Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 206, Decatur, Adams County, 2 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 206.

—-—t-*~ —r? r? —— I'”*?; DEATH WORKS OVERTIME ON LABOR DAY— Representative of highway carnage across the nation is this roadside tragedy near Bethlehem, Pa., where two lives were added to the long holiday's death toll. Two male occupants of this car which had gone into a ditch were struck down within feet of their euto as they walked on the highway edge.

County G.O.P. Fails To Fill Election Card

County and township Republic- ; an committees failed to fill a sin- I gle vacancy in Adams county be-’ fore the Sept. 1 deadline, county clerk Richard D. Lewton stated today. A weak state Republican ticket, and strong local Democratic candidates, with a general feeling of Republican inadequacy in the air following a nine-month recession, is believed responsible for the slimmest Republican ticket in many years. Van Hartke, strongest Democra- „ tic candidate since Henry F. Schricker, is expected to lead the Democrats state ticket to their first complete state victory since 1936. In St. Mary’s township, it is believed to be the first time that no ' "Republican has been on the tic- ] ket for trustee. The last Democrat ! to hold the office before Letter i Bruner was Orlen Fortuney, who j defeated Harry Raniels 245 to 168 < in 1930 and Mrs. Susan Bowen by 87 votes in 1926, for two terms. ( t In JLie sheriff’s race, never i won by the Republicans, it is the ] first time a candidate has been un- 1 opposed since 1948 when no GOP ; candidate filed against Herman Bowman. From 1914 to 1948 the ( Republicans had a candidate for 1 sheriff every election. Only county races will be the two commissioners posts, held now | by Harley J. Reef and Roland J. Miller, and for county assessor, { in which office Walter Koos is the ( incumbent. Commissioners Hugo Boeger, Root township farmer and a native of this coun- < ty, will oppose Miller, now presi- ] dent of the county commissioners. ] Loren Heller, well-known farmer- j businessman from French town- 5 ship, is opposed in the third com- j missioner’s district by Emily Stauffer, of Hartford township. { On the district ticket, W. Robert * Fleming, former U.S. commission- ; er, is opposing E. Ross Adair for congress. Burl Johnson, former Adams county sheriff of St. Mary’s township, is opposing L. Luther I Yager, Berne mortician, for state representative. iCoii •« 3" -.aere five) County Councilmen Open Budget Study The county council met this morning for the first of its regular two-day September session, approving most of the special appropriations asked by the county officers. This afternoon, work began on the 1959 budgets for the county offices, Henry L. Dehner, president of the board, said. Item 600, an additional appropriation of S4BO for clerk’s properties, was blue-penciled from the special appropriations, but the others requested by the clerk and other officers were approved this morning. Before money collected by taxes can be spent, it must be approproated by toe county coun- . oil. The council must also approve budgets for the coming year for r ; all county officers and depart- 1 ments. 1 INDIANA WEATHER I Partly cloudy and warmer, scattered thundershowers likely Wednesday and western half tonight, turning cooler northwest late Wednesday. Low to- . night 58 to 65. High Wednesday ( in the 80s. Sunset today 7:15 p.m. Sunrise Wednesday 6:14 a.m. Outlook for Thursday: j Fair and cool. Low Wednesday j night low 50s north, near 60 , -—south. Highs z. Thursday 60s north, 70s south. T j

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little Rock's Board Delays School Opener Gov. Orval Faubus Handed Setback By Board's Decision LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UPD— The... Little Rock School Board handed Gov. Orval Faubus a setback today and gave this city a two-week “breather” in its Negro integration crisis at Central High School. The board voted 5-1 Monday night to delay Central’s opening until Sept. 15 lest it jeopardize its plea to toe U.S. Supreme Court to hold up integration here until 1961. • The action passed to Virginia the first test of whether there will be integration violence when its schools open nest Monday. A federal judge in Alexandria hears arguments today on the plea of 30 Negro children for an order admitting them to several previously all-white schools in Arlington. Hagerty Angry Faubus laughed Monday when told of a feharp answer by White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty to the governor’s statement Sunday that the White House required him to say in 1957 that integration is toe law of toe land. Asked about the statement, Hagerty said in Newport, R.1., that “You wouldn’t print toe comment I feel like giving.” (Continued on pag< five) Urban Schug Dies Suddenly At Berne Retired Restaurant Man Dies Suddenly Urban (Rex) D. Schug, 64, of 363 Fulton street, Berne, died suddenly at his home at 3 a. m. today following a coronary attack. He had been in ill health since his first attack April 18, and had been hospitalized several times. Mr. Schug was retired having formerly worked with his brother in their restaurant in Berne. A native of French township, he was born October 28, 1893, the son of Rudolph and Mina Reppert Schug. He was a first cousin of Dr. Roland Reppert of Decatur, and an uncle of several area residents. He was married Feb. 1, 1948, at Berne, to the former Clara Ehrsam, who survives. They have no children. Mr. Schug was a member of the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church of Berne, and the American Legion, Post 466. Mr. Schug lived in Detroit, Mich., for a few years. Four brothers and a sister survive: Homer and Nelson of Berne; Oliver, of F6rt Wayne; and Luster, of Pendleton; and Mrs. Tillman Bixler, of Berne. Friends may call at toe Yager funeral home in Berne after 2 p. m. lyednesday. Funeral services will be held at the funeral home Thursday at 2 p. m., the Rev. C. A. Schmid officiating.

