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One Hundred Eighteenth Year No 171 Wilmington Ohio Wednesday May 2 1956 12 Pages Price ive Cents 4 2 ARAB NATIONS COOL ON TRUCE 4 'Barna Governor Blanchester Wins Dewey To Run or Senate Nissen Serious rom Wounds ume no one was injured got its only first in the pole vault I lTeStej Locker a junior was the in dis hun So in on Route 73 244 miles ft CHANDLER WILL name a suc cessor to Barkley to serve until the November election But as the law now stands the November seat Sen noniinee for the remaining four yean of term will be named by the Democratic State Committee controlled by Clem ents Cooper was urged by some ad ministration strategists to run for the Senate before Morton tossed his hat in the ring He declined saying he wanted to return to his diplomatic post in India Many Republicans think that if Eisenhower passes the word Coop er will take the second senatorial nomination which probably would be his for the asking Cooper has served in the Senate twice but was defeated by Barkley in 1954 Wilmington Mon Lies Unconscious In Cor our Hours PRESS LEASED WIRE NEWSSERVICE I ft New York senatorial race if cer tain conditions were met One of these was said to be as surances from members of the old Taft wing of the party that Dewey would have their support if he ran and that he would notbe relegated to a back seat Senate role if he won Dewey generally is credited with helping engineer de feat of the late Sen Robert A Taft of Ohio for the Republican presidential nomination in 1952 WASHINGTON ffl The House called up for debate today a new farm bill which its Democratic sponsor contend should satisfy President Eisenhower and not in vite another veto Its main provision is Eisen soil bank program but without the authority he asked to pay as much as $500 million this year to farmers who agree to withdraw surplus producing acres from cash crops in 1957 Republican efforts to add ad vance payment authority shaped up as the issue likely to touch off a new partisan floor fight They planned to offer several other proposed changes as well Debate was scheduled to begin late today with voting not due until tomorrow On lesser points of difference compromises were expected to be offered which could send to the' Senate this latest of a series of farm measures this session Chairman Cooley (D NC) of the House Agriculture Committee call ed the soil bank advance payment idea bad Ban On Pinball Machines Urged CINCINNATI (B A statewide ban on pinball machines was ad vocated here yesterday by Chalm ers Wylie of Columbus whg seeks the Republican Ohio attor ney general nomination He said the from pinball machines is and that the money is often used to finance "organized 1 Tubman Snubs Reds MONROVIA Liberia (B PresI dent William Tubman of Li beria' has turned down a Soviet suggestion that he visit Russia a Liberian diplomat reported today Red Trade Opens BOMBAY (B The 7500 ton viet freighter Krasnodar arrived today from Odesua with 1700 tons of newsprint and 1300 tons of steel inaugurating India Russia shipping service House aides were reported active today in efforts to persuade former Gov Thomas Dewey of New York and Ambassador John Sher man Cooper of Kentucky to run for the Senate 11 There Is no evidence President Eisenhower himself has taken a hand as he did In nudging for mer Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay Into primary race But some party strategists said they have been approached by Eisenhower associates with sug gestions that Dewey might be con vinced he ought to undertake the DULLES SAID in Washington one of the primary purposes of the NATO ouncil meeting was to con sult on steps to organize the North Atlantic Community into "some thing more than a military alli ance" A White House statement said the secretary had conferred with President Eisenhower on "the po litical development of the Atlantic The use of the term "North At antic in both state ments was considered significant That community includes such non NATO members as Spain Sweden and Switzerland However Dulles made it plain he still regards the military as pects of the NATO alliance as es sential He said strength and unity had contributed to a friendlier Soviet policy HE SAID Republicans are going to be accused of buying the farm vote in if they insist on it Republican leaders however were planning to offer a simple soil bank measure with advance payment authority as a substitute for the Democratic backed bill This would eliminate price sup port lifting provisions in the Dem ocratic bill which are popular with many farm belt members of both parties Thus the outcome of such a move was in doubt Eisenhower vetoed a previous catch all farm bill two weeks ago and the new one sent to the House dropped provisions he singled out as most objectionable in cluded higher rigid