Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 40, Decatur, Adams County, 17 February 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 40.

- * ; wOraammßl ■ ~' |.' ' ‘ ■sanE I ■ ’ |l 1 " M^,''l HIGHEST BIDDER FOR ELLIS ISLAND— A bid far $201,000 was submitted by builder Sol G. Atlas for Ellis IslandTn New -Yuifr" harbor. He wants to build a $10,000,000 resort and cultural center on the 27-acre tract, which housed the immigration headquarters where some 20 million aliens has entered the United States. Atlas is shown with a drawing of the center projected for the island, closed in 1954. The plans call for a 600-room hotel, museum, language school, music center, swiming pool, convention hall, shops and a promenade. The island would also have a heliport, seaplane base and ferry slip.

East Blizzard Centers Over New England Boston Buried By 18-lnch Snowfall, Cold To Continue BOSTON (UP) — east coast blizzard centered over northern New England today with sharpened intensity. Sub-freezing winds blew over its white wake on the hurricane path from Alabama to Boston. The death toll for the 10-day cold wave that began Feb. 6 rose to 223. It was a numbing Monday from the Gulf Coast, where two to three inches(, of snow fell in the week-end storm, to the Northeast where official depths of 42 inches were blown into towering drifts on gale force winds. The worst snow in the nation, however, was outside the sweeping storm path in the northwestern corner of Indiana where a Lake Michigan squall dumped four to five feet of snow. Drifts blew'to 18 feet. Michigan City, Ind., was virtually isolated in zero temperatures, and a full state of emergency was declared with aid summoned from as far away as Chicago. Boston Burled Boston was buried under 18 inches of snow, a 24-hour fall that broke a 37-year record by IVt inches Up to 27 inches fell in suburban areas. Accompanying high tides forced 50 families from their homes in Quincy. Blizzard - driven waters flooded homes along the eastern Long Island and Connecticut shores Sunday and threatened the coast of Maine today. In Washington, blanketed with 14 inches of snow, its heaviest fall in 22 years, all but the most essential government officials were asked to take a day’s leave to reduce the ice-packed traffic snarl. The thermometer was down to 8 degrees and not expected to top freezing today. All schools were closed in the capital and its surrounding Virginia and Maryland suburbs. Commuter Travel Hampered Commuter travel was hampered in virtually every Eastern seaboard city. Bus schedules were abandoned in some hard-hit areas. ~ In the Southeast, a new cold wave moved into northern and central Florida after a two-day respite, bringing the 10th freeze of a bitter winter to its fruit, vegetable and vacation growers. Cases of pneumonia were reported among idled migratory farm workers, many of whom are living in unheated shacks. Zero temperatures were forecast for the area ranging from Huntsville, Ala., to inland Virginia, where snow lay 17 inches deep just south of Washington, D. CColdest section of the nation was the Mississippi Valley and northern Plains states where temperatures dropped to 12 to 18 bejiXntinued on p age Five) * ■ - - ■ ■ - — Roth Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon Funeral services for Edward Roth, who died suddenly of a heart attack Friday afternoon at Fort Wayne, were held this afternoon at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in that city. The Rev. Eli Steiner officiated and burial was in the Evangelical Mennonite cemetery, west of Berne.

