Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 298, Decatur, Adams County, 19 December 1957 — Page 1

Vol. LV. No. 298.

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Ike And Other NATO Chiefs Finish Parley Agreement To Seek Missile-Age- Peace In Talks With Reds PARIS (UP)—President Eisenhower and the 14 other NATO chiefs concluded today their historic summit conference with an agreement to seek missile - age peace through fresh disarmament talks with Russia and to insure it by arming Western Europe, with nuclear missiles. The final communique of the foun-day conference included an American offer to share with its Allies .the technical know-how of 1.500-mile intermediate range ballistic missile f (IRBM> production. The decision to strengthen the Western nations against the threat of aggression through IRBM's and nuclear warheads Was blamed on Russia which “persists” in arming itself with “the most modern and destructive weapons, including missiles of all kinds." President Eisenhower, in a public statement prepared shortly before his departure for home, said the conference decisions meeting made “war less likely and peace more sure.” Admitting some differences of opinion among the 15 Allies, he said the effect of the conference nevertheless was to make “a stronger North Atlantic alliance.” The President earlier told the NATO council's final session that the "fundamental unity” of the Atlantic Pact nations enabled them to “either surmount our difficulties or accommodate them." “WtH Prove Historic" Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in his first public statement since the four-day conference started, said the meeting was of “historic importance which has reached great achievements." He said some results may not be apparent “for months or years," but nevertheless the summit conference “will prove historic.” It has “eliminated the misunderstandings at the root of some of our divergencies," he said. _ Dulles spoke at a lunch. He appeared fatigued after the gruelling rounds of diplomatic negotiations. ' The sessions concluded with a formal warning in the final communique that Russia still Is bent on “domination over, the entire world." The free world "will never yield to such a threat,” the communique said. The Western powers offered to resume the United Nations Disarmament subcommittee meetings with Russia which ended in London last summer in complete disagreement. The talks would either be in the subcommittee or held outside the U.N. by the foreign ministers. The choice would be Russia's. Soften U.S. Leadership The final session of the NATO council took two hours and 45 minutes to agree point by point on its “Charter of Paris,”, designed to convert NATO into a missile-age defense shield Observers said the conference provided a strengthening of the European voice in NATO and a “softening” of American leadership. President Eisenhower closed the conference with a request that the leaders pause for 30 seconds of - (Continued on Pare Seven) 14 Pages -

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William S. Girard Discharged By Army Criticizes U. S. For Trial In Japan OTTAWA, 81. (UP) v- Citizen William S. Girard, discharged from the Army and home for Christmas, broke a discreet silence of more than 10 months’ duration Wednesday and criticized the United States for letting him stand-trial in Japan. “I’m an American citizen and I should have been tried by my own country," was the young ex-' soldier's first comment after separation from the service at Ft. Sheridan. Girard, 22. who touched off an international controversy last January when he killed a Japanese scrap picker on a military rifle range on what a three-man Japanese court called a "childish Whlrh;” Was returned * to "civilian life in short order. Military authorities rushed him through separation procedures within a few hours of his arrival in Chicago Wednesday with his Japanese bride, die former Hau (Candy) Sueyama, 30. Girard's resentment of his treatment was obvious despite a statement, “I ain't got no bitterness against anybody." Perhaps the first real welcome given Girard was from his sister-in-law, Shirley Girard, who boarded the train at Joliet, embraced him and his bride, and said, "We’re glad to have you home, Bill.” Resentment at his suspended sentence was still prevalent in Japan when he boarded a transport early this month and began the long voyage home. Upon arrival at San Francisco, Girard was booed by fellow Gls lining the railing of the ship and onlookers at the pier. He told newsmen in Chicago, however, the booing was “because I was the first one off the ship and the others had to wait.” Following his discharge, the young ex-GI traveled with his (ContluJfcU on. Pax* Seven) Gifts Are Made To Destitute Family Cash And Articles Are Donated Here More than SIOO in cash, together with bedding, clothing, shoes, food and tame service, have been collected so far for the family of five left destitute by fire Saturday night in St. Mary’s township. Both churches in Bobo took up collections for the family, which includes a mother and her four young children. The Bobo PT A also aided the family. Interested persons from all parts of the county brought their Christmas gifts to the family to the Red Cross office. It is hoped that enough money Will be collected to aid the family in building a small home. The five were living in a small trailer on highway 101 south of Bobo, when an oil stove overheated and the trailer burned up, with all of their possessions in it. The Decatur fire department was unable to extinguish the fire when it arrived. A Christmas tree and decorations will be taken to the family today by the Red Cross. Individuals, church groups, or clubs able to help the family are invited to bring their gifts to the Red Cross office.

