Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 147, Decatur, Adams County, 22 June 1956 — Page 1

Vol. LIV. No. 147.

“OPEN MIND” TO MOSCOW * SPATTERED with raindrops, Gen. Nathan F. Twining (left) Air Force Chief of Staff prepared to board a plane at Washington National Airport at the start of his unprecedented post-war visit to view Russian aviation in Moscow. Gen. Twining said he was going to Russia with a completely "open mind.” lie was accompanied by Lt. Gen. Clarence 8. Irvine, deputy chief of staff for matreial and a group of high U. S. air officers.

Strike Plans Are Mapped For Steel Industry Possible Crippling Strike Concern To Nation's Economy NEW YORK (UP) — A crippllng steel strike coating billions of dollars became a matter of grave concern today to America’s booming economy. Both the United Steelworkers union and the industry's leading •producers mapped plans for a paralysing labor walkout at the end of this month. The join negotiations which began between the union and the “Big Three" — U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and fßepubllc Steel—in Pittsburgh last month have become hopelessly deadlocked. “We are miles apart on basic contract issues," a management spokesman told the United Press. “There’ll be a strike unless the steel companies Tetreat from their demand for a five-year contract.” a union official warned. The union Thursday sent instructions to all its locals for an "orderly and peaceful" strike in the event a new' agreement has not been reached by the June 30 strik deadline. The major steel companies made arrangements for banking their furnaces early next week in the event there is a work stoppage. Joint talks between the union and the “Big Three” resumed today amid deflated hopes that a peaceful settlement could he reached before the present contract runs out at midnight on Saturday, June 30. The industry has offered the union a five-year no strike agreement calling for a package offer of more than 65 cents an hour. In newspaper advertisements and letters to its employes, the industry has defended this offer as “final, fair, substantial and defensible.” i The union has denounced the offer as “shockingly inadequate” and has said it will never accept a five-year pact. The union, in its strongest blast to date, cacused 11 major steel companies of entering into a “conspiracy” to force the union to accept a five-year contract that it considered "unacceptable.” The union charged 1956 marked the first year in 20 years of steel wage negotiations that major steel producers “served virtually Identical notice” terminating their contracts with the USW on June 30. -~x Final Meeting Os Lions Club Monday Ron Parrish, program “chairman, announced today thatthe last regular meeting of the Lions club will be held Monday night at 6:30 o’clock at the Community Center. An excellent program has been arranged for this meeting, after which the club will be ~4n vacation until September.

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Kefauver, Bens’on Exchange Charges Share Platform At lowa Farm Meeting ELDORA, lowa (UP)—Agriculture secretary Ezra T. Benson and Sen. Estes Kefauver exchanged oratorical salvoes on the same platform today. Each said his party was best tor the farmers. Benson criticized “gloomy” agricultural' predictions of the Democrats and warned against sacrificing the farmer “on the political auction block." Ketauver, seeking tne Democratic presidential nomination, charged that President Eisenhower has broken his 1952 campaign promises. He said the President indicates he has no intention of carrying out a new farm policy. They spoke at the corn belt farm family fields day exposition. ~ Benson said farm prices have increased about 9 percent in 1956 despite the “gloomy forecasts” of a collapse. The increase in prices, he said, in his prepared speech, came under flexible price supports which replaced "unwise programs” of the past which “piled up surpluses and depressed markets.” Benson said, experience with the Democratic-backed high, rigid price supports showed they “drove down farm income.” In the final 23 months of the Trumah administration. he said, the parity ratio tumbled 19 points “in one of the sharpest farm price declines of record.” Benson said the administration’s farm policies have been measured on the basis of what is good for the nation and the farmer — “not on the political applause meter.” The soil bank program, he said, can mean higher income for farmers as it brings about a better balance of supply and demand. He said the results would not be felt immediately, however. The real test of the program, he said, will come in 1957, 1958 and 1959 "when we can put it fully into operation.” Benson, who toured droughtstricken sections of lowa three weeks ago, said he was “seriously concerned” about drought conditions. He said he will make “appropriate recommendations” i’ drought conditions become so severe as to require federal assistance. Kefauver, in his prepared speech, said Benson has a great (Continued on Page Eight) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers and thunderstorms. Chance of locally severe thunderstorms north portion. Becoming a little cooler extreme north late tonight. Saturday partly cloudy, cooler’and less humid north, partly cloudy and becoming a little cooler with chance of scattered thundershowers south portiori. Low tonight mld-60s extreme northwest to the low 70s southeast. High Saturday 80s north to around 90 south. Sunset 8:16 p. m„ sunrise 1 Saturday 5:17 a. m. ,

