Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 37, Decatur, Adams County, 13 February 1957 — Page 1

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Pineau Confers Oft’Algerian Question _ • W tfIEL W * '.* ■<s& ALI CHEKKAL, Algerian Assembly Vice-President, (left), confers with French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau before Tuesday’s session pf the U. N. Political Committee on the Algerian dispute at N. Y. Pineau, who will be the final speaker before the committee acts on the question, insists that Algeria is an internal matter and is opposed to any U. N. action in the North African conflict.

Scrap On Bill To Aid Colton, Wheat Farmers Democrats Propose Supplementary Aid Under Soil Bank WASHINGTON <UP) - Democratic and GOP members of the House Agriculture Committee fought today over a Democratic plan to set up a supplementary “soil bank" for wheat and cotton farmers. The ptan would enable wheat and cotton farmers to draw hundreds of millions of dollars in cash subsidies. Some Democratic sponsors estimated the plan could add “ as much as SSOO million a year to the $1.2 billion the government now is authorized to pay farmers under the soil bank for reducing producing acres. One administration source said he believed it probable that President Eisenhower would veto the legislation if it ever readied the White House. But key committee Democrats insisted that enactment of the proposal was the price the administration would have to pay to get legislation it wants restoring soil bank benefits to commercial corn growers in the heavily Republican midwest farm belt. The Democratic proposal includes a modified version of the administration’s corn bill. The Democratic bill survived its first test Tuesday. The committee voted 17-15 to begin considering it at a closed meeting today, instead of considering a separate administration corn bill Liberal Acreage Payment The Democratic plan was offered as a means of inducing farmers to stop “producing surpluses of feed grains — oats, barley, sorghum grain, rye and non - commercial corn — on land forced out of production of basic crops by rigid government production controls. In broad outline, the plan would allow producers of basic crops — wheat, cotton, peanuts, rice and commercial corn — to receive subsidy payments for keeping idle some of the land on which they have been producing feed grains. In some instances the per acre payments would be very liberal because they would not be fixed as a percentage of the value of the feed grains, but rather as a percentage of the value of the basic crops which the farmer produces. The amount of feed grain acreage each producer could put in the soil bank would be limited to 15 ner cent of his allotted acreage of basic crops. Thus, producers of wneat ana cotton with their large acreages would be affected more Jhan growers of peanuts, rice and tobacco.' Would Extend Benefits Democrats argued that their proposal would only extend to growers of these five basic crops substantially the same soil bank benefits that corn growers got last year and that the administration wants Congress to give them again this year. Unlike other basic crops, corn is not subject to rigid planting controls with stiff penalties. Last year corn growers were allotted 51 million acres — with a proviso that individual farmers would get no price supports unless they remained within their share of the allotted acreage and put an acreage equal to 15 per cent of the allotment into the soil bank. (Continued on Page Four)

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Steelworkers Head Holds Big Margin McDonald Leading In Union Election PITTSBURGH (UP)— David J. McDonald held a big margin today in early returns from Tuesday’s election for president of the 1.2 million-member United Steelworkers Union. There appeared no doubt he would defeat his only opponent, Donald C. Rarick, a rank and file steelworker with hardly any organization behind him, and win reelection to another four-year term. The big questions, still unanswered, were the effects on McDonald's position in the American labor and on the USW itself resulting from the union's first contested presidential election. A good sized vote for Rarick would be embarrassing for McDonald. Returns from some 300 of the union’s 2,700 locals gave McDonald 84,169 votes and Rarick 10.449. McDonald led in all sections of the country. Says Margins “Fantastic” Rarick discounted the results as announced by USW district headquarters. He said district officers were nearly all McDonald men and described some of their claims of big McDonald margins as “fantastic.” He cited as an example the figures announced by Joseph Germano, director of District 31 in the Chicago area. Germano reported McDonald leading by a margin of better than 30 to 1. “Why, we have more committee people working there than the votes he credits us,” Rarick said. Rarick said he would contest the balloting at Local 1299, Detroit, which reported 3,300 votes for McDonald and 833 for him. He said the local’s executive board—“all McDonald men” — tabulated the votes and allowed no one from the Rarick camp to be present. He said he knew “without a shadow of a doubt” that Pittsburgh and* its surrounding area “will be terrifically for us." Rarick said no matter what unofficial results are announced by the union's international headquarters he would not concede the election unless the formal vote tabulation is against him. Officials Outcome May 1 No date has been set for the formal tabulation at the international offices here. Candidates must be advised of the outcome by May 1 as required by the union constitution. The unofficial tally may not be known for two or three days. McDonald. 54, ia a career unionist who rose from the mills of Pittsburgh to become top man in the nation's second largest industrial union. He inherited the union presidency after the death of the late Philip Murray in 1952. The post pays $50,000 a year. Murray never had any opposition in his long years as USW President and neither did McDonald in his first election. The present contest arose after the union's general convention at Los Angeles last September raised steelworkers'» dues from $3 a month to $5 a month and raised the salaries of international officers and district directors. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Thursday partly cloudy south, rnost--1 ly cloudy and colder north with a few snow flurries ex T '■ ttemc north. Low tonight 25- ’ 33, High Thursday 30-38 north, ! 38-45 south. Sunset 6:19 p. m., sunrise Thursday 7:39 a. m. •

