Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 224, Decatur, Adams County, 23 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 224.

FLU HIT* SCHOOL IN ENGLAND ■ i--1t 1 ■hb>3 Wt J -"•■•■ mmm |K*UWt#*’** .’*“ Ok j'- I "*® & iIImIiKHiNKHHKH^ f ’ W ' %k - TEACHES J. Reeson, of the Earl Rise School In Woolwich, England, carries on with the few pupils he had left after Asian flu hit the school. Mr. Reeson usually has 34 in his class. This day he had three. A total of 216 children was stricken in the whole school.

Handley Puts Time Problem Up To Steers Controversial Time Problem Passed To Attorney General INDIANAPOLIS (UP) - Governor Handley today tossed Indiana's controversial time problem into the lap of the attorney general and indicated in a written proclamation that he will not rule on any time law violations. Handley said Sept. 12 that he would order state aid withheld from any governmental unit or subdivision which sidestepped a 1957 law enacted by the last Legislature to promote time uniformity with “slow” time seven months and “fast" time five months each year. He issued a proclamation this morning ordering State Auditor Roy Combs to “withhold any and all funds due any governmental unit or subdivision .in accordance with Chapter 172 (the time law) whenever the attorney general has determined that a violation . . . has occurred.” Although Handley’s proclamamation indicated he will not rule personally on alleged violations, it indicated he wil "field” them and peg each to Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers. In effect, Handley stuck tightly to his previous attitude that the Legislature meant for the entire state to be on the same time schedule —and not just the governmental units. “It is deemed essential for the orderly conduct of governmental affairs of the citizens of Indiana to have uniformity of time throughout the entire state," the proclamation said. "Chapter 172. . in effect prescribes that the legal time ■.. be Central Standard Time during the seven autumn and winter months and Central Daylight Time during the five summer months. "I am charged upon my sworn oath to uphold the Constitution and the law of the State of Indiana, and in furtherance of that duty I have carefully read and interpreted the Intent of the 1957 Legislature. “In any factual situation hereafter arising I shall submit each case to the attorney general for his determination of any question of violation. “I. .. do hereby declare that the offices of state government shall operate in accordance with Chapter 172 •. . and further I hereby direct the auditor of state to withhold any and all funds -due any government unit or subdivision thereof in accordance with Chapter 172 whenever the attorney general has determined that a violation of Chapter 172 has occurred.” Steers previously has been quoted as saying that there is no law on the books which can prevent a school from changing its class hours. Some school officials have made plans to change class schedules after Sept 29 when “slow” time is supposed to be resumed, citing traffic problems brought about by the time change. Girl Is Killed In Fall From Tractor EVANSVILLE ffl — A 1 fde Schmitt, 11,' died Sunday in Deaconess Hospital here about two hours after she fell from a farm tractor while riding with her two brothers near Haubstadt. T h e brothers. Alvin, 14, and William, 8, said a rear wheel crushed their sister’s head.

