Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 139, Decatur, Adams County, 13 June 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 139.

Florida Rape Case Trial Nearing End TALLAHASSEE, Fla, (UPI) — The trial of four white youths accused of raping a teen-aged Negro coed neared its end today. Two defendants testified she consented freely. One said that if the girl had resisted “I would not have deme it." This statement by Patrick Scarborough, a 20-year-old airman, brought a murmur of anger from Negroes in the segregated courtroom gallery . The 19-year-old girl had identified Scarborough earlier as the one who carried a shotgun the night of the alleged attack. Prosecutor William D. Hopkins finished the state’s case against the four youths Friday night after introducing in evidence confessions that each had assaulted the girl. It was expected the all-white jury would get the case by late today. Defense Mition Denied A The maximum penalty, should the jury convict without a recommendation of mercy, is death in the electric chair. Hopkins said he would not decide whether to ask the death sentence . until he makes his closing statement to the jury. Circuit Judge W. May Walker denied a defense motion for a directed verdict of acquittal, and defense lawyers put two of the four defendants on the stand before the trial recessed last midnight. Both Scarborough and David Beagles, 18, a high school student who was treasurer of his Sunday school class, testified the girl consented "freely and voluntarily” to sexual intercourse. The other defendants are Ollie Stoutamlre, 16, and Willon Collinsworth. 24, the only one of the four who is married. Neither Stoutamij-e nor Collinsworth took the stand last night, but character witnesses were presented in their behalf. Cried After Testifying Beagles' mother, Mrs. Edna Beagles, told the jury that “Davvid has always been a good boy, and he has never given me any trouble." She burst into tears when she resumed her seat in the packed courtroom/ The state charges the four white boys forced the Negroes out of the car at the point of a shotgun, forced the two Negro boys to kneel, and ordered the one girl into their car. "Die other girl ran. The girl, whose name cannot be published under Florida law, said they drove her to a wooded area and raped her sever) times.

Gary Gambling Head On Bond

VALPARAISO, Ind. (UPD—Tom Morgano, 59, Gary gambling figure, was released from Porter County Jail on $25,000 bond today and his attorneys obtained a threeday continuance on his arraignment on bribery charges. Bell Bonding Co., Gary, posted the bond and authorities released Morgano before dawn. The Ital-ian-born underworld figure was arrested late Thursday night outside the College Inn, a pizza restaurant he operates near the Valparaiso University campus. Morgano was arrested after Lake County Deputy Sheriff Harold Rayder signed an affidavit repeating charges before the Senate Rackets Committee that Morgano offered him $100.1)00 last March 28 in return for a monopoly on prostitution and pinball machfties in Lake County He obtained the legal services of two attorneys —Robert Lucas, Gary, and T. Cleve Stenouse, Crown Point. The attorneys secured a continuance of a court hearing from Monday to Thu rsday to give them time to study the affidavit against Morgano. Since his arrest, citizens’ groups pressed demands for a cleanup of vice and corruption in the Calumet area. Meanwhile, the Gary Crime Committee scheduled a mass meeting for Monday night and invited members of die Senate Rackets Committee and law enforcement officials to attend. The Lake County Council of Churches, meeting at East Chicago, previously demanded the dismissal of Chief Deputy Prosecutor Metro Hdovachka and two of his Investigators. Holovachka was referred to by rackets committee chairman Sen. John McClellan as “an operating part of the criminal syndicate which conduted vice and gambling” in Calumet District. The couireil also demanded a special session of the Indiana Legislature—a move rejeted hy Governor Handley. In another development, chairman Cornelius J. Verplank of the

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Big Four Conclave Os Ministers May Suspend Tuesday

GENEVA (UPl)—The Big Four foreign ministers conference probably will be suspended by Tuesday if Russia refuses to soften its Berlin demands, high U.S. officials said today. They said there would be no point in continuing the talks at this time if Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, after the week-end break, does not withdraw Russia's demand that the Allies get out of Berlin within 12 months. Soviet delegation sources discounted Western reports of a possible break in the ' conference. They classed them as Allied pressure tactics designed to force concessions from the Russians. Soviet sources said Gromyko would reject any suggestion for a recess and force the West to trigger the collapse of the conference, if indeed it is doomed to failure. — fin Washington, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) said it might be good for the Geneva conference to recess for 10 days so the Rusatem delegation could “get some instructions” from the Kremlin. In Rome the Italian Communist Party newspaper L’Unita said in a dispatch from Geneva that the conference "may conclude in the first days of next week with a reciprocal agreement not to aggravate the international situation and to make possible the calling of a summit meeting.” Recess Talk Increased Gromyko and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter remained in Geneva for the week end. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went home to London and Paris, respectively. U.S. sources said Herter did not plan to make any move for a private week-end conference with Gromyko but would be available if the Russian wanted to see him. Western talk jof a possible four-to-six-week recess increased aft-

