Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 90, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 90.

U.S. Expected To Protest On Soviet Planes - BERLIN (UPD — Soviet jet fighters used "dangerous harassing tactics” against the turboprop Cl3O freighter which flew here at 25,000 feet Wednesday in defiance of Russian, altitude limitations, American sources said today. Contracting earlier reports that two Red planes merely “shad'owed” the Cl3O at a distance of about 600 feet, the sources said they “harassed it in flagrant vio- ' lation of flight safety regulations." The United States was expected to protest the safety violation. liie Russians already have protested the flight, renewing demands that planes plying, between Berlin and the West keep below the 10,000-foot mark. Reliable sources in London reported that Britain had urged the United States to halt high-level flights to Berlin, arguing they are an "unnecessary provocation” of the Russians in the light of the forthcoming Bast-West foreign ministers conference. They said Viscount Hood, British minister in Washington, made the suggestion in A visit to the State Department Wednesday even though Britain agrees there is no ceiling for Western planes in tiie corridors. Calendar Is Fixed For Rural Schools The 1959-60 school calendar for the Adams county schools for both the eight and one-half and nine month school systems, was released today by Gail Grabill, county superintendent of schools. All dates of events, festivities, school functions, etc., are the same for both systems with the exception of the starting of the second semester, and the last day of school. The eight and one-half month students attend a total of 187 days of schools, while the nine month students are in school 177 days. The school calendar for both school systems is as follows: Thursday; September 3, principals’ meeting; Friday, September 4, Institute: Tuesday, September 8, ening day of sdhool; Thursday anc Friday, October 22-23, teachers institute; Thursday, November I£, county music festival; Thursday and Friday, November 26-27, Thanksgiving vacation; Thursday, December 24. (noon dismissal), Christmas vacation. Monday, January 4, classes resume; Thursday, Friday and Saturday, January 14-15-16, county basketball tourney; Monday, January 18, second semester starts for the eight and one-half students; Monday, January 25, second semester starts far the nine month students; Saturday, February 13, Fort Wayne institute; Friday, April 15, and Monday, April 18, Easter vacation; Friday, May 18. final day of school for the eight and onehalf month students; and Friday, May 27, final day 6f school for the nine month students.

All Available Space Sold For Show Case

All roads within a radius of 100 miles will be leading to Decatur on May 5,6, and 7 when a great array of new merchandise will be shown at the Decatur Merchants Show Case. In its third year, the retail division of the Chamber of Commercesponsored event is expected to attract 10,000 persons to the Youth and Community Center during the three day and night affair. Last year, 8,000 vieW.ed the exhibit. Merchants and manufacturers are busily readying their displays which will include items for land, water, farm and home. Factory representatives will be on hanS to offer explanations and demonstrations of their products. Being a family event, the Show Case officials welcome area residents of all ages to the Center. Surprises will greet the children as well as gifts for the mothers. The general public will thus be acquainted with the newest merchandise available to make for "comfortable living.” Chairman for the 1959 Merchants Show Case is Earl Sheets, manager of Sheets furniture store. Co-chairmen include Bill Lose and Paul Uhrick. Fred Kolter, executive secretary for the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, stated today that all of the 54 booths at the Decatur' Youth and Community Center have been

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Mrs. Emma Germann Is Taken By Death Mrs. Emma P. Germann, 76, the mother of Paul Germann, of Decatur route 4, died at her home in Van Wert at 11 a.m. Wednesday. She wa» the daughter of Charles and Anna Schum and was bom Nov. 9, 1882 in Harrison township. Van Wert county, O. She was married’May 7, 1905 to Conrad Germgnn, who survives. Mrs. Germann was a member of the Van Wert St. Thomas Lutheran church, the Ladies Aid, Worni en’s Missionary league, and the ‘ Altar committee. I Surviving besides the husband l and son are a daughter, Mrs. Dora Mae Germann, Ohio City; a brother, Otto Schum, Harrison township; two sisters, Etta Holme, Lima, 0., and Mrs. Mollie Schum, Rockford, O.; eight grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. Services will be conducted at the St. Thomas church at 2:30 p.m. Friday, the Rev. Hans Wiedeman officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the O. D. Smith funeral home in Convoy. Many Priests Attend Durkin Funeral Rites More than 70 priests, including Bishop Leo A. Pursley, of Fort Wayne, attended the funeral services of Mrs. Lena Durkin this morning at St. Mary’s Catholic church. Mrs. Durkin's son, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas Durkin, pastor of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, celebrated the solemn high mass. Bishop Pursley was minister of absolution after the funeral services. The priesests, who also included seven Monsignori, came from all over the state, and from Ohio and Illinois. Many were Msgr. Durkin's classmates at the seminary.

