Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 160, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 160.

i ~. jfcaf • * r s> *'MMHkifli ' S FORT WAYNE FAIR IN FlßST—First pair to reach Spokane, Wash., in the annual $2,500 Powder Puff derby from Lawrence, Mass., is Mrs. Margaret Ray Ringenberg (left) and co-pilot Mrs. Lois M. Layton, both of Fort Wayne, Ind. They are shown at side of their plane on landing at Spokane. ”

Ohio City Man Killed When Hit By Auto

Coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., today announced a verdict of “accidental death” in the U. S. 27 fatality of Albert B. Mihm, 65, of Ohio iCty, 0., who was killed almost instantly Wednesday at 1:25 p. m, when struck by a northbound car. miles north of Berne, as he was adjusting tie-ropes on his truckload ot lumber supplies. Sheriff's deputy Charles Arnold x. and state trooper Dan Kwasneski, who investigated with the coroner, reported that Mihm had apparently tested the slack in the rope and leaned into the path of the car. The truck was parked on the east berm of the road immediately adjacent to the highway. The officers said that Mihm and his son-in-law, Schyler E. Myers, 35, of Van Wert, 0., had stopped once before to adjust the tie-ropes as the load shifted when they left Berne. MQun, who was retired, was assisting his son-in-law build a house. Myers said, “He just wanted to help us out and to keep busy after he retired.” Mrs. Elsa Wilson, of Portland, the driver of the car, told police that she did not see Mihm and did not know she had hit him. She stopped after hearing a thud and investigated, learning of the tragedy. According to Adams county records, the death is the first official fatality for the county for 1959. Two previous deaths, also Ohioans, were charged to the city of Decatur. The accident victim suffered a broken neck, fractures of both legs, a fractured right arm, dislocated right shoulder, and abrasions and cuts over his entire body. Funeral Saturday Mr. Mihm was a retired poultry and egg buyer, and also was an employe of the Ohio state highway department He was born near Rockford, 0., April 12, 1894, a son of Orlando and Lucy Mottinker-Mihm, and was married to Daisy W. Stutz Nov. 25, 1913. The accident victim was a member of the Church of God at Ohio Qty. Surviving in addition to his wife are one son, Carl Mihm of Nova, 0., three daughters, Mrs. Maxine Myers of Ohio City, Mrs. Irene Williams of route 2, Rockford, and Mrs. Vivian Davis.of Rockford; a granddaughter who was reared in the Mihm home, Mrs. Shirley Dierks of Olympia, Wash.; six ‘ brothers, Earl, Ray, Floyd and Clarence Mihm, all of Rockford, Charles Mihm of Chardon, 0., and Theodore Mihm of Pleasant Mills; four sisters, Mrs. Nellte Beeler of route 2, Rockford, Mrs. Lexie Boroff of Rockford, Mrs. Grace Exline of Ohio City, and Mrs. Ethel Kramer of Huntington; 11 grandchildren, and three greatgrandchildren. Two daughters and twd sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Church of God in Ohio City, the Rev. Royal Rear officiating. Burial will be in Woodlawn cemetery at Ohio City. The body, taken to the Cowan & Son funeral home in Van Wert, will be removed to the residence, where friends may call after 7 p. m. today. INDIANA WEATHER Fair northwest half, partly doudy southeast half this afternoon. Fair and cooler tosight Friday fair and pleasant Low tonight 54 to M north, in the Ms south. High Friday in the 80s. Sunset today 8:15 p.ra. Sunrise Friday 5:28 a-m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and pleasant. Lows low Ms. Highs npper Ms. w

