Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 85, Decatur, Adams County, 9 April 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 15.

South Africa’s Premier Seriously Wounded In Assassination Attempt

By HENRI SCHOVP I nM Pre«» InUmaUonoJ JOHANNESBURG, South Africa <UPD — Prune Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd of South Africa was shot and seriously wounded in ao assassination attempt today The SA-year-old premier was shot in the cheek. He was still alive when taken to the hospital. Verwoerd was the mam speaker al the opening of the annual trade fair. He was standing on the platform when the shot rang out. His bodyguard. Col. Carl Richter also was hit by a bullet He was reported to have been shot In the right eye. A white man. reported to be a farmer from Pietersburg in the Eastern Transvaal, was arrested. The man was identified as David Patt. Verwoerd was taken to the Johannesburg General Hospital where his condition was described as serious. Verwoerd was regarded as the main mover of South Africa’s white supremacy policy The assassination attempt came at the opening of the Rand Industrial Exhibition, part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Union of South Africa, at Milner Park show grounds The prime minister was sitting in the distinguished visitors section when a man approached him. Verwoerd turned around to took and the man pulled out a .32 caliber pistol and fired, shouting- “ God help me." Verwoerd slumped in his seat, blood streaming down the right side of his face. The attacker whirled around, aimed again at Verwoerd and fired again. The bullet missed the prime minister and hit his bodyprime minister’s wife, who whs at his side, stood transfixed for a moment and then collapsed. She also was taken to frhe hospital. Verwoerd had been expected to provide a clue to his government’s future policy in the racial crisis during his address. Unofficial reports from the hospital said Verwoerd underwent an emergency operation I. Sources said no attempt was made to prevent the assailant from approaching the prime minister because the man wore a committee membership badge of an agricultural society. The South African government had imposed stringent measures to crush a nationwide protest by natives against its apartheid pollfV. -

Midwest Flood Threats Eased

United Press International Flood threats ebbed on the Missippi and Missouri rivers today, but the rising Flint River periled a tiny Georgia town. / Ogdensburg, N.Y., officials said they had prevented a critical flood threat there. ] The Mississippi and Missouri were still well above flood stage, but crests were contained by giant levees protecting river towns. Little further damage was expected except to low-lying farm lands. More than a third of Newton, Ga., was submerged by the Flint River, which was expected to crest at 11 feet above flood stage today. Not Yet Critical Newton Fire Chief Frank Jones said the river had cut off all but one highway out of town and had forced five families from thenhomes. But the situation there was not yet critical, Jones said. Ogdensburg city engineers said more than 100 city employes apparently won their two-day fight to keep the swollen Oswegatchie River within its channel High water pressure on the Oswagatchie earlier threatened to burst a dam and flood most of Ogdensburg. Midwestern rivers slowly receded from hard-hit areas in Missouri, Illinois, lowa, Nebraska. Kansas and the Dakotas. The Kansas City Weather Bureau said the Missouri would fall

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

A government dragnet swept up a North American newspaperman -Norman Phillipa, toretgn editor of the Toronto Star, who **•» arrested on undisclosed charges in Durban today. Long Construction Strike Is Settled INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — An agreement Friday between the International Union of Operating Engineers and members of the Building Contractors Assn, of Indianapolis ended a strike which had halted millions of dollars worth of construction projects since October. The two-year agreement covers work in Marion. Delaware. Fayette. Hamilton, Hancock, Henry. Johnson. Madison, Randolph. Rush. Shelby, Union and Wayne Counties. » It did not cover a strike against contractors in 20 other Indiana counties or strikes against the North Central Indiana Contractors Assn, and the Associated Contractors of Fort Wayne. Marshall D. Abrams, executive secretary of the Indianapolis contractors’ association, said work on most major in the counties covered in the Agreement had been resumed before the signing of the agreement with Local 103. Gorge G. Bahre, president of the association, said agreement came after "both sides made concessions in order to reach an acceptable compromise.” The agreement included wage increases ranging from 5 to 18 cents an hour, but overtime pay was cut, Bahre said. The strike had halted about 300 million dollars worth of construction in the 13 Indiana counties. The strike against contractors in 20 other counties covers projects valued at an estimated 200 million dollars. Third Os Census Is Reported Complete WASHINGTON (UPD — A Census Bureau spokesman said Friday that about one out of every three Americans has been counted in the 1960 survey of population and housing. He said 58,782,000 persons have been counted.