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Bone-Chilling Cold Wave Grips Indiana Coldest Weather In Years Is Forecast By UNITED PRESS Indiana’s longest and worst cold wave in perhaps 22 years spread bone-chilling below-zero temperatures over the entire state today, and the worst was yet to come. While the Michigan City area tried to dig out from under a contemporary record fall of 42 inches of weekend snow, and drifts considerably higher, the rest of the state , shivered in temperatures from 1 to 8 below zero. Readings as low as 12 below zero were forecast for tonight, and the cold wave which started Feb. 7 and gripped the state ever since except for a brief respite last Friday was due to hang on the rest of the week at least. At least eight deaths were reported in Indiana during the weekend and early today with weather as a contributing factor. Twelve others during the sub-freezing previous week and weekend raised weather related deaths in the state during the current cold spell to 20. Weathermen said the Hoosier cold wave probably was the most intense and longest-lasting since the sub-zero spell of 1936. Michigan City was buried under the worst avalanche of snow to hit Hoosierland in many years. Traffic was paralyzed, business virtually stopped and many persons marooned. The cold weather, most severe in . Hoosierland this season, spawned dozens of fires in homes and buildings, one of which killed five members of an Evansville family early today. A SIOO,OOO fire swept two buildings in Veedersburg’s business district Sunday.. Temperatures fell to 6 below zero at Inaianapolis and Lafayette this morning, 7 below in the Chicago arda, 4 below at South Bend, 2 below at Fort Wayne and.l below at Evasnville- It was the second mornihg in a row of zero and ” sub-zero temperatures. Sunday morning lows included 6 below at South Bend, 3 below at Indianapolis and zero at Fort Wayne and Evansville. ~ -— Forecasts called for the coldest temperatures in years tonight for many points, including up to 12 below in the north, 10 below central and 5 below south. The fiveday outlook indicated little .change from current conditions at least through next Friday, with -temperatures averaging 15 to 20 degrees below normal. The Michigan City area’s plight was the worst in the state. Between 3 and 5 feet of snow blanketed the area, with drifts up to 18 feet deep. The snow fell between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon, paralyzing traffic and marooning hundreds, including 200 members of a wedding party and 15 teen-age couples attending a downtown dance. Mayor Francis Fedder declared a state of emergency. Virgil Oglesby, 47, his wife,: their 16-year-old daughter, and Mrs. Oglesby’s aged mother and brother were killed and two other members of the family escaped in a blast and fire blamed on a gas furnace laboring to heat a twostory Evansville house in sub-zero weather. Edward W. Koenig, 74, South Bend, fell dead of a heart attack while shoveling snow. One of two weekend traffic deaths was blamed on the weather Marine Cpl. Michail G. Gerondale’s car skidded on an icy spot near Richmond and the 19-year-old Rossfort, Ohio, motorist was thrown out and killed. 3 (ContinuM cn Page Five)

Ike Critical Os Attacks By Soviet Russia Informs Bulganin U. S. And Russia ■ Seem At Impasse Eisenhower told Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin today that the United States and Russia seem to have come to an impass in trying to arrange a summit conference. He suggested that it could be broken by “less formal and less publicized contacts” to determine whettier such a top level meeting can profitably be held. The President said the two leaders seemed to be writing speeches to e?ch other. He questioned “whettier we shall get anywhere 'ey continuing the process. The was sharply critical of Soviet attacks against U.S. policy. He was especially critical of what he called a “rather bitter speech” by Communist Party boss Nikita Khrushchev in Minsk on Jan 22. He told Bulganin that the cumulative effect of the Soviet premier’s last three letters to him seeking a summit conference “is to leave considerable puzzlement as to what you think another such meeting could contribute to a genuine settlement of our problems.” Consulting Other Nations “Perhaps the impasse to which we seem to have come can be broken by less formal and less publicized contacts through which we would continue to seek to find out whether there can be a toplevel meeting which, in the words of my letter to you of Jan. 12, 1958, ‘would hold good hope of advancing the cause of peace and justice in the world,” Eisenhower said. The President’s views were contained in a lengthy letter delivered to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in Moscow today -by ■U. S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. The President said exchanges of views through ambassadors or foreign ministers may serve better to determine the prospects of a productive summit meeting than anything else. Therefore, he said, the United States is now consulting with (Continue- ->r> Page Five) Economic Program Outlined By Labor Seven - Point Plan To End Business Slump WASHINGTON (UP)—The AFLCIO has accused the administration of "trying to tranquilize the American people” about the current economic downturn. It proposes a seven-point federal program to lift business out of its slump. The labor organization’s plans were outlined by Nat Goldfinger, an AFL-CIO economist, and Hyman Bookbinder, AFL-CIO legislative representative. Speaking on the AFO-CIO radio program “As We See It,” Bookbinder said Sunday night he did not think the administration was showing “proper concern” over a Labor Department report that 4,500,000 Americans were out of jobs in January. He estimated that the figure Is now between five and six millions. Bookbinder and Goldfinger proposed: 1. A program of public works including the construction of public housing, hospitals, libraries; schools and flood control projects. 2. An increase in personal income tax exemptions from S6OO to S7OO. 3. Increasing the rate and duration of unemployment compensation payments4. Extension of the $1 minimum wage to workers in retail stores, laundries, hotels and restaurants and an increase in the Wage to $1.25. 5. An increase in . social security old age benefits and hospital care for persons on old age pensions. 6. Increased assistance, to eco- , nomically depressed areas. 7. Increased wages without increased prices. Sen. John J. Sparkman (D-Ala.) said today he does not think an immediate tax reduction is the answer to the nation’s current economic troubles although “it ; may be later ” He said, “the answer is to get off the ground with some programs that will put people to work.” He cited housing, public works and highways as examples. The joint Economic Committee , scheduled a closed door meeting this afternoon to begin work on its annual report amid speculation that it might recommend a tax cut.

