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WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate Rackets Committee today heard'testimony that an Indiana company operating a pinball gambling monopoly showered public officials with gifts ranging from Hi-Fi sets to "thirst extinuishers.” Staff investigator Laverne Duffy said the Lakeside Specialty Co., East Chicago, Ind., bought $23,400 worth of gifts in wholesale lots for distribution to the officials at Christmas and on other occasions. Duffy said the company had a corner on illegal pinball machine gambling in East Chicago and Indiana Harbor which yielded $560,000 on a SIO,OOO investmrtit. He said the gifts, which had a retail value of about $32,000, were sent to such officials as East Chicago mayor Walter Jeorse, police chief Mike Vinovich, sheriff Jack West and former Lake County prosecutor Metro Holovachka. • j, HaJovachka refused Monday to tell the committee how he acquired $327,724 in cash during his eight years as a public official. Chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the committee was considering contempt action aganist Holovachka for failure to surrender aome of his tax records. Huge Take Bared Duffy estimated that the total take from Lakeside’s machines amounted to $2,426,000 from Nov. 1952 to Dec. 1957. He said owners of places where the machines were located readily admitted that they made cash payoffs to lucky players. The company’s gift list included such items as ice cream freezers, radios, martini jiggers, cameras, watches and diamond pins. Duffy said "thirst extinguisher" was among the $984 worth of gifts Jeorse received in 1957. It was not explained how the mayor’s thirst was extinguished. Roland Schaefer, a partner in the Lakeside Specialty Co., invoked the fifth amendment on questions about the alleged gifts and the firm’s ©Derations. A similar, plea was used by John Powers, Oak Park, 11., who declined to confirm or deny Duffy’s testimony that Powers also had been a part-owner of Lakeside with control over 35 pinball machines in East Chicago. Kennedy did not indicate when

Ultimatum Is Handed Russia

By STEWART HENSLEY United Press International GENEVA (UPI) — The Western Big Three handed Russia’s Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko an ultimatum today that unless he stops stalling on Berlin the present Big Four talks will be broken off without any hope of a summit conference. High Western sources said the West was in agreement that there was no point in carrying the 30-day-old foreign ministers’ conference any further unless Russia abandons its determination to undercut Western rights in Berlin. Secretary of Stat# Christian Herter ana his French and British partners went into a secret session with Gromyko determined to have a quick showdown. Bl'Three Confer Just'befbre this session, Herter, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd sidetracked the East - West issue long enough to attack a dispute exploding in the middle of their own camp. I . X Ths broke out overnight over French President Charles de Gaulle's refusal to permit U.S. nuclear wea p on stockpiles in France unless his government has direct control over these vital NATO armaments. Herter spent an (hour with Couve de Murville ana Lloyd in an unannounced secret Western huddle. An American spokesman said the three conferred On “matters qutside the Big Four conference.” Herter Is Pessimistic Diplomatic sources said the three made the first moves to heal what could become a highly dangerous Western split. There was no apparent disagreement on the bigger issue of

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■ . '■■■ " ~ a decision might be reached on Holovachka’s failure to turn over tax records. Frank J. Smith, a Crown Point, Ind., accountant, testified Monday that Holovachka snatched the records from under the nose of committee investigator John Thiede, who had gone to Smith’s office . with a subpena for them. Kennedy told newsmen he had been unable to get Holovachka to surrender them. From other documents, however, the committee presented evidence that Holovachka had made personal cash transactions totaling at least $363,000 during the six years he served as the $12,000-a-year prosecutor of Lake County, nd. . . j Earlier, the committee said, he had acquired at least $64,000 in cash in two years while serving as special deputy prosecutor and as city comptroller. Denies Pfcibal Tie-up Hoovachka, who is now deputy prosecutor, refused to give an ex- , planation of how he got the , money. He denied, however, that ' any of it came from pinball operators who allegedly set up a gam- ( bling monopoly in Lake County with the aid of the prosecutor’s j office. He accused the committee of breaching his constitutional rights to privacy , but did not plead the fifth amendment in refusing to divulge his sources of income. The committee planned to inquire further into the county’s pinball business today by calling in officers and employes of the Lakeside Specialty Co., which operated in the East Chicago-Indiana Harbor section. Kennedy said it was possible the committee also would get around to its first questioning of Sam (Mooney) Giancana, reputed new leader of the Chicago crime syndicate; Committee investigator Richard Sinclair told the committee of Holovachka’s cash transactions. "Keep Cool” Earlier, Holovachka engaged in a stormy exchange with committee chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) over whether he should account for his personal finances. Small and dapper, Holovachka kept before him a sheet of paper

