Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 159, Decatur, Adams County, 8 July 1957 — Page 1

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FORMER PRESIDENT Harry S. Truman fright) hands over the Truman Papers to Wayne C. Gruver, Archivist of the U. S., during the dedication of the harry S. Truman Library at independence, Mo. A large crowd braved the hot sun to witness the ceremonies, including former President Herbert Hoover (seated at the left). Other notables present were Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Chief Justice Evi Warren. > — ~ ~ „

Debate Opens In Senate On Civil Rights All Signs Point To Summer-Long Fight Over Civil Rights By UNITED PRESS The Senate opened a historic deoate on the civil rights bill today, and all signs pointed to a summerlong struggle that would sidetrack much of President Eisenhower's legislative program. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) predicted that southern Democrats would win enough allies to make some changes in the administration's civil rights proposals. He declined to specify what ’ changes he expected. > / 4, Republican Leader Wiffiam FKnowland (Calif.) predicted the debate, including an expected southern filibuster, will take "six weeks, maybe longer." HE said nearly a week would be required to debate his opening proposal to bring the bill up for floor discussion. In the House, Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.) charged that the Senate is considering an erroneous copy of the House-approved bill. He proposed that the House recall it. 5 Smith charged that an amendment had been put in the wrong place in the official bill sent to the Senate. Speaker Sam Rayburn deferred a ruling on Smith’s demand. but told reporters the error already had been correctedOther congressional news: Pay TV: The American Broadcasting Co. called for action by Congress, rather than the Federal Communications Commission, on whether this country is to have pay-as-you-see television. Information: The Navy’s chief of information told the House Government Information subcommittee he does not know of a single case in which any news reported "purloined” secret naval data. China: The House Foreign Relations Committee denounced Red China for refusing to account for 450 American servicemen still "missing" from the Korean War. It accused the Peiping regime of "flouting ... human decency.” Its condemnation was contained in a report to the House urging prompt approval of a resolution calling on Continue on P»r* Gunman Robs Loan Office Os $2,000 PLYMOUTH (UP)- Detectives tired today to trace the escape of a neatly-dressed gunman who robbed a loan office of more than $2,000 and commandeered a car for his getaway. The bandit ordered clerk Virginia Spencer to empty cash drawers Saturday at the Secuaity Loan Co. When manager Orville Weiske entered, the gunman ordered both into a back room and fled. Eisenhower Returns From Farm Holiday WASHINGTON (W — President Eisenhower, like millions of Americans, returned to work from the long weekend today wearing a July 4 sunburn. He avoided the weekend traffic that plagued other holiday seekers, flying in his personal AeroCommander on a 25-minute flight from Gettysburg, Pa. But the White House limousine that met him at the airport had to fight the morning traffic rush on the 15-minute drive to the White House.

