Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 146, Decatur, Adams County, 21 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 146.

MOVE AGAINST ‘RED RULING’ ■I - 4 Brapr**" ■ -WESp: ! . '/ -' I ■'■ ’imi Rep. Ktmnetli Keating Rep. Donald Jackson TWO MEMBERS of Congress. Rep. Kenneth Keating of New York, ranking Republican on the judiciary committee, and Rep. Donald Jackson (R), California, a member of the un-American activities committee, are weighing moves to counter-act the Supreme Court decision which throws out contempt convictions for refusing to name former Communist associates. Keating’s idea is to have all unAmerican activities committee investigations preceded by introduction of an actual piece of proposed legislation; Jackson’s, that the committee be made a legislative committee within the restricted area of national security. In this way Congress could nullify the court’s criticism that the committee may have exposed “for the sake of exposure.” ~

White House, Truman Back Civil Rights Former President Supports Action i Token By Senote By UNITED PRESS Hie White House and one of its farmer occupants, Harry S. Truman, plugged today for Senate passage of . the Eisenhower civil rights program The Senate Thursday night voted, 44-39, to bypass its Judiciary Committee, beaded by James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), and put the House-approved civil rights bill on the Senate calendar. It was the first time southern Democrats had lost a Senate battle over civil rights. Asked about the Senate action. Which means the Eastland committee can no longer keep the program from getting before the chamber for debate, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said: I “It’s our bill. We sincerely hope that there will be action on the bill at this session.” The Senate action improved the chances that the administration will get its wish, although there is likely to be a long filibuster when a motion is made in the Senate next month to take up the bill. Meanwhile, Truman, in an appearance on Capitol Hill, endorsed the Senate vote. He said if he had been a senator still, be would have voted with the majority. Otherwise, he said, “the bill would never come out of committee.” Other congressional news: Gifts: Truman said he is turning over to the government 5250,-1 000 to $500,000 worth of gifts he received while at the White HousePostal: Assistant Budget Director Robert E. Merriam told the House Poet Office Committee the Eisenhower administration opposes a pay boost for postal workers. He said an increase would “add unnecessarily” to inflationary condi- 1 tions and its effect on the national < economy would be “Indeed grave.’’ ] Welfare Fonda: John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, opposed federal regulation of Welfare and pension funds. AFLi c- • i George Meany has Endorsed such regulation. That, ! i ,-enate subcommittee, ymnimbi to "saying to Congress, * ...w — stop us from thieving from our own members’.” Robert C. Tyson of toe U.S. Steel Corp. told toe same subcommittee he op- i poses any further government i regulation of employer-adminis- 1 tered funds He said toe “great majority” of such funds need no “added public supervision.” Breakfast: President Eisenhower entertained another batch of Re- i publican House members at breakfast. his third for GOP congressmen. _ ... ! Public Power: The Senate split along party lines in the aftesmato ] of toe Idaho Power Company’s de- ! cision to give up an administra-tion-granted fast tax write-off on i its proposed power projects in Hells Canyon. Democrats accused i the company of making the gesture i to influence congressional votes on ; a Democratic sponsored bill to au- i thorize a vast public power and < flood control project instead of toe i private development. Republicans 1 (Continued on rag* Thr**> Berne Witness Editor To Undergo Surgery Simon Schwartz, editor of the Berne Witness, was taken to Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne today to undergo, surgery for a kidney stone. Schwartz was admitted to the Adams county hospital Wednesday evening for observation and X-rays, according to his physician.

