Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 20,

f-. SIR! . MPmMBrHPw y|k "'v '4* *'' ” * * JET CRASHES IN BACK YARD—A crowd gathers to view what is left of an F-94 jet fighter which crashed in the back yard of a home occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rice of Arlington Heights, Mass. The two Air Force men in the fighter rode down with it and were killed in the crash.

New Cabinet Takes Control tn Venezuela Capital Reported Quiet Last Night After Rebellion NEW CABINET CARACAS. Venezuela (UP)— A new cabinet took control of this oil-rich South American nation today, hoping to restore order after three weeks of riot and revolt in which more than 200 persons were killed. The predominantly military junta which overthrew President Marcos Perez Jimenez Thursday and drove him out of the country installed a cabinet whose only military member is the minister of defense. *.» ; The city was quiet Thursday night. The last violence reported here was a mob attack on the headquarters of the hated secret police in which at least 40 persons were killed and 150 wounded. Many bodies Vlere believed to be still in the wreckage of the headquarters building. Clashes tfttf 145 In earlier clashes, at least 145 persons had been killed in Caracas. An undetermined number of others, believed to range into the dozens, had been slain in provincial cities. " * A dispatch sent Thursday from Maracaibo, Venezuela's “oil capital'’—the first incensored cable to leave the city in 10 years — told of a street demonstration and a prison riot celebrating the fall of Perez. More than 1,000 prisoners of the Perez regime had been released from Venezuela’s political prisons, but their places were being taken by prisoners of the new regime. 150 Secret Police Arrested At least 150 secret policemen had already been taken into custody. Government sources said the junta has ordered the arrest of an unspecified number of army, navy and air force officers who’ “collaborated'' with Perez. Refugees were flocking back to (Continued on page eight) Club Assembly Is Featuied At Rotary A club assembly featured the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary Hub Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. M. J. Pryor was the leader of a panel discussion on attendance and classification requirements -of Rotary. Panel members were Robert Ashbaucher. Howard Evans, Clarence Ziner and Dr. Ray Stingely. Lowell Harper was chairman of the—program. -The elub —will entertain the ladies at next Thursday's meeting, which will start at 6:15 p. m. at the center. Ken Eliasson, exchange student from Sweden under Rotary sponsorship at the Decatur high school, will be the speaker, INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and t . Saturday. Wet snow mixed with rain over east and south portions this afternoon and to- “ night. .Bn o w .depths .may reach 2 or 3 inches locally southeast portion. Little change in temperatures. Lows tonight 25-32 northwest to near 32 elsewhere. Highs Saturday 35-40. Sunset today 5:55 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:58 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy with little temperature change. Loys Saturday night lew 30s. Highs Sunday low 40s. -

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Heavy Rainfall In Gulf Coast States Streets In Corpus Christi Are Flooded By UNITED PRESS Heavy rains drummed the Gulf Coast early today, sending streams brimming over their banks and flooding streets in Corpus Christi, Tex. The U.S. Weather Bureau said the heavy rains in the nation's southeastern half were associated 1 with a storm that headed for the ! central Gulf of Mexico after ' spawning a snow storm in the ’ Texas Big Bend country. ; Corpus Christi received more ; than 214 inches Os rain in a 24hour period, sending water ’ through some streets and the out--1 lying areas. The storm center rapped out a steady tattoo from ’ Texas to Florida. Pensacola, Fla., received nearly an inch Thursday night. Effects of the storm center ' were felt in the lower Mississippi I Valley and extended to Florida’s : east coast. Almost 114 inches of rain doused Vero Beach, FlaEasier Thursday, a storm piled ■ up snows 11 inches -deep in south- ' west Texas. Cars and trucks were ' stranded on U.S. 90. between Alpine and Marathon as 40-mile-an-hour Winds strewed snow on the highway from shoulder to shoulder..- : Another rain belt covered the area from central California to the Pacific Northwest and inland to parts of the Plateau region. Almost an inch of rain soaked San Francisco, while somewhat lesser 4Continued on pagefive) ; Edward A. Bischoff Is Taken By Death Funeral Services Saturday Morning Edward A. Bischoff, 70, of route 2, Monroeville, a member of the Fourth Degree, Knights of Columbus here, died at 3 a m. Thursday in the Adams county memorial hospital, He had been a patient here for a week. Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Marquart funeral home, Monroeville, and at 9:30 a.m. at St. Rose Catholic church, Monroeville, the Rev. William S. Plotzki officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Rosary services will be conducted at the funeral home at 7:30 o’clock this evening. A retired farmer, Mr. Bischoff had lived near Monroeville since 1924. He was a native of New Alsace, and a member of the St.’ Rose church, the Holy Name Society, and the Knights of Columbus. Surviving are the wife. Augusta; and four sisters, Mrs. Katie Hoff, Batesville; Mrs. Elsie Rosefeld and Mrs. Mary Hoff, Brookville, and Mrs. Emma Krieger, Guilford. Potato Chip Sale In City Saturday Youths from the teen council of the Decatur youth and Community Center will conduct the annual potato chip sale on the downtown section of Decatur Saturday to aid the March of Dimes, Robert L. August, city chairman, said today. Tonight -a collection will be taken at the Decatur CommodoreClear Creek game at the Decatur gym. Everyone who has not yet given to the March of Dimes, to help polio research and aid to patients, is urged to do so this week. — ,

