Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 153, Decatur, Adams County, 30 June 1958 — Page 1

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Fox Continues Testimony On Adams Charge Says Adams Told Goldfine To Stop --.- Boasting Inf luence WASHINGTON (UPD— Boston promoter John Fox swore today he heard Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams tell Bernarc Goldfine to “keep his mouth shut” after he boasted that Adams was “taking care” of his troubles with federal agencies. Fox gave further testimony to the House influence - investigating subcommittee in an attempt to back up his charge that Adams was present when the boast allegedly was made. Adams has denied that any such incident took place. • “Adams,’* Fox said, “took Goldfine to a far corner of the room and quite obviously admonished him.” Fox said he could not hear every word spoken but that “from snatches” he ca u gh t, it was “quite obvious he was telling Goldfine to keep his mouth shut.” Fox, under sharp questioning by Rep. Joseph P. O’Hara (R-Minn.) about his earlier charges against Adams, also testified that Goldfine told him on “at least two dozen” occasions that he had helped- Adams “financially and very materially,” especially during the period when Adams' children were in school. On some of these occasions, Fox said, others were present. Specifically he said his secretary and Miss Mildred 'Paperman, bookkeeper for one of Goldfine’s firms, had heard the Boston industrialist make this statement. Adams also has denied this charge. Fox renewed his testimony in open session under strict orders from Chairman Oren Harris (DArk.) to confine , his remarks to ground already covered, and to open no new line of allegations. Harris obviously was smarting under charges that the subcommittee had acted recklessly in hearing Fox’s controversial testimoy first in public session. In an opening statement he defended the subcommittee’s action on the ground it was trying to develop “all the facts.” The subcommittee chairman conceded that the group had no evidece to back up some of Fox’s charges. Specifically he mentioned in this category the allegation — denied by Adams—that Goldfine told him he had bought a house for Adams in Washington. Fox was questioned intensively by O’Hara on a May 10, 1955, meeting in the Sheraton - Carlton Hotel in Washington at which Fox claims he heard Goldfine toast “My good friend Governor Adams who never lets his friends down and is not letting me down.” O'Hara Wanted to know whether (Continued on page five) INDIANA WEATHER Fair and continued warm tonight and Tuesday. Chance of afternoon or evening thundershowers extreme north portion Tuesday. Low tonight in the 60s. High Tuesday 84to 92. Sunset today 8:17 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 4 5:21 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and warm with chance of scattered showers or thundershowers. Lows Tuesday night in 60s. Highs Wednesday around 90.

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Deny Lake County A Grand Jury Fixed . Assail Charges By Rackets Committee GARY. Ind. (UPD—Lake County Prosecutor Metro Holovachka and three other Calumet area men today said that Senate Rackets Committee charges of an alleged “fix” in a grand jury probe of land deals were based on “innuendo.” The denials came during the weekend after Governor Handley said that Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers would look into the case. “AU I ask is that the quotation of President Eisenhower as to being ‘as clean as a hound's tooth’ be applied to Metro Holovachka,” said tiie prosecutor in a prepared statement. Holovachka said he had giyen affidavits to the committee denying the charges against him. The committee’s chief counsel, Robert Kennedy, said last week "it’s patently obvious the fix was in” when a Lake County grand jury said it could no! indict Carpenters Union President Maurice Hutcheson and two other top union officials. The three were indicted by a Marion County grand jury in right-qf-way land deals which made $78,000 profit. The profit was returned to the state through Holovachka who received the money from attorney Joseph Sullivan, a Lake County deputy prosecutor. Sullivan called the charges “irresponsible innuendos concerning a conspiracy to fix.” Michael Sawochka, an official of Teamster Local 142 in Gary who the committee said was called in to help Hutcheson by Teamster chief James Hoffa, said he would open his files to the Gary PostTribune. “They may form their own judgment as to matters which have been made the subject of inuendo, implication and carelessly made and entirely unsup(Contlnued on Page eight) Adams County Native Dies At Fort Wayne Gordon Click Dies After Long Illness Gordon,, D. Clark, 44, of Fort Wayne, a native of Adams county, died at 12:45 a. m. Sunday at St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne. In ill health ten years, he had worked at General Electric com l pany before his illness. Survivors are his wife, Bertha: one daughter, Judith Ann, at home; five sisters, Mrs. Ora Bodie, South Tenth street, Decatur, Mrs. Adah Weldy, South Fifth street Decatur, Mrs. Myrtle Frederich, Dayton, 0., Mrs. Nellie Switzer, New Corydon, and Mrj. Wauneta Grimes, Chinchilla, Pa., and two brothers, Harvey and Charles, both of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday at the C. M. Sloan and Sons funeral home, the Rev. Allen T. Wallace off!-, ciating. Burial will be in the Prairie Grove cemetery, Waynedale. " Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today. NEW SERIAL STORY A new serial story, “Not by Guns Alone,” by E. M. Barker, tarts in today’s Daily Democrat. There is plenty of action, romance and mystery In this Western novel.

