Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 192.

DEM’S DISTAFFERS MRS. COYA KNUDSEN, Minnesota Congresswoman, helps Congresswoman Lenore K. Sullivan of Missouri with her TV makeup at Chicago’s National Democratic Convention. A total of seven congresswomen, all speaking on “Our American Home and the i Is It* made up the major portion of Tuesday’s afternoon ugeiiua. \

Truman Says Stevenson Not Fighting Type Declores Stevenson Lacking In Fighting Spirit Sorely Needed CHICAGO (UP) — Farmer President Truman said today that Adlai Stevenson lacks the necessary "fighting spirit” of a Democratic presidential nominee. Mr. Truman, who is working night and day to win the nomination for New York Gov. Averell Harriman, said that Stevenson, now the front-running candidate, “lacks the kind of fighting spirit that we need to win.” x - Mr. Truman opened a news conf«wenea4witU a Hast at newspapers which have said that his espousal of Harriman’s cause; would hjrm the former Presidents Place, in history."" ~ “J am not worried about the personal consequences.” Mr. Truman said. He said his basic purpose in this Democratic nominating convention was to put across “a fighting candidate” who was not hobbled by "reservations or evaBions.t. He said,he feared that Stevenson followed “the counsel of hesitation” which would lead the Democratic party into the hands of moderates. . . “I am shocked that any liberal Democrat would abandon the NewDeal or the Fair Deal as out of date,” he said. The former President, making an energetic last ditch effort to stop - Stevenson, said he thought the former Illinois governor might represent the "destruction of social philosophy” if he won the nomination here. Mh Truman said he had nothing personal against Stevenson: as a matter of fact, he liked him. This brought a big laugh from the reporters. Mr. Truman also criticised Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late President, who recommended to the convention in a speech that they forget the New Deal or the Fair Deal and look to the future. The former President said “Mrs. Roosevelt is entirely misinformed" in suggesting that Mr. Trupian was trying to create a deadlock and boost the candidacy of darkhorse Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri. * C He confirmed, however, that he had asked Symington to come to the convention earlier than planned. Asked whether he would suggest Symington for the vice presidential nomination, Mr. Truman said that he was “not nominating" a vice president. Syngmon Rhee Begins Third Korean Term SEOUL (UP) — Aged Syngman Rhee began his third four-year term as president today with the assertion that a divided Korea would remain a threat to world peace. Rhee, now, 81, is the only president the young Republic of Korea has ever had. His was inaugurated for the third time on the steps of the war-gutted capitol. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight. Thursday partly cloudy, scattered thundershower* likely north ''portion Thlifbday afternoon or - night Low tonight 64-89. High Thursday 88-94. Sunset 7:41 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 5:57 a.m.

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Hoosier Delegates Favor Open Ballot Tucker Suggestion Vetoed By Hoosiers CHICAGO (UP) •- Indiana delegates to the Democratic nation’s! convention voted at a stormy caucus today to reject Ralph Tucker’s plan for a secret ballot on the presidential nomination. Tucker, candidate for governor, r was ill in his hotel room and t did not attend the cacus. It Was reported he probably would miss all the convention sessions because of a wrenched back. , Tucker proposed earlier that ’ the Indiana delegation cast a secI ret ballot so none of the delegates would be placed on record. At ’ the caucus, however, state chairman Charles Skillen said “ I like to see a person get up and vote tor whoever he wants." t . ly Jto .jwittheir ballots openly. ~ Tu’cfier said since fie Sid not I present the suggestion to the cau- . cus he does not consider the vote * rejection of his plan. A straw vote wks taken it the ’ caucus. Adlai Stevenson received 15 votes, Averell Harriman 3, Stuart Symington 2%, and A. B. 1 Chandler 1. The state’s other 4% votes were uncommitted. —57 — It was reported this vote probably would change after the first ballot because some delegates had first ballot instructions from their district. Symington was expected to pick up at least one more vote * on the second ballot. ’ “The state is in the best shape politically that it has been in ‘ years,” Skillen told delegates. He ~ said cbanceß of etectTng Demo; Cratic candidates in Indiana this year were “very encouraging,” but "we must unite after this con1 vention is over.” Two veteran Democratic leaders, Frank McKinney and Frank McHale, said there Undoubtedly would be minority presented to the convention on various planks in the platform. McKinney said he was sure the platform committee would present “a watered down farm plank.” He said “Claude Wickard cannot win” on such a program in his race for the U. S. senate. McHale made a plea for a strong civil rights plank and urged delegates to vote for a minority report if the convention should adopt a “moderate” civil rights stand. Hodge Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison Former Auditor Os Illinois Sentenced CHICAGO (UP)—Former state auditor Orville E. Hodge was sentenced today to 20 years in prison Tor misapplying 3816,427 in state funds deposited in federally insured banks. Ten years of the sentence would be suspended if Hodge makes good his promise of restitution.' Hodge was brought here from a Springfield hospital to plead guilty before Judge John P. Barnes to the 51 counts in the indictment. The disgraced auditor, who also is awaiting sentencing on state embezzlement charges, looked pale and ill. He sat with his head in his hands for most of the time while his attorney, Arthur Fitzgerald, made the plea. Hodge wiped his forehead frequently with his handkerchief. Fitzgerald said there was “no question” about the seriousness of the crime. Bqt. he said, Hodge is penitent, and he and his wife plan to liquidate their holdings in an effort Ao make complete restitution. (Continued on Page Eight)

