Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 260, Decatur, Adams County, 4 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 260.

3,200 MILES ON STILTS

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Virginia And New Jersey To Vote Tuesday Both States Will Name Governors In Tuesday Election By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — Virginia and New Jersey citizens vote Tuesday in elections more meaningful to their fellow citizens everywhere than such off-year contests normally could be. Both states will elect governors. The Virginia polling will be the first substantial test of southern sentiment since President Eisenhower ordered federal troops into Little Rock. Democratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner seeks re-election in New Jersey. That election could be the curtain raiser for 1960 in the Democratic Party. Re-election of Meyner by normally Republican New Jersey would put the governor up front in the race for his party's 1960 presidential nomination. Moreover, Meyner's re-election would jolt Eisenhower administration where it would hurt The administration has gone all out to help Republican Malcolm S. Forbes’ campaign against Meyner. Vice President Richard M. Nixon and half a dozen other Republican big shots have campaigned the state and the President, himself, gave an enthusiastic plug for Forbes at last week’s news conference. President and vice president alike told New Jersey Republicans that the national party needed the morale boost which Forbes’ election would provide. A Forbes win would somewhat offset last summer’s Wisconsin damaging reverse In which Democrat William Proxmore defeated Republican William J. Kohler for the late Joseph R. McCarthy’s Senate seat. Kohler had offered himself as a 100-pen ctat Ike-man which added to the administration’s hurt. Eisenhower also had a plug for Republican Theodore Roosevelt Dalton* who opposes Democrat J. Lindsay Almond Jr., for governor in Virginia. Dalton probably would have been just as happy if the President had ignored him. The big campaign issue in Virginia is integration of the public schools. Almond says fiercely that integration shall not take place in Virginia. Dalton proposes what appears to be a token compliance with the Supreme Court’s order, as little integration as is possible. Almond is the candidate of the regular Democratic organization in Virginia which is dominated by Sen. Harry F. Byrd. Byrd more than any other was responsible for Virginia casting its electoral votes for Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956. There was in Virginia more than in any other state of the old South the beginnings of a twoparty system. More significant than Virginia’s electoral votes for Eisenhower was the 1953 “gubernatorial election in which Dalton polled 45 per cent of the vote cast. He lost to the Byrd organization’s Thomas B. Stanley. (Continued on Par* Fiv«)

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Animal Lovers Hit Soviet Use Os Dog Assail Use Os Dog In New Satellite NEW YORK (UP) - Animal lovers the world Over arose today and charged the Russians were “fiends” for sending a dog into space. indignant reaction to the Russians' putting a female husky into Sputnik 11, already nicknamed Muttnik, to find out whether rocket travel would be safe for man resounded from New York to Naples, from San Ffancisco to Singapore. The general manager of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said in New York that the ASPCA would urge the State Department to lodge an official protest with the Russian embassy. To March on Embassy In London, officers of the Canine Defense League scheduled a march on the Soviet embassy for today. The league and other animal protective groups will observe a minute of silence ‘with special thoughts for her (the dog's) early return to earth." The horrified reaction of Britain’s dog-lovers was said to have almost overshadowed public reaction to Russia's scientific achievement of hurling a living creature into space. One of the first to react in the 1 United States was Mrs. Irene Castle McLaughlin Enzinger, member of the pre-World War I dance team of Vernon and Irene Castle, but most recently an avid antivivisectionist and ardent champion of dumb animals. Mrs. Enzinger said it was aH right for men to be sent into space because “they can decide for themselves” whether they want to make such a trip. CaUs It Wrong "After all, they (dogs) have no chance to speak up as to whether they want to be used in these experiments,” Mrs. Enzinger said in Little Rock, Ark. “It’s morally, spiritually and ethically wrong." mMMRHMH “The Russians say the dog ;s still alive. Isn’t that horrible? He’s probably whining, lonely and petrified with fear of the dark.” A society for the prevention of cruelty to animals in Singapore was so upset it sent a direct protest to Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev at the Kremlin. Although dog-lovers agreed the Russians were “brutal" and “inhuman” for sending the dog whirling around the world 1,056 miles high, they also agreed the Russians would pay little attention to their protests. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. A little colder most sections tonight. Low tonight 35-44. High Tuesday 44-52. Sunset today 5:40 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:17 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with seasonable temperatures. Lows Tuesday night tn the 20a. Highs Wednesday in ths 50e.

