Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 273.

T KW /. _ ~; . 1 jf J .•'• K T*arv JB W ' <"'**** CONFISCATED CRANBERRIES—Deputy U. S. Marshal Robert Phillips leans on bags of cranberries in a Chicago warehouse as he fills out an order to confiscate 39,000 pounds of the berries.

Brunsdale Appointed As Langer Successor BISMARCK, N.D. (UPD-Gov. John Davis today named former Gov. Norman Brunsdale, Mayville, to succeed the late William Langer as United States senator. Brunsdale, who served three terms as state senator, was appointed to the vacancy just 11 days after the maverick Republican died in his Washington home. Brunsdale, a republican, will serve under the appointment until after the June, 1960, primary election at which a successor will be elected to serve out the remainder of Langer’s term. Langer was reelected a ayear ago to a fourth term. Davis told one of the biggest assemblages of newsmen in state history: . “I have felt that my choice should fall upon a man who would command from all of our people the highest respect for his ability, his fairness, hte experience, his

Warm Air Routing Cold Wave

By United Press International , A mass of warm air from the Southwest today routed a record November cold waveThe Weather Bureau said the last effects of the arctic front that set record temperatures and left foot-deep snows when it reached the East Coast were fading fast. Temperatures across the nation climbed slowly above the normal seasonal average. Only the extreme Southeast still shivered in the frigid arctic air. Temperatures were reported below freezing in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Warm Air Returns The Weather Bureau said temperatures would dip slightly today from the northern Great Lakes through the Dakotas and snow flurries would dampen the Dakotas, Montana and the WashingtonIdaho area. But warmer air caressed the Advertising Index Advertiser Pare Adams Theater .... 8 A&P Tea Co. — 3 Burk Elevator Co. — 5 Butler Garage -- r 5 John Brecht Jewelry 3 Chris Bohnke, Auctioneer 5 Decatur Super Service — 5 D.H.S. Senior Class 8 Equity Dairy Store - — 6 Erie Railroad — — 4 8.P.0. Elks 7 Goodyear Service Store —7 Gambles 6 & 7 Goodin’s Market 6 Holthouse Furniture -a 9 Habegger Hardware 4 Jani Lyn 2 ’ Johnson & Schnepf Auctioneers 5 Kent Realty & Auction Co. -— 5 Kaye’s Shoe Store — 3 L. 0.0. Moose —— 8 Miller-Jones 9 Glenn C. Merica, Auctioneer —7 Niblick & Co. 2 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. — 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency .— 5 Sutton Jewelrv Store — 2 Stewarts Bakery -—— — 8 Standard Food Stores .— 10 &11 Stucky Furniture Co — 12 Schmitt Meats —— 8 Sheets Furniture 4 Smith Drug Co. 3 & 5 Schaffer’s Restaurant 3 Dell Shaw, Auctioneer 12 Teen Togs 2 Teeple ....... ———— 5 Thomas Realty & Auction Co. . 5 V.F.W. Auxiliary 6 Western Auto Store ♦

DECATUR DAIEF DEMOCRAT ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER Dt ADAMS COUNTY

knowledge of the problems of our people, and his unswerving loyalty to the cause of the people whom he would represent.” Davis said Brunsdale had reluctantly agreed to accept the appointment. Only a week ago, Brunsdale said he had rejected overtures because he had committed his support to former Republican national committeeman Milton Rue, Bismarck. Brunsdale succeeded Fred G'Aandahl, now an assistant secretary of interior, in 1950. He served three terms. He also served in the state senate from 1927 to 1933, and from 1941 to 1950. He was a GOP national committeeman from 1949 to 1950. Auto Badly Damaged By Fire Wednesday City firemen reported extensive damage to a car as a result of a. fire caused by an overheated radiator in the John Dierkes garage on North 12th street. The firemen received the call at ' 1:45 p.m. Wednesday.

