Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 18 August 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 195.

COONSKIN RAMBLE o ■BE?* R mHMe jßik ESTES KEFAUVER'S FOLLOWERS are shown whooping it up as he rolled to a surprising second ballot victory over Sen. John Kennedy and assorted favorite sons in an old fashioned fluor fight for the vice-presidential nomination. His selection dosed the convention except for acceptance speeches by Adlai Stevenson and himself Friday night, and an address by Harry Truman.

Sen. Kefauver Is Winner On Second Ballot Tennessee Switch Starts Bandwagon For Sen. Kefauver CHICAGO (UP) — The delegates had expected a fast breakaway by Sen. Estes Kefauver but many figured he would fade in the stretch. He was carrying the same handicaps he has long carried —opposition „ from the South and from nWny top party leaders. But presidential nomine, Adlai E. Stevenson gave KefauvCr his chance by calling for an open contest over the vice presidential nomination Instead of the usual dictated choice. So fcefauver’s .name was placed before the convention along with those of Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts,' Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee, Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota. Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. of New York. Gov. Luther H. Hodgee of North Carolina and Gov. Leroy Collins of Florida. Kefauver’s opposition had conceded him an edge on the first ballot. It was assumed that he had a better organized bloc of supporters based on the delegates he won in presidential primaries before he withdrew as a candidate for the presidential nomination. The first ballot followed the form chart. It gave Kefauver 483% of the 686% needed to wim-Among the other major contenders. Kennedy had 304, Gore 178. Wagner 162% and Humphrey 134%. An unusual stop-Kefauver lineup was developing with Southern states combining with an eastern bloc and some anti-Kefauver organization Democrats from other states. On the second ballot, this alliance swung behind Kennedy. Cumulative totals on the tabulating machines showed a real horse race was under way. Then Kennedy began to pull away. Illinois gave him 54%; New York left Wagner and gave 96% to Kennedy; Texas threw him a big 56 votes. But the word came that Gore might withdraw and throw his sup-’ port to his fellow senator from Tennessee. That would mean 32 Tennessee votes for Kefauver. who had scant help from his home state Democrats this year in his bids for the presidential and vice presidential nominations. After the first go-around on the second ballot, state standards began to wave. Convention chairman S£m Rayburn first recognized Kentucky, which switched 30 votes to Kennedy. At that .point, Kennedy had 646 and Kefauver 551%. Sens. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and George Smathers of Florida, Kennedy backers, were seen working on Gov. Raymond Gary of Oklahoma, who had cast his state’s 30 votes for Gore. Gary must have told them Kennedy lacked appeal to the farm belt. -- Then Gore withdrew, Tennessee shifted’its votes from him to Kefauver and the stampede started. Oklahoma switched its 30 to KefauVer. State standards began waving all over the cavernous convention hall. Minnesota, which had divided its 30 votes between Kefauver and (Continued on <*»<• Five)

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Sen. Kennedy Wins Hearts Os Delegates Barely Loses Out In Nomination Bid CHICAGO (UP) — The fair young man of the Democratic par-> ty today was a tousle-haired millionaire's son who looks barely half his 39 years. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts lost out, by a whisker, in his bid for the vice presidential nomination. But he won the hearts of the Demo|cratic convention delegates. ' ■ " ' ~ A mighty roar of approval went up in convention hall Friday night i every time the youthful senator with the shy grin was called tori Ward for introduction, or was i mentioned by a speaker. ■ The delegates had showed their i esteem for him in an even more telling way a few hours earlier, when he polled 646 votes — just 40% short of the necessary majority — before the vote-switching i began on the second ballot for vice president. Much of Kennedy’s support for vice president came from Southern delegations —a fact which , repudiated an J%xiom’’ which politicians have generally accepted tor the past 28 years. The axiom was that the Democrats could not afford to nominate a Catholic candidate, because he would be unacceptable to the South, It was based on the defeat of Alfred E. Smith, the only Catholic ever nominated for president. Smith ran on the Democratic ticket in 1928 and lost to Herbert Hoover when several "solid South” states went Republican. Kennedy is a Catholic, and the enthusiastic backing he got from Southerners at this convention bore out the findings of sociologists and public opinion pollsters who previously have reported a sharp decline in anti-Catholicism in the South in recent years. Kennedy, son of millionaire Joseph P. Kennedy, former ambassador to England, held the spotlight for three consecutive days , at the Democratic convention. He narrated the Democrats' documentary film, "Pursuit of Happiness” at the first night session. The next day he placed Adlai E. Stevenson in nomination. Kennedy, a former navy lieutenant who was wounded when his PT boat was blown up by the Japs in World War 11, has had a fast rise in politics. After he got out of the navy, the congress’onal seat held by for mer Rep. James M. Murley (DMass.) was < pen and Kennedy stepped up and won it. In 1952. he upset popular Republican Henry Cabot Lodge for the U. *S. Senate. Kennedy is fast becoming a veteran politician. And he doesn’t ccunt his ch’ckens before they’re hatched. o Railing Child Is Stricken By Polio John Railing, three and a half year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Railing of Dierkes street, ts a patient at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne suffering what ts described as a mild attack of polio. The boy. who has had one polio shot, became ill last Monday and was taken to the hospital Wednesday evening. His illness was not diagnosed as polio until Friday. His mother reports that he has slight paralysis in the hips and left leg. He is the 15th ipelio victim in the Decatur area.

