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EMIL MAZEY (left), CIO-United Auto Workers secretary treasurer, is shown in Detroit with his attorney, Harold Cranfield, after being subpoenaed by a grand jury which is investigating possible union violation of the corrupt practices act. The jury is investigating whether the union used any of its general funds to pay for political broadcasts on radio program. z ’ _.

Hint Ike To Veto Democrat Highway Plans Republican Leaders Certain Eisenhower Will Veto Measure Washington hnsi — Republican leaders feel certain President Eisenhower will veto the Democratic plan for financing a highway construction program if congress approves it before adjourning. * '. • ; iZ They are almost as sure there is little resil chance of passing the Chief Executive’s school building program, even though he has _ placed It on his list of "priority” legislation for the current session of congress, which is scheduled to end by July 30. It was stated on reliable OOP authority thai Mr. Eisenhower puts the major bills still pending on Capitol Hill in'about this order: •'Must” items —the military reserve program, his atomic “peace shipii- proposal, military housing (if not his full housing recommendations), and foreign aid funds. Top priority items—the school construction and highway construction programs, and minimum wage legislation. The two labels are not the Presi- ,, t dent's but are a high ranking Re- ’ S *^ K ' puWcaiFlT interpretation ’ of how OOP leaders believe Mr. Eisenhower views these legislative issues. " » 7 The president, it was said, has made it plain he will veto any bill that proposes financing a national highway program through direct appropriations from the treasury. He will insist on paying for this huge undertaking through the sale of long range bonds. His opposition is aimed specifically at the senate-passed bill sponsored by Sen. Albert Gore (D Tenn.), which calls for an $lB billion. five year roads program financed by direct appropriations. Mr. Eisenhower is reported to have told GOP leaders that responsibility for the failure of congress to act on school legislation “falls on the Democrats.” But the Democrats, in control of congress and getting set for 1956, show no desire to gum up their adjournment drive with last minute efforts on that controversial issue. The school bill is bogged down in the house, faced with a battle over racial segregation. Political minded Republicans say they can’t blame the Democrats for saving that major measure for the 1956 session. Democrats point out that the Republicans didn’t do anything about the problem in the 83rd congress, when they had com trol of the White House and congress. w -7- Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 Demo-' cratlc presidential nominee, raised the school issue Wednesday night in a speech before the national education association. He attacked the. President’s program and said Mr. Eisenhower had /asked congress to pass “not a law but a miracle" to meet the'nation's “No. 1 domestic need — schools and teachers.” He said the’,'President had proposed “$45 of federal funds for highways to every $1 for schools." Some GOP advisers on Capitol Hill question- the wisdom of even [ urging action oh eichool legilsation (Continued e» Page.Five*. — 12 Pages

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Democrats Seek To Up Social Security House Committee Approves Measure WASHINGTON (INS) — Democrats mapped plans today to push for house approval next week of their bill to increase social security benefits, coverage and the taxes to pay for them. BUt they had only a faint hope that the senate would also act on the measure before the adjournment of congress, which is scheduled for July 30. Most likely, the legislation will not become law until 1956. /Z — The house ways and means committee voted Wednesday to bocist three types of social security benefits and to extend coverage to some 220,000 persons, all of the nation’s self employed professionals except doctors. To pay for these changes, which would become, effective next Jan. I, the present two percent social security tax on all income up to $4,200 would he raised to two and one half percent. That would increase the current maximum payment of SB4 to $lO5. L. A. Holthouse In Critical Condition The condition of L, A. Holthouse, prominent Adams county resident, is reported to be critical today at St. Joseph hospital. Fort Wayne. He was. returned te the Fort Why - and underwent a second operation yesterday. ■ ’ _ BULLETIN WASHINGTON (INS)—Congress quickly passed and sent to President Eisenhower today a $3,285,800,000 foreign aid bill with a provision against admitting Red China to the United Nations. The authorization bill, drawn up by senate-house conferees, cleared the senate by voice vote. A few minutes later, the house approved the measure, 262 to 120. Army To Maintain ~ Order In Assault Report Is Released On Operation Alert WASHINGTON (INS) — The White House said today the army would have to maintain order under “limited martial law” in the event of a massive"atomic attack on the U. s. .■ Z- . - It also disclosed plans to set up a permanent duplicate federal administration, on a skeletonized basis, in comparatively safe areas to keep the government functioning in case of a surprise attack. These were the two principal lessons learned from the nation’s first test of the ability of the federal government to evacuate Washington and keep functioning. They were outlined in a report by defense mobilizer Arthur Flemming to President Eisenhower on the recent "operation alert 1955,” which the White House made public today. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, continued warm and humid tonight and .. . Friday, With scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low tonight 70-75. — High Friday 90-95.