U.S. Proposes Cooperation In Space Programs Urges International Cooperation In Plans To Explore Space CHICAGO (UPD — The United States will propose a program of international cooperation in the peaceful exploration of outer space at toe next regular session of the United Nations General Assembly, Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. ambassador to the U.N., disclosed today. Lodge told toe American Legion's 40th annual convention that President Eisenhower has instructed him to include the “important and urgent subject of outer space” at the General Assembly meeting. “Specifically, the United States will propose a program for international cooperation in the field Os outer space.” Lodge did not detail toe “outer space for peace plan” which apparently would parallel, at least in part, the “atoms for peace” plan which President Eisenhower proposed in 1953 and which is being carried on under U.N auspices. But Lodge said the international teamwork envisaged by President Eisenhower could open up “new and brighter horizons” for all humanity. Lodge said outer space is a challenging new frontier opened up by toe advances of science. “The universe through which our world travels each day has no national boundaries,” he said. “The scientists of toe world have much to contribute to the peaceful exploration of outer space. “All of us have much to lose if outer space is subjected to national rivalries. If nations can successfully cooperate in the study and exploration of outer space, new and brighter horizons may be opened up for all humanity.” Lodge study and exploration of outer space “will take man where no hjiman being has gone before” will affect every man, woman and child in toe world, and “can be to their great benefit.” ‘Our new space knowledge” can be applied to medicine, communications, transportation and many other useful fields—including even our knowledge of the weather,” he said. The 3,055 delegates to toe convention settled down to business today after a daylong Labor Day parade. National Commander John S. Gleason Jr. took toe salute from an estimated 50,000 Legionnaires and members of the armed forces Monday in a parade which lasted more than 10 hours. Legion officials had estimated the procession would take 12 to 15 hours but as chilly breezes cut through the marching ranks the pace was speeded up in the early evening hours. Also on toe reviewing stand were Illinois Gov. William G. Stratton, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, sth Army Commander Lt. Gen. William H. Arnold and 10to Air Force Commander Robert E.L. Eaton. Two of toe hottest issues facing delegates today as toe business sessions begin were toe matter of racial integration and propped cuts in the strength of the National Guard. The National Guard Assn, has asked toe help of the Legioft in fighting a proposed cut in toe size of the ghard from 400,000 to 360,000. Three resolutions are up for consideration on toe integration question. Gov. Orval Faubus slipped into Chicago to confer with Legionnaires from his state on the (Continued on page five)

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Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, September 2, 1958

