Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 27 February 1958 — Page 1

[Vol. LVI, No. 49.

■Mack Denies I His Vote On I TV Influenced Denies Television Channel Bid Swayed By Friends, Money WASHINGTON (UP) — Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack denied under oath today charges that his vote I in a Miami television award was | influenced by money and friends. He also declared that “I cer- | tainly have no intention of resignlinß ” Mack testified before a House I Commerce subcommittee which | has heard charges that he re- | ceived $2,650 from a Florida at- | torney, Thurman A. Whiteside, | who supported the successful >pI plicant for the TV channel. Appearing before the subcom- | roittee for the first time since it | started delving into FCC opera- | tions, Mack declared he “was not I swayed or influenced” by anybody | who approached him about the f Miami Channel 10 case. I Mack said that if he had felt Lthat he was "being swayed or ' pressured into a vote against my convictions,” ehe would not have ■ voted at all in the case. No Plan to Resign He said he listened to all sides and voted his convictions based on “the record before us." In the course of Wednesday s subcommittee session, a member, < Bennett ( R-Mich.)— Said President Eisenhower should h Vie President does not do so, Bennett said. Congress should impeach the commissioner. Bfore his appearance today a reporter asked Mack if he intended to forestall any such action and resign. “Os course not,” he said. “I certainly have no intention of resigning.” Whiteside has told the subcommittee the money he gave Mack was in the form of loans and that Mack had paid back most of it. Whiteside also testified that Mack owned a, one-sixth interest in a Miami * insurance agency Tram which the commissioner has received $13,000 in the past five years. Mack said he learned only last Monday night that this company, the Stembier - Shelden insurance agency, had sold insurance to the winning Channel 10 applicant. Public Service Television Inc., a subsidiary of National Airlines. The very nextd ay, he said, he wrote to Whiteside "renouncing" his interest in the agency and instructing the attorney "to terminate” i. Pressure Was “Intense” Subcommittee Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) has said Whiteside’s testimony indicated law violations which could be punished JO trivs) Score Understanding Between Ike, Nixon Report Agreement If Ike Disabled WASHINGTON (UP) — Two senators said today that if President Eisenhower has a “secret” understanding with Vice President Richard M. Nixon about Presidential disability it should be made public. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said “The people of the nation should be declared in . . . The office of President is not a private preserve for a quail - hunting lodge.” The question of Presidential disability, Morse said, “is not a fit subject for a secret understanding” Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N. H.) said he did not know what understanding the President might have with Nixon. But he said there was no reason to keep it a secret. Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler, in a speech at Granite City, 111., Wednesday night, also called for lifting the secrecy. “The American people should be a party to any kind of deal,” he said, “and should have the right to indicate whether they are satisfied with any arrangement made.” The President created a stir when he told a news conference Wednesday he has a “clear understanding" with Nixon on what should be done in the event he is no longer able to carry on. He declined to discuss details, but hinted that he may have written a letter or memorandum on the subject. The President said members of his cabinet and “others around me” are “completely” informed about the arrangement with Nixon. 12 Pages

