Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 86, Decatur, Adams County, 11 April 1959 — Page 1

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Murder Trial Is In Recess

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) - Mrs. Connie Nicholas faces a hammering crass - examination Monday on her story that she shot her wealthy lover accidentally as they argued in his car about a younger woman. Judge Thomas J.. Faulconer recessed toe sensational first degree murder trial for the week end late Friday, interrupting Mrs. Nicholas* description of the fatal shooting of drug firm executive Forrest Teel, 54. The recess ended a day of intensive cross-examination with Deputy Prosecutor Francis Thomason trying to upend the tiny divorcee's contention she shot Teel accidentally in the early morning of last July 31. Argued In Car The day was laced with testimony of suicide notes and love trysfe and revealed that Teel sometimes brought his son, then an infant, to clandestine meetings in Mrs. Nicholas’ apartment. The prosecution claims the twice-married Mrs. Nicholas, discovering Teel had jilted her for a younger woman, Laura Mowrer, waited for him outside Miss Mow- " rer’s apartment and deliberately shot him four times with a tiny French revolver when* he emerged. Mrs. Nicholas contends she and Teel argued in his white Cadillac when he left Miss Mowrer’s apartment and toe gun fired accidentally when he struct her. She told the all-husband jury she drove away from the scene in fright, not knowing Teel was fatally wounded. Minutes later, she pulled off the road beside a secluded stream and gulped a thermos of pineapple juice dosed with sleeping pills. Found /Near Death cmIF W3S lOUna ultlt xlr xlvurs later, near death and with both arms paralyzed. She says her Winter Lingers On In Midlands Area United Pre— International Winter weather lingered in the Midlands Saturday, dropping temperatures below freezing from the Rockies to toe Great Lakes and turning April showeres into out-of-season snowfalls. Four inches of snow were reported at Redwood Falls, Minn., where several tornado clouds were spotted late Friday. Up to an inch of snow fell as far south as Dalhart, Tex., and in part of Wyoming, Colorado and the Northern Plains. The Chicago Cubs and the Los Angejes Dodgers sat out their National League season opener in Chicago Friday when a light snow cancelled the game. Temperatures skidded below freezing across the Northern Plains and in toe Central Rockies , and mid-Mississippi Valley. Laramie, Wyo., reported a low of 12 degrees above zero late Friday night A light rain dampened most of the East and mixed with snow in lower Michigan, but fair weather shone west of the Rockies with toe only precipitation reported along toe Washington and northern California coasts. The U.S. Weather Bureau forecast snow flurries Saturday for the Colorado and Wyoming mountains and scattered showers in the Missis ippi Valley and most of the East. Fair weather will warm the area west of the Rockies. 1

Republicans Pick Chicago Site

By RAYMOND LAHR United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD—The Republican party’s site committee recommended today that the 1960 GOP convention be held in Chicago the week of July 25. The recommendation, made at a breakfast meeting, was sent to the full national committee for its expected approval this morning. Selection of the convention site preceded the full committee’s scheduled election of Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky as the iiew GOP national chairman. Morton was President Eisenhower’s selection to succeed retiring Chairman Meade Alcorn. The President formally gave notice of his choice to a 10-member committee which flew to Augusta, Ga., Friday to consult him about a successor to Alcorn. * Vote Was Unanimous The site committee voted unani-

