Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 71, Decatur, Adams County, 25 March 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 71.

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Chances Slim On New Labor Legislation New Legislation Is Unlikely This Year Despite Prodding WASHINGTON (UP)— Chances are slim Congress will pass new labor legislation this year despite prodding from the administration "nd the, Senate Rackets Committee. A source Close to the Democratic leadership said the Senate may approve a few mild proposals if it gets a bill from its labor committee. But it was considered unlikely the House will act on labor legislation of any type. The Rackets Committee report on its first year’s investigation drew an angry blast Monday night from AFL-CIO President George Meany, who called it a “disgraceful, sensational smear” showing “anti-labor bias.” , Meany said the report grave doubt as to the “impartiality, objectivity and integrity” of the committee’s future operations. However he said he AFL-CIO supports most of the committee’s legislative recommendations. Kennedy Begins Hearings The committee, in a first installment of its report Monday, charged that officials of five unions investigatedduring the rast year stole, embezzled or otherwise misused more than 10 million dollars in union funds. It also said gangsters and hoodlums had infiltrated some of the and some firms had'“engaged in a number of Illegal and improper activities.’’ A Senate Labor subcommittee headed by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) is scheduled to open hearings Wednesday on a host of measures including recommendations by the Rackets Committee. Although this is late in the session to begin work on such a controversial subject observers believe there still is time for Senate action. .... . They gave the best chance of passage to a bill to provide more protection for union welfare and pension funds. Such a step was recommended both in President Eisenhower’s Jan. 23 labor message and the Rackets Committee report. Kohler Study Edning Other Rackets Committee proposals would control management of union dues, promote democartic union procedures, extend unfair labor practice penalties to socalled middlemen employed by management and expand national labor relations board jurisdiction. Kennedy’s subcommittee hearings pose a new complication for the Rackets Committee in its effort to wind up its four-week-old Kohler strike investigation this week. “’ Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the senator, said the rackets group should be abte to complete its study of a union boycott of Kohler Co. products today. This would make it possible to end the hearings Wednesday or Thursday with the long - awaited appearances of company President Herbert V. Kohler and President Walter P- Reuther of the AFLCIO United Auto Workers. The UAW has been on strike against the Kohler, Wis., plumbing fixtures firm for almost four years.

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Rain Belt Extending Over Much Os Nation Southern Missouri Highways Closed By UNITED PRESS Rising temperatures and more rain today revived a dying flood threat in the nation’s snow-buried East. Heavy rains, meanwhile, swelled rivers and streams in the Midwest and in California. 5 The, U.S. Weather Bureau said , a rain belt extending from the , upper Ohio Valley into southern J New England was accompanied . by a boost of temperatures along the Atlantic Coast, with near 40 . readings recorded early today in r the Northeast. f Although the heavy rains and . sudden thaw necessary to convert . mountainous snow drifts into - quick-moving flood waters were not expected, the forecast showed t the Northeast was not yet out of , the woods.. i On the West Coast, mud slides J were triggered in northern Cali-. . fornia areas by a storm that . dumped almost an inch and a half of rain Monday. I The Consumnes »River spilled . into farmlands and near danger ' levels were .recorded along the lower Mokelumne and San Joai quin rivers More rivers rose in the Midlands in the wake of torrential rains with general flooding predicted for the Osage, Meramec and Gasconade zCvers, in Missouri and on the Big Muddy in Illinois. Five southern Missouri state highways were closed by high waters. A storm centered over the southeastern part of the nation caused widespread rain and snow from the middle Mississippi Valley across most of the South and middle Atlantic states. About three-quarters of an inch of rain fell at. Anniston, Ala., and Charleston, S.C., during a six-hour period endingulate Monday night. There also were widespread showers over the Rockies and the Northwest. To Probe Strike At Perfect Circle Co. Rackets Committee Plans Strike Probe WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Rackets Committee voted today to investigate the United Auto Workers strike in 1955 against the Perfect Circle Co. in Indiana, as soon as it completes the current Kohler strike .hearing. Sens. -Barry Goldwater (RAriz.), Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) and Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.) put through a motion to conduct a public investigation of the Perfect Circle strikeThe decision, made at a closed door meeting, was opposed by the other GOP member, vice chairman Irvin M. Ives (N.Y.). Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) 'fend Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. (N.C.), the other Democrat present, did not vote. The Perfect Circle strike, which centered a round the firm’s foundry at New Castle, Ind, was settled in 1955, the same year it began. It was marked by violence and vandalism. . Ives told newsmen he objected to an investigation of the Perfect Circle dispute because he “didn’t (Cwattnued e* p*«* few)

