Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 232, Decatur, Adams County, 2 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 232.

SOUTHERNERS TAKE CASE TO IKE ' ,nH.« i' il IMiff/ IB r jto,j ’ ' VII jiz hKw 4®i. • 'SKSUMW »U|«*.Wg J ; /SrOl r ffl »F iFiwOjk ” '.M|| - ’ J Jf* JI Hmm PRESIDENT EISENHOWER, seeking a solution to the problem of integration in the South’s spools, meets with four Governors at the White House. Seated at the conference table are (from left) Govs. Leßqy Collins of Florida, Luther Hodges of North Carolina. Mr. Eisenhower, and Govs. Theodore McKeldin of Maryland and Frank Clement, of Tennessee. ■ _

Ike Calls On Arkansas To Fall In Line Four Principles On School Integration Are Outlined Today WASHINGTON (UP) — The White House declared today four “legal principles'* on school integration and called on the people and governor of Arkansas to fall in step with President Eisenhower on them. They added up to “obey court orders." , Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty released a text of the principles, which, he said, were read to the southern governors’ committee Tuesday and have “guided the President” in the school integration crisis. “We sincerely hope that the good people of the state of Arkansas and Utile Rock, as well as the governor, will follow the legal principles which have guided the President,” Hagerty said. Eisenhower refused Tuesday night to go through with a tentative agreement for troop withdrawal from Little Rock’s Central High School worked out by a mediating committee of southern governors Tuesday. He refused because Gov. Orval E. Faubus inserted qualifying words in his pledge to enforce the court’s desegregation order if troops were pulled out. Next Move Up to Faubus The White House attitude today, Hagerty said, was that the next move is up to Faubus. Eisenhower’s four principles, in summary: 1. It is the right of the local communities, not the federal administration, to make plans to carry out the Supreme Court’s desegregation ruling. However, the courts have made clear that the Department of Justice, when invited by the courts, must participate in court action to enforce school desegregation. 2. It is up to the courts to pass on the reasonableness of the speed with which local authorities decide to carry out school desegregation. “Law of the Land” 3. “A final order of a federal court giving effect to a desegregation public school plan must be obeyed by state authorities and all citizens as the law of the land... Final orders of the federal courts carrying out this principle must be observed. It is the duty of the state authorities to gjve full aid to the enforcement of a desegregation public school plan once it is finally ordered by the ‘court. i,"-.’'Rowers of a state governor may not be used to defeat a valid order of a federal court... The governors of the respective states have the primary responsibility for maintaining domestic order. However, under a pretext of maintaining order a governor may not interpose military force or permit mob violence to occur so as to prevent the final order of a federal court from being carried out.” 1 “When an obstruction of justice has been interposed or mob violence is permitted to exist so that it is impracticable to enforce the laws by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, the obligation of the President under the Constitution and the laws is inesv capable. He is obliged to use whatever means may be required by the particular situation." Says Negotiations Continue Four “moderate” southern governors who arranged the abortive compromise between the President and Faubus Tuesday. But Gov. Frank Clement of Tennessee, the only one of the four remaining in Washington, said the governors committee was continuing to work for a solution. “Negotiations have not terminated,” he said.

