Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 227, Decatur, Adams County, 26 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 227.

ARMY ENFORCES INTEGRATION AT LITTLE ROCK jr]a f j —1 i, 11 BHBTW" — * fcit Kr; r y,-r, ,i| r SJr JF. \ JfiER '-jggjg. W *<bK -4foj lj IMK W* ,k "3li . 4RM/ ■ L WwPWh <Fn9|^^BijF-k..*322* kj/i**•■ jWK# JpF Jes ■’ # *w%"‘ Uaßßj9 . ; 4Bv - : ww&r* UWfeMMM—HMi b 'fApMljSßkt ‘ ‘ Ts L -• S-> '■ - "'j»-' ' < y& iPate Sl—sac- ' i ST ' .J 4 . DRIVEN TO LITTLE ROCK'S Central High School in an Army vehicle (top), nine Negro children alight at the school in President Eisenhower's determination that integration orders of the courts shall be honored. In the lower picture, the nine, surrounded by seasoned troops of the 101st Airborne division, march up the steps and into the school.

Residents Os Decatur Stay On Fast Time

Residents of Decatur can keep their docks on daylight saving? time, continue their current schedules and thereby avoid any confusion in the change to legal central standard time in Indiana after 2 a. m. Sunday. All legal docks in the county, including schools and governmental offices, will be turned back to central standard time in cons enhance with the law but schedules in most cases will be revised to coordinate with the fast time schedule of the general public. ‘ a This is the final result of several weeks of discussion on the perplexing time problem. The confusion arose out of the fact that Indiana law makes slow time mandatory for public agencies while the general public in this area insists on continuance of fast time. All local industries and retail businesses will remain on daylight saving time. The clocks in these places of business will not be changed and working schedules will be the same after Sunday as they are now. Also to stay on daylight timeare ttte city’s churches, Services will continue on the current daylight time schedule in all of the city’s places of worship. At a special meeting of the Decatur public school board Wednesday evening, board members ' unanimously voted to conduct all business on central standard time in compliance with the law, but : to change the school hours to one hour earlier for the convenience ; of the general public. This means that parents may send their children to school at the same time they do now by . the home clocks. The clocks at , school will show one hour ear- ! Iler. The daylight saving time schedule will also be followed in the ( Decatur Catholic schdols and in ] the Zion Lutheran grade school, i Definite plans of the county i schools were not yet available ’ but it is believed that most of 1 the township trustees will follow ; the same system as the Decatur ) schools, turning the clocks back 1 to standard time and then changing the school hours to conform 1 with daylight time. All federal, city and county j clocks will be turned back, including the town clock. Mayor ; Robert Cole announced earlier that the city hall standard time schedule will be revised for the , convenience of the general pub- , lie. County offices will also go on an hour-earlier central standard ] time schedule. Officials, with ■ two exceptions, will open their offices at 7:30 a m. central . standard time, which is 8:30 a m. , daylight saving time. pThe two exceptions are the Adams circuit court and the county (Cont.uuvd on Paco So von,

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Attorneys For Hoffa Request Hearing Delay Ask Senate Rackets Committee To Delay Hoffa Reappearance WASHINGTON (UP)—Attorneys for James R. Hoffa asked the Senate Rackets Committee today to postpone his expected reappearance until after Oct. 15. They said the Teamsters vice president should be excused until then because of his indictment on perjury charges by a New York federal grand jury Wednesday and his scheduled arraignment on Oct. 15 The committee took the request under advisement and recessed for lunch without announcing a ruling. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Z ;.k.) said the group had tentatively planned to recall Hoffa Saturday for further testimony about his financial operations and other activities. Wants Beck’s Job TTie Midwest Teamster boss is a leading candidate to succeed Dave Beck as president of the giant union at its annual convention opening in Miami Beach, Fla., next Monday. George Fitzgerald, counsel for Hoffa and other midwestern Teamster officials, said the perjury indic tme nt returned against Hoffa changed the situation. He said the situation also was changed as to testimony by two Hoffa associates scheduled as witnesses today—Owen (Bert) Brennan, Hoffa’s horse racing friend who is president of Teamster Local 337 in Detroit, and Benjamin Franklin (Frank) Collins, secretary-treasurer of Hoffa's Local 299 in Detroit? The committee heard testimony today two officials continued An the payrolls of their local unions at full salary and expenses while they worked at Hoffa’s hunting and fishing lodge near Iron River, Mich., in the summer of 1956. Identify the Officials Two two were identified as Alvey Bush, business agent of Teamster Local 614, Pontiac, Mich., and Charles O’Brien, - business agent of the Retail Clerks Local 876 which maintains offices in the Teamster Detroit headquarters. . Harold H. Buddle, who said he sold the lodge property to Hoffiiv testified that Bush and O'Brien (Continued on Pasre Seven) 14 Pages

