Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 115, Decatur, Adams County, 15 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 115.

MARILYN’S HUBBY ON TRIAL * ' ' 'I w i jfca. T'Si'H'fW ; ~ MMHvk --- PSEK3 < Wteßndr ■* - J 1 j;’ '-- - - Ji i' PLAYWRIGHT Arthur Miller (left), husband of actress Marilyn Monroe, arrives with hja attorney Lloyd Garrison of New York at Federal Court in Washington to face trial. He is charged with contempt of Congress.

Ike In Appeal To Public For Record Budget Pres. Eisenhower s . Defends Budget In Radio, TV Address WASHINGTON (IB — President Eisenhower warned Congress today that “we are going to be in trouble somewhere along the line*’ if it trifles with the nation’s defense by making his budget cuts. Addressing himself specifically . to a reported 12,500,000,000 tentative cut in the defense budget voted by a House Appropriations subcommittee, Eisenhower told his news conference: “If we are going to trifle with this . . defense on that basis now we are going to be in trouble somewhere along the line , . if it is possible to do anything like this making a $2,500,000,000 defense cut, then I am going to be educated again, that's' all, because I don’t see how they can do it.” Eisenhower also said that, far from becoming more liberal — politically—since his first election in 1952. he feels that he has become more conservative. * Reds Feel Pinch His budget-cut warning followed up his nation-wide radio-television appeal to the American people Tuesday night to sacrifice dollars rather than their sons and cities as the “price for peace’’ in a world threatened by atomic-arm- , cd communism. Other news conference highlights: —The President said he believes one of the reasons Russia apparently is considering disarmament more seriously than in the past is that it is beginning to feel the pinch of supporting a heavy armaments budget. —He said unification of the armed services has not taken place in quite the form he expected- He added that this was one of the basic problems involved in writing a minimum federal budget. —He asserted that use of force by Israel to send a ship through the Suez Canal would be reprehensible. In for Trouble Congress seemed in no mood to retreat in its economy drive. f A House Appropriations subcommittee was reported to have tentatively approved a cut of some $2,500,000,000 in Eisenhower’s defense budget for next year. Eisenhower’s remarks about the budget started when a reporter told him that reports from Capitol Hill indicated the subcommittee action. The President shook his head and said that if the subcommittee could make such a cut honestly he, as a former Army chief of staff, wanted to know how it could be done. He said that if we—the executive and the legislative branches of government—are going to trifle with defense on the basis of the reported committee cut, then the country is going to be in for real trouble. He said if such a cut is possible, then he would have to be re-educated. Proper Dividing Line In his broadcast Tuesday night the President told the nation it risks '“terrible consequences” if his defense program is “materially” cut. Members of the appropriation <Con tinued on Pag* Four* 10 Pages

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Showdown Fight On Soil Bank Program Democrats In House Battling Soil Bank WASHINGTON (UP) - An apparently strong group of House Democrats fought today to kill the administration's billion dollar soil bank after subsidies are paid to farmers who participate this year. The House waded into a showdown floor fight over the new economy move following President Eisenhower’s defense Tuesday night of his big spending budget. The outcome was uncertain. Rep. Burr Harrison (D-Va.) offered the proposal was an amendment to a $3,692,889,757 money bill to help pay for farm programs in the fiscal year starting July 1. The measure carries 227 million dqllars less cash than the administration requested. Harrison’s proposal drew tentative support from Chairman Harold D. Cooley (B-N.C.) of the House Agriculture Committee. But it was denounced as "irresponsible” by Rep. Charles W. Vursell (R-Ill.). Vursell said it would “confuse and discourage—no move would hurt agriculture more.” Cooley said he felt inclined to support Harrison’s proposal as a "temporary injunction" against the soil bank. He said it would give his committee time to study charges of lax administration and to consider whether the program should be continued or another program substituted. Cooley noted that he had called Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson before his committee to find, out what recommendations Benson has for changing farm price support and production control laws. Benson has called them “obsolete.” Congress last year approved the four year soil bank calling for payments of up to $1,200,000,000 a year to farmers to induce them to reduce plantings. In drafting the money bill, the Appropriations Committee charged that the soil bank has not reduced surplus production significantly and that it was laxly administered last year. The administration recently revised downward to one billion dollars the funds it is requesting for the program in the next fiscal year. But the’ money bill would provide only 765 million dollars for that fiscal year and would impose a ceiling of 750 million dollars on funds that could be budgeted for the following crop year <l9sß>— limiting the acreage reserve to 500 million dollars and the conservation reserve to 250 million dollars. Harrison’s amendment would bar spending of any funds for the 1958 crop year on the acreage reserve which provides subsidies for growers of wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and rice. 7 Bloomington Boy Is Killed By Shotgun BLOOMINGTON — (IB — Eight-year-old Freddie Frye of Bloomington was shot fatally Tuesday when a shotgun went off as he scuffled for possession of it with a playmate. The boys were hunting groundhogs. Marion Mayor Quits Due To 111 Health MARION— (IB— Mayor Edward Wert said Tuesday he will resign June 1 because of health. Wert, a Democrat, was slated to be succeeded by City Controller Willard G. Blackman, who served a term as mayor a few years ago. Wert was elected in 1955. He also served as mayor from 1942 to 1946. '/’

