Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 134.

EXAMINE DOMINICAN “DEATH SHIP” jll 1 TSt —"WllrWMtsw If '‘ * ’ . 1 .. BSkP” 'Kr. ■ . " * «| -L ■ J WHILE NEW YORK detectives began an examination of the vessel, a crewman of the Dominican freighter Fundacion poses beside the open fire-box of a boiler into which Dominican expatriate Nicholas Silfa charges a Columbia University professor was thrown alive. Silfa charged that Prof. Jesus de Galindex. severe critic of the administration of Generalissimo Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, had been kidnaped and disposed of in the furnace to silence his attacks.

House Heads For Vole On Foreign Aid Leaders From Both Parties Seeking To Restore Aid Slash By UNITED PRESS The house rolled toward a final vote today on the administration’s controversial foreign aid program. There was stormy debate over how heavily ifee program should be cut. Republican and Democratic leaders, at the personal urging of President Eisenhower, moved th restore S6O ’,000.000 of the $1,100.000,000 which the foreign affairs cmomittee slashed from theauminist ration's $4,900,000,000 request. But they ran into a storm of opposition. Rep. Alvin M. Bentley (iR-Mich.) started it off by denouncing the whole program as “ridiculous." He appealed to the house to increase the committee’s cut by another $500,000,000. Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark.) pleaded with his colleagues to "yield” to the P. r Mident’s judgment on the aid issue. But Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.) took sharp issue with this. .. Mr. Eisenhower, he said, "is not infallible ... He has made some grievous errors with respect to the Soviet Union in the past." Other congressional news: Powet: Democrats on the house government operations committee lambasted the administration’s power policies in a 250-page report. Republican members issued an angry dissent. The Democrats charged that the administration is aiding private utilities in an effort to destroy public power and create a “complete private pow.er monopoly.’’ The Republican committeemen called the Democratic report a “venomous attack on private enterprise" and nothing mo e than a “textbook for socialism." Yugoslavia: A Yugoslav refugee told the senate internal security subcommittee the United States is “digging our own grave" by giving military and economic aid to Yugoslavia. The aid, he asserted, has been "building up an enemy who has done great service to world Communism." Social Security: The senate postponed until Monday a fight over the social security bill. The dispute is over lo»/ering the benefit age for women and disabled workers and boosting social security payroll taxes. Money: The senate passed two appropriations bills to run the president's office, the White House and 17 independent agencies during fiscal 1957. The bills total'more than $5.9 billion. The measures now go to a house-sen-(Continued ba Page Five) Steuben County Jail Is Damaged By Fire ANGOLA, Ind. (UP) — Fire swept the second floor cellblock of Steuben county jail Wednesday night. Four prisoners locked in their cells were removed without, injury. / Damage was estimated 000, mostly due to flames but partly from water dripping to the first floor as firemen trained hoses oh the biasing structure. The prisoners were taken to DeKalb county jail at Auburn.

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Negotiators Work On Steel Contract Half Billion Dollar Plum Is The Prize NEW YORK (UP) — America’s steel industry and the 650,u00 men who make the steel so basic to our economic life negotiated amiably again today to see which side gets a half billion dollar plum for a prize. Each side furnished four negotiators to hammer out a new steel wage contract to replace the one Liat expires at midnight June 20th. The half billion dollar plum is the difference between what the steel workers are asking and what ’ top industry leaders feel the industry will be willing to grant. The workers have asked f» gi package deal involving a form of guaranteed annual wage, premium pay for weekend work and other fringes. The wage increase being sought is stil. la secret as far as the. public is concerned. But the steel experts outside the ratks of union and management have estimated that the union’s package would cost 60 cents an hour per man. That would work out to $24 a week for each steel worker, or a gross of SBOO million a year. The hard - headed experts calculated that what the steel companies will be willing to give the union is a package offer of 20 cents an hour. That would cost nearly S3OO million. The difference between the SBOO million and the S3OO million is the half billion dollar plum. Today’s negotiations followed more than four hours of secret bargaining talks Wednesday at which negotiators for both sides kicked off accelerated talks to reach a new wage pact before the strike deadline. Both sides expressed hopes of reaching a new wage agreement before the present contract runs out. Current negotiations involve the United Steelworkers of America and the industry’s “Big Three”— U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel, and Republic Steel corporations. These joint negotiations are the first in the history of the steel industry. Even though the three companies emphasize they are negotiating for themselves, the final agreement will set the pattern for the rest of the industry. Union talks with the other major steel producers are on a standby basis pending outcome of these tlks with the "Big Three”, which account for more than han the steel produced in this country. Brownies Day Camp Will Open Monday Girls of the Brownie Scout age will begin day camp Monday at Hanna-Nuttman park. Daily transportation has been arranged to the camp. The north bus will stop at Gay’s Mobil service, the south end of Master Drive, Miller’s North End grocery and the First Methodist church. The south bus will stop at the court house, Hite's grocery, the corner of Russell street and Winchester street, the Homestead in the center alley, the Sanitary market and Stratton Place., The time for the bus stope will be 8 a.m. and noon during Brownie week and at 8:36 am. for the Girl Scout week. 12

