Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 46, Decatur, Adams County, 23 February 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV, No. 46.

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ILONE TOTH, 26-year old medical student, testifies before microphone in Budapest court where she and 11 male co-defendants are on (rial for their part in the October uprising. Miss Toth, the principal defendant, is charged with injecting air into the heart of a man she believed to be a member of the secret police, while treating him at a hospital for wounded.

Right To Work Bill Squeezes Through House Parker Soys State Senate To Approve Controversial Bill INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker predicted today the controversial “right to work” bill which squeezed by the Indiana House late Friday would pass the Senate and become law. * "I think there are enough votes in the Senate to pass it,” Parker said. He promised to vote for it if Ws vote is required «o break a tie. Muth depended on which Senate committee Parker assigns the bill to. Many observers predicted he would bypass the Labor Committee and assign it to Judiciary “A” or Manufacturing where the membership lineup is more favorable. “The announcement will be made from the rostrum,” Parker said. D. Russell Bontrager (R-Elk-hart), co-sponsor in the Senate with Wendell Martin (R-Indianapo-lis), is chairman of Judiciary “A". An identical Senate bill has been bottled up in the Labor Committee. Parker said he "wouldn’t hesitate” to vote for the bill to break a tie, and he understood Governor Handley would allow it to become law without his signature. Passes By 54-42 The measure, by Reps. Arthur Atwell (R-Anderson) and David Thayer (D-Hope), was approved Friday 54-42, three votes more than a majority, following 90 minutes of debate. The bill was praised as a "free choice” law and lambasted as a union wrecking bill. It outlaws union shop contracts which require workers to join a union within a specified time after employment or lose their jobs. Atwell called the bill’s passage a "momentous occasion." “Union shop contracts strip the individual of his right of free choice,” he said, "They violate religious freedom.” He said the bill would “restore unions to the , rank and file and make for responsible union leadership." Bute Democratic Rep. James Hunter of East Chicago, one of the strongest foes of the bill, said it would “disrupt harmony in both labor and Industry." When the bill came up for a vote, Hunter made a second attempt to amend it to ban job discrimination on grounds of race, religion or sex. The move was defeated by voice vote. Two Democrats joined 52 Republicans in voting for the measure. The Democrats were Thayer and Robert Gramelspacher, Jasper - manufacturer. ' Twenty Republicans and 22 Democrats voted against the bill. Observers figured the bill's supporters lost some votes when Republican floor leader Robert Webb of Arcadia went on record in opposition. Former House speaker W.O. Hughes of Fort Wayne also voted against. Webb said workers in many cases already voted on the issue, “and a right to work law would be telling them they don’t have enough intelligence to make up their own minds.” Two Committees Favor “To enact this law would be like continuing to flip a coin after (Continued on Four) NOON EDITION

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Three Boys Die In Embankment Cavein Trio Ase Entombed Under Tons Os Dirt ANAHEIM, Calif. (UP)- Three boys enjoying a -school holiday met death Friday when a cave they were playfully digging in an embankment collapsed and entombed them under tons of dirt in a freeway construction project. The crumpled bodies of William David Barron, 1, Steven Wayne Jones, 10. and Larry Joseph Scherer, 13, all of Anaheim, were found at the bottom of the embankment The victims along with a fourth boy, Billy Hushman, 11, set out Shortly before noon to dig the cave with shovels near a partially built underpass for the freeway. Billy was spared death when he went home to get another shovel. "I came back but Bill, Steve and Larry weren’t around,’ Billy told police. “I couldn't even find where we had been digging ... dirt was all around... it all looked the same. “So I thought they had covered up the cave and left.” It wasn't until 5 p.m. that Billy learned his playmates were missing. He told his mother about the cave and along with police returned to the freeway project and pointed to where he believed his playmates had been digging. Scores of volunteer workers, police and firemen began digging in the area. Hundreds of onlookers were on the top of the embankment when the body of the first victim, young Scherer, was recovered about an hour after the rescue operations began. His mother, who had rushed to the scene, cried, “Oh, my ,God," and collapsed in hysteria. The two other bodies were found about 20 minutes later huddled together in what was their small cave. "One of the boys had his hands clasped over his eyes when we found him,” officer Henry Bryant (Continued oe Four) Funeral Monday For Mrs. Ocie Johnson Funeral services for Mrs. Ocle Johnson, former Adams county resident, who died Friday at Fort Wayne, will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. John E. Chambers officiate tag. Burial will be in the Ray cemetary, west of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Included in the survivors is a sister, Mrs. Addie Gilbert, of Monroe. Oratorical Winners At Legion Monday Paul Schmidt, Decatur high school senior, winner of the Adams county oratorial contest sponsored by the American Legion, and Ronald Bittner, Monmauth senior, alternate, will deliver their orations at the regular meeting of Adams Post 43, American Legion, Monday evening at 8 o’clock. The young orators will be introduced by Edward Jaberg, chairman of the county contest. Frank Detter, Legion commander, also announced that food and refreshments will be served following the meeting. INDIANA WEATHER Occasional light rain mixed with snow tonight and Sunday. Colder tonight. Little change in temperature Sunday. Low tonight 25-36. High Bunday 3545. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy with rain and gradual warming trend. Possibly snow extreme north.

