Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 31, Decatur, Adams County, 6 February 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 31.

ISRAELI CHILDREN LEAVE SHELTER—Children in Shakir Hagolan, Israel, leave an underground shelter where they spent the night. They were placed in the shelter after clashes of Israeli and Syrian forces in the demilitarized area.

Heart Attack Fafal To Varlando Clark Varlando Clark, «4. lifelong resident of Pleasant Mills, died suddenly from a heart attack Friday at his home in Pleasant Mills. Mr. Clark served as custodian of the Pleasant Mills high school for 15 years until his retirement in 1954. He was born in St. Mary’s township Feb. 17, 1895, a son of John and Capitole Lord-Clark, and was married to Bertha Flager Dec. 25. 1920. Mr. Clark was a member of the Pleasant Mills M?thodist church and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. A veteran of World War I, he served in France, entering the servicg March 9, 1918, and receiving his discharge May 14, 1919. Surviving in addition to his wife are two sons, George H. Clark of Fort Wayne, and Glen E. Clark of Decatur route 5; two daughters, Mrs. Bill (Betty) Feasel of Pleasant Mills, and Mrs. Donald (Ruth* Hoblet of Convoy, O.; nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One brother is deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:45 p.m. Monday at the residence and at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Mills Methodist church, the Rev. Leon Lacoax and A. E. Burk officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Military services will be conducted by the VFW. *Hie body, removed to the Zwick funeral home, will be returned to the residence, where friends may call after 7 p.m. today until time of the services.

Boy Collapses-And Dies In Classroom MITCHELL, Ind. (UPD—Thomas Wittington, 13, collapsed and died in a study hall at Mitchell ; Junior High School Friday shortly before classes were recessed for the weekend. The school physician L said death was due to a heart attack. The boy had been underj J treatment for a heart condition.

Minimum W age Boost Favored

By WILLIAM J. EATON United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD — The Eisenhower - administration will _ ask Congress to increase th® federal minimum wage of $1 an hour probably by 10 or 15 cents, informed sources said today. The sources told a United Press International reporter that Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell had decided to recommend a higher floor under the wages of the 24 million workers now covered by the law. No new figure was mentioned. ~ But there was speculation that the administration would advocate a sl.lO or $1.15 minimum. The AFL-CIO is spearheading a drive to raise the minimum to — $1.25 and extend coverage to an additional 7,500,000 workers. Mitchell previously has urged extension of minimum wage coverage to about 2,500,000 more workers, mostly, in chain He was expected to back suth an extension again.

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Decatur Girl Scout Leaders Honored Girl Scout leaders ol Decatur were honored this week at the annual meeting of the Limber lost Girl Scout council at Fort Wayne, at which time recently elected officers were installed. Certificates of appreciation were presented to Mrs. Ruth Railing and Mrs. R. C. Hersh. A 25-year service pin was also awarded to Mrs. Railing and a 20-year pin to Mrs. Hersh. Decatur ladies receiving 10-year pins were Mrs. Ben Eichenauer, Mrs. Eton Cochran and Mrs: D. Burdette Custer.

Urges Auto Owners Buy License Plates License plate sales at the local branch office are slightly ahead of last year, but only because of a big selling splurge at the start of the year, Mrs. LaVelle Death, manager, said this morning. A total of 2,747 persons have purchased the new blue and white 1960 plates, while at a comparable date last year, 2,600 had been sold. In urging residents to stop by the office and purchase their plates, Mrs. Death reminds of the long lines that formed outside the building last year as buyers flocked to the jammed office prior to the deadline.

This year, leap year, the deadline is extended one day to Feb. 29th. But this would certainly not alleviate all the congestion that can be expected. The sales to date are about the half way mark, Mrs. Death concluded. Bidders on the license plate — JA 1960 — can still call in their offers to top Leo H. King, Sr.’s SIOO bid. King, who has won the I bidding contest for several years in a row, last entered his bid about two weeks ago. Proceeds from the bidding go to the Adams County .Cancer society.

The administration's position probably will be disclosed when Mitchell testifies before the House Labor Committee on proposals to raise the minimum wage and bring more workers under its protection. The hearings are scheduled to open during the week starting Feb. 15. In the Senate, of the Labor Committee has recommended an amended version of a $1.25 minimum wage bill Introduced by Sens. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and Wayne Morse (DOre.l. Rep. James Roosevelt (IlCalif.) has introduced a similar bill in the House. Labor union leaders active in the fight for a boost in the minimum wage expressed confidence today that some raise would be enacted at this session of Congress. Labor leaders felt that the ad- ' ministration could not oppose a 1 1 minimum wage hike in an elecition year.

