Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 251, Decatur, Adams County, 24 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 251.

WIL L TRY AGAIN ~ II ■ p l, H SOCIALIST LEADER Guy Mollet (entering car) ia swarmed over by newsmen after a talk with French President Rene Coty at which Mollet agreed to attempt to form France’s 24th post-war government.

Eisenhower And British Leader Continue Talks Top-Level Parleys Resumed Today On Note Os Optimism WASHINGTON (UP) — British and U.S. leaders expressed satisfaction today with the progress of talks between President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The top - level conferences resumed at the White House in an atmosphere of optimism colored by a sudden burst of U.S. military achievements, including a 1,0004,000 mile rocket shoot. Diplomatic sources reported that the two leaders are considering asking other nations to join in pooling scientific-military information in the East-West race for .nuclear and space superiority. Eisenhower and Macmillan began their talks on scientific unity and other globel problems Wednesday night Close attention is being paid to the war-jittery Middle East and a careful review of Soviet intentions around the glove, as well as the issue of East-West military and scientific supremacy. : May Discuss Red Move Russia's decision to send one of its top military commanders to take charge of Soviet troops on the Russian-Turkish border, announced Wednesday, was considered likely to come up in the discussions. British diplomats were reported gravely concerned about appointment of Red Army Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky to what previously was deemed a minor border post. The dramatic firing of the Air Force rocket to 1,000-4,000 miles over the Pacific was almost certain to create a new surge of optimism in the ability of the United States and the West to match or outstrip Russia in the race for space supremacy. Added to this was other announcements of n?w U.S. strides in the modern weapons field. These included the successful testing of a 1,500-mile Jupiter missile, disclosure of an atomic depth charge for combatting Soviet submarines and the test firing of a Vanguard missile which eventually will carry a U.S. satellite into space." Weighing Methods Britain and the United States are weighing methods of stepping up their exchange of scientificmilitary information and resources to combat Soviet advances. Administration officials said Eisenhower is emphasizing two basic points concerning closer scientific cooper a ton: 1. Russia’s advances in the scientific field require greater efforts in the same field by the free world. . 2. The administration will ask Congress next session to revise the 1946 Atomic Energy Act to permit closer scientific cooperation on nuclear matters with Britain and other nations. (Continued on Page Five)

INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and colder tonight with slowly diminishing winds, snow flurries likely extreme north especially near Lake Michijan. Friday mostly cloudy north, partly cloudy south and continued cold, snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 32-35 north, 35-40 south. High Friday 38-44 north, 44-50 south. Sunset today 5:45 p. m. Sunrise Friday 7:06 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and continued rather cold with some snow flurries north. Lows Friday night around 30. Highs Saturday low 40s.

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Flu Fatalities In Nation Near To 300 Deaths Mounting In State Institutions * By UNITED PRESS Deaths from flu or its complications approached 300 in the United States Thursday and a government agency reported that perhaps a million or more new cases of flu or influenza-like diseases occurred last week. A United Press tally showed 292 deaths in the nation since Asian flu first was reported in the United States last summer, but not all the new cases or old were known to be Asian flu. A report from the U. S. Public Health service of new cases last week brought to about 2% million the total number of cases reported since last summer. U. S. Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney said the death rate was “not alarming,” and was “less than anticipated.” The agency Jjad ap .exact figures of its own on deaths. He said that an advisory committee had recommended producers of Asian flu vaccine dotible th? power of their flu shots. Deaths in mental institutions were notable in the fatality list. At the Pennhurst State School for Retarded Children near Philadelphia, Pa., 13 have died: 10 died at a state school at Dixon, 111., and at another at Porterville, Calif.; and five at. a state school at Rome, N.Y. The toll included New York 62 deaths, Pennsylvania 54, California 30, Michigan 27, Louisiana 21. Illinois 17, lowa 11, Colorado and Utah 10 each, Ohio and Hawaii 9 each: ToU By States Wisconsin 8, Kentucky 6, Indiana and New Jersey 3 each. Connect!-

