Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 8 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 186.

KHRUSHCHEV VISITS EAST BERLIN /

W WORLD COMMUNISM’S "Mr. Big” Nikita S. Khrushchev, minus his traveling mate Nikolai Bulganin, doffs his hat (left) to dutifully cheering East Berliners shortly after his arrival in the Soviet-con-trolled sector for an eight-day state visit. With him are East German Premier Otto Grotewohl (center) and Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan (right) whom many observers believe will replace Bulganin as premier. • _____

Man Is Slain, Officers Shot In Hotel Fight

INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—An Oregon man went berserk in a hotel today. He shot two policemen and fired at a 19-year-old girl and was killed by officers in a gun battle high above one of Indianapolis’ busiest street intersections. The shooting occurred on the 12th floor of the Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel, a triangular 13-story building at the intersection of Washington and Illinois streets, scarcely a block from Monument Circle. The dead man was identified as Noland Carter, 29. Portland, Ore. Authorities said Carter pulled out a gun at the registration desk of the hotel when an assistant manager refused to Ms check in payment for a room-tmtn he checked with Carter’s bank. Carter held two hotel employes at bay with the gun and fired at a young woman, an innocent bystander. who was walking into the hotel lobby with her mother. —Then Carter fled to the next to the top floor of the hotel where he was registered in room 1232. Police called to the scene by Assistant Manager Robert Callis and Maitre d'Hotel Richard Spikerman, whom Carter had held at gunpoint, fired tear gas through a transom in the room In an effort to rout Carter. » _ He did not respond. But Robert B. Hall, also of Portland, and a woman came out of the room and surrendered,police said. Patrolman Jack Stratton said he then fired six shots through the door. Other officers also fired into the room and shot the lock off the door. When they entered, Carter lay dead on the floor. Two automatic revolvers lay near his body. The 19-year-old woman the gunman shot in the lobby was identified as Mrs. Constance Ciale of Crawfordsville, Ind. Police said the bullet fired at Mrs. Ciale apparently barely grazed her leg. Officers said one of the women was taken to a hospital. They were not certain immediately whether it was Mrs. Ciale or the unidentified woman reported to have been in the room with Carter and Hall. Gas Routs Guests Tear gas and police routed hundreds of guests and diners in the hotel s two restaurants on the street level of the hotel during the busy lunch hour. Streets outside the hotel were swarming with lunch hour strollers and shoppers, many, of them with small children, who came downtown to buy school clothing and supplies for their youngsters. A police sergeant said a check writing machine and blank checks from many banks were found later in the room shared by Carter and Hall. Two women also were registered |p the 12th floor room where the shooting occurred. One of them was identified as Carter’s wife from hotel registration files. Tfeey apparently left the room before the shooting started. The wounded policemen were identified as Ray Cooper, a traffic patrolman, and Del. Sgt. James Parlain. Parlain was hit by two citi..* 1 r«ae BUM INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer tonight. Friday fair and warm. Low tonight in the 60s. High Friday 84-90. Sunset 7:50 p. m., sunrise Friday 5:52 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair or partly cloudy and continued moderately warm. Lows Friday night near 70. Highs Saturday near - 90 north and central and low 90s south.

