Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 51

SLUGS PHOTOG PINCHED HUB WIVI : I *7 in ' .■t LOfi ANGELES POLICE lead actor Anthony Franciosa from the Hall ot Justice, where he slugged and kicked at a photographer attempting to make a picture of the actor. Trailing the action is actress Shelly Winters, (left), who came with Franciosa to bid on a house being auctioned. «,. , 111 ei. 1 ...,. 1 - 1 ... ■

Former State Highway Heads Called By Jury Smith, Teverbaugh Will Appear Before Grand Jury Tuesday INDIANAPOLIS ItJP) —’Hie Indiana highway scandal investigation fell into an Easter weekend lull today, but observers wondered if it was the calm before a new storm. First formal interrogation of some of the figures mentioned in widespread reports of middleman profits and high prices paid for highway right-of-Way opens here Tuesday, A Marton county grand Jury will study one facet of the case which broke nearly two weeks ago — stories of lush profits at state expense in the purchase of lots for a Madison Ave. Expressway in Indianapolis. Under summons io appear as witnesses were Virgil W. (Red) Smith, former state highway chairman in the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig, and Nile Teverbaugh, deposed ex-chief of the highway department’s right -of-way division. Smith and Teverbaugh were slated to appear at 9 a.m. Tuesday. In corridors outside the grand jury rooms they may rub shoulders with several Indianapolis property owners who have been quoted as saying they received prices for their lots representing about 10 per cent of what the state paid for them. Smith was linked with a highway “scandal" in lowa this week. An lowa highway commissioner reported that Smith was one of two contact men who tried to influence a bid letting for purchase of highway equipment. Meanwhile, Arthur J. Mogilner, Indianapolis, confirmed that he and Smith formed a public relations firm known as “V & A, Inc.,” about a month ago “primarily for work outside the state of Indiana.” He said he and Smith went to Des Moines April 10 tc try to land equipment contracts. But Mogilner denied charges by an lowa highway commissioner that the firm’s representatives tried to get a change in specifications for the equipment so only one firm could get a contract and V & A would share in the income. Mogilner told the Indianapolis Times in an interview that he was "looked on favorably” by the Craig administration and got sa(Coatinnfd on Pxs* Six) Michigan Trucker Is Xilfed Friday BLUFFTON, Ind. (UP) —John i Mudler, 32, Grand Rapids, Mich., : was killed Friday when his semi- 1 truck collided with an auto at the i junction of three highways at the Huntington-Wells county line. Two Detroit women, Leona J Taras, 38, and her mother, Helen < Taras, 60, were hospitalized here in serious condition. State Police ' said Mudler apparently failed to see a stop sign and the car carry- , Ing the women crashed into the truck. - , NOON EDITION

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1 ’ ./ .’j Employment Drop Reported In City Payrolls Are Also Decreased In City Industrial employment in Decatur in March was 95.41 percent of employment here a year ago, according to reports by the Chamber JPCommerce from seven Decatur industries. The payroll, is 92.8 percent of one year ago. Both «mplrurm—h aasl-filiW. roll increased slightly from February’s figures. Employment in February was 1,474, and has now risen to 1,498, short of the 1,570 employed here a year ago. The payroll was 8550,704 last month, $494,879 in February, and $593,418 a year ago. Direct poor relief has increased 229 percent over a year ago, 14 cases involving 29 persons cost the township 8491. This year 23 cases involving 78 persons cost the township $1,126. This figure is a decrease, however, from the 28 cases involving 96 persons in February, which * cost Washington! township $1,703. The value- of building permits issued has increased greatly over a year ago, although the number of permits has decreased from 15 to 13. The value ot last year’s permits was $68,200, and this March’s value is $316,555. In February there were only 5 building permits valued at $23,932. Postal receipts showed a decrease over both last February’s figure of $7,482 and a year ago’s figure of $7,572 to $7,152. Railway express shipments also decreased over a year ago, from 1,149 to 1,002. In February, express shipments mounted to only 953. Carloadings in have almost doubled since a year ago, and carloadings out have also increased. A year ago carloadings in were 487, and carloadings out, 1,014, for a total of 1,501. In February there were 877 carloadings in, and 1,185 carloadings out. In March of this year there were 825 carloadings in. and 1,239 carloadings out, for a total of 2,064 cartoadings. There were 57 births and nine deaths reported in March, as compared with 49 births and eight deaths in February, and 47 births and 11 deaths a year ago. There were 6,064 telephones M the Decatur area, including rural, a year ago, 6,114 in February, and 6,133 in March. In February and March there were 2,354 gas meters, and 2,325 a year ago. (CeatteßMl Five) Easter Egg Hunt At Elks Easter Sunday All children nine years of age and younger, of Decatur and vicinity, are invited to the annual Easter egg hunt at the Decatur Elks lodge home. North Second street, Sunday afternoon. The annual event, one of the features of the Easter season in this city, will get underway at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon. It will be held regardless of weather. In case bad weather prevents holding the hunt on the spacious lawn of the lodge home, it will be conducted indoors. A plentiful supply of colored eggs will be available, and many prizes will be awarded to th* finders of the lucky eggs.

