Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 247, Decatur, Adams County, 20 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 247.

I ‘W I r 1 W ; v * >fcl [ sHMum n ■ '.■|B K< ' 1 ' Rb « W. Mfe mgju I 8 i ■ ft GUNNERY MEET— Climax to the Tactical Fighter Weapons Gunnery Meet in Las Vegas, Nev., was the take-off of an F-100 Supersabre from a truck bed, utilizing no runway. The pilot reached a speed of 275 miles per hour in a matter of seconds with an assist from a rocket of 130.000 pounds thrust. After the plane is airborne, the rocket booster is released.

Fall Election - Campaign Into Final Two Weeks Ike Carries Tour Into California; Chairmen In Clash WASHINGTON (UPD — Re- ■ Ldcans charged today that an > creased Democratic majority in Congress would “sabotage” President Elsenhower’s conduct of foreign policy. Democrats denied it and said an increased margin would strengthen bipartisanship. The clash came as President Eisenhower moved into California for his first major campaign speeches of the 1958 congressional contest. His first speech, in Los Angles tonight, was billed as a "hard - hitting recital of the record” of his administration. The President’s speeches this Week, to be carried over regional TV networks, will push the campaign into its climactic stage in which both parti e s will be throwing all they have into the most critical states. Former President Truman, the Democrats’ most active campaigner, returns to the stump Tuesday for a series of East Coast appearances which will have him crossing paths with Vice President Richard M. Nixon, busiest campaigner for the GOP. Party Chairmen Clash Hie sharpened pitch of the final two weeks of vote - seeking was presaged Sunday by the rival party chairmen. GOP National Chairman Meade Clcom, referring to the Democrats as “the party of the leftwingers and appeasers,” said the President would be “consistently undercut, sniped at and sabotaged” in dealing with Communists and preserving peace if a “big Democrat Congress” is elected Nov. 4. Democratic Chairman Paul M. Butler asserted a larger Democratic majority in Congress would mean “return to bipartisanship in forming our foreign policy.” He said a Democratic majority “will not attempt to create pressure” to change the administration’s Far Eastern policy. The Democrats still confidently expect to increase their present slim majorities in both houses in the Nov. 4 balloting. Butler has previously predicted an increase of 8 to 12 Democratic senate seats and 40 to 60 in the House. Sunday night he said it would be “closer to 12 than 8, or even beyond 12” in the Senate and “probably 50 rather than close to 40” in the House. Calls For Unity Other political developments: ' —Butler openly invited Southern Democrats who don't agree with the Supreme Court’s school integration ruling to quit the Democratic Party and join the GOP or form a third party. Sen. George A. Smathers (D-Fla.), chairman of the Senate Democratic Campaign committee, accused Butler of dividing the Democrats when they needed unity. There were reports that efforts will be made before long to oust Butler from hte party chairmanship. —A group of liberal Democrats headed by A. A. Berle Jr. of New York is seeking contributions for (ContrtnueU on page eig-h<)

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Hartke Appears In Decatur And Beme Senate Candidate In County Saturday Vance Hartke, Democratic candidate for the U. S. Senate, spoke to more than 100 Democrats at a rally at the Decatur community center before marching in the Berne street fair parade Saturday afternoon. a Hartke arrived at 12:45 from two speaking engagements in the morning, and spoke briefly, calling for concerted effort in the last two weeks, and a supreme effort on election day to get everyone Wtei.' ’ Following the speech here he was driven to Berne by Sheriff Merle Affolder in time for the parade there at 1:30 p.m., and afterwards he shook hands with hundreds of people in the exposition tent there. After leaving Berne he proceeded to Huntington county for an evening rally. W. Robert Fleming, Democratic candidate for congress, and his wife, the former Leah Peters of Decatur, also shook hands with many old friends in both Decatur and Berne Saturday. Both attended the Hartke dinner. Severin H. Schurger, Democratic candidate for prosecutor,. and twice a state candidate for the appellate court bench, presided at the meeting, and introduced Hartke. The group stood for a moment of silent prayer in honor of the late John H. Heller, Democratic editor and leader for more than half a century. Hartke, Fleming and the county candidates rode in two cars, and then all stopped at the Democratic booth -in the exposition tent. Thousands passed through the tent and let the different candidates. Hartke told the group that he was deeply disappointed that the campaign was sinking to a low level in the last few weeks, with the Pulliam newspapers grinding out innuendos and lies concerning the issues. Hartke added that he had tried to make his speeches constructive, explaining what he intended to do if elected to help the people of the state of Indiana. Falsehoods and lies about the situation in Evansville, spread by the Republican press, had hurt him deeply because be felt it was a non-construc-tive campaign to avoid the issues and call names. State Candidates In City Tuesday Night A carry-in supper for seven Democratic state candidates, with a brief speech by Albert A. Steinwedel, candidate for auditor of state, will be held at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Tuesday night, it was announced today. The public is invited, and there is no charge. Those attending should bring their own plates and silverware. Coffee will be provided. Present in addition to Steinwedel will be G. Remy Bierly, Walter Myers, John S. Gonas, candidates for the appellate court, Alice C. Cavanaugh, candidate for clerk of the appellate and supreme courts, and Jack S. Haymaker, candidate for treasurer of state.

