Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 229, Decatur, Adams County, 28 September 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No, 229

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New Farm Plan By Benson Is Hailed By Ike Republicans Bank On Farm Program To Prevent Revolt WASHINGTON (UP) — Presi dent Eisenhower today hailed th< agriculture department’s new rur al development program as “the first truly broad scale attack or the problems of low-income farm era.” He said the program which con centrates on helping families or small farms is "hitting at the point of greatest need.” The administration, faced by a reported farm belt revolt over price policies, is banking on the program as an answer to Demo cratic campaign charges that the Republicans have ignored the plight of small farmers. The President received a report or. the program's initial phases at a White House conference with members of an inter-departmental committee of undersecretaries. The report, presented by undersecretary of agriculture True D. Morse, was signed by agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson. Benson said the program would help small farm families "to attain greater opportunities in an expanding economy.” < Meanwhile, Sen. George D. ,Aiken (R-Vt.) said that among farmers peace is a far bigger election issue than farm prices. The senate agriculture committee’s ranking Republican member disputed the farm belt revolt reports, saying that “war or peace" is the paramount issue and farmers wilt support the administration. In accepuug me rural development report. Mr. Eisenhower said he was particularly happy that the program would be managed on the state, county and local levels and not from Washington. "This is as it should be,” he said. The President also emphasized the program’s accent on youth, including education, vocational training, health and character. Noting that the 50 pilot counties in 24 states already in the program are located in areas where the most small farms and most rural familibs with low incomes are located,” the President said: "The program is hitting at the points of greatest need." Mr. Eisenhower conceded that highly emphasized farm units are the “chief beneficiaries” of cur. rent price-support policies, with the result that the small farmer derives essentially “little benefit” from price supports. He said he thinks the rural program will answer this problem by extending aid to farmers beyond the price support phase. WEATHER INDIANA Fair tonight and Saturday. Warmer tonight and Saturday. ' -. ‘Low tonight 47-63 east, 53-58 west. High Saturday in the 80s. Sunset 6:33 p.m., Sunrise Saturday 6:89 a.m.

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Bumbling Os Dulles Scored By Kefauver Foreign Policy Os Administration Hit ERIE, Pa. (UP) — Sen. Estes Kefauver said today that there would have been no Suez crisis except for the “tneptness, tumbling and bumbling” of secretary of state John Foster Dulles. The Democratic vice presidenj. tial candidate assailed the admine istration’s foreign policy at his r . first stop in this state on a 11,606e mile acroes-country stumping tour _ by plane and apto. . “Preeident Eisenhower and the (Republicans have not come tg grips with the great questions of war and peace,” he said in a pren pared speech. “No basic settlee menta have been reached anywhere in the world. The grave a problems of our time have been ’ r postponted-not settled. e “They still lie around the world > today like pools of gasoline at the e mercy of a careless match.” e Kefauver didn’t amplify his charge against Dulles because, he I said, he didn’t want to say any- ■' thing "which will affect the outII come of negotiations over the fuJ ture of Suez in any. way.” The Tennessee senator has not r * yet received any of the secret >• briefings on any of the secret and e briefings on world problems which n the White House promised him aftP er he requested them to put ihm n on an equal campaign footing with t- Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Kefauver said Democratic pres- •- identlal candidate Adlai E. StevenK son. if elected, would exercise a r "real diplomacy” in the effort to I- achieve peace in the cold war. > “For four years we have seen r the present administration take us |- to the brink ot war, again and again, and boast of it,” the No. 2 ( c Democratic candidate said. : Security Measures * < ; Rejected Al Parley ; Conference Is Held On Mental Hospital I i . INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A pro- ; 1 posal to erect towers and arm guards to tighten security on a ( . section for convicts of the Norman j 1 Beatty mental hospital at Westville ( i was rejected today at a statehouse ( I conference, it was reported. State budget committee mem- ] I bers who left the conference short- , iy after noon said the group, called j together by Governor Craig, decid- ’ ed only to rebuild some walls in buildings housing “dangerous” prisL o and to institute a better ’ training program for attendants charged with watching the maxi- ' mum security ward. ; Other conferees remained in the meeting. They included Dr. W. R. ' Van Den Bosch, superintendent of 1 . the hospital from which four con- ’ . victs recently escaped, and E. R. 1 I Bell, the hospital’s security superintendent- - ' Craig was represented by proxy. J Doxie Moore, the governor’s executive aide, represented him at 1 the conference .held in the office of 1 Hugh O’Brien, state correction chief. - The meeting, closed to newsmen, ' still was going on at noon. tinon Bs*e F!v»)

