Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 77.

—-. . - I CHATTY, ANYliOW— Whatever else UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (middle)’ accomplished in Moscow, at least he got along chattily with Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan (right). They are shown with an interpreter at a reception in the Pakistan embassy. Those lei-like neckpieces .are Pakistan’s traditional gold mogul gai lands, compliments of Princess Aisha Husain, wife of the Pakistan ambassador.

Urge Decision Soon By Ike On Tax Cuts growing Pressure On Eisenhower For Decision On Cuts WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower was under growing pressure today to make a decision this month on whether to recommend an anti-recession tax cut. The pressure came from influential Speaker Sam Rayburn, who will call the signals in the House where any tax-reducing legislation must originate, and from a member of the President's own cabinet. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell. Their insistence conflicted with the advice of high administration - officials that the President wait ° until late May, when he will have a fuller picture of economic conditions, before deciding on the tax question The President called GOP congressional leaders to the White House this morning to review the progress of his anti-recession program? He planned to confer in the afternoon with Dr. Raymond J. Saulnier, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, and later in the day with Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks and Charles St. Percy, Chicago movie camera manufacturer. Percy has had a number of private talks with administration officials about his success in increasing sales by making selective price cuts —a step that Eisenhower has urged business generally to take to stimulate buying Other economic developments: —The Senate called up for debate another major Democratic anti-recession bill —a measure aimed at pumping one billion dollars in federal into local public works projects. A federal deficit of between two and three billion dollars this fiscal year was seen today by government experts as a distinct possibility. Officials also said the administration undoubtedly have to ask this session of Congress for another increase in the federal debt limit to accommodate an expected rising deficit in fiscal 1959 which begins next July 1. Howe Nominated As Ambassador To Chile WASHINGTON — (IP) President Eisenhower Monday nominated Walter Howe, a foreign aid official, as U.S. Ambassador to Chile. Howe was formerly president of the Litchfield (Conn.) Inquirer ’ Publishing Co. If confirmed by the Senate, he will succeed Cecil B. Lyon, a career diplomat who is being shifted to the U.S. Embassy in Paris as deputy chief of mission. Bloodmobile Unit In City-Wednesday The bloodmobile unit of the Red Cross regional blood center will be in Decatur Wednesday at the Youth and Community Center from 10 a. m. until 4 p. m. The quota for this bloodmobile visit to Decatur has been set at 127 pints. Any person between 18 and 59 years of age who desires to give blood should call the Red Cross office to be scheduled. Persons who are unable to secure rides to and from the bloodmobile unit at the Youth and Community Center will be conveyed there in the Welcome Wagon by Mrs. Dan Tindall. Those desiring this service should call the center.

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West Coast Drenched By Continuing Rains Eastern Third Os United States Fair By UNITED PRESS Rain and some snow swept most of the western two-thirds ot the hation today, but the first day of April found the eastern third basking under mostly fair skies. The West Coast, drenched by rains which have sent mud slides crushing down on highways and toppling homes, was. due for more wet weather today. Rain occurred throughout central and northern California, turning to snow at higher elevations One man was feared buried Monday when about 600,000 tons of earth roared down a rainweakened cliff and onto U.S. 101 near Los Angeles. The missing man was identified as an engineer who was helping clear away a slide which occurred at the same spot last week. Rescuers worked during the night in a light drizzle in an effort to locate the man. At Oakland. Calif., a $35,000 home tumbled down a 100-foot cliff, crushing another home at the bottom. Two more homes were dangerously undermined by erosion and three other homes were evacuated. Damage was stimated at $150,000. Also in California, two Army fliers who braved the snow-swept Sirras Monday to rescue four stranded skiers hoped today to bring out the body of a helicopter crash victim. The victim, Peter Gring, 39, Santa Barbara, was killed last Wednesday when his craft went down in King's Canyon National Park. ’ In the East, March departed rather sheepishly after earlier battering sections of the Northeast with one of the worst spring storms on record. Only a few scattered areas of rain along the East Coast marred otherwise fair weather from the Mississippi to the ’Atlantic- Some warming was expected today in the central and northern Atlantic Coast states, while some cooling occurred over Georgia and Florida. Precipitation fell from the central Rockies into the western parts of South Dakota and Nebraska. Hail one-fourth inch in diameter accompanied a thunderstorm in Akron, Colo., Monday night. County Agent Guest Speaker For Lions _ 4-H Club Work Is Discussed Monday Leo N. Seltenright, county agent, discussed 4-H club work and showed slides of the 4-H fair to the members of the Decatur Lions club Monday evening at the weekly meeting at the Youth and Community Center. There are 31 4-H clubs operating in Adams county this year, with more than 800 young people between 10 and 21 years of age. These youngsters enroll in projects, many of which are shown at the Adams county 4-H fair in Monroe during the last week of July and first of August each year. The fair includes a /parade through Monroe, judging of projects, and awarding of prizes. Each night a fun festival, with amateur act, is included. The last night of the fair the dress revue is held, and a county winner to take part in the state fair chosen. The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt presided in the absence of president Merlin C. Sieling.’ The district convention to be held in Decatur April 27 was discussed, and secretary G. Remy Bierly was Instructed to sent out blanks for reservations.

