Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 186.

WARNS POSSIBLE FORCE SECRETARY OF STATE John confers with ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa (left) of Nicaragua, as part of secret briefing given to 20 luittn American ambassadors concerning Suet Canal dispute. Mr. Dulles warned that Britain and France may "resort to force" if London parley-fails.

Decatur Civil City Tax Rate 3 Cents Lower

Decatur's civil city tax rate for 1967 will be three cents lower than this year's levy of |1.39. The city council has approved the budget and Mrs. Mirriam Hall, clerktreasurer. has presented the proposal which will be published this week in legal form in the Daily Democrat. Simultaneously with the announcement of the three-cent cut in the levy, it was anounced that alt policemen and firemen would receive a 825 a month sal»ry increase starting January 1, 1957. Reduction of the rate was made possible by pruning items in departments where there was a balance. Total estimated amount to be collected in 1957 is 1148.169.62. This amount is almost identical with the 1956 collection, but it was explained that because of a» increase in the city's total appraised valuation, there will be more income. Mayor Robert D. Cole stated today that he was happy to be able to report the reduction in the levy when almost every city in northern Indiana has announced a higher._r*t*K - He said that no service of the city would be endangered and that the new rate would raise sufficient money with which to operate. All members of the council and Mayor Cole and clerktreasurer Mirriam Hall waged their election campaign last year on the theory that tax rates would be reduced if at all possible. Following are the largest divisions of money: Mayor’s office, 32,855; clerktreasurer, 15,315.50; department of law. 11,492.50; police. $49,265: fire, $30,852; street and sewer, $74,170; engineering department. $6,250; city hall. $5,505; health, $1,066; council, $1,250; miscellaneous, $21,540; parks, $8,860; recreation (Youth and Community Center), $33,109. While the recreation budget is set at $33,109, it was pointed out that only about SB,OOO of this amount would be raised by taxation. Balance must come from operating profit. . . .... . ...... X: ...... . . . Chicago Transit Car Hits Auto, 3 Killed CHICAGO (UP) — Three persons were killed today when a rapid : transit train car smashed into an automobile just inside the city 1 limits near suburan Oak Park. The victims were identified as j Gabriel Benedik, 72. Hammond, ( Ind.; his wife. 07, and a niece who j neighbors said arrived a week ago - from Australia. Annual Pet Parade i Heid This Morning ' Led by one of the city fire en- ’ gines, approximately 200 children 1 paraded down Second street today, amidst dosens of dogs, cats, ponies. , and other forms -of pets. Judging j preceding the pet parade was cop- ] ducted on the lawn of the jail, t with ribbons being awarded, to the t first three pet owners in nine dis- ( ferent categories. Following the judging, all of the pets and their masters formed a 1 long procession continuing from ' the jail to the Elks home on Sec- < ond street, where free ice cream i was served. Hundreds of free balloons were also distributed to all 1 ~ of the participants of the parade. i A complete list of winners and I the judges will be published in t Thursday’s Democrat. 1

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At Least Bl Die In Blast In Colombia Speculate Sabotage Caused Ammunition Explosion Tuesday CALI, Columbia (UP)-—lnformed quarters speculated today that Tuesday's ammunition blast here 'was the result of sabotage. The blast, which tore a crater some 70 yards across and 40 to 50 feet deep out of the subsoil of the city and wrecked eight business blocks, was the worst catastrophe in Colombian history. National authorities began airlifting relief supplies here within hours of the explosion. The latest official report said at least 237 persons were killed, including 49 women and 43 children. Unofficial sources estimated that the toll would run into the thousands. Seven army trucks loaded with ammunition and explosives went up in the blast. Local authorities would not comment on the cause of the explosion, but President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla vowed that the persons "responsible for this treacherous and criminal attack will be punished.” Brig. Gen. Alberto Gomel, military governor of Valle province, ordered an investigation of the explosion. The ammunition trucks were parked outside the Codazzi barracks at the time of the explosion. The barracks and the adjacent military police post and railway station were reduced to foundations and crumbling walls, and buildings for blocks around were wrecked. John " Younger, who works in the Pan • American Airways office here, saw the explosion from the window of his apartment, an eighth of a mile from the scene. "First thing I saw was a light like a giant spotlight, then this tremendous explosion that lasted I don't know how long," said Younger, who was not injured. “Fiery rockets were shooting up in the air. Fortunately," all our yindows were open, so we didn't get hit by shattering glass . . the whole town is littered with glass and debris.” Survivors were combing the wreckage Tuesday night, seeking personal possessions which might have escaped damage, while troops patrolled the business district as a precaution against looters. * All of Call’s , newspapers suffered to some degree. The worst damaged was the Diario Del Pacifico, whose linotypes were damaged by the blast. The newspapers Relator and El Pais were able to publish extra editions describing the disaster, but in order to do so they had to dig out rolls at paper -which had buried in debris.

