Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 38, Decatur, Adams County, 14 February 1957 — Page 1

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THIS PICTURE-CHART illustrates the report of the Commodity Credit corporation that the government’s losses in supporting farm z prices were nearly three times greater during the first administration of President Eisenhower, 1953 through 1956. than in all the previous 20 years of farm programs, from 1933 through 1952. As of Dec. 31. I<>s6, the government owned surplus farm products costing $5,892,000,000, and had issued loans amounting to $2,319,000,000 on crops withheld from market by farmers.

Israel Seeks Clarification Os U.S. Plans Conditionally Okays Troop Withdrawal, • Retain Gaza Strip ’ By WALTER LOGAN Uofted Press Staff Correspondent The Israeli Cabinet was reported today to have accepted—subject to "certain conditions”—the American plan for moving Israeli troops out of Sharm-El-Sheikh. But it rejected demands it give up the Gaza Strip. Informed sources in Jerusalem said the cabinet met today and decided to ask Ambassador Abba Eban to seek further clarification of the American stand on navigation of the Gulf of Sharm-El-Sheikh, a fortress on the gulf, was used by Egypt to blockade Israeli shipping. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles offered to guarantee free navigation of the Gulf of Aqaba if Israel would pull its troops out of the former Egyptian base in the southern tip of the Sinai Desert at mouth of the gulf. The Israeli sources would not elaborate on the “certain conditions" ol withdrawal but indicated Eban would sound out Dulles further on just how the United States would guarantee free navi-gation.-The gulf is Israel’s outlet to the Red Sea. Israeli informants also expressed belief the United States would support Israeli’s position that a shift , of United Nations troops into the Gaza Strip would not satisfy Israel’s demands for a shield against Egyptian fedayeen (commando) attacks. -. ........ Today’s meeting wps called to hear Premier David Ben-Gurion’s formal answer to the American plan. Israel had been cautiously in. favor of the plan for fire Gulf of Aqaba but definitely cool to the thought of giving over control of Gaza. Egypt has resisted both moves. Egypt reacted angrily to the •* Dulles Aqaba plan and criticized it as one favoring Israel and giving the Arabs a "slap in the face.” Egypt’s semi-official news agency said Egypt would not be bound by any American pledges to Israel. w-g L'wka to Saad Washington dispatches said Ameucan officials tended to discount tne stand and that they still hoped Egypt would go along with , the Dulles idea. They based their optimism on indications received from Egypt through U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold that Egypt would agree. Dulles emphasized through a spokesman Wednesday night that Egypt hacrgiven no specific assurance it would accept the plan. The United States was looking to King Saud of Saudi Arabia to help sell Egypt and other Arab nations on the plan. Saud, who is meeting leaders from Egypt, Jordan and Syria soon, declared during his Washington visit he would work with!the United States in trying to promote peace in the Middle Eqßt.' . One of Saud’s main tasks will be to expEin the "Eisenhower (Coatißiied Faste Five)

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Big Protest Vole Against McDonald Surprise In Protest Vote By Steelmen PITTSBURGH (UP)— David J. McDonald was in line for his second four-year term today as president of the 1.2 million-member United Steelworkers Union. An unofficial tally of the union’s first contested presidential election Tuesday showed McDonald won handily, but he was presented with a surprisingly strong protest vote. His only opponent Donald C. Rarick, a taqk and file steelworker who campaigned in a limited area for only four months with i hardly any organization and with funds donated by men from the ranks, received an unexpectedly good steed vote. The latest United Press tabulation of unofficial returns from about 750 of the union’s 2,700 locals gave McDonald 148,515 votes and Rarick 63,330. Big Locals Unreported Many of the union's big locals were not represented in the count. Additional substantial returns were not expected to be announced by district headquarters, which mail the ballots to international headquarters here for the official tabulation by elected tellers. No date was announced for the official tabulation, but the union constitution requires the results be announced by May 1. Rarick showed his strength in Pittsburgh and other Pennsylvania steel centers and areas such as Youngstown, Ohio, and Buffalo, N.Y., where he did most of his campaigning. It appeared he also may win in District 16 here which includes McDonald’s “home" local. Dues Key Issue The opposition to McDonald and his international administration was sparked by « 12 a month dues increase voted by the USW convention at Los Angeles last September. An international Dues Protest Committee was formed with Rarick as chairman. Later the committee put Rarick up-as a candidate for president. Rarick hurled charges of “union racketeering" in his campaign and demanded “return of the union to the rank and file.” He said today his organization would not disband in the event the formal vote tabulation goes against him. “This international administration is doing nothing for the men. Grievances are piling up at the local level. The men can’t even get to see their top staff officers,” he said. “We intend to make sure- our organization stays together. We will start Working at the local level.” One Man Killed As Two Trucks Collide WESTVILLE, Ind (W — Richard Earl Chansler, 38, Dayton, Ohio, was killed early today when two big trucks collided on U.S. 6 five miles east of here. The driver of the other truck, Clarence Williams, was in a state of shock and his address was unknown, state police said. Chansler was .. pinned in his truck for about five-and-a-half hours before he ceuld be removed.

