Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1957 — Page 1

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« AN UNUSUAL ENDING to a riot which swept Utah’s Point-of-the-Mountain penitentiary, convicts are permitted to air their grievances over television, one of their requests prior to release of hostages. In \ie upper photo, Billy Randall (also shown left below, and Joe Valdez, both wearing dark glasses, make their TV debut. Randall referred all questions to Thomas Tobias (right-below) whom he described aS a member of the “prisoner’s committee." Tobias denied being a “ringleader" in the riot.

Senate Action Is Delayed On Ike Doctrine Long Questioning Os Diplomats Slows Action By Senators By UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON (UP)- The EiBy UNITED PRESS WASHINGTON (UP)- The Eisenhower Doctrine today appeared fated to remain in committee in the Senate at least another week. The Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committees had hoped to end their joint hearings on the doctrine by tonight. But lengthy questioning of diplomats has delayed them. Armed Services Chairman Richard B. Russell said he thought it "highly probable" the committees now could finish the hearings and send the doctrine to the Senate floor by the end of next week. However, several other senators were much less' optimistic. The House has already overwhelmingly passed the doctrine that would authorize President Eisenhower to use troops if necessary and economic aid to stem the tide of Communism in the Middle East The President has asked Congress to approve the doctrine with all possible speed. Other congressional news: Crashes— The House Commerce Committee resumed its hearings on last week's fatal plane crashes at New York City and Pacoima, Calif. The committee summoned Civil Aeronautics Administrator James T. Pyle and Chairman J. R. Durfee of the Civil Aeronautics Board for questioning. Railway— "Die nation’s powerful 21 railway labor unions—l,loo,000 workers strong — want Congress to cut their income taxes. The unions have opened a drive 'to get Congress to exempt from income taxes all railway workers’ contributions to union retirement funds. The drive is a threat to the administration’s balanced budget. Civil Righto— Southerners may make a new move to prolong further the already extended House subcommittee hearings on civil rights bills. Civil rights advocates hope to end the hearings next week. However, Rep. William M. Colmer (D-Miss) said he knows of witnesses who cannot appear next week. And he said he is “very much interested in seeing they have a chance to present their views.” Oil— The House Commerce Committee tried to get behind the administration gag preventing officials from testifying about oil and gas price boosts. The committee sought to question Assistant Interior Secretary Felix W. Wormser about the gag next week Mortgages— The House Banking Committee has approved stop-gap legislation that would replenish nearly exhausted federal mort-gage-buying funds. The bill would boost the federal national mort(Coadßßed bb P«««

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Nearly 800 Bills Before Legislature Monday Is Deadline To Submit Measures INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— More than two-thirds of nearly 800 bills and resolutions introduced in the Indiana Legislature thus far remained in committee today and haven’t started their slow rail through the lawmaking mill. This was the last day for bills to be introduced in the House. The deadline in the Senate is next Monday. A checkup just before the halfway mark was reached in the 61-day biennial session of the General Assembly showed the big I bulk of measures which have ; flooded House and Senate daily since the session opened Jan. 10 i are resting in the committees to which they were assigned. But it’s a normal situation. Traditionally, only a fraction of the flood of bills introduced become law. Most of the measures never see the light of day after the presiding officer assigns them to a committee for study. If they did, lawmakers would have to burn the midnight oil night after night and even then they probably would be buying a lot of pigs in pokes. Two Bills Signed By Handley After Wednesday's action was over, a count showed 448 bills and resolutions had been introduced in the 'House and 302 in the Senate for a grand total of 750. Os these, 83 had passed the house in which they were introduced, 7 had passed both houses, and 2 had been signed by Governor Handley. The Senate and House each had defeated one bill, one failed to pass in the House for lack of a majority, and three were withdrawn by the authors. In the House, 38 other bills were past the second-r ead in g stage, where they can be amended, and were eligible for a vote on passage. Forty-eight others were out of committee and ready for second reading. And 317 remained in committee. More Committee Meetings In the Senate, 17 other bills were past the second-reading stage and 56 were out of committee and ready for second reading. Still in committee were 195 others. That made a grand total of 512 bills still in committee out of 750 in the legislative hopper. * Between sessions, committees meet to decide., what bills .to hand out to the House speaker or Senate president. Most of them come out with recommendations that they be passed. A few are reported out without recommendation. and some come to the floor with divided reports—perhaps a majority of the committee members favoring passage and a minority favoring “indefnite postponement,” which, in effect, means killing the bill. With the introduction period ending, the’ emphasis hereout will be on more committee meetings and public hearings on controversial issues. Thus, the pace of bills getting out of committee will be quickened. "iis/..

