Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 257, Decatur, Adams County, 31 October 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 257.

LUCK OF THE IRISH . JMB it. E \ » .-5 wk k DON EBLER, 62, a Highland Park, Mich., toolmaker, receives congratulations from fellow workers on being one of the winners of $140,000 in the Irish Sweepstakes. He held a sweeps ticket on Stephanotis, a 100-to-8 shot. i. .

Report Zhukov power reared Dai nviatMAMAti Dy hnrusncnev Report Party Chief To Accuse Zhukov Os Bonapartism LONDON (UP)—Reliable reports from Moscow said today it now is almost certain that Marshal Georgi Zhukov has been dropped from his Communist Party posts following his release as Soviet defense minister. An official announcement from Moscow on this way be imminent, the reports said, or it could be delayed for up to several days. But there was no indication thus far of Zhukov's new job, which Soviet Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev said Tuesday would correspond to the famed soldier's “experience and qualifications." According to the reliable reports, the Central Committee of the Communist Party, after lengthy debate, decided to drop Zhukov from the 15-member Presidium to which he had been elected only last July. The Presidium is the executive body of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. Zhukov’s ouster from the Presidium presumably would include loss of his Central Committee status. No Mention of Successor There was no .immediate men-. ; ’-tfohW-W Successdrto ZMikov W ’ the Presidium post. Zhukov’s offense apparently was his opposition to increasing, party ' control over the Red Army; ' He also was getting too powerful for' Khrushchev’s liking. Khrushchev is expected to give a full explanation of the "Zhukov case" from the party’s standpoint in a major speech before a special session of the Supreme Soviet next Wednesday, according to the reports. Earlier reports from Moscow said Zhukov was fired because Khrushchev feared he was trying to become another Napoleon Bonaparte. Western diplomatic and Communist press sources in close touch with Moscow said Zhukov shortly would be accused publicly of ‘ Bonapartism," something akin to the “personality cult” with which Khrushchev regarded the late Josef Stalin. In essence, it means Khrushchev feared Zhukov as head of the army was growing more powerful than Khrushchev as head of the party, diplomats saidArmy Rehearsing Again j The Red army resumed its rehearsals in downtown Moscow Wednesday night for the 40th anniversary parade celebrating the Bolshevik Revolution Nov. 7. They were the first held since Zhukov’s dismissal was announced, indicating Khrushchev felt he had won a complete victory over Zhukov and did not fear repercussions from the army. Communist press sources said the meeting of the 133-*member party Central Committee which discussed the Zhukov ouster had ended. " • There was no official confirmation of this by Western correspondents who are working under heavy censorship in Moscow. The Italian Communist newspaper "L’unita” first used the word ‘‘Bonapartism’’ in a dispatch from Moscow attempting to explain Zhukov’s sudden demotion. Then Western diplomatic sources in close touch with Moscow said the same thing. Urges Closer Ties Moscow Radio indicated some concern today that some Soviet soldiers had a closer allegiance to the army than the party. Jontlnuea on Five) 14 Pages

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Cost-Price Squeeze Tighter On Farmers Farmer Purchasing Power Decreasing WASHINGTON (UP) - The cost-price squeeze got tighter on' farm pocketbooks during the month ended Oct. 15 and decreased farmers’ purchasing power. The Agriculture Department's monthly price report Wednesday showed prices farmers received for crops and livestock dropped 2 per cent during the month. This, coupled with an unchanged average of prices paid by farmers, caused the monthly parity ratio to drop to 81 per cent, two points below the ratio in mid-September. Parity is the price needed to put commodities sold by farmers on a par with the cost of things they must buy—theoretically a fair return for their products. The parity ratio is designed to show farmers’ place in the overall economy. A parity ratio of 100 would constitute a Status roughly parallel to the average economic status of all groups. Marvin L. McLain, assistant secretary of agriculture, described the drop in farm prices as "seasonal.” "It doesn’t surprise me,” he said. The 81 per cent parity ratio dropped the ratio for the first 10 months of 1957 to an average of 82.1 per cent. This compares with the 1956 ratio of 82 per cent. The department’ said lower prices for most meat animals, oranges, com and cotton were primarily responsible for the de--cHne. > partially offsetting • were higher prices for dairy products and eggs. The October index of prices received at 240 per cent of. the. 1910-14 bape was 25- per cent above a year earlier. The index of prices paid for commodities and services including interest, taxes and farm wage rates was 296 per cent on Oct. 15, the same as Jn mid-September, and 2.7 per cent higher than a year ago. Prices paid for family living items declined slightly during the month but prices paid for production goods were unchanged. (Continued on Paxe Five) « Woman And Fleeing Youth Are Wounded Woman Is Victim Os Richocheting Slug FOWLER (W — A youth fleeing from a stolen car and a woman bystander were shot today by a state police trooper trying to capture five teen-age boys. Mrs. Samuel Jessup, 59, Fowler, was reported in serious condition at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in nearby Lafayette, apparently the victime of a ricocheting shotgun slug. A boy about 15 years old who refused to give his name or age was wounded less seriously and taken to the same hospital. Trooper Glen Hosier of the Lafayette Post said he saw a car on U. S. 52 answering the description of one reported stolen. He chased it and fired his revolver as the car roared toward Fowler. In Fowler, the car was wrecked and the five boy occupants jumped out and tried to flee on foot. Hosier said he grabbed a shotgun and fired five times /is the youths pulled out of the car. One boy was hit, a second was captured and the other three escaped. Mrs. Jessup was standing on a sidewalk in front of her home near the place where the car was wrecked. Hosier said she was not in the line of fire. Police said the car was stolen at a place near where another stolen car from Clay City was found abandoned. At the Scene of the Clay City car theft, another abandoned stolen car with Chicago license plates Wag found.

