Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 171, Decatur, Adams County, 22 July 1958 — Page 1

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Marine Killed By Buddy In Beirut Today Killed By Sentry After Failure To Answer Challenge BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — A U.S. Marine was shot and killed today by one of his own buddies—the second American to die in Lebanon since U.S. troops landed last Tuesday to try to save die country’s independence. The name of the Marine was withheld. He had left his own lines to lay trip flare wires around his company perimeter near the Beirut International Airport seven miles from the city and was killed by a sentry when he failed to answer three challenges. The first Amorican killed in Lebanon was Navy Lt. (jg) Richard Dieterich, 24, Evanston, 111., a Navy pilot whose plane crashed into a mountain near Beirut last Saturday. Authorities said his plane flamed out and that he was not hit by rebel bullets. The Marine killed today was shot in the stomach. He was rushed by helicopter to the command ship Pocono in Beirut harbor but died on the operating table in the ship’s hospital. 16 U.S. Planes Hit The accident happened after a night filled with the sharp exchange of rifle fire in the pity, punctuated by heavy explosions. There were fears of major outbreaks of violence before Thursday's scheduled presidential elections. Vice Adm. Charles R. (Cat) Brown said today that rebel snipers have scored hits on 16 U.S. naval planes flying over Lebanon in the past three days. He said there have been no casualties and most of the hits were scoreed by .30 or .50-caliber bullets. ‘The majority of planes hit by ground fire have been accounted for by one rebel . marksman,” Brown said. “He’s a real Annie Oakley. Wish he was on our side.” U.S. State Department troubleshooter Robert Murphy stepped up the tempo of his talks with moderate leaders in hopes of averting a new outbreak of civil war before the Thursday elections. But thus far he apparently has not found a man suitable, to both sides to succeed President Camille* Chamoun. (Continues on Page eight) INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness, Mattered showers or thundershowers southeast and extreme south portions tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy, chance of showers extreme southeast. Not much temperature change. Lows tonight 60 to 67 north, 65 to 71 south. Highs Wednesday 75 to 82. Sunset today 8:07 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:37 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: Showers and warmer. Lows Wednesday night in 60s. Highs Thursday in 80s.

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Missouri, Kansas Flood Costs Soar Estimate Damage Near 10 Million United Press International Flood damage in Missouri and Kansas mounted toward the 10-million-dollar mark today with the mighty Missouri River rolling over its banks from mid-Missouri almost to St. Louis. The floods, triggered by a battery of torrential thunderstorms that began 11 days ago, have inundated about 365,000 acres of land in the two states. U.S. Army engineers estimated damage to towns and farms in the path of the floodwaters at more than nine milion dollars. Col. Lee Laurion, Kansas City district engineer, said about 100,000 acres of fertile farm land were under water along the lower reaches of the Missouri. Damage in that area was estimated at $2,500,000. The Missouri was not expected to crest until Wednesday at St. Charles, Mo., at six feet above flood stage. The river was expected to hold the crest for 24 hours, inundating more farm land. In northwest Missouri, damage was estimated at $2,800,000 along the Grand River where 95,000 acres were flooded, Laurion said. The Fort Scott, Kan., flood last week inundated 85,000 acres with a loss of one million dollars. Scattered thunderstorms continued during the night from Missouri through toe Ohio River Valley into Pennsylvania and south to the Gulf Coast states. An <Continued on Page eigne) Chalmer Barkley Is Hurl In Collision Adams County Man Hurt This Morning Chalmer H. Barkley, 42, route four, Decatur, was injured at 10 o’clock this morning in a two-truck collision occurring one half rnije north of the Hoagland road- on U. S. 27. Barkley received personal injuries after hitting the rear of a truck operated by Leland H. Kay, 58, Fort Wayne, which had stopped on the traveled portion of the highway after missing a turn off U. S. 27 onto a county road. The truck was backing on the main highway and Barkley was unable to stop, causing him to collide with the rear of toe truck. Barkley was brought to the Adams county memorial hospital for treatment. He is suffering from a splintered bone in one of his legs, but it was believed not to be broken. His condition is considered satisfactory and not serious. He is expected to be in the hospital several days. Kay was arrested by the investigating officer, state trooper Koch, for stopping a vehicle on a traveled portion of a main highway. The Barkley truck was considered a total loss, and the Kay vehicle was damaged to the extent of S2OO.