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Two New Teachers In Public Schools ] Faculty Announced By Superintendent i W. Guy Brown, superintendent of Decatur public schools, today announced the completed list of . teachers for the 1957-’SB school term. Two new instructors were adddJtothe list of faculty members, with the signing of Paul Bevelhimer as basketball coach and science and math instructor at Decatur high school. BevelMmer received his M. A. degree from Buller University, and was formerly in the Greenfield school system. Marjorie Warner is the other ' new instructor. Formerly with , the Lansing, Mich., school sys- , tem, she will teach second grade at Lincoln school this year. She . received her A. B. degree from the University of Kentucky. Another third grade has been . added to the Lincoln school, with ; Audrey Bleeke employed as in- ] 1 Only resignation this year is from Fern Freeland, former kin- ( dergarten teacher at the North- ] west Elementary school, who has : accepted a position with the : Southern Heights school in Fort Wayne. Robert Doan, former sixth grade instructor at the Lin- ’ coin school, is presently serving < in the armed forces. P. Bryce Thomas will again ’ return as principal of the Lincoln . grade school, and will conduct ( mathematics classes there. Kin- J dergarten teachers will include , Miriam McDonald, Ruby Swick- , ard and Helen Zwick. Teaching ( the first grade classes at Lincoln < will be Alma Brayton, Madeline j Snell and Ruth Petrie, while second grade teachers will be Mary , Jo Hoffman, Florence Haney and 1 Marjorie Warner. 1 Third grade instructors include s Mary A. Wemhoff. Kathryn Dor- i win and Audrey Bleeke; fourth ' grade instructors include Vera 1 Van Buskirk, Matilda Sellemeyer < and Emma Kerst. Xariffa Walt- •' ers will teach third and fifth - grades, and Wilma Andrews and Dorothy Eichenauer win both in- f struct fifth grades. Teaching the sixth grade classes at Lincoln will be William ‘ McColly, who has transferred , from Decatur high school, and Thelma Hendricks. Returning as ( seventh grade teachers are Ray- , mond Lehman, Floyd Re,ed and , Jerry Leitz. Principal of the Northwest Ele- < mentary school win again be Hu- < bert ZerkeL Jr., who will also i instruct physical education clas- i ses. Drusilla Hartman, former 1 second grade teacher at Lincoln, < win teach one of the Northwest 1 first grade classes, while Mary * Helen Morgan instructs the other. 1 Second grade teachers are Irene ‘ Friedly and Anita Fisher, who last year had a kindergarten ClflSS. Marnell Shepherd will teach ( third grade, and Evelyn Detter , wfll teach the other third grade ] and art. Teaching the lone fourth , grade at Northwest will be Leona Feasel, who win also conduct < music and physical education i classes. Fifth grade will again < oa Page Kight

Top Red Spy Is Indicted For Espionage Soviet Intelligence Colonel Indicted By Brooklyn Jury NEW YORK (UP) — A feUow Russian espionage agent who defected to the West shaped up today as the key witness against Soviet inteUigence Col. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, indicted Wednesday as the most important Red spy ever seized in the United States. IronicaUy, the potential witness, Reino Hayhanen, was named • as a co-conspirator in the indictment against Abel who posed in their country as a down-and-out artist and photographer for nine years white heading a Soviet spy ring. Hayhanen, who spent six years in the United States as a trained spy, was flown here earlier this week and testified Wednesday before the Brooklyn grand jury that indicted Abel on three counts of espionage. Abel, a mild - mannered, nondescript - appearing man of 55, was pictured in the indictment as the mastermind of a spy network that transmitted American defense secrets to Moscow by radio and courier. Specifically, Abel, a Russian national, was charged with transmitting to Russia some documents, maps, photographs and other information "relating to the national defense” of the United States. If convicted, ne could be executed under the so-called Rosenberg law, which sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair in 1953 for spying for Russia. Entered From Canada The balding, blue - eyed Abel, who entered the United States from Canada in 1948, was expected to be returned here in a day or two from Edinburg, Tex., where he was held without bail in the Hidalgo County Jail after declining bond. The Soviet intelligence officer was turned over to the FBI Wednesday by immigration officials who were about to deport him for entering toe United 1 States, illegally when the indictment was returned. Abel was arrested in New York June 21 on a charge of illegal entry and placed in an alien detention camp at McAllen, Tex. Subsequent inspection of his hotel room here convinced agents Abel was a Russian spy. In toe room, toe agents found a short-wave radio set, a hollowed-out pencil and several cryptic notes. A later search of his small studio uncovered a second short - wave radio, cameras, and photographic equipment including microfilm. In addition, the agents found maps of several cities and other urban centers, including New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. - Abel’s studio was in a building directly across from toe Brooklyn courthouse where toe indictment was handed up Wednesday. So far as they knew, authorities said, Abel was not linked with the espionage ring headed by Jack and Myra Soble of New York, who are scheduled to be sentenced Friday for transmitting American defense secrets to Russia. Nor was he believed to have been connected with another alleged Red spy network to which George and Jane Slatovski, Americans living in Paris, have been linked by toe U.S. government. Arrest Stuns Neighbors Neighbors were stunned at Abel’s arrest on espionage charges. They described him as a quiet, meek, “seedy-looking,” arty person. The proprietor of an electronic equipment store, on the ground floor of toe building in which Abel’s studio was situated, recalled Coatlauea Paae Kl*ht

