Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 183

SUSPECT IN TRIPLE SLAYING

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ACCOMPANIED by two detectives, Eugene Michael Harty, 22. walks through the fence gate separating his home and that of Robert Skiffington family in Brentwood, L. 1., N. Y. Harty is being held in connection with the knife-slayings of Mrs. Margaret Patricia Skiffington, 30, her daughter, Maureen, 8. and son, Robert, Jr., 5. The victim’s husband, Robert, was at work when the slayings took place in the early morning.

Ex-Sen. George Dies Sunday Os Heart Ailment Death Os Veteran Statesman Mourned By Friend And Foe VIENNA, Ga. (UP) - The nation’s leaders today joined friends and neighbors of former Sen. Walter F. George in mourning the ’ death of a small-town lawyer who mounted the forums of world statesmanship. President Eisenhower said the Georgia Democrat, hailed for his bipartisanship in U.S. foreign affairs. “served his country and the free world for many years with distinction and integrity.** George headed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the pinnacle of his 34-year Senate career and afterward became the President’s representative to the ? North Atlantic, Treaty Organization. George, 79, died at his home here early Sunday after a slxweek struggle with heart disease * which last June ended his active role in his new international career. Burial Today The body was to lie in state until about an hour before the funeral services late this afternoon in the First Baptist Church, where George had worshipped most of his life. i Town officials were advised that about two-score members of Congress would attend, including members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Finance committees, which George at one time headed. Eisenhower designated Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to < the United Nations and a former Senate colleague of George’s, to represent the White House at the funeral services. The President also sent a personal telegran of sympathy on behalf of himself and Mrs. Eisenhower to George's widow, known in Washington and in Vienna as ‘•Miss Lucy,’’ and to members of her family. Eisenhower said George’s death “is a great loss not only to hi" own native state of Georgia but also to the entire nation.” He addhe suffered “a personal loss” because George “was a good and dear friend.” WHI Be Missed “He was an outstanding American and a fine gentleman who will be greatly missed,” the Presjient said. Vice President Richard M. Nixon praised George as “one of the greatest senators in the history of the nation and one who rose completely above partisan politics in the service of his state Contlauea va P»K SivDIANA WEATHER Far and a little cooler tonight. Tuesday fair and continued rather cool. Low tonight 45-56. High Tuesday 7383. Sunset 7:54 p. m„ sunrise Tuesday 5:48 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair and slightly warmer. Low Tuesday night near 60. High Wednesday 80-85.

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Hospital Profit Is Shown During July Monthly Financial Report Is Issued - A profit of 81,430.29 was made during July by the Adams county memorial hospital, marfager Thurman Drew reported today. It was the second consecutive month that the hospital had cleared more than one thousand dollars, and it made qp for the ’ deficits of January, March, and . May. \ . , So far the financial reports for J the first seven months of 1957 1 show that the hospital is now 82,937.72 in the clear. This, of > course, would be erased by a > month or two of few patients in - the rooms during the last five • months of the year. Tax distribui lion has also added 82,294.75 to the above figure. Very little of • the money actually used by the : hospital comes from taxation. ■ Most of it comes from charges ! made at the hospital, which are ! then turned over to the county ' treasurer. This money is then appropriated by the county com- ! missioners and county council for ’ use of the hospital through the ; hospital board. The report for July shows that the operating cash July 1 was $40,234 10. Deposited in July was . $22,734.59. Bills amounted to 86,- . 861.41, and the payroll was 814,- , 442.89. Expenses totalled 821,- > 304.30, and the operating cash f balance for July 31 was 841,664.39. During July, 160 adults and 65 t babies were admitted to the hos- ■ pital, and 151 adults and 63 bab- ! ies were dismissed. Four adults I (Contin-Ib- Jn Fax* Wigtit) I Summer Dollar Day > : In City Wednesday Annual Late Summer ‘ Event By Merchants [ Decatur’s annual late summer I Dolar Day will be held here Wednesday, with almost every . Decatur reatiler taking part in . the big money saving sale. t Harold Niblick, of the Nibtick . Co., is general chairman and tol day he predicted that this year’s i event would be the biggest ever held here. Local merchants always have ■ taken regular stock off their > shelves to sell at the Dollar Day ■ (estival and have never followed the practice of rtierchants of ■ neighboring towns of ordering in f cheaper merchandise. Parking meters will be blocked ’ out all day so that shoppers may ’ take their time in visiting stores ! and making purchases. Most stores will be open all day and until 9 o’clock Wednesday night to accommodate all who plan to take advantage of the many sales. Dollar Day is sponsored by the retail division of the Chamber of Commerce, but stores, not members of the division, also have been invited to take part. Pa £ es _

