Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 15 October 1956 — Page 1

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PREPARING TO RECLAIM HER CHILD ’ I I ■ ■ Si Ifjß II . -M WB MRS. HELENA DIECZOK, 23, of Detroit, Mich., mother of two-year-old Tanya Chwastov who was saved from the Communist world by a court writ in London. England, applies for a rfe-entry permit so that she can travel to London, if necessary, to reclaim her child. Assisting her are Horace B. Wiley and Mrs. Stella S. Ward, of the U. S. immigration and naturalization service.

U.S. Hopeful For Solution Os Suez Crisis Highly Hopeful Os Peaceful Solution Despite Russ Veto WASHINGTON (UP) — U. S. officials still held high hopes today for peaceful settlement of the Sues Canal dispute despite Russia’s United Nations veto action Saturday. Secretary of state John Foster Dulles told reporters Sunday on his return from the U. N. session that there are "good grounds for hope" for a peaceful settlement. Negotiations will “go ahead just as though there bad not been a veto." he added. President Eisenhower told a photographer Sunday that the Suet situation didn't look as bad as it hafi tlie nlglit before. The White House said Mr. Eisenhower had been in daily contact with Dulles during the U.N. proceedings and would continue to keep in close touch withtheaituation. The U. N. security council approved part of an Anglo-French resolution endorsing six principles of negotiation on the issue. Rut Russia vetoed an attempt by Britain and France to gain U. N. support of plans to internationalize the canal. Plan Negotiations CAIRO (UP) — Egyptian go'j ernment sources said today direct negotiations with Britain and France on the Suez Canal dispute probably will start the end of this month in Geneva. The sources said Egypt would exert every effort toward success of the forthcoming negotiations on the basis of the six principles endorsed by the United Nations security council. Egyptians welcomed the Soviet veto of the Anglo-French resolution on Suez as heralding final settlement and said the resolution practically put an end to the proposed canal users association plan or any other form of international control of canal navigation. But in New York Britain was reported to have asked the United States help get the users association begun at once without awaiting for committees in London to complete the detailed operational setup. This would be a move to have the association collect tolls which now go to Egypt. Also in New York, Israel circulated a statement to security council members that Egypt’s promise of free canal traffic ’could not be reconciled with the Egyptian boycott of Israeli shipping on the canal. Israel demanded its full rights under the 1888 canal treaty. Commits Suicide By Kneeling On Roils MUNCIE. Ind. (UP)—Mrs. Lillie Alice Hornback, 62, Muncie, was decapitated Saturday when a New York Central passenger train hit her as she kneeled with her head on this rails. ’ ’ Authorities said Mrs. Hornback left her minister a note but he would not reveal its contents. Engineer A. W. Terrill, 66, Indianapolis, said he saw the woman step off a stir track and place her head on the rails, but was unable to stop the train in time.

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La(e Season Storm Battering Florida o Gale Force Winds, Heavy Seas Reported MIAMI (UP) — A freakish late season storm which already has taken one life battered Florida today with gale force winds and heavy seas. But the 67-foot shrimp boat Ike, which had floundered in the storm for four days, was found safe today anchored 30 miles off the coast at Fort Myers; The coast guard plane which found the Ike said the two men aboard apparently were unharmed. __ Forecaster Paul Moore said the storm —more of a nor’easter than a tropical storm—“may have lost aj little of its punch during the night.” At 9:30 a m. the main force of the storm was in the Daytona Beach area. But ships and other exposed points along the central Florida coast reported highest winds of about 35 miles an hour. Sunday, lighthouses in the Florida Keys recorded steady winds of 55 miles per hour and gusts up to 70 —only 5 miles an hour short of hurricane strength. "It’s drifting northward at 10 miles. per hour or less,” Moore said. "Florida is going to feel this storm for another day or two.” The drowning victim was identified as Henry Vukoty, 14, of Winter Park, Fla. Joe Taylor of Orlando said sudden winds swept him and Henry off a boat in Lake Poinsett. Gulf waves swept a landing platform out to sea at Carys Fort lighthouse south of Miami during 70-mile-per hour winds. At Tavernier in the upper keys two seawalls dropped into the surging seas. Forecasters could not tag the name of “Greta” onto storm bulletins issued by the Miami weather bureau every six hours. That name is reserved for the seventh tropical storm of the season. So far, they said, the disturbance had failed to show those characteris- _ “It’s an off-breed thing that hasn’t wound up yet and has not developed the characteristic calm eye of a tropical storm,” forecasters said. Construction’- Worker Killed In Accident HAMMOND, Ind. (UP)—Delbert Richards, 46. a construction worker from Eddyville, 111., was killed Sunday in an accident on the part of the Northern Indiana holl road under costruction. State police said Richards was riding on the rear of a sprinkler truck driven by John Navicky, 46, Gary. The truck was going in reverse when Richards fell off and was run over by the rear wheels. Coston Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeraj services were held this afternoon at the Ossian Presbyterian church for Mrs. William W. Caston, 69, of near Zanesville, who died Saturday at a Bluffton nursing home after an illness of three months. She was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran church near Yoder. Surviving are her husband; three sons, Earl M. Caston of Decatur, John W. of Fort Wayne and Frank D. of Ossian rou*e 1; 19 grandchildren; three sisters. Mrs. Herman Lunz of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Franli Butts of Arcola and Mrd. Wilbur Kurtz of Arcola, and two brothers; Carl Felger of Arcola and Elmer Felger of Arcola.

