Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 15 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 141.

,ii„ —, 7., "■>> f •; . *77 1H BRINGS C HARGE AGAINST GOVERNMENT T^E K ,: JOHN ZAWESZA, 45-year-old carpenter of Fairfield, Conn., is one of a group of former soldiers who have charged through a Bridgeport, Conn., attorney that powerful flood-lights on World War II tanks have either rendered. them sterile or caused them to father deformed children. His wife, Helen (left), shown with their two children, has bad three miscarriages and a child with a cleft palate. .'-ur- .■ --| f - .- ----i.. - . -|- — - — - L , .c.,;>..., ..... i si ■ ■■— —

House Defeats Amendment To Civil Rights Foreign Aid Bill Is Voted Approval Friday By Senate WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower and the administration received the major share of the credit today for the House defeat of the jury trial amendment to the Civil Rights BUI. 4 ' Leaders on both sides of the issue agreed the administration was mainly responsible for its failure to gain passage. The House rejected the amendment by a vote of 199-167 Friday night after six days of argument .. < One southern leader said he believed "last minute work by the White House” swayed enough Republicans to provide the margin for. defeat. H|t action resulted in a major victory tor toe administration since southerners had concentrated their mala fight against the biU on the amendment. ’ Rep. Kenneth B Keating of New York, GOP floor leader tor the bill, said the defeat was due chiefly to the "very vigorous support” given by President Eisenhower and Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin (Mass.) to those fighting it. . T. ■ .- . L The administration opposed the amendment on grounds it would render the Civil Rights bill worthless. Under it persons accused of violating court orders protecting civil rights would have been tried by a jury instead of a judge. Final House passage is expected next Monday Other congressional news: Foreign Aid: The Senate handed President Eisenhower a victory by authorizing a $3,367,000,000 foreign aid program. The measure, approved 57-25 Friday night, escaped virtually untouched as reported from committee. The bill now goes to the House where passage is not expected until the end of the month. Farm: A special presidential commission reported to Congress that greater research efforts can find many industrial uses for surplus farm products. The commission on increased industrial use of agriculture, in its final report, called for "dynamic and imaginative” efforts to help solve the agricultural surplus probem. The commission was set up in 1954 to make recommendations for a long-range program to widen the industrial uses of farm products.. Labor: Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell has asked the House Labor Committee to testify on proposals to require public disclosure of financial operations of employe welfare funds. Mitchell said the administration has made certain recommendations along this line but has not been asked by the committee to present its views. He requested an invitation from Chairman Graham Barden (D-N.C.) to testify. Housing: The Senate Banking Committee has voted to decrease the House-approved boost in the direct home-loan program for veterans. The committee approved a 50 million dollar increase, as against a 300 million dollar boost approved by the House.

Injured Berne Youth Home From Hospital Melville Sprunger. Berne youth injured in a one-car wreck south of Decatur April 18, was released from Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne Thursday. He suffered fractures of both legs and severe cuts on the face. He will return to the hospital every ten days for therapy. He will be a senior this fall at Berne-French high school.

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Industrial Uses For Farm Produce Urged

Commission Calls For Surplus Uses WASHINGTON ffl - A special presidential commission called today for a "dynamic and imaginative” effort to utilise surplus farm products for industrial purposes. The Commission on Increased Industrial Usefof Agriculture said adequate research can find many industrial uses for farm products and thus help solve the agricultural surplus problem. The commission said in a report to Congress that farm - produced materials "can be modified, tailored to particular needs, taken apart, and recombined to make new products” such as plastics, films, fibers and coatings. Heretofore, much of agricultural research has been pointed toward production. The report completed the work of the five - member commission which was set up by the 84th Congress to make recommendations for a long-range program to Widen the Industrial use of farm products — particularly those in surplus. • Chairman J. Leroy Welsh, an Omaha, Neb., grain dealer, and commission members received the help of almost 300 leaders in agriculture, industry, and science in carrying out the assignment. Other members of the commission were Karl D. Butler, Ithada, N.Y-; George Henry Coppers, Englewood, N.J.; Charles R. Sayre, Scott, Miss.; and Frank J. Welch, Lexington, Ky. Wheeler McMillen, Philadelphia, Pa., was executive director of the group. McMillen noted that the commission completed its task in less than 10 months and returned to the treasury about $20,000 of the $150,000 Congress appropriated for the study. . The commission set out to find answers to the question: “can in* dustrial markets absorb enough excess farm production to minimize—or possibly eliminate —costly restrictions, supports, and sur-plus-disposal operations?” The conclusion, spelled out in the final report: “the commission believes the answer is an emphatic yes, provided the necessary steps are taken to make possible and encourage such a development.” In an interim report April 19, the commission recommended the government set up a broadened SIOO,OOO, 000-a-year research program It said these steps are necessary: Increased participation by public and private institutions in an effective research program; greatly expanded basic research on use of farm products and increased use of grants, fellowships, and scholarships to increase the nation s supply of scientists. It also recommended placing more emphasis on governmentindustry sharing of research costs; expanding research and development work with new crops; making wider use of commercial-scale trials of new products, and offering (COMMtUM OB <*o*o mn

