Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 105.

FACE NEW FLOOD THREAT f ■*?. 1 /Jrl > - .' ■ i ziM ’■ rJSKraI ’.''••‘K .:■ * s ’ ' ■ JS&NS. ? A*‘v-' '■ /’tf t? - [ 'tri- . . . v\/; ! /M ■ : 'h Ir ■ ; * ' 313' ._ ■ WITH THOUSANDS of families recently returned to flooded homes facing the threat of evacuation again, predictions of further torrential rains hung over Texas. In the rich oil fields of east Texas, (above!, flood waters along the Sabine have immobilized drilling, with 25 families in this area near Gladewater still barred from their / flooded homes.

Delay Hearing On Information Leaks In CAB Postpone Hearing Because Os Death Os Sen. McCarthy WASHINGTON (UP) — Out of respect to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, the Senate investigating subeemmtwee toaay postponed a nearing on a leak of information in the Civil Aeronautics Board. Acting Chairman Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.) announced the postponement because of the death of McCarthy, senior Republican member of the subcommittee. f Jackson said .die hearing would resume Tuesday. Earlier, Jackson said “there is a strong finger of suspicion” pointing toward Raymond Sawyer, former executive director of the board and still one of its highranking official?, as the source of a leak. '» Sawyer told the subcommittee Thursday he “categorically” denies under oath that he leaked information about the secret award of a profitable New York-Miami route to Northeast Airlines. Witnesses who were summoned for today will testify Tuesday. They include Mervin Bagan, assistant to board member Harmar D. Denny, and Milton Shapiro, a Concord, N. H., real estate man who bought Northeast shares on the day of the leak. Evidence showed Shapiro bought 500 shares of Northeast stock earlv last Aug. 3, the day of the leak. Shapiro bought the stock at 9% — the second lowest purchase price of the day. Northeast stock climbed through the day in a flurry of trading.--Laurence Henderson, an airline consultant, told the subcommittee Thursday that Sawyer was “the only possible source” of the information aside from what he figured out’ for himself, Jackson said “There is a strong finger of suspicion to Mr. Sawyer" as to the source of the leak. No law was violated in the leak. The only possible penalty is dismissal or other disciplinary action by the board. Now an assistant director of knowledged to the subcommittee that he was in the CAB room on the night of Aug. 2 when the board voted 3-to-2 to give the New YorkMiami run tb Northeast. He said he left the room once to use the rest room but denied he called anyone then, later that night or the next day. INDIANA WEATHER Frost or freezing temperature warning north portion. Fair and quite cool tonight and Saturday. ' Frost and local freezing temperatures north portion, chance of scattered frost south porftion tonight. Low tonight 32-27 north, 38-42 south. High Saturday 54-60 north, 60-66 south. Sunset 7:40 p. m., sunrise Saturday 5:43 a. m. .

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Benson's Attack On Program Assailed v Asks More Authority To Set Supports WASHINGTON (UP)-Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson has set out to persuade farmers they’ll make more money if Congress authorizes him to cut their support prices still further. Democrats on Capitol Hill immediately pounced on Benson and ’ denounced him for trying to set . himself up as an “agricultural Czar." i has sharpened the farm issue for the 1958 congressional elections. Some Republican farm congress- ■ men feared the Democrats might • be right. ! Benson Thursday assailed the i present program of farm price supports and production controls. He said it is “not working," is . costly to taxpayers and is losing markets for farmers. He was not ready to offer any specific legislative recommendations. But he said he wanted greater discretionary authority to set farm price supports at levels that would permit production controls to be relaxed without causing overproduction. Benson made his attack on the present farm program in a letter to Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen J. Ellender (DLa.) and then elaborated at a news conference. He said he had President Eisenhower’s whole-hearted support and planned to carry the issue to the country. Benson’s attack drew these responses from Democratic farm congressmen: —A reminder that the present flexible program — under which supports range from 75 to 90 per cent of parity—is the administration’s "and if it’s a failure it’s the admistration’s failure.” promise that, barring an unexpected sharp rise soon in farm prices, the Senate Agriculture Committee will launch a “fullscale study" to develop remedial legislation for enactment next year. Committee Chairman Elender added his group won’t recommend that farm prices “be put at the mercy of an agricultural Czar, which is evidently Mr. BenCeatliiuea oa Pane Kiaht Heart Attack Fatal To William Frazier Funeral Services SurtW As teftiOttn William H. Frazier, 73, died suddenly of a heart attack at 3 o’clock ■ Thursday afternoon at his home at Salem, southeast of Decatur. He had not been ill previously. Mr. Frazier was a retired carpenter and former employe of the General Electric Co. He was born in Fairfield county, 0., Oct. 24, 1883, a son of William L. and Louisa Wolfe-Frazier. Surviving are a sister, Miss Katie Frazier, of Salem, and several nieces and nephews. Three • sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Black funeral home, .the Rev. Billy J. Springfield officiating. Burial will be in the Tricker cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. '

