Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. NO. 228.

ARMY ARRESTS AIR FORCE I " rr •'- ~ ARRIVING AT LITTLE BOCK’S Central High School in a new automobile bearing Texas license plates, this man. who identified himself as 2d Lt. Arnold Wolf of Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, is placed under arrest by Army troopers. He was found to be carrying a loaded pistol in a shoulder holster, and a shotgun was found in the trunk of his car.

Grand Rapids Oil Companies Swept By Fire Fire Chief Reports Two Costly Fires Definitely Arson GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UP)— Raging. thundering oil fires apparently touched off by an arsonist's torch swept two Grand Rapids area oil companies Thursday night and early today. No serious injuries were reported. Officials said more than 150,000 gallons of fuel oil were destroyed They placed damage at more than a half-million dollars. “This is definitely arson," Grand Rapids Fire Chief Frank H. Burns said after surveying the scene. As a precautionary measure, police stationed guards at the remaining two dozen oil company storage yards in the area. The first blast Thursday night tore through the Cornell Oil Co. about 10 miles south of here. Witnesses said it rocked a two-mile area and lit up the sky like a “small atom bomb exploding." Another .blast early today struck the Ver Brugge Oil Co. on the south side of town, five miles from the Cornell explosion. Both fires were under control by 2 a.m. es.t. today. Thousands of persons watched as firemen battled the two fires which prompted the greatest mobilization of police, firemen, Red Cross and Civil Defense since a tornado struck in April, 1956. The darkness was punctuated by brilliant fireballs which shot hundreds of feet into the air and then vanished in a pale of smoke. Flashlight beams and the glow of lanterns added to the eerie scene. Several spectators at the Ver Brugge firq received minor cuts and bruises when they fell into a coal pile near adjoining railroad tracks. They were among spectators who scattered when one fireball followed an explosion. There were six storage tanks at the Cornell company. Five exploded and burned with their 100,000 gallons of fuel oil. The sixth and largest—holding 110,000 gallons—was saved. Three of the five tanks at the Ver"Brugge yard were lost in the towering flames. They contained 40,000 gallons. Sgt. James Urban of the Grand Rapids police department was not certain of the origin of the fires “Although it doesn't seem possible, the two fires may have been a coincidence," he said. Black smoke hung over both fires. The two-story storage tanks at Cornell disappeared in the fire. Ironically. City Manager Donald Oaks held a meeting with representatives of Grand Rapids and surrounding areas Thursday night to map plans for coordinating efforts in the event of a major fire. The meeting broke up 15 minutes before the men got a lesson in reciprocal fire protection. Woman Is Fatally Burned In Home Fire ANDERSON (W — Mrs. Mary McMahan, 72, Anderson, died today in St. John’s Hospital from burns sustained Wednesday night in a fire at her home. Authorities believe the Haze may have started when a cigarette fell from an ash tray.

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Wilson Unhappy At Need Os Troop Use No Plans To Use Troops Elsewhere United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson said today he hopes federal troops will not have to stay much longer in Little Rock, Ark. He said emphatically that he does not expect regular Army troops to be used elsewhere in the South. Wilson said in discussing with newsmen the use of federal troops in the Little Rock school integration crisis that “there is nothing for anybody to cheer about.” He made it plainly clear that he is unhappy at the whole turn of events. Asked if paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division will remain in Little Rock long, Wilson said: “I hope not, but nobody can tell.” When asked whether the Army is expected to send regular troops anywhere else in the south he replied with a stem "No." As for the use of troops in Little Rock, Wilson said there was “nothing else you could do.” Wilson was asked if Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker, in command of the troops at Little Rock, could replace the 101st Airborne unit with National Guardsmen on his own initiative He replied that Walker could withdraw the regulars from the immediate vicinity and substitute guardsmen. But he said Walker could not return the paratroopers to Ft. Campbell, Ky., with Washington approval. An Army spokesman’s informed guess created a furor Thursday that reverberated to the White House. The spokesman, at a Pentagon news briefing Thursday, said Army commanders in the South “probably" had placed some troops on a semi-alert in case of further racial troubles. He was explaining why the 101st Airborne Division had been ready to move so quickly into Little Rock, Ark. The spokesman indicated it was normal procedure for Army commanders to prepare to give military aid to civil powers when disturbances occur in their areas. Some news dispatches emanating from the briefing interpreted t ehspokesman as meaning troops in the South “probably" had been alerted by an Army order. When the upper echelons of the Pentagon saw the dispatches they realized fears might be touched off of new troop movements in the South. Army / Secretary Wilber M Brucker prepared to deny any alert order had been issued. Then it was discovered someone had sent out a “precautionary training directive” only Wednesday tolling certain units there should be an “increased emphasis on training for riot duty.” Press Secretary James C. Hag(Conttnued on Pare eight) INDIANA WEATHER Frost warning northeast half tonight. Fair and cooler tonight with frost northeast half and scattered frost southwest half. Fair and a little wanner Saturday. Low tonight 25-32 northeast, 33-40 southwest. High Saturday 64-70. Sunset today 6:34 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:38 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and warmer. Low Saturday night in 30s. High Sunday in low 70a.

