Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 158, Decatur, Adams County, 7 July 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 158.

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■ " " '■■■»»'. "*'■*■■' ■■■■■■■■■ .. — ■ •■—■■■ Report Rebels Ready To Free More Captives Five Freed Sunday, May Hold Some Os Men As Insurance HAVANA (UPI) — The Cuban rebels were reported ready to release another handful of kidnaped Canadians and Americans today. But the possibility developed some kidnap victims may be held indefinitely as ‘insurance” against government bomb attacks. Four Americans and one Canadian were freed Sunday, leaving seven civilians in rebel hands. If no hitch develops, the sevensix Americans and tJje-Canadian — may be flown out of the eastern Cuban hills before the day is over. American Naval authorities indicated it would take a little longer to work out release arrangements for the 30 U. S. sailors and Marines held captive for the past 10 days. Release negotiations were being conducted directly between U. S. Consul Park Wollam and rebel leader Raul Castro in the rugged hills of Oriente Province. Talks With Newsmen The dangers of a hitch developing were pointed up Sunday by one of the newly freed Americans who was allowed to talk to newsmen shortly after his release. John Schissler, of Covina, Calif., said he was told by Raul Castro, whose brother, Fidel, is chief of the anti-government forces, that the American captives were good insurance against attack by Cuban warplanes. Schissler quoted Castro as saying, “Americans are good 50 millimeter anti-aircraft protection.” The government ceased all ground and air activity in the area to avoid upsetting negotiations for the release of the captive North Americans. Rejects Demands Schissler also said Castro was demanding that U. S. Ambassador Earl Smith go up into the hills so that he could be informed personally about rebel complaints. Schissler said he understood Wollam rejected this demand and also refused to sign a list of conditions for release of the prisoners. Along with Schissler, the men released Sunday were Eugene Pflieder of St. Paul, Minn.; Edwin Cordes of Fanwood, N. J.; Harold Kristjanson of Winnipeg, Canada, and Roman Cecilia, a Cuban-born naturalized U. S. citizen. All appeared tired but in good spirits. Schissler said they had been well i treated. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms in most of state except northwest this afternoon and in south and east central tonight. Locally heavy rainfall amounts likely south this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy north, mostly ... cloudy south with scattered showers likely extreme south. Not much temperature change except a little cooler north tonight. Low tonight 58 to 65 north, 65 to 19 south. High Tuesday 76 to 83. Sunset today 8:15 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:25 a. m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and mild with scattered showers continuing south. Low Tuesday night in low 60s. High Wednesday 75 to 80. v /

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Sunday's Rainfall Spotty Over County Over Two-Inch Fall In Monroe Township Two and four tenth inches of rain fell in Monroe township on the Dwight Schnepp farm Sunday afternoon in an hour and 15 minutes, While other parts of the county received less than one-half inch of moisture over the weekend. , More rain was predicted to add . to the moisture that fell in anything [ from downpours to light showers, mostly during Sunday afternoon ■ and Monday morning, while some ■ rain was reported Saturday after- ; noon and evening. Although there were signs of clearing weather,' skies remained cloudy, keeping temperatures in the low and middle 80’s, for warm, humid midsum- ■ met weather. - Ripe wheat'/howed the effects of wind and heavy rain in spots. However, in the places that received less rain, crops have improved since the sunshine and latest