Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 44, Decatur, Adams County, 21 February 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 44.

Liz And Mike Return To Hollywood wE BjF ELIZABETH TAYLOR and Mike Todd return to Hollywood after their wedding in Mexico. The couple will vacation in Palm Springs where Miss Taylor will rest from her recent spinal operation. In April she . will accompany her husband to Europe where he will produce a picture.

Gov. Handley Asks Increase In Gross Tax

INDIANAPOLIS (UP)- The Indiana Legislature virtually completed action today on a bill which will raise the price of gasoline two cents a gallon and a moment later heard Governor Handley call for a 35 per cent increase in the gross income tax rate. The Senate passed 39-10 and sent tack to the House for concurrence in a relatively minor amedttment a bill to hike the gasoline tax from four to six cents, raising millions of dollars in additional revenues for highway building and maintenance. Handley, in his second speech to the lawmakers in little more than five weeks, called for an "equitable” 35 per cent across-the-board boost in the gross income tax rate and a withholding system for paying it, but urged the legislators not to deny taxpayers their present SI,OOO exemption. Motorists Pay $lO More The gas tax hike would mean motorists driving 10,000 miles and getting 20 miles to the gallon . would pay $lO a year more in gasoline taxes than they now do. A 35 per cent gross income tax hike would mean a taxpayer making $5,000 a year would pay sl4 more than the S4O he now pays. The Senate passed 42-8 a second bill raising the diesel fuel tax by two cents. Sens. Roy Conrad of Monticello, John Ruckelshaus of Indianapolis and James Dunn of Lawrenceburg were the only Republicans voting against the gas tex hike bill, and Dunn the only GOP. member against the diesel tex hike. Handley's special message on texes proposed the 35 per cent gross tax hike to help raise state revenues expected to run 75 million dollars below anticipated expenses the next two years. Handley also urged imposition of a payroll withholding system for collecting the gross tex, and a three-mill net worth tex on business firms exempted from gross income texes because of ar inequity in the 24-year-old law. The governor, in an unprecedented second appearance before the 90th General Assembly, also recommended repeal of 14 cents of the 15-cent state property tax and said he would veto a sales tax bill which 'would tex the widow's bread.” .» Handley termed his second appearance “unprecedented but very necessary.” He said the record biennial budget for 1957-59 which the House passed Wednesday, calling for expenditures of about 760 million dollars, “remains fantastic at this moment unless a practical program is devised to finance it.” Would Continue Exemption Handley recommended that the gross income tex hike be made on an across-the-board basis, and not by a means similar to the soldier bonus surtax which amounted to a flat one-fourth of one per. cent and raised farmers’ taxes 100 per cent while hiking the average wave earner's tax by only 25 per eent He advised retention of the present SI,OOO individual exemption, which Republican majority members of the Legislature had been considered repealing, and Indicated it should be handled in the form of a refund to taxpayers from the State Department of Revenue rather than to compllicate the books of employers required to withhold the taxes from workers’ pay checks.

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• | Atom Rockets Guard Cities And Industry Defense Secretary Reveals Vast Power . Os Atom Weapons WASHINGTON (UP)— KiU-at-a-distance atomic air defense weapons are now protecting American cities and industries from enemy H-bombers. They are being stored at air defense command bases throughout continental United States. Their vast power, according to Defease Secretary Charles E. Wilson, provides a new deterrent against aggression by air. First of the new defense weapons, announced by Wilson Wednesday,is gn air-to-air rocket launched by high-flying interceptor aircraft. It “is now available.” Also to be “deployed” within the United States are nuclear warheads for such surface-to-air guided missiles as the Army’s NikeHercules, a far-ranging improvement on the non-atomic Nike-Ajax now defending major target areas, and the Navy’s shipboard. Talos. Rockets Now Ready While the new atom-tipped rockets are ready now, defense officials said it may be nearly a year before the surface-to-air guided missiles are equipped with nuclear warheads. Hinting at new atomic weapons still to come, the Defense Department said “the present deployment of these weapons is a first step in improving our air defense capabilities.” It was the first official admission that so-called tactical atomic veapons, as distinguished from the vastly more violent H-bomb, have actually been assigned to the forces for which they were designed. It has long been known that the U.S. Strategic Air Command has . custody of the big bombs with vhich it would retaliate against enemy cities for any attack on his country. Atomic Weapons Stock Piled And authoritative sources also have said atomic artillery shells, missile warheads, and bombs have been stockpiled abroad for his country’s NATO land, sea, and air forces that would use hem to repel aggression against Europe from the East. All of the armed services want all the tactical atoipic weapons hey can get—considerably more, actually, than are now being produced — and the military has not 1 yet announced its 1957 needs to the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. But Wilson’s announcement was an explicit statement, the first hat custody of nuclear warheads (Coßtlßaed ob Paco Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy ahd warmer tonight. Friday mostly cloudy, rain or snow extreme north and occasional rain central and south. Turning colder i north portion Friday. Low tonight 25-30 north, 30-35 south. < High Friday 30-35 north, 35-45 ( south. Sunset 6:28 p. m., sun- 1 I rise Friday 7:29 a. m.

