Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 208.

FLAMES ENGULF PLEASURE CRAFT 4EL il it' ■ - Sgfi " A / y THE "REVEILLE,” a 32-foot pleasure cruiser, becomes a blazing inferno a short distance off Jacob Riis Park in Far Rockaway, N.Y. Three vacationing students escaped, one with minor burns, when he tried at first to get the fire under control. They were rescued by another pleasure craft and taken to the Rockaway Beach hospital, where one was treated for burns and the other two for shock. All Os City's Schools Show Student Gain

Decatur youngsters went back, to school in record numbers to-' day. A total of 2,281 began the 1857-58 school year at all of the Decatur public and parochial schools. The total enrollment is higher in all of the schools than last year. Enrollment figures were announced today by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the Decatur public schools, SL M. Almeda. CS.A. principal at |he Decatur Catholic schools, ana the Rev. Edgar Schmidt, superintendent of the Zion Lutherai school. Public school enrollment totals 1,571, an increase of 57 for high and elementary schools. At Decatur 'Catholic 1 , high and grade School, registration on the first day totalled 1682. Last year the Catholic enrollment was 608. The Lutheran school, with one more grade than last year, now has a registration of 28 as compared to last year’s 17. Most of the increase in both the public and parochial systems occurs in the elementary grades, although the two high schools also show increases from last year’s registration. There is only one place where a decrease is shown and that is in kindergarten, where 195 children have been registered. Last year’s kindergarten registration was 216. Public Schools Enrollment by grades in the public schools (with the two elementary schools combined) includes grade one, 157; grade two, 120; grade three, 148; grade four, 139; grade five, 148; grade six, 111; grade seven, 110, and grade eight, 97, for a total grade school enrollment of 1030. The high school total of 346 includes 102 freshmen, 92 sophomores, 84 juniors and 68 seniors. Catholic Schools In grades one to eight at St. Joseph school 556 youngsters, an increase of 59 over last year, dre registered. Registration figures by classes show grade one, 101; grade two, 58, grades two and three, 54; grade three, 57; grade four, 50; grades four and five, 47; grade five, 50; grade six, 45; grade seven, 46, and grade eight, 48. - The Catholic high school enrollment of 126, 15 more than last year, includes 42 freshmen, 41 sophomores, 22, juniors, and 21 seniors. All of the figures released by the schools in today's announcement are not necessarily complete since late registrations are possible. Brief Session Held By City Councilmen An unusually brief session of the city council .took place Tuesday night at the city hall. Only one announcement yas made outside of the regular reading of the minutes and allowing the bills. Mayor Robert Cole informed the council that he will meet in the near future with a representative of the Pennsylvania railroad to discuss elimination of hazards at crossings in the north end of the city.

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Ike, Mamie In Rhode Island For Vacation Begin Long-Delayed Vacation Today At Rhode Island Spot NEWPORT, R.I. (UP) — President and Mrs. Eisenhower landed at the Quonset Point Naval Air Station today to begin their longdelayed Rhode Island vacation. Skies were overcast as the presidential plane. Columbine 111, toached down at Quonset. Rhode Island Gov Dennis J. Roberts led a welcoming party of medal-bedecked naval officers. Following the brief reception, the President and Mrs. Eisenhower boarded the presidential cabin cruiser for the 50-minute cruise across Narragansett Bay to this resort city. New England restraint gave an air of calm to Newport as it awaited its No. 1 vacationer. But there was an undercurrent of excitement caused by two months of waiting since the announcement that the President would vacation here. Navigating across the bay in the Presidential yacht, “Barbara Anne,” was eased by the departure Tuesday of three aircraft carriers from Quonset and some 50 destroyers from Newport. The yacht, her brass and canvasshrouded decks gleaming, has made several trial runs. Mrs. Eisenhower, still convalescing from her recent operation, will disembark at the summer White House on Coaster’s Harbor Island. Hie President will continue to Government Landing and join a motorcade for the short drive to the old Colony House at Washingtn Square in the heart of the city. There , on a platform beneath the balcony where George Sashington welcomed Rochambeau and his 7,000-man French expeditionary force aiding in the revolution, dignitaries will welcome the President to Newport. Expected to head up the list of some 200 dignitaries on the stand are Sens Theodore Francis Green (D-R.1.), John O. Pastore (D-R.1.), and Reps. Joseph Martin (RMass.), Aime J. Ferand (D-R.1.), John E. Fogarty (D-R.I), and Mayor John J. Sullivan. After the brief ceremony, the President will be driven to Coaster’s Harbor Island, a one-time pauper’s asylum now occupied by headquarters of the mammoth Newport Naval Base and the Naval War College. At the base. Eisenhower will be “piped aboard” through eight side boys in a colorful, traditional naval ceremony. Weather permitting, the President is expected to test the tough Newport Country Club course for the first time this afternoon.

