Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 270, Decatur, Adams County, 15 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 270.

uMT’. fc 4 SATISFIED STRATEGISTS— At a strategy conference in Independence. Mo., Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler (left) and former President Harry S. Truman answer newsmen’s questions with the satisfaction of winners. Both agreed that “with the great wealth of talent we have,” the Democratic party should win the presidential race in 1960.

Top Negotiators Take Over On Chrysler Talk Labor, Management Renew Negotiations < Over Strike Issue DETROIT (UPD— Top negotiators for both the United Auto Workers Union and Chrysler Corp, today took personal command of talks aimed at ending a strike which has halted all production of Chrysler's 1959 cars. The strike was begun Tuesday by 8,000 of Chrysler's unionized white-collar workers when negotiators failed to reach agreement on a new contract to cover the office workers. - ~ Negotiations aimed at ending the strike were adjourned as soon as the strike began and were not resumed until federal and state mediators stepped in Friday. At the request of the mediators, both sides resumed talks, but top officials of both the company and the union were missing at first. After the negotiators sparred throughout most of the day without progress, UAW President Walter P. Reuther and Chrysler Vice President John D. Leary reentered the talks for the first time in almost a month. “We reviewed the outstanding issues so there would be no confusion as to what the issues were,” Reuther said when the talks were recessed Friday night. Although both sides agreed on the areas of dispute before, they issued conflicting statements on what had been offered in these areas. The mediators remained in close touch with the negotiations, but left the negotiating room after bringing the two sides together. “We ward them to hammer away at the issues and use their own steam,” said Federal Mediator David Tanzman. Chrysler began talks on a new contract for the office workers in April with talks on a new contract for the company’s 65,000 production workers. But when agreement was reached on a new contract for the production workers on Oct. 1, the office workers’ contract was left hanging. The major issues in the talks—wage inequities, stepped up progression pay raises, seniority rights and job transfer rights—have not changed since then. Heart Attack Fatal To Vane W. Thompson Vane W. Thompson, 59, Fort Wayne real estate man, and a native and former resident of Decatur, died suddenly of a heart attack at 4 p. m. Friday in Fort Wayne. Survivors include his wife, -Helen, and a. son, Todd, at home. The body was removed to the Chalfant-Perry funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Admiral Southerland Dies In Copter Crash WASHINGTON (UPD — Rear Adm. Leonard B. Southerland, 53„ commander of a Navy aircraft carrier force operating in the Formosa area, was killed early today in a helicopter crash on Okinawa. The Navy announced here that the admiral died with two other officers when his helicopter went out of control, crashed and burned on a beach on the island.

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Movie Star Tyrone Power Dies Today Collapses On Set Os Movie In Spain MADRID, Spain (UPD— Hollywood star Tyrone Power. 44, died of a heart attack today after collapsing on a movie set here. Power .died at about 1:30 p.m. (6:30 a.m.. c.s.t.) on the way to a hospital. He had collapsed half an hour earlier just after the filming of a fencing scene for the movie. “Solomon and Sheba.” He was carried unconscious to a car and rushed to the Ruber Hospital. A spokesman at the hospital said he was dead on arrival. Power was bom May 5, 1914 in Cincinnati. He had been a star in the movies since 1936. His films included “In Old Chicago, ” * ‘ Alexander’s Ragtime Band.” “Jesse James,” and “The Sun Also Rises.” He appeared on the stage in 1953 in a reading of “John Brown’s Body.” Studio officials said Power had complained recently of not feeling well, and had had a heart check up a few weeks ago. Although some concern was felt about his health, no one realized his life was in danger. Today, he worked in a daggerdueling scene in which he was supposed to be thrown to the ground to avoid an assassin’s knife. UPI Hollywood Correspondent Harry Gris, who was on the set, said Power looked “more and more distraught” as the scene progressed. As soon as it was finished, he Called for brandy and went into his dressing trailer. A moment later, makeup man Ray Sebastian came out to report that the actor complained of pains in both arms and had difficulty in breathing. Producer Ted Richmond called for a car. By the time it arrived, Power was unconscious. Power made his first movie appearance in 1931 as an extra. Later that year, he played a small part in a Chicago stage production of “The Merchant of Venice” and then went on to New York with the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Co. as a page in “Hamlet.” The first film role for which he is remembered was the lead in the 1936 movie, “Lloyds of London.” Power was the son of Frederick Tyrone Edmond and Patia Emma Power. He attended public schools in Cincinnati, Dayton Preparatory School and St. Xavier University. He was descended from a line of distinguished actors and was the fourth to act under the name Tyrone Power. He was married three times—to Annabella, a French actress who uses no last name, to Mexican actress Linda Christian and finally this year to the fomer Debbie (Continued on page »lx) Democratic Dinner Here On Wednesday The Democratic victory dinner will be held on Wednesday night instead of Tuesday night at 6:30 p. m. at the American Legion home in Decatur, Dr. Harry H. Hebble, coutnty chairman, announced today. Turkey and dressing will be furnished by the four unopposed candidates on the county ticket, with coffee and rolls from the Democratic women's club. AU Democrats are invited, and should bring a covered dish and table service. Hosts for the event will be Von A. Eichhorn. Severin H. Schurger, Richard D. Lewton, and Merle Affolder.

