Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1957 — Page 1

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US. Welcomes Further Talks On Mid-Easi Regrets Rejection By Isroel To Plan To Withdraw Troops WASHINGTON (UP) - The White House said today the United States regrets Israel’s refusal to withdraw its troops from Egyptian soil but welcomes “further discussion” of the Middle East crisis. The White House statement, issued after a conference between President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said this country will say nothing in the United Nations on the subject of sanctions against Israel until later, possibly Monday. The White House said Dulles will confer with Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban, expected to return Saturday from Jerusalem, before the United States makes any presentation to the U.N. The U.N. General Assembly meets on the Middle East crisis this afternoon. TWor Not As to when the United States may make an official stand, on sanctions, strongly opposed in Congress, all White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty would say was that no presentation of the U.S. position will be made until, possibly, Monday. “The President and his secretary regret that the government of Israel has not yet found it possible to withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip and the Gulf of Aqaba,” Hagerty said. “The door is certainly not closed to further discussion of the situation. “The President and his secretary welcome such further discussion because they believe that a full understanding of the United States position and the United Nations resolutions of Feb. 2 should make it possible for Israel to proceed with the withdrawal." Impeachment Move Expected To Pass Demand Is Passed By Georgia Senate ATLANTA (If) — Georgia’s move to impeach she U. S. Supreme Court members including Chief Justice Earl Warren and to ban racially mixed baseball apparently headed toward state legislative victories today. Gov. Marvin Griffin’s lieutenants predicted strong administration backing will insure passage of both measures in the final House session despite a vocal minority opposition. A charge of “ridiculous . . McCarthyism” reached its highest pitch in the Senate which nevertheless passed the impeachment demand Thursday, 37-11, and returned it to the House. The resolution accusing the Justices of committing “high crimes and misdemeanors” in decisions concerning segregation, Communist subversion and states’ rights has already passed the House once. Critics of the Senate - passed baseball bill warned it might drive big league exhibition games and farm teams from the state and doom the Class A South Atlantic League. The bill to outlaw all forms of (Continued on Pace Eight) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy south with rain or snow likely extreme south tonight and Saturday. Colder tonight, much colder north portion. Continued rather cold Saturday. Low tonight 15-23 north, 23-29 south. High Saturday 2530 north, 30-36 south. Sunset 0:29 p. m„ sunrise Saturday 7:28 a. m.

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Favors Return To Two License Plates Measure Passed By Senate Last Night INDIANAPOLIS (W — The Indiana Senate voted in a night session Thursday to restore two license plates to Hoosier motor vehicles. Senators passed 31-16 and sent to the House a bill calling for two {dates, instead of a single plate on the rear, on all vehicles in 1959. It also called for tabs to be affixed to the plates in 1900, and plates and tabs alternately thereafter. The Senate also passed 34-11 and sent to the House a bill banning Sunday sale of automobiles. It passed 47-0 and sent to the House a bill to create a commission to study the office of justice of the peace and report to the governor and legislative advisory commission by Nov. 1, 1958. The bill included a $2,500 appropriation, 10 percent of the amunt asked in the bill as originally written. Today, the House passed from down without discussion or amendment a resolution to abolsecond reading to a final showish the office of justice of the peace. The House passed 74-15 a bill to establish a “Hoosier seal of quality” for state agricultural products sent outside the state, and 65-23 a bill raising hunting' and fishing license fees 50 cents across the board to raise money for public fishing site purchases. Another House bill requiring that all roads and highways built in the future must be at least 40 feet wide barely failed to pass the House. The vote was 50-33, one short of a necessary majority. It can be called up for reconsideration later. In the Senate, a gag rule limiting debate was invoked for the remainder of the dwindling session to cope more speedily with about 100 bills now up for second or third reading. Sen. John W. Van Ness (R-Val-paraiso), who introduced a resolution adopted by voice vote, cal-<Oon*mi*-r ’ mi' 955 Calls Answered By News Recorder The telephone news service provided by the Citizens Telephone company and the Decatur Daily Democrat recorded a total of 355 calls between 4 p.m. Thursday and 8 a.m. today. This is one of the largest number of calls ever recorded on an “off” night when there were no basketball games. Railroad Detective Probing Accident Parked Boxcars Are Blamed In Accident t A deecttive for the Pennsylvania railroad was In Decatur today investigating the train-auto accident which occurred at the railroad’s Elm street crossing earlier this week. Mrs. Shirley Eloph of this city, driver of the car, was unable to see the approaching slow-moving freight train because of boxcars parked along the siding. Mrs. Eloph’s two children, who were riding with her, suffered minor injuries in the accident. The accident produced a number of complaints by local residents who allege that boxcars are frequently, parked so close to the crossing as to block the view of the tracks and cause a dangerous situation, especially at the Elm street crossing. The problem was discussed at Tuesday night’s city council meeting and prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith was instructed to write to all three railroads asking for stricter attention to statutes governing crossings.

