The Daily Reporter from Greenfield, Indiana • Page 1

The Greenfield Daily PORTER PHONE IN YOUR NEWS Phone HO 2-552 By Carrier 25c Per Week: By Mall In Indiana 6.00 Per Year SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Member of THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Entered as Second-Class Matter at The Post Office, Greenfield, Indiana GREENFIELD, INDIANA, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1959. VOLUME LI NUMBER 17 steel Contract to Fatalities in Kito Gray Awarded Coiiege Scholarship 1 Candidates Slow Listing Expense Only Two Have Filed Campaign Costs Most itos in the city pr'niary elections have not file'l lists of their campaign expenses as required Indiana election law, according to Cconty Clerk Max Jcncs. Mr. Jones si id only two of he mere than 20 candidates have filed accounting of expenses and he warned that June 4 is the final day. With he exception cf the Democrat contest for mayor and clerk-treasurer most candidates a'-e net believed to have spent any large amoonts of money.

Of the two who have filed. ff street His careening car hit the pedestrians. xr i TWO ACTS OF TRAGEDY At top. left, Andrew Orsini kneels at the side of Percy Lonsdale (center, foreground), 70, who was fatally injured, when he was dragged 31 feet by a car in downtown St. Petersburg, Fla.

In the background is another of the three pedestrian victims, Mrs. Emily Fitchman, 37. The driver of the car was Vernon Kelly (bottom, left) 22, who shot himself as he was driving along St. Petersburg, Three suicide notes were iouna r.euy car. The latter's condition is critical.

At bottom, center, Mrs. Fitchman is aided by telephone lineman Dick Walsh- A right, a five-year-old boy was killed when he ran into the street in Los Angeles and was hit by a cement truck (upper right). The ambulance answering the emergency call is seen rounding the corner in the background. Eisenhower Has Never Been So Much on His Own in Ihe Presidency as He Is at Present Elevated Trains Crash Head-Tail 30 Persons Injured In Chkcgo Accident CHICAGO (AP Two down-tewn-b-nmd Lrgan Square elevated trail" jammed with riders crashed a during the mor-d iv. in: ring ut ru': hour to-least 30 persons 11 seriously.

The inrv.et font section of rt'w standing lesctped a fnur-the trains and passengers to the flcr like Many were treated at the scene, and many marc were taken to hospitals Tor examinations. The collision of the two six-cxach trains cf steel construction occurred when the first train stouped after leaving a station and was rammed by the second. I A passenger. Jerry Royus. was in the rear car of the train that was hit.

He said he turned his head and saw the other train approaching. There was a big bang and sparks were flying." he said. "All the people started running for the front of the car. "One girl who had been standing near me started screaming for her mother. 'God help she cried.

Her leg was cut off near the bottom. Then there was Japanese man. His arm was cut and he was bleeding from the mouth." Ronald Nowok. a passenger on the train that rammed the second said "Everything went black" v.pon impact. He said a side door in his car flew open, a woman beside him fell backward and he hit his head on a seat.

Witnesses said passengers in the rear car of the standing train ran forward to the other cars while those in the front car of the rear train tried to crowd into the rear cars. Passengers in elevated trains can step from car to car through, front-rear exits. The crash occurred at 1S00 Milwaukee at the highest point of the northwest elevated route and between the Damen and Western avenue stations. The El structure there is as high as a three-story building. The motorman of the rear train.

Dominick Paris, was trapped in his cab for more than a half hour. He complained of a leg injury but was able to walk unaided. Passengers said the rear train had just pulled away from the Western Avenue station and was traveling slowly when the collision occurred. The first coach of the second train telescoped about four feet. Frank Thielmann.

second deputy fire marshal in charge of rescue operations, estimated a total of 800 passengers were on the two trains. Paris, freed from his cab by firemen using portable electric saws, told police and newsmen he had pulled away from the station about 8:18 or 8:20 a.m. when "a train stalled in front of me and I came up behind it." He said he couldn't estimate his speed because the straight stretch of tracks at the scene had no signals. There was no immediate explanation of why the first train stopped. St.

