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NO. 2,11 TIIIIKSDAV MOIIMNd, FLIIKl'AKV 1:., I'M ML 8-2111 7 cknts vr; ri Li d) TO niA w) I'. fa Said Law epealer eare Hundley Dec! 3-Alarm Downtown Fire Checked; Damage Minor Demo Concedes GOP Will Bury Vital Measure 13 Counlies As Disaster Areas A state of emergency was declared in 13 flood stricken Indiana counties last night by Governor Harold W. Handlcy, who telegraphed President Eisenhower asking they be designated disaster areas. The rampaging Wabash River had swirled into Peru only a few hours earlier after breaking through two sandbag barricades piled atop floodwalls by frantically working volunteers.

By LESTER M. HUNT Repeal of the right-to-work law is a lost cause, Representative Otto Pozgay, South Bend Democrat, conceded yesterday after Republicans solidified in the Senate to defer action on 11.13. 6. Pozgay, a leader in the successful light to pass the repeal bill in the House, admitted defeat because of the parliamentary strait jacket in which II. B.

6, the repealer, was placed in the Senate. i U.i 5 I' 4X 7or One-Man County Rule Olid Legislation to abolish the Marion County Hoard of County Commissioners in favor of an elected one-man county administrator was approved for passage yesterday hy the Sen-nie Committee on the City of Indianapolis. The measure, which will be eligible for final Senate passage next week, calls for the election of a administrator next year, lie would take office Jan. 1, 1061, officially ending the board of county commissioners. INTRODUCED by Indianapolis Republicans J.

Russell Townsend Jr. and Mrs. Martha Y. Rurnctt, the bill has the solid backing of the lndian-npohs Chamber of Commerce and other civic groups who want increased efficiency of Marion County government. The administrator would have the same authority as the three-man commissioners' board except for minor legislative powers which would be transferred to the County Council.

Included in the admimstra-tor's responsibilities would be the often-criticicd county highway department. "This is a modern approach to government in our metropolitan area," Townsend said. "It doesn't take too much looking around to see that the board of commissioners has not provided us with this type cf government," he added. According to the bill, the term of office would be four years. The bill is expected to be fought by the County Commissioners' Association.

If the measure takes effect in 10')1, Commissioner F.ph Virt would serve only two years of his three-year term. Commissioner-elect George J. Avers, who will take office next year, would serve only one year. RUT TOWNSEND pointed out, the effective date could be moved up to 1903. allowing Virt and Ayrcs to complete their terms.

This would necessitate electing two short-term commissioners, one serving two years and another only one year, to enable all three commissioners' terms to expire at the same time. Ham- Sinks All Sift Montevideo, Uruguay (AP) An Argentine passenger seaplane carrying 55 persons hit an object in the harbor here yesterday and sank in six minutes. All 40 passengers and the crew of six were picked up by nearby boats. No injuries were reported. MRLMFV BATTLE RAGING TIIRI X-ALARM BLAZE DOWNTOWN Old Building At 328 West Court Street Was Being Razed Counties named in the Gov-ernor's emergency declaration arc Adams, Allen, Carroll, Cass, Fountain, Huntington, Miami, Tippecanoe, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash and Warren.

GOVFRNOR Handlcy's telegram said: "The occurring floods and impending floods in the watershed of the Wabash and other riwrs In Northeastern Indiana have developed and will continue to develop. Conditions arc of sufficient severity and magnitude that it Is beyond the capabilities and resources of the state of Indiana and its local governments to cope with the situation. i have therefore declared a state of emergency in those flooded and flooding areas. The state is exerting all of its available effort. I respectfully request that your declaration of Jan.

29, 1959, be extended to include all of the area effected by the present occurring and impending floods." Governor Handlcy certified the names of the 13 counties to Civil Defense authorities and information about their needs will be channeled to various Federal agencies, the Governor's office said. A SPORTSMAN said the Governor's unusual move, in anticipating flood conditions further downstream, make it possible to ask for speedy future enlargement of the disaster area if and when it is needed. Peru Mayor John Devinc asked for state aid when the sandbags gave way to the powerful flood currents and National Guardsmen, state police and Bunker Hill Air Force Base personnel were rushed to hc city. THE BREAKS came several hours after the Wabash appeared to have crested, only to begin a rapid rise about II a m. Police said a 23.f.') foot crest was reached about 6 p.m.

and a slight drop was noted several hours later. Mayor Devinc said about (53 per ccn' of South Peru rnd about 20 per cent of the northern section of the city Employes Union of the AFL-CIO. The AFL-CIO now has that jurisdiction but the Teamsters have declared their intention to enter it. Amendments rcsiricting picketing, favored by Rurkel-shaus, will be opposed by Grills as part of the new B. fi.

