Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 179, Decatur, Adams County, 30 July 1960 — Page 1

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Kennedy, Johnson Pledge C-Z To Work For Enactment Os Needed Legislation "‘y.' 1- ■- > ■*<?* ms -k* • * .• « *

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. (UPD— Democratic running mates John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson today pledged their full energies to enactment of the legislation program before Congress in August and warned Republicans against "obstructionist tactics” to keep them from passing pending measures. The Democratic presidential and vice presidential candidates said in a joint statement that they will leave their principal campaigning “until the end of the session”— which will begin when the Senate reconvenes Aug. 8. They indicated they would reject Vice President Richard M. Nixon's .proposal for weekend truces in order to permit campaigning prior to September. Kennedy and Johnson, who worked late into the night on plans for the Aifgust session of Congress and for their subsequent campaign, said the unfinished business before Congress ‘‘covers a wide range of fields—All of them of key importance to the American people.” Campaign after Session /. “There are such key issues already on the calendar as medical care for the aged, housing, aid to education, mutual security appropriations and minimum wage legislation,” they said. “We intend to devote our full energies to the enactment of this program and we will leave our principal campaigning until toe end of the session,” they said.' Kennedy read the statement to 188 or so newsmen jammed into the living room of the home of his father, former Ambassador to Britain Joseph P. Kennedy. “We hope to have the cooperation of the Republicans and their candidate in the enactment of this program," the statement said. “The short three-week period will not allow for partisanship,” they said. “The American people will be quick to spot obstructionist tactics aimed at keeping us from enacting much of this legislation.” Inter to Gates Kennedy said he and Johnson would defer a decision on Kennedy's proposal for a two-billion-dollar supplemental defense appropriation until deceiving an answer to a letter Johnson sent two days ago to Defense Secretary Thomas 8. Gates Jr. Johnson, who sent the letter as chairman of the Senate preparedness subcommittee, demanded to know whether Gates had repudiated a June • memorandum calling for the service secretaries to freeze defense funds appropriated by Congress in excess of President Eisenhower’s budget. Congress granted 8881,808,000 more for this year than Elsenhower requested. But Johnson said the Gates memo directed that “where the

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Nixon Preparing Whirlwind Drive

CHICAGO (UPI) — Vice President Richard M. Nixon braced for a whirlwind, self-styled upderdog campaign for the presidency today at a listening session with spokesmn from the weathervane farm belt. The meeting was aimed at culling sentiment from at least 22 states on pressing farm problems, an area where both Nixon and GOP vice presidential candidate Henry Cabot Lodge were known to recognize Republican weakness. , Press Secretary Herbert Klein said a •‘major" farm policy speech is among early items on Nixon’s agenda. Nixon will spend Sunday and Monday in Washington and then head for receptions to Nevada and his Whittier, Calif., home town before two days of campaigning in Hawaii. Mans Seattle Visit , He will attend public meetings * to Seattle, Wash., Friday, returning late that night or Saturday to Washington. A Nixon meeting with the GOP national committee and his subsequent news conference Friday disclosed plans to campaign “until our throats are raw" to couple Republican control of the House with a GOP successor in the White House. He conceded

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law does not require expenditure, should reserve the increases and carry them forward io the maximum practical extent” to the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1961. Johnson said he wanted “a clear cut statemen' concerning current Department of Defense policies with regard to immediate and full utilization of the additional funds provided by the Congress.” Adlai Visits Sunday In an obviouspoke at Nixon’s announcement/two nights ago that his campaign already had begun, Johnson said: “The campaign, the Republicans notwithstanding, has not begun. It will begin after the people’s business is attended to.” As for Nixon’s proposal on weekends, Johnson tau 11 y remarked that he had not “observed that it makes much difference when the Senate meets as far as Vice President Nixon is concerned.” Kennedy originally was also to have been visited today by Adlai E. Stevenson but this meeting was postported until Sunday. Kennedy greeted Johnson and his wife at the door of his house Friday night after their plane was delayed by fog at two airports near here. Johnson’s chartered airliner landed at Otis Air Force Base about three hours after his originally planned arrival from Kansas City, Mo., where be visited former President Harry S. Truman. Two Missing After Boat Is Capsized CHICAGO (UPD—Two persons were rescued and two others reported missing when a 14-foot outboard motor boat in which they were racing capsized before dawn today in Lake Michigan. Rescued were Chester Brown, 53, owner of the boat, and his wife, Anna, 29. Missing were John Boyd, 40, and his 13-year-old daughter. Coast Guard boats continued to search for the Boyds, one-half to a'mile off 82nd St. where the boat capsized. A plant protection worker from the U. S. Steel plant along Chicago's south shore heard the Browns cries lor help when their boat overturned and alerted the Coast Guard. The couple told rescuers they were in the water from a half-hour to an hour. Mrs. Brown was limping and she and her husband were taken to South Chicago Hospital in a fire ambulance.

