Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 157.

ALL’S QUIET ON STRIKE FRONT - i.I • i .I . I i s I k i "’■SB w W I fcjS ■ ■ "' W?* " lU *"* sss®■»■. jt< i>4>uait «fi VACANT CHAIRS supporting picket signs at U. S. Steel's giant Homestead works t/JHty the steel strikers' inactivity at Pittsburgh district mills. Striking members of Local 139? were voting for new.-? officers at their headquarters.

Gen. Twining Gives Report To Eisenhower * Air Chief Os Staff Reports On Recent Visit To Moscow GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UP) — Gen. Nathan F. Twining said today after conferring with < Preaident Elsenhower that the United States is ”t>trt in front" of Russia in air power. A President Eisenhower summoned Gen. Nuthan F. Twining hare today for a report on air potter that may have vital influence ou future C» 3. Uiihtary policy-.-.' -4 The air force chief of staff was prepared to tell Mr. Eisenhower in a morning conference that his Just-concluded Russian tour reinforced earlier Intelligence bn the rising Soviet air challenge. He was as convinced as ever, . informants' said, that Russia has a bigger air force, la closing the quality gap, can produce heavy jet bombers in quantity and is on a rapid march in science and technology ( Retun.tng from an eight-uay tour of Russian aviation facilities. Twining and his staff prepared a detailed "evaluation" for the meeting with the convalescent President in the first-floor den of Mr. Elsenhower's farm home htree miles from here. The air chief was accompanied by defense secretary Charles E. Wilson, who is under Democratic fire on the air power issue, air secretary Donald A. Quarles, joint chiefs of staff chairman Adm. Arthur W. Radford and presidential Sherman Adams and Wilton B. Persons. Presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty said that was ? normal group to sit in on such an important military conference. It may also have ben eintended as a show of unity among top defense department and air force officials at a time has received grave warnings from air commanders about Soviet air power strikes. Wilson has insisted that the United States is ahead and will stay that way. The defense secretary was expected to tako up with Mr. Eisenhower a possible reply to charges levelled by chairman Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) of the senate air power subcommittee. Symington told Wilson Tuesday that the secretary’s testimony was “inconsistent" with that of Twining and other air leaders. He said either Wilson or the airmen "are misleading the American people.” Wilson reserved the right to send the subcommittee a reply. Twining, arriving at the Washington National Airport Wednesday, BSjtd his trip to Russia was “worthwhile” but "did not. coime up to our expectations." His party had hoped to see more than the (Continued op Rage Four)

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Risk Death To Reach Airliner Wreckage Second Attempt To Climb To Wreckage . B4J L LET I ,N GRAND CANYON VILLAGE Arte. (UP) — New evidence that a TWA Super Constellation and a United Air Lines OC7 collided in flight before plunging into the Grand Canyon was uncovered today in the wreckage of the UAL plane. GRAND CANYON VILLAGE, Aris. (UP)—A team of Colorado mountaineers risked death today l In a second attempt to reach the charred wreckage of a United Airline DC? which apparently collided and crashed with, a TWA Super Cohixonatiori into the Grand Canyon, killing 128 persona. Darkness forced four climbers to halt operations Wednesday but they were confident of Teaching the wreckage of the DC7 In fltefr second attempt. Charles J. Pavlik, Fred Welsh, Raymond Boston, and David Lewis —air expert members of Colorado mountain climbing clubs —reported they came within 200 feet of the wreckage strewn on a ledge of a steep cliff In the scenic but rugged gorge. Allen Huten, Denver, joined the quartet today for the second try. - The cllmbera said they reached a level near pieces of the wreckage, but were about 200 feet under the place where the airliner slammed “|nto the side of Temple Butte, killing 58 persons. Lees than a mile away, rescue teams on Tuesday finished collecting all that remained of the 70 persons who perished in the crash of the TWA plane. It was a slow inch-by-inch grind working their way up the face of the rocky cliff. The climbers made an alpine staircase in the face of the cliff by pounding spikes into the stone wall for footing. One misstep meant death for a climber as far. below loomed jagged rocks and botUders bordering the Colorado River. They began the ascent at dawn and worked their way upward despite the desert heat and tricky winds blowing through the gorge. By sunset the climbers decided not to chance going any further. One by one they descended on a nylon rope back to the canyon floor. . Civil aeronautics board invest! gators began a •microscopic” study of a metal fragment from the TWA wreckage to try and prove conclusively the two airliners collided in flight. The charred piece of metal was flown out of ,the canyon Wednesday and immediately was Regular firemen Ask For Salary Increase Decatur's six regular firemen have filed a request with the board of works that their salaries be tacreased (100 a month, starting January 1, 1957. Increase in the cost of living is given in thepetition for the request. Present pay of regular firemen Is (3,300 a year and if the proposed salary were granted each regular fireman would get an annual pay of (4,500. Board of works members received the petition said made it a matter, of record. The firemen were informed that the request would be studied by. the board and the fuli.oouncil prior to formal a& ' option at a budget. Policemen also have requested a substantial wage increase..Of ttan-fiS fifth -class Sties’ itfe Indiana, -osdy two have six fuU Utah UM'Sta catur is die df the Hr*. ‘ .»•

