Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 6 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV< No. 107.

DEMOCRATS MAP NEXT CAMPAIGN If A m ■Jt*' ■ PLANS FOR THE 1958 Congressional elections are mapped by these party leaders as the Democratic National Committee gathers in Washington. They are (1. to r.): Col. Jacob M. Arvey, Chicago, national committeeman; Paid Butler, national chairman, and Rep. Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.) Setting a pattern for top-level strategy talks, former President Harry S. Truman attacked the Republican administration’s power, atomic and fiscal policies.

Israel Shows Military Aid From France Celebrates Ninth Independence Day By Showing Power By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israel celebrated its ninth independence day today by disclosing it had received massive supplies of French armor and Jet planes that could help swing the balance of power in the Middle East. At the same time its navy units maneuvered at Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba in a naval show that emphasized Israel’s intention to sail the gulf and which brought words of warning from Jordan. Israel took the wraps off its French military aid with a parade at Tel Aviv which showed that more than 80 per cent of the Israeli heavy equipment was from France. Thirty-six French-built Mystere jets flashed overhead —more than three times the number Israel ever had acknowledged receiving from France. In addition to the French equipment and the disclosure that Israel is moving away from dependence on the United States for military aid, Israel showed off an impressive collection of captured equipment — Russian tanks and guns taken from Egypt in the Sinai Desert. ;’' ' ; Jordan Warns Israel More than 500,000 Israelis turned out for the parade, but conspicuous by their absence were the diplomatic representatives of Russia, Bulgaria, Romania and Czechoslovakia. Russia and Czechoslovakia had supplied Egypt with much of the equipment seen today. - The naval show at Eilat was less impressive—lsrael held open house for the two frigates and the several motor torpedo boats with which it hopes to keep the Gulf of Aqaba open should neighboring Arab states try to stop its ships. But it brought this warning from Suleiman Pasha Toukan, Jordan’s defense minister and military governor: “We are ready for them. We have a large number of soldiers there, and the Saudi Arabian army is nearby. If they come we are ready for them.’’ Egypt meanwhile hailed the results of Syria’s parliamentary byelections as a major victory fop the Syrian government and proof that Syria will remain “on Egypt’s side” despite Western efforts to break up the "neutralist” Arab bloc. Left wing government candidates won the three principal byelections in voting Saturday and Sunday marked by clashes at the polls—and by great antipathy on part of the voters, especially conservative middle -of - the - road groups. Two Border Incidents , All indications in Jordan were that the situation was quiet. Toukan told United Press correspondent Joe Morris in an interview that the nation is now calm and that “80 per cent of the people are cooperating with us to maintain public security." • Toukan said he could not say when martial law would be ended but added, “if the situation continues quiet I believe it will not be a long time.” He said the government . would try on treason charges three top-ranking army officers who fled to Syria. King Hussein, addressing more than 200 Bedouin sheikhs Sunday, said he and his loyal supporters had "beaten the conspiracies ol (Continued on Pare Six) * ■

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Alarming Increase In Teenage Vices Senate Committee. Reports On Survey WASHINGTON (UP)—Prostitution, venereal disease, drug addiction and drinking are increasing alarmingly among American teenagers, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee report showed today. Chairman Thomas C. Hennings (D-Mo.) called for a “partnership” between Congress and state and local authorities “to do something about this blot on the American scene.” The subcommittee said more than one million youths between 10 and 17 will be brought before the courts in 1965 if the .present upward trend in juvenile delinquency continues. This compares with an estimated 530,000 juvenile court cases this year. Four-Year Btady The subcommittee issued a special 250-page report Sunday night on tiie results of nearly four years of nationwide hearings. It criticized theories that lack of recreation and slum housing conditions are among chief causes of the nation's increasing delinquency rate. While good recreation planning is a ‘‘potentially potent agent in preventing crime and delinquency,” it said, the average delinquent is “considerably more socialized” than his non-delinquent contemporaries. “It is partly through his group interests and actiyities that he gets into trouble in the first place,” the report said, "The "fighting gangs" are a product of the “need to belong,” it added. Cites Housing Projects The committee said some of the worst centers of delinquency are in modern housing projects. It concluded more than new housing is needed to reduce delinquency. It estimated that about 200,000 teenagers contract venereal disease each year. Sexual maladjustment and veneral disease are closely related to other problems of youth, it said. The report suggested a general re-examination of the process by which young people are educated in these matters. It also reported testimony that (Ceatlaaed oa

