Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 106, Decatur, Adams County, 5 May 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 106.

I ' • ipiaSw Jfl’/' ' ’ l> YOUNG AS YOU FEEL — Format President Herbert Hoover, 83, seems the picture of health as he speaks to reporters after his return from the hospital,—two week* after undergoing surgery for the removal of his gall bladder. ■ — ——-

Hoosiers Irek Into Polls Os State Tuesday Primary Elections In Indiana, Many Offices At Stake INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Hoosiers will go to the polls Tuesday for Round 1 of the 1958 Indiana political season. Their votes will decide the Republican and Democratic nominees for thousands of offices, including 11 seats of Congress. Round 2 comes in June when both parties bold conventions to nominate candidates for U.S. senator and 11 Statehouse offices.* The championship round comes in the November general elections. , *• Fifty politicians— 29 Democrats and 21 Republicans—are seeking their party nomination for Congress. Only 22 nominations are available—one for each party from each of Indiana’s 11 congressional districts. the recession, 'farm policies, and highway scandals. Republicans hope the traditional Hoosier conservatism will prevail. Local Races Draw In some areas races for prosecutor, sheriff and township jobs will bring just as many voters to the polls as congressional contests. In fact, seven congressional candidates are unopposed They win a free ride to November election. Also at stake are nominations to all 100 seats in the House of the 1959 Legislature and half of the 50 Senate seats. — Optimistic Democrats might consider this significant: 20 of the 76 Republican incumbents in the House are not running. In all, 22C Democrats and I® Republicans filed for 25 Senate seats. When the polls open at 6 a.m. c.d.t. Tuesday, the machinery also will be set in motion for the biennial reorganization of both parties. Voters elect their precinct committeemen, and this begins a chain reaction that ends in the election of the state committees and state chairmen. Halleck Unopposed Voters also choose delegates to the conventions, where the business of party nominations is completed. All 11 Hoosier congressmen are seeking renomination. The lineup has been 9-2 in the GOP’s favor since 1955. Rep. Charles Halleck of Rensselaer, dean of Indiana congressmen, is unopposed in the 2nd District primary. So is his Democratic opponent, George H. Bowers, Valparaiso. So are GOP Reps. F Jay Nimtz, South Bend, 3rd; E. Ross Adair, Fort Wayne, 4th; John V. Beamer, Wabash, sth; (Continued on p*«e five) INDIANA WEATHER Fair north,, mostly cloudy and somewhat cooler south tonight with a few showers extreme south. Tuesday fair and a little warmer north, partly cloudy and continued cool south. Low tonight 35 to 42 north, 42 to 48 south. High Tuesday 55 to 60. Sunset today 7:42 p.m.' Sunrise Tuesday 5:41 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair and warmer. Lows Tuesday night low Ms. Highs Wednesday in Ms. ‘

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Monmouth Graduate Exercises May 15 30 Candidates For Graduation Listed Thirty members of the senior class at the Monmouth high school are candidates for graduation at the annual commencement exercises, to be held at the high school auditorium at 8 o’clock Thursday night. May 15. Loren S. Jones, principal, announced the list of candidates and programs for the both the commencement and baccalaureate exercises. Baccalaureate services will be held at the school at 8 'o’clock next Sunday evening, The Rev. Otto C. Busse, pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Preble, will deliver the sermon. The processional and recessional will be played by Mrs. Robert Miller. The Rev. A. A. Fenner, pastor of Zion Lutheran church at Freidheim, will present the scripture reading and prayer, and pronounce the benediction. Special music will be sun£ by the high school chorus and Darrel Gerig, music director of the school. Dr. Darrel F. Linder, of Findlay, the commencement address. He is on the staff on Friday College and is staff assistant in personnel for the Kodak processing laboratory of the Eastman Kodak Co. at Findlay. The commencement exercises May 15 will open with the processional, “Pomp and Circumstances," by the high school band. Following the invocation by the Rev. Herman Settlage, pastor of the Salem Evangelical and Reformed church, Magley, principal Jones will introduce Dr. Linder. Following music by the band, the principal will make the presentation of awards, and. diplomas will be presented by Gail Grabill, superintendent of the Adams county.. schoos. Rev. Settlage will .pronounce the benediction, and the recessional, “Triumphal March," will be played by the school's brass ensemble. Mrs. Martha Klelnhenz is sponsor of the class. The candidates for graduation are as follows: Dorene Beery, David A. Beltz, Carol Bieberich, James Boerger, Richard Brandt, Fredrick Bulmahn, Claudia Caston, Ralph Ewell, Carolyn Fast, David Fuelling, Karl Leßoy Fuhrman, Carolyn Hoffman, Robert Keuneke, Joyce Kirchner, Dixie Eileen Lee. Jim McDougal, Carolyn Sue Miller, Wayne Myers, Kenney Peck, Marilyn Reinking, Dolores Rodenbeck; Weldon Schafer, Harold Schieferstein, Anna Marie Schlemmer, Leonard Schmiege, James E. Singleton, Carla Rose Snyder, Beverly Ann Stevens, Harold Edwin Weidler, Herman Witte. New Flagpole-Sitting Record Is Claimed BREMERTON, Wash, (W — Morris Elliott, 47,-year-old father of five, today claimed the world’s flagpole-sitting record. Elliott went up the pole 197 days ago saying he wouldn’t come down until at Ipast today. The previous record, set by William Howard, 34, of Portland,, Ore., was 196 days. Elliott wiled away his lofty hours over the past months by watching I TV, listening to the radio, and (telephoning friends and relatives.