No Decision By Gov. Handley On Senate Race News Conference Is Held By Governor, Denies Factionalism INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Governor Handley said today if he decides to complete his four-year term in office it probably will mean the end of his political career Handley told a news conference if he decides not to run for the U.S. Senate in 1958, he loses his chance to “step up" in politics because of the “deadend" in 1960. Handley’s term ends in January, 1961, and a Hoosier governor is barred from succeeding himself. There is no Senate seat to be filled in the 1960 elections. The governor said he would have to “step up or step out” because that “seems to be the history of every governor in the state." Factionalism “Low"? • Handley did not elaborate on his remarks. Earlier, Handley was quoted as saying he would decide by next spring whether he will make the Senate race. Handley has been mentioned in the past as a possible vice-presi-dential candidate, but he always has laughed off the idea. In response to a demand by former Gov. George Craig that Handley stay out of the Senate race, the governor said “this shows the pattern” followed by his factional foes hasn’t changed. “The same group that said I couldn’t be governor apparently is making the statement about the U.S. Senate,” Handley said. But Handley insisted, "factionalism in the Republican party is at a low ebb” despite the attacks this week by Senator Homer Capehart, Rep. Charles Halleck and Craig. On the "grass roots level,” Handley said, he could see “no reason for bitterness because there have been no wholesale firings except > department” ' Denies Criticism Hurt Some county GOP officials have attacked Handley bitterly with charges that he bypassed county organizations in patronage matters. Handley also denied his criticisms of federal programs hurt the party “because I feel that I reflect the feeling of the majority of the people of Indiana.” He said he is accused of opposing President Eisenhower on every (Cowtinued on Page Seven) Eisenhower Pleased Al Parley Results Summit Conference Is Concluded Today PARIS (UP)—President Eisenhower said today at the conclusion of the NATO summit conference that he thought the decisions it reached made “war less likely, peace more sure.” The President said he also felt "that the four-day meeting had made for “a stronger North Atlantic alliance." Addressing his NATO colleagues in the closing phases of the final NATO council meeting in the Palais de Chaillot, Eisenhower said he recognized there were certain differences of detail among the 15 member states that could not be “surmounted completely."

Th President's own attendance at the conference had done much to dispel the gloom that preceded it among Western European nations in the face oFSoviet rocket and Sputnik successes. The President, looking fit despite the heavy pace he set himself after his arrival last Saturday, prepared to board his personal plane, Columbine 111, for an overnight flight back to Washington. The President told the windup session of the NATO council that because of the “fundamental unity*' of the Atlantic pact nations "we either surmount our difficulties or accommodate them.'* 'ln a statement prepared for public release he said “I leave with mixed regret and gladness.'* He said he was sorry he could not stay longer "in this land of many of my warmest memories and friendships.** “But I am happy that our work here has been conducted frankly, in friendship and cooperation and a unity of effort and purpose has been strengthened,*’ he said. "The decisions promised farreaching results and should make war less likely, peace more sure.’’ White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said both Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were "highly pleased” at the conference results.

