Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 24 March 1958 — Page 1

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Dulles Urges Support For Foreign Aid _J Soys Foreign Aid Spending Is Aid In Fight Against Slump WASHINGTON U) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today foreign aid spending helps fight the U. S. business slump. Cutting aid funds would “cut employment here at home as well as endanger our security,” he said. Dulles told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, “we all wish for additional roads, schools, reclamation projects and other facilities" but "we will gain little and lose much if in our drive for them we recklessly tear down the very structure of the tree world which makes it possible for us to enjoy in peace and freedom and the material blessings we Dow have." He urged support of President Eisenhower’s full $3,900,000,000 foreign aid request as an “absolutely essential part" of national security. Before Dulles began testifying, Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) said he was certain the program would be extended "but there most 'likely will be some cuts." ‘ Dulles said more than threefourths of the foreign aid funds are spent in the United States. In 1955, he estimated, "some 600,000 jobs were provided by the program for American ' farmers and workers. The remainder of the money aftpr aiding the economy of one of our Allies, returns sooner or later, and mostly sooner, to be spent in the United States for the product of United States industries and agriculture." Firemen Called As Sm * „• Fills Church 4_ TLc Decatur fire department wf.s called out at 4:07 p.m. Sunday to the Church of the Nazarene at Seventh and Marshall streets. When the department arrived, smoke was filling the church building but no fire could be found. The - cause of the smoke was undetermined. Concert Tonight At Decatur High School The concert of the Indianapolis symphony orchestra this evening will be at, the Decatur high school gym rather than at the Youth and Community Center as the posters read, Mrs. Idabelle Alton said today. The Indianapolis symphony, one of the top ten in the United States, has just completed a tour of North and South Dakota, playing the Overture and Ballet Music from Rosamunde by Schubert; Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Opus 92, by Beethoven; La Met by Debussy; and the Mephista Waltz by Liszt, all of which will be played this evenings. INDIANA WEATHER Rain and windy over most of state tonight, mixed with sleet or snow extreme north. A little colder west by morning. Tuesday mostly cloudy, chance of some rain or snow southeast and extreme east in forenoon. Low tonight mostly in 30s. High Tuesday 38 to 45. Sunset today 7:01 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:42 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair with little temperature change. Lows Tuesday night in 30s. Highs Wednesday upper 40s, lower Ma.

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Mike Todd Is Killed / When Plane Crashes Noted Producer Dies In New Mexico Crash HOLLYWOOD (UP) — Ravenhaired Elizabeth Taylor, who found love in the flamboyant world of Mike Todd, prepared to fly to Chicago late today for the funeral Tuesday of the famous producer. Die grief - stricken actress has ’ been secluded in her Coldwater 1 Canyon home, attended by Dr. 1 Rexford Kennamer and her friends, since hearing the numb- ■ Ing news that Todd and three ; others had died in an air crash early Saturday morning near i Grants, N.M. For a time she was i hysterical. But Sunday night came . word: “Liz is going to be all right now She finally realizes that Mike is really dead.” .Miss Taylor, her brother Howard Taylor, Kennamer, Singer Ed- ‘ die Fisher and four others leave tonight to arrive in time for services Tuesday at Lake Zurich, northwest of Chicago. .' She had fought the realization 1 of the death of her husband stubbornly—alternately crying in deI spair and sitting sobered and then talking rapidly about the life she and Todd had planned. "No, no, no. It just can’t be. He’ll phone me soon — he always doe? when he’s out of town,” she cried. “Every time I hear the , phone ring, I think it might be Mike.” Only a virus conon.on which kept the actress abed prevented Miss Taylor from being at Todd's side when their private i plane, “Lucky Liz," plunged into New Mexico’s Zuni Mountains. Tragedy struck on the eve of acclaim ahd triumph for both Todd and his wife. He was to have been honored as "Showman of the Year” by the Friars Club in New York City Sunday night. Miss Taylor was a candidate for an Oscar for her performance in "Raintree County.” She was to have appeared at the Awards presentations Wednesday night. Ac-> tress Jennifer Jones will take her place now- * - I II I ■ - Third Candidate In Commissioner Race Robert Long Files * For Commissioner A third hat was thrown into the political ring ' for commissioner third district, this weekend, as Robert L. Long, of route 2, Geneva, North Wabash precinct, filed for that office. Incumbent Harley "Jake” Reef, of Jefferson township, and Loren Miller, of French township, have already filed for the office. William M. Noll, of Pleasant Mills, filed for the advisory board of St. Mary’s township on the Democratic ticket. Martin Selking filed for advisory board ir Preble township on the same ticket, as. did Richard Meshberger, Leonard M. Wagley, and Elmer Affolder, in Hartford township. Edward Thurman filed in Geneva B precinct for Democratic precinct committeeman. All persons wishing to file for office on the Democratic ticket must file for that office by Thursday of this week. Republicans desiring vacant positions on their county ticket may be certified later 6y their county chairman. At least one person has already filed for each position on the Democratic county ticket. There are races only for commissioners from the first and third districts, and for county assessor.

