Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 139.

MAP CONVENTION PLANS JL • Mr- WwiPh STUDYING PLANS of Chicago's Convention Hall, Paul Butler (left) chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Leonard lleinsch, convention manager, map plans with James L. O’Keefe, chairman of the host committee in Chicago. The Democrats will nominate their candidates in Chicago in August.

Butler Charges Reports Oh Ike Are Propaganda Charges Political Propaganda Base Os Hagerty's Reports CHICAGO (UP) — The White House reacted with studied indifference today to Democratic chairman Paul Butler's charge that optimistic reports on President Eisenhower's illness are political propaganda. Presidential news secretary James C. Hagerty said "as far as •Mr. Butler’S political comments areocneerped, J won’t even dignity them with an answer.” And the American Medteal Assn.. some of whose members were pictured as ridiculing the White House medical reports, refused any official comment on But le r’s charges. . , Butler said at a news conference Tuesday that the President’s doctors "apparently do a terrific job of saying that anyone who has had a heart attack And an operation for Crohn's disease is much better qualified to be president than anyone else.” Despite the reports from Walter Reed army hospital, Butler said, the President "will have to make a reappraisal" of whether he can run for a second term now that he has suffered a heart attack and undergone major surgery for ileitis, or Crohn's disease. "The health of the President has been made a major issue by his remarks, his own words and his own conduct,” the Democratic chief said. He charged that the President’s doctors are “inventing a new science-political medical science'* and have stepped out of bounds ■by "saying not simply that he (the President) is well but that he is able to run for president.” "The whole medical history of the President's cases has been so completely handled in terms of propaganda by Mr. Hagerty, who is a very expert propagandist, that certainly one is entitled to have some serious doubts in bis own mind about the medical opinions." Butler said. In Washington. Hagerty said his handling of the news about President Eisenhower’s illness has been “honest and completely factual.” Although he scorned a direct comment on Butler’s charges, Hagerty said he believes the American people and newsmen "are convinced” they are getting the true picture of the President’s health. Butler spoke out at the • conclusion of a meeting of the Democratic executive and conventions arrangements committee to make plans for the party’s national convention here Aug. 13 , The party leaders side-stepped a final decision on a keynote speaker. No Rotary Meeting Thursday Evening The Decatur Rotary club will not meet this Thursday evening, as the weekly meeting was replaced by the 30th anniversary banquet of the Decatur Lions club, which many Rotarians attended last Sunday. Any Rotarians who were unable to attend the Sunday meeting may gain attendance credit by checking in with the secretary at the Youth and Community Center at Thursday’s regular meeting time.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Indiana Democrats Plan Convention Select Nominees One At A Time INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Delegates tp the June 26 Democratic state convention will choose the party's nominees one at a time and “from the bottom up.” The Democratic state committee settled that issue late Tuesday and i also named Indiana's two Demo- ■ cratic congressmen as permanent ■ and temporary convention chair- ; men. The decision on convention vot--1 ing procedure did away with a plan offered by former national com- ’ mitteeman Frank M eHale. a strong > supporter of Roger Branigin of • Lafayette for governor. McHale said it would make tor a stronger ticket if the nominee for governor was . named before ' balloting for Heuteftsnt governor. ’ This would allow some of the defeated candidates tor the No. 1 post to join the race for „ the second spot. ‘ But state chairman Charles Skillen said the law wouldn't per- ’ mlt it. ’ The committee named Ray Madden of Gary, veteran first district congressman, as permanent convention chairman. Madden is re- . garded a neutral in the nine-man scuffle for the gubernatorial nomination, but he could wield considerable power as the man who bangs the gavel once the convention gets down to business. Winfield Denton, the only other Democrat in Indiana’s 11-man congressional delegation was named keynote speaker and temporary chairman. Skillen said national chairman Paul Butler of South Bend ’‘probably” will make a 15minute convention speech. Skillen rejected McHale’s voting plan because “It’s. tbe law" that delegates either vote for all once or in prescribed order with top offices last. McHale fplt the law was indefinite enough to make a switch. Statute gives the state chairman the right to decide between “pack age” balloting for all nominees at once, as adopted by the Republicans. or voting one-by-one. The law lists voting order from na tlonal convention delegates to U. S senator. Skillen also defended “Sih district vice-chairman Mrs. Kenneth Luckett during the closed meeting against charges by Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker. Mrs Luckett, Tucker charged, was un fair in giving active support to Hugh Dillin of Petersburg for governor, since she’ was elected national committeewoman and should be impartial. Skillen said after the meeting Mrs. Luckett “has a right as an American” to circulate an endorsement of a candidate from her own' district. She does not take office as national committee woman until after the national convention, but even then she would be within her rights, Skillen said. The committee endorsed a plan for live television coverage of the convention and named some minor convention officers. The group failed to agree immediately on choice of convention secretary. Skillen said a labor representative usually gets that post. Ike Deaver, Columbus, was named chief usher: Mrs. Florence McCabe, Williamsport, his assistant, and Martha G. Ulmer,-Bluff-ton. assistant chief doorkeeper. Greyble McFarland, Indianapolis was suggested as chairman of the resolutions committee, and Mrs. (Continued on Page Five)

