Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1956 — Page 1

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SPECIAL DELIVERY Gw A’ 41 ‘‘ ./J f jm | «iqL ~ g I < ; ?|F 1 KLdtH* ’oX ■■'..■'■■’ ■''■>& •<-■:> .v'r* ••■.. £#l MB/ « ■ . jfl W '.' j ■ 1 ' ■■ ~* 7: Iml \ „ > Fj • .__:J.- _WNURSE ANN SWIFT hands Mrs. Louise Rinaldi. 30. quite a handful in a Brooklyn hospital—triplet boys born on the Fourth of July. The infants are Philip. 3 pounds 15 ounces; Anthony, 4 pounds 10 ounces, and Joseph, 3 pounds 10 ounces. Dad is a postal employe.

Ransom Money For Baby May Have Been Paid Message Relayed To Newscaster Friday Night By Kidnaper V’ESTBURY. N. T. (VP). — A man claiming .to be the kidnaper of one-month-old Peter Weinberger called a New York television newscaster Friday night with a cryptic .message that may indicate the ransom monew has been de- ; Tivered. . The message. “M-W-P-F-O-K,” was relayed by John K. M. McCaffery. who Bald it was given to him ta .lihdne ■ before his newscast. McCaffery said he hod ao .choice, but to relay the message since he hatf'nb time to investigate its authority. The' newscaster was singled out earlier Friday by a man believed to be the kidnaper who called Morris Weinberger, anguished father of the -.missing infant, to renew' his ransom demands. The purported kidnaper told Weinberj.ei® he would watch McCaffery’s 11 p. m. show for an answer to his renewed, and increased, demands. The message aroused immediate speculation it might mean “Morris Weinberger Package,- or Payment. Found Okay.” The calls raised new hopes that V the child, kidnaped on the Fourth of July from the patio of his parents’ Long Islafnd home, still is alive. Nassau county detective Chief Etuyvesant Pinnell cautioned against "false enthusiasm" that the child was alive but Weinberger said the mysterious caller told him Peter was alive and well, Weinberger said he was cOnvinc- — ed the man was the kidnaper and Pinnell said “We must assume” he was: J McCafferty also relayed to the kidnaper on his newscast Weinberger’s, appeal to return the child end the promise ”1 am'ready to meet your demands. I await your call.” Jij addition, the newscaster made a personal appeal for safe return of the chijd, offering to act as McCafferty gave the number of' n public telephone where he stationed himself after the newscast in hones the kidnaper would call. V~He said he got about 20 calls but, saij he believed all were from cranks. No flurry of activity followed McCaffery’s message, however, either at police headquarters or at the Weinbergers’ comfortable ranch-style home. If the message was valid, police were playing it carefully and tipping their hand, X Police revealed late Friday night that both parents had left their home for several hours for cn undisclosed location. Authorities said they were keeping the destination secret to avoid scaring off the kidnaper should he desire to make contact. Weinberger left hbmje about 4 p m. and drove off in the family’s blue and white station wagon. He drove to Nassau, county i police headquarters,’ conferred for about then drove off again carrying a package about the size bf a shoe box. wrapped in “Coarse paper. Two cars fu(l of detectives fol.lo wed. _ j •_ - - Several hours later' Mrs. Weinberger left the house. Both Mr. and Mrs. Weinberger were back (Don till ued on Pstee Four) -c Tnooh rinrrioir - ■. ~~'■ ■ • —

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Freed Priests Tell Os Torture By Reds Relate Three Years In Chinese Prisons HONG KONG (UP)—Two American Catholic priests returned to freedom from Red China today and told of three years of mental and physical torture at the hands of their Communist captors. The Rev. John W. Clifford and the Rev. Thomas L. Phillips, both Jesuits of San Francisco, arrived from Shanghai aboard the German ship Hamburg. i They were released from » i Communist prison on June 15 — ■ just three years to the day they were arrested. ’ Their release Rift tl other i American civilians and priests i still behind bars in Red China. - and