L continued Senate control to the Democrats. Nixon said “under no circumstances” would he allow active political campaigning to interfere with United Nations duties of his running mate. Ambassador Lodge. Observers expect Lodge to join Nixon on the campaign route sometime after Sept. 20. Sets Campaign Tone The vice president set the tone of Lodge's campaign by announcing the y.N. ambassador would head all non-military cold war activities in a Republican administration, echoing his acceptance speech proposal for a new federal group to. handle such items as foreign aid and information serv•'We start with no pessimism,” Nixon said, though he acknowledged larger Democratic voter registration. He said he is counting on several speeches by President Eisenhower, who he said “wants to play as effective a part as he can’ 1 in the campaign. He cut off questions on Democratic candidate Sen. John F. Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism with a pledge that be wfli “never talk about it,” starting "right now.” ' '**h - ' ‘

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LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPD—Authorities doubled U.N. ' troop patrols today in the Leo--1 poldville area as a precaution > against possible trouble by penniless and jobless Congolese work- ’ ers. 1 An estimated 80,000 Africans ’ have been thrown out of work here alone since the anti-white 1 mutiny by Congolese soldiers ' touched off the mass exodus of 1 Belgian and other European busi- • nessmen and the resultant collapse ’ of virtually all business life in ‘ The Congo. The end of the month has been > the traditional pay day for Congo--1 lese workers. But since most have 5 not been able to work since the riots began July 5, there will be 1 no pay day. s In anticipation of possible disor- > ders, U.N. troop commanders ors dered patrols reinforced throughout the Leopoldville area. It also • was reported that all weekend » leaves have been canceled for - the Swedish and Ghanian troop* - who took oyer security duties from i the Belgians " U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjoid, who arrived here Thursday for an on-the-spot investigation of the situation, scheduled talks with individual ministers of the Congolese government and the U.N. staff to coordinate military, medical and food distribution operations. Hammarskjoid conferred Friday i with the members of Premier Pa- . trice Lumumba’s cabinet There . were reports of a revolt within r the government against Lumumba k currently in Canada after a visit to Washington to seek help for The Congo. J” The reports said the cabinet api peared to be splitting into two I factions. One was said to be head- . ed by Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko who favors continued ’ U.N. military, financial and tech- ' nical aid indefinitely. The other faction is made up of Lumumba nationalists who want the U.N. to ’ remain only until the Belgian • forces are withdrawn and peace is restored and then leave The - Congo to find its own economic “ way. i / ,?■ * "' ! */. ■'■ ■ One Man Is Killed Resisting Bandit WEST LOS ANGELES (UPD—“I should have given them the damned money.” Bank messenger Lawrence Robbins, 19, was near hysteria. “lit was all my fault. I was goipg to be a hero and I got somebody killed and all these people - hurt.” Robbins tried to resist two Hal- ! loween - masked gunmen who robbed him of $12,000 in a bold • daylight stiekup Friday. Four by- ! standers came to his aid. - The bandits killed one of the 5 would-be helpers and wounded r Robbins and three others, one 1 criticaly. One. victim may lose 8 the sight of one eye. The robbers fled in a stolen car found abandoned a short distance 5 away. - Detectives said Robbins, of San--1 ta Monica, was delivering the ■ money to the More Discount Store - when the bandits, wearing red and ! orange masks of old men, grabbed 1 him outside the store in full view s of customers and employes. He » was shot in the left leg and pistol whipped as Jie grappled with the ’ robbers. * Travis Keith, M, assistant mane* ager of the store, and Lyle Ma- - son, 40, a clerk, ran to his assist- - ance. Keith was shot to death and I Mason wounded. t John Ringo, 38, a veteran West Los Angeles police officer, was in - the store buying camping equipment. He sprinted outside when i the shooting started. Shot in the • lung, he was taken .to Santa t Monica Receiving Hospital in critical condition.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, July 30, 1960.