Judge Parrish Orders Curfew Be Enforced Law Enforcement Agencies Ordered To Enforce Curfew A curfew to halt growing juvenile delinquency in Adams county has been ordered enforced by Judge Myles F. Parrish in letters to the county’s law enforcement agencies. In letters to the sheriffs office, and city and town police in Decatur, Berne and Geneva, the judge stated that recent serious and startling juvenile offenses led to the present curfew. The juvenile act of 1945 states that wandering about the streets of any city between the hours of 11 p. m. and 6 a. m. (eastern standard time) without being on a lawful business or occupation, by a boy or girl under 18 years of age, is an act of delinquency. The judge has asked law officers to enforce this law. He promised his cooperation. The judge stated that the children of Adams county cannot benefit from the law unless the parents cooperate whole-hearted-ly. “The spirit of the act is to promote-the welfare of the children, and to prevent decent ahd innocent children from the ravages of thqse with criminal tendencies,” he said. The present curfew enforcement has grown from a present investigation of illicit juvenile sex relationships which may involve as many as 40 children in many schools in the county. The investigations of juvenile matters is not a matter of public record. Yesterday, however, it was learned that a 17-year-old girl was returned from here to the state girls school when her probation for grand larceny charges was revoked. Former curfews here have been generally ineffective because of the wording of the law. The law states that the youths must he th A e ri^ y -most of thottt wive, curt, ana therefore cannot be apprehended. The present general assembly has legislation before it to correct the faults of the law. Judge Parrish’s letter reads as follows: “As Judge of the Adams Circuit Court, I have witnessed again an increase in the number of juvenile delinquents and offenses, which have become more and more serious, and to say the least, startling. In the spirit of the juvenile act of 1945, I know that you are interested, as I am, in eliminating or at least curbing the rising tide of juvenile delinquency. “We. of course, realize that it is our duty to protect and defend the innocent, and to help establish in our county conditions, which will help alleviate children from becoming delinquents, and protecting innocent children from the ravages of those with criminal tendencies. <Connnue<i «•««- ■’"’rhU Marine's Father Refuses Comment Refuses To Discuss His Role In Probe PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. (W — The father of a Marine recruit who complained of being beaten by a drill instructor refused today to dis,close his possible role in a new investigation of training abuses. Nelson R. Porter, Hartford, Vt., whose complaint touched off the investigation, turned up as a visitor to this huge Marine training center but it was not known whether his presence was ’"official.” Porter, father of Pvt. David Lee Porter, 18, was staying at the “hostess house” for civilian guests. A receptionist said POrter is “not taking calls from the press.” Before leaving his home two days ago the elder Porter told newsmen his son had.written urging him to come to Parris Island at once. He did not reveal the reason for urgency. The next day the Marine Corps began a pre-trial investigation of abuses by ’more than one” drill sergeant whose cases cropped up in a six weeks investigation of a complaint Porter made about treatment of his son. Young Porter wrote his father last Dec. 9 that when he walked into a drill instructor’s office “with my hat on” he “got hit over the head twice with a steel bar” and “would have got hit a third time but there was already too much blood.” (Coßtlaaea bb Pare Five)

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Decafur, Indiana, Friday, February 8, 1957

