Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 259, Decatur, Adams County, 2 November 1957 — Page 1

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CHICAGO BUILDER Frank Troiani has reason to scratch his head in puzzlement as he stands near these two houses he built. They’re on the wrong lots in a suburb west of the city. Troiani's lots are adjacent. The owner of these lots contends that either the houses are now his, or Troiani must move them off and fill the basement excavations. Troiani has appealed his predicament to Superior court. ,

Truman Scores Eisenhower's Administration Lack Os Leadership Scored Friday By Former president LOS ANGELES (UP)—Former President Truman scored the Republican administration Friday night for aggravating current international and national crises by allowing the United States to drift with events. The elder statesman of the Democratic Party accused the present administration of a lack of ■'firm and foresighted leadership” in the handling of national defense and the civil rights problem at a Jefferson - Jackson Day dinner here. The former president received a standing ovation before and after his address to a capacity crowd at the Biltmore Bowl. "The administration is letting our defense system, on which the free world depends, go to pot—for a mess of pottage called a balanced budget," Truman charged. On the domestic front, he criticized the kind of leadership which he said led to the calling out of troops to protect civil rights. Changes Arrogance The former president said “we actually are in the middle of an international crisis. The present administration's arrogance and self - righteousness have alienated our friends and weakened our alliances with other free nations.” Truman said that while the secretary of state “dances on the brink of war” the President has slowed military expenditures permitting the Russians to score their greatest propaganda victory in years through launching the first earth satellite. He said it was "poor trading” for the administration, when it could not get a , disarmament agreement with Russia, to cut down our armed forces unilaterally. In outlining a five point set of principles which he said should guide the Democratic Party, the former president emphasized the principle of protecting civil rights. "I think that a firm and foresighted leadership might accomplish this without calling on the Army for help.” Seta Five Principles _ The party principles he set forth were: —The Democratic Party is, and must remain, the party of the people. —The party must stand firmly and forthrightly for the full enjoyment and protection of civil rights — regardless of race, creed or national origin. —The party must believe in, and work for a constant economic growth and rising standard of living. —ln foreign policy, the party must stand firmly for cooperation and concerted action with other free nations. —The Democratic Party must support an adequate national defense, whatever the cost. i INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy through Sunday. Occasional rain tonight and Sunday. Colder Sunday. Low tonight upper 40s. High Sunday in the 50s. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy and cool with occasional showers. NOON~ EDITION

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Two Huge Railroads Study Merger Plans Pennsylvania And New York Central NEW YORK (UP)—The Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad may be merged into one giant transportation system under plans being studied today by the two carriers. These two now rank one and two in size among the world's railroads. A merger would unite assets now totaling nearly six billion dollars and produce a new billionaire company ranking 11th in the list. . James M. Symes, president of the Pennsy, and Alfred E. Perlman, president of Central, announced they have initiated studies looking toward a possible union of the two into Ope consolidated system. The two already have held preliminary studies and discussions which they said indicate that substantial benefits to all concerned may result from such a merger. Department Seeking Facts In Washington, a Justice DeI partment anti-trust official said the railroads were being contacted for information on their proposed merger. The official, who declined use of his name, said toe department would determine whether the government should intervene when the merger petition comes up for Interstate Commerce Commission hearings. The anti-trust division would consider whether the merger proposal has anti-competitive aspects, he said. The two giant railroads blanket the northeastern section of toe nation and duplicate facilities in a dozen states. A merger, it was held, would eliminate these duplicate facilities and result in one big, efficient transportation system able better to compete with other forms of freight and passenger hauling. The joint statement said that the principal competition for railroads today “is not so much other railroads but other forms of transportation which are subsidized to varying degrees.” List Many Woes The statement listed what it termed difficulties confronting the roads — delayed rate increases, refusal to permit abandonment of unprofitable and unpatronized trains and facilities, inadequate payment for mail carrying, discriminatory excise taxes, excessive state and local taxes, ''unfair assessments” for highway crossings, and other artificial burdens imposed on “the one mass transportation agency that has been demonstrated to be essential both in war and peace.” The two roads together blanket 15 eastern and mid-western states and one of them runs a bit into Canada. They have an aggregate of 20,000 miles of track. Last year they had aggregate revenues of nearly two billion dollars, carried eighty million passengers and hauled 378 million tons of freight. They employed 184,000 workers receiving about a billion dollars in wages. (Continued on Pago 8lx) —— , a— Father Os Decatur Tedcher Dies Friday Charles Dick, 73, father of Mrs. Franklyn Detter, a teacher in the Northwest elementary school, died Friday at his home in Columbus, O. He had been in serious condition since undergoing surgery a few weeks ago. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Rutherford funeral home in Columbus.

