Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 218.

FAUBUS TO UPHOLD THE LAW B ||| j sn ■ *3 » ;" n W T I + •'<—.7*l I t 1 v I 3 JLU| UH wEIE WHRm ri IKSEBMHIt >< A ■ PRESIDENT EISENHOWER (left). Governor Eaubus (center), and Rep. Brooks Hays meet newsmen at the summer White House in Newport, R. 1., after their conference on the school integration crisis in Arkansas. Gov. Faubus stated that the 1954 Supreme Court decision ordering integration is the law of the land and must be obeyed.

Guards Still Patrol School At Little Rock Stilt Segregated; ’ Governor Back From Meeting With Ike LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) - Central High School, the focal point of the hottest desegregation dispute in history, opened for the third week of its fall semester today, still segregated and protected from “violence'’ by the National GuardGov. Orval Faubus said Sunday night in a TV interview that the troops jnay be withdrawn by the end of the week, There was no indication exactly when' he win withdraw them. About 25 troops lunged about the front lawn of Central High today when it opened. Mrs- L.C. Bates, {resident of the Arkansas chapter of the NAACP, had said that none of the nine Negroes turned back Sept. 4 by National Guardsmen would try to enter today. None did. Faubus emphasized Sunday night that the troops would be withdrawn only “under a condition of tranquility and general acceptance by the people” and that he would determine when that condition is met. He ordered 250 Guardsmen and highway troopers to the campus Sept. 3 to prevent "violence and Moodshed-” New repercussions of the dispute. which had gone beyond the integration stage into the dangerous situation of a governor opposing the federal government, came out of the summer White House in Newport, R.1., today. The Democratic Party’s Advisory Council charged that President Eisenhower had "failed in his duty” to exercise decisive leadership in the desegregation dispute. Eisenhower held a long conference with Faubus in Newport Saturday. White House Press Secretary James Hagerty said the Democratic councils statement would "be funny if it were not so pathetic " He accused the Democrats of playing politics and said, "The President is concerned with solutions, not political speeches/’ Rep. Frank .Thompson Jr. (£- N.J.) said in Washington that- the "outrageous action” of Faubus is "more than a national disgrace.” "It is. indeed, a gift to the Communist propaganda machine, and worst of all, an action which may have serious national and international effects,” Thompson said in a statement. In other school integration developments: NASHVILLE, Tenn.: Gov. Frank Clement says he would call out the National Guard, if necessary, to prevent agitators from thwarting integration o f Nashville (Continued on Page Five) Youthful Victim Os Polio Is Improving Two-year-old Billy Capatina, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ross of 1217 Patterson street, is a patient at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, suffering with polio which has attacked his right leg and left arm. He was admitted to the hospital earlier this month and his condition is improving. His room number is 438. The child is the fourth person in the county to suffer an attack of the disease this year. This year’s polio incidence is considerably lower than last year’s total.

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Indiana Highways Claim Heavy Toll At Least 12 Die In State Over Weekend By UNITED PRESS Indiana’s traffic death toll soared into double figures for the third straight weekend in another rash of accidents, many blamed on weather conditions At least 12 persons were killed Saturday and Sunday, six each day. Two of Sunday’s accidents, in which three persons were killed, occurred on rain-swept roads. Two Saturday accidents occurred in fog. # Jerlyn Collier, 24, Muncie, was killed outright and her mother, Mrs. Guy Gilpen, 60, Muncie, was injured fatally late Sunday in a two-car crash at the intersection of old U.S. 30 and Ind. 13 north of Pierceton. Mrs. Gilpen died a few hours after the accident in Whitley County Hospital at Columbia City. Miss Collier’s step-father, Dr. Guy Gilpen, 61, driver of one of the cats was described in serious condition at Whitley County Hospital John Couch, New Castle, the other driver also was seriously injured. State Police said the Couch car rammed into the Gilpen auto when Couch failed to stop for a stop sign at the rain-slick intersection. Washington Boy Killed David Jones. 8, Washington, was killed when a car driven by his father, Wilson, 43. went out of control on a wet blacktop road one mile north of Washington and overturned. David was thrown out of the'tar and crushed by the auto when it overturned. His father was hurt seriously. Charles Beckley, 16, Albion, died in McCray Memorial Hospital at Kendallville late Sunday from injuries sustained about eight hours earlier in a car-truck accident on a country road southeast of Albion. Authorities said Beckley apparently saw a milk truck approaching a one-lane bridge and tried to stop. The car skidded, struck an abutment, climbed the bridge railing and flipped over on top of the truck, driven by Max E. Pfafman, 17, Albion. Pfafman escaped injury. Edward P. White, 32. Indianapolis, was killed when his car smashed into a bridge rail in Indianapolis, apparently while fleeing a state trooper chasing "drag” racers, police said- The trooper's car collided with another auto a few blocks away and he was injured. Dean E. Hostetler, 29. Syracuse, was killed when his car went into a skid on a slight curve on Ind. 15 two miles south of Goshen and hit a tree Sunday. 6 Die Saturday Killed in traffic crashes Saturday were Thomas S. Hughes, 51, South Bend; Jerry D. Stevens, 22, Bremen; Katie Hochstetler, 16, Nappanee r Mrs. Ava Flynn, 32, Muncie; Lloyd F. Byhring, 28, Chicago; and Jack Neff, 23, Goshen. Hughes was killed when his car went out of control, hit a bridge, veered off the road, tore down 100 feet of fence, knocked over a utility pole and overturned. Stevens and Miss Hochstetler were victims of a two-car accident near Bremen. Mrs Flynn was killed in a cartruck accident on Ind. 32 near (Continued on Pagrf Five) INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy and warmer. Low tonight 46-52 north, 50-58 south. High Tuesday 7482. Sunset today 6:53 p. m„ sunrise Tuesday 6:28 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and warmer. Lows Tuesday night 55-60. Highs Wednesday 78-82.

