Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 10 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 188.

SENTENCED AS RED SPIES PRISON DOORS loom for Jack Soble (right), alleged head of a Soviet spy ring operating in the U. S. since the 1940'5, and his wife, Myra. Federal Judge Richard H. Levet sentenced Mrs. Soble and another cohort, Jacob Albarn, to Ove and a Half year prison terms. Sentencing of Soble was delayed to Sept. 18 at the request of the government.

Rackets Group To Hear Fired Union Official To Question Dorio On Aid To Dio In Labor Movement WASHINGTON (UP) — A Senate rackets .investigator said today an ousted union official will be asked next week whether he handed New York hoodlum Johnny Dio his passport into the labor movement. Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the Senate Rackets Committee’s main witness Monday will be Anthony J. Doria, who resigned under fire last year as secretarytreasurer of the Allied Industrial Workers, a catch-all union formerly known as the AFL United Auto Workers. Kennedy said the committee also wants to know why Doria got an SBO,OOO going - away present ,dent Eat! Heaton testified Friday ary, 1956. Outgoing union President Earl Heaotn testified Friday that Doria got $25,000 cash and promissory notes for the rest. He said Doria is suing to collect the Dotes. Special Convention Called A special convention of the union in St. Louis, called to comply with AFL-CIO orders for a housecleaning, decided Thursday to try to recover the $25,000 cash from Doria. The committee will also question Doria about his handling of Dio after the dapper little racketeer became boss of the UAWAFL’s Ne.w York operations. The committee has charged that Dio muscled into control of UAW-AFL Local 102, the union's first New York unit, in 1951-52. - ? Former union President Lester Washburn has fingered Doria as the man who issued a new charter for the local making Dio an official. f From that start Dio rose rapidly to become New York regional director of the union and got charters for a string of locals. The committee says the locals were staffed with Dio henchmen and operated a thriving racket of extortion and “sweetheart” contracts which exploited low - paid Negro and Puerto Rican workers. The committee says Dio’s henchmen also staffed seven phony “paper locals” of the Teamsters Union which were set up by Teamster Vice President James R. Hoffa to swing an election for control of the Teamsters in New York. Washburn Overruled, Quite Washburn tried to boot Dio out of the UAW-AFL in 1954 but his executive board overruled him and Washburn quit. Heaton became president and the board formally cleared Dio. Dio then re-signed-taking with him a check for $16,000. k , Heaton testified Friday he took Doria’s word that Dio had vouchers to show he had spent $16,000 of his own money launching the union in New York. Heaton said he never saw the proof himself. Kennedy said the committee staff can find only $5,138 at most” which Dio spent for the union. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) charged that the $16,000 payment was "a form, maybe a mild form, of extortion” by Dio as his price for leaving the union. Heaton said the union executive board authorized him to pay Doria $50,000, approximately the pay Continued On P*«e Five INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight. Sunday fair and pleasant north, partly cloudy and not so warm central and south. Lw tonight 58-70. High Sunday low 80s north to upper 80s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy with moderate temperatures. NOON EDITION

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Election On Monday In British Guiana Cheddi Jagan Seeks Return To Power LONDON (UP)—Doctor Cheddi Jagan, a former chief minister deposed because of his Red-tinged politics, returns to the fray when British Guiana goes to the polls next Monday to choose 14 members for the colony’s Legislative Council. •* Jagan came to power when he i led the Peoples Progressive Party ) to victory in the last election, in ‘ April, 1953. After that his political career became chequered. A few months later Britain sent a cruiser, H.M.S. Supferb, steaming to 1 Georgetown,. the capital. Jagan ! was quickly relieved of office and ■ the colony’s constitution was sus- •, pended. j In London at that time officials claimed that his ministry had i shown no concern for the colony’s 1 welfare, that it had endangered the economic life of the country j and set it on the road to collapse. Denies Red Influence , There were allegations of Communist influence and of dlsaffec- ' tion, all of which were denied by j Jagan and his American born wife, Janet. - They charged they had been ■ treated unfairly, harshly and unconstitutionally. Less than two years later Jigan’s People Progressive Party split wide open into two sections ’ which will be two of the four groups fighting for power on Aug 1 12. . These four are a section of the J peoples progressive party led by Jagan with 13 candidates, another ’ section of the P.P.P. led by For- ’ bes Burnham, a former colleague ’ of Jagan. also with 13 candidates; ’ A United Democratic Party with ' 8 candidates and a National Labor Front with 14. In addition there are 6 inde- , pendent and one Guiana National Party candidates. “ Reports from Georgetown indicate that any of the four main groups, including Jagan’s sec- [ tion of the P.P.P., has a fighting , chance even though the constituen- " cies have been reconstructed to in- ; elude a fair proportion of Africans ' and settlers from India. Considered Jagan’s Stronghold This reconstruction has made J one big constituency, called Eastern Berbice, which at the last ; election in 1953 comprised three , divisions. This constituency is Jagan s stronghold but, whereas in 1953 it gave him three seats in the legis- . lature, it will now provide him , with only one, if, as expected, he gains a victory for his party there. So Jagan is concentrating on i the country districts where there i are very many east Indian rice . farmers and east Indian sugar . workersWhere the thousands of sugar workers are concerned some defections from Jagans ranks' are • expected because Richard Ishmael, poweful East Indian leader I of the sugar workers union has > pledged support to Burnham, Nei gro leader of the predominantly African section of the P.P.P. . Ishmael is a university man and a striking leader. A few months . ago he obtained a million-dollar . wage increase for the sugar work- , ers, but how far they will follow him remains to be seen. ivontin-ueo on Pure Six) X-Ray Technician : Hired At Hospital Miss Dianne Shipman, of Defiance, 0., has been hired as a laboratory and x-ray technician at the Adams county memorial hospital, Thurman Drew, hospital manager, said this morning. Miss Shipman will be graduated from a technician’s school in Elkhart next week, and will start work August 26. She will replace Patricia Lucas, who resigned as technician in July to take a job in Cody, Wyo. Miss Shipman was interviewed by the hospital staff , and accepted the position Friday.

May Be Forced To Drop Case Against Spy Congress Concerned Over Protection Os FBl's Secret Files WASHINGTON (UP)—The government may have to drop its spy case against Soviet Col. Rudolph Ivanovich Abel until Congress takes action to protect FBI files, congressional sources said today. The Justice Department had np comment, but sources close to the department expressed fears about the outcome against Abel, who is - regarded as one of the central figures in the government's recent roundup of accused spies. Abel was indicted Wednesday on charges that he sent secret defense material to Russia while posing for nine years as a Brooklyn photographer; if convicted, he would be liable to the death penalty. Congressional concern about the outcome of the case stemmed from i the June 3 Supreme Court decision . to compel the government to show I defendants in criminal cases the ( FBI reports of prosecution witnesi ses. FBI Director J. Edgar Hooyer , has been known for years to strongly oppose, disclosure of any FBI reports that reveal FBI in- ; vestigative techniques, disclose confidential informants, or injure . innocent people. , Some sources reported several weeks ago that Hoover and his as- ' sociates feel they would prefer the FBI to withdraw from the prose- ! cution of some espionage and other security cases if necessary to protect the sanctity of FBI files. Any prosecution of an espionage ; case without FBI participation 1 would be unlikely—if not impossi- ’ ble. l ! But congressional sources said ’Justice Department prosecutors • are concerned about the broad interpretation by trial judges of the ' Supreme Court's decision. ■ In some cases, the trial court ’ has sustained defense demands for ' a wide variety of government documents. 