Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 189, Decatur, Adams County, 12 August 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 189.

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One Mountain Climber Saved In Switzerland Fear Three Others Dead After Being J Stranded For Week GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (UP)—Alpine rescuers today spotted the second of four stranded mountain climber entangled in his ropes and hanging head down on the sheer, icy north wall of 13,03ftfoot Mt. Eiger. i “It appears that he died during I the night,” the rescue teams from 1 five countries reported. "The j storm must have been too much I for his exhausted body ” The man spotted today was Stefano Longhi, a 44-year-old Italian, the second of toe four climbers accounted for. One man was hauled to safety Sunday in a ‘ daring rescue. Two others werej missing and feared dead. Longhi had been clinging pre-! cariously to a tiny ledge, 1,200 feet, below the summit of the mountain, dangling from two ropes. He was reported injured earlier and the latest storm appeared to be too much for him. Fear Two Germans Dead The 60-man rescue team pulled one man to safety Sunday in a dramatic hours-long pickaback haul before a raging snowstorm halted attempts to reach Longhi and two missing Germans. The two Germans were beared to have plunged to their deaths in one of the many blizzards that has stung the frozen mountain face since the party of four set* out a week ago for one of the most difficult climbs in the Swiss Alps. German Alpinist Alfred Hellpart made a daring descent from the top of the mountain Sunday and rescued Claudio Corti, 29, of Lecco, Italy. Corti was so weak Hellpart had .to lash him to his back. But another blizzard set in during the afternoon and it was impossible to make another descent after Longhi, the oldest of the four stranded men. Says Heard Voices The blizzard was so severe a rescue column taking Corti to safety had to spend the night at the Eiger glacier station before resuming the descent to the Interlaken hospital. Corti was suffering from exhaustion and head and hand injuries. Rescue crews said the only hope a for the two Germans, Franz Meier, 21, and Guenther Notdurft, 22, was that they had succeeded in climbing further up the mountain toward safety. This was doubted—almost all thought they were dead. They vanished after being seen with Corti in an improvised camp on another ledge near a rock formation called the Sprder, 600 feet from the summit. Corti said they left him on Saturday in a desperate attempt to reach the summit on their own. Hellpart said he heard voices as he was being lowered down the mountain side Sunday, but hundreds of persons scanning the icy cliff from below with binoculars and telescopes could find no trace of the two men before a blizzard blotted out its face. The snowstorm also prevented the scheduled attempt to save Longhi by the same method that had been applied for Corti—lower-ing-a man down from the summit on a steel rope to take the victim up on his back. Attempt Too Dangerous With Longhi 600 feet further down, it would have been suicidal to make a second attempt Sunday. Officials said they could only hope and pray that he was able to live through the night in another of the great endurance battles of (Continued Peg* Two)

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Financial Reports Os City Utilities Water Department Shows Net Profit A net profit of $12,510.06 for the city water department and a loss of $664.08 for the light and power department are shown in the financial statements of the utilities for the quarter ending June 30. The reports were released Saturday by city auditor E. H. Kauffman. Both statements show net operating profits for the year to date. The statement of profit and loss for the light and power departiment shows $186,008.55 total operI ating revenues, $180,492.70 total opI erating revenue deductions. $199.24 I other income and $6,379.17 income 'deductions. The net profit of the department for the year to date is $4,324.34, which is 68.3 percent under the 1956 corresponding profit. The analysis of Operating expenses shows $16,306.19 in distribution expenses, $2,903.99 in acI counting and collecting expenses, I $83,030.88 for steam operation ex- ' peases, $40,905.77 for diesel opera;tions and $6,528.49 in administrative and general expenses. According to the statistical report for the June quarter, a total of 10,200,000 K.W.H. were generated. This includes 7,725,000 from the steam plant and 2,495.000 from the diesel plant. A total of 7,390.85 tons of coal were consumed at a cost of $50,349.69 and 236,875 gal- , lons of oil were used at a cost of $22,945.91. The water department’s statement of profit and loss for the June quarter indicates $35,771.98 in total operating revenues, $22,986.90 in operating revenue deductions, $11.84 in other income and $286.86 in income deductions. The net profit of the department to date this year is $22,763.89, an increase of 213.6 percent over the corresponding period last year. The breakdown of operating expenses for the water department during the June quarter shows $850.58 for source of supply expenses, $3,789.44 for power and , pumping expenses, $8,431.62 for purification expenses, $2,528.90 for transmission and distribution expenses, $2,121.11 for accounting and collecting expenses and $2,635.72 for administrative and general expenses. The statistical figures for the June quarter show that a total of 64,602,200 gallons of water were Continued on Page Five Adamson Funeral Wednesday Morning Funeral services for Ellis Adamson, who died Saturday morning at his home east of Decatur, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. W. C. Vetter officiating. Burial will be in the Immanuel Lutheran cemetery at New Haven. Friends may call at toe funeral home until tjme of the services. City Swimming Pool Hours Are Changed Hubert Zerkel, Jr., supervisor of the city swimming pool, has announced the new hours for the operation of the pool, effective immediately. Afternoon hours, Monday through Saturday, will be from 1 until 4 p.m. Evening hours Monday through Friday, will be from 6:30 until 8 p.rh., with the pool open from 2 until 5 p.m. only on Sundays. The pool will be open the regular time on Labor day, which is the ; last day that the pool will be open this season.

