Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 190.

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INVESTIGATORS (at left) arrive at debris-strewn scene where an airliner crashed killing all 79 perrons aboard Sunday in Canada’s worst air disaster in history. Chartered by the Imperial Veterans Organization for former servicemen and their families, the four-engine plane plunged into a bog 15 miles from Quebec. Wreckage outlines a bald area where the plane goagec a crater.

House Opens Skirmish On Civil Rights Two Attempts To Obtain Action On Senate Bill Fail By UNITED PRESS The House opened preliminary skirmishing on the civil rights bill today. Two attempts to obtain actidn on the Senate's heavily amended version of the bill failed to get the unanimous consent needed to bypass the House Rules Committee. There the bill faces deadlock unless one Republican committee member joins northern and western Democrats in a move to bring the measure to the floor with a compromise amendment attached. Other congressional news: Inflation. The chairman nf th? Federal Reserve Board. William McChesney Martin, disputed Democratic charges that rising interest rates contribute to inflation. Martin, testifying before the Senate Finance Committee, said easier credit would “lead to a much more rapid rise in prices and in costs than would result from any likely increase in interest rates.” Gas: Rep. Henry S. Reuss (DWis.) said backers of the natural gas bill shied away from a House vote this year because they figured they couldn’t muster enough strength to pass the measure. The bill would ease federal controls on natural gas prices. Aid: House Republican Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (Mass.) predicted President Eisenhower may call Congress back into special session this fall if it cuts his foreign aid requests “too far” at the present regular session. Economy - bloc congressmen planned to try to slash possibly hundreds of millions of dollars from the program when its appropriations bill comes up. That’s expected shortly after Congress approves a House-Senate compromise bill authorizing $3,336.000,000 for foreign aid—about 500 million less than President Eisenhower requested. Some lawmakers predict Congress won’t provide more than about three billion in cash for the program. Eisenhower showed his concern Monday night by calling in congressional leaders to discuss the program at an extraordinary White House meeting. He appealed to them to hold the line against further cuts. Other congressional news: Civil Rights: Tfie President was expected to give support to House GOP leaders pressing for a tougher civil rights bill despite delays in passage. House GOP Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. said no bill on Eight) Auction Graduation Exercises Friday Graduation exercises for the 97 students of the Reppert school of auctioneering will be held Friday noon at the Youth and Community .center. Dr. Roland Reppert, owner and manager of |he school, will be host to the graduation banquet, which will be followed by the exercises. The students, who range in age from 12 to 53, are completing their study of auctioneering technique this week. They will conduct an auction for the merchants at Grabill this evening, among special events planned for the last few days. Thus far. the active auctioneers have conducted several auction sales at the Decatur Sale Barn, and were given an opportunity to gain more practical experience as they conducted two auctions Saturday for the Valparaiso guild of the area Lutheran churches.

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Hospital Submits Proposed Budget Additional Tax To Buy New Equipment The Adams county memorial hospital board has submitted a proposed operating budget of $333,610 for 1958, looking forward to more business and more revenue in the next year, Thurman Drew, hospital manager, said today. The same one-cent tax rate as last year for operating expenses will be asked for the hospital. Drew said. The hospital expects to be self-sustaining in 1958, but: with the new addition the onecent levy will allow a margin of j about $4,500 in the estimated expenses. Nearly all of the money which will be used in the budget will come from hospital charges, rather than from taxation. The tax rate to pay .for the bonds and interest on the new addition will, be reduced from : eight cents to seven cents. This is made possible by the increase in property valuation this year. An additional levy of nine cents is requested to pay for the $40,500 in equipment necessary to furnish the new addition. Such items as the two power washers and spin dryer for the hospital laundry: three food carts: 35 additional beds and room furniture, amounting to about $20,000: waiting room furniture; a new operating table, as the present one will be removed to secondary surgery; stainless steel ware for the kitchen; new emergency room equipment, to be able to care for three or four emergency patients rather than one, as at present; wheel chairs; a new nursery; and two oxygen machines. The breakdown of the operating budget shows that in the administrative department, including salaries, supplies, telephone bill, insurance fees, * attorney costs, etc., will be $35,470 in 1958. as compared with $27,275 this , year. • In the dietary department, salaries and food costs will be $50.550 as compared with $43,650 this year; laundry, including salary and supplies, $9,750 next year as compared with SB,OOO this year. Housekeping, including clothing, bedding, linen, janitor, and maidservice, $20,700 next year, as compared with $16,900 this year; plant operation, including fuel, lights, heat, and maintenance. $22,980 next year as compared with $15,360 this year. Medical expenses. Including drugs, medicines, and supplies. $39,560 in 1958, as compared with $30,060 in 1957: nursing, including nurses and aides, with additional help to take care of the new addition, $125,000 in 1958 as compared with $105,000 in 1957; the x-ray department, including salaries. films, development, chemicals, reading, and analysis, $20,650 in 1958, $13,050 in 1957; laboratory, $8,950 in 1958, $10,875 »■ Paste Five) Power Changeover Slated Wednesday A passing lane to be built this month on highway 224 where state highway 101 intersects, about three miles east of Decatur, has made necessary the moving of two poles, and the installation of others, L. C. Pettibone, superintenrent of the city light and power department, said this morning. The work started last Friday, and the power will be switched over to-the new arrangement on Wednesday. Two poles were , taken out on the south side, three new onek were added, and two more poles were put in on the north side of highway 224. The passing lane will be on the south side, and grading will start at Price. ' v • '' ’ ’ ■ I. J,

