Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 217, Decatur, Adams County, 15 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 217.

! Ls/"'“‘“”“' SIGNS OF THE TlMES— These six signs of “Warning" stand drying in a sign shop awaiting use by Special U. S. Deputy Marshals when they go into action in the Little Rock, Ark., school integration crisis. The special force of 138 marshals have been receiving special instructions by the Justice Department for integration duty.

Little Rock's High Schools Closed Today Gov. Failbus Warns Os Cold Fury Over Crisis In Capital By AL KUETTNER United Press International High schools in Little Rock, Ark., weife closed today to prevent them from being integrated and Gov. Drval E. Faubus warned that "cold fury" over the racial crisis exists in the Arkansas capiital. By contrast, Florida cautiously but peacefully began school integration with admission of a Negro to the University of Florida Law School. In Virginia one school was closed and eight others faced closing because of integration orders. The Arkansas governor said it is possible that Little Rock high schools, closed by him under a new state law, will remain vacant until a local referendum Oct. 7 on whether the citizenry wants integration or segregation in the schools. Faubus Says Situation Worse _ Faubus disclosed he has alerted state police to help Little Rock city officers in putting, down any disorders resulting from the integration crisis. i He said the sending of 150 U.S. marshals into the city had whipped people into “cold fury.” He said the feeling in his opinion was stronger now than last September when the President sent troops to Little Rock. Faubus said state troopers, called on a “tentative alert” may help the federal marshals if trouble breaks out and the marshals are unable to cope with it. George H. Starke, a well-dressed Orlando Negro, started through the admission process at the University of Florida. He was enrolled under a federal court mandate. Up to Federal Government Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers will fly to President Eisenhower’s vacation headquarters in Newport. R.1., Tuesday to review the school situation with the President. The NAACP did not try to send Negro children to Central High in Little Rock today. It was one of the four city schools closed on orders of Gov. Faubus, acting under a new state law that gives such authority. “There is no sense in the kids OCbntlnued on page five) INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers this afternoon and tonight. Tuesday partly cloudy, some scattered showers likely mostly in south and central. Cooler north Tuesday and in extreme north tonight. Low tonight 57 to 64 north, 64 to 68 south. High Tuesday ranging from the lower 70s extreme north to lower 80s south. Sunset today 6:54 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:26 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and cooler with some showers extreme south. Lows Tuesday night 40s north to low 50s icentral and south. High Wednesday around 70.

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Nancy Raudenbush Is Winner At Monroe Name Jeanne Smith To State Contest Two Adams Central girls were named Miss Monroe Days and runnerup in the first queen contest ever held during the annual Monroe celebration, with the second place winner being certified to enter the Junior Miss Indiana contest at Bluffton this week. Miss Nancy Raudenbush, a sophomore at Adams Central, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Raudenbush, of route one, Willshire, 0., won first place in the contest over the nine other entrants. Miss Raudenbush gave a reading “Katy Did.” She will not be able to enter the Junior Miss Indiana contest because she has not yet reached the minimum age of 16. Miss Raudenbush was sponsored by the Adams county Co-op. Miss Jeanne Smith, junior at Adams Central, and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark W. Smith of route 4, and granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith of Decatur, won second place, and will represent the Monroe community in the Junior Miss Indiana contest at Bluffton Thursday and Friday of this week. Miss Smith, a cheer leader and drum majorette at Adams Central, did a twirling act which had won her honors in national contests this summer, and fifth out of 32 entrants in the state fair. She was sponsored by the Robin Hoed Flour company. The climax of the fair was reached at 9 p m. Saturday,] when Martin Steiner crowned Miss Raudenbush queen, and Miss Smith- was named runner-up. The) winner won a silver wristwatch, ] and Miss Smith was awarded a record player and album. Other contestants won record albums. They were: Miss Onna Lee Barkley, Barkley Construction company: Miss Nancy Fuhrman, Yost Construction company; Miss Carolyn Luginbill, Pleasant Mills Lions "lub; Miss Sharon Sheets, Decatur Music House; Joy Everhart, Stucky Gas & Appliance »f Geneva; Susie Liechty, Lehman Pannbing & Heating of Berne; and Susie Bailer, Linn Grove Hardware. Miss Jeanne Kaehr was ill and unable to take part in the contest. Miss Kaehr was sponsored by the Monroe Grain Elevator. “The most successful fair ever held" was the comment of those who planned the three-day event this year. Large crowds, good weather, and hard work all helped to make the event successful. The committee thanked everyone who worked with them to make the event such a success. Saturday afternoon the finals were held in the heavyweight division of the plowing contest, John Inniger won first place, pulling 297.2% of the weight of his tractor. Irwin Worthman was second, and Gordon Brodbeck was third, edging out Bob Ross by .4 of a point. Two Adams county girls will enter the Junior Miss Indiana contest this week. They are Miss Smith, and Miss Joy Everhart, of Geneva, winner of the Miss Limberlost title this spring. The contest will be held at the Bluffton street fair Thursday and Friday of this week. Thursday the girls will be in a parade at 2 p. m. through the streets of Bluffton, followed by a dinner Thursday evening, and the bathing. (Continued an page eight)

