Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 162

JOY, TEARS, END LONG FIGHT Wml F HBteSfc BP 1 ■■ • ' WITH TEAKS OF JOY Melvin B. Ellis sweep* his wife into his arms as news that a Miami judge had awarded them complete legal custody of a child for which they had battled from Maine to Florida over the past six years. The court granted their petition for adoption of little Hildv. natural daughter of a Massachusetts woman. The mother had asked the child be returned to Massachusetts.

Would Forbid Troop Use On Civil Rights Southern Senator Plans Legislation Against Troop Use By UNITED PRESS Sen. Olin D Johnston said today he win Introduce legislation forbidding President Eisenhower to enforce civil rights with federal troops. I The South Carolina Democrat said he would introduce the legislation as an amendment to the Preßident's civil rights bill. Johnston announced the plan shortly after Republican sources said Eisenhower was willing to change the bill to calm fears that troops might be sent into the South to force school integration. The Senate was debating for the fourth day a motion to bring the bill formally to the floor for consideration. Other congressional news: Hell* Canyon: Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said President Eisenhower should grant an audience to supporters of a high federal dam at Hells Canyon on the Snake River. Passport*: Republican and Democratic congressmen called for tougher passport regulations to prevent suspected spies from leaving the country. Legislators ..ere upset because of a court decision under which an alleged spy, Mrs. George Slatvoski, got a passport and was able to slip out of the country. Mrs. Slatvoski and her husband, who now live in Paris, were indicted Monday on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. Rep. Francis E- Walter (D-Pa.) said the court decision virtually forced Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to give Mrs. Slatvoski a passport even though the FBI had notified the State Department of spy charges against her. Sen. Thruston B. Morton (R-Ky) a former assistant secretary of state, said Mrs. passport expired while she was visiting her mother in San Francisco after living in Paris since 1949. He said she won a passport after going to court because the government decided “it Was more important to safeguard the (FBI) files than to prevent her return to Paris.’’ Sen. Roman Hruska (R-Neb.) also criticized court decisions requiring the government either to reveal confidential data or grant a passport. Other congressional news: Warning: Rep. T A. Thompson (D-La.) urged an Immediate government investigation of radio reports which he said “lulled victims of hurricane Audrey into a false sense of security.” Thompson, who made a 12-day inspection of the battered coastal areas of his state, said there was a “failure" between when the hurricane was spotted and when word of it was communicated to the public. Cotton: Congressonal farm leaders gave •/ cool reception to “urgent” government appeals for actioh this session on Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson s proposal to lower or eliminate price supports co , tt<^ n -,^ a o ir .‘ man Allen J* Ellender (D-La.) said there was “no chance ConContinuM On Page Five

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Indiana Crop Loss Continues To Grow Grim Economic Toll On Indiana's Farms INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - The number of acres of Indiana crop* lost through floods and abnormally wet weather climbed to nearly 1,200,000 today and may reach 1,500,000. Hoosierland'S worst weathercaused farm disaster in history nicked up a grim economic toll as reports filtered in from agricultural experts in counties hil by high water and torrential ratas the last few months. L.N. Roberts, chairman ot the State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, released loss estimates from 53 counties showing 1,187,000 acres of crops ruined beyond redemption. Only 12 ot the first 65 counties to report their tosses indicated they had “very little" or no damage. These were all in the extreme north portion of the state. Flood Conference Set The reports still were coming in on the eve of a flood disaster conference scheduled for Friday in the office of Governor Handley, when state governmental and agricultural officials will talk about what to do for relief of the farmers. Meanwhile, the first corn crop estimate issued by the Department of Agriculture in Washington late Wednesday forecast a crop of about 217 million bushels of corn for Indiana, compared with 296 million bushels produced last year. That 78 million bushel loss represents about 85 million dollars in income at prevaiing prices. .Furthermore, Indiana’s wheat crop estimate fell nearly 2t4 million bushels from the June estimate. On the basis of the first 53 counties to report heavy losses, Gibson, Boone and Daviess suffered th* greatest acreage loss. Gibson agricultural experts figured 100,900 acres of crops destroyed by excessive water. Boone figured 90,000 and Daviess 85,000 700,00 Acre* of Coro Others in the top dozen were : Hendricks 69,000 acres, Sullivan 64,000, Greene 50,000, Jay 46,000, Vermillion 43,00, Montgomery and Vigo 30,000 eachCounties with heavy losses also included Dubois 20,000, Hamilton 20,000, Knox 25,000. Morgan 20,000, Warren 22,000, Madison 16,000, Parke 22,000, Perry 20.000, PutContlnued Oft Five Earl Snyder Rites Friday Afternoon Funeral services tor Earl Snyder, father of Harry A. Snyder, of this city, who died Tuesday at Marion, 0., will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Hughes funeral home in Marion. Tennessee Disease Is Ruled Not Polio NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UP) — Dr. C. B. Tucker, director of the preventable disease department of the state Health Department, said Wednesday that tests show the disease that struck 43 persons in Johnson City, Tenn, is not polio. Tucker said tests made from the virus from victims showed that the disease is non - paralytic, probably coxsackie or “echo,” both very much like polio. - *

