Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 191, Decatur, Adams County, 14 August 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 191.

House Approves Tough Labor Reform Measure By Decisive Majority

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House passed by a decisive margin today the labor reform bill that President Eisenhower and business groups said is needed to stop labor corruption and racketeering. The measure—toughest of three bills considered by the House — was approved over vigorous opposition of union leaders and lobbyists.' They charged that its controls would punish honest unions and their members. The measure now goes back to the Senate which passed a much milder measure last April, 90-1. A Senate - House conference committee will be assigned to work out a compromise. Final House passage was anticlimactiC. The floor battle which began Tuesday ended for all 'practical purposes Thursday when the House . tentatively approved the measure, 229-201. Final passage was postponed until todhy on a technicality. Gain Overnight Support Final House passage came after the legislators twice rejectedfirst on a standing vote of 146-71 and then on ofrmal roll call vote of 279-120 — efforts to kill the measure by sending it back to committee. With the two other milder measures scuttled, the administration - backed bill picked up tremendous overnight support. Sorrie members who had bitterly assailed the measure as anti-la-bor wound up voting for it when 'tiieywere faced with voting for that or nothing. This was so despite an effort by AFL - CTO lobbyists to hold down the final margin of passage in an effort to lay the groundwork for a fight by Senate conferees to water down the House bill in the Senate-House conference committee. Prsident Eisenhower praised the House for approving a bill that would “deal effectively” with corruption and racketeering in labor unions. Ike Sees “Real Hope” “This action gives cause and real hope that the congress will ultimately pass a good labor reform bill,” he said in a statement from his Gettysburg, Pa., vacation retreat. But AFLrCTO President George Meany termed the House action “a victory for anti-labor forces.... not a vote on the issue of corruption, but a vote to punish honest labor.” The drive by labor lobbyists to hold down the vote margin on final passage was designed to strengthen the hand of Senate negotiators who will try to soften the House bill in a Senate - House conference. The conferees will have

Discoverer V Is In Orbit

VANDENBERG AFB, Calif. — (UPI) — The Air Force will attempt today the world’s first successful recovery of a space capsule from orbit. Working against four straight lasses, chances appeared better than ever before that the capsule spinning around the earth aboard the new Discoverer V satellite would eject on schedule sometime between 5:30 and 6 p.m. e.d.t. Eight C-119s boxcar planes circling a pre-determined area in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Hawaii will have about 10 minutes to move in and snatch the parachuting capsule with “sky hooks.” Failing that, ships will try to recover the radio-signalling capsule from the ocean. Despite favorable forecasts, the Air Force was working against great difficulties which included trying to place the capsule in its several-hundred - mile recovery area from a distance half way around the world. r The 27 by 33-inch capsule—a forerunner of the one planned to take man into space and bring him back alive—was blasted aloft at noon Thursday aboard Thor-

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the task of hammering out a compromise between the House measure aJd the milder bill the Senate passed 90 to 1 last April. Paul Zagri, chief lobbyist for Teamsters President James R. Hoffa, predicted that the SenateHouse conferees would deadlock, thereby killing all labor reform legislation this year. Public Clamor For Bill But few lawmakers subscribed to that theory. Democratic leaders, with an eye on the 1960 elections, felt they must get a bill to the White House to answer the rising public clamor for labor reform. Sen. John F. Kennedy (DMass.), chief author of the Senate bill and scheduled to be one of the conferees, said “we must have a bill.” He conceded it would be difficult to draft a compromise. But he said, “I don’t think we ought to go home without a labor bill.” Unlike the Senate bill, the House - approved measure would prohibit picketing of non - union shops to organize workers unless the union could show that about 30 per cent of the workers wanted a union. Even then, the duration of picketing would be limited. The, House legislation also would go much farther than the Senate bill in closing loopholes in existing restrictions on secondary boycotts — pressures against neutral employers to stop doing business with a firm involved in a labor dispute. Six-Year-Old Boy Is Killed By Auto INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Terrie McKenney, 6, Indianapolis, was injured fatally Thursday when he ran into the path of a car at a city street intersection while returning home from a grocery with his mother. The car was driven by Mrs. Sharon Roberts, 19, Indianapolis, police said. INDIANA WEATHER Fair south, partly cloudy north with chance of a few thundershowers extreme north tonight, Saturday partly cloudy, chance of a few thundershowers north, fair south and continued quite warm, turning somewhat cooler extreme north in afternoon. Low tonight 67 to 73. High Saturday 87 to 95. Sunset today 7:43 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 5:57 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy with chance of scattered thundershowers afternoon and evening. Continued warm. Lows 65 to 70 north, 70 to 75 south. Highs 85 to 90 north, 90 to 95 south.

