Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 234.

TEMPERS FLARE ■‘ - F’ 4 7 ' r ’ Ww*• ■ XaMffl l, A'-rafctlfc’ ONE OF THE GROUP of Central High students who walked out of classes to be Joined by some adults in a quickly quelled demonstration, plunges a knife into an effigy of a negro, hung in a tree across from the school entrance. The blonde student at the right, Annette Harper and one adult were taken into custody by troops.

Clergymen In Little Rock Seek Peace 50 Clergymen Join In Effort To End Strife On Schools LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UP)-A dedicated group of 50 clergymen worked in union today to weld the churchgoers of Little Rock Into a powerful moral force that can replace armed soldiers as custodians of peace and order. Officials hoped the efforts of the church leaders, combined with those of a group of 25 business and professional men, would prove the turning point in Little Rock's quarrel with the law of the land. A break in their efforts may have been provided by the hotheads themselves when white student agitators staged a walkout at troubled Central High School Thursday. School officials believe things will go smoother as long as the troublemakers stay out. Endorsed By Ike The peace movement, which has the hopeful endorsement of President Eisenhower, aims to restore the peace so that 101st Airborne troops may be moved out of Little Rock with an assurance of po more trouble. "f > "This is a major step toward mobilizing the moral and spiritual resources of Little Rock to achieve a peaceful solution of the crisis," Congressman Brooks Hays (DArk.) said. Hays is active in both movements. He also is president of the Southern Baptist Convention, which represents 9,000,000 Baptists. The Rt. Rev. Robert R. Brown, episcopal bishop of Arkansas, who is promoting the church movement, said he hopes both movements will merge. Okayed By Faubus Gov. Orval E. Faubus praised the churchmen’s plans and especially their decision to hold a citywide day of prayer for peace on Oct. 11. Military leaders believed most student troublemakers separated themselves Thursday in an abortive walkout and effigy-burning. All of the approximately 40 students who walked out and about 100 who waited for them in front of Central faced three-day to two week suspensions. Some may be permanently expelled. z " With 60 paratroopers inside the school and a company enforcing federalized National Guards on the school grounds, there was no molestation of Negro students Thursday. There were these other developments in the Little Rock situation: —President Eisenhower disclosed that he rejected the statement of Gov. Orval E. FaubUs, which might have sealed the agreement to withdraw federal troops negotiated by other southern governors at the White House, because Faubus used the words ‘‘as I have intended from the beginning.” Under that situation, the President said, the National Guard still had orders to keep the Negro students out of school. (Continued oe Pag* Five)

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Special Grand Jury Studying Slayings Murder Indictment Sought On Hoodlum SCOTTSBURG, Ind. (UP) — A special grand jury of four men and two women was slated to reto Scott Circuit Court today to ’continue preliminary work which may lead to a first-degree murder indictment against a Texas hoodlum in the death of one of two state policemen. The special panel was sworn in Thursday in the presence of Victor Wayne Whitley, 26, Granger, Tex. Whitley and Ralph Taylor, 36, St. Albans, W.Va., who was shot to death by police,w ere partners in death by police were partners in the death of Indiana state trooper William Kellems and a Michigan state trooper Monday. Whitley was brought here under heavy guard from the Clark County Jail at Jeffersonville to satisfy a legal requirement that he be present at every stage of prosecution against him. Whitley claimed he did not fire the shots which killed the law officers. He blamed his partner. The tall, slim gunman met with Eugene Hough, Scottsburg lawyer named to defend him, shortly before he was returned to Jeffersonville. .p , *. Meanwhile, hundreds of state policemen, representatives of Governor Handley and other state police units gathered at wooded West Newton Cemetery at Indianapolis Thursday to pay their last respects to Kellems. Rev. D. Bruce Moore eulogized Kellems as a man "who chose his profession and wouldn't have had it any other way.” “Bill Kellems would hate to envision Indiana or the nation we would have were it not for these men who wage war on this front. We owe them a debt of gratitude,” the minister said. Police from Indiana, Ohio and Illinois, their sirens silent, drove slowly in the funeral entourage. ~ But the scene was much different at another graveside service at Vernon, 80 miles to the southeast. Only two figures, a minister and a mortician, were present as the body of Taylor was lowered into his grave, less than three miles from the spot where he was killed Monday night in a blazing roadblock gun battle. Taylor's pallbearers were strangers, employes of a mortuary, and not even the curious attended the two-minute service. The only words spoken were by the Rev. W.H. Dillard of North Vernon Baptist Church. He prayed, “God have mercy on his soul.” Plan Second Annual Soybean Show Here Plans are being completed for the second Adams county soybean show to be held October 24 at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, announces Leo N. Seltenright, soybean show chairman. The 4-H grain show will also be held with the soybean show. The grain show will allow all Adams county 4-H members enrolled in corn, soybeans, wheat and oats to show on a county basis. All entries in the show will be entered by 9 a.m. The soybean show is open to anyone in Adams county who produced soybeans in 1957.

