Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 95, Decatur, Adams County, 22 April 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 95.

Rebel French Generals Seize Algiers- Claim Algeria Is Taken Over

UN Reverses Group Stand

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. <UPI) —The General Assembly, ending its 15th session, today reversed a committee decision to ask the Organization of American States to seek a reconciliation between Cuba and the United States. The key paragraph of a sevenpower Latin American resolution to refer the U.S.-Cuban situation to the organization Fidel Castro’s government refuses to deal with was killed. The Assembly wound up the weeklong U.N. debate with a mild appeal to “all member states to take such peaceful action as is open to them to remove existing tensions” between the two countries. A last-minute crisis developed when the world parliament at first refused to approve its budgetary committee’s recommendation for a SIOO million budget for the U.N. Congo operation for the first 10 months of 1961. India proposed a special session next week to take up the Congo budget. But diplomats worked out a formula to save the situation when the United States proposed that the financial discussion be dropped temporarily to let the delegates talk the situation over privately. Approve Pakistan Formula By a 54 to 15 vote with 23 absteneions, the assembly finally approved a new formula introduced by Pakistan which raised from 75 to 80 per cent the amount of reduction needy countries could obtain in their share of the Congo costs, levied under the regular U.N. scale of assessments. The Cuban question dominated the world parliament’s last day, which began at 11 a.m. EST Friday with simultaneous meetings of the assembly and its main political committee. Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa eventualy won success in his battle to keep the Organization of American States out of the Castro government’s affairs, even though the Latin American resolution took a roundabout way of referring the issue simply to OAS members. The 99-nation political committee Friday afternoon approved by exactly the two- thirds vote required for final passage in the assembly the key paragraph of the sevzn-power measure. The committee vote on the paragraph was 56 to 28 with 14 abstentions. Vote switches killed the same paragraph when it came before the assembly early today. The parer 4 oody knocked referral to Edward J. Heimann Quits School Post Edward J. Heimann, of Washington township, principal at Jefferson for the past eight years, has resigned effective at the end of this school year to devote more of his time to his business. Jerry Carey, of Berne, will succeed Heimann as principal, Floyd Baker, township trustee, announced Friday. Heimann and James C. Webb of Decatur recently purchased the Decatur Music House. Heimann stated that he might also teach on a part-time basis at the Decatur Catholic school. A teacher at Adams Central before accepting the Jefferson post, Heimann received his master’s degree in music from Purdue University. He is married and the father of eight children. Carey has taught two years at Jefferson. He is married to the former Mae Chrisman of Berne, and they are the parents of a young daughter. He is a native of Oblong, Hl., a graduate of Ball State Teachers College, and is presently working on his master’s degree.

