Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 237, Decatur, Adams County, 8 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 237.

SATELLITE TRACKING MACHINE K-T' s • n * .a ....%aBPI. ■-rW* J wm > jflEk ml v nH’mO fIS RUSSIA'S Prof. A. M. Kasatkin (left) and Ecuador’s Prof. H. K. Afsher. a space scientist, examine angle recorders of the U. S. satellite minitrack system at the U. S. Naval Computing center in Blossom Point, Md.

City's Schools Reported Hard Hit With Flu Six Public School Teachers And Many Students Stricken Flu and other respiratory diseases continue to plague Adams county this week, with many schools reporting large numbers absent Both the General Electric and Central Soya reported very few absences, and apparently only a few adults are now being affected by the disease. Hardest hit of the teaching staffs has been the Decatur public school system, where three high school teacher two Northwest school teachers, and one Lincoln school teacher are out with flu or bad colds. The Decatur Catholic school teaching staff has made arrangements to have its staff members vaccinated, and many of the teachers have already had their flu shots. Decatur high school reported a welcome decrease in absentees, from a high of 137 out of 348 Friday, to 116 Monday, and 102 today. Northwest has increased from 58 out of 329 yesterday to 70 absent today. Lincoln has also increased from 108 out of 903 Monday to 113 absent today. Adams Central reported that absenteeism is on the increase there, with 134 out of 868 students out today. Monday there were 125 students out. At Decatur Catholic schools, absences increased from 84 yesterday to 123 today. The total enrollment at Decatur Catholic is now 685. In St. Mary’s township the Bobo school reported 14 students absent out of 70 enrolled. Flu and colds started there on Friday, the principal stated, and absenteeism has increased daily since. At Pleasant Mills about 50 out of 200 students were absent. Some of the absenteeism there was due to chicken pox. At Monmouth the top six grades reported 22 absent out of 170 enrolled. The southern part of the county started feeling die effects of the flu Friday. Monday, Berne reported 60 out of school as compared with 22 on Friday. Geneva reported 86 out of a total enrollment of 223 affected. Hartford school was also hit hard. Fort Wayne Hit By UNITED PRESS Hoosiers fought new battles with "Asian-type” flu today. Fort Wayne was the latest city, to report a heavy incidence of upper respiratory illness which slashed attendance at many public and parochial schools, some by as much as 50 per cent. Union Twp. grade and high school near Bargersville in Johnson County was closed Monday for at least two days when more than 100 pupils failed to show up for classes and others became ill after roll call and were sent home. At Fort Wayne, half the pupils were absent Monday at a Lutheran grade school and heavy absenteeism was reported in other parochial and public grade and high schools and Fort Wayne Bible College. Dr. Robert Lohman, city health commissioner, said it was an “epidemic” but the Illnesses were not serious.

Other towns around Fort Wayne, including New Haven, were hit by the outbreak.

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United States Ready To Fire Off Rocket Air Force Awaits Proper Conditions WASHINGTON (UP)—The United States is ready to recoup some of its losses in the battle of space with a rocket fired from a balloonborne platform 20 miles above the earth. As soon as weather conditions are right the air force will try to send a rocket roaring 1,000 to 4,000 miles above the earth's sur-face-higher than the Russian satellite or any other man-made device has ever reached. Launching of the space rocket from a balloon over Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific by "Project Far Side” has been set to go since late last month. But scientists delayed it waiting for just the right weather. In Planning Stage If successful, “far side” may be interpreted as an answer to the newly launched Soviet satellite. But actually it has been in the planning stages for months. Nevertheless it could restore a little of the prestige this country has lost to the Russians in the field of space science in the last few days. A huge balloon will lift the rocket on a platform* to a point 20 miles above Eniwetok to help free it from the earth’s atmosphere. Then the rocket will fire, Aft-IBur stages, into outer space, Wh) How far will it go? Air fdfce spokesmen frankly don't knqw. With perfect conditions, it could even go 5,000 miles. But they said they will be satisfied if it exceeds I, miles. Launched At Angle It won’t circle the earth like Russia’s satellite. The air force said that isn’t the idea behind the project. So it won’t be launched at the angle needed to place It in an orbit around the earth. As it speeds through the skies, the rocket will radio back invaluable scientific data on cosmic rays, the magnetic field of the earth, and other observations. Fish Fry Tickets Available At Bank Tickets are available at the First State Bank for the 1957 fish fry at Decatur high school Thursday evening, Oct. 24, at 6:30 o’clock, Herman Krueckeberg, ticket chairman, said today. All merchants are asked to pick up tickets at the bank, Krueckeberg said. The ticket chairman said that he would contact all merchants who do not pick up the tickets. There are about 1.200 tickets available, he added. Tickets are 11. each. The fish fry will be the highlight of the soybean festival. Signs advertising the event are also available, he added. Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (W — The U.S. today rejected Soviet boss Nikita Khrushchev’s proposal for a separate U.S.-Soviet agreement on earth satellites and pilotless missiles. RIVERHEAD, N. Y. (W—The RCA communications division here received signals from the Russian satellite today, but said they were “very, very weak.” , Late Bulletin Mrs. Verna Rupert, 63, wife of William Rupert, of Monroe route 1, died about 1:45 o’clock this afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. The body was removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