Adenauer Wins By Landslide In Election One Os Greatest Election Victories In German History BONN, Germany (UP)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer won undisputed control of Parliament today in a landslide election victory that bound resurgent West Germany’s 50 million residents to the West. Final returns gave Adenauer’s Christian Democrats a 43-seat absolute majority in the lower house (Bundestag), in perhaps the greatest election victory In German history- . ' It was an overwhelming endorsement of the 81-year-oid Adenauer’s policy of close and intense cooperation with the West and it meant he could harden his opposition to Communism for four more years. The final count that returned Adenauer to power for a third term gave the Christian Democrats 270 seats in the Bundestag against 169 for the Socialists. 41 for the Free Democrats and 17 for the right-wing German party. Three of the seats were what the federal election office called “leftovers” from the country’s complicated system of proportional representation. It boosted the number of seats in the Bundestag to 497. In terms of the Western position in Europe the victory meant West Germany was: —Welded firmly to the NATO pact. —Determined to press ahead with its rearmament program and build up its 100,006 man army as a front-line barrier to Communism. . x —Committed to European integration and the common market plan which turns Western Europe into an economic unity. It was a complete rejection of Socialist calls for a new look at the German reunification problem, a plan that would take Germany out of NATO. The Socialists gathered 31 per cent of the votes, but they were swamped by Adenauer’s landslide which racked up nearly 15 million votes, or more than 50 per cent of the popular vote. The Socialists polled 9 million. It was an immense propaganda victory for the West for Adenauer campaigned ceaselessly on the thought that to turn away from the West might turn West Germany into another Hungary. It was a greater strategic victory for the West for it ensured continued German cooperation in the North Atlantic Alliance against the threat of Communist expansioll . . V. The whole campaign was fought on the single issue: For or against Adenauer and for or against his pro-Western policies. Why did Adenauer romp 'home to easy victory again? Largely because West GerlCon.il nued on Pae* Five) Funeral Held Today For Grace Hartman Mrs. Grace S. Hartman, 68. was found dead in bed Saturday at her home in Fort Wayne, where she lived alone. She was a member of the Precious Blood Catholic church. Surviving are two step-daughters, Mrs. F. A. Fink and Mrs. Florence Luley, both of Huntington; and three sisters, Mrs. Milton Girod of Decatur, Mrs. Victor Youngquist of Indianapolis, and Miss Anna Forks of Richmond. Funeral services were held this morning at the Precious Blood church.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 16,1957