boosted Discoverer rocket. It carried no life, only instruments. The two- stage Discovererdubbed “Agena," after toe star—apparently worked perfectly. The 19-foot long, 1,700-pound second stage carrying the capsule separated on schedule and entered a north-south polar orbit at speeds better than 18,000 miles an hour. Tracking stations reported the satellite’s signals “loud and clear.” It sped around toe earth once every 94 minutes in a looping orbit that at its farthest took it about 450 miles out and at its closest 136 miles. A combination of a radio-trig-gering device and automatic timers were set to eject the 300 pound capsule on its 17th pass somewhere over central Europe. Pneumatic gas jets will turn the capsule to fly “backwards.” A1 toe ejection command, explosive springs and bolts will send it towards earth. From that tremendous distance of nearly half-way around toe world, toe Air Force planned a trajectory which would set the capsule in a 50 by 200-mile recovery area 700 miles southwest of Hawaii.

Situation Quiet At Little Rock Schools

1 LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) — Gov. Orval E. Faubus said today that if Little Rock police had 1 failed to control anti-integration - violence at Central High School - Wednesday, he “was prepared” to > take over with state police and » the National Guard. . “I can well anticipate your next question, ‘How would I have han- . died the situation once I had taken over?’ ” Faubus said at a , news conference. . “That I do not care to answer i at the present time.” 1 Firemen and city police broke ’ the back of a demonstration at ‘ Central High School Wednesday 1 with high pressure fire hoses and nightsticks. Police threw 24 per- ? sons into jail. 1 Woman Asks Protection i There has been no trouble since. > Three Negro girls went to classes t peacefully at Hall High School toI day for the third straight day. i The police guard at Hall was reduced to 11 men. i Faubus, in fact, said he had , checked with the director of state police who told him “everything Is relatively quiet.” Faubus said J he is going to leave town three or 8 four days and go fishing. 8 The White House withheld comr ment on an appeal by Mrs. L.C. Bates, leader of the integration movement in Little Rock, to President Eisenhower to protect her home. Mrs. Hntfi teipgHtohed toe President late Thursday after ) state police arrested three Negroes she said had served as vol- ' unteer guards of her home for ’ carrying concealed weapons. ! “If local authorities fail in the future to keep the peace at integrated schools,” Faubus said, “I ■ am now prepared and I will be prepared in the future. Denies Harrassment Charge Faubus denied that the arrest of Mrs. Bates’ three “volunteer” guards by state police was “harrassment.” “This was no harrassment ot any kind.” he said. “Any person carrying weapons these days should be picked t „ Faubus said Police Chief Gene Smith handled the situation at Boys Slate Delegate Is Rotary Speaker Larry Sheets, Decatur high school student, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sheets, presented an interesting discussion on Hoosier Boys State at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Young Sheets, who will be a senior in Decatur high school in September, attended the week’s Boys State at Indiana University this summer. After expressing his thanks to the service club, which sponsored his attendance, the student related some of his experiences. AU the boys were divided into eight counties and two cities during the opening day registration, following which they were welcomed by Herman B Wells, president of Indiana University. The 900 boys present were offered classes in government, speech, police and band. Sheets was a member of toe band. Primary elec- ■ tions, using paper ballots, were • held Tuesday, and the final election was by voting machines on Thursday. Gov. Harold Handley, at Indiana, was guest speaker for the delegates Thursday evening. Hie boys operated Friday in toe various offices to which they had been elected. Sheets was named as state senator. Bill Snyder, program chairman for the month of August, conducted the program. The golf trophy, , won by Bill Schnepf, Kenny Schnepf, Harold Engle and J. F. . Sanmann in the annual golf outing with the Berne and Bluffton ' chibs last week at Bluffton, was on display during the evening.

