Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 72, Decatur, Adams County, 26 March 1957 — Page 1

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THE CRACK UNION PACIFIC “City of St. Louis" is locked deep in snow in eastern Kansas in the wake of the worst spring blizzard in modern history. With some 250 people aboard, the train was helptoss to move forwards or backwards. An Army helicopter supplied the train's boilers with water to keep thole aboard from freezing. The storm which swooped down from the Rocky Mountains Saturday with drifts as high as 20 feet and winds up to 80 miles-per-hour, wended its way through most of the Middle West on Monday.

Rescuers Work Around Clock To Free Stranded At Least 34 Dead From Wintry Storm Now Moving East By UNITED PRESS The remnants of a four-day snowstorm swept into the East today, while in the West, rescue crews worked around the clock to free travelers and entire communities still isolated by the paralyzing fury of the blizzard. Forecasters said the storm was largely spent, although it still • packed enough wallop to dump 2 to 5 inches of snow in northern IHtoots and Indiana, central and southern Michigan and southern Wisconsin during the night and today. A United Press tally since the spring storm started Friday night showed at least 34 persons dead in weather caused mishaps in nine states. The toll included nine killed in Illinois, six in Texas, five in Okahoma, three each in Kansas, Nebraska and Indiana, and one each in New Mexico, lowa and Ohio. Drifts 30-Feet Deep The giant blizzard, described as the worst in history in some western states,, buried parts of the Southwest under 30-feet drifts and more than two feet of droughteasing snow in the Nebraska and lowa corn country. „ An estimated 7,500 travelers were strander by the storm, but more of them were free or out of danger today. Six passenger trains were marooned at the height of the storm, and passengers had to be evacuated from four of them. The last two trans reached by rescue crews Monday night were the Union Pacific’s City of St. Louis and the Rock Island’s Golden State Limited. Rescuers broke through towering drifts to reach the City of St. Louis and school buses took 256 passengers in Winona, Kan. Passengers kere removed earlier from two Santa Fe trains near Dodge City, Kan. v Another crew pushed through to the Rock Island’s "Golden State Limited.” trapped near Liberal, Kan., with 225 passengers. A doc,tor had been flown in earlier to treat about 20 of the passengers who were overcome by lack of oxygen to drifts covering the first five cars. Motorists Stranded The Rock Island refugees were evacuated by railroad snowplow to Meade, Kan., where all were reported in good condition. Highway crews and melting snow combined to release thou- . sands of motorists stranded in their cars. An estimated 1.500 persons had been trapped in the Texas Panhandle alone. At Perryton, Tex., City Manager J. B. Wigham said road workers still have about 45 miles of highways to search and several cars are known to be stranded in the area. Helicopters will join the search today. Officials in Texas and the Oklahoma Panhandle said it still was not known how many cars were (OonuniiFn "» "vnt> INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with snow probably ending tonight. Partly clondy and a little warmer Wednesday. Low tonight 25-32. High Wednesday in the 40s. Sunset 7:03 p.m.. sunrise Wednesday 6:38 a.tn.

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Treaties Are Signed For Common Market May Lead To Sharp Reaction By Reds ROME <rn — Monday’s signing of treaties for the European common market and atomic pool may touch off the sharpest Communist reaction since the North Atlantic Treaty of 1950, observers here predicted today. The treaties, aimed at unification of Western Europe, also may seal the division of Germany, the observers said. Unity in Western Europe is a block to the Communist policy of divide and conquer. Moreover, the treaties strengthen Europe’s economic structure and make it less likely to wither away as called for by Marxist doctrine, and less susceptible to internal penetration. The two treaties must be ratified by We parliaments of all six nations which signed them. It is in the national parliaments that Russia may choose to fight them, most sources here feel. In France, the same coalition of Communists and rightists that guillotined the last ‘‘Europeanization’’ project, the European Defense Community, may combine to defeat the current treaties. In Italy, Russia will have the largest Communist Party in Western Europe as a tool in the fight, and a non - Communist left wing worried about the possible effects of the common market on Italian labor. But Italiy’s right wing parties, which will swing the balance of the vote, is expected to abstain or back the treaties to avoid playing into the Red's hands. Russia’s trump card may lie in West Germany. The Reds will try to convince West Germany that the common market means the end of any hope of reunion with East Germany. Elks Will Install Officers April 4 Earl DeWeese Is New Exalted Ruler Recently elected officers of the Decatur Elks lodge will be formally installed at the regular lodge meeting Thursday night. April 4, at 8 o’clock. Earl DeWeese will be installed as exalted ruler of the lodge, succeeding George Alton, who has served as presiding officer of the fraternal organization for the past year. Other officers are William Hunter, leading knight; William Schulte, loyal knight; James Newton, lecturing knight; Sher-] man Koos, tyler; V. J. Bormann, secretary; Albert .Colchin, reelected treasurer; and Oran Schultz, trustee for three years. Schultz succeeds Wilbur Petrie, who concludes his three-year term April 1. Other trustees of the lodge are Robert Yost and Herman Keller. All lodge members are urged to attend the installation meeting, during which future activities of the lodge will be discussed. Wiseman Funeral Services Wednesday Funeral services for » Mrs. George Wiseman, of Fort Wayne, mother of Mrs. Marlene R. Engle of this city, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Grace Lutheran church in Fdrt Wayne, where the body will lie in state from 11 a.m. until time of the services. The Rev. F. H, Holtmeyer will officiate and burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may call at the D. 0. McComb & Sons funeral home.

