Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 161, Decatur, Adams County, 9 July 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 161.

Khrushchev Warns U. S. Over Cuba

Democrats At Work Drafting .3 .... ..... . Party Platform LOS ANGELES (UPD — Democratic platform drafters began shaping the party’s 1960 campaign promises today with labor unions pressuring for a tough civil rights stand applauding Negro “sit in” demonstrators. A 20<m ember subcommittee scheduled a meeting behind' closed doors to decide where the Democrats should stand on a host of foreign and domestic issues. The subcommittee' will lay its recommendations before the national convention next week. 7 As the platform drafters met, AFL - 010 President George Meany planned personal calls on the tour leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination to point up organized labor's demand for a strongly liberal platform, primarily cm civil rights. Meany and 25 key labir leaders decided at a conference Friday to press for a tough civil , rights stand on the theory that this would be the key to the plaform’s overall one. Meany also met privately with Rep. Chester Bowles (Conn.), chairman of the platform committee. Union officials were much in evidence at the platform committee room putting the heat" on members for adeption of laborbacked planks, including the “sit in” endorsement. The drafting subcommittee, heavily weighted with advocates of a strong civil rights plank, had a number of proposals to choose from on each major issue. The subcommittee members were named at the conclusion of four days of public hearings by the 109-memfcer platform committee. Bowles sa’id the platform drafters would have the benefit of testimony from about 900 witnesses * at hearings ‘here and in 10 cities where advance sessions were heM. The drafting subcommittee is scheduled to present its proposed platform to the full platform committee Monday. The platform will go before the convention Tuesday, with southerners ready to fight if the civil rights language is too stiff. Methodists Select Three New Bishops GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPDAssignments to three newly-elect-ed bishops in the North Central Jurisdiction of the Methodist Church were to be announced today at the group’s conference. The Rev. Dr. T. Otto Nall, Evanston, ID.; the Rev. Dr. Ralph Atlon, Appleton, Wis., and the Rev. Edwin R. Garrison, Indianapolis, were elected by conference delegates Friday. Election of Dr. NaU came on the 14th ballot late Friday night. Dr. Alton was chosen on the eighth ballot and Garrison gained a twothirds. majority of the delegates on the 10th ballot. Two of the new bishops will replace retiring Bishop H. Clifford Northcott, Madison, Wis., and the late Bishop D. Stanley Coors, St. Paul. .

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (UPI)-A giant airlift brought hundreds of frightened and weary women and children out of the mutiny-torn Congo today. The Belgian government said <the situation was worsening and the newly independent state was threatening to fall apart. Two companies of Belgian infantry were flown to the Congo Friday night and a third was leaving today. Tough paratroopers were placed on standby alert. A fresh mutiny by Congolese army troops was reported to have broken out during the night in the Kongolo camp in the Tanganyika district of Katanga Province. The government there was threatening to secede. Belgian cabinet sources, after two emergency sessions today, disclosed that two Europeans were killed and nine injured while tryIK to Bee from rebel troops in Katanga. Americans Reported Safe At 1 pm. (7 a.m. c.d.t.), the I

