Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1957 — Page 1

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DR. MORRIS GREENBERG, director of the New York Bureau of Preventable Diseases (left), assures Longshoremen’s union executive John Bowers that there is no danger in handling cargo of the "Arosa Sky” which docked in New York with 50 passengers ill from an influenza outbreak that may be a mild form of Asiatic Flu. A team of city and federal health experts checked all 847 passengers and 273 crewmen before the ship docked. *

Poland Strike Ends, Study Wage Demand Greatest Strike In Poland Since Poznan Rebellion Is Ended LODZ, Poland (UP)—Poland's greatest strike since the- Poznan rebellion ended today with government seizure of a strike-bound streetcar depot and a promise to investigate transport workers demands for a living wage. Buses and streetcars were running tor the first time in two days but with "workers militia" guarding the drivers. Polish army troops and militia occupied the suburban Dombroaski Depot between 8 and 9 a.m. today and evicted the sit down strikers there. Newsmen arrived at the scene after the action was over but saw two ambulances and a police wagon leaving the scene. This action indicated that some workers attempted to hold out for a third day and had to be removed by force. The back of the walkout had been broken earlier when about 80 per cent of the strikers agreed to return to work. The government rushed in reinforcements of troops and militia from Warsaw Tuesday when the situation became tense and ugly but no major outbreaks of violence erupted. There were a few scattered clashes in addition to this morning’s action. . An estimated 80 per cent of the city trolleys were operating today, but service appeared slow and erratic. Each motorman was accompanied in the driver’s compartment by a burly guard with a red and white armband showing he was a member of the so-called “workers militia,” the Communist Party’s muscle squad. Early indications were the strike had ended peacefully. The Dombrowski Depot incident came later. A group of about 50 men who were supposed to be working on the trolley lines sat by the roadside smoking cigarettes. They refused to discuss the strike. Another group of 500, many of them in their motormen’s uniforms, stood around talking quietly and smoking. There were reports they had been evicted by 100 army troops and steel-helmeted militia equipped with tear gas, but there was no indication tear gas was used. Eight Polio Cases Reported In State INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Union and Sullivan Counties reported their first polio cases of 1957 last week, but the Indiana State Health Board said only 8 new cases were added to raise the year’s total to 48. For the game date last year. 39 new cases in a week raised the total to 164. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms south and east central tonight. A little cooler extreme north tonight. Thursday partly cloudy and j warm with scattered thunderstorms south portion. Thundershowers likely extreme north Thursday afternoon or night. Low tonight 65-69 north, in the 70s south. High Thursday 85-92. Sunset 7:43 p. m., sunrise Thursday 5:57 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly coudy, warm and humid with Scattered showers ' and thunderstorms. L*o w Thursday night around 70. High Friday low 90s.