Ike To Ask Increase In Jobless Pay Asks Federal Funds Permitting States To Extend Benefits WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower will ask Congress late today or'Wednesday to provide federal funds permitting states to extend the period of unemployment compensation benefits by 50 per cent. This was disclosed by Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland after a White House conference between President Eisenhower and GOP legislative laders. '■ Meanwhile, the Senate called up for debate another anti-recession bill—a measure providing for commitment of $5,500,000,000 for federal highway construction this year. Knowland said federal funds provided for stretching out unemployment benefits would be repaid to the Treasury in one or two ways: The unemployment administrative tax on employers could be increased 50 per cent from 0.3 to 0.45 per cent starting April 1, 1961; or states could pay back the money from unemployment benefit reserve funds if they are large enough. y Sped Up Federal Purchasing The emergency administration plan would continue in effect until April 1, 1950, Knowland said. The number of weeks of unemployment pay varies from state to state The average is 26 weeks. The administration plan would increase this to 39 weeks for an individual who was out of work that long. Knowland also disclosed that 1 President Eisenhower will submit I to Congress within “the next day or two” legislation designed to i speed up federal purchasing during the remainder of this fiscal I year and in the 12 months after . July 1. The speedup would cover fedI eral buying generally and amount to about 100 million dollars for the i remainder of the year ending June 30, the senator said. In fiscal 1959, he said, the goal would be to move up federal purchases from three to six months. He said this would affect some 500 million dollars in purchases. Concerning the $5,500,000,000 highway bill, Knowland predicted that Congress will approve it before recessing April 4 for Easter. He said he expects it will get through both the Senate and House and a probable conference committee by then. AFL-CIO Asks Tax Cut Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn), floor manager for the highway bill, said its approval would be “a major step toward putting America back to work." The AFL-CIO Executive Committee called Monday night for an immediate tax reduction of six to eight billion dollars to help end (Continued on pace three) Indonesian Students Stage Demonstration Heavy Fighting In Northern Sumatra SINGAPORE (UP) - Left wing Indonesian students carried out anti - SEATO demonstrations in ffront of the U.S. embassy in Jakarta today and won a promise that no U.S. arms would go to the Indonesian rebels. At the same time revolutionary quarters in Singapore said Russian ships arriving recently at Jakarta had brought in Russian tanks, landing craft, mortars and spare parts for planes. Russia recently supplied 10 ships to the Jakarta government to carry it over a critical shipping shortageThe revolutionaries also reported that 30 Jakarta pilots had left for Cairo to be trained in flying Soviet - built MIG jet fighters. On the actual fighting front heavy fighting was reported around Lake Toba in northern Sumatra where eight battalions of government troops were attacking rebels forced back from the Medan area into the mountains towering over the lake. U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia Howard P. Jones met representatives of the 150 students who paraded today in front of the embassy with signs denouncing the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. He saidt he would do “all I can’* to prevent rebel forces from obtaining American-made arms. He pointed out that arms can be bought anywhere on the international market and said he could not stop the rebels from buying them “but I shall do all I can in this rekpect." The hooting crowd ah on ted “lies” to his explanation.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, March 25,1958

