Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 272, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 272

wk Richard J. Cushing John O’Hara NEW CARDINALS — Among the 23 new cardinals of the Roman Catholic church named by Pope John XXIII are Msgr. John O’Hara, archbishop of Philadelphia, and Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston. O'Hara is 70. Cushing, 63, is shown reading report of his elevation to cardinal.

Record Storm Veering North, Six Are Dead 18 Other Persons Missing In Record Storm Through West United Press International A record storm, which lashed the West and Midlands with devastating tornadoes, deep snow and drenching rains, veeted northward toe ay with blizzard conditions whipping sections of Minnesota and the Dakotas. At least six deaths were blamed on the storm which began on the West Coast during the weekend and rolled across the Rockies to after a vast region from the Canadian border to Mexico. Another 18 persons were missing, including three boy scouts and three airmen lost in snowy western wilderness regions. Scores of persons were stranded temporarily ir lodges and along snow-clogged highways. The vicious snowstorm smashed records in southern Arizona’s vacationland, left snow 20 inches deep in southern Wyoming and 16 inches in the Dakotas. Nearly 100 schools were closed in Kansas. The Chicago Weather Bureau said the storm- also probably set a record for its extent and ferocity this early in the season. Fear Scouts Dead Ahead of the wintry blasts, southerly winds pumped mild weather into the east, setting the stage of a rash of twisters which skipped Monday through Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Minnesota. lowa and Illinois. Hardest hit was Elkader, lowa, where a tornado swooped down >n the town’s main street “like a fireball” Monday afternoon. About 14 buildings were damaged and the roof of the county jail was torn away. Six to eight automobiles were demolished. In the west, searchers slogged through deep mountain snows for three thinly clad boy scouts missing since Sunday in the frigid Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. There was little hope the youngsters would be found alive. However, hope mounted that two missing airmen might still be alive high in the Rocky Mountains west of Fort Collins, Colo. A search pilot reported sighting a series of fires arranged in an “L” shape near the summit of Hayden Peak. An Air Force rescue team camped overnight about four miles from the summit in nearzero temperatures and Resumed its search at dawn. The airmen have been missing since Sunday when their C 46 cargo plane vanished on a flight from Denver to Hill Air Force Base in Utah. Winds Kill Two In Utah, the frozen body of a third airman who bailed out of a plane over the mountains southeast of Huntsville was recovered Monday and searchers sought a fourth airman still missing and believed dead. Four members of the eight-man crew, who abandoned the crippled plane last Friday, were rescued. Other storm victims were a man killed Monday when winds (Continued on page five! INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy this afternoon, tonight and Wednesday. Much colder tonight with a hard freeze most sections. Continued rather cold Wednesday. Low tonight 24 to 32. High Wednesday 38 to 45. Sunset today 5:28 p. ,tn. CDT. Sunrise Wednesday 7:34 a. m. CDT. Outlook for Thursday: Partly cloudy and slightly warmer. Low Wednesday night upper 20s north to low 30s central and south. .High Thursday in the 40s.

