by the council and made a matter of record. A petition was filed by residents of Stratton Place requesting that the plans catting tor a driveway out of the service station to be constructed at the corner of Monroe street extended and Limberlost Trail be refused. The petition stated that plans call for having the driveway connect with Limberlost Trail and that this will cause heavy traffic and be a public hazard. The Stratton residents seek refusal of the permit to connect the driveway to the street. The matter was referred to the street and sewer department. Petitions for the installation of lights in the alley at the rear of Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church and on Reiter street at the Schirmeyer and Winchester intersections were tiled aud referred to the electric light and power committee. Also referred to this committee was a petition for a rural line extension on U. S. highway 224 east of Decatur, filed by Richard E. Braun. Zoning Amended A report of the city plan commission recommending the amendment of the zoning ordinance to change the area south of Adams county memorial hospital from residential to general commercial was accepted by the council last night. An ordinance amending the zoning was adopted. The request to amend the ordinance was submitted by the county commissioners tor the purpose of permitting construction of a county building in that area. Two petitions requesting drains and sewers were submitted to the council Tuesday night and referred to the street and sewer committee. One request was submitted by Eugene who’ resides at the corner of Second street and Mix avenue. He stated that water frond the street drains onto his lot and asked that the city construct a drain to carry the water away from his yard. The other was petition for construction of a sewer along Krick street between 11th and 12th streets. A petition seeking Improvement of the - alley just north of Marshall street running from Second to Third streets .was filed with the council and referred to the street and sewer committee. The petition was submitted by resM 1 rents of the area who stated that the alley is used as a public thoroughfare.. , The council also accepted a report Tuesday night from the park board committee stating that there were not sufficient funds in the path fund to give financial assistance to the Stratton Place park in the year 1956. ’ ’ Other mature brought to the attention of the council laet fiight < included a school board vacancy in the near future, a report on * (Contmuee *on rage az)

Lodge Protests Over Sobolev's Abuse Os Post Lodge Makes Stiff Protest On Role In Sailors' Kidnaping UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (INS) —UN sources disclosed today that ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge had made a stiff protest to Dag Hammarskjold over Soviet delegate A. A, Sobolev's '“abuse" of his UN post. Lodge confirmed that he had made the protest personally after the UN secretary general's return from his Middle East peace mission. > Lodge based his action on Sobolev’s role in the alleged “kidnaping” of five Russian sailors who, the Soviet Union claimed, redefected to their homeland... with Hammarskjold to have deLodge is understood in his talk nounced angrily the chief Soviet delegate’s "unwarranted activity” and abuse of his diplomatic position at the UN. Hammarskjold, who was absent from UN headquarters when the five Soviet sallores were put aboard a Europe-bound plane in New York, took the protest under advisement and presumably brought it to Sobolev's attention. Lodge's protest was wholly apart from the U.S. protest note delivered ,to Soviet ambassador Georgl Zarubin in Washington on April 25, a copy of which was given to the UN. The U. S. government expelled two of Sobolev's aides and both now are back home in Moscow. But the general impression among diplomatic observers is that Sobolev himself is under a dark cloud at his UN post and should be recalled by the Moscow foreign office at an early opportunity. Sobolev’s explanation of his role in the incident was made through a Soviet delegation spokesman after the five sailors left He said it was the “right'' of any Soviet citizen to bid farewell to countrymen leaving for home Lodge's protest was made on the background of mounting cases inn and outside of UN involving irregularities and “espionage” activities by members of Soviet diplomatic missions (Continued on Fags Five) Campbellsburg Bank Robber Is Arrested Former Convict Os Anderson Identified ANDERSON, Ind. (INS) — Clifford Lee Cauble, 32-year-old Anderson former convict was identified today as the bandit who robbed the State Bank of Campbellsburg of more than *3,000 Tuesday. Cauble was arrested at his home early today by Anderson police who had waited, for him for three hours. He had eluded police when they first arrived at his home, but returned lated to deny the robbery. Cauble said he had spent the day at Salem, which is 12 miles from Campbellsburg, visiting relatives. The bank loot? *3.545 and the bucket into which the robber had demanded the money be placed during the holdup, were not found by the searching officers. However, state police said that Mrs. Cauble admitted her husband left the house carrying the bucket, but aid not return with it. A role of adhesive tape, such as the bandit had used to mask his face, was found In Cauble’s car. Roger Wilkins, bank cashier, and Robert Bennett, Campbellsburg filling station operator, picked Cauble from a lineup at Anderson thia morning and pisitively identified him as the holdup man. Cauble has served terms in Leavenworth prison, in Kansas, and also in the Indiana state reformatory. State police, who plan to question Cauble further today at Salem, said that the ex-convict may face habitual criminal charges in addition to bank robbery charges. Deny Princess To Wed Hanover Prince LONDON (INS) — Reports that Princess Margaret and Prince Christian of Han Over might become engaged were officially denied today. The denial wm made In an unprecedented statement issued at Clarence House, where the princess resides with her mother. Christian also issued a denial.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 16, 1956.

