Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1957 — Page 1

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Raybum Backs Senate Civil Rights Bill House Speaker Calls On Republicans To Back Senate Bill WASHINGTON (UP) — Speaker Sam Rayburn threw his support today to the Senate’s amended civil rights bill. He called on Republican leaders to help democrats pass it. The veteran Texas Democrat, who heretofore has kept silent on the hot civil rights issue, said he wifi ask the House to concur in changes made toy the Senate to the much stronger dvfl rights measure passed earlier by the House. He will not object, Rayburn said, if members want to make one additional change in the bill; To limit- the Senate’s controversial jury trial amendment to criminal contempt cases arising under terms of the bill. That would limit the amendment’s application to voting rights cases. ' Dixie Democrats in the jfiouse had planned stalling moves which they hoped would delay the civil rights bill until Congress gave up and went home. Need GOP Votes But Raybum said it is entirely up to the Republicans whether the right-to-vote measure is to be enacted. He said Republicans are in position to help pass the bill, or to Mock it, through their four-man representation on the powerful House Rules Committee. “We have reached this point,” Raybum told newsmen. “The people who are for a right-to-vote bill have an opportunity to get it now.” Rayburn said the votes of “some” of the four GOP rules members will be necessary to clear for a House vote a motion either to concur in the Senate amendment or to concur in an amendment limiting the jury trial feature to voting cases. As the amendment now stands, it would apply to any federal criminal contempt caseRayburn declined at this time to speculate on what will happen if the Republicans do not cooperate in the Rules Committee with supporters of the measure. Ne Date Set Presumably in that event he will seek to send the differing House and Senate bills to a conference committee for drafting of a compromise version. Rayburn declined to say when a move would be made to get Rules Committee action. The rules group has eight Democrats in addition to its four Republicans. With its heavy Democratic majority, it is presumed to act as an agent for the House leadership. > Actually, on some issues such as this one, it does not do so. Its chairman is Rep. Howard W Smith (D-Va.). an ardent opponent of the civil rights Mil, who 17 pledged to delay it in any way possible. Another Democratic member is Rep. William M. Col(Con;: = aeo on rig» 81r> 1948 Class Reunion Here Saturday Night Sixty-three members of the Decatur high school class of 1948 have already made reservations for their class reunion, to be held at the Moose home Saturday at 6:30 p.m. The class included 75 graduates two of whom, George Gilbert and David Pollack, are deceased.

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Crippled Plane With 67 Aboard Landed Pilot Os Airliner Lauded For Action HILO, Hawaii (UP) — A handsome pilot refused today to take any personal credit for nursing his crippled plane more than 1,000 miles over the choppy Pacific to a safe landing with 67 persons aboard. Ihstead, Maj. Samuel Tyson, 37, of Council Bluffs, lowa, and Vacaville, Calif., insisted his passen--1 gers, including 10 Women, de- ’ served all the praise for their determination to stay calm. “They suffered untold miseries 1 and discomforts with no com- ' plaint,” Tyson said after landing ' his four-engine Boeing C 97 at Hi- ‘ lo's Lyman Airport Wednesday on . its tvW starboard engines. “They watched their baggage ' being thrown overboard and they were fully aware of the situation —and they remained calm,” he ’ said. Gives Inspiring Exhibition Tyson himself gave an inspiring ■ exhibition of courage and nerve. ( But the, strain of holding his air- ( i craft aloft for nearly six hours on only two engines told on him. i “1 snap pe d my watchband i straining at the wheel and I was I soaked with sweat when we finali ly landed," he said. Tyson had 30 minutes of gas remaining in his tanks—enough for ■ three more passes at the airfield . had he failed in his initial attempt . to land. , Air Force officers said Tyson’s ■ decision to drop plane to ali titudes ranging between 50 and 1 100 feet was what enabled him to make land. By dropping so low, he picked up a 20-knot tailwind that spelled the difference be- [ tween a safe landing and a ditching on empty tanks. ! Recommended For Medal In Washington, Lt. Gen. Joseph ( Smith, head of the Military Air i Transport Service, said he will ■ recommend a Distinguished Flyi ing Cross for the heroic pilot. I Smith sent Tyson a telegram to advise him of the recommenda- : tion The MATS C 97, military counterpart of the double decked Boe- > ing Stratocruiser, had takeir off t from Travis Air Force Base. 50 . miles north of San Francisco, early Thursday for Honolulu. Aboard were 39 servicemen and 18 civilians, including 10 women I dependents and two babies. There • were 10 crewmen. The plane had just passed the point of no return on its 2,400mile flight when the outboard port engine began running wild. A few moments later, it flew off, striking its' companion engine on the same wing and putting it out of . commission. > - ( Adams Central Tax ( Rate Cent Higher ■ The Adams Central school board > will meet August 29 to consider a ' total tax rate only one cent above ! the 1957 rate of $2.55. The spe- ’ cial school fund rate win increase from $1.05 to $1.19, because of an increased budget of $109,543, as compared with this year’s budget of $92, 460. The tuition fund will also increase from 61 to 69 cents; however, - the veterans memorial building I fund win decrease 15 cents, from 5 37 cents to 22 cents; the school i bond fund will decrease from 17 to t 13 cents; the lease fund win decrease from 35 cents to 33 cents The J meeting August 29 is a pubUc one, 1 and any taxpayer wishing to be heard may appear at that time.

