Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 99, Decatur, Adams County, 27 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 99.

— „ , i ■ ■ ■■"■ 1 11 - ■ 1 #»■ —■ ” Labor Secretary Hopes House Will Strengthen Labor Reform Measure

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell expressed' hope today that the House would strengthen the Sen-ate-passed labor reform bill by Writing in the administration's recommendations on boycotts and picketing. Mitchell made his first public comment on thd Senate bill to newsmen after a key Republican predicted it would be revamped by the House to proyide tougher curbs on labor racketeers and a stronger “bill of rights” tor rank and file union members. Mitchell said he felt that the Senate measure, passed 90-1 Saturday, could be improved by the administration’s proposals to impose tighter restrictions on organizational picketing and secondary boycotts. He said he believed the House would “work toward that end.” The provisions were rejected by the Senate. Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (RPenn.), senior Republican on the House Labor Committee, assailed the Senate bill as ineffective. He said the Senate was handicapped in efforts to write a good bill because too many ‘senators are “presidential candidates trying to cater to national labor leaders.” Not Too Happy “We won't have that trouble ifi the House,” Reams said. Mitchell testified before a Senate appropriations subcommittee cm the new Labor Department budget. This year's labor reform bill was not expected to reach the House floor before mid-June. Labor lobbyists privately conceded the House pose a greater challenge than did the Senate to their efforts to keep the bill in a shape acceptable to organized labor. A Senate-passed labor reform bill died in the House last year. AFL - CIO President - Gecyge Meany has, publicly warned that ms big labor federation will attempt to scuttle the bill if it is revamped into a form hostile to the interests of unions. Alhough AFL-CIO leaders were not too happy with the final Sen-

Ike In Appeal On Foreign Aid

WASHINGTON (UPD —President Eisenhower called on American businessmen today for support in promoting greater public understanding of the vital necessity of his foreign aid program. The President made his appeal in a speech to the annual convention of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. His foreign aid program faces cuts in congress. Eisenhower, speaking from notes, said it was an “incontestable truth" that “isolation for America is a futile and fatal policy.” He said this country’s strength against the threat of international communism was in direct ratio to the strength of the free world. For this reason, he said, the United States must not falter in its assistance of friendly free countries. To do otherwise, he said, would lead to Communist encirclement “and the result would be satastrophlc.” Informed Public Opinion "In truth, mutual security and the nation's security are synonymous,” he said, calling government and private investment in a stronger free world “the most fruitful we can make.” . He said that one of the strongest instruments in the world today was Informed public opinion. He urged his listeners to return to their homes and help in promoting public understanding of the need for not only a strong and prosperous economy at home, but American assistance overseas to keep the non-Communist nations “strong, solvent and free.”, "We must have firm friends and Allies”, to win the struggle "against Soviet imperialism” the President told some 3,(MXK business men. Secretary of Commerce Lewis L. Strauss told the chamber that the Soviet ability to export goods at below-cost prices constitutes both

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■ - Former Local Lady Dies At Huntington Mrs. Eugene (Margaret) McNplty, .58, fl former Decatur resident, died suddenly at the Huntington county hospital Sunday at 8:40 p. m. of a heart condition, although she had been ailing for several years. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Blee. Her husband survives, as does a sister. Mrs. Charles Keller of Decatur. She was a member of the Catholic Ladies of Columbia while a resident here. Other survivors include a son, Timothy, in army service, Fort Sill, Okla.; a niece, Sr. Mary Bridget, Chicago; a brother, James Blee, Huntington. Services will be conducted at 10 a. m. Wednesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church in Huntington, the Rev. Edward Miller officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Calvary cemetery. The Rosary ladies will say the rosary at the Kroeger funeral home at 8 p. m. Tuesday. Friends may call the funeral home until time of the services. ate version, some labor lobbyists felt they would be lucky to get the House to adopt a version which imposed no more restrictions against unions and still retained the bill’s “sweeteners” for labor in the form ot amendments to the Taft-Hartley law. The labor reforms approved by the Senate include periodic secret elections of union officers, disclosure of union finances, and barring of ex-convicts from union posts. Handling of union trusteeship funds and loans of union funds to union members also would be restricted. Better Off Now But Kearns complained the Senate t? failed to outlaw “blackmai 1 picketing or impose restriccntlnued on page five