Malenkov And Accomplices In Virtual Exile Three Ex-Russian Leaders Virtually Banished To Asia LONDON (UP) - A Communist correspondent in Moscow reported today that? Georgi Malenkov’s accomplices will join him in virtual exile—Vyacheslav Molotov as a Foreign Ministry ’,‘political expert” and Lazar Kaganovich as a factory manager. / * Molotov would get at menial job under his own student and former deputy, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, according to the authoritative / report published in the Danish Communist Party organ, I .and og Volk. It said Dmitri Shepilov, ousted from the Commbnist Party secretariat as a lesser “anti-party" figure, would become a professor Earlier, London observers said Malenkov’s exile to head a remote power station about 2,000 miles from Moscow had saved him and the rest of the group, which had opposed Soviet Communist Party chief Nikita Khrushchev, from a firing squad. In reporting what happened to the others of the ousted group, the Danish newspaper published in Copenhagen carried the news on its front page. It said it came from "our own correspondent in Moscow.” Asian Banishment Ironic Wednesday night, Moscow Radio said Malenkov had been given control of a lone power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk in the republic of Kazhakstan, a stone’s throw from Siberia. It said the others had been “transferred to other work,” but gave no details. Malenkov's banishment to Central Asia was ironic in many ways. It marked the second disgrace and final downfall of the man chosen by Josef Stalin as his successor. And it took Malenkov back to the same area where he began his climb to power 38 years ago. . ..LLx, 1 It W W Kazakhstan where Stalin exiled Leon Trotsky when Trotsky lost out in the struggle for power which followed the death of V. 1. Lenin. It also is the heart of the “virgin lands” Nikita Khrushchev dreamed of developing, a plan violently opposed by Malenkov. News of the exile came in the form of a commentary by Moscow radio which ridiculed Western press reports that Malenkov or others of the "Molotov group’ were under house arrest Red Public Uninformed United Press correspondent Colette Blackmoore reported from Moscow early today that news of the banishment had not yet been given ,to the Soviet public, and that the broadcast was for external consumption only. Henry Shapiro, dean of Western Moscow correspondents, cabled from Prague where he is covering the visit of Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin that Malenkov’s demotion to a minor post Continued On p » Ke rlve , Two Negro Youths Abducted, Beaten Racial Incident In Birmingham, Ala. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Two carloads of armed white men abducted two Negro youths at gunpoint Wednesday night,\ took them to a wooded area and whipped them with a garden hose, it was reported today. The youths, Harold Cunningham, 19, and Henry Siler, 21. returned home early today after a walk ot “about five miles" from where the men released them to where they caught a city bus. Cunningham told United Press that they were beaten for 10 • 15 minutes with Siler apparently getting the worst of it—“l had a billfold in my hip pocket which helped me.” He said there were threats of “Let’s hang ’em,” and "Let's shoot ’em," made but their abductors let them go after the whipping without further harm. Cunningham said there were seven white men in the group but he didn’t recognize any of them. He said they were not masked. He said he didn't know the reason for the beating. The two youths and two girls, Loretta Washington, 19, . a n d Allene Brown, 23, were out riding Wednesday night an drove into a white ’ drive-in restaurant for but decided it was too crowded and left. Cunningham said they noticed two cars following them and their pursuers forced them to the curb.

