Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 32, Decatur, Adams County, 7 February 1957 — Page 1

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BEFORE APPEARING at a closed session of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, George Wadsworth (left) U. S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia chats with committee chairman Theodore F. Green <D>, R. I. Wadsworth testified on the President’s Middle-East program. i"> ; :

Senate Group Votes To Cite Union Leaders Senate Committee Votes For Contempt Citations On Four WASHINGTON (UP) — The Senate Government Operations Committee voted today to cite four officials of the Teamsters' Union, including its No. 2 man, for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about alleged racketeering. Chairman John L. McClellan <DArk) said the vote was unanimous. He said the citations would be reported to the Senate today for final approval. From the Senate, they would go to the Justice Department for prosecution. The Citations were against: Einar G. Mohn, a vice president; of the huge union and executive assistant to general President Dave Beck at its headquarters here, Frank W. Brewster, Seattle, Wash., president of the Western Conference of Teamsters and the union’s Joint Council 28. Nugent Lapoma, alias George Cavano, secretary-treasurer of Local 174, Seattle. Harry Reiss, secretary-treasurer of Local 284, New York, linked in testimony last month with indicted hoodlum John JDioguardi, alias Johnny Dio. Requires Senate Vote Ift he committee approved the citations, they would go to the Senate for a vote. Final approval there would send them to the Justice Department for prosecution in Federal Court. All four Teamster officials refused to answer questions of the investigating subcommittee last month. They also challenged its right to question them even about financial reports which the Teamsters. whose 1.4 million members make it the nation’s largest union, filed with the Labor Department. Hie subcommittee has power to investigate government operations. They did not invoke the Fifth Amendment A series of other officers of Reiss’ Local 284 did, however, pleading that their answers might incriminate them when they were asked about charges that they embezzled union funds. Withheld Financial Records Brewster and Lapoma were also cited for refusal to produce, under subpena, finacial records of their units of the union. The investigating subcommittee broke ground last month for a nationwide investigation of labor racketeering. A special Senate mittee, which McClellan also heads, is now taking over the job with specific power to investigate racketeering. In another development, Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill) proposed a bill requiring most employe welfare and pension benefit plans to register with the government and make financial reports to mem(Coattnued oa Pa«e Five) Sam Pearson Rites Friday Afternoon Sam Pearson, 80, of Fort Recovery, 0., died Tuesday night at a Coldwater, 0., hospital after a long illness. Survivors include the Widow, Ella: a son, Gerald of Bowling Green, O.; two stepsons, Pearl Wortz of Fort Recovery and Keltmer of Decatur; two stepdaughters, one brother and two sisters. - "Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the West Butler Street Church of Christ, Fort Recovery, with burial at Fort Recovery. Friends may call at the residence until time of the services. *

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Launch Probe Into Marine Brutality Claim Brutality By Drill Instructors PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. 'UP)The Marine Corps today began a pre-trial investigation of reported brutality of drill instructors toward "several” recruits at this big training center. Capt. James Mahoney, public information officer, said the ! “boots" do not claim they were 1 struck by a “steel bar” as a father who touched off the investigation charged in a letter to Ma- • rine officials. > Nelson R. Porter of Hartford, Vt., who said his 18-year-old son • wrote of being struck with the ■ bar, left for Parris Island late • Wednesday, saying his son pleaded in a letter for him to come > “as soon as possible.” Porter said Maj. Gen. H. L. Litzenburg, commanding officer of tile recrun center, aarnitteu in a g letter .that the son, Pvt. David Lee ; Porter, had undergone brutal t treatment. ) Ne Pipe Used Mahoney said that some six , weeks of checking thus far rei vealed there had been other cases, ! but said the recruits “do not allege they were struck by a steel > pipe — we have not found out just ■ how they were struck.” Porter quoted one letter from • his son dated Dec. 9 which stated: i ‘T walked into the drill instrucI tor's office yesterday with my hat i on. I got hit over the head twice with a steel bar. I would have got hit a third time, but there was : already too much blood.” Porter said his son begged him I not to try to intervene, saying • "they will only make it rougher i on me,” but he nevertheless wrote to Litzenburg. Mahoney said there was some : delay in tracing the letter so the t Marine Corps could reply, be- : cause it was unsigned. Porter ex- : plained later that he mailed an • unsigned copy by