Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 156, Decatur, Adams County, 3 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol LVII. No. 156.

Foreign Aid Bill Is Still Before Senate

, WASHINGTON (UPD—The halls of Congress were left to the tourists today. The lawmakers, In recess until Monday, headed for the hustings to make their traditional July 4 speeches. No committee meetings ; were scheduled. The Senate hoped to complete i work on its foreign aidbill before the holiday week end. But it ' gave up at 10:16 p.m. e.d.t Thursday night with a stack of amendments still pending. 1 Supporters of long-range aid abandoned their proposal to au- ' thorize the Treasury to borrow one 1 billion dollars a year for five : years for overseas development 1 loans. No annual congressional appropriations would have been ' necessary. The advocates accepted a com- ] promise which would authorize for . the Development Loan Fund 750 million dollars this fiscal year and : $1,250,000,000 next year. Congress would have to appropriate the cash. The backers of long-term aid ’ gave up their fight rather than force a showdown which might have toppled the entire system of Treasury borrowing for government programs. This is known as "backdoor financing.” Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, author of the borrowing proposal, said aid supporters now woud fight to avoid further cuts in the bill. The $4,164,820,000 measure which came

Arrest Three < ForWorld's Largest Theft PITTSBURGH (UPD — Close cooperation between federal authorities to the United States and Canada has led to a break in the “world’s largest theft”—a 12-mil-Hon dollar burglary of a Canadian bank. Three men were arrested Thursday by the FBI in connection with the May 4, 1958, theft of 12 million dollars in Canadian government bonds, cash and jewelry from the Brookville Trust and Savings Co., in Brockville, Ont. .. i Those arrested were Samuel . Mannarino, 53, New Kensington, Pa., reputed bigwig in Pittsburgh district rackets: Norman Rothman, Surfside, Bia., former operator of a slot machine distributorship to Cuba and William W. Ra- , bin, of Chicago. Bernard C. Brown. FBI agent- ’ in-charge here, said Mannarino , was arrested to New Kensington ’ and the other two to Miami , ' Beach. 5 The arrests, made on the strength of bench warrants issued Tuesday by the United States District Court to Chicago, eliminated • year’s “concen-

, , — . ■ i * 1 Pentagon Fire Investigated

WASHINGTON (UPD — Pentagon officials investigating a 30-million-dollar fire blamed on an electrical spark considered today what even * small bomb might do to the nation’s supposedly fireproof military nerve-center. Studies on bow to prevent another similar fire in the Pentagon, the world’s largest office building, were under way. The blaze swept a super-secret Pentagon basement hideaway Thursday afternoon. It buckled concrete floors, burst water pipes, and destroyed tightly guarded electronic equipment. Three hundred firemen battled the fire, and 40 were felled by the dense acrid smoke given off by the burning of 7,000 rolls of taped Air Force data, some of it stamped “secret.” The breakdown of the water system caused Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy to dismiss the entire Pentagon working force of some 29,000 military and civilian employes, giving them an early start on a three-day Fourth of July weekend. . Some Unaware of fire Many, working in unaffected sections of the massive five-sided concrete building, had been unaware of the fire. The blaze was confined to a small section—2o,ooo square feet -of the Pentagon’s total area, although smoke poured through an

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY - ----- ■ ----- ■' - - '■ ■ ■ '■* ■ ■ '■ • - — — — . -

from Fulbright’s committee has been trimmed to $3,924,820,000. Other congressional news: Comer Stone: Catholic organizations have protested fruitlessly against the Masonic rites to be held as part of Saturday’s cornerstone laying ceremony for the new East Front of the Capitol. Capitol architect Jf. George Stewart said the Congressional Building Commission merely followed precedent. There were Mesonic rites when George Washington laid the first Capitol cornerstone to 1793 and when Millard Fillmore laid a second in 1851. President Eisenhower will lay the latest stone. Flag: Officials were swamped with requests for 49-star flags to be flown over the Capitol Saturday, the first day they are legal. The flood was touched off by a United Press International dispatch reporting that senators and congressmen would buy 49-star flags at wholesale prices for constituents and arrange to have them run up and down a Capitol flagpole momentarily on July 4. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer today and tonight Saturday mostly sunny and warm. Low tonight 64 north to 70 south. High Saturday 86 to 90. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and warm with chance of scattered showers or thunder- * storms.

