Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 283, Decatur, Adams County, 2 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. IV. No. 283.

HENRY seeking barn burns frmiMini S ' ij-pjn l|M ' r g ’ i' B ■ LW ? - ; ■’ > 7 ■ • I 'Wfl |kHMk \v | | -1 ‘ rr*"fat I • •• ,' .iM * K iijAd li n 1 i l ' ri li DAMAGE ESTIMATED AT $5,000 occurred when the Henry Selking barn, three-quarters of a mile north of Preble, caught fire and partly burned Saturday morning. One of Selking’s sons spotted the smoke as he returned from hunting, and the Preble and Ossian fire departments were called at 10:45 a. m. Saturday. While the two departments fought the blaze and smoke for 3% hours, the Decatur fire department stood by with a resusciator. The barn was only 2*6 years old, having been built to replace one destroyed by lightning. It was partly insured. No machinery was damaged, but a large amount of hay and straw was destroyed. Thick smoke hindered the firemen, and water froze to their coats as they saved the frame and a large part of the building. Victor Bieberich, Preble fire chief, said. Most of the roof was damaged, and the entire south end of the barn will be rebuilt. Water for fighting the fire was brought from the Preble canning company and Preble reservoir—(Photo by Ginter)

Ike Returns To Office And Meets Cabinet First Office Visit Since Stricken By Chill Last Monday WASHINGTON (UP)-President Eisenhower returned from a long weekend of rest on his Gettysburg farm today and went directly to his office to dictate a memorandum before presiding over a Cabinet meeting. The President went to his office long enough to dictate the memo to his secretary. Mrs. Ann Whitman, then went to the living quarters of the White House for lunch and a nap before going to the Cabinet meeting. * This was the President’s first visit to his office since last Monday afternoon when he complained of a “chill” and was sent to bed with what proved.to be a mild stroke Eisenhower, grinning broadly, arrived at the White House at 11:11 a.m. c.s.t., after a motor trip of just under two hours from Gettysburg. Mamie Remains at Farm Riding in the same car with the President was White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty who said Eisenhower continues to make an “excellent” recovery. Immediately after the President returned, Hagerty said he "definitely” would attend this afternoon’s Cabinet meeting. Hagerty said the President would attend the start of the meeting, but would not stay through the whole session. Cabinet meetings often last two hours or longer. Mrs Eisenhower, who went to Gettysburg with theaPresident Friday, remained at the farm. The President's personal physician, Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Snyder, rode two cars behind the President’s limousine on the trip from Gettysburg. Progress Is “Excellent” The President and Mrs. Eisenhower went to their farm Friday after spending Thanksgiving Day in Washington. Eisenhower relaxed there by frolicking with his four grandchildren, watching Saturday’s Army-Navy football game on television and touring his farm. Hagerty said the President “had a very good night's sleep again" Sunda.y He said Snyder’s assessment of the President’s condition this morning was that "progress continues to be excellent.” The Cabinet planned to discuss the agenda for Tuesday’s White House conference with congressional leaders of both parties ” Stevenson Will Attend Hagerty was unable to say whether Eisenhower would attend Tuesday’s bipartisan meeting or Wednesday’s meeting of Republican congressional leaders at the White House. Adlai E. Stevenson, the President’s Democratic opponent in 1952 and will attend Tuesday’s meeting. The State Department announced Sunday night that Stevenson, acting as a special consultant to the administration on plans for the Dec. 16 North Atlantic Treaty Organization sumjnit meeting, will participate in portions of the legislative meeting dealing with NATO matters.

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Judge Orders New Trial For Death Arraignment Set For Next Monday Dale Death will be re-tried in circuit court on a charge of public intoxication following the court's decision that he has the right to withdraw his plea of guilty. Death, through his attorney Robert S. Anderson, refused to waive arraignment, and. because a jury trial is scheduled for the rest of the week, will be arraigned next Monday at IB a. m. The arraignment includes reading of the rights of the defendant, and informing him of the rights, and asking him how he pleads. It is often waived when the defendant has a lawyer and knows how he intends to plea. . , - - Judge Myles F. Parrish stated that he was sorry that the defendant did not waive his arraignment, as the case could then be tried. The eight-page decision by the court included an eight-point summary, as follows: 1. The defendant was legally arrested when he submitted to the authority of the city policeman. . 2 The question as to jurisdiction of the city‘court to hear and determine said cause is not presented by the issues. 3. A court in accepting a plea of guilty, must, before he accepts the plea of guilty, be convinced that the plea of guilty was made freely and 4. A court must advise the defendant that the defendant is entitled to be represented by counsel step by step throughout the entire proceedings, and that if he is without money, means, or property with which to employ counsel, the court must inform the defendant that counsel will be appointed for him at public expense. ? - 5 The court must inform the defendant that he is entitled to a trial by jury, and that he has a right to a public trial in the county in which the offense shall have been committed, to be heard by himself and counsel, to demand the nature and cause of the accusation against him, and to have a copy thereof: to meet the witnesses face to face and have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor. 6. The court should inform the defendant that no person in a criminal prosecution shall be compelled to testify against himself. 7. If a defendant’s constitutional rights have been infringed (Continued on f ’isre Five)

