Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 118, Decatur, Adams County, 18 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 1

OKLAHOMA FLOODS CLAIM SIX ■ -fll WHILE NEIGHBORING Texas counted its tornado deaths, Oklahoma, also In the turbulent weather lashing the southwest reported at least six deaths by flood. The little northwestern Oklahoma town of Dover (above* lies partially submerged following an overnight rain of 12 inches which forced evacuation of all residents to higher ground. . 1

Egypt Hints At Backing Os Soviet Russia Security Council Os United Nations Will Meet Monday By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Egypt hinted today it would have the solid backing of the Soviet Union and the Soviet veto when the Security Council meets Monday to consider France’s demand that the entire Suez Canal question be reopened. Cairo dispatches said Egypt would fight France’s effort to reopen talks, on the canal question but would be protected by the Soviet veto against anti-Egyptian movement in any case. Semi - confirmation came from Moscow where Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko told Western correspondents that “nothing good" will come from the French move. He said ships were using the canal and the situation was “normal.” Gromyko, in a talk with foreign correspondents at a Norwegian embassy reception, declined to answer a question on whether Israel had freedom of passage through the canal and said “Israel is playing a very bad role in the Mideastern situation.” The state-controlled Cairo radio warned Israel that any attempt to send a test ship through the Suez Canal would be regarded as aggression and tha "volunteers” from all over the world would rush to Egypt’s aid. The radio did not mention Soviet “volunteers” by name but there were hints during last fall's crisis that Soviet and Chinese Communist volunteers might go to Egypt. Israel, while waiting for security council discussion of the Suez Canal, was paying more and more attention to a Syrian complaint accusing it of violating the armistice by building a bridge in a demilitarized zone near Lake Huleh. The complaint is to be heard May 23. Israeli sources blamed Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for the protest and accused the Syrians of trying to stir up trouble to arouse the entire Arab world against Israel and stop the breakup of the Jordan-Saudi Arabian-Egyptian-Syrian alliance. In ‘ other middle East developments: Rome: Egyptian delegates conferred with Italian officials before beginning official trade talks Monday. The chief Egyptian delegate insisted that Italian ships must pay canal tolls in cash. Tel Aviv: Israeli sources predicted the early publication of secret correspondence between Premier David Ben-Gurion and U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold covering the period from now until just before the Sinai invasion. Holdup Suspect Is Nabbed At Capital INDIANAPOLIS — ffl — Police captured Russell Carpenter, 25, a holdup suspect, less than two hours after a gunman escaped Friday from a loan office with $1,392. Police said Carpenter admitted the daylight robbery of the east side Economy Finance Co. He was caught on a city street after returning a friend’s car. \ The holdup man ordered assistant manager Arthur O. Piers, 30, and mahager Clifford Mull of hand over money from a cash drawer and vault. He filed in a car. ■/ « ’

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Annual Methodist Conclave Wednesday Wabash Is Site Os Annual Conference The 114th session of the North Indiana annual conference of Methodist churches will be held at the First Methodist church at Wabash, opening Wednesday and closing Sunday afternoon, May 26. Six hundred Methodist ministers and laymen from the 300 pastoral charges in Northeastern Indiana win attend. The Rev. Virgil Sexton and Alva Lawson will be the official delegates from the Decatur church. The five-day meeting will open Wednesday morning with a memorial service honoring ministers, their wives and widows, and lay delegates who have died during the past year. The Rev. Albert E. Habgood, Warsaw pastor, will deliver the sermon. Following will be the traditional service of holy communion, conducted by Bishop Richard C. Raines, episcopal head of the Methodist church in Indiana, the host pastor, the Rev. Wallace Deyo, and the six district superintendents. The first business session will be held Wednesday afternoon with reports by the superintendents and of the Rev. Edwin R. Garrison, administrative assistant to the bishop. All sessions on the closing day will be held in the Honeywell auditorium. Bishop Raines will preach at the morning service and will participate in the ordination ceremonies in the afternoon. Concluding business of the conference will be the reading of pastoral appointments Sunday afternoon. Report Contact To Submerged Object Reports Os Sunken Submarine False LONDON (UP)—The Dutch submarine chaser Utrecht reported today it had made contact with a “submerged object" to the North Sea but that reports a submarine might have sunk in the area appeared to be a false alarm. The search vessel said signals from its echo sounding apparatus were “too vague” to indicate a sunken vessel. The Utrecht reported to Amsterdam it found an “anchored drum” in the area where a Danish ship Friday night reported seeing a. buoy which flashed lights and gave off smoke—like a submarine’s emergency marker buoy. The captain of the Danish freighter Mary North reported he could hear “knocking from the submerged vessel” he said it sounded like distress signals from a sunken sub. The Utrecht immediately headed for home. It radioed its findings to the British Admiralty which served as emergency communications center in case a submarine was missing from one of the world’s navies. No NATO submarines were missing and there was speculation the vessel may have belonged to Russia or some Eastern European nation. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and somewhat warmer today. Sunday partly cloudy and cool north, warm south, with scattered showers and thunderstorms south. Low tonight 4448. High Sunday 5010.

