Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1956 — Page 1

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7 “ONE CANDIDATE’’ r ii.rr- ? ~".f nMiTin AFTER EXCHANGING warm greetings upon his arrival in Chicago with Democratic hopeful Adlai Stevenson, Ex-President Harry S. Truman announced to his first press conference that he would "come out in favor of one candidate for presidential nomination before Sunday.”

Civil Rights : j Plank Leading Democrat Aim Party Leaders Seek To Head Off Split Over Civil Rights CHICAGO (UP)—Former President Truman alternately fed and smothered the civil rights fire today, first endorsing and then op-1 posing denial of federal aid to stales practicing racial discrimination. On a morning walk with newsmen the former President described as "good” the theory, advocated by his civil rights commission in 1947, of withholding government aid to states failing to fall in line with federal policy against racial segregation. Nearly four hours later—after conferences with labor leaders and Adlai E. Stevenson — the former President issued a statement saying be had been misunderstood. He said his views are -the same as those he expressed recently when congress was considering federal aid to schools. At that time, he recalled, he opposed adoption of the so-called Powell amendment, under which aid funds would have been denied to schools practicing racial segregation in defiance of a supreme court ruling. The former President’s fast maneuver on the civil rights question was in line with a drive by party leaders to head off a civil rights split that could wreck the Democratic convention opening here MOTffay. “ _ The party’s platform committee meantime came to grips with the civil rights issue, hearing plans of a day-long parade of witnesses, many of them urging adoption of a strong civil rights plank and some demanding inclusion of a specific endorsement of the high court’s 1954 ruling against school segregation. George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, warned the platform drafters that labor will not be satisfied with "weasel words, glittering generalities, or the advertising man’s club insincerity.” He said the effort of individuals, groups and even states to thwart the court ruling “must not be permitted to go unchallenged.” Southern convention delegates were ready to accept, though reluctantly, civil rights endorsements of a general nature, provided only that the supreme court decision on school integration was not specifically mentioned. A platform drafting subcommittee, with the backing of party (Continued on Page Eight* Concordia Coach To Double Up Duties FORT WAYNE. Ind. (UP)—Fort Wayne Concordia high school’s football coach. William Koch., also will pilot the basketball team next season, the school announced today. Koch., a Valparaiso University graduate, will replace Byard Hey, who resigned last spring. Koch has been at Concordia three years. French Censorship On Casualties Eased ALGIERS (UP) — French authorities. relaxing their censorship of casualties in Algeria’s hit-and-run guerrilla war. announced today that about IM persons have been slain in recent fighting. The dead included la French soldiers. 45 guerrillas and "several dozen” loyal natives massacred by Arab cutthroats tn a raid Tuesday night.

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Present Program To Aid Small Business Recommended Plan Includes Tax Cuts WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower’s small business advisory committee has recommended a program designed to aid small businesses. The program includes tax cuts. The first recommendation and the ope containing “the greatest punch,” a White House official said, would reduce the basic corporate tax from 30 per cent to 20 per cent on net income under 125,000. The tax rate on net income over that amount is now 52 per cent. The basic rate will drop to 25 per cent April unless congress extends* the present law. The committee said the tax cut and other suggested changes would have “very little impact" on the budget, costing about 600 million dollars the first year and some 740 million the second year. Other taxation recommendations would permit .business to depreciate used property purchase* up to 150,000. Such tax deductions bow are limited to oew machinery, buildings and equipment It was also recommended that small corporations with under 10 be allowed to be taxed as partnerships. Other recomendations included: ' "Favorable consideration” in determining profi t ssbuydetermining profits by subcontractors, many of which are small concerns. Extension of the life of the small business administration beyond its present expiration date next June 30. Enactment of legislation providing "closer federal scrutiny of mergers." v Amendment of the basic antitrust law to make cease-and-de-sist ordeys of the federal trade commission final, unless appealed to the courts, ■ and to empower the attorney general to make demands for civil anti-trust investigations. • Simplification of wage reporting by employers for both social security and income tax withholding. Think Older Mixup Led To Mine Fire Probe Mine Tragedy Trapping Over 200 MARCINELLE, Belgium (UP) — A loaded coal cart on the wrong level' toppled over and turned the "Bitter Heart” coal mine into a possible mass grave for more than 200 miners, preliminary investigations indicated today. Experts told investigating magistrate M. Casteleyn that Belgium’s wojat mine accident in history may' have been caused by a mixup in operating orders. At least 243 miners were missing and 24 were known dead. But little hope was held out for the men of many nations — mostly Italian — entombed more than a half mile below the surface of the heart. They have been there for two days. Rescue efforts continued 48 hours after flames spread through the two main shafts of the 3.500foot mine. An engineer reported a fatal deposit of carbon monoxide gas at the 2,700-foot level. The last spark of hope faded from the eyes of the weeping women who kept vigil outside the smutty -yel-low-gray pit. ■The 243 missing was the firm’s figures. Unofficial reports said that at maty gs 284 miners were (Continues on' Fags Eight)