Funeral Rites Heid For Girod Infant Graveside services were held late this afternoon at the Decatur cemetery for the infant daughter of Dr. Arthur and Victoria Mit-chell-Girod, stillborn at the Adams county memorial hospital at 8:12 o'clock Sunday night. Servings were conducted by the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. ~ .

Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Dennes Eugene, and a sister, Theresa Ann, both at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Girod and Mrs. Cecelia Mitchell, all of Decatur.

Sen. Jenner Bows Out Os Senate Race Jenner Announces Senate Retirement - When Term Closes INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Sen. William E. Jenner’s surprise announcement that he will not seek re-election sent Indiana Republican leaders scurrying today to find a replacement. - ■■■ . The state's junior senator announced Saturday night that he would bow out of the 1958 senatorial race. Regarded as Indiana's best GOP vote-getter, the outspoken rightwing foe of communism had been considered a sure candidate and probable victor. , Jenner’s decision also stirred considerable activity in Democratic Party circles, and a scramble for the Democratic nomination seemed certain with the man they considered the top GOP candidate out of the race. Jenner announced his decision in a brief letter to Indiana Republican Chairman Robert Matthews. He said he wanted to take up private law practice in Indianapolis rather than engage in a political battle for his seat in 1958. Contacted at his Bedford, Ind., home by United Press, Jenner refused to amplify on his reasons for retiring from the Senate. “I think I’ll let the dog lie right where it is,” he said. Jenner said he knew his announcement came as “quite a surprise*' to Republican leaders He said he had many reasons for not running, but they “are not for publication.” Matthews said Jenner had previously expressed a desire to retire from the Senate, but Matthews had hoped the senator would reconsider. Matthews termed Jenner’s impending retirement "a great loss to the country and the State of Indiana.” His sentiments were echoed by Republican National Chairman Meade alcom who said in Suffield, Conn., Sunday that Jenner's decision “doesn’t make our path easier in Indiana.” However, Alcorn said he was confident Indiana voters would elect another Republican in 1958. Matthews tagged Gov. Harold Handley, a long-time friend and political ally of Jenner, as “my first choice” for the GOP senatorial nomination if Handley decides to make the race. In this connection, the 49-year-old Jenner has been known to nurse an ambition to become Indiana governor, and some observers believed Jenner’s decision paved the way for Handley to run /or the Senate and Jenner for goverHOFy;; ' ■ flhja w* W' '■ • . SfiggS tm.-.- : >• Other possible Republican candidates for senate nomination included State Sen. D. Russell Bontrager of Elkhart and Marion County Prosecutor John G Tinder. Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler of South Bend,’ Ind., who has been mentioned as a possible senatorial candidate, said he thought Jenner’s retirement was a break for his party. "Jenner would have been tougher than any man to beat,” Butler said. “His departure from the scene enhances Democratic chances in Indiana next year.” Jenner, a World War II Air Force veteran, was elected to the Senate in 1944 to fill out the 50(Conttnued on Page eight)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, December 2, 1957.