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

: Tropical Storm Cindy Subsides 5 ; On Move Inland ‘ CHARLESTON, S.C. (UPD—- ’ Tropical storm Cindy moved in- , land today, leaving behind at ■ least one dead but only minor ! property damage in a half-heart- ? ed blow’ at the South Carolina 7 coast. The storm, whose peak winds: i barely reached 75 miles an hour . —74 is the minimum for hurri-l 1 cane classification — diminished J before moving inland in the Bull j I Bay-McClellanville area north of Charleston late Wednesday night. A special weather advisory issued by the Miami Weather Bu--1 reau said rough seas with tides ’ two to three feet above normal 7 from Georgetown to Cape Fear fare gradually’subsiding. ‘ .The bureau saici the storm was • estimated to be about 35 miles i north of Charleston. The storm is . moving northwest about eight I miles an hour and is expected to . maintain its present forward speed for the next 12 hours but with a gradual turn more to the ( north, the bureau said. Maximum winds may still - reach 50 miles per hour in squalls f extending outward some 175 miles northeast of the center, but they ( will diminish today. The bureau said the storm has continued to 1 weaken after going inland. Winds of 40 to 50 miles an hour . cracked tree limbs and broke a few windows but did no heavy damage. Rainsqualls accompanied the storm and Henry H. Higgins 1 Jr., of Georgetown, S.C., was ’ killed when his - automobile skidded and hit a tree in the area , near where the storm's center hit > the coast. ! Tides, which had been expected to go as high as 10 feet above mean low water, were highest in ‘ the Georgetown area, reaching 6.2 ‘ feet above mean low, or 2.5 feet above normal, about midnight ; e.d.t. The Weather Bureau advised ! the Red Cross, civil defense and ! other disaster agencies about I midnight they could feel free to i release all refugees who had i sought shelter from the storm. , People left most beach areas , but shelters were far from full. Many beach refugees checked ’ into hotels and motels at Charles--1 ton and Georgetown.

t ! Foreign Aid Setback Dealt To Eisenhower

WASHINGTON (UPI>-Congress > apparently settled today on a bill . authorizing about $3,500,000,000 in , foreign aid, tor the next 12 ( months. Any hope President Eisenhower ' has of getting more now rests ' with a House-Senate conference 1 committee. He originally asked for $3,909,400,000. The Senate dealt the President a shank setback Wednesday night by passing a $3,543,320,000 aid measure—only $720,000 more than the House voted. The Senate vote was 65-26. Even after Congress authorizes the expenditure, must appropriate the actual cash. Foreign aid funds voted during the last fiscal year totaled $3,298,092,500. ’ The Senate action came only hours after the President raised, the threat of a special session of

52 Are Killed By Blasi, Fire On Danish Boat HADERSLEV, Denmark (UPD —Teams of frogmen brought up additional bodies today from the bottom of an artificial lake where an overcrowded sightseeing boat exploded into flames and sank with heavy loss of life. Police said 52 men, women and children died when flames raked the sightseeing boat Dam Ende Wednesday and the vacationing passengers broke into such a panic the crew was unable to get to the life preservers stored under the seats. At least 35 persons were injured, many seriously, and authorities feared the death toll would rise. Frogmen found additional bodies in the wreckage today and military authorities brought in other divers to make a more thorough search. It was believed no Americans were aboard the gaily painted pleasure craft but several German, Swedish and Belgian tourists were aboard with their children. Some were hit by the explosion and flaming gasoline; others were burned when the gaily striped canvas awnings covering the decks burst into flames and collapsed on them. The boat blew up Wednesday afternoon while erasing on the artificial lake formed by Haderslev dam in South Jutland near the German border. Crew members said the blast was caused by gasoline from a leaking fuel line dripping onto the hot engine. Authorities said the boat was slightly overcrowded. They said its capacity was 85 but that it had at least 90 persons board. ’Capt. Hans Riistofte, the boat’s 'owner, tried to head it to shore ibut it sank less than 15 yards from shallow water. ' Jens Jensen, one of the survivors, gave this account: “I know a little about engines and heard how it mis-fired a couple of times, but I did not actually think anything serious was going to happen. Then suddenly a yellow spitfire licked out from the engine and Hans Riistofte » . < sounded the alarm. “The panic cannot be described. “Riistofte tried in vain to reach the lifebelts which were stored in benches and boxes. The passengers got in his way all the time. Several of them jumped into the water and I did the same thing myself. “A screaming woman with a baby was swimming beside me in the water. I grabbed the child and calmed the mother, and a rowboat came toward us and we were picked up together with a few others. v “Aboard the burning boat the panic was still spreading. It was awful to hear the screams for help while we were rowed away.” Persons living nearby sped to the scene in rowboats to pick up what survivors they could. One of these was Carl Engel who told how he had to make the awful choice of whom to pick up. “I kept a distance of a few meters from the dam end and picked up a man who was swimming With a small child in his arms,” he said. "They were all more or less burned. “I refused to pick up anybody who was able to swim and was unharmed. “It was terrible to say no." NEW SERIAL STORY » “The Count of Nine,” a new murder mystery, opens today in the Decatur Daily Democrat It is written by one of the world's most popular mystery writers, A. A. Fair (Erie Stanley Gardner). Follow every Chapter in the Daily Democrat >

Congress next fall to get the funds he wants for economic and military assistance to free world allies. The Senate bill was $621,500,000 below the $4,164,820,000 recommended by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senate Democratic Whip Mike Mansfield (Mont.), a committee member, told newsmen today that the foreign aid program still needs long-range, dependable financing for its development loan fund. Most economic aid is channeled through this fund. He also complained-that “There still is too much emphasis on military aid and outright grants.” The biggest Senate cut was a 300 million dollar slash in the Presii dent’s $1,600,000,000 military air program, and a $88,500,000 reducItion in “defense support” aid.