Speeds Device For Controlled Bomb Reaction U. S. And British Governments Claim Encouraging Hope WASHINGTON (UP) — A U.Jscientist disclosed today this country is speeding work on a device expected to set off controlled Hbomb reactions at temperatures twice those in the center of the ran. His report was made in connection with release of American and British government reports which said recent research encourages hope that the H-bomb’s thermonuclear forces eventually can be harnessed for peaceful use. The scientist. Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr., Princeton University, said he expects the device —a giant “magnetic bottle" — to go into operation in early 1960 and produce temperatures of 50 million degrees centigrade. That is 20 to 30 million degrees higher than temperatures in the sun’s thermonuclear firebox and 10 to 20 million degrees higher than those necessary to sustain one kind of H-bomb reaction under study as a possible power source. , / Still Research Stage Spitzer emphasized, however, that the new device will be merely a laboratory gadget and not a power plant. He agreed with other experts on both sides of the Atlantic that the day of unlimited thermonuclear power from controlled H-bomb reactions is “many years” distant. Spitzer and nearly a dozen other scientists joined Atomic Energy Commission officials at a news briefing on recently declassified papers reporting progress of British and American projects to tame the H-bomb's violence for peaceful power. Both governments made clear, however, that the work is still in the research stage and the huge British and American investments in atomic power are not in jeopardy. The two nations, partners in thermonuclear research since 1956, simultaneously released technical papers reporting all H-power discoveries except in what was described as “a very small area” which might have military application. The net effect was to demolish persistent rumors from London of sensational “breakthroughs” putting practical hydrogen power just around the corner- < The reports disclosed the British since last August have achieved temperatures up to five million degrees centigrade in heavy hydrogen gas for as long as two to five thousandths of a second. Last month the United States achieved six million degrees in a much smaller but faster-acting device for a few millionths of a second. The Russians claim that some time last year they generated temperatures around one million degrees. Use Invisible Bottles Before a practical thermonuclear power plant can be built a way must be found to contain much higher temperatures for perhaps several seconds at a time in hydrogen nuclear fuel. AS the British report said, however, “There appears to be no fundamental reason why these longer times, together with much higher temperatures, cannot be achieved.” The only way man can hope to contain such reactions is by using electrical and magnetic fields to confine, the hot charged gases within invisible walls. Laboratory (Continued on page five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Friday, January 24, 1958

