Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 10 April 1958 — Page 1

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Ike Jo Carry Reorganization Plan To People Defies Opposition By Congressmen On Pentagon Proposal WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower intends to take his case for Pentagon reorganization directly to the American people in an all-out fight against congressional opposition to the plan. The President, who usually tries to avoid open clashes with Congress. left no doubt at his news conference Wednesday that he is in a fighting mood and will use every means at his command to put his plan over. In unusually blunt language, he said he didn’t “care how strong ... or how numerous” his congressional foes might be He said his defense reorganization proposals "will go swimmingly once people really understand’ them. To achieve that end, he said, he would appear on nationwide radio and television broadcasts as often as possible to win public support for Pentagon “modernization” that he called “necessary" for the nation’s safety. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said later the first such appearance would come on April 17, when the Chief Executive addresses American and foreign newspaper editors here. Hagerty said he understood arrangements were being made for nationwide radio-TV coverage. The Eisenhower plan would give Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy greater power over military spending, organization and strategy. State Fire Marshal Gives Property Order Orders Are Issued On City Properties The state fire marshal has condemned the sub-standard improvements on seven city properties and ordered them cleaned up. Mayor Rpbert D. Cole revealed this morning. Mayor Cole received a letter this morning from residents on Schirmeyer street, complaining about property in the 900 block. The property was described as a vacant lot, containing trash, outside toilet, and a shack. This property was one of seven condemned about a month ago by the state fire marshal, who personally inspected several properties with city fire chief Cedric Fisher. Owners of the property have been given notice to clean up, of face legal action by the fire marshal’s office. The newly-reotganized city health department has been busy investigating health hazards, such as those already condemned, and legal action will be taken to clean up the city. To Let Bids April 21 For New Water Main A 12-inch main will soon be constructed to connect wells 14 and 15 with the city water system, it was leafned today. City engineer Ralph E. Roop plans to let bids for the main April 21. Temporary pipe* had connected the new wells in the past

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Whitaker Relates Story Os Shooting Accused Slayer Os Ex-Wife, Children TERRE HAUTE (UP)—Thomas Whitaker, accused slayer of his ex-wife and two children, late Wednesday told in detail how he entered the home of the victims through an unlocked garage door and exchanged shots with a former friend. Whitaker is on trial in Vigo Circuit Court for the murder of his daughter, Regina, 9. He also is accused in the death of his son Jack. 11, and former wife, Mrs. Alma Whitaker Martin. The shootings took place the night of June 25, 1957, in the home of Stewart Martin, Whitaker's former friend and partner in an ill-fated wifeswap. Before describing the events at the Martin home. Whitaker told the jury and Judge Herbert Criss about the events leading up to the fatal shootings. He said he married Altna in 1940, later divorced her and remarried her in 1944. He said the couple lived in Kansas City for about eight months after his Army discharge, but that Alma insisted on returning to Terre Haute for the birth of their son. He said their life together before the child came was “pretty nice,” but it “became a little rough" after Jack was born and got worse when his wife gave birth to a daughter two years later.' “I expect part of it (the difficulty) was my fault.” Whitaker said “Both of us were bull-headed and wouldn't give in. It finally reached the point where we couldn’t get along at all.” Marriage Would End He said he tqld his former wife their marriage would end as soon as the children "are raised through school." Whitaker said at about that time they started “running around" with the Martins. A short time later, Martin approached him and asked that he give his wife a divorce so she could marry Martin, Whitaker said. Whitaker said he had no intention at that time of marrying Martin s wife, Dorothy. 39. But he said all agreed it would be the best thing since Mrs. Martin would have no place to go and he needed a mother for his children. But Mrs. Martin was awarded custody of the children on grounds Whitaker threatened her. “Had you?” defense attorneys “Yes sir,” Whitaker replied. "I told her if she touched those children I’d blow her brains and his both out ’’ ' ~ .. Whitaker said Dorothy told him during their honeymoon that Martin "was a sex pervert” and his son intimated the same during a {Continued on page five) Interceptor Sewer Is Near Completion ■ f . The interceptor sewer leading to the sewage disposal unit now under construction is practically completed, Mayor Robert D. Cole revealed this morning. A cleanup along the area affected, and the tap-in with city and private sewers along the right-of-way, is still to be completed. Work is progressing on the disposal unit administration building, and the roof will be put on the first of the week. The garbage disposal unit in the new plant has been placed, and much of the piping is now complete. The entire system is expected to be ready by early fall, 10 Pages