cut 2, and 1 each in Arizona, Minnesota, Maine, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia. Illinois state Welfare Director Otto Bettag ordered a ban on visitors at all 25 state schools and state hospitals in an unprecedented action designed to curb the spread of Asian flu and other respiratory diseases. Bettag said the ruling will remain in effect until all 50,000 inmates at the institutions have been inoculated against the flu. It was the first time in state history that visitors have been barred from all institutions. Two Colorado state hospitals were placed in isolation after 40 patients were stricken with flu. Invades Oregon School The disease invaded a Fairview, Ore., Home for the Mentally Retarded, hitting about ,300 inmates. New cases of the flu across the nation were reported in the thousands, forcing the shutdown of more schools and colleges from coast to coast. Oregon reported 3,736 new flu cases last week, the largest weekly total since the flu epidemic of 1918. More than 3,000 cases also were reported in Connecticut to bring its total to 65,186. Continued on ’’age Five) New Hospital Office Nears Completion The new hospital office, on the north side of the front addition, is expected to be ready for occupancy during the first part of November, Thurman Drew, hospital manager, said today. Painting started this week, with two coats necessary. The five inner doors were installed Wednesday. The floor and plumbing fixtures remain to be installed. When the office force is moved to its new location, remodeling will start in the old office to convert it to a new use. An additional room will be added ,and also an office for the superintendent of nurses, and a new drug department. "

Says Smith's Handwriting Is Same As Burton Expert Says Smith Signature Matches Mysterious Burton . INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—A handwriting expert went to court today to testify that the handwriting of the mysterious “Dean Burton” matches that of Virgil (Red) Smith, former highway chairman and one of four defendants in die Indiana Highway scandal conspiracy trial. Lt. Edwin Schroeder, an Indiana State Police detective, told newsmen during a trial recess that be will tell the jury that signatures on Smith’s bank checks and. deposit slips matched the handwriting of “Dean Burton’s” signature on a deed transferring two back lots on Madison Ave. Expressway to defendant Robert Peak’s parents. A Milan banker who testified he had known and done business with Smith for years previously identified the check and deposit slip handwriting as Smith’s. Prosecutor John G. Tinder told newsmen the new evidence would mean “there are two ‘Dean Burtons’.” He referred to testimony purporting to show that Nile Teverbaugh, another of the defendants, signed registered mail for “Burton” when letters were delivered to Teverbaugh’s Monroe City home.

Observers speculated that Schroeder’s testimony may be a “trump card” for the state. Schroeder, who has solved many crimes by studying handwriting, was called as one of Prosecutor John G. Under’s last witnesses before the state rests its case against former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith, Teverbaugh and two other men. Signed For Letters Teverbaugh has been linked with “Dean Burton” because his grandson’s name is Kerry Dean Burton, and because Teverbaugh has been identified by state’s witnesses as the man who signed for registered letters addressed to “Butted” at bis Monroe City home. “Burton" was a “middleman” who bought two back lots on the Madison Ave. Expressway in Indianapolis for $2,500 and sold them to the parents of defendant Lawrence Peak for $3,000. The Peaks then sold them to the state for $25,800. State Records Show Prevalence Os Flu Records Show 1,200 Adams County Cases By UNITED PRESS Indiana’s flu outbreak finally was reflected in State Health Board records today. The board's weekly morbidity report showed 12,894 new cases added to the 1957 total for the week ending last Saturday. That was more than 10 times the number reported the last preceding week, and raised the year's total to 16,874, compared with 1,930 this time last year and 5,151 for the five-year median. The flu totals reported to the health authorities last week included 1,200 in Adams County, 2,081 in Allen, 60 in DeKalb, 28 in Delaware, 375 in Hamilton, 50 in Huntington, 100 in Jay, 3,500 in Marshall, 160 in Noble, 1.625 in helSby, 85 in Steuben, 2,252 in Tippecanoe, 215 in Wayne, 80 in Wells and 950 in Whitley. * Meanwhile, another death unofficially and indirectly blamed on flu was reported. Seventeen - months -old Eugene Stiver of New Paris was pronounced dead on arrival at a doctor’s home Wednesday after he strangled on a pill. The pill was a fever tablet given in treatment for flu with which the child had ;uffered for three days. Previously, one death blamed on flu and two others on complications from flu were reported in Indiana, and two pneumonia deaths were recorded last week which may or may not have bad flu connections.

At Bloomington, Miss Priscilla lean Jones, an Indiana University freshman, and her mother, Mrs. Cratus Jones, were injured slightly when- their automobile struck two trees while Mrs. Jones was driving her daughter to the university infirmary because she was ill with flu. The flu effect on schools was dissolved Wednesday when classes in all schools were dismissed for the rest of the week for the Indiana State Teachers Association convention. Officials hoped that by next Monday, when classes are scheduled 1 to be resumed, pupils will have got over their respiratory ailments and the outbreak will have subsided.