Asserts Nehru Key To Solving Os Suez Crisis Egyptian Sources Say Compromise Is In Hands Os Nehru CAIRO (UP) — Semi-official Egyptian sources said today a Suez compromise lies almost exclusively in the hands of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India. Nehru sent his roving Ambassador V. K. Krishna Menon to Cairo last week for conferences with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser on the dispute over the canal. Krishna Menon since has flown to London to confer with British officials. -The sources said that a "workable compromise solution" might be produced during Nehru's talks with President Eisenhower in the United States. Nehru is scheduled to visit Washington later this year. They gave no indicatioi of what would be considered a workable compromise solution. Both sides were holding firmly to their original positions on Egyptian operation of the canal. President Eisenhower was the target of a bitter _attack by COl. Anwar El-Sadat in the government newspaper Al Gomhouria. El Sadat. referring to Mr. Eisenhower’s condemnation of the Egyptian Suez Canal blockade on Israeli shipping, said it was the United States and not Egypt which had dark spots on its history. He said Israel was “created” by America and Britain “under the leadership of “former President Truman, and charged “Israeli aggression is carried out by American weapons purchased with American dollars." “The one standing behind Israel and supporting it is America, Mr. Eisenhower . . if we speak of injustice apd dark spots we Arabs have a huge record faa- America and Britain,” El-Sadat wrote. The sources expressed doubt the U. N. security council could work out any compromise, and accused Britain, France and the United States of seeking only the council’s moral backing for their own proposals. Wage Increase For Soft Coal Miners Report Agreement On New Wage Hike ’WASHINGTON (UP) — Northern soft coal producers and United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis are reported to have agreed on a new wage hike for the majority of 200.000 soft coal workers. According to the report the agreement calls for a two- step wage hike totaling $2 a day. This would be the equivalent of 25 cents an hour, the same as the raise' agreed on a year ago. The report, circulating among coal industry sources, could not be confirmed immediatey. The United Mine Workers Union refused to comment. Officials of the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, which represents northern coal producers and the majority of the soft coal industry, could not be reached. According to the report the agreement was negotiated by Lewis and top association officials subject to formal approval by both organizations. Industry sources said they understood the first step of the wage hike — $1.20 a day — would take effect Monday. The second — 80 cents a day — would go into effect next Apjil 1. This would bring miners’ basic wages to more than $22 a day. The current wage is a little over S2O daily. The sources said they also had (Continued on Page Five) Authorizes Refund For Gas Consumers INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The Indiana public service commission today paved the way for gas customers in a Fort Wayne area to gpt refunds of $1,129,411. The PSC authorized the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. to refund to customers in the Fort Wayne division money the utility received as a refund from Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Co., from which NIPSCO buys gas. The refund, which includes interest, includes customers at Fort Wayne, Bluffton, Decatur and CotumMa Cfty.

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Stevenson Blasts At Tight Money Policies Os Ike Administration

