Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 263, Decatur, Adams County, 7 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 263.

TOP RED BPIEAKS ■ & M w NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV, top man In Russia addresses th‘e Jubilee session of the Supreme Soviet, marking the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. He pledged tha tßussia would never use its military might unless attacked, challenged the U. S. to drop the armaments race in favor of “competition of Sputniks” and called for a meeting of world leaders to end the cold War.

Indiana Bank Robber Nabbed Near To Scene

MOORESVILLE, Ind. (UP)—A mustached bandit wearing dark glasses and a baseball-type cap held up the Citizens Bank shortly before noon today but was caught five miles from the scene by Indiana State Police. Mooresville is in Morgan County only 16 miles from Indianapolis. Edward W- Fields, the bank vice-president, said the man threatened bank employes with a pistol, then shoved a note in front of a teller saying: “Give me the money and nobody gets hurt.” An employe emptied a cash drawer and handed the money to the gunman. He escaped in an automobile. His loot was not determined. State police squad cars caught up with the bandit near Camby, five miles northeast of here in the southwestern corner of Marion County. The bandit apparently surrendered without struggle. It was the seventh bank holdup in Indiana this year and third in the last three weeks. Two men got more than $50,000 in a Fort Wayne holdup Oct. 18. The Crandall branch of a Palmyra bank was robbed of more than $4,800 Oct. 31. Both crimes are unsolved State Police reported that Cpk Forrest Duncan, a state trooper, began pursuing the holdup getaway car within two minutes after the holdup occurred at 11:35 a.m. CST. Duncan advised nine mlnutes_ after the crime that he had the bandit in custody and recovered the loot. Duncan and Trooper Donald R. Palmer, who joined him in another police car, took the man back to Mooresville for iden(Cmtlnued on Page Five) - -- —‘■ Government Offices Will Close Monday Governmental offices, including city, county and federal, will be closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day (formerly Armistice Day). Among the offices to be closed are city hall, all county offices of the court house, the selective service office and all other federal agencies. Also to be closed that day will be the First State Bank and the post office. Postal service on that day will be limited to special deliveries and the handling of outgoing mail. • INDIANA WEATHER Rain with moderate to locally heavy amounts likely tonight and Friday. Warmer tonight. Turning colder during Friday and becoming windy. Low tonight in the 40s. High Friday in the 50s. Sunset today 5:37 p.m. Sunrise Friday 7:21 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and colder with occasional snow flurries. Low Friday night low 30a. High Saturday 35-45.

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Operating Loss By light Department Profit Is Shown By Water Department A net operating loss of $19,419.48 for the quarter ending Sept. 30, is shown in the financial statement of the city electric light and power department released today by city auditor Edwin Kauffman. The city water department statement; shows a net profit of $13,860 for the same period. The quarter's loss in the power department puts the department at a $15,093.14 net loss for the year to date. Last year the department at this point in the year was operating at a profit. The statement for the power department shows $182,285.12 in operating revenue during the threemonth period. Total operating revenue deductions were $195,618.56. Other income totalled $401.61, while income deductions added up to $6,487.65. Among the expenses for the September quarter were $79,093.04, steam plant; $30,700.41, diesel nlant; $29,450.87, purchased power 'an item shown for the first time in this report); $Bl, transmission expense on the purchased power; $15,094.44, distribution expense; $3,051.23, accounting and collecting, and $6,528.24, administrative and general expense. The statistical report forth quarter shows that 6,"3f.000 K W. H. were steam generated, 1,354,000 K. W. H. were diesel generated, and 2,049,600 K. W. H. were purchased for a total of 9,712,600 K. W. H. Os this amount, 8,358,767 K. W. H. were ’ sold. The total sold to date is 26,493,844, an increase of eight tenths percent over the same period last year. Another 3,111,200 K. W. H. have been used during 1957 in plant use. During the September quarter, 5,096.15 tons of coal were consumed at a cost of $34,868.63. The department used 132,275 gallons of oil at a cost of $15,306.29. The report shows that 1.616 pounds of coal were used for each K. W. H. generated at the steam plant and 10.236 K. W. H. were generated for each gallon of oil consumed. Water Department Shown in the financial statement for the water department are $42,808.81 in operating revenues, $26,907.43 in revenue deductions, $140.66 in other income and $2,182.04 in income deductions for the quarter’s net profit of more than $13,000. The operating profit for the year to date totals $38,(Centiaued on Page Five)

