Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 185, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 185.

BEGIN BRINKS ROBBERY TRIAL I’'', O Wvl wft ARRESTED LAST JANUARY and May by FBI. the eight defendants charged with Brink's million dollar robbery stand outside Suffolk county courtroom where their trial begins In Boston. They are (1. to r.) James Faherty. Michael Geagan. Thomas Richardson, Joseph McGinnis, Anthony Pino, Vincent Costa. Adolf Maffie and Henry Baker. .

Doubt Kefauver Nomination For Vice President Qualifications Laid Down By Stevenson Disqualify Kefauver DEMOCRATIC CONVENT IO N HEADQUARTERS, Chicago (UP) —Adlai E. Stevenson has laid down qualifications which apparently would, disqualify Sen. Estes Kefauver for second place on the Democratic ticket. Stevenson campaign advisers said today. They said that Stevenson, of course, would like to be nominated for the presidency with a runiftfifc mStb who woUl3‘"si.r4ngfheh the national ticket — as Kefauver might do with some segments of voters. But Stevenson is said to believe it is of great importance that a vice presidential nominee be ah effective agent lor a White House legislative program. As a lone wolf member of the senate, Kefauver would have limited influence in that direction. Stevenson heads into the Democratic national convention, which opens here next Monday, far in front in his race for the presidential nomination. His campaigflTdrganizatlonjackeditsesnmareor his first ballot vote today to 630, only 5714 short of the majority he needs to win the nomination for a repeat campaign against President Eisenhower. At this reading, it appears that only an unexpected trap in drafting the civil rights plank of the Democratic platform could upset Stevenson. Gov. Averell Harriman, who is expected to fight for a toughen plank than Stevenson’s supporters, is the 1952 nominee's only major challenger now. The 108-member platform committee, tentatively scheduled ‘to reporte to the convention Aug. 15 started a week of public hearings Monday. Former secretary of agricultural Claude R._ Wickard recommended a farm plank to provide farm prices at 100 per cent of parity through price support loans at 90 per cent and other measures. , — v » Witnesses at today’s session were prepared to suggest ways of attacking the Eisenhower administration's foreign policy. Kefauver substantially lessened the chances of a convention deadlock, which would destroy Stevenson's candidacy. by pulling out of the presidential nomination race in favor of Stevenson a week ago. The fact that his campaign headquarters continues to function here has led many Democrats to believe that he is seeking second plac£~on the ticket, although both he and Stevenson have denied that there was any deal. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Wednesday, except becoming partly cloudy northwest portion Wednesday. Not much change in temperatures. Low tonight in the' low to mid 60s. High Wednesday mostly in the 80s. Sunset 7:51 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 5:51 a.m.

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EGIN BRINKS ROBBERY TRIAL

Brink's Case Moves To Jury Selection 2,000 Prospective Jurors Scheduled BOSTON°(UP)—Men and women shuffled nervously outside a courtroom today waiting for possible selection as jurors who will decide the fate of eight men charged with looting the impregnable Brink's money fortress of 11,219,000. About 100 of 2.000 prospective jurors were scheduled to be called today as the Brink’s trial entered’ the second day. Slashing the number of indictments from 169TCT13 charging armed robbery and conspiracy, was expected to speed up seating of a jury. The middle-aged defendants accused of the spectacular Jan. 17. 1950 holdup elected Jo stay in a detention room during opening court arguments. The men, dressed in conservative business suits, stared sullenly as they moved stiffly in front of flashing cameras. Except for the manacles they could have been a grou p of bu si nessmen.» They were Joseph F. McGinniis. 48: Michael Geagan, 47, Thomas F. Richardson. 48, Adolph Jass Maffie. 44, Henry D. Baker, 49, Vincent J. Costa. 41, and James I. Faherty, 44, all of greater Boston. Paul T. Smith, a florid, bullnecked criminal lawyer who heads the defense, charged headlong into a legal scrap moments after trial opening. He charged federal bureau of investigation director J. Edgar Hoover and the government of a “shabby form of jury fixing" by announcing the Brink’s robbery “solved” with capture of the suspects in January this year. He said that It was “naive” on' the part of the prosecution to assume that people would not be affected by what they read in the newspapers. Smith charged the Boston press and the New York Times with printing what he termed inflammatory and highly prejudicial stories making a fair trial for the defendant’s impossible. He said that' newspapers up to the day of the trial presented the defendants as bandits “and even murderers” by revealing criminal backgrounds and running stories of gangland slayings. * . .. . • ~ u, , « ' Annual Pet Parade Wednesday Morning Parade Will Form In Yard At Jail The Lincoln Hepcats, directed by Clint Reed, will present the music for the annual pet parade which will be held Wednesday morning on the business district streets of Decatur. All participants in the parade are asked to be at the jail yard at 9:30 a. m. Judging will be done at the jail and the parade through town will follow. Prizes will be awarded in the following classifications: smallest pet, largest pet. best trick dog, best decorated vehicle and pet, best dressed dog, best dressed cat, pet with longest ears, pet with longest tail and most unusual pet. All children of the area are invited to enter their pets in the parade. Free ice cream will be (Continued on Page Six)

