Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 112.

- '-fl ■ • Dr. Barry Hebble

All officers of the Adams county political parties were reelected at the biennial meetings of the central committees Satur- , day afternoon. Dr. Harry Hebble was reelected chairman of the \ Democratic central committee, and Harry Essex was reelected chairman of the Republican central committee.

Dulles Urges Renewal Os Trade Pads Plea For Greater World Trade Backed By Other Nations MINNEAPOLIS (UP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles urged a five-year renewal of the reciprocal trade agreements act to help the world achieve peaceful prosperity. Dulles spoke Sunday at the University of Minnesota stadium, to climax Minnesota’s gala statehood centennial celebration. His plea for greater world trade echoed similar appeals by almost every visiting Scandnavian dignitary attending the celebration. Among the most outspoke trade boosters along with Dulles were Prince Bertil of Sweden and Danish Prime Minister HC. Hansen. — Dulles came here directly from a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization council of ministers in Copenhagen, Denmark. He said the trade program contributes to the United States’ political and military security and cited the early 1930's as an example of what could happen if the UJS. turned its back on international trade. “In the 30s we sought relief from economic depression by raising our tariffs and devaluating our currency without regard to the effect this would have on others who were largely dependent on international trade," Dulles said. He said Germany and Japan took this US. example “as a justification for policies of extreme nationalism and of expansion, on the theory that economic livelihood was no longer obtainable by normal methods of peaceful trade.” Prince Bertil apparently felt foreign trade was so vital an issue that he deviated from his iron-clad rule of not discussing politics to voice on at least two occasions his interest in more and better trade. Hansen devoted almost an entire speech at the University of Minnesota to the issue of the Scandinavian natibns’ dependence on good trade relations. Others who echoed the trade call included Minnesota Gov Orville Freeman, Finnish Prime Minister Reino Kuuskoski and (Continued on page eight) Hold Open House At Hospital Addition The Adams county memorial hospital will hold open house Tuesday and 'Thursday afternoons and evenings this week to conduct interested persons through the new addition in recognition of national hosoital week. The new addition will be shown between 2 and 4 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday, and also between 7 and 8 p.m. Anyone interested in seeing the completed parts, including the kitchen, dining room, laundry room, and first floor may visit the hospital Tuesday apd Thursday during the specified hours. Another open house will be held later when the entire addition is completed. INDIANA WEATHER Fair, cooler most sections tonight. Tuesday sonny and ’ pleasant. Low tonight 43 to 49 northeast, 49 to 52 southwest. High Tuesday in the 70s north and east, low 80s extreme southwest. Snnset today 7:49 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:33 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair and warmer. Lows Tuesday night • in the 50s. Highs Wednesday upper 70s and low 80s.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT * OWLY DAILY NEWSPAPER W ADAMS COUNTT .

— 1 IpiMF Jk <I >' HR Harry Essex

Political Leaders Reelected Saturday Hebble, Essex Are County Chairmen All present officers of both political parties in Adams county were reelected at organizational meetings held Saturday afternoon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Dr. Harry H. Hebble was reelect- • ed Democratic county chairman : over Bernard J. Clark, city chair- • man in the last election, by a vote 1 of 45 to 15 Saturday afternoon at ' the bienniel organization meeting. There were 64 precinct committeemen and vice-committeemen j present, but four of them arrived too late to vote in the election for , county chairman. Mrs. Elmer C. Beer, of Monroe . township, was relected vice chairman, unopposed; Mrs. Austin Mer- ■ riman of Blue Creek township was ■ reelected secretary, and Wendell I Macklin, of Decatur was reelected treasurer. All other elections were unanimous. Two new central committee mem- • bers were present for the meeting. [ They were Walter Hofstetier and Lome Fenstermaker, committeeman and vice committeeman from Geneva A precinct. Clark decided to run for county . chairman Friday after visiting ; many of the precinct committeemen in the county. Dr. Hebble had already announced for the office ! by a letter to the central committee members a few days earlier. Following the vote, Clark spoke briefly, pledging his full support to Hebble in party activities. All officers of the Republican central committee were reelected Saturdav afternoon, without opposition. The Republican meeting opened with a luncheon at noon, followed by the organizational meeting. Harry E c ' cl Decatur, was eelerted chairman, a position he has held for many years. Other officers are Mrs. Eleanor Snyder, •>f Geneva, vice chairman; Glen Neuenschwander, of Berne, secre‘ary, and Cal E. Peterson, of Decatur, treasurer. Chairmen and vice chairmen of ‘he political parties from all counties in the fourth district will meet at Fort Wayne this week to name officers for the district. District Library .. 0 r • . . Meeting Tuesday — — Meeting To Be Held At Warsaw Librarians and library trustees : will exchange ideas during the annual meeting of district two of the Indiana library association and Indiana library trustees association i Tuesday at Warsaw in the Northern Indiana Public Service com- i pany building. The morning session will be for the exchange of ideas. Following lunch at the Wagon Wheel Inn, Dane Snoke, principal of Warsaw junior high school, will speak on “Reading program in the school." Attending the meeting from Decatur will be Miss Bertha Heller, librarian; Miss Etta Mallonee, assistant librarian, and Dr. N. A. Bixler, president of the library board of trustees. The library will be closed all day Tuesday because of the meeting. Officers of the library association this year are: chairman, James Sloan, Warsaw librarian; vice chairman, Mrs. E. K. Jones, trustee Wabash Carnegie library; and secretary - treasurer, Mary Grigsby, librarian, Ligonier public library.

