Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 93, Decatur, Adams County, 20 April 1959 — Page 1

Vol. LVII. No. 93.

Bolivian Troops And Police Quell Revolt In La Paz

LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPD — Gov. enunent troops and police patrolled the streets of La Paz to day under a state of siege declared during Sunday’s unsuccessful revolt ty the right-wing socialist Falange Party. . At least 22 persons were killed and more than 50 wounded in fighting at the state radio station, the city hall, military barracks and police headquarters. The rebels gained control of the radio station for a short time. A government communique said the fighting began shortly before noon and that the rebellion was put down in a matter of hours by the militia. It. said the regulai armed forces were not needed. The presidential press office announced today the suicide of Oscar Unzaga de la Vega, foundei and leader of the Falange. The announcement said De La Vega, 42, and his bodyguard, former cadet Rene Gallardo, killed themselves* at a home in the northern section at La Paz. The press office said an ex-army captain witnessed! the suicides. More man 80 rebels were arrested, including Falange leader Luis Saenz and Roberto Freyre, co-editor of the newspaper Antwcha. Members of the youth section of the Natoinal Revolutionary Movement patrolled outside the foreign embassies to prevent other rebel leaders from taking refuge there The government announced that rebel leaders had asked President Hernan Sites Zuazo to halt relaiation by pro-government forces Siles ordered Secretary-General Guillermo Bedregal and Agriculture Minister Jorge Anteto to collect the rebel arms to prevent further fighting. Siles and members of his cabinet left the presidential palace Sunday night to inspect the areas where the fighting took place. They were greeted by cheers from thousands of persons in the streets. the rebels opened their attack with an attempt to seize the police headquarters. Eighteen persons were killed in the fighting these, including transit Police Capt Eduardo Chavarria. Siles’ pro-labor government has • Meet Tuesday Night On Power Problems The city council will meet at | p.m. Tuesday, hold its business session at the city hall, and then adjourn to the Decatur Youth and Community Center, where a large group of rural electricity users wishes to discuss their problems, Mayor Robert D. Cole said this morning. Fred Schamerloh, chairman oi the rural electric users association, stated that his group had made arrangements to meet with the city council at about 8:30 p.m, at the center. The public is invited to attend the meeting, Schamerloh said, and they will welcome anyone who wishes to attend.

Terror Campaign By Rebels In Algeria

ALGIERS (UPD—Algerian rebels burned one candidate alive and cut off the head of another in a campaign of terror that kept Moslem voters away from the polls Sunday in Algeria’s municipal elections. Nationalist terrorists killed at least 20 persons and injured 67 others in a 48-hour period. French officials announced that balloting cm the first day of the week-long district-by-district elections was well below normal. The French army, fighting to offset the rebel attacks, killed 11 nationalists and wounded or captured an indefinite number in counter-raids in rebel-infiltrated districts. Paratroop Gen. Jacques Massu, commander of the Algiers region, broadcast a radio appeal to the voters saying, “To abstain is to betray the army. It is pure and simple treachery.” Massu’s Words had little effect as the rebels turned Sunday into Algiers’ bldodiest election day in history. Terrorist bombs killed two persons and injured 26 others in Al-