High Court To Review Cases On Tax-Fixing Grunewald, Bolich Granted Reviews Os Tax Convictions :: “s ■ i WASHINGTON (UP) — The supreme court today agreed to review the tax-fixing conspiracy convictions of Henry (The Dutchman) Grunewald and former internal revenue official Daniel A. Bolich. Grunewald is the Washington wire-puller whose operations were spotlighted in the 1952 house investigation of tax scandals. Bolich was assistant commissioner of internal revenue under the Truman administration. They were convicted last year of conspiring to defraud the government by "fixing” tax delinquency cases against two New York firms. Both drew five-year jail terms but have been free on bond pending appeal.' Testimony at the trial indicated Grunewald received fees of $160,000 for inducing Bolich to block federal prosecution of the two firms.In other actions today, the high court: —Refused a hearing to a group of brown-skinned “Turks” in Sumter County, S.C., whose children have been denied admission to segregated white elementaryschools. The protesting parents described themselves as descendants of Turkish immigrants who came to this country shortly' after the Revolutionary War. Lower courts threw out their case on grounds they had not availed themselves of state administrative appeal procedures before coming into court. —Rejected the appeal of Susie V. Watwood, 54 year-old Washington woman who fought a sl4 traffic fine all the way up to the highest court. Miss Watwood contend--ed that hdr peHcfe -eonrt trial — without a jury or a defense lawyer — violated her constitutional rights to a fair trial. —Agreed to decide whether a salaried runner or "pickup man" who collects daily bets for a numbers racket syndicate is subject to the federal gambling tax. The question arose with the arrest of a Philadelphia runner who had ndt paid the SSO a year tax. A lower court held that the language of the 1951 law didn’t cover such persons. Today’s session was the last for Justice Sherman Minton, who is retiring because of poor health. His successor. William J. Brennan Jr., former justice of the New Jersey supreme court, will be sworn in Tuesday. As the first case was called for argument, Minton rose and slipped quietly out of the court room.

Ronald Reagan In Decatur Tuesday G. E. Plant Tour, Dinner At Center Ronald Reagan, noted television and motion picture personality, is scheduled to arrive in Decatur at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday for a visit here through the courtesy of the General Electric company, which sponsors his television program. Reagan will be guest of honor at a luncheon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center for foremen and supervisors of the local G. E. plant. Following the luncheon he will make two tours of the General Electric plant, one on the first shift and another for the second shift. All G. E. employes will have the opportunity to meet him. f A reception open free of charge to the general public will be held at the community center beginning at 5:15 p.m. Members of the GeCbde club, file women’s organization of the local G. E. plant, will serve as hostesses for the reception. The climax of Reagan’s visit in Decatur will be a dinner at 6:30 p.m. at the community center to be co-sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, the Lions club, the Rotary club and the General Electric company. » INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy through. Tuesday and not much change In , temperature. Chance of a few scattered showers northwest- ... portion this evening- Low tonight 46-54. High Tuesday 7580. Sunset 6:06 p.m., sunrise • Tuesday 6:56 a.m.