Egypt's Radio Blasts Jordan King Hussein Relations Between Egypt And Former Ally Grow Worse By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Relations between Egypt and its former ally Jordan suddenly worsened today. The Egyptian Radio called King Hussein a “traitor" and warned him, “you will pay dearly.” The blast against Hussein followed reports in the Egyptian press that Jordan and Israel were negotiating a peace treaty, a report the Israeli Foreign Ministry called "complete nonsense." Ahmed Said, chief news com mentator for Cairo radio’s Voice of the Arabs program, said “there were heroes in Jordan who stopped King Abdullah from Signing a peace treaty with Israel in 1950. There are still heroes in Jordan today who can stop his grandson king from signing such a treaty." King Abdullah was assassinated in 1950. Calls Meeting Secret The Egyptian commentator said Hussein and Jordanian Premier Samir El Rifay met secretly with Israeli Premier David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir in the Jordanian town of Nablus in mid-September and reached a three point agreement: —On liquidation of the Arab refugee .problem. —Establishment of relations between Israel and Jordan. . —Opening of the borders between the two countries. The commentator said Hussein would receive 30 million dollars from the United States as a “reward for treachery against the Arab people of Jordan.” The original charges against Hussein appeared Sunday in the newspaper Al Shaab which said Israeli- Jordan negotiations were underway in Washington. Both the press and radio joined in the attack today —• the most bitter yet against Jordan since the two nations severed diplomatic relations last summer over Jordan’s charges of a Syro-Egyptian plot to assassinate Hussein. Egypt Bitter Over Break There was no immediate indication of the purpose behind the attacks on Jordan. However Egypt has been bitter because Hussein broke off from the Syro-Egyptian axis last summer and formed a strong alliance with Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Other Mideast developments: Cairo — The semi-official Middle East New Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the Jewish school in Beirut, damaging the building. No casualties were mentioned. r _ Cairo — The Arab League Political Committee rejected Dag Hammarskjold's proposal that Arab countries help pay for maintaining the U.N. Emergency Force in the Gaza Strip. Cairo — Egyptian spokesman said Egypt would break off the Rome talks with Britain today if Britain does not agree to the unconditiortal release of Egypt s more than 500 million dollars in frozen pound sterling assets. • Perjury Trial For Hoffa Is Postponed Motion To Dismiss Indictment Filed NEW YORK (IP) — The trial of James R. Hoffa on perjury charges was postponed today until Wednesday pending a decision by Federal Judge William B. Herlands on a motion to dismiss the indictment. Hoffa, president-elect of the powerful International Brotherhood of Teamsters, appeared briefly in Federal Court this morning for the scheduled opening of his trial on charges of lying to a federal rackets grand jury. Judge Frederick Van Pelt Bryan ruled that the trial would have to wait for Herland s decision, scheduled to be announced Wednesday morning. Herlands reserved decision Wednesday on motions by Hoffa’s attorneys to dismiss the perjury indictment and to suppress evidence of wire-tapping. Sol Gelb, chief counsel for Hoffa, urged the perjury indictment be thrown out claiming Hoffa was not called to testify before the grand jury as a witness, but as a defendant. The prosecution answered that the government did not know Hoffa would be a defendant when it called him as a witness. Hoffa, barred by court order from taking over the presidency (CoatuiaM »■ Page Eight)

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White House Reports Careful Study Made Os Russian Advances

Russia's 2nd Satellite Is Circling Earth Russians Planning Apes As Passengers For Next Vehicles Moscow (UP) — The official Communist organ Pravda said today Russian scientists were planning to use anthropoid apes as the next passengers for space vehicles as a result of their successful launching of Sputnik 11. Observers in Moscow already had reported a Soviet space platform and rockets to the moon the next most likely steps of Soviet science now that the second earth satellite Is orbiting around the earth with a live dog aboard as the first space traveler. And Soviet scientists already were indicating they might try to bring back to earth safely the Eskimo Husky dog that was shot into space early Sunday in Russia’s second earth satellite in a month. Today Pravda gave indications of bigger things to come when it said scientists were planning to send apes into space since the animals and their reactions would be much closer to man in preparation for future manned flights to the moon. In recent months Soviet scientists indie ted they hoped for manned flight to the moon by 1960. Preliminary investigations with living animals would be necessary before man- himself can penetrate space for the first time. Sputnik A Tribute The newest Sputnik was in scientific tribute to the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. There was widespread belief the Russians would cap all previous scientific exploits Thursday, the actual anniversary date, with some greater achievement. Here are the salient facts and (Continued on Page Five) Columbus Boychoir Here November 18 Second Concert Os Series In Decatur —^Se i 26<nember touring choir of the Columbus Boychoir school of Princeton. N. J., which has just completed an 11-week tour of South and Central America, will appear in Decatur Monday. Nov. 18, at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The concert, which will begin at 8 p.m., is being sponsored by the Adams county civic music association and admission will be limited to members of the association. It is the second of the 1957-58 series being presented by the association.

