Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIII. No. 155.

_ SHORTEST STEEL STRIKE ENDS * | Kufl '■r’ flBIl '• f r~‘.fr'-X' ■'' -' . . '.. *., ■ ■- - ' ...... '-. ■'.?- — ... .-■•. ., 1 ■ * .-■ i ''-ji'' ' ■ .•■• . ■■. ’■ ■ .'' a -’■ TWELVE HOURS after the nation's steel plants banked their fires and the workers went on the picket lines, the walkout ends as John A. Stephens (left-front) vice president of U. S. Steel, and David J. McDonald (center), president of the United Steelworkers Union, sign a new wage contract at the Hotel William Penn in Pittsburgh. Howard Hague. USW vice president (right) watches the signing which brought an 11-cents-plus raise to steelworkers.

Steel Prices Boosted After Wage Increase Announce Increase Within Six Hours .Os End Os Strike PITTSBURGH (INS) — The nation’s steel mills will be producing at full capacity by the end of the holiday weekend witlr a 15 cent hourly wage Increase throughout the industry being passed on to consumers by a hike in steel prices. The announcement of the pay boost at noon Friday was followed sin hours later by the release of the new price scale by the United States Steel Corp., traditionally the industry IMder. * * The country’s largest producer said the average increase, effective July I. would be $7.56 per ton. Agreement between “Big Steel” and the United Steel Workers, ended a 12-hour strike by 600,000 members of the CIO union. The five other major steel companies —Bethlehem. Republic, Jones and laughlin, Inland and Youngstown Sheet and Tube — signed with the Steelworkers Friday night. -'' Continuation of the strike would have halted production of 90 percent of the nation’s steel and gradually led to a shutdown of other industries producing everything from bobbypins to locomotives. Although some of Big Steel’s workers were back on the job before the contract was signed formally. 36 to 48 hours was estimated as the time necessary to get the mills back into full production; Blast furnaces were banked Thursday in .preparation for the walkout — which proved to be the shortest in the industry’s history. The 5.8 percent price increase ‘poshed the average cost of steel from $125 to $132.50 a ton. U. S. Steel President Clifford F. Hood said the increase was due to both the pay boosts and the rising cost of purchased goods and services, “of state and local taxes and of new construction.” The amount of the price boost was about $1.50 higher than forecast before the settlement. For consumers it will mean increase of, lor ; example, sls in the price of an automobile costing between $2,500 and $3,000. For the 600,000 who struck Friday it meant the average hourly wage went up to $2.38 an hour. A similar pattern is expected to be followed in negotiations on behalf of another 600,000 USW members in the aluminum and steel fabri(uontinuea on Pag* Six) Statistical Report Listed By Hospital * One hundred sixty-six adult pas~ tients were admitted to the Adams county memorial hospital during tiremonth of June according to the statistical report made public today. As of June 30, there were 34 adult and eight baby patients at the hospital. During the last month six patients died at the hospital. There were 55 babies born during the monthA total of $18,257.40 ip cash was turned over to the county treasurer as gross income during the month of Juno. Bills paid totalled $5,737.89 and the total paywai $13,305.59. There was a cash deficit for June of $786.08. The operating cash balance as of — today is $14,410.86. The monthly * report was filed with the board of trustees by Thurman Drew, hospital general manager.

