Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 220, Decatur, Adams County, 17 September 1960 — Page 1

Vol. LVIII. No. 220.

U. N. General Assembly Called Into Emergency Session On Congo Crisis

Threat Os New Strike Issued On Pennsy Road PHILADELPHIA (UPI) — The Pennsylvania Railroad, shut down by a strike for 12 days before settlement was reached last Monday, was threatened today with another walkout. The Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, representing about 26.000 employes in the company’s freight and claims and accounting departments, issued ‘ — the threat Friday after a meeting of officers of six local lodges. The session was called to discuss the layoff of 120 freight claims employes and 108 accounting clerics last Thursday. The walkout threat follows by only four days a settlement of the strike by 20,000 maintenance shop employes. The strike completely shut down the nation’s largest rail system for the first time in its 114-year history. The clerks officers sent a telegram to George Harrison, president of the brotherhood, asking that the union start strike proceedings “on the issue of job stabilization and security.” The telegram, also sent to Pennsy officials, accussed the line of violating a U.S. Supreme Court decision which the brotherhood said made job security a proper matter for bargaining and strike action. The railroad said it furloughed the employes because of “the low level of traffic which makes it necessary to effect all economies, including force reduction.” A spokesman for the P.R.R. said as ,>oon as freight handling becomes normal the clerks will be recalled. He added that the line expected freight operations to return to normal in about a week or 10 days. Mrs. Emma F. Mann Is Taken By Death Mrs. Emma Frances Mann, 80, of Geneva, died at 3:40 p. m. Friday at Ball memorial hospital, Muncie. Surviving are 10 children: Earl Mann and Mrs. Edith Nevil of Geneva, Mrs. Helmina Carpentei*fof Camden, Mich., Mrs. Leia Elliott of Argos, Mrs. Grace McFarland of Dunkirk, Norman and Harvey Mann of Portland, Mrs. Florence Nevil of Ceylon, Mrs. Dorothy Devroy and Clarence Mann, both of Muncie. Services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home In Geneva, with burial in Gravel Hill cemetery at Bryant.