Soviet Russia May Consider Open Sky Plan Russia Indicates Her Willingness To Consider Plan GENEVA (UPD — Russia has indicated willingness to consider a limited "open skies” plan as part of an East-West agreement on means of preventing surprise attacks, It was reported today. Western observers expressed surprise over the Soviet revival of the plan first proposed by President Eisenhower at the summit conference here in 1955. Western diplomats were skeptical about the prospects for agreement on the issue. There was little prospect of its coming up when the conference on surprise attack reopens today. East and West are deadlocked on the question of items to be discussed, and Western diplomats see no prospect of a break. The West believes the surpriseattack conference should be limited to purely technical discussions, while the Russians are trying to transform it into a propaganda free-for-all. The reported Russian interest in some form of open-sky aerial inspection revived a proposal that had appeared dead for more than a year. The plan, as presented by Eisenhower at Geneva, called for U.S.-Russian agreement to let each other’s planes conduct reconnaissance flights for the purpose of detecting military concentrations or other signs of impending attack. More than a year later, sinceousted Premier Nikalai Bulqanin replied that Russia was “prepared to consider” such an airscouting plan in a zone extending for 500 miles on either side of the Iron Curtain. "The West, copsidering this zone inadequate, 'Counter-proposed at disarmament talks in London in 1957 that the inspection zone should cover all or part of die United States, Canada and Russis. The minimum Western proposal was for aerial inspection of the “front lines” in the U.S.-Canadi-an-Russian Arctic. Russia’s answer to this proposal was to break off the arms talks. Snowstorm, Cold Front Move East Threatens To Rout Summery Weather United Press International A fast-moving snowstorm joined forces with a Canadian cold front in a southeastward sweep Saturday that threatened to rout lingering Indian Summer weather in the Midwest. Snow flurries and snow were expected over a vast region that encompassed the Pacific Northwest and the plains area. Heaviest deposits were forecast for Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota. Intensifying as it moved down the eastern slopes of the Rockies, die storm was accompanied by 35-mile-an-hour winds that put ranchers and highway authorities on the alert. Three inches of snow were dumped on the Cascade Mountains in Idaho, and forecasters said six inches or more could hit northeast Nebraska and the lower part of South Dakota. The new weather front threatened while the Midwest basked in record-breaking balmy weather. Sunny skies and prevailing warmth gave Chicagoans a 71degree reading, a new record for Nov. 14, while Milwaukee to the north saw the old record of 67 tied. Rain accompanied the warm temperatures at many pointe in the eastern half of the country. Showers and thunder showers pelted the Missoiuri-Arkansas region; nW points’ •reporting (Continued on p*«e six) Youthful Bicyclist Is Killed By Auto BEDFORD, Ind. (UPD — Jerry Lane Canada, 11, Avoca, was killed Friday night when a car struck his bicycle as he rode along Ind. 54' with two other boy bike riders in Avoca. James Aliano Jr., 26, Bedford, told authorities he saw three bicycles in front of him as another car approached just after dusk. He tried to stop oh the wet pavement but his car struck the rear bike and injured Jerry so badly he died of a* skull fracture enroute to a Bedford hospital.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, November 15, 1958