5,000 Poles ± Strike, Defy Armed Militia Streetcar Workers In Lodz On Strike For Wage Increase I LODZ, Poland (UP) — Fivethousand striking streetcar workers occupied the main depot here today and defied heavily - armed militia to break their walkout. | The atmosphere was tense and ■ ugly. 4’’’ I The Communist regime posted machine gun carrying militiamen and secret police outside the •‘Tramway Owa,” the main street depot where the strikers who bedded down there during the night refused to come out to work this morning. A fleet of 200 army trucks was running emergency shiiWe along the deserted traue? tracws, and not a trolley was moving in this city of 600,000. Recall Freedom Riots The walkout was the most serious defiance of Communist authority since the freedom riots at Poznan. Those bloody riots brought a “liberalized” regime to Poland and significant concessions to workers and other citizens. Communist leader Wladyslaw Gomulka ordered in the troops and secret police when it became apparent new violence might flare in Lodz. Poland’s second biggest city and its main textile center. Workers, especially women, were angered after reading today’s newspapers which called the strikers “hooligans” and accused them of attacking police with clubs. The strikers said the stories In the Communist newspapers Aziennik Lodzki and Glos Robotniczi were “lies” and that the militia with fixed bayonets attacked them with tear gas in Monday’s rioting. Five Women Injured The strikers said five women were hospitalized after one clash. They reported the trouble started when police and a party of Communist Party activists boarded one trolley and tried to get it moving. The strikers threw them off and the militia moved in. Early today it appeared that only the use of force by the militia and police could dislodge the strikers from the-main depot and that the strikers appeared to sit down until their demands are met. It did not appear that other workers in Lodz would join the streetcar employes in the strike. Local newspapers preached the same line that local government minister Stanislaw Sroka did Monday night—the situation is bad but cannot be improved by strikes and that strikes can only worsen the situation. Observers said this was essentially true—that if the government makes any large concessions to the Lodz strikers there is little doubt wildcat strikes will blossom all over the country. Other smaller strikes have been settled amicably. Observers believed the streetcar strike will end either by the use of force or when the workers get Continued On Page Five INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms likely Wednesday and in west portion tonight. Chance of locally heavy thunderstorms extreme southwest tonight. Warmer. Low tonight 63-67 northeast. 68-73 southwest. High Wednesday 85-93. Sunset 7:44 p. -m., sunrise Wednesday 5:56 „ a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy, warm and humid with scattered thundershowers. Low Wednesday night 68-75. High Thursday 88-96.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, August 13,1957

