The Tipton Daily Tribune from Tipton, Indiana • Page 1

WEATHER Increasing cloudiness today with rain tonight and Sunday, possibly beginning this afternoon. High today in the 50s, low tonight high Sunday 46. as Steond Class Matter Oct. 4, 1895, at Rest Office Tipton, Indiana; Under Acf March 3, 1879. VOL.

63 NO. 152 TIPTON, (IND.) TRIBUNE, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1951 5 CENTS PER COPY, 30 CENTS PER WEEK Jobless Pay Claims Again Show Decline Farm Prices Increase To Highest Point In Last Three Years WASHINGTON (INS) An increase in farm prices and a slight drop in unemployment claims shared the spotlight today with mounting efforts on Capitol Hill to stem the nation's economic troubles. With Congress scheduled to take an Easter recess from April 3 to 14, leaders hoped for quick action on an "unprecedented" emergency fund, 3 highway construction bill and other anti recession measures. The number of jobless applicants a barometer of economic health dipped for the second straight week, the Labor Department reported. The total for the week ending March 15 was 3,264,100, a decline of 10,700.

The Agriculture Department disclosed that farm prices, paced by increases in nearly all categories, rose four per cent for the month ending March 15, moving the parity index to its highest point 'in three years. The announcement was seen as the administration's reply to farm state senators who called on President Eisenhower Friday in an effort to head off bis expected veto of a bill to freeze price supports at 1957 levels. Elsewhere, there were these developments: House appropriations committee gave Mr. Eisenhower authority to spend up to $740 million of next year's funds in the next 90 days, but expressed douDt he would be able to use more lljan $200 millions. Secretary James Mitchell asked Congress to acl speedily on a bill to extend un employment payments so that the plan can be put into effect before -June 1.

conferees went to work on a Senate bill to pump $1.3 billion in federal and. state fluids into highway construction this year and next. The bill would provide from 90,000 to 500,000 more jobs. Senate Banking Commit tee meets Monday to consider a measure to boost from the present 100 million to two billion dollars a fund for loans to states and their subdivisions to finance public works projects. Officers Killed In Plane Crash DENVER Air Force officers were lulled Friday night when their T-33 jet trainer crashed while being guided into Lowry Air Force Base at Denver.

The craft, en to Denver from its home station at Duluth, was being guided through bad weather by Lowry radar operators when the plane suddenly dropped from sight on the radarscopes. Wreckage of the craft was found en the Lowry bombing range, 14 miles east of Denver. Names of the victims were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Cuban President Gets New Power HAVANA cabinet cleared the way early today for President Fulgencio Batista to get emergency powers in the face of a rebel threat of "total war." Meeting in a night session, the cabinet approved Batista's sending a message to Congress calling for necessary "extraordinary powers to cope with unrest inspired by Fidel Castro's insurgent forces. The legislators were slated to meet Monday and prompt approval of the "blank check" authority was expected.

Legislative sources said earlier Congress probably would grant Batista next week the extra powers needed to maintain order. Castro has. warned that "total war" to oust Batista will begin April 1-5. In a manifesto issued Thursday threatened a general strike "at any moment." The cabinet also approved a congressional bill postponing the republic's elections from June 1 to Nov. 3 because of the political unrest.

A presidential palace commu- nique said the ministers also had passed a resolution praising Cuba's workers on the intelligent and courageous way in which they had cooperated with the government. Batista issued a decree Friday rescinding a three per cent cut in the salaries of sugar workers that been put into effect at the start of the present crop. The action, taken after consultation with labor officials and employers, will give workers art estimated $15,000,000 in extra pay. KILLED BY TRAIN JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (INS) a 59-year-old New Albany man lost his life when his car.

stalled on railroad tracks on a county road four miles north of Dead is Fre'd Isaac Wolpert, who was carried in. his car for about 1,500 feet by the oncoming train, and died almost instantly of a broken neck and crushed body. Clean-up Time High School Inter-Class Rivalry Will Spur Program Tuesday will be April Fool's day to to students of Tipton high school and 'junior high, il means "Clean-up NO FOOLJN'. An inter-class rivalry will be launched that day to see which class can do the best job of cleaning the job will not be confined just to the school grounds. A two block area around the school will be thoroughly policed and if their enthusiasm for the job catches hold, the clean up program may spread through the community for a cleaner Tipton.

