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SCOUTS REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT — President Eisenhower nolds a box of roses and a plaque as he poses with two of the twelve Explorer Scouts who came to visit him at the White House. They presented to the Chief Executive, who is honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts, a report on the 48th birthday of the organization in the United States. Looking on are: Douglas M. Briggs, San Francisco, Calif., and Peter A. Kelly. West Warwick, R. I.

Macmillan In Agreement On Summit Talks Prime Minister Os Britain Willing To Take Part In Talks LONDON (UP) — Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin Sunday he is willing to take part in a summit conference if preiminary discussions show there is a “reasonable prospect" for success. He endored a foreign ministers meeting to lay the groundwork but aid preparation through regular diplomatic channels would be a satisfactory alternative. Macmillan sent Bulganin a friendy personal letter replying to Bulganin’s Jan 9 proposal for an East-West meeting of heads of state. Three Conditions Made He set out three conditions for a summit meeting: agreement on issues to be discussed, area desire among participants to take practical steps toward settling East-West differences, and a reasonable prospect of achieving com Crete results. The Prime Minister stipulated that the talks could not be restricted to the issues Bulganin proposed in his recent letter to President Eisenhower. He referred specifically to the President’s statement that the talks ’ should include German unification, policy on penetration of outer space and tbc issue of freedom for the Ess: European satellites. "I should be willing to participate in a meeting of heads of government, which I think must be preceded by adequate preparations," Mb':.. .’Han wrote Bulganin. !*<’■■ t Groundwork "I must say to you, as I have already said in public, that such a meeting will not be fruitful un less the ground has been thoi oughly prepared in advance and it is clear from this preparatory work that there is broad agreement on the nature and order of the agenda and a real desire among all who participate in the meeting to make practical progress towards S’ settlement of the differences between us. “There must be a reasonable prospect of achieving concrete results on specific Issues. Otherwise we should run the risk of a fruitless meeting which might make matter wdfse and"not beV ter.” Five-Year-Old Boy Is Burned To Death NEW ALBANY (® — David B. Landrum, 5, burned to death Sunday in a fire which swept his home. Cold Is Blamed For Electricity Loss T =cto’- Mitchell, engineer at the diesel plant, reported this morning that tne cold weather was responsible for the intermittent loss of electricity throughout the city this morning. The cold froze an engine at the diesel plant, located on Dayton street, and the engineers were having difficulty getting it in operation. To relieve the situation, a section of the city was being taken off the line every five minutes, so that no one section would be without electricity until the engine was started. ■ -1 ...

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Mayor Wagner Calls In Leading Officials To Map Attack On Schools' Problems NEW YORK (UP) — Mayor Robert F. Wagner called top school, police and court officials to a City Hall conference today to map -an attack on the problem of the city’s unruly children and crime in the schools. The most critical immediate problem on the agenda was what to do with 644 youngsters suspended from schools as troublemakers and thrown “out on the streets” in the absence of detention facilities. More were expected to be ousted today, possibly raising the total to 950. The mayor's first assistant, in a radio interview Sunday, denied suggestions that the upsurge of vident crime among school children was caused by racial tensions among the city's white, Negro and Puerto Rican populations. Lowell Urges Perspective Stanley Lowell, assistant to the mayor who is considered in line to become deputy mayor when that office becomes vacant next fall, urged that the public remember that only one per cent of the citv’s nearly one million school chidren have been involved in any violence in the schools. Gov. Averell Harriman, State Education Department officials, legislators and others offered consultation services to the city and made varied proposals for "crash” and long-term measures to restore some old-fashioned discipline and order to the classroom. State officials said the City Board of Education had acted within the law in suspending the youngsters charged with insubordination or violent delinquency. But they said, the city educators agreed, that the school system is still responsible under state law for providing some education for all those children under 17..arisen to Meet Officials Officials of the State Education Department were expected to Ray Dennis Christen Is Taken By Death Former Decatur Man Dies At Kendallville Ray Dennis Christen, 72, former Decatur mail carrier, died at 9 a.m. Sunday at the McCray memorial hospital, Kendallville, after a week’s illness. He had resided in Rome City for the past 30 years. He had never married. The son of John and Catherine Magley Christen, Jr., of Root township farm. His grandparents ■on both sjdes were early pioneers of the county. Mr. Christen was a member of the Decatur Loyal Order of Moose. Mrs. Ed Christen, of Root township, is a sister-in-law of the deceased, who is survived by many nephews, nieces, and cousins. His five brothers, Gus, Ed, Harry, Bert, and Ellis, and his sisters, Mrs. Minnie Uhl, preceded him in death. The body .was taken to the Williams funeral home Wolcottville, where friends may call until the time of the funeral services, which at the funeral home. The Rev. will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday Ralph Davison, of the Wolcottville Methodist church, will officiate at the service. Burial will be in the Orange cemetery at Rome City.