I Approves Bill To Put Price On New Autos Senate Committee Approve Bill For Labeling New Cars By UNITED PRESS A Senate Commerce subcornJ mittee today approved a bill that ( would require auto manufacturers ■ to label their cars with suggested retail prices. Violators would be penalized by SI,OOO fines for each instance. The legislation — endorsed by General Motors and Ford, the two ' biggest auto makers, but opposed by some retail dealers —was sponsored by Subcommittee Chairman j A.S. Mike Monroney (D-Okla.). IHe said it was necessary to “bring order to the car - selling business.” The price label would have to show—in addition to the retail delivery price — the price of any ' added accessory or optional equipment, and the amount charged the dealer for transportation to his showroom. Elsewhere 1a Coagress: Defense: Gen. Omar N. Bradley, World War II hero who once headed the Joint Chiefs of Staff, scoffed today at charges President Eisenhower’s defense reform plan would lead to a Prussiantvpe general staff. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, said he was "in general agreement" with the President’s proposal but refused to discuss specific language. Atomic: Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, retired former intelligence chief for Gen. Douglas MacArthur, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the United States would be in an "impregnable” position "if former President Truman had “kept the .atomic bomb secret." The committee was considering Far East matters. Death Ray: Roy W- Johnson, head of the Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, told the House Space Committee the weapon of tomorrow might be a “death ray”, but that he foresaw no such project in the early future. Labor Bills: Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland urged Congress to approve a labor reform bill with teeth in it. He was the first Witness before a Senate Labor subcommittee which opened general hearings on labor reform legislation. Statehood: Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) told the Senate the only congressional barrier to statehood for Alaska was opposition to in Congress. Tie’ said Arnerrvafts are. demanding statehood for Alaska and that Congress “is flouting the popular will.” Taxes: Milton C. Lightner, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, renewed before the House Banking Committee NAM demands for tax cuts, government economy and curbs on <Contlnued on page six) London Is Crippled By Transport Strike Bus Conductors And Drivers On Strike LONDON (UP)—Fifty thousand London bus drivers and conductors quit work today in a strike that crippled commuter services and ( threatened the metropolis with monumental traffic jams at the start of a record tourist season. Many Britons feared the bus strike, effective Sunday midnight, would be followed by a similar walkout over wages by employes of the nationalized railroad and by a sympathy strike of the city’s subway system, the Underground. The Underground was expected to absorb most of the load of city transport in a 2,000 square mile area where 10 million persons live. But union officials refused in a "solidarity” move to run extra trains to take care of the overflow Civic authorities warned commuters to allow themselves 24 minutes to walk a mile in city traffic and told women office workers to wear low-heeled shoes. Men were told to wear leathersoled shoes in place of the crepe rubber soles popular in England. 'The buses affected were the famed red double-decker buses serving central London and the single deck Green Line counterparts that serve the suburbs. Th strike was called by the Transport and General Workers Union to back demands lor more pay. The busmen ask $1.47 weekly increase and rejected a $1.19 raise that would have applied only to 32,000 in central London. The government opposes the raises for fear they will touch off other demands.

