Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 193, Decatur, Adams County, 16 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 193.

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Congress Works Desperately On Recess Agenda Senate Meeting In Saturday Session On Social Security WASHINGTON (UPD—Congress worked desperately today to patch up an adjournment agenda with the senate tackling its benefitboosting Social Security Bill in a Saturday session. The Senate was meeting after a late Friday night session. Leaders expected the bill increasing both benefits and payroll taxs for Social Security to pass the Senate with little change and be accepted by the House. They hoped this would improve the chances of adjourning this 1958 session by midweek. Their optimism was encouraged by agreement in the House, which recessed for the week end, to bring up on Monday the longdormant Senate * passed Labor Reform Bill, a new housing bill, a minerals subsidy bill and the Fryingpan - Arkansas water project measure. The House at the same time Friday passed its $279,500,000 bill to aid depressed areas with federal loans and grants. Most Stop Horsing But the speedup was shadowed oy refusal of House leaders to join in a conference on the substitute farm bill, a key to any adjournment plans. Most legislators expected the farm stalemate to be resolved by Senate reconsideration and acceptance of th* bill which was rammed through the House on Thursday. “We’ve got to have a farm bill and the time has come to stop horsing around,” one Senate spokesman observed. Senators who have worked late every night the past week were plainly getting tired of each other and the delay in adjournment. But despite their irritation and time - consuming oratory, they managed to send two big tax revision bills to the White House, pass a $3,866,000,000 supplemental money bill and return it to the House, report out a new national debt limit bill, recommend a compromise welfare - pension fund measure — and still face today’s overtime session. The day’s subject for floor action, already passed by the House, would boost benefits for some 11,800,000 Social Security recipients by about 7 per cent and increase the taxes on 75 million workers. Want 10 Per Cent Only slightly altered from its House form in the Senate Finance Committee, the bill still contained a public assistance section which the administration warned might bring a presidential veto. But the major floor fight was to come over an effort by Democrats to push the benefit increase up to 10 per cent Senate Democrats, with Majority Leaner Lyndon B. Johnson voicing their viewpoint, virtually (ContlnuM on page fjve) INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday with a few thundershowers central portion Sunday and tonight and Sunday in south portion. Lows tonight ■ 58 north to 72 south. High Sunday 85 to 88. Outlook for Monday: Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers likely. ' NOON EDITION

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Hint Rocket Ready For Shot At Moon Apparently Ready For Test On Sunday CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD —An immensely tall rocket with a knobby .contrivance on top stood gaunt in an Air Force tower on Cape Canaveral today. It apparently was ready for a widely anticipted “shoot for the moon” Sunday. The Air Force and Defense Department still would not confirm that the big test, marking man’s first uncertain leap to bridge the chasm between the planets, was imminent. The maximum goal of the test is to orbit an instrumented satellite of under 100 pounds around the moon and obtain a crude television picture of its eternally hidden "dark side.” They’re Getting Ready Informed sources have noted that Sunday is the best day for such a test. If the rocketeers can not get it off then, they have the next three days when the moon still is relatively close to earth—within 230,000 miles. Only a short period of each day will provide a celestial alignment favorable for shooting and the whole thing could be called off for ’another month. AU signs of a major missile launching were evident here. Activity continued far into Friday night on the Air Force service tower, its bright lights showing through a squall line that enclosed the cape. AU living space in nearby motels was sold out. W h is p e r s were circulated by “beach telegraph.” As for the kind of shoot planned, the rocket standing in an extended thor missile tower was certainly 1 like nothing ever fired here before. Bom arc Scores Hit Apparently completely assembled in the last day or so, it looked to be almost 100 feet tall and towered above other missiles in position along the cape skyline. The moon rocketeers can only hope to do a portion as well as an electronic brain did Friday in sending up a Bomarc interceptor missile against a 817 drone. The Bomarc was fired by pushbutton from Kingston, N. Y., more than 1,500 miles from the (C«-Bt)nufcd on page four) Submarine Nautilus Heads Home Monday PORTLAND, Eng. (UPD — The U. S. Navy’s atomic submarine Nautilus, which made the historic underwater crossing of the North Pole, will sail for home Monday 1 after a six-day visit here, it war announced today. The sub will head for her home port. New London, Conn. Portland was the ship’s first port after cruising under the Arctic ice pack from Hawaii to the North Atlantic. Scheduled Layoff At Harvester Averted Scheduled layoff of 525 employes of the International Harvester plant at Fort Wayne, scheduled to start Monday, has begn averted, at least temporarily. The layoff had been planned because of a shortage of transmissions, due to a strike at the plant of a major suppUer for Harvester. C. W. Anderson, plant manager, said the production cutback has been averted by the recaU of service parts transmissions from the company’s parts depots and motor truck service branches throughout the country.

