Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. IV, No. 138.

MAYFLOWER (JETS SALUTE |r' " "W ; I w HF fl fl v UHRJ’ . LM ■ ■ 1 fl i THE U. 8. COAST GUARD training ship "Eagle,'’ with all sails set. greets the replica of the Pilgrims ship “Mayflower" (lower) as the little vessel moves toward her historic goal. At the time of the meeting the Mayflower was proceeding at four knots with a fair breeze.

Tornadoes Hit At Sections Os Central Plains At Least 18 Funnels Reported Tuesday Over East Kansas By UNITED PBEBB Tornadoes raced across sections of the central Plains Tuesday night and weathermen warned of more violent weather today along a squall line stretching from Texas to Ohio. At least 18 tornado funnels swirled over eastern Kansas Tuesday night, but most of them remained aloft and no deaths or injuries were reported. Other twisters were reported in Missouri and Illinois. A United Press count showed at least three deaths blamed on the storms, all of them in Illinois. Two persons were killed in a traffic crash on a rain - swept highway and a telephone linesman was electrocuted repairing storm damage near Elmhurst, 111. The Kansas twisters were reported near Lawrence. Hutchinson, Emporia, Fort Scott, Ottawa, Garnett, Stilwell, Paola, Independence, Rosedale and Rock Creek. Many of the twisters appeared headed for Kansas City, where 40 persons were killed in a tornado last month, but all evaporated before reaching the city. However, high winds hit Kansas City during the night, felling trees and power lines. „ Other tornadoes were sighted at Columbia and Riverside, near Kansas City, in Missouri, and a funnel cloud was reported over Monticello in central Illinois. Southern Ilinois was under a tornado alert until 7 a.m. c.d.t Elsewhere along the storm line, spawned by a clash of cold and warm air, severe winds, rain and hail buffeted sections of the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas. Missouri, Illinois, Thdiana Kentucky, and Ohio. 10-Year-Old Boy Is Injured Last Night Frank Equia, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Equia, of 728 Schirmeyer street, is a patient at the Adams county memorial hospital. with a brain concussion, numerous cuts and abrasions and a possible skull fracture. The youth, who was riding double with his brother on a bicycle on West Adams street, was knocked off his bicycle as it was struck be a car driven by Donnie Lee Martin, 19, of New Haven. The accident occurred at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, as the boys on the bicycle apparently made a quick turn into the path of the automobile, which was eastbound on Adams street. In another accident, an unidentified automobile was damaged at 12:15 a.m. today, when it was struck by a car driven by James Klenk, 18, of 207 Limberlost Trail. In reporting the accident to city police, Klenk stated that he backed out of an alley between Adams and Madison streets onto 13th street, and hit the car, damaging the left front bumper and fender. Total damage was estimated at 830.

