Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 122.

MODELS FEATURE MISSILE HEARING <Uu nms fia J ■rv " ■■ J &. «llLiWßa> • fffl A. vs-7'l Aaill ■|w f-Ll’A Wh» I -Ml j K9I tel : h :|t || ■£! * •*■ »8 " D fisJ 4 1 I vl P w i ®H wHSBaSL. JOwmßw . HE 4 «. &a| ■ ARMY’S CHIEF of Research Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin (right) discusses models of the Army’s missiles with Sen. Stuart Symington, (D), Mo., as Gavin prepared to testify before Symington’s air power investigating subcommittee. The models which figured in testimony looking into the position of the Army, Navy, and Air Force in the missflea field are, from left: “Honest John,” "Nike I.” “Corporal" and "Redstone."

Accuracy Os Nike Shown In Tests Tuesday Army Officers Are Proud Os Test Os Uncanny Accuracy White Sands Proving Grounds. N. M. (INB)—Army officers were proud today of their Nike guided missile following the weapon’s doubt-dispelling action before a group of skeptical newsmen. After displaying the uncanny accuracy of the Nike in action against a fast-moving firebee drone airplane Tuesday, the army offered additional proof today with troops in training firing at other drones in the New Mexico sky over the White Sands proving grounds. The some 120 news and cameramen will be taken to Red Canyon range, on the proving grounds, to watch soldiers fire various types of missiles. The army, obviously on the spot following criticism of the Nike in Washington where an inter-ser-vice dispute between the army and the air force is waging over guided missiles, sent two of the pencil-slfm shiny white weapons chasing a drone one-tenth the size of a bomber. One of the two radar-controlled Nikes hit its 11-foot drone target on the nose four miles above the desert and more than 15 miles from where the missiles were launched. The results of the Nike test were delayed several hours because of technical matters, which the army explained was due to lack of necessary equipment by a recovery crew where the target finally landed in the desert. One of the missiles exploded Just under and ahead of the target, blowing it out of the path of the second Nike, which also would have scored a hit. Soldiers, representing various permanent Nike installations in different parts of the nation, are engaged in annual service practices at Red Canyon range where today’s demonstrations will be staged. An officer explained that “Nikes et permanent installations never are fired except in anger, so we bring batteries to White Sands to give them practice.” Also at the range was a ba talion of the first guided missile brigade to fire the supersonic weapons for the first time before being assigned to a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week on-site positions in permanent installations, including major cities throughout the country. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north, partly cloudy south, and cooler tonight with frost likely exposed locations extreme north tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and a little warmer. Low tonight 38-45 north, 4545 south. H I g h Thursday 62-70 north, 70-fll south. •

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No Objections To Hospital Bond Fund State Hearing Is Conducted Today No objections co the proposed $450,000 hospital bond issue were filed this morning during a hearing conducted by George Gable of the state tax board in the office of the county auditor. AJI that remains now before actual construction of the hospital improvement Wgins la th eapprdkal of the state tax bogrd,, which, is expected in about a wdek, arid ? the sale of ’>>« bunds. A petition requesting the bond issue for much needed expansion and improvement of the Adams county memorial hospital was filed with the signatures- of 3,780 freeholders of Adams county.’ This morning’s hearing was the final opportunity for any Adams county resident to voice an obpection to the proposed bond issue. Since no remonstrances were filed the approval of the state board is expected to be almost automatic. Only other outstanding bonded indebtedness currently against the county is $12,000 still out on the bond issue for the county home. This will be paid by 1950 As soon as the board of trustees of the hospital receives the official approval of the state board on the bond issue, the sale of the bonds will be advertised. The bonds will be retired over! a period of 20 years wft h payment of SIO,OOO on July 1, 1957, payments of SIO,OOO on Jan, 1, and July 1, 1958 through 1962, payments of $15,000 on Jan. 1 and July I,’ 1963 through 1975 and a final payment of $15,000 ’on Jan. 1, 1976. The $45,000 will finance the construction of a new wing to the hospital building. The new addition will provide improved facilities as well as additional beds for patients. Members of the hospital board of trusteees which sparked the drive for improvement are Cal E. Peterson, chairman: Dee Fryback secretary; Wilbert Nussbaum and Henry Rumple. Thurman Drew is administrator of the hospital. Mrs. Roy Kalver and O. W. p. Macklin were chairmen of the drive to secure signatures to the petition. Slight Employment Gain Is Predicted WASHINGTON (JNS) —The labor department said today that most employers expect slight gains in jobs between now and mid-summer although there is prospect of further layoffs in the auto, farm machinery and household appliance industries.*' The department announced that a survey of labor conditions in 149 of the nation’s major industrial areas shown a, high and generally stable unemployment level in most areas, with automobile proauction centers the one weak spot in the economy. ■

