Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 22 September 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 224

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South Leaders Battle Spread Os Integration Virginia Approves Plan Designed To Avoid Integration By UNITED PRESS Southern politicians held the aggressive in the struggle over classroom integration Saturday, but new racial troubles flared in the North and on the West Coast. State and local officials in the South fought bitterly Friday against the spread of mixed classes across the nation, both directly and indirectly. In Tyler, Tex., a district judge granted the Texas attorney general an injunction stopping the national association for the advancement of colored people from operating in Texas. In Richmond, Va„ the Virginia legislature gave its final approval to a plan designed to avoid school integration. However, the only actual incidents of violence were reported outside of the South. A race riot broke out in San Francisco and in Asbury Park, N. J., police picked up four white boys and Negroes, who were carrying a small arsenal of home-made weapons. In the nation's capitol, Cedric Reynolds, principal of a Washington, D. C., high school told a Southern-led coniimttee investigation local integration that several Negro honor students failed to pass after the schools were mixed. Reynolds testified that the Negroes in his school have not caused any extra disciplinary problems, but he said the average Negro student was “not as proficient as he would like.” In Texas, where tempers have flared during attempts to mix public schools, district court Judge Otis T. Dunagan granted Atty. Gen. John Ben Shepperd’s request and ordered the NAACP to stop doing business in Texas. The court order is effective until a hearing is held at 10 a m. Sept. 28. At that time, the attorney general will call on several of his aides who have been investigating the NAACP. Sheppard indicated that the investigation has turned up important information, but he refused to discuss the nature of the information. — NAACP leaders in Texas would not comment officially until they could study the court order. However, one spokesman, who did not want to be identified, said the NAACP “will have plenty to say,” later. The Virginia state senate Friday night approved Gov. Thomas B. Stanley’s four-point program aimed at preventing classroom integration and sent the bills on to the governor for his signature. The approved legislation would allow any school threatened by integration to become a private institution and students attending the school would be given individual grants by the state. The pri-vate-school plan is similar to pro(Continued On Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy through Sunday, A few set ttered thundershowers tonight. Windy and warmer today, turning cooler tonight. Low tonight 50-SS. High Sunday 70-75. Outlook for Monday, Pair and rathe> coel.

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Kefauver Firing At Eisenhower, Nixon Continues To Pound Dixon Yates Scandal WALLA WALLA. Wash. (UP) — Democratic vice presidential nominee Estes Kefauver said today he would welcbme a GOP-inspired subpena to testify before a congressional committee on the Dixon Yates case. The Tennessee senator’s statement was prompted by a subpena threat made by Rep. Gordon Scherer (R-Ohio), a member of one of the GOP “truth squads” trailing Democratic candidates. Scherer based the threat on a St. Paul; Minn., speech by Kefauver last Tuesday. u '1 stand behind everything I said in St. Paul as well as every official document that I have filed and every hearing that I have participated in which detail this scandalous intrigue to rook the government out of millions of dollars,” Kefauver said in a speech prepared for delivery at a lunch rally here. “I would be delighted to be subpenaed. I would rather not wait until after the election.” Kefauver brought his whistle stop campaign by plane and auto to this state after a day of intensive campaigning in neighboring Oregon. In his campaigning through the Pacific Northwest, he was bearing down hard on the farm and public power issues. He aimed his fire directly at President Eisenhower and Vice President Richai*d M. Nixon. Kefauver described as “a worse scandal than Teapot Dome” the administration's contract with a private utility combine to build a steam power plant near Memphis, Tenn., to teed electricity into the Tennessee Valley Authority system. The contract has been cancelled. At St. Paul, the No. 2 Democratic candidate charged Mr. Eisenhower had ample evidence to the contrary last year when the Chief Executive said the role of New York investment banker Ad(Continued on Page Five) Hammond Marine Is Killed In Honolulu HONOLULU (UP) — Honolulu marines Friday identified Sgt. Richard F. Lary, 25, son of Mrs. Jane Rodenbaugh, Hammond, Ind. as the driver who was killed when his jeep overturned Tuesday night. Lary was thrown from the jeep after he missed a curve in the Hawaiian island Pohakuloa military training area. He died frdm a skull fracture. Stratton Place To Hold Picnic Sunday The Stratton Place association will hold its second annual picnic Sunday afternoon and evening. Theeevent will open with a mixer and activities for the kids, supervised by Dave Terveer, from 3 to 5 o’clock. The picnic will be served from 5 to 7 o’clock, with 275 persons expected. Art Burris is general chairman, Mrs. H. H. Krueckeberg food chairman, and Joe Kaehr, chairman of facilities and equipment. Each family is asked to provide its own table service. In event of inclement weather, the picnic will be held Sunday, SepL io. NOON EDITION