Gambling Probe Jury Recesses Until Monday 68 Witnesses Heard During First Week Os Investigation INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A federal grand jury was in recess today after hearing 68 witnesses testify during the first leek on a major probe into an international gambling syndicate. More than a 100 remained to be heard next week. Five of the witnesses cited the Fifth Amendment Friday to avoid giving information to the grand jury, and at least four of them face possible contempt charges. U. S. District Attorney Don Tabbert said the jury would decide .later whether to ask federal Judge Cale Holder to cite the reluctant witnesses. Paul B. Fasullo, owner of the Boulevard Lounge, Baton Rouge, La., invoked his constitutional right to avoid testifying, but said he would return Monday after consulting with his attorney. However, the other four were released by the grand jury and apparently will not have a second chance to reconsider. They wer: Dave Goldberg, St. Louis, a salsman. Samuel Katz, Philadelphia. Jack Kapit, Queens, N. Y., a salesman. Harry Brown, partner in B & B Liquors, Chicago. Another Court Summons Brown displayed an affidavit requiring him to appear in Chicago Aug. 18 on another federal matter which Tabbert said he assumed was related to wagering. The district attorney said Brown was “very friendly,” but didn’t want to risk testifying with the Chicago matter hanging over him. Brown declined to talk about himself Is he waited to go into the grand jury room, but he did telll United Press International he was acquainted with one of the eight men against whom the government was trying to prove excise tax evasion. ‘ Brown said in defense of Leo Shaffer, of Chicago, ‘T’ve known him for 30 years and he is kind to everybody, even though they don’t deserve it. You are persecuting a wonderful man.” Haffer and five other men were arrested last Nov. 29 in a raid on a third-floor headquarters in Terre Haute, Ind., where jangling telephones answered by U.S. Treasury agents had potential bettors on football games on the other end of the line. In addition to Shaffer, those nabbed in the raid were Jules Horwick, Chicago; Philip Share and Irwin Gordon, Las Vegas, Nev., and Charles L. Sumner, former Marion County sheriff, and Joey Jacobson, both of Indianapolis. Two other defendants arrested after the raid in connection with the operation of the center were E. M. Wyatt, Terre Haute, ’and Jim Tamer, Miami, Fla., and Detroit. Seek Serious Charge* The government is attempting to prove a more serious charge of evading 10 per cent excise taxes on gross wagering against taxes on gross wagering against the eight, rather than the less serious counts on which they were originally charged. Tabbert said the testimony given by witnesses indicated that: “substantially more” than the orginal estimate (Continued on rage ax)