Total Tax Rafe For Residents Os City Higher Combined Rates On Decatur Residents Will Be Increased Taxpayers in Decatur-Washing* ton will pay $5.31 per hundred dollars of taxable property and De-catur-Root residents will pay $5.30 in 1957 if the proposed budgets submitted to county auditor Frank Kitson are approved by the county council and state tax board. These possible levies are increases over the 1956 tax levies of $5.26 for Decatur-Washington and $5.28 for Decatur-Root. According to figures released from the cotyuy auditor’s office, the possibly .185)7 levy In Decatur Washington includes $2.69 for school, $1.36 Jor the civil city; 10 cents for the lihrary, 13 cents for poor relief; I nine cents for the township, 73 cents for the county and 15 cents for the state fevy includes $2.69, schools; $1.36, city; 16 cents, library; four cents, poor relief; seven cents, township; 73 cents, county; 15 cents, state, and 10 cents, civil bonds. If the proposed tax levies are approved, the three cent cut in the civil city will be cancelled for De-catur-Washington taxpayers by a two cent increase in the library levy and a six cent Increase in the township levy, > , —- The three cent cut also affects Decatur-Root but this will be offset by the two cent library increase t a one cent increase in poor relief and a two cent increase in the township levy. The 1957 levies are baked on a total county appraised valuation of $43,424,630. Appraised value of taxable property in Washington township is $11,956,970 and in Root township, $5,381,030. - This year's proposed county levy total of 73 cents, the same asthe previous year, includes 42 Ofnts> county general; eight cents, cum , ulative bridge levy; 12 cents, county welfare; three cents, county hospital, and eight cents, county hospital bond fund. The amounts approved last year were 59 cents, county general which ineluded the bridge levy; 11 cents welfare and three cents, county hospital. The new eight cent levy for hospital bond fund and the proposed one cent increase for welfare are offset by a nine cent decrease in the proposed county - general. - ; Aluminum Workers Returning To Jobs Agreement Similar To Steel Contract NEW YORK (UP) • Aluminum workers streamed back to work today under terms of a new threeyear, no-strike contract which ended a nine-day strike. The agreement between the Aluminum Company of America and the United Steelworkers was signed here today. The Alcoa-USW agreement, similar to the recent steel strike settlement, cal)* for wage increases and fringe benefits-totaling 45.61 cents per hour over the three-year period. 4 Alcoa immediately announced a cent a pound price increase in basic aluminum pig, effective today. The 4 per cent price hike placed the price of aluminum at 25 cents a pound. Some 18,00(1 workers had struck against Alcoa, cutting aluminum production in half. The Reynolds Metals Co., which employs about 10,000 USW workers, was scheduled to meet with in Washington. Signing of a conthe union at 10 am. EDT today tract similar to the Alcoa settlement was expected. Alcoa and Reynolds produce about 50 per cent of the nation's aluminum. The Alcoa contract provides for an 11.8 cent per hour pay raise the first year, 10.7 cents the second and 9.7 cents the third. The average aluminum workers’ wage will be $2.68 an hour in 1959 under the new contract The pre-strike average was $2.22 an hour. 7 INDIANA WEATHER . Partly cloudy this after* noon through Saturday and not much change In temperatures. Chance of scattered thundershowers extreme southwest tonight or early Saturday. Low tonight in the 60s. High Saturday mostly in the 80*. Sunset 7:4$ p.m., sun* rise Saturday 5:53 a.m;

