Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 155, Decatur, Adams County, 2 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 155

PLAN HELP FOR TWISTER VICTIMS WHILE RESIDENTS and relief workers battled pestilence, mud and snakes in the muck and wreckage left by Hurricane Audrey, State. National and Red Cross officials moved into the area around Cameron, La., to survey the damage and plan relief and rehabilitation. Lt. Gov. Luther E. Frazor of Louisiana (left), Gen. Alfred Gruenther, president of the Red Cross (center) and President Eisenhower’s special representative Vai Peterson, survey the damage at Cameron. —i _ — — x..

Audrey Death Toll Soars To Near 300 Mark Search For Bodies Is Continuing In Louisiana Areas LAKE CHARLES, La. (UP) The hurricane Audrey death toll soared to nearly 300 today and of- ' ficials planned to bury 40 more unidentified disaster victims in a common grave. _L__. q Calcasieu Parish Sheriff Henry Reid said late Monday night 285 bodies have been recovered from the southwesten Louisiana area around Cameron, south of Lake Charles on the Gulf of Mexico. More than 40 unidentified bodies, mostly Negroes, were to be buried in a common grave today. Sixty-six other unidentified victims of the hurricane and tidal wave were buried in two common graves Monday. — Search Still Continues Other bodies, identified and claimed by friends or relatives, were being buried in private ceremonies. The search for bodies still continued. Sheriff Reid said he expects the toll to run to 350. Other death estimates ran as high as Vai Peterson’s 500, which he mentioned in his report Jo President Eisenhower. Peter son is the President’s personal representative in the disaster area. * Sheriff's deputies, civil defense officers, state police and National Guardsmen patrolled the stricken area throughout the. might to prevent lootingDead Cattie Pose Problem As some searchers scoured the area for more bodies, others had the grim job of burying or burning thousands of bloating and rotting cattle drowned by the 24-foot tidal wave. The decayed cattle flesh pollutes water and provides a breeding place for disease, it was said. It must be destroyed before any number of inhabitants can return to their homes in the area. Many of the search parties were armed against swarms of poisonous cottonmouth moccasins washed up from the marshes. Mogilner Is Freed Under $36,000 Bond Mogilner Indicted In Highway Scandal INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — “Mystery man” Arthur J. Mogilner was free under $36,000 bond today while his attorney prepared a defense against a $41,000 highway scandal bribery charge. Mogilner, wearing dark glasses and a dark sport shirt, surrendered at Marion County jail late Monday and stepped momentarily behind bars to post bond. Mogilner was indicted on 12 bribery counts by a _ grand jury that accused him of giving former state highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith $41,000 in bribes to influence the awarding of largescale statg equipment contracts. Accompanied by his attorney, tuontlnuoa on Faso Six)

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Plaintiff Completes Township Line Case 11 Witnesses Are Called By Defendant BULLETIN At 1:45 p.m. today C. H. Muselman, attorney for defendant ' Sylvan Sprunger in the WabashMonroe township ease, entered into "evidence page s*o, commissioner’s record J, which states that the commissioners [ did change the boundary of Monroe township to include part of section 4 of Wnbash i township. The change would Include, Mtiselman estimated, about 80 percent of Berne south > of Main street ! The plaintiff in the Wabash- > Monroe township line case rested , its case Monday afternoon at 3 I o’clock, and the defense started i its case, calling 11 witnesses before the noon recess today at the I Adams circuit court. The plaintiff in its pleading introduced the original plat of the townships from the recorder’s office, dated January 13, 1938, showing Wabash township to be a congressional township, s i x miles on each side. They then introduced the commissioner’s records, showing how Wabash township was 1 created, changes made in its boundary, and how it was finally fixed June 7, 1843, on page 291 of book A of the commissioner’s record, that all townships be and remain as originally surveyed by range and township. County auditor Edward F. Jaberg testified concerning the record, as both auditor and secretary of the board of county commissioners. During the testimony of the defense, witnesses for Sylvan Sprunger were introduced showing that the situation as it now exists has existed over a period of years. Township trustees who have served In the last 20 years were called, also deputy assessors, including severe! officials of Monroe township who lived south of state road 118 when elected or appointed. The plaintiff objected strenuously to any testimony which attempted to prove latches or limitations, which were not set forth ’ ’in the general denial. This morning during such a pleading Judge Mvles F. Parrish retired briefly to his chamber and returned with a U. S. supreme court case which stated that in equity latches could be argued when not set forth in the general denial. Attorneys Custer and Smith for the plaintiff heatedly denied this, pointing to Indiana cases and law which forbid latches from applying. Judge Parrish stuck by the liigher court ruling. In a court of equity latches means a situation has : . existed over a long- period of time, and that someone couM have objected a long time ago, but didn't. Through their lack of alertness they lose the right to have the court decide against the standing situation. When asked if a mandamus proceeding was a case in equity, Judge Parrish replied that it definitely was. Concerning the matter of the blank subpoena, requested yesterday morning, it was issued at noon yesterday by the deputy clerk, on her being assured that (Continued v a Pago Two)

