Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 280, Decatur, Adams County, 28 November 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 280.

U. S. Embassy Files Protest With India • * On Marine’s Beating

Warsaw Children Die Os Injuries \ United Press International Indiana’s 30-hour Thanksgiving holiday traffic death toll climbed to at least seven today when two children died in a hospital from injuries sustained in a collision that killed their mother. Brenda Layne, 8, and her brother, Ronald, 7, Warsaw, died during the night in Whitley County hospital at Columbia City, about 36 hours after a head-on collision in Ind. 14. Their mother, Mrs. Frances S. Layne, 29, was killed outright and her husband, Gover V., 32. and the couple’s four children were injured when their car was struck by another which was trying to pass another car on the crest of a. hill. Two other Layne children and the father remained in the hospital along with George Godson. 22, Fort Wayne, driver of the other car, and a man riding with him. • An accident near Elkhart early this morning recorded the first fatality of the weekend but raised to nine the number of traffic deaths in Indiana since 6 p. m. Wednesday. A man identified tentatively as GBfold Anderson. 25, Elkhart, w$S burned to death when his oar smashed into a big truck on a curve of Ind. 112 a mile west of Elkhart and burst into flames as it rolled over. Distribute Tickets Tuesday For Trains Names of business firms who were omitted or incorrectly listed as among those distributing free tickets to the Santa Claus train ride next week, were announced today by the Chamber of Commerce. Incorrectly listed was Parkway 66 service station, at highways 27, 22 and 224. Omitted from the list were the Heller Insurance Agency, Fritz Ellsworth Garage, North Second street, and the G. C. Murphy Co. These free tickets will be distributed Tuesday for the train ride, which will be held next Saturday.

Early Attempt To Orbit Moon Urged

WASHINGTON (UPI) — A spokesman for the American Rocket Society said today the United States would suffer a fatal loss of prestige unless it tried again within three months to fire a satellite into orbit around the moon. It was learned that the Air Force could get around shortages of rockets and launching pads and could launch another AtlasAble rocket carrying a picturetaking moon satellite in as little as two months if the White House issued the necessary orders and priorities. A successful U. S. moon shot in the near future would boost American prestige before President Eisenhower’s trip to Russia in the spring. The Russians hit the moon with their Lunik II just before Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev visited the United States in SeptemberBut so far the government has no definite plans for a new AtlasAbie lunar probe. Officials said after an Atlas-Able moon satellite failure Day at Cape Canaveral, Fla., that the United States might not try to experiment again until the end of 1960. Andrew G. Haley Jr., general counsel of the American Rocket Society, told United Press International, "It is vital that we make another attempt to orbit the moon, cer a inly within three months.” ” A one year delay, he said, would be "fatal to American prestige.”

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Good Fellows Club Launched In City Today “Please help us to help others have a Merry Christmas.” This is the plea of the Good Fellows club, sponsored for years by the Delta Theta Tau sorority. It is through the generosity of individuals, social organizations, industries, business men and women, that enable the Good Fellows to give a little l happiness to the less fortunate at Christmas. A list is compiled each year of persons who would have a meager Christmas if someone would not help a little. Perhaps illness in a family, unemployment, or a pension that could not be stretched, and other unfortunate circumstances dim many a person’s Christmas. Mrs. Frank Lybarger is serving as general chairman this year and anyone knowing of some deserving person is asked to contact her by calling 3-2080, as a new list is made each, year and no holdover names are used. Mrs. Wilmer Bultemeier and Mrs. Kenneth Shannon are food chairmen, Mrs. Robert Krueckeberg is toy chairman. Each member of the sorority spends many hours investigating, sorting and packing food baskets, repairing toys and any necessary work that is needed to make this project a success. “Won’t you help us to spread this little bit of happiness by a donation. Small or large, you may be sure it will be spent wisely. Canned goods, new or used toys will be appreciated and these donations can be taken directly to the fire station, the headquarters for many years, or by contacting any member of the sorority. Monetary contributions will be accepted by Miss Rosemary Spangler, R. R. 2, Decautr, Ind.” Portugal Honors Allied Commander LISBON (UPD—The Portuguese government bestowed the Grand Cross of the Military Order of Aviz on Gen. Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied commander in Europe, in ceremonies Friday.

