Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 21 December 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 300.

FIRST HAND INFORMATION M■■MMMMMMMMMMM•TWMF' ~ ’”’*’ M 1,1 Iffy ’YT» * VBIB . .. ? '■■ IMhfe V* i^^BhhJa^K'A'SKkx • ' > '%*- >gm AUSTRIA to study the pressing refugee problem, Vice-President --—• Hichani Nixon shakes hands with a Hungarian refugee, as others, ifteluding a small child, wait to board a plane for the U. S. Nixon assured Austria’, on his arrival in Vienna, that the U. S. would do its full share in meeting refugee needs.

Nixon Assures U.S. To Admit More Refugees Vide President In Long Parley With — Austrian Officials VIENNA <UP) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon told the Austrian government today he was sure Congress will admit more Hungarian refugees to the United States and increase U.S. financial aid for other refugees, informed sources reported. Nixon conferred for more than an hour with Chancellor Julius I Raab and other officials and told them he would recommend in his report to President Eisenhower that the United States “sharply increase’’ the total number of refugees to be admitted above the current 21,500 figure. The sources said Nixon also expected to recommend to the President that Congress be asked to appropriate more money to help Austria care for the flood of refugees who have poured across the Iron Curtain since the Hungarian revolt started eight weeks ago. The vice president asked for and received a detailed compilation of all expenditures for refugee care Austria has made since last October. The Austrian leaders also told Nixon the maximum number they could keep in Austria without straining the nation's economy to Hie limit. However the Austrians refused to divulge any exact figures. Nixon, U.S. Ambassador Lewellyn E. Thompson and William P. ■ - Rogers, the U.S. deputy attorney general, met with Raab and members of his cabinet for more than an hour at the Chancellor building. They said they would issue a joipt communique after lunch. Drive Is Reported Underway To Stop Bringing In Liquor I ' ’ A dr|ve to stop bootlegging of Ohio liquor into Adams county was believed to be underway today by state excise officials, aided by the state highway police. Because the Ohio tax has been cheaper than the Indiana tax, it’s believed to have been a rather common practice to purchase alcohol in that state for consumption here. The law prevents the legal importation by one person of "“more than one quart of spirituous or vinous liquors into the state.”It was said today that state officers are' patrolling the and may be stopping cars for inspections. It was also believed they wilTask prosecution of those found in violation of the law. It was not immediately ’ learned whether any arrests have been made or cars inspected and it is not'known what led to the drive at this particular time. - '

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At Least Six Killed In Airplane Crashes Two Other Aircraft Reported Missing By UNITED PRESS A series of plane mishaps have killed tori president of a steel company and two crewmen. whose plane crashed in central Pennsylvania and a Navy pilot flying a jet believed to be the world’s fastest fighter. At least six persons were killed in plane wrecks, and two other aircraft were reported missing. Other victims included an Air Force officer and a civilian pilot. Among the victims was Lt. Robert D. Roth. 28, Linwood, N.J., whose FBU jet fighter, said to be the world’s fastest, burst into flames and crashed in a wooded area near Laureldale, N.J. Steel Man Killed Roth had taken off from the nearby Pomona Naval Air Station about an hour before his jet crashed. Killed when their plane crashed and exploded near Tyrone, Pa., Thursday night were Alden G. Roach, San Francisco, president of Columbia-Geneva Steel Co.; Roy Rollo, San Francisco, the pilot, and the co-pilot, whose identity was not immediately determined. A U.S. Steel Corp, spokesman said Roach had taken off from Pittsburgh following a conference with U.S. Steel officials. ColumbiaGeneva is a subsidiary of U.S. Steel. . Killed in C 45 Crash An Air Force pilot was killed when a twin-engine C 45 crashed and burned in timberland north of Millinocket, Me., Thursday night. The victim was Capt. Campbell M. Potter, 31, Livingston, N.J., attached to the 42nd Bombardment Wing at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Me. The co-pilot, Ist Lt. Donald N. Stacey, 24, Tulsa, Okla., escaped from the wreckage. A Columbus, Ohio, pilot, Thomas Warren, 41, was killed late Thursday when his private plane developed engine trouble and crashed shortly after take-off from Owosso, Mich., Airport near Detroit. The plane exploded when it hit the ground about 1,000 yards from the city limits. Jet Trainer Missing A T 33 jet trainer was missing near Valparaiso, Fla., with two men aboard. Planes from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina searched for the plane, which was on a routine training flight from Eglin Air ‘Force Base, Fla., to Shaw AFB, Sumter, S.C. The occupants of the plane were identified as Lt. Cornelius E. Vari Vlymen, 25. Parma, Ohio, and Warrant Officer William L. Rea, 42, Los Altos, Calif. Also in lowa, an FB6 jet pilot sent a final Christmas radio mesage and then bailed out of his plane near Perry when it ran out of fuel. Continued on Page Five •*» • BULLETIN The Adams county commissioners announced this afternoon that the court house offices will be closed all day Monday and Tuesday for the . Christmas holiday.