Decatur. Indiana, Monday, February 17, 1958.

Five Persons Killed At Evansville As Explosion And Fire Wreck House * w

Michigan City Is Isolated By Heavy Snowfall All Schools, Many Business Houses And Industries Closed MICHIGAN CITY «P) — Dozens of borrowed snowplows and bulldozers struggled through deep drifts today trying to free this city of 35,000 from a paralyzing snowstorm that virtually isolated the area. The weekend storm killed at least one person, marooned hundreds for hours in public buildings, closed all industry and many shops and trapped hundreds of automobiles in the middle of streets. At least 42 inches of snow fell, piling up on a 12 to 14 inch blanket which already covered the area before the near-blizzard swooped in. Drifts six and seven feet deep were common. The city’s snow removal equipment was supplemented by at least 39 pieces of equipment sent here from Chicago, the Indiana state highway department and neighboring cities which escaped the Wrath Os the storm. But as hundreds of workers tried to clear one-lane paths for emergency vehicles, they were hampered by autos which had stalled in the streets and were abandoned by their occupants seeking safety at the height of the storm. Officials estimated only five per cent of the city’s streets were passable by mid-morning. The city was virtually deserted, as residents heeded appeals to stay home. U. S. 2, U.S. 421, U.S. 12 and Ind. 39 were closed by deep drifts. Gusty winds up to. 30 miles an (C i.houed on Pairs Five) Klink Held Innocent Because Os Insanity Slayer Committed To Mental Hospital GOSHEN (UP) — An Elkhart Circuit Court jury of 10 men and 2 women deliberating more than 21 hours during the weekend ruled that Richard Dale Klink, 47, was innocent by reason of insanity when he shot and killed Wolcottville banker Maurice Kent, 43, last August. Judge Aldo J. Simpson ordered Klink committed to the maximum security division at Norman Beatty Memorial Hospital at Westville for at least two years. Klink killed Kent when the banker refused to cash a check for $250. Doctors and psychiatrists gave conflicting testimony on - Klink’s mental responsibility at the time of the crime. The jury retired at noon Saturday, deliberated all night and returned to the courtroom four times for a rereading of Simpson’s instructions. Simpson could have released Klink by finding the defendant sane at the present time, but the judge ruled him mentally ancedThe sentence was mandatory under state law. Klink can make application to the same court for release at the end of the two years and each five years after that if he receives an adverse ruling on his request. INDIANA WEATHER Continued very cold tonight and Tuesday. Considerable snow extreme north, especially near Lake Michigan. Generally fair elsewhere. Low tonight 5 to 12 below zero. High Tuesday 5 to 12 above north, 8 to 15 south. Sunset today 6:23 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 7:34 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Continued cold and mostly fair except snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Lows Tuesday night 5 below to 5 above. Highs Wednesday 8 to IS.

