Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV, No, 110,

FORTY STORMY MINUTES b ; ' _ W ‘ l TEAMSTERS* UNION president Dave Beck sits with his attorney Edward Bennett Williams (left) Just before .going on the witness stand at a renewed hearing before the Senate rackets . committee. In 40 minutes. Beck answered only one question by Sen. McClellan and that was that he did undearstand he was rejecttag opportunity to deny a remark reputed to him which. McClellan said, "reflects on the Senate.” ■ - j- t --- - - >i i . ■■»!■ ■ am w iiyn«y.wjtew ■■ ■ » .iijs ■»(*) T Flee Homes In Face -W fierce' j Forest Fires

boston (UP) — Fearful residents fled their homes in a section erf historic Plymouth today in the face of k rampaging forest fire. The blaze was one of scores which have seared thousands of acres of dry New England woodlands. Men, women and children left at least 16 homes in Manomet Four Corners, a village of Plymouth where the Pilgrims first touched American soil. The racing flames were fought by 5,000 men, including prison inmates, who were thrown into the battle to save Uves and property. The fire started in thickly treed Myles Standish Reservation on the outskirts of Plymouth. It raced unchecked toward the sea. The 48 prisoners joined National Guardsmen, firemen and volunteers in the fight against the common enemy. New England was mobilized for the worst forest fire peril since 1047, when woodland blazed leveled more than 1,000 homes and killed 16 persons. A state of emergency was declared in Massachusetts where, a state official predicted, "all hell will break loose” today. The state was the worst hit in a rash of forest and brush fires which continued to sweep across New England. More thqn 80 blazes were reported, 14 of which assumed major proportions. Other brush and forest fires were reported in Vermont. New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island. In Massachusetts, the worst forest fire outbreak in ten years prompted Gov. Foster Furcolo to declare a state of emergency Wednesday night as two major forest fires raged out of control. Some fires were believed to be the work of arsonists. State Commissioner of Natural Resources Francis W. Sargent said, “The situation will probably get worse before it gets better. We expect all hell to break loose when the stiff winds return.” The Weather Bureau has predicted another hbt, gusty day todav. Near Plymouth an unchecked inferno raged over eight square miles of woodlands and charged the Atlantic Ocean, destroying about 15 small cottages near the shore. A 2,000 man force fought the blaze which was driven by a 30-mile-an-hour wind. Another uncontrolled fire raged near Otis Air Force Base and the town of Mashpee on Cape Cod. The blaze started when a flaming jet plane crashed into the woods killing toe pilot. Ist Lt. Donald J. Flower of Yonkers, N.Y. Nearly 3.000 firefighters, many of them airmen, subdued toe Waze early Wednesday evening but it broke out anew at midnight. At one time the fire raged within 100 yards of the Mashpee Town Hall and a dozen men were reported burned or injured in the battie. none seriously. More than 1.500 acres of woodlands were destroyed. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and turning cooler with occasional showers north, partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered thundershowers south, tonight and Friday. Low tonight ranging from the upper 40s extreme north to the 60s central and south. High Friday 50s north to 70s south. Sunset .7:46 p. m., sunrise Friday 5:36 a. m. 14 Paget

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State Purchasing Director In Blast Tactics Os Former Administration Hit INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Indiana's state purchasing director said today some architects were hired for state construction jobs as early as two years ago and they still ■ haven't jtf'rutktetti toepaper.’; Clarence Drayer, director of the Department of Public Works and Supply, claimed under toe administration of former Gov. George Craig toe department failed to call in contractors to ’discuss with them whether they could do toe job or not.” , Drayer declined to say which projects were involved because he does not want to “persecute” any contractors. , "Some architects have bad jobs for two years and they haven’t scratched the paper,” Drayer said. He said he planned to change that procedure. • , "We’re going to have th? engineer or architect in hefe and discuss it with him before we give him a job," he said. Drayer’s predecessor, William Clarkson, said he did a lot to correct the situation before he left office and some contractors “have moved extremely fast on their work.” Clarkson said he didn’t believe Drayer’s charge would apply to any contracts he awarded. Clarkson also said “I don’t see how" toe 439 purchase orders which Drayer said were missing from his office could ever have been written. Clarkson said he never removed any records from the files, and if any of toe orders were actually paid a record in the state auditor’s office would show it. The auditor's office showed no, records of payment. $1,200 Awarded To St. Louis Physician Claim Awarded For Treatment Os Girl The claim by Dr. A. H. Diehr, of St. Louis, Mo., against William E. Bell, guardian of Shirley Ann Harmon, for payment of treatment of the girl’s broken leg, was submitted to Judge Myles F. Parrish in Adams circuot court Wednesday. « The court awarded the St. Louis physician $1,200 of the requested $1,700. The case was originally scheduled for trial by jury but both parties agreed to submit it to judge without jury. The medical treatment was given to the girl in May, 1953, following an accident in which the girl also sustained head injuries. Her parents lost their lives in toe accident. A two-day jury trial which ended Tuesday resulted in the awarding of $4,500 to Dr. Roland Klemme, St. Louis brain surgeon, who sought over $6,000 from toe child’s guardian for his services to her.

