Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 128, Decatur, Adams County, 31 May 1957 — Page 1

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Seven Persons Die In Beirut During Riots Lebanese Blaming Syrians, Egyptians And Communists By WALTER LOGAN which killed seven persons and inUnfted Press Staff Correspondent Lebanese authorities in Beirut blamed Syrians, Egyptians and Communists today for attempting to overthrow the pro-Western government in angry riots Thursday which killed seven persons and injured 73. > The pro-government newspaper Annahar reported the arrest of two Syrian officers in civilian clothes and said they were captured while inciting rioters to overthrow the government of President Camille Chamoun. The independent newspaper El Beyrak said “foreign money” was behind the riots in which shooting, stone-tossing mobs battled for 90 minutes with police and soldiers during a “general strike” that failed to come off. * Lebanese authorities said the “foreign money” came from Egypt, Syria and Communist agents and that the anti-govern-ment plot resembled similar attempts to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan. Point to Egypt One source said the uprising had been planned for a month “in complicity with the military belonging to the Arab armies.” Newspapers gave prominent display to reports Russian-made Syrian arms were found on some of the 200 demonstrators arrested. Annahar said the “conspirators planned to set fire to Beirut” the same way rioters burned Cairo several years ago in preparation for seizing power from Chamoun and Premier Sami Solh. Many in the crowd carried pictures of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The arrested included two former premiers—Abdullah Yafi and Saeb Salam. Salam was confined to a hospital with injuries suffered during-the fighting. The arrest of other political figures was expected shqrtly. Both Salam and Yafi had led noisy demonstrations displaying pictures of Nasser and declaring “We Stand For Abdul Nasser.” They were members of the parliamentary opposition against Solh’s pro-Western policies. The Lebanon supports the Eisenhower Doctrine and the Arab League but refuses to become a satellite of Egypt. Beirut welcomed hundreds of U.S. Marines last month, but Thursday one of the demonstrators hurled a stone and inflicted minor damage on the car of U.S. military attache. Robert C. Works. While the Lebanon's relations with Syria and Egypt worsened, a new crisis appeared to be in the making over Israeli passage through the Gulf of Aqaba. Britain Studies Loan Jerusalem dispatches said reports were received there that Egypt was reorganizing its Red Sea fleet to renew the nine-year blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. Much of the fleet wasdestroyed during the invasion of Egypt but reports received in Jerusalem said Egypt had been supplied sous submarines and four new minelayers by the Communists. * In a series of other Middle East developments: London: Britain announced it was studying a Jordanian request for some 3Mi million dollars in economic aid to build up facilities (Continued on P*r« Eight)

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Monroe Trustee Is Defendant In Suit Is Made Defendant In Mandamus Suit Monroe township trustee Sylvan Sprunger was made a defendant Wednesday afternoon in the mandamus suit of L. A. "Gus” Mann, asking that Berne, south of Main street, be returned to the Wabash township civil township for tax purposes by action of Judge Myles F. Parrish of the Adams circuit court. A summons was issued to the sheriff of Adams county ordering appearance by or for Sprunger by June 8, the last day of court this term. It is still hoped that the case can be heard in this term of court, by the calling of one" or two witnesses on the last day, June 8, and then continuing the trial into the summer. Judge Parrish held in his entry that a full and complete determination of the controversy could not be made without including the Monroe township trustee as an interested person. He cited several cases which held that the court shall cause* interested parties to be made a party defendant. Mann entered the mandamus suit May 25 through