Six Brooklyn Children Are Dead In Cavein . Construction Site Scene Os Tragedy Taking Six Lives NEW YORK (UP)—Authorities angrily pressed a full investigation today of an excavation caveln that snuffed out the lives of six children and critically injured a seventh. Wrathful, muttering crowds of parents clang until the early morning hours around the Brooklyn con structlon site where the damp, lopse earth tragically ended a game of cowboys and indlans. District attorney’s office Investigators questioned construction company employes most of the night and Dist. Atty. Edward Silvers said “If there was negligence this was criminal negligence, not ordinary negligence.” Silvers said one of the prime things he wanted to know’ was why there was nd watchman guarding the site, being prepared for a new auto expressway. “If they had a watchman, where was he?" Silver said. “If they didn't have one, why not?” Firemen and policemen worked for nearly six hours Tuesday night, vainly trying to revive the six pathetic bodies, searching for more possible victims and trying to comfort the hysterical mothers of known wefims or missing children. Many rescue workers frantically dug into the tons of dirt with their bare hands when there were no tools available. It was almost midnight when deputy fire chief Edward M. McGarry, in charge of the operation, announced that the dirt had been cleared away. “There are no more bodies down there,” he said. “We wanted to make sure." The six dead children were identified as Ann Ortiz, 8; Lorralbe Stantkunas. 5; Michael Stantkunns, 10; Lorraine’s brother; John Kotav, 7; Louis Nitti, 6, and John McKensie, 9. The injured child, Anatole Bykov, 9, was taken to a hospital suffering shock and a broken arm. Two other children narrowly escaped the cascading earth. One of them was Mary Stanikunas, sister of two of the victims. Police said the children apparently waited until workmen left the construction site for the day and then began their game of cowboys and Indians at the base Os a 25foot cliff of dirt. The youngsters decided to dig a cave in the side of the dirt wall and had dug several feet Into the soft earth when there was a soft muffled rumbling followed by the cavein.

Jurors Debate Fate Os Connelly, Caudle Tax Fraud Charged Ex-Truman Officials ST. LOUIS (UP) — A federal court - jury of rural Missourians today began deliberating the fat? of Matthew J. Connelly and T Ldmar Caudle, accused of conspiracy to defraud the government in a tax case. Federal Judge Rubey M. Hulen turned the case over to the jury of eight men and four women at 10:22 h.m. CST after a bearing that lasted nearly six weeks. Hulen told the jury it could free or convict either or both of the two high Truman administration officials of the charges. . He said the hanflling of the tax evasion case against Irving Sachs, out of which the indictment grew, “is the ejnly issue” and collateral matters should be considered only ae to their bearing upon it.. The jurors, Hulen said. should draw no unfavorable inferences from the fact that the justice department's policy regarding health matters was changed after the Sachs indicment in 1951. Hulen told the jbrors they were the exclusive judges of the evidence and the credibility of the witnesses in the marathon trial. The court made no comment on any of the evidence. Caudle and Connelly are charged with conspiring With Harry I. Schwimmer. an attorney, to allow Sachs, an epileptic, to escape criminal trial. Final summations were completed Tuesday in an overtime session in which Special Asst- Atty. Gen Wyllya 8. Newcomb mpd government evidence was conclusive that theSachs* case was fixed.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 13, 1956.