Indiana Road Scandal Probe Is Extended Probe Is Extended To Wayne And Lake Counties In State WASHINGTON (UP) - Investigation erf the Indiana highway scandal today spread to Wayne and Lake counties. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn), chairman of the U.S. Senate Public Roads Subcommittee, issued a prepared statement which said, • “We have initiated a preliminary ’ investigation of the right-of-way 1 acquisition in Wasne and Lake counties.” Gore said there was "dear” , evidence of “consiiracy to defraud” In the Marion County phase of the highway scandal . which was the subject of a twoday hearing this week. “Evidence deduced by the investigation of the acquisition of rights-of-way cm the Madison Ave. highway project in Indianapolis tended to show clearly, if not conclusively, toe existence of conspiracy to defraud,” Gore said. Filo Sedillo and John L. Mutz, members of Gore's staff, spent several dass in Indianapolis checking on the Madison Ave. case. But there was no indication they would return for toe WayneLake inquiry. There also was no indication whether further hearings would be held. Gore’s office said that depends on what the new inquiry produces. Former Indiana highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith, his right-of-way chief Nile Teverbaugh; Teverbaugh’s chief aide, Harry Doggett, and Milan attorney Robert A. Peak all are under indictment in Marion County, Indiana, on charges of embezzlement of public funds or conspiracy to embezzle. They came here under subpena during toe week, but declined to (Continued on Pace Six) Visitors From Ohio Send Gift To Center Express Thanks For City's Hospitality Members of toe Washington township Home Neighbors club of Paulding county, Ohio, who, as a group, visited Decatur stores and industries recently, have contributed $5 to toe Youth and Community Center and gave a unanimous vote of thanks to Decatur merchants for their hospitality during the visit. Robert Lane, chairman of toe retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, received a letter of thanks, signed by all members and enclosing the contribution. Chairman Lane also.has received four other inquiries from clubs in Paulding county for dates when their groups can visit Decatur. Lane stated that he would call his committee together to set dates for the visitors and a schedule for several similar tours would be set up. The women were taken to several Decatur industries and entertained at a luncheon by Decatur merchants. They had the entire afternoon for shopping and visiting local stores. Indications are that these groups, totaling several hundred women, will visit Decatur stores and industries next fall.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 18, 1957.

