Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 92, Decatur, Adams County, 18 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No 92.

NEW FACES IN SENATE RACKET QUIZ p»y-w y,Au. - JH 1 flfl flttßteu ; |jr «RI * flflab fl HW wwti Hh WSfl w. ’w* fl Ar- iH --- v <. -v ■ |*> Hfl WHILE PAUL HUBBHMAN (left) of Scranton', Pa., "took the Fifth Amendment"on all. questfo& put to him by Senate investigators delving into labor terrorism in his home town, William Munley, <yt>. x » Scranton truck driver who was convicted with Hubshman denied that umon officials terrorize non-unionists. Miss Helen Canfield, a Teamsters union employee (right) told the Mrmakers she made tape recordings which led to convictions of union members on charges of conspiracy in a dynamiting in the Pennsylvania city. — .

King Hussein Consolidates Hold On Jordan Arab Sources Say Middle East Near To War Last Week By WALTER LOGAN United Preu Staff Correspondent King Hussein of Jordan consolidated his hold on the country today, backed by strong Iraqi! and Saudi Arabian troop concentrations near his border and by a U.S. promise of aid if attacked. Hussein, after five days of temporizing, issued a royal decree formally firing Ma]. Gen. AU Abu Nuwar, the chief of staff who fled to Syria when Hussein broke a plot to dethrone him. In his place he named Maj. Gen. All Hayyari, one of the Bedouin tribesmen whose loyal support saved the King from the plot. Another Bedouin, Hafez Majjali, was promoted to major general and made Hayyari’s assistant. At the same time, authoritative Arab sources in Beirut, Lebanon, disclosed how close the Middle East came to war last week. They said Hussein personally delivered an _ ultimatum on tank-equipped Syrian troop reinforcements to leave the country or be driven out by Iraqi troops and planes. Syria had sent in 3,000 troops during the Israeli invasion of Egypt. H sent in more when Hussein fired Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, who was pro-Syrian, proEgyptian and pro-Soviet. The reports said Hussein met the troops and delivered the ultimatum in person. They withdrew. Authoritative reports said Hussein was backed up in his formal action against Nuwar by promises of aid from Iraq, his neighbor to the northwest that is ruled by King Feisal, his cousin, and by promises of aid from Saudi Arabia to the south. He also had before him President Eisenhower’s news conference statement of Wednesday that the United States would assist Jordan if it should become the victim of aggression. Middle East sources said the warning was plainly directed toward Syria. Israeli officials, who have backed Hussein since the start of the crisis in belief he did not want war, expressed fear today the political storm in Jordan would erupt again—that this was the lull before the storm. The officials in Jerusalem said the showdown would come over Jordan's decision whether to invite U.S. Mideast envoy James Richards to go to Amman to discuss the Eisenhower Doctrine and American aid over protests of left-wing elements still in the government. The independent Egyptian newspaper Al Akhbar said in Cairo that the Jordan crisis was the "first act” in the United States plan to “isolate” Egypt. It predicted the Amman crisis would explode again and said the next week would be a crucial one for Jordan. Although the Egyptian press was declaring the United States respon(Contlaaed P««e Five) Sala Found Guilty Os Army Desertion POITIERS, France — Pvt. Vito Sala, 31, Brooklyn, who became ft French Foreign Legion hero, was found guilty today of deserting his U. S. Army unit on German battlefield 11 years ago. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonsment at hard labor. It took a 12-member general court-martial board only about an hout to find Sala guilty, despite his plea that he had been a victim of amensia for most of the 11 years since he vanished in battle from a unit of the U. S. 100th Infantry Division near Heilbronn, Germany, in 1945.

