Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 216, Decatur, Adams County, 13 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 216.

■ ■ -v’ *”“5 ; flm s fl ■ KSfld v. w 9V17 ■• S3F7 - REACTION TO INTEGRATION ORDER—Both sides of the issue reacted to the Supreme Court order that schools proceed with integration in characteristic manner. Arkansas’ Gov. Orval Faubus (upper left) commented only that the decision “was not unexpected.” Little Rock School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom (topright), asked whether Central High School would open on an integrated basis said “that depends on the Governor's action.” In the lower picture. Thurgood Marshall (left), chief counsel of the NAACP, bugs his associate, Wily Branton after the decision was handed down. . • >

Atoms Parley ’ Ends On Call For Controls West Europe Gives Urgent Appeal For Atom Regulations GENEVA (UPI) — The atoms-for-peace conference ended today with an urgent West European call for international atomic regulation to protect mankind from deadly irradiation in the nuclear age. Five-t h o u s a n d atom experts from 69 nations wound up two weeks of matings here with a barrage of speeches, technical papers and reports reflecting both their fears and hopes for the fu ture. A Dutch paper, sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, said “international regulation in regard to radioactive hazards is urgently required.” The Dutch delegation warned of the international hazards inherent in dumping radioactive wastes and of possible accidents to nu-clear-powered ships, planes and power plants. The Dutch report urged study of radiation hazards by a group of experts who would then lay down the basis for an eventual international agreement to minimize such dangers. The Dutch said they had the support of scientists from most major nations, particularly those in Western Europe, for their proposal. The second international conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy which opened Sept. 1 had for its purpose promotion of the exchange of scientific information. It had no power to indorse suggestions such as that made by the Dutch scientists. Two Persons Killed In Headon Collision PAOLI, Ind, (UPI) —Laurence L. Coleman, about 65, Palmyra, and his wife Mamie, were killed late Friday when their car coi- . lided head-on with an auto driven by 16-year-old Rebedca A. Standish, Orleans. The accident happened on a country road about seven miles east of here. The Standish girl’s 15-year-old sister, Elanor, was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital, Louisville, Ky. She was reported in fair condition.

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Decafur High Grid Coaches Are Honored Service Awards Are Made During Game A crowd of nearly 2,000 witnessed the presentation of service awards to coach Robert Worthman, and former coaches Hugh J. Andrews and Deane T. Dorwin by Glenn Hill, representing the Decatur Lions club, at the half of . the Decatur-New Haven football r game Friday night. i The Decatur Booster club, head- - ed by Wilbur Petrie® the art teachi ers of the Decatur Catholic high • school and Decatur high school, and their students, the American ; Legion, General Electric company, , the Decatur Shrine club, the rei tail division of the Decatur Cham- . ber of Commerce, and many other i groups cooperated to make the opening game a big success. Immediately following the half the American Legion color guard I from post 43, comprised of Dee ■ Fryback, Charles Chew,. Robert j Ashbaucher, Fred Bieberich. Joe Rash, Don Cochran and Bill Hunts er, marched on the field, followed ! by five students representing ; school and athletics, and by Rie ■ Decatur high school band. 1 The group stopped on the west 45-yard line. In the northwest ‘ corner of the field stood the hon--1 ored guests, and their wives, i Glenn Hill, president of the Decatur Lions club, and organizer of 1 the committee which made the celebration possible, then spoke. > Hill said, "Welcome, ladies and ■ gentlemen to the first home foot- ■ ball game of the 1958 season. I wish to thank all the organizations and individuals who made this ■ event possible. “Tonight we are honoring three of our city’s leaders—and they are ' very important leaders, for we ■ have entrusted to them our most precious assets —our children. “It is my privilege to speak on • behalf of the Decatur Lions club —and I hasten to add with pride that all of these gentlemen are members of the Lions club. “I feel this is more than just coincidence —for actually these leaders have exemplified the creed of Lionism. “The word ‘Lions’ stands for liberty, intelligence, our national safety. “In their work, in their day-to-day living, in their leadership. Lions Andrews, Dorwin and Worthman have given real meaning to this creed. “I won't be presumptous to thepoint of saying that these men would not have been fine educators and ioaches, if they had not belonged to the Lions club, for of OOontinued on page five)

