Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 151

JILTED, SUES EX-MATE

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Audrey Pounds Inland Cities, 10 Men Killed

PORT ARTHUR. Tex. (UP)-An unseasonable and vicious hurricane which already had killed 10 men, swept across the Texas-Louisiana coast today and beat inland cities with syinds of 100 miles an hour. The wind, torrential rain and crashing waves of Hurricane Audrey isolated whole towns- Electrical power was knocked off in Port Arthur and Beaumont, Tex., and in Lake Charles, La< Terrified residents — 50,000 in Port Arthur alone by one estimate —fled their homes. Some took refuge in schools, churches and steel-framed buildings. Others fled pell-mell in their automobiles to sectors out of the tempest’s path. Raging seas more than 200 miles down the Texas coast swept four vessels, including the 400-foot Sinclair Co. tanker S.S. Sheldon Clark, aground in Aransas Bay. The other vessels were two barges and a tug. The crews apparently were safe The New Orleans Weather Bureau said the center of Audrey was about halfway between Beaumont and Lake Charles —that is along the border between the states — and moving northward about 15 miles an hour." Nine on Ship Drown "Lake Charles, La., and Orange, Tex., reported winds of 100 miles per hour,” the advisory said. “Winds of 75 miles or better are expected to continue near the center the rest of the day as it moves northward along the Texas-Louisi-ana border, accompanied by four to eight-inch rains.” The hurricane’s victims were all drowned. As Audrey raged toward shore, it hurled a two-masted fishing vessel, the Keturah, into an oil rig near Galveston. The Keturah went down with all nine crewmen on board. Another man was drowned last night off the Texas coast. All except two families fled the little town of Sabine. Tex—five stores and a population of 260— south of Port Arthur. The two families, who lived south of the Keith Lake bridge, were cut off and officials were trying to get them out. One Town Isolated It was feared that conditions might be critical at Cameron, La., which was isolated hours before the center of the storm hit. Brother Os Monroe Lady Dies Wednesday Richard C. Coonrod, 23, of New Haven, died Wednesday at,Parkview memorial hospital. Survivors include the widow, Dorothy; a son. Daniel; dhe parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Coonrod, Sr., New HaVen; three sisters, Mrs. Ralph Maldaney of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Grover Love of Monroeville, and Mrs. Gary Harvey of Monroe; two brothers, Gerald of Fort Wayne, and Leslie, Jr., of New Haven; the maternal grandfather, Justin Voirol of Monroeville, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Henry Coonrod of New Haven. Services will be held at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at the E. Harper & Sons funeral home in New Haven and at | a.m. at St. John the Baptist Catholic church in New Haven, the Rev. William J. Ehrman officiating. Burial will be in St. Louis Catholic cemetery, Besancon.

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Senate Votes Funds For Postal Service Nation Assured Os Full Postal Service WASHINGTON (UP) — The nation was assured today of full postal service for the year beginning July 1. The Senate passed and sent to the White House today a supplemental Post Office Department money bill providing an extra 133 million dollars for next fiscal year. Postmaster General Arthur E Summerfield had warned of new cuts in postal services and the shutdown of possibly thousands of local post offices unless Congress provided him more funds to run his department. Summerfield had asked an additional $148,500,000. But the Senate, in approving the bill Wednesday, went along with House cuts of $16,500,000. However, Chairman Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.)'of the Senate Appropriations Committee assured his colleagues that the reduction would not mean any curtailment of daily rural mail deliveries or suspension of Saturday service in cities and towns. I Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.), voting against the bill, accused Summerfield of trying to intimidate Congress with threats instead of seeking to save money by modernizing the mail service. President Eisenhower, who had backed Summerfield in his fight to obtain extra funds, was almost certain to sign the measure. The postmaster general had curtailed postal services briefly earlier this year when Congress refused to grant him extra funds to tide his department over the fiscal year ending June 30 On another matter, Summerfield told the House Post Office Committee Wednesday he and Eisenhower would give “careful consideration” to any postal pay raise recommended by the group. The administration, which opposes pay hikes for postal and otijpr federal workers as inflationary, has centered its fire on a bill to increase postal pay by about 40 per cent at an estimated cost of a billion dollars. Distribute Monmouth Annual This Evening Monmouth high school’s annual, “The Eagle,” will be distributed at the school this evening, between 6:30 and 8 o’clock. John Rosier, senior class sponsor last year, was advisor for the publication of the year book, and patrons wi> have ordered the annual are reminded to bring their receipts. * INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, scattered showers tonight. Showers north and rain south Friday. Little change in temperatures. Low tonight 57-63 north, 62-67 south. High Friday 75-82. Sunset .8: IT p. m., sunrise Friday s:ls a. m.

