Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 256, Decatur, Adams County, 30 October 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 256.

— IO?' JI — ’3K _ 1 1 , $ 9k jH A MICHIGAN STARS ARRAIGNED— U of Michigan football fullback Tony Rio, (left! and his roommate, basketball captain Jack Lewis, both of Chicago, hurry into their auto after their arraignment as members of a SIO,OOO-a-week football gambling ring. Both stood mute at the hearing and a plea of “not guilty" was entered with their trial to come up in early November. They have been suspended from athletic participation.

Right To Work Law Hot Issue In Six States View Ohio Biggest Battleground On Law At Nov. 4 Election WASHINGTON (UPI) — Both sides of the right-to-work issue agreed today that the proposed law stands its best chance of adoption next week in Kansas and Idaho and faces its heaviest going in Caufcrrua, Colorado and Washington. Ohio was viewed as the biggest battleground of all because it seemed to be the most doubtful of the six states in which the right-to-work issue will be before the voters next Tuesday. Maintaining the administration stand of neutrality. Vice Presi,dont JRMteaudtM.Nixon kept his poution a secret Wednesday when he marked his absentee ballot for California. President Eisenhower and Nixon consistently have refused to take a stand on these laws on the ground that they were state matters. At the same time, the adminisration has not discouraged Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell from speaking against them during the 1958 political campaign. Right-to-work laws, already in effect in 18 states, forbid union shop and similar contracts requiring employes be union members to hold their jobs. Nixon Heads West There were these other political I developments: < —Nixon left Washington Wednesday night on the last of his 1958 campaign swings with speeches scheduled today at Fort Dodge, lowa, and Wichita, Kan. He told newsmen as he boarded the plane here that the Demo- i cratic congressional campaign ( was "running like a dry creek’ i with the GOP campaign throwing j the Democrats off balance. Nixon said the Democrats “are jittery’’ i but refused to predict how many ] seats the Republicans would win , in the new Congress. i —Secretary of Labor James P. i Mitchell told a Republican rally Wednesday night in Milwaukee, Wis., that Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Gov. Orval Faubus ; of Arkansas “represent the true i Democratic Party’’ which he • called a “bicephalous monstrosity." He said Proxmire intro- ■ duced needless bills in the last Congress in “a reckless display 1 of fiscal irresponibility,” while > Faubus’ point of view was “a ; churning whirlpool of prejudice and reaction and obstnktionism, ■ into which are sucked all the , moderate and decent elements in a society." Urges Vote Turnout —Republican National Chair- ] man Meade Alcorn told a party : rally at 'Greenwich, Conn., ( Wednesday night that the great- ; est challenge facing the GOP next week is to get out the vote. He said stay-at-home Republicans lost control of Congress for the : GOP in 1954. He warned that | Democratic victories in congres- : sional and other elections this ( year would make it easier for the Democrats to elect a president in j 1960. —AFL-CIO President George i Meany charged in a paid coast- ■ to-coast radio address Wednesday 1 night that political campaign oratory ttiis year has been marked by “big lie techniques” aimed at ; pinning a pro-Communist label on ] organized labor. Although Meany < did not name either party, he , complained of such terms as : “radical” and “socialism” which , have been used in speeches by 1 (Continued on page five)

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Hartke And Handley Trade More Punches Senate Candidates Continue Campaign United Press International Governor Handley and Vance Hartke traded more punches today in Indiana’s senatorial election campaign, and imported oratorical trient came to the aid of each nominee as the bid for Hoosier votes reached a new crescendo. Handley, at Princeton this morning, accused “imported radicals” who tried to turn labor against him of trying to stir up farm opposition by “distorting my position" on state control of REMC loans. Hartke, on a swing through Southern Indiana, accused Handley of "sticking his head in the sand” while “prices soared moonward, while unemployment increased and business got worse." Lyndon Johnson Hen Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas flew to Hoosierland to aid the Democratic cause, close on the heels of Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee, who finished a 24-hour visit Wednesday night. Johnson speaks in Indianapolis tonight. And for the Republicans, Postmaster Gen. Arthur Summerfield went to Rensselaer for a nonpolitical building dedication at St. Joseph’s College and a 2nd District political rally in the same town. There were these other developments as the campaign waxed white-hot: —GOP State Chairman Robert W. Matthews and Democratic State Chairman Charles Skillen demanded federal supervision of elections in Indiana cities to prevent “frauds and irregularities.” Matthews’ list of cities were those with Democratic mayors, Skillen’s those with Republican mayors. —Rep. Ray J. Madden (D-lst District) charged in a Hartford City speech that the Committee on Constitutional. Government, which published full-page political ads in Hoosier newspapers recently, was set by to further the GOP campaign and is “financed principally by the oil monopoly lobby and other special interest, supporters of the Republican National Committee.” Parker Sends Messages —Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker sent telegrams to all 92 county GOP organizations appealing to them to get out the Republican vote next Tuesday and “we will win.” —President Eisenhower sent a telegram to the Indiana GOP urging leaders to get out the vote and “assure by the election of able and dedicated people a strong, stable and sensible government.” —Negro attorney Frank Beckwith of 1 Indianapolis said in an Anderson speech that members of his race “cannot in good conscience support Democrat candidates in Indiana or any other state.” Handley also speaks today at Jasper and Boonville. He assailed “radical forces” he said are trying to turn the farmer against him by “distorting my stand on Rural Electric Membership Cooperatives." “This is the same out-of-state group that is trying to undermine my support from rank-and-file union members by attacking my stand in favor of the state right-to-work law,” the governor said. “Selfish,” Says Hartke Hartke characterized the governor as a “selfish man, head of a large political machine who has not hesitated to hire and hire, tax and tax, purge and purge.’* He labeled Handley a "donothing” senator in the Legislature during a tour of the 9th Discontinued on page five)

