Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 208, Decatur, Adams County, 4 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 208.

"~ SkKkF ~ ■■'- NO REMORSE HERE— In the wake of bloody race rioting in London's Notting Hill section, a movie cameraman interviews a group of white teen-agers with a watchful Bobby standing by. Asked if they had seen “any Negroes beaten about" the spokesman for the white boys (center) replied: “Beaten about? They need more than that!"

Urges School Boards Ignore Federal Order Virginia Governor Advises Ignoring Integration Order United Press International Racial integration spread in token strength in North Carolina schools today but resistance stiffened in Arkansas and Virginia, two other southern states where the race crisis is very much alive. Virginia uuv. Almond advised school boards in that state to ignore Federal Court orders to integrate schools. He referred specifically to Norfolk where the board has agreed to admit 17 Negroes to white schools. Four negroes were enrolled without incident in previously allwhite schools of Winston-Salem, N.C., today following the admission of seven others to schools in Greensboro and Charlotte Wednesday. Hie Winston-Salem integration brought a sharp reduction in white pupil attendance. Many of them planned to enroll if possible at other schools which are all white; No Protection Asked The Arkansas resistance spread from Little Rock to Van Buren where the high school was boycotted by white students protesting " the admission of 13 Negroes. Only one of the Negro pupils showed up for classes at Van Buren today because of the protests. When school opened Tuesday Negroes were greeted by signs saying “Go Home Nigger.” Police said Negros had not asked the six-man Van Buren force for protection but one Negro pupil told of a white boy who sat across from him in school “sort of honing a switch blade knife back and forth across the palm of his hand.” Reports persisted that federal officials were planning to deputize U.S. marshals for school duty at Little Rock’s Central High but there was no official confirmation. In another Arkansas development, the Right Rev. Robert B. Brown, Episcopal bishop of Arkansas, left for Washington to confer with administration officials on the school situation. Brown organized a “moral force for peace and order” in the state last . year. Delay School Openings The Virginia governor sent a memorandum to school boards of every city faced with integration orders stating that they had been divested of all authority in assigning pupils. He said this now rests with a new placement board and that no Federal Court has the authority to force the school board to assign pupils. In a court hearing on the Arlington, Va., integration orders, a (Continued on Dtae six) Local Lady's Father Is Taken By Death Harry Halderman, 75, died unexpectedly of a heart attack Tuesday in his physician's office in Wabash. He was a member of the Friends church. Surviving are his wife, Hazel, two daughters, Mrs. Donald Hoover of Decatur, and Mrs. Roy Dillman of Wabash: three sons, Byron of Wabash, NJarland of Den- « ver, Colo., and Robert of Peru, and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Eddingfield chapel in Wabash, the Rev. John « Compton officiating. Burial will be in Falls cemetery. 10 Pages

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Complete Transfer Os Banking Records Bank Is Changed To Electronic System The First State Bank announced today that it completed the transfer of its bookkeeping records to electronic equipment Aug. 30 for all checking account customers. Earl Caston, director of audit and operations for the entire bank, stated that the new system will reduce by more than 90% the chance for error in posting checking accounts. All checks and all deposit slips must now be marked with the account number of the depositor or checkwriter before they can be posted. Authorized signatures, of course, must still appear on all 'checks, Caston explained. Under the old system, the bookkeepers had to first post the ledger, then the statement, in separate operations by two different persons.. Now both postings are done by the same person simultaneously on one machine. The old balance is picked up automatically, assuring accuracy of posting. The number on each check and deposit is a double check, electronically; on the system. About a year of preparation was behind the move to change to the new system. More than 20 persons worked ten hours over the weekend effecting the change. In addition to the new electronic equipment, about 18 months ago a proofing machine, which totals large deposits of checks and com(Contlnued on oture five) Mrs. Iva 0. Stuckey Dies This Morning Former Local Lady Dies Early Today Mrs. Iva Odella Stuckey, 75, widow of Rufus A. Stuckey, died at 5:50 o’clock this morning at the Methodist memorial home at Warren. She had been in failing health for several months. Mr. and Mrs. Stuckey, residents of Decatur for many years, had moved to the Warren home several months ago because of declining health. Mr. Stuckey preceded his wife in death July 27 of this year. A native of Huntington county, she was born Nov. 20, 1892, a daughter of Martin and Cora ZellBare. Mrs. Stuckey was a member of the First Methodist church in De« catur and the Order of Eastern Star, of which she was a past worthy matron. There are no immediate survivors. z Funeral services will be conducted at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the chapel of the Methodist memorial home, with Dr. D. C. Souder and Dr. B. M. Bechdolt officiating. Burial will be in the Lancaster cemetery. The body, removed to the Grogg funeral home, will be returned to the Methodist home, where friends may call after 10 a.m. Friday. Funeral Friday For Mrs. Mary E. Beery ' Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Etta Hower Beery, 96, who died last Thursday at Arcadia, Calif., will be held at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home in this city. The Rev. Hazen Sparks will officiate and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will 1 arrive in Fort Wayne late this evening, and friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Friday until time of the services.