Ike Supports U.N. Move On Israel Action Eisenhower Speaks To Nation Wednesday Night On Mid-East WASHINGTON (UP) — Israeli circles today condemned President Eisenhower for throwing U.S. support behind a United Nations move to “exert pressure” on Israel if it does not withdraw its troops from Egypt. i—--_Jbe initial angry reaction suggested that Israel does not plan, as the President had hoped it would, to give in on the withdrawal issue as a result .of the U.S. stand. ' Mr. Eisenhower discussed the “fateful” Middle East crisis in a nationwide radio-TV address Wednesday night. He reiterated his hope that "Israel will see that its best immediate and long-term interests” lie in complying with a U.N. order to pull out of the .Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba areas of Egypt , Believes Pressure Needed But he said that if Israel continued its refusal, "I believe in the interests or peace toe United Nations has no choiee but to exert pressure upon Israel to comply.” To give Israel a last chance to re<-—«Mer, the United States succeeded in gaining ohe more—and fiu<u — postponement of a U.N. showdown on applying sanctions against the Jewish nation. The U.N. session, originally scheduled for today, will be held Friday instead. In Jerusalem, Premier David Ben-Gurion called the Israeli cabinet into emergency session and planned to address an extraordinary session of the Knesset (Parliament) afterwards. Dim The United States hoped that Mr. Eisenhower’s declaration of U.S. support for some form of U.N. action against Israel would convince the Israeli cabinet to *Ccept UN- demands for a troop withdrawal. ■ * ' Those hopes dimmed, however, when highly placed Israeli sources in Washington early today made a strong attack on toe President's speech. They labeled as “com- . pletely misleading” the main points of the President’s address. Mr. Eisenhower carefully refrained from spelling out what sort of “pressure” the United States would support against Israel in the United Nations if it continued to defy the world organization. But he indicated he was thinking more in terms of “moral ( Continued ob Pare Five) Georgia Legislature Debates Resolution Asks Impeachment Os Court Justices By UNITED PRESS Gov. Marvin Griffin's resolution calling for impeachment of six U. S. Supreme Court justices goes to the floor of the Georgia Senate for rush-hour debate today. The Senate Rules Committee endorsed the House-approved resolution 7-1 with just two full days left in the 1957 state legislative session. The resolution calls on the Georgia congressional delegations to begin impeachment proceedings on the ground that the justices committed “high crimes” and “misdemeanors” in some decisions concerning segregation and states' rights. The justices named are Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Associate Justices Tom C. Clark, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Stanley F. The Georgia House also began final action on a proposed ban on mixed baseball which theoretically could prohibit a scheduled performance by Negro trumpeter Louis Armstrong and his troupe tonight in Augusta, Ga. Armstrong and his combo of white and Negro musicians have several other engagements in Georgia this weekend that the bill would prohibit if passed and signed by the governor in time. The main target of the bill is the presence of Negro players on teams of the South Atlantic League. The House also debated a minor amendment in final action on a bill preventing “persons or organizations from conspiring to' break the law for purposes of bringing test suits.” This measure is aimed at curtailing activity of the National Assn, for toe Advancement of Colored People, whose integration drives have been targets of investigations in Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Virginia. I A

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Joseph Railing Killed As Car, Truck Collide In Ohio This Morning