Anti-Red Revolt In Tibet Is Spreading

NEW DELHI (UPD—Nationalist Chinese intelligence sources reported today that the anti-Com-munist revolution in Tibet has spread to the border of Szechuan province in inland China. The sources said in Taipei that fresh intelligence reports from mainland China disclosed that “thousands of people” in Szechuan have taken out hidden arms and joined in guerrilla warfare against the Communists along the Kingsha River. Previous Nationalist Chinese reports said Tibetans residing in Sikang, Chinghai and Sinkiang on Tibet's border had joined the revolt. This was the first report that the fighting had spread inland. Using Modern Guns Reports reaching New Delhi from the Indian border town of Kalimpong said the Chinese Communists had launched a heavy surprise, attack against Tibetan

rented to local merchants, and not one additional space is available. Thirty-seven local and manufacturers will comprise the 54 booths available for the third annual affair. Most have rented only one booth, but several have rented two and a few have rented three, to show their displays. The list of merchants are the following: Briede’s Studio; Decatur Music House; G. C. Murphy company; Anspaugh Studio; Holthouse Drug company; Adams Builders & Supply; Fager Sporting Goods: Kocher Lumber & Coal company; Gilpin Ornamental Iron; Uhrick Brothers; Smith Pure Milk Dairy; Holthouse Furniture store; Schafer store; Stonite corporation: Arnold Lumber company; Sheets Furniture company; Home Dairy; Model Dept, store; Haflich & Morrissey Shoe store; Teen Togs. Kiddie Shop; Haugk Heating & Appliances; Decatur Lumber company; Lutes Flowers; Klenk’s; Leland Smith Insurance company; Habegger Hardware; *Hiomas Realty* company: Gass Ready-To-Wear; Niblick & Company; Decatur Floral company; j^hbaucher’s Tin Shop; Sears’ Roebuck & company; Sherwin-Williams confpany; Mies Bowling Alley; Bower Jewelry store: and Parkway 66 Service. •> j ,

Steel Strike Is Foreseen By Summer NEW YORK (UPD—The odds favor a steel strike this summer, top industry sources said today. “Die steel industry and the United Steelworkers of America have flatly rejected each other’s major pre-negotiation proposals. The sources told United Press International that as of now both sides will enter contract talks next month “miles apart.” The current three-year contracts expire at midnight June 30. The steel industry Wednesday night not only turned down a union suggestion that wages could be raised in the face of a price freeze, but also accused 4he union of asknig it to violate the antitrust laws by fixing prices. In a letter to USW President David J. McDonald, the nation’s 12 top steel companies said it would be "illegal” for them to join in a deal calling for a price freeze. Based On Profits The companies also rejected a union proposal that a wage increase be granted on the basis of higher output per man-hour and profits. They said this suggestion was “wholly unacceptable.” In Pittsburgh, a USW spokesman said the union would have no immediate commend on the industry letter. Last Friday, the industry proposed a one-year wage freeze until June 30, i 960, in order to guarantee an anti-inflationary policy in the basic steel industry. The unicm immediately rejected the industry’s proposal as a “publicity stunt.” On Monday, the USW countered with its own proposals for accelerated negotiations and wage and fringe increases based on higher productivity and earnings. It also called for a price freeze for the duration of any agreement.

positions 150 miles southwest of Lhasa in their first penetration of that anti-Communist stronghold. Fighting was reported raging near Mangar-Tse-Etaon north of the highway running from Gyantze to Shiatse, home of the Com-munist-sponsored Panchen Lama. The reports said the Tibetans were taken unawares but still held the fortress, village. The Communists attacked with modern guns and weapons and casualties are heavy on both sides, the reports said. A traveler reaching Kalimpong from the battle area estimated 500 dead and wounded on each side. The Chinese also were using bombing planes against the rebellious patriots’ lines of communications in southwest Tibet, some 70 to 80 miles from the borders of Sikkim, Nepal and Bhutan, the reports said. War Against Buddhism A refugee who fled the area said a Chinese breakthrough in the Mangar-Tse-Dzong area would enable the Red army to penetrate into the chief stronghold of the tribesmen who rebelled against Red rule. Reports reaching New Delhi also said the Communists had opened an all out war against the Buddhist religion in Tibet in an attempt to end the influence of the Dalai Lama, the god-king of the Tibetans. Buddhist sources said several thousand followers of the Dalai Lama have been placed in concentratipn camps and that the ones considered “less criminal” are being used as forced labor to rebuild /damaged roads and monasteries. Peiping appeared to have toned down its charges that Dalai Lama was kidnaped by "anti-Communist rebels” and is being held in duress, apparently because the Dalai Lama is expected to make a formal denial of the charges Saturday. Informed sources said the Dalai Lama will make a statement Saturday when he arrive? at the railway town of Tezpur in Assam and that toe spirit of his statement will make it clear he sought asylum in India of his own free will. Peiping meanwhile blanryed the Voice of America for trying to create discord between Communist China and India over toe Tibetan revolt. The Peiping Peoples Daily, official newspaper of Red China, claimed relations were still friendly. The Peiping broadcast also criticized' this correspondent tor writing from New Delhi that public opinion in India was against Communist China and said toe peoples of both nations were "sealed in friendship and harmony.” <

