Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 53, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1955 — Page 1

Vol. LIU. No. 214.

SOON TO BE FREE-MOTHER GIVES THANKS r i w' ■ laßMa bl ~ i -x 1 Iwf BI .jf >■ \ i W& 4Hfe& H9p &; :lam 1 ■|h| I fIMHHHHHHHHBBBWK' WITH THE CHINESE Communist announcement from Geneva that 28 more Americans will be liberated from behind the "Bamboo Curtain," the Rev. Father Harold W. Rigney, of Chicago, has been reported to be among the first 10 to be repatriated, within a few days. Receiving word of hew son’s impending release, Mrs. Addie Rigney, 78-year-old mother of the priest, offers thanks through prayer for his safe return, after more than four years in Chinese Gommunist prison camps.

Fail To Break Deadlock Over Moscow Talks Adenauer, Bulganin Meet Again Today; Talks At Deadlock MOSCOW (INS) — The Soviet and West German foreign ministers reported to a full conference session this afternoon that they had failed to break the deadlock in the Moscow talks on post war relations. West German chancellor Konrad Adenauer and Soviet premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin met at 4 p.m. (9 a.m. EDT) after their foreign ministers, Henrich Von Brentano and V. M. Molotov held a two hour morning session. The conference iS expected to end Tuesday or Wednesday. A West German spokesman said after the Von Brentano - Molotov meetings “There was no meeting of minds. They maintained the same positions as on Saturday.” The Germans have insisted there can be no normalization of diplomatic relations until the Soviet Union releases German prisoners of war and until divided Germany is reunited. The Soviets maintain they do not hold prisoners, except nearly 10,000 "war criminals" and do not want to even discuss the problem unless the East German Communist regime participates in the talks. The Russians also are Insisting on resumption of diplomatic, trade and cultural relations without German reunification —a topic that will be debated all over again when the Big Four foreign ministers meet in Geneva next month. One informant said that Molotov rejected a West German proposal that "provisional” contacts be made pending later establishment of normal diplomatic relations. Presumably Adenauer and Bulganin will decide at the afternoon talk whether to publish the record of the talks that began last Fri; day. There have been only three . full sessions thus far, Friday, Saturday and today. Sharp exchanges occurred Saturday. Agence France Presse quoted Moscow Radio today as saying that Communist party boss Nikita Khrushchev told the Germans last Saturday that the Soviet Union "can wait” if the Germans do not want quick resumption of diplomatic, trade and cultural relations. Khrushchev was quoted as saying: “The wind does not blow in our faces, although I think that the continuation of a situation, where diplomatic relations between two big countries are missing, is unreasonable." It was understood that the American, British and French ambassadors have been invited to a full scale Soviet reception for Adenauer at the Kremlin tonight. It appeared that the sharp flare up which marked Saturday’s ses-' sion has been pushed into the background by both sides. But, the conference now is expected to end Tuesday or Wednes day. Most observers consider it highly problematical if, any type of formal agreement —other than to maintain the newly established contact —can be reached by then. The greatest hope for some type of agreement stemmed from a Moscow radio report Sunday. It quoted Adenauer as agreeing to negotiate the prisoner question with East German representatives sitting in. This was demanded by Bulganin (OontmiMd on rage MX)

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Eisenhower Visits Air Force Academy Longer School Term Urged By President DENVER (INS) — President Eisenhower thinks high school and college students should go to school longer than f&ur years to better prepare themselves for the complex problems of modern living. The Chief Executive voiced Hie suggestion, certain to provoke widespread discussion among educators, while inspecting the temporary quarters of the new air force academy in Denver Sunday. The 64-year-old President, whose retirement plans are the big question mark on the political hbrizon, also suggested that with longer life spans it’s a mistake for people to retire as young as they once did. Commenting that a lot of retired men are “just sitting around and getting sore," be declared: "We’ll have a revolution bf old men someday, and I’ll be in it.” The President endeared himself to the 296 fledgling airmen In the academy's first class by remitting all punishments for minor offenses after watching the cadet corps pass in review and attending chapel services. „ The action, a traditional gesture on presidential visits to Annapolis and West Point, wiped the slate clean for 29_students who had earned more than 30 demerits for such offenses as failing to get the .proper gleam on their shoes. Mr. Elsenhower, a former president of Columbia university, expressed concern that the cadets will spend so little time during their four years at the academy on such subjects as mathematics and international relations. He observed that school terms haven’t been lengthened since he was a boy in an era when life’s problems were much simpler, and declared: “With this complicated life we’ve got, how the heck do we expect to educate people properly with the same number of years of high school and college? I think the years have got to be lengthened.” He suggested to Lt. Gen. Hubert iR. Harmon, superintendent of the academy, that it might be better to put the air cadets through five years of schooling instead of four so they could be given more thorough college training. Mr. Eisenhower was in a nostalgic mood as he toured the academy classrooms at Lowry air base with Harmon, a West Point classmate of 1915. He recalled that engineering drawing gave him more trouble than any other subject at the military academy and said with a shake of the head: “I never could keep the darn ink from running in under the rulers.”