Top Mediation Experts Study Steel Problem Government's Top Mediators To Seek. Strike Settlement PITTSBURGH (UP) — The government's three top labor medtar tors came here today to get fl ■first-hand account of what derailed the strike-bound'steel industry’s contract negotiatibns. Federal mediation director Joseph F. Finnegan said he doubted ***Yery much' 1 ’whether he could persuade the United Steelworkers Union and the three major producers to resume peace talks this week In the five-day-old walkout. “Our sole purpose here today is to meet separately with both sides aM2 fihd dut what are the points of difference and to see whether we can be of help,” he said. Tinnegaff. accompaaied bi Clyde M. Mills, assistant mediation chief, and Robert H. Moore, a special assistant, met first wfeft cSfrvr President David J. McDonald at USW headquarters. This afternoon they wiU huddle with the top negotiators for U. S. Steel, Bethlehem, and Republic Steel corporations. Negotiations broke off last Saturday night, six hours before the start of the walkout by 650,000 members of the steelworkers union. Finnegan said his trip to Pittsburgh was his own IdeaThe strike’s effects, meanwhile, were piling up in the nation’s economy with layoffs among railroad and other transportation service workers nearing the 50,000 snark. In Washington, an informed source indicated the government has not entirely ruled out the possibility of seeking aTaft-Hartley anti-strike injunction. That depends on "how long the strike lasts, and how seriously It may affect the rest of the economy” the source said. - The mediators, after hearing from both sides, wifi consider wwyw of hriping the parties get togather. The mediation service-can-not force itself Into the dispute nor can it impose a settlement The mediators will return to Washington tonight Chief stumbling blocks In the bitter dispute appeared to be differences over the length of the contract and the amount of a wage (Conwnueo on Page Ftvey 12 Children Injured As Ride Collapses 24 Fall To Ground As Tower Collapses DUXBURY. Mass. (UP) — Authorities promised today to Investigate any possibility of criminal negligence in the collapse of a carnival ride tower which hurled 24 screaming children to the ground. The accident injured 12 children and 4 were hospitalised. In critical condition today were Jonathon Wilbur, 10, Lincoln, Maps... and Larry De Gersdofff, 7. Duxbury. Arthur T. Lyman 111, Dover, grandson of Arthur T. Lyman, state natural resources commissioner, was |h W" condition. The carnival was part of a "Duxbury Days” celebration, sponsored by the American Legion., The youngsters were riding in wooden seats attached by link chain to a central tower which whirled them nearly horiwntaUy. Suddenly the tower collapsed and "as the children fell the chains holding the chairs wrapped tightly around their bodies,” one witness said. The gleeful sqgeams of the children quickly turned to cries of terror. Frenzied parents, who had been watching their youngsters, rushed to their aid. Dr. John Sheehan, 'Marshfield, Mass., who was nearby, was credited with helping take charge of the situation and helping prevent panic. Sheehan ordered bystanders to rip up tents and break up folding chairs for splints and stretchers. ’ ■K - '“A ■ ; ' i Police closed off the area and ordered hysterical relatives held back from tbMr children so first aid could be administered. The children then were taken to a Plymouth hospital by ambulance. Police said cause of the mishap had not been determined but Duxbury police chief James T. O’Neil said he would oider an Investigation of any possibility that eHmL nal negligence had led to the nearIragW. - m "O'Neil said the Win were flywhen the tower Coltkßtod. - p

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 5, 1956.