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U.S. Air Base Is Stormed By Japanese Protest Expansion Os Base In Japan TOKYO (UP) — A mob of angry demonstrators attempting to block expansion of the Tachlkawa U.S. Air Force Base smashed through a barbed wire fence surrounding the field today and forced American authorities to cancel flights for more than six hours The mob of about 1,000 persons —most of them students—sullenly withdrew when 1,600 Japanese police rushed to the scene and ‘ threatened to eject them by force. A Japanese government survey team planning extension of runways at the giant air field com- ’ pleted their work and returned to Tokyo a few minutes before the , demonstrators crashed through the fence. Crowds Arrive Early Crowds protesting plans to annext private land adjoining the U. S, base began arriving here Sunday. They set up tents, set off strings of firecrackers and chant- ‘ ed anti-American slogans throughout the night. Youths stuck long bamboo poles in the mud at the end of the runaways, causing U.S. authorities to reroute incoming military planes to other fields. They threw rocks at U.S. Air Force planes on the ground and set fire to gasoline which they poured on one runway. The mob slowly backed off the field when Japanese police arrived on the scene and told them to go homePolice Injured Three policemen were injured by flying stones, but there were no casualties among the demonstrators. Suddenly four big transports roared in for landings, swooping sb low their propellers nearly hit the barricade of Bamboo poles. Demonstrators and police, who had been facing each other grimly, ducked low as the big planes roared onto the field. Police in blue and khaki uniforms piled into trucks and armored cars to return home when it appeared the tension was broken. The demonstrators cheered, uprooted the bamboo poles, dismantled their tents, pulled down their bangers, and marched off singing, anus linked. Iran's Earthquake Death Toll Is 2,000 TEHRAN, Iran (IP) — The death toll in Iran’s disastrous earthquake soared to 2,000 today. There were fears that disease spreading from hundreds of corpses might send it still higher. Officials said the threat of disease from the hundreds of bodies left unburied was increasing daily. Lack of help to bury the bodies of those killed in the quakes which rocked the southern shores of the Caspian Sea last week was hampering burial, they said. Late Bulletins LONDON (UP) — Russia today rejected the new Western proposal for a 10-month suspension of nuclear testa linked to halting atomic and hydrogen bomb production. NEW YORK W) — A former a|my intelligence officer and Ms San Francisco-born wife were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges they Have given U.S. military secrets to an international Russian spy stag staeo IM6.

Top Russians Are Enroute To Czechoslovakia To Explain To East Europeans Reason For Latest Purge MOSCOW (UP)—Nikita S. Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin leave today for Czechoslo- 1 vakia to explain to East Europeans the ouster of three "old , guard” Communist leaders and their links with the mass purges of the 19305. Khrushchev and Bulganin, the indefatigable globetrotters of Communism, were leaving by plane for their postponed visit. They were to have left last vmek but postponed the trip because of the shake-up of the top Soviet leader- , ship. 1 The two leaders were fresh j from a visit to Leningrad where Khrushchev leveled the grave new charges Saturday against Georgi Malenkov, Vyacheslav M. Molotov and Lazar Kaganovich — charges played up in the Moscow press-‘ Accuse* Malenkov First Khrushchev accused Malenkov, a former prime minister, with being the prime organizer in . the notorious "Leningrad case” of * false arrests and executions. . Then former President Nikolai ( Shvernik, now chairman of the party control commission that is responsible for party expulsions, 4 extended the blame for the purges 4 of the '3os to Molotov and Kaga- ' novich as well. 1 He told workers that "villifica- 5 tions of revolutionary legality permitted by Malenkov, Kaganovich < and Molotov during the period of 1 mass repressions have been recti- < fied.” < Like Khrushchev, Shvernik ac- ; cused Malenkov of playing a ma- i jor role in the Leningrad case and ( said all three secretly plotted to 1 place their men in key posts and to seize power ,in the party and , country.” . . > To Rectify Errors t Shvernik said the Communists would continue patiently and at- , tentivety to rectify the errors gen- < erated by the cult of the person- . •lity—an indication of an intensified de-Stalinization campaign accompanied by more liberal legal * reforms. 4 Western observers said the 1 Khrushchev Bulganin trip to J Czechoslovakia had taken on add- 1 ed significance as result of the disgrace of Malenkov, Molotov and i Kaganovich and the firing of Dmi- £ tri Shepilov with mem. The observers said Khrushchev S and Bulganin were in a consider- * ably stronger position than they i were last month when they made r their last trip abroad, to Finland. The Czech trip is the first of a s series aimed at repaying visits ( made by foreign Communist lead- £ ers during the course of the past e year. f ' a 13 Persons Killed * In Indiana Traffic - State Holiday Toll I Is Below Forecast By UNITED PRESS At least 13 persons were killed in Indiana traffic during the , Fourth of July holiday period. The ( toll was below predictions that 20 ' would die. ' State Police decided in a conference this morning to include i the name of Larry Blair ,17, East i Gary, in the traffic toll. Blair was i dragged to his death by an auto- ’ mobile during a teen-gage fight at i a Hobart drive-in last Friday i night. Ten of the fatalities occurred ! during the first two days of the four-day holiday, ljut only two , deaths were recorded between 9 , a.m. Saturday and midnight Sunday. . ■ ! The victims during the last two days of the period were Walter I Nadratowski, 45, Chesterton, and < William E. Martin, 18, Springer- t ton. 111. Martin was injured fa- ] tally Sunday when a car driven by Clyde Rush, 18, Springerton, < missed a curve while speeding on , Ind. 65 north of Cynthiana. Rush < and three other teen-agers were , injured, three seriously, when the , car slammed into a bridge railing , Nadratowski fell from his automobile on a Porter County road and was run over by another vehicle. f Killed Saturday in a two-car colUaion cm Ind. 327 in Steuben County was Robert Rose, 13, Orland. Three other persons were injured. Five, persons, including two young children, were killed in accidents Friday. Two were killed Thursday, and two Wednesday