Geneva High School Graduation Friday 25 To Graduate At Geneva High School Commencement exercises for 25 Geneva high school seniors will be held at the school auditorium Friday evening at 7:30 o’(dock. The commencement address will be delivered by the Rev. Guy T. Walters, and diplomas will be awarded by* Jack Lee. Geneva high school principal. The class valedictorian is Miss Mary Martha Wheeler, and the salutatorian is Miss Alice Lehman. , 1 Baccalaureate services were held at the school Sunday evening, with the Rev. A. B. McKain delivering the sermon. Members of the graduating class are: Myrna Amstutz, Pauline Bixler, Steven Bauman, Dan Craig, Norene Farlow, Sue Affolder, Larry Amstutz, Alan Baumgartner, Joyce Boice, Jerry Hofstetter, Larry Hunt, Alice Lehman, Ivan Nevil. » Nancy Newcomer, Shirley Nevil, Steven Sprunger, Cecil Teeter, Mary Martha Wheeler, Warren Yoder, Arthur McCollum, Paul Neal, Lorene Neuenschwander, Larry Branstetter, Carol Call, and Geraldine Flueckiger. %

Senate Starts Hearing May 15 On Road Deals Subpena 11 Persons To Testify Before Senate Committee INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A U.S. Senate subcommittee today set May 15 for the start of hearings on the Indiana highway scandal and subpenaed 11 persons to testify that day. Among the witnesses called to Washington, where the hearings will be held, were the four mew indicted last week by a Marion County grand jury on criminal charges growing out of Madison Ave. expressway right -of -way deals in Indianapolis. They are Virgil (Red) Smith, former highway chairman in the administration of ex-Gov. George Craig; Nile Teverbaugh, who was chief of the right-of-way division under Smith; Teverbmigh’s chief assistant, Harry Doggett, and Smith’s friend and business associate, Robert Peak, a Milan attorney. May Move To Indiana Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) announced in Washington the date of the hearing start. The U, S. marshal's office in'lndianapolis revealed that subpenas for the firstday witnesses already have been received here. The announcement came as three separate investigations of the scandal forged forward on several fronts. Gore said his Senate Public Works Committee’s subcommittee on public roads would open the hearing at 10 a.m. May 15. He said the hearing may move to Indianapolis later. Others subpenaed for the opening day were Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Peak, Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Quinlan, Mrs. Loretta Acker, Harry B. Alford and Carl Vogelgesang, all of Indianapolis. „ ; The Peaks are parents of Robert. who said he bought two back lots on Madison Ave. as investments for his parents. The Quinlans and Mrs.'Acker were original owners of the back lots. Alford is Marion County recorder whose office recorded the back yard deeds and mailed them to Teverbaugh. Vogelgesang is chief engineer of the highway department, who said the back yards were not needed for right-of-way for the expressway, although the state paid more than $25,000 for them. Detectives To Milan Two Senate committee aids resumed “routine" examinations of records in the State Highway Department offices. Two state police detectives went to Milan in search of evidence in the hometown pf two of the principals in the investigation. Prosecutor John G. Tinder of Marion County met with three deputies to open a new phase of an investigation which already resulted in indictment of four persons on criminal charges. Filo M. Sedillo, chief clerk of the Senate Public Works Commit(Contlnue*’ on t*av« Six)

Lehman Retires As Basketball Coach Dean Os County's Coaches To Retire The retirement of Myron Lehman, dean of high school coaches in Adams county schools, from the coaching scene, was announced today by Lehman and Lester Brunner. St. Mary’s township trustee. Lehman, who has been head coach in basketball, baseball and track at Pleasant Mills for the past six years, has coached in Adams county schools for 16 years, two as a junior high mentor and 14 in high school. Trustee Brunner, in announcing the retirement, stated that Lehman has signed a contract to remain as an instructor in the Pleasant Mills high school, but is relinquishing all coachfog duties. Arnold Getting, graduate of the Monmouth high school and assistant at Pleasant Mills for the past two years, will replace Lehman as head coach in basketball, baseball and track. Trustee Brunner also announced, that Frank Monroe, of Bluffton, Pleasant Mills teacher, will coach junior high basketball. Lehman’s basketball teams, during his 14 years as head coach, had a fine record of 172 victories and 111 defeats. His record at Pleasant Mills is 76 and 53. In track the Spartans won over 45 schools and lost to 38 schools. During his six years at Pleasant Mills, a new six-acre athletic field, equipped with a baseball diamond and a track, has been developed.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 6, 1957