$60.8 Million Is Chopped Off Interior Dept. House Committee Makes Reduction > In Budget Request 1 WASHINGTON (UP)-The Hou* Appropriations Committee chopped $60.8 million today out of President Eisenhower’s budget request for the Interior Department. The 12 per cent cut—the second approved by the committee so far in Mr. Eisenhower’s record $71.8 billion peacetime spending budget —would give the department and minor related agencies $454.4 million for the 12 months starting July 4. The President had asked for $515.2 million. The economy-minded committee members told the House that “substantial reduction” must be made all along the line to relieve the drain of federal expenditures on the taxpayers of the nation.” The House Wednesday approved the committee’s first effort at budget-cutting, passing a bill which cut $80.3 million—or 2 per cent—in the nearly $4 billion requested to run the Post Office and Treasury departments and the U,S. Tax Courts in fiscal 1958. -W The deepest cut in toe interior bill came in the committee’s outright rejection of a request for S4O million to continue government subsidies for domestic producers of certain minerals—tungsten, asbestos, fluorspar, and columbiumtantalum. ___7: ■ ~ “The committee feels strongly," its report said, “that it is far more' important to grat essential increases for the development and protection of our national resources —including forestry, soil and moisture conservation, land management, geological surveys, and fish and wildlife —tor toe benefit of toe entire nation, than to appropriate a large increase for the benefit of a relatively few mining producers.” Among other major items in the Interior Department bill: The National Park Service got $77,580,000, an increase of $9,560,000 over toe current year although $1,071,000 less than the President asked. Included was $20,000,000, as requested, for so-called Mission 66 construction program to meet public demands in the parks by 1966. The Agriculture Department’s Forest Service got $93,570,000, a budget cut of $3,730,000 although an increase of $16,609,250 from toe current year. For the Bureau of Indian Affairs the committee al(Contlnned on Pace Five) Agreement Reached To End Dock Strike Tugboat Crewmen, Employers Agreed NEW YORK Iff) — Tugboat crewmen and their employers reached an agreement early today that settled a 20-day-old tugboat strike. Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Frank Brown, regional director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, announced that “both parties had reached agreement” on a new six-year contract. The cohtract is subject to ratification by members of Local 333 of the United Marine Division, national Maritime Union, which represents 4,000 tug, barge, lighter and tanker crewmen in New York harbor. Capt. Joseph O’Hare, president of the union, said he would call a meeting Friday to submit the contract to the rank and file members for ratification. James McAllister, president of the Marine Towing and Transportation Employers Assn., said the first tugs would be back in operatioin “in a matter of hours” after the ratification by the union. The contract calls for an 11 per cent hourly wage increase divided evenly over two years. Crewmen currently earn from $1.76 to $2.80 an hour. —

Living Costs Hit New Record Mark Increase For Fifth Consecutive Month WASHINGTON IB — The government reported today that toe cost of living climbed to a new record in January for the fifth consecutive month. The increase will bring automatic cost of living pay increases for 1.4 million workers. I The Labor Department’s Bureau . of Labor Statistics reported that . its consumer price index rose .2 of, 1 percent between December and January to 118.2 percent of . average 1947-49. prices. The index I has reached new record levels each month since September, 1956. I BLS Commissioner Ewan . Clague, asked about the outlook for February, said he expects it will continue “to creep up like ■ this.” The January increase means ■ that 1.1 million automobile, farm equipment and aircraft factory ■ workers will get a penny an hour pay hike on March 1. ' The bureau said another 300,000 I workers in toe electrical and some t other industries also will get pay ' raises because their wage con- . tracts also contain cost of living I escalator clauses. • The BLS also reported the avert age factory worker with three dependents last month earned $74.99 r a week after federal taxes. This r is some $1.50 below the peak ) reached in December. t The buying power of the Jans uary take-home pay stood at 122.8 - percent of toe average for 1947-49, compared with a peak of 125.5 per cent in December. - ~ ~ — ’j The bureau said the consumer price index in January reflected ■ lower prices for food and clothing 1 but that these reductions were 1 more than offset by increased ’ prices for all other major groups ’ of goods and services. 1 Dr. Doppell Speaks To School Assembly Brotherhood Week Is Observed At School "The concepts of good will and brotherhood make our country the most blessed in the world,” stated Dr. Frederic Doppelt, rabbi of toe Fort Wayne Jewish Temple, at an assembly program Wednesday afternoon at Decatur high schooL Rabbi Doppelt spoke to the students on toe subject of “Brotherhood” in commemoration of national brotherhood week, which is observed between Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays. The speaker pointed out that brotherhood week is .native to toe American way of life; “that it rises out of this way of life rather than being imposed on it. “Without brotherhood and good will, our Democracy 'would never have endured,”, emphasized the rabbi, “ahd liberty would not have withstood the ravages of Wars.” He pointed out that an assembly of Christian young people being addressed, by a Jewish rabbi is a rare thing in toe world today, that in other parts of toe world such a gathering would be improbable. He* also brought out that prejudice is no longer a personal matter. He called it “an explosive . force that can destroy the world, that can burn out the vitality of a people.” Rabbi Doppelt, who visited the Mid-East last year, stated that the basic cause of the Mid-East crisis is that the people there have not learned the simple lesson of good will and understanding toward one another. In contrast with the bitter hatred of that area, he pointed out the mutual feeling of goodwill which permits toe diversity of peoples in Switzerland to build a peaceful and prosperous nation. Rabbi Doppelt has presented frequent lectures on the Mid-East since his visit there. He was introduced at Wednesday's program by Roy Kalver of this city, a member of the Jewish Temple congregation In Fort Wayne.

