Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 151, Decatur, Adams County, 27 June 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 151

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BULLETIN | INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Handley was nominated by Indiana Republican State Convention delegates today tor the U. S. Senate. He defeated State Sen. D. Russell Bontrager of Elkhart, 1,967 to 668. INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Sen. William E. Jenner made a slashing oratorical attack on Evansville Mayor R. Vance Hartke today in a keynote speech at the Indiana Republican State Convention, and delegates began voting in a contest to decide whether Governor Handley shall oppose Hartke next fall for Jenner's seat in the U.S. Senate. Voting on the battle between Handley and State Sen. D. Russell Bontrager, only race which shaped up for 11 state ticket nominations, began at 12:55 p.m., after 2>-i hours of preliminaries which included adoption of a party platform and nomination by acclamation of unopposed candidates for 10 offices. Jenner stirred some life into an otherwise dull, drab convention by branding Hartke an “errand boy and Charlie McCarthy for Walter Reuther" and saying Hartke will get “a terrific vote in Evansville because they want to get rid of him as mayor.” Hartke made similar attacks on Jenner in 1957 while campaigning for the senatorial nomination. “We have had our scandals in Washington and Indiana,” Jenner said. “But it would be ludicrous to see ‘Vanderburgh Vance’ on a white horse trying to clean up when he cannot even see gambling in the shadow of his own city hall.” Opens 26 Minutes Late Jenner said Hartke is “spoon fed by doctrines of the New Dealers” and believes in “dictatorship by the labor goons.” The convention opened 26 minutes late, at 10:26 a.m., shortly after Jenner told newsmen emphatically that he would not be drafted for the U.S. senatorial nomination, a spot expected to be won by his protege, 'Governor Handley, in a lopsided contest with State Sen. D. Russell Bontrager. Jenner said the Hoosier “right to work” law assures working men and women they will have no money taken from their pay checks against their will “to buy expensive houses or trips to Miami for grafters in union offices.” GOP State Chairman Robert W. Matthews also provided gist for the oratorical mill. He ridiculed the Democratic state platform, calling it a “socialistic Reuther (Contlm 1 *! on page five) To File Claims With County By June 30 A reminder that all claims against the county must be filed by June 30 with the county commissioners for distribution, was announced today. The commissioners k*>nr. sider the claims at the scheduled meeting July 7 at the auditor’s office. A legal notice will appear in> this paper July 2, listing the claims.

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All-Out Rebel Attack Feared Against Beirut Report Continuing Clashes With Rebels In City Os Tripoli BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD — Heavily-armed government troops manned barricades in Beirut today in anticipation of a possible all-out rebel attack expected to conicide with the opening of the Aid Al Adha Moslem feast. There were fragmentary reports of continuing clashes between rebels and pro-government forces in the port city of Tripoli. The fighting erupted Thursday and was said to have continued through the night. At least six persons were reported killed there Thursday. In Beirut, the t traditional earlymorning processions to the mosques were canceled in the wake of the heavy fighting Thursday night. Fears Expressed The fighting in Beirut was the heaviest in two weeks. Government sources expressed apprehnsion that it signaled the beginning of an all-out rebel attempt to oust the pro-Western government of President Camille Chamoun before the United Nations could act. The U.S. Embassy warned all Americans in Beirut to stay off the streets today because of “possible adverse developments . . . ’* This morning the streets of the capital city were deserted. The heaviest fighting Thursday centered around Riad El Solh Square, which rebel gunmen tried to cross into the city center. Army forces brought in armored cars and tanks to spray the streets and surrounding buildings with 75-mm gunfire. In other parts of the city armored cars set up roving patrols, sweeping buildings with searchlights for rebel snipers. Bursts of automatic weapons and machine gun fire echoed through the dark empty streets about an hour before midnight, in the wake of a series of heavy explosions apparently caused by bombs. Expect Offensive Top military commanders at Britain’s Middle East headquarters on Cyprus also expressed belief that an all-out offensive by the rebels is imminent. They believed that the pro-government forces were not strong enough to repel such an attack but refused to speculate on possible military intervention. , Britain recently flew in some 6,000 troop reinforcements, ostensibly for internal security duty. However, the troops have not yet been assigned to such tasks. The Lebanese government is 1 known to believe that an international police force is necessary (Continued on Page eight)

