Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 169, Decatur, Adams County, 19 July 1956 — Page 1

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TESTIFY IN AIR PROBE f * JlxaMEßls - 'LjmBK; ” . ».■ ■ s&i St«« ■’ ''■ '»:’• IN WAKE OF recent airliner collision, House Interstate Commerce subcommittee heard testimony of airline pilots and meteorologists, shown inspecting map of Grand Canyon area. Shown left to right are, C, N. Saynen, Air Line Pilot’s Ass’n president, Chicago, III.; Capt David Halperin, TWA's safety committee, Kansas City, Mo., and Cam John A. Lovett, U. A. L.’s central committee, Denver, Colo. —————— —-— • ■ * ~ — *■" •

' - 1 I 1 W” '■" — Ike Convinced Os Stamina To Lead Campaign Up-To-Date Report Is Given Today On Physical Condition - WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower is convinced that he has the physical stamina to carry on a vigorous re-election campaign and serve out another four years in office. That la the consensu* of a Unit-, ed Press survey of persons who have talked with the President since he returned to the White House from Gettysburg, Pa., Jast Sunday. ' v . The White House plans to issue no new medical bulletins on the Preside'.i s condition. It is possible. however, to give this up-to-date report of Mr. Eisenhower's condition: Ha weighs pounds. Prior to his heart attack labt Sept. 24 he weighed 178. About the time h'e underwent surgery on June > for ileitis, he weighed just under 170 pounds. ... " , Following his heart attack he was placed on a reduced diet of 1,800 calories a day. Since his more recent illness, his caloric intake has been boosted to 2,500 calories a day, but thia has not produced much increase in weight. Shortly after his operation. Mr. Eisenhower’s weight went down to 161 pounds. The President has changed to shirts a size smaller. The President’s physicians are not particularly concerned about his weight They say that Mr. Eisenhower’s basic period' of convalescence wilt run about 12 weeks from the date of operation. This means he will be classed medically as a convalescent patient until sometime in late August. His muscle tone is more than the doctors expected at this point. Contrary to some reports, he is not suffering from diarrhea, which sometimes is an after-effect from an operation on the small intestine. * As of Wednesday night Mr. Eisenhower’s blood pressure was normal tor a man of his age and the prothrombin time (the blood clotting rate) was normal. Mr. Eisenhower recently has resumed taking an anti-coagulant medicine. The Chief Executive’s associates appeared to be more concerned about bls reaction to the windup of .congress late nett week than the rigors of his immediate schedule. He will fly to Panama Friday night for a weekend conference of American presidents. After the Panamanian conference he will participate from Washington early next week in the closing phases of the new civil defense “Operation Alert.” Friends familiar with his recent thinking thought the Chief Executive might be deeply concerned over the fate of some of his proposals in'eongress and that he would be subject to emotional pressures in the waning days of (Continued on P."ge Five) • c - Staley Reappointed By Governor Craig INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Craig today announced reappointment of three persons to visiting committee of Indiana state institutions for four-year terms. They were Rabbi Albert Shulman of South Bend, Norman Beatty hospital; James Staley, Decatur. soldiers home at Lafayette, and Everett Konzelman. Greensburg, soldiers and sailors CWI- - home at Knightstown.