price sup ports for basic crops a dual sys tem for figuring parity and two price plans for wheat and rice REP TAYLOR (R NY) has pre dicted Eisenhower may ask Dew ey to seek the GOP senatorial nomination Dewey said he heard of it So did White House Press Secretary James Hager ty Dewey has insisted be has no plans to get back into politics McKay has said pressure for him to get into the Oregon Senate race came from GOP Chairman Leonard Hall and Eisenhow No 1 assistant Sherman Ad ams Philip Hitchcock who declin ed to withdraw when McKay sud denly entered the race is credited With giving McKay a stiff battle for the nomination to oppose Dem ocratic Sen Wayne Morse New York Republicans have reached no agreement on a can didate to oppose Democratic Sen Herbert Lehman if he seeks re election as is expected Atty Gen Jacob Javits has made himself available So has Ray mond McGovern former state aide In Kentucky GOP chances may have been heightened by the death on Monday of Democratic Sen Al ben Barkley Thurston Mor ton former congressman and for mer State Department official is credited with a big lead for one GOP senatorial nomination there Morton is running for the seat held by Sen Earle Clements Cle ments has strong primary opposi tion from former Rep Joe Bates who is backed by Gov AB (Happy) Chandler in a continuing feud with Clements Insurance Expert Sees Storm Signal dividual star of the meet winning three events and anchoring the (Continued on Pago Eight) was arrested early today by patrol for speeding and fined and costs by Mayor Corwin Nichols Wildcat Strike Hits Hamilton irm HAMILTON (B Approximately 875 employes of the Hamilton Di vision of the Bendix Aviation Corp went on strike today Edward Mercker of Cleveland Grand Lodge representative of the International Brotherhood of Ma chinists AL CIO called it a "wildcat strike" The contract be ween union and management expired yesterday The union turned down a proposed contract and the strike followed Demands of the union and propos als of management were not closed" SHERRI LOYD oote said today that Nissen was found seat ed on the right side of the front seat of his car on Route 730 near the bridge over the spillway from Lake Cowan about 12:30 Tuesdy Kenneth Gallimore 29 and Har ry Hosier 18 who live nearby on Old State Road told Sheriff oote they heard Nissen honking the horn of his car and when they drove up he waved for them to stop When they stopped the men said Nissen told them been and said he wanted to go to the hospi tal The men told Sheriff o6te they thought he was joking at first and then they saw blood on his shirt Gallimore got into the Nis sen car and drove him to Wilming ton and Hosier followed in his car Nissen did not say much on the trip Gallimore said but told him his name where he worked and that he wanted to go past where his wife worked and get her Gal limore told Sheriff oote he asked Nissen if he wanted him to drive faster or slower during the trip to Wilmington and he said it matter They stopped at tavern which the Nissens have just recently purchased to pick up Mrs Nissen and she accompanied them to the hospital Nissen talked to Gallimore he said but his legs were paralyzed When hie was lifted out of the oar and placed on a cart at the hospi talise became unconscious Sher iff oote was told GALLIMORE AND Hosier then returned to the place where they had found Nissen and they discov ered a 22 caliber target pistol ly ing in the grass beside the road They called the office and the pistol was recovered andbrought to the sheriff's office by Deputy Sheriff David Shrout and Prosecutor George Schilling Sr as Sheriff oote was out of town at the time Gallimore and Hosier told Sher iff dbte later that they had found a pup near the lake a short! time before and that when they heard Nissen blowing the horn on his car they thought it might be the owner of the pup and they took it to he brdige thinking they might find the owner Nissen told the two men he had been since 11 Sheriff oote Mid loods In Texas Take our Lives DALLAS (B Raging streams that have claimed at least four lives threatened further flood dam age in Texas today as laden skies continued to dump more water over a wide section The greatest flood danger ap peared to be at Brownwood where rains ranging up to 12 inches sent water nearly JJ feet deep over the spillway of Lake Brownwood dam Approximately 250 persons have been evacuated from their homes there As rain continued early this morning National Guard Capt Russell Miller said "If this con tinues the worst is yet to White House Said Urging WASHINGTON (B Board Chair man Ray Murphy of the Equit able Life Assurance Society said today that "typical storm signals of inflation are flying" Urging action to hold down rising prices Murphy suggested before the Cham ber of Commerce's annual meet ing that Congress