Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 78, Decatur, Adams County, 3 April 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 78.

Rich Iraq Is Battle Prize

EDITOR’* NOTE — Censor* ■hip has suppressed details and direct reports from Bagfadad on a series of street riots there last week. The following dispatch is an assessment of the situation gathered by UPI correspondents from diplomatie and other sources in s number of European and Mid - Eastern capitals. BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) — The oil-rich country of Iraq has become the prize in a four-cornered battle that well could decide the future of the Middle East. Last week its storied capital. Baghdad, was torn by riots over a government decree boosting the gasoline tax by the equivalent of five cents a gallon. The rioting lasted three days, injuring many and killing several. No one yet knows the exact toll, although Cairo newspapers said the death toll was as high as 25. Before the July, 1958, revolution, the Iraqis had a saying that power was divided among the tribes, the army and the king. The revolution tore the crown from King Faisal n, and sent his pro-Western government into the dust. Now the saying in Baghdad is that power is divided among the army, the Communists, the proNasser nationalists and Kassem. Prime Minister Abdel Karim Kassem has the well-paid 70,000 man army on his side, and appears to have no fear in that direction so far. Last week’s rioting is believed to have been fomented by both the nationalists, who look longingly at the United Arab Republic, and the Communists. Should a revolt occur and the Communists seize power, Russia would have achieved its longsought avenue to the warm waters of the Persian Gulf. This would bring the Soviets leap-flogging over Iran and place the peacock throne in jeopardy. If the nationalists were to wrest power away from Kassem they would be likely to throw the country into an alliance with the U.A.R., giving President Gamal Abdel Nasser an enormous propaganda victory and a slice of the Iraqi oil revenues. Kassem Sunday told Iraqi editors that the riots were the work of evil doers and imperialists who want to split the country. The term “nationalists” in Iraq refers to the pro-Nasser Baath Socialist party. "Imperialists” is Advertising Index Advertiser Pa »* A, &‘P Tea Co., Inc 3 Adams Theater 2 Burk' Elevator Co 5 Boardman’s Sewing Machine Shop - 2 Bower Jewelry Store 2. 3 Chic Dry Cleaning & Laundry — 5 D. & T. Standard Service 5 Evans Sales & Service ——-- 5 Gleat American Insurance Co .. 4 Holthouse Drug Co - 3 Holthouse Furniture Store ----- 2 P. N. Hirsh & Co 2 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co 6 International College 6 K. of C. Lodge 7 Myers Cleaners 4 Northern Indiana Public Service Co ----- 3

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a blanket Mideast label for political opponents. Kassem did not say whether he was referring to domestic rivals, foreign interests or others. . The leader of 6.5 million divided people said that the imperialists hoped to mislead the people on the eve of the all important negotiations with the Iraq petroleum company. Kassem wants a bigger cut of the oilevenue that brings his country more than $252 million a year. Negotiations on a new rate began Sunday night. Cancer Crusade To Open Here April 10 A total of 265,000 Americans will die in 1961, it was estimated in a recent announcement by the American Cancer society, who will hold its annual cancer crusade April 10 through 15. Statistics reveal that out of every six deaths this year, one will be due to the dread disease. Final arrangements are being mapped out by Mrs. Robert Krueckeberg, chairman of the Adams county cancer society, and other members for the annual drive to raise Adams county dollars to fight cancer. Actually, only about one of every 100 Americans will die from the dread disease, but according to more statistics, “One out of four persons some day will have cancer." One To Three Literally the chances are three to one against contacting the disease. but the odds can be turned around and the chances of getting the disease are one to three. From a realistic point of view, however, neither is the case. If cancer is to develop in one out of four, there is more than just chance involved. There are biological facts which have something to do with the matter, and to understand this, something must be known about cancer. It should be understood that cancer develops because something goes wrong with the mechanism of a cell in the body, and that wild, uncontrolled growth results and never ceases unless the cells are destroyed or death intervenes. Not Fully Known What makes a cell become cancerous is not fully known, but it is known that dozens of compounds will cause cancer if introduced into the cell and that continued exposure to radioactive rays will result in cancer. It is also believed that cigarettes are the major cause of lung cancer, and that overdoses of hormones will cause cancer. It is also believed that the genes of one’s forebears may have something to do with it and that antibodies, or a lack of them, may be a vital factor in getting the disease or in combatting it. So, in the end, it is not just chance, but there are reasons, even if they are not all known, why cancer is contacted by a person. This is why an annual health checkup is vital and why one should learn the seven cancer danger signals. both of which will help lower the statistics. Support of the annual crusade so that science can prove that death from cancer need not be one’s fate, is a third reason for lowering the statistics.