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arms, still braced, were damaged in the struggle with Teel. The state charges they were injured when she lay on them following her suicide attempt. Mrs. Nicholas said the illicit love affair with Teel involved twice - weekly meetings in her apartment and in hotels and motels, interrupted only briefly by her two marriages. Mrs. Nicholas testified she wrote a series of suicide notes on her lunch hours at an Indianapolis insurance company early last July. “I did not type them on company time,” she said. ‘‘When you wrote these letters, you didn’t know Mr. Teel was seeing another woman, did you?” Thomason asked. “Not positively.” “Why were you considering taking your life if you\ were not sure?” “It was obvious to me that there must be someone ‘else because I was not seeing Mr. Teel as much as in the past.” Strikes Threaten Rubber Industries AKRON. Ohio (UPI) — Three of the rubber industry’s Big Four appear almost certain to be hit by strikes when contracts expire next Wednesday. Already about 27,000 U.S. Rubber Co. employes in 11 states are on strike. A United Rubber Workers Union spokesman said Akron union locals of B, F. Goodrich, Firestone and Goodyear workers have approved going on strike April 15 by a 9-1 margin. “Members are in much more of a fighting mood this year,” a union spokesman paid. If the other three firms are struck, 56,000 more workers will be off their jobs. Negotiations between Goodrich and the union are continuing in nearby Canton, Ohio, while Goodyear and Firestone are holding talks in Cleveland. L. S. Buckmaster, URW presi*dent, said the reason for the strike votes was to try to bring contract coverage for union members up to those of the United Auto Workers. Wages are not involved in the dispute. Issues involved are pensions insurance, severance pay and working conditions. U. S. Rubber Co. employes went on strike early Friday and no negotiations were scheduled. The company and union had been meeting in New York since March 3. Miss Gail Egley Is Queen Os Limberlost Miss Gail Egly, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Holman Egly of Jefferson township, was elected queen of the Limberlost at the annual fish fry Friday night at the Geneva gym, it was reported this morning. A capacity crowd of 600 persons witnessed the event. Judges included Sen. Marshall Kizer of Plymouth and Mrs. Wayne Miller, of Fort Wayne. Miss Egly’s talent act was a twirling demonstration. She is a Berne-French cheer leader and a member of the high school band and orchestra. No othee places were awarded this year.

mously to recommend Chicago from among six cities competing for the convention. Hie other Cities were Philadelphia, Miami Beach, New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Ray C. Bliss of Ohio, vice Chairman of the site committee, told newsmen that one factor in the selection of Chicago was that it was a “neutral area” in that no candidate from that region was expected to seek -tire presidential nomination. He said there were only three neutral cities—Chicago, Philadelphia and Miami Beach. Bliss said there also was a “sentimental" factor in toe selection of Chicago because 1960 will mark the 100th anniversary of toe nomination at Chicago of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president. Still another factor influencing toe committee was the central lo-

Chinese Reds Fly More Troops Into Revolt-Torn Lhasa

NEW DELHI (Ul’l)—-A Nationalist Chinese newspaper reported today the Communists flew more than a division of troops to re-volt-torn Lhasa during the past week to reinforce the Red garrison. there. , The Ta Hua Evening News said other Communist army units have reached the Tibetan capital by road from Sinkiang province in China’s “wild west.” Red troops in Lanchow and Chengtu, Chinese cities less than 800 air miles from Lhasa, include ’ some veterans of the Korean War. They have been alerted for possible movement to Tibet, the newspaper said. Hie Evening News added that the Communists have assembled a “huge number” of transport planes in the two cities, to fly toe alerted troops in if they are needed. The Evening News, quoting authoritative sources here, said Red troops battling anti - Communist forces in the rugged mountains of Tibet use crowds of Tibetan women and children to screen their advance, forcing their enemies to choose between surrender and slaughter of their countrymen. Earlier, it was reported that the Communists have sealed the escape corridor southeast of Lhasa through which the Dalai Lama and 79 other refugees escaped to India. Officials in Shillong, on India’s northeast frontier, said that no refugees have crossed the border since March 31, a week after toe fleeing god-king got through to safety. o . The .Communist radio reported that the overnment the Reds are setting up in Tibet will include a “public security” department—presumably some sort of secret police agency. To Meet Sunday The Dalai Lama, meanwhile, was continuing his grueling journey over the rugged terrain of northeastern India. An official spokesman in Shillong said the Tibetan leader is expected to reach Bomdila Sunday. After a wearying 14-mile double march Friday, the Lama will spend tonight in Rahung, a village eight miles from Bomdila, the spokesman said. When he arrives in Bomdila about noon Sunday, he will be greeted by P. N. Menon Premier Jawaharlal Nehru’s special envoy. Informed sources here said the Dalai Lama has advised Neiuni that he would like to talk with him at the earliest possible opportunity. A place for the meeting probably will be one of the first matters he takes up with Menon when they meet Sunday. The informed sources said also INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy and cool with a few showers or snow flurries likely today and Sunday. No t important temperature change. Low tonight low 30s north, near 40 south* High Sunday mid-40s north to low 50s south. Outlook for Monday: Cloudy and cool with scattered afternoon showers.

cation of Chicago and the estimated $400,000 savings in delegate travel cost compared with transportation expense to a coastal city. The Chicago bid provided $400,000 in cash, plus extras including rent free use of the International Livestock Amphitheater at toe Chicago Stock Yards. The GOP also will receive profits from toe convention programs which have exceeded SIOO,OOO at toe last two GOP conventions. Sen. Barry, Goldwater (R-Ariz.) proposed meanwhile that the new chairman be invited to attend cabinet meetings and authorized to employ a full-time assistant to direct the GOP organization. » Goldwatdr, chairman of the GOP senatorial campaign committee, said he would make these recommendations in a speech scheduled to follow Morton’s election.