Evansville Man Is Killed By Sewer Fumes 12 Hospitalized By Fumes In Experiment Sewer Station Run EVANSVILLE (UP)—One man was killed and 12 other persons hospitalized today by fumes in a new city sewer station being operated on an experimental run. Dead on arrival at Deaconess Hospital was Louis Duncan, 58, superintendent of the municipal sewer department. Wayne Kiester, Chicago, an engineer for a firm constructing a sewer pump lift station, was in critical condition. Those overcome by fumes included at least two employes of an ambulance service and several policemen and firemen who tried to rescue victims but collapsed when fumes penetrated their gas masks. A fire chief blamed the tragedy on “black damp.” Jack Buttrum, an employe of an Evansville electric utility, and Kiester and Duncan were making an experimental run with a new sewer pump lift station where Pigeon Creek empties into the Ohio river when the fumes felled Duncan. John Zimmer, an eyewitness employed as a steamfitter for a construction firm which was building the station, said Duncan went down a spiral stairway into a well room. Kiester followed him a few minutes later and found Duncan unconscious. Before Zimmer and Buttrum reached the well room, . in answer to Kiester’s shouts, Kiester too was felled by the fumes. Zimmer and Buttrum ran up the stairs to get help but Buttrum collapsed before he reached the top. Zimmer called fire department rescue squads. About 25 firemen and 25 policemen raced to the scene with gas masksBefore Duncan, Kiester and Buttrum were brought from the well room and stairway, rescuers "passed out” one by one and were placed in ambulances and taken to hospitals. Buttrum and Darwin France, an employe of an Evansville funeral home, were reported in critical condition. Also hospitalized were James Pierre, a funeral home employe; Police Patrolmen William Harper, William Korff and Clayton Spinson, and Firemen Arthur Jochim, Sil Stofleth, Carmen Brown, Earl IContlnuea on rage Six) Ike Urges Restraint On Reckless Buying President Urges Selective Buying WASHINGTON (UP)—President > Eisenhower’s call for selective buying is aimed at the soaring ; consumer price spiral, government economists said today. A Federal Reserve spokesman said that Federal Reserve Chairman William McC Martin has frequently declared that a shortage i of savings by individuals lies at the heart of inflation. Martin has said that i (Americans would spend less and save more they would help stem rising prices. A reduction in buying could have the effect of creating an oversupply of some consumer items, thus driving down prices. Eisenhower emphasized to his news conference Tuesday that he didn’t want a “buyers' strike” which might have serious effects on the economy. He also said he was not considering imposing mandatory controls to stop inflation. But he said reckless buying should be stopped by voluntary restraint. Consumer Spending Increases Although he did not mention any specific figures, Eisenhower may have had in mind a recent report of his Advisory Economic Council which said that in the second quarter of this year consumer spending is about 12 billion dollars higher than the $267,200,000,000 I spent in the same period in 1956. The second quarter spending figure of $278,900,000,000 also was ' $2,000,000,000 more than the first quarter in which American con- ! sumers shelled out $276,700,000,000. . Some experts have attributed the 1 rise partly to higher prices and ' partly to larger production to meet (Cuntinusa uu rw <Jixj NEW SERIAL STORY “You Can Die Laughing” is the title of a new serial story by Erie Gardner, world’s most popular mystery writer. You’ll i enjoy every chapter of this interesting noveL It starts in today’s Daily Dmocrat.

