Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 28 July 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 177.

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Fear Increase In Death Toll In Sea Crash Fear Mounting Toll As 37 Persons Are Unaccounted For NEW YORK (UP)—Fear mounted today that the toll in the midnight collision of two mighty ships would rise to 49 dead with the majority of these carried to their graves when the liner Andrea Doria slipped beneath the waves in 245 feet of water. Repeated checks of the kn»>R. survivors against” the ■'passenger *tt*4<jif the Andrea Doris and the Stockholm showed 37 unaccounted for early today. Another 12 were known dead. The Italian Line said ntore survivors may arrive today aboard an Incoming coast guard vessel but the coast guard denied the report and said all known survivors had been put ashore. The Italian Line said a complete list of survivors would be issued today. Capt. Piero Calamai of the Italian liner insisted he would tell investigating panels that only three pensions’ were killed when the Swedish ship Stockholm rammed Into his starboard bow through staterooms, cargp holds and oil tanks. The U.S. coast guard, however, said: “We feel that more than three persons went down with the ship." Shocked survivors of the Andra Doria said it was very possible some passengers were trapped in the twisted wreckage of the oncemighty liner. They thought it was possible too that some passengers were unable to reach lifeboats and drowned. ~ "" Few of the passengers or crewmen were able to search the wrecked portions of the liner before they abandoned ship on the foggy dawn of Thursday Others, they thought, may be have plunged into the sea in the panic of the disaster and drowned. Among those feared carried to their death on the sunken Italian liner were 'Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Thieriot of San Francisco. Thieriot is circulation, director of the San Francisco Chronicle. The most remarkable tale of survival was the “almost impossible” account of how pretty Linda Morgan, tl.was thrown from her bed on the Italian ship and awoke, stunned and injured slightly, on the deck of the Stockholm as It backed out of the gaping hole left tn the side of the Andrea Doria. "I was asleep in cabin 52 on th# Doria,” she said, "Suddenly 1 woke up and I was on the deck of the other ship.” Linda, the daughter of news commentator Edward P. Morgan, had been listed as dead. How Old It Happen As the human story of the sea disaster unfolded the authorities of (Continued on rare six) Anderson Market Is Robbed Os $2,000 ANDERSON. Ind (UP)—A bandit with a silk, stocking over his head hpdd up a woman cashier in the Pay-Less supermarket Fridaynight and took $2,000. Anderson police said today they arrested two Anderson youths as suspected and held them for questioning. NOON EDITION

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House Republicans Supporting Nixon Petition Is Blow To Stassen's Campaign WASHINGTON (UP) - Nearly ISO house Republicans have endorsed Vice President Richard M. Nixon for renomination, delivering a new blow to Harold E. Stassen’s "Dump Nixon” campaign. Informed sources said a “We Like Diek” petition signed by the house Republicans would be made public today. They said a letter to StassenPresident Eisenhower’s disarms ment adviser • from the chairmen of the house and senate GQP campaign committees also would be released. - The petition and letter Were The latest blows by GOP leaders against Stassen’s drive to substitute Gov. Christian A- Herter of Massachusetts for Nixon on the 1956 Republican ticket. — ~ Other political developments: -Democratic presidential hopeful Averell Harriman was reported to have picked up some new support at the expense of Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo) during a meeting of downstate Illinois delegates to the Democratic national convention. Former Illinois gover-. nor Adlai Stevenson has the backing of most of the state’s delegates. - — ~ -Texas voted today in a Democratic primary election that will decide who win be their next efhor. Six candidates including Sen. Price Daniel and former Gov. and Sen . W. Lee O’Daniel waged one of the state’s hottest gubernatorial campaigns in years. Reps. Elford A. Cederberg (RMich) and Patrick J. Hillings (IlCalif) are among the key figures behind the pro-Nixon petition. They helped quietly circulate the petition during the last few days. House members said even more than nearly 180 Republicans would have signed the petition if some had not left for home before congress adjourned. There are 202 Republican members of the house. “It’s not a question of not liking Herter,” one house Republican said. “It’s just that Nixon is so popular among house Republicans." Stassen continued to insist that an Eisenhower-Herter ticket would run six per cent ahead of an Ei-senhower-Nixon ticket. But he announced Friday he would stop sniping at Nixon pending the outcome of a new private (Continued on Page Six) Civil War Veteran In Poor Condition DULUTH, M inn. (UPl_ — _ The Union army’s last surviving Civil War veteran, 109-year-old Albert Woolson, Duluth, was reported in poor condition in a hospitail here this morning. Hospital attendants said Woolson slipped into unconsciousness about 2 a.m. He has been in an oxygen tent the past several days. Southern Part Os County Hit Friday A heavy electrical storm struck Berne and southern Adanis county Friday night about 10 o’clock and more than an inch of rain fell in less than an hour. Several television sets and antennas were reported damaged in and near Berne and for a time streets were flooded with, water, The storm subsided about midnight and by early this morning water had disappeared from streets. Several county road? also were flooded during the deluge.