Ike Doctrine Toned Down By Senate Groups Doctrine Language Sharply Modified By Committees WASHINGTON (UP)— Republican senators looked to the White House today for official signals on whether to wage a floor fight to strengthen the watered-down version of the Eisenhower Doctrine approved by two Senate committees. The President’s Middle East resolution cleared the Democraticcontrolled Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees by a 20-to-8 vote Wednesday, but only after its language was sharply modified. The resolution now goes to the full Senate for debate next week. There were indications, both here and ’at the temporary White House at Thomasville, Ga., that Mr. Eisenhower might settle for the watered-down resolution rather than risk weakening its international propaganda impact by prolonging Senate debate. President Reported Pleased White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said in Thomasville that both the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were pleased with the committee’s action but that the language of the revised resolution needed further study. Democrats on the two committees who succeeded in softening the language of the proposal voiced confidence that the full Senate will go along with die change. The committee vote on the specific issue of rewording «e resolution followed straight party lines, with 15 Democrats supporting the change and 13 Republicans opposing it The Democrats, led by Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (Minn) and Mike Mansfield (Mont), substituted for Mr. Eisenhower’s original wording a statement that the United States is “prepared to use armed forces to assist" any Middle -Wfiat by determines the necessity thereof.’" Changed Word “Authority” The President’s original request, approved overwhelmingly by the House, was for specific "authority” to send U.S. troops into the Middle East if they are requested to help turn back a Communist attack. If the cnange is upneld, the resolution will have to go to a HouseSenate conference committee for a final version to be worked out. Besides handling the administration "a licking on the troops "authority.” the Democrats also wrote in some “strings” on the President’s request to spend S2OO million on an economic and military aid program for the Middle East. I Says Ike Doctrine Can Lead To War View Expressed e By Moscow Radio LONDON (IP) — Moscow Radio said’ today the Eisenhower Doctrine not only could take tWUnjk ed States to the brink of war “but could tumble it right in, head over heels.” In a commentary beamed at North America. Moscow said “conflicting tendencies are at play in Washington between those who want a relaxation of international relations and those who want their aggravation." _ It said one side was represented by politicians,jwho stubbornly oppose cooperation with Russia and lose no chance to worsen SovietAmerican relations. “These are the same politicians who have been rooting all along for the dangerous course of cold war although this course has already demonstrated its insolvency and done the United States no end of harm,” the commentary said. It said the leaders of this group were Secretary of Stage John Foster Dulles, Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland of California, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) . , L Moscow said implementation of the Eisenhower Doctrine by Con(Contianed Pare Fin) - Diesease Totals Are Higher Tn Indiana 11 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —Chicken pox, measles and scarlet fever cases are running higher in Indiana this year than last, State Health Board figures showed today. Cases from Jan. 1 through Feb. 9 with 1956 comparative totals included chicken pox 1,178 and 965, measles 1,253 and 414,and scarlet fever 460 and 290. • ~ —x.’.' j ■———■-

