Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 137, Decatur, Adams County, 11 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 137.

Herter Makes Appeal To Gromyko To Save Big Four Conference

Stubborn Heat Wave Blocking Cool Air Move United Press International A stubborn heat wave blocked the flow of cooler air from the Northwest into the East today, promising another round of 90degree temperatures. Tornado funnels swirled along the line separating the hot and cool air in Missouri Wednesday, while in the East the mercury climbed to record heights in at least five cities. New York’s high of 92 set a heat record for June 10, and other marks included Atlantic City, N.J. with 93; Burlington, Vt., 89; Baltimore, Md., 96, and Philadelphia, Pa., 95. The New York reading broke a record that had stood since 1889 and Philadelphia’s old record had been on the books for 88 years. Funnel clouds were spotted near Portageville and Maston. Mo., and twisters threatened north central Minnesota and eastern North Dakotr. Wednesday night. I Heavy thunderstorms pounded the eastern Dakotas during the night, with amounts up to 1% inches common in the area. Lighter showers extended southwestward jnto Nebraska. Scattered storms also occurred Tennessee. Most of the rainfall was Tennessee. Most of the rainfall light, although Indianapolis, Ind., was doused with a one inch downpour. The cool air extended from the Pacific Northwest into the Dakotas and western Nebraska. The rest of the nation, with the exception of northern New England, was under the spell of warm air. Weathermen said the cool air would move only slightly Thursday. Scattered showers were expected from the Great Lakes to the Gulf and in the western section of the Atlantic Coast states. I In the South, the U.S. Weather Bureau maintained a close watch on a low pressure center in the gulf which could develop into a tropical storm. A U.S. Navy hurricane hunter airplane was sent to the area off the Bahamas early today to investigate the weather disturbance.

Approve Reform In Vet Pension System

WASH INGTON (UPI) —T h e House Veterans Committee today unanimously approved a bill to. revamp the government’s pension system for several hundred thous-, and veterans with disabilities stemming from civilian life and widows of former servicemen. The measure will be brought up for floor action Monday under a procedure barring amendments, limiting debate and requiring a two-thirds majority for passage. If adopted, it would provide increased payments for 70 per cent of the 805,000 vetrans and 450,000 widows now receiving benefits. It would cost an extra 308 million dollars in the first year but by the year 2000 would have saved the Treasury 12 billion dollars, according to its sponsors. The general purpose of the legislation, which sets up a sliding scale of benefits, has been endorsed by the Eisenhower administration. It is also supported by the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Amvets. Other congressional news: , Rackets: A Senate Rackets Committee investigator testified today that former Pennsylvania Gov. John S. Fine issued a ‘‘predated pardon” which apparently helped the reputed leader of the Pittsburgh underworld escape deportation in 1954. Investigator Pierre Salinger said Fine granted the pardon to John La Rocca after the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization' authorities had initiated deportation proceedings. Investigation: The House Com12 Pages

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GENEVA (UPD — Secretary of State Christian Herter personally appealed to Russia’s Andrei Gromyko today to save the Big Four conference by withdrawing the new Berlin ultimatum. Herter himself travelled to Gromyko’s office bearing a warning that the talks, one month old today, are doomed to failure if Russia thinks he will negotiate “under deadlines, threats or duress.” Herter’s Western partners waited on the side lines for Gromyko’s I answer in this United States ver- ‘ sus the Soviet Union showdown. Herter was accompanied by as- ’ sistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Livingston Mer- , chant to his meeting with the Soj viet foreign minister. They had conferred beforehand J for half an hour with British Forl eigh Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice , Couve de Murville. Herter had seized the initiative and set up the meeting with Gro- ’ myko to convince the Russian that the present conference was doomed unless Russia backs ! down. I j There were rumblings today [ from East Berlin where the Communist regime revived the threat • of a blockade. There was silence from Premier Nikita Khrushchev, ’ the only man who can order a t Soviet backdown. A Moscow dispatch said the ■ magazine Novoe Vremya today .accused the West of using the ! promise -of a summit conference ! to blackmail Russia into making ’ concessions at Geneva. Herter was consulting with his I French and British Allies before . his man-to-man meeting witfrGroI myko. Observers believed the Herter-Gromyko exchange would ’ decide the fate of this meeting and a summit conference as well. Herter asked for and was granted a meeting at Gromyko’s villa i just 24 hours after the American scathingly rejected Russia’s new ' demand to pull Allied troops out of Berlin within a year or face ' the consequences. Herter was backed solidly by British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville in a show of Allied unity that may have caused uneasiness in the , Communist camp. , Communist diplomats today hinted discreetly they might extend their ultimatum from one to two I and perhaps even three years — ; but it remained an ultimatum in the eyes of the Western ministers. Even these hints were a change from Wednesday when Gromyko