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Killer Tornadoes Roll Across Two States, At * . * '* ■j’. tIWL ■>■ .■,,, •• • Least 12 Persons Dead

Rackets Group Holds Closed Door Session Reported Undecided On Issuing Subpena On Tennessee Judge WASHINGTON (UP) — Senate rackets investigators were undecided whether to subpena a Tennessee judge linked by testimony to a reported "fix” of a labor violence case against 13 Teamter Union members. The committee ended two weeks of hearings on teamster violence in Tennessee Wednesday and scheduled a closed door meeting during the day to discuss future plans. There was no indication that any new hearing schedule would be announced. Nor was there any indication that the group would decide whether to issue a subpena for Chattanooga Judge Raulston Schoolfield. The judge was the focus of the committee’s last two, days of hearings. Indictment Questioned Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said the committee had m piMs ttf can the judge, but he (fid not rule out the possibility. Testimony Tuesday disclosed that there' was “quite a bit of talk" around Chattanooga that Schoolfield had been given $18,500 to quash-the indictment against the 13 teamsters. Additional testimony Wednesday alleged the judge received a SI,OOO campaign contribution in a transaction which involved a teamster official. A witness said that the money was paid to secure a new trial for a defendant. Chief committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the committee's next hearings, early next year, may involve the United Auto Workers Union and its dispute with the Kohler Co., of Kohler, Wis. Bondsman Testifies Wednesday Chattanooga bondsman Sam Jones testified that he contributed SI,OOO for Judge Schoolfield’s gubernatorial cam(Contlnued on Page Seven) Hearing On Motion Scheduled Monday Motion To Dismiss Charge To Be Heard The hearing of Dale Death’s motion to dismiss the charge of public intoxication now pending against him because no warrant or summons was ever issued, will be heard at 2:30 p. m. Monday. Death originally entered a plea of guilty to a charge of public intoxication which was filed following an accident Nov. 1 in front of the Standard grocery. Following his dismissal from the police force after a hearing by the board of works for conduct unbecoming an officer, absence without leave, and conviction of an offense. Death asked the circuit court to allow him to change his plea from guilty to not guilty. Judge Myles F. Parrish granted this following a hearing, and in his decision mentioned that the question of legality of the charge had not been before him, but that it could be brought before him at any stage in the proceedings. Following this. Death's attorney, Robert S. Anderson filed a plea in abatement, asking that the charge be dismissed. A hearing on this charge will be held Monday. The hearing is open to the public.

Good Fellows Fund Previously Reported $496.33 Decatur Emblem Club .... 5.00 Decatur Weight Watchers 5.00 Arnold Lumber Company 15.00 Total .... $521.33

Award Contract For '< ■ Hospital Equipment Machines, Spin Dryer Bought The contract for the purchase of washing machines and a spin dryer for the Adams county memorial hospital has been awarded to the Troy Laundry Machine Division of East Moline, 111., according to an announcement made today by Thurman Drew, ncspital administrator. The hospilJ board of trustees awarded the contract for the equipment to the company for their bid which was the best of five submitted. In awarding the bid, the trustees explained, price, quality and availability of maintenance and repair service were considered. The Troy company submitted a bid of $3,748 on two washers and a dryer. Other bids were Prosperity Co. of Syracuse, N.. Y„ $6,260; Stovall and Associates, Inc., of Indianapolis, $3,712; American Laundry Machine company of Chicago, $3,780, and Smiley Laundry Equipment of Fort Wayne, $4,811, Drew stated that, although the bids submitted, by each of these companies were on two washers and ifee hospital W decided to purchase a third washer. Other items of laundry equipment now in use are still in good condition and will be adequate when the new addition to the hospital is put into operation. Contracts have also been awarded on several smaller items of equipment for various hospital needs, Drew stated. Most of the contracts for small items of stainless steel equipment for the major and minor surgical and delivery rooms were awarded to Brink and Erb of Fort Wajyie. A contract for three food carts to convey food from the kitchen to the patients wjent to Mills Hospital Supply company of Chicago. The National China and Equipment company of Marion was given the contract on dining room equipment. Equipment for the X-ray department will be purchased from Wayne Pharmacal company of Fort Wayne; items for the medical laboratory will come from the Scientific Products company of Chicago and other miscellaneous items will be purchased from the American Hospital and Supply company of Chicago. Other companies which submitted bids on some or all of these (Continued on Puxe Seven) Employment Total Below 1956 Figure Decrease In Payroll Also Reported Here Industrial employment in seven Decatur industries for the month of November continued at a low figure in comparison with a year ago, according to the Chamber of Commerce monthly business barometer. The 1,369 persons employed in Decatur industries was only one more than for the previous month and was considerably less than the 1,592 employed during November, 1956. A payroll of $481,021 was not only a marked decrease from the $570,676 reported a year ago but was also lower than the $511,423 reported for the month of October. No startling differences are noted in the number of utility meters as shown in the chamber’s report. The 3,957 electric meters (including rural) is one less than during October and 19 meters during November totalled 2,538, one more than the previous month but a decrease of 10 from the previous November. The 2,346 more than a year ago. Water gas meters in operation during /Continued or Page Seven)

