Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 254, Decatur, Adams County, 28 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 254.

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22 Men Killed By Blast In Virginia Mine I Investigators Seek Cause Os Explosion Killing 22 Miners BISHOP, Va. (UPD—A team of investigators search today for the cause of an explosion that rocked a deep tunnel of a coal mine killing 22 miners, apparently instantly. The blast Monday touched off the tragedy only 1,500 feet from the spot where 37 miners died in a rumbling gas explosion 20 months ago. The mine was operated by the Pocahontas Fuel Co. The safety division of the United Mine Workers headquarters in Washington said the Bishop mine “has one of the worst accident records of any coal mine in the country.” A UMW spokesman said 70 miners have died in the mine since Jan. 1, 1954. West Virginia Investigates The investigating team was headed by Crawford L. Wilson, director of the West Virginia Mines Department. Wilson, who said the explosion apparently was caused by gas as was the 1956 explosion, was in charge of the inquiry because the main shaft of the mine is in West Virginia. He was joined by federal mine inspector William Clark, UMW safety director Charles Ferguson and Pete Ferreti, company vice president in charge of operations for Pocahontas. Work in the soft coal mine will not be resumed until after the team holds a formal hearing Tuesday. A crew worked during the night to re-establish ventilation in the shaft. The tom bodies of the victims brought to the surface nearly 10 hours after the 8:30 a m. explosion Monday, were taken to funeral homes in communities around this tiny border town. Identifiable By Tags Rescue workers, wearing gas masks and oxygen tanks, had inched through the gas-filled tunnel 500 feet underground to recover the bodies, 17 in one group and 5 in another. The tom condition and position of the bodies indicated the miners were killed by the explosion, apparently instantly. James Leeber, area safety director for the UMW, accompanied the rescue teams and said the men were identifiable only by their dog tags. Eight of the victims had finished their night work shift a half hour before the blast and were waiting to be relieved. The others were starting the regular day shift. Company officials said 166 other (Continued on page five) INDIANA WEATHER Frost warning tonight. Generally fair and cool tonight with frost likely in many sect i oni. Wednesday generally fair and not much change in temperature. Low tonight in the 30s. High Wednesday in the 50s. Sunset today 4:48 p.m. c.s.t., 5:48 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Wednesday 6:10 a.m. c.s.t, 7:10 a.m. c.d.t Outlook for Thursday: Fair with little temperature change. General frost likely Wednesday night. Lows in the upper 20s north to mid 30s south Wednesday night. Highs Thursday in the 50s.

DECATUR PAUA DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY IWWBPAFBB IN ADAMS COUNT!

Stale Candidate Is Speaker Al Geneva Jack Haymaker Is Speaker Last Night “Consider carefully your choice for U. S. Senator,” Jack A. Haymaker, Democratic candidate for treasurer of state, warned an audience at Geneva Monday night. “An axiom which I believe is: Once a big spender, always a big spender',” Haymaker, brother of former Democratic state chairman Ira Haymaker, continued. “And our opposition, old oathbreaker Handley, will be as big a spender if he goes to Washington as he is right here. It would be disastrous if we were to allow ‘high-tax’ Harold to reach the U. S. Senate. There are two million people working for the federal government. If Harold had his way, in less than two years there would be 20% more. Then before he finished his term, he would be running for president.” “Just think what he would try to do to our constitution. And how about all the padded expense accounts? And what couldn’t he do with the national debt! Look how he put Indiana into debt, and here it is against the state constitution to do it. Oh, of course, he would cut down on social security, and he would kill that highway bill. And according to him, we could defend this country with a handshake and a polka-dot tie. Can't you see him with his new tax bill? A 50% increase in federal income tax. Unlimited national debt. Fluor-escent television lights all over the capital. "At the present time federal taxes take about one-third of the average man's earnings. The old constitution-buster would have his hand in your pocket for 50% of your earnings in less than a year. And what would you be getting for (Continued on page five) Announce Features For Parade Friday Sheriffs Mounted Posse Will Parade A few feature events for the Halloween parade that will be held Friday were released today by the general chairman, Jim Webb. Lowell Smith, a Decatur high school teacher, will announce the proceedings of the parade from a sound track in the center of town on Second street. Smith will give to the public the detailed information on the bands and other groups that will appear in the annual event. Webb stated that the Decatur high school band will feature an original march called “Parade of the Pumpkins” composed especially for the Callithumpian parade. The local reserve unit, “B” Battery of the 424th Howitzer Battalion, will take part ,in the parade and march as a unit. This will be considered a regular drill with all of the members scheduled to take part. The soybean- queen and her court will also appear. The sheriffs posse, consisting of several men on horses from Adams county, will also be featured at the parade. The posse is composed of 12 men who will be dressed in complete sheriffs uniforms. Other information on the parade and announcements will be given later by Webb.