Gov. Handley Issues Appeal On Time Issue Attorney General Repeats Stand On State Time Issue INDIANAPOLIS (W — Governor Handley made a last-minute appeal for uniformity of time in Indiana today, and the state's largest city made an Uth hour decision to revert to “slow” time in compliance with the intent of the 1957 legislature. > The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, representing most businesses and industries in the Hoosier capital, announced its boai*d of directors decided this morning to recommend a return to central standard time Sunday “to avoid confusion.” There was no indication, however, that the chamber’s action was in response to Handley’s late-hour appeal for “the people of Indiana to abide by the uniform time law to end this confusion once and for all.” The chamber directors said their decision was based on an earlier announcement by Marion county public schools that they would observe “slow” time. Most observers had predicted the chamber would recommend “fast” time because the majority of residents favor it. The chamber meeting was purposely set for today so the result of a meeting of city officials Wednesday could be used as a basis for a decision City officials announced they would, in effect, operate on “fas!” time by scheduling city office hours an hour earlier. The chamber’s left city hall high and dry in the “fast”* time column and posed the possibility that either city officials or the chamber would change their minds before Sunday. But Atty. Gen. Edwin Steers, to whom Handley entrusted the job of deciding who violates the 1957 Legislature’s law calling for “slow” time seven months each year beginning the last Sunday in September, said again this morning that there is no law to prevent a community from operating on any time it pleases Handley and Steers made the statements as they conferred once again on the perplexing time problem, which threatens to have Indiana tied up again this winter as badly as it was before the new “stricter” time law was enacted. They conferred after Indianapolis officially went on record in support of “fast” time after next Sunday by scheduling city office hours an hour earlier. The Hoosier capital may become a house divided against itself. Handley insisted Statehouse offices will operate on “slow” time in full compliance with the law. Indianapolis City Hall will operate on “fast” time Marion County offices wil operate on “slow” time. Schools voted to operate on “slow” time, unless they change their minds. Business and industry were expected to observe “fast” , on Face Mx)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, September 26,1957

Negro Students Return To Little Rock School Today- No Trouble

Ike To Meet I Governors Os South States Committee Os Five Governors To Meet On School Situation NEWPORT, R.I. (UP)-Presl-dent Eisenhower today scheduled a meeting in Washington next Tuesday with a delegation of southern governors to discuss “problems of school integration ” The President set the meeting for 2:30 p.m. e.d.t at the White House Oct. 1 and widened the scope of the conference as originally requested by the governors. The southern governors conference originally asked that the President meet with a five-gover-nor committee to discuss "withdrawal of federal troops from Arkansas at the earliest possible moment.” The President, however, wanted the conference to deal with the entire southern school problem and not just Little Rock, where federal troops are protecting the right of nine Negro children to attend Central High School. A copy cf the governors resolution, passed Wednesday at Sea Island, Ga., was forwarded to the President by Gov. Leßoy Collin# of Florida, new chairman of the conference. Faunas Not Included The chief executive replied this morning: “I will be pleased to meet at the White House in Washington with the committee of the southern governors conference on Tuesday, Oct 1, at 2:30 pm. to discuss problems of school integration.” The White House had no intention of including Gov. Orval E. Faubus of Arkansas in the meeting. The governors had suggested a meeting with the President and Faubus, separately or together. The President believed today that his handling of the Little Rock crisis had worked out thus far for the best. The embattled Negro students were in classes at Little Rock’s Central High School, mob action was at the disappearing point under the weight of Army paratroopers and inflamed tempers seemed to be subsiding. Additionally, the President was (Continued on Paxe Two) Wayne Coy Funeral Friday Afternoon Text Os Political i Speech Is Released j INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—The text ’ of a political speech by Wayne Coy, highly critical of the Eisen- • hower administration, was made public today two days after his 1 death and two days before Coy 1 wa sto have given it at a Demo- 1 cratic rally ' Coy, 53, died unexpectedly TuesI nieht His funeral will be here * Friday afternoon and burial will H in bls former hometown of Franklin. Coy, president of WFBM and ’ WFBM-TV and a state and na- ( tional political figure between 1932 and 1952, was scheduled to ' address the Indiana Dollars for • Democrats Drive luncheon Satur- ] day in Indianapolis. The luncheon 1 was cancelled because of his 1 death. Coy had been appointed j honorary chairman for the drive. ’ In the speech, Coy said he was “reenlisting as a private in the 1 ranks” of the Democratic party. < It was his first political appear- i ance scheduled since he returned 1 to Indiana a few months ago after : nearly 20 years of national politi- 1 cal service and an out-of-state < assignment in the, broadcasting industry. “I have no ambitions to be a s candidate,” Coy wrote, “and I am < not involved in any factional poll- 1 tics I am reenlisting as a private < in the ranks.” 1 Coy’s speech was made public > by the Indiana Democratic State Committee, which said it was re- ! (Continued on Page. Seven) i