1 The House Judfciary Committee ' recently approved a bill to offset the high court's decision some- ' what. Under its bill, the trial judge would determine what part, iif any, of the FBI report need to be shown to the defense. The bill is still pending. Congressional sources expressed fear the measure may get lost in the shuf fie during Congress’ headlong rush toward adjournment. Elkhart May Stay ■ On Daylight Time Merchants Favor Ignoring New Law r ELKHART (UP) —Elkhart mer- ■ chants may ignore the 1957 state i law calling for Hoosiers to change from Daylight Saving to Central Standard Time Sept. 29, Irvin Kell, 1 president of the'city council, said ' Friday. Kell said a majority of the mer--1 chants favored year-round “fast” time. The retail division of the ’ Elkhart Chamber of Commerce came out in favor of "fast” time throughout the year. James Garber, retail division chairman, said most merchants were opposed to the new law. i Kell said the city council had . decided ”to let well enough . alone.” He said all city clocks • would be turned back an hour Sept. 29 in line with the new law. But he said that since the majority of citizens apparently favor ' year round “fast” time, city busi- ■ nesses probably will remain on Daylight Saving Time. Kell pointed out that Elkhart adopted a year-round “fast” time ordinance in the fall of 1954. He ( explained that although the new . law forbids city council from ’ adopting ordinances or resolutions . legalizing fast time during the sevr en months from late September to May, it doesn’t say that councils have to repeal such ordinances already in effect. Scheduled Nuclear Test Is Postponed LAS VEGAS, Nev. Wl — Atom--1 ic Energy Commission scientists ■ have tentatively scheduled the 1 firing of the ’below nominal” nuclear device “Shasta” for 5 a. m. ■ p,dt- Sunday, after .postponing 1 the shot because of unfavorable t wind patterns. : An AEC spokesman said the ( shot set for today was delayed > because winds would have result- > ed in an unacceptable radioactive t fallout over a nearby mining op- - eration. \

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, — — . —— Seek To Break I GOP Fight On Civil Rights House Democratic Leaders Backing Jury Amendment • ■ • . . WASHINGTON (UP)—H ou s • Democratic leaders started a drive today to try to break down stiff GOP resistance to a new ' compromise jury trial amendment to the civil rights bill. There were some slight signs the Republicans might agree to go along with the compromise. The Democratic plan is to make only one change in the Senatepassed version ot the controversial civil rights measure. They want to limit the jury trial proviso to apply only to federal criminal contempt cases to punish violations of court-ordered protection of voting rights. The Senate’s bill would provide jury trials for criminal contempt cases in all fields. Key GOP members still insisted 1 the Senate-passed measure got to ' a Senate-House conference com--1 mitteeto bring it more into line with . the broader House-approved ’ measure. * But off the record, some hinted they might be willing to accept the Democratic plan. Other congressional news: McElroy: Soap manufacturer Neil H. McElroy has agreed to sell some of his stock holdings to secure quick Senate approval of his nomination as secretary of defense, congressional sources said. They said McElroy agreed to dispose of his stock in general electric and Chrysler Corp, but intended to retain his stock in his own firm, Procter & Gamble. The Senate Armed Services Committee scheduled a meeting next Thursday With McElroy to hear details of McElroy’s plans. Taxes: House Democratic leaders have scheduled a series of meetings next January to hear proposals from the public on how to revamp the nation's tax laws. The Democrats have invited the public to present their views before the tax writing House Ways and Means Committee. Democrats on the committee said they expected the hearings to lead to leg(Csntlnued aa Pace Five) Nine Million Boost To State Com Crop Aug. 1 Estimate Above July Figure INDIANPOLIS (UP) — Indiana’s 1957 corn crop was given a nine-million busffel boost in the Agriculture Department’s latest estimate Friday, indicating Hoosier farmers have recouped some of their losses from floods and heavy rains in the spring and early summer. The department’s Aug. 1 estimate of 226,356,000 bushels was substantially above the 217,650,000 estimate issued July 1. Yet it didn’t measure up to the actual 1956 production of 296,546,000 bushels. Although a soil moisture shortage has been reported in about one-third of the state’s 92 counties, normal rainfall over most of the Hoosier cornbelt for a month or more apparently spelled the difference in July and August estimates. Most of the floods occurred before July 1. Since then, rainfall generally has been slightly heavier than usual, except for the past few days. ■» But although the com outlook showed improvement, wheat prospects were down. The department’s Aug. 1 estimate for Indiana was 31,161,000 bushel* of wheat, a reduction of more than 4% million bushels from the 34,827,000 estimate ot ■ July 1. It also was below the 1956 1 production of 35,580,000 bushels. Indiana followed the national pattern in both crop categories, with corn prospects up and wheat prospects down.