84th Congress Ends Session Friday Night — Four Major Bills Passed In Closing Session Last Night WASHINGTON (UP) — Members’ of the adjourned 84th congress began an exodus. to their home states today to prepare for next month’s national political conventions and their own battles for reelection. They closed the books on the 84 th session Friday night with the passage of four major bills—foreign aid. social security, housing and flood insurance. house adjourned sine die aft 11:56 p.m. EDT and the senate at midnight. Jan. Y was fixed as the starting date of the next session. Today, there were the usual arguments over how good a record the 84th congress made and over which party contributed the most to the nation's welfare. But the real concern of most members was, “Who will control the next congress,” and “will I be back?” All 435 house seats will be at stake in the November elections and 35 of the 96 senate seats. The congressional campaigns will begin in earnest after selection of the presidential tickets at the Aug. 13 Democratic convention in Chicago and the Aug. 20 Republican convention at San Francisco. In the final day of its session, congress sent to President Eisenhower a social security bill far more liberal than he. had sought. It would speed benefits to more than ope million persons by lowering the retirement age to 62 for women and to 50 for the totally disabled. It would increase social security taxes. Congress also passed a foreign aid measure much lower than the President asked but a housing and flood insurance legislation more closely tailored to his wishes. The foreign aid bill appropriated $3.77 billion, compared with s*•9 originally asked by Mr. Eisenhower. The housing biU authorized construction of 70,000 new public housing units over the next two years. The flood bill approved a $5 billion federal insurance program and a $2.5 billion Joan program for flood victims. Although he did not get everything he wanted from congress, Mr. Eisenhower thanked leaders of both partlea for the “coopera- - tion” he received. The 84th congress was under the control of Democrats "but passed much of President Eisenhower’s legislative program. Republicans said it didn’t approve enough; Democrats claimed a high record of accomplishments despite “weak’ White House leadership. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson called the 84th session “the hardest working congress in recorded history” and a congress of “solid achievement.” Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland and house GOP leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. admitted that President Eisenhower achieved a fair batting average during the two-year Democratic session. But Knowland said‘‘much .more of the President’s program would have been' enacted and more of it in accordance with his recommendations had Republicans been in control.”

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 28,1956.

United States To Join British-Franco Parley On Suez Canal Seizure

Eight Men Die In Separate Air Crashes Ninth Man Missing In Two Separate Air Force Crashes By UNITED PRESS At least eight air force personnel were killed in two separate air crashes Friday and a ninth men was missing in a high altitude collision of two jet fighters. Four airmen were killed when an air force Cll9 Flying Box Car crashed and burned on a ranch five miles southwest of Federal, Wyo., late Friday. The plane was enroute from Offutt air force base, Omaha, Neb., to Mountain Home air force base. Idaho. The plane sheared off two telephene poles and brok eparat. The bodies, all still strapped to their seats, were thrown clear of the fflain wreckage which was scattered over a quarter mile area. Four - crewmen died Friday when a six-jet, 847 bomber crashad while -wtr from Eakeflheath (RAF) station in England, on a routine training mission. Cause of the crash was not known. Official! of strategic air command headquarters at Offutt air force base said the bomber was attached to the 371st bomb squadron of the 307th bomb wing at the Lincoln, Neb.|, air force base. The Lincoln airmen went to England recently on a foreign rotation training assignment. Two FB6 jet fighters collided at 35,000 feet over the Utah-Ne-vada border Friday afternoon, causing one to crash into an almost inaccessible rugged mountain area 165 miles south of Wendover, Utah, air force base. The second aircraft landed safely at the Utah installation without injury to its pilot although a large section of its tail assembly was missing. Listed as missing in the crash was Maj. Manuel A. Pidcock. commander of the 429th fighter bomber squadron, who was flying as part of a three-plane flight from Clovis. New Mexico, air force base to Wendover to take part in the ninth air force gunnery meet. Air force spokesman said the second plane in formation collided with the lead plane, piloted by Brig. Gen. William W. Momyer, who made a safe landing. ~> ’ (Continued on Page Five)

