Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 219, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 219.

Sr 1 lfct-v. 9mL j I CT*' i '■‘X - -fJ a ’ i •«« SJ’ ’ ?_■ WBbSsH r wr f wOKt \ •- _■»!>.> #*■•' *■*>'*•■'’ jy* i . - •'/ -* HOT WORDS IN U. N.— Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin, left, top photo, huddles with fellow delegates after accusing Dag Hammarskjold in Security Council speech of seeking to ‘undermine” the Lumumba government in The Congo. U. S. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth, right in bottom photo, conferred with Sir Patrick Dean of United Kingdom and said Zorin's diatribe was “a most arrogant and hypocritical statement.”

Hints Nikita May Reconcile

LONDON (UPD— Soviet diplomats hinted today that Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev wants a reconciliation with President Eisenhower. They raised the possibility Khrushchev will make an indirect approach to set up a private meeting with Eisenhower during the United Nations General Assembly. This correspondent asked whether Khrushchev now felt he had gone too far in his personal attacks on Eisenhower at the summit conference in Paris last spring. “Mr. Khrushchev was very angry at the time,” was the reply, implying that the Soviet premier now was ready to take another look at the situation. There were hints there might be another intriguing aspect of Khrushchev’s visit to the United Nations — that he may make overtures for personal meetings with presidential candidates Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy. That apparently would depend on whether things go well for the Soviet premier after he arrives in New York on Monday. In any event, he is expected to avoid any action that could be interpreted as an attempt to influence the course of the U.S. presidential elections this fall. Meetings with Nixon and Kennedy would have to overcome some obstacles of geography. Khrushchev’s movements have been restricted, to Manhattan Island by the U.S. State Department But there appears to be some desire on the part of the Russians to get first-hand impressions of the two men who are running for the presidency. INDIANA WEATHER Cloudy with occasional rain likely this afternoon, tonight and Saturday. Not much temperature change except a little warmer tonight. Low tonight 57 to 64. High Saturday in the 70s. Central and Southern VbmNsrub inuiinNi ; — Partly cloudy this afternoon. Increasing cloudiness tonight with showers west and south late tonight, spreading northeastward Saturday. Warmer south tonight. Cooler Saturday. Lows tonight 58 to 65. High Saturday near 70. Sunset today 6:53 p.m. Sunrise Saturday 6:28 a.m. Outlook for Sunday: Showers and turning cooler. Lows 58 to 65. Highs 65 to 75.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Stratton Place To Hold Picnic Sunday Hie annual Stratton Place picnic will be held Sunday from 3:30 to 6 p. m. Joe Azbell, general chairman, asks that all children arrive at 3 o’clock for organized entertainment. Serving of food will begin at 4 o’clock. Everyone is reminded to bring table service. This annual event, for all residents of the addition east of Decatur, affords an opportunity for neighbors to become better acquainted and also to meet the many new residents who have moved in during the past year. The annual business meeting of the Stratton Place association will be included on the program. Dr. Leo Curtin, association president, announced that three directors will be elected to succeed the retiring directors, Fred Corah, Roger Schuster and Denzil Dowell. There will also be a treasurer’s report showing the disposition of the annual dues paid each year by lot owners and residents to finance the various activities of the association, including the annual picnic. In the event of inclement weather Sunday, the picnic will be held at the Youth and Community Center from 5 to 7 p. m. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Arnold Lumber Cb., Inc. 2 Bower Jewelry Store 3 Burk Elevator Co. ... 5 Bluffton Free Street Fair ..... 4 Carling’s Beer 7 Chevrolet 7 Cowens Insurance Agency 2 Decatur Drive In Theater 3 Decatur “66” __ 4 Evans Sales & Service 5 Fairway 3, 8 Holthouse Furniture 5 Happy Hours Roller Rink 3 Kohne Drug Store 2, 5 King's Shell Service ......... 8 Mies Recreation 7 Model Hatchery 5 Dick Mansfield Motor Sales ... 5 Niblick & Co 3 Petrie Oil Co. 6 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. 3 Stucky & Co. 6 Thomas Realty Auction & Teeple Truck Lines 5 Tony’s Tap 4 Walter Wiegmann, Auctioneer . 6 Zintsmaster Motors 4,5, 8 Rural Church Page Sponsors .. 6

