Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 262, Decatur, Adams County, 6 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 262.

Ik. *Ol THE BIG ONES— California winners Clair Engle (left) and Edmund (Pat) Brown congratulate each other in San Francisco on winning the state’s U. S. Senate (Engle) seat and governor's chair (Brown* from the GOP. And New York gubernatorial winner Nelson Rockefeller is crowded with handshakes in New York on unseating Democrat Averell Harriman, and right handily.

Comprehensive Legislation For New Congress Democrat Leaders Study Legislation For New Congress WASHINGTON (UPI>-Congres-sional leaders were laying out for the heavily Democratic 86th Congress today a program of housing, farm, labor reform and economic legislation for which they believe the vofcrs spoke in Tuesday’s landslide election. Speaker Sam Rayburn rejected President Eisenhower's “radical” label for the new Congress, said it was Eisenhower himself who had turned out to be history's big spender and promised for the new Congress a constructive course geared to the country’s best interests. In a telephone interview from his home at Bonham, Tex., the veteran Democratic leader said Tuesday’s balolting — in which Democrats added 13 Senate seats and at least 44 House seats to the majorities they already held in both houses—stacked up as a protest against recession, high prices and the Benson farm program. and that it reflected also general disappointment in the leadership of President Eisenhower. Forecasts Labor Reform Bill Although no formal legislative goals have as yet been set for the new Congress Rayburn forecast passage of: —A housing bill, its details still to be worked out, but presumably to embody key slum clearance and college housing loan features of a Democratic measure which the House this year failed to pass. —A new Kennedy-Ives labor reform bill or something along its lines to combat rackets as exposed in some unions by Senate investigators. Although such a bill was passed by the Senate in the 85th Congress the House turned it down. —Farm legislation “to straighten out some of the kinks” in the Benson farm program, dissatisfaction with which apparently was a factor in election of a number of Democratic House members from farm state districts that previously were Republican. No Tax Cut Rayburn said also he will ask the House Ways & Means Committee to study the tax law for loopholes and inequities that ought to be remedied. He ruled out prospects of a general tax cut however and said a tax boost is not in the cards either. It was learned "that Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson—who with Rayburn will exercise firm leadership of the new Congress—win announce in a Texas speech Friday a more de(Continued on page five) Treasurer's Office Is Closed For Week The office of the county treasurer closed Tuesday of this week and will remain closed until November 10 for the posting of taxes paid during the November installment that have been paid during the past few weeks. Monday was the last day for the payments. Persons who did not pay the tax figure will receive a six per cent delinquent additional charge. The amount of taxes paid during the November installment will not be available from Waldo Neat - county treasurer, for several days'.

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Study Possibility Os Vote Recount May Recount Some Os County Precincts The possibility of a recount in the race for representative in .Congress in certain precincts of Adams county gained momentum today when it was discovered that 57 county ballots were mutilated where it may be possible to establish the intent of the voter. At the present time in the entire district Adair is ahead by 288 votes. However, in Noble county, two precincts which carried for Fleming by 58, were not counted, while counting two disputed precints which Adair won by 134. If Fleming asks for a recount, and a three-man board appointed by the Republican Noble county jundge finds that the two Democratic precincts should be counted and the two Republican precincts not counted, Adair's margin would be cut to 134. If they hold that both precincts should be counted, or none of the four counted, Adair would lead by 250 votes. Democratic chairman Dr. Harry H. Hebble asked that any Democratic clerk or judge who knows of any possible discrepencies in the totalling of votes to report to him immediately. The recount would affect only the race in question, that of Adair and Fleming, and would not open up any other race, regardless of the findings of the three-man board to be appointed by the judge. The totals of the other candidates would not be changed. Any candidate desiring a recount must do so within 15 days, and the recount would not start until after this deadline, eliminating the possibility of recounting any other candidate’s votes after the representative’s race is settled.

