Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 162, Decatur, Adams County, 11 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 162.

Hoffa Faces New Charges

WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Senate Rackets Committee will confront Teamster President James R. Hoffa Monday with a new range of charges of wrongdoing by himself and his union aides. Groundwork for Hoffa’s appearance was completed Friday with testimony designed to show abuse of workingmen by Teamster and management officials. A dash of mystery was added when Louis Goldblatt, secretarytreasurer of the West Coast Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union, refused to say whether he "made any approaches” for removal of an anti-Hoffa monitor of the Teamsters. Goldblatt invoked the Fifth Amendmertt’s protection against possible self-incrimination when asked if he had tried directly or indirectly to get Godfrey Schmidt to resign from the three-member board appointed by a federal court to ride herd over Hoffa. The California labor leader told of several "understandings” his union had reached with the Teamsters. But none seemed within the scope of Hoffa’s proposal to combine their forces into one powerful transportation union. Other highlights of Friday’s testimony: —Wally Butler, head of a Detroit local of the Retail, Wholesale, Department Store Union, said he refused an indirect offer of $50,000 and a direct offer of a "blank check” from two proHoffa Teamster leaders if he would turn over his 350 members to their locals. —Thomas Keegan, bus'iness agent of Chicago Teamster Local 710, invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked how grievances were handled for employes of the two firms, Chi-East Trucking Co. of Chicago and Midwest Haulers, Inc., of Toledo, Ohio. Authorizes Geneva Raise Water Rates INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—The Indiana Public Service Commission Friday authorized the town of Geneva to raise its water rates, effective at the next billing. The new quarterly residential fee will be $5.75 for residental patrons inside the city limits and $7.50 for those outside the city. New fire hydrant rates are effective Jan. 1, 1960. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers today and. tonight. A little eSoler north portion. Sunday fair and pleasant. Low tonight near 60. High Sunday near 80 north to low 80s south. Outlook for Monday: Fair and rather cool.

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Auburn Loan Office Is Robbed By Bandit AUBURN, Ind. (UPI) —A check revealed today that the loot of a bandit who waited until the last customer was gone before he held up a loan company Friday was $9,233. The bandit vanished without leaving a clue after spending 40 minutes in the office. The loss was estimated earlier at $7,000. The gunman, dressed in a bluegray suit and wearing dark glasses and a gray straw hat, nonchalantly walked into the Auburn Federal Savings and Loan Assn, office 10 minutes before closing time Friday. He handed president Amos Adams a note reading, "this is a hold-up. No hostages will be 'taken." Adams said the bandit pointed a gun at him and forced him and employes Loretta Myers, Ray Fee and Mrs. Bernice Baber into a washroom. He said the gunman tied each of them up with their hands behind their backs. The bandit locked the front door and rifled the office leisurely before fleeing through a rear door about 40 minutes after he entered the office, police said. Fee freed himself from his bonds, got a knife and cut Adams loose, police said. Fee crawled through a window and telephoned police from a tavern next door, officers said. Adams described the gunman as 5 feet, 11 inches tan and of medium build and said he carried a briefcase. It was not learned whether the gunman had any accomplices or whether he escaped on foot or by i an automobile.

East German Leader Demands Freeßerlin

GENEVA (UPI) — East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz made a fresh demand today for establishment of a “demilitarized free city of West Berlin*' The Communist leader renewed the demand when he arrived for tile crucial second round of a foreign ministers conference that may set up a summit meeting or plunge the world deeper tat o cold war. His words made it sound as if nothing had changed from the deadlock position of East and West when they adjourned their conference three weeks ago. Bolz insisted the “dangerous center of tension” in Berlin must

