Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 131, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 131.

Khrushchev Fires New Bitter Personal Attack On Pres. Eisenhower

Major Step Is Taken Toward Easing Credit WASHINGTON (UPI) — The government today took a major step toward easing credit in recons* to signs of slackening business activity and dwindling inflationary pressures. The Federal Reerve Board authorized the Federal Reserve banks at San Francisco and Philadelphia to lower .their discount rates —the interest on loans to commercial banks—from 4 to 3>k per cent as of today The 10 other Federal Reserve banks were expected to get the same authority. In New York City. Wall Street investors looked for the big commercial banks to follow up the action by cutting their interest rates on loans. But the banks might hold up the move to see whether the reserve authorities will continue to make more loan reserves available. Some congressional Democrats, while applauding the board’s action. charged it was politically motivated. Sen- A.S. Mike Monroney <dOUa.) sdM the Republicans had lost the peace issue and “now they have to hang on to the prosperity issue.” Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-IU.) said the discount rate reduction “vindicated” the position of Democrats who opposed an administration proposal to eliminate the interest ceiling on government bonds, “for which we took so much abuse." The discount rate cut did not mean the government felt a new was imminent. But it reflected dn part a recognition by the board that the economy had slowed down from the post-steel strike spurt of the early months of this year.

Nikita Claim Called Untrue

WASHINGTON (UPD — The White House today described as “absolutely untrue” Soviet Pre* mi e r Nikita S. Khrushchev’s claim that President Eisenhower opposed German reunification during their Camp David talks last September. The White House also reasserted this country’s intention to “stand firmly by our Allies” That was a reference to Khrushchev’s repetition at a Moscow news conference today of Soviet threats to launch rockets at bases from which any planes take off and violate Soviet air space. Khrushchev told newsmen that Eisenhower had informed him at Camp David he was "not willing to see a united Germany because the United States fears a strong Germany.” “The reference to the German unification is absolutely untrue,” Associate. White House Press Secretary Anne Wheaton told newsmen. She was asked if that referred specdfiioalliy to Khrushchev’s • claim that Eisenhower was opposed to and fearful of German unification. “That is correct,” Mrs. Wheaton said. She said President Eisenhower was aware of Khtushchev’s latest news conference remarks in which the Soviet premier again made a bitter personal attack on Eisenhower. Some members of Congress suggested that Khrushchev's bitter personal remarks about Ei : senbower might indicate he was in trouble'at home. This view was expressed by Sen. George D. Aiken (R-Vt.» of the Senate For- ’ eign relations Committee Sen. Spessard L. Holland <DFia.) said Khrushchev, judging by bis most recent remarks, appears to be “frightened about

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Record Heat Wave Scores California United Frrwi Interna lions I A recordbreaking heat wave scored central California with 1<»degree temperatures today. The mercury soared to 107 at Hayward. Calif., and set off a fire alarm in a frozen food plant. San Francisco recorded an alltime high for June 2 Thursday when the thermometer hit 95. two degrees above the old record set in 1912 . • In Marin. Contra Costa and San Mateo counties, surrounding San Francisco. 106-degree heat was reported A poultry farm at Sebastopol reported that 8.500 hens died as the temperature hit 105. One man. a 60-year-old construction worker at Pacifica, collapsed and died of heat prostration. .... . The Weather Bureau predicted more “very hot” readings today from Arizona into northern California. Thunderstorms dotted the Atlantic coastline Thursday night. Augusta. Ga.. reported 244 inches of rain and an inch fell at Mobile. Ala. Light showers sprinkled the upper Great Lakes and North Dakota and a few thundershowers dampened the southern Plains and Rockies. The weatherman said showers and thundershowers would continue today along the eastern seaboard, with widely-scattered thunderstorms predicted from interior southern California into Oklahoma and north into western Kansas and Nebraska. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair south, partly cloudy north tonight and Saturday. Not much temperature change. Lows tonight 55 to 62. Highs Saturday in the 70s extreme north to the 80s extreme south. Sunset today 8:08 p.m. Sunrise Saturday A:18 a. .m. - Outlook for Sunday: Mostly fair and warm. Possible showers extreme north. Lows 55 to 62. High Sunday. 75 to 85. *T