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Heavy Damage Done In South Indiana Two-County Area Is ' Hit By Wind, Rain By UNITED PRESS Indiana cooled off slightly today in the wake of windstorms and thunderstorms which dumped up to nearly five inches of precipitation on some areas and caused heavy damage in a two-county area around Vincennes and Washington. Official reports from Elliston, in Greene County about 40 miles ‘ northeast of Vincennes, showed •< 4.75 inches of rain. Terre Haute 1 had 3.01 inches, and Bedford, Martinsville, Newberry and WU--1 liams more v than two inches. Windstorms swept Knox and Daviess counties. Lightning tore a 30 ijy 50 foot bole in the wall of a ' Baltimore & Ohio Railroad repair 1 shop at Washington, the postoffice was unroofed by wind and a 12-year-old girl was hurt by a failing tree at Montgomery, and heavy ' property damage was reported at Bicknell, Edwardsport. Freelandville and Vincennes. Funnel clouds were reported seen in the Evansville and Monticello areas, according to the Weather Bureau, but none was known to have touched Hoosier earth. More Showers Due The weatherman saw more showers and thunderstorms over the southern two-thirds of the state today, tonight and Thursday. The long-range outlook for the period Thursday through next Monday indicated temperatures will average near normal highs of 77 to 88 and normal lows of 56 to 69, with a cooler trend Friday and scattered thundershowers Thursday, and Sunday or Monday. High temperatures Tuesday ranged from 82 at Fort Wayne to 90 at Evansville. Indianapolis' high of 87 was the highest recorded this year in the Hoosier capital. Temperatures dropped to a range of 64 at Evansville to 69 at Fort Wayne during the night, headed for highs of 68 to near 80 today, lows in the 50s and 60s tonight, and highs from the mid-70s to near 80 Thursday. "Die heavy rain was spotty late Tuesday and during the night. While Martinsville had 2.16 inches, nearby areas had little or none. The Indianapolis total was only .14 of an inch. Other totals included Bloomington 1.37, Greencastle 1.10, Portland .62, Covington .65, Crawfordsville .39, Spencer .57, Scottsburg .94. Anderson .94, Vincennes 1.71, Seymour .89, Fort Wayne .84, Evansville .96, and Lafayette .08. Girl Knocked Unconscious The Weather Bureau said .65 of an inch fell in Evansville in 14 minutes this morning. At Montgomery. Phyllis Haag, 12, was knocked unconscious and sustained a Severe head laceration when a tree blew over as she played In her yard. The postoffice was unroofed and mail was moved to another building to keep it from being damaged by rain. A grain mill roof was ripped off and three carloads of grain damaged by water. The B & O's repair shop millroom. a 2-story brick structure, wks damaged by lightning and bricks smashed through the floor. Daviess County Hospital at Washington was without electrical power for an hour. Power failures also occurred in Knox County where streets and highways were (Ceattaae* •* Pa«e Fire)

Lash Defense Dept, lawyer In Girard Case Official Asserts He Misquoted In Reporter's Story WASHINGTON’(UP) — Controversy mounted in the Girard case today over whether a high defense official gave away damaging evidence against GI William S. Girard. I f « The official, Defense Department general counsel Robert Dechert, said Tuesday night he was misquoted as saying U. S. findings indicated the Ottawa, 111., soldier "enticed’* a Japanese woman closer before firing an empty cartridge that killed her on a firing range in Japan. Dechert, in a statement issued at the Pentagon, said the statement attributed to him by a Miami. Fla., reporter “omits the crucial words ‘the Japanese claim. “At no time did I express a personal opinion as to whether actions charged to Girard were or were not in line of duty, or whether Girard did or did not act to entice the Japanese .to approach him," Dechert said. He voiced “deep regret” his statements had caused “such a complete misunderstanding” and added he "certainly did not intend any injustice’’ to Army Specialist 3-c Girard. The reporter for the Miami Herald who interviewed Dechert at Coral Gabies, Fla;, Monday night insisted he had quoted the defense official correctly. He has kept his notes and would stick by his quotations. His editors said they would back him up. Criticism Follows Dechert told the United Press he “probably did" tell the Miami newsman that statements of Japanese witnesses plus that of Girard’s GI companion made it clear Girard enticed Mrs. Naka Sakai closer before firing an empty shell from a grenade liuncher that trlArd her.--A A But the plained this had been in the press and he was merely explaining the Japanese position. Dechert’s alleged statements at Coral Gables, and his subsequent explanation,.drew sharp criticism from some senators and Girard’s lawyers here. Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt.), member of a two- man Senate subcommittee which heard Dechert's explanation of the case behind closed doors last Wednesday, told reporters Dechert was “dead wrong” to say Girard lured the woman closer. Giant Ballistic Missile Explodes Explodes Soon After Maiden Launching CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UP) The explosion Os the giant ballistic missile, the Atlas, gave scientists valuable information which was under intensive study today. The huge intercontinental rocket exploded shortly after its maiden launching Tuesday. The silver, snub - nosed projectile, estimated to be about 100 feet long, rocketed 5,000 feet into the sky from this Air Force guided missile center. It then exploded in a blossom of orange flame and red-hot chunks of metal cascaded into the Atlantic ’Ocean. In a terse statement, the Air Forde announced: “A missile was fired from the Cape Canaveral testing area today. Shortly after the launching the missile exploded. There were no casualties. “Valuable information was gained as a result Os this test. Extensive flight testing of rocket missiles in support of a long range ballistic missiles program and others has been going on for some time and will continue.” There was no confirmation from the Air Force here that the projectile was the giant Atlas, but informed sources here and in Washington said flatly it was. There was no explanation of what caused the missile to explode—whether it was exploded by remote control, or whether something uncontrollable occurred. It was the Air Force’s first big test of the Atlas, the United States’ most advanced type of ballistic weapon. The projectile is designed to carry an atomic or hydrogen warhead 5,500 miles—greater than the distance from New York to Moscow — at speeds of 15,000 miles an hour. The missile’s trajectory is reported to carry it to a height of 800 to 1,500 miles. * 10 Pages X

- Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, June 12, 1957.

Senate Approves Bill For Over $5 Billions To Operate Agencies

U. S. Accuses Soviet Russia On Subversion Charges Subversive Intervention Drive Waged In Mideast WASHINGTON (UP) — The United States today accused the Soviet Union of waging a campaign of “subversive intervention” in the troubled Middle East. This government, in a note delivered to the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow, also rejected “as unnecessary” an earlier Soviet proposal for a Big Four declaration against using force in the Middle East. The Soviet proposal was made by Moscow in notes to the United States, Britain and France and dated April 19. Diplomats said Britain and France also have delivered new notes in Moscow on the Middle East. These Big Three notes were said to be “parallel although not identical.” The U.S. note took sharp issue with a Soviet assertion that its concern about Middle East conditions stemmed from the close proximity of the area to Soviet territory. • -1 “It may be generally observed that it is just those countries lying closest to the Soviet Union which have been most vigorously attacked in the recent Soviet campaign of threat and intimidation aimed at the legitimate efforts for self defense undertaken by the nations in question,” the note said. "Public attacks upon governments of these states, together with subversive intervention in their domestic affairs, give them good cause to seek the strengthening of their security...” The United States challenged Moscow to work through the United Nations if it “sincerely desires to contribute toward the establishment of peace and security in the Middle East...” The note added that Moscow could work with other nations through the United Nations to attack solution “of fundamental problems in the area, among which the ArabIsraeli dispute is outstanding.” Mayflower Winds Up Atlantic Crossing First Anchorage Off Massachusetts Oast PLYMOUTH, Mass. (UP) — The Pilgrim replica ship Mayflower 11, beating her ghostly predecessor to the New World by 14 days, was towed by a Coast Guard tug into Provincetown harbor today for her first anchorage in America. The rugged 92-foot bark entered the squally harbor at 11:25 a.m. c.d.t. for a reenactment of the i signing of the Mayflower compact later today. The vessel was expected to sail ; the 25 miles across Massachusetts Bay to Plymouth Thursday for a recreation of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. Scores of yachts sailed out to greet the Mayflower, which bobbed in tow of the Coast Guard cutter Yankton. Thousands of persons watched from the sandy shore. The Mayflower, the American flag at her forepeak and the Unicm Jack at her main, beaded directly for a Coast Guard mooring off the town wharf. The Mayflower II made the 3,-500-mile Atlantic crossing in 52 days, compared with 66 days taken by the original Mayflower, even though the latter sailed a different, shorter route. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered thunderstorms south portion tonight and most of state Thursday. Cool north portion and warm and humid south portion. Low tonight high 50s extreme north to high 60s extreme south. High Thursday around 70 extreme north to 80s south. Sunset 8:15 p.m., sunrise Wed* uesday 5:17 a.m. ! I: r hr *