Each class, under supervision of high school Principal Bert Hodge, junior high school principal, Don Johnson and student council president Joe Afanador, has been assigned a particular role in the pro ject, and a leader has been named for each group. Freshmen and junior high students, directed by Rick Pearce, are designing posters to give impetus to the cleanup campaign, and in addition will be responsible for the appearance of the school yard. Jack Gossard will head the sophomores in making spotless the area inside the building. Arcy Garmon and his junior classmates will undertake to improve the two block north of the school while Norman Spradling will take the seniors from the high school to the uptown section. Hodge and Afanador will inspect the four jobs frequently (it is not a one-day impulse) and determine the winner.

residents are cautioned not to turn their garden hose or a sharp lounge on students caught on their lawns April Fool's day, for the students aren't foolin'. Diplomats Ready Message To Reds LONDON (INS) Behind the scenes in the major western capitals and in top-secret conferences at NATO headquarters free world diplomats are piecing together a new summit manifesto to present to Russia. Top diplomatic sources in London told International News Service today that the statement now being worked out. among the allies will be a two-edged sword. First it will put the West's case in simple and direct terms, with an eye to the electors at home and to the peoples" of the rest of the world.

Western diplomats believe their case for disarmament, divided nations and other hot international questions is sound and reasonable, and Russia has only, been able to get such a favorable response to its owi? case because the west has presented its ideas badly. And second it will be aimed at recapturing the initiaTTve in the Soviet-triggered summit blizzard. Although the details still have to be hammered out, London sources say the.new western summit master plan offer the Russians a put-up-or-shut-up schedule. Ike Visits Gettysburg With Grandchildren GETTYSBURG, Pa. (INS) Warm spring weather greeted President Eisenhower today on his first weekend trip to his Gettysburg farm since January when he was recuperating from a mild stroke.

President arrived by automobile late Friday 'afternoon, accompanied by two of his grandchildren, Dwight David Eisenhower II, who will be 1Q years old Monday, and his sister, Susan 6. White House News Secretary James C. Hagerty said Mr. Eisen-' hower has 'no special plans for the outing. He may also have to forego any desire to play golf.

Heavy' snowfalls and steady rains have left the Gettysburg Country Club course in soggy condition, and all golfers, except the President, have barred from paying. Khrushchev Voted Premier FOR leaders raise their arms In a da (yes) vote for NiWta Khrushchev to. succeed Nikolai BulganTn as premier. Thus he is both premier and Communist party first sec-. retary, the Jobs which made Stalin so all-powerful.

Seen inlthifl Kremlin hall action are (front, from left) Anaatai Mikoyan. deputy premier: Khrushchev, not voting: Klimenti Voroshilov, who was re-elected president of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Bulganin himself is shown (right rear) voting for Tils successor. (International Metallurgist Says Outer Space Ships An Impossibility MENLO PARK, Calif. top-flight metallurgist says that about sending manned or unmanned space ships into outer space and back to earth will never go further than the talking stage.

The reason, explains R. H. Thielemann, chairman the Metallurgy department, is that here are no metals available or sight to withstand, the required leat such a trip. result, according to mann, is that the U.S. and Soviet Russia are likely to remain lim- ted for decades to such "Fourth of July stunts" shooting satel- ites into, earth-bound orbits.

Thielemann told the western welding, brazing and. heat-treat- ng conference, now 'meeting Menlo park: LIf 'we'had a ductile, yoxida- ion 'resistant -metal that would retain high strength at all tem- wratures up "to. 5,000 degrees and one that could be worked into any form, our prob- em would be solved. 'On earth will have to call his metal but. may-; ie we will find it on some planet in'outer space." The best usable metal alloys now known will not stand much leat over 1,700 degrees Fahren- leit, said Thielemann.

FREIGHT COLLISION HERSHEY, Pa. Read- ng company brakeman was inured seriously today when a reight train plowed into the rear if another freight near Hershey. Vernon Stoner, about 39, of Gardners R.D. 1, was admitted to Harrisburg hospital. Authorities aid his right arm was severed the wreck and he suffered head njuries and'multiple cuts.