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Rainfall Takes Edge Off Winter Drought Easing Fire Scares In Much Os Indiana By UNITED PRESS Rhin today took the edge off a winter drought which threw a fire scare into wide areas of Indiana. Showers fell over most of the state during the night or after dawn, and forecasts indicated they would be “locally heavy” in the southern two-thirds of Hoosierland. That’s where they are needed the most. By daylight, Evansville had more than half an inch of precipitation. Central and northern pointe reported much less but the totals were expected to increase as the day wort cn. Woods ar' brush areas over Southern Indiana were dampened for the first time this month, eliminating at least temporarily the forest fire danger which existed the last few days and paved the way for many minor firesTemperatures, meanwhile, continued mild but were due to cool off and bring snow mixed with rain and later snow flurries to the north portion. Highs Wednesday ranged from 47 at Fort Wayne to 64 at Evansville. Overnight lows ranged from 36 at Fort Wayne to 51 at Evans ville. Today’s highs were due to range from the 50s to the 60s, tonight’s lows from 40 to 45, and Friday’s highs *from 40 to 50. Saturday will be cloudy and colder. Senate Voles Increase In Postal Rate Five-Cent Stamp On Out-Of-Town Mail Features Measure WASHINGTON W — Th* Senate was expected to approve today a 747 million-dollar postal rate increase bill featuring a five-cent stamp for out-of-town letters. The Senate was likely to tack on a 7 4 per cent pay increase for about 500,000 postal employes. The rate hike is designed to cover the pay boost. The bill then will go back to the House, which has voted for only a four-cent out-of-town letter rate. The Senate late Wednesday defeated a move to knock out the five-cent stamp. It was a victory for President Eisenhower who sought the increase. * The action came on a 49 to 42 roll call vote which generally followed party lines. Under the administration proposal, out of town letters would cost five cents and local letters four cents. Both now go for three cents. The five-cent stamp was written into the biU by the Senate Post Office Committee over the protest of its Democratic leaders. Only two Republicans deserted the administration when they sought tc substitute a four-cent stamp for both local and out-of-town mail. The four-cent stamp amendment was offered by Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.) Five Democrats joined 44 Republicans in voting against the amendment. Two Republicans and 40 Democrats supported it. Postmaster .General Arthur E, Summerfield meantime told Congress his department is planning “a great many new postal facilithroughout the country.” In testimony made public today by a House Appropriations subcommittee, Summerfield said the new projects are part of a program now underway to modernize the post office system. In addition to raising first class letter rates, the Senate bill would increase air mail stamps from six cents to eight, and also boost second and third class rates. Most postcards would cost three cents, a penny increase. ' Second class, mostly newspapers and periodicals, would raised 30 per cent for editorial portions and 60 per cent for advertising matter in three annual steps. Third class, mostly circulars, would go up 66% per cent in two years. INDIANA WEATHER Scattered showers and windy tonight. Friday windy with scattered showers. Turning colder by Friday night. Low tonight 38 to 45. High Friday in the 40s. Sunset today 6:34 p.m. Sunrise Friday 7:20 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy south, cloudy with some snow flurries north. Somewhat colder. Low Friday night 30 to 38. High 'Friday near 40.

Kohler Worker Testifies To Union Threat Joined Union After Strikers Threatened Physical Violence WASHINGTON (UP)— Herman , Miesfeld, a Kohler Co. employe, testified today that he joined the United Auto Workers Union after strikers told him to "sign up or get beat up.” But Joseph Rauh, the union's attorney, challenged the witness, and said the Senate Rackets Qommittee should consider bringing perjury charges against him. Rauh said Miesfeld never mentioned being threatened when he described the incident previously to the National Labor Relations Board and the Wisconsin Employe Relations Board. Miesfeld was today’s first witness as the committee, once strictly bipartisan, resumed its investigation of the marthon Kohler strike in an atmosphere of political bickeringIdentifies Those Present Miesfeld told how he and four other non-union employes of the. Sheboygan, Wis., plant were captured by a picket patrol when , they sneaked across a field to re* port to work through a back entrance. He said he was taken to a , “strike kitchen” and told to “sign up with the union or get beat up.” , “So I signed up,” he said. After that, he said, the strikers gave him coffee and doughnuts ( and took him home. Miesfeld identified Emil Mazey, , UAW secretary - treasurer, and Donald Rand, and Robert Burk- . hardt, international represents- , fives of the union, as among those present in the kitchen. Call More Witnesses Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) commented that toe UAW Issued pamphlets professing to deplore violence in the strike “but had officers there actually practicing it.” Committee Counsel Robert V. ■ ~1,1 f* ' imii a* ■— • Rev. E. L Worthman Dies In Wisconsin Native Os County Dies Last Night The Rev. Edward L. Worthman, 73, retired Evangelical and Reformed church minister, and member of a prominent Adams county family, died at 11 o’clock Wednesday night at a hospital in Sheboygan, Wis. Rev. Worthman, who had retir- ] ed last year, suffered a fractured pelvis last Dec. 24 while attend- ] ing a basketball game, he was walking along the gym floor when ’ he was knocked down by one of. the players, causing his injury. He had been hospitalized since , the accident, and his condition be* , came critical over last weekend. I1 He was born in Preble township i Feb. 18, 1885, a son of Louis W. and Sophia Bloemker-Worthman. 1 After attending grade schools in j Preble township, he entered Mis- I sion House Seminary near Sheboygan, Wis. 1 Rev. Worthman’s first pastorate • was in Kaukauna, Wis., where he served for five years. Because , of health reasons, he was pastor at Detroit, Wis., returning to Kau- ‘ kauna until 1932, when he accepted a call from the Evangelical and ' Reformed church at Kiel, Wis. He , served at Kiel until last year, retiring on toe 25th anniversary of ! bis pastorate in that city. Rev. Worthman served as pas-; tor of his home church, the Salem 1 Evangelical and Reformed church I at Magley, for six weeks last summer while toe Rev. H. E. Settlage was on a tour of Europe. His first wife, Emma Mutschler, preceded him in death. He was later married to Agnes Roehm, who preceded him in death two years ago. • Surviving are one son, Edmond Worthman of Sheboygan Falls, Wis.; two grandchildren; three brothers, Ernest J. Worthman and Lewis Worthman, both of west of Decatur, and the Rev. Matthew Worthman of Indianapolis, and two sisters. Mrs, Ella Scherry of Kirkland township, and Miss Amanda Worthman of Decatur. One | son died in infancy. The late Mar-' tin J. Worthman, former superintendent of toe Decatur public schools, died a number of years ago. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Evangelical and Reformed church a| Kiel, with burial at Kaukauna. The body win lie in state at the church after 9 a.m. Saturday until time of toe services.