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$43 Million Federal Funds For Indiana Handley Hard Put To Explain Stand INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indiana is noted for disliking federal aid. but last year it accepted more than __ 43 million dollars worth. Governor Handley explains this seeming contradiction in two ways: 5 1. Indiana is forced to accept 1 federal money for some programs ; if it wants to put its own tax * money to use. 9 2. Not all federal aid is bad. s Many Indiana Republicans, including Handley, long have prided " themselves that the Hoosier State s is a leader in the fight against '* federal "encroachment” into matters they claim can be handled ® best and cheapest by the states 1 themselves. V As Handley puts it: s “If we don’t call a halt, why e the thing is going to grow like r Topsy and we’ll lose our state 1 sovereignty.” “Insult To People” But Democrats, like State Chairman Charles Skillen, delight in ‘ needling GOP administrations for " hating federal aid—until, they say, the time comes to grab it. “Mr. Handley, in his innocent ’ way,” said Skillen, “in trying to ’ say that he rejects aid for certain ’ reasons insults the intelligence of the people...” Figures compiled this week by " Deputy State Budget Director Philip L. Conklin showed in the fiscal year ending June 30 Indiana collected $43,419,698 in federal aid. e It was an increase of $1,600,000 over the previous fiscal year. But the total did not include some collections like school conj struction aid for areas affected □ by defense and military installa--5 tions. _ The biggest federal aid hunk in s 1956-57 was $21,874,226 for welfare. Federal funds make up all or part of ir.mey speat for state-adminis-tered aid to the <aged, blind, dependent and crippled children, and ’ other welfare programs. 14 Million For Roads Handley has no quarrel with the . “philosophy” of old age assistance. "The Republican Party has f accepted it and I have accepted . it," he said. Another 14 million was collected s for highways. But if Handley had , his way there would be no fed- , eral gasoline tax and no distrie button of that tax money to the s states for highways. ■ “We pay in practically 90 mil--1 lion dollars a year,” he said, “sc we’re not getting back even close to what we’re paying in.” But, because the money is taker away in taxes, “we’re forced tc 1 take it,” Handley said. {lndiana also collected federal funds for education, health and conservation. The biggest healtk 1 item was nearly a million dollars e for polio vaccine, and most of the 5 education money — nearly 5 mil ■ lion—went for school lunch pro e Jtams. The government subsidizes mill for school children, and offers surplus food for school cafeterias “Rather than let the food rot,’ said Handley,” why sure it’s okay to let the kids have it." School Aid Embattled The most bitterly opposed variety of federal aid has been aid to schools. GOP leaders in the 1957 Legislature even sponsored a resolution opposing Presidenl Eisenhower's construction aid bill —while Democrats chuckled. Actually, Indiana already takes in federal aid for school construction and maintenance — more than 6 million dollars worth ir fiscal 1955-56, the latest figures available. It went to schools crowded by an influx of military personnel or defense plant work(Conv.auea on 81

Truck Driver Testifies To Rackets Group Senate Committee , Charges Rigging Os Election By Hoffa WASHINGTON (UP) — A truck driver testified today he was in a bar drinking one day back in 1956 and before he knew it he found himself somewhere else voting for James R. Hoffa's candidate for boss of the Teamsters Union in New York. The truck driver, Anthony Barbera, testified before the Senate Rackets Committee, which says Teamsters Vice President Hoffa . rigged the New York election. Barbera said it turned out he had been made a union official but didn't ’ know it. “I was drunk at the time," he ’ testified. 1 “I was in a bar drinking and heard somebody say something about an election,” Barbera said. “I went some place. I don’t know if I voted. “I knew it pertained to a union. I didn’t know it was Teamsters.” Although Barbera was too drunk to know whether he voted, the committee said the records show he did—at least, a vote was cast in his name. Some Wouldn’t Talk Barbera was one of a string of witnesses, some talkative and “ some silent, identified by the com- “ mittee as men who suddenly bloss somed out as officials of phony “paper locals” of the Teamsters s Union. 0 The committee said they all , voted—or votes were cast in their g names —for Hoffa’s candidate, John O'Rourke, when Hoffa was bidding tor control of the Teami sters’ New York operations. ,2 Another witness was Joseph Mej glino, who * wouldn’t talk and e wouldn’t say whether he had been threatened into silence. But Comi. mittee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy J said Meglino had previously told investigators he was standing outside Joe Saud’s Bar and .Grill when someone came along and ~ said, ‘Come on, we’re going to vote p for O’Rourke.” e Kennedy said Meglino was also listed as an applicant tor the char.ntinuea on Pave 81x> ‘ Spicy Disclosures ’ ( ‘ Continue At Trial f Desi Arnaz Terms y Testimony Baloney p HOLLYWOOD (UP)—A former a roommate of self-admitted call [ girl Ronnie Quillan was expected i 0 today to add the next chapter in i the spicy disclosures about movie e stars at the Confidential Magazine criminal libel trial. j Carmen Jacques was one of several witnesses slated to testify in today’s session of the trial. She n once shared an apartment with . Miss Quillan, who Tuesday testi- £ tied she has an “affair” with .. Desi Arnaz. L Arnaz was quick to label Miss 1 Quillan’s testimony as “a lot of baloney.” “From the pictures I’ve seen of e her, I don’t think I could have done anything like that,” Arnaz ' s said. Clark Gable was the first of Hollywood’s top stars to be men--3 tioned in lewd testimony. He was d linked with an actress and also made a quick denial of the inci- [. dent. e Besides Miss Jacques, the prosecution indicated it would call to [. the stand Virginia Lee, a woman o private eye. Others on tap to tese tify were Los Angles newspaperI man Jerry McCarthy and court n clerk Cecil Luskin. o Movie stars got a good case of the jitters with the prosecution’s q denial it would dismiss charges d against Confidential Magazine if h the defense made good its pros mise to turn movieland's top hee roes and heroines into villains on 1- the witness stand. y. “We are going ahead as planned with this case," Asst Atty. Gen. k Clarence Linn said. “We took into r _ consideration -at the start that 5 some one might get hurt but >• carrying out justice is our only y concern.” However, the prosecution has attempted to keep those hot involved in articles cited as libelous d from having to testify. It is up e to Superior Judg Herbert V. Walkd er to rule on whether all of the d subpenaed personalties’ testimony H would be relevant to the case. Defense Attorney Arthur Crows ley said he still plans to put the celebrities on the stand and ask e them point blank if articles about n them were true. He said, “too s many people are worrying about s movie stars getting hurt without y thinking that the guilt should be c . placed oh them for taking part in the episodes.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 14,1957