Asserts Moore Made SIBB,OOO In Five Years I . Profit From Firms On Doing Business With Government WASHINGTON (UP) — Rep. Peter F. Mack Jr. (D-Dl.) said . Sunday night that Gordon Moore, . Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower’s brother , in law, made 8188,000 in the last five years from firms doing bus- . iness with the government. Mack, a member of the House ’ subcommittee on legislative oversight, said tiie group will want to question Moore again. Moore appeared before the subcommittee a week ago today and denied under oath that he ever tried to influence any federal agncy on behalf of anyone. His name was mentioned along , with that of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams in connection with charges of “improper” influence on federal agencies levelled by Bernard Schwartz shortly before Schwartz was ousted as subcommittee counsel. The subcommittee will resume hearings Tuesday on the award of Miami Channel 10, the case in which Moore’s name first came up. Federal Communications Commissioner Rosel Hyde will be the first witnessChairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) sdid over the weekend the subcommittee actually has finished i its investigation of the Channel 10 i case and hopes to submit by Oo> v<- rtv«) Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur April 2 Regular Visit Os Unit Is Announced The bloodmobile of the Red Cross regional blood center will be in Decatur April 2 at the Youth and Community Center from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m., Mrs. Ed Bauer, ■hairman of the program, said today. At least 170 persons must be scheduled, and another 20 as tiandbys, to meet the quota of 127 . ‘ nints, Mrs. Bauer emphasized. All this week a crew of Red Cross workers will be telephoning to schedule donors for the Wednesday, April 2, visit. "Like the quality of mercy cited by Shakespeare, the donation of blood blesses him who gives and him who receives,” Mrs. Bauer continued. “In the case of a California man who lost the use of both legs through polio, his gift of blood to the Red Cross is considered a mercy ’payment’ for the life-giv-ing blood received by his wife. “Upon the birth of their first daughter, the mother was in danger from (deeding, and was given the type and amount of blood she needed by the Red Cross. The father will never forget this mercy gift. He has already donated blood six times to the Red Cross.” Many similar situations occur, even locally. In January and February, county residents received 5 pints of blood. The regional blood center is a "brink" where all types are stored, "so that your type will be on hand when you need it. “Your help is needed now," Mrs. Bauer stressed. When you are called, schedule to give blood. If ybu are not called, z call the Red Cross office and offer to give blood, or walk inon the day the bloodmobile visits Decatur, April 2.”

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, March 24,1958

,, — ’T.’TT — > Reports Union Officers Steal $lO Million From Five Different Unions

