Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 145.

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Ike Is Facing Another Week Hospital Stay Continues Progress Toward Recovery After Operation WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower today continued his "very satisfactory" progress toward recovery but was faced with tt least bhe more full week in Walter Reed hospital. The prospect of having to stay in the hospital until the middle of next week or longer was offset by good news which the President got from his doctors this morning —he will soon be allowed to eat meat three meals a day. A medical bulletin issued by attending physicians at 8:05 a. m. hI)T said: “The President had a good night. He slept with but few in terruptlons for almost 8 hours. His temperature is 98.6. pulse 76. blood pressure 120-70, respiration 18, all of which are normal. “Thg President’s weight before breakfast was 162 pounds. "He had the- game menu for breakfast this morning as he has had the past two days. His condition continues to progress very satisfactorily." White House press secretary James C. Hagerty, commenting on the fact that the President’s weight was unchanged from the past two days, said that the doctors do not expect any increase "for a few days.” He said doctors are “quite satisfied” that the President is not losing weight at this stage. His present weight is seven pounds lighter than when he entered the hospital June 8 for an emergency operation to relieve an intestinal block. The President's doctors previously had said he would be hos Vitalized for about 15 days after his intestinal operation, or until about next Monday. But Maj. Gen Howard McC. Snyder, the President's physician, told reporters Tuesday Mr. Eisenhower’s release may. not came until "the middle of next week." His stay "probably will be longer, certainly not shorter," Snyder said. This would extend the period o* the President’s hospitalization to approximately three weeks. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty emphasized, however, that the longer hospitalization than originally anticipated does not moan tbeere have been any complications in the President’s recovery. Hagerty said it still is indefinite where Mr. Eisenhower will go to convalesce. Snyder said he believed it would be better for the President to convalesce at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm than at the White House. < t Synder said that at Gettysburg the President could get in more walking for exercise and have the advantage of more recreational interests.

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Ordinances Passed At Council Meeting Regular Session Is Held Tuesday Night Two ordinances were adopted at the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday evening in city hall. In addition, several petitions and agreements for rural light exteuaiopg were filed. One ordinance approved a lease between the city and the Citizens Telephone company for a strip of land at the northeast corner of Monroe and Third streets. The area, which is three feet by three feet .will be used by the company to erect a public telephone booth. The company will pay the city 11 per year and the contract will be renewed each year until one of the parties terminates the agreement. Another ordinance adopted by the council last night approved a contract between the city and Mesh berger Stone company tot materials, supplies and equipment for the city street and alley program. A letter from the Erie Railroad company was read indicating that all of the railroad’s crossings on city streets have been repaired and should now be in satisfactory condition. The letter was made a matter pf record. Petitions for rural light and pow er line extensions were filed by Calvin and Norma Bowman and by Burt and Marilyn Sprunger. Both petitions were referred to the electric light and power committee in conjunction with the superintendent. Also referred to thia committee were a petition for a light at the intersection of the alleys between Eighth and Ninth streets and Ad ams and Jefferson streets, and another petition by resident of Strat ton Place section B for adequate street lighting. The council approved agreements on rural line extensions between the city and John and Rita Girard in Washington township and Pau’ and Clara Hindenlang of St. Mary’s township. — Fire chief Cedric Fisher reported to the council that the fire department is now equipped with a radio donated by the state fire marshal’r office. He also stated that Lavern Roth has been named to the volunteer fire group and that redeco rating at the fire station has been completed. Ralph Roop, superintendent of the water department, announced that three test wells drilled to date by Layne-Northern company have (ailed to give the city the needed boost to its water supply. These (Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Pjirtly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered shower* and thunderstorms this afternoon through Thursday except a little cooler extreme north Thursday. Chance of a few locally severe thunderstorms this afternoon or evening north portion. Low tonight upper 60s. High Thursday in tne sow 90s except the 80s extreme north. Sunset 8:1f p.m,, sunrise Thursday 5:17 a.m.