Nine Persons Killed As Airliner Crashes Today In Swampy Everglades

. . JU V . - Dulles Rejects Moscow Terms For Conference Dulles Voices Flat i Rejection Os Terms From Soviet Russia WASHINGTON (W — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today ’ flatly rejected Moscow terms for [ a summit meeting as far too high > a price for the free world to pay. The Soviet price, if paid, would mean that the United States k would lose its shirt even before a ■ summit parley were called, Dulles told a news Dulles said Soviet notes regard- * ing a summit meeting are becom- ’ mg increasingly harsh. If these ’ notes are a preview of a summit [ parley, Dulles said, it would be better not to have any East-West t conference at the summit. But he t did not entirely rule out a summit r meeting — if Moscow lowers its I price tag. In a note delivered to the Unit--1 ed States Monday, Moscow held • firm on its previous demands on a summit meeting. These demands ■ previously had been rejected by : the United States. ' ? Five Brice Tags v The Soviets called for a preliminary foreign minister conference next month which would only arrange topics, participants, time, and place for a summit meeting; The Soviets ruled out any real advance discussion of basic issues dividing East and West. The United States holds that such discussion is a vital preliminary to a summit meeting. Reading from a prepared statement, Dulles listed five Soviet “price tags” as follows: Treating Eastern European satellite governments and Western sovereign states on the same basis; accepting the “legitimacy of the Eastern German puppet regime” "acquiescence in the continued division of Germayn”; and ending fourpower responsibility to reunify Germany. Dulles also said the Soviets are trying “further to weaken the United Nations,” and to formulate items for a summit meeting in such away that “virtually every item—nine out of 11—implies acceptance of a basic Soviet thesis that the western powers reject.” Dulles said he believes the Soviets are still willing to negotiatefurther in order to have a summit meeting. But if the latest Soviet note is an ultimatum, he said, the outlook for a top level meeting is dark. = The Soviet stand was outlined in a memorandum handed to U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson in Moscow Monday and later made publ by the Russians there. The Soviets again rejected one of President Eisenhower’s main conditions for a Summit meeting and suggested the United States might be trying to “smear” the whole idea of such a conference. Rejects Unification The President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were said to have decided at a White House meeting last Wednesday to hold out for proof the Russians would agree to a limited disarmament agreement and discuss German unification before going to a (Continued on page five)

Lenten Meditation I (By Rev. Stuart Brightwell, pastor, First Baptist Church) “THE PARADOX” • ■ ■ . i The eleventh chapter of the Book of Hebrews reveals the activity and the power that lies in faith in God. This chapter can be considered to be"a record of witnesses to the truth that “The Just shall live by Faith.” First we have a definition of faith, “Faith is the substance (or, proving) of things not seen." (Heb. 11:1). The two qualities of faith are “substance" and “evidence." In the remainder of the chapter we notice the wonderful things done by these who had faith. , Jesus teaches us that there is power in faith. The disciple, by faith, will be able to do greater things than His Master. Here is a Niagara of power for us. Woneed to ask ourselves not only "What can Ldo?” but “How much can I believe?” for “all things are possible to him that believeth.” Failure to exercise faith hinders our service for Christ. Let us determine to be men and women of Faith.

Fam Banquet Held At Berne Last Night Farm Achievement , Banquet Is Held “We must either become thinking ‘eggheads’ or perish and become extinct like dinosaurs,” Dr. John W. Hicks, assistant to the president of Purdue University, told an overflow crowd at the 36th annual farmers achieve- , ment banquet held Monday night at the Berne auditorium. Dr. Hicks explained, "to compete in this modern world we, as 1 lielievers in the American way, must also learn the theory neces--1 sary to understand the great 1 technical changes taking place.” ‘ He then gave a list of 12 ques--1 tions, to ask high school children, to see if they were learn- - ing what they should learn in a ■ modern society. Questions in- > eluded, “explain how the lens in t a pair of glasses corrects myopia, • explain why Sputnik the Second t has not fallen to earth, explain > the principles of the engine which t runs the Nautilus submarine; . have you ever read a book in a foreign language,” and several . others. Dr. Hicks then explained that “if our children are getting the (answers to the questions, we cannot blame them, or the schools, but only ourselves. We must make an effort to increase the amount of learning ana under? standing both in our children and ourselves,” he concluded. Dr. Hick’s speech followed the annual a warding of trophies and medals to the leading farmers in the community. Mrs. Noah L. Habegger, president of the Adams county home demonstration association, explained that her group was started in the early 1920’5, and now includes 22 clubs and 600 members. The Root township club was awarded the trophy for first place in the annual contest, with 1,264 points. Second, third, and fourth place ribbons went to the Decatur club with 1,252 points, accepted by Mrs. Verda Beineke; the Jolly Housewives of St. Mary’s township; and the M. W. Friendship club of Berne, accepted by Mrs. Marcus Luginbill. Other officers of the county home demonstration club are Mrs. Carl Schug, first vice president: Mrs. S. Neuenschwander, second vice president; Mrs. Ralph Bluhm, secretary; Mrs. Milton Kruetzman, assistant secretary; and Mrs. John Leyse, treasurer. .Second came the recognition of the county corn club champions in the crop project committee by Earl Caston, assistant cashier of the First State Bank of Decatur. Dan Fiechter was given the trophy for the senior championship with the top yield of 145 bushels per acre in the five-acre corn club. Junior champions Lqp Busick and Gary Ringger also received cash awards, as they tied with 137 bushels per acre. In the senior group, other green gold award winners were Ervin Schuller, 136 bushels: Raymond Ringger, 135; Lores Steury, 130; Wm. Kohne & Sons, 126; gold awards went to Hugo Bulmahn, 124; Joe L. Isch, 123; Harold Moher, 120; Ben Gerke, 110; Ralph Berning, 109; Mrs. Ben Mazelin, 105; Earl Johnson, 104. Junior medal winners were, green gold, Dwight Moser and Gerald Bulmahn, 129 each; Jim Ringger, 128; Emanuel Gerber, 126; gold awards to Philip Moser, <Continue<won page five)

