Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 210, Decatur, Adams County, 6 September 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 210.

SANTA FE TRAINS COLLIDE ON SIDING I Wib- '"' fHML' -- *«&►■ "”■ K **_ .£ - ■ , * ’mSmhS ... . . - ■ £% j i. . 19n-?< J ' ’ BBh3 ■* ’ ' MMklb • ■ wsstL ** >w ■ >' L^_____...._.....-ix^Skibjfc..j£_ L^k. AERIAL PHOTO of Santa Fe railroad’s Chief and crack mail train, No. 8, near Springer, N. M.. shows rescue workers probing overturned cars. Santa Fe officials said that a confused fireman threw a switch at the wrong time, sending the Chief smash ing into the mail train, killing 20 persons.

Study Nasser Offer On Suez Canal Control Compromise Offer Made By Egyptian Leader On Control CAIRO (UP) — The five-nation Suez committee-met privately today to study a compromise proposal offered by President Gamal Abdel Nasser on operation of the Sues Canal. The atmosphere was optimistic. ■-’ '■—- Egyptian sources said Australian prime minister Robert Gordon Menzies, head of the five-nation group, asked for time out in the negotiations to consult with British foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd, chairman of the London Suez conference. The committee met for 90 minutes this morning and announced it wuold meet with Nasser Friday. No meeting was set with Nasser for tonight. ■ ./ ' J Informed sources said the Menzies committee called the meeting to go over ground already covered in. the talks with Nasser. This was: 1. Menzies’ presentation of the London conference majority (Dulles) plan for international control of the Suez Canal. 2. Nasser’s rejection of It and a counterproposal calling tor an international advisory board llnke4 with the United Nations to cooperate with Egypt in running the -canal. Also Nasser’s suggestion of a new conference to amend and reinforce the freedom of canal transit guaranteed under the 1888 Constantinople Convention. 3- Talk of possible compromise paths. Nasser has agreed to meet again any time the Suez Canal committee is ready. In London Lloyd was meeting with members of the cabinet to report on the Paris meeting of the North Atlantic council which gave general endorsement to the London Suez committee. British Labor party leaders also met to renew party demands that not use forge. The French cabinet called a meeting in Paris to consider the NATO backing given Britain and France. Informed sources said Wednesday's meeting was a “crucial’’ one and that the conference showed no signs of change in the good atmosphere which has prevailed for the last three days. The sources said U, S. deputy assistant secretary of state Loy (Continued on Page Eight) State Holiday Toll Is Increased To 17 MARION, Ind. (UP)—lndiana’s 17th! traffic death caused by Labor Day weekend accidents was chalked up Wednesday. James R. Clark, 21, Marion, died of injuries sustained when his motorcycle collided with an automobile in U.S 35 near Marion Monday. BULLETIN HAMDEN, Conn. (UP) — The body of a baby was found in a woods here today and state police M aj George Remer said “it probably Is” that of kidnaped Cynthia Ruotolo.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NtWSPAPIR IN ADAMS COUNTY