59 Are Killed In Air Crash In Bolivia LA PAZ. Bolivia <UPD - A two-yea r-old girl who was the only survivor of Bolivia’s worst plane crash in history died Friday night despite doctors' frantic efforts to save her. Littel Jenny Escobar was the only one of 59 persons aboard a Holiv...n Uoyd Airlines DC • 4 found alive after the firey crash in the Andes Mountains Friday At least seven Americans were believed to be among the victims The airliner took off on a routine flight from Cochabamba for La Paz and all went well for the first 15 minutes. But the number 1 engine caught fire and the airliner plummetted to earth and burned. Airline officials said they already had requests to ship seven bodies found in the wreckage to the United States. Today thsy faced the grim and nearly impossible task of identifying the mutilated and charred bodies. At least five whole families were wiped out on the doomed flight. Many of the 51 passengers were parents who were returning with their children to La Paz after summer holidays in the country.

The DC-4 was crushed by the impact of its crash, but somehow the Escobar child escaped death at that time. Doctors worked over her for hours but they were unable to save her because of internal injuries. Nine other young children were killed in the crash. There was confusion as to whether the passenger list was accurate. A [Partial list showed national Deputy Rene Antezana was among the dead. The head of the four-man crew that perished was Capt. Joaquin Lobos, who served as personal pilot to Bolivian President Hernan Siles Suazo. Siles ordered an investigation into the cause of the crash.

Sniper Shoots Two On Crowded Street

NEW YORK (JJPD — An eye sighting along a gun barrel followed the noontime crowd in the shadow of the world's tallest building at one of the crossroads of• New York City’s millions. In a space of three hours, thousands had passed the 34th Street entrance to the Empire State Building. Two were shot. Mrs. David Cleary. 46. was about to enter the building at 11 a.m. Friday. She heard a noise like a firecracker pop, felt a sting and saw blood running down her leg. At 1:50 p.m. Knute Kyvik, 59. was nearing the entrance. He felt a sting in his left shoulder, and recalled later he also had heard a ping but had not connected it with the pain in his shoulder. Mrs. Cleary was treated by a doctor in the building and sent to a hospital where a .22 caliber slug was removed from her hip. Kyvik complained to his employer in the building and was given the afternoon off. At home he found his shirt bloody and called police. He was taken to a hospital where it was found a small caliber bullet had pierced his shoulder from back to front. Police began an immediate search ot the 34th Street area near Fifth Avenue and the officers and rooftops of the buildings rising above the street. They were looking for ejected .22 caliber short shells, the slug that passed through Kyvik’s shoulder and a deranged sniper who picked human targets. Mrs. Cleary and Kyvik did not know one another. They apparently were shot at random. But they both know there is no true safety in a crowd, at noontime, under the world’s tallest building.

County Democrats To Indianapolis Dinner More than a dozen Adams county Democrats will attend the annual Jefferson-Jackson day dinner in Indianapolis this evening, Edward F. Jaberg, ticket chairman, said this morning. ' _ Sen. Lyndon Johnson and Sen. Vance Hartke will speak at the meeting, which will be held at 7 p.m. in Murat temple. Those attending from Adams county include Dr. and Mrs. Harry Hebble, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Heller, Jr., Judge and Mrs. G. Remy Bierly, Mr. and Mrs. R. Paul Beaty, Miss Rosemary Spangler, Mrs. Mabel Striker, Severin Schurger, Herman Moe He ring, and David J. Schwartz. NOON EDITION

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Feb. 6, 1960.