showers after struggling through a wet, cold, June. . . The extremes in rainfall averaged, unofficially, to about .76 inch for tire county. The St. Mary’s river here was up a little, according to government weather observer Lewis Landrum, standing at 4.07 this morning at 7 o’clock. The general picture looked like this for a period from Sunday afternoon to 7 a.m. today: In Preble township, the Arthur Koeneman farm received one inch of rain Sunday afternoon, while .5 was recorded Saturday afternoon. In Root township, bn the Cecil Harvey farm, .55 inch fell Sunday afternoon and this morning. On the Erwin Fuelling farm, a low of .3 inch was recorded. v„ Six tenths inch of rain fell on the Peter J. Spangler farm, in Kirkland township, Sunday afternoon. In Decatur, Lewis Landrum reported .63 inch. On the Nimrod McCullough farm in St. Mary’s township, 1.6 inch was recorded since Thursday afternoon, when the current session of rains began. The lowest recorded rainfall in the county fell at the Harold Moser farm, in French township, amounting to .2 inch. In Monroe township, .3 inch fell at the Ben Mazelin farm. On the Austin Merriman farm in Blue Creek township, .4 inch fell. A half-inch rainfall was reported from the Ivan Huser farm in Hartford township. Geneva received .9 inch of rain during the night, Jack Hurst reported this morning. In Jefferson township, rounding out the county weather (Continued on page five) Charles Idle wine Is Taken By Death Local Man's Father Dies Early Sunday Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday for Charles Henry Idlewine, 82, father of Harold Idlewine, of North Second street. He died about 7 a. m. Sunday in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Walter Hostetter, of Geneva. He was a retired farmer. Also surviving are another son, Ernest Idlewine, Anderson; seven grandchildren, and three sisters, Mrs. Stella Kraner and Mrs. Ruby Haughton, Geneva, and Mrs. Edna Holt, lowa Park, Tex. The body is at the Hardy and Hardy funeral home, Geneva, where friends may call. Services will be conducted at 10:30 a. m. Tuesday in the funeral home, the Rev. C. A. Schmid, Berne, officiating. Burial will be in Bunker Hill cemetery, northeast of Geneva. t

Slate's High Courts Are In . Summer Retess B ' -S' ■- * ' Leaves Judgments On Several Cases / f As Still Pending / 1 INDIANAPOLIS The ’ Indiana Supreme Court was in • summer recess today, leaving in i suspense its judgments on the : fates of two condemned murder- - ers and two men convicted on » charges of defrauding the state in , the Indiana highway scandals. ’ Its judicial junior partner, the - Indiana Appellate Court, also took . a holiday, and among the eases it deferred until after Labor Day 3 was an appeal from rural electric co-opertives protesting aiy Indi- . ana Public Service Commission . order which required PSC ap- . proval of federal loans to the co-ops. ’ Both courts will reconvene in September, although one or more ' members of each bench will be 1 in the Statehouse at least one r day a week to deal with routine ’ procedural matters. Opinions in ' some pending cases may be de- ' livered during the summer, if a judge writes his assigned opinion ■ on a case decided before adjoum- • ment. Kiefer, Groover Wait i Among the appeals pocketed by i the Supreme Court for the sum- : met were those of: i Richard Kiefer, Fort Wayne, ' sentenced to death in Allen Circuit Court for the slaying of his wife, Pearl, in January, 1957. I Kiefer’s 5-year-old daughter Dorothy was also found beaten and . stabbed to death near her mother’s . body. The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the appeal last . June 2, and Kiefer is under indefinite stay of execution. Clifford Groover, Indianapolis, condemned in a Marion County Criminal Court for shooting down his wife on the steps of an Indianapolis church last falL Groover received a stay of execution until Nov. 17, and the deadline for filing the transcript of