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that the god-king has assured Menon already — presumably by radio — that he; would not like to do anything which would affect India's relations with any other country. Indications in Shillong were that the Lama will rest for two days in Bomdila and then continue his journey by jeep. He is expected to cover the 63-mile distance in two days. The Times of India reported today that Chinese Nationalist soldiers, who had been hiding out in the jungles of China’s remote Sikang Province since the Communists overran their country, now have joined the Khampa tribesmen who are fighting the Reds in Tibet. Review Feature Os Library Week Here Another feature of the Decatur public library’s commemoration of national library week, April 12-18, will be Miss Frances Dugan’s review of "Dr. Zhivago," the Nobel prize winning and best selling novel by Russia’s Boris Pasternak. Miss Dugar will present her review of the critical appraisal of Communism Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the library. The controversial literary effort was banned in Russia pnd Pasternak was forced to disown the prize money and award after pressure from within the “Iron Curtain” forced this action. Miss Dugan, a member of the library board, is a former English teacher and principal of the Winson school in Boston. After graduating from Vassar college, she did graduate work at the Universities of Chicago, Wisconsin, Columbia, and Oxford, England. Thursday and Friday evenings will be "guest nights” at the library. All clubs, organizations, and individuals dre urged by Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, to browse around the facilities. The library is open from noon to 8:30 p. mdaily. Sponsored by the American Library association and the National Book Committee, Inc., this is the second annual observance of library week. Its purpose is to call attention to the reading revolution going on in America today. City Sanitarian To Speak At Conclave D. A. Swickard, food and drug division of the Indiana state board of health, has announced that Raymond Lehman, sanitarian with the Decatur city health department, has been invited to appear on the program at the Southern Indiana sanitarian’s conference to be held at Spring Mill state park April 21. The sanitarians from active health departments, both city and county, south of Indianapolis, will attend the conference. Lehman was asked to represent the city of Decatur and the Decatur health department which was selected by the program committee as an ideal example of a city and its health department cooperating with the food establishment industry in the conduction of a successful sanitation inspection program. The food inspection program has been in effect in Decatur, since June, 1958, and due to the infancy of the program, the group was eager to learn how such a successful program is conducted. Lehman will be asked to give the steps in acquainting the food industry with the aims of the health department in preventing the spread of disease through food by the educational approach rather than by forceful tactics. , Lehman will emphasize that cooperation and understanding of the inspection program is necessary from everyone and the sanitarian cannot stand alone as has been demonstrated in the city of Decatur’s food inspection program.

Steel Union Rejecfsßid By Industry PITTSBURGH (UPD—The steel ’ industry Sailed on the United l . Steelworkers Union Friday to ’ hold the line on wages, but the un- ' ion rejected toe proposal as a publicity stunt. ‘ A committee representing 12 major steel firms asked USW President David J. McDonald to accept a one-year wage-freeze. McDonald said the management move was an attempt to avoid negotiations scheduled to begin May 18 in New York. Union officials backed McDonald, but there were some rank-and-file objections. The industry proposed extendi ing major provisions of the cur- , rent three-year contract, which . expires June 30, for one year. Say Consumers Worried The industry committee said in a letter the nation’s economy is on a moderate upswing, but that the process was being "artificially i accelerated” bon consumers worried about a strike. An immediate settlement of the steel issues would enable customers to buy ’ and avoid "the artificial ' bulge of synthetic deipand and I subsequent ... decline land dislo--1 tuition.” ' - i The note added: “In order to combat inflation, to preserve for : the steelworkers the purchasing . power of their present high wages • and benefits, to enable steel comly With foreign steel. . .we hope you will see the benefits inherent in our proposal and accept it promptly." Some Disagree The union boss accused the industry of employing ’Jhis stra.tegem because before the month is out, it will be embarrassed by record riches which it can neither explain nor conceal. "It proves again this industry is cold-bloodedly planning a strike. ..” he said. Some workers contacted by the United Press International indicated disagreement with the head of the 1,250,C00-member union. "Keep wages and prices as they are,” said Jteck Stevenson, a Pittsburgh steel worker. “We definitely don’t want a strike.” “We’re doing all right the way we are,” said Henry Kielarwski, a worker at Jones & Laughlin's Pittsburgh plant. _ Berne School Pupil Badly Hurl Friday l Roger Miller, 16-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Matirice Miller, ‘ route two, Bluffton, and a junior I at Berne-French high school, sufl sered a broken neck Friday when the auto he was driving crashed into a utility pole on state road 116 Friday morning, about five miles 1 southeast of Bluffton, near the Wells-Adams county line. Miller was taken to toe Caylor- ' Nickel clinic in Bluffton to receive ’ treatment, but was transferred to 1 the Fort Wayne Parkview memor- ' ial hospital Friday afternoon. He was reported unconscious and was paralyzed from the waist down. ; | Miller also suffered severe lacera- . ' tions and bruises about the head ' and scalp. The one-car accident occurred , when Miller was traveling to Bluffton to purchase tractor parts for , his father’s firm, the Affolder and , Miller Tractor and Implement , company. The car apparently went • out of control on the wet pavement and traveled 300 feet on the berm . of the road before crashing into . the utility pole, ■ The auto, owned by the firm of i Affolder and Miller, was consideri ed a total loss. The Wells county ■ sheriffs department investigated the. accident.

