Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 3, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1957 — Page 1

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* OLD HAND WELCOMES NEW MEMBERS . VICK PRESIDENT Richard Nixon offers congratulations to new membera of toe Senate on opening day us the 85th Congress. In the group with the Vice President are 11. to r.) Sen. Thruston Mortem (R> 1 Kentucky, Sen. John S. Cooper (R), Kentucky, Sen. Frank J. Lausche (D) of Ohio who provided . muebopto-ing-day organizational uneasiness before voting with his party; and Sens. Frank Church (D) f Idaho and Joseph S. Clark, Jr.. (D)', of Pennsylvania. •

■(.«■ 1.. ' I h.nraiiMHimrie Adams County Tourney Draw Is Announced

Pairings for the annual Adams county high school basketball tourney, to be held at the Adams Central gym Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Jan. 10, U and 12, were drawn Thursday evening at a dinner meeting of principals and coaches at the Berne-French school. The Geneva Cardinals and Pleasant Mills Spartans drew the honor of opening the tourney, meeting in the first game at 7 o’cieek next Thursday eyeniftg. second battle Thursday night at 8:15 o'clock. The final game of the county second team tourney will be played at t o'dock Friday evening, and ti»e first round of play will close with toe Monmouth Eagles, defending champions, meeting the undefeated Hartford Gorillas at 8.15 p. m. The Decatur Commodores drew toe first round bye and will not see action until toe second semifinal game at 2:15 ©"clock Saturday afternoon, when they will meet toft winner of the HartfordMonmouth clash. The first semi-final, at 1 p. m. Saturday, will match the winners of the Thursday night games. The championship game will be played at 8:15 p. m. Saturday. A change from the previous years’ schedule was necessitated ttos year with the closing of the Jefferson high school, cutting the first team tourney to seven teams. The second team county final was previously played at 7 p. m. Saturday. . Preliminary rounds in the second team tourney will be played next Monday and Tuesday nights. Ticket Sates Monday Sale of season tickets for the tourney will open in all participat- * ing schools Monday. The season tickets are priced at 82, good tor all tour sessions. Single session tuckets, on sale only at the Adams Central gym, will sell for 75 cents. Season ticket holders will be admitted to the gym one hour before starting time each session, and no single admission tickets will be sold until 30 minutes before game time. C. J. Neuenschwander, Berne principal, is manager of this year's tourney, and Pleasant Mills high school will be in charge of the concessions. Officials will be Duffield, of Columbia City, and Sanders, of Warsaw. Season ticket distribution, based on enrollment, is as follows: Monmouth, 400; Adams Central; 600; Decatur Commodores, 200; Pleasant Mills, 300; Berne, 450; Geneva, 350; Hartford, 200. Second Team Tourney First round games in the second • team tourney will be played Monday night. A single game will be played at 7 p. m. Monday at Pleasant Mills, with the Decatur Commodores and Pleasant Mills reserves tangling. . — Two games will be played Monday at the Geneva gym, with Hartford meeting Monmouth at 7 o'clock, followed by Adams Central and Geneva at 8:15 p. m. ‘ Semi-finals will be played at the Berne gym- Tuesday, with Berne, which drew the bye, meeting toe winner of the Pleasant Mills-Commodores game, at 7 o’clock, followed by the two Ge(ContinoM M Page Six)

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Says Policing Os Middle East Is U.N. Task Senator Mansfield Says United States Should Furnish Men WASHINGTON (UP)—Sen. Mike Mansfield said today toe job of protecting the Middle East as envisioned by the "Eisenhower Doctrine'’ should fall to a permanent United Nations police force and not just the United States alone. The Montana Democrat said toe United States should be prepared to furnish a Marine division and a Marine air wing to such a U.N. force. “My feeling is that aid (to toe Middle East) should be provided multilaterally," (that is, by a number of nations acting collectively*, Mansfield told a reporter. Mansfield New Whip Mansfield was elected Thursday as the new Democratic whip of toe Senate and is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was one of several Democrats who questioned the President’s program closely as a result-of Wednesday night’s long, closed-door discussion of the plan with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. The “Elsenhower Doctrine” envisions the use of U.S. troops, if necessary, to protect the dil-rich Middle East from any Russian aggression. Coupled with this would be a S4OO million program of economic aid to help stabilize Middle East nations. The President will go before an extraordinary joint session of Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST Saturday to make a personal plea for ap(Continued on uw Four) Selective Service Sends Contingents Two Adams county young men left this morning for Indianapolis to be inducted into the armed for-, ces. They are Kedwin David Graber and Norbert Paul Selking. They were accompanied by 10 others who will report for physical examinations. The ten are Robert Lee Doan, Alvin Theodore witte, Josef Nickolaus Kahlert, Harry John Moser, Cleo Jesse Landis, Walter Allan Osterman, Roger LaVerne Strahm, Donald Wemhoff, Charles Duane Lehman and John William Kipfer. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with snow beginning south portion this afternoon or evening, continuing tonight with sleet or freezing rain extreme south portion. Hazardous driving conditions developing south portion. Partly cloudy with snow flurries likely tonight. Colder tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and cold with snow or sleet southeast portion in morning. Low tonight 15-22 north, 22-30 south. High Saturday 20-28 north, 28-34 south. Sunset 5:34 p.m., sunrise Saturday 8:08 a.m. I ■

