Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 163, Decatur, Adams County, 12 July 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV, No. 163.

FIRST JET TRANSPORT LANDS IN LOS ANGELES k ; •w- ' >t 'y ■ • . ■• 4/ \ - <■ |Bk J THE BOEING 707, Artu’nvu’a first commercial jet airliner, is the first jet transport to land at Loa Juiernati<nal airport The 247,000-pound four-jetter landed jan the runway as gracefully as a swallow one tour and 57 minutes after leaving Seattle. ’

Reveal Ransom Note Signed Baby Sitter FBI Throwing Full Resources To Hunt For Kidnaped Baby WESTBURY. N.Y. (UP) — The Nassau county chief of detectives revealed today that the ransom note for the kidnaped Weinberger baby was slgned "Your baby sitter.” Stuyvesant Pinell, the detective , chief. sMd the no£e l ? ft ; in.-the Infant P<W% carriage onTruiy 4tV was "well written" and “obviously prepared." - _ Pinell said study of the. unto" indicated that the kidnaper was someone who worked in the neighborhood and knew of the Weinberger baby. “I think it’s a real grown up person who wrote the note,"..Finnell said. Pinnell said, however, that the child’s mother. Mrs. Betty Weinberger. had never had a baby sitter even for lheir other son, Lewis. SMs. But he said the family had hired maids who also cared for the children. “Frankly there's nothing encouraging.” Pinnell answered when questioned about other aspects of the eight-day-old abduction. Pinnell refused to guess whether the writer of the ransom note was a man or woman. He said the note, oyer 35 words in length, waj examined by several Handwriting experts who disagreed as to the age and sex of the writer. The detective chief said the note contained instructions to drop $2,000 ransom money at Albermarie Road and Park Avenue, approximately a half-block from the Weinberger home. But he said the note omitted any instructions for recovering or picking up the baby. Pinnell said he still has possession of the ransom note but expected the FBI to examine it today. • The G-men officially joined in the hunt for the baby and his kidnaper Wednesday with the announcement that the organization’s “full resources" would be mobilized for the search. Nassau county police said there would be no,, slackening of their investigation. The investigations will be separate but fcbordinated. David Holman, an uncle of Mrs. Betty Weinberger, said the family had not abandoned hope of getting the month old baby back alive. “The Weinbergers are hopeful," Holman, a.former Nassau county assistant district attorney* said. "They haven't left the house except to answer hoax telephone calls since the kidnaping. “Every time the phone rings they have a gleam of hope. “The Weinbergers just want to get tha baby back. What happens after that doesn’t interest the family, They are holding up very well.” Fort Wayne Child Is Killed By Auto FORT WAYNE (UP) — Pamella" Rogan, 4. was killed Wednesday when an auto's hood ornament penetrated her head. Police said Pamella darted into the path of a car’driven by John B. East; 36, Fort Wayne, and was knocked into the air and hit by the ornament. —

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Senate Is Working On Overtime Basis Meet Longer Hours To Speed Up Recess WASHINGTON (UP) — The senate today began working on an overtime basis in an effort to adjourn in plenty of time for the national political conventions. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) won senate approval Wednesday of an agreement to meet daily at 10:30 a.m. EDT, 1 hours earlier than usual. Committees were given permission to sit only until noon. The speedup was the latest move in the drive of congressional leaders up the session be&MWKIu?;. I*.. ... •. ... ' Johnson has no specific target date. But GOP leaders told President Eisenhower at Gettysburg Thursdhy^theywere shootfag for July 21. The Democratic national convention opens, in Chicago Aug. 13. The GOP national convention opens in San Francisco Aug. 20. Johnson listed several assorted bills for senate action this week, including the controversial proposal for the government to build atomic power reactors for peacetime use. * *■■ , He said the senate will take up the foreign aid money bill next week. He said it probably also will tackle the long-delayed social security bill then. Sen. H. Alexander Smith (R-N. J.) urged the senate to “make another effort” to pass a federal school aid bill this session. Smith said he did not believe house defeat of such a program posed any “insurmountable" problem. The national executive committee of Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal anti-Communist political group, urged that congress be kept in session until midAugust. if necessary, to pass what it called essential legislation. The group sent letters to Johnson and speaker Bam Rayburn stating that the lawmakers should be held in Washington until they act on 11 specific hills. The ADA said these include foreign aid, trade cooperation, customs simplification, civil rights, school aid, housing, ahi to depressed areas, social security liberalization, immigration. HeUa Canyon and Niagara power. < t r- ; — To Widen Bridges In Adams County True Andrews, sub-district supervisor for the state highway commission, announced a bridgewidening program on roads in Adams county. First to be improved will be three bridges oh U. S. highway 224, east of Decatur. The federal highway will not be closed for the bridge projects, which include removal-of concrete abutments, widening and installation of guard rails. Also, planned are two bridges.on state road 101, north and south of Pleasant Mills, and several others in the county. Contingent Leaves For Physical Exam Four Adams county young men left this morning for Indianapolis for physical examinations under selective service. Members of the group were Uari Dewayne Hoftetter. Dallas Gene Neuenschwander, .Roger Lewis McDonald, and James .Whitemob Riley. Donald Wayne Walters has been transferred to the jurisdiction of the draft board at Lafayette, ~ — - -