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MOSCOW (UPD — Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev threatened today to use Soviet rockets in support of Cuba if the United States “dared” any aggression against that country. Khrushchev bluntly told the United Staites to stay out of Cuban affairs or the Communist world would intervene. \ ■ Khrushchev voiced the threat in stating, as part of a report on his nine-day visit to Austria, that Russia was ready to extend a helping' hand to all smaller nations. He spoke before the all-Russian Congress of Teachers gathered in the Great Kremlin Palace. He arrived home from Vienna FriClay. ” “One should not forget that the United Staites is not, as before, an unreachable distance from the Soviet Union,” Khrushchev said. “Specifically speaking, in case of necessity, Soviet artillery men can x. support the Cuban people with rocket fire if the aggressive forces of the Pentagon dare to start intervention against Cuba. “Let the Pentagon not forget that as the last test (of Soviet rockets) showed, we have rockets capable of accurately hitting at a distance of 13,000 kilometers (about 8,000 miles).” This was a reference to rockets which have been fired from launching sites in the Soviet Union into central Pacific target areas. “The socialist states and all the countries which stand on the position of peace will render assistance to Cuba in* her just struggle, and nobody will succeed in enslaving the Cuban people,” Khrushchev said. “On our part we will use everything to support Cuba in her just struggle for freedom and liberty won by the Cuban people under the leadership of the national hero, Fidel Castro.” Khrushchev devoted the major part of his one hour and 40 minute address to a review of his "goodwill” visit -to Austria. Over 250 Homeless In Northwest Texas United Press International More than 250 persons were homeless today in northwest Texas Where a week of thunderstorms dropped up to 15 inches of rain. Running water draw, an all-but-dry drainage ditch, overflowed in Plainview, Tex., Friday, covered U.S. 87 and 70 with six to eight feet of water and forced 40 families from their homes. “The water on the highways is about eight feet deep and that is high ground,” a policeman said. “There’s no telling how deep it is in some of those houses.” The Plainview flood was sparked by seven inches of rain which fell there Friday. It was the worst of several floods which had hit the Texes Panhandle and west Texas since the torrential rains began Monday. But the U. S. Weather Bureau said the Texas rains would end today. It predicted late thunderstorms over most of the West, from the plateaus to the Rockies and the western Plains. Other showers were expected in the west central and upper Mississippi VaUey, eastern Great Lakes, New Enland and the Gulf Coast. Light showers feU Friday night over the southern Rockies into the central Plains and middle and ijpper Mississippi Vhljey, New England, Nevada, and the Georgia and Florida coastlines.

Brussels bureau of United Press International finally succeeded in reaching the U.S. embassy at Leopoldville, Congolese capital, by teleprinter. The Leopoldville operator said all Americans were gathered at the U.S. embassy or at the residence of US. Ambassador Clare Timberlake. AU were reported safe. >(The State Department in Washington, said there were about 200 Americans in Leopoldville and about 2,000 in the Congo as a whole.) '....../ ■. :......... Dr. Ralph Bunche, United Nations representative to the Congo independence day ceremonies, was reported safe at his hotel and in touch with the embassy by telephone. The Europeans killed or wounded in Katanga Province were fired upon by rebel troops as they attempted to flee by boat down the Luvua Biver to safer towns. About 320 others escaped safely. One at the dead was said to be a-Porta guese citizen and the other, a Belgian civil servant.

New Violence Is Threatened On Italians ROME (UPD — Premier Fernando Tambroni’s pro - Western government squared off for an all-out battle with Italian Communists today and a new series of< strikes, demonstrations and violence threatened Italy, Both national police and rioters opened fire on each other in Sicily Friday. Two civilians were kiUed ip Palermo and a third in Catania. Demonstrations continued in Catania until nearly midnight and the city was tense today. - : —~~-t" ■ Elsewhere in Italy, police used batons and tear gas and fired warning shots in Ibe air to break up Communist-led riots. Tambroni, whose government has little more than caretaker status because of its weak parliamentary support, refused to be drawn into a “truce” with the rioters. He vowed to stop “the piazza (square) from substituting for parliament” in -the nation’s violent political crisis. Tambroni agreed to go before parliament Tuesday for a full debate on the rioting and general political situation. The Commuiiists were set to test Tambroni’s position with moire demonstrations despite the danger of the violence growing. The Communist Party newspaper Unita proclaimed “all the democratic forces say ’enough’ to Fascism and Tambroni.” It listed at least 33 anti-government rallies for today and Sunday ranging from industrial Turin in the north to small towns in the south. Most of the Communist - called rallies Friday brought rioting. Public demonstrations were banned in the capital. Missile Building Is Behind Schedule WASHINGTON (UPD — Construction of Atlas intercontinental missiles bases is m much as five months behind schedule and the Pentagon is cracking the whip sharply over the armed forces and private contractors to avoid further delays. Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates ordered military agencies and industry firms concerned to speed up the vital work or change their “management procedures” to get the huge ballistic war rockets on their • launching pads as soon as possible. Gates summoned top Air Force and Army engineer officials to a conference on the situation Friday. The Defense Department then issued a statement acknowledging “slippage” of up to five months in getting Alias missiles on their launchers by the planned dates. The persistently rumored delays have left the United States with fewer than a half dozen warready ICBMs—all at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. About twice that many were supposed to be ready by now. . Two Novy Contracts Awarded To Magnavox ' WASHINGTON (UPD —The Magnavox Corp, of Fort Wayne, Ind., has received two Navy contracts worth about $32.5 million, Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R-Ind.) said today. The contracts call for the production of radar sets, indicators and other products the details of which are classified, Capehart said.

