Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 274.

TRAIN PLUNGE KILLS TWO f »' - -qr-" — ~ n 1 (. 11 * I - 5 OVERALL SCENE of the wreck of the Montreal-to-Boston express train “Redwing” which left the rails at a street overpass in Medford, Mass., plunging the locomotive to the street below and jackknifing several cars behind. At least two were killed and more than a dozen of the 200 passengers injured.

Two More Os Escaped Men Are Captured Confessed Slayer One Os Escapees Nabbed In Illinois MATTOON, HI. (UP) - Two escaped prisoners from the Lake County, Ind., jail, one of them a confessed rape murderer, were captured early today in a police net thrown around this central Illinois city. The capture of George Brown, 25, the “Dunes killer’’ of two women, and Keith Mac Dow, charged with auto theft, climaxed a two-state chase in which Dow’s alleged talents were drawn on heavily. Police said the two meh had stolen and abandoned at least five cars since they and five other men broke out of the county jail in Crown Point, Ind., Monday morning. It was the first getaway made at the jail since Public Enemy No. 1 John Dillinger bluffed his way out with a wooden pistol in 1934 Three of the other escapees were captured within 24 hours in the Chicago-Gary area. Authorities said Brown and Dow stole a car in Garyton, Ind., Tuesday afternoon which was subsequently spotted in Warsaw, and Greentown, Ind. It was next seen behind a warehouse at Urbana, 111., but the two men slipped through a police net in another stolen car, raced to Tolono, switched cars again, evaded several road blocks and crashed into one, and finally took off afoot in Mattoon. Mattoon Police Capt. Ed Horn said extra police forces were called in from surrounding areas to comb the city, searching Dow out with a spotlight shortly after midnight. Brown, meanwhile, had stolen another car and was arrested by state police at a road block near the edge of the city. Horn said a 20-gauge shotgun was found in one of the autos Brown and Dow abandoned. The escaped prisoners were transferred to the Coles County jail at Charleston, 111. Still at large are Houston E Smith, 18, charged with auto theft, and Wallace Mohammed, 18, charged with grand larceny. Lake County jail authorities said the seven men escaped from disciplinary cells, in which they had been put on a “bread and water” diet, by forcing back the cell bars with a metal table leg. Captured earlier were Raymond Karr, 40, charged with killing his uncle; Kenneth Pointer, 35, also charged with murder; and James Norman, 32, charged with burglary. Brown, whom authorities said may have been the ringleader of the escape group, broke out a few hours before he was to have gone on trial in the slaying in 1956 qf Mrs. Mildred Grigonis, 29, East Gary beauty operator. Brown led police to a New Chicago site last April where Mrs. Grigonis’ body was found buried, Cor .-o '»"■ ’-•a* Ulr INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and continued rather cold tonight and Thursday, with scattered snow flurries north and possibly central portions. Snow flurries occasionally heavy near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 26-30 north, 30-35 south. High Thursday 30s north and central to the low 40s extreme south. Sunset today 5:26 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 7:35 a. m. Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy and cold. Lows Thursday night in the 20s. Highs Friday in low 40s.

