Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 274, Decatur, Adams County, 20 November 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI; No. 274.

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Virtually All '■ Hope Out For 15 Crewmen Still Missing From Sunken Great Lakes Cargo Ship Bradley CHARLEVOIX, Mich. (UPD— Coast Guardsmen held virtually no hope today for the 15 crewmen of the ill-fated Great Lakes cargo ship CarJ D. Bradley still missing in the storm-tossed waters of Lake Mi chi ga n that smashed and swallowed the craft. A Coast Guard spokesman said search efforts would “continue all day’’ today but veteran seamen said there was little chance anyone could have survived in the icy waters since the disaster Tuesday. Os the 35 men aboard the limestone hauler, only two survived. Eighteen bodies have been found so far and 15 still are missing. “We prayed like we never prayed before,” said first mate Elmer Fleming and deck watchman Frank Mays, both of Rogers City, Michg., who were saved Wednesday. “It was useless for us to shout because of the tremendous roar of the gale,” Mays said. He told reporters that at one time during the 14-hour nightmare he and Fleming were within half a mile of the rescue ship Sundew, but the 60 mile an hour winds and 20 foot waves made communication impossible. Sundew Spots Them After the pair repeatedly were washed from their frail life raft and their frozen fingers were barely able to cling to it,, the Sundew spotted them. Rescue men pulled them from the small raft and took them to Charlevoix along with eight corpses. Fleming’s description of the sinking and night at sea paralleled terrifying accounts of 14 survivors told May 11, 1953, when the Henry Steinbrenner, an oil carrier, foundered in the lake with a loss of 17 lives. “The entire stem of the ship was sagging,” Fleming said. “I knew we were going to sink. I asked someone to get my a life jacket but he couldn’t find one so I went to my room and got my own. “As I came up the ship was listing badly. “The superstructure of the ship rolled over on its side. The ship sank beneath me and I found myself in the water,” he said. Fleming’s Hair Freeses Temperatures dipped below freezing during the seemingly endless night and ice formed in 43-year-old Fleming’s hair. deeming and Mays, 26, heard shouting and managed to direct two men to their wave - tossed raft. They grabbed the men’s limbs and pulled them aboard only to have both of them washed away to watery graves while Fleming and Mays clung tenaciously to the tiny raft. “I've never been so cold in my life,” Fleming said. They were taken to Charlevoix Hospital where their tearful wives embraced them. Dr. Lawrence E. Grate, who examined Fleming and Mays, said they were in fairly good condition deOontlnued on page five INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little colder tochange In temperatures. Low night. Friday fair with little tonight 28 to 36. High Friday mostly in the 50s but near 60 extreme south. Sunset today 5:26 p.m. c.d.L Sunrise Friday 7:35 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and warmer except turning colder Saturday afternoon or night. Lows mid 30s. Highs in the 50s. 12 Pages

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To Ask Extension Os Military Draft Law I Despite Sizeable Cuts In Manpower WASHINGTON (UPD — The nation's draft chief said today the draft must be continued despite sizeable cuts in U.S. military manpower. Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey said he already has recommended that the administration ask the new Congress for a four-year extension of the military draft law. due to expire next July 1. “No statistics we’ve ever had in our history would indicate you can maintain anywhere near two million people in uniform without compulsion,” he told United Press International Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy Wednesday cut the Army draft call for January by 19 per cent and ordered the armed forces to carry out scheduled reductions totaling 71.282 men by June. Those who believe the draft could be abolished may seize on the manpower cuts as ammunition. But Hershey, like Defense Department officials, disagreed. Hershey said that when the draft act was slowed to expire in 1947, the United States was unable to recruit a force of more than 1,400.000 men and re-enacted the draft the next year as “an incentive in the form of compulsion." - He acknowledged that only the Army has to draft men now to fill its ranks. But he maintained that the other services are able to get volunteers because the men know they will be drafted eventually anyway. There appears little doubt Congress will extend the draft as requested, though there could be slight modifications in the act. The House Armed Services Committee already is laying the groundwork for public hearings on the subject. The manpower reductions ordered by McElroy Wednesday will reduce the armed forces a total of 71,282 from their strength of 2,596,282 at the start of this month. This was in line with President Eisenhower’s announced intention in his budget message last January. Jet Fighter Plane Crashes Into Train No One Seriously Injured In Crash EL TORO MARINE AIR BASE, Calif. (UPD—A Marine jet fighter plane practicing an emergency landing Wednesday overshot the landing field and crashed into the path of a speeding passenger train. Two diesel engines and five cars were derailed in the spectacular crash when the 75-mile-an-hour train smashed into the craft, cartwheeled it into the air where it exploded and fell to rest against the fourth and fifth cars of the nine-car train including the engine. There were no serious injuries among the 130 passengers and five crewmen. The pilot escaped with only minor injuries after he was saved by a train crewman. “I saw a cloud of dust up ahead and hit my emergency brake,” train engineer W. M. Rider said. ' “My first thought when I saw we were going to hit was that I would be burned alive,” he said. The F4D Skyray all - weather fighter plane piloted by 2nd Lt. Philip M. Schmidt, 23, attached to the 542nd Squadron here, overshot a wire on the landing field used to stop the plane. It bounced crazily over a plowed field, snapped off a utility pole and landed on the tracks in front of the Santa Fe’s southbound San Diegan.

