Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 6 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 133.

CONFER ON STATUS OF TROOPS ABROAD I J| WITH THE CASE OF Pvt William S. Girard arousing international interest because of the U. S. dec? sion to surrender him to Japan for trial on manslaughter charges, Robert Dechert (center), general’., counsel of the Defense Department meets with a Senate sub-committee of two to discuss Status of Forces” treaties. Dechert gave the Pentagon's views on the Girard case to Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (D), N. C.. <left) and Sen. Ralph Flanders <R), Vermont ..

■ — r w .Y *7_* -TTTT-Tr-.— Senator Group Restores Soil Bank Authority Actions By Senate Committee Victory For Ike On Issues WASHINGTON (UP)—A Senate Agriculture Appropriations subcommittee has refused to go along with the House in cutting out the heart of the administration’s soil bank program for 1958 crop*. The subcommittee voted Wednesday to let the Agriculture Department make commitments to pay farmers 500 million dollars for trimming surplus crops next year under the acreage reserve portion of the soil bank. It tacked on a proviso, however, limiting the payment to any single producer under this program to five thousand dollars. The subcommittee’s recommendations will go to the full Appropriations Committee Friday. The bill will be sent to the Senate floor next week. Victory For Ike The actions came as the subcommittee completed work on the $3,700,00,000 agriculture money bill passed by the House. Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) said the total approved was less than the House figure but declined to go into details. Restoration of the soil bank authority was a victory for President Eisenhower. He had urged the Senate to overturn the House action, contending it would prevent a “fair test” of the program. The 1958 authority was written back into the measure by a committee vote of 8 to 2. The action did not affect the amount of money appropriated for the department for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The House had voted 600 million dollars for the acreage reserve program for the coming fiscal year—on 1957 crops—and the Senate subcommittee accepted that figure. More Than NeededRussell told newsmen he thought Congress was never enthusiastic about the soil bank program. He said it was approved because “the alternative was this or nothing after Eisenhower vetoed the Dem-ocratic-sponsored farm bill last year. The acreage reserve program was established to compensate farmers for removing land from production to limit output on such basic crops as wheat, cotton, corn, peanuts and rice. The soil bank also includes a long-range conservation reserve program, for which the House set a $250,00,00 annual limit. Russell reported that the Senate subcommittee reduced the amount appropriated for the conservation reserve for the next but raised the ceiling to $350,000,000 for the following year. He said the department had reported it would need less than the House voted for this purpose. He said only $177,000,000 would be neede to kneet these commitments in the coming fiscal year. Rumschlag Funeral Saturday Morning Funeral services for Lewis H. Rumschlag, retired farmer who died Tuesday night, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home until time of the services. The Holy Name society Will recite the rosary at 7:30 o’clock this evening and the Third Order of St. Francis at 7:3o'p.hv Friday.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Eisenhower To Sea i On Supercarrier Overnight Cruise On Carrier Saratoga ABOARD USS SARATOGA <UP> —President Eisenhower put to sea tt>day aboard the pride of the Navy, the new 60,000-ton supercarrier, USS Saratoga, for a concentrated 24-hour study of guided missiles, jet operations, anti-sub-marine warfare and defense against atom bombs. The chief executive flew from Washington with most of the National Security Council and other top federal officials and boarded this angled - deck “floating air base” at Mayport, Fla. The President arrived at this St. John’s River base from Washington aboard his personal plane, the Columbine 111. The landing strip was only a few yards from the huge carrier which was all set to sail.the moment the chief executive arrived. “ .... ■ Eisenhower was welcome! aboard by the screams of two Skyray jet fighters which were catapulted from the massive deck of the carrier while she stood at dockside. Accompanying the Chief Executive on his overnight cruise aboard the Saratoga are Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Secretary of Treasury George M. Humphrey Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission. Skies Clearing In Southwest State? Serious Flooding Along Two Rivers By UNITED PRESS Weathermen today predicted generally dry weather for the Southwest, but the clearing skies may come too late to prevent serious flooding along the Red and Colorado rivers. A few scattered showers and thunderstorms were seen for the area today, in contrast to the recent heavy rains over much of the region. The stormy weather advanced into the Midwest Wednesday night and today, dumping up to nearly one inch of rain in parts of Chicago and northern Indiana. Heavy hail accompanied the thunderstorms in some areas. In the Southwest, thousands of gallons of water spilled from Lake Texoma into the Red River. Meteorbologist B.P. Hughes of Shreveport, La., said flooding is expected all along the Red River except at Shreveport. He said the river already is bankfull in Arkansas and Louisiana, and has overflowed into lowlands in sections of Texas and Oklahoma. Texas residents along the lower reaches of the Colorado River also were warned to expect extensive flooding. Cooler air overspread the Pacific Northwest during the night, touching off showers that ranged up to .81 of ah inch at Yakima, Wash. Showers also were wide(Coatiaued *a P«a« Five) South Bend Seeking Hit And Run Driver SOUTH BEND fUP’ - Police today sought a hit-run driver who left Albert Taylor, 48, South Bend, dead on U.S. 20 just west of the city limits. South Bend patrolmen found Taylor’s body early- today about three feet from his parked automobile* Shattered pieces' of the hit-run car’s headlight were found on the <pp of Taylor’s car.