Eisenhower To Confer With Konrad Adenauer In Hospital Thursday

—l" Scotland Yard Widens Search For Cypriots Deportation Os More Cypriots, Greeks Expected Shortly LONDON (Uf*)—Scotland Yard’s Search for active Cypriot nationalists spread today throughout Britain and reliable reports said more Cypriots and Greeks. would W deported In the near future. The search was started when Scotland Yard found certain documents in the possession of a 48year old Cypriot abbot who was hustled off to Athens so quickly he 82.80-a-week London apartment, left his slippers behind in his The abbot was Archimandrite Kallinikos Macherlotis, a close friend of exiled Cypriot leader orthodox Archbishop Makarios, tests from the Greek embassy; His deportation brought sharp prothreats of a demonstration by London Cypriots and warnings from Athens. It was understood his deportation was ordered personally by .Cmdr. Leonard Burt, head of Scot'land’ Yard's super-secret special branch. Tie Wks accused Os activities going beyond any legitimate ecclesiastical duties and of acts “not in the public interest.” The search for active Cypriot nationalists extended from the back streets of London’s Camden Town district where the abbot lived to Sheffield where police were investigating the possibility of Cypriot sabotage. Two ground signals were damaged beside the main railway line near Sheffield add the word “EOKA” was spelled out in stones, beside them. EOKA is the name of the Greek Cypriot underground organization responsible for much of the violence on Cyprus. Windows were smashed at Brightside station just three miles away, And a few miles away the brakes were released on 47 railway cars and they were sent hurtling toward a level road crossing.- They were diverted into a colliery track and stopped. Police called it sabotage. The acts coincided with new death and violence on Cyprus. There three British troops were killed and seven wounded Tuesday night when a mine was set off under a truck —the worst single bomb attack in 14 months of violence. Two Greek Cypriot pedestrians were injured. (Continued on Page Five) _ —. Samuel Smith Dies Tuesday Afternoon Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Samuel V. Smith, 84, a resident cf Middlebury, O„ for the past 78 years, died at 1:15 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at the Van Wert, 0., county hospital, where he had been a patient two weeks. Death was caused by complications. Ho was born near Sulphur Springs, 0., Sept. 22. 1872, a s©n of Frederick and Nancy BellSmith. and was married to Mary Schaadt Dec. 31, 1905. Mrs. Smith, died in 1927. ' Mr. Smith was a retired farmer. Only immediate survivor is a brother, Kasper Smith of St. Mary’s, O. Two brothers and seven sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Friday at the Methodist church in Middlebury, the Rev. Lawrence Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Evangelical Protestant cemetery in Harrison township. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert until 11 a. m. Friday, when the body will be removed to the churab, where friends may call after 12:30 p. in.

- British Withdraw I Last Suez Sentry Ends 155 Years Os Military Operation PORT SAlD,"Egypt (UP) —Britain withdrew its last sentry from tSb Suez Canal Zone today, ending | 155 years of military operations in the land of the pharaohs. *The last Union Jack fluttered down over a deserted garrison at i sundown Tuesday without bugle or . drum beat to pace its descent. It . was the end of an era that began ( in March. 180*1, when the British , drove Napoleon’s soldiers out of Egypt. i ‘‘Just before dawn today the final . picket line of the British garrison . went aboard a Britsfh LST (landt ing ship tank) to join the rest Os i the garrison for transport to Cyprus, now the last British strong- , hold in the eastern Mediterranean. Brig. John Lacey, the command--1 er of the Port Said garrison, sign : ’ ed over occupation of Navy House headquarters to Egyptian officials ' Tuesday night and then drove • aboard the LST in a staff car. He returned briefly, to shore today for 4 final ceremony. He left Suez for--1 ever at 6:13 a.m. .(12:13 a.m. kDT). ' | “This is an unnappj' occasion for t iu.” Lacey said as he stood on ' the deck of the ship and at 1 tSe &npty flagstaff at Navy House. ' “But we agreed to withdraw and ■■ our joh is done.” 3 There was no bitterness in his tone. His voice was tired. t Britain retains the right to re- ’ turn to defend the Canal Zone I i against alien aggression. And Brit- j t ish civilians will man the canal s facilities. But all remnants of mil- ■ itary occupation ended when the last sentry went aboard. Today the last British Tommy i shouldered his rifle and quietly left the land where the blood of . thousands of his comrades had filtered through the hot sands sting the pyramids. For British blood flowed freely in the hit and run battles that forced this final retreat from what was once a vital east - west link in Britannia’s rule over the seas. Three years ago the British garrisons guarding the canal were besieged by Egyptian “suicide commandos" who struck with knife and tommy-gun and Vanished into 1 the night. That undeclared war by Egyp- 'I (Continued on Eight) 1 Flag Day Service Thursday Evening Public Invited To i - Observance At Elks The public is invited to attend the annual Flag Day services, i which will be held at 7:30 o’clock | Thursday on the front lawn ,pf the Elks lodge home on Rorth Second i street. The service honoring the American flag is a mandatory observance for all Elks lodges in the county The Decatur Elks lodge will be assisted in the flag service by the city’s veterans organizations, the American Legion. Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans. The observance will start with a parade from the Legion home, starting at 7 o'clock, moving north ,on Second street to the Elks. The 1 parade will be led by the Decatur high school band, directed by Clint Reed, and color guards of the veterans' organizations. Judge Myles F. Panish, of the ( Adams circuit court, will deliver the flag address. The flag service ; will be conducted by George Altan. , exalted ruler of the Elks, and bis , staff of The history of the flag will be read by George F. Laurent, a past ( exalted ruler of the Elks, and i music for the service will be pro- ] vlded by . the high school band. ] The qonamittfla iti charge of the < service is composed of O. W. P. j Macklin, ft. fcurgette Custer and' ; Lloyd V. Baker. i

