Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 113.

DECATUR STUDENTS HONORED raaa € Jkl If fl L ‘ I » vflN B ■ '• ’4ft ImH I B W- / VlWfflß W / r 7 * jRW 1 ; I fe-"* r ' '"■s' " Deft to right: Ted Schrock; Harry Dailey, instructor; John Dorwin and Stanley Kirkpatrick. _ ■■ y- ■, ■._

New Anti-Red Coup In Syria Seen Possible Left-Wing Syrian Leadership Shaken By Aid To Jordan By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israeli sources predicted today in Jerusalem the Baghdad talks between King Saud and King Feisal and Jordan’s move toward the West might lead to a new coup by anti-Communist political leaders in Syria. The sources said Increased activities of the Russians in Syria could be expected to show the rightist groups the "suicidal tendency" of the present regime and produce another coup—and another about face in Syrian foreign policy. Reports reaching Jerusalem strongly indicated the left-wing Syrian leadership was badly shaken by Jordan’s decision to accept 10 million dollars in U.S. aid even if it did not accept the Eisenhower Doctrine as such. The Jerusalem dispatch said Syria was. stepping up its propaganda attacks against Israel to cover up its growing internal crisis and that the attacks were designed to show the other Arab nations that Syria was the most anti-Israel. Indications increased that the Baghdad talks between King Saud of Saudi Arabia and King Feisal of Iraq were isolating the SyrianEgyptian axis more and more. Israeli sources hoped frankly a Syrian coup would leave Egypt cm a limb by itself. Egypt moved today to try to strengthen the neutralist bloc. President Gamal Abdel Nasser was receiving Premier Lemar E’ Ali Mohammed Daud of Afghanistan, a strong pro-neutralist who offered Afghan to Egypt during the Suez invasion. In Baghdad, Feisal had hoped to show Saud the Western-supplied military might he recently placed at the disposal of Jordan’s King Hussein during the recent crisis in Jordan. But rain caused cancellation of the parade. Diplomatic sources predicted Hussein would go to Iraq this week for three-pow-er conferences. A Damascus dispatch said King Saud later would invite Hussein, Nasser and Syrian President Shukri El Kuwatli to a four-power meeting when he returns home. But Baghdad dispatches have hinted for Several days the old fourpower alliance was almost a thing of the past. *jother indication came from Jordan Radio which accused Egypt Sunday night of plotting against the royal regimes of Jordan, Iraq, Libya and Saudi Arabia with the aid of the Soviet Union and international communism. Indictment Returned Against Decatur Man An indictment Was returned Friday against Clyde Roush, of Decatur, charging him with issuing a $lO fraudulent check at the Better Truck Stop, in Van Wert, 0., by the Van Wert county grand jury. ~ Seek Addresses Os Two 1922 Graduates The Decatur high school class of 1922 is seeking the whereabouts of two of its members, Charles Fike and Harry Christy. They are the only two members of the 1922 class whose present addresses are not known. Addresses are wanted for invitations to a class reunion coming up soon. Information on either man, if forwarded to Mrs. Lawrence Linn. Mercer avenue, will be greatly appreciated.

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t Three Decatur High Students Honored Place On Honor List For Chemistry Test Word has been received at the Decatur high ‘school that three members of t£e school’s senior class have been placed on the honor list for the cherqistry test recently conducted by the Fort Wayne section of the American Chemical society. This organization is composed of industrial scientists, chemical engineers and college professors of the Fort Wayne area. Harry Dailey, Instructor in chemistry at the Decatur school, announced that Ted Schrock ranked first. Stanley Kirkpatrick fourth and John Dorwin 10th. These results are considered as especially meritorious, as more than 600 students took*the qualifying examinations, and 140 students were chosen to take the final test. This area includes nine counties; of Northeastern Indiana. It was also pointed out that certificates of | recognition will be awarded to the three Decatur students at a banquet in Fort Wayne Saturday, May 25. Schrock will be awarded a SSO bond for his first place finish. Each of the three winners is a senior and has been active in many extracurricular activities as well as letter winners in three sports. Each of the boys also engages in part-time jobs and plans ta continue his education. Such recognition from the Chemical society should be a decided asset in college work. Colombia Resuming Normal Activities End Strike Causing Government To Fall BOGOTA (UP) — Thousands of students and workers throughout Colombia resumed normal activities todSy, ending a "civil strike" Which hastened the downfall of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week. Parallel "back to class” and "back to work” movements followed 10 days of turmoil during which riots in various Colombian cities killed at least 123 persons and injured more than 500. (A spokesman for Rojas, who is seeking political asylum in Spain, said police gunfire killed 150 persons in Bogota alone on Friday, the day his resignation was announced. Police here say only four persons were killed that day.) The liberal newspaper Intermedio said today police and anxious parents in Cali, the mountain city first affected by the wave of violence, are seeking clues to the whereabouts of 11 students who disappeared* during the riots. The five - man military junta which succeeded Rojas has promised to restore freedom of the press in Colombia. At least two newspapers suppressed by the Rojas regime already* have resumed publication. The “official daily” founded by the ex-president to air the views of his government ceased publication Sunday. The junta is said to have confiscated its final edition and fired its staff. Price Os Gasoline Drops In Decatur The price of gasoline in the Decatur area fell sharply over the weekend, as most major stations cut prices from about 33.9 for regular to 29.9 cents a gallon. Prices by independent dealers dropped to 27.4 from 27.9. cents a gallon for regular. The price drop is a reflection of the price war going on in the Indianapolis and Fort Wayne areas. A

