Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 20.

SB ■ I ■ ' PTffil H L ~ ,’ - * DIMES BIRTHDAY— Former President Truman helps three handicapped youngsters blow out candles on a birthday cake marking the March of Dimes’ 21st birthday in this ceremony in Independence, Mo. Youngsters (from left) are Danny Foster, 7; John Campbell, 15; Terry Sartwell, 9. They symbolize drive against birth defects, arthritis, polio. j -

Charges GOP Seeks To Talk BillToDeath —’ —j-_, .. te \ ' -.. ; Top Indiana Labor Leader Fires Blast At GOP Senators INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Indiana’s top labor union leader has charged that the Republican-con-trolled Indiana Senate is trying to “talk to death” a bill which would repeal the controversial “right to work” law. Dallas Sells, president of the Indiana AFIXTO, said the Senate Labor Committee, which is holding hearings on the repealer, is stalling in hope that the bill will die a natural death without coming onto the floor for a showdown vote. The committee is composed of seven Republicans and two Democrate. . ■ A hearing on the repeal bill, co-authored by Sens S. Hugh Dib lin (D-Petersburg) and William Cristy (D-Hammond), was held Thursday night before an overflow crowd in the upper chamber. Sen. George McDermott (RAlexandria), chairman of the committee, said another hearing would be held next Thursday to allow some more of an estimated 80 witnesses speak. Sells, who represents about 350.000 union members, was not on the list of persons slated to testify before the committee. He is a staunch foe of “right to work.” 3 Democrats Ailing “It’s beginning to look like a filibuster and I don’t want to be a part of one,” he said. “One way of killing it would be to talk it to death.” Sells would not say whether he intends to testify at the next public hearing on the bill. “We sort of want to see what will happen...it’s too bad those senators were sick,” he said. An announced move by Senate Democrats to “blast” the bill from committee was postponed Friday when three sick members of the minority party failed to answer the roll call. Democrats are outnumbered by GOP members in the upper house and need every available vote to pass measures. Two labor measures will get another test in the Democratic controlled House Monday. The House version of “right to work” repeal and a “union reform” bill are scheduled for a second reading.- '"X::-— ■ _ . . If they advance, it would put both bills on the calendar for a third reading and showdown on passage. The ease with which Democrats are expected to pass both bills was evidenced Friday when a bill legalizing supplemental unemployment benefits was passed by an 82-10 vote. The 10 dissenting votes were cast by Republicans who are in a 79-21 disadvantage in the House. A bill that would ultimately effect every Hoosier dairy farmer and householder who purchases milk or milk products was introduced in the Seriate Friday. Sets Up New Board Its co-authors. Sens. Marshall Kizer (D-Plymouth) and John Rees. (R-Columbus), said it was aimed at keeping competition alive among dairy product distributors. The bill would set up a Dairy Products Board which would regulate and license persons engaged in the dairy products business. The bill, backed by the Indiana Dairy Products Assn, which represents about 90 per cent of the Hoosier distributors and processors of dairy products, seeks to prevent price discrimination and unethical business dealings

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Republicans Demand Ike To Take Lead Discordant Sounds From Party Leaders DES MOINES, lowa (UPD—Discordant sounds from Republican congressional campaign chairmen put President Eisenhower on notice today of a deep-seated demand for more aggressive polity cal leadership on his part. These off-key notes came to the ' GOP National Committee on con--1 secutive days from Sen. Barry “ ' Goldwater (Ariz.) and Rep. Rich- ; ard M. Simpson (Pa.), chairmen ' of the Senate and House campaign 1 committees, respectively. Both in effect challenged the White House to take the lead in showing where th Republican Party stands and 1 how it differs from the Democratic Party. The national committee took no • similar action at its two-day meeting which ended Friday. It . adopted a resolution praising the leadership of Eisenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Approve Alcorn Program It approved another adopting the Eisenhower-backed program i outlined by party Chairman 1 Meade Alcorn to rebuild the party organization to try for a comeback in 1960. His program also called for a GOP committee to ' write a declaration of long range 1 principles for the party. ' Only Daniel E. McLean, Massachusetts GOP chairman, spoke up in open session to reply to what he called “unwarranted criticism” 1 of the President by Goldwater and Simpson. Insisting he had no individuals in mind, Alcorn urged Republicans to stop “talking about other ' Republicans except in flattering ' ways.” Some Slame President Some oi the committee members privately indicated resentment that Simpson and Goldwater had used the meeting as a forum for their backhanded slaps at the ’ President. But others were saying that much of the GOP’s current troubles were traceable to a lack of aggressive political action by the President. Before the adjournment, Alcorn , gave party officials in the various states specific assignments to carry out his program for putting more muscle in the party organization. The national committee probably will hold another meeting in about two months for pgoress reports on the program. At that time, it also expects to make a final decision on selection of a site for the 1960 national convention. Ike Weekends At Mountain Retreat 7 THURMONT, Md. (UPI) —President Eisenhower today was in the midst of a quiet stag weekend at his closely-guarded mountain retreat. Eisenhower may pay a brief visit to his nearby Gettysburg, Pa„ farm, but the only other activities planned were a Saturday night bridge game and relaxation with old friends. „ The President and George E. Allen arrived at the retreat late Friday after a one hour and 45 minute drive from Washington. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional light snow tonight Sunday mostly elou d y and warmer with » chance of some light snow in morning. Low tonight mid 20s north to low 30s south. High Sunday around 30 north to mid 40s south. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy and mild. ~ NOON EDITION i

