Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 144.

TRE ONLY WOMAN GRADUATE i l . si' : 'BBT* ’ JXL ■ <...1 “THAT’S OUR GIRL,’’ say men graduates of Chicago Medical school as Marjorie C, Barnett of Manhattan Reach, N. Y., the only woman • in class of 73. passes in review. '

Accuses Ike's Administration Os Favoritism House Committee Charges Political Move In Contract WASHINGTON (UP) — A house investigating subcommittee today accused the Eisenhower administration of using “political favoritism** in awarding a 43-million-dollar- contract to expand the government’s nickel plant in Cuba. The subcommittee also accused the Justice department of improperly withholding from congress certain papers which, it ,jtaid. might disclose further “Irregularities." The house government operations subcommittee, headed by Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.), said the administration’s delay in awarding the expansion contract cost the government 10 million pounds in critically needed nickel for its strategic stockpiles. The subcommittee made the statement in reporting to the house its findings in its investigation of the Nicaro nickel plant "Political and private influence ■■ played an active role In the awarding of the construction sub-cop-tract," the report said. Brooks, in a separate statement, said he would not “defend or endorse any cover-up of favoritism, corruption or possible fraud . . . whether it be by Republicans or Democrats.” He added that the subcommittee’s findings were all based on sworn testimony and documentary evidence. The subcommittee recommended that the justice department take whatever legal action is warranted to prosecute any violations of law in the contract awarding. It also recommended that the justice department study the subcommittee’s record of testimony to determine whether perjury was committed by any witnesses. The 43-milJlon-dollar contract was subcontracted by the general services administration in 1954 to Merritt-Chapman & Scott, a construction firm controlled by financier Louis Woffson, and the Frederick Snare Corp., another construction firm. OSA was then headed by Edmund F. Mansure, who resigned for "personal reasons" last February during the subcommittee’s investigation. The subcommittee report said that Randall Cremer, vice president of the Snare corporation, Indicated that his company had to show Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall that it was not a “New Deal — Fair Deal” company. "In order to satisfy Mr. Hall on this score." the report said, “Spare asked several prominent people to contact the Republican national chairman, including then aI r (Contmued on Page rive) Illinois Woman Is Killed In Accident EARL PARR, Ind. (UP) — Mrs. Elinore B. Komar, 45, Flossmoor, 111., was killed Monday in a twocar crash east of here on U. S. 41. Hospitalized were Charlotte Gall, 49, Chicago; Donald Cornell, 22, Utica, Ky„ and his cousin, Sharon Cornell, 19, Owensboro, Ky. • .4

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Bikini, Eniwetok Now Uninhabitable Deadly Fallout Os U. S. Weapons Tests UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —The islands of Bikini and Eniwetok may have been rendered permanently uninhabitable by the deadly fallout from United States atomic and hydrogen weapons tests, a United Nations report in- , die a ted today. The report said inhabitants of . the two atolls in the Marshall . Islands possibly may never return to their ancestral home* islands, scene of the American nuclear weapons tests. . It did not say why the natives ‘ might not ever return but left the ’ inference the islands were so radioactive from the nuclear ®x- ’ plosions as to be forever uninhabitable. The report was made by a U.N. mission which visited the Pacific trust territory administered ‘by the United States. It was submitted today tor discussion in the trusteeship council. It noted that islanders had been "displaced” by American authorities as a “result of atomic and thermonuclear tests.” Natives of Rongelap will be permitted to re turn, the repot said, but in the cases of Bikini and Eniwetok the displacement “is likely to be permanent."- ', M The congress of the Marshall Islands twice petitioned the trusteeship council to have the nuclear tests suspended unless they were deemed necessary for the welfare of mankind. The council twice authorized the United States to hold the test provided adequate safeguards for the protection of human life were taken. The report gave no indication of dissatisfaction with the safe guards. And it noted that despite (Continued on Face Five) Columbus Man Is Drowned In River COLUMBUS, Ind. (UP) — Eugene Johnson, 24, Columbus, drowned in White River on the west edge of Columbus Monday while he was swimming with his nephew. Authorities said the victim and •Roy Johnson, 14, Columbus, were swimming below a falls and the elder Johnson apparently was swept away by the current Johnson’s body was not immediately recovered. Decatur Lions Club Installs Officers Harry R. Schwartz, local automobile dealer, was installed as president of the Decatur Lions club at the weekly dinner meeting last evening by Ron Parrish, state comptroller. Other officers, who will serve with Schwartz for the year are: first vice-president, Robert S. Anderson; second vice-presi-dent, M. C. Sieling; third vicepresident, Don Stover; treasurer, Leo Seltenright; secretary, Roger Gentle; tailtwister, H. H. Krueckeberg; Lion tamer, Dale Hunt, and directors, Clark Smith and Clark Mayclin. George Sertiou, Greek exchange youth, spoke to the members of his impressidns pf this country and answered a number of questions asked by several members. Next Monday the club will hold its last meeting until September, as the July and Auto* vamthm will be ia effect. ~ >

