Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 256.

FRUSTRATED EFFORT x.4n| « a 4 la. jdHBGK' Mr .3 X r <_ #7--' * ISnM W -l|Mk-» 1 Bk r WhL/* < IT WAS AT THIS MEETING between King Saud es Saudi-Arabia (dark glasses) at his Capital, Riad, that the oil-rich king offered Turkish Foreign Minister Fatin Zorlu (left) his good offices in mediation of the Syrian-Turkish dispute. King Saud later withdrew his offer. End Testimony In State Road Scandal Trial

INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Testimony in the Indiana highway conspiracy trial ended abruptly today when two of the four defendants who were expected to take the stand in their own defense changed their minds. Special Judge Walter Pritchard predicted the case would go to the ... ..The UUL outgrowth of alleged land-buying irregularities disclosed last spring, came to a halt when Milgn attorney Robert Peak and jury “certainly by Friday.” Harry Doggett of Greensburg, aide to former highway right-of-way director Nile Teverbaugh, decided not to testify. Prosecutor John Tinder then called Jacob Greene, his chief investigator, to the stand, to refute testimony by Teverbaugh that he was surrounded by several people, including newsmen, at a meeting in the office of highway right-of-way director Charles Dawson April 12, the day after the scandals broke in the newspapers. Testified Tuesday Greene said the only persons at ’the meeting were Dawson, Teverbaugh, State Police, Detective Sgt. Stanley Young, and himself. First, Arthur Payne, attorney for Peak, said his client had changed his mind. He said it was Peak's “own decision." Then, defense attorney William Irwin announced that Doggett, too, would not go to the witness stand. Former highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith declined. Tuesday to testify, but Teverbaugh was on the stand for more than three hours. He admitted buying two back lots along the Madison Avenue Expressway route in Indianapolis for $2,500 as an investment for his grandson, then sold the deeds to Smith for $3,000. Pritchard called a meeting of defense and prosecuting attorneys for this afternoon to decide on instructions to the jury. The judge set 9:30 a.m., Thursday for final arguments. Then follow instructions to the jury. Teverbaugh Apologises The state took up most of last week to prove the four defendants engaged in a' conspiracy to defraud the state. Tinder remarked after Teverbaugh's testimony that the state got "nothing but a worthless piece of paper” ’ for $25,800. Teverbaugh also was apologetic on the witness stand. The Monroe City farmer—first of four defendants to testify in his own behalf —also said from the witness stand he wanted to “apologize” for any "misrepresentations” in statements he made about his part in the Madison Ave. purchases. Teverbaugh said he bought the two back lots for $2,500 in the r«<*>• of his grandson, “Dean Burton,” as an “investment" for the o-year-old boy. When it developed the investment wouldn't be as good as expected, he said, he gave the deeds to Smith in return for $3,000. Deed records showed “Burton" sold to the Peaks for $3,000, then the state—with Teverbaugh's ap-proval-bought the same lots for $25,800. Worthless Paper Tinder said the lots don’t even belong to the state now because when Smith took the deeds the name "Burton” remained on them as owner. “The state doesn’t have anything in those back lots," Tinder told newsmen. “The state paid $25,800 for a worthless piece of paper.” Tinder indicated Teverbaugh’s (Continued on Pmi Five)

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Ohio Historian Is Speaker Last Night Treachery Os Wayne Aide Is Described A story ,of American treason which overshadowed in size Aaron Burr’s treachery was related by Ohio historian Richard C. Knopf, in a speech before the Indiana Anthony Wayne Parkway commission and Adams county historical society and guests Tuesday night at the Decatur library. Knopf stated that Gen. Anthony Wayne, commander of the Legion of the United States which freed the northwest territory of Indian troubles in 1795, wrote to Henry Knox, secretary of the army, that a “delicate affair” kept him from returning and reporting in person. He continued that he could not write the incident, but was sending a special courier to relate it. Knopf then explained that what Wayne had discovered was a gigantic conspiracy on the part of his second in command, Gen. James. Wilkerson, his civilian supply chiefs, his quartermaster, and the British, to deliver up Wayne’s army to the savages, and allow the British to control the Northwest including all of what is now Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Illinois, as well as all the area west of the Appalachian chain of mountains. The first inkling the 47-year-old adventurer-general had of something amiss came in 1793. He was unable to get supplies for nearly a vear, and had to continue training of his men at Fort Waynington. now Cincinnati, O. In 1794, just as he started marching north, he intercepted a, note from Gen. Wilk erson to his supplier, Elliott, tell ing him to give Wayne the supplies It was then that he finally did ge’ I supplies. X During the construction of Fcrt Adams, August 1, f 794, about thre» miles east of Rockford, 0., on the St. Mary's river, a tree fell across Gen. Wayne’s tent, nearly killinr him. This was extremely unusual since his .woodsmen generally knew right where a tree Would fall, and looked like attempted murder. About the same time his quartermaster, a man named Neuman deserted, but was later captured when he tried to collect back pay (n Washington, D. C. He was returned to Wayne's command, and U was then that Wayne learned the full story. Neuman had been hired to desert and carry a special message to Col. Alexander McKee and Matthew Elliott, two Americans who had deserted to the British side, and attained military rank there over the Indian scouts, together with Simon Girty. Mat Elliott, it seems, was a brother of the trader Elliott who held the supply contract for Wayne’s army! 11118 allowed him to attempt to starve the army, and control its march. Wayne, however, had defeated this move by ordering the quartermaster corps, which then handled onbguns and ammunition, to provide nack mules and even carry supplies. " ~ Later a Senate investigating com(Continusd on Paca Four)

