Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 278, Decatur, Adams County, 25 November 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. Ho. 278.

SANTA GETS INSTRUCTIONS l ygjT Ji .Sii rjinrriirwnM - BE JI 1 imbk BK b ■ymh WMfc rEORGE CUESTA. 2, is confused as he faces 50 Santa Clauses in New York. The boy optimistically submits a yard-long list of what he wants for Christmas to the. Santas, who were there to receive last-minute briefing before launching annual sidewalk appeal for funds for the Volunteers of America. The organization provides food packages for thousands of homeless and needy New Yorkers during the Christmas holiday.

UN Secretary Gives Backing To Truce Head Removal Demanded By Jordan, Charge Patrial To Israel By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold gave his full backing today to Col. Byron Leary, whose removal as head of truce, supervision organization in Palestine is demanded by Jordan. Jordan demanded removal of thq American Marine cdlonel on grounds he was "partial” to Israel in his investigation of the latest series of border incidents involving Israel and Jordan. ’l‘h‘e latest incident was reported in Jerusalem where an Israeli spokesman said armed Jordanians opened fire on Israeli farmers Sunday after several unsuccessful attempts at kidnaping border residents. Israel also accused Syria of opening machine-gun fire on an Israeli village, killing one Israeli and injuring several others. Israel demanded an emergency meeting of the Israeli-Syrian Armistice Commission—the first such meeting requested by Israel in two years. ■. ■■ Won't Deal With Leary Jordan’s call for the discharge of Leary from his sensitive post came after a week of increasing tensions between Israel and Jordan Jordanian Foreign Minister Samir Rifai told newsmen his country would no longer deal with Leary. Leary succeeded Canadian Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns as acting head of the truce supervision group when Burns took over the United Nations Emergency Force. Hammarskjold in effect rejected the Jordanian complaint and' suggested that a Jordanian representative discuss it with him personally. A statement issued by the U.N. in New York said “Colonel Leary continues to enjoy the full personal confidence of the secre-tary-General.’’ Result of Incident The complaint arose because Jordan was annoyed with Leary’s handling of its complaint that armed Israeli soldiers penetrated Jordan last week and kidnaped a Jordanian farmer Israel has said only that it captured an “infiltrator” Inside Israel. An Israeli foreign ministry spokesman said Israel probably will return the “infiltrator” within a Jew days. He called the move "routine” and denied that Israel is bowing before a Jordanian ultimatum to "take action" if the man was not returned. Meanwhile members of the Is-raeli-Jordanian Mixed Armistice Commission flew to the border town of Wadi Araba to investigate the killing of two Israelis who allegedly entered Jordanian territory last week. Former Local Lady Dies In Michigan Mrs. Grace Cook, 82, former resident of Decatur, died Saturday at her home in Saline, Mich., following a year’s illness of a heart ailment. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Lynford D. Bracey, also former Decatur residents. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon at Saline.

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Death’s Petition Under Advisement Complete Hearing On Court Petition Following the testimony of the state's two witnesses Saturday morning, and the oral arguments by counsel. Judge Myles F. Parrish of the Adams circuit court took the matter of Dale Death’s Motion for a change of plea from guilty to not guilty under 1 advisement. Judge Parrish indicated that he ’ would go over all the law in the ‘ matter before announcing his ‘ decision on the case, which has ’ -'stiffed iff) cdhsideriblb’ local in-1 terest. f The first witness called by the! i state was chief of police James I M. Borders. Chief Borders testit tied that he attempted to have I conversation with the defendant the night he was arrested -for I public intoxication, but that the i defendant was unintelligible. He s added that he was in the presi ence of the defendant from about I 8:15 p. m. until he was taken to ’ the jail, except for the four or five minutes the defendant was in the rest room. ' The chief then described his j conversation at the jail the next , morning. One of the main con- ! tentions of the defendant was ! that he had been “coerced" into , pleading guilty, because the chief had told him that he could not return to work until the “matter was cleared up.” Borders then 1 . testified that he told the defendant ■ that morning that he had been charged with public intoxication, that he, the chief, had recommended a hearing before the t board of public works, and that he had been suspended from the police force until the entire mati ter was cleared up. To prosecuting attorney Lewis Lutz Smith’s question, "Did you influence in any way ‘he plea of the defendant In i>. trial for public intoxication': Borders answered "no, sir.” T>.e chief of police then testified that Death never indicated that he wished to notify his family, friends, or lawyer of his arrest while in the presence of the chief, either that night, or at the jail the next morning. County sheriff Merle Affolder was then sworn. He testified that he had been serving as sheriff since Jan. 1, 1955, and had been a deputy sheriff for two years before that. He resided at the jail the night of Nov. 1. He then described how Seitz and Strickler, city policemen, had brought the defendant to the county jail, and that the defendant had placed a telephone call before being placed in the north cell block, where there were no other prisoners at the time. Sheriff Affolder stated that he returned to the cellblock about 2 a. m. before retiring, and Death was asleep. The sheriff went to Death's cell the next day at 8 a. m. and offered the prisoner food. He refused the food offered, which included either rolls *or toast, and asked for a cup of coffee and two aspirins. Both were given to the defendant, and he drank the coffee and took the aspirin. Later he was given a second cup of coffee. He did not at that time ask to contact his family, friends or a lawyer. Under cross-examination by Robert S. Anderson, Affolder testified that he had heard Death testify that he had not been offered food, but he repeated that (Continued on Pace Five)

