Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 239, Decatur, Adams County, 10 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 240

SIXTH GAME CRAFTSMEN 'isßH gF t JtSPL *J| ■ K x efiFwß £J JF* Jr «■ WORLD SERIES FANS, treated to a record setting no-hitter in the fifth game, saw nine-and-a-half innings of scoreless play at Ebbets Field in the sixth as Clem Labine (left) of the Dodgers and Bob Turley (right) of the Yanks met in a pitching duel. With two on in the tenth. Jackie Robinson batted in the run that evened the series and gave the win to Labine.

Adlai Scores Ike's Atomic Power Policies Stevenson Directs Oratorical Jabs Directly At Ike SEATTLE, Wash. (UP) — Adlai E. Stevenson squared off today for a person -"to - person battle with President Eisenhower by striking the Republican incumbent squarely in the middle of his pet project —atoms for peace. With every speech in the Northwest, Steevnson directed his oratorical jabs more directly at the President himself. It became increasingly evident that this would be his strategy as he headed down the Pacific coast for California. Stevenson was scheduled to leave Seattle by plane this afternoon for Portland, ©re. He will speak there tonight both in his own behalf and for incumbent Wayne Morse,who' is fighting, former interior secretary Douglas McKay for a senate seat. In his Seattle speech Tuesday night, Stevenson first sailed into Mr. Eisenhower on political grounds. He said the Chief Executive had stepped up his campaign because his “worried Republican managers” had told him “a parttime president is all right, but they cannot afford a part-time candidate.” * However, he saved his major artillery for a new attack on the atomic power policies of the administration. He challenged the sincerity of the administration in its “atoms for peace” program. This was the plan that Mr. Eisenhower put before the United Nations in December, 1953, right after the Big Three meeting in Bermuda. The President proposed creation of an international pool of' fissionable material and knowledge. He pledged the United States to make a major contribution of material and know-how in the development of peacetime atomic energy. Stevenson said the plan lifted the hopes of power - poor countries throughout the world. However, he said that as the months went on, the Eisenhower administration lagged behind the British — and possibly the Russians — in developing programs for building atomic power plants. He said the biggest difficulty was that the atomic energy commission had "abdicated its major responsibility before the world,” he said? “It has shackled atoms for peace to our private power industry, which does not need atomic power." Farmer Is Killed In Fall From Ladder KENDALLVILLE. Ind. (UP) — Clyde Halferty, 70, died in McCray memorial hospital Tuesday night, about three hours after he fell 10 feet off a ladder and his head struck a concrete floor. Halferty was building a corn crib with his son, Earl, at their farm northeast of here when the accident occurred. m — INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair? not quite so cool north tonight Thursday becoming partly cloudy -and somewhat warmer. Low tonight 3845. High Thursday mostly In the 60s. Sunday 6:14 p.m., sunrise Thursday 6:51 a.m.

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Tucker Pledged To Sound Government Governor Candidate Speaks To Democrats Pledging himself to support the basic principal of equality of opportunity for all, Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute, Democratic candidate for governor of Indiana, addressed a large Adams county gathering Tuesday eveni ing at the Decatur Youth and r Community Center. j Democratic state and local can- , didates; state, district and local ’ party workers and followers att tended the pre-election rally Tuesday to z hear Tucker promise to return sound and economical government as exemplified by the j Schricker administration to the state of Indiana. ] Tucker’s address, the highlight , of the evening, touched on such topics as the farm problem, small j business, labor, the sales tax, conservation, economy in state gov- ] ernment and taxation, federal aid, . the mental health problems of the t state, the school problem and the condition of Indiana roads. He had high-praise for Claude Wickard, candidate for U. S. sen- , ator, whom he termed "a blessing ( to the state of Indiana.” He emI phasized the importance of the farm problem because it not only affects the farmer but many laborers, retailers and others as well. He pointed out that two Republican governors of Nebraska and lowa have urged the people of their farm states to vote Democratic because the GOP farm program is bringing disaster to the farmer. He expressed alarm at the Republican attitude that the small farmer is becoming obsolete and that nothing can be done to help him. Tucker also attacked the “tight" money policy of» the GOP, saying that it was bringing more profit to the banker but causing an increase of bankruptcies among the small business man. "I'm not a tool of anybody," Tucker stated in response to the GOP charge that he is a tool of labor. He continued that he has watched the gains of the laboring man and he is opposed to right-to-work laws or any legislation that will take away the gains. Tucker made known his opposition to the sales tax. stating that it would be unfair to the little man who must spend most of his income. He also deplored consei* vation activities hi the state under the Republican administrations, pointing out that the state is 47th in the nation in conservation programs. A slash at waste in government spending was also made by the gubernatorial candidate, who pointed out that Democratic governor Schricker left an $82,000,000 surplus in the state treasury and the Republican administrations have spent an increased income, plus $40,000,000 of the surplus. Tucker stated that his opponent has stated the next governor of Indiana must raise taxes. He contradicted this, saying, “I have no intention of raising taxes.” Tucker further deplored the. refusal of federal aid to crippled children and to schools. He commented that what Indiana loses by default goes to other states and *that the people of this state are entitled to their share of the money which they have paid through taxation for federal aid. Tucker was introduced last night by G. Remy Bierly, local attorney who is chairman of the (Continued 4n ftgs Five)

