Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 215, Decatur, Adams County, 12 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 215.

TENSION EASES AT LITTLEROCK SCHOOLS *wK wS ’I & "x’/?/■..’». ■■■ f .j^'^-.’ : %-’l' v AmLji SHBs - i WITH ARKANSAS’ Gov. Orval Faubus headed for personal consultation with President Eisenhower at Newport, R. 1., Little Rock’s Central High School presented a scene of relaxed tension. White students quickly turned to their normal forms of entertainment, staging an informal street dance in front of the school while National Guardsmen look on.

School Threat Is Voiced By Gov. Handley Threatens Loss Os State Aid If Time Law Circumvented INDIANAPOLIS — W — Governor Handley said today that Indiana schools will lose State aid if they hold classes on a “fast” time schedule while their clocks are on •slow" time as required by law. Handley issued that threat in the course of a discourse during which he confused newsmen by first taking that attitude, then expressing one diametrically opposed, and returning to his original statement. 4 • - Handley said at a news conference he wanted to "make plain’ the feeling of the state! administration” on whether awfflunities legally can circumvent the new state time law which requires clocks to be returned to Central Standard Time Sept. 29. The law says schools or cities which disobey will have state aid cut off. For more thah half an hour, newsmen tried to clarify this point: Wants to be Consistent What if the school sets clocks back as the law requires but tells pupils to begin classes an hour earlier, thus in effect continuing Daylight Saving Time? Would schools lose state aid? Newsmen who atended the conference agreed the governor at first said they would, then said they would not, and finally returned to his original statement. Handley said he was determined to be “consistent with the law” regardless of the merits of “fast” and “slow” time. Handley said he was fed up with persons who want him to “wink at the law with one eye and abide by it with the other.” The governor’s final statement seemingly disagreed with State Auditor Roy Combs’ opinion. Combs is the official who would stop state aid for a government agency violating the law. Referring to schools. Combs said, “I doubt if could control the working.” This meant he doubted he could withhold funds if a school opened its doors at 1 a.m. CST instead of 8 a.m. CST. Deputy State Auditor Allen Lindley agreed. Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers said he found no statutes requiring schools to open or close at any time. Take No Sides Steers said he advised Combs that “as long as the schools are on CST that wa? all that was needed.” _-t Combs said although he does not believe that starting to school an houraearlier would be grounds for withholding state aid he will do so if the governor asks him. “If the governor says it is a violation I will withhold.” Combs said, “but I say he’ll never say that.” Handley said Statehouse employes will start to work at 8:15 a.m. CST after the time change. They now begin at 8:15 a.m. CDT. The governor said he has been—informed by many communities that they intend to abide by the law. He said he expected city employes “to go to work at the same time I go to work.” 10 Pages -

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Anderson College Students Stricken Aslan Flu Tests Made On Students ANDERSON — (W Eleven new cases of a "mild type of flu” which might be Asian were reported at Anderson College today. Meanwhile, the college began a mass inoculation campaign to fight the virus. A shipment of Asian flu vaccine was sent to the college from Indianapolis. The Inoculations already were underway. The school was using about 300 doses left over from city employe vaccinations. The eleven new cases brought the total number of cases in a of the disease have been reported at the college. State Rep. Arthur Atwell RAnderson met with 1 Governor ■ Handley today to discuss the situation. Atwell said the governor promised to try and get 1,000 additional vials of Asian flu vaccine for Anderson. Dr. John Ashcraft, the college physician, said 56 students were isolated Wednesday night in a temporary ward set up in a men’s residence hall. The first cases of the disease which sent temperatures to. “103 and 104 degrees” were reported Monday. “The number of cases has been increasing every day since then,” Ashcraft said. “Whatever this is, it has affected a significant portion of the student body.” The State Health Board is investigating the outbreak. Ashcraft said throat washes and blood samples have been taken. They will be checked for the possibility of Asian flu. ‘ But I understand it will take three or four weeks,” Ashcraft said. Meanwhile, officials are planning a possible mass inoculation of the other college students as a preventive measure“Perhaps 75 or 85 students have been hit,” Ashcraft said. “Whenever their temperature breaks we send them home because of the nature of the isolation wards.” The outbreak came to light on the eve of the opening of classes for the new school year.. Students have been arriving since last weekend for preliminary activities in connection with the new term. It was the second outbreak of flu-type illness in Indiana in recent weeks. Last July, a busload of Spanish-speaking Texas - Mexicans enroute to Michigan for farm work was stranded at Wabash when illness attacked many of the 65 persons aboard, including the driver. Dr. Louis Spolyar of the State Health Board said the board had not received a report from the Public Health Service Laboratory in Atlanta on the Wabash outbreak. Spolyar explained that the state does not have the facilities to run the time-consuming virus tests. The test fpr Asian flu is particularly long. Spolyar said first a sample of the blood and a throat wash of the victim must be taken within three days after the disease hits. The throat wash is concentrated and placed in eggs in the same way the flu vaccine is produced The virus is allowed to grow for about a week. Then three to four days of study under electron microscopes is needed before the exact virus is determined, Spolyar said. ‘ If the Asian flu virus is present it still doesnLt prove that it was the cause of the illness. Meano (Continued on Page Tnree,