Rebels Fail In

Attempt To Kill French Leader Algerian Rebels In Assassination Attempt In Paris PARIS (UPD— Algerian rebels tried today to assassinate Information Minister Jacques Soustelle with pistols and submachine guns in a daring Chicago-style attack in the heart of Paris. He was cut by flying glass when bullets struck his limousine. Five passersby were wounded in a five-minute gun battle which developed between police and the terrorist attackers at one of Paris’ busiest traffic intersections. One passerby died later in a hospital. Soustelle’s chauffeur was wounded by a bullet but none of the shots fired by three fanatic Moslem attackers hit Soustelle, who is hated by Algerians because of his ruthless policy of oppression against terrorists as governor general. 1716 attack appeared to presage a new all-out effort by the National Liberation Movement (FLN) to carry the Algerian war into Paris itself with a series of spectacular coups that would emphasize their demands for freedom. Three Algerians opened up with revolvers and submachine guns at Soustelle’s car as it slowed for a red light on the tree-lined Avenue Friedland near the Arc de Triomphe. One of the Algerian assassins was shot dead by police. Another was wounded and captured a short distance away from the assassination attempt in the heart of Paris. The third ran into a subway station, where he was captured when an alert passenger tripped him as he ran through the crowds with gun in hand. “We will do all we can to ensure that these dastardly attacks are not continued,” Minister of the Interior Emile Pelletier said after conferring with Soustelle. Soustelle himself issued a statement on the attack: “I was the object, a little while ago, of a terrorist attack which was carefully planned. Several revolver shots and a burst of submachine gun fire were fired at me. The attack demonstrates once more that the FLN, despairing of winning its cause, has had to revert to criminal tactics. .. i “It goes without saying that, in spite of the FLN attempt on me, I will continue my policy on Algeria.” The Algerian Nationalists waited for Soustelle’s car in the heart of downtown Paris. When it paused for a red light on the Avenue Friedland, the Moslems jumped from the sidewalk and opened fire. Police began a city-wide search for the two attackers who fled. It was the boldest Algerian raid to date in the campaign of terror in France and followed a week end of violence in which Algerian gunmen wounded an army captain in Metz and three enlisted men in a Paris suburb and shot at but missed a policeman in Lyons. It was the first time a Cabinet minister had been marked for death since the Algerian terrorists opened their campaign in France last Aug. 25. Soustelle once was governor general of Algeria. He was civilian (Continued <xn patre eigiut) SI,OOO Stolen From Geneva Safe Today Cash, Checks Taken From Geneva Store Nearly SI,OOO in cash and checks was reported stolen from a safe at the Naas Foods, Inc., located in Geneva, some time after 10 o’clock Sunday night and 7 a.m. today. The theft of a safe from the business establishment was reported a short time after 7 o’clock today to the sheriff's department by the Geneva marshal, Preston Pyle. The sheriff's department stated that the thief or thieves entered the building through a window located on the east wing. Upon entheir entrance to the building, the thieves carried the safe from the main office of the building to a window on the east side. It was reported that a farmer found the safe on a county road located on the Jay and Adams county lines, approximately Mb mile west of U. S. 27. The money and checks had been removed and all valuabla papers were missing from the inside. Non-valuables, or small articles, were left at the scene. State' detective Jack Tobias and sheriff Merle Affolder spent the entire day I In Geneva investigating the incident. i

