Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 108.

McCarthy leaves capitol ■9 ■ wo® I IS ■ n i x . I' <? r 40 Ur J ’ SsJttt" MSoHr^wjMß > IHBk,>aKMBuO # JOMM' * ‘' *n'. a'* •’ ’ V | I FOLLOWING mpving religious and civic services in Washington, Marine pallbearers carry the casket containing the body of the late Senator Jospeh R. McCarthy down the steps of the United States His casket was then placed aboard an airplane for the flight to his home town of Appleton. Wisconsin for burial.

Hints At New Alignment Os Arab Nations Jordan, Iraq And Saudi Arabia May Initial New Pact By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Middle East dispatches hinted today at a new alignment of power that might leave Egypt and Syria isolated from the other Arab nations. Egypt’s semi-official Middle East News Agency reported from Damascus that Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are contemplating the creation of a new three-power pact. Iraq is now a member of the Baghdad Pact. Jordan and Saudi Arabia are linked with Egypt and Syria in a four-power military alliance. The Middle East News Agency said Jordan —which rejected the Baghdad Pact following nationwide rioting last year—is trying to persuade Iraq to quit the Baghdad Pact. There was no confirmation of the reports, but King Saud of Saudi Arabia is paying a state visit to King Feisal of Iraq within a few days and King Hussein Will follow up the visit by going to Baghdad a few days later. Any such realignment would result in large part from King Hussein’s government crisis in which pro - Soviet Syrian leaders gave refuge to Jordanian military leaders since denounced as “traitors” and Cairo radio kept up steady streams of propaganda to bolster Hussein’s left wing political opponents. United Press correspondent Joe Morris reported from Amman today that diplomats there said the isolating of Syria and Egypt from the other Arab nations had been one of the major results of the Mideast mission of U.S. special envoy James P. Richards. Richards did not visit Jordan on his mission to explain the Eisenhower Doctrine but Jordan accepted 10 million dollars in U.S. aid and the U.S. 6th Fleet sped to the eastern Mediterranean to aid Jordan should King Hussein ask for it under the Eisenhower Doctrine. . . Morris reported that most of the 15 nations visited by Richards had agreed to accept the doctrine, .but acceptance was bringing a major political storm in Israel. The left wing Mapam (Umdet Workers) Party, one of the members of Premier David Ben-Gur-ion’s coalition government, was using pressure to prevent outright Israeli acceptance. In other Middle East developments: . * „ ,X . Tehran: A four-man Soviet team of experts arrived from Moscow to assist Iran in the construction of dams on the Aras and Atrak rivers: an Iranian mission flew to (CtBUMM ob Pare Five) INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight, and continued warm Wednesday. Low tonight 47-55. High Wednesday 80-84. Sunset 7:44 p.m., sunrise Wednesday 5:38 a.m.

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Final Tribute Paid To Sen. McCarthy Burial Rites Held In His Home Town . APPLETON, Wis. (UP) - Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, one of the most controversial senators in history, was honored by his home townsmen in funeral services today as a man ”of real and kwe” who fought for “God and my 'country? From 25,000 to 30,000 persons filed past the bier at the little St. Mary's Catholic Church he had attended since boyhood, and more than 1.000 crowded the church and spilled into the street for a solemn requiem high Mass at noon. McCarthy, who died of a liver ailment last Thursday, was buried with military honori beside his parents, Timothy and Bridget McCarthy, in St. Mary’s Cemetery. It was the third funeral service fqr the 48-year-old senator, who grew to manhood in this elm-shad-ed college town in the Fox River Valley. Services were held Monday in the U.S. Senate and St. Matthew’s Catholic C h u'r cft in Washington, D.C. The Rev. Adam M. Grill, St. Mary’s pastor, said in his funeral sermon that McCarthy "died not because of disease alone but principally because he exhausted himself physically for love of his fellow beings." “For God and My Country” . "Even more threatening than the atom and hydrogen bombs is the common enemy of all democracy and God-fearing peoplecommunism," he said. “Os all the great men in our country no one recognized this more completely than Senator McCarthy. “The hydrogen bombs and the atom bombs our armed forces can take care of. It is the boring from within that comes under the executive and legislative bodies’ authority in our country. “Senator McCarthy was like a man of old who ,saw this danger to his country, and, clothed in the shining armor of zeal and love, and holding within his hand the sword of truth, he went forward into the battle with the cry on his lips, “For God and my Country.’ “If the torch dropped by his dying hands is not plucked up and again held aloft, then God help our beloved land,” he said. Father Grill said McCarthy "loved his neighbors, he loved his country, he loved his state, he loved his native city of Appleton, he loved St. Mary’s. One of his greatest loves was for the young, : jand for them he fought. “Senator McCarthy had faults, and I am sure he would be the first to admit this. Pray God to forgive him.” 650 Fill Church The services were held in the same brick church where McCarthy was baptized Nov. 23, 1908 —nine days after his birth. His young widow, Jean, listened to the final rites along with 21 U.S. senators, most of Wisconsin’s congressmen, Gov. Vernon W. Thomson, other state officials and a delegation of state legislators. A crowd of 650 filled the main part of the church. Loud speakers carried the service to another 400 in the basement and others outside the church. From the church, the funeral party moved to St. Mary’s CemeiCeBUBBBU ®b Pace Five)

