Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 145, Decatur, Adams County, 20 June 1959 — Page 1

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Louisiana Officials In Squabble For Power To Succeed Long Dynasty

BATON ROUGE, La. (UPI) — Louisiana state officials squabbled today in what could become a struggle for power to succeed the shattered Long dynasty. While they argued over the acting governorship, Gov. Earl Long, described by doctors as a maniac who subconsciously wants to kill himself and his wife, marshaled his forces for a legal bat- ' tie to get out of the insane asylum. Long, confined behind bars at the state hospital in Mandeville, La., just a stone’s throw from the north shore of Lake Ponchartrain which extends 30 miles south to New Orleans, handpicked a team of attorneys Friday he hopes will help him overthrow a second court commitment and win freedom fawn his third hospital in three weeks. Jesse Bankston, state director of institutions, met with Long late today or Monday morning and file a petition for a sanity hearing in the court of District Judge Fred S. Leblanc in Baton Rouge . Leblanc is the judge Fred S. Leblanc in Baton Rouge. Leblanc is the judge who signed papers allowing deputies to drag Long screaming, cursing and kicking from a state patrol car Thursday and take him to the hospital. The commitment was at the request of Mrs. Long, who raced and beat her husband to Baton Rouge to sign necessary papers after Long walked out of the Ochsner Foundation Clinic in New Orleans following only 20 hours of voluntary treatment. The political turmoil in Louisiana was snarled further Friday s when Secretary of Staet Wade O. Martin Jr., announced he would honor no signature on official \ state documents other than Long’s. Att. Gen. Jack Gremillion said Lt. Gov. Lether Frazar was acting governor while Long was confined, but Martin said: Intends To Recognise Long “I shall continue to recognize Earl Long as governor until he declares himself unable to act or until his inability to perform is declared by some official body. Frazar asked Dupree Litton, Long's legal counsel, and Gremillion to study the situation and report to him early next week. Frazar said he didn't know whether he was governor or not. Litton said there was no doubt about it in his mind. "I believe that Lether Frazar is the acting governor and that Mr. Martin’s posiion is, in my humble opinion, not legally correct,’’ he said. ' Legal sources said the situation would be resolved as soon as Frazar signed some imporant document such as an appointment of a public official. When Martin then refused to recognize Frazar’s signature, the appointee would go into court and ask for a mandamus action forcing Martin to act. i Suggests Sanity Hearing Litton said he was not one of

Nixon Adds Fuel To Furor Over Strauss -r

WASHINGTON (UPl)’ — Sen. Clintpn P. Anderson (D-N-M.) saia today President Eisenhower knew “he would have trouble” \when he nominated Lewis L. Strauss to be commerce secretary. \ “Strauss was controversial," explained Anderson, leader of the Senate bloc which defeated efforts at confirmation of the appointment. To President Eisenhower’s bitter accusation that the Senate had written a “sad episode” in U.S. history by rejecting Strauss, Anderson replied that the President “can easily secure Senate confirmation for nominees who inspire confidence.” . Sends Senators Notes Eisenhower Friday night took the unusual step of sending handdelivered notes to the 46 senators in both parties who voted in favor of confirmation of Strauss. Fortynine senators voted against Strauss in the showdown vote early Friday. The President’s letter was delivered by White House messenger. It said: “I cannot fail to recognize the courage, wisdom and spirit of fairness you demon-

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the governor’s attorneys who will ’ try to help him fight his way out ‘ of the mental hospital, but he j said the only recourse Long has is to ask for a sanity hearing. , Martin, a long time political , enemy of Long’s, used this line in striking a blow at the Long ! machine. He stressed that the governor has “consistently insisted that he is not a mental case... ’ or declared that he is unable to perform the duties of the govert nor’s office.” Dr. Sparkman Wyatt, a psychia- ; trist for the district court who . examined Long when he arrived ( in Baton Rouge, said the governor suffered from "paranoid schi- [ zophrenia, with manic-depressive I tendencies.” “He felt, in his own words, •everyone else is nuts', and might have killed himself by extended . manic excitement,” Dr. Wyatt said. Another physician who examined Long, and who asked that his name be withheld, said Long ’ set a killing pace during the , month preceding his breakdown because of a subconscious desire to commit suicide. Dailey Child Dies Early This Morning Jan Edwin Dailey, four-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mirdeth Lamoil Dailey, died at 5 o’clock this morning at the home in Willshire township, one and one-half miles south of Wren, O. The boy had been ill for the past eight months. He was born in St. Mary’s township May 28, 1955, a son of Mirdeth La moil and Charlene HamrickDailey. The father is employed in the M & R department of the Central Soya Co. Surviving in addition to the parents are two brothers, Carl and Larry Dailey, at home; the maternal grandfather, Calvin Hamrick of near Salem, and the paternal grandmother, Mrs. Barbara Dailey of near Rockford, O. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the residence and at 2 p.m. at the Willshire U.B. church, the Rev. Wilbur Sites officiating. Burial will be iOj-the Willshire cemetery. The body* will be returned from the Zwick funeral home to the residence. where friends may call after 10:30 a.m. Sunday. The casket will remain closed. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy today, becoming cooler north tonight. Low tonight in 50s north to 65 south. Sunday fair and pleasant High Sunday mid-70s north to near 80 south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly fair and little temperature change. NOON EDITION