Slate Divided In Three Time Zones Sunday Confusion Reigns Throughout State Despite New Law INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-The Indianapolis City Council threw the Hoosier capital time issue into a turmoil today by refusing to budge from an earlier decision to keep Indiana’s largest city on "fast” time despite a new state law which “prohibits” .it after Sept. 29. The council's action was diametrically opposed to a decision of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce board of directors Thursday that the city should switch from Daylight Saving to Central Standard time SundayIndianapolis business and industry in this city of half a million population thus was caught in a tug of war between the two agencies, each of which recommended to the public the use of a different time schedule for the winter months. ” *. Observers had predicted that the council would rescind its earlier action in the face of the chamber's recommendation. Governor Handley, fighting for “uniformity” and claiming neutrality in the long-term battle over time in Hoosierland, found himself trapped in the middle of the muddle. When the chamber acted, he said he was “pleased” and “certainly hoped” that several Eastern Indiana cities planning to stay on "fast” time all winter “will abide by the intent of the law and join the Hoosier team.” When told of the council's action, Handley said “I still feel that uniformity is the only answer. I’m sorry they have taken that attitude. It will lend to confusion.” Handley’s latest comments and the council’s latest action came with the date for changing clocks only two days away. Earlier, the picture looked this way: ■ • Despite a brand new-time law aimed at uniformity of clocks aftd watches, it appeared: 1. The bulk of Hoosierland will move clock hands back an hour in compliance with the spirit of the law Sept. 29 and observe Central Standard, or “slow”, time. 2. A tier of counties and cities in northwestern Indiana will continue to observe Daylight Saving, or “fast”, time until Oct. 2 when the Chicago area undergoes its annual time transition. 3. A scattering of areas along the eastern border will stay on (Continued on PZ*e Two) Saudi Arabia King Backs Syria Policy Asks Eisenhower To Follow Mild Policy By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent King Saud of Saudi Ar&bia announced his open support of Syrian policy and has asked President Eisenhower to follow a “milder” policy towards that nation, Damascus dispatches reported today. Saud’s statement pledging supnort to Syria in resisting any antiArab aggression from any quarter was issued in Damascus Thursday night and made public today. Egyptian political quarters hailed the Saud statement as proof the United States “hard line" on Syria has backfired and produced a new spirit of Arab unity that may bring Iraq into the fold of neutralist states. Iraq is a key member of the Baghdad Pact. Informed sources in Cairo said Iraqi Premier Ali Jowdat hurried to the Damascus meeting with Saud to disassociate himself with the’ bristling statements issued against Syria by the United States, Britain and Turkey. “It was good I was able to make this personal visit to Syria at a time when various rumors and allegations created concern among our Syrian brothers,” King Saud said. .J , ' “I wish on this occasion to announce that 1 denounce every anti-Syria aggression or any aggression against any Arab states, and I shall resist with my Syrian and Arab brothers any aggression against them from any direction.” Saud then stated that Syria represents no danger to any of its neighbors and said Syrian policy in the Arab field was based on the charter of the Arab League and that Syria’s Arab relations were defined in accordance with the Arab collective security pact. A Cairo dispatch early today said Jordanian security forces recently arrested 8 of a 40-member gang sent into Jordan from Syria to assassinate King Husseinlatest of a number of reported proCommunist plots against Hussein

