Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 299, Decatur, Adams County, 20 December 1958 — Page 1

Vol. LVI. No. 299.

■I .• .. - ijiiiiii—— FACES ARSON DEATH CHARGE — Teamster business agent Jack Thompson (left) leaves a Flint, Mich., court with his attorney James E. Haggerty after being examined on arson charges. Thompson is charged with helping Frank Kierdorf set a firb in a dry cleaning plant nearly four months ago during which Kierdorf recleved fatal bums. •

Airline Pilots Stage Walkout Last Midnight American Airlines Grounded On Eve Os Big Holiday Rush CHICAGO (UPI) — A coast-to-coast pre-holiday walkout of 1,500 American Airlines pilots grounded the nation’s largest fleet of airliners at one minute to midnight (local time) Friday night. The strike at American, coupled with twin strikes by the Flight Engineers and Machinists' Unions at Eastern Airlines, left only two of the nation’s “big four” air carriers to handle the Christmas travel rush on what is normally the busiest week end of the year. Marathon talks between company representatives and negotiators for the Air Lines Pilots Assn, were “suspended indefinitely” at 2:08 a.m. e.s.t, following almost steady negotiations for 17 hours. Even should a settlement be reached early, however, American said it would be out of operation for at least a week, missing the Christmas rush. An American spokesman said the line has cancelled all flights through Dec. 26 and would continue to cancel seven days ahead. Places Embargo On Freight American said it also had placed an embargo on all freight and express flights until further notice. It said it would accept reservations beyond the seven-day j limit. There had been hope the negotiators would resolve their differences before the strike dead- ' line. Earlier, Leverett Edwards, • chairman of the National Mediation Board, said the talks were “moving right along” and that he “believed the airline and the pi- , lots will get together.” No agreement was reached. 1 however, and pilots in the eastern ' part of the nation began walking ' off their posts at 11:59 p.m. e.s.t. They were joined an hour later by ' Midwestern pilots and, two hours later', by pilots on the West Coast ! The walkout threw the burden 1 of accomodating holiday travelers i upon other major airlines which < promised to do their utmost to i relieve passenger congestion. < Booked To Capacity 1 Trans World Airlines and United Air Lines, however, already 1 were booked to capacity and short ' of pressing additional planes into 1 service there were few facilities i to handle the increased load. The company accused the union 1 of making renewed demands just when it appeared agreement was close. “No responsible airline could agree to the present demands of the Airlines Pilots Association,” American President C. R. Smith 1 said. < .1 Continued on page five j Good Fellows Club < Previous total $529.37 ' Miss Helena Wehmeyer — 5.00 Delta Theta Tau Alumna .. 5.00 Briede Studio 5.00 Arnold Lumber Co. 10.00 A Friend 1.00 Lions Club 44.33 Nelle E. Winnes 5.00 ] A Friend — 10.00 t Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wolf .... 5.00 j In Memory of Bobby Lake 5.00 t Union Township Pet i & Hobby Club 1.00 £ A Friend 25.00 ] A Friend 4(100 ] Mr. & Mrs. Clyde Butler ... 5.00 ( Hugh Holthouse Family ... 6.00 ] A Friend — 1.00 f A B.P.W. member .50 A Friend 1.21 1 Mr. & Mrs. W. Guy Brown 5.00 r —. J Total $709.41 s