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Study Possible New Moves To Aid Anti-Reds Trouble Shooter To Return To States From Middle East WASHINGTON (UP)—U S- officials said today decisions on possible new moves to aid anti-Com-munist nations in the Middle East may be in the works. , However, they said one of the decisions won’t be for the United States to take the final plunge of full membership in the five-nation Baghdad Pact despite new Turkish pressure to get the United States to sign up. The officials said the decisions may grow out of important meetings to be held here during the next few days. Loy W. Henderson, the State Department’s ace Middle Eastern trouble shooter, was scheduled to return to Washington today from a Middle Eastern fact-finding mission prompted by Syria’s sudden pro-Soviet shift. Henderson will report his findings to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top level American officials. Henderson has been conferring with leaders in Turkey, Jordan, Iraq.’ and Lebanon on possible ways to slow down Syria’s Communist trend. He left Syria and Egypt off of his Middle Eastern itinerary choosing instead to talk with Syria’s neighbors A likely outcome of the American policy review set off by Syria’s pro-Soviet maneuvering is some new expression of American cooperaiton and support for Middle Eastern nations willing to maintain their independence against subversion or aggression. Turkey has raised anew the possiblity of the United States formally signing up as a full member of the Baghdad pact. The United States so far has avoided full membership in the pact with Turkey, Iraq, Pakistan, Iran and Britain., “The United States is practically a member, participating in the pact’s military, economic and antisubversion planning activities. The United States also is pouring large amounts of military and economic aid into Middle Eastern states opposing Communism. I Way Is Cleared For Federal Road Funds Budget Committee Approves Program INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—An Indiana highway official 'baid today the way has been cleared for spending about 65 million dollars in federal road construction funds by next July 1 in Hoosierland. George Foster, executive director of the Indiana State Highway Department, said the last hurdle in the use of federal funds for a costly construction program was cleared Tuesday when the State Budget Committee approved a plan for “blank check” spending. The committee was split on the controversial plan. Some members, including Chairman Laurence D. Baker of Kendallville, opposed the plan on the ground it would mean the budget group relinquished controls over highway spending. Until the committee acted, the federal share of road building costs in the huge program was tied up until it actually was received. But the committee approved a plan whereby the highway department can commit the anticipated federal funds before they actually are made available. Highway executives contended tying up the money would delay the highway building program. The committee’s action authorized the department to go ahead and let contracts for construction with federal money before It actually was received.

Sabotage Is Hinted In Jamaican Wreck Engineer Reports Brakes Defective KINGSTON, Jamaica (UP) —The engineer of the train that killed at least 173 persons Sunday in the W-st wreck in peacetime history said today its air brakes were de- — or perhaps sabotaged. Garnish Lurch said he applied the brakes twice as the train headed into “death curve,” outside the hill town of Kendal. The brakes had no effect, and air pressure in the system fell off to zero. “Someone either disengaged the angle cock in one of the coaches or the air hose broke because of mechanical defects.” Lurch said. “I gave three long blasts of the whistle to warn the thousands of excursionists that something was wrong up front. Suddenly, there was a loud sound, as if the heavens had fallen, and when I looked back my train was an unforgettable wreck.” Nine of the train’s 12 cars jumped the track. Several of them tumbled into a ravine and broke up on the ■rocks. The train, headed here from the resort town of Montego Bay, was bringing some 1,500 Roman Catholics home from a weekend excur- ! sion when it jumped the tracks. Lurch could suggest no reason why anyone should have tampered with the brakes, risking his own life as well as those of hundreds, of his companions. It appeared unlikely that the brake could have been put out of action before the train left Montego Bay, but it was not entirely impossible. Kendal is the * high point on the line between the resort town and Kingston, and there would have been little need for brakes on the upgrade. Earlier reports had ascribed the wreck to a coupling or a thrown wheel. There has been no official report on the accident so far. Criminal Docket Is Called On Tuesday Docket In Circuit Court Is Cleared The criminal docket for the September term of Adams circuit court was called Tuesday by Judge Myles F. Parrish and prosecuting attorney Lewis L. Smith. The docket, containing many cases which were filed as long as several years ago, is being cleared. Many of the cases filed have not been prosecuted because of failure to locate the defendant to serve the warrant, because of the death or imprisonment of the defendant or for other reasons. One case was set for hearing. An appeal by Albert Davidson on a conviction in city court of driving while under the influence of alcohol has been set for Oct. 1, when a motion by the prosecution to dismiss the appeal will be argued. In ten of the criminal causes still on the docket, new warrants have been ordered issued by Judge Parrish. The old warrants in these cases were never served because of inability to locate the defendant, They include cases of fraudulent checks, burglary, entry to commit a felony, grand larceny and others. These charges were filed as far back as 1950. Judge Parrish also has dismissed a few cases from the docket. These include one in which the defendant has died and others where the defendant is serving terms in prison for other convictions. In addition to calling the criminal docket, Judge Parrish announced that naturalization proceedings have been scheduled to take place in Adams circuit court Sept. 19 at 9:30 a.m. Today and tomorrow the civil docket of the circuit court is being called for the September term.