trated” investigation by the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The warrants were based on a secret indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury to Chicago fallowing several weeks of testimony into the Brockville burglary. The FBI declined to say how many other persons were included to the secret indictment. The indictment charged Mannarino and Rothman with aiding and abetting Rabin “to the use of a wire or radio communication to a scheme to defraud a Swiss bank by pleding $140,500 worth of stolen Canadian government bonds” Mannarino and Rothman were also charged with aiding Rabin to concealing 88,000 worth of stolen Canadian bonds after they were transported from Brockville to Chicago., Mannarino, arrested to his office at the Ken Iron and Steel Co. to New Kensington, was released on $5,000 bond Thursday night after a preliminary hearing before Federal Commissioner Alex McNaugher, pending a hearing to Chicago before a Federal Grand Jury. Rothman is under federal Indictment here on a charge of taking part to a Cuban gun-run-ning plot during the recent revolution. He has been free under $5,000 bond since April on that charge. Mannarino was linked to , the plot, but no charges were placed. ’ , • 14 PAGES

I ■ ... - . — ' area equal to about four city blocks. Structural damage was estimated at from 200,000 to $5,000,000, depending on who was guessing. This was on top of the $30,000,000 loss of computers, tapes, and equipment in the Air Force’s hush-hush statistical center. The five-alarm fire bOrned out of control froin about 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. e.d.t. By 4:15 plm.,. about five hours after the blaze started, the Pentagon announced the fire was "extinguished” for all practical purposes. Overnight Watch Kept As firemen packed up, military police moved in. They formed a cordop around the damaged area and kept an overnight watch. Pentagon authorities said the blaze apparently started from an , electrical failure, possibly a shortcircuit. There was no evidence of sabotage. . -« . srt.CV' •■■■' - All but a small portion of i the Pentagon should be back; in business as usual by Monday when employes return from the holiday weekend. The 400 employes of the statistical branch were relocated temporarily at quarters in nearby Alexandria, Vs. The Defense Department told United Press International, in response to a question, that all of the records on which the joint chiefs of staff rely ar? duplicated elsewhere. .

Governor Long Returning To State Capitol NEW ORLEANS (UPD - Gov. Earl K. Long returns to the "real capitol” of Louisiana at Baton Rouge today after setting up a new temporary beadquarters to a New Orleans hotel. Doctors planned to give him further mental and physical tests during his stay here. He moved to New Orleans Thursday night from a roving capitol in a Covington, La., motel. Long said Thursday that he planned to return to Baton Rouge at “8:30 tomorrow (Friday) night.” Long, 63, who suffered “a slight heart failure” Wednesday night, still plans against the abvice of his doctors, to start his campaign for an unprecedented fourth term as governor Saturday. The governor plans four stump speeches to his Fourth of July debut for the Democratic primary election. He also plans to attend a beauty contest. Dr. Paul Pratt, a psychiatrist who has been with Long constantly since he released himself from a mental hospital near Covington last Friday, left Long’s room on the third floor at 11:30 Thursday night. Pratt said he and other doctors will examine Long at midday today. Pratt, asked by United Press International if mental examinations were also included to plans to test the governor's heart condition, replied: “It is hard to have one (examination) without the other.” Forecast Pleasant Weather On Holiday United Press International Warm, sunny weather was promised today for Indiana during most of the Fourth of July weekend. Forecasts called for fair and a little warmer today and tonight and “mostly sunny and wprm” Saturday. ' ~~- ■ • '"■ ’ * Showers or thundershowers on a scattered basis may filter into the north portion Saturday night or Sunday and stretch southward late Sunday or Monday. But the prediction seemed to indicate the likelihood for rain to spoil outdoor celebrations was somewhat slim. The warmth won’t be unbearable, however. Temperatures at least through Saturday were expected to go no higher than 90 and possibly only the upper 80s over most of the state. Temperatures Thursday were held to the 70s at high points except at Fort Wayne, where the top was 80. Evansville had 75, South Bend 76, Lafayette 78 and Indianapolis 79. The mercury then dropped overaightly to 53 at Lafayette, 55 at South Bend, 58 at Fort Wayne, 59 at Indianapolis and 65 at Evansville. Lows tonight will be somewhat warmer, ranging from 64 north to 70 south. Charges Filed On Death Car Driver County prosecutor Severin H. Schurger initiated criminal action against Lester Cable, 33, of Dayton, 0.. this morning with an affidavit to Adams .dr cult court charging reckless homicide after county coroner Elmer Wtoteregg. Jr., filed his coroner’s report, indicating reckless homicide. Judge pro-tem Hubert McClenahan presided. Cable was arraigned this morning about 11 o’clock on the reckless homicide charge to the death of his stepson, Harold Lewis, 10, of Dayton, O. In the coroner’s report, filed this morning with county clerk Richard C. Lewton, Wtoteregg based his conclusion on witnesses’ statements that Cable had been drinking and was drunk at the time of the accident. The report from the state police laboratory showed that a .20 per cent of alcohol was present to the blood. The state law on alcoholic content proves that .15 per cent indicates drunkeness. Harold Lewis. Cable’s stepson, died of a compound skull fracture incurred to the accident while isl the right rear seat of the car. ? The accident occurred at about 2:55 a.m. Saturday when the Cable car rammed into the rear of a semi-trailer truck, which was third to line Waiting for a passenger train at the Erie railroad crossing on 13th street < . The other person killed was Cable’s daughter, Shellia Marie Trivitt Cable, 13, of Cincinnati, O. Three other children weye treated at the Adams county memorial hospital with only Janice Lewis, 13, being hospitalized.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, Jity 3,1959.