77 Injured In Crash Os Twp Subway Trams Train Smashes Rear Os Stalled Subwav Train In Brooklyn NEW YORK (UP) - Seventyseven Dersons were injured FriKit when a subway train I into the rear of a seeled train in a Brooklyn ot the injured were hosTwo were reported in conditicOt including the a of the moving train, Hoke, 46, who was pinned in the seat of his car for an hour and a half before being freed by police and fire rescue workers. The injured, ineluding 18 children, were treated at four hospitals. most ot them for cuts, bruises and shock Riders Thrown Areond Momentary hysteria spread through both trains in the darkened after the crash, which jolted most of the $66 nwiwigers in tne wo mßiqs rroni weir seats. Many riders were sent sprawling to the flow by the impact, which also shattered window. ripped loose seats and dimmed lights. Panic was averted by train crewmembers who calmly opened doors and instructed passengers, many ot them hysterical, to walk along catwalks to nearby stations. Seven ambulances and disaster units from three hospitals raced to the scene to care for the injured. The first train, a local en route from Brooklyn to Queens, had just negotiated a 90 degree bend in the tunnel beneath a Brooklyn street when it was brought to an automatic stop by . a defective • brake. The motorman, Victor P. : O'Britis, 41, climbed down to the , tracks, released the jammed , brake and returned to his cab. Train Rammed From Behind [ As be prepared to restart the eight car train, it was rammed ' so■■Seeßb&rSJtt panic «- k sued in both trains, although nei- , ther was derailed. . Hoke told investigators he halt- , ed his train when he saw two red signals ahead, a warning to approaching. trains to stop. He said he restarted the train, however, when the signal changed to two red lights and a yellow—a signal to proceed at his own discretion. His train was moving slowly, at less than 15 miles an hour, when the ‘crash took place, Hoke said. Transit authorities said the casualty figure probably would have been much higher on a normal Friday. The Good Friday observlance had reduced the traffic lead considerably, they said. \ Stassen Home From Arms Conferences Report Encouraging Signs From Russia WASHINGTON ffl — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and President Disarmament Adviser Harold E. Stassen arranged a special huddle today on ••encouraging" signs Russia may be ready to start disarming. They called the conference for mid-afternoon — only a matter of hours after Stassen’s scheduled return from the London dis am ament conference. Dulles was reported anxious to learn immediately what Stassen has found out in negotiation with Russia on the critical disarmament problem. ' Authorities from President Eisenhower down have been saying : for the past week that the outlook for. disarmament is better : now than ever before. But they I also have cautioned aganst expecting too much progress too quickly. Stassen has been negotiating with representatives of Russia, Britain, France and Canada since mid-March. Eisenhower told his news conference Wednesday that the atmosphere "is better’’ than it has been at simitar sessions held by the U. N. disarament subcommittee. i .... One of the big reasonsfor optimism here is a hint from Soviet negitiator Valeterian A. Zorin that Russia may be ready to open a significant part of its territory to Eisenhower’s “open skies” aerial inspection plan. Previously, the Soviets balked at this. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, warm and humid with showers aad scattered thunderstorms tonight. Sunday mostly cloudy and a little cooler north portion, with scattered showers and chance of thunderstorms. Low tonight 58-63. Hi<h Sunday 6284. Outlook for Monday: Showers and continued warm.

■ : Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 20, 1957.

