Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 211, Decatur, Adams County, 8 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 211.

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Second Revolt - Attempt Fails In Venezuela 23 Persons Killed As Revolt Against Government Fails CARACAS, Venezuela (UPD— The second attempt in six weeks to overthrow the Venezuelan government killed 23 persons and wounded more than 100 in hourslong street fighting here Sunday. A government communique said the revolt, led by a small group of officers of the military police, was brought quickly under “absolute control.” An aide to Provisional President Wolfgang Larrazabal said a "confused” situation and the anger of a loyal throng of civilians gathered outside the Presidential Palace contributed to the large number of casualties. The army, navy and air force refused to join the revolt and it soon began to collapse. The police marched back into their barracks and the revolt was just about over when civilians, summoned into the streets by government officials, gathered in front of the palace. Fire On Crowd There they taunted the rebels and shouted “traitors” at the barricaded police. The rebels replied with gunfire, felling many. The arfgry civilians, some of whom had been armed with machetes, finally swarmed into the barracks and the police surrendered. Rebel leader Lt. Col. Juan de Dios Doncadfl was granted asylum in the Mexican Embassy. Military police chief Maj. Vivav Ramirez and a third mutinous officer escaped to another foreign embassy. Junta member Arturo Sosa said the No. 2 rebel, Maj. Jose Hely Mendoza, had been arrested. President Away Larrazabal was visiting Cumana, 200 miles away in eastern Venezuela, when the rebels marched out of their barracks before dawn, seized the Caracas radio station and surrounded the flores palaces. — The rebels were reported displeased with Larrazabal’s recent moves granting more freedom to leftist political parties. He came to power in a military coup that overthrew dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez last January. Young Democrats To Usher For Rally " Ten ushers from the Adams county Young Democrats have been chosen to aid in handling the crowd at the Truman-Hartke rally to be held in Fort Wayne at the Coliseum Thursday night, Harry Hebble, Jr., president of the Young Democrats of Adams county, said today. Those chosen for the honor were Jay DeVoss, Patricia Cook, Shirley Fenstermaker, Ronnie Myers, Larry Macklin, Mike Affolder, Bobby Heller, Nancy Bollenbacher, Robert Harris, and Robert Frauhiger. A few free tickets for speech by former president Harry 9: man which will follow the banquet' are still available from Dr. Harry H. Hebble, the Young Democrat president said. Tickets are also available through the Young Demofor the reception for Truman and Mayor Vance Hartke, Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate.

