Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 207, Decatur, Adams County, 1 September 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 207.

MIDWEST DEM’S MEET I K ' Sk L:^^|M^raßw'>.. .»■•■•'■ ■;-<’. ; ■h? Islfe z lit *”V it?' y Tlir- . jM |Sm JH ...■ - - - CHICAGO’S MAYOR Richard Daley greets Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver as the Democratic leaders of five midwestern states gather to plan their campaigi strategy for the fall elections. Similar meetings are planned for the near future in all sections of the country. |

Traffic Death Toll Mounting In Early Hours Millions Take To U. S. Highways For Labor Day Holiday TRAFFIC DEATH CHICAGO (UP) — Millions of motorists took to the highways to enjoy the first and last three-day weekend of the trnmner and the traffic death toll mounted rapidly. A United Press check at 8:2!i a m. CST showed 45 persons killed in accidents on streets and highways since 5 p.m. (local time) yesterday. One drowning in NewYork state, and four deathi from miscellaneous causes brought the early holiday toll to 50. Missouri counted seyen traffic deaths for the worst of the early records. Texas accounted tor six, Ohio for five, and New York state four. ----- The national safety council estimated 480 persons would die in traffic accidents between 6 p.m. (local time) Friday and midnight Monday. That would be a record, if realized, for a Labor Day Holiday. exceeding by 27 the previous toll of 453 deaths set in 1953 and also surpassing the 445 deaths for the 1955 holiday. Pleasant weather was predicted by weathermen for most of the nation. Cool air swept across the middle of the nation, breaking a heat wave. Precipitation was expected east of the Appalachians and in the Southeast. Three In Indiana By UNITED PRESS Three persons were killed in Labor Dfty weekend traffic in Indiana early today, and authorities.. said the. two. fatal wrecks both were due to motorists driving on the wrong side of highways for unexplained reasons. One of the wrecks killed a motorist who police said sped down the wrong lane of a main highway near Gary and rammed his ear head-on into a huge truck, setting it afire and causing a loss of more than $50,000. Two Detroit persons died in the other accident, which police said apparently was the fault of a Fort Knox. Ky.. sergeant driving on the wrong side of Ind, 3 near Scottsburg. The driver was listed as Sgt. Fate Webb, 27. Witnesses told authorities Webb drove on the wrong side Os the highway for about a quarter of a mile before his car smashed head-on into one driven by Douglas Foe, 23, Detroit. Foe. his wife. Ann. 22. their 14months old baby Theresa and Rebecca Latimer, all of Detroit, were injured. So was Webb. Orville McNeil. 40. Detroit, and his 4-year-old daughter Carolyn, were victims in a collision at 3 a.m. seven miles southeast of Scottsburg on Ind. 3 near thejunction with Ind. 356. ? r'— ~~ At least six persons were injured in the accident and taken to hospitals at New Albany, Jeffersonville and Scottsburg. John J. Pruden. 23, La Porte.' - was dead on arrival at Porter Memorial Hospital in Valparaiso after his automobile collided head, on with a big truck in U.S. 6 eight (Continued on Page trtve)

