Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 4 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 131.

Russians Show Signs Os Giving Guarantee To West Over Berlin

Red Cross Service Clinic Next Week * Decatur will host a Red Cross home service clinic, June 8 and 9, at the Youth and Community Center, lor 17 chapters from the northeastern part of the state. The Rev. B. G. Thomas, chairman of home service, assised by Wilbur Petrie and Leo Kirsch, will be the host Monday, while Mrs. Clarence Smith will be the registrar Monday Miss Fan Hammel will be the Tuesday registrar. The clinic, to study the trends as they concur with Red Cross social welfare, and changes in the state legislation pertaining to the Red Cross, will be held from 10 a.m. Monday until 4 p.m., and on Tuesday will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Chairman of the home service group, chapter chairmen, or executive secretaries from the 17 chapters will attend. The chapters are Adams, Elkhart, LaGrange, Steuben, DeKalb, Kendallville, Noble, Goshen, Kosciusko, Whitley, Huntington, Wells. All e n-Fort Wayne, Jay, Unkm, Randolph, and Blackfdrd. The instructors for the sessions will be Jake Lein, field director of the veterans administration, of Indianapolis: Miss Selma Bernstein, area field representative, and Mary Larson, national field representative. Temperatures Back To 80s In Indiana United Press International Temperatures in the 80s will pay a return visit to Indiana today and probably stay into the weekend with high humidity providing summery discomforts beginning Saturday. Forecasts called for highs today ranging from the low 80s to 88, highs Friday in the upper 80s, and “warm and humid’’ Saturday. "Die mercury barely missed the 80s Wednesday as a slow temperature rise started. It was 79 at South Bend and Lafayette, 78 at Indianapolis, and 77 at Fort Wayne and Evansville. Lows early this morning were in the low and middle 50s, slightly warmer than readings that reached downward into the 40s two mornings in a row. Fort Wayne and Lafayette recorded 52, Evansville 53 and Indianapolis and South Bend 55. Lows tonight will be in the low and mid 60s. No rain was in sight. The prospect was for “mostly fair” today, tonight and Friday, with partly cloudy conditions developing Saturday.

Emergency In All Ecuador

GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador (UPD— Tanks and troops clashed with an anti - government mob here Wednesday night, killing seven persons and increasing the toll of five days of intermittent violence to at least 19 dead. A government decree Imposing a state of emergency on all Ecuador and ordering a dusk-to-dawn curfew on Guayaquil blamed the. disorders Mi "foreign elements” —meaning the Communists. Official report said seven persons were killed in the violence which erupted after funeral services for an equal number of persons killed in similar riots Wednesday. Five persons had been killed previously in Portoviejo, where the lynching of Capt. Galo Quevedo Friday for punishing a soldier set off the current wave of violence. Tanks turned back a mob which tried to storm the police barracks here at 7 p. m., shortly after the funeral. Troops deployed to guard the barracks fired in the air to

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GENEVA (UPD—A high Allied official said today Russia has shown signs it may be willing to give the Western powers a firm guarantee of their continued rights in West Berlin. Such g development would be the first major break in the EastWest foreign ministers conference which was called because of a Soviet demand that the Western Allies get out of West Berlin. The Allied official reported the Soviet move only one day after President Eisenhower told a news conference that the summit meeting asked by the Soviets depended rm ciinh a axicfiii't* vt» ouvxi ct gxrnvuixr. The West already had presented a five-point program on a Berlin truce and was trying to push it through before Soviet delaying tactics block a summit conference klotgether. The high Allied official also disclosed today that Britain, France and the United States might be willing to reduce the size of their 10,000-man Berlin garrison if they got a broader agreement underrating their rights there. I 'me reports, from an unimpeachable sources disclosed signs that both sides were budging somewhat in an effort to reach an interim deal on Berlin and make a summit meeting possible. High Allied quarters emphasized that the Western powers will insist that any stopgap deal on Berlin last until there is a final settlement of the problem of German reunification and not just until the summit meeting. Eisenhower p.«.de this clear Wednesday. ? High Allied officials said the most sensitive point in their current sparring with the Soviets concerns the relatonship of Berlin to West Germany and the movement of civilians and civilian trade across the 110 miles of Communist territory separating West Berlin from West Germany. Diplomatic sources disclosed that Gromyko was the one who asked Wednesday at a secret session that the ministers return ot their semi-public sessions on Friday. Purpose of the Gromyko request was not known. I Secretary pf State , Christian A. Herter, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville were having two off-the-rec-ord meetings with Gromyko today —a restricted session in the afternoon at the Palais de Nations and a dinner tonight at the French villa. The five-point Western plan was made in reply to a Gromyko “offer” of Monday which basically restrated the old Soviet plans to oust the West from Berlin. The new angle was the suggestion of a supervisory commission to carry out the “free city” status of West Berlin. The Allies offered this alternate plan: —A restatement of Western

