Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 145.

48 SETS OF TWINS GRADUATE < iagaß. i ■t- . > I ’■ /tin Joi U* V,' . Jw StJ ■BFiiPRWyWMKr ft KJ jfip? 48 SETS OF TWINS being graduated from Chicago high schools pause for the camera. Looking on them from upstairs is Superintendent Benjamin C. Willis.

Eastern Heat Wave Cracked ' By Cool Air At Least Five Die From Storm Front; West Coast Shales By UNITED PRESS A cool air mass cracked the eastern heat wave with deathdealing violence Wednesday night, but there was no relief in sight for the sizzling West Coast. The cooler air rode into the East on the heels of a widespread storm front that claimed at least five lives, including two National Guardsmen killed by lightning on bivouac at Fort Bragg, N.C. In the Far West, firemen and volunteers battled hundreds of brush fires in the mountains surrounding Los Angeles Wednesday as the mercury soared to 95. In the plains states, flood waters began receding slowly, leaving behind a soggy trail of damage estimated at 17 million dollars in southwestern Minnesota alone. Other Damage In East The cooler air in the East triggered flooding rains, violent winds and severe electrical storms. Wind gusts up to 86 m.p.hpounded Charlotte, N.C., causing damages estimated at $50,000 to building? and planes at Douglas Municipal Airport. The United Press counted at least 168 weather deaths since last week end. There were 117 hot weather drownings, 32 deaths caused by floods, 7 by heat prostration and 12 by lightning. Winds up to 76 m.p.h. hit portions of New England during the storm, causing local damage at Portland, Maine, Newington, N.H., and the suburbs of Boston, Mass , Concord, N.H., reported nearly an inch of rain during a thunderstorm. Streets at Westboro, Mass., were awash with 11 inches of water after a sudden downpour, and many -New England towns lost utility services temporarily because of downed lines. West Staying Hot In the West, weathermen predicted scattered showers from the plains states to the Pacific Coast, except for California where con- - tinued fair and hot weather is expected. The mercury hit 102 at Bakersfield, Calif., and 110 at Thermal, Calif., Wednesday. Despite receding flood waters in the plains, the situation in some areas remained critical. The Big Sioux River climbed to its greatest flood stage in history Wednesday, inundating the business section of Sioux Falls, S.D. Serious flooding continued along the river today, covering thousands of acres of crco land Auto License Bureau To Be Closed Monday The Decatur auto license bureau will be closed all day next Monday. Office personnel will attend a school of instruction on driver’s licenses at Indianapolis Monday.

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Open Speech Clinic Here This Morning Meeting Os Parents Held Last Evening A large crowd of interested parents attended a meeting at Lincoln school Wednesday evening, to meet with the therapists who will be working with their children in the summer speech clinics, which began today. Gall M. Grabill. treasure* of the Adams county society for crippled children and adults, which sponsors the annual event, presided at the meeting, and introduced each of the three graduate therapists. Mrs. Margaret Harris Hakes, who has been assisting with the clinic since its beginning three years ago, welcomed the parents, and gave a brief history of the school. She stated that the therapy classes were begun at Lincoln school during the summer of 1955, with just two therapists being employed. The following summer. another therapist was added to the clinic personnel, and the southern part of the county was able to take advantage of the services offered, as a clinic was established at the Berne-French school. The same procedure will be followed this year. Miss Carol Kalver, a recent graduate of Indiana University, and e* «Distant therapist last year, the parents of the various -yocs of speech defects, and the method of therapy to be employed th correcting them. The third therapist, Mrs. Jaequie Hite Schnepf, told of • the schedule established for the clinics. She stated that so far, 10 students are enrolled in the Berne clinic, which will be conducted each Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, from 12:30 until 2:30 o’clock for the next five weeks. Classes will be conducted for the 45 pupils in Decatur, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week, from 9 to 11 a. m., and from 12:30 until 2:30 p. m. Special students, those under six years of age, or over 10 years of age, have appointed times when they will attend therapy sessions on either Tuesday or Thursday morning, in Decatur. The Misses Judith Locke and Jeanette Hahnert have been hired by the local Psi lota Xi sorority to assist the therapists during the clinics. Another meeting of the instructors and parents will be held at the conclusion of the clinics, which will be July 26. At this time, detailed progress reports will be given, and parents will be given exercises and projects to help their children in continuing <o overcome speech difficulties. Grabill stated that pupils who failed to report for testing may «tiil em*oll by contacting him at the county courthouse, or any of the three therapists. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer tonight Friday partly cloudy, warm and becoming more humid. Low tonight 58-66. High Friday 95-90. Sunset 8:16 p.ia., sunrise Friday 5:17 a.m.