Power Failure In Minnesota And Wisconsin Vast Power Failure Cripples States In Period Os Two Hours MINNEAPOLIS (UP) — A vast power failure hit central Minnesota and some communities in Wisconsin today. The Halloween blackout occurred at 8:45 a.m. at the height of the morning rush hour, and ended -at 10:30 a.m. In the twin cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, inhabited by one million persons, the failure disrupted industry and created traffic jams. - Northern States Power Co. said the blackout hit Hastings and Mankato, Minn., south of the Twin Cities, and the state prison city of Stillwater, Minn., to the north. The company said the power failure apparently extended as far west as 75 miles east of Sioux Falls, S. D., and as far east as 75 miles east of Eau Claire, Wis. Blaines Transformer Explosion A company spokesman said a transformer apparently exploded at the company’s Black Dog generating plant 10 miles south of the Twin Cities, and that a common connection between three generators failed simultaneously. The failure threw the entire load on 57 other plants in the company’s interconnected system, the spokesman said, but these plants were unable to handle the unexpected load and were cut out. Hospitals switched to emergency power. Police sent details to banks because the blackout silenced alarm systems. Traffic signals were out and ’ traffic crept cautiously through the area. The surge of power when the second generating plant was cut in enabled elevators to reach the nearest floor and unload. An official of the 40-story First National Bank Building in St. Paul said otherwise hundreds of persons would have been trapped between floors. Blackout Cripples Industry . Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. switched to emergency power to continue operations. But busi(Continue' ci Pase Five) Air Command Chief Confident Os Power Says Bomber Force Is Equal To Task OMAHA, Neb. (UP) — The commander of America's Strategic Air Command is quietly confident his bomber force has the punch to destroy Russia’s will to fight, Soviet rockets notwithstanding. Gen. Thomas Power, recent successor to Gen. Curtis LeMay as chief of the nation’s long range jet striking force, made his view known in an ‘exclusive interview. Power, a genial-but-tough airman, said he viewed the job of SAC as being "to convince potential aggressors that war would not be worth the cost.” "You would have to ask the Russians to find out how successful we have been,” he said, "but we think SAC has played a major role in preventing war.” "Democracies Can Excell” But should a war start, he added, the forces under his command are capable of destroying the enemy’s long range air force, war-making potential and will to fight. As of now, the counter-attack wopld bo handled by manned aircraft. “When missiles are developed,” he said, "they will be just another weapon in our system—to complement and supplement, rather than supplant, our bomber force. “There is no doubt on my mind that the democracies can excell in any field providing we put the required emphasis on it.” Power directs SAC global operations from a second-floor office at Offutt.Air Force Base on the banks of the Missouri River. He is responsible for a force with 40 bases, strung from Guam to North Africa, representing an investment of $10,800,000,000. Bears Heavy Responsibility Power, 52, had experience with nuclear weapons before his appointment in August as head of SAC. He was operations staff officer during the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and, after the war, he was assistant deputy task force commander of the Bikini atoll bomb tests. Power admits he has a heavy responsibility. “You can never get away from a job like this, so you try to oper- ’ ate in a posture that Won’t wear you out," he said. “It’s not oppressive or a burden when you recognize its importance.”