Allen County Sheriff Heads State Police Harold Zeis Named As Superintendent By Governor-Elect INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— Gov.-elect Harold Handley today announced appointment of Harold Zeis, sheriff of Alien County, as superintendent of toe Indiana State Police. Zeis has served, four consecutive terms as sheriff of one of Indiana’s biggest counties, in which Fort Wayne is located. Zeis will succeed Supt Frank A. Jessup, who served throughout the administration of Handley’s predecessor. Gov. George Craig. Handley made toe announcement at a news conference this morning. He said Zeis is “eminently qualified and experienced.” Handley said he chose Zeis rather than someone from toe ranks of the present police force because “there is a great deal of interdepartmental politics" in toe State Police Department. He believed, Handley said, that if he chose somebody from the department he would “make one faction happy and toe other unhappy." ... • ■ Handley said he told Jessup he could remain in the department if he wishes. > Zeis has been a primie candidate for the superintendency virtually since Handley’s election last Nov. 6. Reappointments Are Listed The superintedent’s salary is $9,160 a year. Handley also announced the reappointment of Albert Huber as state traffic safety director. Huber was assistant to Joe Lingo until Lingo's recent resignation. He also announced reappointment of Cecil Bollinger, Winchester, as executive secretary of the Public Employes Retirement fund; B. A. Poole, Indianapolis, as secretary of the Indiana Stream Pollution Control Board; Robert W. Kellum, Indianapolis, as executive secretary for toe Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission, and Otto Lee, director of the State Printing Board. Handley also said he has no intention of dismissing Dr. Bertram E. Groesbeck, Indianapolis, state health director. However, Handley . said there will be new arrangement in toe state health department with three distinct divisions all responsible directly to Handley; Groesbeck previously was responsible for all health departments. Hereafter, he will be in (Contlnuee on Page Six) Classification Talk At Rotary Meeting Dr. Rgy Stingely, chairman of the classifications committee of the. Decatur Rotary club, presented an interesting discussion of classifications at the weekly dinner meeting of the club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Leo Kirsch was chairman of toe program. Four new members, John Margerum, Eugene Ziner, Ed Imel and Max Gilpin, were formally inducted into the club, with Gene RydeH, Avon Burk and Clarence Ziner in charge of the ceremony. The Rotary chib will meet in joint session with the Lions dub at 6:30 p.m. Monday, replacing the usual Thursday meeting next week.

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Decatur, Indiana, Fri day, January 4, 1957

