Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 5 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 132.

Her ter Blasts Russian Espionage, Subversive Activities In Berlin

GENEVA (UPI) — Secretary of State Christian Herter today blasted Russia for espionage, subversion and outright kidnaping activities carried out from East Berlin. I Herter gave the Big Four foreign ministers’ conference a detailed indictment of Communist intrigues in an attempt to blast through the sudden deep freeze imposed by the Russians in the 4-week-old parley. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev has called the East German leadership to a Moscow “summit” session next week and apparently has ordered Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to sit tight here pending some new policy decision. The moves alerted diplomats for a possible major surprise. Ignoring these stalling tactics, Herter went before the semipublic Bi Four plenary session this afternoon with a formal answer to earlier Communist charges that West Berlin is a “cancer” of intrigue. Armed With Records The secretary of state was armed with this record of spying, abduction and subversion centered in Communist East Berlin and East Germany: —One hundred and three kidna pings of West Berliners in 10 years.l * . —Hiring of espionage agents in West Berlin by Soviet, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian and East German operatives based in East perlin. —Steady agitation and infiltration of the West German Social Democratic Party, trade unions, student and sport organizations —Underground activities of the illegal Communist Party in West Germany, gilided and financed from East Berlin. —Such common criminal practices as burglary and holdups aimed at gathering intelligence information in West Berlin. Herter was the lead-off speaker at the 14th semi-public formal session, which followed two days of secret talks that got nowhere. Gromyko Puts ohm Brakes Until Thursday afternoon, these private conversations seemed to be moving toward some sort of an interim agreement which would maintain Western rights in Berlin and ease the current crisis. But Thursday afternoon and evening, Gromyko put on the brakes. He returned to the old Soviet demands for creation of a “free, demilitarized” West Berlin. Khrushchev will meet aq East German delegation headed by Communist Party boss Walter Ulbricht in Moscow on Monday.

House Payment By Holovachka

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Metro Holovachka, chief deputy prosecutor of Lake County, nd., made a down payment of $43,599 in cash on a luxurious home in 1955 and moved out of his SII,OOO pre-fab house, a Senate investigator testified Thursday in connection wtih an investigation of pinball gambling, Investigator Richard Sinclair of the Senate Rackets Committee said Holovachka, who earns sl2 000 a year, made the down payment on the SBO,OOO lakeside mansion mostly in small bills and refused to say where he got the money. Holovachka, formerly the prosecutor of Lake County, and his chief investigator, Walter Conroy, had been scheduled to testify today but the committee delayed the hearing until Monday because of the illness of chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.l. McClellan has been sick with a virus infection since Wednesday. Following Sinclair’s testimony Thursday, pinball kingpins George Welboum and Steven Sohacki refused on grounds of self-incrimina-tion to say whether they paid off Holovachka to aid them in monopolizing gambling in the GaryHammond area. Testimony so far has charged that Holovachka forced independent coin machine operators out of business and conspired with Wetbourn and Sohacki to net 12 million dollars from pinball gambling in five years. -

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Western diplomats believed Khrushchev would set his final terms for a Berlin settlement then. The hint of a compromise came in an English-language broadcast of a commentary on the Geneva conference. The unidentified commentator said Russia believed “the Geneva talks can bring positive results” contrary to the gloomy thinking in the West. Reds Hint Compromise „ “TheU.S.S.R . . has declared its readiness to agree to compromise if the Western powers show Continued on page flvo Former Decatur Man Sentenced In Ohio Charles R. Johnson, 26, formerly of Decatur, and a recent Fort Wayne resident, was sentenced to the reformatory In Mansfield, 0., for an indefinite period today after entering a plea of guilty to breaking and entering in Mercer county, Ohio. Prosecuting attorney Dean James, of Celina, said today that the term is a 1-15 year sentence, but that it is up to the pardon and parole commission to determine the length of time Johnson will have to serve. Johnson pleaded guilty today to the breaking and entering at thg Buckeye Farm & Supply company in Rockford, 0., that occurred sometime in February. Two other charges of breaking and entering, at the Rafnbow Drive-in in Celina. 0., and the Franklin school, near Montezuma, 0., were dropped by the court. The case was heard today in the Mercer county court of commpn pleas before Judge Paul P. Dull. Johnson is the last member of a five-man burglary ring that admitted to authorities in the surrounding area of nearly 150 crimes during an 18-month period. The other persons involved have appeared in courts and received sentences. Melvin Lovelette, 23, formerly of this city, received a one to 15 year sentence in Van Wert, 0., May 12. Another member served his sentence, and two teenagers are now serving at the Indiana boys’ reformatory, for their part in the crimes. Originally, Johnson had five indictments returned against him by the Mercer county grand jury May 15. They were breaking and entering on three counts, and larceny on two counts.