strated in the vote on the confirmation of Lewis Strauss. I am grateful. With warm regards, sincerely, Dwight D. Eisenhower.” Vice President Richard M. Nixon poured new fuel on the slowly subsiding furor over Strauss when he charged late Friday that Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson "cracked the whip” that defeated Strauss. Calls Action Vindictive Nixon also told newsmen in Chicago, where he stopped en route to Denver, that Senate Democrats had used their top-heavy power to kick Eisenhower, "in the teeth.” He called the Senate action "arbitrary apd vindictive.” Johnson has maintained official silence on the reason for his vote, but it appeared he turned against Strauss because the secretary failed to show he could -work with Congress. _ * Sen. J. William Fulbright (DArk.l, the only senator not recorded on the Strauss vote, disclosed he abstained from taking sides because "I had difficulty in arriving at any conclusion either way.”

Geneva Talks Are Recessed

GENEVA (UPl)—The Big Four foreign ministers’ conference began a three-week "cooling off” recess today, leaving the time bomb of possible conflict ticking away in divided Berlin. After 40 days of fruitless negotiation, Russia and the West were no nearer to finding a solution of til Berlin crisis (-.and easing the threat of war along Europe’s IronCurtain border. The ministers set a brief session to seal Friday’s agreement for a recess and then began preparing to head for home. They are scheduled to meet again July 13 for negotiations which probably will decide whether there is to be a summit meeting this year. The idea of a “cooling off” recess in the conference was first suggested by West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in an interview with UPI "President Frank H. Bartholomew. The formal closing session of the conference lasted just six minutes. A brief communique said: “At the conference of foreign ministers in Geneva which began on May, 11 1959, a broad exchange of views took place between the participants on the subjects under discussion. “The ministers are of the upto’’ ion that further discussion and negotiations are necessary. The ministers agreed to recess and t 6 resume the work of the conference in Geneva on July 13.” Before the formal session, the four ministers met in a small room adjoining the main conference chamber to agree on the recess communique. Then they moved into the ornate chamber, seated themselves around the doughtnut shaped table and Gromyko started the proceedings as chairman of the session. The Soviet minister read the communique in English. He then thanked the Swiss government for its cooperation during the talks by the Big Four mininters. To Lunch With Gromyko Secretary of State Christian A. Herter planned to leave by special plane for Washington after lunching with Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The lunch, repaying a social obligation, is not expected to produce any new developments. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd plans to return to London tonight,

Driver Injured In Wreck Friday Night A personal-injury accident, which started in Ohio and concluded in Adams county,, occurred Friday night at 8:25 o’clock on an “S” curve on U. S. 224, causing $750 damage to the automobile; The driver was treated at Adams county memdi-ial hospital for severe eye lacerations, but was released. Terry W. Dale, 3fr, of Van Wert, was driving west near the OhioIndiana state line when his car left the highway about 200 feet east of the boundary, hitting the north berm of the road. The car veered to the left, leaving the road on the south berm, hit an Ohio State road marker, traveled across a ditch, then agrafe state line road and came to reirsß2 feet into a corn field on the Indiana side of the line, after negotiating a deep ditch west of the border. The car windshield apparently popped out when the auto drove across the ditch and struck the driver near the left eye. Six stitches were to close the wound. The corn field is owned by Mrs. Mila Harmon, of route 5, Decatuf. Included in the damage to the car were the windshield, left front fender, hood ( bumper, left front tire, and undercarriage. Because the accident® originated in Ohio, the accident is charged to the state of Ohio. Ohio state police, Adarns county sheriff’s police and Indiana state police investigated the mishap.