Korean Airliner Thought Kidnaped Two Americans On Kidnaped Airliner SEOUL, Korea (UP) — The Pyongyang Radio admitted tonight that a missing Korean National Airlines plane with 32 persons aboard landed in Communist North Korea Sunday. . The propaganda voice of North Korea made no mention of where the DC3 had landed after it disappeared on a routine flight from Pusan to Seoul in the Republic of Korea. The plane was piloted by an American, with a second American also abcard. The plane apparently arrived over Seoul on schedule and then Continued north without landing. It was tracked by radar as it flew over the demilitarized zone and into North Korea. Radar tracked it as far as Sunan air base, 20 miles north of Pyongyang, capital of Red-rim North Korea. South Korean Intelligence officers expressed belief earlier in the day that Communist hatchet men had kidnaped the plane’s crew and passengers at gunpoint and forced it to land in North Korea in a cold-blooded attempt to get hostages for bargaining purposes. '■ The Pyongyang broadcast was made in the Japanese* language. It said a “South Korean government civil airliner” arrived in North Korea at about 11 p.m. c.s.t. Sunday. ===== It said the plane “heroically” reached the Communist north. It added that “The people on the plane were against the occupation of South Korea by the U.S. imperialist aggressive forces.” It continued that they could not longer “put up with the daily pressure of the Fascist Syngman Rhee government and decided to heroically escape to North Ko* tea.” The broadcast, however, did not name any of those aboard the plane nor did it give any further detailsPlKup 2nd pgh: Two of Two of the 32 persons aboard were Americans.Two others were Germans. On the basis of past experiences the North Korean Communists might try to use them as hostages to force the exchange of captured master spy Pak Chung Ko — head of Red Korean activities in Japan, Korea and Hong Kong. ' The ROK intelligence officers noted that the apparent kidnaping came at a time when Chinese r'’ ,-.ueu on Page Five)

Colled Funds For Red Cross Campaign Many Collections From Rural Areas Although the 1958 fund campaign of the Adams county Red Cross has not officially started, the material has been distributed to all rural areas, and many collections have already been made. Leo Seltenright, fund campaign hairman, suggested that all persons collecting funds start early, to ■omplgte the campaign. Decatur and Berne, through their community funds, have already contributed $5,000 and $1,720 respectively. Other contributions have added to the total, and $6,922.25 has been collected, leaving a target goal of $3,385.75 remaining to be collected. Other contributions include: Monmouth, Mrs. Suman, chairman, $26.75; Organizations, French Twp. Home Ec, $2.00; Union Twp. Home Ec, $3.00; Blue Creek Twp? David Habegger, $6.00; French Twp., Obed Steffen, $10.50; Preble Twp., Robert Erxleben, $16.00; W. E. Uffelman, sl7; Root Twp., Hilbert Hockemeyer, $8.50; Mrs. H. Worthman, $11; Frances Geels, $5; Gustav Fuelling, $4; Union Twp., Rollie Crozier, sl4; Ernest Thieme, $10; Dewey Plumley, $6.25; Mrs. W. Gaunt, $3; Washington Twp., Mrs, W. Kohne, $6; Miscellaneous. $53.25.

