Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 143, Decatur, Adams County, 17 June 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 14).

Red China’s Guns Rake Nationalist Islands As Protest To Visit By ike

AIKMRD USS YORKTOWN • UPI I —-CommuniM Chine tc rfiore batteries raked the Natawwiterthcld offshore Islands with ''thuu»•rxfr of gun>“ tonigjht in an angry demontaratinn against Rrcsidvnt Eisenhower’« visit to F\» mo* a Sahirxtay The Preaident wo* tailing through the South Chine Sea aboard the Cruuer USS St Paul when the Communist New China Nows Agency and Peiping Radio broadcast their bristling announcements. The powerful .atomic - capable US. *h Fleet formed a vnst air and sea shield around the President’s vessel to guard against any ponibie attack by Red submarines or planes His course was to take bun to within 150 miles of the Communist-held mainland coast ~ _ An NCNA broadcast said Communist shore batteries on the Futaen coast ot eastern China shaded the Qu emo y, Ta tan and Ehrtan intends as a ‘ show of strength” against the President s visit. _ Thousands of Guns "Thousands of guns roared the instant the order was issued and innumerable flashes cut through the dark sky over the Taiwan (Formosa) Straits.” the NCNA broadcast said, and a “furious rain of shells poured down on the Quemoy islands.” • These are the cluster of Nationalist defense bastions which lie about four miles off the Redruled port of Amoy. The Talan and Ehrtan isles are nearby The Nationalist Chinese defense ministry in Taipei said the Communist barrage tested for an hour and 50 minutes. ’ A defense ministry spokesman said the Nationalists did not return the lire. The Communists bad preceded their heavy bombardment with broadcast announcements that they planned to hit the Quemoys tonight and Sunday in a “great demonstration of arms” as a sign of their “contempt and scorn” for President Eisenhower. The Communist announcements also contained a lengthy denunciation of the United States and its free world allies. “God of Plague” President Eisenhower, they said, “surely has bad intentions" on his Far Eastern trip. They attacked him as the “god of plague.” and said he had been declared unwelcome in Japan. a reference to the cancellation of his planned visit there SundayThe Red Broadcasts said the soldiers who manned the guns

Jap Leftists Fight Treaty

TOKYO (UPD-Premier Nobusuke Kishi’s government sought to complete ratification of the U.S.Japan security treaty ahead of schedule today but leftists moved to block the actibn by force if necesstary. - Leftwing Socialist members of parliament barricaded the corridors of the House of Councilors in the Diet (parliament) building in an effort to prevent Kishi’s Liberal - Democratic majority from meeting to vote final ratification. Outside the building 35.00 fanatic leftwing students and members of the Sohyo labor organization performed wild snake dances and chanted “Smash the treaty, down with Kishi.” A crazed rightist youth who said he was .“ashamed” the government was forced to Cancel Presidenit Eisenhower’s visit stabbed an opposition Socialist politician, and sound trucks further incited the mob by blaring, "There is a new sacrifice.” Meets Opponents Separately Kishi met separately with the leaders of the opposition Socalist and Democratic Socialist parties in efforts to resolve the crisis but both sides stood firm. Socialist Chairman Inejiro Asanuma demanded that Kishi resign and dissolve the loweb house by “tomorrow;” Democratic Socialist Party Chairman Suehiro Nishio demanded Kishi’s resignation and dissolution erf parliament “immediate-