Under the direction of Donald T. Bryant, these boys will present a program of religious, classical and semi-classlcal music, popular show tunes and Negro spirituals. Highlighting their appearance in Decatur will be a presentation of Mozart’s ©ne-aet opera, “Bastien and Bastienne," complete with colorful costumes.Since its founding at Columbus, 0., in 1938 this versatile group of talented youngsters has appeared in over 400 cities and towns in the United States and Canada. Their South American tour was in connection with President Eisenhower’s international program for cultural presentations. The young artists, who range in age between 11 and 14 years, are seen and heard frequently on network television and radio and are starred in a motion picture release, “America’s Singing Boys." Their recordings are distributed by Decca and RCA Victor. Following their Decatur concert, director Bryant will audition musically talented youngsters from this county who are interested in joining the Boychoir. The local concert is one of 17 appearances on a month-long tour of nine eastern and middlewesterr. states.

Mysterious Object May Be Space Craft Egg-Shaped Object Seen In Two States LEVELLAND, Tex. (UP)—A man who has spent 20 years studyjng aerial phenomena said today he believes a mysterious object seen in west Texas and New Mexico “was a space* craft from one of the neighboring planets.” . » The expert is James A. Lee of Abilene; Tex., a member of the National Investigations Committee on aerial phenomena and a director of Inter-Planetary Space Patrol, a west Texas organization which investigates “flying : saucers" and similar objects. Lee rushed here Sunday upon hearing of the latest object, seen by at least nine persons in two states. The egg-shaped object, described as about 200 feet long and a brilliant red, was glimpsed by at least five persons in the Levelland area, including the sheriff, three persons at Midland and another at Clovis, N.M. . Says It Was on Road James D. Long of Waco said he was driving on a farm-to-market road west of Levelland at 1:15 a.m. Sunday when he encountered the object sitting in the road. He said it was oval-shaped, about 200 feet long and glowed like a neon sign. He got out of his car S’ out 200 feet away to investigate t when he did the object suddenly took off with a roar straight up into the air. Long said his engine coughed and died and his headlights suddenly went out. When he got his car started, he hurried back to town.

Two other persons said they saw the object in the Levelland area about an hour earlier. Both Pedro Sacido and Nowell E. Wright said the object passed over their cars with a roar like thunder. The engines of their cars died and $e headlights went out, too. rassed Over Car « Sheriff Weir Clem and his deputy, Pat McCullough, spotted the object streaking across the sky in front of their car. The ground observer corps at Midland reported that an unidentified mother and her two children saw “a large object of bluish color flying west and very low” (Continued on Page Five) Predict Gaillard To * Be French Premier Young Financier Is Likely New Premier PARIS (UP)— The National Assembly will end France's worst postwar government crisis Tuesday and accept young financial wizard Felix Gaillard as premier, political experts predicted today. Gaillard, leader of the Radical Socialist Party, won support of every other major French party except the Communists and extreme rightwing Poujadists over the weekend. He planned to present to the 596member National Assembly Tuesday— his 38th birthday —a relatively small “unity'' cabinet of about 25 members representing the wide middle of the French political spectrum. For the first time in six years the Left Wing Socialists of Guy Mollet and the Rightwing Independents (Conservatives) of Antoine Pinay agreed to work together in the government. But the agreement, somewhat like an armed truce, could blow up if Gaillard makes a misstep in assigning cabinet jobs today. One socialist said the new government would not last through the first National Assembly confidence vote after it gets in anyway. Gaillard's attempt to form a new government is the fifth since the crisis started Sept. 30. Mollet tried twice and Pinay and Resistance Party leader Rene Pleven each tried once. None could drum up the necessary support among the center parties to overcome 200 opposition votes from the combined Commu-1 nista and 'Poujadists.

