Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 10 May 1958 — Page 1

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Nixon Moving To Ecuador On Good Will Tour Undaunted By Red Threats, Attack By Peru Students QUITO, Ecuador (UP) — Vice* President Richard M. Nixon, undaunted by Communist threats on his life and a Red-led student attack on him in Peru, may visit Quito University today. A scheduled visit to the university was deleted from Nixon’s Quito itinerary after he was mobbed by students in Lima. But the vice president said the action was taken without his knowledge. “I didn’t change it,” he told newsmen. Reporters accompanying the Nixon party wore betting he would visit the university here, just as he did in Lima Communist leaflets circulated here denounced Nixon's tour as an attempt to “mask with insincere phrases and theatrical gestures the growing penetration and domination of Yankee monopolies in our country and all Latin AmerPraised By President Communists daubed such slogans as “Death to Nixon!” on walls in the city Thursday night in anticipation of his arrival. President Eisenhower praised Nixon Friday for the “courage, patience and calmness” he displayed in the face of the mob which stoned and spat on him in Peru. In Lima, U.S. Ambassador Theodore Achilles informed Foreign Minister Raul Porras Barrenechea that the United States is concerned by Peru's evident inability to deal with Communist activity. In Bogota, Colombia, next stop on Nixon’s eight-nation tour. Education Minister Alfonso Carvajal Peralta appealed to students to ignore posters and leaflets urging them to stage anti-American demonstrations during the vice president’s visit. Red Influence Felt Ecuadorian President Camilo Ponce told a press conference here Friday that Russia is trying to displace the United States as “banker of the free world.” Ponce said the United jstates should recognize this rivalry for the favor of underdeveloped nations, and in particular should combat it in Latin America. He said Russia is offering longterm, low-interest loans to many Latin American nations, along with qffers of trade and industrial development extended either directly or through its satellites. “Ecuador is cooperating with the United States in the gigantic doctrinal struggle the free world is waging, but it needs economic aid to maintain its position, both internaly and internationally . Ponce said. “We have received so many offers of economic aid from Russia and the satellites that it is almost impossible to list them.” Felt No Fear Nixon, interviewed by newsmen in a Quito barbershop, said he felt no fear when he walked into the Communist-inflamed mob at Lima's San Marcos University:' “I’m pretty much of a fatalist as far as incidents are concerned ...” he said. “My reaction to a situation like that is one of some tension—like the tension before the kick-off in a football game. “My chemistry is such that, (Continued on pa-go eix)

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Huge Winter Wheat Crop Is Predicted Third Largest In ■ History Os Nation WASHINGTON (UP) — The 1958 winter wheat crop is headed for a bumper harvest—and a record surplus supply. The Agriculture Department estimated Friday the growing wnter wheat crop will total 1,010,000,000 bushels, the third largest of 4 record and only slightly smaller than the billion-bushel-plus crops of 1947 and 1952. The estimated crop—if it materializes—would be 43 per cent larger than the 1957 output and 19 per cent more than the 10-yeaT average. Department officials have said a 225 million bushel spring wheat crop is passible, although no official estimate has been made. But assuming a spring wheat crop of that size, a total all wheat crop of 1,235,000,000 bushels is possible. This means that the whfeat carryover, or surplus, by July 1, 1959. would rise to a record 1.132,000.000 bushels. This would be 45 million bushelis more of surplus than the department calculated in its “Wheat Situation" report two weeks ago. The department's general crop report as of May 1 said "a larger winter wheat crop and excellent hay and forage crops are early standouts among 1958 crop prospects.” It said the winter wheat crop throughout much of the Great Plains looks “the best ever as fields wave with lusty growth” The department estimated the yield at a recbrd 24 bushels an acre. This compares with 22.4 bushels in 1957. But while “new high per acre yields seem almost assured on many fields,” the department warned that the wheat still must reach maturity. It cautioned against disease loss and sorms. Even though wheat prospects are “excellent” in other parts of the country, much of the bulge in production is expected from fields in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico. The 1957 crop was beset by drought, and many wheat acres were bare. These same states are expected to harvest 9,000,000 acres more in 1958 than they did in 1957, an increase of 73 per cent. Portland Girl One Os Award Winners FLINT, Mich. — (IB A 17-year-old Portland, Ind., High School senior was one of four young scientists named as winners at the National Science Fair awards dinner here Friday night. Eileen J. Settle was one of the four first place winners awarded the coveted $125 “Wish Awards” for the exhibits of original research they submitted to the fair’s 90 judges. Ike Speaks Tuesday On Radio And TV WASHINGTON (IB — President Eisenhower’s economic speech in New York Tuesday night will be carried nationwide by the major radio and television networks. The White House said Friday the address will be carried Jive by all radio stations and NBC television at 9:30 to 10 p.m., e.d.t ABC and CBS television will carry it on film from 10:30 to 11p.m. e.d.t. The speech will be delivered at the wind-up of a two-day economic conference at the Astor Hotel called by the American Management Association.

