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IN RESPONSE to Chicago police commissioner Timothy O’Connor’s publication of the city’s “most wanted criminal” list of pictures, two of those being sought were captured through citizens’* efforts. Above (right) Edward Burgess, 22, who escaped after being arrested a week ago on robbery charges, sits handcuffed to a policeman following his capture in a theater where he was spotted by an employe who tipped police.

Japan Leader Urges Relaxing China Embargo / Asks Relaxation Os Embargo To Allow Increase In Trade ■ NEW YORK (INS) —Japanese foreign minister Mamoru Shlgemltsu today called for relaxation of the U. S. embargo of the China mainland to allow greater trade with Chinese Communists. He said his country contemplates “somewhat Ibngingly the vast potential market represented by continental Chica.” The foreign minister spoke in New York on the 10th anniversary of the day he signed the surrender on the battleship Missouri to end World War U. Hie /termed "unlikely" and “fatal" any possible fraternization by Japan with the communist powers seeking a neutralist course. Shigemitsu addressed a luncheon at the Waldorf Astoria given by the Far East American council of commerce and industry, the Japan society and the Japanese Chamber of Commerce of New York. The speceh followed his arrival from Washington where Wednesday he concluded a three-day conference with secretary of state Dulles. The speech took up several points covered in the Washington talks. He maintained Japan "has come to a stage where I fear" the defense arrangements under the three year old security treaty "are becoming outmoded.” The communique issued after his talks with Dulles provided for replacement of the present pact under certain out : lined conditions. In his plea for a new treaty, the foreign minister said: “As a truly independent nation we would like to place the present unilateral defense relationship between our countries as a new basis founded upon the principle of mutuality. . .” He told the New York audience there is “great concern" and “certain doubts” in his country because of talks of restrictive measures by the -United States against Japanese goods. In this direction he continued: “We prefer trade to aid from the United States and ask only a fair chance at access to the markets of the world. We, need to bring out trade into balance at the highest possible level in order to exist as a self supporting democracy.” The foreign minister noted that “the lion’s share of our pre-war foreign trade was with the mainland of China. . . attempts to reestablish substantial trade with the mainland, however, have been disappointed because of the change in the pattern of continental China’s trade and because of the very tight embargo now in force" Shigemitsu also reiterated Japan’s desire to join the United Na- •“ tions and termed it “mortifying” that his country has not been admitted to UN. He will stay in New York until Sunday when he flies to Los Angeles en route back to Tokyo. Shigemitsu’s Falks with Dulles may have paved the way for broad agreements in the future but they apparently accomplished little in actual agreements. However, they « on »**•>

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G.E. Workers Vote For U.E. Retention Election Held At Plant Wednesday Employee of the Decatur General Electric plant voted to retain the independent United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers union as their bargaining agent in a representation election Wednesday. U.E. defeated the C. 1.0. affilia- [ ted International United Electrical . Radio and Machine Workers in the . voting, which climaxed several weeks of intense campaigning by both unions among the Decatur , workers. Oficial vote, acoraing to the i count which was supervised by ■ the national labor relations . wan 366 votes for U.E., 294 votes for I.U.E. C. 1.0., and 19 votes for i no union. A total of 679 votes were cast by the approximately 730 em- • ployes who were eligible to vote. Bruce Gillis of the Indianapolis N.L.R.B, office conducted .the voting which was done from 6:3# to 11 a.m. and from 2:30 to 6 p.m. He . was assisted by three observers from each union. The list of those eligible to vote ’ included all employes who were at the plant on or before July 29 except the salaried employes who . are not represented by a union. Yesterday’s election was a repeat of the representation election ’ conducted here In May, 1950, when I.U.E. petitioned for the election after U.E. was separated from C. 1.0. " As a result of the voting yesterday, U.E. local 924 will continue to represent the Decatur workers as bargaining agent as it has since 1941 when the local G. E. ’ employes first voted to join the national UjE. organization. Henry Stauffer is current president of the local. Union Statement “The NLRB election held yester- ] day at the G. E. plant marks the i third time the G. E. workers have i given UE, its record and policies 1 a vote of confidence,” according to j Henry Stauffer, ‘ president of UE Local 924 in a statement issued to- 1 day. i "The officers of UE Local 924 i wish to thank all members of our i local union and the community who 1 supported oui union in this fight", Stauffer stated, "and the Decatur ] G. E. wbrkers voted to continue i the kind of progress they have ] made during the past 14 years of t UE representation. - i “For the second time, in 1950 and yesterday, the Decatur G. E. ; workers rejected the lUE’s Me- ] Carthyite smear campaign. It was < obvious from the beginning t)f this ; campaign that the IUE could not i stand on its record of failures and its miserable recent settlement j with the G. E. company.” i Stauffer called on all Decatur i G. E. workers to unite behind the < UE’s national negotiations. “We t must win a settlement from G. E. that will not in any way weaken < our present contract and will grant < a fair wage settlement i “A good settlement in G. E. will help workers in the entire elec- i trical Industry. Now that the elec- < tion is over, all Decatur G. E. work- ] ers are urged to unite with UE < and work together to greater 1 gains." „ 1 ( INDIANA WEATHER < Fair tonight and Friday. A 1 little warmer Friday. Low to- 1 night 53-58 north, 58-83 south. 1 High Friday about 85 north to i south. ’’ ' 1

