Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 112, Decatur, Adams County, 11 May 1960 — Page 1

01. LVIII. No. 112.

President Eisenhower Defends Intelligence Flights Over Russia

WASHINGTON 'UPD — Pre** dent Euenhower today j'.rrnl)’ de fcnded US. intelligence flights over Russia •« distasteful but essential tn prevent the Soviet Union from Launching a Pearl Harbor against the free world We must guard against surprise attack, he said. Russian secrecy, the President told a crowded news conference, is a major cause of international tension today and the safety of ■the free world depends on the Information necessary to maintain a constant, strong deterrent The President rejected as ridiculous Soviet charges of "provocativa” espionage by the United States. His eyes narrowing and with a touch of anger in his voice, he said that before the Russians accuse the United States of being provocative, they had better look at their own Spy record. Will Go to Paris. Russia He said U.S. intelligence efforts such as the recently down<-d US plane in Russia were a distasteful but vital necessity because nobody wants another Pearl Harbor It is essential, he said, for the United States to have the best possible knowledge of military forces and related preparations around the world, particularly to guard against surprise attack. The President also disclosed he plans to press again for his ‘‘open skies” system of aerial inspection as part of over-all disarmament. Eisenhower toM a crowded news conference, in his first public comment on the U.S. spy plane episode. that be still plaaa. to go to the summit meeting in Pans, he still plans to go to Russia in June and that the plane incident has not changed the basic character of East-West difficulties. Choosing his words with extreme care, the President said there were discrepancies in the Russian story about the plane brought down May 1 more than 1.200 miles inside Russia. Not Pictures of U-2 For one thing, the President said, he did not believe that the American U-2 plane was shot down from a high altitude as claimed by Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev. The President also said that Russian photographs of the plane debris were not pictures of the U.S. craft. During the news conference. Eisenhower also addressed himself to tough remarks in Moscow this morning by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, accusing the United States of “deliberate provocation” in concert with Turkey, Pakistan and Norway. When reporters called his attention to the remarks, Eisenhower immediately brought up the case of the convicted Russian spy in this country, Col. Rudolph vich Abel who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for spy activities in the United States. Brusquely, Eisenhower said that before the Russians accuse the Umted States of being provocative, they had better look at their own recr ordCalls Charges Ridiculous Eisenhower said the United

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! States and her Allies were not i engaged in anything provocative, I but looking only to tbrir own defease* Furthermore. he said 1 sternly, the Russians know this i and their charges of provocation arc ridiculous Gromyko had said in Moscow that "the provocative violation of the territories of other states means playing with fire—one of I toe most dangerous ways of balancing on the brink of war.' Warning that any future flights over Russia will be smashed to i smithereens.” Gromyko also repeated an earlier warning that [U.S. Allies lending their buses for such flights will be rendered J “harmless.” Moscow Radio blared a threat that if spy flights kept on. Russia I would take “more drastic action." perhaps involving “the security of the United States.” Eisenhower knew that his news confetence would be dominated by questions about the plane incident and he decided to face 274 reporters frontally by opening the conference with a four-point statement outlining the reasons behuid American intelligence activities involving Russia Lists U.S. Reasons Eisenhower spoke only from I notes. Copies of his remarks were ■ not made available for immediate quotation. These were his essential points: 1. The need for intelligence activities: He said no one wants another Pearl Harbor and it is essential for the United States to have the be<ft possible knowledge of military forces and related preparation around the world particularly to guard against surprise attack. He said secrecy and suspicion within the .Soviet Union made the intelligence operations of other nations essential as long as Russia follows a fetish of secrecy. 2. The nature of intelligencegathering activities: American efforts in this field, he said, must be secret because they must circumvent the walls of secrecy erected by other countries Chir intelligence operations are divorced from the regular agencies of government, .he said, but operated under broad directives and supervised by responsible officials. 3. How we should view intelligence work: The President said that in essence, intelligence work is a distasteful but vital necessity. In the present day of modern weapons, open societies constituted the only answer and this was the basis for his open skies proposal made at the Geneva Big Four meeting in 1955—t0 assure that no one could launch a surprise attack. 4. We should not be distracted from the real issues of the day: He said the issues went far beyond the propaganda uproar created by Russia over the flight of an unarmed, non-military plane. Eisenhower, in a deadly serious tone, said the more important matters before the world leaders were such things as disarmament, solutions for the problems of Germany and Berlin, and the whole (continued an page six)