West Powers Await Soviet . Russia Reply Russian Answer To Disarmament Plan , Awaited By West * BULLETIN LONDON (UP) — Russia tarft--1 ed down the Western package 1 deal on disarmament for a second time today, bringing the ' arms parley close to a break--1 down. 1 — LONDON (UP) — The West waited today for the official Soviet ' reply to the Western “final offer” ; disarmament package plan amid > waning hopes that the Kremlin i would move to break the stalemate : in the London disarmament talks. Western delegates sought to pin down Soviet Deputy Foreign Minl ister Valerian Zorin Tuesday. But i Zorin would promise only that he ; would “discuss the basic questions of disarmament" when the U.N. disarmament subcommittee met ! today. ’ Die outlook was grim- The next move was up to the Soviets. The West has laid its disarmament cards on the tables, submit- [ ting an 11-point “first swjr* 1 armament proposal. It called for 1 air and ground inspection to guard against surprise attack, a two-year suspension of nuclear tests tied to 1 a ban on the production of fission- ’ able materials, and a start toward the reduction of conventional armaments and armed forces. The Western proposal was put forward at last Thursday’s session. It was promptly and angrily denounced by Zorin. But a Soviet spokesman said Zorin’s condemnation of the plan was “preliminary" and not the official Rus'stan reply. But there was little hope that the Kremlin would make any move to break the deadlock. There have been strong indications the Russians would prefer to throw the issue into the lap of the U.N. General Assembly where they feel they could win the support of the “neutral” Afro - Asian bloc. President Eisenhower told a press conference in Washington Tuesday that the next move is up to the Soviets. But he said such a move “does not seem to be particularly likely.” -j 1 Jet Plunges Into Homes In St. Louis Pilot Killed, Two Homes Destroyed ST. LOUIS (UP) — A flaming jet fighter plane plunged into a residential district late Tuesday, i killing the pilot and destroying . two homes. Seven residents of the fire-gutted homes escaped death only by their ' providential absence when the plane crashed into suburban Berkeley near the Lambert-St. , Louis Airport. Navy Lt. John R. Renshaw, 28, a test pilot was killed. Authorities 1 planned an exhaustive examination 1 of the wreckage today in an effort i to determine the cause of the en- ! gine failurei Renshaw, a Centerville, Md., resident who came here from the naval air test center at Patuxent River, Md., to pick up and return ’ a McDonald Aircraft Corp. Demon ; F3H jet, barely got off the ground • before fire started shooting out of ’ his plane. I The ship wavered, according to witnesses, before it reached an altitude of 500 feet. Then it started ' down as though out of control. It struck the street in front of ■ the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray- ' mond Meyer in Bel Ridge after : shearing off the top of a tree. Then it bounced into the Meyer I house, continuing into the home of Mr. and Mrs Charles Schneider and their three children.