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Von Beam Funeral Services Friday Local Man's Death Caused By Drowning Funeral services will be held Friday for Von Beam, 57-year-old Decatur man who was drowned early Wednesday morning in Allen county. Beam’s death was caused by drowning, according to a report filed by Dr. H. Paul Miller, Allen county deputy coroner. The Decatur man, who resided at 903 Winchester street, and was employed at the General Electric plant here until a few weeks ago, was found dead at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning after his auto plunged into a ditch filled with four feet of water. The accident occurred on the Indiana-Ohio state line road near Woodburn. Dr. Miller estimated the time of death at 6:30 a. m. Allen county deputy* sheriffs Robert Bender and Russell LeFever, who investigated, said there were no cuts, bruises or abrasions on the body. They said Beam was found dead, lying on his back. The investigators also said there were no skid marks where Beam’s car left the west side of the 18-foot highway and plunged down a 20-foot embankment. The accident victim war born April 17, 1900, at Willshire, 0., a son of William Clyde and Victoria Alice Johnson-Beam. He was a member of the Moose lodge. Surviving are one brother, Cloice Beam of Van Wert, 0., and two sisters, Mts. Dwight Myers and Mrs. Howard Myers, both of Decatur. Services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Vernon Riley officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. The Moose lodge will hold memorial services at 7:30 o’clock this evening at the funeral home. Annual Elks Easier Egg Hunt On Sunday Hold Annual Event Sunday Afternoon The Decatur Elks lodge has completed detailed plans for the annual Easter egg hunt for youngsters of the city and community, lodge officials said today. The annual event will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon; regardless of weather Conditions. The hunt, sponsored for many years by the Elks, will be held on the spacious lawn of the lodge home on North Second street, if weather conditions permit. In event of bad weather, the egg party will be held Inside the lodge home. The party is for all children, nine years of age and under, who reside in Decatur or vicinity. Earl DeWeese, chairman of the egg hunt; stated today that more colored eggs will be distributed than in previous years, and many prizes will be awarded to the youngsters who find the specially marked eggs. The fraternally-sponsored egg hunt has been one of the features of the Easter season jn Decatur tor many years and annually attracts hundreds of youngsters to participate, and hundreds more of their parents and friends to join in the fun. INDIANA WEATHER Foggy, occasional rain and drizzle with scattered thunderstorms tonight Friday scattered showers and thunderstorms and warmer. Low tonight in the 50s. High Friday 65-73. Sunset 7:26 p.m., sunrise Friday j 6:02 a.m.

Six Trapped In Capsized Oil Drilling Rig Three Men Killed, Six Others Trapped As Barge Capsizes NEW ORLEANS (UP)—A skin diver prepared to try again at dawn today to reach six men entombed in cramped sleeping quarters of a capsized oil drilling barge. Authorities expressed little hope of finding the victims alive. Towering ground swells foiled repeated attempts of diver Don Inman to reach the submerged deck of the floodlighted "Mister K” with his rubber suit and aqua lung before he abandoned the effort shortly before midnight. Three crewmen were believed to have drowned immediately when the barge carrying a 100- , foot drilling rig on its deck aud,denly turned turtle during a storm before noon Wednesday in the mouth of the Mississippi River. Six Survive Ordeal Six others were saved, five of them without injury. One was hospitalized. Inman decided “raps” that appeared to come earlier from inside the hull “were just imagination” and not signals from survivors as previously believed. Inman said no drivers could reach the barge in Wednesday night’s heavy weather. ‘‘Every time I got near the barge I was washed by the current.” he said. The Coast Guard finally fixed warning lights on the hull and abandoned it until daybreak. Relatives Keep Vigil Some 30 relatives and friends of the missing crewmen_maintained a nightlong vigil at "rescue headquarters in Vdtijce, La., about 30 miles from the scene. The nearly new derrick barge, valued at 81,250,000, was being towed out of the storm - tossed Gulf of Mexico into the calmer mouth of the Mississippi when it suddenly turned bottom up. The survivors said they had little time to get out, it all hap(CvattaocO Pace Five) New Flood Threats t Along Wabash River Showers Continue To Plague Indiana Nearly an indh^and a half of rain threatened to send the turbulent Wabash River above flood stage again in its upper reaches as showery conditions kept plaguing Indiana and threatened to spill over into Easter. Bluffton and Wabash were among northern Indiana areas reporting heavy rain for the 24-hour period ending this morning. The weather bureau said a preliminary study of the rainfall over the upper Wabash indicated a "moderate rise” above Lafayette and the chance Bluffton and Wabash may record flood stages of the steam again. Elsewhere the rain was mostly less significant showers ranging from barely measureable amounts to less than an inch. x. Showers, thunderstorms ana drizzle were due in varying degrees today, tonight, Friday and Saturday, and the five-day outlook Wednesday indicated the same conditions might prevail Easter Sunday. Temperatures, meanwhile, moderated. Highs Wednesday ranged from » at Lafayette to 69 at Evansville. Lows early this morning ranged from 48 at Lafayette to 55 at Indianapolis. Highs today will range from 60 to 70, lows tonight from 50 to 60, and highs Friday from 62 to 70.