Water Rate To Be Increased September! Pay Bills Monthly, Increased Rate Is Approved By State Effective September 1. patrons of the water department of the city of Decatur will pay their water ‘bills monthly and at increased rates. This is the decision of the public service commission following a petition filed by the city to conduct an investigation, hold a public hearing aud fte rates lor the local utility. The petition was filed last April and the findings have of the state group and city officials have been so notified. The commission held that the present water facilities were such that they create a ‘fire and health hazzard” and the order further sets up a minimum metered rate of $2.15 per nfonth for five-eights inch meters; $2.45 a month for one inch meters and up to $10.45 a month for a four inch meter. The first 360 cubic feet of water will cost 60 cents and this amount is graded downward to 20 cents per hundred for users of over 40®60 cubic feet. 'Bills will be mailed to all patrons the first of each month and will be delinquent after the 15th of the month. This billing is similar to the present system of the electric utility. Among Decatur officials who 'testified during the public hearing before the commission were Lawrence Kohne, chairman of the water committee of tfie council, Mayor Robert D. Cole, city attorney John DeVoss and Norbert Aumann, the latter three composing the board of works. Ralph E. Roop, water superintendent and city engineer and Edwin H. Kauffman auditor of the water department, also gave testimony. The 'hew rates, it is estimated, will produce revunue in the amount of $122,309.64 annually and the money will be used to improve the water department’s facilities. The improvements include adequate wells and pumping systems. Gilbert E. Snyder, assistant public counselor represented the people in the matter. The commission further ordered that the new rates be posted at the city hall. Following is the new rate schedule: First 360 cubic feet each month. 60 bents per hundred. Next 900 cubic feet per month. 58 cents. Next 1.000 cubic feit per month, 56 cents. Next 2,000 cubic feet per month, 48 cents. ... ' : Next 16,000 cubic feet per month. 40 cents. ’ Next 20,000 cubic feet per month, 22 cents. Over 40,260 cubic feet per month, 20 cents. Here are the minimum charges: For five-eights inch meter, $2.15 per month. For three-quarters inch meter. $2.15. For one inch meter, $2.45. For one and one-quarter inch meter, $3.50. For one and one half inch meter. $4.85. For two inch meter, >615. , For three inch meter, >8.35. For four inch meter; >10.45.

