Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 58, Number 273, Decatur, Adams County, 18 November 1960 — Page 1

Vol LVIII. No. 273

Guatemala And Nicaragua Welcome Peace Patrolers; Intervention-Says Castro

UN Assembly At Showdown Over Kasavubu UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (UPI) —The General Assembly plunges into a showdown session on the Congo today confronted with an offer by President Joseph Kasavubu to accept a U.N. conciliation commission if he is recognized as the top authority in the country. Fulbert Youlou, Kasavubu’s fel-low-tribesman who is president of the former French Congo, across the river from the strife-torn Republic of the Congo, flew here from Brazzaville to bolster his presidential neighbor’s case. Youlou was expected to be the first speaker in the assembly meeting to take up the recommendation of its Credentials Committee that a delegation appointed by Kasavubu be granted the Congo’s seat in the world parliament. It is opposed by a delegation named by ousted Leftist premier Patrice Lumumba. General Assembly approval for the president's delegation would be tantamount to U.N. backing for Kasavubu in his battle with Lumumba for political supremacy in the Congo. A motion to shelve the credentials matter was expected at the outset of the meeting. Tbe United States, pushing the case for Kasavubu, was confident it could muster a voting edge—small but sufficient — to beat down either a motion to adjourn debate indefinitely or to postpone it until the conciliation commission returns from the Congo. Most of the Africans wanted a postponement. But if they failed to get it, they were considered unlikely to vote against the delegation appointed by Kasavubu, who is universally recognized as the Congo's chief of state. Probe Death Cause Os Indiana Driver BATESVILLE, Ind. (UPI) — Lawrnece Reuther, 56. Oldenburg, was killed by the crash of a car or suffered a fatal heart attack before the crash on Indiana 229 north of his home in Franklin County Thursday. An autopsy was scheduled to determine which caused the death. The car driven by Reuther went out of control and crashed into a utility pole.

Ike Studies Code Reports

AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPD — President Eisenhower studied coded reports today from U.S. warships patrolling the Carfobean to guard Guatemala and Nicaragua from any surprise Communist-led attack. Eisenhower kept posted on the movements of Navy ships and planes following his blunt warning to Cuban Premier Fidel Castro to keep hands off the two Central American nations. The President, responding formal requests by both revoltbattered republics, Thursday directed naval units to “seek out and prevent*’ any Red-directed invasion of Guatemala or Nicaragua. His orders were viewed as an attempt to check a growing Communist threat to the Panama Canal from subversion or revolution in Central America. The action indicated that U.S. offtOiaLs believed charges by Guatemalan and Nicaraguan leaders that recent abortive revolts against their governments were inspired by Castro. 4 ' Cuba’s official newspaper. La Calle, termed the action ’‘Yankee

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Capt. John R. McCone

DIPLOMATIC SOURCES behind the Iron Curtain report that Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev may be planning to release two U.S. RB-47 fliers early in 1961 as a “peace offering to presi-dent-elect John F. Kennedy. McCone of Tonganoxie, Okla., and Olmstead of Elmira, N. Y., are the fliers in Soviet custody. The other four crewmen were killed when the big plane was downed.

Baluba Tribesmen Found Massacred

LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPl)—Eighty Baluba tribesmen have been found massacred near the Katanga Province town of Lagwe, a United Nations spokesman reported today. The bodies were found by an Ethiopian patrol in the area which the United Nations had declared a neutral zone and had banned the carrying of arms by any but U.N. troops. The United Nations here is awaiting further details. The 4th Battalion of the Queen's own Nigerian regunent which began arriving Thursday night was being rushed into the strife-torn area where 33 Balubas were reported killed earlier this week. Near the town of Kabongo in another neutral area two gendarmes pf Katanga President Moise Tshombe's army were wounded by Balubas. A Belgian officer with the gendarmes has asked the United Nations to help rescue them. The spokesman said the United Nations would give its assistance. Congolese army cnief of staff Col. Joseph Mobutu was still holding the Ghana embassy second secretary, Lovelace Mensah, who was arrested * near the house of

* military intervention” and a threat to peace. The newspaper ridiculed the idea that the two countries were jeopardized by an invasion launched from Cuba. But American diplomats long have been worried about huge shipments of war equipment from Russia and China to bolster Cuba’s war-<m aki n g potential. They fear that Castro may try to decide to "export" his revolution elsewhere in the turbulent Caribbean. Evansville Airman Critically Injured GRAND FORKS, N. D. (UPD— Airman Robert L. Pressley, 19, Evansville, Ind., was injured critically Thursday when he was sucked into the intake of a jet aircraft at Grand Forks Air Force Base. Pressley was evacuated by helicopter to a Fargo hospital where he was listed in critical condition with head and internal injuries. He was working near an FlOl jet fighter at the time of the accident.

