Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 164, Decatur, Adams County, 13 July 1956 — Page 1

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Mediators Are Standing By At Steel Confabs Union, Management Negotiators Meet Again This Morning * \ PITTSBURGH (UP) — Top negotiators for the steel industry and the United Steelworkers met for 2V4 hours today in another try at reaching a peace formula for * ending the 13-day r strike of'6sO.(M(i basic stdW worth's. * s Both sides agreed to meet again Monday. 1 « immediately after the joint conference jeeessed shorUx before 11 a.m. CRT, the negotiators for the industry's “big three” — a tt S. Steel, Aethlehem and Republic — went /into a huddle with federal mediators., UJ?W president David J. McDonald went into a closed door conference with his union aides. ,' McDonald said as he -emerged from the joint talks that “There is absolutely no change in the situation.” “The unlop has a firm desire to negotiate a labor contract with the companies and we prill devote ourselves wholeheartedly toward that end,” he said. 4 Federal mediation chief Joseph F. Finnegan and two of his aides joined the union and management negotiators for about the last 20 minutes of the joint conference. TheW were called .in by the companies. Today’s session was the second to be held since the steel contract talks broke up in disagreement in New York June 30, six hours before the start of the strike- Both sides were brought together by the mediators Thursday afternoon and conferred for two hours. 1 McDonald said before Thursday’s talks, when he refused to pose for photographers with the industry officials,- that he didn’t “want anyone to get any false allusions about, this." I “It seems to me the industry has no Intention or desire to make an agreement at this time,” McDonald said. The steelworkers, he said, “want to make an agreement.” McDonald said the “industry again intends to offer its articles of indenture.” an Agreement in writing which binds an apprentice Or servant to his master for service. The industry's key spokesman, John A. Stephens, a U. S. Steel Corp, vice president, said he was .“not one to prejudice the results of a meeting before the meeting was held.” Stephens said he wanted to assure the public that he and his associates "will do everything in our power to reach an agreement.” The union and management representatives were brought together late Thursday afternoon by federal mediation director Joseph F. Finnegan. They met for about two hours and then recessed. Finnegan and his aides were not scheduled'to attend the morning session today, but they stood by on call in their rooms four floors below the conference chamber at the Hotel William Penn. Chief stumbling in the way of settlement of the strike, which has cost the industry and millworkers m’ore than a half billion dollars, appeared to he a • y ’ 1 . ‘ ’ •-£*- - (Continued on Pag* < Fivo) ,

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Dixon-Yates Seized As Campaign Issue Government Brief Democrat Weapon WASHINGTON (UP) — Democrats today seised as a ripe campaign issue administration arguments in federal court that the Dixon-Yates contract was invalid. The justice department filed a biief Thursday in the U, S. court of claims saying the Dixon-Yates private power contract was invalid because of a conflict of interest involving New York banker Adolph H. Wenzel!. The Dixon-Yates power combine is eu|jjgJoM» government for >3,J ft ■ ctatiiw to have lost on the now abandoned power project at West Memphis, Ark. Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.), a leadjng foe of the Dixon-Yates contract, stronfty intimated U* government brie! 1 will become an important Democratize campaign weapon. He said that as much as any other government project the ■ Dixon-Yates contract; had the personal endorsement /of President Eisenhower. / Sen. Estes Kefaiiver (D-Tftnn.) who headed a agitate investigation of the contract, said his committee brought oivt Wenzell’s dual 1 ole and other faults in the contract “over violent opposition of the administration from the White House down." “It is gratifying.” the presidential candidate said in a prepared statement, to find that the justice department “his reversed its previous position/. .<. and will now give the government these defenses.” > He said he hopes the case will be brought to trial “expeditiously —prior to. this fall’s elections.” Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D---NM), chairman of the senatehouse atomic energy committee, praised the justice department for finding that the government has no liability for the contract. He recalled he had 'made this (Oontinuea on Pace SlgM) Central Soya Co. Chemist Honored T. C. Smith Named To Committee Post i T. C. Smith, chief chemist of the Central Soya company, has been honored by appointment to membership on the uniform methods committee of the American oil (jhemists society. The committee is the society’s highest. - ’ . Purpose of the committee is to suggest work to other committees of the society, whiclj is the largest professional society tn v the world. It is the aim of the uniform methods group to make the suggestions needed to improve or cprißrm the official methods of the society. "/i--In addition to this appointment., the local man serves as chairman of the bleaching methods committee of the society and is a member of the seed and meal analysis, oil refining and fat analysis committees. He Ih» also a member of a sub-comittee of the fat analysis group. He has been associated with the A. O. C. S. since 1947. All df these committees are Composed of the leading special- . its in their fields, representing the ’ individual edmpanies- and research otrganiMttoas which comprise the fat and oil industries.