Egypt Accuses NATO Council Os Interfering Cairo Radio Warns . Arabs; Doctrine By Ike Also Assailed By WALTER LOGAN United Frew Staff Correspondent The state - controlled Cairo Radio attacked NATO today as an “imperialist - Zionist” alliance and accused the NATO* Council of Ministers in Bonn of interfering in Arab affairs. A series of broadcasts warned Arabs to beware of plots against them and linked the Western Alliance with the Baghdad Pact and the Eisenhower Doctrine. The Eisenhower Doctrine itself came in for new attacks as U.S. special envoy James P. Richards finished up his last day of talks with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem before returning to Washington. Communique Expected Informed sources in Jerusalem said Richards and Israeli leaders were expected to issue a joint communique expressing a desire for peace in the Middle East but not commiting Israel to support the doctrine. They said this would be done not 1 to prejudice Israel’s chances of 1 bringing in more refugees from , Soviet Russia and the satellite nations in Israel’s campaign to in- ' crease its population. In Cairo Egyptian sources said , they believed the American deci- , sion not to send Richards to Egypt 1 now was a tactical move to avoid * formal Egyptian rejection- of the ] doctrine. President Eisenhower ordered 1 Richards home Thursday. The tense situation in Jordan was reported eased, as shown by the government decision to lift the curfew for 15 hours Thursday. 6th Fleet Lauded Iraqi sources gave the U.S. 6th Fleet much of the credit tor helping Hussein weather hte ‘ crisis. They said. themom enaNpi the , young monarch to solve his own domestic affairs without serious fear of foreign intervention. With the situation reported quieter in Jordan, attention was centering on Syria which was preparing for four by-elections Saturday for parliamentary seats. The elections may test the strength of the proCommunist regime in power now. The chief tests will come in Damascus and in Homs where anti-Communist elements are trying to unseat left-wing government parliament members. United Press correspondent Wil- ' bur G. Landrey reported from 1 Damascus the elections conceiv- i ably could explode into demonstra- 1 tions organized by either side. Martial law was lifted recently in the four districts® (where elections are being Jie1ct........ . The appeared dying down, and Egyptian sources noted in Cairo the Suez Canal Users Assn, had failed once again to reach a decision on whether to continue a boycott of the canal. The sources said the boycott cannot last much longer anyway because some British and American ships already have used the canal and two American vessels are expected to arrive today at Port Said and Suez for transit.

To Attend Regional Welfare Conclave Welfare Office And Red Cross To Close The Adams county welfare office and the office of the Adams county Red Cross chapter will be closed Tuesday, May 7, to permit staff members of both offices to attend the northeastern regional conference for welfare workers at Wdlodslx The meeting will be held at the Honeywell memorial building in Wabash and ’ will be’attended-by welfare workers from 12 northeastern Indiana counties. Attending from here will be Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the Adams county Red Cross: Miss Bernice Nelson, director of public Welfare in Adams county; and the five assistant members of the welfare department. They are Mrs. Veronica Linn, Mrs. Mabel Marshall, Mrs. Mary Hazelwood, Miss Janet Brown and- Miss Winefride Kitson. The main speaker at the conference will be Judge Paul W. Alexander of the family court center of Toledo, O. He has gained national reknown as a family counselor.

Also planned are a panel discussion on youth and a talk by Alfred Kelly of Indianapolis, the new administrator of Indiana public welfare.

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Four Men Indicted In Indiana Road Scandal All Post Cash Bonds

