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■,| IWII^,,W^»W' II. ■>■■ . hi - ——— 21 fc;- "lOF ~ 'WMF EJB z Aw' ' »/ #■ Richard Johnson MarabeHe Wolfe 1 *WRBb»» j Richard Johnson has been named valedictorian and Miss Marshals Wolfe, salutatorian, of the 1958 graduating class of the Pleasant Mills high school. Johnson, in addition to his scholastic ability, hns been president of his class all four years, a member of the editorial staff of the annual this year, and was elected by the student body as “Spotlight King” for 1958. He has been a member of the high school quartet two years, played on the basketball team two years, a member of the track team for two years, and participated in both the junior and senior class plays. He Is the son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Johnson of St. Mary’s township. ..Miss Wolfe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cart Wolfe, of Pleasant Mills, was a member of the editorial staff of the school annual, and was rlso the school reporter for the Daily Democrat during ner senior year. She was one of four students selected by the high school faculty to receive an award for her four years of superiority in band and Indiana school instrumental contests. She was a member of the school chorus and the 4-H club all four year®’, wastreasurer her class as a sophomore, and participated in both the junior and senior class plays.

Congress Back v To Work After Easter Recess Anti-Recession And National Defense Bills In Spotlight WASHINGTON (UP.-Congress returned from its pulse - taking Easter recess today with battle lines hardening for coming warfare over anti - recession aad national defense measures. First reports on the lawmakers* talks with voters at home indicated there still was no great public clamor lor tax reduction — one of the major issuest to be faced during the balance of the 1958 session. Both administration and congressional leaders have held back from tax reduction as an antirecession weapon. They want a later diagnosis of the outlook for business arid the federal budget. Some Reduction Likely Even so the betting now is on some kind of tax reduction this year — at least a tew excise (sales) tax cuts on automobiles, freight and other items. If business does not stage a recovery soon, a general reduction in income and excise taxes is likely. The 85th Congress was ready to tackle other anti - recession bills. After passage of housing, highway and other public works bills with heavy bipartisan support before Easter, party lines have been Stiffening on economic measures. In the Senate the first order of business was a bill to provide a billion dollars in loans to communities for public works projects. Senate Republicans forced a delay on this measure before the jecess. The House Ways & Means Committee goes to work Tuesday on differing administration and Democratic proposals to provide extra unemployment insurance payments to persons who have exhausted their benefits. President Eisenhower prodded Congress on Sunday to “act as swiftly as possible” on the issue Pentagon Battle Seen Contests cutting across party lines are coming up on other issues, particularly the President’s . plan to overhaul the organization ’ of the armed forces. Despite op--osition from powerful figures in Congress, Eisenhower has promised to keep slugging for his plan. Party - splitting contests also are in the offing over two other major administration bills — to carry out its four billion dollar foreign aid program and to provide for a five-year renewal of the reciprocal trade law. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north, considerable cloudiness south tonight and Tuesday, Occasional rain extreme south. Continued mild. Low tonight 35 to 42 north, 40 to 48 south. High Tuesday 85 to 74. Sunset today 7:22 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:08 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair north, partly cloudy south. Lows Tuesday In the 40s. Highs Wednesday upper 60s and lower 70s. “

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1 "*■ •-1 . ■ - .... Ike Planning Major Economic Address Economic Speech In New York On May 20 WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower will make a major economic speech in New York City on May 20, the White House announced today. The announcement came as the President, refreshed by a “golf- . and-work” weekend in Augusta, ’ Ga., returned to his desk to grap- ; pie with the pressing and politically explosive recession problem. Before heading back to Washington, he issued a special statement Sunday urging Congress to ' “act as swiftly as possible” on his - plan for extending unemployment : compensation benefits over a longi er period of time. I The New York dinner, sponI sored by the American Management Assn., will conclude a twoday "economic mobilization conference” inspired by remarks : made by the President at a meet- ’ ing of Republican women here on ' March 18. At that time, the President said: “The real mainspring of our kind of economy is not government, but J the built-in thrust and vigor of private enterprise.” Lawrence A. Appley, president of the management group, said in extending the invitation to the . President that the conference will “demonstrate the existence and potential of this thrust and vigor so as to build confidence into > management people of all levels and categories and to give the whole nation confidence in the imi mediate, as well as the long range, future.” i Vice President Richard M. Nixon will preside over a May 20 afternoon session and will introduce file President at the dinner Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks will speak at the afternoon meeting. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said radio and television networks are being advised of the President’s speech in case they want to broadcast it. Hagerty said the President has advised Gov. William G. Stratton of Illinois, chairman of the Gov(Gontlnued on page six) Pre School Clinic At Adams Central Children to attend Adams Central’s first grade this fall are to attend the pre-school clinic to be held at the school Wednesday morning beginning at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Hope H. Briggs Dies Sunday Night Mrs. Hope Hoffman Briggs, a native and former resident of Adams county, died unexpectedly of a heart attack Sunday' night at her home in Hobart. Although she had been ill of rheumatic fever for a number of years, death was unexpected. ” Survivors include her husband, Claude W. Briggs; one son, Robert Briggs, living in Delaware; three sisters, Mrs. Eugene Runyon of Decatur, Mrs. Walter Plew of Des Plaines, Hl., and Mrs. E. K. Blessing of Elkhart, and two brothers, W. E. Hoffman of Indianapolis, and G. E. Hoffman, residing in Illinois. Miss Mary Jo Hoffman, a teacher in the Lincoln school, is a niece. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. „ ,