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United States Sends Rocket 1,000 Miles ’iy ’ Or More Into Space

Military Junta Seizes Control Over Guatemala Three-Man Military Junta Takes Over Guatemala Control GUATEMALA CITY (UP) - A three man military junta seized control of Guatemala today. The junta was headed by Col. Oscar Mendoza Azurdia, with Cols Gonzalo Yurrita Novoa and Roberto Lorenzana as the other members. The decision to dissolve the provisional government of President Luis Arturo Gonzalez Lopez was made after several hours of discussion at Army high command headquarters. The junta then took over the government at 3 a.m. Col. Mendoza, the head of the ruling junta, was undersecretary of national defense. The move by the military came after riotous crowds threatened to turn the streets of Guatemala into a battleground. Shortly Before the army acted, mobs broke up an emergency session of Congress which was called Wednesday night to act on a move by President Gonzalez to throw out the results of last Sunday’s disputed elections. Deputies were trapped within the chamber by the demonstrators who showed no inclination of leaving in spite of the 9 p.m. curfew imposed under the state of siege. At least four persons were reported killed in two days of clashes between police and supporters of presidential candidate Gen. Miguel Idigoras Fuentes since Monday. Idigdras had charged the elections, in which government candidate Miguel Ortiz Passarelli claimed victory, were “fraudulent” and urged his followers to demonstrate until the elections were declared invalid. Acting president Luis Arturo Gonzalez Lopez sent the resolution to Congress shortly after Defense Minister Col. Juan Francisco Oliva requested the action. Oliva warned the army itself was "willing” to order the new elections to end the crisis. Dr. Daniel Bovel Wins Nobel Prize Awarded 1957 Nobel Prize For Medicine STOCKHOLM (W — Dr. Daniel Bovet, a Swiss-Italian pharmacologist, was awarded the 1957 Nobci Prize for medicine today for his work in discovering anti-histamine drugs and for harnessing the dangerous Indian poison curare for medical use. Bovet 50, announced to reporters that the Nobel Prize Foundation in Sweden sent him formal notification of the award Wednesday night. The Swiss-born Bovet, who has been an Italian citizen since 1947, was honored for his work in harnessing the dangerous South American Indian poison curare for medical use. Medical sources said the 50-year-old Bovet was the choice of the awarding body ahead of a number of prominent scientists including Dr. Jonas Salk who developed the world famous Salk polio vaccine. Bovet was known best for his work with curare but he also was a leading member of the group of researchers who discovered the anti-histamlnes and thus opened the way to a full scale. battle against allergies. The Nobel medical prize carries with it a cash award of 209,000 crowns ($40,000). Winners of this and the prizes for literature, physics and chemistry will receive the awards from King Gustaf Adolf on Dec. 10, anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel who willed his vast fortune to the creation of the prizes.

Community Fund Is Still Short Os Goal Industry, Workers Give Over $9,800 A total of $9,828 was donated to the 1957 Decatur Community Fund drive by local industries and their according to announcejnent made today by M. J. Pryor, general chairman of the drive. Pryor stated that the total amount reported to date ,including'the Industrial figure, is $16,745, which is slightly less than $2,000 short of the goal. - More than 10 workers of the 232 volunteers assisting in the drive have failed to complete their contacts, Pryor added, which means that more than 20 donations have not yet been reported. Pryor stated that until these reports are made, a complete total can not be given on the drive. The second phase of the campaign to contact those persons who are employed outside the city of Decatur while residing here, will be organized next week. Pryor explained that, while the current phase of the campaign may fall short of the $18,450 goal, the amount needed to meet the quota will probably be raised in the second phase. ° , He again expressed high praise for local industry, which has done fl. large part in making the goa accessible. He also issued thanks to all workers and co-ehairmen who have completed their reports. He has Issued another request that those who have not finished their work,’do so immediately. Hospital Unit Given By Delta Theta Tau Sorority Donates' SSOO To Addition The Delta Theta Tau sorority, sponsors of the annual Christmas Good Fellows project to aid the needy, will donate the 34th memorial unit to the Adams county memorial hospital addition, the hospital board of trustees announced today. The local sorority, noted for its philanthropic work, voted recently to make the SSOO donation, Mrs. Leo Teeple, president, stated. More than half of the 35 units to be included in the new addition have already been reserved as memorial units for individuals and organizations. The original 50-bed hospital was entirely furnished by memorial rooms in 1922-23. Memorial plaques will be installed in the rooms in honor of the following additional persons or organizations, as. directed by the donors: Dr. and Mrs. Amos Reusser by his five daughters, (double unit); Mrs. Emma Lankenau, R. N.; Mrs. Sara Kalver; Arthur D. Suttles, Sr.; Psi lota Xi; Tri Kappa, Decatur; Women of the Moose; Mr. and Mrs. William Schaefer; E. W. Busche: Mr. and Mrs. W: A. Klcpper; Mrs. C. C. Rayl and daughter, Mrs. C. K. Egeler; the Holthduse Drug Company: the First State Bank of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Carl C. Pumphrey: the American Legion, Post 43; the Decatur Lions club; a double unit from the Central Soya union, Local 261 of the United Brewery Workers; Mr. and Mrs. John Niblick, by Helen Niblick Stoner and Josephine Niblick Edwards, double unit; mental health chapter of Adams county. The Adams county medical society has given $4,350 to furnish the father’s w&iting room on the Continued on Pare Elsb> Harnish Funeral Friday Afternoon Funeral services for John Harnish, of near Craigville, who died Tuesday night, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton. The Rev. Roger Amstutz will officiate, and burial will be in St. Paul cemetery.