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rfKMitcd anU-Elacnhowcr cpittou at trny poked the tonyurdt, including i*ich thing* •» "EtacnI bower go bock. US. aggresaore get out of Jopan.” «nd "Get out of Aaia.” Di>g>atch<« from Quemoy snip Nationalist Chinese intelligence source* reported unsu-Hy targe | truck movements on the Chinese mainland opposite Quemoy. They raid the trurtts could be carrying I ammunibon for <he bombardment* or they could contain suppMcs for a Red Chinese sea ■*- wt. IguN. „ . . The Chinese Nationalists tfiem- ' selves prepurl'd to give Eiscnhowler the greatest welcome ever seen i sautt. Recal Due* Visit The Chinese! Communists noted i that when the late Secretary of State Jctin Foster Dulles visited I Formosa two years ago. "We conducted shelling ... and Dulles failed to achieve what he wished. On the eve of Dulles’ arrival ; that time the Communists poundled Quemoy with 11.00 rounds of I artillery shells. As part of the anti-Amencan I precaution the cruiser Saint Paul, bearing Eisenhower, the carrier Yorlatown. carrying the press party, and other ships in the task force sped ’ through the South China Sea at 30 knots—34R statjute miles an hour. Eisenhower. disappointed by. cancellation of his trip to Japan forced by Communist and other leftwing demonstrations, decided to expand his visit to Korea to take up some of the slack. Instead of spending eight hours there on June 22 as originally I planned he will go to Seoul from Okinawa Sunday — the day he was to have arrived in Tokyo—and stay overnight. Monday he , will leave for Hawaii. Would Attack Immediately i Vice Adm. Charles D. Griffin; 7th Fleet commander aboard the Yorktown, said a strange, hostileacting submarine would be attacked immediate!/. “We would attempt to destroy it and one of the first things I would do would be to order the Saint Paul to get out of there,” Griffin said. US. naval intelligence sources report the Chinese Communist navy has about 20 submarines, all relatively outmoded j types made by the Russians. The Soviet navy, according to the reports, also have about 10 submarines operating in the Pacific area. Griffin said there has not been any recent contact with Comma(Contlnwed on page eight)

ly.” But Kishi rejected the demands as “impossible” and reaffirmed his determination to stick it out until ratification of the security treaty. Inside the Diet compound 5,00 police watched warily for the first sign of violence. Some carried gas masks, indicating that if the situation got out of hand they would use tear gas for the second time since the May Day riot of 1952. The first violence came at the rear of the building where a young rightist stabbed and critically wounded Socialist member of parliament Jotaro Kawakami. Police arrested Toma Seizaburo, 20, as the assailant. Working Against Time ' Without any action by the upper chamber, the ratification would be completed automatically at 12:16 a.m. Sunday, 30 days from the moment it was ratified by the lower chamber. But Kishi’s government, hardpressed by the leftist demonstrations which forced cancellation of President Eisenhower’s visit, decided to rush it through ahead. The demonstrating students, wearing biack arm bands of mourning for a 22-year-old coed killed in a battle between a mob and police Wednesday night, were working feverishly against time.

