Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 249, Decatur, Adams County, 22 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 249.

WELCOMED, NEW YORK STYLE M#KsK - “ 8 w ’,&«.»* -> QUEEN ELIZABETH, seated in an automobile with New York Governor Averell Harriman and City official greeter Richard Patterson, gazes up at skyscrapers along the route of her welcotn- * Ing parade to New York City. Her Majesty later addressed a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly.

Royal Couple Closes Visit To Americas Queen Elizabeth ll\ Leaves Early Today After Hectic Visit NEW YORK (UP)-Queen, Eliabeth II left for home early today and it was almost as if a fairy queen had come and gone. She and her prince charming for 10 days took Americans’ minds off Sputnik, the Mideast and domestic headaches. Eliabeth was many things to those who welcomed her and her husband, Prince Philip, wherever they went — Ottawa, Jamestown, Williamsburg, Washington and New .York. To her own folks in Canada, where she paid her first call, she was a real personage, to be treated almost reverently. In the United States, she became an earthy "Lizzie”, “Liz” or “Hiyah, Queen.” But she also represented the storybook queen of our childhood. President Eisenhower saw the Queen as a “symbol" of the link between the two English speaking peoples whose interests are the same. Mayor Robert Wagner, of New York, called her a "great queen, and a gracious lady.” A Celebrity To All And wherever she visited, she was a celebrity the whole town turned out to see. Monday was her greatest day—her first visit to New York, which she confessed she always had longed to see. In the last day of her 10-day North American visit, she crowded in plenty of rubbernecking. New Yorkers rubbernecked right back.. .police said one million 700-thousand of them got to see real live royalty. Most of them lined the sidewalks to watch the traditional hero’s welcome, a ticker tape parade up Broadway. Their last day in the United tates was so crowded that royalty, which most of the time you can set your clock by, began to be tardy. Not just a few minutes, but several. The day included lunch with Mayor Robert Wagner and some 2.500 other guests; dinner with the Pilgrims and the English Speaking Union; and the final event in an eventful day, the Commonwealth BaU. This full-dress shindig was sponsored by the 58 associated Commonwealth societies. Some 4.500 persons packed the 7th Regiment Armory to watch the Queen, in diamond tiara and jewelled evening gown, review honor guards from the United States and Canada. Escorted To Idlewild Shortly after midnight the bub-ble-topped limousine which President Eisenhower lent royalty for its visit pulled away from the Armory. With motorcycle escort it headed for Idlewild Airport. The big silver ship —a BOAC • DC7C—was one hour late in tak(Contlnued on Pas# Five)

INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional rain tonight and Wednesday. A little warmer tonight. Low tonight in the 50s. High Wednesday in the 60s. Sunset today 5:56 p. m.. sunrise Wednesday 7:03 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Showers, rather windy and mild except probably turning cooler north and west central portions. Lows Wednesday night in 50s. Highs Thursday in 60s except mid-50s extreme northeast and near TO extreme south.

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Flu-Blamed Deaths Near To 250 Mark California School Hit By Epidemic By UNITED PRESS Deaths blamed on flu climbed toward the 250 mark today, boosted by an influena epidemic at a California school for retarded children that killed nine persons. Hie epidemic at the Porterville, Calif., State Hospital for the Mentally Retarded was die third fatal outbreak to hit such state institutions. A United Press survey showed a total of 249 persons have died of flu or complications since last summer when the first cases of Asian flu were diagnosed in the nation and its territories. The highest death toll was in New York with 55 victims. Pennsylvania was a close second with 50 deaths, 24 of them in the Lehigh Valley area. California's toll climbed to 29. Lhta Flu Fatals Elsewhere, Michigan reported 26 flu-caused deaths, Louisiana 21, Illinois 13, Hawaii'9, Ohio, Utah and Wisconsin 7 each, lowa and Kentucky 6 each, Colorado 5, New Jersey 3, and one each in Indiana, Oklahoma. Oregon. Washington and the District of Columbia. The California State Hospital outbreak claimed five lives last week and four more over the week end. The latest victims were two boys and a girl and a 47-year-old woman. A flu epidemic at the Pennhurst School for the Mentally Retarded near Philadelphia killed 11 patients, and another outbreak In a state school at Dixon, 111., resulted in seven deaths. An influena epidemic in Milwaukee was reported on the wane and an outbreak in Madison, Wis., also was easing off. Colleges and secondary schools around the country continued to be hard hit by the flu. Columbia College at Columbia, SC... was the latest college to close its doors because of the flu. Schools Forced To Close .Continues on Five) Decatur Lions Club Meets Monday Night Dick Heller, Jr. Is Club Speaker A trip to visit foamer President Harry Truman was described to the Decatur Lions club last night by Dick Heller, Jr., who made the trip two weeks ago. Heller explained how he was chosen, how It felt to talk with a former president, and described some of Truman’s habits and ways which he noticed during the hour that they spent together. The Lions voted not to join with the other clubs in the county in giving a room to the hospital addition, because they had already announced that they would give one themselves. The majority felt that they would be going back on their word if they did not come through and contribute the room, after stating that they would. Next Monday night will be a Halloween party, with the ladies invited, Jay Markley, chairman, stated. Halloween packages of ball gum were sold to the members by Frank Lybarger, chairman of the ball gum committee. A percentage of the money received from the gum ball machines goes for Lions club charities. A check for $22 was turned over to treasurer Leo N. Seltenright by Lybarger. Three guests, including Jim Baumgartner, president of the Decatur high school senior class, were introduced to the club.