Federal Judge Rules Against Steel Merger Requested Merger Os Two Big Steel .Firms Is Rejected NEW YORK (UPD — Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld today ruled against the requested merger of Bethlehem Steel Corp, and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. “The proposed merger runs afoul of the prohibitions of the Clacton Act in so many directions that to permit it is to render Section 7 of the act sterile,” the judge said in his 88-page decision. “To say that the elimination of Youngstown would not result in a significant reduction in the vigor of competition in the steel industry, is in the light of its history, to disregard experience.” The decision came 5% months after a four-week trial of the Justice Department’s suit to bar the merger. The Justice Department contended that the merger would lessen competition and tend toward monopoly by eliminating Youngstown as an independent competitor in the Middle West. The defense asserted the merger would stimulate competition by enabling Bethlehem, which has no midwestern plants, to expand Youngstown facilities. Bethleham had said it would spend 358 million dollars in this endeavor if the merger were approved. The merger would have created a steel giant with combined producing capacity of 29,500,000 tons, based on Jan. 1, 1958, figures. However, it still would have left U.S. Steel dominant with capacity of 40,212,000 tons. Weinfeld’s decision was expected to be apealed to the Supreme Court, under a statute which allows direct aeals to the Sureme* Court in civil antitrust cases. The court noted that the proposed merger would eliminate the present substantial competition between Bethlehem and Youngstown in substantial relevant markets. “It would eliminate substantial potential competition between them. It would eliminate a substantial independent alternative source of supply for all steel consumers,” Weinfeld held. "It would eliminate Youngstown as a vital source of supply for independent fabricators who compete with Bethlehem in the sale of certain steel products and would eliminate Youngstown as a substantial buyer of fabricated steel.” Monroeville School Reporter Is Added Taking over the important job of representing her school in the weekly school reporter column in the Daily Democrat is Miss Judy Ruble, a senior at Monroeville high school. Miss Ruble is the third new addition to the column this year. Started about five years ago, the column first featured reporters from the two Decatur schools only. Later the northern schools of Adams county selected reporters for the column, and this year, Wren and Willshire, Ohio, and now Monroeville, have elected to submit copies each week. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Romey Ruble of Monroeville, the new reporter is listed by her teachers as an honor student. Besides writing for the Decatur Democrat, Miss Ruble is a news reporter for her school paper. Last year she was given an F.H.A. food award t>y winning out over several other contestants in Allen county., A picture and the first column written by the new reporter appears In today’s paper. .

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, November 20, 1958.

