Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 264, Decatur, Adams County, 8 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 264

r H wR| I ffiQ* ' a /( a \ E’'^ II * , T HE HAD NO IDEA— Charter flyer Robert C. Gable, 29, is greeted by his wife and daughter at Grand Rapids, Mich., upon his return after flying an armed bandit to Chicago. Police met his plane at Midway Airport in Chicago and arrested Walter Molenkamp who had robbed a filling station in the Michigan city, and attempted a getaway by chartering Gable’s plane. Efficient radio liaison between Grand Rapids and Chicago police foiled his plot.

Butler Fights To Keep Post As Chairman Democrat Chairman Apparently Ready To Fight For Job WASHINGTON (UPD-Paul M. Butler is sounding like a man ready to fight to keep his job as chairman of the Democratic National Committee and to base the battle on the civil rights issue. He promised to tell the committee at its next meeting Dec. 6 whether he wants to keep his job or resign after tour years in the chairmanship. Butler has been under fire from southern Democrats because of his outspoken comments on the civil rights issue. He also has been subject to criticism from some middle-of-the-roaders in the Democratic congressional bloc on the ground that he has been a troublemaker instead of a peacemaker. He repeatedly has said the party must take a forthright stand in its 1960 civil rights plank of the platform in support of Supreme Court decisions against segregation. Financial' Problems Butler was asked at a news conference Friday, if it was a fair inference that the deciding factor in whether he stayed or departed would be his position on the civil rights issue. He agreed that it was. He said the only other major problem under his chairmanship was the perennial financial problem. He reported the party was $700,000 in debt and announced plans tor setting up a “700 club” of individuals or committees, each responsible for raising SI,OOO. There were these other political developments: —Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a news conference Friday he expected to get along satisfactorily with Democratic congressional leaders despite the size of the Democratic victory Tuesday. He said they had indicated foreign policy would not be a partisan issue. No Bitterness —Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson said in a speech at Big Spring. Tex., Friday “every campaign produces its exaggerations and its heated remarks. But there will be no bitterness in our hearts and no hostilities in our actions.” —lnterior Secretary Fred A. Seaton leaves Washington today tor two weeks of campaigning for Republican candidates in Alas : ka’s first election under its new statehood status. One House and two Senate seats areat stake in the Alaska election Nov. 25. —Two new senators held press conferences here late Fndayday. Edmund S. Muskie, the first Democrat elected to the Senate by Maine voters since 1912, said he was not afraid that the predominantly Democratic 86th Congress would adopt inflationary programs. He said that some inflation “may be a factor in our modern life, but I hope not,” Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) told his news conference that President Eisen(Continued on nag« five) INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and windy with scattered showers today. Clearing and colder tonight. Sunday fair with little change in temperatare. Low tonight low 30s. High Sunday in 50s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and cod.

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Threatens Renewed Motion Os Mistrial Answers Refused By Starkweather LINCOLN, Neb. <UPI) — The first degree murder trial of Caril Ann Fugate, 15, former girl friend of mass slayer Charles Starkweather, hung today on the threat of a renewed motion tor a mistrial. Judge Harry A. Spencer refused a motion made late Friday by Card's attorney, John McArthur, but left the door open tor a new attempt. McArthur based his motion on the behavior of Starkweather, the state’s star witness, who refused to answer some questions asked by Card’s counsel Thursday Stark weather had been brought here from the “death row” in the state penitentiary where he faces execution Dec. 17 in the murder of Robert Jensen, 17. Card also faces a possible death penalty if she is found guilty of aiding and abetting in the slaying. Starkweather, 19, an ex-garbage collector, was tried for only one of the 11 slayings to which he confessed. In testimony Friday, Eugene Masters, assistant Lincoln chief of police, related his recollection of Card’s oral statement of her part in the slayings. Masters, appearing as a prosecution witness, said Card told him that she held a flashlight while Starkweather tied a wounded 61-year-old woman spreadeagled to a bed. Carol told Masters she had been looking out the window and was not aware that Starkweather was stabbing Miss Ldlian Fencl, a maid in the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. Lauer Ward, also victims of Starkweather’s murder spree. McArthur said Starkweather was apparently widing to answer questions put to him by prosecuting attorney Elmer Scheele, the same man who is sending him to the electric chair, but refused to answer questions asked by the defense in Card’s, trial. Judge Spencer , rejected McArthur's motion for a mistrial, but offered to recall Starkweather for further questioning. If the youth persists in his '/“I don’t want to talk about them" attitude toward his 11 victims, observers speculated, McArthur may renew his motion. Caril was wan and obviously weary at the 10th day of her trial Friday. Her usual stare at witnesses was hidden behind glasses, her frozen-faced composure had vanished, and the tiny defendant was supported by two matrons as she left the court room for the weekend recess. It was expected that the prosecution would continue arguments Monday by reading her unsigned statement about her part in 10 of the 11 murders in which Starkweather was involved. She has pleaded she was his frightened hostage, while he has alternately confirmed her plea and said she was his willing accomplice. Sale Os Telephone Notes Is Authorized INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) - The Indiana Public Service Commission today authorized the Nappanee Telephone Co., Decatur, to sell $177,000 worth of first mortgage notes to the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Fort Wayne. 1 The money will be used to retire outstanding notes and to expand and improve existing facilities. The firm serves about 2,200 stations in Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, and St. Joseph Counties.