slowly from below Omaha to Jefferson City, Mo., in the next three days. But about 200 persons were homeless near Cairo, on southern Illinois, where the Mississippi swept over thousands of acres of bottomland. As the flood situations eased, stricken residents faced a mammoth clean-up job. Declare Disaster Areas President Eisenhower declared parts of South Dakota a major disaster area eligible for federal relief and Small Business Administration labeled Lake and McHenry counties. 111-, as disaster areas. . Hundreds of northern Illinois homes—some of -them worth $40,000—were flooded at the height of the Fox River rampage early this Sen. Paul Douglas (D-Hl.) said federal investigators are studying the possibility of declaring the Quincy, ill., area a disaster area.. The Mississippi broke through two lerees near Quincy and flooded 30,000 acres and 125 homes. Meanwhile, winter bit into the Midwest again, with freezing temperatures as far south as northern Illinois and Indiana. The Weather Bureau said the cold air would move southward and eastward today, sending snow flurries flying from the Great Lakes to New Englan and the middle Atlantic states.

Weather Satellite May Spot Storms

WASHINGTON (UPD—Weather experts said today that Tiros I already had proved the feasibility of hurricane - warning satellites. The hurricane season normally doesn't open until August and the batteries to power Tiros I s television cameras and other equipment were not expected to las much beyond the end of June. But if the eye-in-the-sky satellite had been launched during the season of the big tropical wind storms, it almost certainly would have spotted hurricanes in the making, experts told United Press International. The National Aeronautics & Space Administration <NASA> refused to discuss Tiros I’s contributions to weather science in a report Friday on the Satellite's first week of life. Officials said it was too early to say anything about the Former College President Is Found Slain

WASHINGTON (UPI) — A jailed ex-circus hand showed no concern today over the first degree murder charge accusing him of killing a former college president who was found nude, beaten and dying in a $4-a-day hotel room. Bobbie Richard Van Over, 21, a strapping six-footer, was held without bond, charged with strangling David B. Owen, manager of the Santa Cruz, Calif., Chamber of Commerce and onetime president of Bradley University at Peoria, 111. Owen, 51. who came here this week to appear before a congressional committee, was found Thursday lying naked beside a bed in the Alton Hotel. His face was bludgeoned ■ almost beyond recognition. A hotel clerk found ffie“bW“"aftCT going”fo mvesti ' gate a struggle that “sounded like a madman was in there.” Admits Beating Robbery Van Over, who police said admitted beating and robbing Owen, was formally charged before District Judge Milton Kronheim Jr. Friday night. He made no answer to the charge. Another hearing was scheduled for today because the Tampa, Fla., man had no lawyer Friday night. The former circus worker, dressed in a T-shirt and windbreaker, repeatedly glanced down at a huge ring on his left hand during the proceeding before Kronheim. Police said he appeared “completely unconcerned” about his arrest. Police later took into custody Darline Van Over, described as the accused man’s wife. She was held as a material witness. Owen’s wife Helen planned to fly here from California. The couple had no children. Met In Run-Down Restaurant Deputy Police Chief E. E. Scott quoted Van Over as saying Owen met him in a run-down restaurant in the downtown section and gave him money to rent the hotel room where the two men met later. Room clerk Joel Fodiman could describe only as a bushy-haired man the person who registered for the room and left the hotel shortly after the crime. Va£ ' Over’s name on the hotel register ' was illegible. Police said a patron who overheard Van Over doing some “loose talking” in a Washington bar tipped officers. When police appeared, Van Over fled and was captured in the lobby of a nearby office building.

ORLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 9, 1960.

weather eye's meteorological usefulness. But weathermen were not so reticent. One said the pictures sent back by Tiros proved that satellites could save jives and cut property losses as long-distance hurricane trackers. Areas would be given advance warning to brace for a storm. One meteorolqgist said the two television cameras aboard Tiros I easily could spot a storm the size of a hurrican.e He predicted that if the next weather satellite. Tiros 11. was launched in time, it would serve as a sort of life-guard-in-the-sky during the 1960 hurricane season. One weather expert said “the most exciting picture” yet dispatched by Tiros I to the Ft. Monmouth, N. J. tracking station showed a cyclonic storm off the Irish coast. Fake Bomb Scare At DePauw University I GREENCASTLE, Ind. (UPD — pePauw University students bad a brief holiday from classes Friday while campus police investigated what later proved to- be a fake bomb scare. Word that a bomb was planted in East College, one of the oldest buildings on campus, was received by a telephone switchboard operator.

