Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 199.

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Legal Baffle Onlntegrafion To High Court Ask Supreme Court To Remove Barriers At Arkansas School WASHINGTON (UPI) — The legal battle over admission of Negro students to Little Rock’s Central High School by Sept. 2 probably won’t reach its Supreme Court climax until late next week. The National Assn, for the Advancement of Colored ’People (NAACP) asked the Supreme Court late Friday to brush away the legal barriers preventing seven Negro students from entering the Arkansas school next month. It asked the high court in a petition to overrule the decision of the Bth Circuit Court of Appeals Thursday in which that tribunal stayed its previous order banning segregation at the high school. Asks Oral Arguments Court officials said the NAACP petition was rushed air mailspecial delivery to Justice Charles E. Whittaker at Los Angeles. Attorneys for the Little Rock School Board, vAiich sought the integration delay, also were notified that any reply to the NAACP petition must be in Whittaker’s hands by noon, Thursday, Aug. 28. NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall has asked for opportunity to present oral arguments on his petition. They could be heard anywhere in the country. The Supreme Court is in recess for the summer. Whittaker, however, has authortiy to act on Bth Circuit emergency appeals. Whittaker said in Denver Friday en route to the American Bar Assn, meeting in Los Angeles that he believed a single justice has the power to set aside an appeals court stay. But court observers said such an action would be unprecedented. The NAACP petition, therefore, not only asked that the circuit court’s stay order be vacated but that the previous order of Federal District Judge Harry J. Lemley be stayed “and for such other relief as may be necessary to protect petitioners’ declared constitutional rights.” A Double-Barrelled Petition The double - barrelled NAACP petition seeks a return to the status quo when racial integration of schools at Little Rock was the prevailing court order. Lemley on June 21 entered an order modifying the prior court order which had been entered ordering the school board to proceed with their plan of gradual desegregation. Instead, Lemley ordered a suspension of the operation of that plan until midsemester of the 1960-61 school terra. me NAACP petition to Whittaker noted that the legal rights of the Negro students to attend unsegregated schools “are now beyond question.” If the stay order is permitted to stand and Lemley’s order remains in force, the petition said, the rights of the Negro students “will be effectively destroyed, the damage will be irreaparable and the order of a federal court will in (Continued oa page five)

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Determined Negro Children End Ban Battle Stores To End Segregation OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) — A group of determined Negro children, aged 6 to 17, fresh from two victories, took on Oklahoma’s largest department store today in their battle to end segregation at city cases and drugstores. Meanwhile, NAACP leaders disclosed they had been planning the children’s march, now in its fifth day, for 15 months, and the fight will be carried to several other stores. - Katz Drug Store, located at one of the city’s busiest intersections in the downtown area, was the first to give in to the children’s soda fountain sitdown strike, and Negroes were served on an equal basis with whites there today. Kress, the largest downtown variety store, opened its soda fountain to Negroes Friday for the first time in history after some 35 Negro children lined up quietly at the counter. The Negro youths, smiling but reserved, went from Kress to the luncheonette of the John A. Brown Co., which claims to be Oklahoma’s largest department store. The youths seated themselves in the booths with magazines to fill their time and waited. The store refused to serve them. Manager Kermit Hardwick replied with a crisp, “no comment,” when reporters tried to interview him. The Negroes stayed in the luncheonette until the 5:30 p. m. closing time and left voluntarily. They attended a meeting Friday night at which plans were laid to resume the soda sitdown when the John A. Brown store opened today. Mrs. Clara Luper, Oklahoma City, adviser for the Oklahoma City Youth Council of the NAACP, said the group had been trying to break the segregation barriers at cases for 15 months and the sitdown was the culmination of their efforts.