•"I - Doc Sherwood ; Testifies In Own Defense Denies Mogilner's Charges Os Telling Contract Kickbacks INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Former Indiana Adj. Gen. Elmer W. (Doc) Sherwood today denied on ■ the witness stand in his Indiana highway scandal bribery trial that salesman Arthur J. Mogilner ever told him Mogilner was giving kickbacks on equipment contracts to former state highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith. Sherwood began to testify in his own defense in late morning in what may be the last stages of the trial of Sherwood and William E. Sayer on charges they conspired with Mogilner to bribe Smith with more than $40,000 to throw $1,600,000 worth of business to Mogilner. Mogilner previously testified he told Sherwood he was paying off Smith and Cecil McDonough, a highway department employe, with $2,000 each in connection with sale of “Gio,” an engine additive, and that he planned to give Smith one-third of his profits on the sale of heavy equipment. ‘"Die conversation never took place,” Sherwood said. Tried To Extort? Earlier, Sayer charged publicly for the first time that Mogilner tried to extort money—perhaps as much -as s9o,ooo—from Sayer, Sherwood and Smith. Sayer, former administrative assistant to ex-Gov. George N. Craig, ended cross-examination testimony at hla* trial late this morning, and co-defendant Elmer W. Sherwood took the stand for the first time. In previous testimony, Sayer had mentioned that Mogilner tried to get $25,000 from Sherwood and Sayer for attorney fees, SIO,OOO from them to negotiate a suspended sentence, and $50,000 or $60,000 from former highway chairman Virgil (Red). Smith so the scandals blew over. But today, Sayer said Mogilner issued at various times implied threats that if he did not get the money from the three men, he would lie about them on the witness stand. Didn’t Knew Products Sayer also admitted he didn’t even know some of the brand names of products Mogilner was selling to the state and paying Sayer and Sherwood large sums for public relations to help him with his sales. Asked by Deputy Prosecutor Leßoy New why Mogilner should pay out such sums for so little help, Sayer replied: “I’ve wondered that myself, Mr. New.” Describes New Silos Al Central Soya Co. Ken Robertson Is Speaker At Rotary Ken Robertson, chief engineer of the Central Soya Co., was the guest speaker at Thursday night’s meeting of the Decatur Rotary club at the Youth a n d Community Center. He described the new silos now under construction at the Decatur plant. Dick Childs, general program chairman for the Rotary year now closing, was last night s program chairman. Robert Smith presided. Robertson, a native of Minnesota who joined Central Soya in 1955, used a large blackboard to sketch the silo design. The present storage capacity of about 8% million bushels will be increased to a total of over 14 million. The new silos will be built in two groups of six silos each. Each will be 80 feet in diameter as compared to the 26-foot measurement of the present structures. Each will hold 445,000 bushels instead of the 50,000 bushels in the smaller present silos. Pilings driven down about 20 feet to bed rock by unique diesel hammers are rated to support 70 tons each. About 15,000 cubic yards of cement will be used. Once the footings are completed and the slip forms ready to go, the silos .will rise their full 110 feet in about six to seven days, depending on weather conditions. Work will continue on a 24-hour basis. The spider-type roofs will be in place on the forms before they begin their rise upward. The Christ Jensen company has the general contract. The local plant processes about 18 million tons of soybeans annually. Adams county plants about 40,000 acres of beans and harvests about one million bushels. , . (Continued on page Hve)