Capt. Freeman B. Olmstead

deposed Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba on Tuesday. He allegedly was carrying letters to Lumumba from ..his vice premier, Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Mobutu today began to put the squeeze on the embassy itself and ordered its telephones to be cut off. The wave of tribal terrorism sweeping the northern part of Katanga already has cost the lives of 9 Irish U.N. troops and scores of natives. Reports received here Thursday said the mutilated bodies of 33 Africans had been found by U.N. troops near Manono. The U.N. command promptly announced it was dispatching the 700-man strong 4th Battalion of the Queen’s own Nigerian Regiment into the area. The battalion was being flown in by U.S. military Globemaster. It will boost U.N. troop strength in the region to 4,200. An Irish U.N. battalion and Moroccan .z.and Ethiopian U.N. contingents already are on duty in the rebel-infested area about 300 miles north of the provincial capital of Ebsabethville. Last week, Baluba tribesmen armed with guns, bows and spears massacred an Irish patrol in an ambush. Only two of the 11 soldiers survived. 1 First Appointments Announced By Welsh INDIANAPOLIS (tfPD — The first two appointments ot Gov.elect Matthew E. Welsh were announced today from a sununit conference of Hoosier Democratic bigwigs at Fort Lauderdale, Bia., disclosed exclusively by United Press International. Clinton Green, Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, was named administrative assistant to the governor and Jack New, Greenfield, was appointed as the governor’s executive secretary. Both men had executive rules in the Welsh campaign. Welsh announced he and his two aides would establish headquarters soon and plan the administrative and legislative programs of the new administration. Meanwhile, Welsh confirmed the holding of the secret gathering in the Florida city. He said that, besides himself, the following attended: Sen. Vance Hartke; Alex Campbell, national committeeman; Mrs. Margaret Afflis Johnston, national committeewoman; J. Manfred Core, state chairman; Mrs, Luella Cotton, state vice-chairman; John Hurt’ Martinsville and Indianapolis aV torney, another Walsh headquarters leader; Green and New.

Decatur, Indiana, Friday, Nov. 18, 1960.

By DOUG ANDERSON United Press International Cuban Premier Fidel Castro’s propaganda machine charged apgrily today that U.S. assignment of warships to guard Guatemala and Nicaragua against Communist invasion was “Yankee intervention” in the Caribbean. The naval peace patrol was welcomed by the two Central American nations, threatened this week by uprisings which their governments said were fostered by toe Castro regime, but Cuba’s official press and radio said there was no threat of invasion. Radio announcers on Castro’s government stations charged that President Eisenhower, by posting an invasion guard on the eastern approaches to Guatemala and Nicaragua, was “trying to crush the fight for freedom going on in those countries.” From Moscow, the Soviet Union’s Tass news agency charged the U.S. action was “one more link in the provocative policy of the U.S. ruling circles against Cuba.” It claimed an attack on Cuba was being prepared at bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua. Resistnce Crushed The last major rebel resistance in Guatemala and Nicaragua was crushed Wednesday, when loyal Guatemalan troops recaptured the Ca ribbean-coast city of Puerto Barrios and chased the surviving insurgents toward Honduras. Guatemalan President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes said the situation in the revolt area northeast of Guatemala City resembled a “foxhunt," with warplanes hna special infantry units tracking down the survivors. Ydigoras said terror bombings in Guatemala City and other antigovernmeift activity which he blamed on the Communist underground would be “ruthlessly stamped out.” Nicaraguan authorities announced the surrender of 60 rebels who they said had accepted government guarantees of a fair trial. The revolutionary junta which recently seized power in El Salvador announced it had overcome a “regressive” movement—apparently a plot by supporters of ousted ex-President Jose M. Lemus to restore him to power. Not Connected There appeared to be no connection between the Salvadorean plot—which was not described in detail—and the Guatemalan—Nicaraguan uprisings. Mexico strengthened air and sea patrols along its frontiers—especially the Guatemalan border—to prevent any attempt to stage an invasion of Guatemala or any other Latin American nation from Mexican Soil. Mexican National Police Chief Manuel Suarez Dominguez said there was no truth to reports that Cuban guerrillas were being trained in Mexico as invasion forces, but added that special squads are combing out remote areas that might be used as invasion training grounds. Appointments Made By Gov. Handley Governor Handley Friday made various non-paying appointments to Indiana state agencies, boards and commissions. They included: Nurses’ registration board—Miss Virginia Sine, Indianapolis, replacing Miss Marie Kolter, Fort Wayne, daughter of Fred Kolter of Decatur, and the public employes’ retirement fund—J. Dwight Peterson, Indianapolis, a native of Decatur, reappointed.