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Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, April 16, 1959.

Mrs. Connie Nicholas , v . ' ' '■ ■ ' t > I - A. Convicted By Jury On Manslaughter Charge

Successor For Dulles Studied

Augusta, Ga. (UPD—President Eisenhower today formally accepted the resignation of John Poster Dulles as secretary of state and conferred by telephone with the cancer-stricken Cabinet officer on the selection of his successor. The White House said a new secretary would be named “within a few days.” Eisenhower, in accepting Dulles’ decision to quit with “deepest personal reg ire t,” simultaneously named the ailing secretary "as a consultant to me and the State Department in international affairs.” The chief executive conferred Wednesday night and again this morning by telephone with Dulles who is battling recurrent cancer at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington. High Praise for Dulles Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said the President and the secretary discussed the selection of a successor and the manner in which Dulles, although grievously ill, will continue to serve Eisenhower as an elder statesman and consultant on foreign affairs. Dulles’ letter to the President was dated Wednesday and stated simply, “It is apparent to me that I shall not be well enough soon enough to continue to serve as secretary of state.” Eisenhower, accepting the resignation which will become effective when the new secretary has been nominated, confirmed by the Senate and sworn in, was unstinted in his praise of Dulles. “As a statesman of world stature, you have set a record in the stewardship of our foreign relations that stands clear and strong for all to see,” the President wrote Dulles in an affectionate letter signed “D.E.” “By this letter,” the President added, “I request you to serve in the future, to whatever extent your health will permit, as a consultant to me and the State Department in international affairs. I know that all Americans join me in the revent hope that you will be able to continue the im-

All TV, Radio Off Air Friday Morning WASHINGTON (UPI)-AU the nation’s television and radio stations will go off the air for 30 minutes Friday at 10:30 am. c.s.t. for a civil” cß?f6ftSe training exercise. At the same time, sirens signaling a simulated "enemy attack” will sound in hundreds of communities across the nation. The exercises are part of Operation Alert 1959. It will be only the second time in six annual civil defense training exercises that all broadcast stations have stopped daylight broadcasting. The first conelrad drill was held July 16, 1956. During the half hour alert, some 1,200 AM radio stations holding national defense emergency operation authorization will broadcast civil defense activities on the Conelrad frequencies—64o and 1240 on toe radio dial. All other broadcasting stations —more than 4,000 FM and radio and television—will remain silent until 11 a.m. Citizens Committee Meets Last Evening The Decatur citizens committee that favored keeping toe city electric utility met Wednesday night, Robert Gage, chairman of the group, said today. The committee plans to meet this afternoon or in the morning with Mayor Robert D. Cole, and Gage stated that a statement may be given to the people of Decatur following that 'meeting. Mayor Cole was out of the city assisting Walter Gilllom on a surveying project, and could not be reached for comment.

portant contributions that only ypu can make toward a just peace in the world.” Messages Pour In Eisenhower also conferred at breakfast this morning here on the subject of a successor to Dulles. The President had a breakfast conference with Hagerty, Brig. Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, the White House staff secretary, and Gordon Gray, special assistant to the President for national security affairs. The President, according to Hagerty, also conferred by telephone Wednesday with Acting Secretary Christian A. Herter, widely accepted in administration circles as the man most likely to succeed Dulles. Nobel Prize-Winner Novel Is Reviewed , “Dr. Zhivago,” the Nobel prize- ; winning novel from behind the [ iron curtain, was reviewed at the : Decatur public library Wednesday t evening by Miss Frances Dugan : as a part of the national library week program. The novel, written ■ by Boris Pasternak, has caused : quite a stir in literary fields. 1 Miss Dugan was introduced to a . crowd of more than 60 people by Lowell J. Smith, president of the library board. Background for the , review was furnished first, as Miss . Dugan told of Pasternak and the : furor created when it was announct ed that-his book had won the top > literary award. Pasternak’s position within the ■ Communist system is that of literary translator. He brings the works ’ of French, German and English authors to the Russian people in their own language. In this posi- , tion, Pasternak enjoys an above i average place in Russia both pres- . tige-wise and economically.