Stassen Begins Presentation Os New U.S. Plan Allies Puzzled At Ike's Statement On Nuclear Tests Halt BULLETIN LONDON (UP) — The United States proposed today that the U.S. and Soviet armed forces be cat to 2*4 mfilfon men each. It said the reductions should be made “witbodt Shy political pre-conditions’' as part of a first-step disarmament plan. LONDON W — U.S. delegate Harold E. Stassen today began presenting to the London disarmament conference a new “halfway” plan tor cutting military manpower and mothballing conventional weapons. But puzzled Allied reaction to President Eisenhower’s statement on halting nuclear tests indicated the Western powers still have not agreed on their ‘‘first step” toward control o! atomic arms. Even Moscow Radio said “one cannot help Reeling surprised” at the outcome of the President’s disarmament comments at his news conference Wednesday. Stassen, beginning a piecemeal presentation of the new U.S. plan, formally introduced the first sections on conventional disarmament at the five power conference grouping delegates from the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Canada. Officials described it as “meeting other nations half-way”—an indication that the United States has settled on compromises not only with Russia but the other Western nations represented here as well. The U.S. conventional disarmament plan was knoWh to include provision for cutting armies of the big powers in' two stages and to provide for “mothballing” tanks, ships, artillery, planes and ckher non-atomic armaments. Limit Active Duty Force , Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, the Moscow delegate to the talks, already had received an informal fill-in on the proposals. The Western powers and Russia already were committed to a plan under which the United States and Russia would limit their activeduty armed forces to 214 million men. Britain and France would hold their armed strength to 750,000 men each. Russia, however, held out for a Western commitment to cut the big power forces even further in a second stage. The United States was now believed ready to trim its manpower back to about 1,800.0Q0 men once the first cut has proved successful. Stassen planned to deliver the first sections of his proposals on conventional disarmament while the Western Allies continue their behind-the-scenes attempts to forge a common policy on nuclear disarmament. Stassen was accompanied by State Department trouble-shooter Julius Holmes, who was assigned as his deputy following Allied complaints they were'not being properly consulted.

Two Reappointed To State Commission Heller And Bierly Reappointed Today INDIANAPOLIS Wl — Governor Handley today announced 62 appointments including Homer Schumanof Columbia City as a new member of the Indiana State Fair Board. Schuman replaces Trueman T. Rembusch of Franklin who resigned because of the "press of business.” Other appointments and reappointments included: Paul Harvey, Bloomington, reappointed for 4-year term to State Accounts Board. Robert H. Heler and G. Remy Bierly, Decatur, and Lucius Somers and Muri Lybarger, Hoagland, to 4-year terms Anthony Wayne Parkway Commission. All reappointed except Lybarger, who replaced Clyde F. Dreisbach, Fort Wayne, who died. Clarence Schmidt, Crown Point; Charles Van Nuys, Franklin; Charles Manwaring, Mentone, and Dr. William Stadelman, Lafayette, all reappointed 4-year terms State Egg Board. Wallace Mathews, Whiting, and N. E. Westphal, Michigan City, <Conr:=UM on race Bir* 12 Pages

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 20, 1957.

