Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 14 September 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 217

' TEACHERS JOIN STUDENT WALKOUT - - Rig' .. 9 '<!W' EF9SK Tc .J lIKBKKMS j3bk||, * / *' . __, ..™,.. —....—.—a.. - ..mt.-—- ■ -■- AS KENTUCKY National Guardsmen assure safe passage for two Negro pupils at Clay s school, two girls (center) saunter home in a walkout of more than 500 students and 11 teachers. Two teachers resigned their jobs, one saying he felt integration would lead to “a mongrel race,

Threat Os War In Suez Crisis Slightly Eased Eden Promises To Take Suez Dispute To United Nations LONDON , (UP) — The threat of an Immediate war over the Sues Canal receded today despite tonight's walkout of Suez Canal pilots that is expected to cripple or close the waterway. “ But the six-week-old crisis remained a grave one and British prime minister Anthony Eden refused to renounce the use of force as a last resort and warned that Israel might be next if Egypt wins on the canal issue. Cairo dispatches said Egypt welcomed Eden’s, declaration M would lake the dispute to the United Nations security council and Egyptian government source's called this a turning point H Egypt's favor. Eden said specifically he would seek security council action if Egypt blocks pilots of the canal users association from moving ship convoys through the canaf He would be expected to charge Egypt with violating the 1888 convention guaranteeing freedom of passage. In New York, U.N. sources said the security council might be convened “within a few days.” Secretary of state John Foster Dulles' declaration the United States would not shoot its way through the Suez Canal also soothed worried diplomats in Cairo, Western Europe and the remainder of the world. Eden's promise of possible U.N. action succeeded in restoring unity to his badly divided nation and even won cheers from the opposition Labor party. It coincided with demands throughout the world that a peaceful solution be found. But “no true and lasting peace can be bought by a surrender of rights and legitimate interests to outside pressure and force," Eden said in his windup speech. “What will be the next step if Colonel Nasser is allowed to succeed in the action he already has taken? I have no doubt what it will be —Israel." Eden's promise of U. N. action came Thursday night at the close of two days bitter debate on the Suez crisis by an emergency session of Parliament. He won a vote of confidence on his policies by a vote of 319 to 245. a strict party line victory of 71 votes. In making the pledge Eden may have weakened his own leadership of the Conservative party. There were dismayed looks on the faces of some of his supporters when he made it. and cheers from the opposition. But it went a long way to bridge the critical gap between the Conservatives and the Socialists and repair the most serious break in Britain's bipartisan foreign policy since Munich and the war. Planning for the next step went ahead at full speed. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was flying to Paris today for talks with Foreign Minister Christian Pineau aimed at consolidating Anglo-French policy. The Big Three Western powers meet here Monday to plan further details of operating the canal users association. A conference on the association is to be called BWer in the week to marshal international support.