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Tactics Used By Red China Says Communistic Acts Outlandish And Uncivilized WASHINGTON (UPD—of State John Foster Dulles said today the Chinese Reds’ on-again-off-again shelling of Quemoy and Matsu was outlandish and uncivilized. He declared it was designed for promiscuous killing of civilians rather than any military objective. Dulles told a news conference that the Communist tactics were unprecedented in history and apparently were designed to save face after the intensive red bombardment of the offshore islands failed to blockade them. The secretary would not predict whether the shelling would increase or decrease. But he said he did not think it was likely that the Reds would raise their military efforts to the point likely to provoke general war. Dulles said the Communists in tention of shelling on an every other day basis was evidence of what he called the upside down thinking and talking which one has to expect from the Reds. On other subjects of international interest, the secretary said: —The Russians may be trying to wiggle out of any real efforts to negotiaet a nuclear test ban because they discovered at last summer’s Geneva scientific talks that the United States was far ahead of them in the field of nuclear explosives. —He believes that communism, both in Russia and China, is going to collapse within a matter of decades because the people are not going to allow themselves to be squeezed forever to promote the ambitious plans of international communism for world conquest. —Chiang Kai-sheck’s renunciation of the use of force to regain the Red-held mainland was a completely fresh formulation of the Nationalist government’s mission, putting emphasis on winning [through peaceful processes instead of force. He said this should .be highly significant in the long range developments in the Far East. —There has been no agreement between Chiang and the secretary for a specific reduction in forces lon the offshore islands. There are and will be military level studies conducted on how to better use Chiang’s military resources. However, any studies beyond that would be very difficult to carry out while the reds are still waging active warfare. He and Chiang did not discuss the possibility of more economic aid for the Nationalist government. —Red China’s withdrawal of the last of her “volunteers” from North Korea has very little sigI nificance because they have only been pulled back a short distance beyond the Yalu River and can quickly return to their previous positions. The United Nations forces still in Korea cannot be pulled out, despite Red demands, because their mission still is to reunify the country under free elections. —The U.S. offer to contribute to a regional Middle East development program to be run by the Arabs themselves, which Plresident Eisenhower unveiled last August at the United Nations still (Continued on pige five)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, October 28,1958