Warn Congress Against U. S. Trials On Gi's Ike Administration Warns Os Dangers To Foreign Bases I By UNITED PRESS 1 The Eisenhower administration warned Congress today that if it insisted on U.S. trials for all American troops overseas ft would destroy America’s system of foreign defense bases. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson and Undersecretary of State Christian E- Herter sent the warning to Congress as the House Foreign Affairs Committee pressed for an early vote on its resolution requiring revision or scrapping of the “status of forces” agreements with America’s Allies. Wilson said no country where American troops are based is likely to agree to give up its right to try and punish U.S. servicemen there in certain cases. If Congress passes legislation to require this, he said, the United States will have to close its foreign bases, bring the troops home and revert to a dangerous “Fortress America” defense. Other congressional news: Civil Righto: Georgia’s Sen. . Richard B. Russell, leader <?f the southern bloc, said the administration’s civil rights bill has been “cunningly devised” sb that federal powers “could be utilized to force the white people of the South at the point of a bayonet to conform to almost any conceivable edict directed at the destMiction of any local custom, law, or practice separating the races” in schools and elsewhere. Hells Canyon: The House Irrigation and Reclamation subcommittee all but doomed a proposed federal dam at Hells Canyon on the Idaho-Oregon border. It approved, 15 - 12, a motion which scuttled House legislation calling for a single high dam. The Senate passed a similar bill 10 days ago. Opponents of a federal dam said the Rouse subcommittee action kills the controversial proposal “deader than a door nail " - FBI: The House Judiciary Committee set up a special five-man subcommittee to “review” curbs imposed by the Supreme Court recently on congressional investigating powers. Natural Gas: The House Commerce Committee on two major test votes today endorsed an, in-dustry-supported bill to ease federal controls over nataral gas prices charged by producers. Information: Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calif.) said the Wright Commission on Government Security committed a “fantastic” omission in failing to consult the Army’s top information officers before proposing a law to punish newsmen who publish secret information. Maj. Gen. Guy S. Meloy Jr., Army chief of public information, and William J. Donohue, Army chief of security review, said they were never contacted by the sionFlood Crests Roll Slowly Southward Earlier Prediction Os Showers Changed By UNITED PRESS Thundershower forecasts for Indiana were hauled down today as the big flood crests of the Wabash and. White Rivers rolled slowly southwestward. Predictions of showers this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday were eliminated from the noon outlook for Hoosierland. But the outlook for Thursday still contained the probability of rainfall. Meanwhile, the Indiana death toll blamed directly or indirectly on the flood was hiked to at least 10 when John Newton Hartman, 57, Bridgeton, was killed by the collapse of a culvert weakened by the flood. Hartman was repairing flood damage on a Parke County road when the culvert gave way beneath the weight of his county highway department truck. He was buried beneath stones he had shoveled into a washout. The crest of the Wabash passed Terre Haute and headed for Vincennes this morning- A secondary crest was in the stream’s headwaters northeast of Wabash. The crest "on the east fork of the White was between Seymour and Bedford, and on the west fork between Spencer and Elliston. Farmers counted unestimated losses to crops as the muddy water spread over hundreds of acres of land. In some cases, it washed out newly planted corn and soybeans. In others, it inundated fields and ruined the crops. In still others, it delayed too late (CoaHaueO on Pa<e Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, July 2, 1957