Egypt Willing For Israeli Ships To Pass Allow Shipping To Pass In Aqaba If Troops Withdrawn WASHINGTON (UP) — Egypt has informed United Nations Sec-retary-General Dag Hammarskjold that it will allow Israeli shipping to pass through the Gulf of Aqaba if Israeli troops withdraw from Egyptian territory, informed sources said today. This assurance was relayed by Hammarskjold to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who, in turn, passed it on to Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador to the United States. This was the key development which enabled Dulles to come up with his new two-point plan aimed at getting remaining Israeli forces to withdraw from Egyptian territory and at providing Israel some assurances of protection from future Egyptian attacks. Israeli Premier David BenGurion summoned his cabinet ministers for a meeting today in Jerusalem to prepare a reply to the Dulles plan. The answer was expected to include demands fpr ironclad guarantees that the Sinai Desert never again will be used as a base for commando attacks and that the Gulf of Aqaba will be open to Israeli shipping. Doubt Egypt's Statement U.S. officials warned, however, that if the plan is not accepted, the United States would go along with an al most-certain move in the United Nations to apply sanctions (reprisals) against Israel for refusing a U.N. order to withdraw its troops from Egypt. The big question was whether Israel would accept Egypt’s private assurance to Hammarskjold that it recognizes the principle of freedom of navigation in the Aqaba Gulf or whether the Jewish nation would demand a stronger guarantee that the principle will be adhered to. Unofficial Israeli spokesmen told United Press in Jerusalem that they doubted Hammarskjold’s, statement that Egypt is ready to comply with the 1949 armistice agreement. Since May, 1956, when Egypt made such a promise, 48 Israelis have been killed and 105 wounded, they said. The U.S. Plan Dulles told Eban Monday that in return for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from Egyptian territConttnued on Page Two) New Peace Campaign Started By Russia Soviet Union Fires First Shot In Drive MOSCOW (UP)—The Soviet Union has fired the first shot in a new "peace campaign” to win friends among both the Western powers and particularly the AfroAsian bloc, western observers said today. Publication of the texts Os three notes sent by the Soviet Union Monday to the governments of the United States, Britain and France was the first move in the new offensive, the observers said. They said the conciliatory tone of the notes , contrasted sharply with the harsh tone of Soviet statements thd warnings to the West during last year's Middle East crisis and immediately following announcement of the Eisenhower Doctrine. The Russians, in offering a clear cut alternative to the complicated and as yet vaguely defined American plan, are making an additional w. for the sympathies of the Afro-Asian bloc, observers said. It was pointed out the Soviet threats of tough action following the Middle Eastern and Hungarian crises were no more popular with the Arab - Asiap bloc than the Anglo - French policy of intervention in Suez. Other sources said it appeared the Soviet Union, in calling for overall disarmament and expansion of trade with Germany and the Mideast, was admitting its inability to handle extra military commitments in the current tense international situation.’ Some diplomatic observers dismissed the notes as simple propaganda. Most westerners predicted the notes would be rejected by the Western powers since a complete military retreat from the Middle East as asked by Russia would only favor the Russians and offer them additional opportunities to penetrate the Arab countries economically and politically. Official western reaction was expected here to take the line that the Soviet proposal ignores the United Nanons which is currently regarded by Washington as the best channel for international agreements on disarmament and the maintenance of world peace.