Indiana Farm Couple, Son Slain, Termed As Double Murder-Suicide

Program Os Progress Is Urged By Hartke INDIANAPOLIS <UPI> — Sen Vance Hartke today urged "fret discussion and debate” amonj fellow Democratic leaders, as well as between Democrats and Republicans, in the process ol selecting "a dynamic program for progress” for this country. Hartke told the Indiana Demo cratic Editorial Association thal nobody should "misinterpret fret discussion as disunity.” "Debate and discussion are ar integral part of the democratic system.” he said. "They serve tc explore and define the issues before us and to chart our course ol aettion.'’ "Only by free discussion and debate can the issues be resolved. The issues upon which we seem to be most divided often thereafter become issues on which we can unite once we have made our collective decision. "Where there is no debate of this sort there is either dictatorship and despotism or there are no decisions This is the democratic way.” , Hartke said during debates and discussions in Congress there would be disagreements within the political parties as well as within the Senate itself. “Sometimes we will not agree on the precise course to follow, Hartke said. “But we are, I believe, agreed on what we seek to accomplish—a dynamic program for' progress which should thrill the heart of every American. “Let us freely debate and then move forward together for America.”

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Destroyer Closes Career In Tragedy

NORFOLK,' Va. (UPD — A gray-hulled destroyer that saved scores of lives in World War II closed its Navy career in tragedy today. a The head of a Navy investigating board waited at the Norfolk naval shipyard pier to meet the U.S.S. Daly. Capt. W. J. Steucil will try to find out just how six crewmen of the Dlay died on the destroyer’s final run Thursday afternoon. The Daly left Newport, R. 1., Wednesday bound for the mothball flfeet here. About 150 miles off the Virginia Capes the Daly was heading toward its final harbor at full 30-knot power when an “abnormal swell” slapped the 376-foot ship 65 degrees to starboard. Seaman David Alen Dale | of Kenmore, N. Y., was killed in-' stantiy when flung against something that severed his arm. Five Presumed Dead Ten other crewmen were swept into the icy Atlantic. Five-of them disappeared in the huge waves and are presumed dead, although the search for them continued today. Steucil was appointed to begin an immediate investigation of* the tragedy by talking to the Daly’s captain, Cmdr. K. C. Gummerson

Cuba Pulls Curtain For Russian Leader

HAVANA (UPII — Cuban authorities pulled an iron curtain off secrecy today around Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan's movements because of gunfire that nearly wrecked the formal opening of the Russian exposition I Friday. Pro - government newspapers blamed "counter -revolutionaries ' for the outbursts which touched off near-panic in the heart of Havana. y There appeared to be noyvonnection between the anti-Commu-nist demonstration staged by students in Jose Marti Park and the hit-and - run machinegun attacks along the fashionable Prado, one block from the Palace of Fine Arts which houses the Soviet exposition. A military guard stood watch through the night over the gaudy five-color wreath Mikoyan laid on Marti’s statue to avoid any attempts Ly Roman Catholic students to replace it with one of their own. Soviet Display Guarded The Palace of Fine Arts also was under heavy army guard as was the nearby open parking lot where Soviet - made heavy farm machinery and equipment are on display. The scuffle in Marti Park broke out when anti-Commuoj£t students tried to cover the Mikoyan wreath —emblazoned with the Soviet emblem _ with a Cuban flag. Almost simultaneously, anti-Cas-tro gunmen fired submachinegun bursts from speeding cars along the Prado, about a block from where Mikoyan and President Os-

where Mikoyan and president vs- ■ Four Permits Issued i Here During January • Four building permits, totalling , $7,065, were issued during Janut ary by city engineer Ralph Roop, , with the proposed addition to the . McConnell building topping the , estimates cost list at $3,500. Sub- , ject to approval by the state fire ! marshal, the permit issued to Richard K. McConnell, of 236 N. 1 Second street, will be for the addi--1 tion of another story on the build* 1 ing. 1 Carl Stuckey, of 114 N. 13th 1 street, will add a $1,500 garage to 1 his property, while Clark Flaugh, > 702 N. Seventh, is enlarging his business establishment. Estimated i costs will be SI,OOO. The First Methodist church expended $1,065 for improving the parking lot at Fifth and Monroe streets as workmen tolled most of the month laying gravel and leveling the area.

