Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 90.

SHOWS NEW MECHANICAL HEART I B » J Is ILW ’- '■ w -I’m pii Ma' B i K ■ ■■ JBB i ILmf *— *- x wk W. ’ •’$ 1 KaV ' .:— JHBRBBmL-.’ Si DR. SELWYN McCABE of the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, exhibits a new water-powered mechanical heart which, some day, may serve as a replacement for an ailing human organ. Dr. McCabe showed his plastic creation, fitted with flexible chambers and valves, at a medical meeting in Chicago.

Federal Funds Suspended By State Scandal

INDIANAPOLIS (® — Governor Handley disclosed today that fed* «eral funds for Indiana highway right-of-way purchases have been “temporarily suspended” because of the land-buying scandal. Handley also ordered intra--1 department _investigations of all other state department to see if there is any evidence of wrongdoing because he has “heard rumors”, about what went on in his predecessor's administration. Handley said there is “plenty of evidence" of wrong-doing in the highway department. The governor appointed three top state officials to investigate the highway situation to gather evidence for county prosecutors, and said private appraisers who are “not precinct committeemen” will be hired to evaluate land eyed by the highway planners. Handley outlined his plans at a news conference while a Marion County grand jury prepared to hear evidence from Prosecutor John C. Tinder on what has been unearthed thus far in a study of reports that “middlemen” reaped huge windfalls in the acquisition of property along highway routes. Welcomes U. S. Probe At the same time, a U. S. Senate subcommittee ordered investigators to study the Indiana situation, beginning Wednesday, and Handley said he would welcome them. Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers said such charges, as “fraud, bribery and theft” could come out of the investigations by the state. But he said that just making a windfall profit on the sale of land was “in itself not a crime.” Handley said the scandal “hasn’t helped the Republican party” but he thought the GOP can prove "the party can clear up its own mess.” Handley told a packed news conference he is calling in all department heads today to discuss any evidence of wrong-doing. He confirmed the Department of Public Works and Supply was one agency conducting its own investigation. On the highway probe, Handley said: 1. The Federal government has "temporarily suspended’ ’ use of federal funds for right-of-ways. 2. He has placed three top officials in charge of the investigation to gather evidence' for county prosecutors. No “Witch Hunt” 3. Private appraisers will be hired part-time to assess land to be bought for highways. 4. He does not intend to conduct “a witch hunt.” Handley said he has “heard rumors” about wrong-doing in other state departments during the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig. He confirmed that Public Works and Eupply Director Clarence Drayer is investigating deals made in his own department. Handley said he had no ‘ conclusive information” that reports of highway “windfall” profits also involved the Northern Indiana Toll Road. Meanwhile, an Indianapolis grand jury was scheduled to hear evidence today in the scandal and launch an investigation into reports of huge “middleman profits at state expense. Marion County Prosecutor John G. Tinder planned to take the case to a six-member grand jury. Tinder said he would “outline the evidence gathered so far and the (Omuuum on

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; Rules Pinball Law ) . Is Unconstitutional t Wayne Judge i Rules Against Act 1 FORT WAYNE (UP) — Allen . Superior Judge Lloyd E Hartzler , Monday ruled that a law passed by the 1357 Legislature banning pinball machines which record - free games is unconstitutional. 1 Hartzler made the ruling as he granted a temporary injunction to ■ prevent Fort Wayne and Allen > County officials from confiscating pinball machines or from arrestl ing anyone who leases or operates the machines. t Hartzler termed the recently n passed law ‘class legislation.” > “The effect of the act is to en- . courage private clubs for gaml blihg purposes (and hence) is disf criminatory and does not afford to , all citizens equal rights and privileges as provided for in both the constitution of the state of Indiana and toe Constitution of toe United States of America,” Harzler said. Harzler turned down a motion ■ to dissolve a temporary restrain- ■ ing order he issued previously I against Mayor Robert E. Meyers, : prosecutor Glen J. Beams, police chief Mitchell Cleveland, safety board chairman Frank Putters . and Sheriff Frank Nagel. He issued the restraining order ■ last March 27 when two pinball [ machine distributors sought to i prevent Cleveland and Nagel from cracking down on the machines [ April 1 on orders of Beam. Hiser , Sales Co. Inc., and Lee Sales Co. , Inc., contended that the law . passed by toe General Assembly was unconstitutional. Hertzler’s decision reversed a previous ruling he had made. He ' earlier ruled that a pinball machine recording the right of replay in a place accessible to toe public would be a gambling device, but such a machine not accessible to the public would not be a gambling device. A similar suit enjoining Indian--1 apolis and Marion County officials ' from interfering with toe operation of pinball machines is pending before the Indiana Supreme Court. Says Suez Affair Is Costly To U.S. WASHINGTON — (IP) —— Rep. • Lawrence H. Smith (R-Wis.) said today the “Suez affair” has cost the United States $17,410,000 to ’ date. Smith said in a statement that American taxpayers are getting hit “right square in the pocketbook" in supporting toe U.N. Emergency Force and helping clean up the Suez Canal. . .. School Evacuated By Leaking Gas Fumes I NEW CASTLE, Ind. <W — Leaking gasoline fumes from a nearby service station Monday forced evacuation of 400 pupils from i Weir Grade School here. ' Fire Chief Thomas Nipp said the leaking fumes created the possibility of an explosion in sewers which connect with the school. He said the sewers were being flushed to minimize the danger, but . added that the school would re- , main closed until toe situation is cleared up. ‘---T”