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but Gromyko and Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville will remain here untli Sunday. The Western powers blamed Russia for the deadlock that forced the recess, saying Gromyko ; left the conference just where he came in—threatening action to force the Allies out of Berlin unless they accepted a Soviet-dictat-ed deadline for the withdrawal of their troops from the divided city. Gromyko Insisted, however, that Russia's position was entirely misunderstood by the West. He said his proposals contained no threat. No Objection To Recess In a statement published in Moscow today by the Soviet agency TaSS, Gromyko said he had offered no objection to the recess proposed by the Western Allies, but that he hoped it would be of "minimal duration.” It was not clear whether this meant Russia is considering an effort to recall the foreign ministers to Geneva before July 13. The Western Big Three are ex- . pected to use the recess for high- . level consultations. The Western . foreign ministers are expected to meCt in Paris'-shortly before the <4«oiiference resumes, and there i may be a series of meetings be- . tween chiefs of government as , well. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is expected to visit President Eisenhower in Washington, President Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. De Gaulle also may go to Washington, following up Eisenhower’s press conference statement this week that the U.S. President would welcome a chance to talk to his "old friend and comrade in arms.” . Text Os Ordinance Is Published Today The complete text of the ordinance calling for the sale to Indi-ana-Michigan of the city electric property is published as a legal advertisement in today’s Decatur Daily Democrat. The text, four columns long when printed in small print, includes the terms of the sale, the reasons for the sale, and considerable information on the transaction.

Steel Contract Talks Are Still Deadlocked

NEW YORK (UPD—-Steel contract talks remained deadlocked today, with only 9 more bargaining days left for top-level negotiators to reach a peaceful settlement and avert a nationwide strike at 12:01 a.m. July 1. In Pittsburgh, a top official of one of the nation’s largest steel firms said the industry has “made its final offer” in the current negotiations. “We have made a proposal,” the official said Friday night. “We will take a strike rather than change that proposal.” Recess Until Monday The official, who asked that his name be withheld, did not rule out the possibility of a wage increase, but he said the industry was united in its determination to prevent an increase in “employment costs.” There no meeting of the negotiators today. After sitting around the bargaining table for two hours Friday, the joint conference was recessed until 10 a.m. Monday. Industry’s chief negotiator, R. Conrad Cooper, executive vice president of the U.S. Steel Corp., had nothing to say on the impasse. And the only comment of David J, McDonald, president of the United Steelworkers Union, wgs that “siletffce is golden” at this late stage in the negotiations. To Meet With Democrats After Monday's session, Cooper

Summer To Arrive Late Sunday Hight United Press International The approach of summer promised generally fair and pleasant weather across the nation dayScattered afternoon and evening I thundershowers were forecast for I the Rockies, western portions of the Plains end southward into Oklahoma and Texas and as far west as eastern Oregon. • Except for a few light showers In Maine and scattered thundershowers in Florida, fair to partly cloudy skies were forecast for the rest of the nation. On the whole, “uneventful weather” was expected for the nation, spending its last official spring weekend before the arrival of summer at 10:50 p.np c.d.t. Sunday. Leadville, Colo., reported the heaviest rain in early weekend showers scattered widely throughout the Rocky Mountains, the central and southern plateau and parts of the Plains states. Located in the hehvily mountainous central Colorado country, Leadville had, .22 inches while only traces were' recorded elsewhere. The Northeast, eastern upper Michigan and the Jacksonville, Fla. area had scattered showers throughout the night but, it wds generally fair in the South. Temperatures ranged from the 50s in New England and the Lake Superior area just below 100 in the desert southwest. Fort Wayne Man Dies In Apartment'Fire FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPI) — Dick Bloemker, 32, Fort Wayne, was burned to death today when fire swep* his home in a threeapartment dwelling. Bloemkers body was found on the living room floor of the downstairs apartment where he lived. Two little girls in the apartment escaped death. A three-year-old was burned critically and underwent surgery at a hospital. A six-year-old was taken to the same hospital for observation but apparently was not burned. Authorities said they did not know the girls’ names or their relationship to Bloemker.

