Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1958 — Page 1

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Ike Spikes Any Move To Oust Secy. Benson Eisenhower Speaks At Breakfast Pep Session For GOP V- < ■ -4 WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower today spiked any move by Republican strategists to dump Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson as a "liability’’ in this election year. -' p The President told members of the Republican National Committee during a breakfast “pep talk” that he has complete confidence in each of his Cabinet officers, thinks all are doing a "fine job,” and has no intention of replacing any of them. Eisenhower also made a strong defense of Benson's flexible pricesupport program, saying it is an “honest, forthright and sensible” attempt to solve the problem of surplus crops that have farmers caught in a "vicious circle." “I think that most farmers,” he said, “deep in their hearts, recognize the administration proposals as a courageous move to break this vicious circle." The breakfast was held behind closed doors at a downtown hotel, but portions of the President’s prepared text were published by the White House. 3 Cites Years of Prosperity Eisenhower, in his formal remarks. called on Republicans to join in a 1958 campaign to win control of Congress by enlisting good candidates, showing faith in their cause—and working hard. The President spoke shortly before leaving for Augusta, Ga., for a weekend of golf. 1 The President told his Republican audience, eager for a shot in the arm- that the nation has had five years of prosperity under his administration, a prosperity that has not been altered materially by the recent business decline. Reiterating his belief that the tide will turn in mid-summer, the President denounced “political Cassandras” who warn of another depression—critics who heretofore have been labelled by GOP leaders as the “prephets of gloom and doom.” /Jl-Day Meeting “A .tw political Cassandras,” the President said, “pop up regularly to suggest that deep depression is just around the corner and only panicky governmental intervention* on a massive scale can stem the disaster. "We reject this pessimistic doctrine and the lack of confidence it reflects. Republicans have never sold American free enterprise short and never will.” Eisenhower’ noted that political prophets a Ire ad y are making mathematical calculations to show the odds are running against the Republicans in the November congressional elections. “But these calculations," he said, “overlook the decisive element: What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” Vice President Richard M. Nixon was to give the GOP leaders a similar pep talk at a lunch meeting later today. Cabinet members were to submit to questioning at a closed morning session and (Continued on page eight)

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Remove Inequities From Wage Payments News Conference Held By Mitchell WASHINGTON (UP)—The AFLCIO today agreed with Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell that workers may be entitled to pay raises regardless of whether they have stepped up their output. Mitchell said while improvement in production should be a major factor in wage bargaining, it shouldn’t prevent pay boosts needed to. correct “inequities in the wage structure.” President Eisenhower said in his economic report inflation or government controls might follow if labor pressed for higher wages which exceed gains in efficiency. The same would be true if business boosted prices more than their costs went up, the President warned. Mitchell told a news conference Thursday there was "no disagree ment” between him and the chie, executive. Implicit in the report, Mitchell said, was a feeling that “inequities” must be removed from wage rates. AFL-CIO economist Seymour Brandwein said labor's position was that wages should not be “frozen” to any formula. Besides, the buying power of wages has not increased faster than “productivity,” he said. Brandwein pointed out that in many industries workers were not getting wage boosts anywhere close to the increase in national productivity. Mitchell also said he expected more than four million Americans would be out of work during February—the highest unemployment figure since 1950. He predicted the current climb in unemployment would hit a peak next month and then fall back slightly in March and April “with a more decided decline in May and June.” Labor Department economists warned that the jobless total could hit five million if business doesn't pick up • . In that connection, General Motors President Harlow H. Curtice said an across-the-board tax cul would be the “greatest single step” Congress could take toward ending the business slump. Curtice' told the Senate AntiMonopoly Committee, the tax reducticr. “would stimulate confidence among business people and consumers to resume buying.” Attempted Breakin At Decatur Store Marion A. Robison, proprietor of the Stop Back newsstand, stated today that thieves attempted a breakin at the rear of the store sometime Wednesday night or Thursday morning. The thieves ap patently tried to gain entrance by prying Open the door-guard with a tire tool or screwdriver but failed in their attempt. A rock was thrown through the transom of the rear door, shattering the glass, evidently in retaliation to the unsuccessful attempt to gain entry. Harold Worthman, a barber in the barbershop at the rear of the newsstand, noticed the broken glass when he opened the shop Thursday morning. The police were called immediately and are investigating the attempted breakin.

