Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 221, Decatur, Adams County, 19 September 1956 — Page 1

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DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate Estes Kefauver is shown campaigning in Milwaukee, Wis., where he said White House pressure has been used to “sabotage” REA.

Presidential Rivals To Bid For Farm Vote Pres. Eisenhower, Stevenson Speak At Agricultural Show NEWTON, lowa (UP) —President Eisenhower and AdlaiEk Stevenson. Democratic presidential candidate, hope to harvest votes this weekend'in the heart of the nation’s farm belt. ' Both presidential candidates were expected to use the national field days agricultural show to air their stands and views on a top issue of the 1966 campaign—the farm problem. In 1952 both men used the national field days held at Kasson, Minh., to expound their views on a farm program. President Eisenhower was to epeak on Friday and planned only an ’informal” talk. Observers felt he apparently was content to stand on the administration’s farm program which included a soil bank, increased exports and more farm research. The President’s first major farm policy speech was to come next Tuesday in a nationally televised appearance at Peoria, 111. A full-dress speech on Saturday was planned by Stevenson in which he was expected to interpret the general farm plank adopted by the Democratic National Convention. He was expected to fill in some details on Democratic proposals for price supports. Stevenson also may bring up Democratic charges that Mr. Eisenhower came out for 100 per cent of parity farm supports at Kasson four years ago and never delivered on his promise. Many farm leaders felt that Stevenson might possibly give a repeat performance of Harry S. Truman in 1948, when the former president launched his “give-’em-hell” campaign in Dexter. lowa, at National Field Days. Mr. Truman carried lowa that year in a surprise victory over Thomas E. Dewy, the last Democratic victory In lowa. More than a mile of exhibits housed in 9(F huge tents open Thursday at what primarily is an agricultural show. The main part of the show was on the Henry Steenhoeck farm, 14 miles west of here. * “Conservation City,” however, was the main exhibit area where utilities installed enough power and telephone lines and other facilities to equip a city of 10,000. Some 2.500 acres were "borrowed” from 14 farms in the area, including the cross-draft, which has been transformed into a model farm homestead. One of the top events was the National Plowing Contest on the final day of the show. Featured in the contest were champion plowmen from 13 states. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight Thursday generally fair, cooler south. Lows tonight in the 40s. High Thursday 65-70. Sunset 6:46 p<m„ sunrise Thursday 6:30 a.m.

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Young Boy Thwarts Kidnap And Holdup . German Bandit Is Thwarted By Youth HEIDELBERG, Germany (UP)— American banker John W. Kubel said today his 14-year-old son Robert was the calmest one in the family when the boy foiled a $71,600 kid nap-robbery attempt by shooting a German bandit in the head. Police said Robert undoubtedly saved his mother’s life Tuesday whpn 58-year-old Hugo Walgenbach Irtdllioefl the femUy hi a ransom attempt. The criminal was holding his gun against Mrs. Kuhel and was threatening to pull the trigger. 0 Kuhel told today how he overpowered the bandit and his ninth grader son shot him dead. He said he swerved his car to throw Wai-* genbach off balance and then lunged over the front seat to pin him down. At that instant, he said, he heard two shots fired close togethery%?" Robert had shot Walgenbach with a .22 calibre target pistol he had hidden in hie school jacket before Walgenbach forced the family into their car. The bandit had hoped to hold them until Kuhel got the ransom money from the Chase Manhattan Bank branch here that he manages. “The youngster was the calmest of all three,” Kuhel said. “But’ none of us lost our heads. My wife did not cry." Kubel said his action in swerving the car came when Walgenbach opened the back door to take' over the wheel while the car was parked in downtown Heidelberg. He ordered Kuhel to go to the bank on foot and join him later at the forest rendezvous. “I saw that he had one foot on the sidewalk. Then a Godsend —an American MP jeep — approached at cruising speed.” Kuhel said. "I saw through the side of my eye that the door was still open as the Jeep approached. I thought if I swung the car he would slip out. I gunned the motor and cut a sharp ang{p to the left in rfont of the MPs. I saw him start sliding. He lurched to the right, sWI trying to get his balance. I reached over into the back seat and got on top of his gun.” Kuhel explained that Walgetrbach had never .shown his gun but (Continued On Page Five) >■■■ .. - Brief Session Held By City Councilmen . In a brief session of the city council Tuesday night at city hall, two petitions for street lights were filed and referred to the electric light and power committee in conjunction with the superintendent. One petition was filed by the Decatur Moose lodge for two lights for the parking lot on First street and at the alley back of the lodge. The other petition was a request for a light on Jackson street at the intersection of the alley between 11th and 12th street. An agreement for an electric light extension between the city and Jack E. Everett was approved and recorded. Following the allowing of claims, the etrancrt meetting was adjourned. „ 7