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State Fair Expects Big Holiday Crowd Top Awards Friday To Two Teen-Agers ana’s 104th annual state fair, with a green light from the weatherman, today braced for heavy Labor Day weekend attendance. It was a typical Hoosier holiday mood at the sprawling fairgrounds in northeastern Indianapolis —fair and sunny skies, a ' jam—packed grandstand for the i Initial harness racing program, barkers at their polished best, r-- -Youth achievement- day gave the youngsters another opportui nity to show off their talent at the 4-H dress revue, * barrow show in the swine barn, and a sheep shearing contest Friday’s top awards went to two teen-agers. Thomas Halterman, 17, Rushville. bested a field of about 200 for the Indiana corn king championship, continuing in the footsteps of his father who twice was crowned international corn king. Elmer T. Coons. Crawfordsville, won reserve honors. will enter Purdue University this fall to study agricultural educaLee Riggs, 18, Evansville, who tion, exhibited a purebred Guernsey cow for the 4-H grand champion dairy sahowman award. Grand champions acclaimed in dairy cattle competition were: David Cochard, 15, Greenfield. Guernsey; Donna Frances Schellenberger, 12, Depauw, Jersey; Arthur Meeker. 16, Burnettsville, Holstein; Jean Flosenzier. 12, Plymouth, Brown Swiss, and Mary Skelton, 17, Brazil, Ayshire. Blue ribbons for 4-H home economics demonstrations went to Pat Harrer, LaPorte. in the raw and frozen vegetables division; Jane Marie Thompson, Winchester, baking; Judy Shuler, Indianapolis, electrical, and Brenda Flynn, Burlington, canned vegetables. MissShuler was cherry pie baking queen two years ago. In open class grain exhibits, winners were: wheat, Harold Haffner,' Montgomery Co.; oats. tuontinuea on hukb oix. Courtesy Driving Winner Announced Mrs. Lena Mazeliri Is First Recipient Mrs. Lena Mazelin, of 1004 West Adams street, was named first recipient of the $5 courtesy driving campaign award in’ the current safety drive sponsored by the ChiCjtgo Motor club. Mrs. Mazelin, who has been driving for 30 years, was observed by. •Harry R. Schwartz of the Lions club. Schwartz stopped her after noticing her careful and courteous driving and informed her that she would receive $5 as a result of her careful driving. Schwartz stated that Mrs. Mazeline earned the award by stopping for a car ahead which was parking, by slowing down to pass a cyclist and by being careful to use turn signals when turning the corner. Seven other awards will be presented during the safety campaign to persons who show courtesy in their driving and use safe practices in driving, walking er riding a bicycle.

Reports Latest Nuclear Tests By Red Russia Russia Apparently Has Exploded Total Os Forty Weapons WASHINGTON (UP)—The Rus- ■ sians apparently have exploded a . total of abound 40 nuclear test weapons. This is about three times the • number of Russian tests individu- ■ ally reported by the U-S. and Soy teLguver unseats. i The United States has exploded about 75 and Great Britain five. i So whatever burden of ardioactivity the planet carries as a result of man - made atomic explosions, i Russia is responsible for about a third of tt. The latest Soviet announcement ; indicates that the Russians, having tested multimegaton “super bombs,” are now emphasizing development of tactical atomic weapi ons for battlefield use and perhaps “small” hydrogen warheads for de- > livery by jet bomber or mediumrange missiles. Informed sources here say it is almost pointless to try to guess 1 from official Moscow announce ments what the Russians are up to. They say propaganda is so mixed up with fact in such announcements that it is next to impossible to separate the two. But two hard bits of information in recent U. S. and Russian statements do stand out: 1. The Russians have set off far more nuclear explosions than they or their neutralist apologists have ever conceded. 2. Tne Russians have turned for the time being from testing weapons of megaton violence (one megaton equals 1 million tons of TNT), to experimenting with more versatile but less powerful weapons. As usual, it was the United States that first told the world about the latest resumption of Soviet atomic weapons tests. And Sunday and Friday President Eisenhower in announcements disclosed that the Russians had set off nuclear explosions in southwest Siberia Aug. 24 and Aug. 30. In connection with the first announcement, chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the atomic energy commission reported officially for the first time what has long been obvious: That the total number of Soviet explosions is, “significantly higher” than the total number of U.S. statements on Russian tests. That is because six of the U.S. announcements have referred to single shots in * test “series.” Informed sources noting the steady increase in the frequency and number of Russian tests over the years, say the real total is now around 40—possibly higher. Strauss emphasized that the major Soviet proving ground is tn southwest Siberia north of India, a neutral nation that long has been critical of U.S. atomic testing far away in the mid-Pacific. Strauss also noted by inference that Red China, Russia’s chief ally, lies in the path of any radioactive fallout that might ba carried by high westerly winds front the Soviet proving ground.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 1, 1956.