Senate Leader Calls For Ike To Take Stand Democratic Leader Looses New Attack On G.O.P. Spending WASHINGTON (UP)- Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson accused the Eisenhower administration today of speaking out of "both sides of its mouth” on spending. He called ,on President Eisenhower to embcace publicly either the "spending wing” or “economy wing” of his administration so Congress will know what he wants it to do. » He added that the President’s televised budget speech Tuesday night should show whether "he wants an economy administration or a spending administration.” The Texas Democrat loosed his new attack as the Senate prepared to take up this afternoon its first regular appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1. It was a House-approved measure carrying $3,965,291,000 for the Treasury and Post Office departments. The Senate Appropriations Committee recommended acceptance of the House figure which was $80,364,000 below the administration request. The Senate's action will be considered a major test of its economy attitude toward other House budger cuts. Johnson’s criticism was contained in a statement quoting remarks of the President and other administration spokesmen. In other budget developments: —Sen. W. Kerr Scott (D-N.C.) appealed to the Senate to reverse the House action in killing funds for a federal flood insurance program. He said the government would save money in the long run by such a program because it eventually has to pay part of the cost of "natural disasters.” I —A Democratic - controlled Senate committee recommended an 'cut in foreign aid gifts to free nations but warned that “indiscriminate'’ cuts would harm the nation’s safety and world position. The special committee is headed by Sen. Theodore Francis Green (D-R.I-), also chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Open Conference On Peaceful Atom Use Ist Inter-American Symposium Launched UPTON, N.Y. (UP)—Dr. Willard F. Libby of the Atomic Energy Commission said today the nuclear energy, if handled wisely, can give the world "material benefits almost without end.” He told the first inter-American symposium on peaceful uses of the atom that power and isotopes for medicine, agriculture and industry are the first, but not necessarily all, of the atom’s non-warlike benefits. A new scientific discovery, like the discovery of a new continent, he said, “opens new and unknown horizons which take time for explorations.” "It is likely that unborn uses (of the atom) may also eventually prove to be as important as those we are now developing,” he said. Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower, brother of the President.extended to the delegates the chief executive's “cordial greetings and sincere wishes for a rewarding experience.” Milton Eisenhower said in opening the conference that its primary aim is “cooperation—cooperation by all in a steadfast resolve to use the atom for the benefit of ourselves and for all mankind. "We are here,” he said, “on the verge of what can be the most amazing and rewarding period in history.” One-Day Shutdowns At Local G. E. Plant Two brief shutdowns of the Decatur General Electric plant are planned this month, according to an announcement made by George Auer, plant manager. The shutdowns, each of one-day duration, are scheduled for Friday May 17, and Friday, May 31. Th® second shutdown will give pjant employes a long Memorial Day, holiday beginning Thursday, May 30. Auer explained that the two shutdowns were necessary because of production schedules. He added that the shutdowns made it possible to avoid longer term layoffs of some of the plant personnel. He also pointed out that production schedules will probably be stepped up next month to eliminate need for further shutdowns.

