Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. IV. No. 270.

BOTTOM OUT OF REAL ESTATE A~j.. J jf’LJal : . IF^/<,' — j ;> . Li ITIIS BIG CAVE-IN endangers nine homes and a five-family apartment building in Seattle, Wash. It started with a hole 40 feet square and 40 feet deep. Here, two days later, it’s 50 feet deep, 100 feet wide and 200 feet long.

Russian Boss Claims World Superiority Rocket And Missile Superiority-Red Not To Start War MOSCOW (UP)—Nikita Khrushchev today claimed that the Soviet Union has won absolute world rocket and missile superiority but he said the Soviets “will never start a war." In the event of another war, he said it would be “fought on the' American continent,” but “we too would suffer immensely ” In an exclusive 2’4-hour interview with the United Press, the Soviet party chief expounded freely on world problems as he saw them and made these major points: • —Prospects for preserving world peace "aren’t bad” but the possibility cannot be excluded that World War lit might be started by “some lunatics." Claims Socket Superiority —There probably won’t be any summit meeting with the West in tfye nearest future, though he still wants one as “the only way out” of the East-West impasse. —lt would be possible for Russia and the United States alone to settle major problems in bilateral negotiations. “If we two agree to relax international tensions, other countries wdn't be offended.” .. —Said the Soviet Union alone * possesses an intercontinental ballistic missile. —Said the first rocket launched by the Soviet Union “hit the bull’seye” and Russia could now use rockets to “dispose of bases in Europe, Asia and Africa. Soviet claims in rocketry, “let’s have a peaceful rocket contest just like a rifle shooting match and they’ll see for themselves." Zhukov Was “dictatorial” —Said,that a third world war would not necessarily mean the end- of mankind but that it would mean the death of capitalism and the triumph of communism. —The emergence of another Stalin and the development of a new cult of personality in the Soviet Union is now impossible. Former Soviet Defense Chief Marshal Georgi Zhukov was removed by the Presidium and the Central Committee, not by the generals. He was “very rude and dicta torial” but no Stalin "or even half a Stalin ” Khrushchev, in the first interview he has ever given to a resident Moscow correspondent, claimed flatly that the Soviet Union now enjoys “absolute rocket superiority.” He said that if attacked, the Russians could wipe out all bases of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and deliver a mortal blow on continental United States. Communism Will Win However, he “the prospects for peace aren’t bad” due to a recent change in the balance of strength in. favor of the Communist and neutral countries and the rising clamor for peace among the European as well as the American,people who do not want war. But he said the possibility of war could not be excluded. He said it might be started by some “lunatics who should be put into straitjackets.” In such a case, he said it would • be the “final agony imposed by capitalism on humanity" and would mark the end of capitalism and universal triumph of communism. “But we too would suffer immensely.” he said. “Will Never Start a War” Developing his argument , on prospects of peace, he said that if joint efforts of Communist and neutral states and peace-minded people of NATO countries are applied—war can be prevented. “I don’t think we have a pre-war situation now,” adding “that an (Continued on Page Flve)_

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Varied Program By Boys Choir Monday Second Concert Os X Season Here Monday A varied program of vocal music will be presented by the noted Columbus Boys Choir in their concert appearance here Monday at 8 p. m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. The choir will sing under the direction of Donald Bryant, who will audition local boys following the concert. Any local boy Interested in joining the famed group,* whose school is at Princeton, N. Y„ is invited to participate in the audition. The concert is being sponsored by and for members of the Adams county civic music association. . The program will open with a group of spiritual classics including “Children, Come Singing,” by Jacob Handl, "Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs,” by Antonio Lotti, and “They Were All Filled with the Holy Spirit," by Jacob Handl. Continuing the concert will be "A Ceremony of Carols” by Ben* jamin Britten and then a piano group featuring "Consolation in D Flat,” by Liszt, and “Hungarian Raphsody No. 15," by Franz Liszt. The piano numbers will be presented by Bryant. ' “Bastien and Bastienne,” a comic opera in one act by Mozart, will be next on the program to conclude the first portion. Following the intermission will be a group of Negro spirituals and then songs by George Gershwin from Porgy and Bess. The Monday concert will be the second in the 1957-58 series of the association. Students from Berne high school wil be ushers for the concert.