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Urges Russia Support West View On Suez United States And Great Britain Ask Support Os Russia LONDON (UP) — The United. States and Britain urged Russia in secret behind-the-scenes talks' today to support Western efforts to arrange a quick settlement of the Suez crisis. There appeared to be litle prospect that Russia would agree. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles met Soviet foreign minister D. T. Shepilov at the Russian embassy early tod"y, and two hours later foreigjf'secretary Selwyn Llnyd rived <«. the embassy to lunct ‘"yjh the bushy-haired Russian. Between their meetings with Shepilov, Dulles and Lloyd huddled with French foreign minister Christian Pineau at the foreign office to map strategy for today’s session of the Suez conference. Today's meeting was the second time in three days that Dulles and the shaggy Russian had conferred privately. Their first meeting Thursday was followed Friday by Shepilov’s conference* speech on Suez, which British sources said amounted to outright “rejection of Western plans.” American spokesmen agreed that the Shepilov speech left only “slight room” for agreement. France alone the Western Big Three considered the situation hopeful, arguing that ■ Shepilov had at least “left thj door open" for * possible- compromise. .... Russia has made it cleay from the start that its only reason for sending a representative '<o the Suez conference was to try to persuade it to accept the SovietEgyptian plan for an expanded meeting later this year. Even as Dulles and Lloyd tried to persuade Shepilov to cooperate, Radio Moscow was reemphasizing Russia’s i demand for a "wider, more representative conference.” “Obviously, without the participation of Egypt and other countries not represented at the London conference, it is unthinkable that a concrete settlement of these problems can be reached,” the broadcast said. At the same time, it was reported in Cairo that Egypt plans to recruit “resistance battalions,’’ possibly including foreign “volunteers,” in its cities and towns to to resist any Western effort to seize the canal. ~ Unconfirmed reports from Beirut indicated that rifts are developing in the Arab front which had appeared to be solidly aligned with Egypt. Denies Sending Any Jets To Yugoslavia ICA Denies Planes Are Being Shipped WASHINGTON (UP) — The International; cooperation administration today denied it is shipping nearly 400 jet planes to Communist Yugoslavia. The ICA said all shipments of jet aircraft to Yugoslavia are frozen unless President Eisenhower personally orders that they go through. . 1 Rep. John Taber (R-NY), senior GOP member of the house appropriations committee, asked the ICA in a letter about reports that 380 jets in the foreign aid pipeline would go to Yugoslavia despite the new law conditionally blocking...nearly all Yugoslavian military aid. The mew law — pased last month by congress — cuts off shipments in 90 days of all military supplies bought for Yugoslavia with mutual security funds unless the President determines the aidwhould continue, ~ t

Urges Vaccination Against Dread Polio Pamphlets Being Distributed Here Pamphlets promoting polio vaccination are being distributed in all Adams county communities today in an effort to see that every person between the ages of six months and 30 years receives the .vaccination shots. The public education program ’ is being sponsored through the ■ cooperation of the county medical society, the local health officials and the loeal chapter of the national polio foundation. Boy Scouts are distributing the pamphlets to every home in Decatur, Berne and Geneva. The Monroe 4H club members are distributing them at Monroe. In addition to the community education program, pamphlets will be mailed to every rural home in the county under the direction of Mrs. Robert Hess, county chairman of the local polio chapter. Posters urging immediate vaccination are being placed in business places, industries and other gathering places throughout the county. Frank Lybarger and Marion Robison are in charge of the Decatur distribution. Boy Scouts . will cover the city in an attempt h<*» reach every home with info'-- [ matton aboutr the need and value I of the polio vaccine. ■ The program was touched off by the high polio incidence of I this area, which is the worst 'in the state. Polio vaccine has proved to be the only effective method of preventing the spread of tie paralytic disease. The polio total tor the area is 14, which includes one death. This is the worst siege of the disease for this area since 1949. To slow down the mounting polio total, local physicians are working feverishly to vaccinate their patients (Continued on Page Five) Report Four States Damaged By Storms Thunderstorms And Hail Are Reported By UNITED PRESS Severe thunderstorms and hail driven ’by heavy winds lashed across Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and lowa today. Reports of hail came in from an area some 50 miles southwest of Topeka, Kan., and also from an area just east of Des Moines. Lincoln, Neb., and Lamoni. lowa, reported damaging winds and heavy rains, but no serious damage was reported. Temperatures in the Dakotas and the northern "Rocky Mountains took a 10 to 20 degree nosedive early in the morning. The cold air mass moved southward but left in its wake day long showers which moved from the Dakotas into central lowa. Thunderstorm activity also dominated southerh Arizona and New Mexico. Winds up to 45 miles-per-hour were reported kicking up heavy dust clouds around El Paso, Tex., early in the morning. Elsewhere in the nation, the weather was less violent. Fair skies prevailed oyer the Eastern Seaboard. There were showers over the southern Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley. Hot, * humid weather gripped most of the South, with some showers reported in the Mississippi Valley. Dike Eddleman To Gibson City Plant ; Dike Eddleman, employment manager and recreation director of Central Soya company plant in Decatur for the past three years, has ’been named personnel director of the company's Gibson City plant, according an eaaouncement by G R, Walter, plant manager at Gibson City. Eddleman and bis family plan to move to Gibson City.