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Underground Force Perplexes Family Garden Hose Sucked In Earth By Force ■' DOWNEY. Calif. ’(INS) —A perplexed Downey family is struggling today with a mysterious underground force that has sucked an ordinary garden hose 13 feet into the earth and won’t let go. The hose, of the ordinary half inch plastic garden variety, began its strange descent into the ground two days ago at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Di Peso. Mrs. Di Peso said her 12-year-olu daughter, Suzanne, was sent to the front yard of the modest suburban home to sprinkle the lawn. Moments later, she came rtlshing into the house shouting: “Mommie, I can’t sprinkle. The hose is stuck in the lawn." When Mrs. .Di Peso went to investigate, she found the hose which has no nozzle, Sticking straight down into the overgrown 4 year old lawn. She said she tugged on the hose but couldn’t budge it. Neighbors tried their hand, but., they couldn’t move it an inch either. z During the tug of hose operation the water was shut off, TO—it couldn't have been hydraulic action pulling the hose down into the dried out clay soil. Mrs. <De Peso then decided to wait until her husband, George, a truck driver, came home from work. _ : He gave* a- few - experimental pulls and then leaned against the unseen force with all the strength of iris 170 well muscled pounds. Not gaining an inch. .George tied the loose end of the hose around his car's bumper and started off in tow gear. The hose broke, but the stuck end remained stuck. He then looped it around a steel faucet and drew it tight. But the next morning, the hose (Cont-oueu on rage Five) Report Red Scheme To Divide Nation California Probe A- - Reds Continues LOS ANGELES (INS) — Congressional investigators have information' that American reds plotted after the war to make the United States “the 17th state of the Soviet Union.” The Reds also schemed, the investigators were told, to divide the country into two nations, one White and the other Negro, but that idea was dropped shortly after it was put forth because the Negroes turned thumbs down on it. 'r. - Information on the two plants, was given Friday to the house subcommittee on un-American activities at the current probe 'of. Communist operations in the Los Angeles area. It was supplied by Stephen A. Wereb, 57 year old operator of a typewriter service who served as an FBI spy in the Hawthorne, Inglewood El Segundo Communist group for five years. The group functioned in Los Angeles’ south western suburbs. Wereb served as a government spy upon the Cbmmunists from 1944 to 1948. during which time, he was forced to swear “loyalty” to the Soviet Union. ... Wereb said that the plan to make the .United States a part of the Soviet Union was unveiled at a party meeting at which John Houston was installed as chairman of*the Hawthorne group.

Five Traffic Dead In Early Hours In State Highways Os Nation ! \ Crowded For Long July 4 Holiday i Indianapolis uns)— lndiana l got off to a rush with its Fourth . of July highway death toll when five,persons—four of them out-of- • staters —were killed in the first > few hours of the holiday week end. Billy Bert Shewmaker, 27, and . his wife; Ina, of Cincinnati, 0., - were killed this morning in a truck-car collision at the intersecj tion of U. S. 33 and Ind. 13 about 15 miles southeast of Goshen. Truckdriver Vern Abel, Os Fort , Wayne, was taken to the hospital ; in Goshen in serious condition. i James E. Haines. 24, of Dayton, O„ was killed this morning, just • east of Liberty. Ind., on Ind. 44. < State police said Haines t Ing and failed to make His car tore a light pole the’ i ground and moved it five feet, t Joe C. Houston, 24, of Florence, . N. J., died in an accident north > of Schneider, on E. ft 41 Friday night. Houston was a passenger > in a car driven by Joe F. Sciortino, , 25. of Chicago. Sciortino lost con--1 trol of the car and it skidded into a bridge. 1 The fifth victim was a Hoosier. > Jess B. Vaughn, 69, of Indianapolis, t was killed when he stopped to get water for his automobile at Union- [ town. As he reerossed the highl way, he stepped into the path of f a car driven by James C. Gammon. 33. also of Indianapolis. [ Army of Travelers , (By International News Service) An unprecedented army of travellers took advantage of the threeday Fourth of July holiday week--1 end today to seek pleasure elsewhere. City folks went to the country and the situation was reversed as persons in rural communities headed for metropolitan areas. They jammed rail, air 'and bus terminals in the rush for an early holiday weekend start. Some 40 million automobiles also were on the move. The national safety council • sounded a grim note to highway • travel during the 78 hour period • from 6 o'clock Friday night until » midnight Monday by predicting 380 f persons will die in accidents. The Weather continued hot and ' humid over most of the country ! of the Rockies. The greater ! portion of the stations reported highs Friday in the 90s. West of the Rockies cooler air covered the ■ northern half of the area with 1 temperatures in the 50s and 60s, In the desert southwest, the tem- ! perature hovered near the 100 de- ’ gree mark. The Pacific Northwest ' listed showers and thunderstorms and even snow—;at both Mullen 1 Pass, Ida., and Stampede Pass, Wash. Some rain fell in the lower Mifi1 J sissippi Valley, the Mid Atlantic ' States, the eastern Great Lakes, ' and the Northern Plains. Tampa, i Fla., had 2.84 inches of rain. k ' Safety council President Ned H. Dearborn urged the nation to turn to prayer to help hold down the ' holiday traffic toil. He eaid: ( "I earnestly ask every motorist to begin his holiday trip with a prayer that~Tie may not become , an instrument of harm or destruc- > tlon to others or to himself.” NOON EDITION

Decatur. Indiana, Saturday, July 2, 1955.