Berlin when the Western ministers emerged to confront Gromyko this afternoon. Herter himself was reported “extremely pessimistic” about the chances of reaching any worthwhile agreement here. Final word on whether the Geneva foreign ministers conference would break up in failure apparently lay in Moscow where Premier Nikita Khrushchev began formal conferences today with East German Communist leaders. Khrushchev either could order his foreign ministers here to agree to some declaration insuring the Western rights in Berlin or barricade the way ...to agreement and scuttle the East-West meeting. A blowup in the conference here would send the cold war temperature soaring once again. One Western official, discouraged at the prospects after Monday’s “no progress” meeting, said, “We appear headed for a crisis.” Press For Quick Accord Both sides were stepping up the pressure for a quick Geneva accord which would lead to a summit conference but neihter side appeared* ready to surrender its basic position. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was preparing a new Russian proposal expected to demand greater Western recognition of Communist East Germany’s rights- to control Berlin supply routes. The Western foreign ministers expected to try again at today’s secret, session for Soviet acceptance <sf a more detailed Western plan securing British, American and French rights in the city: They were meeting Gromyko at the American villa.

on which was printed in large, red letters: “Keep Cool.” But he appeared at times to ignore his own advice. Holovachka Charged that he was being made a "whipping boy” by Kennedy and city editor Arnold Coons of the Gary, Ind., PostTribune. He said Coons, who was seated at the press table in the hearing room, has "persecuted me for seven years.” He persistently stated his "legal objection” to saying where the money came from—even when McClellan reminded hitn that he had remarked cm his “obligation” to the people of his community. Holovachka replied that his obligation was to answer proper and pertinent questions within the committee’s jurisdiction. Spent $57,000 Sinclair testified that Holovachka was earning less than $5,000 a year as an attorney in 1951 when he became special deputy prosecutor In that year, he said, Holovachka spent $7,230 in cash. In 1952, as city comptroller of Gary, Holovachka declared $8,591 as income for tax purposes but handled $57,373 in cash, Sinclair said. After he became prosecutor

Bill Jenner Not A Governor Candidate

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Former Sen. William E. Jenner today removed himself as a possible opponent to Lt. Governor Crawford F. Parker for the Republican nomination as govrenor in 1960. He took the step in a letter to Parker, which states flatly, “I will not beXa candidate for governor in 1960, and (that) I keep my word.” Speculation was renewed recently that Jenner had a serious yen to be Indiana governor. Because of his control of the Indiana GOP machinery, such a desire posed a crucial threat to Parker’s well-known hopes of advancing to the governorship A- letter released today by Parker, which had been sent to him by Jenner, dated June 2, ap peared to clinch an earlier promise to the Lt. Governor not to oppose him. However, the letter - does not make any promise ot support for Parker’s candidacy by the ex-Sen-ator, who now heads a landspeculating firm. The text of the letter reads: “Dear Crawford: ,

Industry Division Hears Sen. Eichhorn State senator Von A. Eichhorn, of Uniondale, addressed the industrial division meeting of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Monday noon at a luncheon at the Youth and Community Center. Twenty members of the group heard the senator tell his ideas on revamping the tax structure to induce more revenue from big merchant combines. In his talk, “Business responsibilities of citizens in Business,” Eichhorn explained to the group that the big chains, operating on percentage tables, are gaining an advantage that the small businessman does not have. He included lobbying as another method which gains the larger chain operations an advantage over the single proprietorship. He illustrated that the little businessman must face social obligations that are not inherent in chainstore operation. “The obligation of local schools, religions, and other pertinent community problems falls onto the shoulders of the local businessmen, not the stockholders in a giant corporation,” he! said. Eichhorn further cited the changes in the social order, or the complexity of society, as the basis for re-adjusting the present tax set-up. Eichhorn believes that the corporate taxes should be aligned to meet the same requirements as the little store owner meets. He said he will use much of the same material in an address to the Indiana manufacturer’s convention at French Lick, June 10,11, and 12.