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, February 14,1957

Indiana Senate Passes 50-50 Time Measure By An Overwhelming Vote

U. Rejects Red Demand To Debate Charges General Assembly Committee Rejects | Demand By Russia UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (ffl — The General Assembly’s Steering Committee voted today to reject a Russian demand for full debate on a charge that U. S. policy is heading for atomic war. The Soviet Motion was defeated 7-6, with one nation abstaining. The United States had announced it would welcome debate on the Soviet charge, although U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. called it a “gigantic cock and bull story.” “We believe every country has the right to make a fool of itself if it wants to,” Lodge said. He predicted that the Russians would be unable to back up a single one of their charges against the United States, and that open debate will "expose their crudities for what they are.” Lodge denounced the Soviet demand for U.N. consideration of alleged U. S. “acts of aggression” as a “thinly veiled and deliberately timed attack on President Eisenhower's Middle East po^lef. It aims at preventing the effectuation of that policy. The Soviet representative has let the cat out of the bag. We accept the challenge. Let the debate take place.” Lodge rejected vigorously the Soviet claims that U. S. foreign bases are a step toward atomic war and called the U. N. to witness that “the peoples of the free world are free to cry out in protest here in the United Nations if they object to United States bases.” Furthermore, he said, no American troops anywhere have ever slaughtered civilians, he said, while the Soviet Union’s own troops in foreign bases “killed 25,000 Hungarian civilians in the process of re-enslaving the Hungarian people.” Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister V. V. Kuznetsov presented the new item, * question of aggressive acts by the United States of America constituting a threat to peace and security,” as one demanding immediate debate in the General Assembly itself. In the 16-member ■hnmijtee, only Czechoslovakia 4 supported the Soviet Union, advancing arguments that duplicated the Kuznetsov speech. Hartford City Man Convicted By Jury Chester Schlegel Is Found Guilty Today HARTHFORD CITY, Ind* ffl — Chester Schlegel, 23, was found guilty on charges of second-de-gree-murder early today in connection with the mystery slaying of his brother-in-law in a moonlit barnlot. A Blackford County jury returned the verdict at 1:15 a.m. CDT after considering the case for about six hours. The charge carries a mandatory life sentence. Schlegel was convicted after a long, sensational trial. He said he killed his brother-in-law Darrell Spade, in self-edefense. He said Spade was beating Spade’s wife, Mary, with a mattox and when Schlegel stopped him, Spade turned on him with the tool. Schlegel admitted shooting Spade twice with a shotgun. He said Mrs. Spade, who was Schlegel’s sister, also was dead and he said he panicked, loaded both bodies in a car and drove them to a pond. * • 12 Pages

ir Search Pressed In , Oakland City Case Infant Girl Still Reported Critical OAKLAND CITY, Ind. W) — State police today pressed search for a gunman who fired bullets into the home of a non-striker, ' critically wounding his 4-month-old daughter. Little Julia Ann Russell’s life hung by a thread in Deaconess " Hospital at nearby Evansville. If 5 doctors are able to pull her 1 through safely, they said her left 1 side probably will be paralyzed for life. . The shooting climaxed a series 1 of attacks on non-striking workers at the Potter-Brumfield Manufac- ’ turing Co., at Princeton. Members ' of the International Association of Machinists went on strike Nov. S ; over a grievance dispute. Non--1 strikers’ homes have been dyna- . mited and pierced by bullets. I The infant's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Russell, continued to work at the plant despite the strike, even though Russell is a “ union member. Their sleep Wednesday was in- , tcrrupted by a cascade of bullets ’ into their trailer home here. About four of the seven shots that rocket- ’ ed through the metal walls pene- ; trated the baby’s blanket. One of the bullets went through her cheek • and out her skull. x A $2,500 reward was offered by ’ Potter-Brumfield for the gunmah’l " capture. The firm also offered t $5,000 for information about other cases of strike violence. ? Richard Brumfield, company president, was asked if he thought ! the shooting had anything to do 1 with the strike. 5 “I don’t see how it could be ‘ interpreted otherwise,” he said. - Russell said he had not been ' threatened before. He said he f wasn’t a member of the splinter f group battling the strike, but added he had planned to give up ■ his job at the plant Friday be- ■ cause he was “fed up with the , whole business.” i But Mrs. Roma Casey, Julia [ <C«Btla«ed on Face Five) f Oratorical Contest : Here Next Monday s .. .* Two To Compete In Contest Os Legion Paul Schmidt, of Decatur high • school, and Ronald Bittner, of • Monmouth high school, will vie . for the Adams county oratorical championship in the 20th annual high school contest sponsored by the American Legion. The contest will be held Monday at 1 p.m. at Decatur high school. Ed Jaberg is chairman of arrangements for the local competition. The subject for discussion this year, as in previous years, wiltaMM the constitution of the UnitW States. The winning entrant here will become eligible to compete in a district contest later. Hugh J. Andrews is chairman of the fourth district contest. The oratorical event Is sponsored each year by the American Legion, with the support of the Indiana bar foundation and the Indiana department of public instruction. Its purpose is to create interest and respect for the basic principles of the American form of government. All subjects of the orations will be based on some phase of the constitution. In the first year of the contest in 1938, 4,000 students from 11 states participated. In 1956, over 350,000 students from the 48 states took part. The last local student to win the state contest was Margene Bauer Morris in 1948. Charlene Lehman Morrision placed first in district competition in 1953. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and colder tonight. Friday cloudy and warmer, rain or snow north an# east portions. Low tonight 10-20 north, 20-30 south. High Friday 34-40 north, 40-48 south. Sunset 6:20 p. m., sunrise Friday 7:38 a. m.

