Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 114, Decatur, Adams County, 14 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 114.

OUSTED ROJAS IN JAMAICA .*, - • * V-\;' /iWWßjrn ■ ‘ ■ <* & ■■ El*' IL7 ' I I ' LWBiWIMR' « r* I» ■ '• HKW Ls IrL : ' 7 W' <?i?'. COLOMBIA’S ousted president, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (right), is greeted in Kingston, Jamaica, by Jack Middleton, superintendent of constabulary. Later Rojas flew to Spain.

Israel Plans To Send Tesl Ship In Suez To Test Egyptian Blockade Os Vital Canal To Israelis By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israel announced today it ‘ will send a ship into the Suez Canal •‘in the near future" to test the Egyptian blockade of Israeli shipping through the vital waterway. The “test ship’’ plan was announced by Foreign Ministry spokesman Moshe Leshem >n Jeru- ... Salem. But Leshem denied repeals taut the vessel was.jtfready on its way or would sail within one week. Informed sources said earlier that the test could come "at any moment.” They said the blockade-running project was being readied in the wake of the decision of Britain and other maritime nations to resume * use of the waterway nationalized by Egypt last summer. The sources said the only thing holding up the Israeli test was France’s reluctance to join the other nations who have given the go-ahead for use of the canal by their ships. Britain and Egypt moyed today along the slow and twisting path toward full restoration of their preSuez relations, but the move brought open rebellion in the British Conservative Party and a new Labor attempt to bring down the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Laborites asked for a vote of confidence Thursday on Britain's newest "capitulation" to Egypt's President Gamal Abdel - Nasser and hoped the Conservative Party revolt would help them force new parliamentary elections. One junior Conservative minister, one member of the House of Lords and eight members of the House of Commons quit Conservative Party ranks in protest against Macmillan’s decision to let British shipping use the Suez Canal on Egypt's terms. Macmillan still had a majority of 45 in Commons, but .a block of abstentions by the Suez rebels could bring down his government and force new general elections. The Laborites were convinced they could win. Hopes For Thaw Diplomatic sources in Cairo said current economic negotiations between Egypt and Britain would open the way later for restoring full diplomatic relations but they said the process would be a lengthy one. The two nations begin economic talks in Rome during the next two weeks. Egyptian sources hoped the first step would be the thawing out of on <-»*• 81X1 - Local Lady's Sister * Dies In Michigan Mrs. Cecil Day, 60, owner of a boat livery service at Minnewaukon lake, near Sturgis, Mich., and also an employe of the Michigan state conservation department, (tied Sunday after a cerebral hemorrhage. Survivors include her husband; a son, Richard of Plymouth; two sisters, Mrs. Charles Sprowl of Sturgis, and Mrs. Charles Schnepp of Decatur, " arid two brothers,Frank Dymartin and George Bowsher of Abilene, tex. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Foglesong funeral home at Sturgis, with burial in Oak Hill cemetery at Plymouth.

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Officers Nominated By American Legion First Nomination Os Officers Held Here The first nominations for American Legion officers for the next year were made at the meeting Monday night, commander Franklyn Detter reported. Fred Bieberich, the present first vice-commander, was nominated for commander. Other nominations were: first vice-commander, Robert Smith; second vice-com-mander, Ambrose Spangler; third vice-commander, Hubert P. Schmidt, Jr.; fourth vice-commander, Frank Scheuler and Bill Porter; adjutant, Herman Bittner; treasurer, Don Cochran; trustee, Hugh Andrews; delegates to the state convention, (11 to be chosen delegate, 11 alternates), ineoftiing commander, outgoing commander, Rev. O. C. Busse, James K.. Staley, Robert Ashbaucher, Charles Weber, Hugh Andrews, Walter Koeneman, Robert Smith, Wendell Macklin, H. P. Schmidt, Jr., Charles Morgan, V. J. Bormann, Harold Hoffman, Dick Heller, Jr., Don Cochran, Dee Fryback, Harry Knapp, Ambrose Spangler, William Porter, and H. Vernon Aurand. The district picnic at Pokagon state park near Angola was announced for June 2. Families are invited to attend. A report was made on the activities of the American Legion Boy Scout troop. A further report on the four boys to attend the national encampment was asked. Memorial services will be held at the Presbyterian church at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 26, it was announced, and Legionnerers are asked to meet at the Legion home and attend the service in a group. All members were reported out of the hospital except John Adams, of Monroeville. The fourth district of the Legion is still in first place in the membership drive, but the first district is close behind. The district which has the highest membership rating marches first in the parade at the state convention. Nine more members are necessary for Adams post 43 to get an additional delegate and alternate to the state convention, commder Detter announced. A committee was appointed to canvass the area in an attempt to reach the membership goal by Junfe 3. The Rev. 0. C. Busse reported on the last district meeting, and announced that new visitation rules were posted for visitations to veteran hospitals by Legion members. Money was voted by these present to hold a party for the Legion bowling team. The auditing committee’s report was approved. Charles Morgan was appointed chairman of a committee to arrange for a color guard to march in the parade in Marion Sunday. A full day’s activities there will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Veterans hospital. • • *. Lions To Conclude Broom Sale Tonight All Lions club members are asked to meet this evening at the community center again between 5:30 and 6 p.m. to finish up the annual broom sale which started last night, Harry Schwartz, president, said today. The Lions have divided the city into sections, and will go house to house selling the different types of brooms as a money-raising project for the local club. Rain delayed the sale Monday night.

