Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 11 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 240

START ‘LIKE' FOR BRINK’S plrvC ->vw .Jl TWO OF THE EIGHT Brink’s robbers who got life sentences in Boston lire led from court by Sheriff Frederick Sullivan (left). This pair is James I. Faherty (middle) and Joseph F. McGinnis, en route to Walpole State prison.

Increased Aid a Announced For Drought Areas Pres. Eisenhower Announces Plan To Help Farmers WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower today announced a program of increased aid, inclu-7 ing allocation of five million dollars more in relief funds, for farmers in drought-stricken areas. The program also provides an increase from $1 to >1.50 per hundred pounds In the federal subsidy on teed grains sold by the government from surplus stocks to drought-stricken farmers and ranchers. Mr. Eisenhower also said that western railroads have been asked to consider ways and means of helping farmers and ranchers in drought areas. This presumably' would be through lowfer rates for shipment of hay and livestock from dry pastures to other' areas for temporary feeding. “Before the end of the year I plan to visit the stricken areas to make certain that the present programs are giving maximum help and that the additional steps . . . are having good results," Mr. Eisenhower said. He said that he also would confer during this trip with farmers and ranchers as well as federal, state and local officials “to develop any needed additional programs including new legislation, for submission to the next congress.” Mr. Eisenhower planned to wait until after the election to make the trip to the drought-stricken areas. He told his news conference earlier that he planned to call a conference on the drought situation after the election. The White House later said the conference would be held 'at some central point in the drought area during the trip. Mr. Eisenhower said in his statement that federal help to farmers in the 14 states already had been great. He said the department has spent 550 million dollars in disaster relief and about 184 million dollars to bolster livestock prices. e m ._,„ But, he said, the prolonged drought has reached “disastrous proportions” in some areas, specially the Southwest. He promised that the administration will “continue to use freely every existing program and legal authority to ease the plight of these hard-hit families.” Mr. Eisenhower said the present programs are “the most extensive ever applied.” He expressed an earnest hope that “the new steps mentioned will help ease the present distress ’’ Five Persons Die As Fire Destroyed Home STRAHFORD, Conn. (UP)—Five persons died early today when flames swept their home. The victims were all members of the same family. Four bodies were found near the front door. The body of the fifth -victim was found in a bedroom. The dead were identified as Mrs. Florence Talbot, 60, her sons, John. 28, Robert, 23, and Thomas, 21, and her daughter. Patty, 13.

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1956 Crop Is Near Record Production All-Crop Output Is Near To 1948 Record WASHINGTON (UP) '-r The 1956 crop is approaching near record production for the second consecutive year. The agriculture department’s October crop report Wednesday showed the all-crop production index now is 105 per cent of the 1947-49 base and is “approaching” the 105.4 per cent near-record totted up in 1955. The record crop — 106 per cent of the base was produced fn 1948. Department officials said the crop probably would become the third largest in history, Just a shade behind the 1965 output. With much of the harvest completed, little change in production estimates is expected in the November and December reports. A large crop was harvested despite a major drought in much of the great plains; early frost in some of the late-corn fields: rigid acreage- controls, and diversion of land into the soil bank. Leaders fti crop production were corn, soybeans, and fall potatoes. The report indicated that the corn crop this year will be 3,369,000.000 busels, second only to 3,605.000,000 bushels in 1948. Record In Indiana WASHINGTON (UP) — The agriculture department’s latest estimate of Indiana corn production for 1956 indicated a record crop of 286,980,000 bushels and a record yield of 60 bushels per acre. The Oct. 1 estimate, issued late Wednesday, represented a chunky increase of nearly 10 million buslr els from the Sept. 1 estimate of 277,414,000 bushels. It also represented a per-acre gain of two bushels from 58. The 1955 corn crop, biggest on record, was 276.136,000 bushels in Indiana. The record yield per acre was 57 bushels in 1948. Forest Fire Breaks Out On Wednesday Firefighters Bring Blaze Under Control WINAMAC, Ind. (UP) —A fire that destroyed more than 5,000acres of timber at the JasperPulaski state game preserve early this week broke out again late' Wednesday and burned about 15 acres. Seventy firefighters brought the blaze under control in about two hours. A brisk wind whipped the flames through the dry timber. Conservation authorities said Wednesday’s fire probably resulted from smouldering roots underground left over from earlier blazes. Thirty-two prisoners from the state prison at Michigan City joined 50 other prisoners at the preserve Wednesday to keep watch for more outbreaks. Forestry officials at JasperPulaski and at Tippecanoe state park north of here, where 1,200 acres burned Monday, continued a day and night vigil against fire. Joseph S. DeYoung, chief state forestry warden, said areas in northern and southern Indiana where fires occurred this week have had no rain for 27 days. He said the situation is the worst tor (CtmflnwM en Page Five)