Position On Nuclear Test Ban Unchanged Disclosure Os Two Red Nuclear Tests Stiffens West Stand GENEVA (UPI) — Disclosure that Russia has carried out two nuclear tests since the Geneva conference began stiffened Western determination today to reject any unconditional ban on tests without watertight controls to police it. Western diplomats said the Soviet action left the talks more bogged down than ever, with no prospects at the present of reaching any agreement on banning future tests. Both the U. S. and British delegates were reported to have asked their home governments for further instructions. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a news conference in Washington Friday there would be three major consequences if the Russians held any further nuclear tests on top of their Nov. 1 and Nov. 3 explosions: —There would be condemnation of Russia in the hearts and minds of the people in the United Nations even if the world organization did not condemn the Soviets in the formal sense. —’Diere would be worldwide condemnation of the Russians for setting off explosions while the Geneva test ban negotiations were in progress. —Britain and the United States might resume their own nuclear tests. The conference recessed Friday night for die weekend with the East - West positions unchanged. The West wants an agreement to ban nuclear tests under proper safeguards and the Russians demand an immediate and permanent ban without any safeguards. The joint Anglo - American announcement Friday that Russia set off two nuclear explosions Since the Geneva talks began jolted the conference. Both nations said they regard themselves as released from their one - year pledge to halt testing but said they had no immediate plans. Profits Are Shown By City Utilities Electric And Water Utilities In Report A profit of $13,971.59 was shown by the Decatur electric light and power department during the first nine months of 1958. Lester C. Pettibone, superintendent, and Edwin Kauffman, city auditor, announced today. The electric department presently has a reserve of $1,334,819.06 for depreciation of the utility plants, and $1,028.84 for uncollectible accounts. The earned surplus, or total profits since the company was founded, is $2,349,475 30. Resident sales are up six per cent over last year, and rural sales are up 6.9 per cent. Commercial lighting is down five per cent, and interdepartmental sales are down 11.6 per cent. Total operating revenues are up 2.9 per cent. Profits are up 612.8 per cent over last year. Steam operating expenses are down 15.9 per cent, and diesel expense are down 70.1 per cent, while purchased power has increased 340.7 per cent. The amount of power in kilowatt hours generated by the steam plant has decreased 19.5 per cent, that generated by the diesel plant has decreased 83.7 per cent, while that purchased has increased 542.6 per cent. The total amount of electricity generated and purchased is up 3.8 per cent. The report also shows that the electric light and power department has paid $2,638.97 in taxes for the September quarter, and $8,450.13 since the first of the year. The city water department show(Contlnued on page five) Will Close Tuesday For Veteran's Day The Adams county court house, the post office and the First State Bank will close Tuesday in observance of Veteran’s Day, November 11. The usual hours will again resume the following day. Leo Kirsch, postmaster, stated that no deliveries would be made Tuesday with the exception of special delivery letters, but that the lobby would remain open for Sunday type service. Adams Post 43 of the American Legion will hold services at the post home at 11 cfclpck, with vice-commander Charles Chew in charge, and a dinner and dance Tuesday evening.