Budget Reform Bill Hit By Secy. Wilson Declares Measure Supported By Ike . Risk To Security WASHINGTON (UP) — The White House today called for a transcript of congressional testimony by Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson in which he opposed a budgetary reform supported by President Eisenhower. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the chief executive still was “strongly for” the legislation. Under it the government would switch to an “actual” form of financing from the “carry-over” system. The change was recommended by the Hoover Commission. Hagerty, pending arrival of Wilson, in his critical comments to the House Appropriations Committee, was talking about the basic legislation, but was referring to “partial financing” of the Air Force which would result from the proposed new budget method. “I think you will find that there was a misinterpretation,” Hagerty said. “We are for the bill and we have not changed our position. We are strongly for the bill. The President is on record and the President has so informed the Defense Department.” The defense secretary said the change, by hampering long-range planning and spending on defense programs, could “risk the security of the nation.” PlKup 2nd pgh: Wilson said Wilson said the Pentagon’s money situation is so tight at present that if the reform were put into effect now “we really would be in trouble.” It would “cause one of those big shifts in the military program which have been so expensive in the past and waste so much money and possibly risk the security of the nation," he said. The reform, proposed by the Hoover Commission, would set up a so-called “accrued expenditures” Continued On Page Five Nine Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic, Three Killed In One Crash Near Wabash By UNITED PRESS A triple fatality crash killed a young ministerial student, his wife and their baby near Wabash Sunday night and boosted the Indiana weekend traffic death toll to at least nine. In addition, a sixth victim died of injuries suffered in a train-auto collision in Hancock County last week to chalk up the worst traffic accident in Hoosierland this year. Killed in the crash at the junction of Ind. 124 and a county road seven miles south of Lagro were David D.. Cattell, 26, Marion, his wife, Rebecca Jane, 21, and their two-month-old daughter, Lisd. Authorities said the Cattell auto was struck when it pulled in front of another car driven by Darrell Glentzer, 49, Portland. Cattell was a ministerial student at Marion College. Michael Osowski, 85, LaPorte, was killed and six other persons were injured Sunday when a car driven by his son-in-law, Stephan M. Knausz, 45, Mill Creek, whs struck broadside by another vehicle at the intersection of Ind. 39 and a county road north of La Porte. Mrs. Grace Jaeger, 65, Hammond, died in a head-on collision of two cars on U.S. 41 in Schererville. A two-car collision on a Hammond street Sunday killed Lois Lahanas, 51, East Chicago. She died in a Hammond hospital a few hours after she ran a red light and her car was struck by one driven by Wallace Supka, 32, Hammond. John Davis, 22, Mentone, was killed Sunday when a car in which he was riding smashed into the rear of a pickup truck pulling a trailer on Ind. 14 north of Akron. The truck had stalled on the highway. William Cummings, 38, Martinsville, was killed Saturday in a two-car collision on a Morgan ' County road near Mooresville. His wife. Bertha, 41, was in critical condition. Annie Bailey, 73, Decatur, Ala., ' was killed Saturday night when a car in which she was a passenger, hit a bridge railing along U.S. 41 north of Sullivan. Louis L. Bailey, 48, Chicago, her son, lost control of the vehicle as he attempted to pass another scar.