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 27,1957

Mayor Os Little Rock Says Faubus’ Friend Agitator In Violence

Former Union Official Tells Threat On Life Charges Hoffa And Associates Issued Threats On Family BULLETIN WASHINGTON (W — A federal judge ordered the Teamsters Union today not to eleet officers at Its national convention in Miami Beach, Fla., next week. WASHINGTON (UP)-A former Michigan union official testified before the Senate Rackets Committee today that he had received repeated threats, including death, from Midwest Teamster boss James R. Hoffa and his associates. The witness. Robert Scott, former secretary-treasurer of the Michigan Federation of Labor and a former business agent of Teamsters Local 614 in Pontiac, said the threats dated back to the mid--1940s He said they were directed against both himself and his wife. The most recent, he said, were in two anonymous telephone calls last week warning him not to testify before the committee. Committee Promises Protection Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) promised that “this committee will do everything in its power...to give you and your family protection.” McClellan urged Scott to advise the committee if any further threats are received. (Continued on Page Five) Below Freezing In State This Morning Low Os 30 Reported From Goshen Today By UNITED PRESS Temperatures dropped below freezing In Indiana today for the first time this season, and the possibility of a killing frost over half the state was seen for tonight. Goshen recorded a chilly 30 during a two-hour period in which the mercury was at 32—freezing or below. Weathermen said technically it was considered the state’s first freeze since last spring. Even cooler readings were predicted for tonight, with the mercury expected to shrink to a range of 25 to 32 over the northeast half of Hoosierland, roughly north and east of a line between Lake County and Madison. In the southwest half, the low will be 33 to 40. The weather forecasters issued a “frost warning” and said fair skies will set the stage for what might be a killing frost over half the state if the low readings materialize. The other half was to get “scattered frost.” , Other low readings this morning were 34 at South Bend, where light frost was reported; 35 at Fort Wayne, 41 at Lafayette, 43 at Indianapolis and 53 at Evansville. After tonight’s dip, which may bring scattered frost as far south as Evansville, the mercury will head upward and five days of above-normal temperatures are due. The five-day outlook for the period Saturday through next Wednesday calling for temperatures to average 5 to 7 degrees above normal highs of 68 to 78 and normal lows of 46 to 56. “Warming trend beginning Saturday or Sunday. Little or no precipitation indicated,” the outlook said. The mercury hit highs ranging from 58 at Fort Wayne to 83 at Evansville Thursday as an unusual 25-degree span prevailed between high marks in the north and the south. Highs today will range in the 60s from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River. Highs Saturday will range from 67 to 70. The outlook for Sunday was “fair and wanner.”

Okinawa Battered By Vicious Typhoon Report Storm Worst In Modem Memory NAHA, Okinawa (UP) — Residents of Okinawa complained today that neither their own nor U.S. Air Force weathermen gave them advance warning of vicious typhoon Faye which shattered this Pacific island Thursday. The violent tropical storm, worst in modern memory, moved near southern Japan today packing winds of 55 miles an hour, sharply reduced from the 148-mile-an-hour winds that raked this U.S. military bastion. Okinawan police reports put the casualty list at 13 dead, 111 missing and 70 injured. There were 35 Americans among the injured, including a marine with a fractured skull, but none among the dead or missing. Typhoon Faye crippled military installations, destroyed 800 Okinawan houses and damaged 1,131- It sank 11 vessels of over 5 tons and 33 of under 5 tons. Twenty - four others were missing. Military officials d e c 1 i n e d to give a full report of the damage to their installations because of “security restrictions.” They did say it was “extensive." Eyewitnesses said some military installations were in shambles. At a late hour today there still Was no official explanation from. U.S. or Okinawan authorities why there was no advance warning to residents of the island. It was more puzzling because U.S. naval vessels pulled out of port Wednesday night to ride out the storm on the high seas and suffered no damage. John Servaites, business manager of the Okinawa Morning Star, said the first warning any of the islanders had was when the wind started howling Shortly before dawn- By 8:30 a.m. the winds were 148 miles an hour. Sunday Schools Plan For Fall Convention Annual Convention Opens October 27 Plans are now being completed for the fall convention of the Adams county Sunday school association, October 27-28, Earl Chase, association president, said today. The speaker for the convention tihs year will be Harold H. Etling, of Winona Lake. As director of the Sunday school board of the Brethren Church, he spends much of his time traveling throughout the country giving aid to the Sunday schools of his denomination. At the national Sunday school workshops to be held next month in Los Angeles, Calif., and Grand Rapids, Mich., he will be the leader of the workshop on canvassing and visitation. The county convention this fall will have three Sessions as in the past. Present plans call for the Sunday afternoon session to be held in Berne. The Sunday evening session will be at the Decatur Trinity E. U. B. church. The Monday evening banquet will be served in the gym at Berne. Tickets will soon be in the hands of the Sunday school workers throughout the county. There has been an average attendance of 400 people attending these banquets for the past three years. Officers of the Adams county Sunday school association met last Sunday afternoon at the home of president Chase, and made initial plans for the county convention. Two such meetings are held each year, and the last was held in May at Berne. Instructions concerning the work of. the Sunday school and the fellowship of the various workers throughout the county have been the highlights of these conventions. The association is the only organization in the county that is in contact with all the Sunday schools of the various churches in the county. Further plans will be made by (Continued on Pago Six)

