Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 35, Decatur, Adams County, 11 February 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 35.

BRITISH ROYAL RIFT RUMORED i > *» 1 I ; -(•» r ; / I OCX M f ■* Jrl 1.1 KV-_I 1| Tf - wHHHHMHIHv: flk IMMI ..: . I ! WHILE RUMORS of a British royal rift were being officially denied at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II (bottom, right* attended the races in London. She is shown being helped with her coat by the Duke of Norfolk. She was reportedly “very angry” over published reports mentioning her husband, Duke of Edinburgh. He is shown (top, left* with the Van Dyke beard he had jfrown during his four- 1 month world tour on the royal yacht, Britannia. Hints of strained relations gained circulation after the Duke accepted the resignation of his old friend and private secretary, Lt. Comdr. Michael Parker (top, right), who quit during the tour because of marital difficulty and returned to London. The Queen was reportedly upset over publicity attending the resignation. 1

London Press Urges Duke To Return Home 1 Censorship Broken As Rumors Os Rift Continue To Grow LONDON (UP*—The British press broke its self-imposed censorship today on reports of a royal rift and the Daily Mirror appealed to the Duke of Edinburgh to fly home from Gibraltar and join Queen Elizabeth. The reports hit 1-million breakfast tables today when three London newspapers splashed the story —and the Buckingham Palace denials—across their front, pages. A fourth, the Manchester Guardian, suggested the American press must have “taken leave of its senses.” The tabloid Daily Mirror which devoted its entire front page to the story urged in screaming headlines: “Fly Home, Philip!” And it added this is “the way to kill a silly rumor.” Sunday papers made a similar appeal without reporting the rumored rift. Plan “Second Honeymoon” Palace sources disclosed the Queen had been in telephone conversation with the Duke who is watching home fleet activities at G’h’-altar while waiting for the Queen to join him Saturday in Portugal for a “second honeyana a state visit. It was assumed in royal circles the Queen and Duke had discussed the world wide rumors during their telephone talks. The Queen has never looked happier in recent days and it was assumed they had decided to ignore the rumors and try to kill them by the warmth of their reunion after four months of separation. Some London papers suggested the Queen, lay aside royal protocol and fly to Gibraltar. Others suggested the Duke fly to London. Denials Printed The news also was given twothirds of a column on page one Os Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. It quoted the palace denial of the original Baltimore Sun story — “It’s a lie” — and said Express readers should know about "baseless speculation.” The Laborite Daily Herald also front paged the reports. Its bannerline said: “Queen's Spokesman Gives Denial To U.S. Palace Rumors Are Untrue.” They were the only three of London’s 11 morning newspapers to the news in their first edition. Rumors of the Baltimore Sun story of the rift had drifted around London throughout the week end and the Sunday Pictorial had said it was “extraordinary . . . that the Queen can’t flip quietly over to Gibraltar to join her husband.” -__■ ’ ■ —

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McCathy, Jenner Al Chicago Meet 2,000 In Chicago At "Modern Confab" CHICAGO (UP* — ABout 2,000 conservative Republicans whooped it up during the weekend in attacks against President Eisenhower’s “modern Republicanism,” foreign aid apd government spending. Speakers at the Saturday meeting of the Abraham Lincoln National Republican Club forum were Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis), former Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah, former Idaho GOP Sen. Herman Welker, and Sen. William E. Jenner (R-Ind*. McCarthy attacked the President’s Atoms-for-Peace program aS an “international monstrosity” that could place enough Americanmade atomic material into the hands of the Russians to “wipe out every major city in the United States." Lee offered to lead the group in a tax rebellion. He received a standing ovation when he attacked the income tax, which he refused to pay last year on grounds government spending for foreign aid violates the Constitution. “The Constitution does not let the President tax me in order to support foreign governments,” Lee said. He said “the only way to stop this big government stuff is to take away the money from them.” “If tthe American people could have heard what Sens. Jenner, McCarthy |nd Welker said today they'd boot this (new Republican) bunch out of office," Lee said. McCarthy said the President has proposed establishment of an international atomic agency which would receive 5,000 kilograms of atomic material immediately — enbugh to make 550 atomic bombs, he said. County Offices, Bank To Be Closed Tuesday COUNTY OFFICES Offices of the county court house will be closed all day Tuesday in observance of Lincoln Day, a legal holiday in the state of Indiana. Also to be closed will be the First State Bank. The Post Office, the public library and all federal offices will remain open for their usual hours since the day is not a federal holiday. , i Civic Music Committee To Meet This Evening ~ The excutive committee of the board of directors of the Adams county civic music association .will meet at 7:45 o’clock this evening at the/ Decatur Youth and Community Center. Purpose of the meeting will be to discuss plans for file membership drive of the association.

