Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 25 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 98.

Senate Called Into Saturday Session Over Labor Reform

Fine Arts Festival Held Last Evening More than MB Decatur music and art appreciifors attended the fine arts festival at Decatur high school Friday night, and were delighted by the musical treats of the high school choir and band and the 92-plece art exhibit. Miss Janelie Everhart, a freshman at Decatur high and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Everhart, won the "sea scape” door prize, painted by local artist, John Sheets. Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art teacher, promoted’a well-balanced program of music and art. The choir, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, ran the gamut of the vocal world, opening with a religious classical number, “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring," by Bach, and closing with a well-received version of "The Birth of the Blues.” The band continued the pleasant display of virtuosity, opening with Handel’s "Air to Bouree” from "The Water Music,” and closing with a brassy overture entitled "Bugler’s Holiday.” Clint Reed directed the splendid performance. The choir and band then combined tor the conclusion of the program, which featured a narration of '‘God's Trombone' by the Rev. Edward Pecha. Seventy-?’ e cfl paintings were displayed ranging from still lifes to unique modern interpretations of art. Works in chalk, mosaics, water colors, sculpturing, cut paper, inks, drawings, pastels, lapidary art, and ceramics also enthralled the lay as well as the learned. Expect Discoverer II To Burn Up Monday WASHINGTON (UPD-The Defense Department says the U.S. Discoverer II satellite is expected to burn up in the earth’s atmosphere Monday after two weeks of orbiting. The Air Fcfrce launched the satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on April 13. Two days later, a capsule of instruments was ejected near Spitsbergen, Norway, but was not recovered. The Discoverer II radio beacon stopped sending signals last Monday.

National Guardsmen Sent To Coal Fields

HAZARD,. Ky. (UPD—For the second time in less than a generation, National Guardsmen were rolling into eastern Kentucky coal fields today to police a violencepunctuated coal strike. Gov. A. B. Chandler sent some 2,000 troops into the strike area Friday afternoon after a crowd of more than 500 pickets congregated at a non-union mine at Combs, Ky., and dynamite blasts destroyed property there and at nearby Viper. Violence flared anew today aS the tipple and preparation plant of the huge Ashlo Coal Co.. Combs,' Ky., was set afire. The fire, which police said apparently was set when mine guards changed shifts at 6 a. Un., had spread to the Washington plant by 7:30 a m. CST., and the firm’s offices , were evacuated.

State police troopers helped carry out furniture and office equipment. The Ashlo firm, owned by the Sunfire Coal Co., was the site of Friday’s mass picketing which led to the sending of the guard. Hazard Police Chief R. D. Cisco, said, “it looks like they’re going to lose the whole thing. A pumper truck from Hazard arrived shortly afetr the fire began, but

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WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Senate returned from a 12-hour cooling off period today to debate labor reform bill revisions demanded by union leaders and Southerners. At issue was a “bill of rights” amendment which squeaked through the Senate by a 47-46 vote Wednesday but which within hours faced wittiering assault from labor and Southern senators. A compromise substitute to the amendment was proposed Friday night. A parliamentary free-for-all followed. The 13-hour Senate session ended in a near shouting match before adjournment at 10:59 p.m. e.s.t. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) called an unusual Saturday session to drive for final approval of the, KennedyErvin anti-corruption bill, now in its ninth day of debate. Compromise Curb Passed The long debate Friday resulted in: n —Passage 86 to 4 of a compromise curb cm union picketing for the purpose of organizing workers of forcing employers to bargain. A stronger amendmentsponsored by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) was defeated by a 59-30 margin. —Rejection of another McClellan amendment to ban secondary boycotts, a device for compelling an employer to yield to a unicm’s demands by applying pressure on his “neutral” customers. The vote was 50 to 41. Under the compromise on organizational picketing, unions would be prohibited from picketing an employer if the 8 employer already had recognized another union and his action had not been challenged under the law. or if a representation election had beep held at the picketed firm within the previous nine months. Was “Fully Consulted” This condition would be waived if the picketing union had 25)ing6e election or could prove that it represented a majority of the workers.