Robber Nabbed Few Minutes After Holdup Ex-Convict Seized 16 Minutes After Logansport Holdup SOUTH BEND (UP) — An exconvict who was captured 16 minutes after a robbery at the First Federal Savings & Loan Association at Logansport today faced possible charges in connection with robberies at Plymouth and LaPorte. was lodged in St. Joseph County Jail here late Wednesday, several hours after a U.S. district attorney charged him with bank robbery He was slated to be arraigned before a U.S. commissioner today. Walls was arrested by Logansport police Wednesday shortly after an “unshaven” bandit used a revolver to rob the loan association of $6*741. The money was found in his pockets. Marshall County authorities noted that Walls’ method of operation was similar to one used in the robbery of the Security Loan Company at Plymouth July 6 and Aug. 16. Sheriff Harvey Phillips, Orville Weiske, manager of the firm; Mrs. Thelma Collins, a clerk, and Lawrence Hoham, a customer in the office at the time of the robbery, all identified him as the bandit. Weiske said he was present on July 6 when a bandit robbed the firm of $1,510. He was out to lunch on Aug. 16 when a gunman held, Mr?. Collins and Hoham at bay before escaping with about S9OO. The LaPorte County Sheriff and several witnesses were expected to come here today to view Walls in connection with a robbery at LaPorte five weeks ago. Meanwhile, state and local authorities were searching Logansport for a car which Walls said he stole in Blue Island, Hl., a suburb of Chicago, Monday night for use in the robbery. He told them he parked the car on a side street. Walls said the last time he shaved was Friday when he went from New Albany to Chicago. He said he was in Logansport three months ago “to case” the robbery. Walls was sentenced to a 20-year term in Leavenworth Federal Prison in Kansas in 1941 for the robbery of the Citizens Trust Company and Bank at Jeffersonville. He was arrested the day of the robbery and the $5,860 stolen was found on him. He was released from Leavenworth in February, 1956, after serving 15 years. Walls said he worked “as a carpenter and at other trades” in New Albany and Louisville after his release. He said the revolver he used in the Logansport robbery was purchased in Kansas. Police said Walls served a oneyear term in an Indiana institu(Continued on Paste Five) INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional rain showers this afternoon, tonight and Friday. Not much change in temperature tonight and Friday 73-77 north, 76-82 south. Sunset today 6:59 p.m.„ sunrise Friday 6:23 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and cool with chance of show- i era early Saturday. Low Friday night tn the Ms. High Saturday 7M5.

