Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 60, Decatur, Adams County, 12 March 1959 — Page 1

VoI.LVII. No. 60.

Statehood To Hawaii Nears

WASHINGTON (UPD — Congress moved swiftly today to vote the mid-Pacific vacationland of Hawaii into the Union as the 50th state. The House was expected to pass a statehood bill by nightfall, less than 24 hours after similar legislation sailed through the Senate on a 76 to 15 roll call vote. There was a possibility that a final measure could go to the White House today, but this depended upon backers getting unanimous consent for House acceptance of the slightly different Senate bill. Jubilant Hawaiians stood ready to touch off a two-day celebration, including hula dancing, fireworks and a gigantic bonfire as soon as news of final congressional action was flashed to the territory. Senate passage of the statehood measure came after brief opposition from Southern Democrats. Thirty Republicans joined 46 Democrats in voting for the bill while 14 Democrats and one Republican —Sen. John Marshall Butler (Md.) —were opposed. President Eisenhower is expected to issue his official statehood proclamation this fall. Chances are good that Hawaii will have selected its congressmen before Congress adjourns this summer. Statehood will end 40 years of frustrated efforts by Hawaiians to throw off their territorial status. The first statehood bin was introduced in 1919. Under the statehood bill, Hawaii's 613,000 residents would be represented in Congress by two senators and one representative. The territory is now represented by a voteless delegate. With a land area slightly larger than Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, Hawaii paid $166,300,000 in federal taxes last year, more than 10 other states. Former Decatur Man Is Given Sentence Charles R. Johnson, 26, formerly of this city, was sentenced Wednesday by the Allen county circuit court to tWo-to-five years at the state prison for second degree burglary, but the sent.ence was suspended so that Johnson can stand trial in Mercer county, 0., for first degree -burglary and safe burglary. Johnson was a member of a fiveman burglary ring apprehended here and at Fort Wayne in January; members of the gang confessed to being involved in nearly 150 crimes in a six-county area. Johnson admitted in Allen county court Wednesday to a January 27, 1959 breakin at Johnnie’s Drive-In in Fort Wayne. About $45 was removed from a pinball machine in that breakin. Mercer county authorities were reported to have already placed a detainer against Johnson, and a trial is expected at Celina on the more serious charges.

KB ■' BLj J ** t j® flg •<' ■ SCORES PREPAREDNESS LAG— While President Eisenhower told a news conference he did not believe anyone would start a selfdefeating major nuclear war. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell --thylor deft) conferred with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) and Chairman Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) of the Senate Preparedness committee. Gen. Taylor was called before the committee to tell of his “reservations” on the President’s defense budget and Sen. Johnson opened the hearing by stating that a 15-month investigation of preparedness convinced him the U. S. is “ , . . not doing enough, fast enough or thoroughly enough.”

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Nasser Risking Displeasure Os Soviet Russia CAIRO (UPD—United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser is risking Soviet displeasure and a possible halt to Russian military and economic aid in his campaign against the Communists in Iraq, Western diplomats said today. Nasser launched his attack Wednesday with strong criticism of Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem. He also charged that Iraqi Communists were taking orders from “the foreigner” and trying to turn the U.A.R. Communist. No Moscow Reaction As yet, there has been no Moscow reaction to Nasser’s charges. Moscow Radio has blamed the short-lived Iraqi revolt on “colonial imperialists” and has made no attempt to link Nasser with the Iraqi rebels. Western diplomats here said Nasser took the risk of losing aid from the Soviet Union, which has equipped his troops with jets and tanks and is helping to build the Aswan Dam, because he could not ignore the expulsion of 10 U.A.R. diplomats from Iraq and the impliedcharge that the U.A.R. was behind the unsuccessful revolt. Nasser’s First Attack It was Nasser’s first attack on Kassem and the split between the Cairo and Baghdad governments appeared as deep as it was in the days of former Iraqi Premier Nuri es Said. Anti-Nasser demonstrations continued in Baghdad as boy and girl students, workers and peace partisans blamed the U.A.R. for the army officers ’ mutiny. ~7 Thousands of Iraqis who followed the funeral marches for two loyalist Victims of the revolt flown in from the city of Mosul drowned out the funeral music with their screams against Nasser and the U-A-R-Pages