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McKinney Will Seek Support Os Truman Seeks Backing For Averell Harriman INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Former Democratic national chairman Frank McKinney goes to Missouri Friday for a meeting with his choice for President, Averell Harriman. and Fortner President Harry Truman. McKinney, one of 52 Indiana delegates who will cast a half vote each at the Democratic national convention, said he will try to enlist active support for Mr. Truman for Harriman. The three will moot at Independence, the former President’s home town. McKinney, national chairman under Mr. Truman, hinted the latter may already he solidly in the Harriman camp. He dodged a question on whether Mr. Truman has told him so privately. Most of the Indiana delegation >hich* organised here Wednesday is expected to switch to Adlai Stevenson at the Aug. 13 convention after a legal obligation is fulfilled to support Sen. Estes Kefauver on the first ballot. Ke-fau-ver won that much support by entering the Indiana primary alone. As for Harriman sentiment among Hoosiers, McKinney reported “considerably more than I expected." He estimated Harriman might get eight full votes on the second ballot. State chairman Charles SkiUen, elected chairman of the Indiana delegates, was asked if state party leaders would try to weld Hoosiers into solid support for Stevenson: “No sir, they will not.” he snapped. “You may vote as you see fit after the first ballot," SkiUen told delegates. SkiUen said last year’s Democratic victories in municipal elections could be a foundation for building a big Hoosier Democratic vote in the November election. "We must have unity,” SkiUen told delegates. As for pressure at the closed meeting for delegates to jump on a Stevenson band wagon, McKinney said there was “none evident.” Former Rep. Andrew Jacobs, only Hoosier delegate to support Kefauver tn the *52 convention, circulated a statement in behalf of the Tennessean. Jacobs said he wanted “to puncture myths" about any overwhelming voter sentiment for Stevenson. “If we Democrats expect to puncture the Elsenhower myth, we must not deal in mythology ourselves,” be said. Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker. the nominee for governor, turned down the delegate chairmanship. He said he had been honored enough. SkiUen said Hoosier delegates would not meet again until convention morning. When balloting begins "'we will poll our delegation individually,” he said. Four Youths Leave For Army Induction Four Adams county young men left Decatur this morning for Indianapolis, where they will be inducted into the armed forces. They are Kenneth Koenemann. Gerald Max Parr, Robert Ray Switzer and Robert Leroy Bultemeier. ■•J . 1 ''■■■■■ ' INDIANA WEATHER ’ Considerable cloudiness, little temperature change, with occasional showers and thunderstorms this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Low tonight In the 60s. High Friday ,76-80 - north, 78-86 south. Bun set 8:Q» p.m., sunrise Friday 6:39 a.m.

U S. Plans To Overhaul Far East Command Could Bring Closer Withdrawal Os U. S. Troops From Japan WASHINGTON (UP) — U. S. plans for overhauling the military high command in the Pacific couldbring closer the promised "prog-’ ressive withdrawal" of American ground forces from Japan, authorities skid today. In a far-reaching shakeup, the defense department announced Wednesday night that U. S. Far East command headquarters in Tokyo will be abolished in a year. Its defense area — Okinawa. Japan and Korea — and its responsibilities will be merged into Adm. Felix Stump’s U, S. Pacific command headquarters in HawaU. The shakeup will not affect U. S troops now on Okinawa. Stump currently is responsible for the rest of the Pacific area with army, navy and air forces under his joint command. Military authorities said one effect of the move may be to encourage Japan to speed up its lagging rearmament efforts. The United States is pressing for Japanese ground force of 350,000 men and 10 divisions. Japanese military leaders favor 180,000. The United States aad Japan agreed in diplomatic talks here last August that Japan would assume the main responsibility for its home defense as soon as possible. They also agreed to a “progressive withdrawal" of U. S. ground forces as Japanese capabilities increased. The United States now has one army division, one marine regiment and support forces in Japan. In announcing the Pacific reshuffle, the Pentagon said it did not expect "major changes in the ; deployment of U.S. armed forces” . to result. 1 mm dWfth ooted ue , streamlining of ths PacW and other overseas commands coincided with plans now being made for new military manpower slashes over the next lew years. It is believed the coming cuts could mean major redeployments of U. S. overseas forces. At a minimum, thousands of headquarters troops will be eliminated. Legion Convention To Open Saturday Fort Wayne Host To State Legionnaires fort Wayne (Op)• — Tw» men who 'served In different world wars are battling for the right to serve as Indiana department commander of the American Legion. The legion in its 38th annual convention here Saturday through Monday wiU elect a commander from two announced candidates — Stephen W. Rhatican, Fishers, a World War I vet. and (Reed Beard, Bedford, a World War II veteran. Rhatican perhaps has an advantage, if that advantage is based only on recent tradition of alternating the commandership between the "old" and the "young’’ men each year. The present commander is Alton W. Cochran of Crown Point, who served in the second war. However, Beard was not counted out by any means. About 66 per cent of the department's 111,000 members served in the most recent war and could control the convention if they wanted to line up against their elders. Legion spokesmen said the day will come when the youngsters would “run things" completely. Robert E. Gates, Columbia City, and Donald W. Hynes, Whiting, both World War II veterans, were unopposed for two northern vicecommanderships. Gates is the son of former Gov. Ralph F. Gates, who was state commander of the legion in 1931. Four men are seeking the two southern vice - commander posts. They are Walter J. Wolphert, Corydon, Walter A. Kenney. Jeffersonville, Ralph R. Storm, Mooresville and George J. Yarling, Shelbyville. The two with the most, votes will win. Kenney and Yarling are World War I veterans. ■“ Unopposed for other state offices were the Rev. Carroll N. OdleL Tipton Christian church minister, for chaplain; Barnett W. Breedlove, Indianapolis, for re-election as treasurer, and Peter Laßussa, Indianapolis for sergeant-at-arms. Chief speaker at the convention is Dr. Yon Chan Yau* Korean ambassador te the United States.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 19, 1956.