Crippled Youth Dies As School Swept By Fire 400 Fleeing Mates Escape From Fire In North Carolina MOUNT AIR, N.C. (UP) — A crippled nine-year-old third grader who “just couldn’t walk right” dropped behind his 400 fleeing classmates Friday and burned to death in a flaming school. Larry Adams, crippled from birth, was the only fatality in the flash fire that swept through the Flat Rock Elementary ScboOb Today authorities praised two woman teachers and the school principal for their heroism in leading the children to safety and pq«sibily preventing the worst school disaster since the New London, Tex. explosion that killed 294 pupils in 1937. Only one fire truck answered the alarm. A second was at another fire and the only other available truck, a pumper, was useless because there are no hydrants in the area around the school. 33 Suffer Burns Thirty-three teachers and students were burned. Twenty of them required hospitalization, but three were released later. The Adams boy’s heroic teacher, elderly Mrs. Cora Beasley, returned for Larry but was herself trapped and critically burned. She was dragged from the flaming building by Principal A. P. Phillips seconds before the roof collapsed. Third-grader David Smith said that when the fire was discovered "we rushed to get our cotds and books but Mrs. JSesley got ns out tee door.” He said the "smoke was real bad” and authorities believed that young Adams either was unable to keep up with his classmates or became lost in the smoke. Second School Fire - Authorities said that except for the heroic action of PhiUlpa. Mrs. Beasley and Mrs. Beula Osborn, another teacher who remained in the building, the death toll might have been high. Mrs. Osborn escaped with only minor burns. ' When the flames died down, firemen searched the smoking ruins, hoping they would find no more bodies. When asked whether there might be more bodies in the ruins, Fire Chief J. Ed Brannock replied, “Oh, God, I hope not. We haven’t found any but we can’t tell.” The blaze, second major school fire here in 16 days, flared up in the stage curtains of the auditorium and, fed by drafts created by four open doors, quickly engulfed the building. Cause of the blaze was not determined and Brannock it may never be known. “God (Continued on Ttoree) Heart Fund Drive Conducted By Mail No House-To-House Solicitation Here Although Heart Sunday will be observed across the nation Sunday, the door-to-door solicitation for donations conuducted in many communities is • not being planned in Adams County. Mrs. R.C. Hersh, chairman of the Heart Fund drive in this county, has announced that the drive is being conducted here through a mailing campaign and the house-to-house canvass will not be held. The appeal for contributions in the local drive ha J been bent to individuals and organization throughout the county. The campaign continues through Heart Sunday. Mrs. Hersh stated that any person who did not receive the letter may mall their contributions to her at 344 South First street, Decatur. Mrs. Hersh has expressed appreciation to those individuals and groups which have already responded to the requests for donations. Organizations which have contributed include Psi lotto Xi sorority, Merry Matrons Home Demonstration dub, Women of the Moose, Wabash Valley Home Demonstration club, Decatur Business and Professional Women's club, Decatur Woman’s club, the American Legion Auxiliary, the Geneva Studj club, tiie Decatur Garden club and the Disabled American Veterans’ auxiliary. , ~ Those who assisted with the mailing were Mrs. Roy Friedley, Mrs. Frank Crist, and the Weight Watchers club, Decatur; Mrs. Glen Stuckey, Monroe; Mrs. Theron Fenstermaker and Miss Shirley Fenstermaker, Geneva, and Mrs. Herbert Burdge and the American Legion auxiliary, Berne. Money collected through the annual Heart Fund drive is used to finance research in heart condition!. The Indiana Heart Association also sponsors public educatttor projects concerning heart diseases

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15-20 Servicemen Are Missing After Crash Os Airliner In Korea 1 —I . 11-HII ' , .1— 1,111 I, , , „,i.

