Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 110, Decatur, Adams County, 9 May 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. HO.

Congressional Demands Grow For Explanation Os Spy Plane Incident

WASHINGTON <UPD — Intclli-i gence chief Allen W Dulles and, Secretary <»f State Christian A. I Herter invited hey member* of | Congres*- to a clo’cd-door briefing | tftis afternoon on the US. spy plant' incident The briefing was called in response to growing congressional demands for further explanation of the weekend disclosure that un American reconnaissance plane was shot down deep inside Russia while on a spy mission. j Speaker Sam Rayburn disclosed ! plans for the briefing after re-| vealing he told the State Department early today "somebodyought to explain" more about the mission, including "who allowed i this man to do this fly mgThe White House clamped a lid of silence on the sensational incident but denied that President Eisenhower had ordered a halt to all flights over or near Communist borders. Won't Address People Tn another development. Norwegian Ambassador Paul Koht asked to see Herter to discuss the flight which Russia claimed was supposed to terminate at a Norwegian base. The Norwegian embassy said the envoy acted on instructions from his Foreign Office but it did not describe the visit as a. “protest.” Both White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty and hi®, associate. Anne Wheaton denied a report bv the New York Time*, that the President had ordered a stop to flights over or near Red borders pending an executive investigation of the entire intelligence apparatus of the government. Hagerty denied that an executive inquiry was in progress. Hagerty was asked if the President would go on the air before leaving this weekend to attend the Summit meeting with Russia. He said "I can’t answer that," but he added that Eisenhower had no plans to speak to the people about the US. flight over the Soviet. The question of U.S. reconnaissance flights near, the Iron Curtain exploded into the headlines last week * when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disclosed arwi the U.S. confirmed that Francis G. lowers, a civilian employed by the government, was on an observation mission when his U 2 high altitude jet plane was shot down inside Russia on May Day Stands on Statement Two members of a Republican congressional group, which breakfasted with Eisenhower this morning, said the plane incident came up once during the gettogether. Rep. Thomas . Curtis (R-Mo.) said the President was asked what this country’s position was In reply. Curtis related, the President said that a carefully prepared statement covering the subject had been issued Saturday night and he preferred to stand on that. t _ ~ i_ Rep. Glenard P- Lipscomb (R-Calif.) said that the President told the group that he had nothing more to say on the subject other than the Saturday statement. The President scheduled a meeting with the National Security

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I Council this afternoon The counijcil. which inc ludes the vice prvsi'dent, secretary of state, defense ' i secretary and defense mobilizer, I rouM hardly l»»rr the furor as ’ | home and abroad created by the IU.S. admission. j Demands have already been 1 made in Congress for a hill ex'■planation of the handlihg of the i' intelligence flight just before the ’ I crucial summit conference was to ■ begin in Paris. May 16 Doan Heads GOP, Hebble Reelected jl John M. Doan, former two-term mayor of Decatur and Washington township trustee, was unanimously elected chairman of the Adams county RepuMican central committee Saturday at 1 pm. in the only change of officers in either party. Doan replaced Harry "Peck" Essex, who had served as Republican chairmen since 1944. including a two-year term as district chairman. Essex resigned in order to apply for the acting postmasicrDr. Harry H. Hebble was reelected Democratic county chairman Saturday in a meeting in the Adams county court room. This will be Dr. Hebble’s fourth two-year term Also reelected were vice chairman. Mrs. Elrper Beer: secretary. Mrs. Austin Merrimam and treasurer. Wendell Macklin. Republicans reelected in their meeting at the dining room of the Rice Hotel were: vice chairman, Eleanor Snyder of Geneva: secretary, Glenn tfeuenschwander, of Berne, treasurer. Cal E. Peterson, of Decatur. Advertising Index Advertiser Page A&P Tea Co., Inc. - 3 Bower Jewelry Store 3 Burk Elevator Co. — 5 Butler Garage, Inc. —— 5 Budge.t Loans ® Burke Insurance Service 4 Cowens Insurance Agency 2 Drive-In Theater —- 6 Erie Railroad ----- - - - - 6 Farm Bureau Auto Insurance .. 6 Funk Seed Co. 4 Holthouse Drug Co. 2 Holthouse Furniture Store 5 International College - 4 Masonic 2 Myers Cleaners — 2 Herman Moellering 4 Niblick & Co. , 3 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 : Smith Drug Co. _-. -i - 2 ; Shaffer’s Restaurant 2 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Heller And Lybarger Reappointed Today Robert H. Heller, Decatur, and Muri Lybarger, Hoagland, were reappointed—today—by—-Governor Handley as members of the Anthony Wayne parkway commission.