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 12,1957

President Eisenhower Will Confer Saturday With Governor Faubus

Officials In Nashville Ask Court Order Court Injunction Sought To Enforce Racial Integration NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UP) — Federal and local officials sought a court injunctton today to enforce racial integration in first grade classes here bin a campaign of “quiet resistance” held school attendance down sharply. Authorities planned to ask for a federal injunction—like the one that finally broke the resistance to racial mixing at Clinton, Tenn. —to stave off more violence in opposition to Nashville's gradual integration plan. John Kasper, the most vocal opponent of the plan, was in jail and police patrolled six integrated, schools to keep troublemakers of both races in check. Eleven of the 19 negroes who began attending previously allwhite classes Monday were back in school today but scores of white pupils continued to stay home. Some white parents took Jheir children out of class at Glenn School today after two Negroes School officials said they expected “quiet resistance” of this type instead of the rock throwing and jeers that marked integration efforts earlier in the week. Crowds around the newly integrated schools were sparse and police, using walkie-talkie radios for instant communication, kept a close watch on them. Thirty-two persons were fined in City Court Wednesday for various law violations in connection with the first three days of first grade integration. U.S- Dist. Atty. Fred Elledge Jr. and Mayor Ben West were seeking government aid in putting down the violence that has marked the first three days of integrated attendance and which was climaxed by the dynamiting of one integrated school. Federal Judge William Miller was to be asked to grant the injunction today, West said. The mayor said he also will ask federal authorities to revoke bond which Kasper has posted on his appealed convictions in connection with the Clinton, tenm, disorders last year. He was given a workhouse term by City Judge Andrew Doyle on four charges in connection with his crowd-baiting. The term was imposed when Kasper was unable to (Continued on Page Five) Cooler Weather Is Indiana Forecast Forecast Os Wa rm Spell Is Changed By UNITED PRESS An unexpected temperature moderation nipped in the bud today a warm spell that had been predicted for Indiana. The weatherman had forecast highs of around 84 today and 85 to 90 Friday for Hoosierland in his prognostications issued Wednesday. But the situation changed overnight and the highs were revised to 75 to 80 today and 70 to 78 Friday. A little rain fell over areas in all except the extreme north portion of the state during the 24 hours ending this morning. Lafayette got .40 of an inch, Evansville .10 and Indianapolis .08. Occasional rain was forecast throughout Hoosierland today, tonight and Friday- There was a chance of showers Saturday, too, and temperatures will remain “cooL” The mercury nearly hit 90 Wednesday at Evansville, stopping at 89. Indianapolis had a high of 83 and Fort Wayne 81. South Bend and Lafayette had tops of 78. The temperature dropped to the 60s throughout the state early this morning, lows ranging from 64 at South Bend to 68 at Evansville., Lows tonight will be in the 60s.

Pro-Soviet Syrian Clique In Meeting Coordinate Plans If Syria Attacked By MURRAY BROWN United Press Staff Correspondent Leaders of the pro-Soviet Syrian military clique conferred in Cario today on what semi-official reports described as the “coordination of military plans” in the event of any attack on Syria. ‘ Syrian army chief of staff Maj. , Gen. Arif Bizri and Lt. Col. Abdel ’ Hamid Serraj, military intelli- . gence chief, flew in from Dama- . scus Wednesday night. A Cairo dispatch said their arrival came as a surprise. —7— —- - ‘ Bizri and Serraj are generally • regarded as the two prime movers ! in Syria’s swing into the Soviet ’ orbitJ 1 Hold Consolations Shortly after their arrival, they went |into consolations with mini ister of war Maj. Gen. Abdul Ha--1 kim Amer, commander-in-chief of f the joint Syrian-Egyptian forces Wader the defense pact signed two ( years ago. Later they met with Egyptian t President Gamal Abdel Nasser. > Thq semi-official Mideast News , Agency said the Egyptian and Syr- • ian military leaders discussed “co--1 ordinition of Egypt’s and Syria’s > military plans.” "They also made Kt ap ‘Examination of the general . military situation,” it added. . Son|e Western sources speculat- [ ed th it Bizri and Serraj went to . Cairo to find out just how much support they could depend on from Egypt in the event of a military I showdown. Praises Gromyko Earlier in the day, Syrian Premier Sabri Assali praised Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko’s jhands-off-Syria” warning to the United States as a “great deed.” He said the Soviet position as laid down by Gromyko in Moscow was an ‘(honorable pro-Arab stand.” Other Syrian politicians and the press also lauded Gromyko. In Jerusalem, and Israeli foreign minister spokesman shrugged off Gromyko’s attack on Israel as a “pawn” of the United States as more propaganda. He said it was aimed at winning sympathy of Arab nationalists who are united in their hatred of Israel. y . I I , Narcotics Peddlers And Users Arrested Federal Narcotics Agent Is Wounded ST. LOUIS (UP) — Nearly 70 known narcotics peddlers and users were held by authorities today after the shooting of a federal narcotics agent pushed ahead the planned wholesale arrest of violators this weekend. Agent David McNealy Jr., 25, was shot in the abdomen and both arms early Wednesday in an unprovoked attack by ex-convict William Hughes, who served a fouryear prison sentence from 1950 to 1954 for peddling narcotics. The narcotics bureau here said McNealy was investigating the Chic-ago-to-St. Louis drug operation. Hughes, 33, denied recognizing McNealy as a federal agent when he saw him at the Troccadear Lounge. Hughes said the two argued over S2O McNealy had borrowed from him and he shot when he thought the agent was reaching for a gunThe former convict was arrested by police a few hours later. He has been charged with assault with intent to kill. McNealy underwent surgery for the abdominal wound and remained in serious condition at the Homer G. Phillips Hospital. The narcotics bureau said a drug ring operating between Chicago and St. Louis had been under surveillance for several months and it was planned to arrest drug violators this weekend. After the shooting, agents and police moved 1 quickly to round up suspects. '

