Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 7 September 1957 — Page 1

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LITTLE ROCK CRACK-DOWN MURRAY GALINSON. who described himself and three companions as “sightseers" and tourists from Minneapolis, is taken in charge by militiarpen at Little Rock's embattled Central High School. Galinson, with camera around his neck, was found to have a large knife in his possession, which he said was given him by a friend as a souvenir. National Guard officers said they would conduct the four “out of town."

Federal Judge To Rule Today On Integration Showdown Ruling Scheduled Today In Arkansas Case By UNITED PRESS A federal court showdown ruling expected today in the explosive Little Rock integration controversy • may demonstrate just how far the U.S. government will go to force a state to obey the desegregation mandate of the Supreme Court. Federal District Judge Ronald N. Davies is scheduled to hand down a momentous decision in the most significant legal crisis over the race issue since the Supreme Court's desegregation rulings of 1954. Davies will rule tm the Little Rock board of education's request submitted two days a/o, to “suspend integration indefinitely” at Little Rock Central High School Board Makes Request The board made its “crisis request” after Gov. Orval E. Faubus called out the National Guard Tuesday to prevent Negroes from enrolling in the school The decision will be handed ✓ down partially on the basis of an FBI report to Davies on “the facts" of who was responsible for "interference" with his ijvo federal court orders that the school be integrated. > Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. Friday ordered the FBI te confer with Faubus' representatives on "certain evidence" the. governor told President Eisenhower he would be glad to furnish and upon which he based his decision to call out the guard. Faubus Stands Firm Faubus, who has remained personally incommunicado since Wednesday, stood firm in his refusal to permit school integration. He continued ot maintain the armed guard on the school and on his executive mansion. The governor promised Eisenhower in a telegram that he would uphold the Constitutions of Arkansas and the natiop. Brownell planned today to ask the President for a go-ahead on legal maneuvers to speed integration at Central High He said he would show Eisenhower the FBI s report cm the explosive situation in Little Rock. Officials in Little Rock and Washington welcomed the week end break in school attendance, which they hoped would cool (Continued on Page Five) Trash Collection In City Next Week The city street department will conduct a trash and tin can collection in Decatur next week. Mayor Robert D. Cole and Bernard J. Clark, street commissioner, ask cooperation of residents in placing cans and rubbish in containers prior to date set for the collection. City trucks will make the collection on the following schedule: Monday, north of Monroe street and west of Fifth street; Tuesday, north of Monre street and east of Fifth street; Wednesday, south of Monroe street and east of Fifth street; Thursday, south of Monroe street and west of Fifth street.

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Attendance Record Set At Slate Fair Indiana State Fair Ends Frida/ Night INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The most successful Indiana State Fair in history closed out a today stand Friday with nearly '50.000 persons on hand to set an alltime attendance record of 898,172. The old standard of 855,117 was set in 1956. Final day attendance was encouraged by fair officials who cut adult admission prices to 25 cents, offered free parking and free admission to children and used other “gimmicks" to lure thousands of Hoosiers to the closing session of the 105th fair. The theme was " Family Day” in keeping with the plan to draw the average Hoosier family to the final day. “Foreign" exhibitors dominated the open class livestock judging in the final tests. New Champs Crowned Merylin Oats of Bowling Green, Ohio, won both the OIC swine boar and sow grand championships. Mrs. Edwin C. Gamble of Harrodsburg, Ky., showed the grand champion Jersey cow. Sun Set Farm of Indianapolis took top honors for'the Landrace boar and L. G Harris & Sons of Carrolton, Ky., won the grand champion Jersey hull ribbon. - Otherwise it was a day for sightseeing as crowds visited the manufacturers building, the poultry and cattle barns, the midway and various other exhibits. Workmen already were beginning to dismantle exhibits and the men with the brooms began their long task of cleaning up after the crowds of fairgoers. Fair officials were unanimous in their opinions that it was one of the "most successful" fairs in history from several standpoints. Fair director Lowell Taylor admitted the fair was "short" on free entertainment and music but he had no suggestions for improvements as long as the fair is expected to show a profit, s. Plans already were underway for next year’s 106th fair which will run from Aug. 27 through Sept. 5. Emphasis On Industry Publicity director Phares White indicated that a move may be underway to put more emphasis on industry in future fairs in view of its importance to the Hoosier economy. The theme of the fair this year was “Progress Through Education” But White said the theme next year may relate to industry. Local Man's Brother Dies At Van Wert Lewis Fisher. 89, of Van Wert, 0., a former resident of this city, died early Friday morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Francis Miller, of Van Wert. He was a brother of Frank Fisher, of 116 South Ninth street. Surviving besides the brother and daughter, are another daughter. Mrs. Leona Turner, and two sons, Harold and William Fisher, all of Fort Wayne, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and a number of qjeces and nephew’s living in Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Knoll funeral home in Van Wert, with burial in the Van Wert cemetery.