Report Cease Fire Broken In Nicaragua Honduras Reports Nicaragua Troops Break Cease Fire TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras —The government radio reported that Nicaraguan radio reported that Nicaraguan troops attacked the Honduran town of Cifuentes today, breaking the cease-fire along the border. Cifuentes is east of Tegucigalpa and five miles inside Honduran territory in the border state of El Faraise. Col. Cavaldo Lopez, Honduran minister of defense, did not know any details, but expected word from Cifuentes dbout the incident. The radio broadcast reported that Honduran troops repelled the attack and said that Honduran planes patrolling the area strafed Nicaraguan troops. Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica rushed here to help work out a permanent peace between Honduras and Nicaragua. They were scheduled to confer with a fact-finding team from the Organization of American States and the Honduran military junta shortly after their arrival. Guatemala and El Salvador have common borders with Honduras. Costa Rica borders of Nicaragua. AU three nations have been worried that the border dispute between Nicaragua and Honduras would blow up into a major Central American war. Two top military officials from Panama arrived in Managua en route here to join a U. S. military mission that will ply over the disputed border territory on the Caribbean to observe troop placements on both sides. Honduran Foreign Minister Jorge Fidel Duron said after a two-hour meeting that the situation was calm on aU fronts. • Honduras and Nicaragua have signed a tettiporaiy 6eSse-flre and the OAS committee is trying to make it a permanent one. But_ informed sources reported Monday night that Honduras insisted it would accept the cease(Contlaaed on Pace Five) Petition Is Filed With County Board Commissioners In Regular Session A petition for cleaning* a clogged culvert in Monroe township was filed Monday with the county commissioners, who referred the matter to Lawrence Noll, county highway superintendent. The petition was filed by John Schwartz and Virgil Gilbert. . Also appearing before the commissioners Monday were, Sherman Watson, Ed Stahly and Joseph Glendening. owners of real estate in Hartford tAnship. They reauested action on a petition for blacktopping a road from Perryville to the Jay county line in Hartford township. The matter was taken under advisement. The plat for a proposed subdivision planned by Anthony Faurote was submitted to the commissioners and approved. ■ The subdivision, to be known a$ Anthony Wayne Meadows, will include 15 lots, and will be located on the Piqua road on a portion of the old Stoner farm. In Monday’s meeting, the Commissioners also accepted reports from the county home and the county highway department. The county home report, filed by superintendent George Fosnaugh, shows an income during the month of April of $1,240.81. Seven women and 22 men Were residents of the home during the month. According’ to the report of the county highway department, 16,306 miles-were traveled by county highway trucks during the month from March 23 to April 22. The report shows 2,030 miles of road graded, 2,779.31 tons of stone hauled, three days of snow plowing and five days of patching blacktop. It also includes miscellaneous work such as salting highways, draining water off roads, surveying, hauling dirt, filling holes, burning brush, cleaning roads of debris left by high .water, putting up signs, repairing bridges and installing sewers, pipe and tile in several townships. The amounts of stone hauled in each of the townships were Blue Creek. , 388.7 tons? Monroe, 164.4; JeJfferson, 297.45: French, 132.4;- Hartford, 237.35; Wabash, 301.2: Kirkland. 127.35; St. Mary’s. 84.275; Washington, 92.8; Preble, 799.6; Root, 498.435, and Union, 415.35.

