Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 79.

Diplomatic Asylum Is ; Granted By India To 1 Dalai Lama Os Tibet

■ ... I Heads Rotary

H. P. Schmitt. Jr.

Harry Poulston Is Speaker At Rotary Harry Poulston, cf Lima. 0., a past district governor and past director of Rotary International, was the guest speaker at the weekly dinner meeting of the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center. • - Poulston warned the club mem- * bers against the self-satisfied complacency which seems so prevalent today, urged them to enjoy to the full the privilege of Rotary fellowship, and related some of his experiences while serving as a director of Rotary International. The Lima Rotarian pointed out that the service organization now has. clubs in 101 different countries and geographical regions, with nearly 500.000 members throughout the free world. Clarence Ziner, past district governor, was chairman of the program and urged local club members to attend the district conference at South Bend April 12 and 13. Bill Jacobs, a student in the speech class at Decatur high school, urged the Rotarians to renew their memberships in the Adams county Civic Music Association. Ernest Sears, manager of the Goodyear Store, was introduced as a new member of the club, and Jim Burk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Burk, was introduced as the D. H. S. junior Rotarian for the month. New officers of the club, who will be formally installed July 1, are: H. P. Schmitt, Jr., president: George Thomas, vice president: Tom Allwein, secretary; Dave Moore, treasurer; Clarence Ziner and Wilbur Petrie, directors. •

Russian Fallout Intensified

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Stratospheric fallout from Russia’s radioactively dirty atomic tests in the arctie last October is now hitting the United States wih growing inensity. This was disclosed today after preliminary study of new fallout monitoring date by Dr. Willard F. Libby, scientist member of the Atonic Energy Commission. It is too early to say whether the Soviet fallout will push the strontium-90 content of any U.S. foods above maximum permissible levels. Libby doubts that it will. The new information, accumulating with every April shower, tends to support fast fallout theories recently advanced for big nuclear explosions in the polar regions. Libby hopes to have facts which will settle this issue by May 4 when the Congressional Atomic Energy Committee opens hearings on radioactive fallout. Fallout In Three Categories The new data, from AEC rain sampling and Navy air filtering stations, suggest that U.S. cities in the latitude of Minneapolis, say,

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Dale Death Case Is | Heard At Portland Special Judge John Macy heard tO witnesses in the Dale Death vs the city of Decatur case Thursday in Jay circuit court in Portland. Another session was to be held today, allowing Ralph DeLautier to take the stand to corroborate statei meats of a previous witness, but ! the attorneys for Death decided to rest their case, as did the city atorneys. Judge Macy will not set a date, presumably for later this month, | for both counsels to make their i final arguments. i Death was discharged from the i Tecatur police force following a hearing before the board of works md safety in November, 1957. He was charged with conduct unbe-' coming an officer; absent without leave from his job, and conviction of an offense in public court, namely, public intoxication. Death then instituted action for his reinstatement, but a change of venue was granted and his case was set for the adjoining Jay county. All the action started when Death was arrested on Nov. 1. 1957 by a fellow officer on a charge of public intoxication following an accident. The accident occurred in front of the Standard Food Market on North Second street. — At the trial yesterday, the major contention of Death’s attorneys seemed to be an attempt to prove that Mayor Robert D. Cole ’’was out to get Death off the force,” and that “the board of works records on the previous trial had been tampered with.” Dick Burag was the main witness for the Death side, saying that he. Burdg, heard the mayor say he would remove Death from the force after he. Cole, was elected mayor. The missing witness, DeLautier, was to corroborate Burdg’s testimony as he was subpeoned as a witness. Mayor Cole denied Burdg’s testimony when he took the stand. _ Other witnesses were Miriam Hall, city clerk-treasurer, who testified that the records presented as evidence were the true records. Richard Lewton, county clerk, also testified to the true records of the criminal case which (Continued on page seven) Month-Old Boy Dies Early This Morning Allen Sell, month-old-son of Sylvester and Hazel Sell of southwest of Monroe, died at 4 a.m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital. The infant was born at the hospital March 2. The body was removed to the Black funeral home. Fuheral arrangements have not been com- ■ pleted.

