Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 23 March 1957 — Page 1

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FACING KIDNAP charges in Boston as a .result of action to return their adopted daughter (center), to her natural mother, Mr. and Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis wait in their Florida home to be served with extradition papers aimed at returning them to Massachusetts. The child, Hildy, 5%-years old, was adopted by the Jewish cbuple after birth and her mother, now married and a Roman Catholic seeks her return., Massachusetts law bans adoption of a child by foster-parents of a different faith.

UN Secretary / ’ " » ’ ■ A '■ And Nasser In Crucial Talks Dag Hammarskjold And Egyptian Ruler In Session Today By EUGENE McLOUGHLIN United Press Staff Correspondent Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt entered a crucial negotiating session on the banks of the Nile today that could mean peace or war in the Middle East. Hammarskjold was counting on his methods of “secret diplomacy” to accomplish what years of bloodshed and public debate have failed to do—lay the cornerstone for friendship between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The UN chief and the Egyptian ruler planned to talk all day — right through lunch — in the privacy of a well-guarded house outside Cairo overooking the Nile River. In advance of the meeting neutral diplomatic sources said India's V. K. Krishna Menon had gotten Nasser to soften somewhat his demands for complete and absolute control over the Suez Canal and collection of shipping tolls. No Official Confirmation But because of Hammarskjqld's news blackout there was no official confirmation or denial of this. There was no official indication of what Hammarslyold planned to do next. But diplomats said he would have to go to Israel for talks with Premier David Ben-Gurion to get counter-concessions if he gets the Egyptian to give in on any of the key issues involved in the dispute. Peace Hinges On Talka If Hammarskjold fails to bring Nasser and Ben-Gurion nearer, eventual war in the Middle East would be almost a certainty, diplomats said. Jeopardizing the possibility that Hammarskjold could get new concessions from Egypt were new Egyptian allegations of Israeli misdeeds during their occupation of the Gaza Strip. Friday the Egyptians accused Israeli troops of slaying 36 Arabs and burying the bodies in a mass grave during the early part of the three-month occupation. An Egyptian officer in Gaza today charged Israel had moved its frontier up to 200 yards inside (Continued on Page Six) Wreck Hurts Fatal To Peru Resident RERU, Ind. (UP) — Charles J. Tresch, 64, Peru, died Thursday night in Dukes Hospital from injuries suffered Jan. 30 when two cars collided in U.S. 31. Inventor Os Magnetic Speedometer Is Dead BELOIT, Wis. (UP) — A. P. Warner, inventor of the magnetic speedometer and holder of more than 100 industrial patents, died Friday night after a long illness. He was 86. The co - founder of StewartWarner Manufacturing Co. also invented the electric brake and clutch system for industrial machines. In 1927 he founded the Warner Co. in Beloit. He retired from active leadership of the firm, now known as the Warner Electric Brake and Clutch Co., in 1934.

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Labor Unions Offer Contract Reopening Effort To Extend Union Shop Pacts INDIANAPOLIS W — The Indiana State Chamber of Commerce told its members today that labor unions are offering to reopen contracts “with attractive concessions" in an effort to extend union shop agreements past the effective date of the new “right to work" law. “The air Within the past two weeks,” a.letter to members said, “has been full of reports of offers of labor unions, particularly the Teamsters, to reopen contracts, with intended attractive concessipns of such things as no-strike clauses and sacrifice of economic benefits to their members, in return for a new or extended union shop agreement. “Some employers are saying forcefully that the Legislature has established freedom of choice to the worker as the law and policy of the State of Indiana and they will not agree, even on threat of a strike, to impose compulsory union membership on their employes. “Others appear to be in a quandary. They are offered what seems, at least on the surface, to be most tempting concessions in return for a union shop.” Some observers have interpreted the new law as permitting union shop contracts in effect at the time the law is invoked upon promulgation of the Acts of the 1957 Legislature, probably in Auguest, to continue as long as those contracts do not expire and are not reopened. This could mean, in effect, that a five-year contract signed now would legalize a union shop in the affected plant to 1962. The chamber said: "Employers faced during the next several weeks with these offers might well consider: (1) how real and advantageous or how illusory the apparent concessions may prove to be after careful analysis and study, and (2) how binding they also might prove to be if union leaders or factions might decide to disregard them during the life of the contract, a circumstance not new in labormanagement relations.” The chamber letter, prepared by its personnel and labor relations department, said that during the legislative battle over the controversial "right to work” bill “observers noted and commented that . . organized labor opposition appeared to be neglecting every other labor issue in their all-out fight to defeat this bill.” “This,” the letter said, “in the opinion of supporters of the bill, showed that union leaders’ primary concrn was for their own employment security.* Benefit Dinner Here On Monday Evening Lions club members dressed in white shirts, bow ties, and wearing aprons of their choice, will be on hand at 5 p.m. Monday at the Decatur Community center to serve those who attend the pancake and sausage benefit dinner. All Lions clubs members are asked to arrive at 4:30 p.m. so that last minute assignments and details can be taken care of before 5 p.m. The dinner will be served until 7 p.m. Proceeds from the benefit supper will go towards worthy Lions projects, such as the Lions cancer fund, and, the leader dog for the blind program.