Elizabeth Hospital reported 79 passengers were brought there but only two were seriously hurt. Commencemenl at McCordsville Set Commencement exercises for nine McCordsville High School seniors have been scheduled for Tuesday, May 19. at 8 p.m., in the high school gymnasium. Delivering the graduation address will be Herbert Schwomeyer, Dean of Men at Butler University. Baccaleaureate services were conducted in the McCordsville Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m.

Sunday. Rev. W. B. Arthur, pastor of the church, addressed the class.

His subject was "Doorways to Members of the Thomas Alexander, pie, Lowry Allan 1959 class are Nancy Lee Ap- Davis. Harold Sidney Hanes. David Kincade, Jer ry McFarland. LeRoy S. Rush.

Richard A. Spencer and Darrell Thomas. GRADUATES FROM COURSE SAN DIEGO. CaliL (FHTNO Aianne rxi. fatriCK r.

Lacy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Lacy of 112 Eikenberry PL. Greenfield.

graduated May 5 from the Aviation Electronics Operators Course at the Marine Corps Re cruit Depot. San Diego. Calif. The five-week course included instruction in the operation of el ectronics equipment used in Mar ine Corps Air Control Squadrons. i Resume on Tuesday NEW YORK (API Contract negotiations in the basic steel industry will be resumed here Tires-day after a recess since Friday.

Teams of negotiators for the 12 largest steel companies and the United Steehvorkers Union working against a deadline June 30 exDiration date of are of the current three-year contract. The wage talks began May 5. If agreement on a new contract is not reached by June 30. there almost certainly would be a strike by 500.000 union members in the basic steel industry. The union is seeking a wage increase, a cut in the 40-hour work week and other benefits.

The baic wage is now $3.03 an hour. CD Rescue Squad To Demonstrate Second Class Will Give Exhibition The second Civil Defense Rescue School to be graduated in Hancock County will hold a public demonstration on Saturday evening. May 23. starting at 8 p.m., at the Hancock County Court House. Members of Civil Defense units from Kokomo.

Muncie. Anderson, New Castle. Shelbyville. Rushville and Marion County will also take part in the exercise. Boy Scouts from throughout the county will again be the casualties and will be lowered from the third floor windows of the court house on ropes, stretchers and trim! lines.

The Greenfield Fire Depart ment will also participate. Joseph Schick, National Director of Civil Defense, from Washington. D.C., has been invited to attend this exercise. It is hoped that with good wea ther a number of the citizens of Hancock County will be on hand to see what the members of the Civil Defense units have accomplished in the way of Police and Rescue Training. Poplaville Citizens Irritated by FBI POPLARVILLE, Miss.

(AP) Citizens in this south Mississippi sawmill town are showing open irritation today over the FBI's investigation of the Mack Charles Parker lynching. Reports that the FBI was poised to arrest seven men over the weekend in connection with the lynching failed to materialize. Tension was heightened Sunday when one man was hospitalized for a cerebral hemorrhage a few hours after FBI agents ques- tioned him. Another man, J. F.

Lee said agents questioned him and his wife twice and followed him more than a week. J. P. Walker, a reported candidate for sheriff, said he could not submit to more questioning "unless they issue a warrant for me." Arthur E. Smith, 32, a stump hauler and tractor driver from nearby McNeill, was hospitalized in undetermined condition after the cerebral hemorrhage.

A physician said he ordered Smith to the hospital Saturday night and described the attack as "caused by high blood pressure brought on by extreme nervousness and tension." The FBI declined to comment. Cecil Smith, one of the stricken man's brothers, said FBI agents took Arthur from his home May 10, questioned him in Bogalusa, where Parker's body was found in the Pearl River. For the next five days, Cecil Smith said, agents maintained a continuous watch on his brother from a car parked near his home. They questioned him again later in the week and again Saturday afternoon. A few hours later Arthur suffered the attack.

