Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 269, Decatur, Adams County, 14 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No 269.

UNSAVORY BUSINESS ANTHONY MONTESANO (left) and his brother, John, of East Meadow, L. 1., joined a long procession of-witnesses before the Senate rackets investigation in Washington, in its inquiry into the intensely profitable business of garbage collection. The Montesanos told of a pal of murdered New York gangster Albert Anastasia usurping control of Nassau County's scavenging operations while posing in 1954 as a labor consultant.

Billion Dollar Hike Likely In Defense Budget Increased Budget Under Discussion By Ike, Advisers ■. WASHINGTON (UP)—Prefldent Eisenhower discussed with his security advisers today a defense budget which is expected to go up about (me billion dollars next year. He did so at a National Security Council session which Press Secretary James C. Hagerty described as “another discussion" of defense spending Sitting in were William M. Holaday. Defense Department missiles chief, and W. J. McNeil, Defense Department comptroller. A lot of work remains to be done on the budget for the fiscal year starting July 1. But a high official said the administration has scrapped the once-proposed 38-bil-lioft-doHar ceiling for military spending. It appeared a tentative decision has been reached to boost spending by about a billion dollars in the new yea/. Tax Boost, Says Truman A tough problem for the administration, and Congress, is what domestic federal activities must be cut or abandoned to provide more cash for defense research and development. The President said in Oklahoma City Wednesday night that this must be done. Meanwhile: —Former President Truman said in New York Americans will have to accept higher taxes to pay for efforts to catch up with Soviet missile development He said “the bills are going to have to be paid" and that means a tax boost. —B. D. Thomas, director of Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus. Ohio, said this country can’t expect to produce all the scientists it needs if it keeps on ridiculing them as “eggheads” and “longhairs." —Ray Farabee, University of Texas law student and president of the National Student Assn., said U. S education should be improved. But he said it must not be changed to ape Russia’s “science - centered vocational education.” Indications were the administration will ask Congress for about 39 billion dollars in actual defense appropriations next year — also an increase of one billion dollars above previous plans. This would be one billion dollars more than requested last year and three billion more than Congress approved. Military Cuts Planned The Defense Department is planning to go ahead with plans to cut the size of the armed forces to 2,600,000 men by next July 1 and reduce civilian employment by 70,000. Some programs deemed “obsolete” also may be cut back to save money for costlier weapons and military pay raises. President Eisenhower said Wednesday night “every* dime possible” will be saved in military programs to meet the "very considerable increase” in other defense spending needed to counter the Russian threat to U.S. security. There were these other develop(Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cooler tonight and Friday. Low tonight in the 40s. High Friday ranging from the 40s north to the 50s extreme south. Sunset today 5:31 Sunrise Friday 7:29 a.m. Outlook for Satur- ' day: Cloudy and cold with oc*w»n. I>ws Friday night mid-40s. Highs Saturday low 50a.

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General LeMay Sets Non-Stop Jet Mark Sets Second Record For Return Flight WASHINGTON (UP)-Gen. Curtis E. LeMay completed a 5,204mile trip from Buenos Aires in 11 hours and 5 minutes Wednesday to establish a hard-to-beat speed mark for a non-stop jet flight. LeMay on Tuesday set a new long distance record of 6,300 miles from Westover Air Force Base, Mass , to Buenos Aires. LeMay, Air Force vice chief of staff and former head of the Strategic Air Command, made the two-way flight in a four-jet MCI3S tanker plane. He said it proved that U. S. bombers can "go any place you want" and will not be outmoded by missiles for a “long time to come.” The Buenos Aires-to-Washington flight established the first speed record for a non-stop jet flight between the two capitals. The Westover-to-Buenos Aires hop set a long distance record for jet planes without refueling. The feats coincided with an 8,100-mile flight from California to the Philippines by three 866 bombers of the U. S. Tactical Air Command in another show of global strength. These planes were refueled enroute before landing in the Philippines. The 866 s are twin-jet medium bombers capable of carrying atomic weapons. LeMay’s KCI3S tanker is designed for refueling hydrogen bombers and is the military version of the Boeing 707 jet liner scheduled for use by U- S. airlines next year. LeMay’s average speed on the return from Buenos Aires was 469.5 miles an hour, not quite as good as the 490-miles-an-hour he averag/d on the 13 hour 2-minute dinner-to-breakfast trip to the Argentine capital Tuesday. The jaunty, cigar-smoking Air Force general scarcely had (Continued on Page Five) Nearly Six Million Flu Cases In U.S. Number Os States Report Decreases WASHINGTON W — The Public Health Service reported today that another 1,100,000 persons in 38 states were stricken with various types of influenza last week. This brought to 5,850,000 the number of cases reported since the outbreak of Asian flu last summer. The service had no breakdown on how many of the total influenza cases were of the Asian variety. Most persons afflicted with influenza do not undergo the laboratory tests necessary to determine the exact cause. The report said that 887 deaths in 114 large cities occurred as the result of influenza and pneumonia This was an increase of only about. 4 per cent, compared with an 11 per cent rise during the previous week. — —' The number of deaths last week was about three times higher, however, than the total for the same week of last year. The service said that since Sept. 1, there have been 2,410 more deaths from influenza and pneumonia than occurred during the same period of last year. It said nearly 90 per cent of this increase occurred in the past six weeks. It said that although the incidence of flu “remains high,” a number of states reported decreases. A few states reported absenteeism among industrial workers rose slightly.