A Compromise On Civil Rights ► k To Be Sought Democrats Select Platform Drafters To Seek Compromise DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS. Chicago (UP) —Democratic party peace-makers today named a slate of platform drafters patently handpicked to compromise the hot civil rights issue threatening to split the party's convention. The 15-member drafting subcommittee, plus Rep. John W. McCormack (D-Mass), chairman of the full platform committee, Included five Southerners and the first reaction of southern delegates to the appointments was favorable. On balance, the membership clearing was slanted toward a civil rights commitment stronger than that of the party’s 1952 plank. It was believed likely to propose an endorsement of the supreme court's school integration ruling in principle but without a direct mention of the court. This was in line with efforts of party leaders to satisfy northern elements demanding a forthright stand on civil rights without alienating the Southerners. Adlai E. Stevenson, front-running candidate for the party’s presidential nomination. Tuesday night stirred up a southern hornet’s nest with a televised plea for specific endorsement of the controversial court ruling. His headquarters today issued a statement indicating it was aware of the compromise complexion of the drafting subcommittee and that Stevenson was prepared to go along with its recommendations. Stevenson appeared to be backing down somewhat from Tuesday night’s strong civil rights declara tion which his press secretary Roger Tubby, pointed out came in a hurried sidewalk interview and on ‘t'he spur of 'the moment.” “I am hot implying that he Wdifld have phrased It differently but I think some Southerners felt he was trying to dictate to the platform committee," Tubby said. “He isn’t trying to dictate to the platform committee.” The developments appeared further to strengthen a trend — at least temporarily shaken—toward Stevenson’s nomination. At the same time close associates here of former President Truman said Mr. Truman, a supporter of Gov. Averell Harriman for the nomination, will not buck the Stevenson trend to boost Harriman unless the situation changes materially. — — That word appeared to dim Harriman’s chances considerably. Budget Is Filed By Commissioners Sizeable Decrease In Budget Request A sizeable decrease in the budget request of the county commissioners is seen in the 1957 proposal filed with county auditor Frank Kitson. The commissioners’ budget and several others were filed Tuesday. The commissioners seek a total appropriation of $78,542. Last year's request was $108,704. of which $107,654 was approved. Part of the decrease is caused by the removal of the bridge construction fund from the commissioners budget to a special levy. Last year’s request for bridges was about $35,000 and this year's budget asks only SB,OOO for bridge jnaintenance. Other items in the commissioners’ budget include $16,788 for salaries and compensations of commissioners, councilmen, attorneys, trustees, board members and others; $11,500 for operating expenses which includes the bridge fund; $42,004 for current charges; $4,000 for current obligations and $4,250 for the county home debt. County Buildings The commissioners’ have alap submitted their budgets for the county home, the county court house and the county jail. This year’s county jail budget proposal totals $5,575, a decrease from the $9,625 requested last year. The 1957 total includes $1,500 for salary of matron, $3,075 for operating expenses and SI,OOO for remodeling of the kitchen. The court house budget total is $9,370, considerably less than the $34,825 request last year which included a request for an elevator. The amoaat approved last year (Oontmuea ob Page XtgM)

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Nehru Says India Will Attend Conference But Egypt Will Not Attend