Cindy Slackens Off, Warnings, Os Gale Lifted BOSTON (UPD—Cindy hit New England with a minor deluge today but her winds had slacked off and the Weather Bureau canceled gale warnings. Five deaths were attributed to the storm. Winds up to 60 miles an hour were reported east of the storm as it passed Nantucket and Cape Cod, but mainland winds did not exceed 42 miles an hour. A forecaster said it appeared New England- was “out of trouble.” Boston got 2.37 inches of rain in 24 hours before the center of the - tropical storm passed. Bedford, 15 ’miles inland, recorded 2.85 inches in the pre-storm disturbance. Five New Englanders died in traffic accidents on rain - slicked highways. The Weather Bureau said tides this afternoon would be one or two feet abo v e normal on the Maine coast. Easier forecasts said near hurricane winds would hit the coast. These failed to materialize. At 8 a.m. the storm was located about 10 miles west of Provincetown on the -tip of Cape Cod and moving northeastward 25 miles an hour. The Weather Bureau said no flooding was anticipated as result of the rains which averaged well over two inches along the coast and for a few miles inland. The center of the storm was expected to pass into the Bay of Fundy this afternoon. The storm lost power as it moved up the coast. Tornadoes developed on the fringe of the storm in Virginia, North Carolina and Maryland Friday. Gale warnings were ordered earlier by the Weather Bureau from Provincetown to Falmouth iand small craft warnings were hoisted for points north and east.

be removed. He renewed Communist insistence on conclusion of a peace treaty with Germany and a nonaggression pact between East and West Germany. Bolz was the first foreign minister to return. If his words reflected the official Soviet line they indicated the second round of the conference would get no further than the first. Britain, the United States and France, although somewhat divided on tactics, were reported to be ready to make a major effort to negotiate with Russia over Berlin but united in their determination not to surrender to any ultimatums. Says Ike To Oppose Minimum Wage Hike WASHINGTON (UPD — Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dicksen said today President Eisenhower would have to oppose a pending minimum wage boost bill. Otherwise, Dirksen said, the President would “forfeit the pattern of holding the line" against inflation. The Illinois Republican left little doubt that he would oppose a bill approved late Friday by a Senate labor subcommittee. It brings an additional 10-million workers under a minimum wage law, and also boosts the wage minimum from $1 to $1.25 over a two to four-year period. The subcommittee approved the bill by voice vote. It now goes to the full Senate labor committee for consideration. The newly covered group would include workers in chain and department stores, hotels, laundry and dry a . cleantag plants, local transit and small telephone exchanges. One formula would give the 25cent wage boost to the newly covered scaling down their maximum hours at regular wages. This group would have a minimum wage of $1 an hour and a maximum work week of 46 hours during the first year, with sl.lO and 44 hours the second year, $1.20 and 42 hours the third year, and $1.25 and 40 hours the fourth year. Thfe estimated 24 million persons now covered by the law would get $1.15 the first year and $1.25 the second.

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Herter Pessimistic Os Success On Departure For Resumed Conclave

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Secretary of State Christian A. Herter left for the second round of the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference at Geneva today with "no great expectations for success.” He pledged that the West will "negotiate in good faith” when the talks resume on Monday. Herter, traveling in one of the government's plush new military versions of the Boeing 707 jet transports, plans to spend a few hours in Ottawa this afternoon before continuing on to Geneva. He is due in the Swiss city Sunday morning. The secretary said in a statement at the airport that the Western powers are resolved to continue as they did in the initial six weeks of the conference “to negotiate in good faith.” New Western Proposal But he added that they were “equally determined to maintain our obligations to the more than two million free people of West Berlin.” “Before I left for the first series of discussions in Geneva,” he said, “I said I had no great expectations for success.” Then he added: “That remains my view as we approach the second, series of discussions.* Herter was carrying with him a new Western proposal on Berlin. It offers no major concessions to Russia, but keeps the way open for further bargaining. The plan was reported to spell out the final steps the Soviet must take if it expects a heads-of-state summit conference later this year. _ , Meets with Eisenhower Herter will meet with the British, French and West German foreign ministers Sunday afternoon to work out final details of the Western strategy. He discussed the proposal with President Eisenhower in a special conference Friday night after earlier holding separate meetings with Vice President Richard M. Nixon and the British and French ambassadors. Western officials do not expect an East-West agreement on the Berlin and German issues will result at Geneva. The talks are not expected to last more than three weeks. ' There were indications of disagreement between the United States and Great Britain over what constitutes enough progress to justify a summit conference. British officials believe it would be valuable to deal directly with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev because he is the only one with any real authority in Russia. But the Allies were reported in firm agreement that they maintain their rights to free access to West Berlin. U.S. officials said the new proposal contains nothing basically different from the Western plan presented to Russia during the first six-week session in Geneva. Problem Os Proportion However, one Western proposal that is open to negotiation is the proportion of East and West German representatives on an “allGerman* committee that would try to work out German reunification during a period of any interim agreement with Russia. The Soviets have insisted on equal representation. The West, up to now, has stuck with a plan calling for 25 West Germans and 10 East Germans. This conforms roughly with the population ratio. But Herter has said the numbers are not of too great importance because the West has agreed to a system that would permit a veto by either side to any provision that the commission might work out. This has led to the conclusion the West is ready to agree to near-parity on the representation issue. July 15 Deadline For Tax Appeals County taxpayers who wish to appeal their, cases to the county board of review will have to file their complaints with the state board of tax commissioners instead, as the county board has adjourned. Residents seeking tax adjustments should contact the county assessor for proper forms to appeal to the state commissioners. The date for final filing is July 15.