Claims Arabs Massing Troops Against Israel Two Egyptian Jet Planes Crash In Dogfights Today TEL AVIV (INS) —Two Egyptian jet planes crashed in dogfights with Israeli airmen today and the Syrian radio claimed all Arab lands were massing troops against Israel for a “zero itpur" attack. The fghiting flaring along the Gaza strip area was the most dangerous in the Holy Land since the UN truce was negotiated six years ago. Observers were fearful it could erupt into fullscale war. The Syrian radio report monitored in Tel Aviv said all Arab lands were preparing to deliver “a death blow to the Bionist state.” The broadcast in Hebrew warned the Israelis that the “zero hour" for a concerted Arab attack on Israel was approaching. Israeli officials said the two Egyptian planes crashed during dogfights. A Cairo spokesman admitted that two planes had failed to return to their bases but said they were lost m a collision. He said other Egyptian fighter planes went into action against Israeli and all returned safely. Cairo radio later claimed that Israel asked Egypt for a cease fire along the entire armistice line in a communication made through UN truce chief, Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns. The Arabic broadcast noted: “Burns said in a message to the Egyptian delegate on the armistice commission that the Israeli foreign office had informed him in behalf of the Israeli prime minister that Israeli authorities were desirous of ending all future hostilities along the armistice line,” Israel had balked two days ago at a cease — fire proposal until Egypt admitted responsibility tot recent attacks on Israeli positions. Cairo officially announced that ten Arabs were killed and 12 wounded late Wednesday night and early today at Khan Yunis In the ,Gaza sector as both sides threw planes, armor and artillery into action. Unofficial estimates are that eight Egyptians have been killed in scattered border incidents that did not include Wednesday night's heavy battle. The Egyptian spokesman, Col. Salah Gohar, claimed Egyptian troops counter attacked and drove the Israeli forces out of the Khan Yunis sector. He added: "Egypt (Continued on Page Five) Polio Outbreak in New England Eases Sharp Increase In Other East Areas ■WASHINGTON (INS) —The public health service said today that the polio outbreak in New England appears to have reached its peak but reported a sharp rise in cases in other Atlantic seaboard areas. At the same time, the government released an additional 3,343,000 shots of Salk polio vaccine to the states and territories under the voluntary control plan for use in the five to nine age group. The vaccine was produced by Eli Lilly Co., Os Indianapolis, under the strict new safety standards. Each state and territory receives a share based on its number of unvaccinated children. The government said there were 2,279 new cases across the nation last week, six and six tenths per cent above the previous week and more tlian in the same week in four of the past five years. The weekly figures, which did not'include a report from Alabama, brought the nationwide polio toll since Jan. 1 to 14,140 cases compared with 17.104 at this same time last year. Since the “disease year” began on April 1, there have been 13,077 cases compared with 15,561 during the same period of 1954. Included in this year's totals were 415 polio cases among the seven million or more children who have received inoculations with Salk polio vaccine. Os these, 181 were paralytic and 234 non-para-lytic. The government cautioned, however, that no conclusions can be drawn from these figures as to ths value of the vaccine because complete information on the occurrene of the disease among vaccinated and non-yaccinated children is net yet available.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 1, 1955.

Pres. Eisenhower Acts To Avert Rail Strike; Chrysler Strike Ended it . ..