Brink’s Man Flees With 830,000 Cash

CHICAGO (UPD — For 27 years, William Johnson helped Brink’s Inc., carry millions and millions of dollars. He never lost or stole a penny. Brink’s officials here considered Johnson, 57, one of their most trustworthy armored car driversHe neve gambled. He seldom drank. He and his wife, Estelle, always made ends meet on his $5,500 yearly salary. Something snapped Friday in the mind of quiet-living, scrupulously honest William Johnson. He parked his armoed car in front of a Chicago currency exchange and watched a. guard and money messenger deliver cash inside. Left Tools of Trade Then he left his keys, uniform cap, company coat and badge, revolver, holster, Sam Browne belt and extra ammunition in_.a m neat pile in the truck cab. On a piece of paper Johnson scribbled 1 “I’m going out on a good drunk. The mess has got me insane and ready to kill myThen he picked up a money bag containing $30,000 from the back of the truck, carefully locked all the doors and wandered off. Even in his toss to temptation, Johnson wasn’t greedy. He left

ejCenten (By Rev. C. E. Lykins, Decatur Church of the Nazarene) — “THE SIGNATURE” k The first twenty verses of the tenth chapter of Luke give us Nhe record of Jesus sending out the seventy who should see miracles/wrought in His name. Their joyful report in verse seven—Tethi'was, “Even the devils are subject unto us through Thy name —to/verse twenty His exhortation was that their greatest joy should be because their names were written in Heaven. . , . The name of Christ carries authority. Six times in chapters c fourteen, fifteen and sixteen of John’s gospel He promises to answer prayer when we ask in His name. Therefore the Bible becomes a book of blank checks, authorized, signed, and made available to all who are willing to sign away our own lives in unreserved -service to Him and to our feHow men. If we will - “sign on the dotted line,” we may rest assured that our names will be among those registered in the record books of the skies.

One Man Killed In Crash Near Bryanl PORTI.AND. Ind. <UPD —David L. Martin. 31. Marion, was killed and three other men were injured early today when their car turned end • over - end in Ind. 18 and flipped them out on a curve. Police said the accident occurred as the car passed another and swerved out of control The driver, Billy D. Horn. 27. Marion, was severely hurt and two other passengers emerged with less serious injuries. State police from the Redkey post said the fatal crash, the first reported for the weekend in Indiana. occurred 7 miles west of Bryant. Horn. Lewis H. Ball. 26. Marion. and Hugh V. Hecox. 27, Swayzee. were taken to Jay County Hospital at Portland. Five Permits Are Granted In March Five permits were granted by city engineer Ralph Roop to Decatur residents (or improvements to their homes, garages, or businesses during March for a total of $3,800. The Rev. Lawrence Norris is expending $1,500 to convett a garage into an apartment, while Paul Hilyard, of 1339 Master Drive, is adding to his house for an estimated $1,200. Herman Dierkes, of 343 N. 13th street, installed a sign at no cost, and Joe Corral, Jr., of 846 N. 12th street, also added a sign at no cost. Robert H. Krueckeberg, of 403 Bollman street, is building a garage for $l,lOO.

another $250,000 behind in the ] truck. ' Found In Tavern ( Brink’s officials found Johnson two hours later in a tavern near ( his home. On a barstool beside , him sat a new bag containing * the $30,000 — minus S6O for a < new jacket, a gray hat and four ’ rounds of “drinks for the house ” “We knew here he was likely to go, so our supervisor went ' out there and there he was,” Brink’s local manager Parker 1 Jones said. “I think you could ' classify him as sober.” ' “I'm a sick man,” Johnson I said. “I feel sick all over.” s “Just Fed UP” Johnson could only explain: ■ “I was just fed up. I just de- I cided to take off. I didn’t need ( the money I haven’t any bank account, but I don’t owe anybody, either.” The the gentle armored car ’ driver began to weep. “There t goss everything,” he sobbed. “My 1 job, my pay. my pension. Every- ' thing is gone.” 1 Police —capt. Frank Pape. ~i known as the toughest cop in < Chicago,” turned to reporters listening to Johnson's stor and growled: “Some people may think this is a funny story. It isn’t. It’s a tragedy.” i .