something and is, whistling in the dark” to keep his courage up. Before the White House issued its statement, a high U-S. official had asserted that Khrushchev “perverted” Eisenhower’s Camp David remarks on Germany. He termed it a new effort by Khrushchev to split the Allies. The official, conversant with details of the intimate Khrushchev - Eisenhower discussions, flatly denied that the President had told the Soviet leader he did not favor unification of Germany because the United States feared the strength of a resurgent Germany. The Khrushchev - Eisenhower conversation on Germany at Camp David, according to sources in a position to know, did not concern the merits of wisdom of German reunification. The President and Khrushchev appear*! to agree that unification was a desirable objective. But Eisenhower in his talks with the Soviet leader reflected the American view, concurred in by Britain and France, that the reunification problem was not ripe for solution at the moment. Eisenhower found that Khrushchev appeared to share this view. Khrushchev, in his charge today, appeared rto have taken this exchange and “perverted” or “distorted” its meaning to charge Eisenhower with flat opposition to German unification, the U.S. officiad said. .. , Commenting on Khrushchev s intensified personal attack on Eisenhower, American officials saM this appeared to reflect the Soviet leader’s extreme chagrin at the necessity erf explaining to his Kremlin colleagues, Communist China and the European satellites why he had not been able to manipulate Eisenhower into concessions on major issues

MOSCOW I UP!'-Soviet Pre mier Nikita 8. Khrushchev launched another bitter personal attack on President Ei'-entiowcr today, saying he was irresponsible. unfit for office and danger <>us“ as the head of a major state. (in Washington, the White House declined to comment on Khrushchev's remarks. "We have no comment." said Mrs. Anne Wheaton, associate press secretary.) Khrushchev also chimed that Elsenhower toM him at Camp David he did not favor unification of Germany because he feared a strong Germany. As he did at a news conference in Paris at the collapse of the summit conference last month, the Soviet premier gesticulated with both hands in an excited ' manner as he lashed out at the U.S President before 400 newspaper, television and radio correspondents. Blasts Ike. Adenauer He offered Eisenhower a job as “manager of a kindergarten" in Russia where he could “do no harm” „ Khrushchev also said West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was ready for a “lunatic asylum." He reiterated a threat by his defense minister that Soviet rockets would strike at foreign bases from which any planes took off and violated Soviet air space. He started off with a tong statement reviewing the revised disarmament proposals which be presented to the world Thursday night Then he invited questions from correspondents and his statements on Germany followed. “Eisenhower told me at Camp David that he was not willing to see a united Germany because the United States fears a strong Germany,” Khrushchev said. He added that if French and British leaders spoke up honestly and boldly they also would admit they favored keeping Germany divided. Says Ike “Dangerous” Then Khrushchev lashed out at Eisenhower personally With some of the strongest and harshest criticism ever applied to the U.S. President. He said Eisenhower was irresponsible and unfit for office and he characterized the Eisenhower administration as “the dark age for America and the rest of the world.” , < Obviously excited and gesticulating with both hands, Khrushchev declared: “When he stops b*ing President the best job we could offer him in this country is manager of a kindergarten where we are sure he could do no harm. But to be at the head of a mighty state, he is dangerous." “He certainly could do a lot of harm in his position,” Khrushchev said. . Blames Secretary Dulles Khrushchev said that at the 1955 summit conference in Geneva the late Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sat on Eisenhower’s right. “The only thing the President would do was to take notes from Dulles hastily scribbled, and without even pretending, would glimpse at them,” Khrushchev said, meaning Dulles was telling the President what to say. “He would openly avert his eyes to what was written and wait for the next note on the next question. I was horrified at the spectacle and said to myself ...‘Where are we going.’ ” Khrushchev referred to Adenauer in similar terms. He said Adenauer his reason a long time ago and is fit only for a straightjacket and a lunatic asylum.” The Berlin Problem A Soviet correspondent asked Khrushchev to comment on Western reports that a summit conference is not likely within the next six or eight months as suggested by the Soviet premier “It is not we alone who need a summit, but all the right-think-ing people,” Khrushchev said., "We will be disappointed if there is no summit but we will continue our efforts. . ... “Some people think that the Berlin problem can remain unsolved indefinitely if there is no summit conference. They are mistaken. “We will wait a definite period and then call a meeting of the interested countries and sign a peace treaty with the German Democratic Republic (Communist