Controversy Is Mounting Over Court Rulings Senate Explodes In Debate Wednesday On Supreme Court , WASHINGTON (UP)—The Supreme Court was attacked today as an “aid and comfort" to Communism and defended as a coequal branch of the government doing its part in safeguarding individual liberties. .The mounting controversy over recent court rulings brought with it new warnings of threats to law enforcement. The FBI was reported ready to withdraw from prosecutions of espionage and certain other criminal cases if necessary to protect the secrecy of its files. The Justice Department urged laws to safeguard FBI files, and to establish new police procedures to prevent breakdown of prosecutions aghinst hardened criminals Senate Debates On Court The Senate exploded in debate on the court Wednesday. Views ranged from that of Sen. Strom Thurmond (D-S.C.) who charged the tribunal had "gone power wild," to Sen. Alexander Wiley (R-Wis.) who pleaded against "abuse of the highest tribunal of our land.” Rep, Donald L- Jackson <RCalif.), in a speech prepared for House delivery today, denounced the high court’s current course as "lending aid, comfort and assistance” to the Communist “enemy.” Asserting that June 17, when two of the most disputed court rulings were issued, might be celebrated by Communists henceforth as a “red letter day.” Jackson said Congress should protect its committees by special legislation or abolish them. Jackson, a member of the committee on un-American activities, found himself sharply at variance with committee Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.). Walter said Wednesday no new legislation is required to meet the Supreme Court's edict In the Watkins case, one of those delivered June 17. That decision said witnesses can refuse to answer committee questions unless the purpose of the Inquiry is given and the relevancy of the questions shown. Walter said recent San Fracisco hearings of an un - American activities subcommittee . showed the court’s ruling could be followed without difficulty. (CoatiaaeS Pa«e Five) Miss Legora Markle Heads Nurses Group Elected Chairman Os District Group Miss Legora Markle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orla Markle of 1320 Madison street, was elected chairman of the general duty nurses association of district one of the Indiana state nurses association Tuesday evening. Miss Markle, a general duty nurse at the VA hospital in Fort Wayne, has been very active in forming the new organization. By-laws were approved and officers elected in the Tuesday meeting held at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne. J . District one will include general duty nurses at hospitals in Decatur, Bluffton, Fort Wayne, Columbia City, Kendallville, Auburn, and Angola. All general duty nurses of the area are invited to attend the meetings. The date of the next meetihg will be announced later. Purposes of the organization are to further the understanding of nursing, to strengthen the state nurses* organization, to better the understanding of nurses organization, to improve nursing care, and to improve nursing standards. At the present time, the state executive committee is getting ready to consider changes in the state nursing code, including a recommendaion for raising general duty nurses’ wages to S3OO a month. / Officers in the club, in addition to Miss Markle, are Delta Schmoc, St. Joseph’s hospital, first vicechairman; Gladys Kintz, Lutheran hospital, second vice - chairman; Mary Edge, Veterans hospital, secretary; Wilma Welty, and Lois Hornaday, both of Lutheran hospital, members at large; Carolyn Lehman, Parkview, Mildred Deeter, Lutheran, and* Mildred Breeman, St. Joseph's, the nominating committee. The chairman of the rules committee was Claud Berkshire, of Veterans hospital. The executive committee will meet at a later date to plan a budget and appoint committees on programs, rules, functions, standards, qualifications, and publicity.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 27,1957

Former State Highway Head, “Gio” Salesman.