The railroad said he was riding the engine of the Philadelphia- o-Harrisburg train which rammed-the rear of a parked train. Pilgrims Begin Invasion Of Rome ROME (INS) They began trickling through the ancient brick portals of the Eternal City today, little bands which have come to Rome for Palm Sunday. Pilgrims, poor and rich, from Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, a few from the Scandinavian countries, Britain and Portugal. During Holy Week, thousands more will join them and surge into a great throng in St. Peter's mammoth square.

Many will be poor Italians, from remote hill towns and small fishing -Their fires will be lighted night just outside the city. Today they are in the market places buying food. Some are sightseeing. Some are already at their prayers in churches they have come a long way to see. A chill has been upon Rome for weeks and the sky has been grey.

The fires will be tonight perhaps, through the Holy Week. They are the fires of the poor who have no money for lodging or the price of a restaurant in special fields, marked for this purpose, outside the There are a number of children and old people among them. For many, the walk to Rome has been hundreds of miles. The walk home will seem longer because the week's intensive services will tire them. Rome's 'hundreds of churches are in mourning, draped in purple covering the faces of saints and the cross.

PROBE SUICIDE NEW YORK were investigating today the suicide of New York wiretapper Charles V. Gris. Authorities said the 51-year-old private eye shot himself in the right temple with an automatic Friday while his wife and aunt were in another room of Gris' apartment. Police Hunt Slayer Of Indianapolis Cab Driver INDIANAPOLIS police'hunted today for the ast passenger to ride in the taxi- ab operated by 59-year-old J. iryan Campbell, found dying with a bullet wound in his chest beside is wrecked vehicle.

Capt. Michael J. Smiley of the ndianapolis homicide department, aid he believes the murder of Campbell was committed by a pas- enger, who reached-forward and hot him, probably in- a holdup at- erapt. Another bullet also had been ired which apparently richocheted nside the cab and fell out of the dead man's underclothing in Indi- napolis General Hospital. At first police and doctors tiought they were handling a traf- ic accident case.

Police were ailed when the taxicab crashed nto a parked car at the home of ack A. Eoree, 28. Campbell was from the wrecked vehicle by two neighbor youthi who laid they did not see anyone else except the driver. Later the bullet wound was found after Campbell died in the hospital emergency room. Police said the cab meter showed $1.35 fare and a check was being made of the downtown area near Indianapolis bus station and Monument Circle, where Campbell often worked.

The Checker Cab which the slain man was driving was not radio-controlled, so his employer-had no identification for the last passenger. The murder came as Indianapolis 'police -already, were stymied by three other unsolved -slayings in a little more than four months. These include the gun death of Theodore R. Turner, oil company president shot at "his garage door Nov. 16; Malvine Krutz, housewife found drowned In her bathtub under circumstances interpreted murder, Jan.

29, and David Miller, tavern owner killed March 1 at he left his place of buiineM. Cherry Blossom Queen Is Chosen In Washington WASHINGTON (INS) A 21- year-old Maine beauty will be crowned queen of Washington's cherry blossom festival today in a setting that, will have practically everything except cherry blossoms. One of the worst winters in the capital's history has deprived the annual festival of the beautiful blossoms. But it will still be one of life's biggest moments for Carolyn A. Drigotas, a sales, coordin for a Washington firm.

Maine princess was chosen Friday night after Mrs. Richard M. Nixon spun the "wheel of and the giant arrow slowly came to a stop'in the Maine slot aftpr barely slipping by Kansas. As the arrow halted on for the second time in four years, Vice President Nixon, who spun the arrow that picked Maine by chance in 1955, exclaimed: "This can't be rigged!" Miss Drigotas had tears in her eyes as the vice president's attractive wife gave her a congratulatory kiss, and placed a jeweled mantle around the-beautiful princess" shoulders. Television and movie star William Bendix will' crown Carolyn today with a $100,000 gold-and- pearl crown, a gift 'of Ybshitaki Mikimoto, the Japanese pearl king.