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Two Anti-Reds Raid Hungarian Legation Today Swiss Police Trap Pair After Shooting Battle In Legation BERN, Switzerland (UPD—Two anti-Communists invaded the Hungarian legation here today and shot it out for 90 minutes with armed Communist diplomats until, trapped by Swiss police. One of the attackers was shot' in the head by a Hungarian diplomat during the fight. The two surrendered when ■ besieging Swiss police threatened to open up against them with tear gas. The attack was reminiscent of one carried out by anti-Red Romanian refugees on the Communist Romanian legation in Bern three years ago. The Romanian refugees held out against Swiss police for two days. The two anti-Communists slipped into the Hungarian legation on Sulgenbach Strasse around 10 a.m. A short time later passersby reported to police they could hear the sound of shooting echoing inside the Communist diplomatic outpost. The battle waged on inside tbg, building for some time. Finally Minister Jozsef Marjai waived diplomatic immunity and sent a frantic appeal for help to Swiss police. Officers armed with tear gas and tommyguns closed in on the building. 1116 two men holed up behind a locked door of a strongroom and prepared to battle it out to the bitter end. However, one had been wounded and the threat of tear gas bombs was too much. Shortly after 11:45 a. m. troopers brought the two men out, one in a state of collapse from his wounds. The Hungarian legation, an old (Contit.vec on paxe rive) Firemen's Festival Winners Announced Amateur Contest At Preble Friday Night More than 1,200 persons jammed the main section of Preble Friday night for the amateur contest of the annual Preble firemen’s festival, in which Keith Mcßride, 15, and Steve Fenton, 14, of Ossian, won the children's division with a guitar and mandolin rendition of “Yakety Yak.” Jim Smith and his Starlites swept the adult division with eight boys smgTngdbublequaftet; “style? The group is dlso from Ossian. Committee chairmen Arthur Bieberich and Warner Hoffman congratulated all the 22 acts for their fine performances, explaining that while only four places were announced, many of the other acts were also good enough to win prizes. Second place in the children’s dir vision went to Sue Gillespie, 11, of Portland, who did an acrobatic dance. A group of ten children rangingfrom 12 to 13 in age from Uniondale won third place by a pantomime to the singing of “Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet.” Cynthia Ann Gehrig, 7, of Decatur, placed fourth with a tap dancing routine. In the adult class, the Four Teens, from Decatur, placed second. Members of the grouo are Cheryl Ashbaucher, Karen Robinson. Kathy Schultz, and Gloria Wall. Tom Ferman, Don Richards, and Carolos Washam, of Lima, 0,, placed third with a singing arrangement accompanied by the drums and saxophone. Fourth place honors in the adult division went to Ron Bleeke and Dovle Kirk of Decatur singing with guitar accompaniment. Jack Underwood, popular radio (Continued ba page six)

Indicate Big Dutch Airliner Exploded Believe All 99 Dead Before Final Plunge GALWAY, Ireland (UPD — T|)e Chief medical officer of the Dutch KLM airline said today autopsies indicated that the 99 persons killed in Thursday’s crash of a New York-bound airliner were dead’before the plane plunged into the Atlantic., Dr. K. Van Diager said examination of the bodies of some of the victims showed each had suffered “brain bleeding.” ’» He said this "indicated that all the pepole were CTead before the impact” of the plane on the stormy sea. Dr. Van Diager said there were no signs of burns on the bodies examined, and that other extenral injury marks on the bodies came after death. Nine of the bodies recovered from the sea has been identified so far. A spokesman for the Dutch airliner KLM said a concerted effort to identify the victims will be made after the inquest. The best information now available suggests that the big airliner may have exploded and burned before plunging into the sea. Dutch airline spokesmen dismissed the idea of sabotage as. a cause of the crash, but; aviation ‘ -sources persisted in the theory [ that some sort of explosion wrecked the big KLM Super-Con- ; stellation. They pointed out that the plane appeared to have disintegrated in midair — an occurrence which is extremely unlikely in an ordinary sort of accident. The fact that none of the 37 bodies recovered from the sea wore a lifebelt, coupled with the fact that no report of trouble was received from any of the plane’s four radios, was taken as a sign that whatever happened to the airliner was very sudden. Experts discounted engine trouble as a cause of the tragic crash because any two of the plane’s four engines could have kept it in the air indefinitely — certainly long enough to radio a report of trouble to its base. The search for bodies was called off Friday, after it became apparent that there were no survivors. Exchange Student Getting Acquainted German Student To Attend High School Among the first things Peter Friederici, Decatur’s 1958-59 Ro-tary-sponsored exchange student, has done in his first Week in the United States, is to study a map of Decatur, according to his hosts, the Wilbur Petries. He will live at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Petrie, at 222 South First street, for the coming year, with the sponsorship of the Decatur Rotary club and the American Field Service, and will attend Decatur high school as a senior. Peter is the son of Felix Adolph and Edith Friederici, who live in central Germany near Frankfurt. His father is a merchant in the lumber trade. He has two sisters, Christi, 20, and Carin, 16. Christi, who was an exchange student under the same program, in North Carolina, two years ago, is studying at the university in Frankfurt; she plans to teach in high schools. His younger sister attends school in their home town. Docking at New York Saturday, August 9, he spent eight hours going through customs, and then took the bus to Decatur, arriving here at 1:35 Sunday afternoon. Among the “firsts” he ha* experienced during his first week in his host city have been an outdoor hamburger fry the first night, and attending the drive-in theater and eating popcorn, which he liked. He was a guest of the Thursday evening Rotary meeting, and an overnight guest of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Edwards and Steve Edwards (Continued on page elx)

