Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 234, Decatur, Adams County, 4 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI No. 234.

/»■'' F ■•«•—,, j -A- * ' <'%« ’ » 9' i I |X SENATOR GREEN MARKS 91ST BIRTHDAY— Office staff members fete Senator Theodore Green in Washington on his 91st birthday. The oldest member of the Senate wears a new Doctor of Laws robe presented to him by the staff. His old robe had 50 years of servite behind it. The cake has a single candle. Senator Green is a Rhode Island Democrat.

World Series Scene Shifts To New York Milwaukee Braves Hold 2-0 Lead On New York Yankees NEW YORK (UPD-Don Larsen, who achieved the miracle of a World Series perfect game, carried the New York Yankees’ hopes for a miracle comeback today against a Milwaukee Brave powerhouse eager to wrap up the 1958 series in four straight games. Down two games to none, the embattled Yankees faced 32-year old Bob Rush in the friendly surroundings of Yankee Stadium—the House that Ruth Built and the symbol of the world famous baseball dynasty the Braves seek to des trey. The odds-makCrs still rated the Braves an 11-5 favorite to win the series, but for this game they were laying 3-2 odds that the man who pitched the perfect game would stop the Milwaukee steamroller. The weatherman warned of possible rain that would force a postponement and give the beleaguered Casey Stengel a chance to reorganize his pitching staff. Yank Lineup Not Set Stengel’s lineup was uncertain, pending the physical condition of left fielder-catcher Elston Howard, who suffered a knee injury in Thursday’s second game in Milwaukee. But Braves Manager Fred Haney was certain to go with his left-handed hitting array which has Bill Bruton in center field and Frank Torre at first base. This is the lineup which routed 21-game winner Bob Turley in the first inning and went on to crush the Yankees, 13-5, in the second game of the series. As the scene shifted to New York for today’s third game, with a capacity crowd of 69,000 anticipated in spacious Yankee Stadium, the Braves were riding high. Only twice in World Series history has a team won the first two games and then failed to cop the championship—that happened to the Yankees against the Dodgers in 1955 and to the Dodgers in 1956 against the Yankees. The Yankees, naturally, were reminding each other of 1956 and saying that it could ■*- and will—happen again. But Stengel’s men also know that should they lose today, history will be completely against them —no team ever has lost the first three games and then come back to win the series. r Stengel Pleased Sten ge 1 himself appeared pleased by the selection of the fast - balling Rush as today’s Braves’ sthrter! croaking “that could change a few things around here.” In naming Rush, Haney bypassed two younger hurlers—rookie Carleton Willey and left Juan Pizarro—because of their inexperience. Rush, a husky righthander, had a 10-6 record this season and a 3.43 earned run average but is supposed to be fairly easy to steal bases against. “Experience means a lot,” said Haney in explaining his choice. “While Rush never pitched in the series, he does have 11 years of major league ball behind him. Then, too, he keeps the ball low while Willey has a tendency to(Contlnued on nage five) NOON EDITION

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Skilled In Defense Os Hart ke's Record Cites Shortcomings Os Governor Handley INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Democratic state candidates today were told that the Republican argument that Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke is a “stooge” of Walter Reuther has been effective with Republican and independent voters. But Democratic state chairman Charles E. Skillen quickly defend,ed Hartke, his party’s senatorial nominee. “Someone ought to tell Governor Harold W. Handley,” Skillen said, “Reuther isn’t running and if he wanted a labor issue, he could turn the record over and let the people hear about the McClellan Committee and Handley's political friends, Jimmy Hoffa and Maurice Hutcheson. Hutcheson was a Handley supporter in 1956 and now perhaps this would be the time when Handley should return the favor.” 11,000 “Unhappy People” Skillen also said there are 11.500 “unhappy people" working on the merit system for the state that are coerced into supporting Handley while they are paid less than two-thirds of the salaries drawn by state employees of other states. Skillen and other leaders said privately that Reuther had done nothing to swell badly-needed campaign funds. One leader said that the “fat calves” of past years have been delinquent in contributing and that the receipts from the “dollar a Democrat” campaign have not yet arrived at state head- ; quarters. Skillen said that the governor is the best Democratic target and issue. I “The governor has worked deligently at wasting money, misappropriating state funds, dividing the Republican party, twisting the Constitution, putting the state in debt, coercing state employees, fixing political conventions and running for the Senate, but he hasn’t done a thing for the people of Indiana. Gentlemen, that’s our issue.” Farm Vote Concerns Other party leaders, however, experessed concern about the ! problematical farm vote. Pollsters had advised that the farmers, normally GOP voters, have been strangely silent this campaign despite high prices for agricultural products under the Republican regime. The more optimistic candidates said that when the farmers. are reticent, they usually stay away from the polls or vote Democcratic. These happier nominees said they hoped that the GOP would lose thousands of farm votes as in 1948 when Harry Truman almost captured Indiana’s electoral votes. The candidates were heartened (Oontinued on page five) Voter Registration Will Close Monday Monday will be the last day for registration of voters at the clerk’s office, Richard D. Lewton, Adams county clerk announced today. The office will remain open from 5 to 9 o’clock for people wishing to register. Hie clerk’s office has remained open for the past two Monday nights, and will be open for the last time Monday. Transfer of voters and or change of name of recently married voters should be registered during these hours.