Two Dead In Train Wreck In Illinois 37 Others Injured As Train Derailed Near Belleville BELLEVILLE. 111. (UP) — Two were installing an underpass. They today when tne behind-schedule Illinois Central train Chickasaw was derailed near here and eight cars plunged down a 15-foot embankment. Mrs. Jennie Covell, 70, North Platte, Neb., died shortly after being taken to the hospital, and Henry Hudson, 67, Rosedale, Miss., died about seven hours later. Ambulances from the surrounding area, including St. Louis, took the injured to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital here where 20 remained and 18 were treated and released. State police blamed the derailment of the 13-car train on the shifting of a new road bed due to recent rains. The “run around” track, relocated because of construction on a new route for U.S. 40, had a speed limit for trains of 10 miles per hour. Three servicemen were credited by authorities with aiding the injured. The men were Coast Guard Cadet William Neal, 18, of DeSoto. Ill.; Airman Clem Price Jr., 23, Lockbourne AFB, Ohio, and Donald Hartley of Cairo, 111., a Navy officer candidate. They worked for more than three hours inside the jumbled coaches. Heavy fog and occasional drizzle hampered rescue workers in the mire outside the cars. Two ambulances collided while racing to the wreck and three persons were injured, including Andrew Russell, 53, East St. Louis, who was in serious condition. Russell was driving one ambulance and David and Joseph Renner, brothers from Freeburg, 111., were the crew in the other. Scene of Construction Illinois Central officials said the wreck occurred at a point where state highway department crews were installing an underpass. The said train crews were instructed to reduce speed to five miles per hour in the area. The train, called the Chickasaw, was enroute from St. Louis, Mo., to Memphis, Tenn., and connecting with New Orleans, La. It consisted of 10 mail, baggage and express cars, two coaches anad one sleeping car. The two diesel engines and first five cars remained on the tracks. Among the injured passengers was Dr. Lawrqpce C. Jones, 75, Piney Woods, Miss., who recently appeared on the television show “This Is Your Life.” He was treated and released. Anthony Wayne Trail Allen County Board Okays Trail Route The Anthony Wayne Trail ■through Adams county became a fact today with the announcement by G. Remy Bierly, local attorney. that he has received the last approval necessary for its adoption. The Anthony Wayne Parkway commission, of which Bierly is chairman, has been working more than 10 years in selecting the route and making the proper connections with the state of Ohio’s trail. Today, Bierly received from state senator Lucius Summers, an Allen county member, a copy of a resolution adopted by the Allen county board of commissioners, approving the route Jhrough that county. Previously, the state highway commission, the state conservation department, the state historical director, the Adams county board of commissioners and the Fort Wayne city council, had agreed to the route. Next step will be marking the Indiana section of the road to its connection at two points with the Ohio trail. It will enter this county from Willshire on the Piqua road, following this to the Monmouth road, and on this to U. S. highway number 27, which it will take to the Hoagland road. From the Hoagland road it will follow the old Wayne Trace into Fort Wayne and leave that city on U. S. highway number 24 to the Ohio line. In Ohio it extends as far north as Toledo and as far south as Cincinnati.

