Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 52, Decatur, Adams County, 2 March 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 52.

, FLYING SAUCER, YOU SAY? s i. »108 fe. '■ iii»rl Shg| ■ ■ . gggHNM||M>; ’ W B THIS FLYING SAUCER-LIKE air vehicle is Grumman’s new WF-2 early warning aircraft, shown over the Bethpage, Long Island, area. The radorhe houses long-range antenna. The WF-2 will warn fleet units on impending enemy attack. »

Israel Troops To Withdraw From Egypt Israeli Leaders, U.N. Officials To Plan Withdrawal? By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israel announced today its military leaders would meet Sunday with United Nations officials to plan the Israeli withdrawal from Egyptian territory along the Gulf of Aqaba. There were indications the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip would be delayed until the United Nations makes good on Israeli “assumptidns” thA area will be administered by U.N, forces during a transitional period. Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, chief of Staff of the Israeli armed forces, announced he was tneeting Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, head of the U.N. Emergency Forces (UNEF) at Lydda Airport in Israel Sunday to arrange the Aqebi withdrawal. Informed sources in Tel Aviv said the two generals would* discuss only the “preliminary arrangements” for the pullback from Sharm El Sheikh, the Egyptian fortress dominating the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. Follows Withdrawal Promise Israeli source; said this was the “first phase" of the withdrawal announced Friday in New York by Mrs. Gedda Meir, the Israeli foreign minister, and that withdrawal from the Gaza Strip will come later. Mrs. Meir, in announcing Is- , rael’s intentions, mentioned two "assumptions”: 1. Freedom of navigation in the Bulf of Aqaba will be continued, backed by U.S. declarations that thp gulf is international waters. 2. The UNEF, not Egypt, will be the agency to set up civil services in Gaza and remain in control until the issue is settled. Observers in Jerusalem believed Burns and Dayan would fix a date for a further meeting to discuss the Gaza Strip and plans for a U.N. takeover there. Burns has asked Israel not act until he has talked with Dayan. The situation was pleasing to neither Jew nor Arab. Premier David Ben-Gurion of Israel faced a political rebellion, and an Egyptian spokesman said the Arabs would believe the Israeli withdrawal when they see it. Israel Politics Affected Several Israeli political parties called demonstrations for today in tire principal cities of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa against the settlement. Two of Ben-Gurion’s coalition cabinet parties were in revolt and may cause a political crisis this week end. The Arabs indicated they were suspicious of the Israeli withdrawals despite a promise' to nine Arab leders in Washington by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles denying reports of any “deal" and saying there were “no conditions” to the Israeli withdrawal. The independent Cairo newspaper Al Ahram said today the withdrawal must be “unconditional” and that Egypt will not be bound by any promises given to Israel by the United States. It said Egypt will “win her full rights if it takes her a thousand years and means the shedding of the last drop of blood.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with BpMible snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 21-32. High Sunday 3540. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer. NOON EDITION

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Credit Truman Plan For Aid To Peace Turkey And Greece Mark Anniversary WASHINGTON RD — Ten years ago Harry S. Truman unfolded his historic “doctrine" to keep Greece and Turkey from falling under the iron grip of Moscow. i Today Mr. Truman’s bold plaq ( is credited with keeping those two strategically located nations free and soliefiy in the Western camp. Both are considered vigorous nations with expanding economies and both are unafraid to stand up to their tough big neighbor, the Soviet Union. The program has cost the United States about 3 billion dollars. Republicans and Democrats alike have cited it as one of the milestones of U. S. foreign policy. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in recent testimony urging Congress to approve the Eisenhower Doctrine for the Middle East cited the Truman Doctrine as one of a series of steps in which “we have in fact preserved Grateful Greece and Turkey are planning special ceremonies during the wehk of March 10 celebrating the 10th anniversary. The administration wanted Mr. Truman to represent the United States, but he declined on grounds the invitation came too late. Gets Fast Action It was on March 12, 1947, that Mr. Truman told the Congress in a special message of the dire Communist threat to Greece and Turkey. He told Congress what he wanted Ih these words: “It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures, i . . Should we fail to aid Greece and Turkey in this fateful hour, the effect will be far-reaching to the West as well as to the East.” He asked and got “resolute action.” On May 22 the act to help these two targets of communism was approved and on July 30 Congress appropriated 400 million dollars for military and economic aid. Since then the United States has provided about IV4 billion dollars in economic aid to Greece and Turkey, plus military help believed to equal that figure. Substantial aid still flows to the two ..countries... • ... .. a.... ........ Russians Try Pressure The factor that forced Mr. Truman to his decision was the grim spectre of Moscow’s ever-grasping hand. Kremlin bosses made it plain at the close of World War II that they would press vigorously to dominate Greece and Turkey and thereby sSze control of the Dardanelles. This would have given the Soviets free access from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, a goal long cherished by Russians. The first Soviet pressure was applied on Turkey when Russia, in March, 1945, denounced the Soviet-Turkish agreement on neutrality and friendship. The Soviets said the price for renewing close relations would be increased Russian use of the Dardanelles and perhaps cession of two Turkish provinces to Russia. This external pressure on Turkey failed. But Russia turned her attention to Grtece where she tried by internal subversion to win Communist control of the nation. The Soviets encouraged Communist guerrillas in a civil war that lasted five years. The Truman Doctrine was hailed in Britain as a turning point in Anglo-American relations and the advent of the United States into the strategic Near East. Greeks of every political stripe—even the Communists — admit it saved Greece from disappearing behind the Iron Curtain. The Turks credit the United States for making them a stable element in a politically unstable area.