BULLETIN Dr. Harold J. (Duke) Keller, a resident of Decatur until recently, was killed in_a_iwo-car collision at 11:23 a. m. today in Makito, 111. The Mason county coroner pronounced Keller dead at the scene of the accident and the body was taken to Johnson funeral home in Manito. Dr. Keller was a passenger in a car driven by George M. Eus on s of Frankfort. Eusons and Jerry Starrett of Manito, driver of the other vehicle, were injured and are patients in the hospital at Pekin, 111. 5 Details of the accident were not available at press time. Keller is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Keller of this city and was married to (he former Joan Brunton of Decatur. He and his family have resided at Frankfort since his graduation from a school of chiropody in Chicago, 111. Tito, Soviet Leaders Back Chinese Reds Declare Formosa Should Be Settled On Rights Os Reds

MOSCOW (UP) —Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia and the leaders of the Soviet Union said today the question of Formosa should be settled in accordance "with the rights” of Communist China. Tito and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin signed a joint communions which also expressed regret that the Peiping government’s “lights” had not been recognised in the United Nations.

At lha same time Tito signed a separate communique with Soviet Communist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev restoring relations between their parties, torn asunder in 1948 when Tito and his party were drummed out of the international Cominform. , After the signing, Tito decorated Soviet defense minister Georgi Zhukov with a Yugoslav military medal. Accepting. Zhukov said: “The Soviet Union will do all possible to insure peace in the world. But if war is imposed on us we will be together as in the last war, for human happiness. 1 am convinced that the people of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia will march arm in arm in the struggle for peace and socialism. Tito did not respond to the statement. Tito and Bulganin issued a ro cey worded joint statement which ended their top-level talks with the announcement of “a new stage” in relations between the two Communist countries. This was Tito’s first visit to Moscow since Josef Stalin ousted him .from the Cominform — the Communist information bureau that coordinated party activities—and the communique showed he and the Soviet leaders thought the same on many world issues. The communique indicated that Tito and his Kremlin hosts had reviewed the world situation and found: 1. In the course of the past year "further progress has been made in the easing of international tension. Much was contributed to tihs by the Geneva conference last year. In this period the strength and prestige of the United Nations has been increased.” 2. Both government's “regret” that Communist China’s “rights in the U.N. have not yet been recog nized.” Both governments “are convinced that the question of Taiwan Formosa should be setled in accordance with Red China's rights. 3. Questions of disarmament and collective security “and other irgent questions in Europe” have been examined. Yugoslavia welcomed the Soviet government’s decision to reduce its armed for(Continued on Page Eight) Western Hemisphere Conference Delayed PANAMA CITY (UP) — The government announced today that the conference of Western Hemisphere presidents originally scheduled to open here Monday has been postponed indefinitely because of President Eisenhower’s illness. The meeting probably will be held sometime next month, but official sources said it has uot yet been possible to set a new date.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 20, 1956.

74 Killed As Airliner Crashes Into Atlantic Near New York Harbor

Bill On Federal Aid To Schools Is Pigeonholed* House Committee k Kills School Aid Bill For Session I By UNITED PRESS A bill granting .federal aid to school districts that abolish segregation was pigeonholed today by the house committee on education The 14-10 vote killed any chance of enacting the bill at this season of congress. The action came as the house rules committee prepared to vote on the main school bill, an ad- ' ministration — backed measure to channel 31.600.000.000 in federal aid to all the states for construction of new classrooms. Elsewhere in congress: Foreign Aid: Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson told the senate appropriations committee that any ‘•substantial’’ cut in foreign UiUry aid would present "serious risks to the defense of the United States and the free world." Defense Spending: Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. JohitMte said Republicans have "throivn In the towel" tn the current dispte over the size of the air force. He said there is no doubt the senate will go along with Democrats and vote in air force appropriations. *•- Clvil-Rights: Rep. Emanuel Cel’ ler (D-NY) urged the rules committee to send President Eisenhower’s civil rights bill to the floor. He said it would remedy “infractions of civil right . that , cry for some kind of solution.” McLeaish: Robert B. McLeaish, who quit under fire as director of the farmers home administration, (Continued on Page Eight) County Democrats Attend Convention State Convention To , Open Next Tuesday i i Many Adams county Democrats are planning to attend the state Democratic convention to be held in Indianapolis next Tuesday. The convention proper will begin at 1 10 a.m. at the* coliseum in that city. Dr. Harry Hebble, county Demo- I crat chairman, announced today I that he has several tickets for the convention which are available to any person interested in attending. Anyone who desires to have a ticket may contact him here or Adams county headquarters at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis be ( fore the convention. Dr. Hebble, accompanied by Ro- , bert Heller, William Kruse and Mayor Robert Cole, will leave for ( Indianapolis Sunday to attend a j dinner for Von Eichhorn, the J fourth district candidate for gov- , ernor. f The fourth district caucus to elect a delegate to the national f convention is slated for Monday at ( 6 p.m. at the Claypool Hotel. j O. W. P. Macklin, prominent local ( Democrat, will serve as headquar- , ters chairman during the conven- , tion. Also taking an active part in convention activities will be } several other local Democrats. Ed Jaberg, candidate for county r auditor, will be a convention in- { spector, and Mrs.-Theron Fenster- j maker, candidate for county treas- j urer, will be a clerk. Several young \Democrats of this county are ex- f pected to serve as pages during ■the convention. t Adams county voting delegates , will include Severin Schurger, j Mayor Robert Cole, Kenneth Hir- { schy, Dr. Hebble. Walter Thieme, j Louis Reinking, Jr., William Kruse, , Lester Brunner, Richard Meshberg•r, Karl Sprunger, William Hlrschy and Stanley Baumgartner.

