Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 109, Decatur, Adams County, 7 May 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 109.

1K? SkM. z ■ 5* TAKING THF. MARRIAGE VOWS—The Archbishop of Canterbury unites Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones in matrimony in Westminster. Abbey. At right: the royal family.

Royal Couple On Caribbean Cruise

LONDON <UPD — The royal yacht RHtannia steamed across the Atlantic today, carrying newlywed Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones on a five to six week dream cruise to a Caribbean "destination unknown " As one of the world's most luxurious yachts headed down-chan-1 nel Friday night at the outset of; the $3.000-a-day honeymoon, shore Nation* signaled the cytpnw ■ "whither bound?" I "Destination unknown — high seas," the Britannia replied, before closing its radio to any but official messages. Planes Watch Yacht Planes of the British Ab Force's costal command soared high above the yacht today, aiding Vice Adm. Peter Dawnay by keeping a radar check on his course —a precaution that will be observed along nearly half of the 4.000-mile route to the Caribbean When the Britannia headed down the Thames River from London Friday, Margaret could be seen on the bridge brushing confetti and rose petals from her husband's shoulders. The newlyweds dined Frida} night in the seclusion of their suite aboard the Britannia. Dawnay postponed the usual formal dinner with the yacht's officers at the Armstrong-Joneses request Given Fantastic Sendoff London . ga Hj ;h « fJhv today* a fantastic sendoff. Early today. the rear guard of an estimated million persons who turned out to cheer the newlyweds could stiU be seen roaming • through streets hung with silken banners and garlands of flowers in honor of the wedding When they return from the honeymoon, Margaret and Arm-strong-Jones will mow f®m the royal quarters they have been o copying - she at Clarence House, he P at Buckingham Palace —to a house sandwiched between a storehouse and a museum at London's Kensington Palace. The house, known as apartment 10,” is the smallest i which anyone as close to the British throne as Margaret has ever lived. :■

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Predicted Tornadoes Fail To Hit Indiana United Press International Hundreds of thousands of Hoosiers lived under tornado alerts I tor hours Friday and early today (but experienced nothing worse I than some noisy storms and heavy rain . It was the most comprehensive alert of the severe weather season this far, with areas involved stretching from the Ohio River to . Lake Michigan. Warm, windy weather set the stage for turbulence which might have erupted into twisters. However, a cold front eventually arrived and sent the mercury scurrying downward to the 40s from one end of the state to the other. ' Southwestern Indiana first came under the severe weather warning system. Then Northwestern Indiana was added, and later North Central areas. Light to moderate rain resulted, with gusty winds and electrical storms. Lafayette recorded LB2 inches of rain. Goshen 1.30. Evansville 1.05, South Bend .47, Indianapolis 41, Fort Wayne and Louisville .31, and Cincinnati 16. The temperature hit a range of 69 at Lafayette to 75 at Evansville Friday afternoon, then plunged more than 30 degrees in some cases to overnight lows ranging from 40 at Lafayette' to 48 at Evansville. Forecasts called for two days of cool, rainless weather. Highs today will range from near 50 to the lower 60s, lows tonight from the low to mid 40s, and highs Sunday in the lower 60s. The outlook for Monday was mostly sum ny and warmer. Light rain or drizzle was reported after dawn today from such points as South Bend and Cincinnati. But rain was epxected to end this morning with cloudiness eventually clearing by tonight and Sunday being rair.

Policy Is Adopted By State Commission The state commission for the reorganization of school corporations adopted the following policy at its May 5 meeting: “It is considered any plan so submitted by a county committee under the provisions of which a township trustee is made a member of the school board of a reorganized school corporation is invalid if the township trustee becomes either by election to that school board office, or, if he becomes such a member ex-officio by virtue of his office of township trustee. “If under such a plan submitted a township trustee may become a member of such school board of a reorganized school corporation by appointment, then the plan submitted must be so prepared that all constitutional & statuatory objections thereto are