Russian Army Leaders Back Zhukov Purge Apparently Swing Support To Party Leader In Ouster LONDON (.UP) — Top-ranking Soviet military officers apparently have swung their support to party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev’s purge of Marshal Georgi Zhukov, diplomatic sources said today. As a result, they said, there probably will be no shakeup of toe rest of the Army, Navy and Air Force high commands. The support <« toe military officers phis that of the party high command apparently enabled Khrushchev to send party “agitators” throughout the Soviet Union Friday night to start toe touchy task of explaining toe purge of a hero to rank-and-file members. A dispatch from United Press Staff Correspondent Henry Shapiro that cleared Soviet censorship this morning said the agitators — or explainers — held mass meetings in factories and offices. Censorship Blocks Reports It said they went into toe history of the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik revolution 40 years ago. Moscow censorship apparently did not permit Shapiro to report what was said about Zhukov’s fate. Apparently all reference to this was held up pending an official announcement expected later today. The explanation meetings were similar to those held before toe fate of the Molotov “anti-party” group was announced publicly earlier this year. High officers of all three services were guests of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, who replaced Zhukov as defense minister, at a reception for visiting Egyptian War Minister Maj. Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer in Moscow Friday night. Military Behind Khrushchev Whether they were there out of fear or favor could not be determined. But diplomatic sources said it was dear that outwardly, at least, they have thrown their lot In with Khrushchev and Malinovsky against Zhukov. For toe third time since toe announcement of Zhukov’s dismissal last Saturday, word trickled out of the Soviet Union that the announcement of his fate was “imminent.” Western correspondents in Moscow made known through what probably was the strictest censorship since World War II that they had been led to believe toe announcement would come today. Soviet Embassy sources in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, said Friday that the former Red army hero will be given a minor administrative post in a Red army military district or army school. Dulles In Hospital For Regular Checkup WASHINGTON (IP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spent the night at Walter Reed Army Hospital where he is undergoing a checkup on his medical progress since his cancer operation a year ago. Dulles entered the hospital Friday. State Department Press Officer Lihcoln White said the medical examination was only routine and I Dulles planned to leave today.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 2, 1957

Smith And Peak Found Guilty; Others Freed In Road Scandal Case

House Planning Probe Os U. S. Missile Effort To Question Top Military Manpower Officers Next Week WASHINGTON (W — Congressional investigators will question top military manpower officials next week on whether the U. S. missile program has been hurt by any waste of scientific talent. The House manpower subcommittee, which has been conducting a preliminary inquiry into the matter, was set to open Monday the first public congressional investigation into the U. S. missile effort since Sputnik. A subcommittee source said the group has received reports that competition for scientific and technical personnel in the entire military research and development field is “running wild.” Some agencies have gibbled up so many scientists and engineers that they have been aligned to ordinary administrative work, the source said, while other agencies have been suffering shortage. In another development, a special Presidential Committee on Scientists aiul Engineers released a previously secret report showing that Russia has surpassed the United States in total number of scientists., - ■ -■ The report, prepared by Dr. Herbert Scoville Jr., assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency, showed that Russia now has 1,500,000 scientists compared with 1,300,000 in toe United States. A committee spokesman said U. S. intelligence reports show that Sputnik was not toe isolated result of a Soviet “crash” pro(Ooncinu.c ua fWae Six) Killing Power Os Influenza Waning , Deaths Are Waning But Cases Increase By UNITED PRESS The killing power of influenza weakened during the past week, but flu cases were on toe increase across the nation today. Deaths attributed to flu and its complications since the outbreak last summer today totaled 495, a United Press survey showed. There were 47 deaths reported since last Monday after a weekend spurt 90 deaths jumped the total to 448. In contrast to the slowed-down death rate, the U.S. Public Health Service said hew fly.; cases tripled in the past week,, with 3,500,000 Americans afflicted since the outbreak started. _. The Public Health Service also said a new high potency Asian flu vaccine will probably be ready for release within the next few weeks. The currently available vaccine has been rated as only about 50 percent effective by government health officials. Fatalities increased moderately in areas tfeat had been hardest hit earlier, and New York State reported its total remained at 126 through most of toe week. Pennsylvania reported 84 deaths, California 40, and Michigan 39. There were 28 deaths in Ohio, 23 in lowa, 21 each in Illinois and Louisiana. Resident Os County Home Dies Friday George Troutner, 47, a resident of the Adams county home, died at 3:15 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been taken Friday morning. There are no known survivors. Funeral services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, will be held at 1-o’clock Monday afternoon at the county home. Burial will be in Mt. Tabor cemetery.