I GOP Senators Term Aid Cuts False Economy To Weaken Allies, Boost Spending On Defense hi Nation WASHINGTON (UP) —Ten Republican senators warned today that house cuts’ in President Eisenhower's foreign aid program will weaken U. S. allies and boost defense spending. They called the cuts false economy. The senators headed by Clifford P. Case (R-N. J.) issued their statement as the senate foreign relations committee met behind closed doors to begin work on the foreign aid bill. Chairman Walter F. George (D-Ga.) said the committee hoped to vote out a bill by the eml Os the week. The GOP senators said the slashing of 11.1 billion by the house from the President's >4.9 billion program “does not mean that money will be saved.” “Not greater strength but weakened allies and lessened defenses, not tax cuts but increased defense expenditures will be th4 eventual result of drastic impairment of the mutual security program.” the senators said. Mr. Eisenhower’s top aides relayed art all-bflt plea for his forI eign aid program at a White I House conference Tuesday with senate leaders. • The Republicans and Democratic leaders said that “No commitments were given and none were asked.” • * George. said he felt the house cut was “too deep.” He told reporters he did not know- what the committee will do but said he felt a SSOO million restoration of military aid funds might have a fair chance of being approved by the senate. ■ ■ ■ ; The 10 Republican senators said: “Upon the United States, and especially its President, falls the task of leading a world seeking peace. The effort cannctt be made without cost. “Let us not now thrpw away the Besides Case, tl»^ f , ajweal wks signed by Sens. Gordon Allott (Colo.). George H. Bender (Ohio), Prescott Bush (Conn.) James H. Duff (Pa.), (Ralph E. Flanders (Vt.), Irving M. Ives (N.Y.), Thomas H. Kuchel (Calif.), Frederick G. Payne (Maine) and William A. Purtell (Conn.) -'fl"' "" ' ' T „ Mrs. Mamie Torres Dies Tuesday Night Funeral Services On Friday Morning Mrs. Mamie E. Torres, 54, o 917 North 13th street, a resident of Adams county most of her life, died at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had’ been 11 with complications for the past six months. Shi-Was born in Adams county March 11, 1902. a daughter o! Daniel and Sarah Haley-Straub, and was married to Frank Torres. Mrs. Torres was a member oi the Church of the Nazarene. Surviving in addition to her husband are one brother, Frank Straub of Decatur. Three broth ers and two sisters preceded hei in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Friday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. C. E. Lykins officiating. Burial will be io the Reynolds cemetery, north of Decatur. Friends may call .at the funeral home after 7 :’3O o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Steel Companies To Present Proposals Meeting Scheduled For This Afternoon NEW YORK (UP) — The “Wg, Three” steel companies are expected to present tlielr counterproposals to the United StatesW'orkers contract demands today in a move that could mean “war or peace” in the basic steal -industry. The companies’ offer—the details of which probably will not be revealed — will determine just how far apart the two sides are on basic contract issues. The union has presented the industry with 22 demands that the experts said from the biggestp ackage since the Steelworkers signed their first contract with the steel industry in 1937. The union is asking for a big wage hike, a form of' guaranteed annual wage, premium pay for weekends and a full union shop. The union's total package would cost 60 cents an hour if met in ' full, thet experts calculated. 1 Steelworkers now average about i 12.47 an hour. The belief here is that a new • agreement wiH -be ■ reached calling for a package in- • crease approaching. 20 cents, an * hour. ’ The “Big Three’l, /ceel eompan-ies—-U.S. Bethlehem and itefrumic ’ —will submit their counter proposals to the union when riegotations ' resume late today. The baragafniflg ’seSsioni, which 5 began in Pittsburgh May 28, were 1 recessed Tuesday to give management time to put the finishing touches on its offer, which is expected to Include a wage Increase and a layoff pay plan better than the 26 weeks of supplemental unemployment benefits which the auto workers got ihst yfeaf. Industry sources said hopes for , an early settlement' of the Corftract talks hinge on how close the com- 1 panics’ offer comes to the union's ] demands. j *Tf the companies and the un- I ion are miles apart on key con- i (JClontinued on Page Six) ] John Reed Resigns ‘ : Al Adams Central ; Accepts Principal Post At Rochester John O. ißeed, principal of the Adams Central high school at 1 Monroe for the pasX four years. * has resigned the position, effec- ' tive immediately. Reed is leaving the Adams Central position to accept the principalship of the high school at 8 Rochester, a city of nearly 5,000 ( population. Announcement of the restgna- t tion was made by Hugh Tate, assistant superintendent of the Adams Central schools, following a { meeting of the school board Tues- . day evening. t Reed served as principal of the r high school at Union City, 0., prior to moving to Adams Central. Reed, f his wife and two children reside ; at Preble. His father fs superin- ‘ tendent of schools at Danville, 111., .. and was formerly at Lima. O. , The Adams Central school board q is seeking applications for the t principalship vacated by Reed’s 8 resignation. The Adams Cfentral school is a consolidation of the v school units so Washington, Mon- t roe an’d Kirkland townships, and at the present time another wing 8 is being constructed to accommo- f date the growing enrollment at v the school. - t Boy Scouts, Leaders Meet To Plan Trip Decatur Boy Scouts and leaders who are planning on making the summer trip to Yellowstone national park, are asked to meet at Wortbtnan field at 1:30 o'clock Thursday night to consider details of the trip.