Record Corn Crop Foreseen By Government WASHINGTON (UPD — Agriculture Department officials appeared undisturbed today by the prospect of a record corn crop grown in the absence of government planting controls. They don’t believe the anticipated corn outpouring will add to the nations over-all farm surplus problem. The department estimated late Friday that the 1959 corn crop would total 4,224,450,000 bushels—well above last year’s record 3,800,000,000 bushels. The 10-year average is 3,300,000,00 bushels. Under the new corn program growers were permitted to plant as much corn as they desired. They responded by planting almost 15 per cent more acres than they did last year. But Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson said the total feed grain out put won’t be much different than it was last year. This drop in feed grain tonnage will come from the lowest oats crop in 20 years, and smaller crops of barley and sorghum. Farmers simply turned more land to corn and its better price appeal. Grain Belew 1058 The official crop report bears out Benson’s contention that total feed grain tonnage may go below the 1958 level. Any production cut might be used by administration officials to back up their contention that lower price supports lead to lower production. Until farmers in a growers referndum chose the new program, they produced with acreage allotments and price supports at 75 per cent of parity. In return for their freedom of government controls, federal props on the corn crop will be at 90 per cent of the average market price of corn for the last three years, but not less than 65 per cent of parity. In the first- all-crop report of 1959, the department also predicted that this year's crop would be second only to last year’s phenomenal outturn. The total crop production index as of July 1 was 113 per cent of the 1947-49 base period. All-Wheat Estimate Down The all-wheat crop was estimated at 1,155,132,000 bushels, down slightly from the June forecast. The winter wheat crop of 932,878,000 bushels would be the fifth largest of record, while the spring wheat crop of an estimated 222,254.000 bushels is the fourth smallest in the last 20 years. Hot weather, Short topsoil moisture, and streak mosaic took some toll

Bank Manager Kills One Os Holdup Men

ECLECTIC, Ala. (UPD — The manager of the Bank of Eclectic killed one man and seriously wounded another today during an attempted bank robbery. Carl Ray Barker, 31. whose seven - month pregnant wife and small child had been held hostage Friday night along with Barker, threw a pot of boiling water on one of the would-be bank robbers and shot to death the other. “It disturbed me a little bit when they were going to tape up my wife’s arms,” Barker explained in taking such desperate action. Barker is manager and cashier of the Bank of Eclectic, located 13 miles northeast of Wetumpka. Barker and his family, along with Eclectic policeman Maxie Taunton, had been held at gunpoint since 9:30 p.m. Friday by James F. Bray and Billy Hayward, both of Montgomery and 26 years old. Taunton left Friday night from his downtown patrol beat to give Bray and Hayward a ride Out of town to an intersection. En route, the youths pulled an old .32, calibre pistol, took Taunton’s gun and forced the officer to drive to I