SUB’S-E YE VIEW OF ARCTlC— Exploring arctic ice, crew members of U.S.S. Seadragon are shown as seen through her periscope during the polar voyage which carried the sub to the North Pole, en route from Portsmouth, N. H., to Hawaii.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT OHLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Welsh Raps G.O.P. For Road Program ANDERSON, Ind. (UPI) — Former State Sen. Matthew Welsh, the Democratic nominee for governor, Friday night sharply attacked the GOP administration in Indiana on its highway program. Welsh told a party rally here Indiana has roads without bridges, bridges without roads and a “missing link highway.” He said the Indiana section of a main throughway between Chicago and Detroit hasn’t been built although Illinois has completed its part and Michigan is about to complete it’s section. Welsh said an example of road without a brige is in Wayne County and an example of a bridge without a road is in St. Joseph County. Os the “missing link highway,” he said it is “not undeway and there apparently are noß>lans to get it built.” “It’s sheer nonsense to let a 28mile section of unbuilt highway tie up a main three-state traffic artery,” Welsh said. “Under my administration we will build roads that start someplace and go somewhere instead of the HandleyParker bits and pieces of political roads.” Before he came to Anderson, Welsh appeared at a program conference of the Indiana Association for Mental Health at Indianapolis and said if he is elected governor he will recommend the establishment of a separate State Department of Mental Health with child and mental retardation divisions. Welsh also said he will adovcate careful screening of all mental health institutional employes and increasing salaries and reducing work weeks for such employes. Huntington Airman Is Suicide Victim LIMESTONE, Maine (UPI) — An Indiana airman father of three was found shot to death today in what state police said was apparent suicide. A trooper going to the Limestone home of Airman First Class Dean E. Campbell, 25, of Huntington, Ind., to arrest him on an assault and battery charge found him shot in the head with a rifle bullet. INDIANA WEATHER Mostly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers today and tonight Turning cooler north tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and a little cooler north, partly cloudy and warm south. Low tonight upper 50s north, low 60s south. High Sunday upper 60s north, near 80 south. Outlook for Monday: Fair with little temperature change.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —The Security Council, on the motion of the United States, early today summoned the General Assembly to an emergency session beginning tonight on the Congo crisis. The veto-free 82-nation assembly meets at 8 p.m., EDT. Russia, which bitterly protested the calling of the assembly, paved the way for the action by vetoing a small-power resolution aimed at heading off a showdown between the United States and the Soviet Union in the world parliament. The move was interpreted as giving the United States an edge in the propaganda circus Russia set up by summoning Communist and neutralist heads of government to the regular assembly session which starts next Tuesday. Deflate Red Plans Observers pointed out that the United States will be able to indict Russia for its effort to undermine the U.N. effort in the Congo before the arrival of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, two days away on the Soviet liner Baltika. This was calculated to deflate , Russia’s announced plans to try to blame the United States in the assembly for espionage flights and the failure of disarmament negotiations as well as last May’s summit conference. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian A. Zorin charged the emergency assembly session was ’ “illegal.” It was called under the Ache-son-Dulles “uniting for peace” resolution of 1990, which authorizes the calling of an emergency assembly session by the vote of any seven members of the council—with the veto inoperative — whenever council action is blocked by the veto. Russia did not vote for that assembly resolution and has been calling it illegal for the past 10 years. Zorin, using the Soviet veto power for the 90th time in the U.N.’s 15-year history, killed an effort by which Ceylon and Tunisia had hoped to avert a power struggle in Connection with the Congo. Eight Back Resolution Argentina, Ceylon, China, Ecuador, Italy, Tunisia, Britain and the United States voted for the resolution. Russia and Poland voted against it. France, resenting attacks on its Belgian ally in the two-month Congo debate, abstained as it has done on previous resolutions. Ambassador James J. Wadsworth, who will lead the U.S. delegation to the emergency assembly, made the motion for the special session immediately after Zorin cast his veto. It was possible that Khrushchev might get in on the special session, which is sure to continue at least through Monday. The Baltika was due to dock in New York Monday morning, and there was nothing to prevent Khrushchev from taking floor command of the Russian delegation if he chose to do so. Local Man's Sister Dies Unexpectedly Mrs. Arthur Burkhart, 69, sister of Dwight Kimble of this city, died suddenly of a heart attack Friday at her home in Hollywood, Calif. She had not been ill and death was unexpected. Mrs. Burkhart was born in Kimmell and lived in Fort Wayne, where she was a milliner, until her marriage 40 years ago, when she and her husband moved to California. Surviving in addition to her husband and the brother in this city, are three other brothers, Martin Kimble of Albion, Frank Kimble of Fort Wayne, and Fred Kimble of Harvard, Hl., and one sister, Mrs. Charles Wolf of Lathrop, Mo. Funeral services will be held in Forest Lawn chapel in Hollywood, and the body will then be brought to Edgerton, 0., next week for burial.

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, Sept. 17, 1960.

Kennedy Hits Farm Policies

GREENVILLE, N.C. (UPI) —1 John F. Kennedy stumped the southern tobacco belt today assailing administration farm policies and deriding Vice President Richard M. Nixon for tryng to repudate Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson. After a night’s rest at his Washington home following a long day of campaigning in Pennsylvania and Maryland, the Democratic presidential nominee planned a foil Saturday in North Carolina. His day of aerial barnstorming began in this tobacco center with the rest of the swing devoted to stops in Greensboro, Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh. In a major foreign policy speech in Baltimore Friday night, marked by repeated power failures that marred a regional telecast, Kennedy told 1,800 Democratic diners that America, even in a spirited political campaign, would stand together firmly I against divisive tactics of Sovet Premer Nikita Khrushchev at the UJI. General Assembly in New York next week. Using the political forum as a vehicle for an open message to Khrushchev, the Democratic candidate said: “You may try to praise or condemn one candidate more than another—you may try to express your preferences or doubts — but the American people are not going to be influenced in this election by what the Kremlin does or does not say. “Democrats, Republicans and independents alike are united in our opposition to your system and everything it stands for . . . ” Kennedy’s appeal in North Carolina was aimed straight at the farmers of a key southern state which has the largest farm population of the nation. GOP candidate Nixon visited the state at the outset of his campaign and was well received. • The Massachusetts senator in his prepared Greenville address ridiculed the Republicans for paying attention to the farmers only "for the two months of an election campaign.” He said that during the Eisenhower administration, many small farmers were forced to abandon their land, young people drifted away from the farm and farmers in general were denied their fair share of national income. “And on top of everything else, he (the farmer) has been saddled with the Benson-Nixon program,” Kennedy said. “Recently, of course, Mr. Nixon has been trying to cut Mr. Benson out of the herd. But herds have away of sticking together

