Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 150, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 150.

imu ■ ■ H i TALK PEACEFUL ATOM ENERGY JAPAN'S atomic energy chairman, Koichi Uda, and U. S. Atomic Energy Chairman Lewis L. Strauss shake hands in Washington as they confer on a program for co-operation on peaceful atomic energy research. - ■ .- ‘ ■ — •■ • -i- ' ■ -i-.*.

Right To Work Law Effective Today In State 103 Other Indiana Laws Effective As Os This Morning INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The “right to work” law and 103 others became effective in Indiana today. Among other things, the statutes outlawed union shops and replaced the zinnia with the peony as the state flower. Next Monday, another new burich of ’tews wfl! raise the gross income tax and require employers to begin withholding it from payrolls. Lt. Governor Crawford Parker, in the absence of Governor Handley. dedared the acts promulgated and in effect in a proclamation at 11:30 a.m- tsThe 104 laws were those enacted by the 1957 General Assembly which had neither an emergency clause nor an effective date. By law, they take effect when the last of Indiana’s 92 county clerks signs his receipt for copies of the Acts of 1957. Kosciusko Last A receipt signed at 3:45 p.m. Tuesday by Kosciusko County Clerk N. Pauline Jordan arrived today in the office of Secretary of State Frank A. Lenning. It was the last of the 92. Many of the 366 bills enacted into law during the 61-day session bore “emergency" clauses and became effective with Governor Handley’s signature. Many specified July 1 as the effective date, still others Jan. 1, 1958 The “right-to-work” law, the hottest issue the legislative session, was now ripe for whatever reaction it might bring in labor - management relations. Handley allowed the bill to become law without his signature after a stormy protest march on the Statehouse by more than 5,000 union members. The law forbids union shop con- _ tracts whereby a worker is required to join a union to keep his job. Indiana became the first major industrial state to enact it. Withholding Starts Other labor legislation became effective earlier. One law prohibits supplemental unemployment benefits along with full state benefits. Another increases unemployment benefits from maximums of S3O to $33 weekly. The 92nd signature also means the peony is now the Indiana state flower, and that persons 65 years or older with income of $4,250 or less can get a property tax exemption. Beginning next Monday, employers must start withholding taxes from wages. Those taxes, for the wage earner, will be 50 per' cent higher, too. The 2-cent increase in the state gasoline tax became effective March 15 Also Monday, Indiana’s new program of compulsory driver tests every four years will begin rolling. The same new law allows youngsters to get driver education permits at age 15. Next Sunday is the last Sunday auto dealers can stay open in Indiana. A new law effective Monday provides criminal penalties for violation. Time Issue Unsettled Hunters gnd fisherman also will pay 50 cents more for their licenses next Monday. —- After Jqp. 1, 1958, couples will be required to wait three days for (CoatlßaeS Face Fire,

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Township Line Case Delayed To Monday Grants Continuance To Search Records The Wabash-Monroe township line case was postponed until next Monday on motion of the Wabash township trustee over the vigorous objections of attorney C. H. Muselman, acting for Monroe township, in circuit court today. Attorney Robert Smith, representing the plaintiff, Wabash township trustee L. A. “Gus” Mann, asked, in a petition for continuance, that the trial be postponed until Monday, July 1. He stated that the object of the soft w thedetermtaitoe ‘dMtfb location of the. Wabash-Monroe township line, that the court must have all the facts, that any action by the board of commissioners would be pertinent to the case, that the search of records was not complete, and could not" be completed until next Monday. Attorney Muselman strongly opposed the continuance, stating that he had two witnesses who could not appear next week. He added, in conversation after the trial, that he felt it was unethical to file a case, and then ask for more time to get information, since this should have been obtained before the case was filed. (Attorney Smith explained later in an interview with the press that Muselman was right in that it was unusual to file a case without all the facts. However, if they had waited to get all the facts before filing, the case would not have been filed in time to get it decided this summer, before tax rates are figured out.) Judge Myles F. Parrish, before making his decision, called each attorney into his office and discussed the motion with him. Attorney David Macklin, representing defendant Edward F. Jaberg, county auditor, stated that he did not object to the postponement if it would help find the real facts of the case. After considering the motion. Judge Parrish returned to the ccurt and called the attorneys to the bar.- He stated that he was always liberal in granting continuances, although this one perhaps did .not comply with the statutes. He said he felt a duty to both townships in the matter, and that the case should be settled as quickly as possible, so that the township assessors would have a knowledge of where to assess. Under the peculiar facts of the presefifease, however, he said he was willing to grant this, continuance. but that he did so reluctantly. He hoped that it would take only a couple of days to complete the arguments of the case when it comes- to trial, because it will take a few days of consideration on the judge's part to hand down a decision. He did not want to rule hastily on the matter, but he understood that the parties wanted the matter settled before tax rates are figured in August. He then granted a continuance of the trial until 9 a.Tin. Monday. Following the brief appearance of the lawyers,, a short heated scene took place. Muselman and Smith discussed the matter briefly, Muselman explaining how in 1916 he had built a home south of Main street, and how a surveyor, now dead, had helped him move the old log fence, and how he had built there because he believed he was In Monroe township. Attorney Smith replied that his client would be happy to drop (Continued on Pago Four)