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Bank Director Testifies To Gift To Hodge Bank Subsequently , Received SBOO,OOO In Public Deposits CHICAGO (UP) — A bank director testified today h« contributed $1,500 to Gov. William G .Stratton's campaign fund, and that subsequently, his bank got SBOO,OOO public deposits. Frank Frisk, a director of the Bank of Elmwood Park, testified before the senate banking committee. The committee, headed by acting chairman John S. Sparkman, is investigating banking ramifications of the scandal which sent state auditor Orville Hodge to prison. Frisk testified he was a “personal friend” of both Stratton and Charles Fleck, Stratton’s campaign manager in Cook county, Chicago. He said he raised about $3,500 for Stratton's gubernatorial campaign, including $1,500 he contributed himself. He said he gave Fleck SSOO for Stratton’s primary election campaign, and SI,OOO for the election campaign Fleck is public administrator of Cook county, handling estates in which there are no apparent heirs. Frisk said that shortly after he became a director of the Elmwood Park bank in 1953 he went toFleek and asked him to favor the bank with deposits of public funds. But Frisk, despite barbed questioning by committee director Robert Wallace, said he could see no connection between the SBOO,OOO deposit made by Fleck and the campaign money Frisk had raised for Stratton. He said it was a question of “friendship. Wallace brought out that Fleck had a total of about 3% million dollars in cash to deposit in all 1 Cook county banks, and that the ' Elmwood Park bank got SBOO,OOO - and the Southmoor Bank and Trust 1 Co. got 1 million dollars, for a ' total of about 50 per cent. 1 Both banks figured in the Hodge fraudulent checfc scandal. Hodge was revealed to have owned a 30 1 per cent interest in the Elmwood Park bank, and cashed most of his fraudulent state checks at the 1 (Contlnuea on Page Six) i Street Department Picking Up Leaves 1 Effective Vacuum Cleaner Produced It cost the street and sewer department only a little over SIOO to solve the problem of how to pick up leaves which -the residents 1 of the city have been asked not ' to burn because of the dry spell. ' The ingenuity of city street ' 'commissioner Bernard Clark pro- j duced an inexpensive but effective 1 “vacuum cleaner” which travels 1 the city picking up piles of leaves ' raked from Decatur yards. * It also helps the cify*s, streets ' since ft is damaging to asphalt to have fires burned on the surface ’ and it reduces fire, hazards since < residents can get rid of their ’ leaves without burning them. < r Clark created his ‘'vacuum I cibaner” after he saw similar commercial models advertised in ( trade, journals, costing from $1,500 to $2,000. He converted a I threshing machine blower, added stove piping for the oversized hose and attached to a city truck. The ' sides of the truck were built up with boarding. I AH residents of the city are in- 1 vited to benefit from the “vacuum I Cleaner.” They may pile leaves- ' from their lawns along the curb i in front of their homes and the < leaves will’be pieked up by the t street department- crew. i

Only One Reports On Community Fund . ■ Solicitors Urged To Make Reports ? Robert Boeh, treasurer for the Community Fund, announced that duly one of the volunteer workIn the 1956 fund drive has reported to date. He has issued a request that the workers complete their canvassing and report early this week tfe that a financial report can be prepared and published. The goal for this year’s drive is $13,400. This amount finances projects of eight Ibcal agencies including Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the youth and recreation committee. the Cancer Society, the Mental Health association, ‘ the Salvation Army, the U.S.O. and playground equipment. A large group of volunteer workers is contacting Decatur residents and a campaign will also be conducted in local industries under the direction of Tom Allwein of Central Soya company. Lyle Mallonee is general chairman of the 1956 fund drive which extends through the month of October. Any person who is not contacted and wishes to donate to the fund is requested to send his contribution to Robert Bpch at the First State Bank. \ James A. Schindler* Is Injured Sunday Hurt In Accident East Os Decatur James A. Schindler, 19, of Decatur, is in fair condition today at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne, where he is being treated for injuries sustained in an accident Saturday night shortly after midnight. Schindler was a passenger in a car driven by Matthew Schulte, 20, of Decatur. Schulte was only slightly injured but the car was totally demolished in the accident, which occurred six miles east of Decatur on U. S. highway 224 at the Ohio line curve. Both were taken to the Adams county memorial hospital and Schindler was later transferred to the Fort Wayne hospital. It was at first believed that he suffered serious internal injuries. Schulte sustained bruises about his head and body and was also treated for shock. He was dismissed from the hospital Sunday noon. The accident occurred when Schulte, headed east, attempted to pass another eastbound car driven by John J. Myers, 17, Os Ohio City, 0., route two. The Schulte vehicle cut in ahead of the Myers car too soon, hitting the Myers car In The left front fender. ‘ The car then skidded down the highway about 100 feet, left the road and skidded on the berm another 200 feet and finally turned over against a utility tjole. The pole Was torn down and snapped in two and a mailbox on the William H. Clark property was torn down. Damage to Myers’ car was estimated at SSO. Sheriff Merle Affolder and state trooper Gene Rash, assisted by conservation officer Jack Hurst, who wars near the scene when the car crashed, investigated. Schulte was charged with passing on a curve. He will appear in justice of the peace court tonight City Council Meets Later Tuesday Night The regular meeting of the city courfcil will begin at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, one half hour later than the usual time for convening. The meeting time has been delayed so that Mayor Robert Cole, city attorney John L. DeVoss, city councilmen and their wives can attend the dinner in honor Os Ronald Reagan at the Decatur Youth and Comffmnity Center Tuesday evening.

