Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1960 — Page 1

Vai. LVIII. No. 13

Police Hit At Anti-Semitism

By United Frsss InterutteMl Police (truck back today at antiSemitic vandals by charging three self-styled American "Nazis" with treason and arreatia gfive Wyoming boys who ran up a Naxl nag on a backyard falgpoie But another flag Ifying incident I*' Pennsylvania was unsolved and suburban Chicago police said they had no idea who desecrated 90 tombstones in a Jewish ceme tery. _ Swatikas plagued Jews in Dowagiac, Mich.. St. Pau) M inn . St. Louis and New Britain, Conn. Police said Juveniles or “irresponsible bums” probably were responsible. But New York police threw the book at three terrified New York youths who formed the American Socialist Renaissance party to “get rid of all Jews” — deporting them to Israel by force, if neceasary. Face Treason Charge A New York court charged John Wallace, 21. the self-appoint-ed "fuehrer.” Hugh Barlow, 20, and Richard E. Phelps, 16, with treason, punishable by death, after police raided Wallace's home and found swastika armbands, anti-Semitic literature. Adolf Hitler recordings and Nazi marching songs. \ One of the boys told police they had planned to "dress up in black, put on Nazi armbands and go out to Fresh Meadows (N.Y.) and beat up some Jews.” Police in Casper, Wyo.. said an angry woman reported the Nazi flag flying from a flagpole in her neighbor’s yard. A search of the neighborhood netted five quaver ing youths who wanted to perpetuate the world-wide rash of anti-Semitism. HAul Down Ftag Nanticoke, Pa., officials hauled down a red, white and blackSwastika banner of Nazi Germany from a flagpole in Central Park there. Rewards mounted to $1,300 fog the Arrest and conviction of the vandals who spread their hate into Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in the Chicago suburb of Park FOi V —a Police said someone invaded the cemetery, probably the world’s largest peacetime Jewish burying ground, tipped over 50 tombstones and chiped, cracked and painted black swastikas on at least 40 others. , West Germany Orders Portugal Munitions LISBON (UPD — West Germany has ordered 35 million dollars worth of munitions from two Portuguese armament plants, it was announced here Friday. . Anderson Opens New Municipal Airport ANDERSON, Ind. (UPD — Anderson’s new $300,000 municipal airport, featuring a 4,200-foot runway capable of handling airliner landings, opened today east of Anderson.

jAmI 1 X ui- ’ rnMF FLY WITH ME—These are the words that youngsters around the Homestead area will be sayhStomie another when the water in their new skating rink freezes. The rink was completed last w fekb£ residents of the Decatur neighborhood. Pictured above are llw tesk.

Currently on display at the Homestead tennis courts is a wonderful “living exhibit” Os community spirit. It’s 40 by 100 feet and waiting to be frozen. The Homestead ice rink is nothing really spectacular when you’ve skated at Rockefeller Center or at the Chicago Stadium. ■ But when you consider' that a bunch of people just decided to build their kids a skating rink, and went out to do It, well, that is heartwarming, to say the least. About 30 Assist Under the supervision of Jerome Ginter, of the International Harvester Co. of Fort Wayne, and Herb Banning, of Holthouse on the high-