Farm Measure Is Passed By House Today Completes Congress Action; Expect* Ike To Sign Farm Bill WASHINGTON (INS) — The house today passed and sent to President Eisenhower the second version farm bill. The President is expected to sign the measure into law. The house took only an hour to stamp approval on the eleetlonyear bill which the senate adopted Tuesday. The wrap-up action came on an agreement speedily reached by conferees of the two houses and approved senate Tuesday. Both Republicans and Democrats predict Mr. Eisenhower will sign the bill. It is a compromise measure which neither Republicans nor Democrats claimed as a victory. It sets up the $1.2 billion soil bank Mr, Eisenhower asked in vetoing the omnibus farm bill last month. He then urged new' legislation confined to the bank. But congress added other features; including two spending measures lifted from the vetoed bill. One would authorize SSOO million to- bolster the prices of such perishable foods as pork and beef through government purchase programs. The other adds S2OO million to the current S3OO million program for disposal of surplus goods to the needy overseas. The main feature of the new bill —the soil bank—has bipartisan backing. Democrats won a battle to have it go into effect immediately. They also succeeded in turning down the President's request for advance soil bank payments. The biggest part of the soil bank is the acreage reserve, by which farmers could get $750 million annually for not planting all of their allotted acreage on certain crops. This program applies only to wheat, cotton, corn, rice, most tobacco and peanuts. It nms for four years and is aimed at curtailing price-depressing surpluses. The long-range conservation reserve program could run 15 years. Farmers could be paid $450 million annually for diverting any kind of cropland to fertility-build-ing grasses or timber. Feed grains, a bone of contention for weeks, get price support increases of six per cent. But mandatory price supports are set only for 1956. The small grains have no acreage controls, which is what the administration wanted. The bill freezes fpr 1957 the yardstick for measuring price supports. This prevents a cut in the formula for wheat, corn and peanuts which was due to be made next year. Warns Os Renewed Housing Scandals GOP Administration Inaction Is Scored WASHINGTON (INS) Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.,) told President Eisenhower today that administration inaction has left the door open for federal housing scandals as bad as those exposed two years ago.! Byrd made public a letter telling the Chief Executive that federal audits “clearly show that the elements which breed housing scandals still persist" in more than a dozen cities. He charged that this stems from failure to carry out the clean-up called fpr after a senate investigation of “windfalls" in 1954. C Byrd predicted future audits would show that “irregularities and inefficiencies” are “the rule rather than the exception” all over the U. S. This is indicated, he said, by general accounting office audits of the federal housing administration. insuring offices in New York, Kansai City and Cleveland and 22 urban renewal projects in 15 cities. Listed in the latter group were Somerville, Mass., Provvidence, R. L; Jersey City and Perth Amboy, N. J.; Chester, Pa.; Norfolk, Va.; Knoxville and Nashville, Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; LLittle Rock, Ark.; Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.; St. Paul, Minn.; Detroit, and Cleveland. BULLETIN PARIS .(INS) — Pierre Mendes-France resigned as minister of state tonight In dissatisfaction over, France’s Algerian policy.

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, May 23, 1956.

