Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 116, Decatur, Adams County, 16 May 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 116.

WBrejWEjty.: jnif •* - HERO’S WELCOME FOB NIXON, WIFE— A \ rolling shout of acclaim greets Vice President Richard M. Nixon as he stands with President Eisenhower and his wife. Pat. while thousands of Washingtonians surge forward to welcome him \ojpe. -Thoroughly qualified for a diplomatic purple heart as a result of his tumultiious visit in ica, the Vice President was visibly moved by the welcome.

Latest Soviet Launching Seen U.S. Warning Say Space Program For United States Must Be Speeded WASHINGTON (UP) - House Democratic Leader John W. McCormack expressed confidence today the United States can “leap frog the Soviets in outer space” under the leadership of a new national space administration. But McCormack, also House, Space Committee chairman, said Thursday's launching of Russia’s 114 ton Sputnik 111 “serves as a warning to us — particularly our top leaders." "The American people have got to awake from their complacency,"'he told the United Press “We have got to put die space program on the top level and spend money to enable oftr brains and facilties to produce the results." Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev Thursday hailed Sputnik 111 as a demonstration of Communist superiority over the United States. George J. Feldman, chief counsel of the House Space Committee, said the launching was “confirmation that the Russians are ahead of us" and constituted another “compelling reason why we must go full-speed ahead." Said to be Visible Radio Moscow announced Sputnik 111 had completed nine circuits of the earth at9p.m.e.d.t. Thursday The broadcast said both the satellite and its carrier rocket would be visible with the naked eye around dawn and sunset. it said Sputnik was radioing scientific information on a regular schedule to a battery of measuring stations in the U.S.S.R. Military authorities were cautious about concluding! the size of Sputnik 111 means Russia has any surprise new rocketry superior to known U.S. capabilities. - ■ Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the Defense Department’s Advanced Research P roj ects Agency, told the United Press the new Sputnik could have been put in orbit with a rocket of no greater power than that used for the smaller Sputnik 11. It is wrong to conclude, he said, that a “monster" booster was necessary to lift Sputnik's 2,925.53 pounds—the figure given by Russia—into orbit Moreover, he said, it could have been done with “ordinary fuels.” In any event, York said, “the suposition is that Sputnik 111 is a well designed rocket in the few hundred thousand pounds of thrust class.” “Developments Going” Asked whether the United States had rockets in the same class, he said “We have such developments going.” The thrust of the Thor and Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missiles is unofficially understood to be 150,000 pounds. The Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile, with a main rocket and two boosters, totals about 360,000 pounds of thrust. York said it may be two years before this country can afford to divert military rockets to send “scientific satellites" over one tcm into space. The Air Force is expected to attempt to send up a test version of its "Pied Piper” reconnaissance satellite, weighing possibly up to 1% tons, in a ihatter of months. ■ ' — , McCormack spoke as his committee moved swiftly toward giving final approval to a bill creating a National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (Continued on page eight)

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Nixon. Says Policy To Be Reappraised To Report To Ike On Latin America WASHINGTON (UP) — Vice President Richard M Nxon appeared likely today to recommend important changes in U.S. policies toward Latin America when he makes his formal report to President Eisenhower. The nature of the changes was > not immediately disclosed by Nix- - on in his first public appearances • following a triumphant welcome- > home greeting Thursday. But he said the United States • must. reappraise its Latin American policies. He said he* told I President Eisenhower and Secrel tary of State John Foster Dulles > at a White House lunch that Latin i America has moved “from an ' area in which it was always important up to a top priority po- : sitton." • He said the riots which attend‘ed his visits to Lima, Peru and ' Caracas, Venezuela, “show that 1 part of the world needs more at--1 tention than it has been receiv- - ing.” — - The Vice President disclosed he was planning to give the Presi- ; dent a written confidential report in the near future. He said he was willing to give his views privately to interested congressmn but did not expect to testify befor any committees- ’ A generalized Nixon report will ■ be made public within the next few weeks, but no nationwide radio-television report to the people was planned. Sources close to South American affairs said much of the hard feelings there were the rsult of , stiffenng congressional resistance , to reciprocal trade agreements and increasing use of tariffs to 1 impede movement of South Amer- \ ican products to the United States. Nixon said, however, he saw no basic “deterioration of relationships” between this nation and Latin American countries. r AFL-CIO Opposes Jobless Pay Bill Measure Approved By House Opposed WASHINGTON (UP)—The AFLCIO today opposed the Houseapproved bill to extend unemployment compensation benefits on grounds it “accomplishes practically nothing." The opposition was voiced by Nelson H- Cruikshank, directo of the AFL-CIO social security department, in testimony prepared for the Senate Finance Committee. Cruikshank said the labor federation supports a much broader bill introduced by Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) that would expand coverage and increase and extend benefits. The House-approved bill would extend the duration of unemployment compensation payments by 50 per cent of each state’s normal payment period. This wbuld range from a very few weeks in some southern states up to 15 weeks in one or two large industrial states with 30-week payment ceilings. The Kennedy bill would extend the payment period to a uniform 39 weeks in all states and add about 1,800,000 workers to the jobless payrolls. The House bill would, apply only to workers now covered by state unemployment compensation. The House |>ill provides for eventual repayment to the federal government of the money lent for the added payments. The Kennedy bill would make it an outright federal grant.