Self-Confessed Labor Spy Says He Quit Work Witness Says Labor Relations Firm Was Too Vicious For Him WASHINGTON (UP) - A selfconfessed labor spy said today he ' quit union “disorganizing” work for Nathan W. Shefferman's la- ; bor-relations firm because “they were just too vicious for me.” • The witness was Charles Litell of Marion, Ohio. He told the Senate Rackets Committee that on orders of a Shefferman employe he used to spy on fellow workers at the Marion plant of the Whirlpool Corp, and threaten their families if they did not cease union activity. Litell, a slfin, crew-cut man in his 30’s, said, “I guess if I had to face it” he would call himself a labor spy, and a cheap one at that. . s ; ■ ■ He said that for S2O a week he worked with Dr. Louis Checov, an “industrial psychologist” on Shefferman’s staff, to keep any union out of the Marion plant. He said he formed a ‘spontaneous” committee of anti-union workers, reported r .to management on the union SteMiments of feHow workers, and threatened them with loss of their jobs if they supported the union. The committee is investigating activities of Shefferman, labor relations adviser to some 300 firms across the nation, who was termed “a notorious union buster” by Committee Counsel Robert F. Kifinnody Chairman John L. McClellan • D-Ark.) said Wednesday that (Continued on Page Five) To Dedicate New -R f Church Furniture Services Sunday At Trinity Church

The new chancel furniture and ■ church improvements of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will be dedicated Sunday at 3 p.m. in a special church service, with Dr. B. F. Smith, superintendent of the Indiana conference north of the church, leading the dedication services. Dr. Smith will speak at both morning and afternoon services Sunday, the Rev. J. O. Penrod. pastor of the church, stated. New furniture to be dedicated includes an open chancel leading to a new altar, a new pulpit and lecturn, new choir pews, and a new worship center, including a dossal, or curtain framed .with a reredos, behind the altar. Choir members will be outfitted in new pale blue robes, and they will present two anthems, "The King of Love My Shepherd Is” by Shelley, and “The Beatitudes” by Evans. Walter Hinkle, choir director, will lead, and music will be furnished by organist Harold Mumma. The chancel has been repainted, and new carpeting extended over part of the chancel. Hubert Gilpin, president of the board of trustees, will present the furniture to the church during the afternoon service. Other members of the board of trustees are Herman Sautbine, Robert Butcher. Edward Hesher, and Homer Arnold, Sr. Chairman of the arrangements committee for the program is Curtis Hill. Following the dedicatory services a fellowship carry-in luncheon will be held at 5:30 in the church dining hall, Rev. Penrod stated. BULLETIN LAS VEGAS. Nev. OPL-Blng Crosby today obtained a marriage license in the office of the Clark County slerk to wed (Hive K. Grandstaff, 23-year-old Los Angeles brunette.

Support Grows For Hammarskjold Probe UN Secretary May ' Go To Middle East United Press Staff Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —lreland today proposed a new summit conference to reduce the world’s political tensions as a possible first step toward disarmament. Irisih Ambassador Frederick H. Boland made the proposal for political discussions amd n g the great powers, “and primarily between the United State? and the Soviet Union,” in the United Nations political committee’s debate on disarmament. Elsewhere in the tl. N., plans to send Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to the Middle East to investigate the crisis between Turkey and Syria rapidly support. Syrian Foreign Minister Salah El Bitar, still adamantly rejected the mediation offer of King Saud of Saudi Arabia, visited Hammarskjold and discussed the situation. Boland told the political committee there was little to be gained in passing resolutions endorsing disarmament stands that had been rejected by one side or the other in the private talks of the disarmament subcommittee of the United States, Russia, Britain, France and Canada. Main talk in delegations was the.