French Troop Convoys Plow Toward Cyprus In Military Buildup

Stage Violent Demonstration On Integration Violence Flares In Clinton, Tennessee, For Second Time Clinton, Tenn. (UPj- a mob, swollen to nearly 2,000 persons by ( exuberant teenagers just back from a football game staged a viol lent demonstration Friday night against integration of white and Negro high school students. In Mansfield, Tex., a less violent but equally intent mob apparently succeeded for the time being Friday in forcing a halt to integration attempts. No one was reported seriously injured in Clinton when for the second time violence flared over a federal district court’s integration order. But several automobiles carrying Negroes were all but torn apart and the occupants managed narrow escapes from the howling crowds, heated to the boiling point by provocateurs. Police said they were helpless to stem the mob, part of which purged around the courthouse demanding the release of a white supremacist jailed for conw&ipi of federal court. Another segregationist “took over” and spoke to the crowd for 45 minutes. A troubled quiet settled over Mansfield today and there appeared no immediate danger of any more violence. A crowd of some 400 whites frightened away six Negroes who had planned to enroll in Mansfield’s all-white school Friday. The Negroes, armed with a court order, failed to show up when the white men gathered around the school during registration day and blocked the entrances. There was no serious violence but an assistant district attorney from Fort Worth and several news cameramen were jostled. Gov. Allan Shivers ordered two Texas rangers to observe the goings on and told school officials to transfer out of the district any student whose attendance could reasonably be calculated to incite violence. At Bryson City, N. C„ school officials awaited “probable” legal (Continued on Page Six) U. S. To Protest Attack On Plane Formal Protest To Communist China WASHINGTON (UP) — The United States prepared a formal protest to Communist China today against the "unjustified” attack oh a navy patrol plane destroyed off the China mainland last week. In a sternly-worded statement Friday night, the state and defense departments charged that Communist Chinese fighters shot down the navy plane and its 16 passengers "without warning.” They said the United States holds Red China responsible and will demand through diplomatic channels that the Peiping government pay "damages for loss of life of the American crew members of the navy patrol plane as well as for the plane itself.” The state department was unable to say how much the United States would ask. A spokesman said the defense department would have to figure out the bill before the formal demand can be sent to Red China. Officials could not say exactly when the formal protest would be ready for delivery. But past experience indicated it would take several days. The demand probably will be made through the British government because thia country does not have diplomatic relation* with Red China.

Farm Prices Skidded In Month Os August Three Per Cent Drop Is Reported Friday WASHINGTON (UP) — Farm prices—a particularly potent political factor in this election year —took a sudden drop in mid-Aug-ust, wiping out some of the gain made earlier this year. The agriculture department's monthly price report showed Friday, that farm prices skidded three percent during the month I ending Aug. 15. The decline was the sharpest since the May-June, 1954, report when a three percent drop was recorded. Democrats were certain to try to make political hay out of the price drop. When the agriculture department announced earlier this year that farm prices had risen 19 percent since last December, Republicans pointed out the fact with administrative pride. Secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson said the three percent drop was mostly “seasonal.” The price report said “sharply lower prices received by farmers for potatoes and commercial vegetables coupled with moderate declines in average prices received for cotton, fruit, and poultry were responsible” for the drop. It added the declines were offset only in part by substantial increases in prices received ' for cattle and hogs, and by small increases for milk, wheat, and a number of other items. The report showed farm production costs went up in mid-August. , Part of the price advances in ' farm production goods Was offset by a slight decline in prices paid ' for family living items, principal- ! ly food. School Bus Service To Begin Wednesday Four School Busses To Operate In City Four school buses for children attending Decatur public; Catholic and Lutheran schools will be placed in service next Wednesday morning, it was announced today by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gay, who •have operated the service for the last several years. Routes will extend to all parts of Decatur and stops will be made at Lincoln, Decatur high school, Catholic school, Lutheran school and Northwest elementary school. Four busses will be used this year for the first time. Children will be taken home at noon, with the exception of Decatur high school students and Catholic school students. Reservations can be made by contacting the Gay residence. The telephone number Is 3-4357. The Gays stated today that competent drivers had been hired to operate the bus service. All four busses have been overhauled and will be ready to make their first runs Wednesday morning. Prices vary with the number of times a rider uses the bus each day. The importance of making a reservation immediately was expressed by the operators, so that routes could be completed. A route schedule will qgpear in next Tuesday’s Daily Democrat. Lutheran School To Open Next Wednesday The Zion Lutheran school, established here for the first time, will open Wednesday morning at 8:30 o’clock. Only first grade classes will be conducted this year, with the school eventually to develop a full six-year program. —---- - School hours and programs will coincide as nearly as possible with the schedule of the Decatur public schools. Pupils will meet in the Zion parish hall, and a brief church service forthd students and pareats will be conducted in the church at 9 o’clock by the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church.

