Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 7 March 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 56.

13 Persons _A.re K-illed In Rash Os Accidents On Indiana Highways - —

United Press International , 13 persons were killed . in traffic in Indiana Friday in one of the most deadly driving ' days in years. Snow, wind and , rain contributed to the heavy toll. ; Weather was a contributing factor IS most ot the accidents, three at which were multiple — fatality ; wrecks. Two-thirds of the deaths , were recorded before the week- , end count began at 6 p. m. All except one of the deaths were in northern sections swept , by wintry storms. The victims in- . eluded three Lafayette women and ( a Fort Wayne couple in one two- 1 car collision, two other Fort ( Wayne residents in a second acci- , dent, and an Ohio doctor and his j wife in a third. \ A two-car crash on U. S. 24 ( west of Huntington killed Miss < Jesse Jones, 48; Mrs. Juanita I Klepinger, 38, and Maxine Fix, 36, all of Lafayette, and John Cross, 28, and his wife, Tommie Lou, < 24, Fort Wayne. , Skids On Slush ( Authorities said the accident oc- < curred when the car driven by Cross skidded on the slush-cover- | ed highway and was struck by the 1 automobile containing the Lafayette women. ; Another multiple-fatality collis- ( ion killed Melvin Fulk, 47, and , I' his wife, Esther, 46, Fort Wayne. The crash happened on snowswept U.S. 30 in Fort Wayne when Fulk's car spun into the path of a big track driven by Echo McCalla, 45, South Bend. , »ater Iteufmanr», Colurtvbus, Ohio, and his wife, Joyce, 32. were killed when their car skidded out of control on U. S. 30 near Hanna in LaPorte County Friday night and struck a truck. - Struck By Car Mrs. Geneva Evans, 27, w a s

Khrushchev Calls Satellite Leaders

LEIPZIG, East Germany (UPI) —Premier Nikita Khrushchev has summoned Satellite leaders to a council at war to discuss means of forcing the Western Allies out of Berlin, it was reported today. The Soviet chief leaves later today for Berlin, where he is expected to confer Sunday or Monday with Communist leaders Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland, Antonin Novotny of Czechoslovakia and Walter Ulbricht of East Germany. * Although reports of the meeting have not been confirmed officially, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl said Friday night it is •‘very likely.” In addition to the Berlin crisis, the four men are expected to discuss the prospects for an EastWest foreign ministers’ conference and a possible separate peace between Russia and East Germany. Assured Big Reception Russia has asked that Poland, Czechoslovakia and East Germany be represented at any future EastWest meeting . Khrushchev is due in Berlin at 9 p.m. (3 p.m. e.s.t.), and Communist authorities there have pulled but all the propaganda stops, to assure a massive reception for him. They have called on. the people •* "x t

'HI ij I J IJi w 4 fey A" i* iii.i Lenten Meditation (By Rev. John D. Mishler, Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren) MAKING MEMORIES Acts 10:1-8. Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God. 10:4b. * An angry father severely disciplined his child and said, “I’ll give you something to remember.” The child remembered. He remembered the anger but not the love of the father. We make memories by the things we do and say. Men remember. God remembers. Cornelius was a God-fearer. He was acquainted with the simple monotheism and the ethical standards of the synagogue. He was- attracted to the prayer life and the alms giving with a deep devotion. Though unaccented by either Jews or Christians, he prayed regularly to God. He was startled In such an event, when an angel of God announced that God remembered his faith - and prayers and alms giving. Through the help of the apostle Peter, Cornelius became the first gentile Christian. Men establish monuments to their own memories. Nations erect monuments to commemorate great events. These shall be forgotten soon enough. Enduring memories are made through a seeking faith which leads men to Christ, and the love of God.

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ii ii mm fl ■■■nwrai killed on Ind. 57 south of Washington when struck by ft ca t M she stepped out of her own vehicle. It was the only fatal accident in the south half of the state among the dozen Friday fatalities. Mrs. Sophronia Thompson, 72, Elwood, was killed early Friday when she was struck by a car while crossing a downtown Elwood intersection during a rainstorm. Archie Snyder, Rensselaer, died today in a hospital at Knox about 24 hours after he was pinned between his own truck and another truck at Bass Lake. Snyder had got out of his truck to fasten a tarpaulin which apparently was loosened by the wind. Six Suffocated In Fire At Flint Home FLINT, Mich. (UPD—A family of six apparently suffocated today when a discarded cigarette started a long smoldering fire in their small frame home. Firemen said the mother, father and their four children died in their sleep. The victims were Richard Pelch 29. his wife, Audrey, 24, and their children, Diane, B,Carol, 7, Richard Jr., 5, and James, 3. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little colder tonight. Partly cloudy and warmer Sunday. Lew tonight f|»r 18 north'to lew Bta south. High Sunday low to upper 40s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy, possibly some rain extreme south. NOON EDITION

