Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 184, Decatur, Adams County, 6 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 184.

■■ HL fflflU a JHel* Bnlv ■R ' ’i ~ ' Jft fl Ijfl KhM > - L ■ a- * >■ fljw™ nmmMßFr i HOFFA TESTIFIES — Chairman John L. McClellan, of Arkansas, (foreground) of the Senate Rackets Committee presides at the questioning of Teamster President James R. Hoffa (background center and inset). At Hoffa’s right is his attorney, Edward Bennett Williams. Hoffa refused immediate comment on the “human torch” attack on Frank Kierdorf, business agent for Teamster Union Local 332 at Flint, Michigan.

Murphy Fails To Gain Talk With Nasser Arrangements For Meeting In Cairo Break Down Today CAIRO, U. A. R. (UPI) — Arrangements for a meeting between U. S. diplomatic troubleshooter Robert Murphy and President Gamal Abdel Nasser broke down today. The U. S. embassy indicated a meeting may not take place. Murphy was originally scheduled to meet with Nasser this morning but the meeting did not take place and U. S. ambassador Raymond Hare went to Koubbeh Palace apparently to arrange a new time with presidential aide Aly Sabry. Two hours later the embassy announced tersely: “No final arrangements have been made for a meeting between Mr. Murphy and the president. . .1 A Cairo newspaper earlier this week said that Murphy’s visit would be a “waste of time.” Cairo newspapers, meantime, centered heavy fire on American foreign policy. They accused the United States of “interference” and “worsening world tensions.” Denies Resignation BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — Premier Sami Solh today expressed his determination to remain in office at least until President-elect Gen. Cuad Chehab takes over from President Camille Chamoun Sept. .23. - - * “Reliable sources” had said Solh and his cabinet had tendered oral resignations to Chamoun and that the matter probably would be acted on today. But Solh denied the report and said he had every intention of remaining in office until Chehab becomes president. Solh also denied reports that justice minister Basheer Al Awar had resigned. While political maneuverings between government and opposition forces continued, Beirut enjoyed its sixth consecutive day of quiet. There have been only a few isolated incidents of violence in the countryside and but one bombing attack in Beirut since Chehab was elected by Parliament last Thursday. Saeb Salam, former premier and leaders of the rebels in Beirut, said the resignation of Solh would not make any difference to him and his followers. “The only thing that will allevi(Conth'CMi or D*Br« five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers north, mostly fair south tihs afternoon, tonight and Thursday. Not much change in temperature tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 67 to 72. High Thursday 86 to 92. Sunset today 7:53 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:50 a. m. Outlook for Friday: partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers north. Mostly fair south. Continued warm and humid. Lows 68 to 74. Highs 86 to 92.

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-r* — 1 New Inflation Wave Haunts Congressmen New Price-Boosting Wave Haunts Solons WASHINGTON (UPI) The specter of a new price-boosting wave of inflation today haunted a Congress which devoted much of its energy this year to anti-reces-sion spending. There was growing belief among many lawmakers — and it was voiced publicly for the first time Tuesday by an influential Demo- ' crat — that the real danger now ' facing the country is the prospect : of a new upsurge in inflation ' rather than further deflation. ; The shift in attitude now under way placed in doubt the fate of - half a dozen proposed new spend- ; ing programs on which Congress t has not yet completed action. But • there was no sign that their backi ers planned to give up the fight ( for them. . The new concern over inflation was compounded by last week's boosts in steel prices which will increase the cost of many goods | and services; the current stock I market boom; and — perhaps most important of all — the disclosure nine days ago that the federal government now expects ' to put 12 billion dollars more into the economy through its spending ' programs than it collects in reve- ' nue this fiscal year. That would be the biggest federal deficit ever recorded in peace time. The inflationary dangers of big federal deficits were cited repeatedly Tuesday during three hours of House debate on the President’s request for authority to raise the federal government’s debt to an all time high of 288 billion dollars. No one painted a gloomier picture of the inflationary dangers that he ahead than Rep. Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark.l, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. His views on fiscal policy carry considerable weight with Speaker Sam Rayburn (DTex), Mills foresaw continued record federal outlays totaling at least 400 billion dollars over the next five years with the probability of continued big deficits. “I dare say t it will let loose inflationary pressures here that in turn will be emulated by industry and labor,” he told the House. “The results may well be in the next several years that we will see rises in prices such as we have not seen before in peacetime.” To avert this threat, Mills said, the American people, Congress, (Continued on pagft five) Names Os Teachers Omitted From List Names of three faculty members of the Northwest elementary school were unintentionally omitted from the list of teachers published Monday. They are: Leona Feasel, fourth grade and physical education; Glennys Roop, fourth grade and library; Paul Liechty fifth grade and music. School officials also announced that there will be no sixth grade classes at the Northwest school this year, but all sixth graders will be in the Lincoln school system. ,