Decatur Man Is Killed Accidentally While On Hunting Trip Saturday

U.S. Planning Launching Os Ist Satellite Launching Os First Satellite Slated Probably Wednesday WASHINGTON (UP) - This is the week the United State? hopes to put its own space satellite into an earth-circling orbit. Launching of the first American entry in the space race is slated for some morning during the week, probably Wednesday at 7 a.m. It will be a 6-inch test sphere with a radio transmitter but no scientific recording instruments. Dr. John P. Hagen, head of Project Vanguard, told the United Press there will be no advance announcement of the launching. But he said the Defense Department will give the word to the press here the moment ,the huge three-stage rocket is fired from its Cape Canaveral, Fla., launching pad- _ A news conference will be called “within two hours” afterward at the Naval Research Laboratory here, Hagen said. This will be the first time toe public will learn whether the U.S. satellite is successfully hurled into an orbit around the earth, he said. ’V i That presumably excludes the possibility that the rocket may visibly fail before disappearing into space. While the satellite is being prepared for imminent firing, government missile experts were thinking ahead to further space exploits including the launching of satellites capable of bearing deathdealing nuclear bombs. Dr. Simon Ramo, Air Force chief ballistic missile scientist, said this country should double its research on ballistic missiles “beyond the Thor and Atlas" and on other long-range rocket problems, indicating he meant space ships, space platform projects and the like. ’ Brig.' Gen. A.W- Betts, the Pentagon’s executive assistant for guided missiles, said there was "no question” that this country eventually could put up a satellite that could drop "its nuclear warhead on target.” An Army spokesman said, mean-1 while, that American cities will be defended by the new Nike Hercules anti-aircraft missiles beginning about the first of the year. These missiles will start replacing the Nik Ajax about that time.

Fort Wayne Rapist Taken Into Custody Younq Man Seized As Elusive Rapist FORT WAYNE (UP)—A fingerprint smudge on a kitchen table ended a three-month search for an elusive rapist who terrorized more than half a dozen Fort Wayne women. ' Richard H. Butler, 23, a Churubusco factory worker who. lives in Fort Wayne, was arrestee! Saturday afternoon on the strength of fingerprints found in a woman’s home which matched his on file at the police station. Butler’s prints were found as police delved nearly halfway through 10,000 sets on file. Police said Butler had a police record Officers said Butler confessed raping twq, .women and. molesting, six others. Some of the victims lived withip a few blocks of his home; '• The print was found in a home where a Thanksgiving Day guest was molested as she slept last Thursday morning. The print was on a table on which an intruder climbed through a window he opened to gain entry to the house. Butler was identified by a 25-year-old housewife who was slashed in a rape attempt Nov. 3. But he denied that crime. Prosecutor Glen Beam. said he may file multiple charges of rape, attempted rape, burglary and breaking and entering. He said he j would file a holding charge today; and ask that bond of $20,000 be set-

Hawaii Has First Recorded Hurricane No Major Damage Is Reported In Hawaii HANEPEPE. Kauai, T.H- (UP) —Some one thousand persons on tAa island of Kauai moved into shelters manned by Red Cross workers early today as Hurricane Nina bore in with 80-mile-an-hour winds. i .No major damage was reported 3 from Hawaii's first recorded hur- > ricane, although power failures were commonplace and the Aloha i Theater in Hanepepe was flooded 1 with three feet of water. , The storm shifted course early t Sunday, thus saving Honolulu i which is 96 miles southeast of here - from a serious battering. However, Honolulu reported the first casualr ty attributed to the storm. A linel man was electrocuted, while re- : pairing a 4000-volt power line that . yvas damaged by the gale force • winds. i The major danger to Kauai was i flooding. Rains reported at three > and one-half inches per hour Sun- ! day night threatened to flood low .. lying areas and inundate domestic I wafer supply systems* Storm warnings were lowered for the southernmost island of Ha- • waii, 200 miles south of Oahu, and i similar action was expected for the otb'-r major islands except Kauai. 5 <-./ ' >4 l'hf storm was expected to de- • liver its hardest punch early today and then taper off. No hurricane has hit any of the Hawaiian Islands in recorded his- ’ tory although one came close to ' Kauai in 1950. Nina was expected to come within 80 miles of the ' island, possibly the closest one ever gotBerne Bank Robber Is Denied Clemency ~ Governor Rejects Clemency To Clark INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley today commuted the life sentence of Wilbur Bitzel, who was sentenced in Huntington County in 1945 for inflicting injury in commission of a robbery. I Handley also commuted to time served the 10 to 20 year sentence of Max Becraft, sentenced in 1952 from Allen County on burglary charges. But the governor turned down clemency for two murderers, a kidnaper, a rapist, an Adams County bank robber, and 16 other men X a 4. Bitzel’s term was commuted to 13 years 6 months to life. Clemency was denied Richard E. Clark, who was sentenced In Adams Qounty in 1954 to 10 years for the $12,000 holdup of the Berne bank on May 28, 1954. The governor also rejected appeals for clemency by John Hampton Pogue, sentenced in 1944 from Miami County to life for the rape of an 11-year-old girl; Eugene Dixon, sentenced in 1942 in Lake County to life for murder; Frank Potts, sentenced in 1940 in Wabash County to life for murder, and Donald Lang, sentenced in 1944 in Wayne County to life for kidnaping. Handley continued the case of John Sims, a lifer sent up from Marion County in 1939 for murder. Other denials of commutation were for: Robert E. Turner, sentenced in Monroe County in 1953 to 19 25 years for robbery. » James Schultt, LaPorte; 1952, 25, robbery. % (Continued on PftK® Five) Three Children Die In Fire At Chicago CHICAGO W — Three children died today in a fire in their South Side apartment where an oil stove blew up while their mother was lighting it. The dead, all Negroes, are Alicia Starks, 3, Alexander 2, and Donna, 1. The mother, Mrs. Alexander ; Starks, was burned and was taken jto Michael Reese Hospital. The i father was not at home at the J time. - i