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Committee In House Sends Right To Work Bill To House Floor

Senator Aiken Says Senate To Okay Doctrine Soviet Propaganda Seen As Spur To Senate Enactment WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen/ George D. Aiken (R-VT) said to-,’ day that Russia’s massive propaganda assault against the “Eisen-, hower Doctrine” makes Senate enactment of the President’s Middle East plan “inevitable." Aiken’s comment came shortly before the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees met in hopes of completing their work on the President’s resolution and reporting it out for Senate debate. The resolution already has passed the House. Republican senators on the two committees appeared to be lined up solidly against one more determined Democratic effort to make a substantial change in the resolution. “Approve” Not “Authorise” The latest test shaped up over a Democratic move to reword the proposal so that Congress would “approve” rather than “authorize” presidential use pf U.S* troops, if necessary, to halt any. Russian aggression in the Middle /East The change was propospi by Chairman Theodore Francis Green (D-RI) of the Foreign Relations Committee. Some senators argue that Mr. Eisenhower js asking Congress to delegate some of its constitutional authority over the use of American forces in caombat. Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) of the Armed Services Committee predicted that Green’s proposed change might carry by a narrow margin, , - Final approval of the resolution by the two committees appeared i certain after this issue is settleci. Senate leaders hope to begin floor debate on the President’s plan before the end of the week. Soviets Claim Aggression With the resolution entering the last stretch of its route through (CoßtlauMl OB Page Five) Fort Wayne Student Held In Acid Case Student Refused Date By Victim FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UP)— A college student was held under SIO,OOO bond today on charges of searing a girl’s face with acid so “she would have scars and marks to remember me,” Authorities said James W. Sprouse, 23, Bakersfield, Calif., signed a statement Tuesday admitting the acid attack against a girl who refused him a date. Sprouse said he got the idea “from the case where Victor Riesel lost his eyes the same way.” The student was referring to the acid attack in New York last April on Riesel, syndicated labor columnist who had been invited to testify on labor racketeering before a congressional committee. Abraham Telvi, the acid thrower, later was slain by gangsters for demanding more money for the attack that blinded the columnist. Physicians at St. Joseph's hospital said the victim. Carol A. Clark, 18. Reading, Mich., was in fair condition with severe burns about the face, arms and legs. However, they said her glasses kept her from behing blinded. The attack occurred Tuesday in a downtown cafeteria where they both worked. Three other persons were splashed by the acid and suffered lesser burns. They were Constance Y. Moore, 18, Camden, Mich., Mrs. Alice Dickson, coowner of the cafeteria, and an unidentified baker boy. Carol was splashed with a pint tumbler full of sulphuric acid as she stepped through a kitchen door in the cafeteria. Sprouse, an aeronautical student, said Carol turned him down for a date last September and he had brooded about it for months. (Continued on Page Four) J — ■- ' ——

Anderson Buildings Are Swept By Fire Heart Os Anderson Business District ANDERSON, Ind. (UP)-Fire swept three buildings in the heart of Anderson’s business district early today, destroying br badly (damaging a bowling alley, a fur|niture store, a tavern and a lodge I hall. Unofficial estimates placed the damage at $400,000, and firemen said it might run as high as $600,000. The blaze broke out about 1:30 a.m. in the Anderson Bowling Center. It spread to the Holthouse Furniture Store on one side and the One-Thousand Bar on the other. One fireman was hurt as the city’s fire companies were ordered out in full force to fight the flames. Muncie firemen also helped. Other firefighting equipment from Pendleton, Alexandria, Summitville and other nearby towns waited at the city’s edge to help if necessary. But the fire was under control about 5:30 a.m., although firemen remained at the scene hours later pouring water into the smoking ruins. The three buildings swept by flames flbvered an area about half a block square. Low water pressure hampered the efforts of firemen as they fought to keep the flames from ipreading across an allby to the Grand Hotel. —-—— - Also damaged by the fire was the Moose Lodge hall located beneath the bowling center. The two-story building housing the 26-alley bowling center and lodge hall was burned out. The top-floor fell through and the front of the building fell inside the structure. Loss was estimated at $175,000. The two-story building housing the bar and two apartments immediately north of bowling alleys I was completely destroyed with damage estimated at between $50,000 and $75,000. The front of the building collapsed toward the inside. The Holthouse store sustained an estimated $25,000 loss to the building and $50,000 to the furniture. Firemen played 22 lines of water on the blaze. It was feared for a time the fire would spread throughout the business block in the downtown area. Seventy-fiye guests at the hotel were evacuated. Two policemen, (Continued on P«<« Two) Plead Innocent To Espionage Charges Two Men, Woman Enter Pleas Today NEW YORK (UP) — Two men and a woman pleaded innocent today to charges of spying for Russia. If convicted they could receive a death penalty They were remanded to jail without bail by Federal Judge Gregory F. Noonan who commented that if the Russian government has any interest in the accused spies it wouldn’t be stopped by the SIOO,OOO bail previously set for the three. Noonan set March 11 on which to announce -a trial date for Jack Soble, 53, his wife, Myra, 52, and Jacob Albam, 64. The three were arrested Jan. 25 and indicted Feb. y 4 on charges that they conspired to obtain U.S. defense secrets in this country and Europe and pass them to Russian agents here and in Paris, Switzerland and Vienna. Ten Russians were named in the indictment as co-conspirators in the international spy ring. Funeral Thursday For Teeple Infant Funeral services for Deborah Kay Teeple, three-year-old girl killed in an auto accident Monday afternoon, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home,, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be the Decatuf cemetery. Friends may call at -the funeral home until time of the services. - ■ . ’

