Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 14.

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Benson Asks Approval For Farm Program Asks Congress Give Prompt Approval To Administration Plan WASHINGTON <UP)—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson today asked Congress for prompt approval of the administration’s plans to reduce the farmer's dependence on government. He said he must be given ‘‘administrative discretion" to reduce price supports on basic crops. Benson urged action “in the first months of this session” on the farm program submitted to Congress Thursday by President Eisenhower. The secretary launched his fight for the program before the! Senate Agriculture Committee. Hie committee’s chairman. Sen. Allen J Ellender (D-LA.), already has said the program has “absolutely no chance’* of , congressional approval. Congressional farm leaders have attacked the one-day-old program variously as “old biscuits hardly warmed up” and “the same old poison." Repeal Escalator Clause But Benson said that Congress must face up to the “unpleasant fact” that the present federal price support program for agriculture “has not solved the farm problem,” “And,” he added, “it has been an expensive effort.” Benson told the committee that he must be given “administrative discretion” to reduce price supports on cotton, corn, wheat, peanuts. rice, tobacco, and dairy products as low as 60 per cent of parity, defined as the “fair earning power" price level. Present law provides a 75-90 per cent of parity support range for these crops. President Eisenhower asked that the range be widened to 60-90 per centBenson added to this that it is “essential" that Congress repeal an “escalator” formula in the law. This formula provides that supports for wheats corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, and tobacco go up automatically when surpluses des cline and go down when surpluses mount. In addition to these changes, Benson asked authority to boost planting allotments on wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, and tobacco as much as 50 per cent above levels provided by current formulas. Corn planting controls, he said, should be dropped altogether. Defends Support Plan Benson, apparently in answer to Ellender’s charge that the new price support authority would make him a “czar” said that he has “no desire” for personal power “beyond what is needed for a sound operation of programs." He suggested that Congress expand the membership of an Agriculture Department advisory board and require him by law to consult with the board on planting allotments and price supports. Benson indirectly conceded that some farmers may object to the new price support program. “At times they may have to sacrifice what may appear to be short term advantages in order to insure (their) rights for the.fu; tore,” he said. Benson said the “wider range" of price supports would help farmers in the long run because the present range is “too narrow to permit the expansion of markets needed to absorb the increased production which our farms will likely produce.” f ~ Benson Said acreage control programs of the past have failed because “we have tried to concontinued on page five)

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Berserk Gunman Is Nabbed In Chicago Critically Wounded In Blazing Gun Duel CHICAGO (UP)—A berserk gunman barricaded himself in a second floor apartment Thursday and held off 50 policemen in a tense 45-minute gun duel before he was shot and critically wounded. Leo Phillips, 36, was cut down ’ by seven police bullets and was ■ taken to Cook County Hospital - where he was described in critical ’ condition. Phillips appeared in Monroe Street Court Thursday morning on a complaint by his sister, Girdis Phillips, who charged he had threatened to take his life. Judge William Barth recommended psychiatric treatment, but Phillips broke away from his sister and disappeared. He fled to the home of another sister, Mrs. Gerdene Armstead, drew a gun and again threatened suicide. ' . . Mrs. Armstead said Phillips opened fire on her when she tried to call police and she fled screaming to the street. Neighbors called police who were met by a fusillade of bullets from Phillips who was hiding in the apartment entrance. Police returned fire and Phillips fled to a second floor apartment and locked himself in. a Ten squads of police rushed to the scene and routed Phillips from the apartment with tear gas But Phillips took up a new position behind boxes of furniture in a lobby of the building and continued firing when police tried to approach him. While his attention was distracted, a ’Squad of officers crept up on Phillips from behind and shot him down. Authorities said they found Phillips was well fortified with ammunition and still had four rounds left when the battle ended. t One policeman suffered a cut thumb from flying glass. Probe Union Angle In Road Scandals Loke County Officer To Testify Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS (IP) — A Marion County grand jury w’ill have as an Indiana highway scandal witness next Tuesday the Lake County ‘officialwho revealed the return to the state of nearly SBO,OOO in profits made on nine “quickie’ 1 right-of-way land deals. „ Prosecutor John G. Tinder said he had assurance from Lake County Prosecutor Metro Holovachka and his chief deputy, Floyd Vance, will appear before the jurors. On the same day. Tinder said, 13 other witnesses will appear; most of them less officials of Carpenters Union locals in Indianapolis. Last year, Holovachka disclosed that an attorney for Frank Chapman, secretary-treasurer of the carpenters international union, had handed Holovachka a check representing the amount of profit Chapman was alleged to have made in buying land along the proposed Gary Expressway route and selling it to .the state. The money was returned as a Lake County grand jury investigated local angles in the highway paurnjaj Xunf aqj, -sauojs pjpueas no indictments and explained the alleged deals were consummated in Indianapolis and not in Lake County. Tinder as the Marion County jurors continued their (Continued on page eight)