Wave Os Anger At France For Bombing Town Tunisian Village Bombed, 75 Persons Are Reported Dead By WALTER LOGAN ■ United Press Staff Correspondent A wave of anger against France for the bombing of a Tunisian village rolled across the Arab world with fresh momentum today and imperilled the Western— and American — Position in North Africa. , Tunisia appeared ready to sever diplomatic relations with France and expel the 25,000 French troops stationed there for defense purposes. The United States was shocked and indignant at the bomging which killed 75 persons and injured 84. Other allies of France were deeply concerned because friendship with Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba has been the anchor of Western policy in North Africa. . Nations friendly to the United States expressed fear the bombing could turn into a major propaganda victory for the Soviet Union. Most of the 25 planes used against the Tunisian village of Sakiet Sidi Youssef were of Amerr ican make and the dead includes 12 children and nine women. Egypt, Syria Capitalise Egypt and Syria moved swiftly to capitalize on the anti - French ■ feelings which erupted today into , a general strike in the French protectorate which won its independence in 1955- President Gamal Abdel Nasser promised immediate military aid to Tunisia. Syrian President Shukri el Kuwatly , promised aid and accused France of a “savage act of criminal aggression.” The Saturday bombing attack brought these rapid fire developments: —Secretary of State John Foster Dulles summoned French Ambassador Herve Alphand to his Washington home late Sunday and told him the United States was ■ “profoundly disturbed” at the action. —The State Department issued a statement expressing concern at future Tunisian - French relations and pointing out that both countries were friends of the United States. —Tunisian Ambassador Mongi Slim delivered a strong protest to United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and demanded Security Council action against France. Whether this was possible over the French council veto was not known. <■ mued on Page Five) Drag Racers Killed At Richmond Sunday State Traffic Toll Nine Over Weekend By United Press Two Richmond teen-agers killed while “drag racing" were among nine Indiana traffic deaths chalked up during the weekend. Joseph Rees, 19, and Ralph Sturgis, 18, were killed when their car missed a curve on a connecting highway between U.S. 35 and U. S. 40 near Richmond while racing with another vehicle driven by Rees’ brother. Charles Broadwell, 45, Bicknell, died today in St Anthony’s Hospital at Terre Haute from injuries sustained Sunday afternoon when his car collided with one driven by Harry Knowles, 68, Sullivan. Police said Knowles pulled out of a driveway into U. S. 41 near Farmerburg into the pathy of Broadwell’s car, injuring Broadwell’s daughter Janet, 17, and Charles Thompson, 19, Bicknell. Authorities said Rees was racing with his brother, John, 20, when the car “went through a telephone pole” splitting the automobile nearly in half. John told authorities he was leading going into the curve and went back to find his brother dead when “he didn't come out of the curve.” Authorities had to cut the body of the Rees boy from the wreckage. Sturgis was thrown clear and died about three hours later in Reid Memorial Hospital at Richmond. Lilly V. Tyler, 42, Evensville, was kiled Sunday night when her car missed a turn on a Vanderburgh County road two miles west of St. Joseph. The car knocked down a telephone pole and turned over, pinning the dead woman underneath. -*' Rollin Pontius, 77, Rochester, died Sunday night in an Indianapolis hospital of injuries sustained Saturday when his automobile collided with another car at an Indianapolis street intersection(Continued on page five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, February 10, 1958