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Municipal League Tables Tax Raise Politically-Minded Mayors Table Plans MUNICIPAL LEAGUE p 9 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana’s politically-minded mayors tabbed tax raise proposals late Thursday at the Indiana municipal league's election-year convention. The league steered clear of pro- . posed resolutions to add a onequarter of one per cent surtax on i the one per cent state gross income : tax and to boost the gas tax 2 cents s a gallon. The league ended its two-day convention late Thursday, by electing Mayor Robert E. Meyers of • Fort Wayne president and adopt- • ing a stack of 17 Among them was a plan that the legislature pass no laws for municipal services without supply- ; ing funds, no state taxes on mu- . nicipalities, allowing cities to in-r-wpect motor vehicles and collect 1 for the service, greater home rule i for cities, legislative reapportion- [ ment and league studies of municipal salaries. I Mayor C. Pralle Erni of New ! Albany told his fellow mayors if I they backed a t»i increase "you’re ; liable to find yourself no longer ; mayor next election.” The league aims for more equit- ■ able distribution of existing state ’ taxes and not more taxes to relieve cities of money problems, t Erni pointed out. > Earlier Thursday, Lt. Gov. Harold Handley, Republican guberna- - torial nominee, took a neutral 1 stand on the proposed gross in- , come tax increase, while his oppo- > nent. Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre . Haute, who once headed the league, . opposed a tax increase. Tucker also opposed the gas tax hike proposal, while Handley said he would not 1 veto such a bill. I The league passed a resolution . asking for a “substantial share” I of the cigaret tax. , The mayors and other municipal > officials also sought to shift liability in sidewalk accidents to property owners. They passed a reso- ’ lution relieving cities of responsibility to repair sidewalks and keep ’ snow and ice off, except sidewalks 1 adjoining municipal property. . Officers elected were Mayor Andrew Milnar, Kendallville, first vice president; Mayor Kenneth R. Sny- ' der, Lafayette, second vice president, and Sylvia A. Sparie, Indianapolis, recording secretary. Elected to the executive comJ mittee were Mayor Phillip L. Bayt ’ of Indianapolis, representing first , class cities; Mayor R. Vance Hart- ' ke of Evansville, second class;' , Mayoj Albert L. Doyle of Mishawaka, third class; Mayor Fred C. Owens of Columbus, fourth class; Mayor Evan Crawley of Greencas- ’ tie, fifth class, and H. Gene Huff- ( man, Cambridge City town board , member, incorporated towns. Breakin, Robbery At ’ Royer Barber. Shop 1 From |25 to SSO in email bills 1 was stolen from Boyd Rayer’s ' barber shop at the rear of the Stop Back sometime Thursday night. L The burglary was reported to city ■ police at 8 a.m. today by Rayer. 3 Entry was made at the rear of 3 the building by breaking a pane 1 of glass in the door and releasing ' the bolt on the door. Inside the shop the burglar forced open a 3 closet door, which was closed r with a hasp and padlock. A metal - cash box on the floor of the closet i was opened and the bills were re- - moved. No change was taken and • the cash register wav not disturbed.

Nixon To Be Main Target Os Campaign Stevenson Scores Nixon's Record In Opening Campaign HARRISBURG, Pa. (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson left little room for doubt today that he will set up Vice President Richard M. Nixon as main target of his Democratic presidential campaign. Stevenson sought in his campaign kickoff speech Thursday night to paint President Eisenhower as a “part-time” president who no longer is “master in hid own house.” Republican leaders, he said, will look to Nixon as their “heir apparent.” And toaay Stevenson’s running mate. Sem-Eetes foltowed up with a blast at Nixon for “playing fast and loose with the facts” and "distarting the truth” about unemployement. Stevenson and Kefauver were scheduled to leave by plane today for Washington, D.C., where their pa(he separate. Stevenson will remain in the capital about a week, whileKefauver stumps Florida. Stevenson delivered his speech Thursday night before a crowd of 8,500 who had paid SSO a pjlate for a cold buffet supper earlier. His remarks were carried over all radio and television networks, at a cost of more than $200,000 to the Democrats. Stevenson charged that “partly by choice, partly by necessity," Mr. Eisenhower has turned govermnet powers over to men who represent "business, mostly big business.” "Everyone shares in sympathy for the circumstances which have created a part-time presidency,” Stevenson said. "But we Cannot understand—and we will not accept—turning the government over to men who work full-time for the wrong people or a limited group of people,” he continued. "And the plain truth is that this situation would get worse not better in a continuation of this administration, because what influence the President has with the Republicans in congress has depended on his running again. “But from here on the future of Republican leaders will depend not on Mr. Eisenhower, but the Republican heir apparent, Mr. Nixon and the vice president seems to sail down wind no matter which way the wind blows." Stevenson said these were "stern facts” and “the reasons America’s human needs go today unmet.” “Nor will they be met so long as the President is not master in his own house,” he said. i Stevenson’s mention of Nixon’s name drew a loud bob from the crowd, a reflection of the bitterness felt by many Democratic faithful for the vice president. Local Lady's Mother Dies At Lima Hospital Mrs. Eugene Wolfe of Decatur received word this noon of the unexpected death of her mother, Mrs. Della McDermitte, 64? of St, Mary’s O. She died at St. Rita’s hospital in Lima, O. Death was caused by heart trouble. Ing In addition to Mrs.- Wolfe are a sen and another daughter.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 14, 1956