Late Bulletin TAIPEI, Formosa (UPI) — Communist Chinese shore batteries opened a massive bombardment of the Nationalist island group of Quemoy tonight and fired more than 50,000 rounds of high explosive shells, the national defense ministry announced. It was by far the biggest bombardment of any Nationalist Chinese territory by the Chinese Communists since Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government was driven into exile In Formosa In 1949. U.S. Suing Russia For Downing Plane THE HAGUE, Netherlands (UPD — The United States has sued toe Soviet Union for $1,335,650 in the International Court of Justice here for shooting down an American plane over 5 toe Sea of Japan on Sept. 4, 1954. A court communique issued this morning said that toe U. S, government Friday submitted its application alleging toe plane was attacked and shot down by military aircraft of the Soviet Union.

Democrats In Probe OfToll Road Planning Delve Into Reports Os Irregularities Under Republicans FRENCH LICK, Ind. (UPD— Democratic senatorial nominee Vance Hartke said today he hoped “we can find some pay dirt” in reports of irregularities in Indiana toll road planning. The Evansville mayor said Democratic State Committee investigators were seeking information on the charges. He made the statement at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association meeting here. The probe was reported to be delving into toll road maneuvers during the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig after the Northern Indiana Toll Road was completed. Craig supported a survey of a north-south 1 superhighway. The effort was dropped when bonding companies were told the proposed turnpike would not pay off. >- Craig authorized the State Highway Department to pay more than $500,000 for a survey of the route of the super-road, which never got out of the planning stage. Which Made More Reports said politicians profited more from toll road projects than from free-road construction in Indiana which has led to convictions of public officials and GOP leaders. Hartke was in the midst of a half dozen meetings of various Democratic organizations today. The meeting will be climaxed tonight when Sen. Hubert Humphreys (D-Minn.) addresses the editors. National Chairman Paul M. Butler of South Bend was scheduled to arrive today and will speak at the banquet along with State Chairman Charles E. Skillen. Hartke was in every act. He was scheduled to talk to meetings of Democratic editors where he was to seek advice on campaign issues for mayors, county chairman and Young Democrats. Friday night he talked to both state and congressional candidates and said Hoosier farmers would join industrial areas in voting Democrats into power in toe fall elections. On Way Down “Hogs have brought good prices, but they are on their way down now. The market dropped 75 cents today,” said Hartke. “Dairy farmers have been hit badly and now are obtaining less than six cents a quart for milk. Grain farmers are in bad shape. “Cattle prices have remained high, but the factor in that situation has been the drouth of a few years ago and not Mir. (Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft) Benson’s policy. Farmers have told me that they feel they are being plowed under.” ” Hartke predicted all industrial counties would be in toe Democratic fold including Marion, Lake, St. Joseph, Vanderburgh and even Allen, normally a strong GOP section. <Cont!nu*a on »a«e Mx)

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 23,1958

Congressional Leaders Hampered In Attempt To Speed Adjournment

Await Soviet Reaction To Ban On Tests

United States And Britain Awaiting Official Reaction WASHINGTON (UPD—The United States and Britain today awaited an official Soviet reaction to their proposal for a one-year suspension of nuclear weapons tests as a prelude to a disarmament agreement. Informed sources said they expected Soviet acceptance of the West’s conditions. After years of disarmament haggling, they said, Russia now appears to be ready to accept effective international control posts on Soviet territory and on-the-spot inspection of any suspicious activity. An encouraging sign of a new approach to Soviet nuclear policy came earlier this week at Geneva where Soviet and other Communist scientists agreed with Western technicians on a feasible method of enforcing a future nuclear test ban by inspection procedures. Recall Policy Shift President Eisenhower Friday followed up that agreement by proposing that the United States, Britain and Russia begin negotiating Oct. 31 on a control system to police a permanent weapons test ban. “The United States is prepared, unless testing is resumed by the Soviet Union, to withhold further testing on its part of atomic and hydrogen weapons for a period of one year from the beginning of toe negotiations,” he said. Some observers expressed doubt Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev would accept the plan without at least attempting to reap propaganda hay from an exchange of letters. They recalled the shifting Kremlin policy line on a proposed summit meeting at the United Nations, which Khrushchev first appeared to accept but finally rejected. Khrushchev might object to certain features and omissions in the -West’s proposal: —Britain, although joining the United States in offering to suspend tests for one year, plans to (Continued on oage five)

