Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 226, Decatur, Adams County, 25 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 226.

OFF TO TELL NATION WHY , . ~ v . 4 ‘ s , ... ■- l '' ' -' PRESIDENT EISENHOWER fastens his safety belt as he boards a helicopter at Newport, R. I„ for a flight to Quonset Point and thence by presidential aircraft to Washington where he faced a nation-wide television and radio audience outlining his position on the Little Rock, Ark:, situation.

Ike Appeals To Citizens Os Arkansas Tells Nation Why Federal Troop Use Needed In Arkansas WASHINGTON (UP)—President Eisenhower told the nation Tuesday night he was compelled to intervene with federal troops in the Arkansas integration crisis to uphold the law of the land against mob. rule. Eisenhower appealed to the people of Arkansas to help him end ‘ ‘extremist’ ’ resistance to allowing Negro children to attend Central High School in Little Rock He said mob interference with a federal court’s integration order was a blot on the nation’s honor. . The President, who flew here Tuesday specifically to make the speech, planned to fly back to Newport, .RI, early today to await the outcome of his drastic move to prevent further interference with court-ordered integration in Little Rock. Praised And Condemned The Chief Executive was alternately praised and condemned for his use of federal troops —a sel-dom-invoked step that never before has been taken in the integration struggle. Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.), leader of the Senate southern bloc, assailed the use of troops as “totalitarian.” He predicted the President’s order will have “a calamitous effect on race relations and on the cause of national unity.” A number of southern governors and political leaders, including so • called "moderates,” expressed grave concern over , the use of federal troops. Some denounced it as dictatorship. Others expressed the view that Eisenhower had to send in the troops to prevent future defiance of the courts Risk Os Anarchy Eisenhower's 13-minute speech, delivered in a solemn and unsmiling manner. He outlined the seriousness of the Little Rock situation. He said unless he had acted “anarchy would result.” ' Castigating the crowds that blocked Negro attendance at school as “disorderly mobs” led by “demagogic extremists,” the President declared: “Mob rule cannot be allowed to override the 'decisions\ of our courts.” Eisenhower asserted the federal troops are not being used to “relieve local and state authorities of their primary duty to preserve peace and order.” He said they are in Little Rock solely to pre(Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Thursday. A little cooler northeast portion Thursday. Low tonight 47-54. High Thursday 65-70 northeast to around 80 southwest. Sunset today 6:38 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 6:36 i. m. Outlook for Friday: Fair and continued cool. Low Thursday night 48-58. High Friday 70-80.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Bryce Thomas Heads Historical Society Society Organized At Meeting Tuesday Bryce Thomas, principal of the Lincoln school in Decatur, Was elected president of the Adams county historical society. Tuesday night in the organizational meeting at the Decatur public library. Thomas’ election followed a spirited discussion and adoption of a constitution for the new organization. in which nearly all of the 52 persons present took part. Other officers elected were: vicepresident. L. Luther Yager, state representative, of Berne; scretarytreasurer, Robert L. Brown, Adams Central school teacher, of Kirkland township; three-year trustees, Miss Bertha Heller, Decatur librarian, and Mrs. Brayton Pyle, of Jefferson township; two-year trustees, Dr. N. A. Bixler, Decatur optometrist; and Eli Stucky, of Geneva; one-year trustees, August Selking, of Root township, David J. Schwart, of Mcnroe township. The group voted their thanks to the constitutional committee for their excellent work before the meeting. Robert L. Brown presented the constitution for Thomas Adler and Elmer Ehrsam, who were unable to be present. Hie annual membership fee was fixed at $1 for active members, $5 for sustaining members, and 1100 for life members. Two sustaining members and 47 active members signed the Charter after the meeting. President Thomas announced that the charter would remain open for 90 days to allow those who could not be present to become Charter members. Hubert H. Hawkins, director of the state historical bureau, and secretary of the state historical society, praised the group for their democratic organizational meeting, with all age groups and all parts of the county represented. History, he stated, is just a record of significant human experience. This, he added, was not an infallible guide to future action, but it is the best guide available. G. Remy Bierly, chairman of the Anthony Wayne Parkway commission, presided at the meeting. The Rev. 0. C. Busse opened the meeting with a prayer. Miss Bertha Heller, acting secretary, read the minutes of the pre-organizational meeting held August 28. Three letters were real from Adams countians unable to be present. “What a splendid thing it is that the Adams county historical society will afford a refuge for the stuff of our past that might otherwise be gnawed into oblivion by the implacable teeth of time,” Prof. Frederick Shroyer, of Los Angeles State College, wrote. “I most heartily endorse the effort to found the the Adams county historical society to collect and preserve the history of our county," the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob, of St. John’s ’Lutheran church, added. “My children, grand-children, and one great-granddaughter were born In Adams county, and 1 want the richness of its traditions preserved for posterity," Mrs. James Halberstadt, Sr., wrote. (Continued on P««e Six)