Demand Review Os Waste In Military Aid Complete Review Os Waste Is Demanded By House Committee WASHINGTON (UP)—The House Government Operations Committee today demanded a "complete review” of waste In the U.S. military aid program, including purchase of an 84-years supply of boiled linseed oil for an Army base in Germany. The committee also wants further inquiry into: Turning U.S-built bases over to the British without being paid for any of the usable buildings and equipment left cm the land. - —Building an airbase in Spain alongside a civilian airport which interfered with takeoffs and landings. —Paying rent on 112 million dollars worth of machine tools this nation had earlier handed over to Britain as a gift. A committee report issued Thursday asked “how much of the 24 billion dollars appropriated by the Congress for this (military aid) program has been wasted?” The question indicated? Congress will give a critical eye to President Eisenhower's expected request this year for nearly four billion dollars in additional overseas military aid funds. The report was written by a subcommittee headed by Rep. Dante B. Fascell which held open hearings in England, France, 1 Italy and Germany. In Germany, it said, Army procurement headquarters at Heidelberg bought an 84-years supply of boiled linseed oil and 100 tons of nails. Afhe subcommittee said the Army explained it was using up some German Deutsche marks before a deadline on their expenditure expired. It said the Army had hoped to use the oil and nails elsewhere but must first negotiate to get around an agreement that items bought with Deutsche marks cannot be taken out of Germany. In the meantime, it noted, the Army was paying for warehousing, inventory and handling- — The committee urged that the government take “immediate action” to obtain an agreement with Britain on payment for usable facilities, buildings and equipment left on American - built installations. It said "several hundred million dollars” was spent onbaseswhich have been or are being returned to the British. Hie report also criticized “tremendous financial losses” it said were incurred by granting military aid on political grounds. It said that in some cases such (Continued on page srix) Small Test Rocket Fired At Canaveral Carrying Parts Os Solid Fuel Missile CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (TO — A small test rocket carrying parts of the Navy’s solid fuel Polaris missile flashed up with a roar from Cape Canaveral today. A Department of Defense announcement called the rocket “a test vehicle in the Polaris program.” and said it was fired a’ 6:59 a.m. c.s.t. It was impossible to see th rocket leave the ground, presumably because it got off so fast. Bul high in the blue sky the zooming projectile left a white smoke trail and a brief roar was heard. The Polaris is an intermediate range ground - to - ground missile capable of being fired from submarines beneath the surface... of the water. Its range is about 1,50 C miles. The Polaris is different from the ballistic missiles so far under development. It has a solid rather than a liquid propellant. The Army Jupiter intermediate range missile and the Air Force ’Dior IRBM, as well as the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, all have liquid fuels. The Army, meanwhile, was believed working on its big Jupiter C satellite carrier not far from where the Navy Vanguard is being readied in its gantry tower. But launching of either rocket was not believed imminent. —ll 1 " “ INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional snow tonight and Saturday. A little colder most sections. Low tonight 22-28. High Saturday 2534. Sunset today 7:47 p.m. Sunrise Saturday :03 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Cloudy and cold with scattered snow flurries. Lows Saturday night 18-25. Highs Sunday 22-30.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 17, 1958