postponed a hearing on communism in California, scheduled for next week because of the need I for fuller investigation of a situation which its chairman said was “extensive and malignant.” Election: A demand was sounded in the Senate that the debate on confirmation of Lewis L. Strauss as secretary of commerce be brought to an immediate ehd. Sen. Wiston L. Prouty (R-Vt.) said “We ought to vote now. No votes will be changed by further verbiage.” Unemployment: Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas said the government report showing a sharp increase in employment and a dip in unemployment was “gratifying.” But he said Congress still has an “obligation” to do something to help those who are still jobless. Report Progress On Ending Berne Strike Officials of the Dunbar furniture corporation and of the UIU Local 222 reported progress after a negotiating session Tuesday. After the two groups met Tuesday for several hours at the Dunbar plant, prospects were that the three-week-old strike would be over soon. Union members will meet art 7 p.m. Friday at the Berne auditorium to hear their negotiaI tors report on the developments at I Tuesday’s meeting.

• showed not the slightest concern ' —but displayed something that ■ approached impudence over ■ Western military power should the • Berlin crisis touch off a war. Allied diplomats said only time . would tell whether it was impu- ; dence or whether he was using • the tactics of ex-foreign minister ■ Vyacheslav Molotov to get the • best bargain. They hoped it was the latter. > American officials said Gromyko ; also may have been convinced the • Western alliance was crumbling and that one more strong push • would bring ti tumbling down. The death of John Foster Dul- ■ les, the French refusal to permit ■ U.S. atomic bombs in France without French control; the reI i cent London report that Lloyd was • on his way out; the political fury I stirred up in West Germany over > Konrad Adenauer’s decision to remain as chancellor may have • contributed to this Soviet assess- • ment. L Jury Selected For Florida Rape Trial ! TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPD—A i 19-year-old Negro coed from Florida A&M tells to a jury of white f men today her story of being ' raped by four white youths after ? being abducted and held three hours • The all-male, all-white jury chosen late Wednesday could send • the four youths she accuses to the ! electric chair if it believes her ‘ and makes no mercy recommenj dation. , No white man in Florida has ’ ever been electrocuted for rape of a Negro. Although the girl will take the witness stand in a crowded court- ‘ room, state her name and go through the events of the early ; morning of May 2, her identity cannot be printed under a Florida . law protecting rape victims. Several witnesses were sched- . uled to precede the girl to the stand. A jury was picked after a long day’s session Wednesday , and Circuit Judge W. May Walker was expected ko call a night session tpnight and try to finish the trial by the week end. Prosecutor William D. Hopkins ’ planned to complete his case by tonight. The jurors were a cros.s-section , of the populatoih of this Florida , state capital. Two were salesmen ■ and others included a plumber, druggist, grocer, home builder, tire company Owner, filling station owner, well driller, hotel employe and a college student. One juror. A. H. King, is one of the wealthiest plantation owners in the area. The defendants are Willon Colkns worth, a telephone lineman I married, with two children; Patrick Scarborough. 20, an Air Force man; David Beagles, 18. a high school senior, and Ollie Stoutamire, 16. None of the defendants showed fright during the opening session Wednesday. Collinsworth had pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and the others "have entered pleas of innocent without specifying the defense. Adenauer Bows To Erhard's Challenge BONN, Germany (UPD — Ludwig Erhard’s successful challenge to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer lifted the pudgy economics minister today into top running position for leadership of West Germany in 1961. An apology from Adenauer and the Christian Democratic Party’s members of parliament Wednesday added new laurels to the man who is most identified with this country’s amazing postwar recovery. The apology also enabled the party to unite against a concerted attempt by the Socialist opposition expected In parliament to knock down Adenaur’s budget. Adenauer’s bowing to Erhard clearly weakened the iron control the 83 - year -old chancellor has wielded over the' Christian Democrats in the past 10 years. It was . the first time he had been forced intojfuch a position. I Ennrd challenged the leadercontinued on page five