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12 Persons Are Killed As Mississippi Raked By Deadly Tornadoes

Stale Jobless Rale Is Above U.S. Average Handley Is Given Official Report On Employment Status INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley received an official report today placing Indiana's unemployment situation as worse than the national rate. The report from the Indiana Employment Security Division chief was made public by Handley's office, along with 10-day-old specific report on the Fort Wayne area, after the governor went to Washington for conferences on how to bring more defense contracts'- to Hoosierland to ease the situation. Before he left. Handley urged townchip trustees to distribute federal surplus food to needy families hard-hit by a wave of joblessness, chiefly from industrial plant layoffs in the face of buyer resistance. Director William C. Stalnaker of the IESD, who accompanied Handley to Washington, reported to the chief executive that 143,000 Hoosiers were idle in January,] reorienting nearly 8.1 per cent of -tte> state’s work force. Hard Goods Center “Unemployment has increased more rapidly in Indiana than in the nation,” Stalnaker reported, citing figures showing a 6.7 per cent national unemployed rate for the same month. Stalnaker blamed this on “a concentration of Indiana industry in the hard goods or mass production type of industry which is more sensitive to the expansions and of the economy ” A separate report by the State Labor Division to Handley showed 7,300 unemployed at Fort Wayne, about 8 per cent of the 93,000 work force, or about the same rate as for all of Indiana. Stalnaker reported that the present unemployment trend “is very similar” to the trend in 1953-54 “but the total is running a little higher.” * , He said normally there is an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 in unemployment between October and January, but this year the increase was 75,000. Evansville Hard Hit Evansville, South Bend and Muncie areas with more than 10 per cent unemployment were the hardest hit, Stalnaker said. Handley, promising a “positive approach” to the “current recession" that has thrown more than 100,000 out of jobs, said he and the president of Indiana Township Trustees Association agreed the food should be distributed. "A few trustees around the state already nave begun the program. Distribution of surplus foods was one facet of a program suggested last week by State CIO Pres. Dallas Sells, in a conference with Handley. The governor outlined his views to newsmen late Wednesday, then headed for Washington to plead (Conrtlnued on page four)