Jupiter Fired But Fails To Complete Hop Apparently Blown To Pieces When Trouble Develops CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UP) —A thick, sharp-nosed Jupiter intermediate range missile, described as one of the nation’s best, soared up spectacularly from Cape Canaveral Wednesday night but apparently was blown to pieces when trouble developed. Scientists gained valuable information from the test, however, even though the 1,500-mile range Army missile failed to complete its flight for the second time in less than a month. The Jupiter has been successfully fired a number of times ahd flew 3,500 miles in one test. The missile was sent up a few minutes after 7 p.m. e.s.t. and the Defense Department announced shortly afterward the launching was successful. But a second statement announced that “the missile did not complete its full flight because of technical difficulUusually missiles are destroyed by remote control from the ground when they have malfunctions. The nature of the trouble was not learned, nor was it stated what the objective of the test was. There were indications, however, scientists were trying to test the Jupiter'srange. Here for the shoot were Dr. Wernher Von Braun, technical director of the Army's ballistic missile agency at Huntsville, Ala., where the Jupiter was developed, and Maj. Gen. John A. Medaris, commander of the agency. Neither was available for comment after the missile failed to go its entire prescribed course. —— When the firing button was pushed the Jupiter rose from a cloud of smoke rolling from arcund the launching pad and rose slowly skyward trailing a jet of (Continued on Page Bev«n) Lloyd Glen Daniels Dies Unexpectedly Heart Attack Fatal Wednesday Evening Lloyd Glen Daniels, 55, lifelong resident of Adams county, died suddenly of a heart attack at 8:15 o'clock Wednesday ’night at the Adams county memorial hospital, shortly after admittance. He t had not been ill and death was unexpected. He suffered the attack at his home on Decatur route 3. He had been a machine repairman at International Harvester in Fort Wayne for 28 years and also farmed on route 3 for 23 years. He was born in St. Mary’s township April 13, 1902, a son of Alfred T. and Catherine Brothers-Daniels, and was married to Beatrice Dull at Bobo Oct. 8, 1927. Mr. Daniels was a member of the Mt. Tabor Methodist church at Bobo and the Moose lodge in Decatur. Surviving are his wife; his another, who resides at Bobo; one daughter, Mrs. Robert Franklin of Decatur route 3; two grandchildren; an<L five brothers, Jesse, Charlie and Arthur Daniels, all of Decatur, Doyle Daniels of Monroeville, and George Daniels of Pleasant Mills. One daughter and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p.m. at the Mt. Tabor Methodist church at Bobo, the Rev. George Christen officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7:30 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Little Damage From Storm In Indiana No Confirmation Os Tornadoes In State By UNITED PRESS Tornadoes and thunderstorms whipped across portions of Indiana Wednesday night, dumping additional heavy rains on already wellsoaked Hoosierland but causing little damage. The Indianapolis Weather Bureau, which reported 26 tornadoes between Wednesday afternoon and midnight in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, and State Police said there were no confirmed reports any of the twisters hit in Hoosierland. “If any did,” a police spokesman said, “it was in wide-open spaces.” There were reports of tornadolike funnels sighted in the Rockville and Greencastle areas Wednesday night, but none apparently touched ground. The latest weather bureau summary listed an inch or more of precipitation in the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. at Columbus, Indianapolis, Martinsville, Knightstown, Zionsville, and nearly an inch at' Terre Haute, Anderson, Columbus and other points. Additional rain was expected late today and ending Friday in all portions, With' slightly* cooler temperatures, The new rain meant that some portions in Indian* have soaked up close to three indies this week in the wettest year in Hoosier history. The Indianapolis area has soak(Continued on Page Seven) Breakins Reported In Decatur, Beme Little Loot Taken - In Pair Os Breakins Wednesday night, sometime between 11 p. m. and 1 a. m., a thief forced entry into the Macklin Garage. The city police stated that the thief entered by crawling through a rear window after breaking a panel and unlocking the latch. Macklin stated that $4 to $5 was missing in cigarette change from a drawer in the parts partment. An attempt was made to force open the safe in the main office but did not succeed when tear gas was released as the combination was knocked off. The investigating officer stated that a number of footprints were found around the premises of a small size shoe, possibly a size 6 or 7. Not enough prints were found to indicate that more than one person was involved. The tools used to remove the combination were evidently carried away.' The sheriffs department reported that they, are investigating a breakin between 2 and 7 a. m. today, at the Liechty Motor service in Berne on highway 27. Entry was also gained through a rear window and at first check, $5 to $6 in loose change seems to be the only loss. Two boys were seen in vicinity of the building about 1:45 a. m. but were apparently frightened away. Both the city police and the sheriff’s department are continuing their investigations. INDIANA WEATHER Showers and some thunderstorms this afternoon and over the state tonight, ending Friday, followed by partial clearing. Some heavy rain mainly in south portion late this afternoon and early tonight. Mild tonight, turning a little cooler Friday. Low tonight about 45, high Friday about 55. Sunset 5:23 p. m., sunrise Friday 8:01 a. m. Low Friday night 35-40. Outlook for Saturday: Cloudy and cooler, high in the 40s.

