Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 111, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 111.

East-West Conference Delayed; Demands Os Russia Are Withdrawn

GENEVA (UPI) — A Soviet demand that East Germany be seated as a full member of the foreign , ministers' conference delayed the conference start by 2% hours today. Russia withdrew the demand in the face of stonewall Western opposition. The meeting now was scheduled to open at 6 p.m. (noon c.d.t.). It was agreed that both East and West’ German delegations would be admitted as “advisers." They will sit at two small tables close to the big one at which the U.S., British, French and Soviet foreign ministers themselves will be seated. The agreement was worked out at a meeting this afternoon between the Western foreign ministers and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. They met at the villa of British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Victory for West Thus, the parley called to deal with the problems of Berlin and Germany started off with an initial Western victory. Gromyko started the wrangle Sunday when he announced the demand that East Germany be admitted as a full and equal member of the conference. The West promptly rejected the demand, maintaining its position that it would be willing for East and West Germany to have “advisers” present in the conference room of the Palais des Natans. The West does not recognize East Germany as a legitimate regime and has shown no inclination of being pressured into recognition here. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville held emergency talks. Then they sent Lloyd off to try to change Gromyko's mind. He got nowhere. At noon today, Lloyd saw Gromyko again and gave him two hours to reconsider. The 2 p.m. (8 a.m. c.d.t.) deadline passed without a break. This, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Andrew Berding announced at 2:35 p.m. meant the scheduled 3:30 p.m. opening could not take place. After Lloyd presented Gromyko with the West’s final "no” on the East German representation question, the four foreign ministers attended a formal lunch given by the Swiss government. Following the lunch, the four gathered at Lloyd’s villa for more informal talks. It was during this period that Gromyko gave in and agreement was reached to get the conference under way. Gromyko himself announced after this meeting that “complete agreement” had been reached. Germans May Speak Berding, acting as chief U.S. delegation spokesman to the press

Bargaining Teams Resums Steel Talk

NEW YORK (UPI) — Eight men sit down to brass tacks bargaining for a new steel industry labor contract today with 50 days between them and a threatened crippling strike. David J. McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers of America, said he would seek to make “practical measures for unemployment security” the first order of business in talks with the fourman negotiating team representing the big three of the steel industry —U. S. Steel, Bethlehem and 'Republic. McDonald said that security could be achieved, in the union’s view, by “a balanced program of reducing hours, increasing pur chasing power by improving wages and other benefits, and appropriati revisions in our pensions” and sen iority 'agreements. Cooper Heads Team R. Conrad Cooper, executive vice president of U. S. Steel, bead* ing the industry team which represents the three big steel firms and, indirectly. Dine other major steel producers, enters the talks with a mandate from all 12 companies to resist any demand tor wage increases. la the face of this apparent deadlock the weekly publication

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confirmed the agreement. He said the two German delegations would have the right to speak — something to which the West had objected earlier. , But, Berding said, they will have to address themselves to the chairman, who will ask if there are any objections to their speaking. Berding waved a yellow sheet of paper showing a hand drawing of the agreed seating arrangement. This provided that the Bi Four would sit at a large round table, with three smaller tables for the East and West German delegations and tor the conference secretariat. Berding rj.id Lloyd would be chairman cf the opening session. The chairmanship rotates daily by alphabetical arrangement. Leaving the meeting at Lloyd’s villa, Herter smiled and said he was “satisfied,”

Donald Elder Named Coach At Monmouth Donald E. Elder, 26, a 1956 graduate of Ball State Teachers College, will assume duties as Monmouth high school’s varsity coach in basketball, track and cross-country at the start of the 1959-60 school year, according to an announcement from Omer Merriman. Root township trustee. Elder, a native of Winchester, has beep coaching all sports at Madison township (Jay county) high school tor the past three years. He had a respectable near.soo basketball record at the 100pupil school. . His wife, Virginia, will also join him at Monmouth as a firstgrade teacher. She had taught in the Portland school system for four years before becoming >a substitute teacher at Geneva this year. The Elders now live in Portland with their two sons, Kim, four years old, and Kurt, seven months, but are planing to move to Decatur when a suitable residence is acquired. Elder said he learned of the Monmouth position from Portland coach Harold Shutz. Elder, a graduate of Union City, 0., high school, lettered in golf at Ball State. Elder will replace Harold (Buzz) Clinkenbeard, who resigned March 31 after two years as varsity coach at Monmouth. Clinkenbeard had been president of the Adams county principals and coaches association.