Radio, Press Keep Mideast In Turmoil Lebanese Leader's Residence Bombed By UNITED PRESS A bomb-thrower damaged the home of a pro-Western Lebanese member of parliament in Beirut today and drove a new wedge into the widening split in the Arab world. The legislator, Khalil El-Hibri, blamed the attack on supporters of Egypt and Syria which have been inflaming Arab passions with unprecedented propaganda attacks against Jordan's young King seinThe Syrian and Egyptian press and radio campaigns were keeping the whole Middle East in a turmoil. • Syria added to toe tension Thursday night by ordering reservists to report to Army units throughout the country Saturday. Military sources in Damascus insisted the order was not a general mobilization but only a move to keep the reservists alert. But it coincided with a charge by the Damascus government that Turkish border troops opened fire on Syrian engineers at two places Wednesday. : . —- —- Turkey formally denied in a letter to the United Nations previous Syrian charges that Turkish planes and troops had Violated Syrian territory. There was some evidence the anti-Hussein campaign was beginning to backfire against Syria and Egypt. Although dispatches from Jordan said the country was tense and divided, they added that reaction wras beginning to set in against “outside interference.” Jordanian newspapers, far from suppressing the Cairo and Damascus attacks, have begun to feature them on front pages—an indication of growing confidence on Hussein** part.

Bodies Os 17 Crash Victims Are Recovered Comb Pacific Area In Faint Hope Os Finding Survivors HONOLULU (UP)— An air-sea armada that found the bodies of 17 persons killed in the crash of a Pan American Stratocruiser combed a small area of the Pacific today in the slender hope of finding survivors. None of the searchers held out much hope of finding survivors, but it was a chance they could not afford to overlook. The search concentrated on an area 1,040 miles northeast of Hawaii. A Navy plane from the carrier Philippine Sea spotted wreckage from the Stratocruiser “Romance of the Skies" Thursday, six days after it disappeared white flying from San Francisco to Honolulu with 38 passengers and eight crewmen. The wreckage was scattered over a 33 square mile area. Carrier At Scene The Philippine Sea was the first ship to reach the scene. Soon the destroyers Renshaw and Epperson and the Coast Guard cutter Bering Strait joined the carrier in the grim job of recovering toe bodies The bodies were taken aboard toe Philippine Sea and placed in an improvised morgue. The carrier was ordered to carry them immediately back to Long Beach, Calif. The Chief of Naval Operations in Washington asked medical officers on the Philippine Sea to examine toe bodies „nd report an opinion on the probable causes of death. The first report from toe carrier said the victims suffered “extensive injuries. . .with multiple fractures considered toe cause of death/’ Victim’s Shoes Gone Twelve of toe bodies wore lifejackets, five of which had expired air cartridges. None had shoes. This Indicated toe ill-fated Stratocruiser hurtled into toe water and broke into pieces while toe passengers braced themselves for a crash. One body was still belted to an airliner seat- : Capt. Donald B. MacDiarmld, one of the Coast Guard’s top search and rescue experts, said toe description of the wreckage (Continued on Paa* TUir« Chamber Os Commerce To Elect Directors

C. B. Brewer, president of the Chamber of Commerce, has announced the formation of a nominaing committee for new directors. The directors will serve for three years. The terms of a professional and service division, one industrial and two retail divisions are expiring. The committee is composed of the following: Dake Morrissey, Wilbur Petrie, M. J. Pryor, Martin Sprunger, and Max Gilpin. The election will be conducted by mail among Chamber members. Ballots will be mailed Saturday and members are asked to return them by 5 p.m. Nov. 21. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Saturday with occasional rain tonight, ending Saturday. Turning a little colder Saturday. Low tonight in the 40s north and central to the low 50s extreme south. High Saturday 45-54 north and in the 50s south. Sunset today 5:30 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:31 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Cloudy and cold with snow flurries north. Low Saturday night 30-38. High Sunday 35-45.