UN Likely To Probe Charges From Refugee Charge Attempt By Soviet Official To Coerce Refugee UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, (UP) -Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold indicated, today that the United Nations will Investigate a Russian refugee’s charge that a Soviet member of the U.N. secretariat tried to force him either to return to his homeland or spy for the Kremlin. Hammarskjold told a news conference he had no offical information on the case involving Aleksei Petukhoy, one of the minor secretariat officals. But he said he had been informed by the United States that he was “likely to roceive such information." “The various parties involved should have a full and free chance to give their side under the U.N. staff regulations and the beadquarters agreement with the United States," Hammarakjold said, it was his final news conference before leaving next week for a tour of Eastern European capitals. Hammarskjold also said he may visit the Middle East again next October in his capacity as peacemaker between the Arab states and Israel. On his trip next week, Hammarskjold also will stop off in Moscow for four days, July 2-6. He will leave behind a blossoming controversy over the charges that a Russian refugee was put under pressure to return to Moscow control. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot I Lodge Jr. said he would make a 1 “vigorous protest” to Hammar--5 skjold if it is proved that Aleksei • Petukhov sought to coerce Michael Shatov, a Soviet emigre, in- • to returning to Russia or spying "for the Kremlin. Petukhov is a low-ranking em--1 ploye in the U.N. technical assistance administration. Shatov told a jiews conference • that Petukhov and Rostislav E. • Shapovalov, a second secretary in 1 the Soviet U.N. delegation! tried • to coerce him. He had given similar testimony to the senate internal security subcommittee. Hammarskjold had maintained sileqee on the charges. But it was understood some other high-rank-ing U.N. official had questioned Petukhov and that Petukhov denied the charges. Lodge said he had asked Washington, probably the FBI as well as the senate subcommittee, “for the tacts.” He said “if the facts confirm the published reports then of course I shall make a vigorous protest to the secretary general.” 200 Persons Sick Os Food Poisoning Become 111 After Hospital Benefit PORT HURON, Mich. (UP) — At least 200 persons became ill from food poisoning Thursday night after a hospital benefit "fiesta.” Thirty-four were still in hospitals and six of these were in “only fair” condition. ° Samples of the food served to those who became ill were sent to the state police laboratory at East Lansing today for analysis to try and trace the source of the poisoning. 1 The food was served as one of 1 the concessions at the fourth an- 1 nual joint hospital fiesta, a civic 1 event for the raising of money to 1 buy new hospital equipment. The ! fiesta was held at the new W’ood- 1 row Wilson school and included , f rides, games and other entertainment and refreshments. Those who ate early at the fiesta ' didn’t become ill. Those who ate 1 later began seeking medical aid about 11 p.m. and increasing num- 1 bers of those stricken began call- 1 ’ng doctors. City sanitarian Constantine J ' Manis said about 150 persons were 1 (Continued on Page Eight) * t Explosion And Fire r Damage Locker Plant CLAY CITY, Ind. (UP) — An- ' explosion and fire caused $70,000 damage today to the Clay City c Frozen Food Locker Co t Residents were awakened by the c noise of a blast shortly after midnight. A few minutes later, an- c other explosion blew out the front s of the structure and flame shot up from the debris.

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Wilson’s Opposition To More Funds To Air Force Roundly Scored