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, August 8, 1957

Richard W. Macke, 24, Drowns In Fall From Boat At Lake James

Senate Passes > Civil Rights Bill Wednesday Rayburn Promises Statement Friday On House Handling WASHINGTON (UP) - The Senate’s watered-down civil rights bill was delivered to the House today and Speaker Sam Rayburn promised a statement Friday on how he proposes to handle it. The veteran Texas lawmaker declined comment on the bill. A Senate reading clerk returned toe Senate-amended bill to the House immediately after Rayburn gavelled toe session to order. Without fanfare it was placed on toe speaker's desk, where it was expected to remain until early next week pending final agreement on Democratic strategy for getting it passed and sent to toe White House. Democratic leaders other than, i Rayburn have made no secret of, i their plans'to seek quick concurjrence in either the Senate version or something pretty close to it. There was growing belief they would succeed, as major civil righst groups and supporters made, it plain they would rather have a modest first step—as they labeled toe Senate bill—than notning at all. There was much jockeying and maneuvering ahead, however, with Republicans and Southern Democrats holding the key to the outcome—as they have in toe past. Thfe Senate, by a resounding majority of 72-18, turned a historic corner at 8:15 p.m. e.d.t. by passing its first civil rights measure in 82 years. Calls Bill A Sham All of the no votes were cast by hard-core members of toe Dixie bloc fighting toe measure, plus liberal,- Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse (Ore.) who called toe bill a sham bearing “little more than toe title.” Voting for it was a crushing coalition of 43 Republicans and 29 Democrats. The Senate bill provides for a bipartisan commission with subpena powers to investigate voting rights violations; a new assistant attorney general to handle rights cases; repeal of an old law empowering use of federal troops to enforce Negro rights; and power for the attorney general to seek injunctions to halt threatened voting rights violations. One of toe major Senate changes from toe House bill was addition of an amendment requiring jury (Continues on Page Shanti Walter Roth Dies After Short Illness Native Os Monroe Is Taken By Death Walter D. Roth, 53, a native of Monroe, died Wednesday at Parkview memorial hospital, Fort Wayne, following an illness of three days. Mr. Roto, who had lived in Fort Wayne 32 years, was owner of the Consumer’s Pipe & Supply Co. He was a member of Grace Lutheran church in Fort Wayne. Surviving are the wife, Sue K.; three daughters, Mary, at home, Mrs. Donald Hess of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Herbert Slentz of Auburn; four brothers. Vile, Edward and Dale Roto, all of Fort Wayne, and Harry Roto of Bluffton; seven sisters, Mrs. Martin Walchle of Preble, Mrs. Melvin Walchle of Bryan, 0., Mrs. Gerald Liby of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Alva Smith, Mrs. Aaron Gerber and Mrs. Dennis Lantz, all of Bluffton, and Mrs. Everett Rich of Berne, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home, the Rev. F. H.. Holtmeyer officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn memorial park. Friends may call at toe funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