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Say Bulganin On Way Out As Russ Premier Khrushchev Drops Bulganin From Trip Into East Germany LONDON (UP)—lt’s Khrushchev and Mikoyan now instead of Khrushchev and Bulganin. Moscow dispatches reported that Soviet Communist Party Leader Nikita S. Khrushchev had dropped Premier Nikolai Bulganin from the team of “B and K” for his visit to East Germany this week. Instead Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, the Soviet foreign trade expert who accompanied Khrushchev to Romania for talks with Marshal Tito, will go with the party chief to Germany. There was renewed speculation in London that the spade-bearded premier would be kicked upstairs, possibly to replace President Kliment! Voroshilov, and that Khrushchev might be grooming Mikoyan for the premiership. Western diplomats in London have said that Bulganin is on his way out because he is reported to have sided with the disgraced Molotov - Malenkov , Kaganovich trio during the recent Kremlin purge. ' The original Soviet acceptance of an East German invitation said both Khrushchev and Bulganin would make the trip. But the Soviet press, without explanation, announced that Bulganin would stay home. The dispatch was given page one prominence. Although Bulganin accompanied Khrushchev on his recent visit to Czechoslovakia, he was conspicuously absent during the secret Khrushchev-Tito talks on SovietYugoslav relations. There appeared tittle basis to rumors that Bulganin would be dropped altogether, or disgraced, as was the Malenkov trio. But since they were “exposed” Bulganin has dropped more and more into the background. Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Tuesday Unit Stationed At Community Center the bloodmobile unit’s visit Tuesday, are Dr. Gerald Kohne, Dr. Norval Rich, Dr. John B. Terveer. Dr. John C. Carroll, and Dr. James M. Burk. The unit will establish headquarters at the Youth and Community center tomorrow, from 11 a. m. until 5 p. m. Nurses on duty throughout the day will be Miss Margaret Eiting, and the Mesdames Arthur Miller, Harold Hoffman, Charles Gauck, Morris Krueckeberg, Mary Colfer and Edna Haviland. Staff aides will include the Mesdames Earl Fuhrman, Lloyd Bowman, T. C. Smith, Herman Krueckeberg, Hershel Nash, and William Keller, and Miss Fan Hammell. Mrs. ‘Robert Railing will head the motor corps, while the canteen for the day will be staffed by the Mesdames R. C. Hersh, Lucille Miller, Bert Haley, L. E. Archbold, R. E. Glendening, and Alva Railing. Local Boy Scouts will be on hand to set u]/ the bloodmobile equipments and a noon luncheon for the volunteers will be served by the Union township woman’s club. Mrs. Ed Bauer, who is chairman of the bloodmobile project stated today that 40 donors are still needed to meet the quota of pints, established for this visit Persons desirous of giving blood at this visit are asked to call the local Red Cross office or 3-2258 this evening for an appointment. Continued On Paste Five

Four Are Drowned In Lake Michigan Huge Waves Churned Up By High Winds By UNITED PRESS High winds churned up mountains of water in Lake Michigan Sunday, causing at least four drownings. Extended rescue operations marked by Instances of high courage resulted in the saving of at least eight more lives. t ' Turbulence in midwestern wa- • ters was centered in a cool Canadian air mass which pushed the t mercury down as generally brisk weather prevailed through the 1 eastern half of the country. Num- ! erous thundershowers fell along ■ the areas just outside the cool air mass. 1 Death struck along the lower ! rim of Lake Michigan, taking a ' 13-year-old Chicago girl, a life--1 guard and a swimmer at Gary, ! Ind., and a young man washed off a pier at St. Joseph Mich. ! Estimates put waves that lashed 1 the lower shore of Lake Michigan ’ at 5 to 15 feet high. Distress sig- ’ nals sounded all day along the Chicago waterfront where beaches had been closed. Lifeguards continually plunged into the water to ’ rescue bathers who violated the ’ swimming ban. (Continue* P««« BMrM) I ,1. — iWerceton Man Drowns , When Boat Capsizes 1 NORTH WEBSTER, Ind. (IB — 1 Howard Leach, 42, Princeton, drowned Sunday when a wave up- [ set his boat on Webster Lake near here. Leach was in the boat with his [ brother, James, 37, Marion, and , James’ son Terry, 10. James . told authorities he rescued his son but was unable to go to his ' brother’s aid in time. Two young girls helped pull the two surviv- • ors from the water. Local Man's Mother Dies At Huntington Mrs. McClenahan, 94, Is Taken By Death Mrs. Elizabeth Jane Doughtery McClenahan, 94, of Union township. Huntington county, died Saturday at a Huntington nursing home, where she was taken two weeks ago. She was born in Wells county March 4, 1863, a daughter of Chris* ’ topher and Jane Dailey Doughtery, [ and was married in 1892 to George P. McClenahan, who died in 1931. Mrs. McClenahan was a mem- ' ber of St. Mary’s Catholic church ' and the Rosary society at Hunt- ■ in 6ton. Surviving are five sons. Thomas ; M. of Casper, Wyo., Hubert R. . McClenahan, Decatur, and Francis ' G., James R. and Bernard J. Mc- ' Clenahan. all of Huntington. Four ; sisters and five brothers preceded i her in death. Funeral services will be held at [ 10 am. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic church at Huntington, the Rev. Edward Miller officiating. [ Burial will be in Mt. Calvary cem- . etery. Friends mayy call at the I Briggs-Merkx funeral home at Huntington until time of the serv- ’ ices. I Mayor Cole Inspects » I National Guardsmen } Mayor Robert Cole has returned 5 from a trip to Camp McCoy, where he, along with several other Indiana mayors, attended an inspeci tion trip of the Indiana, national > guard in summer encampment, f Mayor Cole joined a group at Fort Wayne and flew to the Wisconsin 1 training grounds. » Governor Harold Handley also j attended the field inspection, which is ah annual affair during the summer training.