Report Agreement In Convair Strike

bos ANGEI.ES tUPI'— Nrgbtt-. i atora reached a tentative agree-, I ment on a .two-year work con-1 tract today to, end the 11-day j mactunists strike at Convair which has tied up production and testing of the nation’s Aites missite. •' Air-spnce industry observers I 1 were optimistic die settlement . would lead to a quick end of the , three-ctey Lockheed missiles and > space division strike and prevent. a threatened machinists strike set j for midnight against Dougtes Aircraft. Convair, ■ division of General ■ Dynamics, and the machinists union said the tentative pact cov-1 ered the union’s 28.00 workers at the company’s plants and installations at key Attas missile bases across the country. The Atlas is the nation's only operational intercontinental ballistic missile. It is capable of striking at Russian targets from launch sites in the U.S. The new tentative agreement must be approved by the International Association of Machinist’s 26.000 workers at Convair before it becomes effective. The company expected picket lines to be removed at all its i ptants and installations and work--1 ers to r diurn to the job today. The agreement covers workers at Convair \s astronautics division and San Diego division plants in San Di go, Calif., its plant at Pomona. Cafif.. and Convair machinists at such key missile bases as Vandenbzrg Air Force Base, Calif . Warren AFB, Wyo, Cape I Canaveral, Fla., and Offutt AFB, Neb. Terms of the agreement were withheld pending voting by the lAM membership. Workers under the old contract received $2.72 as an hourly minimum wage. Convair makes the rAtkas, Lockheed division the Polaris and Douglas’ Santa Monica plant makes a third important missile in the U.S. space-age program, the Thor intermediate range bal listic missile. “Much has been accomplished in the test 24 hours to bridge the gap of the disputed items,” said an IAM spokesman in San Diego where Convair and the IAM met. “The break could come soon.” Douglas and the IAM have been in near-continuous negotiations at Santa Monica to try and prevent tlw threatened strike by some 12.00 machinists at the Douglas Santo Monica plant and missile test centers. Las Vegas Hofei Is Destroyed By Fire LAS VEGAS ,Nev. (UPD — A million dollar fire swept through the swank El Rancho Vegas Hotel today, burning it to the ground, in less than an hour. When the four alarm blaze broke out in the main buildinghousing the gambling casino, lobby and show area—it, was nearly deserted. There were no injuries reported. A few hours before, however, guesta were jammed in the wooden structure watching actress Betty Grable perform in the last show. . No guests were housed in the gutted structure, police said. All persons staying at the plush hostelry—an early advocate of toe bare bosom floor show now popular on the Strip—were housed in small cottages dotting the sprawling grounds. The fire, which apparently started in a backstage dressing room, shot tongues of flame hundreds of feet in the air as 25 fire trucks poured streams of water onto the inferno. Casino operators, driven from the building by dense smoke in an early' Stage of toe holocast, were forced to leave an estimated $200,000 in cash inside in a safe. "It’s a total loss all right." said Homer Medlock, bell captain at the Thunderbird Hotel, located across the street from El Rancho.

Decatur, Indiana, Fridoy, Juw

Delay Decision On New Finance Rales INDI AN APOI -IS iUPI> - ■HuIndiana Department of Financial Institutions has postponed until at least June 28 ami possibly later ( a decision on adoption of proposed new and lowered rates for finance I charges on installment sales The department held a public. hearing Thursday at which board members heard representativesofl finance companies testify. Tnci board then held a meeting but newsmen were told later by Joe | McCord, director, that no action! was taken. The next meeting is June 28 The proposed new schedule low- ■ ers present maximum finance charges for automobiles, trailers., household goods and other items, normally sold on installment payments. However, the new maxi- ■ mums stiill are well above the I average for other states. A rather general agreement was, shown among the witnesses as far as the lowered maximum rate? are concerned. The bulk of the disagreement came on the proposed requirement that finance companies must disclose to the buyer the amount of the finance charge which goes to the merchant or dealer. « For the most part, the some 580 small companies represented by the Indiana Consumer Finance Association favored the disclosure, but two large finance companies, thei Universal CIT and Associates Investments, Inc., opposed it as unconstitutiona 1. School Counselor Is Rotary Speaker Deane Dorwin, Decatur high school guidance- counselor, told the Decatur Rotary club Thursdaynight at the Decatur Youth and Community Center that guidance activities at the local high school are to be stepped up next year Wilbur Petrie was program chairman. Dorwin began his remarks byreferring to the present summer school session now in its third consecutive year. About 33% of the students who attend during the regular school year are attending this summer, with over 90' of them working ahead or taking extra work rather than making up scholastic deficiencies. The speaker said that the Decatur school had already put its emphasis on science and math long before the current Sputnik scare. Guidance programs in Europe are frequently done by outside organizations, but in America the schools themselves are usually aetive. The speaker said there were three types of guidance. These are educational, vocational, and' emotional. He said that he is now searching for better diagnostic tests to aid students find their place in society. Next fall he plans to spend about half of his time in this special assignment as compared to one sixth of his time schedule this year. Dorwin pointed out that the entire program was a cooperative group effort with other facultymembers and parents playing im« portant roles. The speaker said that about 50 of this year’s graduates are planning to take advanced training, either in colleges or various vocational schools. Twenty-three different schools were chosen by those planning to attend college. Dorwin concluded his remarks by pleading for community leadership in aiding these people find their places in life. He referred to a recent editorial concerning the desirability of reestablishing a junior police group and' the possibility (Continued on eight)