3 Americans Are Awarded Nobel Prize Medicine Award To Three Scientists Announced Today STOCKHOLM, Sweden )upi) — Three American scientists won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Medicine today for their pioneer work in genetics—studies tjiat could lead the way to a cure for cancer. One-half of the $41,250 award went to George Wells Beadle, professor at the Kerbkhoff Laboratories of Biology at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., and Edward Lawrie Tatum, search center, the Karolinska Institute, New York, for their discovery “that genes act by regulating definite chemical events.” The other half of the prize went to Joshua Lederberg, professor at the University of Wisconsin, for his discoveries concerning "genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria.” The awards were made by the staff of Swede’s medical research centr, the Karolinska Institute, which said the American discoveries would have a strong influence on the search for a cure for cancer. Discuss Pasternak Uproar Today’s announcement completed Stockholm’s part in awarding Nobel prizes this year. However, it was overshadowed by the rejection of the Nobel Prize for Literature by Russian writer Boris Pasternak. The Swedish Academy will meet later today to discuss the situation created by his renunciation of the award. The other prizes awarded here during the past seven days included the physics award, which went to three Russian scientists, and the chemistry award, given to Dr. Frederick Sanger of Cambridge University. The Nobel Peace Prize, if one is awarded this year, will be announced later in Oslo, Norway. The experiments that won Beadle and Tatum their award confirmed that genes control enzymes and that enzymes control the chemistry of life. Gives First Clues

The discovery gave science its first clue as to how genes — which transmit heredity in plant and animal reproduction—actually work. Their work now forms part of toe foundation of modern genetics. Lederberg and his co - workers at the University of Wisconsin discovered that bits of genetic material, introduced into toe body of bacteria, will be accepted by the bacteria and combined with its own into a new type. This process is termed “transduction, one form of recombination. The importance of Lederberg’s discovery lies in toe fact that it revealed that sexual fertilization is not the only way for bacteria to be recombined. PTA Fall Festival Here Friday Night Annual Festival To Follow Parade Here The annual fall festival, presented by members of toe Lincoln school and Northwest school P.T.A. organizations, will be held Friday night. The Decatur high school gymnasium and several of the class rooms will be the site of the “indoor carnival.” Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Gaunt, representing toe Lincoln school, and Mr. and Mrs? Gerald Gehrig of the Northwest P.T.A. are general chairmen for_ this year’s event. Committees have been named from both of the P. T. A. memberships for the booths, stands and games. Preparations for toe Halloween celebration are almost complete and a big night of entertainment is promised. The booths at the fair will include: fishing pond, cake walk, movies, target games, dart games, pitching and tossing games and many others. All of toe activities are arranged for the entertainment erf both old and young. The food stands will feature all kinds of sandwiches, soft drinks, cider and doughnuts, coffee and pie, candy. Tickets are on sale by students of both toe grade schools and may also be purchased at toe festival Friday night. All proceeds from this annual event are used by the two P.T.A. organizations to buy equipment and make improvements at their schools. The general chairmen have announced that the festival will open at 8 o’clock, following the CaUitoumpiau parade in downtown Decatur.

