Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 4, Decatur, Adams County, 5 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 4.

NEW WAC CHIEF GETS EAGLES w ■ \ W ■ NEW DIRECTOR of the Women's Army Corps, Mary L. Milligan of Edgewood, Pa., receives her Colonel's eagles from Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker in a ceremony at the Pentagon. She succeeds Col. , Irene O. Galloway.

Senate Votes Down Move To End Filibuster Bipartisan Drive By Northern Senators Defeated Friday WASHINGTON (UP)—Senate civil rights advocates predicted today the new Congress will approve civil rights legislation despite the refusal to change its filibuster rule. . The Senate Friday night defeated 55-38 a bipartisan drive by northern senators to make it easier to limit Senate debate. The defeat left a major road- , block in the path of President Eisenhower's civil rights program. Southern senators have repeatedly , /• used unlimited debate to kill civil rights bills. " i Predicts Speedy Approval ( But despite the defeat. Senate' j GOP Leader William F. Knowland, ] who voted against the rules change drive, was in the van of j senators predicting that the Pres- j ident's civil rights program will ( get speedy approval from the Sen- ( ate Judiciary Committee and the < House. ‘ * f i Under those conditions, he said, the President's program can be passed.” rjr‘ 4i Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D- , Minn), long time backer of civil , rights bills said: "I- predict that , we will have civil rights legisla- ( tion in the 85th Congress.” Seeks Co-Sponsors , Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IU.) dis- | closed Friday that he is already j seeking co-sponsors on a group of , bills apparently designed to carry , t out Mr. Eisenhower’s program. ( Knowland said he expects the ] measures to be offered Monday. , One knowledgeable strategist for southern Democrats, who declined the use of his name, conceded that it will be hard to stop proposals like those sent to Congress by the President and approved by the House last year. Mr. Eisenhower and his legislative lieutenants, at their pre-ses-sion strategy huddles this week, agreed to make an all-out push for the program. It would guarantee voting rights and other civil rights of minorities, establish a- - civil rights commission ] and create a special civil rights 1 division in the Justice Department. I ■ Federated Women Sponsor Contest The Adams county federation of 1 women's clubs will sponsor the an- 1 nual county music contest Jan. 17 1 'at 7 p.m. at the Decatur public 1 library. Students of all the county 1 schools are invited to participate. 1 The contest will be open to vocalists and all instruments except pi- j ano. - - • Two winners will be named and they will compete in a state contest. The winners will also receive two weeks free music training at : Indiana university. Mrs. Frank Crist, Adams county music presi- ( dent, and Mrs. R. C. Hersh, president of the federation, are in charge of arrangements. All students interested in entering the contest are asked to contact one of them. noonedition

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Over $5 Million In Ross Firm Contracts Congress Groups Probe Contracts WASHINGTON (UP) — The Defense Department has disclosed that more than $5.3 million in contracts are held by firms in which the wife of Assistant Defense Secretary Robert Tripp Ross and her brother hold an interest Pentagon records also showed that in addition to the current contracts, the companies in which Ross' relatives are interested received $6,817,000 in’ contracts completed 'i* the 19M4S petted. Two congressional subcommittees opened preliminary investigations Friday to determine if a "conflict of interests" is involved ; in an $884,150 Army contract awarded to a firm headed by Mrs. Ross. Ross said he has had nothing to i do with the various firms since ] February, 1952. when he was i Elected to Congress from Queens County, N. Y. He became an ad- ; ministration official two years later. — The congressional inquiries are I being made by the staffs of a House Government Operations : subcommitteee, headed by Rep. i Chet Holifield (D-Calif) and the ' Senate Investigating subcommittee • headed by Sen. John L. McClellan 1 (D-Ark). - Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga) of , the House Armed Services Com- ( mittee also was known to be con- ( sidering the cases Vinson said he would 1 have no statement until his committee is , formally organized. The Defense Department Thursday night disclosed in answer to press queries that the Army last November awarded an $884,150 contract for 249,000 pair of men’s trousers to Wynn Enterprises, Inc. of New York and Knoxville, Tenn. Mrs. Ross is president of the firm. U.N. Relief, Aid Mission In Hungary Investigation Team Demands Renewed UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —Renewed demands may be expected in the General Assembly for admission of a United Nations investigation team now that Communist Hungary has lifted the Iron Curtain for a U.N. relief and economic aid mission, sources said today. Arrival of a four-man official U.N. mission in Budapest for on-the-spot consultations with Communist officials on relief and economic needs of the Hungarian people was disclosed here Friday night It is the first official U.N. group admitted to Hungary since the freedom revolt flarfed last October only to be crushed by Soviet armed might. The U.N. General Assembly called on Hungary to admit a U.N. team to investigate the uprising but has met with adamant refusal. The puppet Janos Kadar regime also rebuffed a proposal from U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold that Hammarskjold visit Budapest last December. The relief mission is headed by Phillippe De Seynes, U.N. undersecretary in charge of Hungarian relief. His departure from U.N. (ContluuM «a Page Mx) ■ : . < •