Increase Os 24 Cents Proposed In County’s Tax Levy In Next Year

Doria Denies Mishandling Union's Funds Proclaims Honesty But Rackets Group Appears Skeptical WASHINGTON (UP) — Former union official Anthony J. Doria loudly proclaimed his honesty today before Senate investigators who challenged his personal financial statement. Doria, former secretary-treasur-ero fthe old AFL United Auto Workers, declared that *T’ve always been honest in handling union funds.” But the Senate Rackets Committee appeared skeptical about his accounting of his own finances. Doria’s declarations and the committee’s records produced these highlights of the former unionist's second day of testimony: —Doria kept large sums of union money, unaudited, in a box hidden under papers in an office storeroom. He said the union president, Earl D. Heaton, knew about the cache. —His financial statement, as analyzed by committee investigator Carmine S. Bellino, would have Doria, .his wife,, and three children lived on an average of $2,000 a year in the 19481952 period. —Doria rejected that suggestion explaining that he had been working “on the road” for years prior to 1948, during which time the union paid his expenses ami his personal funds went largely untouched. —Doria said that on one occasion he left in the storeroom box $4,000 in cash which belonged to a mining venture in which he was interested. Then he left his Los Angeles headquarters on a trip taking a union check book on which he drew checks to the mining company. The checks, he said, were “already covered by the cash which I left in the box.” —He conceded that he checked out $130,000 in union funds to himself in October, 1955. But he said he did that to keep the union treasury from becoming “tied up” by a court order, on the eve of a convention, by an opposing political faction. _ „ —ln a fight with that faction he obtained approval of a plan which would have ( given 186 additional convention votes to his own group. That was done, he said “to obtain insurance” that his group would not be unseated in convention man(CoßtluaM Five) Friday Is Deadline For Erie Excursion New York City Tour Leaves Here Aug. 23 The reservation coupon for ticket application for the Erie Rail-road-Daily Democrat New York excursion starting August 23 appears in this newspaper for the last time today. Reservations will be accepted ■ until 4 o’clock Friday afternoon, August 16. After that time no more tickets will be sold. This early cutting off of appUcations is made so railroad officials can have ample time to complete New York arrangements. Indications are that .a full coach of 45 peapie will take advantage of the low fare to New York. There also will be a coach from Rochester and Huntington attached to the train. Postal cards will be mailed to each excursionist when tickets are ready at the Erie station, and each ticket will include the coupons for the New York sight-seeing, free meals and hotel accommodations. Each ticket will bear the seat number of the occupant and a club car where refreshments and drinks will be served also will be available for all those making the trip, " ■ Those who are contemplating the trip are urged to make their, reservations immediately. 1 ' .r ■ ' ‘

Red Infiltration In Mideast Dangerous Lebanon President Points To Dangers BEIRUT. lA’banon (UP)—President Camille Chamoun said totyay Communist infiltration into the Middle East is at such a “highly dangerous’’ level that it threatens the very existence of the Mideast nations. Chamoun suggested a meeting of the heads of all the Arab states as the only way to clear the general political atmosphere. Chamoun made his observations in an exclusive interview at his Beiteddine presdential palace 34 miles from Beirut. The 57-year-old French - educated president ranged through problems facing the Middle East today. .. “I believe the Arab states should set aside the question of the duel between the East and West and concentrate on their vital interests in attempting to find a solution compatible with a tradition of religion, civilzaton and culture,” he sad. “I earnestly believe that Communist infiltration into the Middle East is highly dangerous to the very existence of the Middle East ■ nations as sovereign states.” Chamoun said he so far had re- ’ ceived “favorable reaction” to his appeal for a top-level Arab conference in which the heads of the 1 Atab states would meet. He .said Iraq and Jordan actively fevor the Idea and that other Arab capitals are still studying the general political atmosphere in the light of recent Middle East developments. “Should all members agree to the idea then Lebanon would ap- • preach them through diplomatic channels in order to agree to a place and date,” he said. As for present disagreements between Arab states, Chamoun said, “actually there’s disagreement on tendencies rather than on the essence of existing problems.” Chamoun, whose adoption of the Eisenhower Doctrine was endorsed by an overwhelming majority in last June’s elections, said, “our social and economic system brings us together with the West.” Huge Arms Cache Seized In Miami Believed Headed For Cuban Rebels MIAMI (UP) — Customs agents early today seized a huge cache of rifles, machine guns and 50,000 rounds of ammunition believed destined for insurgents camped in the Cuban mountain jungles. Two men were arrested and authorities hunted three more be- . lieved involved in a plot to ship arms to Cuban rebel leader Fidel Castro, who is trying to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista. Charles Wyatt, supervisor of customs in Miami, identified the men arrested as Gil De Gibaja. 46, an American citizen of Cuban descent living in Miami, and Alfredo C. Z. Gonzales, 38, who said he is a farmer. He told officers he was from Havana. The men were charged with violation of the neutrality act and jailed pending further action. Wyatt said agents found 500 rifles, 10 machine guns, both .30 and .50 caliber, around 50,000 rounds of ammunition and possibly a bazooka in De home here. Florida highway patrolmen H. M. Gracy and Pat Edgemond spotted the men in a car hauling a trailer south of Miami and recognied the car as one described in a statewide alert. Wyatt said customs agents called to the scene found a box of rifles and a box of ammunition in the trailer. De Gibaja, a beautician, agreed to let agents search his home and it was there that they found tire bulk of the illegal arms, Wyatt said. o - - . De Gibaja, Wyatt said, denied knowing the weapons and ammunition were in the boxes, saying he thought they contained “farming tools.” Continued On Pa«« Flv* .