mistake. Recalls McKeon Trial , Mahoney said Lt. Col. Oscar F. . Peatross, commanding officer of • the First Recruit Training Battalion which included young Porter’s i platoon late Wednesday ordered ■ an inquiry which will determine ■ whether to call for court martial i trials. ' The investigation was the seci ond to be conducted at this Marine recruit training center, one of the nation's largest, since a pub- > licized recruit “death march” of ■ less than a year ago. An investigation of a series of similar incidents late last summer > and last fall resulted in disciplin- • ing of a number of drill instruc- ■ tors. ; The trial of former S-Sgt. Mat- • thew C. McKeon of Worcester, • Mass., in connection with the ; “death march” became the forum of a nationwide controversy over recruit training methods. 1 ; Wives Entertained ■ By Decatur Lions The Decatur Lions club entertained their wives at the Community Center Wednesday night with an old fashioned square dance, followed by a buffet supper. Prizes were awarded for various contests. Carl Geels called for the square dancing, and Lawrence Anspaugh was master of ceremonies. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional drizzle or light rain and fog tonight and early Friday. Chance of freezing drissle extreme north tonight. Scattered showers likely south portion Friday. Somewhat colder extreme north tonight. Low tonight 26-32 north, 33-42 south. High Friday 35-42 north, 42-47 south. Sunset 8:12 p.m., sunrise Friday 7:46 a.m. •

Demand Report By Peters On Highway Mess State Senate Makes Demand Peters Give Detailed Reports INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— The Indiana Senate' today demanded a “complete and detailed report” from state highway chairman John Peters on his charges he found the department in a ’ mess" when he took office Jan. 15. Senators adopted by voice vote a resolution introduced by Sen. Keith FraSer (R-Portland), who said he wanted the report without embarrassing Peters. During debate, a minority Democrat charged the Republicans were trying to “persecute” former Gov. George Craig, whose administration was in control* of the highway department before Peters became chairman. Sen. Warren W. Martin (DClarksville) said he feels sorry for Craig and if the situation is as bad as it has been reported “let’s call a grand jury if necessary.” Blames “Sloppy” Management Fraser said he was sure the situation in the highway department was ndt a matter of “graft ■ and corruption” but rattier was “sloppy management.” Majority leader John W. Van ' Ness said the Republicans supported the resolution and intends by its action to “clean its own skirts.” The resolution was endorsed by Sen. Matthew Welsh of Vincennes, the Democratic minority floor loader. ~ . ; . .......... Martin also suggested the investigation take in other departments. • “Let’s not stop with the highway ! department,” he said, “let’s go- ' all the way.” Martin also mentioned the Public Service Commission, which he said gave “tremendous increases” > to utilities in -'rate cases and , “catered to the privileged few.” , ' Says Motives Impugned I Van Ness objectedto "-Martin's argument. He said the Clarksville senator was “out of order because he is impugning the motives of : senators.” Meanwhile, senators considered 1 testimony that a “right to work" ' law would lead to a long series 1 of “labor troubles” throughout ■ Hoosierland. • ■ Flareup Disrupts Harmony In Union No-Raid Agreement Violation Charged I » MIAMI BEACH (UP)— A late flafeup between the Sheetmetal Workers Union and the International Union of Electricians disrupted the harmony of the AFLCIO Executive Council’s mid-win-ter conference. At the final sessiort of the 10day conference Wednesday, the , council approved ..a subcommittee report which upheld the sheetmetal workers’ claim that the J IUE was violating a no-raid ‘ agreement at the Belock Instrument Co., in College Point, N.Y. The IUE had charged that the contract between the company and the sheetmetal workers was [ “collusive." The council agreed to review this accusation at a i later date. The Executive Council ended , its session with plans to end other strife over jurisdiction within the big federation. A three-man subcommittee of the council will meet in Akron, Ohio, Feb. 18 to try and work out the feud between the sheetmetal workers and the United Steelworkers Union at the Burt Manufacturing Co. The Sheetmetal Workers Union has boycotted products of the □lant on grounds that many employes should be under the jurisdiction of the sheetmetal union. Another committee will meet in Washington with AFL-CIO President George Meany during the week of Feb. 25 to try, to work put h formula for settling the feud between craft unions and industrial unions within the merged labor organization. The council at its final session approved an all-out campaign to organize some 14 million white collar workers in the nation who are not union members at pres(Coatlaued •* Pace Five) • Minor Fire Causes School Evacuation MUNCIfc, Ind. (IP) — A fire in Center School (Perry Twp.) caused only S2OO damage Wednesday, but pupiles evacuated while teachers extinguished it The blaze started in, and was confined to, a storage eloset.