Faubus Orders High Schools To Be Closed Arkansas Governor Rock Close High Schools LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI)-J Gov. Orval E. Faubus* closure of Little Rock’s high schools in the face of a Supreme Court order to integrate them headed for a test of constitutionality today. The citizen who demanded the test is, paradoxically, a staunch segregationist She is Mrs. Gertie Garrett, wife of a fireman. She al® asked a state court for an injunction to prevent Fabus from closing the schools. He has 20 days to answer the suit. Shortly after Fabus signed a bill enabling him to close the schools, Pulaski County Sheriff Tom Gulley served the governor with a petition for a declaratory judgement on the new law. Being ordered closed, or, in fact, never having opened, did not affect the football taam at Central High, the school that is the crux of the dispute. Central High played West Monroe, La., High Friday night and won its 34th straight game, 20-14. Wants Schools Opened The vice chairman of the school board said that even though the board will obey Faubus it wanted to do what it could to get the schools opened again, “because we are interested in the children, not politics.’’ He indicated the school board is willing for them to be reopened as private schools. Faubus closed all four of Little Rock's high schools—three white, one Negro — late Friday to prevent an “impending violent situation.” At least a by-product of his action was the thwarting of the Supreme Court's orders Friday to integrate them immediately, with Negro students. Faubus also ordered a special election in the Little Rock School District tor Oct. 7 to determine whether the people want them reopened integrated. court. Action Probable But it was not expected that the schools will remain closed to about 4,000 students until after the election. Both the Department of Justice and the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People may go to court in an effort to make Faubus re-open the schools. Ak “Os course that (closure) was one of the possibilities that has been under study.” Stephen C. Bransdorfer, spokesman for the Department of Justice staff in Little Rock, said. “I am sure that our attorneys must have anticipated the possibility of this sort of thing and will be ready to take whatever action is needed,” Clarence A. Laws, Southwest field secretary of the NAACP, said. Ohio Youth Pleads Guilty To Charges Enters Guilty Plea To Burglary Charge Leonard Louis Martin, 20. of Lima, Ohio, pleaded guilty at 2 p. m. Friday in the Adams circuit court before Judge Myles F. Parrish to the charge of second-degree burglary. The case was taken under advisement by Judge Parrish, who will give his ruling at a later date. ‘ Martin was arrested by the sheriffs department August 30 at 10:55 p. m. on highway U. S. 27 after he was seen running from the Schwartz Ford company by Harry Deroo, a worker of that establishment. Martin was put on probation in Lima in May, on two charges of breaking and entering that occurred in January of this year. He stated that he is in the United States Army and is stationed at Fort Meade, Md., and that he is A.W.O.L. from the military service. He also stated that he entered the military service in January of 1956. The Lima court put Martin on a two year probation as a result of the charges filed against him in May. A statement by Martin admitting his guilt in the case was presented to the court by prosecuting attorney Lewis Lutz Smith as evidence. Smith recommended that Martin be sent to a penal institution. The Ohio man admitted the charge after questioning op the matter by the city police, sheriff’s department, and state police, on August 30. | His apprehension was brought (Continued on page five) '

