Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 33, Decatur, Adams County, 8 February 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 33.

FINE START—POOR FINISH - In a flawless take-off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., a giant Air Force 5,000-mile intercontinental Atlas missile takes off from its launching pad Friday in a 100-foot high fireball. The missile climbed straight up, then arched out over the Atlantic and disappeared after giving off a puff of smoke. An hour and 15 minutes later, the-Air Force announced that the missile “destroyed Itself shortly after completion of the powered phase of its flight.”

Temporary Tax Cut Suggested By Congressman Says Congress May Vote Temporary Cut As Aid To Business WASHINGTON (UP) — A key congressional Democrat suggested today Congress might cut income taxes beginning this summer—but only on a temporary basis . 4 c Use Democratic taxwriter, who tasked that his ‘name not bemused, said Congress might decide to reduce taxes to help cure the business downturn. Eut he said such legislation ./.rjcably would provide a date waen the tax rate would jump beck to the present level. ; Sens. John J. Sparkman (DAla.) and Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) promised they would introduce bills aimed at relieving the economic slump. Sparkman, chairman of the Senate housing subcommittee, wants an emergency “crash program” to stimulate activity in the building trades. Gore is sponsoring a bill to re-establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Study Jobless Pay The House Monday will take up an emergency $43,400,000 appropriations bill to beef tip the government's unemployment compensation _ A House commerce subcommittee debated whether Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack should be questioned in secret because of the seriousness of charges involving his official conduct. Subcommittee Chairman Morgan M Moulder (D-Mo.) said the charges against Mack were “more serious” than those brought against FCC Chairman John C. Doerfer and three other commission members. Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey (DMinn.) and J. William Fulbright D-Ark.) called on “right wing” Republicans to prove they really support Secretary of State John Foster Dulles by getting behind his foreign aid program. Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) and other GOP senators joined in a defense of Dulles during debate Thursday. Congress Off Today Neither House was in session today and there were no committee meetings Other congressional news: Appropriations: The House Appropriations Committee voted to give President Eisenhower $12,668,870 —virtually all the money he had requested—to run the White House and executive offices in the fiscal year... starting July , 1. But the committee complained that the President was surrounded by a wasteful and “confusing multiplicity” of boards, commissions and committees, rDefense: The House Armed Services Committee released pre-viously-s ecr e t Navy testimony warning that Russia could use earth satellites to. keep an eye on every allied vessel at sea anywhere. Air Force Secretary James H. Douglas told the committee the Air Force intercontinental missile Titan would be test flown for the first time this year. He also said the Atlas, another ICBM, will be in operational use in December, 1959. Chairfnan Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) of the (Continued on page «lx) Senate preparedness subcommittee announced that Defense Sec-

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Fluke Signal May Have Ruined Test Studying Cause Os Failure Os Missile CAPE CANAVERAL. Fla. (UP) —A fluke radio signal — perhaps from hundreds of miles away— l might have knocked the Air Force’s Atlas intercontinental missile out of the ”ky Friday by telling it to * the wrong things, rocketmen d today JI This w» uae of many theories 1 advanced ny rocketmen who were e much in doubt about what flaw ‘lfelled the great bird on its fifth flight after it had soared for near- ’ ly three minutes J It is just as likely, the missilemen felt, that careful study of information sent back electronically » by the missile may turn up some ] mechanical fault which caused the 100-ton Atlas to go into contortions which destroyed it. The ’ full answer probably will not be ’ known for days. An Aid) Force announcement .-said "only that the Atlas “destroyed itself shortly after comJ pletion of the powered phase of its flight.’’ This indicated that the » thundering engines which heaved j the Atlas aloft in a cloud of flame and smoke performed normally. But there had been a long delay in preparing the 5,500-mlie , range missile before it was finally . launched at 2:36 p.m. e.s.t. Liquid . oxygen had been put into die At- . Its at mid-morning, but then was "dumped” during the holdup. Weather may have been partly responsible. But the Air Force has J had trouble before keeping the ra--1 dip frequencies clear on which the missile sends back the crucial information about its flight, and this was believed to be a problem Fri- ’ day. ’ On one previous occasion, sig- : nals from a taxi driver’s radio in i a distant city- had just the right ’ “bounce” from the upper atmosphere to hit Cape Canaveral on • the critical frequency and held up t operations for hoursr ■■ "■ 1 ! Industry Division Will Meet Monday ' Members of the Decatur industrial division of the Chamber of Commerce will hold their February luncheon meeting Monday at . noon at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. L. Luther Yager, of Berne, state . representative for Adams and > Wells counties, will give a dis- ■ course entitled "A legislative re- ’ port.” k 1z673l z 673 Persons Are I X-Rayed In County A total of 1,673 persons were XI rayed during the past week by mo- . bile unit during its visit in Adams county, Mrs. W. Guy Brown, execi utive secretary of the Adams county tuberculosis society, said today. Die state department of health unit visited Geneva, Berne and Decatur and X-rayed high school juniors and seniors, industrial workers and the general public. Doctors will now read the 1,673 X-rays, and send back reports to each person X-rayed. Any person whose X-rays show a spot or lung trouble will be advised. This work is paid for by the purchase of Christmas seals.

