Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 219

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Stevenson Is Preparing For Speech Series 6,800-Mile Swing Planned By Adlai In South, Midwest WASHINGTON (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson worked today on a series of speeches on farm problems and other domestic issues which he will deliver during a 6,800-mile campaign swing through 11 southern and midwestern states. -o The Democrane presidential candidate will begin the whirlwind air-and-motor tour Saturday with a major speech at the national plowing contest at Newton. lowa. His bid for the farm vote at Newton will follow by one day President Eisenhower’s visit to the plowing meet. From lowa, Stevenson will swing through Colorado. Oklahoma. Arks ansas, Louisiana. Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Indiana. Wisconsin and Minnesota. He carried only two of these states — Arkansas and Louisiana—in 1952. Stevenson returned to Washing' ton—his new base of campaign operations — this morning after spending a quiet Sunday in the nearby Virginia horse country. He was the weekend guest of Philip L. Graham, publisher of the Washington Post and Times Herald, and George McGhee, former ambassador to Turkey who now is co-chair-man of the finance committdte for the Volunteers for Stevenson-Ke-fauver. Stevenson scheduled a news conference for 11:30 a.m. CST One question expected to come up at the news conference concerned Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall’s repeated challenge to Stevenson to state whether he “agrees” with what Hall calls former President Harry S. Truman’s “whitewash” of Alger Hiss. Hall said Sunday night he will make daily demands on Stevenson to make known his position on Mr. Truman’s recent statement that he did not believe Hiss was a "Communist spy.” Hall demanded a statement from Stevenson on Hiss in a telegram that said: “It is 15 days since Harry Truman delievred his whitewash and you have not repudiated him. Does your silence mean that you agree with Mr. Truman’s statements? “It seems strange that you are perfectly willing to smear the President and vice president on any occasion. yet you persist in silence on Hiss.” “ Then, mimicking Gov. Frank G. Clement of Tennessee, who delivered the impassioned Democratic convention keynote address, the Rpublican chairman concluded: • — h OW long, Mr. Stevenson, does it take you to clarify your stand on Hiss, Harry Dexter 'White and Silvermaster! I will ask' you this question once a day because the American people want your answer.” Mr. Truman said in a Milwaukee television interview Sept. 3 that he did not believe Hies was a spy or that Harry Dexter White and Nathan Gregory Silvermaster “were guilty of anything.”

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

SUEZ PILOTS LEAVE FOR BRITAIN

Handley Officially Launches Campaign Republican Editors ' Hear GOP Candidate INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Lt. Gov. Harold W. Handley officially launched his campaign for governor Saturday night with a plea to put Indiana’s schools, free highways, county roads and city streets ahead of any plans to build new toll roads. Handley spoke at the Indiana Republican editorial association banquet. He said voters must oppose extremists or lose their freedom. “Every Hoosier desires freedom from the dictatorship of the superstate," he said. “We are true Jeffersonians in our dislike and suspicion of the over-concentration of governmental powdr. "We are determined that big government shall not be the master of our lives.” Handley promised to work for better schools but avoid federal aid' to education. “I know that Indiana can continue to train and to recruit sufficient numbers of happy and inspiring teachers,” h® said. “I know that Indiana can continue to meet the needs of its children by building a sufficient number of classrooms — without federal intervention.” . “To make Indiana farmers even more available to markets, I propose a rapid stepup of state roads in rural areas. These farm-to-mark-et roads would be a part pf the' statewide system of free highways which I want to see serving every county in Indiana.” He favored taking advantage of federal funds for road - building. Each state must share part of the cost before the funds become available. “Our schools and our free highways and our country roads and city streets must be given first consideration,” Handley said. “They naturally take precedence over any plans to build new toll roads.” Handley said if elected governor’ he would "recommend that the 1957 legislature repeal the state 15-cent property tax.” Turning to his personal qualifications for governor Handley said: "The state of Indiana deserves the best, and no man with less than the highest standing among -' (Continued on Page Four; Native Os Decatur Dies At Toledo, 0. Mrs. Lautzenheiser Is Taken By Death* Mrs. Charles Lautzenheiser, 46, a native of Decatur, died at 7 o’clock Sunday morning at_ St. Vincent’s hospital in Toledo, 0., high school with the class of 1929. following brain surgery. She graduated from Decatur and had made her home in Toledo for the past 20 years. Mrs. Lautzenheiser is survived by her husband: her mother, Mrs. Effie McGill of Decatur; Jhree sons, Richard, Grant and Gary Lautzenheiser, all of Toledo; one daughter, Mrs. Albert Traselt, also of Toledo, and a sister, Mrs. Alvin Hawkins of Decatur. Funeral service* will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at theAbels funeral home in Toledo, with burial in Linwood cemetery at Toledo.

