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Blame Leaking Fuel Valve For Satellite Delay High Winds Also To Blame For Delay In Launching Satellite BULLETIN CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — W> — The test of the Vanruard earth satellite loiasUe was rescheduled today for the daylight hours Friday. — CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla, (UP) —A weary Vanguard missile crew today .blamed a leaking fuel valve and wild winds aground and aloft for their failure to launch an earth satellite Wednesday night. But the crewmen will get a full day to iron out the kinks in their space machine and get some rest. J. Paul Walsh, deputy director of the Vanguard project, announced flatly early this morning that there would be no test during the day. Walsh neia a midnight press conference after Wednesday’s scheduled firing of the Vanguard, a six-inch aluminum moon already operative in its nose, was postponed. The originally scheduled getaway time was 4 p. m., but hour after hour the launching was set further back until finally it was called off. Walsh said the Navy would ask the Air Force missile range today for a new firing schedule but the requested time would not be earlier than Friday. Walsh Explains Walsh told exactly what had happened to throw the plans out of kilter. ’’Basically there were no major technical difficulties," he said, "but we were plagued by a series of minor things. "What really did it to us was a lox (liquid oxygen) disconnect valve which allows us to continue to put in lox almost to the takeoff time. This is necessary because the lox continues to boil off. “It is necessary just before the takeoff to disconnect the lox line and this valve was giving us trouble. We attempted to replace it with a spare but had difficulty aligning the spare. "Meanwhile we reworked the other valve. But it continued to leak because the part of the valve connected to the tip had become stiff or ‘frozen’ on contact with the lox. (liquid oxygen has a temperature of 270 below zero, Fahrenheit. ) Had to Unload Lox “Thus it would have been necessary to unload lox, allow a warmup period for the valve, reload the lox and then take off.” Walsh said the crews were growing increasingly weary. Some had been working in the area since late Tuesday and it was considered unsafe for personnel to go through the entire process again. Meanwhile, Walsh said, upper air currents which had been just below the maximum safe velocity for a launching increased strongly as the countdown dragged on Later, he said, ground winds increased to the point where they were expected to exceed the 20 mile an hour maximum by the time the rocket could have bn drained and reloaded. "I cannot h</stly say when the (Contiaoee Pace Bight) I ' :■ ■*

Grand Champ Steer Brings Record Price Indiana Farm Wife To Receive $30,000 CHICAGO (UP) — Television performer Arthur Godfrey today paid a record price of S3O a pound for the grand champion steer of the International Live Stock Exposition. The sum, totaling $30,000, went to Mrs. Sue Secondino, 19, West Terre Haute, Ind. She broke down and cried. The raven-haired young farm wife said she and her husband, Pete, 23, will use the money to buy their own farm. The summer Yearling Hereford, Honeymoon, -weighed “right on 1,000 pounds,” she said. Godfrey, conducting his network TV show from the auction ring, bid S3O a pound to eclipse the previous high bid of $26.25 by Howard Johnson Jr., vice president of a restaurant and motel chain. The previous record was set last year when Penn State University sold the grand champion for $20.50 a pound—a total price of $20,367. The young couple, now living with her parents on a Vigo County farm, had said they bad been dickering for property of their own. “Man!” Sue said, when the auction ended at the S3O figure, “we have a chance now.” Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max L. Lenderman, were in the crowded ring. Also present was her brother, Max Jr., 15. "We have worked a lifetime for less than that,” Mrs. Lenderman said about the $30,000 sum for the children. The Lendermans will have been married 21 years the day after Christmas. The auction was the high spot of the 58th international farm exposition and the young Indiana farm couple has emerged as hero and heroine upon winning the junior grand championship. They bought the steer as a calf for SIOO. Godfrey said he had no Immediate plans for the steer. Sue earned the recognition and the reward for the couple while her husband was serving a sixmonth tour with the Army. When ‘Pete went into the Army shortly after they were married last Feb. 23, Sue stayed home and took care of her wedding present, a steer named “Honeymoon.” In her last year of eligibility as a 4-H member at the big farm exposition here, Sue won the junior grand championship last Saturday and then captured the senior grand championship Tuesday with the Hereford. She was the first married woman to win the grand championship in the 58-year history of the exposition, and the first Indiana winner since Purdue took the crown in 1941. She said the money from the auction will be used to buy land. The couple lives with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Max M. Lenderman and her brother, Max Jr. 15, on a Vigo County farm near West Terre Haute. “We know what we’ll do with it,” she said with a serious cast to her brown eyes. “But we can’t tell you.” Pete disclosed that they had been dickering for land, "But we can’t say with whom or where. We’d be giving it away." Last year, the grand champion steer, PS Troubador, a Shorthorn shown by Penn State University, (Continued on Pa<e eiffht) ‘ p» -