City Receives Bids June 18 On Sewage Project Ordinance Adopted By City Council In Session last Night Decatur took one step nearer the installation of a sewage disposal project with an ordinance adopted by the city council at a special meeting Tuesday evening at city hall. The ordinance prepares the way for the financing and construction of the sewage works for the city, which was ordered built several years ago by the state stream polution control board. Payment of the cost of construction, according to the terms of the ordinance, will be provided by the issuance of revenue bonds which will be authorized by another ordinance later. The ordinance indicates that it will be to the best interest of the city to handle the bond issue after the contracts have been awarded and the exact cost of construction is determined. The estimated cost of the entire project submitted along with plans and specifications by Con-soer-Townsend engineering firm of Chicago is $1,175,000. The cost to the city will be reduced by a $250,000 federal aid grant. To Receive Bids Authorization to advertise for and receive bids on the construction was also granted in the adoption of the ordinance Tuesday) night. Sealed bids will be received at city hall until 7 p. m. D.S.T., June 18, at which time the bids will be opened and read in a public hearing. The Jegal advertising requesting the bids will appear in two Adams county newspapers Friday. The complete plans and specifications are on file at city hall. They call for the construction of waste disposal facilities having a nominal capacity of atout X.800,000 gallons daily, lift station, force main having a capacity of about 3,100,000 gallons daily, intercepting sewers and other sewers. ... The ordinance adopted Tuesday night indicates that no contracts shall be entered into unless or until approved by ordinance of the common council. Any contract entered into will be subject to the authorization, issuance and sale of revenue bonds issued in an amount sufficient to pay the contract price or prices. Also adopted within the ordinance is the method of redeeming the revenue bonds, which will be (Continued on Paco Ttorea) Opposes Reservoir Project On Wabash Testimony Is Given By Huntington Man j WASHINGTON (UP) — Funderburg, Huntington, Ind., Tuesday appeared before a House Public Works subcommittee to oppose a 45 million dollar reservoir project on the upper Wabash River in Indiana. Funderburg told the Flood Control Subcommittee residents of the upper Wabash “feel very strongly about losing our valleys as flush tanks for three downstream cities.” Funderburg told the committee he represents the Source Water Control Association in Indiana. He said there were better methods than proposed for protecting Peru, Logansport and Wabash, Ind., from floods. Funderburg said Congress had authorized levees for the cities some years ago, but no one pushed for appropriations to build them. He charged that the Army Engineers “worked in semi-secrecy for 10 years on the project,” and valley residents “had no idea that we would lose our homes and farms” until the project was brought to Congress. The upper Wabash project was authorized by Congress in 1956, but was in the omnibus bill vetoed by President Eisenhower. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy,, chance of scattered thundershowers south portion this evening. Partly cloudy and cod tonight. Thursday fair north, partly cloudy south with chance of scattered showers extreme south. Cooler most sections Thursday. Low tonight ranging from lower Ms extreme north to low 50s extreme south. High Thursday ranging from 50s extreme north to 64 to 69 extreme south. Sunset 7:52 p. m., sunrise Thursday 5:32 a. m.

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Two Indicted Indiana Road Officials Refuse To Answer Questions