James Hoffa Is Indicted For Perjury Vice President Os Teamsters Indicted By Federal Jurors BULLETIN NEW YORK (01 — The AFLCIO Executive Council today in effect ordered the Teamsters Union to remove James R. Hoffa from any union office within 30 days or face possible suspension. NEW YORK (UP) — James R. Hoffa, vice president of the Teamsters Union, was indicted for perjury today by a federal grand jury. It also was expected that the AFLCIO Executive Council would blacklist Hoffa from holding any union office. The 44-year-old Midwest Teamster leader was in Miami predicting his victory in the race for president of the Teamsters at the union convention starting next week. - , But his troubles multiplied today with his indictment on charges he lied five times during an inquiry into alleged wiretapping involving the Detroit Teamsters local office. The AFL-CIO 29 - man council was in session here discussing a report by the organization’s ethical practices committee which charged the Teamsters were dominated by corrupt influences. It was expected the council would tell the Teamsters to get rid of Hoffa and other teamster leaders connected with corruption charges or leave the AFL-CIO. The council Tuesday night ordered the 40,000-member United Textile Workers to remove two top officials within 30 days or face ouster from the AFL-CIO. UTW President Anthony F. Valente and Secretary - Treasurer Lloyd Klenert, accused of misusing $127,000 in union funds, must be boosted out of office, the council said. In Washington, the Senate Rackets Committee disclosed that Hoffa suddenly started to repay money he borrowed five years ago from union officials under his sway. In Miami Beach, Hoffa said the renewed hearings would not hurt his chance of becoming president of the big union. He denied wrongdoing and said the committee is readying a "bad labor law." The Senate committee prepared (Continues on race Six) Wayne Coy Is Dead

After-Heart Attack Prominent Hoosier Dies Tuesday Night INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Wayne Coy, 53, a newspaperman who skyrocketed to state and national political prominence and became a radio-television executive, died unexpectedly Tuesday night of a heart seizure. Coy was attending a meeting at the Indianapolis Athletic Club when he was stricken- He died about two hours later in Methodist Hospital. He was president of WFBM and WFBM-TV since the Time magazine interests bought the Indianapolis stations last spring and sent Coy back “home” from Albuquerque, N.Mex., where he operated radio and television stations. Coy was born in Shelby County, and began a newspaper career on the Franklin Evening Star staff. He was city editor when he left to buy the Delphi Citizen, a weekly in 1930. Two years later, Coy became a secretary to then Gov- Paul V. McNutt and served during the Democratic governmental reorganization days from 1933. He was first director of the State Department of Public Welfare and state and regional director of the Governor’s Commission on Unemployment Relief. Later, he was state and regional director of the Works Progress Administration. When McNutt’s term as governor ended, Coy became his administrative assistant when McNutt was made high commissioner to the Philippines in 1937. Later, Coy became a member of the inner circle of assistants to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was Roosevelt's liaison representative to the Office of Emergency Management, assistant budget director and chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during various parts of the Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman presidential terms. Coy resigned after five years as FCC chairman in 1952 and bought an interest in KOB and KOB-TV at Albuquerque.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Wednesday, September 25,1957.