They were the first Europeans reported killed since independence day, July 1, when the riots and mutinies started. In the interim there have been two large-scale riots in cities and three army mutinies. J New Fighting Reported Big C47s were arriving here from Brazzaville with the refugees who told stories of violence by rebel African troops. One woman, carried off on a stretcher, had been raped four times. Kpoidville apded but there f fighting in miles to the {a. • betoviUe said I the mineralinning to proii independent s being kept ments in the of the cabmtci. Reports which tridkled out of Leopoldville through frequently in-

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OMNI fIF W-. Kw- A' ‘ •' BMpNfIW SHE’S FOR JACK—Sherry Lynn DeMent, 5 months, may -well be •the youngest of the “Youth for Kennedy” group in Los Angeles. Mrs. L. M. DeMent of West Covina, Calif., holds her sleeping daughter.

Propaganda Drive Planned By Castro

HAVANA (UPD—Premier Fidel Castro announced Friday night he is .going to organize a worldwide propaganda campaign and put automatic rifles in the hands of thousands of Cubans to combat United States “aggression.” The bearded revolutionary leader, in a 2 hour and 40 minute telecast, altenateiy lashed out at U.S. “dUgardhies,” proclaimed friendship for the “people” of the United States and boasted of Communist aid to Cuba. However, he kept the speech in a low key — without screaming or wild gestures — and again kept silent on what specific plans he has for taking over U.S. property in Cuba in retaliation for reduction of the sugar quota. Soviet OU On Way He announced that 19 Soviet ships were en route to Cuba with oil to help this country out of the crisis caused by its seizure of U.S.-owned oil refineries. And in a surprise announcement he said that investigators

terrupted communications systems said mutinous troops which had terrorized thousands of Europeans into fleeing across the Congo River Friday had returned quietly to their barracks. Nevertheless, the United States and Belgium dispatched planes to the former Belgian territory in Africa to help frightened whites get out of the country. In London, the British Foreign Office said it had advised all Britons to leave the Congo as best they could. ? The center of power in the Congo Republic, which gained its independence from Belgium June 30, appeared to swing from Premier Patrice Lumumba to President Joseph Kasa Vubu. Lumumba was forced to hand over control of the army to toe 45-year-old Kasa Vubu and give Jton/toe title of commander-in-chief. They are tribal rivals and only a last minute compromise put them in toe two top spots in toe government. ** ...

had uncovered no sign of sabotage in the explosion of the big munitions dump at the edge of Havana harbor June 26. He said it probably was caused by spontaneous explosion of an old hand grenade. When the French munitions ship La Coubre blew up in Havana harbor earlier this spring Cuba pinned it on U.S. sabotage. Castro said, however, that the circumstances surrounding the munitions dump explosion were ’‘completely different.” U.S. “Lost Control” Castro charged the United States had “lost control of itself' by committing such “aggressions” as cutting the amount of sugar Cuba could sell in the states and by transferring the International League baseball franchise from Havana to Jersey City. Castro said he intended to see that every one of the thousands ,of members of the “People’s Militia” he has organized “is going to have an automatic weapon.” This indicated Cuba is continuing its arms purchases from countries in Western Europe or behind the Iron Curtain.