Ike Expresses Alarm At Cuts For Military Eisenhower On TV And Radio Tonight In Plea To Public WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower told Republican legislative leaders today he "would not want to assume responsibility for the security of the country” if Congress cuts funds for missiles and aircraft. The president made this observation at his regular weekly White House meeting with GOP congressional leaders. House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. told newsmen after the 90-minute meeting that the President expressed alarm at reports that a House Military Appropriations subcommittee has made cuts in the Defense Department’s missiles and aircraft program. Eisenhower will try to enlist public support for his whole $71,800,000,000 budget in a nationwide TV-Radio speech tonight. It will be carried live over four radio and one TV (NBC) network at 8 p.m. c.d.t. and by film over two other TV networks (CBS and ABC) at 10:15 p.m. c.d.t. Martin said the President expressed himself at today’s meeting strongly against any cuts in the missiles - aircraft program. Martin quoted him as saying he "would not want to assume responsibility for the security of the country” if such cuts are made. Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said he agreed completely with the President on this subject. Knowland called the missiles and aircraft program “our greatest guarantee of peace." He said aggressors started World War II and the Korean conflict because "they thought we were too weak to strike back.” "As long as the Communists maintain their strong military position,” Knowland said, "this is not the time for the United States or the free world to weaken its defenses.” ' Knowland told reporters the President discussed with GOP leaders the “broad scope” of tonight’s budget talk. But the President devoted most of his time, Knowland said, to urging the GOP leaders to prevent any severe cuts in the defense budget. Knowland and Martin also said the President stressed the importance of an adequate budget for (('•Btlßwed Pane Five) Annual Buddy Poppy Sales For Decafur VFW Holds Soles Friday, Saturday Plans were announced today for the annual Buddy Poppy day sales to be conducted Friday and Saturday under the sponsorship of the local post of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The V. F. W. members conducting the sales will be assisted by members of the ladies auxiliary and by Cub Scouts from the Northwest elementary school. Don Burke, V. F. W. chairman for the project, and Mrs. Leslie Hunter, auxiliary Buddy Poppy Day chairman, have announced that sales of the small red flowers will be made Friday at the local industries and other places of business and Saturday on the business district streets of Decatur. The local organization will also be in charge of buddy poppy sales in Berne, Monroe, Geneva, Bluffton and Ossian. Most of the membership of both groups will assist with toe.sales. The buddy poppies are made by hospitalized veterans and the making of the flowers is an important phase of therapy in many rehabilitation programs carried out in V. A. hospitals throughout the county. The money raised by the sale of the flowers each year is used to finance local assistance projects as well as to help in state and national financial aid projects of the V. F. W. Much of the money raised locally is used in a local relief fund for V. F. W. members and their families. The remainder goes to help support the V. F. W. national home at Eaton Rapids, Mich., for the children of deceased V. F. W. members. This is an annual project. Last year the local group raised about S4OO. Both Burke and Mrs. Hunter have issued an appeal for the support of the public in this year’s Buddy Poppy sales. They pointed out that, by purchasing the small flower, each person contributes to the much needed aid of service veterans.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May Is, 1957,

