Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 246

OFFICIALS SIGN BONDS I I County auditor Frank Kltson, commissioners John Kintz, Harley Reef and Lewis Worthman made 1450,000 worth of hospital bonds legal thia week by affixing their signatures. John DeVoss, hospital attorney (standing), watches the signing as board representative.

Three Doctors To Share Nobel Medicine Prize Two Americans, One German Physician To Share Nobel Award STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UP) — A German doctor who discovered a new method of diagnosing heart and pulmonary ailments and two American physicians who brought the method to a high state of perfection were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel prize for medicine to-' day. Prof. Dickinsori W. Richardson, GO-year-old professor of medicine at Columbia University, French born Dr. Andre Cournand, 61, his associate for 25 years at Columbia, and Germany’s 52-year-old Dr. Wenner Forssman. shared the >38,633 prize. Their method involves catheterization of tlfe heart—the slipping into the heart'of a tube which permits study of the internal conditions and enhances the value of diagnosis. The medical profession has called it a milestone of medical progress. Forssman evolved the method as a yonng doctor in Berlin in 1929. His colleagues at Eberwalde Surgical Clinic failed to support him In his research and he experimented on himself. He slipped an oiled tube into his arm, pushed it through a vein up through the arm and into his heart. And with the tube still there he walked up two flights of stairs to the X-ray department of the clinic to prove his point. Still his colleagues offered nothing but criticism and the discouraged Forssman turned his attention to urology. His discovery caused a stir in the United States and Cournand and Richards continued his work. Dr. Robert Loeb, executive officer of the department of medicine at Columbia, said their contributions were of ’‘outstanding importance.” The tube used as a catheter is about the size of a heavy string used in tying a package. Its inner diameter is about the size of the lead in a pencil. It is about a yard long, stiffened so it will not collapse, and opaque to X-rays. It serves two purposes —• the proper diagnosis of Certain cardiac conditions, and a rqsiearch method for investigating the basic performance of the circulation system. It has saved the lives of thousands of persons by making sure they could be operated on and it has diagnosed cardiac conditions never before possible. The Nobe! prizes are named after Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite who died in 1898 and left a fortune for yearly awards to those who had most contributed to the benefit of mankipd. The recipients of today's award had been suggested before for the award. Student Fee Hike At Ball State College MUNCIE, Ind. (UP) — Ball State Teachers College today announced a student fee hike effective September, 1957. J. C. Wagnr, business manager and treasurer of the college, said under the new rates a typical full time student will pay $44 for from 9 to 18 quarter hours study. He said the present fee structure sets the cost for the same hours at >37. 14 Paget

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Saturday Deadline On Fish Fry Tickets Annual Fish Fry To Be Held October 25 Robert Lane, general chairman of ticket sales for the eighth annual rural-urban fish fry, issued a reminder today that Saturday will be the deadline for the sale of tickets for the big event, to be held Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6:30 p. m. at the Decatur high school gym. No tickets will be sold after Saturday and there will be no tickets available at the doors the night of the fish fry, sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce. Lane stated that there are a few tickets available at various retail stores in the city, but supplies are limited and persons wishing to attend this outstanding entertainment are urged to purchase tickets now. The rural tickets are priced at >1.50, and merchant tickets for C, of C. members are >2 each. Features of the evening's entertainment will be the crowning of the soybean queen and king, music by Robert Cocherille, prominent Fort Wayne vocalist, and a square dance team from Fqrt Wayne. Crowning of the soybean queen and king is an added feature this year, to be held in connection with the first ennuat soybean festival, which will be held at the Youth and Community Center Oct. 25, 26 and 27. ' Rural tickets for the fish fry are on sale at the following Decatur establishments: Chamber of Commerce office, Blackwells, Beavers Oil, Bob’s Confectionery, Burk Elevator, Brooks Store, Equity Store, Habagger Hardware. Heller Feed Store, Ideal Dairy, Kohne Drug, Kimpel Cigar Store, Lee Hardware, J. J.* Newberry, Riehle Tractor Co., Smith Drug, Uhrick Bros.. Holthouse Drug. Stewart’s Bakery, Murphy Store, First State Bank, Murphy’s Barber Shop. Sprunger Implement, Wertzberger’s, Klenk’s, Bill’s News Stand, Western Auto, Gay’s Service, Haugk Heating, Decatur Equipment Co. List Table Captains Cliff Brewer, chairman of waiters for the fish fry, has announced the list of table captains for the event. Servers will be assigned to each captain, who will be asked to contact his servers in the next several days. Brewer also stated that all businesses in the city will be requested to send representatives to assist with the serving whether or not they are contacted by captains. All captains and servers will report at the gym at 2 p.m. on the day of the fish fry to assist with setting tables. The servers will eat at 5 p.m. and will be ready to begin serving at 6:30 p.m. The captains include Clyde Butler, garages; Everett Hutker, Central Soya; Caston, First State Bank; Geftrge Laurent, General Electric; Carl. Braun, real estate and insurance; William Linn, court house and post office, and Dwight Myers, Bag Service. Captains in the retail group include Robert Zwick, Ralph Habegger, Harold Niblick, ’lvan Stucky, Robert Holthouse, jack Gordon, Morris Begun, Joe Grey, Kenneth Shannon, John Eichhorn, Ernest Atkinson, R. E. Allison, Don Stover, Richard Wertzberger. Dale Morrissey and Robert Smith. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperatures. Low tonight 4552. High Friday around 80. Sunset 6:02 p.m., sunrise Friday 6:59 a.m.

