Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 174.

OLD HAND’S ADVICE JlHßfc-kV St . mMlky ' nOpK * -. * '4 wtf yj *J l I f ji '/ «$• ’ CHOSEN TO KEYNOTE the Democratic convention in Chicago, Frank Clement gets advice from ex-president Harry S. Truman (right) in Kansas City. Mo. Tennessee Gov. Clement denied any mention Os vice-presidential x talk and said he received great help and advice” ori convention speeches.

Stassen Plans For Continued Fight On Nixon Accuses Notional Party Chairman Os ! Dictating Choice W ASH INGTON CU P) — Harold E. Stassen today accused Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall of trying to force Vice President Richard M. Nixon on the GOP national convention delegates without giving them a free choice. ~ Stassen declared he will continue to fight for Massachusetts Gov. Christian A Herter as GOP vice presidential candidate despite Hf>r-ter’-g rug-pulling announcement to Boston today that he will formally put Nixon’s name in nomination at the convention opening In San Francisco Aug. 20. ” * *'*" Rumors spread here that Stassen would be fired or eased out as President Eisenhower’s disarmament adviser. But White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said, today he knew of no plans for Stassen to leave the government. Stassen served notice thafEena continuing his dump - Nikon campaign in a letter to 20 Republican members so the house who had demanded his resignation as President Eisenhower’s disarmament adviser. “My action would not have been necessary.” Stassen wrote, “if the national chairman (Hall) had not endeavored to foreclose the choice of the convention delegates before they met, contrary to Republican tradition and wise practice.” Stassen created a sensation Monday by announcing he planned to campaign to get the vice presidential nomination for Herter instead of Nixon. He said polls showed that an Eisenhower - Herter tickpt would run 6 per cent better than an Eisenhower-Nixon combination in November. Stassen, White House disarmament adviser, made his proposal Monday after notifying Mr. Eisenhower in advance of his intentions. The announcement created a day of uncertainty among GOP leaders who had believed Mr. Eisenhower had given his blessing to the renomination of Nixon but wondered whether there was a White House plot to dump rrthe vice-president. The Stassen statement said public and private polls showed an Eisenhower Nixon ticket would be six percent weaker than one composed of Eisenhower and Herter. He said this difference could mean the difference between victory and defeat in the COP drive to regain control of congress. Questioned about’ this argument. Schoeppel told the United Press: “I subscribe to the theory that the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket would be the strongest possible ticket for the Republican party. I am sure it will contribute to the (Continued Oh Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers south and central this afternoon and extreme south tonight. Fair north and central tonight. Thursday fair north, partly cloudy south with a few scattered thundershowers extreme south. Somewhat cooler north tonight. Continued warm Thursday. Low tonight 60-65 north, 64-68 south. High Thursday in the 80s. Sunset 8:05 p.m., sunrise Thursday 5:38 a.m.

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Western U.S. Is Blanketed By Heat Some Unconfirmed -Tornado Reports By UNITED PRESS A heat wave blanketed the western half of the nation while scattered showers and thunderstorms erupted across the country east of the Rockies Tuesday and early today. Temperatures soared above the 100-dcgree mark from Kansas to Montana and across the Pacific northwest and through the interior valleys of California and Nevada Tuesday. The hot weather was to continue today but weathermen said some relief, might possibly arrive in the Northwest by tonight or Thursday. Precipitation con,tinued„ mean: .while, iiaiaLy in two east ■ west bands east of the Mississippi River. One band of showers extended from eaaternjowa eastward through the southern Great Lakes region and the eastern section of the Ohio Valley. The other band was observed through Tennessee and sections of Virginia and North Carolina. There were several reports of unconfirmed tornadoes Tuesday: One such reported twister blew down some tobacco barns near Greensboro. N. C., while another shattered a barn near Renden, Tex. Funnel clouds also were reported (Continued on Per* nv«) Chicago Moves To Prevent Epidemic Rush Program For , Salk Polio Vaccine CHICAGO .(UP)—Medical officials today undertook a "rush program” to inoculate 500,000 children in the next two weeks with Salk vaccine, and stave off a possible polio epidemic. Health experts formed plans for the program during an emergency meeting Tuesday. They called for the opening of 50 special clinics to augenient facilities already dispensing the free vaccine. “No one doubted the potency and effectiveness of the Salk vaccine,” reported Dr. Karl A. Meyer, president of the Chicago Medical Society. “It was agreed that it is safe to give it even during an epidemic — which we don’t have yet, but which undoubtedly threatens.” « Already, the uphurge of polio has become the worst earlv season outbreak in the city’s history. While Meyer warned of a possible epidemic, the number of cases in the city this year reached an even 300, including eight deaths. The latest 24-hour report ending at midnight Monday added 18 patients to the total and three deaths. During the same period last year, 45 cases and two deaths had been tabulated. Thus far, seven free clinics have inoculated 25,000 children between 6 months and 19 years of age. The new rush program involves the use of hospitals in the area as inoculation centers and the slashing of the time interval between the first ahd' second shots. A possible explanation for the rapid climb of polio cases this year in/ the city came from a Milwaukee health official. Dr. E. R. Krutnbiegalt, Milwaukee health commission, said polio strikes in two or three year cycles. The reason, he said, is that the high birth rate of a large city like Chicago provides a new group of children vulnerable to the disease in that period. About 2-3 of the victims • this year have been children between 1 and 5 years old.