Mrs. Powers Seeking Visa To Visit Son WASHINGTON (UPD-Mrs. Ida Ford Powers, ailing mother of the American U-2 spy pilot captured by the Russians, has asked the Soviet Union for permission to visit her son, it was disclosed today, ’ —’ ——. Soviet officials told UPI that Mrs. Powers, who has a heart, condition, had submitted an ap-1 plication for a visa and a&ked that her doctor, Lewis K. Ingram, be allowed to accompany her. Pilot Francis G. Powers wife Barbara Gay earlier applied for a visa to visit , her imprisoned husband. His -father already has been granted a passport and visa for a trip to Russia. Powers is scheduled to go on trial Aug. 17 on espionage charges. The 30-year-old pilot was captured when his high-altitude U-2 jet reconnaissance plane went down 1,300 miles inside Russia May 1. The Kremlin said he was shot down with a single rocket. Soviet officials said the visa applications from Powers’ wife and mother were under consideration in Moscow. Powers’ parents live in Pound, Va. His wife is staying with her parents in Milledgville, t Ga. The pilot's mother actually submitted her visa request about 10 days ago. But Soviet officials didn’t disclose it until today. Barbara Gay fileo her visa application several weeks ago. Powers’ wife made a trip here Wednesday to appeal personally to the Russian embassy for a visa. But officials told her they still were availing a reply from the Kremlin.

Speculating Over Struggle In Cuba

KKWtK, Cuba (UPl)—Diplomatic sources speculated today that ailing Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and one of his top men, Communist-oriented Ernesto (Ch®) Guevara, may be tangling in a power struggle. Castro's orother, Raul, left Cairo unexpectedly to return to the island republic, touching off rumors of a major shake-up in the Cuban government. Fidel has designated his younger brother as his heir-apparent, and in the last six months, Raul has assumed additional authority and gained considerable prestige. Raul, as minister of the armed forces, headed a delegation..to. the Soviet Union recently. He was visiting with United . Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser When he cut short his trip and headed home. Fidel was still confined to his home in suburban Cojimar. Last Tuesday, when he appeared at a July 26th celebration, Castro admitted he had not yet recovered fully from the pneumonia attack he suffered earlier this month. Guevara was believed to wield power second only to the Castro brothers. H Castro considers his illness serious enough to withdraw voluntarily and temporarily from active leadership, Raul probably would assume control of the government. Diplomatic sources forecast if this occurs, the chances of Cuba resuming friendly relations with the United States would be virtually nonexistent.

Few Reservations Available For Tour A few reservations are still left for the Decatur Daily DemocratElrie railroad-sponsored bargain tour to New York city next weekend. Dus tour will be to New York city and Freedomland, U.S.A., known as the Disneyland of the Eastern UJS.A. The group will leave Decatur at 1:34 p.m. next Friday in air-con- . ditioned reclining seat coaches on the Erie diesel, “Lake Cities.” At 8:25 a m. Saturday they will arrive at Hoboken station, and go by waiting motor buses through the Lincoln tunnel under the Hudson river to the Hotel Governor Clinton, arriving at 9:15 a.m. At 1:30 the group will have lunch at the hotel, as included in the price of the tour. Two breakfasts •on the train are also included. L Cost of Tour £ The tour leaves New York citv / ht 8 :15 p.m. Sunday, and arrives Ifcack in Decatur at 1:38 p.m. Mon- , Lday, Aug. 9. I Cost of the tour is $52.25 fer each , ladult and $32.25 for each child ■ [five years of age and under 12. [fThis is based on a double room—- ; those desiring single rooms will be t required to pay $2.50 extrff. . Only a few. accomodations are ‘ left, and those desiring to make* ! the trip will be taken on a first- ; come, first served basis. Freedomland. Island Tour Saturday afternoon the group ‘ will tour Freedomland, U.S.A., and Saturday night wil be free so that , those making the trip can visit the [ night spots, TV show, or special i show of their choice. Sunday afternoon a guided sight- ; seeing trip around the Isle of Manhattan by boat wil be taken by the group. Reservations may be made at 1 the Decatur Daily Democrat office immediately, or at the Erie railroad station. Geneva Lady Will Teach At Portland Mrs. Marianne Temple, wife of the Rev. Paul Temple of Geneva, will teach English at Portland high school next year.