BULLETIN NEW YORK (INS) — Capt. William V. Bradley, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, ordered an Immediate general strike today of 400 union locals along waterfronts from Canada to the Gulf ports and Puerto Rico. The telegraphed instructions, shutting down the entire Atlantic coast, grew out of a six-day New York work stoppage ordered by Bradley In the midst of his dispute with the New Jersey-New York waterfront commission. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Scattered frost in north tonight. Tuesday fair and somewhat warmer. Low tonight 40-48, high Tuesday 68-84.

Name Thursday Probable Dale For Release 10 Americans Will Return To Freedom From Chinese Reds TOKYO (INS) —Ten American civilians —most of them missionaries of various faiths —are expected to return to the free world within a few days after serving lengthy prison sentences in Communist China. American Red Cross officials in Tokyo named Thursday as the “probable date” and Hong Kong as the most likely place the 10 Americans will emerge from behind the Bamboo Curtain. Peiping Radio announced Bunday that “judicial authorities” had decided to release the Americans before completion of their sentences and had approved their departure from the country. They are among the 41 civilians whose release was negotiated last week at the “Little Geneva” talks between the United States and Red China. Many of the 10, however, had already served the greater part of their sentences en such charges as "gathering military information,” “bribery and espionage” and “aiding anti-revolutionaries.” The Communist Radio said agreement on return of the civilians was “a new start in relations” between the U. S. and Red China and “proves that possibilities do exist in the way of solving outstanding issues between the two countries." But in almost the same breath, the Reds accused the U. S. state and immigration departments of creating “an atmosphere of terror" against 5,000 Chinese students and other civilians in the United States. The Communist version of the Geneva negotiations so far pictured the Reds as displaying "A spirit of conciliation” and the Americans as befog “provocative" and raising “obstacles” to the talks. Such “obstacles,” Peiping said, included: “The fabulous story about the so - called mistreatment of 11 American airmen, the clamor . . . for the release of all Americans, including convicted criminals now (Continued on Page Five) Heavy Fire Damage Al Portland Sunday Business District Has SIOO,OOO Loss PORTLAND, Ind. (INS) —Acting fire chief Ernest Gillett today asked the state fire marshal’s office to investigate the cause of a business disrict fire in Portland Sunday in which the damage was estimated at SIOO,OOO. Gillett, however, said the cause may have been defective wiring. The blaze destroyed buildings occupied by the Gross Electric end Supply company and the Portland .skating rink next door in Portland’s worst fire in five years. Wanda and Joyce Bechdolt. sisters, were uninjured as they fled from their rooms over the Gross company structure Firemen from Redkey, Ind. and Fort Recovery, 0., helped the Portland firemen to conquer the blaze. Smoke damaged the Portland Motor Parts store next door and the Odd Fellow*’ lodge above it.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 12, 1955.