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r- been beset recently by economic i- troubles caused by high prices > and inflation. It lost some support s from tin mining and oil workers i- after it was forced to cancel food I- and clothing subsidies at commissaries operated by the workers. d Siles was elected president on n June 17, 1956, for a four-year i, term. His National Revolutionary s Movement has been- in power since April, 1952, when it overe threw a military junta regime.' Sunday’s revolt came less than d a week after serious disturbances e were reported in three centers of s the nationalized tin mining indusy try and about a month and a half r after anti-American rioting in the capital. r Assumes Convention e Fight For Nominee " WASHINGTON (UPD—Republi- '• can National Chairman Thruston B. Morton has said he assumes Vice President Richard M. Nixon '' will have to fight on the convenr tion floor for the GOP presiden- '• tial nomination. Morton expressed his views Sunday in a filmed TV interview with Sen. Kenneth B. Keating h (R-N.Y.). Keating disagreed and n indicated he thought Nixon would * have the nomination sewed up bes; fore the convention. J* The Republican chairman said . he was confident the party’s stan- '* dard bearer in 1960 would be elected president. }* Keating asked Morton for his i guess about chances for a conven- ' tion fight such as developed in 1952 between the late Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio and then Gen. h Dwight D. Eisenhower. e “I assume there will be; I s don’t know,” MOrton replied. “I " should think you’d be in a better n position to comment on that.” e Morton obviously referred to the . fact Keating hails from the home K state of New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, the only potential challenger to Nixon for the Reg publican nomination in sight. e Keating made no response on the program. But asked later s about the matter, he said: - “My guess would be that will not be a contest. I believe that the picture will clarify to such an extent that it would surprise me to see a floor contest between the g two men who are most frequently 8 mentioned for the nomination at s the present time.” n INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy, occasional rain or s snow north and rain or drizzle *’ south, generally ending during s tonight. Colder extreme south tonight. Tuesday cloudy and •I quite cold. Low tonight low >• 30s extreme north to near 40 d extreme south. High Tuesday h generally in the 40s. Sunset i- today 7:28 p. m. CDT. Sund rise Tuesday 5:50 a. m. CDT. h Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy and continued cold. Lows 30 to 40. Highs 45 to 55.

giers in the first such attacks in the heart of the capital since Au- - gust, 1957. 5 . Another rebel bomb outside a polling place in Constantine, Algeria's third largest city, killed two persons and injured 39 others, many of them women and children. In La Barbinais, near Setif, a rebel band seized all the Moslem members of a candidate slate. They cut off the head of the chief candidate and beat the others severely before letting them go. Other rebels fatally burned Abdellha Baouadji, chief of the list of Moslem candidates in Tizi N’Bechar, also in East Algeria, in his home. The new terrorist offensive was aimed at President Charles de Gaulle’s plan to guide Algeria toward peace by democratic reforms. Os the more than 16,000 councillors to be elected in this week’s 1,600 municipal elections, twothirds must be Moslems under the new reform law. / .

John H. Duff Dies Saturday Afternoon John H. Duff, 69, well known Adams county man, long prominent in Democratic party circles and active in civic affairs, of the county, died at To'clock Saturday afternoon at the Adams county memorial hospital after an illness of two weeks. Mr. Duff served as Hartford township trustee from 1939 to 1947, and was elected one year as president .of the Indiana county and township officials association. Active in Red Cross work more than 20 years, he served as chairman of the Adams county chapter three years ago. He was born in Wells county March 13, 1890, a son of Alonzo and Nancy Jane Lee-Duff, and had lived in Adams county since 1913. He was married to Effie Meshberger Dec. 22, 1912. Surviving are his wife: two sons, Frederick J. Duff of Berne route 1, and Ivan A. Duff of Decatur; four grandchildren, and a sister, Mrs. Ernest King of Petroleum. Funeral services wfll be conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church in Linn Grove, the Rev. George Holston and the Rev. F. P. Miller officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood cemetery at Linn Grove. The body was removed from the Yager funeral home to the Duff residence, where friends may call until noon Tuesday. Mrs. Roosevelt Is Ball State Speaker MUNCIE, Ind. (UPD — Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt will speak at a Ball State Teachers College convocation May 6.

