Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 225, Decatur, Adams County, 24 September 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LI V. No. 225

ADLAI MEETS WITH LABOR LEADERS K” .i E i Hfck 'i ■■■■■F 'SPz JI l W■ / ■ GEORGE MEANY (top, left), president of the 15-millionmember AFL-CIO labor organization, is shown with Democratic Presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson in Washington, after an hourlong conference. Meany said he intends to “do what I can” to assure Stevenson's election as. President. At bottom, the Democratic nominee confers with James B. Carey, president of the International Union of Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers. The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO and its general board have endorsed the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket.

Says Nixon's Pledge Hollow Echo Os Hoover Stevenson Scores Nixon's Promise To Eliminate Poverty TULSA, Okla. (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson said today that Vice President Richard M. Nixon's pledge to wipe out poverty was a “hollow echo” of Herbert Hoover. ' The Democratic presidential nominee said his party “fights poverty” while the GOP “only talks about it in election years.” “If the Republicans want anybody lit this country to believe their election-yeat talk about a t war on poverty, let them say what they have done in the past 28 . years about poverty—except tq oppose Democratic action against the forces of poverty,” he said. ' Stevenson’s speech was prepared for delivery on the courthouse lawn at Tulsa. He was to ,fly to Tulsa from Denver for a one day tour of Oklahoma, climaxed by a rally in Oklahoma City tonight. Stevenson quoted Nixon as saying in Colorado Springs, Colo., Saturday night that under GOP leadership, “we can look forward to a future in which poverty will be a forgotten word.” Stevenson, said this reminded him of then President Hooven’s words on Oct. 22, 1928. that the nation was “nearer today to the . . abolition . . of poverty . . than ever before in any land.” “The record of the 28 years between Mr. Hoover’s declaration of war on poverty and Mr. Nixon’s hollow echo last Saturday night is a record of consistent Republican opposition to every Democratic effort to end poverty in America,” Stevenson said. „ Steverfßon said the Democrats had "pushed back poverty” with a farm program in 1933-34, social security in 1935, a minimum wage law in 1938, collective bargaining laws, and other steps. He said Republicans opposed them all. and are today fighting extensions of the same programs. He said the Republicans now “boast of prosperity,” although families of 30,000,000 Americans have anpual incomes of less than $2,000 a year. “Well, they ckn’t have it both ways,” he said. “When they brag of our prosperity in one speech and declare war on poverty in the next one, they do a grave injustice to the intelligence of the American people.” INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Tuesday. A little warmer Tuesday. Low tonight 42-50. High Tuesday 77-84. Sunset 6:39 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 6:35 a.m.

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Major Meat Unions Doubt Strike Spread No Strike Likely On Other Meat Packers CHICAGO (UP) — Two major meat unions said today "the outlook is" that their strike against 39 Swift and Co. plants will not spread to the rest of the meat packing industry. The unions made tne implied . promise to farmers and livestock i raisers as they conducted contract i negotiations with Armour and Co. and prepared to resume talks witft strikebound Swift later today. The Swift negotiations, which broke off last Thursday when i 25,000 workers walked off their jobs and set up picket lines, were to begin again under the gidance • of federal meriators. . c:.,'. ——— In a letter mailed today to 30,000 livestock farmers and leaders of farm organizations, officers of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen and the United Packinghouse Workers said a strike at the Swift chain “will not hurt livestock farmers,” Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft Benson expressed fears Saturday that the strike would depress livestock prices. • “Other packing companies have more than enough extra capacity to take care of livestock which Swift customarily buys in the public markets and directly,” the union officers said. “The outlook is that the rest of the packing industry will be operating.” The letter said the strike resulted in part from Swift’s insistence on a longer waiting period before sick employes could begin to draw benefits. “Also in dispute,” the unions said “is a company demand that Mid clothes changing time practices of long standing be altered with the effect of lengthening the work week.” “Swift Is completely out of step (Continued on Page Two) Young Wabash Man "• Dies In Accident WABASH, Ind. (UP) — Danny Paul, 32. Wabash was killed today when his automobile collided headon with a truck on U.S. 24 near Wabash. The truck driver was Edgar Grant, 48, Onward. Grant was injured slightly. Paul was the son of Berman Paul, a member of the Wabash city council. Mrs. Jane Arnold Stricken By Polio Mrs. Jane Arnold, 23, of Decatur route two, is a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital suffering an attack of polio. It is reported that she has mild- paralysis in her legs. Mrs. Arnold was taken to the hospital Saturday. She is the 20th person of the area to become a victim of the disease. It was reported that she has had two polio shots and she is the only person to become ill with polio after two shots of the vaccine.

