Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 214, Decatur, Adams County, 11 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol.’LV. No. 214.

HUGE EXPLOSION ROCKS NASHVILLE SCHOOL ~ ~ “V ' " 1 it .... “ , A HALF MILLION DOLLAR elementary school in Nashville, Tenn., was demolished Tuesday by a massive dynamite explosion. The wrecked Hattie Cotton School was one of six Nashville schools in which white and Negro first graders attended class Monday for the first time. Only one Negro was enrolled at the school which has a registration of 390 in all its six grades. No one was injured by the blast which occurred shortly after midnight.

All Is Quiet On Arkansas School Front Gov. Faubus Under Federal For Defying Orders LITTLE ROCK, Ark (UP) — Gov. Orval E. Faubus, weary from his bout with the federal government over his refusal to permit school integration here, cancelled all schedules today and went to bed for a rest. Faubus. under federal injunction subpena for his continued defiance of court orders to remove National Guard troops from a school, had been scheduled to appear on a statewide radio hookup today. The governor, who has been ordered to a hearing on the injunction matter Sept. 20, had planned to submit to telephoned questions from listeners ih an effort to have their guidance about his future course. ........... Arnold Sikes, administrative assistant to Faubus, said the governor at first objected to calling off the broadcast but “realized there was nothing new to report and that the situation was stalemated” until the subpena hearing. All was quiet today at both Central High, where a few National Guardsmen lolled around the area, and at North Little Rock High where there was a tense integration incident earlier in the week. A spokesman in his office said Faubus was not ill but had gone to bed for the day to get a much needed rest. Home front reaction could help him decide whether to give up or to resist an injunction against further use of the guard to keep nine Negroes out of Central High. Faubus made it clear, however, he will leave at least a token force of troops at the school for the present, regardless of the injunction action taken against him late Tuesday. Crackdown On Kasper His decision to continue his defiance of the federal courts and the US. Justice Department came amid these developments on the integration scene: Nashville — A quick police crackdown on segregation leader John Kasper and Nashville hoddlums gave authorities hope there would be no more violence such as the dynamiting of a school where integration of first-graders began this week. Birmingham — The Rev. F. L. Shuttles worth, beaten by white men when he tried to take Negro children to a white school, abandoned his integration plans temporarily. Washington — Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said he will introduce soon after Congress reconvenes in January a bill barring use of National Guardsmen as “the personal army or storm troop unit of a governor.” Policy of Patience Newport — President Eisenhower apparently was sticking to his policy of patience in the handling of the Little Rock dispute. Washington —Sen. Hubert HHumphrey (D-Minn.) called on Eisenhower to set up the newly authorized federal civil rights commission immediately. It would investigate civil ’rights complaints and possibly recommend any needed legislation. Washington — Secretary of State John Foster Duties expressed concern over the effect the Arkansas school fight would have on U.S. international relations. (Continued on Page -Five) 14 Page*

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Bumper Harvest Is Forecast In Nation Third Largest In History Estimated WASHINGTON (UP) — This year's bumper harvest could mean a drop in hog prices at election time next year possibly spelling trouble for Republicans. While Americans might rejoice at assurances of another wellstocked. larder, the possible adverse affect on the hog market was foreseen today by Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Don Paarlberg, who said the huge crop means a “tremendous supply” of livestock feed. Paarlberg said that like a chain reaction, a heavy supply of feed is likely to mean low feed prices during the hog breeding season in the spring which in turn “would be an Inducement to expand hog numbers unduly.” The large number of hogs would hit the market in the fall, tending to drop prices and possibly hurting Republican chances in the 1958 congressional elections in the traditionally-GOP hog belt. Next year is a critical one for Republicans in their bid to regain control of Congress. Paarlberg said the big crop, estimated Tuesday as the third largest in history, will be harvested off the smallest acreage in 40 years—reduced by 28 million acres stowed in the soil bank He said it shows the “productive capacity of American agriculture is so great that even the efforts of a big-scale soil bank are to a large extent offset.” Paarlberg added, however, that without the soil bank the crop would be “a lot bigger.” Pastures reached "extreme drought lows" by Sept. 1 in many eastern sections and were getting “short and dry” in much of the area as far west as Indiana and southward, the board said. The index of all crop production, now at 105, has been exceeded only in 1956 and 1948, the board said. The yield per acre index moved up this month to a record high level of 126, exceeding last year’s record. Decatur Lions Open Show Ticket Sales Noted Hypnotist In Decatur Sept. 26 Tickets for the stage show. Hypnotic Marvels," went on sale Tuesday by all Decatur Lions, Ralph Smith, Jr., chairman of the Lionssponsored event, said today. Each Lion has been given 20 adult tickets and 10 juvenile tickets to sell for 11 and 50 cents, respectively. The show will be held at the Decatur high school gym Sept. 26. The Lions will also prepare a program explaining the famous stage show, which stars Prof. George Singer, who has appeared on such programs as the Steve Allen show, and many others. Sale of advertising space in the pamphlet also started yesterday. The Lions are doing all of the work themselves this year, and will put the extra-money so gained to their project, the funishing of a room in the new hospital addition. ‘Everyone will not be able to furnish a hospital room by themselves,” Smith said, “but everyone will be able to buy one or two tickets to help furnish a room, or buy advertising space." The project is one of the largest undertaken recently by the service organization, and a large number of tickets must be sold to raise the money to furnish the hospital addition room.