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Mad Dog Killer Irvin Is Granted Hearing By U. S. Supreme Court 1 ■ _ • «

1 ■ NATO Foreign Ministers In ’ Session Today Danish Premier In i Warning To Leaders On War Possibility COPENHAGEN, Denmafk (UP) ' —Danish Premier and Foreign Minister H. C. Hansen said today there must be an East-West settlement if the world is to avoid a third world war. _________ Hansen addressed the opening session of a NATO foreign ministers conference already sobered by an American warning that Russia no longer wants a Summit conferenceHansen said there was no reason for excessive pessimism because the unity of the 15 NATO nations was itself a step, “the importance of which should not be underrated.” Hansen and other Western leaders called for renewed efforts to bring about an East-West summit meeting with the Soviets and ini ■ particular to reach a disarntament with Moscow. Policy Remains Unchanged Joseph Bech, foreign minister ’ of Luxembourg and current chair- : man of the NATO Council, warned ’ that the chief aim of Soviet policy remains the establishment -of world Communism. Hansen, Bech and NATO Secre- [ tary General Paul-Henri Spaak of 1 Belgium were the three speakers ’ at the formal opening ceremony of the three-day Council session in the panelled chamber of Chris- ' tiansborg Palace where the Folketing (Parliament) normally sits. After the 30-minute .opening 1 session the foreign ministers moved to a smaller room for a working session to hear Spaak's secret report cm the present state • Hansen, m his welcoming speech, said “nobody will seriously challenge the urgency of the present attempts to bridge the gap between East and West.” War the Alternative “The alternative,” he warned, "is a war, the character of which I refrain from depicting. “We would clearly fail in our responsibility towards our peoples if we did not explore all the possibilities of bringing about a relaxation of present international tensions.’’ On disarmament, Hansen said: "As long as no progress is made in the field of disarmament it (Continued on Pare eight) brail Board Sends Three Contingents 28 Young Men Go To Indianapolis Today Twenty-eight Adams County young men were sent to Indianapolis this morning by the local selective service board. Five were sent for active induction into the armed services, four conscientious objectors were sent for physical examinations, and 19 will undergo physical examinations prior to active induction. The five who were sent for induction were Ronald Gene Spade, Robert Franklin Speakman, Vincel Lee Teeter, Lloyd Gerald Kelsey, and Henry Edward Lehrman. Members of the contingent undergoing physical examinations were Nolan Edward Liechty, Omer William Sprunger, Thomas ’ Wayne Hoffman, Don Lewis Lehman, John George McGill, Je- , rome Henry Ellenberger, Lester Ray Gerber, Carl Wayne Hacken- , jos, Luther Dwight Lehman, Eugene Allen Fuelling, Jerry Dean Brewster, Danny Lee Smuts, Marvin John Grote, Jerrold Lee ; Neuenschwander, Ned Richard : Kipfer, Chauncey Lee Wolfe, Arlan Lee Balsiger, Allan Lynwood Farlow, and Raymond Paul 1 Loshe. The conscientious objectors were Reuben R. Wickey, Solomon N. Wengerd, Jonas E. Schwartz, and David E. Wickey.

Youthful Slayer Is On Trial For Life Attorneys Planning For Insanity Plea LINCOLN, Neb. (ffl - Charles Starkweather, redhaired garbage man who has confessed killing 11 persons in a rampage of terror in vvo states, went on trial today with the prosecution seeking his Execution in the electric chair. * Immediately upon the opening of the trial, Starkweather’s attorneys amended their previous plea of innocent to a piea of innocent by reason of insanity. The scene at the 70-year-old Lancaster County courthouse was surprisingly quiet in view of the outrage ' provoked by the mass slayings last January. More than two dozen armed deputies were in the corridors and at the doors. But the public numbered less than 100. A panel of 14'. erespective jurors was called. Shortly beicre the trial began, new evidence was revealed, damaging to Starkweather’s 14-year-old girl friend. Starkweather, 19, has confessed to all 11 slayings, but his lawyers produced photographs of a jail Sall in Gering, Neb., where the Iler was held shortly after his eapture. He had scribbled on the ’“They got us Jan. 29, 1958. ‘•RAII .lt persons. > ■-> "Charles kill 9—all men. i “Caril kill 2-all girls.” < “Caril is Caril Fugate, the overgrown schoolgirl who was with Starkweather on his rampage. She is now in a state mental hospital pending a ruling whether (Con::, ued on page five) Profit Is Shown By Hospital In April Nearly S6OO Profit Shown During Month A profit of $599.49 was shown for the month of April at the Adams county memorial hospital, manager Thurman Drew reported to the board of trustees in their end of the month meeting. This cuts to about $2,000 the hospital deficit for the year, and the board was particularly pleased because even with additional help hired to help move into the new addition, the hospital has been able th show a profit every month except January. Last year, it was July before the hospital had moved out of the red for the year. Operating cash on hand April 1 was $2,146.73, qnd deposits for the month were $24,696.45, or a total of $15,843.18. Bills for April were $8,785.80, and the monthly payroll was $15,311.16. This made a total expense of $24,096.96, and leaves $2,756.22 on hand May 1. During the month 179 patients were admitted and 55 babies born. There were 37 adults and 10 babies in the hospital April 1, and 175 patients were dismissed, together with 59 babies. Six adults died at the hospital, and 35 adult patients were present May 1, and six babies. There were 230 outpatients treated in the emergency room, x-ray lab, and test lab. Os the 55 babies born during April, 23 were boys, and 32 were girls. • Joe Burdg Dies At Cleveland Hospital Funeral services were conducted today for Joe Burdg, 60, of Cleveland, 0., a brother of Dick Burdg of this city. Burdg died late Friday night at a Cleveland, 0., hospital after ah illness of several months. A veteran of World War I, he is survived by the widow, Isabelle; one son, George W. Burdg, Cleveland: two grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Edna Merle Burdg of Portland, and Mrs. Walter Miller, of St. Petersburg, Fla. Funeral services and burial were conducted in Cleveland, O.