Moroccan King Arrives Today For U.S. Visit r King Mohammed Os t Morocco Planning Three-Week Visit WASHINGTON (UP)—King Mohammed V of Morocco arrives to- ■ day for his first U.S. visit in which ’ he will attempt to iron out some 1 problems and see the nation and ‘.its people town President. Eisen-. bower to Joe Smith. The three week tour will Include 4 a three-'.-.; y official state visit ! | here which is expected to further ■ cement Moslem ties with the West. From the time he enters this ; nation King Mohammed will get the deluxe red carpet 'treatment. I President Eisenhower will greet him personally at the airport, an honor accorded only heads of state. The King and President will ride in a motorcade to the White House from the airport. Mohammed Vwill lunch privately at Blair House and will meet the press during a reception later in the afternoon. WUI Give State Dinner Tonight President and Mrs. Eisenhower will entertain King Mohammed and his official party at a state dinner at the White House. During his visit the King is expected to confer with the President at least twice. He will also talk with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Mohammed V, leader of a potentially rich nation of nine million souls at the western end of the Arab bloc, is one of the most respected statesmen of the Moslem world. While in the United States King Mohammed wants to look at an American supermarket. He will visit a department store and some average American homes as well. In his talks with U.S. officials King Mohammed and Foreign Minister Ahmed Balafrej are expected to try to win support for the joint Moroccan - Tunisian offer to mediate the three-year-old nationalist rebellion against the French in neighboring AlgeriaMay Discuss Bases •Hie question of U.S. bases in Algeria will probably come up becauses the agreement originally was negotiated with France. Negotiations have since been conducted with Morocco on a smooth but slow basis. There may also be some discussion of U.S. economic aid to Morocco and of continued operation of a Voice of America transmitter in Tangier. While here King Mohammed will do some sightseeing around Washington and historic Williamsburg and Jamestown, Va. From there he will fly to Dallas, Tex., take a side trip to the famous King Ranch and the Kingsville, Tex., Naval Air Station. He also will visit Los Angeles and San Francisco, Calif, Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., Niagara Falls, N.Y., and New York City. Partly cloudy and cold tonight. Tuesday mostly fair and warmer. Low tonight 26-34. High Tuesday in the 40s expectnear 50 extreme south. Sunset today 5:24 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:42 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with little change in temperature. Low Tuesday night low 80s. High Wednesday low 50s.

