Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 122, Decatur, Adams County, 23 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 122.

MISSOURI TOWN GONE WITH THE WIND >s' 1 Tj A GRAPHIC AERIAL VIEW of the southeast Missouri town of Fremont, almost totally wrecked by a tornado which claimed eight lives and injured 50 others as the tornado total In the nation’s midlands reached 50 dead and more than 200 injured. Only seven .homes in Fremont remained standing. Eight others died as the winds tore through the areg around Desloga and Bonne Terre.

Ike, Stassen Discuss Plans For Disarming Stassen To Return To London Monday To Resume Parley WASHINGTON (UP)—Disarmament adviser Harold E. Stassen said after a White House conference today that he plans to be in London next Monday for resumption of the East-West disarmament „ talks. Stassen conferred for about two hours with President Eisenhower and the National Security Council on a new disarmament plan to be placed before the London conference, now in recess. All Stassen would say about the meeting was that he “never discusses conferences with the President or the National Security Council.” Asked when he plans to leave for London, he said he “expects to be there at 3:30 p.m. on Monday” when the disarmament talks resume. Stassen came home from London to confer with the President and his advisers on an answer to Russia’s April 30 disarmament proposals. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who does not see eye-to-eye with Stassen on disarmament policy, sat in on today’s discussions for about 20 minutes. Informed sources said there is top-level opinion that disarmament is one field in which East and West may be able to negotiate successfully. There have been indications since the death of Premier Stalin that the Russians may be willing to agree to some disarmament inspection plan. Post-Stalin Attitude Word reaching Washington indicates that the new Soviet leaders began to face up to the horrors of nuclear warfare soon after Stalin died. Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov, a World War II comrade in arms of Eisenhower, is understood .to have spearheaded debate on the issue. One possible U.S. move certain to be considered at today's Security Council meeting is a proposal to set aside an aerial-ground 'inspection zone in the Siberian-Alaskan-Northern Canadian area. This would be regarded as an experimental area to determine whether a framework for a greater East-West disarmament accord could be developed later. Problems Still Pressing Experts said there are several tough problems still to be worked out before any agreement is reached with the Russians. First, the Soviet Union has given ftotice it will be difficult to deal with regarding the areas of the inspection agreement. Second, the administration itself is Jiot agreed on how a disarmament program could be set up. Eisenhower told his news con’s ference Wednesday that the United States must not be “recalcitrant” or "picayunish” about its approach to disarmament. Once a start in a test area has gotten under way, he said, progress might be made to the point where American and Soviet deJen§e budgets could be “brought down within reason.” ■ ? 14Pag««

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Rev. John Gillig To South Bend Church Second Assistant Is Assigned To Decatur The Rev. John E. Gillig will be assigned as assistant pastor of Our Lady of Hungary church in South Bend, effective June 7, and the Rev. Robert A. Jaeger, of Muncie, will be assigned as second assistant to the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz at the St. Mary's Catholic church here, effective August 17, it was announced today. The assignments were announced through Our Sunday Visitor, official irewspaper of the Fort Wayne diocese. Rev. Giilig is the son of Mr. and Mrs- Leo T. Gillig of 612 North Second street, and a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school. Both young men will be ordained Saturday morning at 9:30 o’clock at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Fort Wayne by Bishop Leo A. Pursley. Rev. Gillig will celebrate his first solemn mass at 10:15 a. m. Sunday at the St. Mary's church here. A reception will follow on Sunday afternoon at the American Legion home from 2:30 until 5 p. m. Rev. Jaeger is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Jaeger of Muncie. He attended St. Judge grade school, Fort Wayne; Sacred Heart seminary. Fort Wayne; and Our Lady of the Lake seminary, Wawasee. In 1951 he entered St. Meinrad seminary for philosophical and theological studies. • -r—- — - —__x_ Rev. Jaeger will offer his first solemn mass at 11:30 a. m. Sunday at the St. Mary’s Catholic church in Muncie. A reception in the Bishop Noll memorial center of the St. Mary's of Muncie parish will be held from 3:30 until 5:30 p. m. Sunday. Until August 17, Rev. Jaeger will serve as chaplain of the C. Y. O. summer camp at Lake Wawasee. Indiana Rivers And Creeks On Rampage Steady Rainfall In , Indiana Overnight By UNITED PRESS Steady rains peppered new heavy precipitation over waterlogged Indiana- today. Muddy streams rolled past flood stage. At least three more days of rain are due. Evansville’s 2.17 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending this morning topped the list and raised to nearly six inches the amount of precipitation which has fallen on the Pocket City in little more than four days. Other Hoosier areas generally had from four to five inches of rain in •the same period. Rivers and creeks went on a rampage. Even the Wabash, normally not riled like its smaller tributaries, was due to crest between today and Saturday at points near, at or above flood stage from Covington to Vincennes. The White River was expected to overflow within one or two feet of its high flood levels of April. Stages four feet above flood level were expected Sunday at Bedford and four to five feet above at Spencer. Elliston's crest Sunday was' expected to be six feet above flood stage and Edwardsport’s 8 to 9 feet above. Surface water standing in acres (C«attauß4 « Paaa Fiva)