$200,000 In Gold, Diamonds Stolen Sunday GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (UPI) — Police pressed a search today for daring professional “gold bugs” who braved tear gas on Easter Sunday to loot $200,000 in gold and some diamonds from one of the nation’s largest makers of school and fraternity rings. The burglary of eight safes shut down the H. R. Terryberry Co., also a top manufacturer of jewelry emblems for fraternal and scholastic groups, pending an inventory of the exact loss. C. R. Armstrong, co-owner of the firm, said it “may take weeks” to find out what the thieves got. An estimated 300 gold sheets were known to be missing plus an unknown number of silver sheets. The thieves gained entrance to the building by forcing the front door. Police believe the gang of about four burglars may have spent as much as four hours early Easter morning punching, cutting and ripping open the safes. Company officials described die interior of the looted building a mess. There was no burglary alarm at the firm but several of the company safes were boobytrapped with tear gas. Police said one of those broken open was so guarded but apparently the thieves were prepared for it. Near the scene the police found a green sport shirt, apparently worn by one of the thieves, wet with tear gas. The burglars were unable to open three safes in the building and left six others untouched. Interview Three For County School Post Preliminary interviews with three candidates for county superintendent of schools were completed Saturday morning, Gail Grabill, county superintendent of schools, said this morning. Grabill, who will complete eight years as county superintendent, will not be a candidate for reappointment in May, because he has been appointed superintendent of the Decatur city schools, effective in July. Grabill was elected in May. 1953, succeeding Glen V. Custard, who finished the unexpired term of the late Hansel O. Foley. Foley served from 1949 to 1952, and had succeeded Lyman L. Hann, who was appointed in 1941. The three candidates who were interviewed were: Gerald Vizard, principal at Pleasant Mills; Harold Clinkenbeard, former Monmouth high school coach; and Burl Hite, formerly of Wells county, and now principal of the Kekionga junior high school in the Allen county system. INDIANA WEATHER Fair north, partly cloudy south'and central tonight and Tuesday. Not much temperature change. Low tonight in the 20s north, low 30s south. High Tuesday 45 to 56. Sunset today 7:11 p. m. Sunrise Tuesday 6:25 a.m. Outlook for Wednesday: Partly cloudy with little temperature change. Lows upper 20s extreme north, in the 30s elsewhere. Highs mostly in the 50s except chance of low 60s extreme south.

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 3,1961.

President Kennedy Will Visit France Next Month On de Gaulle Invitation

Naval Detachment Defects From Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba (UPI) — Cuban army units today controled most of the island’s naval installations to prevent further uprisings by naval personnel opposed to the pro-Communist policies of the Castro regime. Twenty-one sailors and one officer—the entire detachment of a small navy post at Guanabo Beach—were reported to have defected and escaped aboard a coast guard craft Sunday. On Saturday, reports in Havana said the government had broken up a counter-revolutionary movement by 300 naval personnel. It was the fourth reported mutiny by naval officers and men. Informed sources said 60 sailors and officers fled to Haiti aboard three PT boats while others escaped in smaller numbers aboard lesser craft when the government learned of the plot. — Anti-government terrorists kept their relentless bombings in the Cuban capital. Two bombs were exploded near the government printing plants in Havana Sunday night. The Easter weekend ended without extraordinary incidents in Havana. In the provinces, thousands of faithful made their traditional pilgrimage from El Cano to Arroyo Arena carrying a plaster image of Mary Magdalene, although a government permit was not issued this year. Attendance at Mass was reported high during the Easter, weekend and laymen said the number of men receiving Communion was unusually large. This was attributed to the recent church-state tension. Rolston Baby Dies Sunday Afternoon Timothy Paul Rolston, infant son of Paul and Carol Lepper-Rolston. 428 Mcßarnes street, died at 2:20 p.m. Sunday at the Adams cdunty memorial hospital, 14 hours after birth. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother. Ricky; the grandparents, Mrs. Ida Lepper of Hoagland, and Mr. and Mrs. Bert Rolston of Decatur; the greatgrandmothers. Mrs. Katherine Marbaugh of Celina. 0., and Mrs. Henry Nahrwald of Hoagland. Graveside services, conducted by the Zwick funeral home, were held this afternoon at the St. John’s Lutheran cemetery, the Rev. Edwin A. H. Jacob officiating.

