Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 138, Decatur, Adams County, 12 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 13

Lake County Rackets’ Figure Is Arrested On Bribery Charges

VALPARAISO, , Ind. (UPD— Tommy Morgano, a central figure in the Senate Racket Committee’s investigation of crime and corruption in Lake County, was arrested late Thursday night on bribery charges. Morgano, 59, was arrested by Porter County Sheriff Edward Buchanan and William Koser, a deputy, as he was about to enter an automobile in front of the College Inn, an establishment he owns near the Valparaiso University campus. He was taken to Porter County Jail here. The charges against Morgano were based on an affidavit signed by Lake County Deputy Sheriff Harold Rayder, who testified in Washington recently that Morgano made huge bribe offers for the rights to gambling and prostitutoin operations in Porter County. Morano, against whom deportation proceedings have been started by the Immigration Service in Hammond, refused to tell the McClellan committee in Washington when he came to this country from his native Italy. Morgano was described by Rayder as an agent of Chicago gangster Sam Giancanna. Bond for Morgano ws set at $25,000. It was not paid by midmorning and Morgano remained in jail. His arraignment was set tentatively for later today. Accuaes Prosecutor WASHINGTON < UPD—The Senate Rackets Committee Thursday accused Lake County deputy prosecutor Metro Holovachka of being “an operating part of the criminal syndicate which conducted vice and gambling" in Indiana’s Calumet district. Chairman John L. McClellan denounced Holovachka's official conduct in a statement read for him at the windup of the session by Sen. Karl E. Mundt, a committee member. McClellan, who has been troubled by a kidney ailment, entered Bethesda,- Md., Naval Hospital Thursday for a checkup. He said in his statement that Holovachka “obviously' aided and abetted" two pinball machine syndicates to gain a county monopoly that brought in millions of dollars. He called upon the citizens of Lake County “to take appropriate and effective action to rid their community of these elements, including the removal and replacement of these public officials who have been unfaithful to their trust and responsibility.” Maj. Paul Beverforden, executive officer of the Indiana State Police, testified Thursday that Lake County had the worst law enforcement record in the state. He blamed lack of prosecution. Holovachka earlier this week declined to account for $300,000 traced to him during his eight years in office on grounds that the committee was invading his privacy. But he denied the funds came from gamblers.

Air Defense Master » Plan Is Disclosed

WASHINGTON (UPD—Defense Secretary Nail H. McElroy today unveiled a new air defense master plan calling for a $1,500,000,000 cutback in defenses against manned bombers, but speeding development of anti-missile missiles. McEroy outlined the new program for the Senate Armed Services Committee behind colseddoors. Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) later gave newsmen an account of his testimony. Russell said that both anti-air-craft missiles involved in the current Army-Air Force feud — the Army’s Nike - Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc—would be cut back. The Bomarc would take a somewhat bigger cut - back, at least in the immediate future. Russell and Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.). said McElroy estimated savings resulting from these cutbacks at $1,500,000,000 over the next five years before these weapons are eliminated from the defense blueprint in 1965. But the Army's Nike-Zeus antimissile missile will be speeded by spending 1175 million dollars for reSearch and development in the fiscal year starting July 1. The Nkie-Zeus was described by Russell as the “hope for the fu-

DECATUR DAIIST DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY 7

I Flag Day Speaker Sen. Von Eichhorn Flag Day Services Here Monday Night Annual Flag Day services in Decatur will be held at 7:30 o’clock Monday evening on the lawn of the Elks lodge home, North Second street. With Flag Day, June 14, falling on Sunday this year, the fraternal organization and co-sponsoring veterans organizations set time for the annual services for Monday evening. Von A. Eichhorn, of Uniondale, veteran state senator from Adams, Wells and Blackford counties, will deliver the Flag Day address. The program to which the public is invited, will open with the “Star Spangled Banner," by a Decatur band, followed by introductory exercises by George Bair, exalted ruler of the Decatur Elks lodge, and his staff of officers. ' The history of the flag will be delivered by Robert G. Smith, commander of Adams Post 43, American Legion, followed by the altar service by the Elks officers. Sen. Eichhorn will then speak and the program will close with the singing of “America” by the entire assemblage. The Decatur Elks have conducted this annual service for many years, assisted by the veterans organizations of the city. Logansport Infant Auto Crash Victim LOGANSPORT, In d. (UPD— Kris Babb, 8-month-old son of Mrs. Viola Babb, Logansport, was killed Thursday night and 10 persons were injured in a two-car collision on U.S. 24 west of here.

