Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 10, Decatur, Adams County, 12 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. Nd. 10.

NEW RESIDENTS AT 10 DOWNING STREET . BRITAIN’S NEW Prime Minister. Harold MacMillan is pictured before the door of the residence hTwiT leave in favor jf the house next door. With MacMillan are his wife and daughter, currently residing at No. 11 Downing Street. His new address, official residence for Prime Ministers, is at No. 10.

ErfenflMiQf. Korean Bonus Is Proposed State Legislature INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A move was afoot today to extend Indiana's Korean War bonus to veterans who served in other parts of the world besides Korea. A bill introduced late Friday in the Legislature also would extend the date for filing claims from June 30, 1856 to Dec. 31, 1957. The measure was one of a couple dozen tossed into House and Senate hoppers during the second day of the 90th General Assembly. The author was Rep. Ralph G. Hines (R-Portland). Meanwhile, some lawmakers planned to deVote part' of the weekend studyingthe bulky state budget proposed lor fiscal 1957-59. The House Ways and Means “A” Committee and the Senate Finance Committee scheduled another joint 1 budget meeting for Monday. Gov.-elect Harold Handley dodged comment on Governor Craig's /speech Friday which included a proposal abolishing the electric chair in Indiana. Other reactions varied. —■■■”;■■ - Bonus Breakdown Hines’ bill would divide non-dis-abled veterans into three classes. Those who served at least 90 days from June 27, 1950 to July 27, 1953, would receive 350. Those who served in the Korean theater would get 3200, and those who served outside the United States, but not in Korea, would get 3100 At present, only veterans of the Korean theater are eligible, except disabled veterans and next of kin. The rate is 315 a month for each month of service. It would mean a cut for any veteran who served more than about 13 months in Korea. Handley said Craig “made some good constructive comments” in his farewell speech to a joint House-Senate session. But he refused to say if he agreed on any points. Craig said capital punishment should be abolished as “barbaric,” and proposed a merit system Conservation Department, an excise police force divorced from the Alcoholic Beverage Commission, and placing Boys and Girls Schools under the Health Department rather than Corrections. Hughes Against Merit Plan Lt. Gov.-elect Crawford Parker said he thought it was “a good farewell speech.” He said it was “the first time” he ever heard anyone propose stopping capital punishment. On excise police, Parker said he believed the ‘.‘ABC should have full control.” Sen. minority' leader Matthew Welsh, Vincennes, said “it was a very good speech.” “I agree with the majority of his recommendations, particularly those on job security for technical people, driver safety and motor vehicle inspection,” Welsh said. Former House Speaker W.O. Hughes (R-Fort Wayne) said he agreed capital punishment should be abolished. But he disagreed that putting employes on a merit system improves government. “The merit system takes public servants too far away from the people,” Hughes said. First Traffic Death Is Recorded At Gary GARY (UP) — Je sse L - Welch, 47, Crown Point, was killed Friday night when a Michigan Central Railroad train crashed into his automobile as he drove around lowered crossing gates into its path, police reported. It was Gary’s first traffic fatalfty of 1967.