Auto Workers Ease Demand On Benefits ♦ Report By General Motors Says Union Modifying Demands . DETROIT (UP) — The United Auto Workers has given the first sign of retreat from its bargaining program, according to General Motors. GM Friday released another statistical breakdown on its estimate of the cost of union demands at 73 cents an hour. In . this breakdown GM said the union ; had agreed to “modify” its de- ’ mandon Supplemental Unemployi ment Benefits. Since GM Vice President Louis G. Seaton has already revealed the company is working on a plan to improve SUB payments, it ap- ' pea red there will be compromise on this issue by both sides. In its statement, GM said the union had first asked that company pa y meats for SUB be stepped up from 5 cents an hour to nearly 7 cents an hour (although a union source said the demand was closer to 6 cents). Then, said GM, the UAW said it would settle ,for 5 cents to the SUB fund except in four states which forbid SUB payments to the jobless along with state unemployment compensation. In these four states—Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina and Virginia—GM said the UAW asked for an extra 2¥z cents hourly for SUB. Seaton revealed the company’s plan, ’saying “more could be done" on the nickel-an-hour SUB payments. GM will reach the fund maximum shortly, of close to 100 million dollars. Interest on ' the fund from government bonds nearly equals the jobless payments In the three years. The UAW negotiations with GM, Ford and Chrysler were adjourned until Monday- Next Wednesday, the UAW resumes talks with American Motors, whose contract expires June 15, after the May 29-June 1 expiration of the Big Three contracts. Eaton Manufacturing Co., an auto and aircraft supplier with plants in Michigan, Ohio and Canada, has UAW contracts expiring July 1 in the U.S. and has asked the union to extend present contracts for two years. But Eaton wants wages frozen, with no annual wage increases or cost-of-living adjustments. The union Friday turned down this request, saying Eaton made 13 to 20 per cent return on investment over the past three years. In Detroit, federal and state mediation services announced they have already laid plans to try and conciliate disputes if there are no contracts signed in the next three weeks. —, Legion Will Elect Officers On Monday .. The annual election of officers for Adams Post 43, American Le- * gion, will be held Monday, with members able to vote from noon until 8 p.m. All candidates have been nominated, and ballots will be available in the meeting room. Following the evening at 8 p.m., eats and refreshments will be served.*,. . —y ■ t NOON EDITION I

