Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 127, Decatur, Adams County, 29 May 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 127.

Big Four Ministers Jn First Secret Session High Above Atlantic

GENEVA (UPD—The Big Four foreign ministers returned to Geneva from Washington today after a historic “flying conclave” in which they held their first brass-tacks secret session—ls,ooo feet above the Atlantic. The Big Four, returning from the funeral of former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, held a 96-minute conference that began an hour after their U. S. Air Force transport plane left the east coast of North America. The ministers agreed in a communique issued on landing in Geneva that “the exchange of views had been useful.” The session, the first formal secret meeting since the ministers began their negotiations three weeks ago, was geographically, at least, the highest level conference in diplomatic history —15,000 feet above the earth's surface. I Flew At 275 m.p.h. It was also the fastest. The USAF plane flew at 275 m.p.h. The ministers’ communique said only that they had discussed “the progress” of their East-West conference and “certain details of their respective positions.” But behind the staid diplomatic phraseology it appeared that during those 90 minutes aboard the USAF plane Thursday night the real negotiating had begun for an areement on ending the threat of war over West Berlin. The forein ministers agreed to meet again in another private, secret session today at 5 p.m. (11 a.m. c.d.t.) at the villa of British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. t Lloyd, U.S. Secretary ot State Christian A. Herter, French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko smiled widely and talked heartily on their arrival at the airport in Geneva. Then they’ rushed off to their respective headquarters to cable home to their capitals the outcome of the airborne negotiations. Agree On Commur.ique The ministers met briefly this morning and agreed on the text of their communique., They arrived in Geneva at 12:54 p.m. (6:54 a.m. c.d.t.), 16 hours and 52 minutes after they left Washington. The foreign ministers will hold their first “restricted” session—without German advisers, press officers or other outsiders — at British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd’s villa here later today. The most that is now expected to emerge from the foreign ministers’ conference on the key question of Germany is a face-saving J

Gale Warning On Gulf Coast

United Press International A tropical tempest named Arlene churned across the Gulf of Mexico toward New Orleans today and the Gulf coast braced for another season of hurricane fury. I Meanwhile, Midwest states cleaned up from Thursday’s widespread tornado activity and hoped the spring siege of twisters was ended for a while. So far Arlene—the first of the alphabetically - named tropical storms—was just an ill wind of only 35 miles an hour, but coastal residents who remember the 1957 devastation wrought by hurricane Audrey were taking no chances. Gale warnings were hoisted from Morgan City, La., to Pascagoula, Miss., and small craft from Sabene, Tex., to St. Marks, Fla., were warned to stay in port. The storm was sitll off the Louisiana-Mississippi coast but was reported gaining in size and intensity as it moved toward land. Hard-ht midwestemers kept an anxious eye on cloudy skies for more of the ominous funnel clouds that skipped through the midlands Thursday, causing minor damage but no injuries. The twisters struck in jiowa, Wisconsin and Kansas while other states were pelted by thunderstorms, whistling winds, hail and dust clouds. I Two tornadoes nicked western Kansas late Thursday night, level-

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interim agreement on Berlin ' which would satisfy U. 5... demandr for progress as a preliminary to’ any session at the sum- '■ mit. 1 President Eisenhower reaffirmed the American insistence on progress at a 30-m inute meeting with the foreign ministers in Washington Thursday. An unexpected bonus that may emerge from the talks here is an ■ agreement to .renew East - West disarmament negotiations, which broke down in complete failure in London nearly two years ago. American officials say Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko showed “more than usual interest” in Herter's statement last week that the United States is ready for a new try at disarmament. U. S. exerts took advantage of the r-eces in the foreign ministers’ talks to prepare papers summarizing the current American position on disarmament in anticipation of possible resumption of the talks. In other issues, such as German reunification and European security, there appears to be no prospect of agreement among the foreign ministers. r Final Tribute Paid Monsignor Seimetz Decatur paid final tribute today to the Very Rev. Msgr. Joseph J. Seimetz. for more than 26 years pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church. Msgr. Seimetz died Monday afternoon at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne following a lengthy illness. A solemn reouiem high mass was celebrated i.t St. Mary’s church this morning. following reciting of the office of the dead by the attending clergy at 10:30 o’clock. The Rev. Frank A. Seimetz, of Hammond, cousin of Msgr. Seimetz, was celebrant Os the mass. The funeral sermon was delivered by the Most Rev i Leo A. Pursley, bishop of the Fort Wayne diocese. Deacon for the funeral mass was the Rev. Simeon Schmitt, and subdeacon was the Rev. Ambrose. Heimann. Master of ceremonies was the Rev. Charles Ueber. The body of the venerated monsignor lay in state at the church from 2 p.m. Thursday until time of today's services.

