Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 240, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIII. No. 240.

JOYOUS REUNION ENDS WAR THIS REUNION ended World War II for an elderly German couple who had met train after train of returning prisoners from Russia at Camp Friedland, Germany. Among the more than 1,000 they had watched debark in their homeland, the couple finally espied their son and enfolded him in the joyful reunion pictured above. Among the prisoners returned from Russia since last Thursday were 30 former German generals.

Strike - Torn Plant Resumes Its Production Plant Is Reopened Under Protection Os National Guards NEW CASTLE, Ind. (INS) —The strike-torn Perfect Circle Corp, foundry at New Castle, reopened under protection of martial law, planned to resume production today. Chesley Juday, manager of the piston ring foundry, said the doors . will be open “to anyone who wants to work” and he expects more than 100 of the normal two-shift crew of 310 workers.■ A skeleton force of 84 workers reopened the plant Tuesday following the Imposition of martial law by Gov. George N. Craig in New Castle and all of Henry county as well as nearby Hagerstown and the northwest edge of Richmond. Ind., where other Perfect Circle plants are located. The governor acted when com- ' 'hr-g-’ conferencer called k, T)y' the state’s chief executive to seek an end to the 10-week strike, which Igst Wednesday erupted into a shooting fight at the New Castle plant. Eight persons were wounded in the fray. Four tanas ana sanabagged machinegun emplacements were set up around the plant as national guardsmen stodd by to prevent any further violence. Striking CIO United Auto Workers officials promised there would be no more incidents, but they also said they would not v resume negotiations "withfiT the shadow of fixed bayonets and tanks.” Only five pickets-the limit under a court injunction-walked in front of the New Castle plant as the skeleton force moved in Tuesday to clean up broken glass, stones and other debris left by last week’s rioting. The strike began in the four p 1 airts__i nJu 1 y over wage issues. However, the chief stumbling block now is the company’s refusal to negotiate with the union for the employes in the two Richmond plants and one at Hagerstown, who have petitioned the national labor relations board for decertification of the UAW. The three plants outside of New Castle have continued to operate, with the company claiming up to 70 percent Os the workers on the job. Carl Batchfield, local 370 president, said the company is right in the number at work in Richmond and Hagerstown but he said the workers are not anti-union. He said they returned for other reasons. Batchfield also confirmed a company statement regarding a settle- — meftt concerning a fifth Perfect Circle plant at Tipton and its new contract. The statement was given by company spokesman E. B. Schultze, labor relations director of the firm, who said a contract was signed with the CIO United Steel Workers July 29 covering the same terms the CTO-UAW rejected four days earlier. Schultze said the Stele Workers were offered and accepted' alp-cent hourly raise plus fringe benefits (Oonunueu on Page aignti

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Opposing Reports On UN To Legionnaires Committees Unable To Make Agreement MIAMI (INS) — A big battle over opposing reports on a United Nations agency was anticipated at the American Legion convention today. Scheduled to come up at noon (EST) were reports on the U.N. educational, social and cultural organization (UNESCO) by the I Legion’s Americanism committee and its foreign relations committee. The Legion currently is on record as opposing UNESCO. But a special committee, headed by past national commander Ray "Murphy, reported favorably on the agency after an 18-months study. As the morning session got under way, the two convention committees were said to be unable to come to agreement on whether to approve UNESCO or reaffirm the i existing stand against it. In the main speech of the day, labor secretary James p. Mitchell outlined to the legion the steps the department is taking to solve ! its’ two main problems — finding work "older”' indtrainin’g more young men and women in badly heeded skills. Mitchell pointed out in his prepared address that the nation as a whole is growing older. He said the number of persons 45 or older will reach more than 63 million by 1975, approximately one-half the adult population over 20 years of age. He commented that ‘unless the current discrimination against older workers is eliminated, many mature workers will be condemned to a life of economic uselessness.” He said the department is now analyzing jobs older persons can handle, the cost of older workers to ' employers, and various plans for putting older people to work. He said the department also plans to step up its placement service for the over-45’s. On the second problem, that of building a more skilled labor force, Mitchell said the department plans ~‘To~earry~its researcß~and'JhlofmaT' tion programs down to the worker level to impress on the public the need for highly trained technicians and scientists. Legion distinguished service medals were to be presented to Dr. Jonas E. Salk, developer of the anti-polio vaccine, and to Maj. Gen. Ellard A. Walsh, president of the national guard association. Also on the crowded business session calendar were addresses by Dr. J. Cloyd Miller, past president of the national education association; Harvey V. Highley, administrator of veterans affairs, and Dr. David B. Allman of the American medical association. Broaden Age Group For Polio Vaccine WASHINGTON (INS) —The government today broadened priority age groups for Salk polio vaccine to make possible inoculation of all children up to the age of 15. Welfare secretary Marion B. Folsom made the announcement, which replaces the five-through-nine age priority in effect since the vaccine first became available last spring.