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Central Wednesday the same way the Russians handled the revolt in Hungary. “Os course, it’s quiet now,” he said. “It’s quiet in Hungary. The burdens of Gene Smith have just begun. So have the burdens of those who give Gene Smith his orders. “It is not likely to be peaceful here for a long, long time. By that I mean without incidents or use of force.” He said he does not think future demonstrations will do any good. One of the Negroes arrested by state police is Ellis Thomas Sr., 45, father of Jefferson Thomas, the student attending Central high. Other integration developments included: —Gov. Orval Faubus appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court a U.S. district court decision that the laws under which he closed Little Rock’s four high schools during the 1958-1959 session were unconstitutional. —Police arrested a total of eight boys Thursday. They charged three with carrying concealed weapons, like a rubber hose and a tire tool, and a fourth with refusing to move on. They released after questioning two boys from Ocala, Fla., and Memphis, Tenn. —The segregationist Capital Citizens Council announced that its “freedom fund” for proving legal help for persons arrested while fighting for segregation is gone and appealed for contributions. —Twenty-three Negroes whom toe school board has refused to assign to Central formed an organization and refused to attend any school until they can attend an integrated school. Mrs. Bates, who is president of the Arkansas chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said city and county officers had refused to protect her and the FBI said it couldn’t. “Now state police have begun to arrest and harrass the upstanding citizens who have provided us with volunteer protection, leaving us defenseless before those who constantly threaten our lives,” she telegraphed Eisenhower. “I appeal to you, Mr. President, to provide the basic protection that will give us the freedom from fear to which citizens of our free American society are entitled."

Decatur Lady Is Winner Os 1959 Automobile

A Decatur resident won a spanking new, all-white, 1959 Pontiac Catalina .as the seventh grand prize wdnner of the Ohio Oil company’s “Quarter Million Dollar Smile-Maker Sweepstakes.” Mrs. Cal Burnette ,of 512 N. Third street, smiled broadly and happily throughout a 30-minute presentation ceremony at the R and S. Marathon station at 13th and Nuttman Thursday afternoon. The event took on a carnival air as flashbulbs competed with a brightly shining sun and newsmen from Fort Wayne, Van Wert, 0., Berne, and, of course, Decatur, mingled among the celebrities, jotting down notes and tape recording the joyous event. Radio stations WOWO and WANE of Fort Wayne will feature the local event on a regular newscast. Richard Rambo, of 110 S. Fifth street, and Bruce Schnepp, of route 3, the local Marathon dealers, presented Mrs. Burnette with the keys to the gleaming new machine. Robert Sautbine, partner of the local Pontiac agency, Decatur Super Service, and Foyd Gerhold, zone manager of the Ohio Oil Co., and Kenneth P. Singleton, local Marathon distributor, also participated in the formal presentation. Tom Briede, local photographer, snapped the official presentation

Reppert Graduate Rites Held Today Ninety members of the summer 1959 class of the Reppert school of auctioneering graduated this noon after completing a three-week course in all types of auctioneering. At 11:30 this morning the graduation banquet began at the Decatur Youth and Community center. Following that were the graduation ceremonies, with the president of the school. Dr. Roland Reppert, presenting the diplomas, and Col. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of the school, and Col. G. L. Pettit, instructor, speaking. Thursday afternoon Robert Heller and Louis Jacobs, representing the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, presented large wooden keys to the city of Decatur to each graduate, together with a brief explanation of the history of the Decatur area. Heller explained to the students the great reverence shown by local patriots for the Anthony Wayne trail, and stated that one of the school people apparently had violated the trail by speeding down it in a hot rod. A John Doe warrant was then read and the vehicle, described as a power packed hot rod, 1959 license Pa. PZ 59, was found to belong to Col. Q. R. Chaffee, dean of the school. A warrant from the Root township J.P. court, acusing him of “driving without the proper attitude of respect' arid revftfence towards a great hero of the Middle West, General (Mad) Anthony Wayne, in a hot rod across the parkway, all being contrary to local custom,” was read. A sheriffs sale was then held of the vehicle by the students, but after a proper plea by the owner, things were settled amicably. Following the exercises, several pictures were taken of the students and faculty. The auction school, known over the United States, attracted the 90 students from 22 states and two provinces of Canada for ’Jhis session. Last year, there w<ye 76 students enrolled in the summer course, representing 24 states of the United States. Teen-ager Dies As Stolen Car Wrecked CARMEL, Ind. (UPI)—A sports car stolen in nearby Indianapolis went out of control and was demolished when it crashed into a bridge abutment near here early today, killing a teen-age youth and injuring his brother. State Police asid Harold Schmidt, 17, Carmel, died of a skull fracture and crushed chest. His brother, Gerald. 20, hospitalized in fair condition, was charged with vehi-