Subcommittee Os House I Votes Against Firing Chief Counsel Schwartz

Numbing Cold Wave Tightens Grasp On U.S. Central New York State Paralyzed By Heavy Snowfall By UNITED PRESS Central New York State battled a paralyzing snowstorm today, and a numbing cold wave tightened its grasp over much of the ;*dst of the nation. New York snowstorm brought traffic to a virtual standstill between Albany and Buffalo, forcing schools and most industries in the 300-mile area to remain closed today. Northwesterly winds scooped moisture from Lake Ontario during the weekend and dumped it across the state in blinding snow flurries. Syracuse was buried under 37 inches of snow at midnight, and wind gusts of more than 50 miles an hour piled the snow into sixfoot drifts. The New York Thruway from Albany to Buffalo was blocked until 2:30 a.m. e.s.t. by towering drifts, and highway crews fought a losing battle elsewhere trying to keep roads open. Travel on most teain highways was limited to emergency traffic'. Cold to Continue Forecasters warned of continued cold and windy weather in New York today with blowing and drifting snow and scattered snow flurries- Blizzard-like conditions were predicted east and southeast of Lake Ontario. Elsewhere, arctic blasts from the north knifed as far south as the Gulf where the mercury dropped to the freezing mark overnight in southern Georgia and southern Mississippi. Florida’s frost-bitten tourists and farms also felt the cold weather sting as the mercury plunged to near or below freezing from the northern sections of the state to south of Miami. The cold air has delayed the replanting of truck farms frozen out by earlier cold snaps and has thrown some 20,000 migrant farmers out of work. In addition, more than one million cattle face starvation on the frost-killed ranges. Temperatures got no higher (Continued on page »ix) Frederick 6. Busse Dies This Morning .... ■ t«. • r - ■ ■ Long Illness Fatal To Frederick Busse Frederick G. Busse, 70, retired employe of the Decatur General Electric plant, died at 9:30 o’clock this morning at his home in Root township, four miles west of Decatur, following an illness of 16 months. He was born in Fort Wayne April 15, 1887, a son of Frederiek-C. and Louise Rodenbech-Busse, and was married to Blanche Benoy Aug. 5, 1905. He was employed at the G. E. plant here from 1922 until his retirement in 1952. Mr. Busse was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble, and the G. E. Quarter Century club. ' • Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Paul O. Busse of Washington township, and Charles Busse of Decatur; eight grandchildren ; five r great-grandchildren; two brothers, the Rev. Otto C. Busse, pastor of the St. Paul’s Lutheran church at Preble, and Enno Busse, at home, and two sisters, Miss Bertha Busse and Miss Louise Busse, at home. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home tyid at 2:36 p.m. at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, the Rev. Harry Behning officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Tuesday until time of the services. The casket will not be opened at the church.

Airman Undergoing Tests In Solitude Duplicates Trip To Moon In Test SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UP)— Airman Donald G. Farrell, huddled in a small steel chamber cut I off from the world, was bearing up well today against the bleak solitude of a simulated outer spßce trip to the moon. The 23-year-old New York airman entered the steel shell an- ‘ chored to the floor of a Randolph Air Force Base laboratory Sunday. If all goes well, he will 1 emerge Saturday. Flight surgeons, watching him constantly on a 14-inch television ' screen, said the airman> is an[ “excellent subject" and was hold-1 ’ ing up well under the oppressive--1 ness of his three by five foot chamber, sealed off from the ! wprld and enveloped in air pres-; sure equal to the height of, 18,000: feet. He undergoes rigorous work pe-' . riods, matching charts and check-, ing lights on a maze of instru-, merits facing the seat from which he cannot rise. The tests check his mental alacrity under the strain and hfe’/fc nothing to do with space navigation, 'officers said. Farrell’s only contact with the world is soft music, which he can' hear at the push of a button, Sun-1 day night, in what Blight Surgeon C«pt.- Julius E. Ward described as a “period of boredom,” FarreD listened to “Love Is a Many Splendored Thing.” Flight surgeons, working in relays while others sleep in the laboratory, watch his face on the 14-1 inch TV screen and_ watch his problem - reactions on another screen. Wires and instruments on his body record his condition. ~ Farrell's biggest enemy, and the reason for the test, is soil-1 tude. To make the test a success, he ; must endure the isolation for sev- i en days in the small cell, with | only a minimum of room to shift! his body. Only a clock tells him the difference between night or day- He can heir ony himself and the optional music. __ Decatur Residence Is Damaged By Fire Three Runs Made By Decatur Department The Decatur fire department was calld out three times- over the weekend to extinguish fires caused by overheated furnaces. One fire, Saturday afternoon, completely gutted the inside of the Vida Lammert home at Pat-, terson and 12th streets. - The department was called to he Lammert home at 1:30 p. m. when fire broke out from ah overheated furnace. The blaze, which destroyed the inside of the home almost completely, took two hours to extinguish. No complete estimate of the damage was available at this time. Saturday night at 10:50 o'clock they were called to the ; home of Gene Vetters on South Third street. "The TTremen cooled a hot furnace which had not yet caused any fire damage. At 7:55 this morning, a hot flue at the home of Forrest E. Hawkins, 1026 Master Drive, brought the firemen to the scene, where they extinguished the . blaze which caused considerable smoke damage. No other damage was reported and the firemen returned to the station at 8:25 a. m. Court House Offices Will Close Wednesday All of the offices of the Adams county court house will be closed Wednesday, which is a legal holiday commemmorating Lincoln’s birthday. The social security representative, who usually meets in the auditor's office, lias arranged to use the post office Wednesday. The representative will be back in the auditor’s office Feb. 19. r