Army Secretary Says Satellite Launching Blocked By Pentagon

Testimony Os Union Heads To Justice Dept. Rackets Committee Sends Evidence On For Perjury Action WASHINGTON (UP)—The Senate Rackets Committee sent contradictory testimony of six West Coast union officials to the Justice Department for perjury action today after two of them returned to the witness stand to correct previous testimony. Return appearances were made by Patrick Clancy, president of San Francisco Local 3 of the Operating “Engineers union and the "local’s treasurer, Porter E. Vandewark. Clancy, vanaewarK and three other union officials have tabbed Victor S. Swanson, the unions business manager and a former San Francisco utilities commissioner, as the principal beneficiary of financial irregularities in the union. The 74-year-old union official denied almost all their charges Thursday. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) had ordered the transcript <jf their testimony sent to the Justice Department with the ■ comment that somebody was J “perjuring themselves black in the face.” In doing so McClellan had given all the witnesses involved—Swansort, Clancy, Vandewark, business agent Ed Doran, bookkeeper E.L. Garrett and Secretary Clarence FMatthews—until the start of today's hearing to correct their testimony. Vandewark testified that he received an additional SSO0 —over and above what he had previously acknowledged — from union funds earmarked for promoting a pension plan at the international union’s 1956 convention. Clancy was questioned about 529 cashiers checks totalling SI,OOO which were drawn from the same source on the same day, March 27, 1956. He conceeded that the ertdorsement "looks like my signature,” but he said at least one check unearthed by the committee was clearly “forged” with his signature. Clancy asked that a “handwriting expert” 1/ik at the two SSOO cashiers checks described by chief Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy as the proceeds of the pension plan fund. He said he could not recall "receiving or cashing” theirt. (Continued on page five) Mrs. Mary A. Kiess Dies Last Evening Lifelong Resident Os Decatur Is Dead Mrs. Mary Anna Kiess, 79, a lifelong resident of Decatur, died at 8:30 o’clock Thursday evening at her home, 1016 West Marshall street, about four hours after suffering a cerebral stroke. She was born in Adams county May 2, 1878, a daughter of Jacob and Wilhelmina Borne, and was married Sept. 2, 1900, to Joseph Kiess. Her husband died in 1948. Mrs. Kiess was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church and the Royal Neighbors. Surviving are seven sons, Arthur Kiess of Hinsdale, Hl., Charles R. Kiess of Fort Wayne, and Walter, Robert, John, Edgar and Victor Kiess, all of Decatur; one daughter, Mrs. Paul Sharpe of Decatur; 13 grandchildren; and two brothers, John Borne of Magley, and Rudolph Borne of Louisville, Ky. One sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Black funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Saturday, and memorials may be made to the church building fund.

Death Toll Growing From Chicago Fire Death Toll May Go As High As 12-16 CHICAGO (UP)—A- panic-strick-en mother who dropped her infant daughter from an upper window of a flaming tenement in a futile effort to save the child’s life learned today that all six of her children probably perished in the blaze. At least three children were known dead in the explosion and fire that gutted the overcrowded tenement Thursday. Five other children were listed as missing and presumed dead. Chief Fire Marshal Raymond J. Dailey said as maty ts 12 to 15 persons may hcve cutd in the blaze. The bodies of two children were recovered from the rubble Thursday night by firemen searching the debris. Authorities said they S patently were two cf the six ildren of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wilkins. The Wilkins’ 11-month-old daughter, Paula, was the only victim identified thus far. Paula was killed when her mother dropped her from an upper window in hopes a bystander would catch the child. The baby, however, plummeted to her death on the sidewalk About 20 other children were j •Asopped from windows of the filming five-story structure to spectators below who caught them without injury. However, 21 persons were injured fleeing the flames in the aU-Negro building, including Roosevelt Wilson, 11, reported in critical condition. Daley said 109 other tenants of the 76-year-old tenement; were accounted for. But he said it was difficult to determine how many persons were in the building during the holocaust. Gerald Durkin Heads Historical Society Succeeds Thomas As Society President Gerald Durkin, Decatur rural "Oute-TarrieF, was elected presideriCof the Adams county historical society Thursday night, suc’eeding Bryce Thomas, the first president of the newly organized group. ” ■ Durkin was elected over Robert H. Heller in balloting which followed an interesting lecture on Indians of Indiana, including a movie on archeological work, and a display of Indian articles by Lowell J._ Smith, Decatur high school teacher and Indian authority. Also elected were Ernest Steng-, 4, of Berne, vice president, succeeding L. Luthqr Yager; and Nelson Doty, of Decatur, secretarytreasurer, succeeding Robert L. Brown. The directors were reelected to three-year terms. Smith explained that the "preliterary” Indians, those here before a written record was kept, ari? Generally divided into four classes of mound-builders—the shell, Adena, Hopewell, and middle Mississippi cultures. The first perhaps dates from 400 A.D., and the last from 12 A.D. Smith then showed a film, “Glimpses into the Past” which showed how archeologists work in finding out just how ancient peoples, who left no written record, lived. The picture showed them carefully stripping an area, soaking it with water to find the closely packed earth where a home stood, finding little articles from the wall, braces, ceiling, and pottery from the household utensils. Smith traced the movements of the original* ancestors of the Indidians 10,000 years ago from Asia, to Alaska, then down the coast to North America, Central America, and finally into South America. This was done by the finding of peculiar types of weapons throughout the entire route. Smith then, explained that one of the theories generally held was that branches of this original group (Continued on page five)