Negotiators On Steel Strike Resume Joint Talks At Pittsburgh

1-- -- ■ Photographs Oh Marine Victims Shown Sergeant Prosecution Begins Showing Evidence In Trial Os Sergeant PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. (UP) — The photographs of six drowned marine recruits were held in front of a rigidly stiff Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon at his manslaughter courtmartial today. As the fourth day of the 31-year-old junior dril llnstructor’s trial began, the prosecution began introducing evidence. The photographs, held scarcely four feetaway from McKeon’s unblinking gaze, were part of that evidence. The prosecution was attempting to send McKeon to prison for six years and three months and to have him dishonorably discharged from tne marines for an April death march in which the six men were drowned in a training exercise to “teach them discipline.” - > 'The defense contends -he was more of a hero than a sinner be- ! cause, although suffering from a sprained back, he plunged into the swirling waters of Ribbon Creek 1 in an effort to save his platoon ' when its members went into panic McKeon, from Worcester, Mass., was tried on charges of disobeying 1 orders, cruelty to troops, manslaughter, and bringing discredit to the armed services. The photograph introduced in evidence by the prosecutor, marine Maj. Charles B. Sevier, showed five of the bodies as they were taken from the tidal stream on April 9 — the day after the tragedy—after having been in the water 16 to 20 hours. The sixth body was not recovered until the afternoon of April 10. •' The drownings occurred about 8:45 p.m. on April 8. Defense attorney Emile Zola Berman objected strenuously to the use of the photographs in evidence. . He .charged they were “gruesome, inflammatory, and inject a macabre note.” As each photograph was passed to the defense lawyer, seated beside the accused, McKeon occasionally flicked his for a glimpse of the grim scene. Then he would nervously scratch his upper lip. Soil Bank Deadline Extended One Week Extend Deadline To Farmers In Program WASHINGTON (UP)—The agriculture department has extended until July 27 the deadline for farmers to join the soil bank acreage reserve program. The department previously had set July 20 as the contract deadline. Under the program farmers earn government payments by reducing acreage of corn, cotton, wheat, peanuts, rice, an< tobacco. The department Wednesday also pushed back deadlines which county agricultural stabilization committees must set for plowing under crops to qualify for soil bank payCounty deadlines must now be set between July 27 and Aug. 3. the department said. r E!ariier deadlines had been between July 15 and July 31. * . The department emphasized- that changes in the deadline dates affect only compliance with the 1956 acreage reserve program. They do not extend the compliance deadlines set in connection with the department’s crop production control programs. » . t. ' ■ 12 Page* r ' V • .- • ■