France Warns Against Arms For Tunisia Foreign Minister Pineau Seeking To Straighten Crisis PARIS (UP) - Foreign Minister Christian Pineau said today he would fly to Washington Friday to try to straighten out a crista in Franco-American relations .over U.S. arms to Tunisia. Pineau warned that the supply of American arms to the one-time French protectorate would amount to a breach of Atlantic solidarity. His statement underlined the gravity of a situation which sent U.S. Ambassador Amory Houghton calling on Premier Felix Gaillard at 2 a.m. today and again at 7 am. Pineau told the National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee the French government formally requested the United States and Britain not to give arms to Tunisia. France is afraid any arms received by Tunisia will be used to support the nationalist rebellion in neighboring Algeria. Tunisia said it needs arms to protect itself •gainst French border incidents and said It would go to the Soviet Union if the West does not pro- ■ vide the arms. A member of the Foreign Afi fairs Committee said Pineau told ■ the committee the United States ■ had not yet sent arms to Tunisia. ■ Other sources said Houghton informed Gaillard a Russian ship ’ was now en route to Tunisia with 1 a shipment of arms. So far. Pineau said today, the United States has only the inten- ' tion of arming Tunisia. "But if the United States did ' send Tunisia arms against our 1 protestations then we would conl sider it a gesture running counter ’ to the principle of Atlantic soli--1 arity.” I He then told the committee he would leave for Washington Frii day to inform the State DepartI ment in person of the storm that Hew up in France oyer Houghton’s Information that Tunisia soon 1 would receive Western arms. ’ Both the United States and Italy have been asked by Tunisia to supply it® army with weapons and supplies Tunisia asked France soon after it became independent on March 17, 1956, and then turned to other western nations. Tunisia accepted an Egyptian offer to send arms and signed an agreement in September for $1,900,000 in trade with Communist Czechoslovakia which special- ' izes in arms manufacture. The question of arms for Tunisia is an explosive one in France. Reports of an arms deal between Tunisia and Italy helped bring down the government of Premier Maurice Bourges - Maunoury on Sept. 30. x The latest developments hit Gaillard when he was facing a series of economic problems. While Gaillard was talking with Houghton this morning the Finance Committee of the National Assembly voted him special economic powers 17 to 16 with 11 abstentions. But the committee refused him full authority in matters of taxation. Garcia Smashing To Landslide Victory Incumbent Leading By 300,000 Votes MANILA President CarIbs P. Garcia and his pro American Nacionalista Party smashed toward a landslide victory today in the Philippine elections. With *SO per cent of about five million votes counted the 61-year-old president was leading his closest rival, Liberal Party sugar baron Jose Yulo, by 300,000. And the lead was growing steadily. The Nacionalista Party, rejuvenated in 1955 by the late antiCommunist President Ramon Magsaysay, also was assured of absolute majorities again in the house and senate. The only setback for the Nacionalistas was the alomst sure triumph of liberal Diosdado Macapagal over Jose B. Laurel Jr. for the vice presidency. Eight senate seats were at stake. The Nacionalistas were leading for six and the Liberals for two. In the house races, in which all 102 seats were at stake, the Nacionalistas had clinched 80 up to this morning and stood a chance of winning more. Communications lines downed by typhoon Kit, which left 19 dead and many missing a;,# swept through Central Luzon on election day Tuesday, delayed compilation of returns.