Rainfall Eases In Southwest, 16 Are Killed Additional Floods Feared in Section Hard Hit By Storni By UNITED PRESS Rainfall eased in the Southwest today, but a 10-day barrage of storms left in its wake at least 16 persons dead, 750,000 acres flooded and more than 1,000 persons homeless. The vicious outbreak of rains, tornadoes and hailstorms flooded widespread areas of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, and runoff into rain-swollen rivers threatened additional flooding. Texas counted at least 16 persons dead in' weather-caused accidents since the series of storms began. About 800 persons were forced to flee their homes at Fort Worth, Tex., during the weekend in the face of a flood threat from the west fork- of the Trinity RiverMost of tlje Ovacuees still were in emergency quarters today, and police barriclhidd the flood-threat-ened areas to prevent looting. Floodwaters drove about 400 ether persons from their homes elsewhere in Texas, including 45 families in the San Antonio area. In Louisiana, Lt Gov. Lether Frazer called a meeting of state officials in New Orleans today to 1 map plans for battling new flood dangers. The U.S. Corps of Engineers was ordered to set up a base at Alexandria, La., where the Red River was expected to reach 42 feet by May 15, or 10 feet above flood stage. Scores of farm families evacuated their homes in the Caddo Lake area of northwest Louisiana where about 1,000 acres were unA fleet of motorboats helped evacuate about 40 families at Camden in southern Arkansas where the Ouachita River surged to 16 feet above flood stage and flooded a 15-mile wide strip south of the cityThe heaviest rains in the Southwest Sunday fell in parts of Arkansas," where several stations reported more than one inch. Showers and thundershowers also hit Missouri, Kentucky and much of the Gulf Coast. Tuscaloosa, Ala., was doused with a 1.5-inch rainfall. In the north, another invasion ’ of cold air sent reading tumbling by as much as 20 degrees in the Great Lakes, the Ohio Valley and the middle Mississippi Valley. , Grand Marais, Mich., shivered in an early morning low of 25 degrees. Training Course In Scouting Saturday ' District Showando Course On Saturday South District Boy Scout officials are making final plans for the Showando training course which will be held at the Wells county game farm Saturday. The training course is open to all scout troop and explorer scout post committeemen, leaders, and scout fathers. It will be a one-day session of fun and training in scout skills. Demonstrations of 20 basic scouting skills will take place and 10 minutes of practice in each skill by each person attending will be allowed. Fathers of scouts are urged to attend so that they may learn the same skills their sons must know to advance in the scouting program. The men will host their wives in an outdoor cooking skill whep the wives join them in an evening cookout and campfire ceremony. Approximately 500 comitteemen, leaders and scout fathers are expected from the Anthony Wayne council area.

