Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 14,

I | j PHOTO SLIDE POINTS UP MURDER EVIDENCE— In the search for the sadistic murderer of Mrs. Charles E. Montague, Mrs. John Goodwin points to the murdered woman’s image in a color slide made during the sorority party from which Mrs. Montague was returning when she was killed. Earrings worn by the slain woman in the slide were missing when her body was found. A similar pair was found in possession of her husband, Charles, who now faces a murder charge. Police Capt. Maurice O’Neill (right) views the projection in this photo which was made in a darkened room by opening the camera shutter to record the color film and then using a flash to bring out the images of Mrs. Goodwin and Capt. O’Neill.

South Bend Is Digging Out Os IZlnchSnow, Emergency State Ordered By Mayor Os Indiana City SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD — Aided by more than 100 pieces of heavy equipment. South Bend dug itself out from under 17 inches of snow dumped in a near blizzard. But weathermen said more was to come today. A state of emergency declared Friday by Mayor Edward F. Voorde remained in effect. Highway officials, however, said the major task of clearing roads of huge snow drifts was nearly accomplished and that outside help probably would not be necessary. The wind-driven storm, part of a massive cold front that engulfed the eastern third of the nation with sub-zero temperatures, snow and high winds, closed down factories, offices, stores and schools • irix the South Bend - Mishawaka area Friday. Street Commissioner Dan Richardson credited co-operation from industryand private citizens for the comparatively quick recovery from the sudden storm. Army Reserve heavy-duty trucks patrolled snow - laden highways, nudging jack-knife trucks to the side of the road to keep traffic moving. Schools Shut Down Additional highway workers were taken on to combat the traffic - paralyzing snows. Thousands of workers from the big Studebaker-Packard and Bensix Corp, factories were sent home, a four-hour trip in some cases. Notre Dame University and St. Mary’s College shut down, as did all the city’s public and parochial schools. Another three inches of snow were.? expected in South Bend today, but officials felt the early victory gave them a head start on the new snowfall. The fury of the cold front was felt farther east early today, and western Pennsylvania reported that snows following freezing rains hAd rendered highways “extremely dangerous.” Seven inches of snow were forecast for Erie, Pa., where residents haven't seen bare ground since early November. River Near Flood Stage Wind-shipped snow piled drifts F high on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The fresh snow and previous rains caused toe Monongahela River to approach flood stage. Temperature readings from Minnesota to Florida indicated the range and intensity of the cold snap. The mercury plunged to 25 below zero in northern Minnesota, hovered near zero along the southern shores of toe Great Lakes, dipped into toe teens in Alabama and Georgia, and dropped below the freezing mark in northern Florida. In Washington, D.C., the temperature dropped 45 degrees in 34 hours, while 30-degree drops were common through ■ Pennsylvania and Virginia. Snow and snow flurries extended from the Great Lakes into northern New England and southward into the Appalachians as far as Tennessee. Niles, Mich., was hit with snow depths almost as bad as the stricken city of South Bend, while three-inch snow deposits were common in parts of Ohio and New York state.

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Little Gadget May Revolutionize Power Gadget Revealed By Atom Commission WASHINGTON (UPD—The government has come up with a trifling little gadget that may revolutionize the power industry. It is a five-pound device roughly resembling an old-fashioned flatiron. Its descendants could make obsolete all the cumbersome And costly plants now supplying the power needs of man. This gadget, called Snap HI, was announced by the Atomic Energy Commission Friday byway of the White House. It is a device for converting heat energy directly into electrical energy. It doesn’t bother with steam, turbines, generators, or any rotating machinery whatsoever. Snap 111 is, moreover, just one of many approaches to the dream of direct conversion. Its novelty, if any. lies in the fact that it uses, a radioactive material as a heat source. This makes it immediately useful as an auxiliary power source in space where there isn’t any oxygen to burn ordinary fuels. Old Principle Involved - The Russians for years have been converting the heat of burning kerosene to electricity to run refrigerators and radios. The principle is the old one of the thermocouple. It was discovered back in the 19th century that when two dissimilar conductors are coupled at two places having different temperatures, an electric charge flowed around the circuit. The AEC called Snap 111 “a highly significant achievement.” But it was only a “proof of .principle device” —which means the AEC expects more refined versions to produce more fantastic results. Work on Better Versions Fantastic is the word. Snap 111, though its capacity is only around five watts, can turn out as much power in 280 days as 290 times its weight in conventional batteries. It is not hard to imagine versions that would be even better. The AEC is working on them. They are called Snap I and Snap 11. A dozen U.S. industrial firms also are developing thermoelectric devices. The Navy is supporting some of these projects. Snap HI employs about l-84th of an ounce of radioactive polonium 210 as a heat source. Polonium 210 is produced in atomic reactors. Another potential heat source is cerium 144, which is a byproduct of atomic fission. Theoretically all the wastes of atomic power and prooduction plants could be so used. Advanced First Aid Classes Offered Advanced first aid classes will be offered for those interested who have completed the standard first aid course. These classes will be held in Berne and Decatur, and will be taught by Lois Folk, home demonstration agent. The Decatur class will be held in the Decatur fire house beginning at 1 p. m. Wednesday. The Berne classes will begin January 21 also, starting at 9 a. m. in toe director’s room of toe First Bank of Berne. Anyone interested in enrolling in either of toe courses should contact toe county extension office immediately. NEW SERIALSTORY A new serial story, “Rendezvous,” by Steve Frasee, starts in today’s issue of the Decatur Daily Democrat. It is an action-packed, full length Western novel of the heroism and savagery in the lives of the wild tar trappers of the Old West »

