Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 174, Decatur, Adams County, 25 July 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 174

RUSSIAN LULL BEFORE STORM—AII is serene as Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev greets Vice-President Richard M. Nixon at the Kremlin at the beginning of the latter’s first full day in Moscow. Later, as the *two toured the American Exhibition they staged a heated argument through interpreters and before a crowd of spectators. Khrushchev acused Nixon of trying to “frighten” Russia and declared the Soviet would "... meet threats with threats.” Neither referred to the flareup in later formal speeches.

Two Children Die In Blast

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A violent explosion tore through the basement playroom of a suburban home Friday, killing two children and injuring five others. Four of the injured were hurt critically. Authorities said the blast was caused by an anti-tank rifle grenade. Paul Plymate, who was working in his printing shop behind his home when the explosion occurred, told authorities he had nothing explosive in die house. “This must have been something one of the children found,” he said. Plymate said one of the children kept saying, “I dropped it, I dropped it,” as he was being taken to the hospital. Plymate’s son, Ricky, 10, was killed outright by the Mast. Mark Saunders, 10, died shortly afterward at St. Francis Hospital Hospitalized in critical condition were Ricky’s sister, Janet, 10; Dana Thompson, 6, and her brother, Tommy, 12, and Mike Rand, 7. David Leman, 10, was listed in good condition. The blast in the Plymate home jolted? nearby houses in suburban Beech Grove and sent neighbors rushing to the scene. They found the children scattered arund the room amid the debris of a smashed toy truck, a shattered child’s drum and other toys. The blast ripped a seven-inch hole in the tile-covered concrete floor. Paul Thompson said he was the first person to arrive at the scene. He said the first two children he found were his own. Thompson said he carried his children out, returned to get a thirds child and rode with them to a hospital in an ambulance. Then he fainted. - “I don’t know how I made it up those steps as many times as I did,” he said later.

Admits Kidnaping Tale A Hoax

CHICAGO, Hl. (UPI) — New Jersey socialite Jacqueline Gay Hart, her tale of a cross-country kidnaping an admitted hoax, went into hiding today.* The blonde, 21-year-old beauty confessed Friday she made up the dramatic details of her abduction from a Newark, N.J., airport and the forced auto ride to Chicago’s lakefront Grant Park. She then went into seclusion, leaving unanswered many key questions, including: —How did she get unnoticed from Newark to Chicago? —What happened to her $5,000 diamond engagement ring and a gold pin she was wearing when she disappeared? —How did she get bruises on her arm and a swollen lip? —Why did she make up the kidnap story? Father Reveals Confession The trim society girl's confession was revealed by her father, wealthy Short Hills, N.J., businessman Ralph A. Hart, in a surprise news conference at FBI headquarters here. Hart flew here early Friday with his daughter’s fiance, Stanley Gaines, 25, and Gaines’ brother, Ebersole, after police telephoned him his daughter was safe. The haggard father told newsmen he believed his daughter ap-

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, Mrs. Plymate was at a neighborhood grocery when one of her k children was killed and another hurt. With her was her daughter, Judy, 12. She said the children were all playing outside when she left her home. “I can’t imageine what could have exploded down there,” she sobbed. ! Gov. Long Confers With Harry Truman INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (UPD— Louisiana’s vacationing Gov. Earl Long confers with former president Truman today about the prospects of a Symington-Kennedy Democratic ticket for 1960. Long arrived in nearby Kansas City early today, nearing the last i leg of a whirlwind vacation trip that took him through Texas and Colorado before arriving here. Long said he had several political issues to talk over with Truman and especially wanted to sound out the former chief executive on presidential candidates. Long said on arrival at Kansas Qty that he is for Stuart Symington of Missouri for president and John Kennedy of Massachusetts •for vice president U I think the time will come when this country will elect a Catholic as president,” Long said. “If Kennedy will get in there and work as vice president, he could easily become president in eight years.” The temperamental governor admitted he and Truman dis-, agreed in the past when Long supported Adlai Stevenson for president and Truman backed Averell Harriman. Long said the SymingtonKennedy ticket would give the Democrats in 1960 the “old time Roosevelt sweep.’’

parently suffered a recurrence of a two-year-old amnesia attack moments after kissing her fiance goodbye at the Newark Airport. “It appears that this might well be another recurrence from her 1957 automobile accident with the same kind « imaginary dreams that she had then,” Hart said. Miss Hart was the object of an extensive twoday search before she was found weeping and screamping for help in Grant Park early Friday. Sobbed Sketchy Tale Taken to the Central Police DisRe ports Jack Meyer Greatly Improved Mrs. Paul Meyer, mother of Jack R. Meyer who was seriously injured in a recent auto accident, reported today that her son is greatly improved. Some of the bandages have been removed from his face but it was discovered yesterday that he is also suffering from a broken arm and that was placed in a cast. Jack can now have visitors at his room in the Parkview hospital. He is on the second floor, surgery, in room number 239.

