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INDICATING THE RAMPANT RISE in U. S. population, Liz Du Ross of Fairfax, Va., ascends a ladder at the Census Bureau in Washington to point to the giant electric register. The register showed at 11 a. m. (EST) Friday that the U. S. population had grown to 170,000,000 persons.

Diplomats Are Shocked Over Soviet Shift Russians Learn Os Ministerial Shift From Party Paper MOSCOW (UP)- The Russian people learned from a back page announcement in the Communist Party organ Pravda today that Andrei Gromyko had replaced Dmitri Shepilov as foreign minister. , ; _....,, The announcement, appearing at the bottom of the page, also told them that Nikolai Pattolichev, a 'little known deputy foreign minister, had peen elevated to Groinyko’s old post as first deputy. If the Russian people were surprised, diplomats here were shocked. The removal of shaggyheaded, 51-year-old Shepilov at such a critical time in the Middle East situation caught them unawares. Western diplomats adopted a wait-and-see attitude on just what the sudden emergence of the 47-year-old Gromyko in the top foreign policy spot means. But their initial reaction was that it meant no change in Soviet foreign policy —no return to the “tough” cold war policy of old Bolshevik Vyacheslav M. Molotov, once Gromyko’s boss. Israel Optimistic (In Jerusalem, Israeli sources said Gro my k o’s appointment might a turn for the better. They regarded it as a slap at the Arabs since Shepilov had played the part of Arab champion in die current Middle East situation while Gromyko helped create the state of Israel when he was a U.N. delegate in 1948. (A dispatch from Cairo said Shepilov’s removal as foreign minister caused “general regret” in Cairo circles since he had strongly | supported Egypt and was believed to have played an important role in getting ’Communist arms for Egypt. (U.S. officials in Washington viewed the shift as the beginning of a new attack on unrest inside the Soviet Union rather than the start of any new tough foreign policy. (In Tokyo, Japanese government experts said the shift actually was designed to strengthen First Party Secretary Nikita S. Krushchevs hand by putting Shepilov — regarded as a Khrushchev protege — back on the Communist Party’s central committee as a secretary. (A dispatch from London said tdp diplomats throughout Europe appeared to agree that there would be no radical change in Soviet foreign policy because of the switch.) Presidium Formulates Policy Western diplomats in Moscow pointed out that Soviet foreign policy is formulated by the 11-man Communist Party presidium and! not by one individual such as Molotov or Shepilov or Gromyko. These diplomats said if there is any change in Soviet Middle East policy it probably would be one of approach rather than action. They pointed out that Shepilov’s foreign policy speech last Tuesday, in which he called for the Big Four powers to agree to a “hands off” arrangement for the Middle East, was approved by the Supreme Soviet. Shepilov took orders from the presidium as Molotov did before him and Gromyko will do now, the diplomats said. NOON EDITION

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Record Budget May Go To House Monday State Budget Now Is $763 Millions INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A record biennial • budget for Indiana may go before the House Monday afternoon, its size cut 3Mt per cent by the month-long efforts of a legislative committee. Months ago, when the requests of department heads were totted i up. the budget proposals totaled > more than a billion dollars. The : State Budget Committee trimmed : it to 790 million dollars. I The House Ways & Means “A” • Committee sliced off about 27 million dollars during sessions since i mid-January, and bills encompassI ing the budget for the 1957-59 bii ennium now call for expenditures ■ of about 763 million dollars. The last act of the committee Friday night was to cut 9761,000 from the budget of the state ad- > jutaat general’s office, an amount requested for National Guard ; armory construction, and more than $1,200,000 from amounts requested for construction at state institutions. The latter included $48,000 for an Indiana State Police sub-post, $75,000 for water and sewage improvements at the Indiana State Penal Farm, $450,000 for a dormitory at- the Indiana Reformatory, $250,000 for a hospital building and SIIO,OOO for an employes building at the Indiana Soldiers Home, $200,000 for a medical and surgical building at the Indiana State Sanatorium, and SBO,OOO for a water tower at the State School for the Deaf. The committee also approved a school fund distribution plan which chairman Paul Clay (R-Indianapo-lis) said would mean no increase in funds for the state’s share of teacher salaries. Clay said this would mean no state raise in teacher salaries. The committee voted 9-4 to accept the proposal which Clay suggested. ~~~~ I The proposal also included a change in the present distribution formula for tuition and transportation funds sent to local schools. Clay said _ under the plan each school unit” would receive in 1958 and 1959 the same amount it receives in 1957, provided the enrollment stayed the same. In effect. Clay said, his distribution plan is a “freeze” to be in effect while a special committee studies the problem and comes up with a better formula for the 1959 Legislature. Clay and other committee members believed the plan might have rough sledding when the House gets the budget next week and goes over it item by item, meeting as a committee of the whole. For one thing, there is considerable sentiment for teacher pay increases. . ,: “7 Purse Snatched From Widow, Loses $3,000 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Mrs. Katherine Riggs, 62, a widow, told police three youths .grabbed her purse Friday night in an alley. She said the purse contained $3,000 savings from her job as superintendent of an apartment building. Ex-Corn King Dies At Home At Danville DANVILLE, Ind. (UP) — John Lux, 83, who won an international grain growing title in 1928 with a single ear of yellow corn, died Thursday night. Lux’s brother, Peter, also a former world corn king, died at Shelbyville last December.