Tides, Rains Slow Cleanup After Ethel PASCAGOULA, Miss. (UPD— Dangerously high tides and heavy rains today slowed cleanup operations along the Gulf Coast where thousands of weary residents began digging out in the wake of Hurricane Ethel. The second tropical storm to strike the U.S. mainland in a week left widespread property damage, flooded highways and power failures. Only one fatality was indirectly caused by the storm. Juste Savoie, 68, retired engineer, suffered a fatal heart attack while securing windows at his New Orleans home Thursday. Still fresh in the minds of many was the 1957 killer — Hurricane Audrey—which claimed 430 lives. This time, some 50,000 coastal dwellers paid heed to Weather Bureau warnings and took shelter in advance of Ethel’s 80-mile-an-hour winds. The storm followed close on the heels of Hurricane Donna, which took more than 140 lives in its rampage through Puerto Rico and up the Eastern Seaboard through New England. Hurricane Ethel’s biggest punch was landed on a 45-mile stretch of Mississippi’s coast, a colorful resort area. Electric power was knocked out, trees blown down and houses unroofed at Pascagoula, Biloxi and Gulfport.

One Os Defectors In Subversive Group WASHINGTON (UPD — House investigators said today one of the two American code clerks who defected to Russia was once connected with an organization officially listed as subversive. Chairman Francis E. Walter, DPa., of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, told newsmen its investigators discovered one of the defectors “at some or another was connected with a proscribed organization.” He declined to say which man it was or to name the organization lest it hamper further investigation. He said the organization was on the attorney general’s list of subversive groups. Walter’s statement came as his committee started closed - door hearings into the defection of Bernon F. Mitchell and William H. Martin, code clerks at the ultrasecret National Security Agency. Walter said the Defense Department refused to furnish the committee complete personnel files it requested on the two men. Meanwhile, a House Armed Services subcommittee also looking into the case of the two defectors questioned Army, Navy and Air Force intelligence chiefs. The subcommittee recessed its inquiry at noon until next Monday.

Rev. Armin Oldsen Is Banquet Speaker The Rev. Armin C. Oldsen, director of religious education at Concordia Lutheran high school in Fort Wayne, and a former Lutheran Hour speaker, will address the Northern Indiana district Lutheran laymen’s league banquet Sunday at 6:30 p. m. at St. John’s Lutheran church on U. S. 27 north of Decatur. The event will close the group’s 16th annual convention. The Rev. Richard C. Ludwig, will give the invocation. Louis A. pastor of Zion* Lutheran church, Jacobs is the toastmaster. The Teen Tones will entertain. James Doty of Marion, district membership secretary, will award pins to congregational secretaries who have enrolled 10, 25, or 50% of their communicants during the past year. Each of the ten secretaries in the congregation In and near Decatur is eligible for awards. The Decatur zone had the best zone membership record in the district. The convention theme, “Worship God and Rejoice in Christ Jesus,” is the same as that used by the international convention held at Minneapolis this past summer. 1 The Rev. Elmer Knoernschild of the league’s St. Louis staff will keynote the business meeting which will begin at 2:30 p. m. Otto Wiese, of Reynolds, will preside. Convention displays to be set up in the St. John’s school will include the club services program which supplies materials for local use by congregational clubs, the Lutheran Hour, Dakota boy’s ranch, the Lutheran publicity bureau, and other church related subjects.

OWLYDAIL'S NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, September 16, 1960.