Cuban Police Free Embassy Secretary

HAVANA (UPI) — Dilomatic sources said today that Cuba’s charges of a spy plot involving American citizens was timed to provide Premier Fidel Castro with ammunition at the United Nations General Assembly which opens in New York Tuesday. Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa delivered a note to tire United States, claiming agents had broken up a spy ring masterminded by Americans. A 26-year-old secretary at the and later released by Cuban intelligence officials. But three other Americans were arrested and jailed on suspicion of espionage. Mrs. Marjorie Lennox, a divorcee from San Francisco, was picked up by secret police early Thursday in a raid on her apartment. U.S. Ambassador to Cuba Philip Bonsai protested Mrs. Lennox’s detention both orally and in a written communication to the Cuban government.

—and in any Republican herd there will always be a Benson. And that’s not what the American farmer wants.” The Democratic nominee promised that his agriculture secretary would be a person "determined to achieve a balance between supply and demand, reduce farm surpluses and ensure the farmer a fair price in the market.” Under this new secretary, Kennedy promised a program for increased soil and water conservation, flood and drainage control, balanced development of forests, fisheries and transportation and encouragement of local industries. Nettie Singleton Dies Last Evening Mrs. Nettie Singleton, 80, wife of Jesse L. Singleton and lifelong resident of Root township- died at 8 o’clock Friday evening at her home, five miles northwest of Decatur. She had been bedfast for the past two years. She was born in Root township May 8, 1880, a daughter of Joseph E. and Louise C. Kiess-Mann, and was married to Jesse L. Singleton Oct. 8, 1903. Mrs. Singleton was a member of the Mt. Pleasant Methodist church her entire life, and was also a member of the Root township Home Economics club. Surviving in addition to her husband are three sons, Franklin J. and Everett C. Singleton, both of Root township, and Kenneth N. Singleton of Decatur; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchil-Mann of Rochester, Minn., and three sisters, Mrs. Ethel Granddren; one brother. Dr. Frank C. staff of Root township, Mrs. Lulu Vance of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. George Sprague of Decatur. Three brothers and one sister preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 1:30 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home and at 2 p. m. at the Mt. Pleasant Methodist church. The Rev. E. J. Arthur and the Rev. George Christian will officiate, and burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services.

Jloa replied to Bonsai’s note, charging Mrs. Lennox was mixed up with “a band of North American spies.” Also arrested were Eustace Dan Brunet, Edmundo K. Taranske and Daniel L. Cardswell. An Italian citizen, Mario Nordoi, and Robert L. Neet, described as an American Embassy employe, were also picked up by Cuban police. The embassy claimed it knew nothing about Neet, who was released later. Roa said Neet would be expelled from Cuba. Roa said agents found the three Americans in Nordio’s apartment, together with radio transmission equipment. He said a key taken from one of the men fitted Mrs. Lennox’s apartment on the floor above. Mrs. Lennox spent Thursday night on a cot in the Cuban army’s detention jail, a former palatial residence. She was interrogated by Cuban agents until her release Friday.

