Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 166, Decatur, Adams County, 16 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 166.

Lengthy Steel Strike Feared

PITTSBURGH (UPI) — Pickets marched outside the gates of the nation’s cold and silent steel mills today in a strike which promised to be long and difficult to settle. Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan planned to report to Secretary of Labor Mitchell in Washington on his fruitless meetings with union and industry leaders in New York late Wednesday; Finnegan announced after the talks that the strike was “a very serious one” and is "not susceptible to an easy or early solution.” He postponed further mediation efforts until next Monday. Union President David J. McDonald agreed with Finnegan’s statement that the strike situation was "very serious.” He began a tour of eastern steelcenters at Bethlehem, Pa., oday and said other lehem, Pa., today and said other and Pittsburgh to talk with strikers. idle in 24 .States Steel workers are idle in 24 states, halting production of an average of 300,000 tons of steel each day. A half million basic steel workers walked off their jobs at midnight Tuesday, shutting down 85 per cent of the nation’s steelmaking capacity, after nine weeks of bargaining had failed to bring agreement on a new contract between the 12 biggest steel firms and the United Steelworkers of America (USW). Thousands of workers in supporting industries already have been laid off as -a result of the steel shutdown and the jobs of tens of thousands more were threatened. Coal and ore miners and Great Lakes seamen who handle shipment of raw materials to the mills were first affected. The Pennsylvania Railroad announced it would furlough 6,200 employes at the end of the week. Merchants in steel towns across the nation reported business was down perceptibly. They invited their customers to “buy now—pay after the strike." USW Demand at Issue At issue is the union's demand for a package increase estimated by it as 15 cents an hour and by the industry at nearer 25 cents. The industry contended throughout negotiation that it is bound to combat inflation by resisting any increase in its labor costs. McDonald proposed Wednesday the establishment of a three-man fact-finding committee, with an impartial chairman to be named by Chief Justice Earl Warren, to study the contract impasse and make non-binding recommendations to help resolve it. Chief industry negotiator J. Conrad Cooper curtly rejected it. An industry statement said: “We know the facts. You know the facts. We do not - need third parties to find them for us.” President Eisenhower said Wednesday he had no intention now of invoking the Taft-Hartley Law, which would provide factfinding procedures and a back-to-work cooling off period. He had indicated earlier that invocation the law, confined to situations of national emergency, might be considered if the strike interfered with steel deliveries tor defense

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purposes. Defense Interference Unlikely It appeared unlikely that that would be soon. The American Steel Warehouse Assn., Inc., reported Wednesday that stockpiles would take care of all customers “tor approximately 60 days before anything other than spot shortages occur.” The association said steel inventories in its warehouses were one million ton greater than at the beginning of the 34-day steel strike of 1956. However, the National Assn, of Purchasing Agents estimated that stockpiles held by steel users were four milion tons below those at the start of the 1956 stoppage. Auto makers, one of the biggest steel-using industries, were said to have enough steel on hand to last through September, the first month of 1960 model manufacture. The striking steel workers were less well prepared for a long strike. Many had dipped into savings during recession layoffs last year and had not entirely replaced those losses during the booming pre-s trike production months of 1969. Three-Year-Old Boy Is Drowning Victim LINTON, Ind. (UPD—John Joe Scherer, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Scherer of Terre Haute, drowned Wednesday when he slipped beneath the water while playing near a chain which surrounded a protected swimming area in Shakamak Lake near here. Steven Christen Hurt In Fall From Haymow Steven Christen, ten-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William F. Christen erf 223 Limberlost Trail, is reported improved following injuries from a fall from a haymow Wednesday evening. The boy fell while visiting on an uncle’s farm near Decatur, and broke both elbows and the left wrist. He was admitted at 6:20 to the Adams county memorial hospital, where he underwent surgery to repair the broken bones.