Teverbaugh May Give Testimony In Own Defense 48 Os Prospective Jurors Eliminated In Highway Trial INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Questioning of prospective jurors in the Indiana highway scandal conspiracy trial of Virgil (Red) Smith and three other men indicated today that the defense will contend there was no deliberate plot to bilk the state of thousands of dollars in public funds. New prospective jurors from a bulky special venire were asked questions by attorneys for the exhighway chairman and other defendants which hinted their case will rest on failure of the state to prove beyond a doubt that Smith and his aids actually conspired to embezzle money. Newsmen asked attorney William Irwin if that would be the strategy of the defense. V “I don’t know irhat’our defense is going to be,” Irwin replied, “but that’s a possibility.’’ Defense spokesmen said the state must prove that two or more, of the persons involved fashioned a "real and deliberate agreement” to embezzle and, furthermore, that what they conspired to do, if anything, actually is a crime. Four more jurors were questioned in the early stages of the trial’s second day this morning, and four more were challenged. Only two peremptory challenges, both by the state, have been used up, however. Optimism Among Defendants An air of optimism over their chances to win acquittal seemed to pervade the defense table. Not only did the attorneys appear confident. but one of the defendants jokingly told a United Press reporter: "I noticed you fellows (the newsmen) around the prosecutor’s office aU the time. You’d better get on the winning side.'' That statement was mad# by Smiths ■ - ' — Eartier, it appeared Nile Teverbaugh may testify in his own defense when the jury begins hearing evidence. Defense attorney David Lewis indicated such a move late Monday as 48 names were eliminated from a panel of 300 prospective jurors during the trial’s opening day. Os 300 venirerpen listed, 31 were questioned, and 19 were excused—most of them for having unwavering opinions on guilt or innocence. Special Judge Walter Pritchard estimated it would take today and Wednesday to fin the jury box to try Teverbaugh and three others on charges of conspiracy to embezzle public funds. , WIU Smith Tell Story? Teverbaugh, former State Highwa y Department right-of-way chief, was the man the state sought to identify as the mysterious “Dean Burton” who figured in Madison Ave. land transactions here. ... Asked if Teverbaugh would testify in his own behalf, Lewis told United Press: i .-a. “I expect that’he win. I don’t know of any reason why he wouldn’t.” There was no indication that anvwatiuuro !«»•

Whitley Indicted On Murder Charge Scott County Jury Returns Indictment SCOTTSBURG W — A Scott County Grand Jury late Monday returned a first-degree murder indictment against Victor Wayne Whitley, 26, Granger, Tex., in the shooting of Indiana State Police Trooper William Kellems Sept.3o. Whitley was captured south of North Vemor last Tuesday after he and an accomplice left a bloody trail through Michigan and Indiana during a crime spree in which two state troopers were killed and three other lawmen wounded. " Whitley’s companion, Ralph W. Taylor. 36, St. Albans, W. Va„ was killed during a gunbattle at a roadblock near North Vernon. Whitley previously was accused of kidnaping and assault and battery with intent to kill in charges filed by two Jennings County sheriff’s officers. .Deputy Sheriff Clyde Perkins, taken as a hostage but later released by Whitley at the roadblock where Taylor was killed, filed kidnap charges on his own behalf and assault charges in connection with the wounding of North Vernon city policeman Lester Kenens. Sheriff Charles Dudley filed assault charges in the wounding of Indiana State Troop, er Robert Pond.

