Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 69.

' BEGIN MID-EAST TALKS I fl ' I ■ ■■ ' y *.- i'-f ' ' Jktadfl s 3 Kr U. N. SECRETARY GENERAL Dag Hammarskjold and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser (left) meet in apparently friendly atmosphere in Cairo to begin their crucial discussion on the Suez Canal issue. On their talks may rest the question of war or peace in the Middle East.

Israel Offers New Plan For Mid-East Peace Foreign Minister Os Israel Offers New Plan On Peace By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir said today she had handed the United States a new peace plan tor the Middle East but admitted she was “not completely optimistic" on hew things were going. Mrs. Meir made the statements to newsmen in Rome, Italy, and in Nice, France. Fog forced her plane'to land in Nice today for refuelling on a flight from Paris to Jerusalem via Rome. She refused in a statement to newsmen at Rome’s Ciampino Airport to elaborate on the new Israeli plan but said it contemplates the policing of the Gaza Strip by United Nations forces, a problem now being threshed out in Cairo. A new development in Gaza itself jarred the delicate Mideast situation today. Mouhir Rayess, Egyptian mayor of Gaza town, accused Israel of the mass slaughter of 36 Gaza civilians whose decomposed bodies were found in abandoned Egyptian trenches near the border. Included All Areas The mayor said 700 Gaza residents were still missing following Israel’s occupation of the Gaza Strip and hinted that they too might be victims of the Israeli occupation. Israel was sure to deny the charges but the incident was expected to have bitter repercussions in future Arab-Israeli relations, still in a “state of belligerency” more than seven years after the end of the Palestine war. Mrs. Meir said she presented her plan to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during Washington conferences earlier this week before Dulles flew to Bermuda for the Anglo-American conference. She said Egypt’s current attitude on the conflict had ‘‘somewhat surprised” the Americans. She implied that the plan encompassed all the areas of strife between Israel and the Arab world, but the emphasis appeared to be on policing the Gaza Strip by U.N. forces to prevent further border clashes between Israeli and Egyptian troops. In Cairo U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold was reported trying to persuade Egypt not to send troops into the Gaza. Strip and Sharm El Sheikh although admitting Egypt was permitted by the 1949 armistice agreement to administer Gaza. Compromise Canal Plan There have been rumors but no indications in Cairo that Egypt planned to send troops into the two areas. It was generally believed in Cairo Egypt would ask the (U.N. Emergency Forces to leave Sharm El Sheikh soon, a move that could revive the Egyptian blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba. A neutral diplomatic source in Cairo skid Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi had laid be-, fore Hammarskjold a compromise plan for running the Suez Canal. Egypt still demands, it receive all Suez Canal tolls but under the reported compromise would agree to pay some of the money into a joint bank account with the United States for development of the canal. Western diplomats still were keeping an anxious eye on Syria where reports have leaked out of a conflict between right-wing and left-wing army officers over whether that nation shall fall into the Soviet orbit. Informed sources in Beirut said only the personal intervention of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and King Saud of Saudi Arabia had prevented a bloody clash between the two elements.

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Reports Cigarets Cause Lung Cancer Report Sponsored By Health Agencies ATLANTA (VP)— The Atlanta Constitution revealed In a copyrighted story today a report sponsored by four national health agencies which says' flatly that cigaret smoking causes lung cancer. The Constitution said the report, ; "highly confidential and not yet released officially, establishes the I most link found by any scientific group to date” between cigaret smoking and lung cancer. But the report said no convinc- ■ ing evidence was found that smoking is a cause of heart disease, according to the Constitution. The report, was made by a , study group sponsored by the . American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, the American Heart Assn- and the National , Heart Institute, the Constitution . said. A group of seven of the nation s ’ leading scientists has approved of ‘ the report but the four agencies have not yet done so, the Constitution said, and they may make minor changes in its final form. “Hie sum total of scientific evi- ' dence establishes beyond reasonable doubt that cigaret smoking is . a causative factor in the rapidly increasing incidence of human epidermoid carcinoma (cancer) of the lung,” the report said. ‘‘Lung cancer occurs much more frequently (5 to 15 times) among. cigaret smokers than among non-smokers, and there is a direct relationship between incidence of lung cancer and the amount -smoked. “It is estimated that on a lifetime basis one of every 10 men who smoke over two packs a day will die of lung cancer. The comparable risk among non-smokers is one out of 175. The scientists urged in their report that researchers try to find and if possible eliminate the substance in cigarets or the cigaret Coattßaed OB Pace EUrfct Brazil Youth Wins Oratorical Contest Wins State Legion Contest Thursday Reed Stuart, Brazil high school student, won the Indiana state oratorical contest, sponsored by the American Legion, and held at the French Lick high ■ school Thursday afternoon. Paul Schmidt, Decatur high school senior, was placed fourth by. judges of the state contest. Competing were the four zone winners from throughout the state, with these four the tops in the state from the some 1,200 original contestants. The Decatur entrant was presented the trophy tor his zone triumph, and also a certificate for a , four-year scholarship to Indiana | University. Each of the four zone winners received identical awards, while Stuart was also < given a cash .prize of $l5O for i placing first in the state contest. The Brazil orator will next compete for the national title, to 1 whose winner will go a $4,005 college scholarship. Schmidt was accompanied to ■ Brazil by his parents, the Rev. and Mrs. Edgar P, Schmidt, his 1 speech instructor, Deane T. Dorwin, and a group of school classmates. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Saturday with rain spreading northeastward over moat of state Saturday. Not much change in temperatures. Lew . tonight mostly in the 30s. High Saturday mgstly in the 40s. Sunset 6:59 p. m., sunrise Saturday 6:44 a. m.