London Parley Avoids Early Suez Showdown British Invite 18 Conference Nations To Meet October 1 LONDON (UP) — Britain today invited the 18 Suez conference nations to send their amassadors to a meeting here Oct. 1 to organize the new canal users’ association. Foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd sent the invitation to the nations which ended here Friday. Most of them probably will be represented at the October meeting. The conference will set up a council representing the membership of the association. The council will then appoint a “shipping czar" and an executive committee to carry on the day-to-day work of the group. It is probable, however, that the United Nations will be consulted before the assicatinon tries to send ships through the canal. The London conference decision to avoid an immediate showndown with Egypt on the canal question was regarded here as a diplomatic setback for Britain and France. Observers said the failure of the conference to put any “teeth” into the proposed Suez Canal users association would bolster Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s prestige in the Arab, African and Asian worlds. The 18-nation conference wound up Friday night in .general agreement on a Suez Canal users association. But delegates agreed to put the dispute before the U.N. Security Council even before the first association vessel set sail. France refused immediately to support the association because of “loopholes" and “drawbacks" in the plan. In Paris today, the government announced France will join the association provided it stands firm behind the principle of International control of the canal. All mention of force or imposing a solution on Nasser disappeared by the time the seeond London conference ended. An official statement said that “the conference considers that recourse should be had to the United Nations whenever it seems this would facilitate a settlement." A top delegation source went even further—he said the whole problem would be tossed into the laps of the United Nations early next month after the association has been formally established. Diplomatic sources in Paris said the conference was a stinging diplomatic setback for Britain and France. Premier Guy Mollet had originally demanded that the West "impose” a solution on Nasser. Reports from Paris said there was increased sentiment both inside and outside of the coalition cabinet to “go it alone” if necessary. Officials made no secret in private talks of their disappointment that France had not received American support for its firm stand in the dispute. London: Moscow radio said the Western Big Three failed to “impose” their original plans for a canal users association on the other nations attending the conference. It said the conference had been convened by the United States, Britain and France to "create a pretext for lawful intervention" in the Suez area. Cairo: Informed sources predicted Nasser will formally reject the canal users association just as he turned down the earlier Dulles plan for international control. Nasser flies to Saudi Arabia for conference with his Arab world allies to win additional support for his determination to stand fast. Washington: The United States soon may take measures to bar American shipowners and operators from paying tolls to Egypt. It the move is the U. S. treasury would require tolls go into the Egyptian accounts which were frozen after the old Suez Co. was nationalized. V— Rites Monday For Jerome W. Heller Funeral services will be heTSat 2 p. m. Monday at the West Missionary church at Berne for Jerome W. Heller, native of Adams county, who died Friday at the Great Lakes naval station Hospital after an illness of several months. ■» Friends may call at the Yager funeral home after 11 a. m. Sunday until 12:30 p. m. Monday, when the body will be removed to the church.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 22,1956

