Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII, No. 110,

'■■'l .' 'J>' ' 1 ' ' 1 Ex-President Truman Is Honored

NEW YORK (UPD—Harry Truman celebrated his 75th birthday Friday night with 50,000 of his admirers at parties in 17 cities connected by closed circuit television. It was a sentimental affair at times and the former president was near tears at the end, but he provided his own comic Relief with the Truman touch of trying to cut the wooden interior pt a huge tiered birthday cake. - It was also a highly partisan affair, with not a Republican in sight, and Truman got his biggest laughs from wisecracks about Clare Boothe Luce and Sen Wayne Morse, Vice President Richard Nixon and Gen. Doulas MacAi* thur. Laughs At Digs There were 1,800 Democrats paying 1100 a plate at the Wal-dorf-Astoria Hotel in New York where Truman and his wife dined. An enthusiastic storm of applause broke when former New Hork Gov. Averell Harriman said the party whished he would be their candidate next year. Truman showed embarrassment as Democrats lavished their praise for the historic decisions he made in the presidency — the use of the atom bomb against Japan, the Berlin airlift, the Marshall Plan and intervention in Korea. “I am a timid man—l am embarrassed at what you said here,” he said in emotionrehoked tones. He was far happier at mild digs at himself such as Dean Acheson's comment, "When he made an error he learned from it. although he never admitted it." Show Home Movies Adlai Stevenson in Chicago < called him the “irrepressible member of the non-beat generation.” And his old friend, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, toasted Mrs. Truman as “the one great restraining influence in our hero’s life.” TTieir aaugnter, xvfargaret, who is expecting a second child, was not at the party although her husband, E. C. Daniel Jr., attended. Some of the most moving moments came in showing of movies taken in Truman's home town of Independence, Mo. In one shot his sister, Mary, said: "Harry was a nice boy. He always took me everywhere. Maybe that’s why I’m still an old maid.” Ted Marks, the best man at his wedding, recalled visiting Truman while he was president and going out on the yacht, Williamburg. A steward asked the president where he should bunk Marks in view of the face he snored so loudly. 1 "The president told him, ‘Well, < move him in with me,’ ” Marks ] recalled. “That’s one reason he’s • always been my best man.” Hand On Heart t Truman was in anything but a j “give ’em hell" mood as he fi- , nally rose to respond. He put his , hand on his heart and said, “If I tried to express what I feel , here, I couldn’t talk.” "I’ll never forget it so long as *

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I live,” he said. "When I am 90, I will tell my great -grandchildren -sMufTE “I am going to try to spend the rest of my life getting young people to understand what they have in this reat country and what they have in this reat country and what they have to do to keep it.” ’ Then he tried to blow out the 75 candles on his cake. He needed help to extinguish them all. Approve Added Fund For County Building The Adams county council approved all the appropriations, transfer of funds, and county revenue items, presented at last night’s special session held at the court house with the Adams county board of commissioners. Listed among the appropriations was $l,lOO for the new proposed Adams county building being planned at Monroe. Earlier, when bids were submitted to the board of commissioners for the proposed construction of the new building, it was learned that the appropriated $42,000 was short $l,lOO from the lowest bid submitfed!. Yost Construction Co. Inc., submitted the low bid calling for $43,100. The county council members were called to special session to consider the funds the board of commissioners deemed were necessary to meet the emergencies existing that were not included in the current buoget. ' County items considered included: transfers for the circuit court and county highway items, $8,200: and county revenue items totaling $770. Items listed film the accumulative bridge fund and approved included: bridge No. 17 on county road 7% in St. Marys twp., $2,500; bridge No. 18 on county road 27% in Blue Creek twp., $6,000; bridge No. 19 on county road four in Union twp,, $6,000; and bridge No. 1 on county road 28 in Union twp., $5,000. All the members of the county council, the board qf commissioners, and county auditor, attended the special session. Ehinger Reelected Head Os Association Charles D. Ehinger, president of the Citizens Telephone Co. of 'this city, was reelected president of the Indiana Telephone Assn, at, the annual convention in Indianapolis. The association adopted a resolution asking congress to repeal the 10 per cent excise tax on telephone rentals and tolls. George A. Steel, Warsaw, was elected a new member of the board of directors, and L. E. Meyer, Fort Wayne, was reelected vice president along with Steel.