Mexico Frees Murderer Os Leon Trotsky

HAVANA. Cuba <UPl'—Jacques Mornard. axMsstn at Communist rebel Icon Trotsky in IMO was believed in danger of axxasslnajtlon fomself today following his I secret release from a Jb vrar I prison term in Mexico City and I deportation to Cuba Mornardg »aid before leaving Mxico City that he waa a Czech national and would go to QrechoSlovakia after a few days in Cuba Mexican authorities believe be la a Spaniard. [ The Mexican Interior Ministry | announced Friday night that MorInard had been fm-d after serving ■1) but four months of his sentence He was put on a plane to (Cuba before the announcement was made. Informed sources said he was I accompanied by two Czechs with i diplomatic passports. He had a Czech passport himself under the 'name of Jacques M. Bmdcrdresched. Cuban airline officials confirmed that the holders of the three Czech passports arrived here, but Mornard immediately went into hiding and could not be traced. , it was generally believed Ln Mexico City that Mornard put his life in danger the moment he left the penitentiary Friday night because he knows too many details of the plot to kill Trotsky, Stalin's bitter enemy, believed to have been directed from Moscow. Mornard murdered Trosky with an alpenstock, a sharp pick used for mountain climbing, after gaining the exiled Soviet leader s friendship and confidence Trotsky, dying from his brutal head wounds, told his guards' "Don't kill him. He must talk. Refused Right Name But Mornard refused even to give authorities his right name during his trial and imprisonment and has remained spent about his mission and who directed itAt the airport before leaving, however, he said he had no fears for his life. His attorney, Edu fl ™® Ceniceros Rios, said Mornardi left extensive notes on his past for a book to tell the “entire story, but he refused to discuss details. With the aid of mysterious funds. Mornard lived the kfe of a VIP prisoner in Mexico City s federal penitentiary. His cell was a tome-like affair with carpeted floor television set, and radio. His mistress, Raquel Mendoza, arrived for frequent visits in an expensive American car.

Fort Wayne Mart 1$ “ Fined For Evasion CHICAGO (UPD—A Fort Wayne. Ind., business executive was fmed 82 000 in Federal Court here Friday on his guilty plea to a charge of individual income tax evasion. Elbert J. Hubbard. Jr., 55, an executive of the American Pulley Co., Fort Wayne, pleaded guilty to evasion of $4,012 in taxes. Federal Judge Walter J. Laßuy said he levied a fine in lieu of a prison sentence because of Hubbard’s poor health. ... Hubbard was charged with evasion of taxes on $11,703 in unreported income from the sale of steel scrap in 1952 and 1953. * Federal authorities said Hubcard was president of the Hubbard Spool Co., Gary, Ind., until he sold it in 1958 to the American Pully Cd. and became executive vice president of the JTort Wayne firm.

Knapp Is Certified Grade C Operator Harry Knapp has been certified as a grade C operator by the Indiana sewage and industrial wastes association. Oral H. Hert, secretary of the certification committee, announced today. Knapp successfully completed a written test and meets all other requirements. The association has recently adopted a program to encourage the voluntary certification of Indiana sewage works operators, and in one year 102 operators have been certified in various degrees. The type of certification depends on the type of plant in which the worker is employed. Late Bulletins - GETTYSBURG, Pa. (UPD— President Eisenhower today announced plans for the United States to resume underground nuclear tests by the end of this year as part of the “non-wea-pon development” of detection systems and peacetime uses of atomic energy.

OWLT BAHT nmwm ADOB COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, May 7, 1960.

Russia Claims American Pilot Alive, Confesses To Being On Spy Mission

Both Parties Hold County Conventions INDIANAPOLIS IUPI> — The biennial Indiana political party < reorganizations began today with] a series of county conventions In all at the state's 92 counties. A total of 4.299 precinct committeemen from each party, plus 4.299 vice committeemen appointed by the committeemen who were elected at the primaries last Tuesday, met in separate Democratic and Republican conventions in, county seat cities this afternooq. In each ease, they will elect a county chairman and vice chairman. The new county chairmen and vice chairmen will meet in congressional district sessions next week to select district officers. Die district chairmen and vice chairmen, who make up the membership of the state committees, will meet later in the week to reorganize on a state level. Die outcome of today's county conventions may have a lot to do with whether there are any changes in the state chairmanships next [ week. Most observers believe, however. that Democratic chairman I Charles E. Skillen and Republican I chairman Edwin W. Beaman will; be re-elected. Republican district meetings will ' be held Tuesday, May 10, at Gary, Winamac, LaPorte, Fort Wayne, Marion, Crawfordsville t Blooming-, ton. Huntingburg. Austin. Rushville and Indianapolis. The state com-: mittee meeting will be held Wed-1 nesday, May 11. Democratic district meetings will be held Wednesday at places yet I to be selected, with the state meet-j ing the following Saturday. a Two Hoosiers Killed In Illinois Accident LAWRENCEVILLE, 111. (UPD— Two Indiana ..meh, UffiEe day night In a head-on collision along U. S. 50 near here. The victims were identified as Gilbert Boberg, 58, Vincennes and Albert Bott, 43. Jeffersonville. A woman believed to be Bott’s widow was injured critically. Mississippi To Lead 1960 Legion Parade INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — Mississippi will lead the American Legion parade for the second straight year at the organization’s annual convention at Miami Beach Oct. 17, the Legion’s national headquarters announced Friday. Leadership in the parade is based on membership as of May 1 compared with a four - year average. Mississippi again was high with 114.53 per cent, the Legion said. —