Decatur, Indiana. Friday, June 27, 1958

All Aboard Giant Jet < Plane Are Killed Today In Crash After Takeoff

Adams Denies Home Bought By Goldfine Fox Swears Goldfine Bought Washington House For Adams WASHINGTON (UPD - John Fox swore today that millionaire Bernard Goldfine told him he had “bought a house in Washington” for Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. Adams denied the statement immediately. Fox also testified Adams’ friend Goldfine, a New England textile manufacturer, once offered a vicuna coat to the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) and told McCarthy, “I buy vicuna coats tor all the senators.” But he added that “Mr. Goldfine often talked a good bit bigger than the facts warranted.” The witness said Goldfine! claimed to have sent “cash and! checks regularly” to Adams to help his children before the fem-l ily came to Washington. Fox had] given similar testimony Thursday, and Adams denounced it as untrue. Adams has conceded he accept- & nied allegations that in return he helped Goldfine in his numerous difficulties with regulatory agencies of the federal government. (Continued on Page eight) Democrats In Meet Here Last Evening Optimism Voiced On Fall Election Democratic precinct committeemen, county candidates, and other Democrats appeared jubilant and optimistic over chances for statewide success in the coming fall diction at their meeting Thursday night in the circuit court room,_~ A campaign of personal contact will be launched to help elect Vance Hartke U.S. Senator. Hartke had met and talked with many party leaders early this year at an Allen county young Democrat meeting. ’file party planned on a strong fall campaign, with the organization split into two sections. July 8, the northern precincts will meet in the court room at 8 p.m. The south section will meet in Berne at 8 p.m. July 10. Any interested party missing one meeting ma yattend the other. “These are the first of a series of county meetings to drum, up enthusiasm and by personal contact let the people of the county know what a fine candidate Vance Hartke is.” Dr. Harry Hebble, county chairman, stated. Staley Is Delegate To Legion Convention James K. Staley, prominent Decatur Legionnaire, was elected a delegate to the national convention of the American Legion at a fourth district meeting of the veterans’ organization Thursday evening at Ft. Wayne. The convention will open Labor Day in Chicago. Melvin H. Heckman was elected district commander last night, succeeding Robert Keyes. Other conveniton delegates are Robert J. Gaskill, Sr., Arthur W. Wilkie. Robert Efritz, Harnold Knoblauch, Robert E. Erdman, Arthur Goeglein, John McKeeman and Harold Cook. INDIANA WEATHER Fair this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Warmer Saturday. Low tonight In the 50s. High Saturday in the 80s. Sunset today 8:17 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:19 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and warmer. Low Saturday night around 60. High Sunday high 80s.

Exchange Students In City Next Week 68 Foreign Pupils jTo Visit Decatur Two buses of American Field Service foreign exchange students will arrive in Decatur for three days Wednesday. There will be 68 students on the.se buses, representing 29 countries. All of the students have spent the past school year with an American family in the Minnesota and lowa areas. They are part of 1032 students who came from Europe, Central and South -America, the Near and Far East under the auspices of AFS to live with an American family while attending their senior year [in a U. S. high school. The teenagers will arrive in Decatur late Wednesday afternoon and will spend the evening with the families they will be staying with while in Decatur. Thursday morning the young people will tour one of the local I industries, followed by a picnic lat Hanna-Nuttman park sponsorfed by the Boy and Girl Scouts. Bln the afternoon, the group will Etour other industries and points lof interest. Thursday evening Ithe group will be guests of the tlocal Rotary club at the annual iryytanation of officers banquet , iSt the Decatur Youth and ComCenter. Following the . banquet, a dance will be 1 held in hcnor of the exchange students from 9 to 12 midnight. Everyone is welcome to attend. The dance music will be provided by a local group, known as. “The Tempo’s.” The 20-piece orchestra is sponsored by the Decatur Music House, and is directed by Jim Webb. The musicians will be paid on this occasion by a grant from the Recording Industries, with the cooperation of Local 607 of the American Federation of Musicians. The students will leave Decatur early Friday morning for Alliance, 0., their next scheduled stop. They will depart from the Decatur youth center. Their stay in Decatur is part of a three week bus tour which (Continued on page five) 375 Persons Receive Polio Vaccination Mass Inoculation Is Held At Moose Home A few sore arms, maybe some mild fevers, but over 375 persons who should be immune to polio soon are f the results of the dollar polio clinic held at the Moose home yesterday afternoon and evening. Persons who have had the shots, doctors in charge stated, may have some sore arms and a few low-grade fevers which may run to 100 degrees, which is not unusual or serious, and may be treated with aspirin. About 25 were not accepted because they had fever, and about 22 free shots were administered. The mass inoculation was going along smoothly, physicians in charge reported mid-way through the session, adding that the Salk vaccine dose is a very benign shot that can be used safely in a program such as this. Since the vaccine is not produced with the use of eggs, many more people are able to take it. There are still many who have not received their shots, the health officers warned. One must remember that there are 25,000 persons in the county; and to get 70 per cent of the population inoculated, many more must receive their shots. Anyone, especially those under 50, who has not had his three shots, should contact his family physician. There is enough vaccine now, it was explained, for the Lilly company has 20 million doses of vaccine now, and has suspended production. The next session of the Moose mass inoculation is slated for July 24, and the third, doctors recommend, should be from sev(Continued on page rive)