Seek To Head Off National Phone Strike l » 55,000 Telephone Workers Threaten To Strike Monday NEW YORK (UP) - Federal mediators tried today to head off a threatened nationwide strike Monday of 55,000 telephone workers. Two mediators from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service formally entered the deadlocked negotiations between the Communication Workers of America and the Western Electric Co. Until ti> day, the mediators had been on a* standby basis. Both union and company spokesmen expressed hope a settlement could be reached before the Monday strike deadline, set Wednesday by the union. But highly informed sources in Washington Said he doubted that the walkout could ( be averted CWA President Joseph A. Beirne i said a strike would affect long- . distance service in 45 states and . the District of Columbia. Only i Maine, Vermont and New Hamp- , shire would not be affected if I picket lines were set up. A strike wonid have little immediate effect on local calls since ’ 85 per cent of such service is pro-j vided by automatic dial equipment. Unauthorized "quickie” strikes were staged by telephone workers in eight states Wednesday. They left their jobs for six hours in seven Western states and in Ohio. The wildcat walkouts were attributed to rank - and - file dissatisfaction with the progress of contract negotiations. Beirne predicted that in addition to the 55,000 affected workers, another 145,000 union members would respect picket lines. The dispute concerns contract renewals with seven bargaining units across the country. The union said Western Electric had offered an average hourly pay boost of nine cents under a three(Contlnued on Page Five) Heart Attack Fatal To Retired Pastor Rev. Edgar Clouser Is Taken By Death The Rev. Edgar F. Clauser, 7», retired minister, died at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday at the home of a son-in-law and daughter, the Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Klopfenstein, following a heart attack. He had been in failing health two years. Rev. Clauser, native of- Lehigh county, Pa., had resided in Berne the past five years. He was a retired minister and evangelist of the Missionary church association, and *was a member of the First Missionary church at Berne. Surviving in addition to the daughter are the widow, Anna M., . who was removed from the Adams county memorial hospital to her home Tuesday; four sons, Paul Clauser of Dallas, Tex., Clifford and Joe Clauser of Fort Wayne, and Homer Clauser of Redwood City, Calif.; another daughter, Mrs. Don Miller of Fort Wayne; 22 grandchildren; 25 great-grand-children: one great-great-grand-child, and three brothers, Robert Clauser of Newmanstown, Pa., William Clauser of Allentown, Pa., and Henry Clauser of Auburn. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First ' Missionary church in Berne, the Rev. Cornelius Viot and the Rev. Jared F. Gerig officiating. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home until noon Saturday, after which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services. The body may be viewed at Lindenwood cemetery in Fort Wayne prior to burial rites. Memorial gifts may be made to the Reusser memorial home or to other missionary causes.