Teamsters Onion Is Hit On New Front Labor Board Rules Unfair Labor Acts Washington (up>— The trou-ble-laden Teamsters Union has been hit on another government front —- this time on charges of unfair labor practices and intimidation against its own employees. The National Labor Relations Board, in the first case of its kind, ruled unanimously Friday that the i Teamsters and its subordinate i bodies were guilty of unfair acts ■ggn employer. In another teamster development, Merlyn S. Pitzele told the Senate Labor-Management Rackets Committee he accepted retalni ens from the Teamsters Union over three years while he was chairman of the New York State . Labor Mediation Board. Pitzele, now labor editor of , “Business Week” magazine, said he received tod money from i Teamster President Dave Beck, , with Nathan W. Shefferman acting as go-between. The five-member NLRB panel said toe teamsters ih Portland, ' Ore., illegally coerced its officer workers into joining a teamsters ' local. Five women employes were fired for being active on behalf of the Office Employes International Union, toe board said. That . union was unlawfully replead by k teamsters Local 2T3 as bargaining agent for some of toe employes, it said. ■ The board also “found toe teamsters' units were guilty of other unfair labor practices including in- . timidation cf employes who had . agreed testify at an NLRB hearu the' hase. Eisenhower Spends Day Al West Point Joins Classmates Os 1915 At Academy - WEST POINT, N.Y. (UP)—President Eisenhower planned today to join fellow members of the West Point class of 1915 in presenting to toe Military Academy a commemorative drinking fountain installed at one end of toe parade field. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower arrived here Friday for toe occasion, flying up from Washington through foggy, rainy weather. They spent the night at toe Thayer Hotel on the academy grounds, after visiting with members of toe 1915 class and their families here for the presentation of toe fountain. The chief executive and his wife will attend the Army football game with Colgate, then go directly back to Washington late this afternoon. On their arrival at nearby Stewart Air Force Base Friday, toe Eisenhowers were greeted by Lt. Gen. Garrison Davidson, superintendent of the academy, and Maj. Gen. Edward H. Underhill, eastern air defense commander. Eisenhower stepped jauntily down toe ramp from the presidential airplane, the Columbine 111, a light rain pelting down upon him. He left the Columbine ahead of Mrs. Eisenhower. The President came down toe ramp without benefit of cover, but officials quickly put tip an umbrella for Mrs. Eisenhower. As she stepped carefully down toe ramp, her mink stole clutched tight about her shoulders, the President chuckled and said to Davidson: “Mamie has to come down under a bumber shoot.” There were only a few rainsoaked well-wishers alongside toe road as the presidential party drove in a dreary, wet procession from toe air base to West Point. Steeplejack Killed In Fall From Church PERU (W — James L. Andrews, 65, Logansport, fell 100 feet to his death Friday night while working as a steeplejack atop St. Charles Catholic Church here. Authorities said Andrews started to slide down a rope when a hook slipped.

