Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 18 September 1956 — Page 8

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JOEY DAVIS, 5, of Chicago, is the latest victim of one of the darndest messes little boys get into. He was riding his new bike Just as proudly as you please when he tumbled and rammed a foot Into the rear wheel spokes. His howling brought rapid aid from his mother and a passer-by. (International Soundphoto)

GOP Headquarters Has Bigger Staff Democrats Operate From Three Fronts WASHINGTON (UP) — What's new in Washington: The Republicans already are ahead of the Democrats in ope respect. The GOP national committee has a staff ot 196 at its headquarters, which takes up a big part of a floor in a downtown building. The Demos are operating on three fornts. The committee is in one building, the main headquarters in another, and the Stevenson-Kefauver main offices are at a separate stand. The total staff is only 150. No conclusions can be drawn from the above. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says that the delay on the Hoover commission’s recommendation for federal reorganisations are costing |175 a second. Very few of us taxpayers can afford it.

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A visitor in town last weekend was Raif Z'Ubi, an Arab citizen of Israel, an inspector of Arab ed ucation in the western Galilea and Haiti district of Israel. He was on his way to Illinois State Normal, at Bloomington, 111., to take a special course in education. The visitor is 35 years old and is the principal of public schools in Nazareth. The American Automobile Assn, headquarters here says Wyoming has a new system whereby road cops compliment safe drivers. The idea backfired the other day. A state • patrolman followed an out-of-state 'War for several miles and finally flagged the fellow down, told him h was doing a fine jot of following the rules of the road. The driver gave the cop a sour look and said: "Why don’t you guys make up your minds? I was arrested about 30 miles back and had to pay a fine for speeding.”

Capehart Outlines Campaign Program Senator Outlines Eight-Point Plan HEBRON, Ind. (UP) — Sen. Homer E. Capehart Monday said he would fight Communists and “foreign givesaways” and work to expand small business and farm markets if he is reelected. In a speech before a Republican rally here. Capehart outlined an eight point program for his campaign. The plan: “1. To continue to work with President Eisenhower in my capacity as a member of the senate foreign relations committee to preserve the peace. "2. To help solve the farm problem ’ through the continued disposal of the huge surplus which the Democrats bequeathed us and a crash research and development program to create new industrial uses for products. “3. To continue my fight against foreign givesaways and to put such assistance as may be needed by friendly nations on a businesslike loan basis. "4. To continue to work to make military careers more attractive tn order to build up a permanent experienced army. “6. To continue to work to ■ create jobs in order to bring increasing prosperity and happiness to all of our people. “6. To press for a graduated income tax on business under which smaller businesses would fall within the lower tax brackets and thus be able to plow back into their businesses more profits.” "7. To maintain a vigil against Communists ever again obtaining a foothold in our government “8. To work for better and better labor-management laws?' NIXON LAUNCHES tCeatlaeeU fr—i Puge Oa«> son appears here Sept. 28. . That leaves only President Efer enbower among the four major party national ticket candidates to go. Mr. Eisenhower has not announced plans for any Hoosier appearance during the campaign, but party leaders have hinted strongly he will bo here before the Nov. 8 election rolls around. <

Thomas Studying McKeon's Record Plans Long Study Os Marine's Trial WASHINGTON (UP) — Navy secretary Charles S. Thomas made clear today he would spend a long time studying the court martial record of marine staff Sgt. Matthew McKeon before taking final action. The navy announced "Monday night the court martial record had reached Thomas’ desk after being reviewed by the judge advocate general, Rear Adm. Chester >C. Ward. McKeon was convicted of negligent homicide in connection with the deaths of six recruits during a night disciplinary march at the Parris Island. 8. C., marine bpot' training camp. The court martial sentenced him Aug. 4 to nine months at hard labor. a bad conduct discharge, forfeiture of S3O a month from his pay for nine months and reduction in rank to private. The navy said the office of the judge advocate general had completed its review ot the court martial record and submitted its opinions to Thomas. It considered the adequacy of the evidence and the presence or absence of any legal errors. Thomas can reduce — but not increase — McKeon's sentence. Negligent homicide ia defined by navy regulations i aa^ “absence ot due care by one responsible for the safety of others."