Claims Israel Will Not Start Mideast War L Israeli Premier Declares Nation Not To Start War ’ JERUSALEM (UP) — Premier David Ben-Gurion said today Israel would “never"., start a pre- ’ ventive of any other- kind of war 1 in the Middle East. , ’ In an hour-long speech to the ' Knesset — Israel’s parliament — Ben-Gurion said Egypt’s arms deal with Communist Czechoslovakia has been “the greatest single factor contributing -to tension in this area.” The second factor in growing Mideast tension, he said. w r as the Suez Canal crisis, w’hich he 1 charged was “also caused by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.” .. . „ —-— ; -r—. ■ - As Ben-Gurion spoke, these 1 were other developments in the Mideast: ( 1. Jordan and Iraq were report- ( ed near agreement on a pact to t station Iraqi troops in Jordan to bolster that country’s army against Israel. 2. A London foreign office spokesman said Britain considered such a move as a “contribution” to stability in the area. 3. The London - spokesman al so disclosed that Jordan had called on royal air force jet planes stationed in that country to help throw back an Israeli raidL on .a. frontier post last Wednesday night. He added he did not know ' if the RAF jets actually were airborne before the fighting ended. 4. In New York, Jordan asked the United Nations security council to meet “immediately” to consider Israel’s attack on the Jordanian frontier outpost. 5. The Israeli envoys in Washington, Paris, London and Moscow were summoned home for consultations. 6. The semi-official Mideast (Continued on Page Five) 10 Scientists Back Stevenson Proposal Proposal To alt Bomb Tests Lauded PASADENA, Calif. (UP) — Ten top California Institute of Technology scientists, who warn that “time is running out,” today backed Adlai Stevenson’s proposal to seek an end to H-bomb tests. The scientists, including Dr. Carl D. Anderson, Nobel laureate ki physics for 1934, issued a jointstatement Sunday supporting Stevenson’s proposal and taking issue with President Eisenhower’S expression of regret that the question had become a campaign issue. "... After 10 years of negotiation, the world has no other guarantee of survival than the tenuous hope that no nation will pull the trigger for fear of committing na- , tional suicide.” they warned. “Time is running out, with an implacability that we ignore at our peril.” They said that Stevenson's proposal for the United States to take the lead in seeking an end to Hbomb tests “might be a useful way to get the negotiations out of the deadlock stage.” Florida Republican Candidate Complains NOKOMIS, FJa. (UP)—William Washburne, Florida’s Republican nominee for governor, issued a statement Sunday complaining that reporters apparently are '“assuming that Gov.-Leroy Collins will be re-elected this November. “They seem to forget I’m in this race too,” Washburne