Strong Plea By Ike For Foreign Aid Appeols To Leaders Os Both Parties To • Back Foreign Aid WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower made a strong appeal to Republican and Democratic congressional leaders today for passage of a foreign aid program of at least $3,880,000,000 tor fiscal 1958. • Senate Repqblican Leader William F. Knowland said after toe White Bouse conference of more than 90 minutes that Eisenhower probably will submit his detailed program to - Congress early next week. The President originally asked $4,400,000,000 for toe mutual security program. Today, he scaled it down to $2,800,000 for military assistance and $1,080,000,000s for economic aid. , Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said he understood from the President’s presentation today that toe reduction of slightly more than 500 million dollars will be a real saving, not just deferred spending. In view of the apparent difference of opinion between Eisenhower and Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey over government spending, Johnson said, it will be up to Congress to decide what the final foreign aid figure win be. “Strong Caae” for Cat “We are confronted with toe problem of one voice saying that we must reduce (spending) or have a hair-curling depression and another voice saying, ‘lf you do, you will endanger toe peace and security of toe nation’," Johnson said. .Twenty seven memoers erf Congress—l 4 Democratic House and Senate leaders and 13 House and ; Senate Republicans—took part in the meeting. ! Secretary of State John Foster • Dulles and Walter F. George and working tor the administration in ! the foreign aid field, also partici--1 pated along with officials of toe ■ State and Defense departments ’ and the International Cooperation I Administration. 1 House Democratic Leader John ) W. McCormack (Mass.) said he felt Eisenhower made “a very i strong case” tor his scaled-down ■ foreign aid program. The President, he said, made toe very pertinent observation that in time ; of emergency, as well as in war, the American people must be pce(CoßtißßcS bb Pace Fir®, Rebellious Convicts Are Cold And Hungry Rioting Prisoners In Cold Cellblock BISMARCK, N. D. ffl — Rebelllious convicts, who rioted at North Dakota State Pententiary, spent a cold and hungary night in a cellblock with broken windows. The 200 imates tried to sleep cury spiralled downward to near on empty stomachs when the merthe frost point. None of the prisoners had eaten soince breakfast Tuesday shortly before a sitdown strike in toe prison twine factory erupted into a four-hour riot that finally was "subdued by flying wedge of guards with guns blazing. “There ape signs thA prisoners are crimingarounß,” Waden O. J. . Nygaard said. “We are not rushing things.” The warden planned to hold toe surly and defiant prisoners . shivering in their cold damp cells without meals until they indicate willingness to return to their prison jobs quietly. Nygaard, however, said he didn’t except toe prisoners to submit to prison routine and twine factory work today. “There are a lot of preliminaries to go through first,” he said. No criticism of, Nygaards tactics was reported. North Dakota Gov. John Davis, expressing complete confidence in Nygaard, said toe warden has been given a “free hand” in dealing with the rebelr lion. i Nygaard met Wednesday with , the governor and brief him on toe strike and riot, when toep risoners : took over two cell block and toe ' prison yard. Nygaard said he was waiting for toe ringleaders to account for their actions. “Little has been learned as to ■ toe exact cause or reason” for • toe uprising, said Davis, who is conducting an informal investigai tion. The full facts will not be ; known until toe convicts come up with their “alleged grievances,” (CBBtlßßea ea Pace Flee)