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 13,1958

Ike Appeals Directly To Soviet Premier To ‘ ' I End Chinese Disputes

Demand Russia Disclose Fate Os 11 Airmen Unarmed Transport Forced Down Sept. 2 In Soviet Armenia MOSCOW (UPI) — American authorities demanded today Russia disclose the fate of 11 men missing from the unarmed U. S. Air Force transport forced down Sept. 2 in Soviet Armenia. U. S. Charge d’Affaires Richard E. Davis demanded also the Russians let American experts inspect the wreakage of the C-130 turboprop transport. He asked what arrangements the Russians were making to return the six bodies they admitted finding in the “burned-out aircraft.” The Soviet government formally notified U. S. authorities Friday the plane, carrying a crew of 17 on a radio-survey flight, “crashed” 35 miles north of Yerevan, the Armenian capital. It said the bodies of six men, “evidently those of the crew,” were found in the wreckage. The announcement gave no clue to the whereabouts of the other 11 men aboard the plane. Whn Uie big turboprop transport vanished 11 days ago, U. S. Air Force headquarters in Europe said it had been detached from its regular base in Germany to take part in a world-wide study of radio-wave propagation. It was on the way from Turkey to Iran when it was forced down, apparently after straying across the Russian border. “The aircraft.. .had penetrated far into the airspace of the Soviet Union and crashed on Soviet territory,” Jhe Russian agency Tass said in a report on the note handed to Davis Friday. “The Soviet note stresses that ((Continued on page five) Ford Motor Company To Make Union Offer Weekend Talks Held By Union, Company DETROIT (UPI) — The United Auto Workers headed into weekend negotiations with Ford Motor Co. today with high expectations of a contract offer from the company. It was the first time the union, which also was meeting with Chrysler Corp, today, held weekend talks with the auto companies since contracts expired during the Memorial Day week end. No meeting was scheduled at General Motors until Monday. Although a company spokesman said _ the _ weekend meeting at Chrysler indicated new progress in its talks with the union, the Ford talks held the primary interest. ’ Ford negotiators were attempting to reach a settlement before a Wednesday deadline set by the union for a strike. r Ford vice president John Sz Bugas confirmed the company would make an offer to the union before the Wednesday deadline but he refused to say specifically that it would come this week end. But union officials were obviously hopful the offer would come, during the week end so the negotiators would have more time to work out any difficulties before, the strike deadline. UAW president Walter P. Reuther made it clear he would not consider a company offer on anything but the union’s four basic demands as a valid offer. These objectives include improvement of the union’s supplemental unemployment benefit plan to extend the duration of benefits from 26 to 5? weeks; an 11-cent hourly pay hike; a cost-of-living adjustment in pensions /of retired workers, and company-paid moving expenses for workers whose jobs are shifted to new plants.

Monroe Days Will Close This Evening Crowning Os Queen Is Night's Feature The Monroe Days three-day street fair will close tonight with special features of the evening being the crowning of the queen at .9 p. m., and a special event at 10 p. m. Tractor pulls Friday morning •nd afternoon, and the queen contest Friday evening through out a huge crowd. Hugo Bulmahn, of route 2, won the lightweight tractor pull, pulling 165% of the weight of the trac‘tor. Keith Griffiths, of route 2, was second, with 151%, and Robert Ross, Decatur, third, with 140%. In the mediumweight class, John Genth, of near Monroe, was first, pulling 202.69% of his tractor's weight. Dee Byerly of Decatur was second, pulling 198.99%, and Gordon Brodbeck of Monroe was third, pulling 198.86%. The tractor pull was held on the street running north and south past the railroad station. Ten beautitul girls from all parts of Adams county will be present tonigb when the winner in last night's talent contest is announced. 'rhe winner will be qualified to enter the Junior Miss Indiana contest at Blutfton next week. One Adams county girl, Joy Everhart, from Geneva, .is already entered in the contest. Those who are competing lor the title of Miss Monroe Days are: Jeanne Smith, sponsored by the Robin Hood Flour company; Nancy Fuhrman, sponsored by Yost Construction company; Onna Lee Barkley, sponsored by Barkley Construction company; Sharon Sheets, sponsored by the Decatur (Continued on page six) Heavy Rainfall Is Continuing In Texas Clear Weather Over Majority Os Nation United Press International Heavy rain continued x to wash the Southwest, partly as a result of colliding warm and cool air masses, but skies over most of the nation were clear early today. A Canadian air blanket hung over the northeastern third of the nation, with temperatures skidding to the 40s and 50s as far south las the Ohio Valley and into South Carolina. Thundershowers were scattered over the southern half of the Rockies and the southern plateau region, with Phoenix, Ariz., reporting an inch and a half of rain and Douglas, Ariz., nearly an inch. A few scattered showers continued to fall along the edge of the cool air in amounts ranging from Georgia to New Orleans and from traces to nearly half an inch southward into Florida. In the Northwest cool air dropped temperatures as much as 10 degrees, and readings in the 50s were common in the northern Rockies and .throughout Washington and Oregon. Temperatures remained generally in the 70s in the Southwest, except for desert areas whr occasional readings in the 80s were rported. Southerly winds carried i the warm air into the Dakotas in | the wake of a cold front which slid off across the Great Lakes. ! A warming was expected to take place over the Atlantic Coast today from Maine to Georgia, and warm air from the Southwest was expected to flood the Mississippi Valley. Continued cool readings were on tap for the northern Great Lakes. INDIANA WEATHER Fair with warming trend through Sunday. Low tonight in 50s. High Sunday mid-80s. Outlook for Monday: Fair and warm over moot of state except some showers and turning cooler northwest by late Monday. NOONEDITION