Smith And Peak 1 I Are Expected To Appeal Verdict Two Highway Case ‘ Defendants Likely ; To Appeal Verdict INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — It ap- i peared today that if former high- 1 way chairman Virgil (Red) Smith i and Milan attorney Robert A. Peak ever serve their Indiana i highway scandal conspiracy { terms, they won’t go to prison be- £ fore the trees leaf again next < spring, and possibly not that early. Smith and Peak were convicted f Saturday by a Marion County jury j on charges of conspiring to em- c bezzle $25,800 in state funds in s connection with a backlot deal in- • volving land along the Madison Ave. Expressway route in Indian- s apolis. t Peak’s attorney, Arthur Payne, v said today he definitely will appeal t the verdict and set hte machinery in motion Friday when Peak and t Smith go before Special Judge Walter Pritchard for sentencing to g terms of 2 to 14 years imprison- t ment and fines of $2,500 and i $5,000, respectively. s Would Be Next March < After filing a motion for appeal. 1 the defendants would have 30 days ( to'move for a new trial, and 90 days after Pritchard’s ruling on ( such a motion to appeal to the ( Indiana Supreme Court, assuming , Pritchard overrules the new trial , bid. If the maximum time were j consumed, it would be next March ( before the high court gets the case , and it doubtless would spend some < tContiuuwl on THnevf Honor 4-H Leaders I < Here Tuesday Night ■ Annual Recognition t Banquet is Planned About 80 4-H leaders and Cham- I ber of Commerce sponsors will I attend the annual recognition banquet at the Decatur Community Center at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday, Martyn Sprunger, general chairman, said today. The Rev. Armon C. Oldsen, public relations director for Co* cordia College, Fort Wayne, Will * address the group following the r dinner. Louis Jacobs, Decatur c businessman, will be toastmaster * for the affair. The Rev. Lawr- * ence Norris, of the Union Chapel E. U. B. church, will deliver the invocation. Robert Lane, chairman of the retail division of the Chamber, worked with Sprunger in planning the program. r Miss Lois Folk, Adams county t home demonstration agent, will c lead toe group singing. t Joy Everhart, of Wabash town- r ship, one of toe local share-toe-fun festival winners earlier this c summer, will sing several numbers. A girls quartet from Blue t Creek township will also sing. Leaders will be awarded pins J for years of service to 4-H club t work. Miss Folk and Leo N. t Seltenright, county agent, ‘ will make toe awards. There are 30 4-H clubs in the J county, which includes some 800 - ■•oung neople between the ages ’ of 10 t- 20, inclusive. » Grand, Petit i Juries November 12 The Adams county jury comm i stoners and the clerk of the Adams circuit court, have been ordered | to meet in the office of the county clerk Tuesday, Nov. 12, to draw the grand and petit juries for toe \ November term. t The September term of the court t ended Saturday and the court will f be in vacation until toe opening of i the November term Monday, Nov. 18. 1 Juries are ordinarily drawn on I the Monday proceeding the new i term but Monday, Nov. 11, will t be Veterans Day, a legal holiday, ( and toe court house will be closed, f