Victory For Adair Is Still Confused Tabulation Mixup In Noble Co. Vote ALBION, Ind. (UPD—A tabulation mixup in four Noble County election precincts today confused the issue df whether Rep. E. Ross Adair of Fort Wayne was reelected to Congress from the 4th District. Unofficial final returns from the eight-county district Wednesday showed Adair defeated Democrat W. Robert Fleming of Fort Wayne by 288 votes among nearly 140,000 cast. However, the Noble County Canvassing Board filed a report with Judge Kenneth King in Noble Circuit Court asking for a judicial ruling on what votes to count in Precincts 18, 19, 20 and 24. ~ —- Noble County’s unofficial returns showed Adair carried the county with 6,100 votes to 4,937 for Fleming. Rotary Club Meets Earlier This Evening Gail GrabiH, president of the Decatur Rotary club, announced today that this evening’s regular dinner meeting of the service club will be held 15 minutes earlier than usual, or at 6:15 o’clock. The earlier meeting time was set in order that the guest speaker, Dr. Milo Rediger, may conclude his address in time for the Spiritual Emphasis wqpk service at 7:30 o’clock, for which he is also the guest minister.

Right-To-Work Law Repeal Is Seen In Stale Most Os Measure's * Backers Defeated In Tuesday Voting INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Democratic landslide in Tuesday’s election in all probability means repeal of the controversial “right-to-work” law despite an almost certain veto by Governor Handley. In 1957, when the bill was passed and allowed to become law without Handley’s signature, Republicans controlled the Indiana House by a 75-24 margin and the Senate by 33-17. The bill passed the House, 54-42, and the Senate, 27-23, with most Democrats voting against it and most Republicans for it. A march on the Statehouse by thousands of workmen failed to move Handley and he allowed right-to-work to become law minus his signature. The present lopsided Democratic margin in the House indicates almost certain repeal in that branch of the Legislature in 1959. Getting the Senate to follow the same course of action may take some doing. ......... Unofficial returns from Tuesday’s election reveal that 11 House members who favored right to work, 9 Republicans and 2 Democrats, won reelection and 25, all Republicans, went down to defeat. Twenty-one who cast votes against the measure, 16 Democrats and 5 Republicans, won reelection and 11 opposed to the law, all Republicans, lost. Two Republicans Win In the Senate, 2 Republicans ’who voted for right-to-work were successful in re-election bids and 4 GOP members were ousted. Nine anti-right-to-work advocates, 7 Democrats and 2 Republicans, were voted to another term and 2 Republicans lost their seats. Os the 25 holdover senators, 15 Republicans and 1 Democrat voted for the bill and 5 Democrats and 4 Republicans opposed it.

The overall election picture, including both houses, showed 13 who favored the bill gained reelection and 30 of those who opposed it were 'returned to the General Assembly. That means right-to-work advocates in the House will be able to muster only 11 sure votes to stop repeal of the law, and there is no certainty that some of those have not changed their minds since. In the Senate, the 16 right-to-work incumbents will be joined by 2 advocates who were re-elected. Should they vote solidly against repeal, and again there is no assurance they have not changed their mind?, they would still fall seven votes short of stopping a move to repeal the measure. By the same token, there is no conclusive evidence to show that the majority of members, elected to the General Assembly for the first time would favor repeal of the law. Yes or No? Governor Handley refused to give a yes or no answer Wednesday to a newsman’s question about whether he would veto an attempt to repeal the law. But he said his beliefs had 'not changed which would indicate proposed repeal would have to pass over his opposition. A simple majority of both houses would override a veto. Right-to-wOrk has become a po(Continued on page tire)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 6, 1958.

Democratic Landslide Dimensions Growing; Greatest Since 1936

Cabana Liner Missing Over Eastern Cuba Airliner Believed Hijacked By Rebels; 10 Women On Board HAVANA (UPI) — A Cubana airliner carrying 29 persons, including an American and 10 women, was missing today over rebel-ridde eastern Cuba, and there were strong indications it was hijacked by the insurgents. Four unidentified men whc boarded the twin-engined DC3 in Manzanillo were believed to be rebel agents like those who have stolen two other Cuba airliners in little more than two weeks. One of the stolen planes crashed in Nipe Bay, killing 7 Americans and 10 Cubans, i The missing plane was flying from Havana to Santiago on a route including several intermediate stops. It left Manzanillo at 4:29 pm. Wednesday on a halfhour hop to Holguin and has not been seen since. U.S. Interest Sharpening The lone American aboard, Robert Montgomery (hometown unknown), was believed to be a sailor on the way to the U.S. Navy’s big Guantanamo base. The U.S. government is taking an increasingly sharp interest in the rebels’ plane-snatching tactics because of the threat to American lives. U.S. Navy divers recovered the bodies of 8 of the 17" Nipe victims Wednesday night, and U.S. investigators have been ordered to look into the crash. The identity of tne Nipe hijackers was established positively Wednesday night, when the body of one of the victims was found to be clad in the green fatigues affected by the rebels. Find Weapons A cartridge belt carrying a holster for a .45 automatic was strapped around the rebel’s body, as was a bandolier containing .45 caliber ammunition. The butt of a broken .30 caliber rifle was found near the body. Customary plane-snatching procedure, in Cuba as elsewhere, is for a number of gunmen masquerading as passengers to board the airliner chosen as a target. When the plane is in the air, they force the pilot at gunpoint to fly < Continued on page five)