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Harve Shroll Dies Early This Morning Harve N. Shroll, 81, well known Decatur man. died suddenly at 2:30 o'clock this morning at Lake James,' where he and his wife had gone for a vacation trip Friday morning. Mr. Shroll became ill shortly after noon Friday. DeaV* was believed caused by a heart attack. Mr. Shroll, who had been associated with the Schafer store here m 1948, and his wife have been making their home in Bradenton, Fla., for the past five years, but have spent much of die summer months in Decatur and Lake James. He was bom in Monroe Sept. 1, 1878, a son of George and Amanda Oliver-Shroll, and was married to Callie Tester Aug. 1, 1900. Mr. Shroll was a member of the First Baptist church and the Masonic lodge, and was a 32nd degree Mason. % Surviving in addition to his wife are three daughters, Mrs. O. D. (Grace) Thundere of Fort Wayne, Mrs. Helen Zwick, wife of Dr. Harold F. Zwick of Decatur, and Mrs. Joseph (Edwina) Wolfrey of Eaton, O.; one brother, one sister, seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. One son and one daughter preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a. m. Monday at tiie Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a, m. Sunday until time of the services. 16-Year-Old Boy Is Electrocuted Friday EDINBURG, Ind. (UPD — Kent Douglas Lemley, 16, was electrocuted Friday night when a model plane he was flying at the end of a strand of wire touched an electric power line. The accident occurred in a town park. Firemen and a physician tried to revive the boy but were unsuccessful. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lemley and would have been a senior in Edin-

Earhart Myth Dissolved

NEW YORK (VPD—Aviatrix Amelia Earhart today disappeared again into the mists. The Bendix Aviation Corp, said it "ruled out” the possibility that a ba r nacl e-enc nested generator found in Saipan Bay had come from the plane Miss Earhart was flying when she was lost at sea on a round-the-world flight in 1937. Miss Earhart, one of avaiation’s first heroines who Was dubbed “Lady Lindy” when she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic in 1928, was last heard from July 2, 1937. She and her navigator Fred Noonan radioed they were within 100 miles of tiny Howland Island on one of the final legs ot their flight. They never landed. Disappeared Without Clues Until earlier this month, there had been no solid clues to indicate whether she had overshot Howland arid crashed in the Pacific, or had landed at some remote Pacific Island, or had come down at sea and been rescued by the Japanese—and then been executed because she had seen Japanese preparations for World War H. The generator found in Saipan Bay by a team erf newsmen from radio KCBS of San Francisco and the San Mateo (Calif.) Times appeared to support this last theory. And natives of Saipan told of hearing that a tall, blonde American woman and an American man had been killed in a prison camp. But a Bendix Aviation spokesman, Clark Smith, said Friday

LOS ANGELES (UPD — Sen. John F. Kennedy rolls Into the Democratic convention city today ready to fight on the scene for the 100-odd votes he needs to nail down the party’s presidential nomination. His arrival at the teeming Los Angeles International Airport will be sandwiched between the entrances on the convention front ot two >other avowed candidates— Sen. Stuart Symington of Missouri and Adlai E. Stevenson. With Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson already in the city all the announced candidates will be entrenched on the battle line, ready to fight through Los Angeles’ crowded hotel corridors and jampacked delegate rooms for the presidential nomination. New Johnson Challenge Not long before Kennedy’s scheduled arrival, the Johnson-for-president headquarters flung a new challenge at the front-running Kenpedy, victor in every Democratic primary he entered. The Johnsonites predicted the Massachusetts sehator would roll up no more 'titan 650 presidential votes on the make or break second ballot when the convention starts voting next week on its choice for the White House. That would leave Kennedy more than 100 votes short of the 761 needed to win the nomination. Kennedy has been claiming close to 650 votes on the first ballot — with enough to take the nomination after state deiegaes start lining up with him after they are released by favorite son candidates. See Second Ballot Victory Failing a first ballot win. Kennedy’s backers feel certain he will take it on the second. But they conceded that the second tally will be all important to him. The Johnson camp predicted he couldn’t even do it on the secong ballot. Supporters of each were on hand to welcome their favorites with appropriate hoopla at the airport. With their arrival, the Democratic gathering was due to erupt in the excitement that tradiionaMy attends he party conventions. Johnson repeated at a news conference Friday that “friends” had told him he would poll more than 500 and Kennedy less than 600 votes on the first ballot.