McClellan told newsmen he had been “fully consulted” about the substitute to his original “bill of rights” amendment. The substitute would knock out provisions unions feared would hamstring them and which some Southerners thought might open the door -to civil rights proposals. “It may be that if it works out all right I’ll be able to go along with it,” McClellan said. “There were some concessions made both ways.” But before the substitute could be considered, the Senate had to dispose of a roll-call vote demanded by Republican policy leader Styles Bridges (N.H.). This vote was on his appeal from a ruling that it was proper under the Senate rules to bring up the substitute.

the blaze, apparently had too much of a start in the coal dustpermeated wood. The tipple roof was blown off last week and two more blasts were set off on an access road Friday night but caused no damage. Chandler also was governor 22 years ago when the National Guard was called to put down violence in a Harlan County coal field when violence erupted in a long coal strike. The first guard truckloads roared into Hazard at 1:20 a. m. EST. The unot was Company B, of the 441st Field Artillery Battalion from Ravenna, commanded by William E. The troops, wearing helmets and carrying rifles with bayonets in scabbards, marched into Hazard Memorial Gymnasium where thev spent the night. Officials in the coal strike area were cautious in commenting on die governor’s action, perhaps because of possible political repercussions during the gubernatorial election year in Kentuckv United Mine Workers Union Attorney H. B. Noble was sharptly critical.

Chinese Reds Warn Against Interference TOKYO (UPl)—The Communist radio warned today that any attempt at outside interference in occupied Tibet will be crushed by the “iron fists” of Red China. A Peiping broadcast quoted a speech by Gen. Fu Chung, deputy chief political commissar of Red China’s army, to the rubber-stamp “People’s National Congress” in the Communist capital. “We warn imperialists and foreign expansionists once again that Tibet is an inseparable part of China,” Fu was quoted as saying. “Any scheme rash enough to contemplate invasion of Tibet will be crushed by the iron fist of the united people of our country.” Fu’s speech echoed, virtually word for word, an editorial in the Red “People’s Daily” which was broadcast from Peiping earlier today. The editorial said the victory which the Communists claim to have won in southern Tibet, in which 2,000 Tibetans were said to have been killed, wounded or captured. was a “mortal blow” to the anti-Communists. It admitted, however, that “scattered bands” of Tibetans are still holding out In the mountains, Fu said toe holdouts will be “wiped out lock, stock and barrel” if they continue to resist the Reds. The broadcasts said the Communists now control all of Tibet between the Brahmaputra River at the Himalaya mountains, effectively sealing the southern escape routes from the country.

Masked Mob Seizes Negro

.POPLARVILLE, Miss. (UPD — A masked mob broke into the county jail here early today, seized a young Negro charged with the rape of a white woman and sped away with their captive in a car. * A trail of blood was left from the second floor cell where the .men seized M.C. Parker, 23, all the way to where the car had waited outside the Pearl River County Jail. Officers said they feared Parker would be found dead. Six other Negro prisoners in the jail were not molested. Parker was to have gone on trial Monday on the rape charge. A posse of county and state officers combed the northern end of Pearl River County in search of Parker. Gov. J.P. Coleman ordered six units of the highway patrol into the search. FBI Enters Case The FBI also entered the case. R.W. Bachman, agent in charge of the FBI office at New Orleans, said “we are checking into the case to See if there are any possible violations of federal statutes.” Parker is charged with dragging a young white mother from her stalled automobile near here last Feb. 24 and raping her while her 4-year-old daughter watched. Sheriff W. Osborne Moody said the men wore work clothes, stocking masks and hoods and white gloves. They were carrying sticks, and one who pulled Parker from his cell carried a revolver. One prisoner said there were about 10 men in the group. The sheriff said the men broke into his office about 12:30 a.m. through a window, opened a metal cabinet and got the jail keys. The jail was unguarded at the time. J.C. Mondy, 24, Picayune, one of the six Negro prisoners in the jail at the time, said they unscrewed a light in front of Parker’s cell and asked the other prisoners how to get in? Mondy said the other prisoners volunteered the information. Mondy said he called to Parker, "they must be after you.” Parker