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D. C. Stephenson Is Freed From Life Term • ‘ ' zV : By Gov. George Craig

' ■■ Ike Sets Out Conditions To Chinese Reds Gives Conditions To India Leader To Improve Relations WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower told Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru that-If Red China sincerely wants to improve relations with the United States, it must: —Promptly release 10 American civilians still held in Chinese jails. —And agree to settle disputes with this country without resorting to the threat of or use of force, particularly in the Formosa area. Informed sources said today that Mr. Eisenhower set forth these conditions in the private talks he held with Nehru Monday and Tuesday at Gettysburg, Pa., and Washington. Once these conditions are met, the United States is understood to be wjjl to talk over “other matters" outstanding between the two , Countries. Red China has been pressing tor talks between its premier, Chou En-lai, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and for an easing of the American embargo on trade with the Chinese Communists. Officials said Mr. Eisenhower made no pledges to Nehru on U.S. diplomatic recognition of the Peiping regime or on relaxing U.S. opposition to Red China’s admission to the United Nations. The United States recognizes the government on Formosa, headed by Chiang Kai-shek, as the legal government of China. It has led the fight against U N. membership for Red China. What Mr. Eisenhower told Nehru could have an important bearing on,the future course of AmericanRed Chinese relations, beginning early next year. Nehru, who left Washington Thursday, will meet with CHbu Enlai soon after his return home from the United States. He talked with-Chou before coming to Washington and relayed to the President Red China’s views on improving relations with this country. Margaret J. Grimm Dies This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Margaret Jane Grimm, 85, a resident of Decatur practically her entire life, died at 3:15 o’clock this morning at the Davis nursing home at Bluffton, where she had resided for the past two years. She has been seriously ill for the past six weeks. She was born in Cadic, 0., Aug. 5, 1871, a daughter of Harrison and Hannah Sudduth. Her husband, Clinton Grimm, preceded her in death. Surviving arg two daughters, Mrs. Grace Tricker of Sturgis. Mich., and Mrs. Beatrice Wible ' of Bluffton; three sons, Harry Coffelt of Decatur, and Francis and Lase Grimm, both of Decatur; 15 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchil-dren; three brothers, Elias, Walter and Albert Sudduth, all of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Carrie Brown of Decatur. One son, one daughter, two brothers and three sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Sunda’y at the Black funeral home, the Rev. Paul D. Parker 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.

7“ Hoosiers Chisel On Gross Income Taxes Legislators Unsure Os Proper Methods (Second in a series of stories based on a poll of legislators on Cme of the issues in the 1957 diana General Assembly.) By SAM NEWLUND United Press Staff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Many ■ Ihdiana lawmakers believe some- > thing should be done about Hoo- ' siers who avoid paying the state gross income tax. t One of the most frequent comments by members of the 1957 Legislature who answered a United Press poll on legislative issues was that too many taxpayers are “chiseling” on this tax. But lawmakers disagreed on what to do about it. Os 68 who answered the poll, 40 said employers should withhold gross intome tax, much the same way the federal income tax is collected on a “pay-as-you-go” basis. But 24 disagreed with that view, and the rest failed to answer or gave indefinite answers. Views on this and other tax questions may change before the session begins Jan. 10, and party leadership may realign thinking, too. ’! The poll also showed divided sentiment on Increasing the gross tax and considerable leaning against a sales tax. Hits Tax Chiseling On the withholding issue, one legislator put it this way: “I would hate to impose this burden on employers, but it would certainly increase collections. I know there is much chiseling now.” Another said this would “pre- ( Cont tamed on Pare $9,990 Awarded In Right Os Way Case Verdict Returned By Jury Thursday Compensation totalling $9,900 was awarded by the jury to Robert and Estella Rice, defendants in a land appropriation case filed by the state of Indiana in the matter of a right-of-way along U. S. highway 27. The eleven man and one woman jury received their, instructions by 5:45 p.m. Thursday and retired to the jury room for deliberation at about 6:40 p.m. They returned their verdict at about 11 p.m. Summary arguments were presented by counsel for both sides Thursday afternoon. The defendants argued that the $20,600 to $22.000 estimates originally awarded by appraisers, was justifiable. The state took exception to the appraisals, claiming that they were too high. The jury was charged with the duty of determining the difference ’ between the value of the property before and the value after construction. The state took 3.3 acres from the Rice • property for the highway right-of-way. The Rices claimed devaluation because of this and damage caused during construction. * The case was the first eminent domain suit in Adams circuit court for more than 50 years. The trial featured the first time in the history of the local court that moving pictures have been submitted and accepted as evidence. A similar suit by the state against Mary Hobrock was scheduled to. begin last Monday but the Rice trial, which lasted nine full days, was not completed in time for the Hobrock case to begin. It is expected that this trial will be« scheduled for sometime in February. The law firm of Custer and Smith represented the Rices. The state was represented by Frank X. Haupt and Jack C. Daw, of the Indianapolis attorney general’s office, and Severin H. Schurger, local attorney.