Walter Gogla Jr., Harold Anderson and Edward S. Ryder, employes of Welboum and Sohacki, took the Fifth Amendment also when asked if they had turned money over to Holovachka. One of the most talkative witnesses before the committee was Michael J. Kampo Jr., a $5,000-a---year investigator for the prosecutor’s office and Hammond furniture dealer. Kampo is Hammond city Democratic chairman. Kampo’s store, the committee said, was next door to a bookie joint whih had operated for years. Kampo was asked why he had not arrested any gamblers during the six years he worked for holovachka. Kampo said that this was the responsibility of the police department and the sheriff. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said Kampo’s testimony was outstanding proof of the situation in Lake County. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued warm this afternoon, lonight and Saturday. Chance of scattered showers extreme south late this afternoon and tonight. Low tonight 56 to 63, High Saturday 78 to 85. Sunset today 8109 p. m. Sunrise SaturSunday: Partly cloudy and continued warm. Low in 60s. High In-80s.

Jenner Queried On Land Speculations

' United Press International INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Officers of ex-Sen. William E. Jenner’s land speculating firm revealed at a public hearing today that their agents have bought $13,500 worth of options on 721 acres of “choice land,” some of it in the county where a proposed Lake Michigan seaport would be located. Jenner and two other officers of the St. Lawrence Seaway Corp., a firm which wants to issue three million dollars worth of stock, said at a Statehouse hearing that agents of the corporation have options in Porter County, where Burps Ditch is located, in Lake County and some areas “even further away.” Burns Ditch is the site where Indiana wants to build a big port as a means of expanding the state’s economy. Jenner’s political protege. Governor Handley, has been one of the leading exponents of a seaport. The public hearing was called by Secretary of State John Walsh, a Democrat, because of what he termed “unusual public interest” in the firm which has a number of prominent Republican leaders as officers and directors. Walsh said at the outset of the hearing that it was “pot an inquisition.” “We have not suggested there has been any impropriety,” Walsh said. Argue Over Options A controversy broke out immediately, however, over whether the firm should disclose even privately to Walsh the exact locations of the land on which it has options. Jenner at the outset read a prepared statement in which he charged that Walsh’s request that options be revealed was “unprecedented, unwarranted and unjust.” Jenner said the firm believed land in Northern Indiana was a good investment because of “spiraling inflation and bursting population.” , “There are many individuals and groups engaged in speculating in land and no hue and cry has been raised about them,” he said. “The only thing we ask from the State of Indiana is that it treat us as it does others,” said Jenner. “I ask that we be given a clean bill as health.” He saio the only profits thus far have gone to the state itself, which has received $40,000 in fees. Walsh said the firm’s prospective plainly stated the stock was speculative. But he said many persons either would miss that statement or would not know what it meant. Walsh said the state has a duty to the public and that if he were given the option information in confidence and later “something goes wrong, the public will come back to us and say ‘Why weren’t we warned?”' Lasts An Hour The hearing lasted about an hour. When it ended, Waslh indicated he probably would reach a decision by Monday. Walsh questioned Jenner about whether any of the optioned land was located at the mouth of Burns Ditch. “No,” Jerther replied. “It is too prohibitive in cost for us to buy.” But Jack C. Brown, secretarytreasurer of the firm and Jenner’s law partner, said some of it is in “the immediate area of Portage Twp„” the area in which the harbor would be built. Jenner disclosed the firm took aerial photographs of the Lake Michigan coastline into Wisconsin and Michigan looking for land possibilities. “We do not intend to put all our eggs in one basket,” he explained. Jenner said if the firm revealed its options, it would “bring our competition swarming and our activities would be hamstrung.” Jenner said the directors of the firm do not own any land which they would sell to the corporation, do not intend to buy any land from steel firms which own acreages in the harbor area, and does not hold options on any land the state would want for the port. Jenner said at one point that land probably is the “best hedge

