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•GOLD MINE* DUMP— Jessie Carswell, 43, a secretary, searches through tons of refuse in the Sacramento, Calif., city dump for $25,000 worth of blue chip stocks thrown there. A dump employe aids her. Two teenage boys stole her car and threw various items of cargo, including the stocks, into the dump. Happily, she found the stocks.

Pope Pius XII Is Buried In Solemn Rises Pope Buried Near Tomb Os Apostle Peter At Vatican VATICAN CITY (UPD - Pope Pius XII was buried near the tomb of the apostle Peter today in a requiem filled with all the pomp and ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church he headed for more than 19 years. The richly robed body of the Roman aristocrat who became one of the greatest popes in the 2.000-year history of the church was given all the rich final honors due a deceased pontiff. Then it was placed in three nested coffins and lowered into the deep grottoes beneath St. Peter’s Basilica. It will remain there in a temporary resting place for a year, and then be entombed permanently near the final resting places of many of his predecessors. 1 Cardinals of the church in purple mourning and red-sashed diplomats paid their last respects to the man who was born Eugenio Pacelli, and' who died as the temporal head of the tiny Vatican City state and spiritual leader of the world's half billion Roman Catholics. The general public, by a last minute Vatican decision, was excluded from the final ceremony, and fewer than 1C.G66 persons of official status were admitted to the basilica. Panoply of Color The final tribute to Pius XII, who died last Thursday at the age of 82, was televised for the first time throughout Europe from within the massive stone and marble walls of the vast St. Peter’s Basilica. A thousand candles and electric lights flickered on the last processional march around the columned canopy of Bernini and on the face of the late Pope, serene in death. Then the caskets were closed on by one, and the remains were lowered by pullets into the depths of the basilica. The history of the Catholic Church itself seemed to come to life and pass in review in the full panoply of color, as the final rites were performed and the exquisitely blended voices of the Julian Choir echoed through the vast reaches of St. Peter's. Msgr. Enrico Dante, prefect of apostolic ceremonies, signalled the beginning of the last act in the drama of Pius XII at 4 p.m. (10 a.m. c.d.t.). Four hours before, the last of a million persons had failed past the Pope’s bier on an elevated and inclined catafalque before the altar of the confession to pay their last respects. 24 Cardinals Present The body, its head graced with the mitre of the late Pope’s position as bishop of Rome and covered with the red robes of the papacy, had lain in state since Thursday, at first -at -Castel - Gandolfo where he died, and then at St. Peter’s, where it was surrounded by 24 lofy candles and seemed almost lost in the vastness of the basilica. Diplomats, religious and official guests looked down chi the final scene from damask-covered tribunals facing the main altar this afternoon. ■ The 24 cardinals presently in Rome sat in ranked rows of beaches on the marble floor of the cathedral within a few yards of the papal bier. The Pope’s three nephews and his aged sister, Elisabetta, sat With bowed heads in a reserved section, mourning the man who " (Continued on page eight) |

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17 Traffic Deaths Recorded In State 18-Year-Old Bride Is One Os Victims United Press International An 18-year-old bride died today of injuries sustained in an Indiana traffic accident near Columbus as she and her husband sped away on a honeymoon from their wedding reception. The death of Mrs. Wilma Beaty Minor, Columbus, raised the Hoosier weekend traffic death toll to at least 17. It was the fifth weekend out of the last six in which at least 15 traffic deaths were recorded. Mrs. Minor and her husband, William, were married at Columbus at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. They attended their wedding reception and as they left a carload of boys pursued them, shouting and blowing their car horn. Minor said he speeded up to try to elude the boys and lost control of the car on a curve on a county road near Alert. The car ran through a fence and overturned, crushing Mrs. Minor beneath it. The car containing the boys stopped, but, Minor told police, they left when one of the group warned the others that if they stayed they would “get into trouble.’’ Two accidents killed two persons each and all other deaths, including pedestrians and bicycle riders, came in separate accidents. Norman R. Palm, 15, Fort Wayne, died today of a fractured skull received when he took the family station wagon without permission Sunday and drove it at speeds exceeding 90 miles an hour. , State Trooper Robert Endres and Allen County Deputy Walter Stein said Palm probably was going 90 as the wagon left U.S. 33 and rolled over three times. Palm, a freshman at Fort Wayne North Side High School, was the son of Mr. and Mrs Russell Palm. Eli F. Rigdon, 87, Gaston, died in a Muncie hospital about two hours after he was hit Sunday by a car driven by James William Brockhoff, 20, Leesburg, on Ind. 3 one mile west of Eaton. Milton Roy Gesewotta, 29, Cleveland, was killed Sunday when a car carrying seven Valparaiso University students went out of control and crashed south of the Lake Couny Fairgrounds at Crown Point. 3 Women In Wreck Mrs. Ada Hendren, 79, Indianapolis, died in Bloomington Hospital about four hours after a head-on collision Sunday at the intersection of Ind. 54 and 45 near Little Cincinnati in Greene County. Authorities said the car carrying three Indianapolis women was on the wrong side of the road. Ronnie E. Robertson, 17, Lebanon, was killed when a car carrying three teenage boys and two girls went out of control Sunday a mile east of Frankfort on Ind. 28. Authorities believed the car was bumped from the rear by another as both traveled about 80 miles-per hour. Mrs. Lou A. Arledge, 72, Dana, was ' killed outright and Mrs. Mabie Jones, 52, Indianapolis, died later from injuries in a head-on crash Saturday on Ind. 32 in Vermillion County. Police said the car in which they were riding met a car which was passing another. Jennie K. Poland, 68, Indianapolis, died in a Muncie hospital about 10 hours after two cars collided at a Delaware County road intersection Saturday. ' Woman, 80, Is Killed May Howerton, 80, Borden, was killed Saturday when a car driven by Carl Jackson, 34, Borden, hit her as she walked along Ind. 60 (Continued on page five)