Wild Midnight Naval Battle Off Big Quemoy Island Reported Today

Race Rioting Continues In London Today White Zoot-Suiters And Negro Toughs Rioting In London LONDON (UPD—While zootsuiters battled Negro toughs in toe streets of London's “Harlem” early today on toe third day of the worst race rioting in the city’? • history. At least 10 whites and 8 Negores were injured in frenzied I brawling in the run-down Notting ; Hill district which went on until 4 a.m. Police, derided as “nigger . lovers” by white rioters, arresti ed some 40 persons. Tables at local police stations were piled high with razors, sharpened bicycle chains and blackjacks—traditional weapons of . gangland in a nation where fire- , arms laws are severe and strictly enforced. The rioting, fanned by white resentment of toe behavior of the growing Negro population of Notting Hill, started when gangs of teen-age “Teddy Boys”—zoot suiters—swarmed into the district from the waterfront slums to smash windows and maul Negro passersby. Hurl Fire Bombs The Negroes fought back, hurling bricks and bottles from houses where they had barricaded themselves. A major battle developed around two adjoining houses in one street where some 300 Negroes were bsieged by hundreds of white hoodlums, who showred the buildings with bricks, bottles and “Molotov cocktail” incendiaries. “We’ll fix you niggers!” the white rioters screamed, but despite their best efforts they were unable to set toe buildings on fire. Police forced their way into the buildings about midnight and took away many of the Negroes. In a similar incident, a group of Negroes barrieaded in a house were booked “for inciting violence” when they started shouting insults at the mob and police found they were armed with (Continued on natre rive) Local Man’s Father Dies At Fort Wayne M. C. Baumgartner Is Taken By Death Millard C. Baumgartner, 74, native of Decatur and a well known mason contractor at Fort Wayne, died at 8:45 o’clock Sunday night at his home in that city after an illness of three years. He had his own contracting business for many years and was a member of the Fort Wayne park board for several years before his retirement three years ago because of ill health. Mr. Baumgartner, a resident of Fort Wayne most of his life, was a member of the Grace Reformed church in that city and the Moose lodge in Decatur. Surviving are his wife, Ada; one daughter, Mrs. Juanita Murphy of Tres Pinos, Calif.; one son, Russell Baumgartner of Decatur; four stepdaughters, Mrs. Camelia Gillie and Mrs. Audrey McCoy, both’of Fort Wayne Mrs. Adine Ralston of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Mildred Kohne of Fort Wayne; two stepsons, Gerald and Roscoe Beghart, both of Fort Wayne: two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Ives of Tacoma, Wash., and Mrs. Delphia Kernen of Fort Wayne, and two half-sisters, Mrs. Josephine Larson, in California, and Mrs. Jennie Gehrig of Decatur; two grand- 1 children; three great-grandchil- 1 dren; 14 stepgrandchildren, and one great-stepgrandchild. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday i at the Mungovan & Sons mortuary 1 in Fort Wayne. i

Indiana Slate Fair In Last Three Days Today Governors', Legislators' Day INDIANAPOLIS (UP-D—Gover-nor Handley, Sen. William E. Jenner, four Hoosier congressmen and dozens of state legislators headed the visitors’ list today as the Indiana State Fair neared an end with weather still cooperating beautifully/ It was ‘‘Governors’ and Legislators’ Day” at the fairgrounds ip this seventh day of the nine- , day fair, and the dignitaries assembled for a reception and Itincheon featuring such Hoosier food favorites as ro&st beef and gashed notatoes. Dean Earl L, Butz of Purdue University was master of ceremonies for the luncheon. Among the guests were Reps. Cecil Harden, Earl Wilson, Ralph Harvey and Charles Brownson of the Hoosier congressional delegation. Not a drop of rain has fallen in more than 130 hours during which the fair has run, and if weather has had any deleterious effect on attendance, it was from chilly temperatures rather than heat or precipitation. , More than 63,000 paid admissions were received Monday as Labor Day brought forth a big crowd. .... . An Indiana jie baking champion will be chosen this afternoon, mo£e winners will be named in livestock judging of swine, sheep, cattle and horses, and a Hoosier gladiolus growing champion will be crowned in the horticulture show. A new state horseshoe pitching champion was crowned Monday when Edward Sharp, Mullberry, tossed 79.8 per cent ringers in a playoff to defeat Wayne Nelson, Eaton, four-time champ of the Indiana Division of the National Horseshoe Pitchers Association. For Sharp, it was a goal on uage five) Bierly Speaker Al South Bend Picnic Democratic Picnic Held On Labor Day G. Remy Bierly, candidate for appellate court judge, and Mrs. Bierly, spoke at a Democratic picnic at South Bend Labor Day together with Mayor and Mrs. Vance Hartke. Mayor Hartke of Evanville is the Democratic candidate for U. S. Senator this year to fill the vacancy left when William E. Jenner did not run for reelection. With Bierly and Harke Monday afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Haymaker (Jack is the candidate for state treasurer); and Judge John Gonas, of South Bend, also a candidate for the appellate court. Hartke spoke at four meetings Monday, and used an airplane to fly to the different section of the state. The entire ticket will take their wives and children with them to as many places as possible this year to emphasize the family-type men the Democrats have for candidates this year. Conservative Democrats have been rejoicing over the fact that the radical wing of the party, represented by the Lake county Democrats, has broken with Mayor Hartke, and refused to pay state assessment. The Lake county-Tuc-ker faction has been a thorn in the side of the party, they feel, and many of the old-time Democrats are returning to the state fold this year because of the fine Democratic state ticket. Republicans all over the state have formed Republicans for Hartke clubs, opposing Handley for the senate because of his truthless interferrence in county politics, his desertion of the governor’s office to campaign for the senate against the state constitution, and because of his third marriage after being twice divorced. Bierly will be the main speaker at a meeting of the Whitley county young Democrats Thursday night at Columbia City at 8 p m.