British Seek Solution For Israel Crisis Britain And France Split With U.S. On Reprisal Questions By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Britain and France split today With the United States over the question of reprisals against Israel, and Britain was reported seeking a compromise solution to prevent an open break. Premier Guy Mollet of France called an emergency cabinet meeting on the Mideast and his forthcoming talks with President Eisenhower. Reliable sources said he would demand a strong declaration of support for Israel. At the same time authoritative sources in London said Britain’s Conservative government was not prepared to go along with reprisals which the United States may now demand. » The two developments came as Israel appealed to the world and especially the United States for “understanding” in its refusal to quit Egyptian territory without ' firm guarantees. Israel Delays Vote But Israel prepared for the worst, and Jerusalem newspapers ; warned that sanctions and acute 1 hardship may lie ahead gs result of Premier David Ben-Gurion’s “no" to President Eisenhower’s I call for unconditional withdrawal. The Israeli Parliament postponed a vote on Ben-Gurion’s “no with- ■ drawal” speech pending another diplomatic try at negotiations by Ambassador Abba Eban who left ■ today by plane for the United States. Most of the speakers—with ex- . ception of the Communists—sup- . ported Ben-Gurion during today’s . debate and insisted that there must be guarantees against Egyptian attacks or there will be no with--1 drawal under any circumstances. ■ American officials said there was - “no chance” the United States ■ would change its mind on its wtth- * dravnLpin. mM*, yj , A Pair* oisptach said France 1 would oppose the Eisenhower def mand tor Israeli withdrawal with--1 out guarantees against Egyptian . attacks or an Egyptian blockade ! of the Gulf of Aqaba. France and t Israel were bound by a common - dislike of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. - The United States came under : strong criticism in the British | House of Commons and Conserva- . tive member Hugh Fraser said “some of the statements made in America lately are really utterly ' objectionable to most M.P.’s in this house.” The situation was so serious Prime Minister Hafbld MacMillan called a weekend meeting of six of his ministers to consider the afatiAmerican statements and the threatened split in the Conservative Party over Suez policy. Some elements of the Conservative Party were in revolt. Erypt Praises Stand Egypt continued to praise Mr. Eisenhower’s stand on the ArabIsraeli dispute but the praise to(Ceitlßued on Paso Five) Funeral Saturday For Joseph Railing ’ ' • ,*;■> , u ■ ■ *•- ” Funeral Rites Set For Wreck Victim Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the Black funeral home for Joseph D. Railing, 34, of Decatur route three, who died Thursday noon of injuries sustained in an auto accident. Railing died at the Adams county memorial hospital of a basal skull fracture suffered two hours earlier when his car collided with a loaded stone truck a mile north of Schumm, 0., on a Van Wert county, 0., road. Walter Stetler, 62, of Willshire, driver of the truck, escaped serious injury. A native of Adams county, Railing was bom Aug. 29, 1922, to Forrest and Mary Gamer Railing, who survive. He was married Aug. 1, 1948, to the former June Agler, who also survives. He was a salesman for the Adams county Trailer Sales. A veteran of the U. S. Air Force during World War 11, he was a member of the local post of Veterans of Foreign Wars. Also surviving are three children, Pamela, Jan and Stan, all at home; two brothers, Gordon and Morton, both of Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. Chet Barker and Mrs. Ralph Sills, of Decatur, and Mrs. Leßoy Beer, Jr., of Monroe. The Rev. Louis Klotzback will officiate at the Saturday funeral services. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, February 22,1957

