Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 3 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 182

REVEALS HUGE INSPECTION PLAN ATTENDING THE Disarmament Conferences in London with Harold Stassen (left)), Secretary of State John Foster Dulles offered a plan to open virtually the entire northern hemisphere to air-and-ground inspection. He said that if his plan, which embraces almost ail of Russia, was too vast tor Soviet acceptance, a more limited plan could be worked out. |

Dio And Three Henchmen To Give Evidence Senate Committee To Hear Convicted Racketeers On Link WASHINGTON (UP)-Senate investigators arranged today for Johnny Dio and three other convicted labor racketeers to be sprung from their cells long enough to testify on their links with James R. Hoffa, sole candidate for the presidency of the Teamsters Union. General Sessions Judge John A. Mullen ruled in New York that Dio and his three henchmen should be paroled to face the Senatgls questions about racket exploitation of low-paid Puerto Rican and Negro workers in the nation’s largest city. They are due back behind bars the day after they testify. Judge Seta Timetable Mullen’s original order set this timetable: —Dio, friend of Hoffa and the Teamster vice president’s alleged ally in a drive to clamp a stranglehold on East Coast transportation, will be paroled Wednesday in custody of his attorney, for testimony Thursday. Dio, whose real name is Dioguardi, was convicted last month of conspiring to extort money from employers for labor peace. He is also under indictment in the acid blinding of labor columnist Victor Riesel. —Max Chester, former official of a retail clerks union local, will be released to testify Monday. —Samuel Goldstein, president of a Teamsters local, will be released for Thursday testimony. —Alfred Reger, official of a Teamster Union Local 522 in New York, will be sent to Washington under armed guard to testify Aug. 12. He is serving five years to 10 in Sing Sing for extortion. Chester and Goldstein were convicted with Dio. Hoffa Subpena Confirmed Chairman John L. McClellan <D-Ark.) confirmed to newsmen that Hoffa has also bee subpenaed. but said no date was set for his appearance. Hoffa said his subpena was for Aug. 13, but such a document must bear some definite date which can be changed later. McClellan told reporters that testimony Friday disclosed “perfectly obvious” racketeering in New York. Witnesses told how contracts with Dio - Hoffa union locals called for only the legal iContlnueo on Pace Six) r- . 13 Are Entered In County Plow Match Thirteen entries have been signed for the county plowing match August 8, Leo N. Seltenright, county agent, said today. There are still three openings for entries, and any dealer or individual may enter up to show time next Thursday. However, only 16 entries will be permitted in the contest. The contest will be held on the Delmas Bollenbacher farm, 4% miles east of the Berne tile mill, and I¥< miles south. A tiling demonstration will start about 9 a.m. Thursday, and practice plowing will start at 10 o’clock. Lunch will be served by the Jefferson township home economics club, and following lunch, at 12:30 o'clock, the contest will start. The contest is sponsored by the soil conservation district of Adams county.

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Merchandise Loss Is Over SI,OOO Mazelin Reports . On Gunmen's Loot John Mazelin, owner and manager of the Mazelin Heating and Appliance stars which Was held up Thursday evening, has reported that theft of merchandise amounts to over 81,000. Mazelin and his wife were forced into a back room at gunpoint at 5:45 p. m. Thursday, by two armed bandits, who tied them with clothes line rope and toyed ; them face down on the floor, helpless. A companion in the meantime looted the cash register of 870, while another man to the gang waited in the getaway car, parked by the back door. A complete list of stolen articles includes two portable television sets, two transitor radios and one transistor radio package, a record player and radio combination, an electric mixer with blender, an electric frypan, a toaster, two waffle grills, a steam i and dry iron and another dry iron, two electric shavers, a rotobroiler, a clock radio and two other clocks, and an electric vacuum cleaner. The Mazelins, because of their state of shock, were only able to provide descriptions of two of the holdup men. However, the car is believed to be a 1952 Chevrolet, bearing the prefix AH, Marion county, before the numbers. Police in all surrounding states have been alerted for the overly loaded car, but as yet, no trace of the men, their car or merchandise has been found. Committee Named By Bethany Church Building Group Is Appointed Friday A building committee of 10 persons was named Friday evening in a. meeting at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church on Winchester street. The committee will be in charge of plans for the completion of the educational unit and remodelling of the sanctuary. Dr. Benjamin F. Smith, of Warsaw, conference superintendent, presided at the meeting of the congregation and set forth the duties of the temporary building committee, which include investigation of costs and means of financing the project. The committee will then report to the council of administration, which will then make its recommendations to the congregation, which will then name a permanent building committee, which will have authority to supervise building. Members of the temporary committee are Earl Fuhrman, Amos Ketchum. Ivan Stucky, Adolph Kolter, William Linn, Mrs. R. K. McConnell, Mrs. Merritt Alger, Mrs. Harlan Jackson, Karl Kolter and Vernon Custer. This group will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday to . organize and plan its work. The local council also voted to participate in the sector plan of the every member canvass being promoted by the annual conferi ence of the church. The Rev. J. O. i Penrod, pastor of the Trinity Ev- ' angelical United Brethren church, ■ and a member of the conference Continued On Pa«« Five