Uneasy Truce Is Reported By King Os Jordan Struggle for Power Far From Over For Impoverish Land By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent King Hussein restored stability to Jordan for the time being today, but toe struggle for power in that impoverished Middle East land is far from over. A new government purged of Communists and extremists and headed by Dr. Hussein Khalidi, a Palestinian with some sympathies for the West but with a bitter hatred of Zionism and Israel, had the difficult job of mapping Jordan’s future between the contending East and West. - Jordan’s reason for existence was largely eliminated with the recent abrogation of the pact which made it toe base for stationing British troops in the Mideast and the recipient of British subsidies to keep its economy solvent. But it still is involved in toe great power struggle between toe bloc of Arab states dominated by : Egypt and the more pro-Western : Arab states led by Iraq. The week-old crisis that ended Monday with Khalidi’s success in forming a government is generally interpreted as a conditional vic- • tory for Hussein. He ousted pro-Egyptian and proSoviet former Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, but he was unable to keep Nabulsi out of the Khalidi cabinet, where he holds toe post of foreign minister. Informed sources in Beirut, Lebanon, said toe Soviet Union had intervened during the crisis in an unsuccessful effort to keep Nabulsi In power. The Russians couldn’t i keep him in toe top job, but he • remains very much in a position I of influence. The basic issue now ; is whether Jordan will pursue a I pro-Western or a leftist foreign policy. * . i In Tel Aviv, Col. Nehemia Brosh, > toe Israeli military spokesman, i said two Israeli guards were killed ! today near the Jordan border in • an ambush by hit-run Arab Fedai yeen raiders. Israel has reported a large number *of similar clashes along its borders with its Arab states since toe withdrawal from the Sinai. Egyptian U. N. Ambassador Omar Loutfi said in a letter to the U.N. Monday night that Israel was “dramatizing claims of Arab border infiltration from toe Gaza Strip as a prelude to “new aggression." The Suez Canal remained a cause of potential trouble. Efforts by the United States to get Egypt (Coatiaaed ea Page H»e) Rotary Club Meets Earlier This Week Joe Kaehr, president of toe De- j catur Rotary dub, announced to- j day that the service club will meet . at 6:15 o’clock Thursday evening j at the Youth and Community Cen- , ter, 15 minutes earlier than toe ■ usual time of toe weekly dinner : meeting. The change has been made be- f cause of Holy Week .church serv- ( ices. Only a brief meeting will be held and the club will adjourn no later than 7:15 o'qjock. Three High School Girls Are Drowned Auto Plunges Into River, One Escapes LIBERTY MILLS, Ind. — m Three high school girls were drowned Monday night when an automobile plunged over an embankment into the Eel River on a Wabash County joad near here. Dead were Rosalie Rhinehart, 17, R.R. 2, North Manchester, and Nancy Clevenger, 17, and Geraldine Bradley, 16, both of Liberty Mills. A fourth girl, Janie Robinson, 17, Liberty Mills, swam to safety. Miss Robinson and Miss Bradley climbed but of toe car and swam to a tree about 450 feet away. Miss Roblnspn was able to hold on despite tne swift current, but she said Miss Bradley was washed away. A passing motorist heard toe screams' of Miss Robinson. Bystanders held a rope which was fastened around the motorist’s waist and he swam out to rescue toe girl. Miss Rhinehart was driving toe car when it went over the em- , bankment. The bodies of Miss Rhinehart and Miss Clevenger were recovered from toe submerged car. Miss Bradley’s body had not been found hours after the accident. Miss Robinson was taken to Wabash County Hospital for treatment for shock and exposure.