Convoy Lands Some Cargo On Quemoy Island Convoy Escorted By i American Destroyers Lands Part Os Cargo TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD — A l U. S.-escorted Chinese convoy, braving “heavy” Communist gun- ' fire, delivered “some” cargo to Red - blockaded Quemoy Island before dawn today, it was announced here. There was no report of casualties or damage to the convoy or its American escort destroyers. 1 A spokesman at U. S. headquarters said four LSM's spent 23 minutes on shell.- pocked Liao Lu ' Beach, unloading cargo for the ( beleaguered Quemoy garrison. He 1 did not say how much cargo got ashore. 1 U. S. destroyers escorting the 1 convoy remained outside the threemile limit, as required by standing 1 orders. ' The supply ships apparently 1 slipped into the beach sometime ■ before 5:10 a. m., when artillery : on the Red-held coast began a 5 “saturation barrage” of Liao Lu. t Beach Chopped Up , The Defense Ministry said Red s batteries hurled 7,035 shells at the landing beach in 50 minutes, r averaging well over two shells a : second. ; The beach was so badly chopped " up by the bombardment that a 1 two-engined C-46 transport which - had hoped to land 13 passengers ' on the Liao Lu airstrip at 7 a.m. 1 had to turn back. Passengers abroad the plane included at least three U. S. newsmen—columnist Joseph Alsop, Jim Bell of the New York Times and Keyes Beech of the Chicago Daily News. Also on board was Ralph Harwood, a U. S. aid official. Other passengers included six Chinese soldiers and a Chinese nurse. The plane was recalled before it reached Quemoy, as a result of reports that the landing strip was } unusable. The transport itself was t (Continued on page six) ’ Midwest Democrats ; Cheer Harry Truman I [ Republicans Cause Loss Os Confidence i OMAHA, Neb. (UPD—Former t Prsident Harry Truman told a ( cheering crowd of Midwestern Democrats Friday night that fail- . ure of the Republican administraf tion to maintain America’s r international prestige “almost i makes me sick.” i The former chief executive said his concern over this nation’s “de- ■ teriorated” position is so deep that ; “I almost blow up and talk away > that I shouldn’t in public.” ! Truman was reading a Demo- . cratic “indictment” of the GOP record for the last six years. He . said the Republicans have “lost . the confidence of our allies” and "made enemies out of former [ I neutral nations who wanted to be [ our friends.” l "They have allowed the Com- ! munists to make gains all around the world,” the self - described . "retired Missouri farmer” told . more than 2,600 party members 1 at the Midwest Democratic con- ( ference. [ In asking for a greater Democratic majority in the next Coni gress and for election of a Democratic president in 1960, Truman praised the ‘ party’s “young senators” and singled out two who were on the platform with him. John F. Kennedy (Mass.) and Ralph Yarborough (Texas). Sen. Estes Kefauver, (Tenn.),, favored by Nebraska primary election voters for the presidency in 1952, also was on the Omaha Civic Auditorium platform and gulped visibly when his name was left out.