Commercial Jet Service Is Inaugurated Two Jet Airliners Speed Over Atlantic To Launch Service NEW YORK (UPD—Two Comet IV jefairliners sped across the Atlantic today to inaugurate the world’s first transoceanic commercial jet service. One of the British Overseas Airways Corp. DeHavilland Comet jet liners took off from Idlewild International Airport at 6:01 a.m. c.d.t. on the eastbound flight with 44 persons aboard. A London-to-New York scheduled flight left England at 3:55 a.m. c.d.t. The New York-to-London Comet was airborne only one minute after it left the Idlewild passenger loading ramp. Its westbound sister ship was due in New York at 2:40 p.m., with a refueling stop scheduled at Gander, Newfoundland, at 10:20 am. Still another jetliner destined for commercial service was in the skies over the Atlantic. A Boeing 707 jetliner owned by Pan-Ameri-can World Airways screamed out of London Airport more than two hours after the smaller eastbound Comet departed. The Pan-American 707 left London at 5:28 a.m. The 707, which had been undergoing noise tests in London was scheduled to land at Keflavik, Iceland. en route to New York. BOAC announced its decision to fly head-on into the jet age Friday night, only a few hours after the New York Port Authority granted BOAC and Pan-American World Airways permission to operate their jetliners out of Idlewild International Airport. Pan-American, which plans to inaugurate transatlantic jet service Oct. 26 with the giant Boeing 707, objected to what a spokesman sai^, appeared to authority regulations that favor BOAC. Five Paid Fares Booked aboard the New York-to-London , flight were five farepaying passengers, five BOAC officials, and ten American . and nine British newsmen. The paid passengers were hastily recruited by BOAC from its other scheduled flights. The non-stop flight was expected to last about six hours and 45 minutes. The Comet flight from London was expected to take ten and a half hours because of prevailing head winds, which make it necessary to stop at Gander, Nfld. to refuel. The eastbound flight time of six and three-quarters of an hour compares with nine and a half hours for the fastest flights now made by propeller-driven airliners, a difference of nearly three hours. The Comets, which will pass each otter about 300 miles southeast ci Newfoundland, are poweLGTitinued on page six) Truman Denounces Ike Administration 3,000 Attend Rally In Akron Last Night COLUMBUS, Ohio (UPD — Former President Truman arrives here today for a final blast at Republicans and right to work proposals at a Democratic fund raising dinner before leaving Ohio. The ex-President, displaying his "give ’em hell" technique, denounced the Republican administration to a cheering Democratic rally of 3,000 in Akron Friday night. “When I turned over the government, <everything was a going concern,” Truman said. "But this Republican administration has made the biggest mess ever made in Washington.” He charged the Eisenhower administration has “bungled foreign policy so badly that the unity of the free nations has been gravely weakened.” Truman said the Republicans have given the nation “inflation and recession’,’ at the same time. "They said spend money to end the recession. Where the hell are you going to get the money?” On labor, Truman called for defeat of the right to work state constitutional amendments. He said the Republicans were trying to smear the entire labor movement because Os a few '•crooks and racketeers.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, windy and turning cooler tonight. Sunday fair and cooler. Low tonight in the 40s. High Sunday 60 north to 70 south. Outlook for Monday: Fair and rather cool.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, October 4, 1958