Ike Uncertain Os Reason For Zhukov Ouster Hopes Resignation Os Russian Leader Strictly Voluntary WASHINGTON (VI - President Eisenhower said today he does not know whether Soviet Marshal George Zhukov has been downgraded, but there is some reason for the extraordinary frequency of changes in the Soviet government. The President noted at a news conference that Soviet leaders had compared Zhukov’s “relief” with the recent resignation of U. S. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. . Eisenhower said he hopes Zhukov’s resignation was as completely voluntary and personal as Wilson’s. The President’s comment followed a warning Tuesday by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that a Moscow struggle for power is under way and the United States must be "on the

alert.” The President said he does not know if Zhukov has been downgraded or whether Kremlin leaders contemplate some other move. it is difficult, the President said, to penetrate the minds of the men in the Kremlin, and any such endeavor is highly speculative even for intelligence agencies. A Congressman Reports Eisenhower added that there is some reason, which he did not attempt to identify, for the extraordinary frequency of changes in the Soviet ruling group since the death_o£Josef A congressman just back from Russia said the Kremlin rulers do not want war and the cui+ent struggle for power is unlikely to spark an East-West conflict. Rep. James E. Van Zandt (RPa.,) one of a group <tf Congressmen recently returned" from a trip to Russia, told the United Press today he saw or heard nothing while there to indicate any Kremlin leader wants warnow or in the foreseeable future. (Continue.? on "Ke Six) Resume Search For Plane Crash Bodies Believed Carrying Crew Os 16 Men FLAGSTAFF. Ariz. Iff) -Air Force and civilian rescue teams today resumed the task of searching for bodies in the wreckage of a giant KC-97 tanker plane which was believed to be carrying 16 crewmen when it crashed into a mountain. The crash occurred in desolute country 40 miles north of here.

Eight bodies were spotted Tuesday by an advance rescue team which reached the scene several hours after the crash. It was feared that no one survived the crash. The plane, from the 509 Aircraft and Engine Squadron at Walker Air Force Base, Roswell, N. M., slammed into Gray Mountain at the 1,500 foot level. The olane, uaed to refuel jet aircraft at high altitudes, left Roswell early Tuesday on a "routine training flight.” Air Force officials disclosed that the plane reported no trouble prior to the crash Tuesday about 10 a. m. The cause of the crash remained a mystery and was under investigation by the Air Force. The Weather Bureau said the nlane might have tried to fly under a fog bank as heavy patches of fog were reported in the area early Tuesday. 15 Percent Layoff 4t General Electric A layoff at the General Electric nlant in Decatur, effective Nov. 11, is expected to affect about 15 per -ent of the employe total at the nlant. a company spokesman said today. The spokesman indicated that tayoff is necessitated by a cut of about 15 percent in production, resulting from general business conditions which have reduced orders of the small motors manufactured by the local plant. No estimate on the length of time to be involved in the layoff could be’ given, the spokesman said, pointing out that it would denend on the duration of the current business slump. The November layoff is expected to reduce the plant's employe total to the lowest it has been for many years.