Ike Hopeful Os Negotiations To End Suez Crisis Cannot Conceive Os Military Force To Solve Canal Issue WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower said today he cannot conceive of military force being a good solution to the Suez Gattal crisis under present conditions. The President said he does not yet believe that Britain and France on one side and Egypt on tbo other are so committed to opposite stands that they jcannot get together He said there is good reason to believe soberness will prevail. He added pointedly at his news conference that he was not saying he opposes use of force in the Suez situation under any circumstances. > What he meant, he said, wks that important questing should be settled by negotiation if poasiblbi . But he said he didn't mean that any nation should surrender its rights without striving hard to preserve them. Mr. Eisenhower refused to say whether the United States would I get into any war fiver the Suez waterway should one develop. He told a questioner he would not speculate that far ahead. The President got into a discussion of the Suez dispute at the very outset of his news conference when a reporter asked how he felt about the use or threat of military force to settle the controversy over Egypt’s nationalization of the vital waterway. Mr. Eisenhower replied the United States has every hope that (Continued on Page Eight) No Jurors Seated In Brink's Trial Defense Attorneys Down 20 Veniremen BOSTON (UP) — A steady cannonade of defense challenges battered court machinery today in the trial of eight Brink’s defendants accused of plundering $1,219,000. More than 100 prospective jurors were summoned Tuesday. Rut not one had been seated to try the middle-aged men charged with the nation's greatest cash robbery. The defense headed by attorney Paul T. Smith turned down 20 veniremen on the second day of the trial. Nine others were challenged by the prosecution and 18 were excused by Suffolk County Superior Judge Felix Forte. Earlier in closed session Judge Forte excused 37 prospective jurors. Seventeen persons summoned to the grey brick courthouse failed to appear. Smith, who charged that the de- < fendants cannot get a fair trial in Massachusetts, denied there was any unusual defensive strategy in i the volley of challenges. The eight men who the state | says eluded capture for six years i after looting the Brink’s North. End, counting house Jan. 17, 1950, appeared in court for the first time < Tuesday. j They are Michael Geagan, 47; i Thomas F. Richardson, 48; Adolph < (Jazz) Maffie, 44; Henry D. Baker, i 49; Vincent J. Costa, 41; James I. Faherty, 44, Anthony Pino, 48, and 1 Joseph F. McGinnis, 48, all of < Greater Boston. < INDIANA WEATHER i Party cloudy, rather warm i and humid tonight and Thurs- v < day. Occasional thundershowers northwest and extreme ; north portions tonight and over 1 most of state Thursday. Low tonight 66-72, hign Thursday 1 90-96. Bvneet 7:50 p.m., sun- i rise Thursday 5:52 a.m. j

Transfer Money In City General Fund ' •£’ ' ' I Also Raise Rental „ On Water Hydrants «. A resolution transferring money In the city general fund to pay of temporary help in the and recreation departments Iras adopted by the city council at ,ghe regular meeting Tuesday night. . The resolution authorized the thmsfeh of SI,BOO from the regular police salary fund to the temporary police salary fund and SI,OOO from the regular recreatiga;>alafiflt_flmiL to the temporary recreation salaries fund. , Also adopted by the council was an ordinance raising the rental and the minimum water consumption of bydrants. "TFe terms of the ordinance raise the rental payments for hydrants to $65 per hydrant. The minumum consumption of water by the city has been raised to 360 cubic feet per month. ’ The resolution was adopted as the result of a recommendation of the Indiana public service commission on the city’s request tor a raise in water rates to put the water department back on a paying basis. The rental raise becomes effective Jan. 1. 1957. In other routine business during the Tuesday night meeting, the ' etmnc-H accepted several petitions for rural power line extensions. These include a petition filed for the new Texaco station on U. S. highway 224 just east of Decatur, one filed by Alvin and Esther Krueckeberg of route five and one by Leo and Francis Roe for Roe Acres, a housing development northeast of Monmouth. These petitions were referred to the electric light and power department A petition for a water connection to the new Texaco station was referred to the water committee in conjunction with the city engineer, and a petition for lights on Pattereon and 12th streets was referred to the light and power department. Agreements between the city and individuals for electric line extensions were approved and recorded. The contracts were with Burl and Marilyn Sprunger of Root township and Calvin and Norman J. Bowman of Root township. Two remonstrances were filed with the council Tuesday night. One was a remonstrance by Aaron and Dorothy Sudduth of 716 Schirmeyer street against a neighbor who has been keeping a sow. It was reported that the persons have been notified to get., rid of the pig and they have agreed to do so. ... (Continued on Page Five) —i U.S. Employment Hits New Record Establishes Record 2nd Month In Row WASHINGTON (UP) — Employment hit a new record in July for the second straight month, the government reported today. The number of jobholders rose 152.000 last month to a total of 66,833,000. Unemployment remained virtually steady, declining 94,000 to a total of 2,833,000. These figures were released jointly by the commerce and labor departments. They were compiled in the second week of July and so did not reflect the full effects of the month-long steel strike which started July 1. The employed and unemployed totals reflected some layoffs in other industries affected by the steel strike. But about half a million of the steel strikers themselves were counted 'as employed since they were not looking for , other jobs. The employed-total also included about 5% million workers on vacations last month. Job holders numbered 1,660,000 more than in July, 1966. There were 362,000 mors jobless than a year age. '