his attorneys, Custer and Smith, asking that the county auditor change the tax records to show that Berne C precinct is in Wabash township. Rotarians To Mark 40th Anniversary Entertain Ladies At June 6 Meeting The Decatur Rotary club will celebrate its 40th anniversary next Thursday, June 6, with a special ladies banquet at 6:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, honoring and their wives and a number of distingished guests from neighboring Rotary clubs have also been invited. Clayton Rogers, of Chicago, will be the principal speaker. Famous for his entertaining talks, he win explain “Why America Avon Burk, first president of the local club, and Clarence Ziner, recently elected governor for district 654 of Rotary International at its convention at Lucerne, Switzerland, will also be on the program. Leo Curtain is program chairman and will serve as toastmaster. Joe Kaehr is president pf the Decatur club. Dinner music will be provided by Jerry Kaehr and his orchestra. The Decatur Rotary club was organized in 1916 but" it did not receive its charter from Rotary International until May, 1917. The international office was a bit reluctant at first to admit a club in a city of less than 5,000 population. The Decatur club charter is No. 302. As of April 24, 1957, there were 9,373 Rotary clubs located throughout the world with a total membership of 442,500 Rotarians. Each Rotarian represents a particular classification or business, only one individual may belong from that vocation. The local club holds the district trophy at present for having enrolled the highest precentage of new members into the 1956-57 Rotary year. 12 Page*

Memorial Day Traffic Toll lsCutTo93 Traffic Death Toll For Holiday Under Council Forecast By UNITED PRESS The nation’s Memorial Day traffic toll dropped sharply below predictions. A United Press survey showed 93 traffic deaths during the period when the National Safety Council exoected 120. The Memorial Day toll tan slightly higher than the non-holi-day average of 75 for a similar period. Safety Council President Ned H. Dearborn said drivers deserve a “pat on the back” for their Memorial Day care and courtesy. “Let’s keep it up over the weekend,” he pleaded. The United Press count of fatalities between 6. p.m. Wednesday and midnight Thursday showed 93 persons killed in traffic, 6 dead in plane wrecks, 32 drownings, and 15 deaths in miscellaneous mishaps for a total of 146. Illinois had the worst traffic record with 11 deaths. Pennsylvania and California came next, each with 10 highway fatalities. Two spectacular plane crashes boosted the accidental death toll as millions paid homage to the nation’s war dead. The Memorial Day salute in Minneapolis turned into tragedy when two Navy Panther jets collided and one of them rammed into a row of homes in a residential section. Father, Daughters Killed ' A private plane crashed in flames near Weston, Neb., Thursday, killing Jesse W. Meyers, 35, Omaha, Neb., and his daughters, Susan Kay, 7, and Sherry Lee, 5. A wheel flew off a speeding race car at Shippenville, Pa., before some 4,000 fans, killing two children as it sliced into the crowded stands and injuring three other persons. Although most of the nation enjoyed pleasant weather Thursday, tornadoes and severe thunderstorms broke out in sections of the West. Twisters hit lowa, causing minor damage, and about six tornado funnels were spotted near Dallas, Tex. Heavy rains accompanying the stoVm threatened to touch off new’ floods in the Fort Worth, Tex., area. • Roadside Council To Meet Here Tuesday . “Clean-Up and Beautificiation” will be the subject of the talk to be given by Mrs. Sophia Diefenbaugh at the meeting of the Adams county roadside council. Tuesday at 1:30 p.m at the Decatur library. Mrs. Diefenbaugh, the district supervisor, will give the late news on legislation, and district and state meetings of interest to the local group. This meeting is open to the public. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (W — The Independent Petroleum Association of America today called for a 4-cente-a-barr#l increase in crude oil prices in the wake of a 6 per cent wage raise being granted generally tar the oO industry.

