Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1956 — Page 1

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HOMER BEATS YANKS r-- —” '"’"-’ZSSBKJSBF 6 _jy JKff r -4 ■ * raraSSHßig^; ■* * * sge GIL HODGEB, Brooklyn first baseman is greeted at plate by Pee Wee Reese (1) and Duke Snider (4) who scored ahead of him and Carl Furillo (6) after hitting home run that supplied Dodger margin of victory over Yankees, 6-to-3. Action took place in third inning in Ebbets Field before 34,000.

Second World Series Game Is Postponed

|BROOKLYN (VP) — Commissioner Ford C. Frick, after a conference with the umpires, an- . nounced today that the second ' game of the World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees had been postponed. Frick made a detailed survey of, the field and said that the playing conditions were satisfactory, but that he was concerned about the latest weather forecast. '’, ‘‘ln view of the forecast for continued rain, we decided it best to call the game.” he said. “The weather report for later today is for heavy rain. “No World Series game ever has been stopped short of nine innings and we don't want that ever to happen. I feel today’s game could be played if the current conditions prevail. IF would not be pleasant but we could play. It is my responsibility to the players and fans to be sure that no game has to be called because of adverse weather conditions.” Frick arrived at Ebbets Field at 8:30 a m. CST and immediately ordered that all gates were to remain closed until there was a decision on whether or not the game would be played. “That is to prevent a terrific ticket jam-up,” he said. After that Frick went to the Dodger clubhouse to confer with Brooklyn Manager Walter Alston. He said he wanted to make the decision as early as possible but ’ had to hold off until Yankee Manager Casey Stengel arrived at the park at 9 a. m. Both managers agreed it was best to postpone the (fame. -—-— “I wanted to give the managers the courtesy of giving their opinions. but they would not necessarily be conclusive.” Frick said. “Each manager would be thinking of his pitching rotation and other factors. But it is my responsibility to think of spectators, the physicians, and a million other things.” Today’s game will be played Friday in Brooklyn, weather permitting. and the subsequent games in Yankee Stadium will be pushed back a day. This is the first postponement of a World Series game since Sunday, Oct. 7, 1951, when the Yankees and the Giants were the World Series opponents. Break for Maglie The rainout was viewed as a break for the Dodgers inasmuch as it will permit 39-year-old Sal Maglie who won Wednesday's opener, 6-3. to gain an extra day of rest. Don Newcombe, today’s scheduled starter, pointed out he would like an extra day of rest also, after the heavy burden he carried during the late stages of the National League campaign. Newcombe, 27-game winner this season, still was expected .to face erratic Don Larsen, an 11-5 pitcher during the regular American League campaign when the series resumes Friday. 14 - PAGES

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Community Fund's Drive Opens Monday Workers Are Named To Solicit Funds Lyle Mallonee, general chairman of the 1956 Community Fund campaign which seeks to raise 313,400 to finance the work of several community organizations, today announced workers who will assist in the fund drive. Robert Tracy is assisting Mallonee as co-chairman of the drive. A list of 35 volunteer workers who will solicit contributions to the fund has been prepared. Each of these workers has been given the names of persons to contact during the campaign drive. A drive will also be conducted in the local industries under the direction of Tom Allwein. The 35 volunteer solicitors include Edwin Kaulnnan, Edward Jaberg, the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, Lowell Smith, Robert Boch, William Lose, Jr., Jack Heller, Frank Lybarger, Robert Lane, Harry James, Dick McConnell, Wayne Price, Otto Beehler and David Macklin. Also George Litchfield, Lewis Smith, Paul Edwards, Ralph Habegger, Robert Ashbaucher, Robert Cole, G. Remy Bierly, Miss Margaret Holthouse, Harold Niblick, Albert Anderson, William Kuhnle, Ted Hill, Albert Riehle, James Tutewiler, Jack Baumgartner, Dr. R. E. Allison, Wilbur Petrie. Richard Linn, Harold Baker, Sim Burk and George Tricker. Participating agencies in the fund drive are the Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts, the local chapter of the mental health association, the local cancer society, the youth and recreation committee, playground, equipment, the Salvation Army and the United Defense Service organization. The campaign which combines the fund drive of all of these organizations in one drive, begins Monday in Decatur. A parade to spark interest in the campaign will be held Saturday at 3 p. m. on the business district streets. The parade will feature Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the Decatur high school band, Decatur Catholic high school band and the Lincoln school band and any youngster who wishes to enter. An invitation has been extended to boys and gifls who wish to decorate their bicycles and participate in the Community Fund parade. 26 Persons Dead In Pakistan Accident LASHORE, Pakistan (UP) — Twenty-six persons were burned to death when two passenger buses collided near Multan in west Pakistan. it was reported here today. The victims were in a bus which toppled over on its side and jammed the door aganet the side. An exploding gasoline tank envoloped the bw in Oa®ee.