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Says Kickbacki Paid Officer By Contractor Former Employe Os Subcontractor In Testimony Today WASHINGTON (INS) —Senate investigators were told today that a New York cap manufacturer took $30,000 in “kickbacks" from a sub-contractor to “pay off” an army procurement officer in 195052. The cnarge was made against Sol O. Schlesinger of Lawrence, N. Y., owner of the Ideal Uniform Cap Co., of Freeport, L. I. The allegation was in a sworn statement by John W. Roberts, a former employe of the subcontractor, J. Mackay & Son, Inc. Roberts, a British subject, gave the statement to senate investigations subcommittee staff members at his home in Sandy Point, Abaco, the Bahamas. He said Schlesinger had named i Col. Louis H. Shirley, then a quartermaster corps official in ■ New York, as the recipient of the . payoff. » Last June, Shirley —- at. that . time deputy quartermaster at U.S. ■ /irmy European headquarters ip . Heidelberg, Germany — denied . under oath ever receiving “any . monies or gifts directly or indirectly from any contractor.’’ Schlestgner refused on grounds ' cf possible self-incrimination to testify on his financial affairs or his relationships with army offi> cials. Roberts’ former wife, Pat, an attractive Washington model, was summoned to verify his statement after it was placed in the record at the outset of today’s hearing. ’ The Bahaman swore that he met Schlesinger while employed as a shoe designer for the Mackey firm which, he said, manufactured leather visors for caps at its shoe factory in New York Gity. He said that Miss Jane Mackay of that firm told him at one point that “she had a 'terrific deal' with Sol Schlesinger which would make the corporation a lot of money." Red Cross Officers Reelected Tuesday Annual Meeting Is Held Last Evening All officers of the Adams county Red Cross board of directors were re-elected at the annual meeting held Tuesday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. They include John Duff, chairman; Earl Fuhrman, vice-chairman; Glennys Roop, secretary, and Dick Macklin, treasurer. Last night’s meeting, which was open to the public, also featured the presentation of a plaque to Thurman Drew, administrator of the Adams county memorial hospital. recognizing the hospital’s participation in the (Red Cross blood program. Drew spoke briefly on the value of the blood program to the hospital. Also a speaker at the meeting was Dr. John Terveer who spoke on the medical value of blood. Another speaker was Mrs. Frank Ritchie, of Fort Wayne, a Red Cross volunteer consultant, who gave a brief history of the 75-year-old American Red Cross. Annual reports were presented by the chairmen of the various phases of Red Cross in this county. These reports will be published later. Governor Harriman Undergoes Surgery NEW YORK (INS) — New York Gov. Averell Harriman's physicians reported today that he is "recovering most satisfactorily" from an operation to correct a prostate gland condition. t

/ Details Illegally Obtained Passports i Former Communist Relates Testimony Washington (insj-a former Dmtnuiijlst testified today that 18 American labor leaders illegally AtalMfigpassports in 1951 to at- . festivities in Moband to propagandize against the U. S. government. > William Wallace, ofMount Ver* N.Y4 told the house-unAm- • erica n activities committee that i he and other members of the Redi dominated American committee to survey labor conditions in Europe were instructed by the Communist : party not to reveal their Soviet , destination. i Wallace, who said he held membership In the Communist party : from 1951 to 1955, explained that Red leaders ordered them to make falsi application for passports, stating only that they planned to ! visit England and France. Documented Proof - .»• WASHINGTON (INS) — House r I un-American activities committee chairman Francis E. Walter said 1 today he has documented evidence 1 thtt Communists have obtained 1 American passports • to “travel s abroad for purposes deliberately detrimental to the United States.” * fT h e Pennsylvania Democrat ’’ made the accusation as Ills commdttee launched an investigation 1 of what he termed the "skillfully organized Communist passport conspiracy." In a statement prepared for dej livery at the opening of the hear- . ing, Walter declared: “We are now , able to document in great detail the procedures by which Commo- , nists and Communist party symi pathizers obtain passports in direct violation of American law,’* Among the witnesses slated to appear before the committee today was William Wallace, a selfconfessed former Communist who became an FBI agent. Wallace was expected to reveal the Communist blueprint for bypassing America’s passport system. He was a Communist from about 1949 to 1952, when he joined the FBI. Final Cub Scout Pack Meeting Here Friday Cub Scout pack 3061 will have its final meeting of the year Friday evening at the Lincoln school. All Cub Scouts and their parents are invited to be present as one den presents a skit and another den the display. Final awards will be presented to the boys and an appreciative recognition of the den mothers by the pack. Eight Men Drowned When Dredge Sinks High Lake Michigan Waves Upset Dredge MILWAUKEE (INS) — Eight men of a construction crew drowned and 10 others were hospitalized today when a dredge being towed into the Milwaukee harbor sank in rough Lake Michigan waters. Three of the dead were identified as John Stranich, 32, Arne O. Wold, 57, and Joseph Bradovich, 55, all of Chicago. The coast guard was not immediately able to identify the other five men whose bodies were recovered several hours after the accident. The dredge, owned by Merritt Chapman and Scott Co., of Chicago, was being towed into Milwaukee harbor when it was hit broadside by high waves. The coast guard said it tipped, filled with water and sank about four miles east of the Milwaukee suburb of Cudahy. —Work had been halted shortly before the accident. The men bad been deepening the channel to the Oak Crtek powbr development project