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Trade Pad Is Agreed To By Canada, Russia To Negotiate Trade Pact; Conferences Termed Successful MOSCOW (INS) — Canada and the Soviet Union announced today agreement to negotiate a trade pact and to exchange parliamentary delegations. A joint communique to this effect was published-' in this morning’s Soviet press. It listed the results of a week-long visit in the Soviet Union by Canadian minister for external affairs Lester B. Pearson. Pearson himself was in the Crimea, where he met Tuesday with vacationing Soviet premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and Communist party boss Nikita S. Khrushchev. Reliable sources said the Canadian minister agreed with the Soviet officials on the important part both nations could play in solving the long-deadlocked disarmament question. Both sides have expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the talks which they regarded as useful. The bulk of the negotiations were carried out by Pearson with Soviet foreign minister V. M. Molotov. The commercial trade agreement will be on the basis of “most favored nation treatment.” This means that imports of each country will be granted the same treatment as each country grants to its most favored trading partner. A Soviet commercial delegation may visit Ottawa in the next few months as a step towards concluding the agreement. The communique also announced that the two governments would seek to remove “obstacles to a freer exchange of information and views.” particularly on question of industry, transport, agriculture, and Arctic research. Canada and Russia are. as Pearson pointed out on his arrival last week, neighbors acrosfl the North Pole. The reference to the question of transport was considered by some observers to be a forecast of discussions about a transpolar airline link between the nations. Intensify Search For Missing Boy Disappeared From - Group Os Friends * CRANE, Jnd. (INS) — An agonized search for a three year-old boy, who suddenly disappeared from a group of playmates about noon Tuesday, was concentrated near Scotland, Ind., today. Ronnie Franklin Wietkamp, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wietkamp, had been playing with a group of children across the street from his home in the Crane Village housing development, near the Crane naval ammunition depot. A little later when his mother called him for lunch, Ronnie wasn’t there. At first groups of neighbors joined the hunt, but today the searchers had climbed to 300. Marines and sailors joined civilians in the hunt, which was augmented at noon today by a helicopter. A bloodhound brought to the scene by state trooper Joseph A. Flynn, of Monticello, led the searchers to the corner of a pasture near a big woods. The bloodhound failed to go any further, and each time the animal was returned to the point where the towheaded child last was seen, he again brought searchers to the same pasture corner. The point was about two miles from the home of the Wletkamps, and near Scotland, in Greene county. It was the opposite direction from any water in which the child might have drowned. Authorities say that so far there has been no hint of any foul play. They pointed out that the surrounding terrain is .composed of hills and gullies, and covered with trees and brush. The father is a civilian employe of the naval depot, jmd was joined in the search by most of his coworkers. The mother remained at home with three other children of the family. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight, preceded by a few showers extreme south early tonight Thursday mostly fair, a little" cooler east and south. Low tonight 42-48 north, 48-54 south.,,