; Cancer Society One I Offund Agencies 5 County Society is In Community Fund Cancer, the great killer of American men, women, and children, is becoming less of a threat in DeStur through the ceaseless efforts the Adams county cancer society, one of the eight member organizations of the Community Fund drive, which will be held Oct. 7-14 this year. Since an ounce of prevention in cancer is worth far more than a pound of cure, education is one of the major tasks of the society, John B. Spaulding, D.D.S., county chairman, said today. Films explaining the danger signals of the disease are available to parent-teachers associations, schools, service clubs, and women’s organizations through the society. The films, which explain candidly and simply the first signs of cancer, are helping Americans become more conscious of a lurking danger. This danger, found early, may be stopped. But left to develop, it is incurable painful, exvelop, it is incurable, painful, exSpecial cancer material for school classrooms is also available, and radio and TV time Is purchased to urge periodical examinations to detect signs of cancer. Direct aid to cancer patients in /Ui t ns county is also given through the society. Hospital beds, and other special equipment necessary for cancer patients, are secured. Dressings are on hand and ready for the home care of cancer patients. Even financial aid to parties requiring it is given. On the state and national level, educational material is prepared for distribution through local societies. Radio, TV, and periodicals are used to spread the word about this dangerous killer which can be stopped. Special grants, to medical and dental school cancer research programs are also given by the state and national organizations. Scholarships to students in pathology and medical technical courses are given, and resarch is encouaged in every way. The money received through the (OoimniiM on Pare Seven) Scientists Enthused Over Balloon Flight Film From Balloon Is Being Processed MINNEAPOLIS (UP)—Scientists and government officials today were “very enthusiastic” about a balloon flight which lifted an automatic camera above the earth’s haze tp photograph the sun at relatively close quarters. The camera and long-range telescope drifted slowly to earth Wednesday afternoon after a fourhour look at the sun from an altitude of 81,000 feet, the highest point at which such equipment ever has been used. Technicians from the University of Minnesota received the film from “Operation Stratoscope” and began to process it The film will be available to the press Friday, according to the U.S. Navy, one of the sponsors of the project. The delicate equipment was carried aloft in the gondola of a balloon from suburban New Brighton. Scientists had hoped it’ would take the first “haze-free" portraits of the sun and also assist in solving mysteries surrounding the sun’s effects on radio waves. Intruments in the unmanned balloon kept tracking crews and officials on the ground posted on its progress- Scientists said the presence of a human aboard probably would have upset the nearperfect stability needed for precision shots. When the camera’s supply of film was exhausted, the camera and telescope automatically were cut away from the balloon and fell slowly to earth beneath a parachute. The equipment landed on a farm near Aniens, Wis., about 150 miles from the launching site. “The test was apparently highly successful,” a Navy spokesman said.