Mathias Baker Dies At Hospital Friday Mathias (Tise) Baker, 82, prominent retired farmer of route 3, Decatur, died at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. He had been ill five weeks of cpmplicadons. He was born at Barberton, O Jan. 15, 1877, a son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Baker, but had lived In Adams county most of his life. His wife, the former Sophia Wolpert, whom he married in 1908, died in 1941. Mr. Baker was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society and the Loyal Order of Moose. Surviving are nine sons, Clement J., Richard F., Robert J., Otto J., Carl W., Daniel E., Anthony F., Theodore and Edward J. Baker, all of near Decatur; one daughter, Mrs. James (Rose) Mcßride of Decatur; 22 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one brother, Frank C. Baker of Decatur, and four sisters, Mrs. Christina Schultz and Mrs. Mary Colter, both of Decatur. Mrs. Daniel Jones of Gas City, and Mrs. John Gross of Indianapolis. Four brothers preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a.m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rev. Robert Contant officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. The body was removed to the GII- - & Doan funeral home; where friends may call after 6 o’clock this evening until time of the services. Recitation of the rosary will be held at 8 p.m. Sunday.

Plan Commission To Study Employment

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Quick House approval is expected early next week of legislation establishing an 11-mpmber commission on unemployment problems. The Senate waived its usual legislative procedure late Friday to shout unanimous approval to the measure, introduced only Wednesday by Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson. Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen (Ill.), one of the measure’s many co-sbonsors, said he had no objection to the quick Senate vote in view of the broad support for the plan. Report To President The measure would require the commission to make an on-the-spot study of areas of high unemployment and report to the President with recommendations within 60 days. Johnson said his proposal would be a "prelude to action" rather than the creation of just another “study group.” The proposed commission would have three members named by the Senate, three by the House and five by the President. Os the President’s five, not more than two could represent agriculture, labor or industry and not more than three could be from either political party. Johnson, in urging the Senate to speedy action on the bill, said “men and women who are out of work cannot wait.” Noting that the latest unemployment report showed nearly 4,500,000 Americans idle, Johnson said he hoped the resoltuion could be adopted as evidence of Congress’ determination that “they will not become 4,500,000 forgotten men and women.” Meany Testifies He said that as long as there was one American able and willing to work but unable to find a job, “that is one too many.” As the Senate acted on the measure, AFL-CIO President George Meany testified before the House Ways & Means Committee in behalf of organized labor’s demands for increased amounts and duration * of unemployment com-

