Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 165, Decatur, Adams County, 15 July 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 165

• “LOVE THESE JAMBOREES!” A '"> "'■* <, Wpr* j&- *- WbpJsit LeSß*'.:.’;. ■ .V e ' ! ‘*‘* r UNCLE OTTO HORNUNG, SI years young, of Detroit, demonstrates to Scout Charles Smith of Los Angeles, the art of making a windy torch (hiring the fourth national Boy Scout Jamboree at historic Valley Forge, Pa. Uncle Otto, who is the oldest of the 50,000 scouts gathered at Valley Forge for the jamboree, has been a scout “ever so long and loves these jamborees."

nuriurcus nee Lvaih MAmAf Im rrom nomes in PL?.--- " LniCouO Alca Floodwaters Course Through Industrial And Resident Areas By UNITED PRESS Floodwaters from the Chicago area’s record weekend rain coursed through industrial and residential sections of northeastern Illinois and northern Indiana today, forcing hundreds of persons to flee their homes. f But the threat of a fresh onslaught of turbulent weather in the Midwest Sunday night and today failed to materialize. The Little Calumet River, swoP len by the runoff from Friday's record A24-ineh deluge, overflowed in Chicago's southeastern suburbs Sunday. About 200 families were evacuated from the community of Wicker Park Manor-nnd sheltered in an American Legion post and a Roman Catholic church in Hammond, Ind. ’ ' s In the industrial area of Whiting, Gary and Hammond, Ind., the Grand Calumet River spilled over into subdivisions of Highland and Calumet City, and hundreds of persons left their homes. Volunteers sandbagged dikes on the river to prevent it from flooding another 500 to 1,000 homes in Hammond. The death toll as a result of the storm stood at 11, four of them killed by electrocution and the others victims of drowning and heart attacks. Some Roads Still Blocked The record rains were blamed on a cool air mass overrunning a layer of hot, humid weather- The cooler air sent readings as low as the 40s overnight in the northern Great Lakes. I The heat-chasing cool air mass pushed as far east as the Alleghany Mountains and most of New England today, touching off a few scattered showers on the way. The heaviest downpour was at Gordansville, Va., with 1.05 inches of rain. . . Earlier Sunday, Vandalia in southern Illinois was hit by 5.79 inches of rain, boosting the Kaskaskia River to bankful. The Vandalia area has been hit by two previous, floods which inundated some 50,00 acres of farmland. The Illinois River also reached flood stage at Ottawa, 85 miles southwest of Chicago, where the runoff was backed up by a 600foot dam. Several major roads in the Chicago area still were blocked by water today, including U.S. 6 at Hammond, U.S- 41 in the Hammond area and U.S. 66 at Blodgett, 111. Midway Airport resumed full operations Sunday after limited service was restored Saturday. The airport was closed Friday night when runways were flooded and communications were knocked out. Harvey Hospital Closed Telephone workers installed an emergency switchboard at the airport and used hair dryers in an effort to dry out the flooded dial switchboard. The Commonwealth Edison Co. "said damage to its fa c i 111 ies amounted to about $350,00. Damage to homes and industries was incalculable. I Spokesmen at Ingalls Memorial Hospital in suburban Harvey, where 140 patients were evacuated when floodwaters reached a depth of nine feet, said the hospital would remain closed at least & week. Lanterns and candles were pressed into service at Manteno State Hospital, where 8,100 patients are confined, when water flooded its power plant Sunday. An estimated 1,00 persons evacConttnoed On Par* Five