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? ■ - , - ■■ _ Soviet Russia > ; Accuses U. S. ; Os Espionage Labeled Effort To Divert Attention ‘ From Red Troubles WASHINGTON (UP) - U.S. officials today labeled Russia’s ! latest “spy” charges against the ’ United States as another effort to 1 divert attention from Russia's own 1 "difficulties.” The Soviet government Wednes--1 day accused the United States of ’ waging a “secret war” of espio--1 nage and sabotage against Russia. 1 It produced for newsmen in Moscow four Russian nationals al- ' leged to have been trained in Ger- . many for spy work and parachuted ’ into the Soviet Union by U.S. intelligence forces, ± There was immediate specula- ■ tion in Washington that the Soviets were trying to divert atten- ’ tion from the arrest and indictc ment in New York City of three Lithuanian-born persons accused of • committing espionage against the « United States for Russia. ’ As usual, U.S. officials were I silent on specific questions. Were the four Russians paraded before newsmen in Moscow really » working tor the United Statesr? i Does the United States maintain s spy-training schools in West Gerf many as charged by the Russians? Do U.S. military planes evet fly 1 over Russian and Communist satel- ’ lite territory on espionage mis- • sions? 1 The official silence does not’ necessarily mean that the Soviet accusations are true—far from it. It's just that the government agency which knows the answers—the Central Intelligence Agency—simply never discusses such matters. Whatever the truth or falsity of Russia’s latest specific charges, the Soviets are right in their general premise that the United States spies on them and Russia has repeatedly spied on us. ! The United States, officials ad1 mit privately, has espionage agents behind the Iron Curtain—and the ■ Bamboo Curtain surrounding Red • China too. Getting them there and ’ keeping them undercover is one of toe jobs of the CIA, the govern- ■ mentis main agency for collecting > intelligence information in foreign • nations. k , | 111 11..1 11.11 — ILincoln Day Dinner ; Here Friday Night Judge Donald Hunter ' To Deliver Address f Early reservations for the Lin- , coin day dinner have exceeded expectations, Harry Essex, Repub- ! If can county chairman, stated today. The 14th annual Lincoln day dinner Will be held Friday night at 6:30 p. m. at the K. of P. home Mrs. Reuben Myers has been , named chairman of the decorating . committee, and she will be assist- ’ ed by Mrs. Glen Neuenschwander, . Mrs. John Doan, and Hrs Harry Essex. -o I * Judge Donald H. Hunter, of the • LaGrange circuit court, will give > the Lincoln day address follow- : ing the banquet. Judge Hunter I delivered the Lincoln day address ■ at the joint session of the Indiana ' General Assembly on the anniversary of Lincoln’s birth in 1953. 1 A former deputy attomey-gen- • eral under James A. Emmert and ! Cleon H. Foust, Hunter has served ' as judge of the LaGrange circuit ' court since 1948. He is a former general assemblyman, having served in the house of representatives from Madison county at the regular session of 1943 and the first special session of 1944. He was furloughed from the armed forces to attend the special session. A veteran, Judge Hunter served with the 9th infantry division as a combat infantryman and a combat medic in the European theater of World War n.