Backers Hail Stevenson Win In California Commanding Lead By Stevenson Over Other Contenders WASHINGTON (UP)—Adlai E. Stevenson’s supporters cited his California triumph today as a conclusive answefMio the he-cMi't-win-argument raised agaipst film by Demochatic opponents., As a result of Tuesday’s California primary, Stevenson took a commanding lead over other contenders for the DeocNrtic presidential primary. Democrats generally appeared to agree that his big job now is to erase Demochatic doubts about bis chances of defeating President Eisenhower sett November. Stevenson partisans contended that his sweeping California vicI »ry over, Ben. Estes Kefauver should gb tar to dissipate these doubts. A The former Illinois governor gave Kefauver a bad beating in California in their last and most crucial primary contest. Although Kefauver said he was still in the race, most Democrats wrote him off as a major .ontender for the nomination. Stevenson polled about 62 per cent of the vote in California’s Democratic primary, compared with Kefauver’s 38 per cent. Gov. Averell Harriman and Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri were emerging as the actual or potential rallying points for anti-Steven-son Democrats Supporters of both can be expected to question Stevenson's vote —pulling power for a return match against Mr. Elsenhower. and Stevenson’s previous string of primary victories should break through this he-can't-win type of argument," Sen A. S. Mike Monroney (DOkla.), An early Stevenson backer, said. He said Stevefison had fought against “voter apathy” and still amassed a series of victories over Kefauver. “the man recognized as the outstanding personal campaigner of our time.” -Monroney said be knew of no candidate, except an incumbent president, who would go to a national convention with as much strength as is now indicated for Stevenson. The Democratic convention opens at Chicago Aug. 13. Another Stevenson supporter. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.), said the California primary “demonstrated conclusively that Stevenson has voter appeal.” He described California as a cosmopolitan state and a good crosssection of the country as a whole. “The cement to hold any antiStevenson coalition together has been pretty well watered down by the outponring of votes in California," Humphrey said.

Reach Agreement On Western Union Pact Agreement Ends Any Danger Os Tie-up WASHINGTON (UP) — The Western Union Telegraph Co. and two unions have reached agreement on a new contract providing more than 18 cents an hour in wage increases and fringe benefits. Western Union reached the agreement Wednesday in negotiations with the AFL-CIO Commercial Telegraphers Union, representing 30,000 Western Union workers throughout the country, and the independent American Communications Assn n representing 4,000 workers ij New York City. R. A. Morgan, assistant vice president of the firm, said the agreement provides for a 13-cent hourly across-the-board wage. Increase. It also provides for 5-cent hourly pay raises in the form of job reclassifications, effective next Jan. I. The pay of Western Union work(Oonubum On Page Five) Boy Fatally Burned In club Room Fire LOGANSPORT, Ind. (UP) — Ronald Ward, .10, died today of burns suffered when fire destroyed a hog house he converted into a club room. Authorities believed the boy left a lantern burning all night in the house Tuesday night and returned Wednesday to turn it out. the lantern exploded, setting hire his clothing and the structure.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 7, 1956.