Hopes Mount For End To Steel Strike Report Progress In Steel Negotiations At Tuesday Session NEW YORK (UP) — Hopes soared today for settlement of the 25-day steel strike before the end of this week. The Big Three steel and union wage negotiators met for almost three hours Tuesday and broke up with the announcement they had “made progress” toward settling the labor dispute which has idled 650,000 steelworkers. The negotiators—four from each side —are scheduled to meet again today in an effort to hammer out a new contract that will end the strike which already has cost the nation $1 billion. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers of America, has notiried the union’s 70man wage policy comniittee to "stand by” for a Thursday after-t-1 n meeting. Industry observers interpreted this move as an indication McDonald is confident of a settlement before the end of this week. The wage policy committee has the authority to accept or reject any contract proposal. The best guesses now are that the union and the nation’s major steel producers will agree op a three-year, no strike contract calling for a minimum package increase of 40 cents an hour. The package offer for the first year probably will approach 20 cents an hour. At Monday’s meeting the industry made a new economic offer to the steelworkers union. This offer apparently was substantial enough to trigger hopes of an early settlement. „ . _ The Steelworkers went on strike at midnight June 30 after negotiations became deadlocked on the industry’s offer of a fiveyear contract calling for a total package increase of 66 cents an hour —17 2/2 cents the first year .alone. . , ;— The industry has held out for a long term agreement on the grounds it would bring stability Into the economy and enable the companies to formulate long-term plans. The union has rejected the long-term pact idea, stating it would require steelworkers .-to gamble on an uncertain future. The union also labeled the industry’s offer “shockingly inadequate.” Top industry and union sources agreed privately that a three-year contract would be acceptable to both sides. The terms of such a contract must still be worked out.

Work Is Underway For Rainbow Lake Central Attraction Os Limberfost Park Work has begun on Rainbow Lake central attraction of the Limberlost Park being-established between Geneva and Ceylon by the Limberlost Association, Inc. First part of the operation will be removal of fences, cutting and piling trees and brush, and locating the shore line. Heavy digging for the main dam and southeast levee is not expected to get under way until August. Most of the construction work will be by bulldozers and will be done by Jim Gentis of Linn Grove and Long Brothers of Geneva. Forty lots have now been sold from the 91 platted lots made available on the south and northwest corner of the lake as a means of financing the project. Selectivity on these lots is going fast and any person desiring a lake lot is urged to contact L. A. Mann of Geneva, project realtor, at once while some choice still remains. Under the project plans, no more lots will be available when these are gone anxT all the remaining lands go into park development. Other attractions slated for probable inclusion in the park as the project develops are a 4-H camp, a Scout camp, and a 125 ft. fire tower located on the highest point in the park. Commencement of work on Rainbow Lake marks the first step toward the realization of a long held dream of a vast Limberlost Park* development in memory of Gene Stratton Porter, famous conservationist and writer, whose stories made . the-natural and historic marvels of the Limberlost famous around the world. Appropriately the work Is comnesciag Id the (Continued an Pur* Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, July 25, 1956.