Romulo Warns Wesl Rely On Atom Weapons Says Western World Can Never Hope To Equal Red Strength UNITED NATIONS, N.Y, (UP) , — Philippines Ambassador Carlos ; P. Romulo said today the Western . world must rely on atomic and hydrogen weapons as their only defense against Communist military strength the “free countries can never hope to equal." In a speech prepared for delivery to the United Nations General Assembly, Romulo said the Philippines and other small countries must maintain defensive alliances with the West despite “the siren call of peaceful coexistence.” The assembly, ending the second week of its general debate, also was scheduled to hear policy addresses today from Burma, Albania, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Pakistan, Yemen and Turkey. Late Thursday, by an 80-0 tally, with one ballot invalidated in the secret vote, it reelected Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden for a second five-year term as U.N. ecretary general. Hammarskjold’s first term expires next April 10. Israel, absent because of the Roth Hashanah holiday, sent a letter explaining it also supported Hammarskjold’s reelection. “The Soviet government,” Romulo told the assembly, "continues to advocate an agreement to renounce forthwith the use of atomic and hydrogen weapons in advance of an adequate control system over fissionable materials and in advance of an agreement on the reduction of armed forces and supervision of stocks of armaments •, . . “The free world must rely on these terrible weapons as their only defense against the Red army, which, combined with the armies of the Warsaw Pact countries and of Communist China, the free countries can never hope to equal...” Secret Increase To Toll Road Director Wedeking Confirms Commission Action INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The $25,000 annual salary of Indiana Toll Road Director Albert J. Wedeking has been "secretely" increased to $30,000, it was learned today. Wedeking confirmed the commission action taken more than 10 weeks ago. At the same time the commission raised from $16,000 to $20,000 the slary of its secretary - treasurer, Lawrence Crosby. The commission decided at the time not to make the increases public At a meeting this week the commission was handed a proposed 1958 budget calling for an increase of more than $940,000 in spending over the 1957 budget. Several salary hikes are included. But increases were not proposed for the commission members who make $5,000 a year, or general counsel Charles Ceok, whqse salary is $25,000. The proposed budget totals $3,642,686, compared with the 1957 budget of $2,702,809. Maintenance accounted for $547,956 of the increase. Requests from department heads included salary increases totaling about SB,OOO for state policemen patrolling the east-west turnpike, and a hike of from $8,700 to SIO,BOO for personnel director Fred Fosler. Wedeking declined 13 budget proposal public because he said commission members should study it first. State Highway Chairman John Peters, ex officio member, released it to newsmen. Wedeking is Indiana's highestpaid public official. The governor gets $15,000, plus $12,000 for maintenance of the executive mansion. Wedeking said he felt his services were worth $30,000.