Indiana Village Is Struck By Tornado , Temperatures Drop Sharply In State By UNITED PRESS Indiana experienced a variable and turbulent weather weekend featuring a small tornado, heavy rain, brisk winds and a 48-degree temperature range. The tornado hit at the Vigo County village of Shirkeyville Saturday night, destroying two homes and two bams and damaging a third house, while part of the state rode out a violent storm alert. . Muncie apparently led the parade of heavy rain areas with two inches in 24 hours, while Danville, Portland, Covington, Crawfordsville, Winchester, Anderson and other cities and towns got more than an inch. Strong winds whipped the state, dropping temperatures sharply Sunday morning. Mercury readings during the weekend ranged from Evansville's 81-degree high Sunday to Goshen’s 33-degree low early this morning One family at Shirkeyville escaped injury by lying flat on the kitchen floor while the whirling winds ripped the house apart. A tornado alert was sounded for Southern Indiana for several hours late Saturday, but the allclear was issued just before midnight. The shower trend which enveloped the state late last week and stuck around through the weekend • was due to continue today. The ’ five-day outlook indicated rain would "hold off after tonight until late in the week. The outlook called for continued below - normal temperatures through next Saturday, averaging 3 to 6 degrees off the usual for this time of year. A slow upward trend in temperatures will begin Tuesday or Wednesday. Precipitation will average one-quarter to one-half inch as showers in the. extreme, south portion tonight and the week. High temperatures Sunday included 60 at Lafayette, 62 at South Bend and Fort Wayne, 69 at Indianapolis and 81 at Evansville. The mercury, dropped near freezing early this morning, including 33 at Goshen, 35 at South Bend and Fort Wayne. 39 at Lafayette and 41 at Indianapolis. Highs today will range in the 50s, lows tonight from the mid 30s to the low 40s, and highs Tuesday in the 50s. Retarded Youth Is Held In Kidnaping Six-Year-Old Girl Is Found Unharmed ST. LOUIS (UP)—A mentally retarded boy, 15, whose abduction of Kathy Hampton, 6, touched off a three-day kidnap search, told police he didn’t know “why I did it, I just did " The boy, Robert Martin Reich Jr., was arreested Saturday shortly after a woman found Kathy wandering along a city street. The little girl was scratched and dirty, but otherwise unharmed. Kathy, whom physicians described as a “very tired little girl," rested at home today. Doctors said she had not been attacked. Police said Reich admitted taking Kathy “for a bicycle ride" last Wednesday. He told police he took Kathy to an abandoned house, tied her up, tore off her clothes and left. Police Sgt. Frank O’Neill, who questioned Reich, said the boy showed on a map the two-mile route he took with Kathy to get to the house. “I led her up some steps I had noticed when I was there at another time,’’ O’Neill quoted Reich. "While Kathy was looking out the window I tore her dress up the back. When she started to cry I slapped her and she stopped " Reich said he tore the girl’s clothes into strips to bind and gag her. “After she was tied, I put her in the corner and-hid her with a tCoottaued on Pago eigbt)

Leslie Irvin Granted High Court Hearing Indiana Man Facing \ Electric Chair Is Given New Reprieve WASHINGTON (UP) — Leslie Irvin, “mad dog” killer facing death in the electric chair for one of six Indiana and Kentucky slayings of which he was accused, today v<as granted a U.S. Supreme Court hearing. The high court consented to hear arguments some time next fall and later to hand down a written opinion. Irvin was sentenced to death in 1956 on conviction in Gibson County, Ind., on a charge of murder in the slaying of Wesley Kerr, 29, an Evansville, Ind., filling station attendant, on Dec. 23, 1954. He was charged also with killing an Evansville woman liquor store clerk, a Posey County, Ind., farm wife, and three members of a Henderson, Ky., family during a four-month crime spree which netted a robbery-slayer less than 15. Irvin’s first appeal to the high . court was rejected about a year ago because he had not exhausted . all state proceduresj After losing in state courts, 1 Irvin was scheduled, to die in the j electric chair at Indiana State , Prison last July 9. His head had 1 been shaved for the chair s electrodes and he had eaten his “last" [ meal when his attorneys sped to i Danville, ill., and obtained a stay of execution from Federal Judge Walter Lindley of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. Lindley, who later died, granted the stay pending a hearing. The court ruled against Irvin after the Jiearing and his Evansville attorneys, James Lopp and Theodore < Lockycur.-toaJ: thir ■#<? • Wasjfc. . ington. The attorneys told the high court Irvin’s conviction grew out of an illegally obtained confession made after he was held five days without counsel They also contended the triaF jury was biased because eight members stated under oath that they believed him guilty. - - - ™—— Irvin broke out of the Gibson County jail after his trial and was (Continued on page six* Soldier Crushed By Tanks In Germany GOEPPINGEN, Germany (ffl — U. S. Army Pvt. Paul F. Bushway, 30, of Waterbury, Vt., was crushed to death between two tanks during training exercises here last Wednesday, the Army announced Sunday. ~ ~ Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (UN — Factory employment continued to decline during March, Labor Department reports showed today. LONDON (W — Russia agreed today to carry on presummit talks with the Western ambassadors in Moscow but still demanded that the big decisions be made at a foreign ministers’ meeting. ONLY 1 MORE DAY ’TILL Decatur Merchants Showcase AT Decatur Youth and Community Center May 8,7, 8 : »

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