Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1956 — Page 1

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MARINE JETS COLLIDE IN AIR REHEARSAL I .-v F "WJ t i B- ix JfeJi • '■ ■ CHIEF IRVING fITEiERHOFF of Glenview and Chief O. Gonzales, air station security officer inspect some debris of Cougar jet piloted by Ist Lt. George W. Crane of Chicago (right) which collided in midair with Maj. Max Olinger’s jet during rehearsals for Glenview, 111., naval air base’s 10th anniversary. Lieuieiuyit Cigue died in .the..crash, his plane scorching three houses, while Maj. Olinger was able to craxh-lshd his jet and escaped with minor injuries. x . v

Major Quake Spreads Death On Greek Isles At Least 40 Persons Officially Reported As Killed By Quake ATHENS. Gieece (VP)-7a sharp earthquake spread death and destruction across two Greek islands in the Aegean Sea today. It touched off tidal waves atid stirred a' long-dornniht volcano lit to, fiery eruption. At least 40 persons were off!These included 30 lead on Thera Sntmrrin, a ’3-by-12-niile crescentshaped island about 150 miles southeast of Athens. Another 10 were reported killed on the sma'l i — island of ioa to the north. In addition, “many - ; were reported injured. A 13 foot tidal wave hit the nearby island of Kalymus. It smashed fishing h oats an(i wrecked port facilities. 'The island is 12 miles Jortg and six miles wide. .. . Casualties on Kalymos were not reported immediately. Greek officials termed the earthquake a major catastrophe. It was the strongest to hit' Greece since 1953 when more than 400. persons died in the lonian Earth tremors were., reported along the Aegean coast of Turkey, but no casualty or damage reports were received. The quake stirred Mt. Elias on Thera into activity, intensifying the plight of the stricken -sur/ The quake sent a tidal wave rolling to within a few mires of Piraeus. Athens’ port city. ? The volcano on Thera blackened *- the sky and hampered helicopter j pilots seeking a close view' of the destruction. Communeiations were! — cut by the shock. TOg-’ pilots, reported hardly a house on the island escaped damage. Three villages were virtually wiped out, they reported. , The shock jolted the island, at (Continued on Page Three) Socialists Leading In Japanese Votes Apparent Victory Over Conservatives TOKYO (UP) — The Socialist party today rode a wave of Japanese anti rearmament votes toward apparent victory over the Conservative government’s plans to revise the MacArthur “no-war” constitution. More than 31-million Japanese voted in Sunday’s nationwide elections to fill 127 seats in the 250- . member bouse of councillors, the upper house of the diet (parliament). The government of prime minister Ichiro Hatoyama and bis Lib-eral-Democratic Party sought to win the half-dozen extra seats it needed to gain a two-thirds majority in the chamber and Start ’“"action oh Itsmeasures to legalize rearmament and “Japanize” other features of the constitution drawn up in 1946 during the occupation. Latest unofficial returns indlcat- , ed the Conservatives had failed. With returns in from all 75 prefectures where seats were at stake the unofficial standings were: Democratic-Liberals 42. Socialists --•28. Independents four. Communists one. ' \ r 1 . ’ -.'-'..l'

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Indiana Democrats Plan For Election Candidates, State Committee Meeting INDIANAPOLIS CUP) —Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute today called _on the five men he defeated to help elect him governor of Indiana and sweep the Democratic party to victory in the November election. Tucker came here for a meet'ng of the Indiana Democratic state committee and workshop sesisons aimed at fall triumphs over Republicans on the state, congressional and legislative levels. J.‘Therc..must be a definite move of'ail -Begssestr cf the party.” said Tucker. He said he would ask Matthew Welsh. Roger Branlgin, Thomas Johnston. Hugh Dilliu and Von Eichhorn to have a part in thy campaign They lost to -Tucket in the party’s state nominating convention June 26. Tucker and Claude Wiekard. who will JJiead the ticket this fall, joined in the meeting ,6) plan strategy toward gearing party machinery for victory four months hence. / Tucker met with Xhe committee shortly before noon to outline plans for “my /Campaign” including “my own Procedures, ways of organization/and ways of campaigning.” / _ He said he knew of no plans for changes In the top echelon of the party organization. He was asked by a newsman if Paul Butler, Democratic national chair/hian. and Mrs. Kenneth Luckett of English, national committeewoman from Indiana, were “acceptable” to him. Butler and Mrs. Luckett , favored Dillin over Tucker in the governor race. At first, Tucker said “no comI meat” to the question. Later he j said “all Democrats are acceptable to me.” . , _ ; "_~ The meeting was brief and rpbkesmen said only campaign ffopnees and "routine matters” were discussed. The committee approved plans . for the' annual meeting of the Indiana Democratic editorial I association at French Lick Aug. 25-26. Tucker, mayor of Terifo Haute, faces Lt. Gov. Harold Handley in the race for governor, and Wickard, former agriculture secretary, will try to oust Homer Capehart from his senate seat. A move to replace Charles Skillen as state chairman appeared questionable. It would take a twothirds vote of the 22 district chairmen and vice chairmen, and Sklllen's friends said any opposition force, couldn’t muster that much strength. Had Tucker's nomination come ■from a more open battle between his supporters and those of the party organization, a shakeup might be more likely. As it was, all topAparty • leaders went along with Tucker after it Appeared other candidates couldn't make it. State headquarters invited the 13 nominees for state offices, the 11 candidates for congress and 82 delegates and alternate delegates to the Democratic national convention who will cast 26 votes. .Candidates will break up into groups to plan strategy for the national convention" and the election campaign: . National confection delegates are pledged to support Estes Kefauver on the first ballot by virtue on his pririiary victory, but most were expected to switch to Adlai Stevenson after that ” In the 1962 convention, all but former Rep. Andrew Jacobs sup(Continued on. Fate Six) 1