Indicted For Bribery

House Group f' Votes Postal Pay Increase Ignores Objections Os Eisenhower For Postal Pay Boosts By UNITED PRESS The House Post Office Committee ignored the objections of President Eisenhower today and voted to raise the pay of 518,000 postal workers by 320 million dollars a year. The vote, taken behind closed doors, was reported by committee members later to have been 20-3. The pay raise bill, if finally enacted, would provide increases ranging up to $546 a year. Only a few days ago, Eisenhower had opposed a pay hike for postal workers this year. Administration leaders said it would wily lead to demands for increases by other government workers and upset efforts to hold down government spending. But the committee agreed today to meet next Tuesday to consider raises for other federal workers. Eisenhower said raises for all classified workers would be flationaryOther congressional news: FBI Files: The Eisenhower administration will urge Congress Friday to approve legislation to "correct loopholes” created by the Supreme Court decision opening FBI files to defendants in certain criminal cases. Labor: Chairman Graham A. Barden (D-N.C.) of the House Labor Committee and Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell feuded again over who is responsible for delaying congressional action on new labor legislation. Barden accused Mitchell at a committee hearing today of unnecessary delays in answering certain congressional requests. Telecasts: Speaker Sam Rayburn said there will be no more telecasts of heanngs by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He conferred today with Committee Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) who last week ignored Rayburn’s previous ruling against radio or TV coverage of committee procedures- Rayburn said Walter requested today’s meeting and agreed to abide by his ruling. Tax Relief: A Democratic-con-trolled congressional subcommittee handed a setback to Democrats seeking early tax relief and easier credit restrictions. Trapped Miners Are Rescued Wednesday Five Men Entombed 14 Hours Rescued BLOOMINGDALE, Ohio (UP)— Five coal miners entombed for 14 hours by a cave-in were rescued Wednesday night through a shaft bored by a tremendous mine-dig-ging machine. It was believed the first time the machine, a giant auger developed to make coal mining more economical, ever was used in a rescue attempt. The bit of the auger, 3*4-feet thick, and capable of boring 120 feet an hour, pierced 240 feet into the side of a Powhatan Coal Co. strip mine- near here and hit "dead center"',in a low chamber where the miners were trapped. The men crawled to safety through the hole, the third bored by the auger in the rescue effort, at 10:50 p.m. e.d.t They had been trapped since 9 a.m. e.d.t. in a space 40 feet long, 4Vi-feet high and 9 to 16 feet in width. About 200 persons, including wives arid children of the trapped miners, rescue workers and two priests, shotted joyously at sight of the rescued men "We never gave up hope, we knew that machine would get to us,” said Kenneth Hamilton, 38, the first man out of the mine. Behind him came Joseph Supinski, 29, Martin Kovalski, 40, Henry Horvath, 38, arid Fred Sabls 38. None had suffered any injuries.

Demands Death For Slayer Os Ex-Wife Indictments Asked For Slayer Os Two 4 TERRE HAUTE (UP)—Grand jury indictments charging murder and death in the electric chair were sought today for Thomas Whitaker, 39, a wife-swapping truck driver who killed his exwife and their 11-year-old son. Prosecutor John H. Jett said a Vigo County grand jury will convene next Wednesday. He said he will ask two murder indictments —thi<e if Whitaker’s 9-year-old daughter Regina dies. Jett also said he will demand the death penalty for Whitaker. "The prosecutor’s office will leave no stone unturned to bring about a finding of guilty of first degree murder and the death penalty,” Jett said. "In my 13 years as prosecuting attorney, no case, ever has justified the death penalty more than this.” Whitaker confessed Wednesday that he shot to death Mrs Alma Martin, 36, and his son Jack Whitaker when he invaded their $40,000 home in a wooded subdivision and fought a gun duel with Mrs. Martin’s new husband, Stewart, a Terre Haute businessman. Martin and Whitaker’s daughter were shot, the child critically. Whitaker surrendered about 13 hours after the shootings, while a posse of police combed brush and woods near the crime scene looking for him. The Whitakers and Martins were divorced last year and each man married the other’s wife a few months later. Whitaker blamed his spree on resentment over custody given to their mother of the two young children. Services for Mrs. Martin and the boy will be held Friday. Meanwhile, officers searched for the shotgun Whitaker used in the crime. ■w . — - Hoover Recalled By State Department Is Called Back As Part Time Adviser WASHINGTON (UP)—Former Undersecretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. has been called back to the State Department as a parttime consultant on oil and other problems, it was learned today. Hoover, 53-year-old son of the former President, resigned Feb- 1 from the No. 2 job in the State' Department to return to private life in California. Administration sources said Hoover returned to the State Department "for several days lat week" to begin work as a consultant. He conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other officials on oil quota problems, Middle Eastern oil and domestic oil problems relating to foreign issues. > While in Washington Hoover is using the office of former Sen. Walter F. George who now is in Georgia recovering from a heart condition. George, special assistant to President Eisenhower, hopes to make a trip to North Atlantic Treaty countries IL his health permits before resigning his advisory post around the end of this year, officials said. Although Hoover has consulted with the State Department thus far chiefly on oil problems, a spokesman said he could be -ontlnuc wa<r« Bix> Jobless Pay Claims Decrease In State INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Claims for Indiana unemployment insurance dropped by 1,271 last week to a total of 34,178, it was announced today. The total was nearly 5,300 under the number of claims for the same week last year. Director William C. Stalnaker of the Indiana Employment Security Division attributed part of the drop to increased construction activity amid more favorable weather. A 12 Pages

