Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 78.

■""’'“WELCOME ABOARD” SAYS IRE ’ Kv'ycl Minrni jK B ■ J With PRESIDENT EISENHOWER as witness. Thomas S. Gates (left) is sworn in as Secretary of the Navy to succeed Charles Thomas, who resigned. Gates, a former under-secretary, is sworn in by White House administrative officer William K. Sanderson and received a presidential congratulation and a nautical “welcome aboard.’’

Report Effort To Assassinate King Os Jordan Security Forces Foil Two Efforts At Assassination By WALTER LOGAN United Pres* Staff Correspondent Damascus Radio reported today that Jordan's security forces had foiled two attempts to assassinate King Hussein of Jordan who is trying to keep his country from falling into the Communist camp. The broadcast and other reports reaching neighboring Lebanon strongly hinted the attempts were Communist-inspired and carried out by Syrian extremists. The reports coincided with report* Jordan’s left-wing Premier Suleiman Nabulsi had resigned in a dispute with the pro-Western King over the danger of communism to the tiny desert kingdom. The new crisis in Jordan blew up as the United States lifted its ban on American travel in the Middle East in a move reflecting Washington optimism that peace will continue in the area. Heavy explosions rocked Israel’s southern port of Eilat today from Aqaba, five miles away, where withdrawing British forces were destroying their ammunition stocks. Tongues of flame could be seen leaping high into the air and houses in Eilat were shaken to their foundations. Israel has looked on Britain as a stabilizing factor in strife-torn Jordan and regarded the withdrawal with dismay. There also have been reports Saudi Arabian troops would move in after the British troops to re-establish the Arab blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. « A wave of anger swept Israel today over UN. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold’s announcement in New York that Egypt has outlawed Fedayeen (commando) raids against Israel. One official said such a statement by Hammarskjrtld characterized his understanding of the Middle East. Israel has insisted that no Egyptian prbmise means anything as long as Egypt considers itself in a state of war with Israel. A similar statement came from Abba S. Eban, the Israeli ambassador to Washington and the United Nations who conferred late Monday with Hammarskjold in New York. Eban refused to comment on Hammarskjold’s announcement that Egypt has forbidden Gaza Arabs to make border raids on Israel, but he asked: “Does Egypt still consider itself at war with Israel?" , _ Cairo dispatches indicated Egypt * still did for they said Israeli shipping would continue to be barred from the Suez Canal despite Israel’s recent indications it would make a test case soon. Mrs. Almeda Clowser Is Taken By Death Mrs. Aimed/. Elizabeth Clowser, 90, died Monday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Harry Bell, south of Craigville. Also surviving arej three other daughters, Mrs. Goldie I Randall of Craigville, Mrs. Gladys | Joyce of Victorville, Calif., and Mrs. Gretchen Youse of North Webster; a son, Charles Clowser of Colton, Calif.; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, J. B. Anderson of Decatur, and C; E. Anderson of Lemmon,. S. D., and a sister. Miss Mary Anderson of Warren. Services will be held at 2:30 Wednesday at the Jahn, Goodwin and Reed funeral home, Bluffton. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery, Bluffton.

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Annual Fund Drive By Cancer Society Letters And Cards Ask Contributions Letters and postal cards, soliciting particip'ation in the annual Adams county cancer fund drive, are being mailed this week. Miss Joan Wemhoff, chairman of the Adams county cancer society announced today. Checks for all contributions to the fund should be made payable to Donald Bieberich, First State Bank, Miss Wemhoff said. This is the first year in Adams county that so many letters have been written. Mrs. Harry Crownover is in charge of the Monroe mailing and soliciting division; Mrs. Corwin Inechen is supervising the Geneva solicitation and Mrs. Raymond Kohne, Decatur, has charge of the rural division. Decatur and Berne contributions are received through Community Fund contributions. S3OO from Berne and SI,OOO from Decatur. In addition to conducting a year around educational campaign in the schools, the county society has several other projects. These include the presentation of films depicting various types of cancer, their detection and control, and the distribution of numerous pamptfiets telling of the early symp-CoattaiK-d Pa*e Eight Commissioners In Regular Session \ County Home Report Submitted To Board The county commissioners met Monday at the county court house for their regular meeting. The county home report for the month of February was submitted by George Fosnaugh, superintendent. The report showed an income of $731.48, with 22 men and six women as residents during the month. A report on the work done by the county highway department during the past three months is being compiled by Lawrence Noll, superintendent of the department, and will be released to the public in the next day or so. A group from French township appeared before the commissioners to request action on a petition for blacktopping the remaining one mile of road 16 in that township near the county line. The petition was filed several years ago. The request was taken under advertisement by the commissioners. The commissioners, in addition to allowing claims, also gave further study to the proposed construction of a new county highway garage near the county hospital at an estimated cost of $53,000. The matter is to be submitted to the county council which will be called to session some time in April. The council must approve any appropriation necessary for the construction. A request by Richard Lewton, Adams county clerk, for repair of flooring in his office, was approved by the commissioners during Monday’s meeting. Muncie Man Killed C * As Train Hits Car i. ' • MUNCIE, Ind. (UP) — Ira Flick, about 35, Muncie, a serviceman for the Central Indiana Gas Co., was killed today when his automobile skidded on wet pavement into the path of a Nickel Plate freight train at an unguarded crossing two miles east of here. Authorities said Flick apparently saw the train and jammed on his brakes but couldn't stop because the road’s surface was wet from a drizzle. He died of a crushed chest.

