Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 296, Decatur, Adams County, 17 December 1959 — Page 1

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NATO Leaders Adopt Four-Point Agenda To Next Summit Meeting

PARIS (UPD—NATO’s 15 foreign ministers today shelved for the moment the French-American dispute over defense policy and adopted a four-point agenda for next spring’s summit meeting with Russia. Disarmament led the list. A NATO spokesman said the ministers picked the items they thought should head the program for the East-West talks—disarmament, Germany and the linked Berlin problem, East-West relations generally and aid to underdeveloped countries. The ministers, with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter present to prepare for this weekend’s Western summit talks, not only studied the topics to be considered in an East-West meeting but tactics the West should employ When there. The summit recommendations were contained in a report “as thick as a fist” prepared by Western diplomats in a series of London meetings. Study of the proposals took priority today over the disputes plaguing NATO and reports the alliance was only at onethird strengthThe angry debate over France’s go-it-alone defense tactics was put aside while the council suggested means of netting a worthwhile arms control agreement out of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Defense dibate will be resumed in February or March, informants said. , Diplomatic sources said only Presidents Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle can hope to settle the disputes which threaten the' effectiveness of the Atlantic P They expressed hope that talks between the two chiefs of state this week end will solve enough problems to clear the way for unified planning for next years summit talks with Russia. U.S. criticism of French footdragging” on Western defense clouded the three-day council meeting. French resentment is expected to carry over into the Western summit meeting that opens Saturday. French Indignant The United States also is concerned over de Gaulle’s refusal to permit the stockpiling of U.S. nuclear weapons on French soil or

Ike Completes Tunisia Visit

• ABOARD U S S. ESSEX in Mediterranean (UPD—President Eisenhower and Tunisian -President Habib Bourguiba said today that the fighting between France and the Algerian rebels was a cause for “grave anxiety:” In a communique issued shortly after Eisenhower completed a three hour add 47 minute visit to this newly independent country, the American President also said the peace of the world can be helped by further aid to underdeveloped countries. Eisenhower went ashore by helicopter to Tunis, scene of his first great victory as a military commander in World War 11, and received a triumphant welcome on the eighth stop of his 22,000-mile good will tour. Then, after nearly four hours of greeting and panoply, he returned to the U.S.S. Des Moines IQT helicopter and resumed his journey toward France and a Western summit conference. The communique said the two presidents "concentrated particularly on the need to continue the efforts already made to consolidate peace and to reduce the causes of international tension." Thy studied the situation creat"ed*by’the"dffflcußleSTKAlgerfa, and agreed that the lack of a solution there is a cause for great concern in the world today. Visits War Cemetery Algeria is one of the sorest spots In Western circles, since France has the greatest part of its military forces tied up in battling rebel forces. This hurts its commitments to the NATO alliance. ......

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to participate in coordinated planning for the air defense of Western Europe. The French, on the other hand, are indignant about the U.S. refusal to side with them in last week’s U.N. vote on Algeria The United States adhered to its policy of abstaining from a vote on the issue. France’s withdrawal of troops from Europe to fight the Arabs in Algeria and the failure of other pact nations to meet troop commitments have reduced Allied forces to 21 of the 30 divisions regarded as the minimum necessary to guard against a Soviet attack. Disarmament No. 1 Topic Hie French refusal to cooperate in air defense, despite urgent appeals from Gen. Lauris Norstad, the supreme Allid commander in Europe, also tends to lessen Allied effectiveness. The'major achievement of the council session was a general agreement that disarmament should be the No. 1 topic for discussion at next year’s summit talks. . Eisenhower, de Gaulle, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer are expected to emphasize the need for revised arms-control proposals during their meeting here this week end. The Western readers are expected to give second place to the long-deadlocked problems of Germany, because Allied sources feel there is littre hope of solving them by negotiation with the Russians. INDIANA WEATHER Considerable cloudiness to- ' night and Friday with occasional rain likely central and south. Not much temperature change. Sunset 5:22 p.m. e. s. t., 4:22 p.m. c.s.t. Low tonight in 30s extreme north to around 50 extreme south. Sunrise Friday 8:01 a. m. e.s.t., 7:01 a.m. c.s.t. High Friday in 40s north to lower 50s extreme south, low Friday night 30-38 north, 40-50 s south. Outlook for Saturday: Partly cloudy and a little cooler north, high 40-45 north to near 50 south. •»