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City Plans To * Buy Power From Private Utility Board Os Works Is - Authorized To Sign 'fXoriWWTKFf! A resolution authorizing the Decatur board of public works ' end safety to negotiate a contract with Indiana-Michigan power company for the purchase of a block of power was adopted by the city council at meeting Tuesday night. The resolution pointed out that there is a growing demand for electrical power in , and around the city of Decatur and the generating capacity of the city is insufficient to meet the demand. It was also noted that there is an immediate need for an increase of power. The council unanimously approved the resolution. The board of works, which includes Mayor Robert Cole, city attorney John DeVoss and Councilman Norbert Aumann, will meet with I A M officials to draw up tho contract. The amount of power to be jmrohased will be determined by tao board. The centract wiU be subject to the confirmation of the full council and it Is expected to be submitted to the council at the next meeting July 17. Tuesday night’s resolution was the first step in a program to ease the critical power situation which exists in the city of Decatur. An extensive study of various ways of correcting the problem has been conducted by city Officials during the past few months. v ‘ Following the adoption of the resolution was a brief discussion of the power problem. It was indicated that for the present the city officials will continue to generate power in addition to purchasing from the private utility. .■ • Robert Bebouf Hurt As Car is Wrecked Suffers Broken Leg Early This Morning Robert E. Behout, 27, of Decatur route one, is a patient at the Adamr* county memorial hospital suffering injuries sustained in a one-car accident at 2:30 a. tn. today on U. S, highway 33 just beyond the city limits southeast of Decatur, Bebout sustained a broken rightleg and lacerations about hU< head and chin when be lost control of his car. The automobile left the road, struck .a telephone pole, a culvert, and two trees before it came to a stop. The vehicle was totally demolished. Sheriff Merle Affolder and state trooper Gene Rash investigated the accident The Bebout accident was the only Serious accident to occur in Adams county over the holiday. One minor accident occurred ip Decatur late Tuesday afternoon when a car driven by Edna C. Meyers, of route six, struck a parked vehicle owned by Otto Wefel on Adams street. Damage was estimated at (50 to the Meyers car and (25 to the Wefel car. Edna P; Young, 36, of Monroe route one, was arrested Tuesday for speeding on Mercer avenue: She will appear in justice of the peace court Friday. Harvey J. Peden, 31, of Fort Wayne, arrested Wednesday for passing at a marked' intersection on U. S. highway VI, wit) appear in J, P. court Monday. R. J. Erasure, of Liberty, wbp was. arrested for speeding, ■ geared ip J. P. DYU-the <W- - 5 .‘ - - . ‘

Only One Traffic Fatality In Stale Safest July Fourth Holiday For Years By UNITED PRESS Indiana’s safest, sanest Fourth M July in years cheered safety officials today. death was recorded during the entire 30-hour holiday and holiday eve period, despite the summer’s heaviest traffic volume. A Gary rail crossing accident marred an otherwise perfect record. The traffic safety mark came during traffic safety week, proclaimed by Governor Craig for the period July 1-1. Emphasis on safety, plus the year's biggest truffle law enforcement drive by state and local authorities, may have contributed to the situation. However, there were other viollent deaths not connected with traffic. ’ Three Evansville persons drowned Ohio River near Evqnsvllle Tuesday night when motor trouble caused their boat to drift against an oil barge. There were reports of drowning? the holiday Itself, however, although thousands upon thousands of Hoosiers took to .takas and streams seeking recreation and lief from warm humid weather. Theojhie) Itaßaets. 72. Mlshawaka. waa. struck aad killed by a train aU Mishawaka crossing Wednesday night as he walked in the tracks. ■’ ' The tone accident occulted in Gary when a Michigan Central 'Railroad Irate struck a pickup truck, killing Charles Underwood, 23; Gary, and injuring two other persons, bne of them a pedestrian. Underwood's brother, Harvey, 29, was injured critically. Clarence Bynes, 24, Gary, was struck by flying parts of the truck as he walked along the tracks near the crossing where the accident occurred. Authorities reported the truck drove around a gat«-. Which was lowered to stop traffic. Otto Digger, Ctaxy.. owner of the truck, was uninjured. 1 Anti-Trusl Action 5 On General Motors - Announcement Mode On Television Show WASHINGTON (UP)— Attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr., who has not held a hews conference in his office since last October, announced a major government aatl-trust action against General Motors Wednesday night pn a commercially sponsored television program. ■ ■ Brownell disclosed that the government is preparing to file suit against GM, charging it with monopolizing the manufacture of buses. ~ ; The attorney general denied, under questioning by newsmen, that the action has any political significance. He said the suit was- not meant to be an election-year answer to Democratic charges that the Eisenhower administration il) pro-big business. ...-. ... ‘J ; He also said that no advance notice of the suit was given to defense secretary Charles ,E. Wilaon. a former GM president. Brownell announced the action against General Motors at the. premiere of the NBC television program, “Press Conference/' a news panel show originated and moderated by Martha Rountree. The pr<> gram .is sponsored by Corn. Products Refining Co. -■ Under rules of the program, the person being interviewed must ' break a worthwhile new*, story, on the show. Brownell's' UeWs break was his announcement of the GM suit. 5 Broken -Waif' asked ■- after "the orogfaift frhw he held the ant Page Fivk/”