11-Year-Old Girl Dies When Auto Crashes Into » /' . . 1 Rear Os Tractor-Wagon

19 Egyptians Die As Quake Shakes Area 11 School Children Among Victims Os Violent Earthquake CAIRO (INS) — Nineteen Egyptians, including at least 11 school children, were killed today when a violent earthquake shook Cairo, Alexandria and large parts of the Nile delta. Hospitals reported treating more than 120 persons for_ injuries, most of them children. Early reports indicated that 12 schools collapsed in Cairo. Eight children died in one school alone and 68 were injured. Emergency relief centers were opened in the affected areas. Minister of social affairs Lt. Col. Hussein El Shafie toured wrecked areas and supervised rescue operations. Blankets and first aid were given victims. In mid-afternoon an interior ministry official said “the situation across the country now is calm and reassuring." Taxis were commandered when ambulances became scarce to rush, the injured to hospitals in the Egyptian capital. Police said skyscrapers trembled and at least 45 houses were wrecked. The Alexandria observatory said the quake at 8:15 a.m. lasted more than a minute. A state of panic was reported in the city’s residential area with thousands rushing into the streets. Students who became panic stricken when the tremor shook their schools jumped from windows and balconies. Indianapolis Union Ratifies Contract INDIANAPOLIS (INS) —Local 1,226 of the CIO United Auto Workers, representing some 8,000 Indianapolis Chrysler Corporation employes, Sunday unanimously ratified the new contract negotiated between the company and the union. Attempt To Block Bluffton Fair Loses Judge Byrd Denies Injunction To State INDIANAPOLIS (INS) — State highway chairman Virgil Smith called a consultation of war this morning in an effort to beat the calendar in a battle over the Bluffton street fair. The fair is scheduled to open Sept. 20 at its usual stand which necessitates a detour for traffic on Ind. 1, 124, 116, and 315, which travel over the same route In Bluffton. Smith said a conference called ■with attorneys this morning will decide whether or not to appeal to the supreme court the decision of the Wells circuit court Saturday, denying the state highway department’s temporary injunction request. Smith said: “We’re not silre we have enough time, but it’s against the law to block the highways and we’re going to fight it.” Decision of Judge Homer J. Byrd on, the temporary injunction request marked the fourth rejection the state has suffered in its efforts to move the 57-year-old fair to a side street. Last year, the Wells circuit court issued a restraining order preventing the state from interfering with the fair.- > That decision was appealed to the supreme court in an Informal hearing and the high court declined to issue a writ of prohibition. A further plea in the circuit court after the fair was over also (Continued on Page Two)

Adjustment Board Accepts Tax Rates No Revisions Mode By Adjustment Board The Adams county tax adjustment board accepted the tax rates as proposed by the Adams county council and sent the matter on to the state board of tax commissioners for final setting of the 1955 rate payable in 1956. The state board will hold a final' hearing in the office of auditor Frank Kitson September 29 to finally and officially set the rate. The adjustment board met at 9 o’clock this morning and organized as follows: Brice Bauserman, Berne, chairman; John H. Heller, Decatur, vice chairman; Mayor John Doan, William Linn. Tressa Glendenning, Louis Reinking, Sr. and Frank Bohnke, members, and Frank Kitson, secretary. Legal notice will Appear in the Daily Democrat and Berne Witness this week in compliance with the statute. Following is each rate as officially certified to the state board: Township Rate Decatur-Washington $5.27 Decatur-Root i,-$5.30 Blue Creek - $2.65 French—— 4.-13.16 , "Hartford . — ..,....$3.09 Jefferson .$3.33 Kirklands3.3s Monroe $3.32 Preble — $2.42 Root ... $3.07 St. Maryss3.l9 Union -.... —■—s2.sß Wabashs3.o7. i "Washington $3.46 Bernes4.39 Geneva $3.99 • Monroe, Monroe -__54.29 Monroe, Washington $4.38 French township, Berne, Decatur and Geneva, each add poll taxes amounting to $2.50 and the other units each has a poll tax of $1.50. Pair Sentenced To State Boys School Remain At School Until Reaching 21 Two Decatur juveniles, who ended their week-end of crime this summer by crashing a stolen automobile in Randolph county, which sent them to the hospital with injuries, have been sentenced to the Indiana boys school at Plainfield until each reaches the age of 21 years, it was learned today from an authoritative source. The boys, 15 and 16 years of age, appeared Saturday in juvenile court conducted by Judge Myles F. Parrish of Adams circuit court. They will be taken to the state correctional school "Wednesday by sheriff Merle Affolder. In the brief period of three days, the youths committed enough crimes, that, if they had been sentenced on each count in open court,--the sentences would have totalled over 100 years for each boy. Following are the crimes charged against the two youths: Breaking and entering; second degree burglary; grand larceny; petit larceny; malicious trespass; carrying concealed weapons; two counts of vehicle taking and two counts of auto banditry. One of the boys pleaded guilty to all charges and the other youth pleaded not guilty and was found guilty by the court, it was understood. The week-end started for the two Decatur boys when they broke into tw'o business buildings here and then went to Bryant and Portland. Later, after-stealing an automobile, they went on to Winchester. Following the auto mishap, the youths were hospitalized and later returned to Adams county, where they have been in custody of sheriff Affolder. The hearing was held privately in juvenile chambers at the courthouse. Both boys were (Continued on Page Btx)