Dulles Calls On EgyptTo Give Answer Asks Statement On Egypt's Intentions On Operating Canal WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called on Egypt today to disclose within the next 24 to 48 hours whether it is willing to enter into serious negotiations for operating the Suez . Canal. Dulles also reiterated that the United States does not propose to shoot its way through the canal, or to call for boycott of the international waterway. Dules told a news conference that Egypt’s recent plan for operating the canal has certain weaknesses and shortcomings which should be corrected. Because of its wording, Dulles said the Egyptian plan may in fact be onijr a unilateral statement subject at hny time to Egypt’s unilateral action. The secretary left no doubt that the United States still desires some form of international control and operation of the canal. He pointed but that the Egyptian plan does not include the six principles approved last October by the United Nations Security Council for operating the canal. These points, he recalled, included provision for free and open transit of the canal and an agreement be- . tween Egypt and canal users for fixing tolls. The Formosa Defense Dulles repeated his previous statements thqt the United States ; believes every country, including . Israel, has the right to send its . ships through the canal. But he , said this government, so far as he knows, has not been officially ad- , vised that Israel plans to send a ' ship through the canal. On other subjects, Dulles: ’ -Said that the United States has given no secret assurances to ; Nationalist China that ft will help defend Quemoy, and Matsu Islands 1 in event of a Communist attack. The only US. commitments, he said, are those publicly known and 1 approved by Congress namely ' that the United States shall defend ' Formosa and the Pescadores Islands and related areas. A new book on Dulles by John R. Beal of Time magazine says that Nationalist China received a personal letter from President Eisenhower which satisfied Chiang Kai-shek that the United States would help defend Matsu and Quemoy. —Denied another statement inBeal’s book that Dulles withdrew the U.S. offer to help build Egypt’s Aswan Dam in order to “call Russia’s hand” in the Middle East. Negative, said Dulles, when asked atxnit the statement in the book. The United States, he added, had been dubious about the advisability of the gigantic project, especially after Egypt developed closer relations with the Soviet bloc and then recognized Communist China. The Travel Ban —Said the administration is still actively studying the question of whether to permit American reporters to go into Red China. While this problem has been under very active consideration for the last week or two, he said he could not forecast a change at this time. The State Department announced that U.S* officials and dependents evacuated during the Anglo-French and Israeli invasion of Egypt will return soon. Mrs. Harold Harner Dies Monday Night Young Mother And Infant Son Die • Mrs. Gladys Ellen Niblick Harner, 32, wife of Harold Harner, 815 North Twelfth street, died in childbirth Monday night at 9:10 o’clock at the Adams county memorial hospital. Her infant son, Jesse, also died. A lifelong resident of Decatur, she was born in this city July 29. 1924. a daughter of Mervin and Dolly Springer-Stahl, who reside on Master Drive. She was married to Harold Harner Dec. 28, 1949. Mrs. Harner was a member of the Church of the Nazarene. Surviving in addition to her husband and parents are four children, Sandra Kay, Terry Lee, Pamela Sue and Deborah, all at home; two brothers, Earl Stahl, Fort Wayne,' and Laverne Stahl, Tucson, Ariz., and one sister, Mrs. Mabel Freeman, Bluffton. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. C. E. Lykins officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

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17 Are Dead In Crashes Os Air Force And Navy Planes Monday, Today