■ 1 ' , Miss McDonald Found Walking Along Highway Missing Actress Is Found Wandering Along Desert Road HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Actress Marie McDonald, who has. been missing from her home for more than 24 hours and feared kidnaped, was found wandering along a desert road 140 miles from here, police reported today. Miss McDonald was “incoherent” but unharmed. She was taken to CoacheUa Hospital to Indio. The Imperial county sheriffs station at Indio said: "We have a woman in the hospital here. We believe it is Miss McDonald. She answers the description. She says she is Miss McDonald." ... FBI agents at Indio confirmed her identification. Roadblocks were immediately set up to an attempt to apprehend two suspects, a Mexican and a Negro, whom the actress had reported kidnaped her. She had telephoned three friends during Friday and said she was being held. Found Along Highway Sheriffs deputies said Miss McDonald was found walking along a road outside Cactus City, approximately 25 miles north of Indio by a driver of a Western ; Truck Lines vehicle at 2:45 a.m. ' EST Dr. Alto Fisher, attending physician at the hospital, said Miss McDonald was “to good shape.” He said she was suffering from "numerous bruises on her face." She had a black eye, he said, but no lacerations elsewhere. As to her mental condition, Dr. Fisher would say only: "She is upset, I can’t tell you if she is under the effects of drugs." Police Were Skeptical The disappearance and return of the blonde actress, known as "The Body,” climaxed a career of escapades in which she got more publicity than from her movies. Polka TtUU proceeded with their investigation as if she were kidnaped, but they were skeptical. They didn’t know if her disappearance was an elaborate hoax or a legitimate kidnaping. Police privately inclined to the belief that her disappearance — she had been gone from her palatial San Fernado Valley home for nearly 24 hours last midnight —was the product of a sudden ill- ‘ ness. But they were forced, by the fact that a kidnaping report had ! been filed by Miss McDonald's mother, to stand by their issuance Friday of an all-points bulletin . listing her as a kidnaping victim. , Two men, a Negro and a Mexican, were assigned as suspected abductors. ' The FBI entered the case unoffi- . daily after a kidnap note and two . threatening telephone calls were : disclosed. Calm Settles Over < Integration Battle No Racial Violence 11 In South On Friday ATLANTA, Ga. «B — A new calm settled over the far — flung 1 integration battle grounds of the ' South today with Negro and white < leaders temporarily content to lean ■ back to let the courts settle their racial troubles. For the first time since the Supreme Court ordered buses desegregated to the city of Montgomery, Ala., several weeks ago, there Was no racial violence reported to the South Friday. However, the problem of bus integration still loomed In the Alabama cities of Montogemery, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa,, Mobile, and Prichard; and in Tallahasee, and Miami, Fla., and Jackson, Miss. In the most recent legal test, the Negroes pressing for mixed seating won a big victory. A federal judge to Miami held that the Supreme Court's Montgomery decision automatically overturned Florida bus segregation laws. V' " Just what effect the ruling would have on bus service to Tallahassee, scene of much racial strife over the city transit system was not known since no buses are running. Gov. Leroy Collins suspended bus service to Tallashassee with special “emergency powers” to order to prevent violence. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and not m cold, with chance of some snow south. Low tonight IS- - 20. High Sunday 32. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and continued odd.