Probe Collapse Os Building Killing Ten Michigan Building Under Construction Collapses Wednesday JACKSON, Mich. (UP) — At least six separate investigations were promised today in the collapse of a four-story building under construction which killed ten. Six bodies are still buried in the tangle of steel and concrete. State police Capt. Forest White said the fire marshal's divisions of state police would investigate, and listed these other planned investigations: A legislative committee probe headed by Rep. Wilfred G. Bassett, of Jackson county’s Ist district; investigation by the insurance companies; by the contractors; by the city of Jackson building department, and by Consumers Power Co., the building owners. The announcement of the investigations came on the heels of charges by Jackson fire chief Harold Crawford, director of rescue operations, and workmen that “green concrete” was the cause. They said forms were taken off concrete floors and work continued on higher stories within a few days, before the concrete hardened. Main contractor Frank Herlihy of Chicago said this was not so, that each floor had weeks to "set” before the next went up. Rescue work was suspended early this morning while pillars and beams which could injure rescuers were pulled or knocked down. Just before this suspension, four bloody helmets were found in a basement corner. On reports the building was designed to withstand atomic attack, Walter C. Schmidt, construction superintendent for Consumers Power, said: “Well, there was a small room in the basement built to withstand atomic attack. It was to house the power distribution center in case of an atom bomb attack. But that was all.” A plumber who escaped from the basement and whose father was killed in the collapse, said failure to allow the concrete to set was the cause. The plumber, George Berry Jr. said “My father is in that building now because of it. That was no accident. It was murder.” Berry said. that forms were removed in three or four days from 10% inches of concrete poured into the floors in partially com(Continued on Page Five) Nixon Confers With Republican Leaders Scores Stevenson Policy Statements WASHINGTON (UP) — Vicepresident Richard M. Nixon today rushed into extensive conferences with GOP leaders less than 12 hours after returning from his 32state campaign swing. , One of his top recommendations was expected to be that President Eisenhower visit more key states where GOP senatorial candidates are fighting uphill battles. The vice president also planned to spend part of the day working on his notes for an unusual halfhour televised press conference tonight with newsmen in eight cities across the nation. He returned to the capital shortly before midnight after ending his 16-day 15,000-mile trip at Philadelphia by tearing into Adlai Stevenson’s foreign policy statements. Nixon called the Democratic presidential nominee’s proposal that the United States end nuclear weapon tests “catastrophic nonsense.” And referring to his tour lie told a wildly-chdering crowd of more than 3,000 people at Philadelphia’s historic academy of music. “I can report to you with confidence that President Eisenhower will be reelected as president Os the United States.” Nixon will use part of his halfhour news conference tonight to report on his first campaign trip. Eight newsmen —- one from each of the area Nixon visited during the trip — will cut in from his home city with questions. More than 150 NBC stations across the nation will carry the program from 8:30 to 9 p. m. EDT. The GOP national committee purchased the time- ”

