Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1959 — Page 1

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Castro Lashes Secy. Herter

HAVANA (UPD — A victoriouF Fdel Castro conducted a slashng verbal attack aganst U.S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter, the Western Hemisphere foreign ministers’ meeting and the Dominican Republic in a telethon that carried into the early hours this morning. The bearded prime minister, fresh from conquerng an air-* borne invasion attempt in central Cuba, boosted that he would have trapped the Dominican Republic's whole "foreign legion” if reports of his maneuvers had not leaked out. A captive who appeared on the program said the Dominican Republic had planned to send 5,000 men to invade Cuba. Castro began the natonwide television program Friday night with background on the battle which captured an invading C-46 plane Thursday night at Trinidad, Cuba. He soon turned to the broader question of Cuba’s relations with To Rule Tuesday On Carole's Testimony WEST COVINA, Calif. (UPD - Municipal Judge William M. Martin will rule next Tuesday whether Carole Tregoff’s testimony at the hearing of accused wife-slayer Dr. R. Bernard Finch is to be admitted as evidence in her own case. The judge Friday advised the prosecution and defense that it had not yet been proved that the pretty ex-model conspired with Finch, 41, to kill his estranged wife, Barbara, 33. last July 18. ' The case was recessed Friday until next Tuesday. A so-called "murder kit” was introduced by the prosecution at the hearing Friday, but the judge said it still did not prove she was an accomplice of her doctor boyfriend. Deputy Dist. Atty. Fred Whichello said her testimony was the basis of his filing a murder charge against the 22-year-old beauty, and that without it the judge probably * would not fina cause to hold her for trial. The “murder kit” was introduced by Whichello who claimed it contained the ingredients of a planned murder. The brown case, owned by Finch, contained a butcher knife, hypoderrrtic syringe and needles, sleepinducing drugs, short lengths of rope, rubber sheeting, bandages and a small shaving kit which contained a dozen ,38-caliber cartridges. Certification that the brown case contained the various article was made by investigating officer Frank V. Meehan. Whichello said he beleived Finch and Miss Tregoff, a Las Vegas, Nev., cocktail waitress who for- ' merly was his nurse, planned to drug Mrs. Finch, tie her up and put her in a car to be pushed off a cliff. The prosecution claimed that Finch’s Swedish maid heard Mrs. Finch scream and foiled their plans. The “murder kit,” the prosecution contended, was carried to the $65,000 Finch home by Miss Tre-* NOON EDITION :

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’ other states and the efforts of the foreign minsters’ conference in Santiago, Chile, to solve Caribbean tension. He charged the conference was part of a Dominican plot against Cuba and therefore “without meaning.” “Look at Herter’s speech at the foreign ministers’ conference,” Castro said. “He speaks of expeditions such as the adventure that involved 30 Cubans, while in the Americas the need is to speak of hunger. “He makes no mention of the horror that the tyranny of (Dominican strong man Rafael) Trujillo signifies.” Castro said both Trujillo and Nicaraguan President Luis Somoza were the “products of intervention” themselves. Castro spoke for three hours and five minutes, prodded occasionally by a panel of newsmen, goff. Her testimony at the Finch hearing about the bag, which she claimed contained articles for her Las Vegas apartment, led to her arrest, it was indicated. More Gas Healing Permits Granted The Indiana Public Service Commission approved the petition Friday afternoon by Northern Indiana Public Service Co., adding 2,000 space heating gas customers in Adams, Allen, Wells, Whitley and Huntington counties. Mike Pryor, local gas company manager, said today that applications would be handled on a first come, first served basis. He added Adams county has a waiting list that should cover the amount of permits allocated. The new ruling stipulates that not more than 20 per cent of the permits will be for new homes. Pryor also said that customers on the waiting list would be contacted by mail, with his office sending out applications Monday morning.