Negro Parents Capitulate To White Demands Clay, Ky. Negroes Will Send Children Into Negro School By UNITED PRESS Parents of four Negro children, whose efforts to get them into a white school in Clay, Ky., brought out the national guard, gave up today and decided to put them into a school for their own race. The decision, announced in a dramatic hand - shaking on the steps of the school, brought cheers from a crowd of 50 to 60 white persons standing behind a line of Kentucky national guardsmen drawn up at the building. The Negroes, accompanied by their mothers, were turned back at the school door by the principal, Mrs. Irene Powell. She read them a resolution adopted by the county board of education. It was an order barring them from 1 the white school. Mrs. James Gordon, mother o f two of the children, shook hands with Mrs. Powell and said she will take her children to a Negro school at Providence, Ky. Mrs. Catherine Copeland, mother of the other two Negroes, said she will also enroll them at Providence. The capitulation of the Negro parents to demands of the white population that the Negroes not be admitted to the all-white school eased tensions that had built up in Clay for days. Although Gov. A. B. Chandler promised to remove national guard troops as soon as he is officially notified of the school board’s decision, Maj. Gen. J.J.B. Williams, state adjutant general commanding the troops, said he would stay around “for the time being.” - — * But the crowd dispersed and all but nine guardsmen marched away from the building to their bivouac area behind the school as soon as the Negro mothers gave up the integration plans. Mayor Herman Clark who has denounced Chandler for sending th enational guard to Clay comMrs. Powell and the county school board for their action. “I have the greatest a.dmiration for Mrs. Powell for reading the notice to the national guard and the Negro children,” Clark said. The Kentucky conference of the national association for the advancement of colored people began work on a federal suit to integrate the school following the school board decision Friday night. James A. Crumlin, state president and legal counsel for the NAACP, said at Louisville, Ky., that the suit would be filed by Tuesday in the federal fii strict court at Owensboro, Ky. State Attorney General J. M. (Continued on Page Six) Break-in Is Probed At Pleasant Mills The Adams county sheriff's department is investigating a breakin at Pleasant Mills high school which apparently occurred sometime last night. Entry to the school building was made by breaking a rear window. Although some small items were disturbed, nothing was taken? ft is believed that the break-in was done by youth.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 17, 1956

United States Prepared To Finance Oil Exports For European Nations

f '* Ask Immediate Test Run Be Made At Suez Will Seek Approval Os Suez Conference To Make Test Run LONDON (UP) — Britain and the United States will ask the second 18-nation Suez conference to gpprove an Immediate ‘test trip’ into the Suez Canal in a challenge to Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s claim to sole control of the waterway, informed sources said today. Nasser served notice in advance he would not permit the Westernsponsored “users association” to operate in the canal. “We shall not allow the canal users association to function through Suez,” he told a correspondent of the press trust of India. “We Egyptians shall run the canal smoothly and efficiently and if, despite that, the association forces away through the canal, it will mean aggression and will be treated as such.” With lines thus clearly drawn, U. S. secretary of state John Foster Dulles announced in Washington that the United States is prepared to finance oil exports from this country to Western Europe In case that transit through the canal becomes “impractical.” Dulles added, however, that “our hope remains that satisfactory operating"*-arrangements can be worked out with Egypt/ Duties leaves today for the conference opening Wednesday in London. --— — ~~ — The informed sources in London .said Britain wants the canal test case to be a full convoy piloted by Westerners. The United States is said to believe a single ship will be sufficient. •> But both are agreed that the challenge should be made quickly before either accidents or pilot fatigue should choke off canal traffic. The first major slowdown of shipping since Western pilots resigned Friday was reported in the canal today. The report lent urgency to the Wednesday conference called in London to study the Western plan for a Suez Canal users association. Authoritative sources said the Big Three did not plan to draw up hard-and-fast proposals for the conference. They intend to allow the participating shipowner naations to frame the details on the conference floor, it was said. The sources said the Western powers also consider the users as(Continued On Page Five) Nern Appointed To Police Department Fills One Vacancy On Decatur Force The temporary appointment of Al Nern, of 316 N. Second street, to the Decatur police force was announced today. 1 The appointment, which is effective today, was made by the city board of public. works and safety. Nern has resided in Decatur for about a year and has been em- 1 ployed at Tokheim in Fort Wayne. He and his family moved to Decatur after eight years of rest- i dence in Woodburn. He is a : native of Fort W’ayne. where he ' received his schooling; The new member of the department is married and has four i children. His appointment fills one of the vacancies caused by : the resignation, of Ed Wolpert and Maurice Teeple. It was also reported today that officer Dale Death, off duty for several months because of a foot injury, will report for duty again Thursday. Death lost the toes of his right foot in an accident with a power mower.

