Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 173.

Gov. Rockefeller Rules Name Out As Candidate . - • —— : ; __ ror Vice Presidency

J CHICAGO (UPI >—Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller firmly ruled himself out today as a possible running mate for Vice President Richard M. Nixon but reached agreement with Nixon on a new J GOP platform. j The two Republican leaders conferred privately in a New York apartment until early in the morning and the governor said they agreed on a platform that J| be could “support with pride and vigor.” Sources dose to Rockefeller said Nixon personally asked the governor to be his running mate but that “the governor reiterated that under no circumstances would he accept the vice presidential nomination.” The agreement on basic planks of the party platform apparently removed the major differences 'between the two Gop leaders. Rockefeller only Friday was described as feeling proposed planks on national defense and foreign policy were "seribusly lacking in strength and specifics.” * Lodge Leads Contenders Nixon initiated the meeting with Rockefeller, according to sources close to the governor. Rockefeller’s flat rejection of second place on the Republican ticket left United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge as the leading contender for the vice presidential nomination. Lodge was opposed by midwestern and, conservative Republicans but he still was a heavy favorite U> wind up on the ticket with Nixon who is sure to get a first ballot presidential nomination next Wednesday. Most of Lodge’s critics were said to favor Sen. Thruston B. Morton of Kentucky, Republican national chairman, for the vice ’ presidential nomination. While listening to advice from early arriving delegates on the vice presidential nomination, Nixon agents were Reported to find Lodge favored by those who regarded foreign policy as the big issue ot 1960. Morton was said to be preferred by those who viewed domestic issues as more important. Lodge’s Reputation Greater Lodge’s chief advantages over Morton were his greater national reputation and his identification with foreign policy during more than seven years as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Current world tensions underscore foreign policy in the 1980 campaign. However, the delegates included followers of the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, who still felt resentment toward Lodge for his work in the 1952 pre - convention campaign. * They remembered how Lodge managed President Eisenhower’s campaign to win the presidential nomination from Taft. Others felt that Morton would be a better campaigner in the Midwest farm belt, where the

Hoosiers Opposing Lodge As Nominee

INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—lndiana Republicans Invaded Chicago U> day determined to battle for coni servatism at the GOP national convention. Douglass McDonald, Princeton attorney, and Mrs. Martha Whitehead, state vice-chairman, the Hoosier members of the resolutions committee, fought against yielding to the liberal recommendations of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller concerning the platform. Most of the delegates likewise were opposed to the nomination of Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. United Nations ambassador, for vicepresident but favored their fellow Hoosier, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, or Sen. Thruston B. Morton ot Kentucky for that post. Lodge is regarded as a -oneworld liberal* and the Hoosiers who bled and died for Sen. Robert A. Taft to the bitter end in 1952 blamed him for seating the Texas and Louisiana contested delegations which was responsible largely for President Eisenhower's triumph over Taft. Although Halleck has said that he. does not believe Vice-Presi-

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1 GOP has been weak in rteent ■ elections. Heavy pressure also was reportj ed coming from the conservative , wing for Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona to be Nixon’s running mate. However. Goldwater was ' being counted out on geographic grounds if not for the extreme conservative label he proudly wears. \ - Four Traffic Deaths Reported In State United Press International Four traffic fatalities in the first few hours of the weekend gave Indiana a poor start today in its efforts to keep the weekend toll below double figures. One victim was a pedestrian. Another was killed in a car-train crash. The other two were killed in one-car accidents. Ruth Washington, 16, Richmond, was killed early today when her date dozed at the wheel of his car as they returned from a dance. The car crashed into a culvert on the outskirts of Richmond on U.S. 40. The driver, Sylvester Ogle, 25, Richmond, was hospitalized. Carolyn A. Wright, 19, rural Swayzee, was killed when thrown from a convertible that went out of control and roiled over two times along a Kosciusko county road west of Silver Lake. Injured in the accident were Russell J. Eakins, 18, Marion, driver of the vehicle; Beverly A. Sagepoy, Marion, and James A. Graves, 17, rural Swayzee. Eakins was hospitalized at Marion. Graves and Miss Sagepoy were treated at the scene and released. Mrs. Millie V. Lamar. 85, Lamar, was killed when struck down by a car driven by Robert Zimmerman, also of Lamar. State police said Mrs. Lamar had just gotten out of her oar and was crossing Ind. 245 when she was struck by Zimmerman’s car. Earl W. Sparks, 199, Warsaw, was killed when a Pennsylvania 1 railroad passenger train crashed into his car at an unguarded War- ’ saw crossing. Authorities, said the ] train was traveling more than 70 ; miles an hour when it struck Sparks’ vehicle near the middle of a curve. Sparta was thrown from the car ; and died instantly. The accident i occurred just 21 minutes after the weekend officially began at 6 p.m. ; Friday night. 1