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against inflation” and “regardless of whether the port or steel mills are built, it will still be a good investment.” Jenner, Brown and Charles Farrell of Fotr Wayne, vice president of the fiirm, were sworn in as witnesses and made most of their statements under oath. Farrell testified only briefly, pointing out in reference to the state’s mention that the firm’s agents were buying options but not in the name of the corporation that “all the people now buying land in the area are doing it under other names —having agents do it for them.” Durwood McDonald of LaPorte, a friend of Jenner and Governor Handley, also spoke briefly during the hearing. Brown said McDonald has been “a close friend of Bill’s for many, many years and has a background in real estate.” Jenner said he has “complete confidence and trust” in McDonald, who would receive a traditional 15 per cent commission on the stock sale as registered dealer in charge of sales. Brown said “some” of the 15 directors of the corporation have indicated they will apply for licenses as agents to sell stock to “friends.” Jenner said all stocksalesmen “will be bonded for the protection of the corporation and the public.” Budget Clinic Held At Decatur Library Seven Indiana public libraries were represented at Thursday s library budget clinic at the Decatur Youth and Community Center sponsored by the state board of accounts, the state board of tax commissioners, and the state library. The Decatur public library, with Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, was the host. The group toured the newly remodeled library here before conducting the morning session at the Center. The luncheon at the Center was sponsored by the local library board. The afternoon session was conducted by George Scott, of the state board of tax commissioners: Fred Wiseman, of the state board of accounts, and Harriet Carter, head of the library extension division. Problems pertinent to local library budgets were discussed. State and federal legislation effecting the libraries also received considerable attention. Those who attended and their libraries were: Mrs. Rachel Filer, of Geneva: Mrs. Mary Antlers, of Portland, Mrs. Velma Moeller, of Columbia City; Mrs. William Thomas, of Gas City; Anne Phillips, of Gas City; Carl E. Luginbill, of Berne; Anne Wetzger, South Whitley; Mrs. Marion E. Bollinger, of South Whitley; Miss Heller, Miss Frances Dugan, Mrs. Laura Bosse, and Eloise Andrews, all of Decatur, and Marcile Foote, of the state library at Indianapolis. The three state authorities heard individual library problems after the regular session. A previous clinic was conducted in Indianapolis June 2, while another session will be at Plymouth today, with a fourth clinic being scheduled for Spring Mill State park June 8. -A City Swimming Pool Opens Next Thursday The city swimming pool is expected to be opened to the public Thursday afternoon, Bernard Clark, city, street commissioner, said today. Clark stated that all minor repairs have been completed and that the pool is now being filled with water. City Workers started filing the pool last evening, and will continue to do so for about three days. After the pool is once filled, an additional three days is required to permit the water to warm before swimmers may use the pool.

NEWSPAPER ifc ADAMS COUNTY

Judges Deny Starkweather Further Stay OMAHA, Neb. (UPI) — State authorities today took steps to set a hew execution date for mass killer Charles Starkweather. <The case of the 20-y ear-old former garbage Vr an who admitted slaying 11 persons in two states shifted back to the Nebraska Supreme Court after a threh-judge federal panel refused to extend a two-week execution stay past midnight Thursday. Nebraska Atty. Gen. C. S. Beck said he would ask the state Supreme Court today for permission to authorize acting state Penitentiary Warden John Greenholtz to set a new execution date. Starkweather had “no comment” when Greenholtz told him the circuit court had rejected his plea. It appeared the redhaired slayer’s execution would be delayed a| least until Monday, and possibfe- for months if he chose to follo|sv up either cf two remote legal possibilities. Greenholtz said it would take more than two days to summon official witnesses for the execution. Further delay might occur, authorities said, if Starkweather either applied to a state court for a write of habeas corpus, or appealed directly to a justice of tfie U.S. Supreme Court. After 90 minutes of testimony, the circuit court coupled its ruling that die appeal be dismissed with the opinion Starkweather had not exhausted legal possibilities in state courts, usually a prerequisite to federal intervention. Judge Joseph W. Woodrough read the opinion for the court that “no probable cause ’ appeared to exist to justify a federal hearing on the May 21 denial of a habeas corpus writ by U.S. District Judge Robert Van Pelt in Lincoln, Neb. Burning Dynamite Fuse Cut By Train DES MOINES, lowa (UPD—A Rock Island passenger train cut a burning fuse on a suitcase full of 99 sticks of dynamite just east of here today, keeping the expert-ly-made “bomb” from going off. George Schuck, West Des Moines police chief and a World War II demolition man, said the suitease bomb was the “work of an expert.” The fuses were “crimped just right,” Schuck said. Someone re-set the fuse again after the train passed, but the dynamite failed to ignite even though the fuse burned right up to the cap. Schuck said the failure of the dynamite to gd off was a “once in a million chaifoe.” The streamline Rocky Mountain Rocket was on its way from the Colorado Springs-Denver area to Chicago. The train, made up of 11 passenger cars and three mail or baggage cars, carried 180 passengers plus a number of crewmen when it left the station here about 2 a. m. CST. The FBI was called into the case to investigate. Sheriff’s deputies said the report of the dynamite on the tracks came when Harold Clark, a fireman on the Rock Island train No. 8, radioed back to the station here that the train had just passed over something on the tracks. Trainmaster Wililam B. Reese went out to investigate the incident and told authorities someone was just leaving the scene after lighting the fuse again. When Reese got there, the fuse had burned right up to the cap on tiie dynamite just short of an explosion. The suitcase full of dynamite was placed in a lonelv area about one mile east of the city limits of Des Moines. Lewis said there were no houses “very close.”