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 10,1958

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Asserts West Parley Terms Unacceptable Khruschev Says Russia May Order Equipment In U.S. MOSCOW (UP) — Soviet leader Nikita S. Khrushchev today held out the possibility Russia might order equipment from the capitalistic United States to help build Communist industry. The proposal was made public after the Soviet premier and Communist Party chief said Friday night that Russia still wants a summit conference but finds Western conditions “unacceptable.” The official Soviet news agency Tass today released a report on the Soviet chemical industry which Khrushchev made to the Central Committee of the Communist Party, earlier this week. He called for greater placement of orders for industrial plants in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European countries but said orders should be channeled to the Western powers, too "It would be advisable to place orders for some of the plants with capitalistic countries, including Britain, West Germany and the United States,” he said. “The United States will have other, orders to fill.” At a Czech Embassy reception Friday night Khrushchev embarked on one of his extemporaneous reviews of the international situation and Soviet affairs. “We want summit talks,” he said. “We want them as much as the Western powers should want them. But if they wish to maintain a tense situation, then it has to be so. We, too, can live in tension.” Demand Inquiry In Attack On Nixon Sen. Hickenlodper Demands Inquiry WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. ! Bourke B. Hickenlooper demand- , ed today the State Department find out why Peruvian authorities , did not provide "adequate protection” for Vice President Richard M. Nixon when he was stoned by students at Lima. The lowa Republican, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the lack of police protection for the vice president and his party is a “rather serious thing” and "ought to be 1 the subject of an inquiry” by this government. “This sort of insult wouldn’t : have happened” with proper po- i lice protection, Hickenlooper said 1 in an interview. However, both Hickenlooper and I Sen. George A. Smathers (D-Fla •) 1 said the incident should not be ( grounds for any retaliation by the ( United, States, such as cutting off foreign aid or taking similar i measures. Reflects Resentment Smathers, a longtime advocate ’ of closer ties with Latin-America 1 and more aid for the region, said 1 the incident, while “very regrettable,” should not be considered I an indication of Peruvian feeling 1 toward this nation. "It would be a mistake to magnify this into a major develop- < ment,” the Florida Democrat told < the United PreSs. He said the incident reflected, 1 however, some degree of rpsent- ’ ment by many Latins over what ’ they consider United States "in- ’ difference” toward their problems. Smathers said it illustrates the necessity for increased atten- i tion to Latin America. Smathers said any move toward 1 “retaliation” would be “the : wrong way to deal with the situ- | ation.” Receives Little Aid Hickenlooper said he did not think the country of Peru or its ' people should be blamed for the 1 (Continued on pa«a atx) *

Plan Court Fight On High Land Appraisal Indiana s Attorney General Plans Fight INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley called a meeting of State Highway Department appraisers Friday in the wake of complaints by Shelby County residents that they were being offered paltry sums for their land needed for highway routes. t A group of about 50 Shelby County residents visited Handley to complain about prices on land the Indianapolis - Cincinnati intrastate highway. Handley conceded that appraisers may be overly - cautious to avoid inflated appraisals in the light of scandals involving excessive payments in the preceding Republican administration. But he said when condemnation suits are taken to court, local juries are likely to be more generous with their neighbors than highway department appraisers. Meanwhile, Atty. Gen Edwin Steers planned a court fight against a price, tag of $1,300,000 placed on 12 parcels of land for the new Lebanon bypass. That price was set by courtappointed appraisers in condemnation suits, but highway department appraisers had valued the same land at $480,000. In one case, the state offered to pay $37,050 for a half-acre of land, and court appraisers raised toe price to $385,000. 4 Steers said he may ask a change of venue from Boone County, where the condemnation suits were filed by the state. The court - appointed appraisers were named by Circuit Judge Charles (Conunuea on P&ge Six) General Election In Greece Sunday Foreign Policy Is Outstanding Issue By GEORGE ANDROULIDAKES United Press Staff Correspondent ATHENS (UP)— Foreign policy provides the two outstanding issues in Sunday’s general election in Greece, Erection of NATO missiles bases in Greece — which is practice would mean the admittance of American missile units to this country — and the festering dispute over Cyprus are the two top issues. Political observers said Premier Constantine Karamanlis’ outgoing government might eke out a narrow victory on the basis of its past record. But they said the vote would be close, particularly in view of the spirited campaign put up by the opposition parties Cyprus at Issue The opposition parties have joined in a concerted campaign against the Karamanlis administration, charging that he has been nothing more than a “yes-man” in NATO affairs and has failed to press demands for v a policy of self-determination in Cyprus with sufficient purpose. Cyrus has been a major issue in every Greek election for the past five years. The island which has a 1 Greek-speaking majority, is under British rule, but its Greek population wants union with Greece. The Turkish-speaking minority, however, wants union with Turkey, while Britain is undecided what policy to follow. The election follows the defeat of the Karamanlis government in a confidence vote. Karamanlis, a lawyer turned politician, has been in power since January, 1956, when his National Radical Union won 47.5 per cent of the popular vote in a general election. Reject Bases Chief opposition party are the Liberals, the party of former Premier Sophocles Venizelos. They hav'e campaigned strenuously since the dissolution of the last parliament on a platform whose main plank has been rejection of American missile bases. Most parties, including the National Radical Union, are against bases but the Liberals have come out in strongest opposition.