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President Eisenhower Challenges Congress Put Security First

Propose More, Nations Added To Commission Propose Addition Os 10 To U. N/s Disarmament Group UNITED NATIONS (W — Canada and Japan today sponsored a> resolution in the General Assembly proposing addition of 10 countries to the United Nations Disarmament Commission. The move was taken to forestall Russia’s threat to boycott further arms talks unless the composition of the present 12-nation commission is changed. The resolution was agreed upon in a series of conferences which continued beyond the meeting time of the General Assembly this morning. While the assembly considered arrangements between the U.N. and the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency, the major powers went on with private talks. The assembly unanimously approved the arrangements in three separate resolutions. __ The Western powers refused to agree to India's demand that Egypt be given a place in thw expanded Disarmament Commission, which will comprise 21 members— including the 11 countries in the Security Council—when it gets down to work next year. As a result, India did not appear as a sponsor in the resolution which nominated Belgium, Italy, Brazil. Argentina, India, Burma, Tunisia, Australia, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. India wanted Tunisia replaced because of its stand on the Western side in the arms impasse. Also up for consideration by the Assembly was a 24-power resolution, approved by the Political Committee 57-9 last week, endorsing the Western disarmament plan put to Russia in London this summer. The Western powers agreed in principal to 10 more nations being added to the Disarmament Commission. Russia threatened to boycott disarmament debates unless the commission were expanded to include all 82 nations but the West felt it might compromise. The present commission is composed of the 11 members of the Security Council plus Canada. There was general agreement to <Cont»nu«o on Fuse Four) Study Junior C.C. Chapter In Decatur Meet Tuesday Night On Possible Chapter A group of Decatur young men will meet Tuesday evening to hear reasons why Decatur should form a chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, it was learned here today. The meeting will be at the Decatur youth and community center at 8 p.m. Tuesday. Officers of the 'lndiana Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Marion Jaycees will be on hand to explain the purposes and operation of the organization, and to answer questions as to why Decatur should have a junior Chamber. The Jaycee movement extends to 60 countries throughout the world, with more than 200,000 members in some 3,500 cities and towns in the United States. In brief the objectives of the Junior Chamber of Commerce are four-fold: (1) To Make Decatur a better place in which to live. (2) To develop leadership among its membership. (3) Offer education, recreation, and social activities to men of similar age. • (4) To give young men a voice In the affairs of their community, state, and nation.

Severe Storm Hits In Southern States Sections Os Four States Battered By UNITED PRESS Tornadoes swept from a line of squalls across the western Gulf region Wednesday night, and torrential rains threatened new flooding along the Gulf Coast. A severe storm front battered sections of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas- At least , one death was blamed on the storm. Elsewhere, unstable weather conditions produced snow flurries at higher elevations in the northern and central Plateau and the Rockies, and rain and blinding fog in sections of the Midwest. Several small but damaging twisters struck in Southwest and south central Louisiana. It was the second time in a week parts of Louisiana and Texas have been damaged by a barrage of late season tornadoes. A Navy petty officer was killed i near Newport, Ark., when his car collided with a truck during a driving rainstorm. Weathermen warned of possible flooding along the Red River at Alexandria, La., which suffered severe tornado damage last week. Flooding blamed on heavy rains forced some families to leave their homes at Malvern, Ark., and 15 to 20 families were expected to be "(evacuated ■<today in Paragould, Ark. Rain fronj four to six inches delugd northeast Arkansas, closing several highways and causing a flood threat on the Ouachita River. The rainfall area extended as far north as most of Minnesota and upper Michigan- Dense fog during the night blanketed much of the eastern Plains, the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes, reducing visibility to zero at many points. The moisture - laden southerly winds raised temperatures in the Northeast, with temperatures in the 40s reported in parts of New England and lows in the 50s across the southern Great Lakes. However, readings skidded into the 20s in parts of North Dakota and the Rockies. Says Ike Late On Bipartisan Policy Truman Concerned Over Civil Rights NEW YORK (UP) — Former President Truman said Wednesday night "it’s a little late” for the Eisenhower administration to start toward a bipartisan foreign policy. "The administration inherited a bipartisan policy and then threw it out the window,” Truman told newsmen before a dinner at which he received the fourth annual Human Rights Award of the Joint Defense Appeal. “It’s a little late to start now.” Asked how he felt about Adlai E. Stevenson’s agreement to discuss — but not formulate—policy with the State Department, Truman said: “It’s a choice a man has to make himself, and I’m very satisfied he can make a contribution and he will. He’s a fine gentleman, and I like him.” He said neither he nor former Secretary of State Dean Acheson had been asked to consult with the administration. Truman told the award dinner that he was more concerned with the extension of civil rights to all Americans than with catching up in the Sputnik race. “Don’t worry about the Sputniks,” Truman told his listeners“We can take care of that situation. Let’s make sure we preserve the greatest inspiration we can give the world, the liberties and the rights we profess through one of the most wonderful documents in the world — the Constitution of the United States." The JDA, fund-raising arm of the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’Nai B’Rith, presented Truman with a bronze plaque. 12 ?Hges