Lower Voting Age Unlikely, For Hoosiers Assembly Leaders Doubtful 18 Year Measure To Pass INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —Leaders in the Indiana Legislature are pessimistic over the prospects of new efforts to give Hoosier 18-year-olds the right to vote, and one of them blamed part of the plan’s loss of popularity on Elvis Presley. But even if efforts in this session were successful, the earliest possible date an 18-year-old dould vote in a general election would be 1962. Three resolutions with that purpose in mind are in the legislative mill, and one is eligible for final passage in the House. But such an amendment to the Constitution must pass two legislatures in a row, and then be ratified in a voter referendum. House Republican leader Robert Webb of Arcadia even blamed the ’’Elvis Presley influence” for a decline in the thinking that 18-year-olds were mature enough to accept voting responsibilities. Two identical Senate resolutions calling for an 18-year-old franchise were bogged down in the Senate Elections Committee. But one in the House, authored by Reps.. Robert Schmidt (R-Logansport)” and Richard Wright (R-Winchester), was passed out of the House Labor Committee without recommendation. Predicts Uphill Fight The Schmidt-Wright measure also survived second reading, and was expected to be called down any day for a showdown. Wright conceded it would be “an uphill fight.” A similar House measure two years ago lost 53-41. House Democratic leader Birch Bayh, co-author of the 1955 resolution which called for 19-year-old voting,’ said he was for the current move but he doubted the minority would support it “as a body.” In the Senate, neither Republican caucus chairman Roy Conrad nor Democratic floor leader Matthew Welsh believed the Senate resolutions would come out of committee. Conrad, co-author of one of them, complained Labor Committee Chairman Burr Sheron of Marion “refuses to bring it up.” The other co-sponsor is Sen. Robert Justice. (R-Logansport). Those who favor lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 argue if youngsters that age are required to fight our wars and pay taxes like adults, they should bg allowed to help choose the elected officials who declare war and levy taxes. House Gets Budget Soon Wright, a high school teacher, said it was “psychologically unsound” to teach youths government “theory” in the classroom, then deny them the right to put it into practice. Webb said he felt advocates of 18-year-old voting lost ground in recent months because of the behavior typified by some followers of the latest teen-age idol. Meanwhile, the assembly’s two budget-cutting committees held long sessions in an effort to have the record-high budget bill ready for presentation to the House by Monday. The House passed late Friday a bill designed to eliminate “quickie marriages.” The bill by Reps. Richard Guthrie (R-Indianapolis) and Car-

