Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 108, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 108.

United Steelworkers Ask Probe Os Alleged Industry Conspiracy

NEW YORK (UPI) —United Steelworkers of America today asked the Justice Department to investigate an alleged conspiracy on the part of the steel industry to pool its profits in the event of a strike against one or more companies. At the same time the union asked the National Labor Relations Board to investigate the possibility that the companies will engage in a lockout in the event of a strike affecting only part of the industry. R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for the industry, indicated Wednesday that the industry was "considering both proposals in the event the union adopted a “divide and conquer” strike policy. The requests for investigations or* these possible moves were made in separate letters*to Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers and to Jerome D. Fenton, general counsel of the NLRB. The letters were signed by Arthur J. Goldberg, general counsel of the union. Goldberg emphasized at a press conference that these letters were not to bb construed as an indication the union had decided upon a strike policy which would close down only part of the industry. He said no strike plan had been made. Says Workers Back Union Commenting on the plan to pool profits, Goldberg said that plan was in violation of the antitrust laws because it would amount to collusion among _ the 22.'2 companies already had seriously ■“'■'discussed such a plan,w they are guilty of engaging in a Conspiracy to violate the anti trust laws. John Murray, speakwg to r« - porters before entering q negotiat- . ong session with Jones arid Laughlin Setel Co., cautioned the public and industry not to underestimate the solidarity of the steel Workers or their determination to win a better contract. “We will get what we want eventually,” Murray said, “and we will strike if that is necessary to .enforce our contract demands." . ..._:.22 Murray, a cousin of the late Phil Murray who organized the steel workers in the late 19305, is director of the union’s Dist 16 in < Pittsburgh. Wednesday David J. McDonald, i president of the union, declined to be drawn into any discussion of a strike this year. McDonald

Record Flight By Jet Bomber

WASHINGTON (UPD—A B-52G jet bomber, newest H-bomb and missile carrier of the Strategic Air Command, has made a record non-stop flight of more than 9,000 miles without refueling. The spectacular performance took place last Dec. 15, but was disclosed only today. It is the longest flight known to have been made by a jet bomber without refueling. Criss-crossing the United States "■at 500 miles an hour for 18 hours, the new giant of the skies gave a striking deincastration of its potential as an “airborne alert” aircraft The Strategic Air Command (SAC will put a portion of its bomber fleet on constant airborne alert in the future to guarantee its retaliatory power against destruction on the ground by Russian missiles in event of war. Can Reach Russia Armed with both H-bombs and Hound-dog guided missiles the B-52 G’s will patrol in continuous readiness to counter-attack should war break out. A true intercontinental jet, able to reach any Russian target from North America, the B-52G proved its range without aerial refueling to be about 3,000 miles greater than that of its predecessor B-52. Its top speed is more than 615 miles an hour — just below the speed of sound at the 10-mile altitude where it operates. Tie Dec. 15 mission, flown by a Boeing airplane company crew with two . Air - Force officers aboard, was notable in another regard. It showed the jet bomber now is the equal in range of the

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said "we are not a strike-happy i union and we want to reach an 1 agreement before the July.l strike ’ deadline.” i Industry Surprises Workers Union spokesmen today said steel workers were surprised by i the industry’s announcement that 1 it already is mapping strategy to ' meet any strike plan that the un- 1 ion might put into effect. The contract expires at mid- : night June 30 and a strike by ' 500,000 steel workers is almost a certainty if no agreement exists i at that time. The union’s traditional policy has been “no contract, no work.” The two sides are farther apart 1 on basic contract issues than, in i previous years and have made it ; plain they are not playing a cat-and-mouse game with each other. All semblance of a friendly atmosphere cracked Wednesday when the industry announced it was studying a mutual assistance I plan to share profits in the event one or more companies are shut down by a strike as part of a union divide-and-conquer plan. R. Conrad Cooper, executive vice president of U. S. Steel Corp, and chief negotiator for the in- ' dustry, confirmed this plan was > being considered. He said the industry’s strike strategy was designed to meet any eventuality. Trade Charges United. Steelworkers President David J. McDonald, caught off guard, refused to be drawn into, a discussion of the union's strike plans. However, a union spokesman told United Press International, “Don’t woiTy about us. We’ll kpow what to do when the time cospes.” Cooper and McDonald exchanged sarcastic words, accusing each other of being responsible for the strikes which have pockmarked the 23-year history of steel industry-union talks. Experienced observers attending the talks between the USW < and 12 major steel companies said they have never known them i to be so far apart ’and so ada- . mant in their stands as they are this year. The industry has made it plain 1 to the union that its insistence on ] a one-year extension of the present contract is no joke. .... i “We mean it,” a company ex- ; ecutive said, "and they’ll (the union) find that out at the bargain- , ing table.” ( McDonald termed the wage j