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 8,1957

“Mad Dog” Killer Irvin Loses Last-Ditch Plea «Z * For Stay Os Execution

I 111.... I— 11l I ■ »... Heat Wave In Plains Slates Broken Today Series Os Violent Thunderstorms Hit In Some Os States By UNITED PRESS Cooler air swept through the plains today, denting a heat wave with an outburst of severe thunderstorms and occasional tornado clouds. ' The storm line extended from eastern Nebraska through southern Minnesota and northern lowa. Winds up t<? 60 m.p.h. accompanied a series of violent electrical storms. Grand Island, Neb-, was pounded by winds up to 81 m.p.h. early today, causing minor property damage. A funnel cloud was sighted north of Albert Lea, Minn., but apparently it failed to touch the ground. Another twister was sighted near Madison, Wis., but there was no damage. Parts of Kansas, Nebraska, lowa and Minnesota were under a .*rnado alert until 6 a.m. e.d.l today. Readings climbed into the upper; 90s as far north as Nebraska Sunday before dropping as opBH Pacific air overspread the region TTiunderstorms and high winds in advance of the cooler air also buffeted Michigan during the night. The Kalamazoo, Mich., area was hit by hail stones one - half inch in diameter. The cooler air extended over most of the plains, the Rockies and the inter-mountain region. Its influence was lelt in the desert Southwest where readings “dropped” into the 90s as compared with 100-degree readings the night before. Weathermen said thunderstorms are expected today from the Great Lakes region to the northern Appalachians. Scattered afternoon thundershowers are seen for the plains states, and generally fair weather is expected on the West Coast Township Trustees - In Monthly Meeting Budgets, State Law Changes Discussed Budget reports and * state law changes occupied the attention of the county’s 12 township trustees in their monthly meeting Saturday. Budgets for each township must be submitted to county newspapers by August 6 so they may be published August 9, it was announced. The budgets must be filed with the county auditor by September 7. The next meeting of the trus-> tees will be a picnic meeting at park in Berne August 3. The new retirement deduction of 3 percent of a teacher's salary was explained, as was the new gross Income tax deduction table. School bus drivers must send in their report forms to the county superintendent's office so that they will qualify for the 1956-7 drivers safety award. County school superintendent Gail Grabill and Hugh Tate, assistant superintendent of Adams Central school, and any trustees who desire to make the trip, will attend a budget meeting at Plymouth July 10. INDIANA WEATHER * Partly cloudy, occasional « thundershowers, cooler north portion tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy, occasional thundershowers south, portion, cooler north and central portions. Lows tonight in low 60s extreme north to 66-73 central and south. High Tuesday around 80 extreme north to low 90s extreme south. Sunset 8:15 p. m.. sunrtas Tunsday 5:25 a. BL” 1