Ike Discusses Foreign Policy Problems Today Holds Conference With Secy. Dulles On Foreign Policy GETTBURG, Pa. (UP) — President Eisenhower tackled a series of foreign policy problems today in a conference with secretary of state John Foster Dulles. Vice President Richard M. Nixon had planned to report to Mr. Elsenhower on his recent Far Eastern tour. But the meeting was cancelled at the last minute when he was advised a storm here ruled out flying. 1 Dulles and presidential assistant Sherman Adams flew here before the storm, landing at the Gettysburg airport »t 11 a.m. in a heavy rain. . At an impromptu news conference at the preAs secret*., — .‘SSfW Said Nixon would see the President Saturday. Nixon has just returned from an 11-day, 27,600-mile trip to the Far East. Hagerty said Dulles was discussing “entirely state department business” with the President and would have no comment upon leaving Gettysburg. Republican national chairman Leonard W. Hall said after a meeting with Mr. Eisenhower Thursday that he believed the Republican ticket would be Eisenhower and Nixon. Asked if Mr. Eisenhower had made it clear he would still be “pleased" to have Nixon as his running mate, Hall declared: “Absdlutely.” The big news at Gettysburg Thursday, howeyer, was that Mr. Eisenhower will be returning to the White House very soon for the first time since his June -8-JUness. White ■ :prtta*r. .apwetary James C. Hagerty said the- Pres'dent plans “to return early next week-Monday pr Tuesday.” ’ . ....... .ri' 1 r. - ■ Mmpnty 1011 Koao Usage For Truckers Simplify Process * Os Using Toll Rood INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —A state agency took a step today designed to make it easier for trucks to use the Northern Indiana toll road when it opens .later this year. . The Indiana public., service comniission issued a blanket Order authorising ait truck lines to use the east-west turnpike without having to file separate petitions with the PSC for permission to change their present routes. According to Paul Tingle, secretary of the commission, the purpose of the order was to simplify the process of using the superhighway. Indiana has been openly wooing trucks to use the road as a means of increasing traffic on the pay-as-yoti-ride highway and reducing heavy traffic* Os the big vans on free highways, many of which are suffering from lack of funds for repairs. Earlier, spokesmen for the Indiana toll road commission said the steel strike will not interfere with completion of the road as far west as the east edge of Gary. Contractors rushing to finish <he 156-mile superhighway have reported to the commission they have enough steel on hand to complete the road to East Gary by the Sept. 17 date set for openfng the next to last stretch. The steel was stockpiled before the nation's steelworkers went 03 strike against the big steel com panies nearly two weeks ago. However, a long strike may de lay completion of the last segment between East Gary gjad the western terminus 30.9 miles away, because there is not enough steel on hand for the entire route. Meanwhile, the construction (Continued on Page Right) Ersel Walley Is Rotary Speaker Ersel Walley, oil the Walley agricultural service in Fort Wayne, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Walley presented an interesting discussion on - Japan, where he spent some time on assignment with the U. S. agricultural department fostering the sale of American. farm products to japan. J. Ward CaHshd w>s chairman of the program.

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United States Willing To Limit Nuelear Tests If Program Safeguarded