Probing Waste Os Science Manpower Defense Officials ' Called To Testify WASHINGTON (UP)— Congress opened an investigation today into charges that the government is wasting scientific manpower at a time when Russia is making rapid technological progress. The House Manpower Subcommittee called Defense Department manpower officials to testify at an afternoon hearing on the “talent waste” charges. The subcommittee’s inquiry was the first to be held by Congress as an outgrowth of Russia’s latest advances in the missile and space satellite fields. A subcommittee source said reports had been received that competition for scientific and technical personnel in toe military re-, search and development field was “running wild.” The National Society of Professional Engineers said last week that “experience has shown that we have wasted engineering talent by using it at a level below that which it is capable of performing." The society, said it opposed “any Sputnik-inspired program for training engineers and scientists." t It denied that there is a real shortage of engineers in the Unit- 1 ed States and called for an “improved utilization of (existing) engineering talent.” A 1 special presidential committee on scientists and engineers reported last week that Russia has surpassed the United States to total number of scientists. It said Intelligence reports show that Russia now has 1,500,00 scientists compared with 1,300,000 to the United States. The society of engineers maintained that enrollments at U.S. engineering schools are at an alltime high and continuing to increase. It said emphasis "now more than ever should be placed on quality rather than quantity." Wyoming Is Buried By Heavy Snowfall 16 I nches Os Snow In Parts Os State By UNITED PRESS A fresh onslaught of wintry weather buried portions of Wyoming under 16 inches of snow today and weathermen issued freezing rain warnings for western Nebraska and parts of the western Dakotas. The widespread storm swept the West during toe weekend and began pushing. eastward today. Snow and freezing rain pelted western Nebraska, eastern Wyoming and northeast Colorado early today, with most of toe snowfall concentrated in toe Rockies and toe central and northern Plateau regions. Lander, Wyo., reported 16 inches of snow on the ground early today. A cold air blast accompanying toe storm sent readings into the 30s as far sotlto as northeastern New Mexico and toe Texas Panhandle. Temperatures tumbled to the mid-20s in toe Plateau area. As toe storm moves east today, weathermen warded of freezing rain and' hazardous driving conditions in western portions of Nebraska and toe Dakotas. Elsewhere, scattered light rain .tit portions of the Mississippi and □hio valleys, the lower Great Lakes and New England during toe night. Most of the rain was tCoutlnued on Page Five) Draft Board Sends Four To Indianapolis The Adams county selective service board sent four young me« to Indianapolis today, two for active induction into the armed forces, and two for physical examinations prior to induction. Sent* for induction were Richard Duane Duff and Raymond Lee Lichtenberger. Those taking physical examinations were James Arthur Schindler and Julius Guerra Quinones, the latter a transfer from Waco, Tex.

Second Soviet Satellite Adds To New Fears Voice New Demands Eisenhower Speed Missile Program WASHINGTON (UP) — The White House said today that this ' government is studying Russia’s rocket advances "very carefully.” The statement came as congressional and scientific leaders voiced new fears that Russia, already first into space with a satellite and a living animal, may be piling up an unbeatable lead in war missiles. Two congressional inquiries into toe administration’s handling of the crucial rocket-missile race with Russia opened today. The White House, which Sunday said Russia’s half-ton Sputnik II came as “no surprise” to President Eisenhower, added this comment today: “The executive branch is analyzing this very carefully, both as to what it means in terms of rock*etry and, also, as to its scientific 1 significance.” t Urges Special Session The President held a series of , personal and telephone confer«nees Sunday with members pf his .Staff and what the White House . described as “several scientific . and national security advisers.” L As to a proposal by Sen. Joseph . C. O’Mahoney (D-Wyo.) that the ( President call a special session oi . congress on toe missile-satellite isl sue, Acting Press Secretary Anne Wheaton aid, "As far as I know there are no plans for a special session.” Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, who already has ordered restoration of funds cut from the missile and research programs, said there will be no new speedup. ;' - McElroy and Defense Department rocket and research chiefs were to answer for key senators later today the question troubling toe American people and the entire free world: Has Russia leaped far ahead in the rocketage,upsetting the balance of power? Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) of.toe Senate Armed Services Committee and two ranking members—Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) and Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N. H.)—opened the congressional inquiry at a Pentagon lunch (Oontinuec oa 81x1 Decatur Man’s Father Dies Sunday Afternoon William A. Haney, 85, of Union City, died at 1:50 p.m. Sunday at toe Jay county hospital at Portland. He had been ill tor several years and seripus the past two weeks. Survivors include one eon. Charles Haney of Decatur: three daughters, Mrs. Florence Doherty of Geneva, Mrs. Ethel Russ of Union City, and Mrs. Inez’Milburn of Cbestefield; nine grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be Wednesday afternoon at the Fraze-Tim-mons funeral home at Union City, with burial in toe Union City cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday. ' ocal Lady's Father ’s Taken By Death Samuel Tilden Weaver, 81-year-old retired oil worker, died unexpectedly at noon Saturday at his home in Geneva. Surviving are the widow, Bertha; two daughters, Mrs. Raymond Snyder of Decatur, and Mrs. Charles Sills of Fort Wayne: a son, Merril of Pennville: 10 grandchildren; one great-grand-child; two sisters. Mrs. George Fravel of Geneva, and Mrs. Landy Ireland of Muncie, and four brothers, William of Oblong, 111., Charles of Geneva, Lon of Berne, and John of Robinson, Hl. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Hardy % Hardv funeral home at Geneva Dr. A. B. McKain officiating. Burial will be In Riverside cemetery.

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