The agents apparently interro gated Arthur Smith about his whereabouts at the time 8 or 10 hooded men dragged Parker from his Poplarville jail cell into a car The April 25 mob action came two days before Parker's scheduled trial on charges of raping a pregnant white housewife. LOCAL WEATHER Considerable cloudiness with scattered showers and thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday. Warm and humid Tuesday. Low tonight in mid-50s. Wednesday Outlook: Considerable cloudiness and mild with scattered thundershowers likely.

State Reach 10 Traffic Death Toll In Double Figures By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Indiana trattic death toll was double figures with 10 persons reported killed over the weekend. Six of the victims died Sunday in two separate mishaps. A flaming crash in the little Spencer COi.nty town of Fulda claimed four lives Sunday, and two Crown Point, boys died when their auto crashed into a parked car in MerrillviHe. Victims of the Fulda crash were Raymond Schullhies: Jerry Goffin-ett 15. all of Fulda.

and Ruth Hartwick. 15. Kvansville. Schultiiies and Miss Hartwick burned to in the flaming auto. Goffinelt was out but died en route to a hospital, and Miss Schulthie.s died several hours later in Stark Memorial Hospital Huntingburg.

Another youth. Ralph Konerd-ing. 17. also of Fulda. was treated for minor injuries.

State police said Raymond Schulthies' auto ran off Ind. 54.1 at Fulda, hit a tree broadside, slammed into a parked auto and burst into flames. Killed in the Merrillville crash were William E. Smith. 21.

-and Robert Layman, 22. bjth of Crown Point. Another young man. James S. D.vis, 21.

also of Crown Point, was injured critically and taken to Gary Mercy Hospital. The Lake County sheriffs office said a car the tluee were in struck a parked car. careened out of control and crashed into a tree. Deputies said the parked car was knocked about (to feet. Grant Thrasher.

84. Rt. 9. Bloomington, was killed Saturday when his tractor was struck by a car on Ind. 45, seven miles south of tried to pass Thrasher's slow-moving tractor and then braked when he realized he didn't have time to go around.

Thrasher was pinned under his overturned machine. A 12-year-old boy, Carl D. Moore of Rt. 6, Frankfort, was killed Saturday when his bicycle was struck by a car on Ind. 28 at the west edge of Frankfort.

Police said the boy evidently turned his bike into the path of the auto driven by Judith Hankins, 19. Colfax. Elmyra Diane Groff. 25. an instructor at the Indiana University Nursing School in Indianapolis, was killed in a head-on collision baturday on Ind.

37. two miles south of Elwood. Six other persons were injured in ihe mishap. Gerald Lower, 24, Rt. 3, Anderson, died Saturday in a one car crash on a county road eight nines wesi oi Anuerson.

his car ran off the road and slammed into a utility pole. Kidnapers-Raper is Held in Noblesvilie NOBLESVILLE. Ind. (AP) A husky filling station attendant was being held here today on charges of kidnaping a young automobile dealer and his fiancee, slashing both with a knife and raping the woman. Roy T.

Misenheimer 22. was arrested on a lonely road at the northern edge of Marion County about 20 minutes after the bloody and dazed auto dealer called sheriff's deputies. His hysterical, 25-year-old fiancee was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital, where four stitches were required to close a wound in her throat. It took 33 stitches for knife wounds in Robert Goeke, 25, Indianapolis, who operates auto agencies in Carmel and Nobles ville.

Misenheimer told police he came to Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago from Shreveport, La. He was held on preliminary charges of rape and assault and battery with intent to kill. The woman told officers the attacker raped her and forced her to "do things that were horrible." Goeke told this story of the abduction from in front of an Indianapolis night club early Sunday: He said the attacker jumped into his station wagon, pulled out a switchblade knife, and demanded: "Drive or she's dead. get out of town." The young auto dealer said he tried to overpower the muscular attacker, but was thwarted by a fury of slashing with the knife. Bleeding and dazed, Goeke was forced from the car and the rapist sped away with the terrified girl.