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Report Soviet Air Defenses Exceed U. S. • Pentagon Official Reveals Defenses Superior To U. S. WASHINGTON (INS) — A defense department re-examination of intelligence reports from Russia indicates today that Soviet air defenses are as good or better than those of the U. S. A high Pentagon official revealed that Russian radar defenses in the far North are more extensive than those which the U. S, and Canada are constructing and hope to complete some time in 1957. Cost of the U. S.-Canadian radar net has been estimated at a minimum of two billion dollars. The official said he would not describe the Russian air defense preparations as ‘more expensive” or “better,” but that in shear bulk of equipment and numbers of people involved, they exceed those of the U. S. Moreover, the official said, Russian air defense has been set up by a Soviet organization known as “PVO" which has been in existence for 25 years and has a record of successes. He said that, for example, the Russian defense of Moscow in World War II was so good that the Germans, from bases only 125 miles away, were unable to bomb the Soviet capital and gave up the attempt. Some U. S. air force leaders, including retired General Benjamin F. Chidlaw who formerly headed the Continental command, now believe that the U. S.-Canadian system may be more than 90 percent effective in preventing air attack. from the North. '- .The present re-exami nation has (Continued on r»se Mw) Asserts Republican Conclave Wide Open Sen. CapeharFSees Open Convention WASHINGTON (INS) — Sen. Homer Capehart (R-Ind.) said Tuesday that the Republican national convention next year will be wide open even if President Elsenhower indicates his choice. Capehart, just back from a trip to Europe, said that if Mr. Eisenhower does not seek re-election, “I do not think he will say” who the convention should nominate. Capehart said he thinks the president will want the convention to be a “free and open one.” But the senator said that even if Mr,--Eisenhower were-- to indicate his choice, “I do not think it would” sway the convention. He added that it is impossible for a man to transfer his own popularity to another. Asked at a news conference if he himself would be ’swayed by the president’s choice. Capehart replied that “it would depend oh who it was.” Asked also about the possibility of a split developing in the GOP as a result of rivalry for the nomination, Capehart said merely “I don’t know about that — I hope not.” Slight Increase In Jobless Pay Claims INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —The ndiana employment security division today reported a slight increase in claims for the week ending Oct. 8. Director William Stalnaker said temporary layoffs 4n the automobile industry sent claims up slightly In the Indianapolis, Muncie and South Bend areas. This was offset some by a 1,000 drop in the Evansville area. Altogether claims rose 1,500 from the week before to a total of 26.964 as compared to 46,360 for the first week of October, 1954.

Bad Faith Charged To Interior Dept. Department Kept Opinion A Secret WASHINGTON (INS) — Rep. Ear) Chudoff (D Pa.), charged the Interior department today with “bad faith” in keeping secret an opinion by attorney general Herbert Brownell on government power sales. The opinion was disclosed Tuesday at a public hearing of a house government operations subcommittee headed by the Pennsylvania congressman. The house group is investigating administration power policies. Assistant interior secretary Fred G. Aandahi told the subcommittee that the opinion limited the gov-ernment’s-'authority to sign power contracts with private utilities. Aandahi promised to furnish the subcommittee with a copy of the opinion today. According to Aandahi, Brownell ruled that the government cannot sell power to a privately-owned utility until a cooperative or municipality has had an opportunity to purchase it first. A 1944 law provides that public groups, such as rural electrification administration cooperatives and municipally owned utilities, must be given preference in the sale of governmentproduced power. Aandahi said his department requested the opinion because it was considering signing a bontract with the Georgia, Power. Co,, for the sale of power from the government’s Clark Hill Dam. The assistant secretary added that Brownell ruled the department could not sign the contract until Georgia cooperatives had been giv(Contluuea on rwe Five) Adams Central Board Approves Bond Issue Help Defray Expense Os School Addition The board of trustees of Adams Central Consolidated school Tues--day night approved a resolution to issue $35,000 in bonds, payable over a period of 15 years, to partly defray expense of construction of the proposed $175,000 addition to the school at Monroe. A petition was presented by taxpayers of the'three-township consolidation, including Monroe, Kirkland and Washington townships, and the board acted favorably on the petition. The bond issue was suggested by attorneys for the board, Custer and Smith of Decatur, so that the balance of the money' needed for the improvement could be borrowed from the state school construction fund. The statute requires that to. be. eligible fora loan from this fund, the petitioning unit must be bonded to its legal limit. Outstanding bonds against Adams Central presently total $137,000. The action of the. board of trustees will be passed on to the state board of tax commissioners and that body will hold a final hearing at the office of county auditor Frank Kitson at a later date. Legal notice pertaining to the procedure appears in today’s Daily Democrat. GOP Headquarters To Open Saturday The formal opening of headquarters for the Republican city election campaign will be held Saturday beginning at 8 p. m. Republican headquarters are located in the Speigel building on South Second street. Attorney Robert Smith will be master of ceremonies for the program, which will include introduction of Republican candidates for city offices. Also on the program will be city attorney Robert Anderson, who will butiln% the ISsties of the campaign. The public is invited to attend, according to Wilbur Petrie, Republican campaign chairman.