Wisconsin Lashed By Snows, Rains

United Press International Heavy snows and rains lashed Wisconsin Friday and the state’s rivers responded by rising ominously toward new flood crests • The Wisconsin River was reported out of its banks at Merrill, Portage and Wausau and observers predicted a crest three feet above flood level along the lower Pecatonica. Several highways were reported under water and state police warned of hazardous driving from two inches of- slushy snow on roads. New tornadoes struck near Theodore, Ala., and about 10 miles south of Mobile, Ala., early today, apparently inflicting extensive property damage. The twisters followed cm the heels of tornadoes which wrought death and destruction to a widespread area of the South and Southwest this week. Meanwhile, three midwest states braced for threatened tornadoes which didn’t come. Tornado warnings- went up Friday night tor parts of southern east central and northeast Illinois, southwest tower' Michigan and northwest Indiana. The warning was lifted early to-

79 Candidates For School Graduation

I Hugh J. Andrews, principal of the Decatur high school. today announced the 79 membrrz of the I Senior class who are candidates J f<>r graduation this month. | The 76th annual commencement I exercics will be held in the school ’■auditorium Thursday night. May F 26. at 8 o’clock. U Baccalaureate Services will be hold at 7:30 o’clock Sunday even's Ing, May 22. also in the school 'I auditorium. T Speakers and programs for the | commencement and baccalaureate exercises will be announced at a 'later date. ; The candidates for diplomas are: ~ Donald Aaron Agler, Mary Alice Allwein, Carolyn Sue Amstutz, ' Janice Elaine Aumann, Herbert Nelson Banning. Marie Elizabeth Barlett, Sandra Ann Baumann. Carol Jean Reboot. Barbara Eileen Burk, Kathleen Kay Burkcu I Steven Leroy Butcher, Larrv I Harve Butler, Karen Elaine Call. I David Duane Clark. Elaine Kay i Cochran, Clyde Richard Conrad, I John Allen Cowans, Carolyn Rose 1 Crozier, Jack Diomas Dailey, J. Mansfield DeVoss Rebecca Ellen Dickerson, Helen Jerlene Elliott, Rosfilyn June Flora, Robert WaynejFrauhiger, ’Roger Dean Fuelling. Bonnie Jean Fulton, James Roger Gaunt, 241 Persons Injured In Japanese Blast YOKOSUKA, Japan (UPD— Four warehouses'in an explosives dump on the outskirts of this naval base city blew up with a tre..nwndcras.blast, injuring 241 persons incTudmg a U.S sailor. Police said the explosion at 2:25 a.m. apparently was touched off by a night watchman who is believed to jiave been killed by the blast. So far as was known, the watchman was the only person killed. Most of the injuries were caused by flying glass. Police said eight houses were leveled by the explosion and 29 severely damaged while 74 suffered slight damage to windows and glass doors. An investigation was. ordered to determine whether the missing night watchman. Yosaburo Yamamoto, perished in the blast Yokosuka police reported that Yamamoto’s daughter telephoned them after the explosion and said: “My father _ went out of the

day with only one funnel cloud reported. That lone twister whirled close to Chester, 141.—hut did not touch ground. High winds smashed communications lines in Crawford County, in southern Illinois, and toppled a tree across a highway near Mount Carmel, 111. Four inches of rain drove small creeks from their banks in lowa The artesian well at Elkader, lowa, overflowed for the first time in more than 20 years. Drenching thunderstorms struck Louisiana, scene of some of the spring's worst weather. New Orleans reported 235 inches of rain and Baton Rouge had an even two inches. Temperatures cascaded as much as 25 degrees as cold fronts moved into Wisconsin, eastern lowa and parts of central Texas The U.S. Weather Bureau predicted more showers and thunderstorms today from extreme northern Florida through the eastern Tennessee Valley' into parts of lower Michigan and eastward to southern New England and most of the Atlantic Coast.

