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DIBTAFF SIDE of the West's "Big Three” pose on the terrace of French Prime Minister Edgar Faure’s residence in Geneva after a luncheon on the opening day of the "Summit" meetings. Chatting with Mme. Faure (right) are Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower (left) and Lady Eden, wife of Sir Anthony, Britain's Prime Minister.

Ike, Russian Guests Drink Toasts To Peace Eisenhower Host To Russian Delegation „ At Dinner Monday GENEVA (INS) —-President Eisenhower and Soviet premier Nikolai A. Bulganin drank champagne toasts Monday night to the success of the Big Four “summit" meeting. It was the most cordial U. S. Soviet meeting in ten years. Mr. Eisenhower played host at a two and one half hour dinner for the Soviet delegation at the President's luxurious villa on the shore of Lake Geneva. The stag affair was marked by extreme friendliness on both sides. The cordial atmosphere spread, even to dour Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov, who thawed out and joined in the spirit of the occasion. This over-all feeling of friendship among the guests strengthened _. opinion among American officials that the Big Four parley had gotten off to a “fairly good start.” Mr. Eisenhower and Bulganin’ clinked glasses and exchanged toasts on the success of their negotiations to ease cold war tensions. The Russians downed one glass of vodka each before the dinner began. The Chief Executive, who prefers scotch, did not join them. Mt. Eisenhower took the occasion to present his wartime comrade in arms, Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov, with gifts for the wedding of Zhukov's daughter. The President gave the Soviet defense minister a marble - based fountain pen set and portable radio. The pen set bore the inscription: “From the President .of the United States, July 1955.” At dinner, Bulganin sat at the place of honor at Mr. Eisenhower's right. Molotov sat at the President’s left. At the other end of the table, secretary of state John Foster Dulles was flanked by Zhukov and Soviet Communist party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev. President Eisenhower offered the first dinner toast in honor of the absent president of the Soviet Presidium, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov. The toast expressed the hope that the conference would be a great success and that the participants would continue to work for world peace. ... « — A special French chef hired for the occasion turned out an elaborate table consisting of filet of sole, roast beef, onion soup, red and white wines and champagne. .ATI the food was carefully checked by suspicious secret service agents *s it arrived in Swiss caterers 1 trucks, _ ___. A guest at the dinner said Bulganin did not extend to President Eisenhower the invitation to visit . (Continued qq Page Five)

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Eisenhower Goes Shopping In Geneva Appears Publicly On Geneva Streets GENEVA (INS) — President Eisenhower gave Ills guards ah unhappy time today — but delighted Genevans —by appearing publicly in the shop streets of Geneva for the first time and mingling freely with crowds. The President, who drank toasts with top Soviet leaders on the success of the “summit” meeting Monday night, abandoned his bullet - proof limousine today to act like any tourist. His action followed Monday’s contrast between the President riding in a closed limousine while Soviet top leaders toured Geneva in an open car, waving to the throngs. The President spent the morning digging through a pile of pa:per work, then went shopping in Geneva. First he visited toy shops opposite JRlyer..He stayed for 10 minutes while photographers took pictures. A crowd of several hundred gathered quickly in front of the toy shop. People pressed their noses against the windows to see the President inspect toys and make a purchase. As the President and his famous wide grin emerged from the shop, the crowd surrounded him as he walked slowly along the street, on one side of which was an. embankment beneath which flowed the Rhone. The happy - looking president moved slowly along with only four Swiss police and secret servidfe 1 men guarding him. The secret service guards wore frantic looks, but everyone else seemed pleased as all get out. Coatless men and youngsters, and curious women walked alongside the President or struggled from the fringes to get a good look at him. 1 ~ 11 • Trim Proposed Tax Boosts For Roads Committee Votes Diesel Fuel Hike WASHINGTON (INS) —The house public works committee today trimmed proposed tax boosts to pay for an expanded high wayprogram but agreed to keep the increases in effect an additional year. The-committee voted to increase the,tax on diesel fuel from two to four cents a gallon after approving a three cent boost last week. However, the group removed a proposed tax on material used for retreating, small and medium sized passenger tires. The cuts would whack off an estimated +34' million dollars from the additional revenue resulting from the bill. However, the committee voted to keep the taxes in effect an adjdi(Continued on Page Five)

