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TRUCK-BUS CRASH KILLS TWO— An Ohio State trooper surveys the wreckage of a National TrailWays Bus which, loaded with passengers homebound from a Washington holiday, crashed into a truck near Toledo, killing two. Dead are Carol Browne, 21, of Philadelphia, and Kenneth Pavel, Washington, D. C-, youth. ” ~~ - -~- " - ’ '' ~ ■

Army Jupiter Ready For Use By Hext Fall 1,500-Mile Missile Ready For Troops At NATO Bases By Fall CHICAGO O’ — Brig. Gen. J. A. Barclay, the deputy chief of the Army missile program, announced today the 1,500-mile Jupiter will be ready for use by U. S. troops at NATO bases by next fall. Barclay aaid the Army was ready to announce a contract with Chrysler Corp, for production of the intermediate range missile. He madg the announcement as a full scale training model of the missile was prepared for its; first public appearance at the Chicago Automobile Show. The deputy commander of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala., said a Jupiter “C" was being made ready for another satellite launching attempt. • r The use of the Jupiter as an operational weapon by next fall, he said, will signal the missile is free of the bugs which plagued earlylaunching attempts. He skid thh missile has been fired successfully “after considerable testing” but he warned the public not to picture “a hundred or so” missiles a month coming off production lines. "Production of a missile is analogous to production of a locomotive or a ship," he said. "Each missile has about 40,000 soldered parts.” He said the intricate construction of the missile held the key to many of the misfires witnessed in early tests. Only minor changes will be made in the test models before the missile is put In production, he said. “It is essentially already in production,” he said.. “Chrysler will assemble its many complicated component parts. We are in production of parts that are needed first.” Barclay said the missile being put on display at the auto show was essentially the? same missile that will be put in production. The only ma jot difference is the nose cone with which the Army has solved the reentry problem. The general said the next Jupiter “C” satellite attempt would be made “as soon as we are; sure of a successful launching.” He would not commeu* on when that might be. Local Man's Brother Dies At Rochester Grover Stingely, 1 69, eldest brother of Dr. Ray Stingely, Decatur dentist, died of a heart attack ati his home near Rochester Friday. Mr. Stipgely, who had been ill for some time, suffered the attack as he backed his car from the garage of his home mi route 6, Rochester. A bachelor, he is survived by two brothers, Dr. Stingely, and Verl Stingely, of route 6, Rochester; and a sister, Mrs. Gertie Mills, of route 6, Rochester. The body was taken to the Ditmire funeral home at Fulton, and the funeral service will be held therfe at 2 p.m. Sunday. - NOON EDITION .

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Rushmore Murders Wife, Kills Self Former Communist Kills Wife In Cab NEW YORK (UP) — Howard Rushmore, an ex-Communist and forme” editor of Confidential Magazine. wrote the final chapter of his life in blood Friday night when he murdered his attractive blonde wife and shot himself to death in a speeding taxicab. • The shootings occurred just two blocks from the police station Mis. Rushmore had told the taxi driver to take her to after her husband forced his way into the cab. - Police said Rushmore’s wife, Frances. 37, a cover girl during her modeling career, died of bullet wounds in the head and neck. Rushmore, 45, died after he fired one shot into his right temple. Armed With Gun. Knife The murder and suicide climaxed a futile reconciliation attempt. Rushmore apparently attended the meeting with his wife armed with a 32 caliber pistol and an 8-inch commando knife, police said. Rushmore still clutched the pistol in his right hand when police examined the two bodies sprawled in the back of the taxicab. The commando knife was found strapped to his side. Cab driver Edward Pearlman 37, told police Mrs. Rushmore hailed his cab shortly after 7 p.m., est. He said she got into the cab and tried to close the door but Rushmore forced his way in saying: * "I’m her husband, don’t worry about it.” Ordered Husband Out “I don't want any part of him. We’re separated," Mrs. Rushmpre snapped back- Then she told her husband to “get out,” Pearlman said. Rushmore.-however, refused and told her to tell the cab driver where she wanted to go. “Take me to the station house, Mrs. Rushmore said. Pearlman said he headed for the nearest police station. The Rushmores, meantime, were arguing, bitterly. ~ It was then that Rushmore apparently reached into his coat pocket and brought out the pistol. Mrs. Rushmore screamed "Oh, my God!” Wife Sprawled On Seat A series pf shots rang out. When Pearlman looked around briefly he saw the woman sprawled on the rear seat with blood streaming from her head and neck. The cabby then floored the accelerator and sped the last two blocks to the station house. Before he arrived there another shot rang out in the cab The Rushmores were married eight years ago when both were employes of the New York Journal American. He had one daughter by a previous marriage and she had two daughters by a previous union. . They separated twd days before Christmas when Mrs. Rushmore moved out of their apartment with her younger, unmarried daughter. Rushmore admittedly was a member of the Communist Party in the 1930 s and was movie critic for the Daily Worker for about three years. , Broke Over Review He said he broke with the party and the paper when he was prevented from writing a favorable review of the motion picture "Gone With -Die Wind.” For 15 years after that he was one of the chief anti - Red writers for the Journal American. He also served as a special Investigator of the Senate subcommittee headed by the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wls.) which was investigating Communism. Later he became an editor of on Page (Five)