Widespread Drizzle In U.S. Midsection Predict Showers In Great Lakes Region United Press International Widespread drizzle throughout the nation’s midsection thickening to moderate rain at scattered points punctuated an otherwise dull weather picture across the country early'Saturday. Showers were reported in the Upper Mississippi Valley, over the Rockies and Central Plains and over the Northwest. East of the Rockies cool air hung over the northern half of the nation while a warm air mass hovered over the South. Except for a one inch rainfall at Fargo, N. D., precipitation was light and most rains were brief. Temperature readings in the 50s and 60s were common north of a line from Kansas to Virginia with isolated winter-like readings such as a 34 at Grand Marias, Mich. In the South, readings were in the upper 705., West of toe Rockies temperatures ranged from a damp 68 at Seattle to 5 9at San Francisco and 90 at Phoenix. Outside of the band of showers along the Mississippi, skies were generally clear. The weather man predicted showers would spread into the Great Lakes region during the day and shove southward down the Mississippi. Local showers were expected in the Rockies. Elsewhere fair skies were expected with minor temperature changes.

Confirms Signing Os Secret Contract — Auto Workers Union Denies Any Sellout DETROIT (UPD — The United Auto Workers Union today denied charges it “sold out” to American Motors Corp, by agreeing to a “Secret” wage-freeze contract for Kelyinator Division appliance workers in Grand Rapids. Edward L. Cushman, industrial relations vice president for AMC, and Norman Matthews, UAW vice president, confirmed signing of toe contract after it was "leaked” to the press Friday. But Matthews defended the agreement against cries of “sellout" by other unions, emphasizing it covered only 1,200 appliance workers in Grand Rapids. He said the appliance plant was “on the verge of closing” and the agreement was reached by toe local bargaining committee on instructions o£ its membership. Matthews said he did not take part in the bargaining but regional UAW officers assisted the local committee. “Between 900 and 1,000 members of the local attended the ratification meeting and only 11 voted against the agreement.” Matthews said. None of AMC’s 10,000 auto workers were affected. Both Matthews and pushman admitted the contract Was kept secret for 2% months because the UAW was negotiating auto contracts with the Big Three and other firms, including AMC, and was seeking wage and fringe (benefit improvements. AMC is currently involved in its appliance manu- ' facture in Grand Rapids and is "phasing out” its appliance plants in Detroit and Peoria. 111. Workers at both the Detroit <untfnued on page rive) Atomic’ Submarine Into Norway Port Norwegians Plan For Gala Welcome > BERGEN, Norway (UPD — The U. S. atomic submarine Skate headed Into this ancient Viking port today with the fullest picture yet obtained of the ice - dotted waters which are the West's newest defensive front. Thousands of Norwegians lined the docks, ready to give the Skate a gala welcome on its arrival. The official welcoming committee was headed by U. S. ambassador Frances Willis and Defense Minister Nils Handahi. I Norwegian navy and civil officials had prepared an elaborate program of entertainment for the Skate's crew during its visit here. Norway, undaunted by the apprehensions of some others among America’s European allies, will welcome the Skate not only here but in the capital city of Oslo, next stop on the sub's itinerary. A projected visit to Denmark has been cancelled because atom-jit-tery Danes are afraid to have a floating reactor so close to their capital at Copenhagen. Even in Britain, the Skate will be allowed no nearer the capital than the channel town of oPrtland, where its sister ship the Nautilus also stopped during a recent visit. The Norwegians who cheered the Skate into Bergen Harbor Were inspired not only by the fact that no nuclear submarine had even before visited Norway but by the U. S. ship’s inspiring polar performance. Budget Meeting Os City Council Monday Monday evening the city council will meet in special session, open to the public, for the final approval of the city budget. Mayor Robert D. Cole stated this morning. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. at city hall in the council’s meeting room. Any taxpayer who appears may be heard in the discussion of the new budget and tax rate.