Lions Speaker PaUl F. Hoff, controller of General Telephone Co. of Indiana, will be the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Lions club Monday evening. Ten Trafiic Deaths Recorded In Indiana Two From Fort Wayne Killed Friday Night Ten persons were killed in IndiL ana traffic in the ; first 14 hours of the weekend, and authorities believed it was the most deadly ’ rash of accidents in 1958. Two doable - fatality accidents [ were among eight fatal wrecks ( occurring Friday night after the ( 6 p.m. counting period began, and . in the first eight hours of this morning. The latest victim was Robert . C. Rencenberger, 65, an East • Chicago Roosevelt High School i teacher. He died two hours after I his car was struck from behind i by one driven by Richard W. ; Meyers, 23, Omaha, Neb., on the • Northern Indiana Toll Road two miles west of the LaPorte inter- . change. Myers was held on a reck- ; less driving charge. Evelyn M. Slaughter, 31, and , EsteU Clay, both of New Albany, 1 were killed this morning when their automobile collided near Charlestown on Ind. 3 with a milk truck driven by William B. Bower, 51, Marysville. Bower was hurt slightly. The latest deaths raised to at least 17 the number killed on Indiana highways and streets in about 48 hours. Five persons were killed in two accidents within half an hour Thursday as the fatalities, which have been running about 100 below last year’s total, spurted in a stretch of fair weather. Also killed this morning was Patrick C. McCristal, 72, Gary, who walked into the path of a car driven by Coris V. Dettrow, 38, Chicago, on U. S. 41 in Lake County. Herman H. Pollien, 55. St. Louis, Mo., was killed this morning on U. S. 41 near Rockville when his big truck was struck by an automobile apparently traveling on the wrong side of the road. The car was driven by Walter L. Coleman, 26, Bridgeton, who was injured. Pollien’s truck swerved out of control and plunged into a ravine, and Coleman's hit smashed into a bridge. Four accidents Friday night killed two persons near Fort Wayne, a man at Brownstown, a woman near Winamac and a man near Goshen. William Laflin, 47, and Francis Farber, 14, Fort Wayne,, were killed when their car sped through a stop sign at a county road intersection near New Haven and smashed into a tree while being pursued by Allen Comity deputies. Sheriff’s offices spokesmen said the chase reached speeds of more than 100 per hour. Mrs. Fannie Krutz, 77, Indianapolis, mother-in-law of Mrs. Malvina Krutz, victim of a bizarre unsolved slaying in Indianapolis earlier this year, was killed and her son, Charles, 49, the slaying victim’s husband, was injured critically in a car-truck collision near Winamac. (Continued on page five)

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Urges Russian Action To End Military Move Asks Khrushchev To Urge Chinese Reds To End Operations NEWPORT, R.I. (UPD—President Eisenhower today appealed directly to Soviet Premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev to urge Chinese Red leaders “to discontinue their military operations and to turn to a policy of peacefill settlement of the Taiwan (Formosa) dispute.” In a 700-word letter to Khrushchev. Eisenhower said that if the Chinese Reds “can be persuaded to place their trust in negotiations and a readiness to practice conciliation,” the United States will “strive in that spirit earnestly to the same end.” The United States hopes that an understanding can be arranged through renewed ambassadorial talks with Red China that “will assure that there will be no resort to the use of force” in resolving the Formosa crisis, the President said. Denies Aggression Plans Eisenhower bluntly told Khrush--5 chev that the main issue was ’ whether the Chinese Reds would P rt accept the vital requisite of’ moral peace and order in a nuclemr s age and renounce the use of force s as a means for satisfying their , territorial claims.” He said the j off-shore islands never have been . under control of the Chinese Reds. The President warned that U.S. military forces were in the For1 mosa area to fulfill commitments J to Nationalist China to assist in 1 defense of Formosa and the Pes- ’ cadores Islands. ' “They are there to help resist aggression—not to commit aggres- ! sion,” the President said. ’ “No upside-down presentation such as contained in your letter ’ can change this fact” Eisenhower’s letter was in reply 1 to a letter from Khrushchev re- ’ ceived here last Monday. Khrush- ‘ chev accused the United States ’ of aggression in the Formosa ' area and called for the al of all U.S. armed forces now ’ there, and said any attack on Communist China would be con- ■ sidered an attack on the Soviet Union. Blames Reds for Tension Without replying directly, the President made clear that he has ; no intention of pulling out the ' U.S. forces until the Chinese Reds cease their aggressive military moves and agree to a negotiated settlement of the crisis. 1 It was the third major U.S. warning in 10 days against any attempt by the Chinese Reds to take the Nationalist-held offshore islands by force. The President agreed with Khrushchev that the Formosa Strait situation was “dangerous.” , gisenijower disagreed as to ' “the source of danger in this situ- ; ation.” “The present state of tension in the Taiwan area was created directly by Chinese Communist action, not by that of the Republic ’ of China or by the United States,” the President said. He said the Chinese Reds, fol- ; lowing a long period of relative ’ calm in the Formosa Strait, without provocation suddenly initiated 1 a heavy artillery bombardment of Quemoy and began harassing the regular supply shipments to the civilian and military population of the Quemoys. OCbntinned on page five) ONLY *fl j| 14 DAYS LEFT TO REGISTER TO VOTE NOV. 4