Accuses Huge Firm Violated Tass-Hartley Continental Baking Company Accused Os Labor Act Violation WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) of the Senate Rackets Committee today accused the giant Continental Baking Co. of violating the TaftHartley Act. Kennedy said Continental and W. R. Kitchin, head of the firm’s Morton Frozen Foods Division, must have been aware they committed unfair labor practices in coercing employes not to join one union and later encouraging them to join another which sought much lower raises. The senator also charged that the company violated the TaftHartley Act by secretly ponsoring what it termed a “spontaneous” committee of workers who successfully fought union organization. His charge came after witnesses testified that employes of Chicago labor-relations consultant Nathan W. Shefferman helped freeze out the CIO United Packinghouse Workers at Morton’s frozen pie plant at Webster City, lowa. They said Shefferman then helped the Bakery Workers Union to organize the Morton plant and write a"very poor” contract without consulting the employes. “A Great ResponsibilHy” “Morton and Continental have a great responsibility to bear in the activities,” Kennedy said. His brother, the committee's counsel, Robert F. Kennedy, said the Morton firm, before it merged with Continental, was in “clear violation’’ of the Taft-Hartley Act by trying to fire employes who favored the United Packinghouse Workers. A worker, Gary Long, testified that hte Morton Packing Co. secretly ordered him to form a “spontaneous" committee of workers to prevent the UPW from organizing its Webster City, lowa, plant in 1955. But later, he said, the company cooperated with the Bakery Workers Union in recruiting members and signing a three-year contract which gave a raise of only five cents an hour. (Continued on Pace Two)

French Heads Seek Solution To Crisis ‘ Political Opponents Seeking Government PARIS (UP) Two of France’s warring political leaders met today in search of a solution to the 22-day-old. government crisis that has endangered the country’s economic life. They were former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet and former Independent Premier Antoine Pinay. They were asked to bury their bitter political differences for the sake of the country. President Rene Coty asked them to meet after both had failed to win approval as premier because neither could muster a sufficient majority in the National Assembly. They were two of four who have tried and failed. Their parties hre the biggest outside the Communist Party and Coty desperately hoped for a compromise that would put a strong government In power. But whether they could succeed was problematic; their political beliefs are entirely divergent. Their meeting was arranged after former Premier Robert Schuman failed in an attempt to organize a middle-of-the road government headed by his Catholic Popular Republican party. However Schuman gave Coty a plan that he said might end the deepening financial crisis that has placed the nation on the verge of bankruptcy. Both Mollet and Pinay were studying this plan and Coty hoped they might come to agreement when they realized the nation’s plight. Few Fish Fry Tickets Are Still Available The remaining available fish fry tickets will be on sale until 8 o’clock Wednesday night on a first come, first served basis, the ticket committee for the Thursday night event announced today. Tickets will be sold at First State Bank, Holthouse Drug Co., Kohne Drug and Smith Drug Co., as long as any of the present supply is available. Plans have beers completed for the entertainment for the event and a record crowd is predicted. After each of the above mentioned stores sell their remaining supply, no more tickets will be sold, and none will be sold at the door, it was announced.