Ike To Request More Jobless Pay Benefits President Putting Final Touches On Anti-Recession Plan WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower today put final touches on an administration anti-recession plan to add up to 13 more weeks of unemployment benefits to relieve jobless hardship and create new buying power. The measure is expected to go to Congress shortly. Administration sources said the Treasury would put up the necessary money but the states would be expected to pay it back This appeared to clear up an earlier misunderstanding on the part of some governors that the funds were to be a federal gift. The Chief Executive, rested and slightly suntanned from a week-end golfing holiday at Augusta, Ga., also has before him two anti-recession bills recently passed by the Democratic-con-trolled Congress. Housing Bill for Signature He is expected into law one of the measures —a 81,850,600,000 housing bill—even though it calls for a bigger money outlay than he had planned. But he is likely to veto the second bill, to freeze farm price supports for one year, despite a lastditch plea from Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson said Sunday a Presidential veto would be "a crushing blow” to agriculture and would l add to unemployment by further reducing farm purchasing power and hence, the demand for manufactured goods. Eisenhower is expected to stand squarely behind Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson’s charge that the legislation would force up food prices "unjustifiably." The President also may consider what, if any, action to take on the problem of tax relief- Vice President Nixon said over the weekend that he personally favored a cut in taxes over an expansion of public works. But he reported the administration hadn’t decided which should have priority if further anti-recession steps become necessary. Other Developments —Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.), chairman of the Senate GOP Policy Committee, repeated an earlier prediction that there will be a tax cut. He said he would oppose any early reduction unless the economy got “appreciably worse.” Assistant Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (DMont.) agreed there eventually will be a tax cut. He also called for a slash in excise taxes. <- —Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler charged in a Delaware, Ohio, speech that (Continued on page five)

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Virgil Wesley Sexton, First Methodist Church) “THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD” "Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him and keep His commandments to a thousand generations." Deuteronomy 7:9. In what is perhaps the most intimate and personal of the Psalms, God incorporates this promise to His people, “I will guide thee with mine eye upon thee.* This is a positive statement of the faithfulness of God in our lives! How many testing experiences of life we are enabled to bear because of it’s fulfillment! Through dark experiences and hard conditions we. are strengthened just to know that His eye is upon us and that He cares as He watches over us. My experience on a ship of the United States Navy has quickened my heart with faith for many years. I stood one day with the engineer down in the depths of the ship from which he operated his engines to drive the vessel across the sets. He told me that he had no means of knowing what was before him. Fifteen feet below the surface of the sea, he could only trust himself and his engines and his ship to the guidance of the man on the bridge who with chart and compass before him and with glasses in hand had a view of the tractless deep and knew the way before it. So it is that we as Christians Commit our way to one above. Resting in the assurance of the faithfulness of our God as expressed in the words "I will guide thee with mW eye,” we step forth in life daring to believe that He will guide us. Life would be Intolerable without that assurance. Let us in this Lenten Season commit our way to Him who is faithful.

■ Ffear Major Floods In Eastern Areas Sudden Thaw, Rains Could Unleash Flood By UNITED PRESS A gradual thaw turned towering snows into slush in the storm battered East today, and weathermen kept a wary eye on approaching rain clouds for fear they might trigger major flooding. Weathermen said heavy rains which doused the Lower Ohio Valley Sunday night could touch off flooding in the snow-buried Northeast and central sections of Pennsylvania if it spreads across the state "with any intensity.” The rain storm pelted Malden, Mo., with more than four inches ' of water since Saturday night,’ and more than three inches at Paducha. Ky., while Baton Rouge, La., was soaked with nearly three inches since Sunday. Drenching rains also hit northern California during the weekend, claiming at least one life when a 7-year-old girl drowned in a rainswollen creek in South San Francisco, The rain also sent a huge mud slide crashing down on Albany, across the bay from San Francisco, nearly burying Mrs. Anna Edvalson in her bed. Her husband pulled her to safety ’ The great flood danger in the East was contained in jthe huge amount jjow locked in (She herivy sNbws covering much or Pennsylvania, the Mid-Atlantic states and New England. A sudden thaw or heavy rains could unleash torrents of floodwaters across the East. Although temperatures were expected to climb into the 40s in Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic states today, weathermen said a sudden thaw appeared unlikely. However, there was a slight chance of heavy rains as the dis-turbance-to the Lower Ohio Valley pushes eastward today into the Upper Ohio Valley and most of the Middle and South Atlantic states. Most main highways were open to traffic, but drifts ranging up to 15 feet still blocked some second(Continued on page five) Final Rites Tuesday Far Marilyn Fenker Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Tom Mungovan funeral home in Fort Wayne, and at 10 a.m. 4t the St. Andrews Catholic church for Miss Marilyn Fenker, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Alberding of near Decatur. Miss Fenker, a member of the United States Navy Women’s Corps, died in a traffic accident during a blizzard at Bainbridge, Md., last Thursday. The Rev. Eugene Mulligan will officiate at the services. Members of the U. S. Naval Reserve Corps under the command of Lt Cmdr, Arthur W. O’Leary will hold military services at the grave in Catholic cemetery, Fort Wayne.

