Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 246, Decatur, Adams County, 18 October 1958 — Page 1

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KILLED BY BOMB IN AlßPOßT— Covered with a tarpaulin the shattered body of F. Don McCuiston, a free-lance aircraft engineer of Tulsa, Okla., lies in the shattered hallway of Wichita, Kans., Municipal Airport, blasted by a bomb he was carrying. McCuiston told an airport employe he found the package containing the bomb in a 'phone booth, and was carrying it to the lost-and-found offices when it exploded. He had just arrived on an incoming plane.

Probing Bomb Blasi Friday Al Airport Police Chief Says Evidence Pointing To Suicide Theory WICHITA, Kan. (UPI) — Authorities were checking today to determine if Forrest Don McCuiston had more than $25,000 flight insurance before he was killed by a bomb he carried in the Wichita Municipal Airport. Meanwhile, an FBI bomb expert from Washington wlas expected to examine bits of wire and paper and a battery to determine just what kind of bomb snuffed out the life of the 36-year-old Tulsa, Okla., aircraft design engineer. Still unanswered, however, was whether McCuiston was the innocent victim of a bomb planted by someone else or whether he made the bomb and took his own life. Wichita Police Chief Eugene Pond said "all the positive evidence we are getting points to suicide.” The engineer, married and the father of a 10-year-old daughter, died in a shattering explosion in a corridor' just off the main lobby of the airport Friday. Body Mangled Only 10 minutes before, he had left a Braniff Airways plane from Kansas City which carried 26 persons. The explosion devastated the corridor and shattered the plateglass windows lining it. Two or three persons were knocked down by the blast although McCuiston was the only person in the corridor at the time. His body was badly mangled and his gold wedding band, twisted out of shape, was found in the grass outside the corridor windows. McCuiston was ill and unemployed. In Tulsa, his father, F. D. said his son had been losing his eyesight (he wore extra-thick horn-rimmed glasses), had heart trouble and was out of work. Earlier this year he was convicted of income tax evasion in Tulsa and lost his job. He had not worked steadily since last May. McCuiston’s widow, Mary Louise, said he left home about 1 a.m. last P Wednesday to drive to Wichita. She he carried his briefcase. Rode Several Flights At the Wichita Airport, he $1 for a $25,000 flight insurance policy that named his wife as beneficiary. He took a plane to Denver, then rode on flights to Salt Lake City, to Las Vegas, Nev., to Phoenix, Ariz., to Kansas City and back to Wichita. ■‘Stewardess Donna Folsom and a passenger who sat behind McCuiston on the flight from Kansas , City to Wichita said they saw (Continued on page five)

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

6,000 Offices Up To Voters Nov. 4 Off-Year Apathy Is Likely To Cut Vote INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—Abodt 6,000 federal, state, county and township offices are up fgr grabs in Indiana Nov. 4, but the bugaboo of voter apathy in an “offyear”' election is expected to pare the vote considerably below the 1956 total when 72.4 per cent of eligible Hoosier voters case ballots. The top contest in Indiana centers around the bitter struggle between Governor Handley and Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke for U. S. Senator. But of equal importance, especially cm the national level, is the election of 11 members of the House of Representatives who will help enact federal laws and guide federal spending policies. Voters also will elect: —About 5,461 county and township officials. —Five state administrative officials; secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, school superintendent and clerk of the Supreme and Appellate Courts. —Four judges of the Indiana Appellate Court and one judge of the ' Indiana Supreme Court. —25 of the 50 state senators and all 100 members of the lower ' house. ' The voting will be done in 4,466 1 precincts in Indiana’s 92 counties ! by eligible voters between 6 a.m. 1 and 6 p.m. C.S.T.) To be eli- 1 gibel, voters must be citizens of 1 the U. S. ~ at least 21 years of 1 age and must have been a resi- ' dent of the precinct 30 days. In addition, a voter is not eligible un- I less he has registered or has vo- ' ted in the last proceeding prim- 1 ary or general election. i Estimated population of Indiana < is just under 4Vi millicm persons. I Os that total, about 2,764 will be eligible to vote next month, an 1 increase of 35,000 over the num- ' ber eligible in the 1956 general i election. i Two years ago, the presidential race and the gubernatorial con- i test sparked an above-average vo- . ter turnout in Indiana, although < two out of every 10 registered ( Hoosier voters failed to a , ballot and one out of every 10 ( failed to register. Os the 2,729,000 Hoosiers eligible , to cast ballots two years ago, , 1,978,218 took advantage of their constitutional right. That was 80 < per cent of the 2,467,459 registered ; voters and 72,4 per cent of the j eligible voters. / The national average was 60.4 per cent of the eligible voters. Democrats are hopeful that a national trend will put them back in power in this traditionally Republican state. Hartke is considered conceded by ’ many persons to have a good ch- ■ ance to vacated by retiring Sen. ’ William E. Jenner Newspaper polls 1 (Continued on page six) ■ INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cool tonight. Sun- i day fair and warmier. Low tonight mostly in 40s. High Sun- ] day low 70s. Outlook for Monday: Fair and mild.