Nickerson Says Over Emphasis On Air Power Missiles Officer Presents Evidence At Court Martial HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (UP)—Col. John C. Nickerson Jr. testified today that “gross” over-emphasis on air power exists in the Defense Department. I Reliance on air power alone, the Army missiles officer testified at his court-martial, might lay the United States open to ‘’total dedefeat” if Soviet armies overran most of the free world. Nickerson was testifying In his own defense in an effort to mitigate his sentence for admitted negligent handling of secret documents and sending classified memos to various outside persons. But Nickerson almost immediately launched a blistering attack on the air power philosophy of defense which he said has been “glamorized and publicized” by every member of the Air Force Nickerson himself had openeded a bitter inter-service fight over control of ballistic miissles when he protested Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson's decision to turn such weapons in the intermediate range to the Air Force. the Twa Theories Nickerson, champion of the Army's Jupiter intermediate missile which he helped develop, admitted he used secret data to get across his case. He awaits sentencing on 15 counts, a sentence to be determined by the 10 - member court-martial after the defense completes its testimony. Nickerson said the Air Force decision to build intercontinental ballistics missiles — ocean - spanning weapons' in contrast to the 1,500-mile Jupiter—was the proper one because the ICBM is a "straCentinc* e* Paxe El«ht Two Accidents Are Reported In County Car Demolished In One-Auto Accident A one car accident at 12:10 a.m. today broke a 10-day accident-free record of the local sheriff's department, and was followed seven hours later by another accident. Ervin Ewell, 22, of 358 Studebaker street, lost control of his car early this morning, as he was driving south on U.S. 27, % mile north of Decatur, in front of the Schmitt Packing Co. The car slid 220 feet on the east side of the road, and then backed across the road, skidding 230 feet whereupon it overturned. and Ewell was thrown from the car. The force of the impact caused Ewell to slide along the pavement for several feet, and he was taken to the local hospital with serious friction bums on his back and right elbow. State trooper Gene Rash and sheriff Merle Affolder, who investigated the accident, stated that the car Ewell was driving was a total loss. Mrs. Edna Mae Uhrick, 47, of route 2, Berne, was arrested for failure to yield right of way, following the other accident, which occurred at 7:20 a.m. today, seven miles east and one and a fourth miles south of Berne. Mrs. Uhrick was backing her car from the driveway at the home of her son-in-law, Joe Hale, and pulled out in front of a truck, driven by James Robert Bailey, 26, of route 2, Berne. The truck struck the front of the car, damaging the entire right side of the car, and the entire left side of the truck. Following the collision, the truck rammed into a telephone pole, and the Uhrick vehicle careened into a wheat field. Damage was estimated at S3OO to the truck, and $75 to the 1941 model car. Rash and deputy sheriff Robert Meyer investigated. Mrs. Uhrick is slated to appear in the J.P. court at Berne, at 7 a.m. Friday.