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Northwest Part Os State Drying Out. - Many Hoosiers Are Forced From Homes By UNITED PRESS The northwest corner of Indiana slowly dried out today from a flash flood while normal summer weather prevailed over the rest of Hoosierland. Lake county was caught in the outer fringe of a violent rainstorm which dumped more than 6*4 1 inches of precipitation on Chicago 1 Friday and caused floods which ' helped rack up a death toll of 11. None of the dead were in Indiana. however. The Little Calumet River, and the Grand Calumet River, spilled over into industrial areas and subdivisions of Whiting, Gary, Hammond and Highland. Many persons left their homes and volunteers sandbagged dikes to prevent flooding of 500 to 1,000 additional iiiHii ii fr Despite their own weather setbacks, Lake Countians opened shelters for evacuees from Chicago’s southeastern suburbs. About 200 families were moved from Wicker Park Manor to an American Legion Post and a Roman Catholic Church in Hammond. A dike in the Little Calumet broke at Highland early Sunday and drove 200 families from their homes. U.S. 41, a main highway southward from Chicago through Indiana, was closed on Indianapocause of a weakened bridge. Although more turbulent weather threatened 1 during the weekend in Indiana, nothing serious developed. Showers were spotty and very light. Temperatures hit muggy highs ranging from 84 at Lafayette to 89 at South Bend Suriday arid dropped to lows ranging from 63 at Evansville to TO at Indianapolis this morning. Today's highs will range from 80 north to 88 south, the upstate area getting a cool-off due to fresher air pushing warm moist air southward. Tonight’s lows will range from 58 to 65, and Tuesday’s highs from 85 to 91. The five-day outlook for the period ending Saturday called for temperatures averaging about 2 degrees above normal highs of 84 to 91 and lows of 63 to 72 “Little temperature change Tuesday and Wednesday," the outlook said. “Slow warming trend Friday and Saturday.” Precipitation will average less than a quarter of an inch but in local areas more than one-half inch in scattered showers about Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Lydia Roth Is Taken By Death Mrs. Lydia Roth, 86, resident of Adams county most of her life, died at 4 p. m. Sunday at the home of a son, Raymond Roth, three miles west of Bryant. Also surviving are another son, Clarence Roth of Fort Wayne; a grandchild and two great-grand-children. Services will be" held at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Evangelical Mennonite church at Berne, with burial iri the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home until time ot the services. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler north half tonight. Tuesday fair and cooler north and a little cooler south. Low tonight 57-66. High Tuesday 76-76 north, 77-84 south. Sunset 8:12 p. m., sunrise Tuesday 5:31 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and not much change in temperature with chance of scattered showers by evening. Low Tuesday in the 60s, high Wednesday in toe 80s.

Huge Problems Are Posed By Nuclear Attack Enormous Problems Brought To Light After Mock Attack EMERGENCY NEWS HEADQUARTERS, Operation Alert «UP) —How can 41 million Americans fleeing the target cities ot an atomic war find shelter and medical care ? ; . How can the entire nation carry on, with banks, businesses and industries in all key cities destroyed by a mass H-bomb raid? I Where will the money for wages come from while the nation picks up the pieces? These are some of the enormous problems defense mobilization chiefs and skeleton staff of federal, state and local government officials were wrestling with today, after a make-believe atomic “Pearl Harbor." They outlined to President Eisenhower this morning the emergency steps they are theoretically taking to tackle the problems. Eisenhower flew from his Gettysburg, Pa., farm to the secret central headquarters of civil defense and defense mobilization in a mountain area near Washington, received a briefing and returned to Washington this morning. Officials told the President 155 cities, air bases, atomic installations and dams were theoretically blasted in Friday’s enemy assault. Living in the target areas were more than half the nation's population—9s,soo,ooo. About 41 million men, women and children were assumed to have heard the sirens and reached relative safety before the bombs and missiles fell. The rest presumably were killed or injured by the blast and radiation- I Vital transportation and communication was “destroyed." An. urgent defense mobilization task today was to get essential services in operation in toe devastated evident that dictatorial powers, rigid allocation of materials, labor drafting and other governmental controls would be required. Officials also were studying the complex machinery of setting criteria for federal, state and local aid to rehabilitate areas. The new phase of toe drill was called toe “governmental mobilization action period" — the massive job of national rehabilitation Civil Defense officials assumed they were facing a situation that would develop 15 days after an attack. During this final week - long Continued On Pare Five Top Russians Near End Os Czech Tour Make Another Tour Os Provinces Today PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia (UP) —Communist Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin spent their last full day in Czechoslovakia today making another tour of toe provinces.