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, October 31, 1957

Bank In Small Indiana Town Robbed Today Os $4,843 By Lone Man ■ - r . , - i. —i

Urge Ike To * Lead Crusade For Science Scientific Advisers Urge President Lead American Crusade WASHINGTON (UP) - President Eisenhower is ready to launch a great new crusade to reawaken America to science. If he follows the plan of his scientific advisers, this will mean mobilizing the entire nation —the federal government, states, local communities and the average citizen — to a new concentration on scientific learning and achievement Just how much the Chief Executive will reveal of the actual U.S. position in the science-weap-ons race with Russia apparent) is still undecided. Vannevar Fish head of the World War II gov :m---ment Science Office under which | the atom bomb was developed, called Wednesday tor a “real awakening” to the Russian challenge and Skid “the whole stay hasn’t been told.” The President himself demonstrated at his news conference Wednesday he was more concerned about Soviet scientific than at his meeting with reporters three weeks previously when he was not “one iota” jarred by Russia’s earth satellite. IKE ASTONISHED He said he was “a bit astonished” to find U.S. scientists with whom he has conferred since his previous news conference upset over“where we are going to be in 10 years” from now. Eisenhower said the scientists wanted his spppqrt for a campaign to reawaken the nation to needof. increased scientific endeavor. He said he will do their bidding "if it is feasible, because I believe exactly what they said.” . - - While the President did not elaborate, the United Press learned that scientists who have talked to the President have put the issue to him this way: “The problem is well-known. The accelerated advance of the Russians is well known. We have to change some of our own attitudes. Not just the government but people in general. The next generation will have to work harder, become more competitive if the United States is going to hold the position it should have in the world.” (Continued on Pare Five) Three Are Killed In Marion Plane Crash Plane Attempting Landing During Fog MARION (IP) — Three persons were killed today when a private plane carrying them from Wichita, Kas., crashed in a newly plowed field at the edge of Marion’s airport. Two of the dead were identified from papers on the bodies as Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Dobson of Wichita. A third occupant of the plane, a man, was not identified immesdiately. The plane was attempting a landing in a fog under conditions which airport authorities described as “ceiling zero.” The plane missed the airport runway and fell in a nearby field. It was learned the Dobsons flew here from Wichita as representatives of a Wichita farm equipment firm to help set up a silo unloader on a Grant county farm. The four-passenger plane flipped on its side as it plunged to death, and landed on its nose, with one wing demolished. The plane’s flight was believed to have originated in Kansas City. Apparently nobody saw or heard the crash. The wreckage was noticed by the pilot of a Lake CentraT Airlines plane coming in for a landing. The crash occurred only about 500 feet from the landing strip.

Flu Deaths Showing Tapering Off Signs Severe Outbreaks In Scattered Areas By UNITED PRESS The death rate" from flu and its complications showed signs of tapering off today despite severe outbreaks in scattered points ground the country. The United Press counted a total of 463 deaths blamed on flu and complications since last summer when Asian flu first appeared in the United States. The total on Monday stood at 448. The toll by states showed New York with 126 flu-caused fatalities, Pennsylvania 84, Michigan 37, California 34, Illinois, Louisiana and Ohio 21 each, Wisconsin 17, lowa 16, Washington IS, Utah 11, Colorado 10, Hawaii 9, Kentucky and Indiana 8 each, Connecticut 7, New Jersey, Tennessee and Oregon 3 each, Minnesota and Nebraska 2 each, and 1 each in Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma and the District of Columbia. Kansas State College officials (took drastic action in an effort to stem a flu epidemic on campus—i they urged coeds to refuse dates until the outbreak subsides. Dr. Margaret Lahey, dean of 1 women, said students should, refrain from all group activity, including dating. The dean alio banned special permits allowing -*eds to stay out after 10:30 p.m A political dispute broke out in Pennsylvania where 20 of the deaths occurred at the Pennhurst School tor the Mentally Retarded near Philadelphia. Republican House Speaker W. Stuart Helm Wednesday demanded that Democratic Gov. George M. Leader order the State Welfare Department to make a public report on the Pennhurst flu epidemic. Another ranking Pennsylvania Republican earlier criticized- the state for “fumbling” in getting flu vaccine to combat the Pennhurst outbreak. Helm said the welfare department should tell public what steps it took to prevent the epi(Continued on Page Five) Eight New Cases Os Polio In Indiana Health Board Lists Seven County Cases INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Eight additional polio cases were placed on Indiana State Board of Health records last week, raising the year’s total to 141 compared with 383 a year ago and 1,545 in die peak recent year of 1952. Deaths thus far total 4, compared with 14 a year ago and 101 in 1952. Records show that 39 Indiana polio cases this year have occurred among persons who received Salk vaccine. Twenty-nine were non-paralytic. Among the 10 paralytic cases 3 occurred among persons who received one dose of vaccine, 5 among those receiving two doses, and 2 among those receiving 3 doses. More non-paraly-tic cases were reported among the 3-dose group than the 2-dose group, and none was reported among those receiving only one dose of vaccine. Cases by counties thus far this year included Marion 20, Vigo 16, Lake and Allen 14 each, Adams 7, Johnson 6; Clay, Kosciusko and St. Joseph, 5 each; Barhtolomew, Clark, Delaware and Madison, 4 each: Henry and Wabash, 3 each; LaGrange, Monroe and Pike, 2 each; and Boone, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin. Hamilton, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jay, Jefferson, LaPorte, Noble, Porter, Ripley, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Union, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Warrick and Wells, 1 each. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday. A little colder tonight. Warmer Friday. Low tonight 30-40. High Friday 6070. Sunset today 5:45 p. m. Sunrie Friday 7:13 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and mild. Lows Friday night around 40. Highs Saturday in . ** ................