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U.S. Assures Allies Os Firm Berlin Stand East Germany Reds , Attempting To Cast Doubt On U. S. Stand WASHINGTON (UPD — The United States sought today to show its allies it would stand firm at West Berlin, or elsewhere in the face of any Communist challenge. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was reported considering a possible declaration by the Western Big Three to reaffirm their intention of staying in Berlin under any circumstance. One disadvantage of such a statement, diplomatic officials said, would be to focus even greater attention on the trouble spot and thus possibly play into Soviet Premier Nikita Khrush-1 chev's hands. Khrushchev might want the Berlin controversy to help build pressure for a summit conference, these officials said. East German Communists Friday cast doubt on the—earlier American pledge to fight if necessary to defend the isolated Western outpost. An East German newspaper asserted the West would not risk a “destructive war” for West Berlin. One advantage of a Big Three statement would be to make the West’s position crystal clear—that any effort to completely shut off West Berlin would meet with allout resistance. The Soviet Union said Monday it would withdraw its military representative from the four-power (Continued on page six) Mrs. Ida Overmyer Dies At Rochester Mother Os Decatur Residents Is Dead Mrs. Ida Emma Overmyer, 88. of Rochester, mother of Mrs. Otto Beehler and Arthur (Bud) Overmyer of Decatur, died at 4 o’clock Thursday morning. In failing health for the past five years, she died in the Miller nursing home Born in Pulaski county April 12. 1870, Mrs. Overmyer was the daughter of Henry and Christina Seckman. April 23, 1889 she was married to W. Sherman Overmyer, in Burr Oak. Mr. Overmyer preceded her in death about 1940. Surviviors in addition to those named are: three daughters, Mrs. George Cowen, Argos; Mrs. Melvin Shriver, Mishawaka, and Mrs. Lyman Morris, Culver; one son. Chester, of Rochester; 33 grandchildren, and 51 great-grand Children. A son, Ben, died last week Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Foster & Good funeral home in Rochester, the Rev. Dr. Claude Young officiating. Burial will be in the Richland Center cemetery. Former Local Man Held In Arkansas ’ Sheriff "Merle Affolder r&etved a long distance phone call early today concerning a local resident being charged with first degree burglary in Nashville, Ark. The charge is being filed against John Allen Heare, 21, of Decatur, for an incident that occurred Friday in tiie Arkansas town. Affolder said that the young man was arrested by authorities in that city when he was apprehended for breaking the hinges off a door to a home in an attempt to gain entrance. Heare received a 1-10 year suspended sentence in the Bluffton Circuit court in January of 1956. His license was revoked by the court and he was placed on probation until his 21st birthday as a result of the .suspended sentence.

Subsidiaries Hit By Strike At Harvester Layoffs Follow Up Harvester Strike CHICAGO (UPD - Layoffs in subsidiary industries today followed a postponement of talks 1 between International Harvester Co. and striking United Auto Workers. The company announced layoff of 300 steelworkers at its Waukesha, Wis., foundry as a result of the two-day-old UAW strike against 15 Harvester plants and 21 warehouses in six states. Company officials also warned that they may be forced to shut down its Milwaukee plant, idling 2,000 members of the United Steel Workers Union, if a quick settlement is not reached. Negotiations between Harvester and the UAW were to resume in Chicago Monday, but federal mediators have indicated both sides are far from agreement on new contract issues. Duane Pat Greathouse, UAW vice president and director of the union’s agricultural implement department, said the company had demanded revision of the Harvester seniority system. Company spokesmen have said negotiations hit a snag when the Union insisted that any new ✓agreements in a new contract should be retroactive to Aug. 23. Picketing at Harvester’s 15 manufacturing plants has been peaceful according to reports. Over $160,000 In Christmas Savings Total Is Slightly Below Previous Year The total amount of the 1958 Christmas savings club checks being sent to club members from the First State Bank is $160,423.42. representing 2,101 accounts with an average check totaling $76, Herman H. Krueckeberg, cashier, said today. The total amount distributed is a little over $6,000 less than last year. This was attributed to a certain amount of unemployment, I Krueckeberg continued. The report shows that many families have an account for each member of the family, with many individuals carrying more than one account. Krueckeberg stated that the most popular Recounts are the $1 and $2 per week savings. Approximately 7,900 financial institutions will distribute over $1,365,000,000 in Christmas club funds to approximately 13 million persons during the 1958 season. This is the seventh year that the total has exceeded one billion dollars. It is anticipated nationally that this year’s total will be approximately three per cent larger than last year. It has also been estimated that approximately 32 per cent of the savings will be used for Christmas purchases, 28 per cent for permanent savings, 10 per cent for taxes. 10 per cent for insurance premiums, 5 per cent for {Continued on page six; Hartke's Margin Is Largest Ift History INDIANAPOLIS (UPD - Complete official election returns filed in the office of the Indiana Secretary of State showed today that Sen.-elect Vance Hartke won the seat vacated by retiring Sen. William E. Jenner by the largest margin ever given a state candidate for any office. Hartke crushed Republican Governor Handley by 242.001 votes as Hoosiers cast 1,724,311 ballots for senator. Hartke polled 973.636. votes and Handlev 731.635. John Steele, the Prohibiton Party nominee, received 19.040. nearly three times the vote cast for the party’s senatorial nonjinee two years ago. ..sj