Eight-Year-OJ d Boy Is Fatally Hurt Friday As Car And Bicycle Collide

Ike Returns To Washington From Farm Belt President, Staff Appear Pleased On Return From lowa WASHINGTON UP - President Eisenhower and his staff today appraised the results of his first campaign trip of the year, a two-day jaunt in the politically-important farm belt. The chief executive returned here Friday night from lowa, where he spoke before an estimated audience of 75,000 persons at the mammoth national plowing contest near Newton. In Des Moines, Mr. Eisenhower saw his first big campaign crowd of the year as he toured the heart of the city prior to leaving for Washington. Some police officials estimated the crowd in excess of 100,000 persons. The President and members of ■his staff seemed pleased by the results of the lowa trip and the reception accorded Mr. Eisenhower. (However, reporters accompanyis the President noted that a great portion of the wild crowd scene that developed around the motorcade in downtown Des Moines was generated to a large extent bythousands of school children who raced down the street beside the autos bearing the Eisenhower party. The reception at the plowing contest was friendly, but not explosive. Mr. Eisenhower was applauded several times during his speech. The chief executive will expound his farm policies at length in a na. tionwide radio-TV broadcast from Peoria, 111., next Tuesday' night; Before leaving Des Moines for the capital. Mr. Eisenhower set what probably will be the tone of his overall campaign. He told a crowd of several thousand at tfcfe Des Moines Airport: “Comparing 1952 to 1956, whether It be on the International or on the internal domestic and economic front, sees 1956 better in every single way.” Mr. Eisenhower said the Republicans were by no means “stupid (Continued on Page Three/ Allies Are Shipping Weapons To Israel U. S. Looking Other Way Over Shipments WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States is looking the other way while Canada, France, and other allies ship modern military weapons to Israel. This country itself is delivering small but important amounts of communications, transportation and other defensive equipment to Israel. However, the controversial Israeli request of last November for jet fighters, heavy tanks and other powerful weapons is still firmly fixed on the administration’s shelf. This Israeli shopping "list would have cost more than S6O million. State department officials said today that the huge November arms request by Israel is "still under consideration." That is right where it has been or months, and promises to stay despite heavy election — year presures or approval. But diplomats credit the administration with a powerful series of assists in getting modern jet fighters cleared or shipment to Israel by other nations. Earlier this year the state department said it would have no objection to an interruption o delieveries of 24 French Mystere IV jet ighters to the North Atlantic treaty organization. The state department took the same lipe Friday when wk*/ (Continued on Pag* Five)

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Unions, Swift Co. To Attend Meeting Federal Mediators Call For Conference CHICAGO (UP) — Two striking unions and Swift and Co. agreed to send representatives to a mediation conference Monday. An early report that the unions Would not take part in the conference was contradicted by United Packinghouse Workers President Ralph Helstein. “The unions will attend any meetings the conciliation service asks us to." Helstein ’said. A publicity spokesman had previously announced that the workers had “other engagements" which would prove “more fruitful.” The UPW and the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen also opened negotiations with two other packers Friday in hopes to set a pattern to end the Swift strike. Representatives of Wilson and Co., and John Morrell and Co., met with union officials Friday. The unions have not gone on strike against these companies, but were seeking new contracts. Labor leaders entered the -negotiations with strike authorization of 7.000 Wilson employes and 5,000 Morrell workers. The unions reported thsit "progress is being made” after the meetings. “Both companies have made it clear that they do not want to take away any benefits currently enjoyed by their employes, as does Swift and Co., the unions said. The, two major points of disagreement over which the walkout was ordered were a dispute over clothes-changijig time, and the starting time - of sick leave payment. The company has fired back (Continued On Page Five) Sinking Town Asks For Official Help South Dakota Town Seeking Assistance ELK POINT, S. D. (UP) Townspeople today calmly awaited official help in their battle to keep Elk Point from sinking. With the foundation of the town unsteady, the community’s largest buildings were in danger of being lost. A freak glacial drift has been blamed for pulling the bottom out from under the sinking town. Many residents expected Gov. Joe Foss to arrive for emergency inspection Friday, but it was announced that he had left South Dakota for a mountain hunting trip in Wyoming. His wife reported that he wouldn’t be back until Sunday. Basements, foundations and walls crumbled and tottered throughout the town. A buckling wall forced the evacuation of the high school, and the walls of a large Catholic church separated from the floor. The three-story stone courthouse also shifted. Mayor J. J. Murphy called the governor’s office to ask for help Friday. He estimated $1 million in damages had been suffered in this community of 1,376 persons, located in the state's richest farming country in the Missouri Valley. There were no signs of panic among Elk Point townspeople, the mayor said. The citizens were reacting to the situation in ifc “normal and sensible manner.” State geologists that the basic cause for the shift originated when four prehistoric glaciers spread across the Dakotas, some 12,000 years ago. The glaciers laid a mixture of gravel, sand, clay and boulders under what is now Elk Point. The mixture runs about 90 feet deep, and building foundations were apparently unable to reach bed rock. When the mixture began to _shift. Elk Point buildings went with it/ap’d -Started to sink. »