Expect Zhukov To Be Dropped To Minor Post Western Diplomats Feel Test Os Power Won By Khrushchev WASHINGTON (UP) - If the official Moscow downgrading of Soviet war hero Georgi Zhukov drags on into next week, it could mean some /real resistance has developed to Nikita Khrushchev’s latest power play, American experts said today. U.S. officials felt fairly certain, however, that Communist Party chief Khrushchev has won and the Kremlin is now setting the propaganda stage to announce the ousted defense minister has a sec-ond-rater’s job — or worse. News dispatches from Paris and Belgrade indicated toe tough old warrior, who led Soviet forces in World War 11, had balked at making the public “confession” of misconduct customary for deposed Russian officials. He was removed from office last Saturday. Minor Army Job Likely Observers here agreed with reports from Soviet Embassy sources in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, that Zhukov would be assigned to an Army military administration post or to a Red Army service school. They said he also could be put in the Warsaw Pact Organization made up of Russia and its eastern European satellites. Whatever the assignment, it is to be expected it will keep him under security wraps and deprive him of any authority in the Red Army. Diplomats said it is not too surprising that a week has passed with no announcement of Zhukov’s future. They recalled that Moscow Radio held up an announcement of toe previous Khrushchev power play against Malenkov, Molotov, Kaganovich and Shepilov. Waited Four Days The decision against these former Khrushchev confidantes was announced July 3 although the action against them was taken June 29. It was some time later before new jobs in minor positions were announced for them all. If Khrushchev did hit some snags in his anti - Zhukov move, officials said this would explain why Zhukov spent eight days in Alania before returning to Moscow after his trip to Yugoslavia. Announcement that Zhukov had been “relieved” as defense minister was made as Zhukov returned to Moscow last weekend. Officials said it is hard to figure out any reason why a man qf (Continued on Page Five) Anonymous Gift To Hospital Addition ~sso Donation Made For New Addition An anonymous gift of SSO has been given to toe new hospital addition in appreciation for hospital services, the board of trustees announced today. The person making the donation explained that she did not have the means to give a room, but that she was very appreciative of the attention she had received, and wished to make a small gift. The hospital board announced that the gift would be used to furnish one of toe many needed smaller articles for the new addition. The Business and Professional Woman’s club of Decatur hlso gave SSO. The iron railing work donated by the Gilpin Ornamental Iron Co., has now been installed at the front entrance of toe building and at the steps on the walk halfway to the building. , • The floor in the new office addition will soon be completed, and following that the plumbing will be installed. The office may be in use by the middle of November. The entire new addition should be ready by early next year.

Proposes Congress Probe Gift Problem New Study Urged On Gifts To Officials WASHINGTON (UP)-Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) called today for a “fresh look” by Congress at gifts to government officials. Keating, senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, proposed that It study “the entire B gift question” to see if any new f laws are needed or old ones need z changing. I The New York congressman said 5 in an interview that there is "ap--1 parently a lot of confusion” over • what gifts can be aecepted. He said Congress should provide some • “guidelines” because in some bor- ' derline cases conscience is the - only guide. No Double Standard - As chairman of an investigating ■ subcommittee in 1953, Keating was i sharply critical of gifts to some: J Truman administration officials. | 1 “Just exactly the same standards 1 should apply to Republicans as to ‘ Democrats," he said. ' “No gift should be accepted 1 which could possibly Influence ac- ' tion, either by one in the execu- - five branch or toe legislative branch.” The gift issue came up this week ‘ wfeen the State Department w 1 moved Victor Purse as its deputy ‘ chief of protocol after his family 1 accepted a $3,000 car front Aka- • bla’s King Saud. Purse, reas--1 signed to another job, entered a 1 hospital Friday suffering from r nervous exhaustion. Mamie Accepted Coat s Another gift made news when 1 Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower accepted | a beaver coat. The pelts for the 1 SI,BOO coat were given by Maine trappers, and toe First Lady paid - $385 to have them made into a 1 coat. 5 Asked to comment on the Purse - case, Keating said, “as a member • of Congress I would not accept a ' car from any foreign country." In reply to a question about Mrs. Eisenhower’s coat, Keating said “it would be inappropriate and un- • gracious for me to comment” But 1 he added "she paid many times • what I ever paid for a coat.” k k k -- ....... ' ' I Perilous Landing ' By Crippled Plane i Lands Globemaster At McMurdo Sound MCMURDO SOUND, Antarctica i (UP)—Capt. James Thomas said today it was a question of “now or never" when he wrestled his crippled Globemaster in for a safe landing at McMurdo under what veteran polar pilots said were the worst conditions they had ever seen. * Thomas, of Masury, Ohio, landed toe giant C 124 transport on the snow and wind swept ice runway after hours of battling against the weather with three engines. The perilous landing on toe ice runway ended 13 suspenseful hours for the 12 men aboard and everyone at this U.S. Navy base in the Antarctic. His first words to ground crewmen were: “I’m shook.” i The Globemaster lost its No. 1 > engine on toe return leg of a 1,600 , mile flight to airdrop supplies to ' the U.S. Byrd Station. When it first i arrived over McMurdo, it found the base hidden under a 10,000-foot overcast. For several hours, the plane circled overhead waiting for a break in the weather. The weather aloft had cleared before Thomas began his landing attempt but snow and wind still swept across the ground. Thomas brought toe plane in on his third approach, battling a cross wind that ranged from gusts of 50 ; to 100 miles an hour. Visibility was , almost zero because of a 100-foot blanket of snow blowing across the ’ strip. “The tower kept telling me ‘turn right, turn right’,” he said. “I tried to turn but it wouldn’t go.” He said he had to “fight like mad” to get the plane down on his third and final attempt "because I (OowtJnued on Page iFlva)