Wilson Orders Reduction In Progress Pay Secretary Swings His Economy Ax At Defense Industry WASHINGTON (UP) — Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson swung his economy ax at the defense industry again today. He ordered a 5 per cent reduction in the "progress payments” made by the government to big defense contractors on aircraft, missiles and other military items which require a long time to manufacture. The order, effective Sept. 1. reduces these installment payments to 70 per cent of total costs, or 85 per cent, instead of the present 90 per cent, of direct labor and material costs. » Wilson said the move will give contractors "greater incentives for economy” when more of their own money is involved in producing defense equipment. The new order will not affect small business suppliers who will continue to be eligible for progress payments of up to 75 per cent of total costs or 90 per cent of . Wilson's decision was the latest in a series of drastic measures to cut military spending down to the budget ceiling of 38 billion dollars in the fiscal year which began July 1. Monday he ordered the Air Force and civilian contractors working on Air Force equipment and projects, except missiles, to cut their personnel and overhead costs 5 per cent. The order, coming on top of a slowdown and cancellations in production of aircraft and one guided missile, is expected to force discharge of more than 100,600 aircraft industry employes. • Wilson is slashing expenses before his scheduled retirement from the top defense post, possibly late this month. He has said he wants to leave the complex affairs of the Defense Department in order for his successor. Adefense Department spokesman could not say whether the cut in progress payments would in all cases result in reduced costs for military equipment. A reporter asked whether it might not force some manufacturers to borrow money, at high interest rates, to (Conttaaea Pare Scouts Will Visit Wrighl Air Base 19 Decatur Scouts In Group On Tour A group of 19 Air and Explorer scouts from the Decatur troops will join 33 others from the Anthony Wayne council area for a trip to Wright-Patterson air force base, leaving Sunday and returning Thursday. The group will be under the direction of Dr. Melvin I. Weisman, event director, who took 10 Decatur Air Scouts on the trip last year. Two buses will carry the young men from Worthman field at 4 p. m. to the Ohio air force base, where they will be guests of the air force for five days. Bill Hunter, of Decatur, has volunteered his services as driver of the bus, which was loaned to the group by the explorer post at Berne. A second bus will arrive from the Portland area. There will be four other adults with the group from the different troops attending. The youths will be guided through the research base, where they win see guided missiles in action. On the training base they will be among the first civilians to enter an altitude pressure chamber. 'Biey will also make a flight in a large air force plane. Last year the group circled Decatur. They will swim every day in the Conttmied On Page Five — - -• , ........ _ ♦ — - -... 4