Three Members Os Iran Bandit Gang Are Slain ;■; • ti Believed Members - Os Kidnaping Gang; May Pay Indemnity ’ TEHRAN, Iran (UP)-Govern-ment forces have killed three members of a bandit gang believed to have slain three Americans, the federal police reported today. A spokesman said one Iranian Officer also was killed in the clash Monday near the Pakistan border. Preliminary reports, which contained few details, said the bandits killed included the brother-in-law of the notorious Dad Shah, leader of the fugitive gang which has been sought since a week ago Sunday. The field dispatch reached here at a time of crisis for the government stemming from the deaths of the three Americans and the subsequent cutting off of U.S. gid programs for the southeast Iranian wilderness. ' j • Informed sources said Premier Hussein Ala would resign Wednesday night because the slayings pointed up the lack of security arrangements in some provinces. ’ Several ministers were reported ready to resign with him, giving Ala’s likely successor, Court Minister Dr. Manuchehr Eghbal, a free hand in forming a new government. Eghbal is a strong anti-Commu-nist and would follow the same basic pro-Western policy that Ala followed, government sources said. Willing To Pay WASHINGTON (UP) —lran has informally suggested it would be willing to pay an indemnity for the deaths of three Americans slain by an Iranian bandit gang, informed sources said today. So far there has been no official offer to pay families of the trio. But Iran has indicated one will be forthcoming. American officials in Iran who received the informal offer have passed the matter on to superiors here and asked for advice on how to handle the delicate question. The United States undoubtetfiy would accept such an offer, even though it does not hold the Iranian government in any way responsible for the killings. The money would go to the families of the slain Americans. The trio killed by bandits in the remote Baluchistan area of southeast Iran were Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Carroll of Issaquah, Wash., and Brewster Wilson of Portland, Ore. Carroll and Wilson were members of the U.S. foreign aid mission to Iran. : Authorities here believe the bandits killed the three Americans because they were mistaken for members of the Iranian state police. - Authorities of the International Cooperation Administration (ICA) denied there has been any formal halt to U.S. aid activities in southeast Iran as a result of the killings. They said that Clark S. Gregory, head of the U.S. aid mission in Iran, has ordered employes in the Kerman Province where the killings occurred not to leave the capital city for the time being.

Lenten Meditation “THE COMPASS” “Knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up.—l Cor. 8:1b (R.S.V.) The mariner’s compass is a delicate and important instrument. When clouds hide the stars and when out of sight of land, the pilot must depend upon his compass to show him the way. Harold F. Amster, a compass adjuster, says compasses need frequent checking. Electrical equipment, storms, steel dock plates, and other things tend to disturb the true position of the needle. It is so in life. We all need some dependable direction finder to guide us. Paul says that love is better even than knowledge. It is the one sure and certain compass for the Christian. The trouble is there are many influences that throw it off. Selfishness, prejudice, and jealousy creep in. Ambition, sin, and hatred send us off course. We are in danger unless we check our compass from time to time. Hie Christian standard is not how much we know but how much we love. - We need to keep our compass always in good repair. A good test for any course of action is this: Is it in keeping with the spirit of Christian love?

Horde Os Candidates In Texas Election , Control Os Senate At Stake In Race DALLAS, Tex. (UP)— A lone Republican faced a horde of 18 Democrats today in a Texas special election that could swing the precarious balance of power in the United States Senate. A total of 20 candidates sought the post. If bad weather prevails today, a vote as slim as 600,000 may decide whether Republicans or Dem- . ocrats run the Senate. The winner will fill the position hels by interim appointee William Blakley of Dallas. Blakley filled in, for Price Daniel, who became governor in January. There are 21 months remaining in the term. Bad Weather Threatens At present, Democrats fill 49 i seats in the Senate. If a Republi- > can wins today, it will even the balance at 48-48 and give Vice > President Richard M. Nixon the ■ tie breaking vote. i Robert Johnson, general mana- • ger of the Texas Election Board, I hoped for about 800,000, less than ■ half the eligible voters in Texas, • to go to the polls today between 8 • a.m. EST and 8 p.m. However, the turnout may be s cut by thunderstorms, which tite - predicted for most of the state today, and snow in the tipper Pani handle. It is the tornado season ! in Texas, and thunderstorms fre- - quently herald twisters. i Johnson estimated the eligible ■ vote in Texas at 1,980,830. Democrats fear their vote may ■ be split so many ways the minor- ; ity Republican vote will slip in i ahead of them. Hutcheson Faces ‘Field’ Thad Hutcheson, a 41-year -old Houston lawyer, is the Republican candidate. He Jias been endorsed by President Eisenhower and Nixon as well as the state Republican organization. H. J. Antoine Sr., a real estate man from Bastrop, is also running , as a Republican, but the state committee disowned him and he apparently has made no campaign. Five Democrats are widely known through previous races. They are Congressman - at-Large Martin Dies of Lufkin, Ralph Yar- : borough, an Austin attorney; state Sen. Searcy Bracewell of Houston; Agriculture Commissioner John White and former State Supreme Court Justice James P. Hart. Dies is regarded as the leading candidate of conservative Democrats. Yarborough, three times an unsuccessful but strong candidate for governor, is considered the liberal wing leader. The state Democratic committee has not endorsed any candidate. Auburn Woman Dies When Hit By Truck AUBURN, Ind. (tXP) - Mrs. . Edna Daisy Refner, 67, Auburn, was killed late Monday when an oil truck driven by her son-in-law backed over her in the driveway of her home here. Donald Sharp, Auburn, told authorities he had talked to his mother-in-law for a while and had assumed she went back into the house. He began backing the truck out of the driveway and ran over her.