18 Killed, 25 Others Unaccounted For After Plane Crashes Convent

; ,»■ - , '»*■>*!!. ' ! , « l G. 0. P. Seeks i* • - Compromise On Farm Measure Senate Republican Leadership Backs Compromise Plan WASHINGTON (INS) — The 1 senate's Republican leadership lined up today behind a compromise ' on the controversial feed-grain provision of the new farm bill. Sen. George D. Aiken (R VL), who disclosed the compromise, said it has the support of senate GOP leaders and, he predicted, it will be acceptable to the administration. Unless the feed grain provision Is changed, there is a possibility President Eisenhower would veto the new bill as he did the omnibus farm legislation congress sent him last month. Aiken said that under the compromise. oats, barley, rye and grain sorghums would have 76 per cent price supports this year without any acreage controls or man- ( datory soil bank requirements. , This is the same as in the bill t approved by the senate agriculi ture committee. * ' But for 1957,, Aiken said that ■ “we would prefer noOiing at ay.", * However, as a compromise he 'said GOP Ibaders will be willing to i back price supports on small I grains comparable to those given - midwest corn growers who do not ■ comply with acreage reductions. ’ Mr. Eisenhower, in vetoing the i omnibus farm bill, announced supports of *1.25 a bushel for such corn. > Under the compromise, small grain producers after this year would get comparable price supports only if props were continued for the midwest farmers, who plant all the corn they desire. Under the bil lapproved by the senate agriculture committee, small grain supports in the future would be five per cent less than the corn subsidy but farmers would have been required to participate in the soil bank. The administration objected to the mandatory supports. It said also that the agriculture department would be forced into huge expansion to carry out the details of the required soil bank partici l pation. Buddy Poppy Sales Friday, Saturday Foreign War Vets To Conduct Sales Comander Theodore Baker announced today that Veterane of Foreign Wars Post No. 6236 would conduct its annual Buddy Poppy campaign Friday and Saturday. In making his announcement. Baker said that his Buddy Poppy committee has been formulating new approaches for the 1956 sale. One of the innovations this year will be for the organization to contact personally all ibckl industrial and business firms. The commander said he felt sure if the etory of the Buddy Poppy was properly presentod these people would be more than happy to contribute. He noted also that through the rehabilitation work of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, thousands of dollars in tax money was being saved by all citizens in the community. <4 The commander also warned all citizens to check each poppy for the official, copyrighted V.F.W. streamer labeled “Buddy Poppy" before making any contributions. t INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday. l Warmer north tonight and a little warmer over ' moot of state Thursday. Low ’ tonight mostly In the 40s. High Thursday 60s north to the 70s <

Cast Is Favored To Keep Chairmanship State Committee Os e GOP Meeting Today BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Th* Republican state commit* tea, in a harmony session, this re-elected all present officers, headed by state chairman Alvin C. Cast, of Kentland. .INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Alvin C. Cast, of Kentland, probably will be reelected Republican state chairman at a meeting of the newly-chosen GOP slate committee in Indianapolis this afternoon. Reelection of Charles E. Sklllen, of Winamac, as Democratic state chairman likewise seemed probable at the meeting of the new state committee of that party Sat«rday. County chairmen met in 1 congressional districts this afternoon to name the Democratic state committee members. Cast is being boosted as a neutral in the terrific fight between the GOP factions led 1 by Governor ,George N. Craig and Lieut. Gov. Harold W. Handley, candidate for the party’s gubernatorial bid. H. Dale BrOWn, of Indianapolis, who was renamed eleventh district committee member over dei dermlned opposition from Craig, • tadd he is against unseating Caet, adding: ' believe Cast has attempted ' to stay neutral in a difficult sitna--1 tion.” 1 Cast was elected by the Craig, ■ group which took Over the state organization from Senators William E. Jenner and Homer E. Capehart. Cast appeared to profit from the election of state committee members Tuesday afternoon at which only six of the 22 members of the old committee lost their seats. Cast himself was reelected Second district committeeman. There was some doubt, however, about the status of Mrs. Von L. Snyder, state vice-chairman, r.nd Thomas Mahaffey, Jr., of Indianapolis, treasurer. Mrs, Snyder, of Indianapolis, failed to be renamed eleventh district vice-chairman and was succeeded by Mrs. Betty Griffith, also of Indianapolis. Other changes were: ■ , Fred Ferrini, of Munstgr, succeeded former Mayor Vernon Anderson. of Hammond, who resign- j ed to manage Handley's cam: paign, as first district committeeman. Thomas A. Gailmeyer, of Fort Wayne. Allen county chairman, was chosen fourth district committeeman, succeeding Roy Jones, (Con tin lien on Put* Rix) "■ ■ , « • ■---*■ ' "■ Ask Second Street Used For Festival « ■ - . . •' ■ • , Council Approves I ’ Chamber Request A report recomending the approval of the Chamber of Commerce request for the use of Secohd street for the annual spring festival was filed by the street and sewer committee and accepted by the city council Tuesday night. The report recommended that the Chamber be granted permission to use Second street from Jefferson to Monroe streets, providing all intersecting alleys and streets be , kept open for traffic. It also ap proved the use of the north side of Cort street for the festival. •, The festival, which ie planed annually by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, will be held this year from June 4 through June 9. In addition to rides and concessions, it will feature the annua) amateur talent show. In previous years the festival has been held on Madison and . Cortr streets but. this year, the Chamber requested themse of -Second street tor the purpose, of mpanding the festival. The request received the official approval of the city council Tuesday night. • ’ | 1 ‘ •