Senate Rackets Committee To Question Beck Questionable Use Os Union's Funds Alleged By Beck WASHINGTON (UP)— A Senate Rackets Committee spokesman said today Teamster President Dave Beck’s alleged “questionable use" of 8270,000 in union funds is "by no means the end of the picture." Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the committee also has information “about certain other transactions” between Beck’s union and companies that Beck controls. He said the committee will question Beck about both the 8270,000 and the “other transactions” when he appears before it next week or at a later date. Beck has promised to appear Tuesday with his financial records. "Smear Tactics” Condemned Kennedy hinted at Beck’s “other transactions” as Teamster leaders in St. Louis condemned the committee for using “smear tactics.” They also accused the committee of using the presis for ’’prejudging” the union — largest in the nation. The statement was issued by the policy committee of the Teamster National Warehouse Division after a meeting attended by Teamster "crown prince” James R. Hoffa and western boss Frank W. Brewster. Hoffa is under indictment on charges of bribing a Rackets Committee investigator to filch secrets for him from the committee. Brewster, who temporarily finished testifying before the committee Friday, is under indict ment for alleged contempt of Congress. Kennedy said Friday shortly before the Rackets Conamittee wound up its sensational first series of hearings that Beck took at least 8270,000 from the union “and used U for his personal between 1948 and the first three months of 1953. More Probing Ahead Kennedy told reporters the committee wfil also go into “other matters of his (Beck's) financial dealings with companies that have dealings with the union — companies that he owns or has a major interest in. “This questionable use of funds we discussed (in the hearing) is by no means the end of the -picture on Mr. Beck,” he said. The 8270,000 which Beck allegedly took for his personal use was part of 8709,420 in West Coast Teamster funds which the committee said was lost, misappropriated, unaccounted for or spent in "questionable" ways. Ex-State Trooper Taken In Custody Charge Threatening Letters In Mails EX-STATE TROOPER NEW ALBANY, Ind. (W — Calvin James Tucker, 50, a former Indiana State Police trooper, today faced federal charges of sending threatening letters through the mail in violation of federal extortion laws. FBI agents arrested Tucker yesterday. He was taken before U. S. Commissioner John A. Cody and bond was set at 82,000. Tucker, a railroad switchman who lives in New Albany and works in Louisville, Ky., sent the letter through the mails stating that he was going to kill an Indiana State Police force member, the FBI said. Agents said although' Tucker was charged with sending only one letter, their investigation indicated a number of similar letters were mailed. Tucker was a trooper from 1935 until he resigned in 1943 and served in both the Seymour and Charlestown Districts. State police records showed he asked reappointment in 1945 but his application was rejected. Tucker was a member of the Indiana excise police after he resigned from the police force. 37 Proclamations Signed By Handley INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — This, among other things, is “Want Ad Week”—according to one of the 37 proclamations Governor Handley has signed during his first 10 weeks in office. Other proclamations made February “Drink Hot Chocolate Milk Month,” Feb. 2 “Farm Broadcasting Day,” next May “Better Your Living Month,” and April 18-27 "Miniature White Cane Week.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 23, 1957