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~ ■ 11 Hungary Inspection U. N. Representative Report On Relief UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. *(UP) —United Nations Representative Philippe De Seynes arrives today to report to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on the results of his relief inspection visit to > Hungary. De Seynes. undersecretary for ■ economic and social affairs and i in charge of U.N. aid to Hungary, headed a four-man U.N. team to i Budapest for on-the-spot observal tions and consultations on the rei lief needs of the Hungarian plei The mission arrived in Budapest • last Friday. It was the first offi- > cial U.N. mission permitted with--1 in Hungary since the freedom up- . rising. No advance announcement of the visit was made at the rei quest of the Communist Hungari- > an regime. The presence of the : U.N. mission also was kept secret from the Hungarian people during ' its three-day visit. i De Seynes and three other ; world organization officials conferred with puppet Premier Janos ’ Kadar and various other officials in an effort to determine how U-N---aid channeled through the International Red Cross can be distributed most effectively in the re-volt-torn nation. Although the Communist Hungarian regime lifted the Irqn Curtain for the U.N. relief mission, it made clear it has no intention of admitting any U.N. investigation commission. The General Assembly, by a vote of 59 to 8, set up a fivenation commission Thursday to investigate the situation in Hungary, including Soviet Russia's armed intervention. The committee included Australia, Denmark, Ceylon, Tunisia and Uruguay. Hungary Submits Protest Hungary, in a note delivered by its representatives here to Hammarskjold Friday night, vigorously protested the actions as “unprecedented, gross inter f e rence." It demanded the Hungarian question be stricken from the agenda of the General Assembly. The 27-nation Afro-Asian bloc met Friday night to draft a resolution demanding Israel withdraw its troops behind the demarcation lines set up under the 1949 Palestine armistice without delay. Egypt Friday asked for a "urgent meeting” of the assembly to consider Israeli failure to comply With the U.N. demands for the evacuation of its troops from Egypt. r Airliner Stopped By Hoax On Bomb STOCKTON, Calif. (UP) — A United Airlines plane carrying 26 passengers was stopped shortly before takeoff Friday night after a telephone threat that there was a bomb aboard. Authorities labeled the incident a hoax after a four-hour search proved fruitless. Ambulance Driver Freed Os Charges CROWN POINT, Ind. (ffl — A judge ruled Friday that Ray Nusbaum, 46, Walkerton ambulance driver, was innocent of reckless homicide in a traffic accident which killed an elderly couple a year ago in Gary. Judge William J. Murray of Lake Criminal Court found after a trial twp months ago that conflicting testimony left doubt as to whether Nustjaum was to blame for an ambulance-school bus collision in which a Walkerton couple riding in the ambulance enroute to a hospital were killed.

Os Violence In Budapest Workers Reported Ready To Protest Mass Dismissals VIENNA < UP)—The shooting of workers in Budapest by Communist guns may touch off new violent demonstrations against the puppet Janos Kadar regime, reports from Hungary indicated today. Reports reaching Vienna said workers in factories throughout the country were ready to follow the lead of the Budapest workers in protesting mass dismissals, government interference with workers councils and the return to police-state Communism. • The Communist regime, in spite GfTtrTSWestatiSns thit no United Nations investigation is necessary because peace and order has been restored, acknowledged and continued unrest. Controls Extended It announced the extension until March 31 of controls on private and public demonstrations. Under the decree, the Communist militia has the power to break up unauthorized gatherings. Red Hungarian militiamen, backed by Soviet tanks, used their guns to crush a series of antiCommunist demonstrations in Budapest Friday. The biggest clash took place outside the huge steel and iron works. At least two workers were killed and an uncounted number wounded by Red police bullets, according to early reports. Later reports from Budapest said the death toll was probably much higher since the heaviest firing came after Russian tanks and armored cars had cleared the island of spectators and blocked bridge approaches. ' Tanks Mass On Side Streets As far as was known, the Russians did not fire on the demonstrators. The tanks which cordoned off the island in the Danube apparently came from nearby barracks. No tanks appeared in central Budapest, but they missed by the dozens in the side streets near the island industrial complex in southern Budapest. Other anti-government demonstrations took place in Koebanya, Budapest's second biggest industrial suburb, and at two locomotive plants in southeast Budapest. A march by locomotive repair men on Budapest was halted by a motorized column of Hungarian militiamen. The demonstrators dispersed after one shouted: “Better go back than stand here .and get shot.” Indianapolis Judge Dies Friday Night INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— Marion Superior Court Judge Paul B. Clark, 55, died of a heart seizure at a desk in his home Friday night. Clark, a Republican, had been judge for six years. He was born in Indianapolis and lived in Franklin and Bloomington as a boy. Standing Ovation Is Given Handley INDIANAPOLIS OP) Gbv.elect Harold Handley got a standing ovation Friday when he presided over the Senate for the last time as lieutenant governor. On Monday, Handley will be 'inaugurated as Indiana chief executive. He said in his “farewell” address to the Senate his governor’s office will “always be open."