British And Joint Force Hope Os Successful ’ Conference On Suez Appearing Dimmer > LONDON (UP) — Britain and 1 France were reported today to t have agreed to form a joint Medi- . terranean striking force spear- ; headed by a massive British air- . lift if action becomes necessary in , the Suez Canal crisis. Hopes for a successful Suez conference appeared dimmer, and Cairo reports said Egypt had called ’ back its officers from Communist , training centers to man Soviet- ’ made submarines and other naval units. In Cairo, meanwhile, Egyptian ’ President Gamal Abdel Nasser called a news conference for next Sunday when he is expected to disclose whether Egypt will attend the London Suez parley. In Moscow, where the Soviet Union still has not announced if it will attend the London conference, there also was a flurry of activity.- Soviet foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov. conferred with the French and British ambassadors. At the same time, premier Nikolai Bulganin called in U. ambassador Charles Bohlen. British airline officials said Britain was preparing “the biggest airlift since the Berllti blockade” to fly shock troops to desert outposts in the Middle East. Hundreds of other troops were steaming toward the eastern Mediterranean aboard fast carriers. Britain today dispatched a third carrier laden with troops and equipment and sent four large tank landing craft toward the Mediterranean in event amphibious operations should become necessary against the Suez Canal Zone. The military preparations overshadowed the diplomatic preparations for a 24-nation conference here Aug. 16 to try to work out a scheme for international control the Suez Canal, nationalized by Egypt. Britain made two major diplomatic moves today. In one. it officially rejected United Nations action in the Suez dispute on the grounds Egypt already has violated a security council resolution against the blockading of-Israeli ships. In the other, foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd moved to ease the suspicions of neutral nations to the Big Three’s call for a London conference on the canal issue. The foreign office declared that acceptance of the Western invitation “does not necessarily mean the acceptance of the principle of internationalization." The latter point was believed to be a concession to Indian prime minister Nehru, whose London ambassador saw Lloyd Monday. Nehru will give India’s (Oontunueo on rwr« Six) Scouts To Aid In Traffic For Parade All Decatur Boy Scouts and Explorers are asked to report, in uniform. at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the jail yard to assist in directing traffic for the pet parade, scheduled for tomorrow morning.