Handley Urges Budget Action By Committee Wants Budget Cut Before Gross Is Fixed For 1957 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley gave an Indiana House committee a gentle shove today and told it, in effect, to get busy on the 790 million dollar record state biennial budget. Handley told nows men he expects “conclusive action” in the House before next weekend on a proposed budget for 1957-59 which has been pared by a little more than 10 million dollars in the last month during meetings of House and Senate committees. Handley didn’t chide the House Ways and Means “A” Committee. But his statement on his expectations was interpreted as a tactful reminder to the committee that time is growing short and the budget bills must start moving through the legislative mill. Pare Budget Then Set Tax Handley said the state’s needs must be determined—and thus the size of the budget established—before Republican majority policy makers can settled on a tax program. The tax program has been a major issue of the 61-day legislative session, now just past the halfway point. " * Handley said he still is opposed to a sales tax as a means of finding increased revenues to meet increased expenses. He also still favors repeal of the 15-cent state property tax levy, he said. Meanwhile, observers saw little chance that the Legislature will "pass the buck” to voters in the 1958 election on any of three major issues it might like to duck. Four Children Die In Detroit Fire Sunday DETROIT (UP) — Four children burned to death Sunday night when a fire swept through the family’s second story apartment while the mother was visiting neighbors. Mrs. O’Dell Batts, 23, the mother, was arrested later and held for i investigation of manslaughter. The victims were identified as Lois Batts, 6, her brothers, James, 5, and Steve, 3, and a sister. Cheryl, 8 months. A fifth child, Trina, 2. was hospitalized in serious condition from smoke inhalation. Police said Mrs. Battes told them she left the house about 10:30 p.m. to go to the store and then stopped to visit neighbors and watch television and returned home more than four hours later. Officials said the blaze apparently was started by an overheated coal stove in the living room. Tickets Available For Cancer Parly Elks Plans Event Feb. 23 At K. Os C. Mr. and Mrs. James Hunter and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mansfield are co-chairmen of the February entertainment committee of the Elks club who will assist with arrangements for the annual Elk Cancer party to be held Saturday, Feb. 23, at the K. of C. hall. Carl Braun is general chairman of the event which is -sponsored each year by the local Elks lodge to raise money for the Ind. Elks cancer fund to finance research. Last year the local club raised about SSOO for the fund. The party will beging with entertainment from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Games and awarding of prizes will be featured from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. and a dance is scheduled from 9:30 to 12:30 p.m. Music for dancing will be provided by the Keynoters who will be donating their time through the cooperation of the American Federation of Musicians. Local 607. Walt Gilliom, ticket chairman for the party, has announced that tickets will be available at the Elks lodge, the K. of C. hall, from any member of the committee in charge, at the Parkway Service and at Holthouse Drug store. The tickets may be obtained for a donation of $1 to the Elks cancer fund. The ticket will entitle the holder to the entire evening of enterainment and prizes. Several valuable awards are being planned to be given away during the evening. • 1 " ■ •". INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and a little cooler today. Clearing and colder tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer. High today in low 40's tonight 38.

