Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 135, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 135.

... AND DON’T DO IT AGAIN! former President Harry S. Truman (left) meetsa man. whose life he saved in. 1945 at a press conference In Munich. Erich Gintpel, 45. was saved from the gallows by Mr.'Truman after he was landed on the coast of Maine in 1944 for Nazi espionage duty, and , captured. Gimpel shook Mr. Truman’s hand and thanked him for ’’saving my life” and Truman wished him good luck with a smiling admonition "not to go spying again."

Stevenson's Aides Planning Delegate Push Campaign Advisers Confer In Chicago On Campaign Plans WASHINGTON (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson's campaign advisers will confer in Chicago this week end about ways of wooing delegates who are uncommitted, pledged to favorite sons or still tp be chosen. They also arc expected to eye those delegates who are committed to a first ballot vote for Sen. Estes Kefauver at the Democratic national convention but are not firmly tied thereafter. These involve such states ms 'MWBk which will hate "W votes, and Maryland with 18. Stevenson topped Kefauver in the California presidential primary this week and thereby established himself as the leading contender for the presidential nomination. Although Kefauver said he would continue his campaign, many Democrats believe he was killed off in California. ■ While his advisers discuss strategy to be. followed between now and the national convention in August, Stevenson will remain in California for a holiday. He and hfs backers now regard Gov. Averell Harriman of New lork as their principal opponent. Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri may be a formidable dark horse possibility but only if and when the Stevenson campaign falls apart. Much attention will be given to the 10 states which still must choose delegates with 238 conven tion votes. With the primaries now finished, all these will be named by state Democratic conventions or executive committees. These states are New Mexico, Arizona. Tennessee, Washington Kentucky, Mississippi, Colorado, Virginia, and Arkansas. New York still must select delegates at large with 12 votes. As of now, it appears to be a conservative estimate that Steven son can count on 450 or more first ballot votes at the national convention. The majority needed to nominate is 686%. The United Press tabulation now credits Stevenson with 377 votes from delegates committed or known to have a first ballot preference. This figure does not include a sizeable number of delegates from the South and elsewhere wife are reported to be leaning toward the former Illinois governor. It alsc excludes Massachusetts, where Stevenson forces claim a majority of the 40-vote delegation after a first ballot vote for a favorite son Rep. John W. McCormack. New Jersey, with 35% uncommitted votes,' also is considered fertile territory to be cultivated by Stevenson. Other states with large delegate blocs committed to favorite sons include Texas with 40 votes pledged ,t(L Sen. Lyndon B. John son, Ohio, with 54 for Gov. Frank J. Lausche and Michigan with 40 for Gov. G. Mennen Williams. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler this afternoon and tonight. Saturday fair and not much change in temperature. Low tonight 5258 north, <56-00 south. High Saturday 75A2. Sunset 8:11 p.m., sunrise Saturday 5:1? a.m. I,

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Foresee Wage Hike For Steelworkers Will Affect Entire Economy Os Nation NEW YORK (UPI-J-A big wage hike for 650,000 steel workers and a major price increase affectinx the nation’s entire economy are certain to stem from current "Big Three" steel wage talks, industry experts said today. Negotations entered their third day here after having been transferred from Pittsburgh where they began May 28. ’ much about the progress of the ’ So far neither side has said velt The union has given the meetings held at the Hotel Hoosesteel companies its demands —said to be the biggest in the history of the ateel industry. At a news conference Thursday, John A. Stephens, vice president and chief .negotiator pf U.S. Steel Coro:,*said It will be at least Another week before the companies submit counter proposals to the union'. Experts said this means that real brass tacks negotiations aimed at Writing a new contract before the June 30 strike deadline won't get started until the middle of next wfeek-t-at the earliest. Negotiators for the United Steel —workers and tie industry’B three bigg e* t • producers-—U .S. Steel. Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel —appeared optimistic and relaxed at the negotiations. - David J. McDonald, president of the USW, said he was still hopeful of reaching an agreement "well in advance” of the strike deadline. The present contract between the union and 172 steel companies expires at midnight - on June 30. Failure to write a new wage pact by that time could trigger a striek. Top industry spokesmen speculated the industry would win a package increase approaching 20 cents an hour. Thomas Campbell, editor-in-chief of the Iron Age. a leading trade journal, predicted such an increasr would have to be offset by a steeT price increase of around $lO to sll per ton. Campbell said in view of the industry’s multi-billion-dollar expan sion program over the next few years, it would be necessary to pass part of the wage increase along to consumers in the form of an across-the-board Increase. As a result, Americans ean expect to pay more for everything from automobiles to the kitchen sink later this year. Archbold Is Speaker At Rotary Meeting L. E. Archbold, former Adams county agent and now a representative of the Adams county Farm Bureau, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Archbold discussed some or the present-day problems for fanners, and spoke particularly on the value of poletype barn construction. Gene Rydell was chairman of the program. Endre Sipos, bio chemist for the Central Soya Co., new member of the club, was formally inducted, with the Rev. William C. Feller, a past president, making the indue-, tion. Rotarians and their ladies will meet with hte Lions club at 5:30 p.m. Sunday at the Center to celebrate (he 30th anniversary Os will meet with the Lions dub at Decatur. This will replace the regular June 14 meeting of Rotary,