United Nations Report Accuses Russians Os Appalling Brutalities

House Group Votes Extra Postal Funds Committee Votes Most Os Request, Suggests Economy WASHINGTON (UP)—The House Appropriations Committee today voted the Post Office Department most of the extra funds it wanted to maintain normal service. But the committee called for new postal economies including a cutback in Saturday service, j The committee approved and sent to the House a supplemental 133-million-dollar money bill that would bring to $3,325,000,000 total funds available to finance postal service in the 12 months starting Julyl. Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield asked for $149,500,000 and said unless he got it before the start of the new fiscal year he would impose drastic cuts in service, including an almost complete shutdown on Saturday, s “Several of these (proposed cutbacks), which can be accomplished administratively, appear to the committee to be very desirable, and in at least one case, the committee is at a loss to understand why action has not been takwiw the postmaster general prior to this time,” the committee said in a report to file House. It said there appears to be no reason why: —Second class publications and third class bulk mailings should not be required to be zoned at a saving of five million dollars—Star route service should not be reduced to once daily. “There is strong feeling within the committee, the report continued, for abolition of money order sales with a possible saving of 26 million dollars. I “And finally,” the committee said, “the committee cannot too strongly emphasize that with the modern trend to a five-day work week the department could reexamine city delivery service and effect such reductions in Saturday service as are in keeping with the pattern of business, industry, and suburbia generally." Deny Further Delay In Trial Os Hoffa Request Denied By U. S. Appeals Court WASHINGTON (UP) - The U.S. Court <of Appeals today denied requests for further delays in the bribery-conspiracy trial of Teamsters Vice President James R. , Hoffa. His trial before Federal Judge Burnita S. Matthews was scheduled to proceed this afternoon with selection of the jury the next order of business. Hoffa and Miami attorney Hyman I. Fischbach, on trial with him, are accused of trying to bribe their way into the secret files of the Senate Rackets committee. A three-judge panel of the Appeals Court heard arguments by defense attorneys for postponement and denied the motion after a brief consideration. Edward Bennett Williams, Hoffa’s attorney, said he also represents gambler Frank Costello in federal proceedings in New York and has not had enough time to prepare Hoffa’s defense. He said’ Justice Department’s decision to delay the Costello case rather than Hoffa’s amounted to “playing trial calendar smorgasborg.” Williams and Dahiei B. Maher, counsel for Fischbach, asked postponement of the trial until next October because of publicity generated by the Senate committee’s investigation of Teamstrs Union officials. Williams asked that in any event the case be put off until next Wed- ■ nesday to give him time to prepare. Maher argued that unless the trial is postponed, the court would i (Ceatianed ea Pace Eight)

Two Seamen Killed By Exploding Steam Five Others Badly * Burned Wednesday - JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (UP) — Live steam set loose by an exploding high speed pump aboard the aircraft carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt killed two seamen and seriously burned five others, the Navy said today. The Navy said 29 oth'er seamen were treated for heat prostration or exhaustion from being trapped or from heroic rescue work as the steam jetted through deck after deck of the 45,000-ton carrier Wednesday. Capt. T. W. Hopkins, skipper of the big flattop, told newsmen a harrowing account of the tragedy and a stirring account of heroism in an interview after the FDR docked this morning "The casualties were due to live steam,” Hopkins said. “Both men who were killed apparently were on their way to help the two men on duty in the pump room at the time of the explosion.” The carrier, about 100 miles off the Florida coast at the time, was brought to the Navy carrier basin at Mayport, Fla., near here. A Navy board of investigation was convened immediately to determine the cause of the explosion and the extent of the damage to the huge carrier. Dead, Injured Identified The dead were identified as boiler tender 3-c Bobby E. Hyder, 22, of Spartanburg, S.C., and Fireman Sidney R. Wall, 27, Norwood, N.C. The seriously injured included: Boiler tender-fireman Donald E Brockman, 20, of Ringgold, Ga. Fireman apprentice Philip R. Plantier, 19, Wauregan, Conn. Boiler tender Richard M. Haigh, Washington, S.D. Fireman apprentice Robert J. Radke, 19, Everett, Wash. Senator Byrd Says Nation On Thin Ice Says Government Is On Very Thin Ice Regarding Finances By UNITED PRESS Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said today the government is “skating on very thin ice” financially. The state of the government’s finances, he asserted, “presents dangerous implications.” Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, made these declarations in the course of quizzing Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey on the nation’s economic health. Humphrey agreed with Byrd that taxes are as high as they dare go. But he said the nation has to keep spending on defense because it has a pistol pointed at its head. Byrd ticked oft these danger signs: —The national debt has hit the legal ceiling. 1 —”We have reached the maximum taxation" —“The new inflation...will...continue and may...be accelerated.” —"We have no reserves to meet even a slight business recession.” Other congressional news: Taxes: The House passed and sent to the Senate a bill to revise the excise tax system. It would affect many pocketbooks But the Senate is net expected to complete action on the measure until next ye postal: The House Appropriations Committee voted the post office most of the extra money it says it must, have to maintain normal service. But the committee called for new postal economies, including a cutback in Saturday service. , ” Minerals*. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted $456,252,600 to run the Interior Department in fiscal 1958. It included M.MMOO to stockpiled fluorspar and $2,500.000 to stockpile asbestos. But it (Contiaiiea on >***•