Jury's Probe Into Gambling In Third Week Terre Haute, Vigo County Officials Present Testimony INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A federal grand jury investigation of an international gambling syndicate spilled over into its third week with about 35 witnesses yet to be heard. District Attorney Don A. Tabbert originally had expected the jury would complete its study of the case in two weeks, a period which ended Friday. But witnesses apparently had so much to tell that they did not move through the jury rooms at the rate of nearly 20 a day which would have been necessary to end the probe on schedule. Tabbert said it would take about three days next week to wind it up. He said about 125 witnesses have appeared and about 35 remain to be heard. The jury is investigating Tabbert’s contention that the syn<Scate grossed about $3,500,000 in a 10-week period from a base at Terre Haute during the 1957 football season, mostly in wagers on college and professional games. A raid last Nov. 29 resulted in eight arrests and closed down the operation. Friday's final witnesses were Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute, the 1956 Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana; Vigo County Prosecutor John Jett and Sheriff John Trierweiler. The three spent a total of an hour and a half behind closed doors with toe jury. Tabbert said all three were “cooperative.” He said he was "grateful that we issued the subpenas” for the Terre Haute witnesses. Still unheard is Police Chief Frank Riddle of Terre Haute, who was ordered back Monday. Also Joseph Traum, owner of the Manor House restaurant above which the raid occurred. Tabbert said both were “important witnesses” and would probably be the first to testify Monday. Zeppo Marx testified as Friday highlight and Tabbert said he was "very cooperative.” Zeppo, scheduled to be best man at his brother Chico's wedding about the time he appeared (Contir.ufcc on page five)

Strike Violence At Connserville Eases Few Os State Police Stay On Patrol Duty CONNERSVILLE (UPD — Only 5 or 6 of an original force of 120 Indiana State Police troopers remained on patrol duty today in a violent strike of electrical workers at the National Metal Products Co. plant. Mayor R. L. Haley Jr., informed state officials that he believed the troopers no longer were needed to “maintain law and order” in a walkout which got out of hand early this week when pickets resisted a back-to-work movement among non-trikers. Dozens of troopers pulled into toe area from other - places for strike duty on order of Governor Handley were sent home Friday night. All that remained were a few troopers assigned regularly to the Connersville Post. Negotiations continued toward settlement of issues which precipitated the strike. Haley expressed pessimism about chances of an early settlement of the 8-week walkout. But believed 1 the danger of more flareups between strikers and non-strikers no longer exists. Early this week, pickets pelted the plant with rocks, overturned an automobile in a company parking lot, and jostled non-strik-ers as they breached toe lines to enter toe plant.

Approve Extension I Os Surplus Sales ±.' Extends Authority On Farm Surpluses WASHINGTON (UPD -Congress has given its final approval to a one-and-a-half year extension of the Agriculture Department's authority to sell U. S. farm surpluses for foreign currencies. Both the House and toe Senate Friday passed a compromise version of the bill worked out by House-Senate conferees Thursday after three days of wrangling over whether to include a barter provision in the program. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.) said on the Senate floor later he hoped Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson would now undertake a program to barter U. S. agricultural surpluses for strategic materials in earnest. Humphrey and other farm state senators have accused Benson of dragging his heels on agricultural bartering — previously carried out under another bill. Benson has held that bartering imperils cash sales on foreign markets. Under compromise language agreed to by conferees of the House and Senate, the department is encouraged — but not absolutely directed as the House bill would have required — to resume large scale bartering of such surpluses as wheat, feed grains and cotton for strategic materials. The congressional action came in the wake of a prediction by the agriculture department that wheat surpluses will be bigger than ever this year. I Demand Ouster For , Teamster Officials Monitors Named By Court Seek Action WASHINGTON (UPD — Courtappointed Teamster union "monitors” have called on Teamster President James R. Hoffa to back a temporary 16 - point code to guarantee honest election of local union officials. They also demanded ouster proceedings against two officers of a Tennessee local involved in an alleged attempt to use $20,000 of union funds to “fix” a criminal case. The monitors directed that a hearing be held by Sept. 10 on the ouster proceedings, and recommended that Hoffa immediately suspend the two officers — President Glenn W. Smith and Secretary-Treasurer H. I. Boling of Chattanooga Local 515—pending outcome of the charges. The monitors were appointed to oversee the union as part of a compromise settlement in a case brought by. 13 rank-and-file Team(Contlnued or. rage five) Indianapolis Man Stabbed To Death INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Billy Ray Belmont, 27, Indianapolis, was found dead with a stab wound over his heart early today outside a tavern. Witnesses said Belmont was stabbed in a knife fight with a “tall, thin man.” Authorities said Belmont may have been wounded in the tavern, staggered outside and fell dead. State Prison Inmate Is Suicide Victim MICHIGAN CITY. Ind. (UPD — An inmate jumped from toe top tier of a cellhouse at Indiana State Prison Friday and died about an hour later in the prison hospital. Officials said Robert E. Murphy, 41, committed suicide apparently over health. He had been treated for illness at various times. Murphy was sentenced from Jefferson County June 1, 1956, on bad check charges. NOON EDITION

