Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 249

ARGENTINE EDITOR.GETS AWARD DR. GRAYSON KIRK, president of Columbia University, New York, is shown as he presented the Maria Moors Cabot gold medal to David Michael Torino of Salta, Argentina, owner of “El Intransigents." The award was made in recognition of the journalist’s efforts toward the "advancement of international friendship in the Americas." His attacks on the Peron regime caused his paper to be seized and confiscated in 1949. Four others were honored.

Stevenson Is ' " Preparing To End Campaign Hammers Away At H-Bomb Issue In Election Campaign CHICAGO (UP)—Adlai E. Stevenson, still hammering away at the H-bomb issue, took stock of his Democratic presidential campaign today and chartered a whirlwind 15-day windup. Stevenson was devoting most of a 2%'-day “breather" to staff conferences and new touring plans at his country home at Libertyville. 111., 40 miles northwest of here. . He will leave by plane Tuesday for New York City where he will spend two days courting voters in the city and its suburbs. Then he flies back to Illinois Jbr two more days, and to the West Coast for rallies in Los Angeles and San Francisco late this week. Next week, Stevenson will concentrate most of his fire on big - , cities in the northeastern section of the country—Boston. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and others. He will be on the go almost continuously right up to election day Nov. 6. The presidential nominee took time out Sunday to fire another salvo in his battle with President Eisenhower over his call for steps by this nation to bring about an end to H-bomb tests. Russian Premier Bulganin sent a note to the President saying Russia was ready to consider halting atomic tests. Stevenson issued a statement which said there seemed to be "nothing new” in the Bulganin note, but the move looked "encouraging” to him nevertheless. "Nobody can say. at this point how sincere the Russians are in this matter,” Stevenson said, "but I do know that we cannot afford to let them continuously appear before thereat of the world as more devoted to peace'and disarmament than we are." Stevenson, who has pushed the matter of a moratorium on Hbomb tests to the point that it has become one of the campaign’s bigr test issues’, went on to aay the (Continued on Kag« Bix> Israeli Soldiers Killed By Mines JERUSALEM (UP) — Three Israeli soldiers were killed and 21 wounded when two military buses struck mines early Sunday well inside Israel from the Egyptian frontier, Col. Nehemia Brosch, Israeli army spokesman, said today. The incident was the first of its kind in the Egyptian sector in eome months. Observers said it was believed to represent an Egyptian attempt to divert Israeli’s attention from the latest border incidents wih Jordan. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, mostly ■ fair south tonight and Tuesday, turning cooler In north portion Tuesday. Low tonight 45-53. High Tuesday in the TDe. Sunwt p.m., sunrise Tuesday 7:03 a.m.

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12 Statehouse Jobs Up For Election Decatur Attorney One Os Candidates INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana’s election battles for governor and senator may be kicking up the most dust, but behind the scenes are skirmishes for hundreds of other offices —including 12 statehouse jobs. All of those jobs, from* lieutenant t governor to reporter of the sur preme and appellate courts, are . now held by Republicans. Most of - them, were elected in 1952 when George N. Craig W KOVf ernor, and the Republicans held on • to those jobs in the 1954 election. Battling for the No. 2 state of- , flee — lieutenant governor — are secretary of state Crawford Parker and Democrat Bartel Zandstra. Parker, of New Castle, is a close i GOP factional ally of Lt. Gov. Hari old Handley. The two often cami paign together, ■■ Parker’s supporters consider their white-haired candidate one of the state ticket's , best vote-getters. In 1952 he and Craig were elected by nearly identical margins—about 1 million to 800,000. Zandstra, 51 - year -old Lake county clerk, was swept into the nomination with help from the same labor backing that gave the governor nomination to Terre Haute Mayor Ralph Tucker. Democrats consider Zandstra’s following In populous, industrial Lake county one of their best weapons. The race for secretary of state pits Democratic Mayor Tom Lemon of Bloomington against Frank A. Leaning, Bloomfield, former school teacher and long-time political campaign worker. In 1947, Lemon became Bloomington's first Democratic mayor in 25 years. He was reelected last year. Lenning helped manage campaigns for Sens. Homer Capehart and William Jenner and Governor Craig. Marion county auditor Roy T. Combs, Indianapolis, faces Joe L. Brogdon, Madison county sheriff, in the fight for state auditor. Combs, active in church affairs, is serving his second term as county auditor. Brogdon is a former professional football player who led the Madison county Democratic ticket in 1950 and 1954. Albert A. Steinwedel, Seymour, is the Democratic candidate for state treasurer. He faces Adolph L. Fossler, Richmond, chairman of, the state tax board. Steinwedel, at 34 the youngest Democrat on the state ticket, is a’ World War II veteran and Indiana University graduate. Fossler was Wayne county auditor for eight years. Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers, Indianapolis, is seeking reelection against Democrat William H. Wolf, Greenfield. Steers, former navy officer, served in the joint army navy state department war crimes office during World War 11. Wolf, graduate of Eartham College and Indiana University law school, is former Hancock county Democratic chairman. Also seeking reelection, is state school Supt Wilbur Young, Osgood. His Democratic opponent is’ Earl M. Utterback, Kokomo. Both men hgve long years of experience ti tMftkara, »pd Youpg (Continued on Pag* Six)