Israel, Syria Seek To Ease Border Strife 1 Mixed Armistice Commission Holds Emergency Session By WALTER LOGAN : United Press Staff Correspondent » Israeli and Syrian representa- ; tives met today in an emergency . session of the Mixed Armistice . Commission to try to straighten out border difficulties that have threatened to blow up into a bor- ; der war. The border meeting, first since - 1955, was called by Syria to pro- > test an alleged incident in which l Israeli troops fired on Syrians at . a border village. Israel submitted a counter complaint that Syrian 1 troops killed one Israeli policeman ■ and wounded six on Nov. 6 . , Israel followed this up today by announcing that four Israeli po- > licemen were wounded slightly t Wednesday when their truck [ struck a mine northeast of the Dan s e 111 ement in the demilis tarized zone near the border. Moscow Radio meanwhile hami. mered away at King Hussein of . Jordan in an effort to undermine , his throne and reported he was a virtual’ priaoner in hta palace. A broadcast beamed to the Middle East Arab nations painted a picture of Jordan bordering on the brink of revolution. The Soviet propaganda blast paralleled similar blasts from Syria and Egypt. The Moscow broadcast, like those from Cairo, were directed at the Palestinian refugees in an effort to rouse them to action against the King. Hussein took official notice of the Syrian-Egyptian propaganda campaign Wednesday and told a news conference that both Egypt and Syria were instruments of international communism and said both nations have tried “every i method—lies, rumors and propaganda — and attacks on various people to change our government.” Mrs. Mary Syphers Dies This Morning Former Operator Os Willshire Grocery Mrs. Mary Nettie Syphers, 84, a resident of the Willshire,* 0., community most of her life, died at 12:08 o’clock this morning at Van Wert, 0., where she had lived for the past 17 years. Death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. She had been ill for five years and serious for the past 12 days. Mrs. Syphers and. her late husband, Grant M. Syphers, operated a grocery store in Willshire for a number of years. She was born in Willshire township Qct. 20, 1873, a daughter of William and Eliza Bowen-Cully, and was married to Grant M. Synhers in 1890. He preceded her in death in 1950. Mrs. Syphers was a member of the First Methodist church at Van Wert and the WSCS of the church. A charter member of the Pythian Sisters at Willshire, she transferred to the Van Wert temple, where she was recently made a life ' member . —" Surviving are one brother, Clark Cully of Willshire township; one ■ sister, Mrs. George Albright of i Van Wert: a nephew, Robert Cully i of Van Wert county, and a niece, I Mrs. Harold Friend of Toledo, 0. ' Three sisters preceded her in' ’ deaths. Funeral services will be held at , 2 p.m. Saturday at the Cowan & ' Son funeral home in Van Wert, , Dr. Paul D. Childs officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Wert. Friends max, call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. »