One Missing Witness In Investigation Os Teamsters Head Found

Tornadoes And floods Subside In South Areas • At Least 11 Persons Dead In Storms Os The Past Two Days By UNITED PRESS » A deadly flurry of floods and tornadoes subsided today in the South, but heavy rain' storms continued to batter much of the northern two-thirds of the nation. At least 11 persons have been killed in storms during the past two days, six of them in floodravaged Texas. Four persons drowned and another was missing in a flash flood that caused damages estimated at from $1,500,000 to $2,500,000 at Lampasas, Tex. A rancher was killed by lightning near H>co in central Texas Monday. A car-bus collision Sunday night on the fog-shrouded Ohio Turnpike killed four persons and a woman was killed in a wind storm tifet lashed Memphis, Tenn., Monday. No rain of consequence fell in Texas today for the first time since last week. Sulphur Creek in Lampasas was back in it? banks and mopping up operations were underway. The flood destroyed 38 homes in the community population near Waco and 95 per cent of the business section was damaged or destroyed. About 250 persons were evacuated in Dallas, but authorities said the Trinity River was expected to begin falling to end the threat of further flooding in the city. Tornadic winds hit in Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas Monday, and another wind storm with gusts up to 70 miles per hour ripped Sioux City and Council Bluffs, lowa, during the night. At Memphis, Tenn., Mrs. Marie Garney Benson, 38, was killed when struck on the head by a chunk of concrete torn loose from a building by a storm. At Conway, Ark., 21 persons, including nine pupils at an elementary schoo, were injured when a tornado raced through the community, tearing into a school and several business buildings. Teachers at the grade school were credited with preventing possible deaths by calmly ordering students to crawl beneath their desks when the storm hit. Heavy downpours during the night and early today dumped 1.28 inches of rain at Burwell, Neb.; 1.23 at Dayton, Ohio; .80 at Cincinnati; .78 at Louisville, and .82 at Bowling Green, Ky. (Coßtiaued o« Pa»e Five) j, Two Appointed To Tax Review Board Schwartz, Burdg Appointed By Judge David J. Schwartz, a Democrat, and Dick Burdg, a Republican, have been appointed to the 1957 board of review by t Judge Myles F. Parrish. Ex-officio members of the board will be county treasurer Waldo Neal, county auditor Ed Jaberg, who serves as secretary of the board, and county assessor Walter Koos, who serves as chairman. The board will meet in a monthlong session beginning June 3. Purpose of the board is to review all assessments 'in the county. Taxpayers will have the opportunity to appear before the board to request changes in their assessments. A schedule of dates for the various tax units will be announced later. Tax adjustment hearings by the state tax board, represented by George Gable of Fort Wayne, were conducted today at the county court house. The hearings were on 12 petitions requesting reductions in assessments amounting to $27,893. The petitions included three in Decatur, one in Monroe township, one in Root township and one in Washington township.

Over Inch Os Rain Here Monday Night Causes Flash Flood On Winchester Road More than an inch of rain fell in the Decatur area' last night, causing a flash flood on the Winchester road about 9:30 o’clock Monday evening, Lawrence Noll, county road superintendent, reported this morning. The flash flood sent about three feet of water over the paved road just south of Yost’s sandpit. Workers from the county highway garage put out lanterns and signs as warnings to motorists. The water cleared early this morning. The river road east -of Pleasant Mills was flooded with about a foot of water until after noon, today. Also reported flooded was the Moore bridge in Wabash township. . Sealing of paved county roads was temporarily discontinued today because of rain. The county farm road, the Kaufman road in Monroe township, and old highway 27 into Monroe,. and the half mile of paved road across the railroad from it into Monroe have all been sealed. Three miles of the tile mill ! road will be sealed next, then the 1 Elmer C. Beer road, the Baurn- ’ gartner road in French township, ’ and the river road in Hartford 'township; and road 20, from Linn' . Grove west to the county line. . During wet weather, slab rock is being hauled to lay up walls and build catch basins, Noll said. I Four loads were hauled this mom- > ing. ! Six or seven miles of new paved road will be constructed this year ■ from county funds, Noll said. The commissioners have not yet i definitely decided what will be ‘ built, but it is generally felt that the tile mill road south of Berne for 2 and % miles will be paved, township will be paved with fed-, township will bs paved with fed(Coßtlaac4 Pace Five) To Withold State Gross Tax July 1 Employers To Make Returns Quarterly INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - The Indiana State Revenue Department told employers today how to withhold Indiana gross income taxes beginning July 1. The 1957 Legislature enacted a law requiring all employers of four or more persons to withhold J the tax. And it raised the gross -income tax rate for wage earners from 1 to IVk per cent. Wage earners still are entitled to a SI,OOO deduction. The revenue department said employers will return withheld taxes to the state every three months. If a Hoosier makes SSO a week*46 cents will be deducted fron/his paycheck; SBO per week—9l cents; , sloo—sl.2l $150—51.96. Hoosiers must file their 1957 ’ state income tax returns by March i 1 next year. Previously the deadline was January 31. > The return will include a pay- ■ meat for the first six months of I this year figured at 1 per cent—r plus withholding for the second six . months. A payment must be made for taxes up until withholding goes into effect July 1. L > Boynton Moore, state withhold(Coßtlnved bb Pace Five) ; Local Student To - Science Institute a Announcement of the appoint- • ment of David Eichenauer, Decai tur high school junior, to the high school science institute at Indiana ! University was received today. The r Decatur student, son of Mr. and . Mrs. Ray Eichenauer, of route 5, • Will hear lectures and do subsequent lab work in nine different ■ areas of math .and science. i The institute begins June 16, and • is reserved for’ outstanding high i school students in order to acquaint , the students with broader fields > than most secondary schools provide.