Doria Gives Testimony At Rackets Probe Asserts Hoffa Was Interested In Dio In Teamster Union WASHINGTON (UP) — A former top official of the AFL United Automobile Workers told the Senate Rackets Committee today that James R. Hoffa, crown prince of the powerful Teamsters Union, “was interested” in bringing New York hoodlum Johnny Dio into the Teamsters' organization. Anthony Doria, who resigned as secretary of the UAW, now known as the Allied Industrial Workers of America, told of a meeting in New York City at which Hoffa sought to bring Dio and a Dio-dominated local union organizing taxicab drivers into the Teamsters. The committee has charged that Hoffa, mid western vice president of the Teamsters and unopposed candidate to succeed Dave Beck in the presidency, worked with Dio and underworld elements in an attempt to get a stranglehold on the New York labor movement. Victim of Cruel Society Doria said he attended the meeting at New York City in 1953 soon after George Meany of the AFL ordered the UAW-AFL to get Dio out of the taxicab organizational drive. Present at the meeting, besides Doria, was Hoffa and Thomas Hickey, a New York City Teamster official. Robert F. Kennedy, chief counsel of the committee, asked whether Hoffa had made a “strong statement” regarding taking Dio and the taxicab drive into the Tpamctprc; Doria said he did not recall any particular statement but that Hoffa "certainly was interested.” The witness pictured Dio, with whom he acknowledged a friendship. as the victim of’a cruel society, barred from becoming a "respected labor leader” because of a youthful indiscretion. "If society had treated Johnny Dio right,” Doria told the committee, "rather than convict and condemn him at every move, he would have been an outstanding labor leader.” - Will Tblli Doria said that to his knowledge (ConUnueg on Page Four) Chas. Winans Dies At Fort Wayne Home Native Os County Is Taken By Death Charles Winans, 80, a native of Adams county, died at 8:05 o’clock Sunday morning at his home on Malcret drive in Fort Wayne. He had been ill for the past eight days. Mr. Winans was born at Pleasant Mills but had lived in Fort Wayne the past 42 years. He had worked for the Wayne Pump Co. for Zt years until his retirement 12 years ago. Surviving are his wife. Leah Dove; one son, Charles E. Winans of Fort Wayne; four grandchildren: one sister, Mrs. Mabe] Mortz of Cleveland, 0., and one brother, Kenneth Winans of Piqua, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. James J. Babbitt officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

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Worst Air Tragedy In Canada’s History Kills All 79 Aboard Airliner

Report Saudi Arabia Arms Oman Rebels Frontline Reports Say Seized Weapons 1 Are American-Made BAHREIN, Persian Gulf, (UP) — British headquarters rushed samples of rebel grenades and land mines to London today for identification but refused comment on frontline reports the arms captured in Nizwa were Americanmade. A pooled dispatch from New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer, covering the Nizwa frontline for the combined American press, radioed that the grenades he saw appeared to be American style and that this strengthened belief Saudi Arabia was arming the rebels. Saudi Arabia, which itself disputes some of the Oman territory, receives American aid. _ . In Cairo, meanwhile, the. Arab League decided today to ask the United Nations Security Council to take up the question of the “Oman War.” Security Council action will be asked on grounds that “British military intervention in Oman, constitutes a threat to peace and security in the Middle East and violation of the provisions of international law and the United Nations charter." The Arab League’s political committee condemned British action in the Oman battle area as “flagrant agression against Oman's sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.” The British denied any “aggression” in the crucial state of Oman, and said it only answered a plea for aid by the Sultan in compliance with its treaty obligations. A Foreign Office spokesman in London said “it is difficult to see how the Oman problem could be referred to the Security Ccouncil, or on what grounds. It is a matter of internal jurisdiction of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman.” The Oman ground war slowed to a crawl today after Nizwa’s surrender without resistance. Troops pursued fleeing rebel remnents north of the so-called capital of the revolt but lost contact six miles to the northwest., Field dispatches reported 12 to 15 rebels killed near Fir . Sir Bernard Burrows, British political resident, flew to Muscat today to confer w’th the Sultan on the next step in the desert war. (Continued on Page Four)

