Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 94, Decatur, Adams County, 21 April 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 94.

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I Hundreds Os I Girls 111 On Poisoned Food Sunshine Society Girls Stricken At State Convention CRAWFORDSVILLE (UP) — A medical team from the state Board of Health today sought to determine the cause of an illness which struck between 400 and 600 teen-age girls attending a one-day convention of the Sunshine Society for Girls here Saturday. Dr. Fred N. Daugherty, Montgomery County health officer, said the illness “definitely” was food poisoning caused “apparently by ham salad.” About 2,400 girls from 195 Indiana high schools were attending the convention of the charitable group when the illness broke out about mid-afternoon- v _ The first sign of the illness, marked by nausea and vomiting, Adams, Central Girls Twenty-three of the 36 Adams Central girls who attended the Sunshine society state convention became ill from food poisoning, but all were well enough to return to their homes Sunday evening. Miss Marcia Zimmerman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Harold Zimmerman, of route four, was the only one of the " 23 girls hospitalized. She and her sister, Maron, were reported feeling better today, but still weak, and were not able to attend school. Marcia stated that her throat was still quite sore and that she lost 19 pounds during the ordeal, The other 22 girls were treated by the Red Cross in the high school gym at Crawfordsville. Mrs. Rowena Stucky, advisor of the group, and bus drivers Harry Kirschner and Glen Workinger accompanied the group. appeared as a bus load of the girls were preparing to return home. A nurse ordered the bus driver to take the girls to Culver Hospital here for treatment. Minutes later, the corridors of the Crawfordsville High School were filled with sick girls. Many slumped numbly in the halls and on the sidewalks and curbs around the school, too well to take space among the scores lying down in the gym and too sick to walk around. Culver Hospital soon was jammed with the more seriously ill and many others were taken to St. Elizabeth and Home hospitals in Lafayette and Putnam County Hospital at Greencastle. Declare Emergency Crawfordsville authorities and those at Lafayette declared a state of emergency and all available doctors and nurses were called back to duty. About 1,000 of the girls ate the ham salad in the school cafeteria and another 1,400 ate at nearby restaurants. The number stricken was not determined. Scores suffered only minor illness and were not hospitalized. Others were taken to hospitals in ambulances, police (Continued on page four) * INDIANA WEATHER Showers or thunderstorms likely tonight and Tuesday. Cooler Tuesday. Lows tonight 47 to 50 north, 50 to 55 south. Highs Tuesday 65 to 70. Sunset today 7:29 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:58 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair or partly cloudy and mild. Lows Tuesday night in the 40s. High Wednesday <5 to 75.

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Democrats To Hold Dior rOn April 29 Meeting Is Planned To Meet Candidates A "know your candidates” dinner will be held April 29, at 7 p. m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, sponsored by the Adams county Democratic central committee. The evening is planned so all I local Democrats may get to know ' all candidates running In the pri- > j mary election May 6. 1 The principal speakers for the 1 evening are Robert Fleming and F. Dean Bechtol, candidate for congress, fourth district. Both of these candidates are good speak- ■ ers, and everyone is urged to , hear their views on the national. , and international situations. Although repeated efforts were made, the third candidate, Rich- ’ ard E Houtzer, was unable to ; be reached for this meeting. ; Mrs. Mabel Striker, ticket chairman, seated tickets had , been mailed to all Democratic precinct committeemen, candidates, and office holders, and tickets for the dinner may be purchased from any of these people. Tickets may also be obtained at the recorder's office at the court house. Mrs. Striker asks tha’t all reservations be sent in by April 25, so final arrangements can be completed. The following committees were appointed for the dinner: Merle Affolder, general chairman; tick- » ets, Mabel Striker, chairmaii; Rose Nesswald, Rosemary Spangler, Shirley Noll. Decorations: Mrs. Richard Linn, chairman, Mrs. Lawrence Kohne, Miss Dianne Linn, Mrs. Everett Hutker, Mrs. Walter T Butcher, Bohnke, all of Decatur, Mrs. Richard Meshberger,- Linn Grove, Mrs. Gail Runyon, Mrs. Patrick Murphy, Mrs. Thurman Baker of Geneva. Reception committee: Mrs Herman (Bleeke, chairman, Mrs. Melvina \Ross, Mrs. Phil Macklin, Mrs. Dick Heller, Mrs. Ralph J. Roop, Mrs. Clyde Drake, Mrs. Fred Fuelling of Decatur, Mrs. Louis Reinking, Preble, Mrs. Menno Augsburger, Berne, Mrs. Kathleen Moser, Geneva, Mrs. Clarence Buckingham, Geneva. Tables and arrangements: Mrs. Elmer C. Beer, chairman, Mrs. Gene Hike, Mrs. Austin Merriman, Monroe, Mrs. Earl Sipe, Berne, Mrs. Edna Davison, Mrs. Artie Jackson, Mrs. Walter Thieme, Mrs. Martin Gallmeyer, Mrs- Herman Weber, all of Decatur. Program committee: Mrs. Frank Sprunger, chairman, Mrs. Maynard Rich, Berne, Mrs. Patil Stahley, Berne, Mrs. Ralph Bollenbacher, Mrs. Harley Reef, Geneva, M rs - Richard Meshberger, Linn Grove, Mrs. Marie Brown, Mrs. Carj Beiberich, Mrs. Dwight Schnepp, Mrs. Jerome Brown, all of Decatur. Three Breakins Are Reported To Sheriff Three break-ins were reported to the Adams county sheriff's department today. The Lawrence Rekeweg store in Magley, reported the front glass was broken out, and pry marks were on both front and back doors. But entry was not made because the type of lock on the doors requires a key to open. The Hartford township school was entered by forcing'the front door open. Filing cabinets were ransacked, and money taken. The amount taken is believed to be $65Thb Equity Exchange in Linn Grove was also entered and an undisclosed amount at cash was taken.