Longshoremen Strike Ties Up Shipping Maine To Virginia Ports Tied Up By Strike Os Workers * _ '£'-!/ * , NEW YORK (UP)—A strike of ; 45,000 longshoremen tied up shipping along the Atlantic Coast to- ) day from Maine to Virginia. ♦ r Mediators and the disputing par- > ties were optimistic over an early i settlement, but the president of , the striking dockworkers forecast a “knockdown, dragout battle.” , Coupled with a 13-day strike of I tug and barge crewmen, the dock- . workers’ walkout almost paralyzed J the hugp port of New York. Ocean liners, already forced to ; dock without the aid of tugs, now faced the prospect of disembarks ing and taking on passengers comi pelled to carry their own baggage. Fuel Supply Dwindles Os greatest concern, however, ■ was the tugboat strike, which has 1 cut off 70 per cent of fuel deliveries to the Greater New York area, affecting an estimated 15 E million persons. Continuation of a three-day cold snap, after a week 1 of relatively mild weather, sharply r inere as e d fuel consumption, i threatening the area with a se- » rtous fuel crisis by the week end. Negotiators for the International s Longshoremen’s Assn, and the 1 New York Shipping Assn., whose eleventh hour efforts failed Tues- ? day to avert a walkout, scheduled 1 a meeting today with federal me--5 diators, including Joseph F. Fintlnegan, chief of the U.S. Mediation ■ Service. t While notes of. optimism were sounded by several negotiators, ; ILA President William Bradley - said, “I don’t see any possibility ; of getting together for a white” i Some Jump Gun “This is going to be a knock- ■ down, dragout battle between us," . he said. The strike was scheduled to idle i ports at Boston, Portland, Me., • Providence, R.1., New Bedford, (Continued on Pace Five) f i ■■■■■■ * ! Infant Girl Shot In Head By Rifle ! ' Latest Incident in Oakland City Strife OAKLAND CITY, Ind. (UP)-A baby girl whose parents work in an industrial plant where a trouble-marked strike is in progress was shot through the head today by a rifle bullet fired into a house trailer where she slept. Four-months-old Julia Ann Rus- . sell was rushed to Deaconess Hos- . pital in Evansville, Ind., for emer- , gency surgery. State police said she was hit by one of seven bullets fired into the trailer home of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Russell, who work in the office of the Potter-Brumfield i Manufacturing Co. at Princeton, Ind. Town marshal Gade Feltner . said five bullets hit the trailer. A strike of the International As- , sociation of Machinists union was called last Nov. 5 over a grievI ance dispute, and a few days later the governor of Indiana , ordered 40 state troopers to the ; scene when local authorities asked protection on grounds they could [ not cope with strike incidents, i The shooting occurred at an . Oakland City street Intersection. Police said the weapon was a .22 l rifle. Last week, the homes of three Potter-Brumfield employes were damaged by dynamite blasts and gunfire, but nobody was injured. Early in the strike, some of the union members began. a back-to-work movement. The company l claimed the number of workers I back on the job grew to 175. ■ Union spokesmen said only 80 re- , turned. l Rock-t hrow in g incidents and ■ picket line skirmishes brought • state troopers to the scene early [ In November. They were ordered ! to Princeton by then Gov. George N. Craig. ....