Strong Temblor Shakes San Francisco Today In Wake Os Friday Shocks

Highly Secret- j Defense Talks At Bermuda Disagreement Over Best Defenes May Delay Communique TUCKER'S TOWN. Bermuda (UP)— Disagreement over how best to defend Western Europt against Communism may delay a joint statement by President Eisenhower and Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, British sources said today. The highly secret defense talks centered around Britain’s hopes to withdraw a substantial amount of troops from Germany and coordinate more closely its nuclear weapons and guided missires program with the United States. They were scheduled to end Friday but were carried over to this morning. * Plans Possibly Incomplete This led British sources to believe that the British and American leaders still were some distance away from agreement on how best to put up an Anglor American shield in Western Europe against the threat of Soviet expansion. They said it would delay the drafting of the joint policy communique by Mr. Eisenhower and Macmillan and it may not be made public until Sunday. Some diplomatic sources said the two principals were cordial but did not see eye to eye specifically on pulling British troops out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to cut down on Britain’s defense budget. President Leaving Sunday In any case, there was no change in plans for President Eisenhower to leave for Washington Sunday after attending church services at the U.S. Air* ForceBase at Kindley Field. It had not been announced up to Friday night whether he would fly home or return the way he came aboard the U.S. Navy guided missile ship Canberra. The conference had come to no final conclusions on the Middle East situation up to Friday night. Mr. Eisenhower and Macmillan decided to hold off on this pending reception of a report from U.S. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on his visit to Cairo. Logansport Woman Mother Os Year . INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Mrs. Elizabeth C. Blizard, J7, a Logansport widow, was chosen Friday as Indiana's "Mother of the Year” for 1957. Mrs. Blizard was selected by the Indiana Chapter of the American Mothers’ Committee. She is a former school teacher and has taught a Sunday school class more than 40 years.

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Lenten Meditation (By R(;v. H. E. Settlage, Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church) “GENTLE VIRTUE” Text: Colossians 3:12,13. "Put on therefore, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness and patience, forbearing one another and forgiving each other." There is a righteousness that is quite sincere, yet iso austere and stiff that it is unattractive and cold to children and adults alike; reminiscent of the tall man dressed in a long black frock coat and high hat, carrying a cane; no one doubts his goodness, and no one loves him either. rs Certainly righteous and disciplined living is the expression of a vital Christian faith. But Christian living needs to be beautiful and appealing also; dressed up as it were in ‘gentle virtues’, making Christian people truly gentletnen and gentlewomen. To be God’s “chosen ones, holy and beloved" is a high calling indeed. We see the gentle virtues of compassion, kindiess, lowliness, meekness and patience, forbearance and forgiveness, at their best in Jesus. They are the Christian’s proper spiritual attire. Not only are these ‘gentle virtues’ attractive and proper; they are as essential to peaceful, harmonious human relationships in the home and elsewhere, as oil is essential to the smooth functioning of a complicated machine. A fitting Lenten Prayer would be: "Let the Beauty of Jesus be seen in me; All His wonderful passion and purity. O Thou Spirit Divine, All my nature refine. Till the Beauty of Jesus is seen in me.”

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Ellen Welch Winner In Speech Conlesl Wins Rotary Speech Contest On Friday Miss Ellen Welch, Decatur high school senior, won the Rotary sectional speecn (jpntest, which was held during tee regular meeting of the Angola Rotary club Friday evening at tee Hotel Hendry in Angola. Miss Welch had previously won in school elimination, the Decatur Rotary club contest, and thd group contest held at Fort Wayne. Topic for the contest is "How can youth contribute to world peace.” The sectional winner will next compete in the district contest, which will be held Monday, April 1, in conjunction with the annual conference of Rotary district 224, at Michigan City. Clarence Ziner of Decatur, gov-ernor-elect of district 224, presented the sectional award to Miss Welch. Miss Barbara Fry, of Albion, placed second in Friday's contest. Other participants were Miss Connie Geiger, of Fort Wayne Central, and Miss Julie Shook, of Auburn. Miss Welch is the second Decatur winner to advance to the district speech contest finals, Marcus Foreman, also of the Decatur high school, having won the sectional several years ago. Miss Welch was accompanied to Angola by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Welch, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ziner, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Petrie, Deane Dorwin, speech instructor in the Decatur high school, and the following classmates: Twanette Magley, Sharon Michaud, Sue Petrie, Gloria Fugate, Marilyn Jefferies and Jerry Kaehr.