Tax Withholding Hearing Underway Seeking To Prevent State Withholding INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A bookkeeper testified as an expert witness today in a 'hearing to block withholding of Indiana gross ‘ income taxes that 75 extra minutes per year would have to be devoted by employers to bookkeeping for each employe. William Buchanan of the Taylor Bookkeeping Co., Indianapolis, made the estimate at a hearing on a suit for an injunction to prevent the state from imposing withholding beginning July 1. The 1957 Legislature enacted a withholding law. Owners of a cleaning shop in Beech Grove, a Marion County town, filed suit on grounds that the law is unconstitutional because it requires employers to become tax collectors without compensation. Buchanan testified in Marlon Circuit Court before Judge John L. Niblack. He said the bookkeeping in connection with withholding the tax from workers’ pay checks was a simple operation but that it would increase the amount of payroll work by at least 25 per cent. He estimated the average bookeeper would have to spend an hour and 15 minutes more per employe per year to administer withholding. Jack Ackers, one of the plaintiffs. also testified the job was "pretty simple.” But he contended “if I make a mistake” he is subject to fines and imprisonment and "I don’t think that's, the American way.” At the start of the hearing. Niblack ordered Ackers’ attorney, George Rose, to read aloud the entire withholding law. It took about an hour. Should Niblack issue a restraining order or injunction, the State of Indiana would suffer a setback in its plans to collect the tax on money as it is earned rather than with returns filed quarterly or annually. Paratrooper Dies Pinned To Plane Rescue Attempts By Crew Are Failure FT. BRAGG. N.C. (UP)— A young paratrooper pinned to the underbelly of a troop-carrier plane mouthed the word “please” more than 100 times, but died dangling in th* deafening slipstream Tuesday when crewmen failed to rescue him. The crew tried for nearly three hours to free Pfc. Wayne H. Flugum, 23, of LeLand, lowa, whose chute-opening line became fouled during a- training jump. His parachute did not open. Doctor's estimated he died in the air-before a final effort to drop him on a foamcushioned runway could be carried out. A jet plane sent aloft in a rescue attempt, nudged the spreadeagled soldier with its wingtip tank in an effort to dislodge him so rescuers could pull him into the plane. May Have “Drowned” "It was a 90 degree angle and we just couldn't get him up that high," said Sgt. Salvador M. Zamudio of San Antonio, Tex., flight engineer of the plane. “We had hold of him once.” he said. “One man had hold of each of his hands and I grabbed the back of his fatigues but the slipstream was so strong we couldn’t hold him.” Doctors said Flugum may have "drowped” In the sea of rushing air w been crushed against tbe by the terrific pressure of its slipstream. Flugum indicated to crewmen trying frantically to haul him back aboard the plane that his helmet strap was choking him. Body Hardly Scratched Crewmen finally cut his body loose as the plane landed on a foam-coated runway at nearby Pope Air Force Base. Medical officers said Flugum had been dead for 30 minutes to two hours. They said he was “hardly .scratched” from the fall into the foam which covered 1,080 foot of I runway.

Ike Host To Congressmen ; At Breakfast First In Harmony Meetings Planned With Republicans WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower played host to 40 Re- , publican congressmen at a harmony breakfast today and heard the politically indigestible forecast that some House members might be "hung” if they support certain parts of his program. The chief executive, smiling and looking fit after his painful weekend stomach upset, entertained at a buffet breakfast in the White House state dining room. Guests were served orange juice, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, sweet rolls and coffee. The early morning “kaffee klatch” was the first in a series of five harmony get - to - gethers planned for GOP House members. Two are planned for Republican senators. J They are part of an effort to bring about closer relations between Eisenhower and Republican lawmakers to head off more trou- ■ ble for his legislative program in i °^st S os today’s breakfast gueeta. I chosen in alphabetical order, said . the accent was social rather than t business. Light Schedule Today Rep. Clarence J. Brown said he . told the President his home state , of Ohio is “against the school aid : bill.” “I also said that in Ohio if : we voted for that school bill, we would all be hung,” Brown said. The President, he said, merely s laughed. : Brown’also reported that “a lot” i of the breakfast guests told the i President how and why they were ■ supporting cuts in his budget. If such sentiments depressed Eisenhower, he did not show it when he posed for pictures with the congressmen afterward on tbe step of the north portico. As for his recent illness, the President said, “Really, I had a miserable day Monday—gee,was I miserable.” After the breakfast, Eisenhower went to his office for a relatively light schedule of morning work. House Republican Whip Leslie C. Arends (Hl.) said the breakfast ‘ would put members “in much clos- < Coatinned nn Pn«e Five)