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Military Might Overseas May Be Cut Back Top-Secret Probe By Special Mission May Bring Cutback WASHINGTON (UP) — A topsecret investigation by a special presidential mission may result in a cutback in U.S. military might overseas, according to high administration pfficials. Officials said the special mission, which was set up to look into operatons of American bases and troops overseas, was headed by Frank G. Nash, former assistant secretary of defense for international affairs. The Nash mission report may lead to a reduction in the number of American servicemen stationed abroad, the elimination of some minor bases, and an acreage cutback at other overseas bases. Nash said his on-the-spot check is now complete and he is ready to write a report ' Nash was given the assignment by President Eisenhower on the recommendation of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, but there has never been any official announcement of the Nash mission’s existence. Officials told the United Press . the Nash investigation was. well under way when the anti-Ameri-can riots broke out in Formosa last May and that Nash was in Taipei then. Experts said the administration is faced with a two-pronged problem. Mrs. Walter B. Ryf Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Hazel C. Ryf. wife of Walter B. Ryf of Root township, one and one-half miles east of Decatur died at 2:05 a m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for several years and bedfast for the past year. She had been hospitalized for three A native of Wells county, she was a daughter of Andrew and Mary E. Wysong-Hankins. and ’ spent most of her life in Wells and Adams counties. Mrs. Ryf was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church and the American auxiliary. Surviving In addition to her husband are two daughters, Mrs. Richard Knittie of Newberry, Mich., and Mrs. Dwight Fulk of Revenna, Mich.; one brother, William Hankins of Bluffton; three sisters, Mrs. Opal Hurt, Mrs. Grace Nicholson, and Mrs. Golda Stinson, all of Bluffton; three grandchildren, Richard, Barbara and Jane Ann Knittie. One brother is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, with Rev. William C. Feller and the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery at Bluffton. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. [ City School Board Meets This Evening John G. Heller, 421 Bollman 1 street, will become a member of the Decatur school board tonight : at a meeting called for 8 o’clock, i He will replace George Helm, whose term expires. i Heller was elected as a Democratic member to a regular three- ; year term at the June meeting of the city council.