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, November 15,1957

France Makes Bitter Protest On Shipment Os Arms To Tunisia

Tight Money Policy Eased By Government Cut Discount Rote At Four Banks Os Federal Reserve WASHINGTON (UP)—The government has eased up on toe antiinflation brakes in a move that Indicates the boom is overThe Federal Reserve Board, in the first reversal of its cherished “tight-money” policy, cut the discount rate Thursday from 3% to 3 per cent at four of its member ber banks. The remaining eight banks are expected to follow suit shortly. The move means that businessmen, would-be homeowners and car buyers, and others probably will be able to borrow more money from banks easier—and cheaper. It is an attempt by the government to get the people buying again. Top economists said in New York that toe action indicates that inflationary pressures in the economy have eased. They said it also indicates that the boom has ended and that business activity has begun to slow down. - Inflation Net Dominant The government had pursued a tight-money policy as a means of holding down the inflationary spiral. But a spokesman said toe reserve board’s action recognizes that inflation now “has ceased to be toe dominant factor in the economy.” The discount rate is the interest reserve banks charge member banks to borrow money. A reduction could stimulate credit—and thus toe overall economy—if member banks pass on the lower cost of borrowing to their customers. It also encourages toe banks to borrow more freely from the reserve and thus increases their ability to make more private loans The lower discount rate, announced Thursday, went into effect today at reserve banks in New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, and Richmond, Va. The other banks are at Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Boston, Dallas and San Francisco. Congress Favorable Congressional reaction to toe move was immediate and favorable among both Republicans and Democrats. Rep. Wright Patman (D-Tex.), chairman of toe Senate - House Economic Committee, said toe reduced rate showed that reserve chairman William McChesney, Martin “is getting on the top of the capital arid shouting to the banks throughout the country to ease up and lower their interest rates.” The lower discount was announced after a high-level meeting Tuesday between President Eisenhower and Reserve Chairman Martin, Treasury Secretary Rob(Continued on Page Five)

Train Ride With Santa Claus Here December 7

A thrilling free train ride, complete with Santa Claus, is being planned by Decatur merchants, according to an announcement made today by toe Chamber of Commerce Christmas promotion committee through its chairman, Louis A. Jacobs. Through special cooperation with toe Erie Railroad, a special Christmas train will operate on Saturday, December 7, leaving Decatur at 12:15 p. m. and returning about an hour and a half later. The train will travel to Ohio City and retifrn. Santa Claus will be aboard to greet toe children, hear their Christmas orders, and distribute candy. Tickets will be available from any of the participating merchants Tuesday, Dec. 3. Adult supervision is planned but parents of younger children may accompany them. Adult train tickets will be sold at their net cost of only 77 cents each at the Chamber office. _ . .. A list of cooperating merchants

National Education Banquet Held Here Ball State College President Speaker “American Education, Inc., — a ‘report to the stockholders,” was the subject of Dr. John R. Emens, of Ball £tate Teachers College, as he spoketo a crowd of 200 persons at toe annual education week banquet Thursday night at the Decatur Community Center. Speaking as one of the “plant managers" of American Education, Inc., Dr. Emens told how education took toe raw materials, boys and girls, and helped give them the skills, ability, knowledge, and wisdom to function in a democracy. Education is entirely different in dictatorial countries, he printed out. There a person is “educated” when he is completely obedient and subservient to the state. In a democracy like the United States he is "educated” When he is completely self-directed. The measure of education is not the accumulation of facts, but the change made in ability to think.” The size of American Education, Inc., is getting larger, he stated. "In 1933 there were 50,000 babies born in Indiana, while in 1956 there were 112,000 babies born. At the same time we are actually spending less of our available money for education. As much is spent each year on cigarettes and snuff as on education from first grade through the. university: as mqctj is spent on liquor; as* much is spent on hair cuts and tonic for men, and hairdos and cosmetics for women. “It will be very difficult to get the teachers necessary for American Education, Inc., in toe next few years, because toe generation now maturing is toe smallest since 1875. “One problem is that 25% of the young people with toe best minds are not going past high school in many of our communities. and in some towns toe rate is as high as 50%. “While it is well-known that there are more women in education than in any other profession, it is less well-known that there are also more men in teaching than in any other field, except the military; more, in fact, than in any five professions totalled together. ’ “The taxes that buy one yarship, and not a large aircraft carrier, either, would build all toe present Decatur school buildings, all buildings planned to be built in the near future, and still have enough left over to staff and run the schools for 201 years!” — Dr. Emens was Introduced by Judge Myles F. Parrish, president of toe Lincoln school PTA association, who pointed up his many accomplishments as an educator. W. Guy Brown, superintendent (Continued on Page Two)

from whom the free children tickets will be available will be published next week. Twenty stores have already indicated they will participate. Several merchants plan to accept reservations from their customers and will reserve tickets, although the tickkets ffieihselves must be picked up Tuesday, Dec. 3. To avoid confusion, tickets will be given out to adults only, and parents are asked to handle these arrangements. “We anticipate a heavy demand for these precious tickets and we urge that parents ask their favorite merchants for the tickets without delay to avoid disappointments," said Robert Lane, Chamber retail chairman. . Each merchant will be assigned only 50 tickets for the first round, although if demand is heavy enough, additional equipment may be added to the train after toe Dec. 3 ticket distribu-,. tion date.

