Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 113.

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President Os Lebanon Claims Foreign Attack Statement Issued After Attempt To Storm U.S. Embassy BEIRUT, Lebanon (UP) — Lebanon's pro-Western President Camille Chamoun formally informed the United States, Britain and France today that his country is "the object of attack from abroad." „ tement came s e v era 1 hours after jeering left wing mobs tried to storm the U.S. embassy in new demonstrations that signaled virtual civil war against the government. The rioters were stopped by soldiers 500 yards short of the embassy buildingAuthoritative sources reporting Chamoun’s stand said told the ambassadors of the Western Big Three that arms and men were entering Lebanon both by land across the Syrian border and from ships off the coast. Chamoun’s move was interpreted as’ a possible preliminary to invoking the Eisenhower Doctrine, a request for military aid or an appeal to the United Nations for help. Capture Three Boats Chamoun’s meeting with the Western ambassadors came on the fourth day of a boiling upheaval by 1 leftist friobs who oppose the president and his staunchly pro - Western sympathies. These were the latest developments in the fast-growing crisis: —A youthful mob of several hundred gathered to march on the U.S. embassy here but was turned back by bayonet-wielding troops and police. Demonstrators stoned the cars of two American diplomats. —L eb a ne s e authorities announced that three “Egyptian boats” were captured off the Lebanese coast. Officials said they were loaded with arms and Egyptian money, and had come from Egyptian-held Gaza farther south on the eastern Mediterranean coast. —Lebanese forces went into action early this morning against “Syrian infiltrators” near Deir AlAchayer. a Lebanese village in the border no-man’s-land on the main highway to Damascus. First reports listed eight persons killed and a dozen wounded. —lt was announced that durng the night infiltrators invaded the Lebanese frontier post of Al-Mas-meh, on the Syrian border, and killed all five guards there—Diplomatic sources said Iraw and Jordan had pledged their support to Chamoun’s government in the present crisis. Stone Two Cars It was reported on good authority that Lebanon may call the United Arab Republic before the U.N. Security Council on a charge of intervening in Lebanon's inter- , nal affairs. The complaint was that arms and financial support were being sent to dissident elements from Syra and Egypt—now joined in the United Arab Republic. Rubber Workers To Reopen Contracts AKRON, Ohio (IP) — The United Rubber Workers Union today served notice on U. S. Rubber Co. to reopen contracts for bargaining on Wage increases and improved pension and insurance benefits. , , , , The notices were authorized by the majority of local unions representing a majority of members in the chain. URW agreements with U. S. Rubber cover 36,000 workers in 20 citie?, including Mishawaka, Washington and Fort Wayne, Ind.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWBPAFEB IN ADAMS COUNTY

District Meetings Are Held By GOP . State Organization Slated Wednesday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Indana’s 92 Republican county organization chairmen and an equal number of vice-chairmen met in 11 district meetings today to take care of the last preliminaries to the re-election of Robert W Matthews as state chairman. Matthews, described by political opponents as a “hatchet man” for the Handley-Jenner wing of the party, is scheduled to be reelected Wednesday in the final step of the biennial party reorganization. His re-election was expected to further strengthen party control by Sen. William *E. Jenner and enhance the nomination chances of Governor Handley, who wants to vacate the chief executive post in mid-term and succeed Jenner in die U.S. Senate. On the eve of the district meetings, at which the 22-member lineup of the GOP state committee will be formalized, a new "purge” charge was leveled at Matthews. Jennings County’s hot factional fight flared into a new burst of flame Monday when at least three state jobholders were fired, apparently as the aftermath of the county reorganization meeting last Saturday. Mrs. Pauline Gregory, wife of the North Vernon mayor, lost her auto license bureau managership to Mrs. Winifred Buell Charles Olmstead was ousted as assistant supervisor of surplu property, and William Hendrick was discharged as a driver for the State Highway Department. Olmstead told newsmen the firings were the result of the election of Jennings Circuit Judge Fred S. Matthews and Mrs. Jewell Doty as chairman and vice-chairman of the party organization. He said Matthews had threatened repricals against local jobholders unless Mrs. Buell was re-elected vice-chairman. The North Vernon Sun, a Democratic weekly newspaper, said it was reported that "more heads are going to fall before this squabble is settled.” "It’s the poorest kept secret in the county,” the Sun said in today's edition, “that a group of highly influential Republicans in Jennings were called up to Bob Matthews’ office last Thursday and told to re-elect Wilbur Beeman and Winnie Buell as county chairman and county vice-chair-man.” The Jennings situation appeared similar to that which occurred in other scattered counties in the past few months, including Brown. Nevertheless, despite locally strong influences by so-called “anti-Handley” Republicans, the party seemed firmly in control of Handley’s faction. Some of the last remnants of the faction loyal to former Gov George N. Craig were slated for ouster this afternoon, including Wayne Kellams, Edinburg, 7th District chairman, Death Reinstatement Trial Set June 16 The Yfetitiorf for reinstatement of Dale Death vs. the city of Decatur has been tentatively set for hearing in the Jay circuit court at Portland Monday, June 16. Death, a formet city policemen discharged for conduct unbecoming an officer, absence without leave, and conviction of an offense, is appealing the decision of the city board of works, which dismissed him. He had been convicted in city court of public intoxication after he entered a plea of guilty, but after his discharge from the force he appealed to the circuit court. The court declared on technical grounds, that ho trial had been held. The |>rosecuting attorney did not refile the case.

