Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1956 — Page 1

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Ike In Appeal For Liberating East Germany ' Urges Liberating After Conference With Adenauer ~ WASHINGTON TUPT — President Eisenhower appealed for the “liberation” of East Germany from Communist rule today in a 10minute hospital room conference with West German Chancellor Konrad A4enauer. Mr. Eisenhower, resuming an active role in the direction of free world diplomacy, said action is needed, ’‘to promote the liberation of 17 million Germans under Communist rule” and to bring about the “reunification” of East and West Germany. Refreshed by the best night’s sleep he has had since bis emergency operation Saturday to relieve an i&testinal block, Mr. Eisenhower sat up in a chair for his talk with Adenauer, his first hospital visitors outside of family and staff aides. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles, who sat in on the meeting, reported that the President personally brought up the reunification subject in his talk with the 80-year-old German leader. The meeting was held in the President’s luxurious suite in Ward 8 of Walter Reed army medical center. Adenauer told reporters he was “very happy to have had the opportunity of talking to the President "and to have seen hin> in such excellent shape.” Adenauer said he would not have believed it possible for the President so soon after the major surgery to "look that way, talk that way, and participate so vividly in a conversation.” * “I have asked the doctor to explain this miraeMk and he has explained it is a healthy, strong organism that helps one overcome an obstacle of this kind,” Adenauer said. - * .1 Dulles, who bad not seen the President since his operation five days ago. said Mr. Eisenhower appeared in “fine spirits” and that his recovery seemed to be “almost miraculous." Adenauer and Dulles were in the President’s room for 10 minutes. Mrs. Eisenhower and- a state department interpreter also were present. Dulles said the chancellor and the .President Bad “a very good talk’’ on their own personal relations and the relations between the German and American people. Adenauer and Dulles reported on the meeting to newsmen outside the hospital. Hundreds of hospital patients, nurses, doctors and civilian personnel watched. The meeting was a milestone in Mr. Elsenhower’s continuing recovery from his operation. An 8:10 a.m. EDT medical bulletin said Mr. Eisenhower had his best night’s sleep Wednesday since his surgery and was looking forward to his morning conference. The irksome drainage tube was left out of his nose all night. There , also were no “ill effects” from the half cup of qjear broth he sipped Wednesday afternoon 14-PAGES

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Says Truman Top Stevenson Hurdle - Senate Politician Views Situation WASHINGTON (UP) — One of the shrewdest politicians in the senate appraised the Democratic political situation today and observed: • “Adlai Stevenson’s biggest hurdle now .is Harry Truman.” The speaker was a Southern Democrat, who has not endorsed Stevenson, would prefer Sen. Lyndon Johnson of Texas for the presidential nomination but would be dismayed if it went to Sen. Estes Kefauver or Gov. Averell Harriman. In one sentence, he gave a capsule summary of what many Democrats are thinking two months before their nominating convention convenes at Chicago Aug. 13. By crushing Kefauver in the California primary last week. Stevenson moved far out in front in the race for the presidential nomination. But he is still far from sure of victory. Former President Truman, now touring Europe, claimed credit for throwing the 1952 nomination to the reluctant Stevenson, then govenor of Illinois. Now publicly neutral, he is regarded as a Harriman supporter who may throw his •weight behind the New York governor at convention time. Few Democrats doubt that Mr. Truman, who is considered cool toward Stevenson, can swing a great deal of weight if he wishes. He is viewed by many Deocrats as a possible draftee for the nom ination in case of a convention deadlock. Moving swiftly after the California primary to muster convention support, Harriman has displaced Kefauver in the minds of most Democrats as Stevenson’o chief rival. Harriman starts with most of New York’s 98 convention votes. Stevenson has more of the large blocs with most of Pennyslvania’s 74 and Illinois’ 64 and all of California’s 68. Stevenson also seems to be picking up most of the south, which once might have been lined up for Johnson, the favorite son candidate from Texas. However, Johnson has discouraged delegate hunting in his behalf in other states. Paul Schmidt Elected To Boys State Office Paul Schmidt, of Decatur, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Edgar P. Schmidt, one of the logal youths attending Hoosier Boys State at Bloomington, was elected as one of five suprome court judges at the annual election of state officers held Wednesday. Attend Hearing On City's Water Rates Several members of the city adinlstration are in Indianapolis today to r ttend the hearing with the Indiana public service commission on Decatur's petition to increase water rates here. Among those who are attending the hearing are Mayor Robert Cole, city attorney John DeVoss, city auditor Ed Kauffman, councilman Lawrence Kohne and Ralph Roop, superintendent of the water plant. The city’s water department has been operating at a loss for about four y*'ars. The petition was submitted in the hopes that the rates can be raised enough to put the department back on a self-paying basis.