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Eight Negroes Leave School In Kentucky Leave Quietly As Order Os School Board Is Read By UNITED PRESS A short-lived and riotous expert l ment in integrating a high school at Sturgis, Ky., ended today amidst the cheers of a white crowd that gathered to witness the return fb strict segregation of the school. In Washington, an all-southern congressional investigation into integration of public schools in the' nation’s capital got under way today, The two northern members of the house subcommittee making the study failed to show up for Its beginning. Eight Negro children came to school at Sturgis as they have for two weeks under protettive custody of national guard or state police. Today’s arrival was different. They were met by principal Earl Evans who read them an order from the school board saying the Negroes were attending that school illegally. The Negroes, who had been escorted to the school by Lt. Col. Clarence C. Burch of the Kentucky national guard and two other guardsmen, left quietly by automobile. As their car moved slowly through the crowd, a middle-aged woman ran close behind beating on the trunk with her fists. Another woman cried out to the Negroes: “Don’t you ever try that no more.” Nearby Clay, Ky., set the pattern for the Sturgis action by barring four Negroes on grounds the 'school board had not approved the integration. A crowd of more than 200 assembled in a cold, drizzling rain to see whether the same plan would work at Sturgis. It did, al-' though there was a chance Negro AfflW ,qjjght go to couft later to fight the decision. Clarence Mitchell. NAAtP Washington director, charged that today's race hearing there, headed by Rep. James C. Davis (D-Ga.) was in the hands of “bigots.” He warned that it may cost the Democratic party votes of northern Negroes in November. Davis, Rep. John Bell Williams (D-Miss.) and Rep. Joel Broyhill (R-Va.) conducted the hearing in the absence of Rep. A. L. Miller (R-Neb.) and DeWitt S. Hyde (RMd.) who were aligned on the northern side. The Southerners all signed the southern manifesto opposing racial integration. State Atty. Gen. Jo M. Ferguson backed up the Sturgis school board’s action by ruling that inte(Coatinued on Page Eight)

Woman Injured In Accident Tuesday Two Autos Collide At Coppess Corners Mrs. Phyllis Diekman, 59, of Bristol route two, sustained six fractured ribs and deep lacerations on her head in an accident at about noon Tuesday on U. S. highway 27 at Coppess Corners. She is a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mrs. Diekman was a passenger in a car driven*by her husband, Edward H. Diekman. 73. The Diekman car, going south, collided with another southbound /car operated by Ruth lone Scheeler, 27, of Fort Wayne. The Scheeler car had apparently slowed for traffic ahead and Diekman struck it from the rear. The Diekman vehicle was totally, demolished by the impact. Dam-' age to the Scheeler car was estimated at $350. Sheriff deputies Charles Arnold and Roger Singleton and state trooper Dan KwasnegJU investigated. Another accident occurred Tuesday evening on U. S. 27 at the Wabash river bridge two miles north of Geneva. It involved a truck driven by Everett. E. Lee. 35, of Rushville route seven, and an automobile towing another car operated by Martin J. Arthur, 37, of Lexington. Ky. The trucker stopped as he approached the narrow bridge and Arthur crashed into the rear of the vehicle. Damage was estimated at $5 to the truck and $1,509 to the cars. Arthur was arrested on a charge of following too closely and was taken to Berne jastice of the peace court. Sheriff Merle Affolder and state trooper Gene Rash investigated. , .a.