195 Measures In Hopper Os Sfafe Assembly Dozen Bills Are In ’■ Assembly Spotlight * In Weekend Recess INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A total of 195 bills were in the legislative hopper today as Indiana lawmakers scattered to toe four corners of the state for a weekend recess. Many of the measures were fordoomed to die a natural death in committee dust bins when the current legislation session ends March 9. Others, like the “right to work” repealer, were sure to become toe focal point of conirovejrsy and intraparty strife. In addition to “right to work", about a dozen bills were in toe spotlight as toe first full week of the current session ended. They included: —A measure to abolish toe 1957 time law. —A bill creating a single executive highway department to replace toe present three-member commission. —Proposals designed to set up a direct primary to replace toe convention system for nomination of candidates for high state and federal offices. , j —A bill raising minimum teachers' salaries by nine million dollars a year. Tax Exemption BUI —Measures prohibiting the unionization of police and fire departments. —A proposal exempting household goods from personal property taxation. —Bills legalizing supplemental uri’employmerit benefits (SUB). —Several measures aimed at reapportionemtn, designed to give cities better legislative representation. —Bills strngthening toe Hughes Anti-Secrecy Act to give the press access to public records and meetings. —A proposal to transfer about 1,700 patronage jobs, mostly in the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, from Republican to Democratic control. —Measures broadening and strengthening an 1885 anti-discrim-ination law. ——A bill banning the straight party vote in elections. —The budget. Several controversial issues had yet to appear, including a move to legalize parimutuel betting at some Hoosier horse races. Lawmakers spent a relatively calm day Friday. Democratic attempt to blast the “right to work” repeal bill from committee never came off as leaders decided to await the results of a Jan. 22 hearing. Other “Hot” Issues Several bills introduced in both houses were sure to join the growing list of “hot” issues. In toe House, twin measures were introduced which would' increase maximum unemployment benefits by sl7 a week and extend toe period of eligibility from 20 weeks to 30 weeks. The present maximum is $33 per week. The. Senate received a direct primary bill, co-authord by Sens. Paul Bitz (D-Evansville) and John Ruckelshaus (R-Indianapolish It would change toe nomination for governor and U.S. senator from the convention to direct primary system. A similar bill liiteoduced earlier in the House would add the lieutenant governor to toe list Rep. Paid Pierce (D-Indianapo-lis) introduced a House bill calling for creation of a legislative investigating committee to probe rate hikes granted by toe Indiana Continued on page five

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, January 17,1959.