Soviet Warns U.S. Stay Out Os Middle East Red Notes Accuse Western Big Three With Interference By DOUG ANDERSON * United Press Staff orrespondent Communists around the world warned the United States today to keep its hands off the Soviet-infil-trated Middle East. Radio Moscow, quoting what it said was an article in the Red organ Pravda, said Russia’s latest notes on the Middle East should be regarded as a "serious warning to those who plan attempts against peace and security." The notes, delivered Tuesday to the United States, Britain and France, accused the Western Big Three of Interfering in Arab affairs. Accuses Henderson The Red radio alsb accused U.S. dipldmatic troubleshooter Loy W. Henderson of "organizing a plot" against Syria in Turkey, Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon. In Cairo, the pro-government organ Al Nissa printed an interview with Red China’s Premier Chou En-lai saying the United States will not dare act against Syria because of Communist support for the Arab state. The French Communist organ Humanite and various fellowtraveling Paris publications assailed the United States for flying arms to Syria’s non-Communist neighbors, saying that a new conflict in the Middle East might mushroom into World War 111. Makes Surprise VisH Dispatches from the Middle East said Arabia's King Saud is arriving in Lebanon today on a surrpsie visit whose effect on the situation in the tense Middle East could not. immediately be estimated. An offer from Saud to guarantee Lebanon’s independence undoubtedly would be welcomed by the tiny Arab nation, which recently has been threatened with "union" by its Syrian neighbors In Washington, President Eisenhower scheduled a meeting with Henderson and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles which <is expected to produce a stern new warning to Russia and Syr i s against Communist penetration which might jeopardize the independence of the Mideast. Meanwhile, the U.S. Air Force was pressing ahead with plans for the airlift which will carry antitank artillery and other defensive weapons to Jordan. The United States is also speeding arms deliveries to Arabia, Iraq and Lebanon. . , The first of the fleet of huge C 124 transports carrying arms to Jordan is expected to land in the mideastern country Monday. In London, Lord Beaverbrook’s Daily Express complained that the arms airlift is “10 months too late.” . „ **T ehUnited States deserves full support for its endeavors in the Middle East,” the Express said, "but if Britain’s position had been sustained there last year, there would be no alarm bells in Washinirton today.” The reference to “10 months made it clear the Express was referring to the Anglo-French invasion of the Suez Canal Zone in November, which was checked by (Continued on I’axe Five) Boy Scout Camporee September 27-29 District Camporee < Scheduled At Berne Plans are now being completed at Berne for the first south district Boy Scout camporee to be held at Pine Lake, four miles west of Berne, September 27-29. Berne troops 67 and Post 68 will be hosts for the Scouts from Wells, Adams and Jay counties for the three-day camp. For Saturday, September 28, six problems in scouting have been arranged, and each patrol will run through the problems, which range from purifying water to curing snake bite. In scoring, 10 points will go to appearance at check-in time on Friday; 10 pointe to health and safety; 10 for sleeping arrangements; four for cooking and serving meals; eight pointe for cooking fires; two pointe for dishwashing; 18 pointe for patrol spirit; 18 points for Saturday’s inspection; 17 points for the check-out inspection on Sunday, for a total of 97 points. A total of 43 camp sites have been laid out north of the headquarters building, which will be located at the swimming headquarters building. A map of the area is inchided in the information which has been sent to each troop.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 7, 1957.