State In Failure To Block Bluffton Fair Judge Refuses To Issue Injunction FORT WAYNE . (UP) — The state of Indiana was rebuffed today in its attempt to block the Bluffton street fair. ’ Allen Super Io- Judge Lloyd S. Hartzler ruled on a petition for a permanent injunction against the fair that the state failed to prove damage has been caused by the fttr to state highways, that fire hazards existed or that the fair posted an inconvenience to the public. «■ ' . There was no immediate indication if state officials, who have tried for two years to ban the fair, would appeal. In 1954. Governor Craig invoked a state law whßh forbids expositions on state routes. At least portions of the fair are held on streets which also serve as state highways. , In his rilling. Hartzler also said it has not been determined whether the state hag limited or complete control of highways in cities? Fair officials obtained a temporary restraining order in Wells circuit court to keep the state from interfering with its show. The state then sought a permanent injunction

Continue Study Os Civil City Budget /City Officials Will > Meet Again Tuesday Members of the telty council. Mayor Robert Cole, clerk-treasurer Mirriani Hall and city attorney Jbhn DeVoss will meet Tuesday tyight in continued executive session at city hail in an to qomplete the tentative budget for 1957. tuounci linen worked Thursday bight until midnight on the many budget problems and were unable to finish the work. Each request is being given a thorough screening in an effort to eliminate all unnecessary expenditures, it was learned today. Mayor Cole auJ the council members axe exerting every possible effort to hold expenditures to a level which, when totalled, will hold the present $1.39 tax levy to the same figure. Demands of various civil city departments have made the problem a hard one. and council members expressed a desire to spend more time ironing out the problems before placing Wheir ' stamp Os approval on the budget proposals. Following completion of the work in executive session, the entire budget will be presented at a regular council meeting where pubitc participation is invited. The final results then will be published in legal form before final adoption. Enters Guilty Plea To Check Forgery Suspends Sentence For Alabama Man Cecil Minchew, 27, Guntersville, Ala., who has been in Adams county jail since June 8, charged with forgery, pleaded guilty Friday in Adams circuit court. Minchew was sentenced to from two to 14 years in the state reformatory; fined $lO and costs and was given five days in which to make complete restitution of a $17.31 check forged on Klenk’s of this city. The reformatory sentence was suspended and Minchew was placed on probation to C.H. Muselman, Adams county probation officer. He was ordered to return to Guntersville and the probation will be transferred to the probation officer of that area. If the Alabama man is unable to pay his fine and costs he will remain in jail until he has satisfied the judgment. His attorney, Hubert McClenahan, said that members of his family had forwarded sufficient money with which to make the check good. Evidence showed that Minchew was unable la write and could not read with any accuracy. He attended Alabama schools for eight years arid finally quit when he only got to the eighth grade. |— The evidence also showed that Minchew had never been in trouble with the law before and in view of the evidence Judge Myles F. Parrish, sitting as criminal judge, suspended the sentence with the understanding Minchew would return home during the five year probationary period, which was agreed to.

City And County To Receive Checks Adams county will. receive $53,898 and the city of Decatur SB,157 in the record-breaking quarterly distribution of $19,304,721 in Indiana motor vehicle receipts for highways and streets. Other counties will receive as follows: Allen, $173,402; Blackford, $«7,75<; Huntington, $56,572; Jay, $54,368; Wells, $53,494. Other cities are: Fort Wayne. $149,889, Hartfort City. «.1M; Auburn, $6,593; Huntington $16,916; Portland. $7,9T4; Bluffton, $6,816; Montpsller,. $2,041.