Mobutu Consolidating Military Rule, Orders Red Diplomats To Leave

Describes Hurricane Donna Over Florida Mr. and Mrs. Earl Arnold, of route 4, Decatur, have received a letter from their son, Dwight, who resides in Port Charlotte, Fla., describing hurricane Donna which passed over that city. The letter states that on Sept--11, about 11 a.m., the “eye” or center of the hurricane passed over them blowing about 40 to 60 miles per hour. About 2 p.m. the winds had risen to 120 miles an hour. They reached their peak of 141 miles per hour around 6 o’clock when the center passed over and didn’t let up until 11 that night. Dwight described it as the longest 12 hours he had ever seen. During the hurricane the .Arnolds had to move all their heavy furnit ..re against the sliding glass doors and the windows. He also said t'.:ey mopped up more water than can be imagined. The only real damage done to the house was that almost all the screen wire was ripped from the framing on the patio and one aluminum post was twisted, in the words of Arnold, “like a pretzel.” All up and down the neighborhood, he reported, windows were blown out as were car ports and roofs. All the yards have pieces of trees, houses and other buildings in them. Arnold also said that op«| time during the storm he saw someone’s screened porch and boat flying through the air. They are without electricity, the mail can’t ‘get through and there probably won’t be any school for a while. Some of the older people told Arnold that this was the worst hurricane they had ever seen. Arnold said, “I'd much rather go through another battle with the Japs than what we’ve been through.” Break Ground Oct 25 For New Reservoir BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (UPD — Ground will be broken Oct. 25 for the 18,450-acre Monroe Reservoir project in southeastern Monroe County. Bids for initial construction work will be accepted until Oct. 4.

Congo Debate Is Continued

UNITED NATIONS (UPI) — Russia s campaign to discredit United Nations peace efforts in the Congo appeared likely today to force an emergency meeting of the General Assembly on the eve of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev’s arrival. Diplomatic sources said such a move would boomerang against the Russians in view of the support of Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold by the majority of Afro-Asian, Latin American and Western nations. The Security Council continued its crisis debate with opposing resolutions from the United States and Russia before it. Predict Veto Diplomats predicted that Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister .Valerian A. Zorin would employ Russia’s 90th veto to kill the UJS. proposal endorsing Hammarskjold’s handlingof the confused Congo crisis. A Russian counter-proposal—in effect a motion of non-confidence in Hammarskjold — was sure of only Russian and Polish votes in the 11-nation council, they said. A Soviet veto in the vote expected before adjournment tonight would open the way to put the issue before a special session of an members of the world organization. Seek Compromise The worried African nations were seeking a middle road between the pro - Hammarskjold

Kennedy Assails Backward G. O. P.

READING, Pa. (UPD — Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy today barnstormed eastern Pennsylvania with a charge that the Republicans are a “stick in the mud” party “contented with too little” economic expansion for the United States. Starting out from Harrisburg, Kennedy campaigned by motorcade across the eastern portion of Pennsylvania toward Baltimore, Md., where he has a major speech scheduled for tonight. Kennedy’s first campaign stop of the day was before a crowd of about 4,000 people before the Elks Lodge hall in Lebanon, Pa. Kennedy said he did not quarrel with the fact that the Republicans shared his aspirations for a better America. "My argument with the Republicans is that they have been content with too little—content with an economy that expanded too little,” he said. The Democraic candidate said that failure of the United States to live up to the nation’s productive capacity was hurting the American position overseas. “If the United States is not the great defender of freedom, no other country is,” he said. : In the' text of a speech pre-, pared for delivery in Reading, Kennedy criticized the Republicans on their stand on legislation providing medical care for the aged. He contended that the Republicans were responsible for imposing a pauper’s oath on elderly Americans if they want help with their medical expenses from government funds. He said that in the last session of Congress, the Democrats wanted older citizens “to receive help in meeting their staggering medical bills without making them take a pauper’s oath.” “We wanted them to receive that help because they deserved it: because it was a right they had earned, not charity they were being given,” Kennedy added. He said the Democrats would have based a medical care system on “the pay-as-you-go Insurance principles of the Social Security

