Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 97, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 97.

WAITINGON DRIVERSTRIKE ■ PACKAGES PILE UP at Railway Express terminal in Chicago as drivers walk a picket line there and in other large cities. The Teamsters union drivers are striking for higher -pay. Other employes refused to cross the picket fine. •

Drug Addicts Say Rackets Evidence False Two Women Charge Jail Threats Made By Deputy Sheriff WASHINGTON (UP) — Two women narcotics addicts testified today they signed false affidavits against a Senate Rackets Committee star , witness because a Portland. Ore., deputy sheriff threatened to jail them or send them to a mental hospital. They told the committee that after signing the statements, he depuy—George Minielly — gave them money and urged them to hide from a Portland grand jury and to keep clear of the rackets committee. Minielly called their testimony “the greatest hoax ever pushed on the American people." Mrs. Kathleen Lucille Cooper Weeks, a self-described prostitute and narcotics addict, said the statements in the affidavit she made against Portland rackets king James B. Elkins were "false.” Elkins was the star witness for the committee in its expose of racket and vice operations in Portland a month ago. i . Mrs. Mary Childress, who said she is "not a prostitute” although she was arrested in 1933 as one, said the statements she made against Elkins also were false. She supported Mrs. Weeks’ statement that Minielly had threatened them. Both Blame Minielly Mrs. Childress said she is “not acquainted” with Elkins and cannot testify on the truth or falsity of the statements made against him. Mrs. Weeks was the first of the two women to testify that she signed a false affidavit. Her affidavit was offered to the Senate committee last month by Mayor Terry D. Schrunk of Portland. It accused Elkins of taking profits from prostitution, using narcotics, and "doctoring” tape recordings which Elkins used as evidence against Teamster Union officials and Schrunk. Elkins had accused the Teamster leaders of running various types of vice and gambling in Portland with Schrunk's consent and cooperation. Mrs. Weeks said Minielly led her and Mrs. Childress, to make the false statements about Elkins. "The? made it plain I’d be in Salem (Ore.) for six months, be held lor interrogation, and possibly go to prison for something I didn’t do,” Mrs. Weeks testified. She said that by “Salem" she meant a state hospital in Salem, Ore., for narcotics addicts and insane persons. Says Made No Threats Minielly preceded Mrs. Weeks to the witness stand and swore he made no threats to the women. He said he had driven them back to Portland from Laredo. Tex., where they were arrested after being deported from Mexico. He said he made no suggestions about the .content of their affidavits. Traffic Death Toll 286 Through Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana’s 1957 traffic death toll climbed to 286 by last Sunday midnight, compared with 308 the same time last year. Twenty new deaths were added to the list last week, compared with 14 in the correspond12 Pages