Nine Negroes Enter School Under Guard No Demonstrations By White Students In Arkansas Today LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP) — Nine Negro students entered Central High School under troop guard today and for the first time, there was no demonstration from white students watching their arrival. As usual, about 50 white students were congregated on the steps leading to the main entrance when the Negroes arrived in an Army station wagon Convoyed by jeeploads of troops. On the previous days, the white students have greeted the Negroes’ arrival with a noisy outburst, some hooting and jeering, others clapping and shouting encouragement. Today, the crowd remained silent. One white boy waved a Confederate flag, but made no outcffr. One white student told reporters that Central High School Principal Jess Matthews had issued a stern warning against any further demonstratitons on the steps. Another factor in the subdued situation was the absence of about 40 white students who were suspended for taking part in a “walkout” from the school Thursday. School officials felt that this exodus had remqyed the most aggressive teen-age agitators from the student body. A detail of about 16 National Guardsmen met the Negro children at the sidewalk, surrounded them, and escorted them to the foot of the steps. Twice as many guardsmen had been used for this escort Thursday. Four paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division took over at the steps, leading the Negro children through the crowd and into the door without incident. One of the Negro girls, Minnie Brown, who was ill Thursday, returned to class today. or at entrances. Those at entrances carried carbines. Those on inside duty had billy clubs and sidearms. Rackets Committee Subpenas Teamsters Demands Records Os Delegate Screening MIAMI BEACH W - T h e Senate Labor Rackets Committee today served a subpena on the Teamsters Union demanding records of the credentials committee which screened delegates who elected James R. Hoffa their new president. A subpena for the minutes and other documents of the credentials group was served on Joseph Konowe of New York City, its secretary. > ‘ The committee seated 1.753 delegates despite the Senate group’s charges that more than half of the delegates were not selected in accordance with the union's constitution. Delegates from about two-thirds of the 68 locals which the Senate committee said it had definite evidence of union improprieties were seated at the convention. About 65 delegates were refused Seats by the credentials group, another 50 withdrew and 24 did not show up. .... Gerard Treanor, house counsel for the Teamsters, told United Press a subpena was served on Konowe. Treanor said the union would comply and turn over the demanded. Army Plane Missing With Four On Board NEW YORK - (in — About 70 planes and helicopters searched today for a single-engine Army plane missing since Thursday with three colonels and a pilot aboard. The six - passenger BeeChcraft was reported missing on a flight from Governors Island, N. Y., to Burlington, Vt. The Army did not release the names of the missing men but said the families had been notified. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Saturday, not tnneh temperature change. Low tonight piostly in the 40s. High Saturday 68- . 74. Sunset today 6:23 p. a., .sunrise Saturday 6:45 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Cloudy and a little warmer with occasional rain by late afternoon or evening. Lows Saturday night low 50s. Highs Sunday upper 70s.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, October 4, 1957.