Israel Ready To Demand UN Pull Out Force Stand Against UN Troops Is Block To Middle East Peace By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israel is ready to demand the withdrawal of the United Nations Emergency Force from the Middle East because Israeli leaders feel its presence threatens Israel's ability to defend itself, Jerusalem dispatches indicated today. The strong Israeli stand against the UNEF—and especially against stationing UNEF troops inside Israel—was viewed in Cairo as , a major reason for U.N. Secretary Dag Hammartkjoki's inability to reach a firm agreement with Egypt on the future of the UNEF. Hammarskjold ended his talks with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser shortly after midnight this morning and prepared to fly to New York to report to the major Suez Canal users on Nasser’s plans for reopening the canal next month... U.N. sources disclosed today that Hammarskjold had summoned his top financial adviser, Chairman John J. McCloy of the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, to Cairo to discuss how to pay for clearing the canal—one of history’s bigr "t salvage jobs. Cost of tiie salvage project has been estimated at around S2O million. Egypt demands that Britain and France pay and has also asked for several millions from the U.N. for wrecked dredging equipment. McCloy was expected to help on a final solution to the problem. Israel Says UNEF Failed All reports indicated Hammarskjold had failed to win any major concessions from Nasser—that the Egyptian president would reopen the canal only or his own terms—and that Israel was not budging in its stand against the UNEF. Egypt’s semi-official Mideast news agency said Hammarskjold may confer with Israeli Ambassador Abba S. Eban when he returns to New York on Thursday. Hammarskjold failed to win any encouragement from Israel on his current mission and that nation made it clear it did not welcome a visit. Jerusalem dispatches said Israeli officials had come to the conclusion the UNEF failed in its primary purpose —to prevent Egypt from returning to the Gaza Strip and reviving the threat of new Fedayeen (Arab commando) l raids on Israeli border villages. The officials also said the handful of Finnish troops of the UNEF now manning the former Egyptian fortress at Sharm El Sheikh would be unable to prevent Egypt from re-imposing its blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba should it decide to send in troops. Only One Agreement Cairo dispatches stressed that Egypt will maintain its rights to send troops iqto the Gaza Strip and into Sharm El Sheikh although there was no immediate indication it intended to do so. Israel’s impatience with Hammarskjold was growing steadily, and Premier David Ben-Gurion told Parliament Monday Hammarskjold was concerned with legal aspects of a case only when it affected Egypt. Ben-Gurion was referring to a 2-year-old charge that Jordan had desecrated a Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives and had denied access to the cemetery as provided by the armistice agreement. The only area of agreement re(Coßtiaaed bb Face Five)