Nuclear Brain Trust Named i • As Advisers Admirals Assailed For Holding Back - « Sub Developments WASHINGTON (UP) — Sen. Hemy M. Jackson (D-Wash.) announced appointment today of a “nuclear brain trust” to advise the weapons subcommittee of the congressional Atomic Energy mitteeJackson, chairman of the subI committee, at the same time ! blasted “tradition-bound, unimaginative carrier admirals” for holdi ing back development of the I missile-firing submarine at least ! one year. , 50 per cent More Research Named to Jackson’s subcommittee "brain trust” were: Dr. Edward Teller, so-called father of the hydrogen. bomb; Gordon Dean, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; Dr. Harvey Brooks, dean of the Harvard Engineering School and an undersea i warfare expert; Dr. Ivan A. Get- ! ting, vice president of the Raytheon Mfg. Corp.; Roswell L. > Gilpatric, former undersecretary 'of the Air Force; Dr. Gaylord P. Hamwell, president of the Univer- ! sity of Pennsylvania and also an , undersea warfare expert; Dr. John Harold Lampe, dean of engineering at North Carolina State College; Kenneth Mansfield, former AEC aide and now assistant Ito the director of the reactor development division of Combustion Engineering Inc.; Dr Oskar Mor genstern, Princeton economist; Dr. Robert Revelle, director of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography; Dr. John A. Wheeler, codiscoverer of U-235, and Clyde Williams, Batelle Memorial Instijtute. In another defense development. Chairman Melvin Price (D-Ill.) of the House-Senate Atomic Energy Research subcommittee said the United States must spend at least 50 per cent more on basic research or fall behind the rest of the world. Price issued his statement after his subcommittee questioned top scientists in the first week of its investigation of basic atomic reeparfh Urge More Rivalry Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, whose Army ballistic missile agency launched the first U.S satellite 11 days ago, also called for a speedup in efforts to overtake Russia in the space age. Medaris said the size of the Russian atelites indicated great (Continued on page three) I Mrs. Bradtmiller Dies At Fort Wayne Mother Os Decatur Manufacturer Dies Mrs Emma Praatmillor, 74. of Fort Wayne, died Saturday morning at the Lutheran hospital, where she had been a patient since Oct. 2. She was the mother of Robert W. Bradtmiller, Fort Wayne, owner and manager of the Wayne Novelty Corp, of Decatur, Mrs. Bradtmiller owned and operated the Bradtmiller dry goods store on maunee avenue. She was a lifelong resident of Fort Wayne and a member of Concordia Lutheran church. Surviving in addition to the son are one daughter, Mrs. Margaret Wehmeyer of Crestwood, N. Y.; four grandchildren; one brother, Charles Hitzeman of Fort Wayne, and four sisters, Mrs. E. M. Popp, Mrs. William Wehrs and Mrs. Arno Spiegel, all of Fort Wayne, and Miss Malinda Hitzeman of Los Angeles, Calif. Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at the Rodenheck - Hockemeyer funeral home, the Rev. Osmar Lehenbauer officiating. Burial will be in Concordia cemetery., Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services, ' r