Consider Extension Os Jobless Benefits

WASHINGTON (UPD — Democrats toyed today with a plan for putting President Eisenhower on the spot on the ticklish issue of unemployment compensation. The plan would extend for one year the federal program of jobless pay, but give the President power to cut off payments after three months. It was one of several under consideration by Democrats as the House Ways & Means Committee began closed door consideration of legislation to extend

Heavy Snows Clobber Ohio River Valley United Press International A fast moving snow storm "clobbered” the Ohio Valley with up to nine-inch accumulations today and weathermen warned of heavy snow during the day in New York and Pennsylvania. Heavy rains and tomadic winds swept the southeast as colder air pressed southward. High winds demolished two furniture warehouses at Burns, Miss., while nearby, 150 children and their teachers huddled in a corner of their school as the winds “roaring like a tornado” raced by. No one was injured. The snowstorm moved northeastward through the Ohio Valley during the night. The Chicago Weather Bureau reported the storm was “clobbering Cleveland, Ohio,” with six inches of snow on the ground early today. Issue Bulletin Warning The New York Weather Bureau issued a special bulletin warning the storm would deposit heavy snow in Pennsylvania, most of New York state, Connecticut and interior portions of New Jersey. The prediction called for four to six inches of snow in the area and up to eight inches at higher elevations. Hazardous driving conditions were expected in the storm belt. Snow during the night occurred from Illinois and Indiana through the Ohio Valley into the East Coast. Four or more inches were reported in southern Illinois and Indiana. Zanesville, Ohio,, got nine Inches, the heaviest snowfall since 1950. At least four deaths were blamed on the storm, three in Ohio and one in Indiana. Two persons died Wednesday at Cincinnati while shoveling snow. Two others were killed ? Wednesday in traffic accidents on slippery highways. .Many Skidding Accidents Up to six inches of snow fell overnight in western Pennsylvania’s Bedford County, causing a rash of skidding accidents. At Boyers. Pa.; 10 firemen were hampered by snow in fighting a $75,000 fire that destroyed a church. Authorities reduced speed limits to 35 miles per hour due to snow along the Pennsylvania Turnpike from the Sideling tunnel westward.

the program beyond its April 1 cut-off date. .— Pressure increased for continued jobless benefits after the government reported Wednesday that unemployment edged up by 25,000 last month to a total of 4,479,00. The plan to force the President to call the shots on the program won tentative approval at a caucus of key Democrats Monday, but informants said the Democrats might decide to shelve it in favor of a simple brief extension of the program. Lawmakers of both parties were confident that the President would accept a brief extension, although perhaps reluctantly. Democrats indie ated they wouldn’t be ready to make, a final decision on their strategy until hearing from administration officials at today’s closed meeting. Other congressional news: Rackets: The Senate Rackets Committee tried to find out if Chicago teamster Joey Giimco used the union dues of 5,000 taxi drivers to help pay the bills for his $40,00 home. Scheduled to testify were Laverne Murray, an attractive brunette union employe in whose name the house also was listed, Victor Comforte, described as a “labor slugger,” and Frank Pantaleo, who built the house. Defeuuse: influential Senate Democrats predicted Congress would take President Eisenhower at “his word and enact legal minimums for Army and Marine Corps strength. The President defended his military budget and troop reductions at his news conference Wednesday, but said he would not thwart such floors. The move to adopt such legislation gained momentum when Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, Army chief of staff, told the Senate Preparedness investigation he favored a 925,000 man- Army instead of the scheduled cut to 870,00. Distressed Areas: The Seriate Banking Committee approved a Democratic plan to provide 359 million dollars in federal loans and grants to help areas of lirigering distress. Eisenhower vetoed a similar measure last year.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, March 12, 1959.