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Eisenhower Suggests Congress Cut Nearly $2 Billion Off Budget

Handley Names Appraiser For Highway Dept*, Names Professional To Evaluate Lands On State Purchase INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley appointed a professional appraiser today to evaluate land bought for Indiana highway right-of-way purposes and said his action was "bad news for would-be land speculators.” Handley followed through on a Tuesday announcement he would name a chief appraiser who was “not a precinct committeeman” in an effort to avoid future questionable deals in Indiana’s highway scandal. He appointed C.O. Crawford, president of the Indiana chapter of the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers and a professional appraiser since 1935. Crawford will receive S7OO a month and head a staff of land evaluators which also will include professional appraisers hired for parttime work. Senate Staffers Meet "I regard this appointment as bad news for would-be land speculators to the greatly expand*! Indiana highway program,” Handley said. “Professional appraisals will take the profit out of speculation.” Crawford’s appointment was announced an two members of the staff of the Senate Public Works Committee met with highway chairman John Peters and Charles M. Dawson, chief of the right-of-way division, in the federal investigation of reports that middlemen reaped huge windfalls from state purchases of land for expressways. The staff members are Filo M. Sedillo, chief clerk of the committee, and John L. Mutz of the committee’s technical staff. They arrived Wednesday, a day after Handley announced that the federal government I had suspended temporarily all U.S. contributions to right-of-way purchases in Indiana. Meanwhile, the Marion County grand jury planned to open a probe next week, and it was indicated that former state highway ehairman Virgil (Red) Smith of Milan and former right-of-way chief Nile Teverbaugh of Monroe City, who served in the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig, will be invited to appear if they will waive immunity. Special Session Demand The Indiana Sentinel, a Democratic weekly circulated mainly in the Indianapolis area, said in its current edition that the party’s state chairman, Charles E. Skillen, had called on Handley to call a special session of the Legislature "to return integrity to state government.’ ’ The Sentinel quoted Skillen as saying Handley should order a special session to restore the State Highway Commission from a three-member setup to a four-man bipartisan board. Handley conferred with Mutz and Sedillo Wednesday and said he would welcome a hearing by the Senate committee. s , Meanwhile, more reports of the purchase of "unneeded” lots on (Caatlnued oa.Pac* Flt«>

Lenten Meditation A PRAYER FOR HOLY WEEK (By Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, Zion Lutheran Church) Lord God, almighty and all-gracious, who hast revealed Thy greatest power in loving this sinful world and in sending Thy onlybegotten Son, Jesus Christ, to redeem it from destruction: give me the faith to accept Thy great love and Thy salvation. Keep the vision of Thy love in my heart even when the evidences of it seem hidden from my understanding. Draw me by ’fhy love for me to such love of Thee that I may with full meaning speak and live Thy love to the people of my generation. Help me in every way to lift up the Cross of Christ before the world, that its magnetic power may draw my fellowmen everywhere to Him and to Heaven. Bless the message of the Cross and all messengers who proclaim it Spread out the Kingdom of Thy love •at home and across the earth. Use me and whatever Thou hast given me for winning the world for Thy everlasting love; through Jesus Christ, my Savior, who, together with Thee, the Father, and Thee, the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns ever one God, world without end. Amen.

Plan Good Friday Observance Here Suspend Business During Three Hours The closing of most Decatur businesses for a three-hour period and several church services will mark the observance of Good Friday in Decatur tomorrow. The annual Christian commemoration of the crucifixion of Christ will be the theme of union Good Friday services from noon to 3 p.m. at Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at Zion Lutheran church, and at 5:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic church. Lutheran services are also scheduled for 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. Friday night and several Protestant churches throughout the city - have slated Friday evening services. | All Decatur retail stores will be dosed from noon to 3 p.m. to give employes the opportunity to attend the services. Mayor Robert Cole has announced that city hall will also be closed during those hours. The Decatur public library will close at, 7:30 pun. Thursday and will remain closed until 3 p.m. Friday. The First State Bank will' be open all day Thursday and then will be closed at noon Good Friday. To be closed all day Friday are the offices at the county court house. The post office will remain open for the regular hours. Employes of the General Electric company will be off all day. The Good Friday holiday was chosen to replace the regular' election day holiday since there is no election this year. Decatur Catholic and Lutheran schools began their Easter vacation today. Students in these schools will return to classes next Wednesday. Classes will be suspended Friday and Monday for students in the Decatur public school system and Adams county schools are closed today and Friday. Purdue University Boosts Student Fees LAFAYETTE (W-Purdue University’s trustees voted Wednesday to raise by $25 the fees for all students effective next fall. That makes state -students' rates $225 an academic year and out-of-state students S6OO. Crash Killing 25 Is Blamed On Sabotage LONDON (W — A Royal Air Force source today blamed sabotage as the "most likely cause” for the crash of a British transport plane at Aqaba, Jordan, with the loss of 25 lives Wednesday. The 25 — 22 soldiers enroute home for Easter and a crew of three—were killed when the Valletta transport crashed 10 minutes after taking off. -- BULLETIN WASHINGTON (IF) - Speaker Sam Rayburn today forecast a tax cut affective next Jan. 1. Rayburn said in his opinion Congress will approve the cut either late this session or early next year. 14 Pages