Senate Debate € ■ ■ ■ ■ - — - — On Labor Bill

WASHINGTON (UPD—The Senate today resumes debate on labor reform legislation amid promises of an all-out effort to strengthen the Kennedy-Ervin bill. Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) chairman of the Senate Rackets Committee, was to spearhead the fight for strong amendments to deal with corruption in the labormanagement field. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.), has predicted his measure will pass the Senate substantially as it was reported out of the Senate Labor Committee. Actual voting will begin Tuesday on some 100 amendments offered last week during three days of debate. Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) said in a television interview Sunday he would vote against the bill in its present form. He called the ' measure “pantywaist” legislation. Other congressional news: Subversives: Sen. Kennety B. Keating (R-N.Y.) urged Congress to go slow in enacting legislation to overthrow a Supreme Court ruling in anti-subversion cases lest it affect the law in other fields. Keating, in testimony prepared for the Senate internal security subcommittee, referred to a bill to keep the high court from invalidating any state law which does not conflict with federal law in the same field. Secrecy: Rep. Richard E. Lankford (D-Md.) accused the Navy of denying him access to information in “still another frightening example of government in darkness.” He told a House government information subcommittee the Navy Bureau of Ordnance refused to give him a report concerning conversion of the naval gun factory in Washington to production for the missile age. Johnsen: Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said Democrats who have been aiming “rabid criticism and invective” at the party’s Senate leaders should took at their record of accomplishment.

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Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 20, 1959.

Rites Held Today For Bragg Infant Debra Lou Bragg, seven-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Bragg, died Saturday at her home near Ohio City, 0., after a day’s illness. Surviving are the parents; a brother ( Donald E., Jr., at home; the grandparents, Mrand Mrs. George Bragg and Mrs. Louise Baker of near Ohio City, and the great-grandmothers, Mrs. W. B. Foster of Convoy, 0., and Mrs. Hazel Bragg of Decatur. Funeral services were held this afternoon at the Bethel E. U. B. church near Glenmore, O.» with burial in Woodlawn cemetery, Ohio City. Print Ballots For Democrat Primary Printing 6f 4,800 ballots for the Democratic primary election May 5 began this morning, the election board announced. The only race in the primary election will be between the three candidates for mayor, Robert D. Cole. Mrs. Mary K. Morgan and Adrian F. T. Wemhoff. Each candidate is assigned a number, and one-third of the ballots will be printed with each on the top line. For example. Mayor Cole has ; number 12, Mrs. Morgan, 13, and ’ i Wemhoff, 14. One-third of the balI tots will have Robert D. Cple on 1 the top line, one-third Mary K. ; Morgan, and one-third Adrian F. T. Wemhoff. Actually, more ballots will be printed than there are registered voters. This is done so that if any of the ballots are destroyed or mutilated before or during the election, new ballots will be available. Ballots will soon be avaiable for absent voting, and can be received by proper application at the clerk’s office.

NEW SERIAL STORY A fine mystery novel, “The Eighth Circle,” begins in today’s edition of the Decatur Daily Democrat. The story, written by Stanley Ellin, finds Murray Kirk, head of New York’s largest private detective agency, commuting between New York’s underworld and upper society, to solve the mystery. Arguments In Death Case Are Postponed Final arguments before special -Judge John Macy of Winchester in the Dale Death vs the city of Decatur case have been postponed until May 8 at the request of John L. DeVoss, city attorney. Evidence on the case to set aside a decision of the Decatur board of works and safety was heard in Portland on April 2. Arguments had been set for April 18. The case began at Decatur on Nov. 1, 1957, following an uptown accident, when police officer Death was arrested for public intoxication. After the hearing in which he was found guilty, Death asked for a change of venue following his appeal to the Adams circuit court. A change of judge was later asked when the action was sent to the adjoining Jay county. Death is seeking reinstatement and salary retroactive to the dismissal date. Death is represented by Voglewede and Anderson of Decatur; Jenkins and Fiely, of Portland, and Wilbur F. Dassel, attorney for the Fraternal Order of Police. The defense attorneys are John L. DeVoss and Abromson and Grimes. of Portland.