— ...... ■ Race Rioting Continues In London Slums Mob OF Negro, White Youths Stages Riot In Congested Slums LONDON (UPD—A mob of Negro and white youths armed with broken bottles clashed in London’s congested slums early today in the fifth straight night of race riots which may bring a crackdown on unrestricted colored immigration. The disturbance was far less severe than the riots in London's run-down Notting Hill district and police quickly broke up the fight and arrested 23 of the brawlers. Three were juveniles under the age of 16. Th fight started when a group of white men and “Teddy Boys” —British juvenile delinquents — converged on a club near Edgware Road frequented by Negroes. A furious free-for-all broke out. Residents of the neighborhood watched from the windows while police rushed up in police cars and trucks and pitched into the youths struggling in the gutters. The youths flung their bottles against the club wall and some tried to flee. Heavy rain staved off other clashes in the Notting Hill slum district where as many as 2,000 youths have been involved in race riots during the week. Police there are heavily reinforced and accompanied by police dogs. Prime-Minister Harold Macmillan strongly hinted Wednesday night Britain’s open - door policy permitting unrestricted immigration of colored persons from other Commonwealth nations and colonies would be changed. “The government has for some time been examining the results of this country’s time - honored practice, to allow free entry of immigrants from Commonwealth and colonial countries,” a statement from 10 Downing Street said. “This study of policy and its effects on employment will continue. Her majesty’s government does not think it right to take long range decisions except after careful consideration of the problem as a whole.” Rain and a strong force of police and police dogs were credited with staving off new clashes between Whites and Negroes in the Notting Hill district. The area had been the scene of fights and stabbings for four straight nights because of racial pressures resulting from competition for housing and jobs. The district is heavily populated by nonwhites, many of them new arrivals from Britain’s colonial areas. Catholic Schools Report Increase Increase Os 63 In School Enrollment The total of pupils enrolled in the Decatur Catholic school numbers 746 for the 1958-59 school year, Sr. M. Almeda, C. S. A., principal, said today. The number this year totals 63 more students over last year. The 1957-58 year report gave a total of 683. Os the 63 new students, 39 are grade school students and 24 are high school pupils. This year, there are 596 enrolled in grade school and 150 in high school. Enrollment by grades in the parochial school for the 1958-59 season as compared with figures from last year includes grade one, 77, down 25; grade two, 102, up 20; grade three, 82, down six; grade four. 88, up 10; grade five, 81, up 13; grade six, 72, up 27; grade seven, 48, up two; grade eight, 46, up two; for a grade school enrollment of 596. The high school total of 150, as compared with 126 last year, includes 43 freshmen, up one; 42 sophomores, up one; 43 juniors, up 21; and 22 seniors, up one. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, turning cooler north portion tonight. Friday partly cloudy, cooler north. Low tonight 66 to 65 north, 65 to 72 south. High Friday 70s extreme north to low 90s extreme south. Sunset today 7:12 p. m. Sunrise Friday 6:16 a. m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair, rather cool north, continued warm and humid south. Lows upper 50s and low 60s north, near 70 south. Highs mid-70s extreme north to low 90s extreme south.