a serious menace to our system of free enterprise.” Send “Commercial Missionaries” William A. McDonnell, head of the chamber, opened the session with a keynote speech urging the nation’s businessmen to fight inflation and big government spending by taking a more active part in politics Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.) urged the businessmen to send their best managerial executives to work for foreign firms as “commercial missionaries” to teach persons in underdeveloped countries how to operate their > own businesses.. At the same time, he told a lunch session, businessmen from backward nations should be ' brought to this country and given jobs in U.S. corporations so they could learn to be good executives. "Such a program could result in ’ increasing output, in raising livinv standards, in brightening American prestige and in thwartin expansion of communism,” Humphrey said. McDonnell, chairman of the board of the First National Bank of St Louis, Mo., told the dele- '■ gates that "businessmen must get into politics if we are to preserve our free market system.” "I have concluded that if we do not become politically active,” . he said, "we as a nation are go- . ing to legislate and spend our > way into state socialism, and businessmen won’t have any business left that they can call their own.” McDonnell described inflation as “the No. 1 long range domestic problem in this country” and said that “the greatest ‘federal aid’ measure Congress could give the people...would be a stable ‘ dollar.” / • He also cited unemployment as a serious domestic problem but added: “Personally, I think it will ■_ be pretty largely solved by the : end of this year, as the recovery i proceeds.”

Moscow-Trained Liu Heads Chinese Reds

TOKYO'WPD—Tough, Moscowtrained Liu Shao-chi, Red China's No. 2 Communist, . was unanimously elected “chairman of the people’s republic” today in place of aging Red boss Mao Tse-tung. Mao voluntarily relinquished the post—titular head of the Peiping regime—but retained the job of chairman of the Communist Party which makes him in fact the most powerful man in Red China. Two vice chairmen of the Republic were elected in place of one. Soon Ching-ling (Mme. Sun Yat-sen), sister of Nationalist China’s Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, and Tung Pi-wu, 73-year-old “elder statesman” who had been president of the supreme court, will share the post formerly held by Marshal Chu Teh. Chou En-lai, who is regarded as Liu’s chief rival within the party, was tapped for a new four-year term as premier. Mme. Sun is the widow of the founder of the Chinese republic. A Peiping broadcast said the Congress welcomed the nominations, announced by its executive chairman, with “thunderous applause.” Sixteen vice chairmen were nominated for the standing committee, including both the Dalai and Panchen Lamas. Mao was present at today's session Rcti radio said, and received a “prolonged, stormy ovation” when he mounted the rostrum. Liu, Red China’s organization man,” is generally regarded as second in power only to Mao himself. The outgoing chairman, who announced some time ago that he did not plan to seek re-election, retains full power in Red China as chairman of the Communist Party. The post of “chairman of the republic,” roughly corresponding to president, has traditionally been largely a eremonial position in Red China as it is in Russia. Liu’s selection for the job sugThree Adams County Teams To State Fair In FFA and 4-H regional judging trials at Goshen Saturday, two Decatur teams and one from Adams Central qualified for the state finals at the state fair this summen - The Decatur livestock judging team of' Don Ray, Rex Allison, Dori Wietfeldt, and Dale Wass, finished fifth, being among the top 25 per cent in that division to earn the trip to Indianapolis. Ann Lehrman and Barbata Bleeke of the Decatur leaf identification team placed fourth in that division to also gain a ride to the finals. The Adams Central dairy judging team placed sixth in its division, for the third Adams county entrant to win a chance at the final state-wide judging contest. The top 25 per cent of each division were eligible for the statewide finals. Other Adams county entrants at Goshen and their respective positions are: Geneva dairy team, 12; Berne livestock team, 18; Adams Central insect identification team, 6 and 7; Berne Poultry team, 12, and the Adams Central poultry team, 13. These teams are not eligible for the finals. Late Bulletins ‘ MONTREAL, (UPI) — Cuban Premier Fidel Castro left by plane today only a few minutes after police received a message from authorities in New York saying that two men were on their tray here to assassinate him. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) The Arkansas Supreme Court in a 4-3 decision today upheld a law used by Gov. Orval E. Faubus to .keep the city’s four public high schools closed last September. - J -- '■ ■ •■■■■—-