Lenten Meditation .(By Rev. H. E. Settlage, Salem Evangelical & Reformed Church, Magley) “COMFORT IN THE SHADOWS” Text, Psalm 23:4—“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me; Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me.” This verse from the beloved Shepherd Psalm continues to be a source of peace and comfort to countless ,sonls in the face of life’s shadows, particularly the shadow of death. The way leads through green pastures and beside restful, quiet waters; but also into the valley where fear of the unknown grips the soul, where sight cannot penetrate the darkness, where faith is put to the test. There friends, wealth, and achievement have no power to comfort; this part of the journey each one must travel alone, except for the presence of the Divine Shepherd with His rod and staff; the rod and staff symbolizes His power to, beat off the enemy and defend and guide His own gently and safely. When man’s days are numbered and the time comes for him to enter the valley, qnd he must face eternity, he has but one real comfort, namely, faith in Jesus Christ, who for our sins suffered and died on Calvary’s Cross; Who himself experienced death, and was raised up by the power of God and is alive forevermore, victor over the powers of evil and death. He walks with us through the valley, into the sunlight of eternal day oh the other side.

19-Year-Old Youth 1 Slays Teen-Ager Says Strange Urge Compelled Slaying SAN JOSE, Calif. (UP)- Authorities planned to name a team > of psychiatrists today to probe the strange "urge” that compelled 19-year-old Thomas Wallace Cordry 111 to kill a pretty blonde teenager. Cordry, a Stanford sophomore and the model of a clean-cut American youth, “guessed” the reason he shot and killed 17-year-old Deena Bonn with a .22 rifle was “sexual.” ”1 just had to shoot some girl and then rape her,” he said. “But I didn’t rape Deena. I couldn’t.” The shooting took place Tuesday night shortly after 10 o'clock in a remote part of the Stanford campus. Young Cordry bought the rifle, then spent the whole day looking for some woman — any wdman — to kill and rape. Late that night, he settled on Deena, the girl across the street. A popular senior and an honor student at Cubberly High School, she had the reputation of being a nice and helpful girl When young Cordry asked her to drive him to the railroad station in his car she said she’d be glad to. But first Cordry asked her to drive to the ROTC armoi-y be* cause —r he — he lad to return the rifle? At the annory,. Miss Bonn braked the car to a stop. Cordry picked up the rifle and ficgd the fatal' shot at' her head. Then Cordry drove to the Palo Alto polite station and calmly informed officers he had shot and killed the girl. Hours of questidtiing elicited no more from him than that he was the victim of an “urge" so powerful that he was powerless to resist it. District Attorney Louis Bergna insisted the case added up to first degree murder. “I have reviewed all the evi-i dence we have and it appears to be a case of premediated murder,” Bergna said. “We intend to have him examined by psychiatrists, _£f course, but we do not believe the facts support any type insanity defense. * ' Two Ohio Youths Under Arrest Here It was reported to this office that two Warren. 0., boys ageql about 13 and 16, were picked up at noon today in Adams county and are being held for investigation by juvenile authorities. One of the two boys was said to be carrying a .weapon under his arm when arrested. No warrailtf 'arrest petition, or release order had been made known at time of publication, and juvenile records are not public, so no further check was made. Judge Myles F. Parrish could not be reached for comment. It was reported that the two boys were taken to the Adams county jail, where th-'y were fed and kept in detainment awaiting juvenile charges.