Missile Builder Hits Delay And Indecision From Defense Heads

U.S. Details 1 Proposals For Space Control Works On Detailed Plans If Agreement Made With Russians | WASHINGTON (IP) — The United States is working on detailed proposals to put outer space under international control for peace if Russia agrees, it was disclosed today. So far the Russians have dodged repeated American efforts to . work jointly on the outer space project. Officials said studies inside the government are progressing slowly toward a “final report” despite Moscow’s seeming unwillingness to join. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Thursday openly prodded the Russian leaders to begin work now on outer space controls. This general idea was put forward last week end by President Eisenhower in his reply to Soviet, Premier Nikolai Bulganin. The President gave no details pending the outcome of administration studies. Russia’s attitude on outer space proposals may play ans important role in determining its interest in negotiating agreements at a possible ehiefs-of-state “summit” conference. Speaking before the National Press Club, Dulles said "the time to move is now, in th# infancy of this art of penetrating the atmosphere and reaching outer space.” Control action should be taken, he said, while missiles are “large, cumbersome, and cannot be concealed even from the most superficial form of in-, spection from the air.” He suggested outer space con- , trols be placed under an interna-1 tional commission, preferably un-' der United Nations auspices. The United States on several occasions has suggested quick action on outer space controls. The last occasion, prior to the President’s letter to Bulganin, was in the United Nations on Oct. 10, 1957. This government proposed that a technical committee 1 (Continued on page eight) j < Fort Wayne Student • I Is Contest Winner 1 Group Rotary Speech j Contest Held Here - i Miss Janet Gieseking, a senior at Fort Wayne Central high j school, won the group Rotary 1 speech contest, held Thursday ] evening at the weekly dinner 1 meeting of the Decatur Rotary ( dub at the Youth and Commun- > ity Center. * j Miss Gieseking, 17, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. J.j Gieseking of Fort Wayne. Her , instructor is Janjes S. McFadden, ‘ teacher of speech at Central high school. , Miss Barbara Kalver, Decatur j high school student and daughter,] of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kalver, was adjudged second. Both first and ( second place winners were award- 1 ed medals for their performance. < Other contestants were Jim ■ Grant, Columbia City; Miss Nor- 1 ma Lehman, Berne, and Miss Patsy Fryback, Liberty Center, representing the Bluffton Rotary club. x Miss Gieseking will now com l pete in the sectional contest, date for which will be announced by Clarence Ziner, of this city, district Rotary governor, following i completion of other group con-h tests. 11 Winners of the three sectional : speech contests will compete for| the district title at the annual dis- d trlct conference, which will be ’ held in Fort Wayne in April. ij Frank Noble, of Berne, area < chairman, was in charge of last night’s contest and program. I]

Candidate '■ - ■ K T f ■■ Jr Roland J. Miller Roland J. Miller Seeks Nomination Asks Second Term As Commissioner Roland J. Miller, president of 1 the dkoard of county commissioners and serving his first term on that board, today became the first Republican to announce his candidacy. Miller is a St. Mary's townfarmer and has betn active in Republican politics f<4r a long time. There are two Democrats seeking the same post at the present. Miller is the first Republican to held a commissioner’s post in many years. The candidate said he would make an active campaign throughout the county and if successful would continue to give his best service to all the people of the county. Storm Persists Off New England Coast Light Precipitation In Much Os Section By UNITED PRESS A persistent storm center off the New England Coast doused the Northeast with a third straight day of snow, rain and drizzle. Most precipitation amounts were light along the North Atlantic Coast states Thursday night and early today, generally measuring under .1 of an inch. Cloudy skies blanketed much of the area from the northern Plains, across the Great Lakes and south to the Ohio Valley and Tennessee, with occasional light snow flurries reported throughout the regionRains of one-half Inch soaked portions of Washington and Oregon and lighter amounts fell in nn’-thern California and east to Idaho. Fair weather prevailed over the Southwest, the Gulf Coast states and the South Atlantic region. The clear skies sent readings plunging to the freezing mark as faf""sisutir'ascentfaTMisslssippi and northern Georgia, and as low as the 40s in central Florida. Forecasters predicted continued snow flurries today from the Great Lakes region and Ohio Valdey to New England. — Fair weather was expected from California to the Mississippi and the Southeast, while showers were seen for the Pacific Northwest along, with some snow flurries in the northern Rockies. ‘I Peruvian Earthquake Death Toll Now 23 AREQUIPA, Peru — (IP) — The report of two deaths increased the knotf/n toll of Wednesday's eaiftr quakes to 23 today. A further increase is-expected when late reports trickle in from the southern mountains, Heavy rain caused minor landslides in this quake-weakened city Thursday, but It was welcomed by thousands of refugees as a'source of extra water. The earth shocks disrupted Arequipa’s water supply. 1

