Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 228, Decatur, Adams County, 27 September 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 228.

DEDICATION SERVICES will be held Sunday morning for the new Sunday school rooms of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church. Third and Jackson streets, pictured above. The service Sunday morning at 9:30 o’clock will mark the completion of a building program which was launched by the church in 1950 to remodel the church chancel and erect an educational recreation building.

Heavy Toll Os Lives Taken In Japan Typhoon Authorities Fear Death Toll Os 2,000 • In Japanese Storm TOKYO (UPIr — The worst typhoon in 24 years lashed the Tokyo area with 160-mile-an-hour winds and the heaviest rains in the city’s history early today, taking a toll that authorities feared may amount to as many as 2,000 dead. At latest reports, 303 persons were known dead, 1,286 were officially “missing”—with little hope that more than a few would ever be seen alive again- — and 1.943 were injured. Record 16 to 20-inch rains left nearly 400,000 persons homeless. The howling storm struck its most devastating blow at the Izu Peninsula, 75 miles southwest of Tokyo, where the rain - swollen „ Kano River roared through 10 cities and villages, killing at least 148 persons and carrying some 1,200 away. Many Carried Away Rescuers near the mouth of the raging river snatched about 100 persons from its > dirty-brown waters, but there was little doubt that most of the 1,121 still missing were’carried far out to sea. The toll is expected to mount tonight. when the storm strikes th northern island of Hokkaido. Communications throughout Japan were snarled by the typhoon, labeled “Ida" by the U.S. Air Force and “No. 22" by the Japanese Weather Bureau. No Americans were killed in the storm, and U.S. installations in this country escaped serious damo age. One fatality was reported on a U.S. base —a Japanese maidservant killed when a retaining wall at Camp „ Zama, outside Tokyo, caved in on her. Follows Northerly Path The storm howled north across Japan after sowing death and destruction in the Tokyo area early today. Reports of damage from 22 provinces mentioned 19 ships sunk, 84 bridges washed out and more than 1,200 landslides. The typhoon was the worst since the one that lashed Turoto in 1934, taking a toll of 2,700 lives. It lost much of its punch as it headed north. At latest reports the velocity of the winds at its “eye" was down to 65 m.p.h. — less than typhoon force. Two sizable ships were caught in the waters lashed to fury by the typhoon, but so far as is known neither was sunk. There was no immediate word of the fate of a Japanese tanker reported adrift, off. the southwestern island of Shikoku. Stormy Seas The 7,240-ton British freighter Eskcliffe, out of fuel and adrift in the path of the typhoon, weathered the storm safely. Radio reports early today said none of the 31 persons aboard had been hurt. Harbo authorities here dispatched a tug with a load of fuel for the freighter, and the Japanese coast guard cutter Muroto was standing by. • In the midst of catastrophe, Tokyo residents seemed more shocked by storm damage to the Imperial Palace grounds than by the more deadly troubles reported elsewhere. The lashing rains started landslides at several points (Continued on page eight)

