Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 144.

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Midwest's Heat Wave Is Broken Tuesday Night Deoths Caused ByfWeather Over 150 Since Last Weekend By UNITED PBEBB Record high temperatures continued to bake both coasts today, but relief for the East was on the way from a cold front that dropped temperatures in the Midwest by as much as 30 degrees. The mercury bubbled into the 90-degree plus range again Tuesday over most of the eastern third of the nation, climbing to 97 in Philadelphia for a third straight day of record heat in that cityIn the west, readings soared to a record 104 degrees in Los Angeles for the hottest day there since Sept. I. 1956 The heat wga blamed tor a rash of brush fires, on* o$ which destroyed. .nearby 2,000 acres. it Lake Elsinore aiM Griffin Park in Hollywood. The combination of hot weather and floods in the northern Midwest and Plains states boosted the toll of weather-caused deaths beyond the 150 mark since last weekend. The United Press counted at least 115 persons drowned trying to escape the heat. In addition, at least 30 persons were killed in floods. 8 died from lightning and 2 from heat prostration to raise the number of weather deaths to at least 155. Among the latest victims was a bride of two weeks, Mrs. Dorothy navis, 23, Dayton, Ohio, who drowned Tuesday night when a boat overturned in the Miami River at Miami Shores, Ohio. Her husband and his two young children by a former marriage were rescued. I A flood tragedy at Munjor, Kan., killed two Roman Catholic priests, and at least three persons were dead and two were missing in South Dakota floods. Another man drowned in a, 'Marshall, Minn., flood- . Floodwaters continued to plague sections of Kansas and South Dakota in the wake of torrential rains. At Beloit, Kan., the Solomon River spilled from its banks and forced evacuation of families in low lying areas. Officials predicted the river would crest at 35 feet today, about 4 feet below the crest reached there during the great flood of 1951. Sections of Sioux Falls, S.D., were inundated Tuesday night when the Big Sioux River overflowed its banks in the city. In Chicago, temperatures dropped nearly 30 degrees as cool northern winds brought an early morning low of 63 degrees to the city. 1956 Graduates Plan Reunion On July 21 The Decatur high school class of 1956 will hold its second class reunion at Pokagon state park July 21, Bill Zwick and Mara Dee Striker, co-chairmen Os the arrangements committee, said today.. The reunion will. be held,at 12 noon, and class sponsor Miss Charlotte Vera will be present for the reunion. The 77 members of the class will be notified by post card to be mailed this week. Two Chicagoans Die When Plane Crashes LAPORTE, Ind. ffl — Two Chicagoans were killed today when their single-engine private plane crashed on a farm near Rolling Prairie. State police identified the victims as John Hanoushe, 28, the pilot, and Alfonse Safame, 58. The crash Occurred on the Gordon Martin farm a iflile north of busy U.S. 20.