I James AlUn Gay, Lois Jean GerI kc. Keith Thomas Griffith*. Elizabeth Ann Haugk. Elaine Heare Lintermoot, Janice May Hcem-1 i str a, Nancy Lee Helm. Ronald Kent Highland. Larry Wayne Hill. I i Carole Jean Hoffman. Julia Holj lopetcr Eicher. Kathryn Mae Hui* ; linger. Bai bars Ann Johnson. Michael Gene Kaehr. Connie K. ' Kiess. Ronald J. Kiess. Vance DeWnvne Krick, Charles Eugene • Krueckebcrg. Francisco John Lopez. Beverly Ann Lambert. CoL : leen Lehman Howell. Delores Kay Longerbone. Jerry Lee McCagg. I Jerry Lohnas Mclntosh. Rebecca I Jane Maddox. Eleanor Louise Miller Carol Elaine Norquest. James David Reidenbach. Diane Renee Rhodes, Diane Margaret Sauer. Dolores Ann Schroeder. Davd | Richard Sheets. Larry Richard Margaret Louise Slusher. Joseph Delynn Smith. Terry L*? Snyder. ; Waldo Lee Snyder, Etta Mae Soiiday, Patricia Ann Sovine. Carolyn Kay Steek, Kay Marie Stoppenhagen, Cassandra Kay Strickler. Terje Wiborg Strom, Jerry Jerome Swygart. Arl^n ' , Ann Thieme. Michael Lee Thieme. Reta Mae Thornton, Bruce Wayne Vos hell, Pamela Rose Walters. Loretta Rose Wass FreelaDee Webster, William Harley Wolfe. Kay Marie Wynn. house saying, ‘I will f' re ntag--37,11)1**.** One police officer told UPI that “we are 99 per cent sure that Yamamoto committed suicide by setting fire to the powder." Police said Yamamoto was neurotic ~and had recently suffered a “nervous disorder.” SGunners Mate 2-c L.A. Green, 25, of Rising Sun, Ind., suffered a., Green is a crewman of the destroyer Chevalier. Hoffa Launches New Political Machine CHICAGO (UPD — Teamsters President James R. Hoffa Friday night launched his union's new political action wing before 12,000 wildly cheering members. “Just as sure as we have organized over 1.600,000 workers, we will have a political machine that will treat the politicians as they treat us.” Hoffa told the giant rally. “We will use whatever funds are necessary to let our political action committee let you know what is happening, and tell you when you are being brainwashed and controlled as robots.” he said. “We -will fight this to the end. Hoffa took the occasion to label the Landrum-Griffith labor reform bill “dishonest and corrupt and Sen. John F. Kennedy (I ?-Mass\) “a man born to the silk, J.he silver and the young a lionaire who tries to kid y° u * A third of the crowd which jammed the International Amphitheater had drifted away before Hoffa finished his mmu e speech- But the rest chanted No. No!” when the labor leadersaicL “Thev would have you believe that vour union is run by racketeers. They would have you believe that Hoffa is controlled by ra The t rally marked the kickoff 'of the Teamsters Volunteers mN* itos, described by union officials as a nationwide move to elect friends of labor to <^ on § ress ?. _ — TVIP is the political educational arm of a drive announced m the April issue of the union m. gazine. The drive aims at encouragement of reglstr^^ Irvoting 1 rvoting among union members. INDIANA WEATHER Clearing and cooler tonight. Sunday fair and cool. Low tonight lower to mid 495. High Sunday lower 60s. Outlook for Monday: Mostly sunny and .. warmer. NOON EDITION

MOSCOW (UPD — Premier Nikita Khrushchev Mid today the pilot ot a US. plane shot down In Soviet territory May 1 is alive and will be put on trial because I he confessed he was on a spy I mission 1.300 miles inside Russia. I Khruahchev said the American | [civilian pilot. Francis C Powers 130. Albany. Ga., confessed he had [left the US- Air Fores* bass* at. Injirlik. Turkey, and was flying' I all the way across the Soviet ■ Union to Norway to spy on Rusaian > defenses. The premier exhibited what k< said were aerial photographs takI i-n by Powers and said the pik>i [was equipped with suicide weapons but refused to use them Other Natfona “Accomplice*” Khrushchev told the Supreme Soviet (parliament! the espionage misrion was “in preparation for war in the future.” He said Turkey. Pakistan and Norway were “proved accomplices" of the United States in a hostile act against the Soviet Union "The Americans have been caught red-handed,” Khrushchev said, “a poor preparation for the summit and for President Eisenhower's visit to the Soviet Union.'’ (There already have been suggestions in Washington that Eisenhower might cancel the proposed June visit.) “I think it will be right to have this flier prosecuted,” Khrushchev told the cheering session of she Supreme Soviet. In other major Soviet developments: President Klimenti Voroshilov, 79, resigned because ot ill health and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev. 54, a Communist Party official Cites Racket Emphasis —Tass announced that Chief Artillery Marshal Midrofan Nedelin was named commander-in-chief of Soviet army rocket forces. Russia announced Friday rocket troops have become the main branch of the armed forces. Khrushchev exhibited photographs of Soviet military installations including airfields he said bad been talMu by Powers and said Wd bees instructed to commit suicide if shot down but had not carried out his orders. Khrushchev told parliament that Powers was “alive and "kicking and said he had admitted under questioning that he had been sent into Russia in a Lockheed U 2 high level reconnaissance plane to spy on Soviet defenses. Khrushchev said the pilot carried comprehensive details of a flying mission across the -whole Soviet Union from central Asia to the Polish border. Parachutes near Sverdlovsk “The man bailed out and once on his feet, he did not follow his instructions to commit suicide, so he is still alive,” Khrushchev said. He said the pilot bailed out near Sverdlovsk. This is in the eastern foothills of the central Urals, 850 miles east of Moscow and more than 1,300 air miles from the

