Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 195, Decatur, Adams County, 19 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 195.

ONE WHEEL AND A PRAYER — ——MHE* XAHa ‘w ■E* ' l SITED AIRLINES PILOT Clyde Parlett inspects- damaged lire of DC-7 which he landed safely and without incident with 61' persons aboard. The damage to landing gear was discovered when airport employes found a three-foot long section of tire and tube on the runway shortly after the plane had taken off for San Francisco from Idlewild Airport in New York. Parlett did not inform the passengers of x the mishap until 20 minutes before landing at San Francisco.

ike Appeals To House Speaker On Foreign Aid Asks Rayburn Help In Restoration Os Foreign Aid Cuts By WABkEN DUFFEE United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower counter-attacked today in an 11th hour effort to save - f the foreign aid program from what he considers crippling budget cuts. He held an unannounced breakfast conference with Sam Mayburn. speaker and Democratic leader of the House, and appealed for his help in restoring the 30 per cent economy cut made by the House last week. At the same time he sent a task force of four top administration Officials to Capitol Hill to plead with the Senate Appropriations Committee to put back the 809 million dollars cut by the House. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles led the delegation of witnesses. They warned that U.S. prestige and security are threatended by a budget slash so large that would change the basic nature of the foreign aid program. Adm. Arthur W. Radford, retired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivered the bluntest warning. • -■■■'■ “Cost Would Be Starrering” The alternative to the size military aid program asked by the administration is for the United States to increase its own defense strength and draft more men so that “nearly every able - bodied young man of military age would spend several years of his life in military service overseas.” “The cost would be staggering,” he added. Or, he said, “we could adopt a ‘fortress America’ concept.” “In the world we live in today, such a concept is entirely negative and would merely mean that we postponed an ultimate and violent showdown with international com- ' munism or. in the long run, would capitulate," Raford said. Dulles said the House cuts are so severe that they will make the free world wonder whether it can' » count on the United States as a dependable friend. Outgoing aid administrator John B. Hollister said the cuts made by the House in the development loan fund “would make it impossible to carry out the forward looking policy adopted by Congress in establishing the fund.” Despite Dulles’ pleas, the Senate was expected to restore little, if any, of the House cut. Republican leaders, however, planned to make a fight for at least some increases. Would Hurt AlUes Dulles said the threatened reductions in military aid were so great as to "make it impossible to supply our Allies with the military equipment needed to maintain the effectiveness and morale of their fighting forces." And the slashes in so-called "defense support” indirect military aid may make it impossible for some dependent Allies to be able to defend themselves. Dulles also said the harsh treatment given by the House to the President’s new development loan fund for economic aid “is so severe as to jeopardize the basic concept that underlies the fund.” The President asked for a total of two billion dollars Over a threeyear period. The House voted to v appropriate only 300 million dollar 8.. - i Dulles said that if Congress is (OoacuuM <* ®’ , »

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Monmouth Teacher Resigns Position County Schools To Open Next Friday Mrs. Vera Owens, art instructor and librarian at Monmouth for the past six years, has resigned her position there to accept a position in the Fort Wayne public schools. - Last spring, Mrs. Owens received her master’s degree as reading specialist and consultant at Ball State Teachers College in Muncie. She will be an instructor at the Harrison Hill school this fall. With Mrs. Owens’ resignation, there remain three vacancies in the county school system, with classes scheduled to resume Friday. The two positions at Pleasant Mills have been filled, according to an announcement made today by Gail M. Grabill, county superintendent of schools. Bob Schisler, of Geneva, has accepted a position as math and science instructor at the Pleasant Mills school, and Edward Liechty will teach social studies there. Besides the opening at Monmouth, an elementary teacher is needed for the Geneva grade school, and a home economics instructor is needed for the Adams Central school. Temperatures Dip To 50s In State Cooler Air Surges Down From Canada By UNITED PRESS Temperatures fell into the 50s over most of Indiana today as another surge of cooler air moved through the state enroute from its Canadian birthplace. Warmer weather is due most of this week but the outlook indicated it will not approach a heat wave. The mercury hit lows ranging from 50 at Goshen to 55 at South Bend to 59 at Indianapolis to 62 at Evansville early this morning after highs ranging from 75 at Lafayette, to 84 at Evansville Sun- , day. High readings of 80 were expected over the northern twothirds of Indiana this afternoon with an 84 peak in the southern third. Lows tonight will range from 60 to 64 and highs Tuesday 85 in all zones. The outlook for Wednesday was fair and warmer. Little rain is expected before Thursday and then not much and perhaps confined largely to the north. The five-day outlook called for temperatures to average near normal highs of 80 to 88 and normal lows of 58 to 70. “Little change in temperature Tuesday. Warmer Wednesday and Thursday. Little change Friday and Saturday,” the outlook said. “Precipitation will average less than one-quarter of an inch in scattered showers covering mostly the north about Thursday and Saturday.?’Late Bulletin No ruling will be made for * a new trial in the WabashMonroe township line case until the first week of the September term of court, which starts September 3, it was learned this afternoon. A motion for a new trial was filed last Friday by Custer & Smith, attorneys for plaintiff L. A. Mann.

