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HUNTING THAT BIG LEAK — Arthur McConville, assistant chief engineer of the Jersey City, N. J., water system, uses an “MScope" to hunt for the big leak letting 1,300,000 gallons of water an hour flow “somewhere" under the city. Some 100,000 persons live in the affected area. It finally was found under the Hackensack river, ending fears of cave-ins.

French Allies Demand Reason For Bombings Demand Explanation ' For French Bombing Os Tunisian Town By WALTER LOGAN United PreM Staff Correspondent . — France's NATO allies demanded an explanation for the bombing of a Tunisian village which touched off wild and angry demonstrations against the French today in Tunis. . Angry *nobs of Tunisians shouting their hatred of.. France marched to the residence of President Habib Bourgulba and de- = manned arms with which to drive 25 000 French troops out of TuniThe Tunisian armed forces and gendarmerie were alerted for serious trouble in the first major anti-French demonstration since the village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef was hit on Saturday. Nationwide demonstrations were called in Tunisia for Friday when memorial services will be held for the 75 Sakiet dead. The demonstrations coincided with a tightening blockade of French military posts in Tunisia. French military commanders left Tunis today by helicopter to join their beleaguered troops. Norway served notice it would raise the Tunisian issue in today’s meeting of the NATO Permanent Council in Paris on the ground that Tunisia plays an important role in the Western world. Thor Myklbost, director of the Norwegian Foreign Office press section, said in Oslo that Norway took the view that what happens in Tunisia means much for the countries which do not belong to the Eastern or Western blocs. Question of NATO Planes One of the first questions expected to b e raised was whether any NATO planes and equipment had been used in the attack on the village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef Moscow took the* occasion to reinforce its frequent denials of the defensive purpose of NATO by asserting the American weapons used by the French were purely for aggressive purposes. French Premier Felix Gaillard met with his cabinet this morning to seeK ways of limiting the damage to Frances world position caused by adverse foreign reaction. Gaillard was strengthened on the domestic front when he won an unsolicited vote of confidence in the National Assembly early today by an overwhelming vote of 335 to 179. The vote ignored foreign criticism of the bombing and concentrated instead on the French position the bombing was ‘‘legitimate defense" because Tunisia had giv(Contlnued on pa-ge six) INDIANA WEATHER Continued cold tills afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Partly cloudy, snow flurries likely north portion but locally heavy snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonight sero to 6 above north, 6 to 12 above south. High Thursday 16 to 20 north, 20 to 24 south. Sunset today 6:18 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 7:40 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and continued cold. Snow flurries north. Lows Thursday night sero to 6 above north, 6 to 12 above south. Highs Friday 15 to 20 north, 20 to 30 south.

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10 More Years Os Farm Aid Forecast Recommends Farm Control Tightened WASHINGTON (UP) — At least 10 more years of federal farm subsidies were predicted today by a joint congressional economic subcommittee. The group recommended that farm production controls be tightened. It also proposed that farmers be allowed to buy and sell their federal marketing quotas for major crops The subcommittee said in a report- that “pressures" now surrounding farm policy apparently make it impossible for Congress or the administration to coordinate the clashing demands of American agriculture. It said Congress should consider setting up a federal farm board of commission to operate farm programs within a framework fixed by Congress. Sen. Arthur V. Watkins (R-Utah), filing a minority report for himself, challenged the majority finding that the farm problem is caused by the fact that demand is not growing as fast as farmers’ ability to produce. Watkins said the trouble grows out of federal subsidies which "encourage production” of more than consumers will buy. The solution, he said, is to take “gradual steps to eliminate the. . .government subsidies.” Other subcommittee members were Sen. John Sparkman (D-Ala) chairman, and Reps Wright Patman (D-Tex.), Henry O. Talle <R-Iowa) and Thomas B. Curtis (R-Mo.). Their report predicted federal aid will be needed for 10 years or more unless farm income is to be “materially below the average for nonfarm families.” The majority report added that “production control will continue to be a main reliance for improvement of farm income.” But controls will have to be tougher than t at present to be effective, the report said. The subcommittee said Congress should give "careful consideration” to replacing present acreage controls with control over the pounds or bushels farmers sell. It also recommended: —Continued programs to sell wheat, cotton and other crops abroad at prices below the domestic level. —Stepped up research in finding new industrial uses for farm crops. —Development of. industry in farm areas and other steps to ease the flow of farm people to non-farm jobs. — Use Gs federal farm surpluses to improve diets of low-income familiesKrueckeberg Elected As Council Officer Herman H. Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State Bank of Decatur, was elected vice president of the Anthony Wayne council of the Boy Scouts of America, at' a meeting Tuesday night at Fort Wayne. Ward E. Dildine, Fort Wayne attorney, was elected president, succeeding Louis C. Rastetter, who is retiring after six years of service.Rastetter will now assume la position aS first vice president. VNewly elected directors include Harold Sprunger of Berne. \