Indiana State Fair Will Close Friday Farmers' Parade Is Feature For Today INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—The next, to-last session Os the 1956 Indiana state fair opened today with a farmers’ day parade. Anson Thomas. Indiana Farm Bureau executive, was parade marshal as he has been ever since the parade was inaugurated a decade ago. Other features were a style show in the women’s building, Grand Circuit harness racing and an afternoon light horse show and the evening horse show in the Coliseum. ■ Mrs. Otle Braumfleld. 51, Litton won the crochet contest Wednesday. Although she has crocheted for 35 years, if was her first competition. The contest was judged on speed and workmanship as about 30 women worked with the same pattern on the fashion show runway in the U’omen’s building. L. L. Stewart and Son, Frankfort, won the carcass show in the swine barn. Linda Schermerhorn. 19, Wawaka, a Purdue sorphomore. won the highest 4-H women’s honor. She was selected from among 12 honor girls to serve as 4-H assistant director. Becky Bowman, 11. La Fontaine, took the 4-H C. O. House Elgin colt trophy. The trophy is awarded each year to the owner of the champion colt sired by a purebred Belgian stallion. Grand champion awads for best-of-breed cattle went to Walter Ruby, Madsonville, Ky, Hereford bull; Anson B. Smith, Columbus. Ohio. Guernsey bull; C. K. Knowlton, Bellefontaine, Ohio, Polled Hereford bull; Double-E Ranch, Senatobia, Miss., Polled Hereford female and Eugene Boyl and Sons, Dover, Ky., female Hereford. In the sheep barn Darrell Rayl, Kempton, showed the champion Oxford ram. The, grand champion Tanworth boar award went to Russell Schenck, Rex Whitmorejand, Burlington, Wis., showed Jiie grand champion Berkshire boar. Robert Esckrich, Milwaukee, Wis., walked off with the grand champion Percheron stallion award. In the all-state dairy got competition W. E. Bernloehr, Brazil, took (lie Toggenburg doe grand championship. Morris W.- Gilbert. Lowell, showed the grand champion Saaen doe, and Mont Daily, Plainfield, the grand champion Nubian doe. The grand champion French Alpine award went to Edgar W. Johnson, Waldon. Four-honor girls selected Wednesday were Janis Bingham, Winchester; Lenora Mann. Cloverdale; Janet Davison, Carmel; Ruth Ann Be’nefiel, Muncie; Mary Alice Rushton, Wilkinson; Mildred English, Brownsburg; Anna Rose Pound, Fa irba nk s; Roselyn Oberst, Montgomery; Judy Lindley, Sharpsville; Page Townsend, Covington; Charla Major, Liberty, and Joyce Emerson, Rome City. Thirty 4-H girls received scholarships to the annual 4-H echool. 12 Pages

Air Officers Critical Os British Act Chief Russian Test Pilot Permitted To Fly British Plane * LONDON ( UP) — U. S. and royal air force officers were reported angered today at the British government for permitting a Soviet general — (Russia's chief test pilot — to fly a still hush hush British jet fighter at the Farnborough air show. There was also some dismay at the fact the government invited P. V. Dementiev, Soviet minister for the aircraft industry, to visit one of Britain’s biggest and most secret aircraft engine factories Friday. Soviet Lt. Gen. Alexei Blagoveschensky took up a new Hawker Hunter jet trainer for 40 minutes Wednesday wfih Hawker test pilot BUI Bedford and sent it crashing through the sound barrier in a full test of its capabilities. “The Hawker Hunter is under consideration as Britain’s two-man all-weather fighter. It has been ordered in quantity for the RAF but is not yet in full service. It is so secret British air correspondents have not been allowed to fly it. No close up photographs of instrument panel or other details have been permitted. The Daily Sketch said many RAF officers at the air show were angry when Blagoveschensky took the plane up and that one of them commented “we might just as well have wrapped it up and sent it off to Moscow' as a gift.” The Daily Mail reported the decision had angered many Americans visiting the show and quoted Western aviation experts as say(Con tin tied On Page Five) Joint Meeting Here Next Monday Night Ladies Are Guests At Dinner Meeting Harry Schwartz, president of the Decatur Lions club, will preside at the joint meeting and ladies night of the Decatur Lions club, Rotary club and Chamber of Commerce and their wives a? the Youth and Community Center Monday evening at 6:30 o’clock. This meeting will serve as the kickoff for Decatur’s courtesy week. Howard Wisehaupt, native qf Decatur, will be the principal speaker and will also preside over the courtesy week clinic Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Also at the speakers table will be Joe Kaehr, president of the Rotary club, Robert Tracey, chairman of the retail division ’ and Ray Leltz, chairman of the industrial committee of the Chamber of Commerce. Wisehaupt will be introduced by Roy Kalver, chairman of the program. r This will be first meeting of the Lions club since the summer vacation, and will also replace the regular Thursday night meeting of the Rotary club.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 6, 1956.