plan to send Hammarskjold to Investigate the Turco-Syrian crisis. Although no delegation had officially sponsored such a move up to today, it was reported that some delegation might propose it formally Friday when the General Assembly resumes the Mideast debate. The assembly adjourned its debate Tuesday until Friday to give King Saud of Saudi Arabia a 'chance to mediate the Turco-Syri-an crisis. Turkey accepted Saud’s offer. Syria, prodded by the Soviet Union, has resisted it, somewhat to the dismay of some of the other Arab delegations. The suggestion to send Hammarskjold to the Mideast first was made Monday by Adram Hourani, speaker of the Syrian Parliament, (Continued on Page Five) Season's Coldest Air Into Indiana Balmy Temperature Gives Way To Cold By UNITED PRESS Strong northerly winds pushed the season’s coldest air into Indiana today and balmy temperatures which foisted a tornado alert on a southwestern area gave way to near-freezing weather. —— The mercury shrank slowly after dawn and temperatures were expected to continue falling toward lows in the 30s tonight throughout Hoosierland. The cold air was heading here from the northwest where snow blanketed parts of Montana and snow flurries reached as far as Wisconsin. The prospect was seen for high readings Friday in the low 40s over the northern two-thirds of the state and the mid-40s in the south, furnishing Indiana its coldest day since last spring. Occasional rain or drizzle was expected today, • ending tonight with the drop in temperatures. A tornado alert for the extreme southwest portion of Indiana lasted for hours Wednesday afternoon, but when it was lifted nothing had happened. After 48 hours of rain, most Indiana areas tabulated between 1.5 and 2.5 inches of precipitation. The two-day totals included Wafiash 2.15, Rochester 2.47, Monticello 1.96, Kokomo 2.27, Anderson 2.15, Bluffton 2.15, Logansport 2.06, Warsaw 2.31. Indianapolis 1.75, South Bend 2.37, Fort Wayne 2.26, Lafayette 1.73 and Evansville 1.22. High temperatures Wednesday ranged from 63 at South Bend to 68 at Evansville. Lows this morning included 43 at Goshen, 44 at South Bend, 45 at Fort Wayne, and 50 at Indianapolis and Evansville.

Rocket Stabs Thousands Os Miles In Space Precise Distance Rocket Traveled To Be Evaluated ‘ / WASHINGTON (UP)-Thc United States has taken man's highest known step yet in the race to the moon — stabbing a rocket an estimated 1,0004,000 miles or more into space. Precisely how high the slendfer multi-stage missile probed into the unknown woh’t be determined w P £S scientists believe it soared 1,000 to 4,000 miles or more, easily outdistancing Russia’s earth satellite or any other known projectile ever sent aloft by man. ' The rocket, it was* disclosed Wednesday night, • was triggered Monday by the Ait Force operation “Farside” from a balloonsupported platform 20 miles high over Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific to help it escape the earthks While a considerable feat, ex-, perts said today Farside ranks distinctly below Russia’s achievement in burling a satellite into orbit around the globe. Neither does it mean necessarily the United States has leaped in front in the race to develop long-range missiles carrying H-bomb warheads. Aid To Free World Perhaps Farside’s biggest initial significance is in giving the free world a strong psychological boost toward overcoming Russia’s scientific gains apparent in its Sputnik. U.S. efforts to launch the longplanned Farside rocket apparently were drastically stepped up following the Sputnik launching Oct. 4. It was reported Monday’s successful launching was considered so important the Pentagon hoped to have exact data available for Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy to announce personally. This and other newly-announced U.S. weapons developments were sure to be greeted by President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as good omens in their talks aimed at blueprinting ways to win the East-West race for scientific-mili-tary supremacy. The Defense Department confirmed Wednesday night, after the Los Angeles Examiner “broke” the story, the launching had taken place Monday. Data Received Monday It was expected the rocket would disintegrate along with all its instruments upon reentering the earth’s atmosphere. Its fate was not known however. Meanwhile data from its instruments was radioed to earth in coded “telemeter” messages Monday. This is what scientists are now evaluating on‘the West Coast Announcement of results of the evaluation is expected to be made here. In its terse statement the Defense Department said only that it “confirmd the successful firing Oct. 21. Extensive data was obtained .It is not yet evaluated. We hope it will be ready by noon Friday. We cannot confirm or deny any figures used.” » According to advance data, the Farside rocket weighed 1,900 pounds when it left the balloon platform. This compares with a 22,600-pound initial weight for the .Vanguard rocket which will attempt to boost a U.S. earth satellite into place next March. ■ . — Funeral Friday For Mrs. Florence Green Funeral services for Mrs. Florence Green, who died Tuesday night after a long illness, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Gillig & Doan funeral home. The Rev. Harold J. Bond and the Rev. Ray J. Walther will officiate, with burial in the Decatur cemetery. In addition to her church and social activities, Mrs. Green was a member for many years of the Civic department of the Woman’s club.

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