Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 14 July 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 165.

WORKERS’ FAMILIES PICKET t. ■ >/s’/* J DEMANDING .that^the - cbihpauy reopen Its 9-month-closed plant In South Philadelphia, wives and children of some of the 6,000 Idle Westinghouse workers stage a demonstration in front of the Westinghouse New York office. Later the group had a picnic in Central park, before returning to Philadelphia.

Red Airliner Is Seized By 7 Hungarians Anti-Red Rebels Assert Life Under Reds Meaningless INGOLSTADT, Germany (UP)— Two of seven Hungarians who seized a Communist airliner in a high altitude battle and forced it dowiL.hr.the west said today they did it Jtecaiftsfe. '*Mt e wanteiTtoJiye normal liven." The plane, its interior a shambles and with, blood, landed on an unusedairnttfp 10 miles south of here late Friday. Twelve of ,the 19 persons aboard it were hospitalized and the seven anti-Red rebels asked for asylum in West Germany. One is a woman. Students Josef'Jakobi and Gabor Kiss told Radio Free Europe today that life was meaningless in Communist Hungary. “Hereafter when I work I want to know why I am doing it," the 25-year-old Jakobi said. “I do not? want to continue working for starvation wages. We should all like to earn enough to live a normal life.” They had high praise for Gyorgy Polyak. Hungarian air force reserve lieutenant who commended the mid-air rebellion while the twin-engine plane still was over Hungarian territory. Besides seven rebels, the plane carried seven other passengers and a crew of five, including a security guard, Four of the plotters, the seven other passengers and the security guard were hospitalized. The three other defectors and four crewmen were housed in an inn. “We arranged that five minutes after Polykk said ‘Look, there’s Gyor.’ we would attempt to take the plane‘over,” Kiss said. Gyor was to be the next stop on the plane’s flight between the two Hufigarian cities of Szom bathely to Budapest. It isin north west Hungary near the Austrian border. “At ..the apopinted time, Polyak jumped up and hit the man in front of him over the head, thinking it was a secret policeman,” Kiss said. The group' knew one of the plane’s passengers was. a secret policeman but they did not know which one. •w '■Then 1 hit the man sitting in front of me. We had to subdue all the passengers. The plane was in a turmoil. Polyak went forward to the pilot’s compartment and began struggling with the radio operator, the mechanic and the state security man." • Kiss said Polyak wrestled the security guard’s gun away from him while the rest of the plotters were subduing the other passengers with Iron pipes they had brought with them. “When Polyak got the gun, he fired it into the air." Ktss y said. “The men in the pitot’s compartment then surrendered and all them except the chief pilot- filed out of the cabin at gunpoint.” «= Polyak took the seat next to the Communist chief pilot and forced him to help fly the plane to the West while another of the rebels held a gun on him. They -brought the plane down (Continued on Page Three)