Special Meet Is Closed By Auto Workers Adoption Os Strike Dues For Union War Chest Final Issue DETROIT (W — The United Auto Workers, with battle plans drawn for 1958 contract talks, today close their special convention with adoption of strike dues for a 55-million-dollar war chest. The only point left undecided at the start of the final convention session was whether the UAW international would keep or rebate the strike dues assessment if there is no major 1958 strike. President Walter P. Reuther and the union executive board had their way as expected in gaining adoption of the bargaining program Thursday. An estimated 90 per cent of the 3,218 voting delegates by a show of hands backed the proposed goals of profit sharing and wage-bene-fit gains. With that major chore out of the way, Reuther and Michigan’s Democratic Gov. G. Mennen Williams turned to platform mopping up operations against big business and the Republican party. The only salvo fired in return was by Ford Motor Co. Board Chairman Ernest R. Breech. BrSch. speaking at Nashville, Tenn., said the UAW has “monopoly power,” has caused inflation through unjust wage boost and has now proposed a profit sharing nlan ‘ fanciful and full of fishhooks.” '■ i.... .... Reuther took the occasion of introducing Williams to expound on UAW political action. « “I have been asked many times. Is the American labor movement a tail to the Democratic Party kite? We answer emphatically nor’ We have made our choices in the support of political candid dates . . . based upon where the candidates and the parties stand on the fundamental issues as they are related to the basic needs of the people of this country,” Reuther said. “They say to me, ‘yes, but you support practically everybody (Continued on pare five) , .... — Edward A. Goldner Is Taken By Death Lonq Illness Fatal To Preble Resident Edward A. Goldner, 87, a lifelong resident of Preble, died at 2:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon at a hospital in Lansing, Mich. He had been bedfast for the past five _ years. Mr. Goldner was a stationary engineer for the Indiana Pipe Line for more than 40 years until his retirement in 1933. He was born in Preble June 25, 1870, a son’&f Lewis and Mary Broad ward-doldner, and was married to Susan M. Conrad June 25, 1896. Mrs. Goldner died Oct. 28, 1933. •- Mr. Goldner was a member of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church in Decatur and the Modern Woodtnen. lodge. Surviving are two sons, Irvin J. Goldner of Preble, and Dr. Roy E.. Goldner of Lansing, Mich.; three grandchildren; five greatgrandchildren; two brothers, Alfred Goldner of Decatur, and Eli Goldner of Preble, and three sisters, Mrs. Henry Menniewisch of Fort Wayne, and Mrs- August Fuhrman and Mrs. Amelia Shady, both of Columbus, O. Two brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 3:45 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