Tornadoes Hit Missouri Third Straight Day Damaging Twisters Roar Across Five States Wednesday By UNITED PRESS Tornado weather clung to the nation's midlands today after erupting in a new wave of damaging twisters across five states. Tornadoes rammed hard hit Missouri for the third straight day Wednesday night and others skipped across Texas, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma. No deaths were reported in the onslaught, but several persons were injured and numerous homes damaged or destroyed. The United Press counted at least 53 persons killed since Monday night when a giant tornado crushed through the suburbs of Kansas City. The victims, all but one from Missouri, included 38 in the Kansas City area, six in the devastated community of Fr emont, four at Desloge and four elsewhere in the state. An Indianapolis, Ind., city employe was electrocuted while clearing ttway storm wreckage. The tornado producing weather conditions, a combination of warm humid air clashing with a line of colder air, extended from eastern Texas to Michigan. Numerous severe thunderstorms were reported throughout the area. x • A tornado near Waco, Tex., Wednesday night churned a path 500 feet wide and five miles long, injuring four persons and destroying seven homes. One of the injured was in serious condition. President Eisenhower Wednesday declared parts of storm-bat-tered Missouri, including the Kansas City region, major disaster areas and eligible for federal aid. Gov. James T. Blair Jr. of Mis(CoaUaued ob Pace Five) Newspaper Charges Department Bilked Charges Exotbitant Equipment Rentals INDIANAPOLIS (W — A newspaper said today that highway records shßw that the present Indiana secretary of state and the wife of a state senator rented equipment to the State Highway Department at fees greater than the cost of the machinery. The Indianapolis Times said Secretary of State Frank A. Lensing rented two tractors and an asphalt- mixer, which Cost him $6,405, for $16,390 over a period of more than two years before he took-office. The Times said Mrs. Beth Conrad, wife of State Sen. Roy X!onrad of Monticello, was paid $5,422 for 15 months use of a tractor with mower and loader which cost her $3,001. James Gregory, who served as former Gov. George Craig’s cam-, paign press agent in 1952, received more than SII,OOO for equipment which cost him $10,604, the Times said. Lennig, who managed Craig’s campaign in the 7th District, rented his equipment to the Linton subdistrict, and Mrs. Conrad rented hers to the Monticello subdistrict, both during periods when Craig was governor/ according to the Times.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 23, 1957.