Al Least Six Deaths Blamed On Snowstorm United Press International A giant snowstorm, which dumped up to nine inches from the northern Rockies across the north central Plains, eased off Monday to snow mixed with rain in the upper Midwest. South of the snow, a clash of cold and warm air masses triggered damaging thunderstorms and high winds. At least six deaths Sunday were blamed on the weather, four of litem in Illinois and one each in Wyoming arid Oklahoma. Don Taylor, 20j Sallisaw, Okla., was killed when he was struck by lightning while feeding livestock. A woman was killed near Green River, Wyo., when her husband’s car skidded on snow and struck a bus carrying 27 students. In Illinois, two priests and a woman were killed in a collision on a rain-slicked highway near Effingham, and a similar crash near Crossville killed a woman. •ftie spring snow created hazardous driving conditions in parts of Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana and Colorado. The heaviest accumulations fell from central Wyoming through the Black Hills of South Dakota. Strong winds and violent thunderstorms occurred Sunday and early Monday in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana and in parts of the Ohio Valley. At least eight persons were injured when an unconfirmed tornado smash-id two houses at Crab (Continued on pa-xe two)

First Human Rocket Blast Off Next Year

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPD I —When- America’s firpt human rocket passenger blasts off in sjStmt « "year, the international spotlight will focus on what missile men here call “the world’s most expensive laboratory.” This is the 485-million-dollar Atlantic Missile Range, which begins with this sandspit on the mid-Florida East Coast and extends 5,000 miles southeast to the British crown colony of Ascension Island. The rocket passenger, one of the seven astronauts named recently; will be hurled about 200 miles over the ocean in a prelude to Project Mercury, the nation’s plan to put a man into orbit around the earth. But although he will be highly trained for his momentous trip, the rocket voyager will play a relatively inactive part. After the blastoff, the experiment will be entirely in the hands of the men who operate the Atlantic Missile range. Plans Are Secret - Their job can be divided roughly into three phases: determining where the speeding rocket is during every second it is in flight, retrieving its nose cone from the ocean, and interpreting data on what happened to the passenger and the nose cone in flight. The Air Force disclosed to United Press International that preparations already have started for the first man’s flight aboard a rocket. The plans are secret, but a rundown on the range as it is now being operated should give some idea of the enormity of the job. Between the Cape and Ascension are 11 other stations in thqi intricate tracking and data-re-ceiving network. These are Jupiter, Fla., about 80 mites north of Miami; Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, San Salvador, Mayaguana, and Grand Turk, islands in the Bahamas; the Dominion Republic; Puerto Rico; St. Lucia and Antigua in the British West Indies; and Fernando de Noronha, 250 miles off the coast of Brazil, which owns the island. K Ships Are Used A glance at the map will show two big gaps in this chain of datagathering stations; the 2,236-mile span from St. Lucia to Fernando de Noronha, and the 1,225-mile jump from Fernando to Ascension. To plug these gaps, the Air Force uses specially-instrumented “ocean range vessels.” Manning the thousands of “little black boxes”—jhe tracking and data - gathering instruments at each station—are nearly 2,000 men all but a handfid of them civilians employed by the government. The Eleuthera station in the Bahamas is typical of others in the group. About 140 full-time technicians and maintenance personnel are assigned there. These men work for the Radio Corp, of America (RCA), which is in charge of all instrumentation on the range, and Pan American World Airways, the range “housekeeper.” Devices Are Complex All aspects of a missile’s flight

Herter Is Formally . Nominated To Post AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPD—President Eisenhower today formally nominated Christian A. Herter M secretary of state to replace the seriotisly ailing John Foster Dulles. Eisenhower announced the appointment last Saturday and today went through the formality of Peking Senate consent. Public hearings on Herter, 64, former governor of Massachusetts and current ly the acting secretary,-will begin Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The administration was confident of confirmation before Herter leaves late this week for the Western foreign ministers conference in Paris. On the last full day of a golfing holiday that began here April 7 at the Augusta National Golf Club, the President devoted his morning to consideration of official documents, including some routine nominations and a supplemental appropriation previously authorized by Congress for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Between intermitten showers here Sunday, the President managed to get in an afternoon round of golf. Similar weather was forecast for this afternoon, but the President planned to get in a game before the day was over. The White House described Eisenhower as pleased not only by the reaction from Republicans and Democrats in Washington, but particularly by the warm reception given news of Renter's selection in other free world capitals. Eisenhower was expected to re- , turn to the nation’s capital by plane late Tuesday.