Sen. Monroney Blasis Private Plane To Nixon Conversion Os Jet Tanker Dangerous And Extravagant WASHINGTON (UP)-Sen- A. S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.) today angrily blasted as “extravagant and dangerous” the conversion of a Strategic Air Command (SAC) KC-135 jet tanker into a "crosscountry taxi” for Vice President Richard M. Nixon. He also hit at President Eisenhower’s personal planes and helicopters. Monroney, chairman of the Senate aviation subcommittee, declared the 550-mile an hour plane for Nixon was urgently needed to refuel SAC’s hydrogen-bomb carrying B-52s and B-47s — the nation’s chief defensive weapons against Russia. ; ' Questions Authority ‘ In a statement Monroney said He doubted SAC had a “sufficient supply” of the jet tankers at present to afford giving one away. The senator said he had demanded in a telegram to Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy to know “by what authority the Air Force could furnish the vice president with the latest, most expensive and most urgently-needed jet transport.” A spokesman for Nixon, who was in New York today, said Thursday the multi-million dollar plane had been offered for the vice president's use “When it is practical to do so ” ■ The plane — the same one used in a record-breaking flight from Argentina by Air Force Vice Chief Gen. Curtis E. LeMay—was not assigned exclusively to Nixon, the spokesman said. It is based at Andrews Air Force Base in nearby Maryland. Can Halve Trip Time The spokesman said Nixon could make overseas or domestic trips in half the time it takes other transports with the KC-135 “speckled trout" which LeMay piloted from Buenos Aires to Washington in 11 hours and five minutes last November. But Monroney declared he was in favor of Nixon using some of the “dozens” of avilable propellerdriven military planes. “After much hullabaloo about putting aside the presidential yacht, 'Die Williamsburg,” Monroney said, "we have found the economy-minded executive not only with the Constellation Su-per-G Columbine, but also with a smaller commuting plane to use between the White House and Gettysburg, Pa. “On top of that we have two helicopters assigned to the Chief Executive to carry him back and forth from the White House to the airport. Now we hear that a multimillion dollfir jet has been assigned to the vice president as his cross-country taxi.” S3O Is Stolen From Berne Office Safe - Approximately S3O was Stoler from the V. C. Graber Produce company at 424 East Main street in Berne Friday night. ' ", Thieves entered the building sometime during the night by breaking a window on the left side of the building towards the rear. The combination of the safe was punched and S3O was taken. The thieves, evidently looking for more loot, ransacked the building completely. Karl Sprunger. Berne police chief, Merle Affolder of the Adams county sheriffs department, and state detective Truman Bierie investigated.

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Senate Preparedness Committee Seeks To Get Gaither Reports