White Grills appi'jves the idea. maintains t'at they should he included in another bill, with KB. confined solely to the relationship between a member and his union. GRILLS ALSO accepted the Republican ultimatum that H.B. C6 be passed and accepted by the House before any action is taken on repeal of the right-to-work law.

He agreed that if a repealer were passed first, labor leaders would kill the reform bill and all reform legislation would be lost. Amendments to be offered Tuesday include: 1 Prohibit picketing by hired or imported men by restricting all picketing to regular employes of the plant being struck Ruckclshaus. 9 Outlaw mass picketing be-cause it is the source of most strike violence Ruckel shaus. Making it imposs.ble for union officials to avoid summons in lawsuits by providing that lefal papers may be mailed to the headquarters of the union Ruckclshaus and Grills. 4 Assuring union members free access to official rec ords Grills.

Requiring unions to make their acts a matter of record such as minutes of meetings, expenditures and sources of income Grills. 6 Protecting union members from reprisal be cause of criticism of union policies or officials Ruckclshaus. Strengthening provisions in the admission of members Bontrager, Ruckclshaus and Grills, Giving a minority of un- ion members the same rights that minority stockholders of a corporation have Turn to Page 22, Column 3 ares remained under water up to 8 feet deep late last night. The crest was the highest at Peru since 1913 and flood officials said damage may exceed the losses in both that flood and one that occurred in 1948. Witnesses to the breaks said the sandbags tumbled like dominoes after the initial waves of water surged through.

Although no exact evacuation figures were available, rolice Chief II. O. Bradley estimated nearly 2,000 persons would be forced from their homes during the night. Robert Tillctt, Red Cross disaster chairman, said "quite a number" of families were stranded on the second floors of their homes in trie flooded areas. Rescue attempts will be resumed today, he said.

About 300 refugees were being housed in South Peru Grade School and in an old gymnasium in downtown Peru. Red Cross officials said the evacuees ranged from a 5-weck-old baby to a grandmother SO. ARMY ENGINEERS said the sudden upward surge of the river was caused by an ice jam 4 miles cast of the city on the Wabash which make accurate crest predictions all but impossible. Besides flooding the residential area, the breaks inundated the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad shops in south Peru and forced closing of the bus terminal and most business establishments. THE FIRST BREAK sent water pouring over the south wall and the sandbags gave way on the north wall about an hour later despite desperate efforts by workers to keep the flood from Peru's main business district.

FAMILIES in the east and west ends of the city fled their homes as the water climbed past the tops of the floodwalls. A Red Cross emergency shelter was opened in Iirst Baptist Church. Earlier in the day the flood waters had reached a 46-ycar high at Wabash and had forced an estimated 473 families from their homes in art Turn to Page Column 1 ol'O'al WALL AT PERU IM1 (li "Repeal is dead," he said. "It will be buried in the log jam of legislation in the closing days of the session. BUT lit ALSO predicted that the strong labor reform bill being prepared in the Sen- Editorial on Page IS Other Legislative News Un Pages 8 And 13 ate will meet death in the same way.

Other developments in the seething 34-day struggle over labor legislation were; 1 Republican State Chair- man Robert W. Matthews announced that the nation's leading exponent of right-to-work laws, United States Senator Barry M. Goldwatcr (R.Ariz. will be the mam speaker at a plate dinner in Murat Temple on April 3. Senator Nelson G.

Grills predicted the law would be repealed with the votes of the same five GOP senators who bolted the party on the issue Monday but rejoined it Tuesday to sidetrack 1 I B. 6. Mouse Democratic Floor Leader Donald E. Foltz of Clinton predicted the House would approve the Senate labor reform bill, provided it is not punitive. The reform bill will come before the Senate Tuesday afternoon when the body sits as a Committee of the Whole to consider B.

6(1, the allegedly deceptive measure which deprives union members of their rights instead of protecting thorn. So many amendments are being prepared that the bill may emerge as an entirely new measure, virtually rewritten. Those offering the most significant amendments will be Senators Rucl W. Steele John C. Ruckclshaus D.

Russetl Bontrager and Grills. BONTRAGLR is considering one barring public employes from joining a union to spare them from a jurisdictional fight now shaping up between the Teamsters Union and the State, County and Muncipal In 19.V, Nye, an ex heu-tenant commander in the United States Navy, was hanging around Miami, broke, bitter and bored. The French girl he had met and married on a Mediterranean tour-of-duty cruise had left him for another Navy pilot, and was in Reno divorcing him. Without any political convictions, craving only action and inoney lie dreamed up a crazy and unworkable scheme to bomb the Batista air force into extinction. He got in touch with Daniel Vasque, a Cuban living at Miami, who was the alleged contact for Castro's 2fi July movement.

