Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 19 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 247

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HER SON, Warren, 17, shot to death in a south-side Chicago teen-age gang clash, Mrs. Sylvia White (right) collapses in the arms of her sister, Mrs. Laura Kane as hearings began into vicious juvenile warfare. Beaten and slashed in the same affray was Richard Bukovic (left). 19. Mrs. White expressed concern for the parents of the confessed slayer, Fred Kruse. 18.

Japan, Russia End 11-Year Slate Os War

Joint Declaration Signed, Plan Peace Treaty For Future MOSCOW’ (UP) — Japan and the Soviet Union signed a joint declaration today, ending an 11-year state of war between the two nations. A formal peace treaty was left to future negotiations. Two documents were signed tn the Kremlin by prime minister Ichiro Hatoyama for Japan and Premier Nikolai Bulganin for the Soviet Union. One document was a joint declaration calling for normalization of relations between Tokyo and Moscow. Under this agreement, the state of war was ended, both countries will exchange ambassadors, the Soviets will release some 1,000 Japanese prisoners still in Russian hands, the Soviet Union will support Japan’s bid for entry into the United Nations, and a provisional agreement concluddH last summer will be implemented. The second document was a protocol on trade. — — — The question of the return of certain Kurile Island territory claimed by Japan was deferred to a later date. ' The Soviet Union agreed to return to Japan the two islands of Habomai and Shikotan, but only after the conclusion of a formal peace treaty. It was on this key issue that the talks almost had collapsed. Deputy foreign minister Andrei Gromyko who led the Soviet walkout at the San Francisco peace conference in 1951 was one of the principal draftsmen of the present agreement. He walked out then when he refused to sign the treaty. After other nations signed the' treaty Gromyko denounced it as invalid on grounds two of Japan’s wartime enemies, the Soviet Russia and China, had not signed it. He said the treaty perpetuated the U. S. occupation of Japan, permits ted Japan to rearm and did not give the Soviet Union clear title to the Soviet - occupied Kurile Islands and southern Sakhalin. Some of the Soviet - Japanese territorial disputes were ironed out in the current talks. A Japanese spokesman said they had reached agreement on a “50-50 basis.” Today’s agreement was reached in negotiations between Japanese prime minister Ichiro Hatoyama and Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Communist party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev. The groundwork was laid by Japanese fisheries and agriculture minister Iciro Kono.

Jet Plane Crashes, One Dead, One Hurt MINNEAPOLIS (UP) — All reserve and air defense squadrons were ordered grounded at WoldChamberlain Field today pending an investigation into the crash of a FB9 Scorpion jet which killed one man and critically injured the pilot. The accident was one of a series of the airport which has taken 15 lives since last June. Killed was Radar Observer Lt. Joe E. Ward. 23, Minneapolis. The pilot, Lt. Robert P. Couch, 26, St. Paul, was taken to the Veterans’ hospital here in critical conditidh.

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Corn Crop Support Rates Unchanged Same As Preliminary Rate Set In Spring CORN CROP SUPPORT g v|-a WASHINGTON (UP) — The Agriculture department announced today that the final dollars-and-cents price support rates for 1956-crop corn will be the same as the preliminary rates set last spring. The national average rate for corn produced in commercial corn areas, either within acreage allotments or under soil bank acreage requirements, is >1.50 a bushel. This is 84 per cent of the $1.*78 a bushel parity price of corn announced Sept. 29. Final parity rates are based on the parity price determined in the agricultural price report issued just prior to Oct. 1, beginning of* the corn marketing year. Corn produced in non commercial areas will be supported at an average of about $1.85 a bushel. This is 82 % per cent of the level of price support to- cooperators in the commercial area. Corn in commercial areas which is produced without regard for allotment or soil bank base acreage requirements will be supported at a national average of $1.25 a bushel. A total of 840 counties in 23 states are included in the 1956 commercial corn area. The price support rate for 1955crop corn in the commercial corn area was $1.58 a bushel, reflecting 87 per cent of parity. * ' Mrs. Virginia Caylor Speaks Here Saturday The public is invited to visit Republican headquarters Saturday night to meet Mrs. Virginia Caylor of Indianapolis, candidate for re-election as reporter of the Indiana supreme and appellate courts. James Liechty will be chairman of the program, which is scheduled to begin at about 8:15 p. iK. Phyllis Gratz of Auburn, fourth district vice-chairman, will introduce the speaker. Following the address, a social get-together, with refreshments, will be held. Republican headquarters are located at 254 North Second street.