Wounded Huns Are Reported Out Os Danger i Laborer Arrested For Shotgun Spree At Church Convent ' DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (UP)— ■ Louis Felipe Marrero —a quiet man — will be arraigned here to- > day for extradition to Trenton, I N.J., for shooting three nuns and • twd other persons in a shotgun r rampage in a convent. Marrero told reporters he went > on his spree Saturday night to “get even” with a priest who had not approved of Marrero’s version , of the Bible. The 24-year-old laborer said he ‘ hadbeen planning the attack for three weeks. However, he changed his mind later and told t a reporter, “I only meant to I scare them, but then something : clicked in my mind.” “I’m sorry about it,” he said. I “I might as well get what's com- “ ing to me." _ Marrero, married and the fa- ■ ther of two children, said he was ; also mad at the Catholic Church ; for not baptizing his Protestant i mother Emma — who has been . a patient at the Norristown, Pa. State Hospital for the last eight years. The Rev. Dominick Tutora, assistant curate at St. Joachim’s Church, in Trenton, explained: “We told him we couldn’t baptize her because Norristown is outside our diocese. He left without saying much.” Father Tutora added that Marrero’s revised Bible — the result of the laborer’s “visions” of the Virgin Mary — was “not worth reading.” ~ Marrero told newsmen he had other complaints with the Church. He said he wrote to Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, enclosing two dollars and a suggestion for a special medal for American spacemen. ~ “I told him there ought to be a medal for our spacemen and for our rocketeers. Our spacemen are important and should be honored,” Marrero said. “He answered my letter and said thanks for the two dollars," Marrero said, “but he never acknowledged my idea about the medal.” The laborer also sent his version of the Bible to the National Catholic Press in Chicago. Stanley Rutkowski, Mercer County, N.J., prosecutor, said Sunday Marrero had signed a statement confessing that he went to St Joachim’s Convent, rang the doorbell and shot the first nun who came to the door. Then Marrero fired two more times, wounding two other nuns. One of the sisters was wounded seriously but was reported out of danger after surgery. The nuns were Sisters Madeline Fuccile, Lorenzina Sassini and Angela Bella. Marrero also admitted wounding patrolman Eugene Johnson and neighbor Stephen Kqnscol, 53, who investigated the firings. The gunman managed to flee to a parochial school next door to the church and evaded the bullets and tear gas bombs of 60 policemen who rushed to the area. He escaped from the school, raced to the bank of the Delaware River, stole a rowboat and rowed to Pennsy Ivana. V New Albany Youth Is Drowned Sunday NEW ALBANY (W — John M. Haynes, 9, New Albany, drowned Sunday in swollen Silver Creek. Two companions of the boy told conflicting stories. One said he jumped. The other said he fell into the water.