1 plans to go to Washington with ‘Roger M. Blough, chairman of U.S. Steel, where they will meet Mon- ‘ day night with a group of liberal ' Democrats. Last Monday night , this same group was addressed by ■ McDonald who briefed them on J the status of the negotiations. The two negotiating teams, headed by Cooper and McDonald, are bargaining on an industry- ■ wide basis. Negotiations have been i in progresss since May 5. . Kirkland Township Native Dies Friday Services will be held Monday morning tor C. A. Olwin, 65, who died following a heart attack in Cushing, Okla., Friday morning. Born in Kirkland township, Mr. Olwin moysdgto Cushing when he was a »Hn. He was a member of the CiSSlnng Church of the Brethren. Surviving in addition to his wife, the former Beatrice Yaney, aro three daughters, Mrs. Sara Jane • Pierce, El Paso, Tex;, Mrs. Lena- ■ belle Mullins, Geneva, Switzerland, and Mrs. Phyllis Kinsey, Cushing. One son. Junior, preceded him in death. The services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, in the Cushing Church of the Brethren.

Flash Flames Roar Through Resort Lodge BRAINERD, Minn. (UPI) — A flash fire roared through the plush Breezy Point resort lodge early today and one of several persons who leaped from windows to escape the flames was killed. Three hours after the fire broke out at least two persons were unaccounted for and feared burned to death when trapped in their rooms. The dead man was identified as Frank J. Hilldinger, about 65, of Cleveland, Ohio. Flames roared through the guest rooms at dawn, routing 75 guests' from their beds. About 11 guests were hospitalized, some of them with broken bones suffered when they leaped from upstairs windows. y The 33-year-old lodge, 20 miles north of here, on Pelican Lake, was a total loss. Flames ate quickly through the Wooden structure. ’•*» Lodge Manager Edward F. Nash said the loss would be about a million dollars. The lodge was the largest and one of the best known of the resort spots in northern Minnesota. About ‘6O cabins are clustered around the lodge, but none was threatened by the fire. One of the survivors said he was awakened by the smell erf smoke at 5:30 a.m. and saw flames leaping 75 to 100 feet high. Firemen from nearby Nisswa, Pine River, Piquot Lakes and Brainerd answered the alarm, but the building was burning out of control by the time they arrived. Several of the injured were evacuated to nearby homes until they could be Removed to St. Joseph Hospital here. Residents of the, area reported being awakened by "popping.” i There were unconfirmed reports of explosions during the fire. I Hilldinger’s wife was hospitalI ized in a state of shock. Forty 4-H Members Attend Annual Camp Forty Adams county 4-H’ers will leave Monday for the annual 4-H camp. This year, the camp will be at Camp Limberlost on Oliver Lake in LaGrange county. The group will leave the post office in Decatur at 11 a. m. Monday, having left Berne at 10:30 and Coppess Comer at 10:45. Star campers, who were selected by last year’s 4-H’ers to receive an expense-paid trip to camp this year, are Esther Brehm and Lynford Weiland. In addition to the two star campers, the group will include Sharon Diehl, Jeanie Stolz, Connie Bergman, Arville Smith, Janet Smith, Judy Royer, Janet Winteregg, Betty Schultz, Sue Strickler, Mary Helen Schwaller. Carol Kessen, Teresa Hiday, Susan Breiner, Patty Diehl, Mary Lynh Martin, SaDonna Hobver, Eva Jane Mankey: Max Maser, Stanley Hill, Bob Brown, Dickie Gerber. David Griffiths, Steven Hazelwood, Jimmy Hill, Dale Mankey, Jr., Stephen Breiner, Donnie Raudenbush, Jerry Alberson, Steven Randolph, Jerry Moses, Tom Schnepf, Greg Schnepf, Dan Seltenright, Norman Brokaw, George Hutst, Ronald Smith, Brad Bayles, and Danny John Moser. Last Os Civil War Veterans Critical HOUSTON, Tex. (UPI) —The nation's last Civil War veteran, 116 - year -old Walter Washington Williams, fought for his life in an oxygen tent the the home of his daughter today. Williams contracted pneumonia two weeks ago. He appeared to be improving but suffered a relapse Friday. He .was in critical condition at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Willie Mae Bowles, today. liie death of John Sailing, in a Kingsport, Tenn., hospital on March 16 left Williams as the last living symbol of some four-million men who fought the bloody Civil War that split the nation nearly n century ago. Williams, a Confederate soldier, predicted six years ago he would be the last living survivor. He particularly wanted to outlive the last Union veteran and did. Albert Woolson of Duluth, Minn., the nation's last surviving Union soldier, died two years ago.