422 Lives Are Lost On Roads Over Holiday Traffic Death Toll Over Estimate But Under 1957's Toll United Press International The last holiday weekend of summer claimed a traffic death toll larger than the National Safety Council estimated, a United Press International count showed today. But the toll was lower than last year, when 443 persons died in traffic during , the Labor Day weekend, and a council spokesman attributed the decrease to ‘‘The greatest united effort ever made by traffic enforcement agencies throughout the country to prevent holiday accidents.” The UPI Tally showed 422 persons killed in traffic accidents from the start of the Labor Day weekend at 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. An additional 109 drownings, 12 persons killed in plane crashes and 78 dead in miscellaneous accidents brought the total holiday death count to 621. California recorded 47 traffic deaths, high for the nation. Texas counted 29, New York and Ohio each 24, Illinois 22, Pennsylvania 20 and Wisconsin 19. Four states turned in perfect records —Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington and Wyoming. The council had estimated the traffic death would reach 420. ‘‘We had hoped our estimate would be way too high,” a spokesman said. Auer Funeral Rites Held This Afternoon 1 Funeral services were held this afternoon for Mrs. George W. Auer, wife of the manager of the Decatur General Electric plant, whc died last Friday afternoon. Services were held at the Zwick funeral home and at the Zion Lutherar church, with burial in Lindenwood cemetery at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Auer is survived by her husband, two sons, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cloyde O. White of near • Ossian, two brothers and two sisters. Mrs. Daisy Krick Is Taken By Death Lifelong Resident Os Union Township Mrs. Daisy Krick, 75, wife of Dennison Krick, of nine miles northeast of Decatur, died at 1:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in critical condition since suffering a heart attack last Wednesday. She was born in Union township July 12, 1883, a daughter of Dayton and Mary Hindenlang-Gause, and was a lifelong resident of Union township. She was married to Dennison Krick Jan. 21, 1900. Mrs. Krick was a member of the Mt. Victory United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Eular (Cleo) Hill of Decatur, Mrs. Harold (Luetta) Corson of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Glenn (Viola) Ray of Muncie; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ben Gause of Willshire. 0.. Will Gause of Spencerville, 0., and Dan Gause of Elgin, 0., and three sisters, Mrs. John Lautzenheiser, Mrs. Clark Agler, and Mrs. Victor Hurless, all of Ohio City, O. Three'sons and one brother are deceased. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home until noon Wednesday, after which thebody will He in state at the Mt. Victory U. B. church until services at 2 p. m. Wednesday. The Rev. Huber Bakner will officiate, will be in the Decatur cemetery.

Iceland Continues Scrap With British Cod War Continues On 12-Mile Limit REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) — Icelandic coast guardsmen boarded a British fishing boat early today, on the second day of the “cod war” over Iceland’s arbi-trarily-imposed 12-mile limit. The British navy said the frigate Eastbourne, on escort duty . with the British fishing fleet, is ’ speeding to the rescue of the ‘ trawler Northern Foam. The announcement said 10 Icelanders boarded the Northern , Foam at about 4 a.m. c.d.t. today. At that hour, the fishing grounds , were blanketed by heavy fog. It ' appeared that the Icelanders ; may have succeeded in cutting out a fishing boat in the obscurity 1 before the escort vessels realized ' what was happening. The Northern Foam is one of ■ some 40 navy-protected British fishing boats which had been ex- , ' pected to violate the 12-mile limit • ’ today. The six coast guard vessels ; comprising Iceland's “navy” were ■ ’ hovering on the flanks of the fish--1 ing fleet, waiting their chance to 1 pounce on a straggler. Resolutions poured into the cap- ! ital today from all parts of the • country indorsing the govern- : ment’s stand and -praising it for 3 sending a “strong protest” of •* Monday’s violation of the 12-mile 1 limit by 11 British craft. Foreign Minister Gudmundur f Gudmundsson said in a broadcast ’ Monday night that the note he , sent to Britain complained that ' the British navy had “violated 1 Icelandic law and sovereignty.” : Iceland recently extended its internationally - recognized 4-mile limit to 12 miles, saying that the waters off its coast are being “over-fished.” Britain refused to recognize the action because it (Continued ot. page five) s i Youth Held Alter rn Entering Building d Ohio Youth Arrested Here Saturday Night r A man identified as Leonard Louis Martin, 20, Lima, 0.. was arrested by the sheriff’s ment Saturday at 10:55 p. m. on U. S. 27 after he was seen runring from the Schwartz Ford company by a worker of that establishment at 10:30 p. m. Harry Deroo had stopped at the Schwartz building late Saturday evening and saw a man run from the building and enter a car parked nearby. Deroo saw the license number of the vehicle and immediately reported it to the city. ; police department. Deroo stated ’ to the investigating officers that 3 a man ran from the west door of ' the building upon his arrival at the company’s lot, and that the ? subject drove away in a car west 1 on U. S. 224. The city police advised the sheriff’s department of 3 the incident and continued investigation of the premises. ’ The sheriff's department followed the taril of the car and found 3 where an automobile had turned . at a high rate of speed onto a county road three miles west of 1 Decatur. Deputy sheriff Robert Meyer proceeded to follow the road until he found tracks leading ' back to U. S. 27. He then saw the ; car driven by Martin and gave pursuit, following him approximately three miles north of Decatur on U. S. 27. Martin was unable to show proper registration to the auto and was brought back to the city police department for ’ questioning of the incident that 1 occurred at the Schwartz com- ’ pany. ‘ City patrolmen Grover Odle and ! Jay Minch and state trooper Dan Kwausneski questioned the young : man as to his whereabouts and he ' admitted he was the man who had ' entered the building. He also • stated that he was A.W.O.L. from • the United States Army and was [ wanted by the military police for 1 the offense. The military police (Continued on page five)