Baby Girl Killed Early This Morning As Cars Collide Near Decatur

Russia Wants Time To Build Up Stockpile Russian Breakoff Os Disarmament Talks Seen As Indication LONDON (UP)—Western diplomats interpreted Russia’s breakoff of the London disarmament conference as a sign the Soviets .need more time to build up their H-bomb and rocket research programs, informed sources said today. They said the end of the arms cut talks Friday will give; Russian scientists a long breather in which to continue nuclear test explosions and unobserved rocket Hights. The Western package agreement rejected by Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin would have given Russia two more years to build up a stockpile of perfected H - bombs and wotlld not have limited missile production Howevtr, the open skies agreement would have allowed Western observation of Soviet missile and nuclear tests. Western diplomats assumed Russia is nowhere near a producfion-model missile despite its recent announcement of perfection of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the so - called ultimate weapon. Western observers noted that Zorin abandoned his conciliatory tone at the talks after the Moscow claim O6qa successful intercontinental missile test and after two summer) series of nuclear tests. 9d o?is >;■■■ . ‘ They explained that Soviet leaders would have been more likely to Accept a mutually advantageous first step disarmament plan if these teste had been fuQy successful. The Western delegates at London, Harold Stassen, Britain’s Allan Noble, France’s Jules Moch and David Ritchie of Canada, met today for one final meeting before abandoning the talks. Stassen was scheduled to fly home Sunday to report to President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles while Zorin was returning to Moscow during the week end. 11th Memorial Unit Presented Hospital j Donated In Memory Os Emma Lankenau . A memorial unit in memory of ’ Mrs. Emma Lankenau, R.N., has ; been contributed by an anonymous ' donor, the Adams county memorial ( hospital board announced today. . Mrs. Lankenau was one of the first nurses at the Adams county . memorial hospital when it opened in 1923. She is now deceased, and was the wife of Oscar Lankenau, J retired Decatur businessman. j This was the 11th unit presented to Adams county for the new hospital addition. There are just 24 ; more units to be furnished. All 50 ( units in the original hospital were furnished by interested individuals , and civic organizations. ' Those who have given memorial , units so far, are the Women of the • Moose; Mr. and Mrs. William Sha- ‘ fer; E. W. Busche; Mr. and Mrs. , W. A. Klepper; Mrs. C. C. Rayl ( and daughter Mrs. C. K. Egeler; . the Holthouse Drug Company; The First State Bank of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Pumphrey: in memory of Mrs. Sara Kalver; and ( in memory of Arthur D. Suttles, Sr - 1 INDIANA WEATHER 1 Clearing and cool tonight. 1 Sunday fair, becoming a little warmer In afternoon. Low tonight in 565. Highs Sunday 1 near 75. Outlook for Monday: Fair and mild. 1 < i NOONEDITION L

sad Knifer Nabbed In Chicago Friday Five Knife Victims " Identify Suspect CHICAGO (UP)—A hail of rocks brought down a man thought to be the J ’mad” knifer who stabbed eight persons without provocation in the last week. Joseph Caraher, 39, a watchman and a former employe of Piaker‘ton’s Detective Agency, was identified by at least five of the stabbing victims Friday as the man S|sa plunged a short-blade knife to them in sudden attacks. Six of the stabbings occurred Friday. Police said the identification? plus Craher’s incoherent denials, among . them charges that “German agents are following me,” convinced them they had their man. Ted -Danielson, 35, and James Darnell, 20, told police they took off in pursuit of Caraher late Friday afternoon after he allegedly stabbed Christine Uczciwek, 14, while she was walking with a girl friend. Gathering rocks as they chased Caraher down an alley and across several streets, the two men said they drove him to the ground twice. The man struggled to his feet and ran into the arms of an offduty detective who was standing in front of his home. Police said Caraher was carrying a knife with < fresh blood on it Ckraher was drunk, violent and heaped abuse on them, police said. Later, taken on a tour of city hospitals under heavy guard, Caraher was identified as their assaijant by Miss Lillian Manilla,.JJ. Francis H. Murphy, .nWto Uczciwek, Robert afewtowiMm#, and Frank Sydor, lirnimua ov [ Identification will also be sought from three other victim?, Bqnald. R. McFadden, Tulsa. Oftfa'fcM was stabbed Monday in a subway station. H. L. Cook, 22, a Louisville, Ky., pre - medical student, slashed Wednesday while visiting the Lincoln Park Zoo here, and Mrs. Jeannette Berger, 47, who was stabbed while on a coffee break with Miss Mantila, County Winners At Indiana State Fair Kekionga Farms Has One Reserve Champ Kekionga Farms, managed by Bernard Pickett, won the reserve grand champion honors in the Landrace boar class at the Indiana state fair. Kekionga farms also had first in the junior yearling boar, senior boar pig, and junior spring boar, young herd; second in the senior spring boar, best get of sire, produce of dam, and senior sow pig; third in senior yearling boar, sen- ' ior yearling sow, junior spring sow; fifth in senior sow pig, and sixth in junior yearling sow. The Backhaus brothers won third place in the junior calf class of the Ayrshire show at the state fair this year. In the Red Poll show. William H. Kohne & Sons had the champion steer, and champion red poll carcass; they also had first place in the yearling steer class and two year old steer; second in the group of three steers, third in the pair of yearlings; fifth in the pair of calves and senior bull calf, sixth in steer calf, udder class female in milk,senior bull calf, seventh in best get of sire, and ninth and tenth in senior female calf. In Guernseys, Peter B. Lehman placed third in produce of darn, get of sire senior, and dairy herd, fifth in four year old cow, sixth in three year old cow, and seventh in two year old cow. In Aberdeen-Angus cattle, Henry I. Rumple, of Jefferson township, placed fourth in the two year old heifers, eighth in senior year heifer, ninth in senior year bull, and fourteenth in junior get of sire. In the Guernsey class, Peter B. Lehman also won third in the 18month bull class, and produce of dam; fourth in the two-year bull class, sixth In the get of sire sen(Continued on Page Five) ,