Beck Indicted On Evasion Os Income Taxes r Teamster President Potts $5,000 Bond > * On Federal Charge ’ WASHINGTON (UP)—Teamtter President Dave Beck surrender'd voluntarily to the U.S. marshal'today and posted $5,000 bond on federal income tax evasion charges. Beck was indicted Thursday in Tacoma, Wash., on charges of evading payment of $56,420 due in federal taxes for 1950. Beck and his attorney, Gerard Treanor of Washington, appeared briefly before Federal District Judge Edward M. Curran here this morning. Then they went to the clerk’s office, where Treanor posted a cashier’s check from the American Security and Trust Co. The bond is for Beck’s appearance either here or in Tacoma, i Curran set the bond in place pf U.S. Commissioner James ♦*. Splain, who is ill. - In answer to reporters’ questions as to what was going on, BAk said: “I wouldn’t say one word aboUt < because I don't know no about it than you do now: Beck already is in trouble with the Senate Rackets Committee and AFL-CIO officials on charges that he converted Teamster Union funds to his own use. He is scheduled to answer charges Monday before the AFLCIO Executive Committee that his giant union is dominated by corrupt influences. Also Faces Theft Charges On Wednesday, the Senate Rackets Committee will resume its investigation into charges that Beck used $320,000 in union funds for his own benefit. Committee Counsel Robert Kennedy said recently he felt the committee could prove Coßtianed »■ Paae Kight Air Conditioning Rotary Club Topic Fort Wayne Man Is Speaker At Meeting “America is rapidly becoming air conditioned," said Harry Brown, member of a Fort Wayne firm which distributes G. E. air conditioners, in an address to the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening. “Ideal air conditioning provides spring weather the year around,” he continued. Brown gave a brief history of man’s attempt to do something about the weather. The first record dates back to 3000 B.C. The principle of refrigeration was discovered in 1775. The first two industrial uses of air conditioning were in a printing plant and a textile mill. Home air conditioning did not start to “boom” until after World War 11. The industry expects to sell 1,700,000 room units for the home this year and 200,000 home units for complete air conditioning of the home. Four factors are necessary for proper air conditioning (1) Temperature* -eorttrrtt 7»Bo’' tai Control of relative humidity <4555%), (3) Constant but gentle movement of air, and (4) Filtering out of air impurities. Several members of the Berne and Van Wert Rotary clubs were guests of the Decatur Club to hear Brown’s interesting talk. A. R. Ashbaucher was chairman of the program. Marion Woman Dies Os Traffic Injuries KOKOMO (ffl — Mrs. Catherine S. Calloway, 58, Marion, died in St. Joseph's hospital Thursday night, hours after she was injured in a ‘traffic accident on Ind. "18 in Miami County. Her car sideswiped a truck driven by Thomas W. Phelps. 78, Kokomo, and crashed into a ditch and tree. .

Nicaragua, Honduras On Wartime Footing Troops Rushed To Key Border Points MANAGUA, Nicaragua OP) — Nicaragua and Honduras shifted to wartime footings today and rushed troops to key points on their common border. There was no formal declaration of war by either country. But the situation was becoming more critical by the moment despite pleas by the Organization of American States and the U. S. government for a ceasefire pending a peaceful settlement of the centures-old border dispute. The OAS was forming a fivenation committee to rush to Central America on a fact - finding mission. Reports from Tegusigalpa, Honduras, said the fighting had spread from Mocoron in the disputed territory near the Caribbean coast to Las Manos, a western border post about 80 miles from the Pacific Ocean. Informed sources here said some 20,000 Nicaraguan troops were converging on the border, supported by naval and air forces. Nicaraguan armed forces chief Gen. Anastasio Somoza announced Thursday night that his troops recaptured Mocoron Thursday, less than -18 hours after. Honduran forces took it from a Nicaraguan patrol. Informed sources said three Honduran P3Bs were shot down in the battle, but no casualty list was announced. Baccalaureate Rites On Sunday, May 19 Annual Exercises For Decatur High Baccalaureate services for the graduating class of Decatur high school will be conducted Sunday, May 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the high school auditorium. The Rev. Willis H. Kirkpatrick, minister of the Church of God, will deliver the sermon. His topic wifl be “Two of Life’s Questions." Following the < processional, "Praise to Joy” by Beethoven, and the call to worship, the Rev. Gerald Gerig, minister of the Decatur Missionary church, will give the invocation. The hymn, “Faith of Our Fathers,” wiU be followed by scripture reading by the Rev. Traverse Chandler, minister of the First Christian Church. The Rev. Lawrence Norris, of the Union Chapel EvangeUcal United Church, will offer the prayer. = The high school choir will then present two selections, “Pilgrims’ Chorus” by Wagner and “The Lord's Prayer” by Malotte. At hymn, “O Master, Let. Me Walk With Thee,” will follow the set-’ mon. The service will be closed with benediction to be given by the Rev. C. E. Lykins, minister Church of the Nazarene, and the recessional, “March from the Sixth Symphony" by Tschaikowsky. Music selections will be presented . under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, supervisor of music for the Decatur public schools. Former State Senator Dies At Versailles VERSAILLES (ft — Former Indiana state Sen. Rowland Jackson, 84, died in his home Thursday. He was an attorney in Ripley County more than 50 years. Joint Campaign To Cut Accident Toll INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — State, city and county law enforcement authorities today announced a joint campaign to reduce Indiana traffic accidents ’during the vacation season by concentrating on the most dangerous streets and highways. ■>