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——— Parlies Feud « I Overcharges On Congress Sharp Reaction To Charge Congress Is Lagging On Program By UNITED PRESS The administration and Demo- ' cratic congressional leaders feuded today over whether Congress is 1 “lagging” on President Eisenhower’s legislative program. Speaker Sam Rayburn reacted angrily to a charge by Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams that Congress is not moving speedfiy ■ enough. , “I rather think we know more about laying out a program and enacting it...than he could possibly know,” Rayburn told newsmen. "I don’t think statements like the one he made are very helpful to the administration’s program." Adams, first assistant to the President, said in a televised interview the administration thinks "it is high time in the interest of the Amercan people that the Congress ought to devote it- . self to picking up this program l and doing something, about it.’’ In the Senate, Democratic Lead- . er Lyndon B. Johnson attacked the . administration for talking out of . “both sides of its mouth" on the ; economy issue. He called on Eisen- . bower to side publicly either with r the “spending wing” or “economy ; wing” of his party. Administration leaders spoke up in defense of the President’s budget and against cuts made in it by Congress. Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson attacked as “unwise” a 100-million-dollar reduction made by the House Appropriations Committee in funds requested to operate the acreage reserve of the soil bank in fiscal 1958. He said the administration would wage a House floor fight to have them restored. And two other administration leaders opened a fight in the Senate to salvage a 50-million-dollar appropriation to finance an experimental flood insurance program. Housing Chief Albert M. Cole and Flood Insurance Commissioner Frank J. Meistrell urged the Senate* Appropriations Committee to restore the funds, which were rejected by the House. Other congressional news: Civil Rights: Rep. William E. Miller, a New York Republican, joined Southerners in attacking the administration’s civil rights bill as (C«atißaeS «■ Pa*e Five) Accident Victims Are Still Critical Two Injured Near City Still Critical Cordie J. Baker, 42, of New Castle, and< his six-year-old daughter, Mary Elizabeth, * both injured in an accident Friday morning which took the lives of two others, remain in critical condition at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. Hospital personnel stated that very little improvement has been seen in either of them. Baker sustained severe injuries to his entire left side, and his daughter sufered compound fractures of both legs. Baker's mother-in-law, Mrs. 1 Mary Powell Runyon, 84, of New ' CasQe, a passenger in the station wagon which he was driving,. was killed. Also killed was Anthony L. Laker, 22, of Monroeville route I two, driver of the other car in- ■ volved. The accident occurred on U. S. highway 224 one mile east of De--1 catur, when the Baker station wagon vered into the wrong lane of traffic and struck the Laker car head-on. Funeral services were conducted this morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church in Decatur for , Laker. The body was taken to Monroeville for burial in St. Rose Catholic cemetery there.

At Least Six Dead In Indiana Traffic Drag Race Results In Death Os Girl By UNITED PRESS At least six persons died in Indiana traffic accidents during the weekend, four of them from Indianapolis. Mary Jo Hamilton, 16, Indianapolis, was killed Sunday when a car in which she was riding was struck by another vehicle taking ’ part in a drag race near Indian- ' apolis. Ronald D. Harris, 18, Indianapolis, driver of the car in which the victim was a passenger was hos- , pitalized with minor injuries. Po- ’ lice said Kenneth Lester, 20, and ' Delbert Cambridge, 18, both of Indianapolis, were drag racing , when Lester went through a stop I sign and smashed into the Harris car. Both Lester and Caihbridge faced preliminary charges of reck- , less homicide. i The only other victim added to the weekend death toll Sunday was Harold Scudder, 40, Rising Sun. He was killed when thrown i from a car which went out of control and hit an embankment on ; Ind. 56 near Rising Sun. Hospitalized were his wife, Irene, 33, his sons, Russell, 8, and Ray, 10, and Denver Kaiser, 33, Rising Sun, ■ driver of the car. ■ Accidents Saturday claimed the 1 lives of three Indianapolis persons s and a Benton County man. Mrs. Carola Valosia, 73, Indiani apolis, died when thrown from her r car in a two-car collision at Indianapolis. Her niece, Joan Crisa- » fulli, 13, also of Indianapolis, sus- ■ tained injuries when the Valosia ' car collided with one driven by Mary Ann Marbaugh, 23, Indianapolis. 1 Theodore G. Tillberry, 23, Indianapolis, was killed when his car ‘ collided with a truck on Ind. 67 joist east of Indianapolis. Mrs. Velma Hartley, 48, Indianapolis, died in an ambulance enroute to a hospital following an accident in Boone County. Bradley Williams, 66, Earl Park, was killed when his car was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train at a crossing in Goodland in Newton County. Ike, Montgomery Tour Battlefield Ike Climbs To Top Os Gettysburg Tower GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UP* — President Eisenhower climbed briskly up the 62 steps of a Gettysburg battlefield observation tower Sunday, dramatically illustrating his recovery from a 1955 heart attack. His physical endeavor went almost unnoticed as the Chief Executive and his week-end guest, British Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, toured the fog - shrouded rocks and rills of this famous 1863 Civil War battlefield. Seldom has Eisenhower devoted himself to a guest as he did to Montgomery, the blue - eyed Britisher who tracked and destroyed the flower of the Germany army in the African desert in World War 11. During their tour of the Civil War battlefield the two world-fa-mous soldiers agreed they would have “sacked” both the Union and Confederate commanders for blunders at the historic battle. After the tour, they picked up Mrs. Eisenhower and attended the Gettysburg Presbyterian Church where the Rev. Robert MacAskill preached his first sermon as the new minister. Montgomery, now deputy commander of North Atlantic Treaty Forces, was here for a brief week end. He was scheduled to fly back to Washington today for engagements arranged by the British Embassy. ‘ ”, ■ The President planned to remain here until tonight. Tuesday, the President is slated to go on'radio and television for his first big public speech in defense of his record peacetime. budget of nearly 72 billion dollars. |