-Decatur, Indiana, Thursday,July 11,1957

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Aga Khan Dies \ In Switzerland At Age Os 79 Spiritual Leader Os Ten Million Moslems Is Dead VERSOIX, Switzerland (UP) — The Aga Khan died today at the age of 79, ending a fabulous career as Moslem religious leader, millionaire sportsman and ex father-in-law of Rita Hayworth. He died of a heart attack. He may be succeeded by Prince Aly Khan as spiritual leader of 10 million Moslems ot the Ismailia sect who showed their devotion each 10 years by weightag him in gold, platinum or diamonds. To the West the Aga Khan was an aristocratic playboy and horse breeder, a friend of kings. To the East he was almost a god, revered by millions. Estimates of his wealth ranged up to more than a billion and a half dollars but when queried about his great holdtags he only laughed. He had been ill for the past few . years, and his condition worsened a few months ago. During the recent European heat wave he was to his j fa hopes the coolness would save his hie. ! f Son's Marriage Stopped But he steadily worsened, and this morning five doctors an- ' nounced that his condition had seriously weakened during the night. The bulletin—the first issued —was the first confirmation of the ’ fact he lay near death- ....... Prince Aly and his younger brother Sadruddin were summoned from Geneva shortly after midnight when the end appeared near. Aly was in Geneva with his daughter Princess Yasmin, daughter of Rita Hayworth, for a visit with “grandpa.” Sadruddin was in Geneva for his marriage Monday to a beautiful British model—a wedding certain now to be postponed. Sadruddin—also mentioned as a possible heir in case Aly should not prove acceptable—was , egaged to Ilina Dyer, a former London fashion model and the exwife of multi-millionaire Baron •Heinrich von Thyssen. The Aga Khan himself had married a succession of beautiful women. His widow, the Begum Aga Khan, herself was once chosen Miss France. The Aga Khan, famed as a statesman as well as a religious leader, was the 44th lineal descendant of the prophet MohamContinued On P**e Five Declares Mistrial In FischbachCase Orders James Hoffa Trial To Proceed WASHINGTON (W — Federal Judge Burnita S. Mathews de--1 dared a mistrial today in the bribery-conspiracy case against ; Hyman I. Fischbach of Miami. But she ordered the trial of Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa, the co-defendant, to proceed. The actiop was taken because ’ Fischbach’s attorney, Daniel Maher, was hospitalized Wednesday by a heart condition. Judge Matthews’ mistrial ruling was made over the objections of both Fischbach and Edward Bennett Williams, Hoffa’s attorney. Williams argued that continuance of Hoffa’s trial without Fischbach would “deprive” Hoffa of a good part of the defense case ! and be “horrendously prejudi- : cial.” • Hoffa and Fischbach are ac- * cused jointly of bribing John Cye i Cheasty, New York lawyer-taves-tigator, to get a job with the I Senate Rackets Committee and I feed them information on its ini vestigation of the Teamsters Union. _ *

Employment Hits June Record Peak Total Is Increased Over Month Os May WASHINGTON (UP) — The government today reported that employment across the nation in June hit a record peak for the month at 66,500,000. *. The figure was up 1,300,000 over May, according to a Commerce and Labor departments report. The increase was due almost entirely to the rush of school-age youngsters into summer jobs, the report said. Unemployment also rose by 600,000 over May totals to 3,300,000. Here again the accent was on youth, the report noted. The unemployment figure reflected the influx of youngsters as job-seekers. Persons with temporary layoffs of less than 30 days and students waiting for work now are included in the unemployment figureFarm employment continued to pace the seasonal job rise in June with 900,000 new workers added. It brought the agricultural employment total to 7,500,000. Total employment outside agriculture also hit a new June peak of 59 million, the report stated. Manufacturing employment rose by 80,000 to 16,800,000. This was somewhat smaller than the usual June increase. § Average weekly factory earnings climbed 81 cents to 883.59 in June reflecting a longer work week and a small increase in average hourly earnings. The rise in weekly earnings was the first since last December. - . - ■■ V" - Fair Weather Over Majority Os Nation Flash Floods Drive 300 Out Os Homes By UNITED PRESS The nation as a whole was expected to share in the fair, pleasantly cool weather evicted from the Great Lakes region today by an invasion of warm, humid air. Except for random thunderstorms crackling over the upper Great Lakes region, the northern Gulf Coast, and from the Rockies through the Platas states, the weather map was comfortably composed. ■ Flash floods Wednesday drove more than 300 persons from their homes at Topeka, Kan., and cut off the water supply at neighboring Richmond. Nearly six inches of rata inundated some 150 blocks before the flood subsided as quickly as it had come. A Topeka policeman was credited with staving off possible casualties riding horseback through the streets and warning the sleeping Kansas city the floods were coming, a la Paul Revere. Another policeman found himself playing a less heroic role when his car stalled in suburban Highland Park. Rescuers found him standing on the top of his car with water lapping at his feet. r About 50 evacuated families returned to their homes shortly after the floodwaters ebbed, but the weather bureau warned that smaller streams were feeding ether rivers in southern Kansas and that serious flooding could occur. Farnsworth To Build New Fort Wayne Plant FORT WAYNE (UP) - Gen. Edmond H. Leavey, president of the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp., today announced plans for construction of on “ultramodern” plant here by the Farnsworth Electronics Division of I. T. and T. Leavey said the plant would represent an investment of 82,500,000. It will be the division’s third plant in th* Fort Wayne area and the fourth in the state.