Roxie B. Kessler Killed

Early This Morning As Two Vehicles Collide

Negro Leaders Plan To Force Schools Open Plan Legal Moves, To Force Reopening Os Southern Schools By AL KUETTNER United Press International Negro leaders today planned to force reopening of schools in Virginia and Arkansas, the two states where officials have padlocked schools to circumvent racial integration. Attorneys for the National Association For The Advancement of Colored People came up with the first litigation to reopen Virginia schools. Negro leaders in Little Rock were looking into the possibility of dragging down private school plans by loading up the junior high schools. NAACP attorney Victor J. Ashe said he would file a motion Monday asking Virginia to open up six Norfolk schools. Junior High Schools Next Oliver W. Hill, another Negro attorney, asked Judge John Paul of Harrisonburg to order that Warren County High School be reopened. In Charlottesville similar plans to force reopening of the state’s other two closed schools were in the works. The NAACP based its litigation on the ground that Negroes were deprived cf their constitutional rights by closing schools as much as by segregating them. In Little Rock, where junior high schools have continued to operate on a segregated basis, Negro leaders were considering facing the Little Rock Private School Corp, with thousands of junior high students to educate. Plan School By Mail Negro legal advisers considered asking federal court to order integration of junior high schools. Under Arkansas • anti-integration laws, Gov. Orval Faubus would then be forced to close the junior high schools because Little Rock citizens have voted for segregation. Virginia segregationists received a slap in the face Friday from public school teachers. Norfolk's Tidewater Educational Foundation cancelled plans to open classes in lodge halls, homes and churches (Continued on page five; Rev. Jason Hoffman Dies In California Native Os Kirkland Township Is Dead The Rev. Jason Hoffman, 70, a native of Kirkland township, died at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in El Cajon, Calif., following an illness of two years. Rev. Hoffman was a member of St. Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras, and was a retired minister of the Reformed church. He was born Sept, 29, 1888 in Adams county, a son of James D. and Katharine Hilgemann Hoffmann and was married to Emma Reppert at Magley June 11, 1914. Surviving are the widow; three sons, Roland Earl Hoffmann, California; Richard Hoffmann, Florida; Donald Hoffman/i, Enid, Okla.; a daughter, Mrs. Frank Lahr, California; three sisters, Mrs. Chester Shoaf, of near Monroe; Mrs. Fred Wolfe, near Montpelier; and Mrs. Frank Kulak, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; a brother, James Hoffmann, Arkansas; two half-sisters, Mrs. Mary Graber, of Berne, and Mrs. Ida Homer, of Warren, O. Friends may call at the Yager funeral home in Berne after 9 a.m. Monday, Services will be at St. Luke’s Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras at 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Rev. C. A. Schmid of Berne officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

GM Plants Closed By Local Strikes All Plants Closed By Local Disputes ‘ DETROIT (UPD — Chrysler Corp, officials,' pointing to Friday night’s supplemental agreement to the national contract, expressed hope t6day they would start the week at full production strength. But sprawling General Motors, largest of the “big three” auto producers, still was paralyzed by nationwide walkouts at the local level. All GM's 126 plants in 71 cities across the nation were closed by local disputes, idling 275,000 workers as company and United Auto Workers Union negotiators were stalled on 8,000 local issues. Friday night's supplemental agreement to Chrysler’s national contract led officials of the corporation to hope their 95,000 workers would be back on the job Monday. Chrysler scheduled a full production program for Monday, but 22,925 Chrysler workers were idled by walkouts at 16 plants today. An authoritative Chrysler source said 16,025 of the strikers were out at 12 Detroit plants and 6.900 at four plants elsewhere in the United States. The Chrysler-UAW settlement Friday night affected 11,000 skilled trades employes, leaving only 8,000 workers minus contracts, most of them office and clerical workers. Chrysler said subcommittees would continue meetings today, but full negotiations recessed until Monday (at 10:30 a.m. e.d.t.). The main feature of the supplemental agreement called for a seniority system for production workers, but the new settlement lowered the requirement for entry into the skilled trades area-wide pool from 12 to 5 years. Ford Motor Co., first of the big three auto makers to reach national three-year contracts with the UAW, reported only one of its plants —a Chicago assembly plant, with 1,550 workers —- still, was on strike, over local issues. Wave Os Kidnapings, Violence In Beirut Rival Factions Man Street Barricades BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD — A wave of kidnapings and violence exploded in barricaded Beirut today. • Rival political factions manned barricades hastily erected at street and highway intersections. The Lebanese army was cuaght between them. Each side accused the other of kidnaping hundreds of its supporters. Despite the renewed violence, the United States continued its troop withdrawal. The Marines already had gone, and 1,000 soldiers boarded ship today to return to their bases in Germany. Their departure will, leave a total of 5,900 American troops in Lebanon, compared with more than 14,000 in August. As the Americans rolled through the streets in open trucks toward the dock area, they laughed and waved to Lebanese civilians and shouted: "We’re going home. We’re getting out of here.” Members of the right wing Christian Phalange maintained roadblocks on the main roads leading into the divided city. They sent women and children to the barricades to halt traffic. They burned stacks of tires on the barricades through the night. Inside the city, rebels began rebuilding the barricades they had torn down a week ago in some sections of the Moslem quarter. They manned their posts with machine guns and rifles in defiance of a government ban against arms-carrying by civilians. Phalangist rioters set fire to three trucks and beat up their drivers south of here. The army moved in 10 tanks and armored cars to beef up hastily built sand(Continued on page five)