Last Os Steel Wildcat Strikes Ends, Resume Industry Negotiations - - - - ■ - - * - * • — ■■ - ..... n ...I -

Funeral Saturday For Ross Andrews Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday to the Hardy and Haldy funeral home, Geneva, for Jeremiah Roscoe (Ross) Andrews, 71, who died Wednesday afternoon at his home west of Geneva. Officiating will be the Rev. Edison Beihold, of the Union Chapel Methodist church, where Mr. Andrews attended. Mr. Andrews, bom to Adams county December 14, 1887, the son of Joseph H. and Debore Jane Russell Andrews, had been ill for three months. He suffered a heart attack Wednesday afternoon as an ambulance was taking his wife to the hospital after she had suffered a heart attack. She is to serious condition to the Jay county hospital, Portland. Mr. Andrews and his wife, the former Frances Oliver, were married December 26, 1908. He was a retired railroad worker, having retired six years ago from the Gulf, Mobile, and Ohio line to Chicago, where he resided before moving to Adams county after retirement. Surviving besides the wife are a son, Joseph D. Andrews, Chicago, a daughter, Miss Marie Andrews, alsb of Chicago; one brother, Harrison Andrews. Monroe route one; two sisters, Mrs. Dale' (Alma) , Riley, Bobo, and Mrs. H. W. (Ollie) Culbertson, route five; and two nephews, Paul R. Rich, route three, and Jack Andrews, Monroe route one. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Rotary Club Hears Convention Reports Interesting reports on the annual convention of Rotary International were presented at the weekly meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. H-P. Schmitt, Jr., club president, and Clarence Ziner, former district govenor, attended the international convention, held recently at New York City. Schmitt, who took over as club president last night, told Rotarians he was particularly impressed with the parade of flags at the convention opening to Madison Square Garden, and with the friendliness of the delegates from all over the world. He stated that 15,432 Rotarians were registered, and then spoke briefly on the address of the new president. Harold T. Thomas, of New Zealand, who spoke on “Budgets of Friendship.” The new president then outlined his plans for the coming year, with special emphasis on attendance, an interesting news bulletin, good programming, and building membership to the Decatur club. Ziner, the program chairman for the evening, also spoke briefly, pointing out that there are '■ new 10,253 Rotary clubs throughout the free world. He also stated . that to 1948, there were 18 Rotary Foundation scholarships granted, andlast year, there were 1,750 . fellowships being used to 64 lifferent countries of the world. Masonic Services On Sunday Evening The Decatur Masonic lodge will ' bold services for George D. Helm at the Zwick funeral home Sunday evening at 9 o’clock. Mr. Helm, . well known Decatur man, died suddenly Wednesday night at New Port Richey, Fla. Funeral services will be held at : 1:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral : home and at 2 o’clock at the First : Methodist church, the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks officiating. Burial will : be to the Decatur cemetery, i Friends may call at the funeral ; home after 10 a.m. Sunday.