T ** ■ U. 5. Steel Head To Continue Testimony Senate Committee Continues Hearing WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Anti-Trust Subcommittee today recalled Chairman Roger M. Blough of U.S. Steel Corp., who said he has tr. ible “communicating".with lawmakers, for the third straight day of questioning on the recent steel price Increase. In his last two appearances before the group Blough did most of the talking with the lawmakers trying to get a word in edgewise. But the steel executive apparently felt he wasn’t getting anywhere in his efforts to explain why his firm raised the price of steel $6 a ion last June. “My success in communicating with the lawmakers of this country has been almost zero,” Blough said. He denied that major steel producers entered any industry-wide agreement to boost the price by July 1. He said he didn't even talk it over with other producers. Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney then asked Blough what he thought should be done to curb inflation. O'Mahoney said any man who had “worked his way to the top” of the steel industry should have good ideas for Congress. Blough replied, “I always hesitate ever to advise Congress.” But he added that his hides had prepared material on the subject. O’Mahoney told him to prepare a statement “in your own good time without an audience and the harassment of committee members looking down your throat.” Subcommittee Chairman Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) reeled off a list of companies that raised their steel prices shortly after U.S. Steel did. Blough smiled genially for press photographers and apparently was paying no attention until Kefauver asked: “HoW did that happen.” “If you are asking me why major producers changed their price on July 1 in the same amount as we changed ours, I think you should direct your question to the major producers,” he replied. But he added that “probably one thing that was going through their minds was that there is a substantial uniform labor contract throughout the industry: their costs were going up the same amount as ours.” Cuban Army Leader Ousted In Command Seen As Result Os Rebellion Spread HAVANA (UP) — Col. Pedro A. Barrera, leader of the forces assigned to "exterminate” the rebels in eastern Cuba, has been abruptly relieved of his command —perhaps as a result of the spread of the rebellion into this country’s central provinces. A decree published Friday night announced without explanation that Barrera is being transferred to Caracas to serve as military attache in Venezuela. No successor was appointed immediately to the eastern command. A few hours earlier, an army communique had disclosed the existence of active rebel forces in Las Villas Province, miles to the west of the area where the insurgent "army” had been believed surrounded. The communique said three rebels were killed and “several” wounded in two clashes between rebels and loyal forces in Las Villas. No government casualties were reported. Barrera was one of a number of high-ranking officers reassigned by the decree. Col. Manuel Ugalde Carrillo, who had been serving as warden of the Isle of Pines political prison, was transferred to Camp Columbia, outside Havana, to take command of the Ist Infantry Regiment. Ninety - nine inmates of Cuba’s political prisons staged a hunger strike last month to protest Ugalde’s alleged “brutality” in the Isle of Pines post. ‘ .S'*. Col. Damaso Soto replaces Ugalde as warden of the prison.