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Wheat Farmers Vote For Rigid Quotas Overwhelming Vote Is Cost In Notion WASHINGTON (UP)—American wheat farmers have voted overwhelmingly in favor of rigid marketing quotas for their 1958 crop. Preliminary returns from toe 36 commercial wheat states showed today that 83.3 per cent of toe farmers voting in toe referendum favored rigid quotas. It will be toe fifth successive year that marketing quotas and acreage allotments nave been in effect. s - ‘l.-— The returns tabulated by the Agriculture Department showed 143,333 growers favored quotas while 28,823 were opposed. The total vote—l72,lß6—was the lowest ever cast in a wheat referAdams Canute Veto Thursday in the wheat marketing quota referendum, and 14 favored the quotas, 13 opposed them. Voters cast their ballots at Berne and Decatur yesterday, but good weather kept most farmers in the field. This was the first time that Adams county has ever voted in favor of the quotas, usually carrying against them. However, western wheat farmers, who favor the quotas, have „ always carried the referendum in favor of limited production and guaranteed prices. The annual referendum is held by the county office of the ASC committee, Oscar Brown, of Kirkland township, chairman. endum. The percentage of favorable votes compares with the 87.4 percentage rolled up for quotas on toe 1957 crop. A two-thirds majority of those voting was necessary to impose marketing quotas- Only four states turned thumbs down on marketing quotas. They were New York, 63.5 per cent; Ohio, 60.2 per cent; Pennsylvania, 45.4 per cent; and West Virginia, 39.4 per cent. Only Ohio is a major wheat producing state. Os toe major producing states, Minnesota polled toe largest percentage of yes votes—97.l. North Dakota reported returns from only 13 of 53 counties. The vote for toe 13 counties was 16,072 for, 549 against, representing a favorable percentage of 96.7 per cent. Department officials estimated 60,000 to 65,000 votes were cast in North Dakota- They said toe final percentage of yes votes would be about 96. South Dakota and Montana also rolled up a heavy majority in favor of quotas. These two states and North Dakota and Minnesota have large numbers of National Farmers Union members. The farm organization campaigned heavily for quotas. The favorable vote means that all farmers in toe commercial wheat states with more than 15 acres of wheat will be subject to quotas, excess wheat will be subject to quota penalties, and price support at a national average rate of $1.78 a bushel will be available to producers who do not exceed their acreage allotments. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid tonight and Saturday with scattered showers and thunderstorms likely northwest portion late tonight gad over most of state Saturday or Saturday night. -Low tonight in the 665. High Saturday in toe 80s. Sunset 8:16 p. m., sunrise Saturday 5:17 ; g. m._ Itr

Attorneys For Girard Appeal To High Court Ask Supreme Court Free Girard From Army Confinement, WASHINGTON (UP)-Attorneys for GI William S. Girard appealed today to the Supreme Court to free toe young soldier from Army confinement The last-minute appeal was, in effect, a counter-suit against the government’s attempt to have toe high court reverse Tuesday’s District Court order barring Girard’s trial by Japan on a manslaughter charge- Girard fatally shot a Japanese woman scavenging shell casings on ah Army firing range , M .Japan. Supreme Court justices were to confer privately today on whether to consider toe government’s appeal before their scheduled adjournment next Monday. The government labeled District Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy's ruling “clearly wrong." It urged toe high court to act speedily to untangle toe diplomatic snarl it caused. Girard’s lawyers filed this morning a plea for a Supreme Court writ of habeas corpus. They argued that he should not be detained longer in an Army stockade in Japan because he has not been charged by toe U.S. government with 4ny crime. Give Same Arguments McGarraghy rejected their earlier appeal for a writ of habeas corpus which would have brought toe soldier home for a Federal Court hearing. He said Girard should be tried by an Army courtmartial. The attorneys asked toe Supreme Court to consider toe same arguments for freeing or returning Girard to this country that they made unsuccessfully to toe District Court , ' ' ••is a person to be denied a writ of habeas corpus although his detention has been foupd t^be^wntot a different purpose,” toe appeal saidIt asked toe court to affirm McGarraghy’s ruling that Girard cannot be turned over to Japan for trial, but to modify the ruling by ordering his release from Army custody. The petition said toe constitutionality of toe U.S.-Japan status of forces agreement, governing rights and immunities of U.S. troops based in Japan, "should be settled by this honorable court.” It was signed by New York attorneys Earl J. Carroll and Joseph S. Robinson and Washington attorney Dayton M. Harrington. Annual 4-H Judging Contest Held Here Over 100 Girls Os County Take Part The annual 4-H fudging and demonstration contests were held Thursday morning and afternoon at toe Decatur high school, with more than 100 Adams county 4-H girls taking part. Grand champions .in their events were: food preparation, Margaret Boerger, Root township; clothing judging, Janice Van Emmons, of Wabash township; baking judging, Barbara Bleeke, of Union township; food preservation judging, Lois Gerke, Union township; And demonstrations, Carol and Rita Norquest, Decatur, “simple sewing skills”, senior champions; home improvements, Susan McCullough, St. Mary’s township; electricity, Margaret Beeler, Wabash township. Those who will attend toe district judging and demonstration contest in Wabash July 11 are the top two isl each senior division. Girls must be 14 years of age to compete in toe district contest. Mrs. Lawrence Hess, of Fort Wayne, former DeKalb county home demonstration agent, judged toe demonstrations. Alternate senior whiner, who will Also go to the district contest, with a demonstration entitled “how to make franks-go-further,” is Sue Merriman, Root township. Junior winters are: Ist, Margaret Rowdon and Maris Meshberger, of Monroe Hardy Workers, with “toe right and wrong way of measuring”; second, Marilyn Yoder, “making baking powder biscuits.” Mrs. Hess told toe group that toe considered all the demonstrations excellent, and that she had some suggestions for all types of demonstrations, which include: acquire and cultivate a natural demonstrating way; look at toe audience; be accurate, quick, and enthusiastic; use charts that the (Continued on Pag* Four)