Nationalists Claim 11 Reds Gunboats Sunk Eyewitness States Reds Disrupt Move Os Reinforcements TAIPEI, Formosa (UPI) — The nationalists reported that they sank 11 and possibly 12 Communist motor torpedo boats in a wild midnight naval battle off Big Quemoy island today. But an eyewitness report from the battle scene said Red guns and ships disrupted efforts to reinforce the Nationalist stronghold. A Defense Ministry communique said one Nationalist vessel was hit and towed back to the Pescadores Islands, with 10 men aboard wounded. The Reds resumed their intensive shelling of Quemoy today for the 11th straight day, with almost 2,000 shells fired into the island up to midday. The Nationalists were reported ready for anything. UPI correspondent Charles Smith, the only U.S. wire service reporter on Big Quemoy in the front line of the current vest pocket war, said the deputy Quemoy commander. Maj. Gen. Kao Yang-soon predicted an imminent Red invasion of that key Nationalist defense link but said the Communists would meet disaster in any such try. Smith landed with •eight other correspondents during the height of the naval battle. “Determined and Ready” Smith said Kao pinpointed the islets of Tatan and Erhtan just offshore in Red-held Amoy harbor as the most likely point for the initial Communist thrust. “We expect an all-out attack in the near future,” Kao told Smith. “But we.are determined and ready.” However, UPI photographer Norman Williams, who was aboard another craft during the, sea fight and was forced to return to the Pescadores without landing at Quemoy, underscored Red strength in the area. “I emphasize we could not complete the landing of troops and correspondents because of Communist resistance,” Williams said in a dispatch from his landing craft. He said about 30 Nationalist soldiers, the 8 correspondents and 2 Nationalist navy escort officers managed to get ashore while the remainder returned to the Pescadores. He added that they zigzagged all the way back because of a submarine alert. Before they left Quemoy, they had been buffeted by winds and waves stirred up by Typhoon Grace and attacked by Red artillery and torpedo boats. It was quite an experience, Williams said. And Then Pandemonium “Fire from the torpedo boats started slowly, but built up within five minutes into a heavy attack against us,” Williams said. “Thousands of Red star shells and tracers flew through the sky as the Communists attempted to zero in on our ships. “The tracers moved closer and lighting the night sky while a light rain fell. “Two LCVP2s (landing craft, vehicle-personnel) tied up against our ship to receive the first passengers to debark down the landing nets to go ashore. “Two small landing craft were partly loaded when the Communist torpedo boats opened fire. “Thd attack horn blared on our ship and Capt. Hsu Kwan-ming shouted, ‘Cast off landing boats.’ “Pandemonium followed. “Some of the debarking passengers were crawling down the landing nets when the landing craft pulled away. “Cameras, typewriters and bags dropped into the sea as the men scrambled back up the net.” Williams said his Landing craft then circled in evasive tactics to escape any torpedo attack, while the two partially loaded landing craft pulled away toward Quemoy. The cameras of many of the cor(Cjntlnuod on page five)

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