Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 166.

. SEIZED IN CROSS BURNING B B .J I R B ' t I I 1 t W F W ‘ $ 1 K • a >- w 1B W 1 rY— If, WH < ** A * : ~C I 4 ...... ft* RONALD EUGENE ROWLEY, 24, (inset left) of Arlington, Va., is charged with the midnight burning of wooden crosses in front of the homes of Chief Justice Earl Warren and Solicitor General Simon Sobeloff. The crosses (heaped against a fence) were linked by police to protests against the supreme court order for school desegregation.

Fire Destroys Old Wanamaker -Store Building Service In New York Crippled By Tons Os Water NEW YORK (UP) —Thousands of subway commuters took alter- \ nate routes to reach their jobs in lower Manhattan today where a 25-hour fire destroyed the old John Wanamaker department store and crippled underground transportation. Tons of water poured into the empty store on lower Broadway ' flooded two East Side arteries of the'* city’s subway system. The 94-year-old building was gutted —the wic. Newspapers special maps with detailed instructions r on alternate routes to the downtown area in an effort to alleviate congregation resulting from the flooded subways. At 7750 a. m. today borough commanders of the police department reported congestion, at a minimum and transportation in general near normal. Two subway arteries running near the building were knocked out from the torrents of water that cascaded from, the burning building into the tunnels below. The water flooded sections of the Interboro Rapid Transit System and the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit System cutting off express service south of Grand Central on 42nd Street and halting all service northward from the Brook- _ lyn Bridge, on Manhattan’s East Side. The Transit Authority announced at 6:30 a. m. that express service had been restored- on the Brooklyn-Manhattan system. ] §prx ice' "on the southbound local track was expected to be restored shortly, the TA said. In addition to crippling the subways, 20 of the 525 firemen who fought the blaze were hospitalized while another 196 were treated at the scene for smoke poisoning, cuts and abrasions. Thousands of subway riders using the lines to reach jobs between the two points were forced to use buses, taxis or West Side subways. Authorities feared some subway lines might be out of service for as much as 30 days. The fire had become an inferno by the time it was discovered at 5:45 p. m. ED*! Saturday. Officials believed it was started by acetylene torch Sparks some time Friday in basement debris left "by wreckers who had started to demolish the five-story landmark. The- mercantile palace was built in 1862 on Broadway’s then fashionable “Ladies Mile.”’ The Wanamakers took it over in 1896 and abandoned it in 1954 to move to the suburbs. —’ — INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight A little cooler north portion tonight Tuesday mostly fair and pleasant north, partly cloudy and a little cooler south with chance of scattered thundershowers near Ohio river. Low tonight 60-66 north, 66-70 south. High Tuesday 80-85 north, 85-88 south. Sunset 8:11 p. in., sunrise Tuesday S:3l a. m.

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Republican Stale Committee Meets Ist Meeting Since Handley Nominated INDIANAPOLIS ‘ (UP) — Lt. Guv. Harold W. Handley told Indiana Republican leaders today that the November election battle for control of the statehouse will be on the issue of “radicalism” versus “traditional Hoosier moderation” in government. Handley, the party’s nominee ter governor, did not name his Democratic opponent — Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute. But he said in his maiden speech to the Indiana Republican state -committee that the voters face a choiaj of “New Dealism.” or “constitrnlonalVsm.” * "For the first time in Hoosier history ” Handley said, “we are confronted with the issue of radicalism at the statehouse level. It is an undisguised issue. It presents a clear-cut challenge to the voters to decide whether they want the New Deal enthroned in Hposiartand or whether they prefer constitutionalism and common sense.” Handley said the GOP state ticket is “strong, well-balanced, rich with invaluable experience arid capable of conducting a very vigorous campaign.” • “This ticket, when elected, will give the people of Indiana four years of good government in tra-. ditional Hoosier moderation." Handley said nomination of President Eisenhower and VicePresident Nixon at San Francisco in August will “complete a winuinf combination.” * “Thtre.” he said, "we form a blue ribbon ticket with both the courage and capacity to keep America on a high plateau of progressive prosperity. When you recall that just four summers ago our country was rocked with scandals, frustrations and fears and that oui sons and brothers were dying in a treadmill war in Korea, you realize how far we have come from that dark and disrrial decade and you thank God that our na-_ Hon has been under the leadership of men and women who have the power of patriots and the compassion of Christians.” Handley spoke as his forces appeared today to reorganize Republican leadership in his behalf. The 22-member GOP state committee met amid a signs that Thomas Mahaffey Jr. would be replaced as state treasurer of the power ful party governing body and Rep. Cecil Harden would pot be reelected as national committeewoman. The meeting was the first since Handley soundly thrashed Governor Craig's faction of the party and walked off with the governor nomination at the June 29 state convention. It’s customary that the top man on the party ticket wins control of the state committee* State chairman Alvin Cast, a successful “fence stkaddler” in GOP factional struggles, was expected to keep his job. But: observers believed Mahaffey and Mrs. Harden were earmarked for ouster. ( So was William O’Connell, Governor Craig’s press agent whose SBOO salAry - paiitTby the committee was a sore spot with Handley and his friends. But O’Connell resigned Wednesday — five days before it "appeared he would have peen fired. There wSs, no apparent’ sentiment for removing the other top officers—vice chairman Mrs. Von Snyder, or secretary John Sellers. Ralph Gates, former governor, was expected to be re-elected na(ContinuW' on"JStge Two)