performance must be measured. The Air Force does this job with high-speed cameras, theodolites '(instruments which measure horizontal and vertical angles), and a highly complex device known as the azusa system. The azusa is used to measure the position of a ballistic missile traveling 15,000 miles an hour at an altitude of several hundred miles. However, the Air Force relies primarily on telemetry for information on what is happening inside a missile during flight. The telemetry devices are “black boxes" with probes extending to all parts of the missile. Similar boxes presumably will be attached to the rocket passenger. When the missile men wish to recover a nose cone hurled over the ocean, the operation becomes even more complex. Several C-54 airplanes are dispatched from Patrick Air Force Base, just south of the Cape, to the impact area where they rendezvous with ocean range vessels before the shoot. Miles Os Tape The idea is for the ships and planes to spot the cone, glowing fiery red with atmospheric friction, as it plunges back to earth from space. The planes then guide the ships to the area where the cone fell. This plan, or a variation of it, is expected to be used to recover the first human rocket passengers. The radioed telemetry information, which continues through impact of the missile’s nose cone, is taken down on tape recorders through huge antennas at the downrange stations by ships and in some cases by specially instru’hnented airplanes. These tapes—hundreds of miles long—are returned to the Cape and processed in the technical laboratory. a huge building which is one of the largest in Florida. By analyzing these .tapes, missile men can determine exactly what happened to their “bird” at any point in flight. I” f * ' Local Man's Mother Is Taken By Death Mrs. Sadie M. Shauver, 79, lifelong resident of Portland, died at noon Saturday at the Jackson nursing home at Montpelier. Mrs. Shauver was a member of the West Walnut Street Church of Christ in Portland. Surviving are two sons, Everett Shauver. manager of the Holthouse Furniture store in Decatur, and Allie Shauver of St. Petersburg, Fla.; three daughters, Mrs. Clarence Hummel 4)f Kennard, Mrs. John Welch of Unipn City, and Mrs. Russel Delauter of Hartford City; eight grandchildren; 20 ' great-grandchildren, and a sister. Funeral services were held this afternoon in the Church of Christ at Portland, the Rev. Russell Grubb officiating. Burial was in '■ Little Salamonia cemetery.

h K**’ L ■•W -/. .’O JHBr - wHE' ! -.-J*-"' i ’ ft’ : f i HERTER TO REPLACE DULLES— President Eisenhower, at his vacation White House office in Augusta, Ga., Introduces Christian Herter as the new Secretary of State to succeed cancer-stricken John Foster Dulles, who resigned last Wednesday. Herter, 64, undersecretary since 1957, declined to comment on any proposed changes in U. S. foreign policy until his appointment has been confirmed by the Senate. — :

