Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 248, Decatur, Adams County, 21 October 1957 — Page 1

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QUEEN ELIZABETH and her party in the Royal Box at University of Maryland's Byid Stadium watch the action with interest as North Carolina rolls to a first period touchdown against Maryland. The Queen, who has rooted at many-a soccer and rugby contest, rooted for the first time at a football game. To ward off the chill breezes, the Queen put on a fur coat, while Prince Philip donned a hat as Maryland whipped North Carolina. 27-to-7.

British Royalty Welcomed By New York City Biggest Celebrity Reception Staged In City In Years NEW YORK (UP) — Queen Elizabeth II rode up New York’s canyon of heroes today in a deluge of confetti and tickertape. It was the biggest celebrity reception here since Gen. Douglas MacArthur returned from Japan. Curbside crowds of hundreds of thousands -cheered the 31-year-old monarch and her consort Prince Philip as their royal motorcade moved slowly in brilliant sunshine from the Battery to City Hall. The winaows of skyscrapers along the route were jammed with office workers who scattered tons of confetti, tickertape and torn telephone directories on her bub-ble-top limousine. T It was the Queen's first visit to New York, the city she said she had “wanted to see since I was a child.” It was also the first tickertape parade ever accorded a British monarch. Philip Thrills Secretaries New York’s informal shouts of “Hi, Liz” brought the Queen's broadest smile and the jauntiest wave she has exhibited on her sixday visit to the United States. Fashion conscious New York women eyed her rust-colored ensemble trimmed with regal white ermine and set off with flashing diamond jewelry. Handsome bareheaded “Prince Phil,” whose car followed the Queen’s, flashed a smile that thrilled the Wall Street’s secretaries who nad been given an extra-long lunch hour to attend the parade. The Queen and her party arrived aboard a U. S. Army ferry which had brought them from their train on Staten Island in the company of Gov. Averell Harriman and British Commonwealth dignitaries. Exclaims in Wonderment Elizabeth’s own comments on her first view of the towers and turrets of Manhattan were in everyday American slang: “Wheel”* she exclaimed. “How exciting! I didn’t realize the buildings were so closely knit.” The weather was as near perfect as a queen could wish. Her brief route to City Hall for Mayor Robert F. Wagner’s official welcome to the city called up one of the heaviest forces of police, federal security officers, firemen and first aid personnel in memory. Not since MacArthur was cheered by 7,500,000 persons in 1951 had the city put on such a dazzling show. The entire financial district, which Elizabeth glimpsed as she passed Trinity Church at the head of Wall Street, was decked with Union Jacks. The radiant, 31-year-old monarch stepped off her special train (Continued o» Pa«« Five)

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Girl Seoul Shelter House Is Dedicated New Building At Hanna-Nuttman Park More than 200 Girl Scouts, Brownies, and intermediates turned out to help dedicate the new Girl Scout shelter house at Hanna-Nuttman park Saturday afternoon. Z Girls from Mrs. August Kelly's troop 21 took part in the flag raising ceremony, while girls from the city’s 27 troops stood in a large circle in front of the building. The pledge of allegiance to the flag was given, and the song “Beautiful Banner” sung. The United States flag and the Girl Scout flags were flown during the ceremony. The Rev. Virgil Sexton of the First Methodist church gave the dedicatory prayer. Mrs. Doyle Collier than gave the history of the building. She explained how Mrs. Hanna had hoped that some day the girls of Decatur would organize, and then eventually raise a building on the HannaNuttman park grounds. About ten years ago work started on fund-raising, and five years ago the foundation was laid. Then the project was temporarily halted. Finally, a donation of SSOO from the Civic department of the Woman’s club spurred the Scouts to finish the project. Mrs. Jack Rosenberger, program chairman, presided at the affair, and introduced Mrs. William F. Schnepf, Jr. Mrs. Schnepf then introduced the building committee, and thanked them on behalf of the Girl Scouts tor the fine work. Members of the committee Included Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Harper, Mrs. R. C. Hersh. Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Strickler, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Collier. Mayor Robert Cole, city councilmen Norbert Aumann and Carl Gerber, Bernard Clark of the city street department; city attorney John DeVoss, city engineer Ralph E. Roop, Steve Everhart, Tom Allwein, builders Dick and Jim Colter, and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Schnepf, Jr. The committee was formed in 1954, and assisted in the construction and safety aspects of the building. Mrs. Lowell Harper then thanked the many generous donors, and the hard-working Girl Scouts who sold cookies for two years, for their help. Donors included the Civic department of the Woman’s club; Delta Theta Tau sorority, Tri Kappa, Psi lota Xi, the Lions, Rotary, Mr. and Mrs. Al Beavers, the Central Soya Foundation, the Girl Scout foundation, and anonymous contributors. Two-thirds of the profits from the Girl Seout cookie sales in 1956 and 1957 also went to the project. Those who contributed time and material to the project were Cal Yost, Adolph Kolter, Don Hakes, who made the cabinets, Central Soya Co.. Inc., and the (OoaUaued »a Page Five)