County 4-H « Fair To Open Next Tuesday A parade and the Adams county entertainment festival will climax the first day of the Adams county 4-H fair Tuesday. Beginning at 7:15 p. m., the grand parade will include floats from the Adams county 4-H clubs, high school bands, implement dealers, pet and hobby and 4-H horse and pony club members. After the parade, the Adams county entertainment festival will begin, about 8:30 p. m. The first official activity of' the fair—although work has been going on all this week in preparation and pre-fair judging—will begin at 8 a. m., when these exhibits will begin to come in: poultry, until 10:30 a. m., pheasant and quail, until 1 p. m., electricity, until 1:30 p. m., sheep, until 11 a. m., dairy, beef, and pigs, 6 p. m., and horses and ponies, until 9 a. m. Livestock must enter the fairgrounds at the east drive. Conservation exhibits are due in the tent at least by 4:30, when judging is scheduled to begin. Handicraft exhibits will be received between 8:30 and 10 a.m. Judging that day will begin at 10 a. m. in horsemanship, at the horse and pony exhibits show ring; at 10:30 a. m., handicraft exhibit judging will begin; at 11 a. m., poultry; at 1:30 p. m„ pheasant and quail, and at 2 p. m., lamb judging. The home economics exhibits will be open, along with the electricity and handicraft exhibits, at 10 a. m. For hungry 4-H’ers and fairgoers, the food tent will open at 9:30 a. m., and' the rural youth foot long hot dog stand will be open beginning at 11 a. m., and throughout tiie day and evening. Two-Car Drag Race Ends In One Death INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — A twocar drag race near the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, site of the annual 500-mile race, ended in death early today in a fiery crash. Jack Wheeler, 22, Indianapolis, riding in a car police said was driven at speeds of about 80 miles per hour by George Watson, 20, Indianapolis, was killed when the car went off U. S. 136, hit an abutment, flipped over and burst into flames. Ned Myers Is Named G.E. Club President Ned W. Myers, of 103% N. Fifth street, won the presidency of the General Electric club for 1959-60 in which a record number of ballots were cast. Myers and other officers will be installed in club ceremonies after the annual twoweek vacation at the local plant ends August 10. Myers is a motor repairman at building two of the plant. Bob Kenworthy was elected vice president, while Ardine Lehman was named secretary and Richard Schafer was named director for three years. NOON EDITION

trict in an apparent state of shock, she sobbed out.a sketchy tale of how two men bound, gagged and blindfolded her, tossed her into the back of an auto, locked her in the bathroom of a house near here, then decided to get rid of her when she became “too hot” to hold for ransom. But almost from the start, police and FBI agents doubted her story. They said her clean appearance and absence of bruises made them skeptical she had spent 50 hours in the grasp of two brutal kidnapers. When found, Miss Hart’s long honey blonde hair was mussed and she had a swollen lower lip and small bruises on her arms. But her form-fitting dress was pressed and immaculate,* her shoes were shined, her fingernails were dean, there were ho runs in her nylon stockings and her wrists bore no visible marks from the rags she said were used to bind her. But she stuck to her story throughout the day, admitting the truth only when confronted by her father in FBI headquarters here. “She advised me that there was no abduction and that she does not remember what went on,” Hart said.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 25, 1959

Raging Hurricane Hits Galveston With Winds Over 100 Miles An Hour

Red Newspaper Assails U.S.