"HR • 135 Persons Die In Traffic ? Over Holiday is®®® Mid-Week Holiday Toll High Despite Enforcement Effort CHICAGO (UP) — The Nation today tallied its traffic dead from one of the most disastrous mid’ week holidays on record despite an all-out highway enforcement effort. A United Press count of the period from 6 p.m. Tuesday to midnight Wednesday showed that 135 persons were . killed in traffic. Drownings killed 74 persons, plane crashes 4, miscellaneous accidents 34 and fireworks 1, for an overall total of 248. Ned H. Dearborn, president of national safety council, said July 4 traffic accidents took about the same number of lives as the Grand Canyon airliner collision, which killed 128. ‘ We can only hopethat., the nation is half as excited and horrified over this catastrophe as It ftd* over the single, more dramatic air accident—and that .there is equal determination to see that such a needless holiday toll cad never happen again." Dearborn said“Bad as it was, the toll would have been even worse if police agencies in general across the country hgd npt gone all out to hold it down.”, / Texas led all other states with 15 traffic deaths for the worst holiday record. Michigan was second with 10, South Carolina reported 9. and Georgia and Illinois had 8 each. States reporting no traffic deaths included Arizona, Delware, Idaho, (Continue® as Faae flight) Dr. S. P, Hoffmann Dies As Forf Wayne Former Physician Os Decatur Dead Funeral services wilHte held Friday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at' the Klgehh funeral ’home, Fort Wayne, for’ Dr. Sterling P; Hoffmann, 71, ‘native of Adams county and former Decatur physician, died Wednesday morning at 'the Lutheran hospital. ' .-/.-.A ! Dr. Hoffmann.* born in Mat Grove, Hartford township, " practiced medicine*%ere‘ prior td World War I and after he served In' the United States krmy duririg the waij, he returned to Fort Wayne where he practiced mfedlclTie tin til a fevf months ago, when he tetited. Dr. Hoffmann whs a graduate of Purdue University school of pharmacy and Indiana University school of medicine. Surviving are the' widow, Orilia, a sob. Dr Sterling Hoffman, Oakland, Cal., a slater, Mrs. Nona Yager. Berne, and several hletes and nephews. ’ He was a member of the MasOniC lodge dnd shrlnd and the Plymouth Congregational church. The R6w William P. Howehsteine and the Rev. ; Gerald Jones will have charg* <Jf the funeral services and burial “win be iff the Six Mild cemetery hbat Bliffton/ Friends indy tali' at the funeral hotae tooight dfid until time of the , funeral Friday. ' ' . Ohio Court Refuses To Change Decision L : "SiULi ■V;- ( . ■■ 1 CODVMBUS. Ohio (VP) — Tbs Ohio supreme; eoußLFefused today to reeoaaider its decision upholding -the life sentence for Dr. Samuel H. ShePPard for .the murder of hi* wife, M«ni|y»r Tbe.CQu«t)s<eeisJo».; announced two yeare; and fl®* day after Mrs. SMppard was killed. clws the w>r atwnfflta to t*ku the Bay U.S. suNMMft