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First Communion To 85 Children May 5 Hold Services At St. Mary's Church Eighty-five children will receive their first holy communion at a high mass Sunday, May 5, at 7:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic church. The children are pupils of the second grade of St. Joseph’s grade school, and are now completing preparations for reception of their first holy communions. These children and 80 other youngsters, in addition to several adult converts, will receive the sacrament of confirmation in rites to be conducted Tuesday evening, May 7, at St. Mary’s church. The scarament will be conferred by the Most Rev. Bishop Leo Pursley, bishop of the Fort Wayne diocese. The first communion class includes Elena Alanis, David Alberding, Mary Ann Alberding, Ronald Andrews, Gretchen Andrews, Daniel Baker, Jean Baker, John Baker, Michael Baker, John Becker, Thomas Blythe, Phillip Braun. Patricia Braun, Nancy Braun, Lupe Briones, Patricia Brite, Rosemary Clark, Brenda Cochran, Anthony Corral, Dorothy Coyne, Richard Deßolt. Frank Eguia, David Eguia, Nancy Eninger, Patrick Eiting, Marta Faurote. Kathleen Geimer, Donald Geimer, John Gerber, George Gordon, Barbara Grove, Daniel Hake, Nancy Heimann, John Heimann, Darlene Hurst, Jerry Jackson, Charles Jauregui, Daniel Jauregui, Daniel Kable, Daniel Kane, Barbara Keller, Richard Kuhnle, Charlotte Laurent, Donald Lengerich, Ervin Lengerich, Mary Lou Lengerich, Linda Lengerich. Mary Lichtle, Gregory Litchfield, Thomas Lose, Marjorie McGill, Delores Mendez, Michael Meyer, Dennis Miller, Jerome Miller, James Miller, Peter Miller, Leo Miller, Thomas Miller, David Mills, Gerald Omlor, Colleen O’ Shaughnessy, Sharon O'Shaughnessy, David Peterson. Katherine Powell, Janet Rickord, Patricia Rousseau, Karen Schirack, Barbara Schultz, John Schultz, Theresa Schultz, Leo Schurger, Viriginia Snyder, Mary Ann Spangler, Sandra Sutton, Stephen True«iell, Michael Ulman, Thomas Vian, Shirley Villagomez, Susan Walter, Jeanine Wilder, Michael Wolpert, Caroline Yaste and Mary Ann Zintsmaster. Community Choir To Rehearse On Sunday Two more rehearsals are scheduled for the combined choir' of the Associated Churches of Decatur, prior to their initial concert. These rehearsals will be held next Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the First Methodist church, and at 7 p.m. Friday, May 3, also at the Methodist church. Leland Neuen will be in charge. The first concert of this comunity choir will be presented at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, with a program of religious music. — Elderly Man Killed When Thrown From Car FRANKFORT (UP) — An elderly man was killed late Tuesday when thrown from his speeding car as it rounded an “S” curve on Ind. 26 near Middleforic. State police said identification papers- on the body indicated the victim was Charles A. Reilly, 66. They said papers listed addresses iq Terre Haute, Hammond and Michigan. The car bore Michigan license plates. Authorities said they would check with Michigan State Police to establish the victim's identity. <e

Records Show Deeds In Name Os Dean Burton

Jury Investigation Os Highway Scandal To Resume Thursday INDIANAPOLIS <UP) -Marion County records showed today that deeds for two back lots along an expressway route bore the name of mystery man “Dean Burton” as the buyer and wWe mailed to former Indiana highway right-of-way chief Nile Teverbaugh. Records in the Marion County recorder's office showed the deeds were sent to Teverbaugh at his home in Monroe City within a week during December 1954. The deeds were for back lots along Madison Ave. in Indianapolis. The lots brought $2,500 for the original owners of the property. The state paid $25,800 for them. Property Owners Beard Mrs. John Acker and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Quinlan, who were among nearly a dozen witnesses heard by a Marion County grand jury investigating the Madison Ave. angles of the Indiana highway scandal Tuesday, said they testified that Teverbaugh was the man with whom they dealt in selling the lots. Teverbaugh and two other central figures in the scandal investigation refused to waive immunity from prosecution .and were excused from an appearance before the jury. The others were Virgil W. (Red) Smith, highway chairman in the administration of former Gov. George Craig, and Robert Peak of Milan, an attorney who handled for his parents an “investment" deal involving sale of the lots to the state. State examiners said the traditional procedure is to make photostatic copies of deeds, then mail the originals to the new owners. In the case of the Acker and Quinlan lots, however, the recorder’s office records showed that although “Burton’s” name was listed as the new owner, the deeds were mailed, one on Dec. 8 and the other on Dec. 15, to Teverbaugh. Prosecutor John G. Under had little comment on the results of the first day of the jury’s investigation, although midway through it he said he felt the jury “is getting some insight into this." Indictments Are Forecast One of Tinder’s aids was quoted as saying today, however, that “there will be you can rely on that," as a result of testimony received Tuesday. The chief testimony appeared to have come from-State Police Det. Sgt. Stanley Young, who headed a state investigative staff probing the highway right-of-way records the pastt wo weeks, and Russell (Continued on Pare Six)