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I E«it Germany > after which th< . Western Powers will lose all thei. rtO»ts to Wert Berlin.” Again referring to Eisenhower. I Khrushchev said: "God knows what decisions ran | :be taken if ouch a man is head of a great state. Os course. J<*n ■ Foster Dulles is no more bait tor left brtund Alien DuKes 'CIA <blef* Somebody always will be: filling Dulles’ shoes. If it Is not I Dulles it is Herter or Nixon." Red Dtea rasa m ent Plan Khrushchev twitted Eisenhower about playing golf "at-a moment of crisis when the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations is making an invertigation ” "Does that mean he is in charge of national affairs?” he asked. Khrushchev said there were men of "great wisdom in America. such as Abraham Lincoln and; others and we bow to them But he compart'd the present 1 “dark period" of the United States to the 17th Century Russia under the reign of Czar Boris Godunov, j known as the "time of trouble in Russia. In his opening statement. Khrushchev called for quick adoption of the new Soviet disarmament plan to avert the threat of a global nuclear war. Donations Received For Chilean Relief More than S3O has already been received locally by the Red Cross office towards its $551 disaster fund to help the Chilean earthquake victims, Phil Sauer, chairman of the disaster committee, announced today. A special collection for the victims will be taken up at the First State Bank today and Saturday by volunteer workers. Those at the bank today are Mr?. Lloyd Bowman, Mrs. Herbert Fravel, Miss Grace tichtenstiger, and Mrs. William Schnepf. Saturday workers will be Mrs. Clarence - Smith ■ and -Mrs-- -L»- • E. Archbold in the morning, and Mrs Reinhold Sauer and Mrs. Charles Beineke in the afternoon. President Eisenhower has issued a plea for all Americans to join in the relief program to provide help for the more than two million homeless persons in Chile, where cold winter rains have left a miserable aftermath to the earthquakes in May.

Compromise Bill On Care For Aged

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The House Ways and Means Committee shelving more far-reaching proposals, today approved a limited program of governmentfinanced medical care for about 1,500,000 npedy old people. The committee climaked almost three months of closed-door deliberations by adopting a plan differing sharply from rival proposals of organized labor and the Eisenhower administration. These plans would benefit some 12 million ekierly persons. By voice vote, the committee instructed Chairman Wilbur Mills (D-Ark.) to introduce a bill embodying the committee’s compromise recommendations. The measure would offer federal grants to states willing to pay part of the costs of hospitalization, nursing home and other medical care for persons over 65 who are needy but not poor enough to qualify for public relief. '

Other congressional news: Radiation: A spokesman for the American Municipal Assn* complained that U.S. cities are being “neglected” in plans for dealing with atomic energy and radiation problems. However, Health Secretary Arthur S. Elemming told a House-Senate committee that “progress” had been made in the last year toward establishing the “foundation of a nationwide radiation protective program for the general pppulation.” Foreign Aid’ A spokesman for the American Farm Bureau Federation told the House Agriculture Committee the administra-

Oliver H. Lessig I Dies Last Evening Oliver H. LrMi*. 60. of route 2, j Berne. clu'd at 5:10 o’clock 'Diur*i day evening at the bos- ■ ; prt.il in Fort Wayne. He had been |jil three months and hospitalized i for three weeks. A retired car foreman in the ago office of the Erie mil-1 , he resided in Chicago until j 1960. when he moved to his home ! four miles cost and one and three- I fourths miles north of Berne. He was bom in Ha vine. TH.. Feb. 6. 1900. a son of Ezra and | I Martha Darrell-Lessig, and was i married to Helen A. Matushah i Nov. 30. 1927. r Mr. DBOSIg. a veteran of World I. was a member of the Decatur congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. ' Surviving In addition to his wife' are two • daughters, Mrs. John O’Brien and Mrs. Robert Mulcahy, and a son, Ronald Lessig, all of 1 Chicago; six grandchildren; one brother, Donald Lessig of Chicago, and a sister, Mrs. Monroe Gunsallus of Portland, Ore. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, Wilbur Tib-1 belts, of Fort Wayne, officiating. Burial will be at Chicago. Friends may call at the funeral home af-| ter 7 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. JFuneral Saturday For Scott Infant Debra Leigh Scott, three-month-old daughter of Sharon Scott, 328 BoMman street, died at 5:20 p.m. Thursday at the home. She had been ill since birth March 1, 1960. Surviving in addition to the mother are the gftmdperents, Mr. and Mrs. EHmer K. Scott. Mr. and Mrs Lutfjer Brown, and Orval Scott, all of Decatur. Private services will be held at .1 130JL JTU Satmsiay. at .the, funeral home, the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating.' Burial will be in the Decatur Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (UPI) —America’s currency communications alert was described today as a test of ability to send orders that would execute various readiness plans set up for use in an emergency.