White Pupils Register For Private School Private Schools In Little Rock Opened For White Students ’ LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UPD— More than 400 white high school students started registering for classes today in private, segregated schools opened by the Little Rock Private School Corp, and Ouachita Baptist College. The Private School Corporation’s classes, for white seniors only, will start Tuesday in a threestory building that formerly housed the University of Arkansas graduate school. It was Gov. Orval E. Faubus’ answer to Supreme Court orders to integrate. About 150 seniors were registered there. About 250 students were registering at Second Baptist Church for classes Ouachita Baptist College expects to begin there and at two other churches next Monday. There probably are around 2,700 white high school students and 700 Negroes for whom public schools have not opened this year because of the integration' dispute. Six or seven hundred students have transferred to schools out of Little Rock. Officials of Philander Smith and Shorter (Negro)colleges scheduled meetings today to see what can be done about setting up private schools for Negroes. Ouachita Baptist College registered white students for 10th, 11th and 12th grade private classes. Registration for Baptist private schools will continue through Wednesday. W.C. Brashear, superintendent of the private school system, said classes will start Tuesday in the former graduate school center, “even if we have to hold them on the lawn under the trees.” A line on the registration cards said: “Tuition: Yes. No.” Apparently students were expected to jjay button if they could afford it w irapsIMICTF a tuition schedule of S2O for the first child in a family, sls for the second, >lO for the third and $5 each for additional children. Thirty-seven Little Rock high school students left in a special bus today for Hazen, 50 miles away, which offered them places in its high school. Carpenters. painters, electricians and other workers were still repairing and putting the three-story former University of Arkansas graduate center in order. “They may have us painted out,' Brashears said, “but we will have school Tuesday somehow.” He said the corporation hopes to have school open for sophomores and juniors by Nov. 1. That is the “point of no return,” according to school officials—the date past which the seven weeks lost cannot be made up. Gov. Faubus closed the city’s four public high schools to keep them from being integrated. (Continued on page five) Annual Fish Fry In Decatur Thursday J. J. Baker Named As M.C. For Event J. J. Baker, specialist in the personnel department at the Decatur plant of the General Electric, company, will be master of ceremonies at the annual rural-urban fish fry Thursday evening at the Decatur high school gym. Baker, a native of Decatur and resident here most of his life, will conduct the meeting, which annually attracts more than a thousand residents of Decatur and Adams county. Feature of the fish fry will be the crowning of the Soybean Queen, and announcing the winners of the county soybean and grain show. Joe W. Seabold, sales promotion manager for the McMillen Feed Mills, will lead community singing at the annual event, sponsored by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Preliminary judging in the Miss Soybean contest will be held at the Youth and Community Center Thursday afternoon, with the final judging and crowning to be conducted following the fish fry. The county soybean and grain show will be held at the center Thursday morning and afternoon, with the winners to be announced and honored at the fish fry. Deadline for sale of advance tickets closes at 5 o’clock this evening.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, October 20,1958