Watchful Eye On Kennedy Family

PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPD - Before she entered the White House. Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy said, “I don’t want my children raised by nursemaids and Secret Service men.” & Today, as first lady, she has learned by necessity to appreciate the protection the quiet, wellmannered federal agents offer her and her two young children. At first she was glad to learn that the agent who accompanied her in public would shield her from admiring fans and autograph hunters. By nature reserved, the first lady is not yet comfortable in her role and tries to keep her public appearances to a minimum. The recent threat of a kidnap plot against her 3-year-old daughter, Caroline, has deepened the first lady’s understanding of security measures that she first thought would infringe on her privacy.

She has confided that she soon began to realize that the Secret Service helps her to achieve some of the privacy she strives for constantly. Whenever the President’s wife goes out on the street, she is accompanied by one of the agents assigned to her. She rarely walks except on the grounds of the White House or at her country home, Glen Ora, at Middleburg,

Contact Engineer On Rebuilding Streets The Decatur street committee of the city council has contacted engineer Ralph Higman of Bluffton to help engineer the rebuilding of several Decatur streets so that the city will not lose the $200,000 appropriated for this year, Mayor Donald F. Gage said this morning. City engineer Ralph Roop is covered up with work concerning the water main extension in the circular system to build the city’s water pressure, and in sewer engineering, and the city cannot risk losing the money set aside for the city streets, Gage explained. Streets Rebuilt It is now planned to rebuild Line, Grant, 14th, 15th, Madison, and Jefferson from the railroad to 10th street, and possibly Russell and Bollman street, if the money holds out, the mayor explained. This would be done by either contracting or by the bids on time and materials, whichever works out to the city’s advantage. However, firm bids must be let by July to save the money appropriated this year for streets. Other Projects Planned Higman has been contacted, and has looked over the job, but told the mayor he will let him know this week if he is willing to take the job. He would assist street superintendent Adolph Kolter in laying out the grades of the new streets, where plans and specifications are necessary. In addition, the street crew itself plans to construct several streets this summer, and they also plan to put a wear surface, including curbs, on Uth. 12th, and Jackson, which were sealed last year. These projects, and several others will be completed, if the total appropriation goes that far, the mayor explained.

Va. Most of the time she is driven wherever she wants to go. When she is boarding a plane the White House limousine will pull up to the ramp. At Glen Ora, the agents give Mrs. Kennedy a wide berth to move freely. They remain aloof, but try to keep her in sight. When the first lady has been away on trips to Palm Beach and New York and on weekends at Middleburg, blond, blue - eyed Caroline is carefully supervised by her English nanny Maud Shaw and protected by her smiling agent, who has a little girl of his own her age. Caroline calls her official protector by his last name, prefaced by a polite “Mister.” The agent remains in the background, but only a few steps away. To keep the child from becoming too attached to her protective friend, agents frequently are switched to other posts. Caroline’s special agent has a lot of experience in this line. He kept an eye on former President Eisenhower’s four grandchildren. There also is an agent on hand to watch over 4-month-old John F. Kennedy Jr. when he is taken out in public or is wheeled around the White House grounds in his baby carriage by Miss Shaw.