Water Usage Rates Fixed By Council Establish Charges , Os Treatment Plant An ordinance, fixing the rates "and charges for services to be rendered by the sewage treatment plant the city plans to conK struct was unanimously adopted fejT numbers of the city council, 'ho met,in special session Wedesday evening. Passing of the proposed ordinance followed the third reading of the written ordinance, and a hearing concerning the matter, which was cmen to the public. Other than toe council members, mayor Robert Cole, clerk-treasurer Miriam Hall, city attorney John L. DeVoss and several other city office members, eight Decatur residents were present at toe open hearing, and only three voiced opinions, or asked questions. John Ward, consulting engineer representing the Cortsoer Townsend & Associates, was in attendance at the hour long session, explaining various phases of the ordinance, and answering questions. The entire ordinance was published in legal form in the July 26 issue of the Decatur Dally Democrat. It establishes that toe water us- ; hge 'schedule on which the amounts of said rates will be determined, shall be as follows: for the first 360 cubic feet of water used monthly, the rate, per 100 cubic feet per month will be $.48; toe next 900 feet will be $.46; toe next 1,000 cubic feet will be $.45; the next 2,000 feet will be $.38; the next 16,000 cubic feet will be $.32; the next 20,000 cubic feet will be $.lB, and over 40,260 cubic feet will be $.16. The minimum charge for any. service where toe user is a met ered water consumer will be based on toe size of toe water meter, as follows: for 5/8 and Continued on Pace Five Soviet Party Boss In Warning To U.S. Asserts No Nation Safe From Attacks BERLIN (UP)—Soviet Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev warned the United States today it is within range of “present” nuclear rockets. He cautioned toe London disarmament conference to remember this before rejecting Soviet proposals. “With toe present development of rocket weapons no nation is safe from all a c k,” he said. “U.S. statesmen should think about this. “Distance will not protect any nation from the effects of atomic and hydrogen bombs. Those statesmen should think about this who reject disarmament agreements.” Khrushchev’s blistering remarks on Soviet weapons development were an 'old tone, but he offered a new variation in linking rocket progress to the London disarmament talks. One Russian demand in London is for a total ban on nuclear weapons, which toe West rejects as unenforceable. No Hope for Unity Khrushchev, speaking for two hours to East Germany’s powerless puppet parliament, repeated earlier Soviet statements that no country is safe at this stage of rocket development. He said in any war today large areas of the world would be turned into desert. "Those circles in West Germany who are disciples of a new war should think about this,” he said. In toe course of his speech, he turned down any Western hopes for reunification of Germany. He said Western proposals for reunification on toe basis of free elections are “hypocrisy.” Khrushchev and East German Premier Otto Grotewohl implicitly admitted the Communists could never win any free elections even in toe Red-run East Zone. f Grotewohl Blasts Adenauer The two Communist chiefs went before the “People’s Chamber” to air their views on this second day of Khrushchev’s visit to East Continued On Pare Five