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Eisenhower, Herter Discuss Strategy At Conference Renewal

Steel Strike Looms Likely

NEW YORK (UPD—The United Steelworkers Union returns to the bargaining table today resolved to call a steel strike next Tuesday midnight, despite President Eisenhower’s plea for extended wage negotiations, if no contract agreement has been reached by then. Steelworkers President David J. McDonald made this clear when he said Wednesday he was sure Mr. Eisenhower did not intend that the union and the basic steel industry "negotiate forever.” The union was expected to call its 171-member Wage Policy Committee to meet here by Monday to issue the official order for a suspension of work. Steel mills that produce 90 per cent of the nation’s most basic industrial metal will begin shutting down this week end if the talks are still stalemated. McDonald’s comment followed the expressed hope of the President at his news conference Wednesday that the two sides would continue negotiating until a new, non-inflationary contract for 500,000 Steelworkers is agreed upon. Must Be-Terminal Patart * “u there is good faith on the companies’ .part, we can. conclude, > an agreement by 12:10 a.m. July > 15,” McDonald said. “Every peri- ■ od of negotiations must have a terminal point. This is the one that has been agreed upon by the ' parties.” Industry spokesmen expressed willingness’ to keep negotiating. R. Conrad Cooper, chief bargainer for the 12 major steel companies, said management would keep the talks going as long as necessary. > “We believe a non-inflationary agreement is in the best interests of the country,” Cooper said. “We have been endeavoring for weeks to negotiate such an agreement, and we will continue to exert every effort to that end.” Throws Ball to Union Eisenhower in effect threw the ball back to the union in declining to intervene directly in the dispute. McDonald warned Vice President Richard Nixon Tuesday that the strike was inevitable without some action by the President to induce the companies of make a wage offer. The Chief Executive told his news conference he had no further plans to intervene other than to continue to urge both sides to continue negotiations o find a reasonable answer o the deadlock. The only bright note in the dispute came at the close of Wednesday’s session when Cooper told newsmen. "we had good discussions today.” He refused to elaborate. Eisenhower last June 27 succeeded in arranging a two-week extension beyond the original June 30 strike deadline. His further attempt Wednesday drew a sharp reaction from Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.). “The President simply does not understand that these negotiations must have some terminal point,” i Humphrey said. He accused Eisenhower of putting himself' squarely on the side of the steel companies and in effect telling the union to “capitulate.” The steel companies • have been insisting on a one-year wage freeze. They contend any rise in labor costs would be inflationary. The union is demanding a substantial wage increase and improvements in fringe benefits. Top Speakers Picked - For August Meeting SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPD— Archbishop Albert G. Meyer, Chicago, and Sen. Eugene J. Me-, Carthy (D-Minn.) will be the major speakers at the 11th meeting of the Christian Family Movement at the University of Notre Dame Aug. 28-30. The convention will complete plans for the coming year’s program dealing with the family role in politics and taternational life.

i—■ ' , Death Car Driver Fined, Sentenced The driver of the car, in which I two of his children were killed and I three others injured, received a sentence of six months at the state penal farm and a fine of SIOO Wednesday afternoon in Adams circuit court, judge pro tern Hubert R. McClenahan, presiding. Lester Cable, 33, of Dayton, 0., waived formal arraignment and entered a plea of guilty to the charge of reckless homicide. County prosecutor Severin H. Schurger asked the court if it wanted any evidence entered in the case, but the court did not request it. Defense attorney Robert S. Anderson, pauper attorney, pleaded for the defendant on grounds he had, suffered severe emotional punish- 1 ment by merely knowing he had been involved in the death of a stepson, Harold Lewis, 10, and a rtMgtrter, Shellia Marie Cable, 13. He also stated that the state should ‘ attempt to rehabilitate the defendant rather than sentence him to the state penitentiary where he; would be exposed to “hardened criminals.” The reckless homicide charge was for the death of the stepson. Coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., filed the charge after investigating the accident, which occurred June 27 at 2:55 a.m. on 13th street in Decatur at the Erie railroad tracks. Counterfeiting Ring Smashed By Government WASHINGTON (UPD — The Secret Service announced today that two undercover agents posing as big-time racketeers have cracked a half-million-dollar scheme to pass counterfeit U. S. Treasury checks. The counterfeiting ring was broken up Wednesday with the arrest at Washington National Airport of two convicted whiteslavers from Louisiana, the Secret Service said. The service identified them as Joseph Lovely Sonnier, 40, Duson La., and Louis Emory Roger, 31, Lafayette, La. They were arraigned Wednesday in Alexandria, Va., Federal Court on charges of possession of counterfeit obligations of the United States. The maximum pen- . alty on conviction is 15 years’ imprisonment and $5,000 fine. The men were held in lieu of $50,000 bond. A hearing was set for July 14. They, were arrested after, the Secret Service said, they delivered 855 counterfeit Treasury checks to the two undercover Secret Service agents. , Early this morning, the service said, agents arrested Jo Ann Olivier, 33, at Sonnier’s home in Duson. She was charged with possession and sale of counterfeit Treasury checks to undercover agents. »The Secret Service described Sonnier as the leader of a ring which has passed more than 40 o f the counterfeit checks since May 1 in supermarkets, clothing and liquor stores in Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