Teamsters Boss Disapproves Os Loans By Beck Union Locals Show Signs Os Rebellion Against Union Heads WASHINGTON (UP) — West Coast Teamsters boss Frank W. Brewster told the Senate Rackets Committee today he personally disapproves of Teamsters President Dave Beck’s action in borrowing $300,000 to $400,000 from the union without interest. Brewster resumed testimony before the committee shortly after being arraigned in Federal Court on contempt of Congress charges. He was released on SI,OOO bond for trial May 20. Brewster said he has borrowed “pretty close to $90,000” from the union himself. But he said he paid interest, and has now repaid the loans. Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) asked if Brewster thought it wrong for Beck to borrow union funds without interest. “In my personal opinion, yes,” said Brewster. “Do you disapprove it?” "In my personal opinion, I could,” Brewster reolied. Signs of Revolt Brewster pleaded not guilty at his arraignment before Federal Judge Charles F. McLaughlin. The contempt charge against him resulted from his refusal last January to answer" questions on the Senate investigating subcommittee, also headed by McClellan. He said that committee lacked legal authority to probe into union affairs. He has testified at length, however, before the new special rackets committee created by the Senate to look into union and management misconduct. Two of Brewster’s union colleagues were arraigned at the same time on the same charge and also pleaded not gritty. They were Nugent Lapoma, secretarytreasurer of Teamsters .Local 114 in Seattle, and Einar O. Mohn of Chevy Chase. Md., an international vice president. The judge issued a bench warrant for a fourth Teamsters official, Harry'Rfiss of Local 227 in New York, who also was to have been arraigned but did not show up. ' McLaughlin set May 27 for Lapofna’s trial and June 3 for Mohn’s. They, too, were released on SI,OOO bond each. Reiss, for whom the bench warrant was issued, is welfare fund administrator for Local 227 in New York. The big Teamsters Union was stirring with signs of rank and file re Volt against its bosses. A Teamster ,local in La Salle, 111., sent telegrams to Teamsters President Dave Beck and indicted Vice Presidents James R. Hoffa (Continued on Page Eight) Chicago City Hall Damaged By Fire Mayor Daley Among Heroes During Fire CHICAGO (UP) — Mayor Richard J. Daley was among the heroes Thursday night in a fire that destroyed the ornate council chambers of Chicago’s City Hall, routing some 130 persons and causing $250,000 damage. Daley, who. was working late in his office, led a charwoman trapped by dense smoke to safety. Firemen carried about 30 other persons from the burning 50-year-old structure, and another 100 escaped down stairways. The five-alarm fire was turned in at 6:20 p.m. by none other than city Fire Commissioner Robert Quinn, who was in his office when he saw the glow of flames reflected from a nearby hotel window. “I thought at first the hotel was on fire,” Quinn said. “We all ran out on the street. When I saw smoke coming out of the City Hall, I ran around in front and pulled the alarm.” Thirty-nine pieces of fire equipment raced to the building in the heart of the Loop. The blaze attracted between 7,000 and 10,000 spectators, police estimated. Extra police squads were called to cordon off the shopping and nightclub area. The Sherman Hotel, across the street from the City Hall, was forced to lock its doors at one time to prevent the throngs from rushing into the lobby. Firemen battled the blaze for an hour - and -a - half, confining the flames to the second floor council chambers, aldermanic rooms and offices along the northwest corner of the second and third floors.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, March 22,1957.