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Meet Today On * Steel Problem Resume Bargaining Talks Today With Federal Mediator PITTSBURGH (UP) - Top negotiators for the United Steelworkers and the nation’s basic steel industrylsit down togetUier at a bar-. XartkM DKWte joint meeting since the strike began 12 days ago. Federal mediation director Joseph F. Finnegan said the talks would begin at 4 p.m. EDT at the Hotel William Penn here. The mediator said he and his aides would participate in. the session aimed at settling the contract deadlock which has idled 650,000 millworkers and up to 90.000 workers in steel-dependent industries. But mediation officials doubted the resumed negotiations would mean an early setflement. Finnegan said nothing he has heard in the past two days has changed his fueling that “this is still an extremely serious situation.” Finnegan indicated this afternoon’s session would be the first of a series. “There will have to be more meetings if this thing is going to be settled,” he said. But he added no additional joint talks had been scheduled. Industry representatives agreed to the meeting of sides after a Washington conference with Finnegan Wednesday. USW president David J. McDonald gave the union's approval Tuesday. John A. Stephens, U. S. Steel Corp, vice president and chief industry negotiator, told newsmen “we have never had any * reluctance to meet with the union.” He said he is “hopeful that some one of these days the union will recognize the wonderful offer that's been made and accept it.” McDonald said it was “high time” for the steel Industry executives "to devote themselves to the problem they have created, and enter into collective bargaining with us.” The industry has offered a fiveyear, no strike agreement which pt-ovides for an average annual increase of 7.3 cents an hour plus other fringe benefits spread over the term of the contract. Union officials want a shorter contract with increased immediate gains. To Air 4-H Winners On Radio, Television At a special meeting of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce today, the local member merchants approved a project to sponsqf the broadcast of 4-H fair winners over WKJG radio and television stations. The radio program will be broadcast at noon Thursday, Aug. 2. The television show, a 15-minute program showing local 4-H project winners, will be seen Friday, Aug. 3, at noon. The 4-H fair will be held July 31, Aug. 1 and Aug: 2. Members of Khe retail division will have a ftmeheon meeting on the fairgrounds at Monroe on the opening day of the fair. »

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 12, 1956.

