Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 198, Decatur, Adams County, 22 August 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 198.

■Kfc. _ ■b BJR hk h JMr t SSIM&i * ’ * ■■ ■ T* SURVIVE "SHOOT DOWN”— Lt. Roland Svane (left) of Seattle pays a visit to two pilots of an Air Force trainer he accidentally shot down near Clinton, Mo., when a safety device on his F-102 fighter failed and three missiles were fired at their craft. Both Lt. John Rice of Sacramento, Cal., and Lt. Raymond Suhars, Jr., of Evansville, Ind., (right), bailed out of their T-33 at 41,000 feet and landed with minor injuries.

UN Assembly Accepts Arab Peace Formula Western Diplomats Cheer Unanimous Action By U. N. BULLETIN UNITED NATIONS (UPD— U. N. Secretary-General D»i Hammarskjold announced today that he will leave Monday for Jordan to put into effect the all-Arab Mideast peace plan. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD —Most Western diplomats today hailed unanimous United Nations passage of an all-Arab peace resolution for the Middle East but the United States apparently still had some doubts. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles insisted the future of the Middle East still would be settled by deeds and not by the words of the resolution putting it up to the Arabs themselves to keep the peace. But the United States believed greater good had been done for the Middle East at this session than would have been achieved at the summit conference originally wanted by Russia. . “I don’t think a summit meeting could have accomplished as much as this because a summit meeting would have excluded the Arab nations,” U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge said. The success was due in large part to the presence of the small nations.” Unanimity Surprises The resolution, which puts much of the burden on U. N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, passed by a vote of 80 to 0 on a show of hands with only the Dominican Republic absent — apparently because it was still peeved at past American “snubs.” The rare example of Arab unanimity — the resolution was written by 10 Arab nations — caused major surprise in Lebanon where the newspaper Al Ahrar asked in a banner headline: “Who could believe it? Arab delegations are agreeing among themselves.” But how the resolution would affect the future of Lebanon and Jordan once American and British troops are withdrawn still was not known. To Leave Soon The resolution provides: —A reaffirmation by the Arabs themselves of the Arab League principles of mutual respect, nonaggression, non-interference and mutual benefit. —Directs Hammarskjold to consult the governments concerned and make practical arrangements in Lebanon and Jordan facilitating the early withdrawal of foreign troops. —Asks Hammarksjold to study with the Arab countries the establishment of a do-it-yourself economic program for the Middle East —invites Hammarskjold to report progress by Sept. 30. The regular fall session of the General Assembly begins Sept. 16. Hammarskjold was expected to (Continued on page two)

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Indiana Democrats Meet At French Lick Harmony Prevails On Party Surface FRENCH LICK. Ind. (UPD— Harmony prevailed on the surface at least as hundreds of Hoosier Democrats gathered today for a week-end session in connection with the fall meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. In contrast with past campaigns, Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke, senatorial nominee, said he is perfectly willing to work in accord with National Chairman Paul M. Butler, who opposed Hartke for the senatorial bid, and with State Chairman Charles E. Skillen. Butler had backed State Sen. Marshall Kizer, Plymouth, for the senatorial nomination. However, Skillen had professed neutrality in that struggle. It had been thought that Hartke would try to replace Butler as Indiana national committeeman with his heavy supporter, Alex Cam pb e 11, Allen County chairman. Nevertheless, the Hartke lieutenants said that they would do nothing to rock the boat, at least until after the November election. Walsh Opens Oratory Skillen’ arrived late Thursday, Hartke today and Butler is expected tonight or Saturday. The party leaders predicted that former Rep. John R. Walsh. Anderson, nominee for secretary of state will deliver the first fiery oratory at one of the numerous gatherings that will precede the banquet of the editors Saturday night. These meetings include congressional and state candidates, mayors, county chairmen and the state committee. Hartke will be in every act, probably attending all of these assemblies, meeting with the editors Saturday morning and staging a reception in his room that afternoon. The senatorial nominee will outline perhaps the most strenuous campaign schedule for himself in the party’s history, even exceeding his man-killing drive for the nomination. He will obtain the views of the editors concerning campagn issues. Victory Scent Grows A numer of those who arrived early said the victory aroma is growing because of the recession, highway scandals, the Sherman Adams interlude, higher state taxes, the attempt of Governor Handley to quit his office for Washington in mid-term, and other events during the GOP national and state regimes. The more conservative Democrats maintained, however, that because of favorable farm prices, the GOP may retain the vital agricultural vote. They admitted that floods of recent months have discouraged the farmers, but claimed natural disasters cannot be blamed on the Republicans. Sen. Hubert Humphreys of Minnesota, a liberal, will be the chief speaker at the editors’ banquet. Some of the more conservative politicians and editors do not relish this. • Other speakers will be Skillen, Butler and Hartke.