disperse the mob. The rioters succeeded in setting fire to the security office after re- ! leasing a sizeable number of . prisoners. Tanks patroled Guayaquil through the night as a precaution against looting or other damage to the city’s shops, which had suffered heavily in previous rioting. The government instructed the army to censor newspapers and radio stations. Hie radio stations in particular were ordered to carry only official news bulletins. INDIANA WEATHER Sunny and warm this afternoon. Fair, a little warmer most sections tonight, Friday fair south and central, partly cloudy extreme north, continued warm. Low tonight 56 to 83. High Friday in the 80s. Sunset today 8:09 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:18 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and con- ' tinned warm. Low in 80s. High in 80s.

rights in West Berlin and access to the city based on earlier agreements to which Russia was a party. —A freeze of the allied garrisons in West Berlin at their present strength of 10,000. —A promise by the Big Four “on a reciprocal basis” to end propaganda and subversive activities in the Berlin area. —To call in West and East Germans to assist in dealing with matters concerning access to the Communist-encircled ity. —Continuation of present Berlin arrangements until Germany is reunited and Berlin once more becomes the capital. More Blood Donors Needed For Friday The Decatur Red Cross blood donation program, which will be conducted at the Youth and Community Center Friday from.lo a.m. to 3:45 p.m., urgently requests 29 more volunteers call the local office for volunteer appointments. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary, reported today that 141 persons have signed the list, but that 170 are needed to reach the quota of 125 pints. According to Red Cross -statistics, 170 donors are needed to assure a total of 125 pints. Some are rejected because of various reasons, thus the need for the additional donors. A staff of grained medical personnel, who are donating their services in Adams county, will be on hand to perform the functions essential to the blood donating. Persons who have not yet registered for the program are asked to go to the Center at any of the following three times: 12:45, 2:15 or 2:45 p.m. No one has signed for these hours and little if any waiting will be necessary for those who arrive at these times. Interested persons may call 3-3106, or 3-3107 for an appointment. “If you are not able to call, but wish to donate, you will be given every consideration at the Center tomorrow at any hour you happen to be available,” Mrs. Oelberg stated. Decatur Elks Plan To Mark Flag Day George Bair, exalted ruler of the Decatur Elks lodge, today invited the public to join with the Elks in this year’s observance of Flag day, commemorated annually by lodges of the fraternal organization throughout the United States. With Flag day. June 14, falling on Sunday this year, the annual observance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, on the front lawn of the Elks home on North Second street. • A farewell salute to the 48-star flag will keynote this year’s observance, Bair noted. The addition of a star to Old Glory on July 4, representing the new state of Alaska, will be the first change in the flag since 1912, when New Mexico and Arizona were added to the Union. A 50th star, for the state of Hawaii, is to be added soon. The lodge leader also urged all citizens of Decatur to fly the colors before th£ir homes and places of business. “As we raise the flag this year, let us remember that it was the proud successor to that first flag under which our gallant forefathers fought and won for us our independence,” Bair continued. “Let us remember the brave men who fought under our flag of 48 stars at Chateau Thierry, Omaha Beach and Pork Chop Hill to preserve our heritage of freedom. As we welcome the new stars to Old Glory’s firmament, let us resolve to remain faithful to the traditions and principles symbplized by those stars and stripes.” Bair announced the appointment of Wendell Macklin as chairman of the flag day observance, which is jointly sponsored by the Elks and veterans organizations of the city. Other committee members are D. Burdette Custer and L. V. Baker. \

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 4,1959.