New Contract Is Agreed To With Chrysler Brief Strike Ends After Agreement Is Made For Contract DETROIT (INS) — The CIO ■ United Auto Workers union and 1 Chrysler Corp, today reached ’ agreement on a new three year contract, ending a short — lived • strike that began at midnight. Emil Mazey, secretary treasurer of the UAW, said the strike was • discontinued immediately and Khat 1 the 139,000 employes would be 1 back at work as soon as possible. 1 He added Chat the contract, in- <■ lading isupplememtal unemployment benefits, was secured for both hourly workers and the more • than 8,000 salaried office workers. That point. Mazey said, was one -of the main issues in the maraI thon contractural talks after the > midnight strike deadllhe. > Workers in 61 Chrysler plants In » five states had walked off the Job > when a settlement was not reached at midnight. 1 > Robert W. Conder, Chrysler int dustrial relations director, said the t only reason the strikes were ellew1 ed to go oa at midnight was that t “we just couldn't get all the things 2 done to complete the deal in time.” 1 He added: “we’re happy to have a reached the settlement." t Chrysler will begin setting aside 3 five cents an hour starting Sept. 15 which twill go into the fund for t supplemental unemployment benej fits. They go into effect June 1, t 1956. , The pattern is the same as the one gained from Ford and General Cotors corporation. It calls for un- ’ employment pay of 65 per cent of , take home pay for the first four , weeks and 60 per cent for the reL maining 22 including state unemployment compensation. The “improvement factor” haa been hiked from five to six cents an hour effective Sept. 1 in the first of three pay raises. The second six cents an hour will be effective on April 1, 1956, and the third on June 1, 1956. The new contract expires June (Contin uea on Five) 10 State Cops Die i In Line Os Duty Fifth Gun Battle Victim Wednesday • INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The 1 list of Indiana state troopers killed 1 in the line of duty has grown to 10-five in vehigl_e accidents and i five in gun brftties. The first listed death was that of Gilbert Tarwater, of Bicknell, J killed July 31, 1932, in a motorcycle accident. He was a member of the Indiana highway patrol which ' became the state police force the 1 following year. First department death was that of Eugene Teague, of Indianapolis, 1 who died Dec. 21, 1933, of gunshot wounds suffered in the capture of Dillinger gangster at- Paris, 111. Battles with big time gangs ' claimed two other troopers’ ives--1 Paul Minneman, of Logansport, ' May 27, 1937, in a fight with the Brady mob, and Ray Dixon, of South Bend, June 28, 1938, in a battle with the Easton gang. Trooper Earl Leßoy BroWn, of Columbus, Ind., was killed Tuesday by an unemployed taxidriver, Felix J. Donelly, also Os Colum- ' bus, Ind., who said he was hunting 1 Communist*. And the other shooting death was ' that of Herbert W. Smith, of Shelbyville, who died Dec. 5, 1946. Smith wa* killed by four teenagers ' he tried to question about a traffic violation. The two girls and two boys are now serving time for the ' slaying. Vehicle accidents claimed the lives of Tarwater; George Fon(OsMsauea on ra«s Firs)

- [ .... .. , - —... Studebaker Plant i Workers On Strike Complete Shutdown Os South Bend Plant SOUTH BEND, IncP (INS) — ’ Some 9,000 workers at the .Stude-baker-Packard plant in South Bend went on strike today, causing complete shutdown of the automotive firm. Pickets patrolled in front of each 1 gate, allowing maintenance >ind 1 office workers to pass. There were I no immediate incidents of violence. The strike began with what 1 would have been the first shift today following a vote by members of Local 5, Unitwl Auto Workers * (CIO) not to extend their contract ■ with Studebaker-Pzckard. * The contract expired at midnight and company and union officials said there had not been enough ' tome to negotiate new one. The union and the management had ’ been embroiled in settlement of a lengthy dispute over layoff of work- ’ ers which caused several work stoppages a few weeks ago. 1 This dispute had been settled but 1 discussions on a new contract were ‘ in an initial stage when the old [ contract expired. The strike brings to about 16,000 the number of workers on strike , in South Bend. Bendix ■, Aviation ' in South Bend, and the Bendix guided missile plant i« Mishawaka * both are closed by strikes, as is > the Roach-Appleton plant at South 2 Bend. s ' Polio Vaccine For , Indiana Physicians - Supply Os Vaccine By End Os Week INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —lndiana > physicians probably will have a supply of Salk vaccine on hand by 1 the end of this week. That swift development in the ! commercial aspect of distributing ’ the anti-polio vaccine came today ’ when Indiana director of health Bertram Groesbeck, Jr. announced he was instructing the U. S. pub- ' lie health service to send Indiana’s share of the newest release of vaccine into commercial channels. The U. S. public health service toddy released an additional 3,348.000 cubic centimeters of the vaccine manufactured "by Eli Lilly & Company, of Indianapolis. This brings to 4,1'58,000 shots the total Lilly has approved and ready for shipment. ' Indiana's share of the new re- 1 lease is 71,244 shots, which a spokesmen for Eli Lilly & Company said “substantially" is the : size the company had expected to ship on the first commercial allot- 1 ment to Indiana. The amount was believed large 1 enough to prevent a serious supply 1 and demand problem from develop- ’ ing for physicians. ' These first shots can be given by the physicians only to children in 1 the five to nine age group, under 1 ah already developed plan for allocation of the vaccine. A Lilly spokesman said the speed 1 with which the vaccine reaches doctors Will depend on several factors. Dr. Groesbeck’s message to the federal authorities must be followed by an order from the public 1 health service to Eli Lilly before the material can be shipped. But ’ he pointed out that the-'vaccine is ' ready for shipment the minute this 1 red tape is cleared. Find Four Bombs On Construction Sites INDIANAPOLIS (INS)Pollce lab . technician* today worked on four similarly wrapped and constructed dynamite bombs found planted at two housing construe- ’ tion sitea. 1 Two bomb* were found at each < construction site. In each case, i the fuse had been lit but had failed to burn to the blasting cap to i detonate the bombs. '