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Christmas Opening Here November 30 Christmas Lights Are In Readiness Louis Jacobs, chairman of the Christmas promotion project of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce retail division, announced today that the official Christmas opening here will be Saturday, Nov. 30. Jacobs said mm »u local merchants are readying their displays of Christmas merchandise. A feature of the opening day will be the initial visit of Santa Claus to the city. While plans for Santa's arrival have not yet been completed, Jacobs stated that Santa would be at the court house Saturday afternoon to greet children of the community and the surrounding area. The Christmas ornamentation program, co-sponsored by the Chamber and the city of Decatur, is underway and Christmas lights have been put up along the streets of the business section. Light posts will also feature yuletide decorations and a community tree wIU be erected at the court house, Jacobs pointed out. Santa will be back to see Decatur youngsters again the following Saturday, Dec. 7, for the Christmas train which will be the main project of the 1957 Christmas program. Jacobs announced that the response to the train ride, which will begin at 12:15 p. m. and will take local youngsters to Ohio City and back, has been tremendous and that it will probably be necessary to schedule a second section to the train. The list of participating merchants will be announced in a few days but in the meantime, Jacobs advised that parents who want their children to participate make reservations with their •favorite Decatur merchants as soon as possible. ■ • Garage, Auto And Boat Are Destroyed Fire This Morning Does Heavy Damage A fire at the home of Mrs. Arthur Baker at 328 South Fifth street, destroyed the garage, a -ar, and a 8750 boat about 11 Q*~ clock this morning. The Decatur fire department answered the call and kept the fire from completely burning down the tarage. The boat and car were entirely ruined, and the garage was gutted. Bob Baker, son of the owner, went to the garage this morning, and noticed that the seat of the car was entirely black, and the area was warm. He saw no smoke, however, and went back in to report the burned car to his mother. She went out and looked at it, and they returned to the house. They then started looking for their insurance policy to see if it covered the mysterious burning of their car. As they looked for the policy, and tried to call their insurance agent, they saw heavy smoke coming from the garage. They then called the fire department. The car was pulled from the garage, but was almost entirely burned, the glass broken, plastic melted, and interior completely destroyed. The boat, which belonged to the younger Baker, was chained to the garage wall to prevent theft, and this prevented Its being pulled from the burning building.

Soviet Russia Boycotts U.N. Disarm Parley Claim Soviet Union Seeking To Force 'Summit, Parley UNITED NATIONS (UP) — The Soviet Union is seeking to force the United States into a "summit'' conference on disarmament, western diplomatic observers said today. ■ They said Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov made this clear when he announced Tuesday that Russia would boycott future meetings of die U.N. Disarmament Commission. Kuznetsov said Russia “will not be here in January” when the commission is expected to resume its talks in line with ah overwhelming mandate from the 82member General Assembly The Assembly, by a 60-9 vote with 11 abstentions, agreed late Tuesday to expand the present commission to 25 members by adding Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Burma, Czechoslovakia, Egypt, India, Italy, Mexico, Noirway, Poland, Tunisia and Yugoslavia. It also voted down, 46-9 with 24 abstentions, a Soviet proposal for a commission comprising all 82 U.N. members. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said Russia “cannot successfully disregard this massive expression of world opinion.” But the Ruslans said they would do just that and western diplomats said it would cost them dearly in world prestige. Kuznetsov said the Soviets would not participate in the commission unless its membership were evenly divided between Soviet supporters and “neutrals” on one side and western backers on the other. “Comrade Khrushchev has suggested a summit talk,” he observed. Communist Party boss Nikita S (Continues u. rage Five) Historical Society Will Meet Tuesday Charter Will Close On December 31 Approximately 75 persons have already joined the Adams county historical society as charter members, and next Tuesday's meeting will be the last one before the charter is closed Dec. 31, Bryce Thomas, president of the society, said today. The historical society will meet next Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Decatur library to hear Rex Potters, Fort Wayne librarian, speak on “Canals in Indiana.” Many early Decatur residents came here either from Lake Erie to Fort Wayne on the Wabash and Erie, or up from Cincinnati on the Maumee and Ohio vanal, through St. Mary’s, O. Persons interested in the history of the Presbyterian or Catholic churches will be especially interested in the accounts of the “Irish War,” which broke out during the building of the Wabash and Erie near Fort Wayne. A company of volunteers from Fort Wayne had to form, and break up the two groups of emigrants, from North Ireland and South Ireland. Those who are unable to attend the meeting, but wish to become charter members of the organization, should oontact Thomas immediately. X