Goeke walked to a nearby house, where he called the Marion County sheriff's department. Deputy Timohy J. Cravens spotted the car on the lonely road and Misenheimer surrendered 7 s.v:; MII.O JR. Milo Gray son of Milo Gray 805 E. Mam has been awarded the Arta Payne Voris Fund Scholarship to Franklin College according to announcement by Gael D.

Swing, director of admissions A 135:) graduate of Greenfield High School. Milo received two varsity basketball and football awards and was vice-president of his freshman and senior class. He also played baseball and served as a member of Student Council. He plans to study law at Franklin. Red China Fires On Matsu Island Nationalists Fear New Crisis in Formosa By TENCKR MOOSA TAIPEI.

Formosa (AP) Red China turned its guns on little Matsu Island for the first time in two years Sunday, heightening Nationalist fears the Communists may be preparing a new crisis in the Formosa Strait. A Nationalist officer and two soldiers were reported killed as the Reds lobbed over 444 shells at the offshore island group at the northern end of the Formosa Strait. The barrage reportedly destroyed six civilian homes on the two islands. The nationalist Defense Ministry said the Red mainland batteries were silenced after 90 minutes by effective counter-fire. An hour before the Red guns opened up on Matsu.

10 Communist ships fired on Nationalist warships which sighted them west of the little island. The Defense Ministry said the Nationalist ships returned the fire and the Red craft fled. A few hours before the Reds had hurled S4 shells at their usual target the Quemoy Islands 150 miles south of Matsu. It was the first time the Reds have shelled Matsu since April 28, 1957. Nationalist circles have been predicting for several weeks that the Reds might try to stage a new crisis in the Formosa Strait to warn the West there cfKild bp trouble in this area unless concessions are made to the Soviets on Berlin and Germany.

Foreign observers are inclined to make light of such fears. Quicker Launching For American ICBMs VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP The Air Force is getting closer to its goal of being able to launch intercontinental missiles before they can be knocked out by a sneak attack. A new electronic brain designed to cut pre-launching countdowns from hours to 15 minutes is being insiaiiea ai mis west coast mis sile base. current ICBMs.

both Soviet and American, take about 30 minutes to cover their 6.000 mile range. Assuming military crews here were alerted 10 minutes after the firing of an enemy missile, they could fire retaliatory warheads 5 minutes before the aggressor's missile landed. DEATH OF CIVIC LEADER INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Funeral services ill be held in the Trinity Episcopal Church Tuesday for Wal ter I. Longsworth, 73. who died Saturday in Methodist Hospital Longsowrth was president of the Lilly Varnish Co.

and had been a noted civic leader. i Robert Wampler, a defeated Democrat for city council. claimed a total expense 01 Mayor James L. Allen, also a losing candidate, spent $255.50 in his campaign. This included $68 in newspaper advertising and the balance for printing and postage.

Some Reductions in Foreign Aid Seen By JACK BELL WASHINGTON AP Two influential Democratic senators predicted today Congress will make only moderate reductions in President Eisenhower's $3,930,000,000 Foreign Aid Program. Sens. Mike Mansfield iD-Mont) and John Sparkman DAla said in separate interviews they think the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee, of which tney are members, will approve an authorization of around 3la billion dollars. This amount looks like a target figure for action by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which will begin its item-by-item scanning of the bill Wednesday. The senate committee will not get to this phase until next week.

Sparkman said President Eisenhower, who has backed up his request vigorously, can expect some reductions in the over-all amount "but I don't believe they are going to be substantial." Mansfield, the Assistant Democratic Leader, agreed that the Senate committee is likely to reach a figure of about .32 billions. Mansfield has proposed eliminating defense support and economic assistance grants from the program within a three year period, beginning next year. Defense support involves payments to other governments to help keep their military forces at a higher level than their economies can sustain. While Eisenhower has rallied the Republican leadership behind his $3,930,000,000 request, not all of his party members will go along with him. There also has been a shift away from the Foreign Aid Program by some Democrats who supported it in the past.