Soviet Russia Proposes Atom For Peace Plan Soyj Jurope-Wide Include America MOSCOW (UP) — The Soviet Union proposed today a Europewide atoms-for-peace organization which also would include the United ‘States. The proposal, tn effect, would pool the atomic resources of East and West for peaceful ends. At present, a six-nation Western European atomic pool called Euratom is in process of formation with France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries as members. The Soviet and 10 other Communist East European and Asian countries have just established a "unified center of atomic .research.” The new Soviet proposal suggested that the United States and all European governments now call a conference' to discuss the peaceful uses of atomio energy on a Europe*wide basis,. » . The suggestion was contained tn, notes delivered to the embassies* of the nations represented here,’ but it did not specify any time opt place for such a conference.' The first suggestion for the pooling of atomic energy resources for peaceful ends wns made by President Eisenhower in a speech to the United Nations general assembly in New York Dec. 8. 1953. At that time, he urged the major powers to cooperate in this development and proposed donations of nuclear materials to an international pool. Since then, however, East and West have gone their separate ways in this project as they have in other aspects of the cold war, Now, however, the new Soviet plan urged the formation of an inter - governmental atoms - forpeace organization which would include East and West, The suggestion said the confer(Continued on Page Four) - . r ———— . Judging Schedule Set For 4-H Fair. Annual 4-H fair ToOpen On July 31 The judging schedule and judges for the agricultural exhibits at the Adam's fair were announced today by cdiinty agricultural agent; Leo N.. Seltenright. Tuesday, July 31, the judging will start at 11 a.m. with broilers, poultry, pheasants and quail being judged by Robert L. Hogue, extension poultryman from Purdue University. At 1 p.m., Art Parrish, district extension forester, will start judging the forestry, entomology, wildlife, and soil conservation exhibits. Lawrence Love, sheep breeder from Eaton, will judge the 4-H lamb phow at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoop. Wednesday, August 1. Dale Schinbeckler, vocational agricultural teacher from Kendallville, will judge the 4-H electric exhibits at 8:30 a.m. Following the electric exhibits, Schinbeckler will judge the garden exhibits at 10 a.m. At 9 a.m. the swine show will start With- Gilbert Gardner, swine breeder from Connersville, doing the judging. ~ The 4-H beef show will be at 3 p.m. with Forrest Johnson, beef breeder from Lafayette, doing the the judging. The 4-H rabbit show will be judged at 6 p.m. with Carldon.Gaddis, from Winchester, doing thei judging. Thursday, August 2, the 4-H dairy show will start at 9 a.m., with Max Gordon, dairy breeder of Lynn, doing the judging. The 4-H livestock auction will be ft 6 p-m. Thursday with the beef calvps gelttof first and "the barrows following in the sale. ' >. ** ° *

East Germans Rebel On Speedup In Work Communist Sources Protesting Method BERLIN (UP) — Communist sources said today that workers throughout the Soviet Zone have rebelled against an industrial that would qut their wages. . - Radio Budapest said similar pro«sts against n speed - up took sea in Hungary’s Matyas (Rokosi steel works. Otto Lehmann, secretary of the j East German Trade Union Federation. said workers “rejected” new production quotas calling for more work for less pay. In a move , to appease the restive workers, ■ the Communist union condemned | the speedup and called on the government to investigate the “dam- . aging methods” of managers. It was just such a speed up that , led to the revolt in East Germany : in June, 1953, and last month’s Polish uprising in Poznan. Although the government-spon-sored -East German union supported the objections of the workers, some observers believed the signs of unrest were growing beyond Xjere “protests” against working conditions and pay." The' Commuulsl party’ hewspa- j per Neues Deutschland said that “enemy elements” in some factor-’ tes “are spreading conceptions di■reeted against the workers’ interests.” It said the Communist party’s denunciation of Josef Stalin and the new liberal policy toward dissent "has beWunderstood by all workers.’’ ’.‘The enemy of our people is seeking with all means to slander the Communist party by making use of certain failures in bur work. They want to confuse the masses and misuse them in the interests of monopoly capitalists and militarists,” Neues Deutschland added. " ' I Violent Storms In Midwest Sections Two Are Hurt In z Oklahoma Storm By UNITED PRESS . Violent summer weather ripped through the nation’s midseetjon Thursday night' ’ bringing reports of possible tornadoes in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Nebraska. Thunderstorms kicked up dust in the West while drenching sections of Wisconsin and Illinois with heavy showers. Two persons were injured in a storm which howled through Miami, Okla., damaging 75 houses. The weather bureau at first called the storm “a confirmed tornado,” but later revised its report, labeling it a storm with straight , winds up to 75 miles per hour. Residents of Culbertson, Neb., spotted funnel-shaped clouds and an unconfirmed tornado was seen 7 between Scott City and—LeotL - Kan, Other possible twisters were reported in Minnesota and North Dakota. but apparently caused no damage or injuries. Warmer air was expected over the western OhW> Valley, while the Pacific Northwest shivered in cool breezes today. Temperatures in the eastern half of the nation averaged about five degrees higher than the middle of the week. Cooler air over the western area dropped the mercury abeiut five degrees below the previous reading. Both • Carlsbad and Tucumcari, N. M., sweltered in 100 degree heat Thursday. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and ' Saturday with scattered thundersowers south portion to- i night and extreme south Saturday. Little cnange In temperatures. Low tonight 64-7 i. High Saturday 8086 north, 8« south.Suineft 1:13 p.m., sunrise Saturday 1:29 a.m. i S -i——