Says Lev Made Thousands Off Government Deathbed Statement Os Former Employe Is Read At Probe WASHINGTON (INS) — A former employe's deathbed statement charged today that Chicago “Cap King" Harry Lev made thousands of dollars off the government by buying information, inspectors and army officials. The accusations came from Hyman Roskin, who died in a St. Louis hospital three days after signing a statement for the senate investigations subcommittee June 26. Lev has denied bribing military procurement personnel but has been unable to remember how he spent $214,000 in cash over a two year period. He is scheduled to return to the witness stand later today. Lev sat sjjemtab in the subconi*Lavern Durfyflm investigator, told how he obtained Roskin's statement in the presence of the dying man’s ilyMichael Weintraub, a former quartermaster corps inspector who checked on some Lev projects in 1951-52, then testified: “This man (Lev) tried many times to bribe me and called me filthy and profane names when I refused to accept his bribes.” Weintraub refused to reveal his address publicly, claiming that there had been “a past threat” on his life. ' Duffy told the subcommittee that Roskin composed his statement two years ago and told his family he wanted it “given to a newspaperman or a congressional committee” upon his death. _ . The investigator sald He "visited the hospital with Hoskin's wife and two sons, Chester and Louis, as well with a notarf public. He said Hoskin had throat cancer and was unable to speak but “could write.” Duffy added: “He affirmed the Statement paragraph by paragraph by shaMng his head.” Subcommittee counsel Robert F. Kennedy identified Roskin as manager of Lev’s Mid City Uniform Cap Co., of Chicago, from 1940 to 1948 and then again from 1949 to about 1952. Convicts In Nevada On Sitdown Strike Roam Prison Yard Under Heavy Guard CARSON CITY, Nev. (INS) — Some .250 convicts carried a sitdown strike into the second day today in the main yard of the Nevada state prison. The convicts, who refused to return to their cells at the end of the work day Monday, roamed the prison yard while heavily armed guards watched from the walls. Warden A. E. Bernard said the striking convicts caused no violence and made no attempts to molest any guards. He added: “The boys have been reading the newspapers-about the riots at Walla Walla and Wyoming. They think all they have to do is ask for whatever they want.” Bernard said the prisoners demanded more meetings of the state board of prisons and paroles, better food and a guarantee that prisoners participating in the sitdown would not be punished. -= • = They also complained about' the prison doctor and the captain of the guard, and that there were not enough jobs to keep the prison’s 358 inmates busy. One hundred prisoners with trusty privileges did not join the demonstration. Bernard called 25 state highway patrolmen and city police officers from Carson City to reinforce the prison guard, normally 24. He said: “The boys aren’t going anywhere —at least not alive.” BULL E T I N BALTIMORE (INS) — Two men met a flaming death today in the midair collision of two military planes at High Point, Md. Two other fliers were slightly injured. The two victims were aboard a C-45 Beechcraft, believed to be a navy plane, which crashed after colliding with an air force B-25 light bomber. Their identities were withheld.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 19, 1955.