Eisenhower Is Fearful Os Tax Cut Maneuvers Fears Congress To Resume Session In Tax-Cutting Mood WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower, with an eye on the returning Congress, will continue his offensive against further drastic anti-recession measures, administration leaders predicted to- , day. - These sources said the Presi--1 dent was apprehensive the lawmakers will descend on the capital next week in a mood to slash . taxes quickly 1 'The Chief Executive wgs un--1 derstood to be considering sug- ' gestions that he go directly to the people With a. plain-spoken warning that hasty tax reduction and unduly large federal spending might bring on inflation more painful than the current recession. This is the administration’s present position on the recession: Taxes: No reason to make a decision on tax reduction now or possibly for weeks. If such a decision is reached, late May seems the earliest probable time. No Big Public Works Public worksi This is no time for a big program. Such things move too slowly to ease unemployment and stimulate business in less than several months. Deficit: Experts don’t hope for much lower than a two billion' dollar federal deficit this fiscal year; much more in 1959 and for years to come if Congress continues to appropriate large amounts to turn the economy upward. Wages and prices: Restraint on the part of business and labor is indicated. Business particularly can do a lot more to help itself with better salesmanship, more attractive price policies and offering *more attractive goods. Labor should consider new wage dedemands in the light of what they might do to prices. Economy in government: Congress can help reduce the deficit by going along with administration suggestions for savings in government operatiion. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans, in some of the bluntest language yet used by an administration official, laid current policy cm the line Wednesday night in a speech at Houston, Tex. Asserting there must be an eventual day of reckoning for deficit financing, he declared: "Unbalanced national budgets are like pants without suspendersYou can’t keep them up forever.” Stans said ’“Large public works programs are not the right answer for the country now" beckuse “what we get from these slow-moving projects are bigger budgets later on, when that may be the last thing we want.” Selective Tax Cut With a big *’if<V“ he said that should conditions “reach the point where a large scale shot in the arm seems needed, a selective tax cut ought to come first." The United Press reported April 1 that administration fiscal ex-< perts foresaw a possibility of a deficit for fiscal 1958, which ends this June 30, of between two and three billion Stans estimated in his Houston speech the deficit would be at least a billion dollars over the 400 million estimated in January. He added this did not take into consideration the expected fall-off in tax Collections. Openly criticizing Congress for not paying sufficient attention to on page five)

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Cuban Rebels’ General Strike Is Apparently Stopped In Its Tracks

