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HELD FOR BEATING UNWANTED CHILD — Joseph Bedard, 35, Redwood City, Cal., house painter receives a kiss from his wife shortly before arraignment on child-beating charges. He was arrested after his step-daughter, Susan (lower-right), 10, wrote a note to her school teacher, pleading that the teacher take her home with her and describing heatings and an unhappy home life. ■ ~, , , -... ,

Stassen Meets With Ike, No Resignation Scores Speculation Over Resignation As • Adviser For Ike WASHINGTON (UP) — Harold E. Stassen said today after a conference with President Eisenhower that he did not submit his resignation as disarmament adviser nor did the President request it. Stassen said he and the President will hold another conference, but no date has been set yet. He said he is still “seriously considering” running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Pennsylvania. Stassen said he would have to make a decision whether or not to leave the federal government and make his bid in Pennsylvania by March 17. "We had a good talk and were going to talk again,” Stassen said as he left the White House. Praise for Eisenhower Reporters pressed him on whether or not he had resigned or planned to resign as recent reports here have said. "I have not submitted a resignation and the President has not asked me to,” Stassen said. He described as “erroneous” speculation that he had resigned Stassen praised the President as one of "the great men of our time.” He said he has a “superb relationship” with Eisenhower. “That continues to be the case,” Stassen said. Stassen turned aside all questions on what he and the* President discussed today in their 40minute talk by saying he never divulges details of .meetings with the President Os late Stassen has been reported at odds with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the U.S. approach to the disarmament problem with Russia. Som§ of the conflict between the two has spilled Tout in the open. The now 50 - year -old former “boy wonder” governor of Min- ’ nesota also antagonized a number of high administration officials in his abortive campaign to “dump” Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the 1956 elections. Stassen has been making overtures to Pennsylvania Republicans <-r for some time. He has until March 17 to file, but if he decided to run for governor, blessings already have been conferred by the PresidentAny resignation from' his disarmament post presumably would be disclosed in an exchange of lettq;g between Stassen and the PreSHent. Letter Disclosed Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D---(C.t.ni usd on Page Fiva) INDIANA WEATHER „ Clearing and much colder tonight except snow flurries continuing extreme north portion. Mostly fair and continued cold Saturday except snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 2-10 above. High Saturday 18-24. Sunset today 6:12 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 7:46 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Continued cold. Mostly fair except possibly snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Lows Saturday night sero to 5 above. Highs Sunday fn the 20s.

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Annual C.C. Dinner Held Here Thursday Former Decatur Man Principal Speaker Approximately 240 persons, including out-of-town visiting Rotarians and Lions club members, attended the 28th annual Chamber of Commerce banquet held at the Decatur Youth and Community Canter Thursday night. FeaI tuned speaker of the evening was . Byard H. Smith, former principal . of Decatur high school and now ( vice president ex the Patterson . Securities anc Investment comt pany of Fort Wayne. Postmaster Leo Kirsch opened . the ceremonies by leading the , group in a chorus of “America,” followed by Mercle C. Sieling r with the “pledge of allegiance.” ■ The Rev. William C. Feller gave i the invocation tc the group, who then were treated to a chicken ’ dinner. ’ ’ - ► < ; Mrs. Ferris Bower presented ’ the dinner music on a Wurlitzer 1 organ furnished by the Decatur , Music House. Robert Heller, master of ceremonies for the event, introduced Robert G. Smith, president of the i Rotary club, who introduced the I visiting Rotarians. Merle C. ; Sieling, president of the Lions club, presented the visiting Lions • clubbers. Heller then introduced the outgoing officers of 1957 and the new 1958 officers and directors. A boys quartet from Pleasant 1 Mills high school sang three selections and Miss Ruth Sipe, instruc- ' tor of accordion at the Decatur , Music House, played two numbers. Clifford Brewer, past president • ”f 1957 and chairman of the board ■ for 1958 was then introduced. He spoke on the work accomplished 1 by the staff during 1957, and thanked the officers for their un- , selfish work. : Heller then introduced Louis • Tacobs, Incoming president, who ! stated some of the aims of the ’ Chamber of Commerce for the jiew year. Dick Heller, Sr., then intro- ■ duced the featured speaker, By- • ard H. Smith. Heller told the > audience that he had known I Smith for a good part of his life, having grown up together. i Smith opened his talk by rel lating a few humorous anecdotes I of his early years in Decatur. ■ Getting into his talk, he told the > group, “we are letting other nations get ahead because we have • rested on bur laurels ever since I the atomic bomb. Russia’s Sput- [ nik has forced us to reevaluate f things and now we must work hard to get ahead and stay there." — - . A . He said that “nowadays it is hard finding students with a serious attitude. We need scientists and the education of scientists is a major emergency. “Until last July the stock market barometer was steadily increasing and hit the highest peak ever. Then it scared people by dropping. Even though it has dropped, it is still higher than in many previous years. A tremendous percent of our is based on psychology*. We don’t function to the best of our ability when under pressure but we will , recover if we don’t lose perspec--1 tive in our reasoning/’