to hang out flags and to mass in ' Stalin Allee, foe Soviet sector’s ersatz-Russian “show street.” East German theater and movie , stars will stage “people’s festi- , vals” at three points in foe Satlin Allee area to amuse the crowds while they wait for Khrushchev. 1 The Soviet premier is scheduled to address foe crowd in Stalin 1 Allee soon after his arrival, and ' to speak again in East Berin’s Seelenbinder Hall Sunday. Wants West Out During three days here, Khrush- 1 chev has left little doubt in anyone’s mind that he is in deadly ; earnest about getting the West out, of Berlin. i: In a series of speeches, he has hammered home these points: —The Kremlin stands by its de- ’ ■ mand for a peace treaty with both German states. If the West re® fuses to consent, Russia and its , satellites will sign a separate peace with East Germany. ■—Any such treaty would terminate the Western Allies' right to ! remain in Berlin, and foe Com- , munists will insist that they get out. —ls the West is willing to ne■gotiate “sensibly” on the issue, Khrushchev's May 27 deadline for local Communist control of the approaches to West Berlin might be extended a month or two.

Former Decatur Man . Is Stricken Fatally Walter Winchester, 70, former resident of Decatur, suffered a fatal heart attack Friday while attempting to move belongings from his burning lake cottage at Tri Lakes. Mr. Winchester was pronounced dead on arrival at the Whitley county hospital in Columbia City. State police said Winchester collapsed while fire units from Columbia City and Thomcreek township fought the blaze, which destroyed the cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Winchester formerly operated the Winchester nursing home co North Second street in this*city. He was born in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 17, 1888 a son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Winchester, and was married to Maxine Girard May 22, 1943. Surviving are one son, William G., at home; his wife, a resident of Fort Wayne; a brother residing in England, three sisters in England and one sister residing in .Canada. __ The body will be brought to the Giliig & Doan funeral home in this city, where friends may call after 7 o’clock this evening. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, witlj burial in the Catholic cemetery. Orders Retrial For Freed Cuban Airmen SANTIAGO, Cuba (UPD— Premier Fidel Castro flies here today for the sentencing of 43 Batista airmen he ordered retried after a revolutionary tribunal freed them of "genocide” charges. The "review” tribunal wound up the second trial Friday night and chief defense attorney Aristides D’Acosta flew to Havana, where he told United Press international he believed the airmen would receive prison sentences. He said he doubted whether any would be sentenced to death. D’Acosta,* who was denounced by the “review” prosecutor as a “lackey of Batista,” Arrived here accompanied by a Cuban plainclothesman under orders to report to army chief ot staff Raul Castro, brother of the premier. However, he said, “I don’t be-, lieve I am under arrest.” The attorney, who has spent IB years as a legal affairs expert far the Cuban army, conducted what most Cuban lawyers called a “brilliant” defense of the airmen. After the trial, he announced he was resigning his post to return to private practice in Havana. Castro, who will discuss the trial and re-trial of the airmen in a speech before a mass rally here Sunday, indicated in a television interview in Havana Friday that most of the airmen would receive heavy prison sentences. gi The 43 airmen were acquitted at their original trial on charges of “genocide” in the bombing and strafing of civilians during the revolution against ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista. Castro rejected the verdict and ordered a new trial. He said Friday that the airmen “do not deserve to- be absolved" of their crimes. The premier said the trial was being used as a “pretext for a first big campaign against the revolution because the reactionaries and the assassins are getting together." He also said the “enemies of the revolution are openly buying arms in Miami,” and that neither Miami authorities .not toe jfFBI were trying to stop •’ 4 ' Decatur Ministers Will Meet Monday Decatur ministers will meet at 9:30 o’clock Monday morning at the Zion and Reformed church. Carroll Myers, pastor of the Church of Christ, will lead the devotional period. All members of the ministerial association are urged to be present.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, March 7, 1959.