— New Threat To Government Os French Leader Failure To Settle Tunisian Dispute Threat Os Gaillard PARIS (W — Failure of the anglo-American good offices team to end the Franco-Tunisian dispute and a rising tide of labor difficulties brought new threats today to the government of Premier Felix Gaillard. Conservative deputies put Gaillard on fresh notice they would overthrow him at the first sign of “appeasement” in trying to end the Tunisian stalemate even though the National Assembly Easter recess does not end until April 29. Diplomatic observers and newspapers wrote off the Anglo-Ameri-can good offices mission as a failure, and most blamed the failure on the Tunisians. Foreign Christian Pineau called the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee into session today to tell why the mission had broken down. Pineau and Gaillard conferred for six hours Wednesday with Robert D. Murphy of the U. S. State/Department and Ha r o 1 d Beeley of the British Foreign Office. The peace mission appeared to have foundered on Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's refusal to accept a French demand for neutral control of the AlgerianTunisian border. (Continued on page five) Pre School Clinic At Adams Central Adams Central parents and teachers association announced that the annual pre school clinic will be held Wednesday at the > school. Those eligible will be all children from Kirkland, Monroe and Washington townships who will . be six on or before September 30 of this year. Any one interested may contact Mrs. Freeman Stepler by calling Craigiville 3 on 50. Miranda Bollinger Dies This Morning Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Miranda Bollinger, 73, a resident of Monroe township most of her life, died at 4 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she had been a patient since Monday. She had been ill for the past two years. She made her home with a daughter, Mrs. Albert Hollinger in Monroe township. She was born in Darke county, 0., Nov. 2, 1885, a daughter of Wililam and Elizabeth MartinGrow, and was married to Alfred Bollinger Dec. 12, 1903. Her husband preceded her in death Nov. 20, 1954. Mrs. Bollinger was a member of the Winchester United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Bollinger are ’another daughter, Mrs. Gordon Burkhart, also of Monroe township; a foster son, Harry Bollinger of Monroe; eight grandchildren; eight greatgrandchildren; one brother, Harve , Grow of Bradford, 0., and one sister, Mrs. Orson Stoltz of Union, O. Three sisters and three brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Winchester United Brethren church, the Rev. Dennis Johnson atid the Rev. L. A. Middaugh officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Friday until time of the services.

Attempts To Settle CBS Strike Stalled TV, Radio Strike Is In Fourth Day ■ NEW YORK (UP)—Attempts to settle the strike of 1,300 Columbia Broadcasting System cameramen and 'technicians were stalled today—apparently over the question of . who has the power to bargain for the striking union. 'rhe network’s amateur camera and control crews, supervisory workers who had received earlier training for such an emergency, kept nearly all shows on the air with increasing skill as the strike approached its fourth day. The technicians, members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, went on strike Monday afternoon against CBSowned radio and television stations in eight cities Negotiations for a new contract had been underway in Washington under auspices of the Federal Mediatior and Conciliation Service. An effort by New York City’s labor commissioner, Harold A. Felix, to mediate the strike here Wednesday was turned down by CBS on the grounds that it was involved with IBEW locals in eight cities and could not negotiate separately here, and that federal mediators were still involved in the case. .The union's New York Local had accepted Felix’s offer said it was empowered to negotiate fdFlhe other locals, which are in Lbs Angeles, San Franco, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Milwaukee, and Hartford, Conn. It had appeared, however, that the locals and the national union, whose officers had participated in the Washington negotiations, were at odds over the timing of the stride call and perhaps other issues. Three other unions with contracts with the network — The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the Radio and Television Directors Guild and the Writers Guild of America —sent letters to the union and the network Wednesday asking for continued negotiations, tn his reply, William C. Fitts Jr., CBS vice president in charge (Conlinuedton page f)v&) Storm Systems Pour Rain On Some Areas California Enjoys. More Fair Weather By UNITED PRESS Storm systems sweeping the southern Plains and the Southeast doused portions of Oklahoma, Georgia and Florida with more than one inch of rain. Rain and drizzle were widespread in the central and southern Plains during the night with Tulsa, Okla., reporting an inch of precipitation in a six-hour period Wednesday night. Rain also fell from the middle and lower Mississippi Valley east to Kentucky and south through Florida. Heaviest amounts during the night occurred in southeast Georgia and northern Florida. Tallahassee, Fla., measured a 1.14-inch rainfall to bring its total since Wednesday to near 3.5 inches. Rain on the Pacific Coast was confined to the Northwest .with some locally heavy amounts reported alorffe the Washington coast. California enjoyed another day of fair' weather, and clear skies extended into most of the southeast. Temperature extremes early today ranged from 76 in Miami to 19 at Marquette, Mich. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and cool with scattered light rain tonight. Friday mostly cloudy, chance of a little rain in the morning. Little change in temperature. Low tonight 34 to 42. High Friday 47 to 57*. Sunset today 7:18 p. m. ’Sunrise Friday 6:14 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Mostly cloudy and a little warmer. Low Friday night low 40s. High Saturday 50 to 00.