Lengthy News Parley Is Held By Handley Promises Data On Highway Scandal INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley promised today to make public any pertinent information his investigators find in the federal income tax returns of persons involved in the Indiana highway scandal stories. Handley made the statement in a long news conference during which he was asked questions on several subjects and announced a list of appointments and reappointments to «tate commissions and board. . Handley said he had accepted the resignation, effective May Is, of Alfred Sasser as superintendent of the Muscatatuck State School for mentally retarded children. (A United Press dispatch from lowa said Sasser was appointed today to a $9,000 a year post as superintendent of a similar school in that state effective May 15). Handley named replacements for two well-known state officials appointed during the administration.. of former Gov. George N. Craig. One was Buford M. Cadle of Indianapolis, a member of the Indiana State Police Board, whose term expired. Cadle was replaced by former Indiana Supreme Court Judge Paul G. Jasper -of Fort Wayne. The other was Mrs. Ada White, whose criticism of the story of Robin Hood as reading for Indiana school children .because she Said it depicted a communistic Ideology gained international attention two years ago. Mrs. White was replaced on the State Textbook Commission by John T. McSherry of Knox. Handley also made three new appointments to the General Commission of the State Board of Education, including Clarence E. Manion, former dean of the Notre Dame law school. Handley said (Conunuaa ou Face iHxj

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Study Bills To Slap At Labor Racketeering Eisenhower Meets With Secretary Os Labor On Thursday WASHINGTON (UP)— The administration is considering calling for legislation aimed at smashing labor racketeering. President Eisenhower and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell meet Thursday at the vacation White House in Augusta, Ga., to discuss bills that would strike at labor racketeering and misuse of union funds. Mitchell has said he would like legislation to protect union health and welfare funds and open union fiscal reports to public scrutiny. Chairman John L. McClellan (DArk.) of the Senate Rackets Committee said today Congress might pass this year bills aimed at preserving democracy in unions and insuring proper accounting of union funds. Committee Vice Chairman Irving M. Ives (R-N.Y.) expressed concern that “some very anti-la-bor” legislation might result from the labor racketeering investigation. The committee this morning briefly reopened its hearings on alleged links between the Teamsters and underworld in Portland, Ore. It summoned two elusive call girls to testify. Other congressional news: Foreign Aid: McClellan called for cutting Eisenhower’s new foreign budget 75 per cent for a saving of three billion dollars. He said the government can lead the way toward cutting the rising cost of living by cuttings its own expenses. Civil Righto: Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. told Congress his department has been under great pressure in the last year to intervene in “shocking incidents" involving civil rights. But Brownell said his department lacked jurisdiction. He urged the government “more flexible powers.” Un-American: The House Committee on Un-American Activities will hold public hearings May 7-9 at Baltimore, Md., on Communist attempts to infiltrate the Baltimore area. The committee said about 30 witnesses have been subpenaed. Secrecy: A group of Democrats plan to introduce legislation next week aimed at blasting a hole in the government’s “paper curtain of secrecy.” Among the Demo- ♦ on Pnire Five) Dulles To Fly To Germany Next Week - - - Important Allied 9 Talks Scheduled WASHINGTON (UP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will fly to Germany next week for important Allied talks on Moscow’s recent atomic threats and Britain’s proposed defense cuts, it was learned today. Administation officials said Dulles plans to leave Washington on Tuesday for Bonn, Germany, where the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Council holds its spring meeting May 2-3-4. Moscow’s recent campaign of atomic threats against America’s NATO partners gives extra importance to Dulles’ mission. His job will be to reassure this nation’s 14 NATO associates the United States will not forsake them in the face of Russia’s threats. The first step in Dulles’ campaign was taken in his foreign policy address in New* York earlier this week. He noted Soviet rulers were pouring . Out “abuse and threats” as the free nations strengthen their defenses. “But we can,. I think, be confident that such Soviet assaults will not disintegrate the free world,” Dulles said. ( “Collective defense measures are here to stay.”

