Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 198.

____l l LA j*- Rs® w |J#> ' * ’"'' * & wwwwt V ft Jmv ' > vH ’’?« J v\ *♦*!-' B‘ ' g w? . ■ ■ 'j> J ■ < ' S » HERMAN FRANZ, second from the left in the front row, will be the first man from Adams county to take part in the state plowing match. He is pictured here with last year’s champions, upper left, in level land and contour. Wilfred Oldfather and Bill Dluzak, and this year’s area two winners and runners-up, Robert Hettmansperger, of Urbana, near Wabash, third from left, top row, ana Bruce Provines, upper right, of route 3, Auburn, and lower left, second place level land winner Robert Gunthorp, of near Howe, in LaGrange county. These men from northeastern Indiana will take part in the state match to be held Tuesday four miles east of Decatuf on the Ward and Jay Chapman /arm south of 224 on state highway 101. < Staff Photo)

Offers Russia Two-Year Halt In Atom Tests Defense Advisers, Allies Overruled By Ike Proposal LONDON (UP) — President Eisenhower overruled defense advisers and the Western allies in offering Russia a two-year halt in nuclear tests, authoritative sources said today. They said the conditional offer, made Wednesday at the* London disarmament conference, amounts to a calculated American gamble to determine if there is any hope at all of a first step toward disarmament. Hie stakes, are high —two full years of the West’s current nuclear advantage put up against the hope that Russia really means business in its discussions here. Eisenhower sided with disarmament delegate Harold Stassen against top Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission advisers in authorizing the drastic concession to Russia, the sources said. Defense officials had publicly warned that even the old Western offer of a 10-month truce might disperse the U.S. nuclear weapons team. They told the President that continued testing might produce an almost totally “clean” hydrogen bomb—one with no dangerous radioactive fallout. Authoritative sources said that Stassen and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had to sell the proposal to Britain and France after Eisenhower decided to act at the end of a closely guarded twomonth administration debate: Britain opposed it because its new defense strategy pins future security on nuclear weapons without sizeable conventional forces. The forces are being cut now- al-’ though the bomb stockpile is yet to be completed. France opposed it because French scientists have yet to make their first atomic bomb. France was the last to approve the plan. The disarmament conference was in recess until Friday so Soviet Delegate Valerian Zorin could study the plan. But any Russian reply was not expected for several weeks. And putting the ban into effect could take several months. Parkinson, Grant Appointed Judges WASHINGTON (W — President Elsenhower late Wednesday nominated Judge W. Lynn Parkinson of Lafayette, Ind., to be judge of, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. The district includes Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. Nominated to replace Parkinson was Robert A. Grant, South Bend attorney and former Republican congressman. Grant was in Congress from 1939 to 1949 and has been n private law practice since. 12 Pages

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Franz Is Second In District Plow Meet Competes In State * Contest Next Week Herman Franz, Jr., of Decatur route 5,, placed second in the area two contour plowing contest held Wednesday near Helmer in Steuben county, and will compete in the state plowing contest to be held on the Jay and Ward Chapman farm four miles east of Decatur on highway 224, and one mile south on highway 101, next Tuesday. Franz, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman ’Franz, of Decatur, plowed in the contour contest for the first time. Contour plowing has completely different rules from the level land plowing, which is most used on the flat Adams county land. Merle Kuhn, of- Wabash township, who placed first in the county match here, placed third in the area level land match, only one point behind the second place man. Kuhn slightly misjudged his dead furrow. David Fuelling, of Union township, placed fifth out of seven in the contour match. Fuelling drew a contour plot at the bottom of a hill that was loaded with rocks, and had to stop his tractor more than 100 times to clear the plow. In spite of this, he plowed a very good conformation. Fuelling tied Franz for second in the county contest. All three Adams county men had Cockshutt tractors, and Louie Steffen, of Monroe, Co-op tractor man, worked for the past week with them on adjustments and practicing. Tractors from Steuben, DeKalb, Wabash, LaGrange and Adams county competed. Winners in the level land contest were Bruce Provines, of near Auburn, and second was Robert Gunthorp of near Howe, in. LaGrange countyWinner in the contour match was Robert Hettmansperger, of near Urbana, in Wabash county. Franz, the second place man in the area meet this year, and the only one to qualify for the state meet from this county, went to the area meet last year after winning the county match. He was in level land last year, and placed third, just one point out of second place. He is a graduate of Monmouth high school, ft was the third year in a row that an Adams county man has won third place in level land, and the first year for a state contestant from this county. The driver of the first-place outfit in the level land contest had a Minneapolis-Moline rig; second place winner had a John Deere “50”. First in the contour went to a John Deere “G”, and second went to a Cockshutt. Last year’s winners will drive an International Harvester and a John Deere. Five U. S. SCS employes have been assigned to Adams county for the state plowing contest, J. C. Craig, area supervisor, said at the meeting Wednesday. Assigned here will be Conrad Schaeffer and Bob Schocke, of Bluffton; John Robbins and- Wilbur Reagan of Fort Wayne, and Continued On Page Five