Eisenhower To Attend Convention To Accept Nomination In Person

House Group Approves Flood Insurance Bill $3 Billion Program ru. n^ujpi| Ce r Approved Rv By UNITED PRESS The house banking committee today approved a bill calling for a three-billion-dollar governmentsponsored flood insurance program. The measure and a companion senate-passed bill would provide up to $250,000 insurance for businesses and a maximum of SIO,OOO on any one home. Under the bMse bill, businesses would pay 60 per cent of the premiums and the federal government 40 per cent. The government would decide what it would pav -on home insurance. Under the senate measure, federal afid state governments would share 40 per cent of the cost. Other congressional news: Foreign Aid: Secretary of state John Foster Dulles urged the senate appropriations committee tc ’for' lT?e foreign ’ aid program for the 11 months which began July 1. It was a last-minute effort.to salvage some of the $1,500.000,000 which the house chopped out of the President's original $4,900,000,000 request. Blacklist: Vincent Hartnett. New York radio-television consultant told the house committee on unAmrican activities that “not more than 5 per cent of present or former Communists in the entertainment field have been exposed by congressional committees. The committee is investigating a. Fund of the Republic report on alleged blacklisting of entertainers accused of Communist ties. Hartnett denounced the report as a “white paper on communist!}.” Secrecy: Former assistant air force .secretary Trevor Gardner told a House government operations subcommittee that secrecy labels shpuld be stripped from at least half of all the documents at the Pentagon. He told how the Pentagon has ..been denying a scientist access to documents on his own secret discoveries because he was not cleared io see them. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, scattered tnundershowera tonight and Friday. Little change in temperature. Lew tonight 68-74. High Friday. 90-94. Sunset 8:13 p.m., sunrise Friday 5:28 a.m. Annual 6. E. Club Picnic Saturday Annual Picnic For Employes, Families The annual General Electric club picnic for employes of the local G. E. plant and their families will be held Saturday at Clem’s Lake. James Strickler is general' chairman of the event. The park will open to G. E. families at 10:30 a.m. The registration booth will open at 11 arm. and the chuck wagon dinner will’Vegin at noon. Door prize drawings will be made throughout the afternoon. Entertainment and games are planned for youngsters and adults. Rides are available at the park for the children and the beach wiflbe open to all G. E. families. The skating rink will also be opened. Tickets for all of these will be distributed at the registration tablp. It has also been announced that a first aid area staffed by Eloise Noll and Leona Omlor will be located in the picnic area. The entertainment is scheduled to conclude at 4:30 p.m. 14-PAGES

Seek Federal Grant for Sewage Plant Possibility Seen Os $250,000 Grant A chance of reducing the cost of a sewage disposal plant for Decatur as much as $250,000 was seen today by city officials following receipt of a letter by John L. DeVoss, city attorney, from the Unithealth and education. The letter was in answer to a letter by the city attorney to ascertain the possibility of Decatur receiving a grant for construction of the plant, ordered by the state stream pollution board. The request was made for information about the federal water pollution control act.. J. •■■■■' A pledge of assistance to secure the maximum of $250,000 under the federal act also was received today by the City from E. Ross Adair, fourth district congressman, who said in a letter that “his office had made preliminary contacts .concerning an .application for such a loan and would continue to assist Decatur officials.” Attorney DeVoss immediately wrote a letter to B. A. Poole, secretary of the Indiana stream pollustioju bpard. asking that. boarj’s in securing the federal grahL If Decatur can qualify for the grant, the fund would greatly resjuc* the city’s cost of building a plant. Which has been estimated at about a million dollars. With other non-essepHal reductions it Is believed that k_e eost of the plant can te reduced materially. The city is under order to start construction of the disposal plant and state officials have indicated that if another refusal to comply is made by city officials, the matter will be taken to Adams circuit court. The letter received this week from G. E. McCallum, chief of the (Continued on Pare Seven) Craig's Publicity Chief Quits Post O'Connell Target Os Handley Group INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana Republican state chairman Alvin C. Cast, returning from a Wisconsin fishing trip, found a letter of resignation on his desk Wednesday from Governor Craig’s . publicity agent. William B. O’Connell, Chicago, who helped build Craig into national political prominence over a period of three years, quit about a week before he, was scheduled to be fired by Ae GOP state committee. T‘ - O’Connell was a target of the party faction of Lt. Gov. Harold W. Handley because he helped Craig try to beat Handley for the governor nomination at the state convention June 29. The Handley faction claimed O'Connell was being paid by the Republican organization which represented all candidates but worked only in Craig’s behalf and against the antiCraig faction of the party. The O’Connell resignation was effective July 1, Cast said. He said O’Connell’s position officially was "director of publicity • for the Indiana state central committee” O’CoimeU’s letter said "if the Republican party continues to function as an instrument and symbol of progress in public service,' its success is assured.” Cast said O’Connell was hired in April last year "to represent th«* present state administration irf publicizing its record of accomplishments inJpitiating many badly ■ needed reforms and improvements in Indiana government,”' According to a prepared release from the state committee. The state committee meets next Monday. If O’Connell had nbt quit, he probably would have been fired.