Triton Crewmen Welcomed Home

NEW lONDON. Conn. <UPD— With the Start and Stripes ripphng proudly from her conning tower the US. Navy s nuclear submarine Triton returned from a historic undersea voyage around ! the world today — and promptly gave her crewmen's families their second shock in two days. The first was Tuesday's revelation that the 177 underwater Magellan!. "missing” for 85 days, had made history with a 41.500mile submerged circumnavigation of the globe. The second was the beards that crewmen grew during nearly three months in the busy interior of the world's biggest submarine. Most of the crew’s 130 wives and flocks of children in Sunday best crowded onto a Navy dock to join in an emotional welcome (for the U.S. Navy's newest heroes. Hugs and Kisses “He's grown a beard.” gasped I a tvpical wife when the Triton I glided into view. Children by the ■ dozen screamed "Hi. daddy. The crew was lined up at attention on the narrow deck for a ceremonial welcome befitting the great sub but broad smiles broke through the stiff discipline. There was a chill, steady drizzle at this Atlantic naval base and Secretary at the navy William B Franke was an hour late arriving. Bad weather diverted his plane. The crew was a few minutes late getting ashore, too. bv a balky gangplank They broke into a pellmeil dash for hugs and kisses with wives and youngsters. Great Strategic “First After the family welcome the crewmen formed up again for the official ceremonies acknowledging Triton's accomplishment of a great strategic "first” for the U-*. Naw * ~~~ ■ A‘Coast Guard band provided a touch of humor by playing “Over the Bounding Main” as the Triton slid up to her dock Some 500 persons crowded alongside to greet her. All but 47 of the Triton s crew are married and their wives had been without word since the world's largest sub sailed Feb. Not until Capt. Edward L. Beach opened his sealed orders at sea did the crew know their historic mission. Wife “Guesses It “I guessed it,” Mrs. Rebecca Blaede. wife of electronics technician Nathan Blaede, of Clearbrook, Minn., said jubilantly Tuesday night. "We all * allte d about where they might be and I said we hadn’t heard for so long that I bet they were sailing around the world.' The crew was awarded a rrgsidentia Citation today. Beach, who formerly was President Eisenhower’s naval aide, was decorated by his boss at the White House with the Legion of •Merit- Then the skipper was returned in a helicopter to the Triton for the last leg of the voyage to'the big Atlantic sub basehere. Mate Two “Broachings” The Triton stayed submerged except for two “broachings’partial surfacings—once to transfer a critically ill radarman to the cruiser Macon off Uruguay and once off Cadiz, Spain, in a tribute to Magellan who saded from that port on Aug. 10, 1519. Magellan’s voyage took three years and 27 days. Os the five ships that sailed under his command, only one returned to Spain on Sept. 6, 1522. — , Chief Radarman John R. Poole, of Colchester, Conn., who was taken ill during the trip, was returned to the Triton by small boat today so he could come home INDIANA WEATHER ; Mostly cloudy this afternoon and east portion tonight. Partial clearing west tonight. Continued cool. Thursday partly cloudy, not quite so cool. Low tonight 35 to 40. High Thursday 50 to 56. Sunset today 7:48 p. m. Sunrise Thursday 5:34 a. *>- Outlook for Friday: Partly cloudy with moderating temperatures. Lows 33 to 49. Highs 55 to 66.

