Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 January 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 21.

NATIOKM. rOUO MOTHES OS THE TEAS. MH. Rosemary PhilMpe. 33, Loa Gatoa, Calif., sits with her family in New York, where they went to be honored by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Children are Eugene, 14, Tommy, 9, and Lani Sue, 7. The family, all tert husband David, 34, an airline pilot, came down with polio in 1951. Mrs. Phillips’ arms and legs were paralysed and she was placed in an iron lung. She fought back to wheelchair status, and now runs her household from the wheelchair. The children have recovered.

Democrats To Push Bill For School Grants Direct State Grant For Construction Os School Buildings INDIANAPOLIS (UP) —Xadtena Bemgerats today planned to push a bill that wae -aartafo to he unpopular in the Republican-domi-nated Indiana Legislature — direct state grants for school building construction. • Democratic Sen. Earl Utterback of Kokomo, twice-defeated candidate for state school superintendent, said he would introduce the bHT in a few days. But Senate Majority Leader Roy Conrad commented: — < “I don’t think it would ever see the light of day." Indiana Republicans long have been angry opponents of. either federal or state aid to schools. They contend such aid isn’t needed, and it threatens local control of education. With Republicans in control of both House and Senate education committees, it appeared doubtful a direct state aid bill would get out of committee. But the argument over state and federal aid may be one of the biggest before the session is over. Already, action on other education measures has brought minor skirmishes on the aid issue. Hopes For Co-Sponsor Utterback said he hoped Republican Sen. Charles Kellum of Mooresville would be co-sponsor of his bill. Kellum is a foe of school financing by bond issues with high interest rates. Utterback’s bill would permit state grants to school units which fail to finance construction after levying an education tax of 31 The state tax money then would finance the balance. ' / The bill would take care of "extremely poor areas,” Utterback said, but probably would not affect most schools. He said his bill also would set up machinery for distributing federal aid, when and if it comes. He and other Democrats chided Republicans for opposing federal aid when President Eisenhower favors it. Utterback contended that financing through bond issues eventually means higher property taxes, since the loan plus interest must be repaid. He said it was “certainly better” to levy a- 81 tax than an eventual 31.25 to pay for bonds. _ Sen. D. Russell Bontrager (R---FJkhart). chairman of the Senate Education Committee where Utterback’s bill would be sent, said he doubted, if “there would be even a remote chance” for passage. Contrary to Philosophy Bontrager said It was “contrary to basic Republican philosophy,” and “I cannot visualize any means for raising the revenue.” Utterback said the Common School Fund and Veterans Memorial Construction Fund would no* bea”drop in Ibe .bucket" school needs. He added lawmaker* are "inviting "saddling the community” wra* (Continued oa s-age Four)

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Two Freight Trains Collide In Warsaw Five Crewmen Hurt But None Seriously WARSAW, Ind. (W — Two Pennsylvania Railroad freight trains collided head-on with a noise “like a clap of thunder” today on a main line track 16 blocks from the Warsaw business district. At least five of 12 crew members riding the trains were taken to Murphy Modi sal Center far treatment of- injuries. None was believed hurt seriously. The accident happened atl 7:45 a. m. CDT when an eastoound train enroute from Chicago smashed into a westbound train enroute to Chicago as the westbound train stood waiting for passenger trains to pass on the other sidt of a double track. Seven Diesel units pulling the long freights were involved. Four cf them, on the eastbound train, were derailed or damaged badly. Residents of an eastern residential area said the crash sounded “like a clap of thunder.” The accident tore up 400 feet of track and blocked both lines. Passenger trains were detoured through Columbia City and Logansport on the Pennsylvania line and on the Nickel Plate. The injured included R. R. Campbell, 52, Fort Wayne, and N. G. Groves, 32, Fort Wayne. Other crewmen, some of whom were injured and other unhurt, included Paul W. Stettler and Art Leeth of Fort Wayne; George Koeneman, Decatur; Fred Ostermeyer, Columbia City; C. E. Mullet, 46, Ossian; A. R. Bruner, and Paul Payne, 39. Fort Wayne and Carl Lake, Harlan. Payne said he and Bruner were in' the engine of the westbound train when they saw the other train approach. He said they both jumped to safety just before the crash. A carload or nogs was smashed on one of the trains. Some of the hogs were killed and crippled and others got loose and roamed the area. Stxton Hearing Is Scheduled Monday A hearing has been set for Monday morning in city court when Sheriff Merle Affolder will file an affidavit requesting revocation of the suspended sentence oFChestef Sexton, 47, of Lexington, Ky. The affidavit will be filed as a result of Sexton’s short-lived freedom from the county jail. Serving a 30-day sentence for public intoxication, Sexton walked away from codnty jail Tuesday evening, e was re-captured Wednesday afternoon after he had hidden in a parked truck overnight. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and colder with occasional snow tonight. Saturday partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy and colder south. Low tonight 5-lS nofth, 15-20 south. 35 High Saturday 15-20 north, 2038 woth. tawc* 6:57 p.m., »»► rise Saturday 7:58 4.M.