Five Arrested In Bombing Os Jewish Temple Five Indicted For Bombing Os Jewish Temple At Atlanta ATLANTA (UPI) — Atlanta police early .today captured a man they termed "the central figure” in last Sunday’s dynamiting of a Jewish temple. Police stopped Richard Bolling, 25, while he was driving on a city street. He surrendered without resistance and was turned over to the FBI for questioning. Bolling was one of five men indicted Friday by a Fulton County grand jury on a charge of malicious destruction of a building by explosives within the city limits, a charge which could bring the death penalty under Georgia law. The other four were arrested earlier and held on vagrancy charges until the grand jury indictments. They are Bolling’s brother, Robert; Kenneth Chester Griffin, an employe of the state Revenue Department; George Bright and Wallace H. Allen, a printing salesman who resides in a $30,000 home in a fashionable Atlanta neighborhood. Out-Of-State Tiw Meanwhile the Northern Virginia Sun of Arlington, Va., said in a copy-righted story it had found a tie between Allen and George Lincoln Rockwell. 40, an Arlington commercial designer. The Sun story, by Zander Hollander, said a letter from Rockwell to Allen mentioned a “fat cat" who had financed anti - Jewish picketing. State law makes dynamite destruction automatically punishable by death unless the jury recommends mercy or the governor commutes the sentence. More arrests were predicted by Atlanta authorities in the bombing in which an 18-foot hole was ripped out of the Atlanta Temple, causing damages estimated at more than SIOO,OOO. Obtains Letter The Sun uncovered a letter from Rockwell to Allen which apparently referred to anti-Jewish picketing in Atlanta last July. "The big blast (picketing) is all set for either next Sunday, or (Continued on page six) Decatur Principal Is State Chairman Hugh J. Andrews Named By Legion Hugh J. Andrews, Decatur high school principal, has been named state chairman of the educational activities committee of the state department of the American Legion. As state chairman, the Decatur educator is in charge of the state contest for the 22nd annual national high school oratorical contest, sponsored by the American Legion. Plans for the annual contest have been received by the speech department of the Decatur high school, directed by Deane T. Dor win. Andrews has served for many years in Legion activities as county chairman of the oratorical contest, district and zone chairman, and last March acted as host principal and chairman for the state finals. The Indiana contest, held at the Decatur high school, was won by Reed Stewart, of Brazil, who went on to win the national championship. The oratorical contest starts on the local level, with each high school determining its representative. Die next competition is at the county level. Winners in the county contests will then compete on the district level, then in four zone contests. The four zone winners will then compete for the state title. The oratorical contest is sponsored by the American Legion, with the cooperation of the Indiana bar foundation and the Indiana department of public instruction. The contestant winning the state finals will receive a cash award of $l5O, and cash awards will also be made to other finalists In addition, the four contestants reaching the state finals will receive fouryear scholarships to Indiana University, provided scholastic standings meet the minimum requirements. The Legion post sponsoring the winning contestant will be awarded the Harold H. Morris, Glen Park Post 214 award plaque. Suitable awards are also made by Legion posts sponsoring the school, city, county and district eliminations.