Decatur, Indiana, Mondays September 15,1958

Train Plunges Off Open Drawbridge, Report 15 Persons Aboard Killed

Open Crucial Parley Today Over Formosa Ambassadors From U.S% Red China Meeting In Warsaw WARSAW, Poland <UPD—United States and Red Chinese ambassadors began vital talks on the Formosa crisis today. The hope was to find a facesaving manner in which to silence the guns now blasting the peace of the Formosa Strait. But world capitals were frankly skeptical of any progress. U.S. ambassador Jacob Beam and Communist Chinese ambassador Wang Ping-nan, accompanied only by small staffs, sat down together in the Mysliwski Palace in Warsaw's Lazienki Park to see if they can find a formula for a cease fire. It was the 74th meeting of the Sino-American representatives for Wang, but the first for Beam. The talks broke off in Geneva last December in a stalemate over' Formosa. Beam, lanky and strong-willed, sat down with Wang, who proved himself to be a stone wall of Chinese impassivity in talks With ambassador Llewellyn Thompson, the U.S. representative in the 73 previous sessions. They meet against this background: renewed assertions today by Peiping that it intended to occupy Quemoy, Matsu and Formosa and a renewed artillery bombardment; open pessimism in Washington and U. S. warnings that invasion attempts would be met with U. S. force; pessimistic statements in Moscow that the talks were “clumsy maneuvers to justify U. S. aggression.” The two ambassadors were holding the first of what was expected to be a long series of discussions I on the neutral ground of the little Mysliwski Palace, an 18th Century hunting lodge in the Laziefki Park here. Progress, if any, was expected to be slow — and secret. Each] statement has to be translated 1 into English or Chinese. Each major decision must come from Washington or Peiping, as must any major announcement. (Continued on page five) Arthur Hyland Dies At Capital Hospital Native Os Decatur Is Taken By Death Arthur (Pat) Hyland, 57, a native of Decatur and operator of the Hyland Engineering Sales Co. in Indianapolis, died Saturday at 3:15 a.m. in an Indianapolis hospital. He was residing at 1215 N. Pennsylvania Avenue in Indianapolis. The son of Patrick J. and Ella Eoughey Hyland, he was born June 12, 1901 in Decatur. His father was a plumber, and they lived at 122 South Fourth Street. Mr. Hyland attended St. Joseph's grade school, and was graduated from Decatur high school in 1921, and from Notre Dame University in 1925. He was active in Democratic politics, and served in the state fire marshal’s office under governors Paul V. McNutt and M. Clifford Townsend. The eldest of three children, he is survived by a sister, Mrs. Donald J. (Mary V.) Smith, of Bloomington. He was preceded in death by another sister, Miss Kathryn Hyland. He was a member of the Decatur Elks lodge. Funeral services will be held at St. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis, at 9 a.m. Tuesday. Burial will follow at Decatur Catholic cemetery, with graveside services about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday. Friends may call at the Kirby mortuary in Indianapolis until the time of the funeral.

Deadly Traffic Toll Taken Over Weekend At Least 17 Killed In Indiana Traffic United Press International Indiana counted 17 dead in week«pd traffic accidents, and another accident early today raised Ho at feast 28 the number killed on streets and highways in Hoosierland since last Thursday. It was one of the bloodiest, and perhaps the bloodiest, periods of 1958. The 17 weekend deaths marked the second consecutive Friday-night-to-Sunday period with 15 or more fatalities. Glenn W. Heshberger, 29, Goshen, was killed this morning when a car missed an Ind. 13 curve near Middlebury and skidded into a tree. A companion was injured. A rash of accidents Friday night and Saturday morning sent the toll soaring to 11. Then six more names were added Saturday night gnd Sunday. Two of the crashes killed two persons and the others died in separate accidents including two young bicycle riders and an elderly man who was hit by a car. Sunday’s deaths included: Richard Stallard, 26, Macy, killed five miles south of Columbia City St the junction of Ind. 9 and Ind. 14 when his car collided with another driven by George A. ffuergens, 22, Huntington. One Near Frankfort Ray E. Surface, 23, Frankfort,' killed when he lost control of his car on Ind. 28 in Clinton County. Surface was thrown 100 feet when the car turned over. Edward Cormy, 25, Mechanicsburg, was injured.* Earl Newton Wilson, 21, Scottsburg, killed when he apparently dozed and his car drifted into the path of a truck driven by Eugene Galyon, 40, Decatur, Ga., on U.S. 31 a mile north of Speed. Edmond Eugene Allen, 35, Brownsburg, killed when he lost control of his car at the top of a hill in U.S. 136 west of Brownsburg. The car hit a tree at the foot of the hill. Saturday’s deaths included: Judith Fewry, 52, Attica, died on a hospital operating table at Williamsport after her car went out of control and skidded into an(Continued on page eiKirt) First Aid Classes Planned In County School Bus Drivers, Police And Firemen First aid classes for school bus drivers, auxiliary sheriffs, policemen and firemen will begin September 22-24 at Adams Central, Berne, and Decatur, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, Red Cross executive manager . said today. The Adams Central class will start Monday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m., and will last two hours. It will meet for 2% weeks on Mondays and Wednesdays. The Berne group will meet Tuesday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Berne-French school, and will also last 2% weeks. The Decatur group will meet Wednesday Sept. 24, at Decatur high school, and will last 214 weeks. At all the classes, students will decide the time best suited for them, if 7:30 p.m. is not best. •Teachers at Decatur will be Mrs. Roger Singleton and an assistant to be announced; at Adams Central, Dr. Joe Morris and Gerald Durkin, and at Berne, Roy Gilliom and Iris Lehman. A total of 57 bus drivers, 15 auxiliary sheriffs, and several police officers and firemen have already signified interest in the courses. The courses have been staggered so that those who miss a class can make it up at one of the other places. A new state law requires bus drivers to have first gid certificates to qualify them to help Injured passengers. This is the first course by the Red Cross for the school bus drivers in Adams county.