New Tests In Pacific To Aid U.S. Defenses To Advance Nuclear Defenses Against Ba I las tic Missiles WASHINGTON (UP) — The Atomic Energy Commission said today new tests in the Pacific this year will advance nuclear defenses against enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles. Earlier this week, on Tuesday, Maj. Gen. John P. Daly of the Army’s special weapons branch told Congress Nike-Zeus antimissile missile bases could be etablished by 1962. 2 Meanwhile, the Air Force has said it will test nficlear explosions in space above the atmosphere to determine their effectiveness against enemy space missiles. Presumably such tests would mean detonation of missile-borne warheads high above the Eniwe-tok-Bikini proving grounds in the, Pacific. ' Advance Defense Weapons In its 23rd semiannual report to Congress, the commission said that Pacific tests starting in April “will advance the development of weapons for defense against aggression weather airborne, mis-sile-borne, or otherwise mounted." The AEC also: —Announced a program to develop peaceful uses of atomic explosions, including “excavation.” The commission believes nuclear blasts deep underground may be used to level mountain ridges and store energy- An underground shot in Nevada last year is believed to have seated perhaps as much as 60 per cent ox its energy in a form which can be tapped. The AEC is now drilling down toward this pool of energy. Progress Without Precedent —Reported that in 1957 “some firms” dropped out of atomic industry, a fact which “may temporarily deter new firms from entering.” But despite this “adjustment,” progress "without precedent” has been made in the past three years toward economic nuclear power and establishment of an atomic energy industry. It said "no other major scientific discovery has ever before been applied so quickly to so many practical uses." —Said that paralleling growth of the U.S. industry “has been the expansion througho'ut the free world of organized effort to put atomic science, atomic tools, and atomic technology to work for human betterment." Radioactive Treatments —Disclosed that more than one million ailing Americans are being treated every year with - dioactvematerials produced as a byproduct of the atomic project. -Claimed that the Unit e d States in 1957 "continued to be the world’s leading” producer of uranium, the atomic raw material. —Reported that production of nuclear explosives and nuclear (Continued on page eight) Association Awards Are Made In County Muscular Dystrophy Awards Announced Mrs. Merrill Johnson, of 1009 Washington street, and the Deca:ur Daily Democrat were among line Adams county recipients of ‘.he Muscular Dystrophy Associations of America award for "distinguished service in the search to find the cause and cure and in ’iving hope, comfort and service to those afflicted with muscular dystrophy.” Mrs. Johnson helped place mustuter dystrophy cannisters in many places of business in Decatur, and sparked the local drive. The Daily Democrat aided in publicity and pictures on the crippling disease which has affected more than two dozen persons in this county. The awards were presented at a meeting of the greater Fort Wayne muscular dystrophy association at Sears pavilion in Fort Wayne Thursday night. More than 100 were present for the meeting. The Rev. Armin Oldsen of Concordia College spoke on "Man’s humanity to man.” The 45 voices of the Central high school choir thrilled the audience, and an instrumental group of four young men, called the Teardrops, also played. Following the meeting, coffee was served to the guests. Other county winners were Noah Mazelin, of Monroe township; Forrest Tucker and Mrs. Martin,Watson of Berne; the Berne Witness; the Berne city firemen “Harley Tumbleson, of southeast of Berne, and Noah Schrock, of Linn Grove.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 31, 1958