Ike Returns To His Office At White House Discusses Atomic And Foreign Policy In Brief Session WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower, still wearing a bandage, discussed atomic and foreign policy problems today on his first return to his White House desk since his operation more than five weeks ago. Mr. Eisenhower arrived at his office at 8:20 a.m. EDT and held a brief work session with his staff before swinging into a limited series of appointments. He conferred with Adm. Lewis W. Strauss, chairman of the atomic energy commission. He later called in secretary of state John Foster Dulles for a foreign policy review and to discuss plans for the Panama conference of American president which the President win attend This weekend. Mr. Eisenhower Tuesday will confer with Republican leaders on the house and senates and on Thursday he will preside at a meeting of the national security council. . . 7-.■- H On Friday the chief gxpcutlve plans what the White House described as an “expanded” council meeting which will include representatives of the departments and agencies participating in the new civil defense operation alert which begins Friday. Press secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower will not hold a news conference this week. Neither will he have a formal cabinet meeting before he leaves for Panama Friday night. . _ The chief executive ’drove back from Gettysburg with “the White House doctor, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder. The doctor did not remain at the executive mansion du*£ig the night, but returned to his own residence on Connecticut Avenue, five minutes away from the White House. Before the President left his farmhouse at Gettysburg, Hagerty reiterated that the chief executive's period of convalescence would extend beyond the farm and into the White House itself for a period, as yet, undetermined. According to White 1 House sources, continued “convalescence” meant simply that, for the immediate future, the President would see a relatively restricted daily list of callers and that his daily working hours would be somewhat shortened from their pre-illneSs level. Mr. flfsennower is scneduled to leave for the Panama conference late next Friday. He probably will be back in the White House by the evening of July 23. After that, he may return to Gettysburg for a brief period before embarking on the political business of this election year, = —-—- —

Marine Sergeant's Trial Is Underway Ask Dismissal Os Drinking Charges PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. (UP) — The defense fought today to have stricken from the indictment against S-Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon charges that he was drinking vodka before he led raw recruits on a “death march” that drowned six men in a tidal wash. The maneuver—if accepted by a seven-man general court - martial trying the Worcester, Mass., Junior drill instructor at this huge Marine training depot—would deflate considerably the case of the prosecution. Removal of the drinking charges would leaver charges of involuntary manslaughter and of cruelly oppressing 74 members of recruit platoon 71 by taking them on a disciplinary march into tidal Ribbon Creek last April 8. The manslaughter charge, without the drinking allegations as a contributory factor, then would become. in effect, an accusation of faulty judgment of McKeon’s part. Throughout legal arguments in th^’’court-martial session the 31year • old defendant sat at the counsel table as if transfixed. He stared straight ahead of him at the wall. " His wife, Betty, who is expecting a third child next month, was in the courtroom, but McKeon never glanced at her. McKeon's lawyer, Emile Zola Borman, argued for dismissal ot the drinking charges while the seven - man court - martial was excused from the courtroom.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 16,1956. .