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Senate Opens Probe Os Missile And Satellite Programs For Nation

Great Britain, I French Leaders In Conference Seeking To Restore Alliance Torn By Arms To Tunisia , PARIS — <W —British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived today to confer with French Premier Felix Gaillard in talks aimed at restoring the AngloFrench alliance which was badly torn by American and British arms shipments to Tunisia. “I have come ti dissipate any misunderstanding, for such cannot exist between friends like France and Britain," Macmillan said. "We are in the same boat and no one should be allowed to rock it.” , Extra police precautions were put in effect for Macmillan’s visit. One right wing group called for anti-British demonstrations in the Place de la Concorde near the U.S. and British embassies. Macmillan flies back to London this evening, so his encounter tod^y. with Gaillard was. to be a. brief one. But the agenda was heavy with cruical issues which affected the whole Western alliance and the Dec. 16 NATO sum--mit conference. „ „ Main Topics Listed — — Here are the .main topics up for discussion: —Tunisian arms.' The French are still angry over the “token" delivery of rifles and submachineguns to Tunisia by British and America. —Algeria. France wants assurances of British support again this year when the Algerian crisis is debated in the United Nations. This may not be forthcoming since Britain feels Gaillard’s plans for Algeria are not sufficient to end the rebellion and that the rebellion threatens NATO. —NATO. France claims that Britain and the United States plan to set up an Angola-American “directorship” to run NATO. British Foreign Minister Selwyn Floyd who accompanied Macmillan today has emphatically denied this. Seeks Free Trade Plan —Free Trade. British wants other West European nations to agree to a plan which would jn(Coatmneo aa Paar Eight) 488 Persons Missed On Assessment Here Reports Reauested By County Assessor A careful check of the 39 personal property record books of Adams county by county assessor Walter Koss shows that at least 488 persons have been missed on their 1957 assessments. Koos stated a list has been made 'f those persons missed in their assessments, and that anyone who knows that he was not assessed for his personal property should report it immediately to the county assessor. Otherwise, those who were not assessed in the spring of 1957, but who should have been, will go delinquent. Personal property records include cars, trucks, miscellaneous household property, and even poll tax, Koos stated. Township or city assessors are not to blame for the delinquency, Koos asserted. Many assessors tried time after time to make the assessment, but some persons were never found at Mbme. If the assessor was not informed of. some piece of personal property, the property owner, not the assessor, is held liable for the delinquency. All persons who owned property in the spring of 1957 which they believe was not assessed should call the county assessor’s office im mediately, Koos added, because “the delinquency saved may be your own!”

Authorities Plan For Grave Opening *, Determine If Gein j Looted Cemeteries Wls. (UP)—Authorities planned to open two graves Tuesday to determine if Ed Gein, the human butcher of Plainfield, looted cemeteries to obtain most of the skulls and death masks found in his farm home. If the graves are found to have f been unmolested, authorities will ■ he faced with the prospect that Gein obtained his ghoulish 'colleci tion of trophies through the mass murder of as many as 10 persons. Gein, 51, who has admitted the mutilation slayings of two women, fold police he got at least eight Other skulls, death masks and cither parts of human anatomy during /moonlight raids on fresh graves. Dist. Atty. Earl Killeen of Waushara County said he felt “sure” the task of opening the graves .would begin Tuesday, although he added some details still remained to be cleared up before the exhumations could begin. Secrecy at Exhuming Kileen said it was necessary to gain permission from relatives of the deceased and to hire grave diggers before opening the graves. . "The situation is confused" because of the many details,” Kileen added. He said the Plainfield cemetery .would be roped off to prevent the public and newsmen from watching the exhumation. The secrecy apparently was ordered because some' persons in the small " com-* (Conti. .. on Page •igtau Junior Red Cross Drive Is Underway Students Given Chance To Enroll Students in public, private and parochial schools throughout Adams county will be given a chance during the next few days to enroll in the Junior Red Cross, Miss Glennys Roop and Mrs. Mildred Foley, county Junior Red Cross co-chairmen, said today. The Junior Red Cross bands the nation’s youth together to provide a variety of good citizen-ship-building activities on the community, national, and international levels. Last year nearly 22 million students were members in the United States, its. territories, and in the United States military dependent schools overseas. No individual fee is required for membership <in the Junior Red Cross, instead, the fee is by group —$1 for eyery elementary classroom, and $1 for each group of 30 pupils or less enrolled in the secondary schools. These fees finance the Junior Red Cross services locally and the Junior Red Cross children’s fund, through which the carry on their national and international programs. Enrollment also carries with it a subscription to the Junior Red Cross "Journal" for each group of 30 students in secondary schools, and a subscription Id the Junior Red Cross "News” for every elementary classroom. Locally the Junior Red Cross is not included in the United Fund since it is completely a children's organization, and no contributions were solicited for the United Drive in the schools, Miss Roop explained. During the last year the Adams county Juniors made a contribution of SIOO to the national children’s fund. They packed several gift boxes which bore the printing, “Gift from the children of the United States of America.” They purchased two folding cots to be used in first aid at the county and sectional tourneys, and the 4-Hfair. — In addition, they also purchased a Walt Disney film, ‘Tm no Fool on a Bicycle,” to be used in the schools of the county. The children also assisted in loading and unloading of the bloodmobile, and in numerous other services.