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Ballots Mailed To Farmers In Election To Name Community Committee Heads Oscar T. Brown, chairman of the Adams county ASC committee, announced today that ballots to be used for the election of the 1957 community committee were mailed to farmers July 13. Any farmer who is eligible to vote but did not receive a ballot may secure one from the county ASC office. Ballots must be in the office or postmarked not later than Friday, July 2oj \ Brown reminds voters -that 'll is necessary for them to have their, name and address on the outer envelope in order to determine their eligibility to vote. After eligibility is determined, the outer envelope will be removed and the inner envelope will be placed in a ballot box, without identity, to be counted by the tabulating committee. Ballots will be counted July 23, at 8 a.m. Any eligible voter, who so desires, may be present at the counting of the ballots in the county ASC office. The following nominees have been selected by the community nominating committees; Blue Crpek: Ernest Anderson. Wm. Burke, Harold DeArmond, Frank Dellinger, Claude •N. Foreman, Jacob Hoffman, Wm. Kauffman. Elisha O. Merriman, Fred C. Jdyers and Oscar Teeple. French: Henry Aschliman, Roger Dustman. Harry Gerber, Elmer Isch, Raymond Kipfer, Lewellyn Lehman, Harold Moser, Marshal G. Reynolds, Ivan Sprunger, and Harold E. Zeigler. Hartford: Eli Dubach, James Garboden, Joseph E. Glendening, Alfred Grogg, Walter Meyer, Harry Moser, Howard Meshberger, Carl Mcßride. Theodore McCune and Shoemaker. Jefferson: Wm. Adang, Wilbert Baker, Glen Bollenbacher, Wheeler Brooks, Donald Burkhart, Jerome Gaerke, Robert R. Lehman, Andy Myers, Henry Rumple and Orison Stolz. Kirkland: Paul Arnold, Robert Bucher, Loyd L. Byerly, Ralph Freels,. Glen Griffiths, Joseph T. •Hazelwood, Leroy Emil Steffen, and Harvey L. Steffen. Monrwe':-Edwin Bauman. Lawrence Eicher, Herbert>LaFontaine, Leroy Lehman, William Reichert, Eli M. Schwartz. Forrest Sprunger, Otis Sprunger, Franklin P. Steury and Dan Striker. Preble: Melvin Buuck, Albert Erxleben, Harold Ehlerding, Martin F. Gallmeyer, Fred Keuneke, Frederick Mailand, Richard Miller, Albert Rekeweg, Wilbur F. SeJking- and Walter Weigman. Root: Wm. Fritsinger, Norval Fuhrman, Fred Fuelling, Herbert Hobrock, Albert Kukelhan, Clifford Mann, Wilfred Scherer, Edward Schieferstein and Chauncey A. Sheets. St. Marys: Charles Backhaus, Lyle Bailey, Ralph Hackney, Edward Koos, Benoit P. Johnson, Charles W. Morrison, Austin E. McMichael, Harvey J. Sells, Thomas Sheehan and Richard R. Speakman. Union: Edward A. Bischoff, Herman Bleeke, Richard Bleeke’, Christ Bohnke, Albert Conversed Richard Geimer, Alfred Grote, Simon A. Lehrrfihn, Herman F. jjjfiteele and Emerson D. Wabash: William Bailey, Robert Gerber. Franklin Hofstetter, WilTiani Hylton. Harvey Lehman, I Lowell .Long, Solomon Moiser, Jr. , Albert McGee, Kenneth VanEmon and Sherman VonGnnten. Washington: Albert Braun, Luther Engle, Herman Faurote. Howard Habegger. John Wndenlang, Leonard (Continued' on Five)

Kidnaping Case Is Shrouded By Secrecy Today FBI, Police Drop Veil Os Secrecy On Baby Kidnaping WESTBURY, N. Y. (UP) — Secrecy and silence today shrouded the hunt for Peter Weinberger and his kidnaper. FBI agents, who entered the investigation Wednesday, were known to be rechecking and studying every clue uncovered by Nassau county police since the baby’s July 4th abduction from his carriage on the patio of the Weinberger home. — Nassau county police also dropped a curtain on their movements. _ "We are engaged ill police work,” said inspector Stuyvesant Pinnell, Nassau chief of detectives. “We will make, no further announcements. nor wilt we answer further questions regarding the case until there is a positive development.” . The family clung to the hope Friday that the kidnaper would return their baby. But a relative admitted; “every avenue we can think of has been exhausted.” David Hollman, an uncle of Mrs. Beatrice Weinberger and former Nassau county assistant district attorney, said he believed fear was the principal reason why the kidnaper makes no attempt to collect the ransom and return the baby. "We don’t think it’s a case of money now," Hollman said. “I’m afraid apprehension and fear on the part of the kidnaper will keep him hiding. If any contact is made now, it will be made indirectly." Hollman said the Weinbergers were “willing to pay anything” for. the jeturn of baby, 32 days old when abducted. - ’ He did not deny reports that the family has withdrawn $25,000 from banks to meet any ransom demands. Hollman said the family believed if the baby is returned it will be through the offices of a church or a newspaper. St. Brigids Roman Catholic church in Westbury remains open 24 hours a day should the kidnaper decide to leave the child there. All police have been withdrawn from the area.

State Police Fleet To Add 60 New Cars INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Sixty new high-speed interceptor patrol cars will be added to the state police fleet. State police said Friday that 35 cars with a total of more than ,70,000 miles will be traded in. Boy Is Killed When Hit By Automobile BRAZIL, md. (UP) — Wesley Wade, 9, Center Point, was hit and killed by a car on Ind. 59 south of Brazil Friday night. Leroy Lits, Center Point, said Wesley darted out in front of his car. > Model Plane Show Sunday Afternoon Air Scouts Sponsor Show At Gage Field Plans have been completed for the model airplane show Sunday at 2 jr.m. at Gage Field. The field is located at the end of Winchester street and the entrance is on Winchester. just north of the railroad crossing. Announcement was made that entries can be made at the field up to 1 p.m. Sunday. Entrants will be classified by age groups and model plane types. Trophies and merchandise prizes will be awarded to -the winners of the various classes and divisions. The show will feature five separate contest events. These include LMiontrol, speed and stunt, free flight, rubber band models and gliders. All adults and children interested in the model plane hobby are encouraged to enter. AU types of planes, even flve-cent gliders, will be accepted as entries. An entry fee of 75 cents will be charged for the large model planes and a fee of 25 cents will be asked for the smaller glider entries. The show is sponsored by the Decatur Air Scout troop and the troop’s scoutmaster, Dr. Melvin Weisman, will serve as director of tie show, Alan Cole ie In charge of judging. j

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 14, 1956.

