Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 178, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1956 — Page 2

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Al Least Seven Die In Indiana Traffic New Haven Cyclist Is One Os Victims By UNITED PRESS At leant sevin persona, including two young bieyclu riders. were killed St Indiana traffic accidents during the weekend. Vernon Hoekemeyer. 9, NewHaven, wes hit on his bicycle by a car at a ebunty road intersection near New HnVen Sunday. John Murray. 15, Evansville.

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was killed on Ind. 57 south of Oakland City Saturday when bis bicycle was struck by an auto. A two-car smaahup ou l s . 8. 421 near Greensburg Saturday uiaht killed Mervin Miller. 23, Greensburg. and Arthur Seals, &5, Middleaborc, Ky. A car left I'.S. 13t> near Covington Saturday night. It hit a tree, killing I tale Onley, 36, Cayuga. A soldier stationed at Camp Campbell, Ky., wns killed in a three-car collision on C.S. 11 near Eniiaon in Knox County the same night. He was ' Cloyd Orlando Duran. Avondale. Aria. Three other Camp Campbell soldiers were hurl. Wiliintn Leturgei, 31. Martinsville. was killed Friday night

when l.is motorcycle and an auto hit head on near the Marion County line on Ind. 67. Two Brothers Drown In Gravel Pit liinday NEW CASTIJE, Ind .iVPl—Omer Privi’t. 7. and his brother, Robert. 5. drowned Sunday while wading In a gravel pit looking for mussel shells. The were wading in shallow wat“r when they stepped into a deep hole. Three of their brothers and sisters sjiw them disappear beneath the water and ran for help. ' .' ■ j'-r w ...„ > . - ---f 1 - ■ ■ - -■— Trade in a Good Town -* Decatur.

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Assail Suppression Os Government News Committee Scores < Curtain Os Secrecy WASHINGTON (UP) — House investigators said today a "paper curtain" of secrecy has enveloped government information and it is up to congress to tear it down. They recommended in their first interim report ehat the suppression of information should be subject to court appeal with the burden of prooKresting on the official who triedno keep it secret. The report by the government operations sulwonnulttee. headed by Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calif.l, i said that "slowly, almost imi perceptibly, a paper curtain . . . ■ now many layers thick . . . has ■ developed over a 30-year period.” "Hehind this curtain.” the sub-Lcommittee—saidv-—‘lies—aw—attftude ! novel to democratic government—- ; an attitude which says that we; ] the officials, not you. the people. | will determine how muefr you are to be told about your govern ment.” The subcommittee said no one admintstra;ioii or party is at fhult. ! But it nevertheless had some ! sharp criticism for present gov- ‘ ernment agencies, the defense dej partment. commerce’s business i advisory committee and the ofj fire of strategic information iu ! particular. ) The subcommittee, which re- ! sumes its hearings <iu September, j said congress should establish i ' uniform rules on information i practices" requiring full disejo- ' sure except for specific exenip- ; tions defined by statute. - "The -withholding should |>e

subject to judicial review.” It said, and the burden ~of proof should be on the official who withholds information.” The subcommittee report said the "inoßt flagrant abuse” of secrecy, is the use of Pyesident I,” sen bower's May 17. 1954. letter to defense secretary Charles E. Wilson instructing Wilson to withhold information from a senate committee which investigated the army-McC-arthy feud. "It seems inconceivable,” the sula-ommlttee said, “that 19 government departments and agencies would cite this letter as a •liadowy clonk of authority to restrict or withhold information from the congress and the public. "This flimsy pretext of so-call-ed legal authority only serves to demonstrate tc what extent executive departments and agenciea will go to restrict or withhold information.” The subcommittee said the defense department’s information policies and practices under- assistant defense' secretary Robert Tripp Ross are "the most restrictive . . . and most contused" of any government agency. It said the setup could -be compared to "a pyramid of sand” with Ross at the top. "Mr. Ross’ claims of authority, his later denial of such authority, and his even later reassertions left the subcommittee as confused about the fuhetions of his office as Mr. Ross himself apparently is," the subcommittee said. If you have sometning to sell ot rooms tor rent, try a Democra 1 Want Ad. It brings results. It is good to pray “Thy kingdom come” but it will never come If we do not work for it. O ' .... ' ■-■ • Trade in a Good Town — Decatut