I Says Further | U.S. Nuclear ’ Testing Vital Gen. Twining Says Tests Are Needed To Improve Arsenal WASHINGTON (UP) - Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today that further U.S. nuclear tests are "very decidedly” necessary to improve the American naclear arsenal. He added his voice to the broiling argument amid these developments: —Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.) reported that there is a "great deal of evidence” to back up reports that Russia called off its own tests after a "disastrous accident” spewed large quantities of deadly radioactivity into the atmosphere —Humphrey also reported that Russia set off a nine-kitoton bomb, equal to 9,000 tons of TNT, in an underground explosion in Red China. —Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) urged President Eisenhower to match Russia's offer to suspend tests by “offering to end our own testing of bombs following conclusion of the next series in the Pacific.” —The crew of Quakers aboard the yacht Golden Rule told supporters by ship-to-shore telephone that they intend to defy the Atomic Energy Commission and sail into the Pacific test area to protest the new series of U.S. nuclear ex-* periments, scheduled to begin soon. —Protesting peace groups also planned to picket three diplomatic missions in New York and the Cape Canaveral, Fla., missile launching site. Twining said in an interview with US. News & World Report that further U.S. tests are essential both to make progress toward developing a "clean” nuclear 1 bomb and to increase the "versatility" of the U.S. atomic arsenal of weapons. Humpnrey is chairman of a Sen- , ate subcommittee that opens hearings Wednesday on the possibility of halting nuclear tests. Witnesses include AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss and Dr. Edward Teller, often called the "father” of the H-bomb. Both have urged that U.S. tests be continued to develop a “clean” bomb. Dr- Hans Bethe, nuclear physicist of Cornell University, also will testify. Dulles Is Hopeful Or Pre-Summit Talks Preparatory Talks May Start Soon WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today voiced hope that pre-summit diplomatic talks with Russia will begin “in a few days” and that they may lead to “substantial" steps toward disarmament,. But Dulles quickly said he was not sure this would be the case. He made the remarks in a general review of world problems before the International Press Institute. At the same time Western sources in London said the West will accept Russia’s proposal to begin preliminary ambassadorial talks in Moscow—possibly as early as Thursday. But the sources said the West would not commit itself in advance to a summit confer-' ence—as Russia insists—regardless of the outcome of the preliminary diplomatic discussions. A formal reply by Britain, France and the United States to the latest Soviet note is expected late today or Tuesday. Dulles said it would be “illusory” to think that any dependable agreement on topics like disarmament can be reached with Russia "without preparatory work.” I "Die matter is extremely complex and extremely complicated and any meaningful decision requires preparation,” Dulles said. “That is why we hope that the preparatory talks which may get started now within a few days—l don’t know—that they permit a sufficient preparation so that some substantial, meaningful agreements could later on be reached. That is our effort-” At another point, Dulles said the United States would "rush into” talks on disarmament with Russia “if they offered any reasonable hope whatever” of reaching solid and dependable agreements. He said, however, that in today’s world filled with distrust that it is "very difficult” to get a com prehensive agreement on checking the arms race. He said the United States thinks it may be possible to get reductions in “the field of (ContinuM on page five)

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Truman Urges Congress Vote Tax Cut, Step Up Public Works Spending