Haley said Eisenhower shahid order three or four new lunar rockets to be fired at one or two month intevals. He said the Russians do not organize one-rocket space projects. Bloomingdale Man Killed In Accident ROCKVILLE, Ind. (UPI) — Junior Lee Crowder, 33, Bloomingdale, was killed Friday when he was thrown from his pickup truck and crushed beneath it. The vehicle struck a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad viaduct nine miles west of here and smashed head-on into a car driven by Charles H. Grinkmeyer, 51, Champaign, 111., state police said. LaGrange School Superintendent Dies Zaner Rae DeMaster, 62, superintendent of the LaGrange Schools for 38 years before his retirement last spring, died Friday in the LaGrange county hospital. He was a former president of the Northeastern Indiana teachers association. His father, the Rev. Franklin LeMaster, was a well known Methodist minister in Indiana. Survivors include the widow, Lucile; three sons and a sister. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the First Methdliist church in LaGrange, with burial in I Mt. Horeb cemetery at Markle.

Memorial Services As Elks On Dec. 6 The annual memorial services of the Decatur lodge of the B. P. O. Elks will be held at the lodge home on North Second street at, 2:30* o’clock Sunday afternoon, Dec. 6. ’ Judge Homer J. Byrd, judge of the Wells circuit court at Bluffton, will deliver the memorial address. Judge. Byrd is well known , in Decatur and Adams county, and was speaker at Flag Day services of the Elks here a few years ago. The service is held the first ’ Sunday in December each year to pay honor to deceased members . of the fraternal organization. ' Members of the Decatur lodge who have died in the past year are L. A. Holthouse, Ed Engeler, James P. Davis, John Lose and Clem Voglewede. The Dec. 6 service w.ill be con- . ducted by George M. Bair, Sr., exalted ruler of the Elks, assist- . ed by lodge officers. Special music will be presented by a male quartet. Harold Hoff- ’ man, Leo Kirsch, LaVerne Roth and Earl DeWeese, with Mrs. William Qa.r, as accompanist. __ All members of the lodge are urged to attend the service, which is open to the public. Families of deceased members are especially invited to attend. : Governor Rockefeller i Criticized By Senator WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. 1 Stephen M. Young (D-Ohio) said, ■ Friday New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller is “undermining the average American citizen’s yearn--1 ing for peace” by advocating resumption of nuclear bomb tests. 1 “While I do not question the governor's right to make his opinions known, I do question his wisdom and judgment,” Young said. Grants For Research To N. D. Scientists SOUTH BEND. Ind. (UPI) — University of Notre Dame scientists have received grants totaling , $121,273 from the National Science i Foundation and the U. S. Atomic ; Energy Commission, it was an-, nounced today. The grants will be. ! used for research in chemistry, I biology, mechanical engineering and metallurgical engineering. ■

Youth Os America Defended By Truman KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) — Former President Truman defended the youth of America against its critics Friday night and disclosed he is ready to fulfill a long-time dream of writing an American history book for young people. The 75-year-old former Chief Executive, displaying his customary fire and wit, addressed 1,500 delegates to the National Council for the Social Studies. . Earlier, Truman told reporters he is “fed up with the constant criticism of American youth.” "These critics don’t know what they are talking about,” he said. “Our young people know a good deal more about everything than the people who are criticizing them.” The former President said he has been “very much impressed” by teen agers he has met in recent travels around the country, adding that he plans to write a book for children “that will tell, in simple terms, about the operation of American government.” “From the age of 10 to 14,” he said. “I read every book in the Independence (Mo.) library, and that includes the encyclopedia. “But I never thought Pd ever have a hand in writing American history before the historians got to it,” he said. Truman said his latest book, “Mr. Citizenn” will be published next month by Random House. “It is a book about what happens to a man after Ke leaves the White House,” Truman said “It will be long enough to bore you.”

