Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 12 May 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII..NO. 113.

U. S. Pilot Killed By Police In Cuba

HAVANA. Cut* <VF!» — An Amrtir.n ptw tmUtlvrly Menu tted u MaMbow Edward Duka. U. Palm Haarh Fl* . today wa» reported ktllwd by Cuban poUt* when be landwi a llaht i»l*«w on the ouUiurU of Havana in an aV tempt to ptek up two man and a Woman The US embawy here Immediately dlepatrhed an inveeUiator to the acene near the town Os jrtmanita*. The report of Dube * unaucceaaful attempt to pluck the three perton* out <4 Cuba was carried by Jtx-al radio station* ' They »ald he landed In the Havana ouUktrt* early thia morning In a small Apache plane with the marking "N 4565’ Cuban poUer oprnrd Hrr <>n tnr plane when it landed and Duke was killed by four bullets, the reports said. The aircraft waa the third American-piloted plane destroyed in Cuba on bomb or pickup missions in the past three nam ths First reports said Duke s plane was sighted in the air by polke patrol car* along the highway between Haracoa and Martel, just west of Havana, and waa pur- * When Duke landed near the town of Jaimanitas to pick up the three persons, the reports said police from the patrol cars opened fire and the pitot waa killed. The three, who were described as "fugitives from revolutionary justice.” apparently were uninincident was expected by diplomatic observers to further weaken Cuban - American rela(Continued on page *l<) Husband Os Former

Decatur Lady Dies Friends in Decatur have received word of the death Tuesday of Willard Rohrer at his home in Detroit. Mich. Mrs. Rohrer is the former Margaret Bell, granddaughter of the late Daniel Sprang, prominent Decatur business man. She and her husband had only recently returned from Florida. Surviving in addition to the wife are a son. John, and three grandchildren. Services were held this afternoon at , the VanValkenberg funeral horn? in Detroit.

Nikita Warns Os War Danger

MOSCOW (UPD-Premier Nikita Khrushchev said in a statement passed today by censors that further American reconnaissance • flights over Russia might lead to an atomic war. He said the pilot of a spy plane downed by Russia would be tried as a spyNewsmen asked him at an impromptu news conference Wednesday what would happen to Francis G. Powers, 30, Albany, Ga., pilot of a U-2 reconnaissance jet shot down May 1 near Sverdlovsk, 1,300 miles inside Russia. i ‘•We shall try him, try him severely as a spy,” Khrushchev said. “You. understand that if such aggressive actions continue this might lead to war,” he said. He said further aggression against the Soviet Union will be met “with atom bombs in the first few minutes.” 0 Such spy flights are “highly dangerous*’ events, he said. There was no official explanation of the delay in releasing Khrushchev’s statements. Many of the quotes held up were directed against Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and his announcement that reconnaissance flights would continue. I Khrushchev said su<*h statements were “the kind that would be made only by a country in a state of war with another country.” “If the United States has not experienced a real war on its territory, has not experienced air raids, and if it wishes to unleash a war, we shall be compelled to fire rockets which will explode on the aggressors’ territory in the very first minutes of war,” Khrushchev said. Herter said American spy flights over Russia were necessary in the interest of preventing a surprise attack and indicated they would be continued in the future. Khrushchev called this “audacious and brazen” "Herter’s statement was a threat to peace,” Khrushchev said. ‘‘ll there are any more such aggressions we shall strike at the aggressor. “If they start a war we will hit them with atom bombs in the tirst few minute's ** Khrushchev made the remarks to newsmen at Gorki Park Wednesday when wreckage of a