Soviet Secret Police Arrest More Than 100 In Stalin’s District • ’ . . ■* .A

Britain Plans Hydrogen Bomb 1 Test In 1957 To Explode First Os Hydrogen Bombs During Next Year LONDON (UP) — Britain announced today it will explode its first hydrogen bomb next year. 7 The decision was announced by prime m’nister Sir Anthony Eden in a stutcraent to the house of commons. Britain previously has disclosed that it is building the hydrogen bomb, but a British H-bomb never has been tested in an explosion. Only the United States and the Soviet Union have test-exploded H-bombs. However, Eden revealed that Britain now was ready to go ahead with an actual test of an H-bomb when he told common that a decision had been made to carry cut "a limited number of test explosions in the megaton range.” A megaton is the equivalent of a million tons of TNT. Atomic weapons normally are measured in kilotons—a thousand tons of TNT. ThW, Bank's reference ta “nuclear test explosions in the metagon range” meant ah Hbomb. A spokesman for the ministry of supply confirmed that this wording could only refer to a hydrogen bomb explosion. Eden said the tests will be made in a “remote part of the Pacific” in the first half of 1957. He said they* will be high air bursts that will avoid heavy fall-out of radio-active material. Even as Eden spoke in London, the atom bomb for Britain's second test explosion in the Monte Bello Islands off the«. northwest Australian coast was believed to have arrived in Onslow, Australia, today. A date for the second atomic test has not yet been announced. but observers believe it will be next week. Newton B. Mechling Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Newton B. Mechling, 68, of route 4, Bluffton, and a lifelong resident of Wells county, died at 11:45 o'clock Wednesday night at the Wells county hospital in Bluffton. He had been in failing health since last fall. Mr. Mcheilng was a retired far mer and also a retired employe of , the General Electric Co. in Fort Wayne. He was born in Wells county July 2, 1887, a son of Daniel and Elida John-Mechling, and was married in Decatur to Anne C. Borne June 11, 1909. Surviving i*i addition to the widow are two sons. Dale and Max Mechlinsr, both of Ossian; three daughters. Mrs. Crystal Riehle, Mrs. Myrtle Morton and Mrs. Helen Wiebke. all of Fort Wayne; one brother, John Mechling of Rockcreek, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Heller and Mrs. Fern Scherry, both of Decatur. One son is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Jahn-Goodwin-Reed funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. F. H. Pfugh officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, occasional thundershowers tonight. Friday partly cloudy, spattered thundershowers south and east central portions at night. Codor north Friday. Low tonight H-M. High Friday 7542 nert>. ao-M south. ffunset E:11 p.nwt z 1 sunrise Friday 5:17 a.m.

bi-.-i ;■ - i i ■ Soil Bank Payments for Disaster Farms Department Stand Is Challenged By Poa|e ’■ WASHINGTON (UP) — lAep. W. R. Poage (D-Tex.) said today there is “no doubt at all” that the new farm law provides for soil hank payments to farmers who lost all or part of their 1956 crops to drought, floods or other disasters. Poage thus sharply challenged agriculture department officials who said earlier that no soil bank payments would be made fqf crop reduction suffered from drought, flood or lusec’s. The acreage reserve section of the soil bank plan provides payments to farmers who reduce acreage of wheat, cotton, corn, peanuts. rice and tobacco below govgovernment acreage allotments. Poage said it is “perfectly clear” in the act that any farmer who wants to put allotted acreage of these 1956 crops into the soil bank may do so “regardless of t.<e condi’ion or lack of condition of the ct op" “The law is as plaifi as it is possible to write it," the Texan insisted. Poage is second-ranking Democratic member of the house agriculture committee; and played a leading role in writing |he fatm Agriculture department sources, meanwhile, indicated that top level officials were having second thoughts about their “tough" stand on soil bank payments for droughtdamaged crops. One official said he feels the department should pay only for crop reductions made as a result of soil bank contracts between farmers and the government, “but we will not subvert the law." Department attorneys are studying the act. They are expected to give agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson a formal opinion soon on the controversy over payments for crops damaged or destroyed before the new farm act took effect. The controversy involves millions of acres of wheat In drought areas of the Southwest and Great Plains. It could also affect other sections where 1956 crops have been damaged by drought, flood, hail and other natural causes. There are no reliable estimates on the potential payments involved. Five Teens Winners Os Amateur Contest Spring Festival To End Saturday Night The Five Teens, a vocal quartet and their accompanist from . Pleasant Mills, won top prize Wednesday night in the second division of the amateur talent show sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce in connection with the spring festival. The winning group includes Larry Merriman, Carl Sipe, Lynn differd, Homer Gause and Duane S’ngleton. Second prize went to Ann, Judy and Ted Ruble, a musical trio from Monroeville route two. Mistress of ceremonies for last night's contest was Marian Bashars of Decatur Catholic high school. Judges were Ernie Atkinson, G. Remy Bierly and Miss Marlene Laurent. Today’s highlight of the spring festival will be a parachute jump over Second street by William Kolkman of Fort Wayne. The jump will be made at about 7 p. m. sad signals will be given to the crowd on the street when the jump is to be made. A trampoline act from the Turner school in Fort Wayne will he presented Friday evening at the court house ramp. Art Bassett will present a pogo stick and unicycle act Saturday afternoon and evening Saturday is the final day of- the spring festival, with reduced prices on the rides Saturday afternoon for the children.