Phillips appeared. r in good health but a little nervous as they talked to newsinen who > diet them at the dock. They told of “sweet and sour treatment" by the Chinese that ranged from torI ture to a free-wheeling sightsee- [ ing tour of the countryside. I Father Clifford, 38. wearing a , white T-shirt and slacks, said he was arrested June 15, 1953, only six days after he was transferred i to Christ the King church in i Shanghai, along with Father Phillips and the Rev. John Houle of Glendale, Calif., who is still - tn - prison. “ He said Communist police entered his quarters at 11:15 p. m. while he was sleeping and hustled him off to Lochaiwai prison without specific charges. The Communists put him in a cell with five Chinese prisoners and ordered h.m to remain absolutely quiet, not even allowing him to move his hands, eyes or lips. "I was . saying the Rosary and a guard told ine mb lips were moving and that was 'forbidden,” Clifford said. “But I was saying ' against that. Then an\ officer the Rosary and there was\no law came and said there was no such thing as fredom of religion/and no rights at all in prison.” / He said he was given only a blanket and had to sleep on the floor. / “A few days later' they asked me to tell what crimes I committed. / _“I told them /I absolutey had committed noycrimes and • that i you are actually the criminals.’ They got excited. I was questioned five or Six times.” Father Phillips, a former rector , of Shanghai College who was interned by the Japanese for 2% years during World War 11, said that “as far as I could make out the charges were imperialism and being an imperialist.” He said he was interrogated approximately 150 times. "The interrogations were merely to obtain some excuse to accuse me because they know they had no grounds for arresting me.” Clifford said. “They only want to keep you talking.” Diplomatic sources said earlier this year that One dr two imprisoned Americahs“ihlght bo released “for propaganda purposes,” but they saw little or no chance ut release for all. Five of the remaining 11 are the Rev. Paul McKinson Jr., a Lutheran missionary of Baltimore. . Md., Robert- McCann, a busines man from Altadena. Pa.; John T. Downey. -New Britain, Conn,. and Richard Fecteau, Lynn, 1 Mass., both U. S. army civilian employes, and Hugh F. Redmond, an importer from Yonkers. N.’ Y. V . The remaining priests - Cion. to. Father McCarthy. of San Frappisco, and . Father Houle, of Glen4ale, . are Franciscans (Continued on- page.'.si ve). .... ■.

House Passes Bill Boosting Postal Rates * Ike Administration ' Paces Tough Battle For Senate Passage WASHINGTON (UP) — The Eisenhower administration today faced a tough fight to get ..its $430 million annual noost in postal rates through the senate. The 'house passed the bill last night after a hot. partisaa fight. With congress expected to adjourn in less than a month, the administration faced an uphill fight to prevent the measure from dying in a senate post office, committee pigeonhole. Committee chairman Olin D. Johnston (D---SC) is a strong opponent of the postal increase. In the house,'the bill had the support of post office committee chairman Tom Murray (D-Tenn.) The house passed the controversial bill on a 217 to 165 roll call vote. Nearly solid Republican support rammed the measure through over opposition of Democratic leaders and most house Democrats. The bill would add one cent to the cost of (nailing a letter —first class or airmail—starting Jan. 1, 1957. It also would raise matting rates for newspapers, magazines, books and other items, including bulk mailings of advertising circulars and other so-called “junk mail.” If enacted, the bill would wipe out most of the post office department’s $470-million a year operating deficit. ' House Democratic leader John W. McCormack helped lead the Democratic attack against the rate increases during debate Friday. He charged that it was “unfair” to raise the rate on first class mail tcufour .cents an ounce than paying the cost of sudh mail. Administration leaders and house