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Propose Bill < To Pul Curb ‘ On Lobbying New Bill Proposed To Senators Today To Curb Lobbying By UNITED PRESS A new bill to curb lobbying and influence peddling was proposed in the Senate today. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) introduced the measure, which would require “full disclosure" of lobbyists’ spending, shortly after his special Senate committee unanimously recommended it. The committee also proposed, by a split vote, a bill to scrap outmoded ceilings on spending in presidential election campaigns and rely, instead, on “full disclosure” to keep such expenditures under control. This measure was not immediately offered to the Senate for action. The Senate also beard a warning from Republican Leader William S. Knowland (Calif.) that Britain’s decision to expand its trade with Communist China would strengthen the Peiping government and encourage it to seize British Hong Kong. ■ Britain’s revolt agaihst Amerlcan efforts to continue the “strategic” trade embargo against Red China, Knowland said, “can only strengthen our common enemy.” Violent congressional criticism of the British action had failed to materialize today. Many congressmen were out of town for a long Memorial Day weekend. Sen. Charles E. Potter (R-Mich.) said the British action “possibly” may hurt President Eisenhower’s chances of winning congressional support for his foreign aid budget. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey IDMum.), a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, said, however, that “if the disarmament issue with the Communists is being taken seriously, why not the trade issue.” He said Britain “has been pushed very hard financially” and the move was expected. Othef congressional news: Natural Gas: United Auto Workers President Walter A. Reuther said that enactment of an admin-istration-supported natural gas bill would cost consumers almost one billion dollars a year. He made the remark in a statement prepared for the House Commerce Committee which is holding hearings on the subject. Reuther said the bill would result in a windfall of more than 30 billion dollars to the oil industry. Lunch: A number of GOP congressmen compained about President Eisenhower’s forthcoming lunch on Capitol Hill Monday with Continued on Paso Elffht , Adam Ehling, 97, Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Adam Ehling, 97-year-old retiredfarmer, died Wednesday at his home three miles southeast of Monroeville, where he had lived since 1876. He and his wife, Catherine, celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary Nov. 11, 1956. Mr. Ehling was a member of the Flat Rock Lutheran church. - Surviving in addition to the widow are six daughters, Mrs. Samuel M. Brown and Mrs. Vanz Bell, both of Monroeville route 2, Mrs. Wade Mcßames and Mrs. Walter Bauer, both of Decatur, Mrs. Arthur Phon of Monroeville, and Mrs. Owen Savieo of Terr# Haute: 10 grandchildren; 45 great-grandchil-dren, and eight great-great-grand-children. Funeral services will be held at* 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Marquart funeral home at Monroeville, and at 2 p.m. at the Flat Rock Lutheran church, Dr. Paul Dannenfeldt officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

St. Luke's Church 4 To Mark Centennial Special Services June 9 Through 16 The St. Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed church, located at Honduras, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the congregation with special services from Sunday, June 9, until Sunday, June 16. and also one sister, preceded him 1 arranged a number of special servi ices throughout the eight-day period, assisted by the pastor of the ) church, the Rev. Lotas C. Minsteri man. f The observance will open with r the celebration of holy communion ' at 9:30 a.m. June 9, with the sermon by the Rev. Boyd Stepler. Rev. Stepler, a native of Adams ’ county, will be ordained into the . ministry at the service at 7:30 p.m. ’ the same day, with the sermon by j the Rev. Meredith Sprunger, of ■ Culver, assisted by the Rev. H. . H. Meckstroth of Alliance, 0., and the Rev. Calvin Schmid of Berne. . A reception will follow the service. - Rev. Stepler will graduate from t Mission House Seminary June 2. > Women’s guild night will be obi served at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, June - 11, with Mrs. Ervin Lochner pre- : siding. Speakers will be the Rev. Otto H. Scherry of Holgate, 0., and - the Rev. Carl J. Weidler of Nashua, - la. 1 Thursday night, June 13, at 7:45 ' o’clock, will be community night, ’ with Ivan Heare presiding. Guest f speaker will be the Rev| William ’ C. Feller, pastor of the Zion Evan- ’ gelical and Reformed church of ’ Decatur. , Friday, June 14, at 7:45 p.m., ’ youth and Sunday school night will ; be celebrated, with David Smith I presiding, and the Rev. Meredith . Sprunger, of Culver, speaking. Sunday, June 16, will be the i formal anniversary day. The Rev. • Henry Kroehler, president of the ■ Michigan-Indiana synod of the Ev- ! angelical and Reformed church, ! will preach at the 10 a.m. service. A fellowship dinner will be served at noon by the ladies of the church, and the final service of the centennial celebration will be a fellowship service at 2 p.m., with William Bertsch, Jr., presiding. The closing messages will be given by the Revs. Stepler and Kroehler. Presbyterians Plan To Build Addition Educational Unit For Local Church Officials of the First Presbyterian church are awaiting the outcome of the request for a building permit, before completing plans for an addition to the church, which is located at Five Points. The proposed addition, which will be a one-story educational unit with basement, will be built along the east side of the church, and extend north. It will house classrooms for the nursery, kindergarten, and primary classes of the • church Sunday school, with the entrance to face Adams street. Nearly $45,000 in pledges has been received from the Presbyterian congregation. This amount is approximately one-third of the amount which will eventually be needed for the completion of the long-range project, which was planned last August. ’’ A meeting of the church board of directors and the planning committee will be held within the next few weeks, when more definite action will be decided upon.' INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonght tonight. Clear- ’ ing and cooler northwest, scattered thundershowers and turning Cooler south and east portions ’Saturday. Low tonight 50s northwest to the 60s southeast. High Saturday upper 60s extreme north to around 80 extromoutouth. Sunset 8:06 p.m., sunrise Saturday 5:19 a.h.