Nehru Calls On World To Use Peaceful Means Urges Settlement.' Os Differences By Arguments In UN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)— Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru urged the nations of the world Thursday night to settle their differences by arguments in the United Nations instead of “cold wars” and military alliances. Nehru, on a two-day visit here, told an informal meeting of 1,000 U.N. delegates in the General Assembly Hall that Hungary and the / Middle East proved the ineffective?' ness of using strength in the world today. The Indian leader arrived Thursday from Washington where he had spent four days there Sind at Gettysburg, Pa., in consultation with President Eisenhowey. Meets U.N. Officials He will meet today ’ with U.N. Secretary General Dsg Hammarskjold and General Assembly President Prince /Wan Waithayakon and then btf guest of honor at a U.N. lunCh? He flies to Canada tonight. Nehru told the UN. delegates Thursday night that the idea of a cold war is “fundamentally and morally wrong." He said it is the “very negation of what the United Nations stands for.” - - “Why not take for our protection instead of armies and risks, instead of countries having armed forces in another country, why not do aWay with the system of military alliances and pacts and face each other frankly and openly and try to settle disputes by argument here in the United Nations or elsewhere,” he said. Nehru also spoke Thursday night before the American Association of the United Nations where he praised the United States for its position during the Suez crisis. "The respect the world feels for the United States has gone up immensely since it took its position on Egypt,” Nehru said. He said thatos Russia grew afterher revolution, power “went to her head and she’ misbehaved.” Russia's actions were "wrong” in Ccnttnufd’on Pa«e Five Mrs. Wm Fuelling Dies Thursday Night Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Hannah Fuelling, 85, dieU at 11 o’clock Thursday night at her home in Root township, five miles north of Decatur. She had been, in failing health for several years and bedfast for the past four weeks. Born in Allen county June 4, 1871, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gallmeyer, and was married to William Fuelling Oct. 15, 1891. Her husband preceded her in death May 1, 1944. Mrs. Fuelling was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church. Surviving are one son, William Miss Edith Fuelling, at home, and Fuelling, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Theodore Kleine of Hoagland; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Mrs. Amelia Wietfeldt and Mrs. Emma Hartman of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Martin Vandrau of Allen county.;/ One son, one daughter, three sisters and three brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 1:30 p. m. at~ St. Peter’s Lutheran church, the Rev. F. W. Droegemueller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friend} may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the service*.*.

