Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 17, Decatur, Adams County, 21 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 17.

’ |? jWFx«|l ■ ji - * PRESIDENT and Mrs. Eisenhower are accompanied by *Mrs. Barbara Eisenhower (right), wife of their son John, as the White House limousine rolls to the executive mansion for the historic oath-taking ceremony. In family privacy, President Eisenhower stood before Chief Justice Earl Warren, placed his left hand on the Bible his - mother gave him when he was graduated from West Point and took the oath of office for a second term.

Thousands Jam Washington To View Inauaural

WASHINGTON (UP)—Thousands of persons massed on the East Plaza of the Capitol today to watch President Eisenhower's second inauguration. Many thousands more sat in temporary bleachers or stood at the curb on Pennsylvania and Constitution avenues, waiting for the President and Mrs. Eisenhower to ride from the White House to Capitol Hill and back. Everywhere there was an atmosphere of excitement—everywhere except in Mr. Eisenhower’s own office. Mr. Eisenhower seemed to’ take this historic occasion in stride. He got up at 7:30 arm., pulled on a gray sport shirt, slacks and a gray sports jacket. He breakfasted on prunes, a small steak and coffee. _ He strolled into his office at 8:30 a.m. and went over the reading copy of his inaugural address, making a few minor pencilled notations He dictated some personal correspondence, then returned to the residential quarters of the White House to change into formal clothes —a short, black morning coat and gray striped trousers. A few minutes before his departure for Capitol Hill, he was joined by Vice President Richard M. Nixon and members of the congressional inaugural committee. Crowd Gathers Early The scene outside the executive mansion during the morning was one of energetic preparation. White House gardeners planted nearly 100 camellia plants in beds of peat moss on either side of the presidential reviewing stand on Pennsylvania Avenue. The Sanitary Department of the District of Columbia sent a water truck to flush remaining snow off of the White House driveways. ’Behind the reviewing stand Navy mess stewards prepared snacks for the presidential reviewing party in a large house trailer. The trailer had two bedrooms, a bath, a fully equipped kitchen and a small sitting room. At toe other end of Pennsylvania Avenue—at the Capitol—thousands streamed into the East Plaza to witness a ceremony as old as the republic itself. An hour before the presidential oath-taking, more thin 6,000 persons had filed onto the Capitol grounds. An early morning rain had wet down the 12,000 open air seats. But the sun shown through the clouds periodically in midmorning, drying out the plaza and warming the chill air. The leaden clouds still looked threatening, nevertheless. The Marine Corps Band, resplendent in scarlet uniforms, was seated on a stand directly beneath the spot where Mr. Eisenhower took his oath. Early arrivals at the Capitol Plaza were entertained by recorded music blaring over the loudspeaker system. Then the Marine band warmed up with a series of marches. Special Persian Carpet Navy personnel had first aid stations at the outskirts of the crowds. Ambulances were spotted at strategic points around the Capitol. Fire trucks also were on hand in case of an emergency. A Navy dirigible circled overhead. Batteries of television, newsreel, and still cameras were massed on a steel ribbed platform directly facing the inaugural platform. The President and other distinguished guests with platform seats walked down the main Capitol (CoßtlaueS ob Pare Five)

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Polish Leader Overwhelming Victor Sunday Gomulka Winner By Overwhelming Vote In Polish Election WARSAW (ffl — Communist Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, fortified by his victory in Sunday’s national elections, is expected today to waste little time in sweeping out the last of the diehard Stalinists from party ranks. Official results of toe parliamentary elections will not be known until Tuesday. But all indications pointed to an overwhelming popular vote of confidence in the rebellious Communist leader who severed Poland’s tightly-knit dependency on Moscow. There was a surprisingly heavy turnout of voters for the crucial elections. Gomulka had warned a defeat for his candidates would ‘cross out the independence of our country, and cross out Poland from foe map of Europe.” It was a straight-from-toe shoulder warning that the still-strong Stalinist element within the party was hoping he would fall. It was Also a frank reminder to the antiCommunists that failure to support his candidates could mean a Run-garian-type bloodbath in Poland. Unofficial reports indicated some 90 percent of the 17.5 million eligible voters cast ballots, apparently spurred on by Gomulka’s dire warnings -and a get-out-the-vote drive by toe Roman Catholic Church. A great majority of those who balloted were believed to have voted the straight ticket, convinced that Gomulka’s brand of, liberal Communism is preferable to any return to the harsh domination of the Stalinist era. The elections took place in a calm atmosphere with only a few minor and scattered incidents reported during the day. At stake in the elections, toe first “free" balloting in Poland since the end of the war, were 459 seats in the 'Sejm Parliament. There were 720 candidates, all running on the "National Front” ticket. Observers said Gomulka, confident in the light of his sweeping victory, would waste no time in utilizing the popular endorsement of his liberal brand of Communism to root out the die-hard Stalinists in political and party life. Oath Os Office Taken By Pres. Eisenhower WASHINGTON (UP) — This is the oath of office that President Eisenhower took Sunday and repeated today: “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of toe United States, so help me God.”