Middle East Crisis Eases, UN To Debate Eases Despite New Propaganda Charges From Soviet Russia By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent The Middle East crisis eased today despite a new rash of propaganda charges by Moscow and weekend warnings by Syrian leaders that Turkey had sent three divisions and 800 tanks to the frontier. The nations involved appeared willing to let things slide until the United Nations begins a formal debate Tuesday or Wednesday on Syrian charges that Turkey, backed by the United States, plans to attack. There were rumors in London that King Saud of Saudi Arabia had offered to mediate the dispute. This was denied in Damascus and observers noted that such an offer probably would have to await the U. N. debate. Pravda, the official organ of the Soviet Communist Party, kept the crisis simmering today by hinting that United States 6th Fleet planes had flown over Syria at high altitude. z ’ I Istanbul and Damasens Quiet Pravda quoted Syrian Chief of Staff Afif Bizri in an interview as saying such high altitude flights had Increased. “We consider that these planes fly not from Turkish airfields but possibly from American aircraft carriers,’’ Pravda quoted Bizri. United Press correspondent Russell Jones in Istanbul and Peter Webb in Damascus reported both cities quiet on the surface despite the recent war talk and acting Syrian Foreign Minister Khklil Khallas’ statement to Parliament that Turkey had moved three divisions and 800 tanks to the border. v Crisis Appears Averted Other Mideast developments: Tehran—A crisis in Iranian and Syrian relations appeared to have been diverted. Iranian Foreign Minister AU Ardelan took exception to a U. N. statement by Syrian Foreign Minister Salah El Bitar denied making the statement. Cairo—Air Jordan said it would send to the U.S. embassy a full report on the alleged attack by IsraeU jet planes on one of its American-flown transport planes Saturday. The plane landed safely in Cairo. Jerusalem—lsrael said one of its jets fired on a Jordanian C-47 civiUan plane over the Negev Desert and ordered it to land because it was violating IsraeU air space.

Steel Company Head Defends Increases Bethlehem Company Head Defends Boost WASHINGTON (UP) — A. B. Homer, president of Bethlehem Steel Corp., told Senate Investigators today the company’s $5.20 a-ton increase in steel prices this summer was "modest” and completely justified. He said in testimony before the Senate’s antitrust and monopoly subcommittee that an increase of more than $8 a ton was warranted by higher tabor, transportation and other costs to the company. But. faced with '•'competition from the rest of the industry," he said, the company held the increase to “the competitive level” and absorbed extra costs of $2.80 a ton—“or something over 35 million dollars a year.” The subcommittee, headed by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.), is investigating the basis for the recent'steel price increases and why all major steel producers raised prices at roughly the same time and by roughly the same amounts. Homer said Bethlehem hopes that by limiting its increase to $5.20 it has not “too seriously endangered” its ability to maintain a profit margin of roughly 13 per cent—the average of all industries —needed to attract' investors for needed future expansion. Estimating that a 50-to-60 million ton increase in steel capacity will be needed in the next 15 years to keep pace with the nation’s expanding economy, Homer said the cost of expansion will be "tremendous” and can be met only by company earnings and new borrowing. “Unless we can demonstate to the investor that we can operate at a profit ratio at least as high as the average of other manufeturing industries,” he said, "we are not going to be able to obtain the neceesary financing at reaaooable rate*."