First Visitor Except Family And Officials German Leader To Pay Courtesy Call In Hospital Room WASHINGTON (UP) — Prudent Eisenhower will confer in his hospital suite Thursday motning with visiting German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, it was announced today. Adenauer will be the first visitor the President h&s had outside of“ his family and White House rtaff aides since his emergency operation last Saturday. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower will receive the 80-year-old German leader for a "courtesjc, visit" Thursday at 10 a. m. EDT at‘ Walter Reed army hospital. Adenauer vgill be accompanied by secretary of state John Foster, Dulles. Hagerty said he did not know what would be discussed at the meeting or how long it might last. He said the President’s doctors said it was "perfectly all right” for him to conduct such a conference at this stage of his recovery. Mr Elsehfiotver’s physicfaiis had reported eartier today that he spent a “fairly comfortable night” ' and wati in “good spirits this morning.” The President underwent surgery early Saturday to by-pass an obstruction in Itis small intestine. The surgery was pronounced successful and his condition has been i eported as “excellent." ’ Announcement of the Adenauer visit coincided with a stepped-up presidential work schedule this morning. Mr. Eisenhower conferred wf White House aides, signed eight bills and other official papers and dictated to his personal secretary for 30 minutes in his hospital room. All told, Hagerty said, the President signed his name 27 limes and approved six telegrams. The medical bulletin issued at 8 a. m. EDT said Mr. Eisenhower was still being fed through the veins, and still had an uncomfortable drainage tube running through his nose into his stomach. Hagerty refused tp say at a noon meeting with reporters whether there had been any change in these conditions, or whether Mr. Eisenhower was being given liquids by mouth, as his doctors had said earlier might be clone on his fourth post-operative day. Hagerty said the President teemed to be in good health and spirits. "He looked and sounded quite chipper,” he added. He said the President stayed in bed while he worked. Although he still was in some pain, Mr. Eisenhower Tuesday continued his hospital room "hikesj” which keep his muscles in tone and generally aid in his recuperation. He also took np the reins of government more and more during what White House press secretary James C. Hagerty called “another good day on the way to recovery from the operation.” The surgery by-passed an intestinal obstruction caused by an attack of ileitis. » Hagerty said thevPresident still was taking limited mild sedation io relieve the pain. ; 3 “But the pain decreases each day," Hagerty told reporters. “It also decreases each day ’flu his walking exercises. But he Is quite conscious of the fact that he has (Continued On Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, hot and humid tonight and Thursday. Scatter'd’ thunder - shower* Thursday and in extreme south portion tonight Low tonight 64-72. High Thursday 92-97 except 85-90 extrema south. Sunset 8:1S p. m., sur. rise Thursday S:l7 a. m.

Six Cents