Demand Action By Government On Recession Sen. Gore Declares Administration Must Note Danger Signals WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) declared today "it is high time” the government takes not of danger signals in the national economy and acts to stave off a serious depression. . The Tennessee Democrat gave this run down of the economy: —Four or five million persons are jobless. —"Many more millions” are working only a few days a week. —Steel production is down to 60 per cent. —Farm prices are at a “critical” level. —The bankruptcy rate is the highest in history and businesses are failing at a greater rate than in 1933. "Fortunately,” he said, "we have research strength, resources, programs and experience with which to prevent such a catastrophe. It is high time we were using some of these measures, particularly a full employment act to which both parties are committed ” Apply for Handouts The senator spoke as thousands of persons were reported forming in “breadlines” in Memphis, Tenn. Free food was being distributed in the recession-hit steel town of Lorain, Ohio. In Memphis and surrounding Shelby County, Tenn., officials said 9,536 families representing 40,458 individuals have applied for government surplus food handouts at the city’s free food distribution center. However, city officials and business leaders agreed that in spite of the food distribution, Memphis enjoys a healthy economy. Mayor Edmund Org ill said many farmers in the area were in “really bad shape” because of crop failures. He said the food distribution was justified but overpublicized. Thursday, a group of Senate Democrats attacked President Eisenhower’s economic policies, accusing him of “whistling in the dark” and failing to deal "decisively” with the business skid. Sen. Pat McNamara (D-Mich.) proposed an 11-pOint anti-recession program including tax cuts for individuals and small business. Bank Cuts Discount Rate Other deevlopments: —Chairman William McC. Martin Jr of the Federal Reserve Board warned the Joint Congressional Economic Committee against over-enthusiastic efforts to bolster the econ om t. Martin agreed with President Eisenhower that business will pick' up within a few months. He said the economy “is suffering from indigestion or overQoutlnuee v. "aae Viva) Blames Politics For Firing As Director Indianapolis Man Loses State Post INDIANAPOLIS (ffl — Boynton J. Moore, Indianapolis, today blamed “politics” for his firing as director of withholding for the Indiana Gross Income Tax Division. State Revenue Commissioner Edwin Beaman fired Moore from the $6,900 a year job because of “internal strife” between Moore and other department heads. Beaman said there was no politics involved, although the action was approved by Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews. “I worked hard for Governor Handley and now I’m out of a job,” - Moore said. “I backed Handley even before the state convention when he was nominated.” Moore was named to the job last year to direct Indiana’s new payroll withholding of gross income tax. Matthews indicated there was no similarity between Moore’s firing and the dismissal of half a dozen Brown county GOP workers for "disloyalty” to the Handley administration. He said the matter was "strictly departmental.” » Moore blamed the firing mostly on a dispute with cashier John Morris. He said Morris wanted him to endorse several checks received from employers as withheld taxes before the checks were stamped "for deposit only.” If the checks had been cashed illegally, Moore said, "I’d have been the goat." “It’s a matter of whether they want efficiency or corruption,” he said.

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Air Force Will Launch Ballistics Missile Some Time During This Year