Foreign Aid Bill Headed For Approval Compromise Bill Given Approval Os Joint Committee WASHINGTON (UP)—The new compromise $3,366,000,000. foreign aid biU today apparently headed for swift congressional approval., Chairman Theodore Francis Green (D-R.1.) of the Senate For-| eign Relations Committee said he: would try to bring the measure up for a vote this afternoon. He predicted passage. • .. Fart action also wtts. expected in the House. A House-Senate conference committee reported out the measure i Thursday night- It carried an authorization just about half way between differing Senate and House ventions. ft provided about a half billion dollars less than asked by President Eisenhower. The bill only authorizes the big military and economic aid program for the current fiscal year. A later bill will provide the actual cash. ... Some lawmakers predicted Congress will take another big bite out of the program to bring it down to about three bullion before they are through with ft. Postal: Democratic and Republican leaders predicted quick House passage for the administration - approved postage rate increase bill and a measure to raise the pay of 967,000 government workers. The administration opposes the pay raise measure on grounds it might create inflationary pressures and delay eventual tax reductions. The postage bill would boost letter rates a penny and increase other postage charges. Money: The Senate passed a $884,150,323 appropriation bill to finance reclamation and rivers and harbors projects this year. The bill carried nearly eight million dollars more than President Eisenhower requested. It now goes to a House-Senate conference committee. Four Persons Killed When Plane Crashes DUNDAS. Minn.(UP) — Four persons were killed Thursday night when a plane crashed into a farmhouse during a fog. Arthur Ward, Seminole, Tex., the pilot, and a woman and two little girls believed to be his wife and children, were killed when the light plane plunged into the porch and part of the kitchen. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, showers and thunderstorms north portion tonight and moat of state Saturday. Turning cooler extreme north portion late Saturday. Low tonight 68-74. High Saturday in the Ms except upper 80s extreme north. Sunset 7:49 p. m., sunrise Saturday 5:52 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and cooler in north. Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers and not quite so warm in south. Low Saturday night low 60s extreme north, mid 60s central and near 70 south. High Sunday 76 north, 82 central, near M extreme south.

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Merle Kuhn Is Winner County Plow Contest / Represents Adams County At District Contest August 21 More than 300 Adams county farmers watched Merle Kuhn, Wabash township farmer, pile up 90 out of a possible 100 points in the Adams county plowing contest held at the Delmas Bollenbacher farm east of Berne Thursday. .. Kuhn, a graduate of Kirkland high school in 1947, was entered in the plowing contest for the first time. He is a former resident of Monroe township, where he attended the Adams Central Young Farmers class of Martin Watson, last winter. He is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Roscoe Kuhn of Jefferi son township. Kuhn was driving a Cockshutt tractor, purchased in March, pulli ing a 3-14 bottom plow. The land I was quite hard. He received aI desk pen set with rotating calj endar for the first place awprd. - I Second place in the Contes'! was a tie between David FueUjag, of Unkm township, Fraan, of Boot township. Eadh had a Cockshutt tractor, Fuelling pulling a 2-14 inch bottom plow, and Franz pulling a 4-14 inch bottom plow. Each won a desk pen set. All three farmers will be certified to take part in the district plowing contest in Steuben county August 21. The Jefferson township home demonstration club served lunch, and provided soft drinks and watermelon throughout the afternoon. In the morning, Jerome Wellman of Bryant ditched two lateral tile ditches, and David MoSser laid the tile. The main tile was laid Wednesday. Plactice plowing kept the 14 contestants busy during the momipg. Dierkes Implements of Decatur furnished the public address system for the event, sponsored by the Adams county soil conservation district. Judges were Wells county soil district supervisors, all farmers. They were E. A. Hasler, Charles Grandlienard, Allan Elliot, and Wayne Mills. Charles McKee, Purdue extension soil conservationist, was head of the rules interpretation committee, and Charles Schafer, soil conservationist of Wells county, aided him. Following the contest, the contestants and dealers joined together in plowing up the strips left in wOntlniiM nn