South Korean Airmen Fight Off Hijacker One Crewman Slain During Fight With Rebellious Officer SEOUL/ Korpa fobman crew of a South NBfrean m Force C-46 transport plane today fought off the attempt of an armed and rebellious ROK Air Force captain to hijack the plane to Communist North Korea. The ROK Air Force said one crew member was shot to death in the airborne gun fight and two others were wounded. The rebellious North Korea-born officer, identified only as Capt Choi, was armed with a .45 caliber service pistol. The abortive hijacking attempt came less than two months after Communist agents successfuUy hijacked a Korean National Airlines plane with 34 persons aboard on Feb. 16. On Regular Hight Air Force officials said the incident occurred shortly before 9 a.m. today over Pyongtaek, about 40 miles south of Seoul. The plane was on a regular flight from Taegu to Seoul. The Air Force announcement r said the captain entered the cockpit and attempted to take over the plane. The crew resisted and after the battle in the sky made an emergency landing at Pyongtaek. The captain was arrested. Choi was reported still unconscious and under medical treatment as result of a severe beating he received during the fight. Other sources said Choi entered the cockpit with his 45 drawn and ordered the crew to fly the plane to North Korea. Radio Man Killed The captain then shot and killed (Continued on page five) Von Braun Witness At Space Hearing WASHINGTON (IP) — Chairman John W. McCormack (D-Mass) announced today Army missile expert Wernher von Braun will be the lead-off witness at the House Space Committee’s public hearings beginning Tuesday. Von Braun, director of the Development Operations Division for the Army Ballistic Missiles Agency at Huntsville, Ala., will be followed on the witness stand by Theodore C. Merkle of the University of California radiation laboratory. Mrs. John W. Elzey Dies This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Orpha Alice Elzey, 80, of Bobb, died at 3:35 o'clock this morning at the South View nursing home at Bluffton, where she had been a patient for the past six months. She was born in Adams county Feb. 28. 1978, a daughter of Wilbur and Maria Elizabeth RubleClymer, and was married to John W. Elzey, Feb. 14, 1897. Mrs. Elzey, a lifelong resident of Adams county, was a member of the United Brethren church at Bobo. Surviving in addition to her husband are one son, Vilas Dale Elzey of Monmouth; one daughter, Mrs. Velma Leota Rash of Fort Wayne; 14 grandchildren and 29 great-chil-dren. One daughter, four brothers and three sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Black funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at the United Brethren church in Bubo, the Rev. Hubert Bakner officiating. Burial will be in the Spring Hill cemetery. Friends may call, at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday until time of the services. ..

Drive Is Launched . Against Racketeers Nationwide Drive By Justice Dept. WASHINGTON (UP)—The Justice Department opened a nationwide drive today against top racketeers and hoodlums Atty. William P. Rogers said “highest priority" in the crime crackdown will be given to the nation’s 100 top racketeers. He did not name them. 4Rogers said the long-range program calls for a concentrated combined effort by the department, the FBI, the Narcotics Bureau and the Immigration Service. Under the anti-crime campaign, the cooperating investigating agencies will pool all information turned up in their investigation. Rogers said this, in turn, will be analyzed carefully by the department’s criminal division lawyers and grand jury action will be taken as warranted. Asst. Atty. Gen. Malcolm Anderson, recently appointed to head the criminal division, will take charge of the crack-down. Anderson’s right-hand man in the drive against the underworld will be ■ Milton Wessel, New York lawyer I recently sworn in as Anderson’s t special assistant. Wessel will ! spearhead the operation from a i New York office. He will have a squad of investigators who will do t their spade work from there,- the - department said The department • declined to permit pictures to be I taken of Wessel. As part of the new campaign, Anderson's crime and racketeering section will be bolstered and expanded. A number of former assistant U.S. attorneys will be added to the crime division. Although Rogers declined to name any underworld figures who will be targets of the campaign, he has said recently that he is particularly interested in organized criminal elements who have invaded the “legitimate business” field and some labor unions. Design Approved On Slate Building State Commission Approves Design INDIANAPOLIS (IP) — A state commission approved today the design for a proposed 20 million dollar 13-story ultra-modern Indiana state office building. The design was perpared by the architectural firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst & White of Chicago and Raymond S. Kastendieck of Gary. Two suggested designs were presented to the State Office Building Commission when it met in the office of Governor Handley to take another step in expediting construction. The designs were similar. Models of each were on display. The building will contain 825,000 square feet of space and is designed so three additional stories can be built later to increase the space by 60,000 square feet if necessary. / About 50 state departments now scattered over 22 different buildings would be located in the structure, to be built directly west of the “Statehouse across Senate Ave. on a large two-block site between Washington and Ohio streets. The structure’s exterior will be of Indiana limestone. The building will be completely air-cbndi-(Contlnued on page five) To Pay S2O Fee For Polling Place Use County auditor Edward F. Jaberg mailed out letters to the voting places in each of the county’s 39 precincts today to see if they will be available this year. A flat rate of S2O will be allowed by the commissioners this year tor all the places used. In the past the fee has varied somewhat. Jaberg reported that he hopes this will eliminate last-minute changes in polling places in the county.