House Group Voles Higher Vets Pensions Committee Favors Bill For Increase In Vets Benefits By UNITED PRESS The house veterans committee today approved a bill that would boost the cost of veterans’ pension and other benefits by sl,400,000,000 the first year. Committee sources .said the extra costs would rise rapidly in succeeding years and would “easily exceed” a grand total of SIOO billion by the year 2000. The controversial bill, sponsored by the American Legion and strongly opposed by the administration, would grant a general pension of $lO5 a month for needy veterans on reaching age 65. Elsewhere in congress: Foreign Aid: The administration reluctantly abandoned its fight to get tie house to restore the 1 billion dollar cut in President Eisenhower’s foreign aid program, leaving that job up to the senate. The house Thursday rejected, 192-112, a compromise proposal to restore 600 million dollars of the slash. Final action on the bill is expected Monday. Parks: Administration spokesmen, urging approval of a 10-year expansion program to handle the Good of visitors, said the national parks “are being loved to death.” Wesley A. D’Ewar (.assistant secretary of interior, told a senate interior subcommittee the number of visitors increased from 350,000 in 1916 to 50,000,000 last year and may soar to 80,000,000 by 1966. Communists: Seweryn Bialer. , former Polish Communist official , who defected to the West, told the senate internal security sub- ' committee that Russian leader , Nikita Khrushchev has secretly said Khrushchev told Polish Comurged fellow Communists to push ' Americans “to the grave." He ’ munlsts that “coexistence can’t ' be external. One of u» must one l« <• hta crave. We do not 1 want to go to the crave. Ameri- ! cans and Westerners do not wanj to go either. We must push them.” Three Are Slain In Chicago Night Spot Ex-Convict Sought In Chicago Slayings CHICAGO (UP)—An ex-convict, blasting away with a doublebarreled shotgun, shot and killed three persons in a jazzy light spot early today. Two of his victims were cowering on the floor begging for mercy. The third victim, an unidentified newsboy, about 35 years old, tried to stop the killer from escaping. He was gunned down on the sidewalk. Detective Paul Doleman said the killer was identified byxWfK nesses ns ex-convict Lawrence Neumann, 28. He walked into the Miracle Bar, • North Side nightspot which features a ‘’Dixieland” style jazz band, shortly after 2 o’clock with the shotgun in his hands. “I’m going to kill everyone in the place,” witnesses quoted him. Max, Epstein, 54, co-owner of the cocktail lounge, dropped to the floor behind the bar. He was begging for mercy. The gunman calmly stepped onto the bar rail and, leaning over, killed Epstein with a blast in the back. Lois M. Gates, 28, who operated the Miracle Bar's “26 game,” a dice game, also fell to the floor, screaming her plea for life. She died with a shotgun blast in the neck. The gunman then whirled on the eight patrons in the bar and bartender Raymond Steinhoff. Many of them were also on the floor. He seemed about to open Are again, Steinhoff said, but then changed his mind. He started walking out and at that moment the newsboy threw open the front door. It appeared the newsboy had heard the shots and was trying to block the killer’s path. But the gunman pushed him out onto the sidewalk and cut him down with a blast in the side. Witnesses said the . murderer fled on foot down a long alley which runs along the elevated tracks. Police threw a dragnet about the area, which includes swank lakeshore apartment houses. and also sent Hiued car* petrolling the , city in the search ter Neumann. (Ceefiaaml an Pag* Eight)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 8, 1956.