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Senate Passes Measure To Provide Funds To Restore Mail Service

House, Senate Continuing On Budget Study U.S. Information Agency Budget May > Face Further Cuts WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower’s embattled U.S. Information Agency was in double trouble today in both House and Senate. The House took up the USIA's committee-reduced 106 million dollars budget with Republicans leery of trying to restore cuts for fear of opening the door to even deeper slashes. / Simultaneously Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (IlMont.) said he not only “thoroughly approved” of the House Appropriations Committee cut, but would be satisfied to see toe propaganda agency’s fund whittled to a low 55 million dollars. Esenihower asked for 144 million dollars. Mansfield, appearing Monday night on ABC's televised “Press Conference," said he has ‘ never been too fond" of USIA and would like to see it “reduced in size, made more efficient >and made part of toe State Department.” It now is a separate agency. The Montana Democrat also said he thinks Congress can reduce Eisenhower’? foreign aid program ‘.’on the order of ond billion dollars or more” below the administration's expected new figure. The President has indicated he will cut his $4,400,000,000 request himself. Mansfield predicted toe reduced administration figure will probably be $4,100,000,000 or $4,200,000,000. Funds to run the USIA, the government’s overseas propaganda arm, are contained in a $563,799,793 appropriation bill on which the House began debate today. The measure also contains money for the State and Justice departments and the federal judiciary for the 12 months starting July 1. Passage is expected Wednesday. On the other side of toe budget ledger, the House offset some of its earlier -cuts Monday by approving an administration request for an extra 20 million dollars in lending authority for the Rural Electrification Administration. The administration said demand has risen sharply for loans to help farmer cooperatives finance electrical systems in rural area#. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with occasion*! rain this afternoon and tonight. Wednesday cloudy with scattered showers mostly south and east portions. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 42-46 north. 46-52 south. High Wednesday 55-58 north, 58-62 south. Sunset 7:24 p. m., sunrise Wednesday 6:05 a. m.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Paul D. Parker, United Brethren in Christ) “HIGH FAILURE” "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live: yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” Gal. 2:20. •gb •. During this week of our Lord’s passion our minds are directed once more to the meaning of the cross. Among other things the cross was and still is an instrument of death. When Jesus was crucified his friends as well as his enemies thought that He was a ~ failure. The conversation of those on the road to Emmaus was concerning the crucifixion of Jesus. They said, “But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed IsraeL” What seems to be a success in the eyes of some Is a complete failure in the eyes of others. When Jesus died upon the cross he achieved the greatest victory the world has ever known. When you and I can .by a positive faith in Jesus Christ say with Paul in this paradoxical text, "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, we will have received the greatest possible victory this side of heaven. To be crucified with Christ, and yet alive means that we are dead, or insensitive to the things which He is dead to, and alive to the intersets to which He is alive. “If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth pn the right hand of God. Set your, affection on things on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.” ,(Col. 3:1-3). Are you crucified with Christ, or are you crucifying Him ■ afresh? - -

Add $75 Million To Federal Farm Costs Increase In Loans To Cooperatives WASHINGTON (UP)—Administration budget officials have added 75 million dollars to their estimate of federal farm spending in fiscal 1958 in away that leaves little toe economy minded Congress can do about it. There was no formal announcement of the change from officials who last week announced publicly they had cut 254 million dollars from toe Agriculture Department's budget. A department official said today toe increase will be put on record officially in a “budget review” in mid-summer. The official said the increase will come in loan funds paid to rural electric and telephone cooperatives by toe department’s Rural Electrification Administration. The loans are repayable over a 35-year period. The hands of budget-cutting lawmakers are tied in a practical sense because toe loans involved were approved by REA and the funds authorized by Congress three and four years ago. To cut down on these loans now would be to break a government commitment to the rural cooperatives, More Than Estimated When the administration’s record-breaking peacetime budget went to Congress last January, Agriculture Department officials estimated they would pay 0ut»255 million dollars to electric cooperatives during toe year. “Now it looks as if it will be 75 million dollars more than that,” a department budget specialist said. The official explained that cooperatives draw on previously approved loans, only as they actually need toe cash to pay contractors for building electric liries or generating equipment. The government’s cash outlay to rural cooperative borrowers in fiscal 1958 will be above earlier estimates because actual construction has been running ahead of advance schedules in recent months. The official said this step-up in construction would raise REA loan outlay in the current fiscal year to about 265 million dollars, or about 40 million dollars above previous estimates. Loan Approval* Up The House only Monday voted a 200-million-dollar authorization for future REA loans. This is a "supplemental” request, in addition to the 179-million-dollar authorization proposed in the fiscal 1958 budget. If the Senate goes along, loan approvals for the current fiscal year will rise from an original estimate of 185 million dollars to at least 240 million. Loan approvals in fiscal 1958 will go. up from an original estimate of 185 million dollars to between 280 and 330 million dollars, budget officials said. But loans approved this year and next year will not become actual federal expenditures until the cooperatives call for the cash three (Coßtiaaea m Pace Five)