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Suggests Appointment Os Shipping Czar To Divert Canal Traffic

All Heavy 852 Jet Bombers Are Grounded Grounding Ordered Second Time In Year Following Accident WASHINGTON (UP) —.The air force today grounded all its 852 heavy jet bombers for the second time this year. The grounding ’was ordered as a result of the accident near Castle air force base, Calif., on Monday in which five members of a sevenman crew were killed. The air force said the grounding is a "precautionary measure.” In an emergency the 852 s would be ready to fly, the air force added. The air materiel command, Wright-Patterson air force base, Dayton, Ohio, ordered the grounding “pending results of the investigation into the 852 accident on Monday,” the air force said. “All 8525, however, are being flight-readied daily and crews are standing by,” the air force said. “In any need or emergency the 852 s will fly.” The long-range 852 s are desired to provide immediate retaliation in the event of an attack on this country. The 852 was grounded last Feb. 18 after ‘an accident to one of the bombers which also was operating out of Castle air base. The cause of that accident was traced to a faulty alternator - generator. The air force ordered modification of all 852 s which had a similar part. There has been no hint regard(Contlnued on Page Eight)

Selective Service Sends Contingents Eleven Adams county young men were sent to Indianapolis this morning by selective service, three for active induction into the armed services, and eight for physical examinations. ■ Those inducted were Henry Osborn Wagley, Jr., Gerald Roman Miller and Roger Earl Hirschy. Those sent for examinations were Donald Wayne Walters, Carl Richard Irwin, Thomas Norbert Rumschlag, Dwight Jesse Brennemaa, Earl Eugene Johnson, Carroll Jean Gerber, Maurice Hubert Miller and Chester Wayne Beer. Jackie Del Nussbaum has been transferred to the Columbus draft board and Jerry Jacob Holt to Fort Wayne board 101. Republicans To Open Headquarters Here Yager Speaker At " Opening Saturday L. Luther Yager. Republican candidate for reelection as joint representative for Adams and Wells counties, will be the main speaker for the opening of Republican headquarters Saturday at 8:15 p.m. Headquarters for this year’s G.O.V. campaign will be established in the former Walter Plumbing building at 254 N. Second street. An informal get-together and program will open the evening with the Yager speech as the highlight, according to Harry Essex, Adams county Republican chairman. In the weeks following the opening, the headquarters will be open .each day with someone in attendance to assist any one desiring to register or transfer voter registration and also to give literature concerning county, state and national candidates. A number of ether meetings have been planned over the county in the next six weeks. The candidates have already started the task of visiting the voters all over the county and the campaign will start Officially following the opening of the headquarters Saturday night.

Eisenhower Opens Campaign Tonight First Address On Television Tonight WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower will carry his drive tor reelection to the nation -tonight in the first televised speech of his campaign. . The President planned to talk about peace —<and what his administration has done to achieve it. He also was expected to strike back at Democratic charges that his administration is losing the cold war to the Communists. He may well say something about the Suez crisis. He undoubtedly will have received last minute reports from the new London Suez conference before speaking. The President’s 30-minute address —first of a series of major national TV and radio talks —will be carried (9:30 p. m. EDT) by the Columbia Broadcasting System. He will .speak from Broadcast house here. The Republican national committee js paying the radio-TV btil. It is estimated at about SBO,OOO. The President formally opened his campaign last week with a carnival-like picnic at his Gettys-: burg, Pa., farm for GOP leaders. But the picnic was fciore of a Taaiily pep rally than a public affair. The President’s speech tonight is his first major national address since he accepted the GOP presidential nomination in San Francisco last month. The Democrats already have hit hard -at GOP claims to cold war victories and maintenance of peace. Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson has charged that the President and his administration are being outmaneuvered and outsmarted by the Soviet Union in the cold war.