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Brownie Day Camp Opens Here Monday Brownie Day camp will open Monday, June 8, with an international theme this year. Any girl' entering ' the second grade in the fall may attend the week-long camp, held at HannaNuttman park, where they will learn about scouting in these countries: Switzerland, Mexico, Germany, England and Australia. Day campers' will also learn about the traditions of the people in these countries, as they will learn a song and a folk dance. Also, food typical to these countries will be on the menu. Fees for the week-long camp wifi be $3, which will include insurance, milk and meals. There will be an additional fee of 50 cents for children needing transportation. Children needing transportation will be picked up at 9:15 a.m. each day at these stops: for Stratton Place, at Klenks corner; Homestead, at the center; Grant, the corner of Winchester and Rusself streets; Hite’s Grocery on Winchester street; Sanitary *Jarket, on'Mercer Avenue; the filling station at the qgrner of Adams and Thirteenth streets; the court house: the* Methodist church, at the corner of West Monroe and Fifth streets; Miller’s Grocery at the corner of North Second and Washington streets; and at.the intersection of Master Drive and Washington street. Those who are missed on Monday may call the Girl Scout shelter house, at Hanna-Nuttman park for transportation. Those who want more information may contact Mrs. R. C. Hersh, camp director, at 344 South First street, or by calling 3-3642. Elderly Pedestrian Is Killed By Auto MICHIGAN CiTY, Ina. (UPDMaurice Harter, 80, South Bdhd, died in a hospital Thursday night shortly after he walked into the path of a big truck on U.S. 20 near here, State Police reported. Bloodmobile Unit In Decatur Today As the Decatur Red Cross blood program got underway today at the Youth and Community Center, Mrs. Wanda Oelberg expressed belief that the city would meet its quota of 125 pints. The success of the event, she added, must be shared by those who actually donate the blood and those who assist in the setting up and handling operations. Doctors, who are,, donating their time and ability, are Norval S. Rich, John B Terveer, Richard K. Parrish, G. J. Kohne. Arthur’H. Girod. William C. Freeby, John C Carroll, and James M. Burk. Assisting the doctors are nurses Mrs. Edna Myers, Miss Margaret Eiting Mrs. Clarence Black, Mrs. Arthur Miller, Mrs. Joe Azbell, Mrs. James Inskeep, Mrs. R. K. Parrish, and Mrs. Kenneth McConnell. The staff aides are Mrs. ts. P. Engle, 'Mrs. Earl Fuhrman, Mrs. Clarence Smith; Mrs. Joe Hunter, Mrs. T. C. Smith. Miss Fan Hammel, Mrs. Lloyd Bowman, Mrs. Noel Burton, and Mrs. Max KrepS. The canteen workers are Mrs. R. C. Hersh, Mrs. Lee Fleming, Mrs. Charles Beineke. Mrs. Edgar Reinking, Mrs. L. E. Archbold, Mrs. Woodson Ogg, and Miss Caroline Taylor. Mrs. Robert Railing headed the transportation committee, while the Decatur street department under the direction of commissioner Bernard Clark, loaded and unloaded the equipment The fire department with chief Cedric Fisher raised the flag over the building this morning in impressive ceremonies. ......... /■' '< T