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Ike Summons Conference On Canal Crisis Calls For Leaders Os Both Parties To Sunday Conference WASHINGTON (UP) a- Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today that President Eisenhower feels strongly “about sharing responsibility with congress particularly if there should be any risk of hostilities” over Suez. Dulles said that is why Mr. Eisenhower called - congressional leaders of both parties to a special White House conference Sunday on the canal crisis. The secretary emphasized that the United States is banking cm “a peaceful solution” to the Suez dispute. He added that “I do not see anything in the situation now which would suggest that a special congressional session woulff be required.” There had been published speculation that congress might be called back if next Thursday’s international Suez conference in London fails to produce a settlement of the violent controversy over Egypt’s seizure of the waterway.* Dultes talked with newsmen shortly before taking off for New York to discuss Suez and other Middle Eastern questions with United Nations secretary general toss Hammarskjold and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., U. S. ambassador to the U. N. Vice President Richard M. Nixon confererd on the Suez and other international affairs with President Eisenhower for about half an hour. Meanwhile, authoritative sources said Britain, France and the United States have given to all countries accepting invitations to the Aug. 16 London meeting a tripartite proposal for international control of the canal. They said the proposal deals with three principal phases of contemplated international operation. These are freedom of transit, method of collecting tolls, and maintenance of the waterway. )

Stales Hodge Will Not Plead Guilty 2 Reverses-flans On Making Guilty Plea SPRINGFIELD, 111 (UP)—Exstate huditor Orville E. Hodge will not plead guilty today to 46 indictments charging embezzlement of $637,000 in state funds, his attorneys said. William A. Fulten, a partner of Hodge’s attorney. Arthur M. Fitzgerald, said “We were willing yesterday to plead Mr. Hodge guilty.’* But, he said, "we are not agreeable to entering a guilty plea and then having the sentencing delayed as demanded by State’s Atty. George P. Coutrakoh. “We don’t want any three-ring circus” in connection with a guilty plea, Fulten said. He said Fritzgerald had no further plans at present for pleading Hodge guilty. Coutrakon earlier had conferred with Hodge’s attorneys about a possible guilty plea and an immediate jail sentence for Hodge, but indicated he would oppose such a move. Coutrakon said he wants a “stiff sentence" for Hodge, accused of conducting a million-dollar raid on the state treasury. In Chicago Thursday, Hodge, his wife and his son pledged to turn over $520,000 worth of assets in partial restitution for bis fraud. (Continued on Page Five)

Formei President Hoover 82 Today Readies Speech To G.O.P. Convention SAN FRANCISCO (UP) — Forger President Herbert Hoover turned 82 today with a word of advice for fellow oldsters: Keep busy. "Otherwise you will degenerate into talking to everybody about yfur palps and pills and income tax,” he said. The white-haired, rosy - skinned elder statesman who practices what he preaches planned to pause in his busy workday to attend a dinner in his honor given by a small group of old friends at a local club. “I expect there'll be a cake,” he said. ”1 said I’d come if ... I didn't have to make a speech.” Right now he is busy composing his "third farewell address” to a Republican national -- convention. .He will appear before the GOP convention at the Cow Palace Tuesday, Aug. 21. ■ - J "I hadn’t planned to take part in this convention,” he said. “I thought I had done my share. But chairman Leonard Hall Intervened and asked me to speak. I declined but then he brought the President in to demand that I make a speech. Therefore I’m going to do my |uty.” « Mr. Hqover also is writing a book on Ms World War I activities as administrator of food relief to war refugees. Mr. Hoover declined on his birthday to talk about politics but expressed the belief that "world; tensions are much less’ now than they were four years ago. This is due in large part to the “enormous” contributions of President Eisenhower and secretary of state John Foster Dulles, he said,j Decafur Industry k Affected By Seizure Seizure Os Canal Affects Bag Service The international crisis devel pping over Egypt’s seizure of the Suez Canal will have a direct effect on a local industry. The Bag managed by Lowell Harper, is one of the foremost consumers of hemp in this country and 80 percent of the hemp shipped to this country crimes through the ‘ Suez Canal. Hemp used in making the burlap bags comes to this country in bales, each bale containing 2,000 yards. The local industry uses 1.000,000 yards per month. The hemp used here is pur chased through a broker in New York City. That which is shipped through the Suez enters this country at one of several ports of entry including Norfolk, Boston, New York, Savannah. Philadelphia and New Orleans. The other 20 percent of the hemp comes in to the west coast. Delivery time from India to the United States byway of the Suez is 60 days. It takes an additional 20 days if the hemp is shipped to the west coast instead. The local Bag Service, according to company officials, has on hand a 60-day supply of the burlap. Future suppUes already through the Suez will take the company up to March, 1957. However, a prolonged delay In solving the Suez problem may force the U. S. to import all of its hemp into west coast ports which will result in longer transportation time and higher costs. It was also pointed out that another detrimental factor to the local situation are strikes in India at the docks and at jute mills. These also might cause a delay in delivery of the burlap. Decatur’s Bag Service is dependent also on Ideal freight shipments. According to a company spokesman, the industry adds 15 railroad cars psr month to the railroad shipments into Decatur.