Secretary Os Defense Wilson Urges Senators Restore Military Fund

Doxie Moore Questioned In Road Scandals Former Assistant To Craig Queried In Highway Probe INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Marion County Prosecutor John Tinder today .questioned Doxie Moore, farmer Gov. George Craig’s administrative assistant, as a possible witness before a grand jury investigating the Indiana highway scandal. Tinder had indicated earlier Moore might be called as a witness if private questioning proved his testimony would be valuable. At least three witnesses were expected to testify on the scandal before a Marion County grand jury today. Witnesses Are Listed They are: Mollie Davis who formerly operated the Bull and Bear Tavern on Madison Ave. Highway records show the department paid $35,000 for the front half of the tavern lot and later paid $25,000 for the back half. Robert Seastrom, an account executive of an Indianapolis highway equipment firm. The- firth sold highway sweepers to the department. Highway Chairman John Peters has charged all of the equipment paid for was not delivered. Elmer Laws, a banker from Milan. Milan is the home town of former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith, now under indictment in connection with the highway scandal. Telegrams to Brownell Three other men besides Smith were indicted by the same jury (Coßtißßcd bb Page Five) Gustav Krueckeberg Victim Os Attack _ Heart Attack Fatal To County Resident Gustav Krueckeberg, 67, a carpenter, who resided in Uhion township, nine miles northeast of Decatur, most of his life, died of a heart attack at 1:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon on the Sam Santini farm four miles southeast of Decatur. Mr. Krueckeberg and Richard Bleeke were doing repair work at the farm when he suffered the fatal attackHe was born in Union township March 27, 1890, a son of Fred and Emma Koldewey-Krueckeberg, and was married to Selma Bleeke May 6, 1917. Mr. Krueckeberg was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran church and the men’s club pf the church. Surviving in addition to his wife are four daughters, Mrs. Dorwin Dressier of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Benjamin Miller and Mrs. Eugene Kiess of Decatur, and Mrs. Gaylord Heine of New Haven; two sons, Morris Krueckeberg of Decatur, and Melvin Krueckeberg, at home; 14 grandchildren; four brothers, Emil and Fred Krueckeberg of Convoy, 0., the Rev. Harry Krueckeberg of Indianapolis, and Ferdinand •Krueckeberg of Mishawaka, and three sisters, Mrs. Edwin Steele of rural route 2, Ohio City, 0., Mrs. Richard Kreiselmeyer of New Haven, and Mrs. Louis Springer of Yoder. A son, T/5 Truman Krueckeberg, was killed while serving with the armed forces in the Philippines Feb. 15, 1945. One daughter, one brother aijd one sister also preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.‘m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Immanuel Lutheran church, the Rev. W. C. Vetter officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The casket win not be opened at the church.

Jewish Couple Beg To Keep Daughter Florida Governor Conducts Hearing TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UP) — The Jewish foster mother of little Hildy McCoy tearfully begged Gov. Leroy Collins today to let her and her husband keep the Roman Catholic born child thpy have raised since birth. Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis, 37, appeared with her husband at a dramatic extradition hearing before the governor, who must decide whether to let the Ellises remain in Florida or send them back to Massachusetts to face a kidnaping charge. Mrs. Ellis said it would do "irreparable harm” to 6-year-old Hildy if she is taken from her foster parents and placed in a Massachusetts foundling home—a possible fate if the extradition is granted. _ Mrs. Ellis mad? her plea after opposing attorneys -debated for more than an hour over the legal sufficiency of the extradition warrant. An attorney for the Ellises said sending the Ellises back to /Massachusetts would open the way for them and Hildy to be “burned at the . stakes of legal, skullduggery, just as Massachusetts witches in the* 17th and 18th centuries (were burned) at the stake of intolerance and prejudice." • The governor recessed the hearing until late this afternoon. He said he hopes at that time to announce a decision in the matter. Collins said his decision will also include the state of Massachusetts request for more time to file a legal brief answering Ellis’ arguments. Mrs. Ellis said that Hildy did not come to Tallahassee because she is in school at Miami Beach preparing for her graduation from fee first grade at a private school Friday. J x . Collins took the unprecedented step of presiding personally because the decision involves so deeply the lives of, the blonde, blue-eyed child and the many people who love her. Ellis said he was “touched deep(Coßtißued on Pace Five> Decatur Man Elected As Rotary Governor Formal Election As District Governor LUCERNE, “Switzerland, — Clarence P. Ziner, owner of the Culigan Soft Water Service Company in Decatur, Ind., was elected governor of district 654 of Rotary International, world-wide service club organization, at Rotary’s 48th annual convention, which is toneluding its sessions here todoy. He will take office July 1 and serve for the 1957-58 fiscal year. As district governor, he will coordinate the activities of the 39 Rotary clubs in district 654, one of three Rotary districts in Indiana. During the year, he will visit each club to offer advice and assistance on Rotary service activities and administration. Ziner is secretary of the Indiana Soft Water Association and a member of the executive board of the Anthony Wayne council of Boy Scouts. In, Decatur, he has been president .of the Chamber of mCommerce, a trustee of the Presbyterian church, and chairman of the board of zoning appeals and the Adams county Boy Scout committee. A Rotarian since 1938, he is now a member and past president of the Rotary club of Decatur. Charles G. Tennent, a horticulturist in Asheville, North Carolina, U.S.A., was elected president of Rotary International lor" the 1957-58 fiscal year at the 48th annual convention of that worldwide service organization. The convention registration of more than 8,000 Rotarians and guests represented 9,300 Rotary clubs with * membership of 442,000 business and professional executives in 99 countries. Tennant is proprietor of the Tcn(Cßßttaaad M Pace Five)