South Koreans Sink North Korean Boat SEOUL. Korea <UPD — A South Korean Navy destroyer-escort today intercepted a Communist North Korean patrol boat off the East Coast and sent the “Invader” to the bottom in a brief but savage gun battle, it was announced. It was the first known sinking* of a Communist warship by South Korean naval forces since the armistice in|l9s3. The South Korean Navy said that 80 minutes after the battle, the Communists sent three torpedo boats racing to the scene. It added, however, that no reports have been received about any laterdevelopments. A navy headquarters announcement said that three survivors from the Communist patrol boat were picked up after it sank. It said four South Korean navy men were seriously injured in fiye minutes of “intense exchange of fire.” V ‘ " The navy said the clash occurred in South Korean waters, four miles off Kbjinni and about 10 miles south of the demilitarized zone which separates Communist North Korea , from the fepublic in the south. .7,. NOON EDITION

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Washington Budget Reported Unchanged The proposed Washington township budget tax rate is 11 cents, same as this year, and the poor relief fund total is lower, which may permit as much as a twocent drop in that fund, Robert E. Gay, township trustee, said this morning. The township fund will be three cents, the fire fighting fund, outside Decatur and Monroe, three cents, and the library; outside Decatur and Monroe, five cents. The total amount to be raised ; by taxes is $6,482, compared with $6,403 this year. The total poor relief fund is i $30,530 for next year, with direct I relief down considerably from , this year's figure* • - X > Rhee's Party Loses In Korean Voting 3 SEOUL, Korea (UPI)-Dr. John 1 M. Chang today led his Demot cratic Party to a landslide vic- > tory over the former ruling Lib1 era! Party of deposed President Syngman Rhee in the general - elections for a new Parliament to . run the “new republic” of South ; Korea, ' The vo t e-counting, however, t was marred by violence and bal- . lot-burnings by Koreans protest- , ing against Liberal Party candi- ' dates. Mounting returns showed the Democrats, long-time political foes of Rhee, running far ahead of Liberal, Socialist and independent candidates in the elections to » name the new government to re- . place the one elected in the I “rigged elections” last March. At stake tvere 233 seats in the lower house of the Assembly which will elect a new president and must aprove the president’s choice for premier, and 58 seats in the senate. Latest returns showed the Democrats had captured 96 seats to 23 for independents, 2 for Socialists, 2 for splinter groups and 1 for the Liberals. New elections were called in four electoral districts where ballots were burned or destroyed by demonstrators. In Seoul, the Democrats won 15 of a total of 16 lower house seats. Chang, who was elected vice president in spite of the Rhee , sweep four years ago, won his ‘ seat easily. ’ Democratic Party leaders said . they expected to win at least 170 Assembly seats and about half of 1 the 58 seats in the Senate. If the party does capture control, Chang probably will be named premier. F 1 •’ Advertising Index 1 Advertiser Page Burk Elevator Co. ............ 5 Butler Garage, Inc. '4, 5 ' Citizeps Cq, 4 Clark's Drive-In ... 3 ■Decatur Drive-In Theater .... 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp, 8 First State Bank of Decatur 3 Fairway ......... 4, 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home __ 3 tlalderman Farm Management Service 5 Kent Realty & Auction Co. .... 5 Pike Lumber Co. ............ 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. .............. 3, 5 Sutton's Jewelry Store ..... 3 J. F. Sanmann, Auctioneer ... 5 Stewart's Bakery 3 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Thomas Realty & Auction Co- - 5 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. .. $ Zwick Funeral Honte 4 Church Page Sponsors ........ 6

Berlin 1 -F aces New Threats

BERLIN (UPD—lsolated West Berlin today faced a new threat to its vital highway links to the West. The threat was, posed by the confiscation of two trailer trucks the Communists said were transporting “war material” to West Germany. The East German news service AiDN said the highways running through the Soviet zone were.being "flagrantly misused” to carry military supplies from West Berlin to the U.S. and West German armies. ■» It added “the organizers in Bonn and West Berlin of such acts against peace should realize -that they will bear the full responsibility for all consequences.*