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Mayor Demands Guards Moved Out Os Town Mayor Os Kentucky Town Strong Foe Os School Integration By UNITED PRESS Mayor Herman Z. Clark today dramatically demanded that the commander of the Kentucky national guard get his troops out of little Clay, Ky„ where they have been bivouacked to keep down racial trouble. Clark, himself a strong segregationist. made apparent futile plea to rid Clay of the state soldiers. Adj. Gen. J. J. B. Williams, head of the national guard, refused to budge unless he gets orders from Gov. A. B. Chandler. “The attorney general has ruled that you and your soldiers are in our city unlawfully,” Clark told Williams. “You have destroyed our civil rights and also our school. As mayor of the city of Clay 1 am asking you to remove at once all your soldiers and your state troops out of the city.” Since Wednesday, the Clay school, which has three Negroes in class but is being boycotted by all the white phpils and -half the teachers, has been surrounded by 506 national guardsmen. The two children of Mrs. James Gordon returned to school this morning and were joined by a third Negro child who has been attending the fifth grade at nearby Providence, Ky. Adj. Gen. J.J.B. Williams, commander of the national guard troops bivouacked at Clay, again escorted Mrs. Gordon and the Children to school. Again 500 national guard troops formed a cordon at the foot of “Schoolhouse Hill” to prevent violence. But the act hardly was necessary today. Only about 35 townspeople gathered. (Continued on Page Eight) Sample Ballots Are Received By Clerk State, National Ballots Received Sample state and national ballots for the November election have been received by Richard Lewton, clerk of Adams circuit court. County ballots are printed locally under supervision of the county board of election commissioners. This work will be done in the next two weeks, it was said. There are four candidates for president and vice president on the national ballot. They include’ for president: Dwight Eisenhower, Republican: Adlai Stevenson, Democrat; Enoch Holtwick, Prohibition party; Eric Hass. Socialist-Labor party. Vice presidential candidates are: Richard Nixon, Republican: Estes Kefauver, Democrat; Edwin Cooper. Prohibition party, and Georgia Cozzini, Socialist-Labor party. The same four parties have complete state tickets on the state ballot, except the Socialist-Labor party has no candidates for judge of the supreme or appellate court, and the Prohibition party has only one supreme court candidate. That candidate is Zoe Wyatt, from the first judicial district. The second state ballot fs a referendum on the time question i,n Indiana. The question is whether you favor retention of central standard time in Indiana and if you do, do you favor daylight saving time for a certain period during the summer months. The other question is do you favor adoption of eastern standard time in Indiana and if you do, do you favor daylight saving time for a certain period during the sumtter (UonunuM on Hag# SID

Kefauver Starts On 15-Stale Campaign Heads For Florida For 16- Day Tour WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. Estes Kefauver headed toward Florida today on the first leg of his 15-state “truth-telling” swing. The Democratic vice presidential nominee was scheduled to arrive at National Airport today from Harrisburg, Pa., with his running mate, Adlai Stevenson. In less than two hours Kefauver planned to be on another plane headed for Tampa. The Tennessee senator’s 16-day tour will take him through 15 states — from Florida to Oregon. His busy schedule will include more than 60 towns and cities. Warming up for the toud in a Harrisburg speech Thursday night Kefauver charged the Eisenhower administration with running a government of “privilege, preference and personal priority.” “What the Republicans have given us is the bad break, the weighted tax law, the stacked government commission, the inside ’ track which runs. the distance , from Wall Street to the White ■ house,” he said. ' Kefauver said that when Vice President Richard M. Nixon first i t®ok office, he "traveled the ‘high- ’ t»ad,' ” but after Democrats won > elections in 1953 and 1954 Nixon - “changed hfs tone.” “As everyone now knows t he reI sumed the ‘low-road’ during his 17-state stumping tour in the 1954 campaign," Kefauver said. _£ “Dyring the past few months he has tried again to pass himself off as a new Nixon —again travel(Contlnued on Page Eight) Two More Cases Os Polio Are Reported Brings Total Cases In Area Up To 19 The illness of Mrs. Harold Whitright of Decatur route three, has been diagnosed as polio according to information received today bjj her family from the Anderson hospital where she was recently taken. Mrs. Whitright, the former Mary Alice Kintz and' a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Kintz of Washington township, became ill several weeks ago and had been a patient ; in the Adams county memorial hospital. Spinal tests failed to show polio. The family reports that an Indianapolis specialist has definitely diagnosed her trouble as polio. ’ Therapy treatment has been started at the Anderson hospital. Another belated polio report is that of Mrs. Ed Bluhm, who resides on Winchester street. She suffered an attack of the disease ! in August during the peak polio [period of this area and was taken I to a Fort Wayne hospital. She was released from the hospital Sept. 7. The case was not reported to health authorities earlier because of a delay in the report from the , Fort Wayne physician. The addition of these two casks brings the total polio incidence of .the area up to 19. This includes Mrs. Laura Rauch, 28, who resided in Allen county near the Adams county line, and Robert Railing, 38-year-old Decatur man. both of whom were fatally stricken. ; Janice Baker, four - year -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Baker of Dkcatur route three, who suffered a severe attack of bulbar polio, was dismissed from the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne Thursday. Therapy treatments for the child will be continued at home. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy through Saturday. Cooler tonight. Low tonight 46-54 north, 54-63 south. High Saturday 74-78 north, 7885 south. Sunset 6:56 p.m., sunrise Saturday 6:26 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer. Low Saturday night 52-60, high Sunday 80-90.