Booster Club, Lions To Honor Grid Team Will Honor Players And Coaches Monday Announcement was made today that the Decatur high school Booster club and the Lions club will cosponsor a banquet honoring the high school football team and coaches at 6:30 o’clock next Monday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Hilliard Gates, prominent Fort Wayne sportscaster, will be the guest speaker. Gates, sports director for radio and television stations WKJG, Fort Wayne, has been broadcasting, over both radio and television, high school, college and professional sports for many seasons, and is reco’gnized as one of the outstanding sports announcers of the middle west. W. E. Petrie, president of the Boosters club, in announcing the Monday banquet honoring the Decatur Yellow Jackets, head coach Bob Worthman and his assistants, also revealed that sales of memberships in the Booster club will close this weekend. The memberships are priced at only $5, and entitle the members to all meetings of the club throughout the school year. The tickets may be obtained from Herb Banning at the Holthouse on the Highway store, and must be purchased by this weekend.

Cold Winds Churn Over Great Lakes Cooler Air Covers Majority Os U. S. United Press International Cold, November winds churned across the Great Lakes region Wednesday night and early Thursday, dropping readings into the Xs and 30s. Wind gusts of 45 to 65 m.p.h. Were blamed for the death of a Chicago fisherman who drowned in Channel Lake near Antioch, Hl., when high waves overturned his boat. At Aurora, 81., the winds ripped loose bricks from the 18th floor of the Leland Hotel and sent them hurtling through the roof of an adjoining dress shop. No one was hurt, but Police Sgt. Francis Harkins said they might “have knocked somebody’s brains out.” Cold air accompanying the high winds drove as far east as the Appalachians early Thursday and south to the western Gulf Coast region. Scattered rains occurred in advance of the cold air, with a few snow flurries reported in the Lake Superior region. Snow also fell over the central Rockies, with two inches accumulating at Leadville, Colo., and an inch at Denver. Cooler air covered most of the ration, with warming confined to *e Pacific states and to sections of the East ahead of the advancing cold air. Rain continued in the south Atlantic states with Tampa, Fla., reporting .94 inches and Cross City, Fla., 1.27. Rain also occurred in the Pacific northwest during the night.

Union Youth Service Here Sunday Evening Spiritual Emphasis Youth Service Here A union youth meeting will be held at the Decatur Missionary church, corner of 10th and Dayton, Sunday night at 6 o’clock. This service is being held in connection with the Spiritual Emphasis week which is now in progress. All of the young people of Decatur are urged to come and enjoy this inspirational hotfr. The following program has been arranged for the service: Hymn—“ Stand Up For Jesus.’’ John Paul McAhren of Trinity E. U. B. will be the song leader and Barbara Harden of the Missionary church will be the organist. Hymn—“ Give Os -Your Best To The Master." invocation—Gail Egley from the Church of God. Hymn—“ Onward Christian Soldiers.” Scripture reading—Pat McCammon from Bethany E. U. B. Prayer— Glenn Habegger from the Church of the Nazarene. Special—Mixed sextet from the Methodist church. Announcements and offering. Hymn — “Take My Life and Let It Be.” Special—Girls’ quartet from the Baptist church. Message — Dr. Milo Rediger, vice president of Taylor University. 1 Hymn—" Where He Leads Me." Benediction — Sara Eichenauer from the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Thermal service of the Spiritual Emphasis week will be held Sunday night at 7:30, with Dr. Rediget bringing his closing message. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and colder tonight. Friday sunny and warmer. Low tonight in the 20s. High Friday 55 to 60. Sunset today 4:38 p. m. CST., 5:38 p. m. CDT. Sunrise Friday 6:20 a. m. CST., 7:20 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and a little wanner. Lows in the 30s. Highs mostly in the low 60s.