Five Dutch Soldiers Are Killed By Plane* U. S. Jet Fighter Crashes Barracks BUSSUM, Holland (IP) — A U. S. Air Force jet fighter plane crashed into a Dutch army barracks today. First reports said five Dutch soldiers were killed and “scores" injured. The reports said the American pilot parachuted to safety before , the crash. x The plane involved was an FIOOC Super Sabrejet stationed at the U. S. air base at Soeasterberg, Holland. While in flight, it developed trouble a short distance from the airfield. The pilot, Ist Lt. Rizik Abraham Mohammed, Southampton, N. Y., radioed he was bailing out. He parachuted to safety in nearby Hilversum. His plane continued on for a few minutes without a pilot. It passed over densely populated areas and finally crashed on the barracks . grounds. The plane exploded and set two , barracks buildings afire. Fierce J flames hampered rescue efforts, . and it took firemen more than an hour to put out the blaze. The . victims were rushed to hospit- ' als. Several private houses along a nearby road also were damaged. Mohammed’s ejection seat landed in the kitchen of a Hilversum house without Injuring anyone. Annual Christmas Seal Sale Underway Annual Campaign Os TB Association Robert Zwick, president of the Adams county tuberculosis association, announced today that the annual mailing of Christmas seals is underway and more than 6,000 local residents will be receiving the seals in the next day or so. Also mailed out, as in past years, were health bonds which are sent to various organizations throughout the county. Zwick stated that any person who has not received the seals and wishes to obtain them may do so through any school in the county. The work of preparing the seals and bonds for mailing and addressing envelopes was handled by members of the commercial department of Decatur high school, under the direction of Maynard Hetrick. The sale of Christmas seals each year Is the only fund raising project of the association in Adams county. Money raised by the sale is used to finance the association’s projects which include free cehst X-ray service offered throughout the county, education and research and patch testing in local schools. Show Art Exhibit Here This Evening An art exhibit, organized under the sponsorship of the Adams county art association, will be featured at the Decatur Youth and Community Center this evening in conjunction with the American education week banquet which begins at 6:30 p.m. The exhibit will include the work of students In elementary and high school grades. Among the teachers who have assisted in preparing the exliibit are Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art superivsor of the Decatur public schools; Mrs. Evelyn Detter, assistant art supervisor at the Nortawest elementary school, and Hubert Feasel, art supervisor at Ac»ms Central school. The banquet is being sponsored by several organizations including the Decatur school board and faculty, the Decatur P. T. A. groups, the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, the Business and Pro- ’ fessional Women’s club, the Det catur Women’s club, and the Lions and Rotary clubs.

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Americans Are Given Warning Os High Costs Eisenhower Speaks In Oklahoma City On Security Need WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower threw an explosive challenge to Congress today with his warning to Americans they must pay a “vary considerable” price to neutralize Russia's missile threat including sacrifice of less essential government services. The President returned to the capital early today from Oklahoma City where he told the nation in a , second “chins up” radio and television address national security must always be “first of al) firsts.” To achieve “adequate security” the President said more money must be poured into maintenance of the Strategic Air Command at peak nuclear-retaliatory strength, and into the nation’s aerial defense system. He said the US. space program will involve additional expense and more must be spent on basic research and producing more scientists. Although Eisenhower gave no idea of the exact additional cost involved, it appeared, next year’s defense spending budget may be Irked about one billion dollar; to 39 billion. More discussion of this -- was expected during this mom- , Ing's National Security Council meeting. Curtail Other Spending The big question he left hanging was where the money will come from. He made no mention of a tax increase. He said it must come from large savings achieved “only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activity Presumably the President will make recommendations to Congress on what should be‘junked. Possible targets which would stir up a stiff fight if curtailed Include segments of the huge agriculture program, public works, housing and slum clearance and veterans benefits. Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney (DWyo.) cautioned against chopping domestic programs which produce “new wealth and new income." He disagreed with the President’s statement that “most emphatically" the answer does not lie in cutting foreign aid spending. “There is a great deal to be spelled out,” said Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark). He added: “There is still something lacking.” House Speaker Sam Rayburn <D-Tex.) said the second speech by the President was a “very good statement of our needs and what we all have to do.” He said “we better get to it as quickly as possible." Spur Science Education The President said the “most critical” need of the nation is to produce more scientists to match Russia’s superior output of highly trained technicians and engineers in the “age of the intercontinental ballistic missile.” Rep. John W. Heselton (RMass.) said he is drafting legislation to spur science education. He did not elaborate. Dr. 11. Rabi, head of the President’s Scientific Advisory Committee, has proposed a federal inducement for students to take up science. It would give SSOO scholarships to high school graduates who pass a national math test. Sen. Wallace F. Bennett <RUtah)said the President was "realistic.” He showed “we can’t create scientists overnight by sticking great sums of money into a machine.” Bennett said. To Sen. Pat McNamara <DMich.), Eisenhower said “a lot of things that a lot of us were'saying when we were working on the last budget.” He said the President “apparently now recognizes the fact that no matter how much we hate it, we’re going to have to spend as much as takes to guarantee security.” Ike Pledges Economy In the speech at Oklahoma City, the President pledged his admin(ConHnued on Par* Ffw)