Again they split into two groups. Khrushchev’s party went to Pilsen the largest industrial town in Czechoslovakia, which is famed for its bezr and metallurgical works. He is to visit the former Skoda works, now known as the Lenin factory, where he may speak. Bulganin headed a group which went to Most in northwest Bohemia, a mining town near the East German, frontier. Western newsmen were barred again from accompanying them. Bulganin and Khrushchev were believed putting the final touches sometime during the day on a joint communique for publication today or Tuesday- The communique, expected to reaffirm the solidarity of Czech - Russian friendship, would be issued before their departure. Diplomatic sources expected no major revelations in the communique. Today’s Rude Pravo, organ of the Czech Communist Party, carried a two column editorial today again stressing the need for unity in the Communist camp and the closest possible cooperation with the Soviet Union. ' The newspaper quoted an excerpt from the Ostrava speech a few days ago*by Czech Communist Party Secretary Antonin No votny in which he said: "Now and in the future we shall always advance in the closest union with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union which is the real vanguard of all Communist parties just as the Soviet Union is the natural cenetr of all revolutionary efforts of the working people throughout the world.”

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, July 15,1957

Atomic Energy Leader Warns Congress Not To Cut 1958 Budget

1 . Diablo Fired This Morning In Bomb Test Bomb Which Failed To Explode Earlier Fired This Morning ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UP) —Dud bomb “Diablo," which failed to fire June 28 when it was triggered on top of its 500-foot platform, was fired today at 6:30 a m. c.d.t. at the Atomic Energy Commission's proving ground. The blast developed the usual characteristics of nuclear devices as it disintegrated its tower and sent a cloud mushrooming into toe predawn darkness. A faint glow silhouetted toe mountain backdrop. ’ * I Scientists at a pre-shot briefing announced they expected the device to have a yield of some 10,00 tons of TNT. The blast was plainly visible in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Immediately after the firing observers described toe fireball as having a thick stem with a weirdlooking purple glow hanging around its entire edge. The fireball was not visible 15 • tiriued to encircle the mass., as it rose to some 15,00 feet witlun two minutes. I At ground zero a small fire was visible from toe observation point. Helicopters and cloud - tracking planes swarmed into toe area from such distant bases as Orlando, Fla., and Wright-Patterson Field, Ohio, in addition to western air bases. "Diablo." an experimental device designed by the University of California radiation, laboratory at Livermore, Calif., had an audience of some 500 military observers, including 100 Canadians. Involved in toe test was a manned underground shelter some 2,000 feet from ground zero. The AEC said as many as 17 persons would be stationed in the shelter which would be doused with ition. 1 The observers in the » shelter were to check radiation at their location by the use of instruments extending to toe earth’s surface. As soon as it appeared radiation was down to a safe count they were to emerge from the shelter. Saboteurs Destroy - Big Algiers Plant Huge Power Plant Destroyed Sunday -ALGIERS — Stray bullets from a gun battle between soldiers and rebel saboteurs blew up a million-dollar power plant at Laghouat Sunday, killing at least seven persons—including one of J the saboteurs. It was the biggest act of sabotage of the entire Algerian rebel- ' I'.on. The known dead included one ' rebel and a French soldier found ' inside the plant. Two Moslem | women, two children and an eld- , erly man were killed in houses ; near the plant. French troops today searched the ruins for other victims, in- ; eluding the Algerian foreman , who let toe sabotage crew into the plant, 200 mile south of Al- ; giers. A yioung guard started firing i at the rebels before they had i time to finish their job. During : the ensuing gun battle, stray bul- : lets touched off gasoline which ' the rebels had poured over the ' plant’s five generators. Purdue Professor To Teach In Netherlands ■ i LAFAYETTE (UP)— Prof. E.S. Randall of Purdue University’s I modern language department will 1 teach in toe Netherlands on a Ful- i Bright grant beginning next September. 3 ' ' i