Ex-Auditor Confesses Million Dollar Raid On Illinois Treasury

Civil Rights Bill Dropped For Session Advocates Give Up Hope Os Action By Senate This Year WASHINGTON (UP) — Civil rights advocates gave up hope today of getting a bill through the senate this year. This was a disappointment to President Eisenhbwer. But his legislative leaders ’ told him that, with both houses trying to wind up the session by week’s end, there is no chance of completing congressional action on the houseapproved civil rights bill. ’ Although abandonment of this measure was a setback, the administration could claim some victories in the session windup period. One victory was passage by the senate Tuesday of a four-btllion-dollar foreign aid appropi iations measure/ Another came today when the house in a tost vote refused strike administration - requested public housing provisions from the housing bill. Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland said the adftifttistration will come out of the session with “a fair to good” legislative record. It would have been better, Knowlaad said, if Republicans had been in control. Both speaker Sam Rayburn and Republican leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. said the house will approve the housing bill, already passed by the senate. Opponents tried to take public housing out of the measure but were defeated, 299-92. This in effect gave assurance that the administration will be permitted to go ahead with 70,000 governmentsubsidized low rent units over the next two years. Other congressional news: Military construction: The senate armed services committee approved a stripped down version of the new military building bill. President Eisenhower vetoed the original measure because he thought some provisions infringed on executive department powers. Much important legislation sought by the administration, including housing, foreign aid appropriations.two supplemental appropriations, and the new military construction bill, is pending in the senate or involved in house-senate conferences. President Eisenhower express(Contlnued on Page Eight)

Special Meeting Os Council Thursday Budget Proposals To Be Considered Thursday night’s special meeting of the city council will be held at 6:30 o’clock in the council chambers of the city hall, it was announced today. The change of time from the previously announced 8 p.m. was made necessary because of the necessity of considering a hydrant rental ordinance in addition to full study of the proposed budget for 1957. The special session was called originally to study the budget proposals for 1957. Mayor Robert Cole and city attorney John DeVoss indicated today that efforts were being made to hold the city’s tax levy close to the 1956 rate of $1.39. Several departments are asking increases. The police and fire department representatives have asked for $lO9 a month salary increases for their personnel and the recreation board has asked for a two cent hike from five to seven cents for operation of the Youth and Community Center. Alter considering the hydrant rental ordinance, council members will study each budget request prF or to giving tentative approval.

Coitimercial Atom Program Defeated Ike Administration Defeats Measure WASHINGTON (UP)—Administration forces in the house Tueskilled the Democratic — sponsored program to speed development of commerical atomic power. FITto house .defeated the 400-million-dolfar program 203-191 after a day debate. The senate previously passed it. The house first trimmed the program to the bare bones and then scuttled it altogether by voting to send the bill back to the congressional atomic energy committee. f Later after more parliamentary maneuvering the bouse confirmed the action by knocking the extra 400 million dollars out of an appropriation bill to run the atomic energy programs dm ing the current 12 months. Still pending were two other bills aimed at promoting private development of atomic power. One would provide a government —backed insurance pgroram to cover the devastating losses which might result in the unexpected ivent of an atomic "blow up." The other would attempt from the utility holding company act jptiilties which want tp Ifornj a g*Oup to undertake atomic power projects. The key test on tne 400-miklion-dollai- bill came when the lawmakers agreed to rip out the heart of the program—a section “directing” the atomic energy commission to build large —scale atomic reactors which might be copied by industry. Republican foes of the measure succeeded in substituting language which would permit—but not require—the AEC to launch the program. They also pushed through an amendment providing that private firms cooperatives or citizen should be given a chance to build the reactors before the government stepped in. The administration has made it plain it did not want the authority I to build the reactors and would not build them unless forced. It contended the program might delay commerical atomic power by scaring private utilities out -of the field. Recommends Area For Waler Supply Area Close To City Favored By Engineers Top engineers of Layne-Northern Co. of Mishawaka, the concern which has been supervising the drilling of several test water wells in and near Decatur for the purpose' of obtaining a new’ water, source for the city utility, have recommended a return to an area close to Decatur tor its new watersupply. The recommendation was made today after a study of all tests made in the last several weeks, which included drillings at the edge of Stratton Place, the south part of Decatur and on south on the Cal Yost farm, and also north as far as the Yost Gravel Co. Last test was made on property adjacent to the Yost gravel pit, owned by Perry Everett. Indications are that the proposed wells, which would be located at the edge of Stratton Place near the St.'Mary’s river, would not be as productive as originally hoped for. The area, however, is close to the water filtering Plant and construction cost would be materially cut when compared with a water, pul! of several miles. '' Another favorable factor is that the newly proposed wells would yield water from a gravel pocket and the water would be much softer than water taken from the present rock pockets. ‘ City officials have not determined definitely what their next step (Continued *n Page Eight)

