Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 141, Decatur, Adams County, 16 June 1958 — Page 1

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Wabash Pours Through Levee At Terre Haute Forces Evacuation Os 1,500 Persons, Floods Farm Land By United Press International The Wabash River poured through a broken levee into West Terre Haute today, forcing evacuation of about 1,500 persons and inundating thousands of acres of farm land as Indiana's week-old flood crests moved downstream. The breaK came in the early morning hours after many of an estimated 500 families already had moved their furniture to upper floors of their homes and had sought shelter on higher ground. A state of emergency was declared by Governor Handley as the crisis built up Sunday and National Guardsmen rushed to the stricken area when the crest of the flood-swollen stream advanced to Southern Indiana. Previously, up to 5.000 persons were forced from their homes in northern areas by days of rain torrents and violent storms in Indiana’s worst week of weather in many years. 1 Break Eases Plight The levee break at West Terre Haute, a town of about 4,500 population, tended to ease the flood situation along the lower Wabash. The level of the stream dropped --■to 27 feet after the break and a predicted crest of 28 to 29 feet at Terre Haute was revised downward. The break, which caused millions of gallons of flood water to spill into a residential area and farmland on Vigo County, lowered the river level at upstream points including Clinton, where an emergency also had existed. Two rainless days and the start of a third, after six days of heavy downpours, also helped the situation. A crisis at Anderson Saturday was dissolved when the roaring White River dropped sharply frofn its highest levels in 45 years, leaving nearly 300 homes and buildings damaged in 127 city blocks covered by the overflow. Mariop, Peru, Wabash and other cities on the raging Wabash and Mississinewa Rivers and other cities and towns along other streams found their situations improved as the crests moved southwestward. 15,000 Acres Submerged At Terre Haute, agricultural experts had predicted last week that if the Wabash reached a high level and a levee broke, about 15,000 acres of farmland would be under water. ■ ' ■ The evacuation of 1,500 persons at West Terre Haute meant that about one-third of the town was under water or due to be inundated by the flood. Handley designated the area an emergency zone after 60 guardsmen fighting the flood water on (Continued on page rive) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday. Chance of a few showers southwest and extreme west portions late tonight and in south portion Tuesday. Little temperature change. Low tonight 48 'to 52 north, 52 to 58 south. High Tuesday 68 to 75 north, 75 to 79 south. Sunset today 8:15 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair or partly cloudy and cool. Low Tuesday night in the 50s. High Wednesday in the 70s.

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Authorities Report Six Accidents Here Five Accidents In County, One In City Five automobile accidents were reported to the sheriff’s department over the weekend, and one to the city police. In one. accident, two persons were taken to the Adams county memorial hospital for personal injuries received in the accident. One of the teenagers was released following treatment, and the other was transferred to the Parkview memorial -cspital in Fort Wayne. Richard Rrvei, 10, Decatur, driver of the automobile, lost control of the wheel and struck a tree, three and a half miles northeast of the city on county road 31, Saturday at 3:05 p. m. near Saddle Lake. Riding in the auto was Richard D. Lambert, 15, Decatur. Lambert received head injuries, left hip injury, possible kidney injury, and shock. He was taken to the Fort Wayne hospital after being treated here. Raver received treatment for lacerations to his lip, left knee, left arm, throat, and multiple abrasions to his face. He was released immediately following his examination. The accident is still under investigation by the sheriff’s department and the state police. A car driven by Stanley T. Storey, 35, Fort Wayne, ran off the road at 9:45 a. m. Saturday and drove through the Ben Eiting residence. The car drove through a hedge, the front yard, and struck a maple tree, after rolling over four times. He was taken to the Adams county memorial hospital and treated and released. Storey received scratches on his left elbow, and a cut in his mouth. The car w r as considered a complete loss. The.driver was arrested for driving a vehicle without a driver’s license, and paid a fine of $16.75 in justice of the peace court. Kenneth W. Busick, 23, route three, Decatur, pulled his automobile onto highway 27, off the Hoagland road, and was struck from the rear by a car driven by Rex H. Sheets, 45, route five, Decatur, Friday at 10:40 p. m. Damage was estimated at S3OO to the Sheets vehicle, and $750 to the Busick car. An accident was reported to the sheriff’s department at 10:25 p.m. Sunday on the Winchester road. Involved in the accident were Jay De Voss, 16, Decatur, and Lorenz Bultemeier, 50, route one, Decatur. The drivers reported the cars sideswiped one another as they were traveling in opposite directions. The accident occurred 11 miles north of Decatur. Damage was estimated at $250 to each vehicle. The accident reported to the city police occurred Sunday at 3:31 p. m at the intersection of Monroe and 13th streets. < A vehicle driven by Harold F. Harvey, 33, route one, Mooreland, struck a car driven by Melvin W. Smith, 33, Bryant, as he started to make a left turn at the intersection, Damage was estimated at $lO to the Harvey vehicle and S3O tp the Smith auto; , c Young Democrats To Hold Picnic Tuesday The Younjg Democrats will have a picnic dinner at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Affolder Park in Berne, Harry Hebble, Jr., president, said today. Losers of the membership drive will be hosts. Old members, new members, and guests are invited to attend. The membership drive ended Sunday.