14KilledAs Flames Raze Nursing Home Convalescent Home In lowa Destroyed By Fire Wednesday ‘ COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa (UP) _ —Authorities sought today to iden- ' tify two of 14 persons killed when ■ flames flashed through a 75-year--1 old frame convalescent home, trapping many of the victims in 1 their beds. Ten persons were injured in the ■ blaze Wednesday afternoon, but ; only one was reported in critical ' condition. Eight others were hospitalized. There were 48 persons in the building when the fire broke out. The nursing home heused 32 patients. Most of those who fled un- , injured were employes. Three , children of an employe also es? caped injury. Two Victims Unidentified The search for more victims was called off early today when one of the missing patients was found wandering about in a daze some 13 hours later. The woman, Annie Orme, about 70, had been listed among the victims. She was found by Council Bluffs police frying to enter a home near the nursing hornet Mrs. Orme told nuihortties sbe I had spent most of the time in a • nearby woodland. She suffered exposure and shock. The bodies of two victims were ; still unidentified. Officials be- , lieved the unidentified bodies were those of Mrs. Mathilda Luchow , and Mrs. Rose Cochran, both patients. Authorities theorized the fire , was touched off by an elderly ’ woman patient when her cigaret touched a plastic window curtain. License Had Expired ' The fire broke out while many of the patients and employes were finishing lunch. Miss Cleo Clark, an employe, said she heard the cry of “fire!” and dashed to a room where 15-month-old Kim Pattin was sleeping. “I picked him up and made for the back door,” she said. “It felt like there were flames all around me. My arms were burned and Kim’s eyebrows were singed.” The fire quickly swept the nursing home, whose patients ranged in age from the 60s into the 90s. The top two floors of the threestory structure crashed into the basement. lowa Public Health Commissioner Dr. Edmund Zimmerer said the building’s nursing home license had expired last July 1 and was not renewed because of “certain deficiencies." Miss Mary Tumbleson lies Last Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Miss Mary Estella Tumbleson, 84, lifelong resident of Adams ccuhty, died at 9:25 o’clock Wednesday night at her home four miles east and one mile north of Berne. Death was attributed to complications. She had been bedfast for three weeks. She was born in Blue Creek township Jan. 3, 1873, a daughter of Samuel and Sarah DickeyTumbleson, and had never married. Miss Tumbleson was a member of the Church of God at Willshire, O. Surviving are one brother, John Tumbleson, at home, ahd two sisters, Miss Otte P. Tumbleson, at home, and Mrs. Manley Irwin, Decatur. Three brothers and three sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the Rev. W. Earl Patrick officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope cemetery, east of Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon. Friday until time of the services. - •