Peron Ads To Tighten Grip On Argentina Withdraws Offer To Resign, Warns Foes Os Violence BUENOS AIRES (INS) —President Juan Peron, vowing death to all who stand in his way, moved to tighten his 10 year long grip on Argentina today. With the shouts of more than 100,000 of his supporters welling up from the Plaza de Mayo Wednesday night, Peron withdrew the of fer to resign that he had made some 10 hours earlier. ’Speaking from the balcony of government house, the president gave virtually direct orders to his Petonista supporters to kill any member of the opposition caught plotting against the government, tin a strongly — worded speech, Peron declared: “If any person is caught in the act of attempting to create disorder, he may be killed by any Argentine. This order to all Peronistas is directed against those who conspire or incity disorders as well as those who actually execute Crimea.’’.. 7' Peron’s request to the Peron Ist party and General Confederation of Labor that he be permitted to leave office was the signtfl for a general strike to be called throughout the nation. With Peron remaining in office, the CGF issued orders Wednes- ■ day night that work was to resume this morning. By late Wednesday night, the city was quiet again and the streets deserted. The 59-year-old president promised his followers that for every one of them that fell in violence with their opponents, "five of them will fall.” The climactic rally and speech came some two and one half months after the same plaza was turned into a battleground by a (Contlnueo on rage Fivs) Inquest Friday In Death Os Heiress Food Chain Heiress Dies Mysteriously PHILADELPHIA (INS) —An inquest Friday is expected to lift i some of the veil of secrecy sur- 1 rounding the mysterious death of Mrs. Doris Silver Oestreicher, 23- 1 year-old food chain heiress. Despite a flock of rumors which I sprang up in the wake of the i beauty's death a week ago Wednes- 1 day, district attorney Samuel Dash emphasized it would be “premature ' to make a disclosure on the cause i of death.” • The heiress collapsed and died in ’ a Philadelphia apartmenT where she was visiting with her mother, 1 Mrs. Gertrude Silver. Mrs. Silver’s I busband, Herman, is vice president of Food Fair Stores. 1 iMrs. Oestreicher lived at Miami j Beach for six weeks following her '■ widely publicized elopment with i Earl Oestreicher, 29 - year -old motorcycle policeman. i Oestreicher, who came to Phila- l delphia to learn the circumstances 1 of his wife’s death, denied there i had been a rift. He said his wife had returned to I Philadelphia to visit with her I parents only because she was 1 homesick. i Vincennes To Return j To Standard Time VINCENNES, Ind. (INS) —Mayor Stocker and a majority of the , city council agreed today that Vin- ( cenpes will return to central stand- ( ard time on Sunday, Sept. 25. ( Bicknell will jump the gun and , return to CST during the coming week end. ' ■ . •