Hope Wanes For Safety Os 67 Persons Aboard U. S. Transport Plane

U.S., Britain Seeking Closer Cooperation Faced With Soviet Boast Os Ability * To Drop A<Bombs BULLETIN TUCKER’S TOWN, Bermuda (UP) — President Eisenhower today informed British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan that the United States was willing to join the military phase of the Baghdad Pact. TUCKER’S TOWN, Bermuda (UP)—The United States and Britain, faced with Russia's boasts of globe - circling atom bombers, sought closer coordination today on future production of atomic wapons and guided missiles. President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan have reached a "gratifying mea- . sure of agreement” in their talks l so far. They conferred privately this morning on construction of a . Baghdad Pact pipeline while their , top aides discussed European as- ; fairs. . , The two top statesmen planned to join the roundtable conference i later in the morning and then call . in their military advisers for Tte grave discussion on joint weapons production this afternoon. ’ Air of Urgency ■ The two Allies already have • agreed on some measure of coi operation in this field. But the : question assumed a new air of ' urgency following a warning by Soviet Defense Minister Marshal ■ Georgi Zhukov Saturday that the ■ Soviet Union can drop atom [ bombs “any place in the world.” Britain, pinched financially, is , seeking to dovetail nuclear and guided missiles projects with the United States to prevent expensive overlapping of work. President Eisenhower summoned Deputy Defense Secretary Reuben H. Jr., Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis L. Strauss, Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles and Deputy Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Robert Murphy from Washington for the discussion. Both Sides Pleased U.S. and British officials were pleased—even surprised—at how well the talks on the Middle East went. Spokesmen for both sides mentioned the “gratifying measure of agreement” Mr. Eisenhower and Macmillan had found. They hastened to point out, however, that there still remained some divergence of views on specifics. One of these might be the degree of faith the two nations Coatlnuefl ob Pane El<ht Record Soybean Crop Predicted In State LAFAYETTE. Ind. m — Indiana farmers will plant a record crop of 2,273,000 acres of soybeans this year. Purdue University agricultural statisticians said today a March survey showed this year's bean crop will be two per cent larger than last year’s record crop of 2,228,000 acres.

t Lenten Meditation “USE IT OR LOSE IT” (By Rev. Virgil Wesley Sexton, First Methodist Church) Read Matthew 25:24-30 \ • '• ' , Charles Darwin during the early part of his life was fond of both poetry and music. But as the years went by, he became absorbed in the study of evolution. Scientific pursuits crowded out other interests. He admitted in later years that he had gradually lost the ability to appreciate the beauty of verse and melody which had moved him in his youth, and added that if he were to live his life over, he would make it his habit to read some good poetry and listen to some good music every day that he might not lose his capacity for such enjoyment. The experience of Darwin shows how easily we may lose our sensitiveness to many of the finer things of life. If the sense of God’S presence is not cultivated continually by prayer and worship, even the dim spiritual vision we I already possess will quickly be lost. We must use our religion or we will lose it.

Outlook For School Building Improves More Construction Expected In State INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — State School Supt. Wilbur Young said today the outlook for Indiana classroom construction during the next two years is “very rosy.” Young told a school administrators’ conference there will be at least 19 million dollars available during the 24-month period from state funds and that the rate of classroom construction will be well above that listed as necessary by the White House Conference on Education. - The conference estimated Indiana needed 1,100 extra classrooms a year to meet increases in enrollment, and 500 a year for replacement of worn-out buildings and to meet conditions of Overcrowding. That would be a total of 1,600 classrooms per year. Last year. Young said, Indiana built 1,823 new classrooms. The state’s various school units planned to build 2,100 this year, but Young said he doubts that figure will be reached now because of slow sales of holding corporation bonds. However, Young said, the 1957 Legislature raised the interest rate on holding corporation bonds from four to five per cent and he believes this will relieve the situation. A Estimates for the next two fiscal years are 2,100 classrooms the first year and 2,400 the second. ‘ Young said his estimate of 19 million dollars available for class- ; room construction was based on the Legislature’s transfer of $4,827,000 from, the Veterans Memorial School Construction Fund to 22 corporations yhose applications for loans were granted, four million dollars added to the fund in the biennial budget, two millions he expects to revert to the fund from the Korean bonus fund, one million he expects will be repaid by schools which borrowed money earlier, and seven millions added to the school distribution fund by the Legislature. Study Allocation Os Polio Vaccine Voluntary Ration Plan Under Study WASHINGTON (UP) - The governmenf was studying today a possible return to its voluntary rationing system as away to deal with the sudden shortage of Salk polio vaccine. Officials of the U.S. Public Health Service said they are considering an allocation plan to make sure the vaccine goes to those who need it most—chiefly children and pregnant women. Dr. Leßoy E. Burney, U.S. surgeon general, said this will be one of the subjects discussed March 30 when a conference is held here to map new polio vaccination plans. Representatives of the American Medical Assn., the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and State Health Departments will attend. Burney stressed in testimony before a House Government OperaCoattßued ob Page ElaMt