41 Youthful Americans Defv State Department And Head For China

Dorfman Asks Reinstatement As Union Head Asks Secret Ballot Os Union Members For Reinstatement CHICAGO (UP) — Ousted union official Paul Dorfman asked the AFL-CIO executive Council today to allow members of his union to vote by secret ballot on whether he should be reinstated. Dorfman made the proposal in an appeal to the council to overturn his ouster by AFL-CIO President George Meany on charges that he profited from insurance deals with other unions. Dorfman’s attorney, Joseph Jacobs, told newsmen after a 90minute appearance before the closed-door council meeting that Dorfman was not guilty of any wrong doing' during his 17 years as secretary-treasurer of the Chicago Waste Handlers’ local. Jacobs said charges that Dorfman profited from sale of insurance to other unions through an insurance agency run by his wife and. son did not violate any rule of the AFL-CIO. Dorfman denied receiving “a dime” from the operation of his own union’s welfare fund. He contended that AFL-CIO auditors should have advised him of irregularities in welfare fund bookkeeping. Hie AFL-CIO president has authority to expel officers of directly chartered federal locals. Dorfman can appeal to the AFL-CIO convention if the decision of the council goes against him. Dorfman, a close friend of Teamsters’ Vice President James R. Hoffa, shared profits of more than SIOO,OOO a year for three years from union insurance placed with an insurance agency owned by his wife and son, Meany charged. Two midwestern Teamster organizations placed the bulk of the insurance with the Dorfman family agency. Meany also said Dorfman violated AFL-CIO standards by keeping inadequate records and receiving salaries from the Waste Handlers’ local and its welfare continue on vaxe Six; Soviet Party Boss Ends German Visit Rejects Western Unification Plan BERLIN (UP) — Communist Leader Nikita Khrushchev headed home to Russia today, ending a visit that made it clear there is no hope for peaceful reunification of Germany in the foreseeable future. Khrushchev and his entourage, including Deputy Prerpier Anastas Mikoyan, left by train for the sub urbs, where they planned to board a Moscow-bound plane. In repeated speeches and official handouts, climaxed by his address to a mass meeting here Tuesday, Khrushchev made it clear that the Kremlin is not prepared to listen to any practical proposal for German unity. He flatly rejected Western plans for all-German elections as a prelude to reunification. He insisted—in defiance of four-power agreements—that any approach to unity must come through negotiations between the West German government and the Red regime of Soviet Germany. Observers here believed Khrushchev’s stand would help West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democrats to victory in next month's parliamentary election. Campaigners for the socialist opposition in West Germany have been assailing the Chancellor because he is reluctant to negotiate with the Kremlin about Germany’s future. Khrushchev’s declarations in Red Germany made it plainer than any Christian Democrat could that negotiations would be futile.