West Continues With Plans On Parley On Suez To Hold Conference Despite Objections Front Soviet Russia LONDON (UP) — The Went will go ahead with next Week's conference on internationalizing the Suez Canal despite Soviet objections and an apparent Egyptian boycott, official British sources said today. Prime minister Sir Anthony Eden and foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd conferred today on the Soviet “acceptance’* which some British sources said was an effort to turn 24-nation conference Into a “three ring international circus.” Eden, was in constant contact with Washington and Paris on the Kremlin’s reply to the Western invitation and the Soviet suggestions for postponing the conference, moving it to Cairo and enlarging it to include Communist countries and the Arab world. Although Egypt has not replied to thq Western invitation, there was little doubt Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser would boycott vthe jyssipn k |nd let the Soviet and Indian representatives in London state his case. Informed sources in Cairo said he was postponing a trip to Moscow to.remain in Egypt during the conference “in order to be in complete control of any developments.” Egyptian diplomatic sources in Moscow said earlier he would be visiting the Kremlin next week. British diplomats studied the 18page Soviet note of “acceptance" all night and said it was so vaguely worded they*weren't sure what |t meant. Russia said it would send a representative, but the Kremlin attached a whole series of reservations and counter — proposals. The West was thrown Into fusion by Moscow’s assertion it "will delegate its representative to this conference” and Moscow’s failure to say whether attendance depended on acceptance of its proposals. They said any move to turn the 24-nation conference into a 46-na-tion meeting would automatically turn the conference into a threering circus. They said such an unwiedly meeting might drag on , (Continued on Page Eight) j ■ —- . ' , Rev. Worthman To Indianapolis Church Resigns Pastorate Os Bluffton Church . The Rev. Matthew Worthman, a native of Adams county and pastor of the First Evangelical and Reformed church at Bluffton for 25 years, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Immanuel 'Reformed church in Indianapolis. He will make his find! appearance in the Bluffton pulpit Sunday, Aug. 19, and the following Sunday will be at his new chyrch. .The Rev. Worthman begin his ministry in 1923 following graduation from the Missions House College and. Seminary at Plymouth, Wis. His first pastorate was at St. ( Paris, O„ and he then spent seven years with the Zions church near f Brazil. In 1931 he took the Bluffton pastorate, where he has been ever sin<:& , For the past several years he has served as one of the 34 trustees of Heidelberg college at Tis- , fin, O. In addition he was presi- ‘ dent df the Michigan-Indiana synod from 1941 to 1951 and was a ( member of the board of directors j of the old folks at Upper ( Sandusky, 0.. tram 1945 to 1946. ( The Rwv. Mr. Warthman is well ( known in this county, where be » has many relatives and friends.