ture” in defending the nation against ballistic missiles. McElroy told newsmen that the big shift toward anti-missile defense “seems wise.” He emphasized, however, that manned bombers will remain a secondary threat even after Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) in large numbers. Asked if the "master plan” would end the bitter rivalry between the Army and Air Force, McElroy said: “I don’t think that Utopia will ever come.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy, a few scattered showers or thundershowers central and south portions, be- . coming a little cooler and less humid extreme north this afternoon. Clear to partly cloudy and cooler tonight with chance of a few thundershowers ex- > treme south this evening. Sunset 8:13 p.m. Low tonight in 50s north, 55-63 south. Sunrise Saturday 5:17 a.m. Saturday generally fair and cooler. Highs in the 70s north and central, 77-83 extreme south, low Saturday night 57. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and pleasant, high 80.

Sidewalk Sale, Jubilee In Decatur On July 7

Because of the roaring success of last year’s “Sidewalk Sale and Jubilee,” the retail division of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce will launch the second annual promotional event this year Tuesday, July 7, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on the sidewalks of Decatur. Elaborate preparations are being readied by the sidewalk committee to not only include the: merchants but the citizens of the city to dress up in “Gay Nineties” fashions. Prizes will be presented to the best dressed merchant and best dressed citizen. The committee members are Dave Moore, of the Sears store; Wayne Price, of the Price store; Lucille Rupert, of Shafer's store, and Harry Schwartz of Schwartz Motor Sales. As in the first junuee, two dances will be conducted at opposite ends of Second street, with one being for square dancers and the other for the rock and rollers. A prominent “caller" will conduct the square <jance, while Jack Underwood, of radio station WOWO, will spin the discs for the younger set. In keeping with the theme, an antique display will be seen in windows and on sidewalks of local stores. The merchants will attempt to pry a little nostalgic reminiscing Decatur Pilot In Powder Puff Derby Mrs. Josephine Ivetich Richardson, operator of the Decatur HiWay Airport, will be a pilot in the Powder Puff derby scheduled to begin July 4 at Lawrence, Mass. Her co-pilot in the race, officially known as the All-Woman transcontinental air race, will be Mrs. Helen Hine, now of Gary, formerly of Fort Wayne and Auburn, and daughter of Purl Davies, of near Berne. The two will fly a Tri-Pacer 135 in the yearly race. This year, more than 100 women pilots will compete for awards and trophies. They will leave the Massachusetts starting point on Independence day, and to be eligible for awards, they must cross the finish line in Spokane, Wash., by noon, July 8. Rules permit only daylight flying, and winners are determined on a handicap basis computed from established par speeds for each make and model of aircraft. Mrs. Richardson, better known as “Jo,” is a masseuse and the only licensed woman pilot in Decatur. Having logged over 1000 hours flying time during the 19 years she has been flying, she holds a commercial license, and has owned her own plane for 14 years. She was the women’s director of the Indiana and Illinois Flying Farmers organization for five years. Her co-pilot, htrs?» Hine, is a Gary school nurse at present. In 23 years of flying, she has over 2000 hours of flying time in airplanes and 400 hours in gliders. She is the former U. S. women’s glider champion, and was up 7 hours and 34 minutes. In World War 11, she served as airplane flight instructor at Sweetwater, Tex., in the women’s Army service program. She holds a commercial license -with instructor and instrument ratings. Also during World War 11, she was a civilian flight instructor at Lamesa Field, Tex. Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Hine will be competing for part of a purse of $2500, to be divided among the top five winners. The top single awards is SBOO. Additional awards are given for the best score between the designated stops on the route across the continent. The 2470-mile course will follow a route across New York state, Ohio, Indiana, (the Hoosier stop is Kokomo), Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota, and Montana. Time clocks, where contestants must stamp their logbooks when they arrive and just before they take off, will be stationed at each of the nine stops.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, June 12,1959.

from the local gentry with novel approaches to a bygone era. The auto dealers in town will have an auto auction to excite the interest of Decatur’s population and will also display the newest automobile models as a contrasting feature. Other arrangements pre currently pending and not available for release, but the committee promises more in way of surprises to benefit the local shoppers. Gordon Nelson Is Speaker At Rotary Gordon Nelson, of Merrill, Lynch, Fenner & Smith, Fort Wayne, addressed the Decatur Rotary club Thursday evening at the Youth and Community Center on the “Present market outlook.” Nelson, a graduate of DePauw University with a degree in economics, was introduced by Leo Curtin, June program chairman for the service club. The speaker pointed but that personal incomes, retail sales and housing starts were all higher for the first months of 1959. Unemployment figures, announced earlier this week, are at the lowest level since 1957, but a possible steel strike could cause trouble in the economic picture, he stressed. Various market indexes are used to indicate the relative values of stocks. Nelson stated that his company uses its own selective list of about 500 securities to rate the various industries and representative corporations within that industry. The investment man' then evaluated the present market and gave his opinions on the various industries and some of the representative firms within them, and gave his reasons for believing a given stock to be average, favorable or unfavorable. He closed by saying the average earning rate of stocks today is 3.7 per cent.