No Discipline In Union For Goon Tadics Teamsters Official Denies Knowledge Os Scranton Scrap WASHINGTON (ffl — A Teamsters official testified today he has done nothing to discipline members of his union who are accused of "goon squad” tactics and dynamiting in Scranton, Pa. The witness, John Durkin, sec-retary-treasurer of the Scranton local of the Teamsters and vice president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, said he had no idea who was responsible for the wave of union violence that surged over Scranton. Much of it hit non-union building contractors. “I always instruct all our people on strike: ’No violence’, ’’ Durkin told the Senate Labor Rackets Committee. The committee this week is concentrating its investigation of union racketeering on the Scranton area. Witnesses have told tales of violence ranging from beatings and use of stink bombs 4»> rtlaaoounion btmdtng job. *' Concerning a stink bomb incident, Durkin, 50. denied that he supplied the bomb which was hurled through the window of the strikebound Sonny Boy Bakery in Scranton, In a brief appearance Wednesday Durkin refused to state his occupation. He took refuge in the Fifth Amendment which guards against possible self-incrimination. The AFL-CIO has taken the position that union officials who use the Fifth Amendment before congressional committees have no right to hold office. Durkin . and Teamster business agents Robert Maloly and Joseph McHugh were recalled today because their attorney was absent (Coatlauml Page Five) State Distribution From Vehicles Fund Increases Result From Gas Tax Hike A check in the amount of $112,558.62 was received today by county auditor Ed F. Jaberg from the office of the state. The money is Adams county's share of the state motor vehicles fund distribution. Accompanying the check was a letter from the state auditor’s ofifee, advising local officials to expect increases in quarterly distribution checks. The increases are made possible by the recent two-cent increase in gasoline tax. The check received today is almost a $3,000 increase over the $109,638.51 turned over to Adams county in the April, 1956, distribution. The state auditor’s office estimates the future increases at 35 percent in July, 1957 ; 40 percent in October, 1957 ; 40 percent in January, 1958, and another 15 percent next April. Local officials were advised that these estimates were probably conservative and they may be utilized in determining highway budgets in the future. City Distribution INDIANAPOLIS (IP) — Indiana cities and towns got their share of a 40-million-dollar distribution of state motor vehicles hinds today. Money collected for gasoline taxes and other vehicle sources is allocated to cities and towns, counties, and to the State Highway Department. The county distribution for the quarter ending March 31 was announced earlier. The distribution to cities included: Decatur, $16,585; Bluffton, $13,-. 860; Fort Wayne, $330,475; Hartford City, $16,544; Huntington. $34,396; Portland, $16413.