By ERNEST BARCELLA United Press International MOSCOW (UPD — The official Communist Party newspaper Pravda unleashed another violent attack on U.S. foreign policy today just when Vice President Richard-M. Nixon appeared to be emerging as something of a popular hero in Moscow. Nixon also ran into a lukewarm reception today from First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan when he called on him with Harold Boschenstein to discuss trade. Mikoyan's views on the subject had been cold shouldered by the State Department. Pravda, in the fourth Russian attack on President Eisenhower’s proclamation of “Captive Nations Week,” called the move a “coArse, dirty venture of the American imperialists” which has “drawn the anger and condemnation of all the socialist countries.” Most of the front pages of the Moscow newspapers were devoted to the opening of the American Exhibition today and the sharp give-and-take exchange between Nixon and Prmier Nikita Khrushchev—an exchange which may have been responsible for loud applause both received at the formal opening ceremonies Friday night. Condemns Call for Prayer But Pravda added an editorial condemning the American call for a week of prayer for the enslaves peoples of eastern Europe and said these people were making an indignant and decisive protest against the American act. There have been similar attacks in Pravda before, and also by Moscow Radio and by Khrushchev himself on his return from a trip to Poland. Nixon accompanied by Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Boschenstein, president of the Owen-Corning Fiber Glass Corp, of Toledo, Olio, visited Mikoyan at his Kremlin office. Nixon introduced Boschenstein as a “leading American businessman with experience over the whole world.” “I thought you two businessmen could get together,” Nixon said. Mikoyan replied that “the State Department will decide that.” This was an apparent reference to Mikoyan’s cold shouldering by the State Department when he was in the United States recently and raised the subject of SovietAmerican trade. Nixon Refuses Cigaret Mikoyan offered Nixon a cigaret from a large box on his desk in the Kremlin ofice. “Thanks but I don’t smoke,” Nixon said. “It is one of the few bad habits I do not have.” Mikoyan inquired about the weather in Washington and recalled his pleasant visit to the National Press Club there. Nixon also was calling today on First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov, a recent U.S. visitor. Die Nixon-Khruschev exchange made the front pages ot the Moscow newspapers today. Pravda and Izvestia carried a comprehensive account of the free weeling exchange with extensive quote. The texts of the Khrushchev and Nixon speeches also were carried. The American Exhibition itself finally made the front pages. The opening was frontpaged under banner headlines and Pravda published a three column photograph of Nixon, Khrushchev and President Klimenti Voroshilov walking through the exhibition grounds. Muscovites Line Up Hours before the exhibition was opened to the public for the first time today hundreds of local citizens were lining up outside the gates. Nixon’s meeting with Mikoyan lasted longer than scheduled and he was 28 minutes late for his appointment with Kozlov. Nixon was accompanied to Kozlov’s office by Vice Adm. Hyman Rickover who had accompanied Kozlov on a tour of the Shippingport, Pa., reactor station. “I want you to meet another old friend,” Nixon said, introducing Rickover. Rickover presented Kozlov with a set of pictures of

the two taken at Shippingport. He Said they were for Mrs. Kozlov. Nixon won only listless applause from a meager airport crowd when he arrived Thursday for his 11-day goodwill tour but he drew booming cheers from both Russens and Westerners Friday night at the American Exhibition. The crowd of several thousand gave a lusty cheer for Khrushchev when he appeared at the opening ceremony — and then cheered almost as loudly at the American whose verbal wrestling match with Khrushchev was probably unequaled in history. After the ceremonial opening Os the exhibition Nixon attended a “capitalists” banquet which became a virtual victory dinner in his honor. Japanese Beauty Is New Miss Universe LOND BEACH, Calif. (UPD—A classic Japanese beauty whose solj ambition is “to make a lovelt wife,” today wore the crown of Miss Universe—the first Asian winner in the pageant’s eightyear history. Akiko Kojima, a 22-year-old Tokyo high-fashion model who supports her widowed mother, won tile title Friday night before 4,500 cheering spectators in the ocean-front Municipal Auditorium here. She lives in Tokyo with her 19-year-old brother, Takao. whom she hopes to send through college with her earnings from the contest. She has black hair and eyes, stands five feet, six inches tall, weighs 120 pounds and measures 37-23-38. Runnersup, in order, were:’ Miss Norway, ' Jorunn Kristiansen, 18; Miss United States, Terry Lynn Huntingdon, 19; Miss England, Pamela Anne Searle, 21, and Miss Brazil, Vera Ribeiro, 19. The oriental beauty will receive SII,OOO worth of contracts for tours for a makeup firm and a bathing-suit. In addition, she will receive a diamond ring, fur coat and other personal items. Miss Kojima’s mother lives in Kochi on the island of Shikoku. Her father, an army major, died in 1950. She also has two sisters, one older and one younger. Miss Kojima said two movie studios, 20th Century Fox and Warner Bros., “have expressed interest in me.” “But,” she said, “I would be interested in only one or two movies—not a career. I would like to stay here awhile and then return home ” Tears streaming down her face, Miss Kojima walked down the ramp of the auditorium after the announcement of her victory, wearing a $5,000 red cape trimmed in ermine over her blue bathing suit. She wore a pearl crown and carried the scepter she inherited, from last year’s Miss Universe, Luz Marina Zuluaga of Colombia. Heart Attack Fatal To Police Dispatcher SHELBYVILLE, Ind. (UPD — Charles F. Miller, 42, Shelbyville police radio dispatcher, was found dead of a heart attack at his post in the police station Friday by cruising patrolmen who investigated to find out why they could not contact headquarters by radio. Soldier Killed In Three-Vehicle Crash PAOLI, Ind. (UPD — William D. Oeltjen, 21, Yakima, Wash., was killed and Robert L. MeLemore, 27, Columbia, S. C., was hurt late Friday in a three-vehicle crash on U. S. 150. Police said a truck driven by Thomas Cox hit the Oetjen car head-on and slightly damaged another car when Cox apparently fell asleep.