Decatur. Indiana, Thursday, September 4, 1958 £- r*

Blunt New Warning By President Eisenhower To Communist China

Chinese Reds Exfend Limit Os Territory Extend Territorial Limits To Include Quemoys And Matsus TAIPEI, Formosa (UPT)-Com-munist China announced today it has extended its territorial limits 12 miles beyond the coast to take in all the offshore islands, including the Nationalist-held Quemoys and Matsus in the Formosa Strait. The move was disclosed by Radio Peiping, which broadcast a New China News Agency dispatch quoting the text of a statement issued by the Communist Chinese government. It said the provision applied to the waters and islands around mainland China as well as to those around Formosa. In an obvious reference to the United States, which it said “still occupied” Formosa and the Penghu areas, the statement said “no foreign vessel for military use and no foreign aircraft may enter the Chinese territorial sea and the air space above it without the permission of the government of /the People’s Republic of China.” v U.S. Sends Planes Technically, this would bar U.S. planes, ships and men from visiting Formosa and the offshore islands without Peiping’s permission. But practically it will have no effect. since the United States did not ask the Reds’ permission to come here in the first place. The new propaganda move by Communist China came amid these other developments in the Formosa Strait crisis: —The U.S.-Taiwan (Formosa) Defense Command announced that the U.S. Air Force has flown in an undisclosed number of FB6D Sabrejet fighter planes to bolster the defenses of this Nationalist bastion. The hew planes will reinforce about a dozen FIOO Supersabres brought here earlier. —President Carlos P. Garcia announced in Manila that the Philippine republic is ready to support U.S. efforts to deter “Communist aggression” in the For m o s a Strait. —President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles held an urgent meeting at Newport, R.1., to discuss the issuance of a possible new warning to Red China not to start a war in the Far East. LeMay Due Sunday Communist and Nationalist artillery dueled for the 13th straight day at Quemoy today but heavy seas from a tropical typhoon eased for the moment the threat of Red invasion. TTie U.S. Navy also was rush(Ccntlnued on page five) Ralph Buller Dies After Heart Attack Native Os Decatur Dies This Morning Ralph Butler, 50, a native of Decatur, died suddenly of a heart attack at 4:30 o’clock this morning at the Avington memorial hospital in Hatboro, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia. Mr. Butler, an employe of the Dana Corp., in Toledo, 0., was on a business trip to Philadelphia when he was stricken by the heart attack. He was born in Decatur Aug. 16, 1908, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Butler, but left this city a number of years ago. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Bernard Bellisari, and one son, Charles R. Butler, both of Column bus, O.; one brother, Arthur (Bill) Butler of Decatur, and two Sisters, Mrs. J. R. (Ireta) Peterson of Terre Haute, and Mrs. Ross Tindall of Van Wert, O. Funeral arrangements have not been completed, but the body will be returned to the Zwick funeral home here for services.

Enrollments Gain In County Schools i Only Two Schools Report Decreases The enrollment for the start of Jhe 1958-59 school year for _the Adams County schools has been announced by county school superintendent Gail Grabill. Most of the county schools show a moderate increase while two show a very slight decrease on their reports. The enrollment for the six county high schools for the first day of school is the following:! Adams Central The enrollment at Adams Central was 886 for the start of the school year Tuesday, according to'the report given by Grabill. The above figure is 40 more than enrolled at the beginning of school last year. The high school enrollment is 234, 13 over the 221 enrolled last year. The grade school enrollment shows a total of 653. The enrollment by grades as shown at the start of school shows grade one, 101; grade two, 89; grade three, 76; grade four, .78; grade six, 85; grade seven, 72 and grade eight, 67, giving a total of 853. The enrollment in the high school grades is as follows: freshmen 72; sophomores, 58; juniors, 57; and i seniors, 47. Berne \ The Berne-French opening day school enrollment shows 787 or an increase of 54 over last year, as given by the report of superintendent E. M. Webb. The report for the 1957-58 season showed a total of 733 enrolled in the Berne-French school. The high school has 244 students, and the grade school shows 543 pupils are registered this year. The enrollment by grades is the following: first, 79; second, 71; third, 59; fourth, 79; fifth, 57; sixth, 76; seventh, 70; and the eighth, 52. The high school report shows the grades have 63 freshmen, 70 soph- ; Continue® on paxe six) Burglary Defendant Brought Into Court Martin Is Granted Time To Enter Plea Leonard Louis Martin, 20, of Lima, Ohio, appeared in the Adams county circuit court today at 9:30 a. m. for arraignment on the charge filed against him by the prosecuting attorney Tuesday, charging him with burglary. Martin was taken to court by deputy sheriff Robert Meyer, the arresting officer in the case. Judge Parrish advised the young Ohio man of his constitutional rights under bothe the federal and state constitutions, and the statutes of Indiana. Robert Smith was appointed to represent Martin as a pauper lawyer. At the conclusion of the arraignment the defendant was granted a reasonable time in which to plead, either in abatement or at bar. Martin was remanded to the custody of the sheriff of Adams county to be held in the Adams county jail until further proceedings or until the defendant filed a bond approved by the court or the sherriff. The bond set by Judge Myles F. Parrish Tuesday amounted to SI,OOO. Judge Parrish set two other criminal cases in circuit court today. The court has set September 10 at 10 a. m. for the arraignment to tiie case of the state of Indiana vs Roy Litchfield. Litchfield is charged with two counts, that of second degree burglary, and grand larceny. The case of the state of Indiana vs Larry Allen Walchle will appear at the same time. Both defendants will appear in the circuit court to tile charges filed against them for arraignment on this day. Both of the young men were arrested on the charges recently in connection with the theft that occurred at the Decatur Golf course to June.