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 12,1957

New County Champ To Be Named In Finals Os Tournament Tonight

At Least 43 , Are Killed In Winter Storm Coldest Weather Os Season Still Grips Atlantic Seaboard By UNITED PRESS Wintry blasts howled past the Atlantic Coast today, leaving least 43 persons dead in its wake, which extended over the eastern two-thirds of the nation. The icicle-coated air, the coldest of the season, moved away from the central East Coast early today, but its chilly fingers continued to send the mercUry shivering down barometer scales in ■ the Middle Atlantic states. Residents from New England ■ eastward through the Great Lakes • were blessed with relief from the • sub-zero wave. Parts of the Ohio - and middle Mississippi Valleys also benefitted from the warmer I air. Temperatures up i as high as 30 degrees above the ' previous day's readings in some ! parts. . The Northern Plains and upper i Mississippi Valley were offered 1 no relief from the long-underwear weather. Residents renewed their 5 tussle with below-zero air. as ft few degrees tower taut) r Friday’s temperatures. Interria--1 tional Falls, Minn., was once • again one of the coldest spots in the country with a nippy 16 degrees below zero. 1 Despite the warming trend, ! snow sprinkles were predicted for r New England and the eastern i Great Lakes areas today. Snow - was also expected to continue in the northern Rockies and over the , Northern Plains states today. Mul- ’ len Pass, Mont., was presented • with a hearty helping of snow ■ again Friday and today. A 24i hour accumulation of nine addiI tional'snow jacked up the total depur to 66 inches. I A United Press survey showed • that at least 43 deaths were due to the frosty weather since last Wednesday night. Illinois topped the list with 15 fatalities. Nebraska, Indiana and lowa tied for second with five each, there were four in lowa, three in both New York and Massachusetts, and one each in Michigan, New Mexico and Vermont. Annual School Music Contest Next Week Federation Os Clubs Sponsor Os Contest The annual county school music contest, sponsored by the Adams County Federation of Women’s Clubs, is still open to entries, according to an announcement by Mrs. R. C. Hersh, federation president. The contest is open to all students of schools in Adams county. It will be held Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Decatur public library. All instruments except piano are eligible hnd vocalists may also participate. ~ Two winners will .be named. They will receive two weeks free music training at Indiana University and will also be eligible to compete for bigger prizes in the state music contest. Any grade or high school pupil in the county who wishes to enter the contest is asked to contact Mrs. Hersh or Mrs. Frank Crist, music chairmah of the federation. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Sunday. Little Change in temperatures. Low tonight 15-26. High Sunday 2838. Outlook for Monday: Partly ’ cloudy to cloudy with chance of a few snow flurries near LakfUdichigan. No Important tenßPrature changes. • NOON EDITION

Execute Graham In Airplane Bombing Killer Os 44 Is Executed Friday CANON CITY, Colo. (UP)—John Gilbert Graham, 24, paid for 44 lives with his own Friday night He went calmly, at times jovially, s to his death in Colorado’s gas chamber at the state penitentiary, s The arrogance he had shown for all from the time he was arrested tor dynamite-bombing a United Air Lines plane Nov. 1, 1955, was i ‘gone as he was strapped to the .steel chair in the air-tight chamber. He joked with Warden Harry Tinsley in his death house cell as he was leaving for the gas chamber. His last words, as the chamber door closed on him, were “Thanks, Warden.** Denies Bitterness A few minutes earlier, he told his attorney, John Gibbons of Denver, it was not true he had been bitter toward his mother, who was one of those he killed for her insurance, and said he laved her and believed he would join her in eternity after his death. He ate only the ice cream from a last meal which included a large steak, french fried potatoes, combination salad and fruit. He had the remainder given to .other inmates. p He did not die easily, however. . The prison physician said “he had . a very tough heart.” It was nine i and one-half minutes from the . time the cyanide gas fumes were released, at 9:57 p.m. EST, until his heart beat its last. He was pronounced dead one and one-half i minutes later. Objected to Appeal No effort was made to save Graham after the state Supreme Court upheld his death sentence last October.. Graham objected even to a Supreme Court appeal. Before he died Graham raised more confusion over whether any of his confessions were sincere. He signed one confession for the FBI but later repudiated it. This week the minister who married him, Bev. Lloyd Kellams of a Denver suburb, said Grham twice confessed to him. Gibbons said when he questioned (Contlßsed •M'Paae Five) Naturalize Seven Here Next Tuesday Hold Proceedings In Circuit Court Five adults and two children will become citizens of the United States in naturalization proceedings scheduled for Tuesday at 9.30 a. m. in Adams circuit court. Those to be naturalized include two from the Ukraine, two from Germany, one from Canada,, one from Hungary and one from Mexico. The proceedings will include the invocation by a minister and the presentation of the persons to be naturalized by a representative of the immigration and naturalization service. Following the administration of the oath of allegiance to the United States, will be an address by Judge Myles F. Parrish, who will preside during the program. The presentation of the flags, the pledge of allegiance to the flag and the playing of the national anthem will conclude the proceedings. Judge Parrish pointed out that the circuit court has jurisdiction over naturalization by law, which states that any court which has a clerk, a seal and jurisdiction in action at law or equity may conduct naturalization proceedings in conformance with laws governing naturalization. The public is invited to attend Tuesday’s ceremonies which will take place in the court room of the Adams county court house. Two other petitions for naturalization will be filed Tuesday with the immigration and naturalization service and one person who has already filed will be interviewed. ..