Probe Crash Os Airliner Fatal To 21 Persons Seven Os Victims Played On British Top Soccer Team ' MUNICH, Germany (UP)—Brit-, ish and Germa.-, air authorities in- i vestigatir tor ay the crash of a 1 plane . —c>- rilled 21 persons —L sever of members of Britain’s top soccer team. The team was the “gold plated" ' Manchester United football team, the “Yankees" of British soccer, and the death of the seven players and injury to others plunged the British sports world into mourning. The team, along with 11 sportswriters and photographers,; was ■ returning from a triumphant invasion of Yugoslavia when the plane crashed on a snow-covered field. Twenty-three of the 44 persons aboard the twin - engined “Elizabethan" airliner survived the crash. Three Yugoslavs Survive i Three perscLS were critically ; injured, including Matt Busby, ' England's top manager. Three Yugoslavs including a mother and her baby daughter en route to the embassy in London also survived, Cause of the accident was unknown but authorities ruled out sabotage. The big plane which had made two false starts after a refuelling stop faltered on the third, never gained altitude and then fell at the end of the runway and burst into pieces An investigating’ group led by (Continued on page eight) Incidents Disrupt Little Rock School . ... . . ( Name-Calling And ’ Other Incidents LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UP)—The 1 parents of a white girl whom a . Negro student called “petty white 1 trash" refused today to let her 1 return to Central High Schoo] where bomb threats and other incidents disrupted classes The name-calling and another clash involved Minnie Jean Brown, 16, a Negro student who had been involved in two previous incidents shortly before the Christmas holidays. Minnie Jean was hit with a thrown purse Thursday after she called a white girl “petty white trash." Later a bowl of soup was poured over her head as she ate lunch in the cafeteria. Students Chant A group of white students followed the Negro girl to the principal’s office after the soup pouring incident, chanting “down with the niggers.” zr 5 .. — In December, the Brown girl was suspended from school for pouring chili on two white students. After she was reinstated, a white student, David Sontag, 16, poured soup over her head during a lunch period because she called him “poor white trash.” In another incident Thursday another Negro girl, Carlotta Walls, charged that white student i Herbert Blount and “several other trouble-makers” kicked her in a corridor. School Supt. Virgil T. Blossom confirmed the incidents, but would not release the names of > the students involved. Mother Names Assailant But the mother of Frankie , Gregg, 17, said it was her daughter who hit the Brown girl with her purse after the Negro student called her “petty white trash.” “My daughter is not returning to Central,” Mrs. Gregg said “I'm sending her to another school.” Police and school custodians 1 searched the school building Thursday after three calls warning of a bomb wefe received. ' Two of the calls were received at the school switchboard shortly after classes began; Later in the day, a television station received; a bomb call. <

New York Schools Suspend Students Seek To Rid Schools Os Young Hoodlums NEW YORK (UP)—School officials today began suspending pup’ls charged with criminal vioMniee in an effort to rid classes of young hoodlums and “protect th? innocent.” Spurred by new outbreaks of beatings and stabbings, and under i fresh pressure from a grand jury jto take “prompt emergency action,” the Board of Education or,dered that any . pupils “charged :with a violation of law involving [Violence or insubordination shall be forthwith suspended from regular school attendance.” Preliminary unofficial estimates indicated up to 600 pupils might be affected. The school board was said to have adopted its new policy as the immediate result of two incidents Wednesday in which a school monitor was stabbed by a fellow student and another monitor was beaten unconscious by three other pupils. The beating and stabbing were the latest incidents in a wave of teen-age violence that has included two rapes inside schools. A few hours before the suspension order was issued, a grand jury that has been investigating school violence in Brooklyn handed up a fifth presentment critical school policies in handling juvenile delinquency. The jury urged a broader policy on weeding out lawless youths from the schools and declared “p rom p t emergency action is necessary.” Noting that a previous Board of Education statement had said less than one per cent of the school system's nearly one million pupils were problem children, the grand jury said "this means there are nearly 10,000 serious aggressive and disruptive children” menacing the remainder The jury suggested that existing schools “be used to contain these undesirable elements” without waiting for establishment of the six new special schools in Which officials plaji tp segregate difficult pupils starting next fall. Five such schools containing 1,200 pupils are operating now. The grand jury, which has been involved in a running fight with the school board over the school i' ,nuea on Page Five) Lincoln Day Banquet Here This Evening The annual Lincoln Day banquet, sponsored by the Adams county Republican central committee, win be held at 6:45 o’clock this evening at the Youth and Community Center. Thomas Galmeyer, prominent Fort Wayne Republican, will be the speaker. Robert Metzger, of Decatur, will be master of ceremonies. Rochester Rotary Club Is Organized Club Organization Announced By Ziner Clarence Ziner, of Decatur, govenor of district 654, Rotary International, today announced organization of a new Rotary club at Rochester, with the first formal meeting of the club held Thursday evening. The Rochester club becomes the 40th Rotary club under Ziner’s jurisdiction in the district, which comprises all of Northern Indiana. Rochester will be a 4 provisional club until the actual granting of the charter. Ziner stated today that charter night will be held the week of March 24. The new service club has 21 charter members, and its first president, elected Thursday night, will be Walter K. Keim, Culligan dealer ' at Rochester. The new club is sponsored by the North Manchester Rotary club, which began organization work for the Rochester group last fall, under direction of Harold Beck, 'president of the North Manches--1 ter club.

