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■ — v BRADLEY BACKS IKE— Gen. Omar Bradley (left) who was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, chats with House Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Vinson (R-Ga.) before taking the witness chair in the hearing on President Eisenhower’s Defense Department reorganization plan. Bradley backed the Chief Executive and called Congressional oposition a “waste of time.”

Cannon States Defense Plan - Is Necessary House Committee Chairman Urges Measure Be Passed Chairman Clarence Cannon <DMo.) of the House Appropriations Committee said today President Eisenhower's controversial defense reorganization plan must be enacted to halt "insane bickering" among the armed services. The alternative could be another Pearl Harbor, he warned. Cannon placed the issue before the House in a speech in which he endorsed the plan as "reasonable, sensible, long-delayed, and much-needed." This was a direct break with the House Armed Services Committee in which Cannon’s Democratic colleagues are battling salient features of the plan. Armed Services Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga) has declared bluntly that the President’s program could lead to a one-man military dictatorship. Elsewhere in Congress: Labor Bills: Senate Republicans disagreed over whether Congress should enact drastic curbs cm laUnited Auto .Workers President Walter Reuther, told a Senate ;Cont;nfled on Pare eight) Take Applications For City Inspector City's Sanitation Position Is Open Applications for the job of sanitation inspector for Decatur will be accepted until May 20, Mayor Robert D. Cole said this morning. Persons desiring this appointment should write a letter giving their qualifications to the city health officer, city hall. The successful applicant will be trained by the state board of health. The decision on the sanitary inpector was made at a meeting of the city board of health Monday noon. Mayor Cole, city attorney John DeVoss, Dr. B. Terveer, Dr. A. H. Girod, and Mrs. Walter Gilllom were present. The effective date for toe new 1 sanitary ordinances will be June 1 Copies of the two laws, letters of explanation, and licenses will be mailed out in the next week. Painter Infant Dies Here This Morning Jill Christine Painter was the name given to the infant girl, stillborn at 11:10 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. The parents are Lester and Nancy Baumgart-ner-Painter, of Decatur route 3. The father is an employe of Bag Service. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Gary; a sister, Terry Lyon; the grandparents, •Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Baumgartner of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Pointer of Blue Creek township; and great-grandparents, Mrs. Walter Jones of Fort Wayne, Zeke Evans of Decatur, and Mrs. — Josephine Baumgartner of Decatur. Graveside services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday at the Decatur cemetery, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiating.