of Middletown, R. 1., and three crewmen rescued from the sea by the destroyer-Ralvin Allen Sounders, 26, of Bethlehem,® Pa.; Gary D. Hollingse, 19, of Murray Hill, N. J., and Larry Richard Holland, 19, of Joy, Tex. Most of the men swept overboard were snapping picutres of the huge. Atlantic waves from the first deck above the main deck. Missing Men Identified The missing men were identified as Nicholas Calaluca of Beacon, N. Y-; Robert Carlson of West Haven, Conn.; Charles Ellis of Madison, Ind.; Paul J. Harvey of Lodi, N. J., and Jerral J. Neberz of Crystal Lake, 111The merchant ship Alabama picked up two survivors, David G. Formichella of Summit, N. J., and John J. Buzzi of Barrington, R. I, Buzz! was badly cut. It was particularly tragic finale for the Daly which performed one of the “great life-saving feats of the war in the Pacific. The ship and its crew braved an attack by a force of 120 Japanese planes to rescue 167 survivors from the bombed destroyer Brownson in World War 11.

r t valdo Dortioos were standing ■ about to start the exposition ini auguration ceremonies. There * were no casualties. Shots Scatter Crowd 1 Reports said at least 2U students were arrested, most of them from ! Santo Tomas de Villanueva, a i Catholic university which draws nits attendance mainly from Cuba’s upper classes. loiter, police also reported they . stopped two cars and arrested the . five occupants. The flurry of shots near the > park and the chattering of the ' tommy guns near the exposition building sent passersby scattering for cover. Mikoyan and Dorticos were un- ,' ceremoniously hustled inside the building and a small crowd around i the speakers platform scattered. Mikoyan appeared unruffled when he returned to deliver his speech. Premier Fidel Castro had joined the group by then and the exposition was formally op--1 ened. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy and a little colder today and tonight. Rain or drizzle mostly ending by evening. Sunday considerable cloudiness with little temperatore change. Low tonight upper 20s north to low 30s south. High Sunday mid 30s north to low 40s south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly cloudy with no important temperature changes.

Sen. Kennedy Winds Up Tour Os Indiana TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (UPI' — Sen. John F. Kennedy wound up a campaign whirl through Indiana Friday night by urging steppedup aid to India and blasting James R. Hoffa as “wholly unfit” to head the Teamsters union. Kennedy flew this morning to West Virginia, a state which he said will be “an important bellwether” in his bid for the democratic presidential nomination and filed personally, for the May 10 primary. The Roman Catholic senator said at a press conference he did not believe voters of West Virginia would consider his religion a liability. The Massachusetts Democrat told a crowd of 2.000 at Indiana State Teachers College that the United States should “join with other western nations in a serious long-range program of long-term loans and technical and agricultural assistance to India/ “This aid may enable our friends in India to overtake the challenge of Communist China,” he said. The talk followed by 24 hours Kennedy’s announcement that he would enter the Hoosier presidential preference primary May 3. He earlier «Ftered primaries in New Hampshire. Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maryland and Oregon. . Kennedy fold newsmen that Hoffa should be ousted from the presidency of the Teamsters union and predicted that court-appointed monitors would do just that in the near future. Hoffa opposes Kennedy, the senator said, because he helped draft the Landrum-Griffin labor reform bill.

St. Mary's River Rises To 10 Feet st. Mary’s river rose nearly feet overnight as .81 inches of rain fell on Decatur, according to the report from Louis Landrum, local weather observer. Standing at 10 feet as of 7 aM this morning, the waters climbed to this level from 3.29 feet, recorded on Saturday. Not since Jan. 18th has the river topped the 10foot mark. And that was after about 3 inches Os, rainfall. - The steady ft* of rain will continue to raise the level of the local tributary, but no definite threats of flooding appear likely. . [