Steel Magazine said today that manufacturers’ attempts to build steel inventories against the threatened strike are not progressing as rapidly as had been hoped. The magazine said that the heightened business recovery has caused manufacturers to dip into steel supplies ordered as strike insurance. It said that at the present inventory build-up, a steel strike lasting three to four weeks may force some manufacturers to shut down. Urges Intervention A demand for federal interven‘ioh to prevent a new inflationary spiral in the crucial steel agreement was made Sunday by Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N. Y.) in a television appearance. He called on “resident Eisenhower to summon both parties to the White House end “talk turkey to them” if it appears that wage increases will ead to a new steel price boost. The industry has demanded — end the union rejected —a one°ar wage freeze to halt inflation. It has contended any wage increase must be passed on by the ..uuscry in price increases. The inion has said the industry can tfford to raise wages without raisng prices.

Continued Aid From U.S. Is Termed Vital. WASHINGTON (UPI) — State Department officials told Congress today that continued United States aid is vital in thwarting Communist alms in both the Far East and Africa. Walter S. Robertson and J.C. Satterthwaite, assistant secretaries of state, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that communism’s biggest objective is to drive the United States and its Western allies out of the key areas. Chairman J. William Fulbright (A-Ark.) rhade public their prepared testimony as the committee resumed closed-door hearings on President Eisenhower’s foreign aid requests for $3,900,000,000. Other congressional news: Jobs: Sen. Styles Bridges (RN.H.) said unemployment “is not the major problem” that some sources picture it. The GOP policy leader said in a Senate speech that the United States is “riding the wave of a massive economic recovery.” His speech coincided with issuance of a Labor Department report showing that unemployment dropped to 3,627,000 in April—a decrease of 735,000. Development Bank: President Eisenhower asked congressional approval tor the United States to join in the establishment of an inter-American development bank, which would provide a means of furnishing economic aid to South America.

Defense: The Defense Department advised a House Civil Service subcommittee it needs 227 more scientists and executives tp carry out its space program. Asst. Defense Secretary Charles C. Finucane said top personnel are needed for the posts, which could cost up to $370,000 a year to fill. Liquid Hydrogen Is Bought By Air Force WASHINGTON (UPD-The Air Force disclosed today it is buying on a large - scale the “ultimate" chemical rocket fuel—liquid hydrogen—which is nearly three times as powerful as current propellants. Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, Air Force research and development chief, said in a statement that new rocket engines using liquid hydrogen “will provide substantial payload increases in upper stages of missiles and space vehicles.” "These applications,” Schriever said, “along with use in nuclear rockets, signify missile and space capabilities considerably beyond the horizons of pre - liquid hydrogen technology.” The general said liquid hydrogen is nearly three times as powerful as previous fuels. When mixed with liquid oxygen, he said, the new propellant will give rockets 40 per cent more thrust. The liquid hydrogen is being made on a large scale by Air Products Inc. at plants in Painesville, Ohio, and Palm Beach County, Fla., and the Stearns - Roger Manufacturing Co. at Bakersfield, Calif. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and windy with scattered showers and thunderstorms south and east central this afternoon. Partly cloudy tonight with a few showers likely extreme south, cooler north and central. Tuesday considerable cloudiness with showers likely south. Cooler most sections tonight and In south and east Tuesday. Low tonight 47 to 58 north, 57 to 64 south. Tuesday highs 87 to 72 north, in the 70s south. Sunset today 7:48 p.m. Sunrise Tuesday 5:34 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Party cloudy and cooler with showers continuing in southeast. Lows tn the 50s. Highs generally low 70s.

> Decatur, Indiana, Monday, May 11, 1959.

'ffesW '? i ■> <ts Si • B -'1 ■ *'^’-21-f PLAN GENEVA STRATEGY — JJ. S. Secretary of State Christian Herter (left) meets in Bonn, West Germany with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to concert strategy prior to the opening of the Big Four talks in Geneva, Switzerland. After the conference, the two leaders Announced a “complete harmony of views.”