ling farm buildinrs near McI Cracken and mowing down power lines near Brownell. ' Two other twisters struck lowa, _ causing little damage, and tor- ! nado alerts were sounded for parst of Kansas, Nebraska, Mis- ' souri, lowa, Michigan, Minnesota, i Illinois and Wisconsin. ' Other tornado funnels were ! ksighted at York, Wood River. Greeley and Cairo, Neb., and i were reported to have touched , ground at the latter three towns. : Omaha suffered a barrage of , rain and hail. Fifty-mile -an - hour winds and : heavy rain struck the Chicago area. The winds turned Comiskey Park—home of the Chicago White ’ Sox—into a dust bowl and forced t a brief halt in the White Sox- ’ Detroit Tiger game, which was ; later postponed because of rain. i 12-Year-Old Boy 1 Drowning Victim 1 CHARLESTOWN, Ind. (UPI) — ' Ivel Amburtey, 12, near Charles- ’ town, drowned Thursday while ; swimming with his parents and four brothers and sisters in Four-teen-Mile Creek north of here. 1 Jasper Amburtey, his father, said . the youth could swim but not well I and vanished in deep water. A brother, Arthur, 16, said he caught i hold of Ivel underwater but could - not hang on.

Congressmen InMoodTo Cut Budget ; WASHINGTON (UPD — The . Democratic-controlled Congress was in a budget-cutting mood to- [ day toward funds requested by . Presdient Eisenhower for govern- . ment departments. Democratic leaders promised [ more slashes to come. The Senate Thursday night passed its first two regular money . bills of tire year, trimming by almost 29 million dollars President Eisenhower’s fiscal 1960 budget L requests for the District of Co- . lumbia and the Treasury and I Post Office Departments. Earlier the House passed by voice vote a $657,297,000 Commerce Department money bill. The measure, which now goes to ’ the Senate, was $56,693,700 below the amount the President wanted. The House money bill cut 50 million dollars off the Small Business Adminstration’s revolving fund for loans. Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) told the Senate before the votes that the cuts in the Senate’s two money bills were a repudiation of charges by what ’ he caleld “pop-off artists” and “Madison Avenue propagandists” t Johnson warned that “if htey . keep on popping off” the Republicans axe going to lose some more congressional seats in the ’ 1960 elction. , The senate’s $4,664,027,600 Trea-sury-Post Office bill was approved by a vote of 53 to 30. 1 It also included funds for the U.S. i Tax Court, The total bill carried ' $24,299,404 less than the President requested, but topped the amount approved by the House by $35,t 930,600. The District of Columbia bill, approved 69-0, provides $241,702.- [ 402, or about 4 million dollars less than Eisenhower asked. More Blood Donors Sought In Decatur With highway safety experts estimating a record toll of accidents and deaths on Indiana’s highways over the Memorial Day weekend, the need for blood donors is Accentuated by this awesome omen. The Decatur Red Cross blood program, headed by Mrs. Ed Bauer, although nearing its goal of 125 pints (the goal is 125, but 170 donors are actually needed to obtain the necessary quota) still requests prospective donors to call for an appointment. The donations will be accepted June 5, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., at the Decatur 1 Youth and Community Center. To date, 121 city residents have indicated their willingness to keep Decatur’s quota filled, thus assuring area residents of free blood in case of an emergency. “Whether you have type A, B, AB, or O, Rh positive or negative, you should call 3-3106, or 3-3107 for an appointmonf illVaa V« An interesting statistic is the percentage breakdown of blood types in the country. Type 0, positive, leads with 37.4 per cent, while type A, positive, is second with 33.3 per cent of the population having this type flowing through their veins. Type B, positive, is ranked a distant third, at 9.2 per cent. Others are O, negative, 7.6;. A. negative, 6.7; AB v negative, 1.8, and AB, negative, .7. The women who have been calling previous donors, will continue their operation after the holiday weekend, winding up on Monday. After that, residents are requested to contact the local Red Cross, if they have not been contacted. ■ Elderly Pedestrian Is Killed By Auto, NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (UPD— Mrs. Cathryn Clark Campbell, 78, 1 Noblesvile, died Wednesday night ’ about three hours after she walked t into the path of a car on a Noblesl ville street. The driver was Donald C. Green, 26, Noblesville.