45 Persons Are Killed As Military Transport Plane Falls In Swamp

Senate Group Votes Foreign Aid Increase Committee Votes Hike After Appeal Made By President WASHINGTON (UP) — The senate appropriations committee has voted in favor of giving Presiident Eisenhower a $4 billion foreign aid program. That's just about what he agreed to settle for. The committee voted. 13-8, Friday, to restore nearly all of the more than S6OO million slashed from the appropriations bill by the house. Administration forces credited the major victory to the President’s personal urging. He personally telephoned several committee members along with publicly calling for restoration of the cut. But victory is only temporary. The bill still faced tough going when it reaches the senate floor flext Tuesday or Wednesday. Other, congressional news: . Manpower: Sen. Dennie Chavez (D-N M), chairman of the • senate military - appropriations subcommittee. indicated congress may retaliate against reported defense department moves to slash military manpower. He indicated congress may cut Pentagon fund requests for military housing. He accused the Pentagon of “going back os its word” not to cut manpower. Senate: Senate Democratic leaded Lyndon B. (Tex) said the senate will begin 'work at 9:30 a.m. EDT beginning Monday and probably meet late tor the rest of the week. But he wouldn’t say whether next week will be the senate’s last in session this year. Nomination: Acting chairman Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM) said his senate interior committee probably will vote on the nomination of former Rep. Wesley E. D’Eward (R-Mont) as assistant sec‘ .retary of interior next week. Informed sources said the nomination probably would be approved despite some Democratic opposition. Frying Pan: The house rules committee delayed until Monday at the earliest a decision on whether to send to the house floor. bills for the Frying Pan - Arkansas project in Colorado and the Hells Canyon dam on the Oregon • Idaho border. The committee has completed hearings on the Frying Pan project but wants to take further testimony on Hells Canyon. Sedition: The senate passed and sent to the White House a bill increasing penalties for Commu-, nists and others convicted of se(Contlnued on Page Five)

Farmers Vote July 20 On Wheat Marketing Quotas

Friday, July 20, is the date when growers will determine how they w-ant to market their 1957 wheat crop, Oscar T. Brown,.chairman of the Adams' county agricultural stabilization and conservation committee, reminded farmers today. Farmers who will harvest more than 15 acres, of wheat as grain on a farm in 1957 are eligible to cast ballots in the wheat quota referendum. Polling places will be set up in Convenient locations, in the county, and wheat growers will be notified where they may vote. A two-thirds favorable vote will mean that marketing quotas and penalties on excess wheat will be in effect for the 1957 wheat crop. Under quotas, too, price support to growers in the commercial area who comply with their wheat acreage allotments will be at the full level available—between 75 and 90 percent of parity. .. It more than one-third of the growers voting disapprove quotas, the quotas will hot be in effect, and

* Fiery Crosses Light Sky In Washington Crosses Are Lit At Homes Os Officials WASHINGTON (UP) —Blazing crosses lit up the sky early today front of the homes of -several ’ top Washington officials —including supreme court Chief Justice Earl Warren and Justice Felix Frankfurter. , The big wooden crosses blazed in -front of the homes of supreme .court justices who ruled on the J-lined school segregation case and of integration. Police said two wooden crosses were burned in front of the fashionable Sheraton-Park H ote 1 Warren. Sen. Herbert H. Lehman (D-N.Y), secretary of defense Charles E. Wilson and other government officials live. Police said a resident at the Sheraton-Park saw two men drive up in a car with Virginia license plates and set fire to the crosses. Police refused to say, however, if they had the numbers on the license plates. r-A— Warren wrote the supreme court's historic school integration decision in 1954. Lehman is an ardent integrationist. Two George . Washington University students — Martin-Rosen-s sky and Monk Casper—told police they found a cross burning in front of the apartment) house where solicitor general Simon Sobeloff lives. They said they knocked it ylowm and put out the flames. Sobeloff represented the government in the famed school integration case before the supreme court. Police also found the charred remains of a 6-foot cross in front nf Frankfurter’s home. Another cross was burned on the front lawn of Mrs. Douglas ( King, in nearby Beltsville, Md. Mrs. King is chairman of the Prince George county, Maryland, branch of the national association for the advancement of colored people. She said she saw the flames as ' she was ready to go to bed. She called the Prince George county fire department, which put out the flames leaping from the 8foot. cloth-covered cross. Mrs. King said she had received threatening letters earlier this year. However,) she said she did not know if the burning of the cross had any connection with them. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair today and tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and a little warmer with scat- * tered thundershowers likely by evening in north portion. Low tonight 62-67. High Sunday near 90. Outlook for .Monday: Mostly cloudy with afternoon and evening showers. Little change in temperature:, -