Beck's Number One Assistant Is Summoned Senate Committee Summons Mohn To Present Testimony WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Rackets Committee summoned teamster boss Dave Beck’s number one assistant to the witness stand today to explain how thugs and hoodlums were imported into Teamster unions. They also scheduled a mystery witness. Committee Counsel John F. Kennedy scheduled the Beck aide. Teamster Vice President Einar Mohn, as a witness when the committee resumed its hearings. Kennedy said at least one other witness — “an important one” — 1 would testify today. He refused to ' name him. Today’s hearings were designed < to set the stage for the real show- i down of the current hearings—the appearance Tuesday R. (Jimmy) Hoffa, another Teamster vice president considered heir apparent to Beck’s job as president of the nation’s biggest union. Beck has announced he will not seek reelection. Hoffa has said he will answer all ; the committee’s questions. He may be summoned back for another session next month before his union’s presidential election in late September. Sen. Irving M. Ives (R-N.Y.), committee vice chairman, said Sunday night the labor racket situation in New York—target of the current hearings—is “the most serious in the nation.” He said Hoffa’s plan to set up a nationwide transportation union would “completely paralyze the country” in case of a strike and Hoffa and his associates “have demonstrated that they are too irresponsible to be heading any such organization.” Ives, in an interview with Rep. vonctnued On Page Five ■ - ' c. Four Are Killed As Bus Hits Abutment 30 Others Injured In New Jersey Crash BELMAR, N.J. (UP)— Four persons were killed and 30 injured Sunday when a bus blew a tire and crashed into an abutment on the Garden State Parkwafr. State police and hospital authorities today were trying to identify the dead—three women and one man, all middle-aged. Ten of the injured were hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Twenty others were treated at Fitkin Memorial Hospital at Neptune and discharged. Three of the victims were killed instantly. The fourth, a woman, died seven hours later. State police said the public service bus, bound from Atlantic City to New York, was traveling at 50 miles an hour when the right front tire blew out. The bus, moving in the passing lane, skidded diagonally for 100 yards before slamming into the concrete overpass. The roof of the bus was sheared off back to the fourth row of seats. Rescuers used acetylene torches to free several passengers and the driver who were .pinned in the bus. It was the worst accident on the parkway since it opened in 1954.

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Red Seizure Os Syrian Control Gives Russians Mediterranean Toehold