State Highway Scandal Trial To Jury Friday Attorneys Present Final Arguments In Highway Case Friday INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Eight attorneys in the Indiana highway scandal trial met with the judge today to argue about what the jury should be told before deciding the fate, of four defendants. It was a daylong lull before Friday’s storm of oratory when the five defense lawyers and three prosecutors present their final arguments to the jury. Judge Walter Pritchard scheduled arguments in the absence of the jurors today on the instructions he win give the 12-member panel. Former Highway Chairman Virgil (Red) Smith apd three close associates faced prison terms of . 2-to-14 years and fines of $5,000 each—if the jury votes unanimously that they conspired to embezzle $25,800 in highway money. The 11 men and one woman were expected to file out of the jury box in Criminal Court sometime late Friday. They wiU vote on the defendants one at a time. Attorneys'-for Smith and the others—former right-of-way chief Nile Teverbaugh, his ex-assistant, [ Harry Doggett, and Milan Attorney Robert Peak—each handed Pritchard a set of instructions they claimed should be read to the jury. Pritchard set aside today for ar--1 guments on what the final instruc- " tions will be after closing argu- : ments. Those arguments, originally scheduled for this morning, were postponed until Friday at 9 aua- > Prftchanf ’ limited each side ® ’ 2% hours of oratory. Attorneys for ’ all four defendants were to be heard. So was 'Under and his two fdeputy prosecutors.’ " Testimony ended abruptly Wednesday when the defense rested with only Teverbaugh having testified. ...... —. . . ~ Highlights of 13 days of testimony included statements by a state police handwriting expert who identified Smith as signer of the “Dean Burton” signature, and by Teverbaugh who admitted “selling” the deeds to two Madison Ave. back yards to Smith for $3,000. _ 4 (Continued on Page Five) Samuel Beavers Dies Wednesday Evening Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Samuel (Mid) Beavers, 86-year-old retired farmer, died at 8:15 o’clock Wednesday night at his home in Kirkland township, four and one-half miles southwest of Decatur. He had been ill for the past month but his death was unexpected. Born in Kirkland township to Samuel D. and Lydia Weldy-Beav-ers, April 8, 1871, he spent his entire life on the same farm. He was married to Louisa Adler Oct. 24, 1906. Mrs. Beavers preceded him in death in 1947. Mr. Beavers was a member of the St, Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras. Surviving are one daughter, Miss Lucille Beavers, a teacher in the Adams Central high school; one son, Harry D. Beavers of Washington township, and one grandchild. He was the last surviving member of his family, eight brothers and three sisters having preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the St. Luke's Evangelical and Reformed church, the Rev. Lewis Minsterman 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.