Herter Returns To Washington

Castro Feels Satisfied On TripToUS. WASHINGTON (UPI) — Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro appearedsatisfied today that his five-day Washington visit had fostered better understanding of his new government; His appeal to American public opinion continued with an address this afternoon at» the National Press Club. He was to leave later by plane for Pffihceton, N.J., on the second leg of his U.S. visit. Castro indicated he felt his American trip was off to a good start when he told a nation-wide television audience Sunday night that his visit had brought “spiritual profits.” “I believe that here in the United States the people . . . and the government are going to understand us better,” he said in halting English. “It is good not only for Cuba, it is good too for the United States.” > Later the bearded, 32-year-old Castro—garbed as usual in his open-necked army fatigues—spent two hours and 22 minutes chatting privately with Vice President Richard M. Nixon at Nixon’s Capitol Hill office. Nixon declined to make any detailed statement on the conversation, but this country is “vitally interested in helping the Cuban people in their economic progress in an atmosphere of freedom." Castro said the meeting left him “satisfied.” Under sharp questioning from a panel of newsmen on the TV program (NBC-Meet the Press), Castro attempted to dispel apprehensions raised by some American observers that his new regime might be pro-Communist or antiAmerican. Regarding reports his government is infiltrated by Communists, he said: “Their influence is nothing.” Castro denied he ever had said Cuba would be neutral in any struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. ’He said Cuba intendexi to Iceco its int&rxmtional commitments. Cuba is a member of the Rio Pact, which to the aid of one another in the event of an attack against any one of them. Castro also denied that he or his brother, Raul, was a Communist. Will Head Physics Department At Purdue LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UPI) — Dr. Hubert James of the Purdue University teaching staff has been named head of the department of physics. James has been at Purdue since 1936. Less Than Inch Os Rainfall In City Weather observer Louis Landrum reports .65 inch of rain fell in Decatur as of 7 a. m. .today, putting the level of St. Mary’s river at 2.43 *feet. The river level has been less than three feet for four consecutive days.

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Incoming Secretary of State Christian A. Herter returns to Washington today to face the task of pulling the Western Allies together for critical negotiations with Russia next month. Herter, nominated Saturday to succeed cancer-stricKen John Foster Dulles, has been assured swift senatorial approval. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will meet Tuesday, with Herter present, to consider his nomination. ' Herter will have little more . than a week to prepare for the . three-day Paris meeting of West- . em foreign ministers scheduled to begin April 29. : At that meeting, the United s States, Britain, France and West 1 Germany will have to come to a r final decision on policies and n strategy for Wegdtiating Wito Russia at the Geneva foreign miniss ters* conference Starting May 11. jj The Western powers, so far, are I agreed only as to what they will not do — they will refuse to give up any rights in Berlin and will , not consent to any plans which ‘ might isolate Germany from the ; West. They have yet to come to terms < on specific proposals to be made » to Russia at the foreign ministers’ meeting and at a possible summit 1 conference this summer. J Herter, the 64-year-old Massa- . chusetts politician - diplomat who ’ has served as undersecretary of 1 state for more than two years, was reported determined to take a firm hand in pulling together ■ the Western front against Russian ■ pressures. Resume Production At Allis-Chalmers " MILWAUKEE (UPI) — Production resumed today at the main .j plant of the Allis-Chalmers Man- , ufacturing Co. in West Allis, Wis., ‘ following settlement of an 11-week strike by the United Auto Workers. About 7,000 members of UAW " Local 248 at the farm machinery 5 equipment ftrnCs West Allis plant ratified the contract setlemen 1 Sunday night, paving the way for < resumption of work. ’ At seven other plants,’ employ--1 ingabout 7,000 workers, the new ■ paet. reached Saturday night, was 1 expected to be ratified earfy this 1 week and production resumed im- - mediately afterwards. - The cantract also was signed by f union locals at La Crosse, Wis.; Springfield, Ill.; La Porte and 3 Terre Haute, Ind., and Pittsburgh, . Par, according to a‘ company spokesman. The contracts were expected to be ratified by the membership today or Tuesday. Locals at Allis-Chalmers plants at Gadsden, Ala., and Cedar Rapids, lowa, have not yet rati- . fied or signed their contracts. . A union spokesman said the ra<l tification vote at West Allis was f “100 per cent,” and he predicted ratification by other locals would be only a “formality.’’ The central agreement calls for wage increases of 6 cents hourly or 2% per cent, whichever is greater. The pact is retroactive to Sept. 1, 1958, and runs to Nov. 1, 1961. nxe contract also increases pensions, unemployment benefit * payments', life and health insur--1 ance benefits, vacations and sev- , erance pay. s The walkout cost employes 14 I million dollars in wages, according to a company estimate. The r UAW paid out more than two million dollars in strike assistance.

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