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■ _ Trial Os Teamster Official Underway Hoffa On Trial For Bribery « Conspiracy WASHINGTON (UPI-The bribery-cons piracy trial of Teamsters Union Vice President James R. Hoffa got under way today despite a defense charge that the government used illegal wiretapping in the ease. I The government denied the charge. On trial with Hoffa is Miami Attorney Hyman I. Fishbach. They are accused of trying to plant a spy in the Senate Rackets Committee which has been investigating Teamsters Union officials. Selection of a jury was expected to take most of the day. - Federal Judge Burnita .S Matthews refused to hold up the trial in order to study defense charges that the government was guilty of wiretapping. Hoffa’s lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, said the defense had information from a Detroit lawyer, Lawrence Burns, indicating wiretapping. Hoffa did not elaborate on the information from Burns, but he said the government had acquired evidence “which could only result from monitoring and stenographic transcription” of telephone conversations. Judge Matthews denied a motion to supress evidence on this ground. But she said the defense could cross-examine government witnesses about the alleged wiretapping when they appear during the trial. Hoffa is one of three high-rank-ing Teamster officials currently fighting criminal charges brought by government. Union Vice President Frank Brewster of Seattle was on trial here in a courtroom not far from Hoffa on contempt of Congress charge. And Teamster President Dave Beck is under indictment on an income tax evasion'charge. Hoffa’s future as a power in the 1,300,000 - member Teamster Union—the nation’s largest—may lie in the outcome of today’s trial. As the 44-year-old czar of . the Teamsters Midwest conference, Hoffa long has been considered as Beck's heir-apparent. But Teamster officials said that if he is found guilty, his chances of succeeding Beck will fade. A federal grand jury indicted him March 19 on charges of bribing a Rackets Committee investigator to slip him documents and. secrets pertaining to Its investigation of Beck and alleged corruption in the Teamsters Union, If convicted on the three-count bribery-conspiracy charge, Hoffa could be sentenced to five years in jail and a fine amounting to three times the amount of the alleged bribe. Moreover, the government plans to bring Hoffa to trial later on another indictment charging him with conspiring to spy on his own (C«iti»e< •» Paca F»v«) State Traffic Toll 456 Through Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (to — A comparatively safe Indiana highway fatality record last week helped keep the year's total below that of last year. Seventeen new deaths were recorded, compared with 25 in the corresponding period of 1956. That made the 1957 total 456, compared with 473 in 1956. Funeral Thursday For Caston Infant x Funeral services for Lynn Harvey Caston, 21-month-old son of Mr. anti Mrs. Harvey Caston, eg Preble township, who died Tuesday, will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at the Ake & Son funeral home in Poe, the Rev. A. A. Fenner officiating. Burial will be in Flatrock cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. today, and may make "memorial contributions to the Crippled Children’s society.

Senate Finally Ratifies Atoms For Peace Plan Overwhelming Vote Granted Plan After Long Senate Delay WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate after long delay has overwhelmingly ratified President Eisenhower’s “atoms -for - peace" treatyThe Senate ratified the international treaty Tuesday night on a <7-19 roll call vote. Nine Democrats and 10 Republicans voted against It The treaty—so far ratified by a total of 11 nations including Russia—would create an international atomic energy agency. The agency would promote peaceful uses of atomic energy and provide non-military nuclear materials to atomic have-not nations. Eighteen nations including three of the major atomic powers— United States, Russia, Britain, France and Canada—must ratify the treaty to put it Into effect. The necessary number of nations are expected to ratify it quickly now that the United States has. Eisenhower proposed the agency in 1953 in a dramatic appearance before the United Nations General Assembly. He already has promised the United States will provide *foe agency, with 80 million dollars worth of non-military uranium 235. Other congressional news: e Civil rights—Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland predicted the Senate will bypass its Judiciary Committee to speed action on the House-passed civil rights bill. The Republicans set out to take away from northern and western Democrats the leadership In the fight for the Mil. ..Economic: Senate Democrats sought detailed answers from Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey on the administration’s “tight mopey” policies- The