Skepticism On Flying Objects Mounting Daily Current Flurry Os Unidentified Flying Objects Increases By UNITED PRESS A virtual shower of flying object reports swamped authorities across the nation today, and official skepticism over the “whatniks" mounted in proportion. The current flurry of unidentified flying object sightings began during the weekend and has been picking up steam sine#. Sky gazers described the objects as appearing in many colors and in shapes ranging from a “meat platter” to “the open end of a bucket.” Some of the objects zoom about, other shover overhead and kill automobile engines and lights. Two persons, one an ex-convict in Nebraska and the other a Tennessee schoolboy, insist they have seen space ships manned by Ger-man-speaking men and women land. The boy said one of the spacemen tried to kidnap his dog. Scientists Sceptical Scientists, however, were cool to most of the reports. They said many of them stemmed from sightings of bright stars and planets, cloud and weather mirages, the aurora borealis, tricks of vision and, perhaps, a touch of hysteria brought on by Russia's Sputniks. Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College of Astr&iomy, dismissed most of the sightings as "nncther flying saucer scare.” A Chicago scientist pointed out the reports, which have ranged from the Fiji Islands to Italy, all have come from the free world while no such objects have been sighted In Iron Curtain countries. Air Force officials investigated some of the stranger sightings But a spokesman at WrightPatterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, observed that of the the thousands of flying saucer reports checked out in the past 10 years, only about three per cent of them still are in the “unknown file.” Could be Identified And those three per cent prob ably cou Id be identified, the spokesman said, if more information about them could be learned. The spokesman, a top official of the Air Technical Intelligence Center, also threw cold water on the reports by stating that not one bit of physical evidence of flying saucers has ever been found by the Air Force in checking out 5,700 sightings in the past 10 years. He said preliminary studies of some of the current mystery sightings indicate the lights may have stemmed from “cloud ceiling light." A Naval astronomer said a rash of “whatnik” sightings along the Eastern Seaboard Wednesday night was the aurora borealis, or northern lights. The lights, described as "reddish objects” were seen as far south as Georgia. Astronomer Sylvan Bestul in Washington said it was "unusual” to have such A brilliant display that far south.

County Council To , Meet November 19 Special Session Os Council Is Called A special session of the Adams county council has been scheduled for Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. at the court house to consider requests for additional appropriations totalling $22,085, and for transfers of $2,000. Among the requests submitted for additional money are $13,345 sought by the county commissioners, $6,000 for the county highway department and $2,740 for the Adams county memorial hospital. The transfer requests are $l,lOO in the county agent fund and S9OO in the circuit court fund. Included in the county commissioners request is a S4OO item for county home superintendent’s salary for the year 1952. County auditor Ed Jaberg explained that in that year the commissioners granted a S4OO raise to the superintendent and this amount was never paid to him. Also in the county commissioners requests, all from the general fund, are $250, auditor operating expenses; $450, sheriff operating expenses; SI,OOO, court house operating expenses; $75, county home matron salary; SI,OOO, county home attendants, wages; $5,000 county home operating expenses; $320, Washington township assessor salary; SSO, Washington township operating expenses; $230. (Continued on Page Five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 7,1957