Beck Charges AFL-CIO Seeks To Impose Will Apparent Reply To Clean-up Demand On Teamsters' Union WASHINGTON (UP)-Teamster President Dave Beck, in an apparent reply to AFL-CIO clean-up demands, indirectly accused the AFL-CIO todhy of trying to impose its will on rank-and-file union members. The outgoing head of the Teamster organization invoked the words of the late Samuel Gompers, pioneer labor leader, in discussing the centralized power of the CIOThe AFL - CIO, has accused the Teamsters of being dominated by corrupt influences and named Beck and other top officials in calling for reform of the 1,400,000member trucking union. Beck told Teamster members to “ask yourself if the father of the American Federation of Labor (Gompers) didn’t foresee the day when attempts would be made to superimpose on the bank-and-file a rule from the top of a centralized organization.** AFL - CIO President George Meany has said that Gompers’ policy' of union self - government did not-Mean the AFL-CIO would taWrJte’C otr up t leadership of ’member unions. <• Beck,-writing in the current issue of the Teamsters monthly magazine, quoted Gompers as saying: “Where we (labor unions) have blundered into trying to force a policy or a decision even though wise and right, we have impeded, if not interrupted, the realization of our aims." Beck also said organized labor was under assault by anti - union forces. “The attack is a device aimed eventually at the gains you have made in the field of wages, hours, health and safety standards and fringe benefits," he. said.

Community Days Held At Monroe Two-Day Fair At Monroe Ends Today The Monroe community days fair started Friday night, and will con? tinue today, with the first event of the two-day project being a greased pig chase, which drew quite a crovfd. A pig, well greased with nonstaining soap, was let loose in a large fenced-in ring, and 12 youths under 14 years of age chased him until one boy, Dave Johnson, of Monroe, caught the pig, pinning it to the ground, and then working it carefully to the pen, where he trapped it. Gene Hike and Martin Steiner awarded the young man $5 for his efforts. A large crowd enjoyed the battle, and then dispersed to the other entertainment, which includes many booths set up along the main street. A small kiddies ferris wheel and a pony ride are featured. This afternoon the new atomic weapon of battery B, 424th field artillery battalion, will be shown at the fair, together with its huge weapons carrier. The gun can fire an atomic warhead 11 miles. A parachute jump will also take place this afternoon. Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday The Decatur ministerial association will hold its opening meet* Ing of the fall and winter months Monday at 9:30 a.m. in the parlor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Third and Jackson streets. All ministers are invited to be present.