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City Will Receive Tax Distribution i INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — QuarI terly distribution of liquor tex I money will be made early next week to Indiana cities and towns by State Auditor Albert Steinwedel. Distribution for the three-month period ending Dec. 31 totaled $614,031. Distribution included: Alexandria $1,677. Anderson 14.527. Auburn 1.708. Bargersville 120. Bicknell 1,325. Bloomfield 604. , Bloomington 8.155. Bluffton 1,760 , Boonville 1.475. Brazil 2,443, Brooklyn 172. Butler 554. Cannel ton 587. Cicero 206. Clinton 2.093. Columbia City 1.375. Columbus 5 322. Connersville 5,140, Converse 284. Crown Point 2.123. Decatur 2 106. East Chicago 15.720, East Gary 2340, Edinburg 951. Elkhart 11,198, Elwood 3.465, Evansville 37 266, Fairmount 767. Fort Wayne ! 41.972, Frankfort 4,353. Franklin 2119, Garrett 1.243. Gary 48,926, Goshen 3767. Greencastle 2,408 Greensburg 1,917. Greentown 336. Greenwood 1.506. Hammond 31,376, Hartford City 2.292, and Hobart 4.468. Huntingburg 1.175. Huntington 4,368. Indianapolis 133.742, Jasonville 851. Jasper 1.945, Jeffersonville 5,270, Kendallville 1,901, Knox 879. Lafayette 11,550. Lagrange 548, LaPorte 5,914, Ligonier 688, Linton 1.730, Logansport 6 093, Loogootee 800. Madison 3 014, Marion 10.239, Martinsville 1,736, Michigan City 9,173, Mishawaka 9876. Monticello 1,004, Mooresville 656 Morgantown 243. Mount Vernon 1.782, Muncie 18.922, Nappanee 1.098, New Albany 11,037, New Haven 756, New Whiteland 950. Noblesville 2.260, Paragon 134. Peru 4.270, Plymouth 2.124, and Portland 2,046. Princeton 2,223, Rensselaer 1,180, Richmond 12.594, Rochester 1,354, Seymour 3.385. Shelbyville 3 699 South Bend 38.174 Spencer 694 Sullivan 1,571, Tell City 1.888. Terre Haute 21,117. Tipton 1,706, Trafalgar 127. Union City 1,034, Valparaiso 3.894, Vincennes 5.455, Wabash 3.381, Warsaw 2,017, Washington 3.182. West Lafayette 3,804, West Terre Haute 973, Whiteland 391, Winchester 1,584, and Worthington 471. Suffers Broken Hip In Fall At Home Mrs. J. H. Cole. 85, of 215 Jefferson street, has been ’ admitted tc : the Adams county memorial hospital with a broken hip, suffered in a fall in her apartment Frida} evening. Mrs. Cole, mother of former mayor Robert D. Cole, fell and was unable to move from the floor until found this morning about f a.m. by Neil McKenney, owner o the apartment house. She is pres ently undergoing X-rays at the hos pi tai.

way, about 30 adults and children took tools in hand last Saturday and started to build a rink. As fate would have it, the wintry blasts of the season faded into the mist, and only today did the weather-man indicate he would cooperate with the project at all. Latest reports from the skating area are that the sand around the edges of the rink had frozen and the water was being contained. (If you listen carefully, you can hear the shouts of glee and joy coming from the Homestead area). Summer Weather Thwarts Plans The kids, who will fight off ma and pa for the. use of the rink,

Snow Blankets Midwest, East Glazed By Ice t nMed Frees hknuttml Foot-deep snowdrifts blanketed tee Midwest today and freezing rain and ice turned eastern highways in glazed death traps, but the storm that caused it all appeared to be blowing itself out to sea. The storm—the third njjor wintry blast of the season—-swept out of the Colorado Rockies Thursday night and laid a thick coat of white across Kansas. Nebraska, lowa, Wisconsin and Michigan before slamming the Northeast with a mixture of heavy snow, rain and ice. At least six persons were killed on ice slicked New York highways Four elderly men were among the five to die in Wisconsin snows. Eight other deaths were attributed to the storm tor a nationwide total of 19. Although the snow diminished to scattered flurries today, the US. Weather Bureau warned New England drivers of more freezing rain and dangerous driving to come. On its way to the east, the storm closed 20 schools in Michigan's Saginaw County alone, stranded the 12-man Norbert College basketball team in its bus for six hours near Hazel Green, Wis., and churned three-foot drifts which closed 300 schools across lowa. A truck Jack-knifed on the superslick New Jersey turnpike arid 30 cars piled up behind, injuring six persons and blocking the northbound lane for an hour and a half. The snow padlocked schools in upper and central New York state. School bus service was suspended when western Connecticut roads iced over. Sioux City, lowa, was isolated by a toot of snow which kept kept planes and trucks out of town. Snowplows struggling to reach scores of abandoned cars in lowa finally gave ip when 50 m.p.h. winds whipped the snow over the roads as soon as they were cleared. Heavy fog crept over New York, ffiSS were diverted as hr away as Nashville, Tenn., and Jacksonville, Fla., and customs inspectors in Boston reported one of their busiest days as 700 New York-bound travelers from Europe were shunt ed to the city’s Logan Airport. The Bureau predicted snow flurries or drizzle today over the Pacific Northwest and Rockies and from western Texas through Kansas and Nebraska. 15-Month-Old Baby Is Killed By Pilis CLINTON, Ind. (UPD —Melinda Sue Straw, 15 months old, died late Thursday enroute to a hospital after she swallowed pills she found in her grandmother’s purse. Mrs. Dorothy Hixon, the grandmother, said the pills were for high blood pressure. She said the :hild probably thought they were candy, since she often opened her purse to get candy or gum for her grandchildren.