Stevenson On Initial Major Campaign Tour Makes Important Farm Speech Today On 11-State Swing WASHINGTON (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson left Washington today for the first major trip of his presidential campaign—an 11-state swing including an important farm speech in the heart of the corn belt. " The farm speech will be made in Newton, lowa, today. Stevenson’s chartered airliner, labeled the “Joe Smith Express," took off from Washington National Airport at 6:30 a. m. CST. A press plane followed a few minutes later. “Joe Smith Express" was painted on the fuselage of the fourengine airliner, it was another reference to the mythical Joe Smith which a delegate to the GOP national convention vainly tried to nominate for vice president. The convention chairman, Rep. Joseph W. Martin Ja., bluntly told the delegate to take tris Joe Smith and get out. Democrats have seized on the incident as allegedly showing Republican disdain for the common man. Stevenson was traveling in President Eihenhower’s wake. Only Friday the Chief Executive addressed himself to a crowd at the same lowa site. Stevenson’s immediate destination today was Des Moines, lowa, A motorcade will take him from there to Newton. He will Gy from Des Moines tonight to Denver, to talk at a rally. Stevenson’s swing will take him to 11 states before he winds up in the twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., Sept. 29. He will campaign in lowa, Colorado, Oklahoma. Arkansas, Louisiana, Florida, Missouri. Kansas, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Os the 11, only Arkansas and Louisiana fell into the Democratic column in the presidential elec tion four years ago. This was billed at Stevenson’s “first" campaign trip, but actually he has been barnstorming for much of the past four weeks. During that period, he has covered almost 12,000 miles. Stevenson wii have an open day in Denver Sunday, and then move Youth Charged With Vehicle Theft Dies Ridgeville Lad Dies In Hospital Today FORT WAYNE (UP) — A 17yearold boy held on a stolen car charge died today in a hospital, apparently from diabetes. Officials said Richard Wright, Ridgeville, died in St. Joseph hospital where he was taken two days ago in a diabetic coma from a cell in Allen county jail. ■“' Jail attaches said the youth had not told them he was diabetic and they had no knowledge of his Hospital pathologists planned an autopsy but indicated they felt sure diabetes was the cause of death. Wright and a 44-year-old companion from Ridgeville were arrested last Monday night after a police chase. Their car ran a stop sign and hit another automobile at a Fort Wayne street intersection. The car was stolen in Muncie, authorities "said. into Oklahoma Monday, when he is slated to appear at Tulsa, Bristow, Chandler and Oklahoma City. —Tentative plans call for a trip through parts of the East the week of: Oct. I; including New York, N« w Jersey, Pennsylvania (Continued on Page Throe)

