Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 235, Decatur, Adams County, 5 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 235.

WHOOP ’ER UP FOR JIMMY t j& WE® nL ,■ ■■' jjraraj v a Di <■ Waft-M ' t? •-■”*4PaS>r. WT *T . .JufaKtf&V ■ -7W fc W' 1 m BiS raH IN ONE OF THE MANY, many demonstrations during balloting for the presidency of the huge 1,500,000-member Teamsters* Union, a group of partisans parade through the aisles of Miami Beach’s Auditorium, whooping it up for their candidate. Fames R. Hoffa. Hoffa became president-elect by a margin of almost 3-to-l over his two rivals.

Teamsters Face Trouble After necimg nona New Troubles Crop Up For Teamsters Union After Voting MIAMI BEACH (UP)-The 1,400.000 - member Teamsters Union which often uses its power to aid other striking unions, had one foot out of the door of the AFLCIO today, and the other in the hot water of a Senate investigation. The truck drivers, faced with a choice of AFL - CIO censure or scandal-tainted Jimmy Hoffa for president, picked Hoffa — just as everyone predicted they would. The union was to meet today to wind up the week-long convention that was climaxed by Hoffa’s first-ballot triumph Friday. Slate Victory Seen A slate of Hoffa-backed candidates for eight vice-prestdencies was expected to roll into office. Vice President Thomas L. Hickey of New York, an anti-Hoffa man, faced John O’Rourke of New York in the only contest scheduled. New troubles cropped up before the balloting was over. The Senate Rackets Committee demanded the records of the convention credentials committee to check allegations that half of the 1,753 delegates were improperly seated. Sen. John L. McClellan, chairman of the Rackets Committee which grilled Hoffa for four days in August and scored his poor memory,.. said the election was a challenge to Congress to clean out Corrupt labor leaders. Court Action Considered The Teamsters was also put on notice by 13 rank-and-fille memers that new court action is eing considered to set aside the results of the election. The wildly cheering delegates calmed down during Hoffa’s stinging attack on the McClellan committee and AFL-CIO leaders. Hoffa’s two rivals, Chicagoans William A. Lee and Thomas J. Haggerty, received 313 and 140 votes respectively. They congratulated the winner and promised not to lead a move to withdraw their locals from the international. Hoffa will step into his 550,000-a-year job on Oct. 15 when retiring President Beck starts a sixweek leave of asence.

Sherman Stucky Is Lions Club Speaker Sherman Stucky, president of the Berne Lions club and zone chairman of the organization in charge of several area clubs, will be guest speaker for the regular meeting of the Decatur, Lions club Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Stucky will speak and show pictures of his recent trip to Europe. INDIANA WEATHER Fair with little change in temperature tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 40-50. High Sunday 67-72. Outlook for Monday: Continued fair and cool.

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Number Os Flu Cases Nears Half Million Students Leading Nation's Sick List By UNITED HUMR? The number of known or suspected influenza cases across the nation today approached the halfmillion mark, with school children and college students leading the sick Reports from across the country continued to fatten a report by the U.S. Public Health Service in Washington Friday which said 200,000 new cases had broken out last week. Plus another 222,650 cases reported since the first attack of Asian flu last summer and new cases in the past few days, the total was close to 430,000. Recent sudden outbreaks beat immunization officials and vaccine manufacturers to the punch, and many areas reported vaccine supplies exhausted and requests for inoculation unfulfilled. An official at Ann Arbor, Mich-, reported that a flu outbreak of epidemic proportions had hit the University of Michigan campus. Many of the 1,800 cases reported since the last week of September were Asian flu victims, he said. ”Flu-type’’ illnesses struck in a hit-and-miss pattern across northern Indiana, reducing school attendance in many areas and causing the shut-down of two parochial schools in Indianapolis. Illnesses were also reported at lowa State College and the University of lowa, and 800 cases of respiratory ailments were reported at Northwestern University in Evanston, 111., this week. Schools 8n the periphery of Chicago were also heavily hit. The Public Health Service report showed heavy increases in the southern states. Alabama’s cognt had increased six - fold over the past week, and Georgia’s doubled. Louisiana reported a staggering 200,000 cases from the first of the year. Arizona, one of the first states where the flu reached epidemic proportions, also was on the increase, and epidemics continued to spring up in California. Grade school enrollment in Milwaukee had fallen about 20 per cent, officials said. Health Commissioner Dr. E. R. Krumbiegel said the local epidemic at the World Series capital would probably begin to taper off after reaching its beak within a week. (Cantluued on Pa«e Five)