Fail To Recover Missile Capsule

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPI) — A fleet of ships and planes today searched a 10,000 square mile section of ocean 700 miles southwest of Hawaii for a 300-pound capsule from the Discoverer V satellite. Pentagon officials admit “there is little hope” now that the 27 by 33 inch capsule will be found. It was ejected from the satellite at 5:42 p.m. e.d.t. Friday. A fleet of nine giant C-19 planes of the 6593rd Test Squadron, Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, waited in vain Friday in the recovery area to attempt to snatch the data-carrying capsule from the sky as it parachuted down. The Pentagon blamed the recovery failure on “a malfunction of the sequencing or telemetery signals before or after” the multi-

New Reports On Violence In Caribbean SANTIAGO, Chile (UPD-West-ern Hemisphere foreign ministers, dismayed by new reports of international violence in the Caribbean area, go into secret sessions today for the first time since their conference here opened three days ago. At least two foreign ministers — Cuba’s Raul Roa and Haiti’s Louis Mars — sent urgent cables home Friday night seeking detailed information about reports of a Cuban-based invasion of Haiti and a Dominican-based attack on Cuba. Unconfirmed reports said Cuban Premier Fidel Castro will arrive here late Sunday to give the foreign ministers “new proof of Dominican violations of his country’s territory. The Cuban army reported Friday that a plane carrying 10 men and a quantity of arms from the Dominican Republic had been captured near the central Cuban town of Trinidad. A few hours later, it was reported that 30 invaders wearing what appeared to be Cuban uniforms had captured a town in southwestern Haiti. The Haitian government sent troops to battle the invaders. The arrival of the invasion reports coincided with warnings from various Latin American foreign ministers that the interAmerican principle of non-inter-vention must be respected if the hemisphere system of collective security is to survive. Ignacio L. Arcaya of Venezuela said the Organization of American States would “wither on the vine” unless action is taken to enforce inter-American declarations favoring democratic governments. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered showers likely this afternoon and night. A little cooler north tonight. Sunday partly cloudy with chance of afternoon or evening thundershowers and little change in temperature. Low tonight 65 to 76 north, low 70s. south. High Sunday mid-80s north to near 95 south. Outlook for Monday—Continued rather warm and humid with scattered showers and thundershowers.

million dollar capsule was ejected Friday from the nose cone of the 1,700-pound second-stage Dior rocket, launched from here Thursday. Defense Department spokesmen said a telemetered signal indicated that the capsule did eject from th satelite-carrying vehicle. But an identification signal from the ■capsule itself never was heard. The aerial recovery attempt was made on the satellite’s 17th circuit around the earth. Its recovery would havt been an historic first. A successful recovery would have proved workable the basic system designed to recovery the first man to be sent into an orbit around the earth in the Project Mrcury attempt, expected in 1961.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, August 15, 1959.