Leaders Differ On Employment Status Auto Firms Figures Scored By Reuther DETROIT (UP) — Auto manufacturing executives Tuesday declared the increase in unemploy-' «nient is at an end, but their figures and arguments were questioned toy «nited Auto Workers president taUer P. Reuther. The statements on the unemployment situation, chiefly in the auto industry, were made at a conference called by Gov. O. Menneu Williams. Attending the meeting were representatives of four auto manufacturing firms civic officials of eight cities—four outside Michigan — and a United Auto Workers delegation headed by Reuther. The auto firm representatives .•refused to accept invitation to serve on a UAW — proposed “task spice” committee to go to Washington and seek government action to ease the unemployment damage. They said there was no specific plan of action proposed for the “task force” committee. "We have an aversion to going to Washington bn a shotgun basis,” John S. Bugas, Ford vice pres*dent of industrial relations, said. ."The government hitvrffyes too .much, anyway," But all the auto company spokesmen said they would join in urging quick action on a federal highway building program and in expediting defense contracts. Bugas said “within the last 48 hours we have found it necessary at Fordto increase our production schedule of 1956 models” and he said more men will be called back when 1957 model production starts, Chrysler Corporation’s director of- labor relations, John D. Leary, also said 1957 model production will mean rehiring of laid off workers. Hhe said Chrysler also has "encouraging” signs of increased sales of 1956 models. Harry W. Anderson, General Motors vice president in charge of personnel, said GM expects to continue its present pace through the 1956 model year. He said this pace has resulted ip rehiring of “more than 7,300 employes’* in the Midwest since May. Williams opened the conference by stating, Michigan unemployment stands at more than 200,000 and is’ expected to reach 280,000 in the (Continued on Page Five) Sizzling Heat Wave Back Over Midwest Tornadic Winds In Parts Os Midwest By UNITED PRESS A sizzling heat wave staged a comeback in the Midwest today, blowing up tornadic winds in its pattie with cool air. The violent winds ripped parts of Illinois. lowa, South Dakota and Minnesota. Tornado funnels curled out of the skies near Faribault, Minn., and Kimball. S.D., but no great damage was reported. The storms coincided with temperatures which jumped 8 to 12 degrees in the Great Lakes area, It was sad news for sweltering midwesterners, who enjoyed some relief from a marathon heat wave Tuesday. The hot, dry weather had never gone away through vast areas of the Great Plains and Southwest. The early heat intensified a serious drought through parts of lowa, Missouri. Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Western Illinois absorbed the storms’ worst blasts Tuesday night. At Pittsfield near-tornadic winds lifted a concrete block building housing radio station WBBA from its foundation and blew it across a highway * Three persons were - injured in the area and police rerouted * traffic to get cars around downed trees and wires. A three-ineh cloudburst near. ((“ontlnuM en Page Six) * ■ _•