rate a gold star for their part in the project. They carried buckets of sand to assigned areas last week as the gaps in the perimeter were being filled. A few even brought their skates with them. But, the balmy breezes of the spring-like weather curbed further thoughts about scarfs flying in the wind as the intrepid sportsman practically soared around the new rink. For those do-Lt-your-selfers, who think they might like to build a rink of their own, all you need is a few discarded telephone poles, a few more yards of sand, a couple of sturdy shovels, and a few fidends.

Doctttur, Indiana, Saturday, Jan. 16, 1960

Adams County Meet Championship Tonight, Four Teams In Battle

Refired Van Werl Judge Dies Friday Judge F. rt. fleam. 76, probate and Juvenile court judge at Van Wert. O„ until his retirement a year ago, died at 2.25 o'clock Friday afternoon at his home near Van Wert He had been ill for more than two years with uremia. A native of Willshire, 0.. he was born there April 2. 1883. a son of Jacob R. and Mary Ellen pettererBeam. He was never married. He had lived in Van Wert since 19J6. Judge Beam graduated from Willshire high school and Ohio Northern University. After teaching school for a short time near Wren, he entered the practice of law and served for 25 years as city solicitor at Van Wert, before becoming a judge. Judge Beam was a member of the First Methodist church, all of the Masonic bodies, past member of the Van Wert county fair board, the Van Wert county foundation, past president of the YMCA and the bar association. Only near survivor is a niece. Miss Vera Fisher of Willshire. Two brothers and a sister preceded him in death. — Funeral services wiil be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Cowan &. Son funeral home in Van Wert, Dr. Paul D. Childs officiating. Burial will be in the Willshire cemetery. Elkhart Democrat Contests Recount ELKHART, Ind. (UPI< —Democrat Richard Corns said today he would continue to act as mayor of Elkhart until a court ordered him removed, despite a second election recount which showed him to be a loser. Corns was declared winner by 19 votes in the Elkhart mayor election last November. A recount board in the first review of the ballots had reported a sevenvote margin for Republican Frank Parmater. The second recount, finished Friday, showed Parmater won by 10 votes. Corns said he planned to file a court document contesting the results of the recpunts and asking for yet another check of the votes. He indicated he would take his case to the Indiana Supreme Court if necessary. —- Corns was installed as mayor Jan. 1.

Frank In Financial Deals

NEW YORK (UPD — Lanky, young attorney Julian Frank stepped out of a passenger line boarding a Miami-bound plane Jan. 6 and took a second section _ ofthe. flight. - ■ His action may have saved the lives of 74 persons. Frank, 32, is suspected of hav ing taken a bomb aboard the second section DC-6B and blown himself and 33 others out of the skies on the North Carolina coast just before the plane started over the ocean. All died. The 74 aboard the first section arrived safely. All 108 were scheduled to fly on a jet flight which, was cancelled at the last min- . ute because of a cracked windshield and two planes substituted. 1 Frank carried 8887,500 in acCi--5 dent and life insurance. Under investigation 5 He also left a tangled web of 1 financial transactions which in--5 volved millions of dollars in deals ! pending across the country. He 5 was under investigation by feder- ’ al and state authorities for sev- ' eral of them. A New York attorney, Archibald > Palmer; who represented clients i suing Frank on some of the big 1 deals, claims Frank was a funnel , for investment of underworld ! money in legitimate enterprises. f A Kansas Qty attorney, John J. Fallon, said Frank bad ac-

