Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1956 — Page 1

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CONFER WITH IKE ON SUEZ , ’ : HEI * Wwtili rar W ; Tw»111k • V- IQs K. ■Hat®**; Jr ® .JHB K* i IfsT ’ Ski \ > k "t--- • a ■ * I Jr' ®n r at Ji K ' i, " , w i® JI M 8 Fjl IL ■ ®hH® ® :’x7 SUEZ DEVELOPMENTS bring top Australian officials to President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles at Washington where Dulles asserted the U.S. does not intend “to shoot its way” through the canal. With Mr. Eisenhower (I.'to r.) are Australian Ambassador Sir Percy Spender, Dulles, and Prime Minister Robert Menzies. • ,

Headquarters In Washington For Stevenson J Eight-Day Stay*ln w. Washington To Map ” ’ Campaign Strategy WASHINGTON (UP)—Adlai E. Stevenson tackled his campaign home work today and prepared* to lend his coattails to Virginia and Maryland congressional candidates in the Republican suburbs of Washington. • The Democratic presidential , nonftnee set up shop in Washington Friday for an eight-day stay which promised to give him his first relatively leisurely schedule sincie he started whirling around a week aftertbej&g; ocratic national convention. His national campaign •- headquarters expected to release his travel schedule for the final week of September sometime today. Stevenson was slated for a speech this evening at a Democratic barbecue on a Fairfax county estate in Virginia. 15 miles from Washington. This rally is intended to help elect Warren Quenstedt. Democratic nominee for the house seat now held by Republican Rep. Joel T. Broyhill. The presidential nominee has another speech scheduled for Thursday in suburban Silver Springs. Md., also situated in a congressoinal district represented by a Republican congressman. Stevenson may accept some other spetaking dates during his stay here. But none is expected to take him out of Washington overnight. He also plans to hold a news conference Monday and possibly will issue what a spokesman called “a hewsmaking statement in lieu of a speech” sometime next week. Otherwise, he intends to catch up on accumulated campaign work and to start working on speeches for later campaign tours. Campaign financing may get attention from Stevenson and his campaign advisers during his stay in Washington. Democratic prospects on this count apparently have begun to look up due to pledges or cash totaling about $750,000 the party received at dinners Stevenson addressed this week in New York and Harrisburg, Pa. Stevenson flew to Washington Friday .after Thursday night’s Harrisburg speech, which formally opened his campaign. Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland, Calif., called on President Eisenhower Friday and (Continued On Page Five) Rural Youth Holds Hayride And Bake Forty members and guests of the Adams county rural youth organization met recently and enjoyed a h'ayride and wiener bake. The sideswope the animal, ride and wiener roast was conducted by Earl Yoder, president, and was held at the county extension office. Plans for the district training -school at Marion September 15 and 16 were announced by Gloria Koeneman. who urged all offlcers-elect to attend the school. Immediately following the business meeting, the group left on the rayride with Roger Koeneman providing the wagon and tractor for the group. A wiener bake was at Koeneman farm in Preble township. Those serving on the refeshment committee were Merlin Alt and Alice Kukelhan.