Senate Group Scores Heads Os Teamsters Says Dishonesty, Corruption Chief , Traits Os Leaders WASHINGTON (IP) — The Senate Rackets Committee said today that “dishonesty and corruption” are the chief traits of the Teamsters Union leadership. "They present a major threat to the economy and to law enforcement,” the committee said in a sharply worded report which also: 1. Denounced Teamster President James R. Hoffa as a “dangerous -influence ip the labor movement” and accused him of “rigging” his own election. 2. Castigated Hoffa> predecessor, Dave Beck, and charged that he “viciously abused the trust of the union’s 1,500,000 members and that he shamefully enriched himself at their expense.” 3. Said the’ situation in the Teamsters Union is a cause for “national alarm.” The committee’s strong feeling about th£ Teamster? leadership Was reflected in the fact that it devoted most of the second section of its 462-page interim report to the giant union, largest in the nation. The 12,000-word first installment, issued- Monday . covered- fourother -’roups investigated by the committee last year and presented its legislative findings. Hoffa, who ascended to the Team.-ter presidency under courtapproved monitors after his apnearance bcfpr.e the committee, was the major target of the 180,-000-odd unminced words in the second installment. The committee charged that the Teamster leaders “crushed democracy within the union's ranks,” “rigged elections, hoodwinked and abused their own memberships,” and entered into "collusive agreements 'with management for the purpose of power, money and-or self-aggrandizement." The five activities which came under the committee’s scrutiny included establishment of "phony locals” in New York; gangsterism in Portland, Ore.; violence in Scranton, Pa.; collusion with the (Continued on pa.gre two) Mrs. Louise Meyer Dies This Morning _ Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Mrs. Louise Meyer, 83, of Marion township, Allen county, two miles south of Poe, died at 5 o’clock this morning at the- Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne, where she had been a patient the past four weeks. She was born in Germany Dec. 9, 1874, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Erxleben. Her husband, Frederick Meyer, preceded her in death in 1942., The family lived near Cecil, 0., until 1910, when they moved to Allen county. Mrs. Meyer was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Surviving are three sons, Paul H. Meyer of Arcola, Adolph Meyer of Zanesville, and Ernest H. Meyer of Marion township; one daughter. Miss Frieda Meyer of Marion township; eight grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren, and one brother, August Elxleben of Warsaw. One daughter is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home and -at 2 p. m at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim, the Rev. A. A. Eenner officiating. Burial will be Jh the church cemetery. Rfiends may call at the funeral home after 7 p, m. Wednesday until time of the services.