Raybum Hints At Break On Civil Rights Says Democratic Leaders Study New G.O.P. Compromise By UNITED PRESS Speaker Sam Rayburn hinted today that the civil rights deadlock may soon be broken. Rayburn told reporters that Democratic leaders are giving “serious consideration” to a new Republican compromise proposal. ‘"niat doesn’t mean we are ready to accept it in toto, or what parts of it,” Rayburn said. “We haven’t had all the sessions necessary to reach a proper conclusion on this compromise or another.” He said he doesn’t know when the Democrats will reach a decision of the GOP plan, but he said it will be “as quickly as possible.” He said he still hopes that a civil rights bill can be enacted at this session of Congress. The Senate version of civil rights legislation provides for jury trials in a wide variety of criminal contempt cases. The House-passed bill contained no such provision, but House Democrats proposed limiting jury trials only to voting rights cases. The GOP compromise calls for giving a federal judge discretion whether to grant a jury trial in criminal contempt cases involving violation of court orders to protect voting rights. But, if the judge refuses a jury trial, he could not impose a penalty exceeding a S3OO fine and 90 days in jail. Other congressional news: Postal Rates: Vance Sparl , Austin, Tex., businessman, told a Senate Post Office Committee a proposed 1 cent raise in most postal rates would hurt thousands of small businessmen and force some to close down. He said they cannot afford to advertise except by mail. Coal: A House subcommittee said after studying the “sick" coal industry that a two-million-dollar research program is needed to find new uses for coal and expand existing uses. Otherwise, it said, the industry faces mine shutdowns and an uphill struggle for survival. Steel: Sen. John A. Carroll (DColo.) suggested that Congress might better be able to determine whether the recent increase in steel prices was justified if it questioned union and company officials at the same time. Academies: Rep. H. R. Gro s s (R-lowa proposed a law to require graduaxes of the three service academies to spend 10 years on active duty after they graduate. TTie compulsory limit now is three years. Hundreds of graduates have been resigning to enter private business. Atomic: The Senate Appropriations Committee put back into the Atomic Energy Commission budget $53,914,000 that had been cut out by the House. The Senate committee version now provides for $2,353,632,000 to operate and build AEC projects.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 22, 1957.