French President Charles de ’ Gaulle has offered to let Algeria ■ decide its own destiny within four ■ years after the fighting ceases. 1 The Eisenhower-Bourguiba com- ! munique also recognized the wave of self-determination which has been sweeping the nations of As--1 rica and Asia. ’ It said this process opens the : way for a new relationship between nations based on “the fun- : damental principles of the rights ’ and dignity of man.” The communique made no men- ■ tion of the Tunisian desire to get t the French out of the Bizerte na- ■ val base, but it said the two pres- ■ idents reached a “broad under--1 standing on the problems which : were discussed.’' Eisenhower also found time to ! visit the American war cemetery • at Carthage on the outskirts of • Tunis- There are buried the men 5 who died in freeing North Africa 1 of Axis domination in 1941-42. It was a sentimental journey for the > two presidents who visited there ■ alone. The President spent half an ■ hour at the cemetery. Eisenhower flew from the ! Cruiser U.S.S. Des Moines by helicopter to an Impromptu clear- ’ ing . 400. - Saada (House of Happiness) Pal- • ace, his old wartime headquar- ; ters, to be greeted by Bourguiba. The downdraft from the rotor blades scattered specially spread k Persian rugs like leaves. ! Tight scurity kept a cheering ' Arab crowd of several thousands • at a distance but there were 1 friendly cries of “ya ya Ike!” ■ and “ya ya Bourguiba!” As the continued on page Mx>

Award Prizes For Decorated Homes

Hundreds of beautiful outdoor decorations have already been constructed in Decatur, and more are expected before Christmas, just nine days away, following the announcement that prizes valued at S3OO will be given away following judging next Monday and Tuesday nights. The contest is sponsored jointly by Stratton Place, Homestead Association and the Decatur Daily Democrat to make Decatur more beautiful at Christmas-time. Stratton Prises Stratton Place will give prizes of $25, sls and $5 for three places there, judging to be held between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. next Monday night. Homestead will be judged Tuesday night, with soup places to be

• I wish to enter the 1959 outdoor Christmas decoration contest for homes. I understand that four district prizes of one $25 bond each, and a grand prize of a SIOO bond, plus prizes for Stratton Place and Homestead will be given; I further understand that judging for the area north of Adams street, including Stratton, will be Monday night; for the area south of Adams, Tuesday night. Name Address District One is north of Adams, west of the Pennsylvania Railroad; District, two, north of Adams, east of the railroad, and. Stratton, District three, ,south of Adams, east of Winchester, Including Homestead; District four, south of Adams, west of Winchester. (Fill in and mail to: Decorations contest, Decatur Daily Democrat, Decatur, Ihd.; deadline for receiving entries is Monday, Dec. 21.)

Heart Attack Fatal To Retired Fanner John W. Parrish, 86, well known retired farmer of Kirkland township. residing four miles northwest of Monroe, died unexpectedly at 4:15 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital. Mr. Parrish, who had not been ill, suffered a heart attack and died shortly after arrival at the hospital. He was born in Washington township June 21, 1873, a son of Joseph and Nancy Jane SmithParrish, and was a lifelong resident of Washington and Kirkland townships. He was married to Dollie C. Bright Sept. 2, 1903. Mr. Parrish was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, Kenneth L. Parrish of Blue Creek township, and Kermeth Parrish of Washington township; two daughters, Mrs. Paul (Geraldine) McAhren of Decatur, and Mrs. Walter (Juanita) Lengerich of Washington township; IQ grandchildren; nine greatgrandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Jason (Maggie) Essex of Almyra, Ark. Three daughters and five brothers are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Burial will We in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening, The body will lie in state at the church from 12 noon Saturday until time of the services. J. A. Huddleseon Dies In Kentucky J. A. Huddleseon, 68, died at 11:45 a.m. today at his home in Glasgow, Ky. He was an uncle of Mrs. Lester Thomas and Mrs. Demas James of Decatur. Also surviving is his wife, Lorah. He was a member of tjie Baptist church at Glasgow. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.