Albany Youth Is Killed Near Geneva Late Friday Night In One-Car Wreck

Space Balloon Fails To Orbit

(UPI) — A glittering space balCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) — A glittering space balloon apparently burned up in the fringe of earth's atmosphere and failed to orbit Friday night. The balloon was hurled aloft as the climax busiest day of rock-et-missile-satellite activity since the United States entered the space age. Before the balloon shot up in a spectacularly beautiful launching of its Juno II rocket, the missile test center here was the scene of furious activity. Across the continent, a British Royal Air Force crew successfully fired a Thor intermediate . range missile. Southwest of Hawaii a fleet of U.S. ships and . planes hunted a 300-pound Discoverer V satellite capsule ejected in space. There were four firings here-*-two successful, one a partial success, and one an explosive failure. At one time there were five countdowns in progress here—for the Titan, Thor, Polaris, Juno II and a static test of another rocket. At dawn the Air Force fired a : Thor carrying a 16-millimeter camera in a data capsule aimed t at an impact area 1,500 miles . downrnge. The camera was ' rigged to record nose cone behavior. Shortly after noon a Titan “super missile," biggest of the day’s space-age weapons, blew up in a shower of flame two seconds after blastoff and crumpled in a heap of fiery wreckage and rocket fueL No one was injured. While the Titan wreckage was still smouldering, a 28-foot Polaris, designed to be fired from submerged submarines, ‘ popgunned” from an underground launching tube. Its engines ignited perfectly when the Polaris was about 65 feet above the ground, and it streaked off on a 700-mile At dusk, the Juno II with its 10-pound, 12-foot balloon soared aloft in what one veteran rocketwatcher called “the most beautiMrs. Clem Lengerich Dies Friday Night Mrs. Catherine Lengerich, 74, widow of Clem Lengerich, and a resident of south of Decatur most of her life, died at 10:25 p.m. Friday at St. Joseph’s hospital in Fort Wayne. Death followed an extended illness. She had made her home for several years with a daughter, Mrs. James Weber, Fort Wayne. .She was born in New Riegel, 0., Nov. 15, 1884, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gase, and was married to Clem Lengerich Oct. 29, 1907. Her husband preceded her in death Nov. 25, 1949. Mrs. Lengerich was a member of the St. Mary’s Catholic church in Decatur, the Rosary society, Third Order of St. Francis and the Legion of Mary. . Surviving in addition to the daughter in Fort Wayne are one son, the Rev. iVncent Lengerich, of Gary: three other daughters, Sr. Dorothy Anne, OLVM, and Sr. Rosella, OLVM, both of Victory Noll, and Sr. M. Ancella, CSA, of Hayes, Kan.; one grandchild; three brothers, Cornelius Gase of Ossian, Clarence Gase of Yoder, and Otto Gase of Bluffton, and two supers, Mrs. Peter C. Miller, of Decatur, and Mrs. Agnes Theis of New Riegel, 0. Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at St. Mary’s Catholic son, the Rev. Vincent Lengerich, ich celebrating the requiem high mass. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 2 p.m. Sunday until time of the services. The Rosary society wilf recite the ; rosary at 8 p.m. Bunday and the-Third Order of St. Frances wiU meet at 8 p.m. Monday.

ful thing I’ve ever seen.” Three ’ hours later the National Space Agency in Washington said the 1 baloon apparently burned up in ’ the atmosphere after inflating. No Settlement Os Steel Strike Near DETROIT (UPD - Settlement of . the month-old strike is no closer . than the day i{ started, United . Steelworkers President David J. I McDonald said Friday night. .McDonald warned a rally of i steelworkers: “This won’t be a short strike.” Asked whether he thought Pres- ■ ident Eisenhower may call for the 80-day cooling Off period provided ■ under the Taft-Hartley Act, McDonald said: “It would be a sad commentary on America if the Taft-Hartley was invoked and the Steelworkers were forced back to work while Soviet ’ Premier Nikita Khrushchev is . touring the country.” ‘ McDonald, who has led the Steel- ' workers into numerous battles against the industry, was no match for the combined might of hot weather and Friday night’s sports events. Fewer than 1,000 of Detroit’s 17,000 Steelworkers heard McDonald speak in the 2,300-seat Cass Technical High School auditorium. A USW spokesman blamed the poor turnout on the weather, the Cleveland - Detroit baseball game and the televised Coliefee All-Star-Baltimore Colts football game from Chicago. Earlier in the day, the head of the 500,000 - member union inspected picket lines and held a press conference at which he accused United' States Steel Corp, of forcing a strike as an excuse for another boost in the price of steel. “The strike will end whenever Roger M. Blough, chairman of the board of U. S. Steel wants it to,” McDonald told newsmen. “Blough is the key man.” Sicilian Exchange Student Withdraws The exchange student scheduled to stay next school year with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Heller, Vincenzo Sardillo, of Scicily, has withdrawn from the American Field Service program, according to a telephone call received from New York Friday. The American Field Service chapter here, headed by H. P. Schmitt, Jr., received word that the young man has withdrawn. No reason was given in the cablegram received In the New York office. It is fairly common that young men and women withdraw at the last minute due to sickness. It is possible that a substitute may be sent to Decatur, although it is later than usual for making substitutes. Six-Year-Old Boy Is Drowning Victim SOUTH BEND. Ind. (UPD—The body of six-year-old Christopher J.' Madura was recovered from St. Joseph River late Friday night, hours after his friend and companion watched a fruitless search before he told authorities what had happened. Kenneth Lawson, 9, was so frightened that he remained silent while searchers scoured the neighborhood when Christopher was reported missing, and during draging operations of the river. He finally led police to a float pier behind a home along the river bank, where he said Christopher paddled in a 12-foot boat When he lost his balance and feß into the water about 25 feet from shore and in eight feet of water.