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Investigate Charge By Marine Recruit Charges Slugging By Marine Corporal PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (UP) — Officials at this sprawling Marine Corps boot camp today investigated charges that a supply-room corporal slugged a young recruit just receiving his first field pack because he didn't “have Sense enough to say ‘sir’.” / Pvt. Donald Hamisfar, 20, of Norwalk, Ohio, Friday night told United Press in an exclusive interview that the non-commission-ed officer, who has not been identified, “hit me in the ribs, just above the stomach.” Navy doctors said they fbund a “bruised spot” on Hamiafar's abdomen when they operated on him i Aug. 28 for groin hernia. The doctors said the hernia, which was congenital in origin, could have been aggravated by the blow. The young recruit said that the incident happened only two day# after he had enlisted. Officials at this boot camp, where' only two months ago S-Sgt. Matthew McKeon was found guilty of negligence on the “death march” drowning of six recruits, immediately launched an intensive investigation of the Hamisfar affair. Hamisfar, his hospital bed gave this account of the incident: “On Aug. 23 the platoon was taken by our drill instructor to the supply room to check out gear. We were issued a pack, a bucket and swab. A sergeant (the marine corps identified him as a corporal) picked up my pack and carried it out in the middle of a semi-circle. “He raised it above his head and said ‘Now do all of you have one of these?’ I didn’t know that . he had my pack so I said ‘No, I don’t have one.” “He came up to me and said’’ ‘Don’t you have sense enough to say ‘sir’ when you’re talking to a non-commissioned officer.’ (Continued uj Par:., Five) Democratic Party Opens Headquarters DEMOCRATIC PARTY To Launch Campaign In County Tonight Bartel Zandstra, Democratic candidate for lieutenant-governor, will arrive in Decatur about 5:30 O'clock this evening for his address tonight at Democratic headquarters in the DeVoss building. The speech will mark the opening of the campaign in Adams county. The candidate, who visited in Berne today and attended the fair in that city, will be the guest at dinner at the Fairway>restaurant of Dr. Harry Hebble. Adam’s county Democratic chairman, and several other local party workers. Dr, Hebble stated that a smokp er would be held in connection with tonight's program and that all men and women Os the area are invited to attend. Headquarters will remain open daily until after the November election following tonight's program. r The meeting tonight will be the first Decatur political meeting staged by either party in the present campaign. Several more Democratic meeitngs are scheduled here and at Berne and at Geneva. noon edition

GOP Chairman Says Contract Charge False Hall Denies Aiding Contractor Obtain Government Work WASHINGTON (UP) — Republican chairman Leonard Hall today labeled as “pure bunk” suggestions by Democratic house investitors that he ever cleared any contractor for work with the government. The house group made public a document Friday night asserting that Hall “cleared” a big construction firm for a government contract only after he was assured it had no Democrats among its officials, . The contract was for a $43 million expansion project at the government’s nickel plant in Nlca.ro, Cuba. It was investigated by a house government operations subcommittee, headed by Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) The document issued by the subcommittee was a memo prepared by Randall Cremer, former executive vice president of the Frederick Share Co. In the memo, Cremer told of an 'interview he had with Hall at GOP headquarters on June 3V.1954. Hall told reporters that “T can’t help what anyone writes in hispersonal diary.” He said he had “never cleared any contractor, big or small, tor work with the government. Any suggestions that I did is pure bunk.” Subcommittee Democrats previously accused the justice department of trying to hide Cremer’s documents to cover up “favoritism and possible fraud” in awarding ■the contract to Cremer’s firm. The subcommittee vainly demanded that attorney general Herbert Brownell Jr. hand over the Cremer memo and other documents. Brownell said he would keep them until the department decides whether there were any law violations. Rpublican members of the subcommittee have charged that the group did not conduct a proper investigation and difl not call all witnesses necessary to get a full story of the contract. > The Cremer memo was distributed to reporters by Brooks. He refused to say how he got -it. — Cremer said in the memo that during his interview with Hall he gave the GOP chairman his company's qualifications to handle the construction job. “Hall then asked for informare support of the Republican party,” the memo read. “Went over this again, and assured him we have no Democrats in the higher brackets and believe practically none in the lower.” Man Collapses On Sidewalk Friday Carl‘Mcßride of St. Louis, Mo., on his way from a Veterans hospital in Cleveland to Louisville, Ky„ collapsed in front of the Decatur Daily Democrat office Friday about 4:15 p.m. He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital, where it is reported that he is in fair condition. He apparently did not suffer a stroke. He told hospital officials that he has been a patient at the hospital at Cleveland and that be “got tired of it” an decided te go to Louisville.