Leading Role To Dulles Al London Parley Expresses Hope Os Peaceful Solution To Crisis On Suez LONDON (UP) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said today he had flown to London to get a "peaceful solution to the free, secure and unhampered use" of the Suez Canal. Dulles' emphasis on a “peaceful solution” appeared aimed at Asian and Middle Eastern nations which have expressed alarm that Britain and France might use force if .Thursday’s conference of 22 nations fails to solve the Suez Canal crisis. Dulles and the American delegation arrived today aboard a U. S. air force plane. Dulles expressed hope the conference would work out “a solution to this problem so vital to the peace and well-being of all the world.” Dulles conferred almost immediately with prime minister Sir Anthony Eden, foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French foreign minister Christian Pineau. Their aim was to line up a Western Big Three solid front for the formal sessions opening Thursday, at which Eden will make a brief formal speech of welcome and then withdraw. The Western statesmen must patch up any disagreements on the Suez sisue and present a joint plan for internationalizing the canal. Dulles’ emphasis on a peaceful solution came as Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru warned in New Delhi that the use of military force could lead to a "general conflagration.” Nehru also expressed confidence a peaceful .solution win be found and said, “even if the first conferfence fans,’successw!h conft? fit a second or third conference.” The Indian representative to the Suez conference Sv as reported' to have brought With. him an Egyptian offer to accept international supervision of the canal hut only as long as Egypt controls it. All eyes Were on Dulles who was expected to play the leading role at the conference. He has already reassured Britain and France of American backing in their quarrel with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser but Britons feared Dulles might be willing to accept the Egyptian stand. Britain has rejected it. The Egyptian position was outlined to British leaders by V. KKrishna Menon, India's roving ambassador who stopped over in Cairo for talks with Nasser on his way here. 14lh Polio Case Is Reported In Area Nine-Month-Old Girl Stricken By Polio Tfie polio total for Decatur and the surrounding area continued to rise with the report of the 14th case Tuesday afternoon. Denise Durbin, nine-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Durbin of route three, was taken to St. Joseph's hospital in Fort Wayne suffering polio which has caused paralysis to her left leg. It is believed that the acute phase of the infant’s illness is over. She became ill Sunday, Aug. 5, and her illness was finally diagnosed as polio on-Monday. o It has also been reported that Janice Baker, four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baker of Decatur route three, has suffered a setback and her condition, first believed improving, is critical again, Janice is a victim of bulbar polio and is a spatient 'kt the Fort Wayne Lutheran hospital. Meanwhile, locaJ and state health officials are becoming more and mote concerned over the local polio Incidence, which is by far the worst in the state. Robert Branson of Indianapolis, a representative of the state office of the National Polio foundation, was in Decatur Tuesday afternoon to confer with local health authorities. Mrs. Robert Hess, chairman of the local foundation chapter, also attended the meeting. Branson pointed out that the only effective method of preventing the spread of polio is vaccination with the Salk vaccine. It was emphasized that every person between the ages of six months and 30 years should be vaccinated. » Plans for a publicity campaign to get people to their family physicians to receive the shots were .dis(Continued on Page Eight)

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Stevenson Practically Sews Up Nomination By Party Convention