arm the eder al Reserve Board with standby power to control consumer install ment credit and homo mortgage terms He said mortgage debt increas ed by 15 per cent and consumer debt by 20 per cent last year while total spending exceeded the amassing of new capital by nearly $3 billion The 1956 outlook is for a further boom and higher prices PARIS Secretary of State John oster Dulles flew into Paris today to try to breathe some new life into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Dufies came here for a week end meeting of the 15 nation NATO Connell of oreign Minis terw which may expand the mili tary alliance into political and economic fields Dulles was pictured in Washing ton as coming to the meeting with out any specific blueprint Offi cials there said he was anxious to hear the views of other govern ments But the remarks on leaving the US capital and a White House statement made it clear development of a program of economic ahd possibly political action for the "North Atlantic would be given inten sive study Other problems such as the Pal estine and Cyprus crises and Rus sian policy were certain to draw Dulles attention also particularly at preliminary meetings with Brit ish oreign Secretary Seiwyn Lloyd and rench oreign Minis ter Christian Pineau' Preston Locker Leads Wildcats To Victory Blanchester high school won its second straight Clinton county high school track championship Tuesday afternoon at Alumni ield when it outdistanced six other schools our county meet records were set Led by Preston Locker the in dividual star of the meet the Wildcats took the lead on the sec ond event and were never behind again rolling up a total of 6944 points for the victory Martinsville was second just as it was a year ago with 4244 points while New Vienna again finished third with 3744 points These three teams all received trophies at the end of the meet Kingman finished fourth with 14 points while Simon Kenton was fifth with 1344 Sabina was sixth with 8 points and Jefferson sev enth with 544 points Port William Clarksville and Adams did not compete in the county meet THE LEET Blanchester team made a clean sweep of the seven running events at the meet collected only one first among the five field events: Martinsville was' the strong team in the field events I winning three while New Vienna Shaker Heights Ups Teacher Pay CLEVELAND (B Three dred teachers in suburban Shaker Heights yesterday won raises to taling $50000 a year New salaries are $3800 for be ginners $5900 maximum for teachers with degree and $6500 for a degree Increments of up to $300 are pro vided for higher college study Attorney General Defines Laws On Dependent Children COLUMBUS Ohio (B Atty Gen William O'Neill explained today how juvenile courts should determine county responsibility for the care and medical treat ment of dependent and neglected children A ruling said courts should foL low the same statutory definition of "legal or residence used to fix county responsibility under Ohio poor re lief laws An opinion to Prosecutor John Bath of ayette County said the term had been used in Ohio for more than a century in poor relief laws to de termine which local subdivisions should support indigent "Because the term Is without legal significance except as de fined in such said Legislature is presumed to have Intended that definition ba applied in the laws relating to de pendent and neglected Wilmington Man in Cincinnati Hospital George A Nissen 47 52 South Wood street is in serious condi tion in Christ Hospital Cincinnati with two gunshot wounds but it cannot be definitely determined if they were self inflicted as he is un conscious Nissen was brought first to Clin ton Memorial Hospital where he was treated and then sent to a spe cialist in Cincinnati Dr Nathan Hale local sur geon who performed an abdom inal operation on Nissen before he was sent to the specialist said one bullet wound was in his neck and that the bullet had lodged between the sixth and seventh cervical ver tibrae 'x The other bullet entered the up per left part of his abdomen passed through the colon nicked the pancreas made four holes in the small intestines creased his kidney and broke the 12th rib Nis sen was able to move his arms? but was paralyzed below that Dr Hale said Dr rank Plymire accompanied Nissen in the ambu lance to Christ Hospital Preston Locker Blanchester high school junior who led his team to the second straight Clinton county high school track champion ship at Wilmington high Alumni ield Tuesday was pre sented the individual trophy by Supt Roger McCormick of Mar tinsville at the close of the meet Locker won three events and anchored the winning half mile relay team for 1944 points What made his performance even more outstanding was the fact that he ran two events twice Wilmington News Journal XX' to 65 X': Two new Clinton