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Seek Gunman's Link To Unsolved Deaths Blames Companion In Officers' Deaths JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. (UP) Authorities today sought to link a gunman, who with a companion shot and killed two state troopers, with the unsolved murders of five persons in California and New Mexico. Victor Wayne Whitley, 26, Granger, Tex., was captured Tuesday near North Vernon, Ind., after a night-long search by a force of about 250 police officers. His arrest climaxed one of Indiana’s greatest manhunts since the days of Dillinger. State police sent Whitely’s picpicture and fingerprints to western points as a suspect in the murder of two El Segundo, Calif., policemen last July, and the slaying of two young women and a man in New Mexico two days later. The tall, blond bandit, held in jail here under a heavy guard, admitted he and his slain accomplice staged a cross-country crime spree before their wild two-state flight that began Monday afternoon in Michigan. In their wake the killers left one state patrolman dead and one wounded seriously in Michigan, and another state policeman dead and two police officers wounded, one critically, in Indiana. Also killed was Whitley’s partner in crime, Ralph Walker Taylor, 36, of near St. Alban’s, W. Va. Taylor was wounded fatally by a Volley of police bullets when the two bandits crashed a road block south of North Vernon shortly besot midnight Tuesday night. Whitley shoved the body of his dead accomplice from the car and drove away, but abandoned his bullet-riddled getaway car a short time later to take cover in a nearby woodland. A small army of police ringed the wooded area during the night keeping him “pinned down," and then flushed Whitley from the woods shortly after daylight. Whitley, his hands up and unarmed, surrendered meekly. Whitley blamed the slayings of the troopers in Michigan and Indiana on Taylor. “I guess Ralph was just no good," the gunman said, wryly. Whitley also admitted that he and Taylor committed at least 20 armed robberies in 13 states since last June, police said. Authorities in Michigan, meanwhile, indicated they would be willing to have Whitley tried for murder in Indiana where he would face death in the electric chair. The maximum penalty in Michigan is life imprisonment. Whitley, his icy calm unruffled by intensive police questioning, signed three statements admitting his part in the murders and four months of “pulling armed robberies.” He said they held up loan companies, liquor stores and super markets at New Orleans and Shreveport, La.; Atlanta, Ga.; Covington, Hopkinsville and Louisville, Ky.; Wilmington, Del.; Frederick, Md.; Uniontown, Pa.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Greenfield, S.C.; Morgantown, W.Va.; Trinidad, Cape Girardeau and Kansas City, Mo.; El Dorado, Ark.; Terre Haute, Ind., and Omaha, Neb. • Ban Is Ordered On Visits To Hospital Because of the Crowded conditions existing at the Adams county memorial hospital 3 at the present time, Thurman Drew, hospital administrator, has requested that visitors be limited to members of the immediate families only. Announcement will be made when the visiting ban is lifted.

Faubus Refuses Any Assurance To Eisenhower Refuses Additional Assurance To Help Integrate School LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) — Gov. Orval E. Faubus refused today to give President Eisenhower additional assurances that he will prevent interference with integration at Central High School. “I will stand on the statement I made yesterday," Faubus told a United Press reporter as he drove to a news conference at the Capitol. . Eisenhower said Tuesday night that Faubus’ statement Tuesday was inadequate assurance, and that federal troops would not be withdrawn from Little Rock on the basis of it. Faubus made clear that he is determined not to alter the language of his declaration, as a group of go-between southern governors hoped he would do, to break the stalemate between federal and state authorities. ”1 have made my public statement and I will stand by it,” he said. "I’ve given until it has hurt. They want to get me in a spot. They want to blame me.” Dashes Governors’ Hopes The governor intimated that so far as he is concerned, the next move in the situation is up to Eisenhower. His stand appeared to quash hopes of four moderate southern governors that Faubus would modify the language of his original statement to conform to what the governors and the White House thought Faubus had agreed to by telephone Tuesday. Faubus said: “The negotiations were on the basis of these two points: First—that I would assume responsibility to maintain law and order; second —that I would not obstruct the orders of the courts.” “That pledge was contained in my statement issued Tuesday. I will stand on that statement.” A few minutes later, Faubus repeated his decision to a crowded news conference. “I am standing pat on the statement issued Tuesday just as it is,” he said. Says Protection Guaranteed Newsmen asked if he would guarantee to Mr. Eisenhower that he would protect the nine Negro children presently enrolled in Central High School. "Protection is already guaranteed by the federal government,” Faubus replied. He said it is "evident there will be some disorder when federal troops pull out.” Asked if he would use the National Guard to protect the Negro children if federal troops leave, Faubus said he did not like to comment on "iffy questions.” Faubus described himself as "dissatisfied, amazed and disappointed” at Eisenhower’s decision to keep troops in Little Rock. After four “moderate southern governors held a three-and-half hour conference with the President Tuesday, Faubus issued a declaration saying that if the troopers were withdrawn, he would: “. . .Resume full responsibility for the maintenance of law and order” and assure the White House that “the orders of the federal courts will not be obstructed by me. . .”’ The President studied Faubus’ statement and about three-and-a-half hours later said it did not provide "the assurance that he (Faubus) intends to use his full powers as governor to prevent the (Continued on Pag« Ftv«) - I

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Decatur Indiana, Tuesday, October 2, 1957.