Rackets Group To Question Convict Ex-Union Official To Give Testimony WASHINGTON (UP)-A convict temporarily paroled from his New York jail cell appears for questioning before the Senate Rackets Committee today. He is Max Chester, former union official and friend of the notorious ' Johnny Dio. Chester, convicted of conspiring with employers, was slated to appear before the investigating committee this afternoon. , The committee arranged for him , to be paroled from jail long enough to answer questions—if he will. He will be put back behind , bars as soon as he finishes his testimony. The committee’s goal in ques- . tioning Chester — and others to come—is to trace the “bouncing , charter” of one of Dio’s New York J union locals. Committee Chairman John L. < McClellan (D-Ark.) said mean- 1 while that organized labor would suffer “great injury” if James R. , Hoffa succeeds to the presidency of the AFL-CIO Teamsters Union and then fails to clean up the union. He said the union “needs : a clean-up.” Hoffa, Teamster vice president and candidate to succeed Dave Beck as president of the giant union, has been linked with Dio and his New York union activities by the committee. McClellan, who predicted in advance his committee’s current racket hearings would be “stupendous,” said labor corruption turned up so far was “greater and more extensive than I anticipat- 1 ed.” He expressed belief the Sen- ' ate should continue the hearings ’ for at least two years, and said there "must be remedial” Jegisla- ' tion to restore control of unions * to their membership and protect ' their welfare funds. ' Chester was convicted July 25, Continued On Page Five 1 1 Temperature Dips 1 To 45 At Goshen I Weather Reversal Sweeps Indiana By UNITED PRESS “Icy" temperatures dwindling ' within 13 degrees of freezing swept 1 Indiana today from stem to stern < in a weather reversal which may • have set all-time cold records for 1 this date in some Hoosier areas. ] The mercury fell to an unusually > chilly-for-early August low of 45 1 at Goshen this morning. It was 1 48 at South Bend and 49 at Fort « Wayne. The 54-degree minimum at Indi- » anapolls was within two degrees ’ of the all-time low of 52 for Aug. 1 5, set in 1894 and tied in 1912. The cool temperatures, brought ' by a rush of Canadian air clash- 1 ing with warm muggy air from < the south and setting off a rash t of thunderstorms Saturday, kept high readings Sunday well below s normal for this time of year. < Highs ranged from 74 at Lafa- 1 yette to 83 at Evansville. i Two men were killed by a < lightning bolt during a thunder- t storm in Lake County Saturday. Some areas got more than two inches of rain. i The weatherman said the below- 1 normal temperature trend would 1 continue through much of this < week. ' The five-day outlook called for : temperatures averaging near nor- j mal in the extreme north to about four degrees below normal in the s extreme south. Normal highs are 1 82 to 90, normal lows 60 to 71. < The outlook was for cool early < in the week followed by a gradual i warming trend, with precipitation 1 negligible and confined mostly to i thundershowers Saturday. Fair and cool today, tonight and Tuesday wasfo recast with highs < today ranging from 72 to 78, lows 1 tonight from 55 to 63 and highs Tuesday from 75 to 80.

Raises Threat Os Presidential Veto Os Bill Backlog Os Other Business Delays Final Senate Vote By UNITED PRESS The Senate's civil rights debate continued in public today, the words aimed largely at the White House and the House of Representatives. A backlog of other business which piled up during four weeks of debate on civil rights legislation forced the Senate to turn officially to other matters today. But the chief interest of its leadership was still focused on the rights bill and what the President and the lower house would do with it after final Senate passage Wednesday or Thursday. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) accused Vice President Richard M. Nixon of conducting a “concerted propaganda cam- t paign" against the Senate's jury trial amendment by raising th* threat of a presidential veto. Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney "(DWyo.), principal author of the con- • troversial jury trial amendment, predicted in a. statement that the . , Senate W will be speedily accepted by the House and the President “unless it is ruthlessly sabotaged by purely partisan stupidity." Other congressional news: Nominations: The Senate unanimously confirmed by voice vote in only a few minutes 446 nominations submitted by the President. The nominees ranged from postmasters to ambassadors. But the Senate postponed action on the controversial renomination of Jerome K. Kuykendall to the Federal Power Commission. Kuykendall has come under strong attack from some Democrats on grounds that he has shown favoritism to private power companies. Middle East: Eisenhower reported to Congress that in the first four months of the Eisenhower Doctrine the United States has spent 174 million dollars in bolstering the economic and military strength of non-Communlst Middle East nations. Seat Belts: A military authority on crashes said the Air Force is considering requiring that all of its official cars, and possibly even the personal cars of airmen, be equipped with safety belts. Col. John P. Staff, director of the Aero Medical Field Laboratory in New Mexico, said four years of experiments at the laboratory have proved that seat belts in autos are helpful in saving lives in traffic accidents. Cabaret Tax: Congressmen lined up for a wet vs dry fight over whether to cut the federal tax on night-clubbing. The House called up tor a vote a bill to reduce by half the 20 per cent tax on food and drink charged in cabarets providing entertainment or live music. The outcome was in doubt. Sponsors of the measure, hoping for quick aqtion before Congress adjourns, bypassed the rules committee and brought the bill up under a procedure requiring a twothirds majority for passage. Outnumbered congressmen from "dry areas" thus had a chance to whip up enough support to block the measure. A similar bill passed the House several years ago but died in the Senate. There was little chance the Senate would get around to the measure before next year. The musicians union has been spearheading the drive for the legislation outside Con gr e ss, Haiming it cuts down on night club attendance. Prohibitionists who believe that liquor should be taxed as heavily as possible have fought it. They got an assist from the Treasury Department, which doesn’t want to lose the additional tax revenues. Other congressional new: Adjournment: C on g ressmen continue., on Fa»« a«bt>

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