Eight Killed In Military Air Crashes Series Os Weekend Military Crashes Are Fatal To Eight By UNITED PRESS A series of week-end military plane crashes, one of them involving the Air Force’s newest and biggest tr a nspo rt, has claimed at least eight lives. Four men were killed when a C-133 cargo plane crashed in flames in the Ellendale State Forest near Georgetown, Del. The new four-engine plane, costing an estimated $3,400,000, plunged to earth about 10 minutes after taking off from Dover Air Force Base. Firemen battled the flames two hours before bringing them under control. Wreckage was strew n over a quarter of a mile. The victims were identified as Raymond R. Bern, 37, Long Beach, Calif., the pilot; Lt. Herbert T. Palisch, 25. St Louis, Mo„ co-pilot; T.Sgt. Marvin A. Aust, 29, Hays. Kan., engineer; and T.Sgt. Edward L. McKinley Jr., 33, Meridian, Miss. Near Tacoma, Wash., three inen were killed when their C-47 Air Force plane crashed during a practice landing at McChord Air Force Base. Observers said the craft cart-wheeled and crashed during a landing approach and burst into flamesReserve Capt. Wayne F. Reed, 38, Tacoma, pilot; Reserve Capt. Cyrl E. Walmsley, 36, Shelton, Wash., and T.Sgt. Roy E. Craft, 28, Tacoma, were killed. An F-100 jet plane crashed and exploded in an alfalfa field near Blanchard, Okla., lulling the pilot, Lt. Richaxd L. Glassberg, 24, New Rochelle, NY. An Air National Guard F-86 jet fighter plummeted into Boston Harbor Sunday, but the pilot parachuted into the water and was rescued by a pleasure boat. Print Ballots For Primary Election Election Board In Charge Os Printing Ballots for the spring election, May 6, are now being printed at the Decatur Daily Democrat office under the direction of the county election board. The board, composed of Richard D. Lewton, clerk of the circuit court, Mrs. Elmer C. Beer, Democratic member, and Cal E. Peterson, Republican member, closely supervises the printing of each ballot, and the rotation on the ballots of the names of the contestants. Thus, in the race for third district commissioner on the Democratic ticket, where there are three men running, one-third of the ballots must have each man’s name as first in the list in each precinct. Democratic ballots in nine precincts have been completed after three days of work. Ballots for the other 30 precincts will then be printed. Following the completion of the Democratic ballots, the Republican ballots wiU be printed. Election officials estimated that all the ballots would be completed by the end of the week. Voters are advised to study the sample ballots before going to the polls to acquaint themselves with the candidates. If they are interested in a particular man in a particular race, they should refer to his name and number on the ballot, not name and position, as this will change within each precinct. Three candidates are the most in any one race this year in Adams county. Some counties, such as Blackford, where there are 13 Democrats and six Republicans in the race for sheriff, the election board must rotate the names every 50 ballots. |

Resume Negotiations On Television Strike Sessions Held With Federal Conciliator * WASHINGTON (UP) — Officials # the Columbia Broadcasting System and union negotiators were scheduled today to resume their efforts to end a week-long strike by 1,300 radio and television technicians. A CBS spokesman announced bargaining talks would resume Wowing sessions with a federal conciliator all day Saturday and Again Sunday afternoon. FThe spokesmn gave no hint Whether any progress had been made toward settlement of the dispute affecting network operations in eight cities. Members of the International Motherhood of Electrical Workers talked off their jobs last Monday at CBS-owned or operated stations In New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Milwaukee and Hartford, Conn. On Saturday, the strike spread to St. Louis radio station KMOX. CBS executives tock ever the jobs usually handled by the striking cameramen, sound engineers and film projectionists. In New York, a spokesman for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists said during the weekend his union had received reports of “near accidents and some injuries” resuming from “inexperienced” persons’, handling Electronic equipment. He cau- , tioned producers of CBS programs that federation members were not i required to work under “hazardOontinuK. on page »lx) Pleasant Mills And Berne Choirs Tops Superior Ratings In State Contest The Pleasant Mills high school choir, directed by Mrs. Elmer Ehrsam, and the Berne a capella choir, directed by Dr. Freeman Burkhalter, both won superior first division ratings in the state music contest at Walkerton Saturday. The Berne-French township band and orchestra each won excellent ratings, and all three Berne groups won superior in the sight-reading division. A total of 143 students took part in the Berne presentation. This year, Mrs. Ehrsam reported, the choirs were required to sing not only three prepared selections, before three judges but also sight-read new material under a different judge, with only five minutes preparation. This was the first year that the sightreading contest has affected the final rating received by the choir. Pleasant Mills’ prepared selections were “Bom to be Free," “Jacob’s Ladder," and “Beautiful .Savior.” “Sanctus,” by Franz Schubert, was assigned to them as the sight-reading number. There were 41 students from Pleasant Mills who took part in the contest. Judges were Walter Rodby, Joliet; Vaffier Chance, Bloomington; Ronald Gansam, Wheaton; and Wendell Frederick, of Lowell, the sight-reading judge. Pleasant Mills students making the trip were: Judy Williamson, Judy Shoaf, Janice Smith, Louise Currie, Jane Raudenbush, Kathy Brunstrup, Linda Wagner, Judy Tinkham, Nancy Cook, Mary Lee Longenberger, Ella Mae Speakman, Karen Foor, Phyllis Stevens, Beverly Myers, Sharon (Continued on page six) • L.... .. St Joseph School Registers Children The St. Joseph grade school is holding registration this week for children who will enter the first grade next fall. Children not yet registered may be enrolled any afternoon this week, from 2 to 2:30 o’clock, in file school office. To be eligible for the first grade, children must be six years of age on of before Sept. 15 of this year.