Four Dead And Six Missing In Factory Fire Ruins Os Garment Factory Searched For More Victims NEW HAVEN, Cam. (UP) — Firemen today searched the ruins of a four-stay garment factory building for six additional victims of a flash fire already known to have claimed the lives of four women garment workers. Thirty-three others — 29 of them women—were injured in the general alarm blaze, and at least 10 were reported in critical condition. Some victims tried to escape with clothes and hair aflame. The known dead and injured were engulfed by fire during a panicky rush to descend a fire escape of the 50-year-old structure, situated about ten blocks Jrom midtown New Haven. Fire Marshall Eugene J. Mulligan said “panic, as much as anything else,’’ appeared to be responsible for the deaths and Injuries. Blase Quickly Controlled Two of the bodies were found on a third-floor landing of the fire escape, after the fire, which swept the building in 20 minutes, was brought under control. The other two victims, their bodies wreathed by flames, fought their way from the building but died en route to a hospital. About 300 persons were inside the building when the fire broke out late Thursday afternoon on the first floor of the building which housed clothing, plastics and machinery firms. The bodies recovered were identified as those of Mrs. Angela Di Rienzo, 18, a bride of three ( months; Miss Alma Bradley, 46; t Miss Jean Pitman, 42, all of New ! Haven; and Mrs. Jessie Mongillo, > 42. of suburban Hamden. j. Listed as missing were Joseph . Nastri of Hamden; Thelma Lynn, of West Haven; Morris Baehr of Woodbridge; Herbert Horowitz of * Ansonia, and Josephine Maretta 1 and Jo Ann lngre cFNew.Haven,. r ' ftram Spread Quickly 5 Less than five minutes after the fire’s discovery, flames had turned > the dilapidated structure into an 1 inferno of stampeding, shrieking > women. Those on the first two i floors quickly escaped, but em- ■ ployes of garment firms on the - upper floors fled down two fire ' escapes, but flames blocked their paths. Many leaped or fell to the > ground when one of the escapes • jammed at a second floor landing. , Others were saved by firemen. , flames, some of the women, their Finding their paths blocked by i dresses ablaze, became hysterical ' and tried to retreat up the fire (Continued on Pure Four; 1 Mothers March On Polio Here Tonight Canvass Every Home In Decatur Tonight Decatur residents are reminded to turn on their porch lights tonight at 6 o’clock for the annual I Mothers March on Polio. Every I home in the city will be contacted to request donations to the 1957 , polio fund. Mrs. Robert Lane and Mrs. Fred Corah are in charge of the Mothi ers March. A large corps of vol- . unteer workers will assist in the door-to-door canvass of the city, which is expected to take about an hour. The Mothers March is one of the main fund raising projects of the polio campaign each year in Decatur. Local residents are urged to be generous when they are -ontacted this evening since the local chapter is badly in need of funds. v Mrs. Robert Hess, general county chairman of the polio chapter and head of the 1957 fund drive in the county, has pointed out that the chapter is now in debt because ' ;f the heavy drain on funds, which was caused by the Wh polio tocidence in 1956. She pointed out that many of the ?ases from previous years will still need financial aid this year and the chapter must also be prepared to handle any new cases which might come in 1957. She added that the need for funds will continue until everyone realizes the value of the Salk vaccine and takes advantage of it to prevent -polio. At 5:45 p. m. all of the volunteer solicitors will meet at the homes of their division captains and at 6 p. m. they will begin the door-to-door project. After all of the homes have been contacted, coffee and doughnuts will be served to at the First State Bank. ; ■ . _ A.■: , . -

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 25, 1957.