: Red Countries 1 — ' ’ Are Invited To I View Elections ' Russia, Four Other , Communist Lands Sent Invitations t 5 WASHINGTON (UP) — Russia i and four other Communist coun- . tries have been invited to send - representatives to this country to observe the current political camj paign and the November election. The state department announced t today that the invitations were is- - sued about nine days ago in diplo- ) made notes to Moscow, Poland, i Hungary, Romania, and Czechosloi vakia. 1 The notes said the Red repreI sentatives could “view at first hand the free electoral processes in this r country.” » Th state department said it ast sumed that Americans likewise - would be invited to view elections - in Communist countries “on the i next appropriate occasion.” Invitations were not issued to 1 Communist Albania, Bulgaria or - Red China because the United * States has no diplomatic relations ’ with these Soviet satellites. k The state deparimept pt fte same time disclosed that 63 reprei sentatives of 14 non-Communist na- ‘ tions also will come to this country to observe the campaign and ’ election. Thirteen journalists from ’ eight North Atlantic treaty countries are being brought to this (Continued on Page Five) <a. ! """-i"''" . Admits Burglaries In Ohio, Indiana FORT WAYNE (UP) — William Brockup, 29, Fort Wayne, was held today for Celina, Ohio, authorities on a fugitive charge in connection with burglaries. Fort Wayne police said Brockup admitted burglaries in Ohio and Indiana, including Bluffton, Nappanee, Walkerton, Rochester, Brighton, and Miami, Fulton and DeKalb counties. Railroads Ask For Freight Rate Hike Eastern, Western Roads Seek Boost WASHINGTON (UP) —Eastern and western railroads have asked the interstate commerce commission for a general 15 percent freight rate increase in their territories to boost their over-all rate of return. They said their income has been “almost continuously substandard and inadequate” during the lasi 20 years. Rate increases granted during that time, they said, were mostly aimed at off-setting wage, price and tax increases. The railroads said that further increases in their wage, fuel an® supply costs might make it necessary to seek “additional relief." They also said they will ask state commerce commissions for increases in intra-state rates. Specifically, the petition filed Thursday asked for a 15 ,perceni hike-with some exceptions—in all freight rates and charges within, from, and to eastern and western territory. - The railroads also asked the ICC to investigate “the adequacy of all rates” charged by all railroads in the country. This would bring the southern carriers into the proceedings. The. petition gave no estimate on bow much the increase sought would amount to in dollars. Eastern territory lies east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio and Potomac rivers, including much of West Virginia and Virginia. Western territory generally includes the area west ot the Mississippi. -

Decqtur, Indiana, Friday, September 28, 1956

Drake Sentenced To 60 Years In Prison Indiana Bank Bandit Given Long Sentence INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Roy Rudolph Drake 33. Thursday afternoon was sentenced to suend 60 years in prison for the $66,500 robbery of the State Bank of Southport and the $16,000 holdup of the union- Bank of Carmel. a The Southport holdup was the second largest in Indiana history, j Federal Judge Cale J. Holder 3 sentenced Drake, who pleaded . guilty, to a total of 60 years, 15 years on each of six counts. I It was the largest sentence ever t . given a convicted bank robber in _ the southern district of Indiana. In the robberies total of five ‘ persons were held captives overnight. Last June 12 a nationwide manhunt for Drake was launched j alter two stocking-masked bandits } held up the Southport bank. Police sought two similarly disguised bandits in the September, 1956, Carmel robbery. *- Already 13 prison in connection with holdups are Robert Eugene 1 Fowler, 30, Indianapolis; his exwife, Rose Marie Gary, 25, Indian- ’ apolis, and Drake's wife, Pauline, r 23. _ The counts against Drake 1 charged bank robbery, jeopardising life in committing ( a bank » rtmbery Md taiiug hostages. - - Four of the five persons held ■ hostage by Drake in the two robberies told the court the I defendant did not abuse them i physically but the experience was • nerve shattering. 1 Drake, who escaped three jails including San Quentin, was captured by the FBI July 30 in New Orleans where he was living lavishly with a bride of two days although he was still married to ! Pauline Drake. I * Commissioners At District Meeting Quarterly Session Held Last Evening Adams county’s three Commissionera, Lewis Worthman, Hgrley Reese and John Kintz, county highway superintendent Lawrence Noll, and county attorney David Mack- , Un attended the quarterly session ot the northeastern association of , county commissioners at Winchester Thursday night. ( The northeast group adopted a ( four-point legislative program suggested by state officers of the group and Its legislative committee. The program Included favoring a joint highway research commission for the study of county roads under tutelage of Purdue Univet- j sity; revision of the state’s drainage laws; a two-cent increase per gallon on the state gasoline Ur and a 30 percent increase on truck, tractor and trailer taxes in the state, plus a flat $2 Increase in all license plate fees. A report of the state commis- , sion on uniform salary laws for j county officials was made at the . meeting and the commission will j recommend establishment of size divisions of Indiana counties based ( on population and appraised valua- ( tion for the setting of all salaries ( Os county officials. The proposed ( plan, if adopted, would do away ( completely with all fees now collected and retained by certain of- 3 flcials. - t Another report on revision of In- 1 diana’s county highway laws was 1 given but no action was taken by the group concerning adoption of ‘ the report. 1 The meeting, which was held at < the Winchester country club, start- < ed with a 6:30 o’clock dinner and was attended by more than 100 < members and guests from tbe < northeastern counties of the state. Dick Heller of the Daily Democrat 1 wag f gueet the Adame -county i grduf at the eisstlig. (