18Cent Boost In School Tax . Rate Proposed B Decqtur School Tax i Rate Is Increased In Proposed Budget The Decatur school city is pro- ‘ posing a budget with a total figure of $316,566.73 with which to operate the public school system, bud--1 get figures released today reveal. . This is an increase of $23,891.58 over a year ago and if finally approved in its present form will re- ; quire an additional 18 cents tax ’ levy on each hundred dollars ’ worth of taxable property or a I total for schools of $2.85 on each hundred dollars. Last year's was : $2.67. The proposed budget in legal - form will appear in Friday’s Daily , Democrat in compliance with toe b statute. Biggest amount of money - requested is toe tuition fund from which teachers’ salaries are paid. b totalling $273,647. y Teachers received an increase y in wages at the close of toe last school term, which was in line i. with toe policy of all schools in £ -the state. • u The requested increase of 1$ r cents is identical to the increase - asked in the civil city budget and D most of the increase in both bud- ; gets is because of wage increases. » The proposed levy of $2.85 is ; based on a total valuation of sll,- ; 084.290 and 1186 taxable polls. > .The date of public hearing on t toe proposal is set for August 29 : at the school building. It finally approved, actual fixing of toe rate > will be made by the county tax - adjustment board and then approved by toe state tax board. Ten or more taxpayers can reI monstrate the proposal at. toe school board meeting, toe adjustment board hearing or toe final meeting*of the state board. The legal advertisement will break down toe various amounts and specify what each expenditure is for. The budget proposal has been signed by toe three board members, Dr. James Burk, Everett Hutker and John G. Heller, and • was approved at a special meeting ■ held last Monday. ; Youth Accidentally > - a.-< Shot Wednesday William Marks Hurt " » Wednesday Evening ’ William Thomas Marks, 20, who • resides at the Myr-Ka cabins north i of Decatur, is a patient at toe Adt ams county memorial hospital, [ where he was rushed Wednesday t evening, with a bullet lodged in his ■ leg. A summer employe of toe Cen--1 tral Soya company, toe youth is • from West Point. Ind. Marks told toe investigating police officer that be had just recently purchased a new gun, and ' had gone out to toe gravel pits off J U.S- 27. to do some target shoot- , ing, around 6 p.m. When finished. ■ be started to take the shells out i of the gun and it slipped out of his hands. As he quickly grabbed for it. the gun discharged, sending a bullet into his right leg. He hobbled to his car, parked nearby, with ' the intentions of coming to a doctor’s office in Decatur. Pain was so intense that he was forced to stop as he reached the Win Rae drive-in, where he stopped for help. Harley Burgett, manager of toe restaurant, saw that toe youth was in trouble and summoned police and an ambulance. X-rays taken after his admittance showed that the slub had entered toe side of his leg, 10 inches down from his hip-line, and was lodged behind his knee cap. (Ceatfaaet Face Five)

Air Force Academy Chapel Is Approved House Stands Firm On Airfield Refusal WASHINGTON (UP) — The House has decided to let toe Air Force Academy build a 19-spired aluminum chapel after all. But the House held firm on its refusal to let toe academy have an airfield. , _Li....... >, , < Funds for the new academy Itt • Colorado Springs, Colo., were in- ‘ s eluded in a 81,581,590,587 money ■ bill for financing military con- ■ struction projects and assorted . minor government programs dur- ) ing the current fiscal year. The . bill was cut $279,158,380—ab0ut 15 . per cent—below the amount ret quested by President Eisenhower. . The House passed It, 330-75, and sent it to toe Senate. Some $1,521,500,000 of toe new . funds was earmarked for toe De- ’ Defense Department’s worldwide base construction program. 1 One of toe agencies with a vital f stake in the measure was toe Tens nessee Valley Authority. The cons gressmen voted down, 244-158, a i Republican move to trim the TV A allowance from $13,317,000 to $3,533,000. e i Pros and Cons t They also affirmed, 150-59, a e tentative decision to build a second , airport for the nation’s capital at nearby Burke, Va. The megiure B provided $12,500,000 to start the ’ project r Then came the fight over toe 1 Air Force chapel. ' The House had tentatively voted, • 102-53, to forbid toe academy to 5 use any of toe money for the ■ chapel. Some congressmen called the ‘ proposed building a "monstrosity," 1 a "garish monument,” a giant ac- ' cordion. One congressman sug- ' gested shipping it to Disneyland. Rep. Errett P. Scrivner (R- --•• Kan.), son-of a minister, led toe fight against it. He dragged a ■ scale model of toe gleaming > aluminum building into toe well . of toe House in an attempt to [ make his fellow congressmen shudder. I But other congressmen praised , the proposed building. The only point all agreed on was that the chapel would be an unforgettable sight. (CoMtiawa Pace Eight) Senators Favorable To New Secretary Wilson Expected To Quit During August WASHINGTON TUP) - Senators appeared generally favorable to- • day to President Eisenhower’s appointment of soap manufacturer Neil T. McElroy to be his new secretary of defense. i Eisenhower sent McElroy’s i nomination to the Senate Wednes- . day. McElroy, president of Proctor & Gamble, would succeed present Secretary Charles E. Wilson. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said Wilson was expected to step down about toe ’ end of toe month but no exact date has been set. It was presumed Wilson would stay on long enough to break McElroy into the job. Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said he had met Tuesday with McElroy, and was "very favorably impressed.” “I think he’s a good man” for toe post, Byrd said. Sen. John W. Bricker (R-Ohio) praised toe nominee as *'a topnotch businessman and an excellent administrator.” Chairman Richard B. Russell 1 (D-Ga.) of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which will hold hearings on toe nomination, declined immediate comment. ( But committee member Leverett , Saltonstall (R-Mass.) said he was . confident toe group will be im- 1 pressed by McElroy’s character and ability. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.) sounded the only sour note. Asked for comment on toe 52-year- 1 old soap company executive’s ap- l pointment, Humphrey said “this is 1 a tacit admission that there is a I necessity for a clean-up in the Department of Defense.”, >1