Long Distance Service In Most Sections Cut By Nationwide Strike

20th Nuclear Blast Fired Early Today 20th Nuclear Blast In Summer Series Fired Early Today ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev (UP) —The 20th nuclear Mast of the Atomic Energy Commission’s summer test series slammed into the pre-dawn stillness of the Nevada desert today with an estimated force of nearly twice that unleashed by atomic bombs over Japan in World War 11. Experienced observers said the blast appeared to have an estimated yield equivalent to nearly 30,000 tons of TNT. Dubbed -’’Newton,” the device flared into a huge fireball while, suspended 1,500 feet above Yucca Flat from a helium-filled plastic balloon 75 feet in diameter. The blast shook observers violently on News Nob, 10 miles from ground zero, and rumbled on in shock waves for hundreds of miles. The flash was plainly visible in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Los Angeles and spread its glow across most of the western states. Observers in San Francisco also reported its brilliant flare. Observers said the blaze roared into a huge orange fireball, and one minute after the flare a shock wave rocked some 30 observers at News Nob. The cloud rose to near 30,000 feet as the first fingers of dawn broke the morning darkness. Twenty-five Air Force planes roared through the sky near the Mast area as part of the test. Several civil defense effect experiments were carried on but no animals were used. The device was so potent that the AECset up road blocks on U.S- 93 and 95 and Nev. 25 to halt motorists from passing in the . vicinity of the test site. Drivers were advised by officers to pull off the road at about shot time and look away from the test site to avoid possible eye injury from the Hash. The little community of Lincoln Mine stood vacant some 40 miles from the test site. All 60 of its residents had been transported to areas outside the usual blast fallout pattern by the AEC. The AEC said the community lay in the danger zone of radioactive fallout wafted to the northeast by prevailing winds and fear for its inhabitants had caused more than 20 postponements in the series. County Offices Go On Standard Time Order Given Today By Commissioners All clocks in county offices and the big court house clock will be turned back one hour on the last weekend of the month to conform with the state law imposing central standard time. A ruling ordering the clock changes was issued by the county commissioners in their regular mid-month session today. The commissioners voted to follow the new state time law and to operate all county business on the standard time schedule. The commissioners also agreed to accept bids on two automobiles for the sheriff’s department. The Ijids will be opened Sept. 30 at 9 a.m. C.S.T. in the auditor’s office at the county court house. Legal advertising for the bids will be published soon. Ben Eiting appeared before the commissioners to request the berming and side-ditching of an additional 200 feet of road on his property. The matter was referred to Lawrence Noll, county superintendent of roads. A report by Herman Moellering on the cleaning and repairing of the Henry Wagley drain was filed with the commissioners, showing a total cost of 81,360.

Hospital Unit From ''' ' Central Soya Union Donate Double Unit Room For Addition The 345 members of the Central Soya union, local 261 of the United Brewery Workers, will donate a double unit room to the new hospital addition, officers of the union announced today. | The Soya union is the first organization to donate a double unit, and the first labor organization to make an announcement of support for the new addition. The union met Saturday night and voted for the 81,000 donation. Workers felt that there was almost always one of them in the hospital, and that the new, modern addition is quite important to them as workers. All of them felt that the addition was a wonderful thing, and they wanted to help furnish the rooms. There will be 35 units in the new addition, and about—ls of them have already been spoken for. The Decatur Lions club is presently working on a project to raise money for a unit, and the American Legion has also announced that it will donate a unit. Officers of the Central Soya local 261 are Wayne Peterson, president; Albert Tinkham, recording secretary; Otto Hake, Jr., financial secretary; and trustees, Lloyd Debolt. Forrest Hawkins, and Junior Strahm; vicepresident; John RSckord, and Ser-geants-at-arms, Dick Fairchild and. Clyde Gerber. Memorial plaques will be placed on the doors of rooms for each person or organization making a unit donation of SSOO. Girl Scout Meeting Thursday Evening Public Is Invited To Attend Meeting An opportunity for every adult in the community to receive an interpretation of "complete council coverage” by a Girl Scout area council will be made available at a meeting to be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Girl Scout room of the Decatur Community Center. Mrs. Mabelle Blaekwell, member of the field staff of the national Girl Scout organization, and Miss Millie Jacobs, executive director of the Girl Scouts of Fort Wayne and Allen county, will be the main speakers at the special meeting. All adults who are active in Girl Scouting are asked to attend the meeting. An invitation has also been extended to all interested individuals and service groups of the county. , - Assisting the speakers in the program will be Mrs. R- C. Hersh, Mrs. W; F. Schnepf, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Harper and Mrs. C. Doyle Collier, all of Decatur. k These local persons have been members of the area development committee and its subcommittees which have spent several months studying the workability of a proposed jurisdiction, outlining a po tential organizational scheme to serve it, gathering pertinent facts and formulating a possbile plan of work and budget for the first year of operation. Following work and study, the committee formulated specific recommendations on these points and are now disseminating these to the six counties included in the proposed council. Meetings in the other five counties will include Fort Wayne, Plymouth Congregational Church. Sept. 17; Bluffton, Girl Scout room, Sept. 23; Angola,-at the schoM, Sept. 24, and Auburn, the Methodist Church, Sept. 26. AU meetings wiU begin at 7:30 p.m. Savings Bond Sales Decrease In State INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — U. S. savings bond sales in August in Indiana totaled nearly 13% million [dollars, a drop of 2.6 per cent from the corresponding figure in 1956.