Ike Angrily Rejects Plea To Halt Tests Rejection Os Reds' Plea Adds Fuel To Campaign Debate WASHINGTON (UR) — Presi’ dent Eisenhower’s angry rejection of Russia’s latest plea to halt Hbomb tests added new fuel today to an already heated campaign debate over the super-weapon. Democrats, led by Adlai E. Stevenson, charged that the White House acted too hastily and without “sober consideration” in dismissing Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin’s renewed appeal that the two nations ban future H-bomb tests. Stevenson himself has called for such a ban and has made Mr. Eisenhower’s, opposition to it a major issue in the presidential campaign. The President Sunday bluntly and angrily accused Bulganin of “interference” in U.S. domestic affairs and of seeming “to impugn my own sincerity.” He did so in answering BulganIn's .letter of last Friday which, in effect, Stevenson’s position. Bulganlb-’had rioted in his letter that "certain prominent figures in the United States” were also calling for a halt to H-bomb tests. Mr. Eisenhower, in unusually sharp words aimed at the head of another state, told Bulganin: “. . . The sending of your note in the midst of a national election campaign . . . expressing your support of the opinions of ’certain prominent public figures in the United States,’ constitutes an interference by a foreign nation in our, internal affairs.” The President said that if similar “interference” were “indulged in by an ambassador” it "would lead to his being declared persona no grata (not acceptable) W accordance with jopg-establiahed custom.” He also told Bulganin that a statement in the Soviet premier’s letter about secretary of state John Foster Dulles was “not only unwarranted, but Is personally offensiveto me.” Bulganin had accused Dulles of “obvious distortion” of Russian policy.

Warns Traffic Toll Near All-Time High May Shock America To Drastic Action CHICAGO (UP) —The enormity of the record-breaking traffic toll being piled up by the nation this year may “shock the American people into drastic action” to reduce it, the president of the national safety council said today. Ned H. Dearborn, in a speech before the council, revealed that unless an effective plan of reducing highway fatalities was achieved soon, the traffic toll will reach all-time high of more than 41,000 deaths this year. The council’s annual meeting opened the 44th national safety congress which is being attended by nearly 12,000 safety leaders. “The history of our nation.” said Dearborn, "proves that while our people may shrug off potential danger with a show of indifference, they have never failed to .move swiftly and powerfully when danger really strikes.” Dearborn said he believed “the day is nearer than we think when the very size of the traffic toll will be a powerful influence in shocking the American people into drastic action.” “I see this aroused citizenry uniting in local safety groups to pool their demands for a stop to this slaughter that threatens their families and their security," Dearbarn said. The alternative to such action by citizens, Dearborn warned, 18 the “awful specter of 54,000 traffic deaths by 1966. And by 1975,” he added, “dare we even guess." Over 10,000 Head In Cattle Feeder Show CHICAGO (UP) — More than 10,000 head of cattle from 11 states are scheduled for judging in the Chicago feeder cattle show and sale opening Thursday at the Union Stockyards. A spokesman for the show said Montana leads In number of entries and that the total Is the largest In the history of the annusl event.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 22, 1956