Littlg Rock School Is Integrated As Troopers Escort Negro Students

Plan Talks To Ease Tension In Mideast Arab Leaders Plan Talks In Damascus On Mideast Crisis By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Aides of King Saud of Saud) Arabia said today in Rome that President Gamal Abdel Nasser would join Saud and Syrian President Shukri El Kuwatly in Damascus talks aimed at easing Middle East tension. Saud, who apparently is taking on the role of mediator in the dis pute between Syria and the United States, left Rome by plane today for a three-day visit in the Syrian capital. There were rumors other Arab leaders might join the Arab “big three” in the Damascus talks. Saud conferred in Rome with the secretary general of the Arab League and was seen off at the airport by ambassadors and representatives of Syria, Morocco, Egypt, Libya, Sudan, Iraq, Tunisia and Jordan. The Damascus newspaper Alrai Alaam said today the Soviet Union had renewed its assurances to Syria in case of “ant|-Syrian aggression.” The pro-socialist newspaper said if aggression began against Syria “it will not be confined to regional limits,” but that Russia had promised aggression would not reach its objectives. Saud s Damascus talks followed conversations in Washington between his brother, Crown Prince Feisal, and President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Feisal is foreign minister and premier of Saudi Arabia. An indication that Saudi Arabia hoped to mediate in the dispute (Continued on Page Six) Snorkel Mail Box Now In Operation The Decatur post office “snorkel” mail box, which feeds from the street, is now in operation, postmaster Leo Kirsch said today. /The post box was installed a wlrek ago, but did not operate until the city took down meters in front of the box area, and painted the curb yellow. Persons now wishing to mail letters may pull up along the yellow line and insert their letters in the box from their autos. No parking will be permitted in the area. Hypnotic Show Here Thursday Evening Decatur Lions Club is Sponsor Os Show “Hypnotic Marvels," the big stage show sponsored by the Decatur Lions club,, will open at 8 p. m. Thursday at the high school gym, with Dr. Morton Greene hypnotizing volunteers from the audience. The two-hour, 14-act show will feature Dr. Greene, a well-known TV and radio star. At noon, to show his unusual mental skills, Dr. Greene will drive a new 1957 Ford furnished by the Schwartz Ford company down Second street blindfolded. Chief of police James Borders will supervise the remarkable demonstration. Dr. Greene, in his show Thursday night, will demonstrate his ability to place a volunteer in a deep sleep, but will wake him up so that he may . watch the rest of the show. Tickets are still available from Lions club members, from 10 offices downtown in Decatur, and will also be available at the door. Programs explaining the 14 acts will be distributed during the show. All members of the Lions club are asked to report to the Decatur high school gym at 7:30 for assignments to work during the entertainment.

Salvation Army One Os Fund's Agencies Army Participates In Community Fund f “Did you ever wonder why so few tramps call house-to-house for ■handouts in Decatur?” k One reason for this is the excellent organization of an emergency fund Salvation Army group. Earl jCaston, of the First State Bank, is chairman of the local committee, t and other board members are | Louis Jacobs, Margaret Holthouse, t and Joan Wemhoff. r "Meeting the need, at the time • of need, at the place of need” is 1 the motto of the Salvation Army, ’ one of the eight agencies to which Decaturites contribute when givi ing to the Community Fund drive 1 the second week in October. , , Suppose an elderly person, hitch--5 hiking from one son’s home to another, is found, wet, cold, and misj erable, in Decatur. The Salvation ; Army is informed. The Army moves swiftly. The man is taken i tn, given a mom, allowed to clean > jjip and rest, fed, and is then hur- - tied bn his way. Many cases occur each year in • Decatur, and no other agency is 1 available for help. Often ministers . sere contacted, or the person is Mound by the police. jF Because of the Christian charity I»f the Salvation Army the misbrI able transient is cared for. They do 1 not become wards of the township i trustee, nor expensive occupants 1 of the county jail. It is not neces- ■ sary for them to steal nor rob to i obtain help in Decatur. This past winter a poor old man I was found huddled in a doorway, ■ too weak to move. The police call- : ed the Salvation Army when they ■ determined that he was headed for • a sanitarium in South Bend. The ' Salvation Army helped the old man by giving him a strengthening ■ meal, putting him up for the night, and getting him a bus ticket to (Continued on Pare Six) Four Are Killed In Dayton Plane Crash Seven Dayton Homes Damaged In Crash DAYTON, Ohio, (UP) — One of the worst plane crashes in this aviation pioneer city took four lives and damaged seven homes Tuesday. At dinner time in an East Side residential area a crippled Air Force B-26 bomber roared down, clipping the tops of four houses and bursting into flame. “I was just coming out the front sidewalk when it hit," the 10-year-old daughter of Herbert Vanzant said. “I saw something coming but I didn’t know what it was. My uncle was out back cutting grass. Daddy and mother and my dog Fluffy ; were in the house." Vanzant’s wife, Elizabeth, about 1 40, and his brother-in-law, Walter : Geisler, 53, were killed. i Also dead were the pilot and cos pilot of the plane, Maj. James E Melancon, 36, San Antonio, Tex., 1 father of two, and Capt- Wilho , i Heikkinen, 31, Ramsey, Mich. > The fliers, attached to the Air , Research aand Development Comr mand, were coming in for a land- : ing at Wright-Patterson Air Force [ Base when they crashed. “I had just finished eating sup- > per and started outside when I heard a noise and then a boom came from next door," Maurice , L. Bishop, Vanzant’s neighbor, ’ said. “It blew me clear out into the ! yard. When I got up, I was a little dizzy and started running toward the alley. Then I thought, *My 1 god, my wife and children are in ’ there eating." . 1 Bishop’s front porch was torn ■ off but he got his family safely • out of the house. : The plane tore the second story from the home of Harry Kidd He > and his wife and son were in the • kitchen and were not Injured. • However, the son had just come > downstairs when the plane sheared off the top story.