Charge Louis Paid To Sit In Courtroom Two Hours At Hoffa’s Trial

Union Official Returns Land Fund To State Prosecutor From Lake County Turns Money In To State UP2BA Ist LEAD EDIT UP2IA INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Lake County Prosecutor Metro Holovachka turned over to the State of Indiana today $78,416.29 which he said a high-ranking carpenter union official paid him as restitution for “windfall profits” on nine quick land deals on the Tri-State Expressway at Gary. Holovachka, accompanied by his chief deputy, Floyd Vance, dumped $3,835.29 in cash and a check for $74,581 on the desk of State Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers and said it was given him by an attorney representing Frank M. Chapman, general treasurer of the Carpenters Union. Chapman’s land deals, in which he pyramided a $23,000 investment into sta t e highway sales of $103,000, were investigated by a Lake County grand jury which decided it had no. jurisdiction and returned no indictments. Two examiners for the State Accounts Board counted the money and verified the amount before Holovachka and Vance left the office. Holovachka told newsmen the jury conducted “aS thorough an investigation as it was possible to make.” Newsmen asked him his reaction to Governor Handley’s recent statement that Marion County Prosecutor John G. Tinder did a better job in handling the highway scandals than Holovachka. Holovachka said it was a “political statement” and “I’m not corf® cerned with what Mr. Handley thinks.” Tinder is a Republican, like Handley, and Holovachka a Democrat. Steers said it was “conceivably possible” that jurisdiction in the teamster angle of the scandals could be in either Marion or Lake Counties. He said he believed Marion would be the best place to prosecute the case because of the availability of witnesses and other factors. Holovachka was greeted on his visit by an editorial in the Indianapolis Times which said that “it almost seems as if the Lake County law enforcement officials (Contiauee ob Paso Klcht) Lutheran School To I Open September 4 School Is Expanded Into Second Grade Approximately 30 children are presently enrolled in the Zion Lu- i theran grade school on Monroe street, which this year will house ] grades one and two. Miss Evelyn Nussbaum, who , taught there last year, will again be the instructor, and will have ; charge of both grades. At the : present, Miss Nussbaum is at-' tending the workshop for Luther- , an parish teachers, being con- . ducted at Camp Limberlost, Oil- , ver Lake. The workshop is sponsored by the central district of Lutheran churches, for all parish teachers of this district. Classes are scheduled to resume September 4, and parents , who are desirous of enrolling , their children in either the first j or second grades of the school, are asked to contact Fred Meier, who is chairman of the board of education. Children who will be sty before September 15 are eligible to enroll in the first grade of the school. Next year, it is planned that another teacher be hired, and another grade added to the school. It is hoped that a grade can be added each year of its operation, until the parochial grade school will have the full six lower grades, according to the Rev. Edgar Schmidt, who is pastor of the Lutheran church.

pirl Stuck Between Buildings Rescued Child Saved After 20-Hour Ordeal PROVIDENCE, R.I. (UP) — A chubby, 3-year-old girl, wedged between two buildings for 20 hours, was dug out by a wrecking company crew today. The child, Eileen Fahey, was crying as rescuers brought her through a cheering and weeping crowd of 1,000 persons. Eileen was taken to Rhode Island Hospital in a waiting ambulance. “Thank God," her father, John M. Fahey, 39. a railroad brakeman, said when the girl was lifted from her cramped tomb through a hole hammered by rescuers. _ She had slipped into the 8-inch space Wednesday, apparently while chasing a kitten. Through the night, 400 searchers hunted through basements, box cars and along the banks of the nearby Seekonk River trying to find her. This morning, 19-year-old Gerald Deroches spotted Eileen when he leaned out a window to shake breakfast crumbs from a table cloth. He saw her chubby arm extended upward. She was 15 feet back inside the •space between a low garage and a two-story tenement. Her head was pinioned between the buildings. She was almost silent—barely whimpering. The youth summoned the search party and. rescue workers began battering a hole through the footthich cinder block garage wall to rescue her. Hundreds of persons stood in a drizzle to watch the rescue operations. Twice little Eileen cried out when the impact of the sledgehammer blows shook the wall. One red shoe was pulled out first as the workmen got through to a point right beside her. “Hold it, baby doll,” said Battalion Fire Chief James Coleman . aS the blows were rained on the wall. Oil was poured over her head tp 1 ease it out from the narrow space. ' A priest stood by trying to encourage her with words called 1 through the Wall . Levittown Is Calm After Race Trouble » 1 Ban On Assemblies Ordered By Police i LEVITTOWN, Pa. (» — A peaceful calm descended Wednes-' 1 day night over this suburban residential community which has been the scene of anti-Negro demonstrations for the past eight nights. Only a few scattered groups milled about the home of William Myers Jr., and family, first Ne- j groes to move into this previously all-white section, after police issued a warning they would arrest all who gathered in groups of more than three. The Bristol Town Board of Commissioners Wednesday night turned down a police request for a 9 p.m. curfew of all children under 16. A spokesman for the commissioners said “they felt the situation at this time does not warrant action.” Bristol Police Chief John R. Stewart said the curfew was. necessary in view Os the “present emergency.” The quiet contrasted with the jeering crowd of more than 300 persons which has gathered nightly near the Meyers’ home since the Negro family first occupied the house on Aug. 13. Only a token force of troopers and local police stand guard in front of the ranch-type home since police issued the warnings. INDIANA WEATHER Continued fair with no important changes in temperature tonight and Friday. Low tonight 56-64. High Friday in the 80s. Sunset 7:32 p.m., sunrise Friday 6:04 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Continued fair and a little warmer. Low Friday night in the 60s. High Saturday 85-02.