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 11,1959.

Multiple Sclerosis Balloon Sale Here For the first time in the city of : Decatur, the Adams county Multi-' ; pie Sclerosis society will sponsor; a “Balloon Sale” on Saturday in a | fund drive for the advancement of, scientific research and rehabilita- 1 tion of those afflicted with the crippling disease of the central nervous system. Mrs. Vernon Hurst, Adams county chairman, said today that Mrs. Don Cochron will be the Decatur chairman for the drive, while Mrs. James Hurst will direct tiie project in Berne. Mrs. Willis: Augsburger will be the Geneva drive chairman? At least 12 Girl Scouts from the sixth grade will be stationed atj local supermarkets, as well as touring the main streets of the city, asking for donations to the: MS “Hope Chest.” The official na-| tional MS drive will conclude on Father's day, June 21. The drive opened on Mother’s day. The balloons and donations will be picked up Monday by Mrs. Wesley Lehman, of Decatur. “Hope Chest” containers have been placed in most business establishments in town with the picture of the woman, who said, “I | never dreamed it codld happen to me,” slogan. Concerted efforts by noted, scientists are currently underway i and have been for the past few' years to gain an insight to the cause and eventual cure of the dreaded disease. New methods of treatment have been uncovered as | well as new techniques for studying the possible cause of MS. To date, many advances have been noted in the struggle, but more! time and effort must be extended to reach a point of victory. This i can only be done through the co-' operation of citizens throughout: the nation. Scientific research costs money, and money can only come through the donations of per- ■ sons who realize the dire need to comfort the afflicted. Death Petition For Re-hearing Denied Judge John W. Macy, of Winchester, today overruled the Dale Death petition for re-hearing in Jay circuit court. The former Decatur policeman had been asking for reconsideration of a previous ruling disallowing his suit for reinsattement to -the police force and salary retroactive to his dismissal by the city board of works Nov. 1, 1957. The plaintiff now has recourse to appeal the hearing to a higher court, probably the appellate court in Indianapolis, within 60 days. Death was dismissed because he had been convicted of a criminal charge in court, mainly public intoxication. The Adams circuit cou rt,however, later reversed the decision of the city court. Death then instituted action for reinstatement and the city asked that the* case be, venued to an adjoining county. In this case, it was Jay county.

'7l -dr? /IS \ Waff - j JOIN SEARCH FOR MISSING GIRL— More than 450 Boy Scouts joined the group shown above and Detorit police in an intensive search through, the motor city’s northwest area for Susan Lawrence, 14, high school freshman missing since Monday. The girl disappeared after leaving her home for a nearby library.