Prizes Today For Student Inventions NEW YORK (INS) An electronic typewriter equipped with" a memory unit and able to type 200 words per minute was expected to win top prize today in a New York high schools' student inventions exhibition. The device, dubbed "Tydac" by its teenage Brooklyn inventor, Paul Blutter, obviously impressed 50 judges of the American Institute of New York who will announce the awards today. In doing so Tydac would beat some heavyweight opposition a second Brooklyn boy, Mel Steinberg, was disclosed to have built a atom-smasher for the contest, Tydac is entirely home made and contains over 500 independent circuits, 75 neon indicators, 200 switches and 20 memory units. The test model weighs 250 pounds, but its inventor believes this can be cut down considerate The ambitious objectives he claims for Tydac are: can eliminate lengthy typing courses. can memorize and reproduce at any time the memorized material.

can type by remote control. can eliminate stenography. can equip people for clerical occupations hi comparative-, ly short space of time. Sen. Kennedy Swings Bid To Midwest Presidential Candidate In Indianapolis Tonight At Democratic Dinner INDIANAPOLIS John Kennedy of Massachusetts brought his spirited presidential campaign to the Midwest today The shaggy-haired, colorful Senator came to Indianapolis tp be the chief speaker at the Demo cratic Jefferson-Jackson day banquet at the Indiana Roof ballroom tonight.

More than 1,500 Democrats, paying £25 a-plate, will listen to Kennedy and pay special tribute to former Governor Henry F. Schricker, who has left the political wars at the ripe age of 74. A party of seven Democrats from Tipton. county will attend the dinner, including Mrs. Ruth Russell President of the Indiana State Pern- ocratic Women's Club, who will sit at the speaker's table; Tipton county Democratic chairman Mike Clouser and Mrs.

Clouser; Ruth Mains, vice chairman of the county Democratic organization and Claude Mains; Past county Democratic chairman Arthur Noble and Mrs. Noble. Senator Kennedy flew to Indianapolis and held a news conference at the Claypool Hotel this morning. He will appear at Butler University' this afternoon for a special conference of students and teach ers. First discussion of a 1958 Dem ocratic state platform was scheduled at a meeting of the Democratic State Committee late in the morning.

Party leaders said their chief aim is to formulate a stream-lined platform that will attract Repub lican and independent voters with special attention to the current recession and other timely issues. Other planks given consideration included: Federal aid to education and cheap Federal loans to rural electrification cooperatives. Permitting jobless drawing separate pay from the company to accent the full of ployment compensation from" tte state. Peal of the right-to-work law. Liberalization of ment insurance and "workmen's compensation laws.

Denunciation' of the GOP Federal and Estate administrations. Vigorous attack on the Governor George Republican administration in connection with the highway'scandals. However, about the sidelines, the chief topic of conversation was Skillen's revenue from a beef wholesale concern in" which' caused him to receive a subpoena Friday for a U. S. Tax Court hearing in Skillen, who.

has- almost been shaken from his chairmanship several times, may be forced put soon because, of this development, according to observers. The four announced candidates and a fifth who may declare later for the senatorial nomination were competing for 'attention of the party leaders who flocked to Indianapolis from many parts of'the state. The announced candidates are Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke; State Senator Marshall Kizer, of Plymouth; former Lake County Clerk Bartel Zandstra, of Highland, and St. Joseph County Probate-Juvenile Judge John S. Gonas of South Bend.

The probable aspirant is Marshall Hanley, of Muncie, former Federal District Attorney. MISSILE CONTRACT WASHINGTON (INjS) The Army has awarded a $25,767,293 contract to the Chrysler for new work on the Jupiter missile. The contract covers missile repair parts and component 'parts for training and will be fulfilled at Chrysler's plant in Sterling township, Mich. Gunfire Halts Pair Over Roadblocks A tip from one of the Tribune's correspondents, Mrs. Dale Burton, Kempton route 1, at midnight last night started a series of chases that led to the arrest of four suspects in Tipton county.

On? Victim Of Crash Released A routine at the local office xvas suddenly interrupted when the call came that two men -were seen around the gas pump at the Burton farm. "While the call was being made, Mr. Burton followed a car that left the spot hurriedly when the Burtons were ale isfied that he could lead tb ers to a spot where he 1 car to be, he returned and I later arrested two teenagersjajjihe Prairie vicinity, and brought Joe Davison, 10, Windfall, one of four psrsons aamittid to Tipton county as a result ef accident on route 213 Thursday evening has besn discharged, hospital reported. condition ef his parents, to the Tipton county jail. They were T.

Allen Randall, 16, and Floyd and Mrs. John Davison, injured him in the accident, is good, Keith Botinger, 18, injured in the othar car is in fair Nine Persons Given Fines One Driver's License Suspended For Year Nin2 -persons received fines in court Friday afternoon, ranging from $1 and costs to $50 arid costs in one case, with forfeiture of driver's license. Cloy Dautrich, Atlanta, was fined $5 and' costs for reckless driving. Mrs. Josephine Kladia, Melrose Park, and costs for failure to have driver license when involved in a slight accident yesterday.