Navy Says Control Os Seas Jeopardized By Tight Budget, Russia

Young Killer Confesses To 11 Slayings Nebraska Sheriff Says Starkweather Admits 11 Murders GERING, Neb. (UP)—Mass killer Charles Starkweather has admitted murdering 11 persons in two states because of a “hatred that built up in me," authorities said today. “Since I was a child I wanted to be an outlaw, but I didn’t want it to go this far," the 19year -old Lincoln, Neb., sharpshooter told authorities. Sheriff Merle Karnopp of Lincoln said Starkweather made the statements Thursday night during their trip by car from Douglas, Wyo., to Gering. Earlier, Wyoming officials surrendered jurisdiction over Starkweather and his 14-year-old sweetheart, Caril Fugate, for prosecution in Nebraska. Starkweather, a stocky, redhaired gunman, was captured Wednesday night in a bulletpunctuated police chase near Douglas shortly after he had killed his 11th victim, a traveling salesman. Lincoln officials wasted no time extraditing Starkweather and Car- - il to Nebraska where Starkweather faces the death penalty on a murder charge. Card also has been charged with murder, but claims she was Starkweathers terrified hostage on his murder spree “I want to go back to Nebraska because Wyoming has a gas chamber and I don’t like the smell of gas," Starkweather was quoted as saying by the sheriff. “I suppose they’ll have the chair ready for me.” Karnopp said’ that besides admitting nine killings in the Lincoln area and one in Wyoming during his five-day murder rampage, Starkweather ~ also confessed the slaying of a Lincoin service station attendant last Dec. 1. Starkweather admitted he forced the attendant, Robert Col vert, 21. into his car the night of the slaying and drove out to a desolate country road where he blasted the victim in the head with a shotgun and robbed him of about SBO, the sheriff said. Apparently the murder preyed on his mind and he turned on CarU’s family in a blind rage be- , cause they resented his going with their daughter. Last Saturday, he began his mass murder rampage by killing Card’s mother, Mrs. Veida M. Bartlett, 36, and her step father, Marion Bartlett, 57, with bullets in the head, and bludgeoned to death the Bartlett's daughter, Betty, 3, according to the sheriff. Starkweather then held Caril (Continued on page eight) Soil Conservation Banquet On Monday Hold Fourth Annual District Banquet Rudy Meyer, prominent Adams county conservationist, will be master of ceremonies at the fourth annual soil conservation district banquet and election Monday at 6:45 p. m., at St. John's Lutheran school. ——- Tickets are still available for the” annual event, which includes, the election of a member of the board of supervisors. The term of Richard Scheumann, of Preble township, expires this year. Nominations will be made from the floor by those eligible to vote. “ The Rural-aires, a men’s quartet from the Friedheim church, will provide entertainment. Invocation will be given by the Rev. Edwin Jacob. St. John’s guild will prepare the meal. Dr. John Hartzler, of Goshen College, will address the group, and tell about his experiences with people on his many globecircling trips.

Complete Plans For Annual Cancer Party Annual Elks Party Saturday, Feb. 8 Plans have been completed for the annual cancer party to be sponsored by the Decatur Elks -lodge Saturday, Feb, 8, beginning at 7:30 p. m., at the K. of C. hall, according to William Schulte, chairman. A long list of merchandise gifts will be given away to persons attending the annual event, which is planned to raise money for the Indiana Elks cancer fund. A committee including W. E. Petrie, Francis Faurote, and chairman Schulte is working this week to solicit donations from lo'cal merchants. The list of donated items will include some valuable merchandise. Julius Baker will be in charge of special entertainment from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. Dancing to the music furnished by the American Federation cf Musicians, Local 607, will be from 10 p. m. until 1 a. m. Members of the Emblem club will operate a coat check during the evening. All proceeds from this will augment the cancer fund. Vincent Bormann, is chairman of the ticket sales. The tickets may be obtained at the Elks lodge, from any member of the committee, at the K. of C. had. Moose, the American Legion, the Eagles, the V. F. W„ the Parkway Service station, Holthouse Drug store, and HolthouseSchulte clothing store. The tickets may be purchased for a donation of $1 -to the cancer fund and entitles the holder to the entire evening of entertainment. Money collected in cancer parties throughput the state of Indiana is used to finance cancer research and scholarships at Indiana and Purdue universities. The cancer party is annually one of the largest money-raising projects i in the city of Decatur.Members of the Elks lodge will assist with the details during the ovening of the party,— Exchange Student Is Rotary Speaker Ken Eliasson Is Speaker Thursday Ken Eliasson, the Decatur Rotary club’s exchange student from Gotenberg, Sweden, was the guest speaker at the club’s ladies night program held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Thursday night. Gail Grabill was program chairman and Robert Smith, president, presided. Music for the affair, both vocal and instrumental, was provided by a group of students from Monmouth high school, under the direction of Darrell Gerig. Those participating included: John Fuhrman, Kenny Fuhrman, Kent Girod, Nyla Girod, Gene Klathoff, Ray Fuhrman, Jim Singleton, Jeanie Cook, Linda Kruetzman, Jack Miller, Sue Merriman, and David Caston. t Eliasson recalled that July 5, 1957, when he learned he had been chosen as an exchange student, was the -happiest day in his life. (The American' Field Service had made the arrangements. Sweden has seven mill/on population in an area about the size of California. Its 9,600 lakes and 54 per cent of .forests make it a beautiful country. It enjoys the highest standard of living in Europe. ' Sweden’s educational system is more formal than America’s. Onlv 35 to 40 per cent attend high school but courses are. more difficult, with seven foreign languages offered. Classes are held on Saturdays also, with separate schools for bovs and girls. 3 Eliasson said that one third \>f Sweden’s tax dollars go into its social welfare program. Bnn>’ses are paid for each child at birth a n d cojleop expenses are subsidized. Old are pensions and free (Continued on page eight)