Judge Orders Cause Be Shown i In Girard Case Orders Government Authorities Show Cause For Trial WASHINGTON (UP)—A federal judge today directed U.S. authorities to show cause why an American soldier accused of slaying a ’ Japanese woman should not be returned to the United States. The soldier, Army Specialist 3C William S. Girard, Ottawa, 111., is about to be turned over to the Japanese for trial there on charges of killing the Japanese woman ■ while she was scavenging on an • Army firing range. ' « Federal Judge Joseph C. Mc- • Garraghy directed U.S. authorities • to show neys petitioned nun to order i Girard’s immediate return to the United States. The lawyers held . that the shift to Japanese courts ' was illegal and unconstitutional. McGarraghy said he could not do so without a “more complete record.” Accordingly, he ordered more hearings next Monday to determine whether Girard should be returned to the United States. Betatoed to U.S. Custody The action means U.S. authorities must show cause why an order for Girard's return should not be issued. McGarraghy signed papers whereby Girard will be retamed in U.S. custody until the habeas : corpus issue is resolved. , The Japanese trial is now set for June 21. ■ _ Girard’s attorney, Earl J. Car- , roll of New York, argued that the soldier is being made “a sacrihcial lamb merely for the purpose of appeasement." i Carroll said that, even granting ( that Japanese courts are as good as those in the “United States, the case.'sets a precedent for all soldiers wherever they are sent Carroll contended that the mis- | hap took place in an area equivalent to a U.S. Army base Where Japan has no jurisdiction. On the other hand, U.S. Atty. Oliver Gasch argued that the area is not a military base but merely a section reserved for part-time use of U.S. troops. He said the Japanese army uses the same area at dther times. Girard’s term of service expired ' last February. Apparently if he ( once got to this county he would ] be in civilian status and out of the , jurisdiction not only of Japanese courts but of U.S. military author!- , ties as well. The Supreme Court , has ruled that ex-servicemen may not be returned to military ■ to be tried for crimes committea while in uniform. One of the lawyere. Earl Carroll, who has law offices in New (Coatmuea on City's Swimming Pool Opened For Season Saturday The city swimming pool will open , Saturday at 1 p.m., Hubert Zerkel Jr., pool manager, said today. Pool rules will remain almost the same, Zerkel stated. One new feature will be the five minute rest period every half hour. This means that every half hour everyone must leave the pool to rest, allowing the life guards to check the pool. 1 As in part years, no runningpushing, or ducking will be allowed at the pool, Zerkel said. Hours will remain 1 to 4:30 Monday through Saturday, and 7 to 8:30 t p.m. Monday through Friday. Suni day, the pool will be open from 2 until 5 p.m. • Zerkel will be assisted by Miss Carol Alger, a licensed life guard.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 6, 1957.