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Reserve Bill Is Passed By House Friday Report Eisenhower Pleased By Actra*- - On Reserve Measure WASHINGTON (INS) — Press dent Eisenhower was reported pleased today with house approval of a modified military reserve bill. Quick congressional enactment now seems certain. Legislators dose to the President reported his feelings after the house passed and sent the measure to the senate Friday, minus an anti-segregation rider which had stymied th® program i for six weeks. i The original bill was shunted i aside after the hou'se adopted a ■ national guard non - segregation t amendment, sponsored by Repr. . Adams Clayton Powell (D-N. Y.) 1 Powell sought to tack his proviso , onto the substitute, but he was i rebuffed, 156 to 105. ' I The house reversal apparently t was due 1n a large part to the views of the President, who det scribed the Powell proposal a* 1 “ej^taneous. w Mr. Eisenhower urged congress to approve the bill without the t rider and said the program was essential to the nation’s security. Its purpose is th create a trained, ready reserve of 2,900,000 men # - by July 1, 1959. At present, about 700,000 reservists are ■ undergoing training. 1 ■ Contract Extended, ’ Withdraw Pickets Non-Ferrous Metals Strike Continues ; BRISTOL, 7 Pa. HNS) — Picket ■ lines set up at three Kaiser Metal ■ Products Co. plants in Bristol were withdrawn today when the firm and the CIO United Auto Workers agreed to extend the present contract until July 16. Picketing started at midnight, 24 hours after the old pact expired, as company representatives and labor officials huddled in an overnight bargaining session at Trenton, N. J. 1 Spokesmen said the negotiations 1 will continue, including further discussion of the union’s demands for- a guaranteed annual wage. The Kaiser plant employs some 3,T00 persons' - and manufactures aircraft wings and bathtubs, sinks and kitchen cabinets. Continue Negotiations DENVER, (INS) —Negotiations continued today between the "Big Four" companies In the • non-fer-rous metals industry and the International Mine, Mill and Smelter ; Union as an estimated '30,000 work ers remained away from their jobs across the nation, —— Contracts w'ith the American Smelting & Refining. Kennecott Gopper, Phelps Dodge and Anaconda Copper companies expired Thursday at midnight. The union is seeking a 20 cents an hour pay raise and guaranteed wage through payment of S6O a , week to a worker idled by sickness, accident or seasonal layoff. Anaconda copper ts not yet affected by the walkout. J .__ _ Roanoke Youth Is Drowning Victim FORT 'WAYNE, Ind. (INS) — Jack E. Patten, 20, of Roanoke, Ind., drowned late Friday in a gravel pit on the Whitley-Allen , county line. Patricia Cassady, of Fort Wayne said Patten tried to swim across the pit. She said he turned over on his back halfway across, called for help and sank. The body was recovered by Earl Neith, of Fort Wayne, about an hour later.

Opposition Mounts To Dixon-Yates Pact Democrats Continue In Probe Attempts WASHINGTON HNS) — Sen. -John Sparkman (D-Ala.), said today there will be no let up in Democratic efforts to investigate 1 WhaC me-on-Yates power contract. Sparkman made the statement • as Sentiment grew among Democrats to blocjt any new government spending on the SIOO million;deal —even on a conditional basis.The bitter wave of Democratic reaction was touched off by President Eisenhower when he ordered a new study to determine whether the proposed Dixon-Yates power plant at West Memphis. Ark., was needed. Heads of the Tennessee Valley Authority advised Mr. Eisenhower it was “no longer” necessary liecause the city of Memphis, Tenn., planned to build a new power facility rather than take Dixon- Yates electricity. The White House indicated Mr. Eisenhower would reach a decision early next week on whether ""to continue or cancel the contract but the question of building a $6,500,000 transmission line for the . Dixon-Yates plant was left up in . the air. ’ ' - , The President requested the , funds to enable the private power , combine to replace electricity taken from TVA by the atomic ener- . gy commission. L /• INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with occasional showers and thunderstorms tonight and Sunday.' Warm and humid today and tonight,\ cooler Sunday in north portion, Low tonight 68-70, High Sunday 85-92. Community Center Closed On Holiday The Youth and Community Center will be closed all day Monday it was announced today by O. M. McGeath, director. Regular hours will be resumed Tuesday. More than 1,000 young people have registered during the first week Os activities at the Center. Fort Wayne Woman Held Without Bond Held To Grand Jury For Murder Charge FORT WAYNE, Ind. (INS) — Mrs. Lucy Leora Baysinger, 61, was bound over without bond to the Allen county grand jury Friday after allegedly confessing the ax slaying of her sleeping husband, Clarence A. Bay singer. 60, ~'Mrs. Baysinger tearfully told a tale of abuse at the inquest where cornorer H. Paul Miller returned a verdict of homicide. She was returned to jail. Mrs. Baysinger said her husband tried io force her into unnatural sex relations on the morning he was killed. She said her husband kicked her in the abdomen only a week after their marriage 16 jmars ago. On the morning of June 15 she said they argued about money and sex and' that he slapped her and knocked her part way down the stairs in their home. k ; She said she. waited until he had fallen tisieep in bed upstairs and then covered his lace with a coat and struck him on the head several times with a long handled ax. Then she said she waited until the following day, dragged the body down the bank of the St. Joseph river nearby, towed it across the stream in a rowboat and ijit it In weeds along the shore. The crime remained undetected until Wednesday when she . confessed to state