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Newspaper Strike Is Still At Stalemate Little Prospect Os Quick Settlement NEW YORK (UPI) — The preChristmas newspaper deliverers’ strike, which has forced the suspension of nine major New York City dailies, was stalemated today, with little prospect of a quick settlement of the 11-day-old walk out. Business was feeling the pinch. While retail department stores were crowded with shoppers some merchants admitted sales were not up to the anticipated holidayseason level. Women’s Wear Daily, a trade publication, reported: “Ready-to-wear sales have begun to suffer under the eclipse of fashion and promotional advertising. It was being admitted in some retail circles that sales were suffering more than most merchants would admit publicly.” Stores Head For Losses The publication added that, so far as could be determined, department stores “were heading for a loss week in sales volume, and for many it would be a considerable drop in sales as compared with a year ago.” Publishers, of course, were taking a heavy loss in advertising and circulation revenue. Editor & Publisher said that direct business losses to the newspapers the first week were estimated at easily 13 million dollars. “Every weekday the papers don’t print,” the publication added, “is costing the struck nine more than $1,500,000. Big Sunday papers mean a total of about $3,800,000 lost.” In addition to the striking deliverymen, about 15,000 furloughed employes of the newspapers—reporters, printers, pressmen and the like — were idled without pay as a result of the shutdown. Mediation Efforts Delayed With joint negotiations deadlocked, mediation efforts in the prolonged strike were called off until 2 p.m. Monday. Federal mediators, however, held themselves in readiness to meet sooner “if circumstances warrant.” A spokesman for the Allied Printing Trades Council, which represents the newspaper craft unions, said representatives of other unions would meet Monday morning with Sam Feldman, head of the independent Newspaper Mail and Deliverers’ Union. The newspapers whose presses have been stilled are the New York Times, Herald Tribune, News, Mirror, Post, World-Tele-gram and Sun, Journal-American, Long Island Star-Journal and Long Island Press. I Local Man's Father Dies At Van Wert Funeral services were scheduled for 2 o’clock this afternoon at the Church of the Nazarene in Van Wert, 0., for Henry Franklin Taylor, 80, retired railroader, who died Wednesday in the Van Wert county hospital. Survivors include a son, Roy Taylor of Decatur. Brother Os Decatur Lady Dies Friday Arthur Loyal Schnepp, 68, died Friday at his home four miles northwest of Bluffton after a long illness. Survivors include his wife, the former Tillie Neuenschwander; a son, Kenneth of Phoenix, Ariz.; a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Bailer tfl Bluffton route 1; a sister, Mrs. Effie McGill of Decatur: a brother Cletus Sdhnepp of Ohio City, 0.; 11 grandchildren and eight greatgrandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, the Rev. Mearl Wilson officiating. Burial will be in Elm Grove cemetery.

Russian Party Leaders Ease Up On Bulganin Communique Makes No Mention Os Any More Punishment MOSCOW (UPI) — Russia’s Coipmunist leaders appeared today to have decided that there will be no more punishment for members of the “anti - party group" led by ex-Premier N. A. Bulganin, who have been deposed from high official positions and “banished” to outlying areas. The communique issued at the close of this week’s session of the Communist Central Committee assailed the “despised group of reactionaries,” but made no mention of further action against them. It appeared Bulganin will be allowed to retain his seat on the Central Committee and his post as chairman of the Economic Council of Stavropol, capital of a territory bordering on the Cauca- • SUS. Western observers were inclined to believe that other mem- : bers of the “anti-party group” also will be allowed to retain their ; present subsidiary posts. * The committee communique bracketed three other deposed leaders with Bulganin — ex-Pre-i mier G. M. Malenkov, former ■ Deputy Premier L.M. Kaganovich and former Foreign Ministers V. M. Molotov and D.T. Shepilov. It charged that these four men and their supporters “tried to prevent implementation of the course worked out at the 20th congress ’ of the (Communist) party on all the most important questions of domestic and foreign policy.” The councils of elders of the ■ two houses of the Supreme Soviet, Russia's parliament, met today in the Kremlin to lay plans for the legislative session that opens Monday. Indiana High Court Reverses Decisions Three Lower Court Decisions Reversed INDIANAPOLIS (UPl)—The Indiana Supreme Court reversed three lower court decisions Friday, and in so doing, upheld the confidential nature of the doctorpatient relationship, found a Vigo Circuit Court jury guilty of ambiguity and took issue with the Indiana Public Service Commission. The high court referred to the medical confidence in a decision reversing a reckless homicide verdict in which a blood sample was used as evidence. The court ordered a new trial for Milburn Eugene Alder, who was sentenced to 1 to 5 years at the Indiana Circuit Judge Ollie Reeves. Alder was convicted in a fatal traffic case on evidence that a doctor took a blood sample from him while he lay unconscious in a hospital and forwarded half the sample to a State Police laboratory where the degree of his intoxication was determined. In a unanimous ruling, the prohibit testimony of a physician is prohibited by statute from testifying as to the intoxicated condition of a patient, it is our opinion that the statute would also prohibi testimony of a physician concerning a sample of blood which he took from a patient and caused to be delivered to a state police officer.” The doctor had been asked to identify the sample of blood upon which the laboratory tests were run. A new trial also was ordered for Jack William Martin, who was sentenced in Vigo Circuit Court to 1 to 5 years in the Indiana Reformatory in connection with an assault on a six-year-old girl in 1957. The lower court’s affidavit read, “assault with intent to gratify sexual desires,”» but the jury found Martin ghilty of -“assault and battery as charged...in the affidavit.” The Supreme Court said, “it cannot be said with any degree ©f certainty that the jury found the appellant guilty of any offense other than assault and battery.” •The high court noted that since assault and battery is 'a misdemeanor, the jury and not the court should have fixed the penalty. The Supreme Court sent a case back to the PSC in reversing a Grant Superior Court decision. The case, dating back to 1951, had been through Parke Circuit Court. The Grant court decision Continued on page five

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, December 20,1958.