Industry Committee Holds Noon Meeting Twenty-two members of the industrial committee of the Decafir Chamber « Commerce attended a noon luncheon today at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, with Glen Ellis, chairman, in charge. Clark W. Smith, president of Stonite Corporation, of Decatur, was the guest speaker for the May meeting. Smith stated that the Stonite Corporation occupies 4,000 square feet of floor space on South 10th street, where Kolter Brothers Brickcete was formerly located. He discussed the forming of the newly organized plant and its problems of correcting the usual minor new product “bugs.” Smith pointed out that the new concern makes a total of six different molds, which compares in looks a great deal like Indiana limestone. Blocks of three feet in length are made in the cement block process, then are cut to order. He stated that material used in the Stonite process is obtained from Gary and from Ottawa, 111., as well as locally. The corporation, employing 12 men at present, with a second shift being planned, operates on a seven-county franchise with an option of 11 additional counties. In closing. Smith stated that the blocks are made of silica sand for the facing, and grey waterproof cement for backing. He also stated that the FHZ. recently notified the ’

Unemployment Drops Sharply

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Unemployment fell by 735,000 in April to 3,627,000—the lowest level since December, 1957—the government reported today. The number of people working climbed to a record April high of 65,012,000. Brisk hiring in construction and manufacturing and a seasonal pick up in farm work lifted the April employment total by 1,185,000 from March. Both changes were twice as good as was expected on a seasonal basis. They dropped the proportion of the labor force out of work frm 5.8 per cent in March t 5.3 per cent in April. The Commerce and Labor departments said in a joint report “the job recovery accelerated in April” and the favorable developments meant that two-thirds of the unemployment bulge attributed to the 1957-58 business recession was wiped out. Average factory earnings rose 63 cents from March. This gave factory workers $89.87 a week in April.

local concern that its product has met the FHA standards for heat loss, and has been accepted for residential use. In other business matters included in the noon luncheon, was the announcement of the Anderson Industries joining the i industrial, .committee. Al Andersim, owner. . was introduced to the other committee members. 79 Bodies Recovered From Sunken Steamer .CAIRO (UPI) — Divers today counted 79 bodies and expected to recover about 45 more from the Nile River where an overcrowded holiday steamer capsized last Friday. Ladies Guests Os Rotarians Thursday The Rotary club will meet Thursday evening at 6:15 p.m. with a ladies night.. George Troxel, a Fort Wayne entertainer and ventriloquist, will headline the meeting. George Auer, program chairman, said the meeting will start earlier than usual because of the ladies day feature. BULLETIN SEATTLE, Wash. (UPI)—A Navy P2V Neptune patrolbomber crashed and burned on takeoff at the Wbidbey Island Naval Air Station today. A P2V Neptune normally carries a crew of 11 men. It was not known immediately of 11 men were aboard, or if there were any casualties.

r A J Seymour Wolfbein, the Labor Department chief job expert, noted as “a most encouraging sign” that 450,000 of the unemployment drop included married men with families — “a critical sector where it really counts.” The unemployment total was down 1,100,000 from December, indicating that after a sluggish winter tire job picture brightened markedly in the spring, the report said. But unemployment was still more than 900,000 higher than in' April 1957, when the jobless rate was only 4,0 per cent. A year ago, at the bottom of the ritession, the rate was 7.5 per cent and unemployment totaled 5,120,000. The drop in the number of jobless workers was the greatest monthly decline since before the recession. It wks especially welcomed by administration officials who have been concerned about the failure of employment to keep pace with the general business upturn.