Soufhwesf Is Ripped By Wind . And Heavy Rains New Flash Floods Are Unleashed By Stormy Weather ' By UNITED PRESS Tornadic winds, heavy rains and - hail the size of baseballs ripped • the Southwest Thursday night and - early today, unleashing new flash floods and causing considerable ! property damage. i There were no reports of casual- . ties in the storms, which extended as far northward as the central , and northern Plains. More than two inches of rain swamped Fort Worth and Amarillo, Tex., Thursday night, and a > swarm of twisters swirled across the state. Damage, however, was not as great as in previous floods and tornado outbreaks. Torrential rains, hail and lightning caused extensive damage at 1 Wichita Falls, Tex., and tornadoes were sighted near Fort Worth, ’ Benbrook, Chico, Bridgeport, De- ! catur and Weatherford, Tex. Hail stones the size of baseballs battered Hobbs, N.M., causing I heavy property damage. , The violent Memorial Day. weather earlier swept across gix i other western and midwestern states, touching off twisters in [ lowa and Colorado. The lowa tornadoes apparently did not touch ground, but two twisters in northr east Colorado caused considerable damage to a school and farm buildings at Windsor and to farm ' buildings near Timnath. 1 Elsewhere, a few showers and i thunderstorms marred holiday Uci tivities in the mid-Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region. Scattered thundershowers also occurred in the East, one dumping 1.35 inches of rain at Olean, N.Y., and another drenching Hatteras, N.C., with 1.82 inches. Forecasters said the pattern of scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue over most of the nation today. No Lions Meeting Here Monday Night The Decatur Lions club will forego its regular meeting next Monday evening, but will join the Rotary club Thursday evening as the Rotarians celebrate the 40th anniversary of the club's founding. This will be a ladies night and wives of members of both service clubs are invited to attend. Corydon Rayl Dies Wednesday Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Corydon F. Rayl, 74, well known farmer residing four miles east and one-half mile north of Monroe, died at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital following an illness of six months of complications. He was bom in Tipton county May 12, 1883, a son of Thomas J. and Mary Jlunt-Rayl, and bad lived in Adams county since 1903. He was married March 22, 1905, to Louisa Christener, who preceded him in death May 4, 1943. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Cecil Franklin of Decatur, and Mrs. Albert Davison of Pleasant Mills; four sons, Frank Rayl of Monroe, Thurman Rayl of Decatur route 6, and Richard and Max Rayl, both at home, and two grandchildren. His only brother, Dr. C. C. Rayl, Decatur surgeon, preceded him in death, also one sister. Funeral services Will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Lot> enstein funeral home at Monroe, the Rev. Billy J. Springfield officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Memorial Day Rises Held Here Thursday Rev. Sexton Speaks At Veteran Service “A day of remembrance and a day of rededication” was the description of Memorial Day given by the Rev. Virgil Sexton, pastor of the First Methodist church here, in the Memorial Day speech at the peace memorial on the court house lawn Thursday. j The stirring speech, recalling t the deeds of those who died in the I several wars, called for a rededil cation of the listeners to the > ideals of justice, peace, and democracy to which the war veterans pledged themselves. I Commander Theodore Baker, of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, presided at the ceremony, which followed a parade from the VFW home to the Monroe street bridge, and back to the court house square. Charles Brothers, SpanishAmerican War veteran, laid a wreath on a cross dedicated to the memory of the Civil war ' dead, and William Noll, also a Spanish-American War veteran, ' iaida w reath on a cros dedicated to the Spanish-American war. i They were the only two veterans ! of that war present at the ceremonies. Members of the Ameri- ' can Legion and VFW then laid t wreaths on crosses dedicated to 1 the dead of the First, Second 1 world wars, and the Korean con- ' filet. i The Rev. Benj. G. Thomas led > prayer and gave the benediction. > A firing squad from the American ‘ Legion and VFW fired three rounds, and taps were played, in 1 honor of the departed veterans. The Memorial Day program started at 9 o’clock Thursday ' morning in the Catholic cemetery at the grave of Leo Bogner. Following services there, the group gave services at the grave of i Robert Macklin in the Decatur cemetery. At 10 o’clock the veterans organizations, including the VFW auxiliary, formed at the VFW home, and ..marched to the Monroe street bridge, accompanied by the Decatur Catholic high school band. Services were held there for the sailors and marines who fought in the great wars. Rules Arthur Miller Guilty Os Contempt .. Playwright Found Guilty Os Contempt WASHINGTON ffl — P 1 a y - wright Arthur Miller was found guilty today of contempt of Congress. Federal District Court Judge Charles F. McLaughlin made the ruling in a 15-page decision. He found that the questions which Miller refused to answer before the House Committee on un-Amer-ican Activities last summer were “pertinent” to the committee’s passport investigation. Miller, husband of movie star Marilyn Monroe, had declined to name persons who attempted a 1947 meeting of Communist Party writers which he admitted attending. He said he declined to name them on grounds of “conscience.” His defense before McLaughin was that the questions were not pertinent to the committee’s investigation. Miller faces a maximum penal- . ty of SI,OOO fine and one year in jail. No specific date was set for the - sentencing. ) Miller was not present when the , verdict was disclosed. The ruling was not announced < in open court. 1 In a somewhat unusual move, ] the judge merely filed his decision ] with the court clerk, without op- j ening the court to announce his i decision. No reason was given < for the manner in which the de- 1 cision was disclosed. 1

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Relaxation By Britain Over U.S. Protest Ban On Trade With Red China Extends To Other Countries LONDON (UP) — British' Board of Trade officials said today Britain would relax its trade embargo with such Communist countries as North Korea, and North Viet Nam at the same time it drops the Korean War-imposed ban on trade with Red China. The officials said the relaxation of Red China trade announced by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd over American protests will apply to North Korea, Communist North Viet Nam, Communist - occupied Tibet and Portugese Macao as well All these territories will be included in the same government trade order to be issued in line with Lloyd’s announcement that the Chinese may now receive any British goods permitted Russia and the Eastern European satellites. Britain had banned aU trade with North Korea until Jast Febru- . ary when it was announced the I government would consider Ur ' censing the Communist puppet regime there to receive any goods allowed under the Red China embargo. Double British Trade That decision raised a storm of protest in South Korea, and the government of President Syngman Rhee officially condemned the move. Today’s decision was expected to bring even stronger protests from Rhee. British economic experts predicted the relaxing of trade restrictions with Red China would double British trade with Peiping within a year. But whether the shipping of such goods as heavy machinery and automobiles would weaken Peiping’s ties with the Soviet was a matter of dispute. The American view was that nothing good will come of it. Although relaxing the embargo touched off a sharp Anglo-Ameri-can dispute there was no crisis in relations such as was caused by Britain and France’s invasion of the Suez Canal Zohe. U.S. Standing Firm The United States charged the move violated the world’s “security interests” and said it would not relax its own embargo, imposed shortly after start of the Korean War. However Norway, Denmark and France were expected to follow Britain’s lead. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd told the House of Commons Thurs(OwtinuM on r»<«' »«•»■ Dr. Bixler Named As Optometrist Os Year For Indiana Dr. N. A. Bixler, veteran Decatur optometrist, was named “Optometrist of the year—l9s7,” at the annual Indiana state convention of optometrists this week at Indianapolis. An engraved plaque was presented to Dr. Bixler at the convention. He has been a member of the state association for many years. The Decatur man served as a members of the state board of examiners for optometrists for 12 years, six of them as president. s During his tenure of office, the association petitioned for an optometry school at Indiana University, which was accepted by the trustees of the school, offering a six-year course. Dr. Bixler was president of the state association of optometrists for two years, and served as chairman of the executive board for five years. He was responsible for the coining of a medal for the anniversary celebration ten years afco. the proceeds from which started the library* memorial fond for the optometry group. He also collected more than 500 out-of-print books for the optometry library. At the present time. Dr. Bixler is making an album and biography of all men who have dealt with ootics since UOO, to be presented to the library at Indiana University,