Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 273.

10,600 MILES ROUND TRIP

THESE WINGS over Argentina are the six U. S. Air Force B-52s which flew non-stop from Florida to Buenos Aires and back around to Plattsburg, N. Y„ a 10,600-mile hop. They flew at an average 500 mph on the 22-hopr good will flight.

Girard Found Guilty, Term Is Suspended Many Japs Bitter At Suspension Os Girard's Sentence TOKYO (UP)—-Many Japanese reacted angrily today to the suspended sentence given U.S. Army S3C William S. Girard who shot and killed a Japanese woman last* spring on what a Japanese judge called a “childish whim.** A three-man Japanese court today sentenced the Ottawa, m., soldier to three years at hard labor on the manslaughter conviction, but sentence was suspended for four years on good behavior. Giwalked out of court a freeman. Today’s sentence will not become final under Japanese law until 14 days have passed During that time both prosecution and defense attorneys can file an appeal. Indications were both sides have had enough and the conviction will stand.' Sentence Opposed Opposition to the light sentence was led by the Socialist Party whose demands for a Japanese trial for the slaying of Mrs. Naka Sakai, a brass scavenger at the Camp Weir firing range Jan. 30 touched off an international furor. Inejiro Asanuma, Secretary General of the opposition Socialist Party, called the verdict a “complete manifestation of the weakness of Japanese courts toward the United States.’’ Kayoko Sakai, the -22-year-old daughter of the victim, termed the suspended sentence “the same thing as a non-guilty verdict.’’ She said she believed the sentence would not “provide Girard with a chance to atone for his crime.” Girard himself was glad to be out of it. “It was kind of tough,” he told a press conference at Camp Drew. “But I am glad the judge gave me another chance ” In Girard’s home town of Ottawa, Mayor Fred Eichelkraut said, Tm glad it’s over and that Bill will be coming home to his mother soon.” Army Had No Comment The Army had no comment, but military observers said Girard probably would have received much harsher treatment from the Army had he been tried by a courts-martial for the death. The Army charge probably would have been second murder or manslaughter, they said. Judge Yuzo Kawachi, head of the three-man court at Maebashi, admonished Girard in his final opinion to “turn over a new leaf and stop taking light hearted action” so he could "grow into bigger and better manhood.” Army authorities said Girard Continues on ®*ge Five) Commissioners’ In Regular Session Adams county commissioners met in the court house Monday. Board action on the matter of providing bonds for subagents for hunting and fishing licenses was discussed but action was deferred until the Dec. 2 meeting. Walter C. Gilliom was retained as consultant highway engineer. Herman Brunner, of St. Mary’s township, appeared relative to a ditch effecting his drainage. He was advised to consult the county surveyor. ' In the matter of federal aid road construction the following roads were earmarked for improvement: road 4, Root and Union townships, 3 miles; road 16, Monroe township, one mile, and road 16, Blue Creek township, 1¥« miles.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Slayer Apparently Robbed Fresh Graves Decorated His Home In Gruesome Array PLAINFIELD, Mis. W — Authorities today said a bachelor former who admitted butchering a woman storekeeper apparently also robbed fresh graves and decorated his home with a gruesome array of human remains. The police, who asked that their identity, be withheld, said the admission by farmer Ed Gein, 51, that he robbed a number of graves “almost rules out the theory he was a mass murderer completely." Inside Gein’s junk-strewn, nineroom farm house, authorities found 10 human skulls, at least one of them painted with lipstick. Some of his furniture appeared