DPI White Boose Reporter PALM BEACH. Fla. (UPI) — President Kennedy, accompanied by his wife, will visit France next month at the invitation of President Charles de Gaulle for a three-day state visit and discussion of a broad range of problems involving their two nations, the White House announced today. The Kennedys will arrive in Paris May 31 and remain through June 2 in what was described as a “modified” state visit. This meant some of the ceremonies involved in such a visit will be dispensed with to permit De Gaulle and Kennedy greater opportunity to discuss business. The chief executive’s first official visit to Europe was announced simultaneously in Paris and Palm Beach as Kennedy prepared to fly back to Washington Tuesday for conferences the remainder of the week with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Press Secretary Pierre Salinger declined to discuss the possibility that visits to London, Bonn and Rome might be added to the French trip. He said the meeting in Paris was the only item on the Kennedy overseas agenda at present. Adenanr to Washington West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is due in Washington April 11 and was expected to urge Kennedy to include Bonn on his May-June itinerary. The President’s first trip out of the country, according to present plans will be to Ottawa, probably in mid - May, to address the Canadian Parliament. This trip originally had been set for sometime in the first half of June, but is being advanced because of the visit to France. Kennedy was expected to leave Washington May 29 for a speaking engagement in Boston. Then he will speak May 30 in New York City to 4he Eleanor Roosevelt Cancer Fund dinner, and depart for Paris from New York the next day. Troubles in Laos and the Congo and Franco-American divergence on other policies led to negotiations for the Paris invitation to Kennedy. The trip results from extensive discussions involving, Kennedy, De Gaulle, French Ambassador Herve Alphand in Washington, U.S. Ambassador James Gavin in Paris, and Averell Harriman, the President’s roving envoy. Other items on the Kennedy-De Gaulle agenda were expected to be the French participation in North Atlantic Treaty Organization activities and French desire to continue nuclear testing. Tight Protective Security The President and his family have been spending a brief spring vacation at the home of his father, Joseph P. Kennedy. They are scheduled to return to Washington Tuesday afternoon. The President and his family remained under tight protective security today. The extra-heavy security precautions, due to kidnap and murder threats against the First Family by pro-Castro Cubans in the area, will continue until the President, his wife and their two children fly back to Washington Tuesday afternoon. Seldom have a President and his wife been more heavily protected in peacetime than the Kennedys were Sunday when they attended Easter Mass at St. Edward’s Roman Catholic Church here. The number of Secret Service agents in and around the church was about twice the normal complement. They also were augmented by state and local police. Once the Kennedys are back in the well-organized safety of the White House, the current federal investigation of the recently reported threats may take a different direction. Under Close Watch Until this morning, authorities have kept prime suspects under surveillance, particularly to see that four or more Cubans in the Palm Bzach area do not slip the United States to report back to Havana on activities of thousands of anti-Castro refugees in south Florida. Once the presidential family has left the area and calmer conditions permit a switch of manpower from protection to investigation, efforts are expected to de-

termine more extensively the background of Cubans to whom the kidnap and murder threats have been traced. Authorities hoped this more extensive investigation of background would answer one essential question: Have the persons connected with grave threats against the Kennedys been scuttling back and forth across the Florida Straits to Cuba? Draws Sightseers Summery weather ideal for sightseeing and current publicity about kidnap threats directed at three-year-old Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the President, produced a heavy flow of tourists Sunday past the home of the Chief Executive’s father, former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. About a thousand persons gathered in the vicinity of the church when Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline. chic in a new blue ensemble of shantung silk with matching pillbox hat of blue straw arrived for 10 a.m. High Mass. To avoid possible dangers in the crowd packed around the front of the church. Secret Service agents led the Kennedys through a side door of the church. The President sat across the church from his normal pew and Secret Service agents stood in the aisle beside him, an unusual security meaure taken because of many standees at the Mass. Zoo Workers Strike At New York City NEW YORK (UPD -The Bronx Zoo and the Coney Island Aquarium closed Sunday when employes went on strike for union recognition. Under a prestrike agreement, 50 union members stayed on the job to feed and take care of the animals. 1