are getting the heaviest doses of Soviet fallout Fallout comes in three categories: —Local, deposited in minutes or hours in the immediate vicinity of the explosion. This is the dreaded scourge of nuclear war. —T ropospheric, distribin latitudes corresponding to those of the blast site, 'this is a hazard only less immediate than that of local fallout. ~‘ l - —Stratospheric, worldwide in distribution and consisting of radioactive particles pushed into atmospheric regions above 40,000 feet where they drift for a long time before coming down. Only the longer-lived radioactivities are a menace in this category. The United States has tried — with new manufacturing and testing techniques—to clean up its weapons tests. But the latest fallout information proves decisively that Russian weapons have become dirtier and dirtier. Strontium-90 Doubled In a speech March 13, Libby estimated that the Soviet tests in October doubled the amount of strontium-90 and other radioactive

■in ■■■i.ih ._!■■■ — i ■—ii'i since. NEW DELHI (UPI) — India They sa jd he was expected to granted diplomatic asylum today reach nearest rai i head about 100 miles south of the Tibet-; an border, in about 15 days. Most tect the 23-year old god-king of . u,, Tibet against Chinese Communist of the °l urne y must be made by , attempts to kidnap him. t P° n * ° ver extremely rough terThe Dalai Lama, revered by ra,n » they 1 Buddhists to India and Tibet - ... alike as a living Buddha, fled t hP with his advisers ahead of the r ndia h pursuing Chinese Communist . ... \! >ac L 1 tfle alai H l ™} army through the most difficult terrain in the world and arrived „J? t in Tn/ti* case and wpII 131X1 and atr to reach m India safe and well. the Indian 150 miles His safe arrival—announced to south of the Tibetan capital a cheering Parliament by Prime Lhasa. Minster Jawaharlal Nehru—elec- .. . «o.r> 15111 Nehru s government was trifled his followers. It was gen- t dierv»«d SX CommS pX4°.n“ anticommunist uprising through- g* out noet. ( Delhi. These was an overwhelmReport Bebel Victories) x “»« clamor in India to grant him Already there were reports—ot asylum and that India’s leaders of major victories by the rebel- 1 '’could not ignore, lious Khamba tribesmen of Tibet Keep Arriva, Secret who confer any one of teem- For weeks fraU Ulm M lves cnidiprq With accompanied by his spiritual adChmese Communist soldiers. With visers and hls cabinet moved the Datai Lama safely in India across roof world they now had a rallying point in where tower feet their struggle for freedom. Red ground There was speculation the Dalai paratroopers and spot planes Lama might go to New York to faded to get him. firm The arrival was kept secret to United Nati L.. .P£.. , } foil any Chinese counter moves Taipei * S^^ at along the lonely border country, bringing to the someof which Red China claims W.»L. toT its own- There still are fears Unted Nations. the Chinese might attempt to The Indian Foreign Office offi- “liberate” their quarry by an air daily notified Communist China strike in the border country, it had granted asylum to the Da« India order ed the precautions lai Lama. It gave a copy of Ne- today to prevent any such athru’s statement in Parliament to tempt. the Peiping envoy to New Delhi. It was considered unlikely India Chinese embassy officials re- could permit the Dalai Lama to fused to comment. set up an exile government in India—a move certain to be laSources close to high Indian beied hostile by Red China. It government quarters said the Da- was possible the Dalai Lama lai Lama had arrived in India_, might move on to a firmly antiTuesday and had been moved once Communist country. '»‘'_ _ ; ’ ,

Col. Platt Cleared Os Bumping Charges

TOKYO (UPI) — The Air Force said today enlisted men on emergency leave were bumped from a military plane to make room for a vacationing officer and his family because of errors in arithmetic and administration. Lt. Col. Charles P. Platt was cleared by the Air Force of charges that he was responsible for actually _bumping the men from the plane that took off for California March 26 with eight empty seats. An Air Force spokesman said someone added 6 to 34 and got 48, making it appear there were seven too many passengers aboard the 41-seat ClB transport. The Air Force also said it was a serious “administrative error” that allowed the plane to take off from Tachikawa Air Base with

hazards then existing in toestraosphere as a result of past nuclear tests. Libby estimated that fallout in the stratosphere takes about six years on the average to descend and does so uniformly all over the globe. But he also cited a new theory by Dr. E. A. Martell of the Cambridge Research Center that stratospheric fallout from polar explosions may come down in less than a year. According to Martell, instead of settling uniformly over . the earth, the Soviet fallout should be particularly heavy in the northern regions of the hemisphere. In his speech, Libby said the next few weeks should indicate which theory was the more nearly right. United Press International learned this week that the intensity of Soviet fallout was going up at the end of March, as predicted by the Martell theory. As of Thursday, however, it appeared that Martell’s stratospheric “residence time” for fallout may be too brief. Nevertheless, Libby says, "the rate of fallout now comports to a certain degree with Dr. Martell’s theory.”