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Indiana Toll Road Is Dedicated Today Governor Predicts Traffic Death Drop s SOUTH BEND (UP) — Gov. George N. Craig predicted today that Northern Indiana will have at least 50 fewer traffic deaths in the riext year because of the 280 million dollar upstate toll road. I Craig spoke at the dedication this morning of the 156-mile superhighway which marked the last link in a turnpike system connecting the nation’s two largest cities. f Craig s daughter Margery cut a ribbon opening the state s first toll road. About 5.000 persons gathered in cool, sunny weather to view the ceremonies and hear the governor term the highway “a monument to traffic safety.” . . Another governor. Frank J. Lausche of neighboring Ohio, called completion of the road “a great bequest to prosperity.” He said when the Ohio link in the turnpike completes its first year of operation Sept. 30, it will have taken in enough revenue to pay all operating expenses and interest charges and pile up a profit of 1700,000. “The future hjoks bright for the Indiana toll road,” Lausche said. “The wisdom of turnpikes cannot questioned now.”- ; Another guest was Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago, who said the highway is a “community project in which Chicago has a special interest.” ' “Roads like this in a free eouni try not built by dictators are especially (significant as the will of the people,” Craig said. “To raise the t standard of living in this day and age, we must be the. best and ( achieve the most.” Margery, a 7-y ear-old, skipped school to play the lead role for a ‘ moment in an historic scene. , She formally opened a turnpike (Continued on Page Four) Leadership School Will Open Tonight Associated Churches Sponsors Os School The leadership training school, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will open tonight at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, continuing each Monday night for five weeks. Registration will begin at 7 o’clock, and all those who have em rolled for the school must report at the registration desk. Curtis Hill will have a crew of secretaries to expedite registration, and Mrs. Mary Hazelwood, treasurer of the Associated Churches, will serve as cashier. The Rev. Stuart Brightwell, pastor of the First Baptist church, will direct a brief worship service, and the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas, Bethany Evangelical . United Brethren church, and dean of the school, will Introduce the faculty members and direct students to their The school is open to the public. It promises to interest youths and adults who are not teachers, officers or counselors in the church school. Parents, other adults and senior high school youths are encouraged to enroll. A student may choose one course each period. . - First period courses are: “The 1957 uniform Sunday , school lessons”: “The Christian’s responsibility for order in the world,” and “The children we teach." - Second period Courses are: “Survey of the Old Testament;” “The church through the centuries,” and “Teaching children in the church school

s INDIANA WEATHER / Fair and cooler tonight. Tuesday sunny but rather cool. Low tonight 40-48 north, 48-53 south. High Tuesday 70-76 north, 7M2 south. Sunset 8:91 p. m., sunrise Tuesday 6:29 a. m.