Compromise On Defense Plan Under Study House Committee In Closed Session Over Compromise WASHINGTON (UP) — Th e House Armed Services Committee was scheduled to meet behind closed doors today to consider a compromise version of President Eisenhower’s controversial military reorganization plan. Committee leaders have drafted a compromise which they hope will meet with the Presidnt's approval. Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) predicted the group would approve it before the day was over. However, he said the tentative draft was a working paper rather than a finished product Vinson and other committee members have objected to one feature of the President’s reorganization plan which would increase the power of the secretary of defense at the expense of the present authorty of the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. They have claimed this could lead some day to a military dictatorship. As a result, the proposed compromise was understood to steer clear of any such centralization But backers of the draft claimed it would meet all of the President’s main objectives. The House Space Committee held a closed meeting to move nearer final approval of a bill to set up a National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The National Association of Manufacturers called on Congress to do away with the union shop and other “special privileges and immunities" which it said give organized labor “unequalled” economic power. Donald J. Hardenbrook, chairman of the NAM’s Industrial Relations Committee, told a Senate labor subcommittee in prepared testimony the “union abuses” uncovered by Senate Rackets Committee are the result of the existing “immunities." Both House and Senate were in recess today until Monday. Other congressional news: Appropriations: The House passed and sent to the Senate a 8570,722,613 money bill to run the State and Justice Departments, the U.S. Information Agency and the federal court system in the fiscal year starting July 1. It cut $18,492,398 from the President’s original budget request, trimming some funds from each ot the agencies involved. However, it voted more funds for the information agency in the coming fiscal year than it got for this one. The bill rolled through by a 318 to 51 roll call after the House, crushed Southern efforts to slash funds for the new Civil Rights Division of the Justice pepartment Rackets: Disgruntled ex-employ-es of the A&P food store chain and officials of two rival unions testified that several thousand grocery store clerks were forced to join the AFL-CIO Butchers Union in the New York area. Packers: The Senate voted to strengthen curbs against unfair trade practices in the mVat packing .industry by giving new enforcement powers to_the Federal Trade Commission. Draft Board Office Closed For Two Days Officials of the Adams county selective service board announced today that the local office will be closed Monday and Tuesday, .while the board’s secretary is attending a conference for selective service clerks at Indianapolis.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, May 16, 1958