Soviet Party Boss Assails Ike On Bombs Terms Eisenhower Statement On Clean Bombs As Stupidity PRAGUE (UP)-Soviet Communist Party chief Nikita Khrushchev attacked President Eisenhower today for speaking “stupidities'’ about a ’’clean* H-bomb. I “How can there be clean bombs for dirty things?” he asked. Khrushchev also hinted that he , will meet again soon with Yugoslavia's President Tito, one of the leaders of the policy of “independ- ; ent socialism” free from Moscow ; control. The burly Khrushchev, in an off-the-cuff speech at the “Stalingrad” metal works here during the current visit to Czechoslovakia by him and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, also promised the Soviet bloc outside Russia that “we won’t criticize you if you don’t criticize us.” On the H-bomb, he was critical of President Eisenhower’s statement last week that American scientists hope to perfect an H-bomb free from radioactive fallout dangers. “Eisenhower is a man of principle and integrity but look what stupidities he says when he speaks of a clean hydrogen bomb,” Khrushchev said. “How can there be clean bombs for dirty things? Bombs mean wholesale annihilation of children and women. “What a contradiction to call dirty things clean;” Speaking extemporaneously before thousands of Czechs, he accused the ousted "group of Soviet leaders led by Vyacheslav Molotov of opposing closer relations with Yugoslavia, among other things. 'Dien Khrushchev turned to Yugoslav newsmen covering the speech and said: “Don’t write this because I shall tell Comrade Tito myself at the first opportunity.” He did not say when that opportunity would come, but he and Bulganin visited the Yugoslav leader last year to patch up differences which began when Tito was kicked out of the Cominform while Molotov still was riding high in the Soviet hierarchyThe speech was one made during Continued On Page Five Lawrence W. Smith Dies Unexpectedly Native Os County Is Taken By Death Lfiwrence W. Smith, 47, of DeKalb, 111., a native of Adams county, died unexpectedly Tuesday while on vacation with his family in Algoma Mills, Ontario, Can. He was salary and wage administrator for the General Electric Co. at DeKalb. He was born in this county and attended schools at Decatur and , Preble. He Joined the G. E. in Fort Wayne in 1927, where he graduated from the apprentice course in 1931. He left Fort Wayne in 1946, and was supervisor of time and motion study at G. E.’s Tiffin, 0., plant until transferred to DeKalb in 1952. He underwent an operation for a heart condition about one year ago. Mr. Smith was a member of the First Lutheran church at DeKalb and the industrial-manufac-turing division of the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce, serving as chairman last year. Survivors include his wife, Lillian E.; one daughter, Sandra Kay; one son, Richard L.; three brothers, Walter Smith of Coldwater, Mich., Carl H. Smith of Decatur, and Oscar A. Smith of Fort. Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Charles Purcell of Coldwater, Mich., and Mrs. William Gors of Worthington, O. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but services are expected to be held at DeKalb, with burial in Fort Wayne.