Employment At New All-Time High In U. S. House Committee Votes For Boost In Minimum Wage WASHINGTON (INS) — Labor secretary James P. Mitchell said today the 1955 business advance has pushed employment to a new all-time high and unemployment is at the lowest level in a year and a half. Mitchell told a news conference that government figures to be* released Frjdajr will show that employment in June rose to a higher level than the previous record of 63,700,000 reached in August, 1953. He said also that unemployment did not rise as much as it usually does from May to June, and that if this seasonal trend is taken into account the jobless total for June was at the lowest point in a year and a half. Unemployment in May totaled 2,489,000. Usually there is a rise of 15 to 20 percent from May to June because of the large number of students entering the labor market. Mitchell explained that the increase was not nearly that great this year — that in fact it was small. He attributed this in large measure to. the fact that students released from schools this year in a great majority of cases “got jobs immediately.” The cabinet officer said that, in addition, overtime of factory workers in May and June was as high as it has been since World War 11. Factory hirings in recent weeks have exceeded separations from jobs by the largest margins in any post-war period except in 1950. Mitchell attributed this to the record level of economic activity, "the policies of the Eisenhower administration.” and the confidence business has “in the future of America." Vote $1 Minimum WASHINGTON (INS) — The house labor committee voted today to increase the national minimum wage from the present 75 cents to one dollar an hour, effective next March 1. The house group followed the action by the senate June 8 and ignored President Eisenhower's! recommendation for a 90 - cent hourly scale. The committee also rejected recommendations by labor organ!-1 zations that the wage be set at $1.25 an hour. Democratic leaders the house will approve the one dollar figure and that President Eisenhower,will.signtlielegisla--A oo ■•Mve)-,.-* ■ Slightly Injured When Hit By Auto Julia L. Rich, sevesi-yeanfaM daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lofton Rich of Decdtur, sustained only a minor bruise on the leg when she was struck by a car at the corner of Mbnroe and > Second streets at 11:30 a. m. today. The car was driven by Ann Ellsworth, 16, of Orlando, Calif, j. ... ■ — Moscow Radio Tells Os Ike's Statement v Tells Listeners Os Assurances By Ike MOSCOW (INS) — Moscow Radio told its listeners in Russia today about President Eisenhower’s assurances that the U. S. delegation to the Geneva conference will go there with a “conciliatory . . . friendly attitude." The broadcast, summarizing the President's news conference in Washington Wednesday, led off by quoting the U. S. chief executive about his approach to the Big Four chiefs of state meeting which begins July 18. According to the broadcast, Mr. Elsenhower said: , """The United States will, go ‘to the conference at Geneva in a conciliatory and friendly spirit.” The unofficial transcript of the news conference gives the President’s statement as follows: “We are going there honestly to present our case in a conciliatory, In a friendly, attitude, and we don’t Intend to reject anything from mere prejudice or truculence or any other lesser motive of that kind.” This was the second week in succession that Russian citizens at home have been given reports of the President's comments at his regular off the cuff exchanges with Washington newsmen. 1

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Dulles Says Russia’s Economic System On Point Os Collapsing