At Least Nine Are Killed In French Wreck American Tourists Aboard Express In • Derailment Today FISMBS, France (UP) — The Paris-Luxembourg express train with American tourists aboard crashed off the rails in the heart of France’s famed champagne country today. /hty officials said at least 9 persons were killed, 36 were seriously injured and 100 slightly injured. Some passengers still were trapped in the overturned cars. It was not known if any Americans were included in these figures. Both Fismee and state railway officials said they feared the death toll would go higher. The cars of the express were derailed near this town 16 miles frort the cathedral city of Rheims, capitJ of France’s champagne distich Several Americans were reported aboard the train with the crowd of tourists setting out from Paris fv the June holidays. “I saw several American coving," American Express interpies off at the station this mornpreter Jack Heutzager said in Paris. "I don't know where they were going but most Americans go right on through to Luxembourg.” Details of the crash were slow reaching Fismes because the careening coaches ripped down all telephone lines along the Paris Luxembourg main line. Railroad officials In Paris said a broken coupling between the fourth and fifth cars caused the derailment. The locomotive and first 4 coaches went on while the next 10 coaches were derailed. Killed Installing Television Aerial KOKOMO, Ind, (UP) — Stanley Smgll, 25, Kokomo, was shocked fatally Wednesday and two men were injured as they tried to install a television aerial on Small’s rooftop. The aerial fell across a 110 volt line. Hospit&f'zed in “good” condition were Don White, 25, Kokomo, and Robert Hopper, 25, Atlanta, Ind. They suffered burns on hands and feet. Speech Correction Clinic On June 21 Delay Necessitated By Additional. Tests Tentative plans have been made ■to begin the spc.ch correction clinic, sponsored by the Adams county society for crippled children and adults, Thursday, June 21. Delay in the starting date of the clinic has been made necessary by the additional days needed for testing the prospective students. Testing has been conducted at the Lincoln school today, and will continue the fest of this week, and possibly Monday and Tuesday of next week. An effort has been made to contact every interested parent, stating the exact time to bring his child it}; for the testing. It is important that the time schedule is followed so that all of the children can be accommodated. Any parent who has not been contacted, however, and who wants to enroll his child in the clinic this ysar, is asked to bring the child to the Lincoln school Tuesday morning, June 19. The therapists will be there starting at 9 a.m. It was also made known that even though all of the actual testing is being done in the Decatur school, clinics will be established it both the Lincoln school and at the Berne school, as originally planned. Planned for Wednesday evening, June 20, is a teacher-parent conference, to be held at the Lincoln school auditorium beginning at 8 o’clock. This Important conference is being held to inform the parents of the class schedules, and also to advise them of the parental assistance that they can provide. Interest has been shown for more than 100 children, from six to ' 10 years of age, to attend the 1 clinic this year. The way the 1 schedule is arranged at this time. 1 classes will be conducted in the Decatur school on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and the the- 1 rapists will go to Berne on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The exact ' hours Os the classes will be de- 1 (Centlnued on Pago Throe) W 9

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Connelly And Caudle Convicted By Jurors In Conspiracy Trial

