Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 194, Decatur, Adams County, 17 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 194.

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Senate Group To Call Hoffa For Testimony . Committee Calls Hoffa To Bolster Underworld Charge By HEBBEBT FOSTER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Rackets Committee will call James R. Hoffa next week to bolster its charge that the crown prince of Teamsters allied with the underworld to grab Teamster control in New York. Ip 13 days of hearings the committee has stated its case against Hoffa and called a string of witnesses to back it up, working up from second - team hoodlums to bigger hoods to the second-echelon brass of the nation's biggest union. Next week's witnesses are expected to include: —Hoffa (himself. Midwest czar of the union as chairman of its Central States Conference, sixth vice president, odds-on choice to succeed Dave Beck next month as Teamtser president, and villain of the committee's version of the story. —Einar O. Mohn, another vice president, right-hand man to Beck, and apparently the man who runs , Teamster’s headquarters here in Beck's absence. Charge Against Hoffa The plot revolves around a charge that Hoffa got the Teamsters Union to issue charters for seven phony, memberless locals in New York shortly before the 1956 election for president of Joint Council 16, controlling body of the Teamsters in New York , City. The committee says the , fake locals were staffed with { henchmen of labo r racketeers Johnny Dio and Anthony (Tony , Ducks) Corallo, and cast their . votes for Hoffa’s candidate, John T. O’Rourke. J 1 The committee also presented ] evidence that some of the dele- • gates who cast the phony locals’ , votes for O’Rourke were recruited from crap games and bars, and some persons listed as union > officers didn’t know they held of- ' fice. I The committee said that while ( Hoffa was dealing with Corallo ( aitd Dio to set up the paper lo- s cals and control Joint Council 16, he also was dickering with the j International Longshoremen's As- , sociation —booted out of the AFL ( in 1953 for being riddled with . racketeers —for an ambitious alii- j ance which would give him a transportation stranglehold on the ( Atlantic seaboard and St. Law- 1 rence Seaway. i ILA President Testifies Capt. William Bradley, ILA ( president, told the committee Fri- , ’dajrpart Mrs- the deal waste- be- a 5 $490,000 loan from the Teamsters j to bail the ILA out of debt to j Mine Workers President John L. Lewis and' pay off its bills. He ( said his union gave Hoffa notes , for $490,000, never got the money, and cannot now get its notes back. Bradley said the alliance col- , lapsed in March, 1956 when Meany got wind of it and threat- , ened to drive the Teamsters out ] of the AFL-CIO. .wvntlnuec on Pare Six) INDIANA WEATHER Fair with little change in temperature tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 62-68. High Sunday near 80. Outlook for Monday: Fair with moderate temperatures. I NOON EDITION

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Adenauer Election Prospects Brighter Khrushchev Attacks Seen Adenaur Aid BERLIN (UP) Election prospects looked brighter today for West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as a result of the savage attack made on him by Soviet Communist Leader Nikita Khrushchev. Western observers, who heard Khrushchev lambaste Adenauer during his recent East German tour, believe the attacks—which ranged from comparing Adenauer with Adolf Hitler to warning that he was leading Germany along the road to war have virtually clinched the September 15 elecelections in Adenauer’s favor. They believe the . attacks, couched in some of the strongest language one head of state has ever used in criticizing another, will boomerang in Adenauer's favor among the West German electorate. There is a school of thought which believes this was exactly what the Soviets intended, as they are unwilling at the moment to negotiate with a Socialist government over the reunification of Germany. Red Stand Clear The Soviet leaders made it clear during their seven-day Ggr? man tour August 7-14 that they are determined to maintain the division of Germany and to back the east zone satellite state with all their power. -- Their eventual aim is the takeover of all Germany and its incorporation into the east bloc. In the meantime, attacks on Adenauer as a “warmonger’’ and imperialist tool” enable the Soviets to claim that it is impossible to negotiate with him, and thereby to perpetuate the status quo unil they are ready to make their next move. Even before Khurshchev Wished out at Adenauer, the election balance had swung in his favor. Most political experts believe that Adenauer will be returned for his third successive term since 1949, although perhaps with a reduced majority. Holds Absolute Majority At present, Adenauer’s Christian Democrat Party holds an absolute majority in the Bundestag (lower house) with 253 seats, compared to 153 Socialists, 37 Free Democrats. 19 Refugee Party and three independents. In the September election, at least 494 seats will be contested, exactly half of them by direct election in the 247 constituencies. The remainder will be settled by proportional representation. Victory for the 82-year-old chancellor will give him 12 straight years in office—if he completes the four - year term. This has been one of the main election arguments by the opposition Socialists, who claim that 12 ■years is too kmg'for any-one- man to govern the country. Their theme is “It’s time for a change.” They also say his election will end all hope of German reunification, and expose Western Germany to a further period of cold war. In reply. Adenauer has turned his big guns on the Socialists, virtually ignoring the smaller parties, and has warned in several major campaign speeches that their victory in the elections would mean the “downfall of Germany.” Attacks Socialist Promises He has attacked Socialist prom-, ises that they would “re-examine’’ West Germany’s membership in the NATO pact, and warned bluntly that a Socialist government would take the country down the read to Communism. Most of the champaign so far Continued On Page Five