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Mrs. Harry Poling Dies This Morning Mrs. Estella Poling, 66, wife of Harry F. Poling, died at 2:30 o’clock this morning at her home, 104 South 10th She had been in failing health for three years and in serious condition for the }?ast six months. She was born in Willshire, 0., December 12, 1883, a daughter of Samuel and Etta Acker-Roop, and was married to Harry F. Poling Dec. 24, 1914. Mrs. Poling was a member of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church. Surviving in addition to the husband are one son, Arthur L. Poling of Decatur; two grandsons, Danny and Barry Poling; four brothers, Rufus Roop of Decatur, Walter Roop of Fort Wayne, Harvey Roop of Toledo, 0., and Forrest Roop of Van Wert, 0., and three sisters, Mrs. Viola Smitley and Mrs. Lea Thatcher of Van Wert, and Mrs. Helen Gamble of Middlepoint, O. Two sisters are deceased. Funpral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren Church, the Rev. J. O. Penrod Officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. The body was removed to the Black funeral home, where friends may call after' 2 p.m. Saturday until 12 noon Monday, after which the body will lie in state at the church until time of the services.

Music Festival Is Held Last Evening (Pictures on page 2) The Adams Central gymnasium was the scene of a well attended Adams county music festival Thursday night, with five county schools bringing a fine evening of entertainment to the large crowd. Schools participating and their music directors were: Geneva, Floyd Hughes; Hartford, Robert Gibson; Monmouth, Darrell Gerig; Pleasant Mills, Kenneth Thornell; Adams Central, Donavon J. Gerig, band, and Leon Gerig, vocal. A total of nine songs were presented by the Adams county honor choir, which included 60 students from the five participating schools. The honor choir is put together by pupils from each school, selected by their school officials. The evening's program alho featured some fine music from a band composed of the bands of the five schools. The huge ensemble was directed by Herbert Jones, former director of music in Van Wert high school and now band director of one of the two schools of Springfield, Ohio. Jones is to be commended for the outstanding job he did in directing the band of approximately 250 students. The band played six numbers including South Pacific and the Gusto March. The finale of the evening was the twirling of the Adams county twirlers, composed of the twirlers of the participating schools and directed by Miss Sharon Mattax of Adams Central high school.