Syria Government Claims U. S. Plot U. S: Embassy Says Story A Fabrication DAMASCUS, Syria ffl» — T h e government announced shortly before midnight Monday that Syrian military authorities had discovered an American-led plot to overthrow the present regime. The statement said the plot was , engineered by the United States ; in cooperation with former Syrian ’ dictator Adib Shishekly, Col. Ibrahim Husseiny, the Syrian military attache in Rome, and the outlawed Social Nationalist Party. The statement Said Shishekly , and Husseiny, under the direction of American intelligence expert Howard Stone, contacted a number of Syrian army officers and tried to arrange a coup d'etat but that some of the officers informed government authorities. The government said the conspirators were told the United States would grant 400 million, dollars in aid to Syria to change ' the present regime and make peace with Israel. . Shishekly was overthrown in . March, 1954, and took up exile in Lebanon. He had come to i power in f 949 when h? 7 overthrew r the Syrian government to set up the 16th regime since the French left Syria in The govern- ; rnent did hot state his present whereabouts. / A U. S. embassy spokesman here labeled the statement a “complete fabrication.” Spokesman Robert Lincoln said: / “ThqU. S. embassy has noted the breadcast of the Syrian broadcasting system and press reports describing an alleged plot against the Syrian government. The statement is obviously a complete fabrication.” Bizarre Story Told By U. S. Counterspy - Movie Producer In l Story Os Activity NEW YORK (UP) — Hollywood movie producer Boris Morros Monday related the bizarre story of his 12 years as an American counterspy. - For the first time, the 62-year-old, Russian-born Morros told how he gained the trust of the Soviet secret police as a spy, while taking orders from the FBI. From 1945 until early this year, when he became suspect by the Russians, Morros said he acted as a counter espionage agent for the United States. Morros, who composed “The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," disclosed the details of his double-life at a news conference. Speaking with a heavy Russian accent, Mor- ; res spoke pridefully of his associa- • tion with the FBI and of his counterspy activities. On several . occasions, a government attorney had to restrain him from telling too much. * The identification of Morros as an FBI counterspy first was disi closed with the arrests of Jack and Myra Soble and Jacob Albarn as Soviet spies. His testimony re- , suited in their indictment and also the indictment of an American couple now living in Paris. Morros told how, as a counterspy, he made 68 trips to Europe to attend meetings with other spies and the Russian secret police. The movie producer said he became “a Russian agent” at the request of the Soviets in 1945— after first going to the FBI. On all of his overseas trips, two FBI agents were assigned to cover 1 him, and always remained close by. Os his Russian associates, he said: - A , “I hated everything they stood for, and when I had to express myself to high Russian officials and to American spies employed by them in terms supporting their vicious ideology I really had to do a more realistic acting job than any of the players I had ever directed in Hollywood.” 1

90Cent Rafe Proposed For Adams County Big Increase Set In Budget Under Study By Board ■ionof evy rethe ; ary red 24- • in ini to ulhtive bridge fund, and county hospital fund rates will remain the same, at 10 cents, 8 cents, and one cent respectively. The hospital bond fund will decrease one cent, from eight cents to seven cents. A new fund, the hospital equipment fund, to furnish the new addition, is estimated at nine cents. (~ .. .... ....... . *s-®he'i»rop<>sfd budget would almost double the taxes raised in 1954, $207,707; and would be substantial’ increases over the past few years; 1955, $224,650; 1956, $310,401; and 1957, $316,997. The county fund increase is partly necessary because of the increase in salaries of county officials, raised by the 1957 state legislature. Budgets for the various offices are: clerk of the Circuit court, personal services, $13,250 (includes salaries of clerk and deputies); operating expenses, $2,270; current charges, $300; pro< perties, SI,OOO. County auditor, personal ser"vices, $13,200 (includes salaries of deputies); operating expenses, $2,135; properties, $25. County treasurer, personal services, SII,BBO (includes deputies' salaries); operating expenses, $3,543. Sheriff, personal expenses, $14,660 (includes deputies salaries); operating expenses, $6,673. County surveyor, personal services, including deputies and employes, $11,000; operating expenses, $2,245. County agent, personal expenses, including all employes, $9,400; operating expenses, $2,245. County board of education, salaries, $15,250; operating expense, $1,750; current charges, $75; properties, $275. County health officer, $1,124; operational expenses, 250. / County coroner, personal services, $1,975; operating expense, SIOO. County assessor, personal services, $7,610, including deputy; operating expense, $2,170. Washington township assessor, $5,000; operating expense, $lO. Prosecuting attorney, personal services $1,300; operating expenses $1,255. Circuit court, personal services, including employes, $14,100; operating expense, $490; current charges, $350; properties, $1,200. County election board, personal services, including all officers, $9,077; operating expenses, $5,956; current charges, $750; properties, $150; registration of voters, personal services, $800; operating expenses, $75. County court house, personal services, $4,270; operating expenses, $5,850; material, SSOO. County jail, personal services, $1500; operating expenses, $2,775; properties. S3O. County home, personal services, ~512,750; operating expenses, $15,205; current charges, $195; properties, S3OO. County commissioners, personal services, $16,109; operating expenses, $12,425; current charges, $50,022; current, obligations. $4,500; debt payment. $4,250; total general fund, $308,429. The county highway maintenContlnued On Par* Fix*

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