Embargo Shipments Al New York City Two More Unions Go Out On Strike CHICAGO (UP) - The Railway Express Agency embargoed shipments to and from New York today after two locals of the international Teamsters Union staged a surprise walkout. The action Tuesday night brought the number of workers on ' strike against the agency to 3,724 ' in eight cities around the nation. ' Railway Express termed the sudden walkout a “violation of the ’ Railway Labor Act” and clamped 1 an immediate embargo on all less--1 than-carload shipments to and 1 from New York and some New ; Jersey points. In New York, a spokesman for the Railway Express system said ■ the walkout by the New York and i Hudson County locals was in a i separate dispute involving 1,778 teamsters. He said the seven-city ■ strike is by 1.948 teamsters. The agency said it held a nego- : tiation session with the union in • New York Tuesday afternoon, but I had not been notified the locals ■ planned to strike. The locals demanded a 52-cent hourly wage increase, the company said. i Teamsters went on strike in seven other cities at midnight Sunj day in a wage dispute. Embargoes . on shipments previously were ordered by the agency In Chicago, , Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadeli phia, Newark, St. Louis and San . Francisco. , The union is permitting the I movement of hospital supplies, blood plasma and serums through express terminals. The Chicago I local also allowed the movement -of live animals from terminals, • including a crate of snakes for Lin- > coin Park Zoo here. Perishable items, however, in- : eluding fruits, fish and flowers, were stalled and rotting in the terminals. Michael Lehman To Head Junior Leaders Elected President Os County Leaders Michael Lehman, son of Mr. and : Mrs. Edgar Lehman of Berne route 1, and a member of the ; Monroe Boosters 4-H club, has been elected president of the Ad- 1 ams county junior leaders. Lehman has completed six years in 4-H work, and three in the junior leaders. More than 115 attended Tuesday night's meeting held in the Lincoln school gym. Steve Bauman, of Hie Wabash Workers, was elected vice-presi-dent of the group. Other officers are: secretary, Evelyn Mann, Wabash Clover Blossoms: treasurer. Max Egley, Kirkland Future Farmers; song leader, Hubert Kuhn, Blue Creek Sodbusters; and news reporter, Jeannie Smith. Washington Happy Hustlers. Recreation leaders for the next year will be Rolland Zimmerman, Kirkland Future Farmers; Deanna Small, Decatur Peppy Paia; Mark Ripley, Blue Creek Sodbusters; Joy Everhart, Wabsh Cloverblossoms; Pt Krueckeberg, Union Pls; Tom Stuber, Jefferson GoGetters; and Larry Busick, Root Roving Rangers. The recreation leaders remaining from last year, Krueckebeag, Ripley, and Busick, started- the meeting with mixers. Lois Gerke and Tom Stuber led the group in the pledge of allegiance to the flag and the 4-H pledge. John Fuhrman led group singing. Slides of Japan shown by Dick Heller, Jr., were the educational feature for the progrm. Games were then played under the direction of the recreation leaders, and refreshments were served by the Union township junior leaders, assisted by Mrs. Ed Gerbers. Phil K. Connelly, assistant county agent leader, and his wife were present for the meeting, the first of the year. Also present were many 4-H leaders from throughout the county, including Mrs. Lorene Fenstermaker, Mrs. lUonttniwd on Pare Six)