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Decatur, Indiana Thursday, October 30, 1958

12 Miners, Trapped Six Days In Blasted Mine; Rescued This Morning

Report U. S., Britain Favor India Proposal Compromise Plan To Halt Nuclear Tests Reported Approved UNITED NATIONS (UPI) —The United States and Britain have tentatively accepted an Indian compromise proposal to end nuclear tests, informed sources said today. The Russian reply was expected before nightfall. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin sent the proposal to the Kremlin which has frequently accepted India’s role as a conciliator. Support of the resolution by the three powers would virtually ensure its passage in the U. N. Political Committee whose 81 member nations hfive been bickering three weeks on a solution. Details on controlling a nuclear ban would be worked out at Geneva, Switzerland, where the U.S., Britain and Russia will meet Friday to discuss a suspension of the tests. The compromise resolution offered by India calls for a suspension of all nuclear tests but does not state a definite period of time. This would be worked out at the Geneva conference, with the United Nations making some suggestions. Tough Attitude GENEVA (UPI) —The Russians assumed a tough attitude today against Western proposal to suspend nuclear weapon testing for one year. There were reports the United States and Britain would refuse to budge from their position on a firm control system. Diplomatic sources said the two countries would tell Russia an agreement to end the tests without proper controls would be worthless.

But Radio Moscow, quoting the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossia, said toe Soviet Union would continue to explode nuclear weapons until the West agreed to toe Russian demand for an immediate cessation of nuclear tests. The Russian news reports said the Communists would reject the Western proposal of a one-year suspension. The turn of events came as the American delegation called on toe Russians in a pre- conference meeting to prepare for toe opening of the talks Friday. Mrs. Chas. Burke Dies This Morning Decatur Lady Dies At Hospital Today Mrs. Orah Victoria Burke, 61, of 338 Line street, wife of Charles Burke, died at 9 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in failing health for two years and critically ill for the past three days. A lifelong resident of Adams county, she was born March 20, 1897, a daughter of Albert and Minnie Burkhead-Gage, and was married to Charles Burke March 6, 1918. Mrs. Burke was a member of the ladies auxiliary of Adams Post 43, American Legion. Surviving in addition to her husband are her mother, who resides at the Burke home; two daughters, Mrs. M. H. Moseley of Eddyville, Ky., and Mrs. Ray Schwartz of Indianapolis, and two grandsons, Ronald and Randall Schwartz. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. ( Saturday at toe Black funeral home, the Rev. W. L. Burner officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 4 p. m. Friday, and from 7 p. m. Friday until time of the services.

Annual Halloween Parade Here Friday Annual Parade In City Friday Night A reminder that the annual Callithympian parade will be held on the main streets of Decatur Friday night starting at 7:30 p.m., was issued today by general chairman Jim Webb. The parade will form at the Ad- , gms county jail at 7 o’clock sharp, ’ enabling toe parade marshals to i place toe entries and form toe . bands. The main streets of Decaj tur will be the route used by all . of the entries. The route of the parade is to start at Five Points, . north on Second to Marshal street, L east to First street, South to Monroe street and back onto Second street. k Prizes, awards, judges, and persons connected with the parade were announced earlier by Webb. [ Feature attractions such as the participation of the local reserve unit, toe soybean queen and her . court, and the sheriffs posse were given by Webb. , There will be 11 bands taking part in toe annual festivities which j wi)l also feature both of the Decatur bands, toe Decatur high school band under toe direction of Clint Reed, and toe Decatur Catoolic high school band directed « by Joseph Morin. Neither of toe . two schools will participate for the 4 ISO prize. The Decatur high school , barid announced Tuesday of a spe- ' cial arrangement called the “Parade of toe Pumpkins” that the band , will present at the annual event. r The other bands taking part in . toe parade and competing for the - SSO prize are: Monmouth high a school; Hoagland high school; AdI ams Central high school; Hartford _ Center high school; Berne-French high school; Bryant high school; j Pleasant Mills high school; Willj shire high school, .and the Adams (Continued on page five) Father Os Murdered k ■ Youth First Witness Initial Witness In -Caril Fugate Trial ’ LINCOLN, Neb. (UPI) — The , father of slain Robert Jensen, 17, was scheduled as toe opening witness today in the first degree ; murder trial of Caril Ann Fugate, i 15. ; Beginning with toe testimony of - Jensen’s father, toe state will try to prove that Caril was a willing and helpful partner to her boy friend, Charles Starkweather, 19, in the slaying. Ibe defense contends Caril was a terrified hostage, too young to know how to handle toe “maddened killer,” and not physically capable of stopping him. Starkweather is awaiting a ruling on his appeal to the Nebraska Supreme Court from a death sentence imposed on him for the same murder. The swaggering ex- ■ garbage collector also admitted 5 toe murders of 10 other persons, and first cleared but later implicated Caril in toe last 10 slayings. ’ Trace Bloody Trail * The bodies of Jensen and his ■ girl friend, Carol King, 16, were found jn an abandoned storm cel- ; lar last Jan. 27. ■ Caril displayed her usual apparent composure during opening ’ statements Wednesday afternoon 1 of prosecution and defese attoreys. Her steady gaze focused on f the then on the five- ’ woman, seven-man jury. The state traced the starting ‘ point of toe bloody trail from last ’ Jan. 21, the approximate time ’ when Card’s mother, stepfather ’ and baby half-sister were slain. ' Caril returned home from school ’ that day, County Atty. Elmer 1 Scheele said, and “she knew what happened.” She remained - there with Starkweather the rest L of the week, Scheele said, and ’ “wittingly and actively accom--1 panied and assisted Starkweather : in toe places he went and toe “ things he did.” Defense attorney John McArthur “ argued that when Caril came OCkmtinued on page five)