Soviet Premier Mixes Plea For Peace With Threats Os Violence

Believe Flu Siege ' Has Reached Peak The number of pupils absent In the Decatur vicinity remains fairly constant today after more than a Week of the flue siege. The leveling off, may be an indication that the peak has been reached and a dropoff can be expected. Deactur high school continues to decrease as 36 pupils were absent today, a drop from the 50 absent yesterday, School officials said that the normal tor this time of year is around 20. Decatur. Catholic .also shows signs of having the flu bug beaten as 13 are’out compared with 15 yesterday. The high there was 26 on Tuesday. Adams Central still reports more than 20 per cent absent, as 220, one less than yesterday, remained at home. Officials at the school, however, feel that the number of flu cases will begin falling after today. The highest there was 236 on Tuesday. Pleasant Mills had 28 out in the high school for an overall total-of 36. one more than yesterday. This number is the peak to date at Pleasant Mills. Monmouth showed further reductions as 20 absenteeisms were noted today. Twenty-seven pupils were out yesterday, the high there. The Lincoln school reached its highest today as 220 pupils are out. Ap error of omissiow occurred in yesterday’s total there because the kindergarten absenteeisms were not counted. Yesterday's total was fisted as a decline, while in reality, it was 184, one more than Tuesday’s mark. At the Northwest school, 48 pupils were out, dne less than Wednesday’s toll. Yesterday’s count was the highest total at that school. St. Joseph’s grade school reports 149 out, about the same as yesterday, possibly indicating that the peak has been reached. Extension Os Draft Passed By Congress WASHINGTON (UPD —The House today passed by voice vote and sent to the White House a bill extending the draft law four years. Congressional action was completed on the measure when the House accepted without debate a Senate amendment to the measuse which passed the House last month. The Senate passed the bill Wednesday by a thumping 90-1 vote. The only major change the Senate made in the House bill provides for a continuation of the authority to give extra pay to newly commissioned physicians, dentists and veterinarians. House sources described this as a non-controversial amendment which the House probably would accept without any fuss,' sending the bill to the White House for the President’s signature. The Senate amendment provides authority for the continued payment of extra pay, at the rate of SIOO to $250 monthly to newly commissioned physicians and dentists and SIOO a month additional pay for veterinarians. Fort Wayne Children Critically Burned FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD Two children were burned critically today when fire damaged their apartment—as~ they played with a cigarette lighter. . . 1 ' Sarah Ann Grant. 4, and her brother, Dujunette, 2. children of Mrs. Made Grant, were taken to Parkview Hospital with bad burns over the upper portions of their bodies.

Ike’s Warning May Aid Stand

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower « grim warning of the danger ot nuclear war was viewed today as strengthening the Allied hand in negotiations with Russia on Berlin. Officials said the P. r e s i ti e n t brought into sharp focus the disastrous possibilities of the Kremlin’s course when he declared Wednesday he would not fight a ground war in Europe if the Berlin crisis led to hostilities but would rgsort to “other means.” These officials s? ! d they hoped the blunt statement finally would convince Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that the United States is determined to hold Berlin against any Russian threats. They said it should make it Clear to the Russian leader that the United States is not bluffing —and has considered the ultimate consequences. Another indication of U.S, determination was the disclosure that the United States has drafted detailed plans for putting its 330,000 military men in Europe on increase dalert and sending a test convoy through any Berlin blockade the Communists impose. • Very little military inobifiaation, as distinct from plaiw£g. is tak■ifig place now, however. The administration wants to avoid any appearance of making "provocative” military moves while the Berlin question is in diplomatic negotiation. The need for a test convoy would arise if Russia abdicated its Berlin responsibilities, signed a treaty with East Germany and gave the East Germans control of traffic routes to Berlin. The President told his news conference Wednesday that he did be “senseless” enough to push matters "in the direction of real hostilities” over Berlin.However, he warned, %re have got to stand right ready and say: ‘We will do what is necessary to protect ourselves but we are never going to Lack up on our rights and our responsibilities’.”