Solution Os Power Problem Due Soon City Officials And Utility In Session An all-day session of members of the city council and representatives of the Indiana-Michigan Electric Co., held Tuesday, has brought the Decatur power problem closer to solution, observers said today. The negotiations are not at the contract signing stage as yet, it was learned, but city officials are of the opinion a feasible plan for the northern Indiana utility to serve part of Decatur’s power needs, soon will be ready for public airing. Present local generating ability can only take care of present peak loads and if one of the three Operating units is torn down for repair, an emergency, immediately exists. It is the consensus of opinion of local officials that the diesel and steam generating plants should be maintained and operated as long as possible and that supplemental power should be purchased. Because of the large cost of either additional steam or diesel generating equipment, it is generally believed that purchasing additional power would be ttye most logical solution. Mayor -Robert Cole said today that no final step would be made pertaining to the power situation until all citizens were fully informed on the subject. I and M representatives told the city officials that their service was available to Decatur and from the statements made both the utility and city representatives, indications are a workable solution will result soon. City attorney John DeVoss ia studying the contract proposed by the utility and another meeting ia scheduled in the next few days.

Conservation Plea Issued By Stevenson Pledges Support For Conservation To Aid Citizens WASHINGTON (UP) — Adlai Stevenson today called on all conservationists to rally behind him, pledging support for conservation programs helping “the many instead of the priviledged few.” The Democratic presidential nominee issued a statement from his hotel headquarters announcing formation of a “conservationists for Stevenson-Kefauver” committee. He said it is “heartening" that the group was formed “to help save our 50 years of constructive bipartisan conservation programs from the Eisenhower administration.” Stevenson planned more campaign staff conferences and meetings in hl£ hotel suite throughout the day. He was scheduled to talk with, among others, two members of the old Truman cabinet and early supporters — former postmaster general Jesse M. Donaldson and former secretary of Interior Oscar Chapman. The Democratic nominee safd conservation gains “built carefully and often against great odds, cannot and must not be allowed to be dissipated.” He said the nation “must return” the management of conservation “to a dedicated and responsible administration.” Stevenson promised that if elected he will follow “sound and progressive conservation policies and programs so that they will continually benefit the many instead of the privileged few.” Stevenson emerged from his suite Tuesday to announce the Democrats will conduct a $7 million election fund-raising drive to (Oontmueci on fture Eignt)

Two Persons Killed In Headon Collision SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (UP) — Two persons were killed late Tuesday in a headon collision of two automobiles on Ind. 9 eight miles north of here. Authorities identified the victims as Mrs. May Geer, 48, Shelbyville, and Richard W. Miller, 32, Morristown. The accident occurred when Miller attempted to pass a car, pulled back into his lane of traffic, applied the brakes and skidded into the path of the approaching Geer car. Local Lady's Father Is Taken By Death Russel Hays Dies Early This Morning Russell M. Hays, 52, of Hagerstown, father of Mrs. Gene Rash of this city, died at 3:55 o'clock this morning at the Henry county hospital following a cerebral hemorrage suffered at noon Tuesday. Mr. Hays had been In Che grocery business for 33 years. He was a member of the Congregational Christian church, Lodge 49 F. & A. M, Scottish Rite end Shrine. Lions club. Merchants association, White Water Valley Scottish Rite club. Mr. Hays’ wife died 18 days ago. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Rash are another daughter, Mrs. Eunice Cross of New Castle; one son, Richard Hays,, basketball coach at Selma, and seven granddaughters. # Funeral services wijl be held Friday afternoon at the Congregational Christian church at Hagerstown, the Rev. William Haley officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn cemetqiry gt Hagerstown. Masonic services will also be

Discuss Financial Campaign For Site Will Purchase Land As Industrial Site Details on the financial campaign to raise money for the purchase of an industrial site were discussed at a meeting of the finance committee Tuesday noon. The committee was appointed foV lowing the decision of a group of local businessmen to purchase the Scheimann property. Attending Tuesday’s meeting,, were Fred Haugk, chairman, and Clark Smith, Herman Krueckeberg and Fred The’ money which this group raises through contributions will be used to buy the property which will be offered to new industry locating in Decatur. The property, considered an ideal industrial site, is located at the southwest edge of the city. Plans were made by the committee to apply to the office of internal revenue with a request to make all contributions to the fund tax deductible. The committee also appointed 31 captains to assist in the drive for contributions. The names of these persons will be announced later. The captains will meet Tuesday at 8 p. m. at the Chamber jot Commerce office to divide . the list oJ prospective contributors. Plans were also made at the reI guest of prospective contributors to make the payments of pledges payable over two taxable periods. In other words, part will be paid in 1956 and the rest in 1957. The committee is further preparing ’ receipt forms to be distributed by the captains. ! The project to Be known as “an investment in a greater Decatur” was originally begun by the Chamber but has become a 1 community effort to bring new industry to the city.