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- Summerfield Warns Os New Postal Cuts Senate Committee Expected To Keep To Lower Budget WASHINGTON (UP)-The Senate Appropriations Committee today was expected to approve an only partly-restored postal budget despite a new threat of postal cuts next year. The committee was expected to approve restoring only 32 millicm dollars of 58 million cut from the postal budget by toe House. But Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield, fresh from a recent victorious budget bout with lawmakers, warned Congress Wednesday he would need up to 90 million dollars more than was requested in his new budget originally to maintain current services. The only alternative, he said, would be new reductions in postal service in fiscal 1958. Rep. J. Vaughan Gary (D-Va.), chairman of toe House Appropriations Subcommittee, that considered the postal budget, indicated t« reporters he felt this would not be a pad Idea. Gary said (?<*- gress should look into toe possibilities of curtailing some postal services before substantially tabcreasing post office appropriations. Gary said Summerfield could "reduce expenditures substantially” by cutting down non-essential services such as reducing number of Saturday business deliveries and cutting out Saturday deliveries of third class mail. President Eisenhower originally requested $3,250,000,000 for the Post Offipe Department in fiscal 1958. The House shaved 58 million dollars from toe request in passing it Summerfield asked a Senate appropriations subcommittee to restore toe House cuts Wednesday. He said toe funds were needed because of an increase in toe mail volume. The subcommittee, however, balked at restoring more than 32 million dollars at this time. Summerfield was told he would have to request additional funds in a suppemental appropriations bill. The postal chief said he would be back in about 10 days with the request. If the funds aren’t forthcoming, he said, he would have to (CnBUBBBB OB PBKO Farmer Is Killed By Blast Os Dynamite Van Wert County Farmer Is Victim Leonard G. Cryer, 66, was found dead in toe woods at his farm four and one-half miles south bf Van Wert, 0., Wednesday afternoon. He was toe victim of a dynamite blast. He had been clearing the woods of stumps since moving to the farm several years ago, and was continuing this work. It is believed a charge of six to dynamite sticks exploded prematurely. His body was found by his wife, Maye, and a neighbor, S. G. Grunewald, about 30 feet from a stump which had been partially blown from toe ground. Surviving are toe widow; eight children, Russell of Adrian Mich., Ray of Phoenix, Ariz., Howard of Montpelier, O„ Mrs. Lois Miller of New Haven, Duane of Detroit, Mich., Mrs. Phyllis Rogers of Van Wert county, Mrs. Mary Manship of Louisville, Ky., and Mrs. Sharon Hoffhines of Rockford, O.; one brother, Earl Cryer of Payne,. O.; four sisters, Mrs. Faye Grant of Convoy, 0., Mrs. Ruth Robinson of Haviland, 0., Mrs. Maye Otto and Mrs.. Minnie Otto, both of Danvers, 81., and 15 grandchildren. Funeral services win be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Alspach funeral home in Van Wert, with burial In Blue Creek cemetery, Paulding county, O. ’

Auto Workers Vote To Strike Chrysler Seek Authorization For Legal Strike DETROIT (UP) — United Auto Workers local 2912, being sued for $5,000,000 by Chrysler Corp, for wildcat walkouts and work refusals, has voted, 15,306-549, for a legal strike against Chrysler. The local will submit the results of the voting to the UAW International for strike authorization and ' the company would also have five 1 days notice to try and settle the ’ dispute. The workers voted on empowering their officers to strike if satis- ' factory agreements cannot be 1 worked out on the transfer of Chrysler operations to plants in Twinsburg, Ohio, and Newark, Del., and on other recent job changes. ‘ Local 212 leaders said there was ' little chance of a strike being ' called for at least two weeks. But 1 a strike by the local, which has jurisdiction over the Chrysler stamping division, would halt production of bodies and shut down plants in five s tates employing I 135,000 persons. The company filed its $5,000,000 damage suit Wednesday, charging Local 212’s order, against moving ■ any dies, fixtures or tools which I might go to Twinsburg was illegal, ! as were the repeated wildcat Work stoppages of the local's ifriembbrs. UAW International President I Walter P. Reuther quickly asked - Local 212 to stay on the job and • handle all equipment pending orderly efforts to solve the dispute, I and Reuther informed Chrysler • President L.L. Colbert he would I like to meet with Colbert next Sat- ' urday or Monday. i ■ . Ezio Pinza Dies At JT'T' •- ■- . . f . . ■ Home This Morning Noted Opera Star • Dies Unexpectedly [ STAMFORD, Conn. (UP> —Operatic basso Ezio Pinza, who scored his greatest success after j he left the staid Metropolitan Op- \ era House for Broadway musi- ’ cals, died at his home here to- ; day. Pinza, 65, had suffered three [ strokes since last August but his death came unexpectedly. Just ' one week ago the matinee idol’s ’ wife said he “was resting comfortably.” Pinza was a star for the Metropolian tor 20 years when he suddenly signed to play the lead in the Broadway musical “South Pacific” opposite Mary Martin. His last musical on Broadway was "Fanny.” He became a "new star” overnight — the idol of bobby-soxers,, housewives, grandmothers and men ot all ages. Breaks Romantie. Tradition Pinza was a silver-haired grandfather at the time of his Broadway success and upset the stereotyped concept of “the lover.” He later went on to score another romantic success in the movie “Mr. Imperium,” opposite Lana Turner. . Born the son of a carpenter in Rome, Italy on May 18, 1892, Pinza made his singing debut with a provincial opera company at Soncino and was an immediate success. After World War I he joined an . opera company and scored successes .all over Europe. The Metropolitan signed him up in 1926 where he became a favorite in , “Don Giovanni,” “Faiist,” “Die Marriage of Figaro” and other operas. Wife Opera Dancer Pinza met his present wife, the 1 former Doris Leak, in 1938 when she was a dancer with the Metropolitan. In 1940 Miss Leak and Pinza were married. It was the second marriage for the operatic star. Three children were born of this union. Pinza also had a daughter by his first marriage and became a grandfather in 1949 when she had a son. Pinza suffered his first stroke while op vacation at a villa at Cervia, Italy last August. It end-i (CoßtiaaeO «a Pane Five) I