Russia Offers Revisions In Jap Proposal Sobolev Switches Tactics On Japan Proposal In U.N. UNITED NATIONS (UPD—Russia unexpectedly offered changes today in a Japanese compromise Middle East resolution. The United Nations Security Council postponed a decision until afternoon. Soviet Ambassador Arkady A. Sobolev had indicated Monday night that he probably would veto the Japanese measure, which is designed to replace U.S. forces in Lebanon with a beefed up and armed U.N observer group. Sobolev switched tactics this morning. He sought to put Into Japan’S measure a call for the Immediate withdrawal of American forces from Lebanon and, in what was regarded as a strange veering of Soviet policy, reinstated a demand that toe U.N. observer group now there "continue to develop its activities.” This- had been deleted from Japan’s original measure in deference to toe Kremlin. Sobolev’s amendments would instruct Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold to meet the observers’ request for reinforcements which was relayed from Beirut last week. But they also would put a July 30 time-limit on Hammarsjold’s efforts. The Soviet amendments stood no chance of passage, although Swedish Ambassador Gunnar V. Jarring gained the council’s adjournment until 2 p.m. c.d.t. to consider them. If and when Russia’s amendments are voted down, Japanese sources expected Sobolev to veto the original measure. Sobolev announced Monday that Soviet opposition to the Japanese proposal was based on belief that it would sanction U.S. intervention in toe Middle East. Abdul Majid Abbass, pre-revolu-tionary royalist ambassador who had represented the late King Faisal of Iraq, returned to the Security Council today. He was absent Monday because of illness. Abbass said he had heard about a reported threat against his life, but did not take it seriously. He had no bodyguard and said it was up to U.N. security officers to take any necessary steps. New (Continued on Page eight) Weather Hampers Harvesting Crops Yields To Date Are Reported As Good Cloudy skies continued to threaten the area this afternoon, but the sprinkling of rain that fell this forenoon caused more high humidity, to go with toe prevailing cool July weather, hindering grain combining. As less than .01 inch fell this morning, this was unofficially the fifth day in a row that the area has gone without measurable rain, something of a record for this wet, cold July that has followed on the heels of a wet, cold June. Wednesday, a warming trend is expected to begin, with temperatures in the low 80s for Wednesday and Thursday. The St. Mary’s river has steadily gone down; its level this morning was 5.87 feet. Rain was predicted this noon for southern Indiana, hard-hit again since toe weekend, where it is feared much grain will be lost. Harvesters in this area were able to get into the fields early last Friday, since the last heavy July rains. However, the light rains jn the county this mornings were enough to keep some out of the fields. Farmers who have been able to harvest their grains have reported good yields on both wheat and oats. Over 60 bushels of wheat per acre were reported from the Hugo Bulmahn farm, where the grain was haryested before the last rains, according to county agent Leo Seltenright. The variety was LaPorte, h new type. Heavy>yields ot oats, around 90 bushels per acre, have been reported, with weights of around 37 pounds per bushel, five pounds over the average. Moisture in the grain and wet fields have been the main disadvantage, as getting good yields from these crops is a matter of getting them harvested and dried. Moistures of 17 to 18 per cent, too high for safe storage, have been recorded, Seltenright stated tills afternoon. Grain dryers have been busy. The new dryer set up at the Farm Bureau Co-op in Monroe has been running day and night, and had processed 20,000 bushels of grain until Saturday.

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesddy, July 22, 1958.

