Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 47, Decatur, Adams County, 25 February 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 47.

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r •. ~ • n ; < ,«>*** V 1 ISRAELI AMBASSADOR Abba Eban (right) armed with new instructions from his government on the withdrawal issue, talks to newsmen upon his arrival at New York*s Idlewild Airport from Israel. Listening at the left is Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gideon Rafael. Eban is to confer with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington concerning Israel's refusal to withdraw troops from the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba Area despite a U. N. resolution demanding such an evacuation.

Indiana Senate To Study Right To Work Bill Parker Sidesteps Political Hot Seat •On Labor Measure INDIANAPOLIS < UP) — The Indiana Senate voted today oyer Democratic minority objections to consider the controversial "right to work" bill as a committee of the whole. It was a victory for Lt. Gov. Crawford F. Parker, who chose that way to dispose of a bill which pul him on a political "hot seat.” Parker’s assignment of the measure to the entire Senate, instead of a specific committee with a known prejudice for or against it. Was upheld in two close roll call votes on motions that could have rebuffed his action. Senators voted 24-24 to table a motion by a Republican leader that the Senate resolve immediately into a committee of the whole with Sen. John W. Van Ness (R-Val-paraiso) as chairman, to consider the bill. Parker broke the tie with a vote against tabling. Then the Senate voted 25 to 23 in favor of the motion to consider the bill, and Parker gaveled a recess until 2:30 p.m. CDT, at which time the Senate was to start consideration of one of the most hotly-op-posed labor issues ever to come before an Indiana General Assembly. Rises to Point of Order The parliamentary maneuvering came as the Democrats ended a caucus held during a short recess Welsh rose to a point of Order on Parker’s assignment on the grounds that Sen. Eugene Bainbridge (D-Munster) was objecting to the assignment at the time Parker made it. Parker then ruled Welsh’s point of order “is not well taken.” When Parker ..cast the deciding vote to break a tie on the motion to table. Democrats again objected that he had no right to do so. Parker, in effect, sidestepped criticism which would have come from proponents of the measure if he had assigned the bill to the j Labor Committee, a majority of , whose members are known to be • 1 opposed to it. (Continued on Pi»<e Flve| I Funeral Tuesday For James Dawson. Funeral services for James M. , Dawkon, former Decatur resident who died Saturday morning at Indianapolis, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwlck funeral home, with the Rev. Traverse Chandler officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Mr. Dawson, a prominent Indianapolis attorney for 20 years, led a dramatic but unsuccessful fight against a trolley fare increase in the capital city in 1946. He was noted in Indianapolis for his championship of many causes, Including a fight against increased golf course fees and seeking free swimming privileges for children in city parks.

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Four Gunmen Sought For Torture, Theft Pennsylvania Man Is Tortured For Hours MCKEESPORT, Pa. (UP)- Police today sought four gunmen, led by a “sadist,” who turned the home Os a local meat packer into a medieval-like torture chamber to learn the whereabouts of hidden money and jewelry. The gang manacled Frank Rendulic, 40, to a cellar post with handcuffs and chains, then beat him with blackjacks and burned him with a heated meat hook to make him tell where his money was hidden. Rendulic finally gave in, three hours after the torture started, when the gang threatened to burn out the eyes of his four children with a heated poker. Earlier, a similar eye-gouging threat failed to break Rendulic’s silence. . Get SIO,OOO Loot The robbers got away with about $5,000 in cash and $5,000 worth of jewelry. They left Ren- : dulic’s back, legs and face a mass of bruises. His right eye was swol- i len shut. Rendulic’s terrified wife, Josephine, 39, and the couple’s two sons and two daughters were left bound and gagged in an upstairs bedroom but were not harmed otherwise. Mrs. Rendulic freed herself after the men left and called police. ' Rendulic, who operates a slaughter house behind his home, said he and his wife were watching television Saturday night when their doorbell rang. He answered it and four men pushed their way in. “Three had socks pulled over their faces and the fourth had on a white mask. Each one had a gun,” Rendulic said. “I thought right away it was some of my friends playing a gag.” Chained To Post Three of the men forced him into the cellar while the fourth ordered his wife upstairs where their two sons, Fred, 5, and Frank, 8, were in bed. The couple’s daughters, Joan, 13, and Janet, 11, returned shortly from a skating rink and also were, taken to the bedroom. In the cellar, the three gunmen handcuffed Rendulic’s arms around a steel post and chained ris legs. Then they took turns beating him With blackjacks and singeing his skin with a heated meat hook. “You'd better tell where the money is. This guy’s a sadist,” one thug said, pointing to a man who acted as leader. He said about SI,OOO of the money taken by the men belonged to his cMWrenr who had held a luckr number in a church lottery. Jasper Youth Killed At Target Shooting JASPER, Ind. (UP) — Eugene Schmitt, 14, son of Jasper policeman Robert Schmitt, was shot and killed accidentally late Saturday while target shooting with friends near here. James Klueh, 14, Jasper, told state police he and Charles Keller, 16, also of Jasper, were firing into the woods in a different direction while Schmitt set up cans to fire at. „ 16 Pages [