Food Stamp Plan Is Lauded By Kefauver Plan Is Advocated In Party Platform ST. PAUL, Minn. (UP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Estes Kefauver said today that an agriculture department report endorses a Democratic sponsored stamp plan for distribution of surplus food to lbw-income families. He made the statement in a speech prepared for delivery at the 16th annual king turkey day celebration at Worthington, Minn., which attracts thousands of farmers from lowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. Vice President Richard M. Nixon, who hit the campaign trail Tuesday, drew an estimated crowd of 50,000 at the event in 1954. Kefauver, campaigning for votes in the politically - important farm belt, said that the food stamp plan advocated in the Democratic platform would be “a mighty long step toward curing” the farm problem. He referred to a report on a food stamp plan ordered by congress when it passed the soil bank this year. The report has not yes been made public. “According to the legal analysis included in this still-secret report . . . the department of agriculture could put a food stamp plan into effect immediately without waiting for new legislation if President Eisenhower would just say the word,” Kefauver said. The agriculture department report says “that the food stamp plan would work and that it is needed,” he said. . : Kefauver was whistle stumping on the sixth day of a 16-day campaign swing by plane and auto in 16 states from Florida to Washington State.

New Proposal Is Offered By Secy. Dulles Urges Appointment To Divert Traffic If Found Necessary BULLETIN MOSCOW (UP) — Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin said in an interview released today he is willing to Join a summit conference of the Big Four plus India and Egypt to settle the Suez dispute. LONDON (UP) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles asked the second London Suez conference today to appoint a Western shipping “czar” with powers to divert traffic from the Suez Canal if this proves “necessary.” Dulles put the new Suez users union proposal before the 18nation conference after British foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd warned there would be “no compromise” on international control of the waterway. But Lloyd, elected chairman of the conference, said “we want to proceed by'peaceful means.” “We do hot want to settle the dispute by force,” Lloyd said. “There has never been any doubt in the minds of her majesty.’s government to go before the U. N. security council at some etage.” Prime minister Anthony Eden told commons during the Sue? debate last wek that he would seek security council action it Egypt blocked pilots of the association from moving ship convoys — through the canal. Dulles was given the job of “selling” the association to the participating nations, divided among themselves and taunted by Egypt that the meeting was “absurd” and "doomed to failure.”

Diplomats reported the Western Big Three differing on strategy and thre of the Dulles plan nations—lran, Sweden and Spain—immediately called for new negotiations with Egypt. Dulles introduced a tentative blueprint for the users association at the morning session. It called for: 1. A “small operating staff.” 2. An expert “administrative agent” to head it. »3. A “small governing board” selected from the Dulles plan nations to set policy and report back to the 18 powers. Dulles cautiously phrased a hope that the users association may find “a measure of cooperation with the Egyptian canal authority . . . even though Egypt may not at the present time agree upon a permanent arrangement. . . ” Dulles said the administrative agent would be the key official in the projected association, an expert, Ire said “knowledgeable in shipping matters who could act as desired on behalf of the ships of the members.” He suggested the agent be given these responsibilities: 1. To “retain and make available experienced pilots” to steer association ships through the Suez Canal. ♦ 2. To “assist the ships of members in arranging their orderly communication in the pattern of traffic through the canal.” 3. “Help coordinate routes through or around the canal, if the latter proves necessary.” 4. “He could be authorized to act as the agent of the shipowners and collect and pay out such sums of money as are appropriate in connection with the maintenance of, and passage through, the canal and the performance of his other, duties.” Dulles skipped the earlier suggestion that had caused considerable concern among some of the Dulles plan nations and brought charges of warlike provocations from Egypt—that the association try to push ‘test convoys’ through (CentlnuM on Fags Eight#

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