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Six Killed As Greyhound Bus Crashes Truck Hits Disabled Truck On Virginia Highway Early This Morning ; LEXINGTON, Va.. (UP) —1 Greyhound bus carrying 39 passengers smashed into a disabled trailer - truck near here Friday night killing six persons and io-, juring 32 others. Rescuers using acetyltoe torches and wrecker hoists worked for nearly two hours to free the passengers—some of them seriously injured — and remove the dead from the twisted wreckage of the glass-domed "Scenlcrulser." Police said the bus, en route from Memphis, Tenn., to New York, crashed into the rear at the parked cross-country truck shortly after 7 p.m. EST on the rise of a small hill. The truck had pulled to the side of the busy, divided highway because of motor trouble and the driver, who was slightly injured, had just set out emergency flares. Ambulances and wreckers from four nearby communities rushed the injured to hospitals here as they were freed from the twisted steel and tile janyned seatrof th* tew * (Hvas Grim Descriptim Traffic on the heavily-traveled U.S. Highway 11 running through Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley was routed to the other lane as workers cut through twisted beams, and doctors administered temporary aid to the trapped victims. A highway patrolman who aided M the rescue work gave a grim description of the tragedy. /‘The bus driver was dead in his se4t,” said Trooper H. K. Wright. “The man in back of him was deed and a woman back of him was alive, but trapped and suffering, Two more behind the woman were alive, but trapped.” Wright said it was nearly two hours before many of the living could be freed. They had to wait for a wrecker from Lexington to pull away the heavy steel that ptoned them to their seats. Baby Among Victims The six fatalities were identified as bus driver Sherer S. Sutliff, 48, Roanoke, Va.; Kenneth G. Tyacke, 49, Washington, D.C.; Col. Milton Rogers, about 60, Lexington, Believed to be a retired Army officer; Mrs. Ragina Marie Bell Jackson, 21, Scranton, Pa.; her 3-week-old son Edward Eugepe Jackson Jr., and her aunt, Mrs. Joe Jackson, 63, Wytheville, Va. Hospital authorities said that of the 32 injured. 16 were hospitalized and two were in critical condition. Sixteen others were treated and released, while two of the (CsaMaase »■ Paare Fire) Bart Shraluka Dies = Friday At Hospital Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Bart Shraluka, 63, native of Adams county and a former Decatur resident, died about noon Friday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of two years of complications. He was born in Adams county Oct. 4, 1893, but had lived in Fort Wayne for the past 25 years. He served as personnel manager for the Safety Cab Co. in that city for 11 years until illness forced his retirement. His wife, the former Bertha Trlcker, died in IMS. Surviving are one son, Robert W. Shraluka. of Decatur, former Adams county sheriff; one daughter. Mrs. Jerome Meyer, of Phoenix, Ariz., and four grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiating. Burial win be in the Trlcker cemetery tn Blue Creek township. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 o’clock this afternoon until time of the services.

— Oil Shortage Grows For Great Britain Fuel Rationing Is Likely To Continue LONDON (UP)—Britain faced a mounting oil shortage today, and experts predicted fuel rationing will continue throughout the year. British newspapers placed much . of the blame for the nation’s pre- ' dicament on small oil epmpanies in the United States. The government of Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden took steps to, conserve available supplies. ' Gasoline rationing, introduced as a “temporary" measure when the Suez crisis cut off supplies coming to Britain through the Suez Canal, took on some aspects of permanency. government leaders mapped plans for still tighter restrictions on gasoline and oil consumption in an effort to make ends meet. Prices of all oil products were expected to rise to meet increased shipping costs, and there were new predictions of a further cut ' in the program which has limited 1 industrial consumption of fuel oil to about 90 per cent of normal. Minister of Transport Harold 1 Watkinson conferred Friday with ' representatives of the nationalized trucking industry and independent 1 operators. Informed sources said 1 he told them trucking lines have ’ not conformed with government ' instructions for saving fuel The Juel shortage took; a deeper cut in, the British automobile industry, which has been shaky > since a rash of strikes over rei duced working hours last year. The Ford plant at Dagenham, east of London, laid off 1,000 employes Friday, and another 1,000 at the Singer Company’s Coventry plant were put on a three-day work week because of the slump in car sales caused by gasoline rationing. Several British newspapers accused the United States of choking supplies of American crude oil to Britain to suit American interests. Texas oil companies came in for particular criticism for apparent unwillingness to step up supplies of crude oil to Europe. Arthur Frantz Buys Ist License Plate Feb. 28 Deadline To Purchase Plates Arthur E. Franz, of 803 North Third Street, was the first focal citizen to buy a 1957 automobile license when they went on sale Wednesday morning, Mrs. Dale De«th, manager of the Decatur branch of the license bureau said today. Business at the license bureau was reported about as usual for passenger license plates, and a little slow for truck platep. The next number to be sold Will be JA 849, if was reported. There are 5100 licenses on hand for sale. Every car owner, regardless of how young he is, must have a statement from the treasurer and assessor that his taxes are paid, or that he owes no taxes, Mrs. Death emphasized. Drivers should also check the bottom right hand corner of their driver’s licenses, as most of them expire this year in the month of birth of the driver. A total of 5,300 licenses were sold by the Decatur bureau last year. -Gar owners have only until February 28 to buy their new plates, Mrs. Death said. No additional help has been hired for the annual rush, she added. Children Evacuated At Burning Hospital NEW YORK (UP) — More than 100 children, including 25 pre-ma-ture babies, were evacuated from Harlem, Hospital today when flames from a fire tn a new annex under construction licked one wall of the hospital.. One baby was born during the four-alarm fire. Both mother and daughter are doing fine, hospital authorities said.