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Chicago Polio Cases Surging Over 600 Mark Authorities Seek » To Curb Outbreak Before Peak Period J CHICAGO (UP)—The count of polio cases surged above the 600 mark today as authorities sought to curb the outbreak before the peak season expectjqd in mid 1 August. '-Twenty-seven new cases and 9 deaths were recorded, which brought to 609 cases and 16 deaths the totals counted since Jan. 1 in the city’s toughest battle in history with the crippling disease. Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the board of health, said however that the disease had not reached epidemic proportions and that delegates to next week’s Democratic national convention need have “no cause for alarm Bundesen said he “would advise delegates or„non-delegates or anyone to get vaccinated,” but said he had not suggested that Democrats coming to the convention leave their children at home. , “The mere fact that they are in Chicago has nothing to do with it,” Bundesen said. “There’s no epidemic here. “If delegates bring their children — or don’t bring their children — I advise them to get them vaccinated." The podio upsurge whs running far ahead of 1952, when the city’s previous biggest outbreak occurred. The count of 609 cases and 16 deaths compared with totals of 170 cases and 11 deaths in the same period of 1955. Last year by this time there had been 80 cases and 3 deaths. 't he disease has struck most at children under 5. Bundesen said 332 of the 609 cases were recorded (Continued on Page Fly?) Plan For Opening . Os Rural Schools Annual Institute Scheduled Aug. 23 The annual Adams county teachers institute prior to the opening of county schools is slated for Thursday. Aug. 23, at 9:30 a.m. in the circuit court room of the court house. - A meeting for principals of the various high schools will precede the institute on Wednesday, Aug. 22. Organization day for the county schools is Friday, Aug. 24, and classes will begin Monday, Aug. 27. County school superintendent Gall Grabill 1 is in charge of arrangements for the institute, which will feature a talk by James R. Mitchell, director of, teacher placement and professor of education at Purdue university. His subject will be the “Significant Role of Teachers In These Times.” During the afternoon session of the institute, teachers will meet at their respective schools with the principals. The principals Include Herman Frantz, Adams CenS_ Jones. Monmouth; Max E. Stanley, Hartford; Glen B. Custard, Pleasant Mills, and William J, Lee, Geneva. Grabill announced that several of the schools have not yet completed their faculty lists but all vacancies will be filled within the next two weeks. The county school list is one less this year with the closing of Jefferson high school. Students who would have attended this high school have'been transferred to Geneva and high schools. •

City Health Board Studies Polio Rate High Incidence In Area Is Discussed The high polio incidence in Decatur and the area was the main subject of discussion at a meeting of the city board of health Monday night at city hall. The board includes Dr. Norval Rich, Dr. John Terveer and Dr. Arthur Girod. Mayor Robert Cole and deputy health officer Miss Marlene Laurent also attended the meeting. It was pointed out that the polio rate is higher here than in any other part of Indiana. The polio outbreak this year in this area is the worst since 1949. The board of health agreed that the best method es controlling spread of the disease was the immunization provided by the , polio vaccine shots now available from all local physicians. The board issued a strong recommendation that all persons between the ages of six months and 30 years who have not already received the vaccine shots, begin immediately to receive them from their family physician.' They also pointed out that persons up to the age of 40 years, especially those who have or might come in contact with acUve should seek i thqir physician's advice about taking the shots. A total of eight cases hgve been reported in the Decatur area and two more have been reported as possible cases. None of these persons had received the vaccine shots. The doctors on the board of health emphasized the fact that the vaccine shots have proved 80 to 85 percent effective and that 30 to 40 million shots have been given with no ill effects. They seated.« that there Is no need for persons to fear side effects from the vaccine. / ' Other recommendations of the board to Individuals during the current polio season include: get plenty of res tand do not become over-tired; follow the rules of good sanitation and spray homes frequently to keep flies and other insects at a riiinimum. It was decided by the board (Continued on Page Five) Welfare, Hospital Budgets Are Filed Welfare Asks Hike, Hospital Unchanged A one-cent raise in the tax levy is sought for the 1957 budget of the county welfare department filed this morning with county auditor Frank Kitson. The budget proposal this year totals $219,550. The 12-cent levy would raise $51,025 which is the amount to be raised by local taxation. The rest of the appropriation comes from the state welfare fund. Last year’s 11cent levy was approved for a total county welfare budget of $219,870. Thia year’s budget calls for $182.16ft in awards and grants including $139,080 for old age assistance, $3,000 for burial of old. age recipients-, S4OO for assistance to the blind, $3,000 for assistance to crippled children, $36,13ft for dependant children with relatives, and SSOO for destitute children. Also in the 1957 budget proposals of the welfare department are $15,155 for other current charges, $19,960 for salaries and $37,390 in other operating expenses. The increases from last year are in salaries and amounts for assistance. Hospital Budget Also submitted to the county auditor is the budget of the county hospital prepared by the board of trustees with the hospltad administrator, Thurman Drew. The hospital’s budget for 1957 is $270,170, an increase over last year’s $247,(Continued on Page Six)