Nuclear Test Ban Parley Is At Deadlock Only Top Policy Switch By Russia Seen As Solution GENEVA (UPD—Western diplomats said today only a top level policy switch by the Kremlin could break the East-West deadlock in the Geneva talks on ending nuclear arms tests. There was growing belief that Soviet Chief Delegate Semyon Tsarapkin was sent here from Moscow with no freedom to negotiate a nuclear test ban and that without fresh instructions he can jonly stand pat. Tsarapkin’s instructions apparently were to hold out indefinitely for an immediate unconditional and permanent ban on nuclear testing and had not been given any leeway to make concessions. The two sides went into thenfifth meeting today without any progress to record and, apparently, little immediate hope of making any. So far they have not even agreed on the agenda of the meeting. The two positions are: —Russia demands an unconditional ban on nuclear testing for all time ad wants the West to promise at once. It also has put forward a draft agenda giving priority to the ban itself before discussion of a control system to police it. —The West refuses to have its hands tied by any ban until a control system is working. Until then it is not willing to promise to halt suclear tests for more than a year. The United States wants a conference agenda on which controls would be discussed first. Hartke's Winning Plurality 243,926 Final Figures Show Overwhelming Win INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) —Final unofficial returns from Indiana’s U. S. Senate race showed today that Vance Hartke beat Governor Handley by 243,926 votes. The returns from all 4,466 precincts, as tabulated by United Press International, gave Hartke (D> 961,094, Handley (R) 717,168. The combined vote was 1,678,262. Adding the votes cast for John Steele, Indianapolis, the Prohibition Party nominee, which have not been tabulated, and ballots cast for local candidates by voters who did not make a choice in the Handley-Hartke contest, it was seen likely the Tuesday election drew more than 1,700,000 to the polls. The results of Handley-Hartke race provided an abrupt reversal from Handley’s form in his 1956 gubernatorial race with Mayor Ralph Tucker of Terre Haute. In that election, Handley polled 1,086,868 votes. His 717,168 total this, time‘represented a loss of 369,700. In winning two years ago, Handley carried 74 counties to Tucker’s 18. This time, Handley salvaged 16 counties to Hartke’s 76. Handley carried Benton, Dercatur, Fulton, Hamilton, Hendricks, Rush, Spencer, Steuben, Tippecanoe, Union, Warren, Wayne, Jasper, LaGrange, Montgomery and Newton. Although Hartke beat Handley by 16.500 votes more than Handley’s plurality over Tucker in 1956, the Democratic senator-elfect failed to rack up a million votes—a target the Democrats obviously would like to reach in Indiana soon for the first time in history. 12 Pages