Adlai Asserts Nixon Unfit For Public Office Shifty Exponent Os Expediency And Man With Many Faces EN WITH STEVENSON (UP) —Adlai Stevenson, using some of his sharpest language of the campaign, denounced Vice President Richard M. Nixon on Wednesday night as a “shifty" exponent of expediency and a man of many faces. He said in Flint, Mich., the vice president was unfit for the responsibility of public office and warned that if Republicans are reelected that Nixon, might become president “at any / “Who can say they have seen, his real face,” Stevenson said. “There is no man who can safely say he knows where the vice president stands. This is a man of many masks.” The Democratic presidential nominee also added several new blows at former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York which were not in the text. He charged Dewey was using "the same rusty weapons of sarcasm and ridicule” and said he “carries more weight than anyone else in the Republican party today—except Mr. Nixon.” Stevenson said he was devoting comment to Dewey because the twice defeated GOP presidential aspirant had spoken in Flint Tuesday “as a principal spokesman for the President and the Republican party.” Moving into Ohio today, Stevenson charged that the administration is suffering from creeping complacency and treating the farmer as a poor, troublesome relative. ’ Stevenson concentrated on the plight of the farmer as compared with the protection afforded General Motors by the administration. He said .a Democratic administration would “restore true parity of income” to the farmer with price supports that were not “collapsible,” protection for perishables, the soil bank and food stamp plan and new methods of getting farm surpluses to the hungry overseas. — i - - “This administration has treated the farmer like a poor and troublesome relation," he said ib a speech prepared for afternoon delivery in Akron, his third railroad stop of the day in Ohio. “The farmer does not want handouts, all he wants is a fair share," Stevenson said. “And he needs -tha protection of his government to get it.” Re-applying the label of "Cadillac cabinet” on the men around Mr. Eisenhower, Stevenson said Nixon must be getting sensitive because he had instructed his staff to use no more Cadillacs in (Continued on Paew Two) Few Workers Report On Community Fund Solicitors Urged To Complete Drive With only a small part of workers reporting to date in the current /Community Fund drive, a total of >1,694.44 has been pledged, according to a report released today by Robert Boch, fund treasurer. Boch stated that this amount was reported by 10 volunteer workers and also includes donations of about nine organizations. No report has been made from the industrial section of the drive and 30 workers have still not turned in the results of their solicitation. Donations from about 40 additional organizations are also expected. The goal this year is >13,400. Lyle Mallonee is general chairman of the drive and Tom Allwein is heading the industrial solicitation. The Community Fund finances the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the cancer society, the mental health association, the youth and recreation committee, the purchase of playground equipment, the Salvation Army and the United Defense Service organization, The total goal also includes a contingency fund. Each of these organizations combines fund drives to eliminate many smaller financial campaigns. Mallonee has issued a request that the people of Decatur follow the good example of Berne citizens who pushd the Berne Community Fund >4,000 over the goal. He pointed out that each of the participating organizations contributes to the welfare of the community (Continued on Page Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 18,1956