British Liner Crashes, 34 {Reported Dead Crashes In Foothill Os Northern England Early This Morning BOLTON, England (UP) — A chartered British airliner crashed into a fog-shrouded foothill of the Pennine "' Mountains of northern England early today with a heavy loss of life. Rescue officials estimated 34 of the 42 persons aboard were killed. The accident occurred in a snowisolated region only 15 miles from Manchester. England's fourth largest city. The scene is about 175 miles northwest of London in the heavily populated Midlands. The plane was a British-built, two- engine “Bristol Freighter.” owned by the Silver City Airways, an independent airline specializing in overwater ferry flights within the British Isles. When it crashed, it was carrying a group of auto dealers from the Isle of Man, an out-of-the-way resort sland which lies between England and Ireland, on a visit t ap auto supply factory in Manchester ' The plane hit 1,500 - foot«high “Winter Hill” not far from Bolton. No one knew about the crash until one of the survivors struggled into a television transmitter station atop the peak, where six engineers had been marooned for three days by snowdrifts left by last Tuesday’s blizzard. The engineers immediately sent out a call for help, and a vast rescue effort got underway. But neither ambulances, fire trucks, police nor helicopters could reach the scene at once because the, roads were choked with snow for miles around — even though it was such a short distance from the industrial hub of Manchester. —: The TV engineers used a bulldozer to help open a path to the wreckage. Other bulldozers and emergency equipment went into (Continued on page eight) Four-Year-Old Boy Is Drowned Wednesday SHELBURN — (IP) — Paul Carpenter, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Carpenter of Shelburn, drowned Wednesday when he fell in a pond across the street from his home. Mrs. Della Scott Is Taken By Death Funeral Services ... Saturday Afternoon Services for Mrs. Della Carrier Scott, 83, of Fort Wayne, stepmother of Mrs. Walter Clem and Mrs. Harold Fisher, of Decatur, will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Marquart funeral home. Monroeville, Dr. Frank J. Lansing officiating. Mrs. Scott died Wednesday at the St. Joseph hospital, where she had been a patient since Sunday. Burial will be in, the Flat Rock cemetery, southeast of Monroeville. Born in Ohio, Mrs. Scott lived in Monroeville until seven years ago, when she moved to Fort Wayne. She was a member of the South Wayne Baptist church. Survivors in addition to the two sijgpdaughters are two sons, Joseph R. Carrier, F.ort Wayne, and Orville Carrier, New Washington, Ohio; one daughter, Mrs. Ruth Waldrop, Fort Wayne; seven grandchildren; 12 great grandchildren; six additional step-chil-dren, Ernest, Ervin, Paul and Earl Scott, of Monroeville; Carl Scott, Hoagland; Mrs. Harold Taylor, of Monroeville; 10 stepgrandchildren, and 18 step-great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o’clock this evening.

To Tell Ike Benson Political Liability GOP Congressmen Want Secretary Out WASHINGTON (UPj-A spokesman for several Midwest Republican congressmen calls on President Eisenhower today to explain why they think Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson is a politiical liability. I Rep. A. ET Miller (R-Neb.), leader of the House group which has been trying to persuade Benson to resign, had a date with the President Rep. Phil Weaver (R-Neb.), another worried GOP lawmaker, was to accompany Miller. ' Benson, who has already rejected suggestions that he quit, was expected to have sojne comment on his own at a news conference today. The President praised Benson at his news conference Wednesday and said he has not intention of asking for his resignation. He also made clear he thought congressmen had no business raising the issue. Miller said he won't ask Eisenhower to fire Benson. But he’ll tell him about the farm situation as House Republicans see it and leave the rest up to the President’s judgment. 'r; / The firm Eisenhower attitude led other members qf the Repub- . lie an farm state bloc to drop their direct assault oh the agriculture J secretary. Rep. H. Carl Andersen (R- --. Minn.) told the House late . Wednesday the President's state- . ment makes the anti-Benson drive , useless. Andersen said he himself is going to buckle down to the job of trying to pass a good farm bill ■- The White House conference follows an unsuccessful attempt to talk Benson into quitting last week. Miller and Rep. Walter H. Judd (R-Minn.l, acting as spokesmen for a group of farm belt Republicans, called on Benson to tell him the legislators feared heavy losses in the congressional campaign if he remains in office. Benson flatly refused to step down. He said his farm program was more important than the political fortunes of individuals. Urges Industry To Modernize Methods Says United States Must Make Progress WASHINGTON (UP)—The Air Force today urged industry to throw out “horse and buggy” production methods which might slow the United States in the space and missiles race with Russia. Lt. Gen. Clarence S. Irvine, Air Force deputy chief of staff for materiel said companies that do not “keep pace” in the swiftly . changing technology “cannot expect much in the way of Air r Force business” in the future. In a speech prepared for the ; Air Force Assn, jet age conference being attended by represn- ■ tatives of many* of the 319 key dfense firms affiliated with the AFA, Irvine said the United States > must make as much progress in ! the next five years as it has in • the past 50. t Other developments: ■ —Rep. Kennth D. Keating (RN.Y) said America must be first I to land on the moon and claim > possession of it so outer space t “can be saved for peace.” Othetf wise, he said, “clashes in outer space could well erupt into not > only worldwide, but interplanetary . holocaust.” I —The Air Force disclosed longrange plans for a mighty fleet of ’ nuclear - powered bombers that could circle the world indefinitely . and strike instantly with missiles. One future model—a “Dyna Soar” ’ —would be rocketed into a globegirlding position 200 to 300 miles J up and have ultra-modern radar to pinpoint targets. ‘ —lt will take only 15 minutes ' after the order is given, the Air Force said, to fire the nuclear- ‘ tipped Thor ballistic missiles from ! the 60 missile launchers to be lo(Contlnued on page five) '