Warns Russia To Comply To U.N. Demands End Repression Os Hungarians, Pull Troops From Nation UNITED NATIONS (UP) - Britain warned Russia today that nothing but full compliance with United Nations demands to get Soviet troops out of Hungary and end repression of the Hungarian people will satisfy the General Assembly. British Minister of State Cmdr. Allan Noble told the assembly’s special session it is estimated that some 2,090 persons have been executed in Hungary and some 80,000 political prisoners are in jail or concentration camps. He warned the assembly it must pursue its investigation of the Hungarian revolt and Russia’s suppression of it by armed might or risk the prestige and respect of the U.N. Noble said the scathing indictment of Russia contained in the 150,000-word report of the assembly’s five-member Hungarian investigating committee was endorsed by Britain “unreservedly ” Noble praised U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge for his presentation of the case against Russia and Hungary Tuesday when he opened the special session debate with a resolution now sponsored by 37 countries. Lodge’s speech, the British minister said, “was one of the most effective speeches I have heard in this assembly.” Some Western diplomats predicted optimistically that as many as 60 of the assembly’s 81 members would vote approval of the new condemnation resolution. They expressed belief that U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge’s speech at the opening meeting of the special session Tuesday would head off a large number of abstentions, especially by Afro-Asian group members. There was no doubt the new condemnation, contained in a resolution sponsored by the United States and 35 other nations, would get 54 votes — the required two(Continued on Pare Five) Coffee Price Cuts Announced Today Wholesale Prices On Coffee Reduced HOBOKEN, N.J. (UP) — The Maxwell House division of General Foods Corp- today announced immediate wholesale price cuts of 2 and 3 cents a pound on its regular grocery-pack ground coffees. Its Maxwell House and Sanka brands have been reduced 3 cents a pound, and its Yuban and Bliss coffee 2 cents. Albert Ehlers immediately followed the Maxwell House move and cut its vacuum tin coffee 3 cents to 92 cents a pound, effective immediately. Today’s reductions follow the recent decline in the green coffee market. Since the end of July Colombian mild coffees have dropped from 3t4 to 4 cents a pound, and the Brazilian grades about 2ti cents. The wholesale price cuts were immediately reflected at the retail level as Grand Union Co. announced it now is selling Maxwell House coffee at $1.02 a pound, down 3 cent*. (Continued on Pare Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September, 11, 1957.