Oil Company And Lawyers Are Indicted Illegal Lobbying For Gas Measure Charged By Jury ’ WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. Edward J. Thye (R-Minn.) said to- ; day the Indictment of Superior Oil 1 Co. and two lawyers should serve ■ as a warning against "misuse of ’ the lobbying privilege.” The oil company and lawyers Elmer Patman, Austin, Tex., and John M. Neff, Lexington, Neb., were 1 indicted by a federal grand jury 1 here Tuesday on charges of illegal ' lobbying In connection with sen- ! ate passage of the natural gas bill ’ earlier this year. The indictment charged that the twio attorneys, offered $2,500 to Sen .Francis Case (R-S. D.) with intent to influence his vote on the ' bill. The Indictment said Superior 1 Oil President Howard B. Keck gave 1 the to Neff and Patman ’ “to be used principally In the passage” of the bill. ' Case rejected the money, which 1 he said was offered to him as a 1 campaign contribution, and reported the incident to the senate daring debate on the gas bill. Case declined comment on the ■ grand jury's action. ! Thye told newsmen the indict--1 ments should have a “deterring ef- ’ feet” on any attempts to disregard ? federal lobbying regulations. Thye ! was a member of a blue-ribbon senate committee set up to investigate s Case’s charge. “ That committee decided that “no * bribe nor an attempt to bribe” was * involved. But it criticised the two 1 attorneys and said Keck had to ■ share wnatever blame was involved 1 in their actions. I (Continued on rage Six) Decatur Legion To Host District Meet District Meeting Thursday,,Aug. 2 4 Members of 33 posts of the American Legion in the fourth district will be guests Thursday night, August 2. at 6 o'clock at a dinner and district meeting of Adams post number 43 of Decatur, it was announced today. The dinner, to be prepared by the Adams post American Legion auxiliary under the chairmanship of Mrs. Harold Tieman, will be served in the dining room at the Legion home from 6 o’clock until 7:30. At the district meeting which will follow at 8 o’clock, district commander Howard Tibbals, Jr. of Auburn, who was elected at the recent state convention, will deliver the principal address. The guest speaker will be introduced by Adams post retiring commander O. W. P. Macklin. - Representatives of every Legion post in the district will attend the event and it will be the first official appearance of this district's new commander. All Legionnaires , of the district have received invitations to attend the program. Installation of new Adams post officers is scheduled for August 13, the installation committee announced today. Adams County Man Stricken By Polio A 26-year-old Adams county man ' .is reported in “good” condition at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, suffering from polio. Name of the man, who was admitted to the hospital last Saturday, was withheld. Lutheran hospital officials also reported the dismissal of five-year-old Rebecca Canales, of Decatur, who contracted polio last month.

