Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 60, Number 140, Decatur, Adams County, 14 June 1962 — Page 1

VOL. LX NO. 140.

Girls Treated Like Animals

WASHINGTON (UPD—A stripteaser and a bar-girl told Senate investigators today that some nightclub owners in Calumet City, 111., and Miami forced girl entertainers to become prostitutes. One platinum blonde strip teaser, Corrine Suzette Stein, said nightclubs in both spots treat Bgirls “like animals.” She told Chairman John L. McClellan of the Senate investigating subcommittee that “It’s a sin. I don’t care whether it’s you, or a strip teaser, or who.” Mrs. Stein supported earlier testimony by Joan Gainsley, a college drama school graduate who became a B-girl. The diminutive, 85-pound woman—who took her degree from UCLA — said a Calumet City nightclub owner sought to force her into prostitution. Miss Gainsley said the club owner maintained a back room in his establishment for the prostitution operation. It was customary for bar girls, she said, to perform immoral acts in the club to . solicit more drinks from customers. Girls Sell Themselves According to Mrs. Stein, much the same conditions prevailed elsewhere. But at the Clover Club in Miami, she testified, “they (the management) would make the girls sell themselves, but they made them go to hotels. Then they’d take some of the money away from the girls.” Conditions in Calumet City were the worst, with Miami clubs a close second, she said. She said the entertainers union—the American Guild of Variety Artists — did nothing although it was supposed to protect its members. The subcommittee is investigating whether there is any connection between AGVA and hoodlumcontrolled nightclubs- ■ Mrs. Stein, who is from Pittsburgh, Pa., said she went under contract to the Follies Bergiere in Calumet City in the mistaken belief that this would be better, she said, and found the situation even worse.” Mis with Customers “The girls were forced to mix with the customers and told to use sex or any other way to get the customers to spend money,” _.e said. “The girls were made to do ugly, obscene things," she said. Most of the customers felt they could “get a little rough” with the B-girls and “they were right, - ’ she said. One girl abused in this manner' Motorcyclist Hurt Slightly Wednesday A motorcycle and a semi-trailer truck were involved in an accident on 13th street, at the Marshall street intersection Wed nes d a y evening, with the motorcyclist receiving only skinned elbows and knees. Actually, there was no contact between the cycle and the truck. Charles Leroy Ladig, 22, route 1, New Haven, was traveling north on 13th, when the truck pulled out of a service station. Ladig tried to avoid a collision with the truck as he swerved and hit the curb on the east side of the street, causing him to lose control of his cycle. The driver of, the truck. Junior Lee Venters, 27, Delphi, stated he was the motorcycle and stopped, but Ladig had already struck the curb. The mishap ocurred at 6:10 p.m., with the cycle suffering an estimated $125 Wednesday’s accident was the third in Decatur since May 7 in which a motorcycle was involved. Darrell Lee Grice and Jerry Hammond were both hospitalized with injuries suffered in separate nidtor—cycle- mfShaps 1 past seven weeks. BULLETIN WASHINGTON (UPD —The Senate Finance Committee voted today to eliminate the 10 per cent federal excise tax on train and bus travel, effective July 1. Decatur Temperatures Local weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 62 12 midnight .. 46 1 p.m 62 1 a.m 46 2 p.m. 60 2 a.m 45 3 p.m.. 60 3 a.m 44 4 p.m 61 4 a.m 43 5 p.m 58 5 a.m 45 6 p.m 56 6 a.m. 47 7 p.m 56 7 a.m. 54 8 p.m, 55 8 a.m 54 9 p.m. 52 9 a.m 60 10 p.m. 50 10 a m 61 11 p.m. 48 11 a.m. 61 Rain Total for the 24 hour period endarm today feet.