Soviet Russia Steps Up Nerve War To Ease West Out Os Berlin

Agree On Two Provisions Os Russian Plan i United States And 19 Other Sponsors Voice Acceptance UNITED NATIONS (UPD—The United States and 19 other sponsors of a Western resolution on outer space agreed today to accept two main provisions of a Soviet compromise measure aimed at establishing a permanent international space organization. U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge immediately went into conference with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin to attempt to work out a joint West-ern-Soviet resolution that could gain unanimous support in the United Main Political Committee. Russia paved the way for compromise earlier this week by dropping its previous demand that the elimination of all foreign military bases be linked with the question of space control. Zorin submitted instead a new resolution calling for creation of a permanent international committee for cooperation in the study of cosmic space for peaceful purposes. To set up the international group, the Russian measure called for appointment of an 11nation preparatory committee comprising the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, France, India, the United Arab Republic, Sweden, Argentina and three satellite countries — Czechoslovakia, Poland and Romania. Hie 20 countries sponsored an opposing resolution calling for a year’s study of the U.N. role in outer space by a small special committee of perhaps nine countries. The 20 sponsors met this morning and agreed to accept the RusOontiowed on page five Far-Reaching Ruling By State High Court Reverses Ruling On Death While Working INDIANAPOLIS (UPD -The Indiana Supreme Court held today that a man who dies of a heart attack while at work is not entitled to compensation under state workmen laws merely because death struck while he was on the job. The far-reaching decision, written by Chief Justice Arch N. Bobbitt, reversed earlier rulings by the Indiana Appellate Court and the Indiana Industrial Board. The case involves a suit by Bessie Dykes, widow of John Dykes, 55, who died Sept. 7, 1954, while at work as a grinder in the Gary mills of the United States Steel Corporation. The widow sought full death benefits under the Indiana Workmen’s Compensation Act bf 1929. Those benefits had been awarded to her by the industrial board and the state’s second highest court in earlier proceedings. But today’s ruling by the Supreme Court upsets that award and presumably will affect many similar cases. The thought of the board arid the Appellate Court was that the demand made upon Dykes’ heart by his job — which he had held for eight or nine years — was the cause of coronary insufficiency. But today’s ruling held that the mere showing that an employe is performing his usual routine everyday task when he suffers a heart attack is not sufficient to establish a right to workmen's compensation. ■ The ruling said that “the uncontradicted evidence here is that decedent’s heart was steadily and surely losing its functional abthtv, but there is no evidence whatever Continued on page five J {, Y

Victory Dinner Held Here By Democrats More Than 150 At Dinner Wednesday | More than 150 persons swelled I to capacity the American Legion Kall Wednesday night for the victory dinner held by the Adams qbunty Democratic party. J Victorious candidates had expected only about 75 persons, and tables had to be rearranged several times to make room for everyone. Chester Longenberger played dinner music on the piano, and Started off the festivities by playing his own arrangement of "Tea for Two” and “Man I Love.” Dr. Harry H. / Hebble, Democratic county chairman, then infroduced the advisory board members and township trustees present, and the precinct committeemen and women. Merle Affolder, sheriff of Adams county, reported that he had just returned from a sheriff's nfieeting, and Indiana now has 62 of 92 counties with Democratic Sheriffs. Richard D. Lewton, county Clerk, reported that money for deputy registration clerks was now available at his office. A total of about 78% of the registered voters turned out for this off-year election, he added. Kenny Reef, Jay coupty Demoatatic chairman, was introduced, and he invited the Democrats of Adams county to the Jay county celebration next week. Judge G. Remy Bierly, successful candidate for judge of the'appellate court of Indiana, thanked everyone for the wonderful cooperation which he received. Bierly stated that he traveled 10,250 miles over the state during the two months of the campaign, and that he enjoyed every day of it. “You do not realize,” he added, “what a great state Indiana is, until you travel over its rich agricultural areas, see the commercial links it has with the rest of the nation, and visit its booming industrial centers.” Gerald W. Vizard, former county chairman, told his memories of the Republican party, and their accomplishments, and compared Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover with Roosevelt and Truman. Sen. Vance Hartke, Vizard said, was not, as the Republicans have pictured him to save their own skins, the lesser of two evils, but a great man in his own right, and Continued on page five « Porch Light Drive Here Next Tuesday Muscular Dystrophy Campaign In City A muscular dystrophy “porch light” drive will be held in Decatur next Tuesday evening by members of the Moose Lodge 1311 and volunteer firemen from the city fire department, the two organizations announced today. The volunteers will march on Decatur Tuesday at 6:30 o’clock for the raising of contributions for the campaign drive will be provided with Jerry Lewis badges, envelopes, etc., for identification purposes and as, a convenience to the marchers taking part in the drive. Persons wishing to contribute to the muscular fund are asked to leave their porch lights on so workers may contact the homes that want to give to fight muscular dystrophy. The Moose lodge met Tuesday night to arrange definite clans for the campaign. Workers from the Moose who will take part in the campaign are: Anthony Murphy, governor: Anthonv Baker, civic affairs chairman: Darrell Kreischer, Charles E. Sheets, Ernest Worthman, Eddy Voglewede and Dan Christen. The voluriteer firemen will meet tonight at the first station for details and arrangements of the campaign. '. ■ More information will be available later in the week.