10 Killed In Plane Crash Sunday Night Airliner Crashes In Swamp Near To New Bedford Port NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (UP)_ A Boston-to-New York Northeast airiiner with 24 persons aboard crashed in a swamp near Municipal Airport Sunday night while trying to land in a thick fog. At least 10 persons died and 14 others were injured. The dead included the pilot and co-pilot. The stewardess, the only other crew member, was injured criticaUy. CivU Aeronautics Board investigator Joseph 0 Fluet arrived early today for an on-the-spot inquiry into the crash of the behind-sched-ule plane The dead and injured were carried on Utters through waist-high swamp water in a difficult rescue operation. Rescuers stretched ladders over the quagmire to keep their footing. A dog and a cat survived the crash. Gerald H. Bland of Newark, , N.J., said, "There was a lot of 1 pain but no panic. Everyone be- : haved wonderfuUy.” . " Dead are: Charles A. Chase of Vineyard , Haven, Blass., en route to New York. The pilot, Capt Vincent L. Pitts, 35, WeUesley, Mass. Co - pilot. Roger Sweetland, 31, Arlington, Mass. AUan Melhado, Nantucket and 57 Park Ave., New York, an investment banker. Mr. M. K. Schles, 675 Madison Ave., New York City. David L. Chapman, 12 E. 88th St , New York City. RusseU D. Bell, 70, of 4625 Grand Blvd., Montreal, a banker. Three women’s bodies, believed to be: Mrs. Bradshaw (Britton Ave.) Elmhurst, L.I. Mrs. Eccles, Elmhurst, L.1., traveling with Mrs. BradshawMrs. Mary BrowneU, Jamestown, .1. Plane Didn’t Burn The radar-less twin-engine DC3 split wide open Uke a broken egg. But the death toU was held down by the fact the wreckage did not burn. Rescuers walked or rode single file over a narrow, winding dirt road, only open access to the swamp, and spread ladders end on end oyer the bog to gain footing in carrying out the dead, dying and injured. Floodlights pierced the clammy (Continued on PM* Five) Juanita Brodbeck Is Taken By Death Funeral Services To Be Wednesday Mrs. Juanita Brodbeck. 43, wife of Marion Brodbeck, 219 South Ninth street, died at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in falling health for several years with complications and seriously ill the past three days. She was born in Decatur June 20, 1914, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest O. Krugh, and was a lifelong resident of this city. She was married to Marion Brodbeck Dec. 13, 1938. Mrs. Brodbeck was a member of the Church of God and the American Legion auxiliary. Surviving in addition to her husband are a daughter, Sheri Lynn Brodbeck, at home, and one brother, Vernon Krugh of Decatur route 4. Two sons, four sisters and one brother preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at .2 p m. Wednesday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating. Burial wiU be in the Tricker cemetery. Friends may caU at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Family Involved In Four Fatal Shootings Arrest Father For Questioning In Case MINNEAPOLIS (W — Police today disclosed the arrest of Michael O’Kasick, 58, for questioning about the part played by three of his sons in four fatal shootings, a kidnaping, and a flight from police. They also wanted him for possible parole violation. He was arrested at Duluth. Two of his sons were dead, a daughter was under arrest, and another son was critically wounded and in a hospital. There were other members of the family, police said, but they were not sought by authorities. One of the other sons, Richard, said about his late brothers and those involved with police: “I knew they were going bad, but there was nothing I could do about it.” One brother, James, 20, was shot during his capture. James and brothers Roger, 26, and Ronald, 24, were accusqd of murderthey took for a hostage. Roger ing a policeman and a farmer and Ronald were slain while police were trying to capture them. James O’Kasick was rushed to Minneapolis General Hospital Saturday night shortly after his two brothers were cuj down by police bullets in a swamp near Wyoming, Minn. Kill a Policeman The three had killed a Minneapolic policeman and wounded another exactly one month earlier. They also murdered in cold blood a father of three children whom they took as a hostage on their fear crazed flight from authorities Saturday. En route to the hospital, the youth who tried to take his own life with a bullet through the (Continued on Pare Two) Safely Awards For Two Young Drivers First Os Courtesy Awards Announced Two youthful drivers are the first to receive courtesy safety awards in the current Chicago Motor club safety campaign, it was announced today. Raymond W. McDougall, 18, of Preble, and Theodore W. Gage, 23, of 728 North Fifth street, have each received certificates of award and checks for 85 in recognition of special acts of courtesy displayed while driving. Mayor Robert E. Cole was the judge who selected Gage for an award after he observed the Decatur man pass up a light change at the intersection of Fifth and Monroe streets to allow pedestrians to cross safely. Gage, who has been driving for seven years, is a local barber. Mayor Cole indicated that he was pleased to award the certificate and check to the young man for his obviously courteous attitude. Cole stated that while searching for a recipient the most commonly observed fault was the improper use of turn signals. A similar act of courtesy, observed by police chief James Borders, brough McDougall his award. McDougall, whqrijte a painter by occupation ami has been driving for about three years, also waited at a green light to allow a group of bicyclists through the intersection first. Chief Borders, who is concerned with increased driver safety, stated that a violation which he sees frequently is that of motorists driving with bright lights instead of dimming them in the city. The safety campaign will continue for several days and other motorists in the area who are seen displaying acts of courtesy will receive similar awards. The campaign is sponsored each year by the motor club to point up the value of courtesy in traffic and to encourage better driver attitudes.