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Benson Urges GOP Leaders Back Budget Secretary Benson 1 Speaks To Leaders { From Seven States CINCINNATI (UP) — Agriculture secretary Ezra Taft 'Benson Friday night called on top Republican leaders from seven stales to meet issues of the budget “squarely.” He urged them to stack toe GOP record of government economy against the “sorry spectacle of financial irresponsibility” during Democratic administrations. The appeal to support toe President’s budget requests to Congress was voiced before a regional conference of party chiefs from Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and West Vir- , ginia. Benson, disturbed by a House action wiping out the soil bank ’ program, warned his party mem- ’ bers they would be hearing “politi-cally-inspired charges” about the ’ farm situation between now and , the 1958 elections. , Benson said the GOP “probably ’ will see the administration’s soil , bank used as a whipping boy thy toe political opposition—toe same ‘ people who a few short months , ggo were claiming it as their very _ own.” “The House action,” he said, “has been described by some as > a temporary injunction until Congress can study the program furi toer.” “But as a practical matter,” ’ Benson said, "farmers are entitled to know by July 1 of this year whether there is to be a program [ for the 1958 crop year, and what , its Scope and nature will be.” He said this was necessary so ’ farmers erfn make plans in advance of fall planting time. Benson said he was "hopeful” ! toe program could be saved in the , Senate although he had no word chi ; whether toe Democratic majority . would agree to restore it. The Senate Republican leader- . ship, he said, has been “favorable” . to continuation of toe soil bank. He said his job “inevitably in- . vites more brick-bats than bou- . quets” but he was “grateful’’ for , toe experience. Benson said he has asked Con- [ gress for “broader discretion” in . toe use of price supports and acreage controls on basic farm , crops. ‘ Cuts Called “Politics” “Corn acreage, cut back by the control program,” he said, “is now at the lowest level in 66 years. “The corn producing area has been spread out and diluted,” he said. “Nineteen years ago, when toe commercial corn area was laid out for acreage control purposes, it included parts of 12 states. Now it includes parts of 24." Benson said corn farmers appear to be willing to move in the direction of competitive pricing. (Contxued on i-ngo Six) j I - •

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(Editor’s Note: Sam Woodsen, : a 39-year-old Negro construction worker, was the first person to ■ reach Benny Hooper Jr., in his ! sandy tomb. Here is Woodson’s : story. I By SAM WOODSON As Told To United Press MANORVILLE, N.Y. (UP)— I 1 heard about that boy at work and . all of a sudden I got the sensation that God was saying to me, “Sam, J you must go and help get that boy out.” I went home and told my wife, "I’m going to see if I can help ■ that boy. My wife called her sis- ■ ter and they went to the church to ' pray for him. f I went to the boy’s house. Peo- ; pie tried to keep me back 1 but I pushed through, I was in and out , of that hole an day. I kept thinking, “God told me to ■ come here so the boy must be alive and I’ll get him out.” I got

Japan Will Indict American Soldier “ • . ... < « > Firing Range Death Os Woman Charged TOKYO (UP) — Justice Minister Umekichi Nakamura said today Japan would indict U.S. Army 5.3. C. William S. Girard, Ottawa. Hl., next week on charges of manslaughter in the firing range death of a Japanese woman last January. Nakamura told a Socialist questioner in the House of Representatives that the decision of the joint U.S.-Japan commission Thursday to let Japan try Girard “must be rigidly observed.” Foreign Office sources concurred with Nakamura's view. These sources said “formal diplomatic procedures” would have to be taken between toe United States and Japan to change toe decision of toe joint commission. Both Nakamura and the Foreign Office sources were commenting on U.S. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson’s order holding up delivery of Girard to the Japanese authoriies. Nakamura told the House committee, "We have received an official document from the U.S. . military authorities waiving criminal jurisdiction in toe case. I understand toit an issue has been I made of it to the United States. 'An official decision has been made bs ! a joint commission and this deci- ; sion must be rigidly observed no ’ matter what is said in toe United States.” Nakamura said toe district pro- > curator’s office in Maebashi, 60 • miles northwest of Tokyo, will go ■ ahead aith its indictment of the American GI “to a day or two.” The socialist party issued a I statement calling Wilson’s order ’ an “unlawful and selfish attitude i of a big power.”. The Socialists '■ said the order disregarded Japan’s rights and was a “betrayal of 1 trust and faith.” Minoru Tsuda, chief of the Justice Ministry Secretariat and chairman of toe legal subcommittee of the joint U.S. Japan Commission said he knew nothing of Wilson’s order to hold up delivery of Girard to toe«Jaianese. “We did receive a formal letter Friday from toe U.S. Far East Command notifying us that it would deliver Girard to us when we want him," Tsuda said, "so we'will go ahead with the indictment, as planned.” Tsuda added, "It will be up to the Maebashi District Court then to set toe date for toe trial.” He added, “We don’t need Girard until toe trial starts. There i% no fear that he will run away.” Wilson ordered toe U.S. Far East Command to retain custody of Girard, “pending a complete review” in Washington. Girard is with the Bth Cavalry Regiment. A Far East Command spokesman said toe Japanese government had been notified. NOON EDITION