33 Men Feared Dead When U.S. Ship Founders Five Men Rescued When Liberty Ship Sinks Off Norway HARSTAD. Norway (UP) - Five survivors of the American liberty ship Pelagia who landed in this tiny Norwegian fishing village said today there was no hope for 33 other men aboard the sunken ship. The search went on, but the survivors said their's was the only lifeboat to be put down when the 7,238ton Pelagia, laden with 1.0,000 tons of iron ore, broke in two in a gale and sank off Norway’s rocky coast. The five men were identified as Lawrence Rediess of Central City, Colo.; Janies Arnold of Baltimore; Demetrios Hadjieostas. a Greekborn American citizen of New York; Andreas Orphanos of New York, and Pedro Rodriguez of Baltimore. With them was the body of Jean Lopez of Santiago, Puerto Rico. He had died of exposure in the icy waters above the Arctic Circle before the British trawler Northern Duke could reach their leaking lifeboat, guided by a U.S. air force search i plane. The body of another crewman - was picked up at sea today by the Norwegian destroyer Tronheim. It - was not immediately identified. Hadjieostas told United Press i theirs was the only lifeboat to make s it to safety. Three others were I splintered when part of the super--1 structure gave away and crashed to the deck under the pounding of 1 mountainous waves. i Even the lifeboat developed a (Continued wi Pat a Five) » — - — Commissioners Meet Here This Morning The county commissioners mettbday at the court house for the I regular mid-month pay session. After allowing claims, they left on a tour of ditch and road inspections throughout the county. Noah Poling Dies Saturday Afternoon Farmer Near Convoy Is Suicide Victim Noah Poling, 79, prominent resident of Van Wert county, 0., ended his life by hanging at 4 o’clock Saturday morning at his home. He had been in ill health five years. Authorities reported Poling placed a rope around his neck and then jumped from a stepladler in the barn at his home near Convoy. He served two and onehalf terms as Tully township trustee and two terms as Van Wert county commissioner.* He was a trustee of the board at the Sugar Ridge Church of God. Surviving are the widow, Bes sie; three sons, Doyle, Maurice D. and Mavin 1.. Poling, all of near Convoy; five daughters, Mrs. Frema Habegger of Monroe, Mrs. Fem D. Simmers of Pittsburgh. Pa., Mrs. Pauline Eddy of near Convoy, Mrs. Fortress E. Mohl of ( Decatur, Ga., and Mrs. Alice N. , Hoover of near Convoy; 10 grand- j children; two great-grandchil- ( dren; one brother, Charley Poling ( of Afton, Okla., and one sister, Mrs. Minnie Park of Van Wert ( county. ( Funeral services win oe heldfj at 2:30 T. tn. Tuesday at the s Sugar Ridge Church of God, the Rev. Kenneth Laffin officiating. , Burial, will be in Ute TOOF ceme- t tery at Convoy. Friends may call t •at the H, D. Smith funeral home t in Convoy until noon Tuesday- - the body will be taken to ( the church.