Braves, Yankees Open 1957 World Series In Yankee Stadium Today

Hoffa Gaining Momentum In Teamster Bid Bandwagon Appears Gaining Steam For Union Presidency MIAMI BEACH (UP) — The Jimmy Hoffa bnndwagon appeared today to be turning into a fullfledged steamroller in the race to succeed retiring Union President Dave Beck as top man in the nation’s largest union. Hoffa’s bid for the $50.000-a---year labor post seemed to gain momentum by the hour while his opponents apparently were deadlocked in the much-reported plans they were considering formation of a coalition to stop the Teamsters Midwest boss. Endorsements for Hoffa from several big delegations came Tuesday night shortly after Chief Justice Earl Warren removed the last legal threat to election at the Teamsters convehtion by refusing a plea to call off the contest. The 44-year-old Detroit labor leader added the votes of the Los Angeles Joint Council, the New England and the eastern conferences as the union’s convention went into its third day. -W Another Coalition Try Teamsters Executive Vice-Presi-dent Einar O. Mohn, previously neutral, threw his support to Hoffa at a meeting of the Los Angeles group. Meanwhile, Hoffa’s apponents said they woula make another try at a coalition today. William A Lee, Chicago vice president, won support from the National Bakery Drivers Council late Tuesday night. However, he failed to show the votes necessary to back up his claim that Hoffa has been “stopped." Lee and the two other candicates — Thomas J. Haggerty of Chicago and Thomas Hickey of New York — met separately Tuesday and were reported •ready to try once more to decide on a coalition and which one of the three should remain in the race. TuesCastiaoee m. race Ksfct e Brief Session Held By City Councilmen Receive Complaint Os Trash On Street _ A complaint about steel drums, boxes and garbage cans being placed on the street in the 100 block of North Sixth street wa* made during a brief regular session of the city council Tuesday night. Rail* Burnett, of 119 North Sixth street, and Mark Schurger. of 116 North Sixth street, filed the complaint that the area is being made unsightly by the trash and garbage cans. They pointed out that a city ordinance prohibits such a situation and asked that the ordinance be enforced. The council promised immediate action on the matter. The council also accepted the resignations of Miss Frances Dugan and Richard Linn from the Decatur recreation board and approved the appointments of Mrs. Laura Bosse and Joseph Kaehr to the vacancies on the board. These appointments were announced earlier. A contract between the city and Mrs. Florence Susdorf, of Root township, for a rural power line extension was approved and a petition for a light at the alley between Adams and Madison streets on 16th street was referred to the light and power committee in conjunction with the, superintendent. Notification was given to the council by Dr. H. F. Zwick that the lease held by the city on property to the south of the Ideal Dairy bar on South Second street will be cancelled. The city leased the property for use as a parking lot on the agreement that the lease could be cancelled by the owner with • 30-day notice. i _

Says Negroes Had Bad Day At School . Mistreatment From White Pupils Told t LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) — Nine Negro students entered Central High School without a troop escort this morning. They were greeted by jeers and catcalls from pome 40 white students who had assembled on the school steps. The Negroes, six girls and three boys, were driven to school as usual in an Army station wagon preceded and followed by jeeploads of National Guardsmen. The students got out and walked unescorted across the campus. Instead of walking up the front steps, as on previous days, they veered and entered the building through a side entrance on the ground level. A group of 40 to 50 white boys and girls stood on the steps awaiting their arrival. Such a group has been on the steps each morning since integration began. As it became apparent that the Negro children would not walk up the steps through this crowd, some of the white youths shouted “chicken” and made jeering noises. National Guardsmen, now under federal command, resumed daytime sentry duty around the school at dawn, relieving paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division who ■fed stood the night watch. - Mrs. Lucius C. Bates, Arkansas president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said the Negro students had “a terrible day” at school Tuesday. Mrs. Bates said that pencils, papers and pebbles were thrown at the children. She said the girls were shown knives and were shoved. "When they asked a guardsman about reporting the incidents he just moved away,” the Negro woman Said. “They (the children) got no protection.” Mrs. Margaret Jackson, vice president of the anti-integration “Mothers League” of Central said “wonderful” when told of Mrs. Bates statement. " "I have no animosity in my heart for colored people but there is resentment in our hearts . . . that never was there before.” Mrs. Jackson said “every day the President leaves his troops in Little Rock he contributes to our cause.” Mrs. Bates said that the children would continue to go to school as long as the President assures them protection. Sorority Donates Unit For Hospital Psi lota Xi In Hospital Donation The Psi lota XI sorority in Decatur will donate furnishings for a single unit to the new hospital addition, the hospital board announced today. The sorority decided last year, under the leadership of Mrs. Ray Fager, to donate the unit, but waited until the completion of a project to raise the money before making the announcement. The ways and means committee, Miss Marion Koontz, chairman, suggested that each member have a do-it-yourself project to raise the money, and this idea was accepted by the sorority. The present officers pushed the project to completion. Each girl had a different idea on how to raise the money, Mrs. Jack Heller, present president of the sorority said. One made mink-trim-med can openers for the person who has everything, and sold them for gifts; another made and sold home-made bread; another, Christmas cookies. One held her own rummage sale. This was the 21st unit donated to the new,3s unit addition. Each unit is valued" at SSOO. Psi lota Xi was the second sorority to announce Its donation to the hospital board.