GOP National Convention To Open Monday Stassen Continues Attempts To Dump Nixon Off Ticket SAN FRANCISCO (UP> — Vice President Richard M. Nixon came here today for a face-to-face showdown with Harold E. Stassen’s still sputtering movement to dump him off the GOP ticket. Nixon's supporters planned a big airport demonstration for his arrival from Los Angeles, followed by a motorcade into downtown San Francisco where Nixon was to go immediately into a caucus of the California delegation. But the undaunted Stassen, who arrived late Friday, set out in earnest to further his avowed effort to replace Nixon on the ticket with Massachusetts Gov. Christian A. Herter. Stassen set up shop in the St. Francisco Hotel and said he still felt “encouraged” about his movement despite sftmost solid opposition of Republican leaders. The Nixon-Stassen-Herter furore provided virtually the only sem- ! blance of conflict as delegates poured into twon for the official opening of the GOP national convention in the Cow Palace Monday. The party’s platform drafting committee worked late into the night oft a non-eontroversial platform wili. be a “down the line” endorsement of President Eisenhower’s rjcprd. The full platform committee planned to meet on the roughlydrawn document today for submission to the convention Tuesday. Despite Herter’s flat statement that he would not permit his name to be presented as a candidate, Stassen said he still was confident the Massachusetts governor could be drafted. "Actually, his position is an asset,” Stassen told newsmen. "It always has been a matter of drafting him.” While the Stassen-Nixon drama held the center of the stage, the California caucus provided an important sideline battle because «t the three-way leadership, of Nixon, senate Republican leader William F. Knowland and Gov, Goodwin Knight. At stake was the question of (Continued on Page Five) ~ J Mrs. James Danner Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Mae Danner, 69, wife of James O. Danner, of Blue Creek township, one mile southwest of Willshire, died at 2:25 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Van Wert, O„ county hospital. She had been a semi-invalid for 25 years and had been hospitalized the past two weeks. She Was born in Mercer county, 0., Feb. 13, 1887, a daughter of Phillip and Elizabeth DellingerDeitsch. but had spent most of her life in Blue Creek township. Mrs. Danner was a member of the Union Evangelical United Brethren church. ■ Surviving in' addition to her husband are one son. Forest Danner of Terre Haute; one grandchild, and two brothers. Charles Deitsch of Blue Creek township and David F. Deitsch of St. Mary’s O. Three brothers preceded her in death. .■Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m.’ Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Union E.®.B. church, the Rev. Elwood Rodkins officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may cal! at the funeral home after 7 o'clock tbis evening until time of the services.