Ike Accuse! Reds Welch On Promises Issues New Appeal To Russia To Rid World Os Fears ' WASHINGTON (UP) — Presl- ’ dent Eisenhower chided Russia to- ' day for welshing on promises made at Geneva and appealed for new es- ' forts to rid the world of fear. , In a personal letter to Soviet , Premier Nikolai Bulganin Mr. Eisenhower said: “I must confess that I am per- ; plexed as to how we can work to- ’ gether constructively Jf agreet ments which are negotiated at the t highest level after the most thorough exploration do not seem de- . pendable.'’ j Rebuking Soviet failure to ful--1 fill promises given at the Big Four r chiefs of state meeting in Geneva i a year ago, the President added: i “May we not, Mr. Chairman, do » more to realize the hopes which s were born of our meeting in Ge--5 neva?” ... ■ - - He said “I earnestly- appeal" 1 •-for “a mew spirit" tn Soviet rela--1 Lions with the rest of the world in view of Russia’s efforts to eradl--1 cate “some of the evils” of Stalin--1 ism. Mr. Eisenhower’s letter was in reply to a June 6 letter from Bulganin in which the Soviet premier said Russia was cutting her armed forces and urged other countries to follow suit. The President said, “such a reduction I welcome.” But he made these points: T. What’s needed to eliminate “the fear and the vast cost” of national armaments is world controls which will encourage greater "reductions. “I regret that we have Plan To Reactivate City Health Board Health Problems Os Decatur Discussed Plans to reactivate the city board of health were made at a meeting Monday night at the city hall. Dr. Norval S. Rich is city health officer. Other members of the board are Dr. John Terveer and Dr. Arthur Girod. Also attending the meeting were Mayor Robert Cole ahd Marlene Laurent, deputy health officer. Discussion of the duties and powers of the health board was featured. Mayor Cole extended the cooperation of the city administration to the board. Among the various health prob, lems of the city which were studied were problems of sanitation including health hazards near and around private homes, outside toilets, restaurants and other food handlers. It was pointed out that when the board declares a situation a public health hazard the person responsible is obliged to abate the nuisance or be liable to, a S3OO fine, with a $25 per day penalty tor each day the hazard exists after conviction.' It was decided in the near future that the board would make an in - spection tour of the city and that all persons responsible for nuisances would be ordered to abate them. It was also planned to send 1 health orders to all restaurants and food handlers in the city describing sanitation requirements and to follow these orders with an inspection. In the future the board will meet once each month to study health problems of the city and to insure that all residents and businesses are complying with health and nuisance ordinances.