Sen. Kennedy Lashes Head Os Brewery • ■ % Charges Abnormal > Business Relation With Dave Beck ; WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen. John , F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) charged to- ; day that one of the nation's biggest brewers “engaged in an abnormal business relationship” ’ with Teamster Union President J Dave Beck to get information on 1 its competitors. ’ Sen. Kennedy, a member of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, , tongue-lashed John L. Wilson, executive vice president of AnheuserBusch Inc., brewers of Budweiser ’ and other beers. The committee is investigating charges that Beck misused his ' power as union president to fatten his own purse. Sen. Kennedy said evidence ; showed that Anheuser-Busch gave Beck the, nation's largest Bud- > weiser distributorship, shipped r him special orders of beer when r the supply was short, offered to J buy him out at a high price after , having trouble with him, and exi tended credit so someone else , could buy him out. t * Sen: Kennedy addttd that Wilson 1 testified he called on Beck to settle 1 a construction strike at an An- - heuser-Busch plant in Los Angeles. , He charged that Wilson also went r to Beck to get “completely Im--1 proper • information” on whether - other brewers would res is t a Teamster demand for a wage increase in California. “Mr. Beck has engaged in an abnormal relationship not to Mr. Beck's credit or your company's,” Kennedy told Wilson. "A Strange Request” Under questioning by the senator’s younger brother, committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy, Wilson said he had gone to Beck for “advice” on labor matters. He said he looked up Beck in Chicago in 1954 and asked how ■ strongly some members of the > California Brewers’ Institute, a ■ beer-makers’ association, would • resist a pending demand by Beck’s ' union for a large wage increase. ’ He said Beck told him resistance would not be strong. '■ Die elder Kennedy took over: 1 “So you went to Beck, with whom : you had an abnormal business re--1 lationship, to find what your com(CßßtlaaeO Paae Flve> Mrs. Anna Lillich Is Taken By Death Decatur Lady Dies Aftef Long Illness Mrs. Inta LUlidi, 49. wife of Arthur C. Lillich, 642 North Second street, died at 11:45 o’clock Wednesday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill since January of 1956 and her condition had been critical for the past two months. She was born in Preble township Jan. 15, 1908, a daughter of August and Sophia Decker-Con-rad, and was a lifelong resident of Adams county. She was married to Arthur C. Lillich Aug. 8, 1939. Mrs. Lillich was a member of the Zion Lutheran church, the Ladies Aid and Missionary society of the church and the Adult Bible class. ’ Surviving in addition to the husband are three children, Alice Jean, Judith Ann and David Arthur Lillich, all at home; and two sisters, Mrs, Louis Fuhrman of Preble township, and Mrs. Theodore Koenemann of New Haven. Two brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Zion Lutheran church, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after .7 o’clock this evening until time I of the services. "