Petition Asks Area Returned To Wabash Twp. Charges South Part Os Berne Changed In Violation Os Law i A petition to the county auditor filed Tuesday, charges that the north line of Wabash township has been changed contrary to law for many years, and asks the auditor to place the land in Berne south of the main street, which is now assessed in Monroe township, in Wabash township. The petition, made by attorneys Custer and Smith for L. A. Mann, I trustee of Wabash township, ) states that on each occasion that | land was annexed from Wabash township to Berne, it was alsd taken from Wabash civil township and added to Monroe civil township. The petition holds that it was legal to transfer the land from the township to the city, but not from one township to another. It holds that this transfer to Monroe township was contrary to law, and therefore null and void. Hie trustee states that this Was not due to the present auditor, bujhas happened over the years. It ' is similar to a situation which ex- ■ isted in the north part of Decatur, • now called Decatur-Root, a few years ago. The petition asks that all transfers of taxable property made from Wabash to Monroe townships without authority of law be voided; that the transfer books and tax duplicates be corrected so that property in Wabash township be shown as such; that tax money now in hand be withheld from Monroe township and paid instead to Wabash township. The petition asks that this be done" within 15 days, or arrangements be made for an extension of time or a mandate suit in the court. The move by the Wabash township trustee, if carried through, could change the tax and political picture in the south end of the county. The area, now known as Berne C precinct, would still pay toward the Berne-French school, and not towards the Wabash township school. However, . they would have to pay the Wabash township civil rate, rather than the lower Monroe township rate. However, the value of property in south Berne would be added to Wabash township evaluation, and cut the tax rate for that township. It would probably also raise the (Continued on Pago Two) Seek To End Italy Government Crisis New Cabinet Sought By Italian Leader ROME — (IB — Italian President Giovanni Gronchi summoned outgoing Budget Minister Adone Zoli to the Quirinal Palace today to ask him to try to form a new government. , x Zoli, a 69-year-old attorney, was considered the man most likely to atempt to < organize an allChristian Democrat government of “experts” in-an effort to end Italy’s two-day-old cabinet crisis. Such a government would be in a minority and would depend on day-by-day support from other factions of parliament to remain in power. It would be. only an emergency measure to avert a complete collapse of Gronchi’s government until regular parliament elections are held next spring. The Italian political crisis was precipated last week when Depty Premier Giuseppe Sagarat withdrew his right wing Social Democratic Party from the .government. The government already had lost support of the Republicans, and Premier Antonio Segni resigned.

Damaging Winds Hit Widespread Sections Tornadoes, Heavy Rains Dot Storms By UNITED PRESS Damaging wind storms dotted with tornadoes ahd heavy rains lashed widespread sections of the nation Tuesday night and today from Colorado to New York. Ii Eight to 10 twisters dipped from dark clouds near Grand Rapids, Mich., Tuesday night, but disappeared without hitting the city. Other tornadoes were sighted near Rockford, Portland, Lowell, Alto and Middleville, Mich., but they also bypassed the communities. An earlier tornado smashed a farm building near Blooming Prairie, Minn., and two twisters.were reported near AnamoSa, lowa, and Antioch, 111. Three persons were Injured when tornadic winds collapsed a bank roof at Wooster, Ohio. Tuest day. A lightning bolt wrecked the > chimney of the Berlin, Wis., High , School, showering bricks on 100 students in a study hall. No one ; was injured seriously. , A United Press count since Mon- ■ day showed at least 14 persons killed as a result of storms, sit \ of them in flood-soaked Texas. Severe winds swept through ' parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New . York, Alabama, Mississippi and I Tennessee. . A thunderstorm, dumped .55 c inch of rain on New York City Tuesday night, inundating a sec- ’ tion of the New York Central and ’ New Haven railroad tracks during the commuter rush. At Lampasas, Tex., where five ! persons were drowned by a devas- ' taring flash flood Sunday night, the - cleanup job proceeded slowly. > Cranes pulled homes from the I streets and residents slept in the • yards of their silt-filled houses. Wrecked merchandise from I stores was dumped into a heap I for possible salvage later, and other debris, including spoiled ; food, dead animals and silt, was . poured into another dump and covi ered by bulldozers. (Continued on Pace Two) Cooler Weather Is Forecast In State Temperatures Below Normal Are Forecast By UNITED PRESS A big cool-off headed for Hoosierland today. It will stick around the rest of the week. Weatherman said the warm and humid trend of the past week or so will do an about-face in favor of daytime highs in the 60s and night lows in the 40s and 50s beginning tonight and continuing through Saturday and possibly Sunday. Temperatures will average 8 to 12 degrees below normal in the north to 4 to 8 degrees below normal in the south during the period Thursday through Monday. “Cool with warming trend Sunday or Monday,” the outlook said. “Precipitation will average less than one-half inch in the north to one-half to one inch in the south with showers in the south portions Thursday and more generally Sunday or Monday." Temperatures hit highs ranging from 76 at Lafayette to 87 at Evansville Tuesday and’ dropped to lows ranging from 59 at South Bend to 64 at Indianapolis and Fort Wayne early this morning. They were due to crest at 75 to 82 today, drop to a range of 46 to 57 tonight, and hit the pleasant 60s Thursday with a range of 58 north to 68 south. There's a chance of more rain in the south half of the state Thursday but generally speaking the precipitation of the past few days is over for the rest of the week. Showers during the 24-hour period ending at 7:30 a.m. today included measurements of .65 of an inch at Petersburg, and from one-third to one-half inch at Indianapolis, Vincennes, Seymour and other points. All areas got some showers except Evansville, but'the measurements ranged down as low at a trace at Lafayette and .04 of an inch at South Bend.