I Rackets Group In Hearing On Chicago Union Digs Into History Os Chicago Union Marked By Violence WASHINGTON (UP)-The Senate Rackets Committee dug into the history of a violence-stained Chicago union today for more 'data on William E. Maloney, president of the Operating Engineers Union. Turning back the clock to the Capone era, the committee scheduled testimony on terrorism and violence as early as the unsolved 1933 salying of Denis B. Ziegler, an early • leader in the fight against the long thrusteeship of Engineers Local 150 in Chicago. Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the committee wants information on “some of the violence that existed” in the Chicago local during the 29-year trusteeship which paralleled “William E. Maloney’s rise to power in the Operating Engineers.” Kennedy said Maloney, the local's .trustee before assuming the international presidency, has long dominated its activities. He said another Chicago local of the union, No. 399, also would figure in today’s testimony■ Also scheduled, said Kennedy, is more testimony on reported "favored treatment” given by Local 150 to the big construction firm of SA. Healy, the Chicago businessman who Thursday refused—for a second time—to give testimony. He claimed the protection of the Fifth Amendment. In the absence of Maloney. who has reported himself ill, the committee Thursday used its own in- ' Vestigators as witnesses to charge Maloney reported only $388,578.13 of $742,228.20 in receipts ! from union sources on his 1950-56 income taxes. The testimony indicated the unreported sums were mostly expenses paid him by the international union and Local 150 to finance —European —travels, chib - memberships, racetrack activities and other forms of good living. Today was the last scheduled day of hearings on thjjfl big construction union for the present although it is slated for further committee attention later. Walter P. Reuther’s United Auto Workers and its dispute with the Kohler Co. have been tentatively scheduled as the committee’s next —(Co is t !nu sd o n paxe eight) Paul York Dies At Fort Wayne Thursday Funeral Services Saturday Morning Paul E. York, 55, of Fort Wayne, father of John York and Miss Mary Lou York of Decatur, died at 8:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph hospital after an illness of several days. A lifelong resident of Fort Wayne and an inspector at the General Electric company, Mr. York served four years in the Navy and was a member of Local 901. The body was taken to the Tom Mungovan funeral home, where services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday, the Rev. William B. Shields officiating. Burial will be in the Lindenwood cemetery. Surviving in addition to the children named above are the wife. Ruby; five other daughters, Kathleen and Linda at home; Mrs. Patricia Ferber of Idaho; Miss Margie York, Fort Wayne; and Mrs. Joanne DeVine. Forte Wayne; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Effie Stockert, Fort Wayne; three stepsons, Allen, James and Robin Hbwe, Fort Wayne: seven brothers, Robert, Long Beach, Calif.; Bernard, Chicago; Richard of Detroit; Charles, of Anaheim, Calif.; and Julian. George and Wilbert of Fort Wayne ; a sister, Mrs. Edna Alexander, Fort Wayne; and three grandchildren.