New Rackets Inquiry Info Teamster Loan Million Dollar Loan From Welfare Fund ( To Land Promoters WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate Rackets Committee opened a new inquiry today into a one-mil--1 lion-dollar loan from a Teamsters Union welfare fund to promoters of a suburban land development. Chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy said circumstanced of the loan and methods used to safeguard the union money would be scrutinized. The loan was made from the Central Conference of Teamsters welfare fund to Detroit promoters Abe Green and Jack Winshall in 1955. Kennedy said Green and Detroit attorney George Fitzgerald would be among witnesses during the half-day session. Fitzgerald was an attorney for Teamsters president James R. Hoffa, who was baciPin the committee’s spotlight now that the committee has ended its investigation of Teamsters vice president Harold J. Gibbons and his St. Louis locals. The committee wound up a weary day-and-a-half of questioning Gibbons, Hoffa’s right hand man, without denting the St. Louis unionist’s insistence he runs a peace-loving, democratic and clean union. Gibbons went so far as to agree Kennedy had made a “good case” for the argument he had violated the union constitution in a Teamsters election last January. But Gibbons said he would not be willing to give up the presidency of Teamsters Joint Council (Continued on page six) Tropical Storm Is Churning Northwest NEW ORLEANS (UPD — Tropical storm Ella churned northwest from the tip of Cuba today at 12 miles an hour, picking up strength and aiming for the Gulf Coast. The U. S. Coast Guard in New Orleans placed its air and sea units on a hurricane alert and off-shore oil crews near the mouth of the • Mississippi River began a full-scale . evacuation. The hurricane alert stretched • from Sabine Pass, Tex., to Apalas chicola, Fla. : Christina Rodger i Dies This Morning 1 Funeral Services I To Be In Chicago Mrs. Christina B. Roctger, 79, of [ 6705 Merrill Ave., Chicago, 111., > died suddenly of a heart attack at t 4:15 o’clock this morning at the > home of her daughter. Mrs. Chalm- ; er Reber, of Decatur route 6, where s she had resided since June 1. She ■ had been in failing health for some I time but death was unexpected. "She was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, Oct. 1. 1879, and was married to Robert Rodger Jan. 1, 1903. The • family came to this country in 1911. Her husband died in 1939. Mrs. Rodger was a member of the Presbyterian church. Surviving in addition to Mrs. 1 Reber are four other daughters, ’ Mrs. Tom Templeton, Mrs. John ’ McCauley, Mrs. Bernard Rogers and Mrs. William Bracke, all of j Chicago; two sons, Alex Rodger of Tinley Park, 111., and Robert Rodger of Springfield, Hl.; four ■■ brothers, one sister, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchil- . dren. The body will be removed late today from the Zwick funeral home . to the Lain funeral home, in Chii cago. Funeral arrangements have . not been completed but burial will • be to Tinley Park cemetery at Ttoley Park, 111.