| BROOKVIIJ.E. Ind (UPD — A farmer, hi* wife and their 16-year I old son were found dead in their home today and authorities said it was a double murder and wide. The victims were Identified as Letter Gesel. 55. hl* Wife.'Marie, and their son. a sophomore in Springfield Twp High School near here. Dr. Walter Fourman, deputy coroner of Franklin County, said he understood Gesell had been mentally disturbed. Authorities said evidence indicated Gesel) killed hi* wife and son Dale as they slept, then went Into the living room of their home at Whitcomb. 8 miles east of Brookville, and shot himself. A 12-gauge shotgun was described as the murder weapon. Sheriff Melvin Tebbe said a bachelor brother of Gesell was outdoors doing farm chores when he heard the shots, rushed into the house and discovered the tragedy. It was Indiana’s third multiple slaying - suicide this week. The first occurred Tuesday at Hartford City, about 80 miles northwest of Brookville, when a school principal killed two teachers. The second occurred Thursday at Rlkhart when a factory worker killed his parents and a nephew.Miserable Weather Continues In State (kilted Press International A new round of snow, drizzle, mist and rain hung a damp curtain over Indiana today. But it was due to end by this evening. Even if it doesn’t rain Sunday, however, the weatherman held no hope that his earlier prediction of mostly fair conditions would materialize. The latest forecasts called for considerable cloudiness. 7 Snow was reported over the entire northern half of Hoosierland this morning as temperatures dipped around freezing. State Police reported slushy conditions on some highways in the north due to snow mixed with rain. Over the south porton, roads were wet with a few slick spots in the Richmond area. The snow followed daylong rain which dumped. 1.52 inches on Indianapolis, .98 of an inch at Lafayette, .80 at South Bend, .64 at Fort Wayne, and .92 at Evansville. Brisk winds .also..^ accompanied the precipitation, pattern with gusts up to 34 miles per hour recorded. High temperatures Friday ranged upward from 40 at Fort Wayne to 50 at Evansville. Overnight lows ranged from 31 at Lafayette to 40 at Louisville. Today’s highs were expected to range from the mid 30s to the lower 40s, tonight’s lows from the upper 20s to the lower 30s. and Sunday's highs from the mid 30s to the lower 40s. The outlook for Monday was mostly cloudy with no important temperature changes.

Dominica Faces - 1 . . „ - - - , • Revolt Specter

WASHINGTON (UPD —Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo faced the specter of revolt today and his efforts to put it down by mass arrests brought a call for an immediate council meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS). Venezuela asked the OAS council late Friday to hold a special session this weekend or Monday. Venezuela charged Trujillo with “flagrant violations” of human rights. The meeting was expected to be held Monday. Reliable diplomatic sources here said Trujillo was in the deepest trouble at home of his 30year regime. There was no organized rebellion. But Trujillo’s secret police roundup of some 1,500 persons has caused an unprecedented upswelling of public unrest, joined in by some key members of the army, diplomats said. Venezuelan Ambassador Marcos

Court Battle On Red Party | Given Setback WASHINGTON <UPD — Th* Justice Department's long court bottle against the U.S. Cbmmunm Party was set back a notch today by Supreme Court postponement of important constitutional decisions until next term. In a surprise ruling, the court late Friday lumped together three key Communist cases and set them for argument next Oct. 10. Justice Tom C. Clark, attorney general under President Truman, emphatically disagreed with the action. He said two of the cases had been in the courts for years and all three should be decided without further delay. Case Apprised Before The ruling came as a surprise because the high court recessed at its last session Jan. 25 until Feb. 23. Apparently the nine justices met at a special conference to consider the matter. One of the cases, now more than nine years old, would determine whether the Communist Party had to register with the attorney general under the 1950 Internal Security Act. The party appealed the issue to the high court once before. The other two cases, orlginaly scheduled to be argued Feb. 23. challenge the constitutionality of the ’ membership clause” of the 1946 Smith Anti-Communlrt Act. The appeals were brought by Junius Irving -Scales, former party leader in the Carolinas, and John Francis Noto, convicted under the Smith Act in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1956. •Three Cases Overlap The disputed clause makes it a crime to be a member of an organization dedicated to the violent overthrow of the government if the member is aware of his purpose. . The court said Friday the NotoScales cases had legal and constitutional facets which overlapped the Communist Party registration case, and therefore all thiee should be heard together. It said there wasn’t enough time to do that before the end of the current term in June. - 'J- ■ ■ - .. Coffee Dispensing Machine Explodes INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—A coffee dispensing machine exploded Friday in the Wallace Tool & Dye Co. plant, breaking windows and turning the machine into a heap of debris. Plant manager Ralph Rober said it was a stroke of luck that nobody was hurt, since three men normally work nearby.

Falcon Briceno received instructions from his government to ask for an immediate council meeting and promptly made the request to council Chairman Vicente Sanchez Gavito of Mexico. Falcon Briceno said the current wave of arrests and persecution of prominent Dominican personalities culminated what he called “the repeated flagrant violations by the Dominican regime of the most cherished principles of the inter-American system — human rights, freedom and Democracy.” There was no immediate State Department reaction to the Venezuelan request. Some U. S. officials said OAS agreements contain no human rights provisions and any resolution on the Dominican situation i would have to be pegged somehow on clauses relating to threats to the peace or armed aggression.

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