Vicious Spring Storms In Central U. S. Cause Death And Destruction

Beck May Be Recalled By Senate Group AFL-CIO Council Rower Challenged By Teamstars Boss * WASHINGTON (UP) - Tesm- ' sters Union President Dave Beck may Weed his return engagement before the Senate Labor Rackets Committee if he avoids his day of reckoning with the AFL-CIO. Committee mefnber Karl E. Mundt (R-8.D.) told reporters that I! the AFL-CIO proves unable to . enforce its ethics code against Boek, the committee may change its schedule and recall him quick- . ly for questioning about his private business deals with the un- ■ ion through firms in which he I holds an interest. ‘Hie committee has developed additional information that the • Teamsters, the public and the Congress should know,” Mundt said. 4 Beck Friday challenged the right of the AFL - CIO Executive Council to expel him from its membership. He said he still siders himself a council member. Asks Detailed Accusations He also demanded that the AFLCIO Ethical Practices Committee provide detailed accusations and guarantee fair procedures when.it holds hearings next month on corruption charges against him and his union. The AFL-CIO moves against Beck came after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 117 times when the Senate Rackets Committee questioned him last month about his personal finances. Senate investigators charged that he took more than $322,000 from union treasuries for his personal use. Beck made public a letter to AFLrCIO President George Meany charging that the executive council acted illegally when it suspended him March 29 as a member and an AFL-CIO vice president. He said the council could only make recommendations to the AFL-CIO convention. Probers Keep Busy He also argued that he could not be tried by the federation for 1 offenses committed before the AFL-CIO constitution became op- i erative. Rackets Committee investiga- 1 tors have been busy in Seattle for ] some time establishing the ground- < work for questioning Beck a sec- j ond time. No date has been set for the hearings. A committee spokesman also disclosed that staff investigators , have been ordered into eight oth- I er cities to check out complaints of union mismanagement. He said investigators are, or • soon will be, at work in New I York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Se- 1 attie, Philadelphia and Omaha, 1 Neb. He added that inquiries also 1 will be started in St. Louis and Detroit “in the not too distant 1 future.” i

Lenten Meditation (By Rev. Ray J. Walther, First Presbyterian Church) “DEATH ABOLISHED” “Our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished -death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the — gospel.” -1 —- — - A young lady was presented a gift by her ardent admirer. So beautiful was die box that she Ignored the valuable and the sentimental diamond ring it held. She went into ecstasy over the box, much to the disgust of her lover who had hoped she would wear the ring the rest of her life as a symbol of their love and devotion. This simple story points up the mistake most make on Easter Day. Too many place the importance on the beautifying of the body when actually what God did on that first Easter was to show that the human soul is valuable to Hbn. •Easter Day is a time for mankind to express our faith in this highest hope that God gave us all away beyond die limitations of bur bodies through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Chsist, His Son, our Lord and Saviour. Has Christ set you free? Or on this Easter Day are your plans set to emphasize the beauty of the body, to the neglect of the greater treasure within, the "soul?** Go to the church of your faith tomorrow and give witness to your belief in God’s great act on Easter.

County Council To J Meet On April 29 Special Session Os County Coucilmen Requests for additional appropriations totalling $64,557 and for transfers of a total of $1,700 will be submitted to the Adams county council-la a special session Monday, April 29, at the county court house. i Largest amount requested is $50,000 by the county commissioners to finance construction of the proposed county highway building. Other requests include SI,OOO for operating expenses for the county auditor’s office, $4,000 for book binding and repair for the county recorder and $595 tor new equipment for the sheriff’s department. County auditor Ed Jaberg explained that his request for additional operating finals was made necessary by low supplies which must be replenished. The new equipment sought by sheriff Merle Affolder is a breath-o-lizer which is designed to indicate accurately the state of intoxication of any person suspected of being under the influence of alcohol. Sheriff Affolder pointed out that the county still has no method of proving intoxication and that modern law enforcement practices make such equipment a vital asset to the department. The county agent’s office is seeking to transfer the amount of S3OO from mileage for the home demonstration agent to mileage for the 4-H club agent. The county is currently without a home demonstration agent. The other transfer of funds is sought by the county highway department which requests transfer of $1,400 from the truck and tractor driver and maintenance salary fund to the highway clerk salary fund. The total requests are further padded by routine requests for $684 in additional per diem salaries. These salaries were established recently by the state legislature and could not have been included in regular appropriations last fall. They are submitted by the offices of the treasurer, clerk, auditor, recorder, sheriff, surveyor and assessor. Other requests include S3OO by the treasurer for personal delinquencies, $1,650 for per diem mileage for the three members of the sheriffs department, $56 for 1956 clerical help for the assessor and $lB7 for assessor's operating expenses, and $440 by the county commissioners for trustees salaries. Secretary Seaton Home From Hospital WASHINGTON (UP) -Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton, who recently underwent an operation for an old back injury, returned home from Walter Reed Army Hospital Friday night. Seaton entered the hospital on March 7. His convalescence -is expected to last several weeks.