Civil Rights Group Seeks New Director Top-Notch Director Is SoughtTo Guide Rights Commission WASHINGTON (W — The controversial federal civil rights commission hoped today to get "within a week” a top-notch director to guide its 20-month inquiry into voting rights violations. President Eisenhpwer will pick the man for the $22,500 job from a list of several candidates submitted by the new commission. Commission Chairman John A. Hannah said any one of the candidates approved unanimously by the group would be acceptable. He declined to name the prospects. The commission wants to have him start building up a staff by the time it meets next Friday. At their first meeting Friday, the panel of three Northerners and three Southerners found they didn’t eve*, r.ave an ash tray to start bus’* ess .with. As it "bers gathered around a desk .. their fifth floor office across the street from the White Hciise. the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame University, commented to former Gov. John S. Battle of Virginia: “The first thing we have to do, governor, is to create an ashtray." However, the commission is not without assets. Eisenhower has authorized it to use $200,000 from White House emergency funds. Army Sergeant Held In Robbery Attempt Charge Attempt At Nine Mile Robbery The clasp from an Army good conduct medal let! to the arrest of an Army sergeant for an attempted robbery of the Nine -Mile—House, north of Decatur on highway 27. A tavern employe, Lloyd Sanquist, of West Adams street, discovered that the safe was jammed when he tried to open it Friday. He called the Allen county sheriff’s office and state police, and a locksmith. State detective Truman Bierie and Allen county ’ deputies Sgt. Arnold Lord and M/Sgt Earl Howard investigated. Herman Armstrong, the locksmith, discovered the robbery attempt He also found the shiny piece of metal which had dropped from a clasp. Sgt. Lord, an Army veteran, recognized it as a medal clasp, and asked the owner, Charles. Truesdale, of Decatur, if there had been any Srmy personnel in the tavern lately. Truesdale told the officers that Sgt. Billie Lee Frederick, 28,.. of 2945, McCormick avenue, had been in the tavern at ’closing time Thursday. The sergeant was arrested at his home Friday and admitted the breakin. He stated that he had driven away from the tavern after closing hours, parked -nearby, and returned after Truesdale had gone. ’He then shouldered open the front door, and attempted to open, a safe and a pinball machine. He failed to obtain any money because he could not open either. While working on the safe, he lost the clasp. Frederick was arrested on burglary charges, and held under $2,000 bond.

INDIANA WEATHER Fair and continued cold tonight. Bunday fair and a little warmer. Low tonight 5-12 north, 12-20 south. High Sunday high 20s to lower 30s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and a little warmer.

Personnel Changes In Highway Dept. Mary Jane Runyon Rehired ByCouny The board of * county "commissioners met in special session Friday to study the ifew cost accounting system at the county garage, make personnel changes, and study the appraiser’s report on tlie county home. . During the morning the board met with Jay Scheidler, county road supervisor from Huntington county, and Lawrence Noll, Adams bounty road supervisor. Scheidler explained to the commissioners the new cost accounting system that is required by state law. The commissioners decided to go ahead with the changeover to the new system, which requires a complicated set of books. Frank Kitson, who was hired Wednesday as bookkeeper, was transferred to the position of mechanic’s helper, and Mrs. Mary Jane Runyon, widow of Kenneth Runyon and former bookkeeper, was re-hired for that job. ’ - Mrs. .r.'.'.iyon had trained under "•’heir - at Huntington, and was especially qualified for the npw system of bookkeeping. Kitson was not familiar with the system, and Scheidler estimated that; it would take at least a ye£r to tpach it to Scheidler has peen jrtld supervisor in Huntington county for 11 years, and is secretary-treasurer of the state supervisor’s association, and a member of the state board which is helping set up the new accounting method. The board decided to ask the Mercer county commissioners for a 60-day extension of time on their meeting about the Curles-Burger ditch. The surveyors from the two counties through which the ditch runs must make an estimate of ditch dredging costs before bids are lek. on the inter-state project. (Continued on Page Five)

Polish Scientist Pledges U.S. Aid Nowinski Defected From Red Laboratory WASHINGTON (UP) — Polish mathematical wizard Dr. Jerzy Leon Nowinskl, who defected from Communist laboratories, pledged his high power brain to America today in the great missile race with Russia. ? “L.am ready and willing to make whatever contribution I can to the United States,” the 52-year-old scientist said. Nowlnski, well acquainted with Russian advances-in research, Is an expert theoretical researcher on thermo - elasticity. This is a science in the stress and strains' of rpetals and other materials when subjected to high speed—a key one for the builders of oceanspanning ballistic missiles and space ships of the future Expert In Re-Entry Problem It also deals in the nose cone problem of missile re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere. The granting of asylum to Nowinski after his wife and daughter had succeeded in fleeing from behind the Iron Curtain to England was disclosed Friday by attorney general William P. Rogers. ■ When his family escaped, Nowinski was in Baltimore lecturing at Johns Hopkins University. He had been a research professor at the University of Warsaw for seven years. Disappointed With Poland "I was disappointed by the political, moral anil religious conditions in Poland' after the war,’* Nowinski told a news conference. He said he chose asylum because he wanted to educate his daughter, Kristina, 7, in an atmosphere of freedom. The scientist said he had little first hand knowledge of Russia’s Sputniks and rockets. But Rogers he was familiar with Russian re'search. - Officials at Johns indicated Nowinski would be an invaluable addition to the nation's all-out scientific effort