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gests it may be more important in the future. China experts generally have regarded Liu as a more influential figure than Chou En-lai, the glib, suave diplomat who holds the titles of premier and foreign minister. The nomination ot two vice chairmen was a new departure. Marshal Chu Teh, the 73-year-old “grand old man” of Chinese Communism, was the only vice chairman of the republic while Mao held office. Widespread Hunt On For Missing Plane NICOSIA, Cyprus (UPI) — The search for a missing British transport plane, carrying secret rocket equipment, moved closer today to the Soviet-border area where an unarmed U.S. transport was shot down in September. Planes from the United States, Britain, Turkey and Iran swept thousands of square miles of desolate Turkish and Iranian mountains seeking some trace of the tnissing plane and its 12 crewmen. Belief was grow Jhat. plane had been forced down in Soviet Armenia, but this theory could not be confirmed. A British air force .spokesman admitted the possibility, but would not comment on it. In London, the Foreign Office said Russia has disclaimed knowledge of the plane, as it did in the case of the U.S. transport until some time after it had disappeared. The Foreign Office advised relatives of the 12 missing men there is only a “very slim” chance that any of them survived the plane’s disappearance. While the search was In progress, Iran protested to Moscow that Soviet jets have trespassed on Iranian or over Guilan and Azerbaijan provinces in a number of' instances daring the past 45 days. The protest cited intrusions by six Soviet jets. The missing British plane, a four-engine Tudor chartered by the government and headed for , the British rocket range at Woomera in Australia, left Ankara Thursday on its way to the Persian Gulf island of Bahrein. Its route lay over Turkey and Iran, passing close to the Soviet border. The plane radioed a routine position report when it passed over the Turkish town of Mus, .about ' 100 miles from the Russian frontier. It has not been heard from since. The U.S. plane that was shot down over Soviet Armenia last year carried 17 men. At least six were killed—the Russians have returned their bodies —but the other 11 are officially missing. The Russians have denied any knowledge of their whereabouts.

L? R* ’ j I it ’s ' »r ; ' BMb* JI KENNEDY LABOR BILL PASSES-SAators (1 to r) John. Kennedy (D-Mass.l, Sam Ervin (D-N.C.), John McClellan (D-Ark.) and Thomas Kuchel (R-Calif.), congratulate each other after passage of the labor reform bill designed to prevent abuses by unions and union officers and guarantees democratic rights to all Union members. The bill, sponsored by Senators Kennedy and Ervin, was passed by an overwhelming 90-to-l, after it was stripped of cer- » tain "bill of rights” amendments proposed by Senators McClellan and Kuchel. Sen. Barry Goldwater (D-Ariz.) was the only opponent of the bill. — - ■ - > t... - -

Four Local .Persons Hurt In Accident Four Decatur persons were injured in two mishaps that occurred over the weekend. One accii dent, occurring in Monroeville Saturday evening, injured a fath- > er and son; and a one-car mishap t jnear Coppess Corners early Suni day morning hospitalized two peri sons. i driven by Donald E. Aeschlimap, ' dt Decatur, was pulling out of bhio street in Monroeville, and 1 attempting a turn onto state road 101, when another vehicle ap- ’ proached the Aeschliman auto. Aeschliman, in an attempt to avoid the collision, accelerated his auto, but the accelerator pedal stuck, causing the vehicle- to run off the highway into the Lutheran church. Aeschliman is being treated at the Adams county memorial hospital for forehead, chin and mouth i lacerations. His son, Donald E. Jr., 14. riding in the front seat : with his lather, suffered severe 1 nose lacerations. He was treated and i• leased. . Sunday’s Accident » Sunday’s mishap occurred at . '6:20 a. m. about one and one-half ’miles south of Coppess Corners . on U. S. 27. Injured were Do- > lores Lucille Raudenbush, 41, De- . catur, and Carl Frysinger, 58, ali 39 of Decatur. I Mrs. Raudenbush is confused in r the Adams county memorial hosi pital with bruises to the right : arm, knee and side, abrasions to • the face and head. Frysinger, also confined in the county hospital : from injuries suffered’ in the ■ crash, is reported suffering from 1 lacerations to the face and head, ’ a possible back injury, shock. According to the Adams county sheriff’s department, the mishap ’ occurred when the driver, Mrs. ' Raudenbush, apparently fell , asleep. The auto, while headed ' north, dropped off the roadway, travelled about 290 feet on the ’ right berm, crossed the highway I and struck file left ditch bank, i The auto travelled a distance of . 74 feet before coming to rest. • The Frysinger auto was damag- ; ed to the extent of $350 as estimated by the investigating offii cer, sheriff Merle Affolder. T INDIANA WEATHER 1 Mostly cloudy with showers ‘ ' and scattered thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight, continuing into Tuesday hilt probably ending most sections Tuesday afternoon. Locally t heavy rains likely central and north. Warmer north TuesL day. Lows tonight ranging from the low 40s extreme t north to the 60s extreme south, t Highs Tuesday 60s north to 70s south. Sunset today 5:51 p.m. ! Sunrise Tuesday 5:50 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild. Lows 43 to 57, highs 65 to 78.