Moscow Denies Second Sputnik Disintegrated U. S. Observatory Insists Sputhik II Came To End Sunday CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (IB — The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, despite a contradiction from Moscow, stood pat today on its announcement that the dog-carrying Russian satellite disintegrated Sunday night over the Caribbean. Dr. John White, observatory information officer, said "we have nothing to add” to the observatory's statement that the satellite disintegrated, in a fiery plunge about 9 p.m. last night. “We have not changed our assumption that the satellite is down:” White said. A dispatch from Moscow today quoted a Moscow planetarium spokesman as saying that Sputnik II still has not disintegrated and should pass over Moscow sometime tonight on its dying orbit. What was believed to be a frag- ■ ment of the satellite, probably a ■ rocket engine, was sighted as an 1 “orange - red glow” over Denver, 1 Colo., one hour and 17 minutes ! later. Dr. John White, information of- ! ficer for the observatory which ’ has correlated world - wide satellite sightings, said the fragment was not likely to have survived another orbit. A blazing fireball with a "long tail of fire like a comet” was seen by hundreds of residents of Barbados, British West Indies, at 8:53 p.m. e.s.t. The' flaming tail was visible for about a minute. One witness said it looked like “rockets falling through the air.” In the sea south of the Virgin Islands, three minutes later, the crew of a Dutch tanker saw a “fireball with a trail of sparks anid smoke” falling toward the sea. The captain of the tanker Mitra radioed: **Presumably It was Sputnik II.”* An hour before the Barbados fireball was sighted, a farmer near Montreal, Canada, said a flaming object the size of a cartridge fell on his farm, which he believed (Continued on page five) Adams Central Crop Judging Teams Win County Contest Held Saturday Morning Two Adams Central crops judging teams topped opposition from Decatur, Berne, and Geneva to win the county contest held Saturday morning at Adams Central. An FFA team with Loren Habegger had 780 points, Uhrick, 716 points, and Foreman, 691 points. Second was the team of Richard Myers, Riejtard Hirschy, and Glen Yager, who totalled 1,909 points. Myers had 663 points, Hirschy 630 points, and Yager 616 points. Garry Bluhm is alternate with 610 points. Geneva’s team of four boys was second with i;670 points; Decatur, third, 1648 points; and Berne's seven boys placed fourth with 1,615 points. Vaughn Miller, vocational agriculture teacher at Huntertown, and former Decatur vo-ag teacher, was judge of the event. Martin Watson and William Journay, Adams Central and Decatur vo-ag teachers; were in charge of the event. The two top teams will compete in the district, * contest in DeKalb coupty April 26. The state contest will be held at the Indiana fair grounds. The poultry and egg judging contest is being held today at Berne, and results will be tabulated this evening. Students from Decatur, Monmouth, Pleasant Mills, Adams Central, Berne and Geneva are. expected to take part in the contest J