Police Hunting 'Man In Gray For Hoax Call Phone Call Leads To Futile Search For Kidnaped Baby WESTBURY, N.Y. (UP) — Police hunted today for a "man in gray” whose hoax telephone call triggered a futile search through three subway stations for the kidnaped Weinberger baby. The crank caH was placed at 6:20 p.m. EDT Thursday to a New York telephone operator who traced it to a coin telephone on the northbound platform of a Manhattan subway station. The man told the operator: "The kidnaped baby will be left in the 168th St. Independent subway station.” He hung up after the terse, cryptic message. New York City and Transit Authority police converged on the station within minutes. They also searched the adjoining Interboro Rapid Transit subway station and other offieers checked the 168th fSt. Brooklyn - MaaltattikH frenstt subway station on Queens, Long Island. A police radio alarm described the man as 40 to years old, 160 to iMpctwft, wuMip* gray suit and light gray hat with a black band, and having gray hair and a medium complexion. New Jersey police were also notified because three interstate bus terminals are located near the 168th St. subway station on Manhattan. Three children told police they saw a man, believed to be the hoaxer,-carrying a package which they could not describe. In Westbury, the dwindling hope of returning the infant Peter to his distraught parents appeared to rest with the FBI. Federal agents mobilized ’ their resources from coast to coast Wednesday when they officially entered the cas<*. A special FBI office was set up in the Nassau county police headquarters. ' It was disclosed that the kidnaper’s ransom note left near Peter’s baby carriage on July 4 was being analyzed at an. FBI crime iContmUMl ea Page Bight) Circus Appears In Decatur August 4 Al G. Kelly, Miller Bros. Circus Here The Al G. Kelly atad Miller Bros, circus, billed as the nation’s second largest circus, has been scheduled for a one-day engagement on the showgrounds at Hanna-Nutt-man park in Decatur Saturday, Aug. 4. resentative for the circus, announced today that the circus will present both afternoon and night performances at the Hanna-Nutt-man site. Th}s noted wild animal show is now on its 36th annual tour, and is reported to be” exceeded in size only, by the famed Ringling Bros, and Barnum and Bailey show. Miller reports that this will mark the first appearance of a big circus in Decatur for six yearsA The circus will bring such outstanding and -unusual animals is giraffes, hippopotamus and rhinoceros. In addition, there will be a herd of 21 elephants, and more than 200 other animals including lions, tigers, pumas, leopards, numerous species of monkeys, apes and baboons, black, grizzly, Himalayan and Polar bears, hyenas, baby gorillas, mandrills, gnu, emu, llamas, seals, sea Hons, wart hogs, Indian water buffalo, zebu, bison, Persian white saered deer, zebras, oeftels, tapirs, dromedary, aa artary of tropical birds, also 127 bead ft hbrses. pbhies, kylo, yak and donkeys.