Ike Rules Out Prospects For lax Reduction Dashes Cold Wer On Any Prospects Os Cut This Year WASHINGTON (INS) — F#wident Eisenhower dashed cold water today on any prospect of a tax cut this year because of the unexpectedly large budget surplus. He told his news conference the fact that the government expects to have a surplus of $l.B billion this year would be a very poor excuse for a tax cut. Mr. Eisenhower declared again that ho does not believe taxes should be reduced until some start has been made on reducing the enormous national debt There is such a thing, he added emphatically, ’ as fiscal Integrity. The President devoted most of ( the half-hour news conference to . the squabble among defense chiefs and allied topics, but he also had ’ this to say: 11. He and his staff were against carrying out the Anzio campaign , ar it was conducted in World War t H. Ex-President Harry S. Truman was quoted in Italy as saying the Anzlg. and Salerno campaigns were planned fff some “squirrel ' head general" but Truman later denied making the statement. 2.The United States thinks Egypt was mistaken in recogniz- ' ing Communiat China. ' 3. A conference of governors to 1 discuss ways of carrying out the j supreme court school integration decision might actually be harmful fry serving to irritate the situation. , 4. The total V. .8. commitment to ship arms to Arabia, including those already delivered, is about sl6 million. One of the factors involved in this agreement was that Arabia has no common border with Israel. Two Gas Companies File As Intervenors Opposed To Petition For Direct Service «' INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — Two natural gas pipeline companies today filed as intervenors in an Indiana public service commission case that is assuming major importance in the field of whole-sale-retail fuel consumption. The National Gas Pipeline company of Americt and the Texas Illinois Natural Gas Pipeline company, both with headquarters in Chicago, asked to enter the Midwestern Gas Transmission company case. No date has been set as yet by the PBC for the case, in which the Midwestern company asks, among other requests, to serve directly a major Gary industry, now being served by the Northern Indiana Public Service company. Today's two intervenors said they were on the side of NIPSCO, the respondent, because they supply the natural gas to hat Indiana utility, for resale to its customers in 12 northwestern Hoosier counties. Previously, four other Indiana utilities which buy gas from pipeline companies and resell it to their customers also filed as objectors to the Midwestern Gas Transmission's plan to sell directly to U. S. Steel at Gary, The two pipeline companies, filing today, were the first objectors from the wholesale supplier field. Natural Gas Pipeline company of America said it has pipelines from the Panhandle Field In Texas, running through Oklahoma, Kansas. Nebraska, and lowa, into Illinois. The Texas Illinois company said Its pipeline system runs from the Gulf Coast in Texas through Arkansas and Missouri into Illinois. (Continued on Psge Five)