Teamsters Convention Votes James Hoffa To Presidency Os Union

U.S. Pledges Millions For Refugee Aid Pledges Over s2l Million For Aid To Palestine Refugees UNITED NATIONS W — The United States today pledged 821,800,000 for the relief and rehabilitation of the 900,000 Palestine refugees as a “contribution to the security and peace and prosperity of the entire world.” Hollywood actress Irene Dunne announced the pledge as the United Nations General Assembly, went into an all-day fund-raising 1 session. The assembly’s delegates were called on this morning to make pledges to the U. N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees. This afternoon, the procedure will be repeated to raise money for the U. N. refugee fund which covers the world. The U. S. pledged to give a maximum of 70 percent of the total UNRWA budget. Actual U.S. contributions will depend on the size of pledges from other countries. > Heniy R. Laborfsse of Canada, director-general of UNRWA, set his agency’s budget for the year at 325,660,000 for relief operations and 85 million dollars for rehabilitation. Miss Dunne, appointed by President Eisenhower as a member of the American delegation to the 12th General Assembly, announced that the U. S. pledged 317,500,000 for relief, $4,000,000 for rehabilitation and 8300,000 for the agency’s planning. “We fervently hope other nations will make their contributions as large as possible so that the urgently needed programs of UNRWA can go on,” she said. Miss Dunne, still beautiful at 52, was appointed to the U. S. delegation to the United Nations by President Eisenhower in August. She has participated in committee meetings since the General Assembly session opened last mbnth but this was her first apOattaoert rase Kisat Charles Brodbeck Is Taken By Death Former City Water Superintendent Dies Charles A. Brodbeck, 67. former superintendent of the city water department, died at 2:35 o'clock Thursday afternoon at his home, *2lO North Seventh street. He had been in failing health for several years and seriously ill for the past six weeks. He served as head of the water department from 1932 until 1943, and later was employed at the General Electric plant here. Born in St. Mary’s township Sept. 28. 1890, he was a son of John and Emaline McCulloughBrodbeck, and was married to Effie Miller Oct. 20, 1914. Mr. Brodbeck was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, and the men s brotherhood of the church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Richard M. Brodbeck of Miamisburg, O.; and Robert C. Brodbeck of Akron, O.; 10 grandchildren; three brothers, Clarence Brodbeck of Willshire. 0., Dr. O. E. Brodbeck of Elyria, 0., and Rufus Brodbeck of Decatur. Four brothers and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p. m. at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. The casket will remain dosed at the church.

Community Fund's Drive Opens Monday Kickoff Breakfast At Center Monday M. J. Pryor, chairman of the 1957 Community Fund drive, announced today that the drive will begin Monday with a kickoff breakJast akla.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Herman Khieckeberg will be keynote speaker for the breakfast which will officially open the campaign. All co-chairmen, captains and solicitors have been invited to attend the'kickoff event. All volunteer workers of the campaign will have their solicitor kits by today and the drive will extend from Monday through Friday. Those workers who are unable to attend the breakfast will be asked to start their work in the drive on opening day. Pryor stated that 260 workers have been enlisted and that each worker will have only one contact to make during the week-long campaign. He said that Industry will be contacted Mcnday morning for payroll deduction plans. He announced that it is reported that almost 100 percent of Decatur industry has indicated plans to use the payroll deduction system. ... —> > A goal of 818,450 has been, set for t«e 1957 Community Fundi Men> ber agencies hr the fund include the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Red Cross, the cancer society, the Salvation Army, the mental health association, recreation fund and U.S.O. Pryor indicated that every effort has been made to see that every home will be contacted during the drive. However, he pointed out that any person who is not contacted and who wishes to make h donation may send a contribution to the Decatur Community Fund, Inc. Alcoholism Topic Os Rotary Speech Clifford Franklin Speaks On Problem Clifford S. Franklin, executive secretary of the Fort Wayne committee on alcoholism, and a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, 'Was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. Franklin, who has attended special course at Yale University and the University of Utah, assists in the rehabilitation of alcoholics through the recently adopted Indiana alcoholic rehabilitation pro» gram. The speaker pointed out that Indiana was the 40th state to pass a rehabilitation law and that after passage there was considerable confusion on putting the law to work. Facilities are now available at Logansport under a division of the state mental health department. The Fort Wayne man said, “Alcoholism is a problem which costs our nation one billion dollars annually and is rated as the fourth largest health problem in the U. S. The federal government spends only one-fifth as much money on the problem as it does on research for hoof and mouth disease. "The number of hospital beds, clinics and personnel for dealing with the problem is acknowledged to be ridiculously inadequate. Contrary to general belief, the great majority of the alcoholic population of 5,000,000 are not the visible ■skid row' type, but some 85 per cent are found in homes, factories, offices and stores; they still have families, and are still employable, often with exceptional skills. The rehabilitation program is directed toward these salvageable patients who cost industry about 3432,000,000 per year. “The Logansport project reports a 55 per cent recovery rate, although their patients are often of the worst kind. Rehabilitation, education and community service are (Continued on Pace ei«bt)