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President Eisenhower Confers With Advisers On Russian Satellite

Russian Earth Satellite Pays First Dividend Soviet Scientists Check Satellite's Flight Into Space LONDON (UP) — The Soviet earth satellite paid man his first scientific dividend today. Soviet scientists checking the sateUite’s flight through outer spafee said they have discovered “changes in the absolute intensity of the electro-magnetic pole.” A broadcast by Radio Moscow heard here said this was learned “by means of the short wave transmitter” aboard the man - made moon. “A device for research in the propagation of radio waves was used to obtain this information,” the broadcast added. The report apparently referred to measurements of so-called electrical “ring’’ currents and of the earth's magnetic field. j Disturbances on the sun set upl these “ring” currents and affect the electrical magnetic field that surrounds the earth. TheGreatlnfleence - This field varies in intendfcy from time to time and, by sending radio signals through it as the Russians are doing from their satel- ■ lite, man can measure these changes. Tbe result possibly could have great influence on such things as planning for improved international radio communications and weather forecasting. As the Russian “Sputnik” orbited around the earth tailed by its own sub-satellite—the nose of the three-stage rocket that fired it into space—there were these other developments: —Dr. Whitny Matthews of the Washington Naval Research Laboratory said in Cambridge, Mass., the United States has tested its own satellite and is ready to launch It into space “right now.” U.S. Has Space Rocket —Frederick C. Durant. U.S. vice president of the International Astronautical Federation, said in Barcelona, Spain, that the United States will launch a 6-pound radio transmitting satellite in November, with the first “optically visible satellite” ffik be launched next spring. —The United States is ready to shoot a space rocket’ from a balloon over Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific to a height of 1,000 to 4,000 miles as soon as weather conditions are right. This rocket will not orbit the earth, since it is designed merely to check such things as cosmic rays and the magnetic field of the earth and then fall back. It has been long planned. New Girl Scout Council Is Formed Six Counties Form New Scout Council Effective Jan. 1, 1958, the Girl Scout organizations in Adams, Allen, Wells, Steuben, DeKalb and Huntington counties will become a part of the Limberlost Girl Scout council. The new council was given its name by unanimous vote at a recent meeting of the Girl Scout development committee which took place recently at the Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce building. Mrs. Don Cochran and Mrs. R. C. , Hersh represent Decatur on the committee and attended the meeting. Final action was taken on the name, financial planning and jurisdictional rights of the council. These decisions will be submitted to tiie national Girl Scout offices for final approval. Heading the work of the committee were Mrs. Wayne Miller, chairman; Mrs. Maybele Blackwell, national field staff representative, and Miss Millie JaCobs, executive chairman of the Allen county GirtScout council.

Miss Indiana To Attend Fish Fry To Crown Soybean Queen, King Here Gloria Rupprecht, Mias Indiana of 1957, will Bttend the ninth annual rural-urban fish fry Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Decatur high school gym, according to an announcement madp today by Joe Kaehr, chairman of the second annual soybean queen contest to be held in conjunction with the fish fry. Miss Rupprecht, who represented this state in the 1957 Miss America pageant at Atlantic city, will crown the 1957 soybean queen and king during the program following the fish fry. A church choir singer who is all mixed up geographically, Miss Rupprecht won the talent division of the Miss America contest with an hilarious off-key rendition of “My Hero” from "The Chocolate Soldier.” The daughter of a Lutheran minister, she was made Miss Indiana for 1957 at the state beauty contest at Michigan City. She was born in Chicago and lived in Winr ston-Salem, N, C., before moving with her father to St. Petersburg, Fla., two years ago. Miss Rupprecht now attends Valparaiso University, her stepping off point to the state contest' wjuch she won. It is planned that she will present the “My Hero” rendi4on at the fish fry here. Kaehr also issued a reminder today that entries in the 1957 soybean queen contest must be made by Saturday, Oct. 19, at the office • of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. All unmarried girls between the ages of 16 and 19, inclusive, who reside in Adams county, are eligible to enter the contest. They will be judged’"on the basis of poise, appearance, beauty and talent. Preliminary judging in the contest will be conducted on the afternoon of Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Decatur Youth and Community Cented. Five finalists will be chosen in the afternooh and one of these will be named 1957 soybean queen at the fish fry. Report Record Os Convention Burned Union Lawyer Says Documents Burned WASHINGTON (UP) - Senate investigators waited impatiently today for delivery of Teamster convention records to see whether they are getting evidence or ashes. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) of the Senate Rackets Committee said a union attorney reported Sunday night that documents subpenaed by the committee cinerator.” The attorney blamed “had been thrown down the ina night maid at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., where the recent Teamster convention was held, McClellan said. But Union President-elect James R. Hoffa said in Miami Beach Monday night the documents were on their way to Washington after being “temporarily lost." He said there was “nothing wrong.” Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy in turn challenged Hoffa or any other Teamster official to give assurances that the documents were intact. He said John F. English, union secretary-treas-urer, “could not give assurance that all the documents were there.” It was not clear whether any of the papers actually had been burned, Hoffa’s comment indicated they had not, but Kennedy quoted the union attorney as saying the committee could see for itself the documents had been in the incinerator. McClellan said when the attorney was asked for the maid’s name so that she could be interviewed, he reported that she had suddenly died of g heart attack. "The committee will be interested in determining whether this incident is just another of the many strange coincidences that the committee has encountered in (Continued on Pe«o Five)