Taylor University Building Destroyed

UPLAND. Ind. (UPD—A costly fire swept tee administration building at Taylor University today while hundreds of students huddled together on the campus in chilly weather watching the flames shoot high into the air. College officials made no estimate of the loss but said replacement ot the four-story brick building would cast $750,000 or more. The blaze broke out in the early morning hours in a chemistry laboratory in the northwest corner of the ground floor of the building. A watchman discovered the blaze about 4 a.m. c.d.t and called firemen. Fireman Lewis Swartz said the firemen extinguished the small fire, but when doors and windows of the building were opened to clear the structure of smoke, a series of explosions occurred and flames burst out of control. Word of the fire quickly spread around the campus. Students in dormitories leaped from their beds and ran to the scene. Many of them shivered in pajamas with coats thrown about their shoulders in sub-freezing temperatures. Upland is a town of less than 2,000 population located in Grant

Seeking Motive For Lousiana Slaying BATON" ROUGE, La. (UPI) — Hie vicious attack that crushed the skull of attractive Dr. Margaret Rosamond McMillan could have left her unconscious and bleeding — but ’alive —for six Hours before she died from loss of blood, an investigator said today. Dr. George H. Mickey, 49. eminent scientist and dean of the Louisiana State University Graduate School, has been charged with murder in the bludgeon slaying last Saturday night of Dr. McMillan, 38, his protege in the field of biological research. His attorney, Robert L. Kleinpeter, has said that Mickey was at home with his wife and son all evening after 8 p.m. Saturday. But a source prominent in the murder investigation put a six hour spread on the death-throe period, based on autopsy findings. No Public Announcement “Hie attack could have been anywhere from 6 o’clock to midnight,” he said.

cepted $3,789 in fees to swing an SBOO,OOO loan for building a nonprofit hospital. He also said Frank had been involved in swinging loans for groups in St. Louis, Boston, Phoenix, Ariz., Baltimore, Chicago and Miami. Man Os Many Moods A Miami attorney, Roy L. Stru ble, said Frank had agreed to produce a one million dollar loan for a Florida mortgage firm to finance a luxury hotel. 1116 firm filed a $105,000- suit against Frank when he failed to produce the money. Losses suffered by firms dealing with Frank were estimated at $600,000 last year. He ajsp was involved in a law sulf for embezzlement in New York concerning a $20,000 sum. In Westport Conn., where Frank lived in a $45,000 home with his wife and two children, he was known as a young man of changeable moods who talked about his big deals and the heavy insurance he carried. Insurance sources said his policies totaling nearly $900,000 covering his death were not exceptional for the large income he was making. His income suddenly rose recently from SIO,OOO a year to about $14,000 a month,, it was reported. -