Anti-SEATO Feeling Grows 'in Indonesia Anti-Americanism Reported Increased In Nation's Capital SINGAPORE (UP)f-A series of government victory !claims in the Indonesian rebellion touched off a wave of anti-SEATO feeling in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta today. Indonesian student groups announced they would hold mass < anti-SEATO demonstrations Tuesday in front of the United States, Australian and Philippine embassies. Anti-Americanism was pn the increase, and U.S. Marine guards at the U.S. Embassy had been alerted for possible trouble- The last major demonstrations were against the Dutch. At the same time the pro-na-tionalist newspaper Merd ek a asked U.S. Ambassador Howard Jones to try to get the U.S. Seventh Fleet to leave Singapore. A cruiser and two destroyers are standing by there if needed to remove any Americans from embattled Sumatra. The -anti-SEATO feeling -blossomed as the government reported major victories in Sumatra and as Singapore observers said the loyal troops appeared to be gradually crushing the rebellion. An army communique reviewing the first 12 days of fighting said the government had carried out its major objectives — occupation of the big oil centers, securing main highways and “finally the entire mainland of east central Sumatras.” It said Caltex tankers were now navigating the Siak River and that Caltex and Stan vac operations were back to normal. At the same time the Indonesian navy denied “foreign reports’’ two Indonesian warships were sunk in the Siak River and one in Padang waters. . A United Press correspondent reported from rebel headquarters at Bukkittinggi the rebel cabinet met in emergency session to discuss the worsening military situation. The rebels were particularly concerned with arrival of ten ‘ (Continued on page five Mrs. Minnie Kleine Dies This Morning Hoagland Resident Is Taken By Death Mrs. Minnie Kleine, 84, of Hoagland, -a native of Adams county, died at 9:15 o'clock this morning at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient for the past three weeks. She was born in Preble, township April 6, 1873, a daughter of Conrad and Louise Reese-Doehr-man, and was married to Louies Kleine April 25, 1897. Her husband died in July of 1948. She had resided in Hoagland for the past 16 years. Mrs. Kleine was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church, on U. S. 27 north of Decatur. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ella Doctor of route 10, Fort Wayne; a son, Gustav H. Kleine of Hoagland; seven grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; three brothers, Henry and Fred Doehrman of New Haven, and ■Conrad Doehrman of near Deca-1 tur, and two sisters, Mrs. Louise Marhenke and Mrs. Lydia Carrier, both of Fort Wayne. Two sons and five brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the St. John’s Lutheran church, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends mal call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock Tuesday evening untime of the services. » ‘ 1