Management labor Warned By Eisenhower Headed For Trouble Unless Profits And Wages Reasonable WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower warned management and labor today that they would be headed for trouble if they did not hold down profits and wage increases to resonable levels. He did not say specifically whether he thought profits and wage increases have already exceeded reasonable levels. But the President told his news conference the American people are going to rebel if wages are raised more than justified by increased productivity and if management has profits excessive enough to be robbing the public He made the statement in answer to a question about what plans he had to curb inflation in the light of the steel price rise and prospects for large federal deficits for the next five years. In Good Shape The President said it was a pro Hem for labor, management and government. He added that labor and business must be very careful about increasing wages above levels warranted by gains in productivity. In his first meeting with reporters in five weeks, the President also: —Said that his doctors had told him he was in good shape despite the strain of recent months and that he felt good. —Coldly brushed aside a question about how he 'felt justified in keeping on his top aide, Sherman , Adams, and two White House , women secretaries who had received gifts from textile magnate i Bernard Goldfine. He said he was not going to say anything more about that matter than he had in his original statement several weeks ago. He said then that Adams probably had been imprudent but that he needed him. Good Record in Congress —Said he had no plans to make any public pleas for moderation in school integration before the opening of schools this fall. But he said that if he thought of anything that could be effective, he certainly would not hesitate to do it. He said he had no objection to meeting with Gov. J. Lindsay Almond Jr. of Virginia about the situation in nearby Arlington. But that he had not been approached on such a meeting. Almond has said that (Continued, on page five) Teel's $150,000 - Estate To Widow Slain Man's Will Filed For Probate INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Drug firm executive Forrest Teel left to his widow an estate worth more than $150,000, including the white Cadillac in which he was shot to death a week ago by his jealous lover because he was courting a younger woman. Hie 54-year-old handsome businessman’s' will was filed for probate today, just .as an official coroner’s report was filed in another Marion County Courthouse office terming Teel’s death “murder ... by a woman friend during a quarrel.” Mrs. Connie Nicholas, 42, has admitted shooting Teel in an. argument after he merged from a seven-hour tryst with a 29-year-old secretary in the early morning hours of July 31. She said she shot in a struggle for her gun after he struck her. The secretary, whose attorney sent her away in seclusion pending a probable grand jury appearance, was identified by police as Laura Mowrer, like Mrs. Nichols a divorcee. The prosecuting attorney planned a murder indictment against Mrs. Nicholas in what he called a "malicious, cold-blooded, premeditated murder.” The will was filed by J.D. Wright, who referred to himself as the “family attorney” for Teel. It left Mrs. Elizabeth Teel an estate of unknown worth but known to be “in excess of $150,000,” Wright said. - ' ■ Mrs. Teel will get the Cadillac, the car in which Teel had used in courting both his women friends, and a plane which Teel recently bought. The fashionable house the Teels shared was owned jointly by the Teels and became Mrs. Teel’s when her husband died. Wright said the will Was written in October, 1945. He said it did not mention the couple’s adopted son, Tommy, 14, because Teel (Continued on page three)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, August 6,1958