tion is trying to pump extra money into the foreign aid program by a roundabout procedure. John C. Lynn, legislatire director of the bureau, said the administration seeks to take additional aid funds from a farm surplus disposal program which is charged to the Agriculture Department’s budget Expenses: House officials indicated they may call in, auditors to check questioned expense accounts of congressmen accused of using public funds for high living on “official” trips. Drug: Senate drug investigators called Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Flemming and George P. Larrick, director of the Food and Drug 'Administration, to testifj'. They faced questions about charges the FDA had failed to safeguard the public in approving new drugs. Trip: A feud developed over a trip planned by Rep. Charies O. Porter (D-Ore.) to an East-West parliamentary meeting in Sweden Rep. William E. Miller of New York, chainman of the GOP congressional campaign committee, asked Speaker Sam Rayburn (DTex.l to make clear that Porter's attendance was neither sponsored nor sanctioned by Congress. Porter called the Miller request “preposterous, cynical nonsense.” Pay Raise: A petition to pry from the House Rules Committee a stalled bill to give 1,700,000 postal and other government white collar workers a 9 per cent pay raise was only 30 signatures short of success. Backers of the move got 189 of the necessary 219 ignatures Thursday.

* S ■ F I , ■ £ S < «frI fettn Ihi WALK-OUT ON GREAT WHITE WAT—-Sign announce* hit com-dr. ’The TdMh Man *at tha Booth Th-atcr in New York but theater-goers a<« •oswpicuous bv their absence. The play s entire cast walked <>ut at show time to attend an Actors’ Equity meeting.•

Pay Boost For Rail Engineers

CHICAGO 'UPI> — A six-man arbitration board has made an award granting the nation's raUtroad engineers a pay increase tototaling about slk per cent over ttheir last contract, a union spokesman said today. The award of the arbitration board is final and binding on both parties. More than 30,000 engini eers are affected by the award. I Principal features of the award, the spokesman said, were: —Present ' cost-of-living allowances totaling more than 16 cents l an hour were incorporated into the basic daily rate of pay. —’A 2 per cent hourly wage increase, goes into effect July. 1. 1960, and another 2 per cent increase becomes effective March 1, 1961 The terms of the award and the wage contract between the nation’s railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers run until Nov. 1. 1961. The old contract expired last Nov. 1, so in effect the new contract is a two-year one. The union spokesman quoted BLE grand chief engineer Guy LBrowp ..as ..saying was _very happy with the award. Indirectly the award was expected to influence negotiations—and perhaps set a pattern for settlement—of wage disputes involving about 300.000 other ontrain employes—firemen, trainmen and conductors. The engineers had asked the arbitrators to grant them a 12 per cent wage increase, which would amount to about 34 cents an hour. Railroads proposed a 15-cent-an-hour pay cut. The RLE also asked that cost-of-living adjustments be incorporated into basic pay rates and that the escalator provisions be continued under a ne consumers price index base. The carriers argued that the cost-of-living escalator clauses should be cancelled. _ An estimated 7,500 BLE members now employed as firemen were excluded from the arbitration. Their wage rates were expected to be determined by negotiations between the railroads and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Burk Elevator Co. 5 Butler Garage, Inc. 5 Budget Loans 7 Leroy Bulmahn — - 8 D. S. Blair, Auctioneer 6 Chevrolet ® Cowens Insurance Agency Carling’s Black Label Beer — -7 Conrad’s “66" Service —— —7 Chic Dry Cleaners & Laundry; — 8 Drive In Theater ->-- 8 Ford "I Holthouse Drug Co. | Holthouse Furniture Store a Pauline Haugk Real Estate 5 Hiismann’s Decorating House — 4 Kohne Drug Store 2. 5 Lengerich Awnings & Railings . 2 Lightning Homes — j Jeff Liechty, Auctioneer - 6 Model Hatchery —i--* 5 Murphy Barber Shop • Niblick & Co. 3 Petrie Oil Co. 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. 3 Stucky & Co. —— 5 Sheets Furniture 2 Teeple Truck Lines - 5 Zintsmaster Motors -2, 4, 5. 6. 7. 8 Church Page Sponsors 6