Sen. McClellan Urges Cut In Foreign Aid Asks Administration Take Action To Cut Rising Living Costs WASHINGTON (UP)—Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said today the administration can take the lead in cutting the rising cost of living by slashing the foreign aid program 75 per cent. McClellan said one billion dollars in foreign aid should be enough “to meet any responsibility we have or anything we might spend that would be of benefit to this country.” “That would bring the budget down three billion to start with,” he said. ‘The budget can be cut rather substantially. It won't be, I realize, but it should be.” The government reported Tuesday the cost of living hit a record high in March for the seventh straight month. Moreover, a federal official predicted food and other prices would climb still higher this month. The Agriculture Department Tuesday night a«< come this year is likely to climb above 512,200,000,000 — almost a half billion dollars higher than in 1956. The rise this year would come from increased federal payments to farmers from the soil bank program. They are expected to more than offset any reduction in cash marketing receipts which the department expects to be below those of 1956. The Commerce Department Tuesday night said high employment and rising wages sent personal income of Americans to new records in the first quarter of the year. The department said the record flow of personal income kept the economy on a high plane despite some soft spots. The report said personal income reached an annual rate of $337,500,000,000 in March—4 billion dollars higher than in the last quarter of 1956 and 19 billion higher than March of 1956. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said the purchasing power of the average factory worker’s pay check dropped last month for the second month in a row. The decline wiped out gains in buying (Caatlaaee m Paa* Five, Miss Carolyn Kohne Second In District Places Second In Auxiliary Contest Miss Carolyn Kohne has been ; awarded second place in the ' fourth district event of the Americanism essay contest sponsored j by the American Legion auxiliary. - She won eligibility to compete in the contest by winning first place in the junior division of the local contest sponsored by the American Legion auxiliary unit ; 43. Carolyn is a student in the I eighth grade at St. Joseph’s school. Her instructor is Sr. M. Vergiline, C.S.A. She is the I daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jerome ’ Kohne of this city. Mrs. Helen McKinley of Churubusco, fourth district Americanism chairman, will present the award 1 to Miss Kohne Friday night at the ' meeting of the local auxiliary. ' Mrs. McKinley will be introduced 1 by Miss Margaret Eiting, Americanism chairman for the local unit. INDIANA WEATHER ' ] Partly cloudy, chance of than- ! derstorms tonight Thursday ; fair and a little cooler north, partly cloudy with chance of a , few thundershowers portion. Low tonight in the Ns except 50s extreme northwest. : High Thursday near 79 north- , west to near M southeast. Sun- i net 7:32 p. tn., sunrise Thursday 1 5:54 a. m. ’<

Aviator's Story Os Rescue Under Probe Aviator Reports Trip Into China HONG KONG (UP)— U.S. officials in this British colony and in Tokyo were reported today to have opened investigations into an American aviator’s story that he rescued the 13-year-old son of Nationalist Chinese parents by flying into Red China. Informed sources in Hong Kong were frankly skeptical of pilot Henry Bush's report that he flew an old PBY Amphibian from an island near the Portuguese colony of Macao into the Chinese mainland 350 miles due north on the mercy errand. Bush, 42, formerly.of West Massapequa, N.Y,, stuck by his story in Tokyo and said he was concerned that the State Department might revoke his passport because of its regulations banning Americans from Red China. “I hope they understand why I did what I did,” he said. A U.S. embassy spokesman in Tokyo said Bush’s flight had been discussed at the embassy but the only official reaction was “no comment.” One-Day Trip Bush said an American went along on the flight as the co-pilot. But he refused to identify him or the Chinese family involved. * — ► Bush claimed the Chinese familj i had an old' PBY gassed up anc 1 waiting for him at an island near Macao and that he took off for I China April 5 at sunrise. i He said he picked up the boy at an abandoned air field in China and returned the same day, a launch taking the boy from the plane to land. Immigration records in Macao showed Bush did arrive there from Hong Kong early April 5 and that he left at 3 p.m. that afternoon. But a government spokesman on Macao said no amphibian landed or took off there that day. He said also that no Chinese boy was taken ashore by launch April 5. (Coitlmied ob Pare Five, Western Storms Are Reported As Easing Hundreds Forced • From Texas Homes By UNITED PRESS Summer flexed its muscles In the East today, and violent thunderstorms tapered off in the West, easing a flood threat at Waco, Tex. A wave of mild, muggy Gulf air drifted across the East from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Coast, bringing summery temperatures throughout the area. A storm center in the West weakened after touching off a flurry of damaging tornadoes and flooding rains. Precipitation in the area was generally light overnight, although College Station, Tex., reported more than a half inch and Monroe and Shreveport, La., had more than a quarter inch. A flash flood along Waco Creek, which only a few weeks ago was a dry ditch, forced hundreds of persons from their homes in Waco Tuesday, but most of them were back today. , The rain-swollen Brazos River threatened to flood some 6,000 homes in the eastern section of the city Tuesday night, but began receding after cresting at 29% feet. The floods, second in Waco since last Friday, “affected” about 1,000 persons in 350 families. The Red Cross housed about 50 families who were unable to retorn to their homes Tuesday night. Local flooding also was reported at Dallas and Fort Worth. Two tornadoes were sighted in the vicinity of Waco where a twister four years ago killed 114 persons. The tornadoes, near Bryan and south of Waqo, did not touch ground. They brought to 36 the number of twisters to rake the state since last Friday. A tornado scare hit southwestern Michigan Tuesday night when funnel - shaped clouds appeared above the Pontiac-Milford area northwest of Detroit. The Weather I Bureau said lit received no reports of tornadoes in the area.