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 21,1957

Seven Children, Three Adults Die In Savage North Dakota Tornado

U.N. Starts Major Buildup In South Korea Offset Buildup By Reds In Flagrant | Pact Violations PANMUNJOM (UP)—The UN. Command told a stony-faced Communist general today it was starting a major military buildup in the Republic of Korea to offset one carried out by toe Rads in “flagrant violation” of toe 1953 Korean armistice agreement. The reaction was immediate and exactly as expected. North Korean Maj. Gen. Jung Kook Rok flew into a rage and accused toe U.N. forces of intending to turn South Korea into a “base for atomic war.” He called it a first step to prepare for a “new war.” Today's decision nullifying a key provision of the armistice agreement meant the United States would send into South Korea fleets of its latest atomic bombers and fighters—some 700 miles closer to Red China and Siberia. Later there may be atomic cannon and guided missiles. Reds Violate Flagrantly But doing so they were doing what toe Communists already had done months ago- Twriwfik Korean air force, non - existent at the end of toe war, has been built up to nearly 1,000 modern jets. Its beaten army has been rebuilt and rearmed with Soviet equipment. The entire buildup was in violation of a key paragraph in the armistice agreement which froze toe armed forces of each side at its 1953 military strength. The U.N. said toe Communists buildup was a “flagranti repeated and wilful” violation of toe agreement. The Allied decision was read out by U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Homer L. Litzenberg, senior member of toe U.N- military armistice commission and leader of a Marine division in some of the bitterest fighting of the war. It was received officially by Jung in toe Quonset hut conference room of this neutral zone village. Jung, short, heavy-set and nattilly dressed, conferred in whispers with his aides during toe 6minute reading. He was* impassive throughout. (Coutlaae* m Pa«e E1«M) High Humidity To Return To Indiana Warmer And More Humid Predicted By UNITED PRESS Spring’s last serving of pleasant temperatures was dished out to Hoosiers today amid forecasts of warmer and more humid tionsThe dropped to the low 60s throughout the state early this morning, and in the high 50s at some points, a few hours before spring gave way to official summer in Indiana. The mercury was due to crest at a range of 85 to 88 today and 87 to 90 Saturday, but the most significant weather forecast was that high humidity will return after a three-day holiday. “Warm and humid” was 'toe outlook for today and Saturday, and toe south portion Sunday. Thundershowers were due to clear toe air in the extreme north tonight and Saturday, but not enough to drop temperatures. More thundershowers, perhpas scattered over the entire state but not general, were expected Sunday. The five-day outlook called for temperatures averaging near 5 degrees above normal for the period Saturday through next Wednesday. Normal highs are 80 to 89, normal lows 61 to 71. “Warm Saturday, turning cooler late Sunday or Monday,” the outlook said. “Warmer Tuesday and Wednesday.” Precipitation was expected to average nearly an inch In showers over the weekend and again about Wednesday.