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refused to sit with the customer and would not obey orders by the management to return, she said. “One of the men let her have it,” she related. “He socked her clear across the room.” Miss Gainsley said she was booked into Calumet City’s “Twenty One Club” when she was “somewhat broke” and could not find a job in a legitimate club. The Senate investigation has heard testimony that a $lO mil-lion-a-year vice syndicate that lures unwed mothers into white slavery has been headquartered in Calumet City. One American Officer Slain ByGuerrillas SAIGON, Viet Nam (UPD — Communist Viet Cong guerrillas killed one American military man and wounded two others Wednesday in a clash near the Laotian border 375 miles north of here, U.S. military sources said today. The sources also disclosed that two battalions of South Vietnamese troops launched a heavy attack early this morning on Communist strongholds in the jungles north of Bien Hoa. U.S. Army and Marine helicopters landed 800 South Vietnamese soldiers in a clearing 74 miles north of Bien Hoa after a concentrated aerial bombardment. The American killed in Wednesday’s clash — an Army sergeant—was the 17th American to have died in South Viet Nam. One other military man is listed as missing. In Washington, a Pentagon spokesman described a claim by the Communist North Viet Nam news agency that the United States had suffered 101 casualties in South Viet Nam as being “blown up, as usual.” An officer and a sergeant were wounded in the battle near the Laotian border. They were pulled out of the combat zone by helicopters of the Bth U.S. Army Field Hospital at Nhatrang, north of here. An Army official said their wounds were “not serious.” Military sources said details of the clash were very sketchy and the names of the casualties were withheld pending notificaiton of their families. The body of the sergeant was being flown back to Saigon. Three More GOP Candidates Pay INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Three more candidates paid party assessment today to nearly complete the roster of persons whose names will be submitted to delegates to the Indiana Republican State Convention June 19 for state ticket nominations for the November election. French Clements, Evansville, and Wilbur Royse, Indianapolis, officially filed for the Ist District Appellate Court judge race to create a third contest for the convention. Clements, a former member of the Indiana House and Senate and now Vanderburgh Probate Court judge, was a new addition to the race. Royse, a former appellate judge, announced previously. Already filed for the same district was James 0. Carson of North Vernpn. .... ... ■■■ ... Two judges will bte elected from each of the two appellate court districts. The second district already has six men battling for two nominations. Also filing today was Richard Wells, Valparaiso, a Gary school teacher, who announced previously for superintendent of public instruction. Already in the race were Alvin C. Cast, Kentland, and James Beasley, Washington. "Hie entrance of Clements into the appellate court race was followed by the withdrawal of another Evansville man who announced earlier as a candidate for state treasurer. He was Arthur Fellwock, whose withdrawal momentarily left only the incumbent, Robert Hughes of Greenwood, seeking the nomination. There _were indications, however, that "another candidate would file to create afourth convention face.

Irvin Again Convicted But Escapes Chair SULLIVAN, Ind. (UPD—Leslie Irvin today had won a seven-year battle to escape death in the electric chair in connection with a four-month robbery slaying spree in two states in which six persons were killed. • . Irvin", 38, former Evansville pipefitter’s helper, who spent more than five years in “death row” at Indiana State Prison while pauper attorneys fought to save his life, happily heard a jury verdict which meant life imprisonment instead of capital punishment. A Sullivan Circuit Court jury of 6 men and 6 women late Wednesday night deliberated scarcely six hours in finding Irvin guilty on a charge of first-degree murder in the gun death during a holdup of W. Wesley Kerr, an Evansville service station attendant, in December, 1954. But in contrast to the decision of a Gibson County jury at Princeton in 1955, the Sullivan jurors recommended life behind prison bars instead of death in the electric chair. It was reported that not a single one of the 12 jurors favored death for Irvin. Irvin was scheduled to be sentenced today by Judge Joe Lowdermilk, ending a trial which started May 21 nearly 100 miles from the scenes of the crimes for which Irvin was charged. Irvin was accused of killing an Evansville woman liquor store clerk, a Posey County farm wife and three members of a Henderson, Ky., family just across the Ohio River from Evansville between December, 1954, and April, 1855-Jfe, was- ..arrested .shortly. after the last of the series of four crimes. The jury received the case at 3:45 p.m. (EST) and announced at 10:08 p.m. that it was ready to return a verdict. The verdict was not read, however, until about 45 minutes later because of delays in rounding up court personnel. Irvin, who was sentenced to death in 1955 at his first trial for the Kerr slaying, said he was relieved at the verdict and added, “It’s better than the electric chair.” His first conviction was reversed last year by the U.S. Supreme Court which held that he did not receive a fair trial in Gibson Circuit Court at Princeton. Irvin said he had not decided whether to appeal the guilty verdict but he was not expected to do so. He is still under indictment for five other slayings in Indiana and Kentucky. Vanderburgh County Prosecutor O. H. Roberts Jr., who had demanded the death penalty for Irvin, said he was “not surprised” at the verdict. Richard Givan, a deputy Indiana attorney general who assisted with the prosecution, noted that death penalties in firstdegree murder cases are rare. Roberts did not say whether he would seek to try Irvin on any of the other murder indictments but hinted that he would not do so. He noted that parole is rare for anyone sentenced to life imprisonment in Indiana. Escapees May Have Had Outside Help SAN FRANCISCO (UPD— Authorities worked on the assumption today that three bank robbers who disappeared from Alcatraz have become the first prisoners to escape from the island “Rock” in its 28-year history as home of the nation’s most dangerous convicts. Tltore yvas.still no indication whether the three men were alive or perished in the treacherous waters that surround the federal prison in San Francisco Bay. However, the three convicts, who apparently worked for months to dig through the concrete walls with spoons and fashioned life-like heads of plaster to leave in their bunks, were considered too smart to waste the effort on the slim chance that they could swim the tricky tides and undercurrents of the bay. An extensive search by land, sea and air units at the prison and on nearby islands was conducted during the 24 hours following the escape Monday night. But when no sign of the three missing men was found, authorities concentrated their efforts on the possibility that the three men had outside help after scaling the pris-

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, June 14,1962.