Congress Faces Heavy Schedule Before Recess Many Leaders Doubt Adjournment Likely In Month Os July WASHINGTON (UP) — Congress moved 7 today into what may be the final two weeks of its current • session. But before it ad journs add joins the rush to the political/ conventions, it faces action oi/ a number of controversial bills. . Tfie .house ! today ; »a«sed the compromise, bill to authorize $4,014,000,000 in foreign aid spending. • -i / The senate put aside legislation !n order to eulogize the late Sens. Alben W. Barkley (D-Ky.) and Harley M. Kilgore (D-WVa) But the compromise foreign aid authorization bill is high on its agenda for the coming week. Congressional leaders anticipating an August adjournment date pointed to the amount of controversial legislation still awaiting senate and house action as the reason for their pessimism. The administration’s civil rights, bill and legislation to authorize federal construction of a high dam at Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border are almost certain to provoke heated house debate. Likely to die in the senate are house-approved bills to raise postal rates and to provide pensions for needy World War I veterans. , Also on the senate “must” list is a house-approved bill to lower the social security benefit age for women from 65 to 62 and to permit totally disabled workers to start collecting benefits at age 50. Some senate compromise in the measure is considered likely. — The senate also is expected to take Up—and to approve without much controversy —a housepassed bill to provide $378 million in federal aid to schools whose enrollment has been swollen by military instalations and other federal activities. The money is for two years ending on June 30, 1958. The bill passed the house Saturday. . _ An anticipated senate drive to (Continued on Page Six) Hqrvester To Build Government Trucks FORT WAYNE (UP) — International Harvester Co. announced during the weekend that it received orders from federal agencies for production of 28 million dollars worth of military and commercial trucks. Most of the 3.850 trucks will be produced in the firm’s Fort Wayne, motor truck plant. The largest order was for 1,644 five-ton military tactical trucks valued at a total of about 17 million dollars. Two Men Drown As Cruiser Overturns MISHAWKA. Ind. (UP)—Elmer E. Rough, 42. and James A. Reeder, 45. both of South Bend, drowned ifa theSt/Joseph River near the Indiana-Michigan Electric Co. dam near Osceola Sunday night when a 14-foot cabin cruiser overturned. - ! ■ Mrs. Berpice Wirl of Detroit, who was fishing nearby, rescued Rough’A. daughter Linda, 9. son William, 14. wife Aljc.e, and neigh? bor Shirley Davis.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 9, 1956.