Nationalists Keep Forces On Island Have No Intention To Cut Garrisons On Offshore Island TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD — Foreign Ministry officials, mollified by U.S. assurances that there will be “no Munich in the Formosa Strait,” emphasized today that Nationalist China has no intention of reducing its garrisons on the beleaguered outpost islands. “The Americans have never told us before to withdraw our forces from the offshore islands.” one official said. “If they do, we will say ‘Go to hell!’ ” Nationalist officials were deeply shocked by this week’s news conference statements by President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, which were taken here to mean that the United States was preparing to appease the Communists by abandoning the outpost islands. Dulles promptly instructed U.S. Ambassador Everett Drumright to assure President Chiang Kai-shek that the United States will not retreat in the face of Red force. Drumright relayed Dulles’ assurances to Chiang Thursday. Foreign Ministry officials said today they have “accepted the American explanation.” It appeared certain, however, that the Nationalists were still bitter about Dulles’ remark that Chiang may never regain his position as the dominant * figure in mainland China. Chiang’s whole policy since he fled to Formosa in 1949 has been based on the expectation that he would be able eventually to return in triumph to his homeland. Meanwhile, the Communist guns that have blockaded the Quemoy .outpost islands since Aug. 23 continued to thunder. The Nationalist Defense Ministry said Red shore batteries hurled 472 shells at Little Quemoy. Tatan and Ehrtan islands between midnight and dawn today. Price Support Rate On Corn Unchanged 1958 Support Rate $1.36 Per Bushel WASHINGTON (UPD-A “oneway” provision in farm law today saved corn growers who complied with federal acreage allotments this year from a 4-cent-per-bushel cut in their price support rate. The Agriculture Department announced the final support rate for the 1958 crop grown in compliance with allotments would be $1.36 per bushel, unchanged from the preliminary rate announced earlier in the year. Under farm law, the preliminary rate must be recalculated on the basis of supply conditions Oct. 1. If the recalculation produces a higher rate, farmers get the increase. If it leads to determination of a cut in supports under the formula pushing prices up and down with variations in supply, however, the preliminary rate stands as final. Department officials explained today that the preliminary rate, figured on the basis of the amount of corn on hand last April, was 77 per cent of parity. By Oct. 1,. however, supplies had risen enough to call for a support of 75 per cent of the current parity, or $1.32. Under the law, the cut was discarded and the $1.36 rate remains in effect. The department added the $1.06 rate previously fixed for corn grown by farmers who ignored allotments also remains as final. Corn grown by farmers in “noncommercial” areas where planting allotments are not enforced will be supported as usual at 75 per cent of the price set for growers who comply with planting controls.