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Soviet Leader Urges Ban On Nuclear Tests Appeals To U. S., Great Britain For < Nuclear Tests Ban MOSCOW (UP) — Soviet foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov appealed today to the United States and Great Britain to prohibit nuclear weapons tests. Shepilov addressed the Supreme Soviet (parliament) in a 30 minute speech in support bt an appeal from the Japanese parliament for a ban on nuclear explosions. He said it may be difficult to obtain agreement to outlaw the use of nuclear weapons, but said banning of tests would be easier. Shepilov proposed three possible methods of agreement to outlaw nuclear tests: 1. An agreement within the framework of the United Nations. 2. A tripartite agreement between the Soviet Uifion, the United States and Britain,., which' other nations could join later. 3. A unilateral pledge from each of the three states to give up nuclear tests. He said if the United States amJ Britain expressed willingness to ban nuclear tests, there would be no difficulty in reaching agreement. . The Soviet Union, he added, was prepared to begin negotiations immediately to reach such agreement. In the course of a brief debate, several of other Soviet leaders criticized the West. A. Shelepin, secretary of the Young Communist' League, said there were forces in , the United States still trying to maintain international tension. B. Gafurov, member of the Soviet council of the union’s foreign affairs -committee,criticized the United States. France and Britain for failing to follow the Soviet example of unilaterally reducing armed forces. . The Supreme - Soviet later unanimously adopted a resolution urging the United States and Britain to prohibit nuclear explosions. Another resolution appealed to world parliaments to "support the Soviet Union’s initiative” in secur(Continued on Page Five) Nine Decatur Boys Guests Os Air Force Decatur Air Scouts To Dayton Air Base Nine Decatur boys who are members of the Decatur Air Scout troop will be guests of the U. S. air force at Wright-Patterson air force base at Dayton. 0.. Aug. T 2, 13 and 14. Accompanied by their troop leader, Dr. Melvin Weisman, the boys will participate in the ajr scout encampment of the Miami Valley Boy Scout council of Ohio. The air force is providing all of the meals and lodging for the air scouts who will attend the encainpment. The registration fee of $3.30 for each boy will be paid for by money earned by the troop during the spring festival. While at the air force base the boys will attend lectures and orientation tours. Recreation including swimming is planned and the boys will also be treated to an air flight. The scouts will be divided Into flight groups with a non-com-missioned officer in charge of each group. The officers will be in charge of the instruction and tours. . The nine boys who will attend from here include Jim Burk, Michael Durkin, Steve Edwards, David Sheets, Ronnie Highland. Bill Smith. Kick Conrad and Chuck and John Krueckeberg. Oran Schultz at Decatur will also accompany the beys to assist with

East German Reds End Work Speedup Bow To Demands Os Rebellious Workers BHRLIN (UP) — Communist East Germany bowed today to the Remands of rebellious workers and called off an industrial speedup in the Soviet Zone. Western observers said the action indicated Communist concern fer the possibility of a Poznaripe “bread and freedom” revolt. Labor minister Friedrich Macher ordered state-owned factories to drop new production quotas calling for more work for less pay. He said work norma in a socialist state must not resemble those of the "capitalist exploitation system.” The edict coincided with the departure for Moscow of top East German Communist party and government leaders. Premier Otto Grotewohl and party “strongman” Walter Ulbrlcht led the delegation which will hold "important talks” with the Kremlin leaders, according to the East Zone radio. Macher denounced the speedup as “opposed to the interests of the working class and a violation Os Communist .party, union, audgovernment prineiptow?' •He said" that “in'home factories of uor socialist economy, errors have crept into the work norm I system.” I He admitted that the new work norms resulted in a reduction of workers’ wages. This, he added, violated the theory of “socialist norms” which were designed not to cut wages but to raise production. Nationwide Strike On Goodrich Is Averted CINCINNATI, Ohio (UP) — A nationwide strike at B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co. plants was averted today when gggotia£ors for the United Rubber Workers and the Goodrich company signed a new contract, 90 minutes before the strike deadline. The new contract signed here was expected to set a trend for other major rubber companies. ' The pact calls for a 6.2 cent hourly increase for 13,500 employes in nine Goodrich plants in the nation, retroactive to'July 9. Hearing Tuesday On Contract Severance Residents Os Union Township To Appear Hearing on the petition of several Union township electric light and power patrons for a contract severance with the city of Decatur electric utility will be held Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock in the Adams circuit court room. A representative of the Indiana public service commissionwillpre-" side. City attorney John DeVoss will represent the local utility and the firm of Custer and Smith will represent the petitioners. Chief complaint among numerous rural electricity users is the fluctuation of the current at certain times of the day. When farmers are using a lot of the power earlyin the mornings and late in the afternoons, the petitioners say house lighting becomes dim and some times it is impossible to operate radios, television sets and electric shavers. When the use is reduced the power Is such that some patrons claim television tubes and light bulbs have been burned out. The city has been working on line and equipment improvements for some time and a spokesman tt> r the local utility said that the improvement program would be continued. Immediate request of the petitioners is for the control agency to make a through investigatiotT Os the problem with a view toward permitting a private concern to furnish the power in some rural areas around Decatur which are now serviced by the Decatur f plant.