Chinese Reds Impose Prison Terms On Japs Sentences 11 Years After War Shock Japanese Nation TOKYO (UP) — .Communist China announced today it had sentenced 17 Japanese to long prison terms as war criminals, nearly 11 years after the end of the war. The delayed act shocked the Japanese nation and was expected to wreck recent overtures by Red China to win Japanese friendship and trade through exchange of goodwill private missions. Observers said the Peiping action also would be a severe blow to the Socialist party which haa advocated quick normalization of diplomatic relations with Red China. A later Peiping broadcast said 335 Japanese war criminals have been released and will be returned to Japan, the first such group freed by the Red Chinese government. The convicted men included three former lieutenant generals in the Imperial Japanese army and two major generals. They were accused of such crimes as using poison gas, cultivating germs for germ warfare and for brutality. Peiping Radio which announced the sentences said the trials were held between June 9 and 20. Eight Japanese military men ■ were convietd at Shenyang and nine military and administration men. one accused of espionage, were convicted in Taiyuan. The heaviest sentences of 20 (Continued on Page Eight) Bernard Pickett is Speaker At Rotary Bernard Pickett, of the Kekionga Farms and a club member, was the speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Pickett, associated with Cal Yost in the farm project, discussed the rapid development of Landrace hogs in this country. Kekionga Farms feature breeding and production of Landrace hogs. William Schnepf was chairman of the program. Seek Mad Killer Os Two Women And Girl Fugitive Is Sought By Ohio Authorities WARREN, Ohio (UP) — Seven carloads of deputies and state patrolmen converged on the Leavittsburg area near here today to capture a "mad killer” who told officers he never would be arrested alive, then killed two women and a girl. ~... . L Trumbull county sheriff Herbert ‘Thomas said the fugitive killer, believed armed with a Luger pistol, was A. W. Wilson, 37, a “mad killer with family troubles.” Thomas said Wilson was seen in his auto in Leavittsburg, east of here. W’ilson, who shot his two sisters-in-law and a 16-year-old girl, was released from jail last Tuesday. He had been held on an assault and battery charge. "This is the last time you’ll arrest me alive,” he told deputies as they freed him on SIOO bond. The charge was pressed by his wife, Juanita. 37, mother of three. Mrs. Hazel Botts, also a mother of three, was shot twice in the back by Wilson’s Luger, fired from outside her home near Cortland. Mrs. Gearldine Brown. 30. mother of four, was shot in the head outside her home at Leavittsburg. Nancy Worthington. J 6, whose (Ooftttn-ued on Page Flvo)

Deny FHA Posts Go To Politicians Senate Committee To Probe Charges " WASHINGTON (UP) — Farmers home administration officials have denied the agency requires political clearance for members of its S.OO county committee which pass on farmers’ loan applications. Henry C. Smith, acting chief of t the agency, admitted there was - formerly “some clearance" of » committee appointments with local 1 GOP officials in "some states.” But. he said, the practice was halte ed in September, 1955. r The charges were aired at hear- ' ings of the senate permanent in- * vestigating subcommittee. 8 The subcommittee disclosed that it soon will open hearings on charges that outgoing farm loan r chief Robert B. McLeaish and his ’ assistant sent out lists of Republi- ’ cans to be named to county farm agencies. •• . McLeaish. accused of heavy } drinking on the job, has resigned. George H. Reuss, Ilinois state director for the FHA, told the sub- , committee that lisy of GOP politicians were sent to him by Mc- ( Leaish and his assistant, Malcomb ! H. Holliday Jr. for assignments to r county committees. < Smith and Holliday told news- . men the Washington office still , sends lists of suggested committeer men to its state directors With a letter saying the agency would I "appreciate very much if you givq j consideration” to them. t But Holliday insisted there is . “no compulsion” on state officials . to hire the persons named. He and i Smith said the names are not ■ screened in any way politically and state directors can ignore I them completely if they wish. Charges Monopoly In Meat Industry Senate Committee Hears Meat Racker WASHINGTON (UP) — Edwin F. Forbes, president of the Western States Meat Packers Assn., claims that “one of the greatest concentrations of economic power and real monopolies exists” in the meat Industry. Forbes testified before a senate anti - monopoly subcommittee Thursday that 10 large national packers handle 77 per cent of all the nation’s meat processing business. Subcommittee chairman Joseph C. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.) said witnesses had to be subpenaed in the meat industry investigation because of their reluctance to testify. O’Mahoney said he doubts there wil] be any "retaliation” against the witnesses. He promised to “do my best to abolish the atmosphere of fear.” Forbes said four packers—Swift, Armour, Wilson and Cudahy — process half of all livestock slaughtered under federal inspection. He said he libs urged secretary of agriculture Ezra T. Benson to transfer enforcement of the packers and stockyards act to, home other agency. He quoted Benson as saying he “didn’t even know there was such an enforcement provision” in the act. The law governs certain practices in the industry. Forbes said that sideling businesses of the Big Four packers can make it difficult, for independents to compete with them. He said the Big Four could sell meat at a loss but make It up from profits on their products, such as soap. Ice cream, margarine and drugs. In 1952, he said, western packers were forced to sell at a loss “most of the time” to meet competition from Armour. O’Mahoney said the subcommit- ‘ tee will look into mergers in the 1 packing Industry and into the na- ' (Continued on Page Sight) 1