Pioneer Moon Rocket Falls Over Pacific Great Achievement Os U.S. Scientists Is Hailed By Ike WASHINGTON (UPD — America’s pioneer moon rocket apparently crashed like a meteor into' the atmosphere over the south Pacific at midnight e.d.t. Sunday night after completing an unprecedented 43 - hour exploration of outer space. The heavily-instrumented rocket which soared more than a third of the distance to the moon to reach an altitude of 79,212 miles, sent back a consant stream of radio signals until 11:46 p. m. e.d.t. Sunday night. ■Die Air Force announced early today the pioneering space vehicle was assumed to have struck the atmosphere at a speed of nearly 25,000 miles per hour and to have been completely consumed by friction about 15 minutes after its last radio signal was received. Although it failed to reach the intended “vicinity” of within 50,000 miles of the moon, the pioneer rocket blazed a trail into space that may well be the forerunner of true manned flight to the moon, the planets and even someday the distant sars. Probe Space Further Gen. O. J. Ritland, vice commander of the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division, said “we have every confidence that we will probe further into space, eventually to Mars, Venus and possibly the sun.” President Eisenhower sent scientists who took part in the historic venture his “sincere congratulations on this splendid achievement.” He said the flight had “Truly pioneered in deep penetration into outer space. “Already," he declared, “it is clean that it will yield knowledge of great benefit to mankind in a riding to an understanding of the universe in which we live." The Pioneer, by penetrating into space more than 30 times farther than the highest known previous flight, gave the United States a potent new acvhievemen to stack up against Russian's admittedly enormous satellite accomplishments, and thus further recoup this country’s weakened prestige as a world science leader. Ammunition For GOP It also offered the Republicans (Continue on page eight) Decatur Native In College Os Surgeons Dr. Donald Bixler Inducted Saturday Chicago (UPD — Thirteen Hoosier doctors, including Dr. Donald P. Bixler, son of Dr. and Mrs. N. A. Bixler of Decatur, were inducted Saturday night as new fellows of the American college of surgeons in ceremonies at the close of the group's annual clinical congress. Accepted in the world’s largest organization of surgeons were Donald P. Bixler. Anderson: Bruce A. McArt, Elkhart; Leo R. Nonte, Evansville; George C. Manning, Jr., and Robert E. Sullivan, Fort Wayne; Gerald J. Thomas, Gary? Robert A. Gerrett, Thomas W. Johnson, Harold King and John H. O. Mertz, Indianapolis; James E. Hull, Lafayette, Kenneth E. Sherer, Richmond, and Thomas L. Dittmer, Valparaiso. Dr. Bixler, was graduated from Decatur high school in 1937, from Ohio State school of optometry in 1942, and from Indiana University medical school. Bixler completed two years of residency at Louisville, Ky., and now holds a degree from Barcelona, Spain, from which school he has just returned. He is a diplomat in the section opthamology of’ the American college of surgeons. Annual Lions Sale Tonight And Tuesday The Decatur Lions broom and G-E light bulb sale will take place tonight and Tuesday, Frank Lybarger, activities chairman, said today. Lions club members are requested to meet in the alley behind the Western Auto Store to pick up their brooms and bulbs after 5 o’clock this evening, and to get territory assignments. Lions members are also asked to wear their Lions club caps, so that' the public may readily identify them. Brooms for the sale are made by the blind in Indianapolis, and the bulbs are General Electric company bulbs.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 13,1958