Gary Crime Commission said he has cancelled a scheduled appearance on a Chicago television station (WBBM-TV) because Holovachka was going to be on the same program Sunday (Insight). “I will not appear on any program or platform with Formosa, Morgano, Pinelli, Giancanna, Holovachka or any others of discredited character who refused to cooperate with the McClellan committee,” said Verplank. “If Holovachka or any other of the rest now feels that they want to explain, the Senate committee will offer them a form.” -

xßk H ■ t 1 " B ft I B JjHF • s'*'■* ’■■ W 4 j IB DISCUSS WEST BERLIN SITUATION— Invited to Geneva by U. S. Secretary of State Christian Herter for a discussion of the Berlin crisis, West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt (left) shakes hands with his host before a luncheon-discussion at the American statesman’s villa. They were joined at the talks by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd.

er Friday’s plenary session at which Gromyko: —Refused to take back a demand that the West pull its troops out of Berlin, although he insisted he did not intend the demand as a threat. —Told the Western ministers flatly that a summit conference should be held whether the Geneva meeting succeeds or not. He warned that if they blocked a summit meeting they must "assume grave responsibilities.” Herter’c Three Points At the beginning of the Geneva talks a month ago, Herter laid down three points which must be met to justify a summit meeting: —The foreign ministers must reach some areas of agreement. —They must narrow East-West differences to some extent. —They must agree on possible summit topics on which there would be some chance of reaching accord. Mrs. Pearl Addy Is Found Dead Friday Graveside services will be conducted at 3 p. m. today for Mrs. Pearl Addy, 75, who was found dead Friday afternoon at her home on Schirmeyer street. Indications were that she had suffered a fatal heart attack Wednesday. She was the widow of Jefferson Addy. Bom June 1, 1884 in Ohio, the daughter of Christerhoff and Mary Johnson, she had resided in Decatur most of°her life. : Surviving are three sons, Forrest Addy, Kalamazoo, Mich., Glenn Addy, 121 South Fourteenth street, and Ralph D. Addy, Lafayette; one daughter, Mrs. Mary Wolfe, Redkey; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Mrs. Mary Johnloz, Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Tillie Cline, Albany. Two brothers preceded her in death. The body was taken to the Gillig & Doan funeral home. The Rev. J. O. Penrod will officiate at the graveside services at 3 p.m. today in the Decatur cemetery.

Brother Os Decatur Lady Dies Friday Lee F. Fulleton, of Portland, 0., 76, a brother of Mrs. Henry Baumann of 428 Mercer avenue, died at 9:30 o’clock Friday morning. A native of BentSn county, he lived for many years in Aberdeen, S.D., and in Vancouver, Wash., before moving tq Portland 25 years ago. He is survived by his widow, Amy Fulleton. Services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday afternoon at the Colonial funeral home in Portland and burial will be in the Portland cemetery.

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday

Master Air Defense rlan Is Criticized

WASHINGTON (UPI)—A Republican senator joined Democratic defense experts today in criticizing the administration’s new “master plan” for continental air 1 defense. Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy took the wraps off the plan Friday in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee. The blueprint had been prepared to quiet congressional alarm over costly and competing air defense missiles. Reaction of committee members suggested, however, that the plan's cu-tback in the Army’s Nike-Hercules and the Air Force ; Bomarc—while retaining both — was not sharp enough. Favored Deeper Slice “If you accept some of the premsies on which this was based < you could go a lot further byway of savings,” said Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.). The plan reflected the apparent , conviction that any enemy attack on this country would be launched by intercontinental ballistic msisiles rather than manned planes. Chairman Richard B. Russell (D-Ga.) also said he approved the cutback in the two rival missile program,s but would have favored a deeper slice. Two Democratic critics of defense policies had sharper criti-