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Republicans In House To Seek Cut In Budget Sharp Reduction In Federal Spending, Tax Cuts Favored WASHINGTON (UP) - House Republicans voted unanimously today to seek a “sharp reduction” in federal spending and a tax cut "as soon as practicable.” The GOP lawmakers, at a closed door conference, went on record for a "crusade of economy” in all branches of the federal government. Rtp. Charles B. Hoeven (R---lowa), conference chairman, said the group approved without dissent a resolution deploring the , "continued high rate of federal ; spending," and calling for a new ‘ economy drive, a balanced budget, ’ a reduction in the national debt, i and—when practicable—a tax cut. No date was set for the tax cut. . Hoeven said the group “hoped” this could take place next year. . House GOP Leader Joseph W. t Martin Jr. (Mass.) said Republicans had no intention of jeopafd- ’ izing “legitimate, important” fed- . era) services. But he said a search > will be made for possible ecoiJ£ t mies throughout the government The Republican resolution said . Americans and the Congress “are I deeply concerned at the continued . high rate of federal spending, 1 which continues to deprive them > of adequate and prompt relief ( from high taxation.” • It said Republican House members believe “a sharp reduction , is essential in the high level of [ federal government spending.” i The resolution was adopted as ; ■ a group of southern Democrats] • lined up for an economy drive of ‘ their own. Their goal was “subi stantial” additional cuts in a labor and welfare appropriation bill ali ready trimmed 3.9 per cent below ■ President Eisenhower’s request. 1 —When the $2.9 billion *money 1 measure was called up in the [ house, southern economy bloc was ■ ready with a series of amendments [ to deepen by additional millions ! the sllß million cut already imposed by the House Appropriations Committee. Rep. William M. Colmer (D- --. Miss.), a key figure in the cut-’em i deeper group, forecast wide sup- - port for the added economies. The southerners drafted their . proposals late Monday at a closed i door session attended by about 20 . members in the office of Rep. ; Howard W. Smith (D-Va.). Smith declined to disclose de- ’ tails of the proposals in advance. He told newsmen “there is plenty ‘ of fat in the bill” and the amendments were calculated to cut it out. The bill carries funds to run the Labor Department any the Health, Education & Welfare Department , for the 12 months starting July 1. It makes up part of the record $71.8 billion budget President Eisenhower has proposed for the new year.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Carlyle Seiple, pastor of Rivarre Circuit United Brethren in Christ) “FAITH PLUS” •‘Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those 7 who are with, them.” II Kings 6:16. Someone has said, “One man and God are a majority.” This has been proven time and again in history. But the great hosts of those who have faith in God make It more than a majority. Jesus spoke of faith the size of a grain of mustard seed and its potential. But because we say we have faith in God does not make it so. There is an active element to faith. But many today are taking a passive attitude towards it and are depriving themselves of many rich blessings from the storehouse of God. i Elisha knew by experience what God would do for a faithful servant. He had proved that God was “more than those” who were with his enemies. This same God can and will be “more than those who are with them” even today as we appreciate His power in our lives through faith in Jesus Christ.

Richmond Man Is Slain Last Night Roy Hirshburg Is Killed By Woman RICHMOND, Ind. (UP) — Roy Hirshburg, 64, a nationally known photographer, was shot to death on a street near his studio Monday night and a divorcee less than half his age admitted today she fired the rifle bullets which killed him. Hirshburg fell mortally wounded with bullets in his head and chest, shortly after he parked near his studio with two women in his automobile. One of the women was Mrs. Ethel Wise, 30, Centerville, a divorcee. She admitted hours later, police said, that she killed Hirshburg. The other woman was Mrs. Ann McFarland, 41, a receptionist in Hirshburg’s studio, and also a divorcee. Assistant police chief Orville Conyers said •he had a signed statement of guilt from Mrs. Wises But he and other authorities withheld details, apparently while they tried to iron out a motive for the slaying. The shooting occurred in a downtown street near the studio where Hirshburg operated a profitable photographic business. Police said Mrs. McFarland and Hirshburg got out of the Wise car near his studio and moments later three shots rang out.. Hirshburg was dead on arrival at Reid Memorial hospital with two bullet wounds. One bullet hit Hirshburg in the head, the other in the chest. Divorced 6 Months Ago Mrs. McFarland was hospitalized with shock. She told authorities she turned when she heard the shots and saw Mrs. Wise holding the ddhth weapon, a rifle. The bullets were fired from a range of about 15 feet. I Hirshburg was divorced six i months ago by his wife after 20 years of marriage. He opened his studio in 1921. His portraits and commercial photographs had won him national acclaim. He was honored in 1955 by the Photographers Association of America as one of the top 20 photographers in the United States. Police said Mrs. Wise fled in her car after the shooting and drove to the home of a friend she told of the slaying. The friend advised Mrs. Wise to surrender and notified police. Authorities picked up Mrs. Wise about two hours after the shooting. She was arrested at an intersection about five miles northwest of here. Police said Mrs. Wise apparenly intended to give herself up. Witnesses Pursue Car Mrs. Wise was held in Wayne County jail awaiting a grand jury investigation. Police said they received a call about 11 p. m. EST saying a man was hurt at “Seventh and Main.” They thought it was a traffic accident. They found a shooting. Two witnesses to the shooting chased Mrs. Wise’s car, but lost it on a county road. Police said Mrs. Wise called at the home of Mrs. McFarland in Hagerstown earlier in the evening. Hirshburg was there. They decided to return to Richmond. (Coati seed ea Pace Five)