Testify To Betting With Gambling Ring

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPD—A stockbroker and a realtor from New York City testified today on wagers they made by phone to a Terre Haute number in 1957. The government contends the number was assigned to an international multi-million dollar gambling 6xndicate operated by eight rften now on trial in federal court on charges of evading $325,000 in excise taxes. Gerard F. Ree, the broker, said

Seitz Girl Is Home * After Heart Surgery Five-year-old Deborah Ann Seitz came home, Wednesday afternoon, just a week after undergoing heart surgery in Indianapolis. Although the operation was more serious than expected, Deborah made a “marvelous recovery — much faster than usual,” her mother, Mrs. Raymond W. Seitz, said this morning, adding that medical authorities usually expect patients who undergo delicate heart surgery to remain in the hospital at least two weeks. Surgeons expected to find one opening that needed closing in the heart. They found one in the aorta, the main artery of the heart, through which die blood travels back to the body after going through the heart and the lungs. However, a second hole was found in the heart itself, in a place where they had never found an opening before. This second opening complicated the operation, which lasted from 7 a. m. until about noon. This type of surgery would not have been dreamed of until just recently, the New York Times said last mouth. A quarter of a century ago, the human heart was considered comparatively untouchable in terms of modern surgery. Now, with the use of the heartlung machine, which takes over the circulation, the heart can be opened and even stopped, and defects deep inside the chambers can be repaired in full view. In May, 1958, over two million television viewers saw a New York surgeon tie off an open duct between the aorta and another artery of the heart, Such patients, whose hearts had to work overtime before surgery because of the openings, can be healthy, active persons looking forward to a normal life span. Deborah Seitz is doing very well now, at the Seitz home at 221 Park Place, her mother reports, but must do a lot of resting yet. Deborah appreciated the cards, letters, and gifts which were sent her during her stay in Riley children’s hospital at the Indiana University medical eenter, Mrs. Seitz said this morning, expressing her appreciation for the help of the Red Cross, the blood donors, those who provided transportation, and the heart association, who all helped to provide the ten pints of blood needed for the heart-lung machine used in the operation.

he talked to a defendant known as “Julie” and placed bets totaling about SB,OOO during the 1957 college football season. He said he paid off his losses or collected his winnings in envelopes in the foyer of the building where he worked. Benjamin McKeage, the realtor, tola or making collect calls from New York phone booths. But he said he didn’t know the people he talked with by name and couldn't recall the phone number at Terre Haute. Another witness was Morris Orloff, Los Angeles, who was identified as in the steel business. Orloff said he placed bets of between $4,000 and $5,000. While waiting to be called as a government witness later in the day, Phil Kaplan, who operates a Chicago sports service, told newsmen in the court corridors that he believes the Chicago White Sox and not the New York Yankees will win the American League race this year, and that Floyd Patterson won’t regain the heavyweight championship. Nine witnesses testified Wednesday. and more than 70 previously. They have told the 12-man federal jury they bet $350,000 with the syndicate. Joseph Bandler, a Los Angeles shirt manufacturer, testified he bet as much as $12,000 by telephone during the 10 weeks the syndicate operated late in 1957. Bandler said he bet $4,000 on the 1958 Rose Bowl game, and identified Phillip “Hippy" Share as his contact for the wager. Bandler testified he placed the bet by calling a Terre Haute telephone number that may have ben supplid to him “by op of Whn dfns aorny MorrisViViM the members of the syndicate.” When defense atotrney Morris Shenker objected to Handler’s reference to a “syndicate,” the witness replied, “call ti a partnership, then. I only know what I’m told.” Another witness, Minneapolis real estate man Yiddy Bloom, wasi allowed to take the Fifth Amendment when treasury agents said he was under investigation for income tax evasion. ■

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, July 16, 1959.