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Julius Brite Dies After Heaft Attack Julius Brite, 71, prominent Adams county farmer of west of Decatur. died unexpectedly at 8 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital, where he had been admitted an hour earlier. He suffered a heart attack Thursday evening and was taken to the hospital when his condition became worse. A lifelong resident of Adams county, he was born here July 19, 1889, the only child of John and Margaret Koenig-Brite. He was married to Miss Gertrude Geels in St. Mary’s Catholic church Sept. 23, 1914. Mr. Brite was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society, Third Order of St. Francis, and the Moose and Eagles lodges. He is survived by his wife; three sons, John and Roman Brite of Decatur, and Aloysius Brite of Indianapolis; four daugh< tors, Mrs. Glen (Frances) Griffiths and Mrs. Reinhard (Mariann) Selking of Decatur, Mrs. Charles (Justine) Walter of Fort Wayne, and Sr. M. Regina, C.S.A. (Margaret), of St. Agnes hospital, Fond Du Lac, Mis.; 24 grandchildren nnif’ Ane great-grand-child. ■ * w Funeral services will be conducted at B:15 a. m. Mondajr at St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Simeon Schmitt officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 2 p. m. Saturday until time of the services. The Third Order of St. Francis will recite the rosary at 7:30 p. m. Sunday and the Holy Name society at 8 p. m. Errors Charged In Tabulating Votes MARION, Ind. (UPl)—Charges of errors in tabulating absent voter ballots in two precincts in Grant and Miami Counties in the close race for the Sth District Congress seat between George ChjrfrfoeTs knd Edward Roush were made today. In Grant County here, a statement was filed Thursday asking Grant Circuit Court to look into a discrepancy in the tally of absent ballots in a precinct at Upland. Records in the county clerk’s office indicated that 17 absent voter ballots were forwarded to Upland but the official tally of election results showed 31 absent voter ballots actually counted. In Miami County at Peru, a Peru precinct showed the tally of absent voter ballots was five fewer than had been figured. Democrats hoping to shift the results to show that Roush, the Democratic incumbent, defeated Chambers, the Republican candidate, said the precinct tally sheet showed 42 absent voter ballots were cast, with Roush receiving 23 and Chambers 19. But they said only 37 absent voter ballots actually were sent to the precinct.

Kennedy Asks Full, Caribbean Report

PALM BEACH, Fla. (DPI) — President-elect Kennedy called for a full report from the nation's intelligence chief today on the threat at any “Communist directed” invasion of Central America. Kennedy scheduled a meeting with Allen W. Dulles, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, to receive an up-to-the-minute briefing on concern over Castroprovoked dangers felt in Guatemala and Nicaragua. The president-elect flew back here Thursday night from Texas after meeting with running mate Lyndon B. Johnson to formulate a working partnership which Kenedy said would make Johnson “the most effective vice president” in American history. Kennedy’s chartered jet airiiner touched down at the Palm Beach International Airport at 11:47 p.m. EST, after a flight of slightly more than two hours, from Bergstrom Air Force Base. Tex. The Democratic standard bearer took off from Bergstrom after a brief meeting there with Speaker Sam Rayburn. Rayburn Said that he and Kennedy discussed “lots of things, like the Cabinet" but that no specific persons were mentioned, only the types of men needed to fill the jobs. . The Speaker, a prime leader behind Johnson's effort to beat Kennedy for the presidential nomination but now a key force in efforts to unify the party after a narrow election victory said he believed Kennedy-Would be a fine

New Orleans Schools Close

By JACK V. FOX United Press International NEW ORLEANS (UPI) — The New Orleans public school system today was ordered shut down for all at next week for teachers’ meetings and the Thanksgiving holiday—a breather for a violenceplagued city with one-third of its students already staying home. The school board also appealed to a three-man federal court today for temporary permission to remove four first-grade Negro girls from white schools until the' U.S. Supreme Court settles the “entanglement” between the state and federal governments. A gang of seven Negroes Thursday night attacked two white men and a 7-year-old boy near one of the two integrated elementary schools. One 20-year-old white man was stabbed in the shoulder and his son and a 60-year-old man were roughed up. Rain somewhat dampened the widespread violence of Wednesday when about 250 persons were arrested. But there still were many incidents of rocks thrown at cars and from buses, and a cross was burned on Canal Street. Make More Arrests Police reported 56 arrests between 6 p.m. and midnight but said probably not more than half of them were connected with the school integration. Absenteeism already was threatening the entire school structure before the board decision late Thursday night for a week’s shutdown. Only one white child attended the McDonough grade school Thursday with three of the six-year-old Negro girls, and three whites with one Negro child at William Frantz. In other grade and high schools, attendance was down 12,666 out of a total enrollment of 36,726. Parents and relatives of the Negro children sadd at a press conference called by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that they had no intention of taking them out. Loses Job One father said he had lost his job in a filling station, all reported threatening calls and one mother said her little girl cried the first day because she was “scared of all that noise while we were going up the stains.” None has attempted to explain the situation to their daughters. “My little girl came home,” one mother reported, “and said, ‘Mama, all the little white children walked out and the teacher didn’t even know they were going.’ ” Orleans Parish School Superintendent James F. Redmond announced next week’s school recess. He said teachers would attend association meetings in Baton Rouge Monday through Wednesday arid children and teachers would be on holiday Thursday and Friday. Remond said the procedure was customary when teacher meetings are held near New Orleans. He said there was a similar recess last year when one association met in Baton Rouge and and the other in New Orleans.

