Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 287, Decatur, Adams County, 6 December 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 287.

' ■■"' lAv • lbw v ‘'lr- ; - ? '*k f w --M w|H BL ® mM, | I I il hi ' >W M H w F •*, Il ‘ ■ In • ♦ I\W ■ M ARMY’S NEW SPACE EXPLORER— This is the Army’s first moon rocket, designed to hurtle Into unexplored space in a radiationmeasuring mission. The rocket "Juno II,” here being prepared at the Ballistic Missile Agency, Huntsville, Ala., employs a jupiter IRBM which has been elongated for increased fuel capacity as its main stage. Inside the shroud are three high-speed upper stages made up of solid propellent rockets. This official U.S. Army photograph was released at Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Democrats Os South Battle Racial Issue Committee Votes To Retain Gravel As Committeeman WASHINGTON (UPD — Southerners squared off — with the odds against them —for another fight in the Democratic National Committee today over the racial issue. Although knowing that the Louisiana move to oust national committeeman Camille Gravel would be defeated, a majority of the Southern members demanded Gravel’s removal from the 14member executive committee. Their chances of winning were slim. The two-ply contest over the controversial Gravel promised to provide the main fireworks display at today's first post-election meeting of the national committee. Voted For Recognition The dispute was readied for the committee by these developments: —The Credentials Committee of the national committee voted 7 to 2 Friday to continue recognizing Gravel as Louisiana National committeeman. At the same time, it rejected the credentials of Jett M. Talbdl, chosen by the Louisiana Democratic Committee, which objected to Gravel's moderate stand on the segregation issue. —A caucus of Southern National Committee members, who originally picked Gravel as one of their members of the Executive Committee, voted 14 to 5 Friday night to demand his removal. The caucus nominated Hugh N. Clayton of Mississippi to replace him. Most of the Executive Committee members are chosen by regional caucuses and all are members of the Democratic Advisory Council, the policy-making voice of the party between conventions. Gravel’s removal from the executive group, even if he remained on the national committee, would (Continued on page foun) Memorial Services At Elks Sunday Annual memorial services of the Decatur Elks lodge will be held at 2:30 o’clock Sunday afternoon at the lodge home on North Second street. Members, families of deceased members, and the public are invited to attend the services. The Rev. Banj. G. Thomas, pastor of the Bethany Evangelical United church, will deliver the memorial address, and special music will be privided by a male quartet comprised of Kenneth Nash, Leo Kirsch, Harold Cox and Earl DeWeese, accompanied by Mrs. William Gass..

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UN Assembly Seeks To Adjourn Dec. 12 Three Committees In Session Today UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPD —Three key committees of the General Assembly scheduled sessions today in an attempt to meet a Dec. 12 adjournment deadline. The General Assembly’s main Political Committee discusses the effects of atomic radiation—a non - controversial subject this year—while the Special Political Committee debates the treatment of Indians in South Africa and the Trusteeship Committee hashes over reports from member nations on non-self-governing territories. > The United Nations swept nearly a score of items out of the way Friday at committee meetings and a session of the general assembly. Its main actions: —The United States and Russia agreed in the main Political Committee on the need for continuing worldwide study of die effects of atomic radiation on human beings. —The Security Council scheduled a meeting at 3 p.m. e.s.t Monday to consider Israeli charges of "aggression” by the United Arab Republic and a meeting at 10 a.m. e.s.t. Tuesday to consider Guinea’s application to become the 82nd member of the United Nations. —The General Assembly passed unanimously a watered-down Cyprus resolution that merely called for continued efforts to reach a "just and democratic solution” to the problem of the Eastern Mediterranean island. —The Special Political Committee, by a vote of 68-0 with one abstention (China) passed a resolution which in effect called on member nations to live up to the United Nations charter. —The General Assembly called for a “world refugee year” and an “international public health and medical research year” to promote cooperation among nations on those two problems. —The General Assembly firmed Paul G. Hoffman, former head of the Ford Foundation and of Studebaker-Packard Corp., as head of a new “special funds” to work on large projects for underdeveloped nations. Marion Restaurant Is Damaged By Fire MARION, Ind. (UPD -Flames swept a restaurant-bar in downtown Marion today, causing a loss estimated at $40,000 to $50,000. A general alarm was sounded and all the city’s fire equipment responded. The blaze was confined to the two-story building in which the club was located. An alley on one side and a filling station on the other prevented the blaze from spreading.