Girl Injured When Hit By Automobile Miss Ruth Sipe, 17, of Decatur route six, sustained injuries when she was hit by a car at the corner of Madison and Second streets at about 10 a.m. today. The car, driven by Theodore Swoveland, 21, of Decatur route three, struck the girl, who is employed at the Decatur Music House, and knocked her several feet. Swoveland was turning left off Madison street onto Second street when the accident occurred. The girl suffered a cut on the back of her head and a sprained left knee. She whs taken to the Adams county memorial hospital where she was treated and released. Investigation at the accident is being continued by city police.:

World Series Scene Shifts To Milwaukee Braves And Yankees Tied As Series Is Moved To Milwaukee MILWAUKEE (UP)—This is it ... a World Series in Milwaukee ... and even the worst the New York Yankees might offer can’t make it the saddest Saturday night in the livps of 700,000 people who’ve dreamed of this day for five frustrating years. It is Bob Buhl (18-7) for the Braves and Bob /Turley. <l3-6) for the Yankees and both managers Fred, Haney and Casey Stengel are double-talking their lineups. It is “even-money" on the third game of this 1957 classic and 7-5 Yankees on the final outcome. But, take the odds or leave ’em, the story is County Stadium, U.S.A. Here they’ve written baseball Attendance history for five years and here they’re writing more baseball history because these Braves, with their nearhysterical, frenetic fans, are the first National League western team to host a World Series since 1946.

Going Carnival Style In a phrase, an American sports classic that has been dominated by sophisticated easterners for 10 years is going carnival style in 1957.

There will, of course, be 45,000 fans at County Stadium, just as there might be for any Thursday afternoon game of the regular season, and they’ll be helping to make this one of the richest World Series of all time. Rich ip money and rich in the great new spirit that is sparking baseball’s westward ho movement to California. The Yankees themselves have been, caught up in this atmosphere, as much as they’d refuse to admit it. The fact is they’re in strange territory, know it, and will settle to go back to Yankee Stadium with a 3-2 lead. AU ideas of a quickie Series have been Shunted aside. The fourth and fifth games are scheduled for this baseball - mad city Sunday and Monday with the scene shifting back to Yankee Stadium on Wednesday and Thursday if the full seven games are required. All games are nationally televised. Two Fire-Ballers In Buhl, Haney has named a rugged 180-pound native of Saginaw, Mich., who won 18 games and lost only seven for the National League champions. Basically a low fast-ball pitcher, Buhl has beaten the hard-hitting Brooklyn Dodgers 12 tiines in the last two years and always has been more effective in his home park. Turley, 27, is Stengel’s “bomber the hardest throwing pitcher in the Series—and a quiet young businessman in the finest Yankee tradition. No less an authority than Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams calls him “just about the toughest autumn pitcher in baseball.” Haney, who worked his squad out for about an hour Friday, is expected to replace veteran Andy Pafko in right field with Bob (Continued o« «*)

200 Under Arrest For Poland Riots Report Uneasy Calm Settles Over Warsaw WARSAW rn — Communist militiamen rumbled through the streets of Warsaw in trucks and radio patrol cars today prepared to pounce on any resurgence of anti-government rioting that raged through the city Friday night. At least 200 persons were reported under arrest and an uneasy quiet settled on the city. By early this morning the streets were clear and trolleys and buses were running normally. It was a sharp contrast to Friday night when thousands of Poles armed with rocks and paving blocks battled police for more than - three hours. One estimate placed the number of rioters at 20,000. The violence erupted when police broke up a student rally at the polytechnic high school protesting the government suspension Os the student weekly publication Pro Prostu Straight On, one of the most anti-Stalinist papers in Poland. The students, quickly joined by other citizens, stormed into the city streets. Worker militiamen were called out in force. They finally scattered .the mobs with tear gas and truncheons. A ■ It was the second successive night of rioting and the government indicated it would take stern measures against a repeat

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 5, 1957.