Motorists Block Fire Trucks At Farm Fire

Three fire trucks were damaged, and one was completely blocked a mile from the fire, by thoughtless motorists who sped to a $13,000 barn fire on the Louis Bercot farm in French township about 9:30 p.m. Sunday. The farm is located five miles west and one mile south of Coppess Corners. The Indiana state fire marshal’s office, and the insurance company which sustained the loss, are both conducting separate investigations to find out who was blocking the road. Sheriff Merle Affolder issued stringent orders to all county residents to stay away from all fires in the future. Prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith stated that his office will prosecute anyone believed to have violated any of the following laws: following a fire engine; hindering the work of a fireman at a fire; failure to obey the lawful order of a law officer; failure to yield right of way to an emergency vehicle: and parking within a block of a fire. The fire was first noticed by Carol Bercot, daughter of the farm manager. It started in the barn, where 700 bales of hay, a goat, a wagon, and small farm tools were destroyed. A milk house and tool shed also went up in the blaze, which was still Smouldering this

Advance Plans For Slate Plow Matches Annual Matches In County August 27 The annual state plow matches will forcing about 1,500 farmers to the Jay and Ward Chapman farm tn St. Mary’s township Tuesday, August 27, R. O. Cole, extension soil conservationist at Purdue university, announced today. The Chapman farm is four miles east of Decatur on road 224. one mile south on road 101, jfond about one-half mile west. About 40 acres will be used for the plow njatches. Cole said the event will be divided imo contour and level land plowing matches. The contour contest will start at 10 a. m., and the level land match at 1:30 p.m. Practice sessions to set the plows will be held Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, August 26 and 27. Two farmers from each of the state’s eight soil conservation areas are eligible to enter each contest. District and area eliminations are now being held. Tile and surface drainage demonstrations are planned and a waterway will be constructed and seeded as add&i attractions. L The Adams county soil conservation district and Krick-Tyndall Tile company, of Decatur, are cosponsoring the event, with the Purdue agricultural extension service, the soil conservation service, and local organizations cooperating. Ben Mazelin, Monroe township; Ivan Huser, Hartford township: and Herman Bulmahn, Preble township, will be in charge of the event. Geqrge Pictor, president of the state’s soil conservation district supervisors, will act as head judge. He will be assisted by C. E. Swam, head of the soil conservation service in Indiana? Ezra Shanebeck. of Allen county; and Frank Stoner, ot Miami county. Russell H6usel, DeKalb county, and Fred Benner and Chris Held, Cass county, will act as alternate judges and serve as the rules interpretation committee. Cole will* be the chief scorer and his assistant, C. C. McKee, will be the chief referee. Jack Hurst, district conservation officer from Geneva, will be the official starter.

morning. The farm owner, John Schaefer, father-in-law of the manager, estimated that the building was valued at SIO,OOO and the contents at $3,000. . Insurance covered $6,000 on the building, and SI,OOO on the contents. The cause of the fire was unknown, but could have been spon- : taneous combustion or defective wiring. i One Decatur fire engine was : damaged when it scraped a sight- : seer’s car on its way to the fire; st took the Bluffton fire departI ment 10 minutes to get from the ■ road to the farm because of sight- ; seers, and one truck and a tank wagon were scraped by parked gawkers. [ The Monroe rural fire depart- • ment was called at 9:23 p.m, and chief Art RoUdebush had charge of ! the direction of the fire fighting equipment from the Monroe, Decaf tur, Preble, and Bluffton departt ments. The Berne fire department was blocked a mile from the scene, i and could not even get to the fire because of thoughtless fire-watch- ■ ers. • One man even had the nerve to , ask the Bluffton fire chief, in his i fire truck, where he thought he > was going, crowding a watcher off I the road. Sheriff Affolder stated that his (Ccntlnnr* o« P««e F1«»