his case has been postponed until Aug. 30. Virgil W. (Red) Smith, former Indiana State Highway Commission chairman, and Robert A. Peak, a Milan attorney, who were convicted in Marion County of conspiring to embezzle state funds. Both men were sentenced to 2 to 14 . years imprisonment. Peak was later convicted of false notarization, and Smith trial on a bribery charge. They have until July 15 to file transcripts of the embezzlement trial with the Supreme Court, but they are expected to ask for an extension of time. Newsman’s Case Pending Jean LaGrange, a LaPorte newscaster, who was found guilty of contempt of LaPorte Circuit Court by Special Judge Harry Long for broadcasting a radio interview with accused slayer Robert Lee Johnson during Johnson’s trial. Oral arguments on LaGrange’s case were heard June 3. Meanwhile, LaGrange is campaigning for the seat he formerly held as a Democratic state representative. The Supreme Court must also decide whether it wil take a hand in the controversy over the midnight closing time for Indiana taverns. The taverns lost an appeal to the Appelate Court, which reversed a Marion County Superior Court ruling and said the taverns must close at midnight central daylight time during the five months that clocks are turned ahead one hour. A week ago, the taverns filed a petition to transfer the case to (Continued on page Oive)

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SaysGoldfine Records Taken Al Hotel Room Secretary's Hotel Room Sacked, Vital Records Are Stolen WASHINGTON (UIP) — A spokesman for Bernard Goldfine said today that the hotel room of Goldfine's secretary, Mildred Paperman, had been “ransacked” and a number of important financial records stolen. Roger Robb, attorney for the Boston millionaire, said the records had a bearing on Goldfine’s testimony before a House influence investigating committee probing his relationship with Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams. Robb said he had notified Washington metropolitan police of the incident. Goldfine also lodged a complaint with the Federal Bureau of Investigation over secret record- • ings made by a subcommittee investigator and an associate of columnist Drew Pearson. Can Emergency Session The investigator, Baron Shacklette, and Jack Anderson, Peari son’s assistant, were discovered ■ eavesdropping with a microphone f in a hotel room adjoining that occupied by Goldfine’s new publicity i man, Jack Lotto. Subcommittee Chairman Oren i Harris (D-Ark.), describing the incident as ‘J.very serious,” called his subcommittee into an emergency session to consider the matter. Lotto said the FBI has assigned agents to investigate the eavesdropping complaint. Goldfine, through his staff, also filed a complaint with Oliver Gasch, U.S. (Continued an page five) Local Man's Father Dies Last Evening Charles Hoverman Dies At Van Wert Charles F. Hoverman, 68, of Van Wert, 0., died at 7:15 o'clock Sunday evening at the Van Wert county hospital following an illness of three months*of carcinoma. He had Uved in the Glenmore and Wren areas until one year ago, when he moved to Van Wert. Formerly engaged in farming, he had been employed in the shipping department of the Continental Can Co. at Van Wert for the past 13 years. He was born in Liberty township, Van Wert county, April 25, 1890, a son of Phillip and Caroline Embrich-Hoverman, and w a s married to Oval N. Dull July 9 1910. Mrs. Hoverman preceded him in death in 1947. ... ' Mr. Hoverman was a member of the Greenbrier United Brethren church in Glenmore, and had served as church trustee, Sunday school teacher and superintendent, and class leader. Surviving are five sons, Clifford Hoverman of Decatur, Donald of Liberty township, Carl of Glenmore, Olen and Howard, south of Van Wert; five daughters, Mrs. Elva Lautzenheiser of -Wren, Mrs. Kathryn Lautzenheiser and Mrs. Aileen Hileman of near Rockford, 0., Mrs. Marjorie Oechsle and Mrs. Marilyn Miller of Wren; 