16 Persons Killed, 26 Injured In Collision Os Two Trucks Today _______________ ___________ 1 -

Houseftgrees To Delay On Civil Rights Agree To Another Day's Delay Before 4 Final Vote On Bill By UNITED PRESS The House today agreed to another day’s delay in bringing President Eisenhower’s civil rights bill to a final vote next week. This time the delay was sought by supporters rather than Opponents of the bill. At the request of Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), floor manager of the measure, the House agreed unanimously to call off„its previously agreed-to Saturday session and to take next Wednesday off. This means the bill will be debated today, Friday and Monday. Action on amendments will begin Tuesday. The Wednesday recess will follow, with further votes on amendments starting Thursday. The announced reason for the Wednesday day off was to give House members a chance to observe an international naval ..review in Hampton Roads, Va. Actually backers of the civil rights measure were seeking extra time to try to counter whal ? th«S-,r insider a "crippling' amendment Southerners plan to offer. This amendment, which advocates conceded seemed to be gaining ground, would require jury trials for anyone cited for contempt of court for violating court injunctions forbidding interference with the right to vote. Ordinarily, contempt cases are tried without juries. Other congressional news: Pauling: The Senate Internal Security subcommittee subpenaed the Nobel Prize winning chemist, Dr. Linus Carl Pauling, for questioning on “whether -Communist organizations are behind” a petition he initiated calling for an end to H-bomb tests. Pauling will be questioned behind closed doors Monday and at a public hearing June 18. He has announced that 2,000 scientists signed the petition. TVA: William S. Peterson, president of the American Public Power Assn., told a Senate Public Works subcommittee Congress should send the Tennessee Valley Authority into the private money (ContißaeU o« Five, Catholic Graduate Exercises Friday Annual Graduation Exercises Planned Commencement exercises of the Decatur Catholic high school and the St. Joseph grade school Will be held at 8 o’clock Friday evening at the school auditorium. A class of 22 seniors will receive high school diplomas, and 42 Members of the eighth grade of St. Joseph school will be graduated into high school. The Rev. Albert Q. Senn, of Waynedale, will deliver the commencement address, and diplomas will be presented by the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Sejmetz, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church and superintendent of the schools. Scholastic awards will be presented to the members of the two graduating classes by Msgr Seimetz.. - , , The Catholic school band, under direction of Qint Reed, will play the processional and the recessional, members of the senior class will sing “My Own America,” and the eighth grade graduates will sing “This Is My Country.” Preview Os Summer Humidity In State By UNITED PRESS A preview of summer humidity hovered over Hoosierland today. Temperatures soared toward the 80s for the third consecutive day and tiie weatherman predicted scattered showers and thunderstorms from the far north to the deep south.

Says Bakery Union Head A Dictator Used Union Funds,, Ousted Officers WASHINGTON — W A Bakery Workers Union official testified today that former Union Vice President George L, Stuart ran a “dictatorship,” dipping into union funds and removing officers who objected to his rule. The witness, Anthony Conforti, president of the union’s big Local 1 in Chicago, told the Senate Rackets Committee he gave $6,750 to Stuart to organize workers of a cookie company. The company said in an affidavit that it was not aware any drive had been under way. Conforti also testified that $2,591 worth of union funds was used to buy camera equipment for Stuart in 1954. The Chicago union leader said he did not protest this and other practices because “1 was afraid of my job." He said officials of local unions who disagreed with Stuart were summarily removed. Stuart’s actfbn in firing them, he said, was backed up by William F. Schnitzler, then president of the international union. Schnitzler now is secretary-treasurer o* the AFLCIO. "Tn other words,” s<jd Chairman John L. McClellan D-Ark., "you were undler a dicatorship.” “Yes, sir,” said Conforti. “The local members had nothing to do with running the union," McLellan continued, “the local officers were serving their masters, the international officers. It was a national dictatorship.” “Yes,” Conforti agreed. Stuart was summoned to testify later. He recently was exonerated by the international union’s executive board of charges of misusing union funds. He later resigned, saying his action had nothing to do with the charges since he had planned to quit anyway. Testing Underway On New City Well Water Is Hit At 402-Foot Level Testing is underway today for the new city well on the Mrs. Anna Moltz farm, Mayor Robert D. Cole said this morning. The well was started May 20 by Floyd Moody, of Rockford, 0., and drilled to a depth of 85 feet the first day. Water was hit at 402 feet Monday, and a pump was installed to control the flow of water. Ralph Roop, city engineer, stated that he will test the well for an eight-hour period to study its capacity. During the first hour it pumped about 130 gallons a minute, with the water table stabilized at 140 feet. It is hoped that the well will bring in about 200 to 250 gallons a minute. After the well's capacity is measured, a pump will be purchased to handle the quantity of water to be pumped, and several hundred feet of water main will be laid to connect the new well with the present system. This could not be done before the well was tested, as the quantity of water to be handled was unknown. It will be about a month before the new well actually goes into production, Roop stated. A new pressure system in the old water mains, allowing the wells to rest for several hours between pumpings, has resulted in more water being pumped when needed. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Friday, a little cooler extreme north tonight. Low tonight in the 50s extreme north to the 60s south and central. High Friday mostly in the 80s. Sunset 8:10 p.m„ sunrise Friday 5:17 r a.m. 12 Pages