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 16,1957

Eisenhower Summons Dulles And Lodge To Talk On Middle East

Scrap Between Unions Delays End Os Strike Inter-Union Split Slows Negotiations In Strike On Docks NEW YORK (IP) — An interunion split hampered efforts today to end the strike of 45,000 East, Coast dock workers. v The dissension broke into the open Friday when leaders of three powerful New York locals of the International Longshoremen’s, Association and a score of their followers stormed from a meeting of the union's 110-man negotiating committee. * At the urging of ILA President William Bradley, however, the dissidents returned to the meeting later, agreed to resume caucusing today. Breaking out of the long-hinted dissension—the most dramatic development of the strike—assured continuation of the walkout through the week end, at least. But it was possible that union negotiators would meet late this afternoon with representatives of the strikebound New York Shipping Assn. Both sides were known to b£» close U agreement on a new contract. Settlement of the dispute today, however, would not get cargoes moving since dock workers must receive week end work orders by Friday. Friday’s walkout by union negotiators stemmed from a vote in which the ILA bargaining committee agreed, by a margin of 131 to 60, to recoasider an employer offer that had been rejected Thursday. The dissenters had strongly opposed reconsideration of what the shipping association called its “final offer.” So far, the dock strike, affecting ports from Maine to Virginia, has not had a severe effect on the nation’s commerce, mainly because movement of ocean-going freight had been stepped up in anticipation of the work stoppage. (Continued on Pace Six) Three Breakins Are Reported In City Three 13th Street Breakins Reported The temporary lull in 13th street breakins was ended last night or this morning when three busines- ' ses were entered. Breakins were reported to city police this morning by MorriSon ; Farm Stores at 319 South 13th street. Smith Pure Milk company at 134 South 13th street, and Roop’s Homewood Grocery at-Li(s Washington street. i The hardest hit was Smith’s ' milk company, where entry was : made by breaking out the glass in a west side window and unlatch- ’ ing it. Several drawers in a desk were ■ broken open ahd rifled. Two billfolds, each containing about $25, I were missing, and about SSO in change was also taken. The burglars tried unsuccessful- ’ ly to pry open a safe. A long screw driver was left at the scene. The breakin was discovered early ] this morning by Ralph Smith, Jr. Entrance to the Morrison store ! was gained through .a basement , window on the north side of the building. About $4 was taken 1 from a soft drink vending 4n a chine 1 and a money drawer. , j Brice Roop reported that his ; grocery was entered through a west window into the kitchen. He stated that apparently nothing was missing but it was possible that candy and cigerettes were taken. Similar breakins, concentrated mostly in the 13th street business area, have been plaguing Decatur for several months. City, state and Adams county authorities tre cooperating in the investigation of the series of breakins.

Humphrey Declares No Recession Sign Statement Made By Treasury Secretary WASHINGTON (UP) — Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey says there are “no signs of a recession.” He made the statement behind closed doors to a House appropriations subcommittee Jan. 25. The testimony was made public Friday. Humphrey prevously had warned that continued high government could lead to a depression that would “curl your hair.” He made his new comments on the economic outlook when asked about the administration’s budget ’forecast of increased government tax revenue in the fiscal year starting July 1. Humphrey said it was based on an assumption of continued prosperity through the fiscal year ending June 30. 1958, and there is “no reason” to change the assumption. • »vnat we nave done,” he said, “is to assume approximately the same rate of activity that we have had in the past two years. “We have assumed that the personal incomes are going to continue to rise the rest of this fiscal year and in the next fiscal year at the same rate as a year ago. ... "I do nor Know wnerner they will or not, but I do not think we can very well prognosticate on any •other basis for this simple reason, that if we do it means we are forecasting a recession. “Well, there are no signs,, of a recession. If someone said to me, ‘Do you see signs that we are in for trouble? Do you think business and the volume of activity will greatly decline in the next 18 iConunuvo on raa« <*lx> Elizabeth Flies To Meeting With Duke Scotching Rumor Os British Royal Rift LISBON (UP)—Queen Elizabeth II flies to Portugal to meet her husband today for a reunion and second honeymoon which Britons hope will scotch rumors of a royal rift. The young queen and the dashing Duke of Edinburgh will see each other for the first time in four months when the queen’s plane, a turboprop Viscount, lands | at Montijo Military Airport outside Lisbon, the end of a fourho>”’ trip from London. i They will have but a few min- , utes of privacy aboard the plane. Waiting to welcome them were ; the heads of commonwealth diplomatic missions here and members of the British Embassy. Also waiting were some 100 reporters and photographers, mostly British, High-powered cameras were focused to catch the slightest, ges-, ture or facial expression that might indicate the truth or falsity of reports the duke’s affections have cooled after nine years as royal consort. An American newspaper in Baltimore first printed the report last week. A press spokesman at Buckingham Palace denied it. Royal protocol forbids any display of affection. The queen and the duke must not hold hands. His post is a step behind her and not too close to her side, a retainer rather than husband. Queen Elizabeth last saw the duke Oct. ’ 15. Since then he has been to the Australian Olympic games and traveled some 35,000 miles on official visits from the near-Antarctic to the tropics. Instead of flying home to join the queen, Philip has whiled away the last week at Gibraltar. He arrived at Montijo early today to await her arrival. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little colder tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and a little warmer in the afternoon. Low tonight 18-28, high Sunday mid 30s to low 40s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer with a chance of some rain or snow nortlxand rain south.