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Face Quizzing On Change In Stand In Case I . - i Question Officials Os Government On i Refund Reversal i WASHINGTON (UPI) — Os- . ficials of the General Accounting , Office (GAO) face questioning by . House investigators on why they . reversed their stand in a new i case of alleged influence involving > White House Aide Sherman i Adams, it was learned today. A GAO letter last year enl a bled, the Defense Department to L refund $41,284 in World War II penalties assessed against Ray- . laine Worsteds, Inc., Manchester, , N. H. The textile firm had asked for a refund of $25,462. A House armed services subcommittee headed by Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D-La.) heard details o fthe case from subcommittee counsel John J. Courtney Monday. It was scheduled to begin questioning witnesses behind closed doors today. The Army penalized Raylaine $49,771 for late deliveries on a contract for $653,500 worth of olive drab cloth in 1941. Raylaine sought to appeal but this was denied by the Army and the comptroller general, who heads toe GAO, in 1942. It was reported this GAO opinion held not only that the firm failed to file its appeal on time but that the facts did not support the company’s contention that toe late deliveries were due to circumstances beyond its control. But last year the present comptroller general, Joseph Campbell, said it now appeared the firm had filed a valid appeal in 1941. This permitted the Armed Forces Board of Contract appeals to reopen the dase and it ordered a $41,284 refund. Campbell was appointed to his post by President Eisenhower. The new ruling came after Adams passed along to the Pen(Contlnued on Page Seven) Polio Foundation To Enter Other Fields Set Sights Against Other Dread Killers NEW YORK (UPI) — The "March of Dimes,” with a total victory against polio in sight, dropped “infantile paralysis” from its name today and set its sights on the other dread killers and crippiers of mankind—all of the virus diseases, arthritis, diseases of the central nervous system, and the congenital diseases commonly called “birth defects.” Basil O’Connor, its president, in announcing the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will hereafter be simply the National 1 Foundation, emphasized that it was sticking with polio until every American is protected by the Salk vaccine and there no longer are past polio victims to care for. But polio no longer is enough of a problem to engage the full energies of the vast volunteer public health organization which has 3,100 chapters, one in just about every county in the nation. In the immediate 6 ’ years ahead, polio will continue to diminish as a public health problem. Therefore, the ultimate decision would have been either to disband or to expand. O’Connor continued that the foundation had been urged on every side not to disband its scientific res earch teams whose years-long work culminated in the Salk vaccine, nor its army of volunteers who raised the money, but to give them new diseases to conquer. Those chosen for the new onslaught were picked because they relate to the scientific fields in which polio research made strides so great they went far beyond polio, he said.

Dollar Polio Clinic At Moose Thursday Lodge Sponsor Os Mass Inoculation Over 300 persons are expected to receive doses of the Salk polio vaccine Thursday in the second session of the Moose-sponsored dollar polio clinic. ? All persons under 40 who can drop by the Moose home between . 3 and 7 p.m. Thursday are urged : to receive their polio shots, so that r Inore residents of this area will be r on their way to being immune to i polio. At least 70 per cent of the f population in this area must rei ceive the three doses of vaccine even before the possibilities of an - epidemic can be ruled out. ’ A polio outbreak couid still happen anywhere in the United States. The story could be similar to one : that came last week from Montana, which reads like the story of the proverb of locking the barn after the horse is stolen. A mass ’ Salk innoculation program is underway’ now for 6,000 persons on . the Browning Indian reservation in , northwestern Montana. What prompted the vaccination program was a polio outbreak; at least six , polio cases were reported. The National Foundation for Infantile Pai ralysis stated that there was no ‘ Indication whether the victims had ( been administered Salk anti-polio Shota. There is an abundant supply of vaccine now. Some of the vaccine, 1 which manufacturers fear will not ! be used before October has been 1 shipped abroad. Still, by March 1 of this year, 1 the total of persons who had re--1 ceived one or more shots of the Salk vaccine stood at 62,500,000 according to the U. S. public health ■ service. Only 42,500,000 of these had received all three injections, considered to have long-term imj munity to the disease. Millions } more, about 48,500,000 under age 40, have not yet started on the Salk series. No area in the United States, according to Eli E. Lilly representative C. Dave McKay, can be considered free, from prospects of an epidemic. Decatur and the area has a chance to bring its population immunity over the 70 per cent mark. Those who cannot come Thursday to receive the doses, or those who have colds or fever and cannot have their shots immediately, should contact their family physician. Those who will be able to be in the vicinity Thursday and who have no a reservation tor the vaccine may still call the Moose home, at 3-4113. U.S. Rubber Closes Plant At Fort Wayne Officials Say Plant Operating At Loss FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) — U.S. Rubber Company’s industrial rubber products plant, which employs about 700 workers, will be closed in the near future because it is operating “unprofitably." Louis J. Healy, vice president and general manager of the firm’s mechanical goods division, said the plant had been losing money since its purchase in 1946, except for the years during the Korean conflict. It makes rubber-to-metal parts for the automobile industry, steering wheels, pastic pipe, industrial grinding wheels, and a number of molded rubber and plastic articles. Machinery in the plant will be transferred to plants in Chicago, Mishawaka, and Passaic, ’• N. J., when it closes during the next four months, Healey said. There were no indications that any employes would be transferred. "Severe competition” from many smaller manufacturers and a U.S. Rubber wage scale “consistently . . . higher” than its competitors were cited by Healey as causes for the shutdown. • ' ■* . a