the available price support in the 1957 wheat crop to those who comply with farm wheat acreage allotments will be at a level of 50 percent of parity. When a marketing quota program is in effect, the excess wheat of a grower who does not comply with his farm wheat acreage allotment and who has more than 15 acres of wheat for harvest as grain on the farm will be subject to a marketing quota penalty. This penalty will be equal to 45 percent of the May 1, 1,957 parity prifce for wheat. .. J ____ /J,. Chairman Brown emphasized ,that the vote is on wheat marketing quotas and not wheat allotments. Whether or not the vote Is favorable on the quotas, acreage allotments will be in effect for the 1957 wheat crop. Marketing quotas have been approved by growers voting iq referendums tor the past three wheat crops. Last yew. 77.3 percent of the growers voting favored quotas tor the 1556 drop.

Nixon Reports To Eisenhower On East Trip Vice President To Report To Ike On Trip To Far East GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UP)—Vice President Richard M. Nixon flew here- today to report to President Eisenhowdr on his recent Far East trip. , The vice presideflit told newsmen on his arrival that he had no plans to discuss politics or the coming election campaign. But he added he would talk about “anything the President wants to discuss.” MT. Eisenhower has made it “absolutely" clear he will be pleased to have Nixon as bis running mate again. Nixon said he and Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Persons, who accompanied him, would also report to Mr. Eisenhower on the legislative situation as congress heads into its closing weeks- Persons is chief of White House congressional liaison. .... -V- . Today was Nixon’s first meeting * with Mr. Elsenhower since the 1 President reaffirmed his decision ‘ to run again. The vice president was stheduied to fly here Friday but he cancelled the trip because of bad weather. (Republican congressional ' leaders, who disclosed the President’s second-term plans after talking with him Tuesday, said the secondplace spot on the ticket was not specifically discussed. But GOP committee chairman Leonard W. Hall said Thursday after a meeting with the President that Mr. Eisenhower made it 1 "absolutely” clear he would still be “pleased" to have Nixon on the ticket. Nixon said Wednesday on his return from his 11-day trip that since the President indicated his to remain in the race, “I can say the announcement I made in April has not changed.” He said then he would be happy to run. Nixon returned home shortly after Democratic presidential hopeful Estes Kefauver denounced him on the senate floor for getting into a row with India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru. During his trip Nixon spoke out against neutral nations who make "no moral distinction between the Communist world and the free world.” Nehru, reacting sharply, said Nixon’s statements were “not wise and they do little good." Four Airmen Killed As Bomber Crashes Bomber Crashes On Takeoff In Kansas SAUNA, Kan. (UP) — An air force 847 intercontinental bomber faltered on takeoff Friday night and crashed in flames in a field, killing all four airmen aboard. The bomber, assigned to the 40th bomb wing, strategic air command. was demolished. It had just left the runway of Smoky Hill air force base. The dead were identified as follows: Maj. Ernest Sharp, 28, the aircraft commander, Ormond Beach, Fla. First Lt. Marion Stallings, 26,. pilot. Leesburg, Fla. Capt. Walter Carner, 29, observer,; Augusta. Ga. First Lt. Carl Mattison, 32, extra pilot, Cabridge. Ohio. A spokesman for the air force said the plane, a six-engine jet capable of delivering the hydrogen bomb any fßace in the world, had risen only .w feet when it faltered and crashed. NOON EDITION