Top Business Men Split On Tax Cui Issue Divided Widely On Reduction In Taxes To Speed Recovery HOT SPRINGS, Va. (UP)—A group of America’s top industrialists and business executives Comprising the Business Adviory Council was divided widely today on whether the federal government should cut taxes to speed economic recovery. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks hoped before the council meeting concluded tonight to come up with a relatively accurate count on how the members stand on tax cuts. This information will then be transmitted to President Eisenhower, Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and other administration officials who face a tax, decision within the next two weeks The council wrestled Friday with the recession and what to do about it. The emphasis in today s conference was on international economics and particularly Russia's production progress, plus an inside view of the government’s space age problems. The council’? anti-recession committee Friday urged President Eisenhower to seek a one-year voluntary freeze on wage and price increases. This stand brought immediate reaction from Washington. - An AFL-CJO spokesman in the nation’s capitol reiterated labor’s rejection of such an approach to the recession, declaring “the answer to recession is for more purchasing power in the hands of the consumers. Wage boosts are one of the best ways to do this.” The spokesman said “every unemployed worker whose jobless benefits have run out is worried about eating — not about inflation.” Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.); a member of the Senate Banking Committee, said “I don't think it (the freeze) would do any good ” He said what was needed is a public works program to increase employment and “selective” tax revision to stimulate purchasing. Say Stolen Secrets Aided Red Sputniks Report Is Given On Soviet Espionage WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Internal Security subcommittee said today that secrets stolen from the United States helped Russia launch is Sputniks and score other scientific gains. The subcommittee offered no specific facts to support the assertion. In a report of Soviet espionage in the United States, the subcommittee said, “the appearance of the Soviet Sputnik in the sky in October more sharply highlighted the value of Soviet espionage than any recent happening.” Subcommittee Chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), commenting on the report in a statement released with it, said "whatever talents Soviet scientists may possess of their own, it is clear from eidence collected during the year that an important factor in the speedy rise of Communist scientific eminence is the theft of military secrets from the United States.” "They got these secrets free, without the drudgery of slow research which would have kept them from moving on to new things,” he said. The report said the earth satellite “a wartime project of the United States,” was first mentioned publicly in 1947 by the late Defehse Secretary James Forrestal, "but about that time the Soviets had been furnished with details of the American operation.” In its conclusions, the subcom(Continued on page atx)

Major Flood Crest , Rolling Down Ohio Wet Weekend Seen In Southern U. S. By UNITED PRESS A wet weekend was predicted for much of, the South and parts of the West but flood-threatened communities in Kentucky, Colorado, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois hoped the worst was over. More rain was expected along 1 the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains and from the Texas plains to the Carolinas Some showers ware predicted, too, for southern California into Arizona and in the Cascades and northern Rockies. Cold air from Canada poured down oer the Great Lakes and into New England, stirring snow ' flurries in northern Michigan and ' a record 28 degree reading for the 1 day at Albany, N.Y. Showers fell in many of the ‘ flood - threatened areas through Friday. Rising waters drove families to ’ the second stories of their homes ' in Catlettsburg, Ky., and cut off an entire section of Denver. . Another major flood crest rolled ' down the Ohio River, flooding homes and closing schools. Kentucky's weeklong ordeal reached its climax as the swollen 1 Big Sandy’s crest swept down on Catlettsburg, where the river joins the Ohio. Mayor Charles Gibbs said the ■ river crested at 57.5 feet, six feet above flood level, Friday afternoon and added “it looks like the worst is over.” Denver was caught off guard by a 2-inch downpour which assumed cloudburst proportions. Two days of rain isolated Denver's Southeast section, some streets turning into rivers, while sandbagging started along South Side streets The Ohio River rose at a rate of a tenth of a foot an hour and barrier gates at Cincinnati were closed. Upstream, the Red Cross asked for boats to evacuate families between Portsmouth and Wheelersburg. Storm - plagued Texas, meanwhile, weathered more tornadoes and freakish winds. West Texas on page six) Put Starkweather On Stand At Trial Murder Trial Is In Recess Until Monday LINCOLN, Neb. (UP)—Defense attorneys for Charles Starkweather said today they plan to put the confessed slayer of 11 on the witness stand at his trial even though they don’t know what he will say. “We don’t have the least idea what he’s going to say,” said attorney William Matschullat. "AU we care is that he says something.” . The trial recessed for the week end Friday after testimony from 15 prosecution witnesses who told how Robert Jensen, 17, the victim for whose death Starkweather is on trial, was found shot to death with his high school sweetheart, Carol King. The defense does not deny that Starkweather shot Jensen, but contends the red-haired former garbage hauler was legaUy insane and suffering from “delusions” during his January killing spree. His attorneys said Starkweather’s claim that Jensen and the other 10 victims were shot in self defense shows he is insane. Four of the victims were women and one was a 2-y ear-old girl. The state attempted to show by testimony of Dr. E. D- Zeman, a pathologist, that Jensen was shot six times from behind, the ear, two through it and one in front of it. < Starkweather, who remained quiet and Impassive through most of the jury selection and first day of testimony Friday, flailed out at a photographer at the noon break. He pushed the man against a bannister. County Attorney Elmer Scheele said the state’s direct testimony would last "a couple of days yet at least”