Death Toll In Chicago Fire Mounts To 91 12 Youngsters, One Nun On Critical List From School Fire CHICAGO (UPD — The death toll in Chicago’s school fire climbed to 91 Friday night, hours after 70 of the victims from Our Lady of the Angels School were buried in crisp, cold December ,weather. Services for 12 more of the children were to be held today. Three Roman Catholic nuns who died with their charges in Monday's blaze and five other children were buried Thursday. Attention of the heartsick city shifted to the city’s hospitals where 12 youngsters and one nun remained on the critical list, and prayers were offered that the delayed death Friday night of Victor Jacabellis, 9, might be the last in the overwhelming tragedy. A solemn requiem Mass watf celebrated by Chicago’s Archil bishop Albert G. Meyer at a National Guard armory where 18 girls and nine boys rested in white and gold coffins. Separate funeral services were sung at numefrous parish chitrches throughout the city for many of the remaining children. Spellman Assists Francis Cardinal Spellman of New York assisted at the Mass held in the temporary “cathedral,” chosen because no church in the city was large enough to hold the victims, their relatives and mourners. About 7,000 persons were at the armory, and another 2,000 gathered later at the Holy Innocents Shrine of Queen of Heaven Cemetery where 21 of the victims were brought for final bunal. There, as gusty winds blew bitterly, Bishop Raymond P. Hillinger offered a final prayer over the coffins and weeping relatives huddled together fcr comfort. One bereaved father was denied the comforting release of tears. Stanley Burda, 37, had undergone an eye operation Monday, the same day his daughter, Beverly 13, was killed in the fire. Doctors had warned him that excruciating pain and possible damage would accompany any tears he might shed at the funeral, and Burda struggled to obey the warning. Soldiers Cry A short distance away were the newly turned graves of the three nuns and a statue of the smiling Christ surrounded by the figures of three little children. Inscribed on the base of the statue were Christ’s words “Suffer the little children to come unto Me and forbid them not, for of such is the kingdom of God.” Mourners contained their grief (Canttolled on page four) See Early End To Geneva Conference Surprise Attack Parley Deadlocked GENEVA (UPD—The 10-nation surprise attack conference, deadlocked for four weeks by differences between Russia and the West, appeared today to be on the verge of “indefinite adjournment." « Conference sources predicted that the meeting will end soon unless there is some sign of a break in the deadlock. At the same time, the Moscow Communist organ Pravda indicated that there is no hope of success in the three-power talks on nuclear testing unless the West shows signs of willingnes to make concessions to Russia. Pravda said Western insistence on linking a nuclear test ban, with other disarmament measures casts doubt on the West’s desire for a cessation of tests. “Everything now depends on whether the governments of the U.S.A. and Britain intend sincerely to meet the Soviet Union halfway,” Pravda said. Both conferences are scheduled to adjourn soon—probably no later than Dec- 19 —for a Christmas break. The nuclear conference, which has some progress toward agreement, is expected to reconvene Jan. 5. The deadlock in the attack talks developed because Russia Is insisting that it should serve -as a political parley on cold war issues while the West wants to discuss specific technical measures for averting surprise attack. There was no sign today of any change in the Soviet attitude.