Hungarian Troops Seize Hidden Arms Great Hidden Arms Weapons Uncovered VIENNA (UP)—Hungarian government troops raided a factory in quburban Buadapest and seized “great quantities” of hidden weapons, Budapest press reports reaching here said today. The raid was the second of the week in the Communist government’s hunt for “counter revolutionaries” and weapons. Informed sources here reported 1 the Hungarian government also may be laying the groundwork for an attempt to seize uncooperative ; Roman Catholic Josef Cardinal Mindszenty from his sanctuary in the U.S. Legation in Budapest. The sources said this might be behind the charges made against Mindszenty by the official Hungarian newspaper Nep Sxabadsag Wednesday. The Budapest newspaper “Esti Hirlap” said the factory raid in Ujpet, a northern industrial suburb of Budapest, unearthed “great quantities of weapons and other military equipment valued at 30,800 forints ($2,727).” Budapest Radio had announced the arrest of seven students and three university teachers in a raid earlier this week. They were charged with hiding “great quani titles of weapons and conspiring against the regime.” k ‘lt aisa was announced today that ( a new government decree has • stiffened the punishment for Hun- ’ garians aiding refugees to flee the ' country. The new penalty is 10 ■ years in prison. ii Churubusco Plant Is Reopened Today Sheriff Officers, Police Guard Men CHURUBUSCO, Ind. (W — Plant gates at the J. I. Case Co. swung open today despite a strike. Officials said no invidents occurred. Sheriff’s officers and local police were at the plant gates to guard returning workers. Officials said about 300 workers from a normal day shift of 600 reported this morning. They said “most” of the 60 to 65 night personnel were expected to resume operations on the second shift. Meanwhile, plant -officials said they were “ready and willing" to: resume negotiations with the union as soon as possible. They said a federal mediator from Indianapolis probably will set the date for resumption of negotiations late today. The decision to reopen the plant was made late Wednesday by Robert C. Clarke, general manager of the plant after a temporary restraining order was granted by Whitley Circuit Judge Lowell Pefley against Local 1236 of the CIO United Auto Workers. Clarke said wage increases announced last week will go into effect for all persons reporting to work today. At the same time, Clarke said, the company , will continue to negotiate with the union in an effort to settle the dispute which caused the plant shutdown Tuesday. Governor Handley has requested State Police to “watch” for any new developments. Company officials had told the governor they were “pushed and shoved” while trying to enter the plant day. Attend Congressional Prayer Breakfast WASHINGTON W — Vice President Richard M. Nixon and hundreds of other leaders of the federal government gathererd today for the fifth annual congressional prayer breakfast. Cabinet members, Supreme Court justices, senators and congressmen were among the almost 1,000 guests invited to the affair. Hiis year’s breakfast opened the 13th annual International Christian’ Leadership Conference. Evangelist Billy Graham was scheduled to address a conference banquet tonight. • s

Israel Risks Sanctions By United Nations L ‘ Demands Assurances Os Non-Aggression From Egyptians UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. (UP) —lsrael indicated today it would risk economic sanctions by the ‘ United Nations before withdraw- . Ing from the Gaza and Aqaba . strips without non-aggression assurances from Egypt. A dispatch from Jerusalem said Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion , told his cabinet in a closed meeting that Israel cannot accept a ■ request to “commit suicide” by uncondition withdrawal. Israeli Ambassador Abba S. Eban presented his country’s case to Secretary General Dag Ham- , marskjold here at UN headquarters after the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Wednesday. Informed Jerusalem sources said Eban was instructed to tell i Hammarskjold that freedom of i navigation on the Gulf of Aqaba [ and security from raids from the. , Gaza Strip were questions of “life ’ or death” cm which Israel could , not yield its position. A report from the Sinai Penint, aula today said Israeli forces j withdrew from parts of the Gaza . and Aqaba strips earlier this » week but moved back into posi- ) tion within 24 