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President Eisenhower Seeks Public Support For Legislative Plan

Hay Ask Beck To Resign As Teamster Head May Ask Beck And Vice Presidents Os - Teamsters To Quit ‘ WASHINGTON (UP) — Teamsters Union leaders may ask Teamster President Dave Beck and two vice presidents to resign or "retire” as a result of AFLCIO charges of corruption, ipformed sources said today. The charges, presented the union Monday by the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee, indicated the AFL-CIO ultimately will demand that the union either oust the three nationgl officers and a number of local union officials or get out of the AFL-CIO. The Teamster Executive Board including Beck requested and received "reasonable time” to prepare a reply to the charges. The committee set May 24 to hear it. Beck was scheduled to make a return appearance Wednesday before the Senate Rackets Committee. He also faces “trial” May 20 before the full AFL-CIO Executive Council on charges that* hrs conduct has brought the labor movement into disrepute. Ease as Funds Charged The committee charged that Beck and Teamster Vice Presi-j dent Frank Brewster of Seattle, Wash., have used union funds for “personal purposes” and their official union positions “for personal profit or advantage.” The committee said the charges were based on disclosures by the Senate Rackets Committee, Beck’s nationally-televised admission that he "borrowed” more than $300,000 of union funds without interest and on his use of the Fifth Amendment 117 times to avoid answering questions before the Senate committee. The committee also c h a r g e d Teamster Vice President Sidney Brennan of Minneapolis with "corrupt activities.” He has been convicted of accepting money from an employer for alleged “strike breaking.” Finally, the committee indicted the entire leadership of the big union for their "apparent failure” to investigate or take any other action regarding the three national officers, a number of local officials in New York and Scranton, Pa., and. Senate charges of "corruption and racketeering” in Brewster’s West Coast division of the union. (CoßtißaeU bb Face Five) Ask Relaxation Os Gas Price Control Active Support By Ike Administration WASHINGTON (UP) — The administration formally announced today its active support of new legislation to relax federal price controls over producers of natural gas. But it qualified its endorsement by asking for inclusion of two changes in a pending bipartisan bill which would retain a little more federal control than the bill’s sponsors have proposed. The administration’s’ position was made known at the opening of House Commerce Committee hearings on the new bill. The measure is less far-reaching than the 1956 version which President Eisenhower vetoed. The President approved the general principles of that bill, but killed it because of what he called the “arrogant” lobbying tactics of some of its supporters. Speaker Sam Rayburn (Tex.) has told the President he cannot expect Congress to pass the new bill unless he actively supports it and helps win votes for it. The new bill worild ease federal control over prices charged by natural gas producers to interstate pipeline companies'. Controls would be based on a “reasonable market profit” rather than production costs.

State Police To Use Radar On Speeders Order Given Monday By Governor Handley INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—lndiana State Police were under orders today from Governor Handley to start using radar to catch speeding motorists. It was an innovation tor the troopers, although radar has been used by local law enforcement authorities for years. Hanaiey issued the order late’ Monday as part of a traffic safety declaration recommended by the Indiana Traffic Safety Committee. State Police Supt. Harold Zeis immediately came up with a plan for inaugurating use of the radar equipment beginning June 1. Zeis said radar units will operate the first four months without making an arrest, during aimed at familiarizing troopers with the operation of the equipment and familiarizing motorists with its use. Arrests Begin Oct. 1 After Oct. 1, warning and arrest tickets will be distributed instead of verbal warnings of the first four months. State Police spokesmen said they would continue using present traffic law enforcement methods; including electrical speed timing devices, plane and patrol car teams, “wolf packs” or selective patrols. The radar patrols will move | from place to place and will not 'be installed permanently at any location. They are portable units which can be operated either in patrol cars or outside the cars. Signs will be set up warning motorists they are driving through radar checking zones. Handley ordered a five-point program of action to coincide with a nation-wide "Slow Down and Live” campaign due to be waged from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Concerned Over Toll The governor said “one of my gravest concerns is the appalling loss of human life and property on our Hoosier roads and highways." (Continued on Paas Six) John Lobsiger, Jr. Dies In Michigan Funeral Services Here On Thursday Funeral services will be held here Thursday tor John Lobsiger." Jr., 48, native of Adams county, who died shortly aftei 1 midnight Sunday night at Blodgett hospital in Grand Rapids, Mich. He had been in failing health two years and hospitalized for the past two week*. • He was born in Monroe township May 12. 1908, A son of John and Minerva Bollinger-Lobsiger, and was married to Bertha Myers in 1929. ■ —~—— - — Mr. Lobsiger was a former employe of the Porter Tire Co. in Decatur, and moved to Michigan in 1946. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Bonnie Spears of Alexandria, 0., and Mrs. Shirley Luke of Milwaukee, Wis.; one son, John Lobsiger, at home; four grandchildren; eight sisters, Mrs. Bess Braun, Mrs. Mary Coffee and Mrs. Velma Daniels, all of Decatur; Mrs. Mabie Woodby and Mrs; Esther Brokaw, both of Flint, Mich., Mrs. Lucinda Tierney of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Ruth Beitler of Geneva, and Mrs. Lola Strahm of CraigviUe; and six brothers, Charles, Edward and Noble Lobsiger, all of Decatur, Paul Lobsiger of Monroe, Harry Lobsiger of Seattle, Wash., and William Lobsiger of South Gate, Calif. One son, one brother and one sister are deceased. The body, removed to the Sullivan funeral home in Grand Rapids, wil be brought to the Zwick funeral home in this city, where friends may call after 2 p. m. Wednesday. Services wfll be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the funeral home, the Rev. Lawrence Dellinger officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe.