Teverbaugh In Innocent Plea To Indictment Pleads Not Guilty To Indictments In Highway Scandals INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Former Indiana Highway Department right-of-way director Nile Teverbaugh today pleaded innocent to three indictments growing out of a Marion County Grand Jury’s investigation of the Hoosier highway scandal. Teverbaugh entered identical pleas to indictments charging embezzlement, conspiracy to steal and conspiracy to embezzle in connection with alleged irregularities in land sales for the Madison Ave. Expressway here. He was the third person to enter innocent pleas. Virgil (Red) Smith and Robert Peak pleaded “not guilty” Wednesday. The jury heard from four more witnesses in its morning session. William Clarkson, director of Public Works and Supply in the administration of former Gov. George Craig, said he was not aware that the state bought Gio, an expensive fuel additive. However, he told newsmen he knew Arthur J. Mogilner, the agent who sold the highway department $133,000 worth of the fluid. “I thought he was just like any other salesman who came into my office,” said Clarkson. He also told newsmen he was never advised or asked to give any preferential treatment to Mogilner. who later formed a “public relations” firm with Smith. Clarkson explained -it was not unusual that he was not aware of Gio purchases by the highway department because “if the director or any one person did nothing but look at requisitions, he wouldn’t get anything else done.” Mrs. Helen Payton, Craig’s former personal secretary, said she knew Mogilner. Her husband, John, who represented a Chicago design engineering firm which he said lost money on contract work with the Indiana Toll Road Commission, said he did not attempt to influence his wife’s Statehouse connections in renegotiating a road contract with state officials. “I never did any business with the state,” said Payton. Smith, former state highway chairman under Craig, and Peak, an attorney friend of Smith’s from his home town of Milan, made their pleas before Judge Scott A. McDonald in Marion Criminal Court: McDonald indicated the two may go on trial in August. Marion County Prosecutor John Tinder (Ceatiawed aa Paa* Ft**) B. F. Straubinger Dies At Willshire Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Benjamin F. Straubinger, 74, lifelong resident of Willshire, 0., died suddenly early this morning at his home in that town. He was born in Willshire, Dec. 31, 1882, a son of Adam and Mathilda Ochs-Straublnger, and was never married. Mr. Straubinger graduated from the Willshire high school in 1900, and was a former employe of the Ohio Oil Co. He was a member of the Masonic lodge at Willshire. Surviving are a brother, George W. Straubinger of Aljon, Calif., and three sisters, Misses Katherine and Lucia Straubinger, and Mrs. A. F. Passwater, all of Willshire. One sister and three brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, with burial in the Willshire cemetery. The Willshire Masonic lodge will hold services at 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Friday until time of the services. , }