Three Are Arrested On Charges Os Delivering U.S. Secrets To Russia

New Coast To Coast Flight Record By Jet New Flight Record Established Today By Air Force Jet BEDFORD, Mass. (UP) — A coast-to-coast record for bombers was set today by an Air Force jet bomber which made the flight in 3 hours and 47 minutes with the aid of the “jet stream." The 847 flashed over the marker at Hanscom Air Base here at 8:04 a.m. CST after flying 2,650 .miles from March Air Force Base in California. It left California at 4:17 a.m. Maj. Mont Smith, Arlington, Mass., the pilot, said the flight was made in 3 hours and 47 minutes. The tower at Hanscom originally had given the time as 3 hours and 46 minutes. Smith’s time would be 29 minutes faster then, the previous bomber record and would equal the fighter plane record established in 1955. Smith said the plane picked up the jet stream at 37,000 feet over Albuquerque, N.M., after “some difficulty in finding it." ' He said the plane then rode the| stream “right across the country” with the help of an automatic navigator that “lines up the plane with the stream.” The temperature outside at 37,000 feet was 59 degrees below zero at times, he said. Smith said “we go| a, fair boost from the jet strearipk-but not as much as we hoped for. At the best it was about 160 knots.” Smith said the plane covered the ground at the fate of 900 miles an hour. It took the plane 15 minutes to land from an altitude of 35,000 feet over the airport. The plane ejected two parachutes to brake the landing. The plane had reported its speed as 850 m.p.h. over Vandalia, Hl. It was flying at 35,000 feet over Gardner, Mass., some 40 miles west of its destination. • Crash crews were lined up along the 7,500-foot runway here as the big ship came down to a perfect landing at 8:19 a.m. The jet’s crew-had been studying for three years the jet stream, a river of air that flows across the country from west to east at 25,000 feet above the earth and higher.* The Air Force Cambridge Research Center, which has headquarters here, mapped the jet stream to prepare for today’s" flight Air Force officials said the jet stream at times can give planes a 250-mile-an-hour boost. More Donations To Industrial Drive Fund Is Sought To Buy Decatur Site The total amount contributed by local individuals to the Greater Decatur project for the purchase of property to be used as an industrial site is now $177, according to the latest report from the Chamber of Commerce, which is sponsoring the project. ' Latest to respond to the request from local citizens are Thelma Bilderback, Charles J. Miller, Raymond J. Walters and Florian Geimer. The requests were sent to individual residents of the city when a fund-raising drive among local merchants failed to bring in the needed amount. The sponsors of the project hope to raise enough money to purchase the Scheimann property at the southwest city limits, which is considered the last valuable industrial site in the city. After the property is purchased, it will be offered to any industry ' which will locate * plant in Decatur.

Skid Row Romeo Is Queried In Deaths Lie Detector Test Is Inconclusive CHICAGO tm — Authorities today questioned a Skid Row Romeo and painstakingly tracked down scores of other tips in an all-out effort to find the killer of two teenaged sisters. v s Sheriff's police »aid a lie detector test given Edward Lee f Benny, The Dishwasher) Bedwen, 21, proved “incoiclusive.” He was held for further questioning and investigation. The nude and crumpled bodies of Barbara Grimes, 15, and her sister, Patricia, 13, were found Tuesday In a ditch on the city’s southwest suburbs. Benny, who sports a duck-tail haircut and Elvis Presley sideburns, has denied any connection 'with the slaying. At least three persons reported seeing the girls with Benny two days after they disappeared Dec. 28 after attending a Presley movie. The part-time dishwasher admitted taking two teen-aged girls on a tour of Skid Row bars then, but said he was certain they were not the Grimes sisters. Police checked out a report that the girls may have been alive as Jate as Jan. 14, eight days before taeir murder was discovered. Mrs. Wallace Tollstatn said a •’frightened and depress'd” Patricia telephoned her daughter early that morning. She said the caller, whose voice she recognized as that of Patricia," asked: “Is that you Sandra? Is Sandra there?" Mrs. Tollstam said her daughter Sandra. 13, and Patricia were close friends. She said she awakened her daughter because the voice sounded so frightened and depressed, but the caller hung up before Sandra reached the phone. Police questioned two men from nearby Hammond, Ind., about a dirty slip and brassiere found outside the door to a rooming house they lived in. - Mrs. Grimes at first identified the torn slip as “my daughter’s," but the woman’s oldest daughter said her mother was overwrought and the slip belonged to neither of the girls. Claim Red Soldiers Desert In Hungary Reports Hundreds Flee To Yugoslavia LONDON (UP) — Communist China saved Poland from armed October “revolution,” diplomatic sources said today. The informants said the Red Chinese leaders intervened with Moscow during the crucial phase of Poland’s bid for a more liberal socialist regime. The sources V said Communist China firmly cautioned the divided Kremlin last autumn against suppressing the liberal movement of Wlaydslaw Gomulka with Soviet armor. Peiping's restraining influence saved Poland from the fate which later befell Hungary, the sources said. It was recalled Moscow displayed considerable indecision at the developments in Poland during Gomulka’s return to power. - An enraged Nikita S. Khrushchev accompanied by Vyachselav M. Molotov, flew to Warsaw seemingly prepared for a showdown with the rebellious Gomulka. Molotov reportedly is the leader of the tough Stalinist faction in the Kremlin heirarchy. But in Ifess than 48 hours, the Kremlin had changed its attitude and was ready to talk business with the Polish “rebels.” Khrushchev and Molotov quietly flew back to Moscow. This sudden switch now appears to have been primarily prompted by the intervention of Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai acting on Orders from Communist ‘leader Mao Tze-Tung, according to the iCoßtißsaa «a Pa*« Five)