Soviet Russia Agrees To Give Priority To Stormy German Issue

Partnership Os Talbott Is Under Inquiry Senate Committee Probing Private Business Interest WASHINGTON (INS) — Air force secretary Harold E. Talbott's partnership in a New York firm of engineering efficiency experts was "still under inquiry” today by the senate investigations subcommittee. The investigators are checking to see if there is any conflict of interest between Talbott's government duties and a private business connection which is said to have netted him “substantial profits." Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S. D.) quoted Talbott as saying during « two hour and 20 minute conference with the subcommittee Monday that he does not think there is any such conflict. Subcommittee chairman John McClellan (D-Ark.) told newsmen that he is not yet ready to pass judgment on the question. McClellan will eonfer with Talbott further in the next few days. The air secretary was quoted as telling the investigators he retained his partnership in Paul B. Mulligan and Co., and that he notified the senate armed services committee to that effect when it was considering his appointment to the Pentagon in 1953. Mundt said that most of the firms which employed the Mulligan Co. had only a small part of their business in the form of government contracts. -.L The South Dakota Republican quoted Talbott as saying: he did not use his Pentagon office to solicit business for his company and that he neither had the time nor thought it would be proper to do so. But Mundt said also that Talbott would not deny he mentioned his firm to friends he met socially or with whom he played golf. Take Bids Aug. 9 On Two Roads In County INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The state highway commission announced today that it would open bids on Aug. 9 on the following paving projects for county roads: Adams county — From one to four miles north of Road 118, 3.7 miles west of Berne. Adams county — From Road 118, three miles east of Berne extending south two miles, thence east one mile. lad Arrested Here Sent To Shelbyville Will Face Charge Os Vehicle Theft The 17-year-old Shelbyville youth, Who was arrested here early Monday morning by the Decatur police department, was returned to Shelbyville this morning• to face charges of auto theft. He was arrested after he and a companion abandoned their car just north of town. A search of the car revealed several watches and other items which were taken from the Heller Coal Feed and Supply company and Klenk's store. The youth was held at the local jail on traffic; charges while an investigation was conducted. Decatur police and the sheriff’s department, which assisted, not apprehend the other youth. After contacting Shelbyville officials it was learned that the car had been stolen from a used car lot in Shelbyville. Authorities here decided to return the youth to that community where he would face the more serious charge of vehicle theft.

Eight Counties Turn Down Polio Vaccine To Await Reopening Os Schools In Fall INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The Indiana state board of health raised its population sights today in Operation Salk after eight of the 30 smaller counties to whom a limited supply of vaccine was offered decided to wait until school re- ■ opens. Dr. Wendell C. Anderson, director of the ISBH’s division of chronic diseases, reported this morning that the offer will be extended into the 18,000-19,000 population bracket Wednesday. The added number of counties will depend on the decision of five counties who were given a deadline of today for acceptance. All of the vaccine the board of health had to offer was 16,000 cubic centimeters left from round one shots last April. As time went on, and the state did not get its fun supply for the second round shots, it was decided to release the remaining supply, beginning with the smallest counties since they were in a position I to entirely complete the two shot program sponsored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Indiana needs 180,000 ccs of vaccine in addition to the 16.000* shots in order to give all children eligible to the free vaccine the specified two shots. There was no indi- ' cation today when that amount would be allocated. ’ Dr. Anderson summarized Oper- ■ ation Salk this morning, as follows: , Seven counties have already called for sufficient vaccine to pn- , tirely complete vaccination of children who were first and second graders when the program began. These counties are Starke, Ohio, 1 Owen, Jasper, Perry, Fulton and (Continued on Page Five) Girl Scouts Given. First Aid Awards Certificates Are Presented Monday Twenty-nine Girl Scouts received first aid certificates at the meeting of the Red Cross board of directors Monday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The meeting also featured reports on the blood pregram by Mrs. Ed Bauer,, the first aid program by Art Burris, the home service project by the Rev. L. T. Norris, and Junior Red Cross by Miss Glennys Reop, read by Mrs. Mildred Foley. John Duff, new county chairman, and Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary, reported on the recent national convention at Atlantic City, N. J. Brief talks were given by Mrs. Frank Ritchey, volunteer field consultant Os Fort Wayne, and Miss Selma Bernstein, also. of Fort Wayne, area field director. New officers of the board will assume duties now and preside at future meetings. The new officers include Duff, chairman; Earl Fuhrman, vice-chairman; Miss Glennys Roop, secretary, and Richard Macklin, treasurer. It was announced at last night’s meeting that Art Burris, chairman of the first aid project, would be in charge of first aid tents at the 4-H fair and the Preble volunteer firemen's festival, both of which occur in August. — The resignation of Mrs. H. P. Engle as staff aide chairman waft accepted. A new one will be appointed in the near future. „ The 29 Girl Scouts who received certificates last night were Beverly Stults. Mary Carpe, Pattie Bauman, Mary Beth Snyder, Rozanne Hancher,, Rosalyn Sommer, Mary Ellen Walter, Suette Johnson, Kathy Hain, Grace Kelsey, Mary Heller, Karen Zimmerman, Catherine Schnepp, Ann Arnold. Becky Jackson, Ann Omlor. Onalee Barkley and Marceda Whetstone.