Westinghouse Plants Struck Coast To Coast Strike In Protest Os Time Studies At East Pittsburgh PITTSBURGH (INS) —The CIO International Union of Electrical Workers struck Westinghouse Electric plants from coast to coast today to protest time studies of day workers who have been on strike at the East Pittsburgh plant since Aug. 8. The walkout went into effect at midnight after the union and management exchanged charges that each had welshed on an aftrenoon agreement signed by James B. Carey, international president of the IUE, and R. D. Blasier, W’estinghouse vice president in charge of industrial relations. The IUE represents some 44.000 workers at 28 Westinghouse plants. The workers had been balloting since Aug. 30, when the union's Westinghouse conference board asked for authorization to call a walkout. The union contends that Westinghouse was violating the national contract, covering plants from Connecticut to CallfoHiia, by making time studies of 2200 dayworkers at the East Pittsburgh works. The dayworkers do not receive incentive pay. Their strike resulted in furloughs to more than 8000 production and clerical workers and a virtual halt to operations there. Early Sunday, Carey and Blasier had agreed on a proposal which Carey initialed. In the afternoon he signed the agreement. Local 601, the bargaining agent at East Pittsburgh, and the conference board, composed of representatives from the 28 locals, turned it down. The board accused the company of refusing to interpret property in writing a questionable portion of the Carey-Blasier agreement. Carey charged that the company representative later refused to put (Continued on Page Six) Decafur Retailers Meet Tuesday Noon Monthly Luncheon Meeting At Center The second monthly luncheon meeting for all Decatur retailers will be held Tuesday noon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center , to further discuss the Chamber of Commerce retail division’s program for the balance of the year. The annual fish-fry, Calathumpian parade, 4-H dinner, and Christmas opening plans are to be presented by the various committee heads. Clarence Ziner will outline plans for the seventh annual fish fry to be held at the Decatur gym Thursday, October 13. Robert Lane, ticket chairman, will make initial ticket assignments. Cliff Brewer will report on plans for this year’s Calathumpian parade, to be held Monday night, October 31. Jack Gordon, 1955 Christmas opening chairman, will show actual samples of the Christmas decorations his committee hopes to use this year to give Decatur a festive appearance. A detailed budget for the balance of the year will be presented. If time permits, a representative for a local credit bureau will address the group briefly. “We certainly hope each and every store will be represented, either by its owner or manager, or by one of its employes, because we want all to have a part in the important decisions that need to be made at this - time,” commented Louis A. Jacobs, retail chairman. Luncheon reservations, which are only sl, may still be made by calling the Chamber office.