Three Crewmen Rescued After Bombers Crash I Three Still Missing After Bombers Crash Near Cuba Thursday HAVANA (ff» — Two 847 Statejet bombers collided in ffight south of Cuba Thursday night and three of the six missing crewmen were picked up on a raft today. The Homestead, Fla.. Air Force Base reported a second raft was also spotted by search craft but it was not determined immediately if any sqrvivors were aboard it. Six men were aboard the two planes, three in each, and all had been listed as missing and presumed dead. Maj. R. W. Bryant, public information officer at the air base south of Miami, said the three survivors “seemed to be in good condition’’ according to reports he received from the Coast Guard. He said they were being taken to a hospital for routine checkups, but he did not know -where. The survivors were identified as Maj. James McGreen McFarland Jr.. 37, Watsontown, Paj Maj. Winfred E. Lynn, 33, Paducah, Ky., and Ist Lt. James Edward - Rose Jr., 28, Dalias, Tex. There was no word on the fate 1 of the other three—Maj. William Earl Norris, 41, Lansing Midi.; Capt. James H. Parker, 35, Rock Hill, S. C., and Ist Lt. Earl S. Chrisawn Jr., 26, Sumter, S. C. Col. Leonard Dysinger, chief of 1 the U. S. Air Force mission to " Cuba, said few details of the ac- ■ cident were known other than the planes collided shortly after dark 1 during tactical exercises. The big six-engine planes, operating from Homestead Air Force Base south of Miami, were believed to have crashed off Cuba’s Isle of Pines about 150 miles south of Key West, Fla. Sister planes of the downed craft reported upon their return to Homestead that they saw a “huge bolt of fire” and then saw flames shoot Out in “many directions’* toward the sea. One of the first rescue planes on the scene radioed that “fires are spread over a wide area” and said there were- signs- pf “something” burning south of the Isle of Pines. Dense fog in the crash area hampered rescue aircraft rushed from Cuba, Miami and St. Petersburg, Fla, It was the second major air actCoßtlßuet oa Paste Five) Tickets Available For C. C. Banquet Hold Annual Dinner Here Next Thursday The Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church of I Decatur, will give the invocation at the annual Decatur Chamber of Commerce ladies night program, to be held in conjunction with the Rotary and Lions clubs at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, Thursday evening, Jan. 31, at 6:30 o’dock. Featured on the program are to bd a number of foreign students from Indiana’Technical College, some of whom will speak on youth opportunity in their native lands. Also on the program will be Dr. Theodore Hoelty-Nickel, head of the music department of Valparaiso University. Music during the evening will be presented by 18 members of the Decatur high school jazz band. M. J. Pryor and Glen Hill, cochairmen of the event, said today that tickets for the event are still on sale at the First State Bank, Blackwells, Holthouse Drug Store, Holthouse on the Highway, the Adams county agent’s office and Bowers Jewelry store. The price of the tickets this year is $2 and the event is open to the public, including children. Each person may sft with a foreign student.