Ask Public Aid In Search For Boston Madman BOSTON (UPD—Police officials appealed today to the people to help track down the madman who set off a bomb in a rapid transit station, injuring 38 persons. A 24-year-old escaped mental patient who formerly lived in Boston was sought for questioning but Police Commissioner Leo J. Sullivan said that no charges have been filed against him. Sullivan said the man is the same one who secreted a homemade bomb behind a rostrum where Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was to speak at a rally in New York’s Central Park. Police identified him as John Gregory Feller, a young Air Force veteran from New York. Police said the unexploded bomb found planted by him in Central Park may have been the same type used here, Feller was seized after the April 25 Central Park bombing attempt and was committed to the Harlem Valley Hospital at Wingdale, N.Y. He escapd last Tuesday. Three persons were still in critical condition today with injuries suffered in Thursday’s ~~t>last in the Metropolitan Transit Authority station near the North Station, a congested downtown area. Squads of detectives and ballistics experts hunted around the clock for clues to the mysterious explosion Thursday. Sullivan said he was convinced the bombing was the work of a demented person. In Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, police announced that all incoming calls to headquarters were being moni- ' tored and recorded in a crackdown on a flurry of hoax calls that have plagued police since the blast occurred. ( Jobless Pay Claims Decrease In U.S. WASHINGTON (UPD—The num- i ber of persons claiming unem- ( ployment benefits dropped almost i to the pre-recession level at the i end of May, a Labor Department . report showed today. < The jobless benefits rolls de- < dined by 57,000 to 1,392,00 in the week ending May 30. This com- ( pared with 2,827,600 for the same ( period in 1958 and 1,327,00 two , years ago at the same time.

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I cisms. Sen. Henry M. Jakson (D-WashJ said the plan is “ridiculous . . . ;. .rjstcr compromise” designed to quiet the feuding joint chiefs of staff. Criticized By Symington Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) said the plan "guarantees a further waste of billions of dollars . . . land) plans and programs an inadequate defense at the expense of an adequate offense.” Essentially, the new plan would cut spending on Bomarc, already authorized and still to be authorized through 1965, by about $740,300,000. It would cut Nike Hercules spending by about 469 million and effect additional air defense economies, to bring the total cut-back to $1,500,000,000 over the years. It would speed development q( Nike-Zeus, the anti-missile missile, by the expenditure of an additional 157 million dollars in the year beginning July 1. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cooler today and tonight. Sunday fair and pleasant. High today 70 north to 80 south. Low tonight near 50 north, 54-58 south. High Sunday 75 north to 80 south. Outlook for Monday: Fair and pleasant.-

Girl Scout Day Camp Opens Here Monday Girl Scout week will begin Monday at Hanna-Nuttman park, following an international theme similar to the theme of Brownie day camp, which ended Friday. _ Stops where Girl Scouts wanting transportation to Hanna-Nuttman park, wilf begin their rides, will be at the same places as they were for this past week’s day camp for girls who will enter the second grade in the fall. All Brownie fly-ups, girls who will be Girl Scouts- in the fall, wilf attend the Girl Scouts day camp. The bus stops are at these places: Gay’s filling station, at the corner of Thirteenth and Monroe streets; for Stratton Place, at Klenk's comer; Homestead, at the center; Grant, corner of Winchester and Russell streets; Hite's grocery on Winchester street; Sanitary Market, on Mercer avenue; the filling station at the corner 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. An average of 140 girls attended each day of the five-day Brownie camp, which began Monday, when Switzerland was the first country to be studied. Hie Brownies saw pictures of and were told about the Girl Scouts’ international chalet in Switzerland, among the Swiss topics they took up the first day. Mexico, England, Germany, and Australia were the countries spotlighted in the following days. Friday’s swim at the city pool was cancelled, but the Brownies will still be able to have that swim next Friday, the last day of the Girl Scout camp, when both Brownies and Girl Scouts will be at the swimming, pool at 10 a. m. The Girl Scout program this coming week will be similar to the Brownies’ program, in which the girls learn about songs, dances, food, and other customs and traditions of each of the five countries. This coming week, the Girl Scouts will stu®y more on the Girl Scout laws as they are read in other countries arid the variations in uniforms , for the Girl Scouts, or Girl Guides, as they are known in Europe. “We had a very'’good week for the Brownies.” Mrs. R. C. Hersh, camp director, commented this morning about the first part of «. Continued on page five