Far* Six) Two Russian Spies Given Prison Terms Confessed Russian Spies Are Sentenced NEW YORK (UP) — Federal Judge John M. Cashin sentenced confessed Russian spies Myra Soble and Jacob Albarn today to 5% years in prison. He postponed the sentencing of master spy Jack Soble until Sept. i at the request of the govern ment. Informed sources said the government’s request was made because Soble, a naturalized U.S. citizen, is still testifying before a federal grand jury about his operations as a top agent in America for the Soviet intelligence agency. The Sobles and Albarn had been indicted for actual espionage but pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of conspiracy. The maximum penalty could have been 10 years in prison or a SIO,OOO fine, or both. But both government and defense lawyers had pictured Mrs. Soble and Albarn as minor figures in the Russian spy network. Mrs. Soble is also a naturalized citizen, and Albarn had applied for citizenship at the time of the trio’s arrest last Jan- 25. The roundup was the result of 10 years of FBI investigation. t'

■wr"*" Accused Red Spy Held Without Bail Delay Is Granted To Obtain Attorney NEW YORK (UP) — Accused Russian spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel was ordered held without bail today for a Federal Court hearing next Tuesday. He asked for the gelay 50 ** twdd secure an atAbel appeared this morning before Federal Judge Matthew Abruzzo, who granted his request for a postponement. Speaking accented English in a monotone, the 55-year-old Russian said he wished to obtain a lawyer. Abruzzo remanded him to jail Without bail after Asst. U.S Atty. William F. Tompkins described him as “a colonel in the Soviet internal security system who headed a most elaborate and intricate espionage system.” ’ “There is every indication that this man will flee the country" if he is released in bail, Tompkins said. A grand jury has indicted Abel on three counts of masterminding a spy network that transmitted American defense and atomic secrets to Russia. If convicted of actual espionage, he could receive the death penalty under the so- ; called Rosenberg peacetime ' Abel wnf taught' here r>y plane Thursday night from Houston, Tex., by two federal marshals. He was held overnight in the federal detention center in Manhattan and was taken to Brooklyn by car f°r the 10-minute hearing. Abruzzo asked Abel how he wished to plead, but the accused spy asked to reserve his plea “until I have spoken to a lawyer.” The judge'agreed and entered a temporary plea of innocence. Meanwhile, 30 FBI agents labored to decipher a series of coded messages and cryptic notes found in Abel’s Manhattan hotel room and Brooklyn ’’artist’s” studioClub Assembly Held By Decafur Rotary Annual Golf Meet Slated Next Week The Decatur Rotary club held the first of four club assemblies for its 1957-58 Rotary year at its weekly meting Thursday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Gail Grabill, director of club services, outlined the functions of his committees. President Robert Smith presided. Leo Kirsch, classification chairman, complimented last year’s committee chairman, Dr. Ray Stingely, for his complete survey of open classifications and said this year’s committee will keep that survey up to date. Homer Arnold and Robert Ashbaucher are the other committee members. The club won a district trophy last year for its sizeable increase in membership. Leo Curtin, bulletin chairman, reported that the local club's weekly bulletin had received honorable mention for last year and that every effort would be made to make it even more interesting this year. There are 12 members on the committee and each writes the bulletin for one month. The bulletin is mimeographed 'ocally and mailed to each member early in the week, giving information concerning that week’s program, the club’s various projects, the international program, and various personal items about the membership.. M. J- Pryor, chairman of the Rotary information committee, outlined procedure to be followed when new members are nominated for Rotary membership. A. R. Ashbaucher and Cal Peterson make up the fellowship committee. Dr. Ray Stingely and Lyle Mallonee comprise the membership committee. Richard 1 Childs heads this year’s program committee consisting of Harry (Continued on Pare Eiatit) W ■ .••- -- --