Bitter House ; Battle Looms On Jury Trial Final Senate Vote On Civil Rights Is Slated Next Week WASHINGTON (UP)—A bitter House battle over jury trials Shaped up today even before the Senate has passed its version of the controversial civil rights bill. At stake is the question of whether Congress passes any civil rights bill, and if it does whether President Eisenhower will veto it. The Senate, working with unemotional speed, Friday finished work on its sharply-modified version of the House - approved administration civil rights bill. It put off a final vote until next week—probably Wednesday. Na Filibuster Manned While more speeches will be made the southern Democratic bloc abandoned thoughts of a fili-buster-long the graveyard of civil rights measures in the Senate — with adoption of the jury trial amendment. The next big question is what the House will do about Senate changes in the bill, particularly the jury trial amendment added by the Senate, This provides for jury trials in criminal contempt cases brought under the bill’s voting rights provision, but not for civil contempt. Eisenhower denounced the amendment so strongly Friday it led to belief he might veto the bill if it reaches him in its Senate shape. Ike, Knowland Meet Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland (Calif.) was invited to breakfast with Eisenhower at the White House this morning presumably to talk over the : situation resulting from Senate approval of the jury trial amendment. l.» The President said Friday the amendment would "make largely : ineffective” the bills machinery to protect Negro i which he called “the basic purpose of this bill.” He also charged, in one of his strongest attacks on any legislation thus far, that the . amendment would “weaken our whole judicial system.” May Recall Smith As Envoy To Cuba Comment On Police Precaution Scored HAVANA (UP)—The government bloc in Congress demanded today that the United States recall Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith from Cuba because his “interference in this country’s affairs’ makes him a “disturbing agent.” A bill introduced Friday by progovernment Sen. Ernesto Resell crystallized official indignation over Smith’s comment that the police precautions he found in rebel-infested Santiago were “repugnant.” Smith's comments during a tour of eastern Cuba were made on the eve of a new outbreak of antigovernment violence in the area. The army announced Friday night that 15 persons have been killed and four wounded in the area this week in the heaviest fighting in weeks. A special joint session of Congress Friday night approved President Fulgencio Batista’s decree suspending civil rights in Cuba for 45 days by a vote of 123-11. The attacks on the ambassador drew quick response from Washington, where Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) said Friday night the Senate Foreign Relations Committee may call on Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to ’ explain Smith's conduct. French Tax Rate Increase Proposed A three-cent increase in the French township tax rate will b» discussed by trustee Raymond E. Moser and the French township advisory board August 27. This year there was 81,780 to be collected by taxes in French township. The proposed rate of 13 cents on property to that township will raise 82,399 24 from the 81,845,570 taxable property in the county. The budget includes the following items: trustee’s salary. 81,012.50: office rent, 860; clerk hire, 8150; trustee’s traveling expense. $200; office supplies, printing and advertising, 8150; advisory board pay, 8300; care of cemeteries, 850: fire protection, 8500; miscellaneous, 865; poor relief fund, personal service, 884; total direct poor relief, 8790, for a total of 82*,487.50. An actual balance will remain in the “funds, and an operating balance will be maintained, so that 82,474.06 must be raised by tax.