Prison Guards Irked Al Peace In Prison Riot Washington State Penitentiary Riot Is Ended Wednesday WALLA WALLA, Wash. (INS) —Guards at Washington state penitentiary were angered today by the “negotiated peace" which ended a 27-hour riot but left control of the prison temporarily with the rebels. There were rumors some guards might refuse to return to their posts when qfficials regained control from the rebellious inmates who held sway over the entire prison. Chief complaint was the “leniency” of the nine point settlement calling for better treatment of convicts. One guard who asked that his name be withheld said: / “They’re giving the cons a better deal than us.” „ Another commented: “The cons will be asking for a guaranteed annual pardon next.” The 27 hour rebellion ended Wednesday shortly before noon when nine prison officers, held overnight as hostages, were treed unharmed. t The convicts, however, retained control Os the walled penitentiary but were scheduled to turn it back to the officials some time today. Dr. Thomas A. Harris, state director of institutions, represented the prison administration in the “peace” settlement with the convicts and agreed to a nine point ( demand for improved conditions. Harris turned down a demand that warden Lawrence Delmore be dismissed. Dielmore himself said he was well satisfied with the nine point agreement and pointed out the uprising was\ended wit bout loss. of life and without serious damage to the prison. Terms of the agreement included : changes in the segregation and isolation ward; investigation (Continued on Page Five) —•— Meyer Funeral On Friday Afternoon Double funeral services for Mirs. Bernard Meyer .and infant ’’son, Bpuce Daniel, who died Wednesday morning, will be held at. 2 p. m. Friday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home,. « The Rev. William C. Feller will j officiate, and burial will be In (he Decatur cemetery. The names of two great-grandmothers. Mrs. Nellie Meyer and Mrs. Mary Rabbitt. were omitted from the list of survivors previously published. Willing To Close Plane Incident Naval Plane Over International Waler ■WASHINGTON (INS) — The U.- S. told Russia today that the American plane attacked by Soviet jets last month off Alaska was over international waters but said it is willing to close the incident. In a note delivered to the Soviet ministry of foreign affairs, the American government rejected Russia's claim that the plane had invaded Red territory. But the note said the U. S. is willing to consider the. incident closed because of the Russian offer to pay half the damages and Soviet orders to military authorities to refrain front any such future action. The plane, a Navy Neptune bomber with seven men aboard, was attacked June 23 by two MIG jets and was forced to make a crash landing on St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea off the ' Alaskan coast, -

Stevenson Blasts Ike's School Plan Democratic Leader Outlines Program CHICAGO (INS) — Adlai Stevenson has blasted President 'Eisenhower’s public school program as too little and too late. The 1952 Democratic presidential candidate, speaking Wednesday night in Chicago Before the national education association convention, declared: “Just after he assumed office, President Eisenhower said: ‘our school system demands some prompt, effective help.’ “Yet today, two and a half years later, when this need has become acutely critical, nothing has been done.” Stevenson recalled that , the President had told congress the nation needs seven billion dollars worth of new schools, but that he had proposed grants of only 66 million dollars a year for three years. In outlining his own program of federal school financing, the Democratic leader said local commaunities should be responsible for meeting what educational Shortages they can and then to allocate from taxes whatever is necessary to do the rest of the job. He estimated that at least 250.OM new classrooms and 180,000 mure teachers are tn bring ftie nation's up to par. Stevenson called for the immediate support of proposals for 400 million dollars of federal funds each year for the next four years for school construction, to be matched by state funds. Four New Cases 01 Polio In Indiana Still Await Word On Vaccine Release " INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The start of what normally is considered the polio season began this week in Indiana, . Al Dr. A.. L.- Marshall, Jr., director of the division of communicable diseases of the state board of health, reporteH ,;today that the polio total now stands at 38, as of July 2. Four more cases were added to the records during the June 26 - July 2 period. These four new cases, none of whom had received Salk anti-polio shots, were from Clark, Dubois, Lake and St. Joseph counties. The start of the polio season still was wrapped in the same aura of resigned waiting for word from the national institutes—of—health about further release of Salk vaccine. Some 170.000 first and second grade children received one shot last April under a National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis program, hut otherwise the state’s youth has not had a chance to benefit from the new discovery. Dr. Marshall noted that even if the vaccine were available for administration today, it presumably would be at least two weeks before those getting first shots now would get any protection from the disease. He said that ]J)r. Jonas Salk, developer of . the vaccine, indicated that some ""antibodies, or disease fighters against polio, were in the bloodstream by two weeks after inocculation. , But no one has yel determined how much antibody .Is" needed for adequate protection agaimjt pwMtr. Dr. Marshall added, so-the degree of protection afforded by 'the one shot is uncertain. ' “It is our feefing. however, that the first z dose gives considerable protection.” ' The new total of 38 cases for 1965 compares with 35 at the same time, last..year and 65 for 1953. Elkhart still is the hardest bit county with six cases, though Lake’s new to>tal rose to five with the one new illness. For Dubois ——(Coaunudd qn Page Five)