Angelo Roncalli Named Pope By Sacred College Os Cardinals In Rome

Sen. Monroney Foresees Sweep By Democrats Campaign Oratory Continues As Fail Election Week Away WASHINGTON (UPD — Sen. A.S. Mike Monroney <D-Okla.), back from campaigning in several states, today predicted a “democratic sweep reaching the proportions of 1936” if the present trend among voters continues until Nov. 4. Monroney’s view challenged Vice President Richard M. Nixon's statement Monday before a Republican fund - raising meeting in Michigan that a “striking shift of voter opinion” had halted the trend toward a Democratic landslide. Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler also chipped away at Nixon's statement, declaring the Vice President was “whistling in the dark” with statements the Republicans were gaining in the final days of the campaign. Both the Republicans and Democrats were beating the confidence drums during a partial lull in the heated campaigning on a national level. But President Eisenhower was still on the political trail today, in New York City. FDR Carried 46 States Nixon returned to Washington Monday night to rest before launching his final jaunt of the fall campaign Wednesday. Former President Harry Truman, who has traded verbal blows with Nixon most of the past month, also was pausing before the climactic final effort to get out Democratic party votes. Monroney said “continued Republican fumbling is doing more to insure Democratic victory than even the well-run and streamlined campaigns” of the Democrats. He said a “definite and identifiable Democratic trend’’ formed the basis for his hope for a Democratic victory of 1936 stature, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt all but two states against Republican candidate Alfred M. Landon and nearly swept Republican candidates out of Congress. President Eisenhower, in a speech Monday night at Pittsburgh, continued hammering on domestic issues with the Demoevontinuea on page five) 12,561 Registered For Fall Election Increase Reported Over Primary Total Registered voters for the general election total 12,561 for the 39 precincts in Adams county, according to a report given by Richard D. Lewton, Adams county clerk. This total gives 722 more than were eligible for the primary election when voters went to the polls last spring. During the primary election 11,839 voters were registered. The precincts and the number of voters for each follow: East Union, 235; West Union, 232; East Root. 360; West Root, 375; North Preble, 215; South Preble, 270; North Kirkland, 210; South Kirkland, 145; North Washington. 435; South Washington, 320; North St. Mary’s, 261; South St. Mary’s, 319; North Blue Creek, 203; South Blue Creek, 158; North Monroe, 348; South Monroe, 342. Berne A, 375; Berne B, 550; Berne C, 660; French, 265; North Hartford, 304; South Hartford, 170; North Wabash, 210; Ceylon, 157; Geneva A, 388; Geneva B, 330; East Jefferson, 121; West Jefferson, 181. Decatur 1-A, 425; Decatur 1-B, 324; Decatur 1-C, 368; Deqatur 1-D, 454; Decatur 2-A, 509: Decatur 2-B, 390; Decatur 2-C, 290; Decatur 3-A, 512; Decatur 3-B, 442; Decatur 3-C, 314; DecaturRoot, 394.

Recommendations On Adams County Home Must Qualify For Welfare Payments Robert O. Brown, director of the division of public assistance in the state department of public welfare, has recommended that the Adams county home comply with recommendations made by the state board of health and the state fire marshal’s department, in a report submitted to the county commissioners Monday. At the present, there are 25 residents of the home, 20 of whom would be eligible for welfare payments if the county home complied with the state minimum requirements outlined earlier this year. Some of the requirements have been met, but not enough to qualify the county home, according to the report. Os the 25 persons at the county home, four are paying the cost of their maintenance in the home from their own resources and two others are paying a part of the amount. . Tile is being placed around the foundation of the building in an effort to stop the seepage and drainage problem that has existed for some time' at the county home. Yost Construction company is doing the work of trying to locate the trouble in the drainage problem. Other improvements Ifcted -were the washing of tile walls in the building, installing a new, tumbler type washing machine, dryer and mangle in the taundry, and adding new mattresses and window shades to equipment. The inspection of the home was made October 10 by Russell E. (Oc on cage rive, Community Fund Is Over Half Pledged Captains To Meet At Center Tonight A total of $9,598.62. or 52 per cent of the Community Fund drive, has already been collected, David Moore, chairman, announced today. A meeting of captains will be held this evening at 7:30 o clock, at the Youth Center, to attempt to speed up collection of the fund, which has now lasted three weeks. Total amounts reported by captains so far are: Carl Braun, $500; Art Burris, $573; Mrs. Lloyd Cowens, $252; Gail Grabill, $425: Ralph Habegger, $212.30; Ted Hill. $1,100; the Rev. J. O. Penrod, $275; Wilbur Petrie, $454; Miss Glennys Roop, no report until completion; Central Soya employes, $2,298.52; General Electric and employes, $3,026.30; city employes, $102; Schafer Co., Inc., employes, $304.50; Krick-Tyndall Co., $76. School teachers will be solicited later this month by Miss Roop. The Decatur Casting Co., and the Bag Service Co. began collections today. 1716 goal of the campaign is $lB,485, and will J>e reached, but may take a little longer than necessary, Moore said. Everyone who has not given is asked to do so now. Funds may be mailed to Mopre by those not contacted. Switzerland Slides Shown Decatur Lions O. N. Smith, of Berne, showed slides of Switzerland to the Decatur Lions club at the regular meeting Monday night. Smith and his wife were on the “Berne to Bern” tour this August which spent several weeks in Europe, especially Switzerland. Noah Steury was in charge of the meeting. Dec. 1 will be a ladies night for the Decatur Lions club, president Glenn Hill announced at the meeting. Noah Steury was elected third vice-president of the Lions, and Clyde Butler moved up to second vice president, while Roger Gentis replaced the Rev. Edgar P. Sohmdti as first vice president.