County about 10 miles southeast of Marion. The flames had gained so much headway that the combined efforts of four fire departments could not save the building. The structure, about 50 years old. was topped by a big bell tower which was the school’s symbol. It also contained chemistry I laboratories and classrooms in addition to administration offices. Nearly all the school's records were lost. By dawn, only a partial shell of the building remained standing.’ Firemen from Marlon. Hartford City and Gas City sped to the aid of volunteer fire fighters at Upland. INDIANA WEATHER Fair and a little colder tonight. Sunday mostly fair and warmer. Low tonight IS north to 25 south. High Sunday mid 30s north to mid 40s south. Outlook for Monday: Increasing cloudiness beginning late Sunday with snow spreading over state from west, possibly mixed with rain south. There has been no publci announcement of the dean's whereabouts between 6 and 8 p.m. although investigators have said they have found Mickey’s statement that he was at “certain places other than home with some other person” during tHe evening to be without foundation. That statement was offered to cover “several hours during the evening” of last Saturday, the sheriff’s and district offices said Friday. Find Blood Spots They said “laboratory examination of Dr. George H. Mickey’s automobile revelaled < spots of fresh human blood of the same type as that of the deceased.” The body of the woman biologist — an assistant professor at the LSU New Orleans branch who also was doing research work on the space program under a gov ernment grant — was found about 6:30 a.m. Sunday on a private lane near the Mississippi River, miles south of the LSU campus here. On the basis of his autopsy the coroner placed the time of death as between midnight and 1 a m. Dist. Atty. J. St. Clair Favrot said that the body had been lying in “a terrific pool of blood — almost like a lake.”

School Funds For Wabash, Bloomfield INDIANAPOUS (UPD -School districts at Bloomfield and Wabash had authority today to borrow nearly two million dollars from the Indiana Common School Fund. i . ' ' ' The State Common School Fund Building Commission authorized the loans, which are to be repaid at 2% per cent interest in 20 years, Friday. Bloomfield was allowed $527,000 to build a $648,000 addition to an elementary school which will take care of 800 students. The Wabash project does not involve the city school system but only a metropolitan school district of five townships. Wabash will use its $1,350,000 loan to build two new schools for grades 7 through 12 at a total cost of $2,756,000. Those schools, which will accomodate 1,350 students, are slated for construction in the fall of 1961. _ Wabash had asked, for $1,733,246 but the figure was trimmed according to a commission policy limiting loans to SI,OOO per pupil to be served by a new school. Action was deferred on Frankfort’s request for $1,210,980 because school officials still were - working on preliminary drawings. NOON EDITION

By Fete Reynolds Adams county's high school basketball champions for the 1959-60 season will be determined along ed in the final period, although the Adams Central gym as the annual tourney comes to an end. Just four teams were left in the running today after the Geneva Cardinals pulled a mild upset in eliminating the favored Adams Central Greyhounds. 45-42, Friday night in the final first round game. The Decatur Commodores and Berne Bears, winners of the tourney openers Thursday night, were to tangle in the first semi-final at 1 o'clock this afternoon. The Hartford Gorillas, defending champions, drew the first round bye. and were slated to meet the Geneva Cardinals at 2:15 p.m. Immediately following the final buzzer tonight, trophies to the first and second team tourney champions, donated by the Decatur Daily Democrat, will be presented by Gail Grabill, superintendent of the Adams county schools. The tourney basketball will be awarded by Grabill to the meet runnerup, and the county school head will also present the sportsmanship trophy to the individual played adjudged as most valuable to his team, in addition to displaying the best sportsmanship through-out the tourney.

Cardinals Triumph The Geneva-Adams Central clash last night was a close battle all the way, although the Cardinals were out in front after first six and one-half minutes of the game. Sheldon Dynes, Geneva forward, hit the first basket of the game after two minutes of play, but fielders by Jim Brown and Larry Foreman gave the Greyhounds the lead, which held until two minutes to go in the first period, when Larry Laux put Geneva on top, 9-8. Foreman’s charity toss tied the score but two quick two-pointers by Larry Baumer gave Geneva a 12-9 margin which Brown cut to one point at the end of the quarter. The Cardinals led by only three points with three minutes to play in the second period, but Larry Baumer hit from the field and Laux hit two in rapid succession and Geneva had a 25-16 advantage at the long intermission. The Cardinals led at one time by 10 points in the third quarter, but the Greyhounds battled back to trail by only four, 32-28, as the teams entered the final eight minutes of play. The Cardinals were never header in the final period, although the Greyhounds pulled within one point at 35-34, and within three at 43-40 with about 20 seconds to play. Doyle Long converted a pair of free throws with eight seconds left to ice the victory, Brown cutting the final margin to three points just before the final buzzer. Both quintets had fairly well balanced scoring. Laux topped the Cardinals with 14 points, followed by Larry Baumer with 10, Long