Some Parts Os Navy Vanguard Are Recovered Navy Hunting More Parts Os Vanguard To Discover Cause CARE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UP) —The Navy hunted more parts of its Vanguard rocket today to determine just why the satellite carrier failed. The wavy already has recovered the first stage of the illstarred Vanguard, presumably in the murky waters off the cape where the biggest chunks of the 72-foot rocket fellThe Vanguard was launched early Wednesday, but snapped in two after barely a minute of flight and was destroyed by remote control as it plummeted toward the sea. More Firings Expected Renewed activity on the cape today indicated additional missile firings are imminent at the Air Force test center. A huge intercontinental Atlas, ■ an intermediate range Air Force I Thor and an Army missile—prob- ; ablv a Redstone or Jupiter—stood ■ in their-service towers. The Atlas I was static fired on the ground ■ last week. • . Time for firing the missiles was • kept secret. In Washington, officials said the ; failure was due to a simple wiring defect which prevented the ' “brain" of the Vanguard from sending orders to the engine control system which could have cor--’•ected the sudden swerve that put too much of a strain on the threestage Vanguard. Cause of Defect Probed But although the Navy knew the “what” and “how” of the the Vanguard failure, technicians still had not uncovered the “why” of the wiring defect. This might take days to discover. “Al far as we can tell there was no device that malfunc- ’ tioned,” the Navy said ”. • .There seemed to be a defect in the wiring connecting the auto pilot and (Continuea on page tive) Margaret Parrish Is Taken By Death Tinal Rites Sunday For Mrs. Parrish Mrs. Margaret Parrish. 44, wife i of Kermeth Parrish, of five miles south of Decatur, died Thursday i at the home of a brother, Robert Martin, at Stroh. She had been in ill health for several years. She was born in Washington township March 11, 1913, a daughter of Frank and Sarah ArnoldMartin and was married to Kermeth Parrish Aug. 11. 1934. She was graduated from the Decatur high school in 1931. Mrs. Parrish was a member of the St. Paul Missionary church and the Washington township Home Economics club. Surviving in addition to her hus- ■ band are her mother, who resides in Washington township; two daughters, Mrs. John Burkhart of ; Washington, D. C., and Arlene, at home; one son, Ralph Parrish, also at home; five sisters, Mrs. Forest White of Independence, Mo., Mrs. i John V. Walters of near Decatur. ; Mrs. Lyle Franz of near Willshire, i O„ Mrs. Arthur Scheiderer of Woodburn, and Mrs. Elbert I Schumm of Rockford, O.; seven ! brothers, Brice and Harold Martin of near Fort Wayne, Robert ■ Martin of Stroh, Arnold Martin of ! Berne, and Ralph, Richard and i Jay Martin, all of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at the St. , Paul Missionary church, the Rev. Robert Welch officiating. Burial ■ will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was rbought to the Zwick ■ funeral home, where friends may • call after 7 o’clock this evening. The body will lie in state at the ■ church from 1 p.m. Sunday until time of the services.