Broadening Os Minimum Wage Law Proposed. Secretary Os Labor Outlines Extension Os Minimum Wage WASHINGTON (UP)— Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell proposed today that the federal minimum wage law be broadened to cover some 2.5 million additional workers: A Senate Labor subcttnmittfee called Mitchell to give the administration’s first concrete proposals on extending the Minimum Wage Act. • Mitchell's proposals fell far short of organized labor's demands that 10 million additional workers be blanketed in under the act. The bulk of the workers—2 million — to he brought in under Mitchell’s proposal are employed in the retail trades profession. Coverage of these workers long has been cherished by labor. However, Mitchell did not include the coverage of two other groups of workers sought by the AFL-CIO. These were 1.4 naillion agricultural workers and another 1.4 million outside salesmen. The labor secretary also ruled out extending the $1 hourly wage floor to workers employed in small, local businesses. Flat Release Other congressional news: Doctrine: The Senate opened its second week of debate today on President Eisenhower’s Middle East doctrine with a warning that passage of UN sanctions against Israel would substantially delay the debate. Senate leaders sent the warning to President Eisenhower Sunday after conferring with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Civil Rights: The House Judiciary subcommittee began today what was billed as its "positively final” round of hearings on civil rights legislation. The subcommittee’s hearings were extended twice to allow southern opponents of civil rights to present their views. The hearings are slated to end Tuesday. Racketeering: Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark) said his Senate Labor Racketeering Committee is looking into bank records of some unions. He said the committee was making the checks where union financial records were destroyed. Public hearings begin Tuesday. Bonds: An administration pro-' posal to raise interest rates on government savings bonds appeared headed for trouble. The House Ways & Means Committee scheduled a closed door session on the proposal to allow the Treasury Department to raise rates as high as 4V4 per cent. But key members predicted the committee would allow Only a 3% per cent boost at the most. Elks Cancer Parly Held Here Saturday Approximately $650 Is Made For Fund About $650 was raised for the Indiana Elks cancer fund at the annual cancer party held Saturday night at the K. of C. home, according to an announcement by 'Carl A. Braun, general chairman of the event. Approximately 500 persons attended the party, which is sponsored each year by the local Elks lodge. Many prizes were given away throughout tte evening with the awards going to Herman Dierkes, Esther Bowers and Gerald Strickler. Braun today issued an expression of appreciation to all who contributed to the success of the 1957 cancer party. He especially thanked members of the committees which included Julie Baker, entertainment; Wilbur Petrie, William Schulte, William Gass and Fritz Faurote, merchandise donations, and Walter Gilliom, ticket chairman. He also thanked-the Knights of Columbus lodge which extended use of their hall, the members of the Keynotefs orchestra who donated their time, and members of the K. of C. auxiliary who took care of the coat checking service and earned $51.38 lor the cancer fund. Muncie Man Named Fairs Secretary INDIANAPOLIS (UP — Robert Barnet, sports editor of the Muncie Star, was appointed secretarytreasurer of the Indiana Association of County and District Fairs, succeeding William Clark, Franklin, who died recently after serving for 21 years.