Sen. McCarthy Dies Suddenly Last Evening Wisconsin Senator Dies Unexpectedly Thursday Evening WASHINGTON (UP) — Funeral ' services for Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy will be held at 10 a.m., c.d.t. Monday in the Senate chamber where he rose to fame and later was condemned by his colleagues. The Senate services will be preceded by Catholic Mass at 8 a.m. c.d.t. at St. Matthews Cathedral, where McCarthy was married in 1953. The Senate will meet briefly Monday and adjourn out of respect for McCarthy. A committee of senators will accompany the body from the Senate chamber to Apple ton, Wis., leaving at 1 p.m. Monday. Burial will be in Appleton at noon Tuesday. The decision to conduct the serv- > ices in the Senate chamber was i announced after Senate leaders conferred with Mrs. McCarthy, ' The Wisconsin Republican died ‘ at Bethesda Naval Hospital late Thursday Os a little understood 1 liver malady called “aeute hepatitis.” The immediate cause of ! death was “acute hepatitic fail--1 ure”—failure of the liver to go on 1 working. Entered Hospital Sunday Death came to the controversial senator, who made hosts of enemies and friends with his attacks on alleged Communists in government, with a suddenness that shocked the capital. He had been ill for a number of weeks but did not enter the hospital until last Sunday. The hospital said he was “seriously” ill, but never publicly put him on the "critical” list. McCarthy’s malady was not socalled infectious hepatitis, a viruscaused disease. Medical authorities said McCarthy’s ailment, acute hepatitis, is organic and is not caused by any external agent. A public Health Service official who has spent his life studying liver maladies said there are some 100 different kinds of organic hepatitis. They all manifest Similar symptoms but have different causes. "There are a whole host of conditions which could have preceded the senator’s acute attack,” he said. “Even if there had been an autopsy, the basic cause that produced it never would have been known anyway.” Mrs. McCarthy did not authorize an autopsy, and there will be none. V< Had Many Illnesses Mrs.' McCarthy, who was a member of McCarthy’s staff before their marriage, was at her husband’s side in his final moments. He was given the last rites of his Roman Catholic faith an hour before his death by Cmdr. Gabriel J. Naughten, Catholic chaplain at the hospital. About two hours after the senator’s death. Mrs. McCarthy left the hospital with her close friends Mr. and Mrs. Garvin Tankersley. Messages of condolence poured in to McCarthy’s widow. President and Mrs. Eisenhower ' and' former President Truman voiced their sorrow, though the President and former President had been targets of his attacks. Others who had been his enemies in life availed themselves of the rule—say nothing ill of the dead. McCarthy, despite his great vigor, had suffered many illnesses in recent years. A World War II knee injury caused him much trouble. As a Marine, he served as an aerial bombardier for a while in the Pacific. The injury stemmed from that period. The senator had made many trips to the same hospital before his last illness. He recently suffered a cold or virus. He returned from Wisconsin during the Easter holiday with a high fever and entered the Bethesda Hospital last Sunday. He died there at 6:02 pm. e.d.t. Thursday after a severe five(ContinuM on ®»ht)