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Third Moon Rocket Is Failure; Third Stage Fails To Fire Today

Aerial Battle Ceasetire By U.S., China Nationalist Fighter Planes Ordered To Use Evasive Tactic TAIPEI (UPI) —. The United States and Nationalist China are observing an aerial ceasefire in the skies over the Formosa Strait, informed sources said today. They said the ceasefire was put in effect quietly and that Nationalist fighter planes were ordered to use all possible evasive tactics to avoid combat with Communist planes within 30 miles of the Communist mainland. Red planes seldom fly deeper into the strait area. Hie sources said the United States did not want Nationalist Sabrejets and Soviet-built Mig jets to reopen the flaming jet battle that ranged over the strait from mid-August to mid-October. The Nationalists claim to have destroyed 31 Mig fighters with the loss of only one Sabrejet in the aerial dog-fights. It was reported the United States became particularly concerned about the air battles when Sabrejets equipped with U.S. Sidewinder missiles destroyed 11 Migs in one day in history's first missile battle. This fight propelled the strait’s hostilities into a bigger conflict than the United States wanted, the sources said. The sources said the Communists appeared to have accepted the ceasefire without comment. Several hundred Migfe were sighted daily along the China coast until a few weeks ago when they became less frequent. Hie full-time aerial cease fire contrasts with the Chinese Communists’ alternate day ceasefire in the artillery battle over Quemoy. Communist guns fell silent at midnight Friday and the Nationalist Defense Ministry said Quemoy (Continued on nage six) Embargo Placed On Livestock Market Threat Os Strike At Indianapolis Yards INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Officials at the Indianapolis stockyards said today they hoped to be able to resume scheduled operations Monday, ending an embargo placed on livestock deliveries Friday midnight. The embargo was called after contract negotiations broke down between the Belt Railroad & Stockyards Co., one of the largest stockyards in the country, and the United Packinghouse Workers. A one-week extension of the contract expired at midnight Friday. , “We don’t like to put on the embargo, but a strike is imminent,” said David L. Chambers Jr., stockyards president. “We can’t afford to get the yards full of livestock and not have anyone to take care of them.” Union officials, However, said no strike has been , called. “We haven’t called a strike,” said Clayton Sayles, Local 278 Field representative. “We’re available whenever the company wants to talk.” Chambers also stated that the company is ready to negotiate “any time, day or night.” He said tire company offered a two-year contract providing an eight-cent hourly wage increase retroactive to Nov. 1 with a five-cents increase next Nqv. 1. Sayles said the company refused to discuss a one - year contract, and that the union was asking a 20-cent wage hike over a period of two years. ' Meanwhile, marketing including stock quotations, was taken over by private firms and associations on a local basis.

Possible Recount Os Votes Studied Young Democrats Os District May Act Possible recount of votes in a ’number of precincts in the eight counties in the fourth district in the close Adair-Fleming congressional race was disclosed Friday when Young Democrats of the district announced sponsorship of Such a project. Wjllis Goble, of Columbia City, president of the Young Democrats of the district, named Robert T. Sullivan, Fort Wayne, as treasurer of the project to raise funds to finance such a recount. Henry Hasley, Fort Wayne attorney, has been retained by the Young Democrats to handle the legal proceedings of the recount action. E. Ross Adair, Republican incumbent, defeated W. Robert Fleming, Democrat, by 288 votes in Tuesday’s election. The complete official tabulation was Adair, 69,765: and Fleming, 69,477. Hasley said recount petitions must be filed in the affected counties by 15 days after the election, or Nov. 19. Then another 10-day period must elapse during which the opposing candidate may file cross petitions. Even in the event no cross petitions are filed, the recount may not be ordered by the judge in the county until 25 days after the election. A minimum bond of SIOO must be posted in each of the counties, provided that recounts are sought in 10 or fewer precincts, fn the event of a larger number, the circuit judge establishes a larger bond. After petitions are filed, the circuit judge in each county must name commissioners to take the recount* A committee of the Young Democrats is making a survey in the eight counties this weekend to check on reports of some irregularities in voting procedure. Adams county is believed one of those to be checked, as there (Continued on page five 1 Week's Services To Close Sunday Night Spiritual Emphasis Services To Close Spiritual Emphasis week services, conducted nightly since Sunday by the Associated Churches of Decatur, will close with the service Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the First Methodist church. The Rev. Huston Bever, Jr., of the Church of God, will preside, and the choir from the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will sing. There will be no service this evening. A youth rally will be held at the Missionary church Sunday evening at 6 o’clock, with Dr. Milo Rediger, guest minister for the week's services, as the speaker. Friday night. Dr. Rediger chose the “Lost and Found chapter” as the basis for his message. The scripture lesson was the. entire chapter of Luke 15. which tells the three parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost son. The speaker stated that the three form a parable as a whole. “In each there is a lost object which is found by a special finder. Great rejoicing follows. The sheep, was lost by circumstances and not by neglect of the shepherd. It was found when the shepherd went all out to find it. “The coin was lost by careless neglect. Persons may be lost to the kingdom of God through careless neglect of teachers, parents, even ministers or other leaders. “The son was lost through hfis own wilfullness and his voluntary choice. When he came to himself he returned home to his father. We are under obligation and it is our high privilege to win back the lost.” • NOON EDITION