Two Brothers Head Unions To Be Probed Senate Committee Concludes Probe Os Food Chain WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Rackets Committee will open an investigation next week into the activities of two brothers and the New York butcher unions they lead. The committee ended Its inquiry into the labor and financial affairs of the Food Fair stores of I Philadelphia Friday and will return to work next Wednesday to 1 start the New York inquiry. Committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark) ordered the ■ transcript of the Food Fair heari ings sent to the Justice Department to check for possible viola- ■ tions of the Taft-Hartley or other laws. There were also several cases of directly .conflicting testimony during the hearing. Principal figures next week will ; be Max Block, president of butcher Locals 342 and 640 and an inl ternational butcher union vice i president, and his brother, Louis, i former president of Local 640 and > now head of pensions funds for Max’s locals. Bought Stock Cheaply ! The Block brothers got dromi- ' nent mention in the Food Eair investigation. A committee aide testifed the two New York mein were permtted to buy $24,800 worth of stocks and bonds in a Food Fair affiliate for $14,000. The investigator, George Kopecky, said Food Fair saved $25,000 on its pension plan arrangement with New York area butchers unions. Kopecky said Food Fair saved $142,000 on Philadelphia butcher unon pensions. The negotiator for those pensions, Kopecky testified, was Leon Shacter, a butcher union vice president who got $1,200 worth of Food Fair Properties, Inc. stock for a S3OO outlay. The Food Fair phase of the investigation ended with testimony from the big supermarket company’s president, Louis Stein, who denied there was anything improper in the securities transactions. Although Kopecky had testified that 21 union officials were permitted to buy $90,400 worth of stocks and bonds for $42,100, Stein said he had not hought of trying to buy favorable treatment for his company. Denies Charge Stein said it was a matter of "person to person relationships ” Meanwhile, at Reading, Pa., a member of the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board accused the Senate Rackets Committee of “character assassination” in naming him as one of a group of union officials which purchased Food Fair stocks at discount rates. , . John T. Haltesky, business agent for Retail Clerks Local 1383, said he purchased the stock in 1955 on the open market at $1 per share as an investment. He denied being on any preferred list. Kopecky had testified that Haletsky purchased $1,600 worth of stock in Food Fair Properties, Inc., for S4OO. Former Monroe Pastor Dies Last Evening The Rev. William L. Hall, 73, retired Methodist minister, died at 6 o’clock Friday evening at his home in Lake Helen, Fla., where he had lived since retiring five years ago. . Rev. Hall had served Methodist charges in Monroe, Ossian, Uniondale, and Churubusco in this area. Surviving are the wife, Mary; a daughter, Mrs. Richard - Flanigan of Fort Wayne, and three grandchildren. Services will be held Tuesday in Lake Helen; INDIANA WEATHER Fair and warm tonight and Sunday, except a little cooler extreme north portion Sunday. Low tonight in the low 50s. High Sunday uppers 60s and 70s. Outlook for Monday: Fair and warn.

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