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 4, 1956

Indiana’s Worst Auto Accident In History Fatal To 10 Persons

. I — ■ ■■ - Lewis Slates Difference On • . / Pad Settled Soft Coal Miners, Industry To Sign New Contract Today CINCINNATI, Ohio (UP)—President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers announced today the union and the coal operators had settled their differences and would sign a contract today calling for a 32.40 a day wage increase for about 200,000 northern soft coal miners. Lewis said the agreement would be signed at 3 p.m. CST. The new contract, calling for a two step |2.40 a day wage, boost, was scheduled to be signed Wednesday afternoon. However, just before the signing ceremony, a disagreement developed on the interpretation of a provision relating to vacation pay. Lewis told the UMW convention in session here that the new contract provides holiday psy during the Christmas season and on New I Year’s Day. He said difficulty in interpretation concerned wheththe contract covered the 1957, Christmas season and the 1958 New Year's Day. “It was impossible,” he said “to write into the contract for the payment of 340 in 1958 because it was possible there would be no agreement in effect because of termination of this contract on Oct. 1, (Continued on Page Five) Search Continues For Accused Killer Indicate Accused Killer Robbed Store NEW CASTLE. Ind. (UP)—Tired police and deputies continued a search for accused killer Richard Moistner, 22. today after a full night of combing Henry county woods turned up no new leads. Fingerprints which indicated Moistner robbed an Ashland grocery for provisions early Wednesday morning were the last positive evidence that he was still in the area. Moistner is wanted in the shotgun killing of his friend Thomas Scott, 17, Sunday in Indianapolis. Two state police planes, at least four patrol cars and about 25 state and local officers searched woods south and east of Ashland today. About 40 state and county officers were out all night. Sheriff’s deputies’ in Henry and Wayne counties reported numerous phone calls from persons who thought they had evidence of Moitner’s whereabouts. However checks on the calls turned up no new findings. Wednesday the hunt moved westward from Wayne county to Henry county after officers learned of the Ashland grocery robbery. State police said troopers were posted at groceries in the area where Moistner was believed to be hiding. But they had overlooked Ashland's lone small grocery. A report from Circleville, Ohio indicated a man shot In a burglary might be Moistner. Police said a check with sheriff’s office In Circleville did not substantiate the story. Police received many reports that the man was sighted in the area'nr° und Hagerstown. However, noneuff the reports was verified. wJFnesday, officers found remain! of the food stolen in Ashland. pt was spread along nearby Pennsylvania railroad tracks. Police speculated Moistner might have boarded a freight train but they said the trains were checked. Officers also made farm-by-farm checks. • i State police said fingerprints in the grocery indicated Moistner was the robber. ,

Arrival Os French Minister Delayed ; Delays Unity Talks On Canal Solution ‘ UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) Plane trouble that grounded French foreign minister Christian Pineau in Bermuda delayed until today Big Three unity talks on the stand they will take Friday In security council debate on the Suez Canal crisis. Pineau, originally expected Wednesday evening for talks with British foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd and U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., was arriving in New York this morning. His Pan American flight from Caracas, Venezuela was delayed at Bermuda by engine trouble. The United States, Britain and France hoped their talks during the day would achieve complete agreement on a Suez resolution to be put before the security council. Further talks will be held Friday morning when secretary of state John Foster Dulles flies In' from Washington. The consensus was that the west would ask the council to set up negotiating machinery to Solve the Suez Impasse. However the Big I Three was not agreed on whether >the United Stale! should join in sponsoring the measure nop s< hed- - uled to be presented by Britain and France. Western sources said the vfews of Washington and its North Atlantic treaty organization allies were “similar but not Identical” and that the differences could not be worked out until Dulles arrives here. 12-Year-OJd Boy Is Accidentally Killed INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A 12year- old boy was killed when a younger brother accidentally fired their father's revolver while the parents were at work Wednesday. Killed was Bruce McPeek. He and 11-year-old Bernard found the revolver in a dresser drawer when they came home from school for lunch. Two Illinois Plants Idled By Walkouts Caterpillar Plants Struck Wednesday PEORIA, 111. (UP)—Union and management spokesmen today reported little progress had been (made In settling a walkout of 19,000 production workers at the Caterpillar plant here. Negotiators met until 2 a.m. attempting to iron out differences, but broke up without any results. No resumption of negotiations was scheduled this morning. Meanwhile at Decatur, w'here 2,500 workers were idled Wednesday at the Caterpillar plant there, union and management representatives went into a meeting at midmorning in an attempt to settle the walkout. A dispute over an alleged speedup of production workers at the plant here flared into a strike Tuesday. An incident involving a foreman and a welder who was ordered to work faster, triggered the strike. The plant personnel totals about 26,500 persons, including the 19,000 production workers. The Decatur strike, which began early Wednesday afternoon, was called by Local 751 of the United Auto Workers because of dissatisfaction over a proposed apprenticeship job classification, which union and management represen(Contlnued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and cooler tonight with chance of scattered frost extreme north. Friday fair and a little warmer northwest portion. Low tonight 3744 north, 43-49 .south. High Friday 88-77. Sunset 8:23 p.m., sunrise Friday 8:34 a.m.