Mrs. Grace Coolidge Dies This Morning Widow Os Former President Is Dead , NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (UP)— Mrs. Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 78, a school teacher who married a country lawyer and became First Lady of the United States, died today at her home here. ; The widow of President Calvin Coolidge had been in Cooley Dickinson Hospital here for several weeks in February and March with heart and kidney ailments. He r death reduced to three the number of living wives of former presidents. Surviving are Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs- Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. Harry S. Truman. Mrs. Coolidge died in her sleep. Her son, John, was at her bedside. Dr. James H. Averill, said death was caused by a heart condition but that an autopsy will be performed. Mrs. Coolidge’s regular physician, Dr. Hugh Tatlock, was on vacation. Grace Goodhue was graduated from the University of Vermont in 1902 and came here to teach in a school for the deaf and dumb In Northampton she met fellow Vermonter Calvin Coolidge, then a struggling young lawer, and married him in 1905. I Civic Minded Housewife . Mrs. Coolidge, a slim, whitehaired, straight-backed lady, ;was b modri- deseendant ■o< |t&w England Puritan ancestors. JHer gracious warmth took the edge off the chill public portrait of the taciturn President during their years in Washington. It was undiminished by the tragedy which struck the family in the White House—the death of their younger son, Calvin Jr., 16, of blood poisoning from a tennis game blister. The son and his father, who died in 1933, four years after he left the White House, are buried At Plymouth, Vt., near the Coolidge home in which the late President took the oath of office from his father. He succeeded to the presidency on the death of Warren G. Harding in 1923 and was elected in his own right the following year. In a classic declination of office he announced that he did not "choose to run” in 192 b Mrs. Coolidge was a civic minded housewife throughout her life, active in church affairs, and Continued On Pax* Five California Women Are First To Land First To Complete Powder Puff Derby PHILADELPHIA (UP) - Mrs Patricia Gladney, Los Altos, Calif., and co-pilot Margaret Standish, Burbank, Calif., landed at the North Philadelphia Airport Sunday, the first women fliers to complete the transcontinental Powder Puff Derby. The team of Mrs. Velma Woodward, Oklahoma City, Okla., and Mrs. Boneta Davis, Minco, Okla., finished second followed by Mrs. Betty Lambert, San Diego, Calif., one of the few solo entries. The fouth plane to finish was piloted by Mrs. Lois Cassidy, Chicago, with Mrs. Beatrice Siemon, Wayne, 111., as co-pilot. They landed 2 hours and 17 minutes after Mrs. Gladney’s plane. Forty-nine planes, competing for a total purse of $2,500, started Saturday morning at San Mateo, Calif., in the 2,567 cross-country air race which resumed today at sunrise. The early finish by Mrs. Gladney and Miss Standish, both Wasp pilots during World War 11, did not guarantee them first place in the all-woman handicap flight. The winners will be announced Thursday cm the basis of hours in flight, fuel consumption and general performance. It was the sixth derby for Mrs. Gladney and Miss Standish, who flew to ‘he finish line from Harrisburg. Pa. Mrs. Gladney has logged 7,700 hours flight time, more than any other contestant. Miss Standish, a design engineer at Lockheed Aircraft at Burbank, Calif-, has 1,380 hours flying time.