hours. United Press Staff Correspondent David Bishai reported from El Arish that UN observers said the brief drawback occurred shortly after the United Nations passed its latest resolution Saturday night. It called for immediate withdrawal of Israel from Egyptian territory. UN observers told Bishai the Israelis even blew up military installations at Rafah, at the western edge of the Gaza Strip, in ! preparation for withdrawal but ■ held their positions when Ben ■ Gurion rejected the U. N. demand. I Bloodmobile Unit I In Decatur Friday i More Blood Donors Needed For Quota At least 50 more blood donors are needed to fill the quota of 127 ! pints needed during the bloodmobile visit at the Youth and Community Center Friday, Mrs. Ed ■ Bauer, chairman of the Red Cross' program, said today. The bloodmobile will be at the ’ Center from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. 1 Volunteers will be scheduling ; blood donors this evening. Any--1 one wishing to fix a time for donating blood may call the Red ’ Cross office or Mrs. Joseph Hun- ' ter, 3-3273. ' On Friday those wishing to donate blood may call the Center [ or the Red Cross office. ! Transportation for those who ■ need it will be furnished by Mrs. ■ Dan Tyndall, Welcome Wagon hostess. 1 ing at least one hour of their time All the Decatur doctors are givto assist with the mobile visit. Regular nurses for the day are ; Miss Matgaret Eiting, Mrs: Leo I Feasel, Mrs. Clois Eichar, Mrs. Burdette ’ Custer, Mrs. Harold Keller, and Mrs. Harold Hoffman. The canteen will be organized under the direction of Mrs. R. C. Hersh. Assisting her will be Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mrs. Bert Haley, Mrs. Charles Beineke, Mrs. Roscoe Glendening, Mrs. Robert Railing, and Mrs. Edgar Reinking. Staff aides for the day are Mrs. Lowell Harper, Mrs. William Keller, Mrs. Max Kreps, Mrs. Hersel Nash, Mrs. Joe Hunter, Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg. Mrs. Frances Monahan, Mrs. T. C. Smith, Mrs. Sam Trentadue, and Mrs. Arnold Ostermeyer. ° A noon luncheon will be served to the volunteer workers and the .staff of . the mobile unit by the Zion Lutheran Needle club.

Superliner Docks Wifhoul Tug Use United States Is Docked With Ease NEW YORK (UP)-The superliner United States, queen of the U.S. merchant fleet, docked without tugs today “so gracefully that not a noise was heard” and not a scratch marred her hull. “This was a perfect landing," said Capt. Jone% F. Devlin, general manager of the United States Lines, “the most graceful I ever saw, with or without tugs. Capt. John Anderson, commodore of the United States, did a masterful job.” It was the first time that the liner, third largest in the world and holder of the transatlantic speed record over the two larger British Queens, had been docked without the usual assistance of tugboats, whose crews are on strike throughout the harbor. The operation took » Utile more than 30 minutes. With most of her 1,493 passengers watching from the rails, the United States pulled up at right angles to her North River pier and i dropped a port bow anchor. Weather conditions were excellent. A , heavy mist hung over the river, but there was virtually no wind, i and the waters were almost glassy. Four years ago, during a tenday tugboat strike, the Queen. ’ Mary, the world’s second largest ’ commercial ship, docked with the 1 help of a rowboat and a motor 5 launch. During the current strike, ■ some 30 large vessels have docked and sailed unaided without acci- • dent. [ As the harbor drama unfolded, representatives of a strikeboard ' tugboat employers group met to ’ consider a revised set of union de- ’ mands which Wednesday eased ’ the deadlock in the week-old strike that has cut off 70 per cent of New York’s fuel deliveries. Later in the day, management representatives megt with negotiators for striking Local 333, Unit(Contlßued oa Pare Five) Car Runs Amok In Business Disf rid . Auto Winds Up In Window Os Store A car belonging to Dwight L. Shopfc nf 3(W W. Adams street, ran amok at the corner of Second < and Monroe streets at noon today, with estimated damage totalling more than SI,OOO. Sheets was going west on Monroe street and stopped before he got to the stoplight. His accelerator jammed, so without turning off the motor he got out of the car opened the hoqjj and began working on the carburetor. The car suddenly lurched forward, sheared off a parking meter post and no parking sign, smashed