Contractor Testifies Political Clearance Needed For Contract

Ike Pledges To Carry Out School Plans To Press Congress For Approval For Construction Plan TACOMA, Wash. (UP) — President Eisenhower promised today he will press for congressional approval early next year of his >4-billion school construction program. In a speech prepared for delivery at the College of Puget Sound, Mr. Eisenhower said he will ask that the school construction program be carried out in four years, instead of the five he originally set. The program was blocked in congress this year aftej; the racial segregation issue was tied in with it. Democrats and Republicans have blamed each other for the failure of congress to pass it. . Mr. Eisenhower said next year he will support his school construction program “with all the force at my command . . . for I hold this action to be essential to the welfare of the republic.” Wednesday night the Presidept stepped up his attack cm Adlai E. Stevenson. He charged the Democratic presidential nominee had based his campaign on the "halftruth” and twisted "hit and run” statements. . In a speech to a crowd of about 13.000 at Seattle, Mr, Eisenhower also lashed back again at Stevenson on the issue of stopping Hbomb tests. He said that his administration consistently has “asked only that we have safeguards that we cat trust, as well as others can trust, so that this path of peace toward universal disarmament can be travelled by all." Peaceful uses of the atom are the main objecEisephower said. “We simply refuse to do it all alone.” he said. “Until others do it with us, we are going to stay strong.” Mr. Eisenhower also directed earlier that top administration aides prepare a detailed reply to what the White House called “rather extraordinary incorrect statements" of Stevenson about stopping H-bomb tests. * In a four-poijit assault on Stevenson’s campaign tactics, the President also accused his Democratic opponent of dealing in “the Page Five) Five Youths Warned On Firing Leaves Fire Chief Renews Warning Os Danger Five Decatur boys were brought into the police station Wednesday night after they were identified as the group which had kept the fire department on the run Tuesday night by setting fire to piles of leaves all over the city.. Fire chief Cedric Fisher reprimanded them and explained the danger caused by the fires qnd the boys have promised not to repeat the leaf burning. Adults of the city are also reminded of the danger they create’ by burning leaves during the current dry season. While many local persons are cooperating with the fire department in the request not to burn leaves, some are ignoring the warning and continue to set fire to piles in front of their homes. City crews are working as quickly as possible to collect the leaves so that they can be disposed of by a safer method. The fire department had only one call Wednesday at about 5 p.m. Another grass fire at Crider’s lumber yard was put out before it could cause any damage.

-i— , Unseasonable Warm, Dry Spell Continues No Rain Forecast To Break Dry Spell By UNITED PRESS An unseasonable warm, dry spell hung on throughout Indiana today as dried out fields and woodlands continued their threat to burst into flame. The weatherman again indicated not a drop of rain would hit the state today, tonight or even Friday or Saturday. The outlook was partly cloudy with little change in temperatures. . That meant more readings around 80 and more mild nighttime lows around 50. One of the worst outbreaks of woodland and grass fires brought on partly by the drought occurred Wednesday when a train sent sparks over a 25-mile route across Jay and Randolph counties. Homes, barns and thousands of acres of dried out woods were threatened before the flames were brought under control. Forecasters said the mercury would warm to 80 from the Michigan border to the Ohio River today and decline tonight to 52. Wednesday highs included South Bend and Evansville 83, Indianapolis 81, and Lafayette s and Fort .Wayne 80. Temperatures dipped early today to the 40s and 50s. ' Rain For Plains WASHINGTON (UP) — The weather bureau forecasts some relief for the drought-stricken central and southern Plains area during the next 30 days. It said Wednesday that “rainfall equal to or greater than normal amounts” Is expected to be of some help to ranchers and farmers in the dry area. The bureau's regular 30 - day forecast predicted above - average temperatures for most of the area east of the Continental Divide from mid-October to mfd-N’ovem-ber. Subnormal rainfall is expected Tn the Southwest and between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River, the bureau said. Normal rainfall was forecast for other areas of the nation. Sparks From Train Start Fire Series Jay And Randolph Counties Are Site WINCHESTER, Ind. (UP) — Sparks from a train started a 25mile string of fires in Jay and Randolph counties Wednesday which threatened homes, barns, other buildings and thousands of acres of timber-dry woods and croplands. Firemen theorized a train on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks started the fires. They believed the sparks came from a diesel locomotive or from burning machiriery In a railroad car’s under: carriage. The fires extended along a trail from near Winchester in Randolph county to the vicinity of Bluff Point in Jay county. Firemen from eight communities rushed equipment and water trucks, from one danger point to another. Volunteers formed bucket brigades and farmers plowed firebreaks in fields and brushlands. At the height of the fires dozens of frantic housewives telephoned fire departments to report flames threatening their homes and yards. The first fire started in early afternoon at Bluff Point apparently. Wind-whipped flames burned ah estimated 500 acres of stubble fields and clover and 10 acres of Indiana conservation department evergreens. After two hours of fighting the firemen and volunteers brought the blaze under control. Then they worked their way (Continued on Page Five)