Geo. Hirschy Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon George Hirschy, 69, farmer and lifelong resident of Monroe township, dieci at 3:45 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. He was brought to the hospital three days ago after suffering a heart attack. He was born ig, Monroe township March 20, 1888, a son of Henry and Anna Bauman-Hir-schy, and was married to Ida Biberstein July 22, 1909. Mr. Hirschy was a member of the Winchester U- B, church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two daughters, Edna, at home, and Mrs. Oscar Bertsch of French township; five sons, Noah, Eli, Roy and Sylvan Hirschy, all of Monroe township, and the Rev. Chester Hirschy of Willshire, O.; 17 grandchildren; one greatgrandchild; eight brothers, Fred, Samuel, John, Alfred, Henry, Carl, Aaron and Elmer Hirschy, and four sisters, Mrs. Ervin Zimmerman, Mrs. Milo Fox, Mrs. Jesse Fox and Mrs. Samuel Beck. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Yager funeral home at Berne, and at 2 p. m. at the Winchester U. B. church, the Rev. Dennis Johnson and the Rev. Lawrence Dellinger officiating. Burial will be in the Ray cemetery, west of Monroe. Friends may call at the funeral home after 12:30 p. m. Thursday,

Flag Day Services Here Friday Night Annual Services At Elks Friday Night Annual Flag Day services, conducted by the Decatur Elks lodge, assisted by the city’s veterans organizations, will be held at 7:30 o'clock Friday evening on the lawn of the Elks lodge hottie on North Second street. This year’s services, designated as “show your colors" campaign, mark the 50th anniversary of the observance of Flag Day by the order of Elks. W. O. Hughes, of Fort Wayne, veteran state legislator from Allen county, will deliver the Flag Day address. The services will be conducted by Earl DeWeese, exalted ruler of the Elks lodge, assisted by lodge officers. The history of the flag will be narrated by George F. Laurent Special music for the services will be played by the Decatur Catholic school band, directed by Clint Reed. Color guards will be provided by the veterans organizations, and the Air Explorer Scouts, sponsored by the Elks lodge, will conduct flag raising ceremonies. Oran Schultz is chairman of this year's services, to which the public is invited. Exalted rater DeWeese catted upon every citizen of Decatur and vicinity to “demonstrate his patriotism and pride in our great country and its heritage of freedom” on Flag Day Friday. Appealing for community-wide participation in the Elks’ annual “Show your colors” campaign, he asked that citizens fly the flag from dawn to dusk in honor of the 180th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes by the Continental Congress June 14, 1777. The Elks* leader requested that all civic, fraternal and patriotic groups urge their members to fly the Stars and Stripes on its birthday “in public tribute to the symbol of this land of freedom we hold so dear and in rededication to the cherished tradition of selfgovernment which it represents.” Three Teen-Agers Burned To Death