NBC Network Operations Interrupted NEW YORK (UPD—NBC’s television network operations were interrupted briefly today by a dispute with a technicians’ union over taping TV shows abroad. Members of the National Association of Broadcast Employes and Technicians walked off their jobs at 7 a.m. after refusing to handle a video taped interview with Brigitte Bardot on the Dave Garroway “Today” show. Union spokesmen claimed the tape was transcribed ni Paris by non-union French personnel in violation of the union’s contract. NBC said the tapes of the show were made in full compliance with the contract and charged that the walkout was a violation of a no-strike provision in the NABET contract. “If NABET persists in this unlawful conduct, we intend to hold the union responsible for any resultant damages,” an NBC statement said. . The union estimated that about 1,500 NBC workers joined in the protest action at the network’s TV and radio facilities in New York, Washington, Chicago, Hollywood, San Francisco and Philadelphia. They refused also to handle standby film programs or to substitute live programming. Network TV programming was Interrupted from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m., when NBC stations nomally revert to local programming. Normal network programming was resumed with the prog r am, “Dough Re Mi,” at 10 a.m. with the aid of supervisory and management personnel. Radio operations, both local and network, were resumed on a normal basis by supervisory employes after short interruptions. NBC officials ifiet with NABET representatives about four hours after the walkout to discuss the union’s objection to the Bardot interview made by Garroway in the French capital and flown here by je.t for the early morning show. Historical Society Will Meet Tuesday The Adams county historical society will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Lincoln school auditorium to hear a program on the history of Indiana, Indians of Indiana, and a history of the Bobo (Rivarra) community, Gerald R- Durkin, president; announced this morning. The program will be presented by Richard Mailand, a director of the society. He will be dressed in an old-timers costume, and will have many artifacts on hand to explain. A brief history of Indiana will be followed by a short sketch of Little Turtle and the Miami Indians. A display and explanation of two old state flags found in a Bobo attic, an old sickle used before the cradle in harvesting grain, Indian relics, old pictures, old school books including McGuffey’s readers, and many other interesting things will be shown. The public is invited to hear the program. Durkin stated. Membership in the historical society is open at the present time. Nehru Says Reds' Charges Are False NEW DELHI (UPD — Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru told Parliament today that the Dalai , Lama .entered India of his own free will and was entirely responsible for his statement charging Communist China with treachery toward Tibet. Nehru, reporting on his visit with the Dalai Lama at the godking’s Indian retreat at Mussoorie, said India has expressed deep regret over speeches attacking the Indian government at the Communist People's Congress now underway in Pe/ping. He said the charges against Indian leaders lev* eled by the Chinese were “both unbecoming and entirely void of substance.” Diplomatic sources said the Chinese Communists had rejected India’s note. In Tokyo, the Communist New China News Agency continued to hammer away at its claim that the Dalai Lama was abducted from Tibet and was being held in India against his will. Nehru said thousands of Tibetan refugees had entered India through India’s northeast frontier, "and we have granted them asylum and now we are making further arrangements for tents to enable them to stay.”

See Nikita Attempt At Dividing* Allies

LONDON (UPI) — Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s week-end notes to President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan were intended to drive a wedge between the Western Allies, diplomatic sources said today. Khrushchev in effect rejected a U.S. plan for step-by-step limitation on nuclear tests, while pointedly accepting a previously secret Macmillan proposal for a limit on inspection trips to suspected test sites. —- The Macmillan proposal, advanced tentatively to Khrushchev ( while the prime minister was in Moscow recently, is known to have found no favor with Eisenhower. The Khrushchev notes were the latest development in a systematic propaganda campa,ign to exploit differences between the Western Allies. They were preceded by radio broadcasts telling the Russians that British offers to compromise East-West differences had been whittled down by opposition from the United States and West Getmany. In Moscow Sunday, the government organ Izvestia said Western unity is "imposed” while Communist unity stems from “confidence and mutual understanding.” London newspapers today expressed concern over the Kremlin’s efforts to damage AngloAmerican unity. “This sorry mixup, which the Soviet Union has so skillfully exploited, is ominous for the conduct of the Western case at the EastWest foreign ministers’ meeting due to open early next month,” the Daily Telegraph said. “What other confidential British ideas will Khrushchev be able to divulge at the appropriate moment so as to break up the unity of the Western front?” The Daily Express commented that Khrushchev’s notes were “artfully timed” for receipt just ; before today’s debate in parlia- > ment on the stalemated Geneva ■ conference on nuclear tests. Rob Highway Motel Os SSOO On Sunday TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI) — Two robbers tied up the night manager of a motel on U. S. 40 east of here early Sunday and . stole about SSOO. James Blume said , the me» bound him with a pair of , stockings and took the money from ! a cash drawer at the Ritz Plaza i Motel. *-■>. .... -. . ------