• ♦ The arbitration hearings climaxed months of unsuccessful negotiations and mediation efforts. The National Mediation Board proposed arbitratioa after the two sides broke oft to Iks late in January and the union prepared to take a strike vote. Many Blood Donors Still Needed Here At least 50 0 pqsitiye and O negative blood drtnors are still needed for the visit of the bloodmobile>io Decatur next Wednesday, Mrs. Cletus B. Miller, program chairman, said this morning. In addition to the O types. 10 A positive and negative, 10 B positive and negative, and 30 AB positive donors are still needed. At least 180 donors must be scheduled by next Wednesday. Blood may be given at any time between* 10 a.in; and *4 pm. The goal for Adams county this time is 125 pints, and the county is ten or 20 pints behind in its annual quota. The Red Cross runs on a fiscal year ending June 30, so this will be the last visit for the Red Cross year: Last year Adams county reached about 95% of its goal in blood donations. Mrs. Lee Fleming, canteen chairman, announced the following workers for the June 8 blood collection: Mrs. Stella Schnepf. Mrs. Charles Beineke, Mrs. Herb Fravel, Mrs. L. E. Archbold. Mrs. i R. C. Hersh. Mrs. Lucile Miller, i and Mrs. Lee Fleming.

Strike Closes All Broadway Theaters

NEW YORK (UPD — Curtains failed to rise on Broadway Thursday night, and for the first time in 41 years the show did not go on anywhere along the Great White Way. The marquee lights were darkened and the footlights remained out as Broadway producers carried out a threat to shut down all 22 current plays and musicals in retaliation for a union - ordered cast ■ walkout St one theater -on Wednesday nightNegotiations continue today m the bitter contract dispute between Actors Elquity, which, represents all Broadway performer?, and the League of New York Theaters, representing Broadway producers and theater owners But spokesmen for both sides conceded they still were far apart and that a prolonged “Broadway bladkout” was likely. No Break Likely Onlv a sudden-change in either side’s' Adamant bargaining position. or a compromise—neither of which appeared likely — seemingly could bring an early end to the first such blackout since 1919 when the then-fledgling ActorEquity staged a one - month strike to win the right as bargaining agent for Broadway performers. , . Several leading producers forecast a long, drawn-out blackout

Hypnotist Speaker At Rotary Meeting Courtney Lubbes, of Fort Wayne demonstrated hypnotism to members and guests of the Decatur Rotary club at its weekly meeting Thursday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. IxMii sJacobs was program chairman. Lubbes, who attended Butler University and obtained a bachelor of science degree in psychology at East Texas State Teachers College. said that hypnotism had many practical applications in medicine and dentistry. He explained that about 25% of the population can be quite easily hypnotized, the next 25% with only a little difficulty, and the third 25% only with considerable effort, and the balance probably cannot be hypnotized. Older people are harder to hypnotize than with the twenty to thirty age group being the easiest. The subject must be willing or hypnotism is impossible. Lubbes said that hypnotism itself is not dangerous, but that suggestions made unskilled persons during the trance could possibly be harmful. He explained how these suggestions when properly and sensibly made by experts could be helpful to overcome certain problems. . The speaker demoasitr a a device which used a Minkihg light to induce a trance. He then put one of the men under a hypnotic trance, much to the delight of his audience. President TL P. Schmitt, Jr., announced that the Decatur dub would be represented at the Rotary district golf tournament to be held at Tippecanoe Country club next Tuesday. A ladies night is scheduled late this month, with Terj-? Strom'as speaker. Fines collected during the meeting, amounting to over S2B, were donated to the Chilean relief program through’the local American Red Cross chapter.

which, they said, would serve as a death blow to several “marginal” productions,-- which barely are surviving. Actors Equity represents approximately 11.000 actors and actresses. but only 1.100 are affected by the current shutdown. Seven national road companies employing Actors Equity members are not affected- Nor are offBroadwa'y theater or summer stock productions, both of which are covered by producer - Equity contracts which are still in force. 5.000 Workers Affected Also affected indirectly by the mass theater shutdown are about 5.000 other theater employes, including stagehands, electricians, musicians, ushers. wardrobe workers and box office personnel The key issue ,in the dispute is a pension plan which the union is seeking. Other issues include wages, working conditions, and out-of-town expenses. Current weekly wages range from $103.50 for chorus girls to nearly SIO,OOO for stars such as Jackie Gleason, Mary Martin and Ethel Merman. City officials, hotel owners, restauranteurs, night club operators and other businessmen were openly concerned about the fihencial losses a long shutdown would cause.

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