Sen. Russell Backs Cui In Foreign Aid Voice; Opposition Tp Restoration Os Foreign Aid Cuts WASHINGTON W — Sen. Richard B. Russell vowed today to fight any move in the Senate to restore even part of the $842,000,000 newly-slashed by the House from President Eisenhower’s foreign aid bill. Opposition from Russell-leader of the southern bloc and a power on the Senate Apropriations Committee that will-consider the bill next Mondey—gave clear indication that the expected GOP fight for major restoration of funds faces rough going. The Georgia Democrat said he did not think the House cuts too severe, despite administration warnings Friday night that the reduction would hamper efforts - to keep Russian influence from gaining in many years of the world. Officials of the International Cooperation Administration said the cuts would require the United States to drop plans to ship Nike guided missiles and other modern weapons to Allied nations. Russell said “The House bill with the carryover funds gives the program more, than can be • spent and I know more than J should be “spent” in the current 1 fiscal year. The House, defying Eisenhower’s warning that he might call a special session if the aid pro- . gram were reduced too much, cut the $3,367,000,000 authorization n bill to $2,524,760,000. The new j money wa# in addition to $667,r 050,000 in unspent “carryover” t funds. e Other congressional news: Y Civil Bights: House GOP lead- • er Joseph W. Martin (R-Mass.) headed for a White House break- • fast with President Eisenhower t to talk over toe civil rights bill. s The bill is stuck in the House ■ Rules Committee with Chairman Howard Smith (D-Va ) holding the key to quick action on toe , measure. Smith, a foe of the r measure, was reported to have r said he would not call a commit- , tee meeting, thus possibly blocking action until next Friday. [ Immigration: Congressmen predicted House action next week on a "hardship” immigration bill ■ that would allow thousands of ad- . ditional immigrants to enter the • United States. The bill also • would allow the attorney general and the State Department to i jointly waive fingerprinting requirements for some foreign visitors such as artists and students. • The bill was approved Friday by the House Judiciary Committee, ' but without any liberalization of 1 basic immigration quoats as re- ’ quested by President Eisenhower. Postal: Chairman Olin D. John- ' ston (D-S.C.) of toe Senate Post ' Office Committee indicated the Continued On Page Five Two Are Killed By , Driverless Auto Car Pushes Child, Woman Over Cliff SPENCER, Ind. (UP)—A drivI erless automobile rolled down an incline at a scenic falls Friday and hurtled a woman and a little girl to their deaths over a 50foot cliff. Mrs. Jessie Davidson, 55, (604 5. Broadway) Urbana, 111., and Victoria Bard, 7, Muncie, were killed when toe car pushed them over a ledge and dashed them on rocks at toe base of the cliff at upper Cataract Falls on Mill Creek. The car was Mrs. Davidson’s. She left it parked near the cliff and got out to take pictures of ! the scenic falls, a natural show- ' place 10 miter south- of Cloverdale. Victoria was with her parents and a brother on a family picnic. Two women were injured, one critically, when trapped in toe back seat of the runaway car as they waited for Mrs. Davidson to finish her picture-taking. The accident happened in late afternoon. Mrs. Florence Bard, mother of Victoria, was standing beside her daughter when toe car rolled toward them. She tried desperately to pull Victoria to safety. Authorities were uncertain ' whether Mrs. Davidson was standing at the cliff's edge taking pic--1 tures, or whether she had just got out of toe car and tried to ■ re-enter in an effort to stop it ' from rolling over the cliff. Mrs. Davidson was thrown into shallow water at toe base of toe .voatmuea on page Six?