St. Louis Papers Idled By Strike St. Louis Without Newspapers Today ST. LOUIS (UP) — An electricians’ strike for higher wages threatened an indefinite halt of St. Louis newspaper publication today. The membes off Local No. 1 of the International Brootherhood of Electrical Workers began peaceful picketing of the St. Louis PostDispatch and St Louis GlobeDemocrat plants at 5 a.m. Pressmen, typographers and mailers refused to cross the lines and ruled out the possibility of publishing despite the fact that other employees, including members of the American Newspaper Guild, reported for work. Post-Dispatch television station KSD-TV was off the air as its engineers, members of a branch of ti>e electrical union, observed the strike. Radio station KSD was similarly affected, but returned to the air several hours later through use ot its East St. Louis transmitter and the NBC network. The Electrical Workers’ joint contract with the St. Louis News- - paper Publishers Assn, expired at midnight Friday night and the > union voted to go on strike although members on duty at that . time were alolwed to complete their shift*. R.G. Baumhoff. spokesman for the Post-Dispatch, said negotiators met with Federal Conciliator MK. Sheehan from 11 p.m. Friday night until 4=40 a.m. today (OontinuM o» ?*»• Six) Explosion Rocks North End Os City Few Decatur Homes Slightly Damaged Miscalculated blasting operations at the lift station which is under construction on the Monmouth road near the Second street intersection, eatrs e<l a frightening explosion at about 6:30 p.m. Friday but did no major damage. The explosion rocked the north end of the city and threw rocks for a distance of about 300 feet. A few homes in the area were damaged slightly but no one was injured. The lift station is being con- ; structed by Yost Construction . company but the blasting operation was handled by Meshberger) Construction company, which em- ; ploys experienced blasters. No one from the Meshberger J company was available today for a statement but it is believed that the blasters used about 100 pounds of dynamite, expecting solid rock. The amount was probably too great due to the fact that the rock was in layers. Cal Yost of the Yost Construe- 1 tion company, which has the con- < tract for building the lift station, i stated that any damage done by ] the blasting operations will be j taken care of either by his com- i pany or the Meshberger com- ■ pany. i Yost said that the mishap would have no hindering effect i on the progress of work at the ( lift station. I — i Medical Society Makes ! Donation To Hospital i ! The Adams county medical society will give $4,350 to the hospital building fund to help furnish the doctor’s room, nurses’ room, and father’s waiting room, the board of trustees of the Adams county memorial hospital said today. The Adams county medical soc- ; iety is composed of the doctors of 1 the county, including Drs. J. C. Carroll, G. J. Kohne, J. M. Burk, H. F. Zwick, John Terveer, Arthur Girod, Norval Rich, Roland Reppert, Richard Parrish, C. P. ; Hinchman, J. V. Shetgen, Robert L. Boze, Norman E. Beaver, Howard M. Luginbill, and O. Fred Harless

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Infant Thrown From Vehicle This Morning Six-Month-Old Girl Killed Early Today Southeast Os City J A six and a half month old baby was added to Adams coun-‘ ty’s 1957 traffic fatality list in a ( collision of two vehicles at 3:40 , a.m. today on U.S. highway 33, > about two miles south of Deca* ■ tur. The child, Sarah Ann Akers. ■ daughter of Baxter B. and Mary Lou Hays-Akers of Ravenswood. i W. Va., died of a basal skull fracI ture after she was thrown from i the car in which she was a pas* I senger. The car, driven by Glenn E. ’ Smith, 27, of New Haven. W. Va.. * was hit by a vehicle driven by t Marcelino Ram&s, 36, of Willshire, i 0., route one. Investigating officers said that t Ramos, headed south, was driv- * ing around the curve at that point 1 in the highway. He swerved into e the other lane of traffic into the * path of the northbound Smith ve- ’ hide. Smith could not avoid the ■ collision and the cars hit almost headon. > _ Only other person injured was . Mrs. Lillie Smith, 27, of NewHaven, W. Va. She suffered a cut * Up, was treated at the Adams county memorial hospital and was released. Other passengers in the car. including the driver, the parents of the dead child and two other children, were not injured. Ramos also escaped injury. A charge of driving to the left of the center of the roadway, was filed against Ramos. The Ohio man was given a breath-o-lizer test which showed negative. Extensive property damage in- ■ eluded S6OO to the Ramos car, 1 $1,200 to the Smith vehicle and SSO ’ to some fencing on the McMillen 1 farm on route six. The accident was investigated by ’ sheriff Merle Affolder, deputies Charles Arnold and Robert Meyer and state trooper Dan Kwasneski. The bead child was born Feb. 15. 1957 at Parkersburg, W. Va. She is survived by her parents; a three-year-old sister, Helen Jo, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Kirk L. Akers of Coal Ridge, W. Va., and Mrs. Mary H. Hayes of Friendly, W. Va. * The body was taken to Zwick’s funeral home. It will be removed to Ravenswood, W. Va., tor funeral services and burial. Change Is Made In Adjustment Board I Because the statute stipulates that the minority party be represented on the tax adjustment board which meets Monday, Judge Myles F. Parrish has been compelled to replace the appointinent of Louis Reinking, Preble township, with Leonard Soliday, Republican fereholder of Decatur. The confusion came about when the township trustees and county council both named Democrats as their board representatives. The board will meet Monday morning to act on the proposed tax rate as submitted by the county council. The action then goes to the state tax board for final action. Salk Polio Vaccine Drain Is Easing Up WASHINGTON (IF) — A spokesman for the Public Health Service said today the drain on the supply of Salk polio vaccine was "easing up.” But he said the supply still was short of the amount necessary for mass community vaccination programs. 7 The service reported 3,609,702 shots of Salk vaccine were released this week and soon will be in die hands of druggists, physicians and health officers.