Cuban Rebels Delay Further Crime Trials Castro Moving For Crackdown On Reds In New Government HAVANA (UPI) — Fidel Castro has moved to end the Roman gladiator spectacle aspect of the Cuban “war crimes” trials arid has carried out his first major crackdown on the resurgent Communist. < ' But in Caracas, Venezuela, where he in makig a good will tour, Castro asserted "we will continue to do justice for the crimes committed during the Batista dictatorship. . .(even though) ©ur country is suffering the most criminal, cowardly and vile campaign ever conducted against a people.” “Evett though the world sinks, , (there will be justice in Cuba,” he told a wildly cheering crowd of 100,000 in the Venezuelan capital. He arrived in Caracas Friday and received a hero’s welcome. While Castro was away, the head of the war times tribunal. Agriculture Minister Hamberto Sori Marin, postponed further trials until Monday and indicated that subsequent proceedings may 1 be transferred from the sports palace to tire privacy of a court room in Cabana Fortress. Curtail News Coverage ■, The revolutionary government also moved to curtail television ■ and radio coverage of the trials. The trial, conviction and death sentence of the first Havana defendant, Maj. Jesus Sosa Blanco. 1 took place before a jeering crowd of 25,000 to 30,000. L The execution wis upheld a week or more when Sosa appealed to a higher revolutionary court. In the meantime Mrs. Sosa carried a plea for her husband to 350 foreign newsmen at the Havana Riviera Hotel. She brought her teen-age daughters to the Riviera lobby and posed for pictures while denying charges her husband was guilty of multiple murder, robbery, looting and destruction of public property in the course of his anti-rebel i military campaign in Oriente Province. Reports that Castro had purged 1 the Cuban labor leadership of its > Communist infiltration before : leaving for Venezuela came from Rep. Adam Clayton Powell 'D- ■ N.Y.) who winds up his inspec(Contih iued on paga savan) Violent Outburst Leaves Four Dead Farmhand Murders Three, Kills Self WASECA, Minn. (UPI) —A lone survivor was in a state of shock today from a farm hand’s violent outburst that left four dead, including himself and the first cousin who rejected his advances. Florence Domy, 40, barely escaped possible death Friday when Howard Erno, 56, shot and killed Ellen Yanke, 37, her two uncles, Clarence and Herman Domy and then committed suicide. Sheriff Stanley Bailey said Erno and the brown-haired Miss Yanke were married in June 1957, and lived together for about a week before angry relatives forced annulment under a Minnesota law forbidding marriages between first cousins. Erno courted Miss Yanke when he worked on the Domy farm in the winter and spring of 1957, Bailey said, but following the annulment she “wouldn’t have anything more to do with him.” Bailey said Erno had “thoughts ■ of murder on his mind” when he ; apparently parked his car at a vacant farm nearby and walked to the Domy spread. He apparently found Clarence Domy, 77, at work in the hog house, shot him and hid in the shadows. Herman Domy, 70, went out, found the body and summoned the two women. As they looked at the body, they , suddenly noticed Erno pointing a gun at them from about 40 feet away. Erno fired once, Bailey said, the shot missed and the two women ran from the building. He fired again, hitting Miss Yanke with several shots. As she ran to a neighboring farmhouse, Miss Domy said, she heard Miss Yanke scream and then her uncle begged Erno not to shoot again. Erno then apparently went into tile formhouse arid shot himself once in the head, Bailey said. The two Women had lived with theif bachelor uncles since childhood, he said.