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NEW DELHI, India (UPI) —I The U. S. Embassy today filed a formal protest with the Indian government over the detention and beating of an American Marine by Chinese Communist Consulate officials in Bombay. - There seemed little else the United States could do since the kidnaping took place on Indian and this country does not have diplomatic relations with the Chinese Communists. The episode could put a new strain on Red Chinese-Indian relations. The two countries are engaged in a bitter border lispute. An embassy spokesman said the protest was delivered to the external affairs ministry. He said details of the note would be disclosed later today. • Chinese Communist Embassy officials told United Press International a report on the incident had been forwarded to Peiping. Held Five Hours 1716 Marine, Sgt. Robert Armstrong, 30, of Los Angeles, Calif., was held for five hours Friday in the garage of the Red Chinese Consulate and beaten while his hands were tied behind his back. An Indian postman delivering mail spotted the Marine and alerted Indian authorities and the American Consulate. The Reds then handed over their American captive to Indian police. The incident, denounced by the State Department in Washington as “highhanded” and “intolerable,” stemmed from Armstrong’s assignment to protect a Chinese Communist diplomat who first sought asylum in the U.S. Consulate and then changed his mind. American Embassy Counsellor Winthrop Brown said it was normal practice for the embassy to shelter persons seeking asylu® while awaiting instructions from Washington. Armstrong was standing guard Thanksgiving and was put in charge of protecting Chang Chien-yu, a member of the official Red trade mission "China Import - Export Corporation” in Bombay, who said he feared for his life. Apparently Changed Mind • Brown said Chang made a statement in which he denounced the Peiping regime and asked for refuge in the United States. A tape recording also was made, Brown said. But Chang apparently changed his. mind about defecting, Brown said, seized the tape recording and fled from a house in Juhu .village where he was hiding. | Armstrong followed and caught up with Chang in a taxi which (took them to the Chinese Consulate. Brown said When Arnistrong tried to retrieve the tape, Charter rushed into the consulate and “Chinese pugs” grabbed the Marine. William Turner, American consul general in Bombay, told Unitied Press International by telephone that Armstrong was “all right.” He saM Armstrong he right.” He said Armstrong would make a formal report to polict today but expressed doubt he would be made available for anj press interview.

Segregationist Found Guilty

LITTLEROCK, Ark. (UPI) — An all-white jury today found segregationist leader E. A. Lauderdale Sr., guilty of dynamiting the Little Rock'School Board office. He was sentenced to three years* imprisonment and a SSOO fine. - Lauderdale’s attorneys said they would appeal the sentenceThe 48-year-old Ku Klux Klan member stared at jury foreman Herman Carty as the verdict of the jury was read. The nine-man, three-woman jury deliberated one hour and 22 minutes before finding Lauderdale guilty. Later, When Judge William J. Kirby announced he would allow the defendant to remain free on $50,000 bond, Lauderdale embraced his wife. Judge Kirby said he would allow 30 days for an appeal and

Muscular Dystrophy Drive Monday Night Decatur residents who wish to give to the muscular dystrophy porchlight campaign next Monday night should leave their porch or outside light on, Anthony Baker, Moose governor, and fire chief Cedric Fisher announced today. * The annual campaign to raise runds to fight the crippling disease so common in Adams county will Be sponsored this year by the Adams lodge of the Loyal Order of Moose, assisted by the firemen. About 35 solicitors are expected to take part. Bob Gerber, civic affairs chairman for the Moose, will be in charge. In addition, a number of; cannisters have been distributed to local stores. Monroe, Berne, and Geneva have already completed their drives. A total of 75 per'cent of the funds received will go for research, and the remaining 25 per cent goes to the patient service of the local chapter. A number of wheel chairs and other equipment, such as special beds, have been provided through the local chapter. Research is being carried on as close as Bluffton, where the Caylor-Nickel clinic has conducted research on genetic transmission of muscular dystrophy. Three Girls Killed As Train Hits Auto LAKE CRYSTAL, Minn. (UPD— Three girls were killed and three others injured Friday night when a car carrying them home from a holiday party was struck by a freight train. Police said the girls, all 18 and from Lake Crystal, had attended a get-together at the home of a friend, Sandra Hanson, and were driving down a rural road about two miles away. A Chicago and North Western Railroad freight train struck the car at an unlighted crossing. The impact shoved the car nearly 200 feet down the tracks. Killed instantly were Gloria Hughes, Joyce Addleman and Diane Wrightson. Jeanine Nelson, Mary Kelly and Claudia Ward were injured. Doctors at a Mankato, Minn., hospital said their 'xmdition ranged from good to fair. A. H. Holly, engineer, said the train was traveling about 35 miles per hour. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and cold tonight. Sunday fair with higher afternoon temperatures. Low tonight 10 to 15 above. High Sunday mid30s north to upper 30s south. Outlook for Monday: Fair or partly cloudy and warmer.