Ike Predicts Recession End To Start Soon Special Statement By President Sees Employment Pickup WASHINGTON (If) - President Eisenhower predicted today that the recession will start to end next month and employment will pick up. In a special, written statement, the chief executive acknowledged that unemployment currently is bringing hardship to many Americans, but he said be is convinced that better days are in sight. The President issued his "chlasup" statement in the wake of estimates by the Labor and Commerce departments that unemployment went to 4,496,000 in midJanuary, the highest since 1950, The one-month increase of 1,100,000 in the number of jobless caused official and public alarm. Sees End of Down-Turn The President also obviously was concerned about demands in Congress that the administration take drastic steps promptly to prevent a depression. He said that from the best advice he could get he believed “that we have had most of our bad news on the unemployment front.” “I am convinced that we are not facing a prolonged downswing in activity,” he said, “Every indication is that March will commence to see the start of a pick up in job opportunities. That should mark the beginning of the end of the down-turn in our economy, provided we apply ourselves with confidence to the job ahead.” ‘“As Americans we have a responsibility to work toward the early resumption of sound growth in our economy.” The President said, "I have confidence in the recovery of our economy later this year . . .” Take Right Steps Tuesday he announced a two billion-dollar program for modernization of post office buildings and equipment during the next three to five years as one major "pump priming” effort to speed an economic upturn. Today he said the administration is engaged in “systematic and comprehensive planning for expansion and modernization of nublic works and buildings, all of these useful public projects to be taken off the shelf when they could most appropriately be undertaken.” i Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield took the proposal to the Senate today. He told the Fost Office Committee that the profCcnt)nu*d -r Pane Flvs) - ■ 0 Youth Tosses Girl 13 Floors To Death No Explanation Is Offered By Youth NEW YORK (UP)—A l&yearold boy who talked incessantly of space travel confessed to police Tuesday night that he lured a 7-year-old girl to the roof of an apartment building and threw her 13 floors to her death. Police said the boy, Francis Medaille, offered no explanation for his act of murder except that “I just got an urge.” They said the little girl, Catherine Hegmann, apparently had not been sexually assaulted. The pugdy, bespectacled boy had been flunked out of a Roman Catholic high school three weeks ago. Brothers at Cardinal Hayes High School, a tough academic school to which admittance can be gained'only by competitive examination, said Medaille was bright but “a strange, strange boy." They said they had told his parents he needed- psychiatric treatment. Both police and neighbors said the boy had often told tall tales of crimes he said he had committed. So far as was known, however, all, until Tuesday night, were fantasies. Police said Medaille told them he met Catherine In a downstairs hallway of the apartment building, in which they both lived, shortly before 5 o’clock. He said he offered her "10 cents and a lollipop" to go up and help him “move a box on the roof.” When they reached the roof, he said, “I grabbed her by the throat and I choked her. Then I picked her up and carried her to the parapet and pushed her off." The parapet is about three feet high. Medaille stands just an inch over 5 feet. “I don’t know why,” he told police, over and over. Medaille had walked to a nearby police, station and confessed his crime.