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Ike Asserts Russia Poses Broad Threat Economic Threat To Free World Growing WASHINGTON (IB — President Eisenhower said today that Russia poses a broader threat, to the free world, especially economically, than a year ago. The President said the danger of military action by R u s s i a against its smaller neighbors . probably has lessened somewhat, j But he said the rulers . have sharply stepped up their , economic and propaganda efforts. He made the statements in a 25-minute off-the-cuff speech in . which he warned that high tariffs . and restrictive import quotas > would be ruinous to America’s i safety and prosperity. The President told the Advertis--1 ing Council that his reciprocal trade program, which has met 1 strong opposition in Congress, is assential to U. S. efforts for world peace. He said that the lesser ’ countries of the world must be ( economically strong if they are to . resist successfully Russian efforts [ to dominate them. They must be able to trade with this country, he said. Otherwise, he added, they would have to, trade with Russia and end up in the Red bloc. The President also made antense reorganization plan as ing essential to the nation’s safW ty and solvency. The nation’s strategic plan must be unified and "a business of one authority” controlled, directed and operated by the defense secretary under the President as commander-in-chief. Spending of tremendous sums on the nation’s defenses makes necessary such unified control, otherwise the national economy probably would be driven to “taking thej easy road of economic controls.” Mrs. Richard Roth Dies Monday Night Dies Unexpectedly At Home Last Night Mrs. Bernice Roth, 36, wife of Richard Roth, died unexpectedly at 10:30 o'clock Monday night at her home on Decatur route 6. She had been ill for several years but death was unexpected. The family lived at 930 Winchester street until two weeks ago. She was born in Mercer county, 0., Sept. 12, 1921, a daughter of Clarence and Cecil WilsonSchrock, and was married to Richard Roth Dec. 20, 1942. Mrs. Roth was a member of the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church and the Ameri- ‘ can Legion auxiliary. Surviving In addition to her 1 husband are four children, David, Jeanette, Judy and Michael, all i at home; her mother, Mrs. Cecil Schrock of Rockford, O.; two brothers, Harold Schrock of New I Bremen, 0., and Dale Schrocks serving with the army in Germany, and three sisters, Mrs. Kenneth Shinaberry of Rockford, 0., Mrs. Harold Spray of Van Wert, O„ and Mrs. George Hone of Celina, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. nj. Thursday at the Black funeral home and at 2:30 p. m. at the Nuttman Avenue ■ United Brethren church, the Rev. Paul Parker officiating. Burial wffl be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral i home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Smaller NATO Nations Back Up Big Three Refuse To Hold Any Summit Meeting On Red-Dictated Term COPENHAGEN, Denmark (UP) —The smaller NATO Allies swung solidly behind the Western Big Three today in refusing to hold a summit meeting on terms dictate by Moscow. The NATO council of foreign ministers met for two hours in its third working session at Christiansborg Palace here to form a united NATO front for a summit conference. A NATO spokesman said afterwards that all the speakers backed up the stand taken Monday by the United States, Britain and France. Previously the small powers had wanted a summit talk at almost any price. The position was that: —The West is willing to meet the Soviets in a summit conference but only after thorough advance preparation and If the prospects of achieving something are good. —The West must be sure in advance what the Soviets have in mind before agreeing to the meeting. The spokesman said the speakers agreed the West must persevere in trying to arrange a conference on this basis and must not weaken its stand on this. The supporting speeches came as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles summoned the U.S ambassador from Moscow to report to the foreign ministers on the latest Soviet move toward a summit conference. Amba ss ador Llewellyn M. Thompson flew here one day after Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko delivered a new batch of notes to the United States, Britain and France. , The NATO conference itself was expected to reach full agreement during the day on a tough-minded stand toward the Soviets and ap- ■ parent Russian determination to meet at the summit only on the Kremlin's terms. The latest Russian notes opened the door for the discussion of a summit conference agenda by ambassadors or foreign ministers, but the offer was tightly hedged with restrictions. One paragraph said such a meeting might take place "in case of necessity and with general agreement." 0 Thompson had planned to attend a conference of U.S. ambassadors to European countries starts Friday in Paris ■ wito <Dulles giving the opening talks. The ■ announcement he would fly here today came as a surprise He has been in on the summit (Continued on page five) Operation Alert Is Underway In U. S. Fifth Annual Civil Defense Exercises BATTLE! ■ CREEK, Mich. (UP) — The fifth annual “Operation AJert” civil defense exercise got underway today when a warning of a simulated attack by enemy bombers approaching from over the north polar region was flashed to 250 warning centers across the nation. The warning was flashed at 10:06 a.m. ed.t. from the Federal Civil Defense Administration’s headquarters here. Simultaneously, a Conelrad radio alert was simulated which would shut down all radio and television broadcasting and bring into operation emergency broadcasting stations in toe event of a real attack. The warning was sounded after FCDA officials were alerted by the national warning center in Colorado Springs. Colo., that an attack could be expected. Air Force staffs under toe command of Gen. Earl Partridge, commanding officer of toe North American Air Defense Command, plotted the track of approaching hostile aircraft. The Air Force and civil defense administrators coordinated activities to plan paperwork operations for evacuation and shelter actions. The first estimated approach time of the mock attack was one hour for Syracuse, N.Y, two hours and 45 minutes for Birmingham, Ala., and three hours for Memphis, Tenn., from the time of the warning. —’ The warning came as toe more than 800 employes in FCDA headquarters were going about their normal daily business and FCDA officials emphasized that this was not a “war game." The warning was not given to newsmen until about 10:30 a.m. "The concept of this exercise (Continued on paca five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, May 6, 1958