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President Eisenhower To Attend Meeting Os NATO Heads In Paris

Ask Secretary Os U N. Step Into Dispute Seven Powers, With . U.S. Backing, Ask Hammarskjold Act UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UP) —Seven Western powers, with the backing of the United States, today formally asked United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to step into the TurcoSyrian crisis and to go to the Middle East personally,, if necessary. Japan introduced a measure asking action by Hammarskjold after Syria formally proposed appointment of a seven-nation factfinding commission to report to the General Assembly and the Security Council within two weeks. The two resolutions injected new impetus to the Middle East debate in the 82-nation General Assembly. * -The -seven - power" sponsored by Japan. Norway, Canada, Spain. Peru. Paraguay and Ghana, would have the assembly: express “confilence that the sec-retary-general will be available” to discuss the situation with Syria and Turkey in consultation “with such other representatives as ’may be useful and that he can proceed, if necessary, to the countries concerned.” Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine introduced Syria’s resolution. The seven-power measure was put before the assembly by Japanese Ambassador Koto Matsudaira. Provides for Commission There was a strong possibility that a third resolution, keeping the Turco-Syrian “issue on the assembly's agenda, but asking both countries to refrain from incitement, would be presented. The Syrian resolution, put forward without co - sponsorship, would set up a commission to comprise two members named by Syria and twq by Turkey with (Continued on Psge Five)

World Community Day Here Friday - Ask Used Clothing To Aid Refugees 6very person in Decatur is urged to bring articles of used clothing to be sent to the millions of homeless still housed in refugee camps throughout the world, to the world community day program at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the First Methodist church. The program, sponsored by the Decatur chapter of the 10-million-strong united council of church women, will include talks by Miss Frances Dugan and the Rev. William C. Feller. Mrs. Stuart Brightwell, ou'.goihg president, will preside at the meeting, wihch will include the installation of new officers. The suljject for the discussion Friday night will be the year’s theme, "Bread, Freedom, and Dignity.” Mrs. George Buckley will lead the litany, and Mrs. Robert Strickler will provide the musical program. The benediction will be given by the Rev. Virgil Sexton. Clothing for the refugees need not be wrapped. All the clothing

from Indiana, will be gathered together and shipped from a world service center. The clothing will be sent to persons who are unable to leave their camps to earn money to buy clothing. Yet these people have been kept in the camps for 12 years, since the end of World War 11. Many are destitute, and live like animals, except when help from such programs as the world community day arrives. These people still await the solution of their resettlement. Many were forced from their homes during the 1940’5, and others now own their land, and occupy their homes.

Halloween Parade Thursday Evening 13 School Bands In Annual Parade Here

A total of 13 high school bands will provide the music for the .big 1957 Callithumpian parade "Thursday starting at 7 p. m. on the downtown streets of the city jinder the sponsorship of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Among the participating bands will be those of Decatur high school and Decatur Catholic high school, which will not be competing for prizes. The 11 competing bands will be Geneva, Pleasant Mills, Adams Central, Berne-French, Monmouth, Hartford, Huntertown, Bluffton, Celina, 0., Wren, 0., and Willshire, 0., high schools. Also in the parade competing for awards will be masked individuals and groups. Local auto-, mobile dealers and farm implement dealers are planning to enter vehicles to round out the list of parade participants. Kenneth Shannon, general chairman of. the -parade., issued, a reminder today that all of those who are entering the parade should be at the jail yard by 6:30 p. m. The parade lineup will be organized by William Rowers, parade marshal, with the assistance of Lyle Mallonee and Walter Elzey. The main parade route, as in past years, will be Second street from Adams street to Jackson street. Fairly warm temperatures are predicted for Thursday and a large crowd is expected to jam the business district to watch the annual Halloween event. Following the parade will be (Continued on Page Five) Flu Outbreak Eases Through Some Areas At Least 449 Deaths Reported In Nation By UNITED PRESS

Flu and its compile ations claimed about 30 more lives during the past 24 hours, but there was evidence the outbreak was on the wane in some areas. A United Press tally since the first case of Asian flu was reported in the country last summer showed at least 449 deaths blamed on flu, and complications, chiefly pneumonia. New York State continued to have the highest fatality rate with 126 deaths. Pennsylvania reported 82 fatalities. State Fatals Listed Elsewhere, 1 there were 37 deaths In Michigan, 34 in California, 21 in Illinois and Louisiana, 15 each in lowa, Washington and Wisconsin, 11 in Utah, 10 in Colorado, 9 in Hawaii, 7 in Connecticut, 6 each in Indiana and Kentucky and 3 each in New Jersey, Tennessee and Oregon. The state of Washington accounted for 11 of the new flu fatalities. and the state health department estimated there were 57,860 cases of influenza and other respiratory ailments. There was no estimate of how many of the ill were stricken with Asian flq, Also in the Pacific Northwest, the case rate in Oregon continued to climb and health officials said it was approaching the level of the 1918 flu epidemic. A second death was reported at an Oregon State Home for the’ Mentally Retorted Tuesday. East Hit Hard In the East, flu reached epidemic proportions in the northern part of Maine and Philadelphia, Pa., became the latest big .city to be hit by a major outbreak of influenza. However, the incidence of flu was reported on the decline in such otter flu-stricken states as Illinois, Massachusetts and Missisippi. The Univerity of Illinois disclosed that a campus epidemic earlier this month infected about 30 per cent of the students. The university said the situation became so severe that an ice rink was turned into an emergency hospital to treat the sick.