Nashville Cracks Down On Troublemakers Over Integration In School

Immigration Bill Signed By President Eisenhower Terms Immigration Law Regrettable Bill NEWPORT, R.I. (UP) — President Eisenhower signed the new immigration law today, but he called it “regrettable” legislation. “This measure, while making improvements in present practices, is a disappointment in that it fails to deal with many of the serious inequities inherent in the Immigration and Nationality Act,” the President said in a statement accompanying his approval of the biU. The President signed the bill because it put into effect some of his recommendations to Congress last January. But he objected to the failure of Congress to grant permanent residence to Hungarian refugees, and the fact that the bill did not establish policies on admitting refugees and escapees from persecution and oppression. The Uli allows 60,000 aliens, over and above present immigration quotas, to come into the country during the next two years if they can establish “hardship” cases. Eisenhower wanted a much broader overhaul of the immigration law. He said today his recommendations of last January should be "promptly considered” by the next session -of -CongressThe law contains a provision allowing the government to waive the fingerprinting now required of visitors who are not immigrants. Russia has bitterly attacked this fingerprinting rule. Its revision was part of Eisenhower’s Jan.® 31 request to Congress. Another clause would allow up ot 50 foreign diplomats a year who break with their governments to (Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy south and central, mostly cloudy extreme north through Thursday with scattered showers likely extreme north tonight and early Thursday. Not much change in temperature. Low tonight 5865. High Thursday 74-79 north, 78-84 south. Sunset today 7:10 p.m., sunrise Thursday 6:23 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and warm. Low Thursday night in the 60s. High Friday, 85-90. '

Ask Decatur Residents View Time Question

The perennial time question, standard vs daylight, has reared its ugly head again and perplexed city officials are appealing to a clear thinking public for a solution. Mayor Robert Cole has invited residents of Decatur to offer their views ot the time question to members of the city council. Cole indicated a definite desire to follow to the letter the recent Indiana legislature’s decree which makes standard time mandatory for a seven-month period, starting the end of September. However, if Fort Wayne finds a way around the law without invoking the penalty of loss of state tax refunds, standard time in Decatur would be quite inconvenient to local residents. An announcement in a Fort Wayne newspaper this morning indicates that the Fort Wayne public school system will operate on standard time but on a schedule which is one hour earlier, which, in effect, is running on daylight time. It is unofficial, of course, but it is believed that most Fort Wayne industries, businesses and individuals will begin their day an hour earlier to gain the advantage of daylight savings time without violating the state law of central standard time. If this confusing system is fol-

Pay Increase For fit Employes Here Increase Effective Here September 15 - “A three percent increase in pay will become effective September 15 for all Decatur General Electric employes here affected by the automatic pay increase provisions of General Electric’s five-year better living program’,” George Auer, plant manager, said today. The increase, which affects the employes, is tied in with the union contract in effect between the company and the U.E. Auer noted that this automatic three percent annual pay increase comes on the heels of a recent cost-of-living increase for G.E. employes. The latter, he said, has amounted to about four and a half percent. This, together with the annual increase, will aggregate approximately thirteen and a half percent in raises since 1955. General Electric employes, under the automatic provisions of the "better living program,” have yearly increases guaranteed through 1959, Auer explained. There are still two more annual increases—larger ones—to come. In September, 1958, an increase of about three and a half percent will come into effect, with a similaf increase to come in September 1959. Guaranteed Pay Increases “These guaranteed annual pay increases are separate from and are not affected by the cost-of-living escalator of the five-year program,” Auer said. "The cost-of-living provisions bring additional pay adjustments depending on the specified changes in the government consumer price 'index and a yard stick for the cost-of-living. “The provisions of the better living program have assumed steady progress in better living in the past two years,” Auer said. “They assure steady, peaceful progress in the years ahead under provisions which will continue until 1960. “The discussions scheduled for 1958 with the union are limited by the agreement to the subject of employment security. Thus, the company employes and other interested . organizations can devote still greater effort to the task of meeting our competition —of getting the orders that make our whole better living program I possible," Auer concluded.

lowed, then Decatur will be placed between the horns of a dilemma. The city must either do similar clock juggling to skirt the state law or it will face near mayhem in the constant ties with its major neighbor. The latter situation would work a hardship on Decatur’s major industries, General Electric company and Central Soya company, which are tied to Fort Wayne industries. It would also be inconvenient for the many Decatur residents who travel to Fort Wayne each day to their place of employment. The state law very clearly states that central standard time shall be in effect starting the last of this month but there is no state law regulating the time which factories and schools must open. It is this point which is being used in an attempt to have the advantages of daylight savings time; but the at» tempt, regardless of its success, only prolongs Indiana’s long-stand-ing time problem. Any Decatur resident who wishes to add his or her opinions about time to tiie general melee is invited to contact Mayor Cole or any of the city’s councilmen. who are Norbert Aumann, Ed Bauer, Clvde Drake, Lawrence Kohne and Carl Gerber. (Continued on Paso Five)

