Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 28 June 1957 — Page 1

Vol. L.V. No. 152.

‘HOPABOUT — BY 1967 Lgn THIS HILLER AERIAL AUTO, which might be called a “hopabout," will be in use by 1967, according to a prediction in a fnkgazlne. Four ducted fans lift it from the back lawn. It will cruise at 60 mph in horizontal flight-

Asks Congress Cut Effect Os Court Rulings Attorney General Urges Congress To Adopt Legislation WASHINGTON (UP) — Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. urged Congress today to prevent a “serious miscarriage of justice” by limiting effer* of the Supreme dec. ’on opening certain FBI flies in criminal cases. He told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee there is “immediate need” foe legislation to clarify procedures the prosecution must follow in making the FBI information available to defendants. He backed an administration bill which be said would "correct a grave emergency in law enforcement which has resulted from the decision.” The court ruled in the case of Clinton E. Jencks, a labor leader, that a defendant's attorneys in certain criminal cases should have access to FBI reports where the information will be used by government witnesses. Brownell said the administration accepts the decision in principle but wants a limitation. Its bill, he said, would give the court power to delete irrelevant matter. It also would allow the government to refuse to surrender FBI reports at the price of having the testimony struck from the record or having a mistrial declared So far .Brownell said,' lower courts have dismissed charges completely against defendants in cases where the government refused to produce FBI reports. He said the decision hampers law enforcement and already has prompted the defense ih some cases to “rummage through government files prior to trial." Thexnove to offset the Jencks decision was accompanied by these in Congress: —A House judiciary subcommittee Thursday approved 5-0 bill which webt even farther than the administration asked to prevent disclosure of too much information from FBI files. —Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. went to Capitol Hill today to seek action by a Senate judiciary subcommittee on a similar but milder proposal. The White House Thursday Brownell would urge legislation to “correct loopholes” created by the decision. —The senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee proposed that the committee study the effect of a series of recent Supreme Court decisions and draft bills to meet any “serious effects." The Republican, Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (N.Y), said instead of attacks on the court the “proper response” is a “mature and measured” study of problems raised by its rulings. In its celebrated Jencks case June 3 the high court held that in certain criming cases the defendants are entitled to examine FBI reports of informants slated to testify against them. If the government won’t surrender the reports it must drop its prosecution. Critics contended the decision would throw a roadblock in front of the FBI and other agencies charged with law enforcement. Rep. Donald L. Jackson (RCalif.) told the House Thursday the court was lending “aid, comfort and assistance” to Communism with its recent string of opinions dealing with individual rights. . -. A number of members, including Kea 11 n " Praised Jackson’s (Coatianed aa Pace FtvaX

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County Salary Law Effective Jan. 1 County Is Placed * In Seventh Class County auditor Edward F. Jaberg received official notification from the State Board of Accounts today fixing Adams county as a seventh class county for pay purposes under the new state law which abolishes meat fees for county officials. New salaries, by law, will be: auditor, $6,500; treasurer, $6,500; clerk of the circuit court, $6,500; county sheriff, $6,500; assessor. $6,000; recorder, $6,000; county surveyor, $2,800; county coroner, $1,250; county commissioner, $2,700; council council, $l4O. This law wilTfce effective January!. 1958. It also states, in the act that it will in no way operate to decrease the salary and per diem of a county official of class 7, as now prescribed by law, during the present term of such county official. X All former fees will now be paid into the county general fund, except that fee allowed by law to sheriffs for feeding of prisoners. It also dos not affect authorizations of motor vehicles for county officials. All county officers included in the act except county councilmen, shall receive 8 cents a mile for travel on official duty t as allowed by the county council, except for travel performed under the uniform extradition act. Each member of the county council also receives $25 a day while in session. One-half of the commissioner’s salary and all of their mileage is paid from gas tax receipts. If the county coroner is a physician, he receives one and onehalf the base pay listed above. If the county surveyor is registered under the Indiana board of registration for engineers and land surveyors, his base salary is one and one-half the base salary listed above. The county council may then increase that by $2,000, if it desires. The surveyor also receives $1 a mile of active court drains, or $2 a mile if he is a registered surveyor. The county sheriff shall receive 8 cents a mile ofr any emergency travel within the state where his private car is used, as determined by the judge, He will no longer receive mileage for several listed services, such as serving writs, as this mileage will be paid into the general fund. Under the unit factor system, which fixes Adams county as a seventh class city this year, the county scored .58920. This figure is reached by taking the population of the county by the last tenyear census (1950) and dividing it by the state population in that census; taking the gross assessed valuation of the county and dividing it by the assessed valuation of the state; adding these together, dividing by two, and multiplying by 100. All counties between .55 and .60 are seventh class. If Adams county reaches .60, it will move to sixth class, and salaries will be higher. INDIANA WEATHER Rain this afternoon with heavy amounts many sections. Rain ending tonight, clearing late tonight. Saturday mostly sunny and a little warmer. Low tonight in the 60s. High Saturday in the low 80s. Sunset 8:17 p.m., sunrise Saturday 5:20 a.m.