Negotiations On Steel Wages At Crucial Stage Union, Management Are At Deadlock Over Key Issues NEW YORK (UP) — The steel wage negotiations that will profoundly affect the nation’s .economy entered the crucial stage today With both sides deadlocked on key contract issues. Both sides appeared to be negotiating from positions that are “miles apart.” Industry sources said an econo-my-crippling strike was more than “just a possibility at this time.” A top union negotiator said the outlook right now “is not too optimistic, but while there’s time there’s hope.” Union negotiators will meet today with at least nine companies. The steel industry appears united in its offensive for a five year no-strike pact, a fact which does not bode well for a (peaceful settlement before the present contract runs out at midnight on June 30. day, met with seven companies Tuesday in the hope of splitting the industry’s united offensive for a long-term paet. But the union’s divide and conquer plan ran into rongh sledding when company after company broke out contract offers similar to those made by the three giants of the industry—U. S, Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel. Union negotiators planned meetings in New York today with U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Jone* & Laughlin, Inland Steel, Allegheny-Ludlum, Pittsburgh Steel and Crucible Steel. They will meet in Detroit with Great Lakes Steel. Negotiations with U. S. Steel ended late Tuesday night with both sides stressing that “no progress’* had been made. A top union source said the steelworkers' are referring to the company's proposed offer as “the USSR & B five-year (plan.” “We don't like it and we won’t accept* it,” be Said in explaining that “USSR & B” stood for U. S. Steel, Republic and Bethlehem, the three giants which made the initial contract offer. A company spokesman said the union's demands “were the broadest, the biggest and the most extensive in almost 20 years of negotiations in the steel industry.” The industry has defended its offer just as strenuously as the union has denounced it. Both sides appeared snagged on most key (Continued on Page Five) Hutker Renamed To City School Board Appointment Made By City Councilmen Everett Hutker, a.n employe of Central Soya company and a wellknown citizen of Decatur, has been re-appointed to another three-year terra,; qn the Decatpr public school board., Hutker’s first term on the board began in August, 1953, and will end this summed. The new appointment was approved by the city council at the regular meeting Tuesday night. Hutker, who served as president ( of the board during the past year, was the only person to submit an application for the post. No nomi : nations were offered from eoun- ( cil members and his appointment . was unanimous. A resident of Decatur for more , "than 2Q years, Hutker has been ac- , tive in community otfalrs. He is « member of the Bethany Evan- , tfslical United Brethren church.

McLeaish Called By Senate Committee Quits Under Fire As FHA Director WASHINGTON (UP) — Robert" B. McLeaish, who quit under fire as director of the farmers home administration, told senate investigators today he never drank "to excess" on the job. But he conceded he often drank "with friends,” including “quite a few people here on Capitol Hill.” He. did not identify them. “Four or five drinks wouldn’t affect me at all, spread over a long enough time.” McLeaish said. He testified before a senate civil service subcommittee investigating the agency's operations. In addition to his personal habits, the subcommittee also planned to question McLeaish about his handling of the agency and cancellation of a one-million-dollar-a-year insurance contract. McLeaish conceded he made a “mistake” in listing his previous salary as SB,OOO annually when he filled out a government employment form in 1953. 'Actually, he said, the salary was $6,000 a year. McLeaish testified that until his resignation he held a ■ top secret security clearance which take drinking habits into consideration. He said he felt he wg» , for the clearance, but added that "that's a matter of opinion.” “I ~3on’t think I’m a habitual drunkard or even a casual drunkard,” he said. “I have issued strict Instructions that no employees of the farmers home administration do any drinking during hours of official duty.” He insisted he followed that rule himself, except that he “might have a drink during the day while traveling.” He said charges that he drank heavily came mostly from former employes who were discharged when he reduced the staff after taking office in 1953. He testified that he did not drink while attending field meeting* "until the meetings were over,” ’ (Continued on Page Eight) Devastating Drouth In Southwest Areas Dry, Hot Weather Intensify Drouth KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UP) Dry. hot weather intensified a devastating drouth in the South west today. Farmers and livestock producers in many areas staked their , hopes for relief on the federal government and the chance of rain. The afflicted areas include 11 northwest Missouri counties, southwest lowa, western and northwest Kansas, parts of Nebraska and Oklahoma, and 78 Texas counties . running from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande. The drouth is more than 1 four years old in some sections. | Anti-drouth measures include an . “Operation Haylift" to aid suffering lowa farmers. Hay is being < cut along roadsides in the state’s , northeast and north central portions for shipment to the drouth , area. < In the Missouri drouth-lands, the ; earth is rock-hard because of lack of moisture and acute water short- ( ages have developed in many com- , munities. The region is in need of , water, feed and seed supplies. The 3,000 residents of Bethany. Mo., are restricted to two gallons i of water a day for bathing. City t officials plan to ship water from | Kansas City or St. Joseph if conditions do noPimprove. Oren Staley of Ray, Mo., presi- £ dent of the National Farmers Or- , ganization, sent a telegram to ag- , riculture secretary Ezra T. Benson t urging immediate federal aid .for the stricken Missouri area. Even soaking rains now will pot a revive parched pastures until fall, t Staley said. \L?. •• (Continued On Page 'Eight)