Marie (Body) McDonald Is Reported Kidnaped From Bed Early Today

Withdrawal Os Israel Troops Is Discussed TecfinicofDetails Os Withdrawal Os Troops Discussed LONDON (UP) — Maj. Gm, E.L.M. Burns, commander of toe United Nations Emergency Forces I and Gen. Moshe Dayan, Israeli chief of staff, are meeting today* to discuss “technical details" ‘o| the Israeli withdrawal from the; Sinai desert. Jerusalem dispatches reported. Informed sources in Jerusalem said toe men. would discuss details of toe first stage of the Israeli withdrawal from Sinai which will leave Israeli troops occypying a line from El Arish on the Mediterranean to the former Egyptian fortress of Sharm El Sheikh on the Red Sea. There have been persistent reports from Jerusalem that Israel would not give up all the Sinsi desert until it receives assurances from toe United Nations that the desert will not be used by Egyptian Fedayeen rakfers. Discussions Scheduled Discussions between Burns and Dayan on the second stage of the withdrawal will not begin unlft UN. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold completes talks in New York with Mrs. Golda Meir, the Israeli foreign minister, the sources said. Israel meanwhile sent the frigate Mivtah to the port of Eilath on toe Gulf of Aqaba, the second Israeli warship to sail up the Gulf after circling the Cape of Good Hope. The port itself was humming with activity for the first time since it was wrested from the Arabs seven years ago. The government announced plans for a major development of toe port to handle cargoes up to 150,000 tons yearly. Some $700,000 has been allocated for short term development of the port. U.S. Looks to U.N. The United States meanwhile looked to private talks at toe United Nations for a settlement of the Suez Canal issue and possibly the entire Middle East problem. An American spokesman at the U.N. said Hammarskjold planned to bring British, French and Egyptian officials together again. In Cairo Egyptian and U.N. (Continued ok rage Five) U. S. To Press For Unify For Koreans Draft Resolution For UN Assembly UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —The United States was expected to ask the United Nations today to make new efforts to unify Korea _by peaceful means. c U.S. Delegate Edward S. Greenbaum was understood ready to present a draft resolution at the opening of toe General Assembly’s Main Political Committee meeting. A U.S. spokesman said toe delegation also hoped to resume “private talks under toe aegis of the U.N.” to solve toe problem of Suez Canal management and navigation. Neither toe United States nor other Western delegations looked for extended debate on the Korea issue in view of toe refusal by Communist North Korea to accept free all-Korean elections to be held under U.N. supervision. Dr. You Chang Yang, Republic of Korea ambassador to Washington, was invited by toe committee to state his views. The committee rejected a Soviet-supported Indian bid to hear from North Korea also. Yang was prepared to ask again for ROK admittance to U. N. membership, nullification of the 1953 armistice agreements and toe return of prisoners of war from India to South Korea. Dr. Victor A. Balaunde of Peru, chairman of the Main Political Committee, hoped to end the Korean debate no later than Monday.

- . Disclose Contract To Official's Wife Wife Os Assistant Defense Secretary WASHINGTON (UP)— fpnse Department has discioseu headed by toe wife of Assistant Defense Secretary Robert Tripp Ross received a $834,150 Army contract last November. A Defense Department spokes--1 man quoted Ross as saying that he has had nothing to do with the firm for several years. Ross was 4 not immediately available for W comment - d\.The department said Thursday jynght in reply to press inquiries 5 that a check of Army procurement records showed the contract for 249,000 pairs of men’s trousers was awarded to Wynn Enterprises, Inc., of New York and Knoxville, ;>o. , Wife Is President ’ Mrs. Claire Wynn Ross, wife of , the assistant defense secretary, is s president of the firm, toe department said. : ; . The department said it was un--1 able to give an immediate legal i opinion on whether the military B procurement activities of- a firm , headed by Ross’ wife violated the . conflict-of-interest law governing toe outside financial Interests of government officials. One associ1 ate, however, expressed doubt that . toe law had been violated since i Ross now has no connection with ? or financial interest ih tile firm. r Mrs. Ross said there were a j number Os other bids submitted , for’ the contract, and all were closed. She said she felt her firm . could save the government about n $75,000 on toe transaction. [ Named- President Last October f “I might make a little on it, or I lose a lot,” she said. Mrs. Ross said she was named t treasurer of the firm when it was i organized in 1844, and has been president since last October. , “My husband had nothing to do with toe contract,” she said. I An official Defense Department . biography of Ross, a former Re(ContlnoMgon Fzxe Five) March Os Dimes To Open Here Saturday > i Meeting Tonight To Plan For Campaign The 1957 March of Dime? campaign in Decatur and Adams county will be planned at a meeting tonight in Decattir. Attending will be members of the local polio foundation chapter board of directors and campaign chairmen. The board includes Herman Krueckeberg, treasurer; Dick Linn, secretary; M. J. Pryor, viceMrs. Robert Hess, chairman and county campaign director. Assisting as drive chairmen will I be Kenneth Shannon for Decatur, > Cletus Gifford in Berne and Mrs. t Arley Sprunger in Geneva. The drive for funds to fight po- ■ lio opens officially in this county • Saturday and extends to Jan. 31. : Several projects will be planned, i including the annual Mother’s March, which will be held in De- ■ catur later in the month. ■ Mrs. Hess pointed out that the ; need for financial aid is still heavy 1 in spite of the development of the ’ Salk vaccine which has proved an effective weapon against the crip- ’ pling disease. ‘ She stated that throughout toe ; nation there are tens of thousands . of polid patients for whom toe vac- ; cine came too late. They need care and the research that will improve , techniques for their treatment and \ rehabilitation. ’ ' She added that toe' responsibility , does not end with aiding past cas- , es. There are and will continue to be current cases until toe Salk vaci cine has been fully accepted and used by every American. > It was emphasized that polio in- . cidence has dropped nationally, esi pecially among the age groups given priority to the first supplies of , toe vaccine, but there, are still I threats of tragic epidemics and the ■ use of vaccine is not keeping up . with production. - ■ -