Checks All Aspects Os Poisoning Death SPENCER, Ind. (UPI) — The Owen County prosecutor said today lie will question the driver of ' a bread truck route who regularly stopped at the home of an admitted husband-poisoner. Prosecutor George W. Languell said that he was checking all aspects of the strychnine death of Roy Richmond Britton, 31. Mrs. Carolyn Sally Britton, 26, a four-time mental hospital patient, was held on manslaughter charges. Sheriff Charles F; Douglas said the breadman first entered the tangled case Friday when Mrs. Britton made a statement saying she had planned to marry him. “He knew nothing about the poison, so far as we can determine, ’’ Douglas said. “He was about her age and I suppose fie spoke to her in a friendly way. like most salespeople talk to their customers.” Mrs. Britton was quoted by the sheriff as saying "that she planned to auction off the farm equipment Saturday and marry the breadman Aug. 13. Douglas said Mrs. Britton is “jolly” and does not seem to be perturbed by the charges against her. She is the only female prison ner in his jail. “It’s up to the doctors to decide if she is mentally ill,” he said. Mrs. Britton four times has been hospitalized as mentally ill. Languell said the preliminary charge of manslaughter placed against Mrs. Britton will expire next Thursday and another count must be placed against her either through grand jury indictment, action by the coroner or by Languell. Languell explained that start of a jury trial Monday in Owen Circuit Court may cause a delay in the calling of the grand jury. He said there is some possibility he may file a murder charge in place of. .the slaughter charge should the grand jury not be able to meet soon. Anderson To Teach At Adams Central William F. Anderson, Berne coach for the past three years, has accepted a position to teach history and English # at Adams Central high school, and will retire temporarily at least, from coaching. Anderson stated that he plans to move to Monroe in about two weeks from Berne. The Andersons have been attending the Monroe Methodist church, where Anderson teaches Sunday school.

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The stoppage raised 'the fear the Communists might be preparing to interfere with the traffic on the pretext military goods are being carried. The West Berlin city government denied the trucks carried military supplies. It said they were loaded with asbestos cement. One trailer truck was halted at the Communists checkpoint at Dreilinden, just outside West Berlin on the Berlin end of the 110mile highway to the .West German city of Helmstedt, July 21. A second was stopped Thursday. . . Foqr drivers two in each truck were arrested by East German {border guards. '——etae-" — in. ,

' , , City Swimming Pool Hours Are Changed Hubert Zerkel, Jr., supervisor of the city swimming pool, today announced a change in hours at the pool, effective Monday. Afterpoon hours, Monday thruogh Saturday, will be 1 to 4 p.m.; evening hours, Monday through Friday, will be 6:30 to 8 o’clock, and Sunday hours will be 2 to 5 p.m. East Coast Is Hit By Tropical Storm United Press International Tropical storm Brenda along the east coast met competition for attention today from a midwestern squall line pushed by winds up to 77 miles an hour. While Brenda spread heavy rains north and northeast of Norfolk, Va., into New York state and New England, the squall line dumped hail and rain into northern Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan. Osewhere, Oklahoma Citv, Okla., braced under winds measured at 99 miles an hour and heavy rains. The central and southern Rockies had rain during the night and light showers fell along the California and Washington coasts. A cold front moving behind the midwestern squall line dropped temperatures to the 50s from North Dakota across Minnesota into the Great Lakes area. Grand Forks, N. D., an<j International Falls, Minn., reported nighttime readings of 51. Other temperatures around the country were mostly in the 60s and 70s with the exception of hot southwestern deserts. The U. S. Weather Bureau said tropical storm Brenda would move toward southern New Jersey today, shifting most rainfall to the north Atlanitc states and offering a brief respite for the drenched Southeast and Florida. Thundershowers were due from the lower Great Lakes through the. mid - Mississippi Valley into the Texas Panhandle. Other snowers were expvcteu in the Ohio Valley, the Gulf Coast, and the Rockies west to the Pacific. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and turning cooler with scattered showers or thundershowers likely today. Fair and cooler tonight r and Sunday. Low tonight upper 56s north to low 60s south. High Sunday around 86 north to mid 80s south. Outlook for Monday: Fair and warmer.