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Historical Society Meets Here Tuesday New Society Holds First Meeting Here Interest in the newly forming Adams county historical society increased today with the knowledge that Hubert H. Hawkins, director of the Indiana historical bureau, will be present for the first meeting Tuesday at 8 p. m. at the Decatur library. G. Remy Bierly, president of the Anthony Wayne Parkway commission, will preside at the meeting, which will be held in the large club room in the library basement. Mimeographed copies of the report of the constitution committee will be available for each person attending. Tom Adler, chairman of the constitution committee, stated that he was aided in preparing the work by Robert Shoup, of Bluffton, Elmer Ehrsam. Martin Watson, and Robert Brown. - The organizational committee met August 28 at the library, and planned the meeting for Tuesday night, September 24. Representing Decatur at that meeting were W. Guy Brown, superintendent of schools; Miss Bertha Heller, city librarian; Gerald Durkin, rural mail carrier; and Dick Heller, Jr., of the Decatur Daily Democrat. Other representatives were Thomas Adler, Washington township; F. 'C. Schmiege, 'and the Rev. O. C. Busse. Preble township; John F. Rosier and Mrs. Severin H. Schurger, Root township; Elmer Ehrsam, Monroe township; Robert L. Brown. Kirkland township; Berne, Miss Eva Sprunger, Menno I. Lehman, E. W. Baumgartner, and Ernest J. Stengel; Geneva, Miss Blanche Aspy; Mrs. Brayton Pyte, Jefferson township. Everyone interested in any phase of Adams county history. geneoWgy, Indian lore, roads, schools, churches, cemeteries, war. or any other phase, is invited to attend the meeting. Hawkins, a dynamic man responsible for the renewed interest throughout the state in local history. has visited twice in Decatur to get the local historical society going. Adams county has become the tenth county in the 14 counties of northeastern Indiana to found a society, Luke Scheer, president of the Council for Local History, Inc., stated. Scheer, who is a public relations man for a Detroit firm, still maintains his interest in Indiana history developed during his youth in Huntington. He is a noted authority on the Indian history of Indiana. Scheer will visit in Decatur in the near future to help spark interest in local history. Dr. Robert Kohne, of Lafayette, a member of the Council for Local History, Inc., and son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Kohne of Decatur, is also very interested in the new organization. Dr. Kohne is well-known throughout the state for his interest in Hoosier (Continued on rare Bix> INDIANA WEATHER JFair and quite cool tonj/ht, scattered frost likely north/portion. Tuesday fair, somewhat warmer northeast. Low tonight 37-42 north, 42-50 south. High Tuesday 68-76. Sunset today 6:41 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:34 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Warmer Tuesday night but turning cooler Wednesday. Chance of some scattered light showers Tuesday night and Wednesday. Low Tuesday night in 50s. High Wednesday in TO*.

Hoffa Asks For Wire Tapping Trial Delay Federal Judge Sets Oct. 15 For Trial Os Hoffa, Others NEW YORK (UP) — Midwest Temaster boss James Hoffa today asked for an indefinite continuance of his trial on federal wire tap charges because “the atmosphere is saturated with prejudice.” But Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan set Oct. 15 for trial at Hoffa and two others on charges they tapped phones at Hoffa’s Detroit headquarters. Judge Ryan gave Hoffa’s attorneys until Oct. 2 to file motions in support of their argument that the leading contender for president of the Teamsters Union could not get a fair trial. U. S- Prosecutor Paul W. Williams agreed to delay the trial until after the Teamsters convention opening Sept. 30 in Miami Beach. But he argued that the case should go to trial promptly once the union gathering is over. Hoffa told reporters outside the court room that he would announce this afternoon whether he will appear before public hearings of the Senate committee this week. Hoffa parried questions on whether he would withdraw from the presidential race if hfs victory would mean expulsion of the Teamsters by the AFL-CIO. Hoffa, his top lieutenant Owen Brennan and New York wiretap specialist Bernard Bates Spindel are accused of conspiracy in the wireatp case. They have pleaded innocent. At the same time, leaders of the AFL-CIO assembled here to pass judgment on Hoffa and the teamsters. The 1,400,000-member trucking union faces ouster from the federation dver charges that it is dominated by corrupt influences. Beck, Hoffa and other officials were singled out for violating "trade union morality” in a report by the AFL-CIO ethical practices committee last week. Hoffa was charged with promote the interests of "a rogue’s galtery of labor racketeers. The AFL-CIO executive council is expected to approve the report and Issue an ultimatum to the teamsters to clean house or be kicked out of the federationThe council will meet tomorrow to decide on terms the teamsters must meet to stay in the federation. George Meany, AFL - CIO president, will insist that Hoffa must be purged from any post of leadership if the union is to remain in labor’s family, informed labor sources said. Hypnotist To Drive Auto Blindfolded To Precede Hypnotic Show Here Thursday "So you don’t think it is possible to drive a car in downtown Decatur blindfolded?” Dr. Morton Greene, the noted hypnotist, and star of the "Hypnotic Marvels” show which will appear at the Decatur gym Thursday at 8 p. m., sponsored by the Decatur Lions club, says that he can do it. and will prove it at 12:30 p. m. on that day. Blindfolded Dr. Greene will make the trip down Second street in a new 1967 model Ford furnished by the Schwartz Ford Co., Inc., at 12:30 p. m. Thursday. The public is invited to witness this free demonstration of mental skill. Chief of police James Borders will be on hand to supervise the event. Dr. Greene will appear in person at 8 p. m. after the blindfolded car-driving demonstration. In his two-hour show he will prophesy on events to come and give demonstrations on all facets of hypnotism. The proceeds from “Hypnotic Marvels” will be used by the Lions club to help furnish a room at the Adams county memorial hospital. Tickets are available at 10 downtown offices, marked by signs in their windows. Former South Bend Mayor Takes Post ELKHART UR — Former South Bend Mayor John A. Scott took an executive position with a news-paper-radio-television firm today and said he never again will seek public office. Scott, who sought the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana in 1956, accepted a position as vice president effective Oct. 7 with the Truth Publishing Co., an Elkhart company with Interests at Elkhart and Fort Wayne.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 23,1957