Young French Rioters Storm U.S. Library Cultural Library In Algiers Badly Damaged By Raids ALGIERS, Algeria OP) — A mob of young French nationalists stormed and sacked the American cultural library in Algiers today. A spokesman at the U. S. consulate here said Ae voting rioters were led by people” one of whowt was waving a French flag. Meanwhile, about 25,000 demonstrators chanting "Algeria is French” gathered in the main square of Algiers. The demonstrations were called in Algiers and in Paris by right wing elements In an effort to keep Premier - designate Pierre Pflimlin from forming a new French government. Pflimlin was to go before the National Assembly in Paris almost at the moment the demonstrations started. The right wingers feared that he might attempt to abandon Algeria. But observers said his principal hope of winning approval was to convince the badly split conservative-inde-pendent party deputies during his investiture speech that he does not intend tc fcl-cv. any such policy. French pouce immediately surrounded the American cultural center following the attack and calm was restored quickly. But an American consulate spokesman estimated that "about half” the books and "a good deal” of furniture at the center had been destroyed. The anti-American rioters broke into the information center by smashing down the door. They tore up books and hurled periodicals and chairs into the street before police arrived to halt the destruction. Decatur Lions Hear Hospital Official National Hospital Week Is Observed Improvements in medicine have largely been responsible for changes in hospitals in the last 3,000 years, Ed Kruse, assistant administrator of the Lutheran hopital in Fort Wayne, told the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Kruse addressed the Lions club during the national hospital week, which is being celebrated throughout the country. Early Egyptian hospitals used such drugs as alum, castor oil, and opium. For an anesthesia, doctors struck the patient across the forehead with a wooden maL let. Most of the early patients were cared for at home, and some were taken to the temples for treatment. Early Hindu surgeons were known for their ability to remove “sick” limbs without killing the patient. Hospital attendants even then kept short hair and clipped fingernails. There are four principal hospital functions today, Kruse said: care of the sick and injured, assistance in education of physiciarfc and nurses, promote good health, and permit scientific advancement of lab tests and x-ray treatment. To take care of the sick, proper accomodations must be provided, and the hospital must be kept on firm financial standing. Equipment becomes obsolete in a modern hospital at a terrific rate, adding to the cost for care of the sick, he continued. To effectively operate, a general hospital must have a governing board, medical staff, and trained personnel. The governing board should consist of trained businessmen. They appoint the medical staff, as no doctor can practice in a hospital without the permission of the hospital board. They also appoint an administrator, who takes care of details carrying out the policy planned by the board. The board also provides adequate equipment and) facilities, keeps standards up to requirements, coordinates professional interest of doctprs with interests of community and patients; and makes sure that a suitable record of financing and auditing is kept. The Lions club will not meet Monday, but will meet Thursday, May 22, with the Rotary club. Letters of thanks from the district governor and S. A. Dodge, former international president, were read.