U.S, Playing For Time In Middle East Seek Coolingoff Os Crisis Provoked By Pro-Soviet Syrians WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States today placed its military and political strength behind a policy of speaking softly and carrying a big stick ia the Middle East Officials said this country has important strategic reasons for seeking a cooling-off of the crisis provoked by pro-Soviet forces in Syria. By playing for time and moderation in the Middle East crisis the United States hopes to: —Keep the situation in Syria flexible by not formally writing Syria off as a Soviet satellite. This would allow Syria, if it chooses, to ease its tightened links with Moscow. Avoid Pressure Action —Avoid any action which might put pressure on the United States to intervene in Syria with armed force. Undercut Soviet propaganda attributing “war plans” against Syria to the United States. —Assure Israel that the speedup delivery of previously programmed arms to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon and Iraq does not jeopardize Israel’s security. The n§w American approach to the Syrian crisis is in sharp contrast to tactics followed by the Eisenhower administration only 4L few days ago. Alarm Bell Sounds A series of administration actions and statements sounded the alarm bell. Official statements voiced “deep concern” and outlined the possibility of American intervention under the Eisenhower Doctrine or within the United Nations. President Eisenhower, Secretary of State John Foster Duties and Henderson met at the White House (Continued on Pane Five) Two Boys Sentenced To Weekends In Jail BROWNSTOWN, Ind — OP) A judge sentenced two 16-year-old Seymour boys to three weekends in jail Tuesday for driving their automobiles recklessly. Judge John M. Lewis of Jackson Circuit Clnlrt tufled that Dale Stockoff, Jr., and Eugene Mahoney, Jr., should report at the county jail after school each Friday for the next three weekends and remain behind bars until Sunday night. Death Car Driver Is Fined In Court Pleads Guilty To Traffic Violation Marcelino Ramos, 36. of Willshire, O„ route one, involved in a fatal accident early Saturday morning on U. S. highway 33 about two miles south of Decatur, has appeared in justice of the peace court. A charge of driving to the left of the center of the roadway was filed against Ramos by state trooper Dan Kwasneski, who assisted in the investigation of the accident which cost the life of Sarah Ann Akers, six and a half month old baby from Ravenswood, W. Va. Ramos entered a plea of guilty to the charge and was fined $5 and costs. Investigating officers said that apparently Ramos swerved into the lane of the oncoming traffic as the result of a blowout. A witness who did not actually see the accident heard the sound of the blowout just before the two vehicles crashed. The second car was driven by Glenn E. Smith, 27, of New Haven, W. Va. The baby, who was in the front seat, was thrown from the car by the impact. Ramos and other passengers in the Smith car escaped serious injury.