to have been upholstered with human skin, police said. At Madison, Wis., Charles Wilson, director of the state crime laboratory, said bones found in Gein’s home would be checken for traces of embalming fluid to determine whether they came from a graveyard. Suggest Lie Test Wilson the bones also would be checked against detailed physical descriptions of missing persons listed in the crime laboratory's files. Wilsbn said he has recommended that Gein be taken to Madison for a lie test, but he said no time has been set and the decision is up to local authorities. Gein admitted Monday he butchered Mrs. Bernice Worden, 58, a Plainfield hardware store owner, while in a trance. Gein said he could not recall slaying Mrs. Worden last Saturday, but when he came out of a “daze” he remembered dragging her body from the store. Mrs. Worden’s nude and decapitated body was found hanging in Gein’s woodshed by authorities investigating her disappearance. Coroner Russell Darby said the search of Gein’s home was the "most revolting thing I have ever seen.” Itemised Find Items turned up included five heads wrapped in plastic bags, 10 death masks made of skinned human heads, one boned and shrunken head, drums apparently made of human skin, bracelets and belts of human skin and hair, preserved female organs and women's and girls clothing. A human heart was found in a pan on’Gein’s kitchen stove when he was arrested, and District Attorney Earl- KJQeen said there was evidence of cannibalism. However, Gein denied "he ever has eaten human flesh,” Kileen said. In questioning by authorities Monday night, Gein was quoted as saying he had gone out about 40 times on moonlight nights to rob graves at two cemeteries for a “thrill.” Gein was held in jail at Wautoma on a technical charge of stealing Mrs. Worden’s cash register. Bond was set at SIO,OOO and a preliminary hearing was scheduled tor next Tuesday. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and somewhat colder with diminishing winds tonight. Chance of a few snow flurries extreme north early tonight. Wednesday partly cloudy and a little warmer. Lows tonight In the 20s extreme north to/ the low 30s extreme south. Highs Wednesday generally in the 40s. Sunset today 5:27 p. m. Sunrise Wednesday 7:35 a. m. Outlook for Thursday: Mostly cloudy and cold with rain likely. Lows Wednesday night near 30. Big ha Thursday in 40s.

Two Killed In Train Crash In * Massachusetts Engineer, Fireman Die As Passenger Train Jumps Track MEDFORD, Mass. «H — T h e Boston and Maine Railroad’s passenger train Red Wing jumped the tracks on an overpass today and plowed into a five-story brick building. At least two persons—the engineer and fireman—were killed, eight were injured and scores were shaken up. The train, which runs between Boston and Montreal, was carrying about 50 passengers. Dead were engineer Harold J. Danforth, Somerville, Mass., and the fireman, identified only as Murphy, who was trapped in the cab of the locomotive, which toppled 11 feet to the street. The seven-car train was traveling over a side track during a drizling ralp when it became derailed and tore into the Converse Rubber Co. warehouse in which 100 persons were working. The two-section locomotive tore a 15foot gash in one corner of the building and fell to the street. Only four rear cars—combination sleepers and coaches — remained on the tracks. The others, all baggage cars, were derailed. 13 Are Injured GORHAM, 111. (W — At least 13 passengers on a Cotton Belt Line train were injured early today when the southbound passenger train was “sideswiped” by a die-

sel freight near here. The injured were taken to hospitals in Murphysboro and Chester. None was reported in serious condition. Officials of the Cotton Belt Line said there were only 27 passengers on the train when the accident occurred. They said the freight sideswiped the second baggage car as the trains were passing, then bounced against a mhil ahd car and two coaches. Jackson County Deputy Sheriff Ray Varner said three diesel units pulling the liO-car freight were derailed. He said there was considerable damage to equipment but the passenger train was expected to resume its scheduled run "in a few hours.” Railroad officials said an investigation was underway to determine responsibility for the accident At least nine of the injured were hospitalized at St. Andrew’s Hospital, Murphysboro. They were: (Continued on Pace Five) Two VA Officers Slain By Ex-Guard Seek Death Penalty For Former Guard RENO, Nev (UP)—The government will ask the death penalty, a prosecutor said today, for a former chief guard who stomped into a Veterans Administration hospital Monday with two guns and killed two VA officers. Another officer was critically wounded by Elza W. Eaton, 62, before he was disarmed by a fourth prospective victim. Officers said Eaton had resigned his job as chief security officer of the hospital last March after making a series of complaints about its administration. . Assistant U.S. Attorney H. F. Ahiswede said the government will ask a first degree murder indictment which carries the penalty of death in Nevada's gas chamber on conviction unless a jury specifically states its verdict is "without capital punishment.” The Moot, 3-lnch Eaton first walked Into the engineering office, and fired at Earl A. Lombardi, 39, the hospital's engineering officer Lombardi fell to the floor, critically wounded. Easton pushed past his unconscious form and shot dead the assistant engineering officer, Phillip I. Keables, 59. Eaton then took a self-service elevator to the second floor, and entered the office of personnel officer Arthur R. Small, 48, and killed him. # He walked back into the corridor and shoved the shotgun into the mid-section of assistant VA manager James R. Harrison. Harrison grabbed the barrel and the blast went harmlessly into the wall. Eaton pulled a .38 caliber pistol from his holster. Before he could fire it, Harrison and assistant VA attorney Newell Morese subdued himAhiswede said a new grand jury will be summoned to hear the case, probably on Nov. 27.