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awarded, including prizes of $25, sls, $lO and $5. Thee grand prize for the best outside decoratibn of a Decatur home will be a SIOO bond, and district prizes of $25 each will also be given. Eend in Entry Those interested should immediately fill in the coupon listed below, so that the judges will know where the decorated homes are located. The area north of Adams street will be judged Monday between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., and the area south of Adams will be judged Tuesday night, same times. Lights should be left on the entire period, as the judges will have a large territory to cover.

Vacation At Catholic Schools Opens Friday Most of the schools in Adams county will close for the holidays on Dec. 24 at noon, but Decatur Catholic high school and St. Joseph’s elementary school will close its doors after classes this Friday. Gail Grabill, county school superintendent, said this morning that all county schools will adhere to the Dec. 24 closing date. City school superintendent W. ‘Guy Brown said that all city schools will also follow this pattern. All schools in the county, including the parochial ones, will resume classes Jan. 4. Sr. M. Almeda, principal at the Catholic schools, made the formal announcement this morning. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theater 3 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 5 Burk Elevator Co 5 Butler Garage 5 Bower Jewelry Store 4A Briede Studio „— 3 Ehinger’s Boston Store 3 B. P. O. Elks 8 Gambles — T 2A, 6 Goodin’s Market —7 Goodyear Service Store «w,7 Haflich & Morrissey 3 Hammond Fruit Market 4 Holthouse Furniture Store.. 2A, 6 Lards — 3A L. O. O. Moose — 8 Miller-Jones 3A Niblick & Co. 2, 3 Price Men’s Wear 2,7 Quality Chevrolet-Buick, Inc. 4, 5 Rash Insurance Agency —7 Schafers .... —— 2 L. Smith Insurance Agency .... 5 Schmitt Meat Market 8 Al D. Schmitt .4....-..— 6 .Schwartz Ford Co., Inc. —... 8 Standard Food StorelA Stucky Furniture Co. ...... 4A, 8 Smith Dnlg Co 5, 1A Sheets Furniture Co ----- 4 Shaffer’s Restaurant ..... 7 Sonotone —— 4A Stewarts Bakery 4 Sudduth Market 2 Teeple — 5 Uhrick Bros. 3A Wertzberger’s Confectionery.. 4A Zintsmaster Motors ... 5, 6, 7 c

Ask Judge Change In Bowling Alley Case » The bowling alley side of the suit to prevent the Mies-Dawson company from building a new bowling alley in an area zoned residential requested a change of judge this morning. Judge Myles F. Parrish, presently hearing the case, said that the attorneys for the two opposing sides have five days to agree on a special judge. If they have not agreed by then, he will appoint a panel of three, and each lawyer will strike one name, the remaining man serving as special judge in the case. The Mies-Dawson company purchased an area of land north of U. S. highway 224 between Schwartz Ford company and the golf course. The land, when purchased, was zoned residential. They requested that it be changed so that they could construct a bowling alley there, and perhaps later a shopping center. Residents and builders across the highway have fought the change in zoning, charging that the land was best for residential building, that commercial building would lower the value of homes across the highway, and that the large sewer built into the area by the city was justified only if the area was developed for tones. X .< .--A.'. The argument' was taken twice •through the city council, and is now being argued through the courts. * Good Fellows Club Previously reported $438.66 Evangelical Circle, Zion E. & R. Church 10.00 G. E. Women’s Bowling Club 19.00 Total $467.66