Primary Election In County And State As Early Voting Light

Early Voting Is Light In Stale Primary Early Morning Rain Discourages Voters Throughout State INDIANAPOLIS (IB — A generally light turnout was reported in the first few hours of Indiana’s Primary voting today. Observers speculated that earlymorning rain in such cities as Fort Wayne, Evansvjlle and Indianapolis discouraged many Hoosiers from visiting polling booths before going to work. Even South Bend, which had no rain, reported a “very light — lighter than usual” turnout through mid-morning. Political leaders hoped for a bigger tunxut iater in the day as an indication of how their candidates will fare in the November general elections. Hoosier voters, most of them fired up over nothing in particular and with local fights in the spotlight, choose party candidates for jobs ranging from constable to congressman. Polls were open in Indiana's 92 from 6 a.m. (c.d.t.) to 6 p.m.> . Voters declared themselves Democrat or Republican, then entered voting booths to choose nominees for township, county, legislative and congressional jobs. They also voted for precinct committeemen and delegates to party conventions in late June. This off-year election, without state-wide issues, lacked toe interest likely to boil up in November when voters choose between candidates of both of the hottest Tights involved local issues'and minor offices. Governor Handley, his vote already mailed to LaPorte on an absentee ballot, planned to head for Washington today for a speech before a highway conference. He’s “Too Busy” Handley claimed .he was “too busy” to learn much about the five congressional races which shaped up within his own party. But he was expected to be pleased if State Rep. Robert Webb of Ar cadia defeats Rep. Cecil Harden (Continued on cage rive) Charles T. Smith Dies Last Evening Retired Blacksmith Is Taken By Death Charles T. Smith, 81, retired blacksmith, died at 7:55 o’clock Monday evening at the South View nursing home at Bluffton. A resident of Macy, 10 miles south of Rochester, he came to Pleasant Mills to live with a daughter, Mrs Gretchen Evans, until Nov. 30 1957, when he suffered a stroke. He was bom in Carroll county Oct. 1. 1876, a son of Hugh M. and Martha A. Redmon-Smith, and war married to Minnie J. Pulver, July 16, 1899. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1949. % Mr. Smith was a member of the Methodist church. Surviving in addition to his wife and daughter are two sons, Omer H. Smith of Corpus Christi, Tex., and R. Byron Smith of Decatur; two granddaughters; three greatgrandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Tin) Ross of South Bend. Two daughters, one grandson, three brothers and two sisters are deceased. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Wednesday. The body will be taken to the Methodist church in Macy, and wilj Ue in state from 12 noon Thursday until services at 2 p.m., the Rev. Jack Pavey officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery at Roann. . **• '

I Merchants Showcase Is Opened Al Center Second Annual Event Runs For Three Days The second annual “Merchants Showcase" opened today at 1 p.m. St the Decatur Youth and Community Center under the sponsorship of-the retail devision of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. The gala event will last until . Thursday evening at 9 o’clock. > Over 50 exhibits are being shown . of many different types of merchandise and services. Hours for . toe event will be from 1 p. m. to . 9 p. m. daily. i Again this year, nearly every ( participant will pass out free , coupons which the visitors may sign and deposit at the stores for , drawings to be held Saturday for prizes valued in excess of $2,500. Not only will toe inside of the ’ center be filled with exhibits, but also on display will be the “showcase of cars" located in front of J toe center in the circular drive. ' Floodlights are being erected to 1 show the autos at night so toe people may view the 1958 models i during toe hours of toe evening. • The new car dealers participating • in toe show are toe following: ■ Macklin’s, Decatur Super Ser- . vice, Schwartz, Zintsmaster, Beery’s, Butler’s, Decatur Equip- ! ment Co., a r d the Adams County ; Trailer Sales. merchants who have <Rs- • plays in the center are the foi--1 lowing: Bridee’s Studio, Decatur > Music House, J. J. Newberry, . Anspaugh Studio, Gilpin’s Iron, Sheets Furniture, Gerber’s Super . Market, Sherwin-Williams, Equity Dairy Store, Holthouse Drug, Fager Maytag, Uhrick Brothers, Smith Pure Milk, Gambles Store, Brecht Jewelry Store, National Oil and Gas Co. of Indiana representative, Parkway 66 Service, Conrad’s 66 Service, Decatur_SuW Phillip’s 66 distributor, Mary’s Variety, Schafer’s, New York Life, Mansfield Boat Sales, Arnold Lumber Co., Haugk Heating, Sears & Roebuck, Haflich & --.utinued on page five) Run Into Difficulty In Selecting Jurors Jurors Sought For Starkweather Case LINCOLN, Neb. (UP)—Charles Starkweather, 19, confessed killer of 11, tried today to find 12 men, tried and true, who would give him a fair shake for his life. The red-haired garbage collector went on trial Monday and oleaded innocent by reason of insanity. One prospective juror after another declined to pass judgment on the case because his, or her, opinion of guilt already was fixed. In this town of 100,000, terror:zed to thq point that fathers went hut bearng shotguns while Stark- , weather Was loose last January, it was hard to find a jury Thirty - four prospective jurors were okayed by Lancaster County Atty. Elmer Scheele.' Defense Atty. T. Clement Gaughan has his turn in court today. “People yesterday said they had an opinion but perhaps they could change it,” Gaughan said. “I intend to find out what these opinions are and why they could change them.” 14 Starkweather watched intently as 22 would-be jurors were dismissed for pre-conceived opinions, opposition to capital punishment or because they knew the victims. About 50 people waited outside toe 70-year-old sandstone court- , house before Starkweather ar- , rived and of those who would . comment, most felt he should be electrocuted. “If it were up to me, the trial would be over in two days and he’d burn,” retired shipping clerk Albert Stanberg said. Starkweather broke into a broad 1 grin as he clambered from toe car which brought him from his ' State Penitentiary cell. He joked with deputies and guards who led ' him to Sheriff Merle Karnopp’s office- /