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May Close Some Major Installations To Meet Rocket, Missile Costs

U.S. May Base Stockpiles In NATO Lands Nuclear Stockpiles May Be Created In Convenient Spots WASHINGTON (UP)—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today the United States is thinking of creating several nuclear stockpiles in convenient locations in NATO countriesHe also said the United States probably will explore the possibility of establishing missile bases in continental European countries similar to those agreed* to witij Britain. Dulles said, however, the United States does not now have operational intermediate range ballistic lissiles (IRBM) ready fo r basin,: abroad. He said he supposes it will be about the end of 1958 before they will be available for such purposes. He said the United States probably will first discuss setting up missiles bases in Europe with Gen. Lauris Norstad, supreme allied commander of Europe. Then if those discussions indicate the IRBM bases would be feasible, the United States would talk with the foreign governments involved about actual locations. Dulles’ missile base remarks were made at his weekly netys conference. A reporter said that some European Allies don’t want U.S. long-range missiles on their soil for fear of Soviet retaliation In reply, Dulles said the United States is not going to force missiles on any nation that doesn’t want them. Furthermore, he said, Norstad told him only about two days ago that these missiles are very much desired by America’s NATO allies. Dulles added that the Allies would have very considerable participation in the handling of these missiles. In other news conference developments Dulles: —Expressed hope that Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic presidential candidate in 1952 and 1956, will come up with ideas and suggestions of his own that will help administration planning for next (Continued on Page Five) Grand Jury Called To Meet Dec. 17 To Make Inspection Os County Buildings Judge Myles F. Parrish of Adams circuit court has issued a call for the grand jury for Tuesday morning, Dec. 17 at 9 o’clock and simultaneously has. stated that all citizens who believe they have grand jury complaints of felonies and misdemeanors are urged to contact him. so a date may be arranged for their appearance. It also is the duty of the November term grand jury to inspect all county buildings, including the county home, hospital and jail and make recommendations as they see fit. Whether the jury will probe into the two or three fatal auto mishaps which have occurred in this county the last several months has not been learned. Other speculations are that the jury might delve into the possibility of drunken driving charges against motorists who so far have been charged with lesser offenses. There has been no indication whether the Dale Death case, which involved his pleading guilty to a charge of public intoxication, would be investigated further by the jury’. Judge Parrish has emphasized that any citizen has the right to appear before the jury and be heard on any alleged felonies or misdemeanors which he knows about. The jury will meet at 9 o’clock in the morning and hear the court’s instructions before starting any investigations.

Ban On Comment On Satellites Lifted Secretary Snyder Lifts Air Force Ban WASHINGTON (UP)—Assistant Defense Secretary Murray Snyder said today that a ban on potentially embarrassing Air Force comment on space satellites has been . lifted. Snyder told the House Informa“tion subcommittee that the Oct. 9 ' order, issued to officers of the Air 1 Research and Development Com--1 mand five days after Russia ‘ launched its first Sputnik, vio--1 lated Defense Department information policies. He said he hoped 5 the official who Issued it would ' be "censured." 1 Snyder denied knowing anything about another Air Force order, is- * sued by the same official Oct. 17, which indicated that President ‘ Eisenhower may personally have ' ordered a gag-rule on all com- '■ ments on this country's satellite program. 1 The official who issued both or--5 ders was Harold M- Helfman, 1 deputy director of information at the Air Research and Development ' Command, Baltimore, Md. 1 Subcommittee Chairman John ■ E. Moss (D-Calif.) complimented J Snyder for his action. Rep. Dante Fascell (D-Fla.) said ! this type of order gave to the pub--1 lie an impression of a “cover-up” : about the satellite program. Snyder assured the subcommittee tlzat the department Had one ’ single objective in its information 1 policies on the satellite program—to have "only accurate informa- ' tion” given to the public. This was the reason, he said, that the three services directed on Oct. 9 that 1 no information or comments on the satellite program be given to the press (Continued on Page Five) i ... - Observe National Book Week In City Library Joined In Week's Observance Several Decatur organizations have joined with the Decatur public library in the observance of national book week, Nov. 17-23, Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, said today. The Decatur Rotary, club will hear Miss Heller explain the new aspects of the library program Thursday night. The Decatur Girl Scouts have picked national book week to start, for the second school year, their program of taking books from the library to hospital patients and to shut-ins. Mrs. R. C. Hersh, adult Girl Scout leader, made a survey of the hospital to determine what the patients want to read. The girls then pick up the books once a week, take them to the hospital, and return them to the library before their due date. The same service is possible for shut-ins, Miss Heller explained. Shut-ins may call their requests to the library and the girl scouts will bring the books to them on a weekly schedule, and return them when they are due. This is the second year of the project. New children’s books purchased this week are also available at the library. The idea of a national book week started about 1915 in the mind of Franklin K. Matthiews, chief librarian for the Boy Scouts of America. He interested other librarians in the same idea, of devoting a particular seven-day period of each year, mid-way between summer vacation and Christmas holidays, to stress books for boys. From the start boy’s book week was a success. Soon, unable to show just cause for excluding the •girls, it became children’s book week. Before long the new idea met with such a hearty welcome not only from children but z also from adults, that its original, specialized, juvenile significance was stamped in a general observance by old and young alike. It then became national book week.