Reds Offer To Pull Out Korea Truce Teams Offer To Withdraw Teams As Demanded By U. N. Command PANMUNJOM. Korea (UP) — The neutral nations truce supervise y commission has offered to withdraw its truce inspection teams from both North and South Korea, the U.N. command disclosed today. But the Communists sought to attach conditions to the offer and the U. N. command repeated its original demand that the truce teams get out of South Korea and stay out. No time was set for the expulsion. The joint ; military armistice commission met here today to discuss the Allied demand that the inspection teams made up of officers from Sweden. Switzerland and Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia leave the three ' South Korean towns where they • are stationed. I The American-administered U. i K. command said it welcomed the NNSC withdrawal offer but that ■ it could not accept the condiUeas ■ attached by the Communists and 1 that the ultimatum of last TbursI day still goes. The teams must - leave until the Communists begin complying with the truce terms. This would involve removing the 400 to 500 warplanes and other equipment they have smuggled into North Korea in violation of the truce terms, a U.N. spokesman said. American officials said they did not expect the , Communists to comply. Maj. Gen. Robert Gard, chief U.N. representative, said the 16 United Nations that fought in Korea fiad discussed the date for withdrawal of the truce teams but did not set a time. Other U. N. officials said no further reference to the Allied governments was necessary. Gard diseloser he had received a letter from the neutral nations supervisory commission (NNSC) (Continued on Psge Five) Visits To Hospital Again Restricted Announcement was made today by Thurman Drew,'business administrator of the Adams county memorial hospital, that visitors are agaip limited to immediate families only, until further notice. This limitation is enforced due to overcrowded conditions at the hospital. Two Are Arrested For Check Forgery Alabama Resident, Companion Nabbed Cecil Minchew, an Alabama man. and his companion, win was identified as Dorothy Brandt, are be ing held at the Adams county jail by local authorities on suspicion of check forgery. The two were apprehended Wednesday in Geneva after they attempted to pass a check at the Kiddie Shop in this city and the police were notified. Minchew left the shop before the police arrived but through a radio alert he was stopped at Geneva. Following their arrest on a charge of operating a motor vehicle without a license, it was learned that a fraudulent check forged on Ferd Klenk’s account was cashed at the Moore store in Berne. The two, who were also traveling with a six-year-old girl, are being questioned this afternoon while the investigation is being continued. Affidavits charging forgery will probably be filed against them in Adams circuit court.