« . -' "" Scientists Uncover Chemical In Smoke • Suspect Smoke May Cause Lung Cancer WASHINGTON (UP)-U.S. Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney said today government scientists have, found a chemical agent in cigarette smoke which they suspect may cause lung cancer, i Burney, in an interview with the United Press, identified the substance as benzopyrene. He said it to formed when the aromatic oils tn tobacco are burned at a high temperature and “cracked" much like crude oil is cracked to make gasoline. —aS i The chief of the Public Health Service emphasized that “no one has definitely isolated the cause of lung cancer." But he said researchers believe "excessive and prolonged" exposure to benzopyrene may be it. Cites High Temperatures Burney said benzopyrene was found in significant amounts only in cigarette smoke because only cigarettes burn at high enough temperatures—Boo to 815 degrees Fahrenheit—to crack toe aromatic oils. Pipe tobacco and cigars burn at much lower temperatures, he said. Last week Burney issue d a statement declaring there is “increasing and consistent evidence'.' .that "excessive" cigarette smoking is one of the causes of lung cancer. The Public Health Service made no recommendation tc the public as to how it should ad on this information. Asked by a reporter whether toe statement was a warning, Burney said: "It amounts to a warning’ to stop smoking cigarettes, but we would like to have more positive proof before issuing a warning as such.” See Year Doctor He said toe Public Health Service’s present aim is to transmit scientific findings on cigarettes to Continued On Page Five • -— Body of Murdered - Man Found In Trunk Body In Trunk For Shipment To West NEW YORK (UP)— Police searched today for two men, believed to have been unsuspecting dupes, who delivered a trunk containing toe bullet-riddled body of a 52-year-old painter to a Railway Express office for shipment to Los Angeles. A check of fingerprint files at FBI headquarters in Washington identified toe victim as James Malloy of New York, formerly es Philadelphia. -P The small caliber of toe weapon used, a .22, gave rise to the theory Malloy had been shot by a woman, police said. His body, pierced by three slugs and wrapped in New York City newspapers, was delivered to a 42nd Street Railway Express office Saturday afternoon by two men, each about 28 years old, whom police believe were hired messengers unaware of the trunk’s contents. The corpse was discovered five hours later when express workers, suspipious of toe strong odor emanating from toe trunk, forced the lock. * A medical examiner said Malloy had been dead about 24 hours when his body was discovered. The small trunk—3s inches long, 15 inches deep and 20 inches wide —was addressed to a “Hal JeL ferson" of toe Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles But hotel official said no person by that name was registered at the Ambassador, nor was there any record of anyone by that name having stayed at the hotel. Police received, good descriptions' of the men who delivered the trunk to toe express office by car. . They remained in the office abbut 25 minutes while a clerk weighed and insured the black tin trunk. After paying $40.92 for toe shipment with SSO, one re“Let’s go out and drink the rest up."