Indiana Youth k \ '■•lt' Shot To Death At Miami U. OXFORD, Ohio (UPD — An Indiana youth who interceded in an argument over a Miami University coed was shot to death today. Roger T. Sayles, 20. Gary, Ind., fell dead in a hall of a university dormitory with a bullet in his head. James Walker, 18, a freshman ■ from Cincinnati, was wounded, and Herbert Allen Lucas, 18, Spring- ’ field, Ohio, a suspect in the shoot- - ings,' was found seriously wounded ' with a bullet in his head in a tele--1 phone booth at another dormitory. Sayles’ mother was believed to be on the campus or enroute from her Indiana home to be with her son for the university’s annual Mother’s Day program Sunday. Police said Lucas and Walker ’ argued over a freshman girl both had dated. Sayles, a dorm supervisor, was believed to have been shot when he tried to stop Lucas from leaving after the shooting of Walker. Sayles was a well-liked student and was affiliated with Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and Delta 1 Sigma Pi business fraternity. Howard said Walker had a date Friday night with Sandra Epps, 18, a freshman from Greenville, Ohio. He said Miss Epps told police Lucas met them at the girFs dorm when t' ey returned from a movie. Walker told police that Lucas later came to his room about 1:05 a.m. and started an argument about the girl. Walker said he turned from Lucas and was shot in the upper part of his shoulder. Sayles apparently was shot when he rushed to the scene of the shooting. Believe Solution Near In Lynching POPLARVILLE, Miss. (UPD— Stepped-up FBI activity, aided by hundreds of items collected for possible clues, indicated today a solution may be near in the lynching of an accused Negro rapist. The 40 investigating FBI agents refused to comment on progress in the case of Mack Charles Parker, 23, who was kidnaped from his jail cell here two weeks ago today. Possible bits of evidence in the form of caked mud, sticks, clothing, grass, buttons and even cars have been thoroughly inspected by the FBI. Hundreds of items have been sent to the FBI laboratory in Washington for examination. Parker’s body was found last Monday in the Pearl A coroner’s jury ruled he died from two gunshot wounds. * No arrests have been made, but there were murmured indications that increased FBI and local activity indicated some may be near. The search for clues to Parker’s killers has spread throughout this south Mississippi area and into southeast Louisiana. Thousands of pages of investigators’ notes and interviews have been transcribed by secretaries. Hundreds of persons have been questioned, many of them more than once. Parker’s mother, Mrs. Eliza Parker, fled from Mississippi before her son’s body was found because her life wes threatened, her sister in "Merced, Calif., asserted Friday. The sister, Mrs. Lola. Peters said, "She’s still scared and won’t come to the telephone. You can't blame her. -She left because threats were made against her life.” Monroe Lady's Father Is Taken By Death Charles R. Walker, <l, of near Liberty Center, died Thursday night in the Wells county hospital. Surviving are the widow, the former Vada Reece; a daughter, Mrs. Glen Stucky of Monroe, and a sister, Mrs. Eva Reece of Liberty Center. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.rh. Sunday at the Liberty Center Methodist church, with burial in Fairview cemetery, Bluffton. Friends may call at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton until 1 p.m. Sunday. Driver Os Tractor Killed In Accident MADISON In,d. (UPD—Theodore Parker, 54, Hanover, died in Norton Infirmary, Louisville, Friday of injuries received when his tractor collided with g car on .a country road 10 miles southwest of here Wednesday. • ‘ ■ I 3

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday May 9,1959.