Racial Violence Breaks Out In Little Rock As Negroes Enter School

U.S. Military Now Strongest For Peacetime Eisenhower Speaks Before Session Os Security Council WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower said today that tide United States has “the most powerful milituy establishment in our peacetime history." The President made the statement, which was released by the White House, at a meeting of the nation’s top-level National Security Council. The occasion for his remarks was the 10th anniversary this month of the National Security Act of 1947. This act unified the armed services and also created the NSC. Recalling that the act was passed by a Republican Congress and approved by a Democratic president (Truman), the President said the act “has shown how a free nation can organize to preserve its national security and at the same time retain and strengthen its democratic values and institutions.” He said the organization established under the act has contributed to continuing U.S efforts since World War II ’for just and lasting peace in the world" The President said the basic purpose of the act was to provide Coordination and unified direction of the armed services under a single secretary of defense. “Under this constitutional concept of a single civilian head, the United States is effectively maintaining the most powerful military establishment in our peacetime history,” he said. Chrysler Strike At Indianapolis Ended INDIANAPOLIS (IT) — Production was resumed today at the Chrysler Corp, plant here as 2,800 workers returned to their jobs. United Auto Worker* who struck Sept. 9 in a “speedup” dispute ratified a new agreement Sunday, paving the way for production to start this morning. -— * SSO Donation For Hospital Addition Business Women Club In Donation A gift of 350 from the Business and Professional Women’s club to the Adams county memorial hospital for use in furnishing the new addition was announced today by the board of directors of the hospital. The gift was voted at the September 11 meeting of the organization, and was announced today at the beginning of national business women’s week, spotlighting the women who work. A committee of three members, Mrs. Irene Hicks, Mrs. Barbara Guard, and Mrs. Francile Mclntosh, of the health and safety committee, was named to be in charge of the project by president Mrs. Leona Feasel. The organization explained that it is not a fund-raising club, and therefore could not furnish an entire room, but the members felt they should help in any way they could. The specific items to be purchased with the money will be left to the discretion of the hospital manager, Thurman Drew, they stated. This was the first gift of money for the hospital to be announced. Several other organizations which are not able to support a 3500 unit, but still want to help, with the hospital addition, are now considering similar gifts. Gilpin Ornamental Iron Works announced Saturday • gift of iron railing for the front of the hospital.

22nd Nuclear Device Fired This Morning Oft-Postponed Test Held This Morning ANGEL’S PEAK. Nev. (UP) - "Whitney,” the oft - postponed, "hard-luck” nuclear test of the Atomic Energy Commission’s Operation Plumbob, sent a thunder clap across the Nevada desert today as it was exploded atop a 500-foot steel tower. The device, finally detonated as the 22nd scheduled test of the f slimmer series, had a yield estimated at the equivalent of 15,000 tons of TNT as it vaporized its tower and blossomed into a glowing ball of fire. The ball faded within seconds after the firing at 5:30 am. PDT. The blast flashed over the desert floor with an eerie purple glow, and fingers of the light touched the distant peak on Mt. Whitney, for which the blast was named, in California's Sierra Nevada mountain range 120 miles to the west The flash was seen in all surrounding western states. The shock wave reverberated across the desert and was felt as a resounding bump close by. Some of its impact bounced off the ozonosphere and was felt at such distant locations as Biship and Inyokern, Calif., and in Cedar City, Utah. “Whitney” was orginally readied tor triggering Sept. 10, " but became the victim of a long series of technical and weather postponements. One postponement was ordered six minutes before detonation time because of failure of a key experiment. Scientific experiments carried out by the AEC during the test included 16 set off by sequence timers in connection with the blast. Two rockets were fired approximately five minutes after detonation to obtain nuclear cloud samples. The Air Force dispatched 25 aircraft into the sky for training and support mission, including cloud-tracking. Community Fund's Budget Is $18,450 Eight Agencies In This Year's Budget A total of 818,450, or 38 per fam- ’ ily in Decatur, will be the goal of the Decatur Community Fund drive October 7-14, M. J. Pryor, drive chairman, said today. The money raised will go to the eight cooperating agencies, including the cancer fund. Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, mental health, Red Cross, Youth Center, Salvation Army, arid USO. The one drive will replace the eight separate drives necessary before. Each person will be able to direct his money into any fund to which he particularly wants to contribute to, and the money will be so designated, Pryor assured. More than 90% of the workers needed for the drive have already been secured, he added. There are now 425 workers ready for the drive. Each Decatur resident will be solicited at his place of work, and win be given a sticker for his home window to show that he has given. Those who work outside Decatur will be solicited at home. The above budget of 818,450 was reduced from the 320.361 proposed by the member agencies to its present form by the board of directors of the Community Fund. The above budget is the same as was raised by the present member agencies last year, except the Red Cross amount, raised independently last year, was reduced 81,063. Other budget reductions this year include 3608 from the USO fund, 8140 from the mental health fund, and 8100 from the cancer fund. The others win continue as proposed. *> ' The 818,450 budget, Pryor pointed out, was much lower than that proposed in Van Wert, 0., Bluffton, Huntington, or Portland, and represents a very realistic figure for local philanthropic organizations. The need of each organization (Continued on Page Five)