Steelworkers Aim At Small < Steel Firms ' Solid Management Front Break Sought By Union Leaders NEW YORK (UP)—The United Steelworkers union, armed with a strike authorization, today aimed its big guns against some of the steel Industry’s smaller companies in an effort to break a solid management front. Union negotiators will begin bargaining individually with some 11 companies this afternoon In an effort to score a breakthrough on what appears to be solid management front for a long-term tract.So far the union has negotiated with the “big three” steel producers but these talks have bogged down on key contract Issues. The union now hopes to score a breakthrough with one of eight other companies. \ Both Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube are known to be prepared to submit to the union today contract proposals similar to those offered by the “big three.” Industry observers said the union’s united front will fall. The battle lines between Union and Industry negotiators seeking to write a new contract for 650,000 basic steelworkers have been drawn up and neither side showed any inclination to yield. The companies have offered the union a five-year no-strike contract calling for a package Increase of more than 65 cents an hour. The industry said its offer was “substantial, fair and defensive.” The union termed the proposal “shockingly inadequate.” Both sides have issued ultimatums which could snag the negotiations and prevent the writing of a new contract before the present one expires at midnight on June 30. , If this happens the nation could by paralyzed by a crippling steel strike costing billions of dollars. The union’s wage policy committee Monday accused the industry's "big three” — U.S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Republic Steel —of not bargaining in good faith and authorized a strike if a satisfactory contract is not negotiated. David J. McDonald said the industry has given the union an ultimatum, to accept a five-year contract on a “take it or leave it basis.” He said the union would not yield to this ultimatum.

Atomic Device Is Set Off By Britain Ends Current Series ' Os Nuclear Tests PERTH. AustrallgJUP) Britain successfully exploded an atomic device in the Monte Bello islands today. The blast ended the current series of nuclear tests. An official announcement said scientific records were being collected for an evaluation of the explosion and safety precautions were in operation. The first explosion of the current series was set off May 16. Observers at the time regarded it as a trigger for the first hydrogen bomb Britain planned to test next year. But last Thursday prime minister Anthony Eden announced his government was willing to discuss with other powers a general limitation or abandonment of test explosions. His Statement coincided with publication of a British medical research council report. It warned that strontium, the radioactive poison released in nu(Gontlnued on Page Five) Adams County Bride Seriously Injured Mrs. Carol L. Poole, 23, of Decatur route 1, was seriously injured Monday night in an auto accident in Fort Wayne while apartment hunting with her husband of only a week, Ronald, to whom she was married in Evanston. 111. Mrs. Poole sustained a broken jaw, broken collarbone, four-inch laceration on her scalp, mouth injuries and body bruises. She was taken to the Lutheran hospitap. A car driven by Fred S. Umovits, 71. Fort Wayne, drove into the path of the Pooles car at. an intersection. KUwavita was charged with failing to yield right of way.

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House Committee Sets Legal Ceiling On Debt Three Billions Lower