National Debt Ceiling Hiked

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Key Democrats gave assurances today the Senate would act this month on House-approved legislation to ■hike the national debt ceiling. The legislation must be passed by July 1 when the new fiscal year begins. The timetable will be tight, however, because the Senate Finance Committee plans no hearings on the proposal before the latter part of next week. Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.) said he was confident the measure would receive prompt floor action as soon as the committee, headed by Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) approved it. The House passed the bill 225117 Friday after beating down a move to send it back to its Ways & Means Committee. The measure, asked by the administration to give more leeway in management of the huge national debt, would increase the debt ceiling to a new peacetime high of 295 billion dollars in the coming year. The debt is expected to climb from the present 286 billion dolJeanne Smith In Mermaid Festival Miss Jeanne Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clark W. Smith Os near Decatur, and winner of last year’s Decatur soybean queen contest, has been entered by the Decatur Chamber of Commerce in the Mermaid Festival at North Webster, it was announced today. Miss Smith is a senior at Adams Central, and is well known as a baton twirler and as cheerleader for Adams Central last ; winter. The mermaid fesitval, one of ■ the great events of the lake region of northeastern Indiana, is held annually from June 20 to June 28. Miss Smith will be known as Miss Soybean in the contest, and the contest will be judged with the participants in formal dresses. The winner will reign as the Indi- . ana Queen of Lakes for one year, and will preside over the 1960 mermaid ball, ride in the queen’s ’ float in the 1960 parade, and re--1 linquish her title to the 1960 winner at the coronation ceremonies. Miss Smith will ride in the parade this year in a special Decatur 1 float, which will include one of the catamarans made by the Decatur Duo-Marine Company, Vic Porter, president of the company, announced. The parade will be next Saturday afternoon. The festivities start this evening with the mermaid ball at Tippecanoe Gardens on Tippecanoe Lake. Next Saturday the contestants will gather at noon for last-minute instructions, and the parade will start at 2p. m. From 4 until 6 p. m., the preliminary judging will take place. From 6 until 9 p. m. there will be a buffet dinner ,and recepton for the contestants, with the governor of Indiana present. From 9 until 10:30 p. m. the final judging will take place and seven mermaid princes'ses also will be selected.

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I 1 lars to more than 293 billion dollars by Dec. 15. The present legal ceiling of 288 billion expires at midnight June 30, when it will drop back to the permanent ceiling of 283 billion. The Senate was expected to go along—not very enthusaistically—with the temporary increase. Some efforts were expected, however, to give the President the 288 billion dollar permanent ceiling as he rquested. If this attempt fjails, the President almost certainly will have to, return to Congress in 1960 — an election year—with another request for a debt limit increase. Four Traffic Deaths Early This Morning United Press International Indiana counted at least four traffic deaths in the first nine hours of the weekend, three of them, within a 20-fninute period in a concentrated , populous area in the state’s northwestern section. The strangest fatal accident was blamed on a hog wandering in a- - Wayne Burger, 35, North Judson, was killed on U.S. 30 hear Wanatah in LaPorte County when his truck swerved to avoid hitting the carcass of a hog killed by another truck and smashed into the rear of the first truck at 2:10 a.m. today. Other victims were: Patrick J. O’Malley, 19, East Chicago, who was killed in Hammond at 2 a.m. when his speeding car crashed head-on into a truck. Donald Fell, 17, South Bend, who was killed near South Bend ' at 2:20 a.m. when a motorcycle t on which he was riding smashed L into a truck at the interesection of Ind. 2 and a county road. Robert Henderson, 37, Indian- ’ apolis, who died early today of ‘ injuries sustained late Friday f night in a two-ear-ceUision at a ■ street intersection near Indianapo- ■ lis’ downtown district. , Police gave this account of the • accident in which Burger was i killed: Merl Grogg, 27, Akron, was driving his truck along the highway when he struck and killed a hog in the road. The truck fender was bent against a tire by the impact, and Grogg pulled to the edge of the road and stopped. Burger, headed in the same direetion, saw the hog carcass and pulled around to avoid running over it. His truck smashed into the rear of Grogg’s truck. The Burger truck burst into flames. Burger’s body was badly burned and he was decapitated. Fell was riding on a cycle operated by Robert Sebens, 19, South Bend, which skidded from a county road «thfee miles west of South Bend into the side of a truck driven by Donald Wilmot, 38, Milwaukee. Sebens was injured. Fell died at the scene of a skull fracture. O’Malley’s car crashed into a truck operated by George Jusko, 46, North Lake. 111., recording Hammond’s eighth traffic fatality

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