Diplomats In Speculation On Tito's Flight Amazing Flight To Russia Surprise To Western Diplomats LONDON (UP)—Marshal Tito’s amazing flight to Russia set off reports todhy that some of the Soviet Union's collective leaders may have turned against the Khrushchev program to vilify former Premier Josef Stalin. The Yugoslav capital of Belgrade —and the Western capitals—were taken by surprise when Tito rushed off by plane to the Soviet Union Thursday with Soviet Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev. Khrushchev is the No. 1 leader of the plan to “de-Stalinize” Russia and it was believed he may have taken the once - balky Yugoslav leader back with him to Russia to support the new line in talks with other Communist leaders. Diplomats in Moscow offered the alternative theory that Tito was drastically dissatisfied with the Soviet follow up to agreements last year and this June for close economic and ideological co-operation between the two countrler . .. Moscow radio said Tito and Khrushchev had arrived in Yalta, site of the “Big Three meeting” of World War 11. Earlier Moscowdisclosed that premier Nikolai Bulganin and foreign minister Dmitri Shepilov were at Sochi, a Red army health resort 300 miles from Yalta across the Black Sea. There was no official explanation of the trip other than Belgrade and Moscow announcements that Tito and Khrushchev "will be resting” along Russia’s Black Sea coast, a subtropical area long famous as a winter resort. The facts pointed to one conclusion: Something of extreme seriousness brought on Khrushchev’s mysterious trip to Yugoslavia and Tito’s even more amazing flight with him to Crimea. A surprising feature was Tito’s decision to fly. He has not flown since World War II when the Allies evacuated him from Yugoslavia jby air after Nazi troops surrounded his mountain hideaway. Usually he travels by car or armored train. Whatever brought' on the journey has arisen since Tito's state visit to Moscow in June when close accords' were signed between the governments and the Communist (Continued on Page Eight) Mafusow Sentenced On Perjury Charge Turnabout Witness Given Prison Term NEW YORK (UP) — Harvey Matusow, turnabout Comiriunist witness, was sentenced today to five yders in prison for perjury in attempting to link a federal prosecutor to his lies. Federal Judge John F. McGohey sentenced Matusow to' five years on each of. five counts ot perjury on which he was convicted. He ordered the sentences be served concurrently. '•* Matusow, who once said he invented a “stringless yo-yo,” told the court before sentencing that he was sorry for having been such »Bar. — Matusow said he’d take whatever sentence was imposed “and serve it. then rejoin my family.” He had testified at one point during his trial that he was “lying ’ even when I was telling the truth.” '“I'll never have to be ashamed of anything I’ve done from this day forward,” he said. Matusow spent the night in. the , federal house of detention after failing to raise an additional $7,(100 to make his $16,000 bail.