Pastor Returned The Rev. Paul D. Parker has been returned for the fifth year as pastor of the Nuttman Ave. United Brethren in Christ church of Decatur. The assignment was made at the 105th session of the Auglaize annual conference, which was held at the United Brethren camp grounds, Rockford, Ohio. Rev. and Mrs. Parker reside in the church parsonage at 1022 Nuttman Ave?, Decatur. The regular schedule of the church services will be resumed this weekend. Russian Jel Plane Enroute To States First Soviet Plane To U.S. In 20 Years LONDON (UP) — A TUIO4 jetliner, first Russian plane to visit the United States in 20 years, streaked over the Atlantic today carrying 40 Soviet U.N. delegates to New Jersey’s McGuire Air Force Base. The two-engined, silver'painted plane flew here from Moscow today, then took off for the United States after a brief stopover. It is expected to reach the U.S. airfield at about 5:30 p.m. c.d.t. Despite Soviet protests, the plane was routed to McGuire—recently the reception center for Hungarian victims of the Russians arriving as refugees in the United States —because jet planes are barred from New York"s commercial portsIn addition to its 60 passengers and a six-man Russian crew, the plane carried three British air force navigators on the MoscowLondon leg of the journey. It will pick up American navigators at Goose Bay, Labrador. The last Russian plane to land in the United States was a singleengined Nant-25, piloted by Mikhail Gromov, which set a long-distance record of 7,140 miles in a pioneering flight over the North Pole in 1937. The Nant landed in San Jacinto, alif. Moscow newspapers noted today that the flying time estimated for the Moscow - McGuire trip—l 3 hours and 5 minutes—is less than a third of the 62 hours and 32 minutes it took Gromov to get to San Jacinto. The TUIO4 is one of two of the Soviet jet airliners that will fly Soviet U.N. delegation members to the forthcoming General Assembly. Die Russians twice requested permission to land the jets at Idlewild Airport in New York. But the request was rejected. Die Port of New York Authority would not permit the Soviet aircraft to put down at Idlewild without advance noise-level tests. A Soviet embassy spokesman to Washington Tuesday protested that the McGuire air base was too far from New York. The base is some 60 miles from New York CityINDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight. Thursday fair and rather cool. Low tonight 50-55 north, 55-60 south. High Thursday 70-75. Sunset today 7:12 p.m., sunrise Thursday 6:16 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Fair and not quite so cool in afternoon. Lows Thursday night in the 50s. Highs Friday in mid 70s north and low 80s south. ,

Second Court Order Defied By Guardsmen Situation Tense At All-White High School In Arkansas UTTtE ROCK, Ark. (UPI — Arkansas Adj.“ Gen. Sherman Klinger said today that U.S. marshals will try to take, eight Negro ; children through the lines of Naitional Guardsmen who earlier Had ' turned them back from a white i schoolI Die situation at alLwhite Central i High School, where Negroes were - trying to make their first breakthrough in Little Rock, was tense. ’ Klinger said “a bunch of resolute . boys are going to resist.” He was ; believed to mean white students. ’ Guardsmen, acting again on a ‘ direct order from the governor 1 and defying a second and explicit decree by a federal judge, turned 1 back the eight Negroes earlier to- * day. As word spread that U.S. r marshals were coming, a crowd s began to gather agaiq. The troops, many with clips of _ cartridges in their hands, stood about waiting for the marshals. For the first time in the South’s fight against desegregation, forces Os the state and federal government were directly opposed in a situation that threatened open violence. White Onlookers Shout The troops turned -back the Ne< groes today on a direct order from Gov. Orval Faubus, who told National Guard Col. Marion Johnsn ’ to keep the white school off limits to Negroes and the Negro school . off limits to whites. “Bash her head in!” “Kill the , black s-o-b!” voices from a crowd of white onlookers yelled as a 16- ( year-old Negro girl, turned back . by the troops, tried to catch a bus and get away from the campus“Go back to New York!” the \ crowd bellowed as an unidentified white woman stepped forward to befriend the girl, Elizabeth Ford. The white woman finally got the girl into a bus, despite the efforts of white boys to block the door and ; to keep the bus from pulling away i from the stop. Troops Heavily Armed Five hundred white persons i gathered on the sidewalk in front i of the school as the eight Negroes —Elizabeth Ford and - Perence Roberts together hnd a group of ! six others accompanied by three ; Negro ministers—tried to break the color line. i Die troops were first called out Monday by Governor Faubus, who ordered them to prevent desegregation of Central High because it might set off a riot between heavily armed whites and Negroes. The troops were armed with tear gas, clubs, pistols and rifles and equipped with halftracks. No Negroes tried to register Tuesday, when the school opened. But Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Ronald N. Davies ordered the school desegregated at once, .uutinur >n V»<re Bix» County Councilmen Expected To Reduce 1958 County Budget A general reduction of the overall proposed budget total for Adams county seemed likely as the county council headed into the final phase of it’s two-day budget session this afternoon. Nq details on any of the possible cuts were available at press time today but the councilmen gave every indication that they would be submitting to the tax adjustment board a budget lower than the one submitted to them. The council is working on requested appropriations which would necessitate a tax levy of 90 cento- This amount is 24 cento more than last year. However, it is not likely that the group will be able to bring the total county budget down to last year’s level, since much of the increase is caused in raises of salaries made mandatory by state legislation.

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