Chinese Communists Break Cease-Fire In Quemoy Islands Today

Reject Plans Ministers To Attend Talks Big Three Talks On Nuclear Test Bans Scheduled Oct. 31 WASHINGTON (UPD—The United States told Russia today it sincerely hopes that Big Three talks beginning in Geneva Oct. 31 will lead eventually to “the final termination” of all nuclear weapons tests. The United States, in a note delivered at the Soviet Foreign Ministry, rejected a Russian proposal that foreign ministers attend the Geneva talks from the beginning. The note said that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles would be prepared at a later date if “the presence of foreign ministers seems necessary and desirable.” The note reiterated President Eisnhower’s Aug. 22 proposal for a year-to-year test suspension if sufficient progress is made on an international control andinpection system and other phases of disarmament. The U.S. note was released by the State Department. At the Mme time, Britain informed Moscow that it will attend the conference but also made it clear that foreign ministers should sit in only at a later date when top level discussions would be required. The U.S. note said the American government “considers that an agreement for the suspension of nuclear weapons testing under internatioal control should be worked out as rapidly as possible.” The American note made it clear that the United States is sticking by its conditional year-to-year offer. The U.S. noted that the Soviet Union had said the aim of the conference should be to end atomic and hydrogen bomb tests “by all states forever.” Then the note added that it was the “sincere hope” of the United States that the Geneva talks would “make sufficient progress to justify expectation that the final terminaion of all nuclear tests explosions may in due course be achieved.” Greentown Woman Dies OF Injuries KOKOMO, Ind. (UPD — Mrs. Fern Downing, 57, Greentown, died Saturday from injuries sustained in a head-on collision of two cars Thursday which killed Odra R. Scott, 62, Walton. Louisa J. Smitley Is Taken By Death Decatur Lady Dies Saturday Evening Mrs. Louisa J. Smitley, 82, died at 6 o’clock Saturday evening at her home on East Monroe street, extended, following an illness of two years of complications. • She was bom in Darke county, 0., Oct. 17, 1876, a daughter of Robert and Sarah Crosbie-Clark, but had resided in Decatur practically her entire life. She was married June 18, 1893, to George Smitley, who preceded her in death. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Baker of Decatur; four\sons, Gerald Smitley of Decatun, Russell Smitley, at home, Melvin Smitley of Corunna, Mich., and Marshall Smitley of Fort Wayne; 14 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. One daughter, four brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services win be held at 2:30 p. m. Tuesday at the Black funeral home,' the Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery.. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of the services.

Nine Persons Killed In Indiana Traffic Is Lowest Weekend Toll Since August United Press International Despite heavy traffic induced by perfect weather, football games and the annual autumn foliage show, Indiana appeared today to have recorded the lowest highway weekend death toll since August. Nine persons were killed between 6 p.m. Friday and midnight Sunday. Barring late death reports or deaths resulting from weekend accidents, the toll will be the lowest in nearly two months. Alfred Townsend, 21, Terre Haute, died Sunday in a Terre Haute hospital from burns sustained Saturday when he was trapped inside a burning car which had overturned on a* rural road. Theodore R. Eash, 56, Cassopolis, Mich., was injured fatally Sunday when his car left Ind. 19, crashed through two mail boxes and a fence post and rammed a tree north of Elkhart. Mrs. Dora Alice Mathias, 62, Clayton, and Miss Gladys Germaine, 58, Clayton, were killed Saturday when a car driven by Robert McKee, 6C, Monrovia, hit a bridge and turned over north of Hazelwood on a Hendricks County road. Robert Eugene Beckman, 19, Logansport, was killed when a car missed a curve, hit two trees and turned over on the edge of Logansport. Beckman and two passengers; including last year’s Logansport basketball star Larry Cart, were thrown out. Cart's left leg and hip were injured. Mrs. Ruth C. Richardson, 43, Marion, died after she was hit by a car driven by Albert F. Johnson, 68, Hanna, as she walked on U.S. 6 near Westville Saturday. She was an employe at Norman (Co jfc<3 on nax« five, Adams County Man Critically Injured Lawrence Diehl Is Injured Near Peru Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Diehl, of route two, Geneva, parents of Mrs. Merle Affolder of Decatur, were hospitalized late Sunday morning from injuries suffered in a two-car collision that occurred approximately eight miles north of Peru at the intersection of state roads 16 and 19. The four persons involved in the mishap were hospitalized at the Duke Memorial hospital in Peru as a result of the accident. Mr. Diehl, 70, listed in critical condition, is unconscious and has remained such since the accident. He is suffering from a dislocated left shoulder and is paralized on his right side. Mrs. Diehl, 74, received lacerations to the head and has a badly bruised right foot. The others involved in the mishap are Mr. and Mrs. Paul Cox, of Akron, Ind. Cox is suffering from internal injuries and lacerations to the forehead. The extent of the injuries suffered by Mrs. Cox has not been determined as yet. The condition of Mr. and Mrs. Cox was not listed as serious. They are believed to be in their fifties. The accident occurred when Diehl, driving westbound on state road 16, apparently ran a stop sign at the intersection. The Cox vehicle was southbound on state road 19 when the accident occurred. It was stated that it was not known if Diehl suffered a stroke before the accident occurred. Doctors stated this might be possible since his right side is paralyzed. Both of the automobiles were completely demolished in the accident. Mr. and Mrs. Diehl are originally from Bluffton and moved to the Linn Grove area approximately four years ago.