would not sentence the wealthy lumber dealer until it was filed. A standing-room-only crowd of about 250 whites and negroes crowded into the courtroom to hear the verdict. Several teenaged girls in Lauderdale’s Sunday school class'cried openly and he embraced one of them. Lauderdale, termed the "essence and epitome” of the segregation fight in Arkansas by his own lawyers in their final arguments, is an official of the segregationist Capital Citizens Council as well as a Klan member. "He was caught up in the maelstrom of the mtegration struggle,** defense attorney James McDaniel of Jonesboro, Ark., told the jurors.

McDaniel urged the jury not to "let New York or Chicago or Henty Luce of Time magazine tell you what to do in this case."

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16 Americans Dead From Faulty Heaters WASHINGTON (UPI) — If you own an auto trailer heater, read this. It may save your life. Sixteen Americans already are dead because they didn’t get the warning or because they didn’t take the time to check their heater. The Public Health Service announced Friday night that the heaters had snuffed out eight i more lives. The service disclosed eight previous deaths when it issued its first warning last week. Nearly 1.000 trailers still are equipped with faulty bottled gas heaters that build up a deadly concentration of carbon monoxide gas in a very short time, the Public Health Service said. A nationwide drive is underway to track down these heaters and fix them so they will be safe. More than 1,000 of the dangerous heaters have been located so far. The heaters were one type manufactured by the Thurm Engineering Co., of Elkhart, Ind. They were put on the market in the past 18 months. The faulty bottled gas heater does not pYbvide complete combustion. This means that deadly fumes are released when it is used' The company has said the heater can be made safe by moving the fire box up a fraction of an inch. But this should be done by someone who knows what he is doing. The problem of finding the faulty heaters is tough. They were sold to 82 trailer manufacturers and sent to 250 cities and more than 300 dealers. Columbia City Man Is Suicide Victim COLUMBIA CITY, Ind. (UPD— Wayne Lawson, 33, Columbia City, believed despondent over his health, shot himself to death in his | home Friday, police said. Law- ■ son’s wife and four children were in the house at the time of the shooting.

Three-Year-Old Boy Rescued By Firemen

AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI) — Firemen practically stood on their heads to rescue a 3-year-old boy trapped for more than, an hour at the bottom of a septic tank hole. They kept him from getting panicky by telling him: “You look just like a little rabbit in his hole.” The excavation where William Marc Turner, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Gene Turner, became trapped Friday is located just to the rear of a lot where the Turner’s recently built a new home. Marc and his 2-year-old brother were playing in the back yard while Mrs. Turner hung up the wash. Suddenly, she noticed Marc had disappeared. “Where’s your brother,” she asked the youngest child. He started to cry. Frantically, Mrs. Turner began searching. Then she heard a faint cry. "Mommy, get me out of this hole.” Marc had tried to jump on top of a metal septic tank that had been lowered into the hole. He slipped and fell between the tank and the wall of the excavation, which had not yet been filled in Firemen rushed to the scene. They tried to reach Marc, but he was wedged at the bottom of the six-foot hole with one leg crumpled underneath him, about two feet below their fingertips.