County Net Champions To Be Named Tonight At Adams Central Gym

Ike, Mikoyan In Conference At White House Could Mark Turning Point In East-West Cold War Tensions WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower meets today with Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan to see whether there is any real hope for solving the Berlin crisis and easing other tensions in the long and expensive cold war. High American officials said the White House meeting could mark a turning point in tense East-West relations — or it could stall current efforts to find agreement on Berlin, German unity, disarmament and European security. The choice appeared to ,be up to Mikoyan. U.S. officials said that if Russia was sincerely anxious to settle some of toe outstanding disputes, this was Mikoyan’s opportunity to “level” with Eisenhower. Sees No New Proposals More than six hours of discus, sions Friday between Russia’s No. 2 leader and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles failed to reveal any significant “break.” Vice President Richard M. Nixon told newsmen Friday night after dining with Mikoyan that he did not see any signs that Mikoyan was prepared to lay before Eisenhower any new proposals for easing East-West tensions. Mikoyan told Senate foreign policy experts Friday that West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was the chief stumbling block to the settlement of the Berlin crisis. Eisenhower is known to consider Berlin a laboratory test case in the cold war. Aides said the President is unlikely to credit the Russians with good faith in any negotiations unless they end their efforts to force British, French and American forces out of toe former German capital. Mikoyan Doesn’t Weaken Authoritative officials said Mikoyan, in his talks with Dulles, has showed no signs of softening the Russian proposal that the allies quit Berlin by Jurte 1 and permit it to become a / Red-encircled ’ ‘demilitarized free/ city. ’ ’ The 63-year-old Soviet Armenian has said the proposal is not an “ultimatum” But the Russians have not backed down from their threat to pull their own forces out of Berlin by the end of May and force the allies to deal with the German Communist regime for access to toe city. Eisenhower has said he regards Mikoyan’s visit as principally an opportunity to explore each other’s minds. The Chief Executive said

(Continued on page three) Lions, Rotarians In Joint Meeting Robert Kaade Will : Speak Here Monday Robert L. Kaade, manager of the Fort Wayne division of NIPSCO, will address the Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs in joint meeting Monday night at 6:15 o’clock on the subject, “What’s Happening in toe gas industry?” Kaade has been with toe Northern Indiana Public Service company for 23 years. He was graduated from DePauw university in 1935 and then joined toe company, which provides natural gas for toe Decatur area. He is now president of the convention bureau in Fort Wayne, and vice-president of the junior achievement program, past member of toe board of directors of toe Chamber of Commerce of Fort Wayne, toe Rotary club, and toe YMCA. Herman Krueckeberg will be program chairman for toe evening, and M. J. Pryor will introduce toe speaker. Krueckeberg advised all members to note toe early meeting time, 6:15 p.m., because of a conflict in schedule that evening. .

Harvester Contract Approved By Council Union Members To Vote On Pact Today CHICAGO (UPD — Rank-and-file union members at International Harvester today were to vote on a proposed settlement to end a 65-day strike that idled 37,000 workers. Approval seemed assured in the aftermath of a stormy six-hour session Friday that saw toe Harvester council of toe United Auto Workers override a negotiating committee's recommendation to reject the proposal. Ratification of the contractwould return workers at 15 Harvester plants in six states to their jobs Monday. In urging the Harvester council to accept the settlement, Duane (Pat) Greathouse, UAW international vice president and head of-the council, said “Terms of this settlement are such as we can recommend to our local unions.” There was stiff apposition to the proposed settlement as evidenced by the final vote of the more than 150 members of the council who, voting according to the union members they represented, approved it by a margin of 14,926 to 12,564. One of its opponents, Robert Stack, head of the Harvester Melrose Park, 111., plant bargaining committee, charged the council was being “brainwashed” on orders from union headquarters in Detroit. Hie contract proposal calls for annual pay increases of 6 cents an hour or 2% per cent, whichever is greater. Other benefits included health, welfare and pension revisions. Harvester production and maintenance employes at present average $2.55 hourly or $2.63 hourly with overtime or night premiums. Terms of the agreement were reached Thursday but met unexpected opposition when the negotiating committee recommended rejection. Workers affected by the contracts are employed at Harvester plants in Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and California. ■ ■■ ... . California Police Seek Young Gunman Accomplice Nabbed During Gun Battle GARDEN GROVE, Calif. (UPD -—Police formed a heavily-armed cordon around a housing tract today in a hunt, for a 19-year-old gunman who had wounded an officer in escaping from a police trap. —4 : Charles A. Averill escaped toe trap Friday night in which his partner, Joseph E. Armstrong Jr. 20, was captured following a gun battle with officers. One officer was wounded and Averill was belieed shot. Police said Averill was armed and was “extremely dangerous.” A house to house search was being made as police closed toe cordon around the tract. The two suspects last week shot at another police officer and kidnaped a woman after holding her family hostage overnight. Traffic leaving the housing tract was stopped and cars were searched one by one. Officers carrying submachineguns stalked through backyards and garages. Police Capt. Thomas V. Taylor of Anaheim, which is adjacent to this southern California city, said a squad of policemen was hiding at a home in toe housing tract when Armstrong and Averill arrived to take a 15-year-old girl out on a dSte. She was unidentified. “As soon as Averill entered he began shooting,” Taylor said: “George Laughter (a police officer at toe house) emptied his submachine gun and may have hit the £oy.” The two youths tried to flee in their car when toe trap was sprung, but it went out of control and was wrecked. Armstrong was captured then, but Averill got away. (Continued on page three)