Union Members Proles! Right To Work Bill 5,000 Persons Mass At Statehouse To Protest Measure INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-A crowd of union members estimated at around 5,000 persons massed in die Indiana Statehouse today protesting passage of a controversial “right to work" bill. The group crowded around the door of Governor Handley's office long before a scheduled 10 a.m. CDT demonstration called by the Indiana State Federation of Labor. The demonstrators, some dressed in overalls and others wearing caps and uniforms of their many trades, bore signs urging Handley to veto the bill. State Police Supt. Harold Zeis estimated the crowd at “nearly 5,000.” Handley declined a request by union leaders that he address the entire group. The governor, who slipped into his office by a back entrance to avoid the crowd, said : he would confer with a group of ; not more than eight of the work- , er s' spokesmen. The meeting with Handley was scheduled for 10:43 am. CDT. JDemonstrMdH < vha*t While the workers waited, they ' occasionally chanted "We want Handley." One huge sign said “Shelbyville against right to work bill." Another said “This vicious bill will lessen jobs, lower living standards.” “Labor elected you, Gov. Handley. We will have to vote Democratic in 1958-60,” said another. “Gov. Handley, veto the right to work bill for the good df labor and 1958-60 elections,” another said. ,A sandwich sign said “This law of suppression invites depression.” John E. O’Donnell of Hammond, second vice president of the ISFL, asked the governor to speak to ; the entire group. Handley told O’Donnell he was always willing to address labor . conventions but in this case would , prefer to talk with a group of . spokesmen. The crowd was noisy but orderly. The unions set up a public address system and made frequent announcements urging the demonstrators to keep corridors clear. Box Os Apples The crowd was concentrated heaviest around the door of Handley’s office. At the entrance, a box of apples was placed with a sign saying “We don’t want the old days of the apple >• peddlers’ wages.” Passage of the bill Friday made it virtually certain Indiana will be the first big industrial state in the nation with a “right to work” law. The demonstration came while the Legislature met in a Saturday session. » In a night session of the House, two of Governor Handley’s revenue bills to raise additional millions of dollars the next two years in the face of a record biennial budget were passed and sent to (Coattaaed Pace Five) Churches Sponsor ~ Training Institute Institute March 8 For Bible Teachers The Associated Churches of Decatur will sponsor a training institute for all workers in daily vacation Bible schools Friday, March 8, at the First Methodist church. Registration will be at 8:30 a.m. The institute will recess at 10:45 for the luncheon hour, to reconvene at 12:15 for the afternoon session. Dismissal will be at 3 o’clock. The Associated Churches has chosen as the general theme for all schools, “Wider Relationships.” The kindergarten topic will be "Friends Near and Far;” the primary, “Our Families;” the junior, "Meet Your Neighbors;” and the junior high, "God’s World and Ours.” Administrative workers will review thl text. “Your Vacation Church School”, by Arlepe Hall. Teachers at the institute will be the Rev. Paul Shepard of Clinton, Mrs. Harry Mount of Trafalgar, Mrs. Robert Lundy of Claypool, Mrs. Paul Daugherty of Columbus, and the Rev. Ruth Eastburg of Linton. Vacation Bible school workers of all churches in Adams county, are invited to participate. There will be a registration fee of 81. The fee of all workers from member churches of the Associated Churches will be paid by the association. For further Information interested persons may contact the Rev. Virgil Sexton at the First Methodist church.

ONLY DAILY NBWBFAPRR IN ADAM* COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 2, 1957.