Decatur Residents To Pay More Taxes Budget Increases Will Boost Taxes Decatur - Washington residents have a proposed tax rate for 1958 W’ $5.72, as compared with this pear’s rate of $5.08, an increase of 64 cents, or a 12.59 per cent increase, while Decatur-Root taxpayers have a proposed rate of $5.78, L a 12.89 per cent increase over the . 1957 rate of $5.12. This includes all the proposed • rates from the state, county, township, and city, any or all of which may be reduced in the budget i meetings of the county commis- • sioners, county council, township advisory board and trustees, or city council. The state rate has not yet been announced, but it is usually the ‘ statutory limit, 15 cents. The county general fund rate is proposed at 55 cents, as compared ’ with last year’s 39 cents. Jay county has a proposed 26-cent county , levy hike, raising the general fund rate to 73 cents. In Huntington • county a proposed 16-cent increase • will move the county general fund rate to 91 cents. Much of this in- ) jerease is due to wage increases to Einty officers granted by the te legislature or new equipment [uired by new laws. 1 The total Washington township rate, including both the township fund and poor relief, will increase from 16 to 19 cents. The Root township rate will increase from 10 to 15 cents. The total school and library fund for Decatur-Washington will increase from $2.83 to $3.02. In De-catur-Root the increase will be from $2.93 to $3.12. There is a tencent levy for efvil bonds in Root township. The city rate will increase from $1.28 to $1.46. Legal advertisements in the Decatur Daily Democrat have advertised when each unit of government will consider the proposed rates. Each taxpayer has the right to appear to protest or ask questions concerning the budget. Seek More Help To Find Missing Boy Brazil Boy Feared Slain Or Kidnaped BRAZIL, Ind. (UP) — An appeal for more help was issued today in the fruitless search for a 7-year-old boy who disappeared without a trace. Tfie inch-by-inch, door-by-door hunt by 75 to 100 volunteers and National Guardsmen through the south and north sides of this town of 12,000 Tuesday failed to turn up a single clue as to the whereabouts of Billy Earl Martin. Police fear he has been either murdered or kidnaped. ~ , - Billy was last seen by his mother Saturday about noon and four hours later by a guitar-strumming wanderer who lodged at Billy’s home. The lodger, Henry Allen Higgins, 53, and Billy’s maiden aunt, Elizabeth Martin, 41, have been the Objects of police investigation following the results of lie detector tests they ..took. Police Chief Joseph Russell said the lie tests indicated the two knew something of the lad’s disappearance. Higgins said he almost ran the boy down in his car Saturday, then instructed Billy to go home. , Later, he drove to a “haunted house” farm to wash his car, he ■ said. A police investigation of the car disclosed no evidence of blood. Police said Higgins has stayed at the Martin home on two occasions, both times while the boy’s father, William Martin. 39, was undergoing training with the National Guard at Camp McCoy, Wis. Higgins is reported to be the boyfriend of the maiden aunt, who spends much of her time at the Martin home. Billy’s mother, Florence, 35, also took a lie detector test, which upheld her contention she has no idea what happened to him.