Russia Agrees | To Proposals On Manpower Blistering Attack On U. S. Policies Answered By Lodge UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —Russia today agreed to Western proposed manpower levfels for disarmament, coupled with a nuclear weapons ban, and delivered to the United Nations a blistering attack on American foreign policy. Soviet delegate Andrei A. Gromyko drew an immediate reply from United States ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. In the U.N. disarmament commission. Lodge told the Kremlin diplomat that his hour-long speech was a "scurrilous attack on my country in the very worst traditions of Stalinism.” He accused the (Russian of misquoting assistant secretary of state Francis O. Wilcox that the U. S, was- not interested in disarmament. Wilcox actually said recently in a Chicago speech that the word Wisarmameftt”■ was misleading and the United States favored regulated reductions of disarmament. He said Gromyko had misquoted further by alleging that Lodge had said control and inspection of disarmament programs was impossible. Actually, Lodge said, he had quoted "a most cogent" Soviet statement to that effect. Gromyko charged that the U. S. air force was one of the great purchasing agencies of the world, exceeding the combined expenditures of five of the largest American industrial concerns, and implied that a cutback in air strength I would disturb the U. S. economy. Lodge replied that "one of the astounding facts in the United States at present, which makes the United States the despair of the Communist theorists, is that the war in Korea came to a close and war orders occasioned by that war came to a close and American industry reverted to peacetime production with greater prosperity than ever before. “The idea that we can maintain prosperity in America only by having a war is a figment of the imagination ... it is crude and childish,” "Lodge said. , 1 GromVko attacked American foreign policy in Europe, the Near East, Asia and the Far East. He (Continued on Page Seven) Mrs. Saleme Wanner Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Morning Mrs. Salome Hirschy Wanner, 90. of Berne, died Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient since suffering a fractured shoulder and hip in a fall at her home June 28. She was born in Hartford township July 19, 1365, a daughter of John and Barbara Stauffer-Hirschy. Her husband, Emmanuel Wanner, died 34-years Mrs. Wanner was a member of the West Missionary church at Berne. Surviving are a son, Ezra Wanner of Geneva route 1; four daughters. Misses Barbara and Martha Wanner, at home. Mrs. Leo Sprunger of Monroe and Mrs. Eli Augsburger of Geneva route 1; 25 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Noah Schindler of Utica. Mich. Three brothers and sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 a. m. Sat. at the Yager funeral home and. at 10 a,m. at the West Missionary rhurch, the Rev. Robert iMagary officiating. Burial will be Mo the MRS cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral hboie after 6:30 o’clock this eve-

Hail Storms Pound Midwest Farmlands * ' * lowa And Wisconsin Bear Brunt Os Storm By UNITED PRESS Violent hail storms hit midwest farmlands Wednesday night, killing live — stock and destroying crops, ' 2. lowa and Wisconsin bore the • brunt of the hail and thunderstorms which also struck parts of # North Dakota and Nebraska. Winds and hailstones as big as ' two inches in diameter caused damage estimated at SBOO,OOO to private planes and a Braniff airliner at the Sioux City, lowa, Municpal Airport. The hail shattered windows of the airport and in autos parked nearby. Hail also sliced through canvas convertible tops. Corn damage was heavy in the extreme northwest corner of lowa. Farther east, Wausau. Wis. reported garden crops, oats and corn ruined by the hail and rain. A Wausau area farmer, Lewis Rolling, said hail piling three inches deep on the ground wiped out his crops. 1 , Rainfall in midwest areas was heavy, misusing up to four inches in northwestern lowa. Sloan, lowa, officials reported an undetermined number of hogs died under the barrage of ice. Lightning was blamed for several fires that broke out in the farmland. A large barn north of Manson, lowa, crumbled in flames after being hit by a bolt. Milwaukee police said several minor blazes were touched off by the lightning, but no serious damage was reported. The storm was accompanied by high-velocity winds reaching 50 miles per hour at the Wausau Airport, and 40 miles per hour at Council Bluffs, lowa. Power lines were battered down by the gusts in Des Moines. Els’ewhere, mercury were somewhat higher from the Great Lakes region out east through the Ohio Valley. Scattered showers and thunder(Continued on Page Seven) North-South Road Up To Bankers Decision . Refuses To Divulge Contents Os Report INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Governor Graig placed the fate of the proposed Chicago-to-Indianapolis toll road in bankers' hands today and refused to disclose turnpike plans. iGraig wound up a series of day and night meetings on the proposed superhighway late Wednesday. He would not divulge the contents of a report on the road's cost and location. A group of bankers “from all over the country’’ will weigh the ( toll road report against present ( and future bond markets-and the ( effect of thej -new federal road- ( building program, Craig said. “I wIU release the figures as • soon as the evaluation is made,” ( Craig told newsmen. “It may take t several days or several weeks.” Craig declined for the first time to predict whether the proposed north-south toll road can become , a reality. ] "f have no right to say’ I feel f ■encouraged or discouraged,” he said. Craig said he wouldn’t. tell the j route because he didn’t want “to t cause a real estate skirmish” in any section of Indiana now. ' Craig said the new federal pro- ' gram “is inadequate to satisfy 1 this or any other state's highway demands for the immediate future. We need roads now. not 10 years ’ from now.” The governor reviewed the toll j road report Wednesday with the s toll road commission, traffic en- . giueer Wilbur Smith, and Harry E- Bailey of Oklahoma City, whb t tras hired for SIO,OOO te make the - (Cantinuad on Page Seven)