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Decatur, |ndiana 7 Saturday, October 18,1958

One Killed, 10 Missing After U.S. Navy Plane Falls Off Newfoundland

Chiang Seeks U. S. Pledge For Defense Report Nationalist China Leader Will Ask Dulles Pledge TAIPEI fUPI) — Authoritative Chinese sources said today President Chiang Kai-shek invited Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to Formosa in hopes of getting a U. S. pledge to defend Nationalist China's outpost islands against Communist attack. Informed sources doubted, however, the United States would agree to such a pledge, which would 'almost certainly be denounced as a "provocative challenge” to the Communist Chinese. Chiang asked Dulles to, come here for talks as provided in the U. S. - Chinese defense treaty of 1955, which obligates the United States to defend Formosa and the nearby Pescadores Islands, but not the outlying Quemoy and Matsu island groups. Has Authority Congress has authorized President Eisenhower to include the outpost islands in the U. S.-de-fended area if he feels an attack on them would threaten the Nationalist “home islands,’ but the President never has done so formally. The U. S. Embassy announced today Dules will arrive at 7 a.m. Tuesday from Rome, where he is representing President Eisenhower at the final funeral rites of Pope Pius XII. Undersecretary of State Walter Robertson and Chinese Ambassador to Washington George Yeh are expected here Monday night. American sources said Dulles probably will meet Chiang several times during a three - day stay. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor is expected to attend at least some of the meetings. Taylor, the U. S. Armys chief of staff, arrives here next week (Continued on page six) American Motors, Union In Agreement Seven-Hour Strike Ends In Agreement DETROIT (UPI) — American Motors Corp, workers who went on strike for seven hours Friday before a contract settlement was reached by company and United Auto Workers Unicm negotiators were scheduled to be back on the job Monday. Immediately after reaching agreement with the company, UAW officials announced they were ordering the 14,000 striking workers back on the job “as soon as possible.” AMC vice president Edward L. Cushman said production would resume Monday. The agreement Friday was a three-year pact resembling the contracts between the UAW and Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. ' It called for pay hikes of about 10 cents an hour for auto production. Die contract also had a special section covering AMC’s Kelvinator plant at Grand Rapids, Mich., Whirfi froze wages at their present levels for two years. In the third year, however, Kelvinator workers are to receive the same pay increases as the auto production workers. The contract is retroactive to July 1 and expires Sept. 6, 1961, six days after the expiration date of pacts between the union and the, “big three.” Other provisions of the agreement call for improvements in supplemental unemployment benefits, severance pay, short work week schedules, pensions and a form of area-wide seniority for recall of unemployed workers. There also was a strengthened no-strike clause.

Vance Hartke Scores Handley For Running Says Constitution Forbids Candidacy United Press International Indiana Democratic senatorial nominee Vance Hartke said Friday night that Governor Handley’s “devotion” to the State Constitution is a "sham.” Hartke told a Columbia City , audience that Handley “has bro- ' ken his most solemn pledge 1 which was his promise to abide . by the Constitution which forbids ’ his running for senator." “His most sacred promise was t his oath of office, which he is violating every day as he goes . around the state seeking to swap [ jobs with his political cronies,” l Hartke said. In an eralier speech before the . Sigma Delta Chi professional . journalism fraternity at Indianapolis, Hartke said he "favors com- , plete freedom of access to all , newsmen on every Level of govs ernment...restricted only by conI sideration of national security.” Hartke told the newsmen that “we too often find these days that [ government agencies carry on private propaganda campaigns under the disguise of public information . divisions.” . That is “too often” the case in . Indiana, he said, where “the ■ state has sometimes withheld in- , formation and often has sugarcoated what it has seen fit to al- , low newsmen to have.” 1 Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker criticized Hartke’s administration of Evansville City government. Parker told a GOP rally at Brazil that "Hartke believes a 17.6 per cent water rate increase in Indianapolis is wrong, but an 85 to 100 per cent water rate increase in Evansville is right.” He said when Hartke realized “the obviously foolish inconsistency” of his stand, he petitioned the Indiana Public Service Commission to postpone a hearing on the proposed rate hike until after the election. “Is this the kind of man Indi(Continued on page six) Miss Jeannie Smith I Is Queen Entrant To Crown Queen At Fish Fry Thursday Jeannie Smith, 16 - year -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark Smith, or route four, Decatur, and a junior at Adams Central, is the second entry in the soybean queen contest, E. E. Rydell, general chairman, said today. Miss Smith has listed her talent as baton twirling. By Miss Smith entering the contest, only two have registered for the competition so far. Last week, Miss Nancy Fuhrman, 16 - year -old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl G. Fuhrman, of route one, Decatur, was the first eitrant. She listed was the first entrant. She listed logue. The contest is to be held in conjunction with the annual ruralurban fish fry on October 23. The crowning of the queen will be held at the Decatur high school following the fish fry. Any girl in Adams county between the ages of 16 and 19 inclusive, single,’ and a resident of the county, may enter for the competition. They are required to register as a contestant with the Decatur Chamber of Commerce in writing or in person by today. Rydell announced earlier this week that any person who fails to enter the contest by getting an application should contact him by calling 3-8247. Fred Kolter, executive secretary for the Chamber of Commerce, said today that three or 1 four more girls from Adams coun- 1 ty were expected to enter the contest later today. Preliminary judging of the con- 1 testants will be held at the Youth and Community Center Thursday ’ during the annual Adams county i soybean and grain show, with the i final judging at the fish fry.