President Eisenhower Suffering p Intestinal Ailment--To Hospi tai

Soviet Russia I Asks U. S. To Match Arm Cut Bulganin Challenges United States To Match Soviet Cut > WASHINGTON (UP) — Soviet ■ premier Nikolai Bulganin chal- ■ lenges the United States in his • latest letter to President Eisen- ’ Lower to match Russia's 1.2 mil-lion-man military slash, diplomatic ■ circles reported today. p President Eisenhower and U. S. ’ military officials already have 1 made clear they have no intention of matching the Soviet mao- • power cut • Soviet ambassador Georgi Zaf roubin delivered Bulganin’s two- . page letter and an accompanying 16-puge document to secretary of | , state John Foster Dulles Thurs- • day. , " Neither the state department or Soviet Embassy would disclose the message's object matter. The text was expected to be made public J. late today or Saturday. J However, diplomatic circles reported the message contained new , disarmament proposals including the manpower-cut challenge. —- Diplomatic sources said Bulganl in told the President that tn equal . manpower slash in U. S. forces ? would boost trust and confidence between the Soviet bloc and the free world. There-has been speculation here and abroad for weeks that 'Russia t would make the proposal. Russia has beat its propaganda drums loudly about Its cut ever since announcing it last month. But U. S. officials have contended that manpower is not the key to effective disarmament in the atomic age. Dulles said the Soviet cut might , even increase Russia's war-making, - potential by freeing men for ini dustry. Secretary of defense Chart les E. Wilson said flatly the Unit- - ed States will maintain its armed r forces at the present 2,850,000-man level for the indefinite future. Some officials pointed out that , Russia merely appeared to be fol- - lowing the American "new look" i program of cutting down and streamlining its armed forces. I Presidential disarmament ad- • riser Harold E. Stassen said the s Soviet cut would make the prospects of peace “a few degrees (Contlßued Page Eight) : Flag Day Services : Here Next Thursday Annual Services On J Lawn At Elks Home I Annual Flag Day services will be held at 7:30 o’clock next j Thursday evening, June 14, on the t front lawn of the B. P. O. Elks lodge, North Second street. The service, honoring the flag , of the United States of America, is a mandatory rite for all Elks ! lodges in the nation. i In Decatur, the Ipcal fraternal organization is assisted in spon- ’ soring the observance by Adams Post 43, American Legion, and , Llmberlost Post 6236, Veterans of , Foreign Wars. The Figg Day address will be delivered by Judge Myles F. Par- ’ rish, judge of the Adams circuit court. I The ceremony will open with a . parade from the American Legion ’ home to the Elks home, with the ’ line of march led by the Decatur , high school band and the Legion and VFW color guards. The service will be conducted . by George Alton, exalted ruler of t the Elks lodge, assisted by his etaff of officers.- The history of ’ the flag will be delivered by . George F. Laurent, past exalted , ruler of the Elks. The public <6 Invited to attend the services and pay honor to the* nation’s Dag.

Eventual Merger Os Armed Forces Urged Air Force Leading f Battle For Unity WASHINGTON (UP) — The U. S. air force is blowing the bugles for closer unification and eventual merger of the army, navy, marines and air force. Gen. Nathan F. Twining, air force chiet of staff, began the .campaign in a, secret speech last week at the NaHbnal War College, the top military school for outstanding officers of all services. As the youngest, but in many respects most powerful of the services, the air force is irst to take a stand in the controversial new unification debate. The debate sprang from the recent outburst of service feuding and focused public attention on duplicating war roles and weapons developments of the military arm?. Since Twining’s Btill-unpubllclz-ed talk, former air secretary Thomas K. Finletter has called for a “completely unified” military force with single uniform and single chief of staff to provide America the “defensive shield" it needs. Sen*. Allen J. Ellender (D-Li.) and Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) likewise have proposed an end to the present multi-service system. Today, another important Demoorgtic voice was added to the < others. Sen. Stuart Symington 4DMo.l, air force secretary under former President Truman, called for closer unification in a speech 1 at Mexico. Mo. “If the Pentagon truly. unified,” Symington said, “the American people could obtain more security for far less money than is being spent today.” While Twining’s speech has not been made public, it was quickly followed up by Gen. Thomas D. White, air force.-vice chief, in , a talk last Friday night in San Francisco. White foresaw a day when overlapping roles and missions of the services would force reorganization and a single uniform. < ————— Nearly 7 Million In Savings Bonds Adams County citizens now own $6,933,000 worth of U. S. savings bonds, according to a report made to T. F. Graliker. chairman of the county savings bonds committee as a part of the recognition of the 15th anniversary of the savings bonds program. Interest earned on these bonds is adding to the financial wealth of individuals and the community at the rate of approximately $207,990 a year and this total is being raised annually as the total value of bonds owned locally is increased. Charge Alabama Man With Check Forgery Affidavit Is Filed ' In Circuit Court An affidavit charging forgery was filed in Adams circuit court today against Cecil Minchew, 34, of Alabama, who was arrestedWednesaay by local authorities. Charges will also be filed against his companion, Dorothy Bryant, 27. also of Alabama. The two were stopped In Geneva as the result of a radio alert following an at tempt to pass a fraudulent check at the Kiddie shop in Decatur. The police were alerted and the pair fled. After their arrest it was learned that a check In the amount of $17.31, forged to Ferd Klenk’s account in the First .State Bank, was cashed at the Moore store in Berne. The Alabama couple are being charged with cashing the bugus check. The six - year -old daughter of Mrs. Bryant, who was with the pair, has been turned over to the custody of her father. Investigation of the case is being continued and. it is believed that the Alabama couple may clear up other fraudulent check cases in the area.