Resume Steel Talk Tuesday

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The steel union and companies, under new government pressure to settle their six-month old dispute, resume federal mediation sessions Tuesday. The conferences will be the government’s first formal effort to reopen contract talks since the 500,000 striking United Steelworkers returned to work Nov. 7 under a Taft-Hartley injunction after a 116-day walkout The new government pressure to break the stalemate came in a letter Friday from acting Commerce Secretary Philip A. Ray to Arthur J. Goldberg, general counsel of the Steelwokers Union. Ray rejected Goldberg's suggestion that the government byild up its stockpiles of defense steel now in case the strike resumes when the 80-day Taft-Harley order expires Jan. 26. Ray said defense needs require a continuing flow of steel and therefore canpot be met by stockpiling. The official said resumption of the strike when the injunction runs out would cause a "second crisis” having an “intolerable effect upon our national health and safety.” Although the letter was addressed to the . union, observers considered it a prod to both sides to resolve their differences. In announcing the new contract talks, Federal Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan did not say whether he would meet separately or jointly with union and management representatives. Joint sessions normally are held only when there is an indication of progress toward a settlement. Goldberg wrote Commerce Secretary Fredeick H. Mueller Nov. 20 uging steel stockpiling so that “ should the stika resume, any peril to the national safety will not be chargeable to the union.’ He said the strike in all likelihood would resume Jan. 26. Ray’s reference to a renewed ■ strike’s effects on national health and safety was similar to the language used by the government |in obtaining the Taft - Hartley

They had to wriggle head first into the narrow space and claw away the dirt from the wall with small garden toqls. Mrs. Turner stood nervously by, trying to comfort the scared youngster. He began to whimper. “Now you know how a rabbit feels in his hole in the ground,” a fireman told Marc as he chipped away the dirt. Marc was so interested about, the rabbits, he forgot to cry. When the boy was finally freed, he was given a thorough examination. "He wasn’t hurt,” Mrs. Tturner said. “Just a few scratches, and real dirty.”

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back-to-work order. But Ray gave no hint of steps the government might take if the strike started up again when the injunction runs outCarl I. Hanna Dies At Fort Wayne Home Carl Trefford Hanna, 75, whose wife is a native of Decatur, died at his residence in Fort Wayne Friday following an extended illness. Hanna, a native of Wells county, was the son of Thomas A. and Emma Benedict Hanna. He was married Dec. 22, 1910 in Decatur by the Rev. A. M. Gillespie to Clara E. Schultz, daughter of Henry and Chrinstena Baker Schultz. The widow survives. A pipe fitter, Hanna resided in Fort Wayne for 58 years, and was a retired employe of the Rea Magnet Wire Co. He was a member of the Summit City Lodge No. 170, F. & A M., and the IOOF Lodge No. 14. Surviving in addition to the wife is a sister. Mrs. Leah McAfee, of Poe, Friends may call at the Tom Mungovan funeral home in Fort Wayne after 7 p.m. today. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. The Rev. Robert Bieber will officiate. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Circulate Petitions For Saving Bridge Petitions addressed to Gov. Harold H. Handley, the state of Indiana, and the state highway department. asking them, in the name of the signers, to recdnsider the destruction of the 78-y ear-old Pleasant Mills covered bridge after the building of a new "bridge across the St. Mary’s river, were circulated widely over the county today. The petition was drawn up by attorney Lewis L. Smith, at the request of the county historical society. Numerous stories concerning the bridge, and its fate, have appeared over the state. A five-min-ute program on the bridge Was broadcast over station WOWO Friday at 8:30 p.m. The petitions will be gathered in about a week, and those interested will drive to Indianapolis to present them. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theater 3 Adams County Farm Bureau — 8 Adams Co. Farm Bureau Coop 6 Ashbauchers’ Tin Shop 8 Begun’s Clothing Store 7 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Butler Garage . 5 Bower Jewelry Store .. 3 John Brecht Jewelry .. 7 Carling’s Beer 6 Citizens Telephone Co. 3 Church Page Sponsors r — 2 Decatur Lions Club - 3 Decatur Ready-Mix, Inc. .. 8 Decatur Super Service . 5 Ehinger’s Boston Store —7 Fairway Restaurant ... 6 Gerber’s Super Market 7 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Vernon Ginter ....... 3 Holthouse Furniture .... —7 Happy Hours Roller Rink 7 Kiddie Shop 7 J. J. Newberry Co. . ... 7 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc... 7 * L. Smith Insurance Agency .... 5 Schafers ...s 7 Smith Drug Co. ..... 5 & 7 Shaffer’s Restaurant 3 Russ Smitley ». 5 Teeple - 5 Voglewede & Anderson, Lawyers 6 Zwick Funeral Home 4

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