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Rejects Secrecy On Summit Conference PARIS UPD — Soviet hvmter Nikita 8 Khrushchev has rejected a French bld to keep moat of the summit talks top secret. Informed sources said today The sources said Khrushchev wrote President Charles de Gaulle last Monday that while some of the summit conversation should be kept secret the Big Four should have the right to tell the press what topics have been discussed and what position* they hiwe taken. Actually, the sources said, de Gaulle’s proposals for secrecy went beyond what the United Slates and Britain considered necessary. DeGaulle. according to the diplomatic sources, proposed that President Eisenhower. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Khrushchev and himself do most of their talking at small meetings at his Elysec alace-rwith no press briefings afterward. The sources said de Gaulle wanted to provide statements to the press only after the bigger and less private meetings to be held at the French Foreign Ministry. Begin Registration For Reading Program Registration has opened at the Decatur public library for the 1960 summer reading program. The theme of this year’s program, fitting an election year, is “Our Presidents.” Registration began Tuesday. and the reading part of the program will begin June 1. Each child will be given a card, and as he reads a book, will place a picture of a president on the card, beginning with the first president. It is hoped that a large number of the readers will fill Aut the complete card. Diplomas will be issued to each child reading ten books during the summer.

plane said to be an American U-2 reconnaissance jet was placed on exhibition along with an alleged confession by the pilot It was at this news conference that Khrushchev indicated President Eisenhower would not be welcomed by the Russian people if he goes through with his proposed June visit to Russia. Only those remarks cleared censorship Wednesday. The Gorki Park exhibit showed an alleged confession by Powers and his "plea of guilty” but observers in Moscow discounted reports he already had been formally charged with espionage by the government. Under Soviet law no formal charges can be placed against Powers until the preliminary investigation is completed. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko said Wednesday the investigation was not over and that the appropriate decision will be taken when it is. Khrushchev said the Soviet Union would take the “aggressive intrusion” of the plane to the United. Nations Security Council. There was no official explanation of why Khrushchev's quotes were held up by the censor. The bulk *of what he said to several hundred newsmen in the exhibition hall was released at once. Many of the quotes delayed by the censor were directed at Herter. “He lifted the paint off his face and showed his imperialistic fangs,” Khrushchev said of Herter’s statement on the U-2 plane. “Herter’s statement says that the Soviet Union should be blamed because it does not give the United States access to its secrets, and the United States needs that access. “And so the President issues instructions to learn those secrets. That is a bandit-like statement. We are not living under US. laws.” » Os Hertef. he said, “Far from feeling guilty and ashamed of aggressive actions, he justifies them and says that this will continue in the future. Only countries which are in a state of war can act in this way“We are not in a state of war with America. These aggressive actions and Herter’s statements are impudence.”

Moscow Radio Assails U.S. Aerial Spying IX»«X>N <UPI> — Mnarow Radio today labeled U* aerial ate ptunagc a* the Herter tfocuinc ' and said It auspretod the United Mate* toon would send an armed nuclear bomber flying over the Aovtot Union. An English language broadcart beamed at North America repeated Premier Nikita S Khrushchev's warning that Russia would retaliate against any nation permitting US plane, to fly over the Soviet Union from Ha base*. "If Washington provoke* a war the consequence* will be disastrous for the whole world wKh the present level of rocketry and nuclear weapons.’’ the broadcast said. Overlook* Ikr's Visit Moscow Radio made no reference to Khrushchev'* off the cuff remarks to reporters in Moscow Wednesday which raised doubts as to whether President Eisenhower's scheduled trip to Russia was still on. Western correspondents Jn Moscow reported they were running into difficulties getting dispatches on this point through censorship, indicating a final official line had not yet been formulated. Moscow newspapers today reported brefly that Khrushchev was present Wednesday at the exhibition of what the Russians said was the wreckage of an American U-2 jet shot down May 1. They said he comprehensively answered’ foreign correspondents’ questions but they did not say what the questions or answers were. . Play Down Remark* (In Washington, officials were inclined to play down the impromptu remarks by Khrushchev, pointing out that formal Kremlin statements had not yet said E•senhower would be unwelcome ! Khrushchev told reporters he would talk to Eisenhower about his Russian trip when the two meet for the summit meeting in Paris next week. Moscow Radio described the Herter doctrine as that whieh "gives the U.S A. the right .to open foreign skies by sending espionage aircraft into the air space of other countries." "Considering everything, the Soviet Union has good reason to suspect that a U.S. bomber carrying nuclear bombs instead of a mere' reconnaissance craft may soon appear over the Soviet Union,” it said. _ '