Castro Lashes United States For Defamation Cuban Rebel Leader Demands Return Os Batista Criminals HAVANA (UPD — Fidel Castro has called for a 500,000-man mass meeting Wednesday to “reject foreign intervention” and demand that toe United States return “Batista war criminals” and their money. : In a bitterly anti-A merican speech Friday night, Castro accused the United States of resorting to “defamation” and “gunboat diplomacy”- against his regime because it includes no one “they can buy or bribe.” He called on his supporters to stage “the most gigantic concentration our nation has ever seen” outside the Cuban “White House” Wednesday. Castro’s attack on the United States was a reaction to congressional criticism of- toe wholesale executions of supporters of ousted ex-President Fulgencio Batista now going on throughout Cuba. “War crimes” trials of about I, prisoners being held here were postponed without explanation Friday, but elsewhere in Cuba toe killings went on. At least nine Batista supporters were executed by firing squads, increasing the two-week toll to about 250. Release Some Prisoners At the same time, however, the government is releasing some of its prisoners. Twenty-four men were set free Friday in the big eastern provincial capital of Santiago because the evidence against | them was insufficient. , Capt. William Galves, a rebel (officer, told United Press Interna- ■ tional that 50 others had been set free in Matanzas on similar grounds. Although there has been widespread criticism of the summary executions, Castro focused his attack on the United States — apparently because that country furnishedarms to the Batista regime while it was fighting Castro’s rebels in toe mountains of eastern Cuba. “Let’s show the world that Cubans aren’t criminals for wanting to punish assassins — that the criminals are those who said not one word while the Cuban public was being massacred <by the Ba(Continued on paxe three) Frank Clingenpeel Dies This Morning Long Illness Fatal To Local Resident Frank Clingenpeel, 71, of 424 North Fourth street, died at 8:30 o'clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been a patient for the past four weeks. He had been in failing health from complications for some time. He was born in Missouri, Aug. 3, 1887, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Clingenpeel, but had resided -in the Decatur area most of his life. He was married to Mrs. Eva Mauller in April, of 1945. Mr. Clingenpeel was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church and was a retired employe of the International Harvester Co. at Fort Wayne. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Fane Clingenpeel of South Whitley; one daughter, Mrs. Cloyce Crozier- of Union township; one stepson, Glen Mauller of Decatur; two stepdaughters, Mrs. John Meyer of near Decatur, and Mrs. Mae Shoe of Fort Wayne, and three grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at toe Gillig & Doan funeral home, the Rev. J. Q. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in toe Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at toe funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services.