Republicans lined up solidly behind the measure. Republicans accused the Democrats of playing "politics” and said it would be "irresponsible” to oppose rate increases. On final passage, only four Re(Continued on Page Three) Congressmen Open Air Tragedy Probe On The Spot Probe •-. Os Airliner Crash LAS VEGALS. Nev. (UP)—Nine congressmen opened an "on the spot investigation" today into the circumstances surrounding the illfated flights of a Trans World Airlines Super .Constellation and a' United Airlines DOT. — The .members of a house commerce subcommittee studying air traffic problems arrived in this resort gambling town Friday night along with other government officials for a hearing on the presumed collision Jude 30 between the planes high above Grand Can-, yon. Both plane*-plunged to earth killing a total of 128 persons. At the Grand Can;.’on site of the death crash, expert Swiss and American mountain dlimbers risked death again today in an attempt to recover more body fragments from the wreckage of the UAL plane, which fell on a high ledge. Three members of a|n eight-man Swiss team, hired by| UAL, and three climbers from Colorado Friday joined two other Colorado climbers who had been dropped to the ledge by helicopter the previous day. The five qther members of the Swiss team, were taken to a point directly 'below the crash site, on the cannon floor. The mountaineers recovered at least 16 more bodies Friday. Chairman Oren Harris .(D-Ark) scheduled a hearing this morning in the plush Gold Key tpom of. the Sands Hotel. Five civjl aeft>nautlcs administration officials, six civil aeronautics board members and four congressional committee staff members aJso arrived by plane with the official party! from Washington to take part in the inquiry. . • INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair and warmer tonight. Sunday partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Low tonight — mid-60s north to near 70 south. High Sunday 90 north to 95 south. Outlook for Monday: Partly oioudy, waraL and. humid with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday July 7, 1956.

40,000 Coal Miners To Be Added To Men Idled By Nation Steel Strike

Ike Appears demand Wilson End Ta Scrap ,n Services jcl 10 jven Reoch Compromise Taha Over M,htary B,H JvVVIIM IVI 111 WASHINGTON (UP)—Congress is ready to tell secretary, of deIndlCOtionS Point tense Charles E. Wilson to settle Ta Annfi-ii-wmartt hot army-air force fight over I 0 MnnOUncenienr Vi anti-aircraft missiles by scientific Intention To Public - Senate - house conferees have GETTYSBURG. Pa. (UP)—Pres- agreed the air force may proceed ident Eisenhower today appeared w ) t h a $16,250,000 program to build to be getting ready to talk Akain four installations for its Talos, soon in public about his second jround-to-air missile on one conditerm plans. Observers believed the t [ On [ Wilson first must convince answer could be "yes.’ ——-- the senate and house armed servThe temporary White House |^ g cora niittee that tests have dropped two main clues Friday. pj. ove< j program worthwhile. Both led to almost unanimous The agreement came late Friday speculation by White House news- as the confereeg worked out a com . men that the President soon would proniise $2,100,000,000 authorization reaffirm his Feb. 29 decision to bjn for rnil(tary eonstruction Theru P a S ain - senate version of the bill blocked 1 The two mam clues were: the aif force requester $»250,000 The beaming ot White up own com ouse piebs ® ecr ® rpnnrt p rs hp petition with the Army's Nike misHagerty when he tora reporters he ‘ and presidential assistant Sher- S1 *’ man Adams had talked “both per- Jhe action came a few hours zonal and general politics” with af * r the , house appropriations Mr. Eisenhower. Hagerty. wouldn’t committee in reporting out $1,400,put W 9 smile into word* but one 000,000 in new funds to finance the veteran observej; “He carried guthoriza-, It »way F ’ ■ t' oll WU called on Wilson to halt An optimistic medical report lat- the wasteful army-air force miser in the