Miss Jennie Archbold Dies Thursday Night Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Miss Jennie Archbold, 69, a resident of Decatur most of her life, died at 11:30 o’clock Thursday night at her home, 603 North Fifth street. Death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. She was born in Adams county Sept. 9, 1887, a daughter’of James and Catherine Somers-Archbold. Miss Archbold was a member of the Church of the Nazarene. Surviving are five nieces. Mrs. James Staley, Mrs. Russel Baumgartner, Mrs. Albert Johnson and Mrs. Loris Michaud, all of Decatur, and Mrs. Lewis Armstrong of Elkhart. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.tn. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. C. E. Lykins 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.

Jordan Demands UN Sanctions Against Israel Security Council Warned Os Need To Stop Aggressions UNITED N.Y. (UP)—Jordan demanded today that the United Nations invoke diplomatic and economic sanctions against Israel. * It warned that if the security council does not act “to stop the Israeli aggression” immediately, “qther methods” must be found to guarantee the Palestine borders. 1 Jordanian ambassador Abdul Monem Rifai told the security council Israeli incursions could not be described as “border incidents.” , “It is war,” he said, “except that it lacks the rules of war, the bravery of war. and the honor and morals of war. It could only be identified as an ‘lsraeli war'. In the darkness! At midnight! When human beings go to sleep, the evil spirit of the Israelis awakes apd sneaks out for murder! Collective murder!” Mordecai R. Kidron, chief of the Israeli delegation, charged Jordan with repeated attacks on Israel that have taken 37 Israeli lives since the April cease-fire agreement. “Israel regrets the loss of life suffered both by her own citizens and by those of a neighboring country, but the responsibility for both lies on the shoulders of the Jordan government which has been responsible in every case for initiating this grievous sequence of bloodshed.” Kidron said. After hearing statements from both sides, the council adjourned until early next week with an appeal from its president, Bernard Cornut-Gentille of France, to both Israel and Jordan for "self-con-trol and goodwill." Jordan’s complaint charged Israel with an "unprovoked and premeditated” attack on four border villages during the night of Oct. 10. , Israel, which contends the attack was in reprisal for earlier Jordanian incursions of its territory, asked the council to consider “persistent violations” by Jordan. The Israeli delegation charged Jordan with violating the Palestine armistice agreement and the cease-fire pledge which U. N. secretary general Dag Hammarskjold obtained from Israel and its Arab neighbors last April. The council meeting, held (Continued on Page Three)

Cancer Society Part Os Community Fund County Chapter Is Benefited By Fund (Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles explaining the projects and aims of the agencies which participate in the annual Community Fund drive.) The Adams county cancer society is another of the organizations which will share money collected during the current Community Fund drive. Miss Joan Wemhoff, county chairman of the society, has announced that the quota for the society this year is $3,294.50. Decaur’s share in this quota will come through the Community Fund. She pointed out that -of the money contributed locally. 40 cents of each dollar remains in the county, another 40 cents is sent to the national society and the remaining 2ff cents goes to the state society. On the national and state level it finances extensive cancer research. Locally, the money is used to finance programs of education and service to the public. Services vary depending on the requests but the society provides transportation to clinics or hospitals, provides dressings or t]je use of items from a “loan closet” at the local hospital and offers financial assistance to cancer patiehts. _____ ______■ -« As part of its educational program. the society annually mails out pamphlets and leaflets and makes them available for distribution at various meetings. Industrial kits are also supplied and representatives are sent to state meet-' Ings for leadership training and exchange of ideas. Miss Wemhoff has stated that free booklets, information or applications for service are available to any Adams county resident by writing to Adams county cancer (Continued on Page Two)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 19, 1956