Chinese Reds Turn Vengeance On Foreigners Rioting Continues For Second Day In Hong Kong Colony HONG KONG k JUP) — Chinese mobs turned their vengeance on foreigners today In the second day of rioting in this British colony. One mob tried to iiiirn a man and his wife to death by drenching their car with gasoline and setting it afire. The government sent British troops to the rtot scene in Kowloon, the part of the colony lying on the mainland next to Communist China, a step Hong Kong has never taken before elst it offend the phinese Communist government. The rioting started between pro Communist and pro-Nationalist Chinese refugees Wednesday in Kowloon during the Nationalist celebration of the “Double Tenth,” the 45th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Republic by Sun Yat-Sen. It raged through the day and night and broke out afresh today, with Europeans the chief target of the inflamed Chinese. But the mobs also battled among themselves, stoned police, fired and looted buildings, their passionsinflamed by agitators bent on spreading trouble in this precariously-situated British outpost. Official sources said four persons were killed, two Wednesday and two today. Scores were report ed injured, some 40 to 50 seriously. More than 100 persons were under arrest. Reports from the scene today said a mob halted a European car and poured gasoline on it and set It afire. Police rescued the couple inside. The man was taken to a police station on a stretcher. The woman was burned severely, her clothes in rags. latter the mob gathered outside the police station And Wes pot dispersed until police fired into the crowd. One Chinese was seen lying on the apvement arcoss from the station. One huge group of Chinese formed a roadblock near the North. Star ferry and stopped all cars not bearing Chinese Nationalist flags. The NarionaJist flag appeared to be a passport, but there were occasional yells for Mao Tse-Tung, the Chinese Communist leader. / Three Enter Contest For Soybean Queen Three Additional Entries Announced Three additional contestants for the 1956 Adams county soybean queen Were announced today by Joe Kaehr, chairman of this committee of the Chamber of Commerce. > .. s This brings the total to four who have entered. The first was Miss Ruth Macke. The new contestants are Miss Donna Small, 17, of 608 Indiana street, whose talent is playing the accordion; Miss Alice Krueckeberg, 17, of route five Decatur, and Miss Karen Sue Allison, 17, of route two, Monroeville. The contestants are limited to unmarried girls between the ages of 16‘ to 21, iaclusive, who are residents of Adams county. Entry blanks must be received at the Decatur Chamber of Commence office on or before October 20. The preliminary judging on the basis of beauty, appearance, poise and talent will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center at 3 p. m. October 25. The five finalists at this contest will compete the same evening at the eighth annual rural-urban fish fry at the Decatur high school gym for the honor of being the 1956 Adams county soybean queen. < . The girls will each be permitted' a maximum of five minutes during each contest to demonstrate their talent which may be music, dramatics, speech or any natural, ability which they believe would interest the crowd. The girls should be dressed formally for the events. The judges, all well known experts from out of the city, will be headed by Miss Mary Jane McNulty, Miss Indiana, of 1956, of Fort Wayne, who will also crown the queen as well as the 1956 Adams county soybean king during the fish fry. 14 Pajiii