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j Federal Court Will Hear Plea For Integration U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Effort By Dallas School Board. WASHINGTON (UP) — The stM preme court today cleared the! way for a hearing by al federal district Court on a plea b'yl Negro parents for immediate racial integration of public schools in Dallas, Tex. The high tribunal rejected an effort by Dallas school authorities to head off an early court showdown on the issue. Its brief order left standing a ruling issued by the sth U. S. circuit court of appeals last May 25. This requires the federal district court in Dallas to proceed with hearings on a suit by Negro parents asking for immediate admission of Negro children to tile city’s public schools on a nonsegregated basis. Federal Dist. Judge W’illiam A. Atwell” of Dallas previously had dismissed the Negro parents’ suit on grounds it was filed prematurely. He said Dallas schools should have time to “see what they can work opt.” But the higher circuit court held there was “no basis” in law for his refusal to hear evidence on the parents’ suit at thia time The court issued a series of orders but no written opinions at today’s brief session. It then recessed for two weeks so the justices can write opinions on a score of cases recently argued before them. In other actions today the court: —Denied a hearing to John E. Day Jr. of Washington, former GI feeing death for the murder of a Korean civilian in Seoul, Korea, in 1950. The court’s action left the army free to go ahead withi Day’s execution. —Denied a hearing to James Franklin Bowman, Louisville, Ky., handyman sentenced to die for the rape-murder of a 72-year-old woman in 1954. No Lions Meeting Here This Evening There will be no meeting of the Decatur Lions club this evening, because of the annua] rural-urban fish fry Thursday evening. All Lions club members and their wives are expected to attend the fish fry, for which ticket sales were closed Saturday. Military Takes Over Control In Honduras Ist Bloodless Coup In Nation History TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (UP) — Three Honduran military officers overthrew supreme chief of state Julio Lozano Diaz in the first bloodless coup in the nation’s history Sunday. , An official announcement listed the military triumvirate as Gen. Roque J. Rodriguez, director of the military academy; Col. Hector Carraccioli, commander of the air torch and Maj. Roberto Galvez, minister of development. No further details were available here immediately. The radio “the voice of Honduras” in a broadcast heard in El Salvador said the Junta forced Lozano to resign by threatening to bomb the presidential palace from the air if he did not comply. It said warplanes from the Hon ; duran air force flew over Tegucigalpas while army chiefs sent word to Lozano asking him to resign. Ths three officers then took over the government in a formal ceremony with members of the diplomatic corps attending.

Train Derailed At Richmond Sunday Railroad, Highway Traffic Is Snarled RICHMOND, Ind. (UP)—Twelve cars of an eastbound Pennsylvania Railroad freight train were derailed at Richmond Sunday, sending ties and rails crashing into a steel company and several warehouses. F Ho ope was Injured. f* Ths wreckage, including two I tank cars filled with highly inflam,l mable cottonseed oil and liquid fer•ftilizer, cut off service on ♦e Hue and blocked three highways jam- ; med with Sunday motorists. Hours • later a train picked its way on a temporary side track apd automobile traffic moved. Workers hoped to get the two main lines passable by midnight. Officials believed a wheel on a refrigeration car broke at the in* tersection of U. S. 35, Ind. 38 and Ind. 627, causing the accident. Cargo, including shelled corn from several overturned -box cars, spilled along the right-of-way. Firemen douseo noth tank cars with water as a precaution. A propane gas tank hit by a flying railroad tie spring a leak and was pushed out of the city. Wreckage left hundreds of feet of twisted rail in its wake. The Eastern Indiana Steel Co. and several warehouses used by merchants were damaged. Ralls and ties shattered windows and crumbled and pierced walls. Four cars were replaced on the tracks; the othermangled cars pushed aside. About 100 men from Richmond and Indianapolis wrecking units were sent to the scene. They set up lights and worked into the night as a crowd watched. Trains were rerouted from Richmond through Anderson to Indianapolis. Auxiliary police were summoned to help local police unsnarl traffic jams which extended for blocks while the roads were blocked. Persons out for a drive in the pleasant weather swelled the ranks of cars. Ticket Sale Opens For Soybean Ball One Os Features Os Soybean Festival Richard Kershner, chairman of the soybean ball which will be held at. the Decatur Youth and Community Center Friday beginning at 9 p.m., announced that tickets for the event went on sale today. Carl Geels and his orchestra will present music for round and square dancing at the bail, which will be held in connection with the threeday soybean festival. Adams countl's soybean queen, to be named Thursday, will reign at the dance and will lead the grand march. Admission to the dance will be 50 cents and one pound of soybeans. The tickets are available now at Blackwell’s, Holthouse Drug Store, Goodyear, Newberry’s, the First State Bank, the community center, Beavers Oil and from Max Kreps. They will also be available at the door on the night of the dance. The dance will follow a parade on Second street which will feature the queen and her court and also the 1957 model automobiles. Aviation Pioneer Is Takgn By Death BUFFALO, N.Y. (UP)—Aviation pioneer Lawrence D- Bell will be buried Tuesday in Forest Lawn Cemetery. - Bell, 62. 1948 winner of the Collier trophy, aviation’s highest award, succumbed to a heart ailment Saturday. Hundreds of persons paid their last rssHcts during the weekend to tM humble mechanic who beleader In aircraft development.