Eisenhower To Attend UN Assembly Session If Found Necessary

i Clear Way For I House To Ad k OnSchoolßiil t Committee Clears Way For Action On i Science Education United Press International ( Hie House Rules Committee t today cleared for House action t President Eisenhower's $1,070,- , 000,000 bill to aid science educa--5 tibn. 5 The President asked for the measure to create a backlog of young scientists to put this coun- ’ try ahead of the Soviet Union in missiles development and space I exploration. The committee, by a reported I 6-3 vote, agreed to send the bill to the House floor under procedure allowing unlimited amendments. The House was expected to take it up later this week, with a good chance of passage. Elsewhere in Congress: TVA: The House Rules Committee, “traffic cop” for legislation the House considers, voted to table a Senate-passed bill to put the Tennessee Valley Authority on a self-financing basis. Steel Priees: Chairman John W. Gwynne of the Federal Trade Commission told Senate monopoly investigators his agency does not have enough evidence of misconduct among steel companies to justify a full-scale inquiry into recent steel price increases. Goldfine: Gift-giving millionaire Bernard Goldfine appealed to more than 400 House members not to cite him “unjustly” for contempt of Congress. The House Commerce Committee has recommended he be cited for refusing to answer 22 questions posed by House influence investigators. Rackets: Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa denied that he received any part of an alleged $17,500 payoff which Detroit laundry owners made to settle a labor dispute. Labor: President Eisenhower refused at a news conference to give his unqualified backing to the Senate-passed labor union reform bill pending in the House. But he said he would it if it shows progress in the field. Congress: Eisenhower said that all in all the Democratic - con- ‘ trolled Congress, now pressing ‘ ~ ’ (Continued on cage five) ' c Annual 4-H Club And c I Junior Leader Camp * 105 From County To 1 Attend Annual Camp J Swimming, recreation classes I and camp life will attract 105 Ad- i ams county junior leaders and 4-H < club members this weekend to Lake McClure, in Kosciusko coun- i ty, for the 11th annual 4-H club ' and junior leader camp. 1 Fifty junior leaders will leave Saturday noon for their day of I camping, and they will return t home Sunday afternoon as the 55 1 4-H club members arrive for their € four-day stay. On schedule for the whole ses- f sion will be organized recreation r and swimming. Junior leaders will attend church on the camp s grounds Sunday morning. Four- s H’ers will have classes in the v morning on swimming, handicraft, t nature study, recreation and sing- I ing. In the afternoon there will be c organized recreation and swim- c ming. Each evening, rounding out r their program, the 4-H’ers will c have vesper services. Evening programs will include a popcorn t pop, movies, and a stunt night, t when each cabin will organize a i stunt for the program. t Wednesday afternoon the 4-H campers will return home. Their a cooks for the stay will be Mrs. 1 Noah Habegger and Mrs. Ed Ger- ii bers, who were in charge of the food tent at the Adams county 4-H c fair during the last three days of s July. 1

Council Receives Several Petitions Regular Meeting Is Held Tuesday Night The Dqcatur city council considered a variety of petitions in its regular meeting Tuesday night. A corrected (petition for the Clark W. Smith first addition to the city of Decatur was referred to the city plan commission and the city engineer. The area lies west of the Decatur city limits between Oak Ridge park and U. S. highway 224. It is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Clark W. Smith, Oscar F. Lankenau, Mrs. Rose M. Lankenau, and Mr. and Mrs. Noah R. Steury. «An ordinance approving a contract between Allen Fleming and the city of Decatur, by which Fleming will remove ground and clean land adjacent to the Youth and Community Center for a skating rink, was approved. There will be no cost to the city. Six couples living on West Monroe and West Madison streets between 11th and 12th streets petitioned to have a light placed on the second pole from 12th street. . Twelve signers petitioned to have an alley light placed on the first ploe west of 9th street in the alley between Nuttman avenue and Marshall street. Both alley light petitions were referred to the electhe superintendent. Residents of the east side of Master drive petitioned to have garbage collected from the well graded alley behind their homes, rather than from in front as is presently being done. There were 25 signers. The council signified that the sanitation committee would reroute the garbage truck behind the homes. The final costs on the AeschlL man lateral to the Porter Homewood sewer were not approved, (Continued on page five) Believe Khrushchev Overruled By Mao Viewed As Key To Khrushchev Change LONDON (UPl)—Soviet Premier and party boss Nikita Khrushchev has been over-ruled by Red China’s leader Mao Tse-tsung. This was the verdict today of diplomatic quarters and Soviet affairs experts on Khrushchev’s dramatic somersault on the summit theme. It aroused speculation that the Soviet leader may not be the strong man after all that he appeared to be. The ■ defeat" may have repercussions nearer home where a hard core of Stalin-type politicians and personal opponents have been biding their time for a possible day of reckoning. There was no question of an imminent danger to the burly Soviet leader; but some experts felt there was writing on the wall. They key to the events of the past 24 hours lies in the secret talks between Khrushchev and Mao in Peiping during the weekend. What happened there is a well guarded secret and is likely to remain so. But the suddenness of the trip and the secrecy surrounding it suggested at once that something went wrong. The signs now are that Khrushchev dashed to Peiping to appease an irate Chinese chief who has been assuming quietly an increasingly important role in the leadership of world communism. It appears that Khrushchev had to bow to Mao’s terms including the abandoning of his cherished idea of a summit meeting with th? Western leaders. The precedent has established a virtual Red Chinese veto over Russia’s ma Jot policy decisions in the international field. The conclusion drawn from this development by diplomatic sources today was that Russia no longer can go it alone.