Eisenhower To Take Another Physical Exam Discloses Plans To Have Examination Prior To Election (UP) — President EisepWower disclosed today he will undergo another physical examination before the November election to make sure there has been no change in his fitness for a second term. He pledged once again to tell the people if he has any reason to believe his health bars him from carrying through another four years in the White House. Mr. Eisenhower made the statements at regular weekly news conference in which questioning reflected mounting interest in the coming presidential election. The President is assured of a second term nomination. He said he has no plans for a vacation other than to remain in the San Francisco area three or : four days after the GOP conven- ■ tion. He plans to go to the convention on its last day. ( Mr. Eisenhower also told his > news conference: i 1. He hopes the criticjd Suez situation will be Settletf without . resort to military force. But he carefully avoided any statement that the United States would be opposed to force under any circumstances and refused to say whether he feels Britain and France art justified in sending military reinforcements to the Suez area. 2. He feels he has made bis position perfectly clear on the “dump Nixon” campaign of Harold E. Stassen and he does not intend to discuss it again. (Continued on ;-ag« rive) Mrs. Elva J. Flook Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Scheduled Friday i - Mrs. Elva Jane Flook, 80, who , made her home with her son-in-law and daughter, the Rev. and Mrs. ( Cart R. Shaw, east of Monroe, died at noon Tuesday at a Bluffton vest , home. She had been ill since March ( with a cerebral hemorrhage, and critical for four days. She was born in Darke county, O„ Oct. 20, 1875, a daughter of ’ William B. and Leatha A. VanceDejjt, She was first married to George A. Miller,, who died In 1910. She married John Flook in : 1922. and he preceded, her in death { Sept. 6, 1951. ( Mrs. Flook was a member of the Nineveh Evangelical United Breth- , ren church near Greenville, O- j Surviving in addition to Mrs ( Shaw are two other daughters, Mrs. , Ruth Altic of near Monroeville and J Mrs. Lena Coleman of Fort Wayne; < two sons. Ralph Miller of Dayton, 0., and Howard Miller of Chicago j Heights, IM.; one stepson, W. D. ( Miller of Ekhart; five S|epdaugh- j ters, Mrs. Faye Hollinger of Cando, j S. D, Mrs Mae Lawshe of Lees- , burg, <Mrs. Eva Stanger of Greentown, Mrs. Mary Lawson and Mrs. Helen Shockey of Marion; 48 J grandchildren; 50 great-grandchil- I dren; one brother, Pearly Delk of Greenville, 0., and two sisters. Mrs. Lillie Thompson of Packerton. i Mrs. Demrrrte Finton of Greenville, i O. Two sons, three brothers and i two sisters are deceased. t Funeral services will be conducted at 9:30 am. Friday at the Zwick 1 funeral home, and the body will j then be taken to the Nineveh EUB I church near Greenville, O.; to lie s ip state from 1 p.m. until services i at 2:30 o’olock. The Rev. Joe Gib- < Son will officiate, and burial will < be in the Abbottsville cemetery, i Friends may call at the funeral i home hero after 7 o’clock this eve- i ' ning until time of the services. j