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 11,1956

Air Transport Plane Lost Over Atlantic, 59 Servicemen Aboard

Ike In Denial Os Plan To End Draft, H-Tesfs Denies Considering Announcement In Political Campaign WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower denied today that he had ever considered announcing during the campaign plans to end the draft and H-bomb tests. The President also said he would go before the United Nations if he thought such a personal appearance would help solve the Sue* Canal crisis. .. Mr. Elsenhower reiterated hie long standing position that he would go anywhere in the world and do anything to get peace with justice. At his news conference, Mr. Eisenhower was asked about reports that GOP campaign strategists originally planned announcing an end to the draft and H-bomb tests but had been forced to drop them after Adlai E. Stevenson came out with statements on the two subjects. Mr. Eisenhower said the reporter 4 was telling him things about his administration he had never heard of. And he said he never had considered any such announcements. In answer to another question about Stevenson’s campaign statements about ending H-bomb tests, Mr. Eisenhower said he had said his last word on the draft and H-bomb test issues in the political campaign. In other highlights of his news conference, Mr. Eisenhower: Said a new drought program will be announced later today and a conference of all the responsible people in the drought stricken areas will be called after the election. Said he believes the names of all passengers on government-operated ships should be made public. He said he can see no reason on earth why such passenger lists should Study Reports On Industrial Drive General Committee Completes Survey At a meeting held Wednesday night, the general financial committee completed a turvey of committee reports on the campaign to raise funds for the purchase of an industrial site which revealed that only 30 percent of the potential contributors had been cqptacted or bad reported. Today, committee chairmen are being contacted with an appeal to complete the original solicitation this week so that reports can be published. An analysis of the contributions and pledges, which total one third of the 342,500 goal, indicate the campaign will be a success. The largest single group from whom there is no report is composed of firms whose offices are located outside of the city. Partial reports on these are not expected for a week or two, although a number have indicated their willingness to participate. Only four pommittees have made full reports and two of these have stated that more contributions are expected next week. The financial committee Tuesday night also made plans to initiate the campaign among individuals and organizations, which may get under way next week. It is tentatively planned to make this solicitation by letter. T INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday. Low tonight 45-53. High Friday 65-75. Sunset 6:12 p.m., sunrise FrL. . day 6; 51 a.m. '

Italian School Is Terrorized By Two ■ ■ Two Mad Brothers r Seized In School TERRAZZANO, Italy (JJP) —All Italy today mourned for the gallant laborer who died leading a police assault on two mad brothers who held 100 children and three women teachers hostages for six terrifying hours Wednesday. Sante Zennaro, 23, was shot and killed by Arturo Santato, 27, who, with his brother, Flavio Osvaldo, had threatened to kill the children and teachers unless paid >320,000 ransom. Zennaro was chosen to lead the police charge because he helped build the school and knew the layout. He fell under a hail of bullets as he clambered through the window of the first floor classroom where the crazed brothers were holed up with their terrified hostages. But his gallant gesture diverted Arturo, released recently from an Insane asylum, and a riot policeman shot him in the head and arm. Miss Paola Susini, one of the teachers, grappled with Arturo and prevented him from firing long enough for other riot police to smash into the room and capture him and his brother. The brothers seized the Terrazzano school 10 miles northwest of Milan early Wednesday. They barricaded the doors and scattered leaflets which said: “Give us 200 million lire or we shall show no .mercy to the children.” They tied the hands of their captives and during the long hours threatened to blind the children with sulphuric acid, shoot them or blow up the entire building with two home-made bombs. Boy Scouts Are Aided By Community Fund Boy Scout Troop Included In Fund (Editor’s note: This is the first of a series of articles explaining the aims and projects of the organizations which participate in the Community Fund and which will receive the money raised in the current 1956 fund drive.) Decatur citizens are being asked now to contribute a total of >13,400 to the Community Fund which finances eight separate projects and organizations. Among these is the Boy Scout organization, which has requested >2,500 of the money collected. At the present time, scouting is serving over 200 boys in Decatur. The Decatur Scouts troops are sponsored by the American Legion. Lions club and Rotary club, and the Elks chib sponsors an Explorer Air Scout crew. Decatur also has two Cub Scout packs sponsored by the Lincoln P.T.A. and plans are underway to organize a new Cub Pack. The sponsoring organizations secure leadership and provide adult aid for the packs, troops and crevts. Scouting has experienced a remarkable growth in Indiana and also in this community and each year more boys are becoming available to scouting. means more funds are required to finance the scout program in the community. The local scouts have made excellent showings at the Scout-O-Ramas and have attended local and <irea camporees. Many attended Big Island camp, participated in troop overnight hikes and campouts and have rendered service to the community as service units at many civic events. Scouting leaders point out that contributions to scouting through the Community Fund are contributions to the future. They emphasize that scoring builds well-adjusted, clean and honest-living young men, the leaders of tomorrow. Scouting also teaches self-relisnce and devottoß to God and country. (GentlntHd so Fags Five)