Near Blizzard Again Sweeps Great Plains Second B’g Storm Os Spring Sweeps 4 Over Plains States By UNITED PRESS The second big snowstorm of the spring spread through the Groat Plains today. It approached Jnizzard proportions in some areas. To the north, 20-degree-below cold poured down out of Canada. To the south and east of the heavy snow area, thunderstorms struck. The new storm, following last week’s damaging blizzard, hit hard in Colorado, and dumped 11 inches of snow at Lander, Wyo. Warnings of heavy snow were issued for Colorado, western Kansas, western Nebraska and the Oklahoma ' Panhandle. Near Wizard conditions were possible in southern Wyoming. Northern New Mexico was alerted by a provisional snow warning. The Colorado Highway Department called the storm a “ground blizzard." At Denver, heavy snows tore down telephone lines and sent .tree branches tumbling into the streets.*-*-'*, *** V ■'By mid-morning, snow was reported piling up on all routes north and south of Denver to the Wyoming and New Mexico state lines. The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. reported service was disrupted to at least seven Colorado communities. From Montana to Minnesota, the Weather Bureau reported that the Canadian cold had pushed temperatures down below zero. Thunderstorms broke out during the night in Kansas and Oklahoma and a torm.oo alert was issued for a large section of western and north central Texas until 2 p.m. CST today. The Weather Bureau said that the thunderstorm activity was rolling east into Missouri and south toward Texas and the Lower Mississippi Valley. Four to eight inches of snow fell in central and eastern Colorado with some spots getting even more. Anna Schamerloh ;• Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Miss Anna Schamerloh, 84, lifelong resident of Union township, died at 2:28 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she was taken at 11 a m. yesterday after suffering a stroke at the home of a nephew, Adoph Schamerloh, whom she was visiting at his home in this city. She was born in Union township Oct. 31, 1872, a daughter of Christian and Caroline KrueckebergSchamerloh and had never married. She had made her home for the past 25 years with a halfsister, Mrs. Arthur Blakey, Union township. Miss Schamerloh was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Blakey are 10 nieces and nephews. Two brothers and two sisters preceded her in death. services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Immanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. W. C. Vetter officiating. Burial will be in the chufcch cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. The casket will not be opened at the church. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing north, mostly cloudy south and colder tonight Wednesday partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy south and rather cool. Chance of some rain sooth portion by night. Low tonight 28-35 north, 3540 south. High Wednesday 40& north to the low 50s southeast "unset 7:10 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 0:26 a.m.

