Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 12, Decatur, Adams County, 15 January 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 12.

Wl - - ■Sk .'Av! jr & ■ HI.. rfld z3Kh NEWSMEN HEAR IKE’S VlEWS— Shortly before addressing the National Press Cub in Washington on the occasion of the club’s 50th anniversary, President Eisenhower lunches at the speaker’s table. During an unprecedented 50-minute question-and-answer session Mr. Eisenhower covered a dozen subjects, emphasizing his confidence that with controlled inflation a tax cut is possible and his rejection of any new federal legislation to enforce public school integration.

Move To Cut Handley Hold On Patronage Patronage Control Due For Onslaught In State Assembly INDIANAPOLIS <UPD—Governor Handley’s control of patronage which makes him the boss of the Republican State Committee, is due for an onslaught soon in the General Assembly. Sen. Paul E. Bitz (D-Evans-ville), who was Sen. Vance Hartke’s campaign headquarters manager, said today he will introduce a bill to remove management of the politiclly-potent automobile license branches from the Governor and place them ih charge of Democratic Secretary of State John R. Walsh. Also, Sen. Charles Maddox, Otterbein, chairman of the Senate Roads Committee, said he would hold a committee meeting soon on a number of measures designed to abolish the present three-man. full-time State Highway Commission and create a one-man highway director, with commissioners on part-time basis only. This Highway Department, with the j Governor directing his commis- j sion members, likewise is so pow-I erful from a jobs standpoint that it can be used for many types of political ma chinations. Bitz is not too enthusiastic about the future of his license ripper bill and admits it shay be amended to give a county official the management of the bureaus. The Bitz measure probably will hit the rocks of the Republicandominated in which eventhe rebel GOP solons might vote against it. But a future similar bill in the /Democratic - bossed House probably would succeed. Maddox, a former member of the State Highway Commission, said he favors the one-man director because of his experience on the commission. He was at loggerheads with Chairman John Peters and Gene Bodine, Democratic member then. Maddox usually backed George Foster, career man, who was named executive director of the commission by the Governor to prevent repetition of the road scandals of the Governor George N. Craig administration. The one-man highway boss was endorsed by the Legislative Advisory Committee, which also proposed a part-time commission with one member each from the 11 congressional districts. This® proposal is not backed by Maddox, who believes it would be unwieldy and would lead to lobbying by each commissioner for highway construction in his own district, with consequent chaos. Hie Governor is dead set against a highway czar. Concerning the proposal, Handley, in his talk to the lawmakers Tuesday, said: 1 ■ - “The pretext for this is that the director would be a ‘career man’. But actually: he would be a czar, inevitably regarding himself as above and beyond the reach or recall of the voters of Indiana in their biennial elections, and in the Continued on page five 12 Pages

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Governor's Budget Roundly Criticized Democrat Leaders Criticize Handley INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Two top Democrats in the politicallydivided Indiana Legislature promised today that their party will “cut the fct” from a $1,041,000,000 1959-60 budget which Governor Handley proposed in a speech last Tuesday. Sen. Matthew Welsh of Vim cennes and Rep. Donald Foltz of Clinton criticized Handley. They said he left money in the budget to keep many political appointees in state jobs but made no provision for increasing state school aid. Foltz, in a speech on die House floor this morning, said Handley/ “proposed to us a program designed to maintain things as they are rather than meet toe needs of the rapidly growing Hoosier state.” “We will insist on cutting the political fat from the budget and devoting available state revenues to the needs of Hoosier citizens and not to the needs of patronage mpires,” Foltz said. Welsh, in a speech at a Democratic rally at Winchester Wednesday night, also pledged “cut the fat” action, along with increases for “the part of the budget that i goes back to your community and I mine for the support of our public Schools.” Welsh said the Republican heecF of one state department revealed more than 50 employes in his department “do nothing at all and that he can’t fire them.” Welsh said the new Democratic state auditor slashed his department’s payroll but Republicans who lost their jobs “simply have been shifted to a safe spot” and still receive “checks from your tax money,” “We will cut the fat from the budget,”’ Welsh promised. “We will fight to reduce every department of government to a trim working force, designed to serve you the people rather than district and county chairmen.” Welsh said he does not know whether the approved budget will be larger or smaller than the proposed budget but “we will budget within our means—we will not increase taxes.” Foltz said Handley, “jumped from emergency to emergency” in outlining steps to meet old and current crises but offered little for the future. Continued on page five INDIANA WEATHER Much colder with northwesterly winds 20 to 25 miles per hour spreading southeastward over state this afternoon and tonight. Scattered snow flurries north with possible locally heavy snow squalls near Lake Michigan this afternoon and to- _ night. Rain ending extreme south this afternoon, becoming partly cloudy south tonight Friday generally fair and colder except for snow flurries extreme north. Low tonight 10 to 15 north, 15 to 20 south. High Friday 15 to 20 north, 20 to 30 south. Sunset today 5:44 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 8;05 a.tn. c.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and cold. Lows Friday night 5 to 15. Highs Saturday 20 to 30. a |,