I rest of a nation hit by some of the nastiest November weather on record. Ore boats ana oarge tows plying the Great Lakes and Mississippi River, respectively, were reported still hampered by ice that formed on the river and in bays off the lakes. But the Coast Guard said the lake freighters — carrying vital iron ore to recently reopened steel mills — still had time for more Death Car Driver Is Fined In Court The driver of the car, in which an Ohio teenager was killed and another Decatur yo&th besides the driver was seriously injured on July 23. received a $1 fine today in mayor’s court for reckless driving resulting from the accident. ' Larry Dean DeLong, 19, of rout© 3, Decatur, pleaded not guilty to the charge this morning, but was found guilty at the short hearing. He paid the $1 fine and costs charges. Howard Oreon Shaw, 18, of Van Wert, O„ died in the wreck of the vehicle that spun out of control and crashed into two trees on the Monmouth road. Police reports on the ? accident stated that the DeLong vehicle was being pursued by a patrol car previous to the time of the accident. Occupants in the car admitted that they had one beer. Also injured in the smash-up was Dave Ellsworth, 20, of 135 Limberlost Trail in Decatur, who suffered a fractured leg and arm and numerous bruises. DeLong sustained a broken elbow. Shaw died of a broken neck and crushed chest. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy tonight and Fridky. A little wanner Friday. Low tonight in the 20s. High Friday in the 40s. Sunset today 4:27 pan. c.s.t., 5:27 p.m. c.d.t. Sunrise Friday 6:35 a.m. c.s.t., 7:35 a.m. c.d.t. Outlook for Sunday: Partly cloudy and not much temperature change. Lows 26 to 32. Highs 45 to 55.

Soviet Russia Fights Debate Over Hungary UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (UPI) —The United States and other Western powers fought today for an urgent United Nations debate to arouse the world against further killings of Hungarian freedom fighters. The Soviet Union carried on a bitter battle to prevent the U. N. General Assembly from reopening the question of the Hungarian revolution and its bloody suppression by the Soviet army. It appeared Russia would lose. It won the first round in the East-West battle Wednesday night by gaining postponement, with no new date set, of a meeting of the Assembly’s steering committee originally set for this afternoon to take up the request of Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, special U. N. representative on the Hungarian question, to put the issue on the agenda. With that meeting off, the main business at the United Nations today was the Assembly’s main political committee debate on the Indian-led 23-power demand that all nations forego nuclear tests. U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge assured the Assembly the United States was at the forefront of nations supporting Munro's request for reopening debate on the Hungarian question. ‘‘The Assembly must speak out strongly against the brutalizing of the Hungarian people,” Lodge said. Three Baby Sisters Are Burned To Death MULLENS, W. Va. (UPI) — Three baby sisters, apparently asleep on a single bed, burned to death Wednesday in a fire that destroyed their home. They were Pearleen, 3; Perita, 2; and Deborah Cook, six months. , Their father, Early Cook, waa| at work at the time at his job as a hotel elevator operator. Mrs. Cook was shopping when the blaze engulfed the family’s three-room frame house.

f deliveries despite an early freezei up and a half-fbot-thick ice cover at the ports of Duluth, Minn., and . Superior, Wis., on Lake Superior. Weather Kills Six The cold wave fired a parting t shot Wednesday in the form of . record low temperatures in Texas, West Virginia, Pennsylvania , and Washington, D.C. The nation’s capital reported 21 I degrees above zero. It was 6 , above in West Virginia, and Tex!as teeth chattered at Corpus • Christi, where it was 30, Beaumont, 27, and Laredo, 31. Pittsburgh thermometers dipped to 9 above and it was 18 at Harrisburg and 14 at Erie, Pa. Ihe freeze was blamed for at least six deaths, including two each in Montana and North Dakota and one each in Indiana and > Illinois, where a Chicago woman 1 was found frozen in her heatless ! apartment. i Attempting To Find ’ Fuselage Os Plane ; GULFPORT. M’ss. (UPD—Two Navy minesweepers headed for the deep waters of the Gulf of , Mexico today in an attempt to : locate the fuselage of a National 1 Airlines plane which carried 42 ! persons to their deaths. Charles S. Collar, Civil Aerot nautics Board investigator, said , > location of the fuselage or other i ■ large pieces of the ill-fated DC7B . which crashed mysteriously Mont day on the second leg of a Miami to Los Angeles flight was the key i to determining the cause of the . crash. I Minesweepers equipped with . magnetic soundtag gear were dis- ( patched from Charleston, S.C., Wednesday night by the Navy to the crash area about 37 statute miles east of the mouth of the Mississippi River. The gulf is 325 to 750 feet deep there. Pathological examinations of the recovered bodies of two women and seven men failed to definitely j establish the cause of death or a < possible clue as to the cause of the crash. Collar said. < The Harrison County, Miss., < coroner’s office reported that in- I dications from the report of three I military doctors were that they i wee killed by the Impact of the 1 plane’s plunge Into the storm- i swept Gulf. <

—————————— — Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, Nov. 1% 1959.