Scientists Say Clean Nuclear Bombs Coming Eisenhower Reports View Os Scientists On End To Fallout WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower said today that American scientists have told him they can produce nuclear bombs with absolutely no fallout if nuclear tests are continued for another four to five yean. . I Despite the scientific arguments in favor of continuing tests, Eisenhower told his news conferense that U.S. proposals to suspend nuclear teste as part ot a'fint-step disarmament agreement still stand. As of now, the President said the world’s fears require the U4L to go right ahead with a conditional offer to suspend tests, This government, he declared, has no intention of withdrawing its proposal to suspend nuclear tests. The president at the same time spoke out anew against a war in the nuclear age He saidthere can be no such thing as a victorious power in a global war of the future. • The President said scientists Ernest O. Lawrence and Edward Tellier have told him they are producing, bombs with 96 per cent less fallout than that of the so-called “dirty” H-bomb of 1954. Eisenhower said the scientists ask for four or five years to test each stage of development, and they will produce an absolutely clean bomb, the President said. This would mean, he added, that there would be no radioactive fallout to injure civilians outside the heat and blast area around a military target. The President’s remarks made it clear that there is no such thing now as an absolutely clean H-bomb. The Atomic Energy Commission’s top test official, Dr. Alvin C. Graves of the Los Alamos, N.M., bomb labor atoms, tidd a congressional subcommittee re’ftW WW absolutely eteatr H-bdmb is impossible because it still requires an A-bomb trigger—and A-bombs are inherently dirty. If scientists should perfect away of triggering H-bombs without atomic heat, they presumably would be closer to solving the problem of how to tame the H-bomb’s nuclear reaction for peaceful erOfficials have said repeatedly that no such break-through is in sight. A reporter asked the President what possibility there is that Russia might make a so-called “clean bomb.” . Eisenhower said this is an excellent question which he asks himself. He expressed hope that the Russians would learn how to make clean bombs and know how to use them. Then, he said, these weapons would be used for specific purposes and not for mass destruction. Prominent Steel Executive Dead Ernest Weir Dies In Hospital Today PITTSBURG UP - Ernest T. Weir, 81. who resigned six weeks ago as board chairman and cheif executive officer of National Steel Corp., died in a Philadelphia hospital today, it was announced here. A spokesman for National Steel said Weir died of “complications following a heart attack suffered in mid-Januhry” Weir, who would have been 82 next Aug. 1, was elected “hon-orary-founder chairman” by National Steel directors in May. _ On his recommendation the directors named the company president, Thomas E. Millsop, the chief executive officer but postponed the election of a board chairman. Weir had told the directors he would recommend the election of an “outstanding man” as chairman and it is generally believed his choice was Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey, who has announced his intention to resign from President Eisenhower’s cabinet INDIANA WEATHER Scattered showers and a few thundershowers ending this evening and turning cooler north portion early tonight and continuing south portion tonight. Thursday generally fair and pleasant north, partly cloudy'' with scattered showers or thunderstorms likely south portion. Low tonight in upper 59s extreme north to mid-60s south. High Thursday generally in the 80s. Subset 8:17 p. »., sunrise Thursday 5:19 a. m.