U.S. Defense Chiefs Hold Secret Talks QUANTICO. Va. »UFI‘ — U. S. defense chiefs from around the world were closeted in scerrf it ilka today on a wide range of problems such as the ending of V-2 spy flights over Russia, the Japanese riots and a tenser cold ■rar road ahead. ' Gen. C. P. Catoil. deputy director of the Central Intelligence, Ageocv, was scheduled to deliver the opening briefing of the threeday merting of about 165 civilian and uniformed military leaders. ! Nothing public wes expected to emanate from the closely-guarq-cd meeting until some Sort of summary is put out Sunday. Cabell's appearance raised prospects that the group would hear a nin down on how cancel-1 lation of the U-2 flights has changed intelligence gathering | methods. On another development. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. §aid Thursday the pcwsibility Xecent violence in Japan might prevent raticification of the new U. S.-Japanese security .treaty Vns “extremely disturbing." Gates noted the Senate seemed entirely faxorable to the treaty and it was “important that it be ratified.” . . „ Gates took a “wait and see attitude toward the Senate s bil-lion-dollar increase Thursday in the defense budget for the year starting July 1. He said the Quantico conference would cover generally a long-range look at the needs of the armed forces. He also said there would be briefings on the international situation and “disarmament implications.” Funeral Held Today For Bauman Infant Graveside services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, were held this afternoon at the Decatur cemetery for the infant son of Calvin and Norma Jean-Bauman, of five miles northeast of Decatur. The Rev. William C. Feller officiated. The infant died at 5 p.m. Thursday at the Parkview memorial hospital. Fort Wayne, two hours after birth. Surviving in addition to the parents are the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Archer of Pleasant Mills, and Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Bauman of Decatur.

Seek To Halt Cuts In Aid

WASHINGTON JUPD —The administration made a last-minute effort today to head off cuts in its foreign aid. program but key Democrats lined” up. in support of appropriations committee cuts U%aling 524 million dollars. Japan’s riot-marked crisis and cancelation of President Eisenhower’s trip to Tokyo figulrcd hower’s trip to Tokyo figured action on a House. , Rep. Robert L.F. Sikes (D-FlaJ said the decision to. call off the trip in toe face of Communistagitated mob violence was one example of how in his view this country has not received “fair value” for post-war help to Japan and most other pro-Western powers. But GOP Leader Charles A ; Halleck < Ind.) said events in ■ Japan point to need to increase I the foreign aid sum. He said toe , Far East turmoil was “an omi- . nous reminder to us; all of how ' relentless the Communists are in their efforts to undermine and destroy free nations in this area.”