Tornadoes Rip At Areas In Midwest Three States Hit By Storms Friday By UNITED PRESS Tornadoes ripped through the Midwest Friday night, ravishing areas in Kentucky, Colorado and Kansas, while severe thunderstorms churned the skies over other central states. In Walton. Ky„ a twister ripped several houses off their foundations, caused ntttnerous but minor injuries and crippled communications by blowing down power lines all over the region. Traffic on U.S. Route 25 was reported hopelessly snarled for over three hours. A small tornado was sighted near Otis, Colo., Friday afternoon. Authorities said it was moving toward the Nebraska border and gathering force on the way. No damage had been reported, but warnings were up over the twostate area. Some tornado activity was reported over the plains of Kansas, s Elsewhere, hail and lashing winds raged over west central Missouri apd north central Oklahoma, while a freak twister pounded across •_ five-block area Jn Audubon, N.»J.. causing heavy property damage and Injuring atiedsiseven persons, including a 10-year-old girl who was reported in critical ■ condition. The prospect for more tornadoes seemed probable, the weather bureau said, with two general trends sweeping the nation. In the east, there was a general warming up of about six degrees from Tennessee and Kentucky through the Middle and North-Atlantic coastal states. Cool air dropped the temperature over the Great Lakes region about eight degrees in less than 24 hours. In the Rocky Mountains and throughout the Pacific Coast states, temperautres have taken a 10-degree nose dive In a day’s time. — _ If shifting winds cause the east to swap weather with the Great Lakes and western states, tornadoes are likely in the midwest on Sunday, the weather bureau said. Democrat Delegates To Meet Wednesday Discuss Plans For National Convention INDIANAPOLIS iana’s 52 delegates to the Dqpiooratic national convention will meet here next Wednesday to or ; ganize for their August invasion of Chicago. The group, each member of which is eligible, to cast one-half vote in the balloting for a presidential nominee, will choose unit officers and map strategy for the Aug. 13 convention. The Hoosiers are committed b) law to cast their 26 votes on the first presidential ballot for Sen. Estes Kefauver, who entered the state’s first presidential preference primary since 1928 without opposition. Delegates may discuss what to do after tiae Kefauver commitment is satisfied. If personal preferences prevailed, the bulk of the Indiana votes would go to Adlai Stevenson on succeeding ballots with a healthy scattering for Ne» York Gov. Averell Harriman and Missouri Sen. Stuart Symington. The also will appoint two Hoosiers to the party's na(Continued on Page Three) Savings Bond Sales Decrease In State INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A tight money market was blamfid today for a subtantial drop in U.S. savings bonds sales in Indiana in J'une from the corresponding month - a year ago. The June, 1956, sales were SIJ,407433. compared with $14,122,13$ in June, 1955. ~ "y

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Plunges Info Swamp During Violent Storm 21 Others Injured When Plane Crashes Soon After Takeoff FORT NX. N.J. (UP)—A Cll« military transport plane plummeted into a swamp minutes after it took off into a violent electric storm Friday, killing 45 persons and injuring 21 aboard. A rescue task force of 700 soldiers and airmen, 60 ambulances, army bulldozers and a crane worked five hours to rescue the survivors from a wild area of pine forest and swampland on the Fort Dix army reservation. A rescue worker reported “ambulances running around like crazy on the dirt roads leading from the crash scene. The four-engine plane, a mlli- ' tary version of the civilian DC6. crashed about 4 p.m. EDT Friday, ■ after it took oft from McGuire air 1 force base near Fort Dix for ' Burtonwood, England.- ’ of the military air transport service said the plane carried a crew of 10 and 56 passengers including 44 airmen, nine officers and six civilian?. The civilians included two men, two women and two children The air force ' indicated that some of the victims may not live through the day. The Friday the 13th crash was the first for the MATS Atlantic division since its organization eight years ago. It was the sixth worst military plane crash in air force history. Roy H. Williams, a New Jersey state game warden, was driving along a dirt road when he heard the crash. An experienced woodsman, he made his way over the difficult terrain to the wreckage about three miles from the end of the southwest runway of the air base. He dragged a soldier loose, Williams said, “and I said, ‘Are you all right soldier'? He said, ‘No, I'm gone', and his face dropped forward. He was dead, Just like that.” The white and silver plane cut a broad swath about 300 yards long through pine forest and heavy brush, scattering wreckage in four main pieces over a halfmile area. The plane did not burn. Rescue workers said first the wings were ripped off, then the tail section and the fuselage was broken into two large parts. Bill Pannelli, of the Brownsville, N.J., emergency aid squad, was one of the first to reach one of the main sections of the fuselage lying in four feet of water. “We could hear moats inside the fuselage which was still intact,” Bannelli said "We had to use cutting tools to get inside. We removed 12 persons Immediately and took them to first aid squads. “I didn’t see anyone who could walk away from the plane. I saw one woman with an arm missing, and a dead baby about two or thre years old." Pannelli said one victim was found lying on the dirt road several hundred yards from the wreck. Another man, he said, crawled through the underbrush and was found wandering in a daze a mile from the wreckage. "It was two hours before we had everyone out of the plane. Pannelli said. The soldiers and-airmen aided by volunteers from central New Persey towns used axes to hack their way through the pines and undergrowth. They sloshed through hip deep mud and water to reach the victims. Col. John I>. Lavelle, McGuire air fore* base commander, said a board of inquiry to investigate -the qriah would be named today. Cause if the crash was not announced i pending examination of the wrMkag* and interviews with surtivbrs.