of winter wheat. Most of the gigantic corn crop will be produced ,ta the nine corn belt states. lowa, the No. 1 corn state, probably will produce a record 730 million bushels, while Illinois, the second com state, will produce about 686 million bushels. Estimates for both states are records. The department said crop development up to July has been mainly favorable but top moisture deficiencies in the northern Plains, middle Atlantic, Southeast, and par" of the Ohio River Valley take on added significance as the period of hottest weather and highest plant moisture requirements approaches. Plan Hearings On Gas Tax Increase . WASHINGTON (UPD-The House Ways and Means Committee will open public hearings July 22 before deciding what to do about President Eisenhower’s request to hike the gasoline tax to avoid a slowdown in superhighway construction. Lead-off witnesses at the hearings will be representatives of executive agencies, including the Treasury, Budget Bureau and Commerce Department. They were expected to support Eisenhower’s contention that work on the 41.000-mile interstate superhighway network will all but stop unless the 3 cent per gallon tax is boosted to 4% cents. Opposition to any gas tax increase is certain to beexpressed at the hearings by spokesmen for highway users. The American automobile Assn, this week urged that the deficit facing the superhighway program be met by issuing special revenue bonds. Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur D., Mills, (D-Ark.) said late Friday that the hearings would be open to all proposals, including those advocating short-term solutions and those for long-term financing schemes. Hofmann Child Dies After Long Illness One and one-half year old Sara Jean Hofmann died at 6 p.m. Friday at her home in Fort Wayne. She had been ill since Easter. Surviving are the parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hdfmann; three brothers, Rodney, Patrick, and Michael, all at home; the paternal grandfather, Theodore Hofmann, Willshire, 0.; and the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Hinen, Fort Wayne. Friends may call after 7 p.m. today at the Tom Mungovan funeral home.

Barker’s house. Bray left Hayward guarding the officer and Barker’s family and took Barker to the Bank of Eclectic. Barker told Bray that a timeclopk wouldn’t open the bank vault until this morning, so Bray took Barker back to his house. Bray asked Hayward if he could make some coffee and Hayward said okay. Barker gave the first cup to Mrs. Barker, and on the next trip from the kitchen threw a pot of boiling water on Hayward. Barker then took Hayward’s pistol from the gunman, pistol whipped Hayward and dumped him unconscious in another room. Barker quickly got his .16 gauge automatic shotgun, and ran to the front door. By this time it was about 1 a.m. and Bray was returning with the policeman. The officer saw what was up when he arrived at the house, fell to the ground. Barker opened fire, killing Bray instantly with two blasts from the shotgun that entered Bray’? chest. By this time, Hayward began stirring in the house and Barker turned and fired one shot, which I struck Hayward's thigh.