Five Killed In Head-On Crash

DAYTON, Ohio (UPI) - Four, teen-agers and a 2-year-old child were killed Friday night in a fiery head-on collision at the crest of a hill near here. A man and a woman were injured critically. Police said the crash occurred when the teen-agers’ car attempted to pass another vehicle at the hill top and crashed into an oncoming auto one mile west of West Alexandria On U.S. 35. The teen-agers were identified, as Barbara Black, 18, and Mary Susan Mong, 16, both of Dayton, and Douglas Peake and Don Tobias, both 18, of Eaton. i The dead child was Linda Root, whose mother, Mrs. Billie Root, 24, was injured critically along with Fletcher Carter, 18, Mrs. Root's brother, both of West Alexandria. Mrs. Root, Carter and the baby were in one car and the teen-agers in the other. Police said the youngsteis’ car was headed west toward Eaton, Ohio, near the Ohio-Indiana line, and pulled out to pass another. The vehicle clipped the back of the other car and was thrown into the path of toe oncoming auto. One of the first persons on the scene after the crash was Rodney Prim, of West Alexanaraia, who helped put out the fire in the car occupied by the teen-agers. "We pulled open a door and a teen-aged boy fell to the ground," Prim said. “Another blond-head ed boy was lying on the tack seat and a girl’s foot was caught in the window and her body crushed under the car.” A tractor was Used to lift the auto off the girl. Prim said. One of the cars belonged to Tobias’ father, but it was not determined which of the teen-agers was driving. Mrs. Root was be-, lieved to be the driver of the other car. Draft Board To Close Wednesday For Week The Adams county selective service board will be closed from Wednesday noon for the balance of the week while Mrs. Elmer E. Chase, clerk, attends the annual statewHFcbhference~at”liSiiafiafF olis.'

pensation benefits. During the testimony, Meany responded to a charge by Rep. Bruce Alger (R-Tex.) that the union’s legislative program was "socialistic.” Meany, in a 10-minute lecture, told Alger that almost everything designed to bring "sunlight” into people’s lives is called socialistic. "I don’t know what socialism is,” the labor leader declared. Meany said that if the term means public ownership of the means of production, then the United States is more socialistic nbw than when he was born.

""" ” — Jfi —-K., ■ INJURED RUSSIAN REACHES HOSPITAL— Lieut-Gen. Frank A. Armstrong, USAF, Commander in Chief, Alaska, assists Coast Guardsmen in carrying an injured Russian sailor to a waiting ambulance after an emergency flight brought him to Anchorage for* hospitalization. The sailor, still on the critical list, was injured in a fall aboard a Russian fishing vessel in the Berng Sea. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Storis picked him up at sea and brought him ashore where he was rushed aboard the waiting aircraft.

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Junior Class Play Given Friday Nigh! The Decatur high school junior class players picked up a weak play with an exaggerated and obvious plot, and, despite poor acoustics, bravely carried "The Unguided Miss” to a delighted and entertained audience of nearly 900 persons Friday, night at the Decatur gymnasium. ? ' If Decatur ever presents an "Oscar,” it certainly should go to Miss Catherine Weidler for directing her youngsters to a scintillating and pleasurable performance. Although the play, based on “typical” family circumstances, did not lend itself to thespian outlets, even at the junior class level, the glib and flippant antics of “George Mathews” (Jim Gay), “Buzzie Bryce” (Diane Rhodes), "Clint Bryce” <MBte Kgehr), *‘Lu-. cia Ferrari” (Carpi Norquest) and “the Judge* (Jay De Voss) kept the flow at a high and sparkling pace. “Susan Bryce” (Jean Hoffman), “Madge Bryce” (Barbara Bruk), and “Carlos Delgado” (Jerry McIntosh), to.mention a few, gave solid interpretations of their roles, which did not call for wjtty dialogue. The effectiveness of the sets, sound effects, wardrobe, lighting, props, and numerous other items that go with producing a play, all blended into a neatly tide package, well worth the audience’s attention. The only complaints, voiced between acts, were ones dealing with the ocoustieel problem. If the players had not gained and kept the rapt attention of the audience, many more words certainly would have been lost. At the last curtain, the junior players presented Miss Weidler with a chic, dress purse, which probably was better received than one of Hollywood’s "Oscars.” Arrangements Complete For Kennedy Dinner Arrangements were completed today for the Kennedy dinner Monday evening, honoring Sen. John F. Kennedy, a presidential hopeful for 1960. Dr. Harry H. Hebble, Democratic county chairman, announced this was the first time, as far as he could ascertain, that a press» dential hopeful had ever been feted here. The last time a presidential candidate spoke here, he stated, according to the best recollections, of the old timers, was when William Jennings Bryan spoke from the back of a train in 1896 to a crowd of thousands, many of whom did not get to even hear him. Before that, Republican hopeful James B. Blaine, a candidate against Cleveland, spoke in 1884 or 1892, from the front porch of the house that is now Black’s funeral home. NOON EDITION '