Cuban Regime Renews Series Os Executions Trials, Executions Resumed Today For Batista Followers HAVANA (UPD—Firing squads echoed throughout Cuba at dawn again today but authorities in Havana said the “No. 1 war criminal” of the Batista regime temporarily had escaped revolutionary justice. Hie reports said Maj. Gen. Eulogio Cantillo had been hospitalized for an operation for stomach ulcers. Fidel Castro has accused him of a doublecross for allowing exPresident Fulgencio Batista and his principal henchmen to flee Havana. Castro himself was reported running a fever caused by grippe or flu and was ordered by his doctors to remain in bed. At the same time the government announced the first step towards demobilization of the civilian army which crumbled the military dictatorship and presented Cuba with its first citizen president in six years. Former Junta Head Trial and execution -of “war criminals” —was reported interrupted throughout most of Cuba Wednesday although Cuban radio station CMQ announced 19 more had been executed by firing squads Wednesday morning. Today the trials and executions resumed and Castro pledged they would continue until the last of the “Batista assassins” are shot. Several thousand suspects are in jail, 600 of them in Havana. Among the 600 taken to Cabana fortress was Cantillo who attempted personal peacemaking negotiations with Castro a few days before Batista's flight and who headed a short-lived junta government bequeathed by the fallen strongman. Informed sources said Cantillo was removed from the Cabana fortress to Camp Columbia military hospital for emergency stomConblWued ou . page five Bids Russians / Make Proposal For Security Ike Invites Soviet Union Proposals On German Problems • WASHINGTON (UPD—The Soviet Union today had an invitation from President Eisenhower to put forward “honest, peaceful” suggestions for solving the problems of German reunification and European security. The President, who extended the bid in his remarks Wednesday at a National Press Club luncheon, coupled it with a promise to give Russia specific guarantees against possible military attack by a united Germany. But he served notice the United States would not accept current Russian proposals for uniting the two German states because they were aimed at completely demilitarizing the country and trying to isolate it from the rest of Western Europe. This won’t work, Eisenhower said. No Definite Proposals The President said he did not expect any definite proposals to be made during his talk next Saturday with Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, who arrives in Washington Friday. He .added, however, that he hoped to find out from Mikoyan whether there is an "honest, peaceful motive" behind Russia’s professed desire for another round of negotiations on Germany. The President’s remarks were made against a background of stepped-up discussions at the State Department on all aspects of the German problem and European security. $ Russian Position Softeninir Officials were studying the latest Russian proposals for some sign that the Kremlin might be willing to modify its previously firm stand. Some officials said they thought there might be indications of a softening of the Russian position but they could pot be sure. , The United States itself showed some signs of a less rigid stand by admitting that there might be some way to unify Germany other than through the free elections upon which the West always has insisted in the past. Mikoyan meets twice Friday with Dulles, once in the morning arifl again at a “working dinner” at an exclusive local dub.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, January 15,1959.