Lawyer Mixup Delays Smith's Third Trial INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The third road scandal trial of former State Highway Commission Chair man Virgil W. (Red) Smith was delaj-ed today in a mixup over who is delending him. Judge Richard M. Salb of Crim inal Court 1 set a new trial date of June 22. Two lawyers were in court, and both said they represented Smith.

One was Frank A. Symmes. vet eran criminal attorney who helped defend Connie Nicholas recently in the Forrest Teel murder case, and the other was Frank I. Hamilton. "As far as I know I'm still Smith's attorney," Symmes told the judge.

Then turning to the onetime high way official, the lawyer snapped "At least you could have answered my letter notifying you that I was representing you today." Smith replied, "I didn't receive it until Friday." Ernest F. Frick, Marion County chief deputy trial prosecutor, said Symmes contended Smith. was not ready for trial but that Hamilton indicated he was ready to proceed. Hamilton defended Smith in his last trial. Smith is accused of accepting an $800 bribe from Arthur J.

Mogilner, Indianapolis salesman, to rig sale of eight highway sweep ers to the state in 1956. The former highway chief already has been convicted on two other road scandal charges but is free on bond while appealing the convictions. 14 Cars Qualify For the Big 43rd Annual Speedway Eliminations Start By BILL KIVETT Fourteen cars qualified for the 43rd annual Indianapolis 500 mile race over the past week-end. Most observers felt that more would qualify but high winds and far from ideal conditions held the number down. Saturday, the opening day, found 12 cars qualifying, while only two made the four-lap trip around the oval on Sunday.

Highlight of Saturday's time trials was the record-breaking performance of Johnny Thompson, driving the Racing Associate Special (No. 3i, who broke the single lap qualification record. Johnny toured the oval at a speed of 146.532. breaking the old record set by Ed Elisian in 1958 of 146.508. This record-breaking performance put Thompson on the pole for the Memorial Day race.

Outside of this performance speeds were slower than most of the track-side observers felt they would be. Just before the qualifications started on Saturday, Tony Betten- hausen. driving the Ansted Special tNo. 1) got caught by the wind coming out of the southeast turn hit the outside wall, crossed the track, hit the inside rail and turned over. Tony wasn't hurt seriously.

but the car was demolished. John ny Tolan smacked the wall Sunday in the southeast turn, but neither the car nor the driver was badly hurt. Thompson's record-breaking lap came under ideal weather condi tions. On his first two laps the wind was blowing fairly strong, but as he started on the third lap the wind died down and Thompson took advantage of the break and set the new record. Probably the biggest disappoint ment of the opening week-end was the failure of defending 500-mile champion Jimmy Bryan to get his car qualified.

Bryan, driving the same Belond AP Special (No. 6) in which he won the race last year. just couldn't get the "bugs" out of the engine. Bryan toured the track a couple of times around 141 m.p.h., but his crew7 felt that that was not a good enough speed to make the starting field this year. Next Saturday and Sunday will be the final two days of qualifying for the 1959 race.

Nineteen starting positions remain open and 47 cars have yet to qualify, so there should be a lot of action going on. The up to date line-up, with dri vers, cars and qualifying speeds is as follows: ROW I 1. Johnny Thompson Racing Associates Spe. (No. 3) circumstances last September, was more than just Eisenhower's top White House aid.