Doc Sherwood Ends Testimony In Road Trial Tells Jury Profit Sharing Did Not Cost Taxpayers INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Former Indiana Adj. Gen. Elmer W. Sherwood told a jury today he does not think his sharing profits from sales of equipment to the Indiana State Highway Department “has cost the taxpayers one nickel.” Sherwood made the statement as he completed testimony in his own defense at the Indiana highway scandal bribery conspiracy trial of him and William E. Sayer, former aide to ex-Gov. GeorgeN. Craig. Sherwood spent the morning answering cross-examination questions by Prosecutor John G. Tinder, the man who last year signed affidavits charging Sherwpod, Sayer and salesman Arthur J. Mogilner with conspiring to bribe former highway chairman Virgil (Red* Smith. The state accused the alleged conspirators with giving Smith more than $40,000 to favor Mogilner on equipment contracts, and charged that Sherwood and Sayer got nearly $60,000 from Mpgijner’s $234,000 profits on $1,600,000 worth of business. Sherwood was asked if he felt he was “entitled to personal enrichment” for helping Craig become governor. He replied he did not but said he felt it was proper under the “free enterprise system” to make profits. “But I don’t think this has cost the taxpayers one nickel,” he said, adding thta the state would have paid the same prices for equipment whether it had bought from Mogilner or others. Earlier in the trial, state’s witnesses testified that Mogilner had cancelled a bid letting in which a competitor bid less than half the $8 a gallon amount Mogilner bid for supplying an engine additive, and Mogilner later bid $8 a gallon on both his own and the competitor’s product by arranging to represent the competitor. Sherwood admitted it was “pos(Contlnued on J-wse eight) Rural Church Page To Run On Thursday Ministers of rural churches in the Decatur area are requested to have their announcements for thisweek in this office by Wednesday afternoon. As Friday, July 4, is a holiday, the Daily Democrat will not publish an edition, and the usual Friday church page will be published Thursday of this week. Ministers of Decatur churches ■ are requested to have their weekly announcements in this office no later than 3 p.m.. Thursday. Monthly Collection Os Cans, Rubbish Robert D. Cole, mayor, and B. J. Clark, city street commissioner, have announced that the street department will make monthly collections of tin cans and rubbish, effective tomorrow. The collections will be made on Wednesdays, according to the following schedule: first Wednesday of month, north of Monroe and west of Fifth; second Wednesday, north of Monroe and east of Fifth; third Wednesday, south of Monroe and east of Fifth; fourth Wednesday, .south of Monrod**and west of Fifth.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 30, 1958