Armed Forces Request Congress Appropriate Billions For Missiles • •' r .■: ’ - . r -

Gromyko Ordered To Speed Procedure

GENEVA (UPD — Communist sources said today Russia would drop any wrangling over procedure at the foreign ministers conference Monday in hopes of cutting the talks short and gfetting on to a summit meeting. The responsible sources said Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko would try to settle outside the conference such questions as the seating of the East German Com-, munists, Poland and Czechoslovakia so as to prevent days of arguments. Soeiet Premier Nikita Khrushchev believes that only a meeting with the other heads of state can reach a cold war settlement and Gromyko has been ordered to speed things up, the sources said. Khrushchev hopes for summit talks during the summer. . The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and Russia meet in the Palais des Nations here Monday afternoon. It is the first major East-West gettogether since the abortive Geneva meeting of ,1955 and the aim is to prevent the Berlin crisis from developing into a nuclear war. American officials have been prepared for a procedural scrap over what roles East and West Germany and possibly Poland and Czechoslovakia would play at the conference table. Washington has suggested the Germans sit in as “advisers” and that other nations—including Italy—be called if necessary. Two Killed In Crash South Os Fort Wayne FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD — The widow of a man killed in a traffic accident 16 months ago was killed today in a double-fatality highway collision. Mrs. Margaret J. Essig, 49, and William L. Green, 33, Fort Wayne, driver of a delivery truck with which her car collided just south of Fort Wayne were killed. Authorities said Mrs. Essig’s husband Gottlieb was killed and she was injured seriously on Christmas Day in 1957 in an accident only a few miles from the scene of today’s wreck. Authorities said the accident happened at the intersection of a county road and Ind. 1, within 1,000 feet of Mrs. Essig’s home. They said she apparently drove into the intersection without stopping for the preferential highway. The Essig Car rolled into the path of Green's truck and both drivers were killed outright. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with showers late this afternoon and tonight. Sunday partly cloudy with chance of scattered showers. Low tonight 54 north to 60 south. High Sunday 72 north to upper 70s south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy with some showers.

ftHK ■” i wZ fl 2 James Hoffman Bill Hoffman TOP SCHOLARS—James Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hoffman, is class valedictorian, and Bill Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Hoffman, salutorian, of. the Adams Central graduation class. Commencement exercises will be held at 8 p. m. Monday, May 18, at the school auditorium. ' »... .. •