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Farm Policy Speech Is Given By Fleming Republican Farm Policy Assailed A farm policy speech by W. Robert Fleming, Democratic candidate for congress from Adams, Wells, and the other six counties of the fourth district, was the highlight of Democratic day at the Auburn fair Friday. Fleming spoke from a platform on the west side of the court house in • the afternoon program. The following are some of the remarks that Fleming made in regard to the farm problem: “As we approach another election. it would be good for our farm friends to take time to appraise how they are faring under this administration. It seems apparent to me that the farm ‘crusade’ of the Eisenhower-Benson administration is steadily destroying farming as away of life in America. Since the Republicans took office in 1952 600.000 farms have been liquidated. Four million Americans have given up farming, most of them starved off their farms by falling prices and rising costs. In addition, millions of others have been forced to spend extra hours at city jobs to make ends meet. It is a good time to take a serious look at the dimensions of the farm depression: “Farmers’ income for 1957 was $3.7 billion below 1952. The total mcome loss to farmers since 1952 has been rlmost $lB billion. “Farm prices for 1957 word 16% below 1952 levels. The parity ratio (the measure of a fair return to farmers) which was 100% or more during every Democratic post-war year, has been below 100% during every day if the Republican rule. Despite somewhat higher farm income this year, in the first six months of 1958, parity averaged only 84%. “The farmers’ share of the housewife’s food dollar has fallen from 17 cents in 1952 to 41 cents in 1957. “The average income per person earned from farming fell from s7ll in 1952 to only $658 per year in 1957, less than % of the nationwide per capita income of $1950 per year. “Under Eisenhower. Nixon and Benson, farmers have been caught in the squeeze between lower income and inflated costs of what they must buy. Result: real purchasing power of the farmer’s dollar has dropped 24% since 1952. Compared with 1952, the farmer must sell (on the basis of nationwide average prices) ; “...1200 more bushels of wheat to buy the same combine; “...90 more dozen eggs to buy the same electric washer; .. .804 more bushels of corn to buy the same plow; “...144 more hundred weights of milk to buy the same truck; —‘.‘When the current national administration was elected it took 100 bushels of soybeans to buy a sev-en-foot mower at $309. Today the price of the beans has declined and the mower has gone up so that it takes 183 bushels of beans to buy the same “Applying the same formula to corn, for instance, shows that 959 bushels bought a half-ton truck at $1620 in 1952. Today the Hoosier farmer must sell 1540 bushels of corn to pay sl9lO for the same truck. v “The seven-foot tractor mower we referred to took the sale of 1500 pounds of hogs. Even with slightly higher hog prices of last-month, which are now sliding agairivft took 1800 pounds of porkers to pay for (Continued on page five)

Little Rock's Citizens Vote On Integration Special Election Held In Arkansas On School Issue LITTLE Rock, Ark. (UPD—The people of Little Rock vote today in an integration election that the National Assn, for Advancement of Colored People was tryting to make pointless before the polls closed. Gov. Orval E. Faubus called the special election under a law which was passed by a special session of the Arkansas Legislature among a group df anti-integration measures. The law provides that integration will not go into effect unless an absolute majority of the qualified voters of the school district approve it. Faubus called the election after he closed the schools Sept. 15, the same day the U.S. Supreme Court ordered integration to proceed without delay. Hearing Request Seen The ballot, attacked as “misleading and inaccurate” by integration leaders, offered the voter two choices: “For racial integration of all schools in the district,” and “Against racial integration of all schools in the district.” Polls opened at 8 a.m. and were to close at 6:30 p.m. c.s.t. with one of the largest turnouts in the history of school elections in prospect. There were about 42,000 qualified voters in the district. But the NAACP moved to throw a wrench into Gov. Faubus’ machinery for opening the schools on a private, segregated basis. The Negro group was expected to ask today for an immediate hearing and a temporary restraining order against the school board's leasing of school property io a private school corporation. Wiley Branton, the NAACP’s chief attorney in Arkansas, appealed Friday to the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis a federal judge’s refusal Thursday to prohibit the use of Little Rock’s schools as private, segregated institutions. The judge said such a ruling must come from a three-judge court. Local Opinion Tested The NAACP wants to keep schools from opening possibly as early as Monday under Faubus’ private school set-up. However the election goes, the federal government will consider the voting returns merely an expression of local opinion. In addition to the Supreme Court’s immediate integration order. Deputy Attorney General Lawrence Walsh said in Washington Friday that private school plans will not insure segregation in Southern states. Walsh said the courts have held consistently in the case of swimming pools and cafeterias that operation of a public facility by a private corporation does not excuse it from abiding by the 14th Amendment. The Supreme court has ruled that the 14th Amendment bars racial discrimination. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight and Sunday. Low tonight in upper 40s. High Sunday near 70. Outlook for Monday: Fair and a bit warmer. ~ NOON EDITION