House Passes Bill Boosting Postal Rates 1 » Senate Unlikely To ! Acf This Year On Postal Rate Hike i WASHINGTON (UP) — A Housepassed administration bill boosting I the cost of mailing a letter one - cent today headed for almost ceri tain cold storage in the Senate, t The House passed the half-billion . dollar-a-year bill on a 256-129 roll ( call Tuesday night with almost . solid GOP support. But the Senate was expected not to act on it this year although it , appeared certain to pass bills boosting the pay of postal and other federal workers. Republicans 1 have predicted President Eisen--1 hower will veto the pay raise ’ bills. The postal rate bill would raise I the cost of first class mail one i penny—requiring a 4-cent stamp • on regular letters, a 7-cent stamp I on air mail and a 3-cent stamp - on-post cards. Second, third and fourth class » mail rates also would be raised, t increasing the cost of mailing newspapers and magazines, advertising matter and books. The HOuse also adopted an ' amendment to limit the second f class mail “subsidy” received by : any publication to SIOO,OOO a year. 1 It was approved by a teller vote of 171-147. Some members said the proposal would have a crippling impact on many national publications since second class rates traditionally have been far below actual mailingxcosts. The subsidy-lipiiUng amendment was offered by Rep. George M. Rhodes (D-Pa.) after Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) charged that subsidies have amounted to $9,310,000 for Life magazine, $6,087,000 for the Saturday Evening Post and $4,172,000 for Readers Digest. 41 Rotary's Governor Setting Busy Pace Clarence Ziner To Visit All 39 Clubs Clarence Ziner, Decatur's first district governor of Rotary International is setting a busy pace, visiting four clubs in Northern Indiana in July, eight in August, ’ 11 in September, 10 in October, 5 i in November, and the Berne club on December 2. By that date he will have visited all 39 of the clubs. In case I the Decatur Rotary club misses ■ Ziner, he will "officially” visit i the local club September 26. i The order of business with each • club will be varied to meet local ' conditions. He will usually meet I first with the president and secretary,. then with the Rotary assembly, and finally address a \ meeting of the club. ■ Ziner visited in Kendallville 1 Tuesday night, and will visit in Delphi next Tuesday. On Thursday of that week he will visit the Butler club, and the next day the . Warsaw club. On August 28 he . will be in Albion. His schedule until December 2 . is as follows: September 5, Gary; ; 9, Churubusco; 11, South Bend; 12, North Manchester; 13, Goshi en; 16. Wabash; 17, Hammond; , 19, Flora; 23, Plymouth; 25, Fowler; 26, Decatur. I October 3, Mishawaka; 4, An- ‘ gola; 7, East Chicago; 8, Ho- ‘ bart; 9, Glen Park; 14, Valpar- . aiso; 16, Columbia City; 21, Fort 1 Wayne; 22, Bluffton; 28, LaPorte. November 4, Auburn; 7, Michi- ! gan City; 12, Huntington; 18, Elk- ’ hart; 25, LaGrange; and December 2, Berne. ’ Ziner has also received, as dis- , trict governor, many communica- . tions from other district officers, including a letter from Brazil in > Portuguese, and a copy of the . first monthly letter from the disi trict governor of Ecuador, district 440, in Spanish.

——————— c ... Ike Signs Measure On Surplus Barter Extends Authority On Farm Supluses WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower has signed into law a $1,300,000,000 extension of the administration's authority to barter and give U.S. farm surpluses to pertain Iron Curtain countries. It allows the administration to complete a controversial $95,000,- • 000 agreement to provide Commuf nist Poland with loans and sale of ! American farm surpluses for • Polish currency. Poland qualifies only because the 1 State Department has ruled it is 1 a country friendly to the United t States. The compromise biu—signed in- ’ to law Tuesday—technically re- ’ vives the surplus disposal program [ which expired June 30th. The law authorizes barter ar- ' rangements with all Communist nations except the Soviet Union, Communist China and nations con- , trolled by Communist China. ; It authorizes the Agriculture De- . partment to sell an additional sl,000,000,000 worth of American J farm surpluses for foreign currencies, and to give an additional , $300,000,000 worth to needy persons abroad. j Agriculture Department officials - have said the United« States could sell Poland $46,000,000 worth of i surplus American wheat and coti ton for Polish zlotys as part of the r $95,000,000 agreement. The department said it has no > immediate plans for barter deals with Iron Curtain countries, but it i said the possibility may develop. ! The compromise also launches a . new program under which up to 25 - per cent of foreign currencies received may be loaned to American Or foreign companies through the : Export-Import Bank to build facilities abroad to promote markets ; for American products. • Two Youths Burned Here This Morning One Lad Severely Burned Near City Two Fort Wayne youths were given emergency treatment at the Adams county memorial hospital this morning, where they t were rushed after stopping at the . police department seeking help. The boys, both 18, are Douglas ’ Bailey and Leonard Buchwald. They told the attending doctor j that they were using gasoline to ’ aid in burning brush, just east of Decatur. Both of the youths are employed by a tree trimming out- ’ fit, and were working with a j group of men at that location. i Bailey stated that they were sprinkling the gasoline on the brush fire shortly before 9 a. m., when the fire jumped to the gasof line being poured and exploded. . The injured youths hopped in a company truck and drove to Decatur to seek help in locating a 1 doctor. Buchwald received severe ! burns over the entire upper por--1 tion of his body, from the waist up. Doctors have confined him ! to the hospital, where he is re- ! ceiving treatment for third de- ! gree burns on his right arm, and second degree burns on his chest, ! face, left arm, abdomen and back. His companion was treaty ed for minor burns about the up- ’ per body, but was- later dismissed. ; Seven-Year-Old Boy Drowns At Wawasee J NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. (UP) — ’ David Thornburg, 7, son of the . Madison County prosecutor, . drowned Tuesday while playing with an inner tube in Lake Wa- - wasee. - Mrs. Melvin Thornburg told au- , thorities she first became aware i of her son’s absence when she no- » ticed the tube floating alone in the. - water. She ran into shallow water ■ and pulled her son's body from the water.