New Highway Job Created By Governor Foster Appointed To New Position In Highway Dept. INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Governor Handley created a new SIB,OOO a year administrative position in the Indiana highway department Monday to tie loose ends together and put the scandal-pocked office on a "businesslike” basis. Handley appointed George Foster, 57-year-old native of Handley’s I home county and a top highway administrator in Michigan, to take over the new job beginning June 15. The governor aIA ordered a complete inventory of everything the State of Indiana owns and served notice he intends to keep track of Hoosierland's millions of dollars worth of state-owned property and equipment as long as he remains in office. Holds "Cabinet” Meeting Handley summoned all department heads and elected Statehouse . officials into his office late Monday for a "cabinet” meeting. He I called in newsmen, too. He ant ritnneed Master's appointment, criticized the highway department .'operation as "too loosely run" “ over the last 20 years, and issued copies of an executive order for a complete inventory by ' June 30. Furthermore, the order set the I first five working days in June ’ each year as inventory time. Beginning in 1958, multiple reports on ; inventories will be turned in to ! four agencies and the state will ; endeavor to keep its finger on its ' holdings. Handley said there is no record of what the state owns. —- “We have lost track of some equipment and now we are trying to find out about it,” he said, without disclosing what was lost. He left no doubt he created the highway administrative job in an effort to improve conditions in an agency beset the last month by day-after-day stories of "scandals" in right-of-way purchasing, appraisals of land, influence peddling and questionable contracts for purchase of- equipment and supplies in the administration of former Gov. George Craig. Pencils, Signs Stocked “The highway department has been too loosely run for 20 years,” Handley said. He said it was time to get it on a businesslike basis before the federal road program begins spending an estimated 400 to 500 million dollars in Indiana in the next four years. Highway chairman John Peters, who attended the “cabinet” meeting, reported the department was overstocked with lead pencils and highway signs. (CwunuM on race 81gM) City Council Will Meef This Evening Special Meeting On New Sewage Project A special meeting of the Decatur city council will, take place at 7 o’clock this evening at city hall to adopt preliminary ordinances and to prepare legal advertising in connection with construction of ~ the sewage disposal project. The sewage disposal plant, ordered by the state stream pollution control board more than 10 years ago, must be under construction by Aug. 1 in order for the city to receive a $250,000 federal aid grant. The entire project, which includes sewage treatment, garbage disposal and interceptor sewers, will cost approximately $1,100,000, although the federal aid will reduce the cost to the city. The amount will be raised by bond issue to be paid back over a period of years by revenue from assessments of local water consumers.