Driver Killed When Auto Hits Truck MOROCCO, Ind. (UPD—Norman Gene Johnson, 32, Boswell, was killed today when his automobile smashed into the rear of a big truck on U.S. 41 two miles north of here. Trucker Earl Mattingly, 46, Louisville, was not injured.

Russia Insists On Ultimatum

GENEVA (UPD—Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko refused today to withdraw the new Russian ultimatum on Berlin and said the Western plan for the city amounted to an ultimatum itself. Gromyko said Russia would never put its signature to 'any agreement maintaining “occupation rights” in West Berlin—the minimum demand of the West. The “occupation rights" provide for the stationing of American, British and French troops in West Berlin and for free access to the city through 110 miles of East Germany. This was Russia’s unbudging reply to pleas from Secretary of State Christian Herter and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to defuse the one-year time limit in the Soviet plan or fa,ce a breakdown of this conference.; Herter Cites Threat Herter rose at once with a suggestion Gromyki clarify his position immediately so the West would know whether to continue the conference. H said there was a double .threat in Gromyko’s plan. Herter did not accept the claim in Gromyko’s speech that there was no threat or ultimatum in the Red plan. But he hinted that in the secret

Swimming Pool Is Opened On Thursday The smallest opening crowd in several years greeted attendants at the Decatur swimming pool Thursday afternoon as only an estimated 375 youngsters joined in tho* swim of things. Co-directors Hubert Zerkel, Jr., and John Rosier pointed to the inclement weather and the cool temperature of the water as deterring factors. The age spread of the group ranged frOrn v one four-year-old male paddler to an 18-year-old swimming stylist as Decatur’s swim enthusiasts knifed the water amid shouts, splashes, and diving bodies. Greater numbers of local aquaticists arp expected to use the local tank when the bbring heat of summer burrows deeper into the warm months. The refreshing nature of a swimming pool is, usually, only realized after long hours of suffering torment from the rays ~..t “old Sol.”

Zerkel and Rosier wish to remind the children of the pool rules and regulations, which are strictly enforced for the safety and pleasure of all persons concerned. Swimmers must take a shower immediately prior to entering the pool area. Children must pass a 50-yard swim test before being allowed past the rope, which divides the pool from deep and shallow. water. Absolutely no running or /tag games will be tolerated. Emulsion from the pool may result from careless swim habits.

Only one diver at a time may occupy the board. Pushing, or jostling on the board is prohibited. Likewise, no “ducking,” or holding another person underwater, will be acceptable behavior. All swimmers must abide the rule, stipulating a 5-minute rest period every 30 minutes. This provides everyone with an often needed rest, and allows the supervisors time to check the pool for possible mishaps. For those who insist on asking the supervisors “what time is the pool open?” the schedule is: Monday through Saturday, 1 to 4:30 p.m., while Sunday’s hours are 2 to 5 p.m. The evening schedule is Monday through Friday, 7 to 8:30

U.S. Population Is 176,665,000 WASHINGTON (UPD—The U.S. population stood at an estimated 176,665,000 oh May 1, the Census Bureau reports. This was an increase of 3,077,000 or 1.8 per cent over a yea/ earlier.

Herter - Gromyko talks Thursday the Russian had held out some , new hope and he asked Gromyko Ito put his remarks on the open ' conference record. Though the talks Were at a precarious stage, the former min isters did decide to keep the conference going. They scheduled a private negotiating session for Monday. Gromyko adopted an outwardly conciliatory tone in a speech implying "why all the fuss” over his latest Berlin demands the West has called unacceptable and which he called negotiable. No Substantial Retreat But there was no retreat from the substance of the Russian demands which Herter told Gromyko Thursday had put the Geneva talks on a day-to-day basis. Gromyko’s rejected plan calls for the mjMMration of a German peace one year with Western withdrawal from Berlin during that year. The alternative is immediate withdrawal and the writing of a peace treaty by Russia and East Germany. Gromyko denied( today the oneyear limit amounted to an "ultimatum” and saidl that he could not understand alltthe excitement over his threat which Herter denounced as a "diktat.”