AFL-CIO Charges Beck And Brewster Misused Teamster Union Funds

Funeral Rites In Washington For McCarthy Requiem Mass Held Today; Burial In Wisconsin Tuesday WASHINGTON (UP)—The tai said farewell to Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy today with eulogies in church and senate chamber for his campaigns against communism. - >. In high-vaulted St. Matthew's Cathedral, where McCarthy was married four years ago, his grieving widow and friends heard him praised as a courageous “watchman of the citadel.” Then in the Senate chamber where he rose to prominence and later was condemned by his colleagues, the controversial Republican from Wisconsin was extolled as an intrepid fighter against the “malignant powers of darkness.” The two cermonies preceded the departure of an airplane bearing McCarthy's body back to his home town, Appleton, Wis., for final burial rites Tuesday. McCarthy died unexpectedly Thursday at Bethesda Naval Medical Center of a liver ailment. At St. Matthew's before 2.00 G mourners Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle sang a solemn pontifical Mass of requiem over the flagdraped casket. The cathedral’s pastor, the Rvt. Rev. Msgr. John K. Cartwright, praised McCarthy as a courageous “watchman” who lerted his countrymen to the menace of communism. An Intrepid Fighter Mrs. McCarthy, the beautiful 31-year-old Jean, held back her tears until the very end of the cathedral service. When Archbishop O’Boyle took her hand and spoke a few gentie words, she bowed her head and wept for a moment. In the chamber where he had served more than 10 years, McCarthy was praised by the Senate chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, as an intrepid fighter against "insidious enemies of thC republic, malignant powers of darkness.” The senator’s body was brought to the chamber from St. Matthew's in a flag-draped casket which was placed before the flow-er-banked rostrum. r McCarthy’s was the first funeral service in the Senate chamber since Jan. 22, 1940, when rites were conducted there for the late Sen. William E. Borah (R-Idaho). The Senate ceremony was requested by Mrs. McCarthy. Immediately after the rites the chamber was cleared and the Senate met briefly at noon and then recessed out of respect for McCarthy. (Continued on Px« Four) Profit Shown By County Hospital April Report Shows Profit Os $3,081.98 A healthy profit of $3,081.98 is shown by the Adams county memorial hospital in the financial report for the month of April. The report was released today by Thurman Drew, hospital administrator. The report shows that expenses for the month totalled $20,482.13, while operating income brought in $23,564.11. The operating cash balance on April 30 was $36,943.13. According to the statistical report for the month, 187 adult patients were admitted and 51 babies were born. The 51 deliveries included 29 boys and 22 girts. One set of twins was born. During April, seven adult patients and two babies died. Present in the hospital on the final day of the month were 37 adults and 12 babies. The report also shows that overcrowded conditions caused 12 persons tOTbe placed in the halls. A total of 205 persons were given out-patient treatment in the x-ray, laboratory or emergency rooms.