U.S. Reds Declare Party Independent Say Independent From Soviet Party NEW YORK (UP) — The U.S. Communist Party decided “overwhelmingly” Tuesday to declare itself independent of the Moscow Party line. A reported 300 delegates at the closing session of the party’s closed-door 16th national. conven- ' tion also elected 20 members-at- ' large to a new national committee • which included leaders from all three major factions. William Z. Foster, 75-year-old ’ national chairman, and Eugene ' Dennis, general secretary, lost 1 their titles when they were elected to the new high command along ' with Daily Worker Editor John ’ Gates. 1 The declaration of independence from Marxist-Leninist doctrine as ' interpreted by the Kremlin was a ' defeat for Foster who had called Saturday for a purge of “rightwing” Communists who favored independence from Moscow. Both Gates, who headed the rightwing group, and Dennis, who fence-straddled during the convention fights, were reported to have voted for the resolution which made the party theoretically “independent.” Party control will not be decided until 40 more members are elected to the natiort committee - at state and district conventions • to be held within six weeks.1 The newly elected group agreed s that 11 members residing in the s New York area will serve as a - “national administrative commit--1 tee” until the other 40 members ■ are elected. The delegates voted to operate i without any national officers for at least one year and also de- > dared their right to criti- , cize Russia and other Communist ’ countries. ■ Fifth Marine Drill Instructor Probed New Cose Involves Different Platoon PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. (W — The Marine Corps has disclosed a fifth drill instructor is under investigation for alleged mistreatment of recruits at the huge training center here. Capt. James Mahoney, public information officer, said the new case involves a different platrfbn from that of Pvt. David Lee Porter, of Hartford, Vt., who claimed he was stuck with a steel bar. When Porter’s charge came to light last week the base revealed it had found sufficient evidence of mistreating recruits to relieve all four drill instructors of that platoon of their duties pending completion of a pre-trial investigation. The Marine Corps said it had found no evidence that Porter or other recruits of his platoon had been struck with a steel bar, however. Mahoney declined to reveal de- . tails of the new investigation and said further will be made available when it is completed. Restrict Visits To Hospital Patients Thurman Drew, administrator of the Adams county memorial hospital, announced today that visitors to the hospital would be restricted until further notice. He stated that because of .current over-crowded conditions it is necessary to limit visitors to only members of the immediate families of the patients. New Hard Material Is Created By G.E. NEW YORK (UP) — Creation of an entirely new material, as hard as a diamond and twice as resistant to heat, was announced today by the General .Electric Co. The material, called borazon, was developed in the same Schenectady laboratory in which manmade diamonds .first were produced some two years ago.

Controversial Measure To House Debate Potent Measure Is 4 Kept From Dying In House Committee *■• ■ ' INDIANAPOLIS iff) — The Indiana House labor committee voted 8-5 today to move out for floor debate a controversial “right to work” bill. The committee voted to npake no recommendation on whether the bill should pass or be defeated. Chairman Earl Buchanan (B-Indianapolis) said the committee report will be made Thursday morning. The action kept the potent measure from dying in a committee pigeonhole and virtually assured the first showdown in the Legislature on whether the report will be accepted. A roll call vote on acceptance probably would put each House member on record on a bill vigorously opposed by organized labor. Two days ago, the committee voted 6-5 against handing out the bill with a recommendation it be passed. In the meantime. House speaker George Diener appointed Rep. George Fisher (RLeesburgj fo.the fomjgruttgfcta fill a vacancy, and the measured. rfiP* up for consideration again at a 10-minute meeting called during a lunch recess today. One Member Abstains Buchanan said all 15 members of the committee were present but one abstained from voting and the chairman did not vote because no tie existed. Earlier, the Senate passed without dissent and sent to the House a bill aimed at preventing speculation on land earmarked for highway right-of-way. The vote was 48-0. Sen. Matthew Welsh (D-Vincen-nes) said in a floor speech the bill would “tear away the veil of secrecy under which the state highway department has operated jn the past.” The bill was b y Welsh and Sen. Kenneth Brown (R-Muncie) after state highway chairman John Peters said a month ago he found the department in a "mess” when he became chairman. He suspended a right-of-way buyer while investigating charges the buyer owned land near Jeffersonville which a new highway was scheduled to bisect. Welsh said the chances of land ‘■.peculation are greater where there is secrecy about road-build-ing plans. The bill actually requires the highway department to make public long-range plans for road-building. In the Senate, a bill fixing salaries at $3,000 to $4,600 for justices of the peace in townships of more than 20,000 population and limiting other justices to fees in criminal and civil cases of $3,000 a year passed by a vote of 41-8. A bill to end “quickied” marriages by establishing a 3-day waiting period between application and issuance of licenses survived a move in the House .to kill it. It moved to a final House showdown after legislators rejected by voice vote a kill effort by Rep. John W. Wainwright (R-Wolcott-vllle.) Wainwright, who represents LaGrange and Steuben Counties on the northern and eastern Indiana borders, said the state should take “positive action” to help youngsters who go wrong. ’ Meanwhile, bills on the controversial time issue moved to showdowns in both houses. In the Senate, lawmakers’ ears still were ringing from the most fiery oration of the session from a senator whose time bill has the sharpest “teeth” yet offered. Sen. Arthur Wilson (D-Prince-ton) fought fiercely late Tuesday in a shouting, arm-flinging plea to defeat crippling amendments to his bill for six months of co npulsory Central Standard Time and six months of permissive (Continued on Two)

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