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 17, 1957

Bomber Explodes And Crashes Into Florida Housing Development i — - —JI ■-

Woman Sought I For Fleecing I ; Doctor Group I ■ Fleeced Group Os i Atlanta Doctors ! . Out Os SIOO,OOO ! ATLANTA (UP)—The FBI today 1 fingered Mrs. Margaret Lydia Bur- ‘ ton, veteran “con artist” of the tea ■ and' crumpets set, as toe master embezzler who fleeced a group of local doctors of SIOO,OOO. 1 Mrs. Burton, said the FBI, is ’ toe so-called Mrs. Janet Gray, who ! wormed her way into toe best so- ) cial set in suburban Decatur, t dipped into toe till of a local clinic where she worked to the tune of ■ some SIOO,OOO and then made a I circus style escape from toe city - as auditors closed in on the swint die. i The FBI said toe crime career r of the 51-year-old Mrs. Burton, a - woman of many aliases and many • talents, spanned the ocean and covered a continent. Honolulu, Panama City, Los Angeles, Vancouver, New Orleans, 'Denver, St. Louis, Atlafita — all provided .happy hunting grounds for the remarkable Mrs. Burton, r whose exploits and escapes read ■ like a paperback novel. ’ The FBI Friday released her , story and her picture in hopes that • her next appearance—no one can guess where it might be—would tip ! toe authorities to her whereabouts before she has a chance to flee. A 1953 automobile she bought in San Antonio, Tex., opened toe door to her background when the FBI began investigating the disappearance of Mrs. Gray three weeks ago. > Mrs. Gray had left town in a hurry in a pink limousine with a contingent of pedigree Cocker Spaniels, two truckloads of furnii ture and a “niece” with the appealing name of Candy Lane. Left behind was the car she bought in Texas. In establishing its ownership, agents traced the “startling” career of an amazing, woman. She was not Mrs. Gray but Mrs. Burton, who had traveled under an assortment of names. Candy was not her 16-year-old niece but her 20-year-old daughter, Sheila, born of a marriage to Jasper Burton that ended in divorce years ago in Honolulu. J Mrs. Burton is wanted by toe i (Continued on Page Three) ( Atom Device Blast I Delayed 19th Time • < Test Is Rescheduled For Monday Morning LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP)—Detonation of atomic device “Shasta” . early today was postponed for the : 19th time when Atomic Energy Commission officials determined j wind conditions would result in an , unacceptable fallout pattern. , The AEC rescheduled toe test, which was set for 5 a.m. for the | same time Monday morning. An AEC spokesman said weather conditions would have dispersed fallout on populated areas to the northeast of the Yucca Elat ,test , site. The decision to halt the firing came about a half hour before zero hour. 1 The device, having the yield of ■ approximately 10,000 tons of TNT, | is one of toe shots to be fired from ; 500-foot towers at toe desert site. . Friday, proving ground officials were forced to conduct an all-out ( six-hour air-ground search for a civilian worker who was found un- ■ harmed in the test site area after , wandering away from his pickup truck. ’ The worker, Chauncey Van Patten, 60, was on a carpentering job for the Reynolds Electrical and 1 Engineering Co., when he became ■ lost/ He was found some 10 to 13 miles from ground zero of today’s scheduled test by searchers. He was taken to the test site dispensary where he wm examined and released.

Cancel Program Al local High School Agriculture Class Enrollment Drops The decrease in enrollment in vocational-agriculture classes at Pecatur high school has resulted in the canceling of that program at the local school, it was learned here today. Agriculture classes will be continued, but they will be open for non-farm youths, and no outside projects nor summer work will be required. The adult and young farmer classes, supported in the vocation-agriculture program by state and federal funds on a 12 month basis, will be discontinued. The vocational-agriculture program was started in Decatur schools before the second World War, when it was discontinued, and started again seven years ago. At one time in the past few years there were 25 enrolled, but two years ago only 14 enrolled, and last year there were just eight. The state requires at least two daytime classes to meet the mipimum attendance standards to qualify for the program, and Decatur was not meeting these standards, in spite of their excellent equipment and hardworking instructor, William H. Journay. . , * Under the old program, rural students from Union or Preble township had regular agriculture classwork, and also carried crop, livestock, and soil improvement j projects on their own farms, with much summer work. The youths were enrolled in a full 12-month ( Future Farmers of America pro- , gram which met during the sum- j mer. This program will be con- . tinued for one year. During the past five years dur(Continued on Par® Three) ( Confidential Trial I Recessed To Monday' Sizzling Testimony Is Unfolded Friday HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Movieland quaked in its boots today , with film stars accused of sexy escapades having little hope of escaping further embarrassment resulting from sizzling testimony I recorded in the Confidential mag- | azine criminal libel trial. Highlight of the trial thus far came prior to adjournment Friday when red - haired Maureen O’Hara’s alleged cuddling session with a Latin escort in the darkened last row of Grauman’s Chi- , nese Theater was described in j detail by defense witness James ( Craig. . Spectators were spellbound when a buxom, blonde newspaper. ’ woman and Craig, a former as- ‘ sistant manager of the theater, 1 entangled themselves across three « courtroom chairs recreating the scene Craig said took place. 1 This testimony, plus defense at- i torney Arthur Crowley’s promise t to call more witnesses to relate j other playful indiscretions, indi- , cated that subpenaed movie stars 4 had cause to fret. j (Continued on Page Three) Funeral Rites For i John Winans Today • j Funeral services will be held this afternoon at Ada, 0., for John I Winans, who died, this week in a i hospital at Cleveland, O. He was 1 born in Pleasant Mills, but when c a youth moved to Decatur with his t parents, Frank and Ella McCull- i ough-Winans. He learned the s jewelry business under David Hen- s sley, ater graduating from an op- 1 tometry school in Detroit H e operated his own business in Ada t for many years. t Surviving are his wife, Edyth; a 1 son, John, Jr.; an adopted grand- c son: two brothers, Ed and Quincy c Winans of Fort Wayne, and four f sisters, Mrs. Jesse E. Niblick of t Decatur, Mrs. M. B. Lange of Kai- J amazoo, Mich., Mrs. Anne Kenny of Chicago, and Mrs. L. D. Clark 1 of Dayton, 0, A brother, Fred < of Portland, died June 1. i