UN Action Is Asked In Suez Canal Dispute Britain And France Ask Council. Act In Dispute Over Canal UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) — The United Nations security council meets Wednesday to take up' the Suez Canal crisis — the result of an Anglo-French request which emphasized their differences with the United States in the dispute. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles said in Washington he approved the French and British decision to ask U.N. action. But both the British and French press emphasized the fact he had wanted to wait until the Oct. 1 meeting of the Suez Canal users association. French and British newspapers were sharply critical of what they called Dulles’ delaying tactics, and French Premier Guy Mollet in a speech Sunday deplored the lack of "allied unity” in facing the crisis. He said Britain and France were of the same will. The 'Wednesday meeting will be procedural — l>e security council will decide then whether to put the Suez crisis on the agenda. But it was considered almost certain the council would debate the issue next week. British foreign secretary Selwyn’ Lloyd, French foreign minister Christian Pineau and Dulles were expected to attend. Most observers at the United Nations ex-, pected Soviet foreign secretary Dmitri Shepilov to fly to New York for the meeting. Egypt, not a member of the security council, normally would be invited to send a representative. Diplomatic sources believed the Egyptian representative would be foreign minister Mahmoud Fawzi. The British and French actions highlighted a weekend of swiftmoving events in the crisis: New Delhi — Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru left today for Saudi Arabia and a meeting with Arab leaders in another attempt to mediate the canal dispute. In a speech Sunday, Nehru criticized Egyptian President Ga(Contlnu&d on Page Six) Kefauver Continues Farm Policy Attack Broken Promises Os Eisenhower Cited MITCHELL, S. D. (UP)— Democratic vice presidential nominee Estes Kefauver charged today that a fear of losing the farm belt vote this year prompted the Eisenhower administration to _ raige price supports and to sponsor the j soil bank program. He also accused the administration of “seeking to plow under -what ~~it considers the 'surplus’ farm families” and of making it possible for packers to “clean up” last winter at the expense of hog producers. Kefauver came here to deliver a major farm speech in the “Corn Palace” at a week long farm festival. “It w r as not until this election year, and the threat of a revolt by farmers against Republican misrule, that the Eisenhower administration changed its steady and unrelenting drive to force farmers’ prices down," he said in a prepared speech. The No. 2 Democratic candidate again accused President Eisenhower of breaking a 1952 campaign promise to boost 90 percent of parity farm prices to 100 percent. “He forgot 100 percent of parity, and he forgot 100 percent of the farmers,” Kefauver said. Directing his campaign fire at Vice President Richard M. Nixon again, Kefauver said "one of the most sober questions” facing voters is whether they “want to take a chance” on him becoming president. 4 Nixon has “voted consistently against farm price supports, soil conservation, and other legislation to help agriculture,” Kefauver said. He said that Democrats long had been advocating a soil bank plan but that the Eisenhower administration had called it unworkable. “But in January, .when the election was a little closer, it suddenly became a good idea after all,” he said. - The Eisenhower administrate, Kefauver said, has made “the farmers’ road much harder” in soil conservation, river develop(Continued on Page Five)