Careful Study Planned Os New Russian Letter Khrushchev Says Russia Ready On Technical Talks WASHINGTON (UP)-Adminis-tration officials said today they saw a tiny ray of hope in Moscow’s latest disarmament offer to President Eisenhower. But many weighty questions remained to be answered, and Allies consulted urgently, before the government decided whether Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev was opening the door to a firststep disarmament agreement or merely making another propaganda move. Khrushchev touched off considerable surprise and speculation in Western circles with his latest letter, delivered to the White House Saturday. “Serloafc Doubts" In the letter, according to an announcement by the offical Soviet news agency Tass in Moscow Sunday, Khrushchev said that despite "serious doubts" Russia was willing to hold technical talks with the United States aimed at ending nuclear weapons tests. The White House, acting with extraordinary speed, issued a statement Sunday saying Khrushchev’s letter “seems to recognize” the validity of the long-held Western view that study of technical aspects of. disarmament should begin soon and might lead to progress on disarmament itself. But the statement noted Khrushchev's offer involved only the issue of nuclear test suspension and not “the more important elements of disarmament” which the West and a majority of the United Nations Assembly have endorsed. Careful Study “It is to be hoped,” the White House statement said, "that this acceptance presages agreement to begin similar discussions on other measure of disarmament. Premier Khrushchev’s letter will of course receive careful study and will be the subject of early consultation with our allies.*' The letter occasioned surprise here since Khrushchev’s previous letter to Eisenhower April 22 appeared to reject technical disarmament studies prior to a firm agreement on a nuclear test halt. Four Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic Fort Wayne Woman And Mother Killed By UNITED PRESS Four persons, including an elderly mother and her son, were killed in two traffic accidents in Indiana during the Mother’s Day weekend. One of the accidents occurred only 20 minutes before the 54-hour weekend was over, and it spoiled hopes of racking up the second straight weekend limited to two deaths on Hoosier streets and highways. Mrs. Frances Walker, 58, and Mrs. Louise Miller, 80, Fort Wayne, were killed late Sunday night at Pleasant Lake, about 30 miles north of Fort Wayne in Steuben County, when two automobiles collided in U. S. 27. A car in which they rode collided head-on with a truck out of control. The truck was driven by Fred Grimmett, whom police said is from Alabama. Grimmett and two other persons were injured. Oscar Fuchs, 52, Evansville, and his mother, Mrs. Anna Fuchs, 84, Tell City, were drowned Saturday when their car went out of control in Ind. 66 ne»r Grandview, about 30 miles east of Evansville, and overturned in backwater of the flood-swollen Ohio River. Authorities said Fuchs was driving his mother jto Evansville to help celebrate the second birthday anniversary of his twin sons. Public Library To Be Closed Tuesday The Decatur public library will be closed all day Tuesday this week while the library staff attend a meeting of the Indiana library association at Warsaw. Miss l Bertha Heller, librarian, Miss Etta Mallonee, assistant librarian, will both attend the meeting. BULLETIN Otis Shifferly, 76, at St. Mary’s township, died about 1 o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he was admitted Saturday. The body was removed to the Black funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 12,1958