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I in 1953, he said, his cash outlays ■ ranged from $18,315 to $57,000 a . year. Sinclair said many of the trans- ; actions, including the $43,000 that Holovachka paid for a home is I 1955, were handled with $lO and S2O bills. “\yhere did all this cash come 1 from?” Kennedy asked. Holovachka replied that he was ' no more obliged to reveal the sources of his income than a seni ator would be. ’ Lake County’s two largest pini ball operators, George Welbourn ■ and Steven Sohacki, refused last week on grounds of possible selfincrimination to say whether they made payments to Holovachka to help enforce their alleged monopoly. ’ ' Woman Is Killed In Two-Auto Accident LAPORTE, Ind. (UPD — Mrs. Anna F. Taylor, 79, near LaPorte, was killed in a two-car accident at the junction of U. S. 20 and Ind. 39 north of here Monday. She was riding in a car driven by Jo-| seph F. Taylor, 57, LaPorte. Taylor was in serious condition in Fairview Hospital at LaPorte.

i "Last February there were certain stories appearing that I might be a candidate for governor in 1960. I told you then I wquld not be a candidate for governor in 1960. "Since that time, there had been further stories appearing in the press to the effect that there was a possibility I (night be laying plans to become a candidate for governor in 1960. “This is to assure you again, in writing, as I assured you in February in the presence of witnesses, that I will not be a candidate for governor in 1960, and that I keep my word. "Sincerely, (signed) “Bill “William E. Jenner.” While the written promise does not entirely rule out the possibility that Jenner could succumb to a draft from the GOP state convention, it does make the prospect of Jenner opposing Parker very dim. Parker was enroute to French Lick for a convention when the letter was released. Jenner was in Washington. * -

Two Sentenced For Burglarizing Church INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — John L. Wise, 23, and George Cochran. 21, both of Indianapolis t Were sentenced to 2-5 years in the State Reformatory Monday after they admitted burglarizing a church here last Dec. 1. Swimming Pool To Be Opened Thursday Despite the discovery of a new leak and difficulties with the filtering system, the Decatur swimmingl pool will open as scheduled Thursday. City-street commissioner Bernard Clark said this morning that his crew will have the leak repaired and the filtering /system in functional condition in time to meet the deadline. He added that only the new laminated diving boards had ■ to be installed to complete thefr work on the pool. In conjunction with plans at the pool this summer, Mayor Robert D. Cole said that arrangements are being considered to allow adults use of the pool for at least two nights a week. No definite schedule has been set, however. He added that when pool officials formulate the program, an announcement and an advertisement will appear in the Daily Democrat. Assisting the workmen at the pool this mornings were pool co-di-rectors, Hubert Zerkel, Jr., and John Rosier. They lowered the level of the pool in order to sweep out the rust that had gained access through the faulty filter.

Ambrose Spangler | Legion Commander Ambrose Spangler, 909 Line: street, employe of Burk elevator, | will be the new commander of Adams Post 43 of the American Legion. „ Spangler was elected, along with seven Other officers for the 1959-60 year of the local American Legion group, in Monday’s elections at the post home. H. P. Schmitt, Jr., was elected first vice commander; Charles Chew, second vice commander; Richard Archer, third vice commander; Dr. Richard Parrish, fourth vice commander; William Hunter, adjutant; Don Cochran, finance officer; and Robert Ashbauchcr, trustee. ■ The new officers will take over their duties after the installation ceremonies the first meeting in August. Spangler will succeed atI torney Robert G. Smith, as comI mander. Legionnaires were reminded that the Legion will participate in the Flag Day ceremonies with the Elks next Monday evening. The American Legion group will assemble at the home at 7 o’clock, and will g$ as a group to the Catholic high school to meet with other organizations to march to the Elks home. Ten delegates and eight alternates were . named for the state convention at South Bepd July 24 through 26. The delegates are Rqb- • est G. Smith. Ambrose Spangler, t H. P. Schmitt, Jr., J. K. Staley, 1 Vernon Aurand, Frank Detter, Rob- '■ ert Ashbnucher, Richard Archer, Charles Weber, and Dee Fryback. Alternates to the state conven- ‘ (ion Ire Harold Hoffman, Fred I Biebefich, Walter Koeneman, Jim . Cowens. Herman Bittner, Harry Knapp, Dan Emenhiser, and Don Cochran. [ industrialist Dies Monday At Columbus COLUMBUS. Ind. (UPD —Earl Pulse, 51. Columbus industrailist and Indiana University trustee, died Monday of a heart ailment. He was president of the Union I Starch and Refining Co., in Co- ! lumbus and was a member of the Indiana Study Commission on Inter - Gevorenmental Relations during the administration of former Gov. George Craig.