Atomic Device Fails To Fire In Test Today Turns Nuclear Test Into Potentially Deadly Dud Today ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UP) —An atomic device short circuited and failed to fire today, turning the scheduled sixth nuclear test of the 1957 series into a potentially deadly dud before American and foreign correspondents. The Atomic Energy Commission hastily evacuated 2,000 Marines from trenches and 300 observers — including scores of foreign newsmen — from the observation point on News Nob. Then the AEC had to choose a team of volunteers to disarm the dud which was perched atop a 500-foot steel tower on Yucca Flat. It was the second mis-firing in the history of Nevada proving grounds experiments where 50 previous blasts have been set off. The last similar miscue was five years ago. - ”1 An official AEC announcement said the non-detonation was apparently caused by a “failure of power to reach the device.” Seventeen AEC technicians and members of a Navy radiological team were forced to remain inside a steel dugout less than 1-2 mile from ground zero until the device was disarmed. They, had been scheduled to perform a radiation decontamination exercise after the blast. But because they were so close the AEC didn’t dare move them out immediately. Whether more than one man of the disarming team would climb the tower to strip the nuclear package of its deadliness was not immediately announced. The task is fraught with the most extreme danger. All electrical circuits were turned off and all forms of electronic battery devices capable of emitting signals were barred from the scene to prevent a stray impulse from activating the firing circuit. r But the scientists*, did not know to what point the firing mechanism had carried the experiment. If it was at the threshold of firing, with the two nuclear masses almost in position to make the contact that would set off the fission reaction, the slightest jar could complete the circuit. The scientists said frankly they did not know in advance just where they stood. The disarmteam had to find out. Ike Holds Another Harmony Breakfast GOP Congressmen At Final Breakfast WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower wound up a series of harmony breakfasts for ’ GOP House members today with a discussion of everything from postal pay to disarmament He said boosting postal workers’ pay would mean a "sweep of inflation." Disarmament negotiations, he said, are progressing “far better” than at any previous time since he became President. For the fifth and final breakfast Eisenhower served the lawmakers eggs and codfish. He told one of today's guests, Rep. Stuyvesant Wainwright (N.Y.), he had enjoyed the series because of the informality of the table chats “where we talk about everything from baby-raising on.” Today’s topics also included federal aid to education, the natural gas bill, and civil rights. Rep John Taber (N.Y.) said he brought up the $546-a-year pay hike for 518,000 postal workers approved by the House Post Office Committee Thursday. The bill, which would cost the government about 200 million dollars a year, was op posed by the administration. Taber quoted Eisenhower as saying the pay increase, if enacted, would mean a “sweep of inflation.” ... Wainwright said disarmament “seems to be the subject the President was most interested in." He said the President reported that he feels disarmament is progressing "far better than at any time since he has been in office.” Rep. Sid Simpson (Ill.) said the President spoke out for the education bill. But Simpson said the “reaction at the table was not so hot.” Simpson said he told Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, who followed the President’s tablehopping visits, that he did not think either the natural gas bill or the aid to education measure would ever pass the House