Urge Probe Os Labor Disputes

WASHINGTON (UPD - Sen. Barry Goldwater plans to ask the Senate to launch a blue-ribbon investigation of labor - management “masses” like the recent eightmonth steel disute. The Arizona Reublican said the inquiry should study labor controversies for about a year and then make recommendations for new legislation to protect' unions, management and especially the public in long contract hassled. Goldwater, a member of the Senate Labor Committee, said he believed the hearings would be welcomed by Sen." John F. Kennedy (DMass.) chairman of the subcommittee on labor legislation. Goldwater said he would offer a resolution in the Senate next week to set up the new labor investigation. He did not claim any suport from Democratic or Republican leaders. ™ In related labor developments: —The Natinal Right To Work Committee criticized the major steel companies for agreeing to an t 8 .* .

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with nine and Dynes with eight. Fur the Greyhounds. Foreman was the leader with 13 markers, and Brown scored nine. Both teams were handicapped aa their usual leading scorers were not in fop shape. Long with a badly injured knee suffered last week, and Foreman. out of school Thursday because of illness. Geweva Dynes 4 <M) 8 Ixmg 2 5-6 9 L. Baumer 4 2-3 10 [.aux 6 2-3 14 Moser 0 1-1 1 J. Baumer 11-3 3 Totals 17 11-16 45 Adams Central FG FT TP Brown 4 1-5 9 Hirschy ........i.... 12-3 4 Foreman 4 5-8 13 Striker 3 0-1. 6 Steiner —1 2-2 4 J Funk 2 2-2 6 Totals 15 12-21 42 Score by quarters: Geneva 12 25 32 45 Adams Central . 11 16 28 42 Officials: Yohler, Campbell. John Daly Is Named To Advisory Board , WASHINGTON <UPD — President Eisenhower Friday appointed John Daly, radio-TV news correspondent and analyst, to be a member of the Water Pollution Control Advisory Board in the Public Health Servidte. Daly, 45, vice president of the American Broadcasting Co., was named to a term expiring June 30, 1962. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theater — 3 Beavers Oil Service. Inc. 8 Bower Jewelry Store 4 John Brecht Jewelry 3 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Butler Garage.......—..... 5 D. S. Blair, auctioneer 5 Citizens Telephone Co. 6 Decatur Ready-Mix, Ine— 8 Ehinger’s “Boston Store” 7 Fairway 8 First State Bank -.— 3, 6 Gerber’s Super Market ... 3 Green Belt Chemical Co. 8 Gillig 4 Doan Funeral Home .... 3 Habegger Hardware . —... 6 Holthouse Furniture Store 7 Kent Realty & Auction Cos Klenks 8 Kiddie Shop 7 Marge & Charles Dance Studio 3 J. J. Newberry Co. 4,7 Rash Insurance Agency 8 Schafers .’ ... 7 L- Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. 3,5, 6. 7 Sutton’s Jewelry Store ... 7 Shaffer’s Restaurant 3 Teeple 5 West End Restaurant 6 Yost Gravel Readymix, Inc. .... 8 Zwick Funeral Home .j. 4 Church Page Sponsors

“agency clause” in the new contracts. The clause requires workers to pay a ‘service fee” in lieu of union dues in states which forbid contracts that foree a worker to join a union t o hold his job. —G. E. Leighty, chairman of the Railway Labor Executives Assn., representing 23 railroad unions, said there could be no settlement in the rail disute unless the lines matched the wages and benefits won by steel „ workers. But he predicted the dispute would be settled without a nationwide strike. —Goldwater, said Republican members of the Senate < Rackets Committee have drafted a report criticizing chief counsel Robert F. Kennedy for his role in the com mittee’s investigation of the Unit? ed Auto Workers Union. He said the GOP report stated that "the whole area of violence in sriking was overlooked”' in the much publicized inquiry. . . - L--- —