Six Persons Killed In Gas Explosions Rocking Three Midwest Cities

Report Hodge Asked Records Be Withheld State Treasurer Os Illinois Testifies In Scandal Hearing CHICAGO (UP) - State treasurer Warren Wright testified today that former state auditor Orville E. Hodge, convicted of stealing state funds, gave him a SI,OOO check to help make up his campaign fund deficit. Wright told the senate banking committee investigating the 1 million dollar Hodge scandal that the had no reason to be suspiciouaj)! the check. But he said that after the Hodge scandal broke, he turned over a photostat of it to the FBI voluntarWright said the check was drawn on the Southmoor Bank and Trust Co., the bank where Hodge cashed phony state checks. • Wright said he first became eras, picious of Hodge because of “rumors” floating around the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield last spring. He said both be and Hodge lived in the hotel, “and I couldn’t even get a little caleimind on the walla while Hodge got anything he asked tor.” He said he heard rumors that Hodge paid for redecoration of his suite with a state check, but the hotel told him the $5,000 check went for dinners and meeting rooms. Wright said he “began digging" through his voluminous records and found a record of the hotel check. But he said he had no way of determining what the check was for because he did not have access to the voucher. When the Hodge scandal was breaking, Wright said he met Hodge at a meeting last June 19 in the governor’s mansion. He said Hodge asked him to withhold his records from the newspapers. "He said we were fronds and it was up to me to protect him. or the whole team would go down" Wright said. Wright said he refused to withhold the records and when he found 21 suspicious state checks he had them photostated and turned them over to the Chicago Daily News.

Plan Soybean Ball Here October 26 One Os Features Os Soybean Festival Richard Kershner, 'chairman of arrangements for the soybean ball which will be held Friday, Det. 26, in connection with the three-day soybean festival in Decatur, has announced plarfs for the dance. A round and square dance, it will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center beginning at 9 p.m. Carl Geels, well known local square dance caller, and his orchestra will present the music and calls. The dance will follow a parade on Second street beginning at 8:30 p.m. The parade will feature the new 1957 models of automobiles and the soybean queen, who will be named Thursday night at the annual rural-urban fish fry. The soybean queen will also reign during the dance and will lead the grand march. Admission to the affair will be 50 cents and one pound of soybeans, Members of the dance committee have issued an expression of appreciation to the'Craft club who had originally scheduled a dance with Carl Geels as caller on the night of Oct 26. The club has postponed Its dance so that Geels could be at the soybean ball.

Decatur Industries Fire Loss $35,000 Loss In Warehouse . Fire Over SIOO,OOO Property owned by Decatur Industries, which was destroyed in the fire that leveled the warehouse at the corner of Eighth and Jefferson streets Monday, has been valued at $35,000, according to a statement made today by Noah Steury of that company. The company has completed an inventory of lumber, finished products and machinery which was in the building when it burned to the ground. All of the destroyed property was insured. The building itself was owned by Central Soya company. Another $50,000 worth of raw burlap, owned by Bag Service, Inc., went up in smoke. Additional loss of an undetermined amount in Central Soya company property will probably push the loss over the originally estimated SIOO,OOO. Soya company officials have not yet completed the inventory of their property but are expected to have an estimate the first of next week. There has not yet been any decision made to rebuild the warehouse. ’ ■ • • Decatur Industries has announced that a temporary arrangement for continuing production has been planned by renting the Kraft building on Winchester street, where operations will begin Monday. A rumor that the company was planning to purchase the Decatur Canning company building was unfounded but company spokesmen indicated that they hope to get a new location in the near future, . ■ ■ ■' ;' ■ ' ’ ’—- It was also stated that the local industry will probably be able to fill its orders without too much delay since a good stock of lumber had been cut prior to the fire and was not in the building which was destroyed.

Kefauver Warns On Suicidal Bomb Race Mad And Suicidal ■- Bomb Race Scored LAS VEGAS. Nev. (UP) — Anti, gambler Estes Kefauver warned the American people from this gambling center today that they can't afford to take chances on ‘‘this mad and suicidal H-bomb race.” The lanky Tennessee senator accused President Eisenhower and other top Republicans of talking “monstrous nonsense” in their opposition to ending the tests of hydrogen bombs. x "It is Eisenhower, Dulles and Nixon who would refuse us the right to take a constructive step in halting the world's rush toward death.” he said in remarks prepared for delivery here. ■= The Democratic vice presidential candidate, who takes a dim view of gambling, carefully ducked the crap games and black jack parlors here. He stayed overnight at the Royal Nevada Hotel, one of the few places which doesn’t feature the clack-ety-elack of “one-armed bandits.” Kefauver was" catapulted to national fame for his 1951 senate crime Investigation. Among the conclusions reached by the senate investigators was that "both morally and financially, legalized gambling in Nevada is a failure.” Rep. Clifton Young’s northern Nevada campaign manager. Robert Schouweiler, has raised the gambling question as part of Young’s campaign to unseat Sen. Alan Bible (D-Nev). Schouweiler has asked Bible to state whether he shares Kefauver'# view of gambling. Nevada's principal source of revenue. Bible so far has ignored SchouweilAfter his speech, Kefauver was scheduled to fly to Salt Lake City, Utah, before taking his campaign into Ctalifornia ever the weekend.