—- - J ——.... .„■■ ■ u ■ , Kozlov Dashes Hope Os Peace

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Soviet First Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov headed for California today after dashing hopes he would help crack the Big bfour deadlock over Berlin. His two days of private talks and public oratory disclosed that Russia’s position on Berlin and other critical East-West issues is tough as ever. Kozlov and his party stop at Sacramento on the next leg of a 10-day flying swing around the nation. He is expected to continue his campaign to sell “peaceful coexistence” on Russian terms. The 50-year-old official made it dear during his Washington visit that Russia wants the West to buy peace by knuckling under to Soviet demands on Berlin and other issues. He reiterated the Kremlin’s demand that the Allies pull out of West Berlin and threatened anew a separate Russian peace treaty with Communist East Germany if the Allies refuse to come to terms. Talks Prove Fruitless Be told a press luncheon Thursday that “force will be met with force” if the situation in Berlin erupts into hostilities. 1 ’ Secretary of State Christian A. Herter said Thursday night 'that Kozlov’s trip to Washington did nothing to ease cold war tensions over Berlin. “Certainly nothing too profitable came out of the conversations” between Kozlov and top U.S. officials, Herter told newsmen. The visiting Russian had conferred .with President Eisenhower, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Herter, and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, among others. Herter said “nothing new” had developed in the talks to indicate that Russia had changed its demands that the West get out of Berlin. It was considered highly unlikely that Herter would meet with Kozlov again before the secretary of/state leaves July 11 for the Ge-! i Anti-Government Conspiracy In Cuba HAVANA (UPD—Fidel Castro announced Thursday night he would summon a half million Cuban peasants to Havana July 26 “with their machets” to demonstrate popular support for his revolutionary government. The bearded prime minister spoke on television shortly after his secret police announced discovery of a vast anti-government conspiracy operating in the heart of the capital. Police said they had arrested “many” Cubans and seized “great quantities'’ of uniforms, arms and ammunition. The manhunt continued today and police said more arrests were imminent. Castro’s speech bristled with challenges to the Dominican Republic. He denounced “international interests.” He flayed his air force chief who Resigned and disappeared after charging there were Communists in the government. Castro rapped the United States by saying that henchmen of Fulgencio Batista in exile in Florida "each day have more influence and official aid.” / Castro's revolutionary force which overthrew Batista’s dictatorship was known as the 26th of July Movement after the date on which it started with an abortive uprising in 1953. He said assembling the peasants in the capital on that day would show the world the force of his revolution, which he considers still in progress. “This will demonstrate that neither treason nor threats frighten us,” Castro said. “International interests want to crush the Cuban revolution not so much for what it costs them in millions of pesos but for what 'it signifies as an example for the rest of Latin America.’

neva foreign ministers confernece. The deadlocked conference resumes July 13 after a three-week "cooling off” recess. Herter Leaves Capital Herter spoke to newsmen upon leaving Washington for a four-day rest at his Manchester, Mass., home. He will return to the capital Tuesday to hammer out U.S. strategy for resumption of the foreign ministers conference. Kozlov delivered his force-with-force pronouncement late Thursday afternoon during a question-and-answer period at a National Press Club lunch. In his earlier formal remarks he had asserted Russia abhors war and called for "peaceful co-existance” with the United States. He said to reply to a question that he did not—as some officials had hoped—bring any new proposal from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Eisenhower for settlement of the Berlin issue. Later to the afternoon he made a whirlwind tour of a suburban shopping center at nearby Wheaton, Md. He wished shoppers “good health” and promised “no war, no war.” Two Children Killed By Fireworks Blast: KALISPELL, Mont. (UPD — Two children were killed Thursday to the explosion of a fire-works stand they were tending. The victims were Dickie Street, 13, and Linda Helseth, 10. The stand was in front of a service station owned by the boy’s narents. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Dt?"' W.t, at Evergreen just east of Kalispell. Winchester Youth Killed In Accident WINCHESTER, Ind. (UPD —Edwin Comer, 16, Winchester, was ■ killed Thursday night when his car swerved out of control on a county road, struck highway warning sign and skidded into a ditch. Two companions were injured. They were identified as Ronnie Jones, 15, and Mike Durkin, 15, Winchester.

ii'irM.'.n n." " ' * dRu Ah JSB v ■ ' k > k&flB O IRSI ;JFw k-.< 1 f ~Wb jdjL w t afeJawlF 1 Ik if S g iK«<>¥ w >«*►«>. ~ .■ fe. tj h >44' wklM nIL I I I I ■■ z 11 DBCAirympcmm. wc„ wiffe^.nyray legal requirements for the purchase of the industrial site, are. left to right—Fred Kolter, executive secretary of the Chamber of Commerce; Louis Jacobs, chairman of the industrial development committee; George Auer. C. C. president; D. Burdette Custer, attorney for the industry; Noah R. Steury. < president ot Decatur Industries. Inc.; Mayor Robert D. Cole, and Norman W. Steury, secretary, treasurer A the industry .-Photo by Anspaugh.