Six Killed In Headon Crash At Shelbyville United Press International Indiana's worst traffic accident in 17 months killed six persons Sunday and contributed to a 15fatality highway toll which was the heaviest for any weekend since last October. A head-on collision of two cars southeast of Shelbyville in U.S. 421 killed . five persons returning to Indianapolis from a religious meeting in Cincinnati and one of two teen-agers riding in the other vehicle. ’ Only one person in each of the cars escaped death, including 10-year-old Mark Payne, Indianapolis, son of one of the crash victims. Nine persons riding in a station wagon, six of them young children, narrowly escaped being involved in the collision, which occurred within a few feet of the wagon as one of the cars was passing it. They were members of the family of Carl R. Basey, 32, Greenwood. Victim Korean Orphan The dead in the Shelby County crash were Mrs. Mabel Stewart, 46, Mrs. Dallas Johnson, 55, Mrs. Pearl E. Nance, 51, Mrs. Barbara Payne, 26, and Stephanie Jones, 4, all of Indianapolis, and Robert Zinser, 18, near Greensburg. Zinser was riding in a car driven by Roger Wullenweber, 19, Adams. Mrs. Stewart was driving the other car and, according to police, pulled around Basey’s station wagon to pass it and smashed headon into Zinser. ’ Stephanie Jones was a Korean orphan adopted by the Rev. and Mrs. James W. Jones. Jones is pastor of Peoples Temple, an interdenominational church. The other weekend traffic victimes were killed in wrecks well scattered around the state during the 54-hour period. Gillium C.- Blessett, 22, Laconia, was killed Sunday afternoon when his car missed a curve on Ind. 337 near Corydon and struck two trees. Clifford Earl Matney, 5, near Milroy, was killed Sunday by a car driven by Paul Glisson, 70, Rushville, in front of the home of the child’s parents, the Melvin Matneys. Car Bursts Into Flames Stanley Nelson, 25, near Pierceton, was killed in a two-car crash Sunday on Ind. 13 near North Manchester. Four persons were injured. Nelson’s car apparently went out of control. Eugene Guinett, 27, Fowlerton, was killed Sunday on U:S. 31 near his home town when his car swerved into a ditch, overturned and 1 burst into flames. Robert Rose, 18, Logansport, was killed early Sunday when his car rammed into the rear of a truck bn a Logansport street. Jeff Pearson, 16, Logansport, was injured seriously. Mrs, Lillian Bowerman. 78, near Rolling Prairie, was killed when struck by a car in front of her farm home Saturday morning. Mrs. Margaret J. Essig, 49, and William L. Green, 33, Fort Wayne, were killed when Mrs. Essig’s car and Green's delivery truck collided near Fort Wayne Saturday morning. Herman S. Anderson., 46. a Marion taxicab driver, was killed when his cab was struck by a train at Jonesboro Friday night.

Sterner Measures Urged For Juveniles WASHINGTON (UPI) — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover has the courts and local communities to use “sterner measures” on “savage ~. brutal” juvenile delinquents contributing to the rapidly rising crime rate. He also requested from a House Appropriations subcommittee money to hire 50 new agents “for the purpose of strengthening our investigative efforts in the security and criminal fields.” He noted an upsurge in bank robberies—one of the crimes under FBI jurisdiction. He said there were 631 bank robberies, burglaries and larcenies in the year ended June 30, 1958. He said that “not since the gang era of the 19305” had there been more than 600 violations of the Bank Robbery Act in a 12month period. Hoover’s closed door testimony w|| made public Sunday, the 35th anniversary of his appointment as ht»ad Os the FBI. Thfe testimony also showed: -r-Atty. Gen. William P. Rogers fears that prison-crowding has reached the “danger point.” He asked funds for a new Alcatraztype prison for hardened criminals. A Justice Department committee recommended that the prison be built on a 1,000 acre government - owned tract in Crab Orchard Wildlife Refuge near Marion, Hl.

Tornado Hits At Ann Arbor

List Graduates At Monroeville High . George Martin, principal of Monroeville high school, announced today' that the annual baccalaureate service for the 1959 graduating class will be held in the school auditorium Sunday, May. 17, at 8 p.m., with the Rfev. M. D. Kilver, pastor of the St. Mark Lutheran church, the guest speaker. The commencement exercises are slated for Thursday, May 21, at 8 p.m., with the graduates presenting their own graduation exercises. The top scholastic honors of salutatorian and valedictorian will be awarded to Larry Oman and Jane Wyss, respectively, at the commencement exercises. Miss Wvss was featured during the 1958-59 school year, as the school reporter for Monroeville high school in the Decatur Daily Democrat. Larry Oman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Oman, of Monroeville, achieved a four year high school average of 95.7 per cent. He has received many outstanding honors during his high school career, among which were varsity letters in baseball and basketball, participation in the junior and senior class plays, presidency of the Fort Wayne district M.Y.F.. life scout in the Boy Scouts, membership in the Allen county band for four years, and attendance at the national jamboree at Valley Forge in 1957. Oman has been accepted as a college student at DePauw university.

Jane Wyss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Wyss, Monroeville, attained a general average of 96 per cent for four years of high school. She was secretary of the sophomore class, treasurer of the junior class, attendance as a delegate to I Girls state at Indiana university, the recipient of the D.A.R. citizenship award, the presidency of the C.Y.0., and the Monroeville school reporter for two newspapers. She has been accepted as a college! student at the St. Joseph's school of nursing. Fort Wayne. The 1959 senior class is comprised of the following: Daryl Banet, James Cattleman, Carolyn Clem, Frank Dewey, Mike Eikenberry, Linda Ertel, Wayne Ertel, Teresa Gerardot, Anna Girardot, Kathy Girardot, Sharon Grabner, Bonnie Gromeaux, Nancy Hart, Robert Hart, Tom Jackson, Jean Johnson, Joy Koegler, Walter Leininger, Max McNeal, Floyd Marquart, Tom Martin, Larry Oman, Carol Rosswurm, Dorothey Row, Beverly Rothgeb, Louise Salway, Marjorie Shaffer, Miriam Smith, Pat Smith, Carolyn Sorg, Marilyn Sorg, Beverly Taylor, Julia Voirol, Sandra Webster, Gary Witte, Jane Wyss and Jean Wyss.