18 Inches Os Hail Blocks Kansas Roads United Press International Highway crews hauled snow plows from summer hibernation Wednesday night to clear roads in the Selden, Kan., area blocked by an 18-inch hail storm. The heavy ice accumulation crushed roofs and a combination of rain and melting hail flooded basements of homes and businesses. There were no reports of injuries. I The town of Selden, with a population of about 360 in northwest Kansas, was isolated until highway crews plowed open one way traffic late at night. National guard troops and highway patrolmen were summoned when it was first feared that many people were injured by the crushed roofs. Lt. Darrell Hubbard of the 323rd Ordnance Co., Kansas National Guard, said the hail battered a five-square-mile area around Selden for about an hour and a half. I The Weather Bureau warned of “likely” flash flooding in parts of northwest Kansas in the wake of up to five inches of rain. Weathermen said the flooding could occur on Prairie Dog Crgek and on the north fork of Solomon and Big Bow creeks. The hail storm was part of a squall line from the Texas panhandle into Kansas. An unconfirmed tornado was reported Wednesday night northeast of Pecos,. Tex. I Another severe storm struck the Carolinas Wednesday night, pounding the Columbia, S.C., area with hail the size of golf balls. In the Southwest, nearly two inches of rain doused Hill City in northwest Kansas, and about an inch fell at Lubbock, Tex. Other communities from the Texas panhandle to western Kansas reported one-fourth to one-half-inch of rain. Weathermen predicted scattered showers and thunderstorms today in the Rocky Mountain and Plains States, the upper Mississippi Valley and the Gulf Coast. Rain also was expected in the Pacific Northwest. Sunny skies were seen for the rest of the nation, with warmer temperatures tn the Mississippi Valley, the Great Lakes and the Ohio Valley.

Defense Money Bill Is Passed By House

WASHINGTON (UPD —The administration’s sharply revised and reduced defense money bill today headed for the Senate where further changes are expected. The House by a 392-3 roll call vote last night approved the $38,848,339,000 measure to finance the military services during the 12 months starting July 1. The lawmakers refused to add or subtract a penny from the amount recommended by their Appropriations Committee. One of the defeated amendments would have provided money for an increase in the Army, which will drop to the 870,000-man level by June 30. Rep. Daniel J. Flood (D-Pa.) wanted to boost the Army to its 900,000-man level of a year ago. When his amendment was swamped 131-43, Flood abandoned his plan to offer a similar amendment to increase the Marine Corps from 175,000 to 200,000 men. But the issue was expected to flare again in the Senate. The Senate already has gone on record this year in support of a 900,000man Army and a 200,000-man Marine Corps. Another apparent bone of contention between the House and Senate was the Navy’s request tor 260 million dollars for a supercarrier. The House rejected the request. Chairman" Dennis Chavez (DN.M.) and several members of the Senate military appropriations subcommittee have expressed sup-

Nicaraguan Planes Ordered To Attack MANAGUA, Nicaragua President Luis Somoza's government, fearing the arrival of invad-er-laden schooners from Cuba, has ordered the air force to attack any unidentified ship approching the coast. » There was no fresh word of the three schooners said to be heading Mere from Batabano, Cuba, carrying men. and arms to reinforce the invaders who flew in from Costa Rica during the week end. But warplanes were Maintaining dusk-todawn patrols along both of Nicaragua’s coasts. By night, the air force flies protective cover over the nation’s principal cities. No new fighting has been reported from the entral Nicaraguan invasion zone. The government said 70-odd rebels Were fleeing through snake-infested jungles, pursued by loyal troops. An official spokesman, making the government’s first mention of casualties, said 12 invaders and three loyal soldiers were killed Monday soon after an invasion landed on the plains of Olama. The rebels had reported 133 persons killed or wounded in a series of engagements, but the government spokesman said there has been no large-scale fighting so far. The rebel radio ’ reported Wednesday that the invaders are entrenched at twq poirits in the r*ountains of central Nicaraua northwest of Muymuy and in the Santo Tomas area. The radio said the rebels plan to wage guerrilla warfare against Vie government, sneaking small bands down from the inaccessible peaks to harry loyal forces. An insurgent broadcast said 400odd invaders have entered the country, and that 300 peasants armed with sporting rifles and jungle knives have flocked’ to join them. The radio report said a supply convoy with arms and equipment for 500 men is expected shortly, but did not indicate where it is coming from. Fighter planes in the Nicaraguan air screen Wednesday intercepted and forced down a Costa Rican air freighter carrying a cargo of shrimp to Miami. The plane was released and allowed to proceed about 9 p.m., after Costa Rican President Mario Echandi had warned that his Country would break off diplomatic relations with Nicaragua unless the plane was released by 10:30 p.m.

port for the supercarrier. Chavez predicted the subcommittee would restore the funds for the vessel. Further differences exist over continental air defense systems. The House slashed $162,700,000 from funds for procurement of the Air Force’s Bomarc anti-aircraft missile, leaving 200 million dollars. The Senate Armed Services Committee, however, has recommended a cut in the NikerHercules, which is in competition wtih the Bomarc for funds. As passed by the House, the bill carried $399,861,000 less than the amount President Eisenhower requested. Bernard J. Clark Democrat Chairman Bernard J. Clark, city street commisioner, was elected Democratic city chairman by the city precinct committeemen Wednesday night, Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman, announced this morning. Clark is 3-A precinct committeeman. Miss Dianne Linn, vice-commit-teeman from 1-C precinct, was elected vice chairman; Roger Singleton, Decatur-Root precinct committeeman, was elected secretary; and Wendell Macklin, County treasurer and 2-A precinct committeetnan, was elected treasurer.