Rotary Leader ,< V ■ MJ — - ‘Jacob L. Brenn — Rotary Governor In City Thursday Pays Official Visit To Local Rotarians The Decatur Rotary club wiM be host to Jacob L. Brenn, governor of the 224th district of Rotary International, at the local club's weekly dinner meeting at 6:30 o'clock Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. This will be the official visit by* Brenn to the local olub, one of the 39 Rotary clubs in Northern Indiana of which he is governor. HO will address the local club and confer Joseph G. Kaehr, president, and committee chairmen on Rotary administration and service activities. Brenn is president of the Huntinfo n Laboratories, Inc., in Huntington, and is a member and past president of the Huntington Rotary club. He is a world traveler, member of the board of trustees of Huntington College, and a member of the board of directors of the In.. Kiana manufacturers association. He was elected a district governor of Rotary International for the 1956-57 fiscal year at Rotary’s 47th annual convention in Philadelphia in June. He is one of 248 district governors supervising the activities of more than 91,006 Rotary clubs which have a membership of 431,000 business and professional executives in 999 countries throuoghout the free world. In discussing the governor’s visit, the local club president stated that wherever Rotary clubs are located, their activities-are similar to those of the Decatur club, based on the same general objectives — developing better understanding and fellowship among business and professional men, promoting communitybetterment undertakings, raising the standards of businesses and professions, and fostering the advancement of good will, understand tng and peaceamong all the peoples of the would. Kaehr added that this worldwide service organigSTTbn continues to grow in numbers and strength each year. During the past fiscal year, 351 new Rotary clubs were organised in 48 countries of North, South and Central America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the islands of the Pacific, and seven countries were added to Rotary's roster — Angola, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, The Netherlands, New Guinea, Ruanda-U/rundi and Swaziland Jack Chappell Named Personnel Director Jack Chappell has been appointed personnel director at the Decatur plant of the Central Soya company, Inc., it was announced today by Tom Allwein, plant manager. Chappell is a graduate of Purdue University and for the past five years has been associated with the International Harvester company as assistant industrial relations director. Prior to that he was employ; e4 with Moding Manufacturing company of LaPorte. ChappeH, his wife, Ruth, and their two children will malfe their home in Decatur when he assumes his new duties August 20.

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i India Accepts Bid To Attend London Parley Nehru Says Egypt Could Not, Would Not Attend Parley LONDON (UP) — Indian Prime Minister Jawahralal Nehru announced today India would attend the 24-nation Suez conference tn London but he said Egypt "could not and would not attend.” Egyptian sources in Miscow reported that Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser not only would reject the invitation to his government to attend the conference but he himself would fly to the, Soviet captial for urgent talks on the precise day the London parley is scheduled to begin. Nehru warned that the grave crisis could touch off a major war and told Britain and France their threat to settle the Suez crisis by force “does not belong to this age . and is not dictated by reason.” Informed sources said India would present a compromise plan t aimed at averting war in the . Middle East while supporting , Nasser’s seizure of the Suez Canal. Nasser himself Is to anhpunee 4 Egypt’s position in a . "worlt importance" scheduled for . Sunday morning. One London newspaper carried unconfirmed reports he might announce a military treaty with Russia then. Nehru’s cautious acceptance of the .invitation to the conference was expected to break a diplomatic logjam. It was considered almost certain the Soviet Union would attend. A new complication arose In Athens when the Greek government formally asked the United States, Brfate-end-Pnmce to postpone the meeting and to hold it somewhere else than London. That had been expected to be Egypt’s position. Nehru told the Indian parliament his government sought clarification from Britain and feels assured that Indian participation ‘‘does not in any way imply that they are restricted to or bound by the approach and the principles” set out by the Western Big Three. The irtaian government recognizes that “Egypt could not and would not participate in a conference on the Suez-CanaJ to which she is merely an invitee and in respect of which there have been no consolations with her,” Nehru said. Nehru’s acceptance came only hours after Britain and France ad; opted o more conciliatory attitude in the Suez crisis hr hopes of retaining India’s support. While Nehru was addressing the Indian parliament, Britain and France continued their military buildup in case the conference should fail and an Egyptian spokesman said the Egyptian army mobilization was enough to meet any threat. Nehru said India had satisfied itself that participation in the London conference would “not injure the interests of the sovereign rights and dignity of. Egypt.” He predicted the London conference “can reach no final decisions for that requires the agreement of Egypt.” ? * Late Bulletins MARCINELLE, Belgium (UP) — Fire touched off by a high-tension short circuit trapped an estimated 269 men 3,000 feet below ground in a coal mine today. A major disaster was feared. Eight hours ater the alarm, rescue worker* broke Into the blazing shaft.and found four of the trapped men. Throe at the shaft’s entrance were dead. A fturth was brought out alive.