Israel Rejects Appeal By Pres. Eisenhower For Troop Withdrawal

President And f Saud Conclude I Parleys Today Saudi Arabia King • To Leave Saturday J After Conference WASHINGTON (UP)—Presidept ' Eisenhower and King Saud of ’ Saudi Arabia wind up their Wasb- ' ington talks today with an historic ' pledge to work for peace and sta- ' bility in the Middle East. 1 Mr. Eisenhower invited the 55- ■ year-old king to the White House for a final meeting. Saud leaves Saturday morning aboard Mr. Ei- . senhower’f plane for a trip to Spain a..- Egypt before returning home. American and Saudi Arabian diplomats hailed the EisenhowerSaud talks as a major step toward stabilizing the trouble-ridden Middle East. They counted the talks a big boost for the Eisenhower Doctrine—the President’s plan to protect the Middle East with U.S. military forces if necessary and to assist the area with military and economic aid. During the conferences, officials said, the President and the king had: a -raarl vavfngainlo nn —Agrccu xH pxitivxpiv un x vaawai Saudi Arabia. The old five-year ' lease" ran out last June 18 and had ■ not been renewed. —Agreed in principle on grants • of military aid to Saudi Arabia to carry out the “defense” of the ; Dhahran air base. This equipment is expected to include jet planes, tanks, and other heavy equipment. —Agreed on the need to cooperate toward “peace and stability” in the Middle East in every possible way. This means that Saud is willing to explain to other Arab leaders what he has learned here about what he has termed the “good and worthy proposals" in the President's Middle East plan now before Congress. * Sentenced To Life On Murder Charge CROWN POINT OF) — Don M. Hernandez, 25, East Chicago, has been sentenced to life imprisonment following conviction on a first-degree murder charge in the shooting of Emilia Lopez, 17, East Chicago. Hernandez pleaded innocent on grounds of insanity. Checking Leakage Os Gasoline In Sewers Investigators from the state fire marshal's office are in Decatur this afternoon to check on the leakage of gasoline into the city sewage system. The smell of gasoline has filled downtown business buildings on weekends for three weeks. Three service stations are being investigated possible for leaks in storage tanks. Joe Laughrey Dies At California Home Former Monroe Man Dies This Morning Joseph (Joe) L. Laughrey, 31, a resident of Adams county most of his life, died at 1 o’clock this morning at Los Angeles, Calif;, following a heart attack, the third he had suffered in the past year. He was born at Hoagland Feb. 1, 1926, a son of Jess and Mary Rupert-Laughrey, who reside at Monroe. He was married to Janet Finefield, and the family moved to Los Angeles about one year ago. Surviving in addition to the parents and wife are an infant son, and two brothers, Harvey and Lester Laughrey, both of Los Angeles. A son died in infancy. The body will be returned to the Lobenstein funeral home in Monroe. Time of the arrival is not certain and funeral arrangements will not be completed until later.

Snags Slow Down Atomic Aircraft Development Slowed By Research Snags WASHINGTON (UP) — The government has run into research snags that have slowed down development of atomic-powered aircraft. Further work on guided missiles atao may have to be stretched out . because of expensive development ' costs. , Assistant Secretary of Defense Clifford C. Furnas, Pentagon research and development chief, disclosed the government’s plane and missile development problems Thursday. Furnas, who leaves the government Feb. 15 to return to his post as chancellor of Buffalo University, also conceded Russia “probably” is narrowing the technological gap with the United States. But he told reporters the. Soviets still are a ‘long way behind” and that Russian aircraft are “not as good in performance.” ■ “There is no evidence that their missile work is as far along,” he saidFurnas said there are two main problems hampering development of atomic - powered planes: The need for a light-weight reactor and adequate shielding to protect the crew from radiation. 1 The Atomic Energy Commission last week had reported “significant advances’’ in the field. The AEC said a laboratory model of an atomic reactor powered a turbo jet engine for the first time in the ; last half of 1956. Furnas said that an atomic pow- ' ered plane still is “several years” away. But he described the project as “feasible” and "worth pursuing.** He said the U.S. missile program is “proceeding satisfactorily” but he added that several long-range missiles and proposed aircraft now are in competition. “They have all come to a very expensive stage,” he'said, and priorities will have to be assigned among them. Admits Fort Wayne Kidnaping And Rape College Student Is Held At Fort Wayne FORT WAYNE (UP)— Authorities said a beauty college Student today confessed kidnaping two 18-year-old girls and another couple, raping one of the girls and pistol-whipping the other. Thomas Eggelston, 22, Fort Wayne, was taken to Allen County Jail on $25,000 bond after his arrest only a few hours after the crime. The girls told police they stopped at a restaurant just after midnight. When they returned to their car, Eggelston crawled in the back seat and shoved a gun into one of them and told the other to drive. The girls said the gunman directed them to a lonely county road where he raped the nondriver at gunpoint. He told the other girl to drive on. The driver said she tried to attract attention by flicking the car lights. When. this failed she ran her car into one driven by William Mackison, 34, Monroeville. The girls said Eggleston then leaped from the car and forced M a ck is on and his companion, Beverly Felt, 20, Monroeville, into the trunk of the girls’ car and locked them in. «— The rape-victim was then forced to drive, police said. Eggleston then sat in the back seat with the other girl. The girl annoyed him and he hit her in the face with the butt of his gun. When a tire blew, Eggleston panicked and fled down the deserted road, dropping the gun. Sheriff Frank Nagel said Eggelston admitted the crime when confronted by witnesses, and signed a statement. Eggelston was charged with kidnaping, rape and car theft. The girls were taken to a hospital.