No Income Tax Cut Favored At Present Time Ike, Chief Cabinet Advisers Reported United In Belief WASHINGTON (IB — President Eisenhower and his chief cabinet advisers were Reported authoritatively today to be tightly united in a belief that economic conditions now do not warrant an income tax cut. Reduction of’? certain excise taxes and changes in toe timetable for depreciation allowances are another matter. These will figure in an economic conference late this month at the White House between toe President and congressional leaders of both parties. The attitude of the President and his top economic experts is unified as far as early income tax cuts are concerned. But even here their stand was described as “not frozen." One of the President’s cabinetlevel advisers put it this way to the United Press: “The' economy generally has gone through the worst of what really is a slight recession and ’ there are many indications that ’ toe decline has virtually stopped and now is beginning to level off. ' "Now take into consideration ’ toe fact that government acions ■ and legislation to combat the re- . cession -are just beginning to be felt. Particularly this is true in government spending, of which there has been comparatively little thus far. “Yet, the economy without ap- •• '■gsvertfflpifpt weept■ through the Federal Reserve Sys- . tern, is beginning to right itself. ‘“This should make a rather strong case for going slow on tax -cuts or piling up government ’appropriations which can’t possibly come into full force until fiscal 1959 and even then might make us considerably more uncomfortable than we are now due to inflationary pressures.” Mrs. Peter Sheets Dies At Van Wert Sister Os Decatur Woman Dies Monday Mrs. Isa Dora Carter-Sheets, 79, a native of Adams county and sister of Mrs. Walter Wittenbarger of Decatur, died at her home in Van Wert, 0., at 1:50 p.m. Monday. Mrs. Sheets had been ill for the past six months and died of a Coronary occlusion. Her husband, Peter A. Sheets, survives. They have lived in Van Wert, 0., since 1946, and before that were residents of Harrison township, Van Wert county, near toe Indiana line. Mrs. Sheets was born August 13, 1878, near Geneva, the daughter of Asa and Almira Laßue-Car-ter. She and her husband were married March 26, 1905. She was a member of St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran church of Van Wert. Survivors Include two sons, Glen S. Sheets, of route one, Rockford, 0., and Lloyd R. Sheets, of route 2, Convoy, O,; three brothers Richard, Roy and Sherman Carter, of Los Angeles, Calf.; two sisters, Mrs. Betha Mauller, of Harrison township, Van Wert county, and Mrs. Wittenbarger; and three One brother and one sister preceded her in death. ’ The body has been taken to the Cowan and Son funeral in Van I Wert, where friends may call. Ser- , vices will be held at St. Mark’s Lutheran church at 2 p.m. Thursday, the Rev. Herbert S. Garnes, I Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the Woodland cemetery at CVan Wert. / u