Mediators Take Firm Hand In Steel Strike Management, Union Negotiators Called Into Joint Session PITTSBURG (UP) — Federal mediators took a firm hand today in efforts to seek and end to the nationwide steel strike. They called industry negotiatiors into a private meeting this morning and summoned representative* of the United Steelworkers to a similar meeting shortly after noon. The meeting with the company negotiators lasted all morning. They also called both sides to meet with the mediators in a joint session this afternoon. Federal mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan had said Sunday that if the union and industry representatives did not work out some approach to settlement soon, he would come up with “suggestions” of his own. • . . Finnegan spent the* weekend in Waehittgttw reporting on the situation to U:S. secretary of labor James Mitchell. He and hia aides. Clyde Mills and Robert H? Moore, returned to -Pittsburgh today. They .were to remain on the sideline on a "standby" basis while the union and management representatives met in joint session. Finnegan chose not to wait. He called in the industry represents-tives-John A. Stephens of U. S. Steel. Robert Morse of Bethlehem and Thomas Patton of Republicto an all-morning meeting with the mediators, then summoned David J. McDonald. USW president, to a • similar conference. He also tbld both sides to be ready to meet with the mediators later in the afternoon, i Moore said the separate talks were initiated by the mediators. The US-W’s 650,000 members in the basice steel industry have been on strike since July 1 ' Both sides still were holding firm to their widely separated positions which triggered the walkout at a cost to the industry and striking millworkeras of about S4O million a day. The companies have offered a long — term, no strike agreement (Continued on Ps>ge Five) Mrs. Gladys Engle Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Mrs. Gladys O. Engle, 64, wife of Fred Engle, 219 Ragg street, died at 11:15 o’clock Saturday night at the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness since last November of cancer. She was born in Van Wert county, 0., Aug. 20, 1891, a daughter of Louis and Esther MatthewsSpringer, and was married to Fred Engle Sept. 6, 1909. Mrs. Engle was a member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church and was a charter member of the Women of the Moose. Surviving in addition to the husband are one son, Richard Engle of Kendallville: one daughter, Mrs. Mary Bundrick of Berwyn, Ill.; two brothers, Charles Springer of Bryant and Virgil Springer of Lima. O.;* three sisters, Mrs. Floyd Acker of Decatur, Mrs. Dove Hauck of Lima, 0., and Mrs. Velma Smith of Eugene, Ore. One sister is deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Black funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. There will be no viewing at the church.