Khrushchev Is Fasl Emerging As New Stalin

Western Diplomats Highly Uncertain On Future Policy LONDON (UP)Western diplomats said today Nikita S. Khrushchev was fast emerging as the new Stalin. They expressed doubt and uncertainty on the future course of Soviet diplomacy. Communists outside Russia appeared as uncertain as western observers just what the victory by Nikita S. Khrushchev over Marshal Georgi Zhukov will mean in future Soviet policy. The most significant sign of uncertainty came from Belgrade where President Tito cancelled an expected visit to Moscow next week on the excuse he was suffering from acute lumbago. Western observers quickly diagthan physical and said the independent Communist leader apparently did not want tc step into a factional fight even as observer. U.S. officiate said the Kremlin power struggle was unlikely to spark an East-West war. Ike May Assess Moves President Eisenhower may assess the dramtic Moscow developments today at his first news conference in three weeks. Moscow information and dispatches to Communist newspapers in the West indicated the Central Committee of the Communist Party still had not taken final action on the deposed defense minister. Khrushchev’s remarks Tuesday night at a Turkish Embassy reception in the midst of Russia’s threats of war in the Turco-Syrian crisis gave rise to speculation that the Communist leader might tone down talk of conflict in the Middle East. He said things appeared to be brighter in the Syrian crisis and even said he believed there would be no war. And the very appearance at the reception was a surprise in view of Russia’s current anti-Turkish campaign. An indication that the West was distrubed by the future Soviet policy came Tuesday morning from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Washington. West Alert Dalles Said Dulles tokl a news conference the developments might indicate serious* political and economic tensions in Russia and that the West Oontlnuw on "as* Five) Decatur Lady Found Dead Last Evening Mae Zimmerman 1$ Found Dead At Home Mrs. Mae Zimmerman, 24, wife of Gregg Zimmerman, died about noon Tuesday at her home 1723 West Madison street. Cause of death has not been determined, pending reports from an autopsy. She was .found dead late last evening by her husband when he returned home from work. She was lying" on a davenport. She was born in Rome, Ga., July 3, 1933, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lipscomb, and was married -to Gregg Zimmerman in 1952. Mrs. Zimnterman was a member of the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. Surviving in addition to her husband are two children, Doi i:, 4, and Kenneth, 16 months; her tatter, Robert Lipscomb of Rome. Ga., and the following brothers and sisters, Eugene, George, Robert, Christine, Josephine and Evangeline, all of Rome, Ga. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Black funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren. the Rev. John Mishler officiating. Burial will be in the Pleasant Dale cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral heme after 2 p.m. Thursday until time of the services.