Egypt Presses For Solution To Suez Crisis Seeking Negotiated Solution To Crisis Over Canal Control UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —Egypt pressed today for a negotiated solution to the Suez dispute “consistent With Egyptian sovereignty” over the canal, but there were no signs that Egypt or Britain and France were ready to compromise. United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjold was using his own brand of quiet diplomacy in an effort to find a solution through secret talks while India's V. K. Khrisna Menon worked behind the scenes with a yet unannounced "compromise plan.” Hammarskjold conferred Tuesday night with the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Egypt and called them in for another private talk this afternoon as “the parties most directly concerned” in the Suez dispute. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles was understood to have disqualified himself as a “directly concerned” party entitled to participate in the secret talks r As a result, Soviet foreign “minister Dmitri Shepilov was not invited either. The security council itself was in recess until 3:30 p.m. Thursday to allow diplomats 48 hours in which to hold private meetings. Hammarskjold’s diplomatic hand obviously was playing a major role during the 48 hour period. He talked at length with British foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd, French foreign minister Christian Pineau and Egyptian foreign minister Mahmoud Fawzi in what a French diplomat referred to as a meeting of the “plaintiffs and the defendant.” Fawzi was meeting this morning with Krishna Menan who has scurried from New Delhi to Cairo to London several times in the past month and arrived in New York Tuesday for the security council session. Krishna Lloyd twice Tuesday and Fawzi once. Fawzi held the floor during much of Tuesday afternoon’s ’ 90minute secret session of the security council —the first held on a political dispute in the body’s 10year history. Informed sources said he failed to retreat an inch from Egypt’s announced position. Cairo dispatches said the Egyptian government had received new (Coztlnued on Page Five)

First Forest Fire In South Indiana 500 to 600 Acres Os Land Are Fired By UNITED PRESS Flames swept 500 to 600 acres of timber, farm land and waste land about 12 miles west of Bloomington on the Greene-Owen county line late Tuesday. The blaze, the first substantial one in southern Indiana this year, followed by a day fires in the northern portion of the state which destroyed more thpn 6,200 acres of timber. Chief state forestry fire warden Joseph S. De Young today said many sections of southern Indiana are as parched from lack of rain as the north. Late Monday about 5,000 acres Jasper-Pulaski state game preserve, 1,200 acres in»Tippecanoe state park north of Winamac, and 35 acres in Frances Slocum state forest on the Miami-Wabash county line were bjirned. Conservation officers at the two larger state forests today watched smoldering sections. They said the fires were under control, and should be completely burned out in a few days, barring high winds. The smaller blaze was reported out. The fire in the south started Tuesday afternoon, and was reported out late in the evening. The Indiana department of conservation today reported thers were no forest fires this year during June or July, and only three fires which burned six acres in August. Last year 150 forest fires burned 1,558 acres in the first eight months. Burning debris caused 62 of the 1955 fires, the department said. Careless -smokers caused 30, railroads 13 and hunters eight. All three of the Monday fires In the northern portion of the state were suspected by officers as the work of arsonists.