1,200 Persons Rescued From Burning Ship British Freighter Saves 1,200 From India Ocean Death ADEN HP) — A dramatic double transfer at sea today saved the lives of almost 1,200 passengers and crewmen of an immigrant liner which burned in the Indian Ocean late Monday night. An unconfirmed radio report listed only one death in the swift rescue. Other reports said there were no casualties at all. The Italian passenger ship Roma was steaming slowly toward Aden today, carrying all 1,076 passengers and about 100 crewmen from the fire-ravaged Norwegian transport ship Skaubryn. She was expected to arrive Thursday. The Skaubryn, carrying European migrants to Australia, was engulfed in flames when she was about 300 miles southeast of Socotra Island, off the African coast. Her passengers and cerwmen took to lifeboats and pulled away from the leaping flames on the Ship. JT j ■=- Head For Aden One of the vessels answering distress calls broadcast before the Skaubryn was abandoned was the British freighter City of Sydney. She was first on the scene and began pulling the Skaubryn’s loaded lifeboats alongside, and then hauling the survivors aboard. The City of Sydney, heavily loaded and without passenger accommodation, left the still-flaming Skabryn adrift in the Indian Ocean, about 10 degrees north of the Equator, and steamed for the nearest porV—Aden. The Roma, a passenger ship, was also racing to answer the Skaubryn’s distress calls. The two ships met in the night and their captains agreed to transfer the survivors to the Roma, which was far better equipped with food and accommodation. Once again, a mid-sea transfer of the 1,200 persons involved was accomplished without accident. The Roma then set off for Aden, followed by the City of Sydney, now relieved of her human cargo. The Ndrwegian owners of the Skaubryn, the Oslo firm of I. M. Skaugen, said the fire presumably started in the engine room and spread to the oil bunkers. They said the passenger accommodations were equipped with modern firefighting equipment and painted with fireproof paint. . On Immigrant Run The eight-year-old German-built ship had been operated on the immigrant run between Bremerhaven, Germany, and Australian ports. It had carried thousands of immigrants from Germany, dis(Continued on page five) Indonesian Troops Enter West Sumatra Within 65 Miles Os Rebel Strongholds - SINGAPORE (UP)—lndonesian Loyalists advancing on two fronts have entered West Sumatra, driving within 65 miles of the rebel strongholds of Padang and Bukittingi, the Jakarta government said today. An army announcement said loyalists moving south westward from Pakanbaru marched unopposed Saturday into Bangkinang, 60 miles northeast of Bukittingi. At the same time, Jakarta said, a loyal column driving west from Rengat seized Sungailangsat, 65 miles west of Padang, and cut the oil route leading southeasteastward across Sumatra to neutral Palembang. Late Monday night, high rebel officials in Bukittingi told the United Press that insurgent counterattacks in the -Taluk - Lubuk Djamibi area, east of Sungailangsat, were holding the loyalists back from the Palembang road Reports that Jajarta is*receiving arms from the Communist world continued to circulate here despite consistent loyalist denials. One usually reliable source said today President Sukarno's regime has signed munitions contracts with Czechoslovakia. Radio reports from the U.S.operated oil fields of central Sumatra said that a ‘‘wave of lawlessness and thievery” is sweeping Caltex Company installations. An unidentified American official Was quoted as saying that armed bands moved into offices and other installations Sunday and “intimidated guards, broke down doors and took what they pleased.” All Americans h a v.e been evacuated from the installation.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, April 1, 1958