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Cuts In Farm Prices Start New Demo Plan Cash Would Be Used For Reduction Os All Farm Surplus WASHINGTON (UP) — Administration cuts in farm price guarantees today spurred a Democratic drive in Congress to provide more farmers with cash subsidies for taking surplus acres out of production. Several Democratic farm leaders agreed there was no chance that Congress would intervene and jack up the reduced 1957 support prices for eight major crops announced Saturday by Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson. But they hoped to persuade Congress to send the White House a farm bill that conceivably could increase by as much as 500 melton dollars subsidy payments payable to farmers under the soil bank program. Reps. W R. Poage (D-Tex) and Thomas G. Abernethy (D-Miss) said the proposals would reach an early vote in the House Agriculture Committee. Pushing Corn Legislation The administration opposes Democratic plans for: tinkerin<h ! with the soil bank. But the administration at the same time is pushing for early action on separate corn legislation. Members said the committee may begin voting Tuesday on new fdrm legislation. Major beneficiaries of the Democratic proposals would include producers of wheat and cotton. In response to rigid production curbs, these farmers have diverted acreage into barley, oats, sorghum grain or other crops on which there are no planting restrictions. They would be paid under the Democratic proposals for keeping so-called “diverted acres" idle to hold down the overall grain sur- - plus.——. : — Taking another approach to the problem of curbing over-production of uncontrolled crops, Benson on Saturday set price supports for this year’s crops of oats, barley, sorghum grain, rye, soybeans, and flax saed at lower levels than last year. He also reduced price props for cotton and its by-product, cottonseed. Fear Possible Veto The soil bank now provides farmers with up to $1,200,000,000 a year, most of it earmarked for long-term conservation practices. At present, for doing nothing but keeping land idle are limited to 450 million dollars annually and go only to producers of controlled “basic crops” who underplant their allotted acreage. House Democratic farm leaders figure their only chance of avoid(Coatlßned oa Pace Five) Sen. Eichhom Is Saturday Visitor Question Forum Feature Os Meeting State Senator Von A. Cichhorn, of Uniondale, spoke Saturday night at the Community building on the progress of bills in the current legislature. A crowd of interested citizens plied the senator with questions until after 10 p.m. when the group adjourned for coffee and donuts. Eichorn spoke on the school bill, the increase in state gross income tax, and the % cent increase in the gas tax. He also touched on the time question and the change in county and state employee’s salary. He explained that the tremendous increase in service and the general inflation were contributing factors to the rising cost of state government. Also, he roasted Republican officials for their increased costs of administration, telling, how Democrat Schricker had gotten his office work done for $lB,000 a year, while the next year it cost Craig $42,000. Eichhorn was introduced by Democratic county chairman Dr. Harry H. Hebble.

- - ■■ — Polio Fund Total Goos Over $5,000 Krueckeberg Issues New Campaign Report The March of Dimes polio fund reached $5,033.27 today as money continued to flow in from the campaign which ended officially January 31, Herman Krueckeberg, treasurer of the campaign, said today. The previously reported total was $3,381.35. The March of dollars rft the Holthouse Drug store added $lB. Other contributions were: Decatur cannisters, $105.96; additional to the Mothers March, $55. Town of Geneva, from Mrs. ‘ Irene Sprunger, $269.96; Hartford township, Mrs. Glen A. Dubach, $157.71; Hartford Center school, ' $34 73; Union township, Mrs. Louis Krueckeberg, Merry Matrons Home Demonstration club, $133.87; Union township, Immanuel Lutheran School. $23.49; Monmouth high school, $56.86; Monmouth-Root township, $7.45; Decatur cannisters, $67.58; Wabash Valley home demonstration club, Mrs. Robert Gerber, $79.13; Lincoln school, Decatur, additional, $.60; Root township, Mrs. 'Florence Susd or f, additional, $152.77; Preble township, home demonstration clubs, Mrs. Ervin 1 Buuck, $194.45; Preble township, Johns school, $M.5a;-P«Me ’ township, St. Pauls school, $18.47; 1 Prebie township, Zion Friedheim ’ school, $26.24; t Washington township. Profit & , Pleasure home demonstration club, additional, $64.21; Monroe Moth- . ers march, $53.27; Blue Creek . township, Mrs. Carl Schug, $31.51; i Blue Creek, Lincoln school, $13.05; Blue Creek, Kimsey school, $20.20; Root township, St. Peters LusherL an school, $16.10; i St. Marys township, Bobo school. $8.43; Coin cards, First State Bank, > $18.30. I The new contributions total sl,- • 651.92. George Liberate is Hold-Up Victim ' '• ' , —— ———— ‘-—r —7— Pianist's Brother Is Slugged, Robbed CHICAGO (UP)—George Liberace, violin-playing brother of pianist Liberace, was beaten and robbed today by two strong-arm bandits. George was slugged and hospitalized for treatment of painful head injuries when he tried to resist the robbers. The Negro thugs took a $1,500 diamond ring in the shape of a violin from Liberace and his German Westerling violin, also valued at $1,500. Authorities said George had left the Chez Paree night club, where he and Liberace are appearing, early this morning. He was walking toward his nearby hotel when the two bandits, one armed with a pistol, stepped from a doorway. George surrendered his ring and SSO in his wallet without protest, police said, but when the bandits demanded his violin he punched one of them. The robbers jumped on him and hit him several times before fleeing. Although groggy and bleeding from several cuts, George walked back to the night club and informed his .brother who notified police and rushed George to Wesley Memorial Hospital. Sixteen stitches were required to close three wounds on George’s scalp. Thieves Get $125 In Sudduth Home Raid The Orval Sudduth home at 238 North Seventh street, was entered Sunday night while the family was at church and $125, small change, and stamps were taken. The city police who investigated stated that entry was made through the east bathroom window and the thief left through the back door. The theft is thought to have occurred between 7:15 p.m. and 10 p.m. e .