Two More Americans Are Reported Seized By Cuban Rebel Force

West, Russia Ready To Open Nuclear Talks Talks On Policing Os Infiltration By Scheduled Tuesday GENEVA (UPD—Both Russia and the West said today they are ready to open talks here Tuesday on policing of nuclear tests. Their announcements made it a near certainty the conference —in doubt until the last minute because of Soviet stalling—will open on schedule. Prof. Y. K. Fyodorov, chief of the Soviet delegation, visited the conference site, the Palais des Nations, this afternoon and conferred with United Nations officials in preparations for the meeting Asked whether he expected the meeting to take place as planned, Fyodorov replied: “Yes, I am certain of it.” A Soviet delegation spokesman said earlier that “of course” the Russians would attend the technical talks. “That is why we are here,” he said. Meantime, the Western delegations met and agreed on a joint Western program for controlling suspension of nuclear fiMrtsr. ‘ U. S. delegation chief Dr. James Brown Fish said the West is ready to meet with Soviet group Friday morning, even though Western members had not yet had any direct contact with the Russians. The East-West conference of top level nuclear scientists was called to seek a fool-proof system for checking nuclear test explosions. Scientists have report-' ed it is possible to carry out nuclear tests without their being detected. — The meeting is the-first EastWest meeting since last year’s disarmament talks in London and the first since the Soviet Union reverted to a “hard” intenational line. The West regarded it as a final test of whether Russia is prepared to discuss disarmament seriously. The Russians first agreed to attend the talks, then appeared to renege, hinting they would not attend unless the United States agreed in advance to halt nuclear test explosions. Then the Russians left the West in doubt whether they would attend or not. (Continued on page five) William A. Carter Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon William A. Carter, 89, retired farmer and lifelong resident of St. Mary’s township, died at 2:45 o’clock Saturday afternoon at his home one utile east of Pleasant Mills, following a« month’s illness. He was born in St. Mary’s township Nov. 14, 1868, a son of Urvin and Sophia Jackson-Carter, and was married to Mary Hurless Jan. 30, 1898. „ Mr. Carter was a member of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church. Surviving are his wife; one son, Floyd O. Carter,' at home; two daughters, Miss Viola Carter, at home, and Mrs. Harry H. Edgell of Bobo; two grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; two brothers, Sanford Carter of Ohio City, 0.,. and A. W. Carter of Van Wert, 0., and three sisters, Mrs. D. B. Walters of Ohio City, Mrs. J. E. Hurless of Willshire township, and Miss Pernetta Carter of Ohio City. One son, one brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Oakley Masten officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Tabor cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

London To New York Record Set Sunday Two Air Force Jet Tankers Set Record NEW YORK (UPD—Two Air Force jet tankers which broke the New York-to-London speed record last week streaxed across the Atlantic to a new London-to-New Ydfrk mark Sunday. Clocked in less than six hours, the giant KC 135 tankers came within an hour of beating the sun in their flight from London to New York. Alpha, the first plane to reach New York, was timed in 5 hours, 51 minutes and 24.8 seconds. The flying companon, designated Bravo, was clocked 2 minutes 5.2 seconds longer. The old record of 7 hours, 29 minutes was set Aug. 23, 1956, by a British Royal Air Force Canberra jet bomber. On the eastbound flight last Friday, Alpha rocketed to a new mark of 5 hours, 27 minutes 42.8 seconds, beating the Canberra record by almost 50 minutes. On that flight, also, Bravo trailed its sister ship T>y about 2 minutes. Since there is a five hour time , difference between London and New York? both craft missed . beating the sun by less than an , hour Sunday. J Alpha left London at 8:29:06.2 il ; m. e.d.t. and was clocked over Idlewild Airport at 2:20:31 ■ p.m. e.d.t. The West - East flight began • tragically last Friday from West--1 over Air Force Base, Mass. Alpha and Bravo were airborne when a third sister ship, also bound for , London, crashed shortly after takeoff, killing all 15 aboard, including 6 newsmen. Wheal Prices May Drop To Low Point May Drop To Lowest Point In 13 Years WASHINGTON (UPD — The Agriculture Department said today the prospective heavy -wheat crop and lowered price supports may cause summer prices for wheat to drop to their lowest point in 13 years. Economists writing in the department’s publication “The Wheat Situation” said seasonal prices for wheat may drop to $1.45 a bushel, the lowest since 1945. Seasonal prices generally are lowest in June, July and August — the wheat harvest season. If prices drop to $1.45 or $1.50, this would be about 45 cents below the price ln‘ mid-May. The department’s monthly farm price report for mid-June showed wljeat prices already had dropped to $1.70 with the harvest just underway. The prediction of lower wheat prices came in the wake of what administration leaders said were improved economic conditions in agriculture. The economists based their prediction on past performance. The government loan price this year is down to $1.78 cents compared with $2 for the 1957 crop. The 1958 support price may be raised a few cents if the parity price for wheat in July is the same as it was in June. The market price for an over-abundant crop generally is 33 to 35 cents below the support price. 1 The wheat crop this year Will be a whopper. The June 1 forecast set it at 1,271,000,000 bushels. An- ' other 5 million bushels of imports, mostly of seed and feeding quality wheat, will be tacked on to that. Domestic consumption for 195859 has been estimated at 593 million bushels, slightly above 19£7-58 because of a small increase likely in feeding. Exports probably will be 375 milion bushels, somewheat below those of 1957-58 be* cause of favorable crop prospects in Europe. What’s left over would be added to the 890 million bushels of carryover, or surplus, of the 1957-58 marketing year. This would make (Continued on pa«e five)