Officer Os Haitian Embassy Is Killed Fellow Official Held For Slaying WASHINGTON (W — The first secretary of the Haitian embassy today shot and. killed the embassy’s minister counsellor. The secretary apparently blamed the minister for orders issued recently for him to return to Haiti. The victim was Samuel Vieux, No. 2 man at the embassy. He was dead qp. arrival at the Washington Hospital Center. There were gunshot wounds in his neck and chest. Police held A.cre Toussaint, the first secretary tor questioning and filed an immediate report to the state department. Police expected possible difficulty in Investigating the case because the embassy is "foreign territory” and they could be ordered out at any time. Motive for the slaying was not officially announced. But embassy aides said there had been some “ill feeling” between the two men; that Toussaint had been recalled by his government and was inclined to blame De Vieux for an unfavorable report he had filed about him. According to a neighbor, the shooting occurred about 10 a.m. He told police he heard three shots which apparently came from the embassy building. He said M ran to the embassy entrance and saw a girl run down the steps screaming something in French. She disappeared around the corner just as a police squad car arrived. De Vieux was said by his associates to be about 50 years old Toussaint is about 38. The shooting occurred in De Vieux’s office, according to an embassy aide. De Vieux had been st" tioned here only since November. Toussaint had been here 2Vz years doing general diplomatic work, embassy said. De Vieux was married but his family was not here, this source said. Toussaint was married last Saturday to an American girl. Breakin Is Solved As Boy Confesses 15-Year-Old Boy Is Nabbed In Illinois A breakin discovered at 9:32 p. m. Saturday at the Mies bowling alley was solved Sunday with the arrest of a 15-year-old Decatur boy in Tuscola, 111. The boy signed a confession stating that he broke into the Mies recreation before running away from home. He has a long record of previous runaways and breakins. About $35 to S4O in dimes was missing from the bowling alley. Entry was gained through a window ori •the north side of the building leading to the basement. Mrs. E. J. Miller reported to the police at 7:13 a. m. Sunday that cigarettes and candy were missing from Miller’s Grocery at 437 North Second street. The thieves gained entry by breaking the window in the front door and reaching through to unlatch the door. ‘ i -• Martin Sprunger, route 6. Decatur, owner of the Sprunger Implement company at 114 North Third street, reported to the police this morning that his place of business was broken into sometime Sunday night. Entry was gained through a window on the south side of the building. Nothing appeared to be missing at first check of the premises. The police discovered malicious trespassing at the old Schwartz Ford company building Saturday, with the discovery of numerous broken windows in the building at the corner of Third and Monroe streets. No entry into the building seemed to have been attempted.

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Ex-President Declares Bold Action Needed Five Billion Dollar Tax Reduction Is Urged On Congress WASHINGTON (UP)—Harry S. Truman today urged Congress to fight the recession by giving middle and low income families a five-billion-dollar tax cut and by stepping up defense and public works spending. The former President made the recommendations in testimony prepared for the House Banking Committee. He was the lead-off witness as the committee began five weeks of public hearings on ways of alleviating unemployment. “Bold and vigorous action is . necessary.” Truman said "...The • Russians are looking over our • shoulders with an economy—their economy, that is—which is grow- [ ing at a rate of 7 to 10 per cent . a year while ourS is standing j still." i End “Tax Loopholes’* Truman recommended: s —A reduction of about five billion dollars in income taxes im- „ posed on middle and low income j families. 1 —Offsetting much of the rev- , enue loss by eliminating "tax 3 loopholes” and other “inequitable 5 benefits to privileged groups.” • He said this would produce about ‘ three billion dollars in revenue. r —Making up the remaining two billion dollars by abandoning ■ “high interest policies.” He said these policies have harmed the economy and their abandonment ; would save about two billion dollars which the government is now paying in unnecessarily high interest on the national debt. “These measures, in combination, would transfer five billion dollars of purchasing power to places where it belongs, both on considerations of equity and because that is where it would do the most good for the economy.” Truman said. ’ Public Works Spending ' The former President did not spell out in detail his recommendations for tax cuts. But he said Congress “should be careful not to pass out tax benefits to investors and well-to-do people who, if they are suffering at all, are suffering only because average American families do not have enough purchasing I power.” Truman testified before a standing - room - only audience. The crowd was so large that the comI mittee had to move to a larger ■ hearing room. i Looking fit and as jovial as ■ ever, he read his prepared statement at a fast clip. He provoked : a laugh when he said that a rei cession is when your neighbor . loses his job, while a depression i is when you lose your job He praised Congress for its r moves to step up public works ■ spending to combat the recession. [ In an obvious reference toud- • ministration complaints ever Congress’ speed in acting on steppedup public works spending, Tru- ' man said the congressional program is "all the more notable and praiseworthy” because of the • “conspicuous lack of encouragement” received from some quarters. Five Year Program Truman called for still further congressional action in speeding up and increasing public spending. He proposed the following program for the next five years: 1 —An increase in defense spending of about three billion dollars above the level President Eisen- ' hower originally proposed tor the fiscal year starting July 1. Truman said Congress should plan now to increase annual defense spending to another five billion dollars or more by the fiscal year starting July 1, 1963. —An increase in foreign economic aid to raise spending to sl,500,000,000 in the year starting July 1 instead of the 972 million dollars recommended by Eisenhower. , Truman said Congress should plan to increase this to $2,500,000,000 by 1964. He said (Continued on page five)