Gov. Stratton Denies Deal In Hodge Scandal Illinois Governor Resents Inference Os Political Deal I '■ CHICAGO (UP) — Gov. William G. Stratton told senate investigators today it was a “dastardly inference” to say that he “made a deal” to cover up any political implications of the Hodge scandal. Stratton told Sen. J. William Furbright of the senate banking committee that he regents any such inference. Fulbright and the committee are investigating banking aspect# of the scandal which forced the resignation of state auditor Orville Ho'dge and-sent him to .prison. Fulbright, quoting the Chicago Sun-Times, cited Hodge’s refusal to tell the committee at an earlier session what he did with the more than 1 million dollars he stole from the state treasury. .Reading from the Sun-Times, Fulbright said Hodge was asked whether Ite felt that political obligations were more sacred than others, and replied, “Sometimes.” At this point Stratton broke in and said: “Senator, I resent any implication that there was any political deal made with the governor or attorney general of this state to cover up. “I think it is a dastardly Tnference to make and I resent it regardless from what source it came." Stratton Jsaid criticism of his handling ol the Hodge case was ’Monday morning quarterbacking.” , • Fulbright wanted to know why Strattdn did not become suspicious at Hodge's extra.Vagan t spending, of his purchase of private planes, a fleet of cars and a luxury hotel. Stratton said he,was unaware of much of Hodge’s high living and knew nothing about his “women associates.” “I was busy with the job of being governor, and I don’t spend my time in such associations,” Stratto said. In view- of Hodge’s high living, Fulbright wanted to know why Stratton wasn't suspicious of Hodge’s request to the legislature for a >525,000 emergency appropriation for his office. (Continued on Page Five) John Peoples Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon John A. Peoples, 81, of 615 South Tenth street, a retired carpenter, died at 2 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been bedfast since March. He was born in Root township Oct. 27, 1874, a son of John R. and Sarah Jane Aber-Peoples, and was married to, Carrie Bdhnke March 10, 1897. lie was employed by Builders Supply Co. in Fort Wayne’ for 25 years until retiring in 1944, and lived in Fort’ Wayne for 37 years before returning to Decatur in 1954. Mr. Peoples was a member of the Simpson Methodist church at Fort Wayne. Only survivors are his wife and a number of nieces and nephews. One daughter, Lelah, three brothers and four sisters preceded him in death. _ _ •, . Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery at Fort s Wayne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