Chinese Reds Threaten Laos

By EUGENE McLOUGHUN United Press International United States civilian pilots flew five American-supplied helicopters on their first supply runs over “frontline” areas in Laos today while Communist-supported troops continued to advance. A Communist Chinese threat of intervention in raised the spectre of a neW-Korean-type war unless the major powers can agree on diplomatic means to stop it. The helicopters, part of a group of 16 supplied by the United States to the royal Laotian government to help ease its supply and communications problems, were assembled by U.S. Marines in neighboring Thailand and flown to Laos. The five new helicopters were accompanied by four older helicopters when they flew off from the administrative capital of Vientiane in the direction of Tha Thom this morning. Government troops were driven from Tha Thom, a village in Xieng Khouang Province 32 miles southeast of the vital Plain of Jars, last Friday by Communist rebel troops who are being supplied by Soviet planes. Discuss Cease fire Thus, while the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union discussed a cease-fire in Laos on the diplomatic front, both sides continued to back their partisans on the fighting fronts with aid. Laotian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Phoumi Nosavan said the pro-Red rebels still were advancing to the Tha Thom area after taking the village in an assault. But government forces were reported advancing slowly against rebel patrols backed by artillery and mortar fire on the VientianeLuang Prabang highway near Muong Kassy, a key point on the road about 45 miles south of the royal capital of Luang Prabang. With Moscow and Washington still at odds over how to settle the jungle kingdom’s crisis, Peiping let the world know it too must be reckoned with.

Red Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi issued the challenge Sun-

Sewn Cents

Bower To Command North's Merchants Ulysses S. (Ferris Bower) Grant, Decatur jeweler, has as* sumed honorary command at Ito northern Decatur meretonft for the coming Civil War centennial celebration. Bower-Grant, in bis acceptance speech, was quick to point out that, while he did not possess all of the personal habits of the Union commander, Jit would do the best he could. Bower-Grant will have honorary command over all of the merchants north of the alley between Madison and Monroe streets. The southern commander wfll be named in a few days, as the congress of the Confederate states of America (Decatur’s version) will meet Tuesday. All of the merchants, both north and south, will be assigned to their respective commands during the week, as the time for the celebration draws near. A special edition of the Decatur Democrat will launch the local observance April 12, the sentenntal date of tire start of America’s Ctvfl War. The foltowtag Friday and Saturday, the Decatur Jaycees will join Ithe attack, speaiheadtag the busineca district part of toe celebration. Suddey; April the Adan» county vivii war centennial committee and the Adams county Historical society will jointly sponsor an observance program at the Elks home.

day in a statement at Jakarta, Indonesia. “If SEATO is sending troops to Laos, we are prepared to seed troops also if requested by Laotian Premier Souvanna Phouma,” he said. “Such a SEATO decision would be very unfortunate and would expand the civil war.” Peiping voiced similar warnings just before hordes of Chinese swept across the Yalu River into (Continued cm page six) Ralph V. Rabbill Dies Unexpectedly Ralph V. Babbitt, 63, of MS North 11th street, lifelong resident of Adams county, died suddenly at 12:20 p. m. Sunday at the Adams chounty memorial hospital, shortly after he had suffered a heart attack at his home. Mr. Rabbitt had been employed for 31 yean at the General Electric Co. until ill health forced his retirement in 1956. He was bom in Root township July 31. 1888, a son of Charles C. and Mary A. Drummond-Rabbitt, and was married to Florence Oakley in 1921. His wife preceded him in death in 1930. Mr. Rabbitt was a member of the G. E. Quarter Century dub. Surviving are one dauffoter, Mrs. William (Mary Louise) Denny of Lansing, Mich.; four grandchildren; three brothers, Edwin Rabbitt of Defiance, O„ Earl Rabbitt of Fort Wayne, and Bernard Rabbitt of Decatur; and four sisters. Mrs. William (Ina) Meyers of Decatur, Mrs. Henry (LuviUe) Stauffer of Monroe, and Mrs. Jerome (Dorthy) Deßolt and Miss Erma Rabbitt of Decetar. Funeral services will bo conducted at 2 p. m. Tuesday at foe Zwiek funeral home, the Bov. Kenneth Angle officiating. Burial wUI be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at foe haseral home until time the servicer.