Asserts Beck Took Thousands From Teamsters Investigators Say Testimony Reveals Theft, Not A Loan WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate investigators heard new testimony today which, they said, proves that Teamster Union President Dave Beck stole more than $322,000 from his union instead of "borrowing” it. A.M. Burke, head of the mortgage loan department of Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles, said a financial statement Beck made in 1951 listed no such loan from his union. Burke said Beck listed assets of $1,052,715. He said the only liability listed was a $234,000 loan from the Security First National Bank of Seattle. Beck made the financial accounting in applying for a $273,000 loan from Burke’s company, which wrote Teamster Union insurance. Council Robert F. Kennedy of the Senate Labor Rackets Committee said that the 1951 financial statement was made “during the period when Beck was taking $300,000 from the union, which he k how claims was a loan." Statement Returned to Beck I Kennedy said that since Beck , himself listed no loan from his union, “it would therefore appear that the money was stolen rather ’ than borrowed.” The new testimony about Beck’s personal finances came amid these other developments: —AFL - CIO President George Meany met with a committee of Teamster Union vice presidents to , discuss the scandal-scarred union's “problems in general.” One matter expected to come up was a recommendation by Teamster Union public relations advisers that Beck step down as union president—at least temporarily. —Federal authorities succeeded in Ellensburg, Wash., in serving a valid subpena on a missing witness wanted by the Senate committee, Norman Gessert, cousin of Beck’s wife. Burke told the committee he no longer has Beck’s financial statement—it was suddenly returned, at Beck's urgent' request, sometime in 1953. Kennedy said this was about the time income tax investigators got on Beck’s trail. Second Subpena Valid Beck was recently indicted on vft Page Two) Dr. Spaulding Head ; Os Cancer Society Decatur Dentist Is Elected Chairman Dr. John Spaulding, Decatur dentist, is the new chairman of the Adams county cancer society, succeeding Miss Joan Wemhoff, who held the post for two years. Dr. Spaulding was named at the annual meeting and election of officers held at the Youth and Community Center this week. Miss Wemhoff will remain,as secretary of the society. All other officers were reelected With* the exception of one member of the advisory committee. Mrs. Raymond Kohne asked to be relieved and she was replaced by Mrs. Richard Huffman of Geneva. Complete list of officers and advisory board members for 195758 are: Chairman, Dr. Spaulding; first vice chairman. Dr. A. H. Girod; second vice chairman, Marie Felber; secretary, Joan Wemhoff; treasurer, Don Bieberich, Preble; publicity director, Dick Heller Sr. Advisory council members are Dr. C. P. Hinchman, Geneva; DrTJ. M. Burk, Thurman I. Drew, Robert Holthouse, Hubert Zerkel, i Jr., Mrs. Richard Huffman, Ge- , neva; Rev. Ray J. Walther, Si- ; mon Schwartz, Berne; Roy I. Kalh ver, Harold Mattox, Geneva; Art | Burris and Kenneth Gaunt.