Defense Opens Testimony At McKeon Trial Marine Sergeant Is First Witness For Defense At Trial DEFENSE OPENS PARKIS ISLAND, 8. C. (UP)— The first defense witness at SMatthew C. McKeon's courtmartial testified today he procured a bottle ot vodka and offered McKeon two drinks while they talked about how to improve the marksmanship of their recruit platoon. ;• The witness. S-Sgt. Elwyn B. Scarborough, Lynchburg, S. C., said ne offered McKeon two drinks of vodka during a 50-min-ute discussion they had about the marksmanship problem. The incident occurred, he said, on Apr'l 8. the day McKeon routed members of the platoon out of bed and took them on a disciplinary march into nearby Ribbon Creek. Six men drowned. Scarborough was put on the stand after McKeon’s defense counsel lost an appeal to have charges of manslaughter, oppression of troops and drinking in the presence of a recruit stricken from the accusation against the Si-year-old instructor. He said McKeon accepted both drinks. That was shortly after noon on April 8. That night McKeon took 74 recruits on the "discipline" march. Scarborough, a ruddy-faced vet-

eran of 18 years in' the marine oorpa, was the first defense witness is the 10th day of the general court-martial. Another defense witness testified that a hydrographic survey last July of the creek area involved in the tragic march disclosed “no holeh in the creek bed.” This expert testimony came from warrent officer Leslie <K. Voile, a marine topographerhydrographer and map maker. He celled Ribbon Creek a "slow moving stream.” The ebb tidal current into which the platoon was marched shortly after 8 o'clock On a Sunday night was probably about 134 miles an hour, Voile testified. Some of the 19 suijyivnr* testified for the prosecution said they suddenly stepped into water over their, heads. Voile’s testimony was designed to indicate that McKeon did not take the recruits into treacherous territory. Mercury Skids Into 50s Over Indiana Brief Heat Wave Is Ended By Cool Snap By UNITED PRESS The mercury skidded far down into the 60s over Indiana early today, ending a brief heat wave and heralding a new era of belownormal temperatures. It was 51 at Goshen at a.m., and in the 50s all over the sttae except, the extreme south portion. The Indianapolis low of 58 was within two degrees of the all-timo low for July 30. Highs ranging from 75 upstate to 85 downstate were on the menu for totjay. Tuesday's highs will warm up slightly to 80 to 85. But the fivn-day outlook for Tuesday through Saturday called for temperatures averaging 6 degrees belo* normal north to 2 degrees below normal south. The mercury plunged to 52 at Lafayette and South Bend and 65 at Evans villa early this morning after touching highs ranking from 76 at &outh Uend to 81 at Evansville Sunday; Tonight may be even colder with record-breaking tempera- : The forecast called for lows of 45 to 50 in the north. 55 in the central and south portions. "Temperatures will ' average about « below normal north to about 2 degrees below normal southwest.” -the five-day outlook of the weather bureau said. “Normal high 86 north to ”53. south. ’ Normal i law , 64 north to, - 67, , south, A little warmer Tuesday, turning cooler again about Wednesday or Thursday and uecomink warmer. .Friday or Saturday." 'Hi W?, .• C H O! will average nod/ one-halt tach In scattered showers and thundershowers Tuesday night or Wednesday and again about Friday or Saturday. Verdict Os Natural Death Is Returned County Coroner Harmop Gillig has returned a report that Clarence L. Miller, 40. of Decatur died of natural causes. Miller, operator of the Hoosier Pete Service Station on 13th street, was found dead in his car Friday morning. The car was parked on the lot just north of the Schafer campany on First street, a Funeral services were Sunday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home and at the Monroe Methodist church. Burial was in the Decatur cepietary. Trace in s Good Town — Decatur

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Strike May Close Aluminum Plants Contract Ends At Midnight Tuesday PITTSBURGH (UP)— Aluminum Company of America planned to begin closing down operations at 19 plants tonight It two union* failed to guarantee crews for tapping smelting pots should a strike be called. A contract with the United Steelworkers and a wage clause in an agreement with the International Workers Union expire at midnight Tuesday. An Alcoa spokesman said the company would continue regular operations until the strike deadline it the union assured a sufficient work force for an orderly shutdown of the giant electric pots in which aluminum is made. The company met with the unions here and in New York in a stepped-up drive to avert the threatened strike. Meetings with AWU, covering 11,006 employes m seven plants, were held in Pittsburgh. Alcoa and USW representatives, bargaining for 17,000 workers in 11 plants, held their discussions in New York. The USW also met with the Reynodds Metal Co. la New York sessions. Aluminum industry contracts were expected to be patterned after agreements readied by the US'W with the basic steel industry. The steel settlement calls for three-year pacts with a direct wage increase of 28.7 cents an hour and other benefits spread over the contract term. Management and union representatives in the Alcoa negotiations expressed confidence they would be able, to write an agreement before the strike deadline. Thp three fundamentals ot learning are: feeling much; suffering much; studying much. —Catherall. Trade In a Good Town — Decatur

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