Soviet Union Unveils Wealth Os Secret New Rocket W eapons T oday

Congressmen Urging Ike To . Speak Frankly Urge Eisenhower To Tell Nation Frankly . Os Missile Status WASHINGTON (UP) — President Eisenhower conferred with scientific and othqr advisers today at the largest meeting of the National Security Council ever held. He called the meeting in advance of tonight's talk to the people on "science and security.” The President and his advisers met as congressmen of both parties demanded that he tell the nation frankly where it stands in the missile race with Russia. Associate White House Press Secretary Anne Wheaton said that about 45 ranking government officials and members of the President’s Scientific Advisory Committee attended the Security Council meeting. In addition to the officials who usually attend NSC meetings, the secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and the military heads of the services attended. An Important Speech Asked whether the size of the meeting was prompted by Sputnik 11, Mrs. Wheaton said that it was in the works before then but was, “connected with all the developments ai the last week or 10 days.” ' The press secretary would not comment on whether the President would make a surprise scientific announcement tonight. But she said the speech would be one of the most important he has ever made. The President this morning completed “a pretty strong draft” of tonight’s speech, but may make revisions later today, Mrs. Wheaton said. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said "much more is needed" than a (Continued on Page Five) Youth Service Held Here Last Evening Spiritual Emphasis Services Continue A fine audience of more than 400 people attended the youth night services of Spiritual Emphasis week at the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. The Rev. Ross H. Minkler, guest speaker from Louisville, Ky., spoke on the subject, “If I Should Die Before I Live.” "Living is more than exist* ing,” he stated. “Most of us Intend to live better lives some time, but we are content to put off the decision. Living is more than gaining material things alone. Real living is giving—giving ourselves to Christ and His way of life, and giving of ourselves to otherr that they might follow Christ.” Rev. Minkler closed the service by appealing to those present to yield their lives to Christ and to decide to live for Him. The high school chorus of 50 voices provided special music for the service. Under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, they sang two numbers. “Our Lord Is A Mighty God,” and “Give Me Jesus.” The Rev. Stuart Brightwell was the presiding minister, the Rev. Gerald Gerig read the scripture and the Rev. Virgil W. Sexton led in the evening prayer. At the Thursday evening service, the-Rev. Benjamin Thomas Huston Bever, Jtr,, reading the scripture and the Rev. Harold Bond leading in the evening prayer. The Presbyterian church choir will sirtg. Ushers will be from the Baptist church and from Union Chapel church. The Friday evening service will begin at 7 o'clock. There will be no Saturday night service. The public is invited to -attend these evening services.

I* .-——l w Nuclear Stockpile Planned In Europe U.S. Prepared To Set Up Stockpile > WASHINGTON (UP)-The Unit ' ed States is willing to set up a nuclear arms stockpile in Europe tor its North Atlantic Treaty allies. It plans to make the offer at the forthcoming meeting of Western . allies in, Paris. The meeting will ; be attended by President Eisen- ’ bower and other chiefs-of-govern-ment. Under tentative thinking, the ’ weapons would be placed under ’ the jurisdiction of Gen. Lauris Norstad, who has the dual role of . commanding both US. forces in ’ Europe and NATO forces. , By this handling, the adminis- ’ tration believes, there would be no violation of a congressional act . forbidding the turn-over of U.S. j nuclear weapons to foreign rations . in peacetime. . In case all-out war developed, . the weapons would be close to I NATO allies and President Eisenhower presumably would order > them distributed to NATO forces . immediately. The idea of a NATO nuclear ’ stockpile and other thoughts for strengthening the Atlantic alliance were discussed Wednesday at an t extraordinary meeting of Secre- ; tary of State John Foster Dulles i arid several former Truman ad- ; ministration officials who worked ’ or. NATO matters. : i One conferee was Paul H. Nitze, director of the State Department's policy planning staff under Dean Acheson, and another was Frank ' Pace Jr., Army secretary during ' part of President Truman’s admin- ’ istration. Dulles invited the group to the conference because he wanted a “fresh approach” to the problem i of strengthening NATO. He hoped to get help from persons outside ' government who are not bogged (Continued on Page Five) Annual Open House As School Friday Public High School Plans For Program The annual open house program of the Decatur high school will be held Friday nighty starting with a musical program at 8:15 o’clock, Hugh J. Andrews, principal, announced today. The program is scheduled later than usual because of the Spiritual Emphasis week services, which will be held at 7 o’clock Friday evening. The open house program will start with a 30-minute musical program, under the direction of Miss Helen Haubold, music supervisor in the public schools. Following the concert, featuring numbers by the freshman-sopho-more chorus and the high school choir, parents are invited to visit their children’s classrooms and become -better acquainted with faculty members and the routine of the students. Principal Andrews also stated that persons who have held basketball season tickets in previous years and who reserved their tickets by returning cards mailed earlier, may pick up their tickets at the school office Friday evening. There will be no sale of tickets Friday to persons not holding seaspn tickets last year. This sale will be conducted next Monday and Tuesday. The concert which opens the program will include two numbers by the freshman-sophomore chorus: “The Happy Wanderer," by Moller, and “No Man Is An Island,” by Kramer. Selections by the high school choir will include: “The Lord Is a Mighty God,” by Mendelssohn; “Give Me Jesus," arranged by Burleigh; “Ifca’s Castle," Czech folk song; "Autumn Leaves," by Kosma; “Falling in Love with Love,” by Rodgers, and “Dry Bones,” ararnged by Gearhart. Accompanists will be the Misses Eleanor Miller. Kay Wynn, Barbara Harden and Ann Kocher.