Russia Scores Smashing Feat With Launching Os First Earth Satellite

U.S. Is Caught Hatfooted By Epic Launching Scientists Indicate U.S. May Speed Up Satellite Program WASHINGTON (UP)-American scientists, caught flatfooted by Russia's epic launching of the first man-made moon, indicated today the United States may speed up its own earth satellite program. Leaders of the U.S. satellite progfam also said that it appears Russia rocketed its heavy 184pound satellite into a globe girdling orbit with a rocket “dose to” an intercontinental ballistic missile. That could mean Russia not only has beaten this country to the frontiers of space, but also to what has been called the “ultimate weapon" for modern day war—the ICBM. This country has not yet tested a successful ICBM. American diplomats conceded Russia had scored a notable propaganda victory. The military implications of the Soviet feat were tremendous. No Presidential Comment President Eisenhower, who first announced plans for the U.S. earth satellite program July 29, 1955, was informed at his Gettysburg, Pa., farm of the notable Soviet “feat." He had no immediate comment. American scientists involved in the U.S, satellite were at a cocktail party at the Soviet Embassy here when Moscow radio broke the news. They rushed back to their headquarters and set in motion a ITS. and worldwide tracking system to trace the progress of the Soviet moon. When they came out of shock, toe scientists said words adding up to fine, splendid, great. At heart they were sick. The United States lad done 90 per cent of the talking about earth satellites. Russia, It turned but, had done 100 pes, cent of the performing. Having performed, the Russians ffermitted themselves the luxury of a little boasting. What they have done, they said in Moscow, "will pave the way for space travel.’’ Just last week they had forecast rocket flights to the Moon and Mars within a decade. Reds Kept Silent Both the U.S. and USSR undertook to send instrument-1 ad e n (Continued on Pagre Five)

Ex-County Officer Pleads Not Guilty Perry County Man Pleads Innocent CANNELTON, Ind. (UP)-Earl C. Kieser, former Perry County Treasurer, late Friday pleaded innocent to 11 charges in connection with the embezzlement of county funds and special judge A. Dale Eby of Perry Circuit Court set Oct. 24 as trial date. Kieser, who resigned as treasurer last July, was charged on six counts o fembezzlement, four counts of failure to deposit funds for public depositors and one count of failure to turn over funds to Mi successor in office. The charges cover $255,876.46 in shortages found in his books after he resigned. • A supplemental audit earlier this week by Indiana State Board of Accounts examiners uncovered an additional shortage of $15,649. That raised the total to more than $270,000. Another supplemental audit was expected to raise the figure even higher. The October trial date was set on the charge of embezzlement of $2,658. Eby overruled a motion by Paul Mason, defense attorney, that charges against Kieser be consolidated for the trial. Eby also ordered the Perry County Jury Commission to hold a special session Oct. 10 to draw names of 50 prospective jurors. They would be in addition to 30 already drawn for the regular term of court

Satellite Huge Russ Propaganda Victory - U.S. Leaders Admit Victory For Russia WASHINGTON (UP) - The Russians have scored a great propaganda victory by sending the first man - made moon hurtling around the earth, U.S. diplomatic officials admitted today. The Russians are certain to trumpet to the world they can ou-t do the United States in one of the most important scientific fields known to mankind —the frontiers of space. If the Soviet Union can excel the * Americans in this field, and demonstrate it by their circling satelme, Moscow also can seek to put across the implication it can beat the United States in military prowess. , In fact the Russians have said they have beaten this country in the race to secure an intercontinental ballistic missile—called by some the “ultimate weapon" in modern-day warfare. Several high U.S. officials said the Soviet satellite launching seems to mean the Russians actually have an ICBM. What effect this hint of supremacy will have on nations less (MR x> BissttH States remains to be seen. But United States if Russia may beJh» power coutest may themselves too with the countries weighing their place in come an equal or greater military power. This might lead to increased neutralism —a force the United States has generally resisted. At worst it might lead a swing closer to the Soviet orbit by some nations — such as Middle Eastern countries now in the middle between U.S. and Russian influence or already sliding closer to Moscow. There was no sign U.S. intelligence agencies had any advance knowledge of the launching of the Soviet moon.

Democrat Workers To Meet Wednesday Financial Drive Set Oct. 11-12 All precinct workers in the “Dollars for Democrats" drive Oct. 11-12. including all precinct committeemen, will meet at the Community Center Wednesday at 7:30 p. m., Roger Singleton, chairman, and Mrs. Gerald Vizard, vice chairman, said today. Anyone interested in volunteering in ths drive is also invited, they emphasized. In two days every precinct is to be canvassed door-to-door to raise funds for the 1958 county, state, and local campaign. VWhy is it necessary to go door-to-door to contact all Democrats?” Mrs. Vizard asked. “Because, while one large Republican family gives as much as a quarter of a million dollars to the Republican party, as the Duponts did in the last election, each single Democrat is asked only to give sl. “Besides having the backing of 80% of the newspapers in the country, the Republicans had almost twice as much to spend on their candidates in the last election as the Democrats had. Republican expenditures were $20,685,387, while Democratic expenditures (Including those from labor committees) were only sll,919,061. Big business contributed $1,816,597 to the Republican party, and $103,725 to the Dempcratic party.” This emphasizes, both Mrs. Vizard and Singleton said, the need for each dollar from each Democrat. “The Democratic party, being the party of the people, must go to each person to get his contribution. The party of wealth is able to depend on big contributions for its campaigns,” they added. MOONEDITION