< 'A s (MN' • i ■ ft ■ . 1./. ■. ft.-.,., ~ Filibusters Is Ukelv Tn Fail Vote Is Scheduled This Evening After Debate In Senate WASHINGTON (UP)—A drive to limit filibusters and permit passage of civil rights legislation headed for almost certain defeat in tiie' Senate today. Advocates of the move hoped to win support from Vice President Richard M- Nixon, the Senate’s presiding officer. But there was no clear indication that Nixon would —or could—help their cause significantly. - The Senate was scheduled to take up toe filibuster dispute shortly after it convened and to reach a crucial vote on the matter at 6 p.m. *■ House In Recess As for the outcome, anti - filibuster forces would say in advance only that they were stronger than they were in 1953 when a Similar drive failed 70 to. 21. Today’s move was sponsored by a bipartisan bloc of 31 senators, but opponents said it would get no more than 35 votes, far short of a majority of the Senate’s 96 memT%e House was m recess today. Both it and the Senate held toedr opening sessions Thursday, swore in new members and elected, officers, putting toe Democrats, because of their majorities in both houses, in control. Both chambers will meet in an extraordinary joint session Saturday to hear President Eisenhower deliver his special message on toe Middle East. The President will appeal for authority to use U.S. troops, if necessary, to counter any Russian aggression in toe Middle East. Need Nixon’s Opinion Nixon became a central figure in toe filibuster dispute after antifilibuster forces disclosed they would pose parliamentary inquiries to obtain his opinion on whether a new set of Senate rules could be adopted at toe outset of Congress. Under toe existing parliamentary situation, however, Nixon's opinion, if one were given, would be purely advisory and not binding. The motion under debate today was one offered by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-NM) to have the Senate take up the matter of adopting new rules rather than follow tradition and adopt the old rifles of toe Specifically, anti-filibuster forces (Continuva on Slx> Ernest Stoppenhagen Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Ernest G. .Stoppenhagen, 82, native of Adams county and resident of the cotinty until he retired from farming, died about 1 p. m. Thursday at the home of his son, Alvin, 3631 Hessen Cassel Rd., where hie had resided for toe past 14 years. Mr. Stoppenhagen was a member of toe Emmanual Lutheran church at Soest. Surviving in addition to the son are one daughter, Mrs. Dora Bowman, Fort Wayne; two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Carl Kiefer, Adams county, and Mrs. Sophia Schultz, Ludington, Mich., and four, brothers, Henry and Carl, Hew Haven; Martin, Wheaton, Tex-, and Edwin, Freesoil, Mich. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Sunday at toe Rodenbeck funeral home in Fort Wayne, and at 2 p. m. at toe Emmanuel Lutheran church, Soest, the Rev. Otto Mueller officiating. Burial will be in toe church cemetery. Friends mal call at toe funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

36 Persons Killed By Fires, Fumes Outbreak Os Home Tragedies In U.S. j.» V < ’’*WWD ,ERESB Firvs* and deadly fumes have killed more than 35 persons, most of them children, in an outbreak of residential tragedies across the nation. A survey by United Press show* ed a total of 36 persons killed, 27 of them children. Fires claimed 28 lives, all but six of them youngsters. *•? Carbon monoxide fumes were blamed for the deaths of a couple and their child and for a father and four of his children. The worst fire tragedies killed sbipersons each at Jeffersonville, Oa , ahd Temple, Pa;’ Carbon Monoxide Takes Toll Five members of one family were killed in a home fire at Marshall, Mo., three small children burned to death in a blaze near Okolona. Miss., a father and daughter died in a fire at Dubuque lowa, and two children were killed in a Birmingham, Ala., blaze. At Troy, N.Y., Joseph Lashway, 42, and his three sons ■ and a daughter died shortly after they ' were found unconscious in their 1 homes late Thursday. Authorities ’ said carbon monoxide apparently ; was responsible for the deaths. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brown and their 8-year-old daughter died in their Columbus, Ohio, home when carbon monoxide fumes filled the house from an unvented gas heater. * ■■■ Wines Ont Family V ' The fire at Jeffersonville killed A. Lucius Ringwood, 40, his wife and their four children. An overheated kerosene stove was blamed for the fire at Temple. Trapped and killed by the flames in their one-story frame home were Mrs. Esther Rothermel 48; her grandchildren, Jimmy Brobst, 1, and his 3-year-dld sister Peggy; her nieces, Donna Rothermel, 2, and Carol Ann Fromm,, 4; and a nephew, 4>year-old Eddie Rothermel, Donna’s borttier. Orvell Swisher, 37, his wife and their three children died in the fire at their home near Marshall. Record Death Toll On Highways In '56 40,200 Are Killed By Traffic In Year CHICAGO (UP)—The National Safety Council today reported a record 40,200 persons were killed in traffic accidents in 1956, the greatest slaughter on the nation's highways in 15 years. And the council added a grim warning that there is no indication the reckless traffic toll will slacken in the near future. The council, which tabulates traffic deaths and accidents across the nation, said last year’s toll broke the previous record of 39,969 deaths, set in 1941. It said figures also show the ratio qf traffic deaths per mile still is climbing, indicating more disatrous records will be set in the future. Holiday Sets Record The council’s announcement came on the heels of the worst holiday traffic carnage in history. An all-time holiday record of 712 deaths was recorded in the nation during the Christmas weekend and this was followed by a New Year’s weekend record of 412 fatalities. Die total of 1,124 deaths also was a record for the combined weekends. An indication of the increasing death rate on the highways was in the fact the 1955 traffic toll was 38,426, or about 1,700 under last year. ■ The fatality rate showed an increase in every month of 1956 except October, the council said. Die October decline broke a string of 19 straight months in which the toll showed a steady increase. November Deaths Jump Council officials hoped the October slump would help prevent a new record for the year, but November traffic deaths killed 3,700 (Continued on Page Mx) 4