Put Finishing Touches To New Steel Contract Basic Agreement Is Signed, Settlement Os Strike Hailed NEW YORK (UP) — Steel companies met today with union repput finishing touches on formal contracts which will send 650,000 steelworkers back to their jobs early next week. - The basic agreement was signed Friday afternoon ending a 27-day work stoppage .which cost the nation more than. $1 billion in lost wages and lost production. The new contracts will provide for no-strike guarantees for three years and both industry and union spokesmen said they hoped the agreements would lead to permanent labor peace in the steel industry. President Eisenhower joined union and industry leaders in hailing the • . 3 tr^, ; , ; eott|emeat- -SUWnews"” The new agreements call for direct wage increases of 10.5 cents an hour for steelworkers this year and pay hikes of 9.1 cents an hour in 1957 and 1958. Pre-strike wages averaged $2.47 an hour. Other provisions of the agreement call for premium pay for Sunday work, strong union shop provisions, more liberal pensions, insurance and vacations and some fringe benefits. Union spokesmen said the contracts provide a package increase of 45.6 cents an hour. Company representatives calculated the cost at nearer 55 cents-an hour. John A. Stephens, vice president of U. S. Steel Corp., and the chief negotiator for the industry, said the new agreement would add more than sl.l billion to the industry’s labor costs. It was generally agreed that steel prices would be increased almost Immediately by about $lO. aj ton and that they would probably rise by S3O a ton over the next three years. The average price of a ton of steel is now $l3O a ton. Steel companies estimated it Would take from two to three weeks to bring mills back to full production after the long shutdown. Eugene G. Grace, chairman of strike demand for steel would Vfee Bethlehem Steel, said the post(Contlnued ca Pare Five)

Storm Knocks Out More tight Lines Friday Night Starm Does More Damage Shortly after a report by officials of the city light and power utility and Citizens Telephone Co. that all damage done to the two utilities by the Wednesday night electrical storm had been repaired, a second one hit Friday night and added costly damage to the local light department. Cost of repairs following the Wednesday storm had not beep, compiled, but all lines were report ed back in order Friday afternoon and transformers burned out had been replaced. It was estimated that more than 40 television sets in Decatur had been knocked out by the severe Wednesday storm More than 15 aerials also were broken off of roofs of homes. Friday night’s storm was not as damaging, but police headquarters received calls almost all night long that light service had stopped. “A crew of light and power repair men again worked through the night and it was believed normal service would be restored by noon today. 'L ~—- • Telephone lines were not damaged to any appreciable extent by the second storm.

Hodge Charged Home Expenses To State State Os Illinois Sues Ex-Auditor SPRINGFIELD, 111. (UP) — Household items ranging from lobsters to lawnmowers and valued at $17,500 were charged to the state by former state auditor Orville E. Hodge, it was disclosed Friday night. J. Waldo Ackerman, assistant state’s attorney of Sangamon County, said the money was spent by Hodge on his lavish Lake Springfield home between 1953 and shortly before the giant check tcandgl'with which he is charged was uncovered. The money was ootained, Ackerman said, from Hodge’s office with the help of John Casper, caretaker of the home, who kept Itemized expense accounts for the Lake Springfield establishment. Ackerman said Casper presented these expense accounts periodically to Hodge’s office where vouchers were made and checks were cashed, Ackerman said, by De Silva, and the money found its way back to Casper. Tn’ another ’ • development, ‘the state sued Hodge Friday in an attempt to recover the $641,280 he is accused of embezzling. Circuit Judge Julius Miner issued a writ at Chicago designed to tie tsp Hodge's assets in Illinois, along with those of his wife anS son. The civil suit, entered on behalf of Lloyd Morey, Hodge’s successor in the auditor’s office, named Hodge and 10 other defendants including his wife, Margaret, and his son, William. Other defendants Were Edward A. Epping, Hodge's former office manager; Edward A. Hintz, the ex-bank president who admitted cashing 46 fraudulent state checks; three bands; the company which put up Hodge's bond as auditor; suspended Chicago policeman William J. Lydon, and William Mehl. voucher clerk in the auditor’s office.