Misstatements By Ike Scored By Stevenson Gross Misstatement Os Facts Charged By Adlai E. Stevenson EN ROUTE WITH STEVENSON (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson, accusing President Eisenhower of grdss misstatement of facts, carried his Democratic campaign into West Virginia today. The presidential hopeful interrupted his eastern swing Wednesday night to deliver a 15-minute network television speech answering the President’s charge that he is spreading "wicked nonsense.” Stevenson countered that Mr. Eisenhower claimed credit for the Republican party for progress made under Democratic leadership. "I think it is too bad that the President indulged himself in such gross misstatement of the record,” Stevenson declared. “He is an honorable ‘man and could hardly have deliberately Intended the misrepresentations which his speech included.” The Democratic candidate was replying to addresses Mr. Eisenhower made Monday at Cleveland and at Lexington. Ky„ Stevenson 1 repeated comments he had made earlier on the "wicked nonsense" ’ charge. “We all expect in politics to be accused — without regard to the 1 fairness of the charge —of talking nonsense,” he said. “We don’t expect to be charged with wicked ness. "I think it’s too bad that any criticism of the administration, any disagreement with its policies or lack of policies, is dismissed as some form of moral delinquency or wickedness.” Stevenson spoke. Wednesday at a (Continued on Page Five) Foote Denies Any Dealing In Stocks Trust-Buster Is Accused By Celler WASHINGTON (UP) — Edward A. Foote, who recently resigned as the government’s No. 2 trustbuster, Wednesday night denied dealing in the stock of a company whose merger was under govern- ■ ment security. He said his wife did, however. Chairman Emanuel Celler (D-NY), of the house ant-trust subcommittee, accused Foote of such transactions Wednesday in a press release distributed in the bouse press gallery. Celler said that “virtually every week during the two-year period Mr. Foote was employed by the anti-trust division of the justice department, he (Foote) placed orders for substantial stock purchases or sales in numerous companies.” Several of these companies, Celler said, were involved at the time in pending investigations being made by the anti-trust division. Celler said Foote resigned Sept. 13, eight days after his subcommittee’s investigators notified the justice department of the stock market activities. 13 Workmen Injured In Building Collapse JACKSON, Miss. (UP) —A section of steel- framework for a three story parking annex to a new office building collapsed Wednesday, injuring 13 Negro workmen. When the steel girders buckled, the workmen were hurled 15 feet to the ground from their scaffold, with steel and wet concrete falling on top of some of them. None was reported hurt seriously. ■

Industry Drive Is Over SIO,OOO Mark Committees Urged For Final Reports Contributions received from committee reports at noon today revealed that the total to date in the drive to raise funds for the purchase of industrial property had passed the >IO,OOO mark. The exact figure, according to Fred Haugk, chairman of the general financial committee, was >10,216. Additional persons and firms contributing according to committees which have made partial reports are:* Yost Construction Co.; Yost Gravel and Ready Mix, Inc.; Gillig and Doan; John B. Terveer. M.D.; James Burk, M.D.; Harold Zwick, M.D.; Anthony J. Faurote; Decatur Auto Supply. Decatur Dry Cleaners, Klenk’s Service Center, and Kelly Dry Cleaners. Haugk pointed out this list does not include all of the contributors, but is limited to those whose committees have made reports. He urged that all committees report as soon as possible. The program, initiated by a committee of 61 residents of the community, is raising funds to purchase the Scheiman property ($> offer prospective new industry. According to reports, some of the committees have already received commitments which will -exceed their goals, but final decisions are being made at home offices outside of Decatur and no official statements can be made for one or two weeks. In most cases it aow appears that contributions are averaging enough that there Is a good chance of meeting the goal of >42,500 to be raised in this campaign, Haugk said today. More than half the. contributions have been cash. A special contribution to the Greater Decatur Fund will be made by August Cafeteria, which is planning a fund-raising project for Saturday. Patrons at the cafeteria that day will be asked to pay what they think the dinner is worth and all proceeds of the day will be turned over to the Greater Decatur fund. Taft-Hartley Repeal Pledged By Kefauver Kefauver Campaigns In California Today EN ROUTE WITH KEFAUVER (UP) — Sen. Estes Kefauver pledged himself and presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson to repeal of the Taft-Hartley act today. Kefauver, in a speech prepared for delivery in Los Angeles’ garment district, recalled that he had voted against it and voted to sustain former President Truman’s veto. His speech also stressed California water problems and included an attack on the administration’s “partnership” program for water resources development. The garment district speech featured the senator’s first foray into Vice President. Richard M. Nixon’s home territory. He told voters: “I am willing to let you decide which of us (Nixon or Kefauver) you would choose.” • Kefauver prepared for the arduous day by taking a day off Wednesday for sun and rest at a ranch near Santa Fe. Kefauver also said the 1952 GOP “crusade” has "bogged down in a morass of deals and favoritism.” The senator predicted that California will return to the Democratic column in the November elections. He declared that a "natural partnership between the people of the West and ” the Democratic party” was disrupted by’ the 1952 election. He said "much of the progress which imagination, initiative and daring bad given life (Continued on Page Five)