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Airliner Carrying 47 Collides With Jet And Crashes This Morning

U.N. Council In Session On Soviet Charge To Hear On Flights Os U.S. H-Bomber Planes UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UP) —The United States had mustered overwhelming support of U.N. Security Council members today against Soviet charges that U.S. bombers laden with hydrogen bombs threaten to start World War 111 by flying toward Russia. The Security Council was called into session to hear the complain ■ made on Friday by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei GromykoAmerican officials expected any Soviet resolution denouncing the United States would be beaten by a 9 to 1 Security Council vote. Soviet representative Arkady A. ’• Sobolev was taking the rostrum ' first to demand ’’urgent meas--1 ures to put an end to flight by 1 U.S. military aircraft armed with atomic and hydrogen bombs in ’ the direction of the frontiers of the Soviet Union.” ' Speech Carefully Documented I U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot ’ Lodge Jr., backed by experts of > the Strategic Air Command, and the - Defense and State Departments, planned to answer Sobolev ' with a carefully documented speech that would refute Gromykos charges the flights were "provocative.” Members of the Security Council were prepared to go into an extraordinary night session if necessary to wind up the question as soon as possible. Lodge, Security Council president for the month of April, was reported to have the backing of Canada, China, Colombia, France, Iraq, Japan, Panama nd Britin, current members of the Council besides Russi. The Russian complaint against the United States — first major East - West Security Council conflict since Russia crushed the anti - Communist revolt in Hungary — referred to a “report of the American news agency United Press” This report was a dispatch by Frank H. Bartholomew, president of the United Press, written on April 7 after two personal visits to Strategic Air Command headquarters in Omaha, Neb. Alerted By ’Objects’ The dispatch said H - bomb equipped planes had taken off toward the Soviet frontiers several (Continued on page three) Five Drown As Car Plunges Into Lake Five Elderly Women Are Drowned Sunday NEWTON, Mass. (UP)—A driverless Cadillac with five elderly helpless women in it rolled down an incline and plunged into a lake Sunday, drowning all of them. The victims were Mrs. Ina I. Dowling, 85, Mrs. Hattie Gordon, 96. Miss Gertrude Cummings, 85, Mrs- Dothilda Hinrichs, (80, and Mrs. Esther Ross, 92. All excepit Mss Cummings were widows. Mrs. Rose Watson 58, owner of a rest home, told police she was about to take the women for a Sunday afternoon ride when the accident occurred. She said she set the car’s handbrake after starting the motor and then returned to the home for a coat. As she returned with the garment, the automobile, which had an automatic shift, rolled down the driveway, missed a curve and went into Crystal Lake. Mrs Watson ran after the car but could not catch it. It floated a few minutes and sank in 12 feet «of water. Several persons were ablte to swim to the car, but no one was able to open the doors. “The women were frozen with fear,” said William L. Bruce, 34, a Harvard Law School assistant dean who was the first to reach the automobile.

Injuries Fatal To Howard D. Beitler Young Berne Man Dies Os Injuries Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Howard D. Beitler, 31,1 of Berne, who died Saturday nigpt at the Parkview memorial "'htrepital in Fort Wayne of injuries sustained in a traffic accident Thursday morning. The Berne man had been in ) critical condition since his auto i collided with a road grader of the - Adams county highway departs r meat at 7 o’clock Thursday morn- . ing at the intersection of U. S. i highway 27 and Winchester i street (extended) one mile south . ot Decatur. 1 Mr. Beitler was first taken to i the Adams county memorial hos- ■ pital and was transferred to • Parkview Thursday afternoon. ' He suffered a crushed chest and - other injuries. T Lloyd Wendle Abbott, of Decatur route 3, driver of the grader, • escaped with facial lacerations. 1 “Die accident victim was a na- ’ tive and lifelong resident of the r Berne community. He was a 1 member of the Trinity Evangelic- ’ al United Brethren church at ’ Berne, and served in the U. S Navy from 1944 until 1946. Hs was employed at the Dunbar 1 Furniture Co. fcr nine years, and , had been working st tkje General ’ Printing Co., Fort Wayne, for one ‘ week. I Surviving are his wife, Alice 1 Mae; a daughter, Beth Renee, 8, - and son, Jan DeWayne, ‘ 5 at home; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. • DeWald Beitler, of Berne, and a i sister, Mrs, Rosemary Sprungf er of Homer, Mich. 1 Services will be held at 2p. m. Tuesday at the Yager funeral home in Berne, the Rev. Arthur ' Givens and the Rev, C. A. Schmid officiating. Burial will be in the MRE cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6:30 o’clock this evening. Southwest Hit By Wind, Rain, Hail Heaviest Damage In Northern Texas By UNITED PRESS Wind, rain and hail storms ripped wide sections of the Southwest Sunday and Sunday night, causing heaviest damage in northern Texas. Thunderstorms whipped by winds up to 80 miles an hour struck Fort Worth, Tex, uprooting trees, felling power lines and shattering windows. High winds also raked Dallas, Amarillo and Wichita Falls. Tex., and ished 80 private boats at Possdm Kingdon Lake. Hail up to half an inch in diameter pounded Borger, Tex., Sunday night, and at least two tornadoes touched ground near Dumas, Tex., but caused no damage. - Other funnel clouds were reported Sunday in easUeentral Illinois near Bement and east central Arkansas near Little Rock. The squall line marked the path of a cold air front which pushed eastward out of Texas and by nightfall extended to the Carolinas and north to New York state. Precipitation also oc curred along the lower Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and Tennessee and into Mississippi and northern Alabama. Jackson, Miss., was doused with .81 inches of rain during the night and marble-sized hail apd high winds accompanied the storm- I A few scattered showers were reported in parts of New England, but most of the Atlantic Coast states enjoyed fair and warm weather. - h Fair skies also ruled Sunday from California east into Colorado and New Mexico, but showers were widespread from the Pa cific Northwest and across the Rockies into the northern Plains and the upper Mississippi Valley. The storm front sent readings dipping into the 40s and 50s in the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley overnght, and Grand Mad (Continued on pace five)