Jackie Hurst Home Improvement Champ The first purple rosette of the 1959 county 4-H fair ,was placed on the home improvement grand champion Friday, as judging took place for clothing and dress revue winners. Jatjkie Hurst, of the Monmouth Merry Maids, received the grand champion rosette in the home improvement division, for a study desk and chair set. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hurst, Root township, she is 16 and in her eighth year in 4-H work. Gail Egley, of the Jefferson Work and Win club, is reserve grand champion. She also exhibited a study desk and chair set. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Holman Egley, she is 15 and in her sixth year of 4-H. Connie Bergman, of the Monmouth Merry Maids, received third placing with a brown and green kitchen ensemble. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Strouse, of Root township, she is 16 and in her seventh year of 4-H. Mrs. Dwight Smith, clothing judge, judged the home improvement exhibits Friday forenoon. Friday morning Mrs. Smith also judged the blue ribbon, or honor, group for die premium awards in clothing. Monday, both forenoon and afternoon, Mrs. Luke Thaman will judge the foods and baking projects which reeieved blue ribbons in the local judging this past week for the grand champion and other premium winners. These home economics exhibits will be on display to the public beginning Tuesday morning, the opening day of the 4-H fair at Monroe. Both senior and dress revue participants practiced for the .dress revue before the dress revue judge, Mrs. Joanna Sharp. Huntington, Friday afternoon and evening. Most of the junior dress revue contestants paraded for the judge Friday afternoon, while the remainder preceded the senior dress revue girls Friday evening. The girts paraded the clothes they made, first on the outdoor stage, which will be set with garden party properties, and then inside Adams Central school, where the judge could get a close-up view of the models and their clothes. Winners will be announced at the close of the public presentation of the dress revue Wednesday night of the fair. Mobile X-Ray Unit In County Next Week The tuberculosis X-ray unit will be in Adams county next week, beginning in Berne, then in Monroe, at the 4-H fair, and in Decatur at the court house. Monday it will be at the Smith and Berne Furniture companies. Tuesday, the first stop will be the Dunbar furniture company, and at the old bank building in Berne, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m., open to the public. Wednesday the unit will open at the court house in Decatur, open to the public, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. In the evening, from 7 to 9 o’clock, it will be at the Monroe 4-H fair, where it will stay Thursday, open from 1 to 5 p.m., and from 6 to 9 ( p.m. Friday will be the last day in Adams ocunty, when it will be at the court house in Decatur again, open to the public from 9 a.m. until noon. There will be no charge to any individual, but no one under the age of 18 will be X-rayed. The project is sponsored jointly by the Indiana state board of health and the Adams county tuberculosis association. INDIANA WEATHER Fair through Sunday north, "" partly cloudy with chance of thurMlershowers near Ohio river Sunday. Low tonight upper 50s north to mid-60s south. High Sunday mid-80s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy north, mostly cloudy with scattered thundershowers south.