Seven Killed In Head-on Auto Crash TUSCOLA, Hl. (UPD—A fiery head-on collision that shot flames “50 feet into the air” Thursday night killed seven persons, four of them young girls. Leon—Gale, a Douglas County deputy sheriff, said he was driving about 750 feet away on the narrow, blacktop S. 36, three miles east of here when he “saw headlights swing around. Then a ball of fire shot 50 feet into the air.” According to sheriff’s police, the eastbound edr, driven by Fosalee Ann Bragg, 21, 'Atwood, 111., swerved back suddenly from a muddy shoulder and collided with a car driven by JtJSeph Bode Har,mon. 58. VorsytlC Ill\ The dead, all killed instantly, included both drivers and all fivp..passengers in the cars. PoGce identified the other victims as Mrs. Esther Harmon, 52; the Harmons’ daughter, Greta, 15; two friends of the Harmons, Agnes Pistorious, 59, and Connie Bean, both of Blue Mound, HL, an«D Evelyn Louise Smith, 22, At(wped, a passenger in Miss Bragg’s vehicle. The crash was the third to take a heavy toll in Illinois within a month. On May 18, seven teenagers returning from a school graduation were killed near Mattoon, 20 miles south of here. A crash at Monmouth in Warren County killed five and injured six, May 23. ’in Police said widening operations and a heavy rain Thursday created a “muddy mess” with car tracks swerving violently from the shouldep onto the blacktop highway. Police said none of the victims was thrown from either car Preliminary investigation indicated neither car was travelling very fast at the time of th< crash, , Douglas County Sher if Dean Miller said. “But a head-on crash at, say even 40 m.p.h is pretty terrible,’ Miller added. ■ e ' Bandit's Brother Given Prison Term FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD— Robert Parker Receivedmaximum sentence of five years imprisonment and a SI,OOO fine Thursday for helping his brother break ,put of the Allen County Jail last year. . Federal Judge Robert Grant told Parker he did.no> hesitate in imposing the maximum sentence because of the seriousness of the jail break charge. Parker, 31, Canton, Ohio, pleader innocent to charges of aiding and abetting his brother Dari’s escape June 10, 1958. He was accused of*smuggling an‘automatic pistol to his brother, who shot his way to freedom. Grant sentenced Robert Payne, 31, and James Pobas, Jr., 31, both of Canton, to three years in prison each on the same charge. Dari Parker pleaded guilty to charges of bank robbery, jail break and assault last month and was sentenced to a total of 70 years imprisonment. Harry Brown Dies From Heart Attack Harry Brown, 77, prominent Decatur artist and teacher, died expectedly of a heart attack at 2 o’clock this morning at his home, 1209 North Second street. Mr. Brown, an artist for 40 years, had conducted art classes for the past three years here, and many of his oil paintings are hanging in churches of Decatur. He was born in Willshire township, Van Wert county. 0., May 27, 1882, a son of Benjamin and Lucinda Major-Brown. He was married to Emma Davidson April 26, 1947. He was a farmer in Willshire township and later was employed at the Decatur G.E. plant until his retirement in 1947. Mr. Brown was a member of the Trinity Evangelical ..United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sisters, ?Mrs. Nellie Sheets of near Willshire, and Mrs. Maude Johnson of Bedford, 0. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 o’clock Monday morning at the Zwick the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Tabor cemetery > Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Saturday until time of the services.

Probe Boston Transit Blast

BOSTON (UPD—Arson experts questioned a former transit employe and police checked out new telephone bomb threats today in a sweeping investigation of Thursday’s transit.waiting room explosion. One suspect was taken to police headquarters for questioning. Scores of detectives studied eyewitness reportsjnnd questioned the 38 persons injured in the blast. Explosive technicians from at least'three agencies united in a miscroscopic examination of a truckload of debris in state police laboratories. Authorities said they were seeking out all former Metropolitan Transit Authority (M*£A) workers and that at least one had been placed under, surveillance. New Bomb Threat Police said a new telephone bomb threat, warning that an explosive had been placed in the Green Street MTA station, .was received early today and checked out “without result.” They said calls of this kind were typical following an explosion,. Capt. Gerald McCarthy, chief of the state fire marshal’s explosion squad, sr:d state and city chemists had found “black powder residue” in the ruins c. the elevated station.