Speculate On Russia Firing Rocket To Moon World Wondert If Russians Planning On Rocket To Moon LONDON (UP)-Will they do it? The whole world wondered whether the Russians would try to fire a rocket to the moon today in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. There was no comment from Moscow which displayed today a wealth of pew rocket weapons including field artillery rockets 50 to 60 feet long. But still the world waited. There also has been speculation the Russians might already have fired a rocket timed to hit the moon with a hydrogen bomb during an eclipse today- The total eclipse is timed for 9:12 a.m. e.s.t. The New York Herald Tribune quoted Soviet United Nations delegate Arkady A. Sobolev as telling a guest at a U.N. reception Wednesday night in New York Russia hoped to send a rocket to the moon today. And the National Broadcasting Company announced plans to televise the moon’s eclipse — and ready to show the blast of any luna? explosion. _ . _ . Ike to Speak Tonight President Eisenhower scheduled a “chins up" television and radio speech tonight to the nation to try and restore confidence in U.Sscientific programs in light of Russia’s space conquest. Continued on ”a<e Five) Six Persons Killed As Train Hits Aulo Automobile Stalls On Railroad Track NEW CARLISLE (W — Six persons were killed in an auto-train collision Wednesday night, in Indiana's worst traffic accident in more than three months. The dead included four women, a teen-age girl and young boy whose car stalled on a New York Central crossing in the path of a train traveling more than 75 miles an hour. It was the worst Hoosier accident since Aug. 1 and it raised the death toll from train-auto collisions in 1957 to at least 86, of which 17 were killed in three mul-tiple-fatality crashes. There were no survivors in the latest tragedy. Killed in the accident at the protected County Line Road crossing near here were Mrs. Jean Vandenberg, 39, driver of the car; Mrs. Pauline Barker, 52; Mrs. Aleen, Spencer, 50; her son, Michael, 11; Mrs. Irene Williams, and her daughter. Mary Ann, 17. All were from the New CarlisleHudson Lake area. Authorities said Mrs. Vandenberg was driving south and stopped at the crossing to allow a westbound freight train to pass. The car then edged out onto the dual tracks where the motor stalled. Seconds later the fast-moving eastbound passenger train tore into the vehicle. The car was dragged about 200 feet by the force of the impact and all of the victims were thrown from the demolished vehicle. The train struck the car in LaPorte County, but all six bodies were hurled into St. Joseph County. One of the bodies was thrown onto a small hill along the right-of-way. The train continued five blocks to the New Carlisle depot before it could be halted and backed up to the scene of the collision. August Jelka, Elkhart, was engineer on the train and Harry M. Roy, also of Elkhart, was train conductor. The collision tied the worst highway. wreck in Indiana this year. Six men were killed in a similar car-train smashup in Fortville Aug. 1 enroute home from work.

Severe Flu Outbreak Reported In Kansas Five Fatalities Are Reported In State By UNITED PRESS A flu outbreak in Kansas that struck tens of thousands of persons and caused five deaths “may just be getting started," a health official warned The Kansas fatalities were the first reported in the Sunflower State. With reports of flu deaths in other states, the new deaths gave the nation’s influenza toll its sharpest rise in more than a week. A United Press tally showed that at least 590 persons have lost their' lives due to Asian flu, other types of influenza, and complications of ' both since the outbreaks began last summer. Topping the nation was New York with 134 deaths, followed by Pennsylvania 99, Michigan and Ohio with 41 each, and California with 40. Others were lowa 28, Illinois and Louisiana 21 each, Wisconsin 18, Nebraska and Washington 16 each, Connecticut and Minnesota 15 each, Utah 11, Colorado and Indiana 10 each, Tennessee and Hawaii 9 each, Kentucky 8, Kansas and Oklahoma 5 each, New Jersey 4, Mryland, Missouri and Oregon 3 each. North Carolina 2,' and 1 each in Arizona, Maine, and the District of Columbia. Kansas health officer Dr. James Mott disclosed Wednesday that flu-caused absenteflfafiu.,... Jumped alarmingly last week. About 24,000 persons were absent from work and school in 37 counties, he said. Extending the figure throughout ' the state would hike the total to more than 70,000, Mott said, and warned “we may just be getting started.” In Missouri, authorities at Joplin reported a major flu outbreak had kept about 10,000 school children at home. Eleven schools were shut down, and about one-third of the students in nearby Galena, Kan., were strickenIngrid Bergman And Rossellini Separate Legal Separation Obtained In Rome ROME <W — Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini obtained a legal separation in Rome today. The action apparently signalled the end of the “sacred love" for which Ingrid seven years ago sacrificed family and suffered exile from Hollywood. Ingrid formalized the action in a secret noon appearance before Magistrate Dr, Mario Elia at the Palace of Justice. A short while later, Ercole Graziadi, the couple’s attorney, announced the separation. The lawyer also released a letter signed by Rossellini and Miss Bergman in which they said they had found "difficulty in continuing life together for some time.” The legal action immediately revived speculation of a romance between Rossellini and a beautiful Indian movie script writer who last was reported in Paris. Rossellini left for an undisclosed destination immediately after today’s court action. Graziadei said Miss Bergman, scarcely recovered from Asian flu, went to the palace of Justice and formally declared her legal separation from Rossellini before Elia. “The separation Is consensual (by mutual consent), for incompatibility of character," the announcement said. It said Rossellini left immediately after the visit to- the law courts “for an unknown destination ” Miss Bergman returned to the home which she had shared her® with Rossellini only since last Thursday after a separation of more than 10 months. Rossellini went to Paris again during the weekend but returned to Rome Tuesday. The Italian movie director had been in India shooting documentary films during his long separation from Ingrid. In that time, his (Continued on Pare Five) - -