New Cold Wave Is Heading Eastward To End Southeast's Cold Air Reprieve By UNITED PRESS A frigid air mass* poked southwest and east out of the Midwest today, and left death in its wake as it swept across the Texas Panhandle. Florida, where truck farmTng and the tourist trade alike have been hard hit by cold weather the past week, showers were forecast, ending during the afternoon and night, and colder temperatures were forecast for the northern and central districts by tonight and in southern districts by morning. Eight deaths and a train wreck were attributed to effects of the cold in the Texas Panhandle area. Four persons died on icy roads. Four children in one family burned to death when kerosene was dumped into a wood stove to help keep the house warm. Near Canadian, Tex., 26 cars of a 72-car Santa Fe freight were derailed when they hit a rail which broke, reportedly under a sudden temperature change, and 15 of the cars, carrying gasoline or liquid gas, burst into flame. There were no injuries. A tornado crushed two homes and a barn near Troy, Ala-, Thutsday and heavy rains touched off flash floods that washed out roads and at least two bridges. Snow flurries accompanied the cold air in the west, dumping a 4*inch snow blanket at Dumas in northern Texas Thursday night and 2 inches at Dalhart, Tex. Overnight readings in the cold air region ranged from 16 below zero at International Falls, Minn., to well below freezing in the Texas Panhandle. By contrast, Brownsville in south Texas recorded the nation’s highest temperature Thursday with 81 degrees. The storm also buried Ste. Genevieve, Mo., area under six inches (Continued-on page eight) State Distributes Gas Tax Receipts Decatur And County To Receive Checks INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Checks totaling more than 10 million dollars were mailed today to Indiana cities, towns and counties as their share of gasoline tax receipts and other highway funds for the last three months of 1957. The total available for distribution was $22,087,868, compared with $15,901,328 for the same quarter in 1956, an increase of nearly 39 per cent. Os the total, 53 per cent goes to the State Highway Department, 32 per cent to counties and 15 per cent to cities and towns. | Most of the increase resulted from the 50 per cent hike in the state gasoline tax which went into effect last March. Distribution by cities included: Alexandria $6,878, Auburn 7,010, Bloomington 33,582. Bluffton 7,245, Columbia City 5,658, Columbus 21,905, Decatur 8,670, Elwood 13,548, Fort Wayne 172,758, Gary 201,383, Goshen 15,505, Greencastle 9,910, Hammond 129,146, Hartford City 9,433, Huntington 17,981, Kendallville 7,296, LaGrange 2,256, LaPorte 24,342, Logansport 25,078, Mont ice 11 o 4,134, Mount Vernon 7,333, Peru 17,576, Plymouth 8,745, Portland 8,423, Princeton 9,150, Shelbyville 15,226, Terre Haute 76,571, Wabash 13,918, West Terre Haute 4,003. The distribution by counties included: Adams 61,212, Allen 200,465, Bartholomew 72,097, Blackford 31,625, Cass 92,884, Dekalb 64,332, Elkhart 134,947, Gibson 84,567, Greene 88,405, Huntington 64,366, Jay 61,606, LaGrange 58,106, Lake 258,562, LaPorte 118,835, Madison 139,312, Marshall 76,457, Miami 69,524, Monroe 83,743, Noble 72,593, Posey . 64,573, Putnam 64,742, Shelby 69,432, Steuben 53,268, Vigo 113,495, Wabash 69,655, Wells 60,n?, White 74,272, Whitley 56,861.

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Secretary For Air Discloses Missile Plans 5,000-Mile Titan To Be Launched By Air Force In 1958 WASHINGTON (UP)—The Air Force said today it will launch some time this year an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Titan whose power plant is "particularly adaptable" to exploration of space. The Titan, a 5,000-mile weapon under development as companion to the Air Force’s Atlas ICBM, has never had a test flight so far. Plans to stage the first Titan test flight this year were disclosed by Air Force Secretary James H Douglas in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee. He testified as: —Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said the United States is on the threshold of “exciting developments” in space. —An atomic expert predicted development oi nuclear rockets, for propulsion of spacecraft. Douglas told the House committee that the Titan’s power plant is “particularly adaptable" not only for launching big satellites but for exploring the depths of the solar system.-* The Air Fbrce already has staged four test-firings of the Atlas, whose designed range also is 5,000 miles. Development of the -tarted about a year after fMAflas. said Atlas tests will continue “at an accelerated pace.” He repeated that the first operational Atlas unit “will be in place” by December, 1959. Turning to space research, Douglas said it appears that the Air Force now has rocket engines which, in combination, could send “sizable manned and un-manned” space vehicles into orbit around the earth and provide power for craft to explore space beyond the moon. “Such projects will take time,” . Douglas said. “But the significant thing is that we believe we have the important tools now to undertake them as may be desirable.” Col Jack Armstrong, the Atomic Energy Commission’s assistant chief of aircraft reactors, said problems remaining a nuclear rocket were “less difficult” than those faced in making an Hbomb and A-bomb. He said when perfected nuclear rockets could develop two to four times the thrust of chemical-fueled rockets. Johnson, expected to take over chairmanship of the new Senate outer space committee, is believed in favor of having a civilian agency take over direction of the na* tion’s space exploration effort. Under compromise legislation approved by Congress Thursday, space projects assigned by President Eisenhower will be under the Defense Department for the next year. Congress and the special Senate committee will decide on ultimate control. Other developments: —Navy Vanguard scientists hunted more parts of its exploded carrier rocket to see why it failed Wednesday. —The government published a “survival'’ list of more than 200 items ranging from milk to plague vaccine that would be needed to sustain the population in the event of nuclear attack. —The House stamped final congressional approval on an emergency bill carrying $1,410,000,000 to speed U.S. missile programs, disperse the nation’s H-bomber fleet and build anti-rocket defenses. —The measure, which also provided funds for a third intercontinental missile base and three rocket-firing atomic submarines, was sent to President Eisenhower just one day short of a month after he urgently requested it. The Senate Thursday voted 78*1 to set up the 13-member special space committee as proposed by Johnson- Only Sen. Allen J. Ellender CD-La.) voted against it on grounds he is against any more *w committees. The committee will have seven Democrats and six Republicans.