Decatur, Indiana; Wednesday, June 26,1957

Eisenhower Opposes Price, Wage Control To Combat Inflation

Senate Group May Restore Defense Cut Report Committee | To Restore Billion 4 In Defense Budget By UNITED PRESS The Senate Military Appropriations subcommittee agreed tentatively today to restore about SL--000,000,000 of the $2,565,275,000 cut by the House from President Eisenhower’s defense budget. No decisions were formally announced as the subcommittee recessed its first drafting session on the House-approved $33,562,725,000 bill. But two members told newsmen separately that the bilgon dollar restoration was set as a basis for item-by-item consldetations. Such a restoration, apportioned as the administration requested, would give the administration almost all of the $1,200,000,000 which its spokesmen had declared to be vital to the nation's defense posture. Other congressional news: Appropriations: A bill carrying $104,844,660 to finance operations in the* Year tag July 1 was approved by'tte Senate Appropriations Committee. The bill is $3,426,783 short of what President Eisenhower estimated would be needed. Witnesses: Two New York union officials—Salvatore Testa and H.V. Trautman of the American Communications Workers j— demanded that the Senate Internal Security subcommittee “justify” its position that they could be compelled o testify. It was the first Senate test of a recen Supreme Court decision in favor of witnesses who refused to name former Communist ass©-: dates.Decatur Retailers Plan Special Events A series of special events to be conducted each Friday evening was planned at a meeting of the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, which met with chairman Robert Lane Tuesday evening. David Meyers, of the Firestone store, was appointed chairman of the promotional project, which is the first planned event to stimulate Friday evening shopping in local stores. The exact starting date of the special events has not been set as yet, but merchants will be notified as soon as material which is now on order arrives. United Church Os Christ Is Formed Church Merger Is Completed Tuesday CLEVELAND, Ohio (UP)—More than two million Protestants of two denominations merged into a single group, the United Church of Christ, in ceremonies here Tuesday night. The new denomination, was solemnized in a procession into Public Hall when delegates representing 8,300 congregations around the nation climaxed efforts of 17 years with a clasp of hands. The “uniting synod” brought more than 900 delegates from the Congregational Christian and the Evangelical and Reformed churches here for the ceremony. The new church unites denominations of widely differing policy and background- although similar ddetrine. The Uongregationalists came from the English reformation and the EAR churches followed from the continental reformation led, by Luther, Zwingli and Calvin. The United Chuffch of Christ will operate-under a “basis of union with interpretations” pending adoption and ratification of a formal constitution.

Mississippi River Nears Flood Stage New Thunderstorms Lash At Minnesota By UNITED PRESS The Mississippi River, swelled by its flooded tributaries, climbed toward flood stage today, and at least 105 Minnesota families Were forced to flee their homes. New thunderstorms hit Minnesota Tuesday night, dumping onethird inch of rain at Minneapolis and adding to the flood conditions Other heavy rains swept lowa, where Cedar Rapids and Mason City recorded up to one-half inch, and portions of the North Atlantic Coast region. Albany, N.Y., got a half-inch deluge in a six-hour period, and Burlington, Vt., was swamped by a two-inch rainfall during a 12-hour period Tuesday. About 65 families were evacuated from their homes Tuesday night south of St. Paul, Minn., when forecasters predicted the Mississippi would reach three feet above flood stage by Friday. National Guardsmen were alerted to aid in other evacuations should they prove necessary. ■* The raging Crow River flooded more than half of Delano, Minn., forcing about 40 failles to flee. The muddy water reached a depth . of 14 feet at some lowland spots Officials urged that the governor request President Eisenhower to declare file city a disaster area. The swirling Minnesota River reached a flood crest 25 miles upstream from St. Paul and broadened its inundation of rich farmlands. Readings near the 100-degree mark seared southern Arizona and the interior of Southern California Tuesday, but a cool air mass held temperatures in the 70s and 80s from New Mexico through the southern Plains. Overnight readings plunged as low as the 40s in some sections of the Dakotas and the northern Great Lakes. Zoning Ordinance Articles Studied Possible Revisions Studied By Board Members of the city plan commission, city attorney John L. DeVoss, Mayor Robert Cole and commission secretary Ralph E. Roop met in special session with planning consultant Col. Lawrence Sheridan, of Indianapolis, Tuesday afternoon at city hall. Purpose of the meeting was to review a number of the articles in the local zoning ordinance, for possible amendment. Topics of discussion included the present regulations included in Decatur’s zoning ordinance concerning the use or storage of house trailers on private property. A separate ordinance was suggested, and it was pointed out that when a trailer is off its wheels, it becomes a house. Sheridan commended the board of appeals for the manner in which it has been handling such cases on a temporary basis. „ Col. Sheridan pointed out the need of every community for rigid rules and regulations concern’ng private signs. A possible setback regulation for all signs is being considered; one that will comply with the building set-back line. Tapered lots were discussed by the group and will be another point which Sheridan and his associates will hash over before making their recommendation to the board. The local board pointed out tiie growing need for more available parking area in new business districts, and the storage of old farm machinery for re-sale was discussed. Numerous other details were presented before Sheridan, and he will now study the proposed changes. A proposal of changes and estimated costs of the action will then be sent to secretary Roop, although it is thought possible that a hew zoning ordinance will (Continued on Pwe Severn