Sec. Humphrey Wants To Quit Treasury Post Desires To Leave Cabinet July 1 To Return To Business WASHINGTON (UP) —Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey wants to leave President Eisenhower’s cabinet by July 1 to return to private business, it was learned today. Highly - placed administration sources said Humphrey originally agreed to stay in the cabinet until the President’s record peacetime budget of $71,800,000,000 for fiscal 1958 finally gets through Congress, probably about the first of August. These sources said Humphrey still will stay in Washington until Congress quits if Eisenhower insists. But they said he is anxious now to get back into private life as chairman of the National Steel Corp, of Pittsburgh, a job that is being held open for him. According to the best available reports Humphrey's successor already has been chosen. He is Robert B. Anderson, 47-year-old former deputy secretary of defense and a leading Texas Democrat for Elsenhower.” Anderson was considered one of the bright young men of the early days of the Eisenhower administration. He is said to have won the complete trust of »the President when he sferved as secretary of the Navy and later as deputy defense secretary. Before his government service Anderson was the $60,000-a - year manager of the W. T. Waggoner Estate in Texas, a 300-million-dollar oil, cattle and farming enterprise. More recently Anderson has been president of Ventures, Ltd., a Canadian mining firm with worldwide interests. Reports from New York, where he has been living, are that he is disposing of his stock in the concern preparatory to taking over the cabinet post. < INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with scattered thunderstorms south and central portions. Cooler north portion tonight. Low tonight 48-56 north, 57-64 south. High Friday mostly In the 70s. Sunset 7:59 p. m., sunrise Friday 5:25 a. m. Chas. Schnepp Dies Suddenly Wednesday Heart Attack Fatal To County Farmer Charles Schnepp, 55, Washington township farmer, died suddenly of a heart attack at 7:15 o’clock Wednesday evening at his home four and one-half miles southwest of Decatur. He was stricken while finishing his evening chores. He was born in Van Wert county,O., April 8, 1902, a son of Frank and Hannah Barrone-Schnepp, and had lived at the Washington township farm for the past 25 years. He was married to Lucy Bowsher Feb. 19, 1923. Mr. Schnepp was a member of St. Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Keith Schnepp of Union township, and Bruce Schnepp of Decatur; one daughter, Mrs. Vernon Kiser of Fort Wayne; four grandchildren, and one brother, Henry G. Schnepp of Fort Wayne. One brother preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m; Sunday at the Zwick fiineral home and at 2 p.m. at St. Luke's Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras, the Rev. LewisMinsterman officiating. Burial will be in the" Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Friday until time of the services.