Says U.S. Develops Meteorological Bomb Charge Wednesday By Soviet Russia LONDON (UP) —The United States has developed a “meteorological bomb" to turn the weather into a weapon, to® Soviet Union charged today. A broadcast by Moscow Radio made the charge in leaking details of Wednesday’s proceedings at the five-power London disarmament conference. The broadcast also disclosed that Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin told the parley that a nuclear weapons ban should be based on trust rather than inspection. In alleging that the United States was trying to use the weather as a weapon, Moscow Radio quoted a Soviet scientist identified only as a “Professor Fedorov.” It quoted Fedorov as saying the U.B. was making a meteorological bomb “capable of causing droughts and downpours on alien territory, thus destroying crops over a vast area and causing other damage.” Fedorov was also quoted as saying U.S. scientists were “going off half-cocked” in this, because no one has control over the weather. . He added that anyone who tried to ’ unleash a storm over the territory ' of a hostile country “might get 20 . times the effect at home.” ; The Soviet leak of the supposed- ’ ly secret proceedings came as the , conference itself went into recess ’ until next Tuesday. Hie adjournment came after a deadlock developed over India’s request to send a representative here to ex- ’ plain its views on disarmament and over German - Soviet differences on President Eisenhower’s ' “open skies" inspection plan. Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur June 12 More Donors Needed To Meet Blood Goal At least 60 more donors are needed by the Red Cross bloodmobile which will be in Decatur next Wednesday, Mrs. Ed Bauer, blood program chairman, said today. Three ladles each day have been working since Monday, even making evening calls to contact the 170 donors necessary to obtain the 125 pints of blood expected from the Adams county area this month. There were 29 pints of blood from the blood bank used by Adams county people in May, Mrs. Bauer reported. These were in all parts of the United States, since the blood is provided free to anyone from participating counties when needed and wherever needed. Times open for giving blood, which takes about an hour, are 11:15 to 3:15 p.m. Wednesday at the community center. Persons who would like to donate are asked to call the Red Cross office so that the schedule can be arranged. It is no longer necessary to limit food before giving blood, Mrs. Bauer pointed out. Donors may eat regular meals before giving. Ladies who have helped with the telephone committee Tuesday and Wednesday are Mrs. Bill Lose, Jr., Mrs. W. Lowell Harper, Mrs. Frances Monahan. Mrs. Robert Railing, and Mrs. Joe Hunter. City Will Receive • Plauqe For Safety Mayor Robert D. Cole will receive a plaque in behalf of the city ot Decatur from the Indiana traffic safety foundation Thursday, June 13, in honor of Decatur’s having no fatal traffic accidents in 1956. - ■ ■ Mayor Cole received a letter today from Hallie L. Myers, executive director of the foundation, congratulating the city officials, police, officers and citizens. Myers ; stated that records show that such a safety record is usually the result of “strong official action backed up by citizen support.” The plaque will be awarded in , the mayor’s office by a representative of the foundation.

Six Cento

Migrant Bean Pickers Dead In Collision - • Truck Loaded With Potatoes Smashes Into Second Truck FAYETTESVILLE, N. C. (UP)— A tractor - trailer truck loaded with potatoes smashed into a truck crowded with migrant bean pickers at a busy highway intersection near here today, killing 16 persons. Twenty-six other workers were injured in the collision nine miles north of here on U.S. 30 and authorities said the death toll probably would rise. All of the victims were Negroes. One was identified as a 6-months-old child. The truck carrying uie workers burst into flames after the spectacular collision and at least two of the victims burned to death. Hours after the accident authorities had been unable to identify the dead and injured. They were migrants from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The tractor-truck driver, Gilbert Robert Peters, 25, Wapwallopen, Pa’., told patrolmen that the workers’ truck failed to stop at the interMcttoßand pulled into the path of his huge rig. Peters' track was loaded with 100-pound sacks of potatoes being shipped from Edisto Island, B.C. Peters suffered shock but was not in serious condition. ' The state highway patrol said 13 of the victims were killed when the two vehicles rammed together and three others died later at highsmith hospital here. Other injured workers were tafken to hospitals here and at nearby Dunn. A highway patrol officer, V.L. Spruill, said there were 41 workers on the truck when it was hit squarely by the tractor - trailer. The impact almost demolished the truck carrying the bean pickers. Sheriff L.L. Guy of Cumberland County, N.C., who reached the scene 10 minutes after the accident, said “There were 12 dead sprawled all over the highway." The impact drove the stake-body truck on which the workers were riding into a wqed-choked ditch alongside the road and the bed’s wooden sides splintered. The fire burned a highway sign. The truck carrying the migrant workers was bound from Mount (Hive, N.C., to Dunn. Rules For Slate On Gross Income Taxes State's High Court In Important Case INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The Indiana Supreme Court late Wednesday reversed a lower court’s decision involving a South Bend firm and paved the way for the state to keep gross income taxes it collects from government contractors. The .high court’s decision came in a case involving the Bendix Aviation Corp. The Bendix firm filed suit in South Bend for refund of $602,322 in gross Income taxes the statee collected in 1951-53. The firm and the federal government claimed the sales were made in interstate commerce and therefore exempt from the state gross income tax. St. Joseph Superior Court agreed and ordered the refund. ’ ' / The state appealed the decision to the high court. In overruling the lower court, the high court said the goods were delivered in South Bend and did not enter interstate commerce until later. The opinion was written by Chjef Justice Norman Arterburn and three of the tow judges concurred. Judge James Emmert did not participate. Governor Handley said he was “naturally gratified” by the decision. But he cautioned the case still can be appealed to the U.S. <c*.u»*a *a pm* "*•>