United States Asks Russia To Release Airmen Plane Forced Down In Soviet Armenia, Asks Airmen Freed MOSCOW 'UPD — U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompsop formally asked Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko today to free nine U. S. airmen whose plane was forced down in Soviet Armenia last Friday. Thompson spent a half hour with Gromyko in the Foreign Ministry and handed Gromyko two notes. One was the- United States answer to Russia’s note Os- June 28 charging that the American Cllß transport violated the Soviet frontier. The other was the U. S. answer to a Soviet note of June 28 on the Geneva conference of .nuclear experts. Washington reports said Thompson would tell Gromyko the downed plane did not intentionally violate the Soviet frontier. 1 It also was assumed the U. S. 1 note expressed regret the plane 1 lost its way and entered Soviet air space. : Thompson asked Gromyko for i the appointment so&n after he received orders from Washington to negotiate the release of the airmen. 1 • The Defense Department declared there was “no basis what--1 ever for Russian charges that the . plane’s crew deliberately violated , Soviet air space. If the DC 6 type transport actually flew over the U. S. S. R., the Pentagon said, it was because of an overcast sky. The Soviets announced Saturday night that two Red fighter planes forced the U. §7 aircraft to land after it flew about 149 miles inside the Soviet Armenian frontier. They said the plane "burned up” after landing but all nine crewmen were safe. The fliers involved were among (Continued on page five) August Blomenberg Is Taken By Death Former Trustee Os Preble Twp. Dies August Blomenberg, 71-year-old retired Preble township farmer, died at 4:30 o’clock Sunday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been in failing health for the past two years. - A lifelong resident of Preble township, he was born there Sept. 17, 1886, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Blomenberg. He was married to Rosa Koenemann Sept. 18, 1910, Mr. Blomenberg. a former Preble township trustee, was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters, Mrs. Alfred (Lorene) Busick of Root i township, Mrs. Hilbtrt (Dorothy) ' Hoile of Hoagland, and Mrs. Robert (Helen) Hayden of Manhat- ; tan Beach, Calif.; two,sons, Her- ‘ bert Blomenberg of near New . Haven, and Elfert Blomenberg, ’ at home; 13 grandchildren; two great-grandchilftren; one broth- , er, Martin C. Blomenberg of Decatur route 1, and four sisters, Mrs. Adele Wiggam of Memphis, . Tenn., Mrs. Otto' Schoenherr of , Clear Lake, Mrs. Arnold Reini king of Waynedale, and Mrs. Traugott Buuck of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be con- . ducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at I the residence, nine miles north- . west of Decatur, and at 2:30 ■ o’clock aW'"‘tite Zion Lutheran . church at Friedheim, the Rev. k Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating. . Burial will be in the chinch cemetery. The body will be re- [ moved from the Zwick funeral . home to the residence, where I friends may call after 7 o’clock i this evening until time of the services. •» - h

New Labor Trouble For Auto Industry Chysler Corp. Sends 2,700 Workers Home DETROIT (UPI) — Chrysler Cotp. sent home 2,700 first shift workers today in a renewed outbreak of labor trouble in the contractless auto industry. Dae move was made by Chrysler on the eve of the opening of contract talks between the United Auto Workers Union and Stude-baker-Packard Corp., the last of the auto companies to enter contract talks with the union. Chrysler spokesmen said the company sent home 1,500 workers at its Plymouth body plant and another 1,200 at the Plymouth assembly plant after several trim department workers at the body plant refused to start work on the first shift. Die union charged Chrysler was attempting to increase work loads at the plant “unreasonably.” It marked the second straight week that labor trouble upset the work schedule at Chrysler-plants. Last Friday Chrysler sent home 5,400 workers at its Plymouth assembly and body plants on two shifts and earlier in the week production was halted at the Chrysler missile plant by a three-day wildcat strike. The contract between the UAW . and Stulebaker-Paekard, one of the > Big Three, General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, expired about a . month ago. Studebaker - Packard President Harold E. Churchill said he is confident an agreement in “the best interests” of everyone can be reached between the UAW and the South Bend, Ind., firm. “Both the union and company representatives who will be engaged in these negotiations are fully aware of the opportunity ahead of us with the exciting new car we are bringing out in our 1959 line,- ’ (Continued on. pnge five > Senate Continuing Debate Over Alaska Alsaka Statehood Bill Under Debate WASHINGTON (UPI) — Senate leaders settled down today to ride out a storm of opposition oratory so the House — approved Alaska statehood bill could be passed and sent to President Eisenhower this week. Acting Democratic leader Mike Mansfield scheduled an early show-up as the Senate moved into its second seek of state hood debate. His word to senators was: Expect to “stay late.” Sen. Henry M. Jackson IDWash.), floor manager for the statehood bill, was confident supporters could head off all amendments and pass the bill by an "overwhelming” vote. Jackson and Mansfield were pasing the word to state hood proponents to let the other side do the talking. Mansfield cautiously said only that he hoped for a vote * ‘this week/’ Some supporters of the bill said privately pasage would even come late tonight, but Jackson said he was hoping for approval by Wendesday. > - Sen. James O. Eastland (DMiss.), one of the leading spokesmen against the bill, planiied to call up a second constitutional point of order against it today: He said he could not predict how long it would be debated before a vote was taken. Eastland contends the proposed Alaska state Constitution violates the federal Constitution by providing for the election of senators for long and short terms. In the past, he said, new states have elected senators for s»c years, as provided by the Constitution, and determine which “class” of senators they join. Supporters of the bill predicted privately that, when the talking order will not fare much better is done. Eastland’s new point of than a previous consitutional point he .raised. That one got only 28 votes. . ' ’ 'J