New Flu Outbreaks Throughout Nation Doctors Warned On Careful Diagnosis 3 By UNITED PRESS As new outbreaks of influenza put several college football teams out of action for the weekend, a detailed report to the American Medical Assn- has asked doctors to be careful in diagnosing patients. “-“-7“--’ “All that fevers is not flu," the report warned. Flu epidemics now extend across the nation from the Atlantic to the Pacific. More than 5,000 cases were reported in Tallahassee, Fla., including the campuses of two universities, while two college football games were definitely cancelled in California and Oklahoma due to the illness. The AMA special report Thursday night said doctors should avoid a tendency to classify all flu-like symptoms as Asian flu. Throat smears of the afflicted patients supply the only sure method of diagnosing the illness correct-' ly, the report said. Writing in the current edition of the Journal Os The AMA, the committee said in all likelihood the nation is due for an Asian flu epidemic this fall or winter. Americans have no natural immunity to Asian flu, they said, but the best possible vaccine probably already had been developed in large enough volume “to protect essential national services." Persona allergic to eggs are the only ones who shouldn’t take the vaccine, the committee said. Schools which cancelled their Saturday football contests included New Mexico College, scheduled to play the University of San Diego; and Cerritos College, pitted against Compton College at Los Angeles Young Riveter Held On Kidnaping Charge / Admits Abducting Eight-Year-Old Boy EVERETT, Wash. (UP) — A young riveter was booked on a charge of kidnaping here today. He allegedly admitted he abducted Lee Crary, 8, and sent a note to the boy’s parents demanding SIO,OOO ransom. The man’s common-law wife was charged as an accessory. The boy, who suffers from rheumatic fever, was found Thursday afternoon walking along a road 20 miles from his home in Edmonds, near Seattle. He told FBI agents he had been kidnaped by “a real nice guy” shortly after he left home Monday evening but escaped Thursday morning by chewing through a belt which had been used to tie his arm around a tree. Lee said he seen it done in an old western movie. George Edward Collins Jr., 20, Everett, Wash, signed a J2-page statement admitting the story as essentially described by young Crary. Snohomish County Sheriff Bob Twitchell, who booked the Boeing Airplane Co. worker, also held Catherine Myers, 21, his commonlaw wife, as an accessory. The two were charged under state law and not federal kidnaping statutes since they had not crossed the state line. They were arrested by FBI agents in Everett Thursday night. Twitchell said a kidnap plan was found in the suspect’s wallet. A ransom note, reportedly warning the Crarys they never would see their son again unless they paid SIO,OOO, was on its way to the FBI in Washington, D.C. The youngster left home Monday evening after his mother told him he had a spanking coming. He said a man picked him up and took him to a house in the Lake Stevens area. “He asked me what my father did and who he knew,” Lee said. “I got fed and I slept and he gave me a shirt Then I loosened the rope and was able to get away.”

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FBI Probing Charges Made By Mayor Mann Says Close Friend Os Governor Faubus Agitated Violence LITTLE ROCK, Ark. m — Federal agents investigated today Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann's charges that a close friend of Gov. Orval Faubus was a "principal agitator* of last Monday's violence at Central high school. The friend is James T. Karam. Mann made the charges in a telegram last Monday to Atty. Gen. Herbert Brownell Jr. FBI agents, it was learned, are checking out the charges. Students , returned to Central High this morning for their third day of integrated classes. Ail was calm in the area as the children were driven to the main entrance in an Army station wagon convoyed by two jeeploads of paratroopers. A few white students standing on the steps clapped and shouted what sounded like friendly greetings as the Negroes entered. Troop Number Reduced Today, for the first time, the Negro youths yralked from the” station wagon to the door without an armed escort. The number of 101st Airborne Division troops ringing the school was noticeably reduced. A reporter estimated about one company of 200 men were manning the perimeter where at least 500 held fixed bayonets on Wednesday. The sidewalks outside the perimeter, where troops drove back sullen crowds on the first day of integration, were virtually empty. Faubus Thursday night accused a Little Rock newspaper editor, the mayor and a former governor of “heavy” responsibility for the troop movement into Arkansas. The former governor, Sid McMath, described Faubus* nationwide radio-TV speech as “highly inflamatory." He said it was significant that Faubus waited until the end of his speech to call for calmness of the people to an even higher pitch.” Editor Harry Ashmore of the Arkansas Gazette denied any implication in President Eisenhower's decision to federalize the state militia and fly in airborne Army troops. In Washington, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued a statement in which he said that Faubus’ charge FBI agents had held teenage girls incommunicado “is as false as his recent statement that the FBI tapped his telephone.” “Had Governor Faubus been interested in securing the truth rather than disseminating falsehoods, a telephone call to the Little Rock office of the FBI or to me would have provided him with the facts,” Hoover said. County Schools To Operate On Daylight Time, Same As City Gail Grabill, superintendent of the county schools, announced today that all schools in the county system will revise school hours to coordinate with fast time schedGrabill stated that he had confered with trustees in all townships and all of them have indicat-___ ed that the clocks will be turned back to central standard time early Sunday morning in compliance with the law, and they will then change school hours to one hour earlier. The result of this decision means that parents of school children in the rural areas may keep their clocks on daylight saving time and send the children to school at the same hours they lo now. This system will be followed in the Decatur schools and the entire county will continue on a daylight “fast time” schedule along with most other communities and countries in the For Wayne area.