Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 306, Decatur, Adams County, 30 December 1958 — Page 2

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Final Count Reveals 599 Traffic Deaths Authorities Brace For Second Holiday United Press International braced for the long " ew Year’s holiday today, hoping to hold the traffic toll below the nearly 600 fatalities chalked up duirng the long Christmas! weekend. A final United Press Internashowed traffic killed 509 persons during the 102-hour Ghristmas holiday. The toll fell tielow the 620 deaths estimated by the National Safety Council and

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was well under the Christmas holiday death record of 712 set in 1956. | However, the count was 119 higher than the normal 480 traffic deaths which could be expected for a non-holiday period of the same duration at this time of year. In addition to traffic, 8 persons were killed in plarte crashes, 96 in fires and 102 in miscellaneous accidents for an overall holiday death total of 805. California had the highest traffic toll with 60, followed by 46 in Texas, 38 in Illinois, 34 in New York, 27 in Ohio, 25 each in Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, 22 in Michigan, 19 in Indiana, 18 in Missouri and Virginia, 16 in Massachusetts, 15 in Georgia, and 14 in New Mexico and Wisconsin.

Free West May Face Grave Berlin Crisis Slow-Motion Crisis Set Off In November By JOSEPH W. GRIGG United Press International LONDON (UH) Russia left a six-month time bomb ticking in Berlin today that well may confront the Free West in 1959 with its gravest crisis yet. The Western Allies wfcre pledged solemnly to remain in the isolated city in defiance of Moscow’s ultimatum to them to get out. But they still had to find the answer to the question of how they Would do it without risking World War 111. The Kremlin touched off the slow-motion Berlin crisis Nov. 10. In a speech in the Polish capital of Warsaw, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev denounced existing four-power East-West agreements on Berlin and announced Russia was handing over to the East German Communists “those functions in Berlin which are still wielded by Soviet’ organs.’’ Short, Tough Reply In a follow-up note on Nov. 27 the Soviets handed the West a sixmonth ultimatum. It called on the U.S., Britain and France to get out of Berlin within that time and proposed turning the anti-Communist Western sectors into a “free city”, guaranteed by' the four powers and the United Nations. The West's reply was short and tough. The North Atlantic Treaty (NATO> Council meeting in Paris Dec. 16 rejected the Soviet ultimatum. It did so after U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told the 15-nation body that Russia would not risk a nuclear conflict over Berlin. But the West left the door open to East-West negotiations with the Soviets — not on the Berlin question alone, but on the entire Germany problem, coupled with the other major issues of disarmament and European security. Whether the Soviets would agree to such talks remained doubtful.

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State Holiday Toll Increased To 20 ; | United Presa International Indiana's 102-h our Christmas weekend traffic death toll climbed to 20 today with receipt of the delayed r e p o r t of the 'death of a Greentown woman in a Columbia City hospital. Mrs. Leona Boxell, 57, died during the weekend from injuries sustained on Christmas Day as she drove towdrd Fort Wayne to spend the holiday with a relative. Her car swerved out of control and plunged down a U.S. 30 embankment. - — —-J— Only two days before Christmas they announced their readiness to discuss European security. But they said there must be no tie-in with the German reunification issue, as the West always has insisted. Questions Unanswered Despite the West's tough talk, there still was no answer to the question: How can the Western allies supply their 10,000-man garrison and the 2,500,000 West Berliners if the Soviets pull out? In practical terms, what is likely to happen is that the Soviets one day will pull out and hand over control functions to the East German Reds. That means control not only of the 110-mile railroad and Autobahn Lsuper highway) links between West Berlin and West Germany, but the three air corridors as well. The West is reported set to mount a new airlift, similar to that which beat the Berlin blockade in 1948 and 1949. But the Reds have warned they will not tolerate one this time. A new airlift, they have said, will be regarded as military aggression not only against Communist East Germany, but against the entire Com- i munlst Warsaw pact bloc. Would the West defy these warnings and risk having its planes shot down? Would it send in tanks to keep open the land lines to West Berlin? Would it take such action at the risk of touching off a nuclear war over Berlin? Those questions are at the heart of the dilemma the West faces in 1959 and for which no answer yet have been found.