Corn Acreage Bill Flayed By , Sen. Ellender n J Senate Committee if Chairman Assails * Corn Acreage Bill d WASHINGTON (W — Chairman '• Allen J. Ellender of the Senate s Agriculture Committee today * warned the proposed corn acreage bill would “kill the soil bank dead * as a doornail.” ‘ Ellender’s own committee ap- ‘ proved the bill Monday 9-4 over ■ his opposition. 1 The bill—similar to a GOP bill 1 beaten in the House last month—- ■ would allow the nation's commercial corn farmers to plant a 51- - million acre crop this year in1 stead of 37.3 million acres, f Ellender called the bill “scand- ' alous” and said its chances of ’ passage are “nil." He said the bill if passed would mean that soil bank payments for ' commercial corn this year may ’ reach S3OO million. He said under the present program the Agricul- , ture Department expects corn soil ' bank payments to total slightly less than S2OO million. An Agriculture Department official said that under the bill there would be no way to prevent “windfall" payments to growers , who entered the soil bank under ' the original allotment terms. In effect, the bill would restore for 1957 the price support and soil * bank program offered to commer- * cial corn growers last year. 1 The bill would abolish the 37.3 * million acre planting allotment set ; for 1957 by Agriculture Secretary f Ezra T. Benson and substitute the 51 million acre ceiling for the c 24-state “commercial" corn area. 1 This area is composed chiefly of 3 the midwestern corn belt, but in--1 eludes parts of several southern 1 and eastern states. 3 Under the terms of the bill, ■ commercial growers would be re- * quired to put into the soil bank an 1 acreage equal to 15 percent of their new planting allotment in ' order to receive price supports. ’ This could be corn acreage in 1 the acreage reserve program or 1 other tillable land placed in the ■ longer-term conservation reserve. ’ The measure would make no ■ change in the $1.36 per bushel support price rate for commercial ■ growers who comply with acreage k controls. But it would increase s support prices for corn grown out- * side the commercial area from 70 percent of the commercial rate to 82.5 percent or about $1.13 per i (Coßtlaaed Pace Five) r . ■ ,■■■■■■■■ ' Heart Attack Fatal To Wren Resident ! 1 Joseph C. Johnson t Dies Last Evening i Joseph C. Johnson, 86, of Wren, r 0., a lifelong resident of that community, died suddenly of a heart attack suffered at 7:30 o’clock Monday evening at the Krugh supermarket in Wren. He was born in Van Wert county. O„ July 3, 1870, a son of Shannon and Margaret TeepleJohnson. His wife, the former Moser, dieg April 25 1935. fifirvivlng are two daughters, Mrs. Earl Welker of Wren, and Mrs. Ed Davis of Fort Wayne; two sons, Kenneth Johnson of Midland, Mich., and Orval Johnson of Decatur; a nephew, Audley Moser of Decatur; 14 grandchildren and 39 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Wren Evangelical and United Brethren church, the Rev. Walter Purdy officiating. Burial will be in the Wren cemetery. Friends , may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until 1 p. m. Thursday, after which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services. --