United Auto Workers Urge lax Reduction Five-Point Program Outlined By UAW To Slow DETROIT (INS) — The United Auto Workers today recommended an immediate five-point program, including tax cuts for consumers, to halt growing unemployment. The UAW announced Its recommendations for improvement of the economy at a meeting of 32 mayors from four states which have large numbers of jobless in the auto building and other industrial fields. In its “proposed program to restore and maintain full employment in the automotive communities," the. UAW called for immediate-: 1. Tax changes upping personal income tax exemptions from 3600 to SBOO per person, removing excise taxes on consumer products from autos down, and plugging of business tax "loopholes." > 2. Federal action establishing ’ and providing "adequate unemployment compensation benefits.” ’ 3. Suspension of payments on ' - I Acceleration dt current aet! feose work for Immediate relief of the jobless situation. 5. Acceleration of public works programs. The UAW also proposed a “longrange * stji W program” calling' for a*slitl.tJfciTmimlwa^:''<x>oiteration from municipal-to-federal governn)entsr on, a gigantic • industr< works programs on schools, highways,. hospitals and housing; restoration supports;, alid e congressional investigation of prices and profits. The mayors, or their representatives came from 24 Michigan cities: Milwaukee and Kenosha, Oantiniied nn Pnse BleJit) Homer F. Smitley Dies This Morning Funeral Services , Monday Afternoon Homer F„ Smitley, 65. of 421 South First street, retired auto mechanic. died at 8 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for two years of a heart condition and dropsy, and serious for the past two months. He was born in Blue Creek township Sept 2, 1890, a son o John Ji. and Mary Ellen ForemanSmitley, and was a lifelong res) dent of Adams county. His wife, Sylvia, preceded him in death. — Mr. Smitley was a member of the Decatur Missionary church. Surviving are four daughters. Mrs. John Stauffer of Bluffton, Mrs. Thelma Kessler and Mrs. Donald Snell of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Doyle Gilbert of Decatur; two son-, Gerald Smitley of Duncan Falls, 0., and Dale Smitley of Kokomo; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Charles Ward and- Mrs. Ward Bowman of Decatur; 16 grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; three brothers, William Smitley of Decatur, Roy Smitley of Bradon Beach. Fla., and Ivan Smitley of Flint, Mich., and three sisters, Mrs. Frank Lautzenheiser of Monroe, Mrs. Blanche Applebee of Flint, Mich., and Mrs. Hazel Wistermann of Linden, Mich. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home and at 2 p.m. at „phe Decatur Missionary church, the Rev. H. J, Welty and the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas oh ficiating. Burial will be In the Decatur. cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. ■ Saturday until time of the services.