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25,000 Persons Driven From Homes In Ohio, Pennsylvania By Flood

Charge Soviet Russia Blocks Talk Progress American Officials Charge Russia With Blocking Test Talks WASHINGTON (UPI) — Amerl- \ can officials charged today that Russia is blocking progress at the nuclear ban test talks in Geneva and trying to shift the Marne onto Britain and the United States. They said Russia obviously was trying to obscure the fact that the Western powers have made a substantial concession in an effort to reach agreement on continued suspension of nuclear weapons tests. This was the conclusion of top U.S. officials after an analysis of Russia's Thursday statement in which the Western powers were accused of trying to “bring about failure’’ of the Geneva talks by raising technical problems. Officials here said the lengthy Soviet statement, distributed by the official Tass News Agency, undoubtedly was put out to try to confuse world opinion and obscure the major concession Britain and the United States made last Monday. At that time the two Western powers abandoned their insistnc that continued suspension of nuclear testing be dependent upon progress in other fields of disarmament. But the United States still insists that continuation of the present test suspension is conditional ’ upon establishment and operation of an effective control and ispection system. The Russians have raised various objections, insisting upon holding a veto power over the control commission and sharply restricting the number of foreigners on inspection teams in Rossia. The Soviet Union’s charges that the Western powers were .guilty of technical obstruction at the Geneva talks stems from the U.S. Soil Conservation Banquet On Monday Annual Banquet At Berne Monday Night Final arrangements were completed Friday for the fifth annual Adams county soil conservation banquet, according to Ben Gerke, chairman. The banquet will be held at the Berne auditorium Monday evening at 6:45 o’clock. The chairman reports approximately 200 tickets have been sold for the annual event, but tickets are still available for anyone wishing to attend. R. Nelson Snider, principal of the Fort Wayhe south Side high school, and well known humorist, will be the principal speaker. L. Luther Yager, of Berne, will serve as master of ceremonies, and special entertainment will be provided by Mr. and Mrs. John Smith of Auburn. The menu will feature prime roast beef. Dinner music will be played by the Zuercher music store of Berne. A soil conservation district supervisor will be elected to succeed Ben Mazelin, whose term expires this year, announcement that it has been discovered that it is more difficult to detect small bootleg blasts than was thought at the time the experts worked out a 180-station con(Continued on page six) Injuries Fatal To Fort Wayne Resident FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD - William Dolan, 74, Fort Wayne, died today in St. Joseph’s Hospital from injuries sustained Jan. 16 in a two-car collision of cars driven by William J, Dolan and Janet Long, 16, both of Fort Wayne.

Bronx Searched For Kidnaper Os Infant i Suspect Is Reported Seen Carrying Baby . NEW YORK (UPI) — Police (Searched a section of the Bronx today where a pregnant woman Banswering the description of the Bkidnaper of 25-day-otd John Tavar|ez was seen carrying a baby. I Police closed in on a Bronx Brooming house Friday night where the woman was reported seen but (the suspect eluded the search. lOther details of city detectives fend FBI agnts fanned out over the neighborhood to pick up any fclue in the hottest lead since the Tavarez baby was kidnaped Thursday afternoon. i Jose and Doraliza Tavarez, parents of the baby, made a television appeal Friday night for his Safe return. The woman sought Friday night was described as pregnant, dark complexioned, stocky and in her 30s The baby she carried was wrapped in a blue blanket, as was the Tavarez baby when abducted. About 150 detectives searched throughout the city Friday and 25 FBI agents joined the hunt late in the day, 24 hours after little Johnny was taken from his mother’s apartment Thursday on a ruse. A woman giving the name of Mrs. Gladys Garcia had met Mrs. aavarez in Metropolitan Hospital Wednesday. They shared a taxi home. Mrs. Garcia phoned Thursday to tell Mrs. Tavarez of an apartment available in the Bronx and offered to babysit while Mrs. Tavarez looked at it. When Mrs. Tavarez returned from apartment hunting she found the baby and toe babysitter gone. It was the second baby kidnaping in New York this month. Newborn Lisa Rose Chionchio was returned to her parents on Jan. 12 when police acting on a tip found the baby with Mrs. Jean lavarone and in good health. Attention Is Urged On Jobless Problems Special Committee Is Formed By Ike WASHINGTON (UPI) — sign. Paul H. Douglas said today the Eisenhower administration's antiinflation campaign should give (attention to unemployment problems and slackening production as well as price stability. The Illinois Democrat said the President has created “another committee” to do a job which presumably was being done by Eisenhower’s council of economic advisers. The President created a special committee Friday to make sure government purchases and other federal activities do not fan inflationary fires by driving up prices unduly. _ “All these factors need to be considered —substantial, ccjual employment and maximum production, as well as price stability,” Douglas said. “We had all three for the 21 months between March 1951 and December 1952, when the Eisenhower administration came in. “Since this administration took over, the rate of growth has slackened, we have had two recessions and an increase in prices.” The Senate anti-trust and monopoly subcommittee, meanwhile, continued its investigation of administered prices and their effect on inflation. Economists Dr. Gardiner C. Means, Washington, D.C., and Dr. Walter S. Adams, of Michigan State University, were invited to testify at today’s session. A top economic adviser to former President Truman told the subcommittee Friday that farm co-ops and labor unions, as well as corporations, should be made to live within the rules of antitrust laws. , . L.. ... Dr. Edwin G. Nourse said "no individual or organized interest” Cootlnued on page flve