10 Americans Kidnaped By Cuban Rebels One Canadian Also Seized By Heavily Armed Rebel Outfit HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) — Cuban rebels kidnaped 10 Americans and a Canadian today from a small American construction colony on the isolated north coast of Oriente province. The heavily armed band of 200 rebels invaded the Moa Bay mining properties Thursday night after fighting in the nearby village of Moa during which they killed three Cuban soldiers. They spent the night in the Moa Bay mining properties construction colony, occupied by less than a score of American supervisory workers and some of their families, and left this morning with their hostages and all the colony’s food and medical stores. Word of the raid was telephoned , to the outside world by Clinton J Breads, engineer for a construc- [ tion contractor, who managed to [ reach the project’s tugboat communications center after the reb- ’ els departed. ’ , The Moa Bay Co., a subsidiary, . of Freeport Sulphur Co., New ’ York, is constructing a 75-mißion-dollar nickel and cobalt concentration plant. With two contracting firms, Frederick Snare Corp., ’i New York, and Stebbins Engin- ' eering and Manufacturing Co., (Continued on page eight) Expect House Okay On Freight Tax Cut Tax Cut Measure Is Seen As Veto-Proof WASHINGTON (U&» — The House was ready to stamp its approval today on legislation to repeal freight taxes yielding 485 million dollars a year in revenue. House action was all that was needed to rush the compromise measure to the White House for President Eisenhower's certain signature. Despite the administration’s no-tax-cut stand, the bill was regarded as veto-proof. In addition to the tax repeal it would grant the administration’s request for a oneyear postponement in tax cuts scheduled to take effect Tuesday on corporations, whisky, beer, cigarettes and automobiles. Unless the tax extension bill is signed by midnight Monday, the federal government would lose $2,500,000,000 in annual revenue from these scheduled reductions, some of which could not be recaptured. The compromise measure draft- . ed Thursday by; Senate-House conferees- represented a compromise between‘the House’s stand against any tax relief and the Senate’s proposal to repeal both the freight tax and the 10 per cent tax on airline bus and railroad passenger tickets. The repeal applies to the 3 per cent tax that is added to freight bills, the 4 cents a ton tax on coal shioments and the 4% per cent levy on shipment of oil by pipe- - line. Since the tax now adds to the cost of producing and marketing almost all products, some of the relief is likely to be passed on to the consumers in the form of lower prices. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPI) — Carpenters Union President Maurice refused to tell the Senate Rackets Committee today whether he used union fund to try to block his indictment in a Lake County, Indiana, land scandal ease. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) told a newsman he “very likely” would ask the committee to start contempt-of-Congres proceedings against Hutcheson.

New Pastor ■P -' J • ■ wk M * 41 The Rev. L. W. Schulenburg was formally installed last Sunday as pastor of the St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble. Rev. Schulenburg, from Miami, Fla., succeeds the Rev. O. C.' Busse, who has retired from the ministry. Watershed Law Is ' Explained At Meet ) Meeting Held Last Evening At Geneva r"- The stnall watershed law, khd - what it will do faj the Long-Am- - stutz watershed of 3,200 acres in ? Wabash township, was explained • Thursday night to about 40 farmers ■ from the area in a meeting at the ■ Geneva school. Ivan Huser, Hartford township farmer and a member of the county soil conservation district which is sponsoring the watershed improvement, acted as chairman of the meeting. All members of the watershed, and representatives from all agricultural agencies, such as the county extension, ASC, and FHA, were invited to the meeting. All the farmers showed interest in the project, and favorable comments were about the only ones heard. No decisions were made, as the meeting was purely informational. The small watershed act was set up by Congress to bridge the gap between ACP and SCS work and dam construction by Army engineers. Upper watersheds formerly had no way of planning for their own relief. The law covers two separate aspects of water problems: the flood control problem, ■■ and the water management problem on the farms concerned. z Under the flood control provisions of the act, improvement of the Long-Amstutz ditch, the Weidler levee, and possibly the pump station may be expected, with the federal government footing the entire bill. Water management on the individual farms and in the ditches and tiles leading into the LongAmstutz ditch would be financed on a cost-share basis, with the individual farmers paying about 50% of the costs. Conservation plans must be in use on 50% of the farmland by acres in the watershed, or 1,600 of the 3.20 Q acres. And 75% of the practices 'recommended in these farm plans must be applied or in the process of being applied.At the present time fours farms with 380 acres in the watershed have farm plans in effect. Two more have applied affecting 120 acres. Farmers at the meeting decided to talk up farm planning. Cletus Gillman, U. S. soil conservation service conservationist, explained that starting next Wednesday, a fulltime employe, Fred Housel, of Angola, Will be put on farm planning in Adams county. This will help take care of the backlog of farm plan surveys now just in the request stage. At the present time, the soil conservation district and the Weidler ditch association, the latter representing 450 acres of the total watershed. have applied for relief under the bill. > - The state watershed project lead(Continued on Page eight)