Two Men Killed By Pennsylvania Blast TAMAQUA, Pa. (UPD—A dynamite mixing house at the Atlas Powder Co. plant in nearby ReyI golds was destroyed by an explosion today. Two men were killed and anI other was injured seriously. | A company spokesman said the three men were the only persons working in the mixing house at the time. * $150,000 Fire At Terre Haute Stores j TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPD— Fire Which raged through the heart jof this city’s business district , Wednesday right caused an estimated $150,000 damages. The blaze, of undetermined origin. broke out in a women’s ready- . to-wear shop and spread quickly | to adjoining stores in a four-story, building. Two firemen, Earl Volper and James Rowe, were treated for minor injuries at a hospital and released. Bumper Wheal Crop To Add To Surplus < I WASHINGTON <UPD - A new forecast of a bumper 1959 wheat , crop put additional pressure on r Congress today to pass legislation jto reduce the mounting wheat surplus. I But a mood of defeatism seized the House on the second day of j debate on the measure. A revolt by Democratic congressmen from big cities threatened to torpedo a Democratic plan for cutting production of surplus- wheat. I The Republican plan also appeared to have little chance of passage. I Should all legislation be scut,tled, it would leave Democratic farm leaders without an answer to President Eisenhower’s challenge that Congress do something to combat wheat surpluses. The Agriculture Department estimated late Wednesday that the 1959 wheat crop would total 1,181,596,000 bushels—nearly 20 per cent less than the record 1958 production but 10 per cent more than average. The estimated 1959 crop, if realized, would add from 130 million to 150 million bushels to the wheat surplus which already was estimated at 1,285,000,000 bushels. Taxpayers now have about three billion dollars invested in wheat surpluses. The excess wheat in storage is sufficient to handle all , domestic needs for 2tj> years. Storage costs alone are $500,000 a day. .Die main reason that many big city Democrats were wary' of the Democratic. surplus - cutting plan is that it would boost price supports 20 per cent, as well as reduce planting allotments 25 per cent. Republicans contended that the* Democratic plan actually would cost 110 million dollars more than the present program.

To Register Monday For Speech Clinic The Adams county crippled children's society will again sponsor a six-week speech therapy clinic ■ at the Lincoln school in Decatur and a similar clinic in Berne. Parents of children, who require I therapeutical-assistance, should re- ! port to the Lincoln school Monday , at 1 p.m. to register for an appointment on the testing schedule. .Children 'in the first four grades ] are especially invited to attend, while pre-school age children and those in the higher grades in the ; Decatur area are also welcome to ’ register. Testing will take place at the school Wednesday and Thursday. > with a professional therapist and 1 qualified aides. Miss Barbara Bailey, a Fort Wayne therapist and a graduate of the Ball State Teachers College speech and hearing school, will direct the clinic, which 1 will end on July 24. Miss Sue Pet- ' rie of Decatur, and a junior at ! Indiana University’s speech and hearing school, will assist Miss Bailey. Another aide will be named . later. Psi lota Xi. local sorority, will provide volunteer personnel to as-, sist with the enrollment and registration during the two-day testing period. The testing program will take place Wednesday at nooh in Berne. The clinic is made possible by funds from the Easter seal donations and donations to the crippled children society. Speech problems, such as stutter- ! ing and stammering, usually originate when a child is learning to | talk or entering situations, such as j school, where he is required to I talk. The therapists will attempt to assist the child to alter his i speech patterns, allowing him to attain a normal manner of speaking. Other phases of speech difficulties will also be included in the clinical work. The board members of the society are Deane T. Dorwin, Miss Marie Felber, the Rev. William C. Feller. Mrs. Shirley Noll. Gail Grabill. all of Decatur, and Leslie Sprunger of Berne. This is the sixth year that the society has I sponsored the speech clinic. I I . . • New Crackdowns On Teamsters Foreseen WASHINGTON (UPD — New crackdowns on corruption in the Teamsters Union were . forecast today as a result of an Appellate Court order directing Teamsters' President James R. Hoffa to comply with reform recommendations. A source close to the board of monitors named to ride herd on the way Hoffa runs the giant union told United Press International that “Hoffa will really have to toe the line now.’’ The court ruling laid out ground rules for the monitors’ cleanup activities. This should minimize Teamster opposition to their recommendations, the source said. Hoffa told a meeting of Teamsters Joint Council 73 in Newark, N.J., Wednesday night that the union would fight the decision through further appeasl. “While we may not like it,” Hoffa said, “it is a decision of a U.S. court and deserves respect and dignity. But I assure you it is only a matter of. time before ’our lawyers draw up the papers and carry this on to another appeal." The appeal would be addressed to the Supreme Court. Hoffa’s setback came Wednesday at the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals. It rejected a Teamster bid to overturn the broad anticorruption program laid down by the monitors and approved by Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts. The three-man appeals court said the monitors .have only advisory powers. But it ruled that the 1,500,000 member Teamster Union, the nation’s largest, must catry out the recommendations if a federal court approves. The decision also gave Letts power to veto a special union convention called by Hoffa to conduct new elections and end the monitors’ supervision of Teamster affairs. e Three Injured Lads Are Still Critical The condition of the three youths, who were critically burned at a Fort Wayne drive-in theater Tuesday evening, remains unchanged as Parkview hospital authorities report their status as “critical,” as of 1:30 p.m. today. Richard Miller, 15, the Decatur high school pupil who will be a junior in September, was burned over 60 per cent of his body, as were the other two Fort Wayne teenagers, Steve Hathaway, 15, and Kenneth Pancake, 17. It is feared, however, according to unofficial reports, that Hathaway will lose sight of both eyes.