Report Canada May Make Move To End Crisis May Ask UN Seek Non-Belligerency Pledges From Two UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP)- : —Canada was reported today con-, sidering asking the United Nations to demand “declarations of non* belligerency” from both Egypt and Israel to end the Middle East ; deadlock. Informed sources said Canadian Minister of External Affairs Lester B. Pearson was toying with the idea of making such a request to head off a vote of sanctions against Israel if other means to ’ get Israeli troops out of Egypt ; fail. Pearson had expected to speak ; at Friday’s General Assembly session on the Middle East, but changed his mind at the last min- , ute. Await Further Talka U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. did not speak either and , the White House made it plain that the- American position! on ' sanctions would not be disclosed ' until Secretory of State John FosJ 1 ter Dulles andlsraeli Ambassador _ Abba S. Eban consult again. Eban is scheduled to return to Washington Sunday from London where he stopped over Friday ’ night en route from Jerusalem. ; The General Assembly was in re- ' cess today until Monday. ’ Six members of the 27-nation I Afro-Asian group submitted a resolution to the assembly Friday i calling on the United Nations* 80 , members to “deny all military, economic or financial assistance ’ to Israel in view of its continued j defiance” of UN withdrawal resolutions. Vote Next Week The sponsors are Afghanistan, j Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Sudan. Diplomats said there was little likelihood a vote on such a resolution would be reached before late next week. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold told the assembly in one of his infrequent interventions that Egypt had agreed to permit the UN Emergency Force to enter the strip and deploy on its northern border when Israeli troops withdraw. He said Egypt is ready and willing to work with UN relief agen- ? cies in caring for the 217,000 Arab . refugees in the strip. This meshed with a dispatch from Tel Aviv quoting Israeli Re- . ligious Affairs Minister Moshe Shapira that Israel would be'will- ’ ing to hand over control of the Gaza Strip to the United Nations (Continued on Pare Four/ James M. Dawson Dies This Morning Former Decatur Man Dies At Indianapolis l James M. Dawson, 56, former ■ resident of Decatur, died at 1:25 o’clock this morning at the Methodist hospital In Indianapolis following an illness of three months. Mr. Dawson, who' had been a prominent attorney in Indianapolis for the past 20 years, resided at 1320 North Delaware street in the capital city. Born in Marion Nov. 27, 1910, he was a son of the Rev. James Dawson and Sarah Humerickhouse Dawson. He attended the Deca- • tur public schools. His late father was formerly pastor of the First Christian church in this city. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Charles Magley and Mrs. Russel Acker, both of Decatur, and Mrs. Mildred Tribble, of Columbia City, and his mother, Mrs. Sarah Dawson, who also resides in Decatur. , The body will be brought to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Sunday. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

> — —— Decatur Breakins Solved By Arrests Two Decatur Boys Arrested In Kansas A long series of burglaries which have been plaguing Decatur for the past several months has been virtually cleared with the apprehension of two Decatur youths in Topeka, Kans., .earlier this week. According to word received here by sheriff Merle Affolder from Topeka authorities, 15-yeer-old and ( 16-year-old boys Who. have been j missing from Decatur since Feb. ( .16, have signed statements admit- ] ting burglaries here and in Topeka, ( The boys left Decatur and trav- ( elled by bus and by hitch-hiking to Kansas. Tijgy stated that in 1 Kansas, they stole an automobile < and then went to Topeka, where they broke into at least three or 1 four business establishments. ; Sheriff Affolder stated today that < their statements to the Topeka au- < thorities have cleared several ' break-ins in Decatur. The statements specifically mentioned < breakins at Morrison's Farm Store 1 and Smith Pure Milk Dairy com- 1 pany Friday night. Feb. 16. The 1 boys have admitted taking two bill- i folds and other money from the i milk company. The letter sent to sheriff Affold- - er indicated that the boys were ' being -held on charges of burglary and larceny and would be fried on the charges by Topeka juvenile authorities. It is understood that both : of the boys have previous records of juvenile delinquency. 11 Complete Industry Fund Drive Tuesday Start Final Phase Os Industry Drive The final phase of the drive to i raise the remaining $5,000 needed ■ to purchase an industrial site is i underway and will be completed 1 by Tuesday. i Details of the final drive were mapped out at a meeting of fin- 1 ance committee members with ' Cliff Brewer, Chamber of Com* 1 merce president, Friday noon at ’ the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The drive is a major part of the industrial promotion project sponsored by Chamber of Commerce and supported by business men and leading residents ot the community. • The amount to be raised in the final phase of the drive is that which is needed to complete the purchase of the Scheimann property at the southwest limits of the city. The property is considered one of the best available industrial sites of the community. It will be offered to an industry choosing to locate a plant in this city. Brewer stated that $2,840 in pledges is still out and requested that all pledges dated prior to March 1 be turned into the Chamber office by Monday. If any pledges are still outstanding on Tuesday, members of the finance committee for the project will contact those who made the pledges. With the pledges and the additional $5,000 raised by Tuesday, the papers will be signed turning the property over to the Chamber of Commerce. The drive to raise the moqey began several months ago. Members of the finance committee serving on the final drive are Clark Srpith, Fred Haugk, Harry Schwartz, Herman H. Krueckeberg, Robert Anderson, Roy Kalver, Dick Heller, Jr., Robert Heller, Robert Lane and Severin Schurger. Any individual who still desires to endorse the project may do so by sending a contribution, to the Chamber office before Tuesday. Latest to show approval of the project with a donation to the fund was O. M. McGeath. Many other individuals and businesses have contributed to the fund, which now totals about $21,000. The amount needed for the purchase is $26,000.