Hints Token Increase To Steelworkers NEW YORK (UPD — Pressure mounted today on steel contract negotiators with a possible nationwidestrike less than four weeks away: *• There were these developments: —The International Executive Board of the United Steelworkers of America was summoned into an afternoon executive session to map strategy for the deadlocked talks. —A steel company official told United Press International the industry might ease its wage freeze stand and offer a token pay hike. —The top management negotiator said there was “no truth whatsoever” to the report of a wage offer. —President Eisenhower denied a charge by Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis that he was against labor in the steel talks. —The President also told a news conference Wednesday, he had not decided whettier he would invoke the Taft - Hartley Law to bar a steel strike for 80 days. Another Fruitless Session Steel negotiators held another fruitless session Wednesday. Then Union President David J. McDonald announced the 33-man executive board would meet today. It was believed McDonald would ask the board to summon the 171man Wage Policy Committee of the union into special session, possibly to increase pressure on management and plan strike action. _ The Wage Policy Committee also might be asked to approve the filing of formal charges with the National Labor Relations Board that the industry has failed to bargain in good faith. About 500,000 workers in the basic steel industry could strike after June 30 if there is no settlement. 10-Cent Offer Hinted An official of one of the 12 companies- involved in the negotiations told UPI a token increase of about 10cents an hour may be offered to the union before the current contract expires. “It is not beyond the realm of possibility that we may make a minor modification in our contract proposal before the strike deadline,” the official said. Up to now the companies have stood firm on their demand for a one-year wage freeze. R. Conrad Cooper, chief management negotiator, said that still stands.

Pinball Magnates Refuse To Testify

United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—The two pinball kingpins of Lake County, Ind., refused to tell Senate investigators today whether they paid former county prosecutor Metro Holovachka to help enforce a gambling monopoly. The pinball magnates, George Welbourn and Steven Sohacki, both of Gary, responded to all questions by the Senate Rackets Committee with a duet of Fifth Amendment pleas. Committee investigator Richard Sinclair testified that Holovachka, who had a $12,000 a year salary as prosecutor, was able to put down $43,599 in cash toward an SBO,OOO lake front home in 1955. He said Holovachka has declined to say where he got the money. Welbourn and Sohacki were asked if they provided the funds. They pleaded possible self-incrim-ination ip refusing to answer. Sinclair said Holovachka previously lived in a SII,OOO prefabricated house. I Own Postal Building Welbourn and Sohacki were called together for questioning about testimony that Holovachka, now chief deputy prosecutor, and his aides drove rival operators out of business and enabled the two Gary operators to rake in more than 12 million dollars from pinball gambling bver a five-year period. ‘According to earlier witnesses, Welbourn and Sohaeki used their pinball proceeds to launch a profitable real estate business and now own the Gary post office building which brings them $499 a month in rent from the federal government. » Staff investigator Laverne Duffy told the commtitee there was evidence that Sohacki was making periodic payments to former prosecutor Ben Sehwartz in. 1949. At that time, Sohacki was operating slot machines in the county according to Duffy. The investigator said Shwartz was removed from office in 1950 during a reform drive. But he said the vice situation became as