Mob Victim’s Hunt Continued

! POPLARVILLE, Miss. (UPD- - i FBI agents and state troopers I worked around the clock today, i trying to find a young Negro who < . was dragged screaming from a ( jail cell by a hooded lynch mob. , > The Nero, M. C. Parker, 23, . was to have gone on today . on charges of raping a young j white mother. He was beaten and , abducted early Saturday. 1 No leads were reported in the case, although bloody and dirty , clothing found in woods 25 miles , from Hattiesburg, Miss., Saturday was chemically tested by the FBI, ] The clothing was ruled out as Parker's by the FBI, according j to Hattiesburg Patrolman Luther > L. Robinson, acting night police j I chief. 1 j Some officers believed Parker ( , would never be found, dead or j alive. I , FBI Seeks Mob - . Gov. J. P. Coleman, however, instructed the Mississippi High- , way Patrol to continue to search i through the swamps and pine for- ; ests of southern Mississippi “as ’ long as there is any area left to explore.” The FBI indicated simi- < ! lar determination. Also sought by about 40 FBI ; ■ agents and an equal number of i state highway patrolmen was the < 1 mob that kidnaped the Negro. - The well-organized mob broke » into the unguarded Pearl River County Jail before dawn Saturday. . The 9 or 10 men who entered the . jail beat Parker with gun butts and clubs in his jail cell. They t dragged him screaming to a wait- , ing getaway car. t County Attorney William Stew- , art said today he “wouldn’t be 1 surprised” if Parker is never 1 found. “It looks like now we are up against a stone wall,” he said. ’ Deputy Sheriff George Moody 9 said that "when we didn’t find it '• (the body) the first day and it - became apparent they hid it, I - figured then it would be a long i- time or maybe never before the body turned up.” ■ I

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Ike, Herter Disappointed At Rejection WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter expressed disappointment today that Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has balked at going along with the U.S. first-step proposal for limiting nuclear tests. Eisenhower and Herter discussed the rejection during the weekend and conferred again this morning on Khrushchev’s refusal to accept the program proposed by Eisenhower in a letter of April 13. .The Soviet leader turned down the proposal in a letter received Saturday. Herter leaves later today for the Western foreign ministers’ conference opening in Pari" Wednesday. _ Because of the firm Soviet re fusal to relinquish the right of vetoing an inspection system in an international ban on nuclear testing, Eisenhower proposed in his April 13 letter that a step-at-a-time plan be put into effect. As a first step, Eisenhower suggested a ban on easily detected atmospheric explosions up to an altitude of 30 miles. Khrushchev turned down the Eisenhower proposal and said he wanted a complete test ban instead. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty issued the expression of disappointment while the President and Herter were conferring at the White House. Eisenhower and his new secretary of state made these three basic points: . ..—Tbey were disappointed by Khrushchev’s response. —Contrary to the impression the Soviet leader tried to create, the United States also wants a com- ’ plee tes ban and has been try- • ing to get such an agreement for ' five months from the four power ' test suspension conferenlces in ! Geneva. ! " ' ■ —Khrushchev's reply did not address itself to a key point—the veto power on which the Russians have insisted.

Witnessed By Farmer Today’s search over about 600 square miles of swamps and forest lands came after a farmer revealed he was a witness to the abduction. John Reyer, 64, said he told the FBI, “This bunch of men came running from the jail dragging the other man.” “I thought they were carrying off a drunk,” he said. “All the men were hooded.” “I saw them throw him in the back seat, of a four-door car,” Reyer said. “Then they jumped into the car and took off fast.” Parker was charged with raping a 23-year-old white woman as her four-year-old daughter looked on. The woman’s only comment to newsmen who called at her hotoe at Petal, Miss., was: “They got the tight one.” But in a three-room shack near Lumbeiton, Miss., Parker’s mother, Mrs. Eliza Parker, said, “My son was a good boy.” First Since 1955 Governor Coleman said 25 per cent of the highway patrol’s total strength was now in the search area. “I think it can be said we are doing our best and we’ll continue to do so,” Coleman said. He said he believed “The FBI will find him (Parker) and if they don’t find him, they’ll find who did it.” Coleman said members of the mob, if caught, would be “prosecuted to the full extend of the law.” He made the statement in answer to a question as to whether the death penalty would be asked for them if Parker were found dead. Coleman also promised the state would send any assistance asked by legal authorities for prosecution of the case. Emmitt till, a 14-year-old Chicago Negro, was the victim of the last recorded lynch murder in the United States. It occurred in north Mississippi in 1955. , ... ..