Direct Appeal To High Court In Girard Case Government Takes Direct Appeal For Reversal Os Order WASHINGTON (UP) — The government appealed directly to the Supreme Court today to reverse a court order preventing it from surrendering GI William'S. Girard to Japanese authorities for a manslaughter trial. A petition filed with the court by Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. asked the court to reverse last Tuesday’s decision by Federal Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy. McGarraghy had ruled that a Japanese trial for Girard would violate his constitutional rights. The government petition said McGarraghy’s decision is “clearly wrong" and "public interest in an early disposition of this case” is very great. Brownell asked the court to accept the case for review, and urged that it schedule oral argument "if deemed necessary, at an early date convenient to. the court ” He also suggested that Girard's attorneys be required to reply to, his petition within two days. The court now is scheduled to adjourn for the summer recess next Monday. However, it could extend the term for any period it chooses. - -• Brownell’s petition said: “We firmly believe that, despite the District Court’s ruling, (Girard’s) case is totally without merit and that the court can so decide promptly.” It added that the government is prepared to file a brief on the merits of the case “if that is deemed desirable,” within the next few days. Girard’s attorneys, It said, probably can prepare a brief quickly from those they submitted to McGarraghy. The petition said the government’s position in the case “is simple.” "It rests on the international aspects which the District Court has totally ignored,” it said. "Under international law, Japan is sovereign within its own country. "In the absence of express or implied agreement to the contrary, United States officials within Japan would be obliged by Japanese and international law to make (Girard) available to the Japanese authorities for trial there. , “Thus, if the International arrangements between the United .vOMlnuM on Po.xo Six) Reunion Os Magley School On July 14 Annual Reunion To Be Held At School Ed Jaberg, president of the annual reunion and homecoming of the Magley school, announced that the school reunion for this year will be held July 14, at the school, located one mile north of Magley. Other officers of the school organization are Ed Kolter, secretary, Elmer Peters, treasurer, and Mrs. Dortha Shady, vicepresident. This year’s reunion will mark the fourth reunion of the group, and indications are that there will be a large attendance. One pupil now living in Tacoma, Wash., has expressed a desire to attend. The school, formerly known as the Magley school, of district 6, Preble township, was established in 1901, and was operated until 1946. A basket dinner will be served at 12": 30 p. m. that day, followed by toe . usual gettogether of former classmates and friends. Any person attending the school during toe time of its operatfoq, is urged to attend.