Possible Tax Cut Added To Recession Fight Economic Policy By Eisenhower May Add Tax Cuts In Fight WASHINGTON (IP) — Budget Director Percival F. Brundage said today agreement with Russia even on preliminary steps toward disarmament could ope'h the way for a substantial tax cut. But in the absence of such an agreement, he said, existing tax rates must be continued. He added that “the fullest cooperation” of Congress in cutting non-essentials win be needed to foot bills for defense and domes-tic-programs without an increase in taxes. Brundage and Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to appeal for a five-bil-lion-dollar increase in the statutory limit on the national debt. They said the increase from 275 to 280 billion is necessary to give the government a little more elbow room in its fiscal maneuvering. Anderson said the government since last summer has had "little or no margin’ to meet “contingencies which might develop in a world filled with uncertainties.” On several occasions, he said, the Treasury had a cash balance sufficient only to pay operating expenses for five days. Anderson also appeared before th? committee Thursday. Anderson exuded optimism over the economic He repeatedly assured the committee of his confidence the administration will prove right in its forecast of an economic upturn. He said it wouldn’t be "prudent” to cut taxes now with a precarious budget surplus in prospect. However under questioning he said he could “conceive" of economic conditions under which the administration would modify its (Continued on page eight) Call Guardsmen To Little Rock School No Trace Is Found - Os Reported Bomb LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) — Federalized Arkansas National Guardsmen spent the night in Central High School Thursday night as the result of a number of telephone calls warning authorities a bomb had been planted *in the building. „ A spokesman for the Arkansas Military District said it dis-atched an “alert squad” of 20 men to the building after the calls warning of the bomb came in. The men searched the building, but failed to find any trace of the bomb The military spokesman said the guardsmen remained in the building overnight. He said it was not a change in the policy of havign civilian guards relieve soldiers during the period between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m., but jgag only a “precautionary measure.’’ There was no danger to any school students from the bomb, as classes were dismissed Thursday until Monday due to the end of the .first semester. I The bomb scare Came pn the heels of a second food-thfowing incident in tire school cafeteria Thursday afternoon. A 16 - year -old white student, later identified as David Sontaft dumped a bowl dl soup on a Negro girl during one of the lunch periods because the girl had called him “white trash." There was no official statement as to which of the nine Negro students was the victim of the soup bowl, but students leaving the building said it was Minnie Brown, who was suspended indefinitely just before Christmas fordumping a bowl of chili on two white students- She was reinstated *only last week.