Huge Air-Sea Search Fails To Spot Plane Criss-Cross Miles Os Pacific Ocean In Futile Search TOKYO (UP)— The largest Far East air-sea search since the Korean War criss-crossed 70,000 miles of the Pacific today but reported no success in its hunt for a missing C 97 with 67 Americans aboard. Planes and ships investigated report after report of objects which might be connected with the missing plane. All turned out 1 •negative.” Officers at Johnson Air Base air ’ rescue headquarters here said privately it was doubtful the four- 1 engined Stratocruiser was able to . land on the storm-tossed waters Friday without smashing to bits ; and killing all on board. Officially, however, they announced that the "search will go on until every scrap of information has been checked out.” Weary crews kept their planes in. the air until lack of fuel drove them back to their bases. Long lines of volunteers formed at bases all over Japan to act as "scanners” for the search craft. A total of 66 planes from Alaska, Hawaii, Guam, Okinawa, Korea and Japan took part in the giant operation along with a fleet of surface vessels. An Air Force spokesman said "It is the largest search in the history of the Far East Air Force, at least since the Korean War.” The U.S. Military Air Transport Service Stratocruiser had 10 crew members and 57 passengers — including two women — board when it disappeared in a storm Friday. It sent its last report when it was barely one hour away from its Tokyo destination on a flight from Wake Island en route from Travis Air Force Base, California. Easter Seals Mailed Out For Campaign Drive To Continue To Easter Sunday Flower-bedecked Easter seals j went out to residents of Adams county Thursday as the Adams , county society for crippled chil- f dren and adults took the first of- j ficial -Step in launching the great- , est campaign in its history. . The campaign, which officially opened March 15 and continues j through Easter Sunday, April 21, i provides an annual opportunity for < residents to, contribute financial ( assistance for crippled children's services, according to the Rev. * William Feller, who is co-chair- i man of the 1957 appeal in this < county. Rev. Feller is again this year 1 being assisted by Leslie Sprunger, i of Berne, who is the society’s representative of the Community 1 Fund at Berne, which has already < alloted the Easter seal drive. Funds contributed in this county will support and- maintain the sum- 1 mer speech clinic which is conducted by the crippled children’s society, and will also be used in , aiding other handicapped individ- 1 uals throughout the county. Approximately 90 percent of the funds raised during the Easter seal campaign finances services within the state where raised. The remainder goes to support a na- ( tional program of service, education and research. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday, with occasional rain likely south and central portions. Low tonight 33-42. High Sunday 42-46. Outlook for Monday: Mostly cloudy and cool. - ■ < NOON EDITION : <

Rotary Speaker Rub ■ Mack Sauer, of Leesburg, 0., country newspaper editor and publisher, and one of the nation's leading humorists, will speak at the ladies night meeting of the Decatur Rotary club next Thursday evening at 8:30 o'clock at tee Youth and Community Center. For members who cannot attend, checkout time will be at noon Monday.