U. S. Officials Doubt Changes In Red Policy DIPLOMATS Naming Gromyko Is Seen As Movie To Curb Red Unrest vy.2 .. UP6S Feb 16 AB27a ... By DONALD J. GONZALES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)—U.S. officials today viewed the top-level shift In the Soviet Foreign Ministry as the beginning of a new attack on unrest inside the Soviet Union. Experts studying the surprise shift of Andrei A. Gromyko for Dmitri Shepilov as Soviet Foreign Minister doubted that it meant the start of a tough new foreign policy. They said the bulk of available evidence indicates that Shepilov has been shifted from the Foreign Ministry to take on the job of bucking up sagging interest for the Comrhunist Party and its ideology on the homefront. Western officials for manymonths have been hearing significant reports of unrest, dissatisfaction and disillusionment inside the Soviet Union. They have chiefly involved questioning of Soviet policies by workers and students. Most of the reports followed the fall uprising In Hungary. Shepilov is regarded as a crack propagandist and party politician "reared” by Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev. Now he has been shifted to be a secretary of the Communist Party’s central committee—a post he dropped just last December. In his new job, he could open a new campaign designed to quell questioning of the Red regime's policies. Shepilov has gained a consider able reputation during the last two years for stirring up trouble in the Middle East. He is credited with triggering the Soviet - Egyptian arms deal which brought about the Suez and Middle Eastern crises. On the other hand, Gromyko was schooled as a professional diplomat rather than a politician. He served a long apprenticeship under V. M. Molotov and Andrei Y. Vishinsky, -who were Stalin’s foreign policy hatchet men. Experts pointed out that Gromyko is admirably fitted to direct a tougher Soviet foreign policy. But they doubted that the Soviets can or will make any "sharp turn” in foreign policy so long as they are beset by satellite troubles and home unrest. Dr. Monl C. Oliver I Dies In Michigan Methodist Pastor - Native Os Monroe Dr. Mont C. Oliver, former Mon- j roe resident, and pastor of the 1 Methodist church at Lake Orion, Mich., died Thursday at his home . in that city. He. was a son of the ( lute Thomas B. and Mary Aldeena ] Hocker-Oliver, who resided at ( Monroe. » i Following his graduation from Taylor University, Dr. Oliver ac- ] cepted a pastorate at Mount Mor- i ris, Mich. He later served at i Flushing and then moved to De- ] troit, where he served as pastor ' for 17 years, resigning due to ill 1 health from a heart ailment to accept the smaller charge at ’ Lake Orlon. He is survived by his wife, ] Mary; two daughters, Evelyn and 1 Justine, and nine brothers and ’ sisters, including Mrs. Lucille Ru- , pert of Decatur, Walter C. Oliver of near Monroe, and Mrs. Fran- . cille Keller of Rockford, O. Funeral services will be con- ( ducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at j the Methodist church at Lake Or- . ion, with burial at Lake Orion.

Chief Investigator In Case Dismissed Authorities Scrap Over Grimes Case CHICAGO (UP) - Authorities investigating the deaths of the teen-age Grimes sisters were taking sides today in a dispute over evidence colored by medical and political difference?. The hassle began when Harry J. Glos, chief investigator for Cook County Coroner Walter E. McCarron, disclosed evidence which he said had been covered up in the investigation of the deaths of Barbara, 15. and Patricia, 13. The immediate repercussions of the Thursday news conference were the dismissal of Glos by Coroner McCarron for insubordination, and the development of two camps whose members are either supporting or trying to refute the truth of Glos’ statements. Glos contended the girls had been beaten, tortured and sexually molested between their disappearance Dec. 28 and when their nude and frozen bodies were found in a ditch Jan. 13. He said these facts had been suppressed, perhaps in consideration of the feelings of the mother. Glos had said he expected to be fired for releasing Ris information without McCarron's approval. McCarron, in dismissing Glos, said: “He is publicity mad.” Glos said he and McCarron were rivals for sheriff and that McCarron “told me I’d spoil his chances of going jdaces.” Both men are from the same community and from a political standpoint could not run for the office simultaneously. Chief of Detectives Patrick Deeley supported Glos’ charge of sexual molestation against Barbara Grimes but criticized Glos for disclosing the evidence. "Glos has knocked the props out from under our case,” Deeley said. He explained that police had hoped to use this information in questioning suspects and checking statements. The dispute brought renewed attention to Bennie Bedwell, the young Skid Row itinerant who confessed and then denied killing the girls. Glos and Sheriff Joseph D. Lohman said Bedwell remained the prime suspect in the case, even though he is free under $20,000 bond on murder charges in the case.