old, slow and recently retired B-36 piston-engine bomber — and far more lethal by reason of speed and weapons carried. Fuel Still Left The B-52G, taking off at a record weight of about 240 tons, flew a course from Wichita, Kan., over Texas, California, Washington, back to Texas, thence to Minnesota, Virginia. Mississippi, and home to Wichita. It landed with ample reserve fuel still in the tanks of its 185foot wings. With a single in-flight refueling, after it had reached cruise altitude, its range could have been extended about 2,500 miles for a total 11,500. SAC received its first B-52G bomber last February. Described as toe first “missile - platform bomber,” toe plane will carry two Hound-dog missiles under its wings and a heavy load of nuclear bombs. John 0. Reed Named Richmond Principal RICHMOND, Ind. (UPD-John O. Reed, 35, was appointed principal of Richmond High School Wednesday. Reed is now principal of Rochester High School. He replaces Don C. Manlove, who resigned to join the Indiana University faculty. Reed formerly was principal at Adams Central, Adams county. 14 PAGES

freeze demand a “sham and a pretense.” He said such talk by the industry was “economic nonsense.” Exchange Angry Words After completion of the preliminary talks between the unicm and the 12 companies — possibly on Friday—the job of actually negotiating a contract will become the burden of four-man teams representing management and labor. An indication of high feelings came Wednesday when separate talks between the union and two companies — Kaiser Steel and Jones & Laughlin—were terminated early because of a “misunderstanding” over contract proposals. McDonald said the debate at these meetings was not “heated,” but informed sources said some angry words were exchanged and “the outlook right now is not bright.” McDonald said meetings with these two companies would be resumed today. Both Cooper and McDonald said they had sent each other contract termination notices. That means that if by the July 1 deadline no new agreement exists neither side is obligated to continue operations. Minimum Wage Hike Urged On Congress WASHINGTON (UPD — AFLCIO President George Meany urged Congress today to boost the federal minimum wage to $1.25 an hour and extend coverage to an additional 7,500,000 workers in ortier to relieve “misery” and “destitution.” Meany told the Senate Labor Committee that changes in the Wage-Hour Act would bolster the economy and strengthen the free enterprise system. The AFL-CIO chief was the first witness at hearings on a bill by Sen. Johr. F. Kennedy < IlMass. ) and Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.) to boost the current $1 minimum by 25 cents an hour and extend coverage. Kennedy said in an opening statement, “The wealthiest nation on earth cannot continue to ignore millions of workers who earn substandard wages. That, is. why this legislation is needed.” Meany said, “The failure of Congress to take imaginative and courageous action on this matter has perpetuated the misery of substandard living conditions for millions of our fellow Americans.” About 6,500,000 workers would receive pay hikes if the KennedyMorse bill became law, Meany said in his prepared statement. He denied the measure would be inflationary. Alitalia Airliner Released By Iraq ROME (UPD—lraqi authorities today released an_ Alitalia airliner forced down by~ jef’’fighters in Baghdad Wednesday. A spokesman for the airline said the DC6-B, with 21 passengers aboard, was allowed to take off early today for Beirut. It will continue from there to Athens and Rome. “All passengers left with the plane,” the spokesman paid. H$ added that the nationalities of the passengers were not known, but it was reliably reported four of them were Americans. --- - -—— The plane was in Baghdad fdr 27 hours. The spokesman said toe airline did not know the reason toe jets forced the plane to land in Baghdad. Officials of Alitalia Airlines said Italian diplomats have taken up the case with Iraqi authorities, but so far they have been unable to obtain an explanation of the government’s reasons for forcing toe plane down. The line’s Baghdad representative reported that local authorities ordered toe plane to land “because of a ban on flights over Iraqi territory.” ! Alitalia spokesman here said, however, no such ban had been reported to the line’s operations office.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 7,1959.