Woman Is Killed Today By Freight Engine On Rail Tracks In Berne

Favor Measure To Supplement Jobless Pay A Labor Committee Os Indiana House Recommends Bill NDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The 15-member labor committee Os the Indiana House took the first «tep Wednesday toward what is expected to be swift passage through the lower chamber of a bill paving the way for legalizing supplemental unemployment benefits. The committee heard backers and objectors to the SUB' repeal measure, then went into executive session and • recommended passage. However, the SUB bill may have tougher traveling after it leaves the Democratic-controlled House and reaches the Senate, where ""the Republicans hold a 27-23 majority. About 50 lawmakers, labor officials and management spokesmen crowded into the hearing room. The bill would repeal a 1957 law which requires that supplemental unemployment benefits be deducted from state unemployment compensation paid to idled work<Brs» Special Session Asked Labor unions sought unsuccessfully in 1957 to allow auto and steel workers who have SUB clauses in their contracts to get payments from supplemental funds without losing any of what the state pays—a maximum of $33 a week for 20 weeks. This maximum was extended by Congress last summer to meet the needs of a recession period. However, the GOP-controlled 90th Assembly turned down SUB and Governor Handley later rejected a plea from labor spokesmen for a special session of the Legislature to reconsider pay for idled workers. The debate between union and management spokesmen at the hearing hinged on the question of whether SUB funds are insurance or compensation. Continued on page five 132 Pints Os Blood. Donated Wednesday Quota Exceeded At Bloodmobile Visit A total of 132 pints of blood were donated Wednesday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center during the bloodmobile visit, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the Adams county chapter of the American Red Cross, said today. The local chapter received seven pints of blood over the quota, which was set at 125 pints. _ Os the many local residents who gave blood, one person, Mrs. William Lose, Jr., became a member of the three gallon club. Three person joined the two gallon club, Mrs. Lowell Smith, Mrs. Gerald Cole, and Edward Vian. Seven persons are now one-gallon donors, Mrs. Harry Sheets, Mrs, Woodson Ogg, Ivan Stucky, Homer Arnold, Jr., Arthur Suttles, Jr., the. Rev. \C. E. Myers, the Rev. Robert Weldy, and Gail Grabill. Mrs. Ed Bauer, blood program chairman, expressed her thanks to the following persons and organizations for making the bloodmobile visit a success: Bernard Clark, and men froifi the street department, for loading and unloading the mobile unit; Cedric Fisher and crew, for the flags; to all the food companies for their contribution of food for the entire group of donors and volunteers; to the donors, doctors, nurses, volunteer workers: and to the 26 new donors who gave for the first time, which included three persons under 21 years of age. A list of the donors will appear in the Friday edition of the Decatur Daily Democrat

Midwest's Blanket Os Fog Is Lifting Arctic Cold IW )n *’ Is Dispelling Rig Uintted Press International A Midwestern fog blanket, which closed airports and slowed ground traffic, gradually lifted Thursday under the influence of a new cold Air mass. The Arctic cold front displaced , unseasonably mild readings as it j pushed across the northern Plains ( and Midwest toward the East. Readings plunged as much as L 4 degrees at Jamestown, ND., overnight, and drops ot as much as 30 degrees were common in the Plains states. Early morning j readings registered 7 degrees be- [ low zero at Minot, N.D., and , Havre, Mont. The cold air surged as far south as Oklahoma and the Texas , Panhandle. Snow accompanied the . i cold in eastern Colorado, Wyoi miflg. western Nebraska, Texas 1 and Oklahoma. Two inches of ’ snow accumulated in the Okla--1 homa Panhandle and snow flurries occurred as far south as ’ Amarillo, Tex. Weathermen blamed Wednesday’s Midwest fog on a flow of I mild, moisture-laden air in ad- . vance of the cold front. Visibilif ties in parts of Wisconsin, Illinois . and Indana were reduced to near zero, - - Four traffic deaths were blamed - on the fog and rain-slicked highl ways in Indiana. Two persons I were killed when their car hit a t train south of Gary Wednesday I night, and collisions earlier in the > day at Westfield and Greensburg, I Ind., claimed two other lives. At Eau Claire, Wis., 17 cars ; and a truck collided during the ! fog and. freezing rain but no one was injured seriously. I Midway and O’Hare Intemationi al airports at Chicago were shut ■ down much,; of Wednesday because of the blinding fog. Normal air operations were resumed by nightfall , About 200 air travelers were de- ■ layed in the small terminal at ■ Omaha, Neb., airport due to lack ' of flights for fog-bound Chicago ■ and Detroit airports. A Chicago -bound Commuter train was delayed nearly an hour Wednesday near Crystal Lake, 111., because the engine couldn't climb a hill on ice-slicked tracks: A broad band of precipitation occurred during the night from Missouri and Arkansas northeastward through the lower Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley. Rain dominated, although light snow was reported near lakes Erie and Ontario. See Little Hope Os General Tax Relief Key Democrats Are Irritated At Ike WASHINGTON (UPD — Some r high-ranking congressional Democrats were irked at President Eisenhower today for raising hopes of tax relief “in the foreseeable future” even though the Treasury is running its biggest peacetime deficit. ■ The President for the second time in six days told a nationwide television audience Wednesday that prospects for tax deductions would be increased if Congress kept in balance; the new budget he will submit next Monday. , Democrats were holding their fire publicly until they can actually examine the President’s budget proposals in-detail The President did not rule out the possibility that some tax relief might come as early as next year. He said the Treasury already is working on proposals for tax reform. Key Democrats were irritated because they believe there is no real prospect tor balancing the budget for the next fiscal year, which starts, July 1. Moreover, at this point they can see little real hope for general tax relief next year. * They figure that Elsenhower and other top Republicans are Continued o» poke five