London Landmark Is Destroyed By Fire » Two Firemen Killed In 24-Hour Battle LONDON (UP)—The worst fire since the wartime blitz, today destroyed the Smithfield meat market and menaced other famous landmarks in the ancient heart of London. Two firemen had been killed and eight injured in a 24-hour battle with the flames, complicated by freezing temperatures which coated streets around the blazing market with sheets of ice. Fire Chief F. Delve said this morning the $4,200,000 fire was "under control,” but it was still burning. Other fire officials predicted it will take about 24 hours to “finish” the blaze. Firemen will continue to patrol the area for days, to make sure that the last spark has been extinguished. The fire started early Thursday in the maze of vaults and tunnels under the market where refrigerated meat was*-stored; After burning underground for a full day, it burst into the open at 3 a.m. ’ ' w ' Flames fanned by a slight breeze roared up through one of the market building's corner towers, casting a red flow that could . be seen for 20 miles on overlying i clouds. Four hours later, the market t was completely burned out. FireI men concentrated their efforts on checking the spread of the flames to such famed nearby buildings as St Bartholomew’s Church and the hospital of the same name. Authorities at St. Bartholo-mew’s—-the oldest of London’s‘royal hospitals"—had completed plans to evacuate the building, but it appeared early today that the patients were safe. Hoffa Takes Over Teamsters Control Watchdog Board Os Three Is Appointed WASHINGTON (UP) — Jimmy Hoffa, cocky and smiling, took control of the Teamsters Union today under the watchful eyes of a court-backed supervisory board and*the judge Who set it up. High AFL-CIQ sources expressed strong disapproval of the courtendorsed compromise that permitted Hoffa to take over the $50,000-a-year presidency of the nation’s largest union with a three man “watchdog” board to over see him. One AFL-CIO official told the UniJed Press Hoffa was “at the wheel with three back-seat drivers.” AFL-CIO sources said there was no hope the court-approved plan would pave the way for the Teamsters’ early return to the parent labor federation They were kicked out for corruption last month, with charges aimed mainly at Hoffa. —-, Hoffa told newsmen the monitors would act only in an “advisory capacity” to him. He sqid there was nothing in the compromise that reduced his authority or that of any Teamster official. One of the 13 rank-and-file Nev; York Teamsters who had sued to keep, the 44-year-old Teamster ‘tough-guy” from the presidency had »ther ideas. Patrick Kennedy, a milk wagon driver, said the watchdogs could appeal to the court if Hoffa’s “cabinet” rejected reasonable recommenrations. Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts, who approved the compromise settlement, also made it plain he intends to keep a watchful eye on Teamster doings. He said he will retain ‘ jurisdictioneven though he plans to dismiss the complair> against Hoffa. The 82-year-old jurist said the arrangement “is definitely going to be for the advantage of rank and file members of the organization.” He said the monitor? will enable him to keep up with 'union activities. The compromise, described as unique in labor history, ended the rank-and-file suit to keep Hoffa out of the presidency voted him «.Contimiad on paca five) — -

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Brucker Tells Congress Army Plans Blocked New Secretary Os Defense Reversed Order In November WASHINGTON (W — Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker told Congress in testimony published today that the Army might have launched an earth satellite two years ago if the Pentagon had not blocked the project. Brucker told the House Armed services committee the army feels it could have put a satellite into orbit “during the year of 1956. or certainly the beginning of 1957” if it had been permitted to continue work on the project. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy reversed the 1955 order last Nov". 9 and told the Army to prepare to launch a satellite. Brucker said the Army now is readying two Jupiter C rockets for this purpose and the firing will be held ■ “very soon.” • f • The testimony came as the Navy - went ahead with plans for its secl ond attempt to fire a test vehicle t at Cape Canaveral, Fla.. in its Vanguard satellite project- The 1 first, effort failed when the missile ‘ blew up on its launching pad Dec. 1 6 - ® Brucker testified the Army deJ signed its Jupiter C long - range missile in 1954 as a satellite i launcher. However, the following ;• year, the Defense Department orI dered the earth satellite program , assigned to the Navy. Asked if this “effectively prohil> ited” the Army from taking part in a satellite program, Brucker replied “that is correct.” A committee member asked if Brucker felt he was “ahead of the Navy and the Air Force” at the time. ’ “We felt that we were out tn front of the whole business in the satellite field,” Brucker said. The Jupiter C is a three-stage rocket. It has been reported that the missile used in the attempt to get a 30-pound satellite into orbit will carry a fourth stage, to attain the necessary speed of 18,000 miles per hour. Warming Trend Is Forecast In State Colder Weather To Return Next Week By UNITED PRESS Snowflakes fluttered down on central and southern Indiana areas today and may pile up to a depth of two to three inches by tonight. The northern area, usually hit the heaviest by winter’s blasts, apparently went scot free as theneyr snow came. Some may fall upstate tonight, however; Mid-morning forecasts said wet snow mixed with rain would fall the rest of the day and tonight. , The forecasts said the central area may get “near two inches" and the far south “two to three inches.” The show started at Evansville before dawn and spread northI ward to Indianapolis shortly after 9 a.m. 1 .Weathermen said, there would be “some slight melting through the day” with temperatures slightly above freezing. But it warned that temperatures falling to 26 to around 30 tonight may "cause hazardous conditions.” - 1 For once, the northern portion had a respite from precipitation predictions, although the outlook for Sunday called for a chanee of light rain or snow there while the rest of the state gets none. The five-day outlook for the period Saturday through next Wednesday called tor temperatures averaging 2 to 3 degrees above normal highs of 28 to 45 (Conxinuwl oiypage •l»ht)