Arkansas Girl Pupil Denies Faubus Charge Girl Student Says No Troops Invade DrMstpg Rooms LITTLE hOCK, Ark. TO - Gov. Orval E. Faubus’ charge that paratroopers have Invaded the girls' dressing room at Central High school was denied today by a girl student who said she may have been the original source of the charge. , t Catherine Craighead, a. 16-year-old orphan girl who is a sophomore at Central High, told reporters she believes Faubus’ charge may be an “exaggerated” version of something she said. Faubus made the allegation Monday. School officials termed it “ridiculous.” The White House said it was “completely untrue and completely vulgar." The governor retorted that “we’ll prove it when the time comes.” He said his charge was based on complaints from “mothers.” The Central high mothers’ league, a segregationist group which has worked closely with Faubus. had indicated to. newsmen that Catherine, who lives at an orphanage here, could corroborate the governor’s allegations. But Catherine said that “Somewhere along the line there has been an exaggeration.” ‘"The soldiers do not go into the girls’ dressing room," she said. She said troops on corridor duty escort Negro girls to the head of a stairway, across a hall from the entrance to the dressing room, as part of their assignment of preventing any incident as the Negroes move from one class to another. “If the soldiers lingered at the top of the stairs, they might be able to look into the dressing room when the door was being* opened or closed,” she said. “But I've never seen them do that.” The nine Negro students arrived at Central high with their usual troop escort this morning. About ; Continued on ’age Mv») ■■ —l* —-r— Indiana Soldier Is Charged In Shooting Court Martial For Killing Korean Boy SEOUL, Korea (UP)—Raymond L. Bailey, an Army military policeman from Brownsburg, Ind., today faced a court martial charge of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old Korean boy. U.S. Army authorities announced Bailey had been charged in the . fatal wounding of Song Joon Won : in a railway yard near Kumchon Oct. 3. , The charge will now be made , the subject of a thorough and Im- , partial investigation in an effort , to determine the disposition of the , case, an Eighth Army spokesman said. . He added, “this formal investigation, following U.S. military legal procedure, is made in addi- 1 tion to , the initial investigation - upon whch the charge was founded.” The Army said it was doing this in order “to insure that all available evidence is considered prior to a final determination as to trial.” The shooting incident occurred while Bailey was guarding a railway boxcar on a siding and warned off a group of Korean youths. Bailey and another M.P. . ordered the youths to halt but they kept running. A warning shot was fired over the youths’ heads and a second shot was fired at the group. The second shot struck Song Joon Won in the stomach and he died an hour later in a hospital. Bailey was identified by the Army as the M.P. who fired the shoot.