House Group Votes Big Money Measure Three Billions For Unemployment Fight WASHINGTON (UP) — The House Appropriations Committee today voted almost three billion dollars to fight unemployment, poverty and disease. This was, net, a little less than President Eisenhower had asked in funds to run the departments of labor and health, education and welfare, and to carry out their far-flung economic and public health functions in fiscal 1959 However, the committee laid ; the minor cuts it imposed to faulty requests by the administration, and forecast that many more millions would be needed. In some cases it voted more . money than the President asked. . And In general it assailed the ads ministration for failure to plan bigger and do more. The big money bill as approved t and sent to the House carried f $382,446,800 for the Labor Depart- , ment, of which 305 million is for grants to states to run their employment services and unemployment compensation programs; : and $2,565,080,581 for the health, • education and welfare, of which $1,806,400,000 is for grants to states for public payments to the needy aged and disabled and to dependent children. With minor funds for a few related agencies thrown in, the bill carried a total, of $2,961,862,181, a cut of $11,875,000 below what the President asked. The Democratic-controlled committeeln its report to the House criticized the Republican administration for underestimating unemployment trends, pinching public health funds, dragging its feet on vocational rehabilitation, failing to push food and drug safeguards, and neglecting the aged. Seek Blood Donors For April 2 Vis'd Bloodmobile Unit In City In April Red Cross blood program workers are calling as many interested persons as they can during the next two weeks to line up the necessary blood donors for the visit of the bloodmobile here April 2 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. Those working Monday were Mrs. Ed Bauer, Mrs. Earl Fuhrman, and Mrs. Lucille Miller. Today, Mrs. Joe Hunter, Mrs. Max Kreps, Mrs. Mel Kreps and Mrs. Ivan Stucky are making the calls. There are now 51 regional blood centers in the United States, with 1,450 participating Red Cross chapters. Blood is distributed to about 3,900 government and civilian hospitals each year. Blood is outdated after 21 days, and can no longer be used for transfusions. The plasma is then separated from the red cells. From this plasma comes gamma globulin, which modifies or prevents measles and infectious hepatitis; fibrinogin, for control of certain types of bleeding; serum albumin, for treating severe shock, burns, and kidney diseases. The Red Cross distributes these plasma products free of charge. At prevailing commercial prices, the value of blood derivatives given to the sick last year was $3 million. This program is only possible if citizens give blood and cooperate with the program. Volunteers who are unable to give blood but would like to work for the program should contact Mrs. Bauer. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy northwest and mostly cloudy southeast half tonight and Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 28 to 33 north, 33 to 38 south. High Wednesday most- *"• & in the 48s. Sunset today 7:82 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:40 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy with little temperature change. Low Wednesday night in the 30s. High Thursday upper 48s.

15 Escape In Florida Crash Early Today Crashes Only Two Minutes After A * Take Off At Miami MIAMI (IF —• A flaming Bran- : iff Airways passenger plane , smacked with exploding fury into the swampy Everglades today, I killing nine of the 24 persons . aboard. , Several of the 15 saved walked - away from the broken chunks of the big four-engine DC7 that had » taken off only two minutes before . the crash, en route to Rio de • Janeiro. The accident happened 1 shortly after midnight. Just as the cabin lights flashed 1 that the passengerss could remove 1 their seat belts, a ball of fire shot - out from an erigine on the right r wing. The plane, burning brightly " on the right side, plummeted to earth. ’ Braniff officials said the nine ’ dead included an official of the s airline from Dallas, three pilots and a pilot’s wife, all flying as . pasengers. The five crew members operating the plane escaped . death. , 1 Airline officials said that at i least five of the dead were : burned. Three Coast Guard helicopter teams begin lifting the injured and dead, from the scene nine minutes after the crash was reported. Witnesses report a tremendous explosion rocked the big silver, red and blue plane as it plunged into the mud and sawgrass, some four miles, from the airport. Flames leaped skyward ’ for 200 feet, casting an eeie glow over the low-lying swamp fog. The explosion apparently threw the flaming right wing of the glass, some four miles from the main cabin compartment. This fact may have saved additional lives. The tail compartment broke off . in a third huge chunk separated ! from the remainder of the wrook- , age some 200 feet away. Four per- ’ sons walked away from this bit of . wreckage. > The gasoline-fed flames from the right wing lighted the clear, , dark night while rescue workers a few yards away fought in oozy, black slime to get the survivors aboard helicopters and ambu- • tinufcd '.ii Five) Orders Purchase Os New Election Booths Purchase Ordered By Commissioners The Adams county board of com- ’ missioners ordered county auditor Edward Jaberg to purchase new election booths for the North Preble precinct, located at the Friedheim school, at the request of Martin Gallmeyer, who appeared before the commissioners at their regular meeting Monday morning. The commissioners authorized surveyor Herman Moellering to change the assessment of the Sipe ditch on the Ray E. Butcher farm from $225.76 to $90.10, when an error was discovered on the assessments. Martin Selking appeared before the commissioners and requested an incerase in the size of the tile on the Preble-Root township line. He told the commissioners that the present tile would not drain the land. The matter was referred to Lawrence Noll, highway superintendent* ' Virgil Bowers appeared at the meeting and requested some action on the culverts on the Harriet Bowers drain on road 37% between county roads 8 and 9 in Kirkland township. The matter was also referred to Lawrence Noll.

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