John D. Rockefeller Dies In Arizona TUCSON. Ariz. (UPD—The body of John D. Rockefeller Jr., a philanthropist who gave nearly half a billion dollars away and still"remained one of the worlds richest men, will be buried in the family plot in New York state His son. Nelson, governor of New York, and Laurance, said thev planned to fly back to New York today to complete funeral arrangements preceding burial at Sleepy Holow Cemeltecy m Tarrytown. His body rested in Arizona Funera Home here. Nelson said his stepmother, Mrs. Martha Baird Allen Rockefeller, took Rockefeller s death very hard- She was in deep mourning, he said. Martha and Rockefeller Jr. married m 1951. three years after the death of his first wife. Health Had Failed Rockefeller, known by many associates as “Mister Junior died at the age of 86 Wednesday of pneumonia and heart Tucson Medical Center. He had been in failing health for some time and entered the hospital retiring man. he devoted his life to his family and 9har ‘ ng his father’s standard oil w ® a ' tl JPhilanthropies by the ler family began his father "JDR Sr.”, but reached their tun abundance when , Ko S k^eU^ Tnil v took over as head ot th® f 2 after his father’s death in 1937. Give 3 Million Dollars By the time of Rockefeller Junior’s death Wednesday, by the family to peoples in the U.S. and many parts of■ th®" w ° r ’ d totaled at least three biUion Pilars. His personal philanthropic donations during . his hfetime amounted to more than 475 million from the time he was a young man exer^ d t . hu Vf^ f in riving away parts of the fam ily fortune to worthwhile causes such as the Rockefeller Foundation The foundation only several hours before his death announced quarterly grants of nearly M.sw,-

Decatur, Indiana, Thunday, May 12, 1960

Eisenhower Plans Visit To Russia Unless Bid Is Withdrawn By Nikita

Pleasant Mills And Berne Teachers Quit Several area achnol* announced new contract offer* to public school tracker* this week Berne teacher* received a >2OO raise. Mis* Jeanette Hahnert. of Decatur, has been hired to teach kindergarten, replacing Mrs Marilyn Yoder, who resigned Mr*. Roderick Uechty. of Berne, will teach English and Spanish in the place of Miss Nancy Wasaon, who taught three year* in Berne Berne teachers resigning include basketball and track coach William Anderson, who also taught history: MLss Ruby Moser, second grade: Keith Sprunger. social studies: and Ralph Clark, industrial art*. An additional teacher for grade one.' grade two, and three high school teachers, are still needed at Berne. Approximately 50 per cent of the teachers at Pleasant Mills have retired or resigned this year; the new staff will be announced shortly. At Portland three new teachers signed contracts, including JerflBeck. Don Oswalt and Mrs Pauline Hunter, the first two Ball State graduates. Leonard Chastain, vo-ag teacher, has resigned to enter the school of veterinary science at Purdue. Mrs. Bernard Beckmann, who is moving from the state, also resigned. -T. ■ • Wl INDIANA WEATHER Mostly sunny and a little warmer this afternoon. Fair and cool tonight with scattered light frost likely. Friday sunny and warmer. Low tonight 32 to 37. High Friday mostly in the 60s. Sunset today 7:49 p.m. Sunrise Friday 5:33 a.m. Outlook for Saturday: Fair and warmer. Lows 39 to 49. Highs 66 to 78.

Charges Move To Sway FPC

WASHINGTON (UPD—A Republican congressman charged today that a gas pipeline company “deliberately and intentionally” sent a former New Deal brain-truster to see three federal power commissioners in an attempt to sway their views on a pending decision.* Rep. John B. Bennett (R-Mich > made the charge, involving the Tennessee Gas Transmission Co and its lawyer, Thomas G. Cor-coran,-'as House influence investigators began a third day of questioning FPC Chairman Jerome K. Kuykendall, one of the three commissioners concerned Kuykendall renewed his denials that the talks with Corcoran, onetime member of the late President Franklin D Roosevelt s “brain trust,” had any effect whatsoever on the commission s decision in the case. Bennett later told newsmen that an explanation last month of the situation by Gardiner Symonds, board chairman of Tennessee Gas, was “one of the most brazen statements I have ever heard of.” Symonds had said he sent .Corcoran to the commissioners to be sure they understood the company’s position in the case. Iteinvolved a subsidiary’s petition for approval of a pipeline to ship gas from Canada to the Midwest. Public hearings had been completed, but the FPC had not yet announced a decision. The FPC approved the pipeline project last fall but deferred settling the question of' rate of return for the subsidiary, Midwestern Gas Transmission Co. Other congressioiial news : School Construction: House Democratic leaders paved the way for early action on a stalled 975-million-dollar school construction bill. Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Tex.) got a commitment from Chairman Howard W. Smith (D-Va.) of the House Rules Com-