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 27,1958

Hurricane Helene Is J. . J •. » J Menacing East Coast With 125-Mile Winds

Convoys Break Red Blockade With Supplies Food, Ammunition Landed On Islands Despite Blockade TAIPEI (UPD — Two Chinese Nationalist convoys broke through the Communist blockade of the Quemoys today to deliver an estimated 125 tons of food and ammunition To the beleaguered outpost islands — one of the biggest sin-gle-day shipments since the siege began. About 50 amphibious LVT’s, plying between the beach and three LST’s lying two miles out to sea, braved heavy Red artillery fire to waddle through the waters where a similar craft capsized Friday. The first convoy arrived at dawn, the second about 9:45 a.m. United Press International correspondent Charles Smith reported from Quemoy that the second convoy was loaded with 155-mm. artillery shells. The merciless Communist combardment, entering its fifth week, showed no signs of a letup. The Nationalist Defense Ministry announced that Red guns hurled 2,974 shells, ranging in size up to 203-mm., at the islands during the five hours between midnight and dawn. Reports from Quemoy indicated that today’s convoys delivered nearly two-thirds more than the 76-5 tons of cargo that got through the blockade Friday in the first convoy since Mohday. Even so. their deliveries fell far short of the islands’ 200-ton daily needs. In addition to today’s sea convoy, a flight of supply planes airdropped an unstated quantity of food to the isolated troops Friday night. The air shipment included cigarettes and “moon cakes” for today’s celebration of Moon Day, one of China’s three big holidays. An air-sea search fleet scoured the seas around the Quemoys all Friday night and early today in a vain search for additional sur 7 vivors of an LVT in which four or five Chinese and Japanese newsmen are believed to have perished.

Factory In Paris Rocked By Blasts Constitution Vote In France Sunday PARIS (UPD— Three explosions rocked an acetylene factory early today in Paris’ northern suburbs, perhaps signaling the start of a last-ditch Algerian rebel attempt to intimidate Frenchmen into voting against Premier Charles de Gaulle’s “strong man” constitution Sunday. Police said one workman was injured in the explosions in La Courneuve. The plant was heavily damaged by the explosions and fire which followed. Algerian rebels opposed to the De Gaulle constitution, which makes no provision for Algerian independence, have been conducting a wave of terror for the past month __ _ — The Interior Ministry announced Friday night that the police had captured members of the Algerian rebel “high command” for all southern France. Officials said Areski Bouchefa, 23-year-old rebel chief for the area, and two aides were seized in Marseille. Five local leaders were arrested previously. Vote Jn Algeria Watched Voters in Algeria prepared to troop to the polls for the second day of a three-day referendum on the constitution under the protection of French guns. The Algerian rebel force? have threatened Moslems with, death if they vote. Despite this, the French said 60 to 70 per cent of Moslem eligibles have been casting ballots. (Continued on page .three)

Hope Abandoned For Vanguard In Orbit No Definite Signs Satellite Orbited BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPD —The Defense Department announced today that the latest Vanguard earth satellite “failed to achieve an altitude or velocity sufficient to place it in its projected orbit.” , CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD —Navy missilemen scanned the skies today for a sign that their newest, delicately - instrumented Vanguard satellite went into orbit, but dejected scientists abandoned hope that the seventh: Vanguard launching was successful. The only indication that there was a new artificial moon, which might give weather forecasters an advance warning on developing hurricanes and typhoons, was a Brief reception of radio signals by a tracking station in Johannesburg. South Africa. It appeared that one of two possibilities stymied the new Vanguard attempt. Either the rocket did not attain the 18.000-mile-an-hour speed necessary to & put the satellite into orbit, or the third stage fired at the wrong angle to the earth. The Navy said the Vanguard’s .three stages were “fired in proper sequence,” but scientists in Washington said later there were no definite signs the weather reconnaissance satellite orbited. The apparent failure was a bitter disappointment for Navy scientists and rocketeers who had weathered five previous Vanguard : flops. The only testimony to their efforts was Vanguard I. the 6.4inch moonlet that went into orbit March 17. Dr. John P. Hagen, pipe-smok-ing Vanguard Project director who has absorbed the brunt of the criticism for the rocket’s failures, said the “chances are grUßter" that the 20-inch, 21.5-pound satellite did not achieve an orbit. In„ any event, Hagen said, the Navy planned, to fire its four remaining Vanguards. He said the next rocket would contain a similar weather - investigating satellite. Hagen did not rule out the possibility that the satellite was cir- , cling the earth. But he said that i if it was, “something happened to 'the transmitter.” i — — — Local Man Injured In Accident Friday Herman Keller Hurt In Car-Truck Wreck Two personal injury accidents and one property damage accident were investigated by the sheriff s department and the state police Friday. Herman Keller, route five, Decatur. is in the Adams county memorial hospital suffering from a possible concussion, severe lacerations to the head and face, and possible internal injuries sustained in an accident that occurred on U. S. 224 near Uniontown, at 8 o’clock Friday dfeht. * Keller was headed east on U. S. 224 when a truck driven by Jack Collins, 51, Indianapolis, attempted to pull onto the main highway from a truck-stop located in Uniontown, causing the Keller vehicle to hit the left side of the semi-trailer and bounce off, strikink a telephone pole on the south side of the road. Keller was taken off the critical list this morning. Keller’s auto was completely demolished as a result of the accident. No estimated damage of the semi was given by the investigating officers. Collins was arrested for failure to yield the right of way to another vehicle, and will appear in justice of the peace court to the charge in the near future. Sheriff's department and state police investigated. A second personal injury accident occurred Friday at 10:50 (Continued on page five)