National Guards Force Path Through Mob To Take Negroes To School

Eleven Marines Are Drowned Al Okinawa Beach Caught Up By Freak Currents Os Ocean While In Swimming NAHA, Okinawa (UP) — Eleven U. S. marines who went swimming in apparently calm water were drowned Wednesday when caught up by freak ocean currents, marine headquarters announced today. Twelve other marines were saved when other men in the area came to their rescue. Th marines, who had engaged in field problems throughout the day, entered the water to cool off. They had been given instructions a few moments before by their company commander on safety precautions. But a freak current hit them and swept them out to sea. It was the second tragic incident in six months involving the marine corps. Last April 8, six marines were drowned at Parris Island, S.C., when Staff Sgt. Matthew McKeon. an instructor, led a detachment into, tidal waters on a night march which he ordered as a disciplinary measure. McKeon later was court-martialed and sentenced to nine months* imprisonment and a bad conduct discharge from the corps. . Brig. Gen. Victor H. Krulak, commanding general of the 3rd marine division, ordered an extensive land, serf and air search for the missing men. All available marine aircraft were sent into the air to search the sea within five miles of the shore. Foot patrols searched the (Continued On Page Five) Democrats To Open Headquarters Here Formal Opening Is Planned Sept. 15 Dr. Harry Hebble, Adams county Democratic chairman, announced today that Democratic headquarters would be opened here in the DeVoss building on South Second street Saturday, September 15. Bartel Zandstra, Lake county. Democratic candidate for lieuten-ant-governor. will be I the headliner for the campaign opening of headquarters. He will also speak at Berne Saturday afternoon prior to coming here for the formal opening of the rooms. Dr. Hebble also announced that a committee of three people, Mrs. Mabel Striker, candidate for cointy 'recorder; Richard Lewton, J county clerk, and Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker, candidate for treasurer, would compose the county committee in charge of voters registration. Details of registration by precincts will be outlined by the committee in a few days, the chairman said. Robert Heller, C. H. Muselman, Berne, and candidate for the state legislature, and John Kintz, candidate for commissioner of the second district, have been appointed to the advertising committee. Headquarters will be open each day and night, Sundays excepted, from September 15 until after the November election. O. W. P. Macklin, Herman Moellering, candidate for surveyor; Elmer Winteregg, Jr., candidate for coroner, and B. J. Clark will have charge of headquarters. In addition, to having a full time secretary, volunteers will be assigned to headquarters to - provide circulars, pamphlets and information tor all who visit the buildipg. Plans tor several county meetings will be announced tn the next day or two, Dr. Hebble-said.

Total Tax Rate In Decatur Decreased Proposed Levy To Be Lower Than Present With the flve-cent cut in the proposed county tax levy approved Wednesday by the council in the annual budget session the proposed tax levies for Decatur taxpayers now stand at 35.25 for Decatur-Root and $5.20 for Decatur-Washington. This is three cents less than the current tax rate for DecaturRoot and six cents less for Deca-tur-Washington. Decatur residents are thus assured of lower tax levies for 1957 since further studies of the proposed rates cannot cause them to be raised. Further cuts for Decatur taxpayers are possible when the budget requests and proposed levies are submitted to the Adams county tax adjustment board and then to the state board of tax commis sioners for final approval. The Decatur Root total includes 15 cents, state; 68 cents, county; $2.69, school; 10 cents, civil bonds; $1.36, civil city; 11 cents, township, and 16 cents, library. Included in Decatur-Washington’s total proposed levy are 15 cents, state; 68 cents, county; $2.69, school; 16 cents,library; 16cents, township, and $1.39, civil city. \Vith the five-cent county levy reduction, thfe following tax units also show lower 1957 proposed levies than 195$ rates: Hartford township, Jefferson township, Preble township, Root township, and St. Mary’s township. All other- W* units will show increases tn spfte of the county decrease. *■ 'X Retailers Discuss Future Activities Annual Fish Fry To Be Held October 25 Discussion of plans for future events was featured at the recent monthly luncheon meeting of the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Clarence Ziner reported on the plans that have been made for the annual fish fry to be held 1 Oct. 25. County agent Leo Seltenright was present and plans were discussed for the annual I 4-H leaders goodwill dinner, | which will be held in the near future. '< ' i Louis Jacobs presented a report | on the progress of plans for Decatur courtesy week Sept. 9 to 15. Howard Wisehaupt, a native of Decatur and now a nationally famous buiness analyst and sales counselor, will conduct a three day courtesy sales clinic at the S Community Center. 2 . Every merchant of the city is c urged to participate in this sales s promotion clinic and an invitation J has been extended to every per- i son in the county, ' Jack Gordon reported that the r civil defense pilots and the Deca- c tur Airport had contributed $36 j to the Greater Decatur fund. The g (Continued On Page Five) € Decatur High Coach Undergoes Operation J Dr. Wayne Glock, Fort Wayne 1 bone specialist, reported to Mrs. £ Robert Worthman that he felt the operation on the local high school 1 coach was highly successful. e Worthman spent two hours under 5 surgery Wednesday and had a I ruptured disc in his spine com- f pletely removed. He was able to J be up for a few minutes this morning and is feeling better. I It is too early to know when 8 the popular Decatur coach can 1 return home, but reports on simi- I lar cases state a convalescent c period of at least 10 days in the 1 hospital is average. After his r»- r lease from the hospital' he will e have to take It easy for a while v to prevent reinjury. • ' . £