Probe Os Beck Resumed Today By Committee Business Leaders Called To Testify On Loans From Beck j WASHINGTON (UP) — Dave ; Beck undergoes another round of his "trial by exposure” today that already has led to predic- ‘ tions he is through as head of the nation’s largest'Union. The Senate Rackets Committee ’ called two business executives to ; state whether doing business with I Beck's Teamster Union had meant | giving special favors to Beck. ' The witnesses were Roy Fruehauf, president of the Fruehauf Trailer Co., and A. M. Burke, head of the mortgage loan department of the Occidental Insurance Co. No Charges Against Them Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said their appearance did not necessarily mean the committee had evidence of wrongdoing by their firms. He said the group wanted to ask them whether Beck asked for favors as a follow-up to his business deals with their companies. ’ Teamster Union sources told I the Uhited Press during the week i end they believe Beck now “is ■ through” as head of the 1,500,000- ’ man Teamsters Union. They pre- ■ dieted committee testimony that ■ Beck profited from a “charity” ■ fund collected for the widow of i his best friend would anger rank-and-file Teamsters and prove Beck’s undoing. Sources in both the Teamsters Union and its parent AFL-CIO said it is now conceivable Beck wiO z either resign or “retire” as Teamster president by Aug. 1. Teamser leaders were said to be pressing Beck to leave his $50,000-a-year-plus-expenses post. The Aug. 1 date was cited because that is the deadline for the union to start electing local delegates to its Sept. 30 convention for the purpose of electing new officers. In other developments connected with the rackets inquiry today: —Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.), newest member on the Rackets Committee, said in an interview the group should investigate secondary boycotts by labor unions. These are instances in which unions seek to halt work in a firm doing business with a concern against which they are on strike. Curtis was appointed to the committee last week to replace the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis ) Fund Standards Considered —Sen. Sam. J. Ervin Jr. (DN.C.), another member, said Beck’s conduct may prompt Con(lnntlaued Flve> Spring Tax Payment Is Over $900,000 County Treasurer Reports Payments A total of $922,260.53 was collected in taxes in the spring settlement, county treasurer Waldo Neal reported today. This compares with $871,969.46 coUected last year, and includes some delinquent taxes from last year. The full year's assessment is sl,685,777.60. The rest will be collected in the fall installment. As of March 1, less than $5,000 back taxes were owed in this county. Last November 7, there was $33,836.36 in delinquent taxes. The full year’s collection due this year, including the delinquent taxes from last year, is $1,719,613.96. Mrs. John Beery, of Decatur, worked for two weeks during the last minute tax rush in tjjje treasurer’s office, and Mary Geimer worked on the two last Saturdays before the deadline add on the last day. » More than $168,000 was taken in . on the last day, including last min|ute mail payments.