democratic Leaders Meet In Washington Congressmen Differ From Other Leaders WASHINGTON (UP) — Democratic leaders outside of Congress sound much less concerned with demands to cut President Eisenhower’s budget than do Democrats in Congress who have the hot breaths of the voters on their i necks, f' This was one inference to be drawn from what was heard at the week-end series of meetings and conferences attended by Democrats from throughout the country. . There was complete agreement among Democrats in and out of Congress that the administration is floundering in its maybe-it-is, maybe-it-isn’t-too-big attitude toward the budget. Truman Speaks Up When former President Truman spoke of the 72 billion dollar Eisenhower budget, he invited the Democratic majority in Congress “to tear the thing to pieces.” But he also said: \ “Our national economy Is strong enough to support a budget of the size recommended by the President if that is what it takes to do the job, and all this talk about it bringing on a depression that will curl your hair is just , plain nonsense ” r Oov. G; Meonen Williams of Michigan, a prospective candidate for the 1960 presidential nomination, said Democrats keeping faith With their platform will not "cooperate with Republican reac- , tionaries to meat -ax the Eisenhower budget." Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential nominee, included similar remarks in his prepared text for Saturday's night’s SIOO -a - plate dinner although he did not deliver thenj. However he did not repudiate this statement: Sees Tax Reduction “ ... If the Democratic Party, which has stood so brilliantly in our time for the constructive use of government to promote the on Pawn Five) Final Reports Due On Cancer Campaign Total Donations To Date Over $1,600 Final reports are being made this week on the fund campaign of the Adams county cancer society, according to an announcement made today by Miss Joan Wemhoff, county chairman. Decatur and Berne contributions were included in the Com- ] munity Chests this year. These amounted to SI,OOO for Decatur and S3OO for Berne. The Mothers Study club of Geneva, under the leadership of Mrs. Corwin Ineichen, collected $94.15 in a house-to-house campaign. The group also sponsored a movie on cancer at Geneva high school and distributed several hundred pamphlets. 4 Mrs. Harry Crownover, president of the Better Homes Demonstration club of Monroe, submitted a total of $65.43 raised by the club in a canvass of that com- ; munity. The rural campaign for Adams county was conducted by mail under the direction of Miss Wemhoff, .assisted by Mrs. Raymond Kohne, who served as chairman of that phase of the drive. Volunteer workers who helped with the mailing campaign included Mrs. Al Schmitt, Mrs. Jack Brunton, Mrs. Helen Wemhoff Anna Nesswald, Rose Nesswald, Marie Felber, Jane Kleinhenz and Virginia Laurent. 1 To date the mailing campaign has brought in the sum of $188.65. Two clubs of the area have con--1 tributed $7, to bring the total county collection to $1,655.18. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and rather cool tonight with chance of local light frost. Tuesday fair and mild. Low tonight 35-46. High Tuesday low 70s. Sunset 7:43 p.m. sunrise Tuesday 5:39 a. m.

Nicaragua And Honduras Call Off Warfare Wait International Ruling On Century Old Border Dispute MANAGUA — (IP) — Nicaragua and Honduras have agreed to call off their border war pending an international ruling on the centuryold dispute that touched'it off, it was announced today. President'Luis Somoza said Nicaragua is willing to observe the truce provided Honduras does so. He warned, however, that any “new aggression” by Honduras would mean “total war.” Ricardo M. Arias of Panama, chief of the 16-man fact-finding board that came here from Washington to investigate the conflict, said the two Central American nations have agreed to stop fighting at least until the board has submitted its report to the Organization of American States. The agreement gives the factfinders. representing the United States, Argentina, Mexico, Bolivia and Panama, four days to work out plans for a settlement of the border dispute. The ban on troop movements halted a Nicaraguan column which was headed for Yalaguina, 30 miles inside the Nicaraguan border, to retaliate for a reported Honduran attack on the garrison. The only other military action reported over the week end consisted of raids by Nicaraguan and Honruran warplanes on various villages in the disputed area. There was no report of casualties. The disputed area is a 12-mile strip of the “mosquito Coast" whose ownership has been in (Continu»<> un Faura Six/ Homer V.Buchanan Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Morning Homer V. Buchanan, 76, who resided in Blackcreek township, Mercer county, 0., two and onehlaf miles north of Chattanooga, died at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Jay county hospital at Portland. He had been in failing health for two years and critical for the past three weeks. Mr. Buchanan, prominent retired farmer, formerly operated the Buchanan hatchery at his farm. He was a member of the Willshire board of education for 12 years. He was born at Willshire Oct. 9, 1880, a son of Stephen and Rosanna Fairchild-Buchanan, and was married to Christina Sipe April 1, 1906. Mr. Buchanan was a member of the Willshire Methodist church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Claude Buchanan of Willshire, and Ralph L. Buchanan of Columbus, O.; two daughters, Mrs. Martha Nyffeler of Kokomo, and Mrs. Nora Bollenbacher of near Willshire; 17 grandchildreh; six “ great-grandchildren; two brothers, Claude E. and James S. Buchanan of Willshfre, and two sisters, Mrs. Daisy Hileman and Lulu Scott, both of Willshire. One son, one sister and one grandson are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 10:30 a.m. at the Willshire Methodist church, the Rev. James Hipkins officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. . -•- 1 — Native Os Decatur Dies In Michigan John Lobsiger, Jr., 48, a native and former resident of Adams county, died early today at Grand Rapids, Mich., according to word received here. He had been in failing health for some time. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. U