Sam Raylkirn Seeks To Break Logjam

WASHINGTON (UPD— Speaker Sam Rayburn moved today to break the conservative - controlled House Rules Committee’s logjam on the twobillionrdallod Democratic housing bill. Exasperated because a conservative Republican- Democratic coalition has refused to allow the bill to come to the floor, Rayburn said the committee would be bypassed if it refuses to take prompt action. The Texan said he would employ a parliamentary device to shake the measure loose if the committee doesn’t act “pretty soon.” The Senate has already passed a $2,650,000,000 bill. President Eisenhower proposed a $1,650,000,000 program. The House version contain? many spending features opposed by the President, but It also includes “must” administration features. Elsewhere in Congress: Contract: Chairman Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) of a House Government Operations subcommittee said he will open an investigation Monday into charges the government stands to lose $8,600,000 under a nickel and cobalt contract signed two years ago with Freeport Sulphur Co. Rackets: Two witnesses told Senate rackets investigators that toe American Weekly, published by toe Hearst Publishing Co. Inc., paid $4,000 a year to “keep labor peace" and “assure delivery” of the Sunday newspaper supplement to Manhattan from Weehawken, N.J. The witnesses were John J. Padulo, former business manager of the supplement, and Joseph Fontana, present business manager. Accusation: General Accounting Office auditors in a report to ConLuncheon Monday For Industry Committee The industrial committee of the Chamber of Commerce will hold the May noon luncheon Monday at 12 o’clock noon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, Fred E. Kolter, executive secretary, said today. Clark W. Smith, president of Stonite Corporation, of Decatur, will be the guest speaker. Members unable to attend the luncheon are asked on contact toe Chamber of Commerce office on or* before Saturday by 12 noon.

Churchill Leaves White House

WASHINGTON (UPD - A historic era at the White House ends today. Sir Winston Churchill leaves. No one associated closely with the 84-year-old former British prime minister these last few days expected him to rturn. And from President Eisenhower down to the cooks and butlers, there was genuine sadness over his leaving. Sir Winston has been the President’s house guest since Monday and today he moves to the British Embassy for one night before traveling horfle to his beloved Great Britain with a brief stopover in New York. Because of advancing years and nagging ailments of the aged, the once gloriously eloquent voice of Churchill is seldom heard these days. But in the soft olden light of the stately White House dining room Wednesday night and before a distinguished company of American leaders, ~the oratorical splendor that rallied toe free world during World War II flashed again. A Great Joy With a gleaming champagne goblet in his hand. Sir Winston rose with some difficulty from his high-backed dining chair to propose a toast to the President. Seated before him were members of the Cabinet, leaders of Congress, commanders of the

gress accused Lockheed Aircraft Corp, of giving the Air Fore airplane cost figures which the company knew were $4,110,600 too high. It said if the auditors had not uncovered the case at the company’s Marietta, Ga., division, toe firm would have received an extra profit of $1,251,007. •TVA: The House beat down, by a 170-129 vote, a Republican move to add Budget Bureau controls to a bill letting the Tennessee Valley Authority raise its own construction money. Merchants Showcase Will Close Tonight An estimated crowd of 2,000 persons viewed the Merchants Showcase Wednesday afternoon and night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center bringing the estimated number of spectators viewing the many displays to 3,500 persons. The Merchants Showcase will Close tonight at 9 o’clock to bring to an ehd the three-day annual event sponsored by thip Decatur Chamber of Fifty local merchants of the retail division, have 54 booths displayed with new merchandise and products featuring the latest in styling and quality. Merchandise consists of uses for the home, land, water, auto, farm, etc. Prizes valued at over $2,500 will be given away by the merchants displaying merchandise at the Youth Center. People obtaining the slips of paper being used for the contests, will have until Friday, May 15, to enter them in the contests at the .stores. Admission and parking facilities are free for all spectators taking in the Showcase festivities. Doors opened at 1 p. m. this afternoon and will close tonight for the final day at 9 o’clock. St Mary's River Is Still Receding St. Mary's river dropped a little further towards its spring level today as weather observer Louis Landrum reported the mark at 4.51 feet. The river has now receded almost 18 feet in a week, being 20. 35 feet last Wednesday.

armed services and a group of the President’s friends from the world of big business. In the rich voice that brought encouragement to millions during the darkest days of Dunkirk and Tobruk, Sir Winston began to speak. “To come across the Atlantic and to see so many friends and so many elements in toe union of our peoples has been a great and memorable joy to me,” the old British battler rumbled. “Here at this table,” he said as he looked around the room, “sit those whose decisions can perhaps influence toe destiny of mankind more deeply than any other group of men you could find.” He was frank about it being "late in the day” of his long,career, but he was happy to have INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler tonight with some scattered light frost likely north. Friday fair and continued cool. Low tonight 33 to 4® north; 40s south. High Friday mostly in the 60s. Sunset today 7:44 p. m. Sunrise Friday 5:38 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Chance of showers south, partly cloudy and a little wanner central and . north. Lows 43 to 47. Highs 65 to 6*.