Living torts f At Record 6th Month In Row Living Cost Jumps Again In February Ta Set New Record WASHINGTON (IF — The cost of living jumped .4 of 1 percent in February, setting a new record for the sixth straight month, the government reported today. Higher prices for food, housing costs, gasoline, and a number o other items boosted the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index to 118.7 percent of average 1947-49 prices. The index stood 3.6 percent higher than in February 1956. The BLS also reported that the cost of living jump brought a slight decline in the buying opwer of the average factory worker’s pay check. It said the increased prices more than offset a small rise in the average factory worker’s take-home pay. However, the increase in the price index meant cost of living pay increases of 1, to 2 cents an hour for 135,000 workers, mostly in the aircraft industry, whose wage contracts carry escalator clauses tied th the index for February. - * The take home pay average — earnings after federal taxes —for factory workers in February was r reported at $74,99 a week. ‘ The purchasing power of the paycheck stood at 122.3 percent of j the average in the 1947-49 period, .2 of 1 percent below January. Food prices rose .7 of 1 percent between January and February, the largest monthly increase since last July. Higher prices for pork and poultry were mainly responsible. (Continued on Peso SUgbt) Quadruplets Are Born To Canadian Woman MONTREAL (UP) — Quadruplets—three girls and a boy—were reported in good condition today in a suburban hospital where their birth to a 34-yearOld woman with five other children was described as a million-to-one shot. The mother, Mrs. Audrey Munro, was said to be resting comfortably in St. Joseph's Hospital in nearby Lachine where the babies were born without complications Thursday. They were placed in one double and two single incubators. Linn Grove Robbery Attempt Is Failure Attempt Is Made To Open Elevator Safe An attempt to rob the safe of the Berne Equity Exchange elevator at Linn Grove sometime last night was apparently unsuccessful. The breakin was discovered this morning shortly after 7 a. m. by Ed Wittwer, manager of the elevator, when he opened for the day. ’ Entry was made by prying open the front door with a screw driver. Once inside, the would-be robber or robbers went to work on the safe. The dial was knocked off and attempts were made to punch open the safe. However, the punching tool was broken and the safe was probably not opened. A large amount of money was in the safe and it is believed that this was not touched. Whether or not the safe was opened cannot be determined until it is opened by a representative from the manufacturer of the safe. Sheriff Merle Affolder, deputy Charles Arnold and state police detective Truman Bierle, who are investigating, said that the burglars left through the back door of the elevator.