Exped Israel To Reject Call By Eisenhower Premier Os Israel Holds Emergency Meet With Cabinet JERUSALEM, Israel 01 — Government sources said tonight that Israel is expected to reject President Eisenhower’s call for an unconditional withdrawal of its forces from the Gaza Strip and the Sharm El Sheikh area of toe Gulf of Aqaba. The government sources said that Israeli Premier David BfoiGurion, who met twice with his cabinet in emgerncy sessions today, was expected to telephone Washington his negative reply before he makes an announcement to an extradorinary session of the Knesset parliament. The cabinet met m «.wo sessions to approve Ben-Gurion’s speech and to hear a full report from Abba Eban, Israeli ambassador to the United States who flew here four consultations before the final decision. Informed sources said that BenGurion prepared his speech .to parliament Wednesday night before Mr. Eisenhower’s message i callfog. for unconditional withdrawal was made and before Ebatt’a ’ arrival early today. Some changes ' in the speech were inevitable. Political sources said Israel will ’ not close toe door to further talks 1 on the basis of a Canadian pro- • posal for a Gaza-Aqaba solution. But they said it will not accept the unconditional withdrawal without guarantees as requested by Washington. Eban was returning to Washington tonight or Friday morning with new instructions. (Coßtlnwed oa Fare Five) Passes Measure To Study School Problems INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The Indiana Senate Wednesday held one of the longest debates of the current session and then passed 2919 a billion for state and county' commissions to study school re- 1 organization and consolidation problems. The bi-partisan bill was intro- 1 duced by Sens. Von Eichhorn (DUniondale) and D. Russell Bontrager (R-Elkhart). Heart Attack Fatal To Meii Hoverman Willshire Resident Is Taken By Death Merl F. Hoverman, 42, well known Willshire, 0., resident, died suddenly at 1:15 o’clock Wednesday afternoon, following a heart attack suffered shortly before noon at his home. He had operated a Gulf service station aa Willshire for the past three yean. Born in Glenmore, 0., June 19, 1914, he was a son of Lewis and Bertha Shook-Hoverman. His parents now reside at Convoy. He was married to Irene Strickler July 17, 1938. Mr. Hoverman was a member of the Willshire Methodist church, the Willshire Knights of Pythias, the Willshire Sportsmen club and the Convoy Grange. Surviving* in addition to his wife and parents are two daughters, Sharon and Karen, both at home; two brothers, Lester of Willshire, and Elmer of Detroit, and-two sisters, Mrs. Frederick Scaer of Convoy, and Mrs. Gallen Fought of Delphos, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the residence and at 2 p. m. at the Willshire Methodist church, the Rev. Chester Hirschy and the Rev. James R. Hipkins officiated a Gulf service station at Will- , shire cemetery. The body, removed to toe Zwick funeral home, will be returned to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening.