Month-Long Movie Strike Is Settled HOIXYWOOD <UPI> — fown*> hrrntnm gan ■tirrint trntn tbrlr U-i-airr today to mark a typical Hollywood hnppv ending to the pclnra* strike that crippled film firoductkm nt ma>>r utudtoa tor a month. The glamor-lxtoned star* geared themaelvm to resume movie making at moat studios Monday following Frxtov’i settlement on the first actors’ walkout in Hollywood’s turbulent history From aspiring starlets to firmly Implanted idols, jubilation greeted the compromise agreement that win not give the actors their desired royalties from postIfMH films sold to televirion but will supply them with huge chunks of cash tor their pension fund and other lush benefits. In usual zany Hollywood style, the settlement was announced 4H hours after it was actually reached by the Screen Actors Guild and Association of Motion Picture Producers < AMPPL Producer Jerry Wald told United Press International Thursday he bad been advised by 20th Century Fox officials he could resume work Friday on s Make Love.” starring Marilyn Monroe and French star Yves Montand. , .. , Spokesmen for other studios also confirmed they had received telegrams from Eric Johnston, AMPP head, the strike had ended Wednesday night. Meetings were held Friday and Thursday to draw up formal contracts. Guild Executive Secretary John L. Dales said a mass actors’ meeting would be held at the Hollywood Palladium April 18 to ratify the agreement Both the actors and producers groups were expected to approve the contract with little difficulty.

Mrs. Lase Grimm Dies Friday Night

Mrs. Mary Rosemond Grimm, 42, wife of Lase Grimm, of Eiting Acres, west of ,Deqa,tur, died at 8:05 . o’clock Friday evening at the Ad amg county piemoriai hospital. She nad been ilrfor the past three years and hospitalized for nine weeks. She was bom in Wren, 0., April 27. 1917, a daughter of Milton and Edna Maude Shelley-Hart, and was married to Lase Grimm Sept. 9. 1936. She graduated from the Decatur high school in 1936. Mrs. Grimm was a member of the First Baptist church and the missionary society of the church. Surviving in addition to her husband are a son, Thomas K. Grimm of Decatur: one daughter, Mrs. Norman (Jane) Hart of Decatur: three brothers, Gilmore Hart of Columbus. 0., Harvey Hart of Fort Wayne, and Clifton Hart of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Hugh (Hope) Moyer of Decatur. Two sisters and one brother are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the residence and at 2 p. m. at the First Baptist church, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell and the Rev. Gerald Gerig officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the Zwiek funeral home after 7 p. m. today until 12 noon Sunday. The body will be taken to the residence, where friends may call after 2 p m. Sunday until time of the services. Rotarians Present Gift To New Club At the installation of a new Rotary club Thursday in Chesterton. Clarence Ziner of the Decatur Rotarians presented the new group with 25 song books. The books were a gift from the local club. Mrs. Ziner also attended the NOON EDITION

kOwWs ® ;. ’ SWW K ’ ;. -T ■ .-» vd Wk W B* JFrBI S ■ iilhiimMMW^iii^r\-TWw' : THAT MAD IRRESTIBLE URGE — Small boy vents his small fury on a large rubber container in New York's Museum of Modern Art. It was part of “artistic packaging” exhibit.

Senate Passes Civil Rights

WASHINGTON (UPD — The Senate beat down final stubborn southern resistance Friday night s»nd approved a civil rights bill designed chiefly to safeguard Negro voting rights. The 71 to 18 vote capped eight wwks at debate which at <»ne point went on 24-h<H»r»-a-day tor more than a week, except for Sunday. All votes against the measure wm cast by wakhernera who fought the bill to end With oratory and parliamentary delaying tactics. The measure is similar but not identical to the civil rights legislation approved by the House on March 24. I House leaders said today their members would accept the Senate changes and send the bill to President Eisenhower to be signed into law. They were shooting tor a vote a week or so after Easter. Only Chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Va.l of the House Rules Committee stood in the way of speedy House action. The Rules Committee controls the flow of legislation to the chamber However, there were indicatirais that Smith, a civil rights foe. would not bo able to stall the bill for long The main problem will be to get the Virginian to call a committee meeting to consider the legislation. It was understood that House leaders were counting on Republican committee members voting with wiough northern Democrats to send the bill to the floor once the group takes up the measure. Bills Authorise Referees The key section of both the Senate and House would authorize federal courts to appoint referees to register Negroes tn vote in areas where voting dlscimmation was found to exist. The bills also would crack down on hate bombers and give the courts a new weapon against persons trying to interfere with school integration. The chief difference between the Senate and House versions was that the, HouSe bill would impose federal penalties only for obstructing court orders on school integration. The Senate measure would apply to defiance of all court orders. There were a number of minor differences.