Raybum May Halt Anti-Alford Drive Sponsor Is Warned By House Speaker WASHINGTON (UPI) Same House Democrats said today Speaker Sam Rayburn may have doomed a drive to deny Democratic recognition to Rep.-elect Dale Alford, the Little Rock Segregationist. Raybum was disclosed Monday to have warned a sponsor 6t the anti-Alford move that it would be a “major operation” to bar Alford from the party if. he presented himself as a Democrat. Rep. Lee Metcalf (D.Mont.) said he interpreted Rayburn’s remarks, in a letter to John A. Blatnik (D-Minn.), as meaning, “Don’t try it, fellows.” Such a signal from Rayburn, whose word on party matters in the House is regarded by many as law, would undoubtedly be fatal to the "block Alford” campaign. Another and more far reaching move against Alford previously had shown signs of faltering. This was a drive to deny him a seat in the House pending an investigation of election complaints against him. The customary House action in such cases is to seat the challenged member and then investigate. But a House Elections Committee, on a 3-2 vote, asked the House in this case to leave the (seat vacant while an inquiry was made into charges that Alford defeated Rep. Brooks Hays (D-Ark.) illegally. Hays was the Democratic nominee in Arkansas’ sth Congressional District. He had no opposition on the general election ballot. But Alford, with the backing of Gov. Orval Faubus, entered the campaign as a write-in candidate a week before election day. It was on this basis that Blatnik launched his move to deny Alford House status as a Democrat. The effect of this would be to jeopardize Alford’s prospects for advancement in Congress. Blatnik said that despite Rayburn’s advice he will press his move to keep Alford out of the party. Contents Os Trailer Destroyed By Fire A trailer caught fire Monday evening at 6 o’clock on U. S. 224, two miles east of Decatur, and destroyed the contents, which consisted of clothes and furniture of a former Ohio man. Fire chief Cedric Fisher stated today that the trailer caught fire, according tb„ the driver, Jim Knight, of Muncie, as he was headed west on U. S. 224. The fire started from an unknown origin, but it was believed that it might have started from a cigarette. Knight was in the process of moving from Toledo, 0., to Muncie, when the incident occurred. The city fire department was called, but the fire had destroyed the contents before the department was able to arrive at the scene. No estimates for the contents were given, however, the loss was considered heavy. There were 1,828,660 full - time students on American college ahd university campuses this fall, an increase of 4.1 per cent over 1957, according to a survey. The moose doesn’t see very well, but its sense of smell and hearing are acute. i CHAMMONJDF LIBERTY i 1 ' ■ STATES POSTAGE L-- '■■■<•'*• ■ •• •; ( C HAM PION JDF LIBERTY < ONL <»l LX. i • 1 . . v.„x IT ED STATES POSTAGE , 'HEIO OF AN Dll'-—Next “Champion of Liberty" to be honored in the U. S. stamp ser* les will be Jose de San Martin, "Hero of the Andes," for whom these two stamps will be is- ' Sued in Washington Feb. 25. They feature a medallion with three-qUarter view df Sau Mar- j tin from a Library of Congress , print The 4-center will be blue, the 8-ce*tar blub, red, ocher. .

Seek To Avert Threat Os New Airline Strike National Airlines t Latest Threatened By Worker Walkout > United Press International i Federal mediators moved today I to forestall a threatened strike of I 1,500 administrative workers which could cripple a third airI line during the January back-to- . work travel rush. Officials of National Airlines ’ announced Monday in Miami that a government arbiter would be asked to help settle a dispute i over a National ticket agent’s fir- . Ing in New York. Meanwhile, international repre- . sentative Pat Cain, Air Line Agents Assn., said about 1,500 ; agents and other clerical workers ’ would walk out in the next two ; weeks unless a settlement is ; readied. In other strikes which have tied up Eastern Airlines and American Airlines through the holiday rush, negotiations appeared at a' standstill, with no hope for a break before Thursday. The striking Air Line Pilots Assn, today resumed consideration of a federal proposal to end their 10-day walkout against American Airlines, but indicated no announcement would come before later in the week. ALPA’s five man negotiating com mittee reportedly received a clarification of the government recommendations from mediation board chairman Leverett Edwards. American Airlines accepted the 12-point plan when it was issued lass week. At Miami, federal mediator Warren Lane said "new ideas” presented to Eastern Airlines and its striking flight engineers had not been accepted. Lane said it was pointless for him to meet further with the opposing sides unless there are unforeseen developments. The Eastern flight engineers’ strike is the second of two which have grounded company planes. Eastern last week reached a settlement with the machinists’ union, but the machinists have refused to cross engineer picket lines. Teamsters Plan To Picket Police Spots Seeking To Organize Policemen, Firemen NEW YORK (UPI >—The Teamsters Union announced today it would begin picketing all New York city police installations Jan. 12 as a first step in its campaign to organize the nation’s policemen and firemen. Henry Feinstein, named recently by James R. Hoffa as head of a campaign to bring all municipal workers into the Teamsters Union, said he was certain that Teamster truck drivers would observe the picket lines, and thereby cut off deliveries of fuel, gasoline and other materials to police buildings. Feinstein, president of City Employes Union Local 237, of the Teamsters, safcj the picketing by non-police personnel would be designed “to show die commissioner (Stephen P. Kennedy) the union's economic power.” Kennedy recently ruled that members of the department could not join a union. A police department spokesman said that as a matter of course police protection would be given to the pickets. Feinstein said the pickets would be drawn from Teamster members employed in other city departments. Picket lines, Feinstein said, will be set up at police headquarters, precinct stations and other installations. Asked what would happen if the picketing resulted in a police fuel or gasoline shortage, Feinstein said: “We'll just wait and see.” Feinstein said about 3,000 of the department’s 24,000 policemen already had joined the Teamsters secretly, many of them after the commissioner’s ban on union membership. But he declined to say whether he believed they would cross the picket lines. ' I The males of a small warblerlike bird in Panama called Gould’s tending many yards through the manakin form a long stag line exforest in the mating season to attract the females of the species, according to the National Geographic magazine. Corn pops as the result of suddenly released pressure produced by steam generated within the kernel. The steam comes from moisture in the grain. Motorists will pay almost 10 billion dollars in!959 on automobile registration fees, gasoline taxes, tolls and various other local, state and federal highway levies.