Mild Form Os Extortion Is , Laid To Dio 1 Obtained $16,000 To Ostensibly Quit Auto Woiters Union ' WASHINGTON (UP) — The t Senate Labor Rackets Committee . charged today that racketeer John- , ny Dio got $16,000 in "a mild form i of extortion” for ostensibly getting out of the AFL Auto Workers 1 Union in 1954 Earl Heaton, president of the i union until Thursday, disagreed ► with the charge by Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.). » Heaton said he had repaid Dio’s “expenses” as the union's New t York boss—but admitted he never j saw proof that Dio had spent the . money. “I was going on the assumption that we did owe it,” said Heaton. 1 He said Anthony J. Doria, who I quit the union—taking SBO,OOO with 1 him — under pressure from the » AFL-CIO last year, told him Dio if had vouchers showing he had & spent "that much and more.” >. He said Doria Was-unionseer* e tary-treasurer, and he took Doria’s word for it. » t• BWMiug • had authorized him to pay Dio - SIO,OOO, and he used his own judg--1 ment in boosting it to $16,000. 1 Morris Weintraub, former exec- ■ utive board member of the union, told the committee that Spiros Kallas, Doria’s former partner in • a Milwaukee real estate firm, bought the union’s headquarters ’ building in Milwaukee for SBO,OOO and sold it six weeks later for 1 slls,ooo—without paying off a $30,000 debt to the union. Weintraub said the building was I sold.without, the knowledge of the I executive boarti, whose members i were also officials of the holding company which owned the building. He said he could never find out how the holding company was dissolved and the title transferred back to the union before the building was sold —but he predicted that Doria would attempt to show the committee next week—that it was to the union’s advantage. Heaton became president of the union—which « now known as the Allied Industrial Workers—in 1954 He succeeded Lester Washburn, who quit when the executive board i overrode his attempt to boot Dio , out of the union and revoke the (Centinned P««w Five) t ~~ ~~ : Addie F. Andrews e Dies This Morning ’ Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon ? Mrs. Addie F. Andrews, 80, lifer long resident of this community, r died at 1 o’clock this morning of .- a cerebral hemorrhage at her t home. 402 North Seventh street. ■ She had been ill for the past two years. ’ She born in Union township s Aug. 28, 1876, a daughter of Isaac J and Martha Carpenter-Magner. 1 She was first married in 1896 to ® Arthur E. Callow, who died in 1902. ’ She was then married in 1905 to ’ Caleb Andrews, who preceded her in death in 1915. j Mrs, Andrews was a member of . the Trinity Evangelical United . Brethren church. s Surviving are four sons, Carl E. . Callow qf Decatur, Lawrence W. Andrews and Alton R. Andrews, j both of Decatur, and Francis L. Andrews of Venice, Calif.; one . daughter, Mrs. Ronald I. Jones ' of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren i and three great - grandchildren. . Two brothers and one sister are deceased. . Funeral services will be conduct- } ed at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick 1 funeral home, the Rev. J. O. Pen- . rod officiating. Burial will be in 1 the Ray cemetery, west of Mohj- rae. Friends may call at the fur neral home after 2:30 p.m. Saturday until time of the services.

Seeking To Quash Hundreds Are RMd Evacuated In Motions Are Taken Under Advisement I AU/lanfl ArM INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-A judge LUWIGIIM Al VQ took under advisement today motions to throw out 18 bribery BertflG Heads For charges against former State - / Highway Chairman Virgil (Red) bome COOStal Area ? m MoXer. ,G1 °” sa,esman Arthur As Struck In June ’ NEW ORLEANS <UP)-A gulf 8 storm named Bertha grew into a with accepting them, to influence full . n edged hurricane today and the awarding of more than a md- sent rising against toe lion dollars worth of equipment a na-Texas coastal region that sufcontracts. sered heavily from Hurricane AuMogilner’s attorney, John Royse, drey June. » ® nd Smith ’ 3 . attorney, Frank Hundreds of persons living in - Symmes, waived oral arguments lowland areag of the irre gular i . quash 12 Louisiana coastline fled to higher dictments against Mogilner and 6 gro und as the storm blossomed • against Smith. j n to a 75-mile-an-hour howler. The ’ i udf ? McDonald said he Red Cross opened refugee centcrs will rule later on the motions. j n Lake ch ar i es and other south- ‘ Meanwhile. Prosecutor John G. ern Louisiana cities. ’ T ? d u r \u W ‘l° CaUed JT % The Coast Guard said high tides which the two were indicted, said at San Luia Pass> 25 miles south he was optimistic about the of Galveston, Ttex., stranded sevchances of conviction for some of eral in a car and house the five persons charged in the traUer. Rescue units were sent to e Indiana highway scandals. a j d . 