Red Artillery Pounds Quemoy Islands Today Appears As Slowly Intensifying Blow On Outpost Island United Press international TAIPEI, (UPI) — Communist gunfire battered the Quemoys today in what appeared to be a outslowly-intensifying attack on the outpost island chain. This was an even day in the Communists’ strange, stop-and-go cease fire when they said they would not bombard landing beaches or airfields. On odd days of the month they said they would bombard eveything. The Chinese Nationalist Defense Ministry said 103 shells fell on the islands during the morning--27 more than in the same period Monday. Forty-four were directed at Big Quemoy, 43 at Little Quemoy and 16 at Tatan. The ministry would not say whether any shells fell on the airfields and beaches which the Communists have promised not to attack on even-numbered days of the month. There was no immediate report of casualties from today’s shelling. The Quemoy War Relief Assn, said 19 civilians were killed and 31 wounded during the week that ended Monday. No figures on military casualties were made public. The ministry announced that Nationalist jet fighters flew over the Matsu outpost island twice Monday “to demonstrate Nationalist control of the air over the Formosa Strait.” There was no report of air battle. Meanwhile, the ministry said-, the Red buildup of military might along the coast continued. More than 720 Red soldiers were sighted Monday at work on fortifications opposite the Quemoys, while more than 550 were seen building fortifications opposite the Matsus. Second Nobel Prize Awarded To Russia Physics Award Goes To Soviet Experts STOCKHOLM (UPI) — Russia won an unprecedented second Nobel Prize today when the Swedish Academy of Sciences presented the physics award to the Soviet experts who discovered and developed the "Cherenkov effect,” which may have been put to practical use in Russia’s Sputniks. The Russians who will share the $1,250 prize are Pavel A. Cherenkov, Igor E. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank. The academy said that work done ,by the three Russians paved the way for the University of California's recent discovery of the anti-proton and facilitated Stanford University studies of nuclear structure by electronic diffraction. It is also the basis for new methods of studying cosmic rays. The academy also announced the award of the chemistry prize to Frederick Sanger, a 40-year-old professor at Britain’s Cambridge University whose analysis of insulin was the specific basis for the award. “The Significance of Sanger’s achievement is, however, not limited to the fact that he has given us the exact structure of insulin. . . it goes far beyond this. Insulin is a protein, and thus belongs to the group of substances which are considered to be carriers of the. processes of life ... “Sander’s methods and results have opened a road to the determination of their detailed structure, and thus one of chemistry’s greatest problems has found its solution in principle. “Many research workers have (Oontfmied on* page five)