Hear Further Testimony On Dixon - Yates To Dig Deeper Into Investment Firm's Officials Relations WASHINGTON (INS) — Senators investigating the Dixon-Yates contract planned to dig deeper today into the relations between a New York investment firm and high government officials. Chairman Estes Kefauver (D Tenn.f, called his senate judiciary subcommittee together to hear testimony by George D. Woods, board chairman of the First Boston Corp., and Adolphe H. Wenzell, a former vice president of First Boston. Kefauver said he wants more information on conferences between Woods and ex-budget bureau director Joseph Dodge. It was Dodge, now a presidential adviser, who started the wheels turning on the Dixon-Yates deal in 1953. Under an arrangement between Dodge and Woods, Wenzell served as an unpaid budget bureau coni suitant on the Dixon-Yates contract . while he was still an official of . First Boston, which liter became . financial agent for the Dixon-Yates t syndicate. The senate subcommittee is trying to determine whether Wenzell violated the “conflict of interests” law barring government officials ' from transactions involving private ' firms with which they are connected. 1 Woods testified Monday he first , saw Dodge in May, 1953. when he came to Washington to support the administration’s policy of withdrawing the government from steam power projects wherever possible. At this meeting, Woods said. Dodge, who will testify later in the Investigation, asked for an expert to help him on power problems and Woods suggested Wenzell. A year later, Woods said, he decided not to charge a fee when the Dixon-Yates group asked First Boston to arrange financing details for the 107 million dollar Dix-on-Yates project. Woods explained: "I really didn’t think it was proper for First Boston to take a fee ... I didn’t feel right about it. It was a rather delicate matter.” The subcommittee has implied that First Boston decided not to charge a fee only after DixonYates cams under severe Democratic attack. But First ( Boston witnesses have denied the charge. Injuries Are Fatal To Hugo Steiner Local Man's Brother Dies In Chicago Hugo Steiner, 59. a native of Monroe township, died at 4 o’clock Monday afternoon at Oak Park hospital in Chicago from injuries sustained in an automobile accident July 4. He was born in Monroe township Aug. 8, 1895, a son of Fred and Ida May Eley-Steiner, and formerly resided in Berne. He moved about 20 years ago to Maywood, 111., where he owned and operated an upholstery shop. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs/ 1 ; Ervin Schindler of Berne, Mrs. Max Margoles of Venice, Calif.; one son, Frederick Steiner of Fort Wayne, formerly of Decatur, and one brother, Clifford Steiner of Decatur. The body will be returned to the Yager funeral home at Berne. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. 1 ■