Underground 1 Blast Rocks Desert Mesa Biggest Underground Blast In History Is Fired This Morning ATOMIC TEST SITE, Nev. (UPl)—The most powerful underground explosion in world history violently rocked a lonely desert mesa today as atomic scientists detonated a Hiroshima - sized device 850 feet beneath the earth’s surface. The device, dubbed “Blanca,” blasted the core of the mesa from its cavern below ground at toe end of a 3.000-foot tunnel. It dislodged millions of tons of rock and dust as scientists raced the block to meet a proposed test deadline tonight. Scientists rated Blanca, which relinquished its devastating might through nuclear fission at 9 a.m. c.s.t. as equal to 20,000 tons of TNT. The AEC officials said it was the largest man-made underground explosion “we know of." An atomic bomb with toe same “nominal” rating leveled the city of Hiroshima, Japan, during World War 11, leaving 78;150 dead and bringing that country’s surrender a week later. 19th Shot of Series Blanca sent its shock waves rippling under the earth’s surface to be picked up on seismographs at such distant points as New York and Alaska. Seismic readings on the Oct. 15 blast of “Logan,” with less than half the yield of Blanca, were made on the Atlantic Seaboard. Atomic Energy Commission scientists said today’s underground experiment was made in cooperation with the International GeoI physical Year. It was toe 19th fuU-scale shot of the current series. When detonated in its 9X9X11foot chamber some two mUlion| tons of rock was expected to be broken up and dislodged and an additional five million tons crushcentinueo on page five' Mrs. Adolph Kiefer Dies This Morning Lifelong Resident Os Preble Towriship

Mrs. Anna Kiefer, 58, lifelong resident of Preble township, died at 6:30 o’clock this morning at her home three miles north of Magley. She suffered a cerebral hemorrhage Wednesday evening and her condition became critical early this morning. She was born in Preble township May 29, 1900, a daughter of Christian and Louise Huser-Bultemeier, and was married to Adolph Kiefer June 6, 1920. Mrs. Kiefer was a member of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Surviving in addition to her husband are three daughters, Mrs. Erwin (Esther) Gallmeyer and Mrs. Marlin (Alma) Keidel, both of near Poe, and Mrs. Clarence (Renate) Horman of Fort Wayne; one son, Clifford Kiefer of Preble township; 10 grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Fred (Edna) Selking of Hoagland, and Mrs. Walter (Lena) Neff of New Haven, and six brothers, Ernest Bultemeier of Fort Wayne, Martin of Preble township, Walter of Root township, George of Preble, Edwin of Hoagland, and Theodore of Preble townsip. Three brothers and one sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p.m. at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. The Rev. A. A. Fenner will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. Friday until time of the services.