Summer Camps Being Probed By Government Nationwide Probe » OL Summer Camps By Treasury Dept. NEW YORK (INS) — The treasury department has opened a nationwide investigation of allegetj Communist influenced summer camps and their fund raising agencies for possible tax frauds. International News Service learned today that the T-men are centering their attention on Red tinged camps and drives which claim tax exemptions on the grounds they are philanthropic, charitable or religious organizations. Under the federal laws, contributions to such groups are deductible from income tax returns and the organization itself merely files annual “information returns” with the internal revenue service. Earlier this week, I. N, S. disclosed that at least 50 Communist tainted summer resorts for chil--1 dren and adults are in business 1 throughout the country. Some of these camp operators ! have been on the treasury de- ' partment’s official listing of “tax- • exempt organizations.” — It was understood the preliminary probe is concentrating on certain camps in New" York, California. New Hampshire and New Jersey. _ There are at least 80 Commu-nist-tinged resorts in New York, four in New Jersey, five in New Hampshire, and three in Califorx nia. ' Under, the federal statutes, if fraud or misrepresentation is uncovered, the government can begin criminal or civil suits to recover unpaid taxes, impose fines of up to 91 percent of the back taxes due and send the tax cheats to jail. The New York state joint legislative committee charged with investigating Red' tainted camps in the Empire State, appeared to be getting ready to hold public hearMeanwhile, the house un-Anferk can activities committee said 4t will issue a "comprehensive report” on the programs and managements of many Communist operated camps after his group concludes nationwide public hearings. Chairman Francis E. Walter (D---(eoutlnued on Pace Six) Louie Neaderhouser Dies This Morning Retired Berne Mail Carrier Dies Today Louie -E. Neaderhouser, 75, retired Berne rural mail carrier, died unexpectedly of a heart attack at 12:15 o'clock this morning at bis home, 206 Bryan street, Berne. Mr. Neaderhouser retired in 1943 after. 35 years of service as a rural mail carrier out of the Berne post office. He was born in Linn Grove Jan. 13, 1880, a son of Emanuel and Caroline Huser-Neaderhouser. and was married to Pearl Holmes Rice Feb. 22, 1910. Mr. Neaderhouser was a member of the Evangelical United Brethren church at Berne. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, George of Fort Wayne and Robert of Berne: »a daughter, Mrs. Ed Craven of Bluffton; a step-son, Newell Rice of Columbia City: six grandchildren; three great-grandchfldrebt,- and two sisters. Mrs. Chris lijlartz of Fort Wayne and Mrs. Albert Stauffer of Markle. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Yager funeral home, the Rev. will be in the MRK cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Sunday.