Holiday Death Toll In Nation Under Estimate ' Motorists And Law i Enforcement Groups > Praised By Council j By UNITED PRESS The National Safety Council today took, a look at hte number of , traffic deaths during the July 4 holiday period, and said that motorists and law enforcement agencies had done well. “The 4th qf July toll not only was held far below the pre-holiday estimate of 535 but below the 465 that a non-holiday period of the j same number of hours would be ( expected to bring,” said Ned H. . Dearborn, president of the council. With only scattered accident re- . ports still to be counted, a United Press survey showed that between 1 6 p.m. Wednesday and midnight , Sunday, 418 persons died in high--1 way accidents. Drownings took 206 lives, fireworks accidents 3, plane crashes 16 and miscellaneous mishaps 69, for an overall total of : 7i2. California had more than onetenth of the holiday deaths, with , 47. New York had 32, Pennsylvania 29, Ohio 28, Texas 24, Michigan * is. .^ nois 16 - r The deaths in the period of a . little more than three days were • more than were suffered by Amer- . ican forces in some of the battles i which helped win the independence » that Americans were celebrating j But, comparatively, the figure en- . couraged the council and law enforcement agencies who have been 1 trying to stem a holiday surge ip t the annual toll of death. I “Motorists and traffic officers,” > said Dearborn, “deserve a big pat i on the back for a splendid job of. . effective teamwork. Such an . achievement cannot help but make things safer on the highways the i year around.” In 1950, the all-time high for the ; 4th of July holiday was set at 501. > Thus far in 1957, motorists on two successive holidays, this Mie and . Memorial Day, have been below estimates. “Drivers and traffic enforcement agencies now have demonstrated on two successive holidays that extra traffic volume and danger can be offset by extra care and effort;* said Dearborn. Over Half Disaster Quota Is Met Here Red Cross Appeals For Emergency Fund The emergency disaster fund of the local Red Cross has gone over the half way mark, with $87.50 added Saturday. The total collected to date includes $310.31. Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, executive secretary of the local chapter, stated that the disaster fund quota for Adams county is S6OO. She said that although damage in this area was comparatively small during the recent storm, a complete report was made to the national Red Cross representative, and Adams county disaster will be included in the Portland disaster. Assisting at the main collection depot at the First State Bank Saturday were Mrs. Joseph Hunter, Mrs. Ruth Keller, and Girl Scouts Carla Mettling, Melissa Mayclin, Beverly Stults and Marceda Whetstone. Persons wishing to contribute to the emergency fund to aid victims of the recent storm in this area, and in the hard hit southern regions, are asked to either bring their contributions or mail them to the local Red Cross office, dr to stop in «at the bank. Mrs. Oelberg stated that when ' contacting people of this area, everyone seemed to have the feeling i of gratfulness that the storm didn’t cause more damage than it did. One man, when observing his damaged home, is reported have said. "This we can manage, but what if it meant lives?"

1 I"Two South American Countries In Break Charge Peron Using Venezuela As Base BUENOS AIRES (UP)—Argentina and Venezuela "interrupted” diplomatic relations'Sunday in a dispute over charges that former dictator Juan D. Peron is using Venezuela as a base for efforts to overthrow the Argentine government. Gen. Carlos Toranzo Montero. ; the Argentine ambassador to Venezuela, was scheduled to fly here from Panama, where he arrived from Caracas Sunday after the Venezuelan government ordered him out of the country. Venezuela declared Toranzo Montero persona non grata two days after Dr- Atilano Carnevali, its ambassador to Argentina, to return to Caracas. Argentine Foreign Minister Alfonso de la Ferre said diplomatic relations with Venezuela had been "interrupted”. Diplomatic observers here said interruption is just a step short* of a complete break. Toranzo Montero delivered a note to Venezuelan authorities July 4 in which be charged Peron violated his asylum in Venezuela by planning a coup against <he Argentine provisional government. However, Venezuelan president Marcos Perez Jiminez told newsmen in Caracas the note had nothing to do with Toranzo Montero’s ouster. He said the diplomat was ordered to leave the country because his actions were "offensive to the dignity of the nation." Toranzo Montero told United Press in Panama Sunday night he ' presented documents to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry contain- ’ ing “overwhelming proof Peron is ’ leading sabotage and subversive 1 acts from Caracas which for the 1 Argentine people may cost blood.” Handyman Confesses Black Magic Slaying Confesses Slaying Os Teen-aged Boy VINELAND, N.J. (UP) - A Puerto Rican farm handyman has admitted he killed a teen-aged boy last October to get the top of his skull to make a love potion, Police Capt. John Barsuglia announced today. Barsuglia said the dramatic admission of the "black magic” slaying was made by Juan Rivera Aponte, 45, handyman on the farm of Idek and Celina Rosenblum, Polish displaced persons who gave him a job two years ago. The police captain said Aponte admitted the strangulation slaying of 13-year-old Roger Carletto, who disappeared last Oct. 13 and whose body was recovered from; a chicken house on the Rosenblum farm last Tuesday The boy was killed and buried in tiie chicken house where Aponte lived after the handyman had read a book on black magic, and thought he needed a dried human skull to complete a potion to enable him to cast a spell over women, Barsuglia said. The police said the top of the boy’s skull was found in a stove in Aponfo’s quarters in the chicken house. Barsuglia, outlining Aponte’s alleged confession, said the handyman told him the Carletto boy walked into the chicken house and asked for a cigarette just after tile farmhand had finished reading a chapter in the magic book calling for the skull as a potion ingredient. He said Aponte admitted he slugged the boy with his fists from behind, and then strangled him with a cord. Aponte buried the boy in the house, and proceeded to water his grave three times daily, according to Barsuglia. He opened the grave seven months after the slaying, cut off the top of the youngster’s head, and placed it in the dismantled stove to dry, the police captain said. ’ J The boy’s body was uncovered by police last Tuesday after Aponte told police that Rosenblum was the slayer. He said he had seen the farm Ctmtiwued On Page Five