Second Toll Road Given New Boost Approve Fund For Final Route Survey INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The second proposed modern toll road got an optlsmistie boost today after state auditor Curtis E. Rardjn again sided with Governor George N. Craig in approving a S26SJXM> allotment for a final survey route'. Rardin had voted with Craig and against state treasurer John Peters previously on an earlier $70,000 transfer question but had Indicated he might not vote the same way on the $365,000 question. But he did, and Peters, an intraparty foe of Gov. Craig, issued a statement after the Monday afternoon meeting saying that he felt the second road should be delayed until the first road is completed. Completion date for the first pay as you go route across northern Indiana from the Ohio line to the Chicago area is set for late in 1966. The second toll road would connect the Chicago area and Indianapolis with a Hammond to Greenfield route. The governor. Rardin and Peters form the state board of finance, and the 2-1 vote was needed to transfer $265,000 from the state ; highway budget to the toll road I I commission budget. " -w ; / ! Peters introduced a motion to i reject the transfer request, and Rardin, after a hesitation, voted with Craig. ! Craig said after the meeting that , he now believes the north-south * route will be ready for start of , construction by the spring of 1956. . He said the final survey is expected to be completed this fall. The governor opined that revenue ; bonds will be on the marget by > the end of 1955 and declared: i “It’s not a question of whether the road will be feasible, only how i feasible.” 4-H Visitors To County Are Honored Vanderburg County 4-H'ers Visit Here A large crowd of 4-H club junior leaders attended an outdoor party at McMillen field Monday evening. The party was given in honor of the 21 visitors from Vanderburg county who are participating in an exchange program with Adams county junior leaders.' Among those who attended were about 95’local junior leaders, the 21 Vanderburg youth, about 20 members of the Adams county rural youth, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Wayne Rothgeb of radio and television station WKJG, Jim Lilly of the Prairie Farmers magazine, and members of the extension office staff including Leo Seltenright, Miss Bertha Landis, Miss Gloria Koeneman and Miss Sally McCullough. The evening featured’a business session of the junior leaders with John-Ripley presiding and recreation led by Marion Moke. Allen county recreational director, assisted by members of the rural youth club. The business meeting included group singing led by Allen Lehman, and the pledge led by Noel Fenner and Rowena Merriman. A request was made for junior leaders to assist at the 4-H fair. Announcement was made that the 4-H camping trip to Lake McClure will be Aug. 14 through 17. It was also announced that all junior leaders will receive a free trip to the state fair Sept. 3. The rest of the evening was spent in recreation. Refreshments Were served toward the end of the evening. The party was the first of several events to entertain the 21 exchange guests from Vanderburg county who were accompanied to this county by Virgil Griffiths, assistant county agent for Vanderburg county. The Vanderburg group will visit (Coauuueo on rage Five)

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Big Four Head Os Government I Meeting Again ’ Russia Surprisingly AgreesTo Discuss German Issue First GENEVA (INS) — Presi1 dent Eisenhower personally appealed today to Soviet defense minister Marshal Georgi Zhukov, wartime comrade in arms, to take his word the United States would never engage in aggressive war. Premier Nikolai Bulganin, head of the Soviet delegation at the Geneva conference, Jumped in to say he accepted the President’s assurance. GENEVA (INS) —The Big Four heads of government Tackled the stormy German unification issue today in the second day of their dramatic roundtable 'effort to end the cold war. • Russia surprisingly agreed to give priority to this issue in a four point agenda. No agreement, on the issue was expected. The Russians maintained strong opposition to a united Germany North Atlantic Alliance dr any other allied security system. ~ But the quick agreement on an agenda reached by the Big Four foreign ministers in a morning session before the afternoon “summit” meeting aroused enthusiasm among western delegates. The agenda for the conference is: . ~ 1. German unification. 2. Europe security. 3. Disarmament. 4. Development of East West contacts. The fourth item was added at the request of Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov. Before entering the Palais Des Nations conference room for the conference that started at 4:06 p. m. (11:06 a. m. EDT), President Eisenhower made aii Unexpected shopping trip in Geneva, and was applauded by the neutral Swiss. One reporter asked him how the historic conference which opened. Monday was going, and he said: “So far, very friendly. I feel good so far.” French premier Edgar Enure presided at the second day session. British foreign secretary Harold MacMillan was the scheduled first speaker. President Eisenhower posed for photographers, by shaking hands with Faure before the meeting began. He declined to shake hands with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin. This incident occurred In . the rose garden fronting on the main entrance of the Palais Des Nations conference site. Oleg Troyanovsky, son of the former Soviet ambassador to Washington and chief interpreter for the Soviet delegation, asked the President “why not?” when cameramen clamored for a Buiganth—Eisenhower handshake. The President gave a private explanation to Troyanovsky, and the letter smiled amiably as he walked away. French, informants said Bulganin showed no change of Soviet attitude on the German unification question at a luncheon which Fame gave for the delegatee. But they said some progress was noted at the luncheon in the EastWest informal talks. The western allies put numerous questions to Bulganin concerning his step by step security plan in which he wanted NATO Junked and an all-European collective security (Continued on ta«e Eight) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and ' Wednesday, with scattered - showers or thunderstorms In the south. Little change In temperatures. Lew tonight 6568, High Wednesday 86-90.