British Strengthen Forces In Jordan Jes Fighters Sent To Build Up Force JERUSALEM (UP) — Officials in Amman said the first two of a group of RAF Hawker Hunter jet fighters arrived in Jordan today to strengthen British military forces in that desert kingdom. The announcement by the British officials in the Jordanian capital was the first official word that an unspecified number of top operational jets were on their way to the RAF base in Amman. The swift, supersonic Hunters were being sent to Jordan to beef up the' British forces stationed there under terms of the AngloJordanian defense treaty. The Israeli foreign office, however, denied that Britain Is transferring the Hunter jet fighters to Jordan. An official Israel spokesman did not rule out possibilities of the temporary assignment of Hunters to Jordan, but he said that any Hunters seen in Jordan were there merely on training flights from the British Middle East aid headquarters in Cyprus. Relations between Jordan and Israel have been strained because of recent Jordanian attacks ori Israelis and several Israeli “retaliation raids" which killed scores of Jordanian police and Arab Legionnaires. Each has accused the other In the United Nations of “aggression." A Cairo dispatch quoting the semi-official Middle East news agency, reported an Iraqi brigade (possibly 5.000 men) had moved up to the Jordanian border, ready _to move across when asked. Other Iraqi units were reported en route to positions near the border. There was no official confirmation of the British RAF reports, but informed sources in Amman, the capital of Jordan, said an “unspecitied number" of Hunters were expected there in the next few days to reinforce the RAF's Amman airbase. Annual Girl Seoul Roundup Saturday Hold Annual Party Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Randolph Brandyberry, Girl Scout program chairman, has announced that the annual Girl Scout roundup will take place Saturday afternoon at the Boy Scout cabin at Hanna-Nuttman park, p The roundup is a party given by the Girl Scout association for all Girl Scouts and Brownies of the community. The party will start at 2:30 and last until 4 o’clock. “Big Sister” and "Little Sister” troops will be introduced and there will be a 30 minute get-acquainted recreation period. Leaders of the various troops will be responsible for transporting their girls to and from the roundup. It has been pointed out that each girl must have a permission slip from her parents. In case of rain, the roundup will be held the following Saturday, October 27. Mrs. Brandyberry, as chairman of the refreshments committee, will be assisted by Mrs. Charles Magley, Mrs. Leoniel Davidson, Mrs. Robert Holthouse, Mrs. Arthur Holthouse, Mrs. Don Cochran, and her Girl Scout troop, the newly combined troops 2 and 9. Mrs. Brandyberry also announced that the Brownies calendar sale will be the week of October 29 through November 3. Two Leave Today For Army Induction Martin Eugene Hullinger and Carroll Jean Gerber, both of Adams' county, left this morning for Indianapolis for induction into the armed forces, according to a release from the local selective service office today. J

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Relates Proof Required For GOP Support Proof Required To Obtain Government Contract Under Ike WASHINGTON (UP) — A contractor testified today that his company had to “prove” it never made contributions to the Democratic party to qualify for a 43-milliori-dollar government contract under the Eisenhower administration. The contractor, Randall Cremer, former vice president of the Frederick Snare Corp., was questioned by a house government operations subcommittee. The subcommittee is investigating the alleged use of political influence in obtaining a contract in 1954 to expand the government-owned nickel plant at Nicaro, Cuba. Cremer testified that repeated attempts were made to convince Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall that the Snare corporation was operated by staunch Republicans. Hall has denied as ‘‘pure bunk” the charge that he “cleared" the company for the contyact after being assured its officials were Republicans. Subcommittee chairman Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) said his group is continuing its investigation of the Nicaro contract because it has obtained documents showing efforts “to obtain political clearance evidently necessary to secure the contract.” He said he was “surprised” that Republican members of the subcommittee did not attend the hearing. This, in effect, Brooks said, showed a desire to withhold documents indicating that “compulsory tribute” to a political party was necessary to get a government contract. - - Brooks criticized the justice department for refusing to give these documents to the subcommittee. He said the subcommittee obtained the documents from Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) chairman of the senate government operations committee. Rep. Porter Hardy (D-Va.) said the justice department had held the documents tor more than a year without taking any action despite the department’s statement that they might show “crim- W inal implications.” Hardy said the justice department’s behavior was “reprehensible” and that the subcommittee might appropriately investigate its handling of the case. Cremer testified he was advised by the general services administration to see Hall" and explain his company's qualifications to handle the Niearo expansion. Cremer quoted Mansure, then GSA administrator, as saying Hall wanted" government contracts to go to Republican companies. Cremer testified under oath that the Snare company had been accused by Baltimore competitor’s for the contract of being a Democratic company “favored by the (Continued on Fage Six) Democrats Plan Open House At Headquarters An open house is scheduled for Saturday night at Democratic headquarters in Decatur according td an announcement made today by Dr. Harry Hebble, county Democratic chairman. " All of the local candidates will be at the headquarters to meet the" public. Refreshments will be served and the genral public is invited to attend. A large group of local Democrats will attend the fourth district fish fry at Albion this evening. Among them will be members of the central committee and other party members.