Ask Mediation Aid Pver Rail Dispute Railroads And Two Unions In Deadlock CHICAGO (UP) — Talks between the nations railroads and two unions have broken down with both sides admitting the deadlock. The national mediation board was asked Friday to step into the dispute involving the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the Switchmen’s Union of North America. In other rail negotiations, representatives of 11 non-operating unions recessed their talks until early Monday. No progress has been noted by the mediators who moved into a stalemate between the railroads and the, Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen last week. In Chicago a union leader for North Western employes said Friday that the group has voted overwhelmingly to strike sometime next week if settlements were not forthcoming in their dispute. Charles R. Dennis, chairman of the chairmens association of the 11 rail unions involved, said the vote favored the strike by 98 percent. The North Western dispute in- ' volves what unions h%ve termed a ruthless lay-off of workers. They . are demanding the railroad pay severance pay equal to the entire earnings of the dismissed employe. The natibn-wide disputes involve , contract negotiations. Nixon Battling For : Ike’s Farm Program I . Takes New Swing At Stevenson's Views EN ROUTE WITH NIXON (UP) —Vice President Richard Nixon said toddy it is “the height of political fakery and demagoguery to tell the American farmer” to support Democratic-sponsored farm progrims “which by design and effect will simply create still more staggering surpluses.” Nixon said in remarks prepared for a mid-day speech at Sioux City, lowa, that the Eisenhower farm' program "cuts straight to the heart of the problem . . .we are attacking the surplus problem by a bold and imaginative program” of disposing of surpluses through expanded overseas markets and through the soil bank program. The result, he said, is “prosperity on the farm in peacetime.” Nixon flew Into lowa from Minneapolis, where he received an enthusiastic reception Friday night. He also took a new sweeping swing at Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson’s statements about world Issues. “Let’s not settle for the secondbest leadership of expedient politicians who offer false hopes of ending the draft, and restricting military research — all in the face of the global threat of Communism,” Nixon said in Sioux City. Nixon said “we need the wisest <Tnd most experienced leadership we can possibly have —the kind President Eisenhower has given (Continued on Page Five) Grover Hill Dies Suddenly Friday Grover C. Hill, 74, of Fort Wayne, collapsed and died on a downtown street in that city Friday afternoon of a heart attack. He was a member of the First Mennonite church. Surviving are the widow, Minnie M.; three sons, George and Joseph of Fort Wayne, and Thurman of Queen Victoria Island. Canada: and three brothers. George Hill of Decatur. Benjamin of Roanoke and Daniel of New Haven. Friends may call at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort Wayne after 7 o’clock this evening. Arrangements have not been completed.

Selking Youth Fatally Hurt Near Hoagland Preble Township Youth Dies Today Following Accident Dennis Lynn Selking, eight-year . old son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Selking of Preble township, died . at the Parkview memorial hos- . pital in Fort Wayne at 5:45 a.m. . today of injuries sustained in an auto-bicycle collision Friday after- , noon. The third traffic fatality of . the year for Adams county, the Selking boy sustained bis fatal injuries at 3:55 p. m. Friday on the Hoagland road two and a half miles south of Hoagland. The boy was riding a bicycle whicti was struck by a car driven by Harry W. McDermott, 48, of Decatur route ‘ three. Investigating officers determined that the Selking boy was turning around in the middle of the road. McDermott swerved trying to avoid hitting him but could not swerve t fast enough. j Rushed, to the Adams county , memorial hospital; the buy wad , then taken to the Parkview me- , mortal hospital, where surgery was performed on his head. Death ’ by a brain injury. Dennis was bom July 18, 1948, in Decatur. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church on U. S. highway 27 and attended the third grade at .St. John’s school. He resided on the Hoagland road in Preble township not far from where the fatal accident occurred. Surviving jn addition to his parents, Gerhard and Dorothy Aumann-Selking, are a brother, Michael Wayne, four; and the 1 grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Aumann of Preble town1 ’ ship, and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Selking of Root township. The body has been removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 10 a. tn. Sunday. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 1:30 p. m. at the funeral home and at 2 p.m. , at St. John’s Lutheran church, with the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating.- Burial will be in the church cemetery. The casket will not be open at the church. May Still Enroll In Leadership School Second Session Os School Here Monday New students may still enroll in the Decatur leadership training school, which will meet for its second session Monday night at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. This is a community school sponsored by the Associated Churches, and is open to all youth and adults who would like to enroll. Ninety-five persons, representing 11 churches, attended the opening session Monday. Churches represented were Trinity Evangelical United Brethren, First Presbyterian. First Methodist, FirSt Christian. First Baptist, Bethany Evangelical United Brethren, Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren, Zion Evangelical and Refortned, and Church of God. all of Decatur, and the Geneva Evangelical United Brethren and Berne Evangelical and Reformed. Children’s workers have enrolled heavily, 40 tn both “The children we teach” and “Teaching children in the church school” classes. Those who teach youth and adults in the Sunday school will be aided by the courses taught by Dr. R. H. Miller, professor of Bible at Manchester College. “1957 uniform Bible lessons” and “A survey of the Old Testament.” The general pub (Continues on Psej Five)

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