Heavy Traffic Toll For Day In Slate 13 Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic By UNITED PRESS Indiana today chalked up a oneday traffic death toll of at least 13—including four killed in a single’.smashup — tor one of the worst tolls in a 24-hour period this year. Four persons were killed in a three-vehicle crash near Martinsville and three Muncie brothers were killed by a speedife passenger train near McCordsville. State police said William Houldson, Jr., 22, Mrs. Isabelle , Roth. 45, and James 0. Sherman, i 17, all of Bloomfield, were killed when their pickup truck struck the rear of a car and careened head-on into a tank truck on Ind. 67 near Martinsville. Alfred John Schick, 37, Indianapolis. driver of the track, also 1 was killed. The Muncie youths killed when a New York Central train struck their car were Shelly E. Neal, 21, and his brothers, Kelly, 24, and George, 18. The impact threw their bodies more than 100 feet. Tyro small children were killed. Clifford Francis, 2, ran into the path of a dump truck on Ind. 13 north of his North Manchester home, and Richard Lutz, 9, Elkhart was struck by | car while riding Ma bicycle near ElttSwt. Other victims: Arliss Graves Jr., 21, Buck Creek, killed when his car hit a tree on Itid. 18 near Galveston; Arthur O. Byran, 73, Fort Wayne, killed in a two-truck head-on crash near Summit City; George Dickson. 50, Eaton, killed in a car-truck collision on Ind. 3 near Hartford City, and Joseph L. Coulter. 23, Lafayette, killed when his car-rolled- over several times In a field near his home. Governor Os Rotary Visits Local Club Pays Official Visit To Local Rotarians "Rotary clubs in 99 countries throughout the free world are united in an endeavor to promote international understanding, good will and peace.” • That was the message of Jacob L. Brenn, of | Huntington, governor of district ; 224 of Rotary International, in addressing the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening on his official visit to the local service club. , The dinner meeting at the Youth and Community Center fol- ( lowed a conference with local Ro- ] tary officers and committee chairmen. In addition to the activities of ( Rotary’s 9,100 clubs within their own communities to promote this objective, Brenn explained Rotary . International has spent more than $2,000,000 in recent years ! through its program of student fellowships, which enable out- 1 standing college graduates to 1 study for one year in countries ’ other than their own, as Rotary ambassadors of good will. 1 Since 1947, when this program was established, 834 Rotary fel- 1 lowships have been awarded to * students fit 61 countrlea for study 1 in 40 countries. James FitzpaV 1 rick, of Bluffton, is the fellow from this district who recently ’ returned from a year spent in < Cambridge University in England, i “With fellowship and service to others as its keynote, Rotary provides a common ground tor 431,000 business and professional executives throughout the free world, regardless of differing nationalities or political or religious beliefs,” the governor emphasized. “In addition to promotion of international understanding,” Brenn continued, “special emphasis is being placed by Rotary clubs in this district, which includes 39 Rotary clubs in Northern Indiana, ou a very extensive (Continued en Fage rive) |

Seek Support Os Truman In Nominee Fight Former President Promises To Make Endorsement Soon CHICAGO (UP)— Adiai IS. Stevenson and Gov. Averell Harriman vied Ijday for the support of former I’Xsident Truman. Mr. Truman has promised to make an endorsement Saturday afternoon, which will have a great influence on the course of next week’s Democratic national convention. Stevenson spent half an hour with Mr. Truman and left with no pledge of support tor the presidential nomination. However, he indicated he had not asked far, one and said they had talked about the party platform and convention rather than the nomination. They were conferring at about the time that Harriman arrived by plane to take personal charge of his campaign. The New York governor expected to see Mr., Truman later in the day. Two hours after his arival, Harriman made clear at a news conference that he would pound on the civil rights issue in conItosaid *he favors a platform endorsement of ’•’all recent sn- - preme court decisions on civil rights?’ There id much controversy over, whether the platform should explicitly eiidorse the high court’s "decision outlawing segregated schools. Stevenson, the front • running ’ candidate, has said he favors a plank giving “unequivocal approval“ of tKe declsioh. But his con-• vention supporters are working for compromise with- the South, which wants no such provision in the platform. Harriman also said he rejects "the counsel of* moderation." “ which has been the theme of the Stevenson campaign. He said the great issue of 1956 tn “to restore United States prestige abroad which has suffered so under the Eisenhower-Dulles administration.” Mr. Truman was under heavy pressure from old political associates to throw his weight behind Harriman. Many of the 4arly arriving delegates, however, believed he would endorse Stevenson because it would be difficult to stop the renomination of the former Illinois governor. Stevenson spent 30 minutes this morning at Mr. Truman’s hotel suite but said their discussion did not involve'the nomination. “We talked about the platform, we talked about the convention but we did not talk candidates,” he said. Harriman parried questions as To whether he expects Mr. Truman’s support." Carmine DeSapio, Tammany chief and quarterback of the Harriman campaign, also was expected to see Mr. Truman today. Mr. Truman arrived here Thursday and was welcomed by Stevenson at the railroad station. But almost every place he turned later in the day, there was a Harriman supporter in view. Samuel L - Rosenman. former counsel to Mr. Truman and a Harriman worker, was staying a few doors from the ex-President and moved freely in and out of the Truman suite. British Dependents Evacuated At Suez CAIRO (UP)—Eighty-four British wives and children of Shell Oil Co. employes left Cairo by plane Thursday night for sanctuary in ‘ the West. They were the vanguard of 900 British dependents to be evacuated from Egypt and the Suet Canal Zone. They were advised by the British foreign office to leave if there was no “compelling reason” for them remain.

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