Service Clubs Will Hear Mrs. Harden I I ' ’ Hl. H ■■■ • - Mrs. Cecil M. Harden The sinister evil of mail order obscenity, its threat to the youth of this nation, and suggested steps to combat the mail order merchants of filth will be outlined to the citizens of Indiana in a ten day speaking tour by special assistant to the postmaster general, Mrs. Cecil M. Harden. Mrs. Harden will address a joint meeting of the Decatur Lions and Rotary clubs at the Decatur Youth and Community Center Thursday, September 22 at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be opened to teachers and parents of school children after the dinner, which will last until 7:30. Check out time for both clubs will be 9 p.m. Tuesday. Any area residents who are interested in the subject are invited to join the meeting at 7:30 to hear Mrs. Harden’s timely talk. A former congresswoman for ten years from the sixth congressional district of Indiana, Mrs. Harden begins her Indiana tour September 13 in Indianapolis, ending it September 29 at Tab. “The postmaster general is most grateful to the many civic minded groups throughout Indiana who asked the post office department for a speaker to come to their respective communities to discuss this problem of unsolicited and unwanted pornographic mail,” Mrs. Harden will tell her audiences in Indiana. “For over a year—since Mr. Summerfield swore me In as his special assistant in charge of women’s affairs in the postal establishment—l have spoken to similar groups in many other states throughout the nation. And it has been most heartening to hear of the determined actions taken by responsible citizens to help the department in this vital battle against the purveyors of pornography.” Mrs. Harden will outline the scope of this business, of filth through the mail. She will point out that the racketeers have tremendous resources to draw upon in order to fight those who would put a stop to these mailings. The postal official will tell of raids made by postal inspectors in cooperation with local police officials in which tons of this filthy material were seized. And she will emphasize the inherent dangers of seized mailing lists, some of which had as many as 100.000 names. “No community can consider itself immune to these mailings,” the former congresswoman will point out. “And that is why it affords me so much pleasure to be able to outline the true facts, unpleasant as they may be, in mailorder obscenity. Because, once those facts are known, once the citizens see the type of vile stuff which children as young as seven may receive—and I have some of those samples with me—then the citizens and the communities can lay plans for effective steps to stop this vile traffic into their homes and into their communities.” Advertising Index Advertiser Page Assembly of God Church -- 3 Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 5, 6 Burk Elevator Co. .Z—-- 5 Citizens Telephone Co. 3 Clark’s Drive-In •— 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 6 Decatur Drive In Theater 3 Ellenberger Bros., auctioneers - 5 Evans Sales & Service 4, 5 Ray Eichenauer 5 First State Bank of Decatur 6 Fairway —> —— 6 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home .. 3 Happy Hours Roller Rink 3 Ned C. Johnson, auctioneer 5 KiTvorc 3 Mies Recreation - 4 Dick Mansfield Motor Sales —— 5 Parrish Electric —— 5 Pike Lumber Co. - - 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc. 5 Smith Drug Co. .1— 3, 5 Teeple Truck Lines — 5 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc. .... 5 Zwick Funeral Home — 4 Zintsmaster Motors -------- 4, 5 Church Page Sponsors — 2 NOON EDITION

Decatur Church To Mark Centennial

Plans are nearly complete for the observance of the centennial of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, according to the pastor, the Rev. William C. Feller. The celebration of the 100th anniversary of the local congregation will be held during the entire month of October. Guest speakers for the five Sunday morning services, the one vesper service, and the two banquets, including a mother-daugh-ter, and a father-son banquet, will include the living former pastors of the church, the sons and daughters of the congregation who have entered the ministry or mission field, and the widows of former pastors, the first vice president of the Evangelical and Reformed church and the president of the Michigan-Indiana synod. About a year ago a centennial committee was appointed to make plans for the special observance. The committee was composed of Edward Jaberg, chairman, Ned C. Johnson, secretary, George Thomas, Miss Matilda Sellemeyer, Mrs. J. Fred Fruchte, Mrs. Ruffls Kirchhofer, A. R. Ashbaucher, Leo Kirsch (now deceased), Mrs. George Buckley, Wesley Mrs. Ray Heller, Mrs. LaVern Roth, Mrs. Adolph Weidler, Mrs. Tony Meyers, Miss Alice Roth Lawrence Rash, William Tutewiler, Tom Adler and Rev. William C. Feller. Mrs. Adolph Weidler was appointed historian and since that time has written the history of the congregation, which is now in the hands of the printer. Four former pastors are still living and they include, Dr. Charles M. Prugh, of Tiffin, Ohio, L ’ W Stolte ’ New Knoxyille, Ohio, the Rev, George Grether, Neillesville, Wis., and the Rev. R. R. Elliker, Fostoria, Ohio. The names of the sons and daughters of the congregation who have entered the ministry will be listed at a later date, as will the detailed schedule of the centennial services. Members of the church, former members are invited to have a part in the services. A special for , serv , ice . is being planned for the local church and the area Evangelical and Reformed churchwk* Pleads Not Guilty To Killing Husband SPENCER, Ind. (UPI) _ Mrs. Carolyn Sally Britton, 26, Owen County farm wife who admitted poisoning her husband last May 23, pleaded innocent Friday to first-degree murder charges. Judge Austin Childress set trial for Oct. 17.