Kentucky Youth Dies As Auto Hits Bridge FRANKFORT (UP) — Ronald Gene Chatman, 19, Lawrenceburg, Ky., was killed late Friday when his car skidded on a Clinton County road near Rossville and slammed into a bridge railing. State police said the left side of the car was ripped oft by the impact and the car then rolled over on the youth. , ' INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight with tare. Sunday partly cloudy, not much change in temperawarm and humid with scattered thundershowers likely by afternoon or night. Low tonight 60-70. High Sunday 83-88. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy with scattered showers and a few thunderstorms tn the soothwest portion.

Flays Attacks On Eisenhower In Girard Case Maine Republican Says Inflaynmptory Interests To Blame WASHINGTON (UP)—Rep. Robert Hale (R-Maiae) charged today that “inflammatory interests” are using the William S. Girard case to attack President Eisenhower. Hale said some of the attacks being made against the administration for turning the Army specialist over to the Japanese for trial for killing a Japanese woman are “scandalous.’'* Moreover, he said Girard’s attorneys are “arguing the case by epithet" here in federal district court Where they are seeking return of Girard to the United States. A decision was expected next week. The attorneys accused the administration late Friday fa ja memorandum filed with Federal Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy of attempting a Soviet-type “grab for power” in turning Girard over to the Japanese courts. They said the administration’s handling of the case differed only in technique from Adolf Hitler’s assumption of “absolute political power” in Nazi Germany. However, they said while Hitler usurped power abruptly, “The power here grabbed is by the more subtle Soviet technique of ‘little by little.”’ Hale was among 40 GOP congressmen who attended a White House breakfast Friday given by President Eisenhower at which presidential aides gave a special briefing on the Girard caseBoth Hale and Rep. William E. Hess (OhioJ.T were previously doubtful about the administration decision to turn Girard over to Japan. But afterwards they said nationwide protests would be stilled if all the facts about the case were known by the public. Hale said that if he had understood the facts of the case as they were understood by the American military leaders involved in Japan then he would have let the Japanese try Girard. Girard is accused of slaying Mrs. Naka Sakai while she was scavenging tor metal on a firing range. The Japanese hae charged — and he has denied — that he threw shell casing toward her to entice her closer before he fired the fatal shot.

Monthly Draft Call May Be Cut In Half Prospective Cut In Armed Forces QUANTICO, Va. (UP)-Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey said today that monthly draft calls may be cut in half by a prospective reduction in U.S. armed forces. That would mean trimming calls from the present 13,000 men a month to between 6,000 and 7,00. Hershey made the statement in an interview at the annual defense leaders conference being held at the Marine base here. Almost 170 of foe. nation’s top defense and civilian brass are attending the three-day session for a secret discussion of defense problems. Hershey discussed future draft calls when asked about the effect of a manpower cut indicated by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson at a news conference here Thursday. Wilson talked about trimming defense expenditures from the present 42-billion-dollar rate to the 38-billion-dolar rate set in President Eisenhower’s defense budget

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, June 15, 1957.