Supreme Court Again Rebuffs Gov. Faubus In Integration Scrap

Chinese Reds Extend Truce For Two Weeks Extend Cease-Fire On Formosa Strait Crisis Two Weeks TAIPEI (UPD — The Communists, in an anti - American gesture regarded by newspapers here as a prelude to “political blackmail,” promised today they will extend the uneasy truce. in the Formosa Strait for two weeks. Peiping Radio announced the extension of the cease - fire at 1:30 a.m., a half-hour after it was to have ended. The announcement said the Reds hope their action will cause dissension between the United States and its Chinese allies. 'lt said also that the Communists will resume their bombardment of Chinese Nationalist offshore islands immediately if U. S. destroyers return to convoy duty in the area. Charge U. S. Intrusion Earlier, the Red radio had charged. that two U. S. warships and two fighter planes “istruded” Sunday on Red China’s territory. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy, who arrived here a few hours before the ertension was announced, vis it e d President Chiang Kai-shek at the Defense Ministry today. Military sources said the two men discussed the possibile reduction of U. S. forces in the Formosa area in view of the apparent easing of tension. Urge Garrison Reductions American officials in Washington predicted that United States will urge Chiang to reduce his garrisons in the Quemoy and Matsu outpost islands if an indefinite truce appears likely. The extension was announced too late for comment in the local press, but the headlines indicated the deep distrust with which Nationalist neWsmen regarded the move. “Communists plan politic al blackmail!” said the independent United Daily News. The official Chisa Daily News described the extension as a cloak for “military failure.” At least three other newspapers denounced the extension as a “trick.” Lester W. Stucky Is Taken By Death Prominent Geneva Resident Is Dead Lester W. Stucky, 61, former president and manager of the Eastern Indiana Oil & Supply Co. at Geneva, died at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at a Richmond hospital after an illness of six years. Mr. Stucky was a member of the Methodist church and Masonic lodge at Geneva, the Adams county Shrine club and the Scottish Rite at Fort Wayne. Surviving are his wife, Vada; two daughters, Mrs. Stanley Klopfenstein of Portland, and Mrs. Gretchen Baumgartner of Geneva; his mother, Mrs. Josephine Stucky of Geneva, and four grandchildren. ” FuneraT'^fvlces’’wilTEe“TieTd at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home in Geneva, the Rev. Roger Lautzenheiser officiating. Burial will be in Gravel Hill cemetery, west of Bryant. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 o’clock this evening. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little warmer tonight. Tuesday sunny and warm. Low tonight 47 to 55. High Tuesday 72 to 80. Sunset today 5:09 p.m. c.s.t., 6:09 р. c.d.t. Sunrise Tuesday 5:53 a.m. c.s.t, 6:53 a.m. с. Outlook for Wednesday: Fair and warm. Lows in the 50s. Highs 75 to 85.

Calls For Educating Soldiers For Peace Eisenhower Speaks At Georgetown U. WASHINGTON (UPD- President Eisenhower said today the threat to the free world of “atheistic dictatorship” can become ■more dangerous "unless all of us arm ourselves with spiritual and ingellectual” defenses. The President called for “educating soldiers of peace” to-create “a great army that should be making its first business...developing and sustaining” peace with justice and honor. The President spoke informally at dedication and cornerstone-lay-ing ceremonies for the new Edmund A. Walsh memorial building at Georgetown University. He received an honorary doctor of laws degree. Eisenhower devoted most of his talk to the late Father Walsh, an 1 internationally known political scientist. He also paid tribute to the late Pope Pius XII as a “very great man.” The President called for training Foreign Service officers to view the “world as a single entity.” He said people should not be hampered by narrow nationalistic interests in their approach to world affairs. And, without mentioning names, he blasted those who are guilty of “intemperate, ill-tempered descriptions of other people in the world.” He apparently was referring to the* Communists who have been waging unremitting propaganda warfare against the United States and the West for, decades. To attend the Georgetown ceremonies the President interrupted preparations for a coast-to-coast campaign drive against the Democrats. Back at his desk today for the first time since last Thursday, he was convinced the Republicans (Continued on page six) Congressman Adair Speaks At Luncheon Industry Division Hears Congressman The first fall industrial meeting was held today at the Decatur Youth and Community Center and featured E. Ross Adair, fourth district congressman, as the guest speaker. Adair spoke to the 28 attending members on both foreign and domestic problems. Tom Allwein, president, introduced the main speaker after the luncheon. Adair based his points of interest on three major problems, taxation and expeditures, national defense, and the Far East problem. He stated that there will be no sweeping tax reduction until expenditures are crought to a minimum. Adair also stated that tiwi reduction in any broad sense is not in the immediate future. The topic of national defense was pointed out as the greatest single expenditure today. Adair stated that approximately $2 out of every $3 in taxes is spent for national defense. The missile program was used as an example of the progress gained by national defense and these expenditures. The problem in Formosa was presented ~as the foreign topics Adair stated that in his line of thinking, “the loss of mainland China will probably go down in history as the greatest loss suffered in our times.” Following Adair's talk with the group of business men, questions on matters both at home and abroad were asked of Adair. In conclusion of the program, Adair urged the 28 attending members to vote at the election regardless of their party to help keep America strong. Lowell Harper and M. J. Pryor were appointed by Tom Allwein to be in charge of the nomination committee -for the coming year. The nominees will be presented in the near future.