Civil Rights Fight Out In Open By Party Democrat Chairman Invites Anti-Civil Righters Quit Party WASHINGTON (UPD — The Democrat s’ smoldering civil rights fight broke into the open today with a blunt invitation by Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler to anti-civil rights Democrats to quit the party. Butler, interviewed Sunday on ABC-TV’s “College News Conference,” said the racial issue requires “moral leadership” and predicted there will be “no compromise” on a strong civil rights stand in the Democratic platform in 1960. “Those in the South who are not deeply dedicated to the philosophies of the Democratic Party will have to go their own way,” he declared. . .“If they don’t want to go along on the racial problem and the whole area of human rights, then I think they are going to have to take political asylum wherever they can find it, either in the Republican Party or a third party., . Smathers Rapa Butler “I would say anyone who is unwilling to accept the platform of the Democratic Party in 1960, and anyone who is going to stand up in America today and say we are going to resist the decisions of the Supreme Court, and we shall not recognize the principles of law and order upon which this nation exists, then I certainly would hope they would take leave of the Democratic Party.. .” Sen. George A. Smathers (DFla.), in charge of the campaign to elect Democratic senators Nov. 4, promptly accused Butler of dividing the Democratic Party at a time when its primary need is unity. “I think the time has come when the chairman of the Democratic National Committee should start spending his time pointing up the unity of the Democratic Party rather than its jliyision,” Smathers fold United Press International in an interview, “A leader is supposed to gather his forces, not divide them. I think his (Butler’s) time would be better spent assisting our candidates to get elected than this continued pontificating about CConth, o- page eigM) Henry Thiele Dies Saturday Afternoon Funeral Services Tuesday Afternoon Henry F. Thiele, 88-year-old farmer residing three miles west of Poe in Allen county, died at 12:45 o’clock Saturday afternoon at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne He has been ill 13 days following a cerebral hemorrhage. He was born in Pleasant township, Allen county, March 4, 1870, a son of Frederick C. and Catherine Springer-Thiele, and lived in the community his entire life. His wife, Emille, died July 19, 1947. Mrs. Thiele was a lifetime members of St. Mark’s Lutheran church, three miles west of Poe. Surviving are two sons, Fred C. and E. Thiele, and a daughter, Mrs. Paul M. (Alma) Keller, all of Pleasant township; eight grandchildren; and one sister, Mr?. Fred Franke of Fort Wayne. Two. sons and one daughter are deceased. The body, groughou —-— The body brought to the Zwick funeral home, has been returned to the residence, where friends may call until 12 noon Tuesday. The body will lie in state at the church until services at 2 p.m. Tuesday, the Rev. Willard Kalk officiating. Burial will be in St. John’s Lutheran cemetery on the Engle road.