Israelis Used Tanks To Quiet Syrians' Guns * Tanks Purchased From France Used e Tb Silence Syrians t JERUSALEM, Israel (UP) — s The Israeli army tanks last j Tuesday to silence Syrian artillery i and mortars in a 10-hour border » battle. It was disclosed today. The tanks were purchased from 1 France several months before the e Sinai campaign where they dis- > tinguiShed themselves in battle . with Soviet-built T 34 tanks. 1 Government sources said Israel . sent the tanks into action in the Gonen sector of the Israeli-Syrian frontier because Syria had res fused United Nations cease-fire / orders. f Source Os Rumor 1 The Israeli sources said this des velopment may be the source or c rumors broadcast by Jordan’s n Radio Ramallah Sunday that U.N---f investigators found “French troops’’ massing on the border. a (In Damascus, Syria's army i- chief of staff warned that the na- ’’ tion must be increasingly alert to r- told newsmen that Syria dealt Tso j rael a hard blow in last week’s it fighting. (But this does not mean the r battle is ended,” he said. “There !, may now be an increase in Israel’s treacherous intentions, o Therefore we should increase our e alert.” e • (He said Syrian border forces s were “sufficient to face any further emergency.”) Free Hand Indicated Premier David Ben-Gurion ret ported to the cabinet Sunday on a the recent border incidents, and political observers believed the cabinet gave him a free hand to initiate strong retaliatory action should new border incidents flare. It was .recalled that Maj. Gen. Moshe Dayan, the Israeli army chief of staff, declared on Friday night the policy of retaliation had worked in the past and would be continued- ' Government circles were reported anxious to prevent Syrians from feeling they could get away - with anything. But at the same • time Israeli officials expressed I concern over the “unduly large” Continued On Pa-S* Five r Army Reserve Unit ■ Leaves For Training Annual Encampment On In Wisconsin 3 - The main body of Service Battery. 424th field artillery batallion, Decatur’s Army reserve unit, left Decatur early Sunday morning for , Camp McCoy, Wis., for their annual two-week summer encamp- , ment. Part of the group left early Saturday in the advance party, which . will open up a section of the camp for the Decatur group. Others left by private automobile. Most left Fort Wayne by a special Pennsylvania railroad train at 5:59 a.m. Sunday morning. Those who will make the summer encampment from this battery are Ist Lt- Henry 8/ Commager. 510 Monroe street; Sgt. Thomas A Passwater, 510 Niblick St.; PFC Luther Schrock, 632 S. 13th; Pvt. Thomas E. Lambert, route 6; Pvt. Richard A. Simmerman, 921 N, 13th St.; Pvt. Jay A. Sheets, route 5; SFC Jack M. Weldy, 717 N. 2nd St.; Sgt Luther P. Beitler, route 3; Sgt. Carl J. Lengerich, route 5; Sp 2C Edmund Thieme, route 5: Sp3C Robert B. Butler, 422 S. Ist St.; SFC Charles W. Norris, 213 N. Bth St.; CpL Marvin A Taylor, Monroe; Pvt. Jerry L. Beard, route 1, Man- ' roe; Sgt. Gerald J. Lybarger. Hoagland; PFC Richard L. Velez, route 2, Berne; M-Sgt. Robert E. Ray, Fort Wayne; and PFC Joseph E. Jauregui, Fort Wayne. ,

To Reorganize 7th Division In Korea - Counter Heavy Red Military Buildup WASHINGTON (UP)-The Army announced today it would begin immediately to reorganize the 7th Division in Korea along atomic lines to help counter the heavy Red military buildup in the north. The 7th Division will become the 10th U.S. Pentomic Division. With • the exception of the 11th Airborne ■ Division in Europe the others are located in the United States, Hawaii and Alaska. . The United States and its Allies last month nullified the 1953 Korean armistice agreement that ■ prevented shipments of modem ‘ weapons to Korea. They said they did so to offset the “enormous” 1 Communist buildup in North Ko- ) rea. 1 Powerful new jet bombers and ‘ fighters already are slated to go to ! South Korea, as well as modem equipment and tanks for the two U.S. divisions holding the armis- ■ tice line. I U-S. authorities said thei re--1 vamped 7th Division will not im- • mediately be equipped with 1 atomic-capable weapons such as the Honest John rocket and Cdrr poral guided missiles. But such weapons ultimately are > expected to be sent to U.S. forces Yin South Korea, they said. » The other division in ’ rea—the 24th Division—is not ex--5 pected to be reorganized at present. There is behind-the-scenes - talk of possibly replacing the 24th ’ with the Ist Cavalry Division mow * in Japan. The atomic streamlining of the ’ 7th involves converting its three regiments into five combat groups > which can fight independently of ’ each other, maneuvering rapidly to defend against nuclear weapons and taking advantage of their own * atomic punch capabilities. 1 The modernization also calls for 1 a reduction in manpower from 17,f 640 to 13,748. The men may be re- » assigned in Korea or withdrawn 1 from the peninsula. Eight Persons Die In Indiana Traffic News Photographer Is One Os Victims By UNITED PRESS v A newspaper photographer and a woman were killed in separate upstate crashes Sunday to boost Indiana’s weekend traffic death toll to at least eight Melvin George Perkins, 27, photographer for the LaPorte Herald-Argus, was killed when he lost control of his automobile and swerved into the path of another ear on U.S. 20 in Porter County. Louella Nylandeer, 26, Walkerton, was injured fatally in » crash at the junction of U.S. 6 apd U.S. 421 south of Westville. She died a few hours later in Holy Family Hospital, LaPorte. William Dean Akers, 27, Plymouth, another occupant of the car, was hospitalized in fair condition. State Police said both were thrown from the auto as it skidded off the highway, flew 124 feet over an embankment and rolled Over several times. Beverly Haglund, 14, Michigan City, and her sister, Judy, 8, were 1 killed Saturday in a two-car colli- i sion at a highway junction near Chesterton- Three other persons were injured, and State Police said Harold Barnard, 32, Westville, became an amnesia victim because of head injuries. Judy Haglund died several hours after the crash killed her sister. Larry Robert Smith, 19, Lawrenceville, 111., was killed Saturday in a freak accident near Bristow, * Perry County. When his brakes failed. Smith jumped from his truck, but lost his footing and : was struck by the vehicle as it 1 ran into a ditch. Mrs. Mareline Walters, 40. Indi- 1 anapolis, was killed Saturday 1 when her auto struck a parked 1 truck on an Indianapolis street, I Her husband, Homer, 34, was hurt 1 critically. - Mrs. Grace Stone, 60, Fort 1 Wayne, was killed Saturday in a Continued On Pare Five