GE Executive Is Named Space Projects Chief Defense Secretary Favors Air Force For Coveted Jobs WASHINGTON (UP)—Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy raised the Air Force’s hopes today for operating space ships and manned satellites. McElroy told newsmen Friday he thought the Air Force “naturally” should get the coveted job. The defense secretary’s statement was a blow to the Army and Navy. However, he partially allayed the senior services’ disappointment by saying his opinion was subject to change. Air Force leaders have long maintained that space near and far above the earth is their rightful domain However, the Army launched the only successful USi satellite so far and wants authority to put up a “whole family” of earth moons to carry out its role of worldwide mapping and communications. Navy Interested too The Navy, still struggling to get up its Vanguard satellite, is known to be interested in handling future space vehicles. McElroy made his statement at a news conference shortly afterngming General Electric executive Roy W. Johnson to head the government’s new Advanced Research PROJECTS Agency (ARPA) for development of outer space projects. McElroy also indicated he favored letting present government agencies handle individual space programs once they reach an advanced stage. He appeared to be opposed to setting up a new civilian agency. He indicated he thought the long existent National Advisory Committee for Aeronautic# was one agency well-suited for the t . • Other defense - space developments. Bases Ready Early —Authoritative sources in London said the first of four U.S. intermediate Tange ballistic (IRBM) missile bases, to be established in Britain will be fully operational by the end of the year—ahead of scheduleMcElroy announced that he and top aides will confer in Puerto Rico for four days starting Feb. 21 in an effort to reach “tentative conclusions” on Pentagon reorganization. Chairman Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Tex.) of the Senate preparedness subcommittee announced meantime that McElroy would be called to testify Feb. 26 on progress the defense department is making in its various space-age programs. Roy W. Johnson, the new ARPA head, is a 52-year-old General Electric vice president in charge of the company’s electronics production. He is an organizational expert rather than a scientist. Mrs. Emma Preuss Dies This Morning Widow Os Lutheran Pastor Dies Today Mrs. Emma Preuss, 90, widow of the Rev. C. B. Preuss, Lutheran pastor, died at 4:30 o’clock this morning at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Paul Buuck, New Haven, where she had resided for the past 11 years. She was born near Avilla Oct. 21, 1867. Surviving in addition to Mrs. Buuck are three other daughters, Mrs. Emma Peters of Auburn. Mrs. M. C. Blomenberg of Decatur route 2, and Ruth, of Fort Wayne; five sons, Paul Preuss of Cleveland, O„ Walter Preuss of Rapidan, Minn., Mart Preuss of Lakewood, 0., Arnold Preuss of South Bend, and Theodore Preuss of Marengo, BL; 19 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and three sisters, Mrs. Lena Bailey of Auburn, Mrs. Hanna Homeier of Decatur, and Mrs. Lizzie Lasswell of Kansas, Mo. ~ The body was removed to the Rodenbeck • Hockemeyer funeral home at Fort Wayne, where friends may call after 7 p.m. Sunday. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. The body will lie in state at the Zion Lutheran church at, Friedheim from 1 p.m. Tuesday until services at 2 p.m., with the Rev. A. A. Fenner and E.-Schwedler officiating.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, February 8,1958