Living Costs Climb To New Record High New Record Living Cost In November WASHINGTON < UP) — The cost of living climbed to a new record high last month, bringing pay hikes of *1 to 3 cents an hour'for almost 900,000 workers, the government reported today. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index rose by onetenth of 1 per cent to 117.8 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. The; index has climbed to new records in five of the last six months. The increase was due mainly to higher prices for new cars, fuels, services, and house furnishings. The increase means that about 700,000 workers in the steel, steel fabricating, aluminum and can industries will get pay hikes of about 3 cents an hour on Jan. 1 under wage contracts geared to rising living costs. Another 200,000 workers in meat packing and aircraft industries will get pay hikes estimated roughly at 1 to 2 cents an hour, goyernment officials said. At the same time the bureau reported that the average factory worker’s take home pay and purchasing power also climbed to new record levels last month. The average take home pay for a factory worker with three dependents rose 3% per cept to $75.20 a week. The increase more than offset toe cost of living rise with the result that his purchasing power rose 1 per cent to 123.4 per cent of the average in 1947-49. BLS Commissioner Ewan Clague predicted that the cost of living for December will be about the same qs last month,, with a decline more likely than an increase. Breakins Reported In Decafur, Monroe Report Little Loot Taken In Breakins Business places in Decatur and Monroe were broken into sometime last night by a thief or thieves who took small change from each place, and other items. The Riehle Implement company was entered through a southwest window. Money was taken from a soft drink machine and several small items were taken from toe building. The four buildings of the Farm Bureau Co-op, including the lumber yard, grain elevator, bulk plant and business building, were entered and unsuccessful attempts were made to open four Safes. Soft drink machines were rifled at toe Co-op buildings but apparently nothing else of value was taken. An investigation is being conducted by the Ahams county sheriff’s (iepartment and the city police department. Authorities indicated that there was possibly a connection between the break-ins in toe two communities. Another apparent attempted breakin was reported at toe Adams Theater, where the glass window in a door was broken. This was reported early this morning by Gene Kisner of North Salem, who was delivering films to the theater. Roy Kalver, owner and manager of toe theater, was notified but an investigation showed that nothing was missing. The attempt occurred sometime before 2 a. m. Good Fellows Club Previous total $454.90 S. E. Hite —- 5.00 Alfred & Catherine Beavers 10.00 Ladies Auxiliary V. F. W. 5.00 Memory of Bobby Lake ... 5.00 Mr. & Mrs. George Tricker 2.00 Mr. & Mrs. W. A. Klepper 5.00 A Friend 1.00 A Friend .... 1.00 Boxes r-™ 2.25 Mr. & Mrs. Don L. Hakes. - 10.00 A Friend ......i 10.00 . $511.15

Former Boss ! OfKuKlux Klan Freed Amnesty Ordered By Governor For Convicted Killer Indianapolis (up) — DC. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, today was freed from his life ternl in Indiana State Prison by Governor Craig. State Corrections Board Chairman Hugh O’Brien said Craig's Christmas amnesty order meant Stephenson could be released today. The only restriction is that he leave Indiana and stay out, O'Brien said. Craig also paroled 13 other murderers, discharged one other murderer from parole, reduced sentences of 13 prisoners and pardoned two others. Stephenson was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1925 for the murder of Miss Madge Overholtzer, ' Indianapolis, a Statehouse employe who accused him of rape. After serving 25 years of the term, Stephenson was paroled, but 1 he disappeared and was eventually ; captured in Minnesota. [ Stephenson was granted another ' parole in December, 1954, but he failed to submit an acceptable employment plan to prison officials. A job was offered him in Chicago, but that city turned him down. Stephenson at one time boasted “I am the law in Indiana” during the height of his power as national leader of the Klan. He was accused of a vicious sexual attack on Miss Overholtzer during an Indianapolis - Chicago train trip. She died after swallowing poison but doctors testified at Stephenson’s Noblesville trial that she would have died from wounds he inflicted on her. Horace Coats, Craig’s executive secretary, said Stephenson, now 62, will go to Meadville, Pa., to live with a sister, Mrs. Arthur H. Stainbrook. Arthur Campbell, Democratic member of the correction board, expressed surprise at the parole. “This is not an action of the Board of Corrections,” he said at Michigan City, ‘‘but strictly a Governor’s order—and he has the Constitutional right to do it.” Other lifers granted paroles, all sentenced for murder, were: William J. Eiffe, sentenced from Marion County in 1945. William H. Graham, Lake, 1941. Carl M. Griffin, Parke, 1919. Edward L. Hart, Lake, 1942. Albert Hansborough, Bartholomew, 1949. Albert Kirk, Marion, 1946. Amborse Logdson, Decatur, 1940. Percy Love, Jasper, 1948. Richard T. Merle, Vanderburgh, 1949. Roy Miller, Lake, 1942. Joe White. Lake, 1946. Gilbert Windell, Harrison, 1946. Daniel Derry, Clark, 1945. Earl Hoelscher, sentenced to life from Allen County in 1943 for first degree murder, was discharged from parole. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional periods of rain or driule tonight and Saturday. Considerable fog tonight. Little change In temperature. Low tonight 3442 north, 42-50 south. High Saturday 40-50 north, 50-80 south. Sunset 5:24 p. m., sunrise Saturday 8:02 a. m.

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