French Government ~ Acts Frantically To Avert Civil Warfare

New Algerian Government For* Gen. De Gaulle Colonials, French Military Leaders Meeting In Algiers r ALGIERS (UP)—Algerian colonials and French military leaders met today in Algiers to form a revolutionary government for Algeria dedicated to installing Gen. Charles de Gaulle as leader of France. Hundreds of French residents began streaming into the capital at daybreak to hear proclaimed from the Forum the formation of a “Committee of Public Safety.” Paratroopers under command of Gen. Jacques Massu, head of the committee for the city of Algiers, guarded the Government-General Building from the balcony of which Massu planned to announce formation of the anti-Paris government. The political fever which boiled over Tuesday" in “Keep Algeria French”, riots spread throughout Algeria, technically a part of Metropolitan France. At least 129 communities in Algeria banded With the Algiers group to form Committees of Public Safety. Massu’s takeover of power apparently reached the point of nd 1 return Thursday when Gen Raoul Salan, commander-in-chief of the 400,000 French troops in Algeria, threw in his lot with the committee in defiance of Premier Pierre Pflimlin. Salan is technically Massu’s superior and the military representative of the Paris government, but in a speech from the balcony he made it clear that the militarycivilian junta intended to run Algeria until the day De Gaulle takes over in Paris. He ended his speech after a moment's hesitation, but in a ringing voice, “Los live General de Gaulle!” Later in the day, from the same balcony, a crowd of 5,000 listened in a pin-drop hush to the news of , De Gaulle s statement he was ready if called. ’Die crowd broke ' into deafening cheers. I Steelworkers Will Ask Wage Increase Union Head Reveals Bargaining Plans CHICAGO (UP)—David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers, says the union will seek “substantial” wage increases for about one-sixth of its 1,250,000 members this year. McDonald also said the union does not to forego increases of 12.1 cents an hour, in wages and fringe benefits, scheduled to go into effect. July 1. The union’s plans were made known Thursday at the conclusion of a two-day meeting of the 170man wage policy committeeMcDonald said the "substantail” boosts to be sought for about 214,000 workers, including 54,000 in Canada, will come during contract negotiations this year. The workers involved are employed, for the most part, in steel fabricating plants. As for the automatic increase July 1, McDonald said there also would be attempts to boost the pay of some workers an additional 5 cents an hour to compensate for inequities or cost-of-living problems not covered by present contracts. A statement by the wage policy committee expressed the belief the scheduled wage hikes should not cause an increase in stl prices. The industry is capable of absorbing the increase, it said: McDonald implied the wage policy board had given consideration to the nation’s economy in arriving at its decisions. “A recession is no time for taking a backward step,” he said. “Rather it’s a time for going forward aggressively.”

Offer Transportation For Blood Donors Teeple Truck Lines Will Provide Bus Transportation to and from Indianapolis for ihe 13 blood donors who will help Aaron Yoder during a heart operation June 17 will be provided by a bus furnished by Tgeple Trucking company. Anthony Tejeple announced today through the Red Cross. The donors will have to be at the Indiana Univfersity medical center blood bank in Indianapolis shortly before 7 a.m. on that date. All donors must have type A positive blood. A fund is being established by the Red Cross to help pay for meals for the donors and two special nurses who will take part in the operation. Anyone wishing to help in this manner should send ♦brir donations to the Red Cross office. Six more persons have stated that they will give blood if needed, and that they have the necessarytype, A positive. They are: Tom Lambert, H. P. Engle and Leonard Saylors of Decatur; Esther Yoder and Danny Yoder, of route one, Berne; and Dick Clark, of Fort Wayne. Yoder will undergo heart surgery June 17, and a heart-lung apparatus, which will permit him to Lreathe and circulate fclocd during the operation, will be used. Only fresh blood may be used with this machine, as blood stored in the blood bank clots the machine. For this reason 13 persons must be present the morning of the operation to ’give blood. This is collected in special containers for use during the operation. Yoder’s local physician recommended that he go to the Indiana University merical center for examination by specialists to see if surgery was possible. Dr. Harold King of the Robert Long hospital informed him that he would be admitted to the hospital Sunday, June 15, and the operation will be performed Tuesday, June 17. The amount of blood which Yoder will need after surgery is not known. This can be supplied through the regular Red Cross blood program, however. Persons wishing to help the Decatur man who do not have the proper* type, or cannot make the trip to Indianapolis, may give blood in his name at the next visit of bloodmobile June 6. This can be exchanged in a replacement program with the Robert Long hospital, and administered when needed after the operation. i Starkweather Tells Os Slaying By Girl Part Os Confession Is Read At Trial LINCOLN, Neb. (W — C a r i 1 Fugate, 14, knifed a woman to death as she lay on a bed with her hands and feet tied to a bed post, a confession read at Charles Starkweather’s murder trial indicated today. The statement by the 19-year-old mass killer related 10 of the 11 slayings committed during his late January rampage with the Fugate girl. The girl was indirectly accused of the killing of Lillian Fencl, a maid in the home of C. Lauer Ward, a wealthy Lincoln business man. Starkweather’s confession said he killed Mrs. Ward with a knife thrown into her back and shot Ward to death as he broke for thk front door. The terrified maid was taken up to a bedroom. “All I did was tie her feet and hands to the bedpost,” the statement said. “Her feet were at the bottom and her hands were at the top. She was moaning and groaning so I put a pillow case over her head. Then I went downstairs. “Caril was upstairs with the maid. She had my knife." The maid was found stabbed to (Continued on page eight)