Russia Backs Down On Demand East Germany Join Secret Sessions

Governors To Leave Soviet Union Friday MOSCOW (UPI) — Gov. Leroy Collins of Florida said today he and six other U.S. governors visits ing the Soviet Union have asked for an appointment with President Eisenhower when they finish their three week tour. “Before we left, the Presidnt asked to see us on our return,” Collins said. “We cabled Washington trying to get a mutually agreeable -date...for a report on several routine matters.” Collins said the governors would leave the Soviet Union Friday “in different directions” but would get together again in Washington. It was understood here that Eisenhower agreed to receive the governors on July 31. The group scheduled one last meeting with Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan today to discuss the student exchange program. A farewell reception was planned in their honor later by Yuri Zhukov, chairman of the state committee on cultural relations with foreign countries. During their stay in the Soviet Union, the governors visited factories and collectives in the Ukraine, the Caucasus' and Central Europe. Highlight of their tour was a three hour and 45 minute conference with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev who asked them to relay a message of peace to the President. Khrushchev said a better understanding between the two countries might prevent them or a bird naion from starting a war. Late Bulletins GENEVA (UPI) — U. S. Secretary of State Christian Herter today proposed calling on the U. N. to help police a Berlin trace agreement. He warned that another Berlin crisis flareup might plunge the world into war. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — An Army Juno II rocket with an “all-purpose” scientific satellite exploded in a tremendous cloud of smoke and flame today in what was supposed to have been the most complex data-gathering trip into space yet undertaken. v Mrs. Gustav Hobrock Dies In Baltimore Mrs. Louise Hobrock, 84, a native of Adams county and resident of near Hoagland most of her life, died at 4 a.m. Wednesday at St. Agnes hospital in Baltimore, Md. She had been ill with complications since July 2. She and her husband, Gustav, lived one mile north of Hoagland until moving to Baltimore spur years ago. She was born in Adams county March 8, 1875, a daughter of William and Louise Jenson-Gerke, and was marred to Gustav Hobrock in November of 1899. Mrs. Hobrock was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church on U.S. 27, north of Decatur. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Eli (Esther) Hoffman of Jefferson township, Allen county, Mrs. Vem (Marcella) Swenson of Homedale, Ida., and Mrs. Frank (Velma) Gettman of Baltimore, Md.; 14 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchil-dren, and one brother, Carl Gerke of Sacramento, Calif. One son is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the [ Zwick funeral home, the Rev. EdI win A. H. Jacob officiating. Burial I will be in the church cemetery. ■ Friends may call at the funeral I home after 2 p.m. Friday until I time of the services.

Defense Department Under Congress Fire

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Defense Department was under fire on two congressional fronts today. One House armed services subcommittee was investigating charges that armed services enlisted men have to do “degrading” jobs as servants of officers. And Rep. F. Edward Hebert (D-La.), chairman of another subcommittee looking into defense contracts, charged that the Pentagon was trying to sidestep the probe. Charles C. Finucane, assisant secretary of defense, told the manpower subcommittee that the use of enlisted men as officers’ aides “is based on a definite need and on justifiable customs and traditions.” He denied there is anything “demeaning or degrading’-’ in the work, and said many Gls seek such jobs. Hebert’s subcommittee has been investigating charges that retired military officers and former government officials employed in defense industry have exerted influence on behalf of their employers. It also has been looking into alleged waste in the defense program. Hebert said the Defense Department is trying to keep reports and records from the General Accounting Office. Other congressional news: * Steel: Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) urged again, in a Senate speech, that President Eisenhower set up a panel to study both sides of steel strike issues. Symington aid in negotiations to date “matters would seem to have gone backward.” Television: A Senate commerce subcommittee finished hearings on certain types of relay television. In the closing session. Sen. Gale McGee (D-Wyo.) charged that the Federal Communications Commission is “shirking its responsibility” in the matter. FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer said the commissioners have not assumed control of community antenna television because “it’s none of our business.” Labor Reform: The House LaBuilding Permits Granted Last Month During the month of June, 12 city residents applied for building permits, involving an estimated improvement cost of $16,850 for the total planned additions and renovations. The largest single application approved by city engineer Ralph Roop was by John and William Lose, of 224 N. Second street, who received a permit to lower their ceiling and do general repair at an estimated cost of SIO,OOO. The second largest approval went to Paul Hammond, of 240 N. 13th street, to build a walk-in cooler at a cost of $2,500. The cooler will be utilized at Hammond's Market. Norman Steury, of Homestead 35, is building a garage which is expected to cost around $1,600. Other garage permits granted went to James H. Helm, of 1027 Marshall street, tor repairs to the present structure at a cost of $300; Orville Scott, of 412 Grant street, SSOO will be spent to improve the existing garage; A. D. and Pearl Bollinger, of 928 Dierkes, who will add to their garage at a cost of S2OO, and E Watson Maddox, 618 Washington street, received a permit to build a car port at a cost of S3OO. Martin F. Zimmerman, 412 Grant street, will also rebuild his garage on the existing site after the board of zoning appeals approved his rejected application by granting a variance. Kenneth Shell, 510 Line street, also received a variance to add a bedroom to his house. Robert C. Darling, of 909 Park View, will spend SI,OOO to add a bedroom and breezeway to his present house, while Ivan L. Davis, of 922 N. 11th street, will add to his house at the cost of S2OO. Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, 225 S. 12th street, received a permit to set a trailer at no expense.