Seven Persons Dead In Aiding Others Traffic, Airplane Accidents Thursday By UNITED PRESS Seven persons were killed in traffic and airplane accidents while trying to save the lives of others. Four youths were electrocuted hi an electrically - charged pool Thursday near Bejou, Minn., when • they tried to pull a dead man and '• six passengers from a wrecked I car. A Molline, DI., a twin - engine plane flew to the aid of . which was having trouble with its , landing gear. The planes collided , Thursday and the rescue craft crashed, killing three men. Killed when his car rammed ; into a power pole near Bejou was [ William E. Schultz. The car, containing five girls and another man returning from a dance, landed in ■ a water-filled a 33,000-volt high tension wire caught in its door. Two youtns in a following car 1 stopped to give aid. Marvin Duns can, 18, and Orville Bold, 18, both ■ of Fosston, Minn., were killed instantly when they stepped into , the water. i The occupant of another car, ' Clark Hoidahl, 21, Winger, also 1 was killed when he tried to reach the car, then Donald Haugen, 20, : Winger, a passenger in the get the girls out. - The five girls escaped by jumpr ing from the car over the ditch, s Killed when their rescue plane plunged to earth from 4,000 feet a were the pilot. Marvin Casey f Jones, William Rissma, 34, Muscal, tine, lowa, and Chester Losse, 48, Danvenport, lowa. t The two-engine private plane that sent out the distress call j landed safely. Ironically, it turned c out there was nothing wrong with . the plane. Both planes were owned by John Deere and Co. One of them was returning from a flight to Elgin, Hl., when the pilot, Phil Johnson, radioed his landing gear would not come down. The rescue plane was sent up to help. It collided with Johnson’s ■ plane and crashed into a field east of Moline. Johnson later discovered the landing gear in his cockpit was. broken, not the gear itself. Disfrict Workshop In City Next Week Workshop Here For Farm Bureau Women A district workshop for Farm Bureau women leaders will take place at the pecatur Youth and Community Center Monday and Tuesday. About 50 women of the 10-county fourth district are_expected to attend the two day workshop which will feature classes of instruction on the role of Farm Bureau women. The women leaders, formerly known as the social and educational leaders, are in charge of the women’s department of the Farm Bureau and sponsor all of the women’s activities of that organization. Mrs. Arthur Koenemann is the Adams county leader and each township also has a Farm Bwreau woman’s leader. Attending in addition to the Adams county delegation will be women from Blackford, Grant, Howard, Huntington, Jay, Miami, Tipton, Wabash and Wells counties. In charge of the workshop program will be .Mrs. Alpner Armstrong of Indianapolis, state Farm bureau women’s head. Also assisting on the program will be Mrs. Lester Bird of Hartford City, district leader, and several other leaders of the state and local organizations. The two-day .meeting will open Monday morning and extend through Tuesday afternoon. A rec- ’ reational session is scheduled to take place Monday evening at the (Omumm on Paat

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U.S. Military Plane Downed In Jap Waters 57 Passengers, 10 Crew Members Are All Feared Lost TOKYO (UP)—A U.S. military transport plane with 67 persons aboard fell today into the sharkinfested waters of Japan where winds of near-typhoon force lashed the sea into giant waves that hurled spray hundreds of feet into the air. All aboard were feared dead. Brief hopes for the 10 crew members and 57 passengers aboard the huge C 97 Boeing Stratocruiser were dashed when X sighted “life raft’’ turned out to be an overturned rowboat straw mat floating beside it. The sighting led an Air Force spokesman to say hopes are very high.” But a senior AJr Lprce pilot said “it would have batfh iMnned near impossible to make < a successful ditching under thq attototions—the plane would just break to pieces in high seas Nke\ this. Latest In Series Disappearance of the AP* 80 ® brought to 109 the number ong®®* nr wnjffiing i* » Miriw nf six flk Far Eastern crashes the paw* month. The Air Force and Navy joined in a search for possible survivors. It appeared a hopeless task at first, for solid clouds rose from the surface of the sea to a height of 5,000 feet. The search area itself was vast —36,000 square miles. Air Force officials said ditching a plane on the sea even under the best conditions is a hazardous undertaking. Winds of more than 50 knots lashed the sea when the Military Air Transport Service craft disappeared 90 minutes from its destination on a flight from Wake Island to Japan. The Air Force was mystified as to why the big plane disappeared. The Air Craft Commander, Maj. Ardis L. Crumpton, of Vacaville, Calif., radioed he was flying at 8,000 feet and that the plane was in “Al condition.” Then the plane just disappeared. Woman Among Crew The plane, from the 1501st Ah’ Transport Wing at Travis Air Base, Calif., carried one woman’s Air Force member among the crew of 10. The 57 passengers included one military dependent, one civilian, one retired Array man. The rest were military personnel. The 81.1 million plane was making a routine ferrying flight to Japan. Its last report came when it was barely 250 miles southeast of Tokyo. The Air Force knew only it must be down somewhere along the route. Planes were ordered into the air before dawn to search for flares from possible raft-borne survivors. Other planes joined the search from Hawaii, Guam and Alaska and American and Japanese naval craft crisscrossed the 36,000 square mile area. Marion Woman Dies In Fire In Kitchen MARION, Ind (U>) — Mrs. Mildred Boxell, 54, Marion, was burned to death Thursday night when a flash fire swept the kitchen of her home. Authorities were not sure what caused the fire, but Mrs. Boxell was dead when firemen arrived. Jess Girod Funeral Saturday Afternoon Funeral services for Jess J. Girod, who died Wednesday at his . home in Salem, will be held at 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller and the Rev. Edward Drews officiating. Burial vrill be in the MRE cemetery at Berne. Friends may call at the fune/al home until time of the service*.