Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 11 August 1958 — Page 1

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Russia Using War Threat To Back Demands Seeking Support Os Other Nations For Demands From U.N. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD —The Soviet Union today was using the threat of a new world war to back its demand for the withdrawal of U. S. and British troops from the Middle East and to win support from uncommitted U. N. members for the Soviet position. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabdt Lodge were reported meeting with some of the uncommitted delegates today and Tuesday to seek support for their rival plans before Wednesday’s emergency meeting of the U. N. General Assembly. Gromyko flew in Sunday from Moscow with a warning the threat of war in the Middle East was “still very acute” and* the determination to make the presence of Anglo-American troops in Jordan and Lebanon the scapegoat for the present Middle East crisis. Position Clear He received powerful support from Premier Nikita Khrushchev who said in a speech in Kuibyshev the Communist world would “do e verthing to rout the aggressors and establish peace on earth” if the West caused a war in the Middle East. The Soviet position was clear: its Middle East policy at the U. N. session will be simply to get the and British troops out of the Middle East. Khrushchev said Russia would do “everything possible” to accomplish this. At the same time the Russians indicated they also would do everything they could to discredit the United States and Britain. Already the official Russian press was accusing Washington of trying to paralyze the General Assembly even before the session started. May Surprise The U. S. position was more vague, and President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Fos-, ter Dullus were still putting the final touches on the plan in Washington. There were hints in Washington the U. S. plan would contain dramatic surprise proposals beyond the already-stated intention of outlawing “indirect aggression” in the Middle East. Much of it was expected to follow U. N. Secre-tary-General Dag Hammarskjold’s proposals to coordinate peace plans with efforts to improve economic conditions there. There still was a major possibility Gromyko would raise the issue of Communist China's admission to the United Nations at this session. He told newsmen (Continued on page Ove)

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Tuesday with widely scattered thundershowers mostly in north and central sections. A little cooler extreme north portion tonight. Warm Tuesday. Low tonight 62 to 68 north, 68 to 73 south. High Tuesday 87 to 93. Sunset today 7:46 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:54 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Scattered showers and thundershowers and turning cooler. Lows near 70. Highs 85 to 90.

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Grand Jury Opens Probe In Gambling Federal Grand Jury Opens Investigation INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A federal grand jury today opened a two-week investigation into the affairs of an international gambling syndicate which apparently muffed a $350,000 weekly footballbet gross income for failure to buy a SSO tax stamp. Twenty-three jurors heard District Attorney Don A. Tabbert in a two-hour briefing session this morning aimed at giving them background information gleaned by U.S. Treasury intelligence agents before and during a raid on a Terre Haute den last Nov. 29 which broke up an alleged syndicate. Tabbert has charged that the syndicate operated for 10 weeks last fall in Terre Haute, grossing about $3,500,000 from bets of SI,OOO or more on college and professional football games. Agent* to Testify Six men were arrested in the raid on charges of failing to have a SSO federal gambling tax stamp. The charges remained on file ever since but the defendants never were called to plead because Tabbert and other federal agents sensed “something big” and sought further information which might send members of the ring to prison for five-year terms. Opening-day witnesses included nine treasury agents and a dozen or more Terre Haute persons Tabbert believes have information about the syndicate’s activities. They included postal employes Frank Paris, Stephen Rozgony, Lowell Miller and Jerome Courtney, who handled mail addressed to the occupants of third-floor rooms above a restaurant where raiders found eight telephones jangling with bet-placing callers. Others subpoenaed for today were Prince Jones, an employe of the Manor House restaurant; Emma L. Tacker, a restaurant cashier; Cleo Riggs, Norma Rowe and Colleen Walker, restaurant waitresses. Hoosiers First Day More than 170 witnesses were subpenaed for the two-week probe. But the first two days were devoted to Indiana persons, most of them from Terre Haute, with dozens of men from coast-to-coast and lakes to gulf scheduled to parade before the jury daily beginning Wednesday. Tabbert said the big bulk of the witnesses were persons the government believes placed large bets with the syndicate but had no connction with it except as patrons. These included H.L. Hunt, one of the world’s richest men as head of a giant oil company in (Continued on page four)