Sales Tax Os 3 Percent Is Proposed Today Sales "(ax Measure Is Introduced In t State Legislature 1 INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— A thfee per cent sales tax which its 5 authors said would bring in enough " revenue to pass the proposed ■ record 790 million dollar budget I for the next biennium was intro- ; duced in the Republican controlled Indiana Legislature today. The House also defeated a Demt ocratic attempt to Hast a reso- , lution calling for a State Highway . Department investigation out of . committee, while a move to water down the controversial time bill . failed in the Senate. i A bill by Reps, uacx Murrell i (R-Marion) and Cart Bell (RHobart) calls for a flat three per cent sales tax which would repeal . the state gross income tax. — ’ The measure, without exemptions ! of any sort, would yield an esti- . mated $175 million a year, Murrell said. He said his figures were , based on statistics from the In- , diana University Bureau of Business Research. . “It would .be enough to pass the , budget as it is,” said Murrell. ; The gross income tax brings in -about $l2O million annually If the 5 proposed sales tax measure is 3 amended to exempt food, it would 3 decrease the yearly revenue by about S3O million. • To “Fight” Higher Gross Tax Murrell and Rep. Allen M. t Morgan (R-Kokomo) also authored -a “compromise” one per cent sales tax measure, again without I exemptions. The bill would reduc t the gross income tax to retailers • from one-half to one-fourth per ’ cent and would bring in an additional SSO million a year, its ’ sponsors said. • “My main reason for a sales i tax is to avoid raising the gross income tax,” said Murrell. He added he would “fight" a gross tax increase “because of its inequities.” • Action on the time bill was the day’s first major development. The measure, by Sens. Arthur S. Wilson <D-Princeton) and Richard Newhouse (R-Morristown) provides for stiff penalties for violators. Sen. Thomas Hasbrook (R-In-dianapoiis) tired to amend the bill, wnlbh provides for'state-wide Central Standard time half the year and permits daylight savings ' time from spring through summer, to amend it, but his move was defeated by voice vote. The bill, which came up for second reading, has provisions for penalties for municipal officials who violate the law and withholding of state funds. (Continued on Pas* Three) ■ Students Guests At i Shrine Club Circus 500 From County To ! Be Guests Saturday . ] Five hundred Adams county third ! graders will be guest of the Adams , Shrine club ,at the annual Shrine J circus at Fort Wayne Saturday, : according to Robert Mills, general ' chairman for the event. Buses supervised by Bob Gay 1 ahd Tony Teeple. will convey the 1 , Decatur group, and school buses will be used for the balance of ] the county. 1 In addition to Gay and Tgpple, Jerome Reed and Kenneth Mills ■ also are committee members. The Decatur contingent will leave Decatur at 8:30 o’clock Saturday morning and will return at 1:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon. Decatur parents are requested to note the return time at 1:30 o’clock in the afternoon so they can arrange to pick up their children. The trip is all free for the third graders and the Shrine club, as usual, will furnish soft drinks and sandwiches. Robert Mills has been general’ chairman for several years.