Ed A. Bosse Dies Friday At Hospital Decatur Lawyer And Political Leader Dies Last Night Ed A. Bosse, 55, 517 West Madison street, lifelong resident of Decatur, and long prominent in legal and political affairs of the city, county and state, died at 7:30 o’clock Friday night at the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne. Mr. Bosse had been ill only a few weeks but his condition had been serious since he underwent an abdominal operation. Death was attributed to post operative complications. Mr. Bosse, a practicing attorney in Decatur for many years, graduated from the Decatur Catholic high school and the Indiana University law school, after which he established his law office in this city. Active in Democratic political 1 circles all his adult life, he served as prosecuting attorney of the Ad- • ams circuit court for two terms 1 following his election in 1932. He ■ was then appointed as an assist- ’ ant attorney general under the adr G ° V ‘ CUffoni Mr. Bosse, a former chairman of the Adams county Democratic central committee, was appointed county attorney in 1948, And served in that office until 1953. He was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society, Knights of Columbus, B. P. O. Elks lodge, and the Adams county bar association. Funeral Rites Monday Born in Decatur April 10, 1901, he was a son of John and Katherine Durkin-Bosse, and was married to Miss Laura Lauby Sept. 12, 19M. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Thomas D. Bosse of Cleveland Heights, O.; one brother, Jerome J. Bosse of San Francisco, Calif., and one sister, Mrs. Raymond Kohne of Decatur. Two sons preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, with a prayer service at 8:30 a.m. at the Zwick funeral home, and services at 9 a.m. at the St. Maryls Catholic church, . the Very Rev. Msgr J. J. Seimetz , officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may ( call at the funeral home after 7 , o’clock this evening until time of j the services. Pallbearers, all members of the Adams county bar association, ' will be Judge Myles F. Parrish, Robert Anderson, Severin Schurg- : er, C. H. Muselman, G. Remy 1 Bierly and Hubert R. McClenahan. 1 Honorary pallbearers from the bar association will be Henry B. Heller, Judge Earl B. Adams, D. Burdette Custer, Arthur E. Vogle- ' wede, John L. DeVoss, Lewis L. ' Smith, Robert Smith, David Mack- 1 lin and Howard Baumgartner. Judge Parrish and the board of • Adams county commissioners announced today that all offices in 1 the court house will be closed until noon Monday. Members of the bar associations from Adams, Wells and Jay counties will meet at the court room at 8 a.m. Monday to draft resolutions of respect to Mr. Bosse and to attend the funeral services. Farmer Is Killed As Tractor Overturns MARION, Ind. (UP) — Arthur George, 35, was killed Friday when he was crushed by his overturning tractor on his farm near here. ' Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will meet in the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church Monday at 9:30 a.m. Devotions will be given by the Rev. Paul D. Parker. AU members are urged to be present.