Submit Bills To Boost Pay Os Legislators Propose sls A Day Per Diem During Assembly Session INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Lawmakers today introduced bills to raise their own pay $457.50 a month during sessions of the Indiana Legislature, and to raise the maximum old age assistance payment by $lO a month. ' Reps. Marion Bushemi <DGary) and William Birchler (RCannelton) proposed in a House bill to grant each of the 150 legislators a sls a day per diem in addition to their SI,BOO annual salary. This would amount to $915 a 61-day session, or $137,250 for the entire assembly. The bill was introduced as S9OO checks were distributed by State Auditor Albert Steinwedel to each legislator paying him half of his 1959 salary. In the Senate, Sen. Jesse L. Dickinson (D-South Bend) introduced a bill to allow a maximum of S7O a month, instead of the present S6O, in old age assistance payments. Dickinson said about 6,550 persons among 31,000 receiving such assistance “are not having their essential needs met by their old age assistance payments.” Another bill, by Sen. Von A. Eichhorn (D-Uniondale), proposed to make trading stamps redeemable in cash if shoppers so desired. Eichhorn said that would , “bring the exchange of stamps for merchandise into the state tax . structure.” He proposed that each stamp be marked with the amount of cash it is worth. I A Negro state senator, who said - he once ate cheese and crackers on a state business trip because . restaurants denied him service, ; said he is confident the LegislaI tore “has the courage” to end the i remnants of Jim Crow practices. Sen. Jesse Dickinson (D-South ■ Bend) made the statement after • he and Sen. Robert Brokenburr (R-Indianapolis), the only other • Negro in the upper house, introduced a bill to broaden an 1885 , state law which prohibits racial Continued on page five Will Honor Veteran Members Os Legion Banquet Planned ' Here February 19 Plans have been completed for the continuous membership banquet Thursday evening, Feb. 19, for Post 43 of the American Legion, Robert G. Smith, commander, said today. W. A. Brennan, Jr. state commander. and Robert Keyes, fourth district commander, will both attend and take part in the festivities. Special honor will be paid those members of post 43 who have maintained their membership in the Legion continuously for the longest period of time. Seven members have 41 years of service: H. V. Aurand, Joe Laurent, John Lose. Joe McConnell. Clyde Butler, Albert Colchpi, and Ed Zeser. V. J. Bormann and Clem F. Kortenber have been members for 40 years. Charles Maloney has been a, member for 39 years. These men will be honored at this banquet for their ipng and faithful service to the American Legion. • The meeting will be a stag affair open free of charge to all members of post 43. In order to prepare for the free fried chicken dinner, it will be necessary that reservations be made in advance. Very shortly, reservation cards will be mailed to all members, and it it requested that these be returned promptly. Bob Bieberich will be ip charge of refreshments at the next meeting Jan. 26.