Rains, Wind Cause Damage , In Some Areas J Weekend Respite From Hot Weather f Promised Indiana i By UNITED PRESS t Destructive summer storms and I tornadic winds put Reynoldsburg, ’ Ohio, under 4 feet of water and ranged as far west as Minnesota today. High winds drove the rain before them. A tornado wrecked buildings on three farms near Taylor, Neb., Thursday night and ripping winds threw the. top of a baseball grandstand 130 feet at Danville, 111. The storms broke the oppressive calm of a humid heat wave which has covered much of the nation between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains for almost two weeks. Cool air drove across the northern Plains, promising relief from the Dakotas to Oklahoma and from Minnesota to Missouri. The weath: erman said the rest of the heat belt will keep on suffering through the first full day of summer. The worst of Thursday night’s Ktorms drenched leaking county i and the north part of Fairfield I county in Ohio. " / I Flash floods, fallen trees and downed wires blocked practically i every road in the area. Extensive damage was feared* in Reynoldsburg. The rains put the city under at least 4 feet of water and many autos were completely covered by water. Indiana Hit Another wave of violent thunderstorms, accompanied by unseasonal rain, struck Indiana Thursday (Continued on Page Eight)

Week Is Proclaimed For Traffic Safely Mayor Proclaims First Week In July Mayor Robert Cole has proclaimed the week of July 1 through 7 as traffic safety week and has called upon all citizens to accept the challenge of reducing traffic damage. injuries and deaths during the week. Traffic safety week has been proclaimed on a statewide basis : by Governor George Craig, who has challenged every Indiana community to cut the needless waste of lives and money through traffic ■ accidents. The statewide program is being co-ordinated by J. L. Lingo. state traffic safety director, and Hallie Myers, director of the Indiana traffic safety foundation. In 1954, traffic claimed 34 lives in Indiana during the first week of July. Last year 21 persons were killed on Hoosier highways during this period when many thousands start vacations and when driving is especially hazardous. In announcing the proclamation, Mayor Cole said, “Last year through unified action by public officials and individual citizens, we were sble to cut the total of traffic deaths during this dangerous first week of July. This year | the urgency is even greater, because the state and national accident toll is soaring again. “Nobody thinks that our highways can suddenly be made safe by a short campaign of one week. The real objective of traffic safety week is to call attention to the necessity for sound year-round safety programs, supported and accepted as the individual responsibility of every person who drives or walks on our highways. “We know that the citizens of Decatur will accept this challenge to save lives and that they will cooperate fully with their public officials to help make Indiana a safer state in which tb\ drive and live.” "■ ■ •

Conflicting ViewsOffered On Taxes Various Groups In State Offer Views INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana Republican policy makers were told late Thursday the state GOP should work toward elimination of the state gross income and personal property taxes. Various groups offered conflicting opinions on taxes as the state GOP platform advisory committee wound up its one-day session. The committee will recommend a 1956 state party platform for adoption by a convention platform committee on the eve of next Friday’s state convention. John Raber, president of the Indiana Farmers Union, suggested a plank calling for replacement of the personal property tax and gross income taxes with a net income levy. State Rep. David Grimes (RFillmore), offering suggestions on the basis of state tax survey, agreed with Raber. But Henry A. Werking, president of the Indiana Property Owners Assn., said a 1 per cent sales tax should replace the gross tax. Under this plan, a man making $5,000 a year would pay in taxes alrout one fourth what the gross tax costs him, Werking said. Kassil Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, said a surtax ou the gross tax is “the logical way” to solve the school financing problem. « j The Farm Bureau program also included establishment of a Purdue University veterinary school and support of “soil fertility” banks and flexible farm price supports. Raber said his group is "opposedto toll roads in principle,” dislikes “any type of sales tax,” and favors farm price supports at 100 per cent of parity. The GOP platform will be the document on which candidates for