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Former Fort Wayne Officers Sentenced • Three Sentenced To Serve Prison Terms FORT WAYNE. Ind. (UPDThree former Fort Wayne policemen were sentenced today to serve 2 to 5 years in prison for stealing television sets and record players from an appliance store. Allen Circuit Judge William H. Schannen sentenced Ronald Lapp Jr., William Bollman and John Pequignot. saying it was the most difficult decision he had encountered in his 28 years on the bench. “But in view of the fact that they were police officers,” Schannen said, “any sane judge would have to commit them.” Lapp, Bollman and Pequignot were among seven policemen and one former policeman arrested several months ago in connection with an investigation of 80 burglaries in the Fort Wayne area. Evidence at the time the case was broken indicated the officers sometimes burglarized stores while in uniform and used police cars to haul stolen merchandise away. Schannen sentenced the men on their pleas of guilty to burglary charges. The pleas Were entered Monday. Prosecutor Glenn Beams had asked that sentencing be deferred until after the three ate tried Dec. 2 before a jury on charges of burglary and removing a safe. But Schannen said they should be permitted* to start serving their sentences immediately. He ordered the men held in jail pending the jury trial. Noble County Grand Jury Resumes Probe Resuming Probe Os Huge Fund Shortage ALBION. Ind. (UPD—A Noble County grand jury resumed its investigation of a reported two million dollar shortage in the Noble County Credit Union today with examiner Mack W. Slusser of the Indiana State department of Financial Institutions scheduled to be first on the witness stand. Also salted to appear today were Eva Belle Malott, Albion, a former employe of the union; Frank Wiley, Ligonier, former office manager for the Arnold G. Hobbs Enterprises, and Samuel P. Haines, Indianapolis, who is association representative of the Washington Information and Investigative Council. Hobbs, who has been indicted in connection with the shortage, was a subscriber to the services of the Washington organization. Meanwhile, prosecutor Louis G. Ketcham, said subpenaes would be issued for the appearance of all individuals who have listed their properties as bond for Hobbs. The former manager of the union is now free on bonds totaling $62,000. Ketcham said the sureties on '■ ctitluufcd on page five) Former Decatur Lady Dies At Winchester Mrs. Pearl Debolt, 46, of Winchester, a former Decatur resident, died this morning at the Randolph county hospital in Winchester after an illness of 14 months. Surviving are her husband, Chester Debolt; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orla Ludwig of Ridgeville; three sons, Larry Uhrich of Winchester, Charles, with the U. S. Navy in Cuba, and Orla, Circleville, 0.; one daughter, Mrs. Isabelle Towne (rs Langford; three grandchildren; two brothers and seven sisters. J - Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at the Maynard and Walker funeral home in Win-

West Seeking To Keep Alive Geneva Parley Indications Point To Utter Failure Os Geneva Conference GENEVA (UPD — The West made another attempt today to keep alive the East-West talks on preventing surprise attacks but every indication was that the conference was a failure. The, West, in an effort to block Soviet attempts to turn the talks into a cold war political battle, handed over a detailed list of modern weapons by which surprise attacks could be launched and asked that they be discussed. At the same time Italy’s P.E. Taviani, chairman for the day, rejected on behalf of the West the Soviet proposal for a ban on flights of atomic and hydrogen bombers over the high seas and the territory of other states. The Soviets revived this proposal Monday. The West said it already had been discussed and rejected outside the conference and that Russia’s attempt to reintroduce it was merely another move to turn the conference into a political parley. Conference sources said Russia agreed to study the Western proposal, but preliminary comment from Communist quarters threw cold water on the West's offer. One Communist source privately ridiculed the Western list as “a type of book you can find in any bazaar anywhere.” With Russia still insistent on broadening the conference into a political rally, the signs of breaking the conference deadlock appeared as remote as ever. The West also saw no immediate way out of the deadlock in the parallel East-West nuclear arms test meeting. But both the West and Russia appeared reluctant to break up either meeting for fear of a rupture being used for propaganda purposes against them. Both seemed to be playing for time to keep the talks alive for some time longer. The conference onpprevention of surprise attacks held its seventh formal session during the morning while the nuclear test ban conference’s tenth session was set for the afternoon. Os the two, the surprise attacks conference appeared to be in the more hopeless state. The West has insisted from the start, and continues to insist, that it has come here only for technical discussions between experts. The Soviets have persisted in trycutinued on page five) Safely Program In Decatur Thursday Famed Race Driver To Address Pupils An educational highway safety program which has been presented to more than one million students in 1,400 high schools will be brought to Adams county at 1:10 p.m. Thursday when a famed Indianapolis speedway race driver appears. Don Freeland, six times a contender in the Indianapolis Speedway classic, will conduct the lecture - demonstration at ’ Decatur high school with Decatur Catholic, Adams Central and Pleasant Mills high schools attending the program. The Decatur Auto Supply will sponsor the program here. Freeland is one of a team of seven famed race drivers visiting the nation’s schools. He will illustrate his talk with a racing film, a flan-nel-board demonstration and with selections from his own racing experience, comparing race track situations to highway driving. He will, upon request, give student cars a safety inspection, advising on detection of functional defects that could lead to traffic accidents. The national safety council public interest award for exceptional service to safety has been presented to the Champion Spark Plug company of Toledo, Ohio for developing and maintaining this high' way safety program in public schools. It was also the subject of an editorial in the Saturday Evening Post. Educational, civic and law enforcement officials who have Observed the impact of the safety lectures and films upon assembled students have given it unqualified written endorsement, citing the program for its objective, constriibtive and wholly non - commercial approach. The program was developed by Champion to supplement the work (Continues oc page eight)

Decatur, Indiana, Tuesday, November 18, 1958.