Mobile Blood Unit [ln Decatur July 30 Appeal Is Issued For Blood Donors The mobile blood unit of the Red Cross will visit Decatur Monday. July 30, according to an announcement made today by Mrs. Ed Bauer, chairman of the county blood program; and Mrs: Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the local Red Croso. It was pointed out in the announcement that during the warm weather and the usual summer vacation season, the Red Cross is faced with additional problems in supplying the blood needs. Mrs. Oelberg stated/Tfis Important that we realize that many ■ cases of elective surgery are de- . (erred until the summer vacation : time and that more serious highway and farm accidents occur dnr- : ing the summer. “If at any time the blood needs ‘ of the hospitals cannot be met by the center, it becomes necessary i for. local chapters to. send donors r directly to the hospital. This often results In delays in getting the needed 'bipod for the jwtlot and such delays can end in disaster. It takes time to secure the donor, type and cross match the blood,” • Mrs. Oelberg pointed out. ( s to - i According to today's announffe--1 ment in order that the need for chapters to send donors directly • to the hospitals may be reduced, I it is necessary that special effort • be. made to recruit special type t donors July 30. The list of needed blood donors 1 from this area include 30 known O- ■ positive; seven known O-negative; - six A-negative; six B-positive; one ’ B-negative; four AB-poSitive and 1 one AB-negative. An effort will be ’ made to secure these types of > blood during the bloodmobile visit. 1 Any person who has one of these 1 types of blood is asked to contact the Red Cross office to be scheduled for the next visit. It was emphasized that the blood is badly (Continues on Page Five) ■ 18 New Polio Cases Reported In Chicago Rapid Upswing Os Polio In Chicago CHICAGO (UP) — Public agencies ranging from national to local level today mustered their forces in a struggle to hold down the rapid upswing of polio cases in the nation’s second largest city. The city board of health reported 18 new cases and one death in a 24-hour period to push the year’s total to 212 cases and five deaths. The number of victims for the period topped every previous year since polio records started in 1911. During the same time last year, 35 cases and two deaths were caused by the disease. Persons between six months and 19 years old, and pregnant Women flocked to free inoculation centers for Salk polio vaccinations. Police were! called out to keep them in line at the downtown center established in the board of health building. , A spokesman for the U. 8. department of health, education and welfare in Washington said the department was standing by. ready to to rush more Salk vaccine if needed’. ■ Extra medical supplies for injecting the vaccine already have been shipped into Chicago by both the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and the Illinois health department. Mayor Richard J. Daley called for a cleanup drive by residents of the city's West Side, hardest hit in the early polio upsurge. He said the city will provide extra manpower to help sweep and clean the area. More inspectors also will be assigned to check buildings in crowded areas, the mayor said.; One neighborhood group within 'the-16 square-mije area reporting (Continues m Pago Flvs) -