Sectional Champion To Be Determined Tonight At Adams Central Gym

Union Leaders To Be Queried By Committee Confront Teamster Union Leaders With j Charges In Oregon j WASHINGTON (UP)—A spoked man said today the Senate Rackets Committee plans to confront top Teamster Union officials with charges they tried to take ovef law enforcement in Oregon. The spokesman said they wouldbe asked to confirm or deny the charges made in testimony before the committee. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy told newsmen the union leaders would also be asked whether they were willing to contribute SIO,OOO to the campaign of Democratic Gov. Robert Holmes if their 1 man were appointed to the state Liquor, Commission. Kennedy said the questions would be put to Union President Dave Beck and Vice President Frank W. Brewster, head of the Western Conference of Teamsters, when they testify later in the racket hearings, Beck Touring Europe Beck is now in Europe, but he ■ has said he .will return March If to testify. He denied he left the ; country to avoid a subpena. The committee has subpenaed Brewster to appear before it after hearings resume Tuesday. Brewster already has been cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to answer another Senate committee’s questions about his union’s finances. Howard Morgan, Oregon state Democratic chairman from 1952 to 1956, swore Friday that Beck and Other Teamster officials figured in an attempt to take over state law enforcement "from the local level up to and including the governor’s chair.” Morgan also testified that Manton Spear —a Portland, Ore., beer distributor and former employe of Beck’s son — told him Beck and Brewster were willing to contribute SIO,OOO last year to Holmes’ campaign. He said in return they wanted a Teamster official named to the state Liquor Commission, which controls the state liquor monopoly. Tells Os Rejection He said both he and Holmes indignantly rejected the idea. Spear reluctantly confirmed most of Morgan's testimony, but said he was talking about “a hypothetical case.” Other major developments in the hearings’ fourth day of sensational testimony: , (COatlaava Five) Geneva School Bond Request Approved Plan Construction Os School Addition - The application by the WBbastr township holding corporation with the common school fund, requesting the exchange of holding company bonds for common school bonds, has been approved. Word of the approval, which was made Feb. *2B, has been received here by county school ent Gail Grabill. Bonds in the sum of $325,000 have been approved to finance construction of an addition to the Geneva-Wabash township school at Geneva. According to information received by Grabill, the local application was the only one of several approved which will be for classroom construction only. The Wabash township holding corporation was formed for the purpose of selling bonds to finance the much-needed construction. However, no bidders appeared to purchase the school bonds which permitted a maximum interest rate of only four percent. The application was made with the Indiana common school fund commission after it became apparent that the bolding corporation bonds would not be sold.

Marine Sergeant Cleared Os Charge Found Innocent Os Maltreatment Charge PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (UP)—A court-martial board cleared a Marine drill sergeant Friday o f charges that he forced a recruit g to stuff himself with candy until I he choked. | The same board that found Sgt. J. Corey, 28, of Somerville, * Mags., innocent of four maltreat- • ment counts also reduced the sen--1 tence of another drill instructor 1 convicted of hitting a recruit at ’ this Marine training camp. Former Sgt. Charles L. Jones of Pensacola, Fla., earlier was sen--5 fenced to 30 days in the brig, or- * dered to pay a SSO fine and reduced to private first class for • striking Pvt. George D. Toper, 20 1 of Watertown, N.Y. 1 However, the summary court ' martial board reduced Jones' senr tence to a fine of S2O, downgraded ! his rank to corporal and threw out 5 his imprisonment. Corey appeared before the board ! during a four-hour hearing to an--1 swer charges that he forced Pvt. 1 John J. Barone, 18, of Chester, - Pa., to stuff himself with candy, ’ threw down another recruit. Pvt. ! Thomas Hayes, 19, of Lawrence, Mass., with his legs and that he witnessed Jones strike Toper. ? However, Barone testified that F Corey oply told him to eat the ! candy and did not order him. The recruit said he ate several pieces 1 of candy, choked and then quit, r ; J I Fine Arts Festival ’ Planned March 15 a : Hold Festival With _ Annual Art Exhibit 5 A fine arts festival, in conjunc- ! tion with the third annual local artists exhibit, is being planned for March 15 at the Decatur high ’ school auditorium. The general public is invited and no admission [ will be charged. ’ The festival will feature an exhibit of works of art created by . Decatur and area residents and a . musical program to be presented . by students of Decatur junior and senior high school. The exhibit will open at 7 p. m. and the musical program is scheduled to begin at Bp. m. The exhibit will be re-opened for visitors following the program. The music will feature selections by the junior and high school bands, under ’the direction of Clint Reed, and the sixth and seventh grade choir and the high school choir, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold. All local artists are invited to enter their work in the exhibit, which is being planned by Miss Kathryn Kauffman. Those who desire to enter the exhipit are asked to contact Miss Kauffman no later than March 12. ' The exhibit, as in the past, will feature oil, pastel and water color | paintings, sketches and ceramics. ,' Among those to be displayed will i be paintings by Harry Brown of Decatur and his students. Mr. Brown instructs classes in painting at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. One of his oil paintings will be awarded to one of the persons attending the fine arts festival. North Judson Man Is Killed By Train NORTH JUDSON, Ind. (UP) - Ignatz Jakabouski, 68, North Judson, was killed Friday when his truck was hit by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at a eras* ing here. School Burns Down During Sectional MONTGOMERY, Ind (IP) — All 350 students of the Barr Twp. grade and high school were dismissed early to watch their team play in a basketball tournament a few miles away. While they were gone Friday, the school burned down.