pictures. The strikingly attractive mother of two children said that she definitely would keep the new car, but she was not so sure of the fate of the old Burnette machine. She is the wife of Calvin Burnette, who is employed at Phelps-Dodge at Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Burnette are the parents of a boy, Barry ,12, and a girl, Kelly, 5. She is the second Indiana winner in the contest as Eugene Wood, of Fort Wayne, took the second week's prize of a 1959 Pontiac. R. K. Swanson, advertising manager of Ohio Oil Co., of Findlay, 0., said that hundreds of thousands had entered the contest every week over the eight-week period in June and July. Each week, persons who registered at local Marathon stations in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin qualified for a chance at one of the grand prizes and lesser gifts such as cameras, lawn chairs, charcoal grills, and fry pans. Swanson also informed the local dealers that the company would send them a scrapbook of the event, including a tape recording by both radio stations, a set of pictures, and the newspaper clippings.

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Santiago Conference in Turmoil

SANTIAGO, Chile (UPI) —West-ern-Hemisphere foreign ministers gingerly resume today a conference thrown into turmoil by a violent Cuban-Dominican exchange of insults which may have included threats to murder Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa. Conference PreslGence German Vergara expressed hope that the meeting would “develop normally,” but other Gelegates feared that new outbreaks might demoralize It completely. The bitter exchange Thursday was touched off by Roa’s charge that this week’s uprising in Cuba was "organized and financed in Ciudad Trujillo,” the Dominican capital. Dominican foreign minister Porfirio Herrera Baez heatedly denied the charge, calling Roa a “squid who stains the Caribbean red.” The Cuban leaped to his feet, calling Herrera a “filthy, heartless assassin.” Vergara, who is Chile’s foreign fniriister, hastily adjourned the meeting and began efforts to patch up the quarrel Late Thursday night, after conferring separately with Roa and Herrera, he said the situation “has been overcome.” As Roa stalked out of the conference hall in Santiago’s Hotel] Carrera, a burly Dominican —ap-i parently the bodlyguard of a delegate — was heard muttering threats against him. A few minutes later, the Cuban delegation charged in a formal statement that the Dominicans had made repeated threats to kill Roa during the two days since the conference opened. Herrera denied the Cuban charge at a press conference Thursday night. The uproar underscored the urConfesses To Three Hew York Slayings ISLIP, N.Y. (UPI) — Francis Henry Bloeth. 27, diagnosed in his teens as an incurable psychopath who strangled cats for fun, confessed Thursday night that he had killed two men and a woman for no more reason. “If I had had more bullets, I would have shot more people,” Suffolk County Dist. Atty. John P. Cohalan Jr. quoted Bloeth as saying. “These people were just like flies on Bloeth's hand,” Cohalan said. “He just rapped them and killed them, just like that.” Bloeth’s victims, all killed within an eight-day period, were all night workers on duty alone in eating places in three different eastern Long Island towns. He was arrested Monday for a non-fatal “Russian roulette” holdup and as a “prime suspect” in the killings, but he insisted he was innocent until Thursday night, when his wife and his attorney pleaded with him for more than an hour to tell the truth they suspected. “I felt all along he had done it,” Mrs. Jame Bloeth. 25, told newsmen as she and the attorney, Sidney R. Siben, made the first announcement of the confession. “I pleaded with him to spare more innocent people from being killed,” Mrs. Bloeth said. Both Siben and Cohalan said Bloeth appeared without remorse. Cohalan said he had asked Bloeth whether he had any feeling for his family and if he didn’t feel sorry to have brought them this trouble. He said Boeth replied: “I wouldn't shoot my wife, my mother or my daughter.” Cohalan said: “I just couldn’t believe what this man told me as he talked. It was an absolute nightmare." Jgf