Indianapolis Council For Daylight Time Vote* For Daylight Time Entire Year INDIANAPOLIS rUPl)—lndianapolis appeared ready today to join an Eastern Indiana area in disregarding law requiring seven months of Central Standard Time. The 1957 state law failed to satisfy either the “slow” time or “fast” time advocates'. Last winter about 25 or 30 Indiana cities and towns gave the statute only token observance. Fort Wayne was the largest of the token observers, but action taken Wednesday night by the Indianapolis City Council indicated the capital would join the Allen County seat Sept. 28. The council voted 7-0 to continue the present Central Daylight Time throughout the seven-month period beginning Sept. 28 and running to April 26, 1959. One member was absent and one abstained from voting. Many smaller cities and towns in the Indianapolis area are expected to follow the capital's lead. Previously the Indianapolis School Board showed signs of following the lead of the council. Also mail received by the Indianapolis city clerk has been heavily in favor of year-around CDT—the same as Eastern Standard Time. The gimmick used by the yeararound fast-time cities and towns has been to set working hours ahead one hour while leaving clocks on the legal time. It was ruled legal, and the penalties prescribed in the law were not invoked against the cities and towns taking such action. Those penalties include withholding of state funds from law violators. In addition to Fort Wayne, Goshen, Huntington, Kendallville and ,Ovntlnueo on page live) Water Works Heads Meeting In Decatur Sewage Treatment Plant Is Inspected More than 85 members of the American water works association, northeastern Indiana district, met in Decatur today and inspected the Decatur sewage treatment plant. A larger crowd than was expected attended, many to see the new plant, which is nearing completion. Mayor Robert D. Cole welcomed the group to Decatur at a noon chicken dinner held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Ralph E. Roop, city engineer, was host to the group. Registration, welcome, introduction and response took place before 10 a.m., and was followed by Harry Harmon, superintendent <?f operations and construction for the Gary-Hobart Water company, and chairman of the safety committee of the Indiana section. Harmon explained the new safety program of the AWWA, and stressed the importance of every department making the annual year-end report concerning accidents in city water plants to the state safety comnyttee. He then discussed many safety problems common to all plants, including shields for eyes and feet hard helmets, protection of workers while in the streets from traffic accidents. This is the first of five similar regional meetings in all parts of Indiana, and the safety program will be explained at all of them, Harmon said. Red water problems, and what can be done about them, were discussed by Prof. Harvey Wilke, of Purdue university. Many colors may show up in water. Prof. Wilke explained, but red and black are the two most prevalent. .Water may turn red, he stressed, from two causes: rusty water pipes or from iron oxides present in the source of water supply. The latter is more common in well water than (Ojntltiued on page Hv«)

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Dulles Slates U. S. Forces Ready To Act Statement Follows Urgent Meeting Os Ike And Secretary NEWPORT, R.I. (UPD—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today that U.S. forces in the Far East are disposed to take “timely and effective” action if President Eisenhower decides that Red Chinese military attacks on the offshore islands endanger the security of Formosa. But, Dulles said, the President has not reached such a finding. The President is authorized by Congress to use military force to defend the offshore islands including Quemoy and Matsu if he finds Formosa is endangered. “Despite. . .what the Chinese Communists say, and so far have done, it is not yet certain that their purpose is in fact to make an all-out effort to conquer, by force Taiwan (Formosa) and the 1 offshore islands,” Dulles said. Dulles' statement came after a one hour and 45-minute urgent ‘ meeting with the President. He ' said the President authorized the 5 statement. With U.S. Support It added up to a stiff and blunt ’ new warning to the Chinese Reds ‘ not to start a war in the Far ; East. ’ In addition to saying that it was not yet certain that the Communists were going to invade the offshore islands, Dulles said neither is it apparent that any such invasion attempts “cannot be contained by the courageous and purely defensive efforts” of the Chinese Nationalists based on Formosa with the “substantial logistic support” being provided by the United States. In clarification of this point, a high U.S. official said that present plans are not to send in U.S. fighting forces to help defend the offshore islands unless the situation should get out of hand. He said the Nationalists wanted it that way and that they had a good chance of holding Quemoy with their 80,000 troops there and without U.S. forces actually entering the fighting. Dulles said that “naked use” ot armed force by the Chinese Reds “to achieve territorial ambitions ... would pose an issue far transcending the offshore islands and even the security of Taiwan (Formosa).” “It would forecast a widespread use of force in the Far East which would endanger «vital free world positions and the security of the United States,” he said. “Acquiescence therein would threaten peace everywher.” The President interrupted his vacation here for the conference on the admittedly “serious” situation in the Formosa Strait where the Red Chinese have been threatening to invade the Nationalistheld off-shore island of Quemoy. (Contlnu-’d oi cage five) Company And Union Agree To Deferment • Os Wage Increases The Decatur General Electric Co. plant announced today that representatives of the United Electrical Workers (Ind.) have signed an agreement with the company to defer the 3.48 per cent wage increase scheduled for Sept. 15, under the terms of the current contract, which runs until 1960. This deferment, a company spokesman said, will permit additional negotiating time until Sept. 30 to discuss company and union proposals, and was offered by the company in order that un--1 ion representatives could fully discuss with their members the extensive array of options among the benefits contained in the com- , pany’s proposed program. i In event the company and the ■ U.E. do not reach final agreement • on this proposal by Sept. 30, the i scheduled wage increase will go into effect retroactive to Sept. ,15.