Democrats denied GOP charges that they .were playing polices. Humphrey went before the Senate raance Committee for the second day in the opening hearings of its broad study of the administration’s fiscal policies. • • Bakers: The Senate Rackets Committee called Bakery Union President James G. Cross to ask him about charges that he used goon squad tactics and misused union funds. Cross promised he would not invoke the Fifth Amendment on any pertinent question. TV hearings: Speaker Sam Raybum was reported about to clamp down on further TV hearings by the House Committee On Un-American Activities. Rayburn said a ruling he made several years ago against broadcasting or (Coatiauea ea Paca Fi*e> Dr. Leroy Geiger Killed In Accident EUB Superintendent Is Killed Tuesday Dr. Leroy Geiger, 66, of South Bend, district superintendent. of Indiana conference north of the Evangelical United Brethren church, was fatally injured at 3:15 p. m. Tuesday in a traffic accident on U.S. highway 6, three miles west of Waltoerton. LaPorte county. Dr. Geiger died of his injuries after being taken to the Holy Name hospital in LaPorte. Dr. Geiger, former pastor of the Crescent Avenue Evangelical United Brethren church in Fort Wayne, was well known in Decatur, having spoken here on numerous occasions. He was a passenger in the auto driven by the Rev. S. P. O’Reilly, pastor of the South Wayne E. U. B. church in Fort Wayne, who was seriously injured. Passengers in the second car involved, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Musial, of Pennsylvania, were also killed in the accident. Witnesses said Rev. O’Reilly, eastbound on U. 6- <•• was attempting to pass another car on the wet pavement and his auto collided headon with the Musial car. Surviving Dr. Geiger are the wife, Violet: two daughters, Nancy, at home, and Mrs. Felix Price of Beloit, Wis.j two brothers, William Geiger of Syracuse, and Harve C. Geiger, president of North Central College at Naperville, 81., and ope sister, Mrs. Emma Lentz of Milford. Friends may call at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne after 4 p. m. Thursday. The body will toe moved to the Crescent Ave. E. U. B. church at 10 a. m. Friday to lie in state until time of services at Ip. m. Friday.

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Yost Firm Is Low Bidder On I Sewage Plant . Yost Construction >< Is Only Bidder On Combined Proposal \ Yost Construction Co., of tips' city was low bidder on both projects of the proposed sewage treatment plant ah the letting held in the council room Tuesday night at 7 o'clock, before an audience of more than 50 contractors, subcontractors and other interested citizens. Total low bid for construction of interceptor sewers and sewage treatment plant, garbage disposal facilities and lift station was $974,292.20. This was well under the engineer’s estimate of $1,200,000, and of course does not take into consideration the $250,000 grant of the federal government for assistance in construction. The Yost concern was the only bidder on the combined proposal, three others bidding only on the treatment plant, garbage disposal and lift units, and two others bidding on the interceptor sewers only. ; Two bids were returned uMpapt ed, because ffie bidders failed to Include a certified performance of contract check. The bids were opened by John Ward, chief engineer of Consoer, Townsend and Associates, Chicago, consultants on the project for the city, and were tabulated by John DeVoss, city attorney. Ward stated that his firm would study each bid and check for conformity with specifications, before recommending official action. Formal letting of contracts will likely come within 10 days, it was stated. The low bidder agreed in his proposal to start within 15 days after the signing of the contract and complete the entire project within a 400-day period. Following are the bids: Contract number 1, intercepting sewers, total base bid, Baker and Schultz, Decatur, $245,379.75; Barney Massa, Fort Wayne, $538,874.68; Yost. Decatur, $228,242.20. Low bidder, Yost. Contract number 3, sewage treatment plant, garbage disposal facilities and lift station, total base bids: Yost, $746,050; Mosser Construction Co., Fremont, 0.. $944,900; Shamrock Co., Gary, $920,463; S. N. Nielson Co., Chicago, $1,016,224. Deductice alternate, garbage facilities, Yost, $57,000; Mosser Co., $80,000; Shamrock. $63,943; Nielson, $98,000. Mrs. Charley Hunt Is Taken By Death Former Resident Dies At Anderson Mrs. Ada Hunt, 71, former Adams county resident, died at 10:30 o’clock Tuesday morning at an Anderson hospital following an illness of four months. The family moved from this county 21 years ago. Her husband, Charley Hunt, preceded her in death in February, 1947. Surviving are two sons, Chester Hunt of Indianapolis, and Darrel Hunt of Kokomo; five daughters, Mrs. Neva Smith and Mrs. Wilma Coates of Anderson, Mrs. Nettie Mclntosh of Monroe, Mrs. Nellie Burkhart of Bluffton, and Mrs. Ruby Stouder of Huntington; 16 grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren. The body was taken to the McMillen funeral home in Kempton, where friends may call. The body will lie in state at the Liberty church near Groomsville from 1 p.m. Thursday until services at 2 o’clock. Burial will be in the church cemetery. » 10 Pages