Great Britain Tests Newest Atomic Weapon Successful Test Os Newest Weapon Off Coast Os Australia MELBOURNE (INS) — Britain successfully tested its newest atomic weapon today in the isolated Montebello islands off the northwest coast of Australia. The announcement that Britain’s third series of atomic tests had begun was made in Melbourne by the ministry of supply, which said an “atomic device” had been det ousted successfully. The oply other information sup plied in the announcement was that scientific records were being collected for accurate evaluation and that all necessary precautions had been taken. Earlier, official statements revealed that the atomic device was of the same magnitude as the first British A-bomb detonated In 1952 at Montebello. Eyewitness reports said the ex plosion sent up a mushroom-shaped cloud that swelled quickly into a fory resembling the head of *n aboriginal woman with her mouth ofcen. Supply minister Howard Beak said last week that the weapon tested today could hot be com pared with the current U. S. test at Eniwetok, where a powerful hydrogen /bomb is to be dropped from a plane. ‘ • Ask Stale To Study Decatur Water Rates Council Authorizes Filing Os Petition A resolution authorizing the filing of a petition with ’the public service commission to investigate water rates and charges of the Decatur water department was adopted at the Tuesday night meeting of the city council. The resolution authorized city Attorney John DeVoss to file the petition requesting investigation and revision of the water rates The water department, which serves 2,437 patrons, is currently iperating at a lobs. The petition stated that the department now has *57.000 outstanding debt in revenue bonds issued to fittance the water softener plant, drilling of new wells and materials for the treatment plant. It was also pointed out that the department needs additional funds for new con utruction. 1 « ~ ; The public service commission will be "asked to study the financial condition of the department for the purpose of determining that an increase in rates is advisable The approval of the commission is necessary before rates can be increased and the amount of increase is established by the commission. 'fhe department has operated for some time how at a financial loss because of increased expenses in maintenance. improvement and expansion. The public service com mission will hold a public hearing on the matter in the near future. The date and place of the hearing win by announced as soon as they are established:" BULLETIN Aboard U.S.*. ML McKinley (INS)—The first American air drop of a hydrogen bomb was again postponed today. The detonation, which nad been scheduled for shortly be- ... fore -dawn Thursday (2 p. m. Wednesday, edt) was put off at hho. minute fgr at least X- another 24 hours.., ■ ~--.-lt<wAS rescheduled /or about Friday -(2 pox-Thursday,. ■ edt). • . -.- C