Aid To Poles Under Study By President Major Decision Is Faced On Economic Aid To New Leader ' WASHINGTON (UPM.— President Eisenhower is Tteeping in “closest touch" with developments 1 in Poland, the White House said today. - The President conferred with . secretary of state John Foster Dulles by telephone. Whije House press secretary James C. Hagerty said. "They are keeping in closest touch with the developing situaation." —i— -r This country will face a major decision on whether to give economic help to the new Polish regime on the pattern of aid to Communist Yugoslavia. Senate Republican leader William F. Knowland said he is “skeptical” about reports of Polish defiance of Moscow. Knowland told reporters: “Whether this is a bonafide effort at independence or a move by the international Communist conspiracy io weaken resistance to the existing government, only time will tell.” « Knowland said freedom - loving Poles are “not too much better off under local Communist gov- ' ernment than they are under one ’ dominated by Moscow.” Poland asked this country some months ago for wheat. Previously, ' the two nations had failed to work out an agreement. 1 Poland is expected to press its request, however, using the argu- ' ment that, like Yugoslavia, it no longer is under Moscow domination. i ; Chicago Man Killed In Collision In Fog LAKE VILLAGE, Ind. (UP) — Ronald T. Cagle, 21, Chicago, was killed today when his automobile was struck from the rear by a truck In a light tog on U. S. 41. Albert Cagle, 33, Higdon, Ala. and his wife, Eva, 33, were injured. State police said Ronald Cagle pulled off the highway about four miles south of here and a truck driven by Francis L. Gentry, 31, Martinsville, smashed into the rear of the car. Four More Entries For Queen Contest 15 Now Entered In Queen Contest Here Four last minute entries brought the total of those competing in the soybean queen contest to 15, according to an announcement made today by Joseph Kaehr, chairman of the contest arrangements. Additional contestants will be Donna Jean Miller. 16; Beverly Singer, 17; Lorraine Anne Walters, 17, and Ann Uhrlck. 17, all of Decatur. These and the other nine Adams county girls will compete for the title of soybean queen to reign during the three-day soybean festival which starts Thursday in Decatur. Judging for the contest win - begin at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. It wiU be done on the basis of beauty, poise and talent. All but five will be eliminated in the afternoon. The final judging will come at the annual rural-urban fish fry Thursday evening at the DeCatur high school gym when the queen will be 'chosen and announced. Also to be announced at the fish fry will be the name of Adapts county's soybean king to be selected as the result of judging of soybean exhibits by local farm--1 era.