Russia Makes Anourtcement Os Launching Soviet Union Wins , Worldwide Race On Flight Into Space MOSCOW (UP)—The Soviet Union has won the worldwide race into space. , The official, Tass news agency announced Russia successfully launched the first man made space satelliet Friday and that it was now circling the earth 560 mi sleup at a speed of 18,000 miles an hour, sending radio impulses to trackers throughout the world. The globe, more than twice the size of the one planned by the United States, has a diameter of 22 inches and a weight of 184 pounds. Its speed is so great it is circling the earth once every 95 minutes—ls times a day. 1 ..J First Via Radio Russia broke the news of the ■ historical launching to the world i through its official news agency I Tass. It came first in an Englisht language broadcast beamed to the ■ West, later repeated to Asia and ' then broadcast to Russians. f The time of the launching was i secret. So was the site and the ’ exact methods. Western scientists had expected the launching any ■ time during the International Geophysical Year, but earliness of : the feat caught them by surprise. The Soviet newspapers Pravda and Izvestia, delivered to foreign correspondents at 4 a.m„ carried the Tass announcement on their front pages under a two- column headline labeled: “Tass Community.” There was no comment, no photographs. No advance announcement had been made of the launching plan. It was apparent that the Soviet Academy of Sciences waited until the satellite was successfully established in its orbit before disclosing the achievement. Only A Hint A hint came three days ago when the Moscow newspaper Soviet Russia said a satellite would be launched in the "near future.” Last Sept. 17, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Soviet scientist Konstantin Tsiulkovsky, Soviet scientists said “the assault on the universe has begun.” And Mos--1 cow radio told the world the Soviets would “shortly take the first ■ step into cosmic flight by launching an artificial earth satellite.” There also were articles on (Continued on P«e Five)

Three Workers Die Under Rocky Slide Cliff Thunders Down On Highway SEATTLE, Wash. (ff> — Three highway construction workers died Friday night when a rocky cliff thundered down on a highway near Snoqualmie Pass Summit. Rescue workers today were “holding their breaths” hoping no motorists were buried beneath the tons of debris. The Washington State Patrol said at least one other construction worker was injured seriously when the cliff broke loose from a mountain slide and roared over a quarter-mile of U.S. 10, five miles east of the Snoqualmie Pass Summit. Wally Maloney, supervisor of the North Bend, Wash., detachment of the State Patrol said, “We won’t know for many hours — until the highway is cleared — whether any automobiles are trapped.” Maloney said the highway is “especially busy at that hour of Friday night.” “We just hope the quarter-mile section buried under rock — most of it 40-feet high — happened to be clear at 5 p.m., the approximate time of the slide,” Maloney said. The mountain side fell in an area where the highway was being widened to four Lanes.

Little Rock School Dance Is Marred Gov. Faubus Sitting Tight Over Crisis LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP)—A paratroop guard at Little Rock's Central High School felled a former student of Central with his rifle butt Friday night in an incident that marred a school dance. The youth had been drinking and called the paratrooper “nigger lover,” hte Army said. The Army identified the youth as Robert King. 19. The incident was the only serious one Friday in what has become a relatively peaceful situation since about 40 “hard core" anti-integrationist students walked out of Central High Thursday. ~ Faubus “Sitting Tight" Gov. Orval E. Faubus, focal point of Little Rock’s integration troubles, hewed today to a policy of “sitting tight and saying nothing” in his deadlocked dispute with President Eisenhower over withdrawal of federal troops. Intimates said the governor believes the pressure of public opinion will compel the White House to make the next move. The Army said the incident occurred when the youth walked 1 from the school dance and used 1 abusive language in berating the paratrooper, one of a 34 - hour guard watching the school. The Army said he grabbed, the guard’s rifle, but the paratrooper pushed the rifle butt into the youth’s chest, knocking him to-the floor. Teachers See Scuffle Two faculty members witnessed the incident, and prevailed upon the Army to turn the youth to their custody. Attendance at the high school rose Friday to 1,725 students out of a total enrollment of 1,990. White students who gathered on the front steps made no demonstration as nine Negro students came and went with their usual escort of troops. Heckling of the Negroes inside the school, which reached problem proportions earlier in the week, subsided in the face of stern disciplinary warnings from school authorities. The suspension of 50 white students who took part in the abortive “mass walkout" appeared to have removed the most aggresive teen-age agitators from the school.