Democrats In Senate Favor Hike In Funds Senate Committee Approves Boost In * Funds To Air Force WASHINGTON, June 19 (UP)— Republicans today viritually conceded that senate Democrats will succeed in Increasingair appropriations over administration recommendations. Republican leaders, however, were maneuvering to strike a compromise short of the $1.6 billion increase approved by the senate appropriations committee Monday by a 13-12 vote. Sen. Styles Bridges (R-NH), senior Republican on the committee, told reporters he was drafing a “compromise” proposal that wil| be offered when the defense appropriations bill comes up for debate on the Senate floor. Bridges was understood to be thinking in terms of a >6OO million increase for the air force — of about half that voted by the appropriations committee—with most of the additional money going for plane procurement and soma Cor research and development. £ The $1.16 billion increase Approved by the committee would provide an additional SBOO million tor aircraft procurement, mostly for accelerating production of 852 intercontinental jet bombers. Administration 852 production plans have been the focal point of Democratic charges that the adipinisstratton is allowing Russia to wrest air supremacy from the United States. The committee increase also would provide an additional SIOO million Tor research and development, S2OO million for base construction. S4O million for maintenance and operation and S2O million for personnel. In testimony released today by the senate armed services subcommittee on air power, Lt. Gen. Donald L. Putt, air force deputy chief of staff for development, recommended an additional $259 million tor the air force research budget. Putt said that development of new weapons has been slowed down by “inadequacy” of research funds and by red tape in the Pen(Continued on Page Five) i

Plan Courtesy HZeeA In Decatur Sept. 9to 15

Plans for “courtesy week” tn Decatur September 9 through 15 have been announced by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Feature of the week will be a sales promotion clinic from 8 am. to 8:50 a. m. Tuesday, Wednesday aid Thursday of this special week nt the Youth and Community Center. Howard J. Wisehaupt, nationally fatnous dean of salesmanship instructors, will be the director of the clinic. Wisehaupt, a native of Decatur, wishing to contribute to the new Center,, has outlined his donation. Checks for the clinic, only 84 per person, can be made out directly to the Center. Thus, the more people who attend the clinic, the more the Center will benefit. Everyone is invited—receptionists, office girls, doctors and dentists nurses, filling station attendants, insurance men, city and county employes, etc., as well as sales clerks, anyone who meets the public, can benefit from the clinic. More details ’ concerning "courtesy week” will be announced later. . Business Barometer The Chamber of Commerce also has published its monthly business barometer. Industrial employment ta Decatur shows a drop in employment for May from the

Senator Kefauver To Visit Indiana Two-Day Visit On five On Convention INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Sen. Estes Kefauver’s Indiana supporters said today he will make a two-day visit to Hoosierland on the *feve of the' Democratic state convention. Kefauver will be here Sunday and Monday trying to sew up the . Indiana delegates to the national . convention to stick with him in I his presidential bid beyond the . first ballot. j The Hoosier delegates are committed to Kefauver on the first ballot by virtue of the fact he • was unopposed in the state’s first ’ presidential preference primary 1 since 1928 last May 8, ‘ But there is nothing to keep r them from switching to other candidates on the second ballot, and ■ political observers believed most , would go to Adlai Stevenson then > and later, if necessary. Stuart [ Symington of Missouri also may , reap some Hoosier votes on later . ballots if Frank E. McKinney of Indianapolis, former Democratic , national chairman, is able to con- ’ trol any of them. , Former Rep. Andrew Jacobs of Indianapolis, Kefauver’s Hoosier . campaign manager, said Kefauv- ! er’s chanbhs are “still good.” v “His main strength lies in the middlewest where he’s way ahead of Stevenson with the people," ’ Jacobs said. The state convention is next 1 Tuesday. Delegates to the state ' convention will choose national ! convention delegates during their biennial session. Most of the dele--1 gates will be chosen in congressional district caucuses Monday night. A few delegatee-at-large j 1 will be selected at the convention J proper next day. However, observers believed it is likely most If not all the delegates all have been lined up in advance for the national convention and that their official selection in the caucuses and convention will be mostly a formality. Therefore, Kefauver’s leaders (Continued on Page Five) . —■ . j Cedar Lake Woman Dies Os Injuries HAMMOND, Ind. (UP) — Mrs. Ida Lashbrook. 41, Cedar Lake, died Monday in St. Margaret’s hospital here of injuries suffered Sunday when two cars crashed on a road near Lowell. Five other persons were injured in the accident.