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“The handful of remnant rebel bandits that fled to remote mountainous areas are being wiped out.the broadcast said. “They will find themselves in a blind alley if they flee to India.” On the other hand, it said, antiCommunists who surrender will be “treated with leniency.” r.’_ The broadcast said that the “armed rebellion” in Tibet, which it said was started by “the former Tibetan local government and upper-strata reactionaries.., has been smashed swiftly.” Earlier, it had been reported in Calcutta that the Communists have sent 30,000 Korea veterans to Lhasa, approximately doubling their garrison in the strife-torn Tibetan capital. The best available information indicates there may now be two Red soldiers in Lahasa for every Tibetan civilian living in the city. Lhasa’s population was less than 50,000 before its residents rose against the Communists last month. Since that time, upwards of 13,000 Buddhist monks suspected of sympathizing with the resistance movement are believed to have been banished from the city. Today First Day a For Absent Voters Today is the first day absent voters’ ballots may be cast for the May primary election, Richard D. Lewton, county clerk, said today. A voter absent or expecting to be absent from Decatur May 5? may make an application with the clerk of the circuit court for an absent voter’s primary ballot. All applications are to be presented complete so that absent voters ballots may be cast with the clerk. Ballots may be cast at the clerk’s office until Saturday, May 2.

then jumped up and put on his trousers. By that time they had unlocked the cell block. Parker ran to Monday shouting, '“help me, don’t let them run ever me this way.” Beat With Gun Mondy said a man with a stick and a man with the gun began beating Parker. One blow knocked him down. Then one of the men emptied a garbage can and beat him with that. They dragged .him out of the jail, down the steps, through a long corridor and into an automobile that was waiting outside the courthouse. They left the keys to the cell on the steps of the courhpuse. Poplarville, a small town of about 2,000 residents in the southern part of the state, was the home of the late U.S. Sen. Theodore G. (the Man) Bilbo, an outspoken white supremacist. Parker had been in the jail here since April 5 without any sign of trouble. He had denied all knowledge of the crime for which he was charged, but the sheriff said he had statements from Parker’s companions implicating Parker. The sheriff said other Negroes told him that Parker had passed the woman on the highway and told his friends he was going back to rape her after he took his friends home, The attack occurred on a country lane. The 40-man posse searched the Piney Woods area for eight miles around the town today and also combed through the area where the attack on the woman occurred. The break-in was first reported by officials at the hospital, only a few yards removed from the jail. But it was not reported until about five minutes after the men had sped away, because noise at the jail was not considered unusual. The jailer was at his home about two blocks away. “This is the worst thing that has happened in my 10 years of law enforcement, Moody said. “I had not expected any trouble.”

Valuable Magazines , • 1 Presented To Library The Decatur public library has received a gift of about 20 techni-cal-type magazines, Miss Bertha Beller, librarian, announced today. The gift is from Magnavox Corp., of Fort Wayne, through the efforts of Nelson Doty, of Decatur, an accountant for the firm, and the late Dr. Noah Bixler, then president of the library board. The list of publications indude Aviation Week, Machine Design, Iron Age, Missiles and Rockets, U.S. Government Research Reports, and magazines from metal working, physics, tool engineering, electronics, electrical engineering, plastics, product engineering, research and engineering, plus other trade fields. The Magnavox firm will keep the library up-dated on all copies of the magazines, besides presenting i numerous back copies of each publication. The addition of these industrial publications gives the Decatur library one of the most extensive magazine coverages of any library in this part of the state. Each of the donated magazines is too expensive to be bought out of library funds. Being of a specialized nature, they will provide benefit for those interested in these fields. Civic-Minded Group Forms Association An “Association for the Betterment of Decatur,” determined that an organized effort be made to heal the wounds to community spirit and relationships caused by the recent utility election, was formed this morning by some 20 civic-minded citizens meeting at breakfast. The group discussed the result of the recent special election on the question of the sale of the local electric utility and the consequent strife and dissension. In the discussion it was brought out that hard feelings and strained relations have erupted _ between the city residents and Uieir rural and for that matter, between city friends and neighbors. The association will adopt a positive and active program with the goal that everything possible be done to heal these wounds and to reunite the community to work together for community progress and improvement. Herman Krueckeberg was elected treasurer of the group; Lowell Harper, secretary, and George Auer, chairman. The group will meet early next week to formulate their program to promote and improve civic and community relationships and a formal announcement of this program will then be made. Portland Petitions Electric Rate Hike INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The City of Portland Friday petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission for authority to raise electric rates. 4 The rate boost is needed to eliminate “inequities” in service charges, the utility said. Minimum monthly charges would be raised 25 cents from the present 75 cents. The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad also petitioned the PSC for authority to 'close its agency at Liberty Center.