Hoosiers Face Huge Increases In Taxes Association Warns Os Huge Increases INDIANAPOLIS (INS) The Indiana taxpayers association announced today that Hoosier property owners face an increase of SSO million in taxes next year largest annual boost in history. Executive secretary Walter T. Horn said unless advertised budgets are reduced drastically the taxpayers face a 17 per cent increase over this year or a total tax bill of *342 million. Horn said: i ’"hie largest increases asked are for county services, poor relief and schools. We do not believe the i counties need to levy .*l6 million more than they have now, which , is their part of the SSO million hike.” The executive secretary said the , county councils start reveiwing < county budgets next Tuesday and it will be up to them to “strike a j blow for econqmy.’' He added: “We are confident the county , councils will not shirk their dutiee, , but we urge the people who pay the taxes to back up their council members, appear at tihe hearings and voice their own demands for governmental economy." He cited some of the proposed tax rate increases as DaViese county 47 cents $125; Adams county, 53 cents to 84 cento*. Greene county $ 1.08 to $1.83; Vanderburgh county, 68 cents to 98 cents, and Marion county 92.8 cents to $1.83. The report said additional public hearings will be conducted by the county tax adjustment boards beginning Sept. 12, and a final review will be conducted in each county of all budgets and rates by the state board of ta*x commissioners. ~ ( Time Change Sf ill Punier In Stale Queries Sent Out To Cities In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The Indiana State Chamber of Commerce sent out queries to Hoosier cities and towns today in anothei* effort 1 to find out what time will it be < after Sept. 26. i The equally firm stands of Indianapolis, the capital city, in favor 1 of central daylight time (or EST) i and of South Bend and Vincennes ’ in favor of a return to central ' standard time had the state in 1 another time controversy from one 1 end to the other. General rule of thumb for per- < plexed city fathers of the smaller J municipalities has been to follow < the time used by the big city with- 1 in whose commercial orbit they 1 fall. 1 Indianapolis city fathers had voted last spring to shift to EST 1 and did not include the Customary 1 ending date for daylight time. ' Tenor of their conversation then I was that the clocks would stay 1 put, come the last Sunday in Sep- < tember. A survey of all nine members > of the Indianapolis city council t just completed by International 5 New Service, shows they are t sticking to their EST guns. All said they knew of no move- 1 ment to introduce a switch back to s CST resolution and each denied 1 they intended to offer such a t resolution. < Some said they felt it was unfair f to schools and other institutions and businesses who had changed s their hours to fit with EST. I Most of the major cities in Indi- f ana, except the capital, had in- t d lea ted last spring they would return to standarf time Sept. 25. s A few — Bicknell, Sullivan and I Winton —set Sept. 1 for the switch. C South Bend and Vincennes have t recently re-affirmed their inten- e tlons of returning to CST, and most r of the other cities are in the pro- b cess of deciding nowß Fort Wayne appears to be CST bound. f The Indiana Chamber of Com- d (Continued on page Five) •, • r»

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Ike Ads To Avert Slated Pennsy Strike Creates Board To Probe Dispute Os Railroad, Union DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower acted today to avert a strike pf 35.000 Pennsylvania railroad workers set for midnight Friday. \ ■Using bis authority under the railway labor act, he created a three man emergency board to investigate the dispute between the railroad and the CIO Transport Workers Union. The move has the effect of postponing any strike for at least 60 days. The board has 30 days to report its findings back to the President and both the union and company are barred from making any changes in working conditions for another 30 days after the report is submitted. " The union, representing non operating employes, is seeking paid holidays and a health and welfare program. Also in dispute are union proposals for revision, of rated work otoMUicattons and the asatoMWnt pf wark on diese) locomoThe members of the fact finding board will be named within the next few days. Millionaire Named In Paternity Suit Food Chain Heir Is Ordered To Answer LOS ANGELES (INS) ton Hartford 11, millionaire heir to the. A t P fortune, has been ordered to answer the paternity suit of a "love cljild” born to an ill starred New York dAncer. Hartford, reputedly one of the 16 wealthiest men in America, must go to Superior Court Sept. 28 to show why he should not be required to pay legal costs for the action brought by the guardian of Edward Barton Colt, 17. Judge Elmer D. Doyle issued j the court order Wednesday soon after the lawsuit was entered by Mrs. Florence Barton Brangenberg, 70, who is the grandmother of the lad and who reared him from the time he was 10 days old. The complaint charges that the 44 year old chief stockholder in the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. fathered Edward in 1939 by a young New York dancer, Mary Barton, and has refused to acknowledge paternity. Mies Barton died Nov. 8, 1941, under mysterious circumstances in her west side New York apartment. There was suspicion of murder, but the case was closed in 1943 with a verdict of suicide by an overdose of sleeping pills. At the time of Edward’s birth Aug. 8, 1938, Hartford was married to the former Mary Lee Epling, who now is the wife of movie actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The suit alleges that eight months after the Mrth, Hartford set up a $296,060 trust fund in Washington, D. C., for the child and that the grandmother has been receiving SBOO a month from the fund ever since. Mrs. Brangenberg and Edward ask no more money r- only that Hartford be determined to be his father so that his birth record may be clarified. Edward’s birth .certificate now shows his mother-to bd“Florence Mary Mixer” and his father “John Colt.” Mrs. Brangenberg explained that her maiden name was Florence Mary Mixer and she was married at the time of the boy’s birth to John Colt. She claimed that insertion of the false names on the certificate was done with Hartford’s “full know I(Continued on race Eight)