Record Budget Bills Signed By Governor INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Governor Handley signed Indiana’s record billion-dollar budget bills late Wednesday, completing the official steps necessary to appropriate $1,052,937,000 for operation of government during the next two years. Handley’s -signature on the two budget bills (HB2 and HB3) gave executive approval to the appropriations schedules worked out by the 1959 Indiana Legislature for the biennium beginning next July 1 and running to June 30, 1961. Handley also signed several dozen other measures, one of the most important of which was a bill calling for expenditure of $155,000 for surveys for flood control and water resources purposes on the Wabash. White, Patoka, Whitewater, Kankakee, Yellow, St. Mary’s, St. Joseph’s and Maumee Rivets. The signature on the flood control measure completed executive action on three important flood control bills passed by the Legislature. The others were a $1,250,000 appropriation bill for the Monroe Reservoir near Bloomington and dams on the Wabash, Salarnonie and Mississinewa Rivers, and creation of a revolving fund from which local communities may borrow for flood control purposes. •' The latest bills signed by Handley: SB7—Raises pay of city election officials. SBl9—Drops from 1957 law governing land partition a provision that sale may be voided if bid 10 per cent higher is made within 30 days. -' .... ~ .. SB3o—Amends 1953 law to open county welfare financial records to public. SBss—lncreases maximum tax levy from 5 to 10 cents for hos(ConUnuefi on P*<« eight)

Ostrander Motion Overruled By Judge A motion for reconsideration on the judicial order denying Charles W. Ostrander right to withdraw his plea of guilty and to enter a plea of not guilty, was overruled by the Adams circuit court today, according to Judge Myles F. Parrish. Ostrander forwarded a petition to the Adams circuit court this week stating that if a petitioner desires to be tried and convicted upon the merits if such merits exist, it was his constitutional right, to be convicted upon evidence if such evidence exists. He continued by stating that it was an error that the court held a hearing without his presence in person to protect his rights; and that the court had knowledge that the petitioner was not duly represented by counsel, and that the public defender would not appear to represent him at the hearing. Hie petition further stated that it was a flagrant violation of his constitutional rights for the court to hear testimony by the state prosecutor and to permit evidence to be submitted without the presence of the petitioner, which made the hearing an ex parte hearing which is condoned by the United States supreme court.

Links Company With Labor Racketeering

WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate Rackets Committee said today that a company it linked with labor racketeers is doing 60 per cent of the work on Nike guided missile sites in the Chicago area. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.l, expressing shock at the committee's disclosure, called for an immediate Defense Department investigation of the firm, the Broadway Sheet Metal Co. McClellan said he would send immediately to the department a transcript of hearings Wednesday and today in which two of Broadway’s stockholders —Dominic Senese and Victor Com forte—invoked the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions. There were these other developVote Registration Deadline April 6 Richard D. Lewton, Adams county clerk, said today that several Decatur residents have contacted his office inquiring about tfre registration of voters for the special city election on the matter of selling or maintaining the city electric utility. Lewton stated that several persons are still confused about the matter of registration. » He has given the following announcement in an attempt to clear up any questions. Anyone who was eligible and voted in either the last primary or general election held in 1958, is registered- for the special city election and the May prjmary election, and does not have |p re-register for the special city election. Anyone who has moved from the former precinct voting stations, should register to transfer to the new precinct; and anyone who has changed the last name by marriage since the last election, should register at the clerk's office.

Monday, April 8, is the j|;gistration deadline.

By WALTER LOGAN United Press International Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, mixing pleas for peace with threats of violence, ended his eight-day sojourn in East Germany today and flew home to prepare for the next phase of his diplomatic battle with the West. Almost simultaneously, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into West Germany on the second stage of his mission to report to Western leaders the results of his recent 10-day visit in Russia. Before leacing East Berlin, Khrushchev delivered this parting shot at the West: “If the aggressors should try, in spite of everything, to carry through their adventurous aims and—as they say—try to ‘break through’ anywhere, they would meet with appopriate resistance.” He coupled this with an appeal for peace — on Soviet terms — meaning the West should agree to a peace treaty with divided Germany and give up its present rights in West Berlin. West Germans Grim ~ The next step would appear to be a period of preparation by both sides for prolonged negotiations on the Berlin crisis particularly and the questions of divided Germany and European security generally. New British assurances that West German rights would be protected in any such negotiations softened the somewhat hostile attitude in Bonn toward Macmillan’s views on settling the Berlin crisis. But the West Germans still took a grim view of the situation. When Macmillan arrived in Bonn. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told him: "Since your last visit here a couple of months ago, world conditions have once more changed substantially and I must say have not improved.” The principal differences arose