county track records were established by Lee Carey Blanchester high school senior in the annual county track meet Tuesday Carey won the mile run in 4:516 clipping 75 seconds off the mark he had established last year Carey came back a few minutes later tonvin the half mile run in 2:114 lower ing this mark by 9 of a sec ond Russell Monjar Blan Chester had set the previous half mile record in 1955 This picture shows Carey finishing the mile (News Journal Photos) The Passing Show By CLINTON THE CHILDREN from Wilming ton and the county schools who went to Cincinnati last week to see the Panorama of Progress at the University of Cincinnati were mighty hungry when they started home and they sure did appreciate the box lunch prodded them by the Cincinnati Milling Machine Co and the Randall Co sponsors of the trip In writing the companies thank ing them for the trip Walter Nic hols' superintendent of county schools told a story about his own son to emphasize how much the children appreciated the lunch Like the other children Nicky Nichols was really wading into the lunch as some of the pupils had eaten mighty early at noon Nicky had his pie about half gone when one of the other children pointed out tjiat Nicky was eating the pa per sack and alt Nicky sheepishly admitted he thought the crust was sorts tough but as hungry a he was it really matter ino one was Injured In another truck accident Tuesday at 3:40 on Route 73 244 miles west of Wilmington When a panel truck overturned as Janet Garrison 17 90 ail land avenue swerved to miss a dog that ran in front of the truck There was moderate dam age to the truck Patrolman Rich ard Jenkins said Roger Everhart" 19 Lees Creek the $20 Newest arm Bill Expected To Be Voted Qn Tomorrow MARKET PLACE Read the News JournalClassified Ads A seriously injured Wilmington man lay in his damaged car on Texas road for more than four hours early today before he was found and brought to Clinton Mem orial Hospital and then taken to Good Samaritan Hospital Cincin nati Robert Young 35 570 West Locust street is in serious condi tion Dr Nathan Hale Wilming ton surgeon who treated him said Young is suffering from a serious head injury laceration of his forehead possible brain hemorrhage and numerous scratches State Highway Patrolman Doug las White who investigated the ac cident on Texas road near Regan road eight miles east of Wilming 1 ten said the Guy Brown family which lives nearby reported see ing lights of the car about 3 a today Young was not found until shortly before 7 a The patrol received a call about him being in the car unconscious at 6:40 a and Patrolman White went to the scene Young apparently was traveling southwest on Texas road and failed to make a curve in the road Patrolman White said The car skidded on the curve hit a mail box and then struck a culvert flipping the car around The right front door glass was broken and it is believed that head may have hit this glass When found he was lying with his head against the left door' TWO PERSONS suffered minor injuries in another accident in New Antioch this morning at 4 clock Patrolman White said Ray mond Totten 28 of Clinton County Air orce Base was driv ing north on New Antioch road near the grain mill and his car went bff the left side of the road missed the bridge and ran into a creek Totten received a lacera tion of his head and a scratch on his face and Chilton Martin 21 al so of CCAB who was a pas senger received a scratch on the middle finger of his right hand Two drivers were srrotd Tn day following an accident on Route 68 at 12:10 m' 13 miles south of Wilmington Patrolman Louis Schnelle reported Jolley A Hershel $1 Maysville Ky was driving south on Route 68 and at tempted to make a turn into the Wilmington Iron Metal Co yxrds when his truck was struck by a southbound truck driven by Robert Boyer 39 Columbus which was passtag traffic at the Hma am VDU waft injured nnuvui signu ana Hershel ar rested for operating an unsafe ve hicle Both posted bond for their appearance before Mayor Vickeri of Midland May 8 at' 4 n' No one was Injured in Robert Young Seriously Hurt In Accident rack Championship Lebanon Syria Seeking Pledge rom Israel Jewish Plan To Divert Jordan River Is Center Of Holy Land Dispute JERUSALEM (B Lebsnon lined up formally with Syria today fa refusing to pledge a cease fire with Israel unless the Israelis promise not to divert the Jordan River Israel was reported to have al ready turned down the Syrian demand for such a pledge The Jordan flows through Israel and Jordan and part of it closely ap preaches Syria Syria and Jordan backed by the other countries have said they would consider resumption of work on a diversion canal by Is rael an act of aggression The ca nal for power and irrigation was started ta a demilitarized zone be tween Lake Huleh and the Sea of Galilee near the