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Egypt Future Is Linked To Soviet Russia Russian Economic Aid For Egyptian; Again Blasts U. 5. By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent The Soviet Union has moved to bring Egypt into its economic orbit along with Syria. Russia accompanied the promise of economic aid to Egypt with new accusations today against the United States and Israel and said they were plotting war against Syria. It said Israel was massing troops for an attack on SyriaAt the same time Cairo renewed its campaign against King Hussein of Jordan and attacked the United States. It accused Col. Jarfies G. Sweeney, U.S. military attache in Jordan, of "eclipsing” Hussein from Jordanian military affairs. The Russian economic aid promise to Egypt was made Tuesday , night in Moscow by Premier Nikolai Bulganin at a reception for Maj. Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer, the Egyptian defense minister and commander of the joint Syrian* Egyptian forces. Amer Visited Military Nothing was said in Moscow ®n the Soviet-Egyptian military relations although Amer met with several high military figures including Defense Minister Rodon Y. Malinovsky. But Moscow observers noted that Amer visited more Soviet military installations than any other non-Communist soldier. Observers recalled that Syria’s decision to link its economic future with Russia followed a similar visit to Moscow. Russia is Egypt’s largest customer and supplier, but Egypt also has talks underway with Britain in Rome and with France in Geneva in an effort to repair economic relations with the West. Accuses Turkey Moscow Radio, in a broadcast monitored in London, said Turkish “provocations” were continuing along the Syrian border but it turned most of its venom on the United States and Israel. It said recent maneuvers by the U.S. 6th Fleet “give rise to the belief that Washington has now decided to attack Syria from both sea and land, more precisely from Israel.” Moscow made similar charges several months ago but switched its emphasis later to Turkey. Today it said “large units of Israeli armed forces are massing south of Jerusalem” and said it was “worth noting” they followed a visit last week by Gen. Alfred M. GruentherGruenther, former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, now heads the American Red Cross. Three Cars, Two Big Trucks In Collision One Driver Killed At Otterbein Today OTTERBEIN (ffl — John Hayden Lewis, 21, Elwood, was killed biles and two big trucks piled up Tuesday night when three automoin a grinding double-collision at the edge of this Benton County town. State police said the chain-re-action wreck was touched off when Glenda King of Otterbein started to turn right off U. S. 52 into an Otterbein street. Her car was hit by another driven by Carl Huke, Lafayette. Huke’s car glanced into a semitrailer driven by Theodore Backs, Vincennes. The big truck, overturned. r A second semi-trailer driven by Lawrence Tomilson, Cincinnati, was flagged down to keep it from clowing into the wreckage of the other truck. Lewis' car smashed into the rear of the flagged truck. Police said Lewis home was somewhere in Wisconsin and that he has been working in Elwood.

Tax Collections Are $90,000 Higher Here I Financial Report I Given By Treasurer | Payments on fall taxes by Adems county property owners totalled $761,353.75, according to an anncffiibement made today by Waldo F. Neal, county treasurer, following completion of the collection tabulation. 1 Neal sara that the second installment, added to the $922,260.53 paid in the spring, brought the total tax collection for 1957 up to $1,683,614.28. This amount is $90,385.32 higher than the 1956 collection total of $1,593,228.96. Tax delinquencies (payments not made by the November deadline) this year amounted to about $35,000, which is about the same as the 1956 delinquency total, Neal stated. He added that about $2,000 of die latter amount was paid last week following the deadline date. He further pointed out that the delinquencies, which are about two percent of the total collection, are considerably lower than in other Indiana counties. Neal continued that many of these delinquency payments will be made in Jahuary when licenses are purchased for motor vehicles. He said that last year’s delinquent payments were whittled to one-third of one percent, an extremely low figure, by time the 1957 tax cycle began. A six percent delinquency penalty is added to tax assessments not paid by the legal deadline. "Neal also announced that the total collection of all ditch assessments throughout the county for 1957 amounted to $62,072.12, a tremendous jump over the usual annual collection of $6,000 to SB,OOO for ditch assessments. The treasurer explained that this year’s ditch collection was boosted by assessments from the large, court-ordered Barger ditch, which accounted for about $54,000 of the total assessment collection. * / Brief Session Held By City Councilmen Committee Okays Petition For Sewer A report of the street and sewer committee approving a petition for a sewer in the west edge of the city between Washington and Meibers streets was recorded during a brief session of the city council Tuesday night. The council approved the report and authorised the committee, in "cnjum i with the city engineer, to be-in, the steps necessary for the installation of the proposed -ewer. Also filed with the council Tuesday night and referred to the board of public works and safety was a petition requesting that the board re-consider its decision to discharge Dale Death from the Decatur police force. The petition stated that the signers believe Death has done a good job in the past as a police officer and that the penalty imposed was too harsh. It was signed by Anisceto Villagomes, Lewis Beery and 121 other residents of Decatur. A letter from the Erie railroad company concerning complaints that the railroad was blocking city crossings excessively was read and recorded. The company officials pointed out that during the. month of October large numbers of boxcars being brought to the Central Soya Company made it necessary to hold up crossings but this situation has been alleviated. The company spokesman promised that every effort would be made to prevent such complaints in the future. The meeting closed following a heated protest by Charles Andrews, who appeared before the council to protest that city officials were blocking a private survey of his property. He also protested excessive sew(Contlnued Fare Six)