Vicious Storms Pound Two Indiana Counties; Hit In Midwest States i J

More Storms | Are Forecast For Midwest Three Persons Die As Storm Hits At i Springfield, 111. By UNITED PRESS Severe thunderstorms and heavy rains were predicted for the Midwest today where tornadoes caused upwards of a million dollars damage Friday. Three persons were killed when a tornado and a 106-mile an hour windstorm flayed Springfield, Hl. Tornadoes struck also at Jacksonville, 11., and in Michigan and Wisconsin. The dead incuded Mrs. Anna Belle Larson, 37, who was killed by a power line broken by a falling tree, Mrs. Paul Farey, 60, crushed beneath-her home when the foundation was displaced, and Carl R. Applegate, hit by a belt of lightning while operating a railroad handcar. The Red Cross gave an official estimate of 20 homes destroyed and* 200 others damaged at Springfield, but observers said the count was closer to 1,000 including all types of damage. A tornado swirled info a summer resort in Montmorency County, Mich., Friday night, damaging three cottages and uprooting trees over a 150-acre site- No injuries were reported. Two black funnels accompanied severe thunderstorms ’in Wisconsin, about 10 miles northeast of Iron Mountain, Mich., but damage was minor and no injuries were reported. In northwestern Pepnsylvania, toe weather bureau said that tornadoes expected early today failed to materialize and thunderstorms which were also expected dissi pa ted over Ohio. It was wet as well as windy in the Midwest Friday. An electric rain storm drowned St. Louis, Mo.; under more than three-and-one-half inches of rain over a sixhour period. Traffic stopped, carlines were out, lightning caused small fires, and the Coast Guard put to “sea” to South St. Louis County to rescue flooded families. Waters brimmed up to car hoods in the city, homes were evacuated, and a six-foot cement retaining wall collapsed under the Charles Holt Quits As Monmouth Coach Accepts Position At Winchester High Charles P. (Porky) Holt, head coach at the Monmouth high school for the past seven years, today announced his resignation from the Monmouth school, effective immediately. Holt, in announcing his resignation, stated that he has accepted a coaching position at the Winchester high school. He will serve as head coach in basketball and golf and assistant in football for the Winchester Yellow Jackets. His predecessor at the Winchester school was killed in a traffic accident this spring while driving members of the school’s golf team to a match. Holt came to Monmouth after 'graduating from Ball State Teachers College and the Adams county post was his first coaching and teaching assignment. He holds both the B. S. and M. A. degrees from Ball State. Holt’s basketball teams won four consecutive sectional championships, in 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956. He also won three Adams county tourney titles, two Eastern Indiana conference basketball championships. In track, his cross country team won the county title three years and the county track crown two years. Holt, in announcing his resignation, expressed his regrets at leaving the county coaching ranks, but views the Winchester position as a promotion.

Europeans Suffer Damage By Weather Freak Change Leads To Death, Damages LONDON (UP) — Heavy rains and melting snow caused millions of dollars worth of damage and at least three deaths today in a freak change of Europe’s weather. While northern countries sweltered in 80 degree heat under clear skies, normally sunny Italy, France, Switzerland and Austria fought floods swollen by two days of incessant rain. Melting snow from the Alps swelled rivers and turned normally placid streams into raging torrents. At least three persons were swept away in northern Italy and hundreds of villagers in mountain hamlets were cut off from rescuers. •Italian authorities evacuated thousands of persons from their homes in Piedmont province as the floods cut rail and road communications. Police said that the death toll was expected to rise considerably when the full effect of the damage became knowm In Carignano on the Po, a section of river bank collapsed on a tiny boat containing Cesare Dondana, 28, sweeping him into the waters. At Demonte a 30-year-old schoolteacher standing on the river bank watching the speeding river died when the bank collapsed under her. In Switzerland, police evacuated 300 of the 500 inhabitants of Taesch, a small village nestling underneath the famed Matterhorn, after the (Continued on Pave Five) ) I. Flag Day Service Held Last Evening Hughes Is Speaker At Annual Service An impressive 45-minute Flag Day service on the Elks lodge lawn paid tribute to the nation’s flag Friday evening. W. O. Hughes, state representative from Fort Wayne, pointed out the material progress made by the United States in 180 years under the American flag, and pointed to the friendly, generous, kind people produced by this type of government. He asked those present to join hands to prevent foreign ideologies from halting progress. Officers of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars presented flags which flew behind the speaker’s podium. Air scouts of the Elks troop served as ushers. A large crowd of interested people watched the ceremony. The ceremony started with a brief opening address by exalted ruler Earl DeWeese of,the Decatur B. P. O. Elks. Following the* Satr Spangled Banner, played by the Decatur Catholic high school band, directed by Clint Reed, George Laurent presented the history of the flag. Laurent pointed out that the flag was adopted 180 years ago on June 14, 1777, by the continental congress. The Elks, he stated, was the first and only lodge that required its chapters to put cn a flag day service, and that only loyal Americans are eligible for membership in the lodge. The band then played America while thexrowd sang the last verse. The officers of the lodge then presented the parts of the liberty bell, in flowers. Leading knight William Hunter explained that the roses of the base were the symbol of patriotism. Loyal knight William Schulte added the second part to the liberty bell, explaining that the lilies he added stood for charity, purity, and truth. Lecturing knight James Newton added the violets of fidelity, justice, brotherhood, and love. Thirteen stars, representing the first 13 states, were then added, and the bell struck 11 times. Following Hughes' spech, which was shortened by the threat of rain, an open house was held at the Elks home. ' -o' * 1' 3 iff?