Ike Planning Russia Visit

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi-r dent Eisenhower still has every J intention of making his June visit 1 to Russia despite increased ten- ' sion caused by the shooting down p of a US., weather pane over Sb-1 viet Armenia. That was the word today from 1 high American officials They ac- ’ knowledged, however, that a bad East-West blow-up at' the Big Four summit conference begin- t ning May 16 in Paris could alter 1 the picture. B The President and Soviet Pre- * mier Nikita Khrushchev appeared to pe engaged in a bit of pre- J summit nerve warfare. But offi- < cials were quick to- point out that 1 neither had ma'de any basic t change in fundamental positions i on major issuesAppeared Carefully Calculated < Eisenhower touched off a round I of speculation that he might cancel the long-planned Russian trip;: when he tossed off an “if I go” i < remark in a conversation Friday s with AFUCIO President George t Meany. . . . * The remark appeared to be a i carefully calculated thrust to put J

Sis Cents

;Turkish border it was the third con.wcutivc day of anti • American statements in the Supreme Soviet as Ruaaui pr» - tun'd for the summit cxmfrrinco in Paris May 16. Khru*bcbcv began things by announcing Thursday that the UniU-d States deliberately sent a plane into Russia to hurt the summit conference and that the Russians shot it down. The United States* egplanntton ' for the lM»rdrr crossing was that the pilot may have had an oxygen failure and gone off course ifter losing cnnaoouaneaa Foreign Minister Andrei Gromy;ko Friday rejected the U.S. veri ston <>f the incident as “nonsense.” Moscow has talked of little else since Khrushchev broke the news lof the plane. The army newspaper Red Star today said the American plane got 'exactly what it deserved. Coml mentator A. Leontyev added that the United States’ reaction, of "hurt innocence” was similar to the attitude taken by bandits after their apprehension. Moscow Radio broadcast a report from Pravda’s Jfew York correspondent. describing the “vast impresston’’ the Incident made on Americans. He said the first reaction of the American press could be summed up in one word—"con fusion." (In Pans, diplomatic observers wandered how much good the summit meeting could accomplish in light of the new East-West tension nine days before its start. VDiplomMie sources said there was a possibility that the United States would pull out of the talks if the Russians try to make a major issue of the plane incident in the United Nations Security Council.) Butler To Resign After Convention ATLANTA <UPI» — Democratic national chairman Paul Butler said last night that he will resign after the national convention in July. - >. • Butter; whose outspoken conaments have stirred controversy in his own party, said his action will "make some Democrats happy.” Robs Supermarket, Escapes With $1,500 SULLIVAN, Ind.’(UPD —A gunman wearing a faded red jacket and a baseball cap held up a supermarket here Friday night and escaped with about $1,500 in cash. Police said the man, armed with a .32-caliber revolver, walked into the Falconbury IGA store, obtained „ the money at gunpoint and fled. A short time later, a car was found abandoned in a ditch about one mile south of here. In it, officers found a gun and a jacket which matched the description of the one worn by the, bandit.

.■■ .. —A , — — Khrushchev on notice that he was running a risk of Eisenhower cancelling out if he pushed his antiAmerican tirades any further. Passing the hull of a pleasure boat at an exhibit of union-made products, Eisenhower said to Meany : Lets Remark Stand “That reminds me .1 am taking to Khrushchev —if I go—a new boat that has no propeller—A jet operation that just pushes water >and air thrugh the boat.” After news bulletins of the President’s remark were flashed around the world. White House Press Secretary Jame C. Hagerty let them stand. He declined to put any interpretation on the President's statement. Eisenhower was aware he was surrounded by newsmen when he spoke. Khrushchev lashed out bitterly at the United States Thursday in one port>n of his speech to the Supreme Soviet, after claiming that the Soviet Union had spot down a U.S. plane which allegedly violated the air space of Russian Armenia.