Authorities unofficialyl estimated it would have taken as much ' as 25 pounds of the highly explosive powder to touch off a blast of such force. Investigators pointed out that the explosion shattered 13th floor windows of the Hotel Madison, more than 100 feet from the scene of the blast in the elevated waiting room. More than a score of men were assigned to the investigation in an ■ urgent effort to track down the - maniac before he could strike - again-. An escaped mental patient . with a record of previous bomb- - ing attenpts was considered a » prime suspect. e Three persons were critically f injured in the blast late Thursday in the crowded North End District. Os the three, only an 81- • year-old man, Abraham Roberts, was considered early today to be in imminent danger of dying. He was struck in the neck by flying metal. Searched For Evidence Police b a 111 s tics experts swarmed over the area until late Thursday night picking up bits of the bqmb. They said thq person

who planted it "knew his business.” The explosive force was said to be about equal to a World War II 100-pound aerial bomb. The station is about 20 feet above the ground on the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s elevated tracks. The platform is outside the sheltered waiting room. Authorities said the bomb was planted in one of the public coin operated lockers, common to most railroad and transit station waiting rooms. Six dry cell batteries were found in the twisted wreckage lat eThursday night and police believed they were part of the bomb. < > Traces of x black powder and other chemicals were also found by investigators on the lockers. The explosion occurred just as a two-car train came to a stop at the edge of the platform. Balilistics experts theorized that this may have been more than coincidence. They said it was possible the madman somehow wired the bomb so that the train entering the station set off the explosion. The blast ripped apart the waiting room. Many Persons Knocked Down

* • 9 THE 0 : ' « T ■tEm ‘ , - r -< >\^: r '- GRADUATION AND A GlFT— Karim Aga Khan (right), 21-year-old spiritual leader of 20-million Ismaili Moslems, chats with Harvard classmate Dick Fisher of Buffalo, N. Y., at commencement exercises at Cambridge during which he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. The Aga Khan made a $50,000 gift to Harvard for benefit of students from India, Pakistan, the Middle East, Persia, and East Africa.

The explosion ripped apart the Waiting room just as a two-car train came to a stop at the edge of the platform. Huge beams, chunks of metal and razor-sharp pieces of glass flew in"” all directions. Some 200 persons in the immediate area were knocked flat. <-?- Debris rained down on the street below, cutting and injuring many passersby. Some passengers on the crowded train were injured when several car windows disintegrated. First rescue workers to the scene had to dig half a dozen persons from beneath the wreckage. The injured on the platform were strapped to stretchers and lowered to a fleet of ambulances in the street.

Blood Donors Needed For Heart Surgery Ten persons who have the right blood type wil be able to help out a five-year-old girl who must undergo a delicate heart operation in a few weeks. She is Deborah Ann Seitz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond W. Seitz, 611 North Second street. July 8, she will undergo heart surgery at the Indiana University medical center in Indianapolis. The surgery, as surgery performed on Aaron Yoder lastjune, will require a heart-lung machine and fresh blood, so that the blood may be detoured away from the heart during the operation. Ten donors, with O-positive type blood, will be needed to go to the Indiana University medical center to provide the blood. Those who want to donate .blood are asked to contact the Red Cross I office, so that they can be checked for the O-positive blood type. (The Red Cross office reminded donors 1 today that office hours for the next • two weeks will be from noon until • 4 p.m.) ; The Adams county chapter of the • Red Cross will provide transporta- : tion for the blood donors, and the Heart assciation, under the direction of Mrs. R. C. Hersh, will provide food for them.

Any person who is between the ages of 18 and 60 and who weighs over 110 pounds may donate blood, providing the blood type is right. A donor must have eaten no food for three hours before he is to give blood, and no alcoholic beverages for at least 12 hours before he is to donate.

Kendallville Youth Is Drowning Victim KENDALLVILLE, Ind. (UPD— James .Rottmiler, 16, Kendallville, drowned in Little Long Lake Thursday night while cooling off during a Lutheran Church group outing. His body was recovered in 10 feet of water. Authorities said the boy was a non-swimmer. Convict Garrett Man On Bootleg Charge AUBURN, Ind. (UPD—A DeKalb County jury convicted Walter Gamble, 61, Garrett, of transporting untaxed liquor on a public highway Thursday. State Excise Police said Gamble’s April 17 arrest broke a large-scale moonshine liquor operation. Gamble has a record of bootlegging convictions in Kentucky and Ohio.

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