Plan Housing Bill “ -■ ..- .. ...... > ■ To Help Veterans Congressmen Open Strong Drive Today WASHINGTON (UP)-Congress-men opened a strong drive today to make it easier—and possibly cheaper —for veterans than for non-veterans to buy FHA-insured housing. The drive started after the House Monday failed to take ao 1 tion to provide a nationwide shot ' in the arm for the sagging GI ’ housing program? Key members of a House Banking subcommittee said they would begin drafting the “veterans preference" plan as part of an omnibus housing bill. They said it would be designed to aid veterans who can’t get GI housing loans which lenders are shunning because the interest is limited by law to 4% per cent. Under the proposed plan downpayments on FHA-insured housing would be set lower for veterans than non-veterans. The legislation also may limit FHA financing charges for veterans to 5 per cent by waiving for them the additional Mi of 1 per cent charged for the insurance premium. The insurance premium boosts the actual cost of FHA-financed housing to s'/-> per cent. The House Monday passed and sent to the Senate a bill to make it easier for veterans in rural areas—who never have been able to get adequate private financing for GI home loans—to get direct loans from the government at the current 4% per cent interest rate. But the House refused to put government funds into GI housing Coattaued Pace Bight Custer Admitted To High Court Practice ; Local Attorney To U.S. Supreme Court D. Burdette Custer, local attorney, will be among a group of about 45 attorneys associated with the judge advocate general flights who will be admitted to practice in the U. S. Supreme Court next Monday. Custer, a Colonel in the Air Force reserve unit at Fort Wayne, is the commanding officer of-the judge advocate flight of the Fort Wayne unit. The judge advocate group is the legal department of the air force organization. A group of 13 attorneys from this area will leave Baer Field Sunday. Among this group, in addition to Custer, will be Lt. Jerome O’Dowd of Fort Wayne, a member of the Naval Reserve. He is the son-in-law of Mrs. A. R. Holthouse of this city. The attorneys will be admitted to the bar of the supreme court Monday on the motion of Maj. Gen. Harmon, judge advocate general of the United States Air Force. On Tuesday the attorneys will be admitted to the U. S. court of military appeals, which is the highest military Court. They will also be the guests of J. Edgar Hoover, director of the federal bureau of investigation. They will spend several hours touring F. 8.1. laboratories. Also on their agenda are visits to the department of justice, the United States senate and the house of representatives. The Indiana lawyers will have dinner with Senators Homer Capehart and William Jenner and representative; Ross Adair. During their visit in Washington, the attorneys will stay at Bolling Air Force Base there. They will return to Fort Wayne Wednesday. Attorney General's Aides Quit Posts INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — George Jeffery is leaving his job as chief counsel and Lee LeMay as chief deputy in the office of the Indiana attorney general. LeMay will be replaced by Firman Knachel _of Indianapolis. A successor to Jeffery has not been announced. Both Jeffery and LeMay are from Indianapolis.

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Teamsters Boss In Challenge To Authority Refuses To Give. i Up Records To Senate Committee : WASHINGTON (UP) — Team- ' sters boss Dave Beck refused today to give his personal financial records to the Senate Rackets ? Committee after hearing a committee charge he “may have misappropriated” more than $320,000 i in union funds. j. The committee immediately subpenaed the records. The president of the nation's biggest union appeared before the committee in a spectator-jammed hearing room where other Teamsters officials had been testifying for three and a half weeks on charges rangjng from racketeering to misuses of union money. As he had promised, he brought with him records the committee had demanded. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark) opened the proceedings with thp charge that Beck had taken $320 000 from the union. Beck’s reaction was to challenge the committee’s authority to “determine or adjudicate ‘criminal practices or activities’.” He said he would not waive any of.his. constitutional ttgltts. When toe showdown requester his papers came, Beck said: “I am not prepared to release them.” ! Overrule His Challenge Under McClellan’s prodding he repeated the sentence, with emphasis on the “not prepared,” three times. His challenge ot the group’s authority was immediately overruled by a committee vote. McClellan was prepared for Beck’s refusal to hand over his papers. The chairman immediately signed a subpena. Beck invoked the Fifth Amendment’s protection against selfincrimination and refused to give up his personal records because they definitely" would tend to incriminate him. Beck had challenged the committee's authority in a short prepared letter which he read. It said the committee’s actions were “a usurpation of executive and judicial prerogatives not bestowed upon the Congress, the Senate or this committee.” | McClellan ruled—in effect—that Congress may investigate in any area where it can make laws. New Signs of Revolt Beck also refused to answer some questions under the -Fourth Amendment’s protection against search and seizure but McClellan overruled him. The union chief told the committee, however, that he invoked all existing constitutional privileges against self-incrimina-tion. » Calls Meeting WASHINGTON (UP)— AFL-CIO President George Meany today called an extraordinary meeting of the federation's executive council on Friday to deal with Teamsters boss Dave Beck. An AFL-CIO spokesman called Meany’s action in calling the special meeting, to be held here, “an unusual procedure.” He would not discuss its purpose except to say “it’s in connection with the Beck Beck today refused to give the • Senate Rackets Committee his personal financial records or answer questions about his financial dealings with the giant Teamsters Union.* The AFL-CIO recently adopted a code of ethics which holds that a (Continued on Page MHabtl List State Fair's Entertainment Menu INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — SDiger Pat Boone and the Andrews Sisters will headline entertainment at the Indiana State Fair beginning next Aug. 28. The State Fair Board announced today the entertainment program also will include Patti Page, Guy Mitchell, the Four Lads, die Versatones, and Jan Garber’s orchestra.