Below Zero Weather Recorded In Indiana Coldest Weekend Os Winter In Indiana By UNITED PRESS Zero and sub-zero temperatures cast the season’s iciest spell over Indiana today, and a chilly week lay ahead as a follow-up to the winter’s coldest weekend. 2 The mercury plunged below zero today for the second morning in a row and more of the Same was in store for tonight. It was one. below zerd? at Fort Wayne, Goshen and South Bend this morning, zero at Lafayette and Indianapolis, 7 above at Evansville, 2 at-cyt in the’Cincinnati area and C abeve m the Louisville areaLows ssunaay morning included one below' at South Bend, zero at Fort Wayne, one above at Indianapolis and 7 above at Evansville. New snow during the weekend in the far north raised to 11 inches the depth of a blanket which has covered South Bend and the immediate area for weeks. " The icy blasts of winter’s longest cold wave in Indiana swooped down Friday night and early Saturday morning and held Hoosierland in a wintry grip. The mercury never climbed higher than 9 above at South Bend Sunday, 11 at Fort Wayne, 16 at Indianapolis .[and 21 at Evansvilli. i Highs-today will ?ange from 8 to 12 in the north to 14 in the - central and 12 to 18 in the souths ern portions. The mercury will • dip to 2 below to 5 above in the t north tonight, 2 above in the cen- ■ tral and 2 to 8 above in the south. i The five-day outlook for the period ending Saturday called for “slight moderation” Tuesday and 1 again Friday or Saturday. But the • forecast said highs Tuesday will • range no higher ‘ than 12 to 15 north, 18 central and 20 south. For the five-day period, temperatures will average 4 to 8 degrees below normal highs of 30 to 48 and normal lows of 16 to 32, with very little snow and most of it in the Lake Michigan area. Frank Kilson Named County Home Head Appointment Made By Commissioners The Adams county board of commissioners appointed Frank Kitson to the position of superintendent of the Adams county home this morning, at their regular weekly meeting. Kitson’s fiancee. Miss Thelma Bilderback, was appointed as matron. Kitson and his fiance will serve out the unexpired term of the George Fosnaughs, who have resigned, effective March 1, to take up similar duties at the Wells county home. The present term will expire March 1, 1959, Kitson formerly served at the home as superintendent from Oct. 1, 1943 until March 1, 1951, appf<sxTfhately seven and -one-half years. He also served as Adams county auditor. The wife of the superintendent usually serves as matron, and Kitson Is planning a marriage this month. At present he is serving as a merchanic’s helper at the county highway garage. INDIANA WEATHER Generally fair south and central, partly cloudy north with considerable snow continuing near Lake Michigan. Continued cold although somewhat higher afternoon temperatures likely Tuesday. Low tonight 2 below to 5 above north, 5-12 above south. High Tuesday 1018 north, 18-25 south. Sunset today 6:15 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:43 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Continued cold and fair or partly cloudy. Lows Tuesday night sere to 10 above. Highs Wednesday 15 to 25. - /

Order Counsel To Appear For Closed Hearing Showdown Is Near Over Charges Os Padding Expenses WASHINGTON (UP)—A House investigating subcommittee voted 6-5 today against firing its controversial chief counsel, Bernard Schwartz, but said the decision was not necessarily final. The subcommittee ordered Schwartz to appear at a closed hearing later today. Schwartz, 34, a professor from New York University, replied that he would not appear at the closed hearing if it planned to question him about his own conduct and expense accounts. He said he would insist on a public hearing. The subcommittee, called the legislative oversight subcommittee, has been looking into charges of expense account padding by officials of government regulatory agencies and other misconduct. Showdown at Hand The inquiry has been marked ! by bickering among members of the subcommittee, intracommittee . attacks on Schwartz’s conduct of the inquiry, threats by its chairman, Rep. Morgan M. Moulder > <D-Mo.) to resign, and counter ! charges of expense account pad- • ding by Schwartz. , A showdown was at hand in the ; tangled affairs of the subcommittee, its staff and Its investigation. Schwartz added to the contro- ; versy surrounding the probe today by charging that improper “influence” has been exercised by White House and Cabinet officials over some FCC decisions. He told United Press "we have evidence” that chief presidential assistant Sherman Adams “has influenced decisions" and that President Eisenhower’s brother-in-law, Col. George Gordon Moore, “figured in many cases.” Moore is the husband of Mrs. Eisenhower's only sister. Schwartz also named Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and former Undersecretary of Commerce Robert B- Murray Jr. but did not go into particulars on when or how they exercised alleged “influence” over the commission. The White House had no immediate comment on Schwartz’s charges. Asked to Appear Moulder said the subcommittee, in a two-hour closed session from which Schwartz was excluded, discussed criticism of the chief counsel. He said the subcommittee discussed complaints that Schwartz is “dealing in too many petty matters.” Moulder said the subcommittee had directed him to send . Schwartz a written request to appear at this afternoon’s secret session. Moulder said the afternoon meeting was for Schwartz to brief the su bcom mi 11 e e on future planned hearings. H ow e v er, he said Schwartz’s employment with the subcommittee “probably” would come up again. Schwartz, labellingthe -charges—against him “sheerest nonsense,” said they were inspired to kill the investigation and rejected suggestions that he resign. Moss Praises Schwarts Moulder, one of two members ready to vote against firing Schwartz, told the United Press before today’s session he was prepared to make a House speech later in the day defending Schwartz if he is ousted. This could touch off a bitter House debate on the controversial investigation. * —~ — Schwartz himself told the United Press “I may get three votes” in the expected vote on his firing. He added “I have no way of knowing” Rep. 1 John E. Moss (D-Calif.), the other member certain to vote against a firing, praised Schwartz* “great integrity” and said the charges against the youthful New York University law professor were “ridiculous in the extreme.” Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.) a subcommittee member and chair'(C.uuJUrtd on Pag« Flv«) — - —

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