Hoffa Denies Receiving Any Part Os Payoff Denies Receipt Os Any Part Os Payoff From Laundrymen WASHINGTON (UPD — Teamster President James R. Hoffa denied in a shouting match with Senate rackets investigators today that he received any part of an alleged $17,500 payoff which Detroit laundry owners made to settle a labor dispute. I didn’t get it,” the controversial Teamster boss said, his voice rising to a high pitch. He entered the denial after a heated exchange with Sen. Irving M. Ives R-N.Y. Hoffa’s lawyer, Edward Bennett Williams, appealed to Chairman John L. MsClellan D. Ark. stop Ives from shouting at Hoffa, A group of laundry owners testified Tuesday that they paid sl7, 500 to labor consultant Joseph Holtzman in 1949 to help them get a contract with a Teamsters local. Some of the laundrymen said they regarded the payment as a “payoff to prevent a strige and told the committee they assured that part of it went to Hoffa, a friend of Holtzman. Clash With Committee At the outset of today’s hearing, Williams accused the committee of running a “legislative trial” and complained about the introduction of rumors and hearsay in the testimony. Hoffa continued the row as he returned to the witness stand. He clashed with committee members on subjects ranging from the Senator labor reform bill to the standard of wages in their states. At its first session Tuesday the I committee did not allude directly to the burning of Teamsters official Frank Kierdorf in Pontiac, Mich, it sought to determine whether Hoffa profited from an alleged $17,500 payoff which Detroit laundry owners made to a labor consultant during a dispute with the teamsters. Resturns to Stand Chief committee counsel Robert (Continued on page two) Mrs. Sara Stratton Is Taken By Death 103-Yeor-Old Allen County Native Dead ~ Mrs. Sara Elizabeth Fitch Stratton, 103, a native of Allen county and a sister-in-law of famed Hoosier author Gene Stratton Porter, died at 7 p.m. Monday at her home in Parkersburg, W. Va. Born in Perry township, Allen county, she was the last of her generation. She had been in failing health for the past year. In March, 1957, when the entire family gathered in Parkersburg for a birthday dinner for her, she was in reasonably good health, and among the greetings on this occasion was a birthday message from President Eisenhower. In 1881 she was married to Judge Irvin Franklin Stratton in Fort Wayne, and in 1887 she and Judge Strattah moved to Wichita, Kan. She returned to Fort Wayne after Judge Stratton’s accidental death in 1920. She moved to Parkersburg in 1930. She was a member of the Wayne Street Methodist church. Fort Wayne. Surviving are two sons, L. E. Stratton, Frazier, Mont., and H. F. Stratton Parkersburg; two daughters, Mrs. C. R. Nobles, Parkersburg, and Mrs. C. H. Bowlby, Cincinnati, O.; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. The body is being returned! to the Klaehn funeral home, Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 6 p.m. today. Funeral services will be conducted there at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the Rev. Earl T. Cogan officiating. Burial will be in Lindenwood cemetery.