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Mississippi Choir Girl Miss America Mary Ann Mobley Is New Miss America ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. (UPD —A brown - eyed Mississippi choir singer, who was named Miss America Saturday night, set out today to collect the fortune that goes with the title. Mary Ann Mobley, 21. Brandon. Miss., college senior, who never had a date until she was 16 years old, became the first Mississippi entrant ever to win the beauty title shortly before midnight Saturday in a nationally televised finale to the week-long pageant. “I used to be the biggest tomboy you’ve ever seen,” she later told a press conference. “I had long pigtails and " I wore braces on my teeth for four years. I was 16 when I had my first date.” Broadway Her Goal Miss Mobley, who wants to sing and dance on Broadway, won the coveted title over 52 contestants from 46 states, the cities of Washington, D. C., Chicago and New York, and Alaska, Hawaii and Canada. She weighs 114 pounds and measures She won a total of SIO,OOO in scholarships, $15,000 in clothes, furs, an auto and a television set, and the opportunity to earn a small fortune during her year-long reign. A total of $38,000 in scholarships was given to the 20 top winners among the 52. First Stop New York The runners - nip for Miss America were: Miss lowa, Joanne Lucille MacDonald, 20, of Ames, a $3,000 scholarship; Miss Oklahoma. Anita Bryant, 18, of Tulsa, a $2,500 scholarship; Miss California, Sandra Lee Jennings, 18. of Riverside, a $2,000 scholarship, and Miss North Carolina, Betty Lane Evans, 18, of Greenville, a SI,OOO scholarship. The first stop for Miss Mobley after Atlantic City was New York City. There she will be fitted for a complete wardrobe and furs and make the necessary business arrangements for a year-old beauty reign. u-.v ju page six) Manley Child Dies Early This Morning Three-Year-Old Roy Is Taken By Death Eugene Richard Manley, three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Richard Manley, of two miles east of Decatur, died at 1 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. The child had been ill since Thursday. He was born in Decatur Dec. 13. 1954, the son of Richard and Mildred Knittle-Manley. Surviving in addition to the parents are three brothers, Michael, Timothy and Marvin Manley, at home; two half-sisters, Cindy Sue Felty, at home, and Patricia Jaurequi, of Indianapolis; a half-broth-er, Buddy Dean Smith of Decatur, and the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Frank Knittie of Decatur. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Four Federal Courts Site Os School Fights School Segregation Battle Continues In Federal Courts Unitd Press International Four federal district courts in the South were the scenes today of the continuing battle of segregated schools. In some cases it could mean a showdown between state and federal law. The federal-state fight over integration was not confined to the schools. A struggle over voter registration arose in Georgia. .There also was an indication the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People would ask a federal court to break a strike of white students that frightened 13 Neeroes out of a school at Van Buren, Ark., and restored a segregated status. District Judge John Paul, convening his court in Harrisonburg, Va.. said he would sign an order today compelling Warren County to open its only high school to Negroes in the face of a state law closing integrated schools. He also promised to review the applications of 33 Negroes turned down in their efforts to enter white schools in Charlottesville. No Effect This Year The school boards of Richmond, ) Newport News and Alexandria i also were caught in the tug of i war between the federal courts and state authority. Today was the customary time for filing motions in all three district courts involved, but it appeared none of ’ the cases would be decided early j enough to affect this year’s seg- . regated status. . Newport News had been subject to a September desegregation - deadline, but it appeared the city ; would gain a year’s delay through a technicality — the fact the mu- . nicipality has merged with ad- ■ joining Warwick since the case I was filed. ; At Van Buren, Arkansas’ second [ racial hot spot. NAACP attorney • U. Simpson Tate of Dallas, Tex.,’ said he would ask a federal judge to take action against the 60 white boys whose demonstrations appar- ’ ently caused 13 Negroes to stay i away from the high school Friday ; for their own protection. ■, Defies Government The federal government faced ; the defiance of a Superior Court ’ judge in Terrell County. Ga., ' where federal authorities were investigating alleged abridgement of 1 Negroes' voter registration rights. Judge Walter I. Geer has ordered ' all voting records be withheld ' from federal agents. In Atlanta, prize-winning United Press International newspictures manager Jack Young said he was ' “still waiting” for the return of camera equipment confiscated by (Continued on page five) — ! Explorer Scouts f ! Plan Field Days Scouts From Three Counties To Attend - Adams, Wells, and Jay county : Explorer Scouts will hold a field : day competition at Pine Lake near - Berne Friday, Saturday, and Suni day of this week, it was announced today by John Carlson, scout executive. Units may check in any time after 5 p. m. Friday for the threeday event. The registration fee of 75 cents will cover cost of patch and no-skeet shooting. Only Explorer Scouts will fee permitted to attend—no Boy Scouts. Each unit must come with its own leadership to serve as officials at the competitive events. Senior crew leaders will have charge of the groups during the . events. Cooking will be done by chars coal, as no open cooking fires will 5 be permitted. No charcoal will be . available, nor will any food be j found at tly» site. This will be a wilderness-type program, and units must plan their food and ' equipment in advance. Events will include a pack-car-rying relay, (4 men, 25 pound pack); canoe races, canoe burling, ■ no-sheet, archery (distance and 1 accuracy); fire by flint and steel, 5 log-sawing, and swimming races. INDIANA WEATHER Fair, a little cooler tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer. Low night 48 to 57. High Tuesday 79 t to 84. Sunset today 7:06 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:20 a.m. Ont- > look for Wednesday: Partly 1 cloudy and warmer with chance of light showers north. Lows I Tuesday night in the 50s north to low 60s south. Highs Wednesday in the 80s.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, September 8, 1958.