GALVESTON. Tex. (UPD — Raging tropical smashed into the island cj'ty “ Galveston today and began beating Houston with vicioifc winds and torrential rain. The storm was boring northwestward. A woman and her daughter were missing and a man was re- i ported drowned in Freeport, Tex., i 45 miles southwest of Galveston, , where the hurricane first hit with ; winds of 105 miles an hour. Damage totaled hundreds of : thousands of dollars and was : growing by the hour. The federal hurricane warning ' service reported that at 7 a.m. c.d.t. the hurricane was 25 miles west-northwest of Galveston with 80 m.p.h. winds at its center. Gales extended out 50 miles to 1 the northwest and 100 miles to the southeast of the center. This was the situation in the main cities and towns in the hurricane's path: Houston—Winds up to 75 miles an hour hit Houston and torrential rains flooded underpasses and low streets. It knocked out the power supply of a Houston hospi- • tai. 1 Freeport—The police chief esti1 mated damage at upwards of $300,000. The wind knocked out ! Freeport’s power supply, blew ■ automobiles from streets, shattered plate glass windows and un- > roofed homes. Fourteen thousand , persons live in Freeport. ! Galveston—Police chief O. E. j Henson said the wind hit 100 j m.p.h. in Galveston, where, in , 1900, the nation’s worst hurricane 1 drowned 5.000 - 8,000 persons. It • blew ~ out windows, almost de--1 strayed a church and blacked out 1 part of the city. Galveston has a • population of 73,000 persons. 1 Angleton—Eleven hundred per- ; sons from the coastal areas took > shelter in Angleton, north of Free- : port. Most of them were in the four-story courthouse and Angle- . ton was without electric power. “Damage will be extensive,” , Henson said. “The town is just . a mess.” Winds up to 75 m.p.h. — hurricane strength — hit Houston but Houston was not expected to be hit as violently as Galveston and Freeport, which are on the coast. BULLETIN The Decatur soybean processing operations of Central Soya Company, Inc., will be temporarily suspended due to » a combination of overall market conditions, it waj announced today by Dale W. McMillen, Jr., president of the company. Feed manufacturing and elevator operations will continue as usual. In making the announcement, McMillen said, "We are hopeful that the situation will correct itself shortly." Suspended operations will 1 last from July 27 through August 3. The suspension of operations will affect 16 employees at the Decatur plant, it was estimated.

Britain Pushes For Quick Berlin Truce

GENEVA (UPI) — Britain has decided to push for a quick Berlin truce agreement and an EastiWest summit meeting in September despite American and French coolness to the latest Soviet maneuvers, authoritative sources said today. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, in London this week end for talks with Prime * Minister Harold MacMillan, has’launched a campaign with this clearcut objective, the sources said. Britain was said to feel that even the most limited Berlin truce would justify a summit meeting. At the same time Russia has discreetly informed the West it still wants a summit conference and prefers holding one at an early date. The information dispelled earlier Communist reports the Kremlin had cooled .tow’ard such a meeting. During the past week Communist sources put out the word

Charges Are Filed In Fatal Accident State trooper Dan Kwasneski, one of the investigating officers in the fatal accident, resulting in the death of a Van Wert, 0., teenager and serious injury to two local youths Thursday night on the Monmouth road north of the St. Mary’s river bridge, filed reckless driving charges against the driver, Larry Dean DeLong, 19, of route 3, Decatur. Kwasneski, who conducted a morning - long investigation with deputy sheriff Robert Meyer and county coroner Elmer Winteregg, Jr., filed the charge Friday afternoon. Coroner Winteregg is continuing his investigation until he has an opportunity to question David Ellsworth. 20, of 135 Limberlost Trail, the third occupant of the convertible, which careened off one tree north of the bridge and smashed almost head-on into a second tree, demolishing the vehicle at 11:20 p.m. Thursday. Ellsworth is reported in "fair condition’’ this morning at Parkview hospital and has both fractured leg and arm in traction. DeLong is reported progressing nicely at Adams county memorial hospital. Howard Oreon Shaw, 18, a student at the International Business College at Fort Wayne with Ellsworth, and a resident of Van Wert, 0.. died shortly after the accident of a fractured neck and crushed chest. Ellsworth sustained a compound fracture of the left thigh and right upper arm besides facial lacerations. DeLong escaped with a fractured right elbow a laceration over the left eye, multiple bruises of the chest and abdomen and shock. Shaw, who was pinned in the vehicle by the fire wall and right front wheel with Ellsworth, was riding in the middle of the car, while Ellsworth was on the right side. DeLong was freed almost immediately from the wreckage by police and wrecking crews, but it took 30 minutes to free the other two passengers. Three-Week Utility Strike Is Settled INDIANAPOLIS (UPD —Members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers returned to work at Indiana’s biggesht power utility today, ending a three-week strike. / Car Hits Trailer, Driver Is Killed ELKHART, Ind. (UPD —William T. Hamm. 29, Elkhart, was killed early today wheh his automobile crashed into a house trailer being pulled along Ind. 112 at the city's north edge. Edward C. Blais, 19, Mishawaka, driver of a tractor which pulled the trailer, was not injured.

; ' Moscow was losing interest in the top level meeting. Then Premier t Nikita Khrushchev raised the . . subject again as he was leaving Warsaw Wednesday night and the word spread in private diplomatic talks the Russians were anxious. The new Russian summit move was made with studied “casualness,” apparently in order to avoid the impression among the Western Allies that Khrushchev was over-anxious. Western diplomats said Khrushchev apparently was yearning for some international success to boost his prestige since his efforts in the old war fields have produced few major results. Diplomats said Moscow’s seemingly lessening interest in a summit conference last week merely was part of a deliberate campaign to whittle down the Western price.

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