Rotarians Sponsor Foreign Student To Sponsor Student In City Next Year As the culmination of a series of international programs, the Decatur Rotary club at its regular mryf-f in the Decatur Youth ands Community Center Thursday r evening voted to sponsor a foreign student in this city next year. The student probably will be in his senior year in high school and will reside in the homes d# Rotarians during his visit. More than the necessary 12 members pgreed to ptay host to the foreigner. Speaker at the meeting was Dr. Stephen Kertesz, professor in the political science departments at Notre Dame University, and native and former government leader in Hungary. He is the father of Mrs. Endre Sipos of this city and was educated in Hungarian, French, English, Swiss and American Universities. He was interned by the Nazis during the war in several concentration camps and later attempted to cooperate in the Hungarian foreign service with the Russians until it-became apparent that the Soviet Union was taking complete control of the government and people. Hd • escaped and came to this country i in 194 ft and is new/ an American : citizen. i Talking on present day diploi macy, he said that mere opposition to Communistic propaganda : is a negative strength and will not win the battle of men’s minds. The Russians have been successful in a positive approach to the underprivileged people of the world, he said, because they have a positive answer to their problems. The division of a poor country’s wealth among the poor is a positive approach to the emotions of these people who think only for today and do not realize that it is both false and impossible of realization. The western powers should tell the story of the democracies where freedom is possible, along with the development of the economic resources of the control. He urged export of “know-how” and not dollars to foreign countries, saying that sociologists have proved that money alone can do more harm than good. He urged the continued emphasis on the strength of military forces until such time as the leadership of Russia could be completely trusted to join in a mutual disarmament program. Commenting on the possibility of a change in leadership in Russia, he said it could be hoped for in the future as education gets more general. Secret police can only silence minds, he said, and it is impossible now to judge what luootintiM on Pur* Six) Delivers Deed For Sewage Plant Land Deed Is Delivered , By Central Soya Co. Harry Maddox, representing Central Soya Co., Thursday delivered the deed to 10 7/100 acres of land just west of the river bridge, on the Monmouth road, to the city of Decatur. The land will be the site of the sewage disposal plant, which will get under construction in the next few weeks. There is a restriction on the deed as to its use “solely for a sewage treatment plant” and limits use to the slightly more than ten acres, donated to the city by the industry. John DeVoss, city attorney, and i Mayor Robert D. Cole accepted the ! deed cm behalf of the city. Construction will start as soon as contracts are formally awarded, it ! was announcedYost Construction Co. of Decatur will build both the treatment plant < and the interceptor sewer, which ! will run north and south the entire length of Decatur along the St. : Mary’s river. „