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with his shipmates. Poole said that four or five days after they were out the caplain told the crew on the loudspeaker that their mission was to sad around the world submerged When Poole was removed from the submarine and returned to the United States he kept the secret successfully even from his own wife. Advertising Index Advertiser Page A & P Tea Co., Inc Stanley Arnold ..-—-2 Beavers Oil Service, Inc 4A Bower Jewelry Store ... 3 Butler Garage. Inc 7 Burk Elevator Co - 7 Budget Loans 4A Boardmans Sewing Machine Shop - 3 Backestoe Cemetery Ass’n —— 2 Cadillac — — 2A Cowens Insurance Agency .—- 6 Decatur Drive-In Theater 3 Ehinger's "Boston Store" —— 3 Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers 2A Gerber's Supermarket — 8 Holthouse Drug Co .—1 6 Holthouse Furniture Store 7 Haflich & Morrissey — 2 Pauline Haugk Real Estate 7 Johnson & Schnepf. Auctioneers 3 A Karl F. Johnson —i— 2 Kroger 1A Kohne Drug Store ----1 William L. Linn ——- 6 Model Hatchery 7 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 7 Smith Drug Co 2A Shaffer’s Restaurant — 2 Schwartz Ford Co., Inc ...-j-.... 7 Teeple Truck Lines 7 Valparaiso Guild 3 \ ■ Al. ... I. ■ I ■■Hl— ■ I ■ ‘ ■■■.!■ pw 12 Pages

U. S. Production Hits Record Level

WASHINGTON (UPD — President Eisenhower disclosed today that unemployment dropped sharply last month and U.S. output hit a record level of more than 500 billion dollars a year. The President announced what he described as good economic news in a voluntary statement to his weekly news conferenceHe said employment rose 1,900 - 000 between mid-March and midApril to a level of 66,200.000. This was the biggest April increase by fas in the post-war period, he said. • During the same period, he said, unemployment dropped more than 500 000. The President said retail sales were up 3 per cent above March and the gross national product passed the half-trillion mark on an annual rate basis for the first time in history. Economic Outlook Good Meanwhile, he said prices have remained reasonably stable with, the cost of living index fluctuating only one-fourth of I per cent in the last six months. All this is proof of the great strength of our free enterprise system, the President said. He added that if Americans continue to act responsibly the economic outlook is very good. The President also: —Said U.S. intelligence efforts such as toe spy plane incident involving Russia are distasteful but vitally necessary to avoid another Pearl Harbor He branded as ridiculous Soviet charges that it was “provocative espionage.” —Expressed disbelief that the America n„U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down from a high altitude as Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev has claimed. —Announced that he still plans to go to the summit meeting in Paris next week and will still go to Russia in June. May Veto Relief Bil —Said he does pot know whether Sen. John S- Kenedy’s victory in the West Virginia Democratic primary will remove the religious

Mrs. Maud Merriman Dies This Morning Mrs Maud Merriman. 79. or 222 Smith Fourth irtroct. died nt 1 45 I o'clock morning nt th<- Adams ‘ county memorial ho«pit.il She ; had been in failing In-Mth for throe month# and critically ill since S’.inday. i 1 A lifelong resident rtf Adams , county. Mrs. Merriman had opcr.l a ted millinery shops in Monroe i and Decatur for 30 years. She was born in Blue Creek ] township June 5. 1880, a daughter iof David and Hannah Wells, and l was married to L. W. Merriman • Aug. 30. 1903. Her husband prei ■ ceded her in death Nov. 3. 1940. 11 Mrs Merriman was a member Jof the F.rst Baptist church, the I Missionary society-of the church. ' and the Pythian Sisters. Surviving arC three sons. Rus--1 ■ sell apd Arthur Merriman of Fort I Wayne, and William Merriman of H Decatur: three daughters. Mrs. ■ Charles 'Goldie) Fetters of Fort ■I Wayne, Mrs. Olive Kreigh of TocI sin. and Mrs. Herman (Frieda' i l | Colchin of Decatur: 21 grandchilI I dren and 22 great-grandchildren.] *! Two stsiers and six brothers are! h deceased. J Funeral services will be conducted.at 1:30 p m. Friday at i the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the First Baptist church, Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiating. Burial will be in the De- ! catur cemetery. Friends may call . at the funeral home after 7 o'clock * f this evening until time of the ser- , vices, !| Late Bulletins ' BERN, Switaerland (UPD—- , Two Soviet embassy officials have been caught spying and ordered expelled from Switaerland. the Swiss government announced today.