, I Fear Over 200 Are Killed As ■ <L Boat Capsizes CAIRO (UPD — A triple-decker Nile River excursion boat that had sprung a leak capsized only inches from safety when the 350 panic - stricken passengers 1 swarmed to the side nearest the Shore, officials said today. More '■ than 200 persons were feared dead. J Authorities said the 30-year-old ‘ iop-heavy boat, the Dandarah, was overloaded when it sailed up the river Friday on an excursion for government employes and their families. Tickets were sold 1 for 250 adults and an estimated ; 100 children under 12 crowded aboard. t The exact death toll may never , be known. Authorities said 112 t persons were known saved, leav--1 Ing 238 missing. Somfe of theee t wtye thought to have rushed ! home from the scene of tragedy i at the village of Qalyu, 10 miles . north of Cairo. f Skin divers recovered 11 bodies Friday night before operations were suspended because of darkness. Eighty-six persons were known to be safe and authorities reported 26 other persons undergoing hospital treatment. John Mann Is Dead Aller Long Illness John Mann, 86, a lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 1:30 o’clock this morning at a nursing home in Bluffton following an illness of four years of complications. He was born in Adams county Sept. 10, 1872, a son of Joseph and Louise Mann, and was a retired farmer. Mr. Mann was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Methodist church and the Red Men lodge. Surviving are one brother, Dr. Frank Mann of Rochester, Minn., and four sisters, Mrs. Lulu Vance of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Ethel Grandstaff, Mrs. Nettie Singleton and Mrs. George Sprague, all of Decatur. Two brothers and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 p. m. today until time of the services.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Army, Navy‘and Air Ftirce officials have asked Congress to give them much more money for missiles than President Eisenhower requested, it was disclosed today. The appeals, revealed in the heavily censored transcript of testimony given behind closed doors to a House appropriations subcommittee, were expected to provide fresh ammunition to critics who want Congress to put up billions of dollars more to speed development of long-range rockets. ■ The subcommittee, which has been holding hearings since January, is expected to announce its actions on Eisenhower's $40,850.000,000 defense budget within a few days. Urges More Subs The 864-page transcript showed that: —Air Force officials favor more spending on the Atlas and Minuteman 5,000-mile missiles. One plan given to the subcommittee would boost outlays for these programs 651 million dollars in the 1960 fiscal year beginning July 1 and a total of $4,788,000,006 over an unspecified number of years. —A top Navy witness testified the budget should include "a lot more” submarines which could fire the Polaris 1,500-mile missile. These subs cost about 100 million dollars each. =- —The Army still would like money to begin production on the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile. The Army wants $1,003,000,000 for Nike-Zeus. The budget would provide only 300 million dollars for research, development and testing. The witnesses generally were careful not to volunteer statements that the budget was too skimpy. But under questioning they frequently ventured the "personal” view that it should be bigger. Some also sniped at the plans of rival services. .Push Own Missiles Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force ballistic missile chief, said he rated a speed-up in the Atlas program as "the No. 1 course of action.” Rear Adm. K. S. Masterson, head of the Navy’s guided missile program, said the Polaris would be more important than the Atlas or the Strategic Air Command (SAC) in the years ahead. He said that by 1963 bases for SAC bombers would be so vulnerable to enemy attack that "the money we would be putting into SAC bombers in that period would be largely down the drain.” Lt. Gen. Carter B. Magruder, Army deputy chief of staff, complained the Army budget d9d not contain adequate money for NikeZeus. He said the Army believed there should be “optimum binding” for production as well as research and development of the weapon. Final Arguments In Death Case Friday Final arguments in the case of Dale Death vs the city of Decatur, for reinstatement on the police force, were heard Friday by Judge W. Macy, of Winchester, special judge at Portland, to which place the case was venued. Judge Macy idicated that he would decide on’ the nearly two-year-old case in the near future. The city, defendants in the case, was represented by John L. DeVoss, city attorney, and James Grimes of Portland; Death was represented by Harold Fiely, Fraternal Order of Police attorney, and Robert S. Anderson, of Decatur. The case arose nearly two years ago when the board of public works and safety dismissed Death, brought before the board charged with public intoxication following an automobile accident. Death was brought before theboard charged with conduct unbecoming a police officer, absence without leave, and conviction for an offense. He liter asked the circuit court to grant him a change of plea from guilty to not guilty, and then asked that the charges be dismissed on the grounds that proper legal procedure was not followed. The charge was dismissed by the court, and no new charges were ever filed. Death then instituted the civil suit against the city. NOON EDITION

... •. - * -a: iLKAag*. ■ — Defense Secretary Seeks New Deputy;

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower faced the rough task today of replacing his two top defense officials in a period of crisis and military danger. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, who hopes to leave the Cabinet by the end of this year, began an urgent search for a successor to his deputy, Donald A. Quarles, who died early Friday. It appeared probable that McElroy would go ahead with plans to retire despite Quarles’ death. Quarles was considered McElroy’s most likely successor. Observers forecast a complete reshuffling of the Pentagon’s top leadership. Even if McElroy stayed, they saw major changes in the defense hierarchy as a result of the deputy secretary’s death. Eisenhower’s search for a new defense secretary and deputy comes less than one month after he had to replace John Foster Dulles as secretary of state. Had Rare Experience Speculation centered on several men in and out of government as Quarles’ replacement. But McElroy said he had little hope of matching Quarles’ qualifications ■ as scientist, mathematician and - administrator. j Quarles, 64, a thin, scholarly J man with rare experience at the • Pentagon, died in his sleep. As--1 sociates said he literally had worked himself to death trying to keep this country ahead in the development of modern weapons. Quarles will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery with simple military honors next Tuesday. McElroy, who suspended plans to go to the Geneva foreign ministers conference, said Quarles was “irreplaceable” and conceded he might have to reconsider his plans to return to the business world this year. But the odds favored McElroy’s retirement.