dent Richard M. Nixon wants him for a running mate, Hoosier admirers hope that his carefollydrafted speech as permanet chairman may styay the convention and land him the title. They recalled the “cross of gold and crown of thorns” speech at William Jennings Bryan which gave him the presidential nomination. There are two Hoosier aspirants who hope they are at least “prophets not without honor save in their own countries.” They are Philip H. Willkie, son of the late Wendell Willkie, who is running for vice-president, and Frank R. Beckwith, Indianapolis, who hopes to be the first Negro ever nominated for president. Indiana's 32 delegates are committed to Nixon because of his triumph in the presidential primary and also by strong inclination. They likewise have little taste for Willkie for vice - president. "Die two men, however, probably will have a nuisance value during the convention proceedings. The conservative trend of the Hoosiers was disclosed Monday in the delegation’s adoption of a statement of principles.

Congo Premier To ' UN Headquarters

ACCRA, Ghana (UPI) — Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba was scheduled to leave today by plane en route to U.N. headquarters in New York in an attempt to gain political and economic support for his trouble-torn nation. There were reports that President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana tried to persuade Lumumba to call off his trip. Sources said Nkrumah felt that a personal appearance* by Lumumba at the U.N. at this fime would not be wise. Lumumba conferred with Nkrumah for two hours Friday night following his arrival from Leopoldville in a British Royal Air Force jet Comet. The Congolese premier had rejected the offer of a Belgian airliner for the trip. The premier of the 23-day old Congo Republic received a hero’s welcome at the airport here. Crowds shouted “L umu m b a,” as he emerged smiling from the huge jet plane. At ohe point, he was hoisted on the shoulders of admirers.

Forest Fires Rage In Western Stales United Press International More than 900 forest fires, set off by lightning and cigarettes, were raging today in nine tinderdry western states and British Columbia in what appeared to be the worst fire outbreak in 30 years. Flames blackened an estimated total of more than 225,000 acres of brush and timberland, sent thousands of picnickers and homeowners in flight, and killed four pilots. — They lost their lives in crashes of two converted bombers which were dumping borate solution in the path of advancing fires in southern California and Oregon. On the aground, thousands of sooty men struggled 24 hours a day to save precious natural resources by bull-dozing firebreaks, digging trenches and starting back-fires. Many of them have been fighting on the lines tor a week. The dead were identified as James C. Armstrong, about 45, Fort Worth, Tex., and his copilot, Charles A. Franco, 25, North Hollywood, Calif., killed in Angeles National Forest, and Leroy Engelbert, 38, and Elliott Corbett, 33, both of Portland, who were killed in Wallowa Whitman National Forest. In Washington, Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson said the U.S. Forest Service is throwing all its available manpower and equipment into the fight. Reinforcements were en route from Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North and South Carolina. * a few acres—tometimes inaccessible except for parachute jumpers —to 48,000 acres near San Simeon, Calif. Government officials said the current fire outbreak may be the worst since 1930. States involved were Airzona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Schaekel Child Dies At Wisconsin Home Lynn Myron Schaekel. three-week-old son of Norbert and Mary Ann Ewell-Schaekel, died suddenly of a heart condition*at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at the home in Bear Creek, Wis. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Bert, and two sisters, Deane and Connie; the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Schaekel and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ewell of Preble township, and a great-grandmoth-er, Mrs. Dan Wefel of Wells county. » Graveside services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, will be held at ? p.m. today, with the Rev. L. W. Schulenberg officiating.