Living Costs Climb To New l . • Record High Government Report Shows Living Cost At New Record High WASHINGTON (UPD—The cost of living climbed to another alltime high in July, the government reported today. The Labor Department’s consumer price index advanced 0.2 per cent. The cost of transportation, some foods and medical care increased, while prices of housing and recreation dipped slightly. It was the 21st time in the last 23 months tha't the cost of living climbed to new high ground. The July index rose to 123.9 of the 1947-49 price average of 100. This meant it cost $12.39 last month to buy a basket of goods and services that cost $lO in 194749. A top official held out hope that living costs .would level out in coming months. The Labor Department’s index differed with a report Thursday from the National Industrial Conference Board, a non-profit research organization, that living costs dropped in July by one-tenth of one per cent. Both the two-tenths rise reported by the index and the onetenth drop reported by the board are small fractions and economists reported the apparent conflict could be accounted for by a difference in the factors used in the two surveys. The reports differed mainly on rents, food and clothing. The government said rents and food climbed while clothing remained the same. The board said rents, food and clothing declined. Commissioner of Labor Statistics Ewan Clague foresaw overall price stability persisting for “six months, maybe a year.” He noted that the July increase in the index was the smallest rise for that month since 1954. He noted that the index has gone up in July in every year but two since 1941. The rise in the price index means wage increases of from 1 to 4 cents an hour for some 500,000 workers whose pay is tied to the cost of living. The department also reported that the take-home pay of a factory worker with three dependents rose from $75.55 in June to $75.88 in July. The report said consumer prices in July averaged 2.6 per cent higher than in July, 1957. Biggest factor in last month’s climb was a 1 per cent increase in transportation costs. This reflected climbing gasoline prices as price wars ended in several cities and a 2.9 per cent jump in used car prices. Transit fares also rose because of hikes in five cities. Food prices were up 0.1 per cent in July as increases for pork, eggs and milk more than offset seasonal markdowns for fresh fruits and vegetables. (Continued on page six) Mrs. Henry Knapp Dies Last Evening 95-Year-Old Decatur Lady Dies Thursday Mrs. Catherine Knapp, 95, of 414 North Third street, widow of Henry Knapp, former Decatur business man, died at 10:35 o’clock Thursday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in serious condition since suffering a fractured hip in a fall April 25. Born in Cincinnati, 0., Dec. 12, 1862, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Frankenstein. She had lived in Decatur since her marriage to Henry Knapp March 27, 1884. Her husband, who preceded her in death March 13,, 1940, owned and operated the Knapp Hardware store in Decatur for many years. Mrs. Knapp was a charter member of the Zion fcvangelical and Reformed church. Surviving are two sons, Charles Knapp of Shrewsbury, Mass., and Harry J. Knapp of Decatur; two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth Miller of Fort Wayne, and Bertha Ashbaucher of Decatur; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchil-dren, and one brother, Edward Frankenstein of San Martin, Calif. Two sisters and one brother preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. William C. Feller officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p. m. Saturday until time of the services.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, August 22, 1958