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Great Britain Calls 18 Dulles Plan Nations To Meet Next Wednesday

Seek Striking Force To Aid Racial Fight “ Top Segregationist Leader Seeking To Organize Councils By UNITED PRESS A segregationist leader worked today to form a striking force of citizens councils for integration “trouble spots” such as Clay. Ky., where townsmen fought a bitter legal battle to do away with their own mixed classes. John Kasper, a Washington, D.C., white supremacist who was sentenced to a year in prison for stirring up racial violence in Clinton, Tenn., called for the formation of “roving bands” of councils that would travel to help preserve seggregation wherever it is threatened. !< Segregation at an elementary school in Clay, Ky., had collapsed and as the school week ended, the small mining town was added with nearby Sturgis, Ky., and Clinton, Tenn., on a list of “trouble spots” where integration was achieved with the help of national guard troops. However, officials at Clay fought to have the three Negro students who broke the city's color barrier transferred back to a Negro school, and the mayor tried unsuccessfully to have the guar dordered out of ’town. At a meeting in Clay Friday night, the Webster county board of education approved unanimously a ruling that any Negro students who last year attended the Rosewald School for Negroes at nearby Providence, Ky., would not be permitted to transfer to the consolidated school at Clay. It was believed that the ruling would affect all three of the Negro children who this week attended the elementary school in Clay be-, hind a protective cordon of national guardsmen. The board of education met after Kentucky Att. Gen. Jo M. Gerguson ruled that the board legally could bar Negroes from the school. Mayor Herman Z. Clark, who has been an outspoken opponent of the mixing of the races in Clay schools, demanded in a proclamation that (Continued on Fage Five) Company Interested In Kraft Building Possible Location For New Industry Robert Heller, president of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce/ stated today that the Chamber has received a" Tetter from’ an Indianapolis industrial realtor who is considering the old Kraft building as a possible location for a factory which would employ about 75 people. The letter indicated that the company is interested in the Kraft building among other Indiana locations as a possible factory site. A delegation from Decatur recently visited Indianapolis to present information about the Kraft building to the company. Fred Haugk and Clark Smith, co-chairmen of the financial drive to raise money for the purchase of the Scheimann property for an industrial site, have announced plans to officially open the drive next week. Further details will be announced in the next few days. I : A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce board of directors is slated for Monday night at the Chamber of Commerce office. The meeting will feature discussion of plans for the preparation of a brochure on the city of Decatur. Sample brochures on other Indiana communities will be in spected.

' ~ Sen. Kefauver Says Inflation Is Threat Says Republicans Callous To Threat ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Estes Kefauver charged today that President Eisenhower “has shown no concern at all” about inflation and the rise in the cost of living. ’ In a speech prepared for delivI ery at Democratic chick-an-rice ? luncheon at the Largo fairgrounds i here, the Tennessee senator said “the Republicans have shown them- ■ selves callous and indifferent to the needs of low income families.” He termed inflation “by far the , most serious threat to the economic well-being of the people of this nation.” The only answer the GOP ad- ’ ministration has, Kefauver charged ; is a "hard fnoney policy” becausd “interest rates look mighty good to a banker-minded administration.” He said inflation threatens to inI crease costs substantially or to i curtail the $34 billion highway proi gram authorized by the DamnexaU. . ic-controlled congress this year. ' Kefauver promised that, if electI ed, a Democratic administration I rwill deal with the twin probleA of inflation and cost of living as “primarily a problem of human suffering and - human value.” At Tampa, Fla., Friday, Kefauver opened his first campaign swing as vice presidential nominee with a demand that he be given the same secret information on world affairs as the Democratic presidential candidate, Adlal-E-Stevenson, is receiving from the Eisenhower administration. Kefauver said he neeedd it to intelligently debate foreign policy in the campaign. President Eisenhower, has directed that it be given Stevenson but with a restriction it not be passed on to anyone else. Mrs. Nona H. Yager Is Taken By Death Prominent Berne Lady Dies Friday Mrs. Nona H. Yager, 69, prominent Berne resident and vice president of the Yager Furniture Co. in that city, died at 2:45 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, after becoming ill Friday morning. She had been in failing health several years with a heart ailment. She was born in Linn Grove Nov. 7, 1886, a daughter of Peter and Louisa French-Hoffmann, and was married, to Lawrence L. Yag-< er July 4, 1910. Her husband, ' prominent undertaker and furniture store owner at Berne, died several years ago. Mrs. Yager was a member of the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church at Berne, the Women’s society of the church, tTte Daughters of the American Revolution, Berne Garden club and the Cardinal Audubon club. She was affiliated with the Yager Furniture Co. and the Yager funeral home. Surviving are two sons, L. Luther Yager of near Berne, joint state representative, and J. Jerome Yager, of Berne; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a. m. Monday at the Yager funeral home, the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 o’clock this afternoon. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 58-68. High Sunday 82-98. Outlook for Monday: Showers and turning cooler.