Hall Refuses To Testify On House Charge National Chairman t Os GOP Refuses To Testify On Charge WASHINGTON (UP) — A house government operations subcommittee met today to give GOP national chairman Leonard W. Hall a chance to answer “most serious charges of improper political pressure” in connection with a 43 million dollar government contract. Hall, who had said he wouldn’t be there, wasn’t. He previously had announced publicity that he would be too busy to testify until after the election. He formally notified the subcommittee late Thursday. The subcommittee is investigating a contract to expand the government—owned nickel plant at Nicaro, Cuba. Hall has been charged with “clearing" politically the successful bidders for the contract. He has denied this. v / Subcommittee chairman .(Jack Brooks (D-Tex) said he did not subpena Hall because he thought Hall would be willing to testify voluntarily on the “most serious charges of Improper political pressure.” Rep. Henry S. Reuss (D-Wis) called Hall’s failure to appear “astouding. In effect, he said, Hall was “pleading the fifth amendment.” The fifth amendment says a witness doesn’t have to testify if it would incriminate him. —•— In a letter to Brooks, Hall said his time now is "completely devoted to urgent matters” concerning the national elections. Reuss said that Hall had impaired - the Republicans’ election campaign by “taking a powder” on a hearing called to let him answer the charges against him. Brooks and Reuss exchanged their criticisms of the GOP chairman for nine minutes and then recessed today's hearing.

Willard H. Briede Dies Last Evening Local Man's Brother Dies At Fort Wayne Willard H. Briede. 65, Fort Wayne accountant well known *tn Decatur, died at 6:5& o’clock Thursday evening at his home, 4402 Drury Lane. He had been in ill health for several years and seriously ill the past two weeks. Mr. Briede was born in Hamilton, 0.. and spent his childhood in Portland, moving to Fort Wayne in 1923 after graduating from the Wharton school of finance at Pennsylvania University. He was associated with an accounting firm until 1941, when he opened his own accounting office. He served in thd army engineers during World War I. ' Mr. Briede was a member of St. John the Baptist Catholic church and its Holy Name society. . Surviving are his wife, Lois; a son, Willard. Jr,, at home; one brother, Paul H. Briede of Decatur; two sisters, Mrs. Frank J. DUfin and Mrs. Harold Gravelle, both of Gary, and several nieces and nephews. • Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a m. Monday at Getz & Eikenberry funeral home and at 9:30 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Catholic church, the Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. „ INDIANA WEATHERFair and cool tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight 44-52. High Saturday 75-82. Sunset 6 p.m., sunrise Saturday 7 a.m.

Titoist Is Restored To Power In Poland Gomulka And Two Os Colleagues Back WARSAW (UP)—Poland’s Cottamunlst regime restored disgraced “Titoist" Wladyslaw Gomulka and two of his once-imprisoned colleagues to power today. It was the first major political realignment since the Poznan riots. The central committee of the Polish United Workers (Communist) party elected four new members at its long-awaited plenary session. The 58-year old GomuUrfT was one of them. The other three were political allies of Gomulka’s up to the time Wf his purge during the 1948 Titoist upheaval, and < two of them went to prison with him then. Gomulka's restoration to the Communist leadership has long been expected. It was believed now he would be further promoted to the Politburo —the inner ruling Communist circle —of the central committee and possibly to the cabinet. The central committee meeting began only a few hours after publication of one of the most courageous speeches made in Poland by a non-Communist politician in a decade. The speech was made Thursday afternoon by Stefan Ignar, vice' president of the United Peasant party, during a meeting of his party. Ignar said his party must be “absolutely independent” In the Polish government system. He admitted the Workers party (the Polish Communist party) played the leading role in the government, but he demanded that “the Peasant party must be treated as an equal partner.”