Link Acid Attack With Underworld Acid-Attack Case Is Broken By FBI NEW YORK (UP)—The FBI moved today against the garment industry underworld which apparently murdered a petty hoodlum marked by tell-tale scars from the a<M that splashed on him when he threV-it into the eyes of columnist Victc* Riesel. case was broken Friday\vith the arrest of two New York garment district racketeers accused of trying to silence the crusading labor columnist. The investigation disclosed that a small time East Side thug, whd was paid SI,OOO to carry out the blinding attack, was apparently murdered because facial acid burns he himself received made him “too hot” to remaifi alive. Acting United States attorney Thomas G. Gilchrist Jr. linked the vicious attack against Riesel with a direct underworld attempt to prevent his appearance before a federal grand jury investigating the garment and trucking industries. - . / ■ The hired acid thrower was • identified as Abraham Telvi, 22, of Brooklyn, whose crime career ■ began when he robbed a grocery • when he was only 15. Talvi was ' found on the lower East-Side July 1 28 with a bullet in his head. ■_ The notorius” gar- ’ ment district terrorists were arrested in an FBI raid Friday. The ; ex-convicts were identified as Gon- - dolfo Miranti, 37, "fingerman” of ’ the attack, and Joseph Carlino, 43, ! the “contact” man. --- jr _________ Farmhand Indicted For Murder Charge Indicted Friday In Blackford County HARTFORD CITY, Ind. (UP) — Chester Schlegel, a 22-year-old farmhand, was indicted Friday on a second degree murder charge In the death of his brother-in-law. A Blackford circuit grand jury also returned two lesser indictments against him in the slaying of Darrell Spade last April 24, but took no action in the death of Spade’s wife. In effect, the jury recommended that authorities continue their in : vestigation into the death of Mrs. < Spade, who Schlegel said was beaten by her husband with a mattox. Schlegel admitted shooting Spade at his farm home south of Roll but claimed it was self-de-fense. He denied harming Schlegel’s wife. The jury also charged Schlegel with making a false report in connection with Spade’s disappearance and removing his body from Blackford county without permission of a health officer. x Schlegel told authorities he put their bodies into the Spade car and drove it to a gravel pjt north of Muncie where they were recovered May 2. \ “I was only defending myself,” said Schlegel when informed the indictments in Blackford county jail. “I 'know second degree murder carries a life sentence and I’d just as Soon be dead than get that kind of rap .. .” Bid Stevenson Speak To Democrat Editors CHICAGO (UP) - Indiana Democrats hoped today Adlai E. Stevenson will make his first major campaign speech in his bid for the presidency at the Indiana Democratic editorial association outing in French Lick next Saturday. Stevenson was invited to make the address by national chairman Paul Butler even before he was nominated Thursday night. Sources close to Stevenson said he has tentatively accepted.

Attack Record Os Eisenhower Administration Stevenson Pledges To Carry Campaign To Towns, Villages CHICAGO (UP) — Suddeniyharmonious Democrats united behind their Stevenson • Kefauver ticket today for a lighting campaign to convince the voters that President Eisenhower is slouching off his duties and letting the country “stall in the middle of the road.” Fired up by Adlai E. Stevenson’s promise to carry the fight into “every town and village.” “Democratic convention delegates scattered to their homes while their leaders buckled to the task of raising the money for an allout campaign. The Democratic national committee was called into session today to begin planning campaign strategy and wrestling with the money problem. Chairman Paul ■ Butler said the national commit- , tee is shooting for about $3 mJI- ( lion and .hopes that volunteer ’ groups can raise an additional $2 million. Stevenson and Sen. Estes Kefatrver, the running mate who was chosen for him in a precedent breaking free for all convention fight, planned to get a few days rest before resuming the sharp attack on the Eisenhower administration whiqh they began in their began in their acceptance speeches before the convention's final ssesion Friday night. A spokesman said Stevenson plans a “looser” campaign than he waged in his previous try at the White House in 1952. with fewer formal speeches and more crosscountry barnstorming tours, eraluse of television. Stevenson also plans to make libKefauver aides said the tireless Tennessean would head for the hustings after a week’s vacation. The hard feelings stirred up by the week of convention battling; over the presidential and vice presidential nominations were — to all outward appearances, buried under a rosebed of party harmony at the final session. - Former President Truman, who wanted neither Stevenson nor Kefauver on the ticket, publicly embraced both and predicted they will give the Republicans as good a licking in November as they gave him at the convention. Stevenson began his acceptance speech with words of reassurance to those Democrats who had qualms about renominating a onetime loser, and those who felt that he waged too ‘lofty” a campaign four years ago. “Four years ago I did not seek the honor you bestowed upon me” he said. This time, as you may have noticed, it was not entirely unsolicited. And there is another ■Mg difference. That time we lost. This rime we will win.” Stevenson fed the hoarsely yelling, banner-waving partisans red pleat. t If Stevenson said he did not propose “to make political capital out Os the President’s illness,” 1 "His ability to personally fulfill the demands of his exacting office is a matter between him and the American people,” Stevenson said. “So far as I am concerned, that - is where the matter rests . . . “But it. the condition of President Eisenhower is not an issue as far as I am concerned, the President’s office and the administration is very much an issue.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers today, tonight and Sunday. Turning cooler tonight and cooler Sunday. Low tonight 64-74. High Sunday 82-93. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and cooler. NOON EDITION • ' ‘T" ; F

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