Witness Says Hoffa Forced Reinstatsement Helped To Restore Former Convict To Teamsters' Office WASHINGTON (UP) —A witness said today that James R- Hoffa helped restore to office a dictatorial Minneapolis teamsters leader who had been convicted once and indicted again on charges of accepting payoffs from employersThe witness was former Teamsters official Arthur Morgan. He told the Senate Rackets Committee that Hoffa, Midwest boss who seeks to become Teamsters president next week, was one of three high union leaders who forced the reinstatement of Gerald Connelly to office in Minneapolis. They did so, Morgan testified, despite charges by members that Connelly lowered their wages and exercised one - man control over Minneapolis Local 548. Morgan said that as a result of members’ complaints, Local 548 had been placed under the trusteeship of Sidney Brennan, vice president of the union in the area, who fired Connelly as local secretarytreasurer in August, 1955. But early in October, he said, Brennan reported that Hoffa and Vice Presidents Einar O. Mohn and John T. O’Brien demanded Connelly be reinstated. When Brennan refused, he was replaced as trustee by oy Williams of Kansas City, and Connelly went back into office, Morgan said. Morgan then petitioned for elections in his own name and won about 140 of the local’s 350 members from Connelly’s control. The witness said Connelly had been indicted in 1954 for receiving money from an employer, pleaded guilty, and was fined $2,000. In 1955, Connelly was indicted on a regular charge along with Brennan and Eugene Williams, another teamster official, Morgan said. Morgan’s testimony preceded an attempt by the committee to show that Hoffa loaned a million dollars of union money to a store during a strikeJobleSS Pay Claims Decrease In State INDIANAPOLIS (IF — The Indi-, ana Employment Security Division reported today that claims for unemployment compensation dropped by about 1,000 last week from the 36,000 total for the week before. Fewer newly-unemployed persons filed claims, the number dropping from 9,539 to 5,882. but more persons filed who have been out of work a week or more. Business Women In Week's Observance Local Club Joins In National Week Decatur’s Business and Professional Womens club joins the other 3,300 clubs in the United States to celebrate the 39th annual national business women’s week, Mrs. Hubert Feasel, president of the Decatur club, said today. The national federation annually sponsors the special week to spotlight all women who work. There were only 10 million women working in 1928 when the first week was held, and how there are 22 million working women. The federation, founded in 1919, is the oldest and largest national organization for women who work. There are now clubs in all 48 states, Alaska, Hawaii, and the District of Columbuia. Membership totals more than 170,000. It includes all professions and occupations. The Decatur club was founded 21 years ago, and celebrated its anniversary in May of this yearThere are about 35 members in the local organization, and programs are planned to help business women.