Ike Confers With Council Heads Today Top-Secret Meeting Is Held Today With Security Council WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower met with the National Security Council today as the Russians stepped up their war of nerves to force the West out of Berlin. It was considered virtually certain that the Berlin crisis—and possible counter-moves by the Allies—Was the principal subject discussed at the top-secret, 50minute meeting. U.S. officials emphasized, mean while, this country's firm determination to resist with stern measures any Communist efforts to force the Western Big Three— Britain, France and the United States — to abandon their sector of the old German capital. The crisis stems from Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s Nov. 10 announcement that Moscow will hand over control of the Soviet sector to the East German Communists. Andrei Smirnov, Soviet ambassador to Berlin, told West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’ in outlining the plan that it was aimed at “liquidating the occupation status of Berlin." The Major Problem Smirnov’s statement was announced by the Russians today. It came as no surprise to Allied authorities who have been convinced for some time that Moscow probably will go through with the plan. They have promised immediate and strong counter-meas-ures, but have refused to tip their hand by disclosing what they might be. U.S. and other Allied officials Continued on page five Says Expense Money Paid By Red Smith Denies Testimony Os Gio Salesman INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —Lloyd Poindexter testified today in former state highway chairman Virgil (Red) Smith’s Indiana highway scandal bribery trial that Smith once gave him S4OO for expenses on political trips. But Poindexter denied testimony by “Gio” salesman Arthur J. Mogilner in an earlier scandal trial that Mogilner gave Poindexter $750 at one time and gave Smith SSOO to give Poindexter on another occasion. Poindexter said he received no money from Mogilner. He said the S4OO Smith gave him was the “only time I ever received any money other than my regular pay check While serving in a state highway department job. “They were sending me around the state on political matters,” Poindexter said. “I was .paying the expenses of those weekend and evening trips out of my own pocket, Which I didn’t think I should have to do.” He said he “supposed” the money came from Republican Party campaign funds in the 1956 primary. Poindexter is a district highway superintendent now. Mogilner, who sold Wore than a million dollars worth of equipment and supplies to the highway department while Smith was chairman, was expected to testify before a Marion Criminal Court jury today. Smith, who held his post during the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig, is charged with taking a $7,793 bribe from Mogilner. The money allegedly came from Mogilner’s profits on his sale of 36 power shovels for $529,000 to Smith’s department. Prosecutor John Tinder indicated that Mogilner, the state’s Continued an page five