Hee Doctrine Faces Crucial Vote In Senate Amendment Would Cut Provision Os S2OO Million Aid WASHINGTON ffl - President . Eisenhower’s Middle East doc- • trine faced a crucial Senate vote ; today on a proposal to strip the resolution of its S2OO million aid ' provisions. The proposal to knock out the aid provision received powerful bipartisan support from a number of southern Democrats and econo--1 my-minded Republicans. Administration forces predicted the proposal would be beaten down but that the vote would be close. The proposed amendment introduced by Sen. Richard B. Russell <D-Ga.) would cut down the doctrine resolution to a simple declaration that the United States is prepared to use armed forces if necessary to thwart overt Communist aggression in the Middle > East. Senate Democratic Leader Lynt don B. Johnson (Tex.) called an dhttfual Saturday morning session • as part of his plan for whipping ; the entire resolution through Sen- . ate by next Tuesday. The Senate just about concluded debate on the Russell proposal Friday. Russell’s proposal would eliminate administration authority to spend as it sees fit S2OO million previously appropriated. The administration has waged an all-out battle against the amendment, contending it would cripple the doctrine. ■ South Bend Woman l Is Burned To Death SOUTH BEND (UP) - Mrs. Sarah Wilderman, 60, South Bend, was burned to death Friday night ’ when her bathrobe caught fire, t while she was baby-sitting with a [ grandson in her apartment in her j daughter’s home here. Coroner Edward S. Shelley said Mrs. Wilderman sustained burns over every part of her body but the soles of her feet. » i Offer Os Grant Is 1 ■ Received By City $250,000 Grant On City Sewage Plant The formal offer of $250,000 to- : • wards building a sewage disposal • plant here was received this morn1 ing by Mayor Robert Cole, from ’ the Chicago office of the department of health, education, and welfare. The offer contained two conditions: it must be accepted before ' April 1 and bids must be let before ' August 1. ' i An accompanying letter from the Indiana stream pollution con- ' trol board, through which the of- ' fer was routed, states that the ' surgeon-general of the U. S. publie health service must approve ' the plans and specifications before the contract may be let. City attorney John L. De Voss stated that the offer would be ( submitted to the city council on 1 Tuesday for acceptance. The engineers who have planned ( the treatment have been working closely with the public ‘ health service, and the plans have , already been submitted to this j group. Approval is expected 4 shortly. The $250,000 federal aid is the , maximum . amount available for j any one project, and represents almost one-quarter of Indiana’s 1 allotment for the year. It is part 1 of a S4O million national project to , encourage stream pollution abatement. The quarter million dollars ( will be about one-fifth of that i needed to complete the project. . o’