U.S. Awaiting New Talks On Middle East Israeli Ambassador Enroute To States With Latest Answer WASHINGTON (UP)— U.S. officials said today Egyptian agreement to allow UN troops Into the Gaza Strip may break the current Middle East deadlock. But Israeli officials bene adopted a less hopeful attitude. “Egypt has made promises in the past," one Israeli official said skeptically. American diplomatic action on the Israeli-Egyptian crisis came to a virtual standstill as U.S. officials awaited the arrival Sunday afternoon of Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban. Eban, who left here only Monday, headed back to Washington from Israel with his government’s latest answer to President Eisenhower’s call for withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Gaza Strip and the GuM of Aqaba. 21 High administration officials said they would delay reaching a decision on possible sanctions against Israel until after hearing from Eban. Six Arab nations formally brought a proposal for sanctions against Israel before the United Nations Friday. But the White House said the United States would not declare itself on the issue until possibly Monday. That killed the chances for immediate action in the Unite ed Nations. U.S. officials gave no indication that the United States is even thinking about giving Israel any more concessions prior to any withdrawal. Israel has refused to withdraw until it has guarantees that Egypt will not again block its ships from using the Gulf of Aqaba or use the Gaza Strip for commando raids. The Uhited States has already promised to help Israel gain its objections after a troop withdrawal. But Israel has insisted on getting the guarantees first. More Chairs Needed For Youth Center Trees And Plants Donated To Center Moldenhauer’s Nursery and Landscaping company, of Huntington, has advised Ward Calland that some $35 worth of trees and other plants they planted last fall at the Center are being donated to the Youth and Community Center as a gift from that company. Calland reports that by early summer the present parking lot to the east of the Center will be extended, north of the buildtafi and west to the river drive so as to provide badly heeded extra parking room for Center activities. The cinders tor the necessary fill are being supplied by the Central Soya company. The bicycle parking lot at the west end of the building near the entrance to the Youth Center is now ready for a six to 8 inch course of fine stone. Then the children will have a suitable area for parking their bikes. One of the pressing needs at the Center is some 400 more folding chairs. One hundred additional chairs were recently donated by the General Electric Co., but It still is necessary for the music committee to spend about SSO in order to bring in and return extra chairs for each of the fine musical presentations at the Center where from 800 to 1000 people must be seated. Calland expressed hop/ that local Institutions and organizations may find away to supply these needed chairs. •