Soviet Union Makes New Attack On U.S. Two-Pronged Attack Made Against U.S. MOSCOW (UP) — The Soviet Union today heated up a twopronged attack on the United States for supporting the new United Nations draft resolution oh Hungary and shipping arms to Jordan. A front-page dispatch in the of- ' ficial government newspaper Iz- ' vestia compared the American ef- ’ fortto get a new General Assem- ! bly condemnation of Russia with “threats by gangsters and rack- ’ eteers to blow up a bank or hurt ’ a family.” It said the United States is ' raising the “non-existing" Hungarian question in order to “un- ■ dermine businesslike discussion of problems of international significance.” A Tass news agency dispatch also attacked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles* news conference statements of Tuesday on Soviet Mideastem policy. It said they were “perfectly groundless ” Tass said he tried to “represent ! the hurried arms deliveries to Jor--1 dan, as actions allegedly contributing to the preservation of inde- ; pendence of the Arab countries." The Russian press attacks followed Tuesday’s charges by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko : that the United States is plotting [ with Israel and Turkey to destroy ' Syria. Gromyko said Soviet Russia “will not permit the outbreak of war in that region, while ruling circles Os the United States rudely interfere in the internal affairs of the Middle East states and attempt to throw a colonial yoke on them.” He added that Turkey is concen--1 trating troops along the Syrian border in support of “Western aggression.” But, he said, Syria has “reliable friends.” Gromyko’s charges were made in a two-hour news conference that ' covered East-West arguments on ‘ a wide plane. Safety Campaign To Open Here Saturday Eight Persons To Be Given Certificates The 12th annual courtesy safety campaign, sponsored by the Chi-., cago Motor club, will begin in Decatur Saturday and will continue for about a week and a half. During the campaign eight persons will receive certificates of award and checks for $5 each for displaying courtesy in traffic. Most of the awards will go to motorists, but pedestrians and bicycle riders are also eligible for the awards. Judges for the campaign will ba representatives of local law enforcement agencies and of service clubs, city officials and a representative of the Chicago Motor club. Purpose of the annual campaign is to remind the public of the value of common courtesy in driving habits. The sponsoring organization has conducted surveys which indicate that a major cause of accidents is poor driver attitude. The organization maintains that common courtesy can reduce traffic hazards. To promote safer driving, the motor club sponsors special awards for good driving practices and for courteous acts in traffic situations. The planners of the annual campaign also feel that a positive approach to good driving is as valuable as the negative approach of (Continued on Page Five) Plan Fiqht On Any Asian Flu Epidemic - INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A special committee met here today to make plans for fighting a possible Asian flu epidemic in Indiana. The Indiana State Medical Society and the Indiana State Board of Health appointed the six-mem-ber advisory group. The committee was expected to discuss who should get tiie shots first and possible mass inoculation programs.

Kasper Jailed Again, Five Negroes Held Segregationist Held Without Bond For Inciting Violence NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UP) - Police jailed roving segregationist John Kasper without bond today on charges of inciting violence that accompanied the integration of first graders at Nashville schools. A few hours later, authorities arrested five Negroes in a station wagon which contained ’< number of shotguns and pistols- The vehicle was parked near an area where three of Nashville’s newly integrated elementary schools are located. Kasper's arrest was his third within a 12-hour period. City and county authorities told the 27-year-old wanderer he will be arrested repeatedly until be gets out of the racially tense Nashville area and stays out. Davidson County officials brought the new charge against Kasper, basing it, they said, on his display of a noose at a Monday night segregation rally in front of the state Capitol here. Shortly after the rally broke up, terrorists dynamited one of the city’s seven schools where racial integration at the first grade level had begun the previous morning. Attendance appeared to be up over Tuesday’s light turnout when classes opened this morning, the third day of a gradual integration plan devised by local school authorities. Officials hoped that a vigorous police crackdown on troublemakers of both races would bring an early end to the city’s racial difficulties. Up until this morning there had been 33 arrests in connection with the racial turmoil, including the jailing Tuesday of five men in connection with the school dynamiting. The police crackdown on Kasper and other suspected rowdy elements was begun after violence and disorder spread over the city, particularly around the integrated schools where 6 and 7-year-olds were having a hectic time beginning their first year of education. Police Chief Douglas Hosse warned Kasper that he will be put behind bars every day until he proves he is employed. He can be held without bond for 72 hours on the new charge against him. It appeared also that damage to the Hattie Cotton School may not have been so great as was thought at first, i Margaret Cate, principal of the school, said “We hope we shall be holding classes here by the end of this week. They tell us the damage in nine classrooqu was not too great.” The Fehr School in downtown Nashville was a prime trouble spot Tuesday for the second straight day. A rock fight broke out at one point, and police arrested two Negro men, one of them a preacher alleged to have been carrying a pistol. Investigators reported meanwhile they had learned nothing definite about the dynamiting but “we are digging and digging.” Six men are being held for questioning in the case. Former Correspondent President Os Earlham RICHMOND (UP) —Landrum R. Bolling, 43, a former war correspondent and lecturer, today was announced as Earlham College’s new president. Bolling was chosen by the Quaker college's board of trustees in special session. He will succeed Dr. Thomas E. Jones, who retires in the near future. Bolling became an Earlham political science faculty member in 1948. During World War II he covered the European campaigns for several independent Wisconsin newspapers. Later, he joined the Overseas News Agency.

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