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U. S. Outlines Stand On Atom Energy Agency 18 Nations Meeting At UN Headquarters To Approve Statute UNITED NATIONS. N. Y. (UP) —The United States said today the proposed international atomic energy agency can become the cornerstone of its global atoms-for-peace programlfit is established with- strong safeguards against diversion of nuclear materials to warlike uses. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth told an 81-nation conference meeting here to .approve a statute to govern the agency that the agency within a year should be “a going concern, actually at work making its vital contribution toward a peaceful and stable world.” Wadsworth, keynoting the conference with the first of a series of policy speeches from the major powers, carried the jfight for strong safeguards directly to India, whose announced position is that a strict code of controls might act as a “straitjacket” and hamper atomic development for peaceful purposes. “In addition to the requirement that the statute empower the agency to promote peaceful uses of atomic energy,” Wadsworth said, “it is indispensable that there be real assurance that the agency’s activities will not further the use of atomic energy for military purposes and will not jeopardize health or safety. Atomic energy is uniquely dangerous as well as uniquely promising. The fuel for a reactor can be made into the explosive of a bomb; the radiation which cures can also kill . . . “We recall that the Soviet Union originally took the view that to encourage peaceful development of atomic energy throughout the world would increase world insecurity by increasing the supply of materials from which nuclear weapons could be made. We-are glad that they now hold, as we do, that the right solution is to apply adequate safeguards, not to curtail peaceful development” (Continued on l-age Four) Dulles Says Danger Os War Is Reduced Dulles Questioned Over Suez Crisis WASHINGTON (UP) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles waned Sunday night that going to war over the Suez Canal would bog the West down in fighting "“for an almost indefinite time” with a “terrible drain” on its economy. “Maybe*it will come to that.” Dulles said soberly. But for the moment, he said, the danger of whr with Egypt, while not ended, has been “reduced.” "" He warned, however, that it the Suez issue is not settled with peace and justice to all concerned, the danger of war “would recur.” The United States, he said, “cannot go on forever” asking its allies “not to use force.” Dulles was questioned about the Suez crisis on a nationwide tele’vision program (Meet the Press, NBC). The secretary expressed general approval of Sunday’s joint action by Britain and France in asking that the canal problem be considered by the Nations security council as a “manifest threat to international peace.'” , But he said he did not think it would be wise to bring the matter up “for substantive hetion" by the council until the proposed Suez Canal users association has been organized. He added, however, that he thought this would be accomplished before the problem is acted upon. ft ■ ■_

Three Are Killed In Israeli Crowd Jordan Reports One Soldier Ran Amok JERUSALEM, Israeli Sector — (UP) —Jordan reported today that a soldier “ran amok" and fired a machinegun into an Israeli • crowd, killing three persons and wounding 12, but Israel disputed the charges. i An Israeli source said evidence ( submitted by investigators showed . the machinegun fire which mowed . down delegates to an archeologi- . cal congress came from “more I than a single Jordanian soldier.” They said Jordan could hardly , claim all the soldiers participating tn the affray were “taken by madness.” Jordan told Unitea Nations truce supervisors the soldier had been sent to a hospital for mental examination and promised to report later on the outcome of his mental tests. Israeli authorities denied reports that any Americans were killed in the shooting which took ' place on “the hill of Evil Coun- . sei” in the southern outskirts of ’ Jerusalem, less than a mile from 1 Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns” truce headquarters. ' One of those killed was Job : ‘■Pinkerfeld. a well-known author ' and expert on Jewish religious architecture. An hour before the ’ shooting he had delivered a lecL tur on Jerusalem synagogues. The other victims were Dr. Ru- ’ dolf Rudberl, president of the Is- ’ raei dental association, and Mrs. 1 Haya Ram-Fogelsohn. , The party of 250 acheologists, students ajid foreign visitors were standing near the Ramat Rahel settlement in southern • Jerusalem studying an excavation when the soldiers opened up on them with a bren gun. The U. N. said the firing lasted less than a minute. Most of the 250 persons were delegates to the 12th annual convention of the Exploration Society. They had been standing in full view of the Arab machinegun (Continued on Page Six) ——r ; ~~ 1 Mrs. Bryce Thomas Dies Early Sunday Decatur Lady Dies After Long Illness Mrs. Ruth Ellen Thomas, 55, wife of Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln elementary school, died early Sunday morning at her home. 222 South Third street. She had been in failing health since ’,910. Mrs. Thomas, tormer teacher in the Decatur high school, was prominent in church, social and Civic activities in this city until ill health conGnei' her to her nonie. She was a member of the FiFst Methodist church, the W.S.C.S. of the church, the Tri Kappa sorority, Shakespeare club. Research club, the American Legion auxiliary and Delta Sigma Epsilon, college'Sorority. She was a past president of the Decatur Woman’s club, a former chairman of the Junior Red Cross, and one of the organizers of the Decatur Giri Scouts. She was born in Blanchester, 0., March 28, 1901. a daughter of James F. and Maude Hill-Cook, and was married to Bryce Thomas June 4, 1927. Surviving in addition to her husband are her mother, who lives at Blanchester, O.; one son, Daniel Charles Thomas, a senior at Purdue University: one granddaughter, Danielle Thomas, oT Richmond, apd one brother, William Cook of Blanchester, O. One son preceded her in death. Funeral services, will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the ROY. Virgil W. Sexton officiating. Burtil will be In the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home) until time of the services.