No Discussion Os Unification

LONDON (UPD—Radio Moscow has assured the Russian people that the Kremlin will refuse to discuss German unification at next month’s East-West foreign ministers’ conference in Geneva. Monitors here picked up a Soviet broadcast, intended for home consumption, declaring that the unification issue “does not come within the terms of reference’’ of the Geneva meeting, which- opens May 11, Experts from the Western Big Four nations, who completed work here Friday on a Western “policy package” for the Geneva talks, had proposed that progress toward German unification should be linked with any plan for arms limitation in Central Europe. The Moscow broadcast appeared to herald another Soviet rebuff of. the West. Diplomats here have noted an increased stiffening in Russia’s attitude in recent weeks. They interpreted the Soviet attitude as an indication that the Russians expect the talks o fail and are preparing in advance o

James Cowan Dies Suddenly Friday Night James Richard Cowan, 42, of 126 Porta Vista, well known lifeIqng resident ci Decatur, and general auditor for the Central Soya Co., Inc.,’died suddenly of a heart attack at 11:30 o’clock Friday night. Mr. Cowan was visiting with a group of friends at the home of Don Jones, 1002 Master Drive, when he suddenly collapsed and died instantly. A son of Glen and Alice KnappCowan, he was born in Decatur June 25, 1916’ fie graduated in 1934 from the ’Decatur high school, where he was a star athlete, particularly in basketball and tennis. He was married to Miss Harriet Fruchte April 18, 1941. Mr. Cowan had been associated with Central Soya for 21 years, and was transferred to the Fort Wayne office as general auditor several years ago, but maintained his home in Decatur. A certified public accountant, he spent many years in after-hour studies at Indiana University extension in Fort Wayne. Mr. Cowan was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, and the Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving in addition to his wife are three children, John, Dick and Ann Cowan, all at home, and two sisters, Mrs. Robert (Mary) Heller of Decatur, and Mrs. Howard (Joan) Dwyer of South Bend. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rot'. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 o'clock Sunday morning until time of the services.

Nixon To Fly To Moscow Via Jet f WASHINGTON (UPD — Vice President Richard M. Nixon’s July trip to Moscow _will be a dramatic time-saving jet flight, it was reported today. He’s expected to make the round-trip flight to the Soviet capital in one of the three big Boe-ing-707 jet transports soon to be delivered to the Air Force for use of President Eisenhower and other top government officials. Thus Nixon will go to Russia in much the same way his Soviet opposite. Deputy Premier Anestas Mikoyan, came to the United States last January. Mikoyan flew to this country in a Russian TUIO4, a Soviet jet transport. Use of the Air Force jet, an “intercontinental version” of the 707, will enable the Nixon party to make the Moscow trip in about 10 hours’ flying time, with probably only one stop en route. The plush four-engine transport will cruise between 550 and 600 miles per hour and has a ceiling of over 42,000 feet. j Two of the three Air Force jets, to be used by the Special Missions Division of the Military Air Transport Service, are expected to be delivered and in use before July.

blame the West for the failure. Cited as examples of this attitude were Russia’s notes this week warning Washington and Bonn not to issue atomic weapons to West German forces—although there had been, no new developments in the situation since Moscow’s last protest. Soviet diplomats say privately that “much ground has been lost” since Prime Minister Harold Macmillan visited Mowcow last month because of U.S.-French-German opposition to the concessions he suggested. Eugen Gerstenmaier, president of West Germany’s Parliament and a leading member of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic Party, told a press conference Friday he is sure Russia would insist on Germany’s withdrawal from the -Atlantic Pact as a condition for unification. NOON EDITION