McCarthy dies MV "I 1 i V / ; ( - ; >t ’ flki ■B ' ■' ’ * . I ■k, l L-. s •-. 1 jF *■ *** J * % 1 a w ■-; £_>£■■■ ' v WWW w : WS—■ * JH t Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Rep.-Wis.) died Thursday at 6:02 p. m. <EDT) at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The 47-year-old senator, who had been in ill health for many months and was admitted to the hospital April 28, succumbed to acute hepatitis, a disease of the liver. In a turbulent period which spanned the years 1950 to 1955, McCarthy was the outstanding newsmaker In Congress, distinguished both by his persistent fight against Communism and particularly his role in the Army-Mc-Carthy Hearing in 1954. House Group Turns Down Flood Program Report Ike's Pion Indefinite, Costly WASHINGTON (UP) — The House Appropriations Committee today turned down President Eisenhower’s request for 50 million dollars to finance a new federal flood insurance program. The committee, in a report to the House, said plans for the program were “too indefinite and costly.” It recommended that die Flood Indemnity Administration take $325,000 it now has and use it to develop a "more workable” plan. The program was authorized by Congress last year to help property owners in areas subject to flooding who have difficulty getting commercial protection at practical rates. . • 1 “The present plan contemplates that 40 per cent of the cost of the premiums and all administrative costs would be borne by the federal government,” the committee advised the House. “The premium cost is almost prohibitive. The government, would underwrite all losses, and estimates of those losses are too indefinite. The program certainly would be very costly to the government and the policyholders.” The committee also warned that the 50 million dollars requested now “is merely the initial step committing the taxpayers to a new program and the committee does not recommend such a step at this time when every effort is being made to reduce federal spending.” The committee’s action was taken in approving a $79,840,788 supplemental money bill to tide over until the end of this fiscal year a variety of government functions and agencies. The total is 46 per cent less than the President held asked Some of the money ♦ requested was, in effect, to restore funds trimmed by Congress last year out of regular appropriations bills. To that extent, last year’s economies were being offset. A request for SBOO,OOO to finance a government study of housing design, supply and demand, and the mortgage market was denied. The committee said such studies might CBBtlaned ob •’ace Elcht Mrs. Glen Griffiths Reported Improving The condition of Mrs. Glen Gris- ’ fiths, a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital, was reported greatly improved today. Mrs. Griffiths whose jugular vein was cut in a home accident Tuesday, was able to sit up briefly this • morning and is apparently out of < danger. -

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Indicted Men To Appear In Court Tuesday Authorities Probe Deeper Into State Highway Scandals INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-The last of four men indicted on criminal charges in a land-buying scandal surrendered today and posted cash bond as authorities probed deeper into the Indiana highway situation. Nile Teverbaugh, former right-of-way chief, gave himself up and was freed on the strength of 150 hundred-dollar bills he brought with him. Teverbaugh had been sought here and in Knox County for nearly 24 hours. Judge Scott McDonald of Marion Criminal Court set arraignment for the four men for next Thursday morning. One of those indicted was Virgil (Red) Smith, former highway chairman. Hie others were his associates in the highway department or in business ventures. Prosecutor John G. Tinder, whose Marion County investigation of lush middleman profits in . right-of-way land-buying deals resulted in five grand jury indictments Thursday, vowed to fight “vigorously” to send the defendants to jail. He also promised to speed up an inquiry into other facets of the highway scandal. State Highway Chairman John Peters said at a news conference this morning he has “more pity than scorn” for Smith and the other indicted men. Peters said he , will ask the State Board of Accounts to furnish a full-time team of accountants to keep a running check of all transactions and records in the department to prevent future scandals. Rejecting Old Appraisals Peters also announced ail appraisals for land not yet bought for the Tri-State Highway in Lake (County and Ind. 37 northeast of Indianapolis will be rejected and new appraisals made. He said the department has ceased to buy any further right-of-way pending investigations on Ind. 62 west of Evansville, Ind. 10 at Culver, a U.S. 31 bypass at South Bend, and U.S. 27 at Richmond. It appeared on the basis of Peters’ and Tinder’s statements that future inquiries will shift part of their emphasis from right-of-way buying to equipment and supplies purchases and rentals. The indictments were the first to come from a many-pronged investigation of the highway situation during the past four "Weeks. Smith, who surrendered late Thursday to post bond, would comment only: “I’ll wait tor the court.” His attorney, Frank Symmes, insisted “he’s innocent, and that’s all there is to it.” A Marion County grand jury charged Smith and his ex-right-of-way chief, Nile Teverbaugh, with embezzlement of public funds and conspiracy to steal and embezzle. The jury also indicted Harry Doggett of Greensburg, who was Teverbaugh’s chief assistant, and Robert A. Peak, a Milan attorney and business associate of Smith. Doggett was a close friend of former Gov. George Craig, in whose administration the questiinable land-buying deals occurred on the Madison Ave, expressway route in Indianapolis. He and Peak were accused of conspiracy to commit grand larceny and embezzlement. Peak Also Charged Peak also was charged with falsely notarizing the signature of “Dean Burton” as a buyer of two back lots which brought original owners $2,500 and were sold to the state for $25,800. Tinder also revealed Teverbaugh and the mysterious “Burton” were the same person. That suspicion was voiced ever since it was learned Teverbaugh has a 7-year-old grandson named Kerry Dean Burton. “We intend to vigorously prosecute these cases,” Tinder , said. “I’m ready for trial tomorrow." The indictments carry maximum prison terms of from one-to-three years for Peak, two-to-14 for (Continued on Paco Two)