Gives Final Report, On Polio Campaign More Than $6,500 Contributed Here Herman Krueckeberg, treasurer of die local March of Dimes fund of die Adams county chapter of the National Polio Foundation, today issued his final report on the 1957 fund drive which was conducted in January. A total of $6,583.99 was collected here during the campaign. A large share of this money is used in Adams county to assist polio victims. The local chapter’s treasury was completely exhausted last year by the high polio incidence which hit this area. Many of the persons who were crippled last year by the disease will need additional financial assistance for continued treatment. Any new cases during 1957 will also be eligible for help. Mrs. Robert Hess is chairman of the local chapter. She has expressed appreciation to all individuals and organizations who responded to this year’s appeal tor donations. She also issued a statement thanking all of those persons who assisted with the ; solicitation. The final report includes several ' belated reports of donations v , Including potato chip shies, $32.94; ' LimberlosT Home Demonstration club, $12.53; Kimsey school additional, $.55; ladiei auxiliary of the Decatur V.F.W., $5; Jefferson township school additional, $7.40; ladies of Rebekah Lodge, $3.75, and Jefferson township, $62.63. Postal Inspector Probes Vandalism Four Local Youths Involved In Case An inspector for the United States postal department was in Decatur Monday investigating the destruction of about 20 mailboxes in an area east of Decatur last week. The four boys who have admitted knocking the mailboxes down with a car have been identified as William Lichtle, 21; Philip DeßolJ, 19; James Sheets, 19, and Edward Meyer, 19, all of Decatur. The postal inspector will investigate the matter and report to Philip McNagny, the district attorney in Fort Wayne. Destruction of postal property is a federal offense and carries a penalty on conviction of one to three years in a federal penitentiary. Sheriff Merle Affolder, who is in charge of the local investigation, indicated that he will confer today with prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith on the advisability of filing charges of malicious trespassing against the four in a local court. Since the matter is a federal offense, the case will probably be submitted to the federal grand jury in Fort Wayne at its next session. The jury would have the power to return indictments against the boys, who would then be tried in federal court. The matter would be settled ts the grand jury failed to return indictments against them. It was pointed out that the federal investigation is completely independent of the local investigation. The boys are in the process of making restitution. Fort Wayne Man Is Killed In Virginia BEDFORD, Va. (IP) — Ronald Edward Harris, 20, 3106 Edward St.. Fort Wayne, Ind., was killed Monday night when his automobile crashed into a passenger train at a grade crossing during a rainstorm. State police said the car smashed into the locomotive of a Norfolk & Western RaUway train at the Thaxton community near here. Two men riding with Harris apparently were unhurt, police said.

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Patrol Bomber Catches Fire During Takeoff All 11 On Novy Plane Die; Six itejkre Killed Monday CHINCOTEAGUE, Va. W — A twin-engined Navy patrol bomber caught fire on takeoff from Chincoteague Naval Air Station plunged into a muddy cornfield and exploded, killing all 11 persons aboard. Witnesses said flames shot out from the Lockheed P2V6M Neptune as it circled back through a driving rain to try to return to the airfield which it had just left. The plane hit the ground “like a hard blast of thunder,” a Chincoteague police officer said. He heard the explosion six miles away from the air base on Virginia's eastern shore. The Navy said the plane took off i on a routine operational flight to i the Marine base at Cehhy Point, > N.C., at 5:54 a.m. CST and > crashed about 90 seconds later. The Navy confirmed all 11 aboard . were killed. 1 The Navy at Norfolk, Va., said ‘ tt did not know the cause of the, 1 of. ,yn?, .were 1 withheld until relatives have'been ' • notified. ! An investigating team rushed to 1 the scene to try to determine the cause of the accident. Included Early .... Four Survivors DICKSON, Tenn. (IP) — An Air Force 825 sounded like it backfired with two loud ’’pops” before it exploded and crashed in a rain with a loss of six lives Monday, a witness said. The plane was carrying 10 civilians and Tactical Air Command personnel from Langley Air Force Base, Va., to a meeting in Memphis, Tenn. Four survivors were hospitalized with injuries. Survivors said there was no advance warning of engine trouble. Allen J. Petty, a farmer who witnessed the crash, said he was attracted by the sound of a “pop” in the air, “looked up and heard another pop—and then there was an explosion.” Six bodies were found at the crash scene about eight miles south of here. Wreckage was strewn over a one-mile area. Hie injuried, all hospitalized here, included: Ist Lt. Robert C. Momier, 24, of Isle of Psalms, S. C.; John Sampson, 45; Haskell L. Daniels, 41; and Jack M. Evans, 28. all TAC civilian employes. The dead included: Col. Theodore R. Wright Jr., of Hampton, Va.; Alan D. Moore, 37, of Hampton; Lt. CoL Jacob R. Hamilton, 38, Warwick, Va.; Lt Col. Harlan C. Buttrill, 42, Hampton; Maj. John W. Browne, 41, Driver Uninjured As Truck Spills, Bums Truck Overturned North Os Decatur Robert V. Taylor, 31, a truck driver from Upper Sandusky, 0., narrowly escaped a fiery death at 12:05 a.m. today when his aluminumjoaded truck overturned and caught fire. The accident occurred on U. S. highway 27 north of Decatur about one and three-fourths miles. Taylor lost control of the vehicle when the right side of the trailer dropped off onto the soft berm. The entire vehicle was overturned and the cab burst into flames. Taylor was able to crawl out of the cab without being burned. The fire department was called to put out the blaze but the cab was almost completely destroyed by the fire. Total damage to the tractor and* trailer was estimated at $2,200. The aluminum ingots contained in the trailer were not damaged and will be re-loaded today. The accident was investigated by the sheriff's department and state police.