Seeks Increase In ’ Savings Bond Rafe Asks/For Increase In Interest Rates WASHINGTON (UP) - The Treasury Department asked Congress today to let it increase the interest rate on government savings bonds from 3 to 3¥< per cent. The department submitted to the House and Senate a bill that would give it flexible authority to increase the interest rate on ’E’ and *H* bonds to as high as 4¥< percent, if necessary. But officials said the department planned only a ¥4 of 1 per cent increase. The new rates would be retroactive to Feb. 1. Treasury officials said they hope Congress will pass the legislation promptly. Several important members of Congress already have said they approve such a plan. Treasury officials said the move was necessary because of lagging sales of *E' and ‘H’ bonds and constantly rising redemptions. Many commercial banks have raised interest rates on savings accounts to 3 per cent as the result of a recent government action permitting them to do so. Many savings and loan associations now are paying 3¥z per cent dividends on money deposited with them. Some are paying 4 per cent. Bond sales last year fell 8600 million short of the Treasury’s goal of more than $5.6 billion. The < 1957 goal was pared down to 85 Durtaw January cash-ins ‘ to tff highest monthly ICI in nearly 11 years—ss47 million. At . the same time, new sales totaled ' only $465 million. ’ The Treasury also announced ’ that the maturity length of the popular *E* bonds will be shortened ' from the present 9 years and 8 , months to 8 years and 11 months. It also said the redemption value of the new bond will be increased ' in the early years to provide a substantially higher yield and permit competition with other short term investments. For example, the return on the new bond would be 3 per cent after three years instead of the present 2¥< per cent. Monroe Town Hall Put Up For Sale Pfan New Building For Trucks, Office The town hall building at Monroe will be sold Monday and the building removed from the premises to make room for a bigger building for three fire vehicles. Sealed bids sent this week to Arthur Moeschberger, secretarytreasurer of the town board, will be opened at 6 p.m. Monday. A new building will be erected to provide space for the present fire truck, a new rural truck, and a water wagon. The building will also house the town truck, which js used by the street, electric and water departments. In addition, office space and a meeting room will be providedThe new building is a project of the Monroe fije department, and the money will not come from taxes. Several .projects are planned to raise funds for the construction. Paul Zuercher, head of the fire department, stated that many of the things in the new building, such as plumbing, will be donated, and much labor will be furnished by the department members. Bids are being requested now for the building, which will be of brick or cement block. The new fire truck, which was purchased recently by the rural subscribers of the department, is expected to be delivered in the early summer, possibly June. City Finance Board Meet; Next-Monday The board of finance for the city of Decatur will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at city hall for the purpose of accepting bids for the deposit of city funds. The board is composed of the city council members, with Mayor Robert Cole as president.

Measure Aimed Al Uniformity Os Stale Time Provides For Six Months Slow Time, i Six Months On Fast INDIANAPOLIS (111 — The Indiana Senate approved today by * big margin a bill to give Hoosiers uniform time—half a year on “slow” time and the other half . on “fast.” By a vote of 38-12, the senators ; sent to the House a measure . aimed at withholding state aid 1 and fining and jailing officials of 1 local governmental units who disregard the law. The House was expected a few ! hours later to have a similar ■ showdown on a lower house measure making it unlawful to operate ’on anything except Central 1 Standard Time and exacting penalties for officials — but not ‘ withholding state aid from violators. i House Speaker George S. Diener said the House bill may come up for passage this afternoon. 1 The Senate measure was aimed 1 ui miformity of time for a state > now split down the middle by a > zigzag line dividing a year-round “fast” time zone from a part1 fltae tone mm,,. - 1 In effect, it appeared the bill t was a compromise between large i segments of voters who, at a referendum last Nov. 8, racked up 1 big totals for year-round obser- • vance of CST and CDST. Many observers believed the referendum 1 showed most persons wanted uni- - formity as much as anything. Has Teeth In It The bill is equipped with sharp 1 teeth. It provides that all Hoosierland must be on Central Standard Time from the last Sunday in October to the last Saturday in April, a six-month period. It also provides that everybody must switch to Daylight Saving Time for the other six months. If communities fail to follow the provisions of the law, local gov- „ ernmental officials could be fined from $lO to SI,OOO and jailed up to 60 days. It also would withhold state funds from balky communities which refused to comply. « Sen. Arthur Wilson (D-Prince-tcn.) author of the measure, said the bill as amended provides uniformity. “I’m a CST man myself,” Wilson said, “But what the people wanted was a uniform time.” Among the opponents were Sen. James Dunn R-Lawrenceburg) and Sen. Willis K. Batchelet (IlAngola.) “Confusion to Confusion” “This is going to add confusion to confusion,” Dunn said in floor debate before the showdown vote. Batchelet said withholding state funds from commnities violating the law would make the state guilty of “exactly what we have told the federal government not to do.” He referred to charges that federal aid to states include the implication of control. Besides Dunn and Batchelet. these senators voted against the bill: Ira Anderson (D-Uniontown), Eugene Bainbridge (D-Munster,) Kenneth Brown (R-Muncie), Arthur Coblentz (R-Liberty Mills), Von Eichhorn (D-Unkmdale), Keith Fraser (R-Portland), John Harlan (R-Richmond), Robert Justice (R-Logansport), Robert O’Bannon (D-Corydon) and Lucius Somers (R-Hoagland.) Earlier a showdown on the controversial “right to work’ bill was postponed in the House. The bill, which would outlaw union shop contracts in Hoosierland, came out of the House Labor Committee oh schedule but nobody moved to head it off. Obviously, opponents of t h e measure were holding their fire until it comes up for second reading at which time it can be amended. Second reading probably will come Friday or Saturday. (C«ittaM4 Ml Five)

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