Reds Demand U.N.ToHalf Korea Buildup Communists' High Command In Korea In Demand Today PANMUNJOM, Korea, (UP)The Communist high command demanded today that the United Nations cancel its decision to build up armed strength in South Korea to match that ofXhe Reds in the North. North Korean Maj. Gen- Gen. Chunk Kook Rok also delcared “null and void” the Western Allies’ decision to abrogate that part of the armistice agreement freezing the armed strength of both sides at what x it was when the fighting ended. The military armistice commission meeting then recessed for 30 minutes. The first session lasted 50 minutes. Maj. Gen. Homer Litzenfibrg of ..the U. S. Marines, senior Allied representative, told the Reds last week the UN. Command was tossing out the arms freeze part of i the agreement because the Communists had "flagrantly and wil- • fully” violated it in building up , their own armed strength. , The handsome North Korean ■ general, his voice crisp, read a . 15-minute sttement protesting the . U. N. action and denying the Al- . lied charges. It was no military buildup, Chung said, since “we > have only been engaged in peaceI ful construction in North Korea.” Allied intelligence said the Reds i had beefed up the armed forces in North Korea by 100,000 men built up a force of more than 700 jet bombers and fighters, imported hundreds of modern Soviet tanks and constructed a chain of 20 or more air bases above the 38th parallel. The Allies made it clear they would match that arms build up by bringing in swarms of jet fighter and bombers capable of carrying atomic bombs. Chung said today this was part of “United States policy to prepare for an atomic war”. Change Library Hours During July, August The Decatur public library will close ,at 6 p. m. Tuesday through Friday nights, for the months of July and August, Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, announced today." The library will continue to open at 12 noon, and on Mondays and Saturdays remain open until the usual 8:30 p. m. Tuesday through Friday, starting next Tuesday, the library will be open from noon until 6 p.m. Brewster Convicted On Contempt Charge Teamster Official Convicted By Judge WASHINGTON (UP) — Federal Judge John J. Sirica today convicted Teamsters Union Vice President Frank W. Brewster of contempt of Congress. The Seattle union official faces a possible maximum sentence of 11,000 fine and one year in Jail. Sentence was deferred pending completion of a routine probation report. I BreWster, head of the Teamsters’ 11 - state Western Conference, was charged with contempt because he refused to give evidence early this year before the Senate investigating" subcommittee. Brewster himself was not present to hear the ruling- He had waived his right to be there in order to attend the annual meeting of the Western Conference in San Diego, Calif., where he was day by Teamsters President Dave Beck. - In San Diego, Brewster said he would appeal the contempt conviction. ■x