Governor Long Os Louisiana Fights Charge GALVESTON, Tex. (UPI) — Louisiana Gov. Earl Long, who has never been known to pull his punches, prepared today for a vigorous fight against any attempt to have him declared insane. He formally charged in a petition filed in District Court Friday that he was kidnaped from Louisiana. He said he was brought to Texas “tied hand and foot” and that he is being illegally held in a mental hospital. Mrs. Long was reported shocked at her husband’s dramatic plea, but sympathetic. The colorful Louisiana chief executive asked District Judge L. D. Goddard in a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to set him free. A hearing was set for 10 a.m. Monday, the day before a fullfledged hearing is set in Probate Court on a petition by Mrs. -Long and. the governor’s cousin, Dr. Arthur Long Jr., to have him confined for another 90 days of psychiatric treatment. Long signed his petition: “Earl Long, governor in exile by force in kidnaping.” Long, 63, was brought to Galveston in a National Guard plane May 30. After efforts by his wife, Blanche, to get him to submit to treatment voluntarily failed, she asked Probate Judge Hugh Gibson to order him confined. Gibson did on grounds Long was “dangerous” to himself and others. But it was a temporary order, good for 14 days, and Gibcon set next Tuesday as the date Tor a hearing on whether Long should be co'nfined for 90’days. The governor's petition was filed, by Adrian S. Levy Sr„ who is heading a team of four lawyers. Levy said Long would appear in court himself and testify that he was brought to Texas “forcibly, unwittingly and unwillingly.”

Cool Front Forging Its Way Eastward United Press International A persistent cool front forged its way eastward Saturday, bringing falling temperatures to the Ohio Valley and tornadic violence to the South and Midwest. The cool air had cleared an area from the Great Lakes to eastern Kansas of the recordbreaking heaf that baked the nation earlier this week. 4 But temperatures outside the area were expected to rise to the 90s again Saturday. Thunderstorms dropped 1.20 inches of rain on New Orleans ®rly Saturday, hours after tornadb funnels and water spouts were sighted near the Mound City and Corpus Christi, Tex. Winds up to 67 miles an hour raced through Fort Worth and Dallas Friday and Fort Worth police estimated damage to windows and roofs in “the thousands of dollars.” A “baby tornado” trundled across four Wisconsin farms west of Milwaukee, causing considerable damage. Other thunderstorms fell late Friday night from Virginia through eastern Ohio and into New England and in Colorado and Nebraska, but no amounts over an inch were reported. The U.S. Weather Bureau predicted showers and thunderstorms late Saturday for the Gulf coast and the far West. The mercury will continue to fall in the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley regions, but »t will be warmer over the northern Plains and upper Mississippi Valley.

House Approves Wheat Measure

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Democratic - controlled Congress prepared today to make President Eisenhower take the responsibility for approving or killing a bill aimed at cutting wheat surpluses. All indications were the President would veto the measure on grounds its price support-boosting provisions would worsen the nation’s wheat problems. The House Friday afternoon approved the Democratic-sponsored bill by a narrow’ margin of 11 votes—lßß-177. The Senate has passed its own version of wheat legislation. The next step will be for a House-Senate conference committee to iron out differences between the two bills. The group probably will meet early next week. Moves already were gaining momentum to get the conference to accept a modified version of the House bill. One high-ranking House Democrat said the conferees probably would lower the sup-

New Troubles In Steel Talks

NEW YORK (UPl)—The steel wage talks, already deadlocked on contract issues, face new trouble .where and how the negotiators should meet. ■The United Steelworkers International Wage Policy Committee Friday gave union officers the power to strike if necessary to back, up the union’s contract demands. - -I „ . The union, admitting it has made no progress in joint talks between four-man teams, has called its full negotiating committee for each of the 12 steel companies to New York to start separate talks with the companies on Tuesday. The companies, however, served notice they will not attend separate meetings. The companies said they have delegated the authority to negotiate a pew contract to their fourman team and that this group will be at the Hotel Roosevelt Tuseday to meet with any representatives the union sends. The union said it will have its negotiators in 12 separate rooms in the same hotel and is expecting “authorized and competent” officials of each of the companies to show up. Before rejecting separate talks, the industry Friday suggested that the union either call all of its 435 negotiators into a single room or stagger the 12 meetings so its team could attend each one. The union turned down the first idea and said if the companies want to stagger the meeting times of the 12 sessions they will have to contact each union committee and "se up their own schedule.” At a fiery meeting Friday, the union’s 171-man wage policy committee blamed the “complete dead-