Major Steel Companies Announce New Offer • ■ ’ . . I ' To End Labor Dispute

I ” Young Husband Shoots Wife i And Himself . NEW CASTLE, Ind. (UPI)—A young husband shot and killed his wife and himself in a car in a car at a New Castle street in- ' tersection Wednesday night at the ' end of a police chase • It was the second husband-wife ■ double-slaying in the area in 24 hours. A Chesterfield couple were found dead in hteir home Wed- : nesday, victims of what authorities said was a murder - suicide that occurred the night before. At New Castle shortly before midnight, Wayne Jones, 27, Greensboro, fired a revolver buli let into the head of his wife, Helen, 23. then shot himself in the temple when their car was wrecked at an intersection as they tried to elude two Indiana State Police troopers. Police said Jones forced Newner and Nz>rton Worling, on patrol duty, found a car east of Duck Creek in Henry County with the motor running and the lights on. They got out to investigate. A third car approached. A man jumped out and climbed into the parked car. The third car then sped away. k Believed Wreck Victims ITbe officers chased it. The car roared into New Castle, where it figured in an accident at 11th and Fleming Sts. Before officers could reach the wrecked car, Jones had shot his wife and himself. But police didn’t realize it until an autopsy. They thought the Joneses were kileld in the accident. About 18 miles northwest of New Castle, the bodies of Chester Dull, 67, and his wife, Lillian, 64, were found in their apartment above a Chesterfield business building late Wednesday afternoon. Chesterfield is in Madison County near Anderson. Authorities said it appeared that Dull shot his wife with a revolver and then killed himself. Mrs. Dull’s body was found in the kitchen, Dull’s in the living roomPolice found the bodies when they went to the apartment above a liquor store after Mrs. Dorothy Russell, a daughter of the Dulls, became alarmed because she was

Higher Budget Likely In '6O

AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPD — Strong indications of a new federal budget in excess of 81 billion dollars and a deficit this year because of the steel strike came out of a meeting between President Eisenhower and Budget Director Maurice H. Stans today. Stans met here with the President for two hours, going over nonmilitary items in the budget for fiscal 1961 which begins next July 1. The budget for the present fiscal year is estimated at about $78,900,000,000 and the administration had been hoping for a revenue surplus of about 100 million dollars. Balanced Budget Unlikely Stans told reporters before flying back to Washington shortly before noon that because of the steel strike and lower steel company profits, “the odds are swinging against a balanced budget” this year. “The recoupment of steel profits probably will come largely in calendar 1960,” Stans said, adding that the resulting increase in tax revenue to the government would come in the next fiscal year, rather than this year. Stans said that “built-in” increases in federal spending pointed to an increase of about two billion dollars in expenditures during the next fiscal year. Thus, he said it seemed highly unlikely that the government could come up with an overall budget that did not reflect this increased cost.

Victory D Communi Board members of the Decatur Community Fund attended a "Victory” meeting Wednesday night, reiewing this year’s drive, which ‘ went over the top here for the first ' time in several years. Carl Braun, 1 general chairman, and James Ba- ' sham, drive chairman, presided. ' The group also previewed plans for the 1960 fund campaign, tight- ' ening up the organization to make J the project a one-week drive. Discussion amongst the members reviewing this year’s drive, which ’ may be incorporated into the next ' campaign. Earlier One-Week Drive The sentiment of the group ap- . peared to favor the one-week campaign, but moving the date up to early or Mid-October. The 1959 drive started Oct. 20. One suggestion favored naming the co-chairmen and captains at one meeting before selecting the teams of workers This would be done prior to the drive and well in advance of team selection. The cochairmen and captains would then be better orinented with specific problems and they could choose workers to best assist to solve these problems. The final amount of the current campaign will not be known for a _ . . unable to arouse them! The Dulls were last seen alive about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Couple Estranged? Police at New Castle said the Joneses apparently were estranged. They said Mrs. Jones was riding to work at the New Castle State Hospital with Ward Newby, also an employe of the hospital, when Jones drove alongside the car and forced it off the road. PqUcesaidJones jforce d Newby and Mrs. Jones into his car at gunpoint and Newby to drive them around the countryside. The Newby car was left parked along the road. Newby drove several miles in a circular route and ended up at his own parked car, where the troopers were investilating. Newby jumped out, and Jones then jumped into the driver's seat and sped off. 1