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Federal Judge Denies Appeal Made By Irvin Slayer Scheduled « For Death Tonight In Electric Chair SOUTH BEND (UP! — “Mad dog” killer Leslie Irvin lost another round in a fight to save his life today but launched another last-ditch appeal as the minutes ticked by toward his execution hour tonight. Irvin, accused of six coldblooded murders in one of Indiana’s most renowned crime sprees in history, was scheduled to be electrocuted in the state prison electric chair at 1:01 a.m. Tuesday. One of hte last legal moves for a stay of execution was blasted at 9 a.m. when Federal Judge W. Lynn Parkinson turned down bis petition just 16 hours before the hour set by Warden Alfred Dowd for Irvin’s date with the chair. Shortly afterward, one of Irvin’s attorneys filed a motion for an appeal to the U.S. Circuit Court ot Appeals in Chicago- Parkinson promptly turned it down as "wholly without merit, frivolous and for delay and hot taken in good faith.” Attorney James D. Nafe, bearing legal papers containing Irvin’s fresh signature, then sped toward Chicago to file them with the circuit judge in person. A circuit judge has the power to grant * motion even after it is rejected by a district judge, and could grant a stay of execution. Parkinson’s written opinion denying a fourth stay of execution for Irvin was a 14-page document which refuted each of the contentions, step by step, that Irvin’s attorneys made in their appeal claiming their client was tried unfairly. Irvin, 83, a former Evansville - pipefitter, lost his appeal for a reprieve on the grounds he was tried unfairly at Princeton 19 months ago in one of six murders committed in Indiana and Kentucky over a four-month period in 1954 and 1955. The Parkinson ruling apparently * paved the way for Irvin to walk to his death from “death row” in the Michigan City institution at 1:01 a.m. CDT Tuesday. The Indiana Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court and Gov. Harold W Handley previously had refused to intervene in the case after Irvin’s date with electrocution was postponed three times to carry out a legal fight by his two attorneys. t Irvin’s attorneys, Theodore Lockyear and James Lopp of Evansville, were reported to ba preparing a speedy last-ditch appeal of Parkinson’s ruling to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, as time ran out for Irvin. The Irvin case was one of the most renowned in Indiana criminal history. Irvin was arrested in the spring of 1965, and accused of killing three persons, including two women, in Evansville and nearby > Posey County, as well as three members of a Henderson. Ky., family. Irvin dictated a confession but later repudiated it. He was tried on the charge of killing W. Wesley Kerr, an Evansville filling station attendant, after the case was sent . from Vanderburgh to Gibson County on a change of venue. A month after he was convicted and condemned to die, Irvin escaped from the Princeton jail in a snowstorm and was free several weeks until captured at San Francisco and returned to Indiana. Parkinson ruled hl' a written document prepared during a busy weekend in which he studied 4,700 pages of typewritten trial transcripts. In effect, he decided that Irvin’s constitutional rights of due process under the 14th Amendment were not violated before and during hla trial