Soviet Diplomats Expelled By Swiss

BERN. Switzerland 'UPl>—Two Soviet diplomat* caught spying on, U.S. rocket base* in West Ger-i many and Swiss radar installs- f tions were expelled Vday in what the government called the gravest case of Soviet espionage here since the war. While Switzerland tightened its security measures against Communist diplomats the two Russian spies boarded a Czechoslovak plane with thair families and took off from Zurich for Prague They carried flowers and waved gaily a* they toft. The two embassy secretaries listed on the passenger list as •Modin” and "Frolov” were caught red-handed Tuesday in Zurich while planning to meet a Soviet agent here. The incident stunned a country already confused by and critical of the U.S "spy plane” Incident in Russia. The two Soviet officials’ identity still was being kept a secret by Swiss authorities and the embassy. Swiss security branch officers were tipped off by a confidential source and had followed the diplomats to a secret rendezvous near the central railway station in Zurich, where- the pair hoped to receive Swiss military secrets and information on U.S. rocket bases ji West Germany from a mysterious "third man.” The whereabouts of the third man” — merely Identified in the government announcement as a “Soviet agent"—were still a secret. Police said he had not been arrested. There was speculation in some Swiss newspapers that he was either a Communist turncoat or a Western counter-agent who lured the Russians into a trap.

mittee to hold hearings on the measure next week. Educational TV: The House Rules Committee by a 5-5 tie vote shelved a proposal to authorize 39 million dollars in federal grants for construction of educational television stations. Members said the vote killed the bill for this session of Congress. Grain: Auditors for the General Accounting Office testified that some- warehousemen have made profits up to 265 per cent on each bushel of grain stored under the government’s one-rate payment policy. Sen. Stuart W- Symington (D-Mo>, heading an agriculture subcommittee's investigation of grain storage practices, said it was “incredible” that the Agriculture Department would not adjust its rates to prevent “very high profits” in the surplus program. Drugs: Dr. Harold F Pierce, former director of the Connecticut .Welfare Department, said there is “an urgent need” for federal inspection of all drugs. Dr. Walter Modell of Columbia University Medical College told Senate investigators that different trade names given to the same medicines cause confusion among doctors and “druggists. Lase Bulletins PARIS (UPD — SHAPE headquarters announced tonight that Gen. Lauris Norstad, 53, supreme Allied commander in Europe, has suffered a “very slight coronary occlusioh.” EDWARDS A. F. 8.,' Calif. (UPD—The first cross-country flight of the Xls rocket ship was made today when the pilot flashed .across the desert at an altitude of 75,««» feet.

Peak On Probation In Highway Scandal INDIANAPOLIS <UPI> — Robert A. Peak, a former Milan attorney. was placed on probation today in lieu of a prison sentence for falsely attesting the name of the phantom "Dean Burton" to a deed in the Indiana highway scandals. Special Judge Norman Brennan granted leniency to Peak and gave him a year to pay a >I.OOO fine and cost*. Brennan could have sent Peak to prison., "This man has already suffered punishment by loss of profession and ability to pursue income.” Brennan said. “I cannot in good conscience believe this man can be rehabilitated by prison. The pre-sentence report gives an excellent recommendation.’" Peak was convicted of false attestation of deeds to back lots on the Madison Ave. Expressway at Indianapolis. He was one of seven persons convicted in a series of trials since the highway scandals broke in 1957. Only one of the seven has gone to prison. Prosecutor Phillip Bayt said he intends to take the decision to the Indiana Supreme Court on grounds that Brennan "had no right to suspend sentence.” Bayt said the state had only “two minutes” notice of the decision.