United States Warns Airmen To Fire Back If Attacks Continue

Accuses U. S. Os Violating Berlin Status Soviets Say U. S. Violates Four-Power Status Os Berlin BERLIN (UPD — The Soviets today accused the United States of violating the four-power status of Berlin by using it as a base for agitation against the Communist world. At a rare hews conference held at their East Berlin embassy, the Soviets said that U.S. cold war activity in the city is a danger to peace and to all humanity “and must be stopped.” A Soviet embassy spokesman demanded that the United States halt its “insidious activity.” Two Russians who defected to the West and then returned to the East testified they had been victims of American-backed antiSoviet organizations. A former deserter identified as a Lt. I.W. Ovchinikov, in a statement obviously prepared for him, said American - financed underground organizations in West Ber Lin violated the Potsdam agreement and the city’s four-power Status. Items developed at the news conference brought no direct threats against the Western position in the city nor did they refer to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s demand that the fourpower occupation of Berlin be ended. But the news conference seemed to be part of the Soviet build-up for some sort of action against the city. Soviet embassy press attache M.V. Bebruov said the conference had been called to tell the world public about the cold war tactics used against the Soviet Union by the “imperialists.” Actually, the conference had been expected to produce new word on Soviet views on the Berlin crisis, perhaps through an interview with Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Pervukhin, who has just returned from Moscow. But all it produced was a rehash of the same old charges by the Soviets against the West. Belief that a major statement was in the works followed a statement today by Johannes Dieckmann, president of the Communist East German parliament, who said the question of a blockade was up to Khrushchev. The Russian ambassador had been expected to give this view. John H. Clark Dies After Long Illness 87-Year-Old Former Farmer Dies Monday John H. Clark, 87-year-old retired farmer of Pleasant Mills, died at 11 o’clock Monday morning at the South View nursing home at Bluffton. He had been ill for nearly a year. He was born in St. Mary’s, 0., Oct. 7, 1871, but resided in St. Mary’s township most of his life. He was rfiarried Nov. 14, 1893, to Capitola Lord, who preceded him in death April 30, 1948. Surviving are two sons, Varlando Clark of Pleasant Mills, and George H. Clark of Fort Wayne; three grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. One son, Clarence, died in service during World War I, and three brothers and one sister also preceded him in death. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Pleasant Mills Baptist church, the Rev. Oakley Masten officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body will be removed from the Zwick funeral home to the Varlando Clark residence in Pleasant Mills, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. "

Hartford School Is Damaged By Vandals Money, Food Taken In Foray Last Night Hartford Center school was entered by vandals during the night Monday, causing considerable damage to school property, and stealing money and food from the school cafeteria, the sheriff's department said today. The school principal, George Hensley, reported the breaking and entering incident to the sheriff’s department at 7:53 a. m. today. Die sheriff's department stated that upon their arrival at the county school, the front door lock had been broken and pried off with the help of a crow bar or pinch bar. Locks were also pried open in the gym and cafeteria in the same manner as the front door was entered. After the thieves entered the cafeteria, a deep freeze which was locked was damaged by prying the locked door latch open. A steel cabinet was entered and four dozen candy bars and one pound of nut meats were taken. The thieves also stole 10 pounds of hamburger from the deep freeze ir the cafeteria. * The principal’s office was broken into, and filing cabinets, a steel cabinet and desk drawers w,ere ransacked. Several of the classrooms were entered and ransacked, but the intruders were able to enter without force. A small amount of change was taken from each of the rooms. One of the classrooms entered was damaged by the culprits when the bar used in gaining entry was used to damage one of the black(Contlnued on page five) Berne Man Honored At Scouted Dinner High Award Given To Earl M. Webb Earl M. Webb, superintendent of schools at Berne, was one of three men who received the silver beaver award for distinguished service to boyhood at ceremonies held at the War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne Monday night at the annual Boy Scout leaders appreciation dinner. Die silver beaver in the highest award given at the council level of scouting. From Decatur, sitting at the head table, were Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Rydell, Mr. and Mrs. W. Guy Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ziner. Brown presented the award to Webb. Several tables of Decatur scouters and their wives were present in addition to the scoutmasters, assistants, and wives. Several scouting troop leaders were on hand to witness the presentation bestowed upon Webb. The troops and packs represented were: Decatur Lions troop 62; American Legion troop 63; Trinity Evangelical United Brethren troop 65; the Elks Air Squadron 7062; and Cub pack troop 3063. sponsored by the Northwest P. T. A.; Berne troop 67; explorer post 2067 and cub pack 3067; Geneva troop 69 and explorer post 2069. All of the above mentioned troop leaders received special recognition of achievement. The featured speaker for the program was Frank W. Braden, regional scout executive, of region seven. A test for scouting, den stated, is not so much what he does when he is in the troop, but what he does when he is out of the troop. Here is where a man with chaarcter is an invaluable force in the Boy Scouts of America. Mayor Robert E. Meyers of Fort Wayne, welcomed the Anthony Wayne council to the banquet, and Ward E. Dildine, president of the Anthony Wayne council, spoke briefly. The. Parkview nurses choir presented a program before the presentation of the silver beaver awards.