Fifth Nuclear Device Fired This Morning Blast Seen Several Hundred Miles Over Desert Wastelands ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. <UPI) — The Atomic Energy Commission early today exploded the fifth and most powerful ftuclear device in its current test series, a 10 kiloton blast dangling from a balloon 1,500 feet over Yucca flat. Because of the height and size of the blast it was visible for several hundred miles over the western desert wastelands. Motorists were halted between nearby Las Vegas and Beatty, Nev., and advised not to look directly at the fireball. The shot went off at 8:20 a.m., c.d.t. The experiment with a force of 10,000 tons of TNT was the halfway point in the AEC's weapons development effort. It originally was scheduled to go Sunday but “technical difficulties” caused a postponement. The shot, code-named “Lea,” was moved up an hour because of an Air Force gunnery contest at Nellis Air Force Base. Its flash in the pre-dawn sky failed to reach the ground but sent a sharp shock wave over observers 10 miles from ground zero. It was clearly visible for a brief second in Los Angeles, 300 miles southwest of the detonation. And it was seen through an early morning overcast in San Francisco, 500 miles northwest of the site. In the darkness of the fireball was followed by a big puff of smoke. There was a mushroomtype of cloud but its stem was not connected with the ground. Dust covered the desert in the immediate vicinity of the detonation, and as the sun began rising the cloud drifting to the east took on a purple color. * The AEC is seeking to complete its current 10-shot series before an Oct. 31 proposed ban on nuclear testing by the United States, Britain and Russia. Another shot was scheduled today but was cancelled. It will be held Tuesday, the AEC said, with possibly a seventh shot in readiness. Convict's Body Is Recovered In Bay Taken From Water Near To Alcatraz SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) — The of convict Aaron Burgett w'as recovered from the water near Alcatraz Island Sunday — just 13 days after the Missouri bandit made his bid to escape “The Rock.” His badly decomposed, body still was clad in prison clothes, and officials at Alca’tz.ra said one clear thumb print verified the identity. • Burgett’s espcape effort was not a desperate try, but apparently a well- planned bid for freedom. Slabs of plywood had been bound to his feet with wire as substitutes for swim wings to help conquer the turbulent 1% miles of bay" between Alcatraz and San Francisco. Burgett had extra socks under his heavy brown boots, and his trouser legs were bound at the ankles with black plastic tape — presumably to prevent them from ballooming during the long swim. The convict wore long, winter underwear over his prison trousers as further protection from the chilly water, and he still carried the knife used to overpower guard Harold Miller during the escape effort on Sept. 29. Another prisoner, Clyde Johnson. 43, a Memphis, Tenn., bank robber, joined Burgett in the bid for freedom. But Johnson was captured on the island the following day.