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the empty seats and others filled with passengers on regular leave, while the enlisted men were left behind. Platt on Low Priority • The group included five enlisted men, all with higher priorities than some of the passengers aboard. They were rushing home because of deaths or other crises in their families. A lieutenant and a civilian, who had no priority, also were in the group. Officials said Platt, his wife and four children were traveling on the lowest priority—a space-avail-able basis—and could not bump anyone under official regulations. Platt, commander of Military Air Transport Service at Tachikawa, requested space aboard a plane bound for Hawaii. The “Pacific Express” happened to be taking off that evening. "There was room for everybody,” the spokesman explained, because Platt and his family would have brought the total of passengers to 40. General Recalls Plane But when one of the booking personnel added the names of the six Platts to the 34 already on the manifest, he came up with a total of 43, 'instead of 40. The seven men were bumped, the Platts were put aboard and the plane left with only 33 persons aboard. The plane was recalled after 30 minutes in the air by Lt. Gen. ’ Robert W. Burns, the top American commander in Japan, after he received a telephone call from Airman 1C Coye Y. Bell, 27, of Fayetteville, Tenn., one of the enlisted men. The general ordered the colonel to remain in Tokyo and put the enlisted men on the plane. "When I concluded that an error had been made in loading the aircraft, I directed its return and reloading to correct toe situation,” the general said. “It was my intention to see that passengers were accommodated in accordance with their priority. You may be sure that I am taking every action to see that such an incident does not recur.”

1 . 1 — ' < Senator Kennedy A ; Leading Contender > John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who 1 is now serving his first term as ‘ ! U. S. senator from Massachusetts, • '■ is only the third Democrat to 1 : represent that state in the hallow- < ed senatorial halls. Scheduled to « speak before a Democratic fund 1 raising group in Decatur at the 1 , Youth and Community Center, Monday, April 13 at 6:30 p. m., | the boyish-looking Navy veteran looms large as leading contender { r for his party’s choice as the presi- j dential nominee in 1960. A former newspaperman and j gifted author, Kennedy is making ' party leaders take notice of him i for many reasons. One, is the fact < ' that his statistical vote-getting 1 landslide in the recent elections t set a precedent in the usually i Republican strong-hold of New « England. Massachusetts voting i ; records went by the boards as i Kennedy outdid even his fondest t ■ expectations. < As a Catuuiic, a fact that may 1 or may not work qgainst him, depending on who you listen to, Ken- , , nedy polled 90 per cent of the. ‘ Jewish vote in one of Boston’s ’ 1 (Continued on paxe two)

Hold Parley On Berlin Crisis I /

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Western Big Three have flatly ruled out recognition of Communist East Germany as part of any deal with Russia over Berlin. » The United States, Britain and France also have told the 15-na-tion NATO council that they will ' spurn any security pact with the' Soviet Union which would require 1 withdrawal of American, British 1 and Canadian forces from the Eu- ’ ropean continent. These developments were re- , ported today as toe council, holding its 10th anniversary meeting here, continued its discussions of the Soviet threat to Berlin. British Foreign Secretary Sei- ( wyn Lloyd, speaking on behalf of 1 the Big Three at Thursday's coun- 1 cil session, pledged efforts to t make any security agreements « with Russia in Central Europe 1 conditional upon Soviet willingness to proceed with reunification of t Germany. t Calls For Firmness £ Acting Secretary Os State Chris- - tian Herter told toe council he believed the Berlin crisis could be settled by negotiations “and not force” if the free world combined firmness with a readiness to negotiate on any reasonable basis. Herter promised that America’s full air and missile strength would remain behind toe free world in the Berlin crisis. He said the U.S. striking power continues "to constitute a solid deterrent to any Soviet plan§ for a general war for toe foreseeable future.” French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville said the Allies were extremely firm on two points: —The right of toe Western powers to stay in Berlin until there is a final German settlement. —No recognition of Communist East Germany in an effort to get a Berlin deal. Reports Military Plans Couve de Murville gave the council a report on Western military plans which would be put into operation if Russia goes through with its threat to turn East Berlin over to toe German Reds and let them control Allied routes to West Berlin. Officials declined to discuss toe plans. NATO spokesmen denied that toe Allies were divided on toe question of how to negotiate on Berlin and Germany at the foreign ministers’ meeting scheduled , to begin in Geneva May 11. They said the United States, Britain and France were in agreement on "general principles.”, although they had yet to work out bargaining details. The council continues its sessions through Saturday when a final communique will be issued. i . .