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Negotiators In Steel Walkout Standing Pat Expect Government To Make Move For Strike Settlement PITTSBURGH (UP) — Negotiators for 650,000 striking United Steelworkers and the closed-down basic steel industry appeared adamant in their bargaining positions today, apparently waiting for the walkout’s pent-up -eewomic pressures to force a iriore favorable showdown. But the federal government was expected momentarily to make the next move to break the costly contract deadlock which for nine days has cut off 8L per cent of the country's steel production and threatens to disrupt the nation’s entire economy. Neither side has made a new proposal since the bargaining talks collapsed in New York June ' 30. Six hours before the strike offieially begtfn. Job? A- Stepirens. U.S. Steel Corp; vice president and chief industry spokesman, confirmed the deadlock with a concise “no developments." A union spokesman agreed that there was “not a thing doing.” Federal mediation director Jo'seph F, Finnegan, after separate exploratory conferences with both sides here last mursday, said he hoped management and labor would resume talks on their own. But he indicated he Was prepared to initiate bargaining without their invitation. The mediation chief, it was believed. will summon USW President David J. McDonald and negotiators for U. S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic Steel to Washington in a day or two to see what can be done toward resumption of bargaining. Pressures for a quick settlement are great. As of tonight, the industry production loss will be about $369 million, taking into account steel lost in banking furnaces prior to the strike deadline at 12;01 a.m. July 1. The striking millworkers_will have lost about 75.8 million In wages. Workers in related fields also were caught in the pinch. Some 65,f100 to 90,000 rail.' truck and water transportation workers have been furloughed because of curtailment of steel shipments. Upwards of 40,000 coal miners, who will return' from their annual 12r (Continued Page Six) Vandalism Reported Al Hanna-Nuffman Much Destruction Done At City Park The c’ity of Decatur was the target for a case of vandalism and a vefiicle theft during the past weekend. Sometime after midnight early Sunday morning Hanna-Nutt-, man park was damaged by vandals and someone tried to steal the city’s three-ton dump trucks Shortly after midnight a man took the dump truck from the city’s Third street generating plant. Arthur Hurst Gaunt, according to the report, saw the vehicle being taken and foltoweiT' After a chase the man abandoned the truck in an alley .between Elm and Studebaker streets and then fled on foot. The mcident was r&; ported to the police, who are conducting a n i n ves t iga t i on. Much destructive effort was uhleashed the same nIRUFat the city’s Hanna-Nutitnan park. A large tree was cut down and several branches were cut up. The back brkces on several benches were cut in two and several seats were also cut in two. The damage to the city police department by Sylvester Everhart, park super-’ visor.

- ■»> Democrats To Name Convention Keynoter Nine Party Leaders Linder Consideration CHICAGO (UP)— Top Democrats huddle today to decide who will deliver the keynote address at the national convention Aug. 13. At least nine party leaders Were under consideration for the duty. Tpe final selection was to be made • a| ah afternoon meeting of the l e|nvention and arrangements comi rriittee called to order by Demol c4atic chairman Paul Butler. Most likely candidates for the fob appeared to be Sen. Henry M. : Jackson (Wash) and Sen. Robert • S. Kerr (Okla); Both were said to be acceptable to the groups supi porting New York Gov. Averell s Harriman and Sen. Estes Kefau- ■ Yer for the presidential nominai tion. Other men seen as the possible 1 keynoter were Sen. John F. Keni riedy of Massachusetts. Sen. Hubert H. Humphfey Os Minnesota r- and Gov. Frank Clement of Ten- ; nessee. AU three are backing Ads lai E-. Stevenson's bid for the ■ nomination., - / _ . Also-wientioned for. the keyno'tifig> 1 assignment were Govs. Edmund S. - Muskie of Maine, Georgei Lead- » er .of Pennsylvania and Robert - Meyner of New Jersey. Sefo Paul i Douglas of Illinois and Rep. Jofin McCormack, house majority lead- - er,- of Massachusetts. > This was expected to be the i final meeting of the arrangements ! committee before the convention • gets underway at the International , Amphitheatre. I Former President Harry S. Tru- ■ man was scheduled to arive in Chicago tonight for a speaking en- ■ gagement Tuesday at a Truman library lunch. His talk will be his first major address since his return from Europe. Mr. Truman withdrew his name | from consideration ap a keynoter several weeks ago when he said he would rather speak before the convention after the- delegates selected the presidential nominee. Improve Streets In Northwestern Area Will Hard Surface Cinder Base Streets Streets in the Decatur area in the- northwest part of the city, known as Homewood, are being converted from cinder base to hard surface and B. J. Clark, Decatur street commissioner, said today the preliminary project would be completed iii the next two weeks. Two of the streets, Meibers, rufl r ning east and west from Thirteenth street to Tenth street, and Tenth j street, north and south from Dayton to Washington street, ha;ve been topped with an ! oil mat treatment. ' The oil piat is mot a permanent instillation, it was pointed on®, but it will serve as a non-dust base for further development. Eleventh street, from .Washington to Dayton, has received a dressing of blacktop and in another year a paling coat will complete that street. 4 Twelfth street also will be blackfopped this year, it was learned, and with the completion of Twelfth street the old cinder streets ofo many years standing will have bee/ u . eliminated —4; Mesliberget Stone Co. the con\ tract for black-topping and. city street department employes are preparing the streets for final treatment. . .Two blocks of Third street also have been' Wack-topped this summer and more, surfacing on the cHyV*ol3er‘“BHcS“'stfeets’ is contemplated. ' . Street improvements are made, each y.ear with the gas tax money received by the street department from the state gasoline tax division and are limited to the money ’ receivedr Commissioner Clark pointed out (Continued on Page Five) ... — . -• “ ' -7-—“