United Stales Resuming Aid To Israelis r..,' . ■ > - J American Economic And Technical Aid 1 Is BAing Resumed ‘ WASHINGTON (UP)-U.S. offi- ‘ cials disclosed today that Ameri- ■ can economic and technical aid to • Israel "is being resumed." 1 The United States cut off aid to * Israel last Oct. 29, 1956, when Is- ’ raell forces attacked Egypt. About ' 50 American personnel assigned ’ to the aid programs were withdrawn from Israel. Only six remained behind In a' caretaker status. . The State Department March 14 announced that talks on resuming aid would begin soon. Spokesmen for the State Department and the foreign aid agency told the United Press that now “the American aid program to Israel is being resumed.” The State Department spokesman said the basic decision to resume aid hsd been made, and that American and Israeli officials are discussing details here and at Tel Aviv. , The foreign aid spokesman saM Ameiicaa aid personnel have been authorized to return to Israel.” He estimated that more ' than six Americans already are ' back at their jobs on agriculture, i health, sanitation, education, communications and other aid projs ects. Aid to Jordan and Lebanon was cut off in October. There was no indication of resumption of aid to those countries. Officials said the amount of Israeli aid for this year has not been finally decided. But the Unit(Uonttnnw jn six) Indiana Farmer Is Killed By Tractor NEW ALBANY (UP) - William Owens, 32, Fredericksburg, died Friday in Floyd Memorial Hospital from injuries sustained Tuesday in a farm tractor accident. Owens was driving the tractor along U. S. 150 near Palmyra when it overturned and pinned him beneath it« crushing his chest. Mrs. Emma Fuhrman Dies Last Evening 94-Year-Old Lady Is Taken By Death Mrs. Emma Catherine DutcherFuhrman, 94-year-old lady, died at 6:30 o’clock Friday evening at the home of her son, Earl C. Fuhrman, Bellmont road. She had been in failing health for several years. Born in Root township March 1, 1863, she was a daughter of Almond and Brada Wise-Dutcher, and was married to John A. Fuhrman March 6, 1884. Her husband preceded her in death March 26, 1931. s Mrs. Fuhrman was the oldest member of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church and was a member of the. WSWS of the church. She taught in the cbtu-ch’s Sunday school for many jffers. Surviving* are three daughters, Mrs. Bertba- Smith and Mrs. Elsie Newhard, both of Decatur, and Mrs. Zelma Foreman of Blue Creek township; two sons, Earl C. Fuhrman of Decatur, and Charles Fuhrman of Preble; 15 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren, and t i v.e great-great-grandchildren. Three sons, two brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Black funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Benj. G. Thomas officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Summery Weather Rolls Into Indiana Highest sarks Os ‘ 7 Season Hit Friday By UNITED PRESS Summer temperatures rolled into Indiana for the Easter weekend. Showers and thunderstorms came, too. ; ? The mercury' climbed so the season’s highest marks Friday after- _ noon, hitting a top of 85 at Evans- . ville and 82 at Indianapolis—with- , in a single degree of the all-time record for April 19. , Even upstate the temperature . ranged into the high 70s. t Highs today will range from 78 [ to 85 in a duplication of Friday’s . readings, and the range for.Eas- . ter Sunday is expected to be 62 • to 84, with a moderate cool-off in the north and central portions. Milady’s Easter bonnet may be dampened. The showery conditions which prevailed Friday were expected to continue today, Sunday and Monday. There was no immediate indication at a decided drop in temperatures before Tuesday, if then. Rainfall during the 24-hour period ending at 7:30 a.m. today ; ranged from .02 at Fort Wayne to , .72 at Crawfordsville. At least half an inch of precipitation fell on r»uch areas as Logansport, Koko- > mo. Indianapolis and South Bend. ‘Overnight temperatures also > were high. The mercury never > dropped below 60 during the night , at any point in the state. Burglary Charge Is Filed Against Swank Result Os Robbery Attempt At Berne William W. Swang, 24, of Fort Wayne, was formally charged with second degree burglary in arraignment proceedings today in Adams circuit court. Swank, who was arrested in Berne early Thursday morning after a breakin at the IGA supermarket there, was instructed today on his constitutional rights. His bond was set at $1,500. His arraignment was continued to allow him time before entering' a plea. The Fort Wayne man is to be represented by a Fort Wayne attorney. Meanwhile, he and two other men, also arrested as a result of tfte Berne incident, have confessed to 13 more burglaries in the area. Robert L. Rammel, 25, of Fort Wayne, and David Barger, 22, also of Fort Wayne, are being held in that city by authorities who have declined to return the pair to the Adams county jurisdiction. The three men earlier admitted a breakin at Doe’s Cdr Dock south of Decatur and breakins in Jay county about two weeks ago. The 13 burglaries which have been cleared with continued questioning of the three men include attempts at a-Fort Wayne tavern, a New Haven cleaning shop, a store at Mill Grove in Jay county, a grocery in Haviland, 0., a grocery in Huntington, a filling station in Berne, a garage at St. Joe, a grocery in St. Joe, a lumber company in Butler, a service station north of Angola, a realty company south of Angola, a supermarket south of Angola and a hardware store at Pleasant Lake. Sunrise Service For Youth Easter Sunday The Easter sunrise service for youth of the Associated Churches of Decatur win be held at 6 a.m. Sunday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Ralph B. Thomas, freshman student at Wabash CoUege, will be the speaker. A son of the Rev. and Mrs. Benj. G. Thomas, the young speaker graduated from the Decatur high school in 1956. Special mu? sic win be provided by a trio from the host church and the entire worship service wfll be conducted by the youth of the various churches.