11 Are Saved, Four Missing As Tug Sinks Resume Search For Missing Crewmen; Tug Hit By Storm GULFPORT, Miss. (UP) — A tugboat crew early today picked up three more survivors from a sister ship that went down with 15 men aboard during a raging tropical storm, and the coast guard renewed an aerial search for the four sailors still missing. The crew of the "O. J. Cenac” of Morgan City, La., hauled the three exhausted seamen from the Gulf waters at 1:30 a.m. The men, all wearing life jackets, had drifted several miles from the scene of the sinking. The coast guard reported that four men from the tugboat “May Dee” were still missing and planes took oft to aid a cutter and three tugs already searching for the men. Earlier it was believed that only three men were missing after the morning rescue, but coast guard officials said that only 8 of the 15 crew members had been rescued earlier, including a sailor who was taken from a boat drifting near the spot where the “May Dee” founder**. _ ./• The coast guard also reported that the captain of the vessel was among the eight men first rescued. It was believed that none of the men taken from the sea was injured seriously. The storm, which had packed winds of 60 miles per hour and had lashed 300 miles of the Gulf Coast, was petering out over Catches, Miss., early today. It caused at least one and possibly two deaths in New Orleans, where a truck plunged through a bridge guard rail into Lake Pontchartrain. (Comtniwed on Page Six) Bank At Logansport Is Damaged By Fire Seven Firemen Hurt In Fighting Flames LOGANSPORT. Ind (UP) — Seven Firemen were injured today when ’k $375,000 fire swept • the newly remodeled National Bank of Logansport building. The flames broke out about 2:40 a.m. They were discovered by a policeman patrolling the downtown area. The fire spread to two adjoining buildings housing a shoe-store and jewelry shop, but they were damaged mostly by smoke. Richard Rehwald, 33, a fireman, was taken to St. Joseph hospital with lacerations on the hip caused by falling Igass. Fireman Carl Gloser and Charles Harvey were hurt when an electric light fixture fell and knocked them down a fight of stairs. Assistant fire chief Robert Orr slipped and fell down a stairway. Two other firemen hand injuries. Fireman Orlando Lebo was hurt when a chunck of celling fell on his foot as he fought the flames. The bank held a grand opening a month ago after an extensive remodeling program. Frank McHale of Indianapolis, former Democratic national committeeman, is chairman of the bank’s board of directors. Bank president F. W. Burgman estimated the loss at $375,000 and said It was mostly due to smoke and water. The loss was insured fully, he said. The building was described as Logansport's most modern structure. Firemen were prevented from using the city's only aerial ladder because it broke down Wednesday and had not been repaired?. 4

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Wife Os Suspected Bank Bandit Nabbed I SIB,OOO Cash Found In Station Wagon TNDIANAUOLIS (UP)—A gunHnan’s shapely blonde wife today defied .police efforts to learn where her husband fled after Indiana’s biggest bank robbery in 2* years. Mrs. Roy Rudolph Drake, 23, l was captured Wednesday night in I a station wagon loaded with $lB,i 000 in cash. > Police believed the SIB,OOO was - part of the $66,546 stolen by a I lone gunman' at the suburban s Southport Bank last Monday. They have charged Mrs. Drake’s hus- ’ band, a 32-year-old ex-convict and i desperado, with the holdup. i The fugitive’s wife was non- , chaiant and poised as she sat I through hours of police grilling to 'tty. —— —■ “She won't gave us anything more than her name and address.” a policemap said “The policemen i are doing more talking than she ' is.” The young woman shrugged off ’ the money found in her car when 1 she was arrested for driving 1 through a four-way Indianapolis > stop sign. I She-said only that her husband i gave her the money a few daysin Marshall, ill., before leav- * Ing for Oltfornta. Drake was charged with the [ holdup earlier Wednesday after 5 state investigators learned his car was seen near the bank before > the holdup. It was the second largest bank robbery in Indiana history and the biggest since 1928. I The gunman who rifled the bank’s I vault first broke into the home > of J. A. Whalen, and forced the bank president to drive him to i the bank. Drake is an ex-convict who once escaped from San Quentin in 1943 Imprisoned at Jackson. Miss, for robbery, he escaped again and was recaptured in a dragnet of state and federal police aided by 1,000 citizens. He was discharged from the Jackson. Mich., state penitentiary Aug. 19. 1955. after serving a sentence for armed robbery. A burglary charge against Drake was dismissed in Indianapolis last January. " " 111 ' m Mayor Cole Speaks On City Problems Business Women's Club Hears Mayor Mayor Robert Cole spoke on the power, water and sewage disposal problems confronting the city of Decatur at the meeting of the Decatur Business and Professional Women's cluh Wednesday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Cole explained that new demands for electrical power brought on by increased use of electrical appliances has created a peak demand which exceeds the cV“'s capacity to produce. He indicated that this situation probably will be corrected by purchasing additional power from a private utility. He emphasized, however, that the city’s power - equipment will still be used and will not be sold jr left idle. He also indicated that every attempt is being made to locate a new' water supply for the city and that the goal of the administration is to provide soft water for every home in the city. Cole promised that nothing would be done to slow down the progress of the city or to lower its standard of living but that every effort would be made to be economical with the taxpayers’ money. He concluded by saying that city officials need the help and advice of all Decatur reeldents. He invited members of the B. F. W. to attend council meetings. ® (Centinued on Page Three)