" 1,1 Secy. Wilson Insists U. S. Ahead Os Reds Defense Secretary • Says Overall Air Strength Greater WASHINGTON (UP) — Defense‘’secretary Charles E. Wilson insisted today that the United States now is “ahead” of Russia in "overall air strength." He said it intends to maintain sufficient air strength to deter war. He made the statement in a letter to chSirmai Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) of a senate arms services subcommittee which is Investigating Democratic complaints that the United States is losing air supremacy to Russia. The letter was in answer to Symington's charges that Wilson’s earlier testimony was in "direct conflict.” and “inconsistent” with that presented by high-ranking military loaders. Wilson did not deal specifically testimony of his.jriflHary leaders But he told Symington that “after a careful review of my testimony and that of others, I must state that I disagree with the conclusions in your 4 staement.” : ( It is sihbel ief, he said, “based upon evaluation of the facts, that in our overall air strength we are [ ahead of the Russians today and we intend in the future by build . and maintain total air strength capable of preserving the security of the United States, and as a ’ visible deterrent to wars of any • kind.” If there were any "inconsist- ■ ency” in testimony, he said, it ‘ was due to “differences of opin- • ion” rather than differences in ! fact. . --...i.. -i-— ' -■■■ - 1 ’ “It certainly does not surprise ' me that differences of opinion • have developed," he said. “In ’ fact, I consider. it normal for divergent opinions to exist whenever individuals express their honest views on complicated and important matters and have different degrees of responsibility.” On the question of relative air power of the United States and Russia, Wilson said that "any one of a number of assumptions could be proven by the best intelligence estimates available . . depending upon how such a question is phrased.” „ His own decisions, he said, “have always been based on what 1 considered to be in the best interests of national security.” Two Killed And 10 Injured In Crash Two Autos Smashed Head-on At Warsaw WARSAW, Ind. (UP) — Two adults .were killed and 10 children injured Wednesday night when two cars smashed head-on on a gravel road after another car had raised a blinding cloud of dust. Dead were Mrs. Betty Jean Makemson, 31, Little Chapman Lake, arid her husband Leßoy, 30. Four children in the Makemson car arid six in a car driven by Densel Keener, Pierceton, were injured, one seriously and one critically. The Keener car was loaded with members of a Pierceton high school driving class enroute to a picnic. State police said a speeding car raised a thick cloud of dust on the road, which connects Ind. 13 and the Barbee Lakes Road east of here, just before the two cars crashed. The drivers apparently were unable to see each other, police said. Seriously injured was Roseann Makemson. 9. Judy Lee Keener was lii critical condition. The other injured from the Makemson car ware Mike Makemson. «. and Beth and Christine Swain, 9 and 6, War- ' (Continues on'Page Flvs) . . - iLe .

Assessed Valuation Increases In County Net Valuation Is L Up Over $900,000 Taxes for 1957 in Adams county will be determined on a net valuation of $43,424,630 according to figures released today by county auditor Frank Kitson. This is an Increase of $903,730 over the net value of property assessed In 1955. Only ths value of personal property decreased. The 1956 total of personal property is $14,475,250 as compared to the 1955 assessed valuation of $14,596,790. Other items on Kitson’s report including real estate and improvements, state assessments and mortgage and soldiers extemptions show an increase over the previous year. Real estate and improvements in the county are valued this year at $25,995,070 as compared to last year’s $25,356,070. State asessments went up from $4,416,290 in 1955 to $4,929,610 in 1956. Mortgage exemptions total sl.717,440, an increase of $105,120 over 1955. The $257,860 in soldiers exemptions is an increase of $21,930 over the year. Foil taxes for 1956 total $3,736. a. decrease of $94 from last year. Decatur-Washington shows th? highest net taxable value with a total of $8,648,540. Decatur-Root’s ttttal ft ■s2.M«.l« and Berne’s net value is $3,926,280. The net value for Geneva, according to Kltson’S figures, is $1,166,910. Net value in Monroe is $376,950 and in MonroeWashington, $47,990. Township net values include Blue Creek, $1,547,230; French $1,780.- ' 580; Hartford, sl-,837,290; Jefferson, $1,472,240; Kirkland, $2,132410 Monroe, $2,988,550; Preble, $2,645,- ’ 690; Root, $3,134,890; St. Mary’s 1 $2,213,020; Union, $1,830,830; Wa- ’ bash, $2,169,850, and Washington. 1 $3,260,440. These figures are the final totals ' on which tax rates for 1957 will be 1 based. They are the revised totals ' following changes on assessment sheets made by the board of review which met to study county tax assessments ' during the month of June. _ .. Operation Alert In Indiana On Friday Nationwide Tests Os Civil Defense By UNITED DRESS Civil defense units in South Bend, Fort Wayne and Indianapolis will rush to the aid o( victims of theoretical atomic bomb attacks in “Operation Alert” Friday. The practice runs in Fort Wayne and South Bend will be part of a nationwide test of civil defense efficiency. Indianapolis joins the operation on its own and will act as a center for "victims” from Chicago, South Bend and Fort Wayne and for communications. Gary, Winamac, Marion, Richmond and other communities also plan to participate. When the first signal blasts the air raid warning, police and civil defense workers will halt traffic in the “target" cities and usher motorists and pedestrians to shelter. In the Hoosier capital, state government officials will be rushed to the state fairgrounds conservation building to coordinate the test with other targets. - , While 10,000 volunteer civil defense workers practice mass feeding, emergency fire fighting and rescue, about 500 Red Cross workers will give first aid and nursing care to “hundreds of victims” from other disaster areas. Immediate plans wUI be made at Indianapolis to house, feed and cloth 25,000 noninjured homeless. In all three bombed areas, firefighting equipment will be called out and simulated mass evacuations directed from control centers. Surrounding areas will be asked for "help.” Radio blackouts for about if — (CsatinueA en Page-Five) ’