day on the President’s kU® rivalry. .. i coriYaiewence. The President’s The authorization bill compredoctors said June 9—the day of wise will come up for house and his intestinal operation — that senate approval early next week. :: there was no medical reason why The $2,100,000,000 figure is the he couldn’t run for a second term, same total voted earlier by the Their latest words a month after senate. The house bill called for the operation seemed to leave.the a $1,800,000,000 program. earlier prediction unchanged. Other highlights of the compnx After hearfhg Hagerty and see- raise: ing his smiles, almost all news- The conferees added a $6,300,000 men present believed that Mr. Eis- strategic air command base in enhower is still a candidate. Dublin, Ga. The*base, to be used Eleven out of 12 reporters who (Continued on Page Three) were polled informally said he Mr Eisenhower planned a quiet Po|]f A |SSU6 AlCll weekend at the farm with his son. v . Maj. John Eisenhower, and bis I■> ■■■, J f •< family. Next week he may start f FAF J|||An XllllOr working in downtown Gettys- 1 Wl -»UiIVI burg office he used while convalescing after his heart attack. Fear For Safety Marilyn's Husband igSi- - _ I _ lice issued a midwest alert Friday (ii’antpn nSght for a y° ung lover who VIUIIIvU I HJJjJVI I disguised himself as a deaf mute si'll i'V* J in a bizarre scheme to abduet his Miller Is Granted ex-sweetheart. Six-Month Passport WASHINGTON (UP)— Only pos- Davenport, lowa, on charges that sible congressional action stood to- he kidnapped 17-year-pld Millie day between playwright Arthur Joyce Spencer from her home here Miller and a European honeymoon Friday. “ with movie queen Marilyn Monroe. Sheriff! George Nelson said he The state department granted feared for .the safety of the girl. Miller a six-month passport late “We are wbrried for the reason Friday—only one week before he that this man may, be the type and his curvesome blonde bride that says ‘lf I can’t have yon, plan to sail for London. , then nobody - else can’ ” Nelson The department had held up ap- said. \ , proval while Miller answered ques- The sheriff said Bellows drovt tions regarding “derogatory infor- up to the Spencer home while the mation” that kept him from get- girls's parents were away. Whet ting a passport two years ago. Millie Joyce’s younger sister Doris, With a passport in his pocket. 15, answered the door, Bellow? only a threatened congressional handed her a card. contempt citation stood between “We are deaf mutes,” it said, the prize—winning writer and his “May I borrow a screw driver and honeymoon in Europe. —some water for the car.” The house committee on un- Doris saw through the disguise. American activities ordered Mil- “What's the matter Thomas’” she ler on June .27 to purge himself asked. of contempt by today or face pos- Bellows entered the house, the sible prosecution. sheriff said, and asked Millie if Rep. Gordon H. Scherer (R- she w °u ld accompany him to Ohio), a committee member, said Davenport for something to eat. last week that contempt proceed- ..When she refused, the youth pulled ings are sb involved that Miller, a P als handcuffs, and said even if he should be cited. *mav h « w as going to secure Doris to be divorced before his case could a >ost J n basement. Doris come to trail. But the state de-' talked him out of this and quietly partment might withdraw the pass- sneaked out of the house to get port aid. She returned to find both -.rin i j —» —x 4 - , * Bellows ami Millie Joyce gone. Miller had refused during Com- . ... , I .. . , ~ . Sheriff Nelson said he -believed mittee testimony to divulge the kldnaDDine war f ant was V £&es of alleged Communist writand 1940° Hotever”h?'uiked evidenr-e * hat force was ÜBed to Ely h!s pa« Tnd g emerged from the meeting to an- X about It. Police said they bejieved the blonde actrw. SpenWr ig bejng hcW . When the 40-year old Miller, a gai|u!t her will because she would who won the Pulitzer Prize for bis havg her p ar .ntx if she ! •; (Continued on Page Three) weie re * telephone.