Disarmament Talks Resume Next Tuesday Ike's Statement On Suspending Nuclear Tests Premature LONDON (UP) - Authoritative sources here said today President Eisenhower let a Western disarmament cat out of the bag in his press conference remarks on the suspension of nuclear weapons tests. The United States, according to the sources, is prepared to suspend nuclear tests temporarily—but has not yet won complete approval from its allies on the details of the proposition. Eisenhower, at the news conference Wednesday, indicated the United States is willing to suspend the tests without a prior ban on the production of fissionable materials for nuclear weapons. Such a prohibition had been one of the keystones of Western disarmament policy.’ U.S. disarmament delegate Harold E. Stassen referred to the President’s press conference when he spoke at the London disarmament conference Thursday. He m mem proposal, wmen uriuwi * call for immediate suspension of nuclear tests, are a hopeful signStassen added the United States is now ready to include some controls on nuclear tests in a “first step” disarmament agreement. But he did not indicate whether he had suspension in mind. Authoritative circles here believed there has been a switch in the basic U.S. policy on suspension of nuclear tests but that Elsenhower had revealed it prematurely. It would be premature because Western consultations on disarmament policy here still had not cleared up their differences. The conference was adjourned after Thursday’s session to permit French delegate Jules Moch to return to Paris on government business. CmMiml m Pas* Msht Wagner Girl Dies Following Surgery Two-Year-Old Girl Is Taken By Death Gretchen Eileen Wagner, two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wagner, of near Philadelphia, died Wednesday at a Philadelphia hospital following an emergency operation. Th* child was born in Frankfurt, Germany, Nov. 29, 1954, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wagner. The father, a native of Decatur, is a chief petty officer ; in the United States Navy, and is stationed at Philadelphia. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Frederick Wagner, at home; and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Fred Wag- 1 ner of near Decatur. An angel’s mass will be held at St. Mary's Catholic church in this city Monday morning at 9 o’clock, , the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body will be brought to the Gillig & Doan funeral home,, where friends may call after 5 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. j Rev. Robert Jaeger I ( Deanery Moderator The Rev. Robert Jaeger, newly namfd assistant,, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church in Decatur, has been appointed Hunting- , ton deanery moderator of the Boy , Scout movement. Rev. Jaeger, who was ordained to priesthood May 25, will assume < duties as second assistant of the local church, August 17, Until that ' time, he will be serving as chap* ' lain of the CYO summer camp at ' Lake Wawasee. J 1

$1,500 Doctor Bill Sent Hooper Family Family Os Rescued Boy Unable To Pay MANORVILLE, N.Y- (UP)—The doctor who fed oxygen to 7-year-old Benny Hooper Jr. through his 24-hour entrapment in a sandy writ shaft has sent his family a bill for aim I Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Kent Hooper, who make a total of $lO5 ! a week, said they are grateful but • are unable to pay the bill. Dr. Joseph Kris said the $1,500 was just half the usual cost of his time and suggested the Hoopers take up their financial problem with the grievance board of the county medical society. They got the same advice from Dr. Elmer Hess, Erie, Pa„ a former president Os the American Medical Assn., who said that from what little he knew of the case he believed the bill was “absurd.” Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr- Philip J. Rafle, who is also chairman of the county medical society’s public relations committee, said he had talked with both Dr. Kris and the Hoopers Thursday night and expected they would take the problem before the society’s mediation committee immediately. 1 “The whole incident Is very un- ’ fortunate,” Rafle said, “but there : is no animosity at ill feeling on J resolve the matter.” m. Dr. Kris’ Statement . Rafle said it appeared that the , Hoopers’ income from their na- [ tionwide fame had been “grossly exaggerated” by “small town gossip. Gifts have come to the family from all over the country, but the , Hoopers said .their monetary value t has been small. J Kris said he had heard rumors they have received “all kinds of money through the mail and on TV and for writing articles and so on.” Hooper said “He must have been misled somewhere along the line that we received a lot of money.” "I had taken it up with my colleagues and the medical society, and they said Td be foolish not to send a bill,” the doctor said. "The time I put in was eight full days and close to 100 hours. Since my time (as an anesthesiologist) is worth S3O an hour I think the bill was a fair amount to Chargfe*. (OonunuM vu net *Nx> Urges Bakery Union Study Proceedings Senate Committee Head In Challenge WASHINGTON (UP)-Chairman John L, McClellan of the Senate Rackets Committee today challenged the board of the Bakery Workers Union to take a long look at the conduct of Union President James G. Cross. “I would recommend that the union’s executive board study the proceedings before this committee. The burden is now on the union to determine what action, if any, should be taken against Mr. Cross,” the Arkansas Democrat said- , Cross has been accused in committee testimony of misusing union funds, of resorting to goon squad tactics and of conniving with employers. But the union’s executive board was scheduled to meet today as a special hearing board —' not to consider Cross’ conduct but to decide what action to take in the case of Cross' chief accuser. Union Secretary - Treasurer Curtis Sims. Sims was suspended earlier after charging cross with misconduct. Sims, who was notified of the meeting as McClellan recessed his committee hearings Thursday, told newsmen he would be surprised if the board did not fire him. McClellan announced, as Thursday's hearings 1 closed, that the committee was through with the Bakers Union “for the present” There remained the possibility that the Sims case might change that decision.