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Former Film Star Feared Kidnap Victim k t Anonymous Phone : Colls To Mother And Ex-Husband ; HOLLYWOOD (UP)—Beautiful 1 Marie (The Body) McDonald was ’ kidnaped from her bed in night clothes early today by abductors ! who left a trail at telephoned ! threats saying “Don’t call anyone ' if you want to see her alive . again,” police said. 1 The Federal Bureau of Investi- > Ration was notified immediately jruuce saiu sixer a. investigation that “only a remote ' possibility” exists that the disap- • pearance of the blond actress ‘ from her palatial San Fernando : Valley home was a hoax or pub--1 licity stunt or that she left home ; willingly. Miss McDonald’s ex - husband, wealthy shoe manufacturer Harry ■ Karl, told police a young male 1 voice, extremely nervous, told him ' over the telephone about 2:10 a.m.: i . Tve got Marie. Don’t call any- A r one if you want to see her alive swain ” He aairi ♦Hp mvutoHfitis 1 caller mnyt have gnMen hta tele. 1 ’ Mother Gets Call A similar anonymous call was made to Miss McDonald’s mother i and she rushed to the home , where servants already had found her bed empty, the three children , sleeping peacefully in adjoining , rooms.' • The call to the mother said: ?? 1 "We have Marie. Don’t call po- [ Uce. She won’t be hurt.”’ t The former Powers model and • “Scandals” girl, who hasn't made . a movie in six years, apparently was abducted shortly after midnight. She was wearing only her night robe and a pair of black flat 1 slippers, according to police. A kidnap note, partially pencil printed and partly composed of words dipped from newspapers, was found by police in the mailbox outside the fence surrounding the McDonald residence. “Don’t call police. She won’t be hurt to get money. We will get in touch with you,” it read. Police inspector Henry Kerr said Miss McDonald’s boxer dog, Duke, was roaming the fence-enclosed yard when they arrived in response to a telephone call from Miss McDonald’s mother, who telephoned them immediately after she got the anonymous call. Miss McDonald’s room was undisturbed except for signs she had retired, although the telephone was off the hook. Was Dating Wilding "It's frightening,” said Kart. Die couple's interlocutory divorce decree, under which Miss McDonald received a one-million-dollar total settlement, becomes final 1 next July. . Under the federal law, revised after the Weinberger baby kidi naping in New York, the FBI assumes command of a kidnaping investigation 24 hours after the assumption of kidnaping is arrived at. ■ - ' - The old law provided a seven day waiting period after which it was assumed the victim had been ! carried across state lines. Actor Michael Wilding, estranged husband of actress Elizabeth Taylor, arrived shortly after police opened their investigation at the one-story ranch house in Encino where the 32-year-old actress lived with her two adopted children and 4-month-old daughter. Wilding was questioned by police. Bosse's Condition Reported Critical Ed Bosse, local attorney who underwent surgery several weeks affo. is reoorted in critical coodi* tion resulting from post operative complications- A patient at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort JWayne, ! his condition hecawte critical last night. / . • . " I , • ■ ■ ■