Three Men Arrested For Hoosier Robbery Charge Robbery Os Francesville Bank CHICAGO (UP) — FBI agents during the weekend arrested three Chicago men in connection with the $27,263 robbery of the Peoples State Bank of Francesville Aug. 3. Authorities continued to search for a fourth man believed Involved. Meanwhite, the three were slated for arraignment today before a U. S. commissioner. Arrested were Henry Gargano, 24; Paul Gonzales, 36, and James Adamson, 22. None of loot was recovered, authorities said. The’ FBI charged Gonzales was one of the two holdup men who entered the bank clad in blue overalls, their faces covered with bandanas. Gargano drove the getaway car, authorities charged. Adamson was arrested on a charge of knowing of the holdup but concealing it from authorities. FBI agents found two pistols and shotgun ammunition at Adamson’s residence. They also found a duffel bag with the handle missing. A handle to a duffel bag wjs found last month at the scene where three men abandoned their getaway car after the robbery. The bandits who held up the 3>ank In the morning carried sawed-off shotgun and pistols. One bandit forced cashier Ray Osburn ’ to show where the money was kept and then took it from the cages and vault. s The getaway car was found > about five hours after the holdup » in a woods 10 miles northeast of . Francesville, FBI agents said i the robbers, camped severaL days f in a broods after the holdup, apparently to avoid roadblocks. 1 i. * ~ Democrats Launch Campaign In County Zandstra Is Speaker At Opening Saturday “When the people of this nation become tired and disgusted with their government being operated for the benefit of a few wealthy persons and corporations, they always have turned to the Democratic party for help in driving the usurpers out. Such is the case this year.” This was the theme of the address of Bartel Zandstra. Democratic candflTate for lieutenant-gover-nor, who was principal speaker at the opening of Democratic headquarters in Decatur Saturday night.'An overflow crowd attended the people even were jumped into the doorway. Zandstra. a long time student of history and political science, and two times clerk of Lake county, held his audience for more than 40 minutes. He traced the history , of both major political parties and ( gave a brief resume of the laws they fathered. ( Mayor Cole opened the , meeting and introduced Ed F. Ja- ( berg, candidate for auditor, who , in turn introduced the guest speak- j er. Aill county Democratic' candi- , dates were introduced following j the Zandstra addressand Kenneth , Hirschy, prominent Democrat of Decatur, started a drive for mem- j bers of the Bechtol for congress { club. Every county in the fourth t district has a Bechtol club Hirschy t said, and as soon as the membership drive here is completed, a general meeting will be called for ' election of officers. ,/• ~ Dr. Harry Hebbie; Democratic | county chairman, told briefly of plans for organization prior to the November election and introduced * several visitors from Jay county. 1 Following the program, a smoker 1 was held. More than 50 women at- c tended the meeting and many of them remained for the informal c meeting which followed. Mrs. f Theron Fenstermaker. Geneva, * candidate for county treasurer, 1 (Continued on Hive) f

U.S. Ready To Ad If Canal Transit Halts Announcement Made By Dulles On Eve Os London Flight WASHINGTON (UP) - Secretary of State John Foster Dulles announced today that the United > States is prepared to finance oil exports from this country to Western Europe in case that transit through the Suez Canal becomes "impractical.” He made tne announcement to newsmen at the White House after conferring with President Eisenhower on the Suez crisis. Dulles conferred with the President a few hours before leaving by plane (1 p. m. CST) for a new London on the Suez crisis. Dulles said that in event Egypt blocks the canal, there might have to be increased exports of oil from the United States to Western Europe. He said this government is prepared to finance! such exports through the Export-Import Bank. As for a report that this country is prepared to put up 500 million dollars to finance a detour or “* the canal around the South African Cape of Good Hope, Dulles said this governm’ent has reached no agreement with any other nation. "All there is in the situation is the normal facility of the ExportImport Bank to finance exports from this country,” he said. "The only thing we’re planning for as a contingency is the financing of exports of oil,” he added. He expressed hope, however, that "satisfactory operating arrangements” still can be worked out with Egypt Dulles spent an hour with the President. Afterwards, he issued a formal statement,, including a declaration that: "We are not trying to organize any boycott of the canal, but we cannot be blind to the . fact that conditions might become such that transit through the canal is impractical or greatly diminished. There must always be ways to insure the movement of vital 1 supplies, particularly oil, to Western Europe. Accordingly we are carrying out planning as a prudent precaution. But our hope remains that satisfactory operating arrangements can be worked out with Egypt.” While Mr. Eisenhower and Dulles were conferring, White House press secretary James C. Hagerty disclosed there- has been an exchange of correspondence between the President and prime minister Nehru of India. Hagerty said the President's latest communication to Nehru took place late last week.

“It dealt partly with Suez,” Hagerty said. „ The interior department, meanwhile, moved ahead with Its plan to discuss oil production with representatives of Texas. New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. The meeting was announced Saturday. It will take up the possibility of raising the allowable amount of oil produced in these states, in the event Egypt blocks the Suez Canal. Dulles told reporters that if it became necessary to route tankers around the South African cape there would not be sufficient oil to meet Western European reqtlire(Continued on Page Three, 14-Month-Old Girl Is Fatally Shocked TERRE HAUTE (UP) — Four-teen-months-old Frances Lucille Hinkle, daughter of the Eugene Hinkles, was shocked fatally Sunday. The girL touched—an extension, cord containing exposed wires. Her father and grandfather were working on a motor in the yard and the cord was strung from the house to the motor.

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