, Half For Military ’ The size cf the military budget . for next year is expected to be ’ about 41 billion dollars, and this, . considered together with what Stans called increases ’ in other forms of government spending, pointed to an overall budget of 81 billion dollars and ’ probably more t The President obviously is having to spend more time resolving intra-service differences over the big military budget than in years i past. He has set up another big . defense budget conference here ’ Saturday when the three service ’ secretaries, Deputy Defense SecHerbert York, director of research and engineering in the Defense Deand engineetag in the Defense De- ; partment, will fly here for a ’ meeting. 1 The President has held earlier conferences on the miltiary bud- ’ get at the Augusta National Golf Club, beginning with Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy and an array of Pentagon officials last i Monday. Wednesday the Joint Chiefs of : Staff'spent two and a half hours. I with the President in his small ■ office overlooking the golf course. Apparently the military budget • for fiscal 1961, which begins next ■ July 1, has been settled as far • as an overall total is concerned—between 41 and 42 billion dollars. The individual services are fighting up until the last minute, however, to prevent the economy ax from bittag too deeply into their own programs.

•inner On ity Fund week or so, Basham said, as dona- • tions are still trickling in from var--1 ious sources. Several of the co- '• chairmen reported that they have ■ a few contacts who have indicated ’ they would contibute to the drive. While nothing definite was es- ! tablished to handle the money over ‘ and above the $20,429 goal, a sink- ‘ ing fund may be established to ' keep the Community Fund of fu- ■ ture years in a sei vent position. Contribute Report Promised Basham promised a report on contributions would be made available as soon as the last donation ’ is made and tabulated. Early indications are that the industrial ' employes of Decatur led the dona--1 tion list by quite a bit. In attendance at the meeting at ' the West End Family Room were: Basham, of Central Soya Co.; Braun, of New York Life Insurance Co.; Roger Gentis, of the Schafer Co.; Deane T. Dorwin, of Decatur high school; Wilbur Petrie, of Petrie Oil Co.; Bill Small, of Central Soya Co.; Kenneth Gaunt, of General Electric Co.; Bob Wall, of the Decatur Daily Democrat; Ted Hill, of the Leland Smith Insurance Agency; and Leo Kirsch, Decatur postmaster. Pauper Attorney Is Refused For Connie INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — The Indiana Supreme Court today all but closed the door on further efforts by Mrs. Connie Nicholas to escape a prison term for shoot-, ing to death her wealthy married lover. The high court refused to,order a lower court to appoint a pauper attorney for ■ her, then declined to give her a further extension for an appeal of her conviction. “These rulings should terminate finally all litigation in connection with her conviction, Judge Norman Arterburn said in a statement issued in connection with the rulings. But George Popcheff, one of two attorneys who have been representing Mrs. Nicholas, said he will file in a lower court a plea for a stay of execution pending a belated appeal. The Supreme Court’s action left unchanged the Nov. 21 deadline for appealing the conviction, a deadline only two days away. The high court accused Mrs. Nicholas of “a lack of frankness and good faith” in connection with distribution of her assets shortly before she asked Marion Court Judge Thomas J. Faulconer to name an attorney to represent her at taxpayers’ expense. In effect, the Supreme Court denied her plea for a pauper attorney. It said in a unanimous opinion that it would not man? date Faulconer to appoint an attorney. which Mrs Nicholas had asked the high court to do. Mrs. Nicholas is free in appeal bond. She was convicted in the July, 1958, slaying of Forrest Teel, 54, a top executive in the Eli Lilly drug firm here, and was sentenced to 2 to 21 years in prison on a voluntary manslaughter charge. K Contln<wd on P*K« six) Funeral Held Today For Kiefer Infant Fuperal services were held this afternoon at the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim for the infant child of Clifford and Margaret Scheumann-Kiefer, stillborn Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital. The Rev. A. A. Fenner officiated at the services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, and burial was in the church cemetery. Surviving in addtion to the parents are a brother, Delven Lee, and a sister, Sheila Sue; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Scheumann of Allen county, and Adolph Kiefer of Preble, township, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Charles Kiefer.