U.N. Assembly Is In Recess Until Monday Ike's Proposals On Middle East Likely To Be Watered Down UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPD —lndications mounted today that backstage negotations have pulled the teeth out of President Eisenhower’s program for a Middle East settlement. Informed sources said the resolution which Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Hans Engen is expected to submit to the emergency General Assembly session next week will eliminate Eisenhower’s _ proposals for a U. N. peace force and for an effort to curb inflamatory propoganda in the Middle East. Both these provisions had been opposed by the Arabs. It was reported that they might be reintroduced when the General Assembly begins its regular session on Sept. 16. Informed diplomats said the principal postive proposal in the resolution being prepared by Engen would be a directive to Secretary — General Dag Hammarskjpld to make arangements forthwith” for the United Nations to safeguard peace in the Middle East. This would effectively empower Hammarskjold to visit the area and seek means of providing a substitute for Anglo - American troops — specifically in Jordan, whose threatened government has rejected the idea of protection by the proposed peace force. Informal sources surmised that Hammarskjold, if he goes to the Middle East, would propose the creation of a U- N. commission or some similar body to oversee peace in Jordan. The situation in Lebanon appears to be solving itself since the election of Gen. Faud Chehab as president of the small country. U. N. observers have reported the situation quiet except for occasional acts of “brigandage” by foes (Continued on page five) Henry M. Crownover Is Taken By Death Long-Time Teacher Dies At Age Os 90 Henry M. Crownover. 90, retired school teacher, died at 3:35 o’clock Friday afternoon at his home in St. Mary’s township, two and onefourth miles southwest of Pleasant Mills. He had been in failing health for several years. Mr. Crownover taught school in Kokomo for seven years, then moved to Adams county and taught in schools in St. Mary's and Blue Creek townships for 32 years until his retirement in 1928. He was born in Wayne county Sept. 18, 1967, a son of John and Mary Mittendorf-Crownover. He was married to Laura Geneva Hanna Feb. 3, 1897, and the couple observed their 61st wedding anniversary last February. Mr. Crownover had been a member of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church since 1918. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Harry S. Crownover, of Monroe, and Robert Lee Crownover, of St. Mary’s township; four grandchildren; two great-grand-children, and one sister, Mrs. Katherine Randall of Galveston. Two daughters died in infancy and one brother and one sister are also deceased. Funeral services will be heldat 1:30 p.m. Monday at the residence and at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Mills Baptist church, the Rev. Oakley Masten and the Rev. Bright Hanna officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be returned from the Zwick funeral home to the residence, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening.

St. Mary's Cresting Above Flood Stage River At 1118 Feet Here This Morning For the second time this week the St. Mary’s river is cresting above flood stage this morning from rains which ended Friday forenoon. Standinng at 13.18 feet at 7 a.m. today, the St. Mary's was slowing down in its rise, and was expected to crest today. The last session of rains, which began with severe electrical storms Thursday evening. brought 1.02 inches of rain to the city, according to official weather observer Louis Landrum. Additional rains up to .4 inch were recorded ih the county since the Friday morning readings, which showed that the general rain averaged almost an inch for Thursday night. The .4 inch reading came from the Arthur Koeneman farm In Preble township, bringing the total there to 1.60 inch for the last session of rainfall. In Hartford township, on the Ivan Huser farm. 1.3 inch feU in all, two tenths after the Friday morning reading. * August’s first 15 days have brought the summer rainfall, for June. July, and August, to 20.87 inches, according to the Decatur measurements, with 4.71 inches of this precipitation for August. This was below the halfway mark for July, when 6.U inches fell during the month; so hopes ate rising tor a drier second half, with August tapering off the summer rains, below July’s total, which was below the 9.42-inch total for August. Ih the area surrounding Decatur, however, higher readings were recorded: in French township, the August first half total was 6.10 inches from the Harold Moser farm. In Monroe township, at the Ben Mazelin farm, 6.05 inches fell during that time, while in Preble township, at the Koeneman farm, 5.70 inches have been recorded. Kirkland and Root townships, with a 5.45 average from the Peter J. Spangler and Dan Fiechter gauges, and 4.60 inches from the Cecil Harvey rain gauge, (Continued on page five) Extension Classes Open Here Sept. 8 Ball State Course Is Offered Here - The first extension course from Ball State Teachers College ever to* be offered in Decatur will start Monday, Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m., a id will continue for 12 weeks, Mis. Roberta Chronister announced today. The course, education 400, “Current movements in education,” will be given for either undergraduate or graduate credit. The class will start each Monday at 6:30 p.m. in room 107, the home ec room, in the basement of the Decatur high school. The class period will be 3% hours long, with hourly breaks, closing at 10 p.m. Registration and payment of fees will be completed the evening of the first class. Juniors or seniors may sign up for the undergraduate work. A total of 16 will be needed to start the class. If fewer than 16 show up, the class will be dropped. Two more courses will be offered this winter, if the first one is successful, one each in the winter and spring quarter. The class will be worth four quarter hours towards a degree. The name of the instructor has hot yet been released. The fee for the course will be $36 for undergraduate work, and S4O for graduate work. Anyone interested in more information may attend the first class or call Mrs. Gene Chronister, 3-3905. In .previous years persons working on their degrees had to drive to Bluffton, Fort Wayne or Muncie to get the necessary courses. Last year eight drove to Bluffton, and this summer two or more carloads drove dally to Muncie for the courses. ■