United States Library In Beirut Set Afire By Anti-Government Mobs

House Passes Military Pay Increase Bill Compromise Bill For Pay Increases Is Passed By House By UNITED PRESS The House today passed a compromise $576,438,000 military pay raise bill aimed at keeping skilled men in the service- , Speedy Senate concurrence was expected, paving the way for servicemen to get fatter pay checks June 1. ■ ' ■ Presdent Eisenhower requested the legislation on the basis of the so-called Cordiner Report. The report warned that technicians and other specialists, trained at high cost, were leaving the services in droves to join private industry. The measure sets up a “proficiency" pay system in whieh most members of the armed forces will get raises. Pay hikes range from 14 per cent in the corporal third classpetty officer grade to 47 per cent for members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Privates with more than two years duty would get a 6 per cent raise. Elsewhere in Congress todayr Defense: The House Armed Services Committee completed hearings on President Eisenhower’s cotnroversial defense reorganization bill. It will meet behind closed doors Tuesday to begin drafting a substitute. Foreign Aid: The President’s $3,600,000,000 foreign aid authorization bill, cut more than 350 million dollars, was called up on the House floor for debate. Speaker Sam. Rayburn predicted it would 5 pass without another major cut. Public Works: Chairman Brent Spence (D-Ky.) said he hopes his House Banking Committee can complete action in early June on a two-billion-doll a r anti-recession public works program Housing: Federal Housing Administrator .Albert M. Cole asked Congress to authorize an emergency four-billion-dollar " speed-up in the FHA mortgage insurance program. Nuclear Test Set Off Sunday By U.S. Second Announced Test At Eniwetok WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States set off another nuclear test Sunday—the second announced by the Atomic Energy Commission in its current “Hardtack" series at the Eniwetok Proving Grounds in the South PacificThe AEC did not mention the size of the weapon tested or whether it was successful. A controversy raged within this country over the continued testing. As the latest shot was fired a group of protesters were on a hunger strike at the AEC’s new headquarters in nearby Germantown, Md. A short time later, Dr. Linus Pauling, a leader in the fight to ban nuclear tests, accused “two or three scientists" of serving as “spokesmen” for the AEC. Although he did not name names, Pauling charged the scientists with making "dishonest, untrue and misleading statements" about the dangers from the tests. Pauling, a Nobel Prize winner, appeared on the NBC television program “Meet the Press.” He said the argument that this country must continue its testing to develop "clean" nuclear weapons “is jus a fraud." He claimed that the United States isn't manufacturing clean weapons and putting them in stockpiles because ditty weapons are more efficient. President Eisenhower himself, Pauling said, “would be guilty of malfeasance in office” if he stockpiled clean weapons because it is < his job to protect the nation.

Paralyzing Aircraft Strike Threat Eases North American And Union In Agreement LOS ANGELES (UP)— Threat of a paralyzing aircraft strike at 16 plants in seven states appeared to be over today following an agreement between North American and United Auto Workers. The break in the strike front, which for a time posed a threat to the nation’s missile testing and development program, came Sunday night However, a strike by about 6,000 International Association of Machinist members at Lockheed Aircraft ’s Georgie division plant at Marietta went into is fifth day. Members met Sunday and agreed to continue the walkout that began at midnight last Wednesday. Company negotiators were to meet with union representatives today in an effort to agree on a new contract. Somg IAM members also walked out at Wednesday midnight at the Cape Canaveral, Fla., guided missile test center, but returned a short while later when it was learned day-to-day negotiations had been arranged by the national union. Labor- management negotiators announced agreement on a twoyear pact providing wage increases for 21,000 employes at North American plants in southern California and in Columbus, Ohio. Members of the union will vote on terms of the contract next Sunday./In the meantime, the old contract will be in effect. The new agreement provides for an increase in minimum and maximum base rates to $1.82 to $3,02 an hour, respectively; a 3 per cent increase next year, a seventh paid holiday and a cost-of-living plan. The pact came a few hours after members of the International Association of Machinists voted in San Diego to approve a new two-year contract offered by Convair Division of General DynamEnding a- threat of a strike at midnight tonightIndonesian Loyal Trgops Fight Rebels Attempting To Win Back Key Airfields By ARNOLD DIBBLE United Press Staff Correspondent SINGAPORE (UP)—lndonesian central government troops battled rebel forces in the Halmahera Island group today trying to win back key airfields and chop off another arm of the revolutionary government. Central government army spokesman Lt. Col. Rudy Pirngadie said the battle for the spicerich islands east of Celebes began, Friday. Pirrifiaie, speaking to reporters in Jakarta, said the fighting was “heavy.” He did not say whether the invasion was by air or by sea. It was evident the central government was trying to keep on the offensive and keep the rebels off balance following the collapse of the rebel movement in Sumatra. The rebels claimed capyure of the Halmahera town of Djailolo only last week. Djailolo has an air base from which the central government bombed the rebel center of Menado, capital of North Celebes 300 miles to the west, last February. The rebels also claimed the capture of airstrips at Morotia and Ternate in the Halmahera group within the past 10 days. Pirngadie indicated the central government drive concentrated on Djailolo. '"‘‘(j He said intelligence reports tlold of a ship operating “under a Dutch flag" helping the rebels in the Halmahera areaHowever, he did not charge the Dutch government with direct involvement. He esaid the same reports said brand neyv U.S.-made cars were captured from the rebels in the Halmahera invasion. But again he did not accuse the U.S. government of involvement.