Russell Li by Dies Os Heart Attack Sunday Russell L. Liby, 47, well known in this community, died of a heart attack Sunday at a Benton Harbor, Mich., hospital managed a grocery store at St. Joseph, Mich. He was a native of Bluffton and lived in Fort Wayne until 10 years ago. Surviving are his wife, Dorothy: two sons, Robert and Thomas; three daughters, Nancy, Beth and Jane; his mother, Mrs. Carrie Liby, all of St. Joseph, and a sister, Mrs. Leßoy Blugh of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the D. 0. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 7:30 .p.m. Tuesday.

Speculate U.S. To Withdraw Some Marines State Department Urges Withdrawal Os Some Os Troops WASHINGTON < UPD-Specula-tion intensified today that the United States is on the verge of pulling a battalion of Marines — 1,800 men—out of Lebanon. % Some diplomatic quarters thought the announcement might come today or Tuesday. - The State Department is known to have urged the Defense Department to make at least a token withdrawal of U.S. troops from Lebanon before the United Nations assembly meeting Wednesday to consider the Mideast problem. Total U.S. forces in Lebanon now number about 14,300 soldiers and Marines. Military sources said one battalion of Marines now in the tiny Mideast country is long overdue for “rotation” back to the United States. Its scheduled return to this country was halted twice previously—the second time when the Iraq revolt led to the U.S. landings in Lebanon. Prepare Assembly Proposals It is known a replacement marine battalion is preparing to embark for the Mediterranean. However this battalion could be kept aboard ship in the Mediterranean; handy if needed. This would have the effect of reducing U.S. forces in Lebanon while not cutting overall U.S. strength in the Mediterranean. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were expected to put the final touches today and Tuesday on the U.S. Mideast case to be laid before the U.N. assembly Wednesday. Dulles was expected to leave Tuesday afternoon for New York City. There was general belief in the State Department the President himself will attend the opening assembly session and lay down the basic U.S. position. There were hints the U.S. plan would contain some dramatic surprise proposals. But usually well - informed diplomatic quarters said they knew of nothing -in that category in plans they had seen to date.

Barring last-minute changes the U.S. program consists of a doublebarrelled approach: 1. To get immediate assembly action outlawing “indirect aggression” and setting up a special U.N. commission or commissions to deal with this and other Mideast political problems. 2. To propose long-term efforts to coordinate economic steps to increase living standards throughout the Mideast. Charge American. Interference This represents a compromise between views of Dulls, who insisted the chief aim of the, special U.N. sssion was to deal with “indirect aggression” in the Mideast, and those of the White House, Vice President Richard M. Nixon and some members of Congress who called for a more “constructive” approach to the Mideast situation. Hiere were these other weakened developments: League said he was "certain” Arab nations would join a U.N. pact to bar direct and indirect aggression in the Mideast "if you can define what indirect and direct aggressions are.” The spokes(Continued on page five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, August 11,1958

Five Persons Killed As Two Passenger Trains In Headon Collision

H-Bomb Raid To Kill Nearly All Americans Raid Now On 150 American Cities Is Shown In Study WASHINGTON (UPD—A House subcommittee released a hitherto secret study today estimating that most of us — nearly 160 million persons — would be killed in an H-bomb raid now on 150 American cities. This startling figure was contained in a study of probable effects of a nuclear attack prepared by the Rand Corporation, a research concern that does topsecret research for the Air Force. The House military operations subcommittee, in releasing the study, said it was made by the Rand Corporation on its own and not with government money. Th subcommittee, Wfilch long has urged a 20-billion-dollar nuclear shelter program, renewed its appeal with release of the study. It said failure of the administration and Congress to adopt the program has put the nation in “mortal danger.” Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.), subcommittee chairman, told United Press International that blind economy by the Eisehhower administration was blocking the shelter program. “We spend 40 billion dollars a year for defense and it gives us no final defense,” he said. “We gamble everything on the idea that our retaliatory power will prevent an atomic war. But what if it doesn’t? The nation has virtually no civil defense at—all.” The Rand Corp, study did not specify the degree of preparedness in individual cities nor name the. 150 cities. But expert witnesses before the subcommittee — backed by Holifield — said there was virtually no prearedness in any American cities.