state office will campaign for the November election. Schricker Is Named Convention Delegate INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-— Former Gov. Henry F. Schricker will be one of Indiana’s eight at—large delegates to the Democratic national convention at Chicago Aug. 13. . Other at—large condidates will •We state chairman Charles E. Skillen, vice chairman Georgia I Arneman of West Lebanon. Reps. ' Ray J. Madden and Winfield K. j Denton, and national committeewoman Mrs. Kenneth Lucektt. One of two remaining at —large seats will go to the Democratic nominee for Indiana governor at the state convention Tuesday. Three Are Dead In Nursing Home Fire Women Trapped In New Jersey Cottage PRINCETON. N. J. (UP)— persons were burned to death today in a nursing home fire a fire offical said “went up like an ammunition dump.” i Police said the dead all were women trapped in a cottage at the 10-acre foundation nursing] home for Christian Scientists in] nearby Princeton township. r . One unidentified patient was reported injured. Fire officials were unable to determine immediately how many persons were routed from,the blazing buildings. Fire chief . George Cahill of Princeton said the blaze “went up like an ammunition dump. It got underway long before we got there,” Nursing home Supt. J. Burwell Harrison estimated damage at 1100,000 and* said he believed a woman smffking in bed touched off the tire.

Democratic Senators Deny Political Move Increase Only Half Originally Sought By Air Secretary • WASH!NGT£« (UP) — Senate i Democrats denied today that their i efforts to add $1,160,000,000 to the i new air force budget are “phony.” Defense secretary Charles E. Wilson cried “phony” Thursday at Quantico, Va„ where Pentagon top brass are meeting. He and Adm. Arthur W. Radford also delivered a few cuffs to a compromise plan of senate Republicans to vote the air force an extra $500,000,000, most of it for long-range 852 jet bombers. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (DWash.) said that the proposed $1,160,000,000 increase was only about half the $2,360,000,000 which Wilson had cut off the budget reouest of air force secretary Donald A. Quarles. "I am sure Mr. Queries’ request was not politically Motivated and I am sure that the senate appropriations was not politically motivated,” Jackson told 1 reporters. “Senators on both sides of the ’ aide who place the nation’s needs ’ above politics voted Tor the increase.” ’ Jackson sarcastically that . Wilson appears “a very busy man , these days . . . busy half of the time putting his foot in his mouth and the other half of the time j getting his foot out of his mouth.” Radford, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, said he considered the budget for the year starting July 1 “adequate" as proposed by the Eisenhower administration. He did not favor an increase. Wilson, presiding over his an-

.. — —, - -- — — r.ual conference of top civilian and military leaders here, told newsmen he doubted that Russia can launch a bombing attack on the United States with its vaunted Bison jet bombers. America’s 852 is a “greatly superior” airplane, r he said. > Fear of the growing Red fleet j of heavy jet bombers led to the ■ close vote in the senate appropria- . tions committee Monday to add $1,160,000,000 to the air budget I for fiscal 1957. Wilson’s rejection of any additional money opened a rift in Republican ranks, coming at the same time that senate Republican leader William F. Knowland (Calif) was rallying colleagues behind a compromise to offset the higher democratic proposals. “I don't think more money is necessary,” Wilson said. Otherwise, he said, he “would have (Continued on Page Six) Barking Dog Leads To Murder Discovery RICE LAKE, Wis. (UP) — Two children, attended by the frantic barking of-a dog, found the body of a murdered woman case owner on the screened porch of her home Thursday. Police said Mrs. Louise Welk, about 50, was killed Wednesday night by a .22 caliber bullet fired through the locked screen door. Her dog had torn away her clothing and even chewed parts of her I body in a frantic attempt to rouse i Ker, police said. Baby Sitter Saves Charges From Fire LOS ANGELES (UP) — A 13-year-old baby sitter calmly led four tots to safety when flames engulfed a house. The baby sitter. Sandra MacAbee. told officers she smelled smoke while watching a television show Wednesday night, in the front room of the Charles W. Hamilton home. She said when she opened a bedroom door she saw the room was in flames.

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