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Many Pupils Plan Further Education At Least 71 Enroll In College Classes Decatur has seen a big increase in college bound students this year with at least 71 students enrolled for the 1955-1956 school year. The graduating classes of ‘ 1955 alone have 31 enrolled and many are planning to enroll the ' second term. * Ball State again is a popular choice this year with 11 students from Decatur attending. They include Anita Smith, Jeanette Hahnert, Greta Erekson, Roger Elch--1 enauer, and Tony Custer, all freshmen, and Carol Bowman, Janet Hott, Jerry Kolter, Robert Drew 1 and Tom Drew. Nancy Kirsch is [ in the Ball State school of nurs- ‘ ing. ( Going to Indiana University . from Decatur for their freshman , year will be Sheila (Ahr) Owens, , Ronnie Robinson, David Runyon, • and John Neireiter. Others from , Decatur enrolled there are Carol . Kalver, Carol Elzey, and David Owens. Don Mac Lean. Jr., will be working on his M. A. degree from I. U. this year. Marilyn Kirchenbauer and Bill Gillig are both attending Indiana Medical Center, at Indianapolis. Fourteen . students from Decatur are enrolled at Purdue this term. They are Kay Bormann, Roger Eley, Bill Handler, ißonnie Vetter, and Donald Duff, all freshmen; and Jacquie and Dale Schnepf. Dan Thomas, Alan Cole, Dave Mac Lean, Tom Smith, Jerry Laurent, Phil Bruntop, and Ronald Murphy. Joe Costello, and Michael Kohne will again return to Notre Dame this year, and going to St. Joseph’s College will be Bill Kruse, Thomas Debolt and Charles Voglewede, who will enter as a freshman. Entering the school of nursing for her first year is Ann Durkin, who is enrolled at Earlham College. Janet Hetrick is returning there for her second year of aurses’ training. Bob Ochsenrider will begin his study for the ministry at Earlham. Jack Petrie has returned to Hanover College and Dave Halterman and Fred MacDougal have started their freshman year there. Dana (Dalzell) Brentlinger and her husband have gone to Chatham, New Jersey, where they will both enter Drew University. Kathleen Pursley, Anna Marie Lengerich and Marcella Gillig have all chosen nursing as their career and have gone to St. Vincent School of nursing in Indianapolis, Holy Cross School of nursing in South Bend, and St. Joseph’s School of nursing in. Fort Wayne, respectively. Leola Ford has entered St. Francis College in Fort Wayne. June Edwards has entered school in Fort Wayne and ; she will begin classes at the Fort Wayne Art School. Other students and the colleges they have chosen are Sara Gerber, freshman at Heidelberg; David ' Uhrick, freshman at . DePauw; Robert Sprague, freshman at the University of South Carolina; (Comtnuea on Page Six)

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Vickie Fawbush Fatally Hurt Near Preble Two Detroit Boys Ram Into Rear Os Vehicle Saturday Vickie Lynn Fawbush, 11, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lillard Fawbush, of near Preble, died at 1:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon while she was being taken by ambulance to Fort Wayne, following a traffic accident near Preble three honrs earlier. The traffic victim was first brought to the Adams county memorial hospital and was being taken to the Parkview memorial hlspital, but died enroute to Fort Wayne. She suffered the fatal- injuries when an auto driven by a 15-year-old Detroit, Mich., youth, struck the rear of a wagon loaded with tomatoes, which was being pulled by a tractor driven by Albert Bieberich, of near Preble. Bieberich was enroute to the Preble canning factory when the accident occurred. Ernest Macreno, Jr., driving the auto, told authorities he blacked out Just before the crash, and his companion, Dalejßoperts. IJ, said he believed he was asleep. The Fawbush girl suffered a fractured skull and a broken right leg. Mr. Bieberich escaped with only slight injuries, while the Detroit boys are reported recovering at the local hospital. Vickie was believed to be riding on the tongue of the wagon hitched to the tractor, and was thrown from the vehicle when the latter was struck by the auto. Funeral Tuesday The accident ; victim was born at Fort Wayne May 19, 1944, a daughter of Lillard and Viola Schaefer-Fawbuah. and was a sixth grade student at the St. Paul Lutheran school at Preble. The family resides one-half mile west of Preble. She attended the St. Paul Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to her parents are four sisters, Darlene, 8, Nancy, 5. Regina. 4, and Kathy, 2, all at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Abell of Indianapolis, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Schaferer of New Haven, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bieberich of Preble. Funeral services will be con> ducted at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the St Paul Lutheran church at Preble, the Rev. Otto C. Busse officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. Youths Recovering Ernest Macreno, Jr., 15, and Dale Rpberts, 14, Detroit youths who were injured in the automo-bile-tractor-wagon accident Saturday noon near Preble which claimed the life of Vickie Fawbush, aged 11, are reported to be recovering from their injuries at Adams county memorial hospital. The two youths allegedly were headed for California in an automobile belonging to Ernest Macreno, Sr. Both sustained severe injuries in the accident, but both were able to talk Sunday with investigating officers. Young Macreno was driving the automobile at the time it retained into the tomato-laden wagon being pulled by the tractor. He was unable to tell officers how the mishap occurred. The boys were Californiabound, apparently without the consent of their parents, and they had become confused on the U. S. highway 27 detour. They thought * they were nearing Bluffton instead of Decatur, which was a stopping point marked on the map found in the wrecked auto. Verne Roberts, Sr., "and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Macreno, Sr., parents of the two youths, arrived in Decatur Saturday sight from Detroit after being notified of the accident. The wrecked car was registered in the name of Macreno, Sr. (uonunuea on Page Six) V *