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Mon key’ Flight Clears Hurdle

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD—The 300-mile high rocket flight by two monkeys who survived in perfect condition cleared one of the major hurdles in America’s race to put a man into space, scientists said today. The 1,500-mile flight and reentry into the atmosphere after the rocket reached a speed of 10,000 miles an hour was regarded as having “great significance in connection with future human rocket travel,” the scientists said. Information from the experiment, much of it radioed back to earth iri code during the 15-min-ute trip of the big Jupiter rocket, was under intensive study today. The Jupiter nose cone and its sealed capsules which contained the monkeys and a miniature biological laboratory were retrived by a Navy tug off Antigua Island. Undergo Astronaut Tests The monkeys, the first primates to survive a space flight, thus escaped the fate of the first space monkey, “Reliable,” who perished last Dec. 13 when his conei capsule could not be recovered. Both monkeys were wired t<f i send back information ab o u heart and muscle reaction, body temperature, and breathing rate • Tmey went through some of ths i same tests that the seven astro- : nauts Os the Project Mercury “man in space” are undergoing. Navy medical experts said it appeared there was “remarkably little change during the first 14 minutes of flight.” This was up to the critical point of atmospheric re-entry. When the flight was completed and recovery was made, Birg. Gen. John H. McNich reported the monkeys were “alive and in perfect condition.” Rule Out Radiation It was believed that the 300mile altitude was not great enough for radiation to have any appreciable effect upon the monkeys. They were chosen and prepared for specific scientific assignments which included gauging reations to acceleration, deeleration, vibration, rotation, roket noise and weightless conditions. The space lab capsules, 10ounce aluminum cylinders, contained the egg and sperm of sea urchins which were mixed ni three separate vials when the rocket nose cone reached maximum speed. In addition to the cells and blood, the lab capsules carried samples of yeast, corn, mustard seed, fruit fly larvae and pink, bread mold, all expected to bej useful in space studies.

New Attack Opened On Lewis Strauss

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) has opened a new attack on Lewis L. Strauss for trying to “freeze out” congressional review of the commerce secretary’s activities. Anderson, chairman of the Senate - House Atomic Committee, told the Senate Thursday night that Strauss “piously” denied the committee access to certain patent applications pertaining to atomic energy. Tiie senator said the matter came up too late for him to mention during 16 days of hearing* before the Senate Commerce Committee on Strauss’ appointment. Anderson, one of his chief critics, testified twice against Senate confirmation of Strauss. Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) announced a legislative time-table Thursday that probably will bring up the Strauss nomination for a Senate ’ debate next Thursday. The commerce committeee approved Strauss 9-8. Congress began a long Memorial Day recess today after voting to cut more than 85 million dollars from President Eisenhower's new budget. The Senate and House do not

The flight and recovery opera- \ tions were scientifically precise and nearly perfect. Everything worked smoothly from the blast- : vtf of the 52-ton orange - painted at the cape at 3:35 a m. ed.t. to the dawnlight recovery downrange in the calm Atlantic i by frogmen from the USS Kiowa, awaiting in the impact area. Continue Probe Os Crane Dynamiting Authorities are still probing the [ dynamiting of the William Becker • crane that was destroyed Wednes--1 day night at 9:15 o’clock on the Julius Kohne farm located % mile west of U. S. 27 on a county road. 1 A rough estimate of $12,000 dam- ‘ age was caused to the crane by ‘ the mystery blast that virtually ’ pocked the city and many farms 1 K> the west of Decatur. & Sheriff Merle Affolder said toN ay that no information concern-Wjl-ig the investigation of the incit would be released- today. But ,>Vutt additional evidenMUpinpointing the definite reason for the ex- , plosion was found at the scene yesterday afternoon. The explosion was caused when sticks of dynamite were placed 1 between th; gas tank and the en- ' gine motor by unknown persons, scattering parts of the wreckage in all directions from the crane’s loj cation. One piece of metal was found 312 feet north of the crane by one of the officers. Law officers are still requesting that anyone who may have any knowledge of the incident to report to any of the local law enforcement officers immediately. Thursday, the officers stated that any information might be helpful in apprehending the persons responsible for the blast. Young Girl Cyclist Is Killed By Auto CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (UPD — George Coleman, 12, drowned in a drainage pond at a housing subdivision here Thursday while his playmates thought his screams were meant as a joke, authorities . said. A search was started when the failed to come home and his j body was found in the pond.