House Group Blasts Waste By Military Makes 29 Per Cent Cut In Request For Construction Funds WASHINGTON (UPD — The House Appropriations Committee today chopped requested military construction funds by 29 per cent, blasting the services’ waste and bad planning. It said that only work “clearly essential”- to defense can be allowed to proceed in these critical times. The committee, in a report to the House, said the military was closing some usable bases while building others, sometimes without knowledge of the duplication and sometimes because each branch of the service insisted on having its own installation. It assailed the Defense Department for approving projects which, while desirable, "are certainly not essential” to the national defense. It charged that military planners developed new weapon systems without proper consideration for the installation required for their use, and that they rush to Congress belatedly with construction plans which in "all too many instances constitute merely a dream.” For this reason, some construction work geared to new weapons was rejected, the committee said. The committee also assailed the military for its stop-and-go housing, which it said had been characterized by lack of concern at the long-range need and by moves to build "large” and “fancy” quarters for high ranking officers. The committee levelled its barrage of criticism in recommending to the House a $1,218,815,000 money measure to cover costs of military base building and other defense construction in the 12 months that began July 1. President Eisenhower had asked for $1,730,653,000. Thus the cut came to $511,838,000. But the cut, although real, was possibly not quite as severe as it looked on the surface. This is because of available funds already on hand for the work. Counting in (Continued on Fare Seven) Fort Wayne Police Department Cleared Allen County Jury Ends Long Inquiry FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD —An Allen County grand jury today cleared the Fort Wayne Police Department of implications that traffic cases were fixed and prostitution was protected. Ending a four-week inquiry called after seven patrolmen and a former policeman were accused of being involved in burglaries, the jury gave the department a clean slate on rumors of alleged irregularities. "We have concluded,” the report said, “that the police department of Fort Wayne is well supervised.” It said the department executives “are now ahd always have been devoted to their duty.” Previously, the jury returned seven indictments in. the burglary cases. ■ Jurors reported they followed up “every rumor" casing aspersions at the department and found no evidence of payoffs or other irregularities. “Our conclusion is that there is no truth to rumors circulated concerning payoffs,” the report said, adding that rumors of protection for prostitution were "found to be false.” The chief criticism in the report was that applicants for patrolman jobs were not screened adequately. But the jury implied this might be due to insufficient manpower to check character references.