Senate Committee Visits State Dunes CHESSERTON, Ind. (UPD—-A Senate Subcommittee went ingognito today to study the Indiana Dunes—the bone of contention between Indiana industrialists and Illinois nature lovers. The subcommittee planned to tour the dunes by helicopter and jeep as part of its investigation of a bill by Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.) proposing that the 5,000 acres of sandy hills be turned into a national park. The party arrived at Midway Airport in Chicago Friday night and was told that 3,000 persons would demonstrate against the park proposal. Tm glad we got this tip,” said Benton Stong of the committee’s administrative staff. “As a result, we plan to remain unobserved until we complete our inspection *of the area.” Members of the party, besides Douglas and Stong, were Sens. Ernest Gruening (D-iaska), and Frank Moss (D-Utah), Jerry O’Callaghan, legislative assistant to Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney (D-Wyo.) and Russell Turner, administrative assistant to Sen. Thomas E. Martin (D-Iowa). Douglas’ bill is opposed by Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.), Governor Handley and. other Indiana officials who back plans to industrialize the area. National and Bethlehem Steel companies want to build mills on the site and Indiana is seeking a deep-water port at Burns Ditch in Porter County. Opponents of the bill recently told a Public Lands Committee hearing in Washington that industrialization of the dunes area is necessary to promote Indiana’s economic expansion. But Douglas and his backers

port rate fixed in the House bill, dropping it from 90 per cent of parity to about 85 per cent. The stop-gap bill, which applies only to die 1960 and 1961 crops, Pleasant Weather Is Forecast In State United Press International Three days of pleasant earlysummer weather was in store for Hoosiers today, with the mercury not expected to rise much above 80. It will be fair and cooler in all sections today and fair and pleasant at least the next two days, the weatherman said. Highs today were expected to range from the mid-70s north to 80 south, with similar readings announced for Sunday and Monday, and no rain predicted.

lock” on the industry’s “unrealistic and ridiculous” contract stand. The committee warned that the industry’s position was the “path to disaster and chaos.” The industry at first demanded a one-year extension of the present agreement, minus the cost-of-living escalator clause. Then it offered to grant a wage incjftse if the union would accept eight contract revisions on work rules. The union countered that such contract changes would destroy it. The committee angrily rejected the industry's proposal and ordered the union’s officers to prepare for "any eventuality." The present three-year agreement in the industry expires at midnight June 30. Joseph F. Finnegan, head of the Federal Mediation Service, mirrored official government concern over the deadlock Friday when he announced plans to meet with McDonald and Roger M. Blough. Finnegan said he would meet with them when they are in Washington to attend dinner meetings with a group of Democratic senators. McDonald will b ein Washington Monday and Blough the following week. Youth Is Killed In Two-Auto Collision MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (UPD— Gary L. Jensen, 18, Mount Vernon, was killed early today and six other persons were injured in a two-car collision on Ind. 62 east of here. Authorities said the crash occurred when one car passed another, and collided headon with a third car.

contended the industrialization would rob the Chicago area of valuable recreation land. Stong said members of the subcommittee hoped to “have answers to 'all the questions” by the end of their tour of the Illinois, > Indiana and Michigan shorelines. Proponents and opponents of the 1 Douglas measure were scheduled ' to testify before the committee 1 members in separate sessions Sunday. * The lawmakers and their aides were expected to return to Wash1 ington late Sunday. Hobbs Faces Second Embezzlement Trial ALBION, Ind. (UPD — Once-con-victed Arnod G. Hobbs, former Albion business whizz, today faced trial on another indictment charging embezzlement from the defunct Noble County Credit Union which he headed for 10 years. Special Judge Richard Mehl also scheduled trial dates for three of the four persons indicted as accessories in Hobbs’ alleged embezzlement from the credit union, which was bankrupted by a nearly two million dollar shortage. Hobbs was convicted of a $1,600 embezzlement from the institution June 2 and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Judge Mehl scheduled his arraignment on a second of the 21 indictments against him for July 7. Hobbs, 33, will be arraigned next month on an indictment charging embezzlement of $2,000. Judge Mehl appointed a pauper attorney to defend him. NOON EDITION

also calls for tightening production controls and reducing acreage allotments 25 per cent. The Senate wheat bill is more complex. It would give each grower a choice of three {dans. Price supports would range from 65 to 80 per cent of parity, depending upon how much land the farmer decided to take out of production. President eisenhower has called on Congress repeatedly to come up with some soluton to the wheat surplus problem. Taxpayers already have about 3 billion dollars invested in wheat surpluses. A supply sufficient to serve domestic needs for 2% years now is in storage. Storage costs for the 1,300,000 bushels are $500,000 a day. If no wheat legislation becomes law this year, farmers will grow the 1960 crop under terms of present law. Administration experts estimated that would add 150 million to 200 million bushels to the surplus.

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