Cargo Planes Drop Supplies To Nationalists Parachute Supplies To Nationalists In Face Os Red Guns TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD — Nationalist Chinese cargo planes parachuted supplies to Little Quemoy Island late today in the face of Communist anti-aircraft fire. It was the second airdrop to the offshore islands in 24 hours. All the cargo planes escaped unscratched despite the Red fire, but Communist guns opened a heavy artillery bombardment on the island to keep troops there from picking up the supplies. The air drop was clearly visible from Big Quemoy, news dispatches from that blockaded island said. Otherwise, a U.S. and Nationalist Chinese-imposed news blackout remained in effect on the besieged Quemoys where a Communist blockade by artillery fire has effective blocked any major resupply effort. U.S. in Military Buildup UPI correspondent William Miller, who is on assignment with the U£. 7th Fleet in the Formosa Strait, reported from Makung in the Pescadores Islands that he saw Nationalist and Communist Chinese jets battling in the skies over Quemoy today. He reported no apparent losses. “I saw the dogfight from a U.S. two-engine Marlin seaplane patrolling 30 miles off the China coast,” Miller said. "We were flying at 1,000 feet and the (Soviet-built) MIGs circled over us at 40,000 feet but did not attack. “I saw the jets fighting over blockaded Quemoy but saw none shot down.” The Nationalists announced earlier a new convoy was speeding toward the Quemoys in hopes of running the blockade but there was no word on whether it had managed to deliver the sorely needed supplies. Four out of six convoys have been turned back and those which got through delivered only a meager amount of supplies. At the same time there were reports in reliable quarters the United States had begun a major military buildup on Formosa with 1,000-mile-per-hour planes, guided missiles and giant cargo planes. Deny Evacuation Plans However, American officials denied there were any plans to evacuate the 6,000 American dependents from Formosa. They did sug(lCbntlnued on page five) Clyde E. Richards Dies Unexpectedly Former Decatur Man Dies In Michigan Clyde E. Richards, 75, a former Decatur resident, died suddenly Saturday evening at his home in Lowell, Mich. Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Alice Heare and Mrs. Marian Andrews, both of Decatur, Mrs. Elsie White of Stanton, Mich., and Mrs. Nellie Streeter of Morrice, Mich.; one son, John R. Richards of Lowell; two step daughters, Mrs. Virgil Risen and Mrs. Hazel Frary, 'both of Grand Rapids, Mich.; seven grandchildren; four brothers, Delma Richards of Comins, Mich., Charles Richards of Decatur, John Richards of Union City, Mich., and Harvey 1 Richards of Caledonia, Mich:; two half-brothers, Alton Richards of Decatur, and Sanford Richards of Fort Wayne, and a half-sister, Mrs. Ora Drake of Decatur. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Roth funeral home at Lowell, with burial in Oakwood cemetery at Lowell. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening.