Decatur, Indiana,Tuesday, May 13, 1958

Nixon’s Automobile Is A- • ' • Attacked By Hoodlums In Venezuela Capital

Five Big Drag Companies Deny Jury Charges Deny Price Fixing, Monopoly Charges In Indictments TRENTON, N.J. (UP)-Officials of five drug companies indicted on charges of fixing prices and monopolizing the production of Salk polio vaccine have denied the charges. Reacting swiftly, and in some cases angrily, spokesmen for the firms labeled the government’s charges "complete nonsense” . . . “fantastic” . . . “without substance” • . . "a poor reward for the courage of management.” The indictment handed up Monday by a we-member federal grand jury climaxed a year-long investigation into alleged pricefixing and other illegal practices in the distribution of the vaccine. Indicted were Eli Lilly Co., Indianapolis; Allied Laboratories Inc., Kansas City, Mo.; American Home Products Corp., New York; Merck & Co., Rahway, N.J., and Parke Davis & Co., Detroit. Calls Suit "Fantastic” The indictment prompted a quick drop in the price of stock in four of the firms on the New York Stock Exchange Most severely affected was Parke Davis which showed a loss as much as 3% points. The government charged that the five firms produced 205 million shots of the vaccine worth 125 million dollars from April, 1955, to December, 1957. During this period they were the only producers of the vaccine in the United States. Eugene Beesley, president of Eli Lilly, the largest producer of the vaccine, said in Indianapolis the charges were “complete non- ’ sense.” 7 ; "It is incredible that as a postscript to one of our greatest achievements, we should now have to fact this fantastic sut,” he said. James T. Cahill, treasurer of Allied Laboratories, said in Kansas City the indictment was "a poor reward for the courage of management of a private business in risking the company’s capital in order to participate in a gov-ernment-sponsored program to produce an effective preventative of this tragic disease.” Cites Price Cuts H.W. Blades, president of the Wyeth Laboratories Division of American Home Products, said in Radnor, Pa., that “the conquest of paralytic polio has been achieved by cooperative effort unique in the history of American mediiContinued on page five) Will Build Bridge Over Blue Creek Bridge Near Salem To Be Constructed A girder bridge, 46 feet, eight inches long and 22 feet wide, will be built over Blue Creek, one mile south of Salem, on the blacktop road through federal aid funds, the county commissioners announced today. ' The bridge will include a .218 mile blacktop approach, and is located about three miles north of state road 118 on the Salem road.. Local contractors will build the bridge, which will be paid for from county funds matched dollar for dollar by federal funds. The state I highway department will administer the bids. Sealed bids for the project will be received by the chairman of the state highway department and publicly opened and read at 10 a.m. May 27. Skilled wages will be $1.55 per hour, intermediate $1.40 per hour, and common labor $1.30 per hour. Also the commissioners announced the re-opening during the evening of the rest rooms located at the court house. The rooms were closed for Several months due to vandalism. ■

State Nears End Os Starkweather Case Murder Confession , To Be Read To Jury | LINCOLN, Neb. (UP), — The prosecution Indicated it would rest its case today ag a in s t Charles Starkweather with the reading of his confession to the murder of one of his 11 victims. The state prepared to wind up its case after it was revealed that Starkweather’s companion, 14-year-old Caril Fugate, was said in a letter to have killed her own mother at the outset of their twostate murder spree. Starkweather, 19, a cocky, redhaired garbage collector, dictated two confessions admitting 11 mur ders. The confessions total more than 600 pages. One of the statements, five volumes long, was taken Feb 1, and the other, a single volume, was taken Feb. 22. Relevant Parts Read Starkweather is charged only with the murder of Robert Jensen, 17, a high school student, and it was expected that only those parts of his confessions relating to the Jensen killing would be read. The defense will then take over in an effort to convince the jury Starkweather is insane and therefore should not be put to- death for his crimes. ■ LJ-he letter, addressed ’’For the dtfiv only,’' appeared to have been written in part by Caril and partly by Starkweather. It said Starkweather went to the home of Card’s stepfather, Marion Bartlett, where the trail of killings began over an argument. •' "Mom told him to get out and never come back,” the 1 et ter said. It said Card's stepfather then began fighting with Starkweather, who was armed with a shotgun. “Well Chuck pulled it and (a drawing of a bullet) and my dad dropped to the floor. My mom was so mad she had a (then a picture of a knife) and she was going to cut him. I got a gun and stopped my mother.” The letter said Card’s 2-year-old half sister was “yelling so (Continued on page five) Buddy Poppy Sales Friday, Saturday VFW Will Conduct Annual Sales Here Plans were announced today for the annual Buddy Poppy day sales, to be conducted Friday and Saturday under the sponsorship of the local post of Veterans of Foreign Wars. The V. F. W. members conducting the sales wid be assisted by members of the ladies auxiliary. Leslie Hunter, V. F. W. chairman for the project, and Mrs. Leslie Hunter, auxiliary Buddy Poppy Day chairman, have announced that sales of the small red flowers will be made Friday at the local industries and other places of business, and Saturday on the business distirct streets of Decatur. The local organization will also be in charge of buddy poppy sales in Berne, Monroe and Geneva. Most of the membership of both groups will assist with the sales. Buddy poppies are made by hospitalized veterans and the making of the flowers is an important phase of therapy inmany rehabilitation programs carried out in the V. A. hospitals throughout the country. i The money raised by the sale of the flowers each year is used to finance local assistance projects, as well as to help in state and national financial aid projects of the V F. W. Much of the money raised locally is used in a local relief fund for -V.F.W. members and their families. The remainder goes to help support the V:F.W. national home at Eaton Rapids, Mich., for the children of deceased V.F.W. members’* . (Continued on page five)