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Saud Seeks To Outline Ike's 1 Plan To Arabs Meets With Heads Os Three Nations On Ike Doctrine United Press Staff Correspondent CAIRO (UP) - King Saud of Saudi Arabia undertook today to explain the Eisenhower Doctrine to the leaders of a frankly hostile Syria and a cool and doubting Egypt and Jordan. He met with leaders of the three nations for talks overshadowed by Washington negotiations between Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban. Outcome of the Dulles-Eban talks amy determine the results here. Saud sat down with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, President Shukri El-Kuwatly of Syria and King Hussein of Jordan for the second round of their big four talks that were interrupted by Saud’s state visit to Washington. Saud flew here Sunday from conferences in Spain and North Africa. He met Sunday with King Idriss El Senussi of Libya. They issued a communique in which Saud "expressed his satisfaction with Eisenhower’s understanding of Arab issues?”' . v “The two kings found themselves in agreement in appreciation of Eisenhower’s understanding of Arab issues,” the communique said. The declaration appeared to be a boost for the Eisenhower plan on the eve of the Arab big four meeting. But it also underlined insistence on complete and unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory and thte “necessity of putting an end to repeated Israeli aggressions on Arab nations.” Revise Farm Income Estimate Downward WASHINGTON (UP) — The Department of Agriculture has revised downward its estimate of farm income for last year. It now figures the total at $11,800,000,000. The department also reported that farm price supports cost the taxpayer more last year than in the entire period from 1933 through 1952. The “realized net farm income” of $11,800,000,000 for 1956 was up 4 per cept over 1955. Child's Dog Killed Sunday By Molorist • Warning Issued By Mayor And Police A child’s dog was killed Sunday at 11:45 a. m. on Dayton avenue by an unidentified motorist who allegedly turned off 10th street onto Dayton without stopping, struck the dog and sped away. The accident could have been more tragic since the dog was walking close to the boy, who was crossing to his home from the Northwest school. The boy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Brown of North 10th street. Brown reported the incident to tte * police ing that residents of the neighborhood are becoming increasingly irate over flagrant violations of speed limits and other traffic laws on Dayton avenue. Mayor Robert Cole and police chief James Borders issued a statement today warning local motorists that the street is to be patrolled frequently by city police in the future, and that all laws will be strictly enforced. They pointed out that since children are frequently crossing the avenue, it is imperative that drivers be especially careful in this area. According' to residents of the neighborhood, speeding and. running stop signs are frequently committed by motorists on that street.

flee From Homes in Oregon, California Rivers Are Flooding Lowlands In States , SAN FRANCISCO (UP)-Several thousand persons in Oregon and California fled their homes today as rivers, fed by a weekend of torrential rains and melted snow, began flooding lowlands in both states. The rains were born over the Far West by a high-level stream of warm air that inbidentally helped commercial airliners set new records for flights between the West Coast and Hawaii. The weatherman said the rains would diminish today but he warned a new storm was on its way. It was due over northern California Tuesday. The area in the worst danger appeared to be eastern Oregon. There the swollen Malheur River forced 1,500 persons in Vale to abandon their homes Sunday night, isolated the town of Harper and closed Ore. 20 to the east. Farther north, 150 families in Enterprise moved to higher ground when the Wallowa River overflowed, covering half the town with 1 to 5 inches of water. In California, sheriff’s deputies patrolled the levees along the Feather River, scene of disastrous floods in December, 1955. The river’s ominous rise was the result of the heavy weekend rains i > that fell as high as 6,500 feet in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, melting the snowpack. The Feather and Sacramento I rivers, in California’s great Central Valley, as well as the Russian, Mad and Eel rivers along the northern California coast, were flooding low-lying areas. 10 Pupils Injured As Truck Hits Bus Most Os Students Treated, Released NEW WINCHESTER, Ind. (IB — Ten pupils 'were injured today when a big truck smashed into the rear of a New Winchester j school bus one-half mile west of here on U. S. 36. State Police said the bus driver, William Smith, 43, R.R. 2, Coatesville, was slowing the bus to make a pick-up. The truck driver, William A. Anderson, 50, Lincoln, 111., saw the signals, but his brakes failed, he said. Anderson could not swerve his truck to the left because of oncoming traffic and children waiting for the bus were on the berm. State police said “most” of the injured were treated and released. The injured were Caroline Barnes, an elementary school pupil; Wilma Burdine, 7th grade; Linda Crapham, 6th grade; Diana Stanley, elementary; Ruthie Young, a high school senior; Sarah Jane Kinneman; Cynthia Smith, a sophomore; Nelson Baxter; Joe Kinneman and Gwenp Stanley. —---- Couple Found Dead In House Trailer MARION, Ind. (UP > — The bodies of Harold Ross, 46, Tipton. and Mrs. Winifred Sharp, 42, a Marion widow, were' found in a house trailer at Wagner Lake during the weekend and acting coroner Joseph Davis said they died of carbon monoxide.poisoning. Gas from a coojsingstove was Mamed, and authorities believed the deaths were accidental. Fabulous Museums In Paris In Jeopardy PARIS (UP) — The once-fabu-lous museums of Paris which drew visitors from all over the world are seriously threatened .by lack of funds, officials said today. They said the Louvre, the world’s foremost art museum, has fired one-fourth of its staff of guards in an economy move. Several Paris museums have been forced to close some of their galleries and the Museum of Public Works 'has closed down completely.