-.issue from the-presidential cam- ,■ ] paign. But he feels strongly that 1 it was a very, very bad thing that - the issue was injected into politics ? in the first place. —Strongly implied that he will t .veto the Democratic - sponsored : bill to provide federal relief for > such economically depressed areas as West Virginia. The Pres- - ident called it a pork barrel bill - and saitf genuine aid for depressed > areas has been wrapped in with ■ projects which would greatly in- : Mate-its costs. ■ ~; ~~ ~~r —Expressed strong opposition to , the Democrats’ emergency housi ing bill. Feels the provision of direct federal loans is a very bad ; way to stimulate housing, r —Dismissed as beneath notice a t recent Look magazine article in i which former President Harry S. r Truman accused- Eisenhower of having ‘ ‘snubbed” him on his inaugural day in 1952. Asked if he : had any comment on the article. i>, the President shook his head and - said he just didn’t have time to t discuss such things. Developing Two Satellites t —Said the Russians probably ? will be permitted to witness US. ' underground nuclear tests but only .> hs much as necessary to work out : means of International detection of underground blasts. & —lndicated that the United ; States is pushing as hard as pos- - sibte the development of two milrt tary satellites—the Midas and the ' Samos — designed to, prevent a > space age Pearl Harbor. t A reporter asked the President about his newspaper-reading hab- : its. He asked particularly if the ) President sees and is irritated by i “unfriendly” cartoons, columns i and editorials. The President said he does not > have time to read all that news- > papers say, but that he does try > to study carefully what he called the important sections of the Sunday newspapers which review’ the • events of the week ’ He added that he can’t be both- : ered with reading unfriendly quips. > and cartoons. I

Wllbnr Frirte , Wilbur Petrie Reelected To Head Red Cross Wllbu.- Petrie. Decatur bustoeaaI man, was reelected chairman of ■ the Adams county chapter of the j i American Red Cross in the annual , business meeting at the Decatur I Youth and Community Center ■ Tuesday night. Petrie will begin his second one- j year term July 1. He succeeded! Earl Fuhrman as ohairman last; July 1. Dick Heller, publisher of the, Decatur Daily Democrat, was I named first vice chairman of the| chapter, succeeding Stanley Brenneman, of Berne, who resigned from th? board. Heller served last year as second vice chairman. Neuenschwander Named Claren Neuenschwander, principal of Berne-French high school, was named second vice chairman of the board, succeeding Heller. Neuenschwander has served on the board a number of years. Also reelected were Miss Glennys Roop; Decatur teacher at Northwest school, as secretary, and Richard Macklin, Decatur auto dealer, as treasurer. Mrs. Oelberg Honored Mrs. Wanda Oelberg. chapter executive secretary for the past five years, was honored with a roll of appreciation for her outstanding contribution to the chapter, and a five-year pin, by Miss Selma Bernstein, field representative of the American Red Cross I for this area. Rolls of appreciation were also presented to Silvan Sprunger and Homer Winteregg, co-chairmen of the rurai fund drive, and to the Decatur and Berne Community Funds. In addition, a new 50-star American flag was presented to the chapte- by Miss Bernstein as the first chapter in the 10 counties of the district to reach its fund goal. Three New Directors Elected to three-year terms as directors of the Adams county chapter were Mrs. Flossie Lybarger, of Geneva, Homer Winteregg. of Mpnroe, and Fred Kirsch, of Berne. They replace Delmore Wechter, Carl Braun, and Ray Eichenauer, whose terms expire July 1. Reelected to serve on the board were Gail Grabill, Miss Marie Felber, Claren Neuenschwander, Richard Macklin, Ray Leitz, Mrs. Henry Heimann. Walter J. Stoppenhagen, and Talmadge JCampbell. “ , — - Members of the board whose memberships expire next year are Earl Fuhrman, Mrs. Margaret (Coirtlnueil on page Mrs. Lillie Grim - Is Taken By Death ‘ Mrs. Lillie Grim. 84, former resident of Decatur, .died Tuesday afternoon at the home of her daughter 1 , Mrs. Ralph Hovarter. at Terre Haute. Her -husband. Jacob Grim, died in 1945, and she had made her home with her daughter since that time. Surviving in addition to the daughter are a son. Harry Grim of Forf Wayne, and a sister, Mrs. Leatha Elston of Huntington. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p. m. Saturday at the Zwick funeral home, with burial in the Ray cemetery near Monroe. Friends mav call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. Thursday until time of the services.Late Bulletins MOSCOW (UPD — Premier Nikita Khrushchev said today that the spy mission of the U. S. U-2 jet plane over the Soviet Union has changed his opinion about FJpßsident Elsenhower.