Russia Takes Initiative In Disarmament Russia Beats U. S. To Punch In Offer Os Monitor Control LONDON (UP) — The Soviets seized the disarmament initiative from the United States by offering to allow establishment of internatiohal monitoring posts on Russian territory as the first "Step in* nuclear weapons control, observers here said today. The sources said Soviet delei gate Valerian Zorin had beaten • American representative Harold E. Stassen "to the punch” by presenting the latest Russian proposCls before the five-power United ations Disarmament Subcommission here Friday. New Propaganda Ammunition Stassen had returned only Friday from Washington with a revised American plan tor “small measured steps” toward disarmament. He had been under heavy fire from the Allies for "going too fast” and for revealing as mud) or more information on the stillsecret plan to the Russians than he had to the West. Sources here said the Soviet proposab ar* sure to provide new ammunition tor the Communist propaganda offensive against nuclear weapons tests. Zorin formally proposed a two-to-three year ban on all nuclear tests with observers to be stationed in Russia, the United States, Britain and the "Pacific area” to ensure enforcement. The United States, Britain and the Soviet Union are the only three powers to possess the hydrogen bomb. "Important Advance” While Western delegations termed the new Russian proposal “an important advance” in the , protracted negotiations, it was ’ pointed out they fell far short of : the postion taken by the West ’ The United States, Britain, France and Canada maintain any ban on ■ nuclear tests must be accompa--1 nied by the .prohibition of the pro- ! duction of fissionable material for ; military use. The Soviet proposal received a cool reception at the disarmament talks here. However, U.S. officials <U<mtinuaa on Pa<« Six) Mrs. Louise Lehman Dies This Morning Native Os County Dies At Fort Wayne Mrs. Louise Lehman, 55, wife of Tillman M. Lehman, of 3011 South Hanna street, Fort Wayne, died * suddenly of a coronary occlusion at 4:15 o’clock this morning. She was taken from her home by police ambulance to the Lutheran hospital,- but is believed to have died enroute to the hospital. She was born in French township June 2, 1902, a daughter of Daniel and Elizabeth HoffmannSmith, and was married to Tillman M. Lehman May 3, 1925. The family had lived in Fort Wayne for 30 years. Surviving in addition to the husband are a daughter, Mrs. Donald Shanebeck of Fort Wayne; one son, Vernon L. Lehman of Fort Wayne; four grandchildren, and one' brother, Franklin Smith of Fort Wayne. Another brother, Albert Smith, died during World war I. Mrs. Lehman was a member of the First Missionary church at Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the First Missionary church in Fort Wayne, the Rev. Cornelius Vlot and the Rev. W. Morrow Cook officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemeteiy at Berne. The body, taken to the Yager funeral home, will be returned to the residence, where friends may call after 3 p. m. Sunday. Friends may make memorial gifts to the mission fund of the church. I