Heavy Fighting Is Reported In Holy Land Worst Fighting In Holy Land Since 1948 Is Reported Today NATHANYA, Israel (UP) — Israeli and Jordanian forces inflicted heavy losses on each other in an eight-hour battle along 12 miles of their frontier today in some of the .worst Holy Land fighting since 1948. Israel put Rs official losses at 16 killed, while the Limassol Radio on Cyprus quoted a Jordanian statement as reporting 25 dead on the Jordan side. This toll was almost certain to rise in later reports. Israel said its army attacked Jordan’s Arab Legion. Jordan accused Israel of sending jet fighter bombers as well into the border' battle. A powerful Israeli force hit the Jordan border fortress of Kalkilya just after dark Wednesday in retaliation for the mutilation slaying of two Israeli workers in the same area on Tuesday night. The battle then spread, raging in darkness in the region between Tel Aviv and Haifa until United Nations truce chief Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns ordered a cease-fire into effect at 2:30 a.m. However, the sound of explosions and gunfire could be heard for several hours afterwards. Jordan filed an immediate complaint with the U. N. mixed armistice commission that Israel used 10 jet fighter - bombers against Arab Legion forces- in the area 14 miles northeast of Tel Aviv. The complaint’charged that three aircraft continued to bomb the neighboring Jordan village of Azzun after the cease fire. Jordan’s young’King Hussein visited Kalkilya during the battle and ordered his cabinet to meet at his capital city of Amman. On his return to Amman he called another cabinet session. (Continued on Page Five) Knipstein Funeral Services Saturday Heart Attack Fatal To Hoagland Man Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon for Alvin Knipstein, 34, of Hoagland, who died suddenly Wednesday morning of a coronary occlusion. He was stricken while at work at a diamond dier at the Fort Wayne Wire A Die plant, and was dead on arrival at the Lutheran hospital. He had had a rheumatic heart condition since childhood. Born in Adams county Dec. 30, 1921, he was a son of Christ and Freda Poehler-Knipstein, who now reside near Fort Wayne. He was married to Alvera Scheumann Feb. 20, 1944. Mr. Knipstein was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church, north of Decatur, a trustee of the church, and a member of the Men’s club of the church. He was assistant chief of the Hoagland fire department. Surviving in addition to his wife and parents are five children, Charlotte, Darrell and Deborah, twins. Lois and Thomas, all at home; and two brothers, Walter and Wilbur Knipstein, both of Fort Wayne. Services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The casket will not be opened at the church. _/ _