Girl Is Recovering From Wreck Ordeal Lay Nine Days In Of Auto F jfiALT LAKH CITY (UP) — A IWDdty l»-year old girl who lay. .semi-conscious for nine dsys without food or water in the concealed wreckage of an automobile today began a slow recovery from her ordeal. Doctors said only her “remarkable constitution” and several other factors enabled Jean Margetts to survive the auto wreck that killed her fiance. She still was in a semi-coma today but doctors said they believed she would recover. The 110-pound Sunnyvale, Calif., girl was found Tuesdajr night beneath the fender of a wrecked ear only 300 feet from busy U. S. Highway 40. The car could not be seen from the highway because of dense sctub oak at the bottom of the canyon where the auto lay. Only five ygrds from the girl was the body of James B. Hixon, 22, of Salt Lake, City. The couple had planned to marry in Septem-ber-asd -the search which finally found them got off tb a slow start because ft first was thought they had eloped. Doctor* Planned to .x-ray the girl today because of indications she had received a frontal skull fracture. But she suffered no internal 1 injuries or broken bones, they said 1 and her circulation appeared to be ’ good. ’ Mrs. Lawrence R. Marge.tts, the girl’l mother, said her five-foot, ' four-inch daughter had always been athletic and “the stamina she built this- way -must have ( saved her.” Doctors - said the girTs "rei markable constitution” and her good physical condition apparent* . ly saved her life. They said conj tributing factors included the fact that she was in the shade and that she lay still. The accident apparently happened the night of June 24 when (Continued on Page Five) Pelilions Approved By Cify Councilmen Regular Meeting Is Held Tuesday Night Several petitions referred to the electric light and power committee were approved by the city Council night in routine business during the regular meeting at the city hall] , ‘ Petitions reported favorably f>y the committee and approved by the council' included a petition to erect lights in the Stratton Place pecond addition, a petition for an alley light at the intersection of the alleys between Eighth and Ninth streets and between Jefferson and Adams streets, and a petition for a light at the alley on Meibers street between Fifth ond Walnut streets. An agreement between the city and Earl G. Fuhrman in Root township for a rural line ext.en-. sion was approved and made a • matter., of record. A petition presented by Adam Kunowich for a better light on the pole between Monroe street and Nuttman avenue on Ninth street was referred ito the electric light and power committee. >' Residents of the area on Eighth street near the Pennsylvania railroad lot leased to Heller Coal and Supply company filed a remonstrance seeking the removal of flunk and trucks loaded with junk. The remonstrance was referred to the planning committee ttr determine whether an ordinance is being violated. .- J !>r A dedication and plat of 7 J. Henry and Mary Faurote’s first subdivision containing nine tots ya* dedication and plat were approved! scHue time affo but were- re-1 ■n tested, tocortfict. A technical error. ».<• ‘w,

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InfaiifUen S --‘ a . \ From Carriage At Babe J Home BdtbynMiafched From HisfCarriage On PatiolAt Home WESTBURY, In.Y. (UP) — The kidnaper of 1-month-old Peter Weinberger ha# failed to pick up 82,000 in ranstfn money 214 hours after it was placed by a large tree in with his demand, police announced today. The child was taken from his carriage on tta patio of his wealthy family’s 840,0|0 home shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday. His mother, Mrs. Morris Weinberger, found a ransom note an the buggy when’ she returned 'after a brief trip indoors to plan Winner with the maid. “We have no progress at all,’ Nassau bounty chief of detectives Stuyve|ant Pinnell told newsmen at 12:3<|p.m. today. “We have made no contact with the kidnaper. The ransom; money was left in a package at 4a place according to - the instructions in the ransom note. It has not picked up.” I Newsmen had seen a man be- , ileyed to be|the distraught tether . place a mantla envelope beside a I large tree ndkt to a garage a half I block from tpe Weinberger home > at 10 a.m. He then ran back to the house. | „ > Pinnell sail police had "only , vague leads” |so far as to the j identity of the kidnaper. He said i it was believed the kidnaper “must ; have made some plan, because the baby was on -the patio at the usual hour. It seems likely the . kidnaper knew th? custom of the , mother to put the >aby there. She put the baby therg at 3 o’clock and he was discovered missing at 3:20." 1 The kidnaper, he raid, apparently was an “educated person.” The ransom note dropped into the empty baby carriage was gram’ matical and written |n an educated hand, he said. The child was dressed in a yellow and white flowered kimono and a peaked yellow cap trimmed with blue, Pinnell said. He said a pink blanket was also missing from the carriage. ; The ransom note described the kidnaper as "scared stiff” and said the writer was “asking only for . what I need." The note threatened that the baby would be killed if police were notified*. The child’s father is a salesman for a whoelsale drug firm. He and the couple’s older child. Lewis, 3. were in the house, celebrating a rainy Fourth ol July when the baby was taken from the covered patio, The ransom note read in part: "I hate to do this to yon. bnt I am in great need. I am scared stiff. I could ask for more but T am asking only sot what I need. Put 82,000 in small bills tn a garage (the address of the garage was specified but withheld by police). Do not notify police before noon tomorrow or I’ll have to kill your baby.” Scene of the kidnaping was less than three miles from East Meadow, where Stephen Damman, 3. was abducted last bet. 31 from outside a supermarket while Jiis mother shopped. Stephen has never been found. f v ‘ Westbury police: commissioner (Continue oti Page ilve) r — INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy north, partly cloudy south tonlflhL becoming partly cloudy throughout state Friday. A little warmer north portion .Friday, Chance of a few afternoon and evening thundershowers south portion. Low tonight 60-70. Hl’gh Frfdiy 7M6 north, 86-95 sppth, Sundet -it t* p. - wp' sunrtse ’ FrUtajr"'- : - 5:33 a. m. ,j