Seek To Push Civil Rights Bill To Vole ‘ Democrats In House Seek To Pry Bill Out Os Committee WASHINGTON (UP)-Confident House Democrats planned to take steps today to get their modified civil rights bill onto the floor for a vote. Their strategy was to pry th< measure out of the House ulef Committee, whose chairman, Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), an allout opponent of any rights legislation, has refused to call a meeting to clear the Senate-passed bill for House action. The Democrats predicted that once the bill reaches the floor ft will be approved with only one major change—a limitation in the jury trial provision to voting rights cases. They were confident the Senate would agree to the change and that President Eisenhower would sign the measure. But House Republicans served notice they intended to wage a vigorous fight, probably on the floor, to try to strengthen the measure. *. Unless Smith schedules a meeting of his committee today. Democratic committee members prepared to make their own move for calling it by serving written notice over at least three signatures to do so. Smith then would have three days to decide whether to go along. At the end of that time a majority of the committee could call a meeting. He could stall action until next Monday by agreeing to schedule a meeting then. Other congressional news: Security: Chairman Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) of the House Committee on Unamerican Activities planned to offer broad new antisubversive legislation. The measure would impose fines up to $lO,Contlnued On P»«e Five State Plow Match Committee Meets State Contest In County August 27 The state plow match committee will meet tonight at the soil conservation service office to plan further for the state plowing contest to be held in St. Mary's township August 27, it was learned here today. Sheriff Merle Affolder will organize traffic to and from the state contest site, which is one mile south of 224. on highway 101. and the second farm to the left. The route will be marked by signs, and 1,500 persons are expected to attend. The Decatur Boy Scouts, organized by Steve Everhart, will help with the parking. The Adams county rural youth will man the refreshment tent for the daylong festivities, which will include demonstrations and exhibitions. A tiling demonstration, including 1,400 feet of ditching and tiling, will get underway in the morning. A grass waterway will be constructed. Farmers will be carried to and from the demonstration area by wagons organized in a wagon train. In the past, many flying farmers have flown to the event, and they are expected to use the Ivetlch airport, .a mile from the contest. Transportation will be provided from the airfield to the match. ' A committee of Ben Mazelin, Ivan Huger, and Herman Bulrnahn is planing the event, which is sponsored by the Krick-Tyndall Tile company, the state association of soil conservation district supervisors, the Purdue agricultural extension service, and many local organizations. Decatur merchants will meet Tuesday to see what they can do to cooperate with the huge state event.

Youths Sought For Killing Policeman Widespread Search . On In Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UP) — Federal, state and local authorities conducted a widespread search today for three young men who killed a policeman and critically wounded his partner. Police said they were prepared for another gun battle with the three dapper men wanted in the Saturday night slaying of patrolman Robert Fossum, 31, and the wounding of his partner. Ward Canfield, 35. A woman motorist who was kidnaped and freed by the fleeing gunmen described them as wellpressed and under 25. They were believed carrying pistols and a Shotgun taken from the wounded officer. Mrs. Alvin Anderson, of suburban Bloomington, told police the three men curbed her car. drove her a short distance and then forced her from the vehicle. Fossum and Canfield spotted the three in a stolen car while cruising through a neighborhood business section here. The patrolmen opened fire when the youths refused to stop, but their bullets bounced off a steel plate lodged against the car’s rear window. . The ehase ended when the gunmen’s car hit and locked bumpers with a parked car. The youths opened fire on the officers from behind the cars, killing Fossum and wounding Canfield. The gunmen then hopped back into their car and backed both cars over the fallen Canfield. Fail To Appear At I Grand Jury Probe Five Road Scandal Figures Are Absent CROWN POINT, Ind. (UP) — A Lake County grand jury waited in vain today for five prominent figures in the Indiana highway scandals to answer subpenas. Subpenas were issued for Virgil (Red) Smith, former Indiana highway chairman; Nile Teverbaugh, former right-of-way division chief, and M. A. Hutcheson, Frank M. Chapman and C. William Blaier, top international officers of the carpenters union. However, subpena servers had ( reported previously that none of the five could be found and the subpenas were delivered to their home addresses. When the jury resumed its probe of lush profits in land buying along the Tri-State Expressway at Gary ' this morning, none of the five showed up. , Nevertheless, the jury heard three witnesses and scheduled a hearing for a fourth this afternoon. Meanwhile, Prosecutor Metro Holovachka announced Lake County may continue its investigation of the Tri-State deals into 1958. He said the jury is awaiting State Board of Accounts reprots of an audit of Norgold Consolidated, a Gary firm which realized profits from buying and selling land later purchased for the expressway route. Unofficial sources predicted the jury will return five indictments Tuesday at the conclusion of the second phase of its Inquiry. Mrs. Catherine Kaiser, former secretary of the Gary Tri-State right-of-way office, was one of this morning’s witnesses. Mrs. the jury that deals through which Kaiser was believed to have told Chapman realized profits of about SBO,OOO were handled by the state department’s Indianapolis headquarters office and not through the Gary office. Henry Pfarrer, cashier of the Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis, and Harold DaVaney, a witnesses. DaVaney was called to Gary real estate agent, were other provide land value information and Pfarrer presumably was asked to supply information on bank depos(Coatlaaee «■ Pace Five)