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.m iiiriwi i. i. I iu .. i ..u,. . Democratsln Praise Os New Disarms Plan New Disarmament Proposal Praised By Party Leaders WASHINGTON (UP)—Leading ’ Democrats today praised the West’s new disarmament proposal as a “cards on the table” move. They said it is up to Russia 1 to “fish or cut bait.” Sharing to the commendation was Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who presented the sweeping new ground-sky inspection proposal to the five - power. London disarmament conference Friday. Dulles was due back in Washington today to report to President Eisenhower on prospects for success of the disarmament talks. Eisenhower sent Dulles to the Ixmdon meeting in hopes of reviving the lagging disarmament ‘ i effort. I The West, through Dulles, ofIfered to open all of the United ■ States, Western Europe and Can- ' ada to Russian air and ground ’ inspection if Russia will permit .toe West to similarly toggpdt aa ■ Soviet territory including satelItes. If Russia won’t go that far i lesser plans were offered. ‘ > The initial Russian reaction was ■ chilly but Dulles called it “no more negative than expected.” No final Russian decision is expected for weeks. In Washington Sen. Mike Mansfield (Mont.), the assistant Senate Democratic leader, said Dulles was to be commended “for removing the gimmicks and the angles from the open skies proposal.” “He has gone just as far as he could.” Mansfield told a reporter. "He has laid all the cards on toe table face up and it is now up to the Soviet Union to fish or cut bait. Evasion, alibis and dilatory tactics will no longer suffice.” Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.), a member of the foreign relatoins group and also the special Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, described the Western offer as “very good." New Coach Is Hired At Monmouth High Harold Clinkenbeard Is Appointed Coach Harold “Buzz” Clinkenbeard, 29, has accepted a position with the Monmouth school system, as athletic coach, social studies instructor and drivers training instructor. The appointment was announced this morning by Gail M. Grabill, county superintendent of schools. Clinkenbeard graduated from Freelandville high school, and received undergraduate work at Butler University. He continued his graduate work at Indiana University. He first coached and taught in the Indianapolis public schools and later was with the Highland junior high school system. His next position was with the Jackson township school of Randolph coimty, and for the past two years he was coach in the Pendleton high school system. The new coach will fill toe vacancy brought about by the resignation of Charles “Porky” Holt, long time Monmouth coach, who will coach at Winchester this fall. Married and the father of one child, Clinkenbeard will move here as soon as living quarters are acquired. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight and Sunday. Low tonight to the 60s. High Sunday 83 north to 90 south. Outlook for Monday: Fair and pleasant. 1 NOON EDITION 8.

Red Propagandists Score Dulles Plan New American Flan Denounced As Trick LONDON (IP) — Communist propagandists denounced America’s new disarmament plan today as “a trfck,” intensifying belief |hat the Big Five talks here will prove fruitless. . A Russian Embassy communique, ignoring the fact that toe new "open skies” proposal is part M an American “package” plan, assfiled it because it made no arrangement to halt nuclear tests. The communique also expressed regret over the fact that Sec- , rotary of State John Foster Dulles did not discuss disarmament with “all the foreign ministers” ■ of the ip.ajor powers—a reminder of Russia’s persistent pressure for a Big Four foreign ministers’ meeting. The Communist Daily Worker also assailed the plan Dulles presented at Friday’s session of the arms talks. Despite the general feeling that the Red reaction dimmed hopes for an effective disarmamen agreement, authoritative sources said Dulles himself is optimistic about the prospects. They said he feels the Communist propaganda barrage means merely that toe-M®smians awe "marking time” while they consider the new plan. It may be weeks before a definitive Soviet reply is received, these sources said. Dulles left for home Friday night, shortly after the conference adjourned for the week end. “Disarmament Secretary” Har- , old E. Stassen will explain details of the new plan when the talks resume Tuesday. ——————————- British Will Send Forces Into Oman Infantry And Armor To Join Loyalists BAHREIN, Persian Gulf (UP) —Britain announced today it is sending infantry and armor to join loyal forces grouping -for an attack on rebels in nearby Oman. Air Vice Marshal (Maj. Gen.) LI F. Sinclair said a “limited number” of Cameronian Highlanders, supported by armoredcar units of the 1519th Hussars, will take part in a joint attack on rebel-held Nizwa. ' i Newspapers in London said ad- 1 vance units of the British force ■ are camped at Ft. Ibri, along with British-officered units of the Trucial Scouts and other forces loyal to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman. The rebels had claimed Ibri was surrounded. British jet fighters have been blasting rebel positions in the remote Persian Gulf Sultanate for more than two weeks, but British ground forces had not previously entered the cbnflict. “We are now ready to take the next step — the re-entry of the Sultan’s forces into Oman and particularly into Nizwa,” Sinclair said. “We propose to use a limited number of British forces to assist the Muscat army and the Trucial Scouts.” Nizwa, a military outpost and handicraft center in toe sunparched mountains of Oman, is toe rebel “capital.” The uprising, led by the Imam of Oman and his strongman brother Talib, climaxes a dispute over administration of the country which has been going on for more than 40 years. The Sultan appealed for British <Coac>snM _ race torj Reports XAoney Taken From Cash Register Bob Gage, manager of the Gage Super Service at 420 North Thirteenth street, has reported that 840 was taken from the station cash register Friday. He stated that four 810 bills were Stolen, sometime between 12:01 and 4 p.m. Police are investigating.