Senate Opens Hearing Over Reserve Bill Member Os House Says Army Failed To Use Experience WASHINGTON (INS)—A house member charged today that the army (piled to call experienced men to duty in the Korean war because such action would interfere with promotion of older West Point graduates. Rep. E. Keith Thomson (RWyo.) who was a lieutenant colonel in the reserves, told the senate armed services committee that junior officers he had trained, instead of elder men including hi mself, were called to active duty. Thomson testified that to have called experienced men would have “broken up the playhouse for promotion which we called the WPA, which is the West Point protective association " 7 The house member was the lead off witness as the committee opened hearings on a bill to create a trained military reserve force for emergency action in a nuclear attack. —■> ; \ . Earlier, chairman Richard B. Oiwnnll i n.f'.a.i blamed - failure' by thef house to put universal military traltiing into effect for the fact that Gl’s of World War II were put back into uniform to fight the Korean war. Raymond Walters. - president of the University of Cincinnati, testifying for the American council on education, urged amendments to defer high school or college students making satisfactory grades. 7 James G. Patton, president of the National Farmers Union, asked that the bill be shelved until the Pentagon corrects “the HIS of the present reserve program,7 Ruaseil spbke' Otit' as his committee opened hearings on President Eisenhower’s program to build a ready reserve of two million, 900 thousand men by 1960. The house has already passed the measure.. Earlier, Russel! indicated he may try to include in the senate bill a controversial amendment to (Contin u«-a on Five) . ■ ' Young Chicago Girl Is Found Murdered 8-Year-Old Girl Brutally Murdered __—, ■ —■ — —— CHICAGO (INS) — An eight-year-old Chicago girl, missing since Monday night when she was sent to a drug store to buy a nipple for a baby’s bottle, was found murdered today. Little Mary Manzo’s body was discovered in an underpass on Chicago’s south side and coroner Walter McCarron declared: “This is the work of a mad dog." Police commissioner Timothy J. O’Connor, receiving reports from the scene, said there were indications that the child had been criminally assaulted and then killed. t Homicide detectives said they believe Mary had been attacked and slain elsewhere and her body then carried into the underpass Wednesday night. Identification of the body was made by Mary’s mother, Mrs. Lucy Manzo, 28, and an aunt, Mrs. ■Marie' Lugo, who were taken, to the scene in a police car. Mary’s father. Dapiel, 45, was elsewhere engaged in a sleepless hunt for -hipdaughter. - Mrs. Manzo became hysterical as she viewed the body and cried' j‘Oh, my God, it’s Mary.” The body was found by a street cleaning crew'. There were bloodstains mixed with dirt on the child’s dress. Preliminary examination indicated the stains came from wounds in the back and side, '