Man Carrying Bomb Arrested

NEW YORK (UPI) — An unemployed riveter who likes to hear loud bangs was arrested Friday night as he was about to explode a homemade bomb near the speakers platform at a rally for Fidel Castro, Two policemen nabbed John Gregory Feller, 23, in a roped off area back of the bandstand shell in Central Park where- the Cuban premier was addressing 30,000 enthusiastic supporters. Feller said he was going to set off the bomb “just for kicks,” and denied he intended to hurt anyone. Police described the bomb as a lethal instrument dangerous up to 300 feet. It was made from an 11inch section of aluminum vacuum cleaner extension tubing fi 11 e d with gunpowder, sulphur and zinc, and fused with match heads. Niither Castro nor the cheering crowd listening to him was aware of the off-stage drama of Feller’s arrest. Police w'hisked Feller to a park police station in an uhmarked car so as not to rouse the crowd. Police discounted Feller as a paid assassin but held him on charges of possessing a dangerous weapon. “He’s just a kid who likes to hear loud noises,” one officer said.

Arrest Youth For Violation Os Act Paul Faurote, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Faurote, of 430 Bollman street, a car dealer, was arrested Friday afternoon by the FBI for allegedly violating a new federal law covering disclosure of price information on new automobiles. E. J. Powers, Indianapolis agent in charge of the FBI, said the arrest of Faurote the first in northern Indiana under a statute passed by congress in 1958 which requires dealers to display on each new car a label showing the cost of the vehicle and charges for “extras” and transportation. Faurote is charged with purchasing a 1959 model car in Convoy, Ohio, bringing it to Decatur, and removing a required price label before offering it for sale. The new laW requires prices to be marked on all new cars. Faurote was arrested on his 21st birthday and as a result was on vacation Friday from his regular job at the Central Soya company. The prosecution of Faurote was authorized by Charles R. LeMaster, assistant U. S. attorney, of Fort Wayne. Faurote waived a preliminary hearing before Roland R. Schulz, U. S. commissioner, of Fort Wayne, following his arrest, and was released after posting a bond of SSOO. The case will be heard in U. S. district court. Date of the

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Police said Feller told them “I was intending to set it off on a West Side pier just for kicks, but When I heard the noise of the crowd in Central Park as I was passing by I decided it would be much more fun.” Police found another homemade bomb in Feller’s furnished room and materials to make more. Feller came to New York from Boston six months ago. The incident caused police to perJuade the 'friendly Castro ♦». return to his hotel and cancel plans to attend a beauty contest and dance. Castro told the responsive audience at the outdoor rally that Cuba would not intervene to overthrow other Latin American dictatorships. INDIANA WEATHER Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and eveninc. Mostly fair and much cooler tonight with showers and thunderstorms ending near midnight. Sunday mostly fair and cooler. Low tonight 38 north to 54 south. High Sunday 45 north to 65 south. Outlook for Monday: Becoming cloudy and somewhat warmer. ~

trial has not been set as yet. An FBI official stated Friday night that state men are in the process of picking up dealer's plates from residents in this area who are not in the legitimate business of car dealing. 20-Degree Cooloff Forecast In Slate United Press International The mercury may climb near 90 in parts of Indiana, today and set the stage for thunderstorms and a 20-degree cooloff. The forecasts said a high of 80 to 85 was due in the south, 75 to 80 in the central and 70 to 75 in the north this afternoon. Showers ahd thunderstorms will break the back of the season’s first “heat wave” this afternoon and tonight, and top temperatures Sunday will be on the chilly side, ranging from 45 to 50 north to 60 to 65 south. The precipitation pattern will spend itself in time for Sunday to feature fair skies. It will be cloudy and somewhat warmer Monday. „ Temperatures hit peaks between 70 and 77 Friday. Overnight lows were in the mid and upper 50s. For the 24-hour period ending this morning, rainfall totaled .36 of an inch at Lafayette and barely measurable amounts of traces at Fort Wayne, South Bend and Indianapolis.