Balloon Takes Off, Headed For 19 Miles Air Force Doctor Makes Experiment On Travel In Space BRAINERD, Minn. (UP) — A large but frail balloon soared into the sky today, destined to carry an Air Force doctor some 19 miles into space. The balloon is expected to reach a maximum altitude of 102,000 feet, and remain there for a brief stretch of time. The balloon puffed up and bil* lowed into the sky at 9:30 a.m. c.d.t. After reaching the record altitude for a manned balloon flight, the sphere will taper off to a level of 100,000 feet and remain there for about 24 hours. Inside a tiny capsule swaying beneath the bulky balloon, Maj. David G. Simons had been sealed a few hours earlier. Simons, chief of the space biology branch of the Aero-Medical Field Laboratory at Holloman Air Development Center, Alamogordo, N.M., will be aloft approximately 32 hours. During that time, he will perform tests and conduct various observations relative to studies of man's adaptability to space travel. The flight is expected to carry ( Simons from near Brainerd, in , northern Minnesota, westward I about 500 miles near Miles City, ' Mont. The previous manned balloon record was set last June 2, whep Capt. Joe Kittinger soared to 96,000 feet in an experimental flight launched near Minneapolis. The highest altitude man has ever reached was 126,000 feet during the flight of the Bell X 2 rocket plane Sept. 7, 1956. Simons was sealed in his pressurized cablh at 11 p.m. Sunday. He carried a supply of candy bars, fruit juices and pears. The capsule in which Simons was sealed allows him barely enough elbow room. It is 8 feet high and 3 feet in diameter. The balloon, designed and manufactured by Wizen Research, Minneapolis, measures three million cubic feet. At launching, the plastic stretched 280 feet long, resembling a skinny pear. But at peak altitude, it was expected to swell out to 200 feet in diameter. William Rolh Dies Saturday Afternoon Funeral Services * Tuesday Afternoon William Roth, 78, of 716 High street, died at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. He had been in failing health for two years and critically ill for six weeks. He was born in Wren, 0., Aug. 18, 1879, a son of Frederick and Tracy Bittner-Roth. He lived on a farm one and one-half miles north of Monroeville until six years ago, when he retired and moved to Decatur. Mr. Roth was a member of the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church. Surviving are his wife, Emma, whom he married Jan. 4, 1901: one daughter. Mrs. Roy Miller of Fort Wayne; two sons, Dewey Roth of Fort Wayne, and Edward Roth of Monroeville; three grandchildren; four great-grand-children; one brother, Harmon Roth of Wren, and three sisters, Mrs. Lena Anderson of Decatur, Mrs. Amelia Standiford of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Emma Belfield of South Pasadena. Calif. Funeral Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Paul Parker officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

State Traffic Toll Seven Over Weekend Three Killed In Two-Car Collision By UNITED PRESS Three persons were killed in a two-car collision in LaPorte County Sunday evening, raising the weekend Indiana traffic fatality count to at least seven. Killed in a head-on crash on U.S. 30 near Hanna were Mrs. Rozzella M. Snider, 31, Valparaiso, and Betty P. Peterson, 38, and Ernest C. Emerson, 54, both of Chicago. Two were killed outright and Emerson died in Porter County Memorial Hospital at Valparaiso a few hours after the accident Hospitalized in eritical condition was Mrs. Snider's daughter, Wanda, 7. Her husband, Edward, 38, and another daughter, Linda, 4, were less seriously injured. State police said Emerson pulled out of his traffic lane to pass a truck and'hit the Snider vehicle head-on. Also killed Sunday in a traffic accident on Ind. 7 south of Vernon was Harold Wyne, 33, Vernon. He lost control of his car and it rammed a bridge abutment. Lawrence Allen, 47, North Judson, and Saint Elmos Singleton, 48, Muncie, were killed in separate accidents Saturday. Allen died when a car Skidded broadside into the rear of his vehicle near his home. Singleton was killed when struck by a car as he walked across a street in Muncie. John A. Ervine, 36, Connersville, died in Fayette Memorial Hospital at Connersville Saturday, several hours aft*/' his motorcycle went out of control and crashed as he attempted to pass a bus on U.S. 52 near Brookville. Rev. Speakman To Become Missionary Special Training As Missionary To Congo A former Pleasant Mills man is now taking an intensive course to train as a missionary to the Belgian Congo, it was learned here Sunday. The Rev. Harry Speakman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Speakman of route 6, who has been a minister in Pensylvania for the past eight years, resigned his charge last May, and on June 1 entered Scarritt College for Christian workers, Nashville, Tenn. The young man, who is married and has two children, will complete the course next March, then about a month later sail for Belgium, where he will study French for a year. Following his mastery of the official language of the Belgian Congo, he will leave for the central Congo conference of the Methodist church, one of two conferences supported by the Methodist church in the Belgian Congo. He does not know his exact station at the present time. Rev. Speakman, a graduate of Pleasant Mills high school, received his ministerial training at Asbury College and Seminary, Wilmore, Ky. Following his ordination, he served a church in Gastonville, Pa., for six years, and a circuit in Zelienople, Pa., for two years. He had entered the ministry to prepare for missionary work, however, and as soon as a chance offered itself, he prepared further for this work. Rev. Speakman and his family are visiting his parents, and the minister preached a guest sermon at Union Chapel E. U. B. church Sunday. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Tuesday sunny and mild. Low tonight 55-64. High Tuesday 7885. Sunset 7:36 p.m.. sunrise Tuesday 6:02 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair with little change In temperature. Low Tuesday night 6645. High Wednesday 8045. •