26 grandchildren; three greai-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Rosa Stetler of Van Wert, and two brothers, Otto and Edward Hoverman of near Ohio City. I» Funeral services will be conducted at 19:30 a. m. Wednesday at the Greenbrier United Brethren church, the Rev. S. F. Kochensparger and the Rev. Argo Sudduth officiating. Burial will be in the Greenbrier cemetery. The body was removed to the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert, where friends mdy call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Nine Traffic Deaths Reported In State Eight Drownings In State Over Holiday By United Press International Traffic and water staged a grim race during the 78-hour Fourth of July weekend in Indiana to see which could kill the most persons. Traffic apparently won with nine Mctims to eight drownings. Only one fatal accident was re- ’ ported in Hoosierland Sunday—a ; fruck crash. But on Saturday two persons were killed in traffic and ' five drowned. Two persons drowned on the Fourth while traffic was killing five. Traffic and water claimed one life each Thursday night just as the weekend began. Two other persons were killed in miscellaneous type accidents ’ during the period, bringing the total weekend violent death toll to 1 at least 19. 1 George Lind, 37, Chicago Ridge, 11., was Sunday’s trafic victim. He was killed when his truck 1 went out of control and turned over on U.S. 52, nine miles north i of Lebanon. Lind was thrown out and the truck landed on top (St him. j Ruth Ann Carter, 2, Liberty, dashed from behind a parked truck Saturday in her home town into the path of a truck driven by Clifford McCormick of Liberty. J She died a short time later in a J Richmond hospital. - Mary E. Hopson, 51/ New Albany, was killed Saturday when a car and a truck met on U.S. 31-E near Jeffersonville. She was crushed by the truck. Her son, (C-u tinuaa on Page Five) Trophies, Cash In Pulling Contests Contests Planned Here On July 19 Four trophies and $340 in prizes will be awarded to the winners among some two dozen entrants in the horse and pony pull to be held in the field along highway 224 near Reppert’s auction school, Saturday afternoon, July 19. Dr. Rolland Reppert, owner of the land, has offered its use, and the use of the school public address system. James Beery, of Thomas Realty company, ’wUT announce for tire" events. The parade will start about 11 a. m. July 19, and the pull will start at 1 p. m. Most interest has been shown in the pony pull, which will differ from many of those held. In most matches, ponies are divided into two weight groups. In this pull, however, the ponies will begin by pulling their own weight, and then have weights added. The pig iron will be loaded onto the boat pulled by each animal by a tractor furnished by Dierke’s Implement Bales. The following local merchants, in addition to those already listed, are backing the horse and pony pull: Mirror Inn, Holthouse Drug Co., Kohne Drug Store, Shaffer’s Restaurant, Shady Lawn Motel, West End Restaurant, Fairway Restaurant, Klenk’s Appliances, Victory Bar, Ideal Dairy Bar, Sheets Furniture company, Stewart’s Bakery, Strickler Auto Sales, Ralph's Sunoco, Win-Rae Drive-In, Dick’s TV Service, Two Brothers, The Pioneer Drive-In, Kenny’s OK Barber Shop, Hiway Auto Sales, Goodin I. G. A. Store, Kleer Soft-Water Service, Inc., Bill’s Corner,, Schwartz Ford Co., Inc., Dierkes Implement Sales, Decatur Equipment, Inc., Commercial Print Shop, Gateway Service, Burk Elevator Co., Blackstone, a Friend, Smith’s Rexall Drug Store, Decatur Hatchery. Mies Recreation, Ellsworth’s 1 Hi-Way Service Station, Drs. Edward and Elizabeth N. Peck, Riverview Gardens, Smith Pure Milk Co., V. F. Hurst & Sons, a very good friend. Home Dairy Products, Inc., Bultemeier Construction Co., Meyer Shell Service, Adams County Trailer Sales, - Inc., Begun’s Clothing Store, Myers Home and Auto Supply, and Fager's Sporting Goods and Appliances.