Russia Warns Over Flights

MOSCOW >LTD — Foreign Mlnday that \K>l«U«>n nt limkt tarrt-i lory by foreign planes "iw»ail playing with fire—<*»«■ of the moal dangerous ways of balancing <m. the brink of was.” Gromyko also told a roo-'i ference that the Soviet Union ha»| not decided yet whether •to put • i Francis G. Powers, 30. Albany.l l(la„ pilot of a U.S. U-2 "jet the I Soviet* said they shot down over 1 Sverdlovsk on May 1, on trial for < rpranagc. An investigation is now- under I way and a* soon as It is romplct-, <d "the appropriate decision will' ■ lx* taken,” he said. But Gromyko called the violation of Soviet air space* by Pow l «r»’ plane a ' deliberate provnea-i I lion." and saM Russia bold* Tur-i 'key. Pakistan and Norway guilty as "accomplices.” Show Plane Remnant* He added that any future aerial 1 ! flight* over the Soviet Union will I lx* “smashed to smithereens,” and repeated previous warnings to 1 ■ U. S. Allies about permitting their I territoriei to be used for such I flights. "The Soviet Union will be able to render these bases harmless, • he warned. Gromyko's attack came as the Soviets put on display in Gorky j Park remnants of what they said] was the wreckage of the plane ■ j flown by Powers, along with items I of equipment he was carrying at the time. It followed up a Soviet note delivered to the United States Tuesday protesting .the flight. A Radio Moscow broadcast rattled the Soviet Union's rocket arsenal with a threat thpt if the flights kept on Russia would take

Kennedy Wins West Virginia

CHARLESTON. W.Va. (UPD - Sen. John F. Kennedy hoped today to parlay a big win in the West Virginia primary into the Democratic nomination for president. In the wake of his smashing 60-to-40 per cent win over Sen Hu- : bert H. Humphrey in heavily Protestant West Virginia, the 42-year-old Massachusetts senator said the victory gave his campaign bandwagon “a major Once before, in 1928, a Catholic contender for the presidency won in West Virginia and went on to capture the nomination. But Al Smith’s was only a hairline victory, and in the general election that year he lost the state to Republican Herbert Hoover. Humphrey Quits Race While the religious issue may be raised next fall if Kennedy is nominated, it was considered practically dead as far as the present battle for the Democratic nomination is concerned—"buried in the soil of West Virginia as Kennedy put it. Humphrey, losing for the second straight time to Kennedy in a two man race—and by an even larger margin than in Wisconsin — scratched himself from the presidential sweepstakes. He conceded not long after midnight when ( mounting returns showed that Kennedy was holding a clear 60 per cent lead. The West Virginia primary vote ■■ does not bind the state’s 25-vote delegation to the Democratic National Convention Unpledged del- ( egates were elected separately in ( the same primary. Kennedy'-* victory, in fact, may have greater , impact outside than inside West , Virginia as the returns are read bv Democratic leaders who have , been.queasy about the nomination of a Catholic for the presidency Congratulates Kennedy ■ Humphrey, a Congregationalism congratulated his rival for a significant and clear cut victory, and annowreed he was no longer a candidate for the nomination and said he would seek reelection next fall to the Senate from his home state of Minnesota. The defeat was his second in a two-man contest with the Massachusetts senator, coming five weeks after Kennedy defeated him in the Wisconsin primary. Returns from 1,956 of 2.751 West Virginia precincts gave Kennedy 167.409 votes and Humphrey 107.408. Kennedy thus was polling about 60 per cent of the Democratic total. Kennedy's vote did not appear to have been hurt much by the fact that he is a Catholic in a