Communists Bombard Quemoy Islands, One Nationalist Ship Sunk l

■ U. S. Ignores Warning From i Chinese Reds I Defense Officials Say Seventh Fleet ;, To Continue Convoy WASHINGTON (UPD—U.S. De- ' sense officials today ignored a i new warning from Red China and said the 7th Fleet will continue i convoying supplies to the Chiiiese ■ Nationalists on Quemoy“as long as necessary.” At the same time, Washington officials viewed the renewed Red i Chinese bombardment of the Que- ’ moys as a defensive “face savi ing” device by Communist leadrs who are showing willingness ■ to negotiate rather than risk war. ; They awaited intelligence estimates from the area, however, before making a firm evaluation of ■ the situation. U.S. officials also were cautiousi ly hopeful over the statement of i Chinese Communist Party Chair- ’ man Mac Tse-tung that ambassai dorial talks on the crisis might produce “some results.” They • said however that no slackening ’ of military alertness bj U.S. forces or the Nationalist Chinese I in the area is yet justified, particularly since Red bombardment ac- . tivity has resumed. • Defense officials said the con- ! voying might come to an end if \ the Communists “call off their ag- ' gressive activity” and resume talks at the ambassadorial level in Warsaw. I An official acquainted with military plans in the Far East said: “To the best of my knowledge we ’ will continue the convoying as r long as necessary.” A pentagon spokesman also said I “status quo prevails” in the situaI tion and the United States has no intention of recognizing Red i China’s attempt to extend terri- , torial control to waters 12 miles j around the mainland. ■ The new Communist warning was made as the Chinese Reds began shelling all 14 islands in the Quemoy group after a threeday lull. A Red broadcast termed it a “punitive bombardment.” No ships of the U.S. fleet were in the area during the attack. The new developments came after hope rose during the weekend that negotiations rather than bullets would settle the Formosa Straits crisis. Red Chinese leader Chou Enlai suggested diplomatic talks and ' President Eisenhower promptly I announced the United States wel- ’ comes suchjj development. The Whitehouse said that U.S. ■ Ambassador to Poland Jacob D. 1 Beam was ready to meet with a Red Chinese envoy in Warsaw. ■ ■ - i Hospital Shows Loss ; In Month Os August Operating Loss Is k Shown Last Month ! The Adams county memorial hospital lost $610.50 for the month of j August, Thurman I. Drew, hospital , manager, said today. j The hospital had an operating ( cash balance of $9,793.21 when the I month opened, and $22,992.40 was I taken in by the hospital and deposited. Bills for the month totaled $7,- . 446.09, and the payroll was $16,l 156.81, for a total expense of $23.- . 602.90. I The cash operating balance for , September 1 was $9,182.71. There were 33 adults and four babies present as patients on August 1, and 174 patients were admitted and 65 babies were born during the month. A total of 166 patients and 64 babies were dismissed, and seven patients died. There were 34 patients and five babies present on September 1. Os the new babies born, 30 were boys and 35 were girls. There were 315 persons treated as outpatients in the emergency room, X-ray room and laboratory.

■» — Central Soya Builds New Wing For Office Will House Offices Os Administration Work will begin this week, possibly late today, on a new wing of the present engineering and technical headquarters of Central Soya abmpany at the local plant, Tom H. Allwein, plant manager, said today. i The new wing, which will give Ole building an H-shape, will house «ie offices for the administrative department of the local plant. Aetna! office space will be in the Hwhich will be parallel to the present engineering and technical departments. Connecting the two will be an entrance facing on Second street, forming the bar of the H. | The offices will house 56 office 4ersonnel, including those from the auditing, accounting, traffic, personnel, order and credit, and manager’s office. The old building which now houses the administrative staff will be used by those who formerly had office and room space in the feed mill, including the workers’ wash rooms, locker rooms, superintendent’s office, guard office, lunch room, and several others. With construction starting this week by Bultemeier Construction Company, builder of the original building last winter, the plant hopes to be able to move into the new office by Feb. 1. The new construction will also include a large parking lot behind the building for department employes, and a smaller parking lot in front for guests. The new engineering and technical building was completed before March 1, and about 30 workers from the company’s engineering and technical departments moved from offices in the old sugar warehouse to the new air-conditioned location that day. Soon after, the old warehouse was razed, and this summer huge new silos were built on that location. Details of the construction contract, including the cost of the new building, were not made public. Four Accidents In County On Saturday No One Injured In Series Os Wrecks Several persons escaped serious injuries as a result of four accidents investigated by the sheriff’s department and the state police that occurred in Adams county Saturday. A car driven by Roy A. Litchfield, 18, Decatur, and owned by Karl E. Snyder, route two,, Decatur, was considered a total loss after it struck two telephone poles and knocked down several feet of fence on the Marcus Schuller farm. The driver missed a curve on county road 8 and struck some brace posts of a fence, then struck a telephone pole, the fence, and struck the second telephone pole before coming to rest approximately 144 feet from the start of the skid. The accident occurred near the intersection of county roads 8 and 36 approximately three miles West of Decatur.. Damage to the telephone poles was estimated at $250 and SIOO to the Schuller fence. The sheriff’s department investigated the accident. Litchfield was arrested for reckless driving and appeared in mayor’s court today at 10 o’clock to the charge.. He was found guilty of the offense and was fined $16.75. Riding with Litchfield were Larry Walchle, route five, Decatur, and Alvin Hackman of Decatur. The sheriff’s department and state police were called to the scene of an accident at 2:55 p.m. one half mile north of Geneva on. U. S. 27. A car driven by Earl W. Wittwer, 38, Berne, ran off the road, up a 20 foot embankment, 60 feet down tConUnued on (>•«• aU)