Western Powers Offer To Halt Nuclear Tests Pending Negotiations

Dulles Cites Trend Toward • World Freedom Free Governments Seen Eventually To Overthrow Reds WASHINGTON (UP) — Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that free governments eventually will supplant Comman*st despotism in Russia and Re China. Dulles told a news conference that changes in the two countries toward free governments eventually will come about by evolutionary or possibly even revolutionary means. s Dulles said, indeed, the trend in the Soviet Union today is toward greater freedom. He said there are more revolutionary elements in the Communist China than in Russia. But he would make no flat predictions for’ revolution in either country, or when freedom would prevail over communism. Dulles also affirmed President Eisenhower's statement on June 19 that Red China would not have to be brought into a worldwide disarmament agreement. He said, however, that a system can be devised which would provide for calling off a disarmament agreement if Red China, even thought not a signatory, violated terms of any agreement. Dulles voiced doubt that Red China would attempt to produce atomic or hydrogen weapons Means of Entrapment He said the U.S. assumption is that Communist China would not get nuclear weapons aid from Russia if an East-West disarmament agreement is signed. He said provisions of such an agreement would preclude such a transfer, and any violations undoubtedly would become known. Dulles’ news conference centered almost entirely on Red China. He said his San Francisco speech last Friday restating, U.S. opposition to the Chinese Cofnmunist regime was approved by the President. Dulles said he believes that statements by Chinese Red leader Mao Tse-tung on the possibility of greater flexibility of Communist rule in Red China was a means of entrapment. Dulles did not bar possible future recognition of the Chinese Communists if they stay in power. (Coatiaued F««e Five) Continue Search For Price's Body Lake St Mary's Dragging Continues Workers are continuing dragging operations on Lake St. Mary s, at St. Mary’s, Ohio, trying to recover the body of Russell Price, 47, of Willshire, Ohio, who is believed to have drowned Sunday afternoon when his boat capsized. The body of Melvin Nussbaum, 42. of Berne, was recovered three hours after the mishap, which occurred at 4:13 p.m., floating near the overturned inboard motor boat, with a child's life preserver still on him Price and Nussbaum had set- Out on the rough waters about 4 p.m.. for the purpose of showing Nussbaum, who was interested in buying the boat from Price, how it operated. Both men were wearing life preservers. ■ . Nussbaurn’s death was attributed to drowning, although a contusion was found on his cheek, and authorities are unable to determine whether he may have received a blow, thus knocking him out, or whether something struck him after he drowned. Funeral services for Nussbaum will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Mennonite church in Berne. Price, who was an employe of the Decatur Casting company and State Gardens at Middlebury, Ohio, is survived by his wife and two children. .

, A............... ■ Emergency Funds Are Needed By Red Cross Appeal For Funds To Help Disaster Areas Hurricane Audrey has definitely left her toll on the devastated areas of Louisiana and other surrounding areas, and the local Red Cross chapter has received hn urgent plea to give financial . add to 4he stricken areas. i | The hurricane has left thous Bands of people homeless, their ■ Romes literally washed away by the swirling waters which have Completely taken over whole cit- ’ les. Insects and snakes have in--1 habited several areas, and many • persons who survived the hurri- ‘ cans ordeal are now dying from ‘ diseases caused by the mucky water and the filth it carries. ! As a result of the tremendous [ amount of money needed during ’ the past two years to aid other ’ victims of tornadoes, hurricanes > and floods, Red Cross standby ( funds have been depleted, and i further aid is almost at a standstill until more financial aid can ; be received. • l Tent cities are now being coni structed in the central Louisiana area, where relief workers are attempting to care for the evacuated persons, to feed and clothe .Lhem, and to minister to the siefc and hurt. The great task of re- ; habilltation alone will take thousands of dollars, and since the Red Cross is already severely taxed by this and other disaster operations currently underway, desperately needs the help of every citizen. Part of the money received in this community for the “disaster fund” will be put to use here to aid those residents of Portland and other parts close home which were so severely smitten by flood waters. Homes and business establishments have been extremely hard hit, and croplands have been ruined. 1 Because of necessity, immediate aid will be concentrated’ primarily to emergency measures and tile rebuilding of vital local functions — highways, public buildings and the restoration of utilities. Every resident of this community is urged to send dimes and dollars to the disaster fund, in care of the local post office. Tentative plans are being made to have Red Cross workers establish a collection depot at the First State Bank, and contributions will also be accepted directly at the Red Cross office. Earl Fuhrman is chapter chairman of the local Red Cross, and Mrs. Wanda Oelberg is executive secretary. ~ \"7 Three Fori Wayne Men Injured Here Suffer Broken Legs As Auto Hits Tree Three Fort Wayne men are patients at the Adams -county memorial hospital suffering injuries resulting from a one car accident at 10:36 p. m. Monday, at the intersection of Nuttman avenue and. Fifth street. A car driven by Hoyte Ellis Elrod, 25, of 922 Fulton street, going east on Nuttman, ran the stop sign there, laid down skid marks' for 95 feet, and rammed into a tree on Fifth* street. The 1957 automobile was completely demolished by the impact. Elrod, who received a broken left leg in the crash, was arrested by city police for; reckless driving. He is slated to appear in city court at a later date. Also injured in the accident were two passengers in the Elrod car. Glenn Deane Ammel, of 1215 Ewing street, sustained a broken lower left leg and a puncture in the forehead, while- Raymand Dorman, of 416 Jefferson street, It being treated also for a broken left leg.