Ike To Stage Annual Foreign Aid Fund Fight Administration To Wage Fight Despite Any Economy Drive WASHINGTON (UPD—The Eisenhower administration has fired an early gun in its annual fight with Congress for foreign aid funds. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a news conference Friday that despite the administration’s new economy drive he expected it would ask Congress for “adequate” foreign aid money. He said the case “for a continuance of a substantial mutual security program is...overwhelming.” He expressed hope that the new heavily-Democratic Congress will agree. The Democratic-controlled 85th Congress this year appropriated $3,298,092,500 for foreign military and economic aid programs—6s2 million dollars less than President Eisenhower requested. Asked about reports Democrats next year would demand a bigger 'Voice in foreign policy, Dulles said he was not worried at all about the people with whom he would be dealing—members of the House and Senate Foreign Affairs and Appropriations Committees. The secretary said he believed he had more experience than anyone alive in bipartisan foreign policy. He said his activity dated back to 1944 when New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey sent him to Washington to work with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. As for Tuesday’s election, he said he was not aware that foreign policy played any particular part in the outcome. He said it was discussed, but that he did not think it was a partisan issue and did not expect it to become such.. On other subjects, Dulles: —Said dispatch of U.S. and British troops to the Middle East dur(ContmueC on page six) Hungarian Exiles Storm Red Building lI.N. Delegation Building Stormed NEW YORK (UPD —About 300 Hungarian exiles, joined by a few Ukranian and other refugees from Communism, stormed the Soviet U. N. delegation building Friday night during a posh reception marking the 41st anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. As many as 700 pickets, carrying signs denouncing the Soviet Union, Communism and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, marched in front of the Park Avenue mansion at one time but the crowd had dwindled to about 300 when, suddenly at 8:45 p. m. the demonstrators charged a police barricade as though on prearranged signal. Two hundred mounted policemen and foot patrolmen drove the demonstrators back. The shouting, fist-swinging melee resulted in three Injuries and police arrested 13 persons, including one woman. One man was caught trying to cut a policeman’s horse with a pocket knife. A group of youths tried to break a ground floor window of the building with a pole to which a placard had been affixed but police stopped them. Others threw stones at the building but police said no damage was done. The pickets shouted “Khrushchev, drop dead” and “freedom for Hungary,” among other slogans. The Soviet diplomats and their formally dressed guests were apparently unaware of the rioting outside. Newsmen did not see a single face peek through the heavy drapes covering the windows. ’