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 28,1957

3*. Hurricane Death Toll May Increase To 300; State Hit By Floods

Flash Floods Isolate Some Indiana Areas Two Bus Passengers - Drown In Plunge In* - Creek In Zionsville By UNITED PRESS Torrential rains spawned flash floods in a narrow band of Wert Central Indiana today, isolating! cities and towns and forcing miitf families from their homes. At least two persons were killed as swirling waters from normally placid creeks, irritated by up to 10 inches of rain, went on a rampage. j A bus -Junged into Big Eagle Creek at Zionsville, drowning two passengers and threatening others. Crawfordsville, Rockville, Clinton, ZionesviUe and smaller communities were isolated or flooded in the year’s heaviest downpour. Railroad tracks were submersed or undermined. Highways were closed by high water. Volunteers helped evacuate dozens of families from homes surrounded or invaded by the muddy floods. Bus Plunges la Creek Two women drowned when >a Suburban Lines bus enroute to Zionsville from IndtenapoMs plunged off Ind. 334Jnto *e**MNM len creek. Five other persons were rescued, including Al Gass, 37, Indianapolis, the driver, who was hospitalized in shockAt Crawfordsville, a city of 14,000, at least three families were evacuated and only one road to and from the city remained open. “Many” families were evacuated at Clinton when the Wabash River rose seven feet in four hours, after more than 7 inches of rain, and volunteers erected a sandbag levee to keep the water from Vermillion County Hospital. Four families were in danger at Rockville where an unofficial 8 to 10 inches of rain fell and sent Raccoon Creek far out of its banks. Radio Station WILO at Frankfort was forced off the air indeff(Coatiaaed «» Page Five) Benefit Sale Here Today, Saturday Sorority Assists Vera Cruz School The benefit gasoline sale at the Parkway 66 station, Nuttman Avenue and 13th Street, started at noon today and will continue until 8 o’clock this evening, and will be conducted from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. Saturday. Members of the Beta Sigma Phi chapters, who are sponsoring the event, which also commemorates the second anniversary of the operation of the local station, have announced that Dr. Edward Peck has donated the use of one of his pet monkeys, "Shorty,” to greet the children who visit the station with their parents. Candy and balloons will be distributed by friendly clowns who are on hand, and patrons will have their windshields washed and their cars swept out by the sorority women. Purpose of the unusual fund raising drive is to enable the sorority chapters to earn enough money to purchase badly needed equipment for the Vera Cruz school for special children, which has become a pet project of the-Epsilon Sigma, and Xi Alpha lota exemplar chapters of the sorority. The $1 gasoline tickets have been sold during the past week, and are redeemable for that amount in gasoline. All drivers are urged to “fill 'er up" to aid the retarded children. who drive trucks are especially invited to purchase the tickets, or to come out to the station either today or tomorrow. Lubrication tickets, priced a $1.75, will be sold by the sorority members at the station. Lyle Mallonee is proprietor of the Parkway 66, and three girls, working two-hour shifts, wil} be on hand at all times.

Mogilner Is Sought On Jury Indictment Flash Arrest Order All Across Nation INDIANAPOLIS (UP) -An ■ arrest order was flashed around the nation today for Arthur J. • Mogilner. a super - salesman charged with bribing a former Indiana highway chief with $41,000 In payoffs in exchange for more than a million dollars worth of . state business. i Mogilner, whose home is Indian- > spoils, vanished last April on the ■- day the Indiana highway scandal first was revealed in newspapers. I He has been missing since. A search started Thursday i, shortly after a Marion County . grand jury Indicted Mogilner on 12 counts of bribery, charging that he made contacts with persons : ' close to former Gov. George N. ; Craig that developed into more than a million dollars worth of supplies and equipment contracts through former highway chairman Virgil (Red) SmithSmith also was indicted on six counts of bribery, accused of receiving checks from Mogilner issued to “V. Wilson,” a name ' which the jury said was an alias for Smith. Prosecutor John G. Tinder, whose investigation of the scan- , dais led to 23 indictments of five persons in a two-rnonth grand jury t study, said he “wouldn’t be sur-. prised” if Mogilner surrendered shortly. "We don’t know where he is right now, though we have infor- ’ mation on some places he’s been ■ since this investigation began. > He’s beep moving around a lot,” Tinder said. I Tinder also predicted prison • terms would be given the five men , indicted—Smith, Mogilner, former , highway right-of-way chief Nile [ Teverbaugh, Teverbaugh’s former chief aide Harry Doggett, and Milan attorney Robert Peak. t “They will all go to prison,” i Tinder said. "I don’t believe any . jury would turn them loose.” Craig, who was criticized in the jury’s report as “morally if not • legally” responsible for the acts • of persons in his administration, issued a statement saying he recognized that a governor “has the duty to use every vigilance to detect wrongdoing by any state employe.” But he said “I do not agree" that a governor should be held responsible “for an act of "another public official of which he had no knowledge ” Hilliard Gales Is Speaker Al Rotary Noted Sportscaster Guest Speaker Here Major league baseball will be concentrated over weekends |n the near future, Hilliard Ctates, Fort Wayne television sportscaster, predicted at the regular meeting of the Decatur Rotary club at’the Decatur Youth and Comunity Center, Thursday evening. Small crowds during the week days and even night games will force major leagues to play more of their games on Saturdays and Sundays. He also guessed that lowered attendance in eastern cities will result in the transfer of club franchises to western areas. Sunday baseball games probably will be televised next year again, but not from cities where “ crowds could be influenced by the programs, he said, as baseball clubs attempt to increase crowds. Another of his predictions was that professional basketball has a 1 40-60 chance of being played in i Fort Wayne next year in a new league of almost as good a cali- ' ber as that of N.8.A., which’has ' moved its team to Detroit. The ' only reason/that it may not be re-organizedtis that it may not be possible to find a minimum of ’ four other Cities in this area with the financial backing and enthus--1 iasm apparent in Fort Wayne. • The prospects are better because 1 of Increased interest in Indianapo(OMtiauad on Paca Four)