Stevenson In Attack On GOP Congressmen Wrecking Crew. In Congress Lashed In California Speech SAN FRANCISCO (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson said today that a Republican wrecking crew in congress will prevent President Eisenhower from making good hiß campaign pledges. The Democratic presidential candidate said there were some “forward-looking’’ parts of the speech Mr. Eisenhower gave at the GOP national convention here. But he said in a speech prepared for delivery to the International Association of Machinists that “the record shows” that the same Republican congressmen who cheered the President’s speech “voted against those same things in congress." . “The Republican leaders are willing to let President Eisenhower go ahead and deliver speeches,” he said, “but when they get down to something important, say like making appointments to the national labor relations board, they take no chances.” V' Stevenson said the IRapublicans issue “election-year platitudes,” while the Democrats “mean what we say—and the record proves it.’’ Stevenson said that the Democrats in the 84th congress drafted legislation to allow disabled persons to get their social security benefits earlier. He said Mr. Eisenhower had pledged himself to such legislation, but when the Democrats "took him at his. word.” he “threw the whole weight and power” of the administration behind an effort to defeat them. Stevenson said that 85 per. cent of the Democratic senators voted “for the interests of the disabled workers,” while 86 per cent of the Republicans voted against those interests. Stevenson noted Republican charges that the Democratic party is “too dose to labor.” He said both labor and the Democratic party are "the peoples' „advocates” and a “kinship betyeen the mis natural.” “As a Democrat, I am not ashamed of that association,” he (Continues on Wlgbt) Funeral Saturday For Kenneth Jenkins Decatur Man's Son Killed In Accident Funeral services will be held Saturday for Kenneth E. Jenkins, 25, of Van Wert, 0., who was crushed to death Wednesday in a switching accident in the east yards of the Pennsylvania railroad in Fort Wayne. Jenkins, an employe of the railroad. was riding on a gondola load of lumber when his body was’ pinned beneath the gondola and another car. He suffered a crushed chest and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Lutheran hospital. Jenkins had been employed by the railroad since 1953. He was a Korean war veteran and had served. 18 months with a transportation corps in Korea. The accident victim is survived by his father. Cleo Jenkins of Decatur; his wife, Bonnie; a son, Steven, at home; a brother. Glenn P. Jenkins of Van Wert, and his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Jenkins of Van Wert. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Trihity Evangelical United Brethren church at Van- Wert, of which he was a member. The Rev. R. W. Faulkner will officiate and burial will be in the Woodland cemetery at Van Wert, The body was removed to the Alspach funeral home tn Van Wert, where friends may call until noon Saturday. —