Stevenson And French Leader In Conference Strained Relations Os United States And France Easing WASHINGTON (W — French foreign minister Christian Pineau conferred <with Adlai E. Stevenson today amid strong indications that strained U. S.-French relations are rapidly improving. One big stumbling block — U. S. arms shipments to Tunisia — appeared to have been reduced substantially with word from official quarters that the United States has no immediate intension of sending any more guns to the newly independent country. Stevenson, Democratic Party leader and the State Department’s special NATO adviser, met with Pineau at the French embassy—presumably to discuss the forthcoming “summit” meeting in Pa ris to strengthen the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance. Pineau and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles touched on the issue Tuesday in their wide-rang-ing conference on Anglo-French affairs. . ■ Before leaving for New York enroute home this afternoon, Pineau is scheduled to confer at lunch with Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy and other top defense officials. These talks are expected to center on McElroy’s plans for deploying 1,500-mile ballistic missiles in Western Europe. Stevenson, twice - defeated Democratic presidential candidate, was to fly to Chicago later today with Dulles, who is making an evening address to the Chicago -Council of Foreign Relations. A State Department spokesman said Stevenson, who sat in during part of the three-hour Dulles-Pi-neau talk, was present only for matters dealing with the NATO conference next month for which he is helping the U. S. develop means to strengthen the allies against Russia’s new missile danInjuries Are Fatal To Fort Wayne Man FORT WAYNE (W — Elmer E. Brockman, 39, died in St. Joseph's hospital today of multiple injuries suffered Tuesday night when he was struck at a city street intersection by an automobile op erated by Robert Mann, 48. Discuss Forming Os Jaycee Chapter Preliminary Meet Held Last Meeting Discussion of the formation of a Junior .Chamber of Commerce in Decatur was featured at a meeting Tuesday evening at the Chamber of Commerce office. Richard Kershner, who attended the meeting, said today that the organization plans will be continued at another session to be held next Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Chamber office. Kershner said that discussion of the purposes and accomplishments of the Jaycee organiation was led by a group of four Jaycees from Marion. R. Dean Hall, chairman of extension activities of Marion, headed the Marion delegation. The Jaycee club is open to all young men between the ages of 21 and 35. Membership in the junior group includes young men from all walks of life, including retail, industrial and rural phases of activity. The organization seeks to provide young men with training to develop leadership qualities while at the same time enabling the young men to become better citizens of their community.

Lions Speaker Ips Th ■ ■ ■ Dr. Jake L. Krider Decatur Lions Plan Farm-City Meeting Dr. Krider Speaks •Here Next Monday Dr. Jake L. Krider, vice president of Central Soya Co., and an authority on farm animals, will address the annual farm-city meeting of the Decatur Lions dub next ; Monday night. ; All Lions are asked to invite a ; farmer-friend as guest for the an- : nual affair. Lions who are unable i to think of a friend are asked to ' contact either county agent Led N. Seltenright or ClZtus Gillman, ' SCS conservationist, for the names 1 of farmers who desire to attend 1 the meeting. Dr. Krider will show slides on 1 livestock and experiments which 1 he saw while traveling in Europe , this past spring. The forerunner . of the Hampshire hog, sheep which live on seaweed only, and many i other interesting farm phenomena , will be shown on the color slides. : Dr. Krider is well qualified to speak on farm animals, as he served as professor of animal sci- 1 ence at the University of Illinois. ' after obtaining his Ph.Dd. in ani- 1 mal husbandry at Cornell unlver- 1 sity, where he was also on the staff. He is a former director of the 1 feed research and education of ’ McMillen Feed Mills, before be- j coming vice president in charge of public relations. He is the author j or co-author of more than 100 tech- j nical and popular articles on ani- , mal nutrition and production, and i author of two books on swine pro- ] duction.