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night three serial numbers on a ball bearing from the generator indicated the bearing was made by a Japanese film in Osaka. Plane Outfitter Baffled Paul Mantz, a pilot from Santa Ana, Calif., who outfitted Miss Earhart’s Lockheed Electra for thr round-the-world flight, said in San Francisco he was baffled at the Bendix report. He said the generator was positively the "same type” as .the one installed in Miss Earhart’s plane, and announced he would fly to New York Sunday or Monday to meet with Bendix officials. Smith indicated Bendix would welcome the meeting. “I would like to see the generator and have our people look at the thing,” he said at his home in Old Tappan, N.J. “The chances for positive identification are good.” He said the possibility of finding Miss Earhart’s plane had “too much significance to hang on a single bearing.” INDIANA WEATHER Madly fhir and a little wanner today and tonight. Sunday partly cloudy, warm and more humid. Low tonight low 60s north to high 60s south. High Sunday upper 80s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers mostly in northern portions.

Nearly S4OO Given In Drive On MS Nearly S4OO was raised during the 1960 multiple sclerosis hope chest drive in Adams county, Mrs. Vernon Hurst, county chairman, reported today. Hie fine collection shows a marked awareness on the part gt the community to the problem of finding a cure for MS. and helping the many people in Decatur, Berne and Adams county that suffer from the disease. Decatur Workers Mrs. Robert Railing and Mrs. Lawrence Andrews had charge of the balloon sale in Decatur, which raised SIOB 92. The- following Girl Scouts also helped: Sally Andrews, Cqpnie Lenhnrt, Karen Mcßride, Cassie Reynolds, Lindo Marlow, Sharon Mcßae, Nance Linn. Peggy Smith, Kathaleen Ki ess, Cherryl Knudsen, Ellina Hazelwood, Nancy Ehinger, Penny Geimer, Jackie Heim, Judy Andrews, and John Railing. Mrs. Wesley » Lehman had charge of placing and collecting the hope chests in Decatur, which raised $32.68. Mrs. Ervin Stucky, who was in charge of the Monroe hope chests, turned in $11.37 from that town. Berne Largest Miss Mary Schlagenhauf and a group of Berne Girl Scouts raised $108.92 in that city through the balloon sale, more than was raised in Decatur, and $30.48 in the hope chests, which were placed and gathered by Mrs. James Hurst. Mrs. Willis Augsburger and a group of Girl Scouts took care of the balloon sale..in Geneva, raising $63.13, and Mrs. Augsburger also placed the hope chestl, which raised $8.58. Some ehecks and cash were also sent in directly to Mrs. Hurst, the chairman. "All who made the MS hope chest a success are justified in having a feeling of satisfaction in being a part of a vital work. In the name of the victims of MS and their families, I thank you and all whose cooperation has been a significant factor in waging this campaign,’* Mrs. Hurst said. A final total report will be made shortly. Mayor Donald F. Gage was also thanked for his proclamation in behalf of the campaign.

Ike Plans Message On Inflation Peril NEWPORT, R. I. (UPD—President Eisenhower is planning a special message warning Congress and the nation of the inflationary perils ahead if electionyear spending gets out of hand, White House sources said today. The President Is expected to issue his plea for fiscal responsibility when Congress reconvenes in August, following this month’s Democratic and Republican conventions. Eisenhower scheduled a fishing expedition in this area this morning as he continued the summer vacation he and Mrs. Eisenhower began here Thursday. On the business front, the President awaited the arrival early hext week of Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and other officials for a Monday morning conference on the Cuban crisis and an American plan for greater cooperation with Latin American countries to raise hemispheric living conditions. Herter, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Roy R. Rubottorn and .the White House staff secretary. Brig. Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster, are due at Newport naval base late Sunday.

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