Seek To Plug River Break To Reach 12 Fate Os 12 Trapped Miners Unknown In Pennsylvania Mine PITTSTON, Pa. (UPD—Rescue workers fought today to plug a Susquehanna River break-through as the first step toward reaching . 12 miners entombed for nearly , two days in an anthracite opera- [ tion. A victory for them would also . stem the floodwaters that- have crept into connecting mines, clos- . ing 11 Friday and threatening to idle a total of 5,000 men in this . economically distressed area. J- The fate of the trapped men ; was unknown, but each hour the ice - laden river remained un- ’ changed, hopes for their safety L "dimmed. Rescue leaders said it , would be at least 24 hours before • they could even probe the water ’ depths of the Knox Coal Co. mine J in search of the missing. The swirling waters, gushing ! through a giant drain the Susquehanna had gouged out of its f river bed into the roof of a mine tunnel, spread so much further ! devastation that President Eisenhower declared the region a disaster area. Eisenhower threw federal aid into the breach after Gov. David L. Lawrence told him that “major efforts” to cork a 20-foot wide . hole torn by the river had failed. “A major catastrophe directly affecting the safety and economic well-being of thousands of local residents has now developed,” Lawrence said. . . The 69-year-old Lawrence, who took office only last Tuesday, visited the disaster site at nearby Port Griffith and watched crews toss bales of excelsion into the violent whirlpool along the east bank of the Susquehanna. Other mines employing 2,000 workers in the affected area which runs some 20 miles south from Pittston are expected to discontinue operations either volun(Contlnued on pare eight) School Integration Resistance Blocked Court Orders Block Virginia Resistance RICHMOND, Va. (UPD—Three • Virginia localities faced public • school integration today with re- : sistance blocked by a series of court orders. [ Norfolk, Charlottesville and Ar- • lihgton County sought Uth hour ■ means to delay, but court rulings • demolished most hopes that intei gration could be postponed more - than a few weeks The school boards of Norfolk and . Charlottesville planned Monday . meetings to consider new evidence ■ that schools closed since last Sep- , tember would have to reopen and ' integrate. Arlington County school board ’ attorneys meantime drafted a request for the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals asking it to stay ‘ its own order issued Friday that ! a white Arlington junior high ’ school must admit four Negroes 1 Feb. 2. The Arlington school board and ■ county board have pledged to keep . integration-ordered Stratford Jun- ■ ior High open regardless of whetht er or not the Negroes must be admitted. The Norfolk school board has • said it will open the city’s six closi ed schools at the first opportunity, » and the school board of Charlotteviile was advised by its attorney - Friday night that it must open the » two closed schools in that city or i face contempt citations. [ Gov. J. Lindsay i Almond, who . until last Monday held firm control . over nine closed schools in the state, meantime quelled reports a ( special session of/the general as* . sembly would be hurriedly called to enact new anti-integration laws.