Twining Drafting Plans For Funds To Recommend Use Os Additional Fund WASHINGTON (UP) Gen. Nathan F. Twining said Supdajr he is drafting recommendations -for spending the extra 906 mllllon'fcbllars congress voted Jn a move to beef up 852 production. The air force chief of staff said the air force could use the money “effectively.” However, he indicated that the money might not be nsed directly to step up output on 852 jet bombers. "Just how we’ll use the money, I don’t know,” he said. “Pm working on that now and will make recommendations” to defense secretary Charles E. Wilsott and air secretary Donald A. Quarles “as to how that money could best be used.” Quarles promptly promised that Twining’s recommendations will receive sympathetic consideration receive sympathetic consideration. He said both he and Wilson will take a careful look at what Twi- • ning proposes. Congress, In voting the additional. money, urged that 800 million 1 dollars of the mui be usedtb jij- ' crease produriftbii tfie Jhlg inter-' p continental hydrogen bombers, new workhorses of the strategic s air command. However, the air > force presumably could use it for ■ other purposes.’ "•*«»«** Twining specifically mentioned I a step-up in air force research : and an Increase in production ot. the big jet tankers used in refueii ing the 852 s aloft. Wilson, who called the additional money unnecessary, has said i that he will not Impound it. But he • added he will take his time in i spenping it. I No Entries Appear . Al Model Air Meet Crowd Entertained By Demonstrations model airplane meet at Gage airport was a “washout” as far as entries were concerned, with no contestants showing up with their planes, but a large crowd of spectators showed up. In order not to disappoint the crowd, demonstration flights were made in U-control by Dr. Melvin Weisman and Allen Cole, and a free flight by Bob Crownover. Dr. Weisman, who only recently took up model flying, crashed all yond repair. Cole, a veteran model three of his planes, but none beflyer, treated the crowd to a fine demonstration in stunt and precision flying. Although the wind was too strong for free flight, Crownover risked one of his best models, - which climbed nearly out of sight, then over Decatur and was darried out of view. Anyone finding this plane Is asked to call Crownover, whose name and telephone number are on the plane. Yesterday’s meet will be rescheduled for a later date. IThe next model meat on the agenda will be sponsored by Marion Robison of the Stop Back news stand, and will be for U-control beginners under the age of 18. This meet will be held at Gage field Sunday, Aug. 5, and will merely require contestants to fly their planes for qualification only, with a drawing for prizes by those who qualify. Complete rules, with prizes, will be announced later. < School Term To Open In Decatur Sept. 4 W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, reminds ( those who are planning vacations ; that the date for the opening of , school is September 4 Teacher meetings will be held on that date with school starting the next day. Tha custodial staffs are now in the process of readying the buildings for the start of classes.

Congress Faces Tough Issues Before Recess Congress Hopes To Adjourn By July 28; Face Tough Hurdles WASHINGTON (UP) —The senate passed bills at a one-a-minute clip today in the rush for adjournment. • But both the senate and house still had to deal with the biggest issues blocking the way to adjournment by July 23—or sooner. Meeting 2% hours earlier, the senate rammed through 115 bills, most of them non-controversial, in one of its heavieect work days of the sessions. By noon it had turned to one of the biggest stumbling blocks in its adjournment schedule — the controversial and long-delay-ed nomination of Simon E. Sobe’off to the 4th U. S circuit court of appeals. The court handles cases in ■» Maryland, Virginia, and North , south CajwW Soulterr"~r ate fighting the appointment be- < cause Sobeloff, as solicitor general, presented the government’s supreme court arguments on carrying out the school segregation ' decision. The house tackled President Eisenhower’s four-point civil rights program and braced itself for wbat is likely to be its sharpest and most prolonged debate of the year. Southerners have served notice they will use every parliamentary trick in the book to prevent passage Os the bill. There were these other developments in the adjournment rush: Taxes: The house ways and means committee voted to abandon the 10 percent federal tax on admissions to movies, sporting events and other entertainment costing SI.OO or less. The tax presently applies to tickets costing more than 50 cents. Congress hoped to wind up its session in time for members to have a brief vacation before the national political conventions. The Democratic convention opens Aug. 13 at Chicago; the Republican convention, Aug. 20 at Saa Francisco. There were some optimistic predictions that congress could <juit by the end of this week and some pessimistic ones that adjournment is unlikely until early August. But the weekend of July 28 was considered the best bet. The big issues remaining to be dealt with are: Civil Rights: With the backing of nearly all Republicans and Northern Democrats, the measure is virtually certain ta pass the house. But most observers believe it will be sidetracked in the senate, where it would face a southern filibuster. Foreign aid: The senate planned to take up this week a bill providing a $4 billion foreign aid appropriations, but a floor fight to trim it appeared likely. The ►ouse already has approved a $8.4 billion appropriation. A conference committee probably will have to work out a compromise figure. 2 Social Security: A bill lowering retirement ages for women and disabled workers is scheduled . for senate debate this week. The house passed a similar bill last year. Housing: The senate has passed a nousing bill continuing present housing programs and providing for, expanded public housing. In the house, the measure has bogged down in the rules committee in a fight over the public housing features. There are a number of other bills slated for consideration in one or both houses. Among these la the administration measure to raise postal rates. It has cleared the house but may not get before the senate before adjournment. Senate-approved bills awaiting bouse action include legislation autborixiuc government censtruc(Oonunuee On Page Five)

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