$6 Ton Price Boost Listed By U.S. Steel Angry Comments By Congressmen After Increase Announced NEW YORk (UP)—A price increase of $6 a ton announced by United States Steel Corp. Thursday night set of fa reaction Which may result in a congressional investigation of the steel company and the wage-price spiral in general. The increase will add more than half a billion dollars to the nation’s steel bill- Other producers, who usually follow the giant U.S. Steel’s lead, are expected to follow its price increase pattern. All items manufactured from steel, from safety pins to locomotives, moat likely will reflect the increase. The price increase, coming just one day after Presidept Eisenhower’s renewed plea to industry and labor to practice restraint in price and wage boosts, brought angry comments in Congress. “Mr. Eisenhower’s requests don’t seem to have much effect, do they?” Rep. Brent Spence (DKy.) sais. Reuse Demoeraß» whip Cert Albert LOkla.) called for an immediate congressional investigation into the “irresponsible” action of US. Steel. Economists said the price increase announced by U.S. Steel was lower than expected, apparently reflecting industry concern over inflation and the possibility of a congressional lnvestigation of its pricing policies. The price rise goes into effect July 1 the same day that steelworkers get an automatic pay increase under the three-year, nostrike pact signed last August. That contract ended a 34 - day steel strike. District Meet Held By American Legion Rev. Busse Named National Delegate The Rev. Q. C. Busse, of St. Paul’s Lutheran church in Preble, was elected one of 12 delegates from the fourth district to “the national convention of the American Legion. Rev. Busse, a member of Post 43, of Decatur, is a former state chaplain and has represented the district at the national convention several times. Busse was third of 19 in the voting. Other delegates from this district will be outgoing district commander Art Tebbels, of Auburn; incoming district commander Melvin H. Heckman, of Fort Wayne, elected without opposition Thursday night, and Robert Gaskill, Robert Fritz, Robert Erdmann, Arthur Wilkie, Harold Knoblauch. Lee Hirsch, Robert White, Robert Keyes, and Harold Kryder. Alternates will be Sylvester Yaney, Chester Watson, and Arthur Goeglein. iContintfed -a TwoK- ? Rites Held Today For Smith Infants Larry and Jerry Smith, twin sons of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Smith, 2908 Kenwood avenue, Fort Wayne, died at birth Thursday at Parkview memorial hospital in that city. The parents are members of St. Jude’s Catholic church. Surviving in addition to the parents are a. sister, Cheryl Ann; two brothers, Daniel and Michael, all at home; the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Smith; the rhaternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Owens, and the maternal great-grandfather, William Reppert, all«of Decatur. Graveside services were held this morning at the Catholic cemetery at Fort Wayne.