Gov. Harriman Blames G.O.P. For Recession Anti-Recession Tax Cut, Public Works Program Suggested WASHINGTON (UP) — Gov. Averell Harriman of New York called today for an anti-recession tax iut, “a large and diversified program of public works" and Federal Reserve Board purchase of “several billion dollars” of government bonds to fight the sionThe Democratic .governor said the ♦ Eisenhower administration must bear the blame for the recession. He said - it. must now “face the facts, tell the people the truth and act positively and convincingly” or lose a vital battle in the cold war with Communism. Harriman made his recommendations in testimony prepared for delivery before the House Banking and Currency Committee. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks earlier attacked certain top-level congressional Democrats ’ tor “deliberately plotting” to ex--1 aggerate the seriousness of the 1 businessdo wnturn and intimidate > consumers. Certain Selfish Plotters • In a weegend speech at a GOP , rally in Skowhegan, Me., Weeks : said he believed rank-and-file Democrats like Republicans sympathized with the unemployed. “But I do charge,” he said, “certain strategists of the opposition with deliberately plotting for selfish partisan advantage to talk people into the jitters.” Elsewhere on Capitol Hill, the House Ways and Means Committee was prepared to give final approval of a bill going far beyond President Eisenhower’s recommendations for supplemental unemployment benefits. At the same time, the Senate Bankings Committee turned to small business legislation — another item on the anti-recession program of Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Nelson Rockefeller, head of a panel study of the nation's economy, issued a report calling for an immediate five to seven-billion-dollar tax cut. The report of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc., made public Sunday night, urged reductions in both personal and corporation income taxes as part of a six-point program to stimulate business and employment-. :Continued on pare three) Herbert Hoover Is Reported Improving Making Recovery Following Surgery NEW YORK (IB — H e r b e r t Hoover’s doctors reported today the formet President's condition was improved and they were wellsatisfied with his progress toward recovery from a gall bladder operation performed Saturday. A Columbia-Presbyterian hospital bulletin this morning said: “Mr. Hoover had a quiet night. He was brighter and more alert this morning and we permitted him to stand up for five minutes. Temperature was 99, pulse 72, blood pressure 135 over 70, respiration normal. His general improvement continues.” The spokesman said the former President's doctors were not worried about slight changes in Hoot ver’s temperature, pulse and blood pressure. He said the changes were “not significant.” The former President’s son Allan visited his father on his way to work today. After spending 15 minutes with Hoover the son reported he found his father sitting in a chair and reading the morning paper. “He had a good night and seemed to be just fine,” Allan said. “They're going to walk him around in the afternoon.”