Saudi Arabia Hits Move Os UN Secretary Attacks Secretary For Position Over Algerian Problems UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (INS) —Saudi Arabia angrily attacked secretary general Dag Hammerskjold today for urging the UN social committee to shelve action on self-determination —basic issue in the Algerian controversy. Hammarskjold warned the committee Tuesday that a proposed UN study of self-determination might add friction to the present international situation marked bythe French boycott of the assembly over Algeria. Saudi Arabaian delegate J. M. Baroody, who had led an unsuccessful fight to secure committee approval of a Soviet resolution for return of Iron Curtain escapees, flayed the UN chief for recommending postponement of the study. Baroody, member ’of the AfroAsian bloc which sponsored the Algerian item on the assembly’s agenda, said Hammarskjold *'exploded a bomb upon us” in making <his recommendation. - He indirectly accused the eecretary general of bias for the “metropolitan countries," the so-called colonial powers. — ■ Western delegates said meanwhile the political committee will reject any Soviet move to include Red China and Communist East Germany In the Eisenhower atoms-for-peace agency. The diplomats expressed confidence the committee will approve U S. recommendations for organizing the atomic agency, which will seek -to help underdeveloped countries launch their own peacetime,, atomic The American recommendations call for an agency linked to the. 1 N as a specialized unit, such as the world health organization. Indications are, however, that the political committee may agree to closer ties between the agency and the UN than those presently envisioned. Western sources were firm in barring any bid to include the Peiping or East German puppet regimes in the proposed agency, membership .in which would be limited to the 60 UN governments and those of the specialized UN agencies. Red China and East Germany are in neither category. Demand for Inclusion of the Communist regimes and other So(Continued on Pare Slant) John M. Springer Dies This Morning _ Funeral Services Friday Afternoon John M. Springer, 81, of 1604 West Adams street, died at 4 a.m. today at his home. He had been ill for about a year, A native of Ohio, he was born Marctf29, 1874. He was married to the former Susie Gravette, who preceded him in death in 1947. He worked at a saw mill several years ago but has been retired for many years. Survivors include three sons, William Springer of Kalamazoo, Mich., Homer Springer of Decatur and Calvin Springer of Tacoma, Wash.; four daughters, Mrs. Dollie Stahl and Mrs. Virginia Gephart of Decatur, Mrs. Sylvia Schwartz of Geneva and Mrs. Paul Wagner of Cloverdale, O.; 29 grandchildren; a brother, David Springer of Andrews, and a sister, Mrs. Rose Lehman of Fort Wayne. One aon is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at the Black funeral home, with the Rev. Lawrence Norris officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Thursday. ~