Warn Fanners Risk Collapse In Pig Prices Secretary Benson Seeking Limit On Crop Expansion WASHINGTON (UP) — The Agriculture Department warned today farmers will risk a “disastrous" price collapse next fall if their spring pig crop next year is increased much more than 7 per cent above this year’s output. The depattjnent issued a special report as of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson’s effort to persuade farmers to limit hog expansion. Department officials said county farm agents in major hog-producing areas will use the report to explain the outlook to farmers. A department survey indicated earlier farmers plan to increase production 7 per cent from December through February, the first half of the spring pig farrowing season. The report today said this is not a certain guide, but it may be a “minimum estimate” of the likely increase for the entire sixmontti season. A full-season forecast “worth watching” Will be released Dec. 29, officials added. If the increase is 7 per cent “or a little more” pork supplies next year "would not be extremely large" and farm prices of live hogs next fall would probably average close to 814 per hundredweight, the report said. This would be about midway between the low of about 310 in late 1955 and 819.10 average reported last Sept. 15. “For increases above 7 per cent the risk of sharp price declines would be greater,” the report said. "If the spring pig crop should be up sb much as to repeat the 1955-56 level of pork supply per person, disastrous declines in prices would be highly probable." A 15 per cent boost in pig production would bring per capita pork supplies up to the 1955-56 level, department economists figured. The report did not mention the political problems behind the hog outlook. A collapse in hog prices around election time next fall could make votes for Democrats and trouble for Republican congressional candidates in farm areas. The prospect of increasing production and lower prices next year is due to two factors, the report said. These are:

—.Relatively high prices for hogs in recent months. —A bumper 1957 feed grain crop that has driven feed prices down. Farmers normally expand livestock production when feed is cheap. Chalmer Miller Dies At Fort Wayne Today Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Chalmer Miller, 29, of 1646% Sinclair street, Fort Wayne, and a native of Decatur, .died last night during his sleep. Death occurred at the Irene Byron sanitarium, where he had been a patient for several years. He was born in Decatur Jan. 6, 1928, a son of Chalmer D. and Lucille Miner. He was employed as a salesman. Surviving are his wife, Wanda J.; his mother, Mrs. Lucille Miller at Decatur; one son, Chalmer Dean Miller; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Geyer of Decatur, and Mrs. Loren Shoaf of St. Petersburg, Fla. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the D. O. McComb & Sans funeral home in Fort Wayne, the Rev. C. W. Brueggeman, pastor of the Trinity Lutheran church officiating. Burial - will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon Saturday until time of the services.

Students In Poland Rioting In Streets Protest Closure Os Student Newspaper WARSAW, Poland W - Defiant students threatened today continuation of Thursday night's riots, quelled only by teargas and club attacks by reinforced militiamen and police. More than 30 students were reported arrested in the clashes which erupted in downtown Narutowicza Square Thursday night. The students had assembled in the square to protest against government closure of an antiStalinist student newspaper. There was no report of student casualties, if any. One Western newsman was reported roughed up during the fighting. Security forces restored calm around midnight, some five hours after the first clash. But defiant students said they would stage new protest demonstrations this afternoon. Police remained on guard in the square, tittered with bottles, sticks and stones which testified to the fierce fighting between the students and security forces. An estimated 700-steel-helmeted militiamen were rushed to the square Thursday night to help police brefck up the demonstrations. The students were protesting the government ban on the anti-Stalinist student weekly Po Prostu. The students; estimated at around 2,000, had marched on the square after plastering the city with posters proclaiming "Democracy is in Danger.” The posters signed by the "Socialist Youth Union Committee of the Polytechnic High School,” appeared in all high schools in Warsaw. z Asks Mollet Form French Government Former Premier Is Summoned By Coty PARIS V> — President Rene Coty called on ex-Premier Guy Mollet today to become France’s new premier and tackle the job of solving the crises at home and abroad. Coty sent his limousine for the socialist leader after three days of consultations with his political experts. Mollet agreed to sound out his chances of forming a government before delivering a formal yes or no answer to Coty. Socialist sources said Mollet was anxious to take over and end the worst French political crisis slcne the war. However, they said he went to the presidential palace with a set of conditions that would make the right wing conservatives recoil. 'lnformed sources said that if Mollet declined or failed to form a government, Coty would call next on former Premier Rene Pleven of the small Resistance Party. New urgency was let to Coty’s search by the recall Thursday of Tunisia’s ambassador to Paris, France already is harassed by conflict over Algeria, inflation and strikes. Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba ordered his ambassador home in protest against alleged invasion of Tunisian territory by French troops pursuing Algerian nationalist rebels. Bourguiba said in Tunis that it was “no longer possible for Tu-4-H Adult Leader Banquet November 5 The 4-H adult leader recognition banquet sponsored by the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will be held November 5 at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Robert Lane, chairman of the retail division, Fred Kolter and Martin Sprunger are in charge of general arrangements.