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[png-Winded Speeches Slow Senate Action ♦ Half-Dozen Major Issues Remain For Final Settlement WASHINGTON (UPD—The “dosomething” 85th Congress bustled into the final hours of its electionyear session today with half a dozen major issues to settle before adjournment. House and Senate leaders were driving hard to wind up the second session of this Democraticcontrolled Congress by nightfall. But their efforts were hampered by long-winded Senate speeches and a delaying regional fight over a bill to permit Chicago to divert more water from Lake Michigan for sewage purposes. As time ran out on the 85th Congress, the chances for many secondary bills also went down the drain. The big problems still to be resolved involved foreign aid. military construction and independent agency money bills, and legislation to raise the debt limit, boost railroad retirement benefits, provide a missile-age education program and extend the renegotiation law. The Senate wound up a 14t4hour session at 11:58 p.m. e.d.t. Friday after passing the debt limit increase bill and returning it to an impatient House. Foreign Aid Pending That left the $3,518,000,000 foreign aid appropriation bill as the Senate’s pending business for today, But there was more talk and a House-Senate conference to follow before this measure is completed. / Proud of a legislative record which ranged from passage of Alaskan statehood to Social Security, housing, highway and foreign trade measures, Democratic leaders still placed results ahead of the hour of adjournment. House Speaker Sam Rayburn CD-Tex .) called this ““about the most fruitful” session in which he , had ever served. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (DTex.) was equally pleased with its showing. Before the late Senate slowdown developed, that body had sent to the White House both the $279.500,000 depressed areas bill and an 18-month extension of the Farm Surplus Disposal Act. It also had returned four other key bills to the House for final action. Johnson “Maneuvers” Bill These were the debt limit, railroad retirement, renegotiation and education measures. The compromise $1,354,000,000 military constructoin appropriation, just out of a conference committee, needed action by both houses. Also to be disposed of was a revised independent agencies money bill carrying more than 6 billion dollars. Advocates of last-minute action on a housing bill still hoped the way could be cleared to push through a stripped-down $800,20 000 proposal in this field. But its chances hinged upon the House leadership finding away to ge‘t it up for a vote in the face of rules which prevent simple major- ' ity action at this stage of the session. Senate Leader Johnson maneu- ' vered the foreign aid bill into position for action by convincing Sen. George W. Malone (R-Nev.) he should end a long speech against U.S. trade and spending policies. This permitted the debt bill to come to a vote. ; f With the debt measure passed Johnson swiftly motioned up the foreign aid legislation and the Senate placed it ahead of the Chica- - v go water diversion bill. INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness today 1 with scattered showers and • I little warmer tonight. Sunday showers or thundershowers likely. Low tonight 56 to 64. High Sunday 74 to 82. Outlook for Monday: Fair and cool.