Tax Adjustment Board Makes No Cuts In Levies Board Meets Today, No Changes Made In Tax Rates Here The seven-man board of tax adjustment met this morning, and approved all taxing unit rates for Adams county. Persons still de-1 siring tax rate adjustments must now appeal to the state board of tax commissioners, who will send a representative here for a hearing, if desired. Brice Bauserman, of- Berne, was named chairman cf the meeting, and William L. Linn, of Decatur, was named vice-chairman. County auditor Edward F. Jaberg served as secretary. Members of the board are Linn, representing the trustees; Leon Neuenschwander, representing the county council; Robert D. Cole, as 1 mayor of the county's largest city; 1 and* four appointees of circuit ’ court judge Myles F. Parrish: 1 Charles Langston, of Decatur; Bauserman, of Berne, Louis Rein- > king, Sr., of Preble; and Clarence ‘[Shepherd, of Geneva. I County auditor Jaberg will now 1 figure the official tax rate for each : taxing unit, and advertise it, so that everyone may know what the 3 rate will be for next year. 1 Unofficial rates, as figured out ’ here, are listed as follows; Deca--1 tur-Washington, $5.57; DecaturRoot, $5.91; Monroe-Monroe, $4.72: ’ Monroe-Washington, $4.82; Berne, “ $5.72; Geneva, $5.46. 1 Blue Creek, $2,81; French, $4.13; I Hartford, $3.13; Jefferson, $3.39; 1 Kirkland, $3.76; Monroe. $3.75; Preble, $2.42; Root, $3.19; St. Mary’s, $3.36; Union, $2.28; Wabash, $4.45: Washington, $3.89. (conttnueo on MMW Heart Attack Fatal To Charles Miller Former Resident Os Decatur Dies Today Charles (China) Miller, 70. former resident of Decatur, died unexpectedly at 7:56 o’clock this morning at St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, of a heart attack suffered a short time earlier at his home in that city. He was born in Adams county Feb. 14, 1888, a son of Elmer and Anna Mary Burrell-Miller. His wife, the former Leia Jackspn, preceded him in death in 1936. Mr. Miller was an automotive mechanic for the Holthouse Auto ’ Sales in Decatur until 1925, when ' he moved to Fort Wayne. Surviving are one son, Robert W. Miller of Dfcatur route 3; one daughter, Mrs. Harry (Marjorie) ‘ Hahn of Wichita, Kan.; one grand- ‘ son. Fred A. Miller; two brothers, j True L. and Richard W. Miller, , both of Decatur, and one sister, ’ Miss Ireta Miller, also of Decatur. , Funeral services will be conduct- ’ ed at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the . Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Em- . mett Anderson officiating. Burial ’ will be in the Decatur cemetery. , Friends may call at the funeral i home after 2 p.m. Tuesday until ' time of the services. ’ ______ Mechanical Failure Turns Water Off Sunday ' AU the water in Decatur was off about 45 minutes Sunday afternoon due to a mechanical failure at the treatment plant. Mayor Robert D. Cole announced today. Sunday afternoon reports flooded the water plant that water was off. .A'float which automaticaUy turns on and off flow of water from the wells was found stuck towards the top of the tank. It was moved manually downward until water again flowed. It wiU be checked today to find out what "was wrong.