Tension On Border Flares Into Action ■ Israelis Report Firing On Village JERUSALEM, Israel (UP)—The Israeli - Syrian border tension flared into action during the night when Syrian machinegun and rifle posts opened up for 15 minutes on border settlements, it was reported today. An Israeli spokesman said the fire was directed at the border village of Gonen near the Sea of Galilee where Israeli and Syrian troops dueled for ten hours with artillery on Tuesday and exchanged some shots Wednesday. No casualties were reported today. f. The development came as informed sources reported Premier David Ben-Gurion cabled U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold blaming Russia and Egypt for the growing bender tension with Syria. (United Press correspondent Joe Morris reported from the Jordanian sector of Jerusalem that U.S. truce observers will report to Hammarskjold on the border clash during the next 24 hours. (Morris said the observers would tell Hammarskjold it was the worst frontier incident since last fall’s invasion of Egypt No local report was expected since Israel has boycotted the IsraeliSyrian mixed arn..stlce commission for two yeai£u An official Israeli announcement Wednesday said one laborer had been lulled and seven policemen wounded in the Tuesday clash. Committees Named By Stratton Group ■ Plan Shelter House On Playground Site Several committees were appointed during Wednesday evening’s meeting of the board of directors of the Stratton Community organization, which was held at the home of Deane Dorwin. Robert C. Flora was appointed chairman of the utility committee, which has been instructed on several projects, namely to attempt to have put into effect a speed reduction in the Stratton area, and to erect additional safety warning signs. Flora will be assisted by Charles C. Langston and David tKaye. , The playground and shelter house committee, headed by chairman Dave Terveer, has been authorized to proceed with plans for the erection of a 16x24 foot shelter house on the present playground. This playground which consists of 2.57 acres of ground, is located just east of the Harry Knapp residence on Stratton Way. Roger Schuster and Arthur Burris are the other two committee members. ' ‘ Kent Geisler, chairman, and Gall M. Grabill and Leo V. Curtin comprise the maintenance committee, which has been instructed to contact someone to spray the elm trees in the Stratton addition, to prevent further disease of the trees. This committee has also been made responsible for the empty lots in Stratton, and is to see that all lots are kept mowed and the weeds taken out. Chairman of this year’s Stratton place family picnic are Joe Kaehr and Fred Corah. They are being assisted by Robert Cook, Mrs. Margaret Freeby, Mrs. Mary Winteregg, and Mrs. Jean Bower, The annual event will take place in September, with the exact date to be announced later by the committee. t Also appointed was a building committee, consisting of J. Clark Mayclin, chairman, and Harold Baker, Kenneth Arnold. C. L. Yost, and, Anthony Faurote. William Christen, treasurer of the organization, announced that the statements for 1957 will be mailed shortly. 12 Paget ■I. !■ ILL I II ■■ I- '

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Upholds Right . For Jap Court To Try Girard Historic Ruling By Unonimous Vote Offe U. S. High Court WASHINGTON (UP) - The Supreme Court today approved the government's decision to turn Army Specialist William S. Girard over to Japan for manslaughter trial The historic unanimous decision upheld the government’s right to send American servicemen abroad and expose them to trial in foreigh eeurts in certain cases. The eight-man high tribunal reversed a District Court ruling that the government had violated the Ottawa, 81., soldier’s constitutional rights in agreeing to let Japan try him for an ‘on-duty’ offense. It declared that American soldiers take overseas only those constitutional. trial rights that the host country specifically grants them. Japan has reserved the right to try "on duty” violations of its laws by U.S. troops there in cases it considers of “particular importance." Under this reservation in the U S.-Japan status of forces agreement, Japan demanded and the United States finally agreed to the soldier’s trial in a Japanese court. Girard is charged by Japan with causing the death of Mrs. Naka Sakai, whom Girard admitted shooting in the back with a cartridge hurled by a grenade launcher. She was scavenging empty shells on a firing range where Girard was on guard duty. The decision averted chaos in America's global defense alliances. if the high court had ruled against the government it would have forced renegotiation of clauses in the status of forces agreements with a score of Allied nations where U.S. troops are based. Administration officials believed that few, if any, countries would waive completely their right to try visiting troops in peacetime. The result, the government warned, would have been a diplomatic deadlock forcing the United States to withdraw its troops and planes from many vital foreign bases, jeopardizing U.&. and free world security. Defense Secretary Charles EWilson said after hearing toe verJapan, until his Japanese trial believe that his trial in toe Japanese court will be conducted with utmost fairness.” Girard will remain in U.S. Amy custody at Camp Whittington; . Japan, until his Japanese! rial begins the latter part of August Girard’s Washington attorney, Dayton M. Harrington, declined comment. The court said toe narrow issue was whether toe Constitution or legislation prevented carrying cut toe arrangement between the United States and Japan for trying soldiers who violated toe laws of both. “We find no constitutional or statutory barrier to toe provision (of the agreement) as applied here,” toe opinion said. “In the absence of such encroachments, the wisdom of toe arrangement is exclusively for the determination of the executive and legislative branches.” The opinion carried as an appendix an affidavit on the facts of the case sworn to by Robert Dechert, general counsel of the Defense Department. This had been kept secret in toe District Court here which first heard the case. The U.S- District Court ruled June 18 that the government had iContinuea on Pag« Utgtot) INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warm thia afternoon. Fair southwest, partly cloudy northeast tonight and Friday. Warmer tonight and south portion Friday. Law tonight 6348. High Friday 8844. Continued generally fair with little change la temperatures Saturday. Lew Friday night upper 60s. High Saturday in the 90s. Sunset 8:14 p.m., sunrise Friday 5:28 a.m.