! meet again until Monday. There ; were some committee activities today. Other congressional news: Lunik: A House space subcommittee hears more government j scientists disagree with a free , lance writer’s contention that ' Russia’s Lunik sun rocket was a , hoax. The witnesses include Dr. Homer J. Stewart, director of . planning and evauluation for the 1 ANational Aeronautics and Space * Adprlnistration, Dr. R. M. Slavin, , Air Force space tracking chief, ’ and Dr. Harold O. Curtis, Slavs in’s chief aide. Other scientists . told the full committee earlier they believed the Soviets’ claim . that the Lunik rocket passed the i moon and went nito orbit around r the sun. Magazine writer Lloyd > Malian branded the claim a “big » Red lie.” Retired Officers: The House i Appropriations Committee asked the Defense Department for a - list of retired senior military ofr fleers working for defense con- - tractors. The committee said it - was “seriously concerned” about problems which might arise when t retired officers took such jobs.

V v ’-W ■ ImH 11? • ■ u " .' m<- || £? GENEVA BOUND MINISTERS MEET WITH IKE— President Eisenhower, in a 30-minute conference at the White House, meets with Russia’s Andrei Gromyko (right), and Big Four Foreign Ministers just before they left to»fesume their discussions at Geneva. At the conference, during which Mr. Eisenhower made a personal appeal for Enough progress at Geneva to justify a summit meeting were (1. to r.) Secretary of State Christian Herter; French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murvilla; Mr. Eisenhower; British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, and Gromyko.

Hodell Is Speaker At Rotary Meeting The Decatnr Rotary club, at its weekly meeting held at the Youth and Community Center Thursday evening decided to continue its sponsorship of the foreign exchange student program next year, and heard Lisle D. Hodell, general manager of the general purpose motor department of the General Electric Co. give an optimistic forecast of business trends in America today. : Last year, the local club spon- ’ sored Ken Eliasson of Goteburg, ■ Sweden. Peter Friederici of Wies- - baden, Germany, has spent this ? past school year in Decatur. He • will leave Decatur late in June. ■ Following last night’s decision, a f new student will be invited to Def catur later this summer. The ens tire program is organized by the American Field Service. ” George Auer was last night’s [• progarna chairman. He read the '* citation which Hodell had recently * received when he was awarded l ’ the nationaHfbrvice to youth award J- by the Y. M. C. A. Hodell had received the Coffin award in 1941, which is General Electric’s higha est citation. He has served as a d Bible class teacher for over 40 - years and for over 14 years was ; . president of the Fort Wayne Resfi cue Home and Mission. He is im- " mediate past president of the Fort s Wayne Rotary club. Hodell displayed a number of interesting business charts. These ? charts indicate a regular pattern f of dips in the business cycle but - there is always a return to an - even higher level than had been previously recorded. There have t been 26 depressions during the 1 past 100 years, but the more re- ' cent ones seem to be less severe as industry is making an effort to stabilize employment. The long range chart on births was explained as an effective forecast of housing starts after a 20-year period when these individuals were establishing their own homes. Housing starts in April, 1959, were at the highest level for any April ever recorded. Since motors are used in homes, and since home owners are “America’s real purchasing agents,’’ this makes the motor manufacturers optimistic. More and more motors are being used in the 49 million American homes. Nearly half of the electrical industry's capacity is needed just for replacement. Hodell pointed out that there is little danger of saturation since new products are continually being introduced. In one Industry, aircraft transportation, 36% of all workers in 1960 will be working on new items that did not even exist in 1955. A reduction fa-costs results in lower prices which then makes the new item available to many more families. Hodell concluded his remarks by showing a chart comparing the dollar which the consumer spent in 1956 as compared to 1900. It indicated that food, clothing, rent and fuel were considerably reduced during that period and that according to government figures families now have 47c left to spend with the four major items handled as compared to only 21c in 1900. This money, after taxes which haVe also risen considerably, was available to improve the family’s standard of living. a INDIANA WEATHER » Partly cloudy with scattered showers and thunderstorms today. tonight and Saturday. No important temperature change. Low tonight 62 to 70. High Saturday 78 to 85. Outlook for Sunday: Continued warm with, showers and thunderstorms.