Brucker Urges Production Os Army Missile Urges Immediate Production On Army Ballistic Missile B 1 WASHINGTON (UP) — Army t Secretary Wilber M. Brucker re- . vealed Sunday night he has urged s immediate production of the Army's Jupiter intermediate range j ballistic missile (IRBM). ’ He conceded, however, the Det sense Department is “justified” in I waiting to be sure before it der cies whether to choose between ( the Jupiter and the Air Force Thor or go ahead with both. Brucker said the nose-cone of a ■ Jupiter “and the process that has i made it” have solved the problem . of re-entering the garth’s atmos- [ phere and the Army can make . missiles “with that nose cone now.” He scoffed at Soviet claims to , have won the arms race and asi serted this country is ahead of Russia In IRBM development However he defined an IRBM as a l.SOOmiile missile and conceded Russia probably is ahead in 800mile ballistic missiles. Made TV Appearance Brucker made the statements on ' the CBS television program “face The Nation” amid these other de- , velopments in the missile-satellite (field: - - — —The Senate Preparedness Subcommittee planned to begin public hearings today on the U.S. missile race with Russia. Its first scheduled witness, Dr. Edward Teller, “father of the H-bomb, said Sunday night the United States has lost a battle comparable to Pearl Harbor by letting Russia get ahead in the rocket race. —Dr. Joseph Kaplan, head of the U.S. Committee for the International Geophysical Year, pre- ■ dieted this country will launch an ' earth satellite before the original target date of March. —Lockheed Aircraft Corporation 1 has been awarded an Air Force contract to make studies of a reconnaissance satellite which may be built and launched in the earlj 1960’5, according to government sources. Making Economy Cheek —The House Government Operations Committee disclosed it has begun an investigation to determine the extent that economy curbs, waste and duplication may (Continued on Page Five) Revise Plans For Santa Claus Train Three Trains Are Now On Schedule Plans for Decatur’s Santa Claus train ride Saturday, Dec. 7, have) been completely revised due to the tremendous response it has received. Three trains have now been scheduled. They will leave at 10 a. m., at 1:30 p. m. and at 4 p. m. Each will leave from the Erie station and return an hour and a half later. Each participating merchant will distribute his assigned tickets divided between the three trains, Tuesday, December 3. Tickets will be different colors to designate the different trains and can be used only at the time shown. Parents needing adult tickets are urged to get their children’s tickets first and then match them with adult tickets valid on the same train. Only about 150 adult tickets will be available for each trip. Special arrangements have been made through the Decatur chapter of the American Red Cross to provide uniformed nurses aboard each train to help supervise the children and to assist should any of them become ill. Christmas music for the station and area on that day will be provided by the Decatur Music House, with James Webb in. charge.