The book itself is the story of the life of Dr. Zhivago, covering Russian history from 1903 to 1945. It is considered more difficult than usual to read for two reasons; the Russian habit of giving people sev-j eral nicknames that make the characters hard to keep straight, and the numerous sub-plots branching off from the main theme. An interesting feature of the Russian book is the large number of Biblical quotations. Also contained in the masterpiece is a re-ligion-related philosophy built on faith in the human spirit to rise above the hardships of life. Miss Dugan pointed out the manner the free world happened to get the book. .Pasternak released the novel through an Italian agent at the same time he sent the book to Russian publishers. The Russians told him hq would have to revise the book considerably before the government would let it go into print, but Pasternak told them about the other copy. An unsuccessful attempt was made by the Russian government to get the Italian cqpy. Pasternak did not write a political expose of Communism. In writing a novel covering the Communistic "reforms,” he did more damage to toe Communists than straight political writing. The book has been described as a "great act of faith in art and the human spirit.” After the review, toe listeners were free to look around the newly remodeled library. Several displays of books were on hand, as the library celebrates library week. The celebration 'has significance special to Decatur because of the combination of a progressive and forward looking board and an interested and capable staff. The current remodeling program was the first in toe state in a Carnegie library, and gives Decatur the finest literary facilities of any town its size in the Hoosier state.

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Mrs. Connie Nicholas was taken to the Indiana Women’s Prison today for the manslaughter or Forrest Teel, but she immediately started appeal action and sought money for a bond which could set her free. The little .divorcee was led away in handcuffs by sheriff’s officers after Judge Thomas J. Faulconer sentenced her to 2 to 21 years with a parole hearing coming up in 21 months. “They’re anxious to get me, aren’t they?" Mrs. Nicholas called to newsmen as she was taken away. The courtroom where she heard a verdict of manslaughter at 1 a.m. c.s.t. In the death of the Eli Lilly vice president, her lover for 15 years until he took a new mistress, was a scene of great confusion today. Mrs. Nicholas was upset with her lawyers and told them she had expected to go free on bond this morning. She said she was “very disappointed” with the verdict and definitely wanted to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court. That is'a procedure which could take months or even a year, and she would be free on bond. Shortly after she was taken from Courthouse to prison, Defense attorney Joseph Quill filed a motion for bond. If Mrs. Nicholas can raise the money, it appeared she might be released later in the day. Attorney Charles Symmes said Mrs. Nicholas definitely would appeal. “One consideration, frankly, Is getting the mbney and her treatment with respect to her arms,”

House Debates On Construction For Military

WASHINGTON (UPD — The House began debate today on a measure that would authorize $1,251,907,000 in military construction during fiscal 1960. This was $109,300,000 less than President Eisenhower asked for the 12 months beginning July 1. The bill was virtually certain to be approved and sent to the Senate without major changes. e A fat slice of the defense construction money is earmarked for building missile facilities. This measure merely would authorize the work. Another bill would put up the actual cash. The bill would authorize construction costing $199,045,000 by the Army, $182,283,000 by the Navy, $808,722,000 by the Air Force and $57,128,000 by military reserve forces. Other congressional news: Foreign Aid: Former New York Gov. Averell Harriman told the House Foreign Affairs Committee the United States should work for a new world organization to pool investment money from industrial nations to lend to underdeveloped countries. Country - to - country lending, he said, was becoming obsolete. Harriman urged that Eisenhower’s 700-million-dollar request for the foreign aid program’s Development Loan Fund be increased substantially. Educational TV: Sen. Andrew F. Schoeppel (R-Kan.) asked the Senate to approve an aid-to-edu-cationabTV bill which would authorize 51 million dollars in grants operating, at least on a pilot basis, in all states as soon as possible. Secrecy: Chairman John E. Moss (D-QaJLif.) of the House government information subcommittee said the Defense Department appeared security happy in slapping a “classified” label on information about monkeys used for scientific research. Mogs said it was another instance in which the Pentagon placed “security classification stamps on the most innocuous, non-military information.” REA: The House Wednesday passed and sent to the White House a bill which would strip Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson of his authority over Rural Electrification Administration loans. The vote was 254-131. President Eisenhower is expected to veto the measure.