tired but I thought of my little girl and it helped keep me going. I was digging carefully when I saw the jacket covering the top of Benny’s head. I started to brush the sand away from his J coat when I heard him whimper. Just then we started to cave in. I grabbed him a little bit hard and I heard him cry. I held on and took the coat off his head and he looked at me and started to groan. I didn’t have a chance to talk to him. I talked to God. I had to yank Benny pretty hard because the sand really started coming. And when I yanked, John (Arambo, the worker behind Sam) yanked me to keep me from letr ting go. But we got him out. When we found him, I turned to John and told him, "The boy la alive, thank God." I looked at that boy and looked into his big blue eyes and I tall you, that was the happiest moment of my life?*

Sen. Johnson In New Blast At Eisenhower Again Attacks Ike Administration On Budget Controvesy WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate • Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) further stocked up the budget controversy today with his second attack on the administration this week. Johnson said he would “like to know when we will have one party in cbntrol of the executive branch of our government.” He said “Fight now we seem to have two” —those who favor cutting the budget and those who argue that doing so would endanger national security. He made the statement to reporters Friday night after President Eisenhower called for the election of a Republican Congress in 1958. Eisenhower said in a telephone address to a GOP rally in Cincinnati that political responsibility can be definitely fixed only when one party controls both the White House and Congress. Johnson last Monday accused . the administration of talking “out ( of both sides of its mouth” on the I budget question. He called on Eisenhower to publicly side with . either the “spending wing” or j “economy wing.” ’ The Senate kept up the running 5 attack on the budget Friday by chopping $257,928,710 from the 1 Commerce Department budget for r next fiscal year. The bill provid--5 ing $613,548,290 went to a Senate--5 House conference committee. ; f , | . Former Local Lady ; Dies At Huntington Mrs. Minnie Adams Is Taken By Death Mrs. Minnie Mae Adams, 78, former Decatur resident, died Thursday at her home in Huntington. She was the widow of R. A. ' Adams, science teacher in the Decatur high school for many years. The Adams family lived in Decatur for 20 years while Mr. Adams taught here, and also lived in North Manchester for five years. Mrs. Adams had lived in 1 Huntington since 1948. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Ross Stivers of Hammond, Mrs. Russell Bright of Royal Oak, Mich., and Mrs. Frank Krick of Fort Wayne: five grandchildren: two brothers, Frank Shideler of Huntington, and John M. Shideler of Indianapolis, and a half-broth-er, Noah M. Shideler of Columbus, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Bailey funeral home in Huntington, the Rev. E. R. Fisher officiating. Burial will be in Lancaster cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Charge Labor Leader Owes Additional Tax WASHINGTON — (W— The Internal Revenue Service Friday claimed that an Indiana labor union oficial owes $2,967.35 in additional income taxes for 1953 and 1954 when he overstated travel deductions by $11,626. Hie claim was revealed in U.S. Tax Court here when Elmer Brown, Indianapolis official of the International Typographical Union filed a petition protesting the government action. Brown had claimed $14,071 as traveling expenses during the two years in question. He described himself as a traveling represents-. five of the ITU.

Speaker Sunday ft. fliflSßdi& fl ' Hfl The Rev. W. H. Kirkpatrick, pastor of the Church of God to at baccalaureate services of toe Decatur, will deliver the sermon Decatur high school, Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the school auditorium. Musical selections will be presented by the high school choir, directed by Miss Helen Haubold, music supervisor to the public schools.