the northeast stoplight, ran through the intersection, knocked over the water fountain, grazed the lamp post, breaking the globes, and then careened into the front of Nibtick’s department store, coming to rest in the west display window on Monroe street. Damage to the store amounted to a shattered display window, damaged marble fronting, and some damage to displayed goods in the window. Police estimated this to amount to about S3OO. Hie right front of the car was badly damaged, and was estimated to cost at least S2OO. Damage to the water fountain and parking meter pole was estimated ats2o- - street light globes will cost about $44. No charges _were filed against Sheets. . U Howard J. Meeker Dies In Florida Howard J. Meeker, 62, Fort Wayne stock car and racing enthusiast, died of a heart attack Wednesday in his hotel room in Daytona Beach, Fla. Surviving are a brother, Homer C. Meeker, Fort Wayne, and a niece, Lillian Mier, Decatur. Funeral services and burial will be in Eagle Grove, W i

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11 Hours Os Rioting Ends This Morning Release Hostages, Surrender Weapons Early This Morning POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN, Utah (UP)—More than 500 embittered Utah prison inmates ended more than 11 hours of rioting early today by releasing all hostages and surrendering all weapons. None of the men who had been held since before 7 o’clock Wednesday night appeared to have been harmed before they walked from the convict-held cellblocks at 6 a.m. MST. They were preceeded by two convicts — armed robbers Billy Randall and Joe Valdez — who turned over to authorities the weapons they had taken from a captured sentry turret. Randall carried a machinegun. He handed it to a guard, then gave the officer the ammunition clip for the weapon. He turned to another guard, calmly opened his jacket and took a revolver from his belt. The inmate opened the chamber Uto show there were five bullets in • the pistol and then, with a flourish, ► surrendered it. ' .’ - Eighteen men, including"' seven • members of a Mormon Church 1 basketball team, came out behind • Randall and Valdez. Will Present Grievances ’ Earlier, 10 other men had been 1 released or made gheir way to ’ freedom after spending from two ’ to nine hours as hostages. 1 Only known injuries suffered ’ were stab wounds inflicted on a guard when the riot started and the beating given a convict who was then tossed from the barred — corridors by his fellow inmates. Several others suffered smoke poisoning from fires started in various parts of the prison. Atty. Gen. E.R. Callister said the riot ended when the convicts agreed they would let the hostages go if the inmates’ list of grievances could be presented publicly. This was done half an hour before the release when Randall and Valdez came out and talked to newsmen. In turn, Callister reported that Gov. George D. Clyde had promised there would be no recriminations if the hostages came out unharmed. As the hostages—young athletes, veteran guards and a quartet of student instructors at the prison night school—came out they went into the warden’s office where they were closeted with Clyde. - Fires were still burning in the warehouse near the kitchen as the riot ended. The kitchen itself was a shambles. Damage in other parts of the ft-year-old penitentiary Was extensive, with few windows , left intact. Were Treated “Royally” Four of the hostages — Dale Peters, Howard Condie, Brant Mac Kay and Paul B. Smith—were unanimous in praising treatment given them. They said that when a machinegun was pointed at them its wielder smiled and said “Don’t worry, everything will be okay.” Condie said “they treated us royally...they just feel that too many 16, 17 and 18 year old kids are being sent to prison and that they don’t get a fair shake in the parole matter.” Smith told newsmen that “one guy said he got eight years for just, stealing SB.” Condie added that man/ of the prisoners wanted racial segregation, particularly be-' tween Mexicans and Negroes. Gov. Handley Signs Appropriation Freeze INDIANAPOLIS (W— Governor Handley signed into Law Wednesday a bill freezing five per cent of appropriations of state departments and agencies the rest of this fiscal year. House and Senate previously passed the bill without dissenting votes. It was aimed at curbing expenditures in the face of deficit spending in the fiscal year ending next June ». ".CM . 7’’'X? fl »