Heart Attack Fatal To Rep. Wm. McVey WASHINGTON (UPD — The House postponed a heavy work schedule today to tulogize Rep. William E. McVey (R-Ill.), who died Sunday night after a heart attack. Leaders had scheduled a long list of bills for action by the House today. Despite the push toward ajournment, they said they would delay them until Tuesday so members could pay tribute to McVey.

Ross Timmons Dies Late Saturday Night Father Os Democrat Employe Is Dead Ross E. Timmons, 74, of Pitland, father of Cferald E. Timmons, compositor for the Decatur Daily Democrat, died late Saturday night of complications following a severe attack of asthma Friday. He was taken to the Jay county hospital Friday evening following the. attack... ; , A lifelong resident of Portland, Mr. Timmons operated a shoe and canvas repair shop for many years. Survivors are the widow, Cora; two daughters, Mrs. Arbutus Rarick and Mrs. James Stephenson, of Portland; five sons, Gerald Timmons, of Berne; and Moer Nigel, Virgil and Ross, Jr., of Portland; 20 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren;- a brother Edgar Timmons, Portland, and a sister, Mrs. Nora Smith, St. Francisville, Hl. ——. Friends may call at the Baird funeral -home, where, services will be conducted at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Lee Tyndall. Burial will be in Green Park cemetery*

Heavy Rainfall In County Last Night Thundershowers Hit County Late Sunday Heavy thundershowers rumbled over the area late Sunday afternoon and all during the night, drenching the county with an average of 2.26 inches of rain. Lightning and thunder accompanied the torrents of rain, which fell over the county during the night, with some coming in porttons of the county during the late afternoon, around 4:30 p. m. FaHs ranged from 3.5 inches in Kirkland township, and 3.4 inches in French township to .6 inch in Union township. Gusts of high wind accompanied the general downpour in places, but no serious damage was reported this morning. Power supply was interrupted for an hour or two last night ih outlying areas, according to the city light and power diesel plant this noon. Some telephone service was interrupted, according to the Citizens Telephone company; the most damage was caused by lightning burns, and toll lines toward Fort Wayne were damaged. What service is still damaged is expected to be restored by this evening, however. At Decatur the St, Mary’s river had risen from 4.30 feet Sunday at 7 a. m. to 10.34 feet this mcux* ing at 7 to 12.08 at noon. The -Wabash, in the southern part of the county, was not expected to rise much. This afternoon the county weather picture looked like this: at the Arthur Koeneman farm, in Preble township, 2 4 inches was recorded during the night. In Root township, on the Cecil Harvey farm, a 1.9 inch fall was recorded until this morning. In neither of these townships was there much wind connected with the storm. In Union township, on the Erwin Fuelling farm, .6, the lowest county fall, stood in the rain gauge this morning. Although it became quite windy no serious damage was done: Thursday, when the rest of the county had little rain, (Continued on page five)

Democrat Candidates For Legislature Meet Back Investigation Os Bribery Reports INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — About half of the Indiana Democrats seeking seats in the 1959 Legislature voted unanimously Sunday for a legislative investigation of reports of bribery in connection with toll road proposals in the 1955 General Assembly. Nearly 80 candidates for Indiana Senate and House seats met to discuss campaign plans for the November election, in which they hope to seize control of the next Lgislature. They adopted a resolution calling for a legislative investigating committee next January of stories that bribe offers were made to lawmakers three years ago in an effort to authorize construction of a north-south toll road between the Chicago and Indianapolis areas. The resolution had the backing of Mayor Vance Hartke of Evansville, the party’s nominee for U.S. senator. Hartke said he felt “the proposal should be pursued to the fullest extent and the . investigation should be conducted without fear or favor or regard to political party.” The motion for an investigation was made by Sen. David Rogers (D-Bloomington), who said: “We Democratic legislative candidates go on record as being in favor of a full and complete investigation of toll road commissions and state highway departments, both past and present.” Panel discussions were held during the meeting on a number of issues, including "right to work.” A third meeting of a small group of nominees for about a dozen Statehouse offices will be held Tuesday.