Sentenced ■ ' I * i 1 Charles W. Ostrander i Ike Discusses Bickering In : Armed Forces r Asserts Arguments 8 By Military Men Are Healthy Sign ’ WASHINGTON (INS) — Presi- ; dent Elsenhower said today arguments among the nation's military* chiefs are a healthy thing as. long as they stay within the limits of . military discipline. r He indicated at a news confer- ' ence that he isn't as concerned ’ as some others in. Washington by ’ the current squabbling among the ’ navy, army, and air force. The armed forces have been arguing among themselves as to what was best for national defense since he entered the army in 1911, he declared. ■ But he added heatedly that the day discipline disappears from the armed services we will have no military forces and wauld be foolish to put a nickel into them. The President discussed the subject of bickering among the three military branches with vigor and emotion at his weekly meeting with newsmen. Commenting on the recent Hbomb drop from a B-52 bomber in no military forces and would be much smaller than some of those exploded previously. He also said the Pacific test largely achieved the purposes of the atomic energy commission in this first drop of a hydrogen bomb from a plane. Mr. Elsenhower- branched out from a discussion of military squabbling into the basic purpose of the whole western defense effort He said no one knows the real significance of Russia's recent announcement that she is cutting her armed forces by 1,200,000 men. The Soviet Union apparently is uow taking the same “new look” at its military program that the United States did three years ago. he said. If the Soviet Union announced It was removing 375 submarines from its fleet, he added, we would know we were really getting someplace. But be declared it is impossible tb appraise the meaning of a reduction tn military manpower which might actually strengthen the Soviet Union. Mr. Eisenhower said there is no more complicated problem than that of deciding what new weap* ons must bear the brunt of the nation’s atomic-age defense erforts. : This is a subject that every American should give his attention to, bb said. Bul ks said It should be a search 1 for trath, not just an attempt to 1 (CaattnaeS ea Fava Eiaht)

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Pleads Guilty To Charge In Circuit Court Maximum Penally Imposed By Judge On Bluffton Man * A plea of guilty to the diarge of rape while armed was entered in Adams circuit court this morning by Charles William Ostrander, 37, of Bluffton, and he was sentenced to 20 years in the Indiana state prison. The charge of armed rape carries a possible 10 to 20 year determinate sentence and Judge Myles Parrish imposed the maxi-: mum penalty for the criminal attack on a young Decatur girl last April 12. Ostrander,, who has been held by local authorities since bia arrest April 18, sobbed while he testified during argument for mitigation ahd i wept again while Judge Parrish I issued a statement before passing sentence. Sheriff Merle Affolder has been ordered to deliver Ostrander to the state prison within the next five days to begin his sentence. He will not be eligible for parole until he has served 12 years and six months of his sentence. Ostrander's sentence is the maximum which could have been given to him on any or all of the affidavits against him. The other two affidavits charge him with kidnaping and robbery. On both of these, the sentences which might be obtained would run concurrent- ' ly with the sentence for armed rape. The eligibility to parole of the defendant in both kidnaping and robbery would occur prior to the eligibility for parole on the I armed rape charge. I Prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith in his summary to the court before sentence was passed asked for the maximum sentence for the “extremely serious charge” against the Bluffton man who is married and the father of a 13-year-old son. Cross-examination of Ostrander by Smith brought out testimony that Ostrander had served a previous prison term on a charge of breaking and entering in Wells county. In imposing the maximum sentence Judge Parrish expressed horror at the crime calling it “the most dastardly act of inhumanity” and saying that he could not think of anything worse than such an attack on a young girl. He told Ostrander that “You did not have the conscience or the character of a rattlesnake on the night of the crime.” Prosecutor Smith indicated since the sentence imposed is the maximum which the state could obtain against Ostrander, the procurement of any additional sentence would not serve any useful purpose and the other two affidavits against him will be dismissed. Ostrander is the second to be sentenced for the attack on the girl and the yoting Decatur boy who was with her. Kenneth Eugene Thompson. 15, also of Bluff. ~ ton, an accomplice in the attack, was found guilty of delinquency in (Continued en Page Five) Rites Held Today For Brown Infant Marvene Louise Brown, infant daughter of Marvin and Rosemary Coyne-Brown, of Union township, died at 5:15 pm. Tuesday at the Adams county memorial hospital, 20 minutes after birth. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis J. Coyne and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brbwn of Union township; and the great-grandparents. Frank Tempel of Paulding, 0., Mrs. Therasa Coyne of Decatur and Mrs. A. J. Kreischer of Wren. O. Funeral services were held this afternoon at St. Mary's Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial, conducted *by the ZwUk funeral home, was in the Catholic cemetery.