Detroit Man Seized For Wife's Murder Wife Is Murdered In Crowded Store b-.wl 1 UP2B killer vso3a 2-16 DETROIT (UP)— A gun-waving alcoholic who shot and killed his wife in a crowded department store as shoppers watched in horror Surrendered to police early today in a downtown hotel room. Homicide squad officers said Rolin J. Jackson, 52, was located during a routine check of hotel registers. They said the fugitive had registered under his own name. Jackson was taken without a struggle. Officers said they knocked at his door and told him 1 they were from room service. When Jackson opened the door the police rushed in, tackled him and took him to headquarters where he is being held for investigation of murder. A loaded pistol was found in the room. Jackson touched off a huge police search Friday when he strolled into the crowded basement of the J. L. Hudson Co., and, pistol in hand, began stalking his wife, Helen, 50, through the crowd of terrified shoppers. Mrs. Jackson, a shoe clerk in the store, saw her husband coming and began running through the crowd shouting, “Help me! Please help me! My husband is after met” Her husband threaded his way after her through the throng, then raised the pistol and began shooting. Mrs. Jackson went down with three bullets in the stomach. She died enroute to a nearby hospital. Bullets whipped past nearby shoppers, some of whom threw them(Contlnuod on Pago Six)

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Dulles, Lodge hr Georgia To Talk With Ike Conditions Issued By Israel On Plan Virtual Rejection By EUGENE MCLOUGHLIN United Press Staff Correspondent President Eisenhower huddled with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and U. N. Ambassador . Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. today to form a top level decision on the next U.S. move to stave off a new Middle East crisis. Dulles and Lodge rushed Friday night to Thomasville, Gai, ’ where the President is vacationing at Treasury Secretary George I M. Humphrey’s Milestone Plantation. The three held a 45-minute con- , ference and then scheduled another meeting at breakfast today. Conditions Add To Rejection Dulles arrived from Washington , where he held an 80-minute conference with Israeli Ambassador , Abba S. Eban. The Israeli diplo- ' mat was reported to have attached so many conditions to the Dulles plan to get Israel out of ’ Egypt that it was, in effect, a res jection. . The State Department expressed j “regret” over Eban’s failure to i give Dulles a “responsive" anl swer to the U. S. plan. I Diplomatic sources in Washing- ■ ton said Israel did not think the Dulles plan went far enough in : providing guarantees against a re- ! sumption of belligerency by Egypt . after an Israeli troop withdrawal. Egypt Also Has Conditions In other Mideast developments: —President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt was reported by an Indian diplomat who spoke to him this week to have said he insists “certain conditions" be met before the canal is opened to shipping. This appeared to include complete withdrawal of Israeli troops. —Two pro-Nasser newspapers in Beirut, Lebanon, charged that Dulles’ agreement to back up Israel’s demands for guarantees on the Gulf of Aqaba and the Gaza Strip would “dynamite the Eisenhower Doctrine. . .destroy Eisenhower’s pacification efforts in the Mideast." —Former President Truman prepared to deliver a major foreign policy address on the Middle East before some 2,000 Jewish leaders at an Israeli bond drive in Miami Beach tonight. Industrial Fund Deficit Is $5,000 Seek Contributions To Industrial Fund The deficiency in the Greater Decatur fund for the purchase of an industrial site at the southwest limits of the city still stood at about $5,000 today, as donations from individuals slowed down to a trickle. Latest Decatur residents to endorse the project with contributions to the fund were Miss Anna Adler and Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Doty and sons. According to Fred Kolter, executive secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce which is sponsoring the project, a total of $17,294 has actually been banked toward the purchase of the Scheimann property. About $4,000 in pledges is still outstanding. The Scheimann property, considered the best available industrial site in the city of Decatur, will be offered to an industry which locates a plant in this city. The purchase of the property is a main part of the Chamber’s industrial promotion project, which seeks to bring new industry to the community. Local residents who approve the project are being asked to make contributions of any amount by sending them to the local Chamber office. -- • -■ ■-