Strike Os Air Flight Engineers Looming As v ' Negotiations Collapse

Recall Head Os Firm On Case

WASHINGTON (UPD—A Houser subcommittee today recalled Maynard C. Wheeler, president ot Commercial Solvents Corp, for further testimony on his firm’s financial dealings with Billie Sol Estes. Wheeler told the intergovernmental relations subcommittee Wednesday that Commercial Sol- ; vents’ relations with Estes were ' that of customer and supplier— : and nothing more. He denied he ever seriously dis- 1 cussed with Estes any of the company’s foreign operations or that he had offered to put the Texas entrepeneur in business in Brazil. He also quoted Estes as shrugging off references to Swiss loans and bank accounts as a joke. Lawyer Contradicts Wheeler A Dallas lawyer, Frank Cain, i has testified at a Texas court of InqmrythhT^e^anaEstes had such discussions in his presence last March 18, Wheeler said he visited Estes in March, but that the visit was mostly social and business was only discussed incidentally. Chairman L. H. Fountain, DN.C., said the subcommittee would call Cain in an effort to clear up the discrepancies in testimony. Wheeler supplied the subcommittee with a long record of Commercial’s Solvents loans and credit extensions and collateral assignments to and from Estes. The subcommittee announced it would delve further into the firm’s connections with the Agriculture Department. It is trying to find out if Estes and his associates used improper influence in the department or were granted • favors in grain storage. Under Fraud Indictment ] Estes, who parlayed grain and fertilizer storage into a now de- , funct financial empire, is under , federal indictment for fraud. ( In another development, sub- ; committee counsel James Naugh- < ton said investigators are going through the 38,000 money orders , issued by the Pecos, Tev., post ; office between January 1961 and < February of this year. Pecos is i Estes’ hometown. <

Young Financier Flees To Brazil

NEW YORK (UPD—The flight to Brazil of Edward Gilbert, a “boy wonder of Wall Street,” today had a district attorney investigating his withdrawal of almost $2 million from the funds of the E. L. Bruce Co., Inc. The millionaire financier caught a Varig Airlines flight to Rio de Janeiro Tuesday night only hours after he excused himself from a Bruce .board.of-dwectars meeting in which he resigned the company presidency. Varig officials confirmed that Gilbert had arrived in Rio. He entered on a 30-day tourist card. To remain, he must obtain a permanent visa, which Lowell Birtell, a self-exiled financier in Rio, said was “awful hard to do.” In a statement issued before his departure, the 38-year-old Gilbert disclosed his withdrawal of $1,953,000 in funds and said it went to “protection of an acquisition program on behalf of the corporation.” However, E. L. Bruce Jr., Gilbert’s close friend and successor to the company presidency, said “The money was withdrawn for reasons known only to Mr. Gilbert.” The Bruce firm, makers of wax and flooring products, has annual sales of $42 million. The Securities and Exchange

Fire Instruction To > Hospital Employes Officials from the Adams county memorial hospital have been invited to take part in a day of instruction in fighting hospital fires, and evacuating hospitals in case of an emergency. The Instruction is sponsored by the east district of the Indiana hospital association, and the Ibcal people will be guests of the Jay county hospital, which is located in the east district. The training will take place next Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday at Ball State Teachers College campus, Muncie: more than 800 hospital employes are expected to attend -from the east-central part of Indiana. Lt. Robert McGrath, formerly of the Chicago fire department, and the first officer in the United States to offer specific training tor hospital employes in fire fighting and evacuation methods, will conduct the school. His 27 years experience in Chicago fire fighting hospital training will be utilized in the course. The seriousness wnh which fire fighting is taken by the various hospitals is evidenced by the fact that 116 employes of the Jay county hospital, and four Portland firemen, will attencj the meeting. In the morning, the group will have class-type Instruction. In the afternoon, they will move to a parking lot, and will practice with beds, “patients,” and fire extinguishers in actually putting out types of fires, and carrying patients from the "hospital.” Lt McGrath shows the group how two nurses can carry a heavy 250pound patient down seven flights on an outside fire escape; those employes attending will be given a chance to try out various types of '“carries.” Expected to attend from the Adams county memorial hospital are Cal E. Peterson, board president; Thurman I. Drew, hospital manager: and Miss Marie Felber superintendent of nurses.