■ course of the United States and ; the anti-Hammarskjpld stand of i the Russians. • Tunisia was reported seeking to work out a compromise resolution ' —perhaps a mediation committee - which would avoid a showdown in the council. 1 U.S. Ambassador James J ■ Wadsworth charged flatly Thurs- • day that Russia was trying to set : up a Soviet satellite “in the very heart of Africa.” He warned that continued one - sided Communist action in providing arms, planes and other Supplies to the forces of leftist Patrice Lumumba would lead to “unilateral actions by many parties with all the implications this would have for Africa.” Sapports U.N. Actions The U.S. resolution called for full support for Hammarskjold • and his Congo policies and reaffirmed the council’s request to all countries to refrain from sending anything into tht Congo for military purposes except through the United Nations. The Russian resolution demanded an immediate end to what it termed Hammarskjold’s “interference” in the internal affairs of the African nation, the immediate surrender by the U.N. force of the Congo’s airfields and Leopoldville Radio to the “central government,” and the ouster of the present U.N. command of Maj. Gen. Carl Carlsson Van Horn of Sweden.

system” because “old people do not want a handout—they want insurance and they will pay for it as they go,” Annual Physical Check-up For Ike WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Eisenhower underwent X-ray and gastro-intestinal tests today as part of his annual physical check-up. Following the examinations at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center the chief executive planned to leave for his Camp David, Md., mountain retreat where he will work on his address to the United Nations General Assembly next Thursday. The White House said the President was being given the normal tests administered during a checkup and said there was nothing surprising about Eisenhower’s hospital stay. The Chief Executive entered Walter Reed Army Medical Center early Thursday evening for what probably will be his last complete examination as President. White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty said there was nothing unusual about the checkup. He said the President would return to Walter Reed in the near future for further tests to complete the examination. Doctors probably will announce their findings in a brief statement, Hagerty said. Gideon Gerber Dies At Bluffton Today Gideon Gerber, 86, longtime president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Bluffton, died at 2:05 o'clock this morning at the Clinic hospital in Bluffton, where he had been a patient for 36 days. Mr. Gerber had been active In his banking duties until his recent illness. He founded the bank at Craigville in 1917, and operated the institaiton there until January of 1933, when the bank was moved to Bluffton, in the building formerly occupied by the Wells County Bank. He was born in Wells county Sept. 26, 1873, a son of Ulrich and Kathleen Mathias-Geiber, and was a lifelong resident of Adams and Wells counties, moving to Bluffton when the bank location was changed. He was married Dec. 22, 1895, to Miss Caroline Kehrn. His wife preceded him in death Aug. 7, 1956. Mr. Gerber was a member of the Apostolic Christian church. Surviving are one son, Amos Gerber of Bluffton; seven daughters, Mrs. Emil Reinhard of Craigville, Mrs. Eli Pfister of Rockford, 0., Mrs. Henry Schwartz of Grabill, Mrs. William Reece -of Liberty Center, Mrs. Alex Mackres of Columbia City, Mrs. Dennis Moser of Bluffton, and Mrs. Leon Wuethrich of Rensselaer; 26 grandchildren; 32 greatk < aumraren, one Drotner, Jo* seph Gerber‘of Bluffton, and one sister, Mrs. John Steffen of Bluffton route 4. Funeral services will be conducted at 12:30 p. m. Sunday at the Goodwin funeral home in Bluffton, and at 1 p. m. at the Apostolic Christian church. The Rev. Sam Aeschliman will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 o’clock this evening until time of the services. ■»