Pres. Somoza Os Nicaragua Is Paralyzed Entire Left Side Paralyzed After Attempt On Life BALBOA. Canal Zone (UP) — Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza, who narrowly escaped death in an assassination attempt Friday, is totally paralyzed on his left side, it was announced today. A bulletin issued by the Canal Zone Health Bureau said Somoza’s condition, earlier reported “satisfactory” after a long neurosurgical | operation Sunday, has "undergone some change for worse” since 2; 30 a.m. today. The paralysis was described as an “unexpected post - operative” complication, not fully evaluated."' One of the three bullets. fired into Somoza’s body by a would-be assassin lodged in his spine, at first partially paralyzing one leg. Until today that was regarded as the worst of his injuries. In Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, Col. Anastasio Somoza Jr. charged that the' attack on his father was the result of a "vast international plot.” The colonel said in an Interview with United Press that the plot involved Communists and "countries neighboring Nicaragua.” He gave no details. Col. Somoza, the 32-year-old commander of the army, and his brother Luis, 34-year-old president of Nicaragua’s congress, are running the country while their father is in the hospital. They said today they have jailed 200 opposition politicans for investigation in the assassination attempt. The two brothers issued new details of the assassination attempt. They said early reports identified the assailant as Rigoberto Lopez Perez, 28, a poet and columnist but that .his column writing appeared to consist of setting up other persons columns in print. They also disclosed Lopez Perez had tried to get near the president at a recent political meeting and had to be ordered to keep away. Their authoritative account of the shooting said the scene was a (Uonunueo on mx, Time Situation Is Confused In State Seymour Switches To Standard Time By UNITED PRESS Another Indiana city became an isolated area of central standard time during the weekend. Seymour shifted from daylight saving time but neighboring cities and towns didn’t. It was the second ripple in the semi-annual waye Os clock confusion. Three weeks earlier, areas around Linton and Tell City switched to CST for the winter. Although Seymour, which is Jackson county’s largest community, changed time, county seat Brownstown decided to stay on DST until it learns how its residents feel about time zones. That put Brownstown in the same column with Evansville and a number of other cities which plan to stay on DST until they learn the outcome of a Nov. 6 election referendum on the controversial time issue. Next weekend. North Vernon,' largest community in Jennings county, ’will turn back its clocks an hour. Some other cities and towns plan to wait until, the last Sunday in October. Indianapolis and most of the* eastern half of Indiana will do as they did last year—stay on DST the year around.

California Resorts Threatened By Fire Over Thousand Men Are Battling Fire CALIFORNIA RESORTS SAN BERNARDINO. Calif. (UP) -More than 1,000 fire fighters battled today to divert the path of a raging forest fire sweeping toward plush resorts in the San Bernardino Mountains.' No major injuries have been re- > ported, but several firemen have 1 suffered minor burns. Thousands t of residents in the mountain re* i sort area have been notified to leave on short notice if flames co.nI tinued their present path. i Forestry officials said Sunday • night the blaze was moving out of control along a three-mile front. i They said it had gutted 5,000 acres of valuable watershed and still was blazing out of control. Fire fighters Sunday attempted to keep the blaze confined to a nonpopulated area. But by Sunday night flames leaping as high as 300 feet crossed a “last ditch” lire line along the rim of the world highway. The highway had been establish. , ed as a main defense line for the Lake Arrowhead resort area. More . than 'SO persons were evacuated shortly before flames destroyed sev- , eral cabins near Santa's Village t and Cr est Park. Dick Johnson, federal fire servr ice officer, declared the fire was "rapidly becoming a major dlsas- ( ter.” State and civil defense agen- , cies were ordered to stand by in .case additional supplies and men were needed. The fire was started Friday when f a jet plane from George air force , base, -Calif., crashed in and Creek J Canyon. The pilot of the plane parachuted to safety shortly before the I jet crashed and exploded, envelop- . ing the area in fiaes. Nixon Asserts Ike Even More Popular Long Tour Continued By Vice President ENROUTE WITH NIXON (UP)Vice President Richard M. Nixon said today that “the most obvious conclusion I have drawn” form his campaign tour “is that President Eisenhower is more popular today than he was in 1952.” Nixon said he also is "greatly encouraged” to find that GOP senatorial and congressional campaigns in‘ the first U states he visited "are gaining strength.” He said “if this trend continues we stand a good chance of winning the seats In those states which might be decisive in giving the President what he deserves and needs-a Republican house and senate.” Nixon made the observations in a statement issued as he left Coloradd Springs, Colo., after a one-day weekend breather for the second lap of his 16-day, 32-state campaign tour. He was scheduled for speeches in Phoenix, Ariz., today and Salt Lake City, Utah, tonight. The 43-year-old vice president said he has found that "the three most compelling issues” in the campaign to date are: 1. "The fact of peace-ln-being-anh the bright promise of continuing peace in the future.” (Continued on Page Four) Celina Farmer Wins In National Contest NEWTON, lowa (UP) — Two Hoosiers placed in the national plowing contest here-during the weekend. ~ % In the level land division. Wilfred Oldfather. North Manchester, Ind., took sixth. In contour plowing, William Luzak, Wabash, Ind., tied for seventh. Lawrence Goettemoeller. Celina. Ohio, won level land and John Daniels, Mulberry .Grove, 111., topped contour.