3 No Special Election During May Primary Geneva School Issue To Be Held Separate The special election in Wabash township to decide whether the township will have a school board or continue with the trustee running the school cannot be held with the primary election this spring, Edwin Steers, Sr., attorney general and member of the Indiana election board, has ruled. Steers stated in a letter to attorney Robert G. Smith of the firm Custer & Smith which represents Wabash township, that the law specifically states that the counting of the ballots must take place at 10 a.m. the next day, and since this cannot be done during the primary election, a special township election must be held. Trustee L. A. Mann and the advisory board announced a month ago that they had adopted a new ordinance which would change the school from the trustee system, under which one trustee runs the whole school, to the school board system. When the ordinance was published in the only legal newspaper in Geneva, the Geneva Herald, the Geneva Progress, a mimeographed weekly paper, attacked the idea and advocated the election. Enough- Geneva people signed the petition to force’ the election, which must now be held. Editor Harold Mattox, of the Geneva Herald, suggested that the trustee and advisory board change from electing the entire school board at large to a district system, electing one from each precinct. Under the present township ordinance, which cannot be changed before the election, the school board members would be elected, (Continued o« page five) *■ —— Employment, Payroll Increase In Decatur 60 More Employed During February 0 Industrial employment in Decatur increased in February over January’s figure, and the Decatur industrial payroll this February was higher than a year ago, Fred W. Kolter& executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, reported this month. Employment was 1,433 with seven industries reporting in February of this year, an increase of 60 workers over last month, but 41 fewer than a year ago. The payroll this February was $521,479, an increase of $4,947 over the previous month, and $26,600 over a year ago. .There was an increase of 32 electric meters in the past year, and eight this past month, to the present figure of 3,972. Water meters also increased by 40 in the past year to 2,546, four more than in January. Gas meters increased by two over the January figure of 2,348, but remained fqur less than a year ago. Telephones decreased for the month by four, but were still 38 more than the figures a year ago. There are now 6,156 telephones in the Decatur area, including rural. Direct poor relief in Washington township increased from 28 cases a year ago, and 31 in January to 40 in February. A year ago 96 persons were on relief, while this February there were 153, compared with 113 in January. Carloadings in decreased considerably from 877 a year ago to j 476 in January and 382 in February. Carloadings out showed only a slight decrease, with 1,185 a year ago, 1,227 in January, and 1,067 in February. Building permits in February were three, with a value of $15,150. In January three were issued, valued at $7,010, while a year ago there were five permits issued, valued at $23,932. Thet-e were 59 births and nine deaths reported, as compared with 49 births and eight deaths a year ago, and 46 births and seven deaths in January.

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Senate Rackets Group Charges Misused Funds Report From Senate Rackets Committee ' Cites Fund Misuse WASHINGTON (UP) — The Senate Rackets Committee reported today that union officials, including an infiltration of “gangsters and hoodlums," have “stolen embezzled or misused” more than 10 million dollars from five unions. It said the 15-year total amounts to “an average of $5 out of the pocket of every member of the unions covered." The statements were contained in a 12,000-word first installment of the committee's formal report on its first year's operations. One committee member — Sen. Pat McNamara (D-Mich.) — Labelled the financial estimates an unsupported “statistical perversion.” In a sharply worded dissent he said the report had an “anti-labor bias” making it read like “a blanket indictment of the labor movement ” The five unions covered by the committee report were the teamsters, Bakers, Operating Engineers. United Tfextfle Workers, and Allied Industrial Workers. The United Automobile Workers, now under investigation, was not included. The report included detailed findings on alleged improper practices by both union and company officials and some lawyers. It recommended legislation to control union funds, promote union democracy, curb activity of labormanagement ’ “middlemen” and clarify what it called a jurisdic- , tiohal “no-mati’s-land’’ betweep state and federal regulatory agencies. It did not spell out specific legislative proposals. And it reserved for a future 180,000-word installment most of the committee’s comments on the giant Teamsters Union and two of its controversial officers — past President Dave Beck and James R. Hoffa, the current president. Also reserved for a future report were findings on the Allied Industrial Workers Union which featured testimony on labor-man-agement deals of New York hoodlum Johnny Dio. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell, commenting on the report, said he was “pleased” that the legislative proposals "as far as they g0..-follow generally” President Eisenhower’s recommendations. Calling for speedy action by (Continued on p*s» Ov«> Million Dollar Fire In Chicago Sunday Seven Diesels And Roundhouse Burned CHICAGO W) — Damages were estimated at about one million dollars today in a fire that destroyed seven diesel railroad engines and the roundhouse of the Chicago Belt Railway. . Low water pressure and high winds hampered firemen in battling the blaze Sunday. The flames were brought under control after about two hours when one wall and the roof collapsed. Deputy Fire Marshal Harry Mohn said firemen at first hooked their hoses to hydrants supplied with water from the railroad pumphouse. However, there was insufficient water pressure and firemen had to connect to Chicago hydrants about two blocks away. High winds fanned the bil-fed flames and sent billowing clouds of black smoke drifting across Chicago’s South Side, attracting hundreds of spectators. A railroad spokesman estimated damage to the roundhouse, the engines and other equipment at about one million dollars. The line, which serves Chicago . area freight yards, resumed operi ations today with borrowed equipment.