Sf eel Price Boos! Announced Monday $8.50 Ton Increase Made By U. S. Steel PITTSBURGH (UP) — United States Steel Corporation today imposed price increasee averaging $8.50 a ton to partially cover rising costs and a new three-year agreement with the United Steelworkers. In Cleveland, Republic Steel . Corp, immediately announced in- . creases comparable to those previously announced- "by its competi- . tion.” Republic said that “as a result Os the recent increases In wages ' and other costs, Republic Steel Corp, finds it necessary to advance the prices of many of its steel products.” effective today, creases, said new prices "are beRepublic. declining to specify ining forwarded to Republi’s sales offiices today.” “In general,” Republic said, “they compare with the price changes heretofoe announced by ’ its competition.” Similar price increases are exj pected from other producers as the 1 nation's steel mills swing into production following the five-week strike of 650,000 millworkers. » The U. S. Steel boost hiked the - average price of iiteel to about I $138.50 a ton. The increase adds about sl6 to the cost of making a 1957 automobile, about $1 to the cost of a refrigerator and about four to five 1 cents to the steel in a $25 toaster. U. S. Steel, which accounts for about one third of the nation’s steel production, said the increase ' “reflects the persistently rising , costs with which the company is confronted, including the initial higher employment costs resulting , from the new labor agreement” with the USW. Clifford Hood, U.S. Steel presihighest since (he end of World War 11, falls short of meeting his company’s needs for revenue to offset depreciation and replacements and the cost of an expansion program. The industry boosted prices an average $7.35 a ton last year to pay for a 15,2 cents per man hour wage increase. Adair's Record Is Scored By Beehtol Congress Candidate ’ Speaks Here Monday Criticism of Congressman Ross Adair, Republican, fourth district congressional representative, was made by H. Dean Beehtol, Demcorat candidate for that post, at a meeting of the Jefferson club Monday night at Hanna-Nuttraan park: Beehtol was the main speaker for the pot-luck picnic of the club. He pointed out that, “a congressman has a definite job to do. He should not become so involved, in world affairs that he forgets the people of his own district who elected him to represent them. Neither should he follow party lines so blindly that he overlooks their particular problems.” Beehtol charged Adair with staying consistently on the fence or following the party line. He (Adair) voted to substitute the sliding • -scale for the 90 percent parity oh farm products. He voted against restoring parity and against a bill which would take extraordinary and unwarranted powers away from agriculture secretary Benson. Beehtol added that early in the year Adair did vote to restore the 90 percent parity when he was assured that the president would veto the measure. Beehtol also pointed out that he voted no on a mbtion to over-ride that veto. The Democrat candidate critized Adair’s silence on the soil bank (Continued on Page Five) afefeaaiiiiii i

91 Democratic Solons Score Ike Policies Urge Democratic Platform Writers Form Firm Policy DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS, Chicago (UP) -Ninety-one Democratic congressmen charged today that the Eisenhower administration is drifting toward war in the Near East. _ They asked Democratic pldv form writers to commit their’ party to a new policy of “vigorus leadership" to keep the peace. The 108-member platform committee, which began laying the groundwor fkor a vigorous party blast at Republican foreign policy, also heard: • Former assistant secretary of State William Benton, the leadoff witness, assert that the nation has been lucky to “avoid disaster" ' under Eisenhower foreign policy. ’ Benton, former Connecticut sen- ■ ator, said “it’s high time to return onr foreign policy to com- ' jpetent and experienced hands” of 1 the Democrats. Robert R. Nathan, speaking tor ’ Americans for Democratic Action, urged the platform writers to avoid a foreign policy plank sp “politically opportunistic and rigid" as to handicap a Democratic administration elected under its provisions. Nathan, an economist and chairman of the ADA national executive committee, called on the committee to “demilitarize our foreign aid programs” in writing a foreign policy plank. "We hear too much talk- of the danger of entering Into a corn-— petitive race with the Soviet union in the area of economic assistance." Nathan said. Such competition, he said, is “much preferable to competition in military terms.” Nathan said the administration has indulged in a “frenzy of pactomania,” expanding military agreements and building bases without regard to resulting bitterness. He called for a review of such arrangements. The 91 Democratic congressmen submitted a proposed Near East plank through Rep. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn). Dodd was among a number of witnesses at the committee’s daylong foreign policy hearings to* charge the administration with fumbling, vacillation and lack of leadership in its world relations. Dodd said he is concerned at the danger of hot war in the Middle East, and the free world's loss of friends and influence in the area. " - Dodd said Israel is “directly menaced and may be marked for destruction” at the hands of the Arabs unless prompt action is taken. He said the administration. _ “which might have moved at once to isolate and quarantine a dictator” in Egypt, instead continued to court premier Nasser and declined to ship arms to Israel. Dodd in response to questions first used, and then withdrew, the term “appeasement;’ to describe administration handling of Nasser. He said was "partly responsible" for Nasser’s seizure' of the Suez Canal. In a carry-over from Monday’s farm hearings. James G Patton. \ president of the National Farmers Union, called for a party pledge to support farm prices at 100 per cent of parity. Patton, whose statement got a heavy round of applause from friendly committee members, said on the question of farm surpluses that the only real surplus he knew of was of “empty heads” in the Republican agriculture department.

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