Doubt Rocket Is In 6ft>it

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPD — Air Force sources expressed extreme pessimism today about the fate of Discoverer 111 satellite and its four mice passengers. “It is very, very doubtful that it went into orbit,” said an official. To succeed, scientists had to aim the huge seven-story rocket at such a precise angle that a two-degree error in any diretion could have caused it to roar through the skies like a “superintercontinental ballistic missle," officials said. If that happened. Discoverer 111 and its black mice burned up in the heavy earth atmosphere like a blazing meteorite. It could have flown m excess of 6,000 miles before disintegrating. Two other possibilities existed. Power Failure Possible A “complete power failure” could have blacked out all of the satellite’s, ra.dlo transmissions even if it were in orbit. The breaking of several electrical couplings could cause such a failure. Or it could be tumbling end over end like the first Discoverer did last April. The tumbling motion prevents transmission of vital data. The 78-foot modified Thor missile with a Bell-Hustler second stage was blasted aloft at 4:09 p.m. e.d.t. Wednesday in what appeared to be perfect launching. Hie second stage with its mice cargo and array of scientific measuring data ignited as planned. Signals Heard 13 Minutes But radio signals were received for only 13 minutes. The last station to receive the vehicle’s signals was a tracking ship 1.200 miles down the Pacific range shortly after blastoff. At that time all appeared well. It was learned Discoverer 111 was speeding at almost the 18,000 mile an hour velocity necessary for orbiting. It was 140 miles high and seemed about to go into « planned orbit would have whirled it around the earth across the north and south poles. Hours of silence followed until 10 p.m. e.d.t. when the Air Force issued this statement: “Reduction of the 13 minutes of telemetry received during the launching of Discoverer 111 is still underwerway. Based on information presently available, it is believed that the Discoverer did not achieve an orbit.” ■ A request was put out to the

bad as before after Holovachka became prosecutor in 1952. Holovachka to Testify It was about this time, Duffy said, that Sohacki and Welbourn got into the pinball business. Holovachka, who will be a witness Friday, listened to the proceedings from the . rear of the hearing room. I Independent coin machine operators in the Gary-Hammond area have told the Senate committee they were unable to compete with the Welbourn-Sohacki combine because of harrassment from county authorities. They said Holovachka winked at gambling involving syndicate pinball machines but confiscated theirs.

I mw! * UH X IMF $500,000 BRIBE FOR VICE 0. K.— Harold Rayder, 51, (right) of Valparaiso, Ind., chief deputy sheriff of Porter county, tells the Senate Rackets Committee in Washington that he made a tape recording of the voice of a Chicago hoodlum offering a $500,000 bribe to a deputy sheriff to let him open a house of prostitution and gain "corner to corner" control of gambling and vice in Porter county. Ind. The recording was made by Rayder on May 4, while talking in an automobile with Tom Morgano (left), Porter county representative of the Chicago crime syndicate.

world’s approximately half dozenradar stations capable of tracking a satellite, but there appeared to be little hope of making contact in this manner even if Discoverer 111 was orbiting. Breaks Record For Non-Stop Flight EL PASO, Tex. (UPD—Pilot Max Conrad broke the. record for non-stop, single engined, light plane flight today and radioed as he passed overs El Paso that he is going to try to fly to San Diego, Calif. ’ > Conrad took off from Casablanca, Morocco, Tuesday in a Piper Comanche 250. ‘‘J am feeling good," he radioed southwest air rangers as he passed over El Paso International Airport at 11:52 a.m. c.d.t. The southwest air rangers radio station lost contact with him shortly after he passed over the airport. His battery was reported weak. Conrad at first thought he could make it to Los Angeles’, which is 701 miles from El Paso. He decided later to try to fly to San Diego, which is 628 miles from El Paso. It is 6,958 miles from Casablanca to El Paso. The old record w-as set by M. L. Boling on a flight from Manila, in the Philippines, to Pendleton, Ore., last year. Boling flew 6,856 miles. Urges Crop Surplus To Needy Families ■ f ■ WASHINGTON (UPD - Sente John F- Kennedy •D-Mass.) today ■ urged enactment of a six-point 1 program to use surplus crops to help needy and undernourished families. Kennedy told a Senate agriculture subcommittee that the bill which he and 14 other senators have co-sponsored would remedy a present program which he called "inadequate, unrealistic and ineffective.” Kennedy’s bill would transfer authority for distribution of surplus food to the needy from the Agriculture Department to. the Health - Education - Welfare (HEW > Department. “Repeatedly the department of agriculture has asserted a reluctance to use surplus food stocks to feed the hungry,” Kennedy said. “The Department of Agriculture — perhaps justifiably — takes the position that it is not in the ‘welfare’ business.” The bill also would: —Authorize the HEW secretary to spend up to 150 million dollars to “provide a balanced diet to American families in need of this food.” —Authorize greater use of farm surpluses for the needy. —Give local welfare agencies limited financial assistance in transporting, storing and distributing the food. I —Allocate all costs under the program to HEW "where they belong.” —Shift the general emphasis of the program “to the consumer’s side of the picture.” “The Commodity Credit Corp, today is primarily engaged in an effort to minimize its losses,” Kennedy said with regard to the last point.

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