At Least 20 Die In Violent Storms In U.S. Near Blizzard Hits Midwest South Is Raked By Tornadoes By UNITED PRESS A road - choking snowstorm stalled highway travel in much of the Midwest today, and severe thunderstorms lashed the South in the wake of damaging tornadoes. At least 20 persons have been killed in a series of violent storms since the weekend. Ten persons were killed Monday by tornadoes, lightning, floods and snows, five more died in tornadoes Sunday and weekend snows in the West claimed another five lives. A near blizzard which howled into the Midwest Monday dumped an average of 8 to 11 inches of snow across lowa, southern Minnesota, northwestern Wisconsin and Upper Michigan. Wind gusts of nearly 50 miles per hour piled the snow into deep drifts and cut visibility to near zero during the night. The Weather Bureau reported travel in the snow area “is almost impossible-” Highway authorities in the four states considered calling snow plows off the roads in some sections because they were in danger of being tailed and buried by snow. The edge of the snow line dipped info northwest Illinois with light falls reported on a line from Moline to Dubuque. Wind gusts from 25 to 45 miles per hour, common across the state, cut visibility in the snow area. The Weather Bureau said the snow should end by midday as the storm moved northeast into Wisconsin. The clash of warm and cold air in the South touched off twisters Monday in Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi. Heavy rains sent streams and rivers over their banks In sections of Mlouri, Arkanas, Tennessee and Kentucky. National Guardsmen helped evacuate 60 to 75 families at Spring City, Tenn., when Piney Creek flooded the residential section. Flood-waters also forced a number of families to flee at Dayton and Morgantown, Tenn. Other floods forced evacuation pf families at Reeves in Missouri’s “Bbotheel" section, closed at least 14 highways in Arkansas; and threatened the community of Hopkinsville, Ky.

Robert Wolf Dies Monday Afternoon Craigville Resident Dies Unexpectedly Robert N. Wolf, 63, of Craigville, died at 4:45 o'clock Monday afternoon at the Wells county hospital, Bluffton, where he had been taken about an hour earlier with a heart ailment. He was an employe of the state highway department, a charter member of Grover Sheets Post 111, American Legion, at Bluffton, and a member of the Craigville Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving are the widow, Tracey; three daughters, Mrs. .Harold Daugherty of Uniondale route 1, Mrs. Vernon Reed of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Cahrles T. Emenhiser of Hoagland; eight grandchildren; a brother, Raymond Wolf of Tocsin, and a sister, Mrs. Roy Thompson of Bluffton route z 4. Friends may call at the Jahn, Goodwin & Reed funeral home in Bluffton after 7 o’clock this evening. The body will be taken to the Craigville Evangelical United Brethren church at noon Thursday, for services at 2 p. m., the Rev. F. H. Pflugh officiating. Burial will be In Elm Grove cemetery, Bluffton.