Map Strategy Os Steel Talks

NEW YORK (UPD — The steel industry and the United Steelworkers Union mapped final strategy today for the start of joint bargaining talks Monday on a new steel contract. The union ended preliminary' separate contract meetings with 12 major companies Friday. The two sides were far apart on virtually every point. They even wrangled over whether stockholders were worse off than steelworkers. A meeting between the USW and Great Lakes Steel ended in disagreement on local contract issues. Earlier in the week, meetings with Kaiser Steel and Jones & Laughlin erupted into heated arguments. The two top bargainers — R. Conrad Cooper, chief industry negotiator, and David J. McDonald, president of the union — engaged in a series of sharp exchanges in the' initial talks. Outlook Dim The attitudes of both parties dimmed the outlook for reaching a peaceful settlement by the strike deadline, at midnight June 30. The present three-year agreement covering 500,000 steelworkers expires at that time and unless a new contract is signed by then the sixth postwar steel strike is probable. The somewhat heated exchange of views Friday between Cooper and McDonald underscored the deep rift that will mark the joint bargaining talks on Monday between four-man teams representing management and the union. Cooper said a one-year contract “freeze" is necessary because the steel companies cannot absorb any further increases in labor costs without resorting to price increases. Differ On Profits Asserting that profits in the industry already are too small to

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In The Running Among the men mentioned for the deputy’s post, which uniquely carries the same authority as the secretary’s office, are: —Assistant Defense Secretary W. J. McNeil who has been defense comptroller since the unification of the armed forces in 1947. —Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas who succeeded Quarles in that post when Quarles became deputy defense secretary. —William C. Foster, deputy secretary under President Harry S. Truman and chairman of Eisenhower’s special committee on foreign military aid. —Perkins McGuire, assistant defense secretary tor supply. Whoever becomes deputy may later advance to the Cabinet post when McElroy retires. Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton also has been mentioned as a possibility for defense secretary. He once was assistant secretary and knows the department well. 11 ‘ Association Meets , Here This Morning ' The Association for the Betterj ment of Decatur held an informal , check-up breakfast at 8 o’clock this . morning at the Decatur Youth and Community center. The purpose of the meeting was to check on .the progress made by the petition carriers who are canvassing the city. Partial totals show that an ex- — cess of 1,800 names have been secured so far, and petitioners report that parts of the city have to be canvassed yet. It is hoped that all petitions will be turned in by Thursday evening.

afford an adequate return to stockholders and leave enough left to finance needed modernization and expansion programs, , Cooper said increased employment costs would result “in a further profit squeeze that would be ruinous.” McDonald, noting that industry , profits in toe first quarter were at or near record highs, said toe industry has actually enjoyed a “profit stretch" rather than a “profit squeeze.' Cooper emphasized that U.S. Steel, of which he is executive vice president, has an obligation to pay dividends to its 300,000 stockholders. He said the average stockholder’s total income is less than the average steelworker’s. McDonald retorted the company was quoting an “outmoded” survey which included “many children and housewives who obviously are not the major source of support for their families as are the workers in the steel industry.” _ Cite Executive Salaries J He suggested a better comparison would be between toe average salary of steelworkers and that of Roger M. Blough, board chairman of U.S. Steel Corp. McDonald said toe average steelworker earned only l-50th as much as Blough. Blough earns $265,000 a year before taxes compared with an average $3.03 an hour for steelworkers and some $50,000 a year before taxes for McDonald. Thd union’s official publication, SteeL Labor, noted toe top 22 steel executive salaries averaged slßl,866 in 1957. The publication said that “was two years ago and the cost of living has risen something dreadful as toe United Steelworkers and a good portion of toe public are aware."