Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 144, Decatur, Adams County, 19 June 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 144

~ ' -q- | I nsr-x. ■ ■ <.? ■ r • *<'- "• _ _ 1 w- ■'**b ' jtiyv; -- zsa FI.ASH FLOODS STRIKE TEXAS AREA— Cloudbursts upstream on Seco Creek, southwest of San Antonio near D'Hanis, Texas, transform the usually peaceful stream into a raging torrent which rips at telephone poles and railroad bridge supports. Two men (upper ‘ right) survey the rising waters as they hurry across the bridge.

Reject Cut In Corporation, Excise Taxes Senate Expected To Complete Action On Tax Extension Soon WASHINGTON (UPD-The Senate was expected to complete action today on a bill to extend present corporation and excise tax rates for another year. The administration and top Democratic leaders in Congress have agreed taxes should not be cut. The measure is expected to win Senate approval. In the face of such opposition. Sen. George A. Smathers D-Fla.) all but conceded defeat for his effort to amend the bill in order to repeal federal freight and passenger taxes. Smathers, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, wanted to end the wartime transportation levies to help the nation's hardpressed railroads. But he said his drive appeared to be ‘‘in great danger.’’ Other congressional d e v eI o pments: * Taxes: The Senate backed jpresident Eisenhower’s no-tax-cut policy by rejecting 65 to 23 a proposal to reduce personal, excise and corporation taxes by six billion dollars. Foreign Aid: House-Senate confereees completed a bill authorizing 3,675,000,000 in foreign aid funds for the fiscal year starting July 1. Rivers and Harbors: The House passed a 1,555,746.000 revised version of the river and harbors bill which President Eisenhower vetoed two months ago. Defense: Sens. Margaret Chase ’ ,Smith R-Maine) and Henry M. Jackson D-Wash.) charged the administration’s drive to reorganize the Defense Department already has deprived members of Congress of information they wanted from the se.parate services. „ , Labor: Speaker Sam Rayburn said House leaders will press for passage of the Senate’s moderate labor reform bill but declined to comment on chances of passage. Prospects were not too bright. Statehood: The House Interior Committee voted to delay action on the Hawaii statehood bill. Heart Operation Is Termed Successful Heart surgery that began Tuesday morning at 8:45 ended successfully about 2 o’clock that rfternoon for Aaron Yoder, of iyecatur. According to doctors, Yoder should have a sound heart and should be able to lead a normal life. For several days, however, all patients undergoing such surgery are placed on the Robert Long hospital’s critical list, as the crisis lasts 48 hours. Wednesday he was still receiving normalsaline, at salt solu- ) tion, and plasma. Mrs. ‘ Yoder ' and relatives who traveled to Robert Long hospital for the operation returned also to Decatur and Berne, as visitors will not be permitted for a“ while. Relatives were able to step into his room shortly after he returned from the recovery room, at 6 t>. m.; he knew them then and called them by name. Seven doctors, and several nurses assisted in surgery. For some time after the operation, two special nurses will be required to attend him.

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Wheat Farmers Vote Friday On Controls 38 States Conduct Referendum Friday WASHINGTON UPD — Wheat farmers in 38 states will vote Friday in a national referendum to determine whether their 1959 crop shall be under rigid government marketing controls for the sixth consecutive year. The Agriculture Department, as usual, has taken no stand for or against controls for the 1959 crop. The department holds it is strictly up to farmers to decide. Officials are confident, however, of a total vote endorsing controls. From 900,000 to one million farmers are eligible to vote in the polling booths set up and supervised by county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation offices throughout the commercial wheat area. Based on past performance, probably fewer than 250,000 will vote. A majority of two-thirds of those voting must approve quotas before they con become effective for the 1959 season. Heretofore farmers have approved quotas handily for the five preceding seasons. Only four states—New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia—failed to approve quotas for the 1958 crop by a two-thirds majority. Os these only Ohio is a major wheat-producing state. Such big wheat states as Kansas, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Texas and Oklhoma racked U£ whopping majorities for quotas for the 1958 crop. Eligible voters are growers who will have more than "15 acres of wheat for harvest as grain in 1959 in any one of the 38 commercial wheat states. Excluded are producers who signed applications under the feed wheat provisions permitting them to grow as much as 30 acres for use as feed on the farm for 1958. If quotas are approved, producers in commercial wheat states who stay within their acreage allotment will be eligible for the full level of price support of sl.Bl a bushel on their entire production. Any “excess” wheat — that grown on acreage exceeding farm allotments—will be subejct to quota penalties of 45 per cent of the May 1, 1959, parity rate. Additionally anyone exceeding acreage allotments will not be eligible for price suport. If quotas are nqt approved there will be no marketing quota penalties. Acreage allotments will remain in effect by law and price support will drop to 50 per cent of parity for producers who stay within their acreage allotments. Department officials have estimated 50 per cent of parity for the 1959 crop will be about $1.20 a bushel. There is a record wheat supply in prospect. There is a possibility the wheat carryover on July 1, 1959, will be equal to a whole (Continued on Page Seven) INDIANA WEATHER Showers and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight with locally heavy amounts likely south portion. Warmer tonight. Friday showers continuing most sections except ending and turning cooler northwest portion Friday afternoon. Low tonight in the 60s. High Friday 75 to 85. Sunset today 8:16 p. m. Sunrise Friday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair or partly cloudy and cooler north and west. Clearing and turning cooler southeast. Lows Friday night 50s north, 60s south. Highs Saturday in 70s. 12 Pages