Nobs Surging In Top Cities Through Jordan I Long-Awaited Terms For Operations Os ! Suez Canal Listed , By WALTER LOGAN [ United Press Staff Correspondent , Stone-throwing mobs surged , through Amman and other prinr cipal Jordanian cities today to en- . force demands for the resignation » of pro-Western Premier Hussein El Khalidi’s government. Khalidi, however, was standing r firm. * After a 90-mlnute confer- . ence 'with King Husein, he ant nounced: “I have not resigned.” » As mob rule and civil war - threatened Jordan, another Mideast crisis apparently had run its I course through the chanels of diplomacy. 1 Cairo published its long-awaited 1 terms for operation of the Suez e Canal. ° Egypt, tne document said, will run the canal on its own terms, including colection of tolls. * The United States formally requested a meeting of the U. N. r Security Council to consider the smiandh.- No’ date Was set •, for the meeting but there were indications that it would be called T for Friday. The most important concession it Egypt made was that disputes ova er operations and tolls could be a taken to arbitration. e In both Egypt and Jordan, the United States figured prominently. Against Doctrine, Khalidi 9 U. S. Ambassador to Egypt Ray--1 mond Hare represented canal ust ers .in the weeks of patient negotiations with the government of J President Gamal Abdel Na«ser. ‘ i In Jordan, the issue, was be- . tween young, pro-Western King ’ Hussein and the pro-Egyptian, proleftist forces which had taken opposition to the Eisenhower Doctrine as their chief issue. Today’s mobs shouted equally against the doctrine and the Khalidi government. By midday the situation was reported under the control of Bedouin troops and police loyal to Hussein. But a further ominous note was added in reports that the demonstrators were told to come out again Thursday if their demands were not met. Street mobs make or break Arab governments and may be turned on or off with almost pushbutton control at the command of the highest bidder. Full censorship was imposed on press dispatches from Amman, but information reaching neighboring countries continued to provide details of the Jordanian situation. Reports to Beirut, Lebanon, said the meb violence eased off at midday when leftist political leaders (ContinuM on Paare Six) Junior Class Play Friday Evening At D.H.S, Auditorium The junior class play, “Foot Loose,” will be presented at the Decatur high school auditorium Friday night at 8 o’clock. It is the first class play produced at the school for many years. There are 28 students from the junior class directly involved in the production. In addition to the cast, previously announced, Linda Norris will act as announcer. Prompters include Jane Wass and Jean Wass, stagehands and props workers include Jack Macklin, Larry Moses, Ann Uhrick, Karel Thieme, Steve Buher, Jim Baumgartner, Janice Voshell, Phil Rambo, Glen Rekeweg, Judy Carpenter, Barbara Brunnegraff, Ted Hutker and Donn Johnson. These students, in addition to the four ticket teams and the cast, comprise more than half of the class. The play, under direction of Miss Catherine Weidler, is reported shaping up as one of the outstanding events of the schx>l year and a large crowd is expected to attend.

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