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Defy Courts, AFL-CIO And Senate Probe Delegates Vote For Hoffa As President As Beck Successor kiIAMI BEACH (UP) A roaring convention voted James R. Hoffa into the presidency of the big International Teamsters Union today in defiance of the AFL-CIO, the courts and Senate investigators. The 5-foot, 5-inch Hoffa prepared to take over the $50,000-a-year poet as head of the nation's largest union immediately. Outgoing Teamsters boss Dave Beck of Seattle obtained, “for the best interests of the union,” a leave of absence beginning Oct. 15. He officially steps into retirement at $50,000 a year op Dec. 1. < . Hoffa, in fact however, has been in control of the 1,400,000member truckers union since tap ; officers gathered here two weeks ago to prepare for the convention. . Not once were any of his sugges- ' ‘ tions voted down in committee ‘ meetings or convention sessions. . The voting ; took less than two *- , hours to elect Hoffa. When he . reached the majority total of 877 J votes, William A. Lee had only 200 votes and Thomas J. Haggerty 98 in an unofficial count. The Teamsters shouted out Hoffa’s name in husky, rasping voices as a vote was tabulated about every five seconds. Chairman Beck’s ruling against demonstrations was respected by the delegates who refrained from cheering any candidate. Several delegates were reported sick after the hectic convention week. Beck ruled that votes could not be cast for them in their absence. There was no indication to the convention when Hoffa passed the majority, clinching the top $50,000 a year office. From the moment the shouting, stomping delegates rallied around his banner by the hundreds in the first convention session last Monday, election of the midwestffin Teamsters boss from Detroit to the union’s top job never appeared to be in doubt. His four opponents rapidly dwindled until there was only resistance from two as the balloting began. The black-haired Hoffa, a youngish looking 44, takes over the Teamsters under a dark cloud of corruption charges that have hung over him. Beck and the union’s leadership for more than a year. The criticism sends the 63-year-old Beck, scandal-scarred and shaken, Into retirement to joust with the business world and the Internal Revenue Bureau. But the charges aimed at the union and Hoffa, personally, from three fronts outside the Teamsters, appeared only to whet the energetic new trucker chiefs appetite for the big job. Hoffa indicated' the Teamsters could stand alone, if necessary, but said his first job would be an attempt to keep his union in the AFL-CIO federation. He said he would take toe new Teamsters executive board to New York Oct. 24 to hear what the AFL-CIO executive council has to say against the Teamsters and then “tell them what we will do.” The AFL-CIO council threatened to seek ouster of the Teamstars from the federation if they kept Hoffa as an officer. The brawn truck driver delegates here replied in a noisy show of Hoffa strength. They voted to strike from the record a blistering 64page report of the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee which condemned the fiery little Teamsters chief, his co-workers and “rogue’s gallery” pals. Thirteen rank and file teamsters from the New York area, who went all the way to Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren in a futile attempt to block Hoffa’s election, have indicated they may still attempt to overthrow the vote In the courts with an attack on the credentials of delegates. Hoffa’s attorneys said they would be prepared for the suits. The Senate Labor Rackets Com(CentiaoM oa Fare