Singing Cowboy Is Sought For Murder Admits Holdups In Midwest, South CINCINNATI (UP) — Atlanta, Ga., authorities told Cincinnati police today they want singing cowboy David E. Eckert, 24, for murffer. Officers here said Eckert has confessed 17 holdups in the Midwest and South. One of them was a hotel robbery in Atlanta where a man died of knife wounds. Eckert’s admission of the holdup police said, was signed Monday. He was unaware the victim had died. Trade in a Good Town — Decatui

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GOP Labor, Farm Policies Assailed Humphrey Speaks At Labor Meeting EVANSVILLE .(UP) — Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn) told about 1.000 delegates and guests to the Indiana Federation of Labor convention Monday that the Republician party offers ‘’prosperity, for a few but no prosperity for you.” ■'T < Humphrey also attacked the Eisenhower administration for "backing down on promises" to amend the Taft-Harley law and j called agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson a “colossal failure.” "America's working men and women can find no real hope for the future in a party that compares the jobless with kennel dogs and looks upon the right to suffer unemployment as “one of the joys of a free economy,” the Democrat said. He said the GOP pitted the national labor relation board against labor, opposed the Democratic plank for a "decent” minimum wage and neglected areas of widespread unemployment. At the airport earlier, he criticized Benson who barnstromed across northern Indiana in a campaign tour last week. Benson has brought “hardship and tragedy for

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farm people.” Humpjhrey said. The four-day convention,’ which entered its second day today, was scheduled to hear both Indiana nominees for governor, Lt. Gov. Harold W. Handley and Democratic Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute, Claude R. Wickard, Democratic nominee for the senate, and other political personalities. Manslaughter Charge On Fort Wayne Man FORT WAYNE (U.P)—lnvoluntary and voluntary manslaughter charges were filed Monday against William Files, 34, accused of strangling his wife, Lula, 30, , Sept. 9. i Bond was reduced from $50,000 to >2,000. Prosecutor Glen Beams said there was insufficient evidence for Files' indictment on first or second degree murder charges. Files admitted in a statement that he choked his wife. He said he did it to prevent her from stabbing him. MUSIC from PaK. One) gram will be announced later, f Also on the concert schedule are the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra: the Eger Players, an instrumental ensemble; the Englekinder, a family group, and Claramae Turner, a contralto and well-known vocalist.

Ike Campaign Trip - To Start Thursday To Spend Night In Mamie's Home Town WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower will set out on his first campaign trip a day earlier than scheduled so he and Mrs. Eisenhower can spend Thursday evening in Boone, lowa, where Mrs. was born. The change In plans was announced today by White House press secretary James C. Hagerty. Mr. Eisenhower previously planned to fly directly to Newton, lowa, Friday to make a major campaign speech at the national plowing contest. The address will mark the be- , ginning of his fight to keep the vital midwestern arm belt in the Republican column in November. Under the change in plans, the ■ President and Mrs- Eisenhower will leave for Boone Thursday aft'ernoon and go on to Newton FriI day. The first family will spend Thursday night in a house built in 1870 by Mrs. Eisenhower's maternal grandparents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Carl Carlson. They will be the 1 guests of Mrs. Eisenhower's uncle and wife. Joel and Caroline Carl- ’ son. Asked why the change in plans,

Hagerty said Mrs. Elsenhower “wanted very much to go visit her uncle and stay at the family home." The Eisenhowers vlsiteu Boone in 1952. Mrs. Elsenhower was born in Boone but not in the house now occupied by her uncle. Orville Hodge Is Defended By Wife Says Husband True To Marriage Vows GRANITE CITY, 111. (UP)—Mrs. Orville Hodge has defended her 'husband as a man who remained true to his marriage vows, the Chicago Sun-Times said today. In a sun-Times interview, Mrs. Hodge said she pever heard of Bonita Lillie, her husband’s alleged lady friend, “until I read her name in the newspapers.” The Sun-Times said Mrs. Hodge wept as she talked about Hodge’s life in prison, where he is serving a 12 to 15 year term for looting the state treasury while he was state auditor. Miss Lillie, an interior decordtor. has said she was in love with Hodge, was with him much of the time and still loves him. “What kind of person can that woman be?” Mrs. Hodge asked. “Forty-one years and not mar-

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