Admiral Byrd Assails Ike's Spending Move Accuses President With Violation Os Intent Os Congress WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen. Harry F. Byrd accused President Eisenhower today of violating the intent of Congress by failing to cut federal spending for the current government year. The Virginia Democrat, leading economy advocate and chairman of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, made the charge after publication of the administration’s midyear budget review. The review, released Tuesday night, showed that despite heavy congressional appropriation cuts and military strength reductions the federal government now expects to spend 200 million dollars more than Eisenhower estimated last January—before all the budget cutting furor arose. The new estimate of federal spending for the 12 months ending next June 30 is 72 billion dollars, instead of the peacetime record $71,800,000,000 predicted by Eisenhower in January. Government income will slump by 100 million dollars—from the expected $73,600,000,000 to $73,500,000,000 for the year. The 1957-58 surplus will be cut from $1,800,000,000 to $1,500,000,000. The disclosure dimmed somewhat hopes for a tax cut next year, though Democrats may press for a reduction anyway. It also foretold a probable new and even more vigorous wave of budget cutting when Congress returns in January. Congress cut Eisenhower’s appropriation requests around five billion dollars at its last session, Byrd, who figured the cuts amounted to even more—around six billion—noted he had called on the President to reduce spending “by the same amount.” He said the budget review clearly showed the congressional cuts “will result in virtually no reductions in federal expenditures this year.” “Obviously,” he added, Eisenhower is using unspent funds IContlnuea on ”««« Five) Mrs. Gerald Vizard Is Vice Chairman Named By Democrats On Financial Drive ' Roger Singleton, Adams county chairman of the "National Dollars for Democrats" campaign, has announced the appointment of Mrs. Gerald Vizard to serve as vice chairman of the project. Mrs. Vizard, active for many years in Democratic politics, will assist Singleton in the drive to contact every Democrat voter in the county to solicit donations. Singleton stated today that Democratic precinct committeemen will serve as captains in the precincts and they will name one or two solicitors to assist them in the drive. Democratic party officials hope to secure a donation of one dollar or more from every Democrat in the county. The money will be useed to finance 1958 political campaigns >pf Democratic candidates for public office. The drive will be completed by Oct. 11 and 12, which have been designated “National Dollars” for Democrats” days. Contingent Is Sent By Selective Service Three men were sent to Indianapolis this morning, by the Adams county board of selective service. Two of the young men, sent for active induction into the armed forces, were Ned Louis Bixler and Dale Arthur Addy. The third, John De Leon Morno, transferred from the board at Waco, Tex., was sent for physical examination prior to actual induction. .....