Senate Studies Bills For Aid Os Unemployed Secretary Os Labor Scheduled To Appear Before Committee WASHINGTON IW - The Senate tackled two bills today to provide emergency relief for the unemployed and a long-range program for those living in depressed areas with chronic unemployment. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell was due before the Senate Finance Committee to give the administration’s formal blessing to the supplementary unemployment benefit bill passed by the house last week. The senate was scheduled to start voting later today on a controlversial measure to authorize 375 million dollars in loans and grants for ccmmunities long suffering from economic distress. Senate leaders hoped for final action on the bill today. Other economic developments: —House Democratic Leader John W. McMcCormack called for quick congressional action to cut individual income taxes. He said he favored a reduction in income taxes that would, provide benefits chiefly for lower and middle income families. —The Commerce Department reported personal income reached 343-billion dollars in April, an increase of half a billion dollars over March. It said the rise was recorded only because unemployment and other government benefit payments outweighed cuts in wages and salaries. —The National Association of Home Builders predicted home builders will start work on 10 per cent more homes this year than last. It predicted most of the increase will be in medium and lowpriced homes. Otis Shifferly Dies After Long Illness Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Otis Shifferly, 76, of Decatur route 3, died at 1 o’clock Monday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital following a long illness. His condition had been critical for the past week. He was born in St. Mary’s township Nov. 7, 1881, a son of John and Fanny Sanford-Shiffer-ly, and was married to lona Haft March 28, 1907. Mr. Shifferly was a member of the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Mrs. Doris McDermott of Decatur, and Mrs. Mildred Waggoner of Columbia City; one son, Emil Shifferly of Berne; five grandchildren; one brother, Vernon Shifferly of Constantine, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Morris Brown of Ohio City, O. One son, one brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the Black funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Douald Bender officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur, cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. INDIANA WEATHER Fair with little temperature change tonight. Wednesday fair, somewhat warmer most sections. Low tonight 44 to 50 northeast, 48 to 54 southwest. High Wednesday In the 80s. Sunset today 7:50 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:32 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and warm. Low Wednesday night in the 50s. High Thursday around 80.