Seven Children Hurt Slightly In Bus Mishap Amish Rig Causes Chain Collision Os Vehicles Saturday A trip to the circus nearly became a tragedy for a large group of Jay county youngsters Saturday afternoon because an Amish rig made a left turn. Seven school children sustained minor injuries in a chain collision on U. S.. highway 27 two miles north of Berne as a 25-bus convoy returned from the circus at Fort Wayne. The youngsters, all from in or near Portland, included James Hughes Jr., 12, a ruptured ear drum; Nancy Pyle, 12, a burpp on her head; Linda Ingle, 12, a bump on the head and a scratch on her right hand; Janie McLaughlin, 12, loss of two front teeth; Ronnie Krieg, 12, bruise on the left leg; Tommy Landers, 11, lacerations to the mouth, and John Bryan, 12, a bump on the head and a bruise to the right leg. * - Ail of them were treated by > Berne physicians. Other children ** riding in the three school busses : involved escaped injury. i The drivers of the three busses , which were at the end of the long convoy were Merle Olin Smiley, ’ 56, of Portland; Harold Wayne ’ Leonhard, 38, of Portland route four, and Allen Leon Reitenour, 48, of Portland. A fourth vehicle involved in the mishap was a station wagon driven by Ruth Edna Christen, 33, of 223 Limberlost Trail. Damage to the station wagon was estimated at S2OO and total damage to the three busses was estimated at $1,650. An Amish rig, apparently cutting across traffic to make a left turn several hundred yards down the road was the cause of the chain collision. The turning rig caused the vehicles in the convoy to stop abruptly. Mrs. Christen was traveling in front of the last three busses. She was able to stop in time to prevent hitting the bus in front of ( her but the busses following behind were unable ’to avoid the rear-end collisions. Other busses in the convoy proceeded south unaware of the accident. The identity of the driver of the rig has not been determined pending investigation. Deputy sheriff Charles Arnold and state trooper Gene Rash investigated. Mathilda Wehmeyer Dies Sunday Night Funeral Scheduled Wednesday Afternoon Mrs. Mathilda S. Wehmeyer, 83, a resident so tjys city since 1923, ' died at 11:40 p.m. Sunday at her home at 319 Mercer avenue. She had been seriously ill for the past two weeks following a cerebral hemorrhage. She was born Sept. 27, 1873, in Fort Wayne, a daughter of William and Anna Hambrock Moellering. She was married to the late Gustav H. Wehmeyer in 1898 and they moved to Decatur in 1923. Mr. Wehmeyer died in 1937. Mrs. Wehmeyer was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church and of the church Missionary Society. She is survived by one daughter, Miss Helena Wehmeyer of Decatur. One daughter died in infancy. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at Zwick Funeral Home with the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt Officiating. Burial will be in Concordia Cemetery at Fort Wayne. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. *'