Thousands In Louisiana Are Forced To Flee At Least Two Dead [ As Hurricane Flossy Heading Northeast NEW ORLEANS (UP) — Hurrb > cane Flossy left two dead and a » trail of foundered ships in the Gulf - today and thundered across open > water in the direction of the Ala- - bama-Florida coast with winds of 100 miles an hour. ' At least 47 persons were cling- ! ing to ships or oil drilling rigs in , the storm-tormented waters of the , gulf. Flossy sideswiped New Ori leans. 65 miles northwest of her middle, without causing major damage to the fun-loving old town. The latest advisory on the hurricane, issued by the New Orleans weather bureau, placed Flossy’s center 80 miles southwest of Pensacola. Fla. It was moving to the . east-northeast at 12 miles an hour. > The year’s sixth tropical hurri- > cane drove thousands from their 1 homes in Plaquemines parish, the - low finger pointed to the southeast j on the Louisiana coast, and in Mtssiasippi.; One crew member drowned and 5 another died trying to save him " when Flossy raked the motor ves- - sei Carport, Eighteen men and two 1 women rode, out the storm on the 1 ship 40 mites off the sbuthern tip of Plaquemines. i The weather bureau predicted > the main force of the "blow would ; smack the coast between Pensa- - cola and Apalachicola, Fla., this s afternoon or tonight. Highest Winds were concentrated near the center but gates howled for 150 miles outward. Winds and tides were expected to fall to near normal in Louisiana and Mississippi during the afternoon as the storm moved on. One helicopter rescued 10 men off a Kerr-McGee rig 15 or 20 mites out in the Gulf Os Mexico Sunday night but then ran low on fuel, leaving another 11 marooned at the height of the storm, their fate unknown. But nine men aboard a drilling rig owned by the Union Oil Co. b California used a battery radio set to report they were safe. The motor vessel tarport, reported In trouble with 18 men and 2 women aboard, radioed 1 crewman was drowned and another died trying to save him. The hurricane roared across the delta with top winds of 80 miles an hour during the night, passing east of New Orleans. Tides swept over Delta Flatlands south of New Orleans, causing criticalfloods in Jefferson Par- z ish and threatened to overflow Lake Pontchartrain into a north New Orleans suburban area. Approximately 1,149 persons were evacuated to Red Cross shelters in New Orleans. All lowland residents from the lower Mississippi River eastward' through the Mobile area were warned to move to higher ground to escape coastal tides. Thousands of residents of the thinly populated delta had already fled their homes. Many of them (Continued on Pave Two) v* Schools Will Close For Thomas Funeral All Decatur public schools will close at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon, so faculty members may attend funeral services* for Mrs. Bryce Thomas, wife of the principal of Lincoln school, Jt was • announced' today by superintendent W. Guy Brown. f City busses will convey all pupils hOme. starting at 2 o’clock, it was announced, and Union township busses will run oh regular schedule. Union township pupils will be provided for at the school houses until bus time, it was announced.

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