Fighter Tells Os Strong-Arm Union Tactics Former Boxer Says Strong-Arm Squads Beat up Dissidents WASHINGTON (CP) — A former professional boxer testified today that strong-arm squads beat up dissident members of a Teamsters Union local in Scranton, Pa. The witness, Paul Bradshaw, also told the Senate Labor Rackets Committee that he and his friends "voted six or seven times’* each in a 1954 union election. Bradshaw, a 38 - year -old truck driver, was the opening witness as the committee began hearings on what it called "a classic example of the use of force and violence...and terror tactics” by union leaders. Bradshaw, who was convicted in connection with the dynamiting of a house, told senators that Robert Malloy, business agent of Teamsters Local 229 in Scranton, rigged elections. He said 80 per cent of the union members did not even know the elections were on the agenda. We also testified that Tftlloy •gave instructions about beating up a fellow; he’d get Robert i Hurshman’’ to do it. i “There was a fellow there—he’d ■ get up on the floor at meetings," Bradshaw said. "He was going out i the door and Hurshman clipped ’ him a couple of times and said, t ‘Don’t call me no damned Jew.’ The fellow never opened his • mouth." Voted Several Times r Bradshaw said Malloy once i asked him and two other men to • beat up one Red Harrington, “but ■ I wouldn’t have nothing to do with ■ it.” 1 Bradshaw said "I done all right ! in the amateurs” in 40 boxing ; bouts and then won 20 or 21 fights ■ as a professional. He said he was first elected a steward of Local 229, then Malloy told him to bring friends to a meeting with instructions how to vote. With only a few members present, the local then voted to extend the tenure of Malloy and two other business agents from three to five years, and allow them to appoint the stewards.£s . ’ ' Then in Local 229’s election in 1954, Bradshaw said, Malloy gave him and his friends extra receipts for paid-up dues, allowing them to vote extra times. (Cob tin tied •« »»■«• Five) Sunrise Service On Easter For Youth Hold Union Service At Trinity Church The annual union youth sunrise service will be held at 6 o’clock Easter Sunday morning at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, Madison and Ninth streets. The youth fellowships of the various participating churches will conduct the service. ' The offering from the union service will go into a fund which is being established to aid Decatur youth who are taking up the ministry as their life work. The order of service for the sunrise meeting follows: Prelude — Kaye Wynn, organist. * Call to worship — Jane Grimm. Opening hymn 38 — "When Morning Gilds the Skies.” Invocation. Hymn sing — Jerry Kaehr, leader. Scripture lesson — Judy Lane. Morning prayer — David Eichenauer. ■ ———— < Hymn 313 — "Fairest Lord Jesus." Offering — Jerry Kaehr; offertory — Girls’ trio from Trinity church. Easter message — Ralph Thomas. Closing hymn 157 — "Jesus Christ Is Risen Today.” Benediction. Tf* ' - ' . " —