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> Lumumba told newsmen that he s was going to New York “to dei fend the future and unity of the i Congo." He said the bloodshed in i the Congo was “provoked by the r plots of the colonialists.” Then, to the cheers of the hun-j - dreds who turned out to welcome? i him, Lumumba stepped int oj > Nkrumah’s limousine and drove! 1 off for the meeting with the Pres- - ident of Gabana. ! Following the conference, Lu-' ‘ mumba told newsmen he and. Nkrumah “discussed the situation - in the Congo, especially the date t for the withdrawal of Belgian • troops.” He said neither he nor Nkrut mah were satisfied with the “inf definite” date set by jhe U.N. Security Council for the withdrawal I of Belgian forces. i Asked if he would demand the . African states take a common po- ’ sition in regard to the Congo, Lu- > murrtba replied: “That question > will be discussed with the delef gates of the African states in New York.”

South Bend Banker Heart Attack Victim WARSAW, Ind. (UPI) — Paul M. Lamar, vice president of the St. Joseph Valley Bank & Trust Go., South Bend, died of a heart attack Friday while playing golf on ■ the Wawasee Golf Course near here. Kosciusko County deputy coroner Dr. John Arford said Lamar suffered the attack as he stopped ' to rest after the 3rd hole. Funeral Sunday For Mrs. Stella Butcher Mrs. Stella Butcher, 87, died Thursday in the Van Rue center in Van Wert, O. She was a member of the Geneva E.U.B. church. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Leota Bebout of Van Wert, Mrs. Jessie Wendall of Chattanooga, 0., and Mrs. Ruth Rees of Decatur; four sons, Clell of Weirton, W. Va., Paul of Wilmington, 0., Walter of Decatur, and Gale of Rockford, O. ’ Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Chattanooga j Methodist church. Friends may < call at the Hardy & Hardy funeral ■ home in Geneva.

Denies Report On Red Moves

WASHINGTON (UPI) -*Presi- , dent Eisenhower and his top milii tary and foreign policy advisers were reported to have held an uri gent series of meetings l on warnings of a new Russian move soon, possibly in Berlin. The summer White House at Newport, R.1., today denied a published report that the National Security Council flew to a iecret meeting with Eisenhower Thursday “amid indications of a new international White House Press Secretary Isnim* C. also denied that the Joint Chiefs Sf Staff had followed this up with a special meeting here Friday. But. authoritative sources said Friday U.S. officials had received an intelligence report that the Soviet Union and the East German Reds might trigger a “military move” against Communist-encir-cled free West Berlin within 30 days. ’ Government Denies Report The State Department denied H had received any such report or that Secretary of State Christian A. Herter had discussed it with Eisenhower when they conferred for more than two hours at Newport earlier this week. A Russian move now woud climax a violent series of Soviet threats, insults and actions which began with the collapse ef' the Paris summit conference.

Order Red Diplomat Quit United Stales WASHINGTON <UPI)-Who was the American flyer-photographer who accepted more than SI,OOO from a Russian diplomat to take aerial espionage pictures over the United States? That’s the intriguing cloak-and-dagger Question the U.S. govern- ■ ment refused to answer today. I The silence invited some fascinatIjng spe<eulation. i The government charged Friiday that Peter Y. Ezhov, third sec- ■ retary of the Soviet embassy f. here, paid a commercial photog--1 rapher the money for intelligence | information, including aerial photos of U.S Navy bases and other possible war target®. The State Department demanded Ezhov leave the United States 4 - immediately. A department spokesman said he probably would cleac out in two or three days. Ezhov paid for the pilot’s flying lessons and offered to buy him a plane so he could carry out “systematic aerial reconnaissance photography,” the department charged. But the pilot’s name was hot revealed. Why? Among the speculated reasons were these: —The government does not have enough evidence to prosecute him under the Foejgn Agents Regis- : tration Act or the espionage laws. —The State Department made a deal with him, promising not to prosecute if he would tell all he knew about the Russlian spy setup in this country. —He was a foreigner who aready has left the United States. —He was a foreigner who al-counter-spy who wormed his way into Ezhov’s confidence. Bicycle Parking Is Provided At Library An eight-foot cement strip has been added to the sidewalk in front of the Decatur pubilc library this week to permit room for young people to park their bicycles without blocking pedestrians, Miss Bertha Heller, librarian, said today. The strip, including a curb around the yard, was built in two days by the contractor, Vernon Frauhiger. Often so many youngsters were parked at the library that the normal width of sidewalk was completely blocked, forcing pedestirans into the street.