Long Distance Phone Strike Is Postponed Strike Scheduled For Last Midnight Delayed Temporarily By THOMAS DUFFY ZUMBO United Press Staff Correspondent ; NEW YORK (UP)— Union negotiators delayed until at least noon e.s.t. today a nationwide long distance telephone strike. The long lines division of the Communications Workers of America’s contract expired at midnight and leaders of the 25,000member ynion earlier had threatened to walk out at 12:01 a.m., e.s.t. But a marathon 12-hour bargaining session broke up at 1 a.m with both the union and the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. agreeing to resume negotiations at noon. “The strike is off, until at least noon today,” Elaine Gleason, national director of the long lines division, said. Union Pessimistic Miss Glegton made it clear she was “not optimistic’’ that an agreement would be reached early but a company spokesman seemed confident that service would not .be interrupted by wildcat walkouts before an accord is reached. “A substantial wage offer which was on the table was improved considerably,” the AT&T spokesman said. “In addition, alternate provisions on the non-wage items were also improved in an attempt to settle the threatened strike.” The company spokesman said "more progress" had been made during the marathon session than in any prvious conferences. Binxe Approved During the 12-hour bargaining, the union’s national bpard granted permission for the nationwide strike. Authority for the walkout was given by natienal CWA President Joseph A. Beirne, who had taken a poll. ’. Miss Gleason asked for the strike go-ahead during the twohour dinner recess in negotiationsThe union, which has members in every state except New Hampshire, Vermont, Delaware. South Dakota. Montana and Nevada, has demanded a $3-a-week increase for opertdrs, who now earn from $43 to $70.50, and a raise of from $3 to $5 for plant workers, Who receive from $43.50 to sll9 weekly. Almost half of the union memberv (Continued on Patte Five)

Mrs. Sarah Myers Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Mrs. Sarah Leota Meyers, 88, a native of Decatur, died Friday at 4:50 p.m. at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Perry E. Smith, in Fort Wayne, where she had made her home for the past 24 years. She had been ill several years. Mrs. Myers was born in Decatur and was a member of the St.. Paul Missionary church southeast of Decatur. Her husband, Simon My-i ers, died in 1928, and in 1933 she moved to Fort Wayne to live with her Surviving in addition the daughter are a son, Hubert E. Myers, Fort Wayne, three grandchildren, arid five great-grandchildren. The body will be brought to the Black funeral home Sunday, where friends will be received after 2 p.m. until noon Monday. The body is now at the Elzey Home for Funerals in Wayndale, where friends may call after 4‘ p.m. today and until 10 a.m. Sunday;' / At noon Monday the body will be taken to the St/ Paul Missionary church, where it will lie in state until the services. Services win be at 2 p.m., the ■Rev. R. R. Welch officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.

Nation Shaking Off Bitter Cold Wave Millions In Damage To Florida Crops By UNITED PRESS The nation today began to shake off a bitter two- day cold wave which had stretched from the Rockies to the Atlantic and as far south as the Gulf while Florida surveyed the damage caused by 70-mile-an-hour winds and heavy rain. Dade County Florida farmers eyed several million dollars in flooded, wind-tom crops which a ayeek ago had been regarded as ’’pure gold” after escaping a midDecember freeze. Migrant workers were hard hit by the winter storm which left them without jobs and without funds. Elsewhere southerly winds and massive high pressure areas began forcing sub - zero cold back across the Canadian border throughout the Plains although the Upfjer Mississippi and Ohio Valleys and New England were still in the grip of the big freeze. * Heavy snows continued to pile up in the eastern Great Lakes and in western New York state. Temperatures skidded to below the freezing mark as far south as the Alabama - Mississippi Gulf coast before the cold wave began to breaks Overheated stoves touched off a rash of fires, particuteriy in the South, and eight persons were dead in four fires in Virginia. At Waterloo, lowa, 10-below weather hampered firemen fighting a $250,000 supermarket blaze:t Chicago firemen continued to pour water ipto an abandoned cold storage warehouse which has been burning since Wednesday. Steam hoses were rigged to clear equipment of ice which sheather the building and the surrounding area. Some nighttime temperatures around the nation included Boston 12, New York City 17, Miami 54, Sfc—LSuls 20, Detroit 9, Minneapolis 6, Lone Rock, Wis., 10 below, Des Moines 6, Los Angeles 56 and Seattle 41.