Cooler Air Washes Slate Os Indiana Some Damage Done By Storm Tuesday ■' By UNITED PRESS Cooler air with less humidity in it'washed Indiana with a Welcome H wave today, breaking the season's first hot spell. But the relief may be short- * - . s The five-day outlook for the ■ period Thursday through next Monday called for temperatures averaging 3 io 7 degrees above normal, with a warm-up coming Thursday and staying around the rest of the period. Meanwhile, however, temperatures dropped into the 50s early this morning and high readings ranging from 76 in the north to 84 in the south were due to replace temperatures in the 90s in the daytime and the 70s ar night. The cool-off came cm the heels of more damaging thunderstorms and windstorms which dumped moderate to heavy rain on many Indiana midsection areas late Tuesday, including 1.35 inches at Greencastle, 1.15 at Danville, 1.08 at Kokomo, ,84 at Indianapolis. The far south and the far north had precipitation but generally somewhat less than half ah inch. Temperatures ranged from highs of 83 at South Bend to 91 at Evans- ' at Evansville during the night. ! Highs Thursday will range from 83 to 86 as the warm-up takes ! hold. They probably will go even higher toward the weekend, probably into the 90s, to fulfill predic- . tions of above-normal averages, . since the normal highs are 80 to 89 and the normal lows 59 to 70. i There may be more showers in the north portion Thursday night But for the entire area the period’s precipitation will consist only of showers about Sunday, averaging less than one-fourth of an inch. Storms caused extensive damage at Mishawaka and in Lagrange County Tuesday night. Wind lashed the northeast section of Lagrange County, causing an estimated $50,000 damage. Trees were uprooted and extensive damage caused to power and telephone lines. Council Approves Linn Appointment Recreation Board Member Approved ■ Appointment of Richard F. Linn, Decatur funeral director and associated with the Black funeral home here, as a member of the city recreation board for a three-year term was unanimously approved by the city council at its regular meeting Tuesday night. The new appointment was made by Mayor Robert D. Cole. Linn will succeed councilman Carl Gerber, who, under the statute, was not eligible for reappointment because he is a member of the council. Both Gerber and Linn are Democrats. Mr. and Mrs. Linn and their family reside at 946 Walunt street. Linn is active in civic and fraternal affairs in Decatur and has been active also in city and county Democratic politics. His term will start as soon as he qualifies by taking the oath of office and will extend into 1960. Following the allowing of current bills there were several other actions by the council. A peti- : tion for electric service in Washington township near the Bellmont and Piqua road intersection filed l by Anthony Faurote, contractor, • was referred to the electric light committee and superintendent. A similar petition filed by Alva and Florence Barkley, St. Mary’s township, was referred to the same committe. An electric service agreement between George I Auer and the city for electric service y at a property north of Decatur was approved by the council. Dedication of a plat in the 'northern part of Decatur, near (CeaMaeea Page Five) \

Nine Dead, Four Missing After Ships Collide ■. ” American And Greek Tankers Collide In Grayeyard Os Ships BREST. France (ffl — A n American and a Greek tanker collided in heavy fog today in the Atlantic ‘‘graveyard of ships” off the Brittany coast of France. Both ships burned so fiercely that smoke rose 4,000 feet above the sea. • Radio reports said nine persons were known dead — one on the 10,506-ton U. S. tanker Stony Point and eight on the 9,345-ton Greek ship loannis. Four other persons were missing and feared dead. Many of the survivors were severely burned? . Vessels from four nations converged on the crash area. Radio reports said they had picked up 64 of the 77 crew members of the two vessels. Shipping reports said the American tanker had a crew of 41 and the Greek ship 36.. An American airman Mio flew . area sawi recssvecrw report that “all survivors” had been picked up, but said he did not know how many were involved. Capt. Lowell Dibert, St. Louis, tyfich., said visibility was so bad the rescue planes could barely see the burning ships. He said the 1 smoke was rising to an altitude of 4,000 feet. 1 U. S., British, French, and Ger- . man ships rushed into the area ! where the two badly burning ships ; continued to stay afloat although their crews jumped overboard