Space Scientists Seek Communications With . , I ■ I Huge Atlas Satellite

Giant Brain Now Guarding ParfOflLS. Astounding Machine Is Unveiled Friday By U.S. Air Force KINGSTON, N.Y. (UPI) — A giant mechanical brain is now guarding parts of the United States day and night against enemy aerial attack. The Air Force Friday took the wraps off this astounding electronic machine and let newsmen watch it order a rocket off the ground 1,500 miles away. The rocket passed up a decoy and intercepted a mock “enemy” plane heading for America’s East Coast. It was a true pushbutton warfare, the mark of how machines are replacing humans. Hie setting was befitting a science -fiction yarn. It was the darkened inner laboratory of the International Business Machines plant at Kingston, N.Y., 90 miles north of New York City. Covering an area bigger than a basketball court was the brain, row after row of eight-foot panels with flashing lights and more than 60,000 tubes. Track Planes On Radar Far down the coastline at Cape Canaveral was the Bomarc rocket that the brain controlled. On a circular glass radar screen with the outline of Florida’s lower peninsula imposed were moving white blips showing two planes out over the Atlantic heading toward Canaveral. Then came one of the few human decisions: The planes were determined “hostile.” The brain asked Cape Canaveral the readiness of its Bomarc rocket, continued to track the plane. Then came a second human action: A young IBM engineer named Jack Coleman pushed a button marked “fire” In wartime, a general would make that decision. Brain Takes Over Instantly the brain took over. It rechecked again the course of the planes, launched the Bomarc and headed it straight for the nearer one — an unmanned 817 drone. No matter what evasive action the drone took, the brain outthought it and changed the rocket’s course. Then one final human intervention. It was decided to pass the 817 and destroy a faster FBO plane to the north. It was the first time a Bomarc was “recomitted” from one target to another after launching. Within six minutes of firing, the Bomarc reached the FBO. Had it carried a nuclear warhead and a proximity fuse, it would have blasted the drone from the sky. Continued on page five —

Mayor Cole Discusses Proposed Utility Sale

(Editor’s note: This is the sixth in a series of articles by Mayor Robert D. Cole discussing the various aspects of the proposed sale of the city’s electric utility to Indiana & Michigan Electric company. Today’s article deals with the disposition of money that would be rereceived from I&M if the sale of the city utility is authorized by the citizens of Decatur.) By Mayor Robert D. Cole Some citizens have inquired as to whether the city could retire all of its bonded indebtedness with the $2,102,300 purchase price that Indiana & Michigan Electric company has offered for the city utility. I mentioned in a previous article that the I&M-offered purchase price would “cover” all of the city’s bonded indebtedness — as distinguished from “paying” all of the city's indebtedness. It is a matter of long-term bond issues that cannot legally be retired until well into the future.