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i 1,607 figure in April to 1,484 last 5 month, which, however, is a gain -of two over the 1,482 total in May of 1955. i Despite the employment de- . crease, payrolls jumped to 8566,- ' 038 tn May compared to 8507,833 t in April and 8487.983 in May of - the preceding year. Slight gains are noted in the - number of electric,.? water and gas > meters, but a decrease of three in f telephones to 6,096 in, May. Telephones totaled only 5,905 in May , Os 1955. r Direct poor relief was 8746 in • May compared to 8511 tn April, r there were 37 births and eight ' deaths recorded, carloadings, * both in and 'out, increased. Rhil- ; way express shipments dropped but postal receipts showed a gain - ever both April and for May of • 1955. There were 21 building ' permits, totaling 862.324, issued 1 in. May. compared to 25 for *122.- ’ 750 iu April. ’ Retail Store Moure* s The C. of C.’s committee on store hours suggests the follow- ’ ing retail store hours for holidays 1 and special events: July 4—Open July 3 until 9 p.m. Closed July 4. Open July 5 all * day (close at 5:30 p. m.) Balance of July and all of Aug- ■ ust—Normal hours (Wednesday ’ and Saturday ntftte until 9 0. m. D ” ' (Centlnued en Fa#* Five)

Further Cuts For Military Aid Possible Senate Committee Approves Measure For Foreign Aid WASHINGTON - (UP) — Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey predicted today that some Democrats will propose further cuts in military aid when the 4%-billion dollar foreign aid bill comes up for senate debate. However, the Minnesota Democrat told reporters he does not think there will be heavy support in his party for cuts that are “too drastic,” such as the 1-billion-dol-lar military aid slash voted by the house. The 4%-million-dollar foreign aid bill was approved late Monday by the senate foreign relations committee. The vote was 13-2 with Sens. William Langer (R-N. D.) and Russell B. Long (D-La.) casting the only opposing votes. The rounded total figure of 4% billion dollars compares with $3,800,000,000 voted by the house and $4,900,099,000 asked by President Eisenhower. The administration today opened its litgst fqr the full amount sought *by the President when secretary erf state John Foster Dulles and director John B. Hollister of the international cooperation administration appeared at a closeddoor hearing before the senate appropriations committee. / The bill approved by the foreign relations committee, merely authorizes the foreign aid program. The appropriations commit ee was considering legislation which would actually put up the money to finance the program. The foreign relations group voted 9-5 last week to? restore 609 millton dollars of the 1-billion-dol-lar bouse cut in military aid. But before its final vote Monday, the committee rejected two Democratic moves to trim the restoration to 400 million and 500 million dol(Continued on I’age Five)

Over 50 Enrolled For Speech Clinic - Plan Opening Os Clinic Thursday Over 50 children in need of speech correction have been enrolled in the speech clinics to be conducted in Decatur and Berne, starting Thursday. Testing is being continued at the Lincoln grade school and Wednesday has been left open for testing of those who were unable to make previous appointments and those who were not contacted by mail. The schedules for the clinics will be announced at the parentteacher conference to be held Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock in the Lincoln grade school auditorium. The exact days of the. schools, in both Berne and Decatur, can not be determined until the exact enrollment is made known. All parents of children enrolled in either of the clinics are urged to attend this meeting, and all questions Concerning pie school will be answered by the therapists, who this year are Miss Donha Timmons. Miss Carol KaJver, and Mrs. Margaret Harris Hakes. A wide variety of cases will be handled this year, including stuttering, defective articulation, hard of hearing, and for the first time in the Decatur clinics, cleft palate. A new message repeater has been presented for use in the clinic by the Adams county society for crippled children and adults, which is sponsoring the clinics. In event that illness or othdr reasons have made it Impossible to briag children in far testing, ar ramremepts can still be made by contacting .Mrs. Hakes at* 3-4684.