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Ousted Chief Counsel Subpenaed To Testify In Explosive TV Case

Sees Contempt Citations As Hearing Ends Several Reluctant Witnesses May Be Cited For Contempt GARY (ff) — Rep. Francis Walter (D-Pa.) said today several reluctant witnesses should and probably will be cited for contempt for refusing to answer questions at a congressional hearing on Communist infiltration in the steel industry. “There are several candidates for contempt citations and some will be cited,” Walter said at the end of a two-day hearing by the House Un-American Activities Committee. “An examination shows that some witnesses were in complete contempt and I think they should be cited.” Seventeen witnesses appeared during the hearing but many of them took refuge in the First and Fifth Amendments to duck questions asked by Walter and other members of his committee. Walter said the hearing pointer up the need for “corrective legislation” in the Internal Security Act. He said evidence at the hearing I ndicated the Communis., Party sent college graduates to the steel mills to get menial jobs while serving as “intelligence agents.” Walter said the act should be amended to make It unlawful to sign a job application blank containing inaccuracies. The committee charged that some college graduates did not outline their educational backgrounds on steel mill job applications. Three witnesses who invoked the constitutional amendments to avoid answering questions at the open hearing were given an opportunity to testify at a closed executive session or the committee late Tuesday. But Walter said they again declined to answer questions. Two of them were Christ and Walter Malis, Gary steelworkers, two of five brothers Subpenaed for the hearing. The hearing ended with testimony from two officials of the United Steelworkers Union' who admitted they were ex-Commu-(Contlnued on pa.ge six) Harry F. Byrd To Retire From Senate Virginia Democrat Retires From Office WASHINGTON (W — Sen. Harry F. Byrd, 70-year-old Virginia Democrat, announced today that he will not seek re-election in November. He said in a formal statement that he is stepping down after 24 years in the Senate primarily to keep a promise to his wife. "When I was a candidate for re-election ... six years ago," he said, "I promised Mrs. Byrd I would not seek re-election again. Since then she has suffered a crippling illness and is an invalid. It is our desire to spend our lives together at home in Virginia.” Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and leader of the Senate’s economy bloc, promised to continue to do “all I can for good government in Virginia and the nation.” >. During the more than 40 years he has. served in elective office here and in Virginia, he said, “I have given the best in me . . . within the scope of my limited activities.” “Limited’! was a modest description of S' his career that has included that of newspaper publisher, a leading apple grower, state governor and a key figure in the United States Senate. He has been a senator—since March, 1933, and ranks third in seniority in length of service.

Zero Temperatures Continue In State Possible Warming Trend By Monday By UNITED PRESS The season’s worst cold wavel clung firmly to Indiana today with more zero temperatures, but the first faint hope of a warmup was s§en by weather observers in the outlook for early next week. Zero readings were recorded at Sjputh Bend and Goshen this morning, the fifth day in a row the mercury dropped to or below zero somewhere in Hoosierland. The five-day outlook for the period ending next Monday indicated the cold spell would continue “with only minor fluctuations until moderating tendency beginning Sunday or Monday.” Until that “moderating tendency” arrives, subnormal temperatures will prevail at least three more days. For the five-day period they will average 10 to 14 degrees below normal, an unusual departure. . There will be little precipitation, averaging one-tenth of an inch or less and being confined to “a few snow flurries” in the north portion tonight and Thursday. Indiana has been in a deepfreeze since last Saturday. During the period since then, the mercury has stayed well below feerizng throughout the state and ■ has dropped low in the tube each right for the longest and coldest '.'j/ell of the 1957-58 winter. Official measurements this morning showed South Bend still blanketed by 11 inches of snow, an inch less than 24 hours earlier although more snow fell Tuesday The weatherman didn’t explain the reason for. the net loss in the face of the fact temperatures never rose higher than 12 above zero all day. Traces of snow also were recorded at Fort Wayne and Lafayette. Other low marks this morning were 2 above at Indianapolis, 3 at Fort Wayne, 4 at Lafayette and Terre Haute, and 6 at Evensville. Highs Tuesday ranged from South Bend’s 12 to Evansville’s 26. Forecasts called for highs from 10 to 20 tpday, lows from 2 below to 10 above tonight, and highs of 15 to 24 Thursday. Five Persons Killed As Bomber Crashes Jet Bomber Crashes Concrete Building RAPID CITr, S.D. (UP)—Five persons were killed and six others injured late Tuesday when a 852 jet bomber rammed through a concrete building while landing in a snow squall at Ellsworth Air Force Base. Killed were two of the eight airmen aboard the demolished eight-million-dollar plane and a three men in the small instrument landing buiding. The survivors were treated for minor injuries. Witnesses said the giant plane, the nation’s costliest bpmber, hit and snapped a power line as it lumbered in through the snow for a landing. It skidded 50 yards down the runway, smashed through the 10-by-10-foot building sending concrete blocks flying over the airfield, and then plowed another 100 yards before stopping. Six crewmen leaped from the bomber seconds before it burst into flame. It was not known if the dead airmen were killed on impact or trapped and burned to death in the fire. The two airmen and one civilian inside the landing building “probably never knew what hit them because there Were no windows in the building, just solid concrete,” an Air Force spokesman saidThe dead plane crewmen were Ist Lt. Kenneth B. Kaeppler, Milwaukee, Wis., and Capt. Jbhn O. Connell, Chattanooga, Tenn. The victims inside the building were Glen M. Allen, Rapid City; Airman 1C James E. Ferrell, Williston, N.D., and Airman 1C Ronad R. Mitchell, Canton, Ohio. Cause of the crash was not immediately known- A base spokesman said the snow was not a factor. “ ——