World's Fastest ‘ Airplane Crashes Experimental Ship Crashes In Desert EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UP)—An air force investigating board today viewed the remnants of the world’s fastest and highest flying plane—the X 2 experimental racket ship which crashed at this desert air force test center, killing its idiot. Capt. Milbun G. Apt, 32, of Puffalo, Kans., was at the controls of the $3-milllon plane Thursday when it plunged Into the Mojave Desert shortly after it was released from the belly of a 850 mother plane. It was Apt’s first attempt to fly the slim rocket plane. The air force clamped a lid of secrecy on the crash. It assigned a board of officers to conduct a Altrough investigation. The air force confirmed only that the plane had crashed. Apt had taken over the plane from Capt. Tven Kincheloe, who three weeks ago flew the sleek plane to a record height of 126,009 feet. Lt. Col. Frank Pete Everest, famed test pilot, earlier had piloted the plane 1,906 miles an hour. The air force said Apt was on a “routine indoctrination flight” and the X 2 had been taken aloft attached ts the betty e* the giant bomber. The air force said the plane was cut loose from the 850 at a normal altitude of 35,600 feet ■ and crashed within two minutes after its release. Observers said the pilot didn't have a chance to eject himself from the plane’s cockpit when rockets apparently burned out, sending the heavy plane earthward. Help Employment Os Local Graduates Program Is Part Os Financial Drive A program to provide enough jobs for the graduating boys and girls in the north half of Adams county so that they will not have to leave the city, is one of the reasons given by the financial committee in charge of the drive to raise funds to purchase industrial ground for the city. There are now approximately 260 boys and girls graduating from high schools each from the northern part of the county. Due to large farming operations, the number of people employed in /agricultural pursuits is decreasing each year. Most of these boys and girls will have to find industrial jobs or work in the services dependent on industrial employment. For the last four or five years Decatur has not expanded industrially sufficient to take care of all these graduates with the result that mafty young men and women in this community are being forced out of the community, sometimes against their preferences, to find work. It was reported that with the greater number of elementary children now enrolled in the schools in the community, .this problem will grow worse eaqh year. The financial drive is scheduled to start next Tuesday morning with a coffee and doughtnut breakfast at 7:30 o’clock, a short meeting of all the committee members at 8-o’clock, and then a community wide drive to conclude the fund raising within a few hours. The minimum sum of $42,506 is needed to pay the remaining cost of the Scheiman property and it is hoped that some additional funds can be raised for promotional purposes. A display of brochures from other cities in Indiana is now on display at the Decatur Chamber of Commerce windows. Fred Haugk is chairman of the committee, working with Clark Smith, a member, and Herman Kyuckeberg, treasurer. An application for a certificate of clearance (Qoaunuea on Pago JBlgM) —

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’FailsTo Half Rising Living Costs In U.l 1 Stevenson Speaks At Indianapolis At ; Noon Rally Today - INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Adlai r E. Stevenson said today that the , Eisenhower administration's tight * money policy has not stopped in- - nation but has "tightened the » screws even tighter” on entail * businessmen, farmers and home t buyers. “ t The Democratic presidential nominee flew here from St. Louis f to deliver a speech charging that I the administration had failed to 1 halt the rising cost of living, f Stevenson quoted a 1952 Repub- ’ lican campaign pledge to “do something” about the cost of * living. 1 "But now, after four years of doing something about it, the cost ' of living has reached an all-time p high,” Stevenson said. “Moreover, economists are now forecasting that prices will go even higher. Your rent is likely „ to go up, your car Is almost sure to eost you more, and so are television sets, refrigerators, clothing, and nearly everything . else yen buy.” he said. t “And the tight money policy } which has not stopped inflation, j has given a bonanza to large } financial institutions, and has tightened the screws even tighter v on small businessmen, small farmers and ordinary home y buyers.” Stevenson said that many city dwellers did not realize that while the cost of living has been rising, the farmers’ income “has been going down, down, down.” "It isn’t the farmer who is getting more money because your grocery bill is going up," Stevenson said. “Ten years ago the farmer was getting 52 cents out of every housewife's dollar spent i on food; now he gets about 49 I dents, and meanwhile his costs i have gone up too.” , Stevenson said the people “have . a right to know the truth” about . the cost of living. He said that , when Mr. Eisenhower became president, the federal trade commission was planning an investigation of “price spreads” but congress in 1953 cut off the FTC appropriation for the job. “I think we should make such an investigation, not in a punitive mood, but as part of a thoughtful and constructive effort to get the facts,” Stevenson said. Stevenson’s speech was an expansion of brief reference he made about the cost of living and price spreads in hfs major farm address at Newton, lowa, last Saturday. Stevenson said that the farmer needs “price stability because of the uncertainties of farming.” A farmer doesn’t know what price he will get when he plants a crop, or when he harvests it, or even when he loads it on a truck and takes it to town,” he said. He told his listeners that prosperity on the farm “means jobs in the city and money in the storekeepers’ cash registers.” "I want to remind you the depression on the farm has always spread to' the city—and that it could again,” Stevenson said. --- “Any attempt to set consumer against farmer and farmer against workingman is malicious politics." GOP Headquarters Open On Saturday Harry Essex, chairman of the county Republcian central committtee, announced'today that the Republican headquarters, North Second street, will be open Saturday afternoon and evening tor registration of votes and transfer of registration, regardless St party affiliation. - -