Earthquake Hits In Four States Friday Feel Sharp Tremors In Southern Indiana ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UPD — The worst earthquake in nearly 60 years sent sharp tremors through the southern half of Illinois and parts of Indiana, Kentucky and Missouri Friday night. There were no reports of injury or damage but Mayor Fred Henderson of Herrin, 111.,, said he was knocked out of bed. Thousands of residents told police that the rumbles resembled everything from the sound of a jet breaking the sound barrier to that of a large truck passing by. Shocks were felt as far west as St. Louis, Me., and as far east as Louisville, Ky., and scientist said the shaking occurred sporadically within a 125-mile radius of the point of origin. Dr. Ross R. Henrich, head of St. Louis University’s geophysics department, said the quake was recorded on the school's seismoHe characterized the quake a e cHharacterized the quake a a very sudden jolt, and said its magnitude was recoiled on a scale on which a top earthquake would register less than 9. The originating point, he said, was somewhere in the general area of the juncture of the Ohio and Wabash Rivers, where the boundaries of Illinois, Kentucky and Indiana touch. A series of three major faults underlying this area, Henrich said, has caused quakes in the past, including a weak one in 1945. He said Friday night’s quake was the most intense recorded since April 12, 1899. The first tremors were recorded at 9:41 p.m. (e.s.t.) and lasted about five seconds in the originating area. Vibrations were felt as long as 14 minutes after the initial shock. Strike Violence At South Bend Factory Union Sympathizers Snap Police Cordon SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD - Union and management spokesmen were in apparent agreement today that nothing short of a national Labor Relations Board election will settle troubles at the strife-torn . _k Joint Tube Co. here. Several hundred union sympathizers snapped a police cordon Friday night in an effort to prevent non-striking workers from leaving the plant. The violence followed the issuance of a temporary injunction against picketing and the assignment of 25 police to back up the order. Police Capt. Stephen Cieselski was thrown forward by the surging crowd and was struck by one of the cars driven by non-union workers who were leaving the plant. Rocks were thrown at the cars of other non-union workers. Hie flare-up came at the end of more than, two weeks of picketing by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. Pickets took up their positions following the lay-off of seven employes. Ladd, president of the St. Joseph County AFL-CIO council and a leader of the union demonstration until angry members took matters into their own hands, met with Mayor Edward Voorde and Police Chief Charles Dutrieux Friday night. “The main reason for the strike is representation, not money," Ladd said, adding that the problem will “not be settled until there is a recognized union at the plant.” Joseph Woodka. president of the Lock Joint, "will not sit down and talk peaceably," Ladd said in asking for an NLRB election. Woodka said he would defer a decision on recognition of the union until the election is held. No date has yet been set for it

Third Effort Is Heartbreak For Air Force Payload Os Rocket Burns Over Africa As Attempt Fails CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD—The Air Force’s last assigned moon shoot ended in heartbreak today when the rocket’s third stage failed to fire. The payload burned up over Africa after traveling 7,500 miles in 45 minutes. Made more crushing by a premature announcement - that all three stages fired successfully, the failure left the nation’s immediate hopes of probing the moon squarely up to the Army. The Army, which has put up three satellites, has two lunar shoots assigned using the basic hardware of the Jupiter missile program. The first may come next month when juxtaposition of earth and moon again is favorable. Today’s Thor - Able rocket, topped by an 86.3-pound payload, wound up acting like an intercontinental ballistic missile. It attained a comparable speed, 16,000 miles an hour, and an altitude of 1,000 miles. But an ICBM has a nose - cone protected against the terrific heat encountered in reentry. The fiberglass Pioneer II payload, lacking such protection, burned to cinders in the atmosphere over East Central Africa. Analysis Determines Fate / The payload’s fate, and the area where it burned up, were determined, by an analysis of worldwide tracking information at the Air Force’s space technology laboratories in California. The story with the bitter end was released by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which has taken overall control of purely scientific shoots into the beyond. An NASA spokesman here, Matthew Portz, said an incorrect release ' was given to reporters 11 minutes after blastoff at the instant of separation of the third stage from the second. In past shoots, separation has been instantaneous with ignition of the third stage. When the separation was confirmed today, the prepared release was issued saying all three stages had fired. Fatal Second But a one - second delay was built into today’s rocket to assure a clean separation. It proved to be a fatal second. The solidfuel third stage, considered the most reliable section of the moon rocket assembly, was a dud. The third stage, which functioned without a hitch in last month’s 79,000-mile shoot, was developed by the Allegany Ballistics Laboratory of the Hercules Powder Co. at Pinto, Md. The moon rocket made a heartclutching start into an overcast sky when it blasted off at 2:30.20' a.m. e.s.t. Air Force men, civilian engineers and launching crews as well as plain bird watchers on the beaches had rooted for this “bird" as never before. For a few minutes it appeared well on its way. Its brilliant, flaming globule of exhaust was visible to most observers for about 10 seconds before the rocket darted into a cloud bank. But the deep-throated roar of its engines for a full two minutes indicated to the earth-bound rooters that all was well. Incorrect Announcement Eleven minutes after blastoff, a prepared NASA announcement was released both here and in Washington. It said all three stages fired successfully. But a closer evaluation ol doppler signals from the rocket, measuring its velocity, told the story of failure in the third stage. At Jodrell Bank, England, site of the world’s largest radio telescope, Prof. Alfred C. B. Lovell, director of the station, said the telescope located the rocket at (.Continued on pa<e «▼•)

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