Credit Association Declares Dividend The newly elected board of direcduction Credit Association unanitors of the Eastern Indiana Promously declared a 3% A—stock cash dividend on all stock of record of Dec. 1. j Earlier this month, at the 25th anniversary annual meetings the following men were elected to the board of directors, Marion A. Clawson, Dale Unkel, Ray Hickam, Van Eller, and Harry Stoner. Officers for 1908 are Clawson, president; Hickam) vice-president; and Forrest E.' Duncam, Jr., secretarytreasurer. / West Berlin Mayor Says No Deadline Declares Berlin To Remain Free City BERLIN (UPl)—West Berlin’s Mayor Willy Brandt said today that the Soviet deadline for his city does not exist on his calendar. The mayor told a news conference that the city would remain a part of the free West even after the Russian six-month deadline for making a so-called “free city” of West Berlin has run out at the end of May, 1959. The Russian proposal to make the city a demilitarized, neutralized zone ripe for Communist picking was made in a note delivered on Nov. 27. It referred to a six-month period within which this should be accomplished. That period would run out on May. 27. "In our calendar, tills dangerous date does not exist,” the Socialist mayor said. “We are ignoring it and, in. this way, can contribute to de-fusing the Soviet time bomb.” Brandt told the news conference he was firmly convinced that “there will be no war over Berlin.” After the Soviet deadline has run out in May, he said. West Berlin would remain “a democratic community belonging to the currency, economic and legal territory of the German West,” and continue its reconstruction in that manner. Brandt will carry the story of West Berlin's determination to maintain its freedom to the United States next February. While full details of his American tour were not made public,, Brandt told the conference that he had enough invitations to last “a good half year.” The only definite engagement on his tour so far is a banquet at Springfield, 111., on Feb. 12 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Brandt said he was particularly happy that his tour coincided with a Lincoln celebration because “we are close to slavery, too.” Pedestrian Killed When Struck By Car CHARLESTOWN, Ind. (UPDHenry Buckner, 70, Charlestown, was killed today when he was struck by an automobile while walking along Ind. 62 two miles south of here. Cloyd Fry, 47, Charlestown, the driver, told police he didn’t see Buckner until it was too late. - I

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Says Friend Duped Into Murder Story Authorities Check Convict*s Story JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (UPI) —A convicted rapist's admission that he duped a drunk friend into confessing a murder he committed was under consideration today by Scott County authorities. A confession by Joseph Slayton. 18, that he, and not lifer Lynn Hester, shot and killed Charleston, Mo., football star John Malugen, 18, near Sikeston, Mo., last year was announced Monday by Gov. James T. Blair. Slayton, now serving 15 years for raping Malugen’s companion, Miss June Castleberry, 18, on Jan. 5, 1957, reportedly made the statement to four Algoa Intermediate Reformatory officials last Oct. 28. Slayton maintained Hester, who is serving' a life sentence for the murder, was asleep at the time of the rape-slaying. "Hie next morning, I told Hester he was the one that had murdered the boy,” Slayton said. “He thought he did because he was drunk.” Blair said lie detector tests on Slayton showed “some discrepancies” In his story, but that the test was “not conclusive.” Blair has referred Slayton's later confession to Scott County officials and to Hester’s attorney who has appealed the case to the Missouri Supreme Court. Slayton’s confession said he and Hester drove to Sikeston in a car stolen in Chaffee, Mo., and night of the murder. They stopped just past Maluen’s car, Slayton said, and he used Hester’s .32 caliber revolver to order Malugen from the eauto. When Malugen resisted, Slayton said. “I shot him and went around to the other side of the car to where the girl had started to get out. "I grabbed her and took her across a cotton field to an old house where I raped her.”

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