Lebanese Seek To Smash All Tribal Armies r Employ Jet Planes, Tanks In Effort To Smash Rebel Forces BEIRUT, Lebanon (UP)—Lebt anese forces using jet planes and 1 tanks swept through northern ; Lebanon today In an effort to smash rebellious tribal armies and drive infiltrators back across the border into Syria. More than 30 American refugees from the shell-pocked coun- . tryside sought haven in the comparative safety of Beirut. But ’ more were still jn areas considered dangerous. One independent American eyewitness confirmed government claims that 700 — and possibly many more—Syrians had crossed th bordejr into Lebanon and ■ joined with rebellious tribesmen, stirred up by inflammatory broadcasts from Radio Cairo and Radio Damascus. A dispatch from Washington said Lebanon had asked the U. S. government for a shipment of tanks The State Department was reported studying the request. Informed sources said Premier Sami el Solh would demand that Parliament give him a confidence vote today on a request for extraordinary powers to cope with the rebellion. - Government sources said the army had seized most of the territory captured by the rebels but strong measures still were needed to prevent the overthrow of President Camille Chamoun’s proWestern government. Chamoun’s position received support Wednesday by the U. S. decision to send anti-riot equipment to Beirut and dispatch a task force of 12 amphibious ships to eastern Mediterranean ready positions where they will be avail- . able for action if needed. Most of the Americans who fled to Beirut were Presbyterian mis- [ sionaries and teachers in small schools in the countrysde or in , American boys and girls schools ’ and the U. S. Hospital in nearby ’ Tripoli. ; Dr. Cravens Speaks ; At Rotary Meeting Improved Feeding Os Turkeys Shown Dr. W. W. Cravens, director of feed research and nutrition at the McMillen Feed Mills, was the guest speaker at Thursday night’s weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club at the Decatur Youth and Community - Center. Richard Childs was program chairman. Dr. Cravens showed the club two live turkeys, both four I weeks old, but on different feeds. > One of the birds was fed as turi keys were fed about 50 years ago. 1 The other has been on a modern ■ balanced ration. The effects were I most dramatic. The bird on the modern ration weighed between • three and four times as much as J the bird fed as was common praci tice only a few years ago. f Vitamins, especially B-12, A, riboflavin, and niacin, along I with antibiotics and amino acids i have greatly improved the nutri- ■ tion of the turkeys and have i greatly reduced mortality. In 1930, it took 30 weeks and 130 I pounds of feed to make a mature s bird. In 1958, it takes only 24 ; weeks and 42 pounds of feed. The turkey population on AmerI ican farms has doubled from 1950 to 1957. In 1930, America’s per I capita turkey consumption was ■ about two pounds. Today it is at s eight pounds. But the cost per : pound to the consumer has steadl ily declined and new packaging > and attractive merchandising has ■ made turkey an increasingly popular item in the American ! diet. President Robert Smith announci ed that next week’s meeting has (Continued on Page sight)