Stevenson Studies Proposals Os U. S. Blueprint Given By Dulles To Stevenson WASHINGTON (ffl — Adlai E. Stevenson, working in a borrowed office in the State Department, today tackled U. S. proposals for the NATO conference in Paris next month. The twice-defeated Democratic presidential candidate is working without pay, expenses or title as a consultant for the administration of his old political foe, President Eisenhower. Stevenson planned to leave for New York later in the day and then go to Chicago. He is expected to return to Washington in a few days to devote as much time as possible on plans for the mid-December meeting. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles Monday gave Stevenson a tentative administration blueprint for strengther.ing the free world against Russia's missile threat. ♦ The titular head of the Demo- : cratic Party promptly settled down to study the proposals and to submit his comments in such away as to be “as useful as possible.” But he also promised to speak out if he does not approve. Stevenson and Dulles conferred 90 minutes on proposals which the United States will lay before the meeting of North Atlantic Treaty nations In Paris next month. President Eisenhower will confer with Stevenson before leaving for Paris Dec. 14. Stevenson described his meeting with Dulles as extremely cordial and friendly. When asked if he thought the arrangement would work out, he replied, "yes, I think It is very encouraging.” But he said bluntly that if he did not approve ' administration proposals for the NATO meeting, “I shall say so.” Much Colder Trend Forecast In State Little Damage Done From High Winds By UNITED PRESS Snow flurries in the north and “a few snow flakes" in the central portion were scheduled to feature a much colder trend in Indiana weather today. The mercury climbed into the 60s, or at least to 59, over the entire state Monday in what may be the season’s last fling with mild temperatures. It was 63 at Evansville, 61 at Fort Wayne, 60 at Indianapolis and 59 at South Bend. Then the temperature fell into the low 30s during the night and two days of rains ended. It was 31 at Lafayette, 32 at South Bend, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, and 35 at Evansville this morning. A high of 32-freezlng was due ip the north today, 35 in the central and south, with temperatures falling to 24 or 25 by Wednesday morning. Highj Wednesday will be only a few degrees warmer than Tuesday’s peak readings. Gusty winds blew the chill temperatures into Hoosierland. There was little damage from the wind, although gusts as high as 46 miles per hour were recorded at South Bend And 40 at Fort WayneBut at Lafayette ( wind blew down the 225-foot radio antenna of the Indiana State Police Post Monday night. The tower fell across U.S. 52 at the city’s northeast edge and blocked traffic two hours before the debris was pulled out of the way. Power and phone lines also were severed as the tower fell. Additional rain fell over the state during the 24-hour period ending this morning, including 1.16 inches at West Baden, nearly an inch at Evansville, Bedford and other points, and one-fourth to onehalf inch at South Bend, Fort ■Wayne, Lafayelle, Columbus, Terre Haute, Crawfordsville and other areas.

Defense Head And President In Conference Defense Spending Is Discussed By Eisenhower, Aides AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP)-Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy announced today after a conference with President Eisenhower that the Defense Department may have to shut down some major military installations in the United States to meet the higher costs of roeket and missile development next year. McElroy and WJ. McNeil, the assistant secretary of defense and Pentagon expert on budgetary matters, spent two hours with the President this morning discussing defense spending for the rest of this fiscal year and the whopping budget for fiscal 1959. McElroy said he does not believe the President’s announcement of considerably higher defense expenditures next year would result in a major increase in the Pentagon budget. McElroy said the final budget figure was not settled today, but he thought it would be "completely possible” that some military installations in the United States would have to be closed down to meet the financial demands of the space age. ■As the meeting between the President and McElroy ended, White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty announced that the chief executive would make his third “chins up” speech to the American public from Cleveland, Ohio, on the night of Nov. 26. The President will speak under the auspices of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce and will be introduced by former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey.„ Hagerty said the subject of the Nov. 26 speech would be "the value of international cooperation in our nation’s security.” McElroy also told a news conference that he expects to be able to provide additional units of the American medium range guided missile for European Allies "earlier than had been expected.” He rejected the suggestion of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev that the Soviet Union and die United States might run an accuracy contest to prove superiority of their missiles and rocketsMcElroy said he thought defense spending this year would remain within the area of about $38,500,000,000. He indicated he expected a material increase in fiscal 1959. He said he thought the 1959 increase would be "moderate” but that spending for defense purposes next year would be geared to national need in the light of Soviet scientific advances. The President issued a special statement Monday night in observance of “Equal Opportunity Day” asking an end to “all artificial discrimination” in the economic field. Legion Commander Taken To Hospital INDIANAPOLIS (th— American Legion national headquarters said today that National Commander John S. Gleason Jr., is in St. Francis Hospital at Evanston, Hl., for treatment of phlebitis. Gleason was scheduled to participate in an annual three-day meeting of the legion’s National Executive Committee here beginninf Wednesday. His illness prevented his but headquarters spokesmen said Gleason would address the group by telephone from the hospital. BULLETIN WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Army Wilbur M. Brucker announced today that all regular army troops will be withdrawn from duty a* L’ttle Bock’s Central High School the day before Thanksgiving.

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