California Fire Is Continuing To Burn Millions Os Dollars In Property Damage MONROVIA, Calif. (UPD — A two-day-old major brush fire accidentally started by two seven-year-old boys burned out of control today with little hope of being contained for the next three to five days. More than 3,500 acres of valuable water shed valued in the millions of dollars have been burned over along with eight structures, including at least five homes in the $30,000 to $50,000 class. Hundreds of residents were forced to flee with their possessions for a time Friday as the roaring blaze spilled over into inhabited areas of this Los Angeles suburb. Police Friday night said they had found two boys who admitted playing with matches and accidentally starting the fire. They were turned over to their parents until juvenile authorities can be consulted. The area was declared a “state of emergency” Friday by Gov. Goodwin J. Knight. Hundreds of firefighters and badly needed equipment were rushed to the area shortly after his proclamation. More than 750 men including Zunis, Hopis and Navajos Indians, experts in firefighting,’ battled the leaping flames during the night while several hundred state, county and city firefighters caught up on their sleep. More than 1,000 firefighters were expected to be at firelines after sunrise when dropping humidity and high temperatures along with morning winds create the greatest chance for the blaze to spread. Thej also will be assisted by planes bombing hot spots with a borate solution. Six planes were used yesterday. (Continued on page five) Girl Police Chief Declines Position Aurora, 111. Mayor Seeking Volunteers AURORA, 111. (UPD — Mayor Paul Egan, his girl police chief gone after a day in office, sounded an “urgent” call today for a volunteer police force—of men. “The situation is unbelievable,” he said. Few would disagree. Police Chief Don Curran and his 68-man force were still on the job. They had been fired by Egan in the wake of a controversy over televised bingo games which the mayor labeled as “corrupting the youth of Aurora.” Shapely Patti Counts, 28, a night club press agent and television commercial writer, had decided against accepting an offer to become police chief. “As your mayor, I will tell you that this situation cannot long exist,” Egan said Friday in a prepared statement. • “At this moment, the ex-chief of police and the policemen of Aurora are in open defiance of law and authority of Aurora. All arrests are illegal,” he said. Egan said the only answer was for “the able bodied men of Aurora 4 to meet an open revolution and insurrection.” “Many citizens are confused and missled (sic) by the events of the past few days,” Egan’s statement said. “I therefore call upon all able bodied citizens of Aurora—of the male sex—-to volunteer to follow me...” Egan said he particularly was interested in any ex-policemen or veterans who might be available. He said everybody will meet Sunday in the city council chambers to work the thing out. He said so far as he was concerned there was no chief of police in Aurora. Curran and the police force, meanwhile, captured Gregory Prado Valdez, 34, wanted for questioning in a Celina, Ohio, killing.

Dies Instantly Near City As Trucks Collide Well Known Berne Man Killed Near City This Morning Roxie B. Kessler, 54, of 265 Van Buren street, Berne, and well known throughout Adams county, was killed almost instantly at 6:10 o’clock this morning in the collision of two trucks two miles west of Decatur on U. S. highway 224. Mr. Kessler, an employe of the Meshberger Bros. Stone Co. as operator of heavy duty equipment, died almost intantly of a crushed chest and broken neck. He was riding in a Meshberger Bros, pickup truck, driven by Victor H. Mcßarnes, 50, of Geneva, and as Mcßarnes started to turn off the main highway onto county road 35, a truck loaded with soybeans attempted to pass. The front end of the loaded truck, driven by George E. Hasty, 59, of near Fairmount, struck the stone company truck on the left side. Kessler was thrown out of the light truck, which then skidded, apparently over Kessler’s body, which was then pinned under the Hasty truck. Neither truck driver was injured. The accident, the eighth traffic fatality in. the county this year, was investigated by the sheriff’s department, the county coroner, and the state police. Native of Monroe The accident victim was born at Monroe Oct. 8, 1903, a son of Peter and Sarah BrandyberryKessler. He was a graduate of the Monroe high school, where he was one of the school’s outstanding athletes. Mr. Kessler, a veteran of World War 11, was employed a few years ago as custodian by Adams Post 43. American Legion, and was well known in Decatur and area. He attended the Evangelical United Brethren church in Berne. Mr. Kessler is survived by his wife, the former Aldine Brown; his’mother, Mrs. Sarah Kessler, of Stutgis, Mich.; one brother, Forrest Kessler of Colon, Mich., one sister. Mrs. Ralph Van Zile of Sturgis, Mich. Two brothers, (Continued cti page ®ixs Community Fund's Campaign Opens In This City Monday The Decatur Community Fund will start its drive Monday in Decatur to reach the goal of $18,485 that was set recently to support the eight agencies in Adams county, David Moore, drive chairman, announced today. Another of the eight agencies that is supported by the community fund drive is the USO. The USO is an organization which provides entertainment, recreation and counseling services to service men and women all over the world. The USO will receive S3OC for the recreational needs of the American service men during the coming year. Tire USO operates 267 clubs and lounges for servicemen, with 22 of them overseas. The USO also provides shows for servicemen stationed at isolated outposts in different parts of the world. In the four major overseas defense commands, the USO follows the military maneuvers in various parts of the world.

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