Daily Showers Are Forecast In Stale Warmer Weather In Return To Indiana By UNITED PRESS Tornado warnings were hoisted over Indiana late Sunday and possibly locally severe thunderstorms were predicted fo’r all parts of Indiana this afternoon and evening. Despite the twister advisory, j however, the first wave of the turbulent weather swept across Central Indiana with nothing more serious tfian rumbling thunderstorms. More showers were due almost daily the rest of this week.. Warm temperatures ranging into the 80s almost daily were predicted for the period ending Saturday. The, mercury moderated considerably upstate, where Lafayette had a high of 68 and South Bend 69 Sunday. But Indianapolis sweltered in a humid 80 and Evansville had a hot 87. After dropping to lows rangingfrom 53 at Goshen to 64 at Evansville early today, the mercury headed for highs ranging from 78 to 87 today. It will cool off to a range of 65 to 68 tonight and warm up to 70 to 85 Tuesday. The five-day outlook called for temperatures averaging 3 to 5 degrees above normal highs of 69 to I 77 and normal lows of 45 to 55. e ‘Turning a little cooler Tuesi day, warmer. Wednesday with no • important changes thereafter,” ■ the outlook said. “Precipitation i will average one to two inches ' with occasional periods of showets ’ and thunderstorms east and south portions Tuesday and more generally Wednesday through Friday.” Rain during the 24-hour period ending this morning included nearly an inch at Seymour, about three-quarters of an inch at Terre Haute and Martinsville, about half an inch at Rochester and about one-tenth of an inch at Lafayette, Indianapolis, South Bend, and Fort Wayne. Cautious Optimism On End Os Drought Five-Year Drought In Plains Is Eased WASHINGTON (UP) - There may be grounds for “cautious optimism" that the five-year drought in the central and southern Plains is over, the U.S. Weather Bureau reports. The bureau said Sunday night some parts of the western drought area got more rain and snow during the first four months of 1957 than in all of 1956. Over thousaixis of square miles, the bureau said, soils are wetter now than they have been for five years. “AU this moisture has produced some cautious, but perhaps justified, optimism among millions of people in the central and southern Plains that the five-year drought may have ended,” the bureau said. “Nevertheless/' it continued, "no one can as yet say with assurance that the widespread drought has finally ended.” Even after widespread heavy rains in the Southwest, the bureau said, "a smaU core of the drought still remains” in the Pecos cattle country of western Texas. And southern and eastern Nevada and part of the north central states (ConczuM on rage Six) Banquet To Honor Members Os Band A banquet to honor the Decatur high school band members who played at the Veterans hospitals recently, will take place this evening at 6 p.m. at the Legion home. A total of 50 from the band, the school faculty which deals with the band, the Rev. O. C. Busse, and the officers from Adams post 43, will be present. Charles Morgan is chairman, and Charlie Chew and Clint Reed are also members of the committee for the dinner. The dinner will be served by American Legion auxiliary.

Dallas, Fort Worth Hit By Renewed Flood l Businessmen Chop Holes In Ceilings To Escape Waters By UNITED PRESS ' A 10-foot waU of water destroyed 90 per cent of Lampasas, Tex., a town of 5,000, and Dallas and Fort Worth Buffered from new floods today. An elderly man drowned and a woman was missing at Lampasas “ where the water came so fast merchants chopped holes in the ceilings of their stores to escape. A broken levee sent the water swirling into Lampasas in the midst of a cloudburst of nearly seven inches. A gas main burst into flames in the center of town and firemen fought in chest-high water to put it out. Ward Lowe, publisher of the , Lampasas Dispatch, reported the flash flood Sunday night destroyed about 90 per cent of the town. By morning, the water was draining . away. A five-inch rain Sunday gave ‘ Dallas its third flood in less than three weeks. More than 100 streets were closed by water and 250 per- ‘ sons were forced from their homes. , Fort Worth suffered local flood- . ing. Some residents in the suburb J of Richland Hills rushed from ! their homes Sunday, fearing a ‘ flood. ‘ The Weather Bureau alerted parts of north central and northeastern Texas and sections of Oklahopia and Arkansas to severe thunderstorm and tornado dangers until 4 p.m. today. High winds reaching 80 miles per hour and tornadoes accompanied the rain storms in Texas. One tornado hit Crawford, near Waco, causing property damage but no injuries. Numerous funnel clouds were observed in northeast and west - central Texas during the night, Flood waters also threatened in Louisiana. The.rising Red River swamped some homes and farmland near Brouillette, and authorities feared some 150 homes would be flooded before the river begins receding. A freak hail storm in southwestern Oklahoma piled up a solid, one foot thick sheet of ice over a half square mile area near Altus. Hail the size of marbles accumulated in frozen drifts along an area one mile wide and 10 miles long. Hail storms also battered sections of lowa and Colorado. Week-end rains were welcomed in New England, dousing raging forest fires that caused an estimated 10 million dollars in damage. Authorities said rains Saturday and Sunday virtually ended the threat of more blazes in fireblackened sections of Massachusetts and other northeastern areas. Fog over parts of the Midwest ' j during the night was blamed for a car-bus crash that killed four members of a Blairsville, Pa., family along the Ohio Turnpike. All of the victims were in the car, a station wagon. Two persons aboard the Greyhound bus were hospitalized with injuries. Bluffton Merchants For Friday Opening Bluffton stores voted an overwhelming preference for staying open Friday night instead of Saturday night in a meeting Friday of merchants, but no formal action has yet been taken. '' INDIANA WEATHER Scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday, with locally severe thunderstorms likely tonight. Little temperature change. Low tonight ranging from 55 to 68 extreme north to the 60s south and central. High Tuesday 72-78 extreme north to the 80s south and central. Sunset 7:50 p. m., sunrise Tuesday 5:32 a. m.

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