I mort dta«tlc actem.' 1 j«rhapa inI vnh mg “tbc accurtty < I the United Stair* o the Sm-tet Union, like anv artfmpetelag country. Ja not going to itand by and lev U»i* kind at ' thing happen agaxa.” Um bnoad<aat said. Ta hr Dreatte Artton •If their American flights over nur territory do not crate. the Soviet Union will breompeUed to lake more drastic negton and U» 'security of the United Mate* will hardly b«-ncfit.” I Today* edition at the Commanirt organ Pravda aualted Sec , retary of State Christian A. Hrrtar for hia declaration that US. ! rcconnaiasanc* Hights will continue until satisfactory arrangei ments for the prevention u< surprise attack can be made The government organ Izvestia charged that U.S. bases in Turkey. Norway and Pakistan are i “being used as active springI boards for armed provocations and diversionary escapades." Izvestia said foreign governments which Join the United States in "aggressive alignments should realize what they are doing.” . Prepare Press Shewing Meanwhile. Soviet airmen were rushing preparations for a press showing at which the wreckage of . the American U-2 reconnaissance plane — and perhaps its pitot—would be put on display. Informix! sources said Russian and foreign newsmen would be invited to Chess Hall in Gorki Park : *— probably later today — to see the wreckage It was not immediately certain whether Francis G. Powers. 30-year-old pitot of the U -2, also would be present. Premier Nikita Khrushchev had indicated earlier, that Powers would appear at a news conference here soon.

state where only 5 per cent of the population shares his religious faith. With incomplete returns reported from 54 of the state’s 55 counties, Kennedy led in 48, some of them with virtually no Cathode population. Os 10 counties listed as having no Catholics, Humphrey led in only three. ..... Kennedy Was underdog Although he had been conceded gains in the final days of the campaign, Kennedy had been the underdog — in part because of the religious issue and in part because supporters of other Democratic presidential possibilities, not in the West Virginia primary, were prepared to vote for Humphrey Kennedy thus could interpret his victory as a triumph over the entire field of Democratic contenders. With obvious reference to advance appraisals suggesting that religious prejudice would hurt him here, Kennedy said in a statement: “Despite all that has been written about the people here, after traveling to every corner j>rthe state and meeting you, 1 had no doubt that you would cast your vote on the basis of the issues and not on any religious prejudices. “West Virginia has tonight given me a major boost toward the Democratic nomination for president.’’ , r , Victory Surprises Kennedy Later at an early morning news conference Kennedy, obviouslj referring to his faith, said "other "issues” than the real ones had been raised but he thought they were buried in the soil of West Virginia. He also asserted that his victory was “a great surprise” to hirh. Only last Saturday, he was saying that he would be lucky to get 40 per cent of the vote. Humphrey had made no extravagant claims but had said that he expected to win. But when the returns began to roll in, Kennedy seized the lead and held it in all types of communities — the coal camps in the south the farm country and the steel-making and chemical-pro-ducing cities in the central and northern areasHumphrey headquarters was glum from the outset. The Minnesota senator did not appear to issue his statement but let it be read by Robert Barrie, his campaign director. “I shall do whatever I can to make sure that the Democratic convention will adopt a liberal ((Continued on page six)

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