Adams County Youth Dies In Lake Tragedy Preble Township Young Man Drowns In Fall From Boat Richard W. Macke, 24, of Preble township, five miles northwest of Decatur, was drowned about 5 o’clock Wednesday evening when he fell from a motorboat into approximately 50 feet of water at Lake James, near Pokagon state park beach. Macke, who resided with his ' 3 parents, Mr. and Mrs. William - j Macke, was spending his vacation at toe lake, and accepted an invitation for a boat ride from Floyd Ehlerding, of near Angola, who formerly lived near the Macke home in Preble township. Authorities reported that Macke and Miss Nilla Sollberger, 18, of Fort Wayne, were picked up by Ehlerding for a ride, in the latter's 19-foot inboard motorboat. -4 They said that Macke fell from the boat as Ehlerding was making a wide turn approximately 200 feet south of the public beach at Pokagon park in toe northeast part of the lake. —•-- Macke and Miss Sollberger were riding in the rear seat of the boat. Authorities said that after straightening toe boat, Ehlerding looked back and saw only the girl in the both, with Macke in the water. Before they could reach Macke, a non-swimmer, he had disappeared. The body ot the Adams county young man was not recovered until 12:05 o’clock this morning. Efforts to recover the body were slowed by weeds in the area, according to reports from state police and firemen from Angola, Fremont and Pleasant Lake. The drowning victim, an employe of the Kenosha Auto Truck _ Co., of Fort Wayne, was spending toe week at the lake with a cousin, Marvel Ewell, a neighbor, and Ronald Deitrick, of Fort Wayne. Macke’s parents had . planned to spend today at the lake with their son. Ehlerding, owner of the boat, is also a native of Adams county. a son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ehlerding. neighbors of the Macke family. Ehlerding is a member of toe Indiana state police. Monmouth Graduate The drowning victim, a lifelong resident of Preble township, was born in that township April 21, 1933, a son of William and Elizabeth Kirchner-Macke. He graduated from the Monmouth high school in 1951, and served with toe United States army from June of 1953 until May of 1955. Macke was a member of the St. Paul Lutheran church at Preble, the Walther league, and the American Legion. Surviving in addition to his parents are a brother, Frederick Macke, also at home; his grandmother, Mrs. Amelia Macke, who resides with the family, and two sisters, Mrs. Henry Getting of Root township and Mrs. Hugh Landis of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral “home and at 2 p. m. at the St. Paul Lutheran church, the Rev. Otto C. Busse Continue on SXgtrt* • « i Monroe's Tax Rata Eight Cents Higher A proposed eight-cent rate increase in the taxes of the town of Monroe for the general fund will be discussed August 26 at the town hall in a public meeting. A budget for the general fund of $5,119.80, of which $4,419.80 win be raised through taxes, will be considered. The street fund budget is estimated at $3,149. This year’s general fund rate in Monroe was 90 cents, and it is pioposed that the rate for 1958 shall be 98 cents.

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