Dulles Discloses U.S. To Continue Testing For Nuclear Weapons

Ike's Veto Os Farm Measure Is Criticized Senate Democrats Admit Chance Slim Os Overriding Veto WASHINGTON WpT — Senate Democrats hoped today for a grass roots protest in the next two weeks to strengthen their admittedly slim chances of overrid ing President Eisenhower’s veto of- 1 the farm bill. Eisenhower’s rejection of the bill—which would freeze price supports and acreage allotments at not less than 1957 levels—drew a blast of hot words from critics but no immediate move to overturn the veto. One Democratic strategist said it was obvious that “we don’t have the votes to override today” in the Senate. Such a vote must be taken in the Senate before the issue can go to the House. A two-thirds majority is ncessary in each house to reverse a presidential veto. The farm bill was far short of this margin when it passed the Senate, 48-32, and the House, 210-172. Democratic sources said no action on the veto would be taken until the congressional Easter recess ends ‘April 14- One farm bloc leader said it was hoped that anmgry farmers would “talk to” enough Republican senators during the recess to swing them into line with the Democrats. Lower Dairy Supports There was no definite decision from the Senate's Democratic leadership as to whether the issue would be put to a vote at all if private soundings during the Easter recess indicate there is no chance of success. Sen. Mike Mansfield (Mont.), the acting party leader, said his “personal prediction” was that there “certainly would be” an effort to override the veto. But with Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) out of town there was no final word on the subject. Lower supports on dairy products went into effect today. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson set the rates Monday at $3.06 per hundredweight for manufacturing milk and 56.6 cents a pound for butter fat- These rates are slightly higher than those announced originally 10 days ago because the parity price has risen since jhen. Benson also set the 1958 corn price support rate at $1.36 a bushel, compared with $1.40 for the 1957 crop. Both the 1957 and 1958 rate reflected 77 per cent of parity, but the dollars-and-cents rate for this year wai lower because the parity price of corn dropped. Th price support rate for the 1958 peanut crop was set at $213.20 a ton, reflecting 82 per cent of parity. The 1957 rate was $221.40, or 81.4 per cent of parity. Seme Varied Comment* If chances seemed slim that Congress would override Eisenhower’s veto, they were evn slimmer that it would approve his plea—repeated in the veto message—for authority to make further cuts in farm supports. (Continued on page five)

Lenten Meditation (By ReV. H. E. Settlage, Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church, Magley) “THE INDIFFERENT” Text: Matthew 27:3-4 Inasmuch as Judas betrayed Jesus into the hands of His enemies, his name has become synonymous with “traitor.” Christ indicated the gravi|ty of this crime in the words, “it had been good for that man if he had not been born." However, the greater guilt of those who bribed Judas to betray Jesus into their hands is easily overlooked. Judas permitted himself to be used as a tool in the hands of Christ's enemies, the chief priests and elders parading in the guise of religious office and formalism. But when he realized that his deed led to Christ’s condemnation to death, he went to those who had hired him and confessed, “I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent b100d..” At least he stiU cared what happened to the Master whose companionship he had shared for several years. But all the priests and elders had to say was in effedt, “so what!" So indifferent, so hard-hearted and selfish can men become, even religious men, that they care for neither the Son of God nor their fellow men. From such dark depths of sin, good Lord, deliver us!

Baruch In Warning Against Tax Cuts Famous Adviser To President Speaks WASHINGTON (UP) -Financier Bernard M. Baruch warned today that a federal tax cut would be “folly” and urged labor and management to pledge a freeze on wages and prices. The famed adviser to presidents advised the Senate Finance Committee: “Inflation, gentlemen, is the most important economic fact of our time—the single greatest peril to our economic health.” In a prepared statement, Baruch said the road to national economic Health includes these steps: —“Determining the requirements of national security and doing all that is needed* to meet them?’ —“Barring new inflationary adventures. Foregoing tax reductions. Avoiding deficit spending.” Plan Amortization —“Strengthening the credit of government by refusing the debt on a long-term basis and planning definite amortization ” —“Stopping the price - wage spiral and the abuse of credit.” Baruch said the recession “is the inevitable aftermath of a period of inflation that could at least have been mitigated, if not prevented.” k “There is no cause for alarm if we will learn from our mistakes and call a halt to the practices which are responsible for.this situation," the elder statesman said. A tax reduction, said Baruch, “will increase the deficit, add to the debt, and further weaken the government’s credit. To reduce revenues before our defenses are secure and our debt manageable is_unecQnomicgndimrnpral.’’ Any new public works program to fight the recession should be placed on a self-liquidating basis, Baruch urged. Local action would be more effective than federal steps in such projects, he added. “Local governments can best survey their own situations.” “It would be an inspiring and salutary thing if the leaders of our great labor unions and businesses would jointly pledge to the President that for one year there will be no increase in wages or prices and that profit margins would at least be frozen,” he said. Baruch called for individual self-restraint in private ere di t. “Its excessive growth,” he said, “has been one of the major factors in our present difficulties and is one of the weak links in our economic chain.” Shocked by Easy Credit “I have often been shocked by the lengths to which banks, merchants and advertisers go to press credit upon the consumer with which to .buy things they can be persuaded to want, but do not need,” the financier said. Discussing inflation, Baruch said the problem “follows from the selfish struggle for special-ad-vantage among pressure groupsEach seeks tax cuts or price increases or age raises for itself while urging the other to make the sacrifice and with little regard for the national interest." The recession, Baruch said, is (Continued on page five)