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPD — Col. Joseph Mobutu consolidated his military rule of the Congo today, but the Soviet Embassy said it would ignore his statement that the Soviet and other Communist bloc diplomatic missions should leave by nightfall. An embassy spokesman told United Press International that “we are not accredited to Col. Mobutu. We are officially accredited to the Congolese republic and its chief of state Mr. Joseph Kasavufou.” “Coil. Mobutu, in any case, • the spokesman added, “has not notified us officially of any statement which he might have made concerning the embassy.” Mobutu told a news conference Wednesday night that the army was seizing power and “neutralizing” the activities of President Kasavubu and Premier Patrice Lumumba until the end of the year. He added Parliament also was being taken over. And he gave the Soviet, Czech and any other Communist bloc diplomats 48 hours to get out of the country. Troops Reported Ready Today he was reported ready to throw a troop cordon around both the Soviet and Czech embassies. But at 2 p.m. (9 a.m. e.d.t.), there were no troops nor any signs of unusual activity outside or inside the embassies. Armed Congolese soldiers shut off the Parliament building this morning and prevented members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate from entering to hold a session. Lumumba, who was saved by United Nations troops Thursday night from attempts by angry Congolese soldiers to kill him, was still in the city under guard today. U.N. sources said he slipped away to a secret residence where he remained under the protection of Ghanaian troops of the U.N. force and his own loyal gendarmes. (A Moscow Radio home service broadcast early this morning said Lumumba had arrested Mobutu but this appeared to be either propaganda for Russian consumptionor slow reporting of a claim by Lumumba Thursday which later proved false.) Overplays Hand The fiery premier seemed to have overplayed his hand in his power struggle with President Joseph Kasavubu, but the oratorical talents of the former beer salesman were such that no one was counting him out of the picture yet. Ulis newly independent country, bankrupt and near anarchy, still was ripe for new power plays unless Mobutu could strengthen his regime quickly with popular support. When Mobutu announced seizure of power Wednesday night he issued orders that Communist embassies be closed and their diplomats leave, the country within 48 hours. The embassies operated normally Thursday but Thursday night Mobutu repeated his ultimatum. Lumumba owed his life to the U.N. force which he had tried to oust from the country. Safe In Bedroom Ghanian U.N. soldiers kept him safe in a second-floor bedroom of their officers mess at Camp Leo-

Castro Warned Not To Carry Firearms

=■ WASHINGTON JUPI) — Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and his guntoting bodyguards have been warned to leave their firearms at home when they come to New York next week for the United Nations General Assembly; —— American officials said today they have advised the Cuban Embassy that Castro and his entourage will not be permitted to carry their customary weapons during the bearded Cuban leader's stay in this country. The State Department already had announced that Castro would be confined to Manhattan Island. He has been placed under the same restrictions as those imposed on Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and the Hungarian and Albanian Communist leaders.

pold Thursday while angry Baluba tribal members of the Congolese army howled for his head. “Kobama, kobama (kill, kill),” they cried as the U.N. troops kept them at bay. The infuriated soldiers told newsmen that Lumumba had them transferred to Leopoldville from Bakwanga, in the rebellious section of southern Kasai Province, and then sent other Congolese troops in to massacre civilians. “He has killed our territory,” they cried. “Women and children were killed in a maternity hospital.” The Balubas clashed with other Congolese soldiers who supported Lumumba and only the presence of the U.N. troops kept the matter from getting completely out of hand. Driver Killed When Auto Is Wrecked INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—Edward Lanpher, 24, R.R. 2, Greenwood, was killed Thursday night when the car he was driving skidded on a Marion County road near here, flipped over and caught fire. Sheriff’s deputies said Lanpher, who was apparently traveling at a high rate of speed when the accident occurred, was thrown from the car and killed outright. Perry Township firemen p -‘ out the fire. Candidates Appear At Meeting Sept. 22 An informational meeting featuring political candidates will be sponsored by the Adams County Farm Bureau with rural youth cooperating and helping on the program Thursday evening, Sep- , tember 22. Candidates for district IV congressman, E. Ross Adair and Byron McCammon and state representative candidates. Burl Johnson and Floyd Acker, will be present at the meeting and discuss their party platforms. Byron Bunker, principal of Hartford , Center high school, will serve as moderator of the program. Those in attendance will be given an opportunity of asking questions of the political candidates. The meeting will be held at the Adams Central high school gym beginning at 8 p. m. All Farm Bureau families and rural youth members are urged to attend and others interested in this type of program are also invited. Local candidates seeking county offices have been invited and several have indicated they will attend. A social hour with refreshments will follow the program, giving those in attendance an opportunity of meeting the candidates. This is the first time a meeting of this type has been sponsored in the county. The detailed program will be announced and published next week.

— American officials advised the Cuban Embassy to advise Havana that foreigners, bodyguards or not were not permitted to carry arms in the United States. Assurances have been received that the advice will be taken, the officials said. The U.S. officials informed the Cubans that the American government, under the U.N. headquarters agreement, was responsible for the safety of Castro and would take every precaution to guard him while he was in New York. — : So far as could be learned, a similar warning was not given the Russians regarding Khrushchev’s bodyguards. Officials said the Russians know the US. law.

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