Head-on Crash Near Muncie Fatal To 10 Four Young Sisters Among Victims Os Head-on Collision MUNCIE, Ind. (UP)—lndiana’s worst automobile accident in history killed 10 persons Wednesday night, including four young sisters, in a head-on collision in a highway. Nine of the dead were jammed together in one car. They were Muncie Negroes. The 10th victim was Thomas Bryan Burns, 35, Keystone, Ind. The accident happened seven miles southwest of here in Ind. 67, a main highway between Muncie and Anderson, at about 10:15 p. in. CDT, A family of six was wiped out , as the cars crashed together with such force one of them was hurled i 88 feet from the point of impact. i The dead included Mrs. Loretta • Beal Witherspoon, 36. who state police said was expecting a baby within two months. Mrs. Witherspoon’s brother, his ’ wife, their four daughters, the 1 children's grandmother and a ’ friend were killed. There were no ’ survivors in either car. ' State police said there was "evi--1 dence of alcohol” In the car driven by Fred Beal, 32, into which nine of the victims were crowded. Officers identified the other dead as Beal's wife, Lillians, 30; their daughters, Claudia, 4, Vicki Lynn, 5, Christina, 6, and Inez, 8; Beal's mother, Mrs. Marie Clark, 50, and Jesse Price, 37. State police records showed that the worst previous accident in Indiana involving only automobiles occurred in Marion county in 1944 when seven persons were killed in a two-car collision. However, newsmen recalled another wreck killing seven persons in Ind. 7 between Columbus and North Vernon on Memorial Day in the mid-19305. Policeman John Nicewander said skid marks at the point of impact indicated the car driven by Beal apparently swerved across the westbound lane over the center line and crashed into Burns, eastbound car. All the victims except one were killed instantly, Nicewander said. Lillian Beal died shortly afterward on the operating table of the Ball Memorial hospital in Muncie. It was the heaviest death toll ever racked up in an Indiana traffic accident involving Muter mobiles only. However, traffic accidents involving buses and trucks a greater toll. The world Hoosier accident in history was the collision of an interurban car with a flatbed truck carrying Sahara Grotton Shriners to a barn dance in 1925 at the edge of Indianapolis. Nineteen persons were killed. A train-truck collision near LaPorte in 1947 killed 13 Texas Mexican farm laborers, and a bus crashed into a bridge and burned near Bloomington in 1949, killing 16 persons. The Muncie accident occurred in Ind. 67. Nine of the dead were jammed together in one of the cars. Burns was alone in the other, All passengers in both cars were killed. Motorists who happened along moments after the collision saw a gruesome -sight. The twisted wreckage of the automobiles, locked together by the impact, stood in the middle of the highway and bodies of the victims lay strewn about the scene. Flares lighted the death scene as -uniformed' policemen sought to determine how the accident happened. Traffic was tied up in both directions on the main road between Muncie and Anderson, two of Indiana's largest cities.

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