| Named By Bankers H. H. Krueckeberg Decatur Banker Is Regional Official Krueckeberg Named As Vice President Herman H. Krueckeberg, cashier of the First State Bank of Decatur, was elected region vice president of region one, Indiana bankers association, at the 48th annual meeting, held Wednesday evening at the Elcona country club at Elkhart, [ The Decatur banker has served . as secretary-treasurer of region one for the past year, and is scheduled to be elevated to the region presidency next year. Clifford P. Martin, president of the First Old State Bank at Elkhart, was elected region president, and Paul E. Shaffer, assistant vice president of the Fort Wayne National Bank, was named secretarytreasurer. Members of the executive committee include the above officers, and George G. Ross, Nappanee, retiring president; Vance Wilson, Ossian, and James H. Carper, Auburn. The new officers will assume their duties following the annual state convention of the association l next spring. Principal speakers at Wednesday night’s banquet were William J. Riley, of East Chicago, president of the Indiana bankers association, and Eldon F. Lundquist, vice president of toe St. Joseph Valley Bank at Elkhart. Lundquist spoke on “Youth wants to know—let’s tell them.” His theme is one stressed by many banks to acquaint youth of their communities with banking practices. The First State Bank of this city conducts such a program in boto Decatur high schools, and at ** nuth, Adams Central and P’ "ant Mills. Five men from the First State Bank attended the region meeting. Attending in addition to Krueckeberg were T. F. Graliker, president; R. E. Glendening, Earl Caston and Robert Boch. Four Persons Killed In Cleveland Blast CLEVELAND (UPD-Four persons were killed, at least nine were injured and 25 firemen were overcome by smoke today in a flash explosion and fire at the , Erico Products Co. here. All four dead were employes of , the company, which manufactures , Thermite welding equipment. ! Cause of toe blast has not yet 1 been determined, but firemen ; theorized that it may have been . caused by red phosphorous, which ; is used in the manufacture of welding equipment. INDIANA WEATHER Clear and cool with scattered frost likely tonight. Friday sunny with little change in temperatures. Low tonight 28-36. ■ High Friday 57-65. Sunset 6:11 p.m. c.s.t., 7:11 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 6:12 a.m. c.s.t.. 7:12 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Sati urday: Fair with a little higher daytime temperatures. Low Friday night near 30 north and central and low 30s south. High Saturday in the 60s.

No Hopes For 56 Other Men Still Missing 12 Miners Rescued From Nova Scotia Mine Early Today SPRINGHILL, N.S. (UPI) - Twelve coal miners, trapped for more than six days in a bodystrewn cubicle 100 feet long and not high enough to stand up in, were brought to the surface today in good condition. Wilfred Hunter, 48, one of the men found Wednesday when rescue workers pushed a pipe through the debris that imprisoned them, said 24 miners in his section were killed outright when a “bump” rocked the mine last Thursday night. “I heard a ‘boom’ and then there were dead people all around me, including my twin brother Frank,” he said from a hospital bed. ’ “I remember ... I remember ... the 13th level (13,000 foot level). Everything went black. I woke up lying on my back in the dark and I remember those groans ... I was beside Frank, my twin brother. I came to and when I reached up I touched* a body pinned to the rocks and hanging above me ... There was nothing I could do.” “God Saved Us” Hunter sa'd that after the initial shock the living grouped together amid the 24 bodies they had counted. The survivors spent their time praying and singing hymns. “We prayed. Sometimes altogether. Sometimes alone. We know God saved us. But I’ve had enough. I’m through. I won’t go back in the mine,” Hunter said. “We had only a two-quart can of water among the 12 of us,” he said. “We rationed it, but it lasted only three days ... We had no food, but we never gave up hope.” Joe McDonald, 38, a survivor whose leg was broken by falling rocks when the mine collapsed, said “The pain was terrific.” “All around me I could hear others in pain,” he said. “I knew some of the boys were dying.” McDonald said the miners started calling to each other until they established 12 were alive. Women and husky mine workers wept with unabashed joy as the men were hauled from the depths of the continent’s deepest coal mine on slope - climbing carts called “rakes.” Others Unaccounted For But mine officials said there was no hope for 56 more miners still unaccounted for today. A total of 174 men were working in the colliery when the earthquakelike bump sent tons of rocks tumbling down the main shaft and side-galleries or tunnels. During the next few hours, 81 were rescued or made their way out of the shaft and 25 bodies were recovered, Including one early today. The men were discovered alive at 1:45 p. m. Wednesday, but it took resuce workers more thn 12 hours to break through to the life-saving pocket where the men had been entombed since 7:10 p.m. last Thursday. The pocket kept poisonous gases from the men and trapped with them enough air to keep them alive, rescue workers speculated. Taken To Hospital The first miner brought out was Gorley Kempt, 37, the man whose voice broke through the pipe like a call from the dead to inform the world the men still were alive. He was on a stretcher wrapped in a blanket, and was taken immediately to a hospital. Eldred Lowther, 46, Joe McDonald, 38, and Theodore Michniak, 59, were the next to reach the surface. Mine officials had announced that the miners’ faces would be covered to protect them from the lights and the flashbulbs of cameras but the faces of McDonald, Michniak, the oldest of the trapped miners, and Lowther were uncovered. All were smiling COobuaned oe Hve>

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