End Lake Co. Probe Today ,

WASHINGTON (UPD The Senate Rackets Committee heard testimony today that a “predated pardon” issued by former Pennsylvania Gov. John S. Fine apparently helped the reputed leader of the Pittsburgh underwordi escape deportation in 1954. Staff investigator Pierre Salinger said Fine issued the pardon to Sicilian-born John La Rocca in December, 1954, after the U.S. immigration and naturalization service had held hearings on a deportation move. jbut he said the pardon for a 1940 conviction of stealing auto would escape deportation in 1954. This knocked out one of the two crimes moral turpitude on which tl>e Immigration Service had based, its case, Salinger,,said. He said two convictions were necessary for deportation. But he said the pardon for a to become a U.S. citizen "as much as I want to live,” acknowledged that Fine had pardoned him. He said his attorney in the deportation case was the late Charles J. Margiotti, former Pennsylvania attorney general. But the 56-year-old witness either said he did not know or invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned about how he obtained the pardon. - I He also pleaded possible selfincrimination to most other questions about his activities. One of these was whether he was a delegate to the 1957 “underworld convention” at Apalachin, N.Y. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said La Rocca “reputed and recognized by Pittsburgh police as the leader of the underwork} there.” Gabriel Mannarino of New Kinsington, Pa., was even more reticent than La Rocca about discussing his background and activities. He-balked at saying whether he and La Rocca dnd Michael Genovese represented the Pittsburgh area at Apalachin. The committee called the Pittsburgh pair in connection with its investigation of pinball, pizza and prostitution rackets in Lake County, Indiana. They are ?.'.’-gec associates of Chicago underwork veteran Tony Pinelll, who was reported to have -organized syndicate operations in Lake County. Neither La Rocca nor Mannarino would say whether Pinelli

piaiuiv — ______ __ Drive Underway On Labor Reform Bill

WASHINGTON ’(UPI) — A move was under way in the House Labor Committee today to win approval of a reform bill dealing solely with corruption and abuses in the labor-management field. The plan, backed by House Democratic leaders, called for rejection of both the “sweeteners” demanded 'by tabor and the union - opposed revisions of the Taft-Hartley Law sought by management. The Senate’s reform bill, passed April 25, contains some changes in the basic Taft-Hartley labor law. Under the new House plan, any Taft-Hartley amdndment would be postponed for further study to keep reform legislation from being mired in controversy thi. year. Drafted By Roosevelt The new plan was spelled out in a bill drafted by Rep. James Roosevelt (D-Calif), a member of the committee. The committee was expected to take several weeks to consider it. Two subcommittees concluded more than three months of hearings on reform legislatipn Wednesday night with an attack on the National Labor Relations Board < NLRB i by Rep. Roman C. Pucinski (D-111. >. Pucinski accused NLRB Chairman Boyd Leedom to his face of "sitting on” a report that made “Devastating” criticism of the agency. Pucinski Denide Accusation Leedom accused the ChicagoSun Times of “yellow journalism” for a story it published. May 22, on the report, made by a management "consulting firm which surveyed NLRB operations at the agency’s request. Leedom said he was told that Pucinski, a former INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid with a few Matyered showers or thundershowers this afternoon, tonight Friday. Sunset 8:13 p.m. Low tonight 66-70. Sunrise Friday 5:17 a.m. High Friday in the 80s. Low Friday night in upper 60s. Outlook for Saturday: Continued warm and humid with scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms. High in mid-80s.