Favors Legislation To Plug Loopholes Sees Problems In law Enforcement WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower indicated today he favors legislation to plug legal "loopholes” created by the recent Supreme Court decision opening FBI files to defendants in certain criminal cases. Senate Republican Leader William F- Knowland said after a White House meeting that the President recognized there is a "very real problem" for enforcement agencies growing Out of the court’s decision. Knowland said the President did not endorse any specific legislation to correct what Knowland called “loopholes" created by the decision. But he said Eisenhower “raised no objection" to legislation introduced to counteract the ruling. The President indicated he recognized there is a “very real problem” in the area, Knowland said. The court ruled June 3 in the so-called Jencks case that defendants in a criminal case have the right to examine FBI reports provided by informers who are used as government witnesses in the trial. Some trial judges have interpreted this to mean that the government should produce all FBI reports that may be pertinent. Bills have been introduced in both the Senate and House to limit the effect of the ctmrt’s decision. Generally, they provide that FBI documents would be produced only at the discretion of the trial judge. Eisenhower’s attitude on pending legislation was set forth at a time when the FBI made clear that it would drop out of prosecution of some spy and other criminal cases if such a drastic step is necessary to protect its confidential sources. Knowland said that Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. who sat in on the White House meeting, indicated that he feels the “approach” of the pending bills in both houses is “constructive” and would "remedy some of the problems.” Knowland said that Brownell feels some legislation is “desirable" but is not "wedded to any particular form” of corrective legislation. Informed sources said both FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Brownell are standing firmly behind a traditional policy that FBI reports and sources of information must not be compromised. Otherwise, they feel, the agency’s effectiveness may be impaired. U.N. Plans Session On Hungarian Revolt Session Likely To Be In September UNITED NATIONS (UP) — A United Nations General Assembly session on the Hungarian revolt probably will be held in September, it was indicated today. Twenty - four countries unanimously agreed Wednesday that the assembly should* take up again Russia’s brutal suppression of last fall’s Hungarian revolt “as soon as it is practicable to do, so.” But the United States view that the best time for an assembly debate would be early September appeared to have prevailed. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, who presided over the 24-nation meeting, argued for a September session despite a unanimous resolution passed by both the House and the Senate in Washington Wednesday afternoon urging an immediate assembly session on Hungary. Lodge's argument for a September session met strong opposition from Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Diplomats from the United Kingdom advised correspondents today “not to discount” the possibility of an assembly meeting in July. However, the United States won support from most of the other delegations for a September date. Lodge’s argument was that a September date would allow time to work out measures that might be taken and for the various countries to consult among themselves on the best course of action-

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Virgil Smith And Mogilner Are Indicted Marion County Jury Says Craig Morally Responsible In Acts INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Former Indiana highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith and “Gio” salesman Arthur J. Mogilner were indicted on bribery charges today in con* nection with Mogliner’s sales of more than a million dollars worth of supplies and equipment to the state. Smith was accused of receiving more than $41,000 in bribes from Mogilner for getting him lucrative contracts. The jury which indicted the two men held ex-Gov. George N. Craig, in whose administration the Hoosier highway scandals occurred, “morally if not legally responsible" for “misconducts” of highway officials he appointed. In addition to the indictments, the jury accused two men—without naming them—of “influence peddling” for a fee of about $48,000. The jury identified th* men as an “administrative assistand” to Craig and a “former adjutant general of Indiana.” William E. Sayer, former ad- .| ministrative assistant to Craig, and Elmer W. “Dpc” Sherwood, former Indiana adjutant general, were among witnesses who ap> peared before the jury during its investigation. Craig also appeared. Smith was oraered resrrested. Mogilner, who has been missing since the scandal broke early in April, will be arrested “when We find him,” Prosecutor John Tinder said. Smith was Indicted on 8 hew counts and Mogilner on 12 by a Marion County jury which said Mogilner gained lush contracts with the state by “currying ffcvwr of key state employes” and “retaining close friends of Governor Craig as public relations representatives,” in addition to bribing Smith. . PlKup 34d pgh: Smith previously Smith previously was indicted on charges of embezzlement of public funds and conspiracy to embezzle and steal. He pleaded innocent The indictments accused Mogilner of giving Smith a $41,498.68 bribe to influence purchase of more than a million dollars worth of equipment from Mogilner’s business firm. They accused Smith of accepting the bribes under an alias “V. Wilson” Holds Craig “Responsible” The jury in a long report on its investigation held Craig “HtoeaHy if not legally responsible for the acts and misconducts of the highway officials he selected.” But the report added that “in aU fairness" to Craig the jury “found no evidence that he participated in any of the corrupt conduct.” “The evidence clearly indicates,” the jury’s report said, “that Mr. Mogilner obtained his favored position as seller to the State Highway Department not in fair business competition but principally “(1) By retaining close friends of Governor Craig’s as public relations representatives, “(2) By currying the favor of key state employes and officials by small gifts, and by throwing such persons lucrative ‘business’ income outside their state duties, and “(3) By bribery of the commission chairman." ■ . Evidence indicated, the jury said, that Smith and Mogilner were “wilfully corrupt.” 9 Cheeks to Smith? Mogilner was accused of selling $1,026,486 worth of equipment to the highway department, including $133,000 worth of “Gio” engine additive, 36 asphalt mixers valued at $106,330, .eight street sweepers valued at $88,231, thirty-six shovels valued at $523,1*1. and more than nine million pounds of calcium chloride valued at $169,408. Prosecutor John G Tinder said Smith’s indictment on bribery charges was based on nine checks which Mogilner signed, made out iuonttouaa oa Page Mx) S