Heads Legion I I. 1 " i G Robert G. Smith i Robert Smith Named Legion Commander Decatur Attorney Heads Legion Post Robert G. Smith, prominent Decatur attorney, was elected commander of Adams post 43, the American Legion, Monday. Smith had served as first vice commander last year, and replaces Fred Bieberich of Preble as commander. He was unopposed. In the election for fourth vice commander, Richard Archer defeated Norman Scheumann. William Hunter defeated Edwin Korte for adjutant. Daniel Emenhiser defeated Charles Weber for trustee. Others elected, all unopposed, were first vice-commander, Ambrose Spangler: second vice-com-mander, H. P. Schmitt, Jr.; third vice-commander, Charlie Chew; and finance officer, Don dbchran. Delegates to the state convention and district meetings will be Biebqrich, Smith, Hugh Andrews, Walter Koeneman, James Staley, Frank Detter, Harold Hoffman, Robert Ashbaucher, and Wendell Macklin; alternates will be Vernon Aurand, H. P. Schmitt, Jr, Harry Knapp, Fred Schamerloh, Charles Weber, William Hunter, Floyd Hunter, the Rev. O. C. Busse, and Daniel Emenhiser. The Legion voted to again sponsor the junior Legion baseball team, with Dave Terveer in charge. Bill Porter was reported sick in the hospital at Columbus, O. The memorial day church service will be held Sunday, May 2, at the First Christian church. A fish fry will be held Friday night, followed by a dance from 9 o'clock until midnight. 13 Blood Donors Are Needed For Surgery Local Resident To Undergo Operation Thirteen Adams county persons with A positive blood can help save a local man’s life during a delicate operation June 17 in Irftiianapolis. Aaron Yoder, of 604 Schirmeyer street, will undergo heart surgery on that date, during which a heartlung apparatus, to keep blood flowing through his body during the surgery, will be used. . Freshly drawn, warm blbod,. type A positive,, must be used during the operation. Bottled blood is useless because it coagulates in the complicated machine. It will be necessary for Yoder to secure 13 persons with A positive blood to make' the trip with him. Anyone interested in donating blood Tuesday, June 17, is requested to contact Wendell Macklin. Transportation to and from Indianapolis will be provided. The blood donors must have the same type blood as the patient.. Anyone who would like to donate, but has not been typed, should check with his doctor. Donors must (Continued on Page Six)

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Nixon Unhurt As Windows In Car Are Broken J Hoodlums Wielding Clubs And Hurling Stones Attack Cars CARACAS, Venezuela (UP) — Hoodlums brandishing clubs and throwing rocks attacked Vice President Richard M. Nixon's automobile en route from Caracas airport after his arrival here today. They smashed all the car windows except the windshield and the window at the rear. Nixon was uninjured. The car carrying Mrs. Nixon, second in the official caravan, also was attacked. She was not hurt- w Police charged in and broke up the attack with tear gas. The splintering glass showered everyone in Nixon’s car. Venezuelan Foreign Minister Garcia Velutini suffered a cut lip and Nixon’s official translator Lt. Col. Vernon Walters got a mouthful of glass. Shake Fists at Him It was Nixon's worst experience yet on his eight - nation South American tour, even more violent than ttie outbreak at Lima where a thrown stone graze<| his neck and demonstrators hurled garbage at him and his party. Before his arrival here today, there had been reports that Communists might try to assassinate him. Today's incident occurred just as the Nixon caravan of Cadillacs swept from the broad four-lane highway leading from the airport into the narrow streets of the city limits. A mob of about 150 hoodlums closed in on the cars, shaking their fists and waving signs saying “Go home Yankee dog.” The mob spat upon the cars and ripped American flags from both the cars in which the Nixons were riding. The Venezuelan flag also was torn from Nixon’s car by the mob which was throwing eggs, tomatoes and rocks. Jeers and Cheers Because of the incident, the official caravan proceeded directly to tne US. embassy residence, omitting a scheduled stop at the national Pantheon where Nixon had been scheduled to place a wreath on the tomb of South American liberator Simon Bolivar. Mingled cheers and jeers greeted Nixon on his arrival at the airport here after a flight from the Colombian capital of Bogota. In Bogota he had been warmly received. The airport crowd was estimated at up to 3,000 .in two groups, but in the city itself a crowd with hostile students at its core swelled rapidly until it reached 30,000 at the Simon Bolvar tomb. At the airport, Nixon paid no attention to the demonstrators and continued smiling even when two paper airplanes folded from the leaflets struck him in the back of the hand. Students in the crowd at the airport carried posters saying "Nixon go away ... Nixon go home." Others carried signs saying in Spanish, "We have not forgotten Guatemala,” and "The U.S.turned down viaas for democratic Venezuelans...gave visas to enemies of liberty.’’ ’ j, The latter were references to deposed President Macros .Perez Jimenez, now in the United States. U.S. Ambassador Edward Sparks met Nixon at the Kaiquetia Airpdrt and introduced him to members of the Venezuelan ruling junta, all o fwhom were present with the exception of President Wolfgang Larrazabal. An army band pl aye d the United States and Venezuelan national anthems and artillery roared out a 21-gun salute in Nlxon’z honor. Durng the introductions, about 50 students chanted: “Nixon no” The students distributed leaflets also saying, "Nixon no!"on pace aix)