Latest Cold Wave Border To Border l Sharp Temperature Drops Over Nation United Press International The nation’s latest siege of cold Weather extended from border to border early Saturday and continued its eastward march, causing numerous snow' flurries and sharp drops in temperature. L Cold air poured down from , Canada into the “nation’s icebox” jat International Falls, Minn., . pushing the mercury down to 20 degrees below zero at midnight s Friday. At Pellston, Mich., a 25 . below reading marked a 52-degree i drop in one day’s time. , The U.S. Weather Bureau re- » ported that the Influence of the ’ cold mass was felt north of a , line running from Texas into New ’ England. There were scattered ’ areas of light snow from the . Missouri River Valley to the Atlantic. There was some warming, howk ever, in the Southeast, where un- > commonly cold weather has been ■ prevalent recently. Temperatures ( were in the 40s and 50s Friday ; night, up about 20 degrees from i the previous 24 hours. Rains occurred in scattered J fashion from the Pacific Northwest down into northern California and eastward to Nevada. k Generally dry weather ranged : across the southern hglf of the 1 nation. i i California’s Brush t ’ Fire Under Control Worst Fire Os Year ‘ Is Under Control SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. ’ (UPl)—Firefighters Friday night brought under control California’s 1 worst brush fire of the year after ’ an intensive six-day battle. Richard Johnson, U. S. Forest Service fire prevention officer, called the blaze, which blackened more than *IOO square miles of ; brush, “one of the granddaddies . of all times.” Official control was announced ; at 8 p. m. Friday night after a crew of 2,700 men halted the ad- . vance of several major hot spots along*the northern perimeter. Johnson said, however, that , scouting parties would be held in j the area until the first substantial t rainfall. Nineteen homes and cabins were - destroyed in the blaze which consumed an average of 500 acres of • dry undergrowth and timber an t hour. i Joe Adams, 34, a ranger from > Prescott National Forest, Ariz., . was the only fatality reported. He (Continued on page »lx)

The $925,000 city sewage bond issue, for example, cannot be retired until January 1, 1968. However, there is nothing to prevent the corporate city'of Decatur from investing the money that would be received from the sale of the city utility to I&M. Interest from this investment could be used to pay off the sewage bonds when they become due nine years hence, and would contribute to the over-all financial stability and security of the city in ensuing years. A similar arrangement for the payment of the city’s water-depart-ment bond issue would be practical, and still the city could retain a substantial sum from the sale of its utility for other financial obligations and other improvements that the citizens might deem advisable. In any event, a judicious use and wise investment of the money that the city of Decatur would receive from I&M for the sale of its utility would place the city in a strong

Reports U.S. Ready To Make Reds Guarantee Against Increase In German Military If Nation Reunified WASHINGTON (UPl)—The United States was reported ready today to offer Russia a firm guarantee against any increase in German military might if the Kremlin will agree to reunification of Germany under free elections. • Hie guarantee might well include a Western agreement to go to the aid of Russia if it should ever be attacked by resurgent German militarism, which the Russians profess to fear. High officials said they believe that mounting unrest in Soviet-oc-cupied East Germany has reached the point where a serious explosion is a definite possibility. They thought this might force Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to agree to reunification on Western terms if Communist fears of German military might could be set at rest. The Washington visit next month of Khrushchev’s right-hand man, Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, is eagerly awaited to see whether it will produce some sign that Khrushchev' is ready to extricate himself from the Berlin crisis and talk seriously about solving the German problem. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was reported to be prepared to revive the offer made to the Russians late in 1955 at the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference which followed the Geneva summit meeting. At that time, the Western Allies promised that if Germany were reunited by truly free elections, NATO forces in the Western sector would not be moved into the Eastern part of the country and the size of the overall German military establishment would not be greater than the present West German forces. Temperatures Hit Near Zero In State Hoosiers Chilled By Another Cold Wave (United Press International) Temperatures slipped to near zero in northern ■ Indiana early today, ending a two-day warming trend as another chilly weekend was in prospect for Hoosiers. South Bend reported an overnight low of two above zero, Goshen had four. Fort Wayne eight. Afternoon temperatures mostly in the 20s were predicted, with little change until another warming trend Monday. The chilly overnight readings were in sharp contrast to Friday’s high, which reached a balmy 60 at Evansville. Indianapolis had 47, Fort Wayne 42. Light snow fell in the Indianapolis area before dawn, but no significant accumulation was expected anywhere in the state. South Bend reported three inches of mostly old snow on the ground this morning. Fort Wayne one inch. Predicted locally heavy snow falls Friday night near Lake Michigan failed to materialize. Overnight temperatures in Evansville dipped 34 degrees, from 60 to 26. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cold tonight and Sunday. Low tonight 5 to 15 above. High Sunday mid to upper 20s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and warmer. NOON EDITION