Atlas Missile Is Fired At Florida Base Halfway Flight By Missile Is Termed Apparent Success CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD — The spectacular and apparently successful halfway flight of another intercontinental Atlas brought the powerful missile a step closer today to the oceanhopping capability for which it was designed. The Air Force did not disclose whether the Atlas, the nation's first ICBM, achieved the objectives desired in the shoot late Monday night. But if it did, the next firing is expected to be an all-the-way shot of 6,300 miles. , Flames shot from the base of I the 100-ton giant at 11 p.m. e.s.t. and grew into a huge orange ball that turned the starlit sky into near-daylight as the Atlas picked up speed and thundered beyond the earth’s atmosphere. Visible For Minutes The 80-foot missile was visible for four and a half minutes, the duration of its powered flight. Just before engine burnout, when the Atlas appeared only as a tiny speck in a starry sky, it apparently hit a layer of cold air and a shimmering wreath of white surrounded it for several seconds. It was the 14th Atlas firing, and the fifth launching with the power of all three engines, which generate some 300,000 pounds of thrust. Monday night’s Atlas was the first fired since Sept. 18. when an attempt to send 'the missile 6,300 miles to the south Atlantic ended in explosion after only 80 seconds of flight. Hit Any Target The Air Force declined to disclose why the latest shot was only a half-way flight. But it was learned the intricate plumbing system of the missile has been giving "trouble, and Monday night’s test was aimed at solving this problem. When the Atlas reaches operational status, the United States will be able to hit almost any tar-j get in the world with a hydrogen warhead from a base in this country. Mrs. Horace Butler Dies This Morning Decatur Lady Dies Suddenly At Home Mrs. Ella Butler, 86, wife of H. E. Butler, died suddenly at 2:222 o’clock this morning at her home, 304 North Fifth street. She had been ill for only one day. She was born in Adams county. April 4, 1872, a daughter of William and Sarah Mallonee-Fisher, and was a lifelong resident of tfce county. She was married to Horace E. Butler Sept. 10, 1892 in Bobo. Mrs. Butler was a member of the First Methodist church, the W. S. C. S. of the church, and the Pythian Sisters. Surviving in addition to her husband are two daughters, Mrs. Giles (Velma) Porter of Decatur, and Mrs. George (Naomi) Renner of Cincinnati, 0.; one son, Clyde E. Butler of Decatur; four grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. One son, Homer, is deceased. She was the last surviving member of a famity of 12. Funeral services, will be conducted at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Wednesday until time of the services.