Republicans In More Demands Adams Resign Senator Knowland Suggests Ike Study Adams' Usefulness WASHINGTON UPD — Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said today President Eisenhower should “carefully weigh” whether Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams has “hurt his usefulness” by taking gifts from Bernard Goldfine. The Californian made this observation at a news conference as new demands came from Republican members of Congress for Adams’ resignation. Knowland, who is running for governor of California, did not go that far. Asked if he thought Adams should quit, he said: “I think this is something which the President and Governor Adams should carefully weigh as to whether Adams has so hurt his usefullness that it might be harmful to the broad policies which the President must carry out in the remaining two years of his administration.” GOP Leaders Meet Knowland said he had "no way of knowing what effect if any” the Adams situation would have on the Republican Party’s chances in the November election. "But I doubt if it would help any,” he said. Rep. Peter F. Mack Jr. D-Ill.) demanded that the Justice Department investigate the presidential aide s relations with Goldfine. The department said it had ao comment on Mack’s statement. Eisenhower spent an hour and 20 minutes with 43 Republican state chairmen and other party leaders, many of whom are concerned about the political effect of the Adams disclosures. But those at the meeting reported he said nothing about his aide and none of the leaders asked him any ’questions on the subject. Mack, a member of the subcommittee investigating Adams and Goldfine, said the Justice Department "should interest itself in the case immediately.” Simultaneously it was learned House staff investigators would like to see Goldfine’s tax returns to find out if he claimed lousiness deducations for gifts to Presidential Assistant Adams and others. Adams has described the gifts as family exchange. It was not know whether the investigators have taken formal steps to seek Goldfine’s tax files. President Eisenhower said he would have to consult Attorney General William P. Rogers before deciding whether to make them available if they were requested. Pros and Cons Are Forming Meanwhile battle lines for and against Eisenhower’s controversial “chief of staff” were forming —not all along party lines. State Republican leaders in New Hampshire, Adams’ home, state, issued a declaration of support for him Wednesday night, asserting he had not “sold his sould for a coat or a rug.” Democratic National Chairman Paul. M. Butler demanded that Adams resign. In Washington three members of the House subcommittee investigating the Adams-Goldfine case again said Adams should resign despite the President’s strong support for him Wednesday. They were Democratic Reps. Mack, John Bell Williams Miss, and GOP Rep. John B. Bennett (Mich.). - ” (Continued on Page Seven) ,