Ike Speaks To Free World's Financiers World Inflation Is Termed As One Os Pressing Problems WASHINGTON (UP) —President Eisenhower told the free world’s financial leaders today that worldwide inflation is one of their most pressing problems. He said the fiscal experts and their "fellow citizens” must join in defending the. value of their currencies. “Inflation not only destroys the savings, pension and insurance policies of the frugal," he said, "its aftermath can be a depression which saps the strength and vigor of government, of industry and of people.” ... _= -,. The President spoke before governors of the International Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Finance Corp. ' It was his first appearance in a busy round of speeches and conferences during a one - day break from his vacation at Newport, .1. He flew here aboard the presidential plane Columbine m and was to return to Newport late today. The President said there are certain “common sense aspects” of inflation which the world must “squarely face.” Those who are determined to have a continued, sound economy, he said/imist ask themselves two things. ’’ i; “First, how many of our personal and governmental demands and desires,” he asked, “can we safely expect our economies to satisfy at one time?” “.., we cannot successfully put a continued overload on our resources,” he said, “rising prices have confirmed this economic axiom” Eisenhower said the second question is “How much do we as individual nations pay ourselves for what we produce?” “If our efficiency in production in the payments which we make for productive efforts of all sorts rises in step, there is no impetus to rising prices,” he said. “But if our efficiency does not increase, if our productivity does not rise, we as nations will tend to fall into the costly error of -.uxitlniiaa on Pare BU) Charles Massonne Dies This Morning Decatur Man Dies After Long Illness Charles W. Massonne, 63, a resident of Decatur most of his life, died at 4 o’clock this morning at his home, 827 Mercer avenue, following an illness of five yedrs of complications. He was born in Indianapolis July 30, 1894, a son of George and Kathryn Massonee, but had lived in Decatur for 57 years. He was married to Dora McClish Reynolds Nov. 20, 1919. Mr. Massonne was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans. Surviving in addition to his wife are one daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Bolinger of Van Wert, O.; one son, Harry Massonee of Decatur; one stepson, Noble Reynolds of Decatur; seven grandchildren, one great-grandchild, and one sister, Miss Ana Massonee of Decatur. Two stepdaughters, one brother and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic church, the Very Re*. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed to the Gillig & Doan funeral home, where friends may call after 7:30 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Recitation of the rosary win be held at 8 p. m. Tuesday.