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Syria Under j Iron Control. Os Red Group Red Move Is Seen Severe Challenge To Ike Doctrine By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent A communist-backed coup that placed Syria under iron control of a pro - Soviet military clique touched oft urgent Anglo-American Consultations today in London and roused fears in neighboring Israel of a Soviet-backed invasion. United Press diplomatic correspondent K.C. Thaler reported in London that diplomats considered that the Red move in Syria had given Russia a firm toehold on the Mediterranean in the severest challenge yet to the Eisenhower Doctrine. The West regarded the Syrian development as the worst setback for Western Mideast policy since Egypt seized the Suez Canal a year ago. There were indications other NATO powers might be called in to confer on the threat to Allied strategy involving NATO - bers of the Baghdad Pact. Eliav Simon, United Press correspondent in Israel, said in a Jerusalem dispatch there were fears a new Middle East explosion was in the making, backed by Soviet money, tanks, guns, planes and ships. The Jerusalem dispatch said Syria always has been strongly antiIsrael and that the new military rulers can be relied upon to seize the earliest opportunity to try and revenge their defeat in the Palestine war. Two Courses Open It was noted that Gen. Alis Bizri, the new pro - Communist Syrian leader, was one of the Syrian heroes of that war. Now he would be assured of Soviet support in event of hostilities—although the Eisenhower Doctrine provides U.S. support against Communist aggression. Israel political circles said they were uncertain Russia would risk a world war by pushing Syria into attacking Israel with the possibility of American intervention. But they said Syria may take the risk and use its vast arms supply for an attack alone. London dispatches said two longterm courses appeared open to the West—to strengthen the Eisenhower Doctrine and to reinforce the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, in the meantime, Britain was reported urging the United States not to break off diplomatic -relations with Syria despite Syrian charges the U.S. plotted to overthrow the government. Reports filtering through heavy Syrian censorship said a major purge was being carried out of neutral or pro-Western military officers and that the military clique would soon launch a drive against its political opponents, the weakened Populist Party. Tribesmen Plan Revolt There also were reports that Kurdish tribesmen loyal to the ousted regime were preparing a revolt against the leftist leaders who are backed by Soviet guns, planes and tanks. One report reached Amman, Jordan, that Damascus was ringed with tanks and troop carriers and that military camps had been set up near the border of pro-Western Lebanan. There were reports of arrests, "restirements" and dismissals of leading Syrian army officers. Reliable sources said the police were in the firm grip of the army and that police would move soon against the Populist Party. The Populists are the largest sin; gle group in parliament and with the conservative wing of the Nationalist have nearly 50 per cent of the total votes. But their organization has been disorganized and spiritless and the pro-Soviet factions have dominated. The new Syrian military leader was Gen. Afif Bizri, promoted from colonel to take over front the more moderate Gen. Tewfiq Nizameddlne, long a stumbling block to the young officers clique. Bizri has been called a Communist Party member. '