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15 Men Killed As Giant Jet Plane Crashes Six Newsmen Among Victims As All On Plane Are Killed WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. (UPD—A giant jet stratotanker crashed and exploded on take-off early today, killing all 15 men aboard. Two sister ships streaked across the Atlantic and set new speed records. newsmen were among the victims aboard the three-million-dollar plane which snapped two 115,000-volt power lines, bounced or skidded across a superhighway and landed with •a burst of flames in a cornfield. The other victims included seven crew members and two representatives of tne National Aeronautics Assn. Chicopee policeman Richard Haslam one of the first persons on the scene, radioed his headquarters that “There is no need for any ambulances. Nobody on board had a chance.” Two Set Record* While tragedy marred the start of the transatlantci flight, triumph Crowned tlje finish. The other two d stratb-tankers spanned tire ocean i- in record times. n ‘The planes were dubbed Alpha, 1 Bravo, Cocoa and Delta for the s mission designed to thump the s United States’ air might. Cocoa crashed. As result of the accident, > Delta never took off. / Alpha thundered across" the Ati lantic in 5 hours, 27 minutes and . 42.8 seconds—an average speed of j 630.2 miles per hour. Bravo trailed Alpha by about 2 minutes, but making it in 5 hours, 29 minutes, 37.4 seconds, an average speed of 626.5 m.p.h. Both planes broke the old record set in 1955 by a British Royal Air Force Canberra jet bomber. Within seconds after takeoff from this Air Force base at 12:30 a m. e.d.t., the third plane in the flight crashed and disintegrated in a brilliant ball of fire that turned darkness into daylight. “It was brighter than daylight. It was the most awful thing I ever saw,” said farmer Kazimierz F. Machowski, whose three - acre cornfield was set ablaze by the flaming plane. He said the plane plunged to earth with a house-shaking roar. Study Crash Cause The dead newsmen included Norman J. Montellier, 37, New York, No. 2 man of the United Nations staff of United Press International; Robert B. Sibley, 57, veteran aviation editor of the Boston Traveler, and retired Brig. Gen. A. Robert GinsbUrgh, 63, who since 1953 had been chief military writer for U.S. News & World Report magazine. The others were James L. MeConaughy Jr, 40, chief of Time magazine’s Washington bureau and Son of a former Connecticut governor; Daniel J. Coughlin Jr., 31, of the Boston bureau of the Associated Press, and Glen A. Williams, 45, Bethesda, Md., also of U.S. News & World Report. The only newsman on one of the (Continued on Page eight) Dague In Custody Os U.S. Marshal Glen Dague, 27, of near Decatur, was taken to Fort Wayne today by the U. S. marshal for the stolen vehicle charges held against him by the federal bureau of investigation. Dague admitted to the investigating officers at the Adams county jail Wednesday evening, he had stolen two vehicles in this city and transported them across the state line. He was picked up at his home for questioning, and later confesser to the crimes. Also in the confession, Dague admitted to breaking into two business establishments. The F. B. I. will now take over the investigation of the vehicle thefts, and continue to question Dague on the matter. «