May Question Mack In Secret On Charges Os Official Misconduct

Major Part Os Nation Gripped By Cold Wave Subzero Weather Is Common In Plains, < Upper Mississipi By UNITED PRESS A widespread cold wave that transformed the Midwest into a near-Siberia clung oppressively to the major part of the nation today. Subzero weather was common throughout the northern plains and the upper Mississippi Valley, and the U.S. Weather Bureau said 25below zero temperatures could be expected in Minnesota and the Dakotas. With the mercury suu dropping, ' International Falls, Minn., reported 20-below late Friday, and other below-zerd temperatures in the teens were frequent through the Midwest. Temperature drops up to 30 degrees occurred at some spots east of the Mississippi in a 24hour period, and below freezing temperatures extended as far south as Texas and Louisiana. The eold front ran through Dixie and forecasters warned Florida farmers, already devastated by three Cold waves this winter, that a hard freeze was expected in the northern two-thirds of the state. Freezing temperatures, high winds, rain and hail swept down Florida Friday, and the state Chamber of Commerce has called on Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to take emergency steps to help the cattle industry whose herds are threatened with starvation. The cold wave came out loser, however, in a clash with a storm center off the New Jersey coast early today. The warm Atlantic air thawed out parts of New England and boosted temperatures as much as 20 degrees. At Lebanon, N.H, for example, Friday’s 2 above reading was matched by today’s 23. At least 13 deaths were attributed to the mass of Arctic air which forged over the Canadian border into the Midlands Friday. A United Press count showed exposure deaths in South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Tennessee, and eight weather - caused deeths in Texas. Four of the Texas deathsoccurred on icy roads, the other four in a fire caused when kerosene was thrown into a wood stove to ward off the cold. Two children also were killed near Gardiner, Maine, in a spaceheter blaze. A Santa Fe train was derailed near Canadian, Tex., when the sudden cold wave caused a rail (Continuea on para flv*) State Makes Record School Distribution Adams County Will Receive $222,671 INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Checks were in the mail today for a record 42 million dollars worth of state aid to hundreds of Indiana school corporations. State School Supt. Wilbur Young said the total of $42,195,131 in the semi-annual distribution was the largest amount ever distributed at this time of year. It included more than 37 million to help pay teacher salaries, about $383,000 for other operating expenses and nearly 4 million dollars for transportation aid. '' The distribution by counties included: « Adams $222,671, Allen, 1,316,745, Bartholomew 432,598, Blackford 149,463, Cass 385,714, Dekalb 302,936, Elkhart 1,086,048, Gibson 341,352, Greene 373,592, Huntington 328,166, Jay 276,897, Kosciuski 383,884, Lake 3,635,601, LaPorte 731,276, Marshall 344,854, Miami 381,645, Monroe 572,254, Noble 295259, Posey 195'655, Putnam • 239,365, Shelby 334,713* Vigo 938,961, Wabash 352,320, Wells 222,204, White 196,286, Whitley 247,956.

farm Rental Plans Reported Collapsed All Bids Rejected From Three States WASHINGTON (UP)—The Agriculture Department’s experiment in renting entire to cut down surplus crop production has collapsed in three our of four test states. Department officials are rejecting all bids received from farmers in Illinois, Nebraska, and Tennessee under the experimental program. Maine farmers have until F»b. 28 to submit bids and no decision has been made on their offers, officials Saia. The department did not disclose details of the bids. Friday spokesmen said, however, that most bids submitted for placing farms in the government s conversation reserve program for five to ten - year -periods were too high. The bids considered reasonable were too few to be “representative,” they added. The program for taking entire forms out of production was announced by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson at a news conference last December. Benson said it would be tested in four states and later expanded if it worked well. Under the regular conservation reserve program, farmers may their tend -out of production in return for payment’ at raten fixed by the government. Under the bid prograrti, farmers name the annual rental figure at which they would be willing to retire their lands. Some administration officials had hoped the bid program would become a major tool to reduce farm surplusesHarold Gallmeyer Dies This Morning * Funeral Services Monday Afternoon Harold Gallmeyer, 48, a resident of Preble township most of his life, died at 4 o’clock this morning at his home in Preble. He had been in failing health for several years and seriously ill for the past six weeks. He was born in Milwaukee, Wis., May 25, 1909, a son of Henry and Emelia Reese-Gallmeyer, and was married to Emelie Buuck Dec. 7, 1940. He had been employed by Fruehauf Trailer Sales at Fort Wayne since 1950. The family moved to Preble one year ago. z ~ Mr. Gallmeyer was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Henry and James, at home; one daughter, Mrs. Richard Steffey of Fort Wayne; a half-sister, Mrs. Adolph Kiefer; and two grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2:30 p. m. at the 2ion Lutheran church at Friedheim, the Rev. A. A. Fenner officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Slight Damage Done When Autos Collide A car driven by Robert A. Everett, 31, of route 5, was slightly damaged when it sti-uck a car driven by John Maggart, of route one, Keystone, in Bluffton Wednesday. Damage to Maggart’s car was estimated at $35. Advanced First Aid Class Meets Tuesday The advanced first aid class will • meet .Tuesday at 7:30 p.m.’ at the .fire station. Mrs. Roger Singleton, ' instructor, announced today. All those who have completed the standard course are eligible to take the advanced course.