Ask Congress lo Cui Down Foreign Aid Eisenhower Scales Down Foreign Aid Program Request WASHINGTON (UP)—President i Eisenhower plans to ask Congress in about 10 days for a new scaleddown foreign aid program of approximately $3,900,000,000. Administration officials said today they are working overtime to get the project into final shape by May 17. Chief attention centers on problems related to a new economic development loan fund expected to total about 500 million dollars for the first year. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Ambassador James P. Richards are hurrying home from (Europe and the Middle East for a special White House meeting on foreign aid. The meeting with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders will be held Thursday. Dulles was scheduled to arrive today tam the North Atlantic Treaty meeting in Bonn, Germany, to lent the administrttton’s • fight for its foreign aid program. Richards arrives Wednesday from •. the Middle East where he has ; been selling the Eisenhower Doctrine of economic and military assistance against Communist . penetration of the oil-rich Bible lands. When Eisenhower presented his budget earlier this year he estiI mated his foreign aid request at '54,400,000,000. On April 18, however, he said 500 million dollars in new spending authority could be cut from his earlier estimate due to savings on military aid. Administration officials expect a tough fight with congressional budget-cutters even on the scaleddown request. Some budget cutters want to. cut foreign aid in half, or deeper. Eisenhower is sure to urge approval of the full $3,900,000,000 as a vital contribution to the free world’s fight against Communism. B.C. Bowen Dies Al Home East 01 Wren Prominent Retired Farmer Dies Today B. C. Bowen, 73, prominent resident of Willshire township. Van Wert county, 0., died at 2 a. m. today at his home two miles east of Wren. He had been in failing health three years of complications. He was born in Willshire township, on toe same’ farm where he. spent his entire lifetime, Feb. 2, 1884, a son of John and Rachel Hileman-Bowen. He was married to Eva L. Woods Dec. 24, 1905. * Mr. Bowen, a retired, farmer, was highly active in religious circles in the community. He was a member of the United Brethren in Christ church at Wren, served for 18 years as member of the Wren Bible board, including several ..years as chairman, was chairman of the Wren camp meeting, and was a member of the Van Wert Chamber of Commerce. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Gerald Bowen of Van Wert, and Carl Bowen of Bradenton, Fla.; and. one brother, D. C. Bowen of Spencerville, O. One brother and one sister preceded 4kim in death. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday at the United Brethren in Christ church at Wren, the Rev. S. F. Kochensparger and the Rev. J, H. Lanier officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery at Rockford, O. Friends may call at the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert this evening, and at the home east of Wren after 2 p. m. Wednesday.