Gio Salesman TesfifiesTo Cash Payoff — Mogilner Testifies To SSOO Payment To William H. Sorrell INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Super-salesman Arthur J. Mogilner testified today in the Indiana highway scandal bribery trial that he gave SSOO cash to former highway commissioner William H. Sorrell in 1956. Mogilner, who was a co-defend-ant in the trial until he pleaded guilty last week and became the state’s chief witness, also testified he gave SSOO in cash to Lloyd Poindexter, sn p e rintendent of maintenance for the highway department. Sorrell and Poindexter, whose names were brought into the case for the first time, raised to four the number of ex-officials of the highway department whom Mogilner has testified received money from him during a successful campaign to sell the state $1,600,000 worth of supplies and equipment on which he made nearly a uarter of a million dollars profit. 11 Checks Entered Mogilner previously testified he made payments to former Highway Chairman Virgil ißed) Smith, now under sentence on another highway scandal charge, and Cecil McDonough, a former highway aide. Mogilner made the new accusations shortly after the prosecution introduced as exhibits 11 checks signed by Mogilner. Prosecutor John Tinder said the checks were those on which the state will base its charges that Mogilner, Elmer W. Sherwood and William E. Sayer conspired to bribe Smith. Sherwood, a former Indiana adjutant general, and Sayer, a former aide to ex-Gov. George Craig, are charged specifically with bribing Smith with about $22,700 to get state contracts for more than $600,000 worth of heavy equipment. Objects To Checks Sayer s attorney objected to admission of two of the checks into evidence on grounds they were immaterial to the case. The checks protested by defense lawyer James Rocap were those made out to McDonough. Three of the checks Tinder sought to introduce were made out to Sayer, 1 to Sherwood, 2 to Sherwood Associates a public relations firm), and 3 to “Vs Wilson,” a name the state contends was a Smith alias. The checks came into the case as the third week of the trial began, with Mogilner. who testified two full days last week, returning to the stand to answer more questions and tell more stories of his participation in contract deals with the state. Mogilner abruptly changed his plea to guilty last Wednesday, shortly after a jury was impaneled to try him and the others. Polio Vaccination Here On June 26 Mass Vaccination Sponsored By Moose Further plans for the mass polio vaccination to be held at the Moose lodge, June 26, from 3 to 7 p. m. were announced today by the committee in charge of the urogram. Z The Salk vaccine will be administered to the peojfle of this community by local doctors and nurses. The primary purpose of the program is to donate the shots to the people who feel they are financially unable to start the series of shots. The charge for the shots will be sl, but in some instances; the shots will be given free. The doctors have stated that complete records will be kept on each individual receiving the series of shots, until the three shots are completed. Also, that children will be examined by the doctors before they receive any shots, and that if they have colds or fevers, shots will not be administered. The doctors also announced that .no fourth shots would be given. The Moose lodge stated if any profit is made during the mass inoculation, it will be turned over to the polio fund . While complete vaccination against paralytic polio calls for three Salk shots spaced over an eight-month period, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis today urged that all persons under 40 get at least two shots before the oncoming polio season. Recent surveys have shown that (Continued on page four)