(Vasquez has since been denounced as a traitor and a double agent by the new Cuban government.) Nye saw Vasquci once, Wrecking Company is for the the wrecking contractor razing project. Alarms were turned in at 6.27. and 0:33 p.m. At the fire's height. Indiana legis l.itors attracted from the near bv Statchouse joined a crowd of more than 200 spectators.

'Flic two-story brick building about. half wrecked before the fire. w. A. Brcnnan real estate firm, had charge of the property before its sale to make way for the state office building site.

The Wcallirr Joe Crow Says: We a i 5V the skill of the Kansas gal who won the International Pancake Race. One stumble and pow a pancake landing. Indianapolis and Indiana-Sunny and warmer today. Con-siderablc cloudiness tomorrow, ith ram or drizzle likely over most of state. Warmer wiih (hamc of showers or scattered thunclershowcrs south during afternoon and evening.

VX iSi1 V4? and roof of the laundry building. Fire Prevention Chief Daniel P. O'Donncll, after a preliminary investigation, said the fire had been smoldering for some time before it burst into flames and began belching black smoke. WORKMEN employed in the wrecking of the abandoned structure, now owned by the state of Indiana, were believed to have been using a f.re earlier in the day to keep warm and to burn debris, firemen said. The Cleveland Teumie Divs In Crash At Duxlomi Marshall Tcague, 37-year-old former national slock car champion and Indianapolis 500-mile race driver, was killed yesterday in a crash at the new Daytona Beach (Fla.) International Speedway.

Tcague had just hern timed at lfi2 miles an hour. Details on Page 31. I fZ I. A three-alarm fire roared through the partially-razed interior of one of the buildings being wrecked for the new $30,000,000 siate office center, pouring dense smoke over the entire downtown area early last night. The blae in the former American Llectric Company building at 325 West Court Street was brought under control rapidly and allowed to burn itself out.

Many persons in the downtown area thought the State-house was on fire when the cloud of smoke and flames billowed up over the tops of other buildings. BUT BEFORE it did. leaping 50-foot flames threatened the adjoining two-story headquarters of Best Grand Laundry and Dry Cleaning Company. North Senate Avenue. Talhott Denny, president of the Laundry, said the firm will be open for business today although it will probably be without telephone service.

He said there was no damage to customers' laundry or dry cleaning items in the plant and no disruption of service is anticipated. Firemen prevented spreid of the smoke and flames by throughly drenching the sides got wind of what Nye was thinking about ajid wrote him a polite but firm letter pointing out that he was Turn to Page I Column 4 Want Ads 35-4 1 Weather 27 Werner 18 Women's Pages iioosii.it with iutista ioiici.s Nye Denies Intent To Kill Castro didn't think much of his scheme and never called him back. But the FBI did. In some way probably through Vasqucz the FBI 4.J Hf mi ill tin iilli tmfm'm 4HW By LIONEL OLAY North American Newspaper Alliance Havana Did Alan Robert Nye come to Cuba to kilt Fidel Castro? The an-gwer to that question is. according to Nye; Yes, but he never intended to go through with it.

This, at any rate, is what he now insists is the whole truth, and his fate depends in a large part on whether the military tribunal that he is due to face soon believes him or not. In a private, six-hour interview he told North American Newspaper Alliance the whole story after first issuing a series of contradictory and misleading statcjnents. His story is a strange one. but balanced against what appears to be his deeply disturbed nature entirely possible. IVSlHi: TODAY'S STAIt MOB VIOLENCE Senate Rackets Committee hears about gangster terrorism in New York juke box industry Page 2 PAPERS REVEAL MAYOR SOUGHT TROOPS-Documents disclosed show the mayor of Little Rock asked for U.S.

troops Page 3 TRAWLER REPORT FALSE-Coast Guard cutter finds report of copsiied trawler sighting false Page 4 RAILWAY TIE-UP POSSIBLE -Railroad official warns of big strike threatening early next year Page 14 i Campbell 34 Comics 3b Crossword Puiile Deaths .12, 27 Editorials ..18 Food .....10 Radio-TV ..21 Sports 31, 32 Theaters 23 0 RAMPAGING WABXSII RIMR BREAKS 1IIROLGH SANDBAGS ON ILOOD Icy Waters Isolate A Trailer Camp Site Near The River.