Report On Survivors Os Sinking Is False Only Six Os Youths On Ship Are Saved HAMBURG, Germany (IF — The report that the U. S. naval transport Gieger had picked up 40 more survivors from the sunken German training ship Pamier brought short-lived joy to the nation today. 1716 ship radioed the report was false. The Zerseen Co., agents for the ship, was deluged with calls from anxious relatives who had become resigned to the fact only six of the 86 persons aboard the ship had been saved. It fired off a query to the Geiger and back came the heartbreaking denial. In a radio message picked up by a German coastal radio station the captain of the Geiger said the only Pamir survivors he had aboard were the five rescued by the U. S. freighter Saxon and transferred to the Geiger Monday. In addition, the U. S. Coast Guard in New York reported one of its cutters, the Absecon, picked up a lone survivor from a lifeboat drifting in the mid-Atlantic, some 600 miles west of the Azores. German families have kept agonizing vigils at their radios and telephones, hoping against hope that the 23 ships and planes criss-crossing the Atlantic west of the Azores would find more survivors. The five rescued by the Saxon said they knew of one other lifeboat that got away from the hur-ricane-stricken Pamir with about 25 men. Five other crewmen who escaped with the five survivors died or were washed overboard from the lifeboat. The crew of the Pamir was composed of 35 merchant mariners and 51 cadets between the ages of 16 and 21. Church services were held throughout Germany Tuesday night for the victims. Even the most optimistic families knew there was less than a 50-50 chance that their loved ones would be rescued. Concert Season To Open Here Oct. 14 Duo-Pianists Will Give First Concert Josette and Yvette Roman, brilliant young French-American duo-pianists, will open the 195758 concert season of the AdatfiS county civic music "association Monday, Oct. 14, at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The vivacious sisters, born in Paris and trained in the Paris Conservatory, made a sparkling debut at New York’s town hall in 1950. Shortly after, they appeared with the San Francisco Symphony under Pierre Monteux, and have been giving concerts to audiences from coast to coast ever since. They have also appeared in motion pictures and in radio and television programs. For their spirited style and technical fineese the Roman sisters have been hailed by such outstanding musicians as Isidor Philipp, Gregor Piatigorsky, Lubushutz and Nemenoff, who rank them among the most brilliantly endowed young duo-pian-ists today. They play music especially written for them and arrangements of their own, as well as standard repertoire. They are especially interested in new works by French and American composers. As young children Josette and Yvette showed remarkable talent. Their father, also a pianist, had them play one day for the famous French cellist, Pierre Fournier, who was so impressed that he at once urged they be given the best possible professional training. Soon after, both girls were hard at work in the strenuous Paris Conservatory, studying piano, theory and composition. Following their graduiConUnuea on Pace Six)

Paratroopers Take Over In Little Rock Two White Men Are Wounded; Dozens Hustled To Jail LITTLE ROCK, Ark (UP) - Nine Negro children attended classes in Central High School to« day behind the bare-bayonets of 500 tough paratroopers who bashed one man in the head, stabbed another in the arm, and hustled dozens off to jail. Integration became a fact at Central High at 9:22 a.m. At that hour, three Army vehicles rolled down the street, past small crowds of white segregationists, and into the school yard to deliver the nine Negro students. A total of perhaps 500 white adults and teen-agers stood on sidewalks a block or more from the school throughout the morning. A few tested the determination of the troops — and were wounded or arrested for their efforts. Most watched in silent hostility. None got anywhere near the school grounds. A solid cordon of paratroopers, standing with bayonetted rifles ready, saw to thatBayonets Menace Groups Twice at least the steel-helmeted troops advanced menacingly with bayonets outthrust, toward groups which had spurned orders to disperse- Laggards suffered pinpricks in the generally hasty retreats that followed. The grim-faced paratroopers were carrying out President Eisenhower’s orders to end open defiance of a federal court's integration orders. These were major developments of Little Bock’s first tense day under federal military occupation: —Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, West Pointer commanding the troops, told white students of Central High at a special assembly that “I intend to use all means necessary to prevent any interference" with orderly integration. —Officials reported a “calm” situation inside the school with the Negro children attending their classes “n a completely normal way.” In the middle of the morning, all of the students were marched out of the school in a fire drill. The nine Negroes, scattered widely among the student body, could be seen chatting amiably with the white studentsDefies Souder's Order C E. Blake, a white man, was struck in the forehead with a rifle butt when he defied a ‘‘move on” order. Blood gushed over Blake's shirt. Paul Downs, 35, a white salesman, was slashed in the muscle of one arm for telling a trooper “I’m from the South, I move kind of slow.” He returned to the scene after treatment at a hospital, and was promptly arrcst«6d. —Three white men tabbed as agitators were seized by six paratroopers who obeyed the shouted commands of asergeant: “Keep those bayonnets at their necks... right at their throats.” Other arrested were made swiftly and quietly as the operations officer, Maj. James Meydrs of San Antonio, Tex., passed the word: “If they want to get tough, we’ll get tough-” New Haven Man Is Killed Accidentally FORT WAYNE TO — Emil Pepe, 83, New Haven, was shot to death accidentally Tuesday as he hunted birds near his gasoline station. ■ 1 '?•“ State Traffic Toll 792 Through Sunday INDIANAPOLIS — (W — Fiftynine traffic deaths in a two-week period raised the 1957 Indiana highway-street fatally toll today within a whisker of last year’s total. State poliee reported that 25 more names were added to the list last week, raising the toll to 792, compared with 806 this time last year.

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