0 "Were more confident than Weather Bureau, using 1 strong Unguage to warn the threatof toesetefendants, Tinde r said. ened areas said in an u am> te- • Manon County grand jury cd t . advisory that “Hurricane s which returned the charges June Bertha threatens the west Louisi27 accused Mogilner of making ana and U pper Texas coasts from big, profits from the contracts dur- GalveKton Vermillion Bay.” 1 artasiai»Mvfi«H of-towner ■*s a f e t v -precautions should “be ’ Gov. George Craig, including the sorted now,” the advisory said. ■ “£ Os <3? engine 8 Cameron Parish Evacuated Meanwhile, Harry Doggett one A disabled tugboat, the “Whit- ’°* tourer persons indicted on man No 5.. was repO rted caught , other charges in Indiana s high- rough waters of Pass A Loutre ; way sea nda 1, was granted a the Mississippi delta with pos--1 change of judge. .... sibly three men aboard and a , It apparently meant the four coast Guard cutter went to its aid. ; accused of conspiracy to steal and Sheriff 0 .8. carter ot Cameron ) embezzle in shady nght-of -way Par i sbi where more than 500 died ’ dea 4, * ou ’ d . * et a d ‘t ferent Judge in Hurricane Audrey June 27, said . for their trial. his parish was almost completely Marion Criminal Court Judge evacuat ed “and the people needed , Scott McDonald appointed a panel n 0 proddipg to move them out.” >of three from which the new judge Weathermen set up a hurricane 5 will be chosen for the trial of a t cb a i on g the western Louisiana s Doggett, SmiUi, former right-oL and upper Texag and -way chief Nile Teverbaugh and warned residents of the Louisiana i Milan attorney Robert Peak lowland areas to get out fast i Those four were indicted May 2 Throughout the night some state 1 on the conspiracy charges. Tever- highways were clogged with motor - baugh also was charged with em- caravans o f refugees. 1 bezzlement and Peak with false Shrimp Boats Safe r notarization. The tugboat with its barge ra- ; It was the latest court maneuver d j oad during the night that its rudwhich delayed the trial since the da j. aa “out” and its anchor ini indictments were returned. effective in the heavy seas. The , Coast Guard had trouble locating Autopsy Reveals £“*" d ” “ sklmpy l . r 1 Oilmen manning offshore rigs > ■/■Il J had come ashore with first warn- ! bunman jCll togs of the storm and all shrimp Vmiiiiiuii iwiiivm we re believed to have made Staged Gun Battle before Hurricane Audrey In U A » A | < struck in the same general area in capital norei last June „ five oUmen were INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —An exconvict who shot two policemen f » and a * and a young woman in a hotel J?" B t lobby andl2th floor gun battle moment to bt either Thursday and was found dead on Cameron, where more than 500 the floor of his room killed him- persons died before Audrey sonself as police closed in, an autopsy slaught last June 2T, or at Oalshowed today. veston, Tex., or somewhere in bePolice homicide officers said a tween them. This prediction was • bullet hole in the head of Everett unofficial. Weather Bureau offic- ‘ Sparks, 30, Forest Grove, Ore., ials, wise to the many unforeseer came from a 32 caliber weapon ab le shifts in a tropical storm's ’ similar to two guns found in his behavior, refused to pinpoint any ’ room. Police who fired through a mainland “target." hotel room door at him used 38 Orders Hurricane Watch ) caliber guns. Instead, the Weather Bureau or- : Sparks was found dead m the dered a “hurricane watch” along room after a of police and upper Texas > bullets npped through the door. . Before he was shot, he wounded c “. _ _ ~ . . two policemen and a young wo- Sheriff O. B. Carter sa d rest . man caught in the crossfire of dents th e Louisiana lowland the lobby battle when she walked areas began a swift, orderly re- . into the hotel for a stewardess treat that was expected to empty ■ job interview with an airlines rep- most of the small fishing towns resentative. dotting the area. Sparks apparently tried to pay “Everyone is leaving,” he said. - his bill with a forged check, then “We didn’t have to urge too much. • openedefire in the crowded lobby When we announced a new storm • of the Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel when yO u could see the understanding • a desk clerk became suspicious- written on their faces.” s Sparks shot Det. Sgt. James Par- The sheriff and several others I tain four times, winged Mrs. Con- rema ined behind in Cameron’s 1 stance Ciale, 19, Crawfordsville, house one o f the {ew build . . then took oyer an elevator and - ngs thgt withstood Audrey’s tidal ’ b T?ar a g?s ; sSX S’tfiLji aM ■ d rotoro^firr 1108 ”*”' , gout 20 miles 1 Two women and another man in north of the Gulf shore. More than ' the room were arrested and held 200 men, women and children fled ' on fugitive warrants. in trucks and cars. Travis Gatewood. 34. Norfolk. Louis Rodriguez, a newsman (ContmuM vu mxj (Continued on Pace Three) i

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