president. He added, “I think we are going to get along real fine.” Kennedy’s meeting with Dulles was announced Tuesday as a postelection get-together to provide the president-elect with a fill-in on "problems facing the nation.” But it became known Thursday night that Kennedy actually sought the session because of the worsening situation in the Caribbean area. Studebaker Plans Cutback In Force SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI) — Studebaker-Packard Corp., announced late Thursday plans to cut its work force by 1,000 to 2,000 early next month. Officials said the cutback was in step with similar industry-wide plans for the month of December. Current production rate of vehicles for S-P is 64 an hour, same as maintained when production of 1961 models began in September. About 9.000 workers are employed at S-P here. Late Bulletins CHICAGO (UPI) —Tony Accardo, reputed kingpin of the crime empire once ruled by Al Capone, was sentenced today to aix years in federal prison and fined t15.N0 tor income tax evasion.

Seven Cents

Rev. Oldsen Speaks At Rotary Meeting The Rev. Armin C. Oldsen, of Fort Wayne, suggested to the Deer tur Rotary club at its weekly meeting Thursday evening at the Decatur Youth and Community Center, that "we frefe ourselves from silly prejudice." and then with a series of humorous illustrations, proved how ridiculous many of these prejudices really are. Louis A. Jacobs was program chairman and introduced the speaker, who was in Decatur to participate in the Lutheran P. T. R. mission of Zion Lutheran church. Rev. Oldsen began by telling of the serious misunderstanding which language can easily cause. Drawing on his experience as the international Lutheran Hour men ti one d some Amwhich he had used in a sertnon and their altogether different interpretation by an Australian listener. National customs cause additional confusion. Even the family backgrounds from which a husband or wife originate have caused serious problems in marriage, and yet when properly understood they had little real significance. "Our changing times add to the pressure. If Abraham Lincoln were to return to America today he would find many more changes than if the first people on this earth were to have become alive again during Lincoln’s time. “We contact many more people • every day than did any generation before us and each contact gives opportunity for more misunderstanding. The speaker urged a more tolerant attitude toward teenagers whom he feels are unduly criticized. Citing his experience as youth counselor at Concordia Lutheran., high school, he said. we overuse the term delinquent and apply it to trivial things which are no worse than the things which we ourselves did during our younger years.” He pleaded, "Give the other fellow the right to live and believe as he wishes to long as he exercises his Individual responsibility according to fundamental rules of right and wrong. Do not judge him by making him fit into a pattern which we have designed with our silly prejudices.” The Rotary club will not meet next week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and cooler north tonight. Saturday partly cloudy and a little warmer. Low tonight 26 to 35. High Saturday 48 to 53. Outlook for Sunday; Increasing cloudiness and mild with chance of rain. Lows 28 to 38. Highs in the 50s.

Rural Youth Plans Installation Dinner The annual installation banquet of the Adams county rural youth club will be held Saturday night, November 26, at the Youth and Community Center in Decatur and will start at 7 p.m. "Die installation of the 1061 county officers will be the highlight of the evening’s program. Earl Yoder, 1954 and 1956 county president will conduct the installation service of the following officers: president. Carolyn Moore; vice president, John Meshberger; secretary, Carol Fox: treasurer, Jerry Gerber; news reporter and newsletter editor, Dolores Rodenbeck: song leaders, Linda and Lila Kruetzman; devotional leader, Doris Hockemeyer; sports chairman. Larry Habegger; and recreation leaders, Kathryn Shaffer, Jerry Sprunger and Leslie Ploughe. Entertainment for the banquet program will be by the Teen-Tones of Monmouth and John Meshberger of Linn Grove. A round and square dance will be held following the installation banquet and Gene Biberstein of Wells county will call for the square dance. Everyone interested in the rural youth club and its members in Adams county is invited to attend this highlight of the club year. Tickets are priced at $1.75 and are available from the rural youth members or the county extension office. Deadline for ticket reservations is Monday, November 21.