Red Parly In Poland Admits Blame In Riol Communist Party Finally Admits Portiqn Os Blame BERLIN (UP) — The Polish Communist party admitted “part of the blame” for the first time today for the workers revolt in Poznan. -— - . An editorial in the official party newspaper Trybuna Ludu said the uprising which flared in the big industrial city in Western Poland June 28 was partly caused by “bureaucratic irregularities.” Previously, the Red Warsaw regime, .Moscow and other Communists had charged that “American dollars and spies” sparked the mass uprising. Western estimates placed the number of dead and wounded in the three-days of fighting at more tfian 500. Warsaw said 50 persons died. _ “The workers had reasons ipr pprty newspaper admitted. Westerners in Poznan during the uprising said thousands of workers had marched through" the streets shouting “We want bread” and “Russians, go home.” Polish army tanks and troops finally crushed the revolt. “There were two currents behind the Poznan event,” Trybuna Ludu said, “that of dissatisfaction and bitterness of the workers as well as the current of enemy provocations against the peoples government; ‘ “It was an armed provocation, the ultimate form -of enemy action that hooked itself onto a strike based on purely economic reasons.” The party organ frankly admitted that “leading” Poznan authorities, the militia and prison guards were “copfused” in the first hours of the and did not know how to handle it. West German Draft Bill Passed Today Lower House Passes Controversial Bill BONN. Germany (UP) — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today rammed his controversial military draft bill through the bundestag (lower hduse) to prove to the world that West Germany is not dragging heels on rearming on the side of the west. The vote, on the third and crucial reading, was 270-166 with 20 abstentions. The measure now goes to -the budestSX (Upper house)'where finql approval Is expected July 20. Approval of the measure making 12 million young Germans liable for military service came after a turbulent session of nearly 18 hours, marked by often-acrlmoni-ous !debate. At one point, a member of the anti-rearmament Socialist opposition accused Adenauer of being “dirty as always” and the chair was forced to call the chamber to order. All Germans between the ages of 18 and 45 will be liable for compulsory military training under the bill when it become ß l aw "- The measure .is designed to enable the Bonn government to call up 360,OOT draftees to fill’out thej_l 2 divisions of the 500,000-man Bundeswehr West. Germany is committed to raise for the - Atlantic defense] pact. In - practice, however, conscripts ' will not be drafted until they reach the age of 19. Adenauer won his personal battle for passage of the bill afthr bis coalition beat down last-ditch efforts by the Opposition to postpone final approval of the measure until after the 1 summer (Continued on Fag* Five)

First Polio Cases. Are Reported Here Two Cases Definite, . Third Is Probable Reports from the county and city boards of health indicate two definite cases of. polio in this area and a htird probable case of the disease. Barbara Canales, 7, of Shirmeyer street, is a patient at the Fort Wayne Lutheran hospital suffering some paralysis from the spinal type polio. Also in a Fbrt Wayne hospital is the six year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rotngn Brite of Decatur route one. The type which has attacked her has not been determined. David Embler, Jr., 19, also of Decatur, is the third person to be stricken with the symptoms of polio. Preliminary tests at the Lutheran hospital indicate that the disease is polio. He is not yet suffering any paralysis. £ 1 None of the three victims received any of the polio vaccine shots which are now available to the public. These are the first cases reported in the county for two years. ■ .■ Members of .the. families of .the polio victims are receiving ffie vaccine shots. The vaccine is available from all local physi- ; clans apd; health officials are strongly advising all parents to see that their children are vaccinated as soon as possible; The current supply of vaccine, on the recommendation of the state board of health, will be used ’ to give shots to all youngsters ‘ between the ages of One and 20 ‘ who have not previously been given the Salk vaccine. Pregnant women will also be given shots. Under the present plan the first two shots are given at one month 1 Intervals and the third booster ’ shot can be given any time after I a seven month waiting period fol- : lowing the second shot. It has been announced that the supply ■ of vaccine will probably be suffi- • cient to give the booster shots. I A reminder has been issued that II those youngsters who received