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Early Trial For Powers Expected

MOSCOW <UPU—The Russians probably will react violently to; ' the news that the United States i has admitted the plane shot i down over Russia last week prob-1 ably was gathering information. Observers here said today A Toss (official Soviet' agency | dispatch in today’s newspapers, saving the State Department had admitted that the plane was spying on Russia, was the first word published h«T about the US. announcement. Moscow ooservers <u»u believed 1 that Francis G. Powers, of Albany. Ga.. pilot of the downed plane, would be tried quickly and publicly, probably on spy charges. Faces Possible Ex eention If found guilty Powers could be sentenced to execution by shooting. They said Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s "question” to the Supreme Soviet Saturday about such a trial meant it almost cer-

Operating Balance Higher At Hospital The operating cash balance at the Adams county memorial hospital rose by $2,466 in April, compared with a loss of $1,483.07 a year ago, Thurman Drew, hospital manager, said this morning. The monthly deposits pushed the figures for the first four months of the year to a profit of $1,182.89. as compared with a loss of $4,350.60 a year ago for the same period. A cash operating balance of $12,381.82 was on hand April 1. During the month $33,730.79 was deposited. Bills were $12,651.55 for April, and the payroll was $18,613.24. Expenses totaled $31,264.79. Operating cash balance on hand April 30 was $14,847.82. At the beginning of the month 50 adults and' three babies were present at the hospital. During the month. 171 adults were admitted, and 43 babies were born. A total of 14 patients and two babies died. There were 171 patients and 40 babies dismissed, leaving 36 adults and four babies in the hospital May 1. . ‘ There were 26 boys and 17 girls delivered during the montn, includiing two sets of twins in tne 43 deliveries. —A total of 187 outpatients were treated in the laboratory, X-ray, or emergency, surgery room. bulletin Mrs. Hazel Zimmerman, 52, wife of Lawrence Zimmerman of Decatur route 4, died at 10:10 a. m. today at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton. The body was removed to the Goodwin funeral home to Bluffton pending funeral arrangements.

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tainly will be held . Khrushchev and Russian comi men la tors were expected to use ;the Stale Department announce ‘ment as the occasion for sweeping 'denunciations of American "ciumsiness. hypocrisy and warmongering." Unaware of Flight Soviet dispatches from Washirqpon emphasized White House press secretary James C. Hager ty’s statement that President Eis-» enhower did not know about the plane’s flight over Soviet territory. Khroshchev said Saturday he was prepared to accept the Hagerty statement, buthe expressed concern about the President’s “alarming...ignorance in that respect.” The premier blamed the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon for the incident.

Schaadt Funeral Is Held This Afternoon Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs—, Elizabeth Schaadt, 86, lifelong resident of the Ohio City. 0.. community, who died Friday in a rest home at Rockford, 0., after a long illness. Surviving are four sone, Lawrence Schaadt of Monroe, Walter of Spencerville, 0., John of near Willshire. 0., and David of neai; Ohio City; a sister, two brothers, six grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

Cigarette Ban Is Suggested

WASHINGTON (UPD- A congressman suggested today that the federal government outlaw cigarettes on grounds they may cause cancer. The administration said no. Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Flemming told the House Commerce Committee that his departs ment lacks authority to invoke such a ban and he ' Would not recommend congressional action giving him that power at this time. The suggestion came from Rep. John Bell Williams (D-Miss.) who told Flemming “The greatest thing you could to in the interest of public health would be to ban the use of tobacco.” » The matter of smoking came up at a hearing where Flemming was arguing for a law prohibiting I the use of color additives in foods and cosmetics if the chemicals induce cancer in test animals. Other congressional news: Plane: Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and intellii gence chief Alen W. Dules schedj uled a closed briefing for key . members of Congress on the U.S. spy plane incident. Airlines: Rep. Peter F Mack (D-Ill.) said he was introducing a bill to bar Subsidy payments to i U.S. domestic trunk airlines. But i he denied" the measure was aimed i at Capital Airlines which is in ■ deep financial trouble. Mack said i in a speech prepared for House i delivery that most airlines are big corporations with large revenues which should no longer be entitled to help from the taxpayers. Antitrust: House antitrust in- , vestigators reported they have uncovered nearly 200 possible violations of shipping and antitrust laws. Rep Emanuel Celler <DN.Y.), who heads the group, made the statement as the committee resumed hearings on rate practices of the ocean freight industry. _ : ~-r