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Buses, Street Cars Operating As Usual Today— Government Reports Over 30 Insurgents Are Dead In Havana HAVANA. Cuba (UP)—The rebels’ general strike appeared today to have been stopped in its tracks. Buses and street cars were operating and shops were open under the watchful eyes of Havana police and the army. The army’? lethal reaction to Wednesday’s initial outbreaks resulted in the killing of “more than 30” insurgents. Scattered bomb blasts continued during the night, and rebel radios in broadcast victory claims warned that any attempt to operate public transportation would Joe met by more bombs and gunfire. But as Cuban workers streamed to their jobs this morning, with only a few cases of absenteeism reported, the threatened violence failedto materialize A communique said that “more ' than 30” insurgents were killed in scattered “first stage” violence in i an<j near the city- Wednesday, in which both the government and ‘ the rebels claimed victory. 1 ■ A couple of rebel bombs rocked ’ the blacked-out city during the 1 night, but there were no reported . casualties cit damage. Anomer communique said that saboteurs burned a truck and a ’ bus in the outskirts of Havana [ Wednesday night. It said police . opened fire on the attackers and . inflicted a “few casualties.” Aside from these incidents, this metropolis of 1,200,000 persons appeared normal at the start of the working day. Police stations still were heavily guarded with. sandbags and ears entering and leaving the city were being searched. Some sections of the city remained without power. But, for the moment, business seemed to be functioning .without difficulty, although some earlyrising workers stayed away from their jobs. These men apparently feared the threats from rebel leader Fidel Castro's forces that* they would be shot down if they went to work, despite government claims Wednesday that the “revolutionary general strike” had been crushed and the insurgents routed. Two powerful bombs exploded in suburban Vibora, where the sth Infantry Regiment has its' headquarters. A third was set oft in Regia, across Havana Bay, where the Sinclair and Shell oil refineries are located. It was impossible immediately to estimate damage. Observers here were waiting to see whether rebel threats to fire bn any shop that remained open and on any bus or truck using Cuba’s highways would make Castro’s “revolutionary general strike” effective Havana was generally quiet during the night in the grip of tight security precautions. Some squares and government buildings had been blocked off, and heavy guards were stationed at other key points. 'Most establishments not directly affected by the outburst of violence continued to do “business as usual.” Eusebio Mujal, secretary of the powerful CTC Union Federation, predicted there would be no general strike. The government announced late Wednesday that the revolt had been crushed, and Batista told the United Press during the night ha is confident that the army cart “eliminate” the rebels throughout this island nation. At 10:25 p.m., however, a rebel broadcast claimed that “the (insurgent) 26th of July Movement has won the first stage.” 4 The broadcast said the rebels had “dispersed” loyal troops in Cienfuegos and had “triumphantly’ entered the provincial capital of Camaguey. It reported also' that schools in Pinar del Rio Province had been forced to suspend classes. The only major military activity. reported here Wednesday consisted of raids on radio stations and the La Marina Army in old (Continued cm PMre five)