Private School To Open Monday At Little Rock Superintendent Says Trouble Likely If Negroes Register LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (UPI) - The superintendent of the Little Rock Private School Corporation said today Negroes “will just cause trouble” if they try to register for the private, segregated schools scheduled to open Monday. W. C. Brashears, the superintendent, said he doesn’t mind “facing the thing head on.” “If any Negroes try to register, I will talk to them if they are reasonable,” he said. "I don’t know what I will actually do until the time comes. I hope they don’t show up. It would be a bad move, and they know it will cause some trouble.” Anything Possible Painters and repairmen moved in today to put finishing touches on a two- story brick building purchased recently from the University of Arkansas. It has served as the university s graduate center. Dr. T. J. Raney, president of the corporation, announced Friday that registration for “all white high school seniors” would begin at 9 a.m., c.s.t., Monday. He said the corporation had $61,481 in the bank and sufficient teachers to “get in business.” Negro leaders say they know of no Negroes who will attempt to register at the school Monday. But Wiley Branton, the chief attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Arkansas, said “anything is possible.” Appeal To Courts He said the NAACP regards the ' private school as “merely a sub- ' terfuge” and legal action against the private schoo 1 corporation 1 might be expected. ! He said it could take the form of a petition in Federal Court to make the corporation board of ' directors defendants in the original integration case, and force : the doors open to Negroes. Branton explained such a move would be based on the theory the (C». ufcd on page five, Death Reinstatement I Trial Set Dec. 2 Defense Motion Is Under Advisement A trial date in the case of Dale Death against the city of Decatur for reinstatement on the city police force has been set for Tuesday, December 2. Arguments on the defense motion to quash parts of Death’s claim were heard yesterday in the Jay county circuit court, and the judge took the matter under advisement, and will rule later. Appearing for Death was his attorney, Robert S. Anderson of Decatur, and appearing for the city of Decatur were John L. DeVoss, .city attorney, and James Grimes, Portland attorney. The Fraternal Order of Police attorney was not present. Death was discharged from the Decatur police force by the city board of works a year ago, following his arrest after an automobile accident for public intoxication. He was fired for conduct unbecoming an officer, absence without leave, and conviction of an offense. The latter offense was later dropped when the circuit court ruled that no trial had been held because of technical errors in the presentation of the case, and that no warrant had been issued. The case was not brought up again by the prosecuting attorney, who stated that the policeman who was the arresting officer refused to sign , another affidavit.