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Ike May Ask Congress Vole Tax Increase Top Budget Official Hints At Action If Spending Continues NEW YORK (UPD — The administration’s top budget official hinted today that President Eisenhower may ask for higher taxes if the new Congress thwarts his efforts to hold down federal spending. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans said the President will send the heavily Democratic new Congress a budget for fiscal year 1960 as tight as the law allows. Then, Stans said, the choice was up to the American people. If they demand—and Congress votes—more spending than tax revenues can cover, thereby unbalancing the budget, “the government should spell out what new taxes must be raised.” In a speech prepared for Dean’s Day ceremonies at New York University, Stans said “It is time for realism in government finances—in the federal budget.” Apparently beaming his remarks to the new Congress, Stans said the budget for fiscal 1960, which starts next July 1, would be “tailored to the facts of our economic life. It will be as tight a budget as the President can make it, in the face of existing laws.” Stans said “The new budget will run into sharp criticism because of the very fact that it will be tight. It will likewise be met by criticism on the part of those who think it should be even tighter.” Even wim retrenchment, fiscal experts give the administration virtually no chance to balance the budget in fiscal 1960. But the deficit might be as low as two or three billion dollars, depending on tax receipts and spending levels, as against the expected fiscal 1959 red ink bulge of 12 billion dollars. Stans, whose bureau assembles the massive budget, noted that the government is expected to satisfy such needs as education, health research, slum clearance and urban redevelopment, irrigation, highways, managing the airways, services for the elderly and the conquest of space. He foresaw military costs continuing to absorb 50 per cent of federal spending unless world tension abates. township Trustees Hold Annual Dinner Board Os Education In Annual Meeting The township trustees and their wives were honored today with their anual Christmas dinner at 12 o’clock noon by the board of education, it was announced. The members of the board held a meeting at the Adams county court house at 10 o’clock this forenoon, and were scheduled to meet at the Fairway restaurant at 12 noon for the dinner sponsored by Gail Grabill, superintendent of county schools, and Mrs. Mildred Foley, county attendance officer. Those attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Burry, Hartford; Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Baker, Jefferson township; Mr. and Mrs. James Lybarger, Wabash truste; Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Heller, Kirkland trustee; Mr. and Mrs. Robers Kolter, Preble trustee; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gay, Washington trustee; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Blakey, Union trustee; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Myers, Blue Creek trustee; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Moser, French trustee; Mr. and Mrs. Omer Merrijnan, Root trustee; Mr. and Mrs. Lester Brunner, St. Mary’s trustee; and Mr. and Mrs. Sylvan Sprunger, Monroe trustee.

Five Persons Hurt h Collision Friday I James Kocher Hurt i In Accident Friday Five persons were hospitalized Friday night following a two-car head-on collision at 5:25 p. m. on Mercer avenue near High street, in which both autos were considered total losses by the investigating officers. James Kocher, Sr., 83, of the Kocher Lumbers Co., and driver of one auto, was removed from , the critical list today by the hos- [ pital staff at the Adams county memorial hospital. He was reported as resting very well today at 10 o'clock. He is suffering from [ a broken left lower leg, broken right knee, and bad bruises. f Herbert Fahncke, 45, Celina, 0., driver of the second auto, received a deep laceration to his forehead, a possible broken shoulder, , and was badly bruised. The mishap occurred when Kocher was attempting to make a left turn into the driveway at ’ his home. The impact of the collision occurred in the northbound lane of traffic head-on. Kocher ' was headed south on Mercer ave- [ nue when the accident occurred, deturning to his home from work. Three of five passengers riding in the Fahncke auto were hospitalized due to injuries. s Bernice Fahncke, 45, received a I feceration above the left eye, a i skinned left knee, and was badly bruised. Connie Fahncke, 12, received a possible left shoulder injury, and was badly bruised. Rosalie Fahncke, 14, received a cut through her lower lip after having her front teeth knocked . out, and was also badly bruised. Two other passengers were treated and released from the Continued an page five East Germany Holds U.S. Flier Prisoner I Airman Is Captured After Plane Fails BERLIN (UPD—The West Berlin newspaper B.Z. reported today that Ist Lt. Richard Mackin, Washington, is being held prisoner by the Communists in East Berlin. B.Z. quoted a police official in Red-held Hildburghausen, near where Mackin was captured by the Communists Wednesday, as saying he had bepn taken to Red Berlin where he “probably will remain in custody for some time.” Communist officials here would neither comment on the B.Z. report nor give any other new information about the lieutenant’s fate. Mackin, who flies an Ll 9 courier plane for the Army, was captured when he lost his way and ran out of gas on a flight from Frankfurt to Grafenwoehr, near the Iron Curtain border. He parachuted from his faltering plane, not realizing that he was. over Communist territory. The Communists apparently are holding Mackin as a hostage in a new attempt to receive diplomatic •recognition from the United States. Their Foreign Office formally notified U. S. authorities of his capture Friday night. > The Russians have refused to arrange Mackin’s release, repeating the behavior that let seven U.S. soldiers languish in Red jails for seven weeks last summer after the helicopter in which they were flying strayed across the border. The release of the seven soldiers eventually was arranged through the Red Cross. INDIANA WEATHER Some snow flurries and snow squalls today' north portion. Fair and continued >cold tonight and Sunday with a few snow flurries near Lake Michigan. Low tonight 7 to 15 above. High Sunday 20 to 30. Outlook fur Monday: Fair and continued rather cold.