i Three Aulo Mishaps Reported By Police No One Injured In Accidents In City Several! automobile mishaps without a single personal injury were investigated by police officers! Friday. Clayton C. Kilpatrick, 63, Fort Wayne, was arrested following a collision on U.S. highway 27 with an automobile driven by Paul Edward Faurote, 18, Decatur. The police report reveals that Kilpatrick was driving his car on Tirteenth street on the wrong side of the center line. Damage to the vehicles was estimated at more than SB(M*. - Kilpatrick faces a charge of failure to yield the right-of-way and will appear at 6 o’clock Monday evening in justice of peace court. A Meshberger stone truck and an automobile belonging to Amsceto Villagomes, Decatur, figured in a mishap Friday morning at Twelfth and Dayton streets. Damage to the ViUagomes vehicle was estimated at $45. An automobile driven by Harry Courtney, Jr. 30, Fort Wayne, was struck in the rear by a truck driven by Robert Blood. Old Fort, 0., and owned by Motor Carrier Leasing, Tiffin, O. The report to police revealed that the Courtney vehicle had slowed down at the Monroe and Thirteenth street intersection and the truck in negotiating a left turn on Monroe street hit the passenger car in the rear. Damage was estimated at S7OO. _ INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, cooler and lesa humid today, tonijht and Sunday. High today SS. Low tonight 63. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy, warm and humid.

Three Western Powers Slate Parley Monday Emergency Talks On Egypt's Seizure Os Suez Canal Slated LONDON (UP) — The United States will join Britain and Franco in emergency three - power talks Monday in London to decide on action t> oppose Egypt’s seizure of the Suez Canal, informed French sources said tonay. But B’itata was not waiting to take retaliatory measures against the Cairo government. It blocked Egypt's sterling balances and the assets of the British-French owned “nationalized” Suez Canal Co. _ The sources in Paris said the French the British governments have asked U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles to take part personalty in the talks if possible. Dulles is in Lima, Peru, but has been in touch with Washington. he*4s dne-hack Send ay. In any case, the informants said, an American representative will join Jn the talus already scheduled for Monday in London between British foreign secretary Seiwyn Lloyd and French foreigrt minister Christian Pineau. Nasser lashod back at Western protests and counter - measures against his seizure of _the Suez Canal in a fiery speech on his way home to Cairo from. Alexandria. _ - , In Cairo, a wildly - cheering crowd of half a million persons' was whipping itself into a frenzy at the railroad station to give Nasser a hero’s welcome. Cairo Radio carried a running commentary of Nasser’s return journey from Alexandria, where he announced the “nationalization” of the vita! waterway, station by station. At Benha. the last big station before Cairo, Nasser said:

“The Egyptiin people are mobilising and standing nuder arms to defend their rights and sovereignty against imperialism. We will be victorious and will defend our freedom to the last drop of our blood.” Britain already has protested in a sharp note Egypt’s seizure of the vital waterway. Cairo said the note was “unacceptable.” But British informants said the protest by prime minister Anthony Eden’s government was regarded primarily as a "holding operation” designed to put on record British objections to Nasser’s unilateral action. Britain followed up today with the freeze orders. The action was taken by the treasury after meetings between Eden, Lloyd and chancellor the exchequer Harold ——- _ It came In the form of two “statutory instruments" which affected both Egyptian funds and the assets of the Suez Canal Co. The order effective as of Friday, blocked the company’s assets in the United Kingdom to prevent them from getting into the hands of the Cairo government, government and all Egyptian restUnder the orders, the Egyptian dents a r e barred from access to their sterling balances, except with (Continued on Page Three) Henry H. Weigmann Js Taken By Death Henry H. Wiegmann, 79, of Fort Wayne, retired farmer, died Friday at the Lutheran hospital in that city after a year’s illness. Surviving are the widow, Minnie; 2 sons, Herbert of Adams county and Morris of Hoagland; three daughters, Mrs. Hilda Harding and Mrs. Leona Haenftling of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Amanda Doty of Cedarville, and nine grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pjn. Monday at the Rodeubeck funeral home, the Rev. Bernard Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Concordia cemetery. — —'

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