Cool Air Mass Ends Five Day Siege Os Heal United Press International A cool air mass moved east--1 ward across the Ohio Valley Thursday, snapping a five-day Siege of 90-degret-plus temperatures. - I The cooling front hit toe Great Lakes Wednesday, leaving a wake of tornadoes, rain and high winds in the AtedwcttaiL no-marTs land where heat wave. 2 But the U.S. Weather Bureau predicted only light showers Thursday in the Atlantic Coast states ahead of the cool air and in toe Rockies and western Plains states behind it. ~ Temperatures dropped an average of 20 to 25 degrees early Thursday in Missouri, lowa and Illinois as the Canadian-born air moved through the Midwest. Earlier, residents from Texas to Minnesota breathed relief at the invasion of toe cool front. In Wisconsin, the collision between the hot and cold masses triggered a third straight day of tornado activity. A twister, accompanied by up to a foot of rain, swept a 10-mile > stretch between Symco and Bear Creek, splintering a score of buildings, killing cattle, uprooting trees and toppling communication wires. At Slinger, Wis., Richard Zelm, 11, was killed Wednesday by a bolt of lightning as he ran from a school playground during a suden electrical storm. Three commercial fishermen drowned at Munising, Mich.. ) Wednesday when a sudden, vioi lent rain squall apparently i swamped their boat in Munising , Bay of Lake Superior. Rough , waters prevented -recovery of the ’ bodies of the men, identified as ’ Clarence des Jardins, 69, his son ’ Harvey, 36, and Louis Powell, .64, all of Munising. 1 A wind storm demolished farm ’ buildings near Enmore, Mich., * and several witnesses reported r sighting a funnel cloud. The Canadian front sent the " thermometer tumbling into the s; 30s from Lake Superior to toe s Rockies and into the 40s and low t 50s across, most of the rest of the - Midwest. Southern Wyoming re- , ported light snow early Thursday. Rainfall amounts, both in the I east and toe west, were mostly i light with Sydney, Neb., reporting . .66 inch. i A slight warming was predicted ■ for the northern Rockies and . Plateau states. * Orientation Program i At School Tonight Parents of next fall's incoming ’ freshmen class at Decatur high 1 school will attend an orientation program tonight at V. 30 o’clock in the school auditorium. Principal Hugh J. Andrews and teacher Deane T. Dorwin are arranging toe session to provide parents with a clear plan of courses > offered, use of summer school ■ facilities and other information ; essential in promoting a well-bal-t anced high school program. An in- - formal coffee hour will provide , parents toe opportunity to meet with toe high school faculty.

one more oportunity to speak on a subject dear to his heart—“the union of the English-speaking peoples.’’ Work Together 1 “I am sure,” he said, “that it is in a close and Increasing fellowship with you, our American friends and brothers, that our brilliant future rests.” Surveying the world today and with his mind obviously on troubled Western relations with Russia, Sir Winston said the problems of today “are perhaps harder to resolve than those which confronted us in the last war, in the days ot our closest comradeship.’’ “I would suggest to you that the solution today is the same aS it was then,” he said. “I feel most strongly that our whole effort should be to work together. It resounds in my mind, a precious and hopeful thought. “Let us be united and let our hopes lie in our unity because we understand each other. We understand when things go wrong, or things are said, or anything like that, we really can afford to pass them by. “We understand each other and we hope that the realization of this truth will continue to increase on both sides of the Atlantic to the lasting benefit of the free world — and above all, the people of' Britain and America.’

i - H y K< • l *W CAPTURE CHILD KIDNAPER — Betty Smithey, 16 (left) former trustee at the New Mexico State Girls' Welfare Home in Albuquerque, is held in Dallas, Texas, where she attempted to abandon 18month old Mitchell Johnson (right), son of Mrs. Paul Johnson, psychologist at the school, for whom the kidnaper worked. The gin sard sne worked for Mrs: Johnson only to have an opportunity to run away which, she paid “comes natural to me.” She took the child along because he cried when she tried to leave. Police picked her up after she left the tot in a drug store in Dallas.