1,800 Employes Os Railroad On Strike MKT Railroad Is Affected By Strike DALLAS, Tex. (UI) —At least 1,800 operating employes of the Missouri - Kansas - Texas Railroad went on strike today shortly before a federal judge issued a restraining order forbidding a walkout. Judge T. Whitfield Davidson signed the order, naming some two dozen union officials, at 4:26 a.m. Marshals immediately began serving papers on the striking trainmen. All railway train service stopped at 6 a.m. except for a few trains already underway, which continued to their destinations. The strike, which took the railroad’s management by surprise, affects train service in Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Oklahoma. A„ union spokesman said the walkout -was precipitated by the railroad’s “refusal to negotiate on complaints about changed working conditions due to the movement of terminals.” Railroad officials said they had been given no official notice of the strike, but that they believed the trouble stemmed from “misinterpretation of contract.” The striking unions are the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen- and Enginemen, the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the order of railroad conductors. Union officials scheduled a strategy meeting for 10 a.m. in Dallas. All Os Central Soya Leaders Reelected Officers, Directors Renamed Wednesday All officers and directors of the Central Soya Co., Inc., were reelected Wednesday at the annual shareholders meeting held at Fort Wayne. There were more than 650 stockholders from an eight-state area in attendance, the largest number in the company’s history. Dale W. McMillen, Jr., was reelected president and Harold W. McMillen was reelected chairman of the board. Other officers, all reelected, are Paul E. Hensel, Jake L. Krider, Norman F. Kruse, George D. Mac Lean, Robert B. Parrott, Burt A. Townsend and Charles W. Crowe, vice presidents; Edward T. Scheie, secretary and treasurer; John L. Andreas, assistant secretary and treasurer; Richard N. Allen, assistant secretary and controller, and Donald O. Cuthbert, assistant secretary. Directors reelected are Harold W. McMillen, Dale W. McMillen, Sr., Dale W. McMillen, Jr., Charles W. Crowe, Wilbert E. Huge, Edward T. Scheie, John D. Shoaff and Cole J. Younger. Harold W. McMillen termed the company’s fiscal year “most satisfactory.” The chairman of the board cited total earnings of the company for the past 24 years it has been in existence as sllß million. During that time, the company has paid $57 million in income taxes, dividends to stockholders S2O million, and plowed s4l million back into the business. D. W. McMillen, president, told stockholders that both volume and profits in each of the company’s three divisions were higher than the prezioiis year. Edgerton Accident Claims Two Lives FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — Agatha Muldoon, 55, Fort Wayne, and Herman M. Kitchens, 39. Daytona Beach, Fla., were killed Wednesday night when their car swerved off Ind. 14 at Edgerton and smashed into a rockpile about 25 feet off the road. The woman was killed outright and Kitchens died shortly before dawn today in Parkview Hospital here.

GOP Leaders Study Wreck Os Campaign Hike Congressional Control With Huge Election Victory WASHINGTON (UPI) — Republican leaders surveyed the wreckage of their 1958 campaign today and prepared for an agonizing reappraisal of their party organization and campaign tactics. Party professionals voiced belief that the recession, weak or divided GOP organizations and the political power of organized labor contributed much to the national Democratic trend in Tuesday’s election. Some also talked of a need for more colorful, personable and aggressive candidates. Nearly complete returns show the dimensions of the Democratic landslide — the Democrats’ greatest congressional victory since their peak in the 1936 election of President Roosevelt. Elect 26 Senators The Democrats elected 26 senators, taking 10 seats from Republicans, picking up three in states where Republicans had retired, and losing none of their own. With the 36 Democratic senators whose seats were not at stake this year, the Democrats will hold 62 seats, 12 more than a majority. Republicans elected only eight senators, leaving them a total of 34'in the new Congress. Alaska elects its first two senators Nov. 25 and this could increase the Democratic majority even further. Democrats are favored to win at least one and possibly two Alaskan seats.. In the House the Democrats elected 278 of 435 members and led in three unsettled races for an indicated total .of 281, compared with 219 needed for a majority. The GOP elected 153. Alaska elects its first House member Nov. 25. In the contests for governorships the Democrats elected 24 and led in one unsettled race for an indicated total of 34, counting nine holdovers. Republicas elected eight ad had six holdovers for a total of 14. Win Many Governorships Democrats gave an extraordinary show of strength in gubernatorial races in the Midwest where farm discontent has weakened the GOP hold on what was once the hard core pf Republf canism. Democratic governors were elected or reelected in Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota, lowa and Kansas and the Democratic nominee held a narrow lead in the still unsettled contest in Nebraska. In contrast Republican Nelson A. Rockefeller unseated Gov. i Averell Harriman in New York and thereby made himself a potential challenger to Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the 1960 presidential nomination. Another to buck the trend with conspicuous success was Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona who long ago stepped out in front of fellow Republicans to challenge the power of organized labor. Running uphill to reelection he assured himself a front seat among GOP conservatives whose ranks recently have been thinned. No Clear Pattern The defeat of Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland, running for governor of California, and of Sen. John W. Bricker of Ohio retired two of the most prominent conservative Republican spokesmen. There was no clear pattern this year in the election or defeat of conservatives compared with socalled Eisenhower Republicans. Among conservatives Goldwater and Sen. John J. Williams (RDel.) were reelected while Kr.owland, Bricker, Sen. Frank A. Barrett ’(R-Wyo.) and Gov. Harold -W. Handley, senatorial nominee in Indiana, were defeated. Along with Rockefeller’s victory (Continued on page five)

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