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, June 16, 1958

House Investigators Reveal More Os Adams Bills Paid By Goldfine

Americans In Lebanon Alert For Evacuation Heaviest Fighting In Beirut As Rebels Seeking To Control BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — The 4,000 Americans in Lebanon were alerted today for evacuation should the spreading civil war endanger their lives further. Already an estimated 100 Lebanese have been killed in three days of street fighting. Officials in Washingtoll said the United States is “ready to do what has to be done to protect American lives,” raising the possibility the 1,800 Marines of the U. S. 6th Fleet might be landed to protect them if Lebanon requests such action ‘ ; ) The Marines were first alerted last May when the anti-govern-ment riots began. Britain alerted 2,000 paratroopers on nearby Cyprus today to stand by to protect British lives here if asked. Main Battle In Beirut Heaviest fighting in the struggle by pro-Egyptian-Syrian rebels to topple pro-Western President Camille Chamoun took place in Beirut. Other battles were reported. In the port of Tripoli where the uprising started and in the Bakaa Valley and the Shouf Mountains south of Beirut. The fighting was so intense in Beirut Sunday that Chamoun himself was reported to have seized a submachinegun and turned it on rebels firing on his palace. The civil war brought these major developments: —U. S. Ambassador Hibbert McClintock asked the State Department to put Lebanon on an “alert status” but did not order the evacuation of embassy employees. Dag To Beirut —U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced h e would leave New York Tuesday night to fly to Beirut and organize U. N. observer teams attempting to keep illegal Syrian aid from reaching the rebels. —Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew back from Princeton University Saturday to keep in close touch with the Lebanese situation. —Relations between the Unitd States and the United Arab Republic of Syria and Egypt dipped sharply. Cairo radio accused Dulles of intervention in Lebanon. President Gamal Abdel Nasser told Czech newsmen Lebanese acceptance of the Eisenhower Doctrine brought on the civil war. —Beirut opposition chief Saeb Salam vowed his oppositon would continue “until Camille Chamoun resigns” and that he would accept no halfway compromise. Capt. Charlie Dunn Is Taken By Death Co. A Organizer Dies In Florida The recent death of Capt.; Charlie R. Dunn, organizer of Company A, of Decatur, Fourth Indiana National Guard, at the start of World War I, was reported to the Decatur Masonic Lodge Saturday night. Dunn died at a St. Petersburg, Fla., hospital last week. Special Masonic services were to be held there today. He was a past master of the Decatur lodge. A native of Bluffton, and a veteran of Company E during the Spanish-American War, Capt. Dunn came to Decatur April 1, 1917 and began organizing. By April 25 he had enough men, and they were mustered in that day. They soon left for Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss., where Capt. Dunn was transferred to another outfit. He did not return to the Decatur area after the war, but lived in Toledo, O„ part of the year, and in St. Petersburg, Fla., most of the time. „

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-Ist Tropical Storm Os Season Is Mild No Serious Damage Reported From Alma By United Press International A tropical storm that didn’t make the grade, a few twisters that shouldn't have been let out by themselves, and occasional heavy rains—that was the weather picture Sunday. Today’s forecast continued the subdued pattern noticeable after a week of violent tornadoes and wind-and-rain storms that turned central Indiana into floodland. Thundershowers were expected in the far Southwest, the Great Plains area, and the Southeast, the only precipitation in an otherwise clear weather picture. The first tropical storm of the hurricane season, Alma, wheezed in from the Carribean and through the Gulf of Mexico at a relatively slow 50 miles per hour. It stirred up rainstorms far into the interior of Texas and caused tides to run up to three feet higher than usual. There was, however, no serious damage reported and no loss of life. The worst tornado Sunday speared the Purvis-Elrod area of North Carolina, causing damage to homes, barns and power lines. Again, there were no reports of injuries. A tornado was reported about midnight about TO miles northeast of Lubbock, Tex., and another funnel cloud was righted about 30 miles northeast of Dallas. Rain made the most impressive performance in the relaxed weather activity. Almost two inches of rain fell at Imperial, Neb., during a six-hour period ending near midnight, and nearly half-an-inch fell at Mowbridge, S.D. There also were scattered 2-inch amounts reported through the Southeast in (Continued on page five Wheat Referendum To Be Held Friday Two Polling Places Are Fixed In County f Voting places for the referendum to be held Friday on marketing quotas for the 1959 wheat crop were announced today by Victor Bleeke, chairman, county agricultural stabilization and conservation committee,. The locations are as follows: Eligible producers in Blue Creek, French, Hartford, Jefferson, Monroe, and Wabash townships will vote at the Berne town Rail: eligible producers in Preble, Root, Union, St. Mary’s, Kirkland, and Washington townships will vote at the county ASC office. Eligible voters may cast their ballots at their local polling place any time between the hours of 8 a. m. and 7 p. m. Friday, the chairman said. Farmers who are eligible to vote in the wheat quota referendum are all those who in 1959 will have more than 15 acres of wheat for harvest as grain on a farm, except those who are participating in the 1958 feed wheat program. Feed wheat participants are permitted to grow up to 30 acres of wheat for use only on the farm where grown, without being subject to marketing quota If at least two-thirds of the growers who vote in the referendum approve the quotas, they will remain in effect -for 1959-crop wheat and price support will be available to farmers who comply with their farm wheat allotments at a national average of not less than sl.Bl per bushel, or 75 per cent of parity. Farmers who exceed the larger of the farm allotment of 15 acres will be subject to a marketing penalty of 45 per cent of the wheat parity price on their “excess” wheat, and if the excess acreage will not be considered in setting future allotments. If the : quotas are not approved by at least two-thirds of the growers voting, they will not be in effect, and price support will be available to farmers who comply with their farm wheat allotments at about $1.20 per bushel, or 50 per cent of parity.