Candidate • Jwiß ■■ ■■ ■arr m jo w Lewis F. Sapp Sapp Is Candidate For Commissioner Seeks Democratic Nomination In May Promising to bring business experience. to the operation of county government, if elected commissioner from the first district, Lewis F. Sapp, native of Adams county and St. Mark’s township farmer, announced his cancftdacy today. Sapp, who has never held a puhiie efftee, became the second Democratic candidate for the job new held by a Republican, as county commissioner from the first district. In opening his campaign today. Sapp said, if elected, he is going to give greater consideration to seeing that the largest number- of Adams county citizens get the greatest amount of good possible from the tax dollars available. In pointing out the danger of spiralling tax rates, he said that his own property taxes have doubled since 1950. If elected, he promised to devote full time to seeing that tax rates are stabilized or lowered, if at all possible. Sapp spent 25 years in the retail and wholesale grain, hay and coal business in addition to farming. During the last war, he was employed at the Decatur General Electric plant. Since the war he has lived on and operated his own St. Mary’s township farm. He attends the Bobo Methodist church. He is married and is the father of three sons. He has been a full-time Democrat. Seven Missing In Ruins Os Explosion Cold Storage Plant In Virginia Blasted RICHMOND, Va. (UP) — More than 100 searchers, plagued by sickening ammonia fumes and bitter cold, gave up hope early today for the last of seven persons missing in the ruins of an explo-sion-racked cold storage plant. Three bodies were found in the rubble late Thursday and police said four others were believed buried beneath the tons of bricks and concrte. Cranes and bulldozers clawed away at the huge pile of wreckage for more than 12 hours to recover the bodies. The blast, believed caused by leaking ammonia, blew' out two walls of the four-story brick structure. Windows in the buildings in a three-block area were knocked out. • A thick . cloud of a m mon 1 a forced scores of searchers to don gas masks- There was no fire. Fire Chief John Finnegan said the victims were four employes and three men who had backed their trucks up to loading ramps to load frozen food stores in the plant. It was feared for several hours an eighth man was buried by the blast, but Finnegan said a check revealed he was accounted for.

Douglas Calls For Action On Missile Plans Says Anti-Missile Missile Feasible, Prepared To Build WASHINGTON (UP) — Missile builder Donald W. Douglas called i today for “more guts and less ' gobbledegook” in the defense pro--1 gram.. I Douglas, chairman of the Dougllas Aircraft Co., said an antiI missile missile “has been feasible "has been feasible for some time" and he is ready to start building one as soon as he gets a go ahead. He told the Senate Preparedness subcommittee that such a weapon “might well be the differenc btween survival or disaster" but so far only a "small fraction of th» necessary funds has been made available.” “Delay and indecision on the part of many in the defense establishment can be as damaging to us in the long run as any - action by a potential aggressor,” ’ he said. Urge Space Ship ; His testimony coincided with these Deferfse Department announcements.* —A small test rocket powered by a forerunner of the solid fuels system to be used in the Navy’s Polaris missile was fired successfully at Cape Canaveral, Fla —The first contingent of 200 to 300 Air Force technicians has been ordered to the Army’s Redstone arsenal at Huntsville, Ala., for training with the 1,500 - mile Jupier missile. Douglas was called before the subcommittee as Democrats denounced President Eisenhower’s apparent ease-up on swift reorganization of the Pentagon and demanded that the administration get moving on a nuclear-powered space ship. Defends Present Pace , Douglas” opened his testimony on an optimistic note, saying he did not share “the gloomy opinion of so many that the race for weapon supremacy*’’ has been lost forever.” The armed forces and industry, he said, “have been doing a much better job of keeping pace with any potential enemy than the public realizes." * He cited swift development of the Thor as one bright spot. At the same time presidential science adviser Dr. Eric A. Walker warned free nations would become Soviet “colonies” eventually unless “drastic” technological advances were made in the next 10 years. Soviet World Conquest - Walker, vice Chairman of the President’s committee on scientists and engineers, said at their present technological rate “the Soviet bloc could capture the world without a shotFour Democratic members of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee opened the drive for the nuclear “conquest of space.- ’ They also charged admin- . istration cutbacks in the Atomic ~ Energy Commission’s propulsion program. ’ Tne move was led by Rep. Carl T. Durham (D-N.C.I, committee chairman, Sen. Albert Gore (DTenn.) and Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) and Sen. Clinton P Anderson (D-N.M.) as two Convair officials said the Air Force was considering a long-range outer space program. 'They said it was designed to put a manned satellite in ort>it in five or six years and later sendanatomic-powered rocket to Mars. Proposed Moon Landing They told the Senate preparedness subcommittee Thursday the program also called for a landing on the moon. They said the decision on a “go-ahead” was expected this month if the administration decided to okay it. The program was unveiled by Thomas G. Lanphier , Jr., vjee ■ president of the Convair division ” of General Dynarnics Corp-, and Krafft Ehricke, a German-born rocket expert and now Convair’a chief planner for space and satellite vehicles. > (Continued oh page eight) - -X - ' - '

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