Two American Officers Are Bomb Victims Viet Nam (UPI) — Communist terrorists bombed a U. S. military advisory group billet during the showing of a movie Wednesday night, killing two U.S. officers, two Viet Namese and one of the attackers. The attack occurred at Bien Hoa, 20 miles north of Saigon, at 7 p.m., the American Embassy reported. A third American officer was wounded in the bomb attack which was followed by an exchange of gunfire between Viet Namese guards and the Communist raiders. The Americans killed in the attack were Maj. Dale R. Buis, Imperial Beach, Calif., and M. Sgt. Chester M. Ovnand, Copperas Cove, Tex. Capt. Howard B. Boston, Blairsburg, lowa, was wounded. Reports from the scene said one of the Communists infiltrated the billeting area and set off a plastic charge which killed him, the Americans and the Viet Namese. | The two Viet Namese guards tried but were unable to stop him from setting off the charge. Other guards rushed to the billet and opened fire on the intruders, driving them off. » The terrorists escaped .into the jungle. The officers were part of the large American military assistance group sent into south Viet Nam after the country became independent five years ago. Communist North Viet Nam has • been accused of sending terrorists across the border, set up by a Geneva conference after the Communists defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu, but until now no Americans had been reported killed before. IL S. Reaction WASHINGTON (UPD — American officials said today they are certain the South Viet Nam government is doing everything possible to capture Communist terrorists who bombed a U. S. military billet near Saigon. They said reports to the State Department were that the South Viet Namese army moved into the area quickly and made several arrests in combing the countryside for suspects. _ zv: Two Americans were killed and a third was injured. Two Viet Nam guards and one Os the attackers also were killed. Officials here said the attack was carried out by five to 10 men armed with small weapons and a hand-made plastic bomb. One attacker was killed when the bomb bounced back from a window. He definitely has been identified as a Communist, according to officials here. Some reports reaching here said the Americans were killed not by the bomb but by small arms fire. County-Wide Curfew For DeKalb County AUBURN, Ind. (UPD—A countywide curfew of 10 p.m. for all youths under 18 in an effort to curb a mounting juvenile delinquency problem was ordered Wednesday. DeKalb county authorities, including city officials at Auburn and Garrett, imposed the curfew after a conference of law enforcement officials. It was agreed at the conference that promiscuous sex activity drinking, vandalism and irresponsible driving resulting in traffic fatalities and personal injury accidents have caused an increasing number of juvenile arrests in recent months. The curfew was invoked by Sheriff Dorsie Likens and deputy prosecutor Charles Winans, who said youths found on the streets or roads after 10 p;m. without parents accompanying them will face juvenile charges.

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian A. Herter conferred today on U.S. strategy for next week's resumption of the Geneva foreign ministers’ conference. Their White House talks, the second in two days, followed the weekly session of the National Security Council of which Herter is a member. Eisenhower has taken a direct hand in planning strategy for the second Geneva meeting. Aides said the President and Herter were discussing policy and tactics to be employed when the deadlocked Big Four talks resume on Monday. They also were said to be assessing the entire international picture in the light of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev’s latest tough talk on Berlin. To Visit Berlin Today’s White House meeting followed lengthy talks Herter hejd at his .home Wednesday night with Vice President Richard M. Nixon in which major cold war issues and Nixon’s forthcoming trip to Russia wei;e discussed. Herter later today will hold his first news conference since being sworn in as secretary on April 22. :He is expected *to touch on some of the major points at issue in the East-West deadlock. He also may discuss his forthcoming teip to West Berlin during the first half of August. The President and Herter were said to hold some hope that Russia might be willing to reach an honest agreement on an interim status for Berlin, pending the unification of Germany, when the Geneva* talks resume after a three

— ■ n .... ■■ *1 Ex-Senator Is •’ ' : s' '• ' i • Probe Target I .