Burglar Nabbed ■ XS* • 'w * "'fl William W. Swank Beme Safecracking Attempt Thwarted One Os Three Men Nabbed Early Today Alfred Zumbrum, night officer of ’the Berne police force, thwarted a safecracking at the Berne IGA store early this morning and captured one of the burglars. Zumbrum, making his rounds at 2:10 a.m. today, saw activity at stare, located on and Investigated. He saw a man at each entrance to the building. Entering with his sawed-off shotgun, he called out tor them to halt and surrender. When the group broke up, he fired two blasts. After the smoke had cleared, Zumbrum arrested William W. Swank, 23, a Fort Wayne man, who was cowering inn the store. The others apparently escaped, and it is not known if they were wounded. The burglars were just clearing some articles — an intercom, and i radio — from the top of the safe. They had entered by breaking i a pane of glass in the door/and i prying the door open with a crow- . bar. Swank was wearing gloves when arrested, and no fingerprints were found. A car with a Fort Wayne license was recovered, so the accomplices were believed to be on foot in the Berne area. Berne police chief Karl Sprunger, and sheriff Merle Affolder were called immediately, and searched the area. Rain, fog, and darkness slowed the search. Swank has admitted that he and two accomplices were responsible for the break-in at Doc’s Car Dock south of Decatur this week. He has also admitted breakins in Jay county committed about 10 days ago. Late this morning Fort Wayne police were able to apprehend Swank’s accomplices, who were Robert Rammel, about 28, of. Fort Wayne, owner of the car which was used by the trio, and David L. Barger, 22, of Fort Wayne. Rammel was arrested as he returned home this morning. Fort Wayne authorities said that he had been brought back to that city by a girl friend who picked him up earlier this morning at a Decatur restaurant. Details on Barger’s arrest were not available. Swank, who lives at 1215 McMClellan Street in Fort Wayne, was brought to the county jail and questioned by Berne city, county, and state police. The Fort Wayne police are also cooperating in the search for the other involved. A road block was set up, in an attempt to trap the men, who were expected to steal a car to get away from Berne. • » Swank has a previous record of public intoxication,disorderly conduct, and AWOL from military service. He has never been convicted of robbery, but has been un-, der suspicion. ; J No tools were found in the store, it is possible that the others involved are still carrying them. A new blow torch was found in the car. It is also possible that the thieves planned to remove the safe and open it elsewhere. i A full investigation of the incident is being made by the combined forces of the state police, county sheriffs department, and the Berne city police, In conjunction with the Fort Wayne city police and Allen county sheriffs office.

Can Beßeduced Near $2 Billion Reduction In Now 4 •wUllVllUil 111 I wCIRT wpeflOliiy AUinOniy Suggested By Ike WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower suggested to Congress today that his requests tor appro,xby ““ 000,000 spending budget for fiscal 1958 “cannot be made’’ unless Congress revises or repeals certain laws obligating the government to spend specific sums for specific services. What the President proposes to trim by 81,858,000,000 ,is the socalled obligations! authority for' fiscal 1958. As contained in the budget he presented to Congress in January this is estimated at $73,800,000,000. [ If the President’s proposals for reducing actual appropriations are carried out, the figure for approor obligational same as the estimated spending figure. letter to Speaker Sam Hayburn (Tbx.). - Makes Distinction Eisenhower held out some hope over the long run for tax cuts, but gave no support for any reductions now. “Given continuation of healthy economic growth and of strict expenditure control,” the President said, reduction in appropriation requests of $1,858,000,000 “will begin to lay a firm fiscal foundation for the time when we can be sufficiently assured that our Income will so exceed our expenses as to justify, a reasonable tax cut for every taxpayer while we continue to reduce the government’s debt.” Eisenhower drew a careful distinction between cutting expenditures proposed in the budget and appropriations requests.' . While no substantial reductions can be made in expenditures, he said, there is a *‘more promising outlook” in reducing requests for new spending authority. He said budgetary reviews since January have disclosed the feasibility of postponing certain requests “without serious damage to program levels.” Reduce Soil Bank The President then suggested these actions, some cd which previously have been mentioned: ' —Reduction by 500 million dollars of new spending authority for the military assistance phase of the mutual security program. —Reduction by 200 millton dollar? of pew spending authority for military public works. Less urgent projects could be delayed. —Reduction by 254 million dollars of new spending authority for the soil bank program. This can be brought about by new projections at the program’s operating rate and related financial requirements. —Reduction of the Federal National Mortgage Association’s spending authority of 50 million dollars. —Reduction in new spending authority of 25 million dollars tor college housing authorizations. —Reduction in new spending authority of 13 million dollars through adjustments of Corps of Engineer construction schedules. The President also suggested that the House may wish to give attention to an additional item in the budget of 516 million dollars requested for Army procurement and production. | TO PRESS EARLY The Decatar Daily Democrat, with other Decatur business houses and offices, will be closed firom J 2 noon until 3 p.m. Friday in observance of Good Friday. Friday’s edition of the newspaper will go to press at noon, but will not be distributed until 3 o’clock. The Democrat win also print at noon Saturday. - r .

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