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 21,1957

Former State Highway Commissioners Testify As Trial Is Resumed

New Supreme Court Blow At Segregation Refuses Virginia Appeal On Orders By Federal Court WASHINGTON (UP) — The Supreme Court today struck another blow at southern attempts to block or delay school desegregation. It refused to hear a Virginia appeal against federal court orders to integrate the Norfolk and Newport News schools. This leaves in effect a ruling by the 4th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals which knocked down the barriers to school integration raised by Virginia’s 1956 Pupil Placement Act. Other southern states have adopted similar laws to nullify the Supreme Court’s 1954 racial desegregation edict. They were watching today’s action for an indication of how their laws will fare in court. Not a Direct Ruling Neither the Supreme Court nor the appeals court ruled directly on the constitutionality of the Virginia taw. But both courts left standing an opinion by Federal District Judge Walter E. Hoffman of Norfolk that the law is unconstitutional. » . .. The action left Hoffman free to order the school boards to admit Negro applicants to Norfolk and Newport News schools. In other action today, the Supreme Court: —Agreed to hear arguments on a California law that organizations must file a loyalty oath to qualify for property tax exemptions. The court had received five appeals on the issue. It acted today on only two. Granta Two Hearings —Granted a bearing to William Francis Rupp of Orange County. Calif., under death sentence for the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl in a rape attempt. —Granted a hearing to Bart Caritativo, Filipino houseboy of Stinson Beach, Calif., who was condemned to death in San Quentin’s gas chamber three years ago. He was convicted of the .wuDtlnueO on Face Six»

Samuel Augsburger Is Taken By Death Funeral Services s To Be Wednesday Samuel Augsburger, 81. retired farmer and carpenter, died at 7 o’clock Saturday evening at his home, 1421 Adams street, following an illness of two and onehalf weeks. He was born in Adams county Dec. 20, 1875, a son of Christian and Elizabeth BaumgartnerAugsburger, and was married to Leah Schertz May 8, 1909. They had resided in Decatur for the past 11 years, after living near Bluffton for 16 years. Mr. Augsburger attended the Missionary church in Berne. , Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, the Rev. Ivan E. Augsburger of the Dominican Republic; three daughters, Mrs. Velma Steury of Berne, Miss "Viola Augsburger, at home, and Miss Erma Augsburger of Rockville; six grandchildren; five brothers, Jeff Augsburger of Linn Grove, Ell Augsburger of Geneva, Joel and Chris Augsburger of Berne, and Edward Augsburger of Oak Park, Mich., and one sister, Mrs. Adam Biberstein of Geneva. One borther and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Missionary church, the Rev. Gerald J. Gerig and the Rev. Bryce Augsburger officiating. Burial will be in the Evangelical Mennonite church cemetery, west of Berne. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Speed Up Campaign On Flu Inoculation Death Toll Climbs Beyond 200 Mark By UNITED PRESS The death toll from flu and its complications climbed beyond the 200 mark and health officials stepped up their campaign to inoculate the public against the disease. A United Press tally showed 205 deaths directly or indirectly caused by the flu since last summer when the Asian virus first broke out in the United States. The ailment hit hardest in New York with 54 deaths, followed by Pennsylvania with 37, Louisiana 21 and California 20. In all, 16 states have reported flu fatalities, many of them occurring in the past week. The national health service in Washington reported more than 1,500,000 persons have been stricken with the flu so far, and that the Asian virus has appeared in all sections of the nation.' Death Tell Mounts Other states reporting flu deaths were Michigan 17, Illinois 10, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin 7 each, Colorado 5, New Jersey and lowa 3 each, and Oklahoma, Oregon and Indiana 1 each. The Territory of Hawaii recorded 9 deaths and the District of Columbia 1. Lethal outbreaks of the flu continued in schools for the mentally retarded in Pennsylvania and Illinois. A 4-year-old girl became the ninth flu victim at the Pennhurst State School at Spring City, Pa. The girl died Saturday night. School officials at Pennhurst said 180 persons, including 70 attendants, were bedded down with the flu, with three patients on the critical list. Many Hospitalised At the Dixon, 111., State School for the Mentally Retarded, where seven persons have died from the flu, officials reported 1,147 bed patients, none of them in critical condition. The outbreak was con(Contlnued on Page Five) 11 Girls Entered In Queen Contest Name Soybean Queen Thursday Evening Three Decatur high school girls entered the 1957 Adams county soybean queen contest Saturday before the deadline to bring the total number of entries to 11, chairman Joe Kaehr announced today. The three final entries were made by Marie Barlett, Judy Rhodes and Betty Smith, all of whom have listed their talents as dramatics. Miss Barlett, 16, is a sophomore and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Barlett of 314 Oak street. Miss Rhodes, the daughter of Mrs. Lloyd Rhodes of 104 Jefferson street, is 17 years of age and is a senior at D.H.S. Miss Smith is 16, a junior and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Smith. The 11 contestants will meet this evening at the Kaehr home for instructions on contest rules and procedures. Six of the contestants will be eliminated in competition to F gin at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The remaining five will compete for the title at the annual ruralurban fish fry which is slated for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Decatur high school gym. The four runnersup will compose the queen’s court. ’The 1957* soybean’ queen will’be crowned by Miss Indiana of 1957, Miss Gloria Rupprecht of Valparaiso University, who will also present the talent sketch she gave in Miss America competition in Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Pryor are assisting Kaehr in the queen contest and are in charge of the judging.. Miss Rupprecht will serve as one of the Judge*. Others will be named soon.