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Winter Storm Is Racing From Gulf To Canada 130 Are Reported Seriously Injured As Mississippi Hit By UNITED PRESS Killer tornadoes raked Mississippi Wednesday night on the southern edge of a storm that also blasted sections of the West with blizzard conditions today and dumped drenching rains in the Midlands. The new winter storm ranged from the Gulf to the Canadian border. Snow whipped by wihds of 30 to 50 miles an hour swept from the western Dakotas to northern Oklahoma this morning, cutting visibility to about one mile. The Weather Bureau in Chicago issued warnings of t&cal blizzard conditions today for an area from central' Dakota to central; Nebraska.‘.■'yisilsfities near zero ’ , were .-.ekjtertj'd throughout the ' i area.- .-Vf® Cokt'watte" 'farmings were out for the easjbrn Dakotas’ and north- • west where ternpera- - tubes' were {expected to tumble to r zero or below. - ’ . F TwistereWreck Towns At lea£t U persons were killed - and about 130 persons seriously ■ injured in the Mississippi twisters. - More than a dozen tornadoe ? slammed into the state and grif other hit in Louisiana- Among the > Mississippi victims was a IG7i year-old Negro woman. In the North, five persons were . killed and two others injured , Wednesday night in a two-car collision on a rain-washed highway near Sioux Falls, S.D. The dead, three Negro adults and two children from Sioux Falls, all were believed to be riding in the same car. Hardest hit by the Mississippi tornadoes was the town of Walnut Grove northwest of Jackson. One I woman was killed and 28 persons [were injured in the twister which damaged half the homes in the town of 600 persons. Another tornado “flattened” the community of Brewer in southeast Mississippi, killing a mother and her son. Other twisters hit the hamlet of Farmhaven, killing five persons and injuring 20; a rural area in Ferry County, killing one; the Winchester community in Wayne County, killing one woman, and the Fannin Road village northeast of Jackson, killing a 3-year-old girl. , The twisters crushed some homes and lifted others off their foundations. ’ c Snows Hit North The Louisiana tornado struck near Hosston, injuring two per- ■ sons. It sent 77-mile-an-hour winds • whipping into El Paso, Tex., caus- , ing damage estimated at SIOO,OOO, - and kicked up giant dust clouds . across Texas, New Mexico, the • Oklahoma Panhandle and southwest: Kansas.. . Violent rains battered the North { and turned to heavy snows as . cold weather slipped in behind , the storm center- The snow ; depths across the northern Plains • ranged up to three inches at Mii not, N.D., today. i Weathermen predicted depths of from two to four inches today in parts of Kansas, Minnesota, Ne- - braska, lowa and South Dakota t and warned that strong northerly t winds will cause considerable . drifting in portions of the north- - ern and central Plains. Temperatures dropped as much t as 38 degrees as the cold air - streaked southward. Minot recorded an 8-degree reading early to- - day as compared with a temperat tore of 46 at the same time t Wednesday. r Mild temperatures prevailed in . advance of the storm, with scat- > (Continued on pax« elxht) : 17 Persons Killed In Honduras Wreck ’ TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras ®l -- . Seventeen persons were killed and j 21 Abjured late Wednesday when . a crowded bus plunged over a steep bank.