House Wes Foreign Aid Compromise Four Billion Dollar Foreign Aid Bill Passed By House WASHINGTON (UP) — The house without debate today approved a compromise four billion dollar foreign aid authorization bill. The measure was sent back to the senate which must also approve before it goes to the White House for President Eisenhower’s signature. House passage was by voice vote. ' ■ The house later today was tentatively scheduled to open debate on a second bill carrying only $3,400.000,000 in actual funds for the program. Foreign aid supporters have virtually given up hope of getting the house to increase actual appropriations to a point nearer the pros posed, authorization. They are inclined iu ret Muc’n‘a mote be made later in the senat#, where chances of success appeared brighter. ' The White House hinted Sunday that President Eisenhower might make a last-minute plea against further heavy cuts by congress in the aid program. When reporters asked presidential news secretary James C. Hagerty for White House comment on the program's status., Hagerty said, “No, not today [ (Sunday).” His reply and his manner suggested the President might have something to say later. Mr. Eisenhower originally requested $4,900,000,000 in foreign aid funds, but the house voted to authorize only $3,800,000,000. The senate voted later to peg the au-' thorization at $4,500,000,000. A house-senate conference committee subsequently approved a compromise bill filing the authorization at $4,000,000,000. The Compromise bill was the one up for a final vote in the house today. But congress takes two votes on money bills. It follows up authorizing legislation with hills fixing the actual amount of money it will grant for spending. Red Cross Office Closed This Week The office of the Adams codnty Red Cross headquarters in Decatur will be closed this week. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the local Red Cross chapter, announced that in case of emergen. she may be contacted at 3-3031. Financial Report Given By Hospital Hospital Profit Is Shown During June A profit of $572.61 is shown in the financial report of the Adams county memorial hospital for the month of June, 1956’. Bills during the month totalled $6,800.88 and the payroll was $13,988.75, for a total expenditure of $20,789.63. Deposits during the month were According to the re'port the hospital has an operating cash fund of $28,749.02 as of June — During the month, 186 adult patients were admitted. A total of 56 babies were bora, 29 boys and 27 girls. Five patients died during June. , * On June 1 there were 42 adults and nine Rabies at the hospital. Patients . diamiaafid during ‘ the month were 185-adults and 55 babies. There were 38 adults and 10 babies present at the hospital on June’3o- - The report also shows that during the month it was necessary to place a total of 40 patiepts in the halts when the number of patients exceeded the rooms available;