East Germany Heads Ordered To End Revolt Khrushchev Given Cool Reception On East Germany Tour BERLIN (UP)—Communist Boss N. S. Khrushchev has ordered local Red leaders to crush antiCommunist resistance in Soviet Germany, scene of the first “Hun-gary-style" revolt against Russian rule. In Leipzig Friday, Khrushchev called on the Communists in Germany to. crush their “class enemies.” “You must not fall asleep,” he said. “There must be no reconciliation with other classes.” Khrushchev spoke three times in Leipzig. As elsewhere during his tour of Red Germany, the public response was cool. Television cameras recording his appearance at a “maSI rally" in Leipzig Stadium showed many more seats than people. At least 1 two-thirds of the stadium's 100,000 seats were empty. Khrushchev himself took notice of reports that East Germans are less than enthusiastic about his tour. He told mflftia units paraded before him that Western newspapers probably would say they were forced to march. "These bourgeois press reports make no impression on us,” he said. “We have lived through 40 years of it, and we haven’t lived badly.” He promised Red Germany’s Stalinist rulers that they can count on the full military support of the Soviet bloc to keep them in power, and assured them they need not fear that they will be swept out of office by free elections. , Khrushchev’s call for a crackdown apparently was inspired by the new wave of unrest that has swept Red Germany since Russian armor crushed the anti-Communist revolt in Hyngary last year. Ellis Adamson Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Ellis (Skinny) Adamson, 44, died at 4:30 o’clock this morning at his home two and one-half miles east of Decatur. He had been ill for many years and in serious condition for the past three weeks. He was bom in Fort Wayne March 18, 1913. a son of George and Pearl Foster-Axson, and was married to Mary Schafer June 18. 1955, when he moved to this community. Mr. and Mrs. Adamson operated Mary’s Variety store on North Second street. Surviving in addition to his wife are his father in Fort Wayne; one daughter, Nancy Jean, at home: a stepson, Walter P. Reiter, at home; a brother, George of Fort Wayne; two sisters, Mrs. Maude Johnson of Fort Wayne, and Miss Emma Adamson of Chicago; five half-brothers, Loyal, Charles, Earl and Dale Axson, all of Fort Wayne, and Edward Axson of Monroeville, and two halfsisters, Mrs. Anna Noice of San Diego, Calif., and Mrs. Beatrice Huss of Fort Wayne. One daughter and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. W. C. Vetter officiating. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Sunday until time of the services. Auderson Lineman Is Electrocuted Friday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — John McLaughlin, 58, Anderson, was electrocuted Friday when he touched a “hot” power line. His son William, 35, was supervising the line crew with which the victim was working.

Fort Wayne Hit By Four-Inch Rainfall Most Other Indiana Portions Bone Dry By UNITED PRESS Fort Wayne recorded a fourinch rain in a 12-hour period while most other Indiana areas were dry as a bone. The weatherman said a precipitation measurement of 4.05 inches was recorded at Fort Wayne and 1.16 inches at Warsaw. South Bend got scarcely a quarter of an inch, and such areas as Indianapolis, Lafayette ami Evansville had no rain at all. The rain came after a warmish day during which the mercury hit the high 80s all over the state, including 88 at Indianapolis and South Bend and 89 at Fort Wayne and Evansville. Temperatures fell to the mid and high 60s during the night, with Indianapolis getting a 65 and South Bend a 69 for the extremes. The forecast called for cloudy and cooler with scattered thundershowers today in the north por- . tion, clearing and cooler tonight i and fair and pleasant Sunday. For the central area, the forecast was [for partly cloudy and warm to- , day and tonight with scattered thundershowers and partly cloudy and “not so warm" Sunday. For the south, the forecast was similar to that for the central except no rain was in view. Temperatures will range from 78 to the low 90s this afternoon, the big spread being due to the arrival of fresh Canadian air in the north. Low tonight will range from 58 to near 70. Highs Sunday will range from the low 80s to the upper 80s. The outlook for Monday was partly cloudy with moderate temperatures. ~ Fort Wayne sources said the heavy rain there fell mostly before midnight but not in one big downpour. There was minor flooding of