Over 500 Die On Roads On I I Long Holiday ’ Total Death Toll Over Thanksgiving/ r Is More Than 600 B, united press 5 Traffic accidents killed more i than 500 persons during the four 1 day Thanksgiving week end tc wreck hopes of safety officials r that the fatality count would be 1 held below that of a similar non- . holiday period. , The United Press counted at ’ least 507 persons killed on the na- . tion’s highways from 6 p.m. . Wednesday to midnight Sunday t night. Plane crashes killed 9 per- . sons and 101 were killed in miscellaneous accidents for an over- : all holiday toll of 617. The traffic toll ran well ahead . of this year’s Fourth of Juy holi- - day, when 431 fatalities were recorded, and the three-day Labor Day holiday, which killed 445 [ However, it still was well below . the tragic 706 traffic deaths ebuntl ed during the four-day 1957 Christ- • mas holiday. The National Safety Council did not issue a traffic death estimate for, the Thanksgiving holiday, but , noted that about 500 persons would be killed during a normal four-day , period at this time of year. The traffic toll had been running ’ near normal during the early stages of the long week end, but , an upswing in accidents Sunday ; night as motorists hurried home wiped out all chances of posting a holiday safety mark. California had the highest traffic toll with 50 dead. Ohio followed with 35 killed, Michigan counted 26, Illinois 24, Arkansas and New York 23 each, and Florida H. New Hampshire and the District of Columbia had no fatalities. The worst single accident of the Church Is Damaged By Fire Sunday INDIANAPOLIS (W — Officials today estimated the damage to the Mount Lebanon Baptist Church at $25,000 in a fire Sunday. Authorities said the fire apparently started in the basement and burned its way to the first floor. Robert B. Folk Dies Early This Morning Long Illness Fatal To Local Resident Robert B. Folk, 36, a fireman for the Pennsylvania railroad, died at 6 o’clock this morning at his home, 828 North Second street. He had been ill with cancer since April and his condition had been critical for the past two weeks. He was born in Junction City, 0., July 14, 1921, a son of Pleasie C. and Dottie Yarger-Folk, and was married to Donna Norris Feb. 12, 1944. The family had lived in Decatur since 1951. Mr. Folk was a member of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church. He was inducted into the armed forces in October, 1944, and was discharged in March, 1946, serving in the\Navy amphibian forces. . Surviving in addition to his wife are two children, Connie Jeanne and Kenneth Robert, both at home: his parents, residing in Junction City, 0.. and one brother, Carl W. Folk of Cleveland, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at" the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. Billy Snider and the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery, with military services conducted by the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this I evening until time of the services.