Near Zero Is Again Recorded In State Moderating Trend Spreading Slowly By UNITED PRESS Temperatures near zero were recorded again in Indiana today as a promised moderating trend spread Across the state so slowly it could hardly be noticed, .Lafayette and Goshen had readings of 2 above zero at the coldest points early this morning,, and other stations were not far behind. It was 8 above at Terre Haute, 9 at Fort Wayne and South Bend, 7 in the Hoosier area around Chicago, 10 in the Indiana area round Cincinnati, 11 at Indianapolis, 15 in the Hoosier area around Louisville and 16 at Evansville. The mercury -dipped to the low points after reaching highs ranging from 23 at Fort Wayne to 30 at Evansville Friday. Highs today were expected to range from the low 20s to the high 20s. Lows tonight again will approach zero, ranging from 5 to 12 north to 12 to 20 south. Sunday highs will range from the high 20s to the low 30s, and the outlook for Monday was a “little warmer." The Weather Bureau had forecast lows as low as 2 below zero during the night, but an early check of regularly-repotting stations showed no readings below zero. Seven inches of snow still lay on the ground at South Bend. __ ‘ There was no indication of snow or any other form of precipitation in Indiana in the near future, except the far north- The forecasts called for fair today, tonight and Sunday, and partly cloudy Monday. The South Bend area near the southern tip of Lake Michigan has had snow flurries most of this week, and those were continuing today. But they were expected to end before nightfall.

Plans Secret r Hearings On Preparedness To Seek Facts Os Report Suppressed By The White House WASHINGTON (UP)— Senate investigators moving into secret hearings on the nation's defenses vowed today to get .“all the facts” in the Gaither report suppressed by the White House. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson said his preparedness subcommittee would start questioning key witnesses Monday to determine the contents of the secret repbrt — said to recommend an enormous defense increase to stave off “catastrophe” from Russia’s missile might. The White House refused to hand over the report on the ground that it was prepared for President Eisenhower and the National Security Council- But Johnson said he would still try to obtain a copy, although he knew of no way to compel the President to divulge a confidential communication. "I have good reason to believe that w* «.xt already in possession of meat of the information in the report and can — through testimony — develop the balance,” he said. / Rear Aam. Hyman O. Kickover; head of the Navy’s atomic powered submarine program, will be the lead-off witness when the investigation resumes behind closed doors. Other defense officials will testify along with top industry officials. Subcommittee sources said the latter would undoubteduly include rocket experts of the Convair apd Martin Aircraft Companies. But no names were disclosed. Johnson said all information would be made public later that national security would permit. — At the same time the Air Force disclosed it had set up the first two squadrons to man the Jupiter and Thor 1500-mile intermediate range ballistic missile (IRBM) bases to be set up next fall or early next year in England. The Air Force said the 672nd Strategic Missile Squadron (SMS) to operate the Thor and the 864th SMS tor the Jupiter would be “in training status and will not be equipped for some time."

President Relaxes At Gettysburg Farm To Report Thursday On State Os Union GETTYSBURG. Pa. (W — President Eisenhower planned today to put some finals touches of his State of, the Union message and relax with a few hands of bridge on his final restful weekend before Congress reconvenes. The President also was expected to give some thought to naming a staff director for the new Civil Rights Commission. The Chief Executive had no scheduled callers at his farm before heading back to Washington Sunday. In Washington Friday the President conferred with the cabinet on the State of the Union speech he will deliver before a joint session of Congress Thursday. Officials said the message was almost in final form. He also discussed with the cabinet the proposed peacetime-rec-ord budget of 74 billion dollars. Spokesmen said that, too, was complete except for some possible minor changes in the 40 billion dollar defense program. Before leaving for Gettysburg, Eisenhower presided over swear-ing-in ceremonies for the six-inan civil rights commission. He told the group it would have White House cooperation in its "very important job” of helping to protect .voting rights of Negroes and other minority groups. <

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