Deadlocked On Disarmament

GENEVA (UPD -r- Western diplomats said today there appeared to be little chance of breaking .the East-West deadlock on disarmament before next month's summit conference. Western sources said the 10nation conference may begin a four-to - five-week recess at the end of this month, resuming its sessions after the top-level meeting that opens in Paris May 16. (In Washington Friday, U- S. Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told a news conference that the Russians had suggested such a recess.) Soviet delegate Valerian Zorin Friday ended any remaining hopes of early agreement here. He called on the West to join the Russians in a “solemn pledge” not to be the first to use nuclear weapons. He also suggested agreement on a series of “principles of disarmament.” Western spokesmen said there was nothing new in the Soviet “principles” One Western delegate described them as “the same old baloney, newly sliced.” Westen experts regarded Zorin’s proposals as nothing more than_a L _.warm«feoyer of Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s “unrealistic” four-year plan for disarmament, containing none of the safeguards against cheating

Six Cents

Slate Remains On Edge Os Winter United Press »mrrnatto*.il Snow showers fell in *>'«<■ arena today and gusty winds bhw sub-freezing temperatures k<i< Indiana on the edge of winter. Flu rries were rrcordi'd even in the south portion of the state and wind guests up to 52 miles per hour signaled the arrival of a cold front that aent the mercury shuddering below froyzing from Lake Michigan to the Ohio River. A chilly weekend was in store, but the outlook for Monday jyaS ••mostly fair and warmer."/ Temperatures were expected to crest today between a near-freez-ing 37 in the north and a cool 54 in the far aouth. Ix>ws tonight will range from 23 to 34 and highs Sunday from 48 to 58. Highs Friday ranges! from 42 nt South Bend to 64 at Evensville and Louisville. Then the temperature dipped early this morning to 25 at Fort Wayne, 26 at Lafayette. 27 at South Bend. 30 at Indianapolis and Evansville, and 31 at Louisville. Ralph Henry Dies In Wells County Home Ralph B. Henry, 82. farmer and cattle breeder in Wells county for 42 years, died at 6:15 p.m. Friday at his Lancaster township horn* following a cerebral hemorrhage. Surviving are his wife. Elizabeth; two daughters, Mrs. Robert Ayers and Mrs Max Kidd; a sister and three grandchildren. .Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at the Thoma funeral home in Bluffton, with burial in Elm Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cool tonight. Sunday mostly fafr and a little warmer. Low tonight 23 to 29 north. 27 to 34 south. High Sunday 48 to 53 north. 50 to 58 south. Outlook for Monday: Mostly- fair and warmer.

on which the West insists. “Never mind about your principles.” U. S. delegate Fredrick M. Eaton told Zorin. “Tell me about your practices.” Advertising Index Advertiser Page Adams Theatre 3 Bower Jewelry Store «- 3 Burk Elevator Co 5 Butler Garage 5 Citizens Telephone Co 6 Colchin’s Lawn Rolling 5 Decatur Ready-Mix, Corp 6 John L. DeVoss, Attorney-at-Law 4 First State Bank of Decatur 4 Fairway ———- 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home 3 Green Belt Chemical-Co — 6 Holthouse Furniture Store 5 Kent Realty & Auction Co 5 Klenks -- - « Pike Lumber Co 5 Rash Insurance Agency 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Ine 5 Smith Drug Co _— 3, 5 Shaffer’s Restaurant 3 Dr. Ray Stingely 5 Sam’s Big Beat — —— 3 Mel Tinkham Agency 4 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc 6 Zwick Funeral Home 4 Church Page Sponsors — 2