Says Reds Penetrate Offices Os Congress New Technique For Penetration Cited WASHINGTON (UP)—The chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities said Sunday night that Communists ba*e penetrated Congressional committee rooms and the offices of individual Congressmen Rep. Francis E. Walter (D-Pa.) F reported "a new technique of • Communist penetration of govern--1 ment” which he said “is exem- - plified by the official association -of an identified member of the Communist apparatus with agen- * cies and members of the United 1 States Congress.” He did not name the commit--1 tees or Congressmen involved. But he cited as an example of the alleged penetration the work of a, 1 Washington economist, Wilfred 1 Lumer. Identifies Lumer Walter said Lumer had been ' identified by a witness or wit- ' nesses “under oath as a member of the Communist Party and a ' former member of a Communist ; cell in - the Office of Price Administration,” a World War II agency. He said Lumer had invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions about Communist Party membership at a closed meeting of the committee last Wednesday. Lumer promptly denied he was ' under Communist discipline in hia ' Congressional work. ! He said he had invoked the Fifth Amendment because he felt the ’ committee "could not constitution- ; ally inquire into my political be- ' liefs or associations.” Advisor Since 1953 Walter said Lumer “has been i actively participating in the work of a number of Congressional committees and has been serving as consultant and adviser to vari--1 ous individual Senators and mem- , bers of Congress since” June, 1953. Walter released a portion of Lumer’s testimony in which the economist said he assisted “a member” of both the Joint HouseSenate Economic Committee and . the House Small Business Comon Slake Severe Snowstorm t In Part Os Texas , Cold Canadian Air In U.S. Mid-Section By UNITED PRESS A cold Canadian air mass overspread the nation's mid-section today. touching off rain and hail storms in the South and a heavy snow storm in a seven-county area of west Texas. Readings plunged well below freezing overnight in the cold air belt across the Great Lakes, the middle Mississippi Valley and the Ohio Valley. To the south, rain, drizzle and fog prevailed during the night from Arkansas and Louisiana east through the Carolinas and Florida. Hail and sleet pounded parts of Alabama, with hailstones the size of golf balls causing some damage at Cullman in north-central Alabama. A severe snowstorm dumped 4 to 13 inches in west Texas, strand- ; ing about 200 motorists Sunday on U.S. 83 and 87 in the San Angelo area- Highway crews freed the ‘ motorists before nightfall. Authorities at San Angelo said the sudden storm was one of the worst , they could remember. Snow flurries were reported across northern Michigan during the night and in parts of the upper Mississippi Valley. Temperatures from the Plains eastward ranged in the 40s or lower except for Florida where a few 70s were noted during the night. Weathermen predicted occasional rain continuing today in the Southeast, and partly cloudy skies with snow flurries in sections of the Great Lakes and the New England states. A few showers also are expected in the Pacific Northwest. Elsewhere, most fair weather is forecast with some warming in the upper Mississippi Valley.

Warns Crisis Greater Than Pearl Harbor Father Os H-Bomb Says United States Lags In Space Race ' WASHINGTON (UP) - Dr. Ed- ‘ ward Teller, "father” of the Hbomb, said today that Russia may ‘ have .or soon will have an inter- , continental ballistic missile ac- • curate enough to hit American : citiesHe said the United States fell behind in the race into space because it waited until it had a nuclear warhead for its long-range missile “and by that time it was !• too late." Teller was the first witness as the Senate Preparedness subcommittee opened its investigation of the U.S. missile and satellite programs with a warning that the nation faces a greater crisis than at Pearl Harbor. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.), the subcommittee chairman, said in opening the hearing that Russia’s challenge with Sputniks I and II demand from the nation "the greatest effort in American history.” Urges Speed Up Teller told the investigators he believes the Russians have det veloped and tested intercontinental - , ballistic missiles (ICBM’s) as they . claim, but he added a hope that . they have not produced them in sufficient numbers to be put into operation. He said he believes they either have "or will have in a short time” ICBM’s which are accurate enough to hit such American cities as Houston, Tex. The Hungarian - born scientist, now associate director Os the University of California radiation laboratory at Livermore, Calif., warned that unless the United States steps up its military missile program "there is no doubt that the Russians will leave us behind and way behind.” Under questioning by special counsel Edwin L Weisl, Teller said continued testing of nuclear weapons is "absolutely necessary.” Solve Re-entry Problem He said the United States has developed a "clean type bomb” which “is already effective in that it cuts out 95 per cent of radioactivity.*’ Teller said Russia’s space satellites have "very great significance,” both militarily and scientifically, because they show Russian technological progress. He said the Russian Sputniks of themselves were not positive proof that the Soviets have the ICBM. But he said it would be a "great mistake to proceed under the assumption that they are only bluffing” in claiming to have developed the long-range missile. He said it is “reasonable to believe" that the Russians, like the United States, have solved the reentry problemthe means of getting a missile back through the earth’s atmosphere without it burning up from friction. Russia Closes Gap Reciting his view of Soviet achievements, Teller expressed the belief that Russia: —Has not caught up but is closing the gap in the field of nuclear weapons. —ls abreast in aircraft. —ls well ahead in missile development / si fcH-L i HELP - fight

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