Peak Convicted In Second Road Scandal Trial Milan Attorney Is * Convicted By Jury In Highway Scandal INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Milan attorney Robert Peak was found guilty in his second Indiana highway scandal trial Monday night. A jury of nine women and three men was out about seven and onehalf hours before returning the verdict Special Judge Norman Brennan said he would defer sentencing until next Monday because "the lawyers will be out of town.” The maximum sentence on the charge of falsely notarizing a deed would be 1-3 years in prison and a fine up to SI,OOO. In closing arguments Monday afternoon Deputy Prosecutor William Sharp called Peak the “brains behind the conspiracy” in the embezzlement of more than $22,000 in a series of land transactions in 1955. Under Another Sentence The 46-year-old stoney-faced attorney already was + under sentence for 2-14 years for conspiracy to ebezzle in the same deals. He and former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith were convicted on the charge in the first highway scandal trial and were free pending appeal. Two others were acquitted in the first trial. But the next two trials have produced two convictions—Peak and Austin housemover Marvin Preble. This Marion Criminal Court 1 jury deliberated for about three hours before taking an hour for dinner. Then it went back behind closed doors and found Peak guilty of falsely notarizing the signature of “Dean Burton." Testimony showed the signature was used by Smith in a scheme to hide Smith’s ownership of the property. The lots were sold originally for $2,500 and then resold to Smith’s highway department for $25,800. “Was The Axis” "You know this is part of the road scandals,” Sharp told the jury. “Peak’s notarial seal was the axis on which $25,800 was siphoned from the public till” Defense attorney William F. Hopkins told the jury Peak testified in his own defense as “an innocent man.” Hopkins said Peak believed it was legal when he notarized the “Burton” signature on a deed transferring two Madison Ave. properties to Peak's (Continued on p&ge six) Henry Kukelhan Dies At Home Last Night 90-Year-Old Farmer Is Taken By Death Henry Kukelhan, 90-year-old retired farmer, and member of a prominent pioneer family of Adams county, died at 9:40 o’clock Monday night at the home of his brothers in Root township. He had been ill for the past four years. He was born in Root township Jan. 27, 1868, a son of Frederick and Louise Fuelling-Kukelhan. He lived in Union township from 1909 until four years ago, when he moved with his brothers. Mr. Kukelhan was a member of St. Peter’s Lutheran church. Surviving are three brothers. Edward, Herman and Otto Kukelhan, all of Root township, and one sister, Mrs. Hugo Franz of Decatur. Two brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at St. Peter's Lutheran church, the Rev. Fred Droegemueller officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Difenbaker Wins In 'HE* »■/•**' Canadian Elections Conservative Party Wins House Control MONTREAL OF) — John Difenbaker’s progressive - conservative party had a national mandate today to launch a massive public works campaign against Canada’s recession. More than 6,400,000 voters answered Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s plea for a “working majority” in the House of Coplrrjfcns by staging a coast-to-coast uemonstfation of unprecedented political unity. They gave the Tory government at least 2U out of 265 Common seats, far exceeding the most optimistic Conservative Party estimates. The Liberals salvaged only some 45 seats. Diefenbaker promised to convene Parliament "at the earliest possible date." When he dissolved the 23rd Parliament Feb. 1, he mentioned May 5 as the date for the next opening. The popular vote — at last count, 6,402,613 — was below expectations and failed to match the record 6.6 million of last June. The Conservatives got 53.56 per cent of the total, the Liberals, 34.06. A third party, £CF, got 9.24, and the Social Credit Party 2.40. It was predicted that tax cuts would be made this year as an anti-recession move. It also was indicated the new government would take some action to ease unemployment. Funeral Wednesday For Wreck Victims Portland Lady And Daughters Killed Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon for Mrs. Rosemary Moser Rickner, 20, Portland, and her two daughters, Debra Kay, 2, and Kins Ranaee, three months, who were fatally injured in an auto accident near Portland' early Monday morning. Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the First Missionary church in Berne, the Rev. J. J. Klopfenstein officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the Baird funeral home in Portland until noon Wednesday. The bodies will lie in state at the church from 1 o’dlock i Wednesday afternoon until time of the services. James iR. Rickner, 23, husband and father of the victims, who was driving the car, is reported in “satisfactory condition” at the Jay county hospital at Portland. Mrs. Rickner is survived by her husband; her parents, Mr, and Mrs. Amos E. Moser, of Berne, and three sisters, Mrs. Max Andrews of Decatur, Mrs. Harold Marks of Lima, 0., and Miss Joyce Moser, at home. The fatal one-car accident occurred shortly before 2 o’clock Monday morning on U. S. highway 27, four miles north of Portland. Rickner told Jay county authorities, who investigated, that he was blinded by the lights of an approaching auto. The Portland family was enroute home after visiting in Decatur Sunday evening with Mrs. Rickner’s cousin, Mrs. Ronald Black. Two wheels of the Rickner car left the pavement and the auto traveled on the berm for 23 feet, then struck a cement culvert. The impact caused the car to flip over and it rolled another 27 feet before coming to a stop on its side. The auto was a total loss INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair and a little warmer tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 34 to 49. High Wednesday 58 to 65. Sunset today 7:09 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:28 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Cloudy, windy and mild with scattered showers i and possible thunderstorms. Low Wednesday pight around ’ 46. High Thursday in the Mu. ,