Three Bills On Traffic Safely To Legislature Three Bills Aimed At Promotion Os Safety In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Three bills aimed at promoting traffic safety in a state where more than 1,100 fatalities occurred last year were Introduced in the Indiana Legislature today. One of them flatly banned toe sale of any car after next Jan. 1 which can travel faster than 75 miles per hour. The author said governors wouldn’t do. The manufacturer would have to reduce toe horsepower. Another authorized judges to suspend the driver licenses for 60 days of any motorist convicted of any traffic law violation. The third set up a training program to make teenagers better and safer drivers. 3 Per Cent Tax Proposed Lawmakers also received a bill imposing a 3 per cent limited sales tax for the benefit of money-starv-ed local governmental units, another to outlaw toe use of union dues in political campaigns, and a third to repeal toe presidential preference primary, law, Sen. Samuel McQueen (R-Brazil) proposed the restriction on sale of high-powered cars. His bill would make it punishable by up to a SSOO fine and six months in jail for selling a car which could travel more than 10 miles above the Indiana speed limit. Sens. Eugene Bainbridge (DMunster) and Charles Kellum (IlMooresville) introduced the tightened driving license suspension measure. McQueen said his bill was aimed at stopping "this. killing on toe highways—it’s a disgrace.” “Hinkle Plan” Revised Sen. D. Russell Bontrager (RElkhart) introduced the union dues ban bill, a measure proposed recently by George Hinkle, who was Gov, George Craig’s, state labor commissioner. Hinkle complained it was wrong for unions to spend dues money of Republican members to help elect Democrats. Bontrager proposed fines up to SSOO and jail terms up to 60 days. The bill contains an emergency clause for enactment upon signa(CoatißaeS »b Pa*B Fiv«) X • Invite Community To Aid Fund Drive Solicit Donations To Industrial Fund The general financial committee is inviting the participation of the entire community in the north half of Adams county in the purchase of a site for future industrial expansion. The drive is still shprt a- few thousand dollars amount necessary to meet the payment due on the first part of the Scheimann property being purchased by the Greater Decatur Fund committee. As explained in toe letter being mailed to citizens, the primary purpose of toe drive is to provide a means of local employment for the 200 boys and girls graduating from the high schools of the north half of the county each year. According to the present rate of industrial growth and because of the increased mechanism of agriculture, it is believed it is necessary for hiore than half of the high school graduates to leave the county to find work, tn the past year, industrial employment here increased only about 100 persons, according to reports kept by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. „ Donations, regardless of size by individual citizens, will help put over toe drive. > The site being purchased is the only acreage within the city limits which is zoned industrially and is large enough for present day factory building. The demands for new factories is chiefly for one story buildings with adequate parking places. It was pointed out by the committee that there will remain sites outside of the city, but the cost of extending sewers and utilities would be more than toe cost of the Scheimann land. Until the committee optioned the Scheimann ground, it had been planned to break it up in small acreages, including home sites and commercial property. Attorneys are now working out the legal problems in connection with the purchase of toe ground and it is hoped it will be possible to make a final settlement by the end of this month.

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Decatur, Indiana, Mondqy, January 21, 1957