I Sen. Kennedy Steals Show At Conference MILWAUKEE. Wis. (UPD-U» man who wasn't there, Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass.), stole the show at the Midwest Democratic Conference in the maneuvering for a job he says he is not seeking—the presidency. However, Sen. Hubert rey (D-Minn.), another of the 1964 front runners, will have an o<ppor< tunity to take the spotlight from' Kennedy in the conference banquet tnight, where he will deliver the main address. Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, another 1960 tial possiblity who remained in the long shadow of Kennedy throughout most of the day, regained some attention Friday night when he proposed in a television appearance that Democrat Adlai Stevenson be named secretary of state if and when John Foster Dulles is forced to give up the job. Williams, who campaigned for Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.), was greeted with a standing ovation at the start of a luncheon speech here Friday but he drew few cheers during or afterward. Ih a headline-making news conference Friday, Kennedy's youngs er brother, Robert Kennedy, took the play from presidential possibilities Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.), and Williams. The young Kennedy revealed he has been offered campaign support for his brother in return for taking a milder line in the Senate Labor Rackets Committee hearings, which he serves as chief counsel. Kennedy said the offers came frdm both labor and management —more from the latter. He said he saw nothing unlawful in the approaches made him and thus had not reported them to Sen. John McClellan (D-Ark.), the committee chairman. However, he said he had discussed them with his elder brother. The Kennedy camp continued to gain momentum through the day. Although there wasn’t an announced Kennedy supporter in the room, mimeographed statements by Kennedy on subjects ranging from cooperatives to the international wheat agreement appeared at the meeting, outnumbering those of any other prominent Democrat by at least five to one.

Allies Prepare Berlin Answer

WASHINGTON (UPl)—Administration officials today finished hammering out a rough draft of a proposed Allied reply to Russia on the Berlin crisis. The reply, high officials said, welcomes Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s grudging acceptance of the Western proposal for a Big Four foreign ministers’ conference on Berlin and Germany. But the proposed note makes it clear that the meeting cannot take place on the narrow terms laid down by Moscow. Officials said the American suggestion for an Allies reply was among the matters discussed Friday with congressional leaders when they met with President Eisenhower. Holds Two Meetings The Chief Executive held two 90-minute meetings with the congressional leaders, talking in the morning with the legislative Big Four and then holding a follow-up late afternoon session attended by top members of the Senate and House Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. The congressional leaders gave Eisenhower a virtual wartime pledge of support in the Berlin crisis after he briefed them on his firm determination not to yield to Russian pressures w threats. Eisenhower drove out to Walter

Awards Dinner Held For 4-H Members The Adams epunty 4-H clubs culminated recognition of national / 4-H .week with an awards dinner - at the Adams Central high school i cafeteria Friday night as more than .275 persons attended. Ute 32 4-H youths, who were named in Tuesday’s edition of the DSily Democrat, received awards from Leo Seltenright, county agefit; Miss Lois Folk, county home demonstration agent, and Martin Sterner, district sales manager of i Mdrmon Feed Co. Steiner gave the i Swards in foe swine division. Miss ' Folk and Seltenright also delivered short talks on requirements for first year projects in foe county ' program. . Miss Mary Wilder, agent-in- * training, spoke on a “Look to the ’ future.” Miss Wilder explained how a planning of projects benefits those who use a little foresight in setting up their individual programs. - - • Mrs. Evelyn Quesenberry, northern Indiana adiilt 4-H leader, interpreted foe six "I’s” of 4-H work —industry, intensity, intelligence, integrity, initiative, and inspiration. She then asked how each of those present would rate themselves on this scale. fiike Thieme, Union township, played three numbers on ithe guit* s “Five Imdt Two.” ; This was an added, attraction on the program. Joe Kohne and Leo Busick, local 4-H members, led the group in a pledge to the flag to open the ceremonies.Seltenright also showed a film, “Planning 4-tours,” to round out the evening’s program. Fred Duff, , dairy farmer from Hartford township, represented foe Home Dairy Co., who provided refreshments after the meeting. ' Teenage Burglary RingTs Smashed INDIANAPOLIS (UPD-A teenage burglary ring has been smashed in Indianapolis and sheriff's investigators hoped to round up the rest of the gang today. The youthful bandits got $15,000 in cash and merchandise since last November, authorities said. Two members of the gang were arrested Friday, and police said five more boys and three adults who worked with the thieves would be arrested. _ •

- Reed Army Hospital to discuss i with ailing Secretary of State i John Foster Dulles results of the i morning meeting with the legislators. The American draft is being ’ taken to Paris by Martin J. Hil- , lenbrand, director of tire State , Department’s Office of German ’ Affairs. It will be discussed there } by a group of British, French, t American and West German dip- , lomatic “experts” who meet Mon-, r day in the French capital to consult on various phases of German problems. Allies Won’t Budge ’ Officials said the U.S. draft ex--5 presses gratification at Khrush- . chev’s willingness to consider a foreign ministers’ meeting instead of insisting on a summit confer- . ence. At the same time the draft makes it crystal clear that the ' Allies are not prepared to give an j inch on their right to stay in Ber- ’ ling and carry out their obliga- , tions to the inhabitants. j Officials said the United States proposes calling for a “broader area of discussion” than envis- , aged in Russia’s March 2 note. This is a polite way of rejecting ' Khrushchev’s demand that the j conference be limited to consider- , ing his two proposals: (1) That r the Allies get out of West Berlin or deal with the German Com(ComiUarttad <n> p»«e