Diplomat From Poland Granted British Asylum Assistant To Polish Attache Is Granted Political Asylum LONDON (UP)—Britain granted political asylum today to a Polish diplomat who said his Communist wife spied on him for the secret police. Mieczyslaw Reluga, 26, an assistant to the Polish commercial attache, fled the Polish Embassy to freedom with his four-year-old son. He was to have been sent home Sunday. A Polish secret policeman tried to stop him, but with Scotland Yard agents watching from a distance, Reluga ran to a taxi and disappeared into London traffic. The home office announced without elaboration that Reluga had applied for political asylum and had received permission to remain in Britain. Reluga’s wife, who kept Polish secret agents informed about his movements in Britain, already had flown home to Poland wjth their two-year-old daughter. Reluga had planned to escape Communist control several years ago when he became disenchanted with the Red regime in Poland. He decided to make the break several months ago, but word of his feelings leaked to the secret police. They contacted Reluga’s 24-year-old wife, Melinia, whom he described as such a die-hard Communist she cried when Stalin died, and asked her to spy on her husband. Reluga said his wife became extraordinarily interested in his telephone calls and visits to nonCommunist friends in Britain. He said his wife went through his papers at the embassy and eavesdropped when he talked with his friends. The young diplomat finally was ordered back to Poland last month. When he accused his wife of spying on him, she broke down (Continued on Page Six) To Furnish Room In Hospital Addition ; William Shafer And Wife Donate Funds 1 Mr. and Mrs. William W. Shafer, 1 retired Union township farm family now living in Monroeville, have 1 contributed SSOO to furnish a me- • morial room in the Adams county > memorial hospital addition, the hospital board announced today. , It was the second contribution for ‘ a room. t Mr. Shafer, who farmed one mile ( from the Allen county line and two miles from the state line in Union j township until he retired, said that f he had been a patient in the Adams county memorial hospital last < January for an appendix operation. 1 He was very pleased with the treatment, and remembered that I his sister and brother-in-law had s also received good treatment about 5 two years, Mq. in the Decatur hos- < pital. - ■ When he read in the Decatur * Daily Democrat that memorial ’ rooms could be furnished, he and r his wife, who have no children, decided to contribute enough to ( equip one of the modern hospital c rooms. They called Cal E. Peterson, president of the hospital board, i and made the ’ arrangements with him Friday. | The first contribution for a room was made earlier in the week by the First State Bank. There will • be 35 units in the pew addition, in- i eluding five single rooms and 15 i double rooms. It will take SSOO to 1 furnish a single room, three of 1 which remain to be furnished, and 1 SI,OOO to furnish a double room. 1 All the rooms in the original i building, dedicated to the veterans ] of the first World War, were furnished by donations. r