Tells Os Donation At Hodge Request Savings And Loan Officer Testifies CHICAGO (UP) —A savings and loan official testified today that he ’contributed >6,800 for political campaigns in the 1956 Illinois primary at the request of Orville Hodge, former state auditor convicted of fraud. Charles O. Mensik, head of a group of savings and loan associations, testified before the senate banking committee, which is investigating banking aspects of the scandal which sent Hodge to prison. Mensik testified to a $200,000 mortgage on Hodge's luxury apartment hotel in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He said he made the mortgage at Hodge's request. Mensik said he also bought at Hodge's , request “six or seven’’’ mortgages on small homes buil| at Al(on, 111., by a construction firm in which Hodge had an in- , terert. The savings and loan official said the total purcase amounted to between >65,000 and >75,000, on which-he waived his 1 percent commission *s a “favor” to Hodge. Mensik said be also bought 100 shares in the Elmwood Park Bank and a bank director at Hodge’s request He said he paid >2,906 for the stock. He said he thought Hodge, as a public official, merely was trying to “strengthen" the bank. He did not know, he said, that Hodge had stock in the bank, and allegedly (Conunuea ot> Elgutj First Civic Music Concert On Monday Admission Is Ohly By Season Tickets Doors at the Decatur Youth and Community Center will open at 7:15 p.m. Monday for those who will attend the 8 p.m. concert sponsored by the Adams county civic music association. The program for the qVening will be presented by Ferrante and Teicher, a duo-piano team. The concert is the opening one of the initial season of the music association. Eight students of Decatur high school will serve as ushers and will distribute programs. They include Linda Norris, Ann Uhffek, Jane Stiverson, Gretchen Lankenau, Kathy Cole, Judy Lane, Janalee Smith and Barbara Kalver. At the door to take the rickets will be Paul Schmidt, Ted Schrock, Jay Gould and Stanley Kirkpatrick, all students of Decatur high school. Students from other schools of the county will usher and take tickets at other concerts on this season’s schedule. A reminder has been issued that only those persons who joined the association during the membership campaign last spring may attend the concert Their tickets have been mailed to them under the direction of the association secretary, Mrs. Frank Alton. No single session tickets will be available at the door, it was pointed out. The piano team of Ferrante and Teicher is well-known for unique sound effects achieved by innovations in piano playing. Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher have had a long concert career and are highly praised by music critics throughout the country. Polio Incidence Is Lower In Nation WASHINGTON (UP) —The public health service today reported 640 polio cases in the week ended Oct. 6 compared with 1,035 for the corresponding period a year ago. The number a week ago was 655. For the calendar year to date, with more than 2% months to go, there have been 12,757 cases of polio compared with 24,045 cases in all of 1956. —

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U.S. Military Transport Plane Vanishes Today Servicemen Enroute Home Aboard Plane Reported Missing LONDON (UP) — A U. S. military air transport service plane with 59 homeward bound American servicemen aboard vanished early today over the Atlantic Ocean between England and the Azores. Wjthin hours the air force threw its 9th air rescue squadron into operation and “more than a dozen” airplanes began a systematic search for the missing plane, criss-crossing the east Atlantic from southern England to the Azores. The rescue planes included amphibians, KC97 flying tankers and British Shackleton bombers. Aircraft was called in from Prestwick, Scotland, and Orly Field, Paris, to join the search. At least three ships in the area were alerted to look for wreckage and survivors. The plane left the U. S. air base „ at Lakenheath, England, Wednesday night for a trip to Lagens, in the Azores. It was last heard from 180 miles southwest of Land’s End off the southern tip of -England.- -■ - The big plane, a Cllß, the military version of the Douglas DCS transport, was carrying nine crew men and 50 U. S. servicemen hased in England, ' The air force at midnight alerted ships at sea to watch for the plane. The plane then was four hours overdue. It then had only an hour’s more fuel. Four U. 8. air force planes swept the Atlantic skies this morning searching for the missing aircraft but found nothing. An air force spokesman said at 7 a. m. the plane would be listed as "overdue” but that he could not confirm it was down at sea. But a wide check of possible landing spots failed to turn up any sign the aircraft had made a forced landing. Driver Is Killed As Truck Is Overturned SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (UP) — Robert Jack Burbrink, 33, Cincinnati, was killed Wednesday when a beer truck he was driving overturned over a bank on Ind. 56 about five miles east of here. Court House Offices Will Close Friday The offices in the county court house wiH be closed alt day Friday, which is Columbus Day, an Indiana state holiday. Also closed will be the bank. The post office and other federal offices will not close since it is not a national holiday. Fifth Set Os Twins Born At Hospital The twin spree at Adams county memorial hospital .continued Wednesday, with birth of the fifth set of twins in two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Herman of Berne are the parents of twin girls born at. about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. The Herman girls are the third of these twin births to Berne people in the two-week period. The Herman family physician had doub. le, double duty Wednesday. Wednesday morning he delivered twin girls to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cavanaugh of Berne. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Baumgartner are the third Berne parents with new twins. A twin boy and girl were born to them Oct. 3. Twin girls were born to Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Painter of Decatur Sept. 25 and twin boys were born to Mr. and Mrs. Warren Wolfe Saturday.