Nixon Says Morocco ‘ For Ike Doctrine Announces Support Gained From Sultan RABAT, Morocco (UP) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon announced today he has won the support of Morocco for the Eisenhower Doctrine designed to bar Soviet aggression in the oil-rich Middle East. Nixon made the announcement at a news conference shortly after completing talks with Sultan Mohammed V and his cabinet. Th<* vice president and his wife came here Friday on the first stop of a three-wtek African goodwill tottr, and scored an immediate hit wfth the people and officials alike. "His majesty the Sultan has apI proved in principle the Eisenhower Doctrine," Nixon announced. “The Sultan believes that the economic side of the doctrinqris of the utmost importance to achieve the long-range aim of keeping Communism out of the regions to which it is to be applied.” The vice president appeared highly satisfied with the talks which started him on his 17,815mile African swing. From here the Nixons flew to Casablanca en route to the new state of Ghana. Diplomats said the welcome the Nixons received Friday was the ; rpost enthusiastic ever accorded visiting foreigners by this newlyindependent nation. The Nixons leave today for Ghana. U. S. officials said Nixon won a diplomatic victory by getting agreement from the .sultan to smooth negotiations for continua- 1 tion of the United States long-term leases for five air bases in Morocco. Mrs. Nixon scored a personal triumph by becoming the first American woman ever to have an audience with a Moroccan sultan. $7,500 Damage Suit Filed By Reidenbach Permanent Injuries Alleged In Attack Paul Reidenbach. former Decatur resident, Ijas filed a civil suit for $7,500 damages for alleged assault and battery against Robert E. Starr, of Bluffton, in the Wells county circuit court. The plaintiff alleges that he has suffered extreme pain and anguish and permanent disfigurement as a result of an assault and beating purportedly given him Sunday night by Starr at the Starr residence. Reidenbach alleges in his suit that he approached the home of Starr for the purpose of visiting . his small son. who is -presently in the custody of his ex-wife, the pres- j ent wife of Starr. The former Decatur man states that be was confronted by the de- ' fondant at the front door and that : after he had told of the purpose of his visit, Starr, allegedly without cause or provocation, pulled, jerked and threw the plaintiff into < the interior of the house, where he struck and assaulted Reidenbach. causing alleged Injuries and damages. Reidenbach maintains that the beating was accompanied by i threats by the defendant on the i life of the plaintiff. 1 ' Reidenbach also alleges that he ' sustained concussion of the brain, causing his sight to be impaired: that the concussion caused him to . suffer from severe headaches, all of which injuries are permanent, j and that he suffered numerous cuts and lacerations about his face and entire body. Reidenbach far- < ther alleges that the facial cuts j and lacerations are such that they i will result in his permanent disfigurement. Medß ’ expenses thus < far have been P i 1 It is farther « x T'z *h< plain- i tiff that his r J repute- i tion have been r % noth as a 1 businessman and TJtvMual and 1 that he is unable x> continue to ) maintain his bustoee" na a Fort 1 Wayne produce merchant. ' (Ontiud Face Five)

Six Cents

Four Teams To Decide Crown In Day's Games Jackets And Berne, Adams Central And Hartford To Battle ■ Decatur Yellow Jackets vs Berne Bears! Adams Central Greyhounds vs Hartford Gorillas! . , That was the lineup for this afternoon’s semi-final session of the annual sectional tourney at the Adams Central gym. And this afternoon's winners will come right back at 8:15 o’clock to battle for the 1957 sectional championship and the right to carry the hopes of Adams county basketbail fans on to file regional tourney at Fort Wayne next Saturday, March 9. This year’s champion will be a new one as the defending champion Monmouth Eagles were eliminated from the 1957 tourney in the opening game Wednesday night by the Yellow Jackets. Monmouth had won the sectional crown four consecutive years, tying a record set by the Yellow Jackets in the four years immediately preceding Monmouth’s string. A packed house is assured for both of today’s sessions, with the four participating schools sell!; j out their quota of tickets in a hurry. The county’s three largest I schools, Decatur, Berne and AdI ams Central, of course drew the bulk of the tickets, with the remainder going to the smallest school, Hartford Center. In addition, 25 tickets were set aside for each of the four schools eliminated in the first round of play. The Yellow Jackets advanced to the semi-finals by downing Monmouth in the opener, 47-28, and Berne moved up by defeating the Pleasant Mills Spartans, 61-58, in the Wednesday nightcap. Adams Central pulled the tourney’s first upset in Thursday’s opener by staging a sensational rally in the closing minutes to eliminate the favored Geneva Cardinals, 4847, and Hartford continued its terrific season (only one loss) by whipping the Decatur Commodores in Thursday’s finale, 7447. The winner of tonight’s final battle will compete in the regional tourney at the Fort Wayne coliseum next Saturday, meeting the winner of the Fort Wayne sectional in the regional opener at 1 o’clock. The second regional game, at 2:15 p.m., will match the sectional champions from Churubusco and Kendallville. The regional champion will return to the same coliseum the following Saturday, March 16, for the semi-state tourney. The Fort Wayne regional - victor will meet the Elkhart regional champ in the opening game of the semi-state meet at 1 p.m., followed by the Marion and Kokomo winners. The March 16 winners will journey to Indianapolis the following Saturday. March 23, to compete for the tops in Indiana sports, the high school state basketball championship. The Fort Wayne semi-state winner will meet the Lafayette winner at 1 p.m., followed by the winners at Indianapolis and Evansville. “• ■ .. .*■ Three Firemen Die In Chicago Fire CHICAGO ffl — Officials to-, day investigated a blaze and explosion which killed three firemen ana injurea two oxners. Two of the victims were officers who had attempted to clear firemen away from a danger area as flames raced through the Lawrence Co. food — processing plant Friday. A series of blasts quaked the area and two of the walls started to crumble. Firemen screamed “Look out for the wall!” just as part of the roof caved-in.