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, October 10, 1956

New York Yanks Take World Series Crown By Whipping Dodgers, 9-0

Life Sentences Given To Eight Brink's Bandits Maximum Penalty For Largest Cash Robbery In Nation BOSTON (UP) — Eight Brink’s bandits began serving life sentences today and locked up with them was th# secret of what happened to more than a million dollars. The life terms were imposed Tuesday by Superior Judge Felix Forte after the state recommended the maximum penalty for the $1,218,211 ’robbery at Brink’s Inc. on Jan. 17, 1950. The stiff sentences ended a long chapter in crime for the Hallo-ween-masked gang convicted early Saturday by a Suffolk county jury. Sentenced were Joseph F. McGinnis, 53, gang mastermind; Adolph (Jazz) Maffie, 45; Anthony Pine, 49; Vincent J. Costa, 42; Michael V. Geagon, 48; Henry Baker, 50; Thomas F. Richardson 49; and James I. Faherty, 45; all of greater Boston. The men were immediately surrounded by state police- troopers armed with shotguns and removed by special van to the $9 million maximum security -prison at Wai-' pole. Only $68,000 has been recovered by investigators. The FBI found the money rotting in a beer cooler during a surprise raid last June on a Boston contracting office. For one man not present, the sentences came as a final stroke of vengeance. Joseph (Specs) O’Keefe, confessed bandit whose “I was there” story sent his onetime pals to prison, gave a grim satisfied nod when told of the punishment. O’Keefe, who faces sentencing later, testified he was “robbed” of his share of the Brink’s loot. Central Soya Honors 20-Year Employes Veteran Employes Honored Last Night Last evening a banquet was held at the Allen county war memorial coliseum honoring employes of the Central Soya company who had completed 20 years of service with the company in 1956. Following the banquet and presentation of awards the group attended the "holiday on Ice” show currently playing at the coliseum. Twenty-year employes who were honored were Weimer Harmon, Chalmer Bollenbacher, Rufus Kirchhofer, Herman Von Gunten, Walter Buettner, Lloyd Deßolt, and Tom Allwein. Mrs. Anne K. Smith, the first woman in an executive or professional capacity with the company with 20 years of service, was also presented with an award. Other 20-year employes are: Gary Schultz, Frank Garcia, Cliff Stelher, Norman Kruse, and Ralph Straub. In addition. Herman Von Gunten was presented with a special citation for the part he played in the engineering and construction of Central Soya’s new plant at Chattanooga, Tennessee. c) I. Finlayson, former plant manager at Decatur and now production manager for the company, was the guest speaker and made the presentation of awards to the 20-year group. Jack Chappell. personnel director, was toastmaster for the occasion. Guests included Dr. and Mrs. Jake Krider, Mr. and Mrs. Eural Rose, Frank Dalyrymple, Mrs. Jack Chappell. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Watters, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hensel, Mr. and Mra. Art Burris, and the respective wives of the persons who Received awards. T .;r ‘ ' " ■

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Seek Closer Study Os State's Budget May Hire Auditing Firm As Budget Aid INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — State bqdget director Robert King said tolay he has no quarrel with plans to hire an auditing firm to help “trim the water” from budget requests. The Indiana legislative advisory s commission voted Tuesday to con- - tract a firm that could make a i study before budget requests are I submitted to the 1957 general assembly. I "If they don’t feel that we can t supply them with enough infor- . ipption, I’m sorry,” King said, “and j it’s their prerogative to take whatever steps are necessary.” The commission, which will re- , commend legislation tt lawmakers ’ meeting next January, took the , action as a means of getting rer liable information for legislators who must vote on the budget for the 1957-59 biennium. Members approved a motion by San. Charles Maddox (R-Otterbein) to seek "expert advice from a “re- ; liable firm of auditors.” The deci- , ston on whether to go ahead with the study will be made later. Sen. Von Eichhorn (©Uniondale) and Sen. D. Russell Bpntragt er (R-Elkhart) also pledged a conI tinning fight to put the four-man t state budget committee under direet control-of the legislature. The two Democratic and two ReI publican members are now ap- [ pointed by the governor. Eichhorn and Bontrager co-au- , thored an unsuccessful 1855 bill to make budget committee members elected by the legislature. ' I’m going to fight to get con- ! trol of the budget committee into ' the hands of the legislature itself,” ! Bontrager said. Legislators are the ones who vote on the budget, he , pointed out. The budget study is necessary, committee members indicated, be- ■ cause it is difficult for legislators to act intelligently on the huge money matter with limited information. Lt. Gov. Harold Handley told the commission if he is elected governor he will brief lawmakers on his legislative programs weeks before the 1957 session opens. “If the legislators, by attending a meeting of the legislative advisory commission in November or December, could get a thorough outline of the major points which will probably be taken up in the hew governor’s message in midJanuary,” Handley said, “they would be able to go back home and discuss them with their con(Contlnued on Page Four) Northwest PTA Is Formed At School Organized At New Elementary School Approximately 75 parents and teachers met at the Northwest elementary recently to organize a parent-teachers association for the new school. The meeting was called by Hubert Zerkel, Jr., school principal. Mrs. Roy Friedley, president of the Lincoln P. T. A., served as temporary chairman during the meeting. W. Guy Brown, superintendent of Decatur schools, talked briefly on organizing a P.T.A. Mrs. John Kelley was elected to serve as first president of the new organization. Others elected to serve under her during the coming year were Mrs. Clifford Hoverman, vice-president; Mrs. Glen Mauller, secretary, and Mrs. Roy Kalver, treasurer. Meetings of the new P.T.A. will be held on the second Thursday of each month. All parents of pupils who attend Northwest are Invited to join the organization. The Northwest P.T.A. will join with the Lincoln P.T.A. in sponsoring the fall festival.