Utah Inmates Stage Prison Riot Friday Hold Women Band Members Hostages In Brief Uprising • POINT OF THE MOUNTAIN, Utah (UP)—lnmates at the Utah State Prison staged their second riot in six months Friday night, holding 15 visiting woman band members and four others hostage during the brief uprising. Prison authorities were unable today to explain the reason for the riot and the prisoners gave no motives. Prison guards carrying sawed-off shotguns and .38 caliber pistols [threatened to rush the rioters and the disturbance ended abruptly. All of the hostages, including three prison officials, were released unharmed from the auditorium. only section affected by the riot. The women were calm and left shortly thereafter to fill another engagement. Riots Unrelated Deputy Warden John Turner said Friday night’s disturbance apparently was not connected with a riot at the Point of the Mountain prison last Feb. 7 or a riot at Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge, Mont, earlier this week. However, he admitted that “four or five” of the convicts who were responsible for Friday night’s brief disturbance also were ringleaders of the February riot. “It was strictly a spontaneous disturbance,” Turner said. He emphasized that “only a handful" of the institution’s 551 inmates participated in the riot and that “most of the convicts were against It. They were paricularly opposed to holding the women as hostages.” No prison property was damaged and the rioters were cbnfined to the auditorium. Two Different Attempts Hostages taken were 15 women and bne man who were members of the “Kitchen Rhythmettes", a band from Price, Utah, and the three prison officials. Rioters first tried to grab corridor officer Reed Smith of Draper, but he and other officers quelled the outburst temporarily. But 30 minutes later the convicts broke Into the prison recreation room to get baseball bats and knives, then stormed into the auditorium. Turner said prison guards handled the riot themselves and no help was needed from outside law enforcement officers. Two Men Are Hurt In Accident Friday Two Cars Collide North Os Geneva An accident at 8:40 p. m. Friday, one mile north of Geneva, injured two men, and completely demolished one of the cars involved. A Geneva car was attempting to turn off the highway, when the car following, driven by Harvey Riesen, 66, of Berne, approaching too fast to stop in time, veered out into the left lane of traffic, hitting a Fort Wayne car headon. Driver of the Fort Wayne car was Robert R. Pratt, 37, who was later brought to the local hospital. Pratt was treated for a broken shoulder bone and bruises arid lacerations. Riesen received a cut on the left side of the head, a burn on the forehead and cheek, and both elbows and knees. The Berne car was considered a total loss, while the Pratt car sustained S4OO In damages. The Geneva car was able to turn off the highway before the collision, and was not damaged. Sheriff Merle Affolder, deputy sheriff Robert Meyer and state police officer Dan Kwasneski investigated.