Graduates Listed At Adams Central Fifty-three seniors of the Adams! Central high school will be graduated at commencement exercises! at the sch<M>l later this month. The commencement speaker will. be Darrell F. Linder, vice president of the Duff Truck Line. Inc . of Lima. 0.. in charge of industrial and public relations. Linder was formerly a professor at Findlay College. Findlay, O. , The list of graduates, asan-j nounced by Herman E. Frantz, principal, follows: Brooks Eugene Arnold, Twila Joy Arnold. Nancy M Bercot. Garry Lynn Bluhm. Mabel Z Bowers. Jfßhes Arthur Brown. Larry Clement Decker, Larry Wayne Forerrtan, Dennis Lee Fuelling, Jerry Alton Funk, Larry Arion Funk. Jerry D. Gerber. Harold Godsey. Loren James Habegger, Carol Jeane Hamilton, Robert Myron Hart. Madeline Hedington, Ted ' Palmer Helmrich. John Kaehr Heyerly, Junior Hullinger, David L. Houck. John Robert Inniger, Russel Harry Jaur- i egui, Jeanne Elizabeth Kaehr, Jos- ] eph Paul Longswoyth. Ronald L. ( Maines, Lana Opal Mcßride. Carol ' McKean, Dennis R. Martz, Carole Amu Miller. Delora Ann Mishler, Caroline Ann Myers, Doris Marie Myers. Gretchen Elaine Pyle, Tim Ringger, Thomas M. Ripley. Carol Joan Rupert. Sandra Tou Sanders, Jerry Lee Schwartz. Sidney L. Schwartz. Anthony Sharp. Dixie June Smith, Jeannie L. Smith, John Thomas Sommer, Richard Lee Steiner, Lois Ann Steury. Palmer D. UHck. Jack C. Wulliman. Glen William Yager, Janis Eileen Yoder. Marcia Lou Zimmerman, Philip Mcßride, Philip Gerber.

j The federal government has ' spent nearly 200 million dollars oh . , airline subsidies since 1938, he . said, but most domestic trunk lines got along without aid for the last eight years. ' He added "after 22 years a continuation can no longer be Justi- i I fied on the theory of helping these airlines get started.” , Capital Airlines has been petitioning in vain for a subsidy to help it get out of a financial bind it blamea on a combination of > bad weather, accidents and poor route structure that forces the line '■ to fly into cities with low passi enger turnover and in competition with larger carriers. .. , Mack denied his proposal was. , a case of taking advantage of i companies “which have come ; upon difficult times- -He -did- not . mention names, but this could ... have_■b^en---a reference..to.... Capital-.. ‘‘lt is quite the reverse;”. Mack > said, “for it is the companies . which would continue to take ad- . vantage of the U.S. taxpayer, ir- - respective of the true transportation requirements of the nation.” Other congressional news: Power: Rep. John D. Dingell : (D-Mich.) told the House in a pre- • pared speech that the Federal Power Commission is an “irre1 sponsible do-nothing" agency i which is neglecting its job of regI ulating the power industry. His at- ■ tack came as House investigators ‘ prepared to open bearings Tuesday on alleged back door attempts • to infuence rate decisions Housing: A Senate housing subcommittee began hearings on pro- • posed legislation. Sen. Joseph S. “ Clark <D-Pa.), a member.* of the • group said he would introduce a : $4,800,000,000 housing and urban ■ renewal program. Main items ■ would expand FHA programs for ■ mortgage insurance housing con- ■ servation and rehabilitation and blight elimination.