Negro Leaders Ask Ike's Aid On Integration Seek Eisenhower's Assistance For End To Bus Segregation ATLANTA (UP)-'Negro leaders behind attempts to integrate city buses in the South waited today for a reply to their appeal to President Eisenhower to end bus segregation and a “state of terror” in Dixie. There has been no response from the White House to their appeal, which was made Friday night. Some 60 Negro integration leaders from nine southern states wound up a two-day meeting here with a letter urging the President to come South immediately and use the “weight of his office” in the explosive bus segregation dispute. New Test In Tallahassee At the same time the Negro leaders framed the letter, a new test in the dispute arose in Tallahassee, Fla., when city buses started rolling again following an 11-day “cooling off" period. Florida Gov. Leroy Collins, who suspended Tallahassee bus service 1 order after the city commission ! passed an ordinance giving bus • drivers the power to assign seats 1 to passengers. ‘ On another segregation front, Negroes won a victory when a federal judge ruled that a Virginia law aimed at upholding ' school segregation is unconstitutional. The integration leaders who met ‘ in Atlanta told President Eisenhower in a letter that “American citizens have been unjustly and brutally attacked at home,” as a result of integration attempts in the South. Referring to recent bombings of the homes of Negro leaders the letter said “the maintenance of law and order in the nation finally rests,. .directly upon the President.” Urged To Speak li* South The letter appealed to Mr. Eisenhower to make a major speech in a large southern city urging “southerners to abide by the Su(Coßtlßued oa Pace Five) Annual Report Made By County Recorder 4,178 Instruments Recorded In 1956 A total of 4,178 instruments were recorded by Mrs. Mabel Striker, Adams county recorder, during 1956, according to the annual report which she released today. The report shows that ‘ these brought in fees totalling $5,267.93. The number of' instruments is 428 less than in 1955, but die fees collected in the office are $164.83 more than the previous year's total of $5,098.10. Mrs. Striker stated that this was largely due to an increase in mortgage values. Os the total fees collected, 25 percent is kept by the recorder as compensation and the remainder goes to the county general fund. The report for 1956 shows that 1,177 marginal releases brought in $97.65 in fees; 1,068 chattel mortgages brought in $546; 479 real estate mortgages brought in $2,022.43, and 776 deeds brought in $1,561 in fees. These are the major instruments recorded. Others include 29 mechanics’ liens, $14.50; 198 releases, $169; 29 assignments, $29; two powers of attorney, $2.20; 16 articles of incorporation, $39.70; 24 platts. $97.65, and 261 miscellaneous, $548.25. The miscellaneous instruments included 83 reports of separation, seven honorable discharges, one certificate of service, 27 old age assistance, and one release from old age assistance. _ ..... . .... . ...... r _