Installers In 44 States Go Out On Strike Local Services Near Normal As Equipment Installers On Strike NEW YORK (UP) — Western Electric Co. equipment installers in 44 states went on strike today, and long distance telephone opera* tors refused to pass picket lines at many of the nation’s major communications centers. Supervisory telephone company employes began taking over operation of long distance lines shortly after the strike went into effect at 5 a.m. cd.t. By mid-morning long distance service in most sections of the country was curtailed, ' and in some cases reduced to emergency calls only.— -- Local telephone service throughout the nation was reported nearly ! normal. Telephone company spokesmen gave assurances that ’ the automatic switchboard system r which controls 85 per cent of local r telephone service would not be af* " fected by the strike. The walkout was called against 0 Western Electric by the Commu- '• nications Workers of America, a o union representing 23,800 employes e who install Western Electric tele- - phone equipment in central offices of telephone and telegraph companies The union had demanded a . pay boost and improved fringe . benefits, but negotiations broke oft three hours before the strike dead* j line. They were scheduled to resume this afternoon. Seme Calls Difficult The union estimated that 150,000 telephone company employes , would observe the installer’s picket ' lines, which were only of token , size in many communities. However, early reports indicated that the picket lines were only 40 or 50 per cent effective as a national » average. The New York Telephone Co. reported its long distance switchboards were 50 per cent manned with some office personnel puuosaad )uau»9ewsai pus aAnuq filling in as emergency operatorsThe American Telephone and Telegraph Co. flew 100 adminisoffices in Cincinnati, Ohio, and ■ to major transcontinental traffic Memphis, Tenn., to operate long distance lines. The company ad- , mitted its long distance service was **a little slow." The United Press bureau in Los Angeles reported It was impossible to get a call through to New York. Similar difficulty was reported by •the UP. Newark, N.J., bureau. The AT&T informed the United Press that it could accept only “emeifcency” messages on its timed wire service (TWX>. Effectiveness of the strike will be more apparent as new shifts (Continued on Pace Four) Air Force Reserve Flight In Decatur Meet Wednesday To Organize Flight An air force reserve flight will be established in Decatur Oct. 1, the headquarters of the Fort Wayne air reserve center announced today. The new air reserve flight will be the second reserve unit to locate in Decatur within the past two years. Battery B, of the 424th field artillery battalion, army reserve, was the first. Reservists of this area will meet Wednesday night at the American Legion home at 7:30 p. m. with representatives of the Fort Wayne air reserve center. Persons now in the air force reserve or others recently discharged from o’ne of the armed forces are invited to attend the meeting. The type of classroom training to be offered will be discussed, and applicants will be Interviewed for assignment to the flight. ■ A course in management is ! planned. Gasses will meet in the evening, and members will receive pay for attending. *

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