Civil Rights Plank Formed By Committee Compromise Plan Seeks To Prevent Any Party Split CHICAGO (UP) — Democratic platform drafters asked the party today to pledge schooling "without discrimination” for all Americans but to reject use of force to implement the supreme court’s anti, segregation decision. This was the civil rights formula devised to try to head off a split between northern and southern factions of the Democratic party. Southerners did not like it but indicated most would accept it. Northern liberals Indicated they would lead a fight on the convention floor to try to strengthen the compromise commitment. It appeared these northern factions, headed by leaders of the Harriman camp, would be defeated its any such effort Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark) said the plank “spems: ba what in the middle'. It could have been better and it could have been worse.” The' civil rights plank, as presented to the iOB-member platform committee today by a drafting subcommittee, would pledge the party to “continue its efforts to eliminate illegal discriminations of all kinds, including full rights to vote, full rights -to engage in gainful occupations, full rigfits to enjoy security of the person,- and fail rights to education in pfibHcly supported institutions.” —— Much of the language in the proposed plank was lifted almost verbatim from the party’s 1952 platform plank on this issue. The plank wa s i ncluded in an .overall statement of party policy that promised a tax cut, full parity price supports for farmers, bigger social security payments, full employment, a minimum wage of $1.25, a broadened welfare program, and — at the same time — a balanced federal budget. The platform was laid before the 108-man platform committee by a drafting subcommittee that had worked through most of the night: A number of the main planks had been released previously. The civil rights plank was held as a closely guarded secret to the last. This was the plank on which party peacemakers had lavished (Continued on Pare Three) Financial Report From School Board Annual Financial Statement Listed The annual financial statement of the Decatur school board, which, according to statute, must be published within 30 days following the Close of the fiscal year July- 31, has been prepared and will be released in legal form soon. Dr. James Burk, treasurer, said today. Expenditures in the special fund, which will be itemized in the report totalled $75,683.95, A balance in this fund at the close of the fiscal year totalled $37,594.63. In the tuition fund, which is not Itemized, expenditures totalled $222,287.94 and there was a balance at the close of the year of $104.943.84. This fund is drawn upon for a big part for teachers’ salaries, except administrative. • Bond fund expenditures were $26,092.50, with a balance of $6,757.75. , There were exepnditures in the recreation fund during the year of $3,065.99 and a balance of $1,127.57. Expenditures in the special building same amount of receipts reported, leaving no balance. There was a balance of $40,999.27 (Continued on Page Six)

Complete Faculty Os Public Schools Superintendent Lists J 54 Faculty Members *The names of the 54 faculty memnfrs who will staff Lincoln school, tie N 6 rtfi elementary School! aU DecptF Jupior-senlor high school have been announced by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur schools. for the three schools will be the same as last year. They are Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high 1 school; P. Bryce Thomas, Lincoln, and Hubert Zerkel, Jr., Northwest ’ elementary. Only one new teacher will be added to the high school faculty. William McColly, a former resident 1 of Hartford City and a graduate of Ball State Teachers college, will replace Willard Doehrman as science and mathematics teacher. New elementary teachers for the 1956-57 school year are Mrs. Kath--1 ryn Dorwin, who formerly taught at Monmouth school and who will 1 teach grade three at Lincoln school; Thelma Hendricks, a forf tiler Adams Central teacher who will teach grade six at Lincolns Mrs. Emma Kerst, a former Pleast «nt Milte’ teacher- -who - will have 1 grade four at Lincoln school, and 1 Mrs. Anita Rentz Fisher, a former .resident of Decatur and a graduate ’ of Valparaiso university. The complete Lincoln school fae- ' ulty includes Miriam McDonald, ; kindergarten; Ruby Swfckard, Kin- ’ dergarten; Helen Zwick. kinderJ garten: Alma Brayton, grade one; 5 Madeline Snell, grade one; Ruth 1 Petrie, grade one; Mary Jo Hoff- ’ man. gra'de two; Florence Haney. 1 grade two; Drusilla Hartman, grade ’ two; Mary A. Wemhoff, grade “three; Kathryn Dorwin, grade ’ three: Emma Kerst, grade four; Vera Van Buskirk, grade four; Matilda Sellemeyer, grade four: Wilma Andrews, grade five; Dorothy k Etch enaner. grade "fiver Robert Doan, grade six: Thelma Hendricks, grade six: Raymond Lehman, grade seven; Floyd Reed. ’ grade seven, and Jerry Leitz, grade seven. Teachers at Northwest elementary school, In addition to principal Zerkel who will teach physical education, will be Fern Freeland, kindergarten; Mary Helen Moran, grade * one: Anita Fisher, grade two; Irene Friedly, grade two; Marnell Shepherd, grade three; Evelyn Detter, grade three: Leona Feasel, grade four: Glennys Roop, grade five and librarian, and Paul Liechty, grade six. The junior-senior high school faculty Includes Hugh Andrew's, principal and social studies; Merritt J. Alger, mathematics: Hugh J. Cobb, commerce and -English; Roberta Ludy Chronister, home economics; Harry Dailey, science and rnathematics; William McColly, science and mathematics: Deane T. Dorwin, speech, social studies and journalism: Sylvester Everhart. driver training and physical education; Helen Haubold, vocal music; Maynard Hetrick, commerce. William Journay, vocational agriculture and science; Kathryn Kauffman, art; Amos Ketchum, shop and industrial arts; Eleanor Pumphrey, librarian; Clint E. Reed, band; Lowell J. Smith, social studies: Charlotte Vera, Latin and English; Owen Wemhoff, English; Rebecca Worthman, physical education. health and safety, and Robert Worthman, coach, physical education, health and ' Recreation Program To Close Thursday The summer recreation program at Worthman field will be officially closed Thursday, according to an announcement today by Steve Everhart, city park supervisor. The field has been open five days weekly throughout the summer, with a varied program of recreation -for-’youngsters and ~ adulter.”: Everhart also urged all children to pick up their craft material at the field Thursday in order that it may be saved fer use next year