Pressure Put On Both Sides To End Strike Joint Bargaining Talks Resumed At Afternoon Session PITTSBURGH (UP) — Steel strike negotiators spent the morning in top secret Conferences today, then announced they will resume joint bargaining talks at 1 p.m. CST, in accelerated efforts to end the 19-day walkout. With the White House needling a—both sides to hurry up and settle the, walkout of 650,000 United Steelworkers, industry and union officials kept their separate activities under wraps while preparing for the key meeting later today. Earlier, David 3. McDonald, president of the union, said he does not believe President Eisenhower will invoke the Taft-Hartley law to settle the strike. McDonald, White House pressure aUMB with industry negotiators to me walkout of 650,’-" 000 USW members, said he recalled Mr. Eisenhower telling the 1952 American Federation of Labor convention that ‘‘injunctions do not Bettie the underlying causes of strikes.’* “I have every confidence in the President and have no reason whatsoever to believe that he has changed his mind,” McDonald > declared. Federal mediation service director Joseph F. Finnegan, meanJ while, declared the administration . set “no arbitrary deadline” for , settlement. He denied reports the „ White House had bluntly warned the USW and industry officials to settle their differences within a ! week following • Wednesday’s ’ White House conference on the \ strike. 1 The report is “sheer specula- ' tion” and “it is simply not true,” ■ he said. f'- . , Finnegan told “big three” industry negotiators and McDonald Wednesday of the “President’s expression of sincere concern about the effects of this work stoppage on the nation’s economy . . . and more particularly, on the lives of the workers who are directly involved.” Finnegan carried Mr. Eisenhower's message to the negotiators in separate meetings after returning from a White House conference attended by the President, cabinet officers and other top advisers. The mediation official said the Washington meeting showed the “desirability, If not the necessity, for an early settlement to avoid crippling the nation’s economy if the effects of the strike should spread.” ■ The walkout has sent 650,000 millworkers on the picketline and has idled upwards of 120,000 employes in steel-dependent industries. Brother Os Decatur Lady Dies Wednesday Donald T. Rolape, 18, of Fort Wayne, died at 5:40 p.m. Wednesday , after a brief illness. He graduated from Central Catholic high school In June and was employed at the G. E. in Fort Wayne. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Rolape, S.; two brothers, Ralph E.; Jr., and Gerald, both at home, and three sisters, Miss Annette Rolape, at home,; Mm.' Aileen Miller of Decatur and Mrs. Rosemary locona of Detroit. Services will be beld at 9:45 a.m. Saturday at the Mungovan & Sons mortuary and at 10:15 a.m. at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas L. Durkin officiating. Burial wfli b* in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne. Friends may can at the funeral heme after T o'clock this — evening.

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