Annual Home Owners Banquet Held Here McMillen Owners Honored Tuesday More than 80 families who own homes in the McMillen addition were honored Tuesday night at the annual McMillen home owners banquet at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Harold W. McMillen, chairman of the board of the company and president of the McMillen Home Building corporation, presented awards to 20 families for improvements made to their homes during the past year. The winning, families were chosen by popular vote of the residents in each section. The evening was climaxed with an address by D. W. McMillen, Sr. “Mr. Mac" emphasized the importance of the home in the community and commended the home owners for their outstanding contribution to the growth of Decatur. „ Master of ceremonies for the event was Art Burris, who introduced the speakers and the program of entertainment which included Eddie Tullock, the Kaparettes and Roger Hill. Awards for the north Master Drive section went to Mr. and Mrs. Roger Singleton, Mr. and Mrs. Adrian” Poling, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Deßolt, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Azbell and Mr. and Mrs. (Contin'uod on Pact Six)

Chief Os Staff Urges Speedup For Missiles Planning To Supply Ballistic Missiles For Europe Nations > WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States today rushed rocket production hoping to put them in European defensive positions by 1959. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor at the same time urged a speedup in development of an anti-missile missile as a defense to any Russian ocean - spanning rockets. The step-up in 1,500-mile intermediate range ballistic missiles is expected to mean a further cutback in U.S. military manpower and domestic bases. Top defense officials have given clear indications their budget going to Congress in January will have a lot of production money for IRBM’s not previously counted on before Russia put two Sputniks into orbit around the globe. Target Date Mid-1959 Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy said Tuesday the United States would start supplying Brito ain with intermediate ballistic missiles "before mid-1959.” He said shipments to other allied nations would •‘have to follow” laterSecretary of State John Foster Dulles had made clear earlier that this country would press its plans to ring Russia with intermediateatomic missiles on the assumption the weapons would be available about the end of 1958. Dulles, who also revealed that this country was considering setting up several atomic stockpiles • in Europe, conceded that the United States still does not have an operational intermediate missile ready for use by the troops. Will Seek Permission But he said this country “very likely” would open negotiations with its European allies for permission to establish bases when the weapons are available. The idea would be to offset Russia’s claimed possession of a 5,000mile intercontinental missile by ringing the Soviet Union with the shorter-range but equally deadly intermediate missile. McElroy hinted that the Defense Department might gc ahead with production of both intermediate missiles now under test. They are the Army Jupiter and the Air Force Thor. Earlier at Augusta, the secre.ik- KIX-

former President Os General Electric Dies NEW YORK m — Gerard Swope, former president of the -cneral Electric Co., died today -t his Manhattan home. He was 85. Swope, a native of St. Louis, rose from a 81-day helper in a General Electric service shop in Chicago to become president of the giant corporation. He retired in 1944 after 20 years as president. He is survived by three sons and a daughter. . Cub Scout Packs To Meet Thursday Night Announcement has been made of two Cub Scout pack meetings which are slated for Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln school. David Smith, acting Cubmaster of Cub nack 3061, stated that his pack will meet in the auditorium of the school. He requested thatiall dens having a project to display bring it to the meeting. Awards will be presented. Parents are asked to accompany the Cubs to the meeting. Twenty-three -boys will ... receive their Bobcat badges at the ' meeting. Also slated to take place at Un- . coin school is the meeting of Cub . nack 3062. Cubmaster Dr. John Spaulding has requested that all l mbs, parents and committeemen attend the meeting which wfll feature the annual re-organization of I the membership list.

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