Truck Catches Fire Following Collision COLUMBUS, Ind. (W - Three Seymour teen-agers were burned to death late Tuesday when a pickup truck in which they were riding overturned and caught fire after colliding with a car near here. The victims were David R. Decker, 16. Thelma Hobbsori, 18, and her sister, Nora, 16. The accident occurred on U. S. 31A. State police said the truck burst intovflames after the gas line ; broke. The driver of the car was Mrs. ' Florence Gaier, about 50, R. R. 8 Columbus. She was traveling south and the truck north. Robert Lunsford, 23, Columbus, who was driving behind Mrs. ! Gaier, told police he stopped his • car and ran toward the truck ' when it overturned. But he was i driven back by intense heat. He said he heard the victims screaming inside tiie burning cab. Mrs. Gaier sustained cuts on ' her arm and head and was taken * to Bartholomew County hospital. But her condition was not believ- i ed serious. One Man Killed GARY IW — Ellis E. Lockwood, 66, Gary, was killed Tues- i ' day night in a five-car collision on U. S. 20 three miles east of ' here. Two other persons were injured > 1 in the crash. Arthur Smith, 63, Porter, was in 1 ■ serious condition in Porter County 1 ■ hospital in Valparaiso today. Lockwood’s daughter, Lucille, 29, was treated at Doctors Hoe- ’ Ml Pace Five) /

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Tofal Is Half Billion Under Ike Requests Most Os Fund Voted ' Today Will Go To Vet Administration t WASHINGTON CT - The Senate today approved, 72-0, a bill carrying $5.878,594,800 ’to run IT independent government agencies for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The total was 845,570,200 below the amount requested by the administration. But $163,750,000 of ' the reduction was in the appropriation for veterans’ compensation and pensions and represented no savings for the Treasury. These payments are fixed by law and Congress must restore the money during the next year if it should be needed. The bill was passed just as it came from the Senate Appropriations Committee except for the addition of $370,000 for the General Services Administration. Os the total in the bill, most would go to the Veterans’ Administration, for which $4,666,504,900 was earmarked. , the third of four ap- [ proptiations bffls on the Senate 1 program this week. It now goes ■ to a House-Senate conference t committee for adjustment of dis- - sering versions passed by the two chambers. The Senate total was » $6,606,900 below the House ver--1 sion. , Immediately after the vote, the ; Senate moved on to the fourth f bill, which would provide $2,885,--i 290,781 for the Labor and Welr| fare departments and related , agencies. The $3,668,972,157 Agriculture t Department money bill was ap- . proved 78-0. It included 500 milj lion dollars for the soil bank pro- . gram instead of the 750 million . originally sought by the admin- . istration. The House had voted to i kill off the main provisions of the , program after this year. The farm bill now goes to * joint conference committee to thresh out differences between the House and Senate versions. The Senate Appropriations Committee, in its report on the bill, agreed with the House that there was doubt the soil bank would “achieve its purpose of reducing farm surpluses.’’ But it said the plan should have a fair trial. It added, however, that ‘‘unless the 1957 program proves ’to bd more successful than anticipated it. is doubtful that authorization win be given for a 1959 program.” The Senate bill would provide $23,917,600 less than the House voted for farm programs and $296,474,460 less than the President originally requested. ' The Senate also voted 40-38 against limiting payments under the conservation reserve section of the sod bank to $7.50 an acre as proposed by the Appropriations Committee. Under this section of the soil bank, farmers are paid for plant(C«attaM4 F«<« Five) Building Water Main From New City Well Work is now underway to build a 4-inch water transmission main from the new water well drilled on the Anna Moltz farm recently, to the connecting main, Ralph Roop, city engineer, said today. During the first day of testing, the well tested about 140 gallons a minute, slightly below the 200 gallons per minute average, Roop said. However, it is quite possible that it will ‘‘break loose” and produce more after it is in operation, he added. The first report from the state board of health confirms that the water is bacteriologically safe, and free from harmful bacteria. Roop stated that it tested 33.6 grains hardness, compared to the city well average of 35 grains, and tests .6 parts iron, lower than the other wells. Bids will be accepted soon on the pump far the new well, Roop stated.