- • Continued Rain And Snow Are Forecast Same Weather Note Due For Indiana By UNITED PRESS Indiana’s midsection will bear the brunt of a storm this afternoon and tonight which may dump up to four inches of snow on a broad band of Hoosierland. The Weather Bureau, in a surprise revision of earlier forecasts, said, in a late-morning advisory that 2 to 4 inches of snow would accumulate over the central third and the upper portion of the southern third of the state. Only light snow or snow flurries tonight were due in the north portion, and the southern portion was expected to get “some rain and sleet mixed.” The snow, which may be the season’s heaviest in some areas, was predicted as January faded into its last few hours. Earlier, it had appeared the snow would be quit, right. There was a hint in the Sunday outlock that the groundhog would see -its shadow and go back into hibernation for six more weeks of winter weather. The forecast called for partly cloudy and rather cold for Groundhog Day, indicating -the sun will shine enough for shadow-casting. The five-day outlook called for a warming trend Tuesday or Wednesday and indications of moderate rain about Wednesday. Temperatures will average 2 to 4 degrees above normal for the period ending next Wednesday, with only minor day to day changes until near the end of the period. .“Precipitation will average onehalf to three-quarters inches with a little snow or rain likely at frequent periods, then more generous rain about Wednesday,” the outlook said. Temperatures ranged from 28 at South Bend to 50 at Evansville at. high points Thursday in an unusually wide v a r i at i <? n. They ranged from 19 at South Bend to 35 at Evansville overnightly at low points, and headed for highs today ranging from near 32 to the low <4os. Lows tonight will be in the 20s and highs Saturday from about 28 to 35. Sale Os Salacious Magazines Studied Reported Newstand 1$ Boycotted By Groups The question of selling magazines with suggestive pictures in them to minors, which fias arisen recently in Fort Wayne, is also being actively discussed in Decatur. The prosecuting attorney has been approached by individuals and groups interested in keeping certain magazines out of the hands of juveniles. It has even been rumored that some opposed to the sale of such literature to children appeared before the grand jury, but that no action was taken. This can neither be confirmed nor denied, since deliberation by the grand jury is secret, and Mt privileged. Several club groups are reported already boycotting one newsstand because it sells such books to children. Sales of . books and magazines banned to adults in Fort Wayne are reported to have increased in Decatur, and neighboring communities who have not banned them. - , 1 , '■ V INDIANA WEATHER Snow south portion this afternoon and tonight, probably accumulating 2 to 4 inches. Mostly cloudy tonight with a few snow flurries. Colder extreme south. Saturday mostly cloudy colder south. Low tonight 18-25 north, partly cloudy and a little north. 25-30 south. High Saturday 28-35. Sunset today 6:04 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 7:53 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and rather cold. Lows Saturday night near 20. Highs Sunday in 30s.

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Red's Growing Sea Power Is Great Threat Naval Chief Says Tight Budget, Red Submarines Menace WASHINGTON (UP)—The Navy said today that its tight budget plus the Soviet submarine threat jeopardizes US. control of the seas. Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief of naval operations, said Russia’s growing sea power confronts the West with "one of its greatest challenges.” Burke also told the House Armed Services Committee that budget restrictions have forced the Navy to make “drastic” cuts in some activities in order to findmoney for modern ships and weapons required to keep control of the seas in U.S. 'hands. Burke appeared before the committee with Navy Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. who said this country should “base a great deal more” of its military strength “on and under the sea.” The threat isn’t solely from long-range Soviet missiles and H-bombs, Gates argued- , Approve Extra Funds The missiles race with Russia ' was. however, getting priority attention from Congress. ■_ The Senate Appropriations Committee voted $1,260,000,000 in extra cash to speed missile development and defenses. The Senate is expected to pass the emergency bill — already passed by the House — early next week. ... In a move to put a checkrein on Defense Secretary Neil H. McEvoy’s authority over outay space projects, the Senate committee knocked out a provision of the bill which in effect would have authorized him to set up a special space agency in the Defense Department. But the committee left in a 10-million-dollar item he had asked for the agency. — If approved by Congress in its present -form, the- bill- would let - McElroy go ahead on military outer space projects. Ijlut it would leave for later decision the question of whether the Defense Department or a civilian agency would have overall control over outer space research and development. ■ Sea Control is Vital Burke told the House committee that because of budget limitations Navy manpower has been sharply reduced and the active fleet cut. He said spare parts are being used three times as fast as their replacement rate. And he said one of the toughest decisions he ever made was to defer the start of another nuclearpowered aircraft carrier to make funds available for anti-submarine ships and aircraft. Both Gates and Burke warned against putting so much emphasis on space warfare as to jeopardize ability to fight other kinds of wars, ... Burke said with the approach of a nuclear stalemate between the United States and Russia, “the most likely’'-, form of future warfare will be the brush-fire or limited war, in which control of the sea will be vitalHe said a majority of U.S. naval ships are obsolescent, and that craft needed to replace them afe very costly. In an effort to get the necessary funds for this he said the Navy has taken “drastic steps*' to economize elsewhere. 150 Nqclear Vessels Outlining Navy hopes and plans, Burke said the Navy of the future will have more submarines, about the same number of surface ships, and somewhat fewer aircraft than contemplated for the new fiscal year. It will include about 150 nuclear powered vessels, he said, and 200 ships equipped with surface-to-air missiles. Anti-submarine missiles or antisubmarine aircraft will be aboard “nearly all” combatant ships. Burke said.