Five Persons Killed By Fires In Indiana Die In Four Fires In Indiana Sunday United Press International Four fires in widely scattered sections of Indiana Sunday killed five persons and swept a downtown business building in Terre Haute. A Mishawaka couple perished in an apartment blaze. Two men suffocated at Haubstadt near Evansville when a house burned. An Air Force staff sergeant was killed by a cleaning solvent blast in an Elkhart residential garage fire. A television and appliance store burned at Terre Haute. Thomas R. Daniels, 40, and his wife, Billie, about 50, were killed at Mishawaka by an apartment fire which may have started from spontaneous combustion in stored paint cans. Kenneth W. Hickrod, 26, Haubstadt, and Eldon Jones, 27, Princeton, were killed by smoke and fumes when fire swept Hickrod’s home while Jones, a Korean War buddy, was visiting him. Paul Schaefer, 26, Elkhart, an Air Force sergeant home on leave, was killed and his father-in-law and brother-in-law burned when solvent fumes ignited in a garage they were getting ready for a family reunion. At Terre Haute, loss in a fire at Jensen’s Television & Appliance Store was estimated variously from SIOO,OOO to a million dollars, but conservative figures between SIOO,OOO and $250,000 were considered more accurate. Three firemen were hospitalized from smoke illness. Two adjacent buildings were damaged by smoke and water. Two other fire deaths occurred Saturday in Indiana. Phillip Claypool, 3, burned to death in a fuel oil heating stove explosion and fire near Tipton which injured his father, Glenn, who tried to save the boy after rescuing his six other children. Jesse Moreno, 20, East Chicago, died in an Indianapolis hospital from burns suffered in an apartment fire Sept. 21 which killed Joseph Flores, 24, East Chicago. David Barkley Dies At Home Here Sunday Funeral Services To Be Wednesday David (Jim) Barkley. 82-year-old retired farmer, died at noon Sunday at his home, 1329 West Monroe street. He had been critically ill for the past 10 days. He was born in Union township Aug. 14, 1876, a son of Elias and Mary Clem-Barkley, and was married to Mollie E. Hel,m Oct. 17, 1900. He resided south of Monroeville most of his life until moving to Decatur in 1956. Mr. Barkley was a member of the East Liberty'" Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are a son, Fred A. Barkley of Fort Wayne; one daughter, Miss Helen A. Barkley, at home. Two sisters and four brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Zwick fpneral home, with the Rev. Lawrence T. Norris and the Rev. Joe Bear officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. B U LL E TIN O. C. Wright, 87, of Eldon, Mo., died at 2 o’clock this afternoon at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Donald V. Hill, 1216 F'm street, where he had been residing for the past several months. The body will be returned to Eldon for funeral services and burial.

Declines To Review Ban On* Use Os Guards Religious, Civic Leaders Shocked At Temple Bombing By AL BUETTNER United Press International The U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed Gov. Orval Faubus, Arkansas, again today declising to review Federal Court actions forbidding him to use troops to keep Negroes out of Little Rock's Central High School. In another case, the high court agreed to examine the validity of Virginia’s 1956 laws d i r e c t e d against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. It sent back to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, however, another lawsuit dealing with the NAACP’s resposse to subpenas obtained by a state committee investigating racial matters. The committee is now defunct. The Supreme Court also let stand a lower lourt decision invalidating two Louisiana laws dealing with admission of Negroes to state-supported colleges. One of the laws required earth registrant to publicly financed colleges to present a certificate of good moral character from his high school principal and superintendent of schools. The other law, the trial court found, would cause the school officials to lose their jobs if they signed such a certificate for a Negro. In the Faubus case, the high court’s action today left Faubus bound by an April ruling of the Bth U.S. District Court of Appeals in St. Louis not use National Guard troops again to interfere wih integration. The new Supreme Court Integra-, tion Things come as religious and civic leaders over the South and the nation expressed shock and anger at the bombing of an Atlanta Jewish temple Sunday morning. An organization formed earlier this year to investigate the continuing wave of dynamitings already had offered $55,700 in rewards for information leading to arrests of those responsible. Within a few hours the total of rewards in Atlanta had reached another $8,250. . President Eisenhower called the latest bombing “deplorable” and ordered FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to submit a “full, firsthand report” on it. White House sources said the President was “deeply concerned.” Religious leaders of all faiths in Atlanta and elsewhere in the South denounced the segregationist underground suspected of the dynamitings. Auhorities pressed an all-out investigation, aided by the FBI and experts on explosives sent here by the anti-bombing group. A numper of persons already had peen questioned. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People figured strongly in developments at other racial trouble spots. At Little Rock, Arkansas Atty. Gen. Bruce Bennett announced growing support of his proposal that steps be taken to curb NAACP activity. Bennett is sponsoring aplan to”ncutraHze"the - Negro organization. In Virginia, where nine schools have been closed by state law to prevent race mixing in classrooms, NAACP General Counsel Thurgood Marshall predicted that solution of educational problems in the state “will come much faster than most people ttonk. He addressed a state NAACP rally at Hampton. Va. NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, speaking at Raleigh. NC., said unless North Carolina admits more Negroes to white schools, its school laws are doomed. He attacked the “gradual” plan under Which mall numbers of Negroes have been admit(Oontlnued on page tive,

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