Living Costs Again Go To Record Level Three Percent Hike Within Past Year WASHINGTON (UP) — The corf of living rase to a record level again last month to make consumer prices at the end of 1956 almost 3 per cent higher than December, 1955, the government reported today. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ consumer price index rose .2 Os l per cent between November and December to a new high of 118 per cent of average 1947-48 prices. The index set new records in six of the last seven months of 1956. The new increase also means cost of living pay boosts ranging from 1 to 3 cents an hour for around 500,000 workers in trucking and other transport industries, and the electrical and aircraft factories. Wage contracts in those industries contain escalator clauses tied to the price index. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also reported that the average factory workers’ take-home pay and the purchasing power of his paycheck rose to record levels in December, despite the rise in the cost of living. - At the year’s end, the average factory take-home pay was almost 2 per cent higher than in November and about 5 per cent higher over the year. ' nie p ur . chasio « erage factory joay check stood at 125.5 per cent of the 1947-49 average. The BLS said higher housing costs were the main factor in the cost of living increase last month. Contempt Citation Sought On Brewster Senate Committee Calls For Action WASHINGTON tW — Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark) said today a recommended contempt of Congress citation against a powerful West Coast Teamsters’ union leader is “only the beginning.” McClellan’s racket — hunting Senate Investigation subcommittee called Thursday for contempt action against Frank W. Brewster of Seattle. This will be followed. McClellan said today, by similar action against other Teamster officials who, like Brewster, refused to answer questions put to them by the subcommittee on the ground that the group lacked authority to ask them. If the Senate approves the citation recommendations, they will go to the Justice Department for prosecution. The subcommittee charged that Brewster displayed contempt of Congress when he refused to answer questions last Saturday and also refused to obey a subpena to produce financial records of the Western Conference of Teachers and the union's Joint Council 28, Seattle. He is head of both groups, which are subordinate units of the. nation’s biggest union, the 1.4million member International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Dick Heller, Jr. Is Speaker At Rotary Dick Heller, Jr., of the Decatur Daily Democrat, presented an interesting discussion and showed excellent colored slides of Hawaii and Japan at the weekly dinner meeting of the Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Heller, recently discharged after serving with the air force strategic service in Japan, stressed the vast difference in living conditions and thinking of Japanese and Americans. Tom Allwein was chairman of the program. Rotarians and their wives will attend the annual Chamber -of Commercedinher meeting next Thursday evening, replacing the weekly Rotery meeting. Members * unable to attend must check out by noon Monday. ' * ff ■* ’ '. -

'.’g Mk -Ar it’ 7 ” -.V' •' WlHV'lwllFeiSFb *' I ■■■ I ■ I I f si&W .fA-Ar .A*' Officials w ’ y- '’.wk«■' •'sew*’* f* ’ ' ■■ Da J i Uv IlllytlvulvU' . Lasting 13 Years NEW YORK (UP! - Two men and a woman were arrested here today on charges of delivering U.S. defense secrets to Russian agents. The FBI said the arrests resulted from a 13-year investigation into “Soviet intelligence activities” and hinted that Soviet government officials would be implicated in the case. Those arrested were Jack Soble, 53, his wife, Myra, 52. and Jacob Albarn, 64. Both men were bom in the same town in Lithuania; Mrs. Soble is a native of Russia. The Sobles are naturalized American citizens. Albarn has applied for but has not been granted citizenship. r •, ’ The complaint charged the three conspired “for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense of the United States of America” including documents, writings, photographs, photographic negatives and notes for delivery to Russian agents. Biggest Since Rosenbergs Aug. 15 two reports, one of 26 pages and another of 5 pages, “for delivery to agents of Russia.” The case appeared to be the biggest espionage disclosure in this country since the case of atomic spies Edith and Julius Rosenberg, who were executed at Sing Sing Prison in 1953 for their part in a wartime espionage ring. No reference to other conspirators was made in the formal complaint. Maj. Yuri P. Krylov, an assistant military attache of the Soviet embassy at Washington, was ordered expelled from the United States last week, however, on charges that he had improperly purchased “quantities of electronic equipment” and attempted to buy U.S. military secrets. The State Department said at the time that “American intermediaries” apparently had been involved in Krylov’s purchases. Officials said they believed he had not succeeded in buying “classified military material.” Another Russian embassy aide was expelled from the country last June for alleged espionage activities. Assistant Military Attache Col. Ivan Bubchikov was understood to have been caught picking up material at a secret letter drop. The FBI said today that the Sobles and Albarn had been uncovered in an investigation into the spy activities of Vasslli Zubilin, a third secretary of the Russian embassy in Washington during World War 11, who returned to hia oto£ country in 1944. Zubilin’s successors in Washington were said to have dealt with the spy ring reported by former Communist Elizabeth Bentley and with the atom spy ring. Preparing to Leave The Sobles and Albarn, however, were charged with a conspiracy dating from 1947. The FBI said Soble was preparing to leave the country at the time of his arrest although he had been denied a passport for the last three years. r. The three were arraigned before U.S. Commissioner Earle N. Bishop and held in 5100,000 bail each for a hearing on Feb. 1. They face a possible maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and 810,000 fine if convicted on the conspiracy to commit espionage charge. All three were charged also with conspiring to evade registration as Soviet agents, which carries a possible penalty of five years in prison and 810,000 fines. The death penalty for espionage, which was meted to the Rosenbergs, does not apply to the conspiracy charge and does not apply to espionage committed when the country is not at war. .— Albarn and Soble and his w:fe were taken into custody quietly in their apartments here between 7 and 8 a.m. today. A witness said (OoatMnM «a Puga Paar)

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