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n - i ■■■—■ ■ Warn Blizzard : Conditions In I- ! Plains States I* r East Thawing Out After Worst Cold J Wave For Years By UNITED PRESS Weathermen warned of heavy J snow and blizzard conditions in 1 portions of the plains states tip 1 day in the party of a widespread storm system that doused Cali- ) fornia with a beneficial $lO mils lion rain. J 1 The East, meanwhile, thawed j out from one of the worst coll i waves in- years. 1 The western storm swirled out »of toe Pacific Sunday, and dumped one to three inches df „ snow over eastern Washington, . North Dakota and the Central . Rockies. . Salt Lake City was blanked with a 4-inch snowfall, and up to 20 . inches buried some mountain , areas. ' Weathermen said the storm will whip into a blizzard as it moves out of toe Rockies into toe northera and central plains today. s Rain to toe south brought re- - lief to drought-stricken California s rangelands. Agricultural officials a figured the rain was worth SIR i. million to catfle and sheep rand? o ers who have been buying hay at B S3O to $35 a ton or selling lean . animals. □ A surge of cold air penetrated toe far north from Montana to ' Minnesota, but weathermen said ■ toe air mass wasn’t as frigid as the one that sent much of the nation into a deep freeze last week. Mild winds that brought moderating temperatures to the Midwest during toe weekend pushed into toe Atlantic Coast states, boosting voernight temperatures 10 to 30 degrees higher than the night before. Above freezing temperatures extended as far north as southern New England, with the greatest warming occurring in Penns sylvania and New York state. Al- - bany, N.Y., reported an early f morning ready of 35 as compared s with one below at the same time - Sunday. Temperatures continued mild in i most of toe Midwest where readt Ings were above freezing as far t north as toe Great Lakes. (COBtIBBCS OB Paste Fire) Nuclear Weapon Is * Exploded By Russia ; Terse Announcement By Atom Commission t WASHINGTON (ffl — Russia . has exploded another nuclear . weapon, toe Atomic Energy Com- , mission announced Sunday. ’ The reminder of Soviet power ; came only two days after three [ U.S. 852 H-bombers circled the 1 world non-stop in a demonstration ’ of American strength. r The ABC said Russia exploded * toe nuclear weapon Saturday. The terse announcement gave r no indicatioin whether the test int volved an atomic or hydrogen weapon or its size. s The blast appearentiy was toe - fifth in Russia’s current test ser--1 ies that Russia announced it had , compueted. The series started in 5 August. . . The announcement brought to 17 » toe number of times toe United States has reported a Soviet nuclear test. i ’ As usual, toe ABC gave no in- ’ dication where it got Its informa--8 tion. However, this country has an ’ elaborate monitoring system for * detecting Soviet nuclear explo--5 sions. 1 INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional rain or drinle tonight and turning colder, with occasional rain t south. Low tonight 30-35 north--1 west to around 50 southeast, i High Tuesday near 35 northb west to upper 50s southeast. b Sunset 5:52 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 8 a.m.

12 Fatalities In State On Weekend Traffic Death Toll For Year Is Now 55 By UNITED PRESS < Indiana’s 1957 traffic death toll Climbed to at least 55 during a rainy weekend marked by 12 fatalities on highways and streets. The year’s worst accident killed four persons near Muncie early (Saturday and set the stage for toe [slaughter. Killed when two CadilllaCs collided were Clifford Rig* >Kdps, 34, his brother, Ronald, ■ Anderson; Vestal Hoppes, ■34, and i’ Audry Mudd, 35, Alexandria. Also Saturday, 13-year-old Olen ’ Dickerhoss of near Butler was killed when a farm tractor ran off a Dekalb county road into a ditch, and James Schoffner, 21, and David Ware, 2, Indianapolis, ' were killed in an Indianapolis ac- , cident. Sunday victims were Lawrence Lumm, 41, Griffin, Posey County clerk, whose car hit a bridge railing on Ind. 66 near New ■ harmony; Michael George, 7, 1 Bluffton, who was in a car hit by a 1 train at a unprotected crossing near Bluffton; Nina Shull, 20, 1 Shelbyville, victim of a two-car 1 crash near Greenfield; Russell ' White, 14, Washington, killed when a car containing three teen-agers crashed, and Charles Stepp, 30, ‘ Fowler, who was in a car which J crashed in -Ind. 55 near Hill Is Reelected > Civic Music Head Annual Meeting Is Held By Directors Glenn Hill was re-elected president of the Adams county civic music association at the annual meeting of the board of directors, held Sunday afternoon at toe Decatur Youth and Community Center. , All other officers of the organization during toe past year were also retained for the coming year. They include Mrs. Frank Alton, secretary; Miss Fan Hammell, treasurer, and Dr. Freeman Burkhalter, O. M. McGeath, Herman H. Krueckeberg, the Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, Miss Helen Haubold, Clint Reed, Menno Lehman and Ed Liechty, vice-presidents. Following the reports by toe secretary and treasurer, an auditing committee was appointed. This committee will include Ed Liechty, Herman Krueckeberg and Mrs. A. R. Holthouse. They are to present a report at toe next meeting of toe board of directors. Sunday’s meeting also featured a discussion of plans for the annual membership drive, which will take place in March. The preparation week will begin March 4 and the following week wjll be toe actual campaign. Robert Misenheimer, a field representative for Civic Concert Service, Inc., attended the meeting to assist with toe campaign plans. He urged that the various drive chairmen be appointed in the near future. It was decided by the directors attending that the chairmen from last year’s drive be named again to those posts. Membership fees will again be $7.50 for adults and $4 for children. It was also suggested that membership be limited to 1,000, the capacity of the Community Center where most of the concerts will be held. Memberships will be avaflable (CoßtlaneS sb Pace Five) Minnier Appointed As ABC Secretary INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Ernest Minnier, Indianapolis, today was announced as secretary of the Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission. Chairman Noble Ellis said Minnier, a native of Wells County and former member of the Gary police force, succeeded Vie Walmer, Marion. Minnier was_a member of toe state excise police from 1943 to 1948.