Nearly All Os Bank Loot Is Recovered Two Million Dollar Robbery In Canada MONTREAL (UP)—A 2-millloo-dollar theft of securities and cash in Canada’s biggest bank burglary turned into a gigantic flop Monday with arrest of a suspect and recovery of nearly all the loot.. But several unanswered questions today faced police who broke toe case only a day after the week-end burglary of the Brockville, Ont., Trust and Savings Company. These include: —How much cash was taken and what happened to it? At least $15,000 n money was known to be missing. None had been re- i covered. —How many bandits took part, and where were they? Police said ; Rene Martin, 24, of Montreal, whom they seized after a chase, could not possibly have pulled the job alone. —How much was taken from 36 safe deposit boxes rifled by toe burglars in addition to toe bank’s own vault? Police planned to question the box renters today about their lossesOntario provincial police, acting on a tip whose source they refused to reveal, flashed an auto description and license number to Montreal officers Monday. Montreal constable Roger Faber sighted toe car, chased it with his . poUeezsruiser and arrested Martin unaided. After questoning Martin, police found most of toe stolen securities — mostly easily negotiable bearer bonds — in a duffle bag! and small suitacase in a railroad I station luggage locker. They said exact value of the bonds recovered was uncertain pending tabulation today, but that the “major part" of the 2 million dollars had been recovered. Montreal. The burglary occurred sometime after 7:40 p.m. Saturday. (Continued om page five) Electrical Energy Movie Shown Lions Shows Development Os Electric Power A technicolor movie on the development of electrical energy was shown to the Decatur Lions club during their regular meeting Monday night by Clark Mayclin, program chairman. z The movie started with the Revolutionary war and briefly traced the tremendous development of the •'ountry until the 1880's. At that time some people even suggested closing the patent office because they thought everything necessary for man had been invented. The movie explained how a corporation of businessmen was founded to develop an electric light, based upon earlier electrical discoveries by Benjamin Franklin and many others. This was successfully done by Edison. 1 Then thousands and thousands of Improvements and inventions were necessary to bring electricity into homes and factories where toe power could be used. Fifty years ago, workers used only steam power with many belts all through toe great plants furnishing the power. Then with electricity it became possible to have , individual power for each motor. Each horsepower of electricity added “invisible men” to help each worker and increase his productivity. In 1940 each worker had three horsepdwer of electricity to aid him. By 1950 this had doubled. Each increase in help enables greater production. The movie closed with the vision of the future, and some of the possible forms of energy which might be used, from (atomic to the energy of the sun as released through photosynthesis. ‘ Herman Krueckeberg, a member of the board of directors, presided in the absence of the president, M. C, Sieling.

Adams County Citizens Cast Ballots Today Voting Extremely Light Early Today In City Precincts Voting was extremely light this morning in the city precincts, and a little heavier in the county, where farmers could not work in the fields. A rush of voters was expected after working hours this - evening, but precinct workers were expecting an easy time of counting the ballots. County officials were hop- -— ing to have the final tallies before 2 a.m. Wednesday. The county election board, meeting at the county clerk’s office all day, reported no trouble at any of the polls. Several persons had called to find out where they voted, or where the polls were located this year. First returns are expected shortly before 7 p.m., as the polls will close at 6 p.m. The Decatur Daily Democrat office will remain open until the final tally is completed. Persons desiring to hear the results as they are tabulated are reminded that they may call 3-2171 tor the latest returns— At 1 p.m. only 80 persons had voted at the county garage. At noon only 50 had voted at the court house. Several hundred persons I are registered in each precinct, r Little interest has been shown in the primary election this year be- , cause only trustee, advisory board, ' : '■ . ■ commissioner, assessor and congressional candidates had opposition. Heaviest vote usually occurs when there are many sheriff and other court house candidates. ■ . Seek To Ease 1 Flood Threat In Louisiana Servicemen Fight Against Floods In Northern Louisiana By UNITED PRESS Servicemen fought to stave off floods in northern Louisiana today. About 400 men from Barksdale Air Force Base were ordered out Monday night to repair weakened levees along the rampaging Red River between Alexandria and Shreveport, La. Authorities removed all 200 residents of East Point in Red River, La., parish Monday and said they would not be permitted to return until the flood danger subsides. The Ouachita River swelled to a 47-foot stage at Camden, Ark., 17 feet above flood stage, and threatened major flooding- Down river, the Ouachita forced dozens of families to flee their homes near Monroe, La. Disaster specialists were alerted along the Red and Ouachita rivers for emergency duty. Rain Monday night and early today ranged along a band frdm Missouri and Arkansas east through Pennsylvania and the Virginias and over much of the Southeast Montgomery, Ala., was hit with a 2.5-inch deluge in a sixhour period. The Ohio River spilled over its Continued on five* INDIANA WEATHER Frost warning tor northern Indiana. Fair and cool tonight with scattered frost likely extreme north. Wednesday fair and warmer. Low tonight 30-36 north. 36-40 south. High Wednesday 52-W. Sunset 7:43 p. m., sunrise Wednesday 5:39 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warmer with possible showers late in the day. 0 *■

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