More Humid, Sticky Weather Predicted United Press International The weatherman predicted today that more humid, sticky weather would prevail over labge sections of the nation. The U.S. Weather Bureau forecast warm and humid weather over the area from Texas eastward into the Carolinas and the Florida coast and northeastward to the Ohio Valley and the lower .Great Lakes. But some cooling trends were expected in northern Michigan, Illinois and Indiana. The weatherman said New England would be fair and warmer and fair ss|ies will existweftof the Rockies. Warm weather with scattered thundershowers was expected in the Dakotas, Nebraska, Montana, Colorado and Wyoming. Cool air was expected in Washington and northern Oregon, with little change in temperature elsewhere in the West. During the night, thundershowers fell in a narrow belt along the edge of cooler air from eastern New Mexico northeastward . through Kansas and eastern lowa I to northern Lake Michigan. Guymon, Okla., recorded %-inch and Columbus, N.M., got IMt inch- , es. Thunderstorms in the Gulf states and Florida were mostly on ’ the light side, but Miami got near- ; ly an inch. ■ Warm and humid weather over ’ much of the south-central and southeastern part of “the nation • made sleeping uncomfortable dur- ’ ing the night. i 300 Are Involved In St. Paul Riot ST. PAUL (UPD — Two detectives halted a Negro youth in a routine identification check early this morning and touched off a rock throwing, club swinging melee. The disturbance, authorities said, involved about 300 persons, most of them Negroes, and at least 40 policemen. It took club swinging police and firemen using pressure hoses to break up the crowd. At least five police officers were slightly injured by thrown rocks and several members of the milling crowd received minor injuries after being hit by police billyclubs. No one was hospiatlized. Police said eight persons were arrested. Police said it began when detectives Frank Yost and Robert Morehead stopped Robert Price, 26, a Negro, to check his identificatioD. Police said. Price refused and started to fight with the detectives. Police said other persons gathered from bars that were closing, but olny about eight became directly involved in the fighting.

Doubt Early Senate Vote On Labor Bill

WASHINGTON (UPD — A Republican drive to force immediate Senate acceptance of the House-approved labor reform bill appeared today to be doomed to failure. GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen Uli.) said he doubted enough votes could be obtained to bypass a House-Senate conference committee and send the measure to the White House next wek for Prsident Eisenhower’s signature. However, he said th qiltion had been “discussed with various people including the' White House." He said a decision would be made soon on whether to attempt to avoid a compromise with the milder Senate bill. Democratic leaders, who favor sending the House and Senate bills to conference, were confident of support from southm Democrats on this issue even though the southerners backed the GOP

An Albany teenager died of a broken neck and skull fracture about two hours after being injured in a one-car crack-up at the southern city limits of Geneva Friday night at 10:30 o’clock. Jimmy D. Ress, 15, of Albany, was reported to be the driver of the car which laid down 346 feet of intermittent skid marks. Floyd M. Jdliff, 31, also of Albany, the owner of the car, was injured only slightly, suffering bruises and abrasions as the vehicle rolled over several times after missing the bridge at the south end of Geneva on U. S. 27. Sheriff’s deputy Robert E. Meyer, who assisted marshal Preston Quiet Prevails At Little Rock School Front LITTLE ROCK. Ark. (UPD Quiet prevailed today in Little Rock but both sides in the integration controversy warned of trouble to come. Gov. Orval E. Faubus said it , would not- be peaceful here “for a long, long time.” And Mrs. L. C. Bates, Little Rock integration leader, said in Memphis that all . Negroes should fend telegrams [ to President Eisenhower to ini sure “basic protection and freedom from fear of violence.” Despite the statements, however, there were no open signs today of any trouble. There has been no disorder connected with the first three days of integration at Central and Hall High Schools since police stopped a threatening segreg atio ni s t march on Central Wednesday with fire hoses and billy clubs. Jefferson Thomas, 18, attended Central, scene of mob violence in 1957, and Effie Jones, Elsie Robinson and Estella Thompson studied with white students at Hall High for the third straight day Friday. It was a day without incident both places. Police watched Central but were not needed. But segregation leaders were still angry at Little Rock poliee for their forceful dispersal of about 500 persons near Central Wednesday. There were indications the segregationist Capital Citizens ftouncil would try legally to charge Chief of Police Gene Smith with police brutality.” Gov. Faubus, who encircled Central High with National Guardsmen in 1957 to block integration and closed the high schools to preservte segregation last term, Friday called the Little Rock school board and Smith “puppets of the federal government.” He said the board had failed to use state laws under which they could have avoided integration.