Area Safe-Cracking Gang Is Rounded Up Four Are Arrested In Fort Wayne Today FORT WAYNE OB - P o 1 i c e caught three men robbing a pharmacy safe today, arrested a fourth and said a statement from one of them admitted 22 safe burglaries netting $20,000 in the Fort Wayne area since last December. The four were members of a safe-cracking gang which included three men captured at Auburn April 20 and sentenced to prison terms on burglary charges, according to Det. Capt. John Carpino. Carpino said ponce summoned by persons who Heard the tinkle of shattering glass arrested in the Suetterlin Pharmacy three men who identified themselves as William E. Washington, 34, Doyle E. Smeltzet, 25, and James J. Titus, 28, all of Fort Wayne. Carpino said about $1,300 taken form a safe in the pharmacy was scattered around the room or on the person of the men. Officers later arrested James Derrick, 36, Fort Wayne, in his home. Carpino said one of the men 'signed a statement admitting 20 safe crackings in Fort Wanye, a burglary at a Goshen supermarket, and a burglary at a Kendall-, ville grocery !h the laet five months. The bulk of a wave of safe burglaries this year were cleared up by the statement, Carpino said. Arrested after a safe job at the Allison Corp, in Auburn last month were Garfield Bryant Jr., 22, Perry Simmons, 26, and Philip Burney, 26, all of Fort Wayne. Submarines Sighted Off Canadian Coast Unidentified Subs Reported Sighted HALIFAX, N. S. (IB -At least four unidentified submarines have been sighted off Canada's east coast in less than a month. The Canadian Navy is not ' overlooking the possibility that the mysterious undersea craft might be Russian. The latest report came Monday from the Placentia Bay area where Mr. and Mrs. John Slade of Spencer’s Cove reported seeing a submarine near their home early Monday morning. They said the sub lay in the mouth of the harbor, 250 yards from shore, for half an hour before submerging. Saturday, the St. John's Nfld. Telegram quoted two of five men who reported seeing a mysterious submarine last Thursday. Gerald McCarthy and Russell Sheppard, both of Harbor Grace, said they watched the craft as it surfaced, maneuvered about the tricky harbor entrance on the west side of Conception Bay and then submerged. Two fisherman saw a surfaced sub near New Harbor Island in mid-April and their report was investigated by U. S. planes. Another report came May 2 from Faithaven, 18 miles northeast of Placentia. ■ The Royal Canadian Navy, which often investigates the reports in conjunction with the U.S. Navy and Air Force, is reluctant to discuss what it has found or what it thinks about the reports. But a N<*vy spokesman at St. John’s said Monday night the possibility that some of the subs might be Russian was not being overlooked. Searches that follow reports of sightings indicate that the unidentified craft are not American. v ■ INDIANA WEATHER Showers - and scattered thunderstorms tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and mild. Low tonight 58-64. High Wednesday 74-82. Sunset 7:51 p. hi., sunrise Wednesday 5:32 a. m.

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Serve Subpena Monday Night On One Os Four Senate Committee Bags One Os Four Missing Witnesses United Press Staff Correspondents i WASHINGTON (UP)-The Sen-Zp ate Rackets Committee tadhj®? 1 ' bagged one of four missing witnesses in its sensational investigation of Teamster President Dave Beck. U.S. Marshal W. Budd Parsons of Seattle, Wash., said a deputy marshal has served a subpena on Norman Gessert, a cousin of Beck’s wife, at Ellensburg, Wash., Monday night. The committee has been searching for weeks for Gessert and the three other . witnesses. All were last reported to have slipped over the Canadian border to Vancouver. The other three are Dave Beck Jr., Beck's son; Fred Verscheuren Sr., a Teamster auditor, and Joseph McEvoy, husband of Beck’s niece. i Committee Chairman John L. McClellan has described Ver- . scheuren as a key figure in Beck’s . tangled finances. The other three i have been described important nPM in several companies that have had business dealings with th'e union. , ' Hie break in the search for the witnesses came amid these other, developments: —Beck met with a five-man committee from the Teamsters executive board to discuss the defense he will use at a hearing next Monday on whether he should be suspended as a member of the AFLCIO Executive Council. The Teamsters board has charged that the AFL-CIO Council would be acting unconstitutionally if it ousted Beck. —The Senate Rackets Committee, continuing its investigation of Beck and his union, called a Washington lawyer for questioning on whether the Teamsters eased up on truckers who lent money to Beck. The lawyer—Alfons Landa—was called to shed more light on Beck's complex financial operations. Landa figured in the committee’s testimony Monday. The committee also summoned A. M. Burke, head of the mortgage loan department for Occidental Insurance Co. in Los Angeles, and George Newell, insurance broker for the Western Conference of Teamsters. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said Newell’s testimony would deal more with Western Teamster chief Frank Brewster than with Beck. Brewster was a principal target of the committee’s March hearings. Beck Due Later Beck himself will be recalled Wednesday or Thursday when the committee hopes to conclude the current series of hearings, Kennedy said. So far. Beck has pleaded the Fifth Amendment 150 times to avoid answering committee questions. The committee scheduled Landa as a witness after taking testimony Monday on a $200,000 loan made by trucking interests .to Beck. Trailer manufacturer Roy Fruehauf and trucking executive B. M. Seymour said they knew of (Continued on Pace Six) Reserved Seats For Boy Scout Circus Reserved seats for both the 2:30 and 7:30 o'clock performances of the Boy Scout circus at the Fort Wayne coliseum Saturday are available through Herman Krueckeberg, at the First State Bank. Scouts from the Decatur troops are now selling general admission tickets for 50 cents each. These tickets may be turned in towards a reserved seat. Reserved seats are selling for $1 and $1.50 each, and two or three general admission tickets may be turned in for each reserved seat desired, depending on the type desired. AU the Decatur troops will take part in the circus.