Free American Labor Praised By Eisenhower Greatest Enemy Os I Enslaved Labor In L Any Part Os World WASHINGTON (UP)—President 1 Eisenhower declared today that 1 free American labor is “the great--1 est enemy of enslaved labor in any corner of the earth.” » In fact, the President said. America's economy and productivity, based on free labor, are the “territory of any who would be our enemies.” Mr. Eisenhower spoke out In strong support of American labor during an early morning White House lawn ceremony celebrating issuance of a new three-cent'Labor Day stamp. The stamp will be put on sale in Camden. N. J., on Labor Day. More than 130 government officials, letter carriers, labor leaders, and newsmen attended. Among those on hand was the President’s special guest—l2-year-old ~ Joann McGuire Dougherty of Camden, N.J., great granddaughter of the founder of Labor Day. George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, expressed his thanks to the President for the special Labor Day stamp. “Everything we have . in the final analysis comes from work—from labor,” he said. ' Mr. Eisenhower’s pre-Labor Day L remarks were off the cuff. Al- [ though he had notes on small . cards. The President said that freedom and Ite “priceless privileges” were not gained without effort and cannot be retained without effort. "Freedom will be ours if we use it." he said. ' Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson will make a major Labor Day address Monday at Cadillac Square in Detroit. He has accused Mr. Eisenhower of turning a “deaf ear to labor.” White Houde news secretary James C. Hagerty said when asked if the President's speech would have “political significance” in the traditional Labor Day pattern: '; “In the sense of a Cadillac Square speech, I would say no.” The President seemed unper(Conttnuea on race Pretty Young Girl Slain In New York Study Double-Life Background Os Girl NEW YORK (UP) — Police today pieced together the doublelife background of a pretty young girl named for a constellation of stars in an attempt to solve the mystery of her violent death in Greenwich Village, apparently at the hands of a rapist. Being questioned we»« neighborhood acquaintances and former boyfriends of dark haired Pleiades Fieldgrove, 26, who worked by day at the ordinary job of an office eierk and danced by night in the red ballet slippers that were found beside her body. The body was found Friday in a grotesque, half-sitting position in the courtyard of a Greenwich Village apartment building. She Wore a low-cut purple party dress and apparently had died immediately from a single wound, probably made by a knife, in her left breast. Beside the body, found among a small clump of shrubbery by the apartment superintendent, were the ballet slippers and a bloodstained girdle. Police said Miss Fieldgrove apparently had been taken by surprise by her killer as she walked toward the apartment house door early Friday. Her hand still clutched a key ring with 10 keya. _ Whether she died at the hands of a sex fiend or a spurned suitor (Continued on Fa«o Three)