Richard M. LangueU, Hartford City, $5 and costs for reckless driving. Lucian Shields, route 4, Elwood, counts; $5 and costs on reek- Jess charge, $25 and costs on. driving under influence of intoxicants charge, license suspended for one'year. Oojhu-t, $1 and 'costs for exceeding the lawful speed limit; Peters, route 1, Zionsville, and costs, muffler, and E.

$1 and costs. for excee'ding speed limit in 'posted. $50 and cpsts, -reckless driving charge. two $5 and for. public intoxication, parking in'-a- traffic lane.

HUNGER STRIKE Tex'. (INS) The sympathizers of Cub- Fidel Castro vowed "to continue their hunger or. a month or" longer, even if we starve to "to attract attention to their-cause, That word came from Arnaldo Barren, the mild mannered leader''of ill-fated, expedition after'the' group was seized aboard a Nicaraguan trawler Thursday along with arms and ammunition allegedly destined for Castro's in the' mountains of Cuba Lee Ford, 18. Another Call At 2:03 a.m., a hurried ca.ll came to the sheriff's office from the vicinity of Ida Harper farm near Sharpsville. Marvin Bridgewater, tenant on the farm, told officers that he heard a prowler and upon investigation caught a youth, who 'escaped while Bridgewater was trying to turn his car around in order to a residence having a phone.

City police, sheriff and state police cars were alerteH and set up a road block at various points trying to locate a possible hitchhiker who might have been with others and implicated in the incident. Run Road Block Shortly after the road block was set up, city police spotted a car and an attempt was made to stop it. The car ran the block and outraced the police. A hurried call was made to another road block set up VA miles north of Normanda. The speeding car, according to police got past two road blocks but another picked up the chase 4 miles north on road iu, and stopped the car after shooting at the tires and drilling two shots into the trunk vehicle.

1 me' i ij arrested Pai i-ca Mallott, route 1, Cicero, 21, and David R. Plake, 18, route 5, Tipton, in the car with They were brought to Tipton county jail on reckless driving charges, speeding and resisting arrest, further investigation. When questioned Mallott advised officers, according to the that he was running because he did not have an operator license. Police found two badlv scared hound dogs tin'the trunk, of the vehicle." "The bullets had barely missed them during the chase. The four arrested were to be questioned today in connection with recent burglaries.

1958 AREA TRAFFIC RECORD Deaths. I Accidents 44 Injuries 20 Total $23,280 THE WORSE FOR Cohen, the Los Angeles underworld figure who gets in with the authorities, la recuperating In Jail after bis latest, a fracaa with Howard Chappell, -a federal narcotics agent. Chappell Mid Cohen (bowed up In bis office and charged that agenta wen'. UTtng "to frame me on.a nanr cotica rap.7 and -managed to land wring or two. I then 'took him under control." took at that Reuther Brands Hearing Disgrace WASHINGTON (INS) Walter Reuther, tangling anew with Republicans, today branded as a "disgrace" the tendency of some senators to ask questions at the Kohler strike investigation.

The fiery United Automobile Workers president, who made his third consecutive appearance today before the Senate Rackets Committee, said that time devoted to the inquiry could be better spent on anti-recession measures. Reuther. told newsmen: "That we tie up a group of senators of States is a lot of nonsense. We're saying the same things over and over." The UAW chief and AFL-CIO vice president insisted that the Senate should focus its attention on such "real problems" as unemployment, classroom shortages and the Communist menace. Reuther also continued to trade verbal blows with GOP committeemen over the injection of Michigan Gov.

G. Mennen Williams' name into the investigation. Williams is regarded as a 1960 Deirf- ocratic presidential hopeful. Asked about the efforts of Sens. Carl Curtis (R) and Barry Goldwater (R) to link Williams with Reuther and the UAW, Reuther replied: just straight politics." Curtis and Goldwater said they have no plans to call Williams to testify.

Questioned about Curtis' accusation Friday, which Reuther denied, that Williams was indebted politically to the UAW, declared: "If Curtis wants.to play 1 he ought to go ta work OB unemployment. That's the way play.political". i.