Three Persons Dead In Louisiana Blasi 32 Others Injured In Explosion Friday MONROE, La. (UPD — Three were dead and 32 injured were lying in hospitals today because they had been drawn either by work or-curiosity to the fiery derailment of a freight train. A 33-car Missouri Pacific Railroad freight caught fire when it was derailed Friday. Firefighters swung into action and a crowd of 150 onlookers gathered by nightfall. During the blaze a tank car of liquid butane exploded, hurling flames and metal fragments at wrecking crews, firemen and spectators.“I heard people screaming and saw them running with their clothes and hair on fire,” switchman L. V. Cascio said. He was standing 15ft yards away. His clothes were singed .and his ear burned. “The flames mushroomed outward. aqd touched earth again about 300 yards away. Those farther away were the ones that got it bad,” he said. firemen still fought a blaze this morning which crept dangerously near another derailed car containing hydro-carbon. A total of 52 persons were injured, and thirty-two victims of the blast were still hospitalized, 17 of them in critical condition, by the butane explosion. A" No one was injured earlier in the day when the 33 cars jumped the track, setting off fire and explosions, which destroyed 30 of the cars. Police and firemen had warned sight-seers to stay away from the scene. ;’- Only one of the dead was identified. He was O. C. Mitchell, of Lake Village, Ark. Estimates of damages caused by the explosion ran as high as a million dollars. Senators Seeking Data On Missiles Seek Estimate On Red Achievements WASHINGTON (UPD—Senators seeking information on U.S. space and missile progress will request particulars from the national intelligence estimate on Soviet achievements, informed sources said today. Basing his comments on that estimate. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy said this week that there is no positive evidence that the Russians now have a combdtready intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). He said reports of a U. -Sr- “lag” in long range missiles are “exaggerated.” In the wake of McElroy's statement, Sen. Stuart Symington (DMo.) charged Friday that present administration plans would leave the Soviets with a four-to-one edge over the United Etatte in ICBMs by 1961. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) quickly announced that the Senate preparedness subcommittee and the Senate Space Committee will begin hearings Thursday. He had announced an investigation geared to give the nation an "honest count” on missile progress and the race for space. It was learned today that committee members already have been assured . the, investigating group will seek details of the national intelligence estimate.- That probably would be done by questioning Central Intelligence Director Allen W. Dulles behind closed doors. Dulles doubles as chairman of an intelligence panel for the National Security Council. The panel includes representatives of other intelligence agencies and produces the, so-called national intelligence OmtinuM on pace flve

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Twin Disasters Bring Action By President Stricken Regions Os States Declared As Disaster Areas United Press International ' Ice and debris-laden floodwaters swept over levees and flood walls in Ohio and Pennsylvania, chasing 25,000 persons from their homes in twin disasters that brought swift action from the White House. President Eisenhower Friday night declared flood-stricken regions of the two states disaster areas and authorized immediate federal aid in reply to pleas from Govs. Michael V. DiSalle of Ohio and David L- Lawrence of Pennsylvanla. ’■ to . Near-zero temperatures plagued thousands of volunteer flood workers,including National Guard reinforcements, as they struggled through the night to restore broken levees and rescue stranded families. The U.S. Weather Bureau, however, predicted a warming trend in the weather-ravaged regions. The rampaging Scioto River washed away a levee at historic Chillicothe. Ohio, putting one-third of the city -under water in its worst flood disaster since 1913. Ten thousand persons were left homeless in Ohio’s first capital, while another 10,000 Ohioans evacuated their dwellings as swollen rivers cascaded over their banks elsewhere in the state. Fire Hits Zanesville At Zanesville, already dealt a million-dollar blow by floodwaters,? - a major fire erupted in the business district early Saturday, enveloping six stores and threatening an entire half-block of business buildings. Pennsylvanians reeled from the double-pronged flood attack above and below ground. Three miners were drowned late Thursday when the Susquehanna River smashed through its own bed into a coal mine near Pittston and another 12 were reported missing. Forced to stand idly by until flood waters recede from the mine’s bowels, a 48-hour wait, state mining officials all but gave the missing 12 men up for lost. At Meadville, Pa., a massive ice pack resisted attempts to bring help to families marooned in heatless homes. In near-zero temperatures amphibious trucks and Coast Guard boats tried to crack through the ice jammed French Creek. Earlier, attempts to dynamite the ice pack ended in failure. Meadville Has 4,000 Homeless About 4,000 persons were left homeless when French Creek spilled over its banks and damages ran into the* millions of dollars. Thousands were in misery, including many who had refused evacuation before the bone-chilling cold set in. Although Meadville was hardest hit, many other Pennsylvania communities suffered from the violent weather onslaught. Hundreds of persons were homeless in Sharon, where the Shenango River swirled around in numerous basements. Light and heat were totally cut off from many homes. Farther down the river, New Castle z also suffered. Torrential rains in Chillicottie marked the apex of a week of record snows and sub-zero weath(CantlnueO on page e!x> Msgr. J. J. Seimetz -- is Stricken Today The Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimete, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic church, suffered a stroke at 7:30 o'clock this morning at the church rectory, according to his physician. The stroke has affected Msgr. Seimetz's right side and his speech. His physician stated today that the pastor has rallied from the shock, but is being transferred to the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne this morning for further treatment.