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' 6. — At Least 12 Are Killed In Cmm'wW v „ -r .Wf" 1 - Eight Os Victims Blamed On Storms Hitting Wisconsin storms and twisters that rained * death and destruction across the central section of the nation. J An incoming mass of sultry air ! collided with departing winter Fri- - day, touching off a series of tor- ! nadoes, thunderstorms, high winds i and hail. A United Press count showed at . least 12 persons had been killed . in the outbreak. r Eight of the victims were killed in Wisconsin, one in a tornado. ; two each in a rain-caused plane . crash, a motorboat sinking and on , fog - covered highways. Another person was struck by lightning. Four others were killed in traf- • sic accidents, blamed on poor vis-ibility-three in Illinois roads and ’ one in a Kansas dust storm. ’ Nebraska and Oklahoma were t also slapped by the twisters, but - no deaths were reported. 3 swooped into* the Necedah and r Burlington area Friday afternoon, t and near Kendall in the evening. William Meilis, 60. was killed when a funnel pitched him 100 feet into a field after battering his house. A Burlington housewife suffered a heart attack while watching a tornado and was hospitalized. Vince Ptashinski, 17, and Edward Schliewe, both of Beaver Dam, Wisf, drowned while boating on a lake. Three companions who escaped blamed sudden winds and turbulent waters tor upsetting the boat. < Two Glen Cove, Minn., men died when their light plane plowed into a field near LaCrosse, Wis. Officials said Vernon Perscau, 42, and Max Jacob Albers, 36, were making a forced landing during a downpour. Oconomowoc, Wis., high school teacher Oscar Dobratz, 45, was killed by a bolt of lightning. Other twisters struck at McCook and Culbertson, Neb., and at Bartlesville, Okla. The weather bureau said funnels were spotted in parts of Nebraska and Texas, but either didn’t touch ground or failed to cause extensive damage. The surge of warm air kept early morning temperatures in the 60s from the Mississippi Valley eastward through the Great Lakes and in the Ohio Valley. Pellston, Mich., located on the northern tip of Lake Michigan reported a midnight reading of 66 degrees. West of this area, in the northern Plains, Rockies and Pacific Northwest, mercury lingered in toe 40s. Weathermen for edS St more showers and thunderstorms tor the area from the Great Lakes south-’ ward into Texas. Showers were also in store for the middle Atlantic Coastal states, the Ohio Valley and the Gulf region. Light rain and possible snow flurries Coatlaned •* Pace Ei*ht Chorles Hockemeyer Dies At Fort Wayne Charles Hockemeyer, 68, retired Allen county farmer, died Friday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne. He was a member of Emmanual Lutheran church in Fort Wayne, where he resided the past nine years. Surviving are the widow, Luella; two daughters, Mrs. Edwin Scheumann of Wells county, and Mrs. August Schroeder of Allen county; °ne son. Lawrence of Allen county: three brothers, Fred C. Hockemeyer <H Decatur, William F. and Herman of Monroeville, and one sister, Mrs. Frank Kaiser of Fort Wayne'. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p. m. Sunday in Emmanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. Whiter Schoedel officiating. Burial wfll be in Flat Rock cemetery. Friends may call at the Klaehn funeral home until 1 p. m. Sunday, when toe -body will be takes -to toe church.. i