i ■ ' The Chicago Sun-Times report- ’ ed the National Security Council ‘ and Joint Chiefs of Staff meetings . in a copyrighted dispatch Friday ’ night. > Reporters Frederick Kuh and Thomas B. Ross said the Security, , Council session appeared to be connected another recent secret meeting between Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates Jr. and New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. "New Action Within Month” “During thgjr hitherto unrevealed meeting,” the dispatch said, “Gates is understood to have told Rockefeller of strong indications that the Soviets are planning new action against the West within the next 30 days.” - Officials here gave no hint of what kind of “military njpyg’,’ the Communists might be planning or ; even whether it was spelled out in the intelligence report. But a West German defense j ministry spokesman said in Bonn . that the Russians and East Ger- i man regime had been busy build- i ing up military forces and installations on all sides of West Ber- , lin. The United States. Britain and * France have vowed that they will defend the independence of the 2.5 million West Berliners no matter what the cost.

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Boy Scouts Arrive At Jamboree Site The five local Boy Scouts attending the national golden jubi- ■ lee jamboree at Colorado Springs, Colorado, hlave arrived safely, according to a stray phoned to the Decatur Daily Democrat by Dan Heller, junior assistant scoutmaster in charge of physical arrangements of troop 69. Heller, who phoned just a few minutes before the official opening of the jamboree Friday evening gave the following account of their experiences in Colorado: “Our troop trip was broken at Denver where we left the train and went on a mountain tour. On the top of Lookout Mountain we visited the grave of Buffalo Bill. Our next stop was at Red Rock Canyon where a beautiful outdoor theater with highly colored red rock formed the background. “We got on the train again and arrived at Colorado Springs about 2:30 p. m. Tuesday. While our Scoutmaster, kohprt Meyers, was giving BKretettons - «ur * senior pa- , trol leader, Jim Stewart, checked with patrol leaders to see all were present. i “Art Frauhiger is a patrol leader and Tom Maddox is an assistant patrol leader. Scouts from Decatur in this patrol are Charles Martindill and Dan Durkin. We all were accounted for and we loaded into a bus headed to the jamboree grounds. “Our camp site is on a long slope rising upward to the east. To our west, apparently a 10 minute walk, is Pike’s Peak. Actually it is 35 miles or more away. The red rocks of The Garden of the Gods are plainly visible, but when we went there last night for a chuck wagon dinner we found it a thirty-minute bus ride. . “Our baggage and equipment failed to arrive on our first night until 11 p. m. Tour leader Steve Everhart and Scoutmasters Meyers and McCammon of troop 68 kept the telephone busy trying to locate the luggage. When it. did arrive we spread our sleeping bags and slept under the stars. “We are having fun and are very busy. The formal opening of the jamboree will be in the arena tonight.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers today,* turning cooler north by evening. Sunday partly cloudy and slightly warmer north, a little cooler south. Low tonight 61 north to 73 south. High Sunday upper 80s north to 94 south. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and warmer except cooler extreme southeast. * Advertising Index Advertiser Page Burk Elevator Co 5 Butler Garage, Inc. ... 5 Clark’s Drive-In 3 Decatur Drive-In Theater ...... 3 Citizens Telephone Co. 4 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 6 Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers 5 Fairway ....................... 6 , First State Bank of Decatur — 4 ; Gillig & Doan Funeral Homs „ 3 I Habegger Hardware 6 i Kent Realty & Auction Co. 5 < Mies Recreation 4 1 Pike Lumber Co. Js.L. 5 ! L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 1 Smith Drug Co. .....11..... 3, 5 J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer ... 5 1 State Gardens — 4 ■ Teeple Truck Lines ... 5 ‘ Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. .. 6 Zwick Funeral Home 4 t Church Page Sponsors 2 j ‘7’ ■ 1 ' i NOON EDITION ]

Lodge To Give Flight Proof

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —Wesern observers speculated today that U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge would offer sensational evidence to prove that an American reconnaissance plane downed by Soviet aircraft July 1 was not over Russian territory. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily V. Kuznetsov called on the United Nations Security Council Friday to condemn the United States for "aggression" in sending the RB-47 On its ill-fated flight over the Barents Sea. But Lodge said Kuznetsov’s statement that the plane was downed over Soviet territorial waters was an “unconvincing but sinister fabrication.” He told six grieving wives of the plane's crew ’ members, who were seated in the Security Council public gallery, ' that the Russians “won’t get away with it> ’ Neither Lodge nor anybody close to him would even discuss what the proof of the plane’s position would be. Some sources indicated he