Calls For Control Os Earth Satellites Report Khrushchev Urging Controls NEW YORK W - Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev has called for international control of earth satellites and all pilotless missiles as part of a general agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, the New York Times said today. In a dispatch from Moscow, James Reston, the Times’ chief Washington correspondent, said Khrushchev did not reveal whether the Soviets were ready to modify their disarmament or political proposals previously rejected by the United States. Khrushchev said there would be no problem over control of the earth satellite or other new scientific devices if the U. S. and Russio could agree on the question of peaceful coexistence. The party boss said Moscow was amending its disarmament proposals because it would now be necessary to inspect rocket launching sites rather than airfields. He said that bombers are in decline., because they are vulnerable to rockets and fighter planes are too fast to be effective. . ■ Because of 'this, Khrushchev said, there should be control of new pilotless weapons. He did not outline any over-all control system. Invited To Aid In Democratic Drive Rally Wednesday To Open Campaign Every person interested in maintaining the two-party system is invited to help in the “Dollars for Democrats” fund-raising drive Friday and Saturday of this week, Roger Singleton, drive chairman, and Mrs. Gerald Vizard, vice chairman, said today. The drive will start with a rally at the Decatur Community Center Wednesday night. Each precinct committeeman and his two precinct workers, are asked to be present. All others interested in helping are also invited to the meeting. Dick Heller, Jr., who has just returned from a conference with former President Harry S. Truman, will speak. “Large contributions from the big-money Republicans are so staggering that immense funds . are available to the GOP for their campaigns,” Singleton explained. “The Democratic party, representing the farmer, laborer, and small businessman. must turn to a door-to-door campaign to raise money for the 1958 election.” Each person will be asked to give just $1 to the Democratic party to help maintain the two-party system. This money will be used to bring the story of the Democratic party, its aims, purposes, and candidates, to all the people, through television, newspapers, and radio stations. The money will be used on the local, district, state, and national levels. “All the polls and surveys tell us an overwhelming majority of Americans will give small amounts (Continued on Pa«e elrht) INDIANA WEATHER Increasing cloudiness tonight and mostly cloudy Wednesday with occasional showers beginning late tonight or Wednesday. Not so cool tonight. Turning cooler northwest portion Wednesday. Lows tonight 4552. Highs Wednesday near 60 northwest to 75 southeast. Sunset today 6:17 p. m., sunrise . Wednesday 6:49 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Showers and turning cooler throughout state Wednesday night. Thursday clearing north, mostly cloudy south with showers likely southeast. Lows Wednesday night in the 40s. Highs Thursday In 50s north and 60s south.

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Scientists And Defense Heads Meet With ike 1 Secretary Hagerty Declines To Issue ' Discussion Details BULLETIN WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson said today that Russia still does 1 not have an intercontinental ballistic missile in its arsenal * and has not jumped ahead of the U. S. In the arms race. WASHINGTON (UP)—President 1 Eisenhower conferred for an hour ! today with ranking government scientists and defense officials on the Russian satellite and this country’s rocket and satellite program. The meeting had not been on Eisenhower's published schedule for the day. - White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty declined to give any details of the discussion. The conferrees included Dr. Allan Waterman, director of the National Science Foundation, which is in charge of the U.S. satellite program; Deputy Defense Secre- . tary Donald A. Quarles; two other government scientists, whose names were not immediately available, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, Hagerty and other members of the White House staff. Urge “Crash” Program Quarles and Waterman re> mained at the White House for further conferences with members of Eisenhower’s staff. The meeting came amid congressional demands for a complete reappraisal of U.S. defense policies and calls by some congressmen and scientists for a “crash” program to catch up with Russia in the race to outer space. Only Monday afternoon Hagerty had told newsmen there were no plans for a special scientific briefing for the President prior to Thursday's meeting of the National Security Council. He said the satellite program would be discussed at the Thursday meeting. Hagerty disclosed this morning that late Monday Eisenhower after returning from a weekend at his Gettysburg farm, directed that the satellite program officials be summoned to the White House today. A White House appointment for Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and disarmament adviesr Harold E. Stassen, originally scheduled for this morning was postponed until late afternoon, but no reason for the change in the schedule was given at the time. Ne Statement Expected Hagerty was asked if the White House conference meant any change in his statement of last Saturday that no speed-up in the U. S. satellite program was lanned because of Russia’s successful launching of its satellite. Hagerty replied that “as far as I know,” his Saturday statement still bolds. He also said he did not expect a White House statement to come out of today’s conference. As for Eisenhower’s reaction to the Russian satellite, Hagerty told newsmen they would have to ask the President directly at his news conference Wednesday morning. The President and his advisers are under strong pressure to take a second look at the nation’s missile program. U.S. scientists have indicated strongly they feel Russia possesses the intercontinental ballistic missile, a claim the administration played down. Some of the scientists and leading members of congress are urging a step-up in the satellite and rocket programs to beat Russia to the moon and planets. They agreed that Russia has jumped into a head start into space and this country can catch up only by spending enough money. Such a program would demand a big increase in defense spending, and probably would wipe out all hope of a tax cut next year. Stevenson Speaks Out In Chicago, Adlai Stevenson, the 1952 and 1956 Democratic presidential candidate, accused the Ela(Coatiauod on flge Bte)