Both Os State Party Chairmen Likely To Stay INDIANAPOLIS (UP!* — The j flrat «tep »n lite btennul reorganizatton at Indiana'* poliUcal par- , tic* lock jdarc over the weekend; and the rc*ult» indicate*! that rte-1 publican "late chairman Edwinj W? Beaman and hia Democratic c.amicroart. Char lea E Stolen. wrr« virtually aaaured at retain-’ More than n.ono “grata rant*" I the state*'* 92 counties Saturday I and fleeted coanly chairmen and vice chairmen. The balloting was I done by precinct committeemen | and committccwomen elected in j Indiana'* 4 299 precincts, plus, vice committwm.n they appoint|ed after the primaries last TuesIn the majority of cases, Incumbents were chosen for new | terms as chairmen and srtctl chairmen In some counties, inI cumbent offices chose to with- 1 draw and in others they were unI seated after bitter intra-party bat-: In at least one instance, the county meetings ended with two I chairmen and two vice chairmen Perrv County Democrats elected, I Ula Jarboe as chairman and Mrs. jjunc Linne as vice chairman. But ' incumbent, chairman Frank Mueller held his own meeting and was | Ire-ek'cted. ' The chairmen and vice chairmen elected Saturday will meet this week in congressional district sessions to select district chairmen and vice chairmen, the Republicans Tuesday and the Democrats Wednesday. Reorganization meetings on the state level will be held by the Republicans Wednesday and by the Democrats Saturday. Beaman was handpicked for his ’ job by Governor Handley when former GOP chairman Robert I Matthews was ousted because of • a controversial social security speech. Handley is in complete control of the powerful Statehouse mlitical machine and is sure to lend solid backing to his former administrative assistant and tege. Beaman also gained support from the results of Tuesdays presidential preference P rl ™ a ’7 when Vice President Richard M. Nixon drew more votes than Democrat John F. Kennedy. Skillen also was a good remain at the head of the Democratic party His P res 2| v climbed in 1958 when former Evansville mayor , Hartk crushed Handley in the US. atorial race and again in 1959 when Democrats won the majority of the mayoralty contests. 1 Nixon’s showing last did not hurt Skillen, since Democrats turned out in greater numbers than Republicans. Four Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial nomination seek to gain control of the f»Jy t promote their chances, but it was doubtful that any of them had the strength to wrest control. And if they succeeded, it still was dou ful thes would oust Skillen. Generally speaking, the Republican county meetings Saturday were not as spirited as those of the Democrats Insurgent Republicans in Marion County, the state s largest, were crushed in their attempt to unseat the forces of district chairman H. Dale Brown. Willshire-Rockford School Merger Asked ...._ The -Ohio state..board, ot educar state to approve the proposed merging ofthe Willshire local ™hool district in Van Wert county, 0., with the Rockford district in Mercer county. Both boards of education in the counties asked , the state to study such .a possibility, and public instruction superintendent E. e. Holt made the recommendation. The 23-man board was asked to propose the creation of the new district. The Rockford-Willshire reorganization would bring 1.128 pupils into a new district, with a combined $15,050,192 tax evaluation. Holt said the merger would result in a new district meeting all the requirements of a permanent high school center. It would not interfere with the reorganization of adjoining school districts. Holt noted that the boards of ( education asked the state board to study the possibility of placing 1 S proposed mergers on ballots public election. * \ r. . I

Ike Harassed By Spy Plane

WASHINGTON tUP!»—h» the rtrrn tllcncv that enveloped the executive hr inch of government over the weekend an the subject lof the American spy plane in Russia, one fact required no ofI ficial e«>dtirm.>ti«wv~lhc discomfort lof President Elsenhower, This undoubtedly will hr a barI asstng week for the Pre*id«-nt law | fore he flies off Saturday night to I the Parts summit meeting. For one thing, there will be I mounting pressure from within his own political pwrty to aay ' something exjdanatory — faceI saving. in plainer words —about the admission of the State Department that the high-altitude American plane knocked down by Russia last weekend was on an intelligence flight over Soviet territory. Some of the few officials conversant with high level policy 1 were convinced Eisenhower would ■ attempt to say as little as possible. Other officials within the administration thougW- 'bis was wishful thinking: that it would be I extremely difficult to ride out ; the current storm in an election j year Hold Strategy Huddle There was a strategy huddle of i key administration figures Saturi day afternoon before the State DeI [Kirtment issued its rather novel I admission of spy work in the air over the Soviet Union. The President and Secretary of State Chris-