Declares U.S. Not Close To Depression Weeks Differs With Humphrey, Hoover WASHINGTON (UP) - Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks says the United States is not even “remotely” close to a depression. His view clashes with the views of Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey and, former President Hoover, Humphrey and Mr. Hoover have . predicted the country would plunge into an economic tailspin eventually unless inflation were halted and government spending slashed. Weeks also said Thursday at a news conference the administration has no plans to slap government controls on wages and prices to brake inflation. “I just instinctively recoft from controls in a free economy,” he said. President Eisenhower said at a news conference this week that , the government might step in with "controls of some kind” if bush ness and labor, didn’t voluntarily hold the line against inflation. Weeks said there is no difference between his views and those of the President. The secretary said there is “no disposition on the part of the administration” for applying infla-tion-braking controls. ”No studies are being made oh the subject and no plans are being made to impose such Controls," he said. ' Weeks joined the President in urging labor and business to brake inflationary pressures by exercising self-restraint io seeking wage and price increases. He said that if labor and management will heed Mr. Eisenhower’s warning, he does not look for any great rise in prices this year. Weeks was asked about recent remarks by Mr. Hoover and AFLCIO President George Meany that there are signs of an incipient depression in the economy. “I don’t think we are remotely close to a bust in the boom,” Wepks replied. Fort Wayne Marine Expelled By Russia One Os Attaches Ordered To Leave FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UP)—The! i educator-father of an American 11 military attache ordered out of ( Russia-for alleged espionage said • today he was surprised, but not alarmed, over the Soviet action, 1 Capt. Paul R. Uffelman, 31, , Fort Wayne, and Lt. William S. ( Lewis, Guthrie, Okla., were < “physically assaulted” on a Len- i ingrad street on Jan. 26 while a j Russian policeman stood by. The two then were ordered from the country as “spies.” Uffelman’s father, FW. Uffelman, is principal of a grade school here. He said he received a letter from his son about 10 days ago and there was nothing in the letter to indicate he was in trouble. He said the letter con- , tained a photograph of his son taken underneath a statue of Stalin in Moscow. The younger Uffelman enlisted in the Marjnes when he was 18 years old. He was aboard the cruiser Indianapolis when it was torpedoed by the Japanese during World War H. He also served in the Korean 'conflict^^*;^::: His father said Paul would have been in Russia two years this 1 spring. Lewis was slightly injured in the i Leningrad scuffle, but Uffelman ; was not harmed. The incident has been protested by the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Gary Infant Dies Thursday Os Burns GARY (IP) - Linda Rattay, one-year-old daughter of the Andy Rattays, died in Mercy Hospital Thursday of burns suffered last Saturday in an explosion and flash fire. Six other members of the family vtere injured.

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Rejects Plea To Withdraw From Egypt J Ben Gurion Rejects Eisenhower's Plea To Withdraw Troops UNITED NATIONS (UP)—Premier David Ben Gurion today rejected President Eisenhower’s plea for an Israeli withdrawal from all Egyptian territory, an Israeli government spokesman announced in Tel Aviv. ‘ i . The spokesman said the rejection was contained in a three-page letter sent today to Mr. Eisenhower.’ The Israeli spokesman said the situation had reached “rock bottom”. and there could be no further retreat. Ben Gurion’s note was in reply to a letter sent by Mr. Eisenhower last Sunday. Informed sources in . Israel described the President’s note as “polite but firm” in its request that Israel should withdraw behind the 1949 armistice ■ line. The Israeli spokesman in Tel Aviv said guarantees of freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba and adequate safeguard against new Egyptian attacks were vital for the security of Israel. U.N. Talks Deadlocked Ministry Dirfgti*' ■ tor-General Waiter Eytan said Israel’s determination to remain in the Gaza Strip and the Aqaba Gulf area remains unchanged, even in the fhce of U.N. Sanctions. Eytan’s statement indicated a deadlock has been reached in U.N. withdrawal talks between Secre-tary-General Dag Hammarskjold and Israeli Ambassador Abba S’. Eban. / Eban said Israel had carried out the U.N. resolution calling far withdrawal “to all intents and purposes.” He added that Israel would welcome international observers who would then report on the situation to Hammarskjold. He insisted, however, that Israel continue to police the occupied areas. So long as Egypt is not willing to agree to “mutual and full abstention from belligerency,” Eytan said, it will be impossible for the Israeli government to change its attitude. Five Arabs Killed Ben Gurion, meanwhile, met with opposition party leaders to enlist their support for possible I national austerity if threats of U.N. sanctions against Israel are carried out, informed sources in Tel Aviv said. Earlier Jerusalem reports said that Israel, working to stave off Arab demands for sanctions, had sent further details of its withdrawal terms to U.N. headquarters. Details of the reports could not be learned. An Israeli army spokesman announced in Jerusalem that an Is--raeli patrol Thursday night killed five Arab gun-runrfers and captured 11 others eight miles west of Beersheba in south-central Israel. He said the Arabs were transporting weapons by donkey from abandoned Egyptian qutposts to sell them in Jordan. The 27-nation Afro-Asian group at the United Nations was drafting a resolution calling for sanctions against Israel—and possibly expulsion from membership—if Israel continued its refusal to get out of Egyptian territories. U. N, Action Next Week _ The plan was to introduce The resolution to the General Assembly next week if Israel does not come up with a satisfactory reply to questions asked by Hammarskjold. (Continued on Paste Kight) INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, not much change in temperature tonight and Saturday, Occasional light rain or drisxle south thia afternoon, spreading over entire state tonight and continuing Saturday. Locally heavier showers south, portion. Low tonight 32-36 north, 36-42 sooth. High Saturday 3845 north, 45-52 south. Sunset 6:13 p.m„ sunrise Saturday 7:4$ a.m.