Armed Hungary Border Guards Cross Frontier Austrians Drafting Strong Protest to Invasion By Guards VIENNA (UP) — The Austrian government was reported drafting today a strong protest against the "invasion” by armed Communist Hungarian border guards in pursuit of refugees from their Sovietdominated homeland. At least 30 Hungarian guards crossed about 200 feet into Austria Sunday and opened fire on 20 men, women and children who had slipped through the Iron Curtain. All but one were herded at gunpoint back into Hungary. The one Hungarian to escape reached freedom with'a Communist bullet in his back. He -identified himself as a former Hungarian solder who fought against Soviet tanks and troops in toe battle of Budapest. It was the first violation since Nov. 23 when three Russian soldiers chased a Hungarian girl refugee into Austria. Austrian border guards shot and killed one of the Russians and captured another. The new incident had dangerous potfticai implications for Austria which has opened its frontiers to nearly 170,000 refugees since toe October freedom revolt erupted in Hungary. Last Friday, Interior Minister Oskar Helmer warned that the refugees posed a tricky political problem for neutral Austria. He stressed Vienna is only 36 miles from the Communist soldiers guarding toe Iron Curtain. Helmer said Austria feared a new influx of refugees as a result of the bruta* police-state policy of puppet Premier Janos Kadar. Kadar now has silenced every potential opposing voice in Hungary. He has outlawed toe revolutionary councils, toe regional workers councils and cracked down on the writers association and tfie journalists unions. Airliners Searched After Bomb Threat Cranks Are Blamed By Police And FBI HONOLULU (UP) — Police and FBI agents in Honolulu, Seattle and three other West Coast cities blamed cranks today for telephoned bomb threats that touched off a series of airliner searches during the weekend. One threat was received in the FBI office in Honolulu early Sunday and another threat was telephoned to the United Airlines office in Seattle Saturday night. Seattle police held a 29-year-old former mental patient they said admitted making two telephone calls to the United Airlines reservations desk at Seattle. Detectives said FBI agents and United officials Interviewed the unidentified man. He was to be questioned by a psychiatrist police said was familiar with the ex-patient’s case. In Honolulu, civilian and military guards took stations around International Airport and at Hickam Air Force. Base as the result of a telephone call to FBI headquarters at 1:40 a.m. “There’s a bomb on a plane leaving Hawaii,”, a man’s voice said. Four hours of checking proved the report false. But first, every plane about to take off had to be searched.. One plane, a Japan Airlines plane, had just taken off. It was ordered to return. Planes operated by Pan American World Airways, Northwest Airlines underwent searches when they landed Sunday at San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Sc&ttlc. At least a dozen planes, and probably more, were searched at all five airports. ’