Authorities Count Last Os “ Holiday Dead Hopeful Tragic Toll i Will Fall Short Os Predicted Record « By United Press International , Officials counted the last of holi- [ day dead today*, still hoping the . tragic toll would fall short of the ! grimly predicted Fourth of July ■ record. The county of casualties covered the period from 6 p.m. Thursday to midnight Sunday, local time. Late accident reports continued to 1 come in, however, and a United ’ Press International tally showed 369 highway deaths, 41 less than the estimated 410 which would have been a record for the holiday period. The count also showed at least 179 deaths by drowning, 8 in plane crashes, and 80 others in miscellaneous accidents to bring the Fourth of July toll to 636. California led the nation with 34 highway deaths, followed by Texas with 24; New York, 23; Missouri 20; Ohio 18; Louisiana and Georgia each 16; Michigan and Pennsylvania each 14. Only eight states had unblemished traffic records and only five of the eight got through the holiday without any type of fatality. The eight without a highway death were Delaware, North Dakota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Vermont and Wyoming. Oregon, however, Recorded nine drownings and two other accident deaths. New Hampshire had one drowning and New Mexico had one drowning and one other accident death. * left only Delaware, North Dakota, Nevada, Wyoming and Vermont with perfect slates. The hot weather, covering most of the nation, was blamed for the {Continued oa pa«e five) Profit Shown By Hospital In June Monthly Report Is Given For Hospital The Adams couifty memorial hospital reported a profit of $154.90 for the month of June, and a profit of $383.42, including the tax distribution, for the first six months. There was an operating cash balance of $4,692.55 at the beginning of the month of June, and $24,852.23 was deposited. Bills were SB,325.16 for the month, and the payroll was $16,372.17. Operating cash on hand June 30 was $4,847.75. Profits were made at the hospital during March, April, and June, and deficits were shown for January, February and May. There was $4,646.03 in the operating fund on January 1, and there is $4,847.45 in the fund now. This includes, however, a $2,479.46 spring tax allotment from the one-cent hospital rate. There were 203 patients admitted during the month and 49 babies born, including 30 boys and 19 girls. Nine patients and two babies died. A total of 191 patients and 46 babies were dismissed, and 38 adults and five babies remained in the hospital June 30. There Were 195 persons receiving treatment in the emergency room, x-ray lab, or testing lab during the month. " GAMES POSTPONED Heavy rainfall Sunday and continued intermittent showers today forced postponement of " tonight’s scheduled double header at Worthman field. A Little League game had been scheduled at 6*30 p.m., to be followed by a Pony League game between the Braves and Cardinals.

New Showers Pelf At Indiana Today Showers, Storms Due To Continue By United Press International New showers pelted Indiana today, ranging up to nearly two inches in many cities across the state’s broad midsection. The rain held down temperatures but left the atmosphere sticky and uncomfortable. Long-range outlooks indicated ’ below normal temperatures will ' prevail this week, with at least Tuesday and Wednesday free of rain. The latest rain started Sunday but most of it fell during the night and in this morning’s early hours. It still was raining well past dawn over the southern half of the state. By 7 a.m., the Weather Bureau had recorded precipitation totals of 1.92 inches for Bloomington, 1.87 for Knightstown, 1.71 for Shelbyvile, 1.36 for Winchester, 1.14 for Vincennes, 1.12 for Rushville, and between one-half and one inch for Portland, Monticello and. Kokomo. Fort Wayfff, Evansville and Indianapolis had between one-quar-ter and one-half inch, and Terre Haute a tenth of an inch. South Bend had none. Showers and thunderstorms were due to continue until tonight over most of the state except the • extreme north and northwest pqr--1 tions. Skies will be sunny in the i northern third Tuesday and partly ' cloudy in the rest of the state. The outlook for Wednesday was “fair and pleasant.’’ The five-day outlook for the period ending next Saturday called for temperatures averaging 4 to 6 degrees below normal highs of 83 to 90 and normal lows of 62 to 70. “Little day-to-day change except some cooling north portion about Friday,’’ the outlook said, adding that precipitation will average about .25 to .50 inches north to .50 to 1 inch and locally heavier south, with scattered showers south Monday night and over most of area Thursday or Friday. Temperatures hit highs ranging from 77 at Evansville to 84 at Fort Wayne Sunday, dropped to lows ranging from 62 at South Bend to 68 at Indianapolis this (Continue*! on page five) Golfing Equipment .. Reported Recovered Most Os Equipment Stolen Here Found Most of the $1,150 in golfing equipment stolen from the Decatur Golf course in June was reported found by the sheriffs department recently, when a golfing iron was found on a road north of the city, sheriff Merle Affolder said today. The iron was reported found by a local highway worker and reported to the sheriffs office. The department investigated the incident and found the equipment in an abandoned building approximately three miles north of Decatur on a county road. The building was put on a 24hour stake-out with the cooperation of the state police, sheriff's department and state detective Jack Tobias. Special deputies were also assigned to the building, but the 24-hour watch proved in vain and the thieves were not apprehended. The equipment was found several days ago, and the building was carefully watched in hopes the thieves might return to dispose of the merchandise. The sheriffs department, along with the other Investigating officers, worked an eight-hour shift per man for 24 hours a day. Portable radios and other police equipment was installed near the premises to aid the law officers in the apprehension of the thieves, if they might return. The departments are still working on leads from the equipment and are still continuing their in, vestigatlon of the stolen merchan-

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Plane Forced Down By Reds Over Armenia No Nine In East Germany Will Be Released LONDON (UPD — The Soviet 1 Union today released the nine crewmembers of a U. S. military plane ; forced down by Russian jets in Soviet Armenia June 27, Radio Moscow said today. The airmen were turned over to U. S. authorities on the SovietIranian frontier. Radio Moscow said the handover took place at Astara on the i border with Iran. i The brief broadcast said the men . were handed over to U. S. military ' representatives and gave the names of the men. I The airmen were identified by > the U. S. Defense Department as: Col Dale D. Brannon, Chadron, ■ Ohio; Maj. Luther W. Lyles, Savoy, ■ Tex.; Maj. Robert E. Crans, Ma- ! coh, Mo.; Maj. Beanie A. Shupe, 1 Miami, Fla.; Capt. James T. Kane, Farmingdale, N. Y.; Ist Lt. James ’ N. Luther, Waseca, Minn.; T. Sgt. ‘ James G. Holman, Vivian, La.; : Airman 2C Earl H. Reamer, St. ‘ Louis Farit, Minn., and A2C Peter ' N. Sabo, Chicago. The nine Americans were crew- > men of a Cllß transport which the Soviets claimed violated Russian ’ air space over Armenia. The U. S. aircraft was forced down by two Soviet fighters near Erevan, Armenia, on June 27. A Soviet announcement said that the plane burned after landing but that the crewmen were safe and well. The plane had been en route to * Iran and Pakistan carrying supplies to U. S. forces there. It had 1 come from West Germany and had '■ touched down in Cyprus only a few hours before it was forced ; down at a Russian airfield. • The flight was the subject of i a formal Soviet protest a week • ago Saturday and again Saturday night Russia maintained in both notes that U.S. violations of the Russian border were not uncommon and were "premeditated.” * , ■■■■ > The United States, in a communication dated June 30, assured Russia the plane was on a routine flight and crossed the Armenian frontier by accident. The - United States expressed regret for the incident and told the Soviets the aircraft was unarmed. I (There still was no indication when nine U.S, Army men held by the East Germans wouldi.be ■ released. The nine men were captured June 7 when a rainstorm i forcd their helicopter to make * forced landing in the Soviet Zone ’ of Germany. (Berlin dispatches today said the East Germans had rejected i a U.S. contention the Soviets are responsible for the release of the helicopter men. They said East Germany is a sovereign nation and the U.S. must deal with it as a diplomatic equal if the men are to be freed.) Diplomatic sources in Moscow - said the latest Soviet note on the men captured in Armenia was i conciliatory in tone, with the Soviets taking into account U.S. expressions of regret Improvement Os U.S. Highway 224 Planned The Indiana state highway dei partment said today it will open bids July 29 on more than 26 million dollars worth of bridges highway projects, the largest bid < letting in the department’s history. Highway projects include 11.2 miles of U. S. highway 224 in Adams and Wells counties, from Ind. 1 to U. S. 27 at Decatur. Also included is J mile in Adams county on the county road west of U. S. 27, north of Ind. ~l|B.