Tito Makes Visit To Palace Os Czar Leningrad Welcomes Yugoslavian Leader LENINGRAD, Russia (UP) — President Tito of Yugoslavia today visited the centuries-old palace of Peter the Great, the czar regarded by western historians as the founder of modern Russia. It was the second ami ffetal day of the visit by Tito to Leningrad, where 40 years ago he fought in the streets alongside Bolshevik rebels against the police of Russia’s last monarch, Czar Nicholas. Tito leaves tonight by special train for Moscow after a dinner in his honor by the Leningrad City Soviet. The Yugoslav president rnd his party will pass through Moscow en route to other provincial cities on their tour of the Soviet Union. Tito was up early to begin his sightseeing tour. He paid an early morning visit to the Imposing palace of Peter the Great, the czar who brought Western culture to largely feudal Russia in the 17th century. The palace, which contains many treasures of the prerevolutionary czarist days, has been preserved as a museum by the Soviet government. Next on his schedule was the famed Hermitage Museum, which also houses a collection of priceless h’storical relics, A visit to the Leningrad Military Academy followed. * ' Tito arrived in Leningrad Thursday and was given a hero's welcome. Huge crowds cheered lustily wherever he went. Spring Festival To End Here Saturday Reduced Prices On Rides In Afternoon Kiddies Day will be featured at the annual spring festival Saturday afternoon. Prices will be reduced for the youngsters during the afternoon. Another Saturday highlight will be performances at 3 p. m. and 9 p. m. by Art Bassett on the unicycle and pogo stick at the court house ramp. Musical background for his free act will be provided by the Dixie Cats, who have entertained festival crowds several times this week. Today's feature will be presentation of a trampoline act by the Turner school students from Fort Wayne. The act will be presented on the court house ramp at 9 p. m. The Dixie Cats will also play for them. Entertainment Thursday night was a parachute jump made by William Kolkman of Fort Wayne. The jump was made at 7 p. m. from 6,000 feet over Second street. Robert Railing was pilot of the plane. Kolkman landed in a field near Bellmont park. Zwick’s ambulance stood by in the event it was necessary. . . ' Saturday night is the final session of the festival, which is sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. In addition to the free acts the festival includes rides for adults and children, concessions and an industrial exhibit. Burglars Take Safe From Monon Station INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Burglars carted away a safe from the Monon Railroad’s 38th St. station here early today. The sate contained 100 payroll checks which were to have been distributed today to employes. Railroad officials warned merchants, particularly in the Indianapolis area, to require positive identification from persons tendering chdcks drawn on the Monon They feared the burglark would try to cash the checks immediately by forging endorsements. The checks were worth SIO,OOO. The safe contained S2OO cash. - '

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No Indication Os Recurring Heart Attack Ike Is Ordered To Army Hospital As Precautionary Move WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower suffered an intestinal aliment today and was ordered to the' army’s Walter Reed hospital “as a precautionary measure.” He was taken to the hospital in an olive drab army ambulance which left the White House at 1:30 p.m. EDT. Mrs. Eisenhower and their son John preceded him in a limousine. - The President’s son, Maj. John Eisenhower, arrived at the White House from his post at Ft. Belvoir, Va., at 1:15 p.m. just as Mrs. . Eisenhower’s car pulled out of the ( gate en route to the hospital. Maj- ( or Eisenhower climbed out of his . car, strode to the car carrying . Mrs. Eisenhower and said. “Mothi er.’’ The limousine stopped and r he climbed in with her. Hospital aides said the Presi- , dent entered the hospital at the i regular ambulance entrance. He . was on a stretcher. The President ) was in his pajamas and had a r "covet over hls bead,” » hospital aide said. :j White House press secretary . James O. Hagerty announced .at . 12:25 p.m. EDT that the President had "ileitis.’.’ This is an “inflammation of the lower portion of the small intestine.” He told a tense, crowded news conference “There is no indication of any heart trouble.” Mr. Eisenhower was stricken shortly before 2 a.m. This was about two hours after he returned from a news photographers’ banquet where he appeared in Jovial good spirits.' ■«>' ■ Shortly before 9 a.m. Hagerty announced that the President had suffered a "stomach .upset and headache.” \ He emphasized then there was no heart trouble and "no cadse for alarm.” The condition of the President’s heart was of course on everyone’s mind because of the attack of coronary thrombosis that he suffered in Denver last Sept. 24. Hagerty said the President would be taken to the hospital in an ambulance about 1 p.m. or earlier. He said the tnflamation, which caused White House physician Dr. Howard Me Snyder to be called to the White House at 2 a.m., is apparently not causing any “serious pain.” He said the President’s blood pressure and pulse “are good,” and he has “no fever." Hagerty said Col. Francis Pruitt, chief medical officer at Walter Reed, was called in by Dr. Snyder about 11 a.m. EDT and the two made a preliminary examination of the President. Asked about any medieiation, Hagerty said the President was given one intravenous injection of dextrose sugar this morning. He said there has been “no suggestion” that food poisoning was At thr banquet, he was in,the involved. best of spirits. He ate a hearty meal held to 1800 calories because of his Sept. 24 heart attack. It included: Consomme, a plain filet mignon without sauce, peas. He skipped the potatoes, cake and ice cream on the menu. Mrs. Eisenhower was with the President at the White House. She returned from the Gettysburg farm Thursday afternoon. • Aides said the President sometimes had stomach troubles following a dinner away from the White House. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower slept “off and os” during the night and was not concerned about his condition. The President has been pronounced in “excellent” physical (Caattaaed an Page KUsht)