bor Committee continued debate of the Senate-passed labor reform bill, with members differing sharply on how strong the measure should be. Republican members were reported to have agreed secretly on a tougher substitute measure. The big issue was whether the bill should make certain changes in the Taft-Hart-ley law. Blue Creek Schools To Close This Year The Blue Creek township advisory board and township trustee have considered a petition by 141 township taxpayers to keep the two Blue Creek elementary schools open next year, and have rejected it because it did not contain the required amount of signatures according to the state law, it jtras learned today. The law requires that one-half of the taxpayers may petition to keep a school open, but there were not enough signatures to meet this condition. Early this summer, township trustee Frank Myers contacted r the parents of all the school children, and explained to them that expensive repairs and new school buses would be needed to continue operating the small two-room units, the Lincoln and Kimsey schools, built in the early 1900’s. Most of the parents accepted this, but some of the township residents objected, and signed toe remonstrance petition. The cost under toe new program of transporting toe grade school pupils to Adams Central, Pleasant Mills, and Berne, will be less than toe cost of running the schools. Myers also announced that an auction of the three township school buses will be held by sealed bid before July 25. The buses are located at the Kimsey school. Darts In Front Os Auto, Girl Killed INDIANAPOPLIS (UPD—Karen Sue Romeo, 6-year-old daughter of toe Robert Morgans, Brownsburg, was killed Wednesday night when she was struck by a car after darting into a west-side street behind a vending machine with an ice cream cone. Peck Werling Dies After Long Illness Albert (Peck) Werling,. 86, well known Preble resident, died about 11:30 o’clock this morning at the Castle rest home in Van Wert, 0., He had been seriously ill for toe past 15 months. A lifelong resident of Preble, he was born there March 8, 1873, a 1 son of David and Augusta BleyWerling, and was married to Rose Scherry in July of 1895. Mrs. Werling preceded him in death Sept. 22, 1938. Mr. Werling, a retired toresherman, was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in Decatur. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Orval (Pearl) Snarr of Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. Elias (Areda) Lichtenstiger of Decatur, Mrs. Glen (Florence) Baumgartner of Preble, Mrs. Richard (Cleo) Arnold of Decatur route 2, and Miss Iverna Werling of Preble; 17 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchil-dren; two brothers. Charles Werling of Peterson, and Raymond Werling of Fort Wayne, and two sisters, Mrs. Eli Goldner of Preble, and Mrs. Harry Chalfant of Valparaiso. Five sons preceded him in death. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

GENEVA (UPD — The Soviet backed down today on its demand that Communist East Germany be included in secret Big Four negotiations on Berlin. At the same time the United States was reported seeking United Nations inervention in the crisis. The turnabout came in agreement to resume toe spirit of prop-aganda-free exchanges in social gatherings of toe Big Four ministers. But it was an informal agreement and it was evident Russia would continue to refuse any formal restricted sessions barring the East Germans. The demand on Monday by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko that toe German satellite be included in “closed” Big Four meetings brought toe Geneva foreign ministers conference to a complete standstill. No progress was reported at any open sessions. Diplomatic sources said a secret British feeler during the night produced Soviet agreement to meet the Western Big Three in “social contacts” so secret talks may resume. The West believes progress can be made only at such talks. At the same time Gromyko invited Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and Mrs. Herter to lunch on Saturday, emphasizing the "social” sugar coating of his agreement to talk in private. Gromyko invited British Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd to lunch today. While the British-Russian exchange was taking place in secret, the United States was reported preparing a new plan to bring the United Nations into any future Berlin truce settlement. Britain and West Germany vigorously oppose such a move. U.N. Secretary - General Dag Hammarskjold lent strength to these reports when he completed a round of talks today with the , Big Four foreign ministers. Hammarskjold.conferred this morning with Girpfnyko and then had lunch with French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Mur- ' ville. Two days figo he had lunch with Herter and then dined with Lloyd. Hammarskjold was his usual tight-lipped self as he moved , among the residences and offices of the key foreign ministers carrying out what he calls “quiet diplomacy.” But it was believed he was sounding out the ministers on the U.N.’s role in any future settlement. Hie French were said to support the American proposal but both the British and West Germans were reported cool to toe point of being hostile. Each feared any attempt to bring the