Johnson Warns Aid Bill Faces Senate Trouble Senate Democratic Leader Says Cuts 1-kely To Remain By UNITED PRESS Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson warned today the administration's foreign aid bill “is in deep trouble” in the senate. Johnson hoisted the warning signal as the senate foreign relations committee began work on the multi-billion-dollar aid bill which was slashed 11,100,000,000 by the house. President Eisenhower asked for a total of $4,900,000,000 and the house cut it to $3,800,000,000. The Texas Democrat told newsmen he discussed the aid bill with 25 senate Democrats and a “substantial majority” of them feel the administration “has yet to make ' a case” for restoring the house cut. Johnson said he shares the view. ‘ Otho. congressional news: ; T\ . Robert W. Sarnoff, prest- ' dent of the National Broadcasting Co., told the senate commerce committee that government regulation Os television networks could upset ‘The whole delicate balance of network advertising, affllfatlod rela- ! tionships, and service to the public.” 1 Lobbying: Leonard C. McCollum, president of the Continental Ooil Co., Houston. Tex., told the special senate committee on lobbying that the natural gas and oil resources committee has spent more than $1,700,000 on an information campaign to fight "misreipresenta(Continued on Page Three) August Worthman Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon August Worthman, 85-year-old farmer residing two and one-half miles north of Magley, died at 12:10 o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for two weeks. Death was attributed to complications. He was born in Preble township March 8, 1871, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Worthman, and was married to Johanna Beihold Oct. 22, 1903. Mr. Worthman was a lifelong member of the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church. Surviving in addition to the. widow are a son, Alton Worthman, I at home; Xwo daughters, Miss Lis-J etta Worthman. at home, and Mrs. Russell Neireiter of Hoagland; three grandchildren, and one sister, .Mrs. Henry Fruchte of Preble township. Three brothers and two sisters preceded him iri 6 death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zwlck funeral home'and at 2 p.m. at the Magley Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. H. E. i Settlage officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the tniro.nl home after 7 p’.m. Friday ant*’, time of the services. Issues Appeal For .- r Mental Health Fund Eli Stucky, of Geneva, county chairman for the mental health fund drive, issued an appeal today for contributions from rural areas of the . county. He stated returns from urban areas are excellent but few returns have been received from rural rsidents. , Stucky said only abou'. five percent of the envelopes mailed out recently have been returned. Tbe chairman asked that persons receiving the return them with a one-dollar bill (or more) enclosed. ■ ■ ;

Honeymooner Opens Wrong Plane Door Falls To Death From Airliner In Flight SHELBY, N. C. (UP) — A honeymooning passenger opened the wrong door of an airliner in flight Wednesday night and hurtled 6.500 feet to his death near the cemetery of k country churchyard. The body of Oren Ase Pruitt, 38, of Charlotte, N. C„ dug a hole . nearly four feet deep in hard . packed earth just a few si ‘.ps from ; the cemetery at Zion ?hurch six miles from Shelby. Pruitt's bride said she became thirsty and asked her husband to get her a drink of water. She said he found the restroom door locked and then tried the plane’s side door, thinking it led to another restroom. Luther Haynes, caretaker of the church, told authorities he heard a “whistling sound” overhead and ■ then saw Pruitt's falling body 30 ! or 40 yards away. > Haynes said there was “a sort of s explosion when it hit.” * “I was just walking home from the store and was fixing to go into the house when it happened,” thk i- caretaker said. “It looked like a f man and I went to see. Then 1 - called the sheriff.” i Pruitt -nd his wife, whom he t had mar-led Tuesday, were flying - ‘ to Asheville, N. C., to Visit her par - ents when the tragic accident bap - pened. Pruitt was sucked from the ■ Piedmon* Airlines plane when the 1 door opened. The fatality was Piedmont’s first since the line was formed Feb. 20, 1948. Mrs. Pruitt wad placed under a doctor’s care when the plane reached Asheville a few minutes ■ I after the tragedy. She was reported to be in a state of collapse today. Flight attendant Burt Barnes, in the cockpit of the plane when the accident happened, said he rushed out to find the door open after a blast of air swept into the plane. Barnes said a passenger told him "A man j"st went out the door.” He said nooody apparently •actually saw Pruitt fall. Some Heat Relief Promised Hoosiers Showers Will Help Hold Down Mercury By UNITED PRESS V A wave of cooler air will sroread over Indiana Friday and stay at least through Saturday, ending a Sut-day hot spell with tempera- ’ 4>’?es in the high 90s. I The weather bureau’s noon fore- | cast today called for occasional showers tMay through Saturday and temperatures no higher than 75 at their warmest points Friday. There will be little change in temperature Saturday. Clouds held down the temperautres in the low and mid-80s today over the southern two-thirds of the state, but the north portion was to get a high near 90 before “much cooler” weather arrived. The toll of state deaths due at least indirectly to the weather continued to mount. Two persons drowned in White ißiver near Mitchell Wednesday when a nlotorboat overturned. Temperatures hit the season’s high for Indiana at Fort Wayne Wednesday with a reading of 96. South Bend had a 94. Elsewhere, over the exps.'—es of central and southern Indian*, the top readings were lower, ranging mostly around 90 and 91. The 90 mark was htgn for Indianapolis and Evansville. High readings today were expected to range from 84 in the south and central to 90 in the north, a turnabout from the run of lower temperatures upstate’ than downstate. ' ... And Friday’s highs will range from 80 over the south and .central to 85 north, bringing a measure of relief from the blistering tem(Continued on Page Three)