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The new plant office for the Decatur Central Soya company plant is now being furnished, and if everything goes according to plans, the office force will move from the present space to the new building Saturday, Tom H. Allwein, plant manager, said today. The new office, with ground-floor office space for more than 50, and a huge basement area for subsidiary offices, is connected to "the engineering and technical departments by a three-story entrance hallway. The completed building is shaped like the letter H_ with the west leg of the H being the new plant office, the right leg the engineering and technical department for the entire Central Soya com- ■ pany, and the hallway connecting . the two. The yard around the building is now being leveled, and will be planted in grass and flowers after landscaping. A patio has been constructed between the two parts of the building in the rear, and this will also be decorated with shrubs and flowers. "As you come into the new entrance, a receptionist will greet you. There will be plenty of chairs and furniture in the hallway, with the telephone office to the west, and the teletype-IBM office to the east of the receptionist. There will also be an exit to the rear, where employe parking will be located, through the patio. Several workrooms lead from this exit.” On the second story of the haff*

Roger Gentis Heads Decatur Lions Club In spite of the fact that the U.S. has airplanes that now fly three times the speed of sound, Russia is still five years,ahead in the missile field, Col. Jpßurdette Custer, of the Air Force reserve, told the Decatur Lions club Monday night. Roger L. Gentis, of the Shafer company, was elected president of the Lions club for the next year. He will be installed at the next meeting, before the summer vacation. Also elected were: first vice president, Noah R. Steury; second vice president, Clyde E. Butler; third vice president, Glenn Mauller; treasurer, Robert D. Frisinger; secretary, Ed Highland; tail twister, Herb Banning; Lion tamer, Alva W. Lawson; director, one year, Robert Worthman; directors, two years, J. Clark Mayclin and Dr. Joe Morris. Boy Scout Terry Sieger, son of I Mr. and Mrs. Leon Sieger, led the I Lions in the pledge of allegiance. Marvey Sponhauer, of South Whitley, county 4-H leader this summer, was introduced. Next week officers will be installed by the state secretary of the Lions clubs. Eric Purchase. The following week will be a ladies night. Col. Custer explained that he was appointed a second lieutenant in the Air Force reserve in 1931, and entered the second world war as a first lieutenant, being rapidly promotde to major. At the end of the war he was promoted to lieutenant colonel, and in 1952 he became a full colonel. Although he has been up three times for promotion to general, very few are promoted from the reserve list, unless they are on active duty. There are 400,000 persons in the Air Force reserve not on active duty, Col. Custer explained, and 80% of the officers on active duty are reservists. There are only 1,737 full ctflonels in the U.S. Air Force reserves, and 40 generals. Col. Custer commands the Chicago procurement office that makes about $2% million a month in “nuts and bolts” purchases (not aircraft) for the services in four states. Two or three times a month he and his group fly to various factories in the area to see what is being done. Last month they visited the GE 1 plant in Cincinnati, 0., which has ' 187 acres of plant under one roof, 1 and 17,000 workers. They saw the ■ jet engines for the 858 Hustler, the ■ bomber with 60,000 thrust engines I that flies 10.000 miles without rei fueling at twice the speed of sound, r or “two mock.” 1 They also saw the preliminary “4 mock” engine that will fly at 3,040 mlies an hour, and the relatively slow 9/10 mock atomic engine that will fly in and out of space and almost indefinitely without refueling. Col. Custer has been previleged to see the atomic and hydrogen bomb, bacteriological warfare developments, and many other interesting developments, attending three or four schools every year. Following his description of his job, he showed a brief movie about life at the newly developed Air Force Acedemy.

way is a large conference room, with plenty of window space and beautiful lighting. It will be used for briefings for those touring the plant. In the basement of the hallway connecting the two parts of the building will be the coffee shop. A telephone system, complete with inter-plant dials, is being insialled this week. Another new feature of the building is the Lampson pneumatic tube system which will allow the executives to send papers from one office to another by tube. The entire building is air-condi-tioned for the working comfort of the staff, Allwein pointed out. At the rear of the building is the personnel office, and the plaint manager, assistant, and other executives have offices along the west side of the building. The working force will be departmentalized near the offices of their bosses. A total of 42 desks are now arranged in the main office, ready for occupancy later this week. There is plenty of room in the building for necessary expansion, as there was in the engineeringtechnical wing constructed previously. The stone-faced building, set on Second street, provides a stately approach to the plant. An open house at the plant is planned for early this fall, celebrating the new building and the 25th anniversary of the Central Soya company.