Gov. Handley Admits Tax Figure Mistake; To Ask Further Hike

May Increase Budget Funds To Air Force Move Underway In Senate To Increase Fund For Air Force WASHINGTON (UP)—A move to give the Air Force more money than President Eisenhower requested for the next fiscal.year built up steam today in the Senate. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson brief the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday on the administration’s military budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1. But he failed ,to satisfy committee members in his initial testimony that a 75 per cent cutback in funds for research and development of an atomic-powered plane is justified. Wilson will return for more testimony later. Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga> told reporters that he believed “several hundred million dollars” should be put back into the Air Force Budget to keep th* A-plane project going at the present rate. Wilson’s defense of the cutback was that the atomic-powered plane was proving to be very hard to develop and that no nation would have one for some ism& This made it a safe field to practice some economy, Wilson reportedly said at the closed committee session. Informed Pentagon sources have said before that progress on development of an intercontinental guided missile made an atomicpowered plane less urgent. Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo), a leader in, the Senate bloc that succeeded in adding SBOO million to the Air Force budget for this year, questioned the adequacy of the administration’s request for fiscal 1958. He said a cutback in research and development funds didn't jibe with the administration’s claim that U.S. qualitative superiority warranted letting the Russians nave more combat planes than this country has. The reduction also conflicted with expert testimony before his Senate Air Power subcommittee last year, Symington said. The senator also challenged a statement he attributed to Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles that the Air Force budget for fiscal 1958 is $2.5 billion higher than this year’s. The increase is only $66 million, Symington said. Native Os County Killed In Accident Jesse Johnson Hit By Fort Wayne Car Jesse Smith Johnson, 74, an Adams county native, .became Fort Wayne’s first 1957 pedestrian traffic victim when he was fatally injured by a car on North Clinton street Thursday night. Johnson, who had resided in Fort Wayne for many years, walked into the path of a car driven by Miss Beverly G. York, 22, of Fort Wayne. He was dragged several hundred feet. He died at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. He suf : sered a fractured skull, internal iriiiries and a Fractured right leg. City police who investigated the accident cleared Miss York of anv blame and released her pending a coroner’s inquest early next week. A son of Levi and Lyde Smith Johnson, he was bom Jan. 27, 1882, in Adams county. He was married in January, 1909, to Looa Ginter, who died in 1926. In January, 1929, he was married to Lila Garmony, who survives. He was in the light hauling business in Fort Wayne for 30 y*ars and was retired 10 years ago. Surviving in addition to the wiiow are a son, Thetus of Erie, Pa.; two brothers, Perrv. of Fort Wayne, whose wife died early this morning, and James, of Indianapolis: two sisters, Mrs. Sarah Ever(ContlnuMl od Par* Bight) ' 'a

Missing Missile Is Sought By Air Force Air Force Guessing On Final Location ALAMOGORDO, N. M. Wl — A runaway Matador guided missile traveling north at 650 miles an hour had the Air Force guessng today whether it ever will be found. There were reports the missile, which did not carry an explosive warhead, had been spotted in western Colorado;,'near Salt Lake City, Utah, and in southwest Wyoming. But none of the rumored sightings could be confirmed. One report said the Matador, which escaped from ground control at Holloman Air Force Base near here Thursday, crashed and exploded in the Rock Springs, Wyo., area, 700 miles north of Alamogordo, but it later was discovered the explosion was caused by a seismograph crew making a dynamite sounding. The radio-controlled missile, described by the Air Force as a “pilotless bomber” with a “tactical range/’ was last seen some 90 miles northwest of Albuquerque. It was heading for the southern Colorado border. When the ground crew lost control of the missile, Capt. Richard Starkey of Holloman was sent aloft to chase it in a non-jet camera plane. When he saw he didn t i Stand a chance of catching the uncontrolled Matador, he radioed the . Civil Aeronautics Administration in Albuquergue. A jet interceptor : from Kirtland Air Force Base ■ joined the chase from there. But l neither plane could keep up with the runaway. Holloman officials said the sllO,000 Matador, powered by a J 33 jet engine, was launched on a routine test mission, carrying re- ! search instruments in its warhead. The officials said something went wrong in the misile’s safety device and it shook loose from a crew which was controlling it from the ground. Dock Workers To Return Saturday Norfolk Settlement Ends East Strike NEW YORK (UP)— An off-, again on-again strike of 45,000 East Coast longshoremen ended today and union leaders said dock workers would return to work Saturday. The strike, which had been “officially” called off Wednesday only to resume Thursday, ended a second time when Norfolk shippers and the Norfolk local of the International Longshoremen's Assn. (Ind.) reached agreement early today on a new contract. The Norfolk settlement was arrived at several hours after an accord had been reached at Baltimore, the next-to-the-last port to fall in line. A policy committee of union vice presidents meets today to rule on a back-to-work order, although ratification voting on new contracts still has not been completed. Only the Baltimore and Norfolk disputes, both over local issues, had stood in the way of a return to work movement Thursday of dock wallopers in other ports from, Portland, Me.* to Norfolk. ILA President Bradley had ordered stevedores in parts other than Baltimore and Norfolk to return to their jobs Thursday, but the rank-and-file, on the recommendations of locati leaders, Continnrd on Pik El*h» 2nd Business Fire In Goshen Thursday GOSHEN, Ind. (UP) — Goshen’s second business district fire in less than 24 hours caused SIO,OOO to $20,000 damage to a bakery owned by Wilbur Rasmussen Thursday. The blaze was blamed on a furnace explosion. The day before, a $15,000 to $20,000 fire damaged a bank less than two blocks from the bakery.