I & M To Open DecalUF Office I At City Hall lndi»n« A Mirhttafi JOwlHcl ftre* «tfi thr j heir Mr* Rirlwird WaMofi. t ••fflC’V Atlw A lOfm* 1 kmplmrM from Drcatur will ing . H ,r«xiur«ta The work is urxh r. Uh dir.etHm William Zimmerman. IAM focal office manager in , Fort Wayne, Mr and Mrs, Wasson have bei gun construction of a nrw hom< ‘in Dvcgtur. and will move tor. i j from Bluffton as soon an it I* complrtcd. Mrs. Wasron is tto doughy ter of Mrs. Alma Frucbtc. 327, • North Hah street. Ed Hagan, IfoM district mnnag-| Her. said the rtnpihy Is now in. ’ the process of revamping meter ’!readers’ route to coincide with tto, new billing dates that will to in effect when bis companv assumes ‘ control ollthc local utility. Twn I meter readers have been test I 1 walking all routes to determine ■ the most convenient and systemat- ' Ic to use. Hagan went on to point out that the company’s new Decatur customers would be bilkd through | l&M’s new electronic data processing renter in Fort Wayne. I I&M teams, under the direction of Wavne Self. Fort Wayne adminI istrative assistant, have been ' walking all electric circuits in and ' around Decatur making a comI p]ete survey of all equipment and I marking each item for I&M’s inventory control records. Plans are now being completed for the construction of high voltage lines into the city from I&M's ' transmission system, according to Hagan; and until tto completion II of these circuits, the comptiny will r continue to operate Decatur s J present generating facilities. Within a few months Decatur custom- ’ ers will be using electric power ■ generated at I&M s new Breed 1 generating plant located south of r Terre Haute, which is now under- - going preliminary testing prior to • being placed in commercial opera- ? tion. The Breed plant has the largest single generating unit, 450.000 - kilowatt capacity, in operation in ' the United States. Indicted For Death Os Infant Daughter WABASH, Ind. <UPI» — Jack Easterday. 21, Wabash was m- > dieted by a Wabash County grand , jury Thursday on a charge of in- ; voluntary manslaughter in the death of his infant daughter. . Prosecutor Robert Bostwick said Easterday would be af- ' raigned soon. He was being held in the Indiana Reformatory for safekeeping because he tried to j kill himself in the Wabash County Jail last Friday, the day after' the ' child died of a cerebral hemorrhage. Easterday allegedly struck the child, 4-month-old Marcy Lynn, because he could not quiet her when she cried.

Other congressional news: Treaty: Democratic Leader Lvndon B. Johnson refused to set a definite timetable for foe Senate to ratify the U.S.-Japanese security treaty. There were signs it would to postponed until next wedk so it could first become effective in Tokyo. But Johnson said “the treaty is not going to to accelerated or retarded.” He said: “It will to taken up and consid- " ered in regular course and lanticipate that will be in the next few days.” . Schools: Vice President Richard M. Nixon has taken the lead in an effort to get final congressional action on a federal-air-for-schools bill He conferred with House leaders and White House representatives at a luncheon meeting Thursday in hope of freeing the ! legislation now stymied in the House. , 5 Federal Pay: The Senate was expected to pass and send to the White House an electaon-year pay raise for about 1,570,00 federal workers. Some supporters thought they could override a predicted

■l * wRRk if id '' : ~MmI IbL p / fc ■ FATHER OF THE YEAR IS A BACHELOR-Dr. Owen C. Footer. 68 was named Detroit Puttier of the Year in honor of 40 years w an obstetrician. He has delivered 8.000 babies. He feeds one of them, three-month-old Douglas Fox.