United States Ready To Halt Nuclear Weapon Testing For One Year

See Congress Adjournment By Saturday Night Few Barriers Yet For Adjournment Os 85th Congress , WASHINGTON (UPD — The Eighty-Fifth Congress today was set to chop down some of the few remaining barriers to final adjournment, now expected no later than Saturday night. The Senate prepared to meet early and work through what Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) warned might be a long session. The House, running ahead of the Senate in its handling of major bills, was scheduled to act on a series of minor measures. Today’s first order of business in the Senate was a bill to extend the government's authority to renegotiate contracts to recapture “excess profits.” Thursday night the Senate took. a long stride toward adjournment by scuttling legislation that would have nullified some recent Supreme Court decisions, especially in the area of subversion. By a narrow 41-40 margin, if sent the bills back to the Senate Judiciary’ Committee, in effect killing for this session all pending legislation to offset court rulings. Pass Pension Bill Z, Specifically, the ciose vote was a rejection of a bill by Sen. Styles Bridges (R-N.H.) and an amendment by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.l. The bill would have reinstated state anti-subversive laws, nullified by the Supreme Court in its 1956 Steve Nelson decision. The (Continued on page three) Radio Executive Is Speaker At Rotary Robert Hendry Is Speaker Thursday Robert Hendry, account executive for radio station WOWO at Fort Wayne, was the guest speaker at Thursday evening’s meeting of the Decatur Rotary club. Earl Sheets, August program chairman, introduced the speaker. Clarence Ziner. past district governor, installed Dr. Wm. Freeby into the club. Ziner gave a biogrophical sketch of Dr. Freeby and then gave a brief history of Rotary and outlined the requirements of Rotary membership. He pointed out that there are now 9,914 Rotary clubs in 110 different countries in the world. Hendrv traced the history of station WOWO which was organized in 1926 as the second station in this area. It was begun by the Main Auto Supply Co. to provide radio reception in this area so that they would sell radio sets. . An increase in power first to 10,000 watts on 1160 kilocycles which it shared with Wheeling, W. Va., and later to 50,000 watts on 1190 kilocycles with a new, taller antenae was related. August 1, 1936 the station was purchased by Westinghouse. Soon afterwards, all network affiliations were discontinued and local programming featuring disk jockeys, mobile units and with ‘increased emphasis on Farm and sports programs was developed. The station enjoys a large listening audience and is rated as having the 37th largest radio market in America. To conclude his program, Hendry played a tapd recording of several “bloopers” which has been made on the air. These included errors by announcers who could not stop laughing, awkward interview answers, etc. Next week the club will participate in the annual golf tournament between Decatur, Berne and Bluffton at the Bluffton Country club. Golf will begin shortly afer noon and dinner will be served a 6:15 p4n.

Lillie Rock School Head Warns Negroes Plans To Open As All-White School LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPD — No Negro students appeared at Central High School today as some 900 white students started registering for the fall term. Virgil T. Blossom, superintendent of Little Rock schools, warned Negroes Thursday that Central will not allow them to register for the fall term. The pressure has been removed, at least temporarily, from Little Rock and shifted to Washington where the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People prepared a last-ditch appeal to the Supreme Court that would permit Negro children to re-enter the Arkansas school. Thurgood Marshall, NAACP chief counsel, was expected to file motions seeking to override the Bth U. S .Circuit Court of Appeals’ stay of its previous order requiring the school to integrate. Today, white students chattered happily as they-started registering and talked abbuTaTmost everything but the school’s racial troubles. Blossom said the records of the Negro students will be transferred from Central to the Horace Mann Negro high school. r Civilian guards, - wearing -pistols trapped to their sides, prevented news photographers from entering Central High. The guards have been at the school throughout the summer. “We are planning to open Central High this September as an allwhite school,” Blossom said Thursday. He said should the stay of mandate of the Appeals Court be in effect when school opens Sept. 2 “we will tell any Negroes who come to Central the same thing.” The St. Louis court stayed its, (Continued on cage three) Irene Reifsleck Dies Early Today Funeral Services Sunday Afternoon Mrs. Irene K. Reifsteck, 46, who resided three and one-half miles east of New Haven on U. S. highway 24, died at 5:20 o’clock this morning at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne following an illness of five months. She had resided in Preble township her entire life until moving to Allen county several months ago. She was employed at the Fort Wayne G. E. plant until retiring 10 years ago, and had been employed by the LuginblU Wire Die at New Haven for the past five years. She was bom in Adams county May 15, 1912, a daughter of Henry and Bertha Gallmeyer - Droege, who reside in Preble township. She was married to Reinhard Reifsteck Sept. 3, 1938. Her husband preceded her in death in 1941. Mrs. Reifsteck was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedfieim. Surviving in addition to her parents are one son, Werner, at home, and one sister. Mrs. Melvin Adams of Fort Wayne. Funeral services will be held at 1 p. m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 1:30 p. m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim, the Rev. A. A. Fenner officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Part.ly cloudy with no important temperature changes Saturday. Low tonight mostly in the 50s. High Saturday 80 to 86. Sunset today 7:32 p. m. Sunrise Saturday 6:04 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Mostly cloudy with scattered showers and thundershowers. Little temperature change. Lows in the 50s. Highs 80 to 86.