Graduate Speaker ■ • / 1 Rev. Robert Pierce Rev. Robert Pierce Is Graduate Speaker Indianapolis Pastor Is Decatur Speaker . The Rev. Robert B. Pierce, D. ! D., pastor of the Broadway Meth- [ odist church of Indianapolis, will ‘ deliver the address from the 76th , annual commencement of De- , catur high school Thursday, May . 23, at 8 pm. at the high school j auditorium. , ■; If Dr< ' Wereek' 1 " who .. has spoken i at professional business, industrial, J fraternal and church meetings and - conferences, as well as at many ■ high schools and colleges, will 1 speak on “Capturing Elephants." ’ A native of Hancock, Mich., he ’ is the son, grandson and great--1 grandson of Methodist clergymen. He is married and has four chil- . dren. His educational background in- • eludes a bachelor of science degree in speech from Northwestern | University, a master of arts degree . in American history from N. U.; : i a bachelor of divinity degree from i die Garrett Biblical College and an . ■ honorary doctor of divinity degree , from Union College. , i He was ordained an elder in | the Methodist church in 1942 and ] served until 1949 as pastor of < the North Shore Methodist church j in Glencoe, 111. I Since 1949 he has been pastor 1 of the Indianapolis church, which ] has been described as the largest i regular worshipping congregation in the state of Indiana. The 3,200 membership roll inchides about ’ 2,000 new members who have come ’ into the church during the past 1 six years. Dr. Pierce is a member Os the Indiana conference of the Meth- 1 odist church board of ministerial 1 training, the Indianapolis district ! of the Methodist church commit- ' tee on ministerial qualifications, ! the board of trustees of the Ind-1* iana Methodist conference and 1 the board of directors of the In- ’ ■ dianapolis Methodist city mission- . ' ary council and church exten- j sion society, He is also a member of the ‘ i board of directors of the Church '• Federation of Greater Indianapolis, a delegate of the Methodist church to the Indiana council of , J churches and was first reserve , ; delegate of the Indiana conference , ’ of the Methodist church to the j jurisdictional conference of the < church in 1956. t , ' He further serves on the board 1 of parole of the Indiana State School for Boys, the advisory board of the Crossroads rehabilitation center for crippled children and is chaplain of Oriental Lodge 500, F. and A. M. Health Officer Sets Schedule Os Hours Mrs. Walter Gilliom, newly appointed deputy health officer for the city of Decatur, has announced her schedule of office hours. She will be at city hall from 9 a.m. until noon every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Birth or death certificates may be secured at other times by placing orders in advance by calling or writing her at city hall.

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Hos ions Filed ForQuashing Os Indictment J Technicalities May Mean Long Delay In Opening Os Trial INDIANAPOLIS (UP) r- Four men indicted on charges of embezzlement of public funds or conspiracy to embezzle and steal in the Indiana highway scandal opened a legal battle today to escape punishment. Attorneys for former state highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith, two former highway aides and an attorney friend filed motions to quash the indictments returned a week ago by a Marion Coupty grand jury. Judge Scott McDonald set May 23 for oral arguments on the motions, a move which meant that legal technicalities may postpone for many weeks a trial tor the men if they fail in their bids to throw out the indictments and plead innocent to the charges. Trooper Guard Ordered Meanwhile, Governor Handley ordered Indiana State Police troopers to keep a constant guard at night on an entrance to the Statehouse, where hundreds of purchase orders are missing which may have some bearing on the highway situation in the administration of former Gov. George Craig. Police guards were ordered for the north entrance to the capital building from 5 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily. The north door is nearest to the offices from which the purchase orders disappeared. . Smith and the other indicted I men appeared personally in I Marion Criminal Court Room 1 in response to a hearing date set by McDonald. At the same time, the jury which indicted them opened a new inquiry into other aspects of the scandal. Three witnesses appeared before noon. They were Mrs. Carrie Brown, former owner of the socalled "party house” along the proposed Madison Ave. expressway in Indianapolis; Wilbept Tacke, a former home owner on the expressway route, and Harold E. Mason, an equipment supervisor for the highway department. Told To Move Quick Mrs. Brown told newsmen she would testify, if asked, that she was paid $15,314 for her house and half a lot, after dealings with Russell Freeman, a highway department landbuyer. ’ z A > She said she was told she would have to move out in a hurry after the deal was consummated, but she wondered why her neighbors were permitted to stay. She said she returned to her old home several times after the sale and “noticed furniture was there but I didn’t know whose it was." Reports have circulated that highway department officials bought the house for a “party house.” Smith was quoted once as saying he intended to move into the house temporarily but vandals wrecked it. Mrs. Brown said she saw a right-of-way report after the sale which showed she was paid for several items she didn’t know were included in the deal, including a garage and a breezeway. She said the report listed 14 cedar trees which she said were not on her lot. The document bore the (Coßtlaaea ob Pace Five) Late Bulletins . LONDON (W — A U. 8. Air Force KC97 aerial tanker plane ditched in the Atlantic east of the Azores today and shortly afterwards searchers saM a life raft with seven men aboard was sighted nearby. MADISON, Wis. (B—A caucus of GOP state senators today favored a special election rather than appointment for the successor to the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy. WASHINGTON (IP—The Senate today confirmed, «Q-20. the controversial nomination of Scott McLeod as ambassador to Ireland.