the first two shots free in the school clinics still need the booster shot to complete the series. Mt was also pointed out that the shots can be given safely during the polio season. Top Secret Report Given By Twining Reports To Military Experts Os House WASHINGTON (UP) — Gen. Nathan F. Twining, air force chief of staff, has given house military experts a top secret report on his “tightly - controlled” inspection of Russia's growing airpower. One congressman, who refused, use of his name, said Twining actually “did not learn very much that was new” during his weeklong visit. But he said Twining definitely did not come back from Moscow discouraged. Twining testified Friday at an unannounced meeting of a house defense appropriations subcommittee. The session was so secret no record was made of the testimony. " In calling Twining, the subcommittee got the jump on a senate armed services subcommittee that had summoned the air force chief for a report on his trip next Tuesday. Rep. George H- Mahon (D-Tex.) chairman of the house group, said his subcommittee wanted especially, to get Twining’s advice bh a military construction appropria- | tion which the full appropriations I committee reported earlier to the house. t ; - - * He said the group wanted to know whether Twining learned anything in (Russia that would make _it advisable to expand or otherwise change the base building program provided for in the bill." No changed were indicated, (Continued oh Pago Three)-

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Strike Effect To Spread To More Workers Coal Miners Return From Vacation Next Week But No Work PITTSBURGH of 40.000 coal miners will feel the pinch of the nationwide shutdown when they return from vacation # next week, adding to the more than 65,000 sideliners already laid off by the United Steelworkers strike. Layoffs will njount even higher in other steel-centered industries should the contract dispute remain deadlocked. The crippling walkout is in its seventh day. Effort to end the strike, which cut off 90 per cent of the nation's steel production and sent 650.000 millworkers on the picket line, remained at a standstill. Negotiators for the USW and the steel producers made no move to revive contract, talks which-cgllapsed «rda-y : - began. •» Federal mediation director Jo> aeph F. Finnegan, after separate "exploratory” conferences with both sides Thursday, indicated he would contact the bargainers "early next week,” presumably to press for renewed negotiations.' While settlement seemed far off. the nation was getting continuing reminders of the price tag of an eventual bdsic steel contract. Three price increases of about |8 to |l4 more small steel firms announced a ton in anticipation of higher labor costs. United Mine Workers returning to the pits Tuesday after their annual 12-day vacation may be greeted by "No Work" signs. An informed ceel industry source said 40,000 miners will “either go on a shorter work week or be laid off.” , U.S. Steel Corp, announced it would not reopen its "captive” mining operations in Western Pennsylvania, Kentucky or West Virginia. The sole exception is .the Robena mine at Masontown, Pa„ the world's largest mechanised coal pit. The company will temporarily store the mined coal in barges. * Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. said none of its 2,500 miners would work until the mills reopen. The railroad retirement board estimated rail industry layoffs at 40,000 to 50,000 since July 1, the day the steel strike began. An official said the rail companies were hit "sooner and harder” this year, than In the 56-day steel strike of 1952, the industry’s longest* and costliest. In the Chicago-Gary steel area, 8.000 railworkers were idled. The board said 12,000 were furloughed in the Pittsburgh steel district. The American Trucking Assn, said between 20,000 and 30,000 drivers and cargo handlers were furloughed in five eastern and midwestern states. Some 5,000 to 10,000 barge workers have been idled by the steel shutdown, according to- Chester (Continues on rase Six) * . I .. ■■ ■ A»' Sr. M. Aldegundis Dies In Wisconsin Mrs. Charles J. Miller has received word of the death Thursday of her aunt, Sr. M. Aldegundis, 88. at,the St. Agnes convent in Fond du Lac, Wis. She had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage last Sunday. -Sr, Aldegundis was the former Miss Caroline Steigmeyer, and was born In Adams county. She observed her 50th anniversary in the convent two years ago. Only survivors are the following nieces and nephews, air living in or near De.catur: Mrs. Miller. Miss Rose Steigmey.er, Mrs. Mary Bents, Carl Steigmeyer, Fred - Geimer, Joe Geimer, Florian Geimer end Herman Gaimor. Funeral services and burial WiU be at the St. Agnes convent Monday morning.