Radford Pledges All Aid To Philippines Naval Air Station Commissioned Today CUBI POINT NAVAL AIR STATION, P.I. (UP) — Adm. Arthur W. Radford promised today that the United States will defend the Philippines from Communist aggression. Radford, chairman of the U. S. joint chiefs of staff, warned that' any enemy “will have to fight his •vny over the sea and through the air” to reach this Island nation. The admiral gave the main address at commissioning ceremonies which opened this mighty U. S. naval air station for business. Cubi Point is the newest link in the United States’ Far East defense chain, and a Southeast Asia treaty organization (SEATO) base from which guided misciles or atomic bombs can be launched against the Asia mainland in event of war. The 80-million-dollar base was curved out of the rock of historic Bataan, about 50 miles northeast of Manila. The navy’s famed construction battalions, the Seabees, moved a 1,200-foot mountain to build the station—an earth-moving project larger than that of building the Panama Canal. They leveled the ground for an 8,000-spot runway providing landing and take-off space for America’s largest bombers. Native Os Decatur Dies In Toledo, 0. Mrs. Clarence Shatter, 49, a native of Decatur, died Tuesday afternoon at her home in Toledo. 6., following an extended illness. The former Margaret Miller, she was the daughter of Louis H. Miller and the late Fanny Miller. Surviving in addition to her father, who resides in Decatur, are I her husband; one sister, Mrs. Clyde Vandertook of Decatur, and two brothers, Arthur J. Miller of Decatur and Doyle MHler of Port-, land. Ore. One sister and one brother preceded het th death. Funeral services will be held in Toledo Thursday afternoon , Three Children Die In Indianapolis Fire Three Trapped In Upstairs Bedroom INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Three children were killed today when fire swept a home and trapped them in an upstairs bedroom. They were Steven T. Owens, 2, and his brother. Stanley W„ L and George Bivins, 8. Mrs. Opal Graham, 46, grandmother of the Owens boys; her daughter. Rebecca. 14, and Rebecca Bivins. 6, sister of George, were taken to a hospital suffering from burns and shock. The fire occurred shortly after midnight in the home of Mrs. Graham. Mrs. Graham told authorities she left the house a few minutes to go to a nearby bakery and when she ’returned the house was in flames. Her daughter, meanwhile, rescued the Bivins girl and was prevented by thick smoke from saving the other children. The children were left in the Graham home while their parents worked. (Contained on Page Six) Pedestrian Killed By Backing Truck KENTLAND, Ind (UP) — John Doty, 65. Morocco, was crushed to death today by a backing truck on a county road about a mile southwest of here. ' % State police said Doty either fell or was, camrht when he wautted behind a county truck driven by Gaylord Hilton, 63, Brook.

Hodge Admits Part In Raid On State Fund t Obtained Money For Investments, High Living, Politics t SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UP) — A i prosecutor said today that Orville • E. Hodge admitted he took part in a million-dollar raid on the state i treasury to get money for politics, • investments and high living. State’s Atty. George P. Coutrakon called reporterc into his office and for more than two hours read ' excerpts from a 176-page “confession" the resigned state auditor made to him. The dapper politician admitted he got “somewhere between $500,000 and $550,000” through the phony check scheme, aed took “100 per cent” responsibility for the scandal. Asked what he did with the money, he said “I foolishly bought bad invpsygents and I paid my expenses Which were very high” and ' he needed money for political cam- ; paigning. , “I must have been temporarily i insane,” he said. Hodge told in tbs statement how ’ he had state checks made out t« others and then had them endorse* and cashed at a Chicago bank. The statement was full of contradictions, and Hodge admitted his memory was “very hazy” about details of the scheme. “I was very busy trying to do a good job in the auditor’s office,” he explained when pressed for details. J Hodge admitted knowing some 1 St. Louis area gamblers, but denied that pressures from hoodlum interests forced him into the scheme. He also denied that he was “covering up” for anyone else, including any other politicians. Hodge also admitted that he personally forged in bls handwriting endorsements on 10 state checks cashed in May 1955, for a total of about SBO,OOO. The former auditor said he did not know who made typewritten endorsements on other checks involved in the alleged million-dollar scheme. Hodge took “100 per cent” responsibility for the scandal in his office, and said in the statement “I want to absolve” Edward A. Hintz and Edward A Epping. Hintz is resigned president of Southmoor Bank and Trust Co., Chicago, where most of the checks were cashed. Hodge identified Epping in his statement as the aide who carried the checks to the banks for cashing. The statement was full of contraditions. Hodge was fofcgy on details of the alleged check scheme. At one point be said “I did not handle the details, never had the checks in my hands, never had any vouchers in my hands.” At another point, he admitted that handwriting on 10 of the checks was his. Hodge estimated there was a total "somewhere between $500,000 and $550,000” involved in the scheme. Coutrakon asked him “You did get the money?” “Yes sir,” Hodge replied. “It did not belong to you?” Coutrakon asked. “No, sir,” Hodge said. “It did not belong to the payees?" Coutrakon asked. “No, sir.” Hodge said. (CoatlMea »■ Pace BtaM) Funeral Thursday For Perry Shaffer Funeral services for Perry A. Shaffer, of Tocsin, who died Monday afternoon, will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Evangelical United Brethren church in Tocsin. The Rev. T. H. Pflttgh will officiate, with burial in Oak Lawn cemetery at Os si an. Friends may call at the Elzw ft Son funeral home in Ossian until 1 p. A. Thursday.

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