Hoosier Drivers To Undergo Eye-Testing Stiff Examinations To Be Started July 1 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Motor Vehicles Commissioner Robert L. McMahan revealed today that eyetesting instruments manned by license bureau personnel will be used beginning July 1 to weed out motorists. who can't see well enough to drive on Hoosier highways. - McMahan announced the testing procedure in a stiff new examining program ordered by the 1957 Legislature, at a news conference in Governor Handley’s office. He said thousands of motorists now traveling Hoosier streets and highways will fail to pass the test and thus lose their bids to renew licenses. It will mean grounding motorists considered potential ac-cident-makers. The eye-testing instruments, costing $215 each, will be installed in most license branches around toe state by July 1, with the smaller branches' adding toe equipment within 'a month. 2 Per Cent Surveyed Fail The tests will show, McMahan said, whether a motorist seeking renewal of his license needs glasses in order to drive. They also will show, he added, whether a driver’s . eyes are so poor he cannot even hope to have his viaion improved enough with glasses to qualify tor a license. McMahan said a survey in Hammond showed that as many as two per cent of all drivers could not qualify for a license, even with the help of glassesPersons who need glasses tor driving will be given restricted licenses requiring that they wear them while at toe wheel. Written examinations on “rules of the road" also will be given every driver who applies for re- ; newal of his permti. A driver must answer correctly 7 out of 10 ques- ' tions on toe exam to pass. If he ’ fails, he gets a second chance . later. McMahan said the purpose of the written exams is not to take drivers off toe roads but to educate them in driving rules. The eye-testing instruments will be in every county seat license branch by July 1 and in every bureau which issues as many as (ConUnu*d on Pace Four) Summer To Arrive Officially Friday Fair And Warmer Weather In State By UNITED PRESS Fair skies and warming temperatures blanketed Indiana today on the last full day of spring. The same menu was on tap for Friday, toe day summer arrives for its three-month visit. No sign of rain could be seen in any of toe forecasts for the immediate future. It was welcome news for thousands of Hoosier farmers who have been kept out of the fields most of the time this spring because of persistent showers. Temperatures hit highs ranging from 73 at South Bend to 83 at Evansville Wednesday as pleasant weather replaced, days of hot humid readings. The mercury dropped to lows ranging from an unseasonal 50 at Goshen to 60 at Indianapolis and Evansville early this morning, and headed for highs ranging in the 80s this afternoon. After lows in toe 60s tonight, the mercury will rise to peaks of 87 to 90 Friday, and the outlook for Saturday was partly cloudy and warmer, becoming more humid, -r—.. Injuries Fatal To Fort Wayne Cyclist FORT WAYNE (UP) — Daniel J. Kelly, 24, Fort Wayne, died today in Parkview Memorial Hospital from injuries sustained Monday when his motorcycle and a small truck collided in downtown Fort Wayne. The truck was driven by Devon D. Whitacer, 38, Monroeville.

Brutal Russian Intervention In Hungary Scored Severe Indictment Os Communism By Committee Os U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y- (UP)— A United Nations report today accused Soviet Russia of “appalling” brutalities against the Hungarian people and of international treachery in its massive and ruthless Intervention which crushed the Hungarian freedom revolt. A five-nation committee assigned to investigate Russian intervention in Hungary, published its n a 150,000-word report. It found that toe Hungarian revolt was a spontaneous national uprising and that Soviet troops entered the country without invitation. Moscow R*a d1 o immediately labelled the report a “crude and disgusting job” which “thoroughly betrays U.S. propaganda.” In Washington, toe State Department called for quick international talks to consider “all possible practical redress of the wrong” committed by Russia. It said the U.N. committee findings were both “shocking and incontrovertible" and could not be challenged by the Soviet government er the Kadar puppet regime in Hungary. The committee report said its members were "deeply shocked" by findings which showed the foil extent of Hungarian suffering at toe hands of forces "all-powerful, pitiless and unabashed by any shameful act.” Keith CO. Shann, Australian ambassador to toe Philippines, who prepared toe report as the committee’s rapportuer, said the revolution was “not an anti-Soviet revolution as such” and was not fomented by outside agencies, as, for example, Radio Free Europe. The three main conclusions of toe committee, comprising also representatives of Denmark, Ceylon, Tunisia and Uruguay, were these, Shann raid: T. There .as, in fact, intervention by force by toe Soviet Union to crush tee uprising and to overthrow “a legal and popularly supported government” 2. The revolt was "a spontaneous national uprising not assisted from outside and not a counter-revolution to restore an old government.” 3. The present government erf Premier Janos Kadar “did not at toe time of its installation and does not now have popular support.” Michael Dellinger Finishes Long Stay In Hospital Today Michael Dellinger, five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Dellinger of 108 South 15th street, returned home from toe Adams county memorial hospital today after four months treatment. Mike was seriously burned February 11 when he pulled a pan of hot liquids off toe kitchen stove in his home. He was kept in toe hospital while skin was grafted onto his back and shoulders. During the time he was in the hospital he became very sad because he got no mail. The staff of toe hospital wrote to several news commentators in Fort Wayne, who started a radio campaign to cheer up Mike, After that he received hundreds and hundreds of cards and letters, and spent many pleasant hours looking at them. During much of his time in the hospital he was in a wheel chair, and nurses and staff members took him from room to room to cheer up the other patients. The skin grafting, with toe changing of bandages, was quite painful at times to the youth. x, He was returned home for short periods in February and March, but had been In the continuously since March 9. • .

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