'■f ' B w " ■ ***■ Ww' t I 0 -|gLW ■ A* < z ' .jabt., -i issr .-.- T .. -. —-..... jHßl^^^k.. _., GUILTY OF MANSLAUGHTER — Mrs. Connie Nicholas, 45, was ■convicted early this morning of voluntary manslaughter for killing business executive Forrest Teel, her married lover of 15 years.

he said. “If she is freed, she will have to pay for medical treatment herself, and she is net physically able to get a job to support herself. We told her it might be-better for her to remain in prison where she would get excellent medical treatment during the appeal.” Mrs. Nicholas, however, was having none of that. She wanted out of jail. The tiny brunette took her sentence without flinching and as soon as it was passed, she told her attorney, Frank Symmes, she wanted to appeal to the Indiana Supremo Court—a procedure that could take months or even a year. She went into conference then with Symmes over whether to make the appeal. If she does, and Judge Thomas J. Faulconer sets normal manslaughter bond of around SIO,OOO, she could go free today if she can raise SI,OOO cash. Mrs. Nicholas said she was “very disappointed” at the verdict and that she had expectedacquittal in the death of the

$2 Million Boner By Ag Department WASHINGTON (UPD—A mistake in computing per-acre rates under the conservation reserve program is estimated to have put two million dollars in the pockets of Texas farmers. The story of the boner was told Wednesday in testimony and documents released by a House agricultural appropriations subcommittee. Early in 1956, a group of Agriculture Department officials was ordered to calculate state average payment rates for farmers who took land out of production under the conservation program. The officials were told to round the per-acre rates to the nearest dollar. In calculating the rates, somebody goofed. He made a mistake of a few cents and came up with a Texas rate slightly above $9.50 when it should have been a shade below $9.50. The officials then rounded the rate up to $lO an acre instead of cutting to $9. The mistake was spotted sometime last year. But the mistake in 1957 already had led to payments of SBOO,OOO more than would have been paid at the correct rate. Cost on 1958 contracts is unknown, but contracts signed in both years called for annual rental payments to farmers over 3-to--10 year periods. There’s nothing the government can do about it now because the mistaken rates were announced officially and the contracts can’t be broken. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight. Friday partly cloudy with chance of scattered showers or thundershowers by afternoon or night. Turning cooler extreme northwest Friday. Low tonight 46 to 52. High Friday 60s extreme northwest to 68 to 72 elsewhere. Sunset today 7:24 p.m. c»d.t. Sunrise Friday 6:05 a.m. e.d.L Outlook for Saturday: Variable cloudiness and cooler. Lows near 40 extreme north to 50s. Highs 60s north to near

wealthy businessman who had been her lover for 15 years and left here. Ck A oQi/l dkr* chn nritfht Oll>» bUlw SllvJ LzC- LLw v L-vi oilvXll igj* 1L have been acquitted if there had been some women on her jury, instead of the 12 husbands. Mrs. Nicholas was plainly upset with her own attorneys because they had not conferred with her up to the time of the opening of court this morning about a possible appeal and bond procedure. When court convened at 11 am. e.s.t., Faulconer first overruled a motion to arrest judgment. Then he told the defendant to rise and said: “Minnie B. Nicholas, alias Connie Nicholas, the verdict of the jury returned is that yoif are guilty of voluntary manslaughter, and the court at this time .. . sentences you to the Indiana Women's Prison for a period of not less than two years nor more than 21 years.” Mrs. Nicholas had heard the verdict from the juzy shortly after 2 a.m. and then returned to Marion County Jail, where she said she did not sleep aU night. When Symmes appeared just a few minutes before 11 a.m., Mrs. Nicholas said: "I thought I would be out on bail. What does it cost? Why didn't you come over and see rpe last night? “I was dead tired,” Symmes said. Mrs. Nicholas pointed to newsmen milling around and said: “Well, they made it.” Mrs. Nicholas was talking with her sister and brother-in-law about raising the SI,OOO necessary for the bond. Symmes cautioned her that an appeal could work both ways. If the Indiana Supreme Court should order a new trial, the next time she might get a much stiffer sentence instead of the acquittal she seeks.

Public Invited To Library Guest Night Decatur residents are invited to attend the public library guest nights, tonight and Friday, in conjunction with national library week, by Miss Bertha Heller, librarian. The library hours are from noon to 8:30 p.m. daily. The remodeled structure can be viewed during these hours. Sponsored by the American library association and the national book committee, the second an* nual observance is being used to stimulate the public’s interest in reading. Miss Heller said, “residents of Decatur have the right to demand that the local library offer the best in modern library service. These demands are best covveyed to the library board at its regular monthly meetings. Any interested persons are cordially invited to attend any of these meetings. “Your individual help is necessary to assist the library board with providing the community with the best possible service. You will also help the state of Indiana become a leader among the, states, in providing modern, vital library service. Only through your cooperation can this be attained.”

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