Worthman Field iOpensi]\ Wednesday For Summer

Summer recreation activities at Worthman field will get underway officially next Wednesday, it was announced today. The activities are jointly sponsored by the Decatur public school system and the civil city, and heavy five-day schedules weekly are provided. Bob Worthman, head football and track coach at Depatur high school, and Bill McColly, head baseball coach and basketball assistant, will be in charge of supervised play. Misses Dorcas Suman and Becky Maddox will supervise park activities and craft work. The park will be open daily, Monday through Friday, from 9 a. m. until 4:30 p. m. Craft work will be supervised each of these diys from 12:30 to 4:30 p. m. Facilities are available at the park for shuffleboard, basketball, ringers, boreshoe T and baseball, in addition to swings and other recreation. Worthman field is also a beehive of activity for night baseball, with games scheduled five nights practically every week. Pony League games are played Monday nights, starting at 6.30 o’clock, Little League doubleheaders are presented each Tuesday and Friday nights, also starting at 6:30 o'clock. High school and American Legion Junior games will be played Wednesday evenings, and Klenks offers Senior Federation league baseball Thursday nights at 8 o’clock. In addition to all these activi-

Adenauer Stays As Chancellor

BONN. Germany (UPD — Konrad Adenauer electrified the Western alliance and touched off a crisis in his own party today with a surprise decision to remain chancellor of West Germany instead of running for the symbolic post of president. His Christian Democratic Party leadership met in extraordinary session this morning. Shortly afterward the West German cabinet held a meeting. The press was in an uproar. Public officials were stunned. Some were pleased, some embittered. It was just two months ago the 83-year-old Adenauer announced he would quit the government leadership this fall and run for president, a figurehead post.- 1 ......2 1 Within hours East German Foreign Minister Lothar Bolz announced he -would fly back to East Berlin to confer with Ulbricht. The turnabout was seen as Adenauer’s way of stiffening the Western position at Geneva and smothering an intra-party battle over who would succeed him. But there were signs he had caused an even greater party battle. Foreign Minister Heiryich voh Brentano rushed home by plane from Geneva. Economic Minister Ludwig Erhard, who had been regarded as the front-running candidate to become next chancellor, telephoned Bonn from Washington. A spokesman here said Erhard would cut short his visit bv a day and return home Tuesday, Finance Minister Franz Etzel Adenauer’s personal choice to succeed him, told newsmen ho was taken by surprise by the decision. Asked what he thought of running for president himself, as

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ties, a Morning baseball league for younger boys is again being organized. All boys of Little League age who failed to make Ijttie teams are asked th report at the field Monday morning at 10 o'clock for organization of the Morning league. Ordain Rev. Bertsch On Sunday Evening The Rev. Wiliam Bertsch, Jr., will be ordained to the Christian ministry Sunday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the St. Luke Evangelical and Reformed church at Honduras. The Rev. Herbert Meckstroth, former pastor of the St. Luke church, now of Alliance, 0., will deliver the sermon. The Rev. Henry Kroehler, president of the Michigan-Indiana synod, will officiate in the rite of ordination, and the church pastor, the Rev. Louis Minsterman, will serve as Uturgist ,?l rhe new minister is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Bertsch, of route four, Decatur. Herds a graduate of Heidelberg College, Tiffin, 0., and also graduated from the Mission House Seminary, Plymouth, Wis., last Sunday. Rev. Bertsch has accepted a call from the St. John Evangelical and Reformed church at Bippus, and will begin his ministry the latter part of this month. His wife was the former Miss Roberta Wulliman.

Adenauer was said to have asked himjto do, Etzel replied wryly, “why not Pope?” The left - Wing French press looked on the move as “the ultimate maneuver of an obstinate old man.” The-rightwing French newspaper “Aurore” looked with concern on “the internal conflict which is' tearing the Christian Democratic Party apart.” Young Democrats In Regional Conference Adams county young Democrats are invited to attend the regional conference in Fort Wayne Saturday, starting with registration at 9 am., and climaxed wfth a banquest in the evenings, Harry Hebble, Jr., president of the county Young Democrats, said today.* The conference will take place at the Van Orman hotel, with registration on the mezzanine, and the programs in the French room. A morning conference will start at 11 a.nt;, which an hour lunch break, workshops will be held at 1 p.m., and a panel discussion at 2:30 p.m. The banquet will start at 6:30 p.m. in the Oak Room. There will be no registration fee, but tickets for the banquet will cost $3.50. Suggestions for programs, building membership, remarks by the state president, Duge Butler, Jr., activities, cooperation with the senior party, financing, and group discussions will take up the major part of the time. The general public, committeemen. vice - committeemen, party workers, and all interested are invited to attend the activities. '