Gromyko Accused Os Falsification Unusual Personal Attack From U.S. WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States today accused Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of "falsifications” and "Mustering” in charging that the United States is plotting intervention in Syria. Hie State Department said Gromyko seemed to be “deliberately calculating to break those bridges of understanding which still sustain our hopes for peace.” The unusual personal attack on the Soviet foreign minister was prompted by statements he made in Moscow at a Tuesday news conference. In addition to his charges on Syria, Gromyko denounced American-Allied policies on disarmament, and European, Middle Eastern and Far Eastern affairs. “The United States deplores the statements made by Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko on Sept. 10,” the State Department statement said. "Its falsifications and its intemperance seem deliberately calculated to break those bridges of understanding which still sustain our hopes for peace. “It totally distorts the policies and objectives of the free world. “Mr. Gromyko’s statement follows faithfully the old Molotov line which the Soviets themselves so recently condemned as hampering the pronfotion of world peace. “His blustering attack on ‘thd (Eisenhower Doctrine’ is similar ts ipast attempts to frighten the free nations from taking action to reinforce their freedom. No Verdict To Date In Fatal Accident Coroner Probing Latest Accident No coroner’s verdict in the recent death of six-months-old Sarah Ann Akers is likely until about the end of the year, Elmer Winteregg, county coroneix said late Wednesday afternoon. Winteregg made the statement in the ofifce of the Decatur Daily Democrat while there discussing a Monday editorial, “Tragedy Stalked the Highway.” The county coroner objected to the statement in the editorial, “The second tragedy will be if officials hastily brush off the incident as merely accidental without thoroughly investigating the mishap. This was done here earlier this summer in a fatal mishap on U. S. highway 224 and there have been constant and ugly rumors concerning the quick disposition of the case as ‘an accident’ without placing the blame on anyone.” Winteregg stated that he had conducted a personal thorough probe of the earlier incident, and that he found that there was not enough evidence of criminal wrongdoing to prosecute. He stated that just because a man had fallen asleep and had driven on the wrong side of the highway, causing three deaths, was not sufficient evidence, since no intent to do wrong was present. Falling asleep at the wheel is not a criminal action in itself. Winteregg said. Winteregg added that no appropriation was made this year for a coroner’s inquest, so that it was not likely that any would be held in such cases. (A check of records in the county auditor’s office show that there was no request for a coroner's inquest submitted this year by the county coroner.) Indianapolis Man Dies In Accident INDIANAPOLIS (ffl — Edward C. Lang, 62, Indianapolis, died Wednesday night in Methodist ; Hospital from injuries sustained a few hours ’ earlier when his automobile swerved out of control and struck a tree along a i city - ?

To Confer On School Scrap In Arkansas Governor Faubus To , Fly To Conference At Base In Newport NEWPORT, R. I. W — The White House announced today that President Eisenhower and Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas will meet here at the Newport naval base Saturday morning. Word of Faubus’ travel plans reached the vacation White House in a round-about manner. According to Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark.) telephoned Sherman Adams, the assistant to the President, in Washington this morning and told him Faubus would fly to Newport early Saturday. Hagerty told reporters here that Hays also informed Adams that a telegram to the President from Faubus was “on the way.” Before Hays got in touch with Adams, ‘the vacation White House ripped into an early morning broadcast to the effect that White House aides” in Newport interpreted Faubus’ request for a meeting with the Preskient a» "throwing to the sponge” on the /volatile school integration issue. Hagerty called this broadcast “junk” and “completely untrue.” The President and Hagerty were outap'kenly angry over fee broadcast. . . . /• ”1 UM* heard White House aides qlibted on such things as •throwing in the sponge’ and other junk,” Hagerty said. “We have definitely refrained from such remarks and any such reports are completely untrue.” The President went to his office at the Navy base early this morning, listened to broadcasts and then directed Hagerty to make a statement expressing White House displeasure over reports that White House aides considered the Faubus request for a meeting as evidence of “throwing in the sponge.” Hagerty met with reporters shortly before the President left for the golf course. The National Security Council met this morning at the White House in Washington with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, presiding. Hagerty said the meeting was “routine” and not the result (Continued on Page Five) i - G.E. Plant Planning Inventory Shutdown The Decatur General Electric plant’s annual physical inventory shutdown is scheduled this year for Thursday, Sept. 26. In addition to the annual one-day closing for inventory, the Decatur plant will work only four days the week ending Sept. 20 and remain closed the Friday after inventory, Sept. 27. Normal operations will be resumed Monday, Sept. 30. The two short work weeks are planned in an effort to maintain the work force at the present level and In view of optimism in the form of increasing orders for the latter part of the year. Convert Mail Box To Curb-Feed Slot The mail box in front of the Decatur office has been outfitted with a “snorkel” or curb-feed mail slot, postmaster Leo Kirsch said this morning. A new cement walk just east of the post office has been installed, and the converted box will be moved to the new location. The city street department will remove a row of parking meters in front of the new location, and paint the curb yellow, changing the area from vertical parking to no parking. This will allow drivers to approach the mail box in their cars, drive alongside the new "snorkel” slot, and deposit their mall without leaving the car, or violating the law.

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