Slippery Highways Lead To Accidents « Three persons were injured in a one vehicle accident early this morning, four were injured in a ane-jear accident that occurred earlier Friday evening, and thfe-e more persons escaped without injuries in a third one-car mishap which occurred Friday about noon. Three young persons from near Berne and Geneva were injured in a one-car colision which occurred early this morning when the vehicle they were riding in slid on ice and left the road. .Dean Hendricks, 20, of Berne, was hospitalized at the Adams county memorial hospital and is reported suffering from a brain concussion, bruises to the left hip and neck, and multiple abrasions. Two passengers, Earl S. Liechty,19, Berne, and Roger Moser, 18, route one. Geneva, were treated for minor injuires and released. Moser suffered a bruise to the righ tknee and scratches on the left hand, while Liechty was treated for lacerations to his forehead and top of his head. The mishap occurred on U. S 27 about two miles north of Berne near the Franklin Steury farm at 1 o'clock this morning. The sheriff’s department stated that the auto hit a slick spot in the road and left the roadway causing approximately SI,BOO damages to foe auto the youths were riding to. In an earlier accident which i occurred on U. S. 27 near Berne at 7:30 o’clock Firday evening, four young ladies from in and near Portland were injured in another one-car accident. The injured included: Barbara J. Ware, 20, route three, Portland; Nancy McFarland, 20, route three, Portland; Connie C. Miller, Portland, and Grace Fennig, 37, Portland. _____,- All four received treament at a physician’s office in Berne and were released. Miss Miller received a laceration to her right leg, Miss Fennig, bruises to her right hip and both knees, Miss McFarland, abrasions to her right leg, and Miss Ware, minor in(Contipued on page six) Display Girl Scout Activities In City Decatur merchants will cooperate with foe leaders of various Girl Scout and Brownie troops next week in displaying Scout activities in store windows Monday through Friday. * So that Decatur and area residents may appreciate what Girl Scouting means to young girls, troop 229, with Mrs. William Brown as the leader, will observe homemaking day at th® Western Auto; troop 460, Mrs, Carl Nojl and Mrs. Gordon Burkhart, leaders, citizenship day, Sheets (Furniture Co.; troop 88, Mrs. D. A. Swickard, leader, health and safety. Troop 630, Mrs. Robert Taylor, Mrs. Harold Dolch, leaders, international friendship, Girl Scout birthday, Ehingers; troop 573, Mrs. Harold Harner and Mrs. Dorris Williamson, leaders, arts and crafts, Decatur Print Shop; and troop 200, Mrs| Don Beery, Mrs. Sol Lord, leaders, out of doors Niblick Co. ■ Appreciation to the community was extended by Mrs. D. Burdette Custer, Adams county neighborhood chairman, for its response to the annual Girl Scout calendar and cookie sales. She also announced that the cookies will be delivered on March 17, 18 and 19.

, tfr’uljT ■tlW' I- ' i tWlg I ' ’ " I ;.■ . - I yll - Xr > J'' ■ I ' sAj **-■ - L 1_ _ __J STORM BLANKETS MID-WEST. 26 DlE— The paralyzing winter storm which dropped 20 inches of snow and formed eight-foot drifts as it roared through lowa and Wisconsin and on east, makes a deserted city of downtown LaCrosse, Wis., (above) where virtually every business, factory and school was closed. Eleven persons died in lowa as a result of the storm. Tornadic winds smashed Into Michigan as the storm moved east. r --- -■?■■■ -r-.-•^3^----’-- ~ . '