Raise Hope To Avert Strike

NEW YORK (UPD — An exchange of data between bargainers for the steel industry and the United Steelworkers of America raised hopes today for agreement on a new contract without a strike. Scheduling of an unusual Saturday negotiating session gave added indication of increased efforts to reach agreement before the Tuesday midnight deadline set by the USW or a strike by 500,000 steel workers. Both sides denied that they had exchanged settlement proposals, but it was clear that they had been trading contract drafts. Indications were that the industry I for the first time had shown it was willing to make a specific wage increase offer in exchange for union concessions that would give the companies more control over operations, particularly over methods of ’ cutting operating costs. Neither Union President David J. McDonald nor industry’s chief negotiator R. Conrad Cooper would give the slightest inkling as to whether they believed a break in the negotiations was imminent. When they faced newsmen after their deliberations Friday they seemed relaxed and cordial, and exchanged jocular remarks with reporters. Cooper, as chairman of the joint negotiating session, merely stated that “we have been at work” and would resume at 10 a.m. today. The four-man bargaining teams said they had been “exchangnig data.”’ Cooper earlier revealed he had been in contact with top executives of the 12 major steel companies at a private session away from the bargaining table Thursday afternoon. But, he pointed out, “We are in constant touch with our principals.” McDonald revealed that he, too, had held a strategy meeting Thursday with high union officials. He jokingly remarked “There are a lot of ways of conducting negotiations, without sitting and looking at each other.” Most observers were optimistic that the negotiators would reach a settlement. There was a general feeling that a break was not far away. 28 Homes Destroyed By California Fire HOLLYWOOD (UPD — A wild brush fire raced through picturesque, heavily populated Laurel Canyon in the Hollywood hills Friday and destroyed 28 homes. Hundreds of firemen and volunteers from throughout Southern California halted the blaze after toiling four hours in 100-degree-plus temperatures. “It was a major disaster,” said the Los Angeles Fire Department, "and the worst in the city’s history.” No major injuries were reported. Several firemen suffered burns. Uncounted minor burns and hurts were cared for at home or left untended. The fire department estimated 750 acres of brush and scrub trees burned during the peak hours of the fire. The fire was only two miles from central Hollywood. An official count made late Friday night after the fire was reported contained said that at least 28 homes were destroyed. There could be more. Ttje houses of several celebrities were spared, however. Preliminary reports showed the residences of actor Charles Cobum and TV stars Steven McQueen, Gardner McKay, John Smith, Bob Sweeney, Minerva Urecal and Luciana Paluzzi, 21-year-old Italian actress, were saved. Several destroyed homes were hillside mansions dating back to the last century.

Gail Egley Wins In District Contest Two Adams county 4-H girls took a champion and a blue ribbon placing in the district judging contests Thursday at Warsaw, giving Adams county, a third representative at the state fair home economics contests. Miss Gail Egly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Holman Egley, of the Jefferson Work and Win club, placed firist in the general demonstration contests at the district, and will be one of this district’s two entrants in the state fair home economics demonstration contests on the opening day of the fair, Sept. 2. Explaining exercises to keep healthy and trim in "This Could Be You," she wos over 16 contestants from this 12-county extension district. She is in her sixth year of 4-H, and will be a sophomore at Monmouth high school. Miss Donna Shoaf, in her first year in 4-H demonstration conr tests, placed third out of nine entrants at the district baking demonstration contests. Winning a blue ribbon, she will be the district’s second alternate to the state fair contests. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Shoaf, she is in her fifth year of' 4-H work with the Washington Happy Hutslers, and will be a sophomore at Adams Central high school in the fall. She showed how to make a pineapple upside down cake, in "Oretty as a Picture.” At the district contest, there are nine possible divisions 4-H girls may enter: general, which Miss Egley entered, baking, Miss Shoaf’s area; and cherry pie, the use of raw and frozen vegetables, the use of canned vegetables, poultry and poultry products, pork , and pork products, electricity, and dairy'. The pork and pork products division would be an especially good one for future contestants to think about, for there have been few entries in this division, says Miss Linda ould, apprentice home demonstration agent, who accompanied the contestants to the district contests. Two Judging Contest Entrants In the home economics judging contests. Miss Shirley Bieberich and Miss Margaret Boerger placed first and second, respectively in clothing judging, and both will go on to die state fair, to the judging contests before the state fair officially opens, on Monday, August 31. Miss Bieberich is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerhard Bieberich, and is in her eighth vear of 4-H work with the Preble Jolly Juniors. Miss Boerger is also in her eighth year of 4-H work, and is one of the Monmouth Merrv Maids. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Boerger. Both girls are seniors at Monmouth high school. Ten other Adams county girls oarticipated in the 4-H judging contests at Wabash, along with the two state delegates: Miss Tackie Hurst and Miss Connie Bergman, in home imnrovement: Miss Judv Yoder and Miss Donna Cauble, in electricity: Miss Susan McCullough and Miss Sharon Harkless. food oreoaration; Miss Nancv Cook and Miss Linda King, ’n food preservation: and Miss Twila Arnold and Miss Kay Singleton, in baking. For both the iudeing and demonstration contest winners at the state fair, there will be a trtn to Wnchintdon, D. C., and the United Nations. NOON EDITION

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