Directs Choirs Dr. Freeman Burkhalter, supervisor of music at Berne-French high school, will direct the choirs at the Fall Music Festival which will be held at Adams Central Tuesday night. The program will feature the bands and choirs of Pleasant Mills, Hartford, Geneva, Monmouth, and Adams Central. Al Stodden of Fort Wayne South Side, is to lead the bands during the music festival, according to William Hernandez, band director of Hartford Center. Dr. Burkhalter is minister of music at the First Mennonite church in Berne, and has been supervisor of music at BerneFrench since 1935. He is a native of Berne and graduated from Berne high school in 1926. Truman In Warning On Over-Confidence Former President Speaks At Capital WASHINGTON (UPl)—Hitherto confiden t Democrats began showing a few symptoms of preelection jitters today in awaiting returns on the impact of campaigning by President Elsenhower and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Foremost among those sounding warnings was former President Truman. He told a party fundraising lunch here Friday his campaign travels had shown “only one thing wrong with the Democrats.'* He said they Were suffering from “Deweyitis,” by which he meant the over - confidence shown by the Republicans in 1948 when he defeated Thomas E. Dewey in the presidential election. Eisenhower, who started his first major campaign swing Friday, was scheduled to fly today from his boyhood home at Abilene, Kan., to Denver, Colo., to spend the week end before moving on to the politically important state of California. Looking Better Nixon, who has been campaigning in the West this week, also flew into Denver Friday night from Wyoming. He asserted the President’s first California speech could “turn what appeared to be almost certain defeat into one of the greatest victories in the party's history.” He said the GOP had been beset by a series of “bad breaks” which had come to an end. In a speech at Cheyenne, Wyo., Nixon defended the administration’s foreign policy on grounds it had maintained peace with honor. Os the dispute over the islands of Quemoy and Matsu, he said a policy of firmness against Communist threats was a policy of peace whereas weakness was a policy of war. Defends Record In softer language at Cedar Rapides lowa, Friday Eisenhower said “no guns are booming today and the peace •is being maintained.” He also defended administration farm policy and said he was glad the farmers had not turned the job of running their farms over to the government. With many indicators suggesting as .easy Democratic victory in the congressional elections Nov. 4, Truman was not the only (Continued on page three)

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18 Survivors Are Saved By Rescue Crafl Navy Radar Picket Plane Plunges Into Sound Near Runway ARGENTIA, Nfld. (UPI) — A U.S. Navy radar picket plane plunged into Placentia Sound early today with 29 persons aboard. Naval officials at the U.S. base here said 18 persons had been rescued. A spokesman said nearly 12 hours after the crash that at least one person was dead and that 10 others were feared dead. “It will be rough going from now on,” the spokesman added, i Heavy rain and winds hampered I search and rescue crews. I The four-engined Super Constel- ’ lation was carrying naval person- , nel from the Patuxent, Md., Naval Station. It attempted to make an i instrument landing shortly after ; midnight but came down short of > the runway and hit the water. Rescue craft from this advance base managed to pickup 18 sur- > vivors during the first few hours . after the crash. The Navy men were being . transferred from the radar warn- . ing headquarters at the Patuxent River Naval Station to Argentia for assignment on radar picket duty. The plane carrying the men is the type used by the U.S. Navy on its “radar barrier” patrol flights between Argentia and the Azores. The Navy first reported that the plane was returning from a routine “barrier” flight but later disclosed that it was carrying newly assigned personnel here from Patuxent. & Names of the missing and dead were withheld pending notification ' of next of kin. It marked the second crash of a Navy Super Connie picket ship this year. Last Feb. 20 another Constellation with 23 men aboard was lost on a patrol flight between here and the Azores. No trace of the plane, which normally : carries a large number of person- ; nel to operate the complex radar detection equipment, was found. Atomic Test Shot Fired From Tower Remote Desert Area Is Shaken By Blast ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UPI —Aomic shot “Rio Arriba" shook a remote area of the southern Nevada desert early today, booming from atop a 75-foot tower in a minor-scale experiment of the current 1958 fall series. The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission triggered its ninth fullscale shot at 9:25 a.m. c.d.t. as the first of three scheduled blasts on succesiVe day ip( a “crash” program to complete the tests before a proposed Oct. 31 international deadline. It wasn’t visible immediately, but the tower disappeared in the fireball of the sub-kiloton (less than 1.000 tons of high explosive) range of desolate Yucca Flat. Originally, the AEC said it would finish 10 shots before the ban on tests, but a spokesman said it was quite possible that if talks with Soviet Russia don’t jell, the experiments here would continue after thait date. The small-scale explosion was visible for only a few miles in the vicinity of the test site. AEC officials said a revised schedule now called for 13 detonations in all. the 10th, “Rushmore,” to come Sunday morning, and “Wrangel,” the much-postponed device, to follow on Monday, providing weather and technical conditions are favorable. Spokesmen said the newly schedule shots were “experiments, not just firtag of stock - piled devices.” NOON EDITION