Red Diplomats Leave Congo

LEOPOLDVILLE (DPI) — Premier Patrice Lumumba “slipped away” from his United Nations protectors today and rumors swept Leopoldville that he had been shot and killed while trying to pass a roadblock about 30 miles from the capital. The Lumumba report came as the Soviet Embassy hauled down its flag at 11:50 a.m. in a humiliating end of relations with the Congo Republic. The flag came down 10 minutes before the deadline imposed by Col. Joseph Mobutu who seized power earlier this week. Mobutu had ordered the Soviet, Czechoslovakian and “other socialist” embassies here to close and demanded the staffs and their technicians leave the country immediately. It appeared his orders were being obeyed. Half an hour later Soviet Ambassador Mikhail D. Yakovlev and the Czech ambassador boarded Ilyushin planes and took off for an unknown destination—probably Russia and Czechoslovakia. The planes were ones given to Lumumba by the Soviet last month. The Czech embassy had shut its doors after a night inwhtchdtplomats burned secret papers in the garden. Leopoldville has been filled with rumor after rumor since Mobutu deposed Lumumba and it was possible the assassination report had been spread by his enemies. Mutinous Congolese troops had tried to lynch him on two occasions Thursday. Diplomatic sources believed he would try to flee to Stanleyville, the center of his political strength, but the rumors today said he had been captured at a road block and shot. The U.N. command was trying to check the rumors but without success. The Soviet departure was preceded by a major moving job

Six Cents

Republicans To Open Headquarters Here John M. Doan, chairman of the Adams county Republican central committee, today announced plans for the official opening of party headquarters, and also dates of Republican meetings in the fourth district. Party headquarters will be officially opened in the Rice hotel at 7:30 o’clock next Saturday night Sept. 24. E. Ross Adair, candidate for reelection as fourth district congressman, will be the principal speaker, and county candidates will be present. Light refreshments will be served, and the public is invited to attendVice president Richard M. Nixon will speak from the court house square in Fort Wayne at 10 o’clock next Wednesday morning, and a huge crowd is expected to hear the Republican candidate for president. Dr. Walter Judd, G.O.P. sena. tor from Minnesota, and keynoter for the 1960 national convention, will speak at the Shrine auditorium in Fort Wayne at 8 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 25. Adams county has been allotted 100 free tickets, and admission to the auditorium will be by ticket only. Chairman Doan stated that there are 40 tickets at the Decatur auto license bureau, 24 at the Berne license bureau, and 20 at the Geneva license bureau. Clifford Essex, of Monroe, has 10 tickets, and there is a possibility that more tickets may be available if other counties fail to place all their tickets. The fourth district organization will hold a dinner meeting at the Van Orman hotel in Fort Wayne at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 29. Mrs. Ivy Baker Priest, United States treasurer, will be the principal speaker. Minnesota Man To Fill Legion Vacancy INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — Na. tional Commander Martin B. McKneally of the American Legion has announced the appointment of Irvan Frank Gianotti, Gilbert, Minn., as national vice commander to fill a vacancy created by the death two months ago of Nate V. Keller, Virginia, Minn. Gianetti’s appointment was con. firmed by a mail vote conducted by McKneally among the legion’s national executive committee members. .

with trucks taking many loads of the files from the embassy to the airport. But the planes there were unable to leave because Mobutu could not be found to give final clearance. Before the Soviet ambassador left the embassy Congolese troops and armed Ghanaian soldiers of the U.N. forces confronted each other for three hours before the embassy when a Congolese officer was refused permission to deliver a message to the ambassador. The Congolese arrived in two trucks only to run into the Ghanaians who were on duty in front of the embassy. The Soviets, who had criticized UJT. actions in the Congo, had requested U.N. protection. Both sides stood tensely facing each other with their fingers on the triggers while the Congolese commander argued with the stubborn Ghanaians. Newsmen present acted as interpreters. The order demanding the Russian embassy cease its activities was made legal by Mobutu who got President Joseph Kasavubu to issue the order and the Kasavubttappointed Premier Joseph Ileo to sign it. But it was clear Mobutu was in charge. Before Lumumba slipped away there was speculation he would try to fly to Stanleyville in north central Congo. The Communists had challenged the order issued Friday by Mobutu, the Congo’s new strong man, on the technical ground that they were accredited to Kasavubu’s government rather than the colonel's military regime. - However, the Russians and Czechs affected by the order were reported packing their bags, burning their secret papers and preparing to leave.