Indonesian Police Seek Terrorists Nine Persons In Assassin Effort JAKARTA. Indonesia (UP)-Be-curity agents pressed an islandwide manhunt today for the terrorists whose bombs killed nine persons and wounded 155 others in the attempted assassination of Preaident Sukarno. Sukarno was not hurt. .At the same time, the Indonesian e government carried out threatened retaliatory measures against the ° Dutch for the reftual of The 8 Netherlands to surrender the e Dutch-held territory of West Irian —also known as Dutch New Guinea. t Sukarno himself escaped unInjured in the attempt on his life >• Saturday night at the Tjikinl eleP mentary z school. He called on the '* nation to remain calm in a nationwide broadcast and then sped ’• out of Jakarta under armed escort, apparently for the Summer presi1 dential palace at Bogor. A tight censorship was clamped • on the manhunt But it was rer ported that several suspects were " taken into custody immediately f after the attempted assassination. r Sukarno had gone to the school with two of his children who attend classes there for ceremonies ’ in connection with the third anni--8 versary of its opening. j A crowd estimated In the hundreds pressed around Sukarno as y he left the building. Suddenly, the g gunshot rang out—it was believed ■ to be the signal for the bomb t throwers. . ( y Four grenades arched through e the air in quick succession to ex- ? plode into the suddenly panicked crowd. Shrapnel ripped through the densely packed crowd. i The assailants escaped in the 1 confusion. , Three of the injured were presidential guards. A witness told ret porters one of the aides pushed Sukarno to the ground and shield- » ed the president’s body with his own when the first grenade exploded. (OtMittnuad on Page Five) Cold Wave Is Short I i Lived In Indiana Weather Moderates After Brief Spell By UNITED PRESS Temperatures moderated further today in Indiana after a one-day cold wave vanished almost as quickly as it arrived. The mercury was expected to crest in the 40s and 50s today, completing a warm-up which began early Sunday at a time when the season’s chilliest marks were supposed to be recorded. Instead of lows ranging from 8 ' to 16 Saturday night, as forecast 1 by the weatherman, Hoosierland ' got readings ranging from 14 at South Bend to 29 at Evansville. i Sunday’s highs, instead of being i in the 20s and 30s, were in a range from 44 at South Bend to 54 at Evansville. The weekend temperatures and a bright sun melted most of the snow which fell Friday night and Saturday, creating brief traffic hazards particularly in the north portion where two or more inches of snow fell. Lows tonight will range from the upper 20s to the mid 30s with Tuesday's highs ranging from 36 north to the low 50s south. Today’s early - mornfog lows ranged from 27 at Evansville to 33 at South Bend, a turnabout from the ncffmal situation. Snow flurries were seen as possible today ih the Lake Michigan area. Elsewhere, no precipitation was expected before Friday, when rain averaging near one-fourth inch north to around one-half inch south was due. The five-day outlook for the period ending Saturday called for temperatures averaging near normal highs from the mid 30s to the upper 40s and normal lows from the 20s north and central to the low 30s south. “Minor temperature variations until more general warming about Thursday, turning colder again about Saturday,” the outlook said.

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Richard Drake Dies Saturday Os Gun Wounds Accidentally Shot By Brother-In-Law Saturday Afternoon Richard G. Drake, 35-year-old > Decatur man, who resided at 812 , West Adams street, died at 6 , o’clock Saturday evening at the ’ Adams county memorial bospitt al, a little more than an hour . after he was accidentally shot while on a rabbit-hunting expedi- . tion. The tragedy occurred about ' 4:45 p. m. while Drake was hunt- ' ing rabbits on a farm seven and one-half miles east of Geneva. Drake was hunting with a brother-in-law, Robert Wendel, 25, of New Corydon. • The men flushed a rabbit and Drake shot it, but failed to kill it. As he started tu run after the animal, Wendel fired, with the shotgun slugs striking Drake in the back, just above the belt Wendel rushed to a nearby farm home and telephoned for an ambulance. ' " J Details of the tragedy were outlined by WendeU to sheriff Merle Affokier and coroner Eh met Winteregg,. Jr., who investigated. Mr. Drake, a lifelong resident of Decatur, had been employed at the local plant of the General Electric company for the past 15 years. A graduate of the Decatur high school in 1941, he served with the United States Army in Europe, entering service Dec. 12, 1942, anc( receiving his discharge Dec. 1, 1945. He was born in this city Oct. 5, 1922, a son of Frank and Ruth Zerkel-Drake, and was married to Helen Leininger Jan. 25, 1948. L. Mr. Drake was a member of the First Baptist church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Thomas, 8, and Joseph, 3; his father, Frank Drake of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Lester Mitchell, also of this city. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the First Baptist church, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services. , ■■■■ I . Decatur Lions Club Will Meet Tonight The Decatur Lions club win hear Herman Krueckeberg this evening at their regular Monday night meeting, G. Remy Bierly, secretary, said today. Bierly made the announcement because of the possibility some Lions may have believed that there would be no — meeting tonight. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight, a little colder north. Tuesday cloudy and cold with light snow north and central. Low tonight 22-28 north, 28-34 south. High Tuesday mostly in the 30s. Sunset today 5:21 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:49 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Cloudy and cold. Lows Tuesday night 20-28. Highs Wednesday in the 80s.

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