Held In Connection With Slash-Slayings Boris Karloff Niece Is Held In England 1 HASLEMERE, England (UPI) — Police said today they are holding a beautiful niece of horror actor Boris Karloff in connection with the slash-slaying of her two sons in the family home here. Detectives are stationed at the hospital bedside of Diana Bromley, who is recovering from a throat wound suffered at the same time that the throats of her sons, Martin, 13, and Stephen, 10, were cut. No charges have so far been filed against Mrs. Bromley. An inquest in the case of Karloff’s slainj great-nephews is expected to open here Tuesday. The bodies of the boys were found Thursday night, a few hours after they had returned from boarding school •to begin their Christmas vacation. Hiey were found by their father, Thomas Bromley, 47, a government official. The first thing Bromley saw when he entered his country home here was a bloodstained cricket bat in the hall. Startled, he began a search which located Martin’s body in the garage and Stephen’s in a bathroom. Both boys were clad in pajamas. Two women who lived nearby found Mrs. Bromley wandering in the garden, sobbing. She was bleeding from a freshly inflicted wound in her throat. Mrs. Bromley is a daughter of Sir "John Pratt, a brother of Karloff who was once an official of the Foreign Office. The actor’s real name is William Henry Pratt. Proposed Merger Os Steel Firms Banned Injunction Signed By Federal Judge INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) -A Federal judge’s order banning the proposed merger of Bethlehem Steel Corp, and the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co, today at least postponed Bethlehem’s planned expansion project in Indiana’s calumet area. The injunction, signed by Federal Judge Edward Weinfeld in New York Friday, bans any merger between the two firms “in whole or in part.” The steel companies have 60 days to file an intention of appealing the degree. They have not indicated whether they plan to appeal. Last Nov. 29, Weinfeld ruled that a merger of the two companies would substantially lessen competition and tend toward monopoly in the steel industry in violation of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act. The Justice Department had sued to bar the merger,. Bethlehem, the nation’s second largest steelmaker, owns most of a tract of 3,500 acres of undeveloped duneland on the southern tip of Lake Michigan. It was reported to plan leveling of the Dunes for industrial expansion if it asquired Youngstown, sixth nationally in steel output. Indiana wants the land for a proposed harbor, and other groups including Illinois lawmakers, want it set aside for a national park. Three Michigan Men Killed In Accident MISHAWAKA, Ind. (UPI) JThree Niles, Mich., men were killed early today when their automobile collided headon with a flatbed semi-trailer on Ind. 19 about five miles east of here. The truck driver was booked by police on a preliminary charge of driving on the wrong side of the highway. The dead were identified as Robert Leroy Bosler, 30; Wilbur Krueger, 47, and Stanley Lundberg.

Plan Attempt At Two-Way Interchange Ike's Christmas Message Broadcast To World By Atlas WASHINGTON (UPI) — Space scientists will attempt today to establish two-way communications with the giant new Atlas satellie spinning around the earth. If all goes well, they plan to send the shiny American moon a New Year’s message from President Eisenhower for rebroadcast to the world. The Pullman - sized satellite, which ushered in a new era in communications, already has “talked” back by broadcasting President Eisenhower’s Christmas wish of “peace on earth and good will toward men everywhere.” But the Defense Department said that the first effort to send information to the satellite for rebroadcast to earth would be made today. Circles Every 100 Minutes The President’s Christmas message was recorded and placed aboard the satellite—an Atlas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile — before it was blasted off by the Air Force from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Thursday. 'Die 8,500 to 8,700-pound satellite was circling the earth every 100 minutes in another dramatic demonstration of America’s ability to regain the space lead from Russia. The successful launching also gave the United States four satellites flashing through space compared to the lone Soviet missile still in orbit. Two other Russian and one American satellite already have burned up. Aside from the great weight, the 85-foot long Atlas represented an even bigger U.S. stride in the communications field and the problem of putting man into space. Has Military Significance Its ability to receive and transmit messages had wide military significance. The Signal Corps at Fort Monmouth, N.J., said it is the forerunner of a “courier" satellite that could deliver orders quickly to military commanders at various points on the earth. In addition, the Pentagon said, “communications with manned space vehicles of the future are assured by the success already achieved in this experiment.” Future satelites, the statement said, can “provide many circuits for telegraph and telephone communications and even television signals so that intercontinental services can be greatly expanded.” President Eisenhower took note of the television possibilities. After hearing his voice broadcast from outer space, the President said: “That’s one ot the astounding things again in this age of invention. Maybe the next thing they’ll do is televise pictures.” While scientists cautioned that putting a man into space is still several years away, Maj. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever hailed the new accomplishment as “a very definite step” in that direction. Similar To Manned Missile Schriever, head of the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division at Inglewood, Calif., said the guidance necessary to put the Atlas into Continued on page five

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