Decision Made •T • 10 Days Ago To Keep Tests Dulles Denounces Reds' Announcement As Pure Propaganda WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles disclosed today that the United States recently decided against halting nuclear tests so it could perfect development of small “clean” nuclear weapons. He said the decision was made at a meeting of President Eisenhower and his top advisers about 10 days ago. Dulles, at his weekly news conference, also denounced as pure propaganda Russia’s announcement that it is halting nuclear testing on its own without an international agreement providing for inspection. Dulles said the united States foresaw that Russia would make such an announcement immediately after concluding its most recent intensive series of nuclear tests. He said Russia naturally would have had to halt her testing temporarily anyway before she could embark on a new , series. Weighed AH Facta . Dulles said the President and his principal advisers sat down and surveyed the situation. He said the question was whether the United States should try to steal the march from the Russians by announcing that the United States was temporarily suspending tests of her own. He said the President and his advisers weighed all the facts and decided it would be basically unsound not to go ahead with American testing Dulles said the group decided the administration could not live up to its responsibilities to the American people and perhaps humanity itself and halt a program, which it believes to be sound, merely to wage propaganda. Tbe House Armed Services Committee today approved a Navy plan to use five ships and eight barges as targets in testing potent new atomic weapons in the forthcoming Pacific tests. Rear Adm. A.G. Mumma. chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Ships, said the vessels will be used to check the effects of newly developed, shipborne atomic weapons which will be exploded under water. He said the weapons tests will be conducted this spring. Dulles said the United States always has been willing to halt testing as part of a program which would lead to elimination of nuclear weapons from the arsenals of all nations. But no cheat-proof agreement on this has been reached. So the United States decided to go ahead and develop "clean" small weapons that could be used for tactical purposes without the mass destruction of huge “dirty” Hbombs. Won’t Call Off Testa He stressed that the United States prefers the elimination of nuclear weapons through an international agreement In London, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan called on Russia to discuss at a new summit confer(Continued on page three) Lehman Infant Dies Monday At Hospital Cheryl Jane Lehman, five-day-old daughter of Bernard L. and Connie Joan Roe-Lehman, of Berne, died, at 9 p. m. Monday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin P. Lehman. Berne; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Roe, Decatur route 2; the great-grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. *Ray Duff, Berne, the Rev. and Mrs. Carl Williams, Monmouth, and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roe, Monmouth. * Graveside services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Decatur cemetery, the Rev. C. E. Lykins officiating. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 7 o'clock thia evening until noon Wednesday.

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