Ike Shortens Vacation For Menzies Talks Meets Australian Prime Minister In Suez Crisis Talks WASHINGTON (UP) — President Elsenhower today interrupted a four-day vacajion at his Gettysburg, Pa„ farm >to *eopfer here with Australian prime minister Robert G. Menzies on the Suez crisis. The President was expected to ask Menzies for the Australian’s personal views on the Suez Canal situation and his estimate of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s ambitions in the Middle East. Menzies headed the five-nation committee that failed to get Nasser to negotiate on the American plan for internationalizing the canal. Mr. Eisenhower planned to leave Gettysburg by plane after spending the early part of the day relaxaing at his farm. He planned to return by nightfall. The Eisenhower-Menzies meeting was set against a background of a newly-clarified American position on Suez. ” Secretary of state John Foster Dulles told a jammed news conference Thursday: The United States would join the proposed “users associations” even If only Britain and France took part. But he said — emphasizing he could not speak for other nations —the United States does not Intend “to shoot its way through the canal.” He said if Egypt blocks U. 8, ships from the canal, the vessels will be sent around the Cape of Good Hope. He said he hoped other nations would do likewise. Dulles’ alternative had many of the earmarks of the U.S. airlift that broke the Commfinist blockade of Berlin, __ (Continued on Page Four) Leadership School Opens Here Monday Associated Churches Sponsoring School First classes will be held Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in the Decatur leadership training school, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur. The school will continue for five Monday nights, and is open to any one in Decatur or community who cares to enroll. The Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, pastor of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, is committee chairman in charge of the training school, which is for church and Sunday school workers of all churches. Six courses will be offered, three during the first period from 7:30 to 8:20 p. m„ and three in the second period, 8:45 to 9:30 p. m: A worship period for the entire school will be held each evening from 8:20 to 8:40 o’clock. Instructors for the school will be Dr. R. H. Miller, professor of Bible at Manchester College; Dr. C. R. Keim, professor of history at Manchester College, and Mrs. Milton Nolin, whose husband, is pastor of the Presbyterian church at Ossian. Registrations are being made in each church, and a final opportunity for late registering will be offered Sunday. Enrollment cards will be available for those not yet enrolled. The fee is $2 for the entire school. All churches are asked to report registrations to Rev. Thomas Monday to enable proper ararngements to be made for the opening session that night. There will also be an opportunity for late enrollments from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Monday. ;