Doubt Congress Will Approve Georgia Move House Committee Chairman Sees No Impeachment Vote WASHINGTON (IB — Chairman Emanuel Celler of the House Judiciary Committee said today that a Georgia resolution seeking impeachment of six U. S. Supreme Court justices has “no chance” of congressional approval. Rep. James C. Davis (D-Ga.) agreed. But Davis declined to say whether he planned to introduce a similar resolution in Congress. Davis said he had received a copy of the Georgia Legislature’s resolution only today, hadn't had a chance to read it and hence could not say at this time whether he will introduce a congressional resolution for impeachment. Cellar said the Georgia Legislature went “too far” in approving its resolution. Its action, he said, “only exacerbates ... the civil rights situation." David replied, during a Judi- • ciary subcommittee hearing on j civil rights legislation, that the Legislative “had much prowca- > tion to become indignant at the - Supreme Court.” > Davis ’said Nfew York, Illinois, » Michigan and California all have racial problems, and Illinois alone has “produced more race riots than all southern states combined.” Rep. A. S. Herlong Jr. (D-Fla.) charged that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP is “Communist inspired.” The hearings end Tuesday. Chairman Emanuel Seller (D-NY) will call the group back into session Wednesday to begin drafting a civil rights bill. He hopes the | drafting can be completed in one day. Herlong accused some backers of civil rights bills of making “extravagant statements” about conditions in the South. He said they do not have “the slightest idea” of actual conditions “but simply listen to what the Communistinspired NAACP tells them are conditions in the South.” 7‘ Harry Offutt Dies At Fort Wayne Home /Indiana Engineering / Firm Founder Dies Harry C. Offutt, 75, founder and former president of the Indiana Engineering and Construction Co., died at 12:40 p.m. Sunday at his home, 822 West Wildwood Ave., Fort Wayne. He retired after becoming ill six years ago. Mr. Offutt was well known in Decatur, having supervised most of his firm’s construction work for the Central Soya Co. and McMillen Feed Mills in this city. He organized Indiana Engineering in 1910, and served at different times as president, treasurer Wd general manager. He pioneered the use of reinforced concrete and built the first building with it in Fort Wayne, the Pettit storage warehouse. Mr. Offutt was a member of the First Presbyterian church. Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite, Mizpah Shrine Temple, and the Izaak Walton league. Surviving are his wife, Jane: one son, Harry C. Offutt, Ur., Veto Beach, Fla.; five grandchildren, and three brothers, John, Will and Tom Offutt, all of New Castle, Pa. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Klaehn funeral home. Dr. John Meister officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this morning.

Nine Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic , Bloodiest Traffic Weekend Os Maith At least nine persons were killed on streets and highways during the weekend as Indiana recorded Its bloodiest traffic weekend this month. The total was three times as great as the number killed in the two previous weekends combined. 1 The first 18 hours of the weeks end went by with. only a single r fatality, and it appeared for a [ time the toll would match the > safety records set the two pref vious weekends. But a double fatality cm Ind. 240 near Greencastle late Satur--1 day dispelled that hope. Killed In ' the accident were Robert Calbert, ; 49, Dearfield, 111., an insurance executive, and his son, William, 13. 1 Accidents within the next few 1 hours claimed more lives. i George Heim, Jr., 23, North I Liberty, died when his speeding i car rolled over in a field near North Liberty. Four others sustained injuries. A bump in Ind. 4 near LaPorte ■ was blamed for an accident which ! killed Stephen Owen, 34, LaPorte, . Owen lost control of his car and Lit smashed into a bridge . Cloy Anderson, 53, a South Bend school teacher, was crushed be- ■ tween his parked car and a mov--1 ring car in front of his home. b Reckless homicide charges were - filed against Jbseph A. Dorsch, 8 46, South Bend. William D. Schultz, 45, Valparaiso, died in Doctors Hospital at Michigan City Sunday from ine juries sustained Saturday night e when his car went out of control s on a U.S. 421 curve near • West- - vUle and hit a culvert. — — A two-car collision on a Gary street Sunday claimed, the life of > Robert Perry, 24, Gary. Perry’s - wife and the driver of the other f car were injured. - Nineteen-year-old Jeweldean Deaton, Silver Lake, was killed Sunday when her automobile collided • with a New York Gbntral Railroad ' train at an Ind. 14 crossing a few • blocks from her home. The ac- ! cident was witnessed by her pari ents and a brother. Ida N. Rahe, 82, Holton, was killed and three persons were injured Sunday in a two-car collision at the junction of a Ripley County road and U.S. 50 near Versailles. State police said a car driven by (Contlaaed oi Pace Five) Premier Os France Arrives In States Mol let Hopeful Os 7 Mid-East Solution NEW YORK (UP) — French Premier Guy Mollet said after a whispered conversation with his ambassador today that he had “just been told things afe going a little better” in Mideast negotiations. Mollet said he was "hopeful” that a solution to Arab-Israeli difficulties s*will 5 *will be found. The French premier arrived by plane from Paris for conferences with President Eisenhower, the first between chiefs of state of the United States and its Big Three allies since the Suez crisis. He planned to leave for Washington in President Eisenhower’s plane. The Columbine, this afternoon. Mollet was met at Idlewild Airport by the French ambassador to the United States, Harve Alphand, who gave him a whispered briefing on the Middle East situation after newsmen asked for comment on it. He had said earlier that he preferred to ake no “declaration” on the crisis until after he sees Mr, Eisenhower. “I intend to state emphatically to President Eisenhower as well as to you that our country has been for nearly two centuries your faithful tally and does not‘intend, rain or shine, to change its mind pc its heart,” .Mollet said. “We are always in the same boat, and our common ideals command us to stick together.”