Schwartz Tells Os Bidding On TV Channel Says Brother-In-Law Os Mrs. Eisenhower Linked With Bidder WASHINGTON (UP) — Bernard Schwartz, ousted counsel for a House investigating subcommittee, today linked Mrs. Mamie Eisenhower’s brother - in - law to the successful bidder for a hotly disputed Miami, Fla., television channelSchwartz, testifying under otah, told the House subcommittee on legislative oversight that Col. George Gordon Moore was a partner in a Dominican Republic shipyard with two officials of National Airlines. A National Airlines subsidiary, Public Service Television Inc., was awarded the controversial Channel 10 station in Miami by members of the Federal Communications Commission who over ruled recommendations of their own field examiner. Schwartz was called before the subcommittee to explain under oath his charge tha’t a “White House clique” had brought improper pressure on the FCC and other federal regulatory agencies to influence their decisions. Reads Sworn Statement Schwartz related Moore’s alleged connections with National Airlines when Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) told him the subcommittee would like to know what Colonel Moore’s interest was in this.” Die former counsel, who was fired in an intra - subcommittee row over the way he had conducted the inquiry, testified that Moore and two officials of the airline were partners in a shipyard in the Dominican Republic. He also read parts of a sworn statement from Co. A. Frank Katzentine, an unsuccessful bidder for the Miami station, that Moore and his wife, Mrs. Eisenhower’s sister, once were “house guests” of G. T- Baker, president of the airline. (Continued on page two) Pupils Place High In Music Contest State Contest Held At Indianapolis High school musicians from several Adams county schools placed high in the state music contest at Indianapolis Saturday. The Pleasant Mills boys quartet, composed of Sheldon Light, Larry Jackson. Dick Johnson, and Gary Millington placed in the superior group. It was the fourth consecutive year that a Pleasant Mills boys quartet had placed in the highest bracket. Dick Johnson also placed in the superior class with a baritone solo, and the boys vocal duet, composed of Dick Johnson and Gary Millington, also placed in the high bracket. The double sextet, including Kathy Shoaf, Janice Smith, Judy Williamson, Carolyn Luginbill, Sharon Bebout, Betty Myers, Gary Millington, Dick Johnson, Sherman Archer, Steve Riley, Larry Jackson and Sheldon Light, placed in the excellent grouping. At Adams Central the girls ensemble, composed of Twila Arnold, Onalee Barkley, Kathleen Adler, Alice Beer, Cecilia Lehman, Pat Ltechty, Debra Miller, Karen Nussbaum, Janet Rupp Lois Steu>y, Nancy Steury, and Carol McKean, placed in the superior group. Also superior was the girls quartet from Adams Central, Chloe Neuenschwander, Marcia Merriman, Wanda Neuenschwander, and Inez Merriman. John Fuhrman, of Monmouth high school, placed in the excellent division with a baritone solo. The state instrumental contest wil be held next week at Indianap-1 oils.

Studying Technical Data From Spaceman Airman Concludes Full Week Os Test SAN ANTONIO, Tex (UP) — Space doctors and scientists today studied reams of technical data obtained from successful test “spaceman’; Donald G. Farrell, who says he would like to follow up his simulated seven-day flight to the moon withreal one. But Airman Farrell’s parents in the Bronx, N.Y., promptly put a damper on the idea after learning that their son, after emerging from his week-long isolation in a Sealed space cabin Sunday, had said “I would love to make a real trip to the moon.” “I would try to discourage that,” said his father, James A Farrell, an accountant with the brokerage firm of Bache & Co. “It would be much too hazardous.” Farrell stepped out of the three by five foot steel shell seven days to the minute from the time he was hermetically sealed in. Ready For Another Month With a grin he said he was ready to go back in for another month of solitude if necessary. However, Farrell said one major factor was left unanswered in his experiment at -the School of Aviation Medicine nere to determine man’s ability to face the monotony and boredom of ‘ outer space. At no time, Farrell said, did he feel as if he were truly in space. In frent of the chair he sat in was a panic button. A push on it, would have caused the scientists watching from outside the chamber to open the door and release him. A man soaring into outer space would have no panib button to push if terror should overcome him. Farrell, after, a 30-minute con(Continued on page live) Indonesian Rebels Launch Blockade Launch Economic Blockade Os Rivals TOKYO (UP)—Leaders of Indonesia's rebel government launched an economic blockade of their rivals today by ordering U.S. and British oil companies on Sumatra not to do business with the Jakarta regime. Telegrams sent to local representatives of the three major companies operating the Sumatran oilfields—America’s Caltex and Stanvac and Britain's BPM—ordered them to withhold both money and refined oil from Jakarta, the generally recognized capital of Indonesia. “Z~ The Jakarta cabinet scheduled a special meeting tonight to consider possible countermeasures. At the same time, it was announced that a rebel battalion seized the airbase at Padang in central Sumatra last Tuesday, presumbly to prevent its being used against them. The announcement said the base’s garrison of 50 airmen were disarmed, but made no mention of Casualties. Os the early maneuvers ordered by the rebel government proclaimed Saturday and Its rivals in Jakarta, only the oil blockade and a boycott of Sumatra’s communications appeared likely to have any immediate effect. There appeared to be no prospect that Jakarta could enforce its order for the arrest of 10 rebel leaders as “traitors,” or that a blockade by Indonesia’s navy could prevent Sumatra from getting all the goods it needs. It also appeared unlikely that a rebel order blocking Indonesia's foreign gold balances and other assets would be heeded by the countries concernedJakarta appeared to have succeeded in cutting off most of Sumatra’s ° communications, except for the rebel radio stations at Padang and Bukittinggi. President Sukarno returned to Jakarta Sunday from a “vacation topr” of Asia, and orders for the arrest of the rebels were issued a few hours later.