Two Little Sisters Are Killed By Auto Two Chicago Girls Killed Wednesday CHICAGO (UP) — An inquest opened today into the auto-pedes-trian deaths of two little girls on the first day of school. Sandra Griffith, 5, and her sister, Jean, 7, were killed when struck Wednesday by the auto of Richard Dombeck, 16, Evanston, 111., who was driving his father’s auto for the first time alone. Dombeck broke away from officers a police station after the accident, banked his head against a wall, and shouted: “My God, •what did I do now?” The Griffith sisters were In a group of 25 children returning home for lunch when the accident occurred. Another youngster, 5-year-old Linda Gustafson, suffered burns from boiling radiator water, but her condition was not serious. Police said Dombeck was traveling too fast when he turned a corner into the street of the school where the girls had just been dismissed for lunch. The car—out of control —leaped the curb, smashed into a light pole, struck an Iron fence and then rammed into the group of youngsters. Dombeck later told police he knew he was going to strike the children, but was unable to, stop the car. Bodies or the Griffith children were so badly they were not identified immediately. However, the children's grandmother made the identification at a funeral home after learning of the accident when she phoned the school to find out if classes had been dismissed for lunch. Sandra had started kindergarten Wednesday while Jean was in the second grade. September 9 To 15 Courtesy Week Here Three-Day Clinic Is Week's Feature The week of Sept, 9 through Sept. 15 today was officially proclaimed as “Courtesy Week” in Decatur by action of Mayos Robert Cole. Mayor Cole's proclamation was issued in conjunction with previously announced plans for the courtesy week which is being sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Plans for the week include exhibiting of courtesy -placards in store windows of all businesses in the community, a re-dedication of employers and employes to the practice of courtesy in their everyday lives and to instilling in the public consciousness of the value of the continual practice of courtesy as one of the principal keys to the further progress and prosperity of Decatur. Climaxing the week will be a series of three clinics to be presented by Howard J. Wisehaupt. nationally recognizer as “the good doctor of better business.” The clinic will be held Sept. 11, 12 and 13 from 8 a. tn. to 8:50 a. m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Every employer has been urged not only to attend personally but to bring his employes. i Commenting on the Wisehaupt clinic, Robert Heller, president of the sponsoring organization, said today, "We believe that in presenting the clinic we are giving a service to the business and professional life of the city that will pay actual cash dividends to both individuals and business firms.” Reservations must be made in advance for the series and may be made at the Chamber office on North Second street. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight. Friday fair and continued cool. Low tonight In the 40a. High Friday 64-72. Sunset 7:o# p.m., sunrise* Friday 6:l# a.m.

Guards Force Path Through Kentucky Mob 11 Negro Children Escorted To School In Kentucky Town By UNITED PRESS National guardsmen with drawn bayonets forced a path through an angry throng at Sturgis, Ky., today and escorted 11 Negro children into a newly integrated public school. The situation at Sturgis, a small town in the western part of the state, suddenly developed into the most critical spot in the swiftly changing school integration picture. Things were quiet today in Clinton, Tenn., where Negroes were enrolled and attending school under the watch of national guard troops. Enforced integration at Sturgis was explosive. The crowd around Sturgis high school, formerly all-white, refused to disperse after the guard forced away into the building where the Negro children began registering for classes. Possibly 20 persons were arrested and others were knocked down when they lunged at guardsmen trying to stop guardsmen from taking Negroes into the school. Several others were knocked down when they lunged at the troops. On either end of the school tanks from the 240th tank unit of the guard were stationed during the melee but were not moved. After getting the Negro pupils safely inside the school building. Adj. Gen. J.J.B. Williams, in command of the three guard units sent to Sturgis, telephoned Gov. A. B. Chandler that “order is being kept” and that no damage had been done. But the crowd outside the building was fighting mad and continued milling around the grounds, booing the guardsmen. There was more trouble in Texas where demonstrations sent police to a junior colege campus. Unknown persons burned a cross on the campus of Texarkana Junior College Wednesday night only a few hours after two Negro coeds were permitted to register. The registration of Jessalyn Yvonne Gray, 18, and Laura Ellis, 17, was accomplished without incident and Dean W. D. Akin said they will be allowed to start classes next Monday with 1,000 white students. Texarkana police arrived shortly before midnight but the cross had burned itself out. An investigation was ordered. The cross burning ended a day of uneasy calmness in eight Southern states where Negroes are attempting to enter schools which previously have been sag-' regated. All was quiet .In another troubled Texas town, Mansfield, where mob action prevented Negroes from attending a school which a federal court had ordered integrated. Gov. Allen Shivers sent Texas Rangers to Mansfield to preserve order and subsequently ordered the Negroes transferred to a Negro school at Fort Worth. Shivers earlier had stated he would transfer any student, white or Negro, whose presence in a school might touch off an act of violence. Elsewhere ta the South communities were tense. Yoder Youth Dies Os Accident Hurts FORT WAYNE (UP)— Bobby G. Spears. 20, Yoder, died today in Parkview memorial hospital, a day after his gutomobU* rammed a tree along a Fort Wayne street . Marilyn Fapker, 22, Fort Wayne, was injured seriously.

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