Syrian line condition for a cease fire agreement was conveyed fa a note to Secretary General Dag Hammarskiold 'as he nrenr ed to leave Jerusalem for Damas cus and last minute talks with Syr ian leaders on the water dispute The Lebanese communication add ed urgency to his appeal to Syria for an unconditional cease fire ft ft ft sctlon wss regard ed as significant chiefly for the added support it gives Syria since only minor border incidents have occurred on ths Israel Lebanon frontier Lebanese oreign Minister la 11m Lahoud said in his message that Lebanon supports Syria in de manding a written pledge that Is rael will not resume work on the Jordan River project He also said Lebanon reserves the right of self defense against any Israeli at tack Hammsrskjold had planned ta leave today for Rome to prepare his report for the Security Council on his Middle East peace mission Before taking oft for Damas cue he and the chief (nice supervisor Maj Gen Bums met again with Israeli Premier David Ben Gurion and oreign Minister Moshe Sharett The Jordan which flows through both Jordan and Israel has long been a point of dispute between Israel and the Arab'states Israel halted work on a water division canal in late 1953 after a Syrian complaint to the Security Council and a request for suspen sion by the truce supervisor Israel has said she will not delay her own plans indefinitely if the Arabs do not go along with a US proposal for a joint river develop ment project Israeli officials said meanwhile a government investigation was continuing into the Interception by Israeli aircraft of an Egyptian chartered plane of the Royal Dutch Airline KLM The KLM Dakota was forced ta land yesterday at Lydda Airport A military spokesman said the plane was spotted flying over a desert canyon where Israel is prospecting for minerals He said five Dutchmen and an'Egyp tian air force photographer aboard the craft were held Loses In State Delegate Poll Adlat Leading Estes In District Columbia Democratic Balloting (Bjrtlw AmctetaS rist) Gov James olsom of Ala bama apparently had lost a Demo cratic primary fight for a national committeeman post today while Adlai Stevenson was winning a District of Columbia primary clash with Estes Kefauver Incomplete returns from the Alabama Democratic primary election showed olsom trailing by a margin behind State Rep Charles McKay an out spoken segregationist olsom has been denying numerous ac cusations by critics that he is on the racial issue Sen Lister Hill was running far ahead of John Crommelta in his bid for renomination Only two of the nine man congres sional delegation were opposed for another term Democratic nomi nation means election fa Alabama Alabama Democrats also picked a 26 vote delegation to the national convention The delega tion will go to the convention un pledged to any candidate In the District of Columbia where residents were voting fa a primary for the first time fa 82 years a counting snarl developed that shoved a final tabulation into the' indefinite future least three or four was an offi cial estimate for a final count ft 'ft A BLATE Democratic dele gates pledged to Stevenson had a wide early lead over one pledged to Kefauver Each party will send six votes to its respective convention but District residents will not partici pate fa the November general election District Republicans had a fac tional fight going fa their conven tion delegation contest but all candidates were pledged to Presi dent Eisenhower In other political developments: An Associated Press poll showed Stevenson now leads Kefauver 8344 to 7644 in publicly committed dele gate votes for the Democratic nomination not counting Tues elections But Democratic delegates with another 21344 votes so far have not revealed their preferences leaving the relative strength of Stevenson and Kefauver still ta doubt The Democratic convention total will be 1372 votes with 68644 need ed to nominate Meanwhile an associate of Gov A (Happy) Chandler of Ken tucky said Chandler would not re sign to take the senate left vacant by the death of Barkley Monday Youthful Slayer Ruled To Be Sane EATON A 17 year old boy accused of slaying his foster par ents has been declared legally sane by a panel of psychiatrists The boy Kenneth Bowman was returned yesterday to the Preble County jail His trial on two counts Of first degree murder is expected to start May 14 Bowman is accused of shooting Mr and Mrs Harold Bowman near West Alexandria last Sent 4 and then burning their bodies The bodes were found in the Bowman automobile along a high way and the youth told authori ties "at that time the couple died as the result of an accident Dulles Arrives In Paris or NATO Parley Political Economic Roles or Alliance Seen As Chief Goals PARIS Secretary a 'V I I a I i n'A I ME? 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