Severe Wind Hits Part Os Indiana

United Preus International A sudden, severe wind and rein l storm roared across northwestern > Indiana late Thursday, indirectly i causing the death of a 6-year-old boy. injuring at least one other person, and causing thousands of dollars damage to homes and utiMty lines. Wind gusts up to 60 miles an hour, confoincd with torrential reins and hail stones the size of marbles, toppled trees and utility lines and damaged houses in an area ranging from Gary and Chesterton to Warsaw and La- ; Grange. In LaGrange County, little Kenneth Foss, Reading. Ohio, died ’ when he fell beneath the wheels of a farm tractor while hurrying to avoid the impending storm. 1 Sheriff’s deputies said the young--1 ster had accompanied his uncle, Bruce Krugh. R.R. 3, Howe, and his brother, Steven, 10, to work a farm field when it began raining. Kenneth slipped off the hood of the machine as they rushed to shelter. The cyclone-like windy forced many autos off the highways and overturned a semi-trailer truck on U.S. 30 west of Hobart. Fallen trees and limbs blocked a number of main highways and many secondary road} throughout the area 3nd crushed two houses and blew the roof off the Lake Hills Golf and O>untry Club in the St. John subdivision south of Hammond. Several other houses south of Garv were damaged and the town of' Chesterton was virtually isolated when power and telephone lines went down. At Winona Lake, the storm swooped down on a large religious meeting and exhibition, destroying two 40-foot tents and damaging several others. The exhibition was advertised as the world’s largest religious exhibit, and authorities said damage was extensive. State Police at Dunes, Park said the storm came on the heels of gusty winds and rain which reduced visibility to zero in northern Lake" and Porter Counties, . but within five or 10 minutes. Q<. .At I-eiters Ford in . Fulton County. Mrs. Fred Campbell was severely burned when a Strawberry Festival tent partially collapsed and toppled a gas stove over on her. She was taken to a Rochester hospital. The festival was continued in the Aubtoenaubbee Twp. gymnasium, despite the fact that 50 prize pigs were lost in the driving rain. ' Around Indiana, temperatures dipped,, as low as 49—at South Bend--fthis morning after generally hitting the 80s at Thursday peaks. It was 51 at Goshen and Chicago. 59 at Lafayette. 60 atEvansville and Indianapolis, 61 at Fort Wayne. Thursday highs ranged from 79 at South Bend to 91 at Cincinnati. Rainfall was rather general around the state but spotty in measurement. Lafayette s 1.03 inches topped the-vblume. Other recordings were South Bend .81, Fort Wavne 04, Indianapolis .07. Cincinnati .25, Louisville 26, Chicago .16, Terre Haute .26, Rochester .70, Warsaw .46, Covington .73. Peru .55, Marion .86, Monticello .94.

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The rain continued lightly this morning at scattered state points but was due to end before the day. is. over, with cooler temperatures prevailirg and skies clearing by tonight. Highs today will range from 65 to the low 70s, lows tonight from the upper 40s to 56, and Saturday from the upper 70s to 82. The outlook for Sunday was fair and pleasant. The five-day outlook called for temperatures averaging near normal in the forth to about 3 deI grees above normal south. It will be warmer Saturday with only minor changes in temperatures thereafter into the middle of next week. BULLETIN Charles Lamlin, 85, of 1025 SchlrmeyCr street, was found dead about 1:15 o’clock this afternoon along the railroad tracks only a short distance from his home, which he had left about 8 a. m. today. His body was found by Clyde Hitchcock, a neighbor boy. who notified police. The body was removed to the Black funeral home. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. INDIANA WEATHER 1 Clearing and cool this afternoon, preceded by a little rain or drtale near eastern border. Fair and cooler tonight. Saturday sunny and warmer. Low tonight 47 to 54. High Saturday 74 to 80. Sunset today 8:15 p. m. Sunrise Saturray 5:17 a. m. Outlook for Sunday: Fair and warmer. Lows 55 to 65. Highs 78 to 86. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Beavers Dil Service, Inc. 4 Butler Garage. Inc., _ 5 Burk Elevator Cor—— 5 Budget Loans: J ■ Uowens'lnsurance Agency 4 Conrad’s “66 ” Service —----7 Chevrolet ?-—--- 8 Chrysler — “ Calling’s Black Label Beer 7 Decatur Drive In Theater ----- 8 8.P.0. Elks 7 Fairway’ _ — 3 - ® Arthur H. Girod, M.D. 5 Holthouse Furniture — 5 Real Estate —5 Karl F. Johnson 6 Kohne Drug Store 4. 5 Lengerich Awning & Railings _ 2 Model Hatchery 3 Myers Florists 3 Maice Hearing Service 2 Niblick & Co. 3 Phillips “66" — — ‘ Odrinex — ’ Petrie Oil Co. --— — ® Powels.on Amusements, Inc. 8 Psi lota Xi Sorority 8 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. -- 3 Sutton Jewelry Store 3, 8 Tony’s Tap -----7 Teeple Truck Lines : 5 Treon’s Poultry Market — 5 „ John B Tervber. M.D. 5 Thomas Realty Auction Co. —— 5 Rural Churcfr Page Sponsors — 6