underpasses but no serious affects were felt by one of the state’s largest cities. Colorado Rancher Heads Foreign Aid Pres. Eisenhower Names James Smith WASHINGTON (ffl - President Eisenhower has picked James H. Smith Jr., a Colorado rancher and former Navy official, to direct America's multi-billion dollar foreign aid program. The President also nominated AFL-CIO President George Meany as a delegate to the 12th session of the United Nations General Assembly and movie actress Irene Dunne as alternate delegate. Eisenhower sent the three nominations to the Senate Friday along with that of Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. for reappointment as head of the U. S. delegation to the United Nations. James J. Wadsworth was selected alternate to Lodge. The 48-year-old Smith, a native New Yorker, would replace John B. Hollister as head of the International Cooperation Administration. Hollister notified Eisenhower July 1 that he wanted to step down after nearly 2% years In the post. Stay Os Execution Is Granted Kiefer INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The Indiana Supreme Court granted a 90-day stay of execution Friday for Richard E. Kiefer, 36, Fort Wayne, scheduled to die Sept. 23 in the Indiana electric chair for killing his wife and their young daughter. The court extended Kiefer’s life to enable his attorney to prepare an appeal to the high court from his conviction in Allen Circuit Court. ’

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Loses Strength On Move Inland Into Louisiana Hurricane Loses Strength In Louisiana, Texas By UNITED PRESS Tropical storm Bertha turned out to be a weak Sister to Burricane Audrey, running out of Breath shortly before she flopped on the Louisiana coast late Friday. The U.S. Weather Bureau reported that Bertha, at one point churning along at near-hurricane force, was gradually diminishing in strength as she wheezed inland. Highest winds at 4 a.m. c.d.t. were 30 to 40 m.p.h. in squalls near the center of the storm about 20 miles northwest of Beaumont, Tex. Residents along the Gulf Coast, however, had taken no chances and thousands fled the marshy strip which Hurricane Audrey flailed June fl, taking more than 500 lives. Rain had already stopped falling over Cameron, La., late Friday night and winds, seas and tides began to recede as Bertha moved inland. Although flagging in strength. Bertha's broad sweep continued to whip up soualis and locally heavy rains. auout iri inoies laumg as Beaumont. Further north, heavy rains drenched Chicago for the third time within a month. More than two inches of rain foil in the northwest part of the city, according to art unofficial report, and there were reports of flooded viaducts and basements. An even heavier downpour hit Fort Wayne, Ind., starting in early evening and depositing 3.69 inches by midnight. Elsewhere, thunderstorms pounded a belt extending across the lower Great. Lakes into eastern Iowa; Pittsburgh was soaked with a half-inch downpour; and the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and western Washington were peppered with isolated thundershowers. Outside the rainfall area fair skies prevailed throughout the country with the exception of New England where clouds continued to keep the sun in. Humidity was high in the southern and central Plains and in most of the area west of the Mississippi and south of the Mason-Dixon Line. Spotty Rainfall In County Last Night One-Inch Rainfall In Northern Party A one-inch tain covered Preble, Root and Union townships Friday night, but dwindled away to onehalf inch in Kirkland, Washington, Blue Creek, and Monroe, and almost disappeared in the south part of the county, a survey of rain gauge reports shows today. Preble township reported 1.5 inches on the Arthur Koenemann farm, the most for the county; Root township had 1.2 inches on the Cletus Gillman farm; in Unicm township, Jerry Staub reported 1.15 inches. In Kirkland township there was .6 inch rain on the Peter Spangler farm; .5 inch was reported by the Rolland Gilliom home in Washington township; Blue Creek township, Austin Merriman also reported .5 inches. In Monroe township, Ben lin reported .58 inch of rain; just a trace of rain was reported by Ivan Huser in Hartford township; and Jack Hurst in Geneva. Wabash township, reported hardly enough water to spot the dust. Aged Farmer Killed In Fall Off Tractor LODOGA (UP) — Otto O. Btark. 80, Ladoga, was Injured fatally Thursday when he fell from a farm tractor and was crushed by a moving machine it was pulling.