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42 Americans Now Held By Cuban Rebels Latest Kidnapings Dash Hope Os Early Release Os Victims HAVANA (UPI) — Cuban rebels kidnaped two more Americans in ’ Oriente province this morning, the U.S. embassy Was informed. The latest victims brought to 42 the number of Americans kown to be in rebel hands. Two Canadians also are held and there are unconfirmed reports that another American and a Canadian have been seized. The latest victims were identified as Sherman Avery White, general manager of the U.S. government - owned Nicaro nickel plant, and his assistant. J. Andrew Toll. The new kidnapings dashed ' hopes that the rebels soon would release all their victims, seized in ! retaliation for the .alleged refuel- ■ ing of Cuban warplanes at the > U.S. naval base at Guatanmo. Tody’s kidnapings occurred at r 8:30 a.m. and were in the same - pattern as others begining last Thursday. f Expect Release Soon e AU have occurred in the rebel 1 hotbed of Oriente province within i an area of 10 by 50 miles, indicating that all might be held in a t common camp. An embassy spokesman in Hat vana said that U.S. Consul Park . Wollan in the Moa Bay area of > the kidnpings was in touch with the rebels’ "higher headquarters,” , but had nothing to report on the . probable release of the kidnap victims. The reference to “higher headquarters” was taken to mean that Wollan was in touch with rebel leader Fidel Castro himself. The rebel radio made its first mention of the kidnapings today. An unidentified anouncer said that “although we have no direct contact with Commander (Raoul) ''Castro’s column, we can say that we believe the Yankees will be released soon.” The rebel radio expressed “surprise” at the Cuban army announcement that ground and air pursuit would be halted until such time as the American captives are released. Won’t Be Harmed v —fit’s too bad these army officers were not concerned about killing so many Cuban farmers while shooting at our forces,” the anouncer said. Raoul Castro is a brother of Fidel Castro and is reported to have £een in direct command of the kidnapings. The rebel anouncer said that the 12-man engineer group, first victims of the mass kidnap, “certainly will not be harmed.” He said they “probably” would be taken for a tour of rebelL occupied territory “to show them what Cuban army bombing has done to that area.” The embassy denied reports of a “deal” but said it was barring Cuban government planes from using the U. S. naval base at Guantanamo in combat activities against Fidel Castro’s rebel forces. An embassy spokesman denied this was a form of ransom. The rebels were reported to have kidnaped the American and Canadian servicemen and civilians in retaliation for the alleged refueling of Cuban warplanes at Guantanmo. U. S. Embssy and naval officials were negotiating directly with the insurgents for the release of the men seized as “hostages.” The U. S. Embassy had expected the men to be freed Sunday. There was no explanation for the delay, but there was speculation that the rebels were holding out for a formal embassy statement. U. S. Consul Park WoUam was reported to have met the rebels in the mountains near Moa Bay to arrange 4 the release of 10 ' American and two Canadian engineers abducted last Thursday. U. S. naval negotiators dickered separately with the insurgents in (Continued on page five)