Employment In United States At Record High I Total Employment Hits Record High Over 67 Million WASHINGTON (UP) - Total U.S. employment climbed to an all-time high of 67,200,000 last month, the government reported today. ' The Commerce and Labor departments jointly announced a gain of 700,000 from the previous record number of job-holders, set in June. They said the increase reflected “further hiring of young people in summer activities.” Unemployment dropped to three million—a decline of 300,000 —as summer job-seekers found wqrk or stopped looking. All non-farm sectors of the economy except manufacturing showed increases in employment or held steady, the government said. Factory job totals fell a bit more than normally during the summer to increases in employment or held steady, the government said. Factory job totals fell a bit more than normally during the summer . to |6.700, 000. There was a slight rise in the farm work force in contrast to its usual dip from the early summer peak. The census put total non-agricul-tural employment at 50,400,000. This gain of half a million over the June figure indicated the further hiring of students. Employment in trade remained almost unchanged in contrast to its usual summer drop. The continuing rise in construction employment was limited in some areas by shortages resulting from the strike, the report said. The government also said that moderate declines occurred among adult workers in educational services, a normal July occurrence. The factory work week averaged 39.9 hours, 0.2 hours below July, 1956, and 0.1 hours below the June level. The government report said that “total unemployment was not significantly different from the July, 1956, level.” The seasonally adjusted rate of unemployment as a proportion of the civilian labor force continued steady at about 4.2 per cent. Howard Shafi Dies Saturday Afternoon “Adams County Man Is Taken By Death Howard Shaff, 86-year-old retired farmer, died at 2:10 p.m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital, a few hours after being admitted. He had been in failing health for two years of leukemia and had resided at the Berne nursing home for the past year. He was born in Urbana, 111., Jan. 28, 1871, a son of William and Elizabeth Kirby-Shaff, and was married to Anna Phillips March 27, 1900. His wife preceded him in death in 1937. Mr. Shaff had resided six miles southeast of Monroe since 1932. Surviving are three daughters. Misses Irma and Dorothy Shaff of Los Angeles, Calif., .and Mrs. Diaries Brunstrup of Decatur route 6: two sons, Merle Shaff of El Segundo, Calif., and Leland Shaff of Phoenix, Ariz.; five grandchildren. and two sisters. Mrs. Minnie Bratton of Frankfort, and Mrs. Lena Leming of Urbana, IH. Two brothers and one sister are deceased. Brief funeral services were held this afternoon at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Elwood Botkins officiating. The body will be taken to the Renner funeral home at Urbana, Hl., for services Wednesday afternoon, with burial in Mt. Olive cemetery at Mayview, 111.

Asiatic Flu Vaccine Available To Public First Big Batch To Go To West Coast WASHINGTON (UP)—U.S. Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney said today 500,000 shots of Asiatic flu vaccine will be made available to the public today or Tuesday. He told the United Press a large amount of the first big batch released will be shipped to the 1 West Coast where the oriental vi--1 rus first cropped up in the United 1 States after spreading through the 1 Far East. Some also will be sent to the East' Coast which also has • reported outbreaks of the new--1 type flu. 1 Burney said the vaccine will be ; released by the National Drug Co., a Pennsylvania firm, and will be 1 made available to general practi--1 tioners — in other words family doctors. He said the national drug vac1 cine has been proven safe in laboratory tests at the National Institute of Health, an arm of the ’ Public Health Service. It is the 1 only batch received from private 1 drug firms for testing, so far, he ■ said. » United Press White House re- ' porter Merriman Smith reported • today that shots of the new vac- ■ cine have been available for ! weeks to key figures of the Eir senhower administration including cabinet members. • Burney said he was unaware the i vaccine had been made available • “to any federal official.” He said the only federal workers to whom . he knew the vaccine had been administered were 160 employes of the communicable disease section of the Public Health Service. To Restore Part Os t Funds To Air Force ' Secretary Wilson To Restore Funds i WASHINGTON (UP) — The Air Force was reported today to have i won a partial victory in the battle of the military budget at the expense of the Army. A Pentagon spokesman disclosed ■ that Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson has decided to restore to ■ the junior service 25 per cent of his 61,250,000,000 cut in its funds. The spokesman indicated that 1 most of the 300 million dollars will go for weapons, particularly guided missiles. The greater part of the restored money was transferred out of the Army’s account. Wilson made the original slash to help keep military spending below 38 billion dollars in the current fiscal year which began July 1. He ordered a similar ceiling for next year, ~ . While all the services grumbled about the cut. the Air Force particularly had set in motion a campaign to recover part of the reduction. ' Wilson apparently gave consideration to a protest lodged by Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas las spring. Douglas complained to Wilson about the cut before it even was ordered. The funds will boost the Air Force budget for the current 12 months to 617,900.000,000. Wilson launched an all-out drive to cut defense spending rates by 62.200,000.000 after they rose to an annual rate of $40,200,000,000. Wilson recently ordered a worldwide halt to civilian hiring by the armed services and cutback military petroleum purchases. The Navy since has decided to moth- ’ ball 60 ships, including the battleship lowa. Earlier the secretary called for a 100,000-man cut in mil- ■ itary manpower by Jan. 1. Wilson also has directed the secCoatlaued On Pm Fly* INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight with chance of thundershowers extreme south. Tuesday mostly fair and pleasant. 1 law tonight 56-63 north, 62l 67 south. High Tuesday 74-78 north, 73-83 south. Sunset i 7:45 p. m., sunrise Tuesday 5:55 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair and pleasant. Low Tuesday night in the 60s. High Wednesday 75-85. ;-- - f . • -’-y •■ —