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 22, 1957

19 U. S. Army Officers And Men Wounded By Bombs Hurled In Saigon

Peak's Mother Testifies To Lot Purchase Ailing Mother Says Lots Purchased As A Favor For Son INDIANAPOLIS (IF) — Milan attorney Robert Peak's ailing mother testified by deposition at his trial today that she and her ill husband bought two back lots on Madison Ave. for $3,000 and sold them to the state for $25,800 as a "favor” for their son. Other new developments in the Indiana highway scandal conspiracy trial were: —The judge overruled a mistrial motion by the defense which claimed one or two jurors talked with two newspaper reporters during a trial recess. —Charles Shockley, secretarymanager of a Milan finance company owned by Peak and two other defendants, testified Peak borrowed $20,000 from his own firm two days after the highway scandals broke in newspapers. The testimony of Mrs. Geneva Peak of Indianapolis, read before an Indiana highway scandal conspiracy trial jury by Prosecutor John G. Tinder, indicated Mrs. Peak didn’t know what the transaction was all about and that the parents were involved because their son asked them to do it for him. Peak, former Indiana highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith and two other ex-employes of the highway department in the administration of former Gov. George Craig, are co-defendants accused of conspiring to embezzle $25,800 in public funds through a deal on “unneeded” lots along an Indianapolis expressway proposed route. Offered to Help Son “My son came and asked if we would do a favor for him and he wanted to buy the lots and put them in our name,” Mrs. Peak said. She said she told Robert “If there is anything we can do fqr you we will.” Later, Mrs. Peak said in her deposition, a man who identified himself as from the State Highway Department came to her door with papers for her to sign and a check in payment for the lots. “I didn't look at it (the check) or I would have fainted at the (Continues on Page Six) • Ernest G. Merica Dies Monday Night Funeral Services Friday Afternoon Ernest _G, Merica, 66, died at 9:30 o’clock Monday night at his home, 1203 West Madison street. He had been in failing health for the past seven years, but his death was unexpected. He was born in Jay county Dec. 14, 1890, a son of Smith and Mathilda Parker-Merica. and was married to Ellen Krill June 25, 1914. The family lived in Root township and in the Monroeville community until moving to Decatur 13 years ago. Mr. Merica was employed in the steam power plant of the Central Soya Co. He was a member of the Antioch Lutheran church at Hoagland. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Glen C. Merica of Monroeville, and Edward E. Merica of Mattoon, III.; four grandchildren; two brothers, Walter Merica of San Diego, Calif., and Clifford Merica of Homer, Mich., and two sisters, Mrs. Amy Rupp of Seattle, Wash., and Mrs. Blanche Springer of Kalamazoo, Mich. Four brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Robert J. Whitenack officiating. Burial will be in the IOOF cemetery at Monroeville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services.

Sergeant Testifies At Espionage Trial Tells Recruiting By Red Master Spy NEW YORK (UP) — An Army sergeant told a jury trying alleged Soviet master spy Rudolph Abel how the Russians used vodka and a pretty girl to recruit him as a spy when he worked at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow. M.Sgt. Roy H. Rhodes, 40, ac--1 cused of conspiracy to transmit ' defense secrets to Russia, testified • In Brooklyn Federal Court in the ’ case of Abel, a reputed Soviet In--1 telligence Colonel who allegedly 1 headed a spy ring seeking nuclear i and military secrets in the United States. Rhodes admitted he passed along certain information to the Russians while he was assigned . to the motor pool at the American i Embassy in Moscow from 1951 to I 1953. He said the Russians induced i him to spy with alcohol and sex. His testimony was offered in . support of evidence previously given by defected spy Reino Hay- , hanen, who claimed he was sent to the U.S. by the Russians to be Abel's assistant. Hayhanen had testified that he was assigned by Abel to find Rhodes in the United States after the sergeant left Russia. Rhodes said that when he learned his family was to join him in Moscow, he felt like celebrating / and he and two Russian mechanics , from the Embassy garage and the , mechanics’ girl friends got tight together. He said that after an all-night party tn a hotel, he "woke up in bed with this girl.” "This girl” later introduced him to two men, to whom Rhodes turned over information for “somewhere between $2,500 to $3,000.” Rhodes said most of the information he gave the Russians consisted of details on the personal habits of military and state department personnel assigned to the embassy. Judges Are Named For Queen Contest Name Miss Soybean Here Thursday Night The names of the judges for the Miss Soybean contest of 1957 were announced today by E. E. Rydell, member of the soybean committee in charge of judges. . Mrs. Bobbi Ray, who operates the Bobbi Ray school of charm and fashion modeling in Fort Wayne, was the first judge secured, he stated. Mrs. Carol Popp, of Fort Wayne, of the Carol and Corky television series of WKJG-TV, will be another judge. She is a former Miss Indiana. Miss Gloria Rupprecht, of Valparaiso University, the present Miss Indiana, will also be a judge. Ralph Latham of Fort Wayne, account executive of WPTA-TV. channel 21, will be the only male judge. The judging of the 11 contestants will start at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Community Center. The field will be cut to five contestants at that time. Final judging will be at the annual rural-urban fish fry Thursday evening, following the entertainment program. It will climax a full day of activities. Arthur R. Mentzer Is Taken By Death Arthur R. Mentzer, 46, farmer of near Convoy, 0., died Sunday night after a week’s illness. A veteran > of World War 11, he was a member of the American Legion, VFW and Eagles and Moose lodges in Van Wert Surviving are his parents, Mr. • and Mrs. Frank Mentzer, and three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Mohr and Mrs. Lloyd Miller of Convoy, and Mrs. John Brittsan of Fort Wayne. Services will be held at t p.m. Wednesday at the H. D. Smith funeral home in Convoy, with burial in the IOOF cemetery at Convoy.