Ike Lashes At Proposals By Democrats Charges Democratic Orators Concealing Or Twisting Facts PITTSBURGH (UP) —President Eisenhower charged Aldai E. Stevenson Tuesday night with political irresponsibility in implying the Republican administration cares nothing for the ‘‘little fellow.” In a major speech to an enthusiastic crowd of 15,000 at Hunt Armory, Mr. Eisenhower declared the Democratic orators have "concealed or twisted” the facts. “Those political orators promise bigger government spending on every front-lower taxes for every citizen-all wrapped up in the bright package of a balanced budget,” the President said at a GOP rally which climaxed a late afternoon and evening of ovations in the traditionally Democratic steel center. A capacity crowd of 11,000 jammed into the armony and another 4,000 packed streets and alleys outside to hear Mr. Eisenhower's 25-minute nationwide radiotelevision talk over an NBC hookup. Mr. Eisennower arrived at Pittsburgh Tn the presidential plane, the Columbine, at 4 p.m. EDT. Thousands lined the highway as he motored from the airport to the Penn-Sheraton Hotel, where another 5,000 were massed in a square outside. He returned to Washington immediately after the speech. In his speech, Mr. Eisenhower departed from his prepared text when he accused Democratic orators of a "while series of curious statements falsely implying” that his administration cares nothing for. "the man they rather patronizingly call the l|ttle fellow.” "By the way," he said, “who has the right to call any American ‘the little fellow’? Doesn’t the w’ord American still mean we are all equal? “I wonder just what kind of political children they think the American people are, I also wonder what kind of man they think I (Continued on Page Six) Production Resumed At Fort Wayne 6. E. Union Grievance To Go To Arbitration FORT WAYNE (UP) — About 9,000 General Electric Co. workers resumed operations in four plants today as union officials prepared to submit a grievance over a piece work plan to arbitration. President Tom Hayden of Local 901 of the International Union of Electrical Workers announced Tuesday night the membership voted two ways on the dispute. They voted nearly 3-to-l to continue the strike which began Monday after adopting by voice vote Hayden’s recommendation to return to work. Hayden said the vote meant another strike could be called Immediately if the union’s executive board felt negotiations were not progressing satisfactorily. The strike vote was 1,797 for, 633 against. No date ofr resumption of negotiations, which broke up deadlocked in Washington last Thursday, was announced. BULLETIN Alvin Knipstein, 34, of Hoagland, died suddenly at 12:30 o’clock this afternoon at the Lutheran hospital In Fort Wayne. The body was brought to the Zwick funeral home. Arrangements have not been completed. * ■ ’