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 19, 1958

Says Payoff To State Officials Is Accepted Practice In Indiana

Report Russia Plans Move On Marshal Tito Communist Party Leaders Reported Meeting In Moscow LONDON UPD Leaders of the Soviet Communist Party were reported meeting in Moscow to plan drastic moves against Marshal Tito and any “deviationists” who might follow the path of executed Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy. Execution of the leaders of Hungary’s anti-Communist revolution brought new and angry repercussions throughout the world. There were riots and protests marches to European cities, condemnation by free nations and shock in neutralist India. Students in Bern, Switzerland, staged a two-hour torchlight parade through the capital Wednesday night. Norwegian students demonstrated in front of the Russian .Embassy and Hungarian Legation in Oslo. The Hungarian Students Union called for a protest march in London today. Heralded by Red China Only Communist China referred to the Nagy execution as "welcome news." It coupled this announcement with one of its most savage attacks yet on Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia — certain to be one of the main topics of discussion at the Moscow meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Authoritative reports reaching London said the execution of Nagy was closely connected with the Moscow reported Communist meeting on Tito who has defied the Kremlin with his own brand of “independent Communism.” Yugoslavia has denounced the Nagy execution as a gigantic doublecrpss. Announcement of the death of Nagy and three co-patriots in Hungary’s abortive fight for freedom was generally believed to herald the revival of the Stalinist purges at their worst. Poles Watch Poles were watching closely the reported Moscow meeting. A United Press International dispatch from Warsaw today said the Nagy execution had brought Poland to its most perilous position since Poland’s own limited rebellion in October, 1956. Reports reaching Vienna from. Budapest said the Communist authorities there had imposed iron security measures to prevent (Continued on Pa.ge Seven) Charges Are Filed In Theft Os Auto Charges Filed In Jay Circuit Court Charges were filed in Jay circuit court against Virgil Hurt, Portland, early this week, it was learned here today. Hurt was arrested by the Adam’s county sheriff’s department near Salem Sunday, near the vicinity of the wrecked car found in that area. The car proved to be stolen from Portland, shortly after the man was arrested. The charges filed against Hurt stem from the alleged theft of a car owned by EYerett Evans, Portland. Hurt allegedly stole the car, and wrecked it near Salem, Sunday. The vehicle had the windows broken and the seat slashed, when the Adams county sheriff’s department arrived at the scene. Hurt was arrested in the vicinity of the wreck several hours after the accident. . Charges against Joe Deaton, Jr., Dayton, 0., were dismissed. He is an uncle of Virgil Hurt Another member of the Hurt family, John Hurt Jr., brother of Virgil, had his probation revoked in Wells circuit court Tuesday, and will begin serving a 1 to 10 year sentence in an Indiana institution.

Vincennes Waiting Out River's Crest Levees Fail Above City On Wednesday By United Press International Vincennes today waited out a 27 to 27%-foot Wabash River crest, due Friday, confident that a protective wall which has held the stream at a 29-foot level would keep the city from danger again this time. The flooded Wabash was falling all the way down to Knox County but rose to 24.57 feet at Vincennes this morning with the crest only a day away. Several levees failed Wednesday above Vincennes, relieving the pressure on the Vincennes side but flood 33,000 acres of Illinois farmland. The levee failed in floods of 1943 and 1950, when crests occurred 1 to IVz feet higher than presently indicated. Meanwhile, in Washington, the Small Business Administration moved to relieve economic disaster in the Indiana flood zone by declaring 11 Hoosier counties as flood disaster areas, enabling loans at 3 per cent interest for home and business repairs and Reconstruction in Miami, Grant, Parke, Tippecanoe, Vigo, Vermilion, Wabash,- Fountain, Warren, Hamilton and Madison Counties. Also in Washington, the Senate ipd House passed rivers and harBors bills Tuesday night and Wednesday, both of which included an upper Wabash River flood control reservoir project which would alleviate overflow conditions in future years. A little more rain fell in Indiana Wednesday and today, but not enough to affect the swollen streams. Indianapolis, South Bend, Lafayette and Evansvile all got rain, but measurements were mostly a tenth of an inch or less. Additional scattered thundershowers were expected today, tonight, Friday and Saturday, the weather forecasts said. Temperatures, meanwhile, stayed on the mild side, with highs Wednesday ranging from 73 at South Bend to 79 at Evansville, and lows this morning from 58 upstate to 65 downstate. Highs today will range from 75 to around 80, lows tonight from 48 to the low 60s, and highs Friday from 73 to 83. A cooler trend was due Saturday. Contingent Sent By Selective Service 26 Young Men Go To Indianapolis Today Twenty-six Adams county young men were sent to Indianapolis this morning by the local selective service board. Six were sent for active induction into the armed services, seven conscientious objectors were sent for physical examinations, and 13 will undergo physical examinations prior to active induction. The six who were sent for induction were: Giuseppe Bonofiglio, Robert Allen Penrod, Willis Glenn Nussbaum, Donald Sylvester Shaffer, Charles Herman Schlemmer, and John Alden Stucky. Members of the contingent undergoing physical examinations include: Donald Dale Graber, Kenneth Marion Frank, George Fredrick 1 Cook, Teddy Eugene Swoveland, Kent Vincent Schindler, James Oswald Lehman, Carl Lee Bluhm, Carl Robert Becker, Robert Charles Hofstetter, Richard Dean Longenberger, David Lester Robinson, Marion Edwin Bixler, and James Edward Herman. The conscientious objectors were: Enos D. J. Schwart, Curtis Van Wulliman, Tobe M. Schwartzentruber, Joe H. H. Schwartz, Alvin O. Schwartz, David Charles Liby, and Roman D. Schwartz. Theodore William Pyles has transferred to the local board from Galesburg. 111. Two men transfer-, red from this board to other boards are John Walter Bilderback to local board 113 at Akron, 0., and Lawrence Farlow, to local board 82 located at Owosso, Mich.