Warns Drastic Cut In Nuclear Weapon Output Asks Atomic Energy - Program Exempted From Economy Move By UNITED PRESS The Atomic Energy Commission has told Congress it will have to cut nuclear weapon production drastically if it is required to comply with President Eisenhower’s new economy orderThis was disclosed today with publication of testimony taken by a House Appropriations subcommittee last Friday. The transcript was released by Chairman Clarence Cannon (D-Mo.) under the heading: “Repudiation of the 1958 budget." , Y I K.E. Fields, AEC general manager, told the subcommittee he will “argue strongly” that the atomic energy program be exempted from the President’s general economy rule. Other congressional news: Civil Right*: Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland said he . doubts that President Eisenhower ; would agree to kill the civil rights bill provision to which southern t Democrats are jfftTMWly qgi- , . posed. The provision wuld let th® . Justice Department seek court in- ( junctions against conspiracies to i deprive persons of their civil rights. Violators could be tried without a jury. Foreign Aid: The House opened debataßtfh Eisenhower’s $3,242,333,000 foreign aid program with a warning by Chairman Thomas S. Gordon (p-Ill.) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee that the Kremlin shake-up does not end the Communist threat to dominate the world- I Atomic Fires: Publication of testimony taken by the HouseSenate Atomic Energy Committee showed that three uranium 235 plants in Paducah, Ky., Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Portsmouth, Ohio, have “insufficient fire protecting, detecting and extinguishing systems.’* The AEC said the deficiencies were disclosed after a $2,200,000 fire in an auxiliary building at Paducah last November. Military Buying: Chairman Carl Vinson (D-Ga.) of the House Armed Services Committee urged enactment of legislation to require more open, competitive buying by the military services. The committee said 98 per cent of all Army, Navy and Air Force purchases are made by negotiation without requiring advertised, competitive bids. Smoking: Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) praised the Public Health Service for its statement linking cigarette smoking and cancer. He told the Senate health officers, medical societies and other health groups should set up a program to “educate the American public on the perils faced by smokers” Immigration: Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) said he would introduce legislation for “drastically needed reforms” in immigration laws. He said immigration and refugee legislation is “one of the most urgent items facing Congress” and should be acted on this year. J Pay TV: Chairman Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) of the House Judiciary Committee warned the Federal Communications Commission to get congressional approval before conducting any pay-as-you-see television experiments. Celler said the FCC stretched its legal power "to its very limits, if not beyond” in deciding to carry out subscription TV trials. He said — pay-TV poses such “a grave threat to the public interest” that it could “drive free network television as we know it from the airwaves,” Communists: The House Committee on Un-American Activities planned an inquiry later this week into reports that Communists have been able to gain access to secret Defense Department messages. A committee aide said the group has information Indicating that Communists infiltrated transmission media and got secret information from defense messages Radiation: Reps. Chet Holifield (ContiawMl on F®»» Ftvo> •

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