Physician To Pope Quits As Director Action In Selling Diary Is Described ROME (UPD—The cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church today accepted the resignation of Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi, physician to the late Pope Pius XII, as director of the Vatican health service. The swift action of the group administering affairs of the church until a new pope can be elected followed a far-reaching outcry against Gajeazzi-Lisi’s action in selling his “diary” about the last hours of Pope Pius XII to the world press. Underlining their acceptance of the resignation of the man who for a quarter of a century was the late Pontiff's physician, the cardinals declared that the post as “archiatro” (chief physician) of the Vatican was vacant. Vatican sources said that Gale-azzi-Lisi also had been formally barred from Vatican City by the cardinals. The sources said Galeazzi-Lisi handed in his resignation to the appropriate Vatican office this morning and that it included his resignation as honorary major and medical officer to the papal palatine guard. Vatican sources said that in the letter of r e s Lg nat io n which Galeazzi-Lisi sent to Eugene Cardinal Tisserant, dean of the sacred college, the former papal doctor said he was resigning in order to be more free to defend himself against the accusations leveled at him by the Rome Medical Assn. This group scheduled a meeting for today to decide whe the r Galeazzi-Lisi violated professional ethics by writing newspaper and magazine articles describing the last moments of the late Pope. Galeazzi - Lisi, 67, the Pope’s physician for a quarter of a century, was with him when he died in the papal summer palace at Castel Gandolfo. His articles (Continued on -page eight) County Music Fete On Tuesday Night Annual Rural Music Festival On Tuesday Al Stodden, instrumental director at Central high school in Fort Wayne, will direct the bands in the Adams county music festival Tuesday night, William Hernandez, band director at Hartford Center, said today. Stodden received his bachelor of music degree from Vandercook college of music, his master of science degree from Indiana State Teachers College, and attended the University of Kentucky. Stodden has been the instrumental director at Central high school in Fort Wayne since 1950, and is president of the Indiana bandmasters association. He is also a charter member of the American school band directors association, and is on the legislative council of NISBOVA. The director for the choirs was announced Saturday by Hernandez. He stated that Dr. Freeman Burkhalter of Berne would direct the choirs of the Adams county schools. The schools that will take part in the festivities at Adams Central are Pleasant Mills, Hartford, Geneva, Monmouth and Adams Central. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with scattered thundershowers likely late tonight or Tuesday. Warmer tonight but turning cooler Tuesday. Increasing southerly winds this afternoon and tonight, shifting to westerly Tuesday. Low tonight in the 50s. High Tuesday 66 to 76. Sunset today 4:59 p.m. c.B.t, 5:59 p.m., c.d.t. Sunrise Tuesday 6:01 a.m. 7:01 a.m., c.d.t. Outlook for Wednesday: Mostly fair and cooler. Lows mostly In the 40s. Highs in the 60s.

Chinese Reds Cancel Truce, Resume Firing Bombard Islands Three Hours While Dulles Is Enroute TAIPEI, Formosa (UPD— The Chinese Communists broke the case-fire in the Quemoy islands today with a three-hour bombardment while Secretary of State John Foster Dulles flew here for talks aimed at a short-of-war solution to the Formosa Strait crisis. Dulles conferred by telephone with President Eisenhower in Denver during a stopover at Fairbanks, Alaska. He announced afterwards that he was continuing his trip to Formosa, although the new Red shelling had reduced some of the hopes for success of the talks. Diplomatic sources in Hong Kong said tonight' Red China’s ending of the cease-fire was only temporary. They said it was almost certainly connected with Dulles’ arrival in Taipei to show that Peiping is “master of its own house.” They said they believed Peiping will throw its weight around for a few days while Dulles is in Formosa and then gradually taper off the shelling. In Washington, State Department spokesman Lincoln White said that U.S. convoying of Chinese Nationalist supply ships "has not resumed and will not be resumed until it is militarily necesary.” He added that it would "be up to Washington, on the recommendation of the commander in the field,” to decide whether “military necessity” was urgent enough to bring about resumption. Earlier, the Navy said any decision tc resume convoying would be made by the American commander on Formosa. Two LSTs Damaged The Nationalist Defense Ministry said the Communist bombardment lasted two hours and 40 minutes. A spokesman said three LSTs (landing ships, tank) which were unloading supplies on the beach at Quemoy and a Nationalist commercial cargo ship just offshore were able to pull out in time and were not sunk by the bombardment. A fifth ship operated by the Nationalists, an unarmed Navy cargo vessel, also escaped. A Defense Ministry source said two LSTs were lightly damaged but returned to Quemoy under cover of darkness tonight to complete their unloading. The Nationalists announced that the Reds' shelling of Quemoy was followed by a bombardment of tiny Tatan Island, perched in the mouth of Red-held Amoy harbor on the mainland. A U.S. Taiwan Defense Command spokesman said “the Communist shelling was not very heavy and was returned by light Nationalist counterfire.” He was not able to give any more specific information. Dulles Due Tonight Dulles was to confer with President Chiang Kai-shek and other Nationalist leaders on Formosa. After Dulles conferred by telephone with President Eisenhower in Denver, White House Secretary James C. Hagerty said it had been decided to have Dulles continue his mission in the hope the renewed Red attack would be a short one. In his statement at Fairbanks, Dulles said “It is a tragedy that the Chinese Communists have displayed their warlike dispositions. All who love peace must hope that the, present resumption of fighting ’will be of short duration and that the world may be spared the grave consequences of Communist persistence in aggression.” Dulles is due herfe at 6 p.m. c.d.t. The Communist shelling ceased two hours and 40 minutes after it started, the Nationalist Defense Ministry said. The Red guns began blasting while Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was flying here (Continued on page est)

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