Two Americans Die | In Crash In Russia Among Nine Killed In Airliner Crash MOSCOW (W — A Polish airliner with 13 persons aboard, including five American tourists, crashed in a wooded area on the outskirts of Moscow Friday night during a violent thunderstorm, it was reported today. No official report was available ’ here on the number of casualties. In Warsaw, airline officials , said nine persons died in the ( crash. In addition to the two i Americans, the victims included two Russian passengers, a Polish passenger and four Polish crewmembers. f. i AU. S. Embassy spokesman I however, said three of the Americans were known to have survived and are now in Russian hospitals. The other two Americans were listed as “missing”, the official said. , . All five Americans were from Grand Rapids, Mich. The U. S. Embassy spokesman said the three known survivors were Mrs. Margaret Tremper, her 13-year-old daughter Michel, and Diek Cheverton, news director of television station WOOD in Grand Rapids. He identified the “missing” Americans as Mr, and Mrs. Harvey m. Mrs. Tremper was taken to the Russian hospital at Vnukovo Airport outside of Moscow. Her condition was described as "serious.” Michel and Cheverton were under . examination at the First City hosl pital in Moscow. The plane, a twin-engined Soviet built Ilyushin 14, was en route I from Warsaw to Moscow when it ' crashed about four miles from the ■ Soviet capitaL No details were available on the cause of the crash, but the Ameri- > can Embassy spokesman said a 1 "violent thunderstorm” lathed the ■ area at about the time the plane ; went down. Girl Scout Summer Camp Opens Monday All-Week Camp At Hanna Nuttman Park Girl Scout week at Hanna-Nutt-man park will be observed from Monday through Friday of next week, it was announced today. This is the 12th. year of the popular summer camp, and any girl or Girl Scouting age is eligible to attend. The bus schedule will be the same as last week for the Brownie Scouts, with the south bus starting at 9 a.m., and making stops at the Sanitary Market on Mercer avenue, the Homestead alley, the corner of Russell rfnd Grant streets, Hite’s Grocery on Winchester street, the west side of the court house on Third street, and at Stratton Place. The north bus will start at 9:15 a.m., and will make stops at Gay’s Service Station at the corner of 13th and Monroe streets, the south corner of Master Drive, Millers North End grocery on Second street, and at the Methodist church. Girls planning to attend are reminded to bring their filled out permission slips, and the $1 registration fee. Scouts are to bring their own packed lunch each day, excepting the day that they participate in a cook-out, when various committees will be assignde. Members of the eighth grade troops will cook their noon meal Monday, so will not need to bring their lunch. Milk will be provided at the Camp. ' Planned activities include crafts, singing, dancing and folk , songs, dramatics, recreation and gamer, cookouts, nature classes, numerous special events, and all night camp outs, where each troop will have the opportunity to participate in an all night encampment at the park. The final day of Brownie week, which was celebrated Friday, oplened at 9 a.m. with the flag raising ceremony, at the water works 1 (OonttnuM oa rage Mx>

Kosciusko And Fulton Counties Hit Last Night Farm Buildings And t Lake Resort Homes ‘ Damaged By Winds By UNITED PRESS A tornado dr two'whir led 1 through Fulton and Kosciusko t Counties Friday night, damaging > farm buildings and lake resort 1 homes in the latest rash of vicious 1 weather in Indiana. No one was injured and damage appeared to be less than might I be expected, apparently because . the twister, or twisters, erratically I touched earth only a few times and did not sweep a steady path f through the area. The storm smashed a barn on the Bob Mathias farm five miles west of Rochester about 7:15 p.mIt damaged the Mathias home and garage. A horse and some sheep were killed when the barn disintegrated. The twister hit another farm owned by Mathias and rented by Paul Wideman. The house was damaged considerably and the garage shoved against a tree. The Leßoy Anderson farm in the same neighborhood was damaged. ANOTHEa riftMd CLOUD? Strong winds or perhaps another funnel cloud swept the Fletchers . Lake area south of Rochester and caused some damage, mainly to ’ utility lines and trees. But at least one cottage was damaged and a 1 general store in the tiny town a nearly flattened. h Residents of a resort along - Webster Lake at the edge of North Webster in Kosciusko Coune ty said two funnel clouds ap- - proached about 7:45 p.m., but one i lifted before it arrived. The other s barely nipped the area, causing j considerable damage to the lakefront home of William Eberly and damaging piers and motor boats docked all along the shoreline. Two of the boats were large speedboatsTwo hours after the storms hit the North Central Indiana area, the Indianapolis weather bureau issued a special advisory warning of severe thunderstorms and the possibility of an isolated tornado until 2 a.m. in an area bounded by Knightstown, Winchester and Lawrenceburg. There were no reports, however, that the storms materialized in the Hoosier area. It was another in a series of windstorms and electrical storms which roared across the state almost daily all week, causing at least two deaths and injuring at least three persons, with rains totaling up to six or seven inches in some-areas and heavy damage from wind and lightning. NORMAL SUMMER READINGS Meanwhile, temperatures remained at normal summery levels and were expected to stay there. The mercury hit. highs ranging from 79 at Lafayette to 89 at Evansville Friday, dropped to lows ranging from 63 at Lafayette to 72 at Evansville during the night, and headed for highs rang-' ing from 75 to the upper 80s to day. Tonight's lows will range from 60 to 70 and Sunday’s highs from 83 to 88. The outlook for Monday was partly cloudy and no indication of a Change in temperature. Meanwhile, scattered showers were predicted for all or various areas of the state today, tonight, Sunday and Monday. Rainfall for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today included measurements from 04 of an inch at South Bend to .37 at Indianapolis. /. • “ Dayton Motorist Is Fined For Speeding Herbert Freese, Jr., 38, of Dayton, O. t appeared in J. F. court this morning, and was fined 81 and costs for speeding. The Ohioan was arrested at 6:15 a.m. today for speeding 55 miles an hour in a 30mile an hour zone on North Thirteenth street.

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