Roger Touhy Slain In Gangland Style

CHICAGO (UPD—Roger Touhy, i pint-sized Prohibition era beer i I baron who ended a 25-year-prison term only 23 days ago, was shot to death Wednesday night in a blast of gangland-style shotgun fire. Touhy, 61, died in the emergency room of a hospital a little more than an hour after two gunmen stalked and shot him and a > bodyguard as they stepped from . a car in front of a West Side home where Touhy lived. ■ Touhy'S bodyguard was Walter ’ Miller, 62, -a retired police ser- ' geant who was a star defense ' witness at Touhy’s kidnaping trial ’ 35 years ago. Both men collapsed ' on the front stoop of the home ’of Touhy’s sister, Mrs. Ethel ’ Alesia. Touhy, who had aged and wasted during 25 years behind bars 1 after conviction for the kidnaping i of John (Jake the Barber) Factor, > was shot only in the left leg but lost his life blood before reaching I a hospital. Expresses Sorrow Factor, in perhaps a strange twist of fate, was in Chicago at , the time Touhy was gunned down. He said he was here in connection with a libel suit he had filed against Touhy. “I’m heartily sorry for what happened,” Factor . told United. Press International reporter Richard McCormick to a hotel room interview early today. Factor said he first heard of the shooting while in a nightclub on Chicago’s near North Side with a travelling companion. Detectives obtained a minute-by-minute account of Factor’s stay in Chicago. One remained through the night in Factor’s hotel room. Factor, a convicted swindler but now a wealthy Beverly Hills, Calif., real estate dealer, had accused Touhy of libeling him in an

Donations To CROP Higher Than In 1958 Adams county contributed $3,387.95 to the Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP) this year, $636.25 better than last year’s $2,751.70, which gained it 12th place in the state, Brice Bauserman, treasurer, announced today. — The 23 per cent increase, and more, is badly needed, Bauserman pointed out, because of the lack of surplus milk this year. Last year every dollar collected by CROP distributed more than $6 worth of food to the needy people in disaster areas overseas. Near Goal The contributions this year represented 84.69% of the goal of $4,000, as compared to only 65.1% of the goal last year. <_ Monroe township led all others in generosity, giving $528.54, as compared with $277.30 last year. French, which led last year with $404.40, was a close second with $480.50. Silvan Sprunger, of Monroe township, headed the drive for the south six townships, and Hugo Boerger, of Root township, headed the north six townships drive. The southern group collected their contributions in a two-week period, and held a large banquet, sponsored by the First Bank of Berne, at the Berne auditorium. Township Gifts Township gifts, compared with last year’s, are as follows; Township 1958 1959 Preble $345.92 $179.00 Root 210.50 333.48 Union 262.29 290.00 Kirkland 265.00 326.62 Washington 191.50 152.00 St. Mary’s 20.00 55.20 (Continued on page stxj Burial Held Today For Wyss Infant Graveside services, conducted by the Gillig & Doan funeral home, were held ..this morning »t the Catholic cemetery for Mary Ann Wyss, stillborn at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the .Adams county memorial hospital to Joseph and Delores Braun-Wyss, 1133 Nuttman Ave. The Rev. Simeon J. Schmitt officiated. Surviving in addition to the parents are the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Mary Braun of Decatur, and the paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wyss of near Hoagland. 12 Pages

autobiography entitled, “The Stolen Years,” published last month. The book, written by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Ray Brennan, repeated Touhy’s claim of 25 years that he was framed in the 1933 kidnaping of Factor, then a Chicago promoter Brennan, a Chicago newsman, later said in an interview that he and Touhy had been together until 9:30 p.m. Wednesday night when they both left the Chicago Press Club. Taken By Surprise He said they went downstairs together “and that was the last time I saw Roger alive.” Brennan sobbed. “Why did I write that stinkin’, lousy book?” he said. “That’s what did it.” Miller, who also had been assigned to guard Factor for a fourmonth period during Touhy’s trial, said the two gunmen tookl him and Touhy by, surprise in the dark, residential street. He said the thugs opened up from behind with a blast that sounded like “the Fourth of July, but I was able to wheel around and get my pistol empty.” Miller was shot in the buttocks and escaped serious injury. He said he fired five times at the gunmen and thought he saw one stagger from a bullet wound as they fled up an areaway alongside the house. .. Blood spouttog... from, his leg*. Touhy fell only a few feet from the safety of his sister’s home and never had a chance to fight back. • Heard Gun Blasts Patrolman Charles Mueller, one of the first on the scene after police were notified of the shooting at 10:09 p.m., said he found Miller and Touhy lying wounded. “Touhy was so small,” Mueller said. “Miller almost covered .Continued on page alxj