Maine Election In National Spotlight Today Is Last Early Election In Maine PORTLAND, Maine (UPI) — Maine voters balloted today and gave the old saying “As Maine goes, so goes the nation” one final fling. This is the last of the early Maine elections. After this year Maine junks its famous early voting date, the second Monday in Septenjber, apd votes with the other states in November. L No one Who has studied the tables of Maine and national elections returns over the years takes the old adage seriously. It has been discredited much too often. However, national election observers are looking to the Maine voting for one principal clue — will light be shed upon voters’ reaction to charges of influence peddling in Washington? GOP Sen. Frederick G. Payne is a candidate for reelection. His opponent is the popular two-term Democratic governor, Edmund S. Muskie. Accepted Favors Payne, like Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, has admitted accepting favor s from Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Payne received a vicuna coat, hotel accommodations and a $3.- , 500 interest free loan when he , was buying a house in Washington. Another question is whether the Democratic trend in normally Republican Maine will continue. The key, again, is the MuskiePayne contest. Muskie, 44, is the symbol of the Democratic resurgence. Payne. 58, is calling for party solidarity behind his candidacy. Muskie became Maine’s first Democratic governor in 20 years in 1954 with the largest vote ever given a candidate for governor in the state. Vote For Governor If Muskie wins today he will be the first Maine Democrat to sit in the U. S. Senate since 1911. A Republican ex - governor and former ambassador to Pakistan, Horace A. Hildreth, _ is trying again for election a*s governor. His opponent is a former Inter.iContinued on page tlve) County Republican Leaders Meet Here Dinner Meeting Is Held Here Saturday Sixty-eight people attended the dinner meeting of the Adams county Republican committeemen, held Saturday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. Invocation was pronounced by William Kohls. Mrs. Cleo Linn explained the functions of the election boards and-the changes that have been made in salaries for the workers on the boards. Mrs. Annabelle Heller stressed the importance of registering voters, and of transferring registrations of people who have moved or are new in the precinct. She pointed out that October 6 is the deadline to register in order to be eligible to vote in the November 4 general election. Mrs. Dale Death, Adams county auto license bureau manager, read a congratulatory telegram from Gov. Harold Handley. Following the dinner, Harry Essex, Republican county chairman, introduced the speaker of the evening, Will Parker. of Muncie, brother-in-law of Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker. Parker stressed the importance of the work of the precinct committeemen in politics. He discussed in detail the duties of the precinct committeemen, and suggested many ideas to be used in organizing for the fall election. In closing the meeting. Essex announced there will be a meeting within a few days of all county, township and district candidates.

Red Artillery Opens Massive Bombardment Ammunition Ship destroyed By Red Artillery Blasts TAIPEI, Formosa (UPl)—Communist artillery opened a massive bombardment of the Quemoy Islands today and destroyed a Nationalist ammunition ship which had reached toe offshore islands under protection of the U.S. 7th Fleet. The Defense Ministry said U.S. Navy escort ships convoyed toe ammunition ship and several others to the three-mile limit today but stood offshore and Communist artillery did not fire at them. U.S. convoy vessels stood offshore Sunday when the Nationalists landed supplies. However Peiping Radio reported eight more U.S. warships entered Chinese Communist territorial waters today and said “this is obviously a most dangerous act of deliberate provocation” and that the Red Chinese Foreign Ministry was issuing a second “serious warning.” An official spokesman for the . Nationalist Defense Ministry said ■ today's shelling might justify NaJ tionalist retaliation against the - mainland. The Nationalists warned this weekend that bombers - would attack Red artillery posif tions if the bombardment resumed. v Jets in Diving Battles ! Nationalist Sabrejets escorting • I supply vessels to Quemoy shot ’, down seven Communist MIGs and damaged two others in the biggest aerial battle of the Formosa Strait “little war.” Only three MIGs of a flight of 12 escaped undamaged. 4 i A Nationalist announcement said 12 MIGI7s approached an equal number of Nationalist Sabres from the rear. The Sabrejet flight leader barked over his radio: “Let’s turn around and get them,” and the battle was on. The jet fought a series of diving battles for eight minutes about 16 miles off the China coast. Capt. Chin Ping-chun followed one MIG in a screaming dive from 30,000 to 8,000 feet and nearly exhuasted his ammunition in furious bursts before he destroyed the Sovitbuilt plane. Capt. Liu Hsien-wu dstroyed two MIGs within six minutes for the only multiple claim. All the downed MIGs crashed into ths sea, some in flames. One Red pilot was seen to bail out. Using the extra speed advantages gained from dives, several Sabrejets closed to within 200 feet of MIGs before destroying them. Near the end Os the battle, the Nationalists said scores of other MIGs took off from nearby Chenghai air base. But the Sabres, with fuel tanks nearly empty, took off for home before the MIG reinforcements could join the battle. Warn of Retaliation The Communist shells rained down on the Quemoy beaches and damaged a landing ship, ’medium (LSM). A second LSM burst into flames after which toe bombardment abated slightly. i Rear Adm. Liu Hoh-Tu, official spokesman for the Nationalist Defense Ministry, called the new Communist attacks “entirely pro- ' vocative” because they came during Peiping-Washington negotiations to reopen peace talks. The Communists made toe same charge of American and Nationalist action and said they were bombarding the Quemoys today in a punitive move to protest “provocative” actions. Peiping Radio also protested joint Sino-American amphibious operations on southern ■ Formosa today as a preparation for invasion of the mainland. It was the first reported ■ shelling since Friday and it came 1 despite warnings in the Nationalist press that further attacks would lead to “massive retaliation” by the Nationalist air force against mainland targets. TheNationalists warned civilians to iContlnuea e« page atx)

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