I WASHINGTON (UPI) — Former Sen. George H. Bender (IlOhio), Teamster cleanup man and erstwhile congressional investigator, found himself a surprise target today of the Senate Rackets Committee. The main question was — who did what for whom at the end of a House subcommittee’s investigation of the Teamsters Union which Bender headed in his home state in 1954? But Chief Counsel Robert F. Kennedy told newsmen the rackets group also wanted to know what Bender had accomplished in nine months as head of the union's own anti-racketeering commission. Kennedy said they also would ask Bender what he expects to acheive in his $125-a-day post. The counsel said he had not planned to call the ex-senator as a witness but would press these points in view of Bender’s own request to testify about his antiracketeering activities in 1954. His appearance overshadowed the committee’s original intent topoint up charges that Teamster President James R. Hoffa had undermined Teamster contracts in other areas because they exceeded benefits in his own central conference of the union. Bender heatedly denied charges Wednesday that Ohio Teamster leaders suddenly switched their political support to him in October, 1954, while trying to squelch his investigation of their operations. He roared “nonsense” to testimony that the union’s state leaders tried to raise money in November, 1954, to quash contempt proceedings against two of them by his House investigating subcommittee. Bender swore that he got no labor support in his November, 1954, bid to unseat former Cleveland Mayor Thomas Burke, an interim Senate appointee. He denied receiving any union money for his campaign. Kennedy, without professing to know where the money came from, said the Bender-for-Senate Finance Committee deposited $108,996 in its bank account after the election without reporting it to election authorities. Bender said he did not know anything about the money. He firmly denied getting labor support of any kind in 1954 and he

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week recess. Hope Deadline Lifted Some state department officials cling to the hope that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko may be authorized to lift the Russians’ 18-month deadline for the ■ Allies to get out of Berlin. This ultimatum so far has barred all efforts to reach a Berlin agree- ■ ment. t However, other veteran diplo- : mats think there is no real hope that Russia will make any concessions which could lead to agreement with the British, French and Americans. Eisenhower made it dear at his news conference Wednesday that the- United States has no intentton of abandoning its rights or responsibilities in Berlin. The President also accused Khrushchev, in effect, of irresponsibility for threatening the possibility of war in a recent interview with former New York Gov. Averell Harriman. Late Bulletins WASHINGTON (UPD—Vice Adm. Hyman G. Kickover refused today to tell House investigators publicly the names of high-ranking retired military officers who may have tried to “pressure” him on government business. LYNDON. Kan. (UPD—A boxcar containing 179 drums of uranium concentrate was on fire here today an authorities cleared an area within 500 yards until Atomic Energy Commission nersiWMi arrived-

swore that “there was no disposition to shut off anything or pull any punches” in his investigation. Discuss Community Fund Campaign Here Hie officers of the 1959 Decatur Community Fund met Wednesday evening in the offices of the Leland Smith Insurance Agency, planning the format for the October fund campaign. Mike Pryor, 1958 general chairman, and Dave Moore, 1958 drive chairman, detailed the method of operation for last year’s drive to assist the new officers in drafting the mode of operation for the new campaign. General chairman Carl Braun and drive chairman James Basham indicated they would follow the previous method established by Pryor, which calls for close personal contact between the captains and workers. Braun also extended an invitation to local agencies outside the Community Fund to submit applications for entry into the 1959 campaign. Any agency seeking admittance to the single-unit drive should contact Braun for further details. Several solid suggestions were brought forth by various officers to alleviate problems that had been encountered in past years. Leo Kirsch pointed out that an effort should be made to include all local agencies, where national policies allow it, in future drives. The Rev. J. O. Penrod introduced a suggestion, calling for a broader training program for officers and workers. He pointed out bow the results can be boosted by having a better informed personnel. Plans were also formulated for setting up this year’s budget and the questionaires were altered to suit the current thinking on the matter. All fund agencies will receive these forms shortly and should .return them as soon as possible. Attending the meeting were: Mrs. L. A. Cowens, Deane Dorwin. Wilbur Petrie. Ted Hill, and Bob Wall, besides those mentioned previously.