Armed Forces Day Is Observed By Russia Says Army Rearmed With New Weapons | MOSCOW (UP) — Soviet Russia celebrated Armed Forces Day today boasting that the Red Army is newly rearmed with atomic and thermonuclear weapons to stop aggression and strengthen peace. ‘"lbe development of the Soviet economy, in particular heavy industry, as well as the achieve- ( ments of science and technology, ; have made it possible to rearm , the army, air force and navy with J first class armaments, including j atomic and thermonuclear weap) , ons,” the army newspaper Red Star said. . “The Soviet Army fights only in ] the just cause of the defense pf . its Socialist fatherland and its in- ( terests, to stop imperialist aggres- ( sors and strengthen peace,” the Communist Party newspaper 1 Pravda asserted. . Salutes fired in Moscow and other cities marked the 39th anniversary of the Soviet armed forces. Soviet Defense Minister Georgi j Zhukov charged In an address to : a bemedalled company of mar- 1 shals, general and admirals that : the Western powers are following an aggressive policy aimed at war. Zhukov said Soviet armedforpte were forced to proceed with preparation and training “from the fact that reactionary circles of imperialistic states are continuing their aggressive policy and coni ducting a course preparative far a new war." Thanks to the constant attention of the party and the government, he said, the Soviet forces were equipped with the "very latest weapons and fighting technique and possess a staff which has admirably mastered these weapons and the means of applying them to contemporary conditions.” Slate C.C. Fights Tax On Net Worth Handley Proposal Meets Opposition INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - The j Indiana State Chamber of Com- ( merce today urged its members to ] "act at once" in opposition to a proposal by Governor Handley ] that the state enact a “net worth” tax aimed at corporations doing interstate business. Jack Reich, executive vice president of the organization, sent letters recommending that businessmen contact members of the House Ways & Means "A” Committee in which a bill carrying out • Handley’s recommendation is being studied. "The State Chamber believes that the 1957-59 state budget can be balanced within the provisions of the present state tax structure , and that enacment of the net- ( worth or franchise tax is unneces- , sary and will be damaging to < Indiana’s economic future,” Reich ( said. He said the tax would "have a definite adverse effect on Indiana's business climate and would , be detrimental to future industrial 1 expansion.” i “The proposed tax Is a special < interest" tax aimed specifically at 1 the corporate method of. doing i (Continued on Paa* Four) , Smell Os Gasoline < In Sewers Abates o ’i< ■ I The smell of gasoline in the I downtown area from the city sewer 1 seems to have abated after three 1 weeks of detailed checking by the i state fire marshal’s office and Jo- I cal fire department. One more downtown service station will be ( checked next week. Tuesday the investigators locate j ed a leaky tank. The inspectors ( pumped the gasoline from the tank ( into barrels, flushed the tank, and , filled it with water before sealing it. The service station has agreed , to purchase a new tank, and not 1 to use the did one. It is expected s that the present rain will wash j most traces of gasoline from the sewers. •• ' .-J

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159 On Board Globemasfer In Crash In Korea Tide Os Icy Water In Han River Halts Search For Missing SEOUL, Korea (UP)-A 19-foot tide of icy water swept into the Han River estuary today halting a search for 15 to 20 servicemen missing in the crash of a V-S. Air Force C-124 Globemaster with more than 150 aboard. Air-ground teams of helicopters and 300 soldiers recovered five bodies before the swirling tide, ’ carrying huge cakes of ice, rushed up the river and partly covered the sandspit where the giant transport crash-landed Friday night. There was some confusion about the number missing. Namber Missing Differs Far East Air Force headquarters in Tokyo said 20 were missing out of 159 aboard the plane. But U.S- Air Force authorities here said that due to a “mixup in manifests" there may have been from 157 to 161 persons aboard. Their figures listed 137 survivors, land five known dead. "Hospitals at Ascom City 1 and Kimpo Air Base discharged 100 " survivors this morning. They had been rushed to the two hospitals Friday night by helicopter and ambulance during a frenzied evacuation from the tide-threatened sandspit where they were marooned. Air Force headquarters in Tokyo said the four-engined Globemaster, with a crew of 10, was carrying servicemen to Japan for vacations. Engine Conks Out Shortly after taking off from Kimpo Airport, the pilot radioed that his No. 3 engine had failed and he was returning to Kimpo. Apparently unable to reach the airstrip, he made a beautiful bellylanding four minutes after takeoff on the sandspit island in the Han, 11 miles northwest of Seoul. An Air Force spokesman said the fuel tanks ruptured when the plane hit and the wreckage burst into flames. Os the TO persons listed as injured, only one was in serious condition and he was burned. Within minutes after the crash, helicopters began shuttling survl(CMttMeS Pace Five) Tugboatmen Reject New York Contract Longshoremen End Strike Os 10 Days NEW YORK (UP)—East Coast longshoremen return to work today, ending a 10-day strike, but a surprise contract rejection by New York tugboatmen crippled harbor operations in the world’s largest port. There was little hope of an early settlement of the 33-day tugboat strike that has idled 4,000 harbor crewmen and cut off 70 per cent of fuel deliveries to the Greater New York area. Truck and occasional tanker deliveries, coupled with mild weather, forestalled a fuel crisis that had been forecast early in the walkout. No new negotiations meetings were planned. But Capt. Joseph O’Hare, head of Local 333 of the < United Marine Division of the National Maritime Workers, said he would try to arrange for a resumption of negotiations. Tugboat employers were dumbfounded by the union’s 5 to 1 rejection of the six-year contract that had been accepted Thursday by the union's negotiating committee and recommended to the rank-and-file before a vote Friday. O’Hare and other union leaders said the harbor crewmen objected to the length of the contract which spread improvements over a sixyear Deriod. “They want everything in two years," O’Hare said.