Commission (SEC) suspended trading of the company’s common stock for $lO days on the American Stock Exchange and the over-the-counter market. Both the SEC and the exchange initiated investigations of the matter. Dist. Atty. Frank S. Hogan confirmed that his office was looking into the withdrawal. Should charges be filed, it would be difthe. free-spending. Gilbert back. An extradition treaty signed by the U.S. and Brazil in Jan., 1961 has not yet been ratified by Brazil. The Brazilian justice minister has ruled that the treaty will not be retroactive when it is completed. Reliable sources said Gilbert’s resignation from the Bruce presidency Tuesday was forced by a faction bn the board of directors opposing the young president. It was reported that it was demanded he make restitution of the missing funds or face possible legal retaliation. At this point Gilbert excused himself from the meeting.' He went to his $500,000 Manhattan town house, packed a single suitcase, and departed, for Idlewild Airport, he bought the last first class one-way ticket on the

WASHINGTON (UPD—Negotiations between the flight engineers and three major airlines collapsed today despite a last-minute appeal by President Kennedy. The union’s president said a strike appeared likely. Labor Secretary Arthur J. Goldberg announced that the engineers rejected Kennedy’s plea to submit the two-yegr-old dispute to arbitration. After the break-up of around-the-clock mediation efforts, Ron Brown, president of the union, was asked whether a strike would be called. “It would certainly appear so at this time,” he replied. Brown added that no further bargaining sessions were planned. The chief issue in the dispute was the airlines’ plan to reduce jet cockpit crews from four to three men. But a union spokesman said Wednesday night there had been no agreement on wages, hours, working conditions, or crew qualifications, either. Seta No Time Brown set no time for a walkout on grounds he and other union officers wanted to make a full report to the membership even though a strike authorization has been voted. The union has warned that its 1,700 members who work for Pan American, Eastern and Trans World airlines would strike unless the current contract talks produced a settlement Asher Schwartz, counsel for the union, said arbitration of all issues as proposed by Kennedy, would be “industrial suicide.” He added that the union had offered to arbitrate on economic issues but not the key questions of crew make-up. Jesse Freiden, attorney and spokesman for the airlines, said any strike would be “irresponsible.” Goldberg glumly told newsmen he would report to Kennedy immediately. Goldberg did not answer a reporter’s question as to when or whether the flight engineers would strike, however. “The talks are over, the union is free to strike, a deadlock ensued and we have no agreement,” he told reporters glumly. “No Excuse” for Walkout The Labor Department made public a statement by Kennedy declaring that there was “no excuse” for a walkout in view of the government - aided steps to achieve a settlement of the two-year-old dispute. The negotiators had met all night in an effort to hammer out a settlement. They broke for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. and returned to the bargaining shortly after 9 a.m. A source close to the talks said the companies had presented a package proposal that was rejected by the union and a counterproposal by the Flight Engineers International Association was turned down by the companies. Wednesday night the union said there seemed to be no alternative but to strike against the three carriers. The negotiations boiled down to talks between Goldberg and representatives of JTWA and the gnibn. Representatives of the bther two airlines sat around outside Goldberg’s office awaiting developments. Apparently both sides hoped that a solution of the TWA dispute would serve as a basis for settlement of the other two cases. The chief stumbling block in all three cases was the 16-month-old hassle stemming from the airlines’ plan to reduce jet cockpit crews from four to three men. „The union was free to send the 1,700 engineers involved on strike at any time. Would Idle 54,000 Airlines’ spokesmen estimated a strike would idle nearly 54,000 persons working for the carriers and cost the airlines $3.6 million a day. It would ground 488 airliners, they said. TWA and Pan American are the only U.S. flag lines flying the