paid their hotel bills during a visit to Gary, Ind. — — Pinelli gruffly invoked the Fifth Amendment Wednesday rather than tell whether he had been employed as a “special investigator” for the barbers’ assocition. He also pleaded possible self-incrimination when asked if he knew La Rocca or Mannarino. He further deelined “under file , Constitution and all its amendments, particularly the Fifth,” to say whether Gruttadauro had operated a gambling place known as the Uptown Lunch Club for him in . Whiting, Ind. “What are you, just a cheap hood?” committee Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) roared. Pinelli, in heavily accented English, read his Fifth Amendment plea from a sheet of paper after switching casually from dark glasses to reading glasses. He pleaded possible self-incrim-ination on a number of other points, including whether he made "any payments directly or indirectly to Metro'Holovachka,’* depputy prosecutor of Lake County. Pierre Salinger, a committee investigator, recounted Pinelli's career from a bootlegging conviction in 1933 to purchases of business interests in Lake County and real estate in Los Angeles in re- . cent years. ’ Salinger said Pinelli, after tak- . ing in $92,590 from bookmaking in .[Chicago from 1948 to 1951, seemed so respectable in his new home in Sierra Madre, Calif, that at I first no one suspected his past. - Police caught on in 1953. Salinger - said,* when Pinelli was visited by two top Chicago racketeers. Pinelli bought real estate with -a total value of $443,600 in the Los - Angeles area, Salinger said. He • said Pinelli also bought “KUABLE r said Pielli also bought “valuable I land in the heart of Hollywood.. . -on which was constructed the Movietown Motel with a present - value of $200,000.” s Pinelli refused to answer any 1 questions about these concerns, r- He also balked at saying whether d the Chicago crime syndicate sent d him to Gary, Ind., in 1954 to set ■- up a juke box and pizza business - as a front for illegal interprise despite repeated threats from Mc- - Clellan of possible contempt of i Congress action.

Sun-Times reporter, leaked a copy' • of the “confidential” report to the .Chicago newspaper. Pucinski denied this to newsmen. Pucinski said the report accused thd NLRB of delays of up to 555 days in deciding on labor cases, of stalling on difficult cases and of tolerating “poor performance” by its employes. Mrs. Rosa S. Mertz Is Taken By Death Mrs. Rosa Mertz, 82, sister of Mrs. Samuel Baumgartner, 1421 West Adams street, died at 10:10 . o’clock Wednesday morning at the Berne nursing home. In failing health for the past year, she had become bedfast last Monday when bronchial pneumonia developed. She died of pneumonia and complications. A resident of the nursing home for several months, Mrs. Mertz had made her home in Hartford township, south of Linn Grove. She had lived in that community since 1900. She married Gottlieb Mertz in 1916, and he preceded her in death in 1949. Mrs. Mertz was a member of the Evangelical Mennonite church, west of Berne. Surviving in addition to the sister are her son, Dale L. Mertz, route one, Geneva, with whom she had made her home since 1949; two grandchildren; and two brothers, David Schertz, Morton, 111., and Joseph Schertz, Grabill. Services will be conducted at the Evangelical Mennonite church at 10 a. m. Saturday, the Rev. Ivan Augsburger, Mrs. Mertz’s nephew, officiating in the absence of the pastor of the church, Rev. E. G. Steiner. Burial will be in the church - cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home, Berne. BULLETIN NEW YORK (UPI) — The United Steelworkers Union told 12 major steel companies today that if they failed to show np next Tuesday for individual bargaining talks the union would take legal action.

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