All-Night Parly To Entertain Graduates Series Os Parties Follow Graduation Decatur high school graduates and their dates will be feted with a series of all night parties following graduation exercises tonight, starting .with a midnight buffet and ending with an early morning breakfast. Graduation exercises for the 69 seniors will be held in the high ; school auditorium this evening, ; at 8 p. m., and will be followed i .by the annual formal commencement dance, which will end i around midnight. i The students and their dates will hurry home to change into ] more casual attire, after which < they will convene at the Youth and Community center, where : they will be entertained with a ' buffet, by participating local sor- ! orities. Women who will assist with ’ serving will be Mrs. Paul Han- ' cher and Miss Marilyn Jaberg, of ’ the Psi lota Xi sorority; Mrs. Guy ' Koos and Mrs. Bill Christen, of ' the Tri Kappa sorority; Mrs. Leland Smith and Mrs. Dick Kershner, of > the Delta Theta Tau sor- ’ ority, and Mrs. Helen Howell, j Mrs. Ferris Bower and Mrs. James Elberson, representing the four chapters of the Beta Sigtna Phi sorority. Graduation night festivities there will last until approximately 2 a. m., when the group will gather at the Adams theater, ' where they will be the guests of Roy Kalver at a private showing of the movie, "The King and Four Queens.” Members of the Lions club will attempt to re-awaken the group at their “Lions den,” to be set up at the American Legion home. A special out of town vaudeville act will be part of the entertainment provided by the Lions, besides a number of other events to be presented by the club. The program of entertainment will be concluded with the serving of breakfast by Lions club members. Deane Dorwin is chair(Coatiaaed oil Pace Five) 1917 Graduates To Hold Reunion Here 40th Anniversary To i Be Observed June 16 ’ . ... Uu-...,..-Plans have been made for the : 1917 graduating class of the De- ] catur high school to celebrate its 40th anniversary by holding a reunion at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Sunday, June 16. Miss Virginia Cravens,, for- < mer English teacher and the class ( sponsor, has accepted an invitation to be the guest of honor. Following a t o’clock dinner at ] the Center, a, program and gettogether will be held. Dr. Roy ( Goldner of Lansing, Mich., the j class president, is expected to act as master of ceremonies; and < members of the class will be call- i ed upon to give brief summaries 1 of their activities since graduation i day. 1 A public reception and tea for 1 former students and the many 1 friends of Miss Cravens has been scheduled for 3 o’clock at the 1 -Center. J--© Serig, high school -I principal in 1917, now living in 1 Muncie, is also being invited, and ’ will be honored. Members of the class residing ’ in Decatur have formed a committee to handle arrangements ' for the reunion. They are Roy ' Kalver, chairman; Grace Lichten- , steiger, secretary, and William Linn, Mrs. Gladys Crownover, Mrs. Rowena Holthouse, Ralph E. Roop and Rubert Gilpin. The class of 1917, which had an enrollment of 58 freshmen, graduated only 28, one of the smaller classes to receive diplomas. Os this group one is deceased, two are , physically incapacitated, but most of the remainder have expressed their intention to attend the reunion, coming from , all sections of the United States.

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Charges House Gambling With U.S. Security Challenges House Committee Claims Funds Are Wasted WASHINGTON (UP) — Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson today accused the Houste Appropriations Committee of “gambling unwisely with the security of the nation’ ’ in making a heavy cut in proposed new military spending. Wilson urged the Senate Appro priations Committee not to duplicate the House group's reduction. Flanked by Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the three military service chiefs and secretaries, Wilson called on the Senate committee to grant the Defense Department $1,274,000,000 of the $2,587,000,000 which the House committee wants deleted from the Defense Department’s money request for the 1958 fiscal year. Wilson also warned the senators that if the remainder of \he House cut is allowed to stand, he will have to come back to Congress later in the year for supplemental appropriations. Denies Waste Charges Wilson challenged the House committee’s claim that the threat from world communism faced by the United States in some respects has“somewhat abated.” "While some may believe that there is current hope for improvement in the international situation,” Wilson said, "there is no real basis as far as I can see for assuming that the danger has already lessened. Cuts (in defense funds) based on hope alone are too risky.” He said Europe and the Far East are full of unresolved problems and the Middle East could be afflicted with "new difficult situations” by the time the defense budget passes Congress. He said that his position against any “real reductions" in American security programs is unanimously supported by the joint chiefs and the secretaries of the Army, Navy and Air Force. Wilson also denied his department wastes money. He said "loose charges” of duplication and waste in the Defense Department are ‘grossly exaggerated.” He told the Senate committee that $1,313,000,000 of the Houseproposed defense money cuts are mere bookkeeping adjustments and new money items which do not immediately affect the defense program. Those cuts, he said, are matters of judgment, but “it should be recognized that most of them will have to be restored in subsequent years." But the remaining $1,274,000,000 of th4 cut would have “an immediate impact,” he said. An Unwise Gamble President Eisenhower had told his news conference Wednesday - this part of the cut could cause aircraft procurement and guided missile programs to “suffer.” “We hope that your committee will see fit to restore most of the amounts of the proposed cuts in these areas because they represent adjustments downward in our defense program of considerable magnitude and seriousness,” Wilson said. If permitted to stand I believe that reductions of the magnitude -proposed would amount to gambling unwisely with the security of the nation,” he added. Wilson said day-to-day operations of the services would be adversely affected, manpower would have to be cut, and research and development would be hindered. Procurement cuts proposed for the Navy and Air Force, chiefly in (CoßttßßeO o« Page Five) 1 BULLETIN WASHINGTON ffl — The House Post Office Committee today approved the administration's bill to raise the cost of mailing a first class letter from 3 to 4 cents and to hike other postal rates, effective July 1. Air mail letters would be raised to 7 cents, post cards to 3 cents.