Oppose Resumption Os Yugoslavian Aid State Department Plans Are Opposed WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowiand today headed a drive to block administration plans to resume shipments of major military aid to Communist Yugoslavia. Knowiand called the decision a “mistake.” Ch air ma n Styles ’ Bridges <N.H.) of the Senate GOP Policy Committee said it was a 1 “great mistake." The State Department announced ; plans late Tuesday to resume the shipments including jet planes. It said it had the specific approval of President Eisenhower. The department said the action was in the interest of the United States and in line with established U.S. policy “of lending support to those countries seeking to withstand Soviet pressure.” Knowiand promptly announced he would try to short-circuit administration authority to make the shipments. He presumably l planned to strike at the administration authority when Congress acts on Eisenhower's foreign aid , program. "I am not in favor of taxing the [ American people to support the . economic and political systems of r Communist countries abr o ad,” > Knowiand said. He said there “are many of our Allies” who are in desperate need of jet planes and are more deserving of aid than Tito who has no ’ commitment even to be neutral “if the United States should come under attack.” Bridges, who joined Knowiand in J a futile fight against the program 1 last year, said he has not changed , his mind. ; lam absolutely opposed to it,” ‘ he said. New Nuclear Tests Scheduled Thursday Three-Month Series Os Tests In Nevada LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP)—American scientists put the finishing touches today on preparations for the first atomic blast in the lone 1957 summer "keep the peace” series. even as international controversy over such nuclear tests seethed. Weather permitting, the threemonth testing program will begin shortly before dawn Thursday when a nuclear devide with a vio'.lence equal to 10,000 tons of TNT will be exploded atopta 500 - foot steel tower in a far corner of Yucca Flat, 65 miles northwest of here. - - The burst will be witnessed from 11 miles away by a half a hundred newsmen and photographers. five representing foreign . agencies, 31 representatives of 13 . NATO nations, and about 30 military observers. There will be no troop maneuvers although two fullscale exercises will be staged later in the series. The newsmen and other observI ers, including many from 47 foreign nations, will be permitted to watch nine of the approximately 20 “shots” scheduled through the summer. The other tests will be ’ closed to all but the scientists and ' the military. The new tests, dubbed “Opera- , tion Plumbbob” by the Atomic Energy Commission, will be the longest staged by the United States since it began A-bomb testing in 195 J. Five series of tests have been held since then, the longest being in 1955 when 14 nu- ■ clear detonations were set off. Thursday’s "shot” will be the 46th ’ fired in Nevada. Emphasis upon this year’s tests will center primarily upon development of new and more efficient ! tactical weapons such as air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles, smaller ' atomic artillery, anti - submarine ■ weapons and those to destroy en- • emy A-bombs and H-bombs before • they strike their targets. • The AEC disclose Tuesay that k one of this year's Nevada tests they strike their targets.

Teverbaugh And Smith Invoke sth Amendment Refuse To Answer Senate Probers Os Land-Buying Deals WASHINGTON (UP)-Two former Indiana state highway officials invoked the Fifth Amendment today before a Senate sub- > committee investigating - Hoosier land-buying scandals. Virgil W. (Red) Smith, former highway chairman, and Nile Teverbaugh, former chief of the right-of-way division, refused to answer questions about the sale of two back lots in Indianapolis for a Madison Ave. expressway. Smith and Teverbaugh and two others subpenaed by the Public Roads Subcommittee are under indictment on charges stemming from the land transactions. After Smith and Teverbaugh and two other witnesses appeared, the hearing was recessed to 1:30 p.m. CDT. Refuse 47 Answers In all. Smith refused to answer , 28 questions and 19 , on grounds that’ their answers might tend to incriminate them. Andrew A. Lipscomb, Washington I attorney tor the four indicted men. told the subcommittee before it " I began questioning Smith and Tev- . erbaugh that he would advise , them to invoke the Fifth Amend- ' ment. The subcommittee also ques- , ( tioned C.E. Vogelgesang, Indiana ! highway chief engineer, and Mrs. Nolan E. Hopper, deputy recorder of Marion County. Vogelgesang said right-of-way purchases “were nominally under my charge but actually not.” He. said after Smith became chairman of the commission, right-of-way grants no longer were sent to his office for review. That was the practice before Smith took over in 1855, he said. Vogelgesang identified plans for the expressway and told the subcommittee they did not call for use of the entire area of two lots owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Quinlan and Mr. and Mrs. John Acker. He said the specifications showed that only 35 feet off the front .of the lots was needed for permanent right-of-way,-10 more feet temporarily. Testifies on Deeds Mrs. Hopper testified that deeds for the lots were made out to a "Dean Burton” and mailed to Teverbaugh by her office. Smith and Teverbaugh gave the subcommittee very little information. Smith even declined to say whether he ever was connected with the highway department Teverbaugh admitted he was under indictment. Smith refused to answer questions about his service with the highway department or land pur- x chases for the Madison Ave. Expressway in Indianapolis in 1955 on grounds his answers might incriminate him. On the advice of his attorney, Andrew A. Lipscomb of Washington, Smith cited the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution as grounds for his refusal to answer. He was the first witness at the opening session of a Senate Public Roads Subcommittee investigation of Indiana highway land buying. Smith told the committee his name, residence, and size of hid"hometown of Milan. Then Filo Sedillo, special counsel for the subcommittee, asked him if he had been a member of the highway commission, and Smith began citing the Fifth Amendment. Seeks to Protect Them Lipscomb had asked the subcommittee to postpone taking testimony from Smith, Nile Teverbaugh, Harry Doggett and Robert A. Peak, all of whom were indicted May 3 in Indianapolis. They are charged with conspiracy to commit embezzlement and grand larceny, and Smith and Teverbaugh were charged with embezzlement. Lipscomb said the four men “are informed* and believe th dr income tax returns to be under ■ investigation by federal authori--1 ties” and told the subcommittee (Continued on Page Four)

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