Judge Refuses To Set Aside Hoffa Order Temporary Order By Court Bans Hoffa From Taking Office WASHINGTON (UP) — Federal Judge F. Dickenson Letts today refused to set aside a temporary court order barring James R. Hoffa from taking over at once as president, of the Teamsters Union. The judge also denied motions by union attorneys that would have thrown out of court the charges by 13 rank and file members that Hoffa’s election was rigged. Letts then proceeded to hear arguments on whether to run his temporary restraining order into a preliminary injunction and place affairs of the nation’s largest union under court supervision. The 13 charged that more than 80 per cent of the delegates to the union's recent convention at Miami Beach, Fla.,, were selected in violation of tne union’s constitution. Martin F. O’Donoghue, attorney for the union, said that Letts erred in signing the temporary order last MortUg without giving the Teamsters a chance to be heard. O'Donoghue, quoting from rules of federal procedure and the code of ethics of the American Bar Assn., said that such orders should not be issued without a hearing except in an emergency. There was no need for quick action in this matter, the lawyer argued. Letts ordered the union to show cause today why the restraining order should not be converted into an injunction. Such an injunction would remain in force until a trial was held on the rank-and-file charges. No matter how Letts ruled, the decigion was almost certain to be appealed and the entire case could be in the courts for some time. Letts has also told the union to explain why the court should not nullify the election of new officers and all other proceedings at the recent Miami Beach, Fla., convention. In addition, it must also show cause why court officers should not be appointed to supervise major union spending and all but “routine” decisions. Hoffa also was plagued with troubles on a number of other fronts. The Senate Rackets Committee which is investigating his election, said it has discovered a "shocking” case where a teamster local elected its delegate to the conven(ConUnuea on ?**• 8lx) Forty Hours Rites At Catholic Church Devotions To Open On Friday Morning The annual forty hours devotion for members of St. Mary’s Catholic church has been scheduled for next weekend, according to an announcement made Sunday morning at all masses. The devotions will open Friday with a high mass at 8 a m. to be followed by exposition of the blessed sacrament and a procession. Other masses Friday will be at 5:45 a.m. and‘’l a.m. L Saturday masses are also scheduled for 5:45, 7 and 8 a.m., with exposition of the blessed sacrament before the 5:45 mass. On Sunday, the regular Sunday mass schedule will tie followed. Special devotions during the three days have been slated for 2:30 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Evening devotions will begin each evening at 7:30 o’clock. Die Sunday evening service will mark the solemn closing of forty hours. In preparation of forty hours confessions will be heard beginning at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Thursday, from 2:30 to 5 p.m. Friday sod Saturday, and after the. ning services Friday apd Saturday.