Deny Obligation To Sell Arms To Israel Claim Advanced By Israel Ambassador WASHINGTON (INS)—Top U.S. officials today contested the claim that America has an “obligation” to keep Israel abreast of the Arab states in an arms race. The claim that the U. S., Britain and France have such an obligation was made by Israeli ambassador Abba Eban. He made the statement after talking with assistant secretary of state George V. Allen for 75 minutes on the crisis over Communist arms sales to Egypt. The Israeli view is that when the U. S. signed a mutual security pact agreement with Israel it committed itself to keep the young country strong enough to stand off any aggressive neighbor. The American view is that the agreement merely formalized the principle which would permit Israel to negotiate to buy arms for cash. Egypt has a similar agreement with the U. S. Neither Israel nor Egypt has been able to buy much from Aiherica under the agreement. High state department officials* said they were surprised by Eban’s interpretation of the MSA agreement. They said that their understanding was that it permitted Israel to negotiate for the cash purchase of armaments but did not commit the U. S. to the sale of such arms. . Eban said after his meeting with Allen that there would be further talks either with Allen or secretary of state John Foster Dulles. Provide More Space For Fish Fry Here Tickets Are Made Available — Robert E. Lane, chairman of ticket sales for the annual Chamber of Commerce-Adams county fish fry, which will be held Thursday evening, announced today that 75 additional tickets have been placed on sale at the Holthouse drug store, on a first-come, firstserved basis. The overflow crowd will be fed in the home economics room in the Decatur high school, and then there will be ample seating space in the school auditorium-gymnas-ium for those served in the home ec room. Plenty of fish has been ordered to assure an ample supply sol 1 all who attend. Ticket takers will be on band at both entrances on Jefferson street and at the main entrance on Third street. Lane emphasized, however, that no tickets 1 will be sold at the doors. The doors will be opened at 6 o’clock, with the fish fry scheduled to get underway promptly at 6:30 o'clock. Cliff Brewer, chairman of the serving committee, has asked all captains and waiters to meet at the school not later than 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. All workers will be served at 5 o’clock. Featured on the entertainment program will be an hour-long concert by the men’s chorus of the Northern Indiana Public Service Co. An added feature will be a magic number by Mr. and Mrs. Clint Milliken of South Bend. a Capital's Schools Asks Cut Restored INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — The Indianapolis board of school commissioners has appealed to the state to restore at least four cents of six cents cut from its, 1956 tax rate. The school group’s unanimouslyadopted resolution said the slash by the Marlon county board of tax adjustments will cause "serious deficiencies” unless the state board of tax commissioners restores most of It. More than a quarter of a million dollar deficiency was forecast by the board unless action is taken.

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Ike Appears Refreshed By First Parley Conference Drafts Letter To Russia On U. S. Proposals j DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower enjoyed a good sleep of eight hours Tuesday night, apparently taking new strides toward recovery in the wake of resuming control of U.S. foreign policy. The early-morning medical bulletin on Mr. Eisenhower’s condition at 9:10 a.m. (EST) today said his condition continues to progress satisfactorily without complications. ' The President put in his most strenuous day Tuesday since his 18-day-old heart attack, meeting with secretary of state John Foster Dulles in a 25-minute discussion of high policy matters. The meeting served ad'a "tonic” for the President who was described by Dulles as "interested, alert and helpfuh” Among other things accomplished in the bedside conference was the draft of a preliminary letter th Soviet premier Nikolai Bulganin’s position on U.S. proposals for disarmament r The plane carrying Dulles back east was to return today to Denver with a further morale-booster for Mr. Eisenhower. Aboard will be his brother, Milton, president of Pennsylvania State university. Dulles, who carried the letter back to Washington to forward it to Moscow, also got what he called “positive suggestions" from the President on the forthcoming Big Four foreign ministers meeting at Geneva. The secretary told newsmen he afel tfe <kher - "substantive” matters, too, including U. S. efforts to halt Egyptian purchases of arms from the Soviet bloc. - Dulles' visit was in line with a program set up last weekend by Mr. Eisenhower's doctors. It is designed to get him gradually back to his duties and give him something to do while recuperating. Chief presidential assistant Sherman Adams, who has been running White House operations and seeing the Chief Executive for about 15 minutes each day on routine matters, will head back to Washington Thursday to attend a cabinet meeting the following day. White House news secretary James C. Hagerty told newsmen Milton Eisenhower would accompany Adams on the President's personal plane, the Columbine 111. Milton, youngest of the President’s four brothers, was the first scheduled to see him since he fell victim to a heart attack Sept. 24. The visit was expected to be purely of a cheering-up nature, although in the past the educator has been considered one of the President’s closest unofficial adr visers on government affairs. After the morning meeting with Dulles, the President’s bed was wheeled to a sundeck at Fitssimmons army hospital for the second time in two days. Attired in pajamas, golfing cap and sunglasses, he spent 20 minutes in the sunshine and fresh air. Burton Smith Dies Tuesday Evening Burton L. Smith, 59, native of Decatur, died at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday in Parkview memorial hospital after a brief illness. He had lived in Fort Wayne 38 years. Surviving are his wife, Sarepta; three daughters, Mrs. Rosemary DerNier and Mrs. Barbara Besancon of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Delores Bradley of Redondo Beach, Calif.; one son? Robert E. Smith of Fort Wayne, and three brothers, Dale and Harold, both of Fort Wayne, and Richard of Marysville, Calif. The body was removed to the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home. f