School Election At Geneva On May 13 Hold Referendum On School Control The election to decide whether Geneva and Wabash township will have a school board, or . continue its one-man trustee operation of the school system will be held May 13, one week after the primary election, Custer & Smith, attorneys for the school, said today. Hie election was forced on the J school board by a petition circula- [ ted in the Geneva area calling for I it. By a decision of the state elec- , tion board, the election could not be held during the primary election,' because of the way the ballots must be counted. I “Shall the Wabash township i school township create and establish a new school corporation and ' board of school trustees as resol- > ved for under chapter 15 of 1955 acts of the Indiana general as- ‘ sembly?’ This is the question on which residents of Wabash town- ■ ship will vote yes or no. The election will run-from 6 a.m. ■ until 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 13, Indiana standard time, (fast time.) : Persons living in Ceylon, Geneva > A and B precincts will vote at s new town hall, and those living - in North Wabash township will ’ vote at the residence of Wesley G. ? Amstutz. The present Wabash township , trustee, L. A. Mann, and the three members of the advisory board, s introduced a township ordinance s some time ago, creating a fiveman school board to handle the ’ Geneva school. , The school building and property valued at more than $1 million, . would be controlled by five persons, rather than just one, the township trustee. Since no more than two would ever take office at the same time, a continuity of administration would be far better than the present one-man admin(Continued on page three) Civic Music Group Selects Program Artists Are Chosen For 1958-59 Season The third annual membership drive for the Adams county civic music association was brought to a highly successful close at 6 p.m. Saturday, Mrs. Roy Kalver, or- ’ ganization chairman, announced. The week-long drive was conducted from headquarters located in the Youth and Community Center. A total of 170 workers from Decatur and Berne volunteered their help In enrolling the membership. The association also announced that five programs were again chosen for the coming concert season. Dr. Freeman Burkhalter, of Berne: president of the association, met with his talent committee Sunday afternoon and the follow- ■ ing artists and attractions were selected for the new series: 1 The National Artists Symphon- ’ ette, 13 first-chair virtuosi, under 1 the direction of William Haaker, and with Ampara Iturbi as the piano soloist; Continental-Aires, a highly musical and finely drilled quartet of ; male voices; [ The Gay Tyroliers, a company of 16 delightful singers, dancers, and instrumentalists from the Austrian Tyrol; Stan Freeman, the inimitable pi-anist-humorist; Ferrante & Teicher, duo-pianists, whose return to Decatur will de- , light the members who enjoyed tjieir appearance here two years . ago. Dates for these concerts will be . announced later, the association stated. , All concerts will be presented in . the Decatur Youth and Commun- ; ity Center during the coming fall, . winter, and spring months. Only those members who joined the as- [ sociation during the enrollment I week may attend the concerts. Sin- : gle admissions are not available at the door.

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Crashes Over Desert South Os Las Vegas Weckage Os Liner Spread Over Area About Mile Square LAS VEGAS, Nev. (UP) — A New York-bound United Air Lines DC7 with 47 persons aboard collided with an Air Force twin-seat jet fighter today and crashed. The Clark County sheriff’s office said all aboard the airliner were killed. Fate of the two Air Force pilots w'as not known immediately. An Air Force spokesman said initial investigation of the collision indicated that the Supersabre jet “flamed out” at 30,000 feet and that it went Into a dive, colliding with the DC7 at 21,000 feet over the southern Nevada desertThere was a big white puff of,, smoke that quickly turned to a deathly black pall. They spiraled into rock strewn desert some 10 miles south of this gambling resort. First to arrive at the scene was ; Denny Schieck, a photographer : for the Las Vegas Review-Jour--1 na He was en route to an assign - ■ ment when he saw the two panes collide and spin in almost straight j down. - He said wreckage was strewn . over the desert country for “sevi eral miles.” The two planes crashed in the s same general area where glamorous movie actress Carole Lomr bard met death in a Jan. 16, 1942, , crash of a DC3. I It is a barren area, populated 1 mainly by lizards and jackrabbits : with little or no immediate access to communication. At Chicago. United Air Lines said its plane carried 42 passengers and a crew of five. . It identified the crew as: Capt. Duane N. Ward, Ist Officer Arlin Edward Sommers, Flight Engineer Charles E. Woods, all based in Denver; and stewardesses Pauline Mary Murray and Yvonne Marie Peterson, both based at Los AngelesThe UAL four engined plane departed from Los Angeles at 9:30 a.m. c.s.t. with 42 passengers and five crewmen aboard. Unconfirmed reports from the UAL passenger office in Los Angeles, said five company employes were among the palssengers. The flight. No. 736,'was to have made stops at Denver, Kansas City and Washington before arriving in New York at 7:45 p.m. c.s.t- The collision occurred shortly after 11 a.m. c.s.t. The Fl OOF, which was still listed only as “Missing" from nearby Nellis Air Force Base 90 minutes after the collision, was a jet instructor and a student-p Mot. fighter trainer. It carried a pilot-' Early reports from the crash scene said that “at least one parachute was spotted” billowing high-above the desert shortly after the %llisfon. First reports of the collision were received by the CAA towers in Las Vegas, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles when the airliner issued a “May Day (help)” radio message. The collision also was witnessed by a second military plane from Nellis Air Force Base. Breakin At Home Is Reported To Police Don Forst reported a breakin at his home at 909 Mercer Ave. to the police Sunday. Forst said he had left his home Saturday about 3:30 p. m. and returned Sunday at 8:30 p. m. Upon returning to his home he found the back door open, and remembered that he definitely locked it before leaving. Entry was made through the back door of the basement by a skeleton key which was left at the scene. Hie culprit or culprits apparently left through a door on the garage side of die house. Forst stated several bottles of beverages and a bank containing sls to S2O were missing.