Marathon Cold Wave Claiming Mounting Toll Least 88 Deaths Blamed On Cold As No Reties In Sight By UNITED PRESS Fires and traffic accidents attributed to the weather took a rising toll of lives today in a nation gripped by a tough and durable cold wave, and downtown New Orleans saw snow for the second time in 23 years. Heavy snows fell as far south as Texas during the nigljt. Fresh snow flurries skittered across upstate New York, already laden with three feet on the ground and high drifts. For the first time in memory, ice packs halted operations at the Illinois Waterway lock leading into Lake Michigan in downtown Chicago. No letup was forecast in most of the chilled areas. A United Press count showed 88 deaths in the states hardest hit by the cold, many of them in home fires, since the cold struck last Thursday. I New York state listed 26 deaths attributable to the cold and snow New England listed 16, 3 in a home fire .today at Worcester, Mass. Ohio had 10—8 of them early today when a father and his seven children died in a fire at Alliance. Oklahoma had 9, Texas 3, Pennsylvania 5, North Carolina 4, all chidren who died in a fire at Fayetteville today, Ilinois and Michigan 3 each, Indiana and Maryland 2. New Orleans residents said the snowfall would not interfere with the Mardi Gras, scheduled to start a week from today, or with the festivities preceding it. The last appreciable snowfall in New Orleans came in 1935, although here were flurries in 1955. Lake Charles, La-, only 30 miles from the Gulf Coast, had more than an inch of snow on the ground. Baton Rouge, La., had its first snowfall in 7 years Tuesday night, and Alexandria and Lafayette reported snow. Weather men at New Orleans warned of frost danger to vegetation and water pipes. At Muskegon, Mich., the Weather Bureau reported snowfall had been continuous there and in a strip 20 to 40 miles wide along Lake Michigan iri that area since the morning of Feb. 7. State highways were open, but Oceana County reported most of its roads (C „ ,--u«d or. Page Five) Christian F. Franke Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon _ Christian F. Franke, 82-year-old retired farmer, died at 3:15 o’clock this morning at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where he had been a patient for four months. He had been seriously ill for the past year. He was born in Germany Sept. 21, 1875, and came to the United States in 1892. He lived, on a farm four miles southeast of Ossian. His wife, Sophie, preceded him in death in 1951. Mr. Franke was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran church. Surviving are three sons, Herbert’ and Erwin Franke, both of Ossian route 2, and Gerhard Franke of Fort Wayne; two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Ehlerding and Mrs. Wilbur Selking, both of Decatur route 2; 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchil-dren. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Elzey & Sons funeral home in Ossian and at 2 p. m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran church, the Rev. Harry Behnlng officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Thursday until time of the service*.