im- . mediately after the disaster. A radio report—the only means of communication into the disaster area in the early part of the day—said there had been an explosion. The tiny German freighter Erik Reckman, who radioed the first news of the collision, stood up close to the treacherous coast to pick up survivors. It radioed it had 26 survivors from the loannis and 25 from the Stony Point. Another German ship, the I,fibton Coaster Keitum, reported it (Continued on Page Throe) Beverly Stevens To Attend Girls State Named Delegate To Hoosier Girls State Miss Beverly Stevens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Stevens of Monmouth, has been chosen local delegate to Hoosier Girls State this year, Mrs. Dallas Brown, chairman of the Legion auxiliary committee, said today. Miss Stevens, a member of next year's senior class at Monmouth high school, was chosen on the basis of scholarship, activities, health, and leadership. She will be among 1,000 Hoosier girls who will learn the fundamentals of government by actual participation in the week-long program, which is sponsored by the American Legion auxiliary. The 72 girls from the fourth district will leave Saturday by bus from Fort Wayne, and wiU return June 30. Indiana University will bet he site of the 16th annual girls’ state. Mrs. T. C. Smith and Mrs. Ed Bauer will be members of the staff of girls state this year, and they, will leave for Bloomington, where the program is held, tomorrow. • Nearly 1.500 high school girls will practice operating the machinery of government at. the 50 girls states to be operated by the American Legion auxiliary during June' through the nation. - Miss Stevens will be sponsored by the ; auxiliary of American Legion post 43.

Israel Concerned > On Egyptian Subs Three Russian Subs Acquired By Egypt By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Corrfip—frnt Israel expresaed growing concern today at Egypt’s acquisition of three Soviet submarines, and informed sources said an attack on Israeli shipping meant war. • early today to discuss the Soviet ■ move which once again shifted the I Middle East balance of power. i Jerusalem dispatches said the ! atmosphere in Israel resembled > that of the days just before the Sinai invasion when a swift Israeli drive captured much of the Soviet equipment turned over to Egypt in the 1955 Czech arms deal. ' , A series of new incidents along the Gaza Strip heightened tension , in that area, and some Israeli j sources said Cairo might be planning new actions to force Israel to 1 attack. . - — A double mine explosion Tuesday killed one member of a U.N. ' Emergency Force patrol and seri--1 ously wounded four others. Earlier, • UNEF troops shot and lulled two » Arabs trying to cross the border into Israel. ‘ Yugoslav troops were the vic- ’ time, and UNEF offieert said it apspared bUnes had I UNEF troops. Two Indian soldiers t were killed in a mine explosion earlier this year, > Relations between Egypt and 1 Jordan steadily deteriorated, and s there were indications relations 1 might worsen between Jordan and f Syria, Egypt’s chief partner in the Arab neutralist camp. - Jordan recalled its charge d’afi fairs from Damascus Tuesday and 3 there was no indication today in ! Amman that he would be replaced- • Solomon A. Lehman : 1$ Taken By Death > Native Os County Dies At Fort Wayne Soloman A. Lehman, 83, founder and longtime manager of the National Mill Supply, Inc., in Fort Wayne, died early Tuesday morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient since last October. The prominent man was born on a farm near Berne July 20, 1874. His first business venture was an interest in a threshing machine, £fter which he operated a sawmill and lumber yard at Woodburn, and later a machine shop. He went to Fort Wayne in 1902 as general manager of the Fort Wayne Steam Specialty Co. Two years later he founded the National Supply Co., later to become the National Mill Supply, Inc. He also organized three subsidiaries of the concern. Active in civic and social affairs of the Fort Wayne community, both Mr. and Mrs. Lehman were charter members of the First Missionary church. The couple ‘ celebrated their 50th wedding an- > niversary July 17, 1954, which was also the 50th anniversary of the founding of National Mill. Surviving besides the widow, Emma, are two sons, Harold A. and Maurice F., and one daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Bonner, all of Fort Wayne; three brothers, including Enos, of Berne; two sis- , tors, and seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p. hi. Thursday at the First Missionary church in Fort Wayne, with Dr. S. W. Witmer, president of the Fort Wayne Bible College, and the Rev. Cornelius Vlot, pastor of the church, officiating. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and pleasant tonight Thursday fair and mild. Low tonight in the 50s. High Thursday mostly in the 80s. Sunset 1:16 p.m„ sunrise Thursday 5:17 a.m.