New Dead End In Mad Bomber Search Latest Clue Found To Have No Bearing NEW YORK (UP) — Police still were without suspects today after a brief fhirry of early morning activity led into another dead end in the search for "the mad bomber of Manhattan.” Tension mounted with reports that papers and notes bearing ' handwriting similar to that of the 5 elusive bomber’s had been found ‘ in the apartment of a machinist who had died two days ago. It was dispelled, however, when a ‘ handwriting expert said there was no similarity between the hand- ’ writing of Andrew Kleewen, 67, ; and that of the madman whose homemade explosives have injured 15 persons during the past 16 ' years. Police called in handwriting ex- ; perts after making, a routine check ■ of Kleewen’s Bronx apartment, 1 Where they said they also found 1 newspapers and electric bills which they thought might have a bearing on the mystery. Kleewen, a Latvian, died in ' Fordham Hospital of pneumonia, according to police. In his most recent letter, to a • New York newspaper, the elusive 1 bomber had indicated he was ill and said “my days on earth are ' numbered.” : Ask Law Change In : Common School Fund r No Action Is Taken On Seven Requests ‘ INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The . Indian* Common School Fund I Commission Friday appealed to k the Legislature to change a law so . schools in need of funds can be aided. f The commission met with Gov- , ernor Craig to look over requests j for more than 3 million dollars In . loans from seven schools. : At an earlier meeting, the schools were told no more loans could be made from the fund be- , cause it contained only about $15,000 not tied up in other loans and long term investments. The commission Friday took “no action” on the seven requests by a 6-3 vote. But it drafted a statement to the General Assembly that “the present law is in much need of clarification.” The law empowers the commission to buy construction bonds from school units when all other fund resources are exhausted. * The requests pending before the commission were from the South Central Consolidated School Corp., Harrison County; Cowan School Building Corp., Delaware; Wabash Twp., School Building Corp., Adams; Boonville - Boone Twp. High School; Turkey Run Consolidated School Building Corp., Parke; Carmel School Building Corp., Hamilton, and Troy Twp., Perry. — Three Persons Killed In Head-on Collision DANVILLE, Ind (W — T h r e e persons were killed late Friday in a two-car head-on collision on U. S. 36 west of New Winchester, The dead were Glenn William Burr, 67, West Liberty, lowa, his wife’, Lillian, 67, and James F. Shalley, 19, Russellville, Ind. State police said Shalley apparently fell asleep at the wheel. At Least 300 Bills Ready For Assembly INDIANAPOLIS (® — At toast 300 bills have been prepared for presentation to the 90th General Assembly. Many other measures were being readied for introduction. The report came from workers at the Statehouse Legislative Bureau, which handles the mechanics of bills.

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Four Teams In Running Today For Nel Title Monmouth Ousted; Berne Reserves Win Second Team Crown A new Adams county basketball chanipion will be crowned tonight! This fact was assured Friday night when the Monmouth Eagles, county tourney winners • for the past two seasons, were eliminated in the final first round games by the undefeated Hartford Gorillas, 47-41. This afternoon’s semi-finals, with the first game starting at 1 o’clock, will match the Geneva Cardinals against the Berne Bears in the opener, and at 2:15 p.m.» the Decatur Catholic Commodores, who drew the first round bye, r will make their first tourney appearance, tangling with the Gorillas. < The championship game will be played at 8:15 o’clock tonight. * The Berne reserve team won the second team championship in the first Friday night game, downing the Hartford seconds, 25-21, in the final game of the tourney. Eagles Stubborn The Monmouth Eagles, who lost to Hartford by « to the wire last night in a futile attempt to retain their championship laurels. Hartford took the lead after the teams had played nearly four minutes without a score, as Dean Stahly hit a fielder and added two free throws when fouled after the shot. The Eagles hit only two baskets in the first quarter, wane Hartford built up a 12-4 advantage in a listless first period. Hartford, winning its 11th game without a defeat, boosted its advantage to 13 points at 19-6 after two minutes of the second quarter, but the Eagles bounced back and cut their deficit to only four points, 22-18 at half-time. After Bob Biberstein upped Hartford’s lead to six points to start the second half, Monmouth scored six straight points on a two-point-er by Fritz Bulmahn and a field goal and two foul tosses by Don Menter to pull into a 24-24 tie after three minutes. The Gorillas again took the lead but the Eagles once more came back to knot the score at 34-34 with 15 seconds to go. Roger Moser then scored from close range and Hartford held a 36-34 edge as the final period opened. Six Hartford free throws and Blbersteins layup gave the Gorillas a 44-36 |ead, which Monmouth could not overcome in the closing minutes. Both quintets had pretty well balanced scoring. Moser tallied 14 points and Stahly 13 for Hartford, while Menter was the only Eagles in double figures with 48. The Gorillas were outscored from r the field, 15-14, but converted 19 of 35 free throws, while Monmouth made 11 of only 18, as 21 fouls were assessed the Eagles and 12 for Hartford. Berne Seconds Win t The Berne reserves never trailed as they copped the county second team title from Hartford, 2521, in the first game of the evening. Berne scored five points before Hartford tallied, and the eventual champions held a 7-3 advantage at the end of the first quarter. Berne increased its lead by one point in the second period and went to the dressing room with a 13-8 bulge. Hartford scored the first five points of the third period and Berne led at only 15-13 with two minutes of the period to play, but came back with four points for a 19-13 margin as the teams went into the final six minutes of play. Neither team could hit early in the final period, but Hartford finally came through with four points and tied up Berne at 19-19 with 1.20 to go in the game. Berne then came through with the next four points for a lead which Hartford could not too. Steury, with 12 points, and Winteregg, with 10, counted all but (Continued oe Four)