Rainfall General Throughout State April Wet Spelts Ease Shortages By UNITED PRESS Rain fell the length and breadth of Indiana today. Temperatures moderated. Another in a series of April wet spells which alleviated months-old moisture shortages across Hoosierland appeared to have started when showers peppered down during the night and into the hours of this morning. By early morning, more than one-quarter inch of precipitation was measured at Evansville, nearly one-tenth of an inch at Indianapolis, and traces in upstate cities. The weather bureau forecast occasional showers and possible thundershowers in the northern two-thirds of the state today and tonight, and a few showers Wednesday over all the state. For the south portion, there was a chance of thunderstorms. Temperatures, meanwhile, climbed upward from subfreezing levels to which they dipped daily during the past week or so. The lows early this morning ranged from 41 at South Bend to 47 at Evansville, after highs of 52 to 59 Monday. Highs of 55 to 62 will be recorded today, lows of 42 to 48 tonight, and highs of 85 to 65 Wednesday. & —— > Monmouth FFA Is ; Tops In Contest Wins County Dairy ; Judging Contest , The Monmouth Future Fanner's judging team, coached by Fred t Meier, won a total of 1317 points , Monday to win the county dairy • judging contest. The contest was at , the farms of Walter HlßHnand, Reinhard Werling, and Alton Bitt- • ner‘. Andy Crisp, of Pleasant Mills, and Fred Meier, of Monmouth, were in charge of the arrangements. Berne-French placed second, Adams Central placed third, and Geneva placed fourth in the contest. Individual scoring was Jim Singleton, Monmouth, first, 449 points; Dale Fuelling, Monmouth, second, 435 points; Fritz Bulmahn, Monmouth, third, 433 points; Kenneth Von Gunten, BerneFrench, fourth, 415 points; Larry Busick, Monmouth, fifth, 400 points; Also, Wayne Amstutz, BerneFrench, sixth, 392 points; Don Fuelling, Monmouth, seventh, 388 points; Noah Wicky, Adams Central, eighth, 385 points; Alan Habegger, Adams Central, ninth, 384 points; Clair Inniger, Adams Central, tenth, 382 points; Other scorers on the top four teams were: Bill Lehman, Geneva, 380 joints; Ivan Nevil, Geneva, 375 points; Richard Hirschy, Adams Central, 374 points; Don Meshberger, Berne-French, 370 points; Steve Bauman, Geneva, 368 points; Jim Toland, Geneva, 367 points; and Leonard Balsick, Berne-French, 362 points. w Dick Heller Speaks At Lions Meeting Slides of Japan and the Hawaiian Islands were shown to the Decatur Lions Club at their wee Ely meeting at the Youth and Community Center Monday night by Dick Heller, Jr. The differences in American customs and Japanese ways, including religious, agricultural, and social, were shown in a series of colored Slides taken last year while Heller whs stationed in Japan. The speaker was introduced by the program chairman, Thurman Drew. The Rev. Calvin Brewer and Donald Brewer were introduced as guests at the meeting. A report on earnings from the Lions club gumball machines was given by Frank Lybarger.

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Senate Acts Quickly To Restore Cut Passes Emergency Appropriation To Restore Mail Cuts WASHINGTON (UP) — The Senate quickly approved by voice vote today a House passed 41-million-dollar emergency appropriation to restore normal postal service. The action came a scant 10 minutes after the Senate met and unanimously agreed to suspend its rules and take up the measure immediately. It had been approved less than a half hour earlier by the Senate Appropriations Committee in a 10minute closed "door session. The bill, carrying a total of $59,861,000 for the post office and several other agencies, was returned to the House tor concurrence in minor Senate amendments. Took Only 40 Minutes The postal figure was 41 million dollars—six millicm short of what Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield requested, The swift Senate action required barely 40 minutes from the opening of the special Appropriations Committee session to final Senate passage. _ ‘ v . Committee Chairman Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.) asked and got unanimous consent to suspend Senate rules and take up the emergency appropriation immediately. Summerfield, who cut back postal services drastically last Saturday, has said he can not restore full service until the emergency bill is signed by the President. . Earlier, Senate GOP Leader [ William F. Knowland( Calif.) and . House GOP Leader Joseph W. , Martin Jr., (Mass.) told President Eisenhower at a White House legt islative conference that the appropriation might reach the White ' House tonight. Asks Rate Hike A post office spokesman has , told the United Press full service could be restored at post offices “within 24 hours" after the money is available. Summerfield faced a possible rough session today when he appears before a public session of the House Post Office Committee to plead for an increase in postal rates—a penny boost in three-cent stamps and six-cent air mail stamps and hikes in other mail costs. Although committee members said the squabble oyer his postal cutbacks would have little effect cm his case for stamp price hikes, members were likely to question him closely on reasons for the postal curbs. . The House, despite hints of possible delay, thumped the money bill through Monday by voice vote when a demand for a roll call would have stymied the measure at least until Wednesday. The House did not act, however, until after Democrats had roundly denounced Summerfield and Republicans had defended him. Democratic attacks ranged all the way from suggestions the postmaster be impeached to charges he “discommoded as many people as he could” by his postal cuts. Republicans retorted the Democrats Were to blame for .• holding up the post office's money. Widespread Search For Missing Plane PARRIS ISLAND, S. C. — —• Marines in small boats joined Marine, Navy and Air Force helicopters and blimps today in searching coastal creeks and salt marshes for traces of a Navy twin-engine amphibian which disappeared with four men aboard. The plane was last heard from just before last Thursday midnight over Charleston, S. C., on a flight from Atlantic City, N.J. It was believed to have exploded in flight a few minutes later, either over Beaufort or Jasper County, S. c