Marathon Heat Wave Eases Up In Nation Cool Air Spreading Over Much Os Nation By UNITED PRESS The weather finally eased up on the nation today. A marathon heat wave was on the run and "hurricane hunters” said an Atlantic squall line does not promise to become a major tropical storm. Big dents appeared in the ftr>t big heat wave of the season, w>*ei blanketed the nation from the (Rockies to the East Coast for more than a week. Cool air spread over New England, even threatening frost, and temperatures dropped as far south as the central Atlantic states and eastward into the Ohio Valley and the lower Great Dakes. The cool-off found its greatest welcome along the Atlantic Setv board, where early morning temperatures dipped into the 50s and 60s. | There was still heat in store for many western areas and storms broke out in the struggle for supremacy between hot and cold air masses. Detroit public works commissioner Glenn C. Richards called a storm at the Motor City a “50year rain—the kind you get once in 50 years.” The rain Monday flooded hundredtj of basements and many streets in southern Lower Michigan cities. Many Detroit sewers , couldn’t cope with the downpour. Three inches of rain hit Indiana, along with lightning which knocked off power for more than an hour in Indianapolis Monday night. Tornadoes were reported sighted near Bismarck, N. D., and winds,up to 60 and 70 miles per (Continued on Page Five) < Plan Stop Signs At Road Intersections To Erect Signs At Three Intersections Stop signs will be erected at several county road intersections now unmarked as the result of action taken Monday by the county commissioners at their regular meeting. County road superintendent Lawrence Noll has been instructed to erect signs at the intersection of county roads 20 and 27 in Jefferson township, at the blacktop road on county road 5% in Preble township and at the intersection of the Piqua and Clem’s Lake road. The commissioners also have ordered a 30 mile per hour speed limit on the Piqua road'on the half mile southeast of U. S. highway 244. Speed limit signs will be posted along the road. A petition for black topping a road in Blue Creek and Monroe townships was filed with the commissioners by William Burke. Roy Davis. Laurel Mattax and Marvin Haines. The road is county road 17 running from Salem road to the Tile Mill road past the Spring Hill Methodist church. A contract for coal was awarded to Burke Elevator company, which submitted a bid $13.19 per ton delivered. The only other bid was submitted by Heller Coal Feed and Supply. Beavers Oil Service was awarded the contract for oil. Their bld of .1955 was the only one submitted. The commissioners also approved an agreement for road specifications with Leo Roe in Roe Acres, a housing development located northeast of Monmouth. During the afternoon session of their Monday meeting, the commissioners accompanied by county auditor Frank Kltson, road superintendent Lawrence Noll and county attorney David Macklin, made an inspection of roads and bridges in the southern part of the county. They were the guests <rf Mr. and Mr#. Lawrence Noil fer the noon dinner.

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Treasury Head Approves Debt Ceiling Drop Reiterates Present Opposition To Any Reduction In Taxes WASHINGTON (UP) — The house ways and means committee today unanimously approved legislation fixing a legal ceiling of 278 billion dollars on the federal debt for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The new ceiling is three billion dollars higher than the * present permanent debt limit, but three billion dollars lower than the "temporary” ceiling which has been in force since August, 1954. The temporary celling was due to expire June 30. Secretary of the treasury George M. Humphrey gave the administration’s endorsement to the 278-billion-dollar figure in testimony before the committee immediately preceding its vote. Humphrey also reiterated the administration opposition to any tax relief this year. He said present bpdget estimates leave “no lee- , I way” for tax cuts and any federal surplus should be applied to reduction of the debt. Humphrey told the committee that the U.S. economy does not presently need the stimulus that a ■ tax cut would provide. "I feel fery sure there Is nothing in the situation affecting the' economy to justify a lai tut at this time.” he said. Humphrey “said thia governfttfent will have a “tight fit” in operating under the new debt ceiling. But 1 he said he believed it can be done. If taxes were cut lifts year, he warned the committee, the administration might have to come to congress "immediately” for legislation to increase the debt ceiling. Humphrey reiterated hl§ forecast of a month ago that the treasury hopes to show a budget surplus of about $1,800,000,000 for the 1956 fiscal year which ends a week from Saturday. One member —Rep. John Byrnes (R-Wis) —said the committee was acting on the apparently valid assumption that there’ll be no preelection cut in income taxes. In the unlikely event of a later decision to reduce taxes, Byrnes told a reporter, progress might have to cancel the cutback in the debt limit. The pending legislation would provide a temporary debt ceiling of $278 billion for the year starting July 1. In the absence of ans legislation, the present temporary ceiling of $2Bl billion would drop automatically to the permanent ceiling of $275 billion on July 1. President Eisenhower indicaked In his budget message last January that the $6 billion temporary increase would have to be extended for another year to meet borrowing requirements during the July-January period when federal spending generally runs ahead of tax collections. Contingent Leaves For Army Service Four Adams county young men left this morning for Indianapolis for induction into the armed forces according to a report issued fronjjj the selective service board. The four are James Franklin Weikel. Roderick Liechty, Robert Lee Doan and Maurice Charles Case. INDIANA WEATHER Scattered showers mostly North portion thia afternoon and tonight and in extreme north Wednesday. Warmer north portion Wednesday and extreme north tonight. Low tonight 62-68 north, 67-72 south. High Wednesday M- ■ 91. Sunset 8:16 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 5:17 a. m,.