Experts Disagreed On Fallout Dangers

WASHINGTON (UPI) — U. S. scientists are examining with mixed reactions the latest mass of evidence concerning radioactive fallout from nuclear tests. Testimony taken by the congressional subcommittee on radiation last week contains ammunition both for those who think fallout is a matter for grave concern and for those who minimize the danger. Neither side claims to have made any converts in the packed congressional hearing room. Each thinks the other is misleading the public about the danger of fallout to world health. One major development was a special report by the Atomic Energy Commission's General Advisory Committee. On a basis ignoring strontium 90, the rpincipal menace, the AECGAC found that fallout’s contribution to the general radio-activity is less thari five per cent as 'much as that of medical X-rays. Dr. Ralph E. Larp, an independent physicist, called the report “less than candid.” Other scientists talked of hundreds of cases of cancer and tens or hundreds of thousands of hereditary defects, including physical malformations and feeblemindedness that would result from fallout already injected into the soi> and atmosphere. These scientists still said, however, that the percentage of the fallout tragedies will be so small with relation to the total of human miseries that the difference

United Press International A' tornado - like storm struck parts of Ann Arbor, Mich., and the University of Michigan campus today, causing the death of one woman and extensive property damage. The twister flicked down from a squall line moving eastward which spawned weekend tornadoes in Texas, Oklahoma. Kansas, Missouri, lowa and Wisconsin. The Ann Arbor storm ripped a mile-long path across the University of Michigan athletic fields and into a residential area in the southwest part of the city. A woman, tentatively identified as Mrs. Otillie De Fries, was electrocuted when she came in contact with fallen high tension wires. At least two other women were reported injured. The storm tore part of the roof Off Yost Fieldhouse and smashed large windows at the Michigan football stadium. ' In the residential section, the high winds just missed a school. A rash of fires broke out in the city when electric lines came down.. At least half a dozen houses and garages were set afire. » At least 20 persons were injured in twisters in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, lowa and Wisconsin.

Property damage in Texas alone mounted toward the half-million-dollar mark. Virtually an entire lowa village was blown away by one of the tornadoes. Two persons were killed in a Texas traffic crash blamed on a blinding rain storm. A twister Saturday night killed five persons in Oklahoma. Texas bore the brunt of Sunday’s weather violence with twisters lacing a volley of wind, rain and hail storms across hundreds of miles. Six farm workers were injured when a twister smashed homes and barns south of Hearne. A tornado bouncing along the ground tor about six miles north of Austin levelled homes and destroyed factories, causing an estimated $250,000 damage. A twister tore through a family reunion on a farm near Sallisaw, Okla., injuring three persons. In lowa, a tornado practically demolished the small community of Fensler northeast of Guthrie Center, injuring one person. About 10 homes and the village store were destroyed or badly damaged. The tornado also destroyed or damaged 18 farms, killing 5,000 turkeys on one of the farms. Another twister broke from a line of storms in northern Wisconsin, racing through Green Bay and its suburbs of Preble and Ashwhubenon. Three persons were injured, one by lightning and two others by the winds.

probably never will be detected. There was solid agreement on one point—if nuclear testing is resumed at the-1958 or at an accelerated rate,, worldwide radioactive fallout can become, a serious hazard to health. Many scientists fear failure of the Geneva talks seeking a test band would presage bigger nuclear experiments. Charles A. Siebert Dies Saturday Night Charles A. Siebert, 82, of route 3, Celina, 0., died about 7:30 p.m. Saturday at his home following a heart attack. He was the father of Mrs. Florence Berning, of near Decatur. Other survivors include his widow, Anna, four sons; five other daughters; a brother; three sisters; 23 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Mr. Siebert was a member of St. John’s Lutheran church in Hopewell township, where services will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p.m. after rites are held at the Dick and Staßter funeral home at 1:30 p.m. The Rev. Henry Giese, pastor of the Liberty township Lutheran church will officiate. Burial will be in the Buck cemetery, five miles northwest of Celina. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today until the time of the services.

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