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Agreement Is Reported Today

CHICAGO (UPI) — Five aluminum companies have reached a broad, general agreement with the United Steelworks®*. 11 won ou overall money terms of new labor contracts, two sources close to negotiations said today. The sources, who declined to be identified, said bargaining teams were working out, on a company by company basis, details of how wage and fringe benefits will be spelled out for 33,000 industry production workers. One source said the general agreement, roughed out by USW President David J. McDonald and top industry executives in two days of “summit” conferences, provides for three-year contracts that will “closely follow” the pattern of the USW’s recent agreement with can companies. The can settlement called for a 21 cent an hour wage increase over three years and an additional 7 to 9 cents an hour in fringe benefits. The source said negotiators still were trying to reconcile minor differences in wage structure from company to company and from one geographical region to another within individual companies. They also were doing “slide rule work” to determine details of insurance and pension provisions from company to company, he said. Another source told United Press International that speculation on the exact amount of the wage package was still “premature.” He said the broad general agreement was “a blend between the can agreement, the Kaiser j Steel settlement and recent cop- , per industry agreements.” The Kaiser Steel formula provided for a package of 22*2 cents an hour in wage and fringe benefits over 20 months. McDonald was reported hopeful for a detailed settlement before ' he goes to Gary, Ind., tonight to address local Steelworkrs offi- ■ cers. But company spokesmen. ! still emphatically denying reports that a broad understanding had 1 been reached, predicted a settle- ': ment would not be announced be-

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■' " - ■ - for Friday and possibly not until S* tur d a > or Sunday. Triple Fatality Boosts Death Toll BULLETIN FLORA, Ind. (UPl)—Dennis Patrick, 14, near Deer Creek, became Indiana’s 1,059th traf> sic fatality of the year todayequaling last year’s final count —when he was injured fatally in a car-truck crash near here. United Press International A triple fatality near Kentland in heavy fog today boosted Indiana’s 1959 traffic death toll to at least I,osß—one short of last year’s final tally. State Police identified the dead as John W. Sweet Jr., 60, Amhurst, Va.; a woman believed to be his wife, and Roger M. Koper, Belvidere, 111. The Sweet car burst into flames following the crash on U.S. 41. Fog was at least a contributing factor in the smash-up, police said. They said the Koper car was in the wrong lane of traffic when the crash occurred. One of the worst periods of highway slaughter in Indiana this year now has taken at least 35 lives since Friday. At least five persons were kileld I Wednesday, including Oliver L. I Frye, 46, Bloomington, in a cartruck collision north of Bedford on Ind. 37.. Truck driver Olin White, 25, Bedford, was injured. State Police said Frye apparently was passing another car on a hill when the crash happened. Also killed Wednesday were two persons whose cars collided at a country road intersection, a young boy run over by a truck, and an elderly woman who died of injuries received in a crash which killed her sister the night before. Mrs. Josephine Morris, 54, Mishawaka, was killed instantly and Fred Emmert, 23, Elkhart, died later in Elkhart General Hospital of injuries received when their cars collided at an Elkhart County road intersection four miles south of Elkhart. Authorities said Mrs. Morris apparently ran .a~»stop'.sig-n;..-. *-4 Rpbert Robertson, 11, Muncie, was hit by a semi-trailer truck at the intersection of U.S. 35 and a Muncie street while walking home from school. An unidentified companion was injured and ran away. Truck driver Tom L. Hockenberry, 26. Muncie, told police his brakes failed. The boy’s father. Robert Robertson, Is a member of the Muncie Police Dept, juvenile aid division.

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