Shakeup Reported In Polish Cabinet Communist Party Seeks Scapegoats BERLIN (UP) — Poland’s Communist government pushed a relentless campaign for new scapegoats in the Poznan uprising today. Reports from other Iron Curtain nations indicated strong fear of new antl-Communist demonstrations. The Polish government fired one minister and demoted another, while a refugee from neighboring Czechoslovakia said Communists there have opened a campaign to oust .most of the Czech cabinet members and the top leaders of the Czech Communist party. And in East Germany the Communist party called for “increased vigilance” to prevent unrest from spreading into the Soviet Zone. West German experts on Polish affairs said today the Polish cabinet shakeup was due to a workers slowdown in mines and factories in protest against high prices, low' wages and hunger. t An editor of the Poznan newspaper Gazetta Poznanski said in a telephone talk to Berlin that in- - p.vCTswi&i ’ Lv days after the outbreak of Poznan’s “bread and freedom” riots. He said a joint party-govern-ment commission is pushing a twopronged search for workers who led the bloody revolt and for Communists whose “milstakes” failed to head it off. He added that no date for the trial of the rebels has been set, but he refused to disclose the number of persons held in jail. Some estimates of the number arrested ran as high as 3,000. Trials of purged Communist legders were expected to be handled by secret courts or by party tribunals. Four Crashes Take 19 Midwest Lives > i Skyrocket Traffic Toll Over Weekend CHICAGO (UP)—Four separate traffic acci&ents in the Midwest took 19 lives, skyrocketing the weekend death toll in six midwestern states to 46. Three of the accidents each killed five persons and the, other claimed four victims. A head-on collision Sunday near Beloit, Wis., killed five Rockford, Ilh, residents and injured seven other persons, three critically. Dead were Mrs. Emma; Long, 66, Fred Tiller, 27, his wife;, Dorothy, 26, their 4-year-old son, Wayne and Mrs. Georgia j Head, 20, air of Rockford. Four persons died Sunday when a car went out of control and smashed head-on into a iculvert near Alma, Neb. The victims were identified as Vern Miller, 34, his wife,. Arvella, 32. his brother, Leo, 35, and Leo’s wife, Margaret, 30, all of Pueblo, Colo. Two accidents in Illinois claimed 10 lives and injured 5 persons. A three-caj: callision near Tuscola Sunday killed 5 persons including a recently married couple. The dead were Norman E. Oakley, 19, his bride, Alice. 18, both of Monticello. 111., Stanley , Pettis, 14, Atwood, 111., Mrs. Betty Tucker Langford, 38, Argo, 111., and Bertha Ann Wood, 65, Hickman. L'y. One car crashed broadside into another near Elgin, 111., Saturday night killing five persons. __ The dead were Edson Perkins. 48. Elgin, his wife. Gladys, 48, ’their daughter, Gail, 16, William Haywood t 80,, and Mrs. 1 . Marie on raae Slx> v. - INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and a tittle cooler tonight Tuesday mostly fair „ and pleasant. Low tonight SASS north, 58-62 south. High Tuesday 75-80. Sunset S:ls p.m., sunrise Tuesday 5:23 a.m.

Police Doubt ! Men Actually f Linked To Case Phone Call-Sends Mother On Useless • Rendezvous Sunday jj NEW YORK (UP) — Two men have cotifessed they made a phone qall whifeh led Mrs. Betty Weinberger tb a rendezvous at which she thought she regain her kidnaped infant son. police said today. They Were quoted as telling police they had made the Call daring aii' evening of drinking because “we just wanted to see the crips run around.” The telephone call, at 7:30 p.m. SJnday, Jed Mrs. Weinberger to drive from her suburban home to a; lonely street corner in New York, carrying the $5,000 demanded for the return of her 37-day-old son. Petek She sat in the car for more thain an hour she. gave up returned Ume. ®g“pj.en la<igr.«mde thre»„more telephone calls from bars and drug - store, to the Weinberger house in Westbury, police said. The men were identified as Robert Glebler, 2C, Jackson Heights, Queen, whose wife is expecting their fourth child, and Gordon Thomas Rowell, 24, Woodside, Queens. !• Police said the men had confessed asking for the $5,000 ransom demanded, earlier for the Child, but claimed “we weren’t interested in the money,” J Mrs. Weinberger kept her lonely wait 10 to 15 blocks from the area from .which the men telephoned. ' Police said it was “close by” a subway station she had entered ..... Friday on a previous unsuccessful attempt to meet the person who kidnaped her son, then 4 weeks old, on July 4. There was no immediate indication that the men in custody had made the telephone calls which led to the attempted contact Friday, elded yet whether'the men would Detective inspector Raymond V. , Martin said it had not been debe booked in Queens county, where i they were arrested, or in adjoin- . Ing Nassau county, in which the Wfiinbergers live. He said specific charges to be placed against them were undecided. A third man taken into custody with the two apparently was not to be- booked. Police said John Andrews, w’ho gave his address as the Sloan House YMCA in Manhattan, insisted he had met the other two in- a bar about midnight and simply bought them a drink. “I always; do that when I’m drinking,” he was reported to have said. "I don’t know how I got in- _ volved In’this;” | Police said Andrews said he had a wife, from whom he was Separated. and three children In, California. ... • MiiH ! ;■ ' Police apparently discounted any possibility that the nien had any part -iln the actual kidnaping, but officers refused to state flatly that - they were absolved. r Disclosure of What seemingly was a cruel, drunken prank dashed* hopes; that the kidnaper still was attempting to deal with the family or was willing or able to return the stolen infant. The distraught mother had wait(Continued on Pave Six) Japs Claim Another Hydrogen Bomb Fired TOKYO (UP) — The Janpanese government weather observatory claimed that the United States set off another hydrogen bomb at its Bikini proving "grounds. The observatory said atmospheric concussions recorded by ultrasensitive instruments indicated that the blaet occurred about 3 ■ a.m. Japanese time (noon CST Sunday), about 2,500 miles southeast of Japan.

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