St. louis Area Threatened By Hood Waters Torrential Rains Periling Portions Os St. Louis Area By UNITED PRESS A major flood disaster threatened portions of the St. Louis, Mo., area today in the wake of torrential rains laced with tornado funnels. The Merramec River was rising faster than expected at Valley Park, Mo, southwest of St. Louis, and was expected to crest this afternoon at 32 feet, 15 feet above flood stage. Some 200 persons in 75 homes were warned to evacuate. About 75 of the refugees were housed at a Red Cross disaster center in Valley Park High School overnight. Others moved in wll fi friends and relatives. US66, a main east-west route, was closed due to floodwaters near Valley Park, and the Pennsylvania Railroad had to reroute its trains over New Tft>rk Central tracks because of washouts. A total of 14 bridges were washed out in St. Louis County. Flash floods also hit the Springfield, Mo., area and parts of Kansas. The Saline River overflowed at Tescott, Kan., Monday, and Stranger Creek swelled to become a mile-wide lake near Tonganoxie, Kan., inundating valuable crop land. In the west, a Colorado heat wave sent torrents of melting snow down the high Rockies, boosting rivers and streams to dangerous levels. Lamar, Colo., recorded a top of 102 Monday and it was 94 in Denver. Highway crews took advantage of the warm weather to ram through 50-foot snow drifts and open a road on 14,260 - foot Mt. Evans. Funnel clouds swept from overcast skies Monday night near Kansas City and Chanute, Kan., and near Norfolk and Lincoln, Neb. Several funnels were sighted southwest of Huron, S.D. Severe wind storms buffeted the Plains states, causing some damage at Bismarck, N.D-, where gusts reached a peak of 62 miles an hour. Heavy thunderstorms drenched eastern Nebraska, and high winds uprooted trees at Butte. Rain also was reported during the night along the Mississippi River in southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas and western Kentucky and Tennessee. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight, a little warmer north portion. Wednesday mostly fair, warm and becoming more humid. Low tonight 65-70. High Wednesday near 90. Sunset 8:17 p. m.. sunrise Wednesday 5:22 a. m. Local Man's Mother Is Taken By Death Blanche E. Soliday Dies At Valparaiso Funeral services were: held this afternoon for Mrs. Blanche E. Soliday, mother of Leonard Solh day of this city, who died unexpectedly Saturday at her home in Valparaiso. Mrs. Soliday had been in failing health since the death of her husband three yeanr ago, but her death was unexpected. Surviving in addition to the son in this cify are another son, James Soliday of Valparaiso: two daughters, Mrs. Verna Flfield and Mrs. Louis Claussen, both of Valparaiso; 14 grandchildren; six great - grandchildren; two brothers, and two sisters. One daughter, two brothers and two sisters preceded hpr in death. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Le Pells funeral home in Valparaiso, with burial in the Graceland cemetery in that city. . ’