Hints Germany And Allies At Odds On Berlin Adenauer Indicates Differences Over Stand On Berlin BERLIN (UPD — Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has indicated his government is at odds with its Western allies on means of settling the Berlin crisis. Adenauer told a wildly-cheering crowd at a mass meeting here Friday night that: "My government and I are against the proposal that Berlin question should be di»?ussed within the framework of the whole [German problem. The difficult and dangerous Berlin problem should be settled first of all.” Sources close to the West Berlin city government said the chancellor stressed the same theme at a closed meeting with Socialist Mayor Willy Bfrandt and other city leaders. Seems Diametrically Opposed The chancellor’s argument that the Berlin problem should be dealt with separately from the whole German question appeared to be diametrically opposed to the attitudes expressed in Washington, London and Paris. According to various declarations by statesmen in the three [Western caoitals, the West intends to tell Russia that the Berlin problem was inseiparable from the overall German problem. The foreign ministers of the United States, Britain, France and West Germany are expected Ito draft a formal note to Russia l at a meeting preceding the coniference of NATO foreign ministers in Paris Dec. 16. Major disagreement between West Germany and the other participants at the conference could greatly complicate the already difficult problem of drafting an effective counter-proposal to the Soviet plan to make West Berlin a “demilitarized free city” cut off from all its Western ties. Continued on page five Near-Zero Weather Again Hits Indiana Continued Cold Is Forecast In State United Press International The second spell of near-zero weather in a week invaded Indiana today and settled down for a [long winter’s nap. Temperatures tumbled within a 'few degrees of zero this morning and probably will fall even lower tonight. The downward plunge of the mercury continued after daybreak. Readings at 8 a.m. c.d.t. included 6 above at Chicago, 9 at Fort Wayne and Lafayette, 10 at Goshen, 12 at South Bend and Indianapolis. 13 at Terre Haute, 14 at Cincinnati, and 19 at Evansville and Louisville. Skies were clear except at the extreme ends of Hoosierland as the chilly temperatures moved in just a week after the season’s first cold wave sent the mercury spinning as Jow as 12 below zero. South Bend reported snow and Evansville and Louisville partly cloudy skies. There was no further snow to ! add to the blanket which fell over Southern Indiana early Friday, measuring 5 inches at Greensburg, and Up to 4 inches at other points south of Indianapolis. Except for a few snow squalls and flurries in the Lake Michigan area, no further precipitation was due during the weekend and through Monday. But temperatures, after cresting between 18 and 28 today, will fall to lows ranging from 7 to 15 above tonight. Highs Sunday will range from near 20 to near .30, and Monday will continue rather cold.