Reveals Near Revolt In Red China In June I ; China Philosopher Addresses Assembly r Os United Nations UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) t —Dr. Hu Shih, considered the greatest living Chinese philoso- . pher, told the United Nations today Red China was on the verge ; of. a student-led “popular uprising of the Hungarian type” last June. Hu said in a speech prepared for delivery to the General Ae- ‘ sembly that anti - Communist stu- ■ dent movements responded in ev- ’ ery part of China—“from Mukden ' to Canton, from Shanghai and ' Nanking in the east to Chungking ' and Chengtu in the west.” Hu set a U N precedent in de- : livering Nationalist China’s major > policy speech. Never before has a - scholar of his stature spoken for ■ a country in the assembly and • never before has such a speech ■ been made by anyone other than . a high government official. i Thousands of students partici- . pated in demonstrations against . the Communist government, he said. Communist Party officers j were beaten up in student riots ■ arks ’, u eK^A w, s: ' growing gravity of the situation. Hu quoted news reports that i three student ringleaders were ex- : ecuted at Hangyang in June and others leaders given prison sentences of 5 to 15 years. “It is absolutely untrue -that the Communist regime in China has 1 won over the mind and the heart ’of the young ... and the recent student revolt in China furnishes us with the best proof that, after 1 eight years of absolute rule and ideological molding, the students 1 in China are almost unanimously in opposition to' the Communist : Party and government.” Wemhoff Resigns As High School Teacher Accepts Position In Allen County School The resignation of Owen »C. Wemhoff from the Decatur public high school faculty was announced today by W. Guy Brown, superintendent of the pecatur schools. Wemhoff has resigned his posi--1 tion as English instructor and second team basketball coach to accept the position of principal and teacher of the Allen county school for retarded children In Fort Wayne. Brown announced that he will bo replaced *s English instructor . by Mrs. Martha D. Ferger of Indianapolis. Mrs. Ferger is a graduate of Indiana University ■ and has had three years of teaching experience. William McColly will take over the work of coaching the second 1 team in basketball. Floyd Reed will replace McColly as junior high basketball coach and will 1 continue as freshman coach. Merritt Alger will replace Wemhoff as noon lunch supervisor at the high school. Wemhoff will assume his new duties in the Fort Wayne school beginning next Tuesday. The school which he will head is attended by about 90 Allen county , children. The staff includes ' eight full time teachers, and four ' part time instructors. The school , is now held at the First Presby- . terian church but plans are being . made for the construction of a . special school building in about two years. ! Wemhoff, who resides in Fort i Wayne, is a native of Decatur ■ and a graduate of Decatur CathI olic high school. He was graduated from Ball State Teachers his master’s degree in education. 1 College, where he also received He taught at Chester CeHter ’ school in Wells county and Hoag--1 land high school in Allen county (Cantlnueri on Page Six)

Survivors Os Ship Sinking Tell Story Spent 54 Hours In Storm-Lashed Boat LONDON (If) — Survivors of the ill-fated German wind-jam-mer Pamir told today of spending 54 hours in a hurricane-whip-ped lifeboat with no drinking water and no way of knowing whether anyone heard their SOS. ( The story of the shipwrecked , sailors was gathered from the ’ weakened men aboard the U. S. ’ troop transport Geiger, which , picked them up in the Atlantic , and is expected to reach Casablanca Saturday. The eyewitness I report was radioed here and re- . leased by the U. S. Navy. The survivors said before they ■ boarded a lifeboat that was ali most sunk by 80-mile-an-hour winds bf Hurrican Carrie, the big ; blow lashed the ship so hard it caused it to list crazily at a 45- - degree angle. Abandoned Ship Saturday Karl O. Dummer, the wind- ’ jammer's 24-year-old baker, said ' the Pamir’s crew and cadets 1 abandoned ship at 10:45 p. m. ' Saturday when the Pamir flashed an SOS. j “The ship rolled, hurling men , into the water,” Dummer said, j “Others dropped, almost vertlcal- ! ly, into the sea—one on top of i another. The ship rolled over “Ten <rf us scrambled aboard’ : an upturned lifeboat which we • righted, but we were lashed with salt spray which made even breathing difficult. We saw 25 men climb into a damaged lifeboat which was almost awash.” Dummer and his mates said the 10 men in their boat never saw the other boat again. But his boat stayed afloat despite 30-foot waves that tossed it wildly. Five Men Die “For 54 hours we were in it," he said. "We had no drinking water. Five men died in the boat from exposure or jumped out despite the efforts of others to hold them. “That first night several ships came close to us but our shouts were never heard in the wind. At dawn we saw a plane and another ship, but they could not see us. “Throughout the day we waited for help. At half past four in the afternoon we saw the U, S. coastguard Cutter Absecon. “But the cutter passed by. We were too wetrk to hail her. *’The waves and the wind and the rain hid us from her. “We turned around to ease our numbed bodies and suddenly saw the S. S. freighter Saxon almost on us, emerging from a squall and framed by a rainbow in the last hour of the setting sun. She rescued us—those who were still alive.” Laura Bosse Named To Recreation Board Named Successor To Miss Frances Dugan Mrs. Laura Bosse, of 517 West Madison street, has been appointed to the Decatur recreation board, according to an announcement made today by Mayor Robert Cole. k Mrs. Bosse, widow of Ed A. Bosse, Decatur attorney, is wellknown in this community. She has served for several years on the Decatur public library board. She replaces Miss Frances Dugan, who has resigned from the recreation board after serving on it since its organization several years ago. One other vacancy on the board remains to be filled. A successor will be announced in the near future for Richard Linn, who resigned prior to being appointed manager of the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Lloyd A. Cowens is current chairman of the board, which controls the community center. Other members are Glenn Ellis and Dr. James Burk. ,