76 Killed In Crash Os Three British Trains Blame Choking Fog For Train Tragedy During Rush Hour LONDON (UP) — Rescue workers braved the threat of sudden death from a train teetering overhead on a wrecked bridge today and brought out additional bodies from Britain’s worst -rail disaster in five years. Transport Minister Harold Watkinson told the House of Commons in an emergency statement this morning that “so far as is known at present” 76 persons were killed when two commuter trains collided in thick tog and wrecked a bridge just as a third train was moving onto it Wednesday night. He listed 193 known injured, "116 of them seriously.” The 193 were seriously enough hurt to require hospitalization. Hundreds more of the estimated 2,000 persons aboard the three trains received first aid treatment at the scene. Many others reported for treatment at distant hospitals. Police and railway officials said no Americans were reported as casualties. The death toll could rise above the 100 mark. A fire brigade official said between 12 and 30 bodies may still be trapped in a pancaked coach pinnea under the fallen bridge. But railway and rescue authorities flatly refused to estimate a final toll. The crash occurred at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the, height of London’s rush hour when trains were jammed with commuters hurrying home and with early Christmas shoppers whose ripped parcels strew toys among the wreckage. Tragic Scene Described . One boy of about five lay dead in the wreckage still clutching a toy drum. Near him lay a dead woman, her knitting needles still in her hands, an unfinished Christnas present torn and ravelled at her feet. A steam train, its engineer blinded by. the fog, slammed into in electric train which had halted because even its brilliant headlight could not lift the blackness of the early December evening. A blue electric flash lighted up the fog and then there was darkness. Above the scene, just entering a bridge, a third train left the tracks with a jolt that added deadly wreckage from the bridge to the wreckage of the splintered cars. 29 Coaches Involved One of the trains had 11 coaches, another 10 and the third eight. Normally each coach would carry about 60 persons. Wednesday there were scores of standees. The fog, worst of the season, disrupted all communication and ■ ntinu- >n **■!*« KUrtU* Volunteers Needed For Blood Donation Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Friday Walk-ins are urgently needed for the bloodmobile unit Friday between 12 noon and 3 p.m. at the Youth and Community Center, Mrs. Ed Bauer, chairman of the Red Cross blood program, said today. . Mrs. Bauer thanked the ladies who worked day and night for the oast week calling hundreds of former or prospective donors tn the area, to schediile theni for this visit. A quota of 127 pints of blood must be filled to keep the blood stock at its peak, Mrs. Bauer explained. Farmers who are not working in their fields tomorrow are urged to walk in and offer their blood, she added. This blood is kept in reserve, and is often used for farm machinery accidents such as cornpicker accidents, which require many transfusions. There will be 16 ladies helping at the donating center Friday, in addition to the professional staff of doctors and nurses. Mrs. R. C. Hersh is chairman of the canteen committee, and Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mrs. Bert Haley, Mrs. Jesse Altman, Mrs. William Schnepf, and Mrs. Edgar Reinking will aid her. Mrs. Ruth Railing is in charge of motor transportation. Staff aides are Mrs. Carl Fry, Mrs. Ivan Stuckey, Mrs. H. H. Krueckeberg, Miss Fan Hammell, Mrs. H. P. Engle, Mrs. Frances Monahan, Mrs. Meldren Kreps, Mrs. Arnold Ostermeyer, and Mrs. Joseph Hunter. Mrs. Edna Haviland has also joined the nurses’ staff, and will aid the 10 listed yesterday. a. ~ 1 ■2. ’ , . . ■

£ ~ —— Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, December 5,1957.