Secy. Dulles To London For New Conference Special Effort To Obtain Support For Users Association -WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower is sending secre tary of state John Foster Dulles to next week’s London conference in a special effort to win support for the new Suez Canal “user# association” plan. •The President hopes that by dispatching Dulles to London he can get more than' just a few nations to back the idea. So far, only the United States, Britain and France have agreed to participate in the scheme. It is the third time Dulles has gone to London since the Suez crisis erupted. The users plan, which originated in Washington, is for the new association to hire Suez pilots quit--Httg-the Egyptian Canal company, place them on ships of association members and try to get Egypt to let the vessels go through the wa- ' terway. Dulles’ big hope Is that a good many nations will endorse the plan. He does not want the new association to be branded immediately as a strictly big power group which is battling for colonialism. Mr. Eisenhower announced from his Gettysburg, Pa., farm Friday night that he has ordered Dulles to attend the 18-nation meeting in London next Wednesday. Dulles wHI leave Monday afternoon for the parley. - The secretary’s travel plans were’’ announced shortly after Mr. Eisenhower returned to his farm following an “extremely helpful and interesting meeting” on the Suez crisis in Washington with Australian prime minister Robert G. Menzies. (Continued On Page Five) Five-Year-Old Girl Stricken By Polio Gretchen Leyse five-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Leyse of Kirkland township, is the area's 20th polio victim, according to reports. She is recovering from a mild attack of the disease, whch caused only slight weakness In her right arm. Spiritual Emphasis Week Planned Here Annual Services To Be Held Oct. 21-28 Spiritual Emphasis week will be held in Decatur Oct. 21-28, inclusive, with services nightly except Saturday at 7:30 o’clock? This annual week of .services is sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, and is one of the outstanding religious events of the year in this city. - The Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, pas-1 tor of the Church of God, is chair-' man of the committee in charge of arrangements for the week’s services. Other members of the committee are George C. Thomas, Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Robert C. Flora. First Presbyterian church, and the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, Bethany Evangelical United Brethren' Church. The services will be held in the i First Methodist church, and Fifth streets. The Rev. William F. Hill, pastor of the Brookside Evangelical United Brethren church. Indianapolis, will be evangelist for the week. The Rev. Gerald Gerig, new minister 4?f the Missionary church, will direct congregational singing. Rev. Gerig had charge of music for the Youth for Christ team Which toured Europe a few years ago. At that time Rev. Gerig was a student at Fort Wayne Bible College.