► * ulr Defense Emphasis Is On Air Power Most Defense Funds Go For Air Force WASHINGTON (UPI) — The heavy emphasis in President Eisenhower’s new $40,900,000,000 defense budget will be on air-atomic power and intercontinental missiles. The fiscal 1960 spending program, which will be sent to Congress next Monday will hold the Army to its current manpower strength of 14 divisions*. It will allow only about half of what was wanted for a five-year Army equipment modernization program. Missile Projects Cut It also wpi slow down some Army missile projects, notably the 200-mile range Redstone yhich is now deployed in Germany and the Hawk anti-aircraft missile which is about ready for service. While me Army is low man on the totem pole, the Navy also will fall short of some of its main desires. It will not get a second atomic-powered aircraft carrier, according to informed reports, but will be, authorized to obtain a new 60,000-ton supe carrier of the Forrestal class. The Navy may get an additional Polaris missile launching submarine to go with the nine now ordered or planned. * Form Atlas Squadron A big' slice of the budget is earmarked for Air Force purchases of Atlas and Titan intercontinental ballistic missiles, and 852 and 858 jet bombers. For the first time, an intercontinental ballistic mis- , sile unit — an Atlas squadronwill replace a piloted aircraft unit . in the Strategic Air Command. I This is the approximate division • of the defense spending program ; for the year starting next July 1: i Office of the Secretary of Det sense, Including the advanced research projects agency — $1,400,l 000,000. i Army — $9,260,000,000. ; Navy — $11,570,000,000. . Air Force — $18,67,000,000. l Russia Calls For Jd . East-West Talks 1 Says German Treaty Stand fs Flexible LONDON (UPI) — The Soviet Union called today for East-West talks on Germany and said its position on a German peace treaty was flexible and subject to negotiation. The statement, carried by Moscow Radio in a broadcast beamed to North Amerfca, was the latest in a series of Soviet approaches to the West on Germany. It followed similar hints by the United ’ States that it too was willing to explore means of settling the> dispute over Germany. London diplomatic sources predicted Wednesday the West was moving toward an early meeting ! with the Soviets, probably on the foreign minister’s level. The Moscow broadcast said: “The U.S.S.R. does not claim that its draft peace treaty and its , proposals to the Western governments are not subject to amendment or supplement, but for that there is need for the other side to take crtain steps too. “There is need to talk the matter over seriously with due consideration for the interests of both, sides.” President Eisenhower Wednesday rejected the Soviet proposals for a demilitarized and neutralized Germany, but he offered to come ■ to Russia’s aid if Germany were i reunified on Western terms and then tried to stir up trouble in . Europe. He said the West wanted to tie , Germany so closely with its European neighbors that a resurgence ' of militarism would be impractical. The Bonn cabinet rejected the J Soviet plan Wednesday, on - grounds it would result in foreign ■ control of the country forever. It also said Soviet „plans for estab- ’ lishment of West Berlin as a • “free city” was totally unacceptiable to tlje West Germans/

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Resident Os Fort Wayne Is Suicide Victim Berne Native Dies While Lying Across Railroad Tracks Mrs. Vergene Stuckey, 39. wife of Paul Stuckey, of 449 East Wildwood, Fort Wayne, committed suicide today at 8:53 a.m. in Berne, by lying on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks near Huser street and letting a switch engine pass over her body. Mrs. Stuckey, the former Veri gene Dro, had been staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Ervin i Dro, of 250 Baltimore street, in Berne, since last Saturday. It was reported that she had been suffering from a nervous condition since - giving birth to her last child Sep- 2 tember 6, 1958. Mrs. Stuckey had been under the care of a specialist and was recently released from the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne. She had also received # treatment at the Lutheran hospital in Ft. Wayne. Law officers reported that Mrs. Stuckey's father, Ervin Dro, reported her missing to the Berne police department at 8 o’clock today. While Karl Sprunger, Berne police chief, was consulting the father about the missing daughter at the Dro home, a call concerning the death at the railroad crossing was given to Sprunger. The father believed it might be his daughter, and rode to the scene with the police chief. At the scene, Elmer Winteregg, Jr., Adams county coroner, stated that it was, a definite suicide. The former Berne lady died of a crushed chest, fractured skull, fractured neck, and compound fractures of both legs. Engineer, A. L. Snyder, 2820 Winter street, Fort Wayne, said he saw her lying across the tracks approximately 600 feet away, and that he applied the brakes immediately but could not stop in time tb avoid hissing her. The train which struck Mrs. Stuckey approximately 84% feet from the Huser street crossing, was the RH 3, local freight. The conductor of the train was James R. Stewart, of Fort Wayne. The body was taken to the Yager funeral home in Berne. Investigating officers were Elmer Winteregg, Jr., coroner; sheriff Merle Affolder, deputy Robert Meyers, state trooper Alan Coppes, and Berne police chief, Karl Sprunger. Funeral Saturday ‘ Mrs Stuckey was born January 11, 1920, in Berne, and was married to Paul Stuckey June 22, 1947. Following their marriage, the couple moved to Fort Wayne in 1948. Mrs. Stuckey was a member of the Grace Evangelical and Reformed church in Fort Wayne.' Surviving Mrs. Stuckey are the husband, Paul; the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Dro: two children. i Barry Paul, 7 years, and James Michael, four months; one brother, Robert Dro, former Berne high school and Indiana University basketball star, and now assistant athletic director of Indiana University in Bloomington; three sisters, Mrs. Early Shore, Waco, Tex., Mrs. Otto Ney, Dayton, 0., and Mrs. James Yohn, Colorado, Spring's, Colo. The body was taken to the Yager funeral home in Berne, where friends may call after 7 o'clock Friday night until noon Saturday, when the body will be taken to the church. Services will be held at the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church in Berne Saturday at 2 o’clock, with the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial wiU be in the M.R.E. cemetery. , > v ■ -r • •• •- 1