Two Convicted On Charge Os Embezzlement Smith, Peak Found Guilty Doggett And ‘ Teverbaugh Freed ; INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Form- . ney Robert Peak were convicted today by a jury on charges of con- ’ spiring to embezzle 125,800 of state funds. ; Nile Teverbaugh and Harry Doggett, former top men in the highway department's right-of-way diviision, were acquitted of charges they participated in the embezzlement plot. , Nine and one-half hours after they received the case late Friday, the jury of 12 men returned 1 a verdict finding half the four defendants in the four-week Indiana ' highway scandal conspiracy trial guilty as charged and the other * two innocent. ;l Expected To Appeal . Smith's and Peak's attorneys , were expected to appeal their convictions, which carry mandatory ■ prison terms of 2 to 14 years. The ; jury recommended a $5,000 fine ■ to ; The verdict *» retd > 1 and'peck 1 flushed and was near tears when a clerk read the findings. The 48-year-old Teverbaugh, who > claimed in testimony in his own 1 defense that he bought two back ■ lots on Madison Ave. in Indiaha- • (polls as an investment for the edu--1 cation of his grandson, Kerry Dean 1 Burton, said he was “always confident of the outcome, or nearly 1 always. Doggett said he was "numb.” “I still have another indictment hanging over my head," he said. Tried Only for Conspiracy The Marlon County grand jury which indicted the four men accused them of various charges. But they were tried only on the conspiracy charge. The verdict ended a trial which began Oct 1 in which the state tried to prove that Smith, Peak, Teverbaugh and Doggett got their heads together and deliberately plotted to embezzle from the state by buying the two backyards along an expressway route for $2,500 and selling them to the state for a middleman profit of $23,300. Jury foreman William Dismore revealed that the jurors voted unanimously on the first ballot to convict Smith and Peak. A 9-3 vote to convict Teverbaugh was returned on the first ballot and acquittal was voted after more than 15 ballots. Jurors inaicatea Doggett s rate hinged on resolving a Teverbaugh verdict. After Teverbaugh was found innocent, a single written ballot on the Doggett issue resulted in a 12-0 vote for acquittal. — Woman Juror DI The jury received the case at 8:18 p.m. It actually deliberated only about six hours, taking breaks for dinner, a midnight snack and the seating of an alternate juror to replace Mrs. Margaret Knaeur, the panel’s only woman, who became ill. Prosecutor John O. Tinder said he was not disappointed by the outcome. The convictions of Smith, a top man in the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig, and Peak, Smith's hometown friend and business associate from Milan, were the first to result from the highway scandals which broke last April 10 when newspapers told of strange goings-on in land deals on Madison Ave. The scandals eventually spread to include questionable purchases in other areas of Indiana, including Lake County, where a series of quick land deals dealt big profits to several persons. Lake County grand jurors and a U. S. Senate subcommittee investigated reports that among those whoprofited on Gary expressway sales were fou* top officers of the International Brotherhood of Carpenters. The carpenters officers refused to

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