Ike Prepares For Political Battles First Major Speech Scheduled Sept. 19 ' GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP) — President Eisenhower started ' a restful weekend at his farm today in preparation for political battle early next week. » The Chief Executive also is keeping a close watch on the Suez . crisis, which interrupted his fourday rest Friday when he returned , to Washington for a conference with Australian prime minister Robert G. Menzies. Menzies headed the five-natlOn committee that failed to get Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser to negotiate on the American plan for internationalizing the Suez Canal. Presidential press secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisenhower will remain at his farm until late Sunday or early Monday unless world affairs take a new turn for the worse. Mr. Eisenhower took advantage of his brief return to Washington to discuae QOP election strategy for 40 minutes with senate Republican leader William F. Know- , land. Mr. Eisenhower will speak in Washington Tuesday morning at a send-off breakfast for Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who is leaving the same day for a 32state campaign swing. The following day, Sept. 19, the President will deliver hih first major nationwide campaign speech. He also will attend the national plowing contest in Newton, lowa, on Sept. 21. Negotiations With Railroads Collapse Collapse On Demand Os Fringe Benefits CHICAGO (UP) — Negotiations between the nation’s railroads and I the 50,000-man Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen collapsed Friday in the face of a union fringe benefit demand. The breakdown was the latest in a series of events concerning the railroads. At Philadelphia a threatened strike against the Pennsylvania Railroad was averted at the last minute by a management agreement to turn over the issue of job classifications to a mediation group. The strike had been called for noon Friday. In another rail dispute 11 unions demanded that the Chicago and North Western give severance payments under threat of a strike. The payments would equal the wages earned by a worker during his service with the company. Union officials said the demand is their answer to drasti creorganization of the railroad and its subsidiary, the Chicago, St. Paul and Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad. The union charged the railroad with “ruthless” layoffs since last April when Ben W. Heinemqn be- | came chairman of the C&&NW ' board of’dlrectors. Strike ballots to be returned Sept. 20 were circulated, union representatives said. Decatar Lions Club Meets Monday Night Watson Maddox will show films taken on the recent Boy Scout trip through the west at the dinner meeting of the Lions club at 6:15 p.m. Monday at the Decatur Y*outh and Community Center. The 40-minute film, taken by Steve Evehart, will show the highlights of the 15-day, 4,000-mile "trip. In includes Rock Mountain National Park, Teton National Park. Yellowshtone National parK Needles. S. I)., Mt. Rushmore and the Badlands. It includes scenes from seven states including Indiana. Illinois. lowa. Kansas. Nebraska Wyoming and South Dakota.

Egypt Pilots Now Steering World Traffic d Nasser Risks Egypt Prestige In Effort To Operate Canal - LONDON (UP)—Britain today I called the 18 Dulles plan nations > to a meeting Wednesday to imple- ■ ment formally the Anglo-French "users association” and challenge i Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s operation of the Suez ■ Canal. U. 8. secretary of state John Foster Dulles will leave Washington Monday and meet with British and French ministers on Tuesday in London to complete the Western blueprint. Egyptian, and a handful of “friendly” nation pilots took over full responsibility for steering i world traffic through the 101-mile i waterway today after the mass resignation of European pilots ■ formerly employed by the old ■ Suez Canal Co. London shipping circles freely i predicted the result would be t wear-chaos on . the vital artery “ within 10 days or before the time 1 the first “users association” convoy would be ready to. challenge Nasser’s authority to block its way. Nasser was risking his own and Egypt’s prestige on Egypt’s ability to keep the canal running. He declared In a speech at graduation exercises for Egyptian air cadets that “every Egyptian able to bear arms” will fight any Western attempt to challenge his control. Egypt has recruited the world for pilots to replace the Europeans who resigned and the government newspaper Al Gomhouria reported in Cairo that 41 Russians had arrived Friday night to take up jobs as pilots “immediately/* From Suez, at the southern end of the water, United Press correspondent Gerald Arathoon reported that one of the biggest convoys ever to use the canal moved out for Port Said at the Northern end today. Piloting were 26 Egyptians and five others from "friendly countries.” Two rival plans for the canal’s operation were before the World’s maritime nations — the Western "user’s association" and Egypt’s proposal for a wide “negotiating body” to rewrite the Suez Caaal guarantees without challenging Egypt’s control of the canal. India’s prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru denounced the AngloFrench plan as an open threat of war. He was sending his roving Ambassador V. K. Krishna Menon first to Cairo and then to London in an effort to pave the way toward a negotiated peaceful settlement. Pakistan, one of’the 18 supporters of the original Dulles plan, had not decided whether to attend either the London or Cairo-pro-posed conference but warned sharply that Pakistan “is against (Continued On Page Five) Polio Dance Here Next Friday Night More than 1,000 tickets have already been sold for the American Legion sponsored polio dance next Friday night. September 21. at Legion home here, the committee irt charge reported today. Open house will be held in conjunction with the dance and all proceeds from the sale of dance tickets will be turned over to the Adams county polio society. z - The Mendes band will provide music for the affair and dancing will start at 8 o’clock Friday night. Open house at the Legion will start at noon Friday -and continue the balance of tW day and night. Tickets for the affair may be obtained from members of the Legion and also from several uptown stores.

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