Testify To Paying Fixers, Racketeers WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate Rackets Committee has produced testimony that three New York newspapers paid out more than $73,000 to alleged “fixers" and “racketeers” to solve labor difficulties. But this was only a small part of the $300,000 in boodle, salaries, Christmas gifts and other payments which, witnesses said, was passed along to union officials by a big East coast printing firm. The testimony indicated that most of the swag went to Harold Gross, an ex-convict who now heads Teamster local 320 in Miami, and Cornelius Noonan, president of Local 1730 of the International Longshoremen’s Assn. , Both were scheduled to appear before toe committee today. Later in the day, the committee planned to begin looking into a situation involving the boilermakers union in Houston, Tex. Chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy said this inquiry would touch on lack of democratic procedures in union affairs and violence against union members. He declined to elaborate. The committee Wednesday brought out charges of profitable dealings that Gross and Noonan had with the Neo-Gravure Printing Co., a Weehawken. N.J., firm which prints Sunday supplements for several East • coast newspapers. Company officials testified that Gross was piad $28,000 in cash over seven years so that copies of toe American Weeklyn, a syndicated Sunday supplement, could be delivered to the New York Journal American without fear of a union jurisdictional dispute.

Reds Control Packer Union

CHICAGO (UPD— A Chicagoan who joined the Communist Party at FBI request said today the Communists held such tight control over the United Packinghouse Workers that they could bar unfriendly candidates from any office. Communists pose a threat to all food processing unions, he said. Joseph A. Poskonka, 57, Chicago, appeared as a witness in the third day of hearings by a subcommittee of the House Un-Amer-ican Activities Committee investigating Communist infiltration into labor unions here. Poskonka said he joined the party in 1943 after he went in disgust to the Federal Bureau of Investigation' and told them of the Reds’ efforts to seize full control of workers at the packing house where he was employed. He said he reported to the FBI until February, 1958. He said that if a non-Communist attempted to become a leader in the meat packing union “he couldn’t be elected because he would be slandered as a labor-buster.” Referring apparently to the decentralization of some aspects of the meat industry, which has seen portions of its operations leave Chicago tor other midwestern centers, he said the Communists aimed to cover every part of the country and every industry that has anything to do with food. He said they would follow the decentralization of the meat industry. Some “comrades” already have been sent as colonizers to other food processing centers, Poskonka said. __ . iPoskonka described Jesse Proston, an official *of the United .

In addition, officials of the New York Times and the New York Mirror testified that they reimbursed Neo-Gravure for payments made to Gross and Noonan during a 1948 Teamsters strike. Four Indicted In Florida Rape Case TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) — Students at Florida A&M University called off their “prayers for justice” today after four young white men were indicted on rape charges for the alleged assault of Negro coed. The four white youths, whose ages range from 16 to 24, will be arraigned Friday. The maximum penalty for rape in Florida is death —although no white man has ever been executed for raping a Negro woman. A segregated gallery of more than 100 Negroes and 20 whites, ' heard an all-white grand jury announce the indictment Wednesday. It came after testimony from 18 witnesses, including the slender 19-year-old victim herself. The girl described how she was seized, bound and gagged and raped six times last Saturday morning. She was found by a deputy sheriff lying half-nude and still bound and gagged in the * back seat of her alleged assailants’ car. The defendants were identified as Ollie Stoutamire, 16, Patrick C. Scarborough. 20, David E. Beagles, 18, and Willon Collinsworth, 24.. "■ ~~ -■ The ease touched off a brief classroom strike at Florida A&M, Negro college where the victim attended school. Student leaders called a “passive resistance” program to dramatize the case, singing hymns and offering their “prayers for justice.”

Packinghouse Workers of America, as a “top ax.” He said if a man did not meet with Proston’s approval, he could hot get a job as a union official. Association Meets Saturday Morning The “Associaiton for the Betterment of Decatur” will meet for its second Saturday morning breakfast May 9 at the Youth and Community Center at 8 o’clock to further discuss efforts on behalf of renewing interest in the sale of the city utility and franchise. The association met last Saturday with more than 100 members and volunteers attending. Petitions, urging voters so request the city council to reconsider the possibility of a sale, were distributed. Analysis of the progress of these petitions will be uppermost in discussions at the second breakfast meeting. 1 The association was formed after the resolution to sell the utility and franchise to Indiana and Michigan Co. was defeated April 14 in a special election. The association was formed to promote an aura of “gcxxi feeling” between the rural users of electricity and the city dwellers. The rural users have petitioned to pull out of the city contract, subject to approval of the public service commission.

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