Schuman Refuses To Take French Helm Veteran Statesman Refuses Invitation PARIS (W — Veteran statesman Robert Schuman told President Rene Coty today that it was Impossi'blo* for him to form a new government as long as the nation’s political parties remain so bitterly divided. , Schuman, a 71-year-old former premier and a member of the middle of the road Catholic Popular Republican Party (MRP) was offered the job this morning. He turned it down immediately. Coty asked him to form a government after he reported on an urgent fact-finding financial mission which the president sent him on last Saturday. His reiusai was a bitter blow to Coty who had great hopes that Schuman, a man with no personal enemies and with great prestige, could finally solve the country's 21-day-old government crisis. Schuman's refusal to form a new cabinet came as snowballing labor unrest threatened new troubles for the country. There were threats of strikes and a. nationwide “workers protest” against the current freeze on wages and the rising cost* of living. In addition, there w|re report® that the French national treasury was almost empty and the country on the verge of bankruptcy. Schuman refused to” try* in the face of previous failures by three other political leaders in their efforts to set up a government to replace that of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury. The latter has resigned, but is remaining in office until a new regime can be set up. n— The government reportedly needs up to 200 billion francs ($476 million) to meet its expenses for the (ContlnuM on ”**• Five) Injuries Are fatal To Max D. Johnson Two Brothers Are Teachers In County Max D. Johnson, 37, of near Celina, 0., brother of two Adams county school teachers, died Saturday night following a truckbus collision nine miles north of Fort Recovery, 0., Friday morning. Johnson was a brother of Jay Jdhnson, Adams Central school teacher, and Ross Johnson, Geneva school teacher. Johnson, a Fort Recovery school teacher, was taking his daughter Nicole, 6, to school when his truck ran into the rear of a school bus. His daughter suffered a broken leg. Two bus passengers suffered fractured skulls, but were reported improving. The injured persons were taken to the Our Lady of Mercy hospital in Coldwater, 0., but Johnson later was transferred to the Miami Valley hospital in Dayton. He underwent brain surgery, but did not respond. Surviving in addition to the daughter, Nicole, are the widow, Joyce; three other daughters. Deborah, Leslyn and Leesa, at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles* Johnson of near New Castle; seven brothers. Jay and Ross Johnson, Adams county teachers, Wayne of near Rockford, 0., Wendell and Rex Johnson of near Mendon, 0., Preston Johnson of near Poneto, and Leon Johnson of near Bluffton; and five sisters, Mrs. Lucile Elam of near Celina, Mrs. Ina Mote of near Ludlow Falls, 0., Mrs. Gaye Turner of Anaheim, Calif., Mrs. Gene Oxender of West Lafayette, and Mrs. Patty Garber of Flint, Mich. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a. m. Wednesday at the Katcham funeral home at Rockford, 0., the Rev. Donald Weller and the Rev. Donald White officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery at Rockford. Freinds may call at the funeral home after noon Tuesday. J

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Defendants In j Trial Asked For Agreement Sought Statements Agreeing On What Happened On Deals INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Two former Indiana state highway commissioners said today they were asked. by defendants in the highway scandal conspiracy trial to sign statements agreeing bn what happened along the Madison Ave. Expressway. Deane E. Walker, Plymouth, a Democratic member of the commission until last January, testified as the trial resumed before a jury that he was approached by former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith in a phone call to get together on a written statement. William Sorrell, Knightstown, a Republican member of the commission. said Smith and a codefendant and two defense attorneys visited him three days bofore he testified before a Marion County grand jury investigating th scandals.. Sorrell said Attorney Charles Symmes asked him questions About a visit by the commission to the Madison Ave. site and asked him to sign a statement, but Sorrell said he refused on grounds he had no legal counsel so advise him and didn’t think it proper to make a statement under the circumstances. Receptionist On Stand A third witness, attractive Miss Joan Volz, 25, whose father sells Cadillacs to Smith regularly in their hometown of Milan, testified about visits defendant Robert Peak, a» Milan attorney, made to Smith’s highway office. She also testified " she attended parties In Smith’s apartment at which other highway employes were present, including co-defendants Nile Teverbaugh and Harry Doggett. Miss Volz was a receptionist in the highway. department when Smith was chairman. . r - Sorrell said when he was on the commission Teverbaugh and Doggett occasionally conferred with Smith but Sorrell and Walker seldom were called into the conferences. Walker testified that Smith telephoned him and mentioned that watam Sorrell, a third member oftne commission in the administration of former Gov. George Craig, was scheduled to appear before a Marlon County grand jury investigating the scandals. Smith throught it would “be a good thing to get a statement signed by all three commissioners as to what actually happened” along Madison Ave., Walker said. Walker Had Appeared The state contends Smith and three other defendants conspired to embezzle public funds in connection with a deal in which the state paid $25,800 for two “unneeded” back lots which broought their original owners $3,500. Walker said he told Smith that he (Walker) already had testified before the grand jury and took an oath not to tell anybody what he (continued on Page Six) INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and warmer pi tonight. Tuesday cloudy and not much temperature change. Low tonight mostly in the 40s. High Tuesday mid to upper 60s. Sunset today 5:58 p.m., sunrise Tuesday 7:02 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Cloudy with showers, turning colder north. Partly cloudy and mild with chance of scattered showers south. Lows Tuesday night in 50s. Highs Wednesday low 60s north and low 70s south. BULLETIN Mrs. Annie Lee Longenberger, 85, widow of Nathan Longenberger, died at 1 o’clock this afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Benoit Johnson, two miles east of Pleasant Mills. The body * was removed to the Zwick funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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