Rayburn Blasis Ike Policies Al Convention Puts Eisenhower Squarely On Spot For Administration CHICAGO (UP) — Speaker Sam, Rayburp set up the target Tuesday night for this fall’s Democratic campaigners and put President Eisenhower squarely in Its center. The 74-year-old political veteran took over as permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention for the third consecutive time and immediately launched an all-out attack on policies of the Republican administration — and the man who heads it. “. . . I believe in putting the blame where it really lies,” Rayburn said in blasting the Eisenhower administration,” ... on the shoulders of the President of the United States.” The stern but beloved “Mr. Sam" of Capitol Hill lost no time in shilling .the. ovjatiop set off for for hinf when “fiw strode to the rostrum. "All right, that’s enough,” he said to placardwaving. parading ■ delegates, including some of his fellow Tex , ans. Then he got down -to the business of smiting Republicans, including Mr. Eisenhower and Vice i President Richard M. Nixon. Rayburn demanded that Mr. Eisenhower be held accountable i for his administration. , The speaker's prepared text , was even stronger. It wasn't spoken from the rostrum, but Rayburn had written down: “The American people are entitled to a real leader in the White House. The American people want a man who is prsident in fact as well as in name.” Instead. Rayburn ad libbed: “The more Republicans I serve under, the prouder I am to be a Democrat.” And the hall full of Democrats roared approval. As for Nixon, Rayburn noted that Republicans are claiming the Democrats cannot beat their candidate. “But we ’ can beat their twjo candidates,” he declared. Rayburn Mso took up Mr. Eis- , enhower’s health. He said the Democrats are npt making an 1 issue of the President's heart and J subsequent intestinal operation-. “The Republicans are doing ' (Continued on Page Five) 1 : —— ' | Dispute Developing On Toll Road Speed ■ First Section To Open On Thursday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A dis ference of opinion over legal i speed limits on Indiana's upstate east-west toll road may have to | be settled by Attorney Gen. Ed- , win Steers, it appeared today. ( Toll road director Albert J. , Wedeking announced Tuesday a | five-mile-an - hour “tolerance” | would be permitted for buses and . trucks, making their maximum t speed 60 and 50 mph, respectively. State Police Supt. Frank A. t Jessup protested, saying the statutory limit of 55 and 45 mph, for buses and trucks, would be enforced unless Steers ruled other- ( wise. | So far. no official opinion has I been sought. The first section of the super- < highway is scheduled to open at * 12:1)1 a.m., Thursday. Rep. Philip C. Johnson. Mooresville, chairman of .the legislative traffic safety study committee. * challenged the toll road commis- ‘ sion’s right to raise the speed limit. State Sen. Warren W. Mar- 1 "tin. Jr? Tiarksvilie? fooF the bp- ‘ posite view. Martin contended the < commission can do as it pleasea 1 "because the turnpike Is a private i road.” <