Huye Missile Is Identified As An ICBM Intercontinental l Ballistic Missile On First Display ‘ MOSCOW. (UP) - The Soviet ’ Union today displayed for the ’ first time a rocket officially iden--1 tified as an intercontinental bal- ■ listic missile (ICBM). ’ The 60 to 75 foot long missile ' was part of a wealth of secret ’ new rocket weapons displayed in Red Square during ceremonies 1 commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. ' The official Soviet news agency J Tass identified the huge mystery 1 rocket as an ICBM. Western mili--1 tary observers who saw it had believed earlier it was a single-stage i overgrown version of the World i War II German V-2-1 They had believed it probably i was an intermediate range rockI et. I Tass did not elaborate on its an- ■ nouncement. f A Soviet commentator atop the i Gum department store facing the ilKremlin across Red Square gave I a running commentary on the new I secret weapons. i "The Soviet Union now possesses t long range rockets and field rocki bta." the Gum commentator said. ) “Thr».: intercontinental ballistics t missile has strengthened Soviet . defenses.” t Then came the parade of rock- > ets and the commentator said i some of them were “based on the I principle of jet propulsion. The jet-propelled rocket weapi ons were followed by heavy rocket 1 artillery drawn by tremendous i caterpillar transporters, t Claims New Type Rocket : "They are of a new type of a , new design and on them are tremendous heavy rockets," the radio commentator said. “They must weigh anything up to many tons . here comes another one, a new rocket This is something tremendous. It has to be seen to be belived. It must be somewhere about 50 feet long.” -* Western observers estimated the big green-painted rocket at an even 60 feet long, about 10 feet thick with a pointed nose and fins at the end. i It appeared similar to a warl time German V-2 and observers said they believed it was an inI termediary stage rocket and not - Russia’s ICBM. , Observers also noted a huge 200 t millimeter cannon which was belived capable of taring an atomic shell similar to the U.S. Army’t , “Atomic Annie.” The hour-long parade was the longest since the war. The thousands watching in Red Square were joined by the top dignitaries of the Communist \ world including Mao Tse-Tung of Communist China, Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland and Ho Chi Minh of Communist North Viet Nam. --— Malinovsky, a former Czarist sergeant who replaced Marshal Georgi as defnese minister, spoke from a terrace above the Lenin - Stalin mausoleum flanked by Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita S. Khrushchev and other members of the diumStresses Soviet Unity “The Soviet forces are capable of crushing any aggressor should he attack our country/'. Malinovsky' said. “The army and navy > closely rallied around the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and its Leninist Central Committee will continue to live up to the trust of the Soviet people and stand guard over the gains of the October revolution.” Malinovsky reiterated the month old charges of Western plots i against Syria with “Turkey as > their tool” and said the Soviets ; condemned this "interference of ! imperialists in the Mideast and sympathize with the people strugi gling for their independence. I He referred to the Soviet intercontinental ballistics missile and I the two earth satellites which ■ “have made a beginning in the ■ conquest of space” and said the i Soviet people ardently de sir® (Con-tlnuM an P*<e •**•>

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