Living Costs Hit All-Time High In July 11th Consecutive Monthly Increase In Living Costs WASHINGTON (UP) — The cost of living rose to an all-time high in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This was the 11th consecutive monthly increase. The July advance was % of 1 per cent. The bureau said substantial advanced in food prices and in the "other goods an« services” group were the principal causes of the rise. All major groups except housing and apparel advanced. Food prices rose 1 per cent during the month, reaching a new alltime high. Food prices now are .7 of 1 per cent above the previous record peak of August, 1952, and 2.3 per cent above the level a year ago. The living cost increase means that about 1,300,000 workers under labor contracts containing escalator clauses will get wages increases ranging from 1 cent to 6 cents an hour. These increases are based on the cost of living index. The bureau said the bulk of the workers will get increases of about 3 cents an hour. Wage increases will go to workers in the automobile industry, farm equipment, electrical appliances — particularly Westinghouse —local transit, metal work, and trucking, the bureau said. Some of the increases are based on quarterly adjustments and some on six-month adjustments. The cost-of-living index few July rose to 120.8 per cent of average 1947-49 prices. The July index was 3.2 per cent high than for July, 1956. H. E. Riley, chief of the division of prices and cost of .living, said the price increases ranged across the board, except for a slight decline in apparel and no change in housing. He said the rise in food prices was seasonal and was expected. Riley said the drought along the East Coast had made “no observable effect” on food prices. Riley did not hold out much hope for a decrease in the cost of living in August. “A slight increase or a slight decline icr Augus'. would not be surprising in the cost of food,” Riley Said ‘ The July advance to another alltime high followed a .5 per cent (VeutiaaM ob ra*c Five) Furnish Third Unit At Local Hospital W. A. Klepper And Wife Donate Fund Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Klepper, of 320 Mercer avenue, will furnish the third of 35 new memorial room units in the Adams county memorial hospital, the hospital board of trustees said today. Klepper, one of the original members of the Decatur Rotary club, and active Decatur philanthropist, was co-founder of the Cloverleaf Creamery of Decatur and Huntington, and is still active in the Adams Distributing company of Decatur, and the Hunttington Distributing company of Huntington. The First State Bank of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. William Shafer of Monroeville, were the first to donate SSOO towards memorial units in the hew addition. The addition is expected to be completed about January 1, but no funds are yet available to furnish the rooms. Five of the rooms will be single units, and 15 will be double units. Each unit will cost SSOO to furnish. All rooms in the original building, completed in 1923, were furnished by interested individuals and groups, and the building was dedicated to the veterans of World War I.

$3 Billion Foreign . Aid Fund Foreseen Senate Expected To Increase House Fund WASHINGTON (in — Two key senators predicted today the Senate would approve a foreign aid appropriation of about three billion dollars. The two were Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland, who wants the Senate to vote more than the $2,500,000,000 approved by the House, and Sen. Allen J. EUender (D-La.), who believes the House figure is high enough. Both are members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which probably will not act on the House — approved bill until next Monday. Knowland told reporters he expected the Senate to accept a total "in the neighborhood of three billion dollars but that it was too early for a more definite estimate. President Eisenhower appealed to the Senate Wednesday to “put back every oent” of the full $3,367,000,000 program. EUender said he expected the Senate to approve no more than three billion doUars. He foresaw a final figure of about $2,750,000,000 after the Senate version had been reconciled with the House bill by a joint conference committee •• .... . , The President also had at least the partial support of Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) who said he would vote some increase over the House-approved figure. Recover Bodies Os Explosion Victims QSWEGO, N. Y v IVI —Searchers today recovered the bodies of three workmen who died Sunday in an explosion in a tunnel under Lake Ontario. A crew of five volunteer workers from the rock salt mines near Ithaca, along with federal and state mining inspectors, brought the bodies to the surface six hours after they had entered the 6,250 foot tunnel. Handley May Name Special Prosecutor Probe Lake County Gambling Activity INDIANAPOLIS (W — Governor Handley said today he is thinking of appointing a special prosecutor to investigate gambling in Lake County, where Indiana State Police have conducted numerous raids in the last two weeks. Handley said he asked Marion County Prosecutor John G. Tinder to review the law for him on how to proceed in naming a temporary prosecutor. Handley said there are ‘countless number of joints” operating wide open in Lake. „ A special prosecutor would take over from Prosecutor Metro Holovachka, who has criticized Handley and state police for “unprecedented action” in conducting gambling raids without a request from local authorities. Handley’s disclosure coincided with a Holovachka visit to the Indiana Statehouse on another matter, and a newspaper editorial criticizing Holovachka for. his investigation of Lake County angles of the Indiana highway scandals. Holovachka called the raids “unprecedented action" and told newsmen that he always welcomes state police help in stamping out gambling but “while I they are doing it in Lake County there are a lot of Republican communities around the state where they are doing the same' thing.” His statement' came a day after four persons were . arrested and 50 “patrons” questioned by troopers raiding four alleged gaming establishments in Whiting and East Chicago.