644 Students In New York's Schools Ousted Violent Youngsters Ordered Suspended* To Protect Mates NEW YORK (UP)—Additional suspensions of trouble-making students in New York City's 819 public schools appeared certain toHay as a result of a Board of Education directive ousting 644 “violent” youngsters to protect the welfare of their schoolmates. The city’s elementary, junior and vocational high schools suspended 544 students. Two-hundred and 19 had been ousted from these schools previously to make their overall suspension total of 763. In addition, 100 more delinquents were suspended from the city’s academic high schools. Officials Detail Order C. Frederick Pertsch, associate superintendent in charge of high schools, predicted that additional suspensions may be ordered Monday by some principals who did not act immediately on Superintendent of Schools William Jansen’s directive. Pertsch added that a full report on Friday’s suspensions in the academic high schools had not been received by the end of the day Friday. Jansen’s directive, approved by the Board of Education at a meeting Thursday night, was broadcast over the closed circuit school radio system Friday- It represented a reversal of the board’ spreviously lenient policy towards youthful offenders. And it carre after a Brooklyn grand jury Uns week called for strong action to l£Alt violence in the schools. Predict More Suspensions The directive instructed school officials to suspend immediately: —Children convicted in the courts but sent back to school because “appropriate institutions” were lacking to care for them. —Children .who returned from institutions, “perhaps prematurely,” who continued to make trouble. —Any student with a serious record of misbehaviour. The school superintendent urged school officials to take into consideration “as an important factor” the attitude of parents of the “violent” students. If they showed willingness to cooperate fully, he indicated officials could hold off suspensions. 0 Decatur Man Hurt In Auto Accident Harold Strickler In Lutheran Hospital Harold Eugene Strickler, 45-year-old Decatur man injured in a two-car collision one-half mile east of the Indiana-Ohio line on U. S. 224 early Friday morning, was transferred to the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne Friday for special surgery.' Strickler sustained severe facial injuries, necessitating the extraction of his teeth, and a broken nose. He was brought to the Adams county memorial hospital first. Deputy sheriff Wayne Pollock, of Van Wert County, 0., assisted in his investigation by the Indiana state police, said that Strickler’s car plowed into the rear of a car driven by Rex Laverne Livingston, 25, of English. A passenger in the latter car, Miss Trudey Tagg, 26, of Akron, 0.. was taken to the Van Wert county hospital with broken ribs. Two other passengers in the Livingston car, Robert»Mills of English, and Sue Shinn of Akron, were uninjured. Both cars were heavily damaged. NOON EDITION