U.S. Plane Blunder Is Dimming Hopes

LONDON <UPD — Newspapers throughout Europe said today the "blunder of the US. spy plane" had dimmed hopes for East-West agreement at this month s summit conference. No official comment was forthcoming immediately. Communists around the world used the plane story as a takeoff for anti - American propaganda 'blasts. Radio Moscow accused the United States of telling "a deliberate and clumsy lie” about the plane, and Red China’s propaganda radio l denounced the U.S. explanation as "gangster logic.” "Faced with inescapable responsibility for the crime of aggression, the U.S> State Department had tpe impudence to claim that ‘given the state of the world today, intelligence collection activities are practiced by all countries’,” a Peiping broadcast said. The Communist radio said authorities in two Asian satellite states. North Korea and North Viet Nam, joined Red China in its denunciation of the United Qf ntpe Doubt Soviet Story French newspapers questioned the Soviet account of the incident, asking whether pilot Francis Powers might have been a double agent who handed the plane over to the Russians voluntarily. The newspaper Paris Jour noted it was unlikely that the films the Russians say they took from the plane would have survived the explosion of an antiaircraft rocket and the subsequent crash. "They give rise to the following idea of what._ really happened: The American plane landed voluntarily. The Russians studied it, took all the proofs and documents they needed out of it, and then destroyed it,” the newspaper Aurore said. Newspapers in West Berlin expressed similar doubts about the Soviet story. “There is something fishy here,” said an editorial in the newspaper BZ. and Der Abend said the Soviet account was "hardly believable.” "Bedroom” Espionage Out Bath newspapers—said the. U 2 flight was no more than could be expected in an age when secrets are no longer to be “gathered in the bedrooms of, courtesans." “The Russians spy, too. And how!” said Der Abend. “Thanks to such dirty work they have their atomic and hydrogen bomtfe.” L’Humanite, the Communist organ in Paris, said the incident suggested that U.S. generals have too much freedom of action “Either the American government and Eisenhower knew about the U2’s espionage mission, thus proving that they are not so anxious to end the cold war ... or they were ignorant of the mission, -in which case we can legitimately worry about the fact that American military circles are completely free to go ahead on their own initiative in this way,” Humanite. said. London newspapers were second only to the Communists in the bitterness of> their comments on the incident. “The Americans have made fools of themselves,” said the

11 tian A, Hwter *l*o met at *«»mv 11 tength wmmme* J Agaiwt Ute backdr*s> <4 Itew i nuvUng* and hrfure thr National - Security Council met at the Whit® i i Houae thin afternoon. there j »rcmcd to be Wte»r tndlnuwia , pic in the government: J —The I’rr.wtout woikl like to nt tight on the plane incident for .' a few more day* to see if Soviet ! Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev add* fuel to the fire in Moacme. It seemed difficult for Eisenhower to aay anything publicly that might calm worried member* <4 , I Congress without riling Khrushchev anew. Summit Meeting Mandar » —Eounftswcr wdl g«> ahead ! with plans to leave late Saturday for the summit meeting opening Monday in Paria with Khiushctwv 1 French President Charles de •' Gaulle and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The United I State* cannot very well bow out • i of the summit in righteous indig- ' | nation since it was Russia woo i caught th's country with the intelligence goods. —ln substance, there is very f little Eisenhower could say pub- • j licly to case the situation. Ho - could regret the incident, but 1 i that, reasoned some officials, -j might be better said directly to - Khrushchev when they see each -1 other in Paris _________

News Chronicle (Liberal), while the Times (Conservative), said the incident “handed Mr. (Soviet Premier Nikita) Khrushchev his propaganda triumph on a plate." Urge Stern Action The left wing tabloid Daily Mirror said President Eisenhower should ■ “deal sternly with • the idiots who were responsible.' The Laborite Daily Herald called the incident “either deliberate sabotage (of the summit conference) or criminal carelessness.** "Both America and Russia have been playing this game.” sa’d the Conservative Daily Mail Khrushchev is better at it. He can | make rings around the honest, Hikeable but slower-witted soldier ■ in the White House.” Die Welt of Hamburg, Germany, called the Incident “distressing.” (

; Would Cut Present Cuban Sugar Quota WASHINGTON <UPU — Sen. George A. Smathers (D-Fla.l in-.,, troduced legislation today to extend the Sugar Act four years but cut Cuba's present quotas by nearly 10 per cent. Smathers insisted his bill wa-> "in no sense a reprisal against Cuba.” However, he said, “for rraany years our sugar legislation has given a virtual monopoly of the foreign share of the United States to one country," CubaSmathers’ program would allot quotas from future expansion of U.S. sugar purchases among new countries seeking to enter the U.S. market according to the volume of their purchases from this country. Cuba’s quota would be permanently pegged at its 1956 level of 2,808,000 tons under the Smathers bill Increases totaling 301.69> tons granted to Cuba since then, through U.S. market expansion, would be divided among domestic U-.S suppliers and foreign nationsOs the total. 150,000 tons would <ro to U.S. beet producing areas and 50,000 to mainland cane growing' areas. Also, the President would be given authority to further cut the Cuban quota, jn any year if he found it-in the national interest » Smathers said his bill still would leave Cuba with about 30 per cent of the U.S. sugar marketINDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy, continued cool through Tuesday with occasional light rain or drizzle north and central this afternoon and tonight, probably in northeast Tuesday. Partial clearing southwest Tuesday. Low tonight mostly in the 30s. High Tuesday 45 to 55 northeast, 55 to 62 southwest. Sunset today 7:46 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:36 am. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and continued cool. Lows 37 to 47. Highs 55 to 65.

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