Says Isolationism Is How Impossible Nation's Air force Head Speaks Friday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The head of tee nation's Air Force said Friday night teat modern weapons have "changed tee concept of isolationism from a debatable political issue into a practical military impossibility.” Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan F. Twining made the statement in a talk before the Council on World Affairs, Inc., here. Twining told the group that modem nuclear weapons as well as Russia's recent "modernization” of her air force has made Indiana and all other border states the “frontiers of today;” The day when a nation could set back and feel safe because of strong defensive force are gone, Twining said. “Today’s weapons have reversed that advantage,” he warned. "In the past fifteen years defensive weapons have increased in power and effectiveness three, four, or even five times. But in this same time span tee destructive power of offensive weapons has increased thousands of times." “ Twining said tee Army, Navy and Air Force give us impressive strength at a time when "recent history has left no doubt that we need impressive strength now... and in tea future." “We know from bitter experience—in the years since World War ll—that the Soviet leaders respect little else but strength,” tee general said. Turning to nuclear weapons, Twining said “the argument that the use of nuclear weapons in small wars will automatically bring about global conflict is one that I have never been able to understand.” He said if there are powers who want to enlarge local battles such as in Korea, Viet Nam, Greece or Egypt, "they will do so regardless of what weapons we shall be using.” “Total war waged with modern nuclear weapons could mean mutual suicide,” Twining warned. “There are some who hope that therefore this type of war has abolished itself. I think this is a dangerous illusion.” Bluffton Woman Dies When Autos Collide BLUFFTON, Ind. (UR) — A Bluffton woman was killed and seven persons. were injured late. Friday in a two-car collision at the intersection of Ind. 1 and a county road near here. Mrs. Alice Fulton Arnold, 72, was killed as she attempted to make a left turn from the highway onto the county road and collided almost headon with a car driven by Lawrence W, Graham, 22, Bluffton.

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Millions In Damage Done By Earthquake San Francisco Hit Hardest Since 1906 Disaster Hit City SAN FRANCISCO (UP)— A strong temblor shook San Francisco again early today and apparently started a fire in an upper Market Street apartment buildihg. The temblor was the third strongest in a series which began shaking this city Friday. It registered a magnitude of 4.25 on the Richter Scale. Six minutes after the 3:13 a.m. EST tremor, the fire department raced to Market Street to answer a fire alarm. Firemen controlled a fire in the apartment building in 20 minutes and 40 residents who had fled the structure returned. All indications were that the blaze was caused by this latest shaker. Worst Since 1906 The series of violent upheavals, the worst since the 1906 disaster, destroyed millions of dollars worth of property over a 200-mile area. There are few persons who remetifoerftofe dteaswxt* B which killed 452 and did half a billion dollars worth of damage — and there are few who will forget the ; daylong series of over 50 quakes s that caused near panic — but no 1 loss of life Friday. Friday, families huddled in - streets in frightened groups as - houses were twisted and furniture was smashed. But as the area still • shuddered with occasional move- ; ment, over 20,000 of them packed : a baseball park in the center of • town Friday night to see the Boston Red Sox play the San Frant ciso Seals. 1 There was no thought of base- • ball 12 hours earlier, however. > A series of small shocks began ’ at 11:30 a.m. EST, topped by a vicious and sustained 5.5 temblor ) shortly before noon' Skyscrapers 1 whipped back and forth as panicstricken office, workers fled into the streets. Structures Heavily Damaged In the residential section of the city near the ocean, where the quake centered, houses twisted on their foundations, gas and water lines burst, and sections of the secnic coast highway dropped into the Pacific. No buildings collapsed, and the 30-odd persons hurt received only minor injuries. But reports from a 200-mile stretch of northern and central California indicated the overall damage would run well into the millions of dollars. - The mid-day quake dumped cornices onto tiie sidewalks; shattered scores of plate glass windows; literally junked the merchandise of several supermarkets (CoutlauaS o« Page Five) Railroad Strike Is Averted In Britain Strike Prevented By Pay Increase LONDON (UP)— A substantial pay raise headed off a railway strike today and labor officials predicted Britain’s worst labor crisis in 30 years will end next week. The prediction came despite the fact one-million engineering workers were scheduled to walk oft their jobs today, with 1.5-million more due to join them by April 6. The threatened railroad strike was averted when the nationalized British Transport Commission agreed Friday to grand a five per cent pay raise — half what they ■ asked. Dockworkers at Southampton, who struck because Royal Navy tugs helped get toe liner Queen Mary on its way to New York Wednesday, decided to go back to work. x Negotiations were scheduled to start Monday in a shipyard strike which started seven days ago and involves some 300,000 workers.