Legislature To Close Monday

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Majority Republicans staged a mass walkout in the Indiana Senate early today to avoid a showdown on 1 a bill to legalize supplemental unemployment benefits, and Democrats demanded that the missing lawmakers be arrested. But the hassle was resolved when the “Skaters” agreed to consider foe bill later today, perhaps in time for it to be enacted—if it passes—before the 91st General Assembly ends its 61-day session. * i • J , * The session is required to enxf by midnight Monday. But it appeared it will run overtime by foe traditional clock-stopping procedure, in which legislators stop foe clock just before midnight and pretend time has stood still. The walkout, which precipitated, a motion by minority floor leader Matthew Welsh that the missing senators be arrested by state police, came at the midnight climax of a hectic day. Other Action Taken The day's activity included; —Passage by the House 51-37 of a Senate bill to allow taverns to stay open an hour longer each night. —Passage by the House 61-26 of a Senate bill to regulate dairy products prices. . ... ... ( —Start of a marathon meeting 'by a conference committee trying to resolve a 35 million dollar difference of opinion between Dem-' ocrats and Republicans on the biennial budget bill. —Movement to Governor Handley’s desk of a bill to appropriate two million dollars for a flood control fund from which local communities may borrow. —Senate amending of the Chain O'Lakes State Park bill to ratee the appropriation from $150,000 to $300,000. —House passage of a package of Senate bills on property tax reforms. —Senate passage of a stricter non-for-profit corporations control • bflL i The Senate walkout developed over a motion by Sen. S. Hugh Dillin (D-Petersburg) for suspension of roles in order to call HB 10, the Democratic version of SUB, down on second reading. All but five Republican majority members departed with haste as Sen. Wendell Martin (R-Indianq-olis) moved for adjournment.

Midwest Is Digging Qut Os Snow Storm

United Press International The Midwest began to dig out today from a late winter snowstorm which crippled traffic, isolated communities, crushed roofs and caused the deaths of at least 31 persons. The sneak storm swept down suddenly on the upper Midwest, pounding parts of Michigan with blizzard force and walloping lowa and Wisconsin with new snowfalls up to 20 inches. The Midwest got the worst of it, but elsewhere, wind, rain and thunderstorms lashed New England, creating traffic problems in Vermont and Maine and flood threats in Connecticut and Massachusetts. Wisconsin and lowa each counted 11 storm-caused deaths. Two persons died in northern Illinois which caught the southern fringe _of the blast and Oklahoma and Pennsylvania had one each. It was lowa’s worst snow storm

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Defeat Adjourn Move The Democrats and three of the remaining Republicans defeated the adjournment motion, 23-3, and then Welsh moved the missing GO? senators be arrested by state police. Lt. Gov. Crawford Parker, the presiding officer, then called a recess .before any action was taken on this proposal. Democrats stopped the dock before it readied midnight. One knot of GOP Senators congregated fifo Barker's office while the Demo- • tfaly milled about the Senate • chamber. • The deadlock was resolved and 1 the senators finally departed i about 130 a.m. c.d.t. Sen. Faul Bitz (D-E vans ville) made the mo- , tion to adjourn and explained later , that Parker and several GOP sen- ' ators had promised to give the ' Democrats 11 votes during the session today which they could use to achieve a two-thirds majority and call down the SUB bill for consideration. However, Bitz admitted the agreement did not involve a prom- ’ ise of 11 votes for passage and 1 Welsh expressed distrust of the maneuver. 1 Supplemental unemployment benefits was one of the major , items the Democrats hope to ’ achieve now that repeal of “right ’ to work” is dead for this session. But the version passed by the Democratic-controUed House, calling for a poool arrangement fitting into the pattern qjf auto and ' steel workers’ contracts, is in ■ conflict with the Republican plan 1 of individual SUB. Dims Closing Hopes The new delay dimmed the op--1 timistic hopes expressed earlier ■ that the legislature might be able 1 to adjourn on its legal deadine of Monday midnight. : However, Speaker Birch Bayh of 1 the House maintained that the new Senate hassle probably would not r affect the time schedule of the 1 closing hours, unless the budget down. Parker and <ihers ateo had 1 pointed to the budget conferees • as the key to adjournment. J Sens. Richard O. Ristine (R- --{ Crawfordsville) and Robert O’1 Bannon (D-Corydon) were closeted r with Reps. Donald Foltz (D-Clin- ’ ton) and Richard Wright (R-Win- ' Chester) in marathon efforts to Continued on page five

in a decade and the worst that Michigan’s upper peninsula has felt in 21 years. Forty-five mile an hour winds churned up blinding snow clouds across the upper peninsula, dumping 14 inches of snow on Pellston, 11 inches on Marquette and six inches on Sault Sainte Marie. Schools, industries and stores closed down. A Greyhound bus was marooned in drifts for three hours on U.S. 27 and the passengers were forced to find shelter in homes until the bus was towed. In the worst single storm tragedy, snows nearly two feet prevented firemen from reaching a small home near LaCrosse, Wis., before a mother and her two small sons died. The storm caused scores of collisions on ice-slicked roads across northern Illinois and sent the barometer 4a Chicago to Ito lowest point in nine years.