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Veterans And Families Die InAirCrash Chartered Airliner Crashes Sunday In Swamp In Canada QUEBEC CITY (UP)-A happy post-war reunion with relatives in Britain turned into tragedy for a group of World War II veterans and their families Sunday when a chartered airliner crashed and apparently exploded in a desolate swamp, killing all 79 persons aboard. The disaster was the worst in Canadian aviation history and one of the world’s worst. The Maritimes Central Airways DC4, chartered by the Imperial Division of the Canadian Legion in Toronto, burst into flames on impact and dug a deep crater in the marshland. Bodies of the 73 passengers and six crewmembers were torn limb from limb in the ensuing Hast. Identification was expected to be almost impossible. Last rites were conducted at the scene of the tragedy by Rev. Al- , exandre Deßlois, rector of the Parish ot Ste. Croix. The passengers were British ’ war veterans or members of their , families who had settled in Canada after World War 11, They had chartered the plane to visit their former homes in the United Kingdom. Weather Not Certain The doomed airliner’s pilot gave no indication that it was in trouble. Last radio contact was made over Quebec City when its captain, Norman Ramsay, 34, of Montreal, reported that everything was normal and the weather clear. Previously the weather bureau had reported scattered thunderstorms in the area. Several persons saw the aircraft as it flew overhead. They said it was "limping”" and "making a horrible noise.” On impact it exploded, "making a noise like an earthquake or thunder clap.” Ramsay was suspended for six months when he crash landed a Trans-Canada Airlines Super Constellation near Brampton, Ont., on Dec. 17, 1954. A board of inquiry charged him with "lack of alertness,” although the Pilots’ Assn, protested he had suffered from fatigue. He had been flying for MCA since late 1955 after resigning from TCA. J.P. Fournier, district supervisor of air regulations for the Department of Transport, arrived at the scene late Sunday night. And said it was “too soon to ascertain definitely” the cause of the crash, but “it appeared that it exploded on impact." » Probers Continue Work Fournier was accompanied by another DOT offlciaL They were returning to the crash scene this morning to conduct an investigation. The area was roped off and six Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables in scarlet tunics stood guard. Fragments of twisted metal and a water filled crater were all that remained of the red, white and silver plane. None of the pieces were more than two feet long. Rescuers waded through mud up to their knees to recover baggage from the marsh, which is surrounded on all sides by dense woodland. Rain had just started to fall when the big plane droned overhead. Many residents of the area were in church when they heard the explosion. One of the first persons at the scene was Andre LeClerc, 22, who said, “We heard something like an earthquake, a big blast. At first we thought It was thunder because it had just started to rain.” Alphonse Charest, a farmer on whose property the crash occurred, said he saw the plane “flying very low." He said his daughter, Denise, was sleeping, “when she woke up thinking it was an earthquake,” Ocean Crossing Uneventful The plane had left London Saturday night, where the veterans had attended veterans* ceremonies. After an uneventful crossing of the Atlantic it stopped at Ke(Oontfousd on Psge Four)