British Offer Limited Self Rule To Cyprus Invite Greece And Turkey Participate In Running Island LONDON (UPD—Britain offered Cyprus limited internal self-gov-ernment for seven years today and invited Greece and Turkey to participate in running the island. The effer was announced by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in a statement to the House of Commons. It had been delayed 48 hours while the North Atlantic Council in Paris made feverish 11th hour efforts to win the support of Greece and Turkey. Both were informed of the plan last week but rejected it. The plan included these main provisions: —The present international status of the island will remain unchanged for seven years. —The island will have a system of representative government, with the Greek and Turkish communities each exercising autonomy over its own affairs. —There will be a separate House of Representatives for each of the two communities. —lnternal administration, aside from communal affairs and internal security, will be handled by a council presided over by the governor. Greece and Turkey each will be invited to appoint a representative to cooperate with the governor. —The governor will have reserve powers to insure that interests of both communities are protected. Macmillan said external affairs, defense and internal security will be matters specifically reserved to the governor, acting after consultation with the representatives of the Greek and Turkish governments. The prime minister called ’ for an end to the violence which has racked the island for more than three years and resulted in the deaths of more than 300 Cypriots and British. He said if violence is halted, the British government would relax progressively the present emergency regulations and gradually efid the state of emergency. Swimming Friday For Girl Scouts, Brownies Girl Scouts and Brownies will have a swim Friday morning at the pool. Buses will pick up the girls as usual. They are asked to bring nosebag lunches. Mrs. Waldo Barkley Dies Last Evening Monroeville Lady Is Taken By Death Mrs. Dottie Barkley, 68, of Monroeville, died at 8:10 o'clock Wednesday evening at the Adams county memorial hospital after a lengthy illness. She was a lifelong resident of Monroeville and a member of the East Liberty Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are her husband, Waldo Barkley: one son, Richard Barkley of Monroeville; one daughter, Mrs. Chester Bowen of Monroeville; six grandchildren; two brothers, Frank Murchland and Guy Murchland, both of Monroeville, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Girardot of Decatur, and Mrs. Mildred Machon of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at the East Liberty E. U. B. church, the Rev. Joe Bear officiating. Burial will be in the Monroeville IOOF cemetery- Friends may call at the Marquart funeral home in Monroeville after 3:30 p. m. Friday.

Bontrager Deplores Hasty Court Action „ To Await Decision Os Supreme Court INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — State Sen. ,D. Russell Bontrager of Elkhart, adopted a “wait and see” altitude today on the “haste” of the Indiana Supreme Court in asserting jurisdiction in a dispute over the eligibility of Governor Handley to run for the U.S. Senate. Bontrager, .a rival of Handley for the Republican nomination, said he refused to press for a court ruling on the matter earlier, because “such action might be considered legal trickery, and I did not wish to use the courts in , an attempt to gain political ad- , vantage.” “I am dismayed, however, at the haste at which the Indiana , Supreme Court is seeking to pass on the ‘friendly’ suit now pending,” Bontrager said. The high court Wednesday granted a temporary writ stopping Marion Superior Judge John M. Ryan from acting in a suit filed by a man who said as a friend of Handley he wanted to clarify the governor’s legal right to seek the nomination. Handley backerp decided they didn’t want Ryan to hear the suit, after “anti-Handley” delegates asked to take part In the hearings. The Handley groupj sought and received a-writ from the Supreme Court stopping Ryan at least temporarily. “I know of no instance when the court has granted as little as five days for a respondent judge in a writ of prohibition to appear to show cause when the writ should not be made permanent,” said Bontrager. Bontrager said those bringing the suit “have had ample time since the primary of May 6 to file .. . ooviating such haste today.” “Nevertheless, I shall await the decision of the high court in accordance with our American system of government and jurisprudence,” said Bontrager. Maid Charged With Kidnaping Os Child Denies Being Hired By Wealthy Family TORONTO UPD—Three Montreal detectives were scheduled to fly here today to serve a warrant bn Mrs. Margreta Goede, 46, charging her with the kidnaping of Joel Reitman, 2%-year-old heir to a clothing chain store fortune. The blonde, neatly dress suspect emigrated to Canada from Germany in 1954. Detectives said Mrs. Goede, who worked as a waitress, maid and housekeeper in various parts of Western Canada arrived in Montreal June 2 and was given two names the following day from the Unemployment Insurance Commission as possible employers. One of the names was Cyril Reitman and police said she was hired there immediately when she applied for a job. Mrs. Reitman, whose father-in-law heads a chain of ladies wear clothing stores, described Mrs. Goede as a tremendous maid and as fond of her son, Joel, as •he was of her. However, last Saturday while (Continued on page five) County Council Will Meet Here June 30 The county council will be called June 30 at 9 a.m. to consider the additional appropriations totaling which the board of commissioners consider necessary to meet the extraordinary emergency existing at this time which not included in the current budget. Taxpayers may appear at this meeting and shall have the right' to be heard on the necessity for such emergency appropriation. Any emergency appropriations finally determined upon, will be automatically referred, to the state board of tax commissioners.