Norfolk Voting On School Integration Straw Vote Called By Norfolk Council NORFOLK, Va. (UPD — Norfolk voters turned out today to say whether they prefer integrated public schools or closed schools. Neither side would predict the outcome of the referendum in which some observers saw a narrow margin of defeat in store for the proposition. Half of the city’s 49,000 eligible voters were expected to ballot in the straw vote called by City Council to sample public sentiment. Backers of the proposal made a last minute appeal to service men to vote, on the theory that the city’s huge military population would favor reopening Norfolk’s six integration-closed junior and senior high schools, even if racially mixed. Frecast Rainy Weather I Segregationists, against a “for” vote, said rainy weather might cut into the vote against the proposal. Die Weather Bureau called for drizzle and fog with some sunshine in the afternoon. Polls were opened from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. e.s.t. Voters found this proposal on the ballot: “Shall the council of the city of Norfolk, pursuant to state law, petition the governor to return to the city, control of schools, now closed, to be opened by the city on an integrated basis as required by the federal courts?” A footnote on the ballot reminded voters that should the schools, closed Sept. 27 under Virginia’s anti-integration laws, be opened oh a racially-mixed basis, state funds to all Norfolk schools of that class would be cut off, necessitating an undetermined tui(Contlnued on page eight) Commissioners In Regular Session Election Expenses Approved By Board The county commissioners allowed the billls for the first half of November, totaling $13,308.14 for election expenses, wages for labor and salary for the county highway department, at the meeting held Monday at the court house. Os the grand total of $13,308.14, the election expenses were $5,906.25; county and ditch allotment fund for wages paid for labor, $3,558.74; and $3,843.15 for wages for county highway men. Other business at the meeting included the signing of a contractor's bond of SSOO with the IndianaOhio pipe company for the removal of pipe under county roads throughout Adams county. A re- ; quisition for material and supplies from the county supervisor of the highway department was submitted to the board of commissioners. ; A listing of the requisitions will ' appear in the Decatur Daily Democrat later this week in a legal noj tice. Emil Stauffer and Goldie Gottschalk were appointed by the ' board of commissioners as viewers ‘ for the Peter Roth ditch located ! in Hartford township. ’ Victor Bollenbacher, William Davis, and William Adang discus- ’ sed sewers located on county road 1 24 between county roads 27 and 1 28. The men were referred to Law- [ rence Noll. • Mrs. Ell Kipfer, of French town- • ship, talked with the board con- • cerning wells on county road 15. - The matter was referred to Laws rence Noll, no action was taken. NEW SERIAL STORY A new serial story. “Elisabeth by Name,” written by WiU Cook, starts in today’s edition of the Decatur Daily i Democrat. It is a historical, full-length novel at the old west.

Red Attacks On U.S. Planes Are Revealed Implicit Warning By State Dept. If Attacks Continue ' WASHINGTON (UPI) — The United States refused today to change any of its military flight schedules and made it clear that U.S. airmen may fire 'back if they are attacked again by the Russians. This position was outlined after the State Department disclosed Monday that Soviet fighter made forays against two U.S. military ‘ planes—one over the Baltic Sea and the other over the Sea of Japan—cm Nov. 7. Russian fighters fired twice on the plane over the Baltic. Simulated attacks were carried out on the plane over the Sea of Japan. Neither plane was damaged. On Training Flights An Air Force spokesman told United Press International that there will be “no curtailment of any of our training or routine flight s.” He emphasized that these flights are not provocative and there is no reason for the Soviet attacks. The Pentagon has steadfastly maintained that all U. S. planes involved in recent Soviet incidents were engaged in training or navigational flights. In disclosing the recent Red attacks, a formal U.S. note to Moscow noted neither of the American planes involved fired back despite what it called the “dangerous, offensive and provocative actions of Soviet fighter aircraft.” But it told the Kremlin in unusually stern language: “If such dangerous tactics are in the future repeated by Soviet aircraft in close proximity to American aircraft in international airspace, the Soviet government should be aware that commanders of American aircraft will be under instructions to take any defensive action which they consider necessary and appropriate.” Causes Some Puzzlement This statement caused some puzzlement here. American pilots have been authorized for some time to fire back if attacked, and to pursue their attackers. A state Department spokesman, asked Monday whether new instructions would be issued to American pilots, said this might be done but he did not know. He referred newsmen to the Pentagon. De- . sense spokesmen said they knew of no new orders as yet. State Department officials told UPI later that, in general, U.S. plane commanders are under instructions to shoot back if necessary but are cautioned to exer(Continued on page five) District G.O.P. To Seek Recount Funds Ex-Decatur Mayor Is Named Secretary FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD— Fourth District Republicans formed a "Citizens for Adair” committee today to function in case a recount is asked in the congressional election. Rep. E. Ross Adair of Fort s Wayne, a Republican, defeated W. Robert Fleming, Fort Wayne Democrat, by 267 in a close race for Congress from the 8-county 4th District. Democrats have indicated they may ask a recount The Republicans organized to provide funds if such a recount is asked. Winslow Van Horn, Auburn, was named chairman: Mrs. Evelyn McCarty, Brimfield vice chairman; John Doan, Decatur, secretary: Otto H. Adams, Fort Wayne, treasurer, and E.H. Kilbounre. Fort Wayne, finance., advisor.

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