11 Dead In Crash Os Weather Plane 850 Weather Plane Crashes In Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UP) — Nine of the 11 men killed in Friday’s crash of a 850 weather plane 50 miles north of Anchorage have been identified, the air force at Elmendorf air force base said today. t The air force said the names of the crash victims would not be - released until all bodies had been Identified. Ken Whittaker of the Anchorage Daily News staff flew over the crash scene on an island in the Susitna River in a light plane Friday. Whittaker said the wreckage whs in a small clearing near the water and that nearby trees, which probably would have been damaged had they been struck by the falling plane, were unharmed. Earlier the air force said it appeared the giant four - engined plane pancaked into the island. Maj. John Orr, public information officer at Eielson AFB, said the plane was on a routine weather flight from Eielson when it crashed. However, officials at Eielson said the craft was on a special mission for the 58th weather reconnaisance squadron. Friday's crash was the second in 1 less than 30 hours in Alaska. A Canadian Pacific airliner with 22 i persons aboard crashed at Cold 1 Bay QK~ the Alaskan Peninsula ’ Earlier this week eight men - bailed out of a tanker plane near 1 here and seven of them were still missing and feared to have peri ished in ..the icy waters of Cook s Inlet. Illinois Democrats ■ To Name Candidate r Stevenson, Daley To Confer On Governor CHICAGO (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson, catching his second wind from his “pre-campaign'’ trip, sought today to ease a Democratic headache in his home state of Illinois. Stevenson, resting at his country home at nearby Libertyville, 111., was expected to confer with Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley about picking a new Democratic candidate for governor. Party leaders felt that the choice of the new candidate might have important bearing on whether Stevenson himself can carry Illinois In November as the presidential candidate. Aides said Stevenson was catching up on his rest and drafting his Labor Day speech for delivery at Detroit, Mich., Monday, his first major address. Stevenson was expected to talk with Daley sometime today or Sunday. ' " - ~; ... \ The vacancy developed when Cook county treasurer Herbert C. Paschen withdrew Wednesday, after a welfare fund In his office came under investigation. A new nominee will be picked by the Democratic state central committee at Springfield Tuesday. Stevenson told a news conference Friday he had “a number of preferences,” but whomever the committee picked would be "acceptable” to Mm. • - - Democrats said Daley probably would give Stevenson a veto in the matter; however. Stephen A. Mitchell, the Chicago lawyer whom Stevenson made Democratic national chairman in 1952. was a leading possibility for (Continued on Page Three) INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Sunday. Cooler tonight. Low tonight 55-60. High Sunday 72-78. Outlook for Monday: Fair and pleasant. NOON EDITION

Egypt Angered At Buildup On Conference Eve Accuses Britain, France Os Attempt To Apply Pressure LONDON (UP) —French troop convoys plowed through the Mediterranean toward Cyprus today in what informed sources said was a rush effort to complete a military buildup before start of the Suez talks on Monday. Egypt reacted angrily to the buildup and accused Britain and France of trying to apply pressure on Egypt which could disrupt the talks between Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and a fiveman Suez committee. ‘ There was growing uneasiness in Britain against the possible use of force outside the United Na- ' tions, but prime minister Anthony Eden rejected a Labor party bid to bring parliament into emergency session during the Suez talks. The general council of Britain’s 8 million strong Trades Union ~~ Congress adopted a resolution Friday night demanding that Britain not use force against Egypt without the approval of the United Nations. "J. • The Suez committee headed by Australian prime minister Robert Gordon Menzies planned to leave London Sunday for Cairo and to hold the first talks with Nasser ' Monday morning. Cairo dispatches said Nasser was in a "conciliatory mood” but all *Egyptian government sources insisted he would reject the Dulles formula for ending the crisis by placing the Suez Canal under Internation control. Friday’s news conference statements by President Eisenhower helped relieve some of the resentment in Egypt at the AngloFrench military moves, especially his expressed hope of a peaceful settlement. Egypt also was pleased with his explanation that recent statements about nationalization of the canal under the 1888 agreement referred only to operation of the canal and not to Egyptian ownership. " The trial of three Britons in Egypt on charges of espionage and plotting to overthrow the Nasser government could have serious complications, especially if the three men receive the deathpenalty. Cairo dispatches Said the attorney general's office was drafting an indictment which could mean a death sentence next week during the actual Menzies-Nasser talks. However the Egyptian depart ment of information said the men had made full written confessions and signed statements that Egypt was treating them well. There was an implied hint that such statements might enable Nasser to reduce any death sentences to life imprisonment. Three major French military movements were reported today from Paris: 1. Three troop ships with an es- •* (Continued on Page Six) Mrs. C. Warren Cole , Dies In California Mrs. Harriett Cole, wife of C. Warren Cole, former Decatur resident and son of Mr. J. H. Cole, died Thursday afternoon 'at San Mateo, Calf. Mrs. Cole, a native Californian, had been ill for some time. The Coles had resided in California for many years, where Cole is connected with U.S. department of commerce. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at the-Patterson and O’Connell funeral home. IMt S. "El Camino Real at Santa Mateo, at 2 o’clock. Burial will be in the cemetery of that city. Mrs. Cole had visited in Decatur on several occasions. ' ■ - - g ->*

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