Marx Promises Cooperation In Gaming Probe Zeppo Marx Appears For Testimony For Grand Jury Probe INDIAN APOUS (UPD—Zeppo Marx, one-time "straight man” for the Marx Brothers movie comedy team, came here today in company of a Chicago attorney and promised to cooperate with a federal grand jury investigating a huge gambling syndicate. Marx arrived with Attorney Stanford Clinton and two men whom Clinton identified as Moe Morton, Los Angeles, and Joseph Bandler, a West Los Angeles manufacturer. Clinton said Marx would make no statement about his appearance but “will tell the grand jury what he knows,” presumably about big bets placed with the syndicate when it operated for 10 weeks last fall at Terre Haute, Ind. Marx smiled pleasantly for newsmen but was silent as his attorney steered him to a federal building room for a conference with a U.S. Internal Revenue intelligence agent. Zarowita Changes Mind As Marx arrived for the lasi regularly scheduled day of the jury’s two-week probe, a witness who invoked the Fifth Amendment earlier this week and was ordered to show cause why he should not be cited for contempt decided to go back before the jury and answer leading questions. Jerome Zarowitz, an alleged gambler from Miami Beach, Fla., and his attorney met with Federal Judge Cale J. Holder Thursday night to discuss how Zarowitz could free himself from contempt jeopardy. Holder ruled that he could do so by answering 16 of 70 questions on which Zarowitz had remained silent in his first jury appearance. Other witnesses scheduled .to appear today were: Cyron Dpnnen, Grand Rapids, Mich., president of the Denver Steel Supply Co.; George R. (Continued on page five) Four Staff Changes At Pleasant Mills Trustee Announces Faculty Os School Four changes have been made in the Pleasant Mills, teaching staff, St. Mary’s township trustee Lester Brunner announced Thursday afternoon. Robert Davis will replace Arnold Getting as coach. Davis, from Eaton, 0., is residing in Pleasant Mills with his wife and two children. Getting leaves the Pleasant Mills faculty to become assistant coach at Leo. Tracy Turner, who taught at Flint last year, is the new history and biology teacher for Pleasant Mills school. He replaces Edward Liechty. Florian Karels will be the new mathematics and sclent instructor, in place of Robert Schisler. New instructor for the vocational agriculture department will be Keith Ezra. He will replace Doyle Lehman, who is to teach at Genvea. Glen Custard will be returning as principal and mathematics instructor. Returning instructors will be Helen Ehrsam, music, art, and English; Myron Lerman, government and history; Rebecca Lehman, English and physical education; and home economics, Alice Luyben. Grade school teachers, all returning, will be Alice Michaels, first and second; Delores Mitchel, third and fourth, and William Griffith, fifth and sixth, chers will return; Myrtle Clements At Bobo grade school, both teawill instruct first through third grades, Donald Everett fourth through sixth. ’ I