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Two Escape As Blast Wrecks House Today Five Os Family Die In Explosion, Fire Early This Morning EVANSVILLE (ffl — An explosion and fire in zero weather demolished a two-story frame house early today, killing five of the seven occupants. All were members of one family. A man leaped from a secondstory bedroom window and pulled his brother to safety. Both escaped with minor injuries. Police Sgt. Fred Danks identified the dead as Virgil D. Oglesby, 47;His wile, Nellie, 44; Patricia Ann, 16 their daughter; Mrs. Eliza Cooper, 80, Mrs. Oglesby’s mother, and, James H. Cooper, 56, her brother. James Oglesby, 26, who escaped with cuts and bruises, told authorities he was asleep in a secondfloor bedroom when the blast rocked the home. He said he leaped out of a window, then went back into the house and pulled 13-year-old Bobby out. The boy was treated for cuts at Deaconess - Hospital. ‘ Oglesby said it was Impossible to pull anyone else from the wreckage. “The house was blown apart,” he said. Danks said a preliminary investigation showed the explosion occurred in an oil furnace. He said the last body was brought out about four hours after the explosion. Flames immediately enveloped the house. The fire spread to an adjacent house but the flames were brought under control. Two of the occupants slept upstairs. Jame' Oglesby said, the five others wnstairs. Stassen Calls For Six-Nation Parley Summit Conference Urged By Stassen WASHINGTON (UP) — Harold F. Stassen called Sunday for a six - nation "summit” conference at the United Nations headquarters in New York —“the sooner the better.” Stassen, who resigned as President Eisenhower’s disarmament adviser Saturday to run for governor of Pennsylvania, suggested that U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold be chosen as “manager or moderator” of such a parley. He said there was a "good chance” a new meeting of chiefs of government could negotiate a “sound, safe - guarded, first-step agreement” on disarmament.. He Hsn e-ase oth r ’ ve results” from such a conference. Stassen said any new summit < - i. Paue tHv* Funeral Held Today For Merriman Baby Brenda Kay Merriman, one-day-old daughter of Ralph L. and Virginia Crickmore - Merriman, 620 South Thirteenth street, died at 4:10 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she was born at 10:08 p. m. Saturday. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Larry, and a sister, Linda, at home; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Merriman of Decatur, and Mr. and Mrs. George Dyson of Bluffton; and greatgrandmothers, Mrs. Jennie Merriman of Monroe, Mrs. Ora Rhees of Hartsburg. 0., and Mrs. Fannie Crickmore of Yoder. Funeral services were held this afterndon at the Zwick fune-al home, the Rev. C. E. Lykins officiating. Burial was in the Decatur cemetery. • —