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Spiritual Emphasis . Week Opens Sunday Indianapolis Pastor To Be Guest Speaker* Annual Spiritual Emphasis week services, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will be held next week, opening Sunday night, Oct. 21, and continuing through Sunday, Oct. 28, with services each evening at 7:30 o'clock, except Saturday. Services will be held at the First Methodist church. The guest speaker for all services during the week will be the the Brookside Evangelical United Brethren church in Indianapolis. Rev. IHII is a graduate of Asbury College and received his B.D. degree from the Evangelical Seminary at Napersville, 111. He is the secretary of the board of evangelism of the Indiana south conference of the Evangelical United Brethren church, ahd member of the conference youth council. For 14 years he was pastor of the First E. U. B. church in Louisville, Ky., moving to Indianapolis in 1955. All cooperating churcnes are asked to clear their schedules of organizational, committee and board meetings during the week. They are also asked to hold special prayer meetings in preparation for Spiritual Emphasis week. The committee in charge of arrangements is composed of the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, chairman; Robert C. Flora, George C. Thomas and the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas. Mrs. Pearl Keller Dies Sunday Night Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Pearl Keller. 70, of 133 South Eleventh street, and a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 8:45 o’clock Sunday night at the Adams county hospital of a coronary occlusion after a year’s illness. She was born In Adams county July 19, 1886, a daughter of Daniel and Frances Waller-Cook, and was married to Lewis Keller May 30, 1907. Her husband preceded her in death in December of 1950. Mrs. Keller was a member of the Churcjt-of God. Surviving are three brothers, Sain, John and Flbyd Cook, all of Decatur; two grandsons, Richard Keller of Montpelier and Donald Keller of Huntington; and two great-grandchildren. One son, three brothers aud two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Black .funeral home aud at 2 p.m. at the Church of God, the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick and the Rev. Chester Hirschy officiating. Burial will be in , the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services, z , o

Marshal Tito And Hungarian Boss Meeting Yugoslavian Leader Emerging As One Os Top Communists « Lt (UP) — Yugoslav president Tito and Hungarian Communist party boss Erno Geroe met today in Belgrade in the first of a new series of Communist satellite moves expected to touch off a wave of explosive Titoism in the Soviet empire. In Warsaw the central committee of the Communist party meets this week in a determined mood to press ahead with removal of the Stalin influence—and possibly to adopt a more moderafe line as result of the Poznan riot trials. In Budapest the Hungarian . t Communists prepared for the Titomeeting by “rehabilitating” for- ( mor premier Imre Nagy and frankly admitting the “personal prejuI dice” of former boss Matyas Rakosi, an enemy of Tito, had con- , tributed to his downfall. '• ’ Reliable political sources in Vlenna said Zoltan Szanto, former Hungarian minister to Belgrade s and press chief of Nagy's was expected to be named text .. premier of Hungary 1 . , shaky economy will prevent Nagy . from taking the I said.' Moscow was reported keeping a wary eye on the developments. , Communist party leader Nikita ] returned from Yalta s where he sa.w. Tito, and other jateJf lite leaders. And the authoritative j Communist party organ “KommuI nist” today assailed dogmatic j Communists who refuse to recog--1 nize peculiarities and conditions of other Communist countries. , But the Tito-Geroe meeting took precedence ever other developments. Relations between the two nations have been cool '. since Hungary led tne fight to expel Tito from the Cominform. Today’s meeting was to prepare for ' a formal rapprochment, with emphasis on the political and economic fields. Hungary apparently had to make a series of important ideological concessions before the talks could even get started — including the restoration to party favor of Nagy and Laszlo Rajk who was executed seven years ago as a Titoist. Geroe and Tito met at Yalta (Continued on Pare Five).,Decatur Firemen Answer Five Calls Residents Warned On Dry Conditions Grass and leaf fires throughout the city kept the fire department busy over the weekend. The department answered a total of five calls Saturday and Sunday. Saturday afternoon a fire broke out on Lewis drive in the northwest section of the city. Saturday night the department was called when a pile of lumber caught fire at the General Electric parking lot. On Sunday afternoon a grass fire at Line and Grant streets brought out the department. Suri-"~ c * day night fires broke out oi> Monroe street and at the corner of Jackson and Eighth streets. - None of the fires caused any damage because they were put out before they could spread out of control. However, local residents have been warned again of the hazardous conditions which exist now’ .because of the prolonged dry weather. Fire chief Cedric Fisher urges that residents refrain from burning trash or leaves and that they be careful in disposing of matches and lighted cigarettes. .

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