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PARIS (UPI) — The United States, Britain’ and France are holding secret talks today about a growing crisis in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization arising from Gen. Charles de Gaulle’s plans to give France atomic , greatness. News that the talks were under--3 way was disclosed today in Lon- ’ don by a spokesman for the Brite ish Foreign Office. He said the e talks were “about problems of s common concern.” But authoritative British sources said they con- !> cerned the question of stationing nuclear weapon stockpiles on French soil. j The/e were the developments in 1 the crisis: —The Western Big Three for- ' eign ministers plunged into an emergency secret meeting at Geneva “on matters outside the Big Four conference,” an apparent 1 reference to the situation over the ‘ French nuclear bases. . . —Supreme Allied headquarters ■ in Paris was reported considering ; pulling out some 200 atomic-bomb-capable American fighter-bombers from French airfields. ! —A Frehch attempt to win in- • dorsement for the Paris government’s desire to impose its view on NATO strategy was shouted down by voice vote at the current Atlantic Congress in London. —Gen. Pierre Billottee, a former French defense minister, said

Minnie Crisinbery Is Taken By Death ■ Mrs. Minnie Crisenbery, 78, of ."three miles south of Monroeville, , died at 4:15 o'clock Monday after- ’ noon at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for ' the past 18 months, critically ill : the last week. She was born in Adams county s July 2, 1880, a daughter of Joseph ■ D. and Catherine Barkley-Miller, ■ and was a lifelong resident of the i Monroeville community. She was I married in 1908 to Orville Crisin- • bery, who preceded her in death f Aug. 10, 1950. Mrs. Crisinbery was a member , of the Monroeville Methodist f church, the Monroe Twp. club, the I Union Twp. club, Order of Eastern . Star, Rebekah lodge of Monroe- . ville, Miriam Shrine 4 of Fort . Wayne, and the W.S.C.S. of the t church. Surviving are one son, Joseph M. Crisinbery of near Monroeville; . two brothers. Ora and Forest Miller of Union township, and one sister, Mrs. Ruth JShifferly of Union township. Funeral services will be icon- ' ducted at 1:15 p.m. Thursday at ’ the Zwick funeral home and at 2 ‘ p.m. at the Monroeville Methodist ’ church, the Rev. Walter Meacham officiating 1 . Burial will be in the 1 Monroeville IOOF cemetery. ' Friends may call at the funeral i home ' of the services. The Eastern Star > will hold twilight services at 8 ’ o'clock this evening at the funeral home.

the present trouble was touched off because Washington and London thus far have not answered a memorandum of last September which outlined De Gaulle’s ideas. The French served notice Monday that they will make no new commitments to NATO unless the United States and Britain meet ’ their terms for sharing" atomic ■ secrets. I This French attitude has caused Gen. Lauris Norstad. supreme AU ’ lied commander in Europe, to ’ consider removing some 200 1 American FIOO fighter - bombers from France to other NATO bases in West Germany or Britain. Under the present arrangement, with France refusing permission tiff the nuclear bombs to be stationed on French territory, the Allied planes now would have to leave their French bases and fly to bases in some other NATO country* to be armed. Ndrstad’s supreme headquarters reasons that without atomic stockpiles in France, the need to fly to other bases is too dangerous a risk in this day of swift nuclear warfare. The United States is forbidden by terms of the Atomic Energy Act from giving anyone certain nuclear secrets. Even if the administration wanted to do that, it would require congressional ac--1 tion. ' , . J

INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, becoming mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Occasional rain probably beginning extreme southwest this afternoon, spreading over entire state tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 64 to 70. High Wednesday in the 80s. Sunset today 8:12 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Warm with chance of isolated thunder- ‘ showers. Low Wednesday night in upper 60s. High ! Thursday in upper 80s. i ' Frank Strickler i Dies Early Today Frank Strickler, 86, a native .of Adams county, died at 5:30 o'clock this morning at* the South View rest home. Bluffton, following a heart attack. ' , Born July 3, 1873, in Blue Creek township, he was the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Strickler. He and Lily pause were united in marrjage September ft, 1899. in Adams County. He was a lifelong resident of the county. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Pearl Oliver, Monrc ; seven grandchildren, ’lO great grandchildren, and three brothers. Friends may call at the Lobenstein funeral home. Monroe. Wednesday after 6lk th- Funeral services will be at 1:30 p. m. Thursday at the funeral home.

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