Six Children Os One Family Die In Storm [ Estimate Property r Damage In Fargo In t ; Millions Os Donors | FARGO, HD. (UP) The toll 1 at death' from Thursday sight’s j tornado climbed to two figures to- , day and damage estimates mount- . ed by the millions of dollars. , The discovery of a child’s body . in the ruins of a shattered home—the seventh youngster killed by the t ’’huge, black arm” of tornadic . wind which ravaged this city — i brought the deaths to 10. Another i 105 persons were injured. Nearly 200 miles to the south' and west, a tornado killed a worn- ’ an in South Dakota, bringing the 1 total to 11 for the two neighbor ‘ states. [ Insurance adjusters made hasty . estimates 6f the loss amid the , splintered wood, crumpled brick- . work, dangling power lines and . shattered automobiles, and said the loss would be somewhere be- . tween 7 million and 10 million dobs lars. They believed about 750 i homes were hit. i - Autoerities »*»*W to «*tact the fe r father. Gerald Munson, Who was out of town and apparently unaware of the tragedy. - Only the mother and one child * of the family of nine survived the r disaster. Both the mother and her young son, Rickey, were hospital- , ized. The dead children were identi- . fled as Mary Beth Munson, 1$ months; Lois Ann, 2V4; Jeanette, i 5; Bradley, 10; Darwin, 12, and : Phyllis. 18. The mayor ordered the city un--1 der martial law today, turning over ail law enforcement to five N*- ' tional Guard units which were ! rushed here to prevent looting and aid in the mammoth cleanup job. The twister smashed into Fargo like a “huge black arm,” blasting about 100 square blocks of this city of 45,000 population. About 250 buildings were destroyed or damaged, many of them in the new Golden Ridge subdivision. Damage was estimated at more than one million dollars. Searchers were hampered during the night by a power failure as the winds tore down electrical lines and knocked out communications. Volunteers probing the debris in foggy weather today said they feared they would find additional bodies in the shattered buildings. Mrs. jtfunson was hospitalized with shock and was placed under heavy sedation. Injuries to her only surviving child were not immediately determined. Another victim was Don TRgen, about 27. Also killed were an unidentified man in his 50s and a woman about 40 years old. The twister plowed a jagged path through residential districts, causing heaviest damage on the West Side. It swept into the city from the west shortly before 8 p.m. c.s.t. Gov. John Davis ordered a detachment of 200 National Guardsmen from Camp Grafton, N, D., to the city to aid in patrol and cleanup duty. They were aided by naval and Air Force reservists, members of the Finley Air Force Base in Fargo and state police. Mayor Herschel Lashkowitz es-* timated that 250 buildings were damaged or flattene dby the twister with most of the damage on the North Side. The mayor said total damages would reach more than one million dollars. The injured were rushed to St. Luke’s and St. John’s hospitals. A spokesman at St. Luke’s said “There are emergency beds all over the building—in the cafeteria and in the corridors.” The Rev. Karl Schraeder, who watched the twister, said his church and a nearby Roman Catholic convent were wrecked by the twister. He said the scene “looked like a battlefield.” He said several nuns came out of the wrecked eohvent "carry!if injured and holding them until tbs arrival of ambulances." - : - *r?

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