Negro Graduates At ; Integrated School > Initial Member Os Race In Tennessee ! CLINTON, Tenn. <UD—A Negro r boy with 87 white classmates 'Fri- > day night became the first memr ber of his race to be graduated by -a state-supported integrated high - school this deep in the South. Far from the sidelines, segregationist John Kasper commented in Knoxville, Tenn., that he hoped the boy also would hhve the added distinction of being the last. Bobby Cain, 17, was the 35th of the students in cap and gown to receive his diploma from Asst. Principal Mrs. Juania Moser in the gymnasium ceremony before an unsegregated audience qf 600. There was no hint of tension or disorder at this scene of last fall’s recurring violence which has rel suited in 17 arrests on federal contempt charges and at one time ' brought National Guard tanks on the rush. Sporadic racial agitation since then led school authorities to fear possible demonstrations against the racially mixed graduation but the slightly above - normal police force on hand bad nothing un- ( toward to cope with. Kasper, under two federal contempt charges, was officially blamed for stirring up much of the trouble with speeches and handbills after the school was first integrated under Federal Court order last fall. The New Jersey native called , for legislation to insure that young : Caln will be the “first, last and only Negro" to be graduated from a formerly all-white high school in the Tennessee school system. The police guard consisted of . Chief Francis Moore and another . uniformed officer in the crowded auditorium and four others seated in a squad car parked across the stf eet. ‘ , News photograpners cm hand were forbidden to take pictures inside the gymnasium but flashbulbs popped when the processional entered and when it left, accompanied by the high school band. In the audience were young Cain’s parents and eight other ,Uontlnu«'.' on t*as« Six) Cambridge City Man Killed Friday Night CAMBRIDGE CITY (UP) - Earl E. Simmons, 38, Cambridge City, was killed Friday when two cars collided at a county road junction two miles south of Parker. / State Police said a car driven by Frank Evans, 71, Union City, went through the Intersection and struck Simmons' car. Simmons was thrown from the car as it struck a utility pole. . Evans was taken to Union City (Hospital. _ jaama*

Rare Courage Os Victim Is Given Praise Miracfe Rescue Os Seven-Year-Old Boy Accomplished Friday MANORVILLE, NY. (UI)-The death-defying valor of volunteer rescuers, a steady flow of oxygen, the indomitable courage of the victim-and luck- were credited I today with the miracle rescue of 17-year-old Benny Hooper from the bottom of a well shaft where he ! was entombed for nearly 24 hours. % Suffering only from exposure and shock, the slender, blue-eyed boy was reported resting comfortably and in good condition at Bay View Hospital in nearby Mastic Beach. Doctors, who expressed amazement at the child’s survival in the bottom of the 10inch wide pit, said he was regaining his color and was well on the road to recovery. But, they said in such cases there was a danger of pneumonia setting in. A tube which pumped life-pre-serving oxygen into the chill, dark shaft throughout Benny’s en-trapxnent-apd which despite sifting sand miraculously hovered less than an inch from his mouth —was believed by doctors to have kept the boy alive in what even the most optimistic feared had become a sandy grave. ' Another fortune of chance-the billowing of Benny’s jacket as he became wedged in the Harkened well shaft-also helped save the life of the sandy-haired secondgrader, doctors said. Miraculously, the jacket-worn because of an unseasonable chill-had created an air pocket, catching the potentially death - dealing sandslides that occurred sporadically during 23 hours of frantic rescue operations. The rescue was climaxed at 7:31 Friday night when a 29-year-old Negro construction worker braved a cave-in 25 feet below the surface and freed the half - conscious boy from his trap. From the pit of the emergency crater, came the cry of Dr. J.H. Kris, the Hooper family’s physician. "Ttie boy’s alive. He’s alive.” Spectators fell on their knees, many with their heads skyward, in silent prayer. Urges Congress To Wreck Labor Trust Urges Government Control Os Labor BLOOMINGTON, Ind.- (UP) — A top business executive Friday night urged Congress to "destroy the labor trust of today,” just as it destroyed “the sugar trust, the tobacco trust, and the oil trust of 60 years ago.” The plea for government control of labor was made by John A. Barr, chairman and president of Montgomery Ward & Co., in a dinner talk before the Indiana University chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, national honorary business fraternity. "Dismantlement of the labor monopoly will require a ‘Sherman Act’ for labor, as we now have a Sherman Act for business,” Barr said. „ .• Barr went on to charge that the union shop contract “is one of the most undemocratic institutions ever to get a foothold in America.” C. of C. Directors Will Meet May 27 The monthly meeting of the board of directors of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce win be held at 8 p.m. Monday, May », at the C. of C. offices. *n>e meeting was originally scheduled for this coming Monday, but has bean postponed one week.

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