Shows No Remorse Over Killing Spree Hoosier Surrenders After Killing Spree TERRE HAUTE, Ind., (UP)Mrs. Dorothy Whitaker, whose hsuband shot and killed his exwife and son, said today she would stand by her wife - swapping hubband because he was “fighting for what he thought was right.** Thomas Whitaker, 39, a truck driver, went on berserk shooting rampage Tuesday after brooding for two days over the “grief” he suffered in the wife trade. He fought a gun duel with his wife’s husband, Stewart Martin, 40. in the early morning darkness, crippling him with a shotgun blast in the leg. Uses Shotgun Then he battered his way into Martin’s luxurious suburban home to wipe out the woman and child he once loved. He killed his former wife, Mrs Alma Martin, 36, and her sop, Jack Whitaker, 11, with the double-barreled shotgun." He then shot and seriously wounded his dauthter, Regina, 9, as she pleaded for her life. Whitaker, held in Vigo County Jail under $50,000 bond on a first degree murder warrant, showed no remorse over his killing speree. In a signed statement to Chief Deputy Prosecutor John Kessler, 1 Whitaker was quoted as saying the wife - swapping caused hfin 1 ""lota of grief’ because he couldn’t see his children often enough. Wife Promises Support Mrs. Whitaker told United Press she “definitely” would stand by her husband. She described him as a mild-mannered man who was driven to murder in his fight for what he thought was right. Whitaker surrendered Tuesday about 12 hours after the shooting. He said he had spent the time hiding along the Wabash River bottomlands and meditating about the double slaying. Martin, a wealthy commercial photographer, and Whitaker became close friends several years ago as fellow members of the local Elks club. The couples spent many evenings together and last year decided to trade wives. Mrs- Whitaker was awarded a divorce Aug. 18, 1956, and the exMrs. Martin won a divorce Dec., 12, 1956. Both wives charged cruelty and neither divorce was contested. . Joe Moser Dies At Bluffton Hospital Moser Implement Co. Owner Dies Today Joe Moser, 70, of Bluffton, owner and operator of the Moser Implement Co. in that city, died at 12:05 o’clock this morning at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton follow*ing a one day’s illness of a heart ailment. He was born in Wells county April 11, 1887, a son of Eli and Mary Rinehart-Moser, and was married to Martha Moser Sept. 20, 1912. A lifelong resident of Wells county, he was well known in both Wells and Adams counties. Mr. Moser was a member of the Christian Apostolic church. Surviving are his wife; two sons, Nelson and Ervin Moser, both of Bluffton; one daughter, Mrs. Arthur Kipfer of Bluffton; 12 grandchildren; four brothers, Amos Moser of Berne, Edwin Moser of Craigville, Eli Moser of Fort Wayne, and Menno Moser of Bluffton, and three sisters, Mrs. Martha Bauman of Kansas, Mrs. John Moser and Mrs. Homer Gerber of Bluffton. Mrs. Sylvan Gerber, of Bluffton, was reared in the Moser home. One son, one brother and two sisters preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Jahn-Goodwin & Reed funeral home in Bluffton and at 2 p. m. at the Christian Apostolic church, the Rev. Sam Aeschliman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call st the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Renews Appeal To Business, tabor Leaders Vigorously Opposes Controls To Combat Inflation Pressure WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower said today he vigorously opposes price and wage controls as a means of combating inflationary pressures. Eisenhower renewed an appeal to business and labor leaders to show extreme restraint in price and wage increases. He told his news conference that corporation directors should put price increases into effect, only if they are absolutely necessary. Labor leaders, he said, should ressrict their demands for wage . increases .to corresponding increases in the productivity of individual workers or to cases where workers are suffering extreme hardships as to their pay. I Controls Lead to Socialises The president said that if management' and labor do not show > such statesmanship then we would make come true a recent predic- > tion ta Communist boss Nikita [ Khrushchev. i iM? v rcsiuufi v apparenuy rc* ferred to Khrushchev’s prediction and recent televised interview that the United States would eventually become a socialistic country. Without identifying Khrushchev by name, the President said the Communist chief is certainly not any friend of ours. He said he himself was not going to take any part in turning the country socialistic. He said wage and price controls would be a step in that rectionin other news conference highlights, Eisenhower: —Said there are not any plans now for a reduction of UJL military forces abroad at any place other than Japan. —Said .there also are not any plans to ask Congress to change the atomic energy law to permit giving Britain nuclear weapon*. Defends Supreme Court —Said leading atomic scientists have told him that with four or five more years of testing they are confident they can produce a hydrogen bomb absolutely dean of radioactive fallout. But he said the administration will not go back on its otter to suspend tests at nuclear weapons as a first step toward disarmament. He also said that scientists want to continue the tests necessary to get the most out of nuclear energy .for peaceful purposes. —Said that one section in the . report of a special commission on government employe security caused him to raise his eyebrows. The recommendation called for transfer of the visa responsibilities from the State Department to the Justice Department, he said. —Defended the Supreme Court as a great stabilizing influence and an essential part of the U.S. system of government- He conceded, however, that there were some parts of recent decisions on constitutional rights of individuals which, he said, each of us has very great trouble in understanding- v —Repeated his conviction that there would be no victor hi a global war. He said he thinks so much about it that he finds himself repeating it almost in his sleep. He made this statement in answer to a question about whether he believes the Russians could develop a clean H-bomb and would use it in case of war. He said he hopes so, but added his firm conviction that there must not be another war because, as he put it, it is inescapable that military might has become capable of complete destruction of humanity and civilization as it has developed on the North American continent Calto Civil Rights Reasonable —Said there was some indication from London that the Russian* are coming closer to the U.S. view on suspending nuclear weapons tests and production of weapon* materials, coupled with certain kinds of sky inspection.

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