Leave Moscow By Train For Peiping Trip Defy Orders From State Department On Entering China MOSCOW (UP) — Forty-one 1 young Americans defied the State ; Department today and set out on the long train trip to Peiping as guests of* Red China. Three others said they would go later by plane. Two Americans got cold feet at the last minute and dropped out of the journey, even though the Chinese authorities carefully left the American passport? “clean” of any mark which would prove they made the trip. Just after the touring group departed, Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev flew in from East Berlin after a week in East Germany. Russian youths by the hundreds mobbed the Americans as they boarded the steam-powered, 15-car ' "Peiping Special” train for an 1 eight-day ride across Siberia and 1 a good part of the rest of Asia. The Rev. Warren McKenna, Bost ton. Mass., tried to read a special I “declaration-of principles” signed ► I by 32 of the junketers, but the • train pulled out in a cloud of f steam before he got to the last sentence. The Chinese did not pick up the Americans' passports as is customary before entry permits are issued. Instead, the entry documents were provided on separate pieces of paper. Two Russian interpreters and at least two Chinese went with the American party. , • The trip will take them 6,000 miles across Russia and Asia, penetrating some forbidden areas not viewed by Americans since World War 11. The Americans are riding “hard class”—in coaches filled with hard wooden benches. At night mattresses are placed on the benches and they become berths. A single dining car will feed all the passengers. The 41 Americans who went today, and the three others who will follow later by plane, were going in open defiance of the State Department’s ban on China travel The two who pulled out did so after a night of soul-search-ing and argument whether to defy Washington. The 41 who stood by their determination to go left Moscow’s . Yaroslav station. The train will arrive at Peiping in eight days. The hosts on this first organized ; American junket to Peiping are the Chinese Communists. Three other Americans who attended the Communist Youth Festival here last week said they would go to Peiping by plane later to join the organized tour. The two Americans who dropped out of the tour today were Richard Sherman, Chicago, and Stan Fukson, Los Angeles. Their reasons for dropping the trip were not known immediately , . Those planning to_fly to Peiping were brothers David and Albert Maysles, Brookline, Mass., and Jacob Rosen, New York City. Rosen was in Kiev attending a congress of the Organization of World Democratic Youth. The Americans had met behind closed doors at the Hotel Tourist in the festival' village to make , their final decisions on whether to go and ignore the stern warning of Under Secretary of State Christian Herter which was passed on to them Tuesday. One student decided at the meet(Continued on Pag* Four) State Traffic Toll Below 1956 Figures INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —A seven per cent improvement in Indiana traffic fatalities over last year was noted today in provisional figures showing 625 deaths through last Sunday, compared with 673 a year ago. Indiana State Police said 18 deaths were added to the year’s list last week, compared with 32 for the corresponding week in 1956.

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