Daring Robbery Al Chicago Jewel Firm Daylight Robbery Os Over $150,000 CHICAGO (UPD—Police held a suspect today in the theft of $150,000 in jewels from a loop diamond firm and the FBI Said its agents found a diamond-ring hidden in the suspect’s sock. Joseph L. Schmit, acting agent in charge of the Chicago FBI, identified the man held as Carl Peter Fiorito, 34, of suburban Niles. He said the ring found in Fiorito’s sock matched a ring stolen Thursday from Raymond Sunshine, manager of the Harry Winston jewelry firm. Fiorito, who was turned over to Chicago police, was seized late Thursday near a North Side, hotel. He denied taking part in the robbery and said he got the ring as security for a loan from a man he met- at Arlington race track. Sunshine, who was slugged and gagged by two robbers, identified the ring as one taken from his finger but was unable to identify Fiorita. Sunshine said he .got a good look at the bandit who gained admittance by posing as a mail man, but got only a glimpse of the second man. The FBI entered the investigation on the supposition that some of the stolen gems would be transported across state lines. Two gunmen, one posing as a postman, slugged, gagged and handcuffed the manager of the office Thursday, then spent half an hour looting a walk-in safe of hundreds of uncut diamonds and other gems. — The manager, Raymond N. Sunshine, 40. said the robber wearing a postman’s uniform appeared at a delivery window with a package too large to fit the opening. Sunshine opened the door to receive the package and the gunman slugged him, knocking him to the floor. A second gunman in street clothes appeared and helped bind the office manager to a chair with handcuffs and adhesive tape. A building maintenance man passing the closed door of the fifth-floor office heard moaning and notified Sunshine’s wife in a beauty parlor on the same floor. Mrs. Sunshine rushed to the office, saw what had happened and pressed a master burglary alarm button. The alarm cut off all power in the 40-story building, stopped the elevators and created a pedestrian traffic jam as crowds gathered in front of the locked elevator doors. Mrs. Sunshine had hoped to trap the bandits in the elevators, but an elevator starter told police he saw two men believed to be (Continued on naxe three) Mrs. Mafie Numbers Dies Al Ossian Home Local Man's Sister Is Taken By Death Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Elzey and Son funeral home, Ossian, for Mrs. Matie Numbers, 81, a native of Adams county and a sister of William Grim, Decatur. Mrs. Numbers died at 8 p.m. Wednesday in her Ossian home, after being bedfast for four months. She was born November 15, 1876, in Adams county, to Uriah and Melinda Merriman Grim. She married Albert Numbers, who died in 1936. She had resided in Ossian 59 years, and was a member of the Ossian Presbyterian church and the Eastern Star lodge. Survivors are two sons, John Numbers, Uniondale, and Roy Numbers, New York City; two daughters, Mrs. Hadley Sparks, Fort Wayne, and Miss Irene Numbers, Ossian; three grandchildren, four great - grandchildren; two brothers, Charles Grim, Bluffton, and William Grim, Decatur; and a sister, Mrs. Edna Deam. Fort Wayne. A daughter, Helen, is deceased. The Rev. Milton Nolin will officiate at the funeral services. Burial will be in Oak Lawn cemetery.

Ike Announces Suspension Is Up To Russia U. S. Prepared To Suspend Tests As Os October 31 % WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower said today the United States is ready to suspend nuclear weapons tests for one year starting Oct. 31 if Russia doesn't resume its tests and agrees to negotiate on a world test ban. The President said that as a result of the recent East-West technical talks at Geneva this country “is prepared to proceed promptly to negotiate an agreement” for permanent suspension of tests and establishment of a control system recommended by the experts. The president said: “If this is accepted in principle by the other nations which have tested nuclear weapons, then in order to facilitate the detailed negotiations the United States is prepared, unless testing is resumed by the Soviet Union, to withhold further testing on its part of atomic and hydrogen weapons for a period of one year from the beginning of the negotiations.” Sets Two Conditions The United States will be ready to open such negotiations Oct. 31, the President said in a special statement. Eisenhower also said this country would be prepared to extend its suspension on a year by year basis upon two conditions. They were that an agreed inspection system was installed and working effectively and that satisfactory progress was being made in reaching agreement on and carrying out substantial arms control measures such as the United States has long sought. The President’s statement was sent to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson in Moscow to hand over to the Russian Foreign Office. It also was sent to-the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Council in Paris; The President noted his longstanding position that suspension of nuclear weapons tests “is not. in itself, a measure of disarmament or a limitation of armament.” But he added that an agreement on a policed world ban on such tests could lead to “more substantial agreements” as to limitation of production of fissionable material for weapons and “other essential phases of disarmament.” Invite U.N. Observers “It is in this hope that the United States makes this proposal,” he said. The President said negotiations toward an agreement on a nuclear weapons test ban “should also deal with the problem of detonations for peaceful purposes." But U.S. officials said that the President did not have in mind precluding atomic explosions for peaceful purposes, such as blasting out a harbor. However, these officials said the United States would invite United Nations’ observers to any such nuclear explosions for peaceful purposes if any are conducted. . Eisenhower welcomed what he called “the successful conclusion” of the Geneva technical talks. Western and Eastern scientists concluded the seven-weeks talks Thursday with announcement of an agreement on an effectiv system for policing a world ban on nuclar tests. The President said the conclusion of the scientists at Geneva indicated that “if there were an agreement to eliminate such tests, its effective supervision and enforcement would be technically possible.” . He hailed this as "a most important conclusion," particularly because Russian experts had concurred. 4 — Russia and Britain are the only other countries which have held (Continued on p*ge tiiree)

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