O'Keefe Testifies At Brink's Trial Chief Prosecution Witness To Testify BOSTON (UP)—Joseph (Specs) O’Keefe, confessed Brinks bandit and the prosecution’s chief witness, tells today about the looting of sl,218,211 from Brink’s Inc. six years ago. O'Keefe was taken Thursday under heavy police guard to Suffolk county courthouse. But long cross examination of other prosecution witnesses prevented the hawk-nos-ed hoodlum from taking the stand. Appearance of O'Keefe, a surprise government move, came on the 26th day of trial of eight defendants charged with the Jan. 17, 1950 holdup, the nation’s largest cash haul. Court officers Thursday were or- ' dered to screen every visitor. Security. guards were doubled around entrances and elevators. Police ' armed with shotguns were postfed on rooftops surrounding the high brick courthouse. O’Keefe waited in an anteroom while the prosecution, called up a series of witnesses in an effort to link him with the defendants. William Shanahan, a police stenographer, testified to questioning of defendants Anthony Pino and Henry Bifker during investigation two years ago. . - The witness said Pino told authorities in August. 1&54, that he had been "a real solid pal" of O'Keefe's. (Continued on Page Four) Democrats To Open Party Headquarters Formal Opening To Be Saturday Night Bartel Zandstra, Lake county, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, will arrive in Decatur late Saturday afternoon to attend the opening of Democratic headquarters here Saturday night at 8 o’clock. Headquarters will be established in the DeVoss building. An informal program and smoker will mark the evening’s program, with the Zandstra speech as the headliner. The public is invited to attend, Dr. Harry Hebble, Democratic chairman, said today. Following the opening of the i Deeatur office of the Democratic I party, someone will be in attendi ance eacij day to assist persdns i. desiring to register and also t 3 pass out literature concerning the ' county, state and national candidates, thfe chairman said. Several other political meetings are being planned for the next six weeks, in Berne, Geneva, and Decatur, and the feature meeting of the campaign will occur October 9 when Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute, -Democratic capdidate for governor, will headline a dinner-meet at the Youth and Community Center. E. P. Jaberg, Democratic candidate for auditor, will be chairman of the October 9 event. Several of the candidates already have started the task of visiting voters in all precincts of the county, and the campaign will be officially opened following Saturday's program. $44,000 In Dollar Bills Is Missing CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (DP) — The federal government today is frantically hunting for a money bag containing $44,000 in new $1 bills. Postal Inspector E. E. Harding said the money vanished from a railroad mail car somewhere between Washington, D. C., and Memphis, Tenn. Harding refused to speculate on whether it was lost or stolen, whether it was missent, filched by a mail clerk, or accidentally dropped from the speeding train. .

Strike Would Close Down 40 Company Plants Union Officials Say Contract Talk With Company Recessed CHICAGO (DP) — The nation’s two major packing house workers unions today called a strike against Swift and Co. for 12:01 a.m. next Thursday. Officials of the United Packinghouse Workers and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen said contract talks with Swift, one of the “big four" of the meat packing industry, were “recessed” Thursday. “Swift spokesmen have declined to face up to this year’s national collective bargaining picture,” the union statement said. The statement' was signed by Earl W. Jimerson, president, and Patrick E. Gorman, secretary treasurer, of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters, and Ralph Helstein, president, and G. R. Hathaway, secre-tary-treasurer. ■of the UPWA. A strike would affect 40 Swift plants employing more than 25,000 workers, the unions said. Swift spokesmen said they were “surprised” by the union anpouncement. They said there were no indications when Thursday's negotiating session ended that the unions planned to break off talks. No Swift-union talks were scheduled today because the unions had scheduled negotiations with Armour and Co. There was no immediate indication whether the unions planned to continue negotiations with Swift before the strike deadline. However, the unions said ( they are continuing talks with Armour and Co. The unions have been negotiating intermittently with Swift and Armour since Aug. 21. They ordered a strike vote Aug. 24 among 85,000 employes of Swift, Armour and four other major packers, and announced Sept. 6 that strike ac-‘ tion at 110 plants of the six packers had been authorised by members of the two unions. In announcing a strike deadline at Swift plants, the unions said: “The Packinghouse Workers can not be expected to accept less than workers in steel and other major industries. The company’s stubborn denial of the union shop is but an example of its out-of-step attitude in view of the now nearly universal acceptance of the union shop in American industry, including 90 per cent of the employers in the meat packing industry.” The, unions said they seek “a substantial wage increase and other contract improvements.” A UPWA spokesman said the basic rate for common labor in the industry is $1.69 an hour and the average wage about $2.14. City Power Plant Trouble Corrected, Production At Peak Trouble at the city’s steam generating plant Thursday which caused a temporary reduction of power production has been corrected, it Whs announced today by L. E. Pettibone, superintendent of the light and power department. The trouble was caused by the breakdown of a large boiler when a tube in the economiser started to leak. Repair of the boiler was completed when it had cooled enough for workers to enter. By operating smaller boilers and running the diesel generating plant on Dayton avenue at full capacity, the city was able to produce the entire electrical demand by noon Thursday. However, the large boiler is now back in operation and the city’s production capacity is back at the maximum level.

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