Former Atomic Energy Leader Among Victims 12 Others Injured In Plane Crash On Fog-Bound Island NANTUCKET, Mass. (UPD—A Northeast Airlines plane crashed and burned Friday night on fogbound Nantucket Island, killing 22 of the 34 persons aboard, including former Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Gordon E. Dean. 'Die twin-engine Convair was filled with holiday-bound weekenders on a flight from New York to Nantucket when it slammed to earth near the airport and disintegrated. The dead included the entire crew. The other 12 persons among the total 34 aboard were injured, some critically. Seven were flown this morning to Boston for special treatment at the Massachusetts General Hospital’s “burn center.” Seats, bits of flaming fuselage and wheels were hurled helterskelter into woodlands east of the airport whn the two-engined airliner crashed. The body of Dean, a weekend “vacation commuter,” was identified by his wife. ; A baby, Cindy Lou Young, 2, . was hurled alive from the wreckr age but her mother was killed. The baby was among those hospi- . talized. Eye-witnesses reported that the . plane split apart like an eggshell enabling some passengers to escap just before it burst into flames. The first rescue workers to reach the scene found three persons pinned to the ground by airplane parts. Two were dead. The other, a woman, moaned, crying for aid. Frank Marks, a taxi driver, said, “All the men could do was dig a hole underneath her to relieve some of the pressure.” Finally, using a chain, 10 men and a fire truck, the engine was pulled away. “Baggage and seats were all over the place,” said George Lusk, an airport maintenance man who arrived after the crash. He said Debris was scattered over 500 feet. Amid the flaming wreckage, strewn about pine woods near Nantucket Airport, year - round residents and summer vacationers risked death when fire neared gasoline tanks to carry survivors to safety. Joe Indio, editor of a Nantucket weekly, said the first fire alarms sent hundreds rushing to the scene. When he got there, Indio said, huge chunks of the plane were still burning. It looked, he said, as if the plane had Just plummeted down. Pilot Also Dies Indio said he found one man, sitting down, holding his back. “All he could say was ‘Hold my back,’ said Indio. “A litter crew carried him off.” It was the second crash of a Northeast Airlines plane in southeastern Massachusetts in 11 months. A fog - delayed airliner crashed Sept. 15, 1957 at New Bedford, killing 12 and Injuring 12 others. Besides Dean, the dead in Friday’s crash, included the pilot, Capt. John Burnham of Marshfield, Mass., a veteran of eight years of service, and his co-pilot, David Carey of Nantucket. The stewardess, Eileen Dabek, 25, of Manchester, N. H., also was killed. She had been flying only since January. From the sky before dawn the scene was eerie. Jagged streaks of lightning and pouring rain added gloom to tragedy. From the air, emergency lights could be spotted ringing the area. Fires Pat Oat By 4 a. m. e.d.t. all the fires were out. Northeast announced that some of the survivors would be flown 1 to the famed "burn center” of Massachusetts General Hospital In (Con tinned on MC« MX)

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