Dangers From Radiation Are Cited By Group I Report To UN By Committee Shows Panger Os Fallout UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD —A 15-nation U. N. committee has agreed unanimously that mankind faces “new and largely unknown hazards” as a result of radioactive fallout from nuclear weapons tests. The cortimittee, which has been studying the problem for more than two and one half years, found that “even the smallest amounts of radiation are liable to cause deleterious genetic and prhaps also somatic effects.” Somatic effects include cancer and leukemia. The report added, “The irradiation of any groups of people, before and during the reproductive age, will contribute genetic effects to whole populations in so far as the gonads (reproduction- glands) are exposed.” Praises Study In Washington, the Atomic Energy Commission lauded the “thorough - going study” made by the U. N. Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation but said “man must learn to live” with radiation. The AEC added, “It is important to note that in so far as leukemia and bone cancdr are concerned, the committee has pointed out there is no certainty that fallout will produce any additional cases of either disease.” Moreover, said the AEC, the committee “has taken pains to estimate the greatest number of cases which might result from fallout under the most pessimistic conditions.” A Political Problem The committee’s report, which will be submitted to the next regular session of the U. N. General Assembly, stopped short of calling for cessation of nuclar tests. It said that problem was one for the political men, not the scientists, to solve, and called merely for “cessation of contamination” caused by nuclear testing. The 15 - nation group said, “Radioactive contamination of the environment resulting from explosions of nuclear weapons constitutes a growing increment to world-wide radiation levels. “This involves new and largely unknown hazards to present and future populations; these hazards, by their very nature, are beyond the control of the exposed person.”

Dowell M. Singer Dies This Morning Decatur Man Dies After Brief Illness Dowell M. Singer, 46, of 821 Dierkes street, died of a heart condition at the St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne at 4 o’clock this morning following a week's illness. A resident of Adams county for the past 21 years, Mr. Singer was employed at the Decatur General Electric plant for 18 years. He was born in Poneto, Wells county, Dec. 19, 1911, the son of Charles W. and Ora Foreman-Singer. He was married to the former Georgiana Brickley of Bluffton at South Milford on Oct. 17, 1936. Mr. Singer attended the Methodist church, and was a member of the Decatur Moose lodge. Survivors include the widow; two daughters, Beverly and Barbara, both at home, and a sister, Mrs. Gladys Munyon, of Muncie, Services will be held at the Thomas funeral home in Bluffton at 1 p. m. Thursday, the Rev. George Talbert of North Manchester officiating. Burial will be in the Elm Grove cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Tuesday,

Three Os Lebanon Leaders Murdered Bloody Reprisals Likely To Follow BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD — A spokesman for the pro-govern-ment P. P. S. (Popular Syrian Party) said today the murder of three of the party’s top members “opens a new era of assassiin Lebanon. The assassination of the three men was expected to bring bloody - reprisals from other pro-govern- ( ment groups against the rebel < forces who have opposed Presi- ‘ dent Camille Chamoun. The bodies of the three men, including P. P. S. leader Achmed Hammound, were found in rebel ! territory near Yanta on the Leb- ' anese - Syrian border. They had been shot and their throats cut. Seven other P. P. S. men have 1 been reported found killed in the ' vicinity of Baalbek during the ’ past five days. It was in this area the right-wing party battled ' the rebels during recent fighting. 1 The Yanta area is ruled by rebel Druse leader Shibli Arwan whose forces were accused of kil in g five Lebanese customs guards last month. The P. P. S. spokesman said his party was “incensed” at the slayings and that the group would meet to discuss the incident. The three victims were identified as Hammound, Malik Sakour, another party leader,, and a third said only to be a “prominent lawyer.” Beirut and the rest of the country were reported quiet. U. S. Authorites gave liberty to 2,000 Marines, soldiers and sailors Sunday afternoon and the men walked through the streets of the city without major. incidents. Martinsville Lady Is Fatally Injured MARTINSVILLE. Ind. (UPD *- Mrs. Maude E. Wilhite, 79, Martinsville, died Sunday in an Indianapolis hospital where she was under treatment for injuries sustained in a two-car collision here Aug. 2.