Science Chief Is Sworn In Today By Ike Killian Is Charged With Mobilizing Os Nation Brainpower WASHINGTON Wl — President Eisenhower today swore in his new scientific chief of staff, Dr. James R. Killian Jr., and charged him with mobilizing the nation's brainpower in the missiles race with Russia. One of Killian’s first jobs was to clarify his authority and responsibility and his role in military missiles development. Informed sources said his job so far has only been broadly outlined. The President has made it clear, however, that the 53-year-old president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology will have a big voice in guiding toe administration’s policy decisions. From his “office of the special assistant for science and technology” in the executive office building next door to the White House he will have ready access to foe President, officials said. The President last week announced he was giving William M. Holaday, the Defense Department’s missile director, all the authority of the secretary of defense in speeding up work on ’missiles. He has not yet clarified •the relationship between Killian and Holaday or Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy. Disclosure that Russia has solved the ballistic missile atmospheric re-entry problem — one of the big barriers to perfecting toe ICBM — came from Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, head ®of toe Army’s ballistic missile agency. Medaris also told a news conference Thursday night toe Army has started to build its earth satellite. He put the time for launching anywhere between toe end of the year and next March. He said there was no indication of the efficiency of Russia’s solution to toe ICBM re-entry problem, but he said apparently it is adequate to achieve the missile’s "destructive purposes.” At the tifoe he named Killian, the President displayed toe nose cone of an Army Jupiter-C test missile which he said had reentered the atmosphere without burning up, showing the United States had the solution.

Potter! To Address Historical Society County Society To Meet November 26 “Canals of Indiana” will be the subject of Rex Potters, head librarian of the Fort Wayne public library, when he addresses the members and guests of toe Adams county historical society Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 8 p. m. at the Decatur public library. The speaker is an authority on Indiana history, and has organized his staff to prepare many interesting pamphlets on local history for his library patrons. A former teacher, Potters is very much interested in local history, and this will be one of his few public lectures/ He was one of the lecturers in toe recent historical series sponsored by toe Allen county historical society at the First Presbyterian church in Fort Wayne. This will be the last meeting of toe Adams county historical society before the reorganization meeting next January, Bryce Thomas, president, explained. All persons wishing to become charter members of the society are asked to attend tihs meeting. The charter will be closed at the end of the year, and before toe reorganization meeting.

Central Indiana Is Hit By High Winds Colder Weather In Store For Indiana By UNITED PRESS Colder temperatures and more rain were due tonight in the wake of gusty winds which howled through a cluster of Central Indiana communities Thursday, leaving a trail of injuries and property damageDamage In the thousands of, dollars was counted from the gale-| like winds, accompanied by heavy* rain, in Indianapolis and Marion County, Rushville, Whiteland, New' Castle, Markleville, Anderson and other areas. . ■ - At least seven persons were injured, none critically, when hit by flying debris or cut by splintering glass from windows Mown out by toe wind. Meanwhile, toe weatherman forecast an end after today to a wave of daytime temperatures ini toe 50s. Temperatures will aver-’ age 4 to 8 degrees below normal highs of 42 to 55 and normal lows < of 26 to 39 the next five daysMore Rain Saturday A letup in the rainy spell this week was expected today, bul more showers are due tonight and Saturday, with precipitation then and next Tuesday or Wednesday averaging one-half to one inch. The wind gusts, measured at up to 69 miles per hour at Indianapolis, Injured two school pupils and two teachers in two grade schools in toe Hoosier capital. One child required 19 stitches to close a laceration from broken glass. Also at Indianapolis, a warehouse foreman was hurt when part of a building collapsed from toe force of the gale. Mrs. Ruby Clem, 45, a farmwife near Markleville, was cut and bruised when part Os her home collapsed Elizabeth Phillips, 25, New Castle, was cut on toe hands when toe windshield of her automobile was smashed by a falling tree limb. The roofs of three two-story buildings in downtown Rushville were damaged badly, foe window of a bottling plant was blown out, and a housetrailer being towed along Ind. 3 was overturned. 4 Inches of Rain Store windows, shop roofs and awnings were damaged at Whitland. A woman was trapped 15 min(Continued on Page olrht)