Recruiting Blood Donors Discussed

Recruiting flood donors for the bloodmobile unit was discussed by A. O. Schell as the third district program committee held a luncheon meeting at noon Wednesday at the Fairway restaurant. Schell discussed recruiting blood donors for the mobile unit. The problem of replacement donors was discussed at length. This is a very important aspect of the Red Cross program. A booklet entitled “Blood Donor Recruitment Guide” was given to each chapter. An important part of the booklet was the section “Six keys to success in organizing a blood donor campaign.” Those six steps are: 1. An enthusiastic, hard-work-ing committee. 2. A well-organized personal contact campaign. 3. Adequate number of recruiters to do a thorough job. Well-informed recruiters tell the story. 5. Complete coverage of all potential donors. 6. Planned and extensive publicity. Schell also gave an informative talk concerning the hew Red Cross building located on by-pass 30 in Fort Wayne. Forty-one per cent of this building will be a blood center, the rest of the building will house the chapter and an auditorium. Several innovations are being included in the building. Among these is a storage area confined by wire fence which will help to eliminate the fire hazard. They will use all metal equipment instead of the wood that is used in most centers. Each county included in the third district has a building assessment for the next ten years. Jay county is the only one that has paid its total assessment, thereby eliminating the payment of interest. If anyone wishes to make a donation in memory of someone, recognition of this gift will be afforded in the building. This gift would also cover part of the Adams county assessment Anyone interested in doing so should contact Mrs. Wanda Oelberg, local executive secretary. Approximately $25,000 has been paid thus far on the building, with $50,000 left to be paid. This program will not affect the pro rate per bottle of blood which will remain at $1.75. Dr. H. C. Harvey, of Fort Wayne, reported that May was a record month in the collection of blood. The total number of bottles collected was 3,421, which is a record for May during peacetime. He stated that the Red Cross will have collected over 40,000 bottles of blood for the fiscal year if they continue to do well this month. Every week, 800 bottles are needed. Thus far this week, only 146 bottles have George Auer Not A Candidate For Board Sauer, of route I, was a candidate for the one-year term on the North Adams community schools board, not George Auer, manager of the Decatur General Electric plant. The fifth member of the board was elected by the other members Tuesday night. It was mentioned at the meeting that Auer had applied for clearance from his company to take on the additional job, but had not yet received an answer and so had not officially applied for the job. INDIANA WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday. Warmer Friday. Low tonight 47 to 54- High Friday 75 to 83. Sunset today 8:14 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:16 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and warmer. Lows in the 565. Highs in the 80s.

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been collected. The third district blood program has been asked to supply Chicago with the extra blood that it needi. When blood is shipped from the east coast, there is much loss of it, time, and money. The local chapter encountered a problem in supplying Chicago. That chapter uses plastic bags, which are air innovation, instead of the glass bottles. These bags weigh less and require less storage space. They cost little more than the bottles when shipped in large quantities as the 160 bottles per week that, are shipped to Chicago. The bags have an ACD solution in them and are filled by the gravity method. They are placed on a scale and when it is tripped, the blood flow stops. Therefore, every bag will weigh exactly the same. A “satellite” or double pack is also used. By using it, they can separate the plasma and the peeked cells. Thus, allowing them to collect $8 instead of the $4 for whole blood. White county, with Monticello as its county seat, has joined the Cross program. One person in Clinton county recently used 116 bottles of blood. If he were to pay for each of these, they would cost him $25 a piece. By recruiting replacement donors, he will not be obligated to pay this large sum. Mrs. Dem Greene toid of the bi-state program and the meeting recently held in Fort Wayne. Mrs. C. B. Miller, the regional vice president, presided at the meeting. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt offerd the prayer before the luncheon. Those attending were welcomed by Dick Heller, president of the local chapter. Several counties were represented at the meeting. Those from Allen county were Dr. H. C. Harvey, A. O. Schell, Mrs. Don Greene, Mrs. Elizabeth Morton, Mrs. Spahr, Mrs. Jones, Mrs Feigley, and Mrs. Frankenstein. Those from Jay county included Mrs. Mae Dudley, Mrs. John Jaqua and Garrett Graham. Mrs. Mary Glenn and Miss Helen Carter represented Union City. From Adams county were Mrs. Ferris Bower, Mrs. Idabelle Alton, Mrs. Robert Zwick, Msgr. Schmitt, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Oelberg, and Heller. The next regional meeting will be held Monday, October 8 at 4 p. m. at the Jay county hospital in Portland. At this time a workshop in three categories will be conducted. ■ - J ►— j - Service Station Break-in Probed A break-in that netted thieves over S2OO in tools and tires at Ralph’s Sunoco station, 609 N. 13th street, was reported to the Wednok--day afternoon. Stolen was an impact wrench, valued at $129.95; a brake bleeder, valued at $29.75; a muffler gun and four chisels, valued at $68.50; two 760x15 tires, valued at $42.38; and one 670-750x15 tube, valued at $2.19. Total value of the merchandise stolen was $272.77. Myers reported the theft Wednesday afternoon, as occurring sometime between the hours of 10 p. m. Tuesday and Ba. »■ Wednesday. Entry was gained by breaking a small hole in a window on the west side of the building, and then reaching through and opening the window. The thief or thieves, left the building through the west door. The city police are continuing their investigation of the station mhh*rv