NEW YORK (UPD—The last of several wildcat strikes, which threatened to jeopardize negotiations aimed at ending a nationwide steel walkout, ended today. The walkout, involving 6,000 workers at the Cleveland plant of Republic Steel, ended only a few hours before industry - wide bargaining talks were to resume in New York. > ■' ; >- The Cleveland workers, who defied union orders to return to work Thursday, finally bowed to a demand by United Steelworkers President David J. McDonald and began returning to their jobs at 7 ajn. e.d.t. today. The Cleveland strike was one of several unauthorized walkouts that broke out Tuesday night when the union’s contract with the industry expired. In all, about 30,000 steelworkers were involved in the wildcat strikes which had cast a cloud over industry - wide negotiations. Four-man bargaining teams representing the USW and the nation’s 12 largest steel companies were scheduled to resume negotiations this morning after recessing Thursday to await developments to the wildcat strikes. By Thursday night, all of the wildcat walkouts, with the exception of the Cleveland strike, had ended. Earlier today a spokesman ?t Republic Steel in Cleveland said hundreds ot workers were returning to their jobs, indicating that the walkout was ended. Thursday, the plant’s two locals had defied their own executive boards, a court order and McDonald to ordering the workers to remaitt out. ■, z The ’ series of wildcat strikes eliminated any chance of progress Thursday to the second day of a ■ two-week truce set up by Presi- ■ dent Eisenhower. The union eari lier had set a strike deadline of July 1, when the old contract expired, but acceded to a two-week j extension at toe President’s bej hest. The extension triggered a rash , of unauthorized strikes Tuesday . night. Many members said toe contract extension was contrary to toe union’s traditional policy of “no contract, no work.” In Washington, Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) called on President Eisenhower to reconsider his refusal to name a government fact-finding board to consider issues to toe steel dispute. Such a study, Kennedy said, wouk; make a valuable contribution toward a settlement. The steel industry, to refusing to accede to union demands, has insisted on a one-year wage freeze which it says is necessary to avoid a new inflation.

49-Star Flag To Be Flown Saturday WASHINGTON (UPI) — Old Glory will go aloft Saturday bearing 49 stars. Flags with a new star for the new state of Alaska will be hoisted in ceremonies at the Capitol and at Baltimore’s Ft. McHenry National Monument, birthplace and shrine of the National Anthem. Both will be held a few seconds after fnidnight. One of the two flags ■ to be raised simultaneously at the Capitol will be given to Alaska as a symbol of its new status. The other will remain as a regular Capitol flag until it wears out. At Ft McHenry, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton will raise the new flag as the Marine Band plays “The Star Spangled Banner.” The fort was chosen for an official raising because .under presidential proclamation the flag is flown there day and night “as a perpetual symbol of our patriotism.” The Capitol and Ft. McHenry are two places where it is proper to fly the flag at night. After the dawn’s early light, Americans everywhere may display the new flag. One will be raised at the White House at sunrise. The new flag will go up half a day earlier in the Far East, due to the time differential, The 49star banner was to be raised over the U.S. Embassy, inTokyo at 4:29 a.m, Saturday—3:29 p.m. e.d.t. today—since dawn in Japan comes 13 hours ahead of sunrise in Washington. At the West front of the Capi- ; tol, there will be a mass-produc-tion hoisting. Hundreds of the ! new flags are ’on hand and will ‘ be raised and lowered in quick succession. ’ Congressmen are sending them out to constituents i willing to pay for flags that have ' flown over the Capital. r The new flag at Ft. McHenry f will fly near the spot where Old Glory’s waving “through the rockets’ red glare” inspired Francis L Scott Key to write the Star Span- . gled Banner. * Archaeologists recently found ' the buried stump of the flagstaff that stood “through the perilous night’ when the fort was bombarded by the British in 1814, and a duplicate of the old pole has been built ■ ’ NOON EDITION

Six Cents