Monmouth Graduate Exercises May 26 Commencement exercises for the 38 seniors of the Monmouth high school will be held at 8 p.m. Thursday. May 26, in the school auditorium. Charles A. Rix. principal, also announced that R. Nelson Snider, principal of Fort Wayne South Side school, and weU known speaker, will deliver the commencement address. The Rev. Emmett Anderson, pastor of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church, will give the invocation and benediction. Baccalaureate services will be held at 8 p. m. Sunday, May 22, in the -7 ’ school auditorium. The Rev. Richard Ludwig, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church in Decatur, will deliver the address, and will be assisted in the service by the Rev. A. A. Fenner, pastor of the Zion Lutheran church at Friedheim. Members of the graduating class are: ‘” xx Elvin Leon Adkins, Daniel Dean Bieberich, Shirley Ann Bieberich, Marlin Arthur Blakey, Margaret Ann Boerger, Eugene Roy Bulmahn. Richard James ’ Bulmahn, Ronald Allen Bulmahn, Larry Wayne-Bultemeier, Rozlyn Ann Bultemeyer, Waldo Lawrence Bultemeier, Joyce Ann Busick, Lonnie Roy Buuck, Marcille Diane Buuck, David Earl Caston, Janet Kay Fuelling, James Allen Fuhrman, Kenneth M. Fuhrmann, Henry Alien Gallmeyer. Mary Anne Gerbers, Kent Leroy Girod, Doris Darlene Hockemeyer, Richard Carl Hockemeyer, Jacqueline Sue Hurst, Patricia Lou Krueckeberg, Lila Ann Kruetzman, Linda Lou Kruetzman, Janeen S. Linker, Winifred Mae Mankey, Jerry Curtis Osborn, Nancy Sharon Rice, Ann Louis Scamon. Ronald Lee Selking. Janet Eileen Shaffer, John Dennis Shields, James Richard Thieme. Maxine E. Thieme, LaVera Witte. ■ —

WASHINGTON (UT*T» — Ptml-I dent EUcnhowcr told • group of I Republican c<»ngrc»»mm today he will not cancel hi* plana to go to i Russia In June unlcM Premier Nikita S Khrushchev withdraw* hl* invitation. The President Mid, however. I that if Khrushchev want* to fc»l-1 low up his highly critical remark* i made in Moscow Wednesday by withdrawing hi* invitation, it will be all right with Eisenhower and I the time can be easily utilized I elsewhere. The President'* comment on Khrushchev'* remarks were made , to 17 GOP congressmen attending , another in a series of White House | breakfasts. The congressmen reported that I ! the President said that Khrush- i chev will have to withdraw his invitation in a face-to-face meet-1 ing at the summit in Paris next week before Eisenhower cancels his plans to go to Moscow . Russian* Impose Censership According to the breakfast guests, two subjects dominated the conversation this morning They were Eisenhower’s continued hopes for some degree of progress toward peace at the summit meeting and the remarks Wednesday of the Soviet premier who told reporters in Moscow he would be “mad" if he asked the Russian people to welcome a man who had sent espionage planes over the Soviet Union Khrushchev’s remarks were made after the President’s stern defense of intelligence tactics as reflected in the American U-2 plane downed by the Russians May 1. Another topic that figured in this morning's talks was Russian censorship which later prevented the transmission off the premier’# full remark. One congressman said this was because the President found H sometimes difficult to understand the Russian people because he never knew when he was getting the whole story on a particular development. Rep. Arch Moore (W.Va.) told reporters about the President's reaction to the Khrushchev remarks and the circumstances involving Eisenhower's scheduled June 10-19 trip to the Soviet Union: “He said the invitation still stands, but if Khrushchev wants to withdraw it, it is all right with him and that the time could be easily utilized elsewhere.” No Details Given Moore said he got the impression that Eisenhower would wait for Khrushchev to raise the question in Paris and that if the Russian leader indicated he did not want Eisenhower to visit Russia, plans for the trip would be cancelled quickly. Asked if the President indicated he might use the. time now set aside for the trip to Russia to expand his stay in the Far East, Moore said the President went into no details except to say he would use the period “elsewhere.” Moore said the President saw no prospect of the summit meeting being called off. Eisenhower was quoted by congressmen as saying “even any little encouragement’’ at the summit “would be a move in the right direction.” Alter the House members left the White House, the President went into his weekly Cabinet meeting. The President told his news conference Wednesday that U.S. reconnaissance flights over Russia were “a distasteful vital necessity” to help this country guard against “another Pearl Harbor” surprise attack. Raises Welcome Question Khrushchev later raised the question of whether Eisenhower would be welcome in Russia. He said he was “horrified” to learn that the President had endorsed aerial spy missions over RussiaThe State Department, meanwhile, prepared to send a note to Russia on the plane incident- It was expected to renew the U.S. demand for an interview with pilot Francis G. Powers, who has been held incommunicado since May 1. .. American officials noted that under the 1933 Litvjnoff Agreement, in which the United States recognized the Soviet Union, both nations said such interviews would be granted “without delay.” ’ ,To See Khrushchev Monday .