GM Appears Resigned To Auto Strike Strong Stand Taken By General Motors In Contract Talks DETROIT (UPD— General Motors Corp., hamstrung by local strikes throughout the nation, appeared ready today to settle for a nationwide strike by the United Auto Workers Union. GM Vice President Louis G. Seaton, chief negotiator for the worlds largest auto company, said his firm “will not go beyond the Ford settlement in any agreement with the union.” It was the most dogmatic stand taken by any company in talks with the union to date and came in the wake of repeated statements by UAW President Walter P. Reuther that GM and Chrysler would have to give more than Ford to reach an agreement. “If the union refuses to trim its demands in line with the Ford agreement, we may have trouble,” Seaton said; “But we already have trouble from widespread local strikes so the threat of a national strike is an empty thing to us.” Sub at Issue The UAW is scheduled to strike GM plants throughout the nation if an agreement is not reached before 10 a.m. e.s.t. Tuesday. Reuther said the union was not asking for more economic gains from GM but “there are certain contract matters peculiar to GM which demand a solution at General Motors.” He said these matters included inequities in wages paid to workers doing the same jobs in different parts of the country, failure of the company to provide a full week’s employment for some of its workers, and a means of providing iiupplemental unemployment benefits to workers in Ohio and Indiana, where SUB payments are now illegal. Production Held Down The UAW chief said GM was the worst offender in the matters of wage inequities and short work weeks and it was the most involved in the SUB payments in Indiana and Ohio because it had more plants in those states. Ward's Automotive Reports, the industry’s recognized statistical! agency, reported the strikes held production 30 per cent below an(iCtor.tinuea on page five) Democrat Drive For Funds Is Underway 150 Persons Aid In Four-Day Campaign

The Adams county Dollars for Democrats drive opehed Friday with more than 150 persons assisting in the four-day drive, Robert Lane, county chairman, said jthis morning. With the aid of volunteer solicitors, committeemen through the county will serve as captains in their own precincts. The purpose of the campaign is lo put political power where it belongs—in the hands of all the people, not just in the hands of a few. The success of the “Dollars for Democrats” Drive has been given “tremendous impetus” this year by the current campaign of the American Heritage Foundation and their slogan “Don't pass the buck—give a buck.” The drive will be climaxed October 7 with a huge party with all solicitors, committeemen, candidates and their families) present at 7:30 p.m. at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. At which time all the proceeds from the drive will be turned over to the treasurer of the Adams County Democratic Central Committee for allocation. Proceeds from the drive will be divided equally between County, State and National Democratic committees.