Awarded Grant te 1 •'" Au A Harry D. Dailey Grant Is Awarded To Decatur Teacher Harry D. Dailey To Attend Institute Harry D. Dailey, Decatur high school instructor, has been awarded a special grant from the national science foundation to attend the summer institute in physics at the University of Idaho, Hugh J. Andrews, principal of Decatur high school, announced today. This Is Dailey’s second grant in two years. Last year he attended the science foundation’s summer institute in chemistry at Colorado College. Dailey has been teaching science and mathematics courses at Decatur high school for 23 years, At the present time he has classes in physics, chemistry, trigonometry, solid geometry, and second year algebra. The purpose of the institute is to create a greater interest in science careers by improving teaching in these fields in high schools. Daily will take three courses: physics for high school teachers, analytical mechanics, and a seminar in physics. He will be accomanied on the trip by his wife and son. The institute starts June 16 and ends August 8. The University of Idaho is located at Moscow, Idaho, in the northern panhandle district of that state. A graduate of Indiana University, Dailey also holds a master’s degree from that institution. Child Fatally Hurt In Fall From Auto CLINTON, Ind. (ffl — Marilyn Bapp, 3, Clinton, died in Vermillion County hospital less than an hour after she fell from her father’s car on a county road ' south of here Thursday night. Carl Bapp, the father, told authorities the child opened the front door of the car and toppled to the pavement before he could grab her. Husband Os Former Decatur Lady Dies Walter L. Plew, 73, prominent retired businessman of Des Plaines, 111., died Thursday afternoon in that city following an extended illness. Survivors include his wife, the former Emma Hoffman, a native of Adams county and former Decatur resident; one daughter and four grandchildren. A son was killed in an airplane crash during World War 11. Mrs. Plew is a sister of Mrs. Eugene Runyon of Decatur. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Saturday with a few isolated afternoon and evening thundershowers likely south portion. Warmer most sections Saturday. Low tonight 48 to 58 north, 58 to 64 south. High Saturday in the 80s. Sunset today 7:53 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 5:29 a. * m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and turning cooler north with scattered showers and thunderstorms spreading southward over state. Low Saturday night 50s north to 60s south. High Sunday 70s north to upper 80s south.

Nation Panicky As Fears Mount Os Revolution Government Seeks To Defeat de Gaulle In Bid For Powers bulletin PARIS <W — The French National Assembly gave Premier Pierre Pflimlin’s government a grant of sweeping emergency powers today to head off a new bid for power by Gen. Charles de Gaulle or a Communist uprising. — PARIS (UP)—The government acted with almost frantic haste today to beat back Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s new bid for power. The nation verged on civil war in a tense setting that already has developed violence. Premier Pierre Pflimlin demanded that the National Assembly give him sweeping powers under a three-month state of emergency “to save the republic.’’ But, with the possibility the army in France might join the army in Algeria in rebellion against the authority of Paris, there was no guarantee he could enforce the emergency powers if he got them. A bomb damaged Pflimlin’s country residence at Henday, and two more bombs were found in the Interior and Economic Ministry buildings in Paris. The bombs in Paris did not go off. Pflimlin himself was in Paris when the Hendaye blast was set off- ~ Strict security precautions were in effect, with thousands of extra police posted at key points. A crack armored unit was alerted to move into Paris at once. Paris Is Panicky Reliable sources said the Surete Nationale — France’s FBI — has picked up a number of civilians and army officers for “interrogation” under powers to be formalized in the new emergency f bi. De Glaule himself was at his* t country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises under the watchful . eyes of a company of gendarmes. ; But In Paris Gaullist deputy Jean Lipkowski indicated the general would not seek a return to power through force. During the debate on Pflimlin’s bill, Lipkowski told the deputies he had seen De Gaulle this morning. Then he electrified the as--1 sembly by stating: “We shall know shortly that the 1 general will place himself at France’s service only within the absolute framework of republican legality.” The nation was panicky, fearful of a coup d’etat that would overthrow the Fourth Republic and make De Gaulle the supreme leader backed by France’s 400,-000-man Algerian army. Paris was an armed camp, with heavily armed troops patrolling the streets, concentrated around the government buildings and the National Assembly. Armored regiments were alerted in the urbsTrouble already was flaring. Police said today they found two bombs hidden in two French ministry buildings but removed them before they exploded. The bombs, one at the Ministry of the Interior Annex and the other at the Ministry of Economic Affairs, were discovered aboift 6 a m. Groups Banned The government meanwhile cracked down on four dissident organizations — the ultra-nation-alist “National Action Front,” the “Young Nation Movement,” the “French Ph’alanx Movement” and the “Revolutionary Patriot Party.” Orders for immediate dissolution of the four groups, which have led many right-wing demonstrations, appeared this morning in the government’s official journal. France’s two greatest allies—the United States and Britain—were openly alarmed. De Gaulle has been anti-NATO in the past and his return to power could shake that defense organization to its foundations. , j (Continued on page three)

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