War On Traffic ' Violators On 1 T Long Holiday s United Press International 1 State and local officials plan 1 solemn Memorial Day rites to honor the nation's war dead, and at ’ the same time will wage an all-out war on holiday traffic violators. From a rustic outdoor shrine near Rindge, N. H., to the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco, vet- , erans organizations and survivors of slain servicemen will gather singly or in groups Saturday to pay tribute to those who fell on foreign “ fields. ’ The National Safety Council es- ’ timated 260 persons would die on the nation’s highways during the Memorial Day weekend between 5 6 p.m. local time Friday and mid8 night Sunday. JJ This is 35 more than the aver- * age 225 traffic fatalities recorded 1 during non-holiday weekends, but ’ 120 deaths less than the 380 ’ counted by United Press International during last ye ar's three-day a holiday. 0 The U. S. Weather Bureau pres dieted sunny, dry weather.— per- ‘ feet driving conditions —for Me- ‘ morial Day throughout the South--4 west, the upper Plains and most jof New England but said most of f the nation east of the Rockies ’ would be visited by showers op i thunderstorms later in the day. . t The entire state police forces in i 24 states will be on duty over the i weekend, the council said. > “Saturation" police patrols will > flood dangerous stretches of high- ■ way in North Carolina and lowa ■ and National Guardsmen will help . the Indiana state patrol control the flood of motorists flowing to and from the 500-mile Memorial , Day race in Indianapolis. Nebraska officials said they were renting airplanes to help spot violators and Oregon Gov. Mark Hatfield reported plans to use helicopters and unmarked police cars in an effort to hold down the ex- , pected death toll.

Admit No Progress On Steel Contract

NEW YORK (UPD—The steel industry and the United Steelworkers Union have virtually ended any hopes of reaching a peaceful contract settlement. Thursday in Washington, USW President David J. McDonald ad- ‘ mitted that joint contract talks which began May 11 had resulted 1 in no progress. 1 The union chief accused the industry of not bargaining in good faith and threatened to file charges against rhe companies with the National Labor Relations Board. ’ William T. Caples, a vice president'of Inland Steel Co., said later that McDonald always accuses the industry of not bargaining in good faith “when we refuse to give him what he wants." Denies McDonald’s Charges Avery C. Adams, chairman and president of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., said the indusrty is bargaining in good faith. "We have made our proposal and we will stand by it because it is in the best interest of the entire economy of the United States." Top steel leaders here for the 67th meeting of the American Iron & Steel Institute Thursday emphasized the industry’s determination to resist any wage increase this year. They made it plain they were prepared to go down to the wire with the proposed one-year wage freeze.

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Valdez Sefeks Appeal From Life Sentence An appeal has been filed in Celina, O* in he Mercer county court of coifflhon pleas for Gregorio Prados Valdez, 36, the transient tomato picker who was given a life sentence in Ohio for the August killing of Jesse Gomez, 33, of route two, Berne. Defense attorneys Don Short and Henry J. Knapke, of Celina, filed the petition for Valdez seeking the appeal. Valdez is presently serving a life sentence in Ohio for second degree murder. A jury of seven men and five women convicted Valdez on December 18 of Gomez’ murder, which occurred August 26 at the St. Mary’s packing cornphny labor camp at Chattanooga, /O. Valdez would be eligible for parole from the Ohio prison in 17 years for good behavior. The fatal shooting occurred over the dispute of a pay check between Lupe Callejos, >24, and Gomez During the trial/Valdez stated thal the killing was justifiable homi cide, because Gomez had lunget at him witiV'a large butcher knif< before he pulled the .45 automat! from beneath his belt and spor shirt anef fired the two fatal shots Investigating , officers found n< such knife at the scene of th< killing. Valdez was not apprehended foi the shooting until October 2, wher hg stumbled into a mission, drunk, in Aurora, 111., near Chicago, and /bragged to the attendants at the mission of the murder and oi eluding the police for more than a month. Four Crewmen Killed By Crash In Japan IWAKUNI, Japan (UPD—A jet attack bomber from the U.S. Marine airbase here crashed at sea early today, apparently killing all of its four crewmen. The twin-engined A3D was reported missing at 12:15 a.m. Five hours later, Japanese fishermen found bits of wreckage, two fliers’ helmets and an oxygen mask floating off Uka Islands, 12 miles southeast of here.

The union has demanded a “substantial” wage increase, reduced hours of work, and complete company financing of insurance, hospitalization and medical plans. - —.— Warns Labor, Management At a dinner session Thursday night, winding up the two-day institute conveniton, former Treasury Secretary George Humphrey warned that both labor and management can price htemselves out of business “wiht distressing results.” Humphrey, now chairman of National Steel Corp., said that “if our costs become non-compe-titive, it will simply mean moving jobs from Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and Chicago to Britain, Germany and even Russia.” He urged businessmen to take a more active role in politics to protect their interests. He said “highly organized, well funded labor groups are hard at work, seemingly without full realization of the disastrous consequences to themselves of failing to heed the simplest principles of competition.” NOON EDITION