Hopes For Peaceful China Settlement Time Is Important Factor In Dispute UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD A top Asian diplomat said today he hopes the conflict in the Formosa Strait can be settled peacefully. He told a group of U.N. correspondents from many nations that time is the important factor in finding a solution to the new China crisis. He emphasized that for the immediate future the best way of gaining time is to continue the Warsaw talks between the United States and Communist China. The diplomat, who asked that his name and his country not be mentioned, was opposed to bringing the Quemoy issue into the United Nations until other means of negotiation have been exhausted. This veteran U. N. delegate comes from a country that is often refered to as "neutral” but which prefers to be considered a country committed neither to the East nor the West. Coincidentally, his view that the China affair should be kept out of the United Nations as long as possible was supported by another Asian diplomat whose government has firm ties with the West. Observers got the impression that a number of U N. delegations that have played leading parts in preserving peace in various trouble spots in the past were firmly of the opinion that there should be no hurry about bringing the China issue into the United Nations. They argued that if it must come to the United Nations soon it should come before the 11-nation Security Council rather than the 81-nation General Assembly, where unfettered debate might only harden opposing positions and make (Continued on page five) Says Television Quiz Show Fixed Former Contestant On 21 Testifies NEW YORK (UPD — A second former contestant has said that the television quiz show “Twenty-one” was fixed. James Snodgrass, 35, an artist, said Friday he was given answers and was told when to miss a quetion. “I was told there would be a long series of ties and I would eventually lose," Snodgrass told a news conference. Snodgrass, who has been quizzed by the district attorney’s office and a grand jury investigating quiz programs, appeared on the National Broadcasting Co. show last spring five times andP ended up with $4,000. He lost out to Hank Bloomgarden, a research consultant, who eventually collected $98,500. Bloomgarden appeared before the grand jury Frida/ but declined to make any public comment. Snodgrass said he gave the jurors three sealed registered letters he had mailed to himself before quiz program appearances. The letters, he said, contained questions and answers for the coming programs. - NBC issued a statement saying that Snodgrass charges came “as a complete surprise to us. We had abolutely no knowledge of it.” The network said it would launch a prompt and thorough investigation. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (BPD — President Eisenhower today appointed Maj. Gen. Wilton B. Pearsons to succeed retiring Presidential Aide Sherman Adams. The appointment- was announced by White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty, who also said there would be a redistribution of responsibilities- among presidential assistant* but would not call it a “reorganisation.”

Danger Areas Evacuated In Path Os Storm > Thousands Fleeing Inland To Escape Path Os Hurricane MYRTLE BHACH, S.C. (UPD— Hurricane Helene swung toward the north today, threatening the busy port and resort city of Wilmington with its winds of 125 miles an hour. The tropical howler had appeared certain to smack inland slightly north of this popular but now-deserted resort town on the South Carolina seaboard, but it still was hugging the coast some 40 miles offshore at 9 a.m. c.d.t. Plenty of advance warning from the Weather Bureau and Civil Defense authorities had emptied the danger areas of. practically all residents. Thousands fled inland or checked in at numerous emergency shelters. A 9 a.m. bulletin from the Weather Bureau said the storm’s center was about 40 statute miles southwest of Cape Fear, N.C. It was expected to hit close to that spot during the afternoon. Expect 10-ft. Tides Winds jumped to gusts of 60 miles an hour this morning in the Cape Fear area and gusts up to 90 miles an hour were reported at the Oak Island Coast Guard station near there. Further down the beach in the vicinity of Myrtle Beach, winds were no higher than 50 miles an hour this morning. The hurricane was accompanied by driving rain, whipped to froth by the winds. Georgetown, south of Myrtle Beach, had 2.5 inches. Frying Pan lightship, the southern guardian of Cape Hatteras, reported winds of 90 miles an hour in gusts this morning. The Weather Bureau warned that tides would continue to rise 7 to 10 feet above normal and probably higher in some spots between Myrtle Beach and Hateras during the day. Civil Defense authorities said the evacuation of danger zones on the beaches was orderly in most cases, but in some instances they had to threaten forcible evacuation. No arrests were reported. Gov. George Bell Timmerman ordered all highways leading into Myrtle Beach sealed off in a 15-20 mile radius. Beach Areas Patrolled Local Civil Defense Chairman E. A. Anthony said the order was to prevent “people from coming in and looting and other people we can’t control.” About 100 men, mostly National Guard and local police, patrolled the Myrtle Beach area. A few persons remained in the front row of dwellings along the beach despite a mandatory evacuation order from the civil defense. High water was regarded as more of' a menace than the winds. The Weather Bureau said the barometer reading in the eye of the hurricane was 27.55, well below the 28.70 recorded in 1955's Hurricane Hazel, the worst in this area in recent years. A long stretch of coastline from Savannah, Ga., to Cape Hatteras, N.C., was warned to evacuate to avoid being, cut off from floods. A sister hurricane, lisa, was of somewhat less intensity and too far south to worry U.S. coastal dwellers. That storm was 380 miles east northeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to an ad(Continued on page five)

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