Mogilner Says Payoff To Stale Officials Usual Defense Attorney Seeks To Discredit Mogilner Testimony INDIANAPOLIS UPD — Salesman Arthur J. Mogilner testified today that it was a “more'or less accepted practice” for persons selling equipment to the State of Indiana to pay off state officials. Mogilner also testified that it was known generally that “various officials were making money on the side”” and that "it' was pretty well known that in order to do any business with the State of Indiana you had to work with Sherwood and Sayer.” He referred to former Indiana Ad. Gen. Elmer W. Doc) Sherwood, and William E. Sayer, former aid to ex-Gov. George N. 7 Craig. Sherwood and Sayer are on trial for bribery‘in the Indiana highway scandals. Mogilner made the statements in relating in detail a meeting he said he had in a plush Miami Beach, Fla., hotel in 1956 with Herbert Karroll, whom he identified as a Chicago salesman who sold dry goods to Indiana and other states. The two salesmen discussed payoffs, Mogilner said, and Karroll told him Mogilner's method of paying off was dangerous. He quoted Karroll as saying he paid off with money set aside for “travel and entertainment” which could not be traced for tax purposes. Judge Orders Answers Mogilner gave the testimony about Karroll reluctantly. First, he asked Special Judge Thomas E. Garvin if he had to. Garvin said yes. " Mogilner also testified that he once took William Clarkson, a political and American Legion friend of Craig, on a trip to Florida "to pay him back for his various efforts he extended” in Mogilner’s $1,600,000 business deal with the state. J . "Mr. Clarkson had been more than helpful to all of us concerned,” Mogilner said on crossexamination'in the Indiana highway bribery trial of former Indiana Ad. Gen. Elmer W. Sherwood and William E- Sayer. “I felt that I ought to take him on a trip to Florida.” Clarkson was director of public works and supply, a Statehouse office to which he said appointed by Craig, at the time of the alleged trip. Defense attorney James Rocap Jr. also brought out i* crossexamination an admission from Mogilner that he gave money to former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith and Cecil McDonough, a highway department subordinate, after they had solicited payoffs. Rocap apparently was trying to show that payments were solicitations rather than bribes. Admits Testimony Error Rocap also got Mogilner to admit that he may have erred in previous direct examination testimony that a secret meeting in a boat off Sebring Shores, Fla., occurred the day Mogilner took Clarkson to Florida. Mogilner said under Rocap’s prodding that (OouunuM on Pare Seven.) Local Tavern Owner Dies Last Evening Alphone H. (Ben) Ball, 48, of Auburn. owner of the Victory Bar in Decatur, died Wednesday night in the Sanders hospital in Auburn after a month’s illness of pneumonia. Surviving are the widow, Edna; three brothers, Walter and Edmund Ball of Auburn, and Clarence Ball of Adrian, Mich., and five sisters, the Misses Agnes and Elnora Ball and Mrs. Rachel McDaniel of Auburn, Mrs. Mary Penrod of Williamsburg, Pa., and Mrs. Helene White of Fort Wayne. The body was taken to the Dilgard & Cline funeral home in Auburn pending completion of funeral arrangements. ' t "

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