Continue Study Os Value Os City Utility The study of I & M’s $2,102,300 offer for Decatur’s electric plant and franchise continued today by the three appraisers after they met with William Lebo, chief engineer of the public service commission, at Indianapolis Thursday. The three men, accompanied by Harold Lumen, secretary-treasur-er of I &- M, gained further information on how to arrive at a figure "to compare with I & M’s proposal. Guy Shoemaker, Adams county landowner and professional electrical engineer now of Largo, Fla., Robert Long, mechanical engineer of Geneva, and Eli Graber, professional appraiser of Berne, the appraisers, are now evaluating this and other information that they procured from various sources to arrive at a figure on the city’s power plant. Although no definite date has been set for them to render their professional opinion, it is expected to take not less than two days nor more than a week. The special city election on the proposed sale is set for April 14. Lebo gave the appraisers the state’s qualifications for data 4o be used in arriving at a fair figure of the estimated value. Acting as spokesman for the public service commission, Lebo further instructed the appraisers in the basis for appraisals of this nature. He added that the appraisers then work out a figure from their accumulated data. The appraisers met with . city and I & M officials at city hall yesterday after inspecting the power facilities Wednesday.

One Driver Killed In Headon Collision CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (UPI) - Jerry Mcllvoy, 28, Henryville, was killed early today when his automobile smashed headon into a big truck on the Clarksville Expressway. 20 Students Injured When Bus Tips Over CARMEL, N. Y. (UPI) — A chartered bus carrying about 50 high school seniors home from an Easter vacation trip to Washington tipped over against a roadside embankment Thursday night. At least 20 students were hurt. Seven of the injured were hospitalized, including one of the chaperones. About 15 others were treated privately.

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THE ANNUAL DECATUR Chamber of Commerce membership drive will open next Monday morning. Approximately 75 team captains and workers will receive their final instructions at a kick-off breakfast at 7:30 o’clock Monday morning at the Decatur Youth and Community Center. George Auer, seated, president of the C. of C., is shown above conferring on drive plans with the membership committee, left to right—L. E. Anspaugh, chairman; David Moore and Roy Kalver. The committee has planned an intensive campaign, aimed at completion within a few days, ana aiming at equaling or surpassing the present membership. The 1959 goal has been set at 250. The Chamber of Commerce includes retail division, industrial division, and professional’and services division. Any member of the community is eligible for membership. This year's slogan of the C. of C. is “Make Decatur Greater.” ■ * I ‘