To Leave Decatur Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt Rev. Edgar Schmidt Resigns Pastorale Lutheran Pastor To Church In Nebraska The 1 Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt was granted his release by the Zion Lutheran voters’ assembly Sunday afternoon so that he may accept a call to serve Faith Lutheran church in Lincoln, Nebr. He will deliver his farewell sermon Sunday, October 12, and leave Decatur shortly thereafter. Faith Lutheran church is a new and rapidly growing congregation in the northeastern section of Lincoln, which was organized in April. 1953. Its first pastor, the Rev. C. H. Born left recently to go into university work at Austin, Texas. This congregation has a $350,000 building project now underway. The call was extended on Aug. 9. Rev. Schmidt was installed at the local church in January, 1948. During his tenure here, the congregation has shown a steady growth. It has built and completely paid for its new parish hall. A parochial school has been established with the second teacher added this fall. Two identical services are conducted each Sunday to accommodate worshippers; and long term plans are being worked out to build a new, larger church on properties which the congregation is now acquiring. Rev. Schmidt served as chairman of the youth committee of the central district of the Lutheran church, Missouri synod, and has such spoke frequently at Walther League conventions, etc., throughout the area. He had also served on the board of control of Concordia College, Fort Wayne, and was a member of the district boatd of -parish education. He was pastoral advisor for the Northern Indiana district of the Lutheran laymen’s league. —ln civie-affairs;---Rev. Schmidt has been an active member of the Decatur Lions club and was recently named as its vice president. He has served on the board of directors of the Decatur Community Fund and has been interested in the Adams, county mental health society. I In requesting his release, the pastor pointed out that he felt very strongly that his talents were now badly needed in Lincoln than in Decatur and that he felt compelled to move even though he liked Decatur and this congregation. The call to Lincoln was the seventh call he had received during the past three and a half years. The resolution granting the release expressed the congregation’s regret at losing such a faithful pastor who had served so well and included the graitudeof the congregation for that service. It passed unanimously. The annual mission festival was moved ahead to Sunday, October 5. The church council will meet this week to begin plans to establish a call list from which a successor may be chosen. Any member of the congregation may suggest nominees.

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Commuter Train Plunges Fifty Feet Info Bay Two Locomotives, Two Passenger Cars Are Hurled Into Bay BAYONNE, N.J. (UPD — A commuter train plunged off an open drawbridge 50 feet into Newark Bay today and the Coast Guard reported at least 15 persons aboard had been killed. Two locomotives and two passenger cars of the train fell into the bay, at least 35 feet deep. One other passenger car dangled from the trestle and two others remained on the track, a spokesman for the Jersey Central Railroad said. Coast Guard and police boats converged swiftly on the scene to attempt rescues. The Jersey City police said they had received an emergency call for skin divers and equipment. Nine injured were rescued shortly after the accident and taken to Bayonne Hospital. One of them subsequently died. Edward McCarthy, who owns the Elco Marina boating dock in Bayonne, was at dockside when he saw steam lushing from the water beneath the bridge. McCarthy immediately put out in a small boat. In three trips, he brought back three bodies and nine survivors. Thomas Messina, a brewery truck driver also at the scene, said the first two passenger coaches appeared to be completely submerged. Messina said an oil tanker had been approaching to cross under the bridge, but that it had passed through when the train fell into the water. The tanker immediately put down its launches and began taking aboard survivors. Small boats from throughout the busy New York harbor flocked to the scene. Four tugs of the Moran Company, usually engaged in towing ocean liners to piers, were on the scene. Two New York City fireboats and three police department launches sped to the scene. Every available ambulance in Bayonne and Jersey City was summoned. Lloyd Nelson, 33, Little Silver. N.J.. was one of the passengers aboard the first two railroad cars. “I was reading a newspaper and half dozing,” Nelson said. “The first thing I heard was screeching brakes. Fortunately, I was sitting by an open window. When the train hit the water. I crawled out the window and almost as soon as I came to the surface I was picked up by a motorboat.” Raphael Leon, 55. of Holmdel, N.J., was travelling with his wife in one of the coaches and SuHdcfßy we toe-water.” “I started to pray that I would drown quickly,” Leon said. Leon said he began swimming underwater, looking for his wife and some way of escaping from the train. “I felt asif my lungs were bursting when I saw an open win(Contlnued pare eight) bulletin J. Manley Foreman, 68. died at 1:20 o’clock this afternoon at his home. 1210 West Monroe street, following an extended illness. The body was removed to the Black funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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