Airliner Carrying 52 Persons Missing Airliner Crashes In Sea Last Night MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina (UPD—An Argentine airliner with 52 persons aboard, unable to land because of a blinding rainstorm, crashed at sea Friday night off this Argentine resort. First reports said all aboard were feared dead. So far as was known, there were no Americans on the plane. The twin-engined Curtis Commando vanished in 75 feet of water just off the coast. Pieces of luggage floated to the surface and drifted into the mouth of toe Carnet River a few yards away. Aboard were 47 passengers, including an infant, and five crew - members. It was toe second major air--1 lines disaster in Latin America in less than a week. Thirty-six per- ' sons were killed Sunday when a German airliner crashed and exploded while attempting to land at Galeao International Airport at Rio de Janeiro. Both crashes occurred in blinding rainstorms. The Curtis Commando, operated by Austral Argentine Airlines, crashed while on a flight from Buenos Aires to Bahia Blanca, a coastal city some 350 miles southwest of toe Argentine capital. It was scheduled to land here and already had zoomed over the airport when tower operators waved the pilot off and told him to stay in the air until weather conditions improved. , The plane flew on just a. little more than a mile, then lost al- : titude and plunged into the sea. Rescue parties rushed to the coast and toe nearby Parque Carnet air force base and the Mar i del Plata navel base sent skin- , divers and search lights to help recover the bodies. Union Head Opposes Labor Reform Bill Opposes State Bill For Labor Reform / INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-Demo-cratic leaders in the Indiana Legislature stood firm today on their ■ decision to hold to a “middle way” in labor-management legislation despite a warning from the state’s top labor spokesman that he will fight their union reform bill. ’ Dallas Sells, president of the Indiana CIO-AFL, announced his opposition to a “labor reform” bill introduced earlier in toe House. As he left a secret caucus Friday evening he’ told a newsman he would speak against toe bill at committee hearings. “Our position on all ‘union democracy’ bills is that it’s a matter of federal legislation. The Ihi ternational union is in 49 states and it would be' difficult to write , a constitution to apply to 49 different laws,” Sells said. “We’re not arguing with toe provisions of the bill, but with the fact it assumes labor is toe guilty party and must be corrected. We don’t feel we are any better or any worse than any other segment of society-” Would Correct Abuses The clincher on toe growing evidence that Democratic legislators are trying to avoid being typed as the pawn of labor came a half hour later whftn Speaker of the House Birch Bayh came out of the meeting and confirmed that , the labor bill introduced Wednes- . day by Hep. Joe Harris (D-New Carlisle) is “in general approach a policy measure.” “We want repal of ‘right to work’ and passage of some type of legislation that would protect the rights of the working man and | correct some of toe abuses brought to light, there is a question, yet to be decided, of whether ‘right to work’ repeal should be introduced in a separate bill or'with i the other." i —, —i — NOON EDITION

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Four Teams In Race For Net Crown Today Berne And Hartford In Opener; Spartans To Meet Greyhounds Berne Bears vs Hartford Gorillas at Ip.m. Pleasant Mills Spartans vs Adams Central Greyhounds at 2:15 p. m. That was the lineup for this afternoon’s semi-finals in the annual Adams county tourney at the Adams Central gym, after the Greyhounds edged out a 34-33 victory over the Gepeva Cardinals Friday night in the final first round game of the meet. Berne and Hartford won their way to the final four with victories Thursday night, while Pleasant Mills drew the first round bye. The championship game between this afternoon’s winners will start at 8:15 o’clock tonight Both the Greyhounds and Cardinals tried to play it cagy Friday night, putting more stress cm defense than on slam-bang shobting, resulting in the low score. Adams Central held the upper hand just about all the way, although the margin was never too large. Geneva led only twice, at 7-6 late in the first quarter, and at 11-9 early in the second period. The Greyhounds held a 6-2 lead midway through the first quarter, but the Cardinals scored the next five points for the 7-6 lead, but free throws by Dave Isch and Larry Foreman gave Adams Central an 8-7 lead at the end of the period. Field goals by Bill Tester and Larry Laux gave Geneva its last lead of the game at 11-9 after three minutes of the second quarter, but Isch evened the score and Foreman dropoed in a free throw to put the Greyhounds in front to stay. Adams Central increased its advantage to 18-12 at the end of the half, but could not pull away in the third period, in fact, the Greyhounds lost half that margin as Geneva cut the deficit to 26-23 going into the final eight minutes of action. The Greyhounds, after edging their lead to seven points at 32-25 with 3:55 to play, went into a possession game. They were still leading by five at 84-29 with 1:45 to go, but Laux hit a two-pointer with 30 seconds to play, and Tester drove under for his fifth basket to cut the margin to one point, but time ran out before the Greyhounds could put the ball into play. Adams Central won this ball game from the foul line, as the Greyhounds were outscored from the field, 15-11. However, the winners converted 12 of 17 chances, while the Cardinals made only three of 12 opportunities. There were 14 fouls called on Geneva, nine on Adams Central. Adams Central FG FT TP Isch 2 2-3 6 Egley — 2 2-5 6 Foreman 5 4-5 14 Habegger 0 2-2 2 Heyerly — - 0 0-0 • Striker — 0 2-2 2 Brown —— 2 * Steiner 0 0-0 0 TOTALSII 12-17 34 • ...•< Geneva FG FT TP Morgan - 0 0-0 0 Continued on peso five INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with occasional snow flurries and windy north tonight, fair and continued cold south. Sunday mostly fair, not < quite so cold in afternoon.. Low tonight aero to 8 above, high Sunday near 20. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy with rising temperature tread, c