campaign for the toughest possible labor reform legislation. It was this coalition which drove through a whopping 303 to 125 House passage Friday of the bill endorsed by President Eisenhower to crack down on union abuses and racketeering. Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.), vice chairman of the Senate Rackets Committee, said this vote provided “both the momentum and the incentive’’ for the Senate Monday to accept the House bill as it stands, without sending it to conference. But Sen. John L. McClellan (DArk.), chairman of the Rackets Committee, said he would support the Senate leadership. He said the conferees should be given reasonable time to act, keping adjourn ment of Congress in mind, and should take “die best and strongest provisions of both bills.”

Pyle and state police at the accident, said that the car tore up four guard railings in demolishing the vehicle before it came to rest in a newly plowed field. The skid marks started about 30 feet north of the bridge at the top of the curve. The vehicle did not make any part of the curve, but kept going in a straight path through the railing and into the field. The Ress lad thrown out after rolling a couple of times with the car. The boy died at the Jay county hospital in Portland about two hours after the wreck. Police are continuing their investigation of the mishap. Bullet Wound Fatal To 14-Year-Old Boy INDIANAPOLIS (UPI). — Stanley Schwind, 14, Indianapolis, shot in the head while on a “big game" hunting trip through a city park memorial area with an 11-year-old playmate, died today in General Hospital. Stanley was found unconscious in Municipal Gardens Thursday morning, nearly 18 hours after his mother reported to police that he was missing. Frank Mack, 11, later told police Stanley was shot accidentally and that Frank was too frightened to report what happened. * Stanley was found lying beside a Civil War marker. Frank had taken members of the Schwind family on a search for Stanley hour* . before a caretaker found the wounded boy but told police he was too scared to lead them to the spot where Stanley lay. Take Civil Rights Ad To Senate Floor WASHINGTON (UPI) — Senate supporters of civil rights legislation were committed today to strategy sure to provoke hard feelings, much talk and perhaps a full-fledged filibuster. The civil rights backers announced Friday that they would bypass the Senate Judciary Committee, which has been considering a bill for many weeks, and take the issue directly to the floor. Under the parliamentary short cut, civil rights legislation would be offered as an amendment to a bill pending in the Senate. Such a detour of a committee is unusual, but not unprecedented. In one notable instance during World War 11, a bill to widen a Washington street was transformed by similar action into an authorization for six billion dollars in loans by the Reconstruction Fnance Corp. Sen. Thomas C. HENNINGS Jr. <D-Mo.) said Friday he would use the short-cut procedure next week to put an extensive civil rights bill before the Senate. He did not disclose what pending bill would be selected as the vehicle for his new. eight-point civil rights proposal. Senate Republcan Leader Everett M. Dirksen (TEL) said he felt “free” to follow the same course and was “hopeful” of doing so. Dirksen said, however, that other urgent matters before the Senate would influence the timing of his .decision. Asked whether the move announced by Hennings would provoke a filibuster. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said: “I’m confident some of my colleagues will have something to say about it and that might inspire me to express my views.” Ike Adopts Pattern For Vacation Stay GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPD— President Eisenhower appeared today to have adopted a pattern of morning golf, mid-day office work and afternoon rest for his vacation stay here. The President, ending the first week of his vacation, has followed that schedule each of the past two days. He was expected to get in another round of golf today.

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