Arkansas City Cahn, Troops Still On Duty Only Excitement Arrest Os Young Air Force Officer LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) Army paratroopers today arrested a youthful Air Force officer, carrying a concealed revolver, on the Sidewalk opposite newly integrated Central High School. The armed man was picked up well inside the outer guard line set up' by the paratroops and within 100 yards of the school entrance. He was identified as 2nd L|. Sidney Arnold Wolff of Miami, Fla. He was arrested and disarmed about an hour after nine Negro students returned to Central High School under paratroop guard for the second day of integrated education. Except for the excitement stirred by Wolff’s arrest, all was calm in the long-turbulent school area, Fewer than 50 white bystanders gathered on the sidewalks where several hundred had stood of milled about Wednesday. No Other Incidents ° There were no demonstrations, and no incidents of violence like those Wednesday in which one with a rifle butt and another his arm slashed with a bayonet for resisting move-on orders from the helmeted troopers of the 101st Airborne Division. Wolff had reached the sidewalk of Park Avenue, facing the main entrance of the school, when paratroopers became suspicious of him. They pounced on him when an inadvertent movement of his sun-tan summer officer’s blouse revealed a glimpse of a .38 caliber revolver in a holster attached to his belt, beneath the blousein a 1957 Chrysler sedan which Wolff had parked nearby, a search party found a Winchester lever action carbine rifle. Wolff, a clean-cut, brown-haired man who gave his age as 23, was taken to Little Rock Air Force Base in the custody of air police. Papers found on him showed that he was en route to duty at Lack* land Air Force Base; Tex. Terms Action a Mystery Maj. Lewis T. Gaby, Air Force public information officer, said preliminary questioning disclosed that Wolff is a “newly commissioned” officer who graduated recently from the .University of Florida. Asked why Wolff had gone armed to Central High, Gaby replied: “It is a mystery to me, but it is certain that he was not on air force business.’ The excitement occasioned by Wolff’s arrest was the only break in an otherwise peaceful morning at Central High. The only real "crowds” in the area consisted of reporters and photographers. The largest single group consisted of nine teen-age boys standing on a corner. There were no demonstrations, not even shouts, as the Negro children drove up to the main entrance of the school in an Army station wagon, escorted before and behind by jeeploads of troopsWhite Students Silent About 100 white students watched silently from the steps w the lawn as the Negroes walked into the building, preceded by two paratroopers and followed by three others. The white youths followed them inside, and the bell rang for classes to begin. While the little convoy was en route to the school, Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Faubus announced that he will address the nation at 9 p.m. c.d.t. by radio and television (Continued on Page Seven) INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight with chance of scattered light frost in north portion. Friday fair north, partly cloudy, and cod. Low tonight 3442 north, 4248 south. High Friday 8046. Sunset today 8:38 p.m. Sunrise Friday 8:38 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and continued cool. Low Friday night 3440 north, 4048 south. High Saturday In the Ma.

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