Reds Again Shell Nationalist Posts Hit Outpost Islands Third Straight Day TAIPEI, Formosa (UP) - Communist batteries shelled Nationalist China’s outpost islands today for the third straight day. A Chinese military spokesman said the situation,in the offshore islands is "very tense.” U.S. Adm. Felix B. Stump, how- • ever, said he sees no reason to ' attach “special significance” to ‘ the renewal of Red artillery ac»w — The tiny islands of Titan and ' Ertan in. the Quemoy group were ’ the targets of today’s pre-dawn bombardment. There were no ref ports of casualties or significant ■ damage. "The situation in the Quemoy : area is very tense as a result of • continuous Communist military bombardment,” said Rear Adm. i Liu Ho Tu, China’s top military ■ spokesman- “Ships entering that ► area do so at their own risk.” Stump, who adds U.S. forces in ; the Far East to his Pacific com- ■ mand Monday, was unconcerned ’ by the Red attacks on the Quemoy i and Matsu islands. t “I attach no special significance to the new Communist outbreak,” i Stump said after a conference with , President Chiang Kai-shek. “There • appears to be no special concern among the Nationalist Chinese over I the toast no more than ‘•■"■••"HR ya • in the past. • He said the U.S Navy in the ■ Far East has been authorized to use guided missiles against any ■ possible enemy—but only with conl ventional warheads. Only President ’ Eisenhower can authorize the use i of atomic warheads, the admiral ’ said. Sgt. William Kelly ; Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Master Sgt. William H. Kelly, 35, former resident of Willshire, Ov, died Wednesday at the Walter Reed Army hospital in Washington, D. C. He had been ill since September and in serious condition since March. He was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, Nov. 19, 1922, a \ son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry F. s Kelly, and was married to Ruth ; Ketrow Aug. 6, 1944. The family moved to Celina, 0., . and later to Willshire. Sgt. Kelly i entered the army in 1942, served r in Germany during World War 11, - then in Korea for two years, and . was transferred to Arabia in 1955. • He returned to the United States in May, 1956, and was stationed with ■ the Air Corps at Duluth, Minn. ; Sgt. Kelly was a member of the • Masonic lodge at Willshire. Surviving in addition to his wife ■ are his father, who now lives at i Celina; two children, Robert Wil- ' liam and Kathleen Sue, both at ■ home; one brother, Malcolm Kelly 1 of Portland, and one sister, Mrs. ■ Eileen Lovett of Sidney, O. ' Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home, the, Rev. Chester Hirschy officiating. Qurial will be , in the Willshire cemetery, with the Willshire American Legion post holding military rites. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening. The Willshire Masonic lodge will conduct services at 8 p.m. Saturday at the nineral home. Bids July 23 On Road Projects Here The Indiana state highway department today announced bids will be opened on 10 road construction projects July 23. The longest stretch of roadwork involves 6.5 . miles on U.S. 224 from Decatur to i the Ohio state line. Other projects listed by the department include 1.5 miles of U.S. ! 27 at Decatur and 3.7 miles of Indi- ’ ana 1 near the Wells-Allen county

Audrey's Toll Growing From Lase Reports Louisiana, Texas Coastlands Swept By Vicious Storm ■ LAKE CHARLES, La. (UP) «. Hurricane Audrey, in a crushing ■weep through the defenseless coastlands of Louisiana and Texas, may have killed as many a* 300 persons. The full extent of the tragedy— Audrey struck the coast Thursday with 105-inile-an-hour winds and was far to the north—was not known until today when reports began Ur filter in from Cameron. 30 miles south of Lake Charles. A Lake Charles. La., Weather Bureau official reported to Weather Bureau emergency headquarters in Washington that 200 to 300 persons were dead in the vicinity of Cameron and Creole, La. CapL Allen Marshall, whose tug was aground at Cameron, reported by radio that 87 persons were dead and 100 to 30 were missing and might be dead. Eighteen deaths and more than 100 injuries were reported before reports of, a major disaster arrived from Cameron. I 300 Injured or Sick ! fe®tarshall said that during a moment** lull in the storm, be saw Cameron, a town of NO persons, vanish, except for the courthouse. A deputy sheriff at Abbeville, La., said he feared that “quite a few” were killed along the coast of his parish As the hurricane bored inland Thursday, it wiped out communi* cations. It was almost impossible to telephone to many points Jn the stricken area today. Marshall, whose tug is aground at Cameron, said: “Sheriff 0.8. Carter consulted a list he had in his band and counted the names on it. He told me be had 87 dead and another 10 to 30 people who cannot be found and may be dead. “He also said be has sent out by boat more than 300 people seriously injured or sick." Marshall said Carter was at the , Cameron courthouse, the only . building left in town. Sheriff Henry Reid left Lake Charles today for Cameron with a cabin cruiser, a flotilla of 11 small boats and two barges loaded with food, rescue equipment and medical supplies. The only way to Cameron is a river. At last report, not even helicopters could land thereOnly Half Accounted Far The victims apparently were drowned by a storm wave. Deputy Sheriff Sam Mazilly in Lake Charles estimated that 8,00 to 10,000 persons were around Cameron Thursday when Audrey hit. (Continued on Par* Four) Former Local Lady Dies In Illinois Mrs. Frank Johnson Is Taken By Death Mrs. Theresa Mcßride Johnson, 67, a former resident of this city, died at 12:10 o’clock this morning in St. Mary's hospital in Decatur, 111., following an illness of 18 months of cancer. She was born in Macon county, 111., April 2, 1890, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Richardson. She lived in this city tar 10 years. She was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church in Decatur, 111. Surviving are her husband, Frank Johnson; two sons, James A. Mcßride and Joe Mcßride, both of this city; five daughters, Mrs. Richard Jackson of this dty, and , four other daughters in Decatur, m.; 30 grandchildren; three greatgrandchildren; five brothers and three sisters, all residing in Decatur, IH. r Funeral arrangements have net been completed but services w® be held at Decatur, Hl., with burial in Assumption, HI.

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