Former Truman Officials Are Found Guilty » t Defense Attorneys I Announce Intention To Seek New Trial » ST. LOUIS (UP) — A federal 1 court Jury today convicted two i high Truman administration offic cials, Mathew J. Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle, on charges of coni t-piracy to defraud the government » in a tax case. I The jury of eight men and four 1 women, all rural Missourians, res ported its findings of guilty after r nine hours and five minutes of deliberation. s Attorneys for botn Connelly and i Caudle announced they would 1 sees a new trial and. if that is 0 refused, would appeal. Federal Judge Rubey M. Hulen set July f 19 for the hearing of motions for a new trial and for sentencing. n Connelly, White House appoint--0 meat's secretary to former Presle dent Truman, made no comment. a Both took the verdict calmly, f Caudle, chief counsel of the justice department's tax division, dee dared later that "my conscience g is so clear and so open I can face r . fliy God, hy sweet children and my friends. I hare no apologies for anything 1 have done.” They were found guilty of a one- * count indictment charging them with conspiring with ■ Harry I. 8 Schwiinmer. a Kansas City, Mo., 8 attorney, to allow Irving Sachs, a St. Louis shoe broker, to escape ‘ criminal trial for income tax eva- ! sion. The conspiracy, according to 1 the indictment, continued from ' 1945 to about 1951. ’ Attorneys for both men were caustic in brief statements about 1 the verdict. John Lashly, counsel ‘ ' for Connelly, said “My belief in my client’s innocenee is unshaken 1 by the jury's verdict. I propose to : go as far as necessary to vindicate him.” Charles Margiottl, former Pennsylvania attorney general and counsel for Caudle, declared “I have always believed in the innocence of my client and I still do irregardless of the jury’s verdict. I hope and pray that the time will come when there will be vindication for himself, his family and his friends.” Schwimmer, indicted with Connelly and Caudle, was removed as a defendant three weeks ago after suffering a heart attack. The special assistant attorney general in charge of the prosecution said Schwimmer will be tried as soon as his health permits. Maj. Gen. Ralph Truman (Ret.) a cousin of the former president, signed Caudle’s new bond. Hulen thanked the jury for its patience through the marathon, six weeks of hearing evidence. He told the jurors they should not discuss their verdict with anyone ror be photographed. The announcement that the jury had reached a verdict after prolonged deliberations caught the-court by surprise. Hulen had just overruled two motions by Caudle’s attorney. Charles Margiotti, concerning the selection of evidence studied by the jury, and was leaving the courtroom when the marshal announced the jury was ready. After some delay while court attaches gathered, Hulen warned spectators against any demonstration and told attorneys for both sides to remain seated. After the verdict was read, Marginal asked that the jury be polled. One by one they announced it was correct. fallen said he would rule on the (Continues onraxe Six) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, occasional • rain tonight and Friday, probably ending southwest portion early Friday. Much cooler north portion Friday. J.»w tonight In the 60s. High Friday mostly In the 70s. Sunset •: 14 p.m., sunrise Friday 5:17 a.m. > • ■ "t

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