Oppose Party Line Fight On Ike Doctrine > , ■-•»' • Senate Republican Heads Opposed To Scrap On Doctrine WASHINGTON (UP) — Senafe \ GOP leaders once more made clear today they want no party ' line fight over the Eisenhower 1 Doctrine. They are willing to help push through the weakened Democratic ' version as quickly as possible. Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt) l Introduced an amendment Thursday that would restore the orig- ' inal stronger wording to the Doc- ■ trine. [ The move received no visible backing. Senate GOP Leader William , Knowland told newsmen Flanders i spoke only for himself. He said . the Republicans would make no . party fight for the stronger word- . ing already passed by the House. The administration — acting on the advice of GOP Senate leaders — apparently is looking to a I Senate-House Conference Commit- ! j tee to get a Doctrine nearer to 1 its original proposal. Other congressional news; Guard; The Army rejected a< ’ proposed congressional compro--5 mise In its fight to have National 1 Guardsmen get more training. A r House Armed Services subcome mittee had proposed the Army * postpone its extended training 1 plan for 15 months. Missiles: The House Armed - Services Committee directed its 3 staff to conduct a preliminary in- . vestigation into the unguided flight . of a Matador guided missile. The Matador escaped control at Ala- , magordo, N.M. It was reported to f have crashed in Wyoming. i Racketeering: Chairman John t L. McClellan of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee issued a warning to anyone who destroys subpenaed union records: The punishment may be a year in jail. The committee disclosed that subpenaed Teamster Union records are missing and apparently were destroyed. Air Force: Democratic senators tentatively called for giving the Air Force more money to develop an atomic powered plane. Secretary 6f Defense Charles E. Wilson told the Senate Armed Services Committee a 75 per cent cut back in funds for the research program is justified. Committee Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga) and Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo) were unconvinced. Farm: House Democratic farm leaders charged the administration’s soil bank has “poured money down a rathole.” They said the program has only partly curbed production of surplus feed grains. Mrs. Ocie Johnson 1 Dies This Morning Former Monroe Lady Is Taken By Death Mrs. Ocie Johnson, 67, a native of Adams county and a resident of Fort Wayne for the past 20 years, died at 2:10 a. m. today at her home in Fort Wayne following a heart attack. The daughter of David and Susie Martz-Baltzell, Mrs. Johnson was born in Adams county Dec. 13, 1889. She was married Jan. 24, 1907, to Perry Johnson, who survives. She was a member of the Methodist church at Monroe, where she resided for many years. Also surviving are two sons, Raymond, of Decatur, and Glen, of Fort Wayne; a brother, Sam Haggard, of Monroe, and a sister, Mrs. Addie Gilbert, address unknown. The body has been brought to the Black funeral home in Decatur, Funeral arrangements are incomplete pending location of Mrs. Johnson’s sister. '