See Handley Plea Dooms Sales Tax Gross Income Boost Dooms Sales Tax INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Repub. lican majority members of the Indiana Legislature said today they believe Governor Handley's call for a gross income tax increase spells doom for a sales tax plan. Minority members said Handley’s program included tax adjustments long sought by the Democrats. They also indicated they would not endorse a 35 per cent gross income tax increase without further study, and perhaps not even then. Rep. Jack Murreii (R-Marion), author and strong proponent of a sales tax bill, said Handley’s stand on taxes made it “doubtful” if any kind of sales tax measure could pass the Legislature, although he believed a “compromise plan” might have a chance. Sen. Roy Conrad (R-Monticello), Senate caucus leader, said there still is a chance for a sales tax but believed one would have to be “camouflaged” with retailers passing it on to consumers in the form of higher prices. An ordinary sales tax, he said, “looks doubtful.” Conrad also doubted Handley’s suggestion of a withholding system for the gross income tax would pass, but. Democrats said this was part of their long-time program to raise state revenues. “We will not buy the 35 per ‘ cent gross tax increase without fur- ' ther study,” said Rep. Birch Bayh ' of Terre Haute, minority floor leader in the House. Bayh praised Handley, however, for a “forthright statement without hedging.” Senator Knowland Opposes Reprisals Stand Is Unchanged After Ike's Speech WASHINGTON OP) — Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said he still opposes reprisals against Israel unless the United Nations alsp applies sanctions against other countries which ignore its demands. Commenting on President Eisenhower’s declaration that the U. N. must “exert pressure” on Israel to withdraw its troops from Egyptian territory, Knowland said: “Nothing the President said last night changes my position.’.’ « Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson regretted the administration view that “there is no choice but to bring pressure on one side of a two-sided dispute . .” Johnson said Israel should withdraw. But her withdrawal should be accompanied "by adequate U. N. action that will not leave Israel defenseless.” Knowland said he thought Mr. Eisenhower made “an excellent presentation of this government’s position.” And, he added, “I thought what he said relative to the importance for the survival of the U-N. of not having its resolution ignored applied equally well to the Soviet Union in the Hungarian situation.” Knowland referred to a section of Mr. Eisenhower’s speech saying the U.N. would be admitting failure if it did nothing to get its resolutions obeyed. “With that general principle I fully concur,” Knowland said. He added that he believes it is all right for the United States to seek Israeli compliance with the U. N. order for withdrawal of troops from Egypt. But, Knowland said, “I am still opposed to the application of sanctions against Israel if they are not prepared to apply them to other nations.” Knowland said he still feels exactly as he did when he said recently that it would be “immoral and insupportable” to invoke sanctions against Israel alone. But a Democratic congressman, Rep. Thomas G. Abernethy of <Ce>tlß«e« m Faac Fir*) * ' ■ - -'—.A-

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Decatur Man Fatally Hurt This Morning A Joseph D. Railing Killed As Car And Truck In Collision Joseph Daniel Railing, 33-year-old prominent Decatur resident, • died at noon today of injuries sustained two hours Earlier in an automobile accident In Van Wert county, O. Railing was driver of a car which collided with a Willshire township stone truck driven by Walter Stetler, 62, of Willshire. The accident occurred at 10:10 a.m. a mile north of Schumm, 0., on the Schumm-Ohio City-Willshire road. Sheriff W. L. Clay and deputy Wayne Pollock, who investigated, stated that Stetler was going north with a load of stone and Railing was headed west The two vehicles collided in the middle of the county road intersection. The points.of impact were 1 the right front of the car and-the 1 left front of the truck. A snow plow on the truck was ’ torn off. After the collision, the Railing car continued in a wests ward direction and crashed head 1 first into a deep ditch. 5 The truck was swerved ly around by the impact and theh r overturned on top of a bridge abut- * ment. Both vehicles were demol- • ished. r j Railing was pinned in his car. . He was removed and rushed to the > Adams county memorial hospital, where he died later of a basal skull fracture. The truck driver suffered only a slight leg injury. The Decatur man, who was Van Wert county’s first 1957 traffic fatality, was well-known in Decatur. He was an employe of the Adams County Trailbr Hales. He and his wife, June, who survives, have three children, Pamela, 7; Jan," 4, and Stan, 2. Also surviving are his parents, Mr. and , Mrs. Forret Railing of this city, and two brothers and three sisters. One brother, Alton, was killed ’ while serving with the U.S. Air Force during World War H. The traffic victim also served in the Air Force during the second World War. ,The body was removed to the Black funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Find Woman's Body Floating In Creek INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —A group of schoolgirls Wednesday found the body of Mrs. Alberta Beckett, 55. Indianapolis, floating in Fall Creek. Police believed death wa| suicide. New Scarlet Fever Cases In Indiana INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Indiana State Health Board statistics showed today that 152 new scarlet fever cases last week raised the state total for 1957 to 612, about 50 per cent above last year’s comparative figure. Influenza cases were down considerably. Thus far, 385 were reported compared with a five-year median of 900 by this time of year, Monroe Town Hall Being Torn Down The old Monroe town hall, a wood building about 18 by 50 feet, began to disappear yesterday as a group of Amish workers, under the direction of John J. Schwartz, Jr., high bidder Monday for the structure, torn the building down. The roof and upper timbers were torn away yesterday, before the •heating system was removed. It was expected that the heating system would be removed by today. The old fire engine is being kept at the Zuercher garage until warmer weather to keep the hose from freezing.