i Mrs. Fanny Dugan Dies At Age Os 97 Mrs. Fanny Dugan, 97, one of Decatur’s most prominent ladies, - died at 2:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at her home, 420 West Monroe street. Death was attributed to infirmities of her age. Her s condition had been critical for the j past three weeks. A lifelong resident of Decatur, 2 she was highly active in church ‘ and club activities until only a few months ago. ’ Mrs. Dugan was a member of the first class to graduate from the Decatur high school in 1881. After attending Earlham College for one year, she taught in the • Decatur public schools for two • years. She was married in 1890 to 1 Charles A. Dugan, who was then - superintendent of schools. Her hus--1 band later was president of the • First State Bank for many years until his death in 1935. k She was born In Decatur Nov. 7. 1862, a daughter of Dr. Thomas T. ’ Dorwin and Samatha Porter-Dor- ' win. Her father and grandfather were among the early physicians in Adams county. ’ Mrs. Dugan was a lifelong member of the First Presbyterian ’ church, a member of the Shakespeare club, the Literature depart- ’ ment of the Decatur Woman’s club, ’ and the Order of Eastern Star. She had been a patroness of the Tri Kappa sorority for many years. Surviving are three daughters. Miss Frances Dorwin Dugan, who has niade her home with her mother since retiring from the teaching profession, Mrs. Louis (Dorothy) Haerle of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Ralph (Helen) Unkefer of Philadelphia ; four grandchha«en and three great-grandchildren. A daughter, Ms. Alexander (Naomi) Morton, died in 1919. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Harold J. Bond officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. ■

Approves Plan On Cranberries

WASHINGTON (UPI) -The government approved today a plan which will put about seven million pounds of safe cranberries on grocery shelves before Thanksgiving. They will be labeled to assure • housewives they are uncontaminated. Approval of the program was announced by Arthur S. Flemming, secretary of health, education and welfare, who warned 11 days ago that some pf the 1958 and 1959 crops had been contaminated with a weed killer that produced cancer in rats. “In mj’ judgment, there will be uncontaminated cranberries on the store shelves by Thanksgiving,” Flemming told a press news conference. He said the plan calls for special labelling of processed cranberries and cranberry products “which the housewife can look for to be sure the package, can or bottle she buys is from a tested lot containing no aminotriazole.” Aminotrizole is the weed-killer which Flemming announced had rendered the 1958 and 1959 crops suspect. A hurry-up program of testing by the government’s Food and Drug Administration was immediately begun on all cranberry crops. George C. P. Olsson, president of Ocean Spray Cranberries. Inc., which handles about 75 per cent of the nation's output, promptly issued a statement approving' “wholeheartedly" Flemming’s action. ' The industry proposed Wednesday a five-point plan designed to put "pure and wholesome” cranberries on Thanksgiving tables. The Health, Education and Wei-

Six Cents

BULLETIN PITTSBURGH (UPI) — The United Steelw o r k e r s today promptly rejected as the “same old package rearranged a little bit in form” a new strike settlement proposal by the nation’s major steel companies. PITTSBURGH (UPI) — The nation's major steel companies announced a new offer today for settlement of their contract dispute with the United Steelworkers Union. The firms changed proposals for settlement of the thorny “work practices” issue. The management proposal provided for an economic package which it estimated would cost 30 cents per hour per man over a proposed three-year period. While the economic proposals were approximately the same as those advanced by the companies last Oct. 17, the new offer advanced a “human relations research committee” which would study and recommend solutions of problems in employment stabilization, incentives, seniority and other work conditions If the committee’s recommendations are not acceptable, the proposal provides for arbitration of the questions. Under the management proposal, the committee would be required to complete its study and submit its recommendations to negotiators at “the earliest practicable date and no later than June 30, 1960.” The management proposal said that if the recommendations were not acceptable, the issues should be arbitrated within 90 days after the ‘committee reports. - • - On employe security, the companies offered to increase company cash payments into the supplemental unemployment benefits fund from the previous level of 3 cents per hour per man to 5 cents. The proposal further called for an agreement with the USW to protect employes’ seniority rights for up to five years against a break in service in event of a layoff, physical disability or both. The management offer included two wage rate increases ranging from 6-12 cents an hour depending upon job classification, the first effective Oct. 1, 1960 and the second Oct. 1, 1961.

fare Department offered counterproposals and then the two sides set to work on a compromise. Ask Federal Judge Oust James Hoffa WASHINGTON (UPI)—A federal judge has been asked to oust James R Hoffa as president of the Teamster Union and bring him to trial on corruption charges. The request was made Wednesday to U. S. District Court here by Godfrey P. Schmidt, attorney for 12 rank-and-file teamsters. The group asked Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts to name an impartial board of examiners to hear 164 charges of misconduct against Hoffa and report back on their verdict. They said neither Hoffa nor the Teamsters’ executive board had done anything about the charges which were filed with the court months ago. They said “no reasonable hope of substantial reform of the Teamster movement can be entertained while James R. Hoffa and his cronies control the administration of the international organization." The rebel group argued that the union’s general executive board, which normally would try union officers accused of misconduct, was not capable of being impartial in Hoffa’s case. 12 Pages