Orders Airlines To - Keep Time Schedule Government Cracks Down On Schedules WASHINGTON (UP)—The government cracked the whip today over the nation’s commercial airlines to provide “realistic” passenger flight schedules. It handed a major victory to the Airline Pilots Assn. (ALPA), which had complained to the Civil Aeronautics Board that "phony flight schedules were a threat to safety. The ALPA had charged that schedules put out by a number of airlines listed flight times which were incapable of being met “even a small percentage of the time.” It said that trying to “accomplish impossible schedules results in a threat to safety.” An airline spokesman denied the charge. The CAB in an order Friday directed all commercial airlines to complete at least 75 per cent of their flights within the times given in published schedules. Failure to do so over any three-month period, the board said, will be a violation unless the airline can justify that flight conditions were beyond its control. The CAB said the new regulation came as a result of numerous complaints against poor scheduled performance. It said a board survey backed up these complaints by showing that the airlines were completing less than 75 per cent of their flights on time. The CAB order specified that the 75 per cent on-time rule means that this percentage of flights must be completed within 15 minutes of the “block to block" time in pub(Con tinued on Page F«ur) Letter From Dead Explains Slayings War Hero's Family Slain For Insurance COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (UP)—A letter from the dead explained today that a war hero’s family of four was shot to death Thursday so their life insurance could pay their debts. Mr. and Mrs. Irving Harris, owners of the cottage in Colorado Springs where M-Sgt. Leo Dandoy’s family of four lived and died, said Mrs. Magdalena Dandoy, 34, wrote them a long letter explaining why she killed her family and her self. Police said Mrs. Dandoy shot her 41-year-old husband and their two sons, Daniel, 11, and Edralin, 10, while they slept and then turned the ,38-caliber revolver on herself. Mrs. Dandoy said in her letter that they purchased a new car July 19 for $4935 and that she borrowed the balance, above an SIBOO tradein, from a loan company without her husband’s knowledge. She handled the family funds. She said her husband thought they had the cash to pay for the car. “He believed me about savings,” the letter stated. "I have a confession to make. I lied to him.” She said they owed a bank.another $1,706, in addition to other bills amounting to S7BB. She wrote that she didn’t know how to make the payments until she thought of the life insurance—sß,ooo on her husband and $2,500 on herself and the boys. “I went to money borrowing, forging his (her husband’s) signature,” she wrote. “I have ruined his future, and our sons.’ These must all come to an end." The Harris family did not explain how it came into possession of the letter. Funeral Monday For Mrs. Anna J. Dickey Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Jane Dickey, who died Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort. Wayne. The Rev. Richard G. Maassel will officiate and burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs Fred Bashara of this city.

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Crewmen Die, Residents Os Homes Escape Four Crewmen Die But Itesraenfs Have Miraculous Escape WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. <UP) —A twin-engine Air Force bomber exploded and crashed in a housing development here early today, killing four crewmen and hurling one of its jAotors into a house vacated only minutes before. Residents of the homes, many of them Air Force personnel of the West Palm Beach Air Force Base and their families, miraculously escaped injury. '■ The Air Force said the World , War II 825 bomber, on the last ’ leg of a routine training flight , from Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Okla., crashed into a group of ’ homes about a quarter of a mile t from the base here, where die plane was bound. A section of the fuselage “sett tied between two houses,” the Air . Force said. I A witness said one of the plane’s . engines hurtled into the bedroom . of a house, but the occupants had ’ fled the home minutes before when , they heard what sounded like a plane in trouble. / The bomber had arrived safely over the field here after making one stop at Barksdale Air Force Base, Shreveport, La. If radioed for landing clearance, then apparently developed engine trouble. ’ The Air Force withheld names of the dead crewmen pending notification of next of kin. Authorities said the plane littered the area with debris and damaged three homes. Residents of the housing development said they heard the plane in trouble and alerted the neighborhood. Families evacuated their homes in nightclothes. Six children were among the persons who ran out of the houses which were damaged. Witnesses said the plane burst into flames and exploded just before it struck the ground. One resident said the plane "sounded like a helicopter instead of a bomber—we knew it was in trouble.” An investigation was started by the Air Force to determine the cause of the crash. Officials said they had no idea at present what went wrong with the plane, which (OoMxzaad on rar® Mr) Girl Scout Budget Is Set At $2,772 Adams County Share Os Budget Is Fixed Adams county's share of the 1958 budget fpr the new area council of the Girl Scouts was computed on a population basis to be $2,772 by a committee meeting recently with Girl Scout area officers. The total budget of $56,300 for the year was approved and Allen county will be asked to raise 75 percent, it was announced. The area is composed of Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington '.and Steuben counties „ Mrs. Lowell Harper of Decatur is the county’s representative on the finance committee. Other women from Decatur who are active in making permanent plans for the area activities include Mrs. William Schnepf and Mrs. R. C. Hersh on the development committee and Mrs. Doyle Collier, who is the county representative on the member nominating committee. A, meeting of all interested persons in Adams county for the purpose of explaining the new set-up has been scheduled for Decatur Youth and Community Center September 19 at 7:30 p.m. There are 26 Girl Scout troops in Decatur, two in Berne and one in Geneva, with 415 girls registered as members. Plans also call for from four to six additional Brownie troops.