Bloodless Rebellion Ended At Hospital Inmates Shoulder Rebellion Blame MEDICAL LAKE, Wash. (UP)— Two Inmates shouldered the blame today for a lightning-swift but bloodless rebellion which swept through the maximum security ward of the Eastern State Hospital here. “If any blame is to be placed, it should be placed on us,'* said James Island and Ed Thomas. “We just wanted reassurance we would be treated like human beings.” Hdrty-five hostages were held for seven hours when the revolt flared Tuesday in the mental institution about 15 miles from Spokane. The hostages were treated with courtesy. They played cards, drank coffee and watched television while a ring of state patrolmen and sheriff’s deputies surrounded the modern brick unit. Dr. Garrett Heyns, newly-ap-pointed states institutions director, made a dramatic flight from Yakima to confer with the inmates; Wives and families of the hostages stood vigil outside the double thickness wire fence surrounding the building as Heyns stalked into the building along with Dr. G. Sandritter, hospital superintendent. State patrolmen brought rifles and guns to the ward gate in the event the appearance of the two men might touch off violenee. However, Heyns and Sandritter walked in unarmed and were met at the door by two inmates who shook hands and smiled. _ After conferring with the inmates, Heyns went to Spokane where he announced that the uprising was over. The uprising had been predicted tor weeks and apparently had been triggered by the resignation (Monday of Rock Hutchings, head guard of the maximum security unit. - Hutchings said ’’you can be sure” the Inmates didn’t want violence. “They just wanted to talk with Heyns to make sure they won’t become men without hope as once was the case.” Eight Persons Die In Michigan Fire Only One Survives As Home eDstroyed PICKFORD, Mich. — Eight persons—a father .mother and six of their seyen children —burned to death early today when fire, apparently caused by a defective coal heater, swept through their house. The only survivor was 11-year-old Rose Carrick. She saved her life by jumping from the second story porch of the frame home in an effort to summon help for her family. The victims were Vern Carrick, 45, a part-time woods-worker; his wife, Irene, 30; and their children: Dennis, 9; Harold, 7; Norma, 5; Joy 3; Daniel, 18 months; and James, 2 months old. Police and firemep from Pickford and Cedarville waited for the ruins of the house to cool before recovering the bodies and making a thorough investigation. The Carricks’ house was located six miles south of here in Mic gan’s .Upper Peninsula. (Sonttnued on Pure Six) Hearing Tests Are Conducted In Schools • Children in grades one, four, seven, and sophomores in high school in Decatur, including public and parochial schools, win have their hearing tested between today and Nov. 4. James Garrison, of Purdue university, will perform die tests, which are part of an annual program. In this manner each student is tested regularly throughout his school life, and any changes reported to his parents.

Leaders Os 15 Nations Will j Attend Council [ Meeting In Paris. In December To Discuss 1 Problems Os World ! WASHINGTON (UP)—President 1 Eisenhower announced today he ; plans to go to Paris in December ' to join other heads of government 1 at the annual meeting of the . NATO Council. . The President said that before going to Paris he will confer with ’ Republican and Democratic congressional leaders. The congressional conferences, he said, would be designed to keep this country * on a single track in its foreign re- ’ lations. . While in Europe, the President said he also would like to visit . London, but he did not know whether the London visit could be . arranged because of the difficulties involved m his remaining out . of the country for any length of t time. ; The President announced bls > Paris trip at a crowded hews con- . ference, his first in three weeks. Sees An Improvement Uuier news cunrerence lugtt* s lights: e —He said the Little Rock school 3 integration crisis seems to be improving daily and he hopes the r situation soon will be such as to t permit removal of all federal o forces. —He advised American house- - wives to buy less to an era of . 2 rising prices and buy more dur- - tog downward price trends. —He did not know whether i Georgi K. Zhukov, ousted as Soviet i defense minister, had been downi graded, butt the President thought i the frequency in changes among / the Soviet ruling group since the death of Stalin was extraordinary. , —The President expects to make ' an announcement soon on the first in a series of speeches designed , to build up public confidence to t Amrican scientific and defense , programs, foreign policy and the national economy. \ May Forego Holiday —Because of an unusually busy November ahead of him, he thought he might have to cancel plans for his customary autumn golfing holiday at Augusta, Ga. —He said there had been no hitch to the appointment of the Civil Rights Commission provided by the last Congress, but that he was moving slowly in an effort to get the best possible men of national stature for the commission. —He had a resounding endorsement for Malcolm S. Forbes, Re--1 publican candidate for governor of New Jersey. Forbes, a New Jersey : state senator, is attempting to un- /: ■ seat the incumbent Democrat, • Robert B. Meyner. The President . said Forbes is a fine mafi and • would make a good governor. t —The President said aU civilized people deplored Tuesday’s bomb- . ing attack on Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and four of his ministers to the Israeli parlia- ’ ment. He expressed gratitude that 1 the bombing produced no fatali- , ties. Spaak Initiated Invitation 1 The President’s announced plan to go to Paris followed a NATO ■ announcement that the heads of i all 15 member governments win : attend the December council meetr ing. Eisenhower said the invitation 1 was instigated by Paul - Henri . Spaak, the NATO secretary general who put the idea up to the President and British Prime Mtoister Harold Macmillan here last week The President said that, assum(Continued on Page Five) INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with chance of light 1 rain northeast portion tonight. Thursday partly cloudy with little change in temperature. Low tonight 38-45. High Thursday 58-64. Sunset 5:46 p. m., sunrise Thursday 7:12 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Cloudy with occasional light rain. Little temperature change. Low Thursday night to the 40s. High Friday upper 50s.

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