Freak Squall Hits Chicago Last Night No One Injured By Sudden Windstorm By UNITED PRESS A freak squall, the runaway child from a generaDy heavy pattern of plodding thunderstorms, rushed into Chicago Friday tearing down power lines, toppling trees, capsizing boats in Lake Michigan, and dashed off as swiftly as It had come. No one was injured but a lot of people had their bad moments. The sudden pummeling winds broke up a regatta in Lake Michigan and sent light sailboats scattering across the lake front. Distress calls came from numerous craft, while the owners of a 22-foot sailboat averted disaster by breaking the mast. Several bathers got a touch of sandbum when the winds lashed the finely ground pebbles along the shore. At nearby Whiting, Ind., the water supply was reported contaminated when the 65-mile-an-hour winds cut off the power in the oil refinery town. Elsewhere, thundershowers fell in a wide pattern from the far Southwest and up through the Rockies, eastward from Montana, Wyoming and Colorado into western lowa, while lighter showers spattered the southeastern portion of the country; parts of the Ohio ' Valley and the northern Great Lakes region. More than an inch of rain fell on Pueblo, Colorado, and 60 m.p.h. winds accompanied a brief thunderstorm which pasted La Junta, Colo. Light precipitation amounts occurred in the thunderstorms which pelted Arizona, New Mexico and western Texas. Gusts up to 50 m.p.h. whipped up blowing dust during a brief shower at El Paso, Tex. The mercury dropped about (Contiaava ui> t-aae 4txj William Scheumann Is Taken By Death 1 Funeral Services Monday Afternoon William F. Scheumann, 82, retired Allen county farmer, died Friday at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been admitted Thursday. He had been seriously ill since July 4. He was a lifelong resident of Allen county, and since the death of his wife, Emma, in 1845, had resided in Hoagland. Mr. Scheumann was a member of St. John’s Lutheran cnurch at Bingen. Surviving are six daughters, Mrs. Arnold Hockemeyer of New Haven, Mrs. Elmer Thompson, Mrs. Robert Hollman and Mrs. Otto Oehler, all of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Otto Hockemeyer of Hoagland, and Mrs. Herman Scheumann, with whom he made his home in Hoagland; four sons, Emil and Herbert of Hoagland, and Harold and Walter of Fort Wayne; 39 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Theodore of Fort Wayne and Martin Scheumann of Decatur, and three sisters, Mrs. Lizetta Dirkson of Hobson, Monh., Mrs. Henry Auman of Decatur, and Mrs. Herman of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 o'clock this afternoon. State Plow Contest Committee To Meet The state plow contest committee will meet Monday night with the board of supervisors of the Adams county soil conservation district in the county extension office at 8 p.m. Plans will tfe made for the state plowing contest, which will be held in St. Mary’s township August 27.

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Train-Trucb Crash Falal To Local Man Injuries Sustained Thursday Morning Are Fatal To Hanni Vincent H. Hanni, 39. of 416 Patterson street, died at the Luth? eran hospital in Feat Wayne, at 1:34 a. m. today, as the result of injuries sustained in a traintruck collision Thursday morning. Hanni, who had been a route salesman for the Modern Cleaners at New Haven for the past five years, was enroute to New Haven in the truck Thursday when the accident occurred. His truck had almost cleared the Pennsylvania railroad crossing just north of Hoagland, when R was struck by the freight train, traveling 40 miles an hour. The train struck the left rear of the truck, sending it 112 feet down the Minnich road, on its side, before it landed upright. A passenger in the truck, Miss Dorothy Fleming, escaped serious injury. • rianm was Drougnt u> uie iwapttul. but tranafernd so the Lutheran hospital later that afternoon for emergency surgery. i He was born near Berne, April 30, 1918, to Homer and Della Sprunger Hanni, who survive. He married the former Helen Williams July 9, 1939. She also survives. He was a member of the i First Mcnnonite church in Berne. Hanni was a former employe of the Goodyear store in Decatar and the Phil Macklin garage here. As a route salesman for the New Haven company, he worked the' Decatur, Willshire and Monroe area- . < Surviving besides the widow and parents, are two sons, Melvin and Ernest, and a daughter, Eileen, all at home; and two sisters, Mrs. Raymond Sprunger and Mrs. Darrel Kuhn, both of Berne. The body is at the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 10 a. m. Sunday. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:30 p. m. Monday at the funeral home, with the Revs. Joe Penrod and E. J. Neuenschwander officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. An autopsy is being performed today to determine the exact cause of death. / TEAMSTEM UNION midwest chief James Hoffa (left) of Detroit is met by Ted White, a west coast Teamsters official, on arrival In San Francisco to seek support in his campaign to succeed Dave Beck as international president The union’s constitution committee is meeting to prepare recommendations for the convention to Miami, Fla, Sept 30 through Oct a. (JntanMrftoMU