Tasfe Os Winter To Atlantic Seaboard Searches Resumed For Storm Victims United Press International Fair weather followed in the wake of a record November storm Thursday, with an invasion of cold air bringing a taste of winter to the Atlantic seaboard. As skies cleared from coast to coast, rescuers resumed searches for apparent storm victims in the snow-bound mountains of the West arid the icy waters of Lake Mi- , chigan. The Coast Guard said it would continue its search Thursday for 15 crewmen still missing in Lake Michigan after their cargo ship broke up and sank during a gale Tuesday night. At Tucson, Ariz., three companies of soldiers joined a posse seeking three boy scouts missing since they became lost during a snowstorm in the Santa Rita mountains last Saturday. Cold air trailing the storrrf system pushed into the East during the night, dropping readings from 10 to 25 degrees in Georgia and Alabama northward through the Virginias to the lower Great Lakes and New England. Readings were more than 20 degrees lower than the day before at a number of points, including Macon, Ga.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Raleigh, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; Pittsburgh, and Elmira, N.Y. Somewhat warmer temperatures eased a crop-killing cold wave in southern California. Farm losses were estimated in the millions of dollars, particularly among truck farmers whose vegetable crops were badly damaged. Some citrus orchards also were frozen. The death count in the storm climbed to at least 34, and it appeared the final toll would reach 53. The bodies of 18 crewmen from the sunken limestone freighter Carl D. Bradley were recovered from the choppy Lake Michigan Wednesday. Only two survivors were found and rescuers held little hope that any of the 15 missing men would be found alive. • Caril Fugale's Fate Goes To Jury Today Girl's Murder Case In Hands Os Jury LINCOLN, Neb. (UPD — The life of Caril Ann Fugate, 15-year-old accused murderess will be placed in the hands of seven men and five women today. The jury in her murder trial must decide whether Caril was paralyzed by fright or waiting patiently while her boy friend, Charles Starkweather, 19, shot another teen-age couple to death. They were among Starkweather’s 11 victims last winter and the state charges Caril knew of and condoned 10 of the slayings. If the jurors find her guilty of aiding in the murder of Robert Jensen, 17, they must also recommend the penalty — death or life imprisonment. Prosecuting attorney Elmer Scheele contended a verdict of first degree murder was justified, but he left the ques-, tion of punishment up to the jury. Scheele demanded and got the death penalty for Starkweather, tried earlier this year for the Jensen murder. Starkweather has appealed the conviction. Jensen and his high school sweetheart, Carol King, 16, were slain soon after they offered Caril and Starkweather a ride on a lonely country road last Jan. 27. Defense attorney John McArthur contends Caril was in a state of shock from having seen Starkweather kill an elderly farmer, August Meyer, hours earlier. She believed Starkweather when he said‘he planned only to steal Jensen’s car, he said. McArthur said Caril waited like “a piece of putty” when Starkweather marched the young couOontlnued ian page five • ’

West Berlin Faces Threat Os Blockade Soviet Union Plans For Liquidation Os Occupation Status BERLIN (UPI) — Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov told Chancellor Konrad Adenauer today in Bonn that Russia would “liquidate” the occupation status of Berlin, the Soviet Embassy announced. Russian and East German pressure has been building slowly and steadily against West Berlin, worrying the West Berliners and bringing fears the Americans might leave the occupied city. Today the Russian e m bassy said Smirnov asked for a meeting with Adenauer and outlined for him .the “measures the Soviet government plans taking with the aim of liquidating the occupation status of Berlin.” The phrase "liquidating the occupation status of Berlin” was taken here to mean the Soviet now proposes to transfer to East Germany the right of control of Western Allied traffic to and from Berlin. Until now the Russians as well as the Americans, British and French have considered Berlin to be under Big Four administration. Right of access to and from Berlin is governed by Big Four regulations rather than by any German rules. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, in a speech in Moscow last week, announced his government’s intention of ending this foreign control of Berlin and Ber-lin-bound traffic and transferring it to the Commuist east-zone government. Berliners Fear Blockade West Germans were faced with the immediate threat of a blockade to force Western recognition of the move. The world “blockade” is one of fear in this city 110 miles deep in Communist territory, but the greater fear is the United States might abandon die city. A West German government spokesman confirmed the Soviet Embassy announcement and said Smirnov’s statement was given orally and that no notes were handed over. He said West German Foreign Minister Henrich von Brentano participated in the meeting. In the last Adenauer-Smirnov talks, held at Adenauer’s request on Oct. 14, the chancellor asked the Russian to arrange some relaxation on personal freedoms inside East Germany and to ease up on East-West travel restrictions. Smirnov refused. This started the present crisis and intensified the fears of West Berliners. * , “We can go through another blockade, but the Americans must not leave,” one woman said. “Then we will be swallowed up by the Russians. Then we will all have to flee.” To the average West Berliner the issue comes down to that— Americans or Russians. Raise Two Questions There is talk about four-power agreements and their abrogation, the meaning of Potsdam, the rights of occupation, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s speech on Berlin. All this is summed up by frightened but determined people in two What are the Russians going to do? Will the Americans stand by the city as they promise? There is no doubt here the Russians are going to do something. There is little doubt of this in the Western capitals. In Washington the only question is how far will Russia go toward the brink of war. The U.S. top level Security Council was meeting today in Washington to study the situation. The United States, Britain and France were holding consultations in the various Western capContinued on page five

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