Demands Congress Ease Com Support New Farm Policy Sought By Benson • CHICAGO (UP) — Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson called on Congress Monday night to relax price supports on com and coupled his demand with a plea for a new farm policy. More than 61 per cent of the nation’s corn farmers voted in a i referendum tor “greater freedom ! to plant, coupled with greater • flexibility of price supports,” Ben- ' son said. But he told the lowa State Club ■ of Chicago that the “law has not > been changed” because a two- ' thirds votes is necessary to change i supports. r The presen| mandatory price' I support-acreage control program i for com, Benson said, has scarcity as an objective and has pushed . corn acreage to its "lowest level in 66 years.” While boosting acrej age in California, Washington. Oregon and other areas, he said, the ’ program has stripped corn acre- . age in the traditional Midwest . com belt. , Benson pleaded for a new farm policy to “so price our products that we reduce the incentive for 5 over-production.” ‘ He proposed that markets be ‘ built by farmers for such live--5 stock products as milk, meat and 1 eggs by devoting mqrt acreaje for , actual consumption. B . Earlier, at a news conference, Benson said that “after 25 years ' of trying to control agriculture, t we’ve failed.”B Less politics in agriculture is needed. Benson said. “Strange as 5 it seems, the commodities with the ‘ greatest solicitation from governE ment are the ones that are now '{in the worst condition.” H Benson also called for a wider ’ range in supports. “I am not plans ning a complete overhaul of the farm program,” he said. “I simply i mean that we are now ready for L the next step—more flexibility.” Dr. Donald Bixler Lions Club Speaker Pakistan Conditions Described To Lions 4 • The squalor, filth, and backwardness of Moslem Pakistan was brought to reality for the Decatur Lions club Monday night through slides by Dr. Donald Bixler, Anderson eye surgeon, whb recently traveled to that country. Dr. Bixler showed slides of the Sir Henry Holland mission eye t hospital, located at Shikarpur, Pa- , kistan, one of the hottest places lin the world. Because of the i weather, the hospital operates i only six weeks a year, but in its • 50 years has built upoa a tremendous reputation in the area. Moslems travel by wooden ox ■ cart for hundreds of mile with ■■ their blind relatives, and camp • by the hospital gate while the I sick are cared for. The sick are ■ given beds, but seldom know how . to use one, often placing them upside down. Filth and dirt are everywhere, even in the uridermanned hospital, he said. 1 More than 1500 major eye oper1 ations were performed this year 1 in the five or six weeks of work, 1 he stated. Dr. Bixler was introd- ! uced by his father, Dr. N. A. Bix- ■ ter, of Decatur. Fred Scheiderer was introduced as the new scoutmaster of the (Coßtianvd Page Five) Local Man's Brother Dies In California Russell Litchfield, 50, former , Fort Wayne resident, died suddenly of a heart attack Monday at San Diego, Calif., where he had lived for 22 years. , Surviving are his wife, Hazel; ; his mother, Mrs. Ella Litchfield of • Fort Wayne; four brothers, George ■ Litchfield of Decatur, Evert of Fort Wayne, Walter of San Diego, and Robert of Detroit, and two sis- : ters, Mrs. Mildred Dunne and Mrs. ; Alberta Bartlett, both of Fort ; Wayne. Funeral services and burial will be in San Diego.

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Plans Public Campaign For His Programs Embattled Budget Included In Plan For Public Support, , WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower will launch a major campaign to enlist public support behind his legislative program including his embattled budget, informed sources said today. The campaign will take several directions including the President’s weekly news conferences and a nationwide radio-television speech in the near future. His next news conference will be cm Wednesday. But the President has definitely made up his mind to speak out strongly in behalf of his program and budget at every opportunity—as many of his supporters in Congress have been urging. Case Backs Plan Sen. Clifford P. Case (R-N.J), a strong Eisenhower supporter, said a nationwide presentation by the President of the “urgent necessity and reasonableness” •<£.. . his legislative proposals and budg--1 et would be “irresistible.” But House Democratic Leader wTnTiiW. WICtJOTTnBvK vSraaSS. f Set 1(1 when the President “goes to the ■ people fighting for his budget, he will be fighting his own party.” McCorrAack said more Republi- , cans than Democrats have voted against the Paesident on budget items. Eisenhower certainly faces an uphill fight. Many Democrats and Republicans in Congress are lustily swinging the economy., axe under prodding from voters back home. Knowland’s Criticism Grows The President’s budget took another volley of verbal blows Monday night, not only from powerful Democrats but from Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland who is steadily moving more and more into a position of opposition to the GOP Chief Executive. . Knowland told a Republican dinner at Grand Rapids, Mich., that Eisenhower’s 72 billion dollar spending program for the 12 months starting July 1 is a major .liability of the GOP administration. He again pledged his best efforts to cut the budget by at least three billion dollars, adding that cutting the budget “must not be any single shot effort.” “In future years we must continue to keep federal expenditures from increasing and, wherever possible, to reduce them,” he said. "Only this way can our iCeatiauee *■ Page Fives House Committee Okays Postal Hike Increase Os Cent In First Class Mail WASHINGTON (UP) ' — The House Post Office Committee today approved the administration’s request for a 1-cent increase for first class and air mail tetters and The increases would boost postal postcards, revenues $365,800,000 a year. The action, taken at a closed door meeting, was announced by Chairman Tom Murray (D-Tenn.) The committee Wednesday will take up the administration’s r</ quest to hike second class newspaper and magazine and third class (advertising matter) postage rates a total of $86,200,000 in the next fiscal year. The committee action would increase f , ' ' First class letter rates from 3 to 4 cents an ounce, to bring in $314,700,000 extra per year. Postcard rates from 2 to 3 cents, producing $32,609,000. Drop tetter rates from 2 to 3 . cents, amounting to $1,200,000. Air mail tetter rates from 6 to 7 cents, producing $17,100,000. Air mail poetcards from 4 to 5 cents, producing $200,000.