Three States Seek ' Custody Os Slayer Confesses Killing Robbery Victims BOWLING GREEN, Va. (UP)— Authorities of Alamba, Georgia and Ohio today rushed murder warrants for a young Negro “drifter” who confessed bludgeoning five white victims to death in a year and a half. “Everybody I ever robbed I killed,” Jerimiah McCray, 25, calmly told state police Friday after submitting to a lie detector in Richmond, Va. But th« medium-built, 180-pound man s. mistaken. While a “sixth -.octim” he listed survived, Geor 6 .„ authorities believed McCray may have forgotten four other robbery murders. One Male Victim McCray’s victims were white women ranging from 49 to 86 years old except for 53-year-old Robert Hanbury, of Atlanta. A sixth intended victim was Hanbury’s 79-year-old mother, Mrs Carrie B. Hanbury, who survived a -severe beating.'McCray believed he had killed her. Officers converged upon McCray from Atlanta; Calhoun County, Ala.; and Fayette County, Ohio. Atlanta detectives planned to question McCray . about four additional Atlanta deaths that “fit the pattern." ■. Elderly Woman Beaten, Stabbed Calhoun County sheriff Roy Sneed left by car hoping to get McCray extradited for the death of Daisy Gilbert, 73, whose body found on Feb. 27, 1956, bore a dozen gashes dealt upon the head and face with a stick and one stab wound from a butcher knife. Virginia authorities already had charged McCray with the rapemurder of Mrs. Jeanette M. Griffin, 48. last Monday, but said there “might be a chance to get him if we get a grand jury to indict him before they do.". McCray also confessed beating and stabbing Mrs. Virginia Macklin Stevens, about 80, to death last month in her home in Colonial Heights, Va, and hacking to death Stella Dewitt, about 86, last July in her home on state Route 3 near Columbus, Ohio. .. .._ D . . .. . . . \ ’ Local Lady's Sister Is Taken By Death x Mrs. Jessie Costner Dies At Bluffton Mrs. Jessie M. Castner, 62, of Bluffton, sister of Mrs. Carl E Dick of Decatur, died at 3:10 a(m Friday at her home following an illness of about one month. A native of Bluffton, Mrs. Castner was born July 7, 1895, the daughter of Charles and Minnie Falk Aker. A first marriage was to Earl Hedges, who preceded her in death. Her second marriage was to George Castner, also deceased. Survivors, in addition to Mrs. Dick, are the father: a daughter, Mrs. Mae Shadle, route one, Bluffton; a son, Earl Hedges, Fort Wayne; five other sisters, Mrs. Mary Kean of Bluffton; and Mrs. Gertie Clark, Mrs. Martha Mendenhall, Miss Jeanette Aker, and Mrs. Frieda StredloW, all of Angola; three brothers, Roy Aker, of Angola; Russell Aker, of Coldwater, Mich ; and Raymond Aker of Bluffton, and four grandchildren. Mrs. Castner’s mother died in 1952. A son and daughter are deceased. The body is at the Thoma funeral home, where friends may call after noon today. Services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, the Rev. Henry Churchill officiating. Burial will be, in .the Fairview cemetery. INDIANA WEATHER Continued cold and party cloudy with occasional snow flurries through Sunday. Low tonight near sero. High Sunday near 15. Outlook for Monday: Continued cold. Fair except snow flurries continuing near Lake Michigan.

fCO Member May Be Given Secret Hearing House Investigators Debate On Holding Secret Questioning WASHINGTON (UP)— House investigators today debated whether to question Federal Communications Commissioner Richard A. Mack in secret because of the seriousness of charges involving his official conduct. Chairman Morgan M. Moulder (D-Mo ) of a House commerce subcommittee did not disclose the nature of the charges. But he said they were “more serious” than those brought hy the subcommittee against FC Chairman John C. Doerfer and three other FCC commissioners. Doerfer was accused by the subcommittee of submitting “fraudulent’’ claims to the government for expenses paid by broadcast industry groups. Moulder disclosed that the subcommittee was looking among other things into Mack's role in a controversial decision on Miami’s television Channel 10. The FCC awarded the channel to National Airlines. Several other groups had sought the same license. Moulder' said a subcommittee member at an executive session Friday raised the question of invoking a 1955 House secrecy rule for the first time in Mack’s case. The rule calls for secret hearings if a committee decides that “evi"dence or testimony at any investigative hearing may tend to defame, degrade or incriminate any person.” If a secret hearing is granted, the rule provides that the person under investigation may appear voluntarily as a witness and request the committee to subpena additional witnesses on his behalf. said he had not decided whether the rule applied in Mack’s case and was still studying the question. The subcommittee is meeting again Monday in closed session for a briefing by Counsel Bernard Schwartz on charges against the FCC members The commissioners will be questioned further Tuesday and Wednesday. Mack, 48, a Democrat appointed by President Eisenhower, has been a member of the FCC since July 1, 1955. He was born in Miami and is a former chairman of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, Doerfer, 53, is a Republican appointed by Eisenhower. The subcommittee also voted unanimously to send to each FCC member “a written notice” of the specific charges against him, citing “approximate times and places," at least three days before the commissioner is questloned. The group also voted to ‘-order and direct" each FCC member to submit to the subcommittee a full list of all trips he has made for the government or at industry ’expense while he has been a commissioner, Moulder said. Moulder said the hearings may go on "for several months.” (Continued on page »ix) Lincoln Day Banquet Held Last Evening The life and accomplishments of Abraham Lincoln were described in detail by Thomas Gallmeyer, of Fort Wayne, speaker at the annual Lincoln day banquet sponsored by the Adams county Republican central committee. A crowd of 225 persons attended the affair at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Robert Metzger, Decatur young man, was master of ceremonies. The guests included John Pfaff, judge of the appellate court, Indianapolis; state senator Lucius Sommers, of Fort Wayne; and Mrs. Dowell Ifef, fourth district vicechairman, of Bluffton. Bob Cottrell, formerly with the Civic theater in Fort Wayne, sang several songs and led in group singing. A reading on the flag was given by the Rev. Lawrence Norris.

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