Ike Opens Way To Visit By Russians Green Light Given To Red Exchanges WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower has opened the way to a series of high-level visits between U. S. and Soviet official if the Russians want them. Indications are the Soviet bosses would like nothing better. The result could be eventual visits to the United States by Mar- ( fhal Georgi K. Zhukov, premier Nikolai Bulganin and Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev. Mr. Eisenhower gave the green light to such exchanges when he told his news conference Wednesday that he would extend invitations to Soviet officials “on a completely reciprocal basis.’* That apparently means the Unit- ' ed States will be ready soon to invite to this country the Russian , counterpart of air force chief of , staff Nathan F. Twining. Twining recently accepted an invita tion to j attend a Moscow air force show I June 24. The invitation apparently will , go to Marshal V. D. Sokolovsky, , chief of the Soviet chiefs of staff, who issued the invitation to Twining. However, the United States j appeared to be waiting for the t outcome of Twining’* trip to see exactly what kind of a visit j should be planned for the Soviet . leader. t The President said be knew j when he agreed to Twining‘s acceptance of the Russian invitation . that he would be expected to re- . ciprocate. ./■ , “I will do exactly that,” he said. , Mr. Eisenhower added that he would extend "the same courtesies, on the sane conditions and conducted in the a-jne way.” Asked if Zhukov, Russia’s defense minister and an old wartime friend of the President’s would be invited to the United States, Mr. Eisenhower repeated that the United States will act “on a completely reciprocal basis.” “If our defense secretary were asked,'* he said, “I would ask their defense secretary and the same kind of visit would be arranged for them as would be arranged for our people.” Stale Fair Board Says Charge Untrue Unjustified Expense Denied By Members INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—The Indiana state fair board today branded as “untrue” charges that some members collected unjustified expense money. "We haven’t done one single thing wrong that was not authorized by Is ir" said board member P. L. White, Oxford. He referred to a state board of accounts audit which named three fair board members and one former member. Walter Wimmer, Rockille, was accused of filing a >164 five-day expense account tor a two-hour meeting Jan. 4, 1954, But Wimmer replied the expenses were justified because they covered meetings of the Indiana cyunty and district fair associati in Indianapolis and Lafayette. Wimmer also deneid be included |1.50 for a car wash as reported by the accounts board. The audit also cited John Craft, La Porte tor collecting money for a double hotel room he shared with his wife, but said he claimed only the single rate and paid the rest with his own money. “My conscience is perfectly clear.” Craft said. The audit said former board member Orville Miller, Goshen, was repaid for >22.16 of the >31.46 bill submitted by an Indianapolis « hotel tor two nights stay by him and his wife. It did not say Miller collected too much money. Oilman Stewart, Greensburg, defended hie expense account total(Centinuea on Page Five)

Seizures Made After Posters For Republic Action Following Posters Proclaim Independent State VIENNA, Austria (UP) — Soviet secret police seized more than 100 persons in Jose/ Stalin’s home republic of Gqprgla last week. Western diplomatic souroes said today. The seizures were mhde>jwben posters appeared in the city of Tiflis proclaiming an “independent” Georgian republic. The sources said that on the morning ot May 26 factories, plants and official buildings of the city were plastered with posters reading; “Long live the independent Georgian republic.” May 26 was the 37th anniversary ot the proclamation of Georgia's independence in 1919. The reports reaching Vienna said more than ICO workers were seized by the secret police in a search tor members of an underground organization believed to have dis- , trlbuted the posters. An additional, but undetermined, •umber Vtn picked up in a, second police raid the next day, the . reports said. The sources said the May 26 , demonstration for Georgia’s independence was the first heard of in the West in 14 years. Similar independence demonstrations were reported from Tiflis and other Georgian towns when the German army approached the Caucasus during World War 11. The volatile Georgians also dem(Continued on Page Five) Hershey Nominated For Permanent Rank WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower nominated Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, director of selective service, for the permanent rank of lieutenant general Wednesday. Hershey is a native tof Angola, Ind. Unidentified Man Killed At Hammond HAMMOND, Ind. (UP)—An unidentified man, about 65, was hit and killed by a car on a downtown street Wednesday. The driver was Dana L. Frost, 19, who Was enroute home from a commencement night party. The initials A.F.W. were found on the victim’s underclothing. Another Letter By Bulganin For Ike New Letter Sent On Major Problems WASHINGTON (UP) — Russian Premier Nikolai Bulganin today sent President Eisenhower a new ‘ letter in their running correspondence on major East - West problems. The new letter was not disclosed immediately. But officials said it probably was a reply to Mr. Eisenhower’s letter to Bulganin two months ago appealing for an eventual ban on the production ot atomic weapons. The dispatek of the new letter, the sixth in the exchange between the two world leaders, was disclosed by the Soviet embassy here. A spokesman said the letter will be delivered through secretary of state John Foster Dulles this afternoon. » Soviet ambassador Georgi M. ' Zardubin arranged an appointment with Dulles at 1 p.m. CST. The embassy spokesman declined details He said only that Zaroubin “wUI bring a letter from . Premier Bulganin to Elsenhower.**

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