Nine Persons Are Killed By Trains Friday Five Ohioans, Four Hoosiers Killed As Trains Smash Cars COSHOCTON, Ohio (UPD — Five persons were killed instantly Friday night when the Pennsylvania Railroad's west-bound St. Louisian passenger train struck their car at a crossing one mile south of here. Killed were Mrs. Margaret Stitler, 35; Josephine Stitler, 18; Phyllis Holder, 17, and Bonnie Grace. 29, all of Coshocton, and Carl Ames, 22, of Fresno, Ohio. Ames was the driver. Jerry Clough, 23, Coshocton, the sixth person in the car, was thrown from the vehicle and injured. He was taken to County Memorial hospital here in fair condition suffering body bruises and shock. The sheriff's office said the 20car New York-to-St. Louis train carried the wreckage of the car a mile down the track before coming to a stop. The train proceeded after about an hour and a half delay. Workers pried the bodies from the wreckage of the auto. They said the bodies w'ere mangled almost beyond recognition. The victims were believed returning home from a nearby tavern when the accident happened at 11:25 p. m. Four In Indiana KNOX. Ind. (UPD— Four persons were killed Friday night at Hamlet when the driver of a car, apparently deceived by a halted train at a village crossing, drove into the path of another train. The victims were identified as Victor Laux, 44, driver of the car; his wife, Amelia, 44; their son, Joseph, 3; and Mrs. Laux' sister, Leona Blum, 53, all of Hamlet. Police said Laux apparently thought the flasher signal lights at the crossing were for the standing train. The Pennsylvania Railroad train plowed into • his car when he drove onto the tracks. Johanna Worthman Dies This Morning Resident Os Preble Township Is Dead Mrs. Johanna Worthman, 78, who resided in Preble township, two miles north of Magley, died at 5:50 o’clock this morning at the hospital in Fort Wayne. She had been ill six months and hospitalized since Oct. 30. She was born in Fort Wayne June 11, 1880, a daughter of Gottlieb and Minnie Kopf-Bei-hold, and had resided in Preble township since her marriage Oct. 22, 1903, to August Worthman. Her husband preceded her in death June 14, 1956. _Mrs._ Wprthman. was ? member Ut the Salem Evangelical and Reformed church at Magley. Surviving are one son, Alton Worthman of Preble township; two daughters, Miss Lizetta Worthman of Preble township, and Mrs. Russel (Edna) Neireiter of Hoagland; three grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One brother preceded her in death. 1 Funeral services will btr conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Salem Evangelical 1 and Reformed church at Magley, the Rev. H. E. Settlage officiat- ' ing. Burial will be in the church 1 cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Bank Manager Slain By Pair Os Bandits Tried To Prevent $11,500 Robbery NEW YORK (UPD—FBI agents and 120 detectives today hunted two bandits who killed an unarmed bank manager when he tried to prevent an $11,500 robbery in the institution that had no guard or alarm system. The pair escaped in a stolen car driven by a confederate Friday after one of them pumped two bullets into the body of James F. Duggan, 55, manager of the United National Bank of Long Island in the Richmond Hill section of Queens. One of the bullets ricocheted and hit the left thigh of a customer, Edward Wason, 56. Detectives questioned known criminals from Queens and other boroughs during the night, with Chief of Detectives James B. lagged. taking charge of operations. The detective? had one possibly significant clue—one of the bandits dropped an ammunition clip from a .45 caliber automatic in running from the bank. Officers hoped they might be able to trace it. Four customers- and 17 employes were in the bank just before 11 a.m. e.s.t. when the robbers, both masked, entered. The apparent leader, heavy-set, in his 40’s and wearing dark glasses, stood inside the door. “This is a stickup,” he said. “I’ll shoot anybody who tries to call the cops.” The other holdupman, about 35, vaulted a partition at the tellers’ section, breaking a glass panel. Twin Brothers Die In Fire At Farm Die Despite Heroic Efforts Os Brother WINCHESTER, Ind. (UPD— A ; barn fire on a farm near Lynn Friday night claimed the lives of 2-year-twin boys despite the he- > roic attempts of an older brother to rescue them. Kelvin and Melvin, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Taylor, were playing in the barn on their farm when fire broke out in the hayloft. Their brother, David, 10, was on his way to the house when he saws flames shooting from the roof of the barn. He called to his sister to telephone the fire department and rushed back to the barn to rescue the twins. Rut the heat was too intense and he was forced to retreat while the barn went up in flames. The barn was almost com- ‘ pletely destroyed by the time help arrived. The bodies of the children were recovered from the J ashes. The Taylors were not at home when the fire broke out. They ■ told authorities they had warned f the children not to play in the • hayloft. . • Cause of the fire was not im- . mediately known. David said . the boys did not have any mati ches. It was the. second tragic fire in Indiana in less than 48 hours. .Several children at a . Fori Wayne. ' couple were killed when ' fire swept their home Thursday 1 morning. • Librarian To Speak I At Lions Meeting Miss Bertha Heller, Decatur 1 librarian, will hold a question and answer session on the new library " addition, and its meaning to Deca--1 tur, for the Decatur Lions at their t regular meeting Monday night, 1 Dr. N. A. Bixler, program chair- • man, said today, ■ Last week the Lions club met i with the Booster club for a sports t program, and the week before t that, library week Itself, Miss • Heller attended the annual convention of the library association.