World Atom Energy Pool Going Concern American Is Named Director General VIENNA (IB -Th e w o r Id atomic energy pool became a going concern under American leadership today. The International Atomic Energy Agency, stemming from President Eisenhower’s atoms-for-peace call, wound up the first week of its inaugural conference here with its key jobs filled and -its organizational structure complete./ It did so despite some sharp East-West in-fighting over the chronic issue of admission of Red China and earlier Soviet opposition to an American in the agency’s top spot. With this work behind it, the 60-nation conference, called to put the new agency on its feet, recessed for the weekend. Its next scheduled meeting is Monday when a plenary session probably will approve the new director general and then launch into general debate for several days on the aids and future program of the new world body. The major East-West issue was setlted when the agency’s board of governors named Rep. Sterling Cole (R-N.Y.), former chairman of the Congressional Joint Committe on Atomic Enegry, to be first director general of the organization.

Soviet Russia Vidor Os Race To Outer Space , Rushan Broadrjbst Hails Triumph Os 1 Initial Satellite 5 LONDON (UP) — The Soviet ‘ Union has won the race into outer * space y launching mankind** first earth satellite and a triumphant Moscow broadcast today hailed the victory as the first* stage of pro* jected flights to the moon. The pulsating radio ‘jeep'* of . the satellite signaled to the world that man had crossed the threshold into the age of space travel with ■ an 184-pound, 22.8-inch globe now ‘ oriting the earth 560 miles up at ‘ a speed of 18,000 miles an hour. A special bulletin quoted Soviet ‘ scientist Kirill Stanyukovich, a jet ' propulsion expert and member of the Soviet inter-departmental commission on interplanetary commu- ' nications, as saying: £ “The launching ... is also the necessary first stage in the con* quertng of interplentary space. It . is the necessary first stage in the . flight to the moon. Millions of persons throughout the world heard the “beep - beep... E W..." rebroadcast today by Jocal stations and realized that man r had taken his first faltering steps . into the new era. ; Launching of the satellite wa* a tremendous victory for science. It was a more tremendous victory for Soviet propaganda to be aide 1 to trumpet to the world the Rus--1 sians were the first to break * through the frontiers of space. Bolsters ICBM Claims ■ It bolstered Russian claims to t be the first to have perfected an intercontinental ballistic missile ■ for it might well have taken such ‘ a missile to launch the satellite pn ' its flight around the world every j 95 minutes—about 15 times a day. , John P. Hagen, the U.S. satellite ; Chief, told the United Press in an interview in Washington the rock- ’ et that blasted the satellite skywards may have been “close to” ‘ an ICBM.

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Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, urged a speedup of the American satellite program, now set for a launching this fall. The Russians said more satellites would be launched later. They have said earlier the satellite marked the first step of travel to the moon and perhaps to Mars and Venus as well and said travel to the planets might well begin by 1965. Timing Ameses Scientists The speed with which Russia carried out the launching amaaed scientists throughout the world. One had been expected during this worldwide geophysical year but not for several more months. The secrecy of the operation annoyed some scientists for they were unable to warn in time their “moonwatch” teams which observe the satellite. Another minor annoyance was the fact the Russians changed the agreed upon radio frequency of the “beeps”. The Russian announcement, made first by Moscow radio In a broadcast beamed in English to the United States, said flight of the satellite can “be observed in the rays of the rising and setting sun with the aid of the simplest optical instruments, such as binoculars and spyglasses.’’ The first man to report seeing the satellite was Larry Ochs of Columbus, Ohio, one of seven moonwatchers alerted. Brain Begins Working In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a monstrous electronic 'Continued co '"age Five) Final Rites Sunday For Chalmer Miller Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne for Ojalmer Miller, native of Decatur, who died Thursday , night. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The names of three brothers were omitted from the list of survivors. They are Paul D., Eugene and. Donald Miner, all of Decatur.

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