He was a combination buffer, filter, work-remover and very tough chief of staff. No President ever relied more absolutely on his secretary of state than Eisenhower did on Dulles until cancer forced Dulles' resignation last month. Although the President is the one ultimately responsible for American foreign policy, there was not much doubt it was Dulles who made the policy. With the exception of the former secretary of the treasury, George Humphrey, no other man was ever credited with as much influence on Eisenhower as Adams and Dulles. Humphrey, who quit in mid-1957.

reportedly still has Eisenhower's very attentive ear on matters economic, financial and budgetary. But he is no longer a day-to-day adviser. Eisenhower's increased aggressiveness shows clearly in his rela tionship with Congress. For most of his White House years except around election time Eisenhower leaned over backward to avoid conflict with Congress. One of the outstanding examples was in 1957.

That year he, Humphrey, and the budget director had worked months on the national budget, supposedly to keep expected expenses to the lowest possible figure. Eisenhower even said his budget was as tight as he could make it. But Humphrey startled the country by saying it could be cut. In no time at all Eisenhower was urging Congress to cut it any place it could find a soft spot. This year it's different.

Eisenhower has fought Congress, and fought it hard, in a completely opposite direction. Anxious now that the budget be balanced that is. that spending doesn't exceed income he has repeatedly slugged the Democratic-run Congress for any suggestion he has asked too little and that spending be boosted. This by itself illustrates an odd spectacle. Any President who is not going to run again supposedly loses influence during his last White House years not only in Congress but in his party generally.

And, because of the constitutional two-term limit, Eisenhower can't run again. But his influence with his own Republican Party has not noticeably diminished at all. Perhaps this is one of the reasons: Eisenhower, in two presidential By JAMZS MAR LOW Associated Press News Analyst WASHINGTON AP President Eisenhower has never been so much on his own in the presidency as he is now. on problems at home and abroad. With the departure of the two men upon whom he relied most completely Sherman Adams and John Foster Dulles he has had to depend more cn himself.

The result has been more vigor and aggressiveness in dealing with domestic issues and foreign affairs. Adams, who quit under unhappy Fortville Man Dies in Hospital Claude Keith, age 51 years, of Fortville, died Saturday night in the West Tenth St. Veteran's Hospital, Indianapolis, following an extended illness. A veteran of World War II, Mr. Keith was a member of the Fortville American Legion Post No.

391 and the Fortville Conservation Club. He was the foster son of the late William and Fannie Morse. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. C. Wr.

Waymire and Mrs. L. J. Fuchs of Cincinnati, Ohio; one brother. Hollis Keith of Lake-view, Ohio; one cousin.

Miss Evelyn Sutton of Muncie. Funeral services will be conducted from the Paul C. Cory Funeral Home at Fortville at 10 a. m. Tuesday with Rev.

Howard Perrine. pastor of the Fortville Christian Church, officiating. Interment will take place in Gravel Lawn Cemetery. Friends may call at the 'fu neral home after 4 p. m.

Mon day. Mercury to Jump With More Showers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Warmer temperatures are ex pected to move into Indiana tonight and Tuesday, but continuing spring showers will create humid conditions. Lows in the 50s were predicted for tonight, and Tuesday readings should hit the middle 70s in most areas perhaps even topping 80 in the southwest portion. The Weather Bureau could see no end to the latest round of thun- dershowcrs this week although to tal rainfall through Friday is not supposed to be more than an inch. The five-day outlook called for temperatures about seasonal normal in the north and three degrees above normal in the central and south.

It may cool off a little Friday or Saturday. Normal readings for this time of year are 50-70 in the north and 57-78 in the south. Cloudy skies and frequent showers kept tempe a down across Indiana over the weekend. The highest mark reported Sunday was 71 at South Bend. elections, has shown Ipmself so infinitely better liked than his party, which has lost Congress three times in a row, that the Republicans there don't dare cross or forsake him.

Actually, the party has no leadership but Eisenhower's anyway. So it's no surprise they trail along with him. If there is any surprise, it's in the way the Democrats have acted. They were extremely careful not to rough him up and by so doing antagonize the voters in his first (Continued on Page 6) 145.908 2. Eddie Sachs Peter Schmidt Spe.

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