Armed Sovief Guards Stop Army Trucks Refuse To Allow Three Army Trucks Leave Berlin Friday BERLIN (UPD— Soviet border guards refused to allow three U.S. Army trucks to leave Berlin Friday in a move reminiscent of the beginning of the 1948 Berlin blockade. East German Communist leader Walter Ulbricht indicated Friday night that the new Soviet campaign against West Berlin is designed to force the Western powers to recognize the East German government. He said in a speech to Leipzig that the United States, Britain and France have lost their occupation powers in West Berlin but might possibly regain them by dealing with his government—- ( something the Western Big Three . have refused to do. Khrushchev Makes Threat Armed Soviet guards at the , Babelsberg checkpoint halted the U.S. Army trucks when their soldier drivers refused to submit to ; a search. A similar incident oc- ; curred April 1, 1948, when the Soviets demanded the right to search trains running between West Berlin and West Germany, j The Western Allies refused and train service was halted. It was the first step taken by the Soviets : to blockade the city completely by land. Soviet guards have halted Western traffic to Berlin in isolated incidents since the blockade was broken, but Friday’s refusal was seen as significant because of previous events this week. The new interference with Western traffic on the 110-mile highway through East Germany came only four days after Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev threatened the Allied occupation rights in Berlin. ' In Moscow Friday, Khrushchev 1 told Military Academy graduates f that Russia was preparing "an appropriate document on the star tus of Berlin.” “We intend to make definite ' proposals to the countries which ' took part in the war against Hit--1 lerite Germany and Fascist Italy,” he said. s Held SIS Hours e U.S. Army headquarters here e said the Soviet guards held the s trucks for eight and a half hours '- and released them to return to e West Berlin only after a representative of Maj. Gen. Barksdale e Hamlett, Berlin’s American comt mandant, went to Soviet army !. headquarters in East Berlin to i- protest the detention. e The Soviets then allowed the e trucks to return to their starting e point. They were refused passage across East' Germany. e The U.S. Army said the search y demand was a violation of the i agreement with the Soviet gove ernment and interfered with Western rights of free access to the - citv. Until Friday U.S. truck drivi ers only had to present Army - travel orders with a Russian translation. i Ulbricht, East Germany’s Com- . munist Party first secretary and ? that the Western powers comply r with Soviet demands and “renounce” the powers they exercise in West Berlin. > "If there are any questions arising from this (renunciation) the U.S., Britain and France can regulate the matter with the gov- . ernment of the German Demo- [ cratic Republic,” he said. r > INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and mild tonight and Sunday, with showers likely Sunday. Low tonight 55 to 60. High Sunday i in the 60s. Outlook for Moni day: Showers ending and turning colder all sections. . NOON EDITION

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