USW Members Will Name Head Today Million Members To Cast Their Ballots PITTSBURGH (UP)- Millhands across the nation and in Canada troop to the polls Tuesday to decide the first struggle for top leadership in the 20-year history of the United Steelworkers Union. David J. McDonald, heir to the USW throne following the death of union founder Philip Murray in 1952, met opposition for the international presidency from Donald C. Rarick of McKeesport, Pa., a rank-and-file member. The union’s 1,200,000 members will also ballot for international vice president, secretary-treasur-er and directors of 30 USW districts. ..Leads Protest Movement The voting matches McDonald, a suave career unionist, against a $6,500 a year U.S. Steel Corp, millworker who jumped into the national spotlight last fall to protest an increase in union dues from $3 to $5 a month. Rarick, who has spent 19 of his 37 years in the union, regards McDonald’s handling of the USW as “autocratic.” He charged the union president "railroaded” the dues increase through an international convention in Los Angeles last September. McDonald became secretary to Murray in 1953 before the USW’s founding. He has accused Rarick of attempting -to organize a rump faction within the union and fermenting “dual unionism,” the cardinal sin of the labor movement. Leans On Record The union chief, 54, believes his record is the best advertisement for re-election to the $50,000 a year job. Singe 1952, the union has won benefits equivalent to 67.5 cents a hour and has hiked the basic hourly pay scale to an average $2.75 an hour. Rarick’s dues protest campaign and his presidential bid has crystalized mtich of the anti-McDon-ald sentiment existing within the steelworkers. William Klug of Milwaukee, joined Rarick’s slate* as candidate tor secretary-treasurer, opposing incumbent I. W. Abel. But Vice President Howard R. Hague is running unopposed for re-electiqn, following the sudden withdrawal of protest candidate Edward Revak last December. Harold Engle To Aid '57 Red Cross Drive Appointed To Head Industrial Section Harold Engle has been named industrial solicitation chairman for the 1957 Red Cross fynd drive according to an announcement made today by Cart Braun, general chairman of the drive which opens March 1. Engle will contact all local industries for donations from employes to the Red Cross fund. He plans to make this request well in advance of the door-to-door solicitation which is also planned as a part of the fund drive. All persons who donate to the fund through the industries will be given stickers which can be applied to windows. Any house displaying one of these stickers will not be contacted in the house-to-house project. The advance gift project of the 1957 drive is already underway under the direction of Herman H. Krueckeberg. Letters have been sent out to area leaders requesting advance donations to the fund. A goal of $11,176 has been set for this year’s campaign. The money raised locally is used to , finance all local Red Cross pro- ; jects. These include the first aid . program, the blood bank program, the disaster relief service and the family emergency service project. A portion of the money is sent to national headquarters to aug- ' ment the national fund which finances similar projects on a national scale. Other assistant chairmen for the ' 1957 drive in Adams county will < be announced in the near future i by Braun. The drive will be coun- 1 ty-wide and chairmen will be earn- i ed for each community. 1

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French Confab In Washington Februrary 26,27 Bermuda Site Os Later Meet With British Top Man THOMASVILLE, Ga. (UP)-The White House today announced plans for President Eisenhower to hold separate meetings in February and March with the premier of France and the prime minister of Great Britain. The President will meet French Premier Guy Mollet in Washington Feb. 26-27. His conference with the new British prime minister, Harold Macmillan, will be held in Bermuda March 21-24. The Eisenhower-Macmillan meeting has long been forecast, but not confirmed officially until today. Macmillan early last month was selected to succeed Sir Anthony Eden who resigned for reasons of health at a time when his leadership was under sharp critical fire for his handling of the Middle East crisis. Mollet has wanted to visit the United States for some time, particularly to discuss the Suez Canal - and French policy in North Africa. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said originnL.. plans for the two meetings were “mutual in both cases.” This was in reply to a question on whether Macmillan had asked to see the President. Hagerty said the Bermuda site for the Macmillan conference was picked at the suggestion of the chief executive who conferred there in December, 1953, with Sir Winstem Churchill, then the British prime minister, and Joseph Laniel, then the French premier. It was immediately after the 1953 meeting in Bermuda that the President went before the United Nations with his atoms for peace plan. Arrest Follows In Early Sunday Mishap Two Parked Cars Hit; Driver Fell Asleep L. J. Montague of 108 W. Monroe street, fell asleep at the wheel of his car at 3 a.m. Sunday morning, and plowed into two parked cars belonging to Charles F. Cook, of 1009 Winchesterstreet. The cars were parked in front of Cook’s home. Montague will appear in justice of the peace court February 15 to answer to the charge of reckless driving. He was driving south on Winchester street when the accL dent occurred. Damage to Montague’s car was estimated at S3OO. and S2O damage was done to each Cook vehicle. Earl James Svec, of Richmond, was fined $5 and costs for driving 60 miles an hour down Thirteenth street at 1 p.m. Sunday. Svec was arrested by the city police and tried by justice of the peace Floyd Hunter. John P. Leroche will appear in justice of the peace court today to answer to charges of speeding 53 miles an hour through Preble Saturday. Leroche was by the state police. JWII ' Ray Sanner, of VwßFWert, 0., was fined $1 and ccsV for speed-. • ing 53 miles an hour through Preble. He was arrested by the state police and was tried by justice Hunter. ( James E. GrotrauL 17, was fined $1 and costs forTtisregarding a stop sign at the Minnich road and U. S. 27 north of Decatur. Grotrain was arested February 7. Marion Fireman Dies While On Duty At Fire MARION, Ind. (W — Lloyd Tegarden, 47, a Marion fireman, collapsed and died Saturday night as he pulled a hose line from a fire hydrant to a burning service station. A heart seizure was blamed. '.,v ■ - .