Hoax Is Suspected In Distress Signal Fishing Vessel Is Reported As Afire BULLETIN NEW YORK (INS) —A mystery studded air and sea search for a fishinfl vessel that reportedly burned and sank off the New Jersey coast with 21 persons aboard ehriy today took a sudden grim turn tnis afternoon. The coast guard cutter Gentian radioed shortly before one p. m. that it had spotted an oil slick In the search area roughly 50 miles east of Beach Haven, N. J., and also had picked up a life preserver. The Gentian's report Was the first definite indication that the “•Mayday” diajtress calls first heard at 2:15 a. m. EDT mignt have been genuine. Until that point, the coast, guard had s-id the distress messages might have oeen part of a weird hoax. NEW YORK (INS) — An air sea search was launched today for a fishing boat reported afire and sinking oft New York this morning but th* coast guard said' the distress swnal “may "have been a hoax.” One purported message from the vessel, identified as the “blue star,” said 21 persons were aboard and 18 of them had gone Into the water 55 miles off New York. After hours of search without finding a trace of a ship in distress (in the area the coast gnard informed newsmen it, was beginnipg to suspect a hoax. “But the search is continuing, 1 just in case,” a spokesman said. One reported message from the 1 “Blue Star” at 3:40 a.m. EDT L snid a. “foreign" submarine had “ surfaced ttCarby 18 people tn the water. “This Sounds fishy,” the coast guard spokesman said flatly. He added that naval authorities would know if any submarine was in the vicinity, “especially if it was foreign.” The coast guard said it was strange that although searching craft reached thp scene of the supposed disaster very quickly after the first “mayday” distress call at 2:15 a.m., there was no no pil slick, nothing at all to be seen. No Weather Change forecast In State One Man Is Killed By Lightning Bolt INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The forecast ’for Indiana today included more of the thunderstorming weather that killed one man and soaked much of the state Wednesday. Jack Wiley, 49. of Midland, Mich., was struck by lightning and killed as he played golf on the ninth hole at Richmond’s municipal golf course. Lightning also knocked down trees in scattered sections throughout the state and in some easps trees and lightning combined to put power lines out of commission momentarily. Children swam in streets and; gutters in one section of Indianapolis, where the sudden storm provided runoff water that rose to two feet in spots. Weathermen forecast partly cloudy, continued warm and humid through Friday with a few scattered thundershowers this afternoon and evening. Apd although temperatures again are expected tp range in the 90s through most of the state, the highway department is busy accepting bids on 45,000 tons of salt to be used to clear ice and snow 1 from the, roads next winter.

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Testimony Os Last Month To Congress Told Secretary Implies Situation Behind Gesture Os Peace WASHINGTON (INS) — Secretary of state John Foster Dulles was disclosed today to have told congress on June 10 that Russia’s economic, systenj "is on the point of collapsing.” In testimony before a house appropriations subcommittee, Dulles said that Moscow had expected the American economy to deteriorate and added: “On the contrary, it has been their system that is on the point of collapsing and our system is going strong and vigorous . . . becoming stronger whereas they are over expanded, unable to meet their commitments, even if they meant to meet them." The secretary implied strongly he believes this situation wastehind recent Soviet gestures of peace and its agreement to attend the Big Four meeting at Geneva July 18. = He testified: “My analysis of the whole world situation is that the Soviets arepver-extended; and , now they are seeking for new polir M VSiMc* Which grant them some respite against strains ‘ which they have been under in trying to do al ithe things which they have felt they needed to = do in order to keep up with the pace which has been set by the free world.” His remarks were made public just three days after Soviet strongman Nikita S. Khrushchev told a July Fourth garden party at the U. S. Embassy in. Moscow that Russia would lead from an unprecedented position of strength at the Big Four meeting, _ 7" ’ that the Soviets are weak “is a fantasy of stupid people.” At his news conference Wednesday. President Eisenhower remarkedf “So far as I know, there is no individual in this government that has ever said that the i Russians ... are coming to any con- ■ ference weak." > Dulles’ testimony before the house subcommittee was in sup- • port of the administration’s $3.5 billion foreign aid bill. He said the Kremlin is disturbed because the U. S. can spend so much money on helping its allies and still maintain “a very high degree of prosperity.” The cabinet officer added that - the only way the Russians can help Soviet bloc nations is “at the expense of the livelihood of the Russian people.” -On other points, he testified: Cutting off aid to Yugoslavia might “be an influence which would lead the government of Yugoslavia to say that they would have to go back Into the Soviet bloc.” Any free election in north and South Vietnam today “would go overwhelmingly against the Communists, because of the economic/ misery which exists in the north” of Indo China. There is what amounts to “a defacto cease fire in the Formosa area,” brought about by U. S. action there, “coupled with some influences that were exerted at the ? time of the Bangkok conference” of Asian and African nations. /. Funeral Friday For Oscar C. Hoffman Funeral services for Oscar C. Hoffman, prominent archtteot, who died Wednesday morning at a Detroit hospital, will be held at 2:3® p. m. Friday at the Zwiek funeral home. The Rev. Ray J. Walther will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until thne of the services. 27 ■-■ . ' . '