All On Board Die As Plane Crashes Today 1$ Worst Regular Airline Disaster In Air History e New YORK (UP)—A flaming Venezuelan airline Super Constellation crashed and disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean today, killing 74 persons, including 20 Americans. in the worst regular airline disaster in aviation history. The plane hurtled almost straight down into ealm seas only seven minutes’ flying time from a possible emergency landing at New York's Idlewild Airport. Its pilot was trying desperately to return to land because the plane had a faulty engine. The humpbacked airlaner struck the water with a cascade a flames and spray. 'lt disappeared nosedown before the eyes of horrified passengers aboard an Eastern Airlines plane flying to Puerto Rico and the crew of a coast guard Albatross amphibian. Only minutes before, radio operators manning the air-rescue circuit beard the pilot jubilantly report be had sighted thesteore. A U.S. navy transport, the Lt. Robert Caig, recovered twd bodies and reported it had sighted several more. It transferred the bodies. to the coast guard cutter Tamaroa and resumed its course' to Bremerhaven; Germany.. *’'* r A coast gufird patrol boat found parte of several more bodies, Another coast guard chtter, the Gentian, was en route from Cape May, N. J., to the scene and was expected to start dragging operations. “We will continue searching until there is absoluetly no hope.” said Lt. Odr. Robert Carson, Staten Island, N. Y„ commander of the Tamaroa. The airliner had some women and children aboard. French, Swiss, Spanish and Hatian passengers were abroad, in addition- to Venezuelans and Americans. It wat bound for Venezuela. . The Linea AerOpostal Venezolana (LAV) airliner was attempting to limp back to New York with one of its four engines crippled. The coast guard albatross was escorting it when It suddenly plunged down, - ;i Location of the disaster was about 35 miles east of Asbury Park, N. J., and 40 miles south of New York City. The airliner was about 200 miles out of New York flying nonstop to Caracas, Venezuela, when the pilot radioed at 12:24 a.m. that the No. 2 engine was running wild and he was returning to Idlewild, L. The loss of 74 live* waa the largest death toll of any regular airline service crash. It was the fourth worst crash in aviation history. On June 18, 1953. a U.S. Air Force C 124 plunged down at Tokyo, Japan, with 129 military casualties. On Dec. 20, • 1962, another C 124 crashed at Moses Lake, Wash, with' 87 military lives lost. On March 12. 1950, a chartered plane carrying English soccer fans crashed near Cardiff. Wales, with 80 dead. The second worst commercial airline crash occurred last Oct 7 when 66 died when a fouriengine plane smashed into a mountain peak near Laramie, Wyo. Lt. Omdr. Fred Hancox, of Wathgh. Long Island, N. Y.. sighted the distressed plane before the crash from bis coast guard amphibian. fl "Within a few seconds we noted’ a flicker of flames beneath the wings.” Hancox said. “And the* we saw a large burst of flame under the starboard wing. \ Went Into Dive “The plane went into a very steep dive from 3,000 feet. Up to that time it appeared that the (Continued, on rive) ’ - . j . ... -•* —■ 1 —

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