U.S. Refuses East Germany Deal On Nine Refuses Diplomatic Ransom For Release Os Nine Americans BERLIN UPI) — The United States refused today to pay diplomatic ransom to the Communists for the release of nine “kidnaped” Americans. The Communists demanded •— and the Americans refused—that the American negotiators bring official State Department credentials with them. The Communists obviously believed that by this demand they could force the U.S. government into recognizing their puppet regime. Informed sources said Col. Robert P. McQuail, who was rebuffed Saturday when he tried to dicker with the Communists for the release of the American captives renewed his efforts today—without the State Department credentials they demanded. Hie Russians have refused three times to arrange the release of the prisoners, who have been held more than a week. McQuail, accompanied by an unidentified U.S. major, went to the East German Foreign Ministry at noon. He made the trip as he did Saturday, as a representative of Gen. Henry I. Hodes. Today’s meeting lasted only 40 minutes. The prisoners were not released. The Communists, who are holding the Americans as hostages in an effort to blackmail the U.S. into recognition of their Soviet German satellite regime, refused to talk to the colonel Saturday because he did not represent the State Department. An approach by a State Department man would amount to what diplomats call “de facto” recognition of the Red regime — an acknowledgment that it controls the Soviet zone of Germany, whether it has any right to or not. Washington has imposed a strict security blackout on all approaches to the Reds, deepening confusion caused by two State Department about-faces during the past week. All that was certain early today was that someone would talk to the Communists, leaving who and when in doubt. Gottlieb Werling Dies This Morning Funeral Services Thursday Afternoon Gottlieb Werling, 73, lifelong resident of Adams county, died at 8:30 o’clock this morning at his farm home in Preble township, seven miles' northwest of Decatur on the Winchester road. He had been in failing health for two years and bedfast for the past two weeks. He was born in Preble township Aug. 2, 1884, a son of William and Eliabeth Bieberich-Werling, and was married to Christine Fuhrman Feb. 11, 1917. ~ Mr. Werling was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Surviving in addition to his wife are three sons, Edwin, Arthur and Gerhard Werling, all of Preble township; one daughter, Mrs. Raymond (Esther) Thieme of Decatur; seven grandchildren; one brother. William N. Werling of Fort Wayne, and three sisters, Mrs. Anna Nahrwold of Fort Wayne, Miss Elizabeth Werling of Preble township, and Mrs. Herman Selking of Monroeville. One brother and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim, the Rev. A. A. Fenner officiating. Burial win be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Tuesday until time of the services.