Chinese-American ■ Scientists Honored Nobel Prize Given To Two Scientists STOCKHOLM OT — Two young Chinese-American scientists won the Nobel Prize for Physics today for momentous discoveries that upset some .of the fundamental principles of physics. The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded to a Scottish-born Cambridge professor for basic cell research benefiting both chemistry and medicine. Sir Alexander R. Todd. 50, Glasgow - born professor of organic chemistry at Cambridge, was awarded the $40,000 medicine prize “for his work on nucleotides coenzymes” curing a 15-year study of the fundamental processes of life. The two Chinese physicists, first Chinese ever to receive the prize, were Dr. Tsung Dao Lee, 30, of Columbia University and Dr. Chen Ning Yang, 34, of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study. Their momentous discoveries were announced by Columbia last Jan. 16. They were chosen by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science to share the $40,000 prize for “their penetrating investigation erf the socalled parity laws, which has led ‘ to important discoveries regarding elementary sub-atom particles.” , Fdr 25 years Science had accepted as natural law the principle of ; parity. Scientists believed there ! was no basic difference in atomic , or nuclear systems which were “mirror twins.” They believed the . same laws of physics would apply (Contit>u«d on Paste Five) ; Former Secretary Os Treasury Called Call Humphrey On - Steel Price Probe WASHINGTON (UP)- Former Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey returns to Washington Monday in a new role—a steel company evecutive in a Congressional witness chair. The Senate Anti-Trust and Monopoly Subcommittee summoned Humphrey to testify in its investigation of steel prices. Humphrey became chairman of the board of directors of National Steel Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., after leaving the cabinet last summer. The subcommittee, which wound up hearings on new steel-making methods Wednesday, plans two days of testimony foom Humphrey and other officials of National Steel. Groner On land The subcommittee’s investiga-' tion of new ways to make steel ended with testimony from John V. Groner of New York, representing the McLouth Steel Corp, of Detroit, and Tadusz Sendzimlr, president of a Waterbury, Conn, engineering firm. ' Groner described McLouth’s experience with a new top-blown oxygen steel process, at its Michigan works. He said the process was “reasonably successful” and Me louth planned to install two new oxygen units when it expanded its plant. Sendzimir described his firm’s hot-rolled planetary mill process. He said it allowed big reductions in the amount of equipment needed for making strip and sheet steel and cut down on waste. Mills Built Elsewhere He said such mills have been built on a commercial scale in Canada, Italy and England but there are only three small planetary installations in the United States Asked if he thought the American steel industry was slow to adopt new techniques because its top managers were business executives rather than engineers, Sendzimir said no. He said American steel companies had to use “caution” in adopting new processes. What might be an acceptable risk for a small European steel company would put an American firm in jeopardy of a financial “catastrophe," he said.

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Maskless Man Loots Bank At Crandall Today Southern Indiana Bank Robbed Today By Maskless Bandit CRANDALL, Ind. TO — A maskless bandit in hunting' clothes today robbed a bank of $4,843 in a Halloween Day holdup and fled leaving two employes tied up with rope. Crandall is a town of 300 near Corydon and New Albany. The bank was the Crandall branch of the Harrison State Bank of Palmyra. The employes Were cashier Lemay and teller Curtis Wayne Utz. Brandishing a sawed-off doublebarrelled shotgun, the gunman told Lemay “this is a stickup.” Lemay dropped behind a counter but the bandit leaped a railing and ordered Lemay to get on his feet and ■ “get your hands in the air.” The bandit ordered Lemay to bind Utz with a rope. He then ordered Lemay to scoop money from the cashdrawers into a white pillow case. He demanded that Lemay open a vault and threatened to shoot him if he didn’t. But Lemay convinced the bandit the vault worked on a time dock and could not be opened. The man tied Lemay's hands, forced both men into a rear room and fled in a car believed to bear Illinois license plates. Lemay and Utz said the bandit wore no mask and had a heavy growth of beard. He was described as about 35 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing 165 to 176 pounds. The holdun occurred about 9:.' a.m. CST. Police set up blockades on roads surrounding this tiny Harrison County town of 300 population, searching for a 1950 or 1951 maroon Mercury with red and white license plates which witnesses said was the getaway car. The bandit last was seen heading southwest along a little-used connecting highway known as Ind. 335, police said. Armed Bandit Takes Four Pints Os Blood SPOKANE, Wash. (W — Police today were searching for an armed bank robber. Attendants said the man, armed with a small automatic, took four" pints of type O-RH negative blood from the Spoi kane blood bank Wednesday night Hartford City Youth Killed In Accident MUNCIE OT — Lowell F. Younts, 18, Hartford City, died in Ball Memorial Hospital here several hours after a two-car collision on a Blackford County road near Hartford City Wednesday. State Police said a ear driven by the youth’s father, Russell 8., 65, collided with a car driven by Mrs. Plamer Dodds, Hartford City. Girl Scout Calendar Sale Opens Saturday The annual Girl Scout calendar sale will be conducted in Decatur during the week of Nov. 2 through Nov. 9, according to an announcement by Mrs. D. Burdette Custer, president erf the scout leaders club. The sale will be made by all members of Decatur Brownie troops. The calendars, priced at 25 cents, will be sold door-to-door. The Decatur Brownie troops use the profit from the sale each year to help finance their troop projects and to v participate in community projects for others. AH Brownie leaders are asked to obtain the calendars for their troops at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Frida y from 2 to •4 p.m.