Storms Rake Midwest Area Friday Night United Press International „ Midsummer rains caught between cool northern breezes and a warm, humid air mass over the north central states became gusty thunderstorms-overnight, setting a wet pattern today for the nation. Residents of parts of a fivestate, southern Great Lakes area went to bed by emergency candlelight when thunderstorms raking across lowa, Wisconsin, Ilinois, Michigan and Indiana uprooted trees and knocked out power and communications. Continued heavy tnundershowers soaked Okahoma land Arkansias Friday night. Widely scattered showers fell from Tennessee south to the Gulf Coast and in western mountain states. An Oshkosh, Wis., hospital went without power for 30 minutes, but emergency generators prevented interruption of vital services there and at the blacked-out Oshkosh fire department. Two rural Fenville, Mich., fruit garmers repo rTeTT their entire crops ruined by wind and hail. Near Grand Rapids, Mich., 35 miles northeast of Fenville, winds blew two trailers off their foundations. Before passing on to Ontario, Can., the storm forced a pilot to set hi* light aircraft down amid tush hour traffic on a highway near St. Clair, Mich. No injuries were reported. A short-lived hailstorm flooded stores and basements and knocked out power and telephone service at Oelwein, a northeastern lowa town of 8,000. About an inch of rain fell at Chicago. Northern Indiana storm damage centered just north of Elkhart. Isolated areas of South Bend and Mishawaka were without electricity. Elsewhere, Fort Smith, Ark., had an inch of rain. Lesser, but still heavy amounts were reported at Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Okla., Mobile, and Athens, Ga. Cooler air-hitting a warm mass south of Lake Michigan dropped temperatures as much as 20 degrees in an hour. Western readings continued in the 70s and 80s, except for 50-degree temperatures along the West Coast.

would offer evidence perhaps as sensational as his unveiling of the “bugged” U.S. great seal from the American embassy in Moscow. which he produced during council debate on the U-2 spy flight case in May. Lodge told the council: that the Soviet Union claims that our plane was brought down in bur plane was brough down in Soviet waters, it was actually 50 miles off the Soviet coast. It was still in the air 20 minutes later on the high seas, 200 miles from the point alleged by the Soviet Union, and flying in a northeasterly direction. At no time during this flight was it closer than 30 miles to the Soviet Coast. That .is one truth, “The further truth is that It became the victim of an action by : the Soviet Union, the details of which I shall give later, which can only be described as criminal and piratical. Lodge planned to place his evidence before the Security Council Monday morning.

The U.S. Weather Bureau predicted showers and thundershowers for every section of the country today except New England, the upper Great Lakes and Minnesota, and the Pacific coastal states. Aside from slight cooling in the north central states and Northwest, temperatures were expected to remain about the sdme. Wanted Fugitive Captured Friday LOS ANGELES <UPD- James John Warjac, whose crime career started in his hometown of Fort Wayne, Ind., was captured Friday ' driving down Sunset Blvd, in a ’ white convertible, three days after ; he was placed- on the FBl’s list of the 10 most wanted fugitives. Warjac, who had dyed his hair ' from blond to jet black, at first ! denied his identity and claimed he , was "Bob King.” However, tiie , FBI said he admitted his real name after questioning. Warjac had a woman companion with him when agents saw him In the busy suburb of Westwood. A fully-loaded automatic was found in the car trunk. But there was no tear-gas fountain pen and small derringer pistol which the FBI trad expected Warjac would be carrying, perhaps ’ strapped to his leg. Warjac was taken to Los Angeles county "‘jail and later arraigned before a U. S. commissioner. Warjac grew up in Fort Wayne and his first arrest occurred there. He also had been arrested at Gary, Ind. Warjac escaped from Jail at Corpus Christi. Tex., in 1955 while serving s 12-yenr burglary sentence.' ’ Logansport Man Is Electrocuted Friday LOGANSPORT, Ind. (UPT) — David McClintock, about 45, Logansport, was electrocuted Friday when he accidentally came in contct with a 30.000 volt transformer at the General Tire Co., ptant here. Authorities said McClintock was sandbagging the transformer to protect it from hot weather when he bumped his head against a wire..

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