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GOP Leaders Optimistic On Budget Balance Seeking Savings To Offset Prospective Budget Increases WASHINGTON (UP) - Republican Congressional leaders took an optimistic view today of the administration’s chances of balancing the next federal budget despite planned increases in missile spending. Their reports indicated President Elsenhower’s aides are using a magnifying glass in an effort to find savings to offset the prospective budget increases. But no clear picture has yet emerged of what economies the administration will propose when it sends Congress next month the budget for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. The balanced budget goal was emphasized by the White House and the GOP Congressional leaders who attended Wednesday’s conference with President Eisenhower on his domestic legislative program for next year. The Congressional group was part of the larger bipartisan delegation which met with the President Tuesday to discuss defense and foreign policy. Some GOP Leaders Dubious Some of the GOP leaders were more dubious than others about . >«•*<! «•» BlrlFort Wayne Realtor Dies Last Evening Heart Attack Fatal To Arthur W. Rose Arthur William Rose, 68, prominent Fort Wayne realtor and director of the Dime Trust and Savings Bank, was dead on arrival at St. Joseph’s hospital in that city at 5:15 o’clock Wednesday evening. He suffered a coronary attack about 4:30 o’clock at the Fort Wayne Country club. He had been in the real estate business since 1916, establishing his own real estate firm in 1931 K specializing in property management, brokerage and residential property. Mr. Rose had been president of the Clinton Securities Corp., and was a former member of the Fort Wayne park board. He held memberships in the Masonic lodge, Scottish Rite, Mizpah Temple, national society of residential appraisers, the American institute of appraisers, Indiana real estate association, Fort Wayne real estate board. He was also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Elks lodge, Elks Country Club, Fort Wayne Country Club, and was secretary of the Mental Health Assn. He was also a member or the old Friars club, and the Fort Wayne chapter of the Citizens historical society. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Mabel Lambert Rose, a sister of Mrs. Eugene Durkin of Decatur: two daughters, Mrs. Henry C, Kowalszyk and Mrs. James M. Foohey, both of Fort Wayne; five grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. James Bobilya, residing in California, and two brothers, Adolph Rose of Pontiac, Mich., and William Rose, Fort Wayne. The body was removed to the Klaehn funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. INDIANA WEATHER - Partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Friday. Becoming windy Friday. Low tonight In the 30s. High Friday 45-52 north, 52-58 south. Sunset today 5:21 p. m. Sunrise Friday 7:51 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and mild with light rain possibly begining late Friday. Lows Friday night mid-30s. Highs Saturday around 50. V 16 Pages I **

Fear Missing Girl Sex Fiend Victim Massive Hunt For Girl Is Abandoned SYCAMORE, Hl. (UP)-A score at FBI agents searched this farm town today for clues to the disappearance of 7-year-old Maria Ridolph, feared kidnaped and perhaps killed by a sex fiend. Richard D. Auerbach, ' special agent in charge of the FBI office in Chicago, came here to head a growing team of FBI men from Chicago and Rockford. The FBI entered the case Wednesday night after waiting 24 hours under terms of the Lindbergh kidnap law. Throughout the night agents questioned a steady stream of known sex deviates and persons with police records. — But with each passing hour hope dwindled that curly haired Maria would be found alive. She disappeared Tuesday night while playing near her home. A playmate said a man in his early 20s had offered to give her a piggy back ride. A massive search of the sur-. rounding countryside by an estimated 1.000 lawmen and volunteers was called off when the cold and tired searchers returned Wednesday night and early today empty-handed. Some of them had not slept in 30 hours. “The area within a seven to eight mile radius of town has been tramped over two or three times," a police spokesman said, "and there’s not much point in going “We’re looking for a body now,” said Sheriff Al Diesz. “There’s litthe chance she’s still alive.” Frost and fog shrouded the community but business returned to normal this morning as volunteers trooped back wearily from the fruitless search. The widespread search for the girl began Tuesday night and at various times included entire city and county police forces, squads of state police, eight airplanes, bloodhounds, and hundreds of factory workers, businessmen and the entire senior class of Sycamore High School. But the only possible clues turned up were the girl’s doll, a paper estaurant napkin, foot- (< itlnued on Page Five) Tov .ship Line Case Near To High Court Bill Os Exceptions Is Signed In Case The appeal of the Wabash-Mon-roe township line case to the Indiana supreme court moved one step nearer to completion with the signing of a bill of exceptions by Judge Myles F. Parrish and court reporter Romaine Raudenbush. The bill of exceptions includes all the oral and documentary evidence I given in the trial, and is made from the reporter’s • short-hand notes of exactly what happens. This bill, and the copy of the pleadings, motions, and court actions, which is being prepared bv county clerk Richard Lewton, will be bound together and taken to the supreme court. The entire case must still be indexed, and marginal notations made to aid the high court judges in their study of the more than 200 pages in the case. The mandamus suit was filed against the county auditor last May, asking that he comply with the law when he makes out his transfer books in the future, placing only that land in Monroe township that is legally in Monroe township, find placing land legally in Wabash township in that township’s transfer book. The difficulty grew when in the past, auditors have transferred land from Wabash to Monroe tax records when the land was taken into Berne. Judge Parrish, In deciding the case, stated that a mandamus suit should not have been entered, that a declaratory judgment should be used. He refused the mandamus, but ordered the auditor in the future to make no illegal transfers.