Guard Compromise Rejected By Army Army Turns Thumbs Down On Proposal WASHINGTON (UP)—The Army turned thumbs down today on a proposed compromise in its battle to force National Guardsmen to take more training. But it was careful to keep the door open for further negotiations. Rep. Overton Brooks (D-La), chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee which has been refereeing the Army-Guard contest, was authorized by the subcommittee Thursday/ to present the compromise plan to the Army. Under it, the Army would delay for 15 months the effective date of its plan to require six months active duty training of all new Guard recruits between 17 and 18Mt years of age. The Army wanted to put the plan into effect April 1. The Guard opposed the Army plan on grounds that the additional training would make it more difficult to recruit new members for the Guard. It proposed that active duty for recruits between 17 and 18be limited to 11 weeks. But Guard officials said they "could buy" almost all of the Brooks compromise. It calls for 11 weeks of active duty for the affected Guard recruits until June, 1858. Then the Army’s six-month’s plan would take effect. The Army, after a quick look at press accounts' of the compromise, objected cm grounds that it Would put needed Guard training “so far in the future” as to make the plan unworkable. However, an Army spokesman pointed out that this was a horseback opinion subject to a possible review after Brooks outlined his proposal in person. Slight Employment Increase In City Payrolls Decrease During January • Industrial employment in Decatur during January, 1957, increased slightly over the previous month, according to the Decatur Chamber of Commerce business barometer. The seven local industries reporting showed total employment during the past month of 1,t»7, as compared to 1,524 during December, 1956, and 1,481 during January, 1956. In spite of tee employment increase, however, the payroll for the past month, totalling $531,717, was a decrease from toe previous month’s $597,998. It was still higher than the January, 1956, total of $483,006. The barometer shows 3,938 electric meters (Including rural), 2,506 water meters, 2,357 gas meters and 6,112 telephones. These repreKent only slight increases or de- ; reases from tjie previous month. ‘ The number of poor relief cases jumped from 16 in December, 1956, to 23 in January, 1957. The number of persons aided increas- ; ed from 57 to 83 and the cost went ( up from $689 to $1,064. — The report showed 62 births and j 12 deaths during the month, toe identical number in January a i year ago. During December, j 1956, the totals were 56 births and five deaths. < Total carloadings in and out of 1 the city during January, 1957, ] were 1,953, an increase over December’s 1,808 and toe previews 1 January’s 1,891. Railway express shipments to- 1 taled only 870, a drop from toe! 1,430 during December, 1956, and ’> a decrease from the 1,050 in January, 1956. Four building permits, toe same as the previous month, were issued. However, January’s total value on building permits was $75,000, a large increase over toe $14,575 of the previous month. One year before, 10 building permits were issued at a total value 1 of $14,845. Postal receipts during the past 1 month amounted to $7,948. During toe month before that, heavy (Continued on h|« Five)

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50 Per Cent Boost Likely In Gross Tax $32 Million Error Made By Governor In Tax Figures INDIANAPOLIS (UP)— Governor Handley admitted today a 32 million dollar mistake was made in tax program figures he outlined to the Indiana Legislature Thursday and said the 35 per cent gross income tax rate increase he proposed would have to be "adjusted upward.” The adjustment, it appeared, would mean a 50 per cent, instead of a 35 per cent, increase. This would mean raising the "average” taxpayer's tax bill from S4O to S6O a year, instead of from S4O to $54, as outlined in Handley's speed), assuming the taxpayer's income is $5,000. Handley blamed his "fiscal advisors” for toe mistake and virtually washed his hands of toe whole affair. *T am leaving toe matter entirely up to toe Legislature,” he said. “I’m through' with figures.” Handley admitted in a prepared statement an error in mathematics in his Thursday speech which left the revenues expected from his new tex. program 535,jnUlion dollars short of what he said X they would be for the next two *, years. ' “The proposed across-the-board increase in the gross income tax should be adjusted upward accordingly,” Handley said. He did not say how much. But 5 estimates he gave Thursday that a 35 per cent increase would bring in 39.9 million dollars in the two-year period would indicate that the gross tax would have to be hiked about 50 per cent to make up the difference. Blames Fiscal Experts Handley made no bones about blaming his “fiscal experts" for toe mistake. “I leaned heavily on the top fiscal advisors and statisticians for technical assistance,” he said, “but unfortunately these experts have made an error in computations and this error will be immediately corrected as legislation is prepared and enacted to cover the budget.” “My fiscal experts neglected,” Handley said, “to take into account that we had to get 16 million dollars (a year) back before there was any revalue gained.” He referred to his proposal that the gross income tax rate be lowered tor retailers as part of a program of correcting inequities in the tax law. The 35 per cent gross tax increase was toe bulwark of Handley’s tax program, which also included payroll withholding pf toe gross tax, repeal of 14 cents of the 15-cent state property tax, and a three-mill per SIOO tax on businesses tor out-of-state sales of products. 32 Million Error Before Handley issued his statement. newspapers pointed out what appeared to be a 32 million dollar error. - Handley said in his message to the lawmakers that his tax program would raise $87,800,00 more than the revenue to be expected if the program were not enacted. But newsmen figuring the additions and subtractions on a step-by-step basis could get a total no larger than $55,800,00. Word of the mistake followed Democratic minority reaction that it would take no stand on a gross tax hike pending further study. Meanwhile, chances grew slimkmer that toe Legislature would (UooKouea on BlcM) Former Yugoslavian Premier Is Dead BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UP)— Funeral arrangements were being made today for wartime Yugoslav exile Premier Milos Trifunovic who died Thursday at the age of 86- i " 2'' T S% Trifunovic headed the Radical Party, the strongest political party until Tito came to power.