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Eisenhower And < - ■ 'Wy?- 5' Nixon Ticket Is' Approved Halleck Will Make Speech Nominating Ike At Convention GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP — President Eisenhower will go to San Francisco in August to accept the Republican nomination as head - • of an “Eisenhower and Nixon” ticket, GOP national chairman Leonard W. Hall announced today?"" Hall said after a one-hour con-, ference with Mr. Eisenhower that Vice President Richard M. Nixon “absolutely” would have the No. 2 spot on the 1956 GOP ticket Hall said Mr. Eisenhower will be present at the GOP national convention after he is nominated, probably -on Wednesday, Aug. 22. He also announced that Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R-Ind) will make the speech nominating Mr. Eisenhower for a second term. Hall said Mr, Eisenhower 'will take part in a -“vigorous, hardhitting campaign.” Asked to predict of « ; the election, Hall said tt would be “very very good and better than in 1952." Hall was asked whether the President made clear that he still . wants Nixon As his running mate. ’’Absolutely,” Hall replied. “I, think it’s Eisenhower and Nixon — That’s it!” He also predicted that the. Re-’ publicans will recapture control of congress. Hall said Mr. Eisenhower himself will not engage in a whistle stop campaign, but will rely mainly on modern media, such as radio and television. He indicated that ftixon, however, would do the whistle stopping along wfth key members of the cabinet, senate and house. As for the President’s health. Hall said “nothing has been kept from the American people.” *- The health issue, he said, had been met “by candor and frankness" on the part ot the President, and White House aides who have kept the people in touch through ' the press with the “daily condition of the President’s health.” As for the Democrats making health an issue, Hall said he had seen that some “gentlemen of the opposition party” themselves disagree with Democratic national chairman Paul M. Butler and oth“You can’t beat candor,” Hall ers that health can be an issue, said. Hall said he saw no reason why Mr. Eisenhower should reaffirm his Feb. 29 decision to run for a second term. “td my mind he made the announcement then, and that was it.” Hall added. There had been some question about Mr. - Eisenhower’s second term intentions after his June 9 operation to correct an intestinal obstruction. But the President gave the word Tuesday, through senate Republican leader William F. Knowland. that he Is still in the race. Hall said that after the Republicans close their campaign people will be talking about it as the “greatest campaign’’ in history. He said it wil Ibe “vigorous and hard hitting,” but he would not give details. Hall said, however, that the President probably will make five or aix major television addresses, z He said the President also will go to various areas “perhaps by plane—it may be anywhere.” ! "When President Eisenhower | talks over radio and television he will be talking to the biggest audi- ‘ ence ot any man in the history of the country,” Hall said, citing the increase in the number of television sets aj a major basis tor his prediction. Hall sail hs believes Mr. Elsenhower will Byte San Francisco to (Oealieuse ee rage