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Kadar Desperately Seeking Support . Sweeping Reforms Promised By Kadar VIENNA (UP)—Hungary’s puppet Communist regime today held out the prospect of a Westernstyle in another attempt to end. .mistaace and win support tn ihe SfrugS» "to Wlhe stricken nation back on its economic feet A four-man United Nations mission was in Budapest for consultations with Communist officials on the relief and economic needs of the rebeUion - devastated nation. The Communist Hungarians frankly admitted foreign help would be a major factor in restoring the national economy. . Soviet - imposed Premier Janos Kadar, in his desperate attempts to win support, has promised Hungarians wide sweeping political and economic reforms. But his promises have faUen on deaf ears. Resistance still continues, both actively add passively. Fighting Continues Government-controUed Budapest newspapers admitted Hungarian partisan bands are still active in outlying provinces. Private reports from Budapest told of the arrival there for repairs of buUet-riddled automobiles and trucks. The Hungarian trade union newspaper Nep Akarat reported small groups of armed partisans "caused disturbances” in Transdanubia. It said “a vile gang’’was rendered harmless in recent weeks in Bakonybel but “now a further group has appeared." Hungarian police, it reported, experienced a "rather hectic day at Varpalota, where they collected a great number of arms at a mine entrance shaft” The arms included sub machine guns. Promisee New Parliament Another band, calling itself the “Maleter group.” in honor of Maj. Gen. Pal Maleter, who commanded the freedom fighters in Budapest during the October uprising, is active around Petfurda, the newspaper said. —— The promise of a Western-style parliament was made in the Buda(Conttoued on Pa«o 81 x) , Indianapolis Infant Is Strangled Friday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Kenneth Jones, 2-month-old son of Mrs. Verna Jones, Indianapolis, died of strangulation Friday when a crust of bread caught in his throat His’ mother told a deputy coroner she believed one of her other children gave the baby the bread. Truman Planning To Become Lobbyist WASHINGTON (UP) - Former President Truman Friday night told a Democratic dinner to his honor that ha plans to become a lobbyist Mr. Truman said he plans to "spend the rest of my life" trying to get Congress to index and file 16 little studied sets of presidential documents now to the National ArcWvi.

tppL JctK jidiiuuy A ■ Lam ■... . * ■' lulifl Carl AUt" Standby Authority C/n II ft It fl Ift Militarv - A At Gnomic p WASHINGTON (UP)—President with an historic personal idea for standby authority to use military and economic aid to bcdster free Middle Bast nations against alw. Soviet advance. While the President put finishing touches on his speech, the administration drafted the finaleform of a resolution that would put the Eisenhower Doctrine into effect. The President’s speech attracted international attention. AU three major U.S. TV-radlo networks planned to carry the speech to the nation. The Voice of America planned to carry it throughout the world. Expect Crowded Galleries Official Washington, including members of the Supreme Court, i were expected to crowd the galearlier this week by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles with House had Senate leaders. Al Hum h 1 Im anmnSJ ; the Eisenhower Doctrine is in for a hard look from both the House action are much less in the more many critical questions to raise before giving their final approval. There, was no firm indication in advance that Mr. Eisenhower would name a specific dollar figure for economic aid to back up Ute authority to use U.B. military ever Dulles used the figure of 1100 The President was reported to have decided at the last minute to use the term “general area of the Middle East** as a boundary for the aid program. But this was not specific enough to satisfy some critical congressmen without fur(OoatlnuM on Pa«o Mx) 1.1..1—■ ...I / Enters Guilty Plea To Bank Robberies s 1 Evansville Robber Awaits Sentencing < INDIANAPOLIS ffl - Confessed bank robber Cledus Stone, 46. St. Louis, today awaited sen- g fencing for twice robbing an Evansville branch bank of more than $6,000. Stone pleaded guilty at his federal court arraignment Friday to charges of robbing the Northside Federal Savings and Loan Association of $2,847 on Nov. IS and of $3,387 on March 14. Stone also was accused of robbing a Lakewood, Colo., loan office twice last fall. Federal Judge William E. Steckler ordered a pre-sentence investigation. David Chan, 54. Kokomo restaurant owner, pleaded innocent to o«£L b «sto m was accused of offering SSOO to an internal revenue agent who was investigating his dead brother’s tax records. Dr. Morris Salzman, former Indianapolis physician, pleaded innocent to charges of trying to evade 112,113 in income taxes for 195042. Arraignment on a tax evasion charge for Joseph T. Sdomlte, 4L Bloomington Stone company FYiday Catamite's attorney Solomite was indicted « a charge of evading $59,515 in I»s<Wl. _ ; .-g ,‘ v : ' L.c

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