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Eitcnhowcr. who lew* Saturday night for the P*ria MirnmM meeting, will *cc Khru*hctwV Monday when they ait down with French President Charles do Gaulle and Briti*h Prime Minister Harold Macmillan In an <4L»rt to reduce East-Wot tension*. Regardless of how rough and tough Khrushchev may get to hto iMiblic statement* between now and M<mday. Eisenhower will go ahead with bi* plan.* to attend the I summits The President would not be a party to any move to upset the i meeting. But once the Big Four i are in *e**ion. Eisenhower ha* I the sort temper that might , well be riled if Khrushchev continue* hi* denunciatory attitude 1 because of the plane episode. Wholesale Firing Os Teachers Told INDIANAPOLIS (UPD — The Indiana State Teachers Association ha* disclosed a wholesale filing of 23 teachers by a consolidated school system to keep them from establishing tenure. Alvin Elbrecht. administrative assistant to Robert H. Wyatt, executive secretary of the ISTA. said that Wyatt will confer next week with officials of Parke County and the Turkey Run Consolidated school system. Elbrecht said that information received at the ISTA office indicates that Turkey Run has lost aU but 17 of its 47 teachers. In addition to the 23 who were dismissed effective with the end of school this spring, other teachers left because they did not want to remain in “an unstable position.” The ISTA explained that under Indiana law, a teacher establishes tenure if she or he works for six years for a school board. This means a. teacher cannot be fired arbitrarily, but must be given a hearing with specific reasons cited before being dismissed. The law does not cover most of the teachers working for a township trustee. Elbrecht noted that because the Turkey Run area had shifted from the township trustee system to the consolidated system five years ago, all teachers, including some who had taught all their careers in Parke County, thus became eligible for tenure for the first time this coming year. Melvin I. Sturgeon, superintendent of the Turkey Run school system, and a four-year employe, said the board voted 4 to 3 for the blanket dismissal of all teachers who had taught in the system for five years. (Continued on page »Hx> Advertising Index Advertiser PaK ® A & P Tea Co., Inc. 3 Burk Elevator Co. 5 Butler Garage, Inc. 5 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 5 Bower Jewelry Store 3, 6 Fred W. Corah, Agent 2A Drive-In Theater 3 B. P. O. Elks 7 Fager Appliances & Sporting Goods ——— -J Gambles Goodyear Service Store —- 8 Goodin’s I. G A. Market 4 Holthouse Furniture Store .... 1A Itch-Me-Not -- J Kiddie Shop “ Lords ——- 4 P. N. Hirsh & Co., Model Dept. Store 2 Masonic ? Model Hatchery 5 Myers Home & Auto Supply — 3A Cecil Melchi Barber Shop —7 J. J. Newberry Co. —- 2A Niblick & Co. 4 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Sutton Jewelry Store 4 Schmitt Market — ® Smith Drug Co. —3, 5, 6 Stewarts Bakery » Shaffer’s Restaurant » Stucky & Co. —- 6 Sudduth Market ——7 Teeple Truck Lines 5 T-4-L — ——s Valparaiso Guild - --~v —■ 12 Pages v..; ” > * • ■ —■