Recall Pastor J Eg Rev. Gerald Gerig

Rev. Gerald Gerig Recalled As Pastor Missionary Church Pastor Is Recalled The Rev. Gerald J. Gerig, minister of the Decatur Missionary church, has been recalled for another term of service at the church. The congregation of the church, meeting in annual session Sunday, voted unanimously to recall Rev. Gerig, with the call to the pastor for a term of three years. No votes were cast for a change in the pastorate. . Rev. Gerig came to Decatur last September, following the resignation of the Rev. Herald J. Welty, who resigned in order to continue his ministerial studies. A number of improvements have been made in the church in the past few months, and the Sunday school broke all attendance records during the pre-East-er rally this year. Trial Is Opened On Physicians' Claims St. Louis Doctors Seeking Judgment A jury was impaneled this mornfog in Adams circuit court in the opening day of a trial of claims by two physicians against the guardianship of Shirley Ann Harmon. . Dr. Roland M. Klemme of St Louis, Mo., is seeking $6,620 in payment of services for brain surgery, and Dr. A. H. Diehr has filed a claim for $1,780 for treatment of a broken leg. The claims have been filed against William E. Bell, guardian of the child since 1953. The girl sustained injuries May 9, 1953, at Anna, HE, in an accident which took the lives of her parents. The jury impaneled this morning includes Floyd Baker, Fred Corah, Ray J. Moser, Otto Kruetzman, Charles S. Fisher, Loren Heller, Obed Kipfer, Oswald Nyffeler, Glen D. Adler, John Fox, William Bailey and Melvin Buuck. The two claims will be tried separately, but the defense and the plaintiff have both agreed to use the same jury for both trials. Bell, represented by Lewis L. Smith, will seek to establish that the claims are too high. The St. Louis physicians are represented by J. Byron Hayes, Fort Wayne attorney. New Castle Market Robbed Os $5,100 NEW CASTLE, Ind. Wl — Thieves went in the front door of a large super market early today and trundled a 400-pound safe holding $5,100 oiit the back. Police said the robbers used a grocery loading cart to carry the safe to their vehicle. The round safe was inside a larger safe at the Becker Bros. Master Market. ’ Police described the safe-steal-ing as “professional."

Charge Union Fund Taken For Personal Uses Entire Leadership Os Teamster Union Cited For Failure WASHINGTON (UP)-The AFLCIO today charged Teamster President Dave Beck and Vice President Frank Brewster with using union funds for "personal vantage.” Teamster Vice President Sydney Brennan of Minneapolis, who has been convicted of accepting i money from an employer, was charged with "corrupt activities” by the AFL-CIO. And the entire Teamsters Union leadership was charged with failing to take action against the three. The bill of particulars was contained in a 22-page statement presented before the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee as it started its hearing on the question whether the big Teamsters Union is dominated or substantially influenced by»“comipt influence." "Slander, ’’Says Beck The AFL-CIO charges were spelled put after Beck himself accused the parent union in an opening statement of conducting a "medieval inquisition and witch hunt” at the hearing. Beck, backed up in his statement by other members of the Teamster Executive Board, denounced the general charge of corruption as "malicious and unfounded slander.” Beck demanded that the committee provide the Teamster leaders a bill of "particulars” as to the charges against the union. He said the board members had come to the hearing “solely” to find out whether they would get a detailed breakdown of the allegations. It was after he spoke that the committee came up with a 22-page statement detailing the charge*. Beck had said that if the particulars were provided, “we shall then be able to make a statement with respect to our position.” « The committee's statement of detailed charges against the Teamsters alleged that Beck used union funds for “personal purposes” when he was chairman of the union’s Western Conference. No Mention of Hoffa A similar accusation was made against Brewster. And both were charged with using their "official union positions” for "personal profit and advantage.” The committee then cited the "corrupt influences" of Brennan. The committee also questioned “the apparent failure" of the Teamster Union to investigate the activities of the three officers. No mention was made of Teamster Vice President James R. Hoffa of Detroit, Who was present at the closed hearing. He has been indicted on charges of trying to bribe his way into the files of the Senate Rackets Committee which also has been investigating corruption in the Teamsters Union. The AFL - CIO committee questioned why the union failed to in- ; vestigate whether Beck “was in fact guilty of personal corrup tion in the handling of union funds and in the conduct of union affairs and invoked the Fifth AmendiLontlauea on Six) Study Successor To John A. Kintz The county commissioners, meeting today in regular session, took the matter of the appointment of a successor to John Kintz under further study and indicated that final decision would probably not come today. Commissioners Harley Reef and Roland J. Miller allowed claims this morning. Several persons were expected to appear before them this afternoon on various matters. Lawrence Noll, superintendent of the county highway department, reported that his crews will work this week to seal about 25 miles of black top road throughout the county.

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