New Pope Pope John XXIII Senator Kefauver Speaking In Slate Plans Four Speeches Tonight, Wednesday United Press International Governor Handley and 9 of the 11 Republican congressional nominees will take to television tonight in a last-ditch pitch for support in the Indiana election. At the same time, Hoptsier Democrats Will greet a nationallyknown U.S. senator for a 24-hour 4-speech campaign in behalf of their candidates. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, the party’s nominee for vice president in 1956 as Adlai Stevenson’s running mate, will speak tonight in Richmond (10th District) and Wednesday in Brazil (7th), Seymour (9th) and Evansville (Bth). Kefauver was booked to further the bids of Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke, Governor Handley’s opponent for U.S. senator. Handley’s television appearance will cover 18 stations throughout Indiana and the border cities of Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky. Congressional nominees from all districts except the Ist and 10th will appear sectionally on the same program. Hartke to 6th District Meanwhile, Hartke ended a fullday tour of the 7th District and barged into the 6th for appearances at Greencastle, Crawfordsville, Terre Haute, and smaller communities. Hartke said at Greencastle that Handley “refuses to debate” because “he doesn’t know what the issues and problems are, let alone how to solve them.” Hartke said Handley’s “entire career in government has been one of much talk and little action. “He has talked low taxes and then raised them. He has talked economy and then spent wildly. He has talked clean government, but looked aside while cronies padded payrolls. He has talked efficiency and then given huge windfall profits to cronies at state expense.” He said at Terre Haute that most of the burden of paying education “bills now falls on the local community, which levies property taxes. Indiana Trails Nation “In the average state, the bill is shared almost equally by state and local governments. In Indiana, only about a fourth is paid by the state. This means the prop<Continued on nage five)

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Italian Named 262nd Pope Os Catholic Church 76-Year Old Italian Patriarch Elected To Head Catholics VATICAN CITY (UPI) — The Sacred College of Cardinals today elected Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, 76-year-old Italian patriarch of Venice, as the 262nd pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He will reign as Pope John XXIII. Roncalli is considred a “nonpolitical” pope—in short, one who will devote his main effort to the spiritual affairs of the church rather than to international events. A cardinal priest, he was born Nov. 25, 1881, and was created a cardinal by the late Pope Pius Xll—whom he succeeds—on Jan. 12. 1953. The son of a north Italian sharecropper, the new Pope served for 27 years as a successful Vatican diplomat, but was known as always a bishop at heart. The election of the Venetian patriarch came on the third day of voting—apparently on the 11th ballot. A Short Signal First news of his election, came to the world when a thin white wisp of smoke circled up at 5:07 pm. (10:07 a.m. c.s.t.) from, the chimney above the Sistine Chapel. The smoke signal was short and indistinct at first, leaving the hushed crowd of 200,000 persons gathered in St. Peter’s Square in anguished anticipation. The first official announcement that the world’s half billion Roman Catholics had a new spiritual leader came when the Vatican Radio said in a Portuguese language broadcast at 5:23 p.m. “The church has a new pope." As news of the papal election spread by radio and word of mouth throughout Rome, thousands began hurrying by foot or car to the Vatican. A massive traffic jam blocked bridges crossing the Tiber and leading to St. Peter’s. An Apparent Compromise The choice of Cardinal Roncalli was an apparent compromise, made to give the church a leader after two days of deadlock in the conclave. An elderly man, his reign could be short, but it should give him time to bring the College of Cardinals back to its authorized strength of 70 members from its present low of 53. The explosive cheers of the crowd—swollen to at least 250,000 —greeted Pope John XXIII when he stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s after receiving the homage of the assembled cardinals who chose him. The new Pope was ordained a priest in the Rome church of Santa Maria in Monte Santo on Aug. 10, 1904, and celebrated his first mass in St. Peter’s Basilica. From the balcony of that same historic edifice he carried out his first public act tonight after it was announced by Nicola Cardinal Canali that **We have a new Pope”—in the traditional Latin words “Habemus Papem.” In a strong and ringing voice, the new Pontiff delivered the traditional blessing “urbi et orbi”— (Continued on page five)

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