Hew Pastor Hamed For Union Chapel Two Other Pastors Return To Decatur The Rev. Emmett L. Anderson, who has preached at the Collin circuit in Whitley county for the past two years, where he had charge of three churches, was assigned to the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church northeast df Decatur by the northern conference Sunday. The Rev. Benj. J. Thomas and the Rev. J. O. Penrod of the Bethany and Trinity churches in Decatur, the Rev. Donald Bender of Calvary church in St. Mary's township, and the Rev. A. E. Givens of the Berne Trinity church were returned to their charges. Rev. Anderson is a June graduate of United Theological Seminary in Dayton, 0., and was ordained a preaching elder Sunday by the Indiana conference north. He was graduated in 1955 from Manchester College at North Manchester, and has five years preaching experience. From 1953 until 1956, Rev. Anderson preached the Erie circuit in Miami county. A native of Washington Center, Whitley county. Rev. Anderson and his wife, Barbara, have two children, Edith Marie, 5, and Emmett, Jr.. 3. The Rev. Paul temple, associate pastor of the First Church of Elkhart was assigned to the Geneva E.U.B. church. The Rev. Bevis Hill, formerly pastor of the Centenary-Fairview church near South Whitley, will come to the Petroleum circuit. The Rev. Lowrence Norris of Union Chapel was assigned two charges, one in Avilla and one nearby. Both churches have parsonages. Dr. A. F. Stone of the Petroleum circuit will go to the Otterbein circuit. Dr. A. B. McKain of Geneva chose to be without appointment this year, and is moving to his new home near Bedford. He will remain active in the conference boards and committees of which he is a member but will have no congregational responsibilities. Rev. Penrod was made leader of the Decatur promotional group of churches. He will be a member of the conference council of administration. Stolen Automobile Is Found On Fire Portland Man Held For Theft Os Auto A car stolen in Jay county Sunday was found burning in a lane on the Merle Riley property a mile east of Salem Sunday morning. Virgil Hurt, 27, of Portland, was arrested nearby Sunday afternoon and turned over to the Jay county sheriff for investigation. At 7:25 a.m. Sunday, Riley reported a car burning in his lane to the Adams county sheriff’s department. Deputy sheriff Robert Meyer investigated and found a car half-Submerged in water in a ditch along the Riley lane. The front seat was blazing, and the fire was extinguished by the Monroe fire department. ,1116 windshield had been knocked out, the front windows broken, and the left rear window cracked with a dull object. No one was seen near the burning car. A check on the auto registration showed that it belong to Everett B. Evans of Portland, and had been stolen. About 6 p.m. a man on foot in a dirty while shirt was reported in the area. The sheriff’s department picked him up and discovered it was Hurt. The Portland office stated that the man was usually armed with a knife, but none was found. Hurt claimed that he was riding around with friends, and that they decided to go fishing, so let him out, and returned to Portland for fishing tackle. He was turned over to the Portland chief of police Sunday night (CuattnaM on Five)

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Reveal Hotel Bills Are Paid For Ike's Aide FTC Head Reveals Some Commission Records Destroyed WASHINGTON (UPI) — Some records covering the Federal Trade Commission’s action against Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams’ friend Bernard Goldfine have been destroyed inadvertently, Acting •- FTC Chairman Robert T. Secrest testified today. Secrest made the statement to House investigators who earlier disclosed that Goldfine paid a total of $529.34 in hotel bills for Adams at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York and the Mayflower Hotel in Plymouth, Mass. Adams last week acknowledged that Goldfine had paid about $2,000 worth of hotel bills for him at Boston’s plush Sheraton-Plaza. A House influence-investigating subcommittee heard staff investigator Francis X. McLaughlin reported that Adams’ millionaire friend paid $267.05 in bills at the Waldorf in January and February, 1954, and that the visits occurred at a time when Goldfine , was trying to straighten out a dispute with the FTC over labelling of his firm’s woolen materials, ) Cite Dates’ Significance Adams has acknowledged contacting the FTC on behalf of Goldfine, but has denied categorically that he ever tried to bring any pressure or influence to bear. McLaughlin was asked if the dates of Adams stays in New York had “any significance.” He replied FTC records indicate that Goldfine's company on Jan. 19, 1954, submitted a statement as-, suring the FTC it would “no long- * er mislabel” woolen material. McLaughlin said on Feb. 5, 1954, an assistant to then FTC Chairman Edward F. Howrey wrote a letter to the chief of the FTC’s 1 wool labeling division saying the ' label case involving Goldfine’s Northfield firm could be closed and it was. ■ Secrest told the subcommittee for himself and all other members of the commission that Adams has never contacted them “directly or indirectly with respect to any matter formal or informal under investigation by or in trial before the FTC.” Secrest later testified that the FTC’s wool inspection records for the period Jan. 1, 1953, to Dec. 1, 1953, accidentally were destroyed last January by representatives of the government’s house-keeping agency, the General Services Administration. But he said the substance of the records as related to FTC action against Goldfine's Northfield Mills can be reconstructed by testimony of FTC experts who handled the case. ' Dropped Labeling Case FTC accused Northfield in 1953 of putting nylon into fabric labeled 90 per cent wool and 10 per cent vicuna. Secrest said the FTC dropped the matter in early 1954 because: —The FTC learned that many mills followed similar practices because of a misinterpretation of the law. — , —The nylon was added to make the goods more durable and not as “an adulterant.” —“No further evidence that the practice was being c o n t i n u e d came to the attention of the commission.” Secrest said FTC investigators found in March, 1955, that Northfield was using “100 per cent guanaco’’ wool that contained “undeterminable percentages of hair or fur fibers from other fur bearing animals.” He said Northfield and other Goldfine mills were labeling material using the wool as pure guanaco —a rare South American animal related to the llama and the vicuna. But ne said the Goldfine firms greed to cease mislabeling the material in November, 1956, and the case was closed in 1957. Adams Meets Ike There were these other devel(Continued on page fiva)