Bloodmobile Unit In Berne Aug. 20 More Blood Needed At Regional Center With summer months come more calls for blood at the Fort Wayne regional blood center, a lasp of donors who go on vacations and forget, and consequently a shortage of the vital material during the summer. Calls for more blood have recently come from the Fort Wayne regional blood center, whose area includes Adams county. With August 20, area residents will have a chance to keep their quota up to par, as the bloodmobile will make one of its six stops in Adams county with its semi-annual stop at Berne. From the Adams county headquarters of the American Red Cross, now stationed on the second floor in the Reppert building, (the telephone numbers have remained the same) come these figures on the county’s donations and use of the blood: When the bloodmobile made its last stop, in June, 118 pints, eight short of the quota, were collected. However, 12 blood donors traveled to Indianapolis to give frfesh blood for a heart operation; these 12 directly-given pints brought the county over the quota for this time. At least 170 prospective donors are required to make appointments before the quota of 127 pints can be met, the Red Cross office reminds area residents. Adams county needed this much blood from the Fort Wayne regional center for this calendar year: January, 17 pints; February, 46; March, 31; April, 40; May, 42; June, 22, with the 12 directly- given pints, 34; and for July, 23.

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Erie Trains Crash Today In New York Report 12 Persons Seriously Injured In Crash At Station SLOATSBURG, N. Y. (UPD — Two Erie Railroad passenger trains collided headon today at the Sterlington, N.Y., Station just south of this Rockland County community. State police reported at least five persons were killed and between 30 and 40 persons injured, 12 of them seriously. Authorities said many scats in the trains were crumpled and that it was possible more bodies were inside. . Three of the dead were believed to be passengers and the other two trainsmen. A spokesman for the railroad said the accident occurred when a westbound train, headed for Port Jervis, N. Y. failed to stop at the Sufferin station to permit the eastbound train, bound for Hoboken, N. J., to pass on the westbound track. “It appears to have been a case of man failure,” an Erie spokesman said. He said it had not bean determined, however, who was to blame. Because of the site—at a blind ' curve — neither train was visible to the other until practically the ’ moment of impact. ’ State police said the collision hap- , pened during a light fog. The point where the accident happened is in a relatively hilly section of the Ramapo Mountains, in northern Rockland County, about five miles from the New York - New Jersey state line. ‘ ' The trains involved were a fourcar passenger train, headed from Port Jervis, N. Y., to Hoboken, N. J., and a mixed four-car pas-senger-freight train, bound from Hoboken to Port Jervis. Both locomotives were telescop- ( Continued on page tour)

Find Bodies Os Two Plane Crash Victims ROBBINSVILLE, N. C. (UPI) — Rescue workers Sunday found the bodies of two Georgia men killed when their light plane crashed into the side of Hangover Mountain near here. The men, identified as Paul J. Kennon, 32, of Atlanta, and W. P. Ward, of Griffin, had vanished on a flight from Knoxville, Tenn,, to Atlanta Aug. 3. Research Funds Cut May Peril Nation House Subcommittee Assails Fund Cut WASHINGTON (UPI) -A House government operations subcommittee charged today the administration has "seriously” cut funds for military research and development in the face of rising costs and “deadly competition with an implacable foe.” The subcommittee said in a report approved by the full Government Operations Committee that high-ranking officials of ail three military services testified the United States is “not keeping up in research and development.” it blamed the lag not only on lack of funds but “a web of red tape” as well. It proposal 22 recommendations aimed at streamlining Pentagon research activities. Five Republican members of the committee led by Rep. Clare E. Hoffman (R-Mich.), top-rank-ing minority member, charged the subcommittee with spreading “Democratic propaganda.” The minority report accused committee Democrats of trying to “craftily conceal" political attacks on the administration in their “voluminous report."