Suggests U.N. Secretary Seek To Avert War Suggestion Is Made By Syria As U.N. Prepares Debate By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Syria suggested today the United Nations send Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to the Middle East to try to avert a war between Turkey and Syria. The suggestion was made in Damascus by Socialist Akram Hourani, leftwing speaker of the Syrian Parliament, who said Syria would throw open its borders to investigation if Turkey and Israel do the same. Some Western sources saw this as a move to drag Israel into the dispute between Turkey and Syria and said it possibly could make the situation more difficult. Israel did not reply at'once. Hourani’s suggestion came as the United Nations General Assembly called a meeting for 3 p.m. e.d.t. to begin formal consideration of Syria’s complaint that the United States has urged Turkey to attack the Arab nation. The United States, victim of an unprecedented Russian propaganda attack, said it welcomed U N. debate on the charges which, has led the Middle East to the verge of war. Although Hourani invited a U. N. investigation, Syria spurned an offer by King Saud of Saudi Arabia to mediate the dispute. Turkey accepted the offer. Hoyrani told Uhited Press correspondent Peter Webb in Damascus he believed Hammarskjold, a veteran of “secret diplomacy" attempts to end past Mideast tension, should go to the Mideast because he was impartial. “We have nothing to hide,” the powerful Syrian politician said. Today was the second day that the Mideast crisis appeared to be easing. The statement that Turkey had accepted Saudi Arabia’s mediation offer helped cool things today. However, there were many confusing aspects to the Saudi offer. An original announcement from Djeddah, Saudi Arabia, said both Syria and Turkey had accepted the offer. Later Syria denied the (Continued on Page Five)

Mrs. Longenberger Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Mrs. Annie Lee Longenberger, 85. a lifelong resident of the Pleasant Mills community, died at 1 o’clock Monday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Benoit Johnson, two miles east of Pleasant Mills. She had been an invalid for the past 13 years and seriously ill for two days. She was born in Blue Creek township July 25, 1872, a daughter of Barney and Mary Pass-water-Everett. Her husband, Stephen Longenberger, died Nov. 4, 1945. Mrs. Longenberger was a member of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church. Surviving in addition to the daughter are two sons, Ralph Longenberger of Pleasant Mills, and Glen Longenberger of Fort Wayne; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two brothers, Joseph Everett of Pleasant Mills, and Grover Everett of Troy, 0., and one sister, Mrs. Franklin Dellinger of Salem. Orfe son, one sister and four brothers preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Charles O. Masters 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.

Adenauer Is Swept Back Into Office Impressive Vote By German Parlament BONN, German (W — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was swept back into office today for a third term by an impressive 274-192 vote in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament. , He announced immediately that he would wait at least until next Monday before presenting his new cabinet. He told reporters he needs "more time to think" about formation of his government, West Germany’s third since 1949. Earlier plans had called for presentation of the new 18-man cabinet to the Bundestag Wednesday. On Friday, Adenauer had been scheduled to place his government before parliament in a full-dress policy declaration. Both presentation of the new cabinet and the government declaration now will be postponed until next week, Adenauer said. The 81-year-old leader, devoted to German rearmament, European federation and close cooperation with the West, jpegan his third term In office with an 82-vote majority in parliament. The Christian Democrats, who won a record-breaking 50.2 per cent of the popular vote during the Sept. 15 general elections, and their German Party coalition partner, gave Adenauer hia 274 votes In the 491member Bundestag. The Socialist opposition and their Free Democratic partners cast the 192 votes against him. Nine deputies formally abstained from voting, and 22 were absent. AdenaUer's victory edge this time was far greater than it was in 1949. but was smaller than it was in 1953. In 1949 he was elected chancellor by a single Vote majority. In 1953 he was re-elected by a vote of 304-148.