Ask Cleanup Os Hoffa, Aides

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Teamster Union’s “watchdog” monitors will ask a federal judge today for authority to investigate rank-and-file complaints against union President James R. Hoffa and his lieutenants. The action comes on the heels of a charge Wednesday night by Chairman John L. McClellan (DArk.) of the Senate Rackets Committee that Hoffa is a “fountainhead of...corruption” who never will clean up the Teamsters. McClellan said Congress and toe courts will have to undertake the clean-up job because “notwithstanding Mr. Hoffa’s previous promises and assurances... he has failed and still refuses to remove known criminals and disreputable characters.” The three court-appointed monitors were to meet with Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to discuss a revision of toe rules covering their assignment to oversee a clean-up of the Teamsters. The monitors were reported to feel that they could get faster and fairer results if they conducted their own investigations oi rank-and-file complaints rather than turning them over to the union. The monitors have investigated a few cases in the past. But they do not have the authority to conduc inquiries over union objections.

United Nations into the Berlin* crisis would weaken the principle of four-power control. West Germany already was showing signs of uneasiness at the lack of progress made by the Western foreign ministers and displaying fears that Russia might trick them, into some unpleasant interim agreement on Berlin merely to get a summit conference. The West Germans earlier this week suggested ending the foreign ministers’ conference and getting started on a summit meeting at once. Wednesday West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt handed the West a memorandum criticizing its stand in offering to limit occupation troops in his city, and other measures lessening Western support for Wet Berliners. Border Flare-up Is I Reported By Israel JERUSALEM, Israel <UPD — An Israeli army patrol killed two Egyptians and captured one Wednesday in the most serious border flare-up in several months, the army announced today. The new trouble caught Israel in between governments. Premierdesignate David Ben-Gurion was rushing efforts to supply the nation with a "caretaker" cabinet. An army spokesman said the Egyptians, all armed with submachine guns, were encountered in the western Negev Desert. "When ordered to halt, they fired machine guns at the patrol," the spokesman said. “In the ensuing exchange of fire, two Egyptians were killed and a third was wounded and captured. Th« patrol suffered no casualties.” The clash pointed up a steady deterioration in Arab-Israeli relations which have been particularly tense in the past several weeks because of a legal wrangle over the Danish ship Inge Toft. The vessel was seized by the United Arab Republic as it attempted to enter the Suez Canal, on grounds it carried Israeli “war materials." Soon after the seizure, a Lebanese military plane was forced down in Israel on the claim that it had been photographing strategic Israeli installations. United Nations Secretary-Gener-al Dag Hammarskjold visited the Middle East in an attempt to keep the incidents from spawning a major new crisis.

Two new monitors, Washington attorney Daniel B. Maher and New York City attorney Lawrence T. Smith, will be attending their first meeting. They replaced two monitors who resigned. The third member is Chairman Martin F. O'Donaghue. ..... VJ’_ The monitors scheduled a session later this week, with Hoffa to discuss ways to enforce their clean - up recommendations approved by "the U.S. Court cf Appeals. The appeals court Wednesday refused to stay or reconsider its clean-Up go-ahead. Union attorneys said they would ask Chief Justice Earl Warren for a stay while they appeal to the Supreme Court. Warren has jurisdiction over appeals in this area. INDIANA WEATHEM Partly cloudy with little change in temperatures this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Some widely scattered thundershowers likely south this afternoon and t o n 1 g h t and over south and west Friday. Low tonight 62 to 76. High Friday 85 to 92. Sunset today 8:11 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:31 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Scattered showers and thundershowers and little temperature change. Lows 65 to 72. Highs 85 to 93.

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