Five Big Drug Firms Indicted By Grand Jury Eli Lilly Included In Firms Charged With Price Fixing WASHINGTON (UP)—The Justice Department announced that gfederal grand jury, today indicted five big drug firms, including Eli Lilly Co. of Indianapolis, on charges of price fixing in the sale of polio vaccine to federal, state and local governments. Lilly is the nation’s largest producer of Salk vaccine. The indictment was returned in federal court at Trenton, N.J. Besides Lilly, the indictment named Allied Laboratories, Inc., Kansas City, Mo.; American Home Products Corp., New York City; Merck Qot, Inc-, Rahway, N.J. and Parke, Davis Co., Detroit. The indictment charged that the firms, which were the sole producers of polio vaccine in the United States during the period of the indictment, conspired to fix prices and eliminate competition on sales of the vaccine to the federal government and local governments I bodies. It said large amounts of polio vaccine were bought by govern--1 rr.ent officials throughout the . country from the time the success ! of the vaccine was first announced ; in April, 1955, up to the time the indictment was returned. Assistant Atty. Gen. Victor R. Hansen, who heads the anti-trust division, said the indictment accuses the vaccine producers of combining to Submit “uniform bids to public agencies.’’ He said they also adopted noncompetitive terms of sale and uniform pricing methods. Hansen said that, from the start of vaccine production until last Dec. 31 industry-wide shipments of the vaccine by producers totaled more than 205 million shots valued at about 125 million dollars Os this amount, about 103% million mioses were sold to public authorities. The department said the bulk lOoatuiued on Page eigne) Two Women Drowned In Florida Sunday ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (W — Two women drowned in Tampa Bay Sunday when 70-mile-an-hour wind gusts upset their fishing boat. They were identified as Mrs. Florence Kearney, 55, of Eluria, Ohio, and Mrs. Vara Shewman, 55, of St. Petersburg. Lemoine E. Fantz, 48, an interior decorator from Gulfport, Fla., survived. Vandalism, Breakins Reported In County Home Is Thoroughly Ransacked Saturday Vandalism and breakins were reported to the police and sheriff’s departments again over the weekend. Eugene Arnold, route two, Decatur, reported to the sheriff's department his home was ransacked and $lO in change taken from a child’s bank. Arnold arrived home late Saturday evening, to find his home in complete shambles, papers scattered about, and the received on the telephony torn from the wall. A large knife was found stuck in the floor of the front porch. The Red Men’s lodge was also broken into Saturday evening. Entry was made by breaking a window pane in the front door. Only thing known to be missing was a case of coke. Two windows were broken at the Church of Christ, also on Saturday. Floyd Rupert reported the windows were broken by sling-shots or someone had thrown stones at the panes. George Kahn reported someone had broken a lock at the city dog pound and broken a window.