Iraq Crown Prince Seeking U. S. Help Wants More Support Against Communism LONDON im —. Crown Prince Abdul Illah of Iraq, spokesman for four pro-Western Moslem nations, arrives in London today en route to Washington with an appeal for greater U. S. support against communism. Z ■ j He took off from Ankara, Tur- , key, shortly after a weekend con- ; ference with leaders of Turkey, t Iran and Pakistan which, with . Iraq, are the four Moslem mem- . bers of the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. ; King Saud of Saudi Arabia, a l member of toe Arab neutralist , block, sailed for Washington from I Naples Sunday, following another . Arab “summit” meeting in Cairo . with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, King Hussein of » Jordan and Syrian Premier Sabri - El Assail. - Saud reportedly carried with - him the conditions hammered out -by leaders of toe neutralist bloc b under which they may be willing to accept President Eisenhower's > proposed program for battling - communism in the Middle East. ■ The four Moslem nations of the r Baghdad Pact formally accepted > the Eisenhower Doctrine "as the best designed to maintain peace In I this area.” i Attention in toe Middle East It- • self was focused on Israel, which : has been ordered by toe United i Nations to withdraw completely from territory conquered in the ' Israeli attack on Egypt. However, there were no outward . signs that Israel intends to com- ■ ply with the U. N. .resolution passi ed Saturday without guarantees I against “pre-war” conditions in the Gaza Strip and the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula overlooking the Gulf of Aqaba, Israel’s gateway to the Indian Ocean. Mrs. Harry Molli > Dies Last Evening Well Known Decatur Lady Dies Sunday Mrs. Anna Moltz, W. of 118 South Fourth street, prominent Decatur lady, died at 7:45 o’clock Sunday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had , been in failing health since last June. Born in St. Mary's township May 25, 1869, she was a daughter of Nimrod and Rosanna Mills-Dailey, and graduated from Decatur high ; school. She was married in 1890 to Harry R. Moltz, weU known Decatur businessman, who died ; March 20, 1952. Mrs. Molta was a member of the First Methodist church. Highly active most of her life in social and civic affairs, she was a member of toe Order of Eastern Star, the Shakespeare club, and the Daughters of toe American Revolution. Survivors Include a nephew, Harry Dailey, Decatur high school teacher, who was reared in toe Molta home; a niece, Mrs. Frank Perley, and several other nephews and nieces; and one sister, Mrs. Olive Pierson of Cromwell, Conn. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Samuel Emerick, former pastor of the Methodist church here, officiating. Burial will be in toe Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock ; this evening until time of toe set- : vices. —- • A—- - •• Board Os Finance i Meets This Evening 1 A meeting at the city's board . of finance which includes toe ma- , yor, the clerk-treasurer and mem- , bers of the council, is scheduled , for 7 o’clock this evening at city < hall to re-organize. 1 The purpose of the board is to , invite proposals for accepting de- I posits of city funds. Another meet- < ing of the board will take place Feb. 18, whan these proposals will < be accepted.

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Says Leading Trouble Source Is Communism Pledges Energetic Pursuit Os Peace For Entire World WASHINGTON (UP)— President Eisenhower today pledged the second term of his administration to energetic pursuit of world peace. He promised to seek the creation of an international climate in which “the nations cease to live in trembling before the menace of Prayerfully, the chief executive in a relatively short Inaugural address (about 2,000 words) said he believed the United States could be a major, contributory force to healing the divisions of the modern world. “This, nothing less, is the labor to which we are called and our strength dedicated.” The chief executive said the principle source of world turmoil today was international communism, but he expressed the.belief that Communist forces had been severely shaken by the revolt in Hungary. He said he thought recent events in Hungary demonstrated to the world “the readiness of men who love freedom to pledge their lives to thattove."Speak. Before Huge Throng Mr. Eisenhower spoke before massed thousands in front of the Capitol shortly after he and Vice President Richard M. Nixon publicly took their oaths of office. The oath-taking was a repetition of the private ceremony held Sunday in the White House before 80 relatives and close friends of the 66-year-old President and the 44-year-old vice president. The President's address climaxed the solemn and ceremonious aspects of the inauguration, 43rd in the nation’s history. After it came a 2% hour parade, led by Mr. Eisenhower from the Capitol to the White House. The national jubilee which marks the quadrennial occasion started Saturday afternoon and will be concluded with festive balls starting tonight and continuing into the small hours of Tuesday. “We voice our hope and our belief that we can help to heal this' divided world," the President said. “Thus may the nations cease to live in trembling before the menace of force. Thus may the weight of fear and the weight of arms be taken from the burdened shoulders of mankind.” Expresses Desire for Friendship The President made a particular point of extending an expression of potential American friendship to the people of Russia. He did not, however, include the leaders of the Soviet Union in this friendly phase of his message. The President said that the people of this country “honor, no less in this divided world than in a less tormented time, the people of Russia." The President wished the Russians success in educational and industrial development, greater intellectual freedom and security, and “fuller enjoyment of the rewards of their own telL” -i ’ — “For as such things may come to pass," he added, “the more certain will be the coming of that day when our peoples may freely meet in friendship.” The President gave his second inaugural address a specific title—- “ The Thrice of Peace.” He explained his reasons for accepting this point: “Splendid as can be the blessings of such a peace, high will be its cost; in toil patiently sustained, in help honorably given, in sacrifice calmly borne.” “We are called to meet the price of this peace,” he said. Tells Price es Peace “To counter the threat of those who seek to rule by force,” he continued, ‘we must pay the costs of our own needed military strength, and to help to build the security of others. We must use our skills and knowledge and, at times, our substance to help others rise from misery, however far t’» scene of suffering may be from our shores.” . The President dealt at length with his belief that the nations of (Csattoaa* on >W Four)