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Civil Rights j Plan Defended By Eisenhower - Declines To Give I Thought On Recent f Court Decisions , ministration may ask new legisla- ' decisions' affecting the executive , decisions affecting the executive i tion to offset recent Supreme Court , and legislative branches. ? The President refused at his . news conference to tell reporters ' what he thinks about the decisions, i Like any he said, he has | , some “fixed convictions” about the ; ' rulings and some of them are “pretty strong/’ But he would not say what his convictions are. ? t The high court in recent decisions has ruled that (1) government must turn over certain FBI information to the defense in federal criminal cases, and (2) that congressional committees must ' have specific legislative purposes . in quizzing witnesses. On Monday the court said Congress has no right to conduct investigations for ' the sole purpose of exposure. . The executive branch has conDHtXIW of 41 fitcS ’ and Congress has fought just as 1 hard to keep its investigative functions unshackled. [ Eisenhower said the court’s de--1 cisions are now being studied by ’ the Justice Department to see 1 whether any action by the Execu- ! five Department is warranted. In other news conference high- ’ lights, Eisenhower: 1 —Defended his civil rights pro1 gram, passed Tuesday by . the House, as a very moderate, decent one. He said he was disappointed that some opponents contended it would destroy their own civil rights. He apparently referred to critics who attacked die. measure on grounds it would deprive persons in certain cases of trial by ■ jury. He said there was no thought of persecuting anyone- He ducked a question as to whether he would ask Republicans to try to keep the Senate in session long enough to break any southern filibuster 1 against the bill. —Described the most recent disarmament proposals by the Russians as hopeful signs which deserve the most earnest and energetic study. He said that he would be willing to make some temporary arrangement to suspend nuclear tests, with safeguards as a preliminary step toward general disarmament on a . permanent basis. —Said that there seemed to be a ’ very improved atmosphere about the disarmament negotiations. He , preferred not to discuss them in detail lest he might disturb them. He said it appears negotiators on ’ both sides are sincere at this time and not using the talks as a propaganda sounding board. —Said flatly that Disarmament ' Ambassador Harold E. Stassen was not reprimanded recently as 1 had been rumored. However, the President said that reports had > reached him that Stassen was '■ moving too fast and that he was - brought home for consultation to ■ be sure that nothing would be done i to upset the delicate negotiations. : Eisenhower said the delicate nature of the talks required that no one be allowed to stray off the path. —Supported Defense Mobilizer t Gordon Gray in his refusal to turn (Continued on Pago Tiwoo) Ralph Sleppy Rites ’ Friday At Bluffton 1 Funeral services will be held ’ Friday morning at 10 o’clock al ! the Thoma funeral home in Bluff- ‘ ton for Ralph Sleppy,. 68, former- ■ Decatur and Bluffton resident, and a brother-in-law of Homer Goodin of this city, who died Monday at Tulsa, Okla. Mr. Sleppy was at one time deputy Adams county surveyor. I He had been ill for some time. The widow, two- daughters, twp grandchildren and three sisterg are Included among those aurvitfc ing.