Matthews, Skillen Confident Os Hold State Committees To Be Reorganized INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Republican State Chairman Robert W. Matthews and Democratic State Chairman Charles E. Skillen predicted today they will keep their party leadership this week wh%n Indiana's biennial jjplitical reorganization process is completed. Matthews and Skillen made the | forecasts in a wave of optimism ! after county reorganization meet--1 ings of both parties in all 92 coun--1 ties Saturday. Matthews predicted he will win without a dissenting vote among 22 persons eligible to Vote on the chairmanship when the district chairmen and vice chairmen elected at meetings Tuesday convene to organize the state committee Wednesday. “It will be a solid state committee behind myself and the governor—there’s no doubt about that,’’ Matthews said. Matthews is the handpicked choice of Governor Handley, a leader in the faction of the party headed by Sen. William E- Jenner. Handley hopes by virtue of Handley-Jenner con- : trol of the state organization to 1 win the U.S. senatorial nomina- • tion next month. Not So Optimistic Skillen was less optimistic than > Matthews but claimed his position ■ was “just as strong” after the ■ county meetings as it was before. i Democratic district meetings 1 will be held Wednesday, and re- ■ organization on the state level Saturday. Democratic county elections ; produced at least one new district ; chairman. Indianapolis Mayor Phillip Bayt, who beat Owen Mullin for Marion County chairman, named Albert O. Deluse as 11th District chairman. Deluse said he would accept. Because the Ist and 11th Districts have only one county each, • the county chairmen and vice 1 chairmen select district officers. Republican factional disputes in--1 volved groups for or against the Handley-Jenner forces and Demo--1 crats generally lined up for or : against National Chairman Paul Butler, Skillen or both. Matthews said Handley won in the “main battlegrounds” of Owen and Martin Counties- In Owen, Robert Lucas beat Charles Edwards, campaign manager for Continued on page five) Jurors Horrified | At Murder Picture Starkweather Victim Photo Shown Jurors A LINCOLN, Neb, M — A jury of eight women and four men looked in horror today at a close-up photograph of the wounds suffered by one of the 11 victims of mass killer Charles Starkweather. A slide showing six .22-caliber rifle bullet wounds in the back of the head of 17-year-old Robert Jensen, Bennet, was cast on a screen ! in the packed court room at the ' murder trial of the 19-year-old red--5 head. The bloody reproduction brought s home to the jury for the first time • the viciousness of the slaying. The 1 bullet holes were in an araa not ■ more than three inches around. Jurors sat stiffly upright in their : chairs and the women plainly ’ showed their revulsion as Dr. E. ■ D. Zeman, a pathologist, pointed ■ out the six places where the slugs had entered the head of the high school boy, killed along with his ’ sweetheart, Carol King, 16. Defense attorney T. Clement Gaughan protested that the color \ picture was intended only to ’ shock the jury. Judge Harry S t Spencer overruled him but admon- , ished the jury that the purpose I was to show the manner of death. , Starkweather himself was exi pected to take the stand late this week. The state has breezed > through more than half its wit- ; nesses and was expected to wind up its case by Thursday.

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Second U. S. Library Fired In Recent Days Mobs Battle Troops In Riots Opposing \ Lebanon President ; BEIRUT (UP) — Anti-govern- ; ment mobs set fire to the United 1 States Information Service library in Beirut today; The mobs battled troops in riots supporting opposition demands that pro - Western | President Camile Chamoun auiet. I It was the second USIS library [ attacked in Lebanon in three , days. Saturday other rioters . sacked and burned the five-room, . one-story USIS library building in the port of Tripoli, second largest . city in the country. Today’s inci- . dent followed the same pattern of t destruction/*’ , The firing of the library, in a , building rented from a Lebanese . landlord, was one of mjmy incidents throughout the country in J a day of rioting. - Troops clashed with rioters in , the capital and elsewhere as vio- . lence continued into its fourth day. No casualty figures were available but it was feared thej might be heavy- ; Hand Government Ultimatum Opposition leaders handed tl 5 government an ultimatum ‘ manding that it “resign imn 5 ately,” but aides refused to [ it on to Chaumoun. Sources said Chamoun is c mined to keep his governme ’ office and clamp down on . violence. Meanwhile, Cairo and De. eus radios blared repeated t ’ to Lebanese listeners to , against the forces of imperialisn and its agents.” The Lebanese were urged to go into the streets to fight the Cha- ; moun regime. This troubled nation was in the grip of a paralyzing general strike , which was said to be 100 per cent ' effective. It was called after two ‘ days of rioting in Tripoli, during j which am estimated 20 persons 1 were killed. Report Border Sealed : (Syrian officials in Damascus reported that Lebanon sealed off 1 its border with Syria early this r morning). Heavy fighting accompanied by shooting broke ont between troops and rioters in the Moslem outskirts of this city. No casualty estimates were available. But it was’feared they might be heavy. Troops, using bayonets and rifle butts, threw rioters out of two main city squares. Armored cars and machine gun-equipped jeeps took over the city's main inters sections- ' 1 The U.S. Embassy warned all * Americans to keep off the streets. f The American community school - was closed, and extra police guarded the U.S. Embassy. More fighting was re ported J from Tripoli today. The army acted when police i were unable to restore order aft- ; era week end of rioting byoppoI sition groups who waved Bfyptian flags and called a general strike for today in hopes of forcing Chat moun out of office, ; Throughput the day the Damas- ; cus and Cairo radios urged riot--1 ers to “free Lebanon and continue to strike and demonstrate unr til the dictator is downed.” The heaviest week end clashes 1 were in the port city of Tripoli. , Mobs there on Saturday burned a U.S Information Agency library and clashed with troops and po- ’ lice for three consecutive days. t A high government source in r Beirut said 12 persons had been ) killed in the Tripoli fighting. A doctor working in the receiving - ward of the government hospital ; in Tripoli said he had counted 22 ’ dead. ' Informed political sources here 5 said the opposition was trying to 1 force a showdown with the gov- * ernment but that there seemed 1 little likelihood Chamoun would give In.