gent in recent months by revolutions and invasions and in some cases by virtual threats of war. Laud Railroad Crew For Gas Disposal FRIESLAND, Wis. (UPI) — Police and firemen today praised the cool efficiency of a railroad crew ■who freed the safety valve on a derailed tank car filled with enough propane gas to blow up this tiny hamlet of 450. The 12-man crew calmly lifted the tank car from the wreckage of a building and opened the valve to pump the explosive gas to the safety of nearby storage tanks, ending a 20-hour ordeal early Thursday night. Hary Streekstra. one of a team of firemen who spent a day of sleepless vigil by the tank car, expressed awed admiration for toe wrecking crew. “It seemed they didn’t realize the 1 danger they were in,” he said, i “They were so calm. I’ve never I seen such coordination.” A deputy sheriff joined in praising the heroism of the crew in flirting with disaster. “It sure took a lot of guts to do something like that,” he said. One slip — the slightest spark — could have touched off the tank car, leaking the propane gas from several ruptures in its seams. As the leaking gas slowly spread over this community 35 miles northwest of Madison, a state of martial law was declared. About 40 families, half of Friesland’s population, were evacuated from a four-block area near the tracks. When the danger was over, the villagers began moving back from neighboring farms.

Invasion Os Cuba Crushed

HAVANA (UPD — The government announced today it had smashed an airborne invasion from the Dominican Republic in central Cuba. It said the fighting was led personally by Premier Fidel Castro. The announcement said the final blow to the attempted invasion came Thursday night when the Castro-led forces captured a Dominican C 46 transport plane which had flown in with another shipment of arms and munitionsfor the invading forces. Four men were killed in the fight for toe plane outside the city of Trinidad—two counter - revolutionaries and two members of the government forces. The government announcement said the plane was piloted by former Lt. Col. Antonio Soto. It said Soto and a former Capt. Retancourt were among six of the 10 occupants of the plane who were injured. The two rebel dead were not identified. Trinidad is in Las Villas province where premier Fidel Castro personally has been directing government troops against a counterrevolutionary movement. The plane apparently was bringing in more leaders of the anti-Castro movement. Castro and a number of his top

Says Exchange Os Visits Is Hope Os Future WASHINGTON - (UPD — Vice President Richard M. Nixon said today that East-West exchanges like the forthcoming visit of Soviet Premier Khrushchev are “the hope of the future.” Nixon gave this estimate of the importance of the Soviet-Ameri-can exchanges in one of 10 tele-vision-radio interviews he has recorded with members of the Senate and House., He told Sen. Karl E. Mundt (RS.D.) that there are “some minuses as well as pluses” in the Khrushchev. .visit. But he said President Eisenhower “had "in mind the problems that are. Jo?*., voived’’ in inviting the Soviet leader to this country. Nixon's series ot filmed and taped interviews with legislators, including Senate Democratic campaign chairman George Smathers (Fla.), gave him a special “grassroots” audience for a report on his recent trip to Russia and Poland. The vice president narrated two network TV film reports on his tour last Sunday night, but has not made a full-fledged TV speech on his 15-day trip. Seven senators and three House members invited Nixon to join them for interviews for showing on their local or statewide TVradio programs. Their areas ranged from New York to Kentucky and Washington. First of the group to be released was that made with Smathers. Nixon told the southern Democrat, a personal friend, that “when the chips are down” on a very important decision he did not think Khrushchev would act “impetuously.”

lieutenants were directly involved in capturing the plane and breaking up a plot against the government, the announcement said. Captured "invaders” included Luis Pozo Jimenez, son of Havana ex-Mayor Jus to L. Pozo; and a man identified as the son of former Lt. Col. Lutgardo M. Perez, who commanded the police department’s prowl-car fleet under the regime of ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista. The announcement said Suban government Lt. Eliope Perez and a civilian, Frank Hidalgo Cato, also were killed and that six government men were injured in the exchange of fire with the invaders. —' Cuban authorities said the Dominican plane was carrying large quantities of arms and munitions. They also said the government had captured several other such shipments of arms during recent days in defeating the invasion force. The government said Castro had been on the scene, for two days and would report to the nation tonight. This presumably would be the nationwide radio - television speech first expected last Saturday when Castro was reported ready to announce defeat of an 1 anti-government plot.

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