George Auer Named New G. E. Manager Former Decatur Man Appointed Manager George W. Auer, plant manager of the General Electric plant at Linton, and a former employe of the Decatur General Electric plant, has been named to succeed John F. Welch as local plant managei. Announcement of the appointment was made today by Lisle Hodell, general manager of the’ general purpose motor department. Welch was appointed earlier this month to the position of manager of manufacturing of the small integral motor department in Fort Wayne. Auer will begin his duties as Decatur plant monager Monday. Appointed manager of the .Linton plant succeeding Auer is John H. Flickinger, who has been a manufacturing specialist at the Decatur plant for the past two years. Auer is well-known in this community. He was supervisor of planning at the Decatur plant from 1933 to 1941 and during that time was active in community affairs. He was a member of the Decatur Rojary club. . He marked his SOth aanbwnsary ■ with G. E. in February of this year. He began his career with the company iu 1925 in the Fort . Wayne plant as an. apprent'iee nwchinlft and tool maker. After his graduation from the apprentice school in 1929 he was employed at the Fort Wayne plant until his transfer to Decatur in 1933. From 1933 to March of 1941, he was supervisor of planning here. He was then transferred back Ito Fort Wayne In the fractional horsepower motor division. In 1946 he was appointed plant manager of the G. E. plant at Tiffin, 0., and then in 1952 was made plant manager pf the newly Opened plant at Linton. _ Auer will move—with his wife (Coßtiaaetf Pane eiaht) Vigorously Oppose Armed Services Cut Radford Proposal Opposed By Chiefs NEW YORK (UP) — The* chiefs of the three armed services have joined in vigorous protest against a proposal by Adm. Arthur W. (Radford to reduce the armed forces by some 800,000 men, the New- York Times said today. Times Correspondent Anthony Leviero said one reported result of the revolt against Radford, chairman of the Joint chiefs of staff, is that work on the joint strategic objectives plan has been postponed until after the presidential election. The chiefs were said to have objected to Radford's proposal to reduce the armed forces by some 800,000 men by 1960 on the grounds that it would shrivel up U. S. armed force contribution to the defense of Europe, the Times said in a dispatch jfrom Washington. Radford wdS reported to have made a counter-proposal to estimates of force levels submitted by the chiefs because he was dissatisfied, the newspaper said. In Washington, defense department spokesman C. Herschel Schooley was asked about the reported 800,000-man cut proposal. He said “we don’t know of any such proposal.” Schooley pointed ot that Carter L. Burgess, assistant defense secretary for manpower, told congress last week that the department now plans to continue the present mil i t ary manpower strength in its fiscal 1958 budget which will go to congress in January. . z Schooley conceded that manpower levels are “constantly being examined.” Othere defease department officials said that obvlonsly the “tread is dewa” as far as maapower is concerned bat def- rtbed (CoetiauM oe FMN ffiftM) —

Urges Limits On Hydrogen, Atom Weapons U. S. Ambassador Says Proper Tests Not Health Hazard UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —The United States said today it would agree to limitations on test explosions of nuclear weapons if a “safeguarded" program to that end could be agreed on by all countries. U. S. ambassador James J. Wadsworth told the United Nations disarmament commission that properly conducted nuclear tests are not a hazard to human health and safety .He said that in the absence of an agreement for proper safeguards, the continuation of experimental explosions “is essential for our security and that of the free world.” Wadsworth called for an “effort of statecraft" to limiting atomic and hydrogen weapons themselves and said: “God speed the day when this h.W« n to fcM 1 eate ourselves," , Wadsworth sat in on the commission's discussion in place of U. 8. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, who was attending a cabinet meeting Washington Washington dispatches said Harold Stassen, presidential aide on disarmament- problems, might disclose this afternoon a "brand new” American arms reduction program which might include a provision for banning nuclear weapons tests. U. N. observers meanwhile' doubted the Western powers would go along with limitations on con- — ventional armed forces Russia agreed Thursday in a gimmick-lad-en acceptance,. The surprise Soviet maneuver was sprung before the U. N. dinarmament commission Thursday by Russian diplomat Andrei A. Gromyko. It touched off the bitterest United States - Russian, exchange since Josef Stalin died more than three years ago. . Gromyko coupled the latest Russian proposals with a scathing attack on the United States for "rude interference” aimed at blocking world efforts toward disarmament. His outburst brought a wave of castigation from the United States and its Alfies. U. S. ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. denounced the Russian charges as a "scurrilous attack on my country in the very worst traditions of Stalinism." Representatives of Britain, Canada, France, Australia, Nationalist China, Iran and Peru also criti(Contlnued on Page Eight) Local Man's Father •- Dies At Fort Wayne Ira J. Baker, 78, retirtd Wolf * Dessauer employw, died Thursday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne after a short illness. He was a -member of the Sherman Boulevard Church of God and the Oldsters club. Surviving are a son, Arthur Baker of Decatur; a sister. Mrs. Pearl Ref fey of Decatur; several grandchildren and several great-grand-children. Services will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the C. M. Sloan & Sons funeral home, with burial in Cedar Chapel cemetery near Garrett. Citizens Telephone Granted Rate Boost INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—The Citizens Telephone Co. of Decatur was authorized by the Indiana public service commission today . to increase its rates by $40,000 a ' year. J The PSC did pot say, however, how the liuirsase would be applied to copsumv bills. It ordered a proposed rate schedule to be tiled by the utility by Aug. -

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