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Declarers Doctrine Aims 7 For Stability Shortwave Address Beamed Overseas To Middle East People ; WASHINGTON (UP) — President , Eisenhower warned the people of ' the Middle East today to stand ‘ clear of the “menace of interna- ’ tional communism” lest it “smash all their hard - won accomplishments overnight." Mr. Eisenhower reiterated in a ’ special shortwave broadcast beamed overseas that his Mideast ; resolution, now pending in,Congress, is designed “to help bring ’ stability” to the troubled areas. r “We must face the fact that, while we are trying to help build a world of freedom and justice ‘ among sovereign people,” the ! President said, "the masters of international communism are working constantly to tear down , this kind of world." ’ The President spoke as U.S. officials voiced hope that the Israeli ■ troop deadlock may be broken. Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban I conferred for 3 hours and 10 min- ‘ utes Sunday with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the , issue of withdrawal .of Israel’s 8 troops from the Gaza Strip and '’ Apparently a new American ap7 proa ch was being worked out to j the question of guaranteeing Is- * rael against future Egyptian att tacks. Israel also was said to have rl modified its, demands for safer guards before pulling out of Egyptian territory. r Build Up Economies f After their talks, Dulles and s Eban issued a joint statement exr pressing hope for a "solution... consistent with the principles of _ the United-Nations.” . The President's speech marked 4 the 15th anniversary of the “Voice j of America.” v Mr. Eisenhower’s warning . against communism in the Middle _ East was couched in this language: “I believe that the well-being of 5 the people of the Middle East re- _ quires the nations of that region , to build up and strengthen their , economies and institutions. We want to see that kind of progress. J “My proposals fit right in with this purpose, for they suggested two things: First, in order that this constructive work may go on within these countries, they must be free of the menace of international communism, which could smash all their hard-won accomplishments overnight. "And so we give these countries the assurance that if such a danger develops, and if the United Nations machinery cannot deal with the danger, and a threatened country asks for our help, it can count on our help. Eban Meets Hammarskjold “So, behind the protective arm of this assurance, the real creative work of progress can go on, and to speed this creative work, an extra measure of economic assistance for the area is included in , my proposals.” The President also warned that the avowed program of communism is tp destroy not only the governments ana traditions, but the religions of the Christian, Buddhist, Islamic and Judaic worlds. "The Communist rulers,” he went on, “then propose to substitute a whole new system. of thought and control dictated from Communist Party headquarters.’ Eban scheduled a meeting in New York today with U.N. Secretary Dag Hammarskjold. He apparently sought clarification by Hammarskjold of Egypt’s position if Israel withdraws her troops. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional rain or driude tonight and east and south portions Tuesday. Turning colder central and north Tuesday. Low tonight ranging from near 40 extreme north- ’ west to near 50 east and south. High Tuesday low 46s extreme northwest to near 60 extreme southeast' Sunset 6:32 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 7:23 a.m.