Six Os New York's Schools Are Closed Closure Is Ordered Due To Fire Hazard NEW YORK (UPD —Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr. Friday shut down six more schools because of fire hazards and threatened to close all others in the city unless fire dangers are eliminated. ’ All public and parochial school I systems were to remain open i over the weekend to permit f workers to correct possible violations. r [ Cavanaugh said if the violations are not corrected, he will close k all 1,500 public, private and pai rochial schools in the city next . Friday to give them a chance to > clean up. Q 1 Cavanaugh ordered a city-wide campaign to eliminate fire hazards following the disastrous Chi- [ cago fire Monday that took 91 ’ lives. He said his department’s I cellar - to - rooftop inspection of ' schools found "easily corrected but potentially dangerous conditions” in almost all buildings. Hie commissioner told news- ■ men he was able to get coopera- ■ lion in the cleanup only because I public feeling had been aroused by the Chicago fire. Friday’s school closings brought the total number shut down to 10, ’ two of which have corrected viola- ! tions and reopened. Those closed ’ Friday were a Roman Catholic grammar school, two Jewish in--1 stitutions, a small nursery school and two public schools. b • Alert Arab Troops On Israel Borders Report Buildup Os i Israeli’s Troops r t BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPD—Arab , troops on the Syrian and Lebant ese borders of Israel have been t alerted following reports of a buildup of Israeli troop concentrationp in the frontier area, informed sources said. i Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami conferred at length Friday with Army staff officers at the Defense Ministry. The sources said they discussed the , disposition of Israeli troops along the border. A Foreign Ministry official said that after the meeting the army sent word to Arab commanders in the field to exercise special watchfulness. He said no forma# > alert order was issued, but rather • an informal warning. i Reports conveyed through the Lebanese and United Arab Rei public foreign ministries said Israel moved an unusually large • number of troops to the northeastern part of Israel in the 48 • hours after the Syrian-Israeli artillery duel Wednesday. Israel also, asked for an urgient : meeting of the United Nations Security Council. A meeting was , scheduled for Monday afternoon. The incident aroused Syrian-Is-raeli tension for the second time in five weeks. At the end of October, UAR newspapers charged the Israelis were planning to seize the west bank of the Jordan River as part of an “imperialist” plot to take advantage of the withdrawal of British and American forces from Jordan and Lebanon. Israel in turn accused the United Arab Republic of threatening the peace and security of the Middle East. In its appeal to the United Nations it asked the Security Council to put an immediate stop to new UAR “aggres--1 sions.” I The Israeli complaint charged that the Syrian army killed a ; shepherd Wednesday and bom- [ barded at least seven villages in , the Galilee section. k I NOON EDITION

Army Rocket Is Too Slow To Reach Moon Expected To Burn Up Sunday On Trip Back To Atmosphere WASHINGTON (UPfi — An Army lunar probe robot, too slow and too off-course to reach the moon, roared upward today toward an estimated peak altitude of 64,830 miles. This would be about a quarter of the distance to the moon’s orbit and far less than the altitude of 79,000 miles reached by the Air Force Pioneer I in October. Scientists said the Army rocket, dubbed Pioneer 111, would reach its peak height at about 8 p.m. today. Launched at 12:45 a.m. at Cape Canaveral, Fla., the gold-plated robot eight hours later had reached an altitude of more than 42,000 miles and was still zooming upward at more than 3,700 miles an hour. More Than 3 Degrees Low Dr. William H. Pickering, director of the Army’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told a news conference that the robot will fall back to earth and will strike the atmosphere and burn up at aboul 3 p.m. Sunday. Pickering would not predict where the probe would enter the atmosphere. But Dr. Wernher von Braun, the Army’s chief missile scientist, made a rough estimate that it would plunge into the air "in the vicinity of Madagascar.” The total flight timee will ba about 38 hours, compared with 43 hours for the Air Force’s Pioneer I. The Army lunar rocket actually broke through the atmosphere at a greater speed than Pioneer I—--24,057 an hour compared with 23,450 for the Air Force rocket. But Pioneer HI was more than three degrees low from its expected trajectory, which should have been 68 degrees from the vertical, whereas Pioneer I was high from approximately the same intended path. The Army’s robot therefore lost more of its speed to the earth’s gravity. Pickering said the Army robot’s instruments are working perfectly, and that signals are being received both in Puerto Rico and at the Army’s new Goldstone tracking station in Califomia’B Mojave Desert. He said the probe therefore should provide excellent information about the deadly band of radiation that its 13-pound instrument payl oa d was chiefly designed to measure. Reception is Good He added that Prof. James A Van Allen of the University of lowa, who discovered the ratlation belt and designed the new instruments, is “very satisfied” with the telemetry signals being received. Pickering pointed out that Pioneer Ill’s batteries were designed to last 75 hours, and that reception of information from the robot therefore should be good throughout its flight. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration had announced shortly after blastoff that (Continued on page four)

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