Institute Speaker KT fjjjßL Bl ! 'w James R. Mitchell Purdue Professor Institute Speaker James R. Mitchell Speaks Here Aug. 23 James R. Mitchell, director of teacher placement and professor of education at Purdue university, will sneak at ttie annual teachers institute for Adams county schools Thursday, Aug. 23, in the circuit court room. ■ . ' ; - The topic of Ms speech will be “Significant Role of Teachers in These Times.” His talk will be the main feature of the Institute which will begin at 9:30 a m. During the afternoon session the teachers will go to their respective schools tb meet with their principals. Mitchell is one of the state’s best known leaders in the field of education. He combines a wide acquainiance With school admlifistrators and teachers with a wide range of experience in secondary education work and an excellent educational background. He attended Indiana State Teachers College and after several years of teaching obtained his master’s degree in 1934 from Indiana University. He has done graduate work at the University of Colorado, Purdue University and Indiana University. He received his doctorate from the latter ipstitutlon in 1954. Prof. Mitchell taught In rural schools, at Montpelier ahd Seymour where he served as principal of the high school and then became principal of the high school at New Castle in 1939. In 1942, he became principal of the high school and director of secondary education at Richmond, remaining in that position until' 1945, when he joined the Purdue staff. ’ — ■ He was granted a leave of absence at Purdue in 1948 to serve with the education and cultural division of the military government in Germany as a specialist in secondary education in tfie state of Bremen. For 15 months he worked with German leaders toward a program of democratization of the schools of that nation. Active in many civic and service organizations, Prof. Mitchell is past-president of the state principals' association and a member of the national principals’ association. the national education association, the state teachers association and other professional organizations. He is a past ehairman of the boys work committee of the YMCA (Continued on Page Five) Gas Explosion Is Blamed For Deaths MONTICELLO. Utah (UP) -(Gas exploding in the shallow basement of the Lariat Case was officially blamed today for a Monday dinner time explosion that killed 15 persons and injured more lhan 30 others, “State commission chairman Citto A. Weisley said a ‘ very, very careful and deliberata” investigation of the devastated building had not yet determined whether the gas was natural or butane.

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Drives Toward Likely Victory On First Ballot Michigan And New Jersey Switch Ta Support Stevenson CHICAGO (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson practically sewed up the Democratic presidential nomination today. About the only thing that could ruin him now would be tor the Democratic national convention to get into a party-splitting row over civil rights. Stevenson, already odds-on favorite to get the nomination, drove toward a likely first ballot victory by cracking northern state delegations whose votes had been tied to favorite sons — first Michigan, then New Jersey. The latest United Press tabulation of first ballot votes for Stevenson and his closet competitor, Gov. Averell Harriman of New York, showed: Stevenson 584% ...Harriman Needed to nominate — 686% Meanwhile, the platform makers came out with a racial rights plank that they hoped southern t dWTegatfons would swallow. , Many southern delegations, ini dined toward Stevenson, have , been hanging onto their votes un- [ til the platform issue is settled. , If this is done on a basis acceptable to them, Stevenson likely will , get many more votes from them, t The Stevenson drive spurted in . the small hours when Gov. G. . Mennen Will lams of Michigan res leased his 44-vote state delegation . with a proposal that other wait- . —and—see delegations follow suit. A caucus poll indicated Stevenson , will get s least 32% of Michigan’s I votes on the first ballot. ; Then before mid-day Gov. Robert B. Meyner announced that New . Jersey will cast all of its 38 votes • for Stevenson on ballot No. 1 Thursday night. Harriman’s bid collapsed. His campaign managers admitted privately that Stevenson “apparently has enough Votes’* to win the nomination. Harriman* however, continued to go through the motions of trying to line up more delegates. The proposed civil rights plank, which will go to the convention along with the rest of the 1958 campaign platform tonight, was a compromise laboriously designed to foster party harmony. The proposed plank would affirm authority of the supreme court but reject use of force to carry out its order that white and Negro children be educated together in public schools. It also would pledge the party to work for education of all American children “without discrimination” as to race. Key Southerners described the plank as not necessarily satisfactory to them but “acceptable,” Hard Words from Truman Stevenson’s bandwagon was picknew attacks from the Harriman Ing up speed fast in the. fact of camp. Former President Truman, who wants the party to nominate the NeW Yorker, hit Stevenson with (Continued on Pago Three) Western Union Aiks For Rate Increases .. WASHINGTON (UP) — The Western Upton Telegraph Co. asked the federal communications commission Tuesday for an 8.22 per cent increase in interstate press rates. The press rate hike, which would become effective Sept. 14. is part of a proposed across—the —board boost in charges that would bring the firm an estimated 10 million dollars more in revenue a year. • General increases in other Westera Union services ranging from 10 to pgr cent would become effective Aug. 26 if approved by the ECG.