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L. Luther Yager To Seek Renomination State Representative Is Again Candidate L. Luther Yager, state representative from Adams and Wells county, announced today that he will be a candidate for renomination on the Republican ticket. Yager is 46 years old, married and has four daughters. He lives on a farm in French township, two miles west of Berne. The only Republican representative ever elected from' the joint district, Yager has served three terms, defeating G. Remy Bierly in 1952, William Kruse in 1954, and C. H. Muselman in 1956. He is a member of the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church in Berne, and is director of the men’s and mixed choirs. Yager is a member of the firm is secretary of the board and of Yager Furniture Co., Inc, and personnel director of the Berne Furniture Co. veteran of World War 11, he was a member of the Army Air Corps. Yager is a member of the mental institution planning commission which meets monthly ,and is studying the state mental hospitals. The committee is presently doing long-range planning in the mental health field. President Preparing Letter To Bulganin Expected To Urge East-West Action WASINGTON (UJ»)—President Eisenhower is planning to urge speedy East-West action on outer space and disarmament problems in a new letter being prepared for Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, administration offiicals reported today. The President’s letter to Bulganin is in the “drafting stage,” it was said, and will be dispatched soon for preliminary consideration by North Atlantic Treaty nations prior to Moscow delivery. The departure from the capital Tuesday of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Thursday’s scheduled departure by the President suggested the letter is almost ready to go. Officials said the President’s letter will not budge from the American position that a chiefs-of-state “summi” conference must be "adequately prepared” in advance at lower diplomatic levels. But the role of a formal foreign ministers conference in such preparation is expected to be minimized. Dulles said Tuesday, however "it isn’t essential” to have a foreign ministers’ meeting in advance of a summit parley. His statement amounted to a green light to the Soviets to begin presummit talks through ambassachannels in Moscow and Washington. The Russians have agreed upon the principle of “thorough preparation” but balked at a foreign ministers meeting. Mikhail A. Menshikov, new Soviet ambassador here, said he (Continued on page five)

Call Schwartz For Testimony In Miami Case Senator Morse To Return Documents Given By Schwartz .. WASHINGTON (UP)—-A House investigating subcommittee today subpenaed its ousted chief counsel, Beranrd Schwartz, to testify Thursday on a politically explosive Miami TV case. Schwartz said he would accept service of the subpena later dayHe talked with newsmen after conferring briefly with Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris (DArk.) at Harris’ committee offices. Schwartz said he was called to the office by Harris. Schwartz was subpenaed shortly after Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore) agreed to return to Harris’ subcommittee some files which had been turned over to him by Schwartz after SchWartz was fired as subcommittee counsel. But Morse, who already had studied the documents, said he would ask for a separate Senate inquiry into alHg&ticns of high-level misconduct contained in the papers. The Miami case Schwartz win be questioned about involves an award of TV Channel ID by the Federal Communications Commission to National Airlines. The FCC overruled its field examiner in making the award to the airline. The subcommittee has indicated it also has been investigating the role of FCC Commissioner Rich- ~ ard Mack in the Miami case. Schwartz, fired by the subcommittee Monday, took a large collection of what he called his own “working” documents to Morse and Sen. John J- Williams (R-Del.) after midnight that night—a short time before a federal marshal came to Schwartz’ room with a subpena to recover all the files. Williams would say only that he does not have any documents. Morse said today he had them, and he so'informed Speaker Sam Rayburn’s office Tuesdaymorning. “I wil turn them over to Rep. Harris or ,to any other person authorized to receive them,” Morse said. Harris said he will probably recover the documents through Rayburn's office. Harris promised that he will press the House investigation under a new chief counsel. He said it will be a “sure enough” probe of any irregularities. Morse said he has read some of Schwartz’ files and “they bear out that the Eisenhower administration is honeycombed with political immorality.” Schwartz, in a statement late Tuesday, said he had uncovered evidence of “the payment of money” to a federal communications commissioner in a disputed TV channel case. He did not name the person or case. He declared he had “planned to bring to light the machinations of the White House clique in controlling decisions" of federal regulatory agencies He ticked off as members of the "clique” the names of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, White House Counsel Gerald Morgan, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Col. George Gordon Moore, Mrs. Eisenhower’s brother-in-law, and former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. He said his investigators had planned to leave for Boston Tuesday “to delve into the notorious grant of a multimillion-dollar teeHvision channel to a leading Republican newspaper." He said they also were going “to find out the facts concerning the relations between Secretary of Commerce Weeks and a leading director and stockholder of Pan American World Airways." Schwartz revealed late Tuesday he had delivered the documents to Morse and San. John J. Williams (R-Del.) Monday night between the time he was fired as the subcommittee’s chief of staff and the service on him of a subpena to surrender his files to the subcommittee. Williams told newsmen „ Continued uu Pace Viva)

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