Senator Symington, Gov. Williams Win Score Overwhelming Primary Victories United Press International U.S. Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri and Michigan Gov.< G. Mennen Williams swept to impressive victories in primary elections Tuesday to enhance their party prospects as 1960 Democratic presidential candidates. Besides Michigan and Missouri, primaries also were held in Kansas and West Virginia. In Kansas, Clyde Reed Jr., a Parsons (Kan.) newspaper publisher and son of a former governor and U.S. senator, captured the Republican gubernatorial nomination an hour after the polls closed. Former Gov. Fred Hall of Dodger City conceded the race to Reed when the latter jumped to an overwhelming lead with only one sixth of the returns counted. In West Virginia, where two U.S. Senate seats are up for grabs this year, former Rep. Jennings Randolph and Rep. Robert C. Byrd were the apparent winners for the Democratic senatorial nominations. Seeking Sixth Term Incumbent Republican Sens. John D. Hoblitzell Jr., seeking i election to the two-year unexpired 1 term of the late Sen. Matthew Neely, and Chapman Revercomb, seeking re-election to a full term, were unopposed for rehomlnation. Williams smashed his opponent, radio station owner William L. Johnson of Ironwood, by a better than five-to-one margin to win renomination to an unprecedented sixth term as Michigan governor. Republicans named Paul D. Bagwell, a professor at Michigan State University, to oppose Williams. GOP Sen. Charles E. Pot(Contlnued on paxe five) : Ex-State Highway > Olficial Indicted i Former Purchasing Director Indicted INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A Mar--1 ion County grand jury indicted former Indiana state highway purchasing director Cecil P. McDonough Tuesday on a charge of accepting bribes. The jury charged McDonough accepted bribes of $3,600 and $1,250 from “Gio” salesman Arthur J. Mogilner. The indictment said the bribes were paid "to corruptly influence” action helping Mogilner gain highway contracts. Criminal Court Judge Saul I. Rabb set bond at SIO,OOO, which McDonough posted when he surrendered late in the day to gain his release pending (trial. Mogilner testified in the recent highway bribery trial of Elmer (Doc) Sherwood and William E. Sayer that he paid McDonough more than $15,000 in bribes and “kickbacks” in the sale of equipment to the state. The jury did not indict two other former highway aides tagged by Mogilner as receiving payoffs. Prosecutor John Tinder said the jury "did. not see fit to indict the two men” because there was no evidence to back up Mogilner’s testimony. McDonough was highway purchasing director under former Gov. George Craig. McDonough was given a job in the State Gross Income Tax Division when Governor Handley took office. He lost his job when he pleaded the Fifth Amendment before a grand jury. Mogilner testified in the Sher-wood-Sayer trial he conspired with the two men to bribe former State Highway Chairman Virgil (Red) Smith. Mogilner pleaded guilty and got a, suspended sentence. Sherwood and Sayer were sentenced to 2 to 14 years in prison, but were free on bond pending appeal. Tinder said Mogilner had checks and vouchers showing payments to McDonough. He indicated Mogilner would again be a state witness in McDonough’s trial.

Feels Entire Mideast Area Be Included Opposes Limiting Assembly Session Solely To Lebanon WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower said today that he will attend the United Nations special assembly metding on the Middle East if he finds it necessary or desirable that he should participate. The President told a news conference that he believed the assembly discussion should not be confined to what he called little Lebanon, but should range over a wider section of the Middle East because the causes of the troubles there are so widespread. Eisenhower said the United States is still willing to consider an eventual ummit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other big power leaders if proper preparations could be made toward worthwhile accomplishments. Attendance Not Definite He said the United States will start pulling its troops out of i Lebanon just as soon as the ' United States and the government . of Lebanon feel that there is no longer any danger of indirect aggression of the type that was being carried on before U.S. troops went into the area. He added that any time the legitimate government of Lebanon asks the United States to pull out, it will leave. In his first news conference since July 2, the President told 241 newsmen that he had made no specific plans as yet to attend the special assembly session on the Middle East but that if he felt it necessary cfr desirable to participate he would do so. He said that so far, he knew of no general intention on the pas’t of other chiefs of state to attend the session but any delegation could, if it wished, be represented by the head of its government. The West, had originally proposed that the heads of government meet at a summit conference within the framework of the U.N. Security Council. Khrushchev had 1 originally conditionally accepted this idea but abruptly changed his position and Tuesday called for ■ an emergency meeting of the General Assembly to consider what he terms U.S. and British “aggression” in the Mideast. Rejects Aggression Charge The President Tuesday night promptly accepted Khruschev’s suggestion but made plain in a statement that this country would insist that the assembly weigh U.S. countercharges of “indirect aggression" against Lebanon and Jordan. The General Assembly meeting is expected to be called to start next week in New York. Britain announced today that a General Assembly meeting on the Middle East “would be acceptable.” It was understood that Britain hoped that foreign ministers rather than heads of government would attend the assembly meeting in New York. In today’s news conference, the President again bitingly rejected Soviet assertions that the United States was guilty of aggression in the Middle East. He said the record itself should show that the accusation of aggression fitted (Continued on page two) I I Everett G. Hutker Heads School Board Everett G. Hutker, of 733 Cleveland street, was elected president of the-Decatur school board Tuesday night, 'replacing Dr. James Burk, who has completed a oneyear term in the office. Dr. Burk was elected secretary of the school board, and John G. Heller was elected treasurer. This will be Hutker’s second one--1 year term during his five years on the Decatur school board. The school budget estimate for 1959 was discussed, and will be submitted for publication later this week.

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