Albert Huser Dies Early This Morning Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Albert Huser, 76-year-old retired farmer of Berne, died at 8:50 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for toe past three weeks. A lifelong resident of Adams county, he was bom in French township July 23, 1881, a son of Jacob and Lydia Liechty-Huser. He was married to Eva Liddy Jan. 31, 1907. Mr. Huser attended the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church at Berne. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Lester Huser of Fremont; five daughters, Mrs. Margaret Feasel of Decatur, Mrs. Vera Hanni of Berne, Mrs. Olive Mann of Geneva route 2, Mrs. Jean Foreman of Berne route 2, and Mrs. Paqline Lehman of Berne; 12 grandchildren: two great-grandchildren, and five brothers, David Huser of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Rufus Huser of near Berne, Amos Huser of Talent, Ore., Levi Huser of near Celina, 0., and Vilas Huser of Fayette, O. Two sons died in infancy and three sisters also preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church in Berne, toe Rev. A. E. Givans officiating. Burial will be jp the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at toe Yager funeral home in Berne after 7 o’clock this evening until time of toe services.

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Walk Out On NATO Parley In Paris Today I ■ Protest Shipment ! Bv U.S., Britain ; Os Tunisian Arms . PARIS (UP) - The French deleI I gation walked out of a NATO ■'meeting today In protest against I British, and American arms shipjments to Tunisia. It was the I gravest crisis in the eight-year history of the Atlantic organization. ’ France called for an emergency meeting of the NATO foreign min- ; isters to consider the situation, and a meeting of the permanent council of NATO was summoned ‘ for Saturday at its Paris headk quarters to lay the foundation for J such a meeting. ■ ’ Two British planes landed at Tunis airport this morning with submachine guns and ammunition for the 3,000-man Tunisian army. . U.S. embassy sources in Tunis t said an American transport plane I would fly in arms this afternoon , from Germany—M-l rifles and am- . munition- ' Surprised NATO Meeting , Britain and the United States . said they were acting to beat RusL sia to the puheh, but the arms . shipments over French protest i gravely strained Atlantic solidarity and threatened to bring down the government of Premier Felix . Gaillard. The sudden British - American ’ decision to arm Tunisia caught the NATO meeting by surprise. Sen. Theodore Francis Green (R-R.1.), chairman of the Senate ‘ Foreign Relations Committee, told correspondents: “This is not the , proper way at treating an ally, i I firmly believe that France should . have been consulted.” Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohlo) termed the Washington decision a , “stupid and sterile policy.” Russia Blasts U-S. Action The French were angrier at i their Anglo-American Allies that at any time in years. They believe the Tunisian arms would be usee to help the Algerian rebels, and fiery Gaullist Party leader Michele Debre said French public opinion would no* permit French soldiers io "be killed by Allied bullets.” The Kremlin moved quickly to cash in on the crisis that has rocked the very foundations of the 8-year-old North Atlantic Alliance. It said the United States was trying to make Tunisia dependent on it in a move to grab North Africa for itself. ;■ v■ French anger also was reflected in morning newspapers which proclaimed in front page editorials "France cannot accept this humiliation and betrayal... she is not to be treated like a vassal.” Gaillard was going before the National Assembly to request special taxation powers to end the nation’s economic crisis. Informed sources said he would make an official statement then on the crisis in French and Anglo-Ameri-can relations. Reports circulated in Paris this morning that Gaillard sent a personal message Thursday to President Eisenhower protesting the arms situationThe split -came at a crucial time. The NATO summit conference is scheduled for Dec. 16 in Paris to plot new defense strategy against the-new Soviet scientific achievements, and a divided front could prove a major setback to the West? Ike Going To Talks Both President Eisenhower and i British Prime Minister Harold i Macmillan plan to attend the . NATO meeting. Unconfirmed reports circulated here and in London that Macmil- ' lan may fly to Paris next week for an urgent conference with Gaillard while Foreign Minister Christian Plneau is conferring In Washing- ' ton with U.S. officials. The announcement in London . and Washington that the arms 1 were being flown to Tunisia was believed to have been speeded up by reports that a Soviet ship was ' en route to Tunisia with arms f Later reports identified the ship (Continued on Para hr»)