Says Flu Outbreaks Are Not Surprising Expect Absenteeism This Time Os Year INDIANAPOLIS (UP! -* Outbreaks of "flu-type” ailments which affected schools in various Indiana cities the last few days came as no big surprise to health authorities. Dr. A.C. Offutt, Indiana state health commissioner said: “Absenteeism is to be expected this time of year. This is not a great surprise.” Offutt said September finds large numbers of children brought together in schools for the first time in months and that infectious respiratory ailments spawned by cool nights were easily spread. Meanwhile, State Health Board authorities reported that their efforts were fruitless to determine whether an outbreak of illness several weeks ago among Anderson College students was Asian flu. While blood samples were undergoing tedious laboratory tests to determine the nature of the ailment, technicians learned belatedly that the samples they had were of students who had received Asian flu vaccinations. That meant it was impossible to determine whether the samples contained flu virus. Offutt said that despite the fact many blood samples of suspected Asian flu victims’ we creeping through the testing processes, not a single Indiana illness thus far has been pinpointed definitely as a case of Asian flu. Nevertheless, schools in South Bend, Anderson, Indianapolis, Lake County and other areas reported absenteeism in varying percentage stages. Latest development was illness of eight starters on the unbeaten football team of Indianapolis Attacks High School. The wave of illness caused officials to postpone a game scheduled with Anderson Friday. Commissioners Os District Meet Here Problems Discussed At Meeting Tuesday Various problems of road and bridge maintenance were discussed at the district meeting of the county commissioners, held Tuesday night at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Lawrence Noll, Adams county highway superintendent, and the Adams county commissioners, Harley Reef, Rolland Miller and Mrs. Mary Kintz, were hosts for the meeting, which was attended by highway heads and com from 18 northern Indiana counties. Topics of discussion included federal aid allocations to counties in their road programs, presented by John Stoner of Indiana University; county highway safety presented by Sgt. N. E. Winebrenner, commander of the Fort Wayne state police post; salt stabilization of highways, presented by Jay Sheidler. Huntington county road superintendent, and bridge replacement and repair. timer Baumgartner of the First Bank of Berne presented the welcome to those attending the meeting. Master of ceremonies for the dinner meeting was Ansel Jennings, president of the county commissioners’ association. The program also featured entertainment presented by the Zuercher accordion band. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight, with scattered frost northeast portion. Thursday fair, warmer north portion. Low tonight 3540 northeast, 40-46 elsewhere. High Thursday hi the 70s. Sunset today 6:26 p.m. Sunrise Thursday 6:42 a.m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and warm. Lows Thursday night near 50. Highs Friday near M.

Spahn, Ford Pitchers For Series Opener Milwaukee Braves Face Champions In 1957 World Series BULLETIN YANKEE STADIUM — The New York, Yankees took a onelajne advantage in the 1957 World Series, defeating the Milwaukee Braves, 3-X, in the opening game here today. Today's Lineup Milwaukee New York Schoendienst, ”b Bauer, rs Logan, ss McDougald, ss Mathews, 5b Mantle, cf Aaron, cf Skowron, lb Adcock, lb Berra, c Pafko, rs Carey, 3b Covington, If Coleman, 2b Crandall, c Kubek, If Spahn, p Ford, p Umpires: Paparella (AL), Con* lan (NL), McKinley (AL), Donatelli (NL), Cbylak (AL), Secory (NL). NEW YORK «« — The Yankees took a 3-1 lead over the Braves at the end of seven innings of the first game of the 1957 World Series today. Warren Spahn and Whitey Ford duel until the fifth inning when right fielder Hank Bauer drove in the first run with a double that scored Gerry Coleman. The Yankees knocked Spahn out of the box and added two rum in the sixth. Elston Howard scored on Andy Carey’s single and righthander Emie Johnson was brought in. Gerry Coleman bunted to the right of the mound and Johnson had no play for Yogi Berra kt home plate and could only throw Coleman out at first. A play by play account follows: First Inning Braves — Schoendienst bounced out to Carey. Logan popped to Coleman in short right field. Mathews popped to Carey. Yankees — Bauer filed to Pafko. McDougald lined a single to right Logan fielded Mantle’s grounder but the ball stuck in the webbing of his glove and Mantle beat it out for a single, McDougald going to second. Schoendienst fielded Skowron’s bounder the threw to Logan, forcing Mantle as McDougald went to third. Berra popped to Schlendienst. No runs, two hits, no errors, two left. Second Inning Braves <— Aaron bounced to Coleman. Adcock filed to Bauer. Pafko filed deep to Kubek. Yankees — Carey filed to Aaron. Coleman looped one just over Adcock’s head for a double. Kubek filed to Covington. The Yankees announced that Skowron had reinjured his back running to first base in the first inning and had been taken out of the game. Ford filed to Covington. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. - Third Inning Braves — Elston Howard replaced Skowron at first base. Covington was called out on strikes. Crandall singled to center for the Braves first hit. Spahn bounced to Coleman, whose throw to McDougald forced Crandall. Schoendienst flied to Mantle. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. Yankees — Bauer bounced out to Logan. McDougald flied to Covington. Mantle flied to Covington. Fourth Inning Braves — Logan bounced to McDougald. Mathews walked. Aaron singled to right, Mathews racing to third. Adcock hit into a double play. McDougald to Coleman to Howard. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. Yankees — Howard bounced out to Adcock, unassisted. Berra flied to Pafko. Carey lined to Pafko. Fifth Inning Braves — McDougald threw cut Pafko. Covington singled to center. Crandall bounced to McDougald. (Continued on Page eight)

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