ments as the committee dug deeper into the activities of Chicago Teamster official Joey Glimco: —Glimco’s buxom brunette secretary refused to say whether she shared a hotel room with him for which the union was billed for $1,045 in "entertainment expenses.” —A Chicago contractor declined to say whether union funds were used to help finance a $44,0 suburban home he built for Glimco. The Broadway Sheet Metal Co. was brought into the picture as having done some of the work on a remodelling job at the headquarters of Glimco’s Local 777. After Comforte pleaded possible self-incrimination to avoid answering questions about it, Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy disclosed that the firm did 60 per cent of the work on Chicago Nike sites as a sub-contractor.

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. J. O. Penrod, Trinity Evangelical United Brethren) “The Speaking Heavens” Psalms heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.' 1 Have you ever tried to count the stars? Astronomers tell us that only five or six thousand stars are visible to the naked eye. A hundred thousand can be seen with a small telescope. As many as a hundred million are brought into view with the 40-inch telescope at the Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. Half a million are within reach of the 100-inch. telescope on Mount Willson. Each increase in the power of the telescope reveals multitudes of fainter stars farther away. . . No two of these stars are exactly alike. Some that appear to be single stars are really two, three, four, or even more stars grouped so close together that their shining seems to come from one star. People with normal vision can distinguish two stars in what seems to be the middle star in the handle of the Big Dipper. Telescopes show six. . Stars differ in size. The smallest yet discovered are about the size of the earth, The sun, you remember, has a diameter of 865,400 miles, and some stars are hundreds of times that large. Stars differ in colop. Some seem to be yellow, some blue. There are dwarf white stars, and huge red stars called Supergiants. And stars differ in brightness. The brightest star known is called Sirius: and Orion is the most brilliant of the star groups or constellations. Both of these are close together in the winter sky. How marvelous must be the mind of God who created its wonders!

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over West German — and French — belief the Macmillan mission to Moscow might do more harm than good. Since then Macmillan has firmly stated Britain’s determination to stand united with its other Western allies. Another difference developed when Macmillan signed a communique with Soviet Premier Nikita Khurshchev promising -to study a partial disengagement of forces in Central Europe. West Germany feared that might seal the division of Germany. Troop "Thinning Out” Official British sources in London today made it clear Macmillan was not talking about an out-and-out withdrawal of Allied troops but meant an arms freeze in Central Europe and possibly later some troop “thinning out.” Moscow also took note of the disengagement plan today and a broadcast today predicted Adenauer would attempt to “pressure” Macmillan into dropping plans for a restricted armaments zone in Central Europe. In • Washington, officials said President Eisenhower’s grim warning of the danger of nuclear war had strengthened the Allied hand in future negotiations with Russia on Berlin. They said the President brought into sharp focus the disastrous possibilities of the Kremlin’s course when he declared Wednesday he would not fight a ground war in Europe if the Berlin crisis 4 led to hostilities but would resort to "other means.” Han Test Convoy In connection with this, reallable sources in Washington said the United States already has drafted a plan for sending a test convoy through a Berlin blockade if the Communists impose one. The plan calls for sending a normal size unarmed convoy over the road to West Berlin and to send in tanks if the trucks are stopped. * ' , What would happen if the tanks were fired on was not known, but the 330,000 ArAerican military men in Europe have been placed on increased alert. Khrushchev, who ends his elght-\ day East German visit today, issued a communique with East German leaders Wednesday guaranteeing access to West Berlin if the Allies agree to make it into a "free city.” But Washington dispatches made it clear the United States was not buying the Khrushchev plan, which still calls for forcing the West out of Berlin and perhaps signing a separate peace treaty with past Germany. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with chance of some brief periods of light rain or snow tonight. Little temperature change. Friday partly cloudy and warmer, chance of showers extreme north by evening. Low tonight mostly in 20s. High Friday in 40s north and central, lower 50s extreme south. Sunset today 8:49 P- m. COT- Sunrise Friday 7:00 a. na. CDT. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy, somewhat colder. Low 25 to 35. Highs 35 to 45.