Kefauver Cites New Influence Example Says GOP Accepted Check From Oilman SYRACUSE, N. Y. (UP) — Sen. Estes Kefauver charged today that President Eisenhower’s “advisers” accepted a $5,000 check from the same Texas oil man whose rejected $2,500 campaign gift later sparked the senate lobbying in- ; vestigation. In a speech prepared for deli- . very at a Press Club luncheon i here, the Democratic vice presii dential nominee cited the Incident ’ as a “new example of influence” . to support “corruption” chargee : against the Eisenhower adminisI tration. He said he hopes the sen- . ate’s committee on lobbying will investigate. s “I have here the photostatic ! copy of a check. It is dated Housr ton, Texas, Jan. Iff, 1956. It is » drawn on the City National Bank I of Houston. Texas. It is made out i to the United Republican dinner } committee. It is in the amount of j $5,000. And it is signed ‘H. B. . Keck,' ” Kefauver said. Kefauver identified Keck as the ) president of the Superior Oil Co. . of California. Keck testified before . a special senate committee that . the $2,500 campaign contribution . rejected by Sen. Francis Case (R- --. 8D) during senate debate on the controversial natural gas bill Came from his “personal” funds. Kefauver - said the justice de- ’ partment “must have known” ’ about the $5,000 check. He asked whether Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall did not also know that Houston oil man H. ‘ B. Keck was the source of the funds. Cases disclosure of the rejected gift prompted the preliminary inquiry by a special senate committee which found “irresponsibility ... run riot" in the Case matter and declared that Keck must share responsibility with two subordi- ■ nates. Senator Fulbright Terms Hodge Liar » Scores Failure To Answer Questions CHICAGO (UP) — Former state auditor Orville E. Hodge was called a liar and told he may be denied parole for not cooperating with a senate committee investigating his $1 million embezzlement of state funds. Sen. J. William Fulbright Tuesday asked Hodge, currently serving a 12-15 year prison term, how he spent the money he pilfered from the state treasury. "I don’t know,” Hodge responded to the Arkansas Democrat’s questions during a public hearing of the U. S. senate banking and currency committee. “I think you’re lying to the committee,” Fulbright snapped. Hodge’s memory had failed completely when he tried to account for a series of fraudulent checks totaling $85,000. "When we ask you trivial questions your memory works fine,” Fulbright said. “But when we ask you about phony checks, you refuse to tell us. “We have a system of parole,” he added. “It seems to me that if you had a more cooperative attitude you’d be more likely to get the benefits of the parole system." Annual Farm Bureau Meeting On Friday The annual Adams county Farm Bureau meeting and fish fry will be held at the Berne auditorium Friday evening. All Farm Bureau members have received two postal cards, one to be returned to the Farm Bureau insurance office with the requested information, and the other card is for admission to tile fish fry. Any children attending must be accompanied by their parents.

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- f Homers Blasi Newcombe Off Mound Early Yankees, Dodgers In Final Game Os Series In Brooklyn BULLETIN BROOKLYN (UP) —The New York Yankees won the ‘ World Series today by trouncing the Brooklyn Dodgers, 9-0. BROOKLYN (UP) -— Big Don Newcombe, Brooklyn’s 27 — game winner, faced lanky Johnny Kucks, who won 18, as the Dodgers and Yankees met today in the seventh and deciding game of the greatest World Series of them all. Newcombe, who spearheads the Dodgers to National League pennatits but then fails in the series, wae marking his second start in 'this classic and his fifth in the autumn competition. Never has he won the big one, being charged with three defeats and one no-decision. That nodecision came in last Friday's second game when the Yankees hammered the big right-hander for six runs in less than two innings. But hta teammates, with the greatest series rally In 27 years, came from behind to win it,43-8. Don Bessent, who was the No. 1 man in the Dodger bull pen behind Newcombe today, received credit for the victory. It was Kucks’ third appearance in the series. He was used in relief in both the first and second games and was pounded hard each . time. A right-hander, he waa the mainstay of the Yankee pitching staff most of the season, but faltered In the closing weeks. It was a clear, crisp autumn day with a chilly breeze blowing Ip from leftfield. However, It did not figure to be strong enough to affect any balls hit toward the leftfield stands. Manager Casey Stengel of the Yankees made two subsitutiona in his lineup, benching the 40-year-old Enos (Country) Slaughter, who had a bad day in the field Tuesday when the Dodgers won 1-0 in 10 innings to even the series at three games each, and first baseman Joe Collins. Slaughter lost one fly ball in the sun, appeared to give up on another which fell for a double and there were many who thought he should have caught Jackie Robinson’s line drive which broke up Tuesday’s 10-inning thriller. Elston Howard, the Negro outfielder-catcher, took over for Slaughter in left while Bill Skowron, who was benched after going hitless in four times at bat in the first game, went back to first base. With those changes, Stengel shook up his batting order. Hank Bauer still led off, but second baseman Billy Martin was elevated to the second spot, followed by Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra. Skowrpn was listed to hit fifth followed by Howard, shortstop Gil McDougald, third baseman Andy Carey and then Kucks. Manager Walter Alston of Brooklyn went along with the same lineup as Tuesday. Yankees First Bauer singled to left and stole second. Martin was called out on strikes. Mantle went down swinging. Berra drove over the rightfield screen for a home run. Skowron struck out. Two runs, two hits, no errors, none left; Dodgers First Gilliam bounced to Skowron. Reese walked. Snider singled to left, Reese going to second. Robinson hit Into a double play, Kucks to Martin to Skowron. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. Yankees Second - Howard bounced to Reese. Me- - (Continued on Fags Two>