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Linn Is Appointed Director Os Center Richard Linn Will Direct Youth Center The appointment of Richard Linn of Decatur, to the post of manager of the Decatur Youth and Community Center was announced today by L. A. Cowens, president of the city recreation board. The appointment was made by the recreation board after several months of studying several applications. Linn, a ‘former member of the board, had resigned from that position prior to his appointment. "the Decatur man, associated with the BlaCk funeral home since 1942, fills the spot left vacant several months ago by the resignation of 0. M. McGeath, original director of the center. Linn, who has had several years experience in Boy Scout work in this area and in church youth activities, will manage all activities of the center beginning Tuesday, Oct. 1. A native and lifelong resident of this city, Linn was graduated from Decatur high school and the Indiana College of Mortuary Science in Indianapolis. He has been with Black’s funeral home since 1942 except for the three-year period from 1943 through 1946 when he served in the medical corps of the United States Army. He served one year overseas. '' He and his wife, the former Colleen Miller, reside at 946 Walnut street. They have two daughters. The board which' made the appointment includes Glenn Ellis, Lloyd Cowens, Miss Frances Dugan and Dr. James Burk. An appointment will be made In the near future to fill the board post vacated by Linn. Three Sentenced To long Prison Terms Mazelin Holduo One Os Series Admitted The three men arrested for armed robbery, kidnaping, and shooting with intent to kill, following holding up the Mazelin Heating & Appliance store here, received a total of 16-75 years in the Ohio State reformatory when sentenced last week in Canton, O. The three were arrested near Canton August 8 after robbing Mazelin’s August 1. They were captured after shooting a city policeman in Louisvile, O„ and holding a farm family captive overnight. The men, identified as Robert L. KHne. 25. of Phoenix. Ariz.: William Rhoades, 25, of Anderson, Ind., and Walter J. Miller, 28, of Los Angeles, had met while awaiting dishonorable discharges in the Marine disciplinary barracks at Fort Ord, Calif. They confessed to 12 armed robberies across the country. 1 """*W Merchandise valued at 81.000 belonging to the Mazelins was recov-

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Nine Negroes Enter School At Little Rock Slip Into School As Decoys Attract Crowd's Attention B U*L L E T I N LITTLE ROCK, Ark, (W — Negro publisher L. C. Bates slid today that he had just been advised that police were removing nine Negro students from Central High School a few hours after they integrated IL LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) — Nine Negro students slipped safely past a riotous crowd of angry whites today and enrolled at Central High School under a federal court-ordered Integration plan Their success in gaining entrance to the school touched off a walkout of white students. At least one of them protested so vehemently she was hauled off in a patrol wagon. It also provoked the crowd of whites to attack four Negroes who served as decoys so the nine Negro students could slip into the school. One of the four, a photographer, was knocked down, kicked, beaten and had his camera smashed A second also was knocked down and a third was kicked as they flej Tot safety. No sooner were the ‘nine Negroes, the sama ones turned away by the National Guard Sept. 4, inside the school than white students started a walkout. Crowd Tells and Mutters Perhaps 1,000 persons, in groups at either end of barricades across the street in front of the school, continued yelling and muttering long after the nine Negroes reported for classes. There was no immediate count of the students who walked out. Thirty or 40 came out in the first batch and they continued leaving in groups of three and four. But it appeared at least 200 had stuck. "They’re in, they're in!” a white girl ran screaming down the street a moment after the Negroes entered. They got in just before the last bell rang at S:SS am. c.s.t“Let’s go in and get the bastards out," her mother shouted. Crowd Pushed Back The crowd took up the cry, but 50 city policemen and 20 state troopers managed to regather their lines after the first onslaught and, moving shoulder-to-shoulder, shoved the < crowd back behind barricades. President Eisenhower and Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. discussed for 15 minutes in Washington today the events which occurred in Little Rock this morning. - Gov. Orval Faubus called out the National Guard Sept. 2 and announced that he had ordered the troops to prevent the integration of Central High, which opened the next day, * because there was sure to be violence if Negroes enteredFaubus moved the guard Friday night a few hours after a federal district judge put him under an injunction that gave hmi a choice of letting Central High be integrated or be arrested for contempt. Faubus, at the southern governors’ conference at Sea Island, Ga., said the violence that happened today was "the thing I acted to prevent" Mob Attacks Decoys He said there was no plan at present to call out the National Guard again- Acting Gov. Nathan Gordon, in Little Rock, said he was "uneasy" but local authorities had not asked him to call out the guard again and he wouldn’t without a request. The four Negroes who played decoys sneaked toward the 15th Street side entrance to the school. While the mob was working cm them, the nine students slipped through an entrance on the other side of the building. Reports Flghte Inside School School officials did not immediately disclose what went on inside (CootiSUad ob Pag* Fiv*>

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