Kefauver Calls For End To Bomb Tests Expressed Shock At Eisenhower's Reply POCATELLO, Idaho (UP) —Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) swung east today through Idaho to attack the Eisenhower administration's “disgraceful giveaways” and to hammer at the mushrooming Hbomb issue. Kefauver, reported to be "shocki ed” at President Eisenhower’s bitter reply to Soviet premier Bulganin, withheld his fire on the Hbomb tests, however, until contacting Adlai E. Stevenson. Dr. David L. HUI, atomic scientist on vacation from Los Alamos and acting as Kefauver’s consultant, termed Mr. Eisenhower’s statement "peevish.” Hill said Mr. Eisenhower has “no comprehension bf the possibility that we have a real opening to make some progress to bring the H-bomb under control.” Mr. Eisenhower, in his reply to Bulganin’s H-bomb ban proposal, accused the Soviet premier of Interfering in U. S. internal affairs during a political campaign. At Porterville, Calif., where residents can see the flash and feel the tremors from the Nevada test 2 ing grounds 200 miles gway, Kefauver drew his most enthusiastic applause from a crowd of about' 500 when # he urged an end to superbomb tests and called for negotiations with Bulganin. —r- • ** ■ : Spiritual Emphasis Services Opened Services Continue Nightly This Week The opening service of Spiritual Emphasis week, sponsored by the Associated Churches of Decatur, was held Sunday night at the First Methodist church. The guert preacher, the Rev. William Hill, minister of Brookside Evangelical United Brethren church, Indianapolis, spoke to a full house on the subject, "An Invitation to Adventure." “If anyone will enter iflto an adventure,” he said, “we must answer three questions: 1. Am I willing to' deny self? 2. Do I have an adequate leader? 3. Is it worth the risk?” Applying these questions to the Christian life, he said, “life can be a glorious adventure with Christ as our Guide.” The Rev. Virgil Sexton, host pastor, was the presiding minister: the Rev. Gerald Gerig the song leader; the Rev. Stuart Brightwell read the scripture; and the Rev. William Feller offered the evening prayer. The speaker was introduced by the Rev. B. G. Thomas. The combined choirs of the First Methodist church and Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church sang two anthems, directed by Walter Henkel and Leland Neuen, respectively. At the Monday evening service, the Rev. John E. Chambers will be the presiding minister; the scripture and prayer will be given by the Rev. L. T. Norris apd the Rev. C. E. Lykins. Ushers will be from the Presbyterian church, and the high school chorus, directed by Miss Helen Haubold, will have special miisic. Monday night is youth night, and all young people are urged to attend. Services will.be held each night this week at 7:30 at the First Methodist church. The prayer service each evening at 7 will be in the memorial chapel. BULLETIN - - DENVER (UP)—The Colorado supreme court today upheld the conviction of airliner dynamiter John Gilbert Graham and oraored the 24-year old saboteur executed in the state'* gas chamber during the week ending Jan. 12, 1957, for a bomb plot that killed 44 persona. ' ■'

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Polish Paper Affirms Ties To Red Russia Tells Eisenhower No Interference By * United States Asked WARSAW (UP) — The official • Communist party newspaper Trybuna Ludu reaffirmed Poland's ■ close ties, to Russia today and said - it would be “naive” to thing the nation’s “ne?v freedom” would' swing its policies toward the West. i The newspaper told President Eisenhower the new freedom did not give the United States the right to interfere in Poland’s internal affairs and warned West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer not to "meddle in the development of our freedom.” The editorial was printed only hours after Poland’s defiance of the Kremlin in purging defense minister Konstantin Rokossovsky from the all-powerful Communist poiitburo touched off a nationwide wave of celebrations. I Informed observers speculated ‘ that Rokossovsky may also be replaced in his job as defense min--1 ister by, Gen. Waclaw Komar, an adherent of Wlaysfaw Gomulka ■ and himself a “Titoist” who was • rehabilitated several months ago - after spending some years in jail. Authoritative sources said the newly elected poiitburo met in special session this afternoon under the chairmanship of Gromulka, first secretary, to “discuss the Rokossovsky affair.” In another development. which observers said resulted from the return of Gomulka to power the Poznan district court declared a mistrial in the cases of eight defendants charged with taking part 1 in the riots of last June 28. The • court freed three defendants out- ■ right and ordered a new trial for ’ five others accused of invading - the security militia office and free- ■ ing prisoners during the riots. The same newspaper Sunday told Russia that anti-Soviet ele- ' ments “were and still are now” in Poland. “President Eisenhower made a declaration of which the sense is that be would ‘help in the fight which the Poles are making’,” Trybuna Ludu said today. “We understand very well the American situation before the elections but we must emphasize that Pols do not vote in the American election and therefore Poles dp not need to be included in the American electoral campaign. "We must also say that the post of the chief executive of a great State does not give to President Eisenhower the, right to interfere in the internal, affairs of smaller countries . . .” It was the first mention in this country of Mr. Eisenhower’s remarks in Denver, Colo., Saturday that "all friends of the Polish people recognize and sympathize with their traditional yearning for liberty and independence.” Trybuna Ludu said, “if anybody naive thinks that the changes in Poland are a sign of a new orientation in our foreign policy, then he is making a great mistake. The basis of our policies was and is friendship with the Soviet Union.” However, most observers said the events of Sunday—in which the one-time Soviet army hero Rokossovsky was ousted from the poiitburo — indicated a sharp swing away from Soviet influence In Poland’s internal politics. Though Rokossovsky retained his (Continued on Page Five) SERIAL STORY “The Blonde Died Dancing'' is the name of the new eerial story starting today id the Daily Democrat. Kelley Rooa is the author. Readers will tave to make up their own mind “le this a pleasant dancing school gr a setting for blackmail gnd murder?" -r ■ «