Case Against Youth To Juvenile Court Charge On Thompson Transferred Today The care of Kenneth Eugene Thompson, 15-year-old Bluffton boy, charged with kidnaping, in an affidavit filed April 20 and amended May 16 in Adams circuit court, has been transferred to juvenile court in compliance with , Indiana statutes. t Judge Myles F. Parrish has inI strutted Adams county probation officer, C. H. Muselman, to file a complete bill of facts against the i boy in juvenile court and he has I set Friday morning at 9 o’clock , as the time for a hearing. County , clerk Richard Lewton was authorized to transfer the case. The action was taken this morning in Adams circuit eourt. ( Thompson and Charles William ’ Ostrander, also of Bluffton, alleg- ’ edly have confessed to the rob--1 bery of a young Decatur couple ’ and both men confessed also to rape. Thompson has been held in Ad- ’ ams county jail since the arrest 1 of the two men April 18. 1 Following is a complete copy of the entry made today: :- Comes now Myles F. Parrish. J regular Judge of the Adams cira cuit court, and it now appears to n the court that on May Hr 1966. b ap amended affidavit, for kidnaping was filed in the Adams elreUit e court against one Kenneth Eun gene Thompson; that said comi. plaint or charge of a criminal t matter has been made, and is now pending against the said j Kenneth Eugene Thompson in the Adams circuit court, and that it is now ascertained by the court that the said person, Kenneth Eugene Thompson, was under the age of 18 years at the time the! offense is alleged to have been! committed; that saidtchild was 15 years of age at the 7 time the offense is alleged to have been committed; and that said alleged violation of law with which the said person is charged, if committed by an adult, would not be a capi- ■ tai offense, and the court further finds that it shall be the duty of . the court to transfer this case immediately, together with all the papers, documents, and testimony connected with the juvenile court. .. It is therefore now ordered, adjudged and decreed by the court that the said child, Kenneth Eugene Thompson, was 15 years of age at the time the offense is al(C'euttevMl o« Paace Eiftht) Hotel At Sullivan Destroyed By Fire 26 Guests Escape Burning Structure , SULLIVAN, Ind. (INS)—A longdistance telephone call may have saved the lives of many guests of the Davis Hotel in Sullivan which was destroyed along with other business buildings early today with a loss estimated at more than *200,000. A. L. Rickey, of Milwaukee, a guest, received a phone call from , that city at three o’clock this morning and noticed the blaze. He sounded the alarm. Twenty-six guests fled from the | burning structure. " ■ j Firemen said the fire apparent- , ly started from a neon sign and ] that it broke out on the third < floor and was whipped by a stiff west wind. • ; Also destroyed were the West- ( ern Union telegraph office, a jew- ( elry store, barber shop, beauty j parlor, news stand, real estate of- ( flee and apartments over them. Marion Stevens, a permanent ( guest who ran last in the recent ( seventh district Democratic con- ( gressional primary election, wait- , ed too long to exit by the stairway and had to climb down from his room on a ladder. The blaze was fought for sever- ( al hours by firemen from Sulll- j ypn, Terre Haute, Linton and Vincennes. .

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Religious Rest Home In Canada Struck By Jet Search Parties Find 18 Bodies, Continue Search For Others OTTAWA, Ont. (INS)—The Ottawa house mother of the order which operated the Catholic nuns’ reat home wrecked Tuesday night by a supersonic jet plane, announced today that 15 persons were known dead In the holocaust. OTTAWA (INS) — Search parties found 18 bodies and hunted for 25 other persons still unaccounted tor today in the rubble of a three-story brick rest home for Catholic nuns, wrecked Tuesday night by a rocket-laden RCAF supersonic jet plane. The top-secret plane, whose two-man crew was killed, rammed the religious rest home in suburban Orleans shortly after 11 p. m. (EDT) when most occupants either had retired for the night or prepared to do so. Exploding rockets and the blast of the plane itself quickly turned the building into an inferno of flames. The known death toll made the disaster the worst of its kind in Canadas history. Four of the recovered bodies, those of a priest, the Rev. R. M. Ward, and three nuns, were identified this morning but others were burned beyond recognition; Loss of the records of the home, operated by the Grey Nuns of the Cross, -and death of the Mother Superior, made it difficult to pin down the exact number of victims. ’ f Sister Joseph Edwidge of Lowell, Mass., the only American believed to have been in the two-year-old home, Villa St. Louis, escaped from the holocaust. She said she suddenly heard a "shattering noise” as the jet smashed into the home Operated by the Grey Nuns of the Cross and inmates screaming “sortez!” (Get out!) Sister Joseph said she. grabbed one of the inmates and “as we got near the exit we were helped by four or five men who had come to the scene.” The air defense command disclosed that the jet had been sent aloft to intercept an “unknown” spotted on the screen of “Pinetree,” the radar net guarding the northern U. S. border. ; H The ADC said that the night interceptor carrying six rockets * and ednnon, crashed after idbnti- * tying the “unknown” as a transport plane which had failed to file a flight plan. The CF-100, Mark V, jet hit the three-story brick building about 50 feet above ground, smashed through the wall and exploded in a mass of flames which quickly enveloped the structure. The explosion, heard miles away, blew the bodies of some of the victims out into the fields surrounding the home. Sister Louis Auguste, who managed to escape, said the explosion was so “terrific” she thought at first "a bomb had fallen on us.” Some of the nuns fled through the far side of the long, rectangular building which contained 70 cells. Seven of them were reported in serious condition in Ottawa hospital. The plane—a twin jet and the latest fighter developed by Canada—was flying on instruments and sent no distress signal before roaring into the rest home eight miles from the capital. A security guard was immeriately thrown around the crash site, located in a sparsely settled area on a hill near the Ottawa river. RCAP Group Capt. Donald Miller, commanding officer at Uplands air base in ' Ottawa, said “all information tbont the plane was classified.” / - - He seid an immediate faveatl(Continued on Page Two)