Paid $2,500 To Appear During Hoffa's Trial Teamsters' Union Paid Hotel Bills 1 Incident To Trial WASHINGTON (UP)—Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) charged today that former heavyweight champion Joe Louis “was paid $2,500 for sitting in the courtroom two hours” during the briberyconspiracy trial of Teamster crown prince James R. Hoffa. Hoffa was acquitted b/ a jury which included eight Negroes. Hoffa told the Senate Labor Rackets Committee, “If he was paid, he "was not paid by Hoffa. I know nothing of it” After Hoffa’s acquittal last month, Sen. Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), a member of the committee, remarked that it looked as though “Joe Louis makes a good defense attorney.” The committee asked Hoffa to submit a list of expenses paid by the union for Louis, union officials and goons who came to Washington during Hoffa’s recent trial on charges that he tried to plant a spy on the committee staff to steal secret documents. The committee previously brought out that the union paid Louis’ hotel bill. The committee said Wednesday that Teamster treasuries have paid $5,159 of a $8,925 bill amassed at the Woodner Hotel here, where Teamster officials stayed during Hoffa’s month-long trial. Paid Barney Baker’s Bill Louis appeaijfd in the courtroom during the trial and greeted Hoffa, explaining to reporters that the Detroit Teamster leader was an “old friend.” Louis started his ring career from Detroit. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy also asked Hoffa, probable next president of the Teamsters, why the union paid a $1,642 hotel bill for former heavyweight fighter Robert (Barney) Baker, the Teamster organizer who arranged Louis’ hotel room. Kennedy said Baker, who now weighs some 300 pounds, was thrown off the waterfront for his activities in 1934,” has a police record for hurling stink bombs and was named by the New York state crime commission as a “collector” for an organization in “the public loading racket.” , ’ Hoffa retorted, “I didn’t go into his background...! don’t know of anything he has done for the union except constructive activity.” He said, “Barney Baker works for the Central Conference lot Teamsters) under my direct orders. I have authority to assign him here to make a survey...and run errands for the attorneys.” Hoffa would not say he assigned Baker to Washington during the trial, but probably gave permission when Baker wanted to come. Visitors Were “Friends” Concerning the general influx of Teamster officials during his trial, Hoffa said some were in Washington on union business and others were "observers.” “What were they observing?” asked Kennedy. “Myself,” said Hoffa. He promised to furnish the committee. so far as he is able, a list of aU expenses biUed to the union during the trial by his entourage. He described the visitors as his “friends” and said he assumed the union paid their travel and hotel bills. McClellan said the Congress might want to decide if it were proper use of union funds to pay .ontluaM «* Par* Fire) Jobless Pay Claims Decrease In State INDIANAPOLIS (W — Unempolment insurance claims in Indiana last week decreased more than 1,000 from the previous week, the Indiana Employment Security Division announced today. William Stalnaker, director of the division, said 5.035 of the total 32,484 claims were filed by newly unemployed Hoosiers, a figure 350 above the week before.

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