Testifies To Teel Beating

INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A detective testified today that Mrs. I Connie Nicholas told him from a I hospital bed that she shot her’ married ex-lover because he was beat- I ing her up in the front seat of his I white Cadillac. Sgt. Carl Micixaelis told the allhusband jury at the murder trial J of Mrs. Nicholas that he talked I with the 44-year-old divorcee .in £ Indianapolis General Hospital two c days after the death of Forrest 1 Teel, executive vice president of I Eli Lilly Co. The petite brunette had nearly i succeeded in killing herself with S sleeping pills and was still “very t upset and crying,’’ Michaelis said. I Michaelis said Mrs. Nicholas at i first refused to talk, and then told 1 him of the argument with Teel ‘ when she accosted him in the car > after he came cut of an apart- 1 ment following an evening with his new girl. "She told me he started beating ' her," Michaelis said. “I asked her where. She said on ■ the eyes, the arms, all over. 1 "I asked her ‘what did you do?’ "She said ‘I shot him'.” “I asked her how many times. 1 She said three times. "I asked her if he had ever beat- 1 en her before. She said, no, he * had always been very gentile. “I asked her why she had the j gun'and she said she wanted to 1 scare him, she only meant to shoot 1 him in the arm. "She told me she had taken 75 sleeping pills and she would have ’ succeeded in suicide if she hadn’t upchucked. "I asked her if she was still on the scene when Teel wrecked his car (it spun out of control after the shooting) and she said no, that , she had driven away in her car.” ( Michaelis said Connie had told her Teel had promised to marry her in 1961 after his son was graduated from high school. Michaelis’ version of Mrs. Nicholas’ statement clashed with the defense contention that the gun went off accidentally when Teel grabbed for it when she threatened to shoot herself in the car. Michaelis testified shortly after the gun that killed Teel was handed to the jurors and each man pulled the trigger to see how stiff it was. The 25-caliber French revolver was given the jurors over hot defense objections that such pulling of Ute trigger comprised experi--1 mentation and in effect made the jurors witnesses. The 44-year-old divorcee contends the gun went off accidentally four times in a struggle with Teel, married executive vice president of the Eli Lilly drug company, who had broken off a 15year backstreet affair with Mrs. Nicholas. Three bullets entered his body and killed him. Deputy Prosecutor Judson Haggerty and defense attorney Frank Symmes argued for 45 minutes about the jury's right to examine the gun before Judge Thomas J. Faulconer ruled he would permit its “inspection.”

Red Cross Campaign Is Nearly SB,OOO Reports of contributions from Monroe and Geneva helped the Red Cross fund total up to $7,986.61 by the end of the fourth week of the 1959 campaign, according to the campaign chairman, Leo N. Seltenright. Seltenright stated that Monroe residents contributed a total of $109.85,- while Geneva donated a total of $328.55. He expressed appreciation for the fine job done in these two communities and residents and campaign workers offered his thanks to all of the responsible for the generous donations to the 1959 fund. , 4 Otto Longenberger was the Monroe chairman. He was assisted by Hugh Tate, Mrs. Leonard Johnston, Mrs. Arthur Schoaf, Jocelyn McCullough and Georganna Essex, Serving under J. A. Anderson, Geneva chairman, were Louise Bausserman, Miss Mary Pusay, Otis Buckey, Mrs. Stanley Baumgartner, Walter J. Muth, Mrs. M. O. Smith, Berwyn Sprunger, Mrs. P. A. Howe, Catherine Fravel, Helen Buckingham, Margaret Rhoades, Helen Umpleby and v Alice Schlagenhauf. Seltenright stated that many of the rural workers have not yet turned in their reports and has issued a request that they do so as soon as possible. It is hoped that the additional reports will bring the fund up to its goal of $10,154. Additional rural reports include Cecil Harvey, Root section 25. sl7; Mrs. Lewis Rumschlag, Washington section 11, $6.50; Harold Tieman, Root section 1, $6; Henry Hiemann, Washington section 16, $9. and section 28, $8; Lucy Schnepp, Washington section 20, $lO. and section 18, $3; Mrs. Mary Kintz, Washington section 6, $lO. and Otto Hoffman, Washington section 19, $3. St. Paul’s Lutheran Ladies Aid. $5; St. Paul's Lutheran Sewing Society, $5; Mrs. R. Kershner, Kirkland section 9, $9.50; Lorenz Thieme, Union section 19. $6; Mrs. Jennie McAlhaney, Root section 36, $6 35; Mrs. Paul Weisman, Root section 34, $5; Alva Railing, Union section 30, sl3; Mrs. Carl Schug, Blue Creek section 17, $8; Mrs. Sherman Von Gun ten, Mon<roe sections 27 and 34, sl6; Mrs. Dan Striker, Monroe sect’ons 21 (Contlii t'~ oi. par* «!got) INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and colder with diminishing winds tonight. Saturday mostly fair, a little warmer southwest half. Ixrwt tonight in the 30s. Highs Saturday in the 50s extreme north to the 60s extreme south. Sunset today 7:11 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Saturday 6:25 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Sunday: Fair to partly cloudy and warmer most sections. Lows mostly in i 1 the 30s. Highs 60 to 70.

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