Expulsion Os Dutch Ordered By Indonesia Dutch Consulates Closed, Citizens Will Be Expelled JAKARTA, Indonesia (UP)—The Indonesian government today ordered the closure of all Dutch consulates and the expulsion of the 50,000 to 60,000 Dutch nationals in Indonesia. The orders climaxed a weeklong anti-Dutch campaign touched off after Indonesia lost a battle in the United Nations for debate on possession of western New Guinea, now held by the Dutch. (In Paris, where Indonesian Foreign Minister Dr. Raden Subandrio arrived from New York, authoritative sources said Indonesia was seriously thinking of breaking off diplomatic relations with the Netherlands.) The expulsion order was announced ty the Ministry of Justice. •Ta ne rnree-rnase Plan The Central Immigration Service announced a “three phase plan” had been formulated for the expulsion or repatriation of Dutch citizens from Indonesia. It said “jobless” Dutch would leave in the first phase, and “middle class” Dutch in the second phase. In the final phase, the remainder of Dutch citizens in the islands would go. * Justice Minister Gustaaf Adolph Maengkom said the action was part of Indonesia’s current “liberate West Irian” campaign. Indonesia claims the Dutch-held territory on the island of New Guinea. Campaign Started Monday The anti-Dutch campaign was inaugurated Monday with a ban on Dutch publications, cancellation of landing rights of the KLM Roy(Contlnu«<’ on Pagre aig’ht)

Funeral Saturday For Markle Couple Asphyxiated Sunday In Home In Florida The bodies of Charles Flagg, 63 and his wife, Florence, 60, whc were found dead in their wintei home in Orlando, Fla., Sundaj night, will be returned to Markle for funeral services and burial. Mr. and Mrs. Flagg, who resided one mile’ onrth of Markle, had left three weeks ago for Florida for the winter. They died of asphyxiation after two space heaters in the apartment they occupied exhausted the oxygen in the apartment. Surviving Mr. Flagg are two sisters, Mrs. Florence Susdorf of Decatur, and Mrs. Edna Wycoff of Rantoul, Hl., and a brother. William Flagg of Decatur. Mrs. Flagg is survived by a brother, Ernest Campbell, north of Zanesville, and a sister, Miss Grace Campbell of Chicago. The couple’s, daughter, Maxine, died in 1938 at the age of 19. Double funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Markle Methodist church, the Rev. Clark W. Meyers officiating. Burial will be in the Markle cemetery. Friends may call at the Funderburg funeral home in Markle after 10 a.m. Friday until noon Saturday, when the bodies will be taken to the church. BULLETIN MOSCOW (W — Russia today launched the woritfs first atomic surface vessel, the 16,000-ton icebreaker Lenin. The ship was put into the water at Leningrad, the official Soviet News Agency Tass announced. The Lenin is the first atom-ic-powered surface vessel. However, the United States has two nuclear powered sub- - marines, the Nautilus and the Sea Wolf.