Washington Still Crippled By Strike No Break In Sight In Transport Strike WASHINGTON (INS) - A crippling bus and street ear strike continued to grip the nation's capital and no break appeared to be in sight heforp day at the earliest. Federal mediators were scheduled to meet jointly today with representatives of 3,000 striking employes and officials of the Capital Transit Co., which is owned by financier Louis E. Wolfson. Bumper to bumper traffic jammed the alty’s streets Friday, hut Some respite is expected today when the Fourth of July weekend exodus gets underway. The walkout began at 12:40 a.m. (EDT) Friday when negotiations collapsed over the union’s demands for a 25 cent an hour wage increase for operators and a 31 cent raise for top mechanics. . The District of Columbia government and the senate district committee sought Friday t%, get Wolfson to appear next Thursday to talk over the strike situation. Wolfson, who is California, sent word that he had other commitments. on the West Coast next week. . ' . Sen. Wallne .Morse (D Ord.)7 introduced legislation Friday to cancel the Capital Transit Co.’s tram chise. Gestapo Tactics Charged To J. P. Prosecutor Lashes At Ingalls Justice INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — MarionS county prosecutor John Tinder today charged a Madison county justice of the peace with “Gestapo tactics of the worst sort” in jailing an Indianapolis housewife. Harley Chappell, 61, of Ingalls, protested that he was only trying to do his duty and collect a $15.75 fine paid originally June 2 with a check that bounced. Mrs. Marjorie Foley, 31, of Indianapolis, who spent Thursday night in Madison county jail, produced a money order stub for the fine. Chappell then found the money order tn his mail box. But Tinder said Chappell still hadn’t shown why he arrested Mrs. Foley when it was her husband, Robert, who was charged with speeding. Tinder also declared if the JP were under his jurisdiction he would have him jailed for illegal issuance of a warrant. Tinder also said: “This IS an outstanding example of what's wrong with the justice of the peace system.” The furor apparently was not going to end quickly- - Chappell said he planned to go through with a retrial despite defense attorney’s arguments that this amounts to double jeopardy. Foley, himself, said they sent the money order when they became aware Os the bank shortage and thought the entire matter was ended. But he said since his wife had been embarrassed “this wasn't the end of things.” ” U - Legal experts studied the charges and tried to find a statute making it a criminal offense for the wife not to read her husband's maiL i Ousted Prelates To Return To Argentina ROME (TNB) —The two highranking Roman Catholic prelates whose ouster from (Argentina GlimSx»d the mtoves the church by President Juan Peron leave Italy Monday on the first leg of what they hope Is the trip back home. Bishop Manuel Tato and Monsignor Ramon Novoa said they are going to attend the eucharietic congress in Rio De Janeiro as “a first leg” of the return.

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Proposal To End Cold War Is Welcomed Article In Pravda Sharply Criticizes Another Statement MOSCOW (INS)—The official Soviet Communist party newspaper carried a front page editorial today which welcomed President Eisenhower’s “just and valuable proposal to repudiate the cold war." But the PraVda article also sharply criticised as “at variance” with this proposal a statement by Mr. Eisenhower that there could be no real peace in the world until "Soviet satellites” are able to choose their form of government freely. . Both statements "were made by the American Chief Executive <at his regular news nesday. The President also referred to the ‘ riddle" of who ruled the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower statements were published in lengthy Tass reports appearing In Russian newspapers without comment, it was • believed the first time since the ■ ■ start of the cold War that such ■ unembelliahed and apparently fair reports of V. S. positions on international problems were made available to the Russian people. The Pravda article today said in part: “Soviet public opinion accepts with satisfaction what Mr. Eisenhower said about the need to relax intrenational tension with the aim of guaranteeing peace throughout the world. But it would be wrong to pass over other statements of the President . . . which are at variance with these sensible . dims.” The newspaper declared the Els- ' enhower stand ’’ on “satellites” ‘ showed the “United States still .intends 1 , to seek changes in existing governmental social order in countries of the people's democracies although experience, it would seem, has shown convincingly enough the froitlessness of such attempts." Western observers expressed belief that Pravda’s praise of the general tone of President Eisenhower’s - comments confirms the great hopes the; Russians have in his actions at tlie forthcoming Big Four meeting in bringing the (Continued on Page Five) Henryville Bank Is Robbed Os SIO,OOO Two Masked Bandits Rob Indiana Bank HENRYVILLE, Ind. (IN'S) —Police of three states searched today for two masked bandits who rob- - bed the Henryville branch of the New Washington State Bank of more than SIO,OOO Friday and escaped. Indiana Kentucky and Ohio police were alerted after the bold daylight tgildup in this Cferk county town. The robbers, weartag blue jeans and railroaders caps, fled in a waiting automobile. Later Indiana state police found the ear, which L—had been stolen earlier Friday from atarkpvilte. lit Ifad been abandoned along a country road, five miles east of Henryville. The bandits waved blue steel revolvers, forced four employes and three customers to He on the floor and then held the guns on Mrs. Ed Ith Koppman, assistant cashier, until she turned oyerthe $10,581.82 to them. .* 1 The loot including $1,500 in dimes, was placed in a metal waste basket. Mrs. Koppman said one of tharobbers was about fivu feet, ate-es inches, and light complexloned, and the other wae about six feet tall and dark haired. ■ ~ ‘T’*' ’■ Al