Girard Testifies In Own Defense Swears Shooting Os Jap Was Accidental MAEBASHI, Japan TO — Army S3C William S. Girard took the stand at his trial for manslaughter today and swore his shooting of Mrs. Naka Sakai was an accident. Both the prosecution and defense rested their cases after the 22-year old Ottawa, 111., soldier testified on the events at the Camp Weir firing range last Jan. 30. Chief Judge Yuzo Kawachi ordered the next session to be held Oct. 31. The prosecution is expected ,to deliver its summation then. Girard’s testimony contrasted almost completely the testimony given by prosecution witnesses, including his former Army buddy, S3C Victor N. Nickel, of Inkster, Mich. Girard was in the witness box for almost three hours under questioning by Kawachi and defense attorney Itsuro Hayashi. The prosecution did not crossexamine Girard, asking only that he demonstrate how to hold an M-l rifle. The defense followed Girard’s testimony with two charges: —That the Japanese did not cooperate with the United States in the investigation of the case before Girard was indicted. —That the Japanese did not furnish to the defense or to the United States member of the joint U. S. - Japan committee, which originally decided to turn Girard over to the Japanese for trial, copies of statements made by five Japanese who were at Chocolate Drop, a small hill near Hill 655, on the day of the shooting. This group testified Girard had fired at two or three other Japanese on the morning of the day he killed Mrs. Sakai. Girard denied the charge. (Coatlnued on Page Five)

Army Vehicles, Installations, Bomb Targets Blame Communists For Hurling Three Bombs In Saigon SAIGON (W -* Left-wing terrorists hurled three bombs at American vehicles and installations in central Saigon today, wounding 19 U. S. army officers and enlisted men. The U. S. information building was badly damaged. The 19 army men were wounded in the explosion of two plastic bombs outside U. S. military billets here where the American army is helping the government of free Viet Nam bui}d up its strength against the Communits north. Official South Vietnamese sources blamed Communists for the three blasts which came while President Ngo Dinh Diem, one of the most outspoken anti-Red leaders in Asia, was entertaining trade reperesentatives of 21 Asian nations, many of them neutrals. No one was reported injured in the blast which wrecked the library although the building contain* apartments upstairs for U. S. Embassy employes. Fly Wounded to Manila Eight of the Americans were wounded so seriously they were being flown to Clark Field in Manila for hospital treatment Five others were released after being treated at the U. S. army dispensary. Hie first bomb apparently a time bomb, exploded at 7:25 a.m. (1:25 a.m. e.d.t.) outside Five Oceans Hotel, a U. S. military billet It injured American military men waiting for a bus. The second bomb was hurled under a military bus outside the Hotel Metropole at 7:40 a.m. The two hotels are about a mile apart. The third bomb exploded inside ' the U. S. information service library at 1:05 p.m., knocking down bookshelves and blasting out windows. The library was closed at the time, a factor which averted casualties. The bomb thrown at the bus from a passing automobile also injured four or five Chinese and Vietnamese on the street. Another Chinese was blown off his bicycle. He was treated at the site of the bombing. Driver Escapes Unhurt The bus was demolished but some passengers and the Vietnamese driver escaped unhurt. Some delegates to the 21-nation Colombo Plan meeting originally were scheduled to stay at the Metropole, but the hotel was not used for conference delegates. 2 Some sources speculated the bombings were staged to embarrass the South Vietnamese government during its first international conference since French Indochina was divided into north and south Viet Nam after the fall of Dien Bien Phu and a peace settlement. Several of the injured men lost a considerable amount of blood. Blood plasma was given to them before they boarded a plane for the flight to Clark Field. The most seriously injured men were officers. All names were withheld pending notification of next of kin. Informed sources said that no arrests were made by noon. Former Indiana Newspaperman Dies HARTFORD CITY (IP) — Services will be held here Wednesday for Arthur F. DeGreve, 59, former Indiana newspaperman and former United Press correspondent, who died Monday at Amarillo. Tex. DeGreve began his newspaper career in Hartford City. He was a foreign correspondent for Urited Pres* and later covered the Senate in Washington for U.P.

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