Dislricl PTA Head Is Speaker Thursday Initial Meeting Is Held Last Evening Mrs. Robert Wiley, of Huntington, fourth district president of parent-teachers association, was thjj guest speaker at the opening meeting of the Lincoln PTA Thursday night at the Lincoln school auditorium. Using the five objects of PTA as an outline, Mrs. Wiley stressed again the need of a PTA, and what it can do to help children in school. She emphasized the importance of fellowship between the Reachers and parents, and what this association can mean to the school. Preceding the program, Mrs. Roy Friedley conducted a business meeting. Mrs. John Spaulding was elected secretary to replace Mrs*. John Beery, who resigned recently. A motion was also presented to increase dues to 50 cents. This motion will be voted on during the open house meeting in November. Mrs. Marion Robison discussed plans for the annual fall festival and stated that the various chairmen will be announced next week. Mr. and Mrs. Robison and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Friedley are general (Centinuee on angiu) Use Os Newsprint Is Increased In Nation NEW YORK TUP) — The American newspaper publishers association reported Thursday that newsprint consumption for the first nine months of this year increased 3.7 per cent over the same period last year. . • For September newsprint consumption was up 2.4 per cent over September, 1955 and 12 per cent for Septenjber, 1954, the ANPAreported. - American newspapers used 572,276 tons of newsprint in September and 5.027,076 tons the first nine months of 1956.

25 Others Are Injured, 12 Are Critical Herrin, 111. Blasts Worst In Series Os Explosions Thursday By UNITED PRESS Six persons were killed and 25 Others injured — 12 critically — in gas explosions which shook three towns in three Midwest states 'Thursday. The blasts erupted at Herrin. Hl., Kenosha, Wls., and Bettendorf, lowa. The Herrin explosions- were the worst, killing 6 persons and critically injuring 6 others. A series of propane gas tank blasts were accompanied by Are which swept through a residential neighborhood. Five homes and a warehouse were destroyed. Authorities said the heavy gas drifted over the area from a leaky valve of a gas truck which was unloading propane gas at the warehouse where the gas was stored. An open flame, either from a stove or the pilot light of a hot water heater, was believed to have ignited the gas and set off some 50 propane gas tank explosions. Fourteen persons were burned at Kenosha when a 150-foot long one-story motor testing building of the American Motor Co. exploded. Company spokesmen said a spark from a starter switch ignited nab ural gas which had leaked from a broken pipeline. - Six of the injured were hospitalised and reported in fair condition but not out of danger. Doctors said it would be 24 to 48 hours before the' six men—burned severely on the face and arms —would be out of danger. Five persons were Injured when a frame and stone home in a residential section of Bettendorf blew up. Robert McGrath. 52, a building company president, was the most seriously injured. McGrath, who was showing the home to a prospective buyer when the blast occurred, was buried In rubble for more than two hours. Authorities believe the explosion was due to leaking gas. Four Dead In Norway GJOEVIK, Norway (UP) — An explosion ripped through the vast Raufoss munitions factory today. First reports said 4 persons were killed and 20 others injured. Ammuntion was reported to have blown up in one of the underground storage chambers of the factory, which is built under solid rock In this city 65 miles north of Oslo. The plant is government • owned and is a chief supplier of ammunition for North Atlantic treaty organization forces. It was built with the help of United States funds supplied through the Marshall plan aid program. One report said a consignment (Continued on Pave Two) New Fine System On Meter Violations Effective today, a new system of fines for parking meter violations will be used in the city of Decatur, according to an announcement by chief of police James Borders and officer James Cochran, who has charge of parking meter r enforcement. - ■, The nelv system baa the full approval of the city’s board of public works and safety. Under the new system, if an overtime packer pays his fine within an hour Sifter the ticket is issued, the fine will be only 10 cents. If more than an hour has elapsed since the ticket was issued, the fine will be the irtual |1”. ./—tn the event that city hall is closed, the fines during the firethour can be paid at the police station. The parking meter system will ba rigidly enforced, it was stated..

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