Handley Turns Down Clemency For Irvin Governor Handley Refuses Clemency ,; z INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Governor Handley today denied executive clemency to “mad dog” killer Leslie Irvin, and a federal judge ordered the doomed slayer to appear in a South Bend court Friday for a habeas corpus hearing. Irvin was accused of killing six persons in Indiana and Kentucky. Handley rejected a petition for clemency for the Evansville pipefitter as Irvin’s attorneys headed for Lafayette to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus in U.S. District Court with Judge W. Lynn Parkinson. Parkinson then set a hearing for July 5 and issued an order for Indiana State Prison officials, where Irvin is in “death row” awaiting execution next Tuesday, ■ to deliver the prisoner to Federal ; Court at South Bend. ’ Parkinson said he would rule on . the writ before July 9, the date Irvin has with death, thus making a further stay of execution unnec- , essary if the habeas corpus petition is turned down. Handley turned down a petition filed with him late Monday asking clemency and a stay of execution from July 9, the date Gibson Circuit Judge A. Dale Eby set recently for Irvin to die in the electricc hair at Indiana State Prison. Handlev’s executive secretary, Robert Fink, said he understood Irvin’s attorneys went to Lafayette today to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus with Judge W. Lynn Parkinson in Federal District Court. Irvin was sentenced to death for the robbery shooting of W- Wesley Kerr, Evansville filling station operator, in December, 1954. Kerr was one of six persons slain in a four-month period in 1954 and 1955 in Vanderburgh and Posey counties in Indiana and at Henderson, Ky. He was convicted in a 1955 trial at Princeton and sentenced to die early in 1956. But Irvin escaped jail and was free for weeks until California authorities caught him. At least three stays of execution postponed his date with death as Irvin’s attorneys ran the gamut of legal moves to seek a new trial or save his life. Gov. Handley Seeks Jobs For Republicans State Departments Seek To Find Jobs INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — State department heads, at Governor Handley's request, were trying to make room today for Republicans who were “loyal to the cause” and in search of jobs. State GOP Chairman Robert MalintwS Saia inc vxvseu meeuixg of department heads called by Handley Monday was mainly to discuss patronage and personnel. He said “time will teU" whether the Handley friends given jobs will replace only Democrats or some Republicans who are members of the opposing GOP faction headed by former Gov. George Craig. But Matthews emphasized theae will be no "wholesale” firings and the state payroll will not be incrc&sccL Handley meanwhile announced the appointment of Alvin C. Cast of Kentland as a $5,000-a-year member of the Indiana Toll Road Commission. Cast was Matthews’ predecessor as state party chief. Cast, a fence-straddler in GOP factional wars, succeeds Charles Enlow, Evansville banker, on the five-man commission. Enlow's four-year term expiredMatthews said Handley called the “cabinet” meeting to ask department heads to find jobs for “several hundred” persons “loyal to the cause” and to try to improve "public relations.” The governor wants to “get ready to build an organization to win in 1958 with,” Matthews said. NO PAPER THURSDAY Following annual custom, the Decatur Daily Democrat will not publish an edition Thursday, July 4, which is Independence Day.

Concession To ■ '■ ’ ’ ’ ■' Simunisls At Disarm Parley Propose Test Halt During Negotiation To End Production LONDON (ffl — The Western powers offered to halt nuclear tests today if Russia wilF agree to negotiate an end to nuclear bomb production. It was the West’s biggest concession to the Communists in 11 years of stalemated disarmament negotiations. The offer—for a 10-month trial Fuspensioq. of tests while negotiations take place on ending manufacture of bombs — is the key point of President Eisenhower's new disarmament policy. * U. S. delegate Harold E. Stassen convinced the other Western . nations at the current London disarmament conference to try the plan. It was he who led in its presentation at today’s session of the U. N. disarmament subcommittee. As a token of Western solidarity on the point, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd was document” '"summing* views of the United States, Brit, ain, France and Canada. Lloyd’s timing in making the actual presentation depended os the reaction of Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerin Zorin, who had been filled in privately on the Western plan by Stassen in advance of the’ session. Russia’s final offer is not expected for at least a week, although diplomats figured Zorin would aim critical questions at the Western plan while awaiting instructions from Moscow. Western officials said there could be no first step agreement unless Russia takes up the offer. They called it a “make or break” development in the arms talks. Says Russia Faces Internal Crises Russian Economy is Facing Trouble 2 LONDON (UP)—Soviet Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev’s recent boast that Russia would overtake the United States economic lead in a few years looked like the worst guess of the year today. The Chatham House Review, a Royal Institute for Foreign Affairs publication, in an assessment of the Soviet Union's current problems said Russia presently, is facing.one of its most serious postwar internal crises“The Soviet Union is at present involved in a domestic crisis more serious than any she has met since the end of the last war,” the review said. “The apparatus which served the country through 25 years when Stalin was at the helm of a highly centralized and tightly controlled economy seems to have reached the limits of its effectiveness.” Khrushchev’s latest strategy ri < Conun ued on Page Four; Open Bids July 23 On Adams County Road Hie Indiana state highway department will open bids July 23 on several highway and bridge projects, including four miles of an Adams county road between Indiana 118 and Salem. The department will also open bids on the same date for two other road projects in Adams county, as previously announced. These include bituminous resurfacing of. 6.511 miles of U. S. highway 224 from the east end of the St. Mary’s river bridge at Decatur to the Ohio state line, and 1.538 miles of U. S. highway 27 from one-half mile south of the south corporation line of Decatur to Nuttman avenue.

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