Missouri And Illinois Hit By Tornadoes Rising Death Toll Reported By Rescue Workers At Scene MURPHYSBORO. 111. (W — A wave of killer tornadoes rolled across parts of Missouri and southern Illinois toward Indiana Wednesday night, and rescue workers today reported a rising toll of death and damage. At least 12 persons were killed, according to reports from city and town officials and the Illinois National Guard in the stricken area. More than 200 were injured. Damage here still was difficult to estimate. At Mount Vernon, Mayor Virgil T. Bailey estimated damage at one million dollars. Eight of the dead here were identified, four of them in one family. Gen. Edmund O'Neill of the Illinois adjutant general’s office reported at Springfield that two more unidentified dead were found today. The Illinois National. Guardis 130th Infantry headquarters at Carbondale sent 50 officers and men into the Murphysboro area. The town was without power. The guard said 135 persons were injured and two were missing. 5 > Expect More Victims O’Neill said the little town of Gorham, 447 population, was “completely wiped out.” Jackson County deputies were searching it for dead and Injured. He reported the town of Sand Ridge was also damaged badly. Mayor Joe Williams, in reporting on the casualties, said that more than 150 were injured here, although the guard put the total at 135. Sheriff Howard Cheathem said “two or three” of the injured were near death, and he feared more victims would be found in a search of burning debris today. “God only knows how many more we will find in that pile of rubble down there, but I can guarantee you the count will be higher,” Cheatham said. Other victims included a man at Sunfield, Ilh, who had stepped out of his home when he heard the storm approach, and a baby at Farmington, Mo., buried in the debris of his grandmother’s home. Twisters also raced through the city of Mount Vernon, north of Murphysboro, injuring more than 50 persons, two of them critically. Communication lines were knocked out and power lines were down. Shortly after midnight, a United Press reporter on the scene said the fires still were smoldering and the only lights against the pitch-black sky were the torches of rescue workers probing the rubble. Floyd Hart, a pharmacist, said lack of power hampered rescue work. “There must have been 200 homes hit," Hart said, “but it’s dark and we can’t see a thing, we can’t tell for sure if there are any more dead or Injured.” (Continued on Pare Seven)

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