Southern Indiana Bears Rain Brunt Temperatures Below Normal Are General By United Press International Heavy rain fell over the lower White and Wabash River valleys today, adding to the woes of mois-ture-conscious farmers in Southern Indiana. The latest chapter in two months of floods and downpours concentrated on a southwestern area around Petersburg and Bedford. The Weather Bureau reported 3.03 inches of rain officially in 24 hours at Petersburg, although unofficial sources said 4*4 inches fell in 12 hours and sent streams to levels higher than in the 1913 flood. Bedford reported 2.08 inches in little more than three hours this morning. Petersburg news sources said Ind. 56 and Ind. 65 were closed by flood water and Branch Creek overflowed into nearby homes. The rainy season, which started in early June, has caused untold millions of dollars in damage to Hoosier crops. Latest reports of damage came from Jackson County melon growers who reported a below-normal yield is shaping up, and from Earl Wilson, state director of the Federal Crop Insurance Corp., who reorted pexcessive rain and high humidity have resulted in less than five per cent of the state’s wheat crop being harvested. “The wheat crop is dead ripe and falling down in many places,” Wilson said. “Weeds are becoming a serious threat. A few more days of wet weather could destroy a substantial portion of the crop.” Unusually low temperatures also continued. Below - normal temperatures were general, highs Monday ranging from 69 at Lafayette to 82 at Evansville. The forecasts called for occa- , sional or scattered showers, thundershowers or thunderstorms in the southern two-thirds of Hoosier- ‘ land today and tonight, and possibly again Wednesday in the , southeast. (Continued on Pise Seven) Strong Pressure On Policy In Crisis Serious Cracks In Unity In Congress WASHINGTON (UPD-Serious cracks appeared today in the unity with which Congress at first backed President Eisenhower’s policy in the Mideast crisis. Strong pressure was put on the President from two directions: —A “get -tough” Republican bloc which appeared fearful the administration would not maintain a stiff enough Middle Eastern stand to assure the downfall of Soviet-backed revolutions. —A Democratic group which urged the Chief Executive not to dismiss the Soviet ‘ proposal for a “summit” meeting if there wete the slighest chance it vyould contribute to peace. Meanwhile the State Department today began the first of a series of secret briefings at the capitol to keep key senators informed on developments in the Middle Eastern crisis. The GOP bloc raised its voice strongly Monday , night in the person of Senate Republican leader Wiliam F. Knowland who sharply attacked the administration’s support for a Japanese resolution in the United Nations Security CounThe Japanese resolution, which Russia was expected to veto today, caled for strengthening the present UN observer group in Lebanon but did not spell out how it should be strengthened. Knowland said if U. S. troops were replaced by unarmed observers "in this present difficult set of conditions” it would be “fatal to the future of Lebanon and any other free nation subject to a similar situation.”

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West Refuses To Undermine UN In Crisis Willing To Attend Summit Conference If Held Within UN WASHINGTON (UPD — The White House said today the United States will go along if others concerned want a summit meeting at the United Nations. The White House announcement followed British acceptance of Nikita Khrushchev’s proposal for a heads of state meeting on the Middle East provided the Soviet premier is willing to hold it within the U.N. Security CounciL White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said: "If such a meeting were generally desired, the United States would join in following this orderly procedure.” Won’t Undermine U.N. Before Hagerty made his statement, it had appeared that the Western powers had been unable to agree on a reply to Khrushchev’s summit proposal. This country, it was known, did not want an emergency trig power meeting that might undermine U. N. authority and prestige. - Shortly before the British proposal, Hagerty said there had ; been “no agreement” among the Western powers and no reply to Khrushchev. Then British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd told the House of Commons that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would be willing to ‘attend a summit conference if it were held in the Security Council. Reply Given to NATO That apparently provided this country with something it could accept. Hagerty said: “A United Nations Security Council meeting of the character suggested by Foreign Minister Lloyd is clearly within the contemplation of the (U.N.) charter.” Hagerty also said that a draft ' of the U.S. "reply to Khrushchev "has now been given to the NATO organization in Paris.” This, plus Hagerty’s remark that toe United States would go along with toe British proposal “if such a meeting were generally desired,” suggested that this country is checking the procedure with toe Atlantic Pact powers before making its reply final. Reporters asked Hagerty if his statement meant that President Eisenhower would attend such a meeting. “It means just exactly what I said and nothing further," he replied. Dufies flies to London Meanwhile, other official sources insisted that the United States is not proposing that Khrushchev come to the United Nations for a summit meeting. But because, under U.N. procedures, a member government may be represented by anyone of its choice in toe Security Council, toe U.S. draft reply to Moscow does-not take Bsue with this possibility. Radio Moscow meanwhile needled toe West to‘get a move on. It said time may be running out for a reply to Krhsuchev. “Today a disaster can still be averted but perhaps tomorrow it cannot,” a Moscow broadcast said. While U.S. and British statesmen were trying to work out a meeting of minds toward the summit proposal, Secretary of State John Foster Dullus announced he plans to fly to London late this week to attend a meeting of toe Baghdad Pact nations. Dullus casually announced his Intentions at a meeting with delegates to the American Legion Boys* Nation, He said he would confer with representatives of Britain, Pakistan, Turkey, and Iran on toe status of the pact since the overthrow of Iraq's pro-Western government a week ago. Observers said the purpose of Dulles’ trip was to impress upon Turkey, Pakistan, and Iran that this country still regards the anti(Conttauefl on pa** *i*M)