Sanla Claus Trains Run Here Saturday Final Details Made For Saturday Special Final details for the three Santa Claus trains which will W run out of Decatur Saturday were announced today by Louis Jacobs, Christmas promotion chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and by Erie railroad officials. The trains will leave from the Erie station on Winchester street at 10 a. m., 1:30 p. m. and 4 p. m. Indications are that all three trains, which will travel to Ohio City and return, will be filled to capacity, with accomodations for 800 on each train. Officials said today that the trains will be ready approximately 3ff“ minutes before starting time. The trains will be on the north track and will be loaded frorrf the station side. The Winchester street crossing will be blocked while the train is being loaded, and autos will be detoured during that. time. Police ask that autos be parked properly and off the main thoroughfare. Efforts will be made to keep a traffic lane open in order that parents may bring children to the trains, shop while the children are riding with Santa Claus, and then pick them up when the train returns about one hour and 30 minutes later. Officials again emphasized the necessity for honoring only the proper colored tickets for each train. Only the yellow tickets will be honored for the 10 a,, m. train, only the red tickets at 1:30 p. m., and only the green tickets at 4 p. m. Nurses and first aid workers will be available on each train in event any child becomes ill. Mrs. Dick Heller, Jr., R. N., and Mr. and Mrs. Leo King, Jr., first aid instructors, will be on the morning train. For the 1:30 p.m. train, Mrs. James Inskeep, R.N., and Mrs. William Fifer and Mrs. Roger Singleton will be on duty, and on the 4 p. m. train, Mrs. Edna Haveland, R. N., and Mrs. Francis Howard and Gerald Durkin will be on duty.

Goodfellows Club Is In Full Swing Citizens Urged To Aid Sorority Plan The annual Goodfellows project of the Delta Theta Tau sorority is in full swing this week, as an appeal has been issued for canned goods, new or usable toys, or gifts of money to aid the project. ’ Mrs. Leland Smith, general chairman of this year’s drive, has pointed out that the purpose of the project is to bring Christmas joy to the needy families of the community. Each member of the philanthropic sorority is serving on a specific committee necessary to complete the work of the project. This year, the sorority will limit gifts to the needy to food baskets and donated toys. These will be distributed just before Christmas to those families thoroughly investigated and approved by the Delts. This is the 40th year of the wellknown project, which is supported by donations from other organizations and individuals of the. community. The sorority also contributes money, and then purchases the food, prepares the baskets and distributes the gifts. Canned goods, boxes of food mixes, and toys in good repair are being sought by the sorority. Donations may be taken directly to the fire station, where Ijgadquarters have been established, or by contacting any member of the sorority. Monetary contributions will be accepted by Miss Rosemary Spangler, of route 2, Decatur, or by placing cash donations in the Goodfellows club boxes, found at the First State Bank, Holthouse Drug Store and the Decatur Daily Democrat office.

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Report Stores Ripped Apart By Explosion |L - ?. „f X 21 State Authorities i Hear Report Three Buildings Destroyed VILLA RICA. Ga. (UP)—A ter- ! rific explosion ripped through t downtown Villa Rica during the height of the Christmas shopping i season today and police reported > unofficially that 40 to 50 persons > may have been trapped and killed • in the wreckage. Atlanta police gave the report ■ of the estimated casualties in a ■ broadcast to all cars to cooperate with rescue equipment passing through the city. There was no way of telling what the final toll would be. Telephone lines were clogged to the little city 40 miles west of Atanta astride the Birmingham - Atanta highway. One of the stores ripped apart, was a 5 1t 10 cent store where shoppers were purchasing gay Christmas toys and wrappings. Cause of the blast, which could be heard for miles, was undetermined. It was followed by fire that raged through the structures. The state highway patrol in Atlanta reported that three buildings were “blown away." AFL-CIO Seems Sure To Oust Teamster Union Convention Plans Voting Friday On Expelling Teamsters ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ (UP) —The AFL-CIO begins its third year today apparently united on throwing out its largest affiliate, the Teamsters Union, on corruption charges. About 1,200 delegates opened the federation’s second convention this morning. The vast majority seemed ’Willing to follow AFL-CIO President George Meany’s advice to expel the teamsters. Meany said Wednesday he would not advocate expulsion of the 1,500,000 - member truck union if James R. Hoffa, major target of AFL - CIO corruption charges, would step aside as presidentelect. Hoffa, now on trial on wiretapping charges in New York and defending a Washington court action to void his election has repeatedly refused to resign despite threats of ouster of his union. The convention .plans to vote on the teamsters’ expulsion Friday afternoon. Three Unions Face Ouster Three other unions — possibly four—were tagged for ouster by the convention. .. Meany said that two of the unions on the road to reform had taken a turn for the worse. He identified them as the United Textile Workers, with 40,000 members, and the Distillery Workers, with 25,000. The 29-man Executive Council, in an all-day session Wednesday, suspended the Textile Union. Meany charged that two former officers who resigned under fire on corruption charges were still on the payroll as of last week. (Continued on Page eight)

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