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OAS members out of the Latin ; American resolution by a 56 to 32 i vote, with 8 abstentions. Mexpcan Resolution Killed i The two-thirds majority rule i also killed a Mexican resolution appealing to all countries to make • sure that their territory and rei sources “are not used to promote i the civil war in Cuba.” The vote : on the Mexican measure, supi ported by Cuba, its Communist friends and a segment of the Afro-Asian bloc, was 41 to 35 with 20 abstentions. Roa carried his denunciation of U.S. “aggression” down to the wire. He said Washington’s NATO and SEAIO allies “sanctioned by their silence” the U.S. activities. Roa contended that the allies’ silent support “laid the basis for future interventions” against Cuba. “The struggle will be decided and settled in Cuba,” Roa said. “Waiting guns will be held high for the arrival of new waves of mercenaries and the certain result will be total defeat of the invaders or of every man, woman and child in Cuba. "The triumph of the Cuban revolution is inexorable! Our country or death! We shall win!” Patrick Moran Dies Friday Afternoon Patrick Moran, 83, member of a prominent pioneer family of Jefferson township, died suddenly at 1:30 o’clock Friday afternoon at his home, eight miles east of Geneva. Although he had been in failing health for the past month, his death was unexpected. Born in Jefferson township May 5, 1878, he was the son of Thomas and Anna Fay-Moran, natives of Ireland, who were among the founders of the Irish settlement, cast of Geneva. Mr. Moran, a retired farmer, was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic church, seven miles east of Geneva. Surviving are his wife, Cora: two daughters. Mrs. Mildred Brinksneader, a teacher in the St. Anthony school at Fort Recovery, 0., and Miss Mary Helen Moran, at home, a teacher in the Northwest elementary school in Decatur; two sons. James Moran of Decatur, and Robert Moran, at home; one grandchild, and one brother. Dr. M. M. Moran of Portland. Two brothers. Judge John Moran of Decatur, and Judge James Moran of Portland, preceded him in death. Five sisters are also deceased, including Miss Margaret Moran, for years a teacher in the Decatur schools until her retirement. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Monday at St. Mary’s Catholic church, east of Geneva, with the Rev. Landol officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Hardy & Hardy funeral home In Geneva after 7:30 p.m. today. The rosary will be recited at 8 p. m. Sunday. City School Board Meets Friday Night The Decatur school board held a special meeting Friday night bn the teachers' and principals’ salaries for the coming school year. Last year’s policy will probably be followed, although no final decision was reached. Also, 24 applications have been received for the basketball coaching job, and more are expected. No discussion of the merits of the various applicants took place, as more applications are expected.

PARIS (UPI) — Four rebel French generals supported by Foreign Legion paratroopers seized Algiers in a bloodless coup today and announced they had taken over Algeria and the Sahara desert from President Charles de Gaulle’s government. Premier Michel Debre went on a nationwide radio and television ! hookup to appeal for “absolute > obedience” in France but already minor right-wing violence was reported in France itself. , A bomb exploded in a telephone ’ booth of the town hall of the , fashionable Neuilly district of ’ Paris just west of the Arch of , Triumph. Police said it caused k considerable damage but appar- ’ ently no casualties. t The bomb was of the type used , by right-wing extremists in past i terrorism against the De Gaulle government. Police noted that . Neuilly Mayor Achille Perretti is ; a Gaullist deputy of the National ’ Assembly. The insurgent generals broadcast a seven - point order of the day proclaiming a state of siege and saying “all resistance, from whatever quarter, will be broken.” The proclamation was a declaration of a virtual state of martial law. 1 The insurgent army and air force generals in Algiers an- ‘ nounced over Algiers radio — re- ' named “Radio France” — that ’ they had proclaimed a state of ' siege throughout the African ter--1 ritory. The generals appealed to the army, navy, air force and po- ’ lice to join them. De Gaulle apparently was taken completely by surprise, although opposition among Frenchmen in Algiers to his policy of permitting Algeria eventually to become independent has been rising. But the government reacted swiftly. France canceled all military leaves. De Gaulle called a cabinet meeting to consider further action ! and conferred during the day with ’ Debre and Adm. Georges Cabain- • er, chief of staff of the French i navy. Debre named Gen. Jean 1 Olie as new commander-in-chief t in Algeria to replace Gen. : Fernand Gambiez who was arrested by the insurgents. Olie flew immediately to Algeria. The revolt was reported led by ! Gen. Raoul Salan, the general . who led a 1958 revolt which brought down the Fourth Republic and brought De Gaulle to power. Foreign diplomatic sources said they did not believe this revolt would topple De Gaulle. The government in Paris said the revolt affected Algiers only and the rest of the country was loyal to De Gaulle. The French commanders in Oran and Constantine issued calls for calm ir an indication they still supported De Gaulle. Advertising Index Advertiser —Page Adams Theater 3 Adams County Shrine Club ... 7 Briede Studio 3 B. & B. Excavators - 8 Burk Elevator Co — 5 J. M. Burk, M.D. - — 5 Citizens Telephone Co —- 3 Chic Dry Cleaning & Laundry .. 8 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp * ' D. & T. Standard Service 5 Decatur Drive In Theater .— 3 Evans Sales & Service 5 Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers 6 Fairway 8 First State Bank of Decatur — 8 Allen Fleming — L—— r - 5' Gillig & Doan Funeral Home -.3 Green Belt Chemical Co 6 Paul Havens Chevrolet-Buick, Inc 5 H. & M. Builders, Inc ... 7 Indiana & Michigan Electric Co 4 Kent Realty & Auction Co 5 Niblick & Co 3 J. J. Newberry Co 4 Pike Lumber Co — — 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co — 3 Sheets Furniture ... ’- 3 Teeple Truck Line - 5 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc —6 Church Page Sponsors — 2 NOON EDITION

Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, April 22, 1961.

Kennedy And Ike To Confer Today

WASHINGTON (UPI) — President Kennedy planned to meet former President Dwight D. Eisenhower at secluded Camp David, Md., today to give the old soldier a secret report on the crisis in Cuba. Kennedy intended to fly to the mountain retreat after a 10 a.m. EST meeting with the National Security Council, expected to center on the same problem. Both the President and his predecessor planned to arrive at Camp David by helicopter at 12:30 p.m. EST — Kennedy from the White House and Eisenhower from his farm at Gettysburg, Pa. The conference was part of Kennedy’s efforts to keep Republican leaders advised of developments in the tense Cuban situation. The meeting was announced Friday night after Kennedy said the United States was making “active efforts” to help Americans and others who might be in danger on the turbulent island. Kennedy said he was witholding information on any role he may have had in the vain effort by Cuban rebels to overthrow

Says Invasion Total Failure

By FRANCIS L. MCCARTHY United Press International The son of the leader of Cuban exiles told a Cuban radio and television audience today that the invasion of the Bay of Pigs was a complete failure and none of the 1,300 to 1.400 men involved could have escaped into the Escambray Mountains. Jose Miro Torra made the statement in answer to questions by Cuban officials and newsmen who paraded him before the cameras and microphones in Havana along with a number of other prisoners they said were captured in the invasion this week. The answers from various prisoners conflicted on some points—particularly the degree of U.S. involvement — but all agreed on one point: The invasion force was all Cuban;..no Americans went ashore. During the program the Cubans announced they had captured 76 more invaders Friday. Previously they had claimed the capture of more than 400. Miro Torra’s father, Jose Miro Cardona, president of the Cuban Revolutionary Council, admitted in New York Friday that the outcome of the invasion had been a "heavy reverse” to apti-Castro forces. But he said the “majority of those who landed are actualy fighting at the present tinge.” Describes Invasion Failure Miro Torra described the invasion as a “total failure.” He said he himself had walked for 26 hours and got nowhere near the Escambray Mountains, about 15 miles from the beachhead. “No one could have reached the Escambray,” he said. The prisoner parade started at 10 o’clock Friday night. The announcer had said Fidel Castro himself would appear before the end. But the program ended at 2:30 a.m. today without Castro showing up. The panel of questioners—some of them known Communists—fired loaded questions at the prisoners but did not always get the reaction they obviously were aiming for. .. One, Pedro Nunez, a member of one of Cuba’s oldest families, vigorously defended the free enterprise system despite veiled threats of execution.

- Premier Fidel Castro. He said t the facts would be revealed in - due time. The conference today was exl pected to~"last for nearly two • hours. White House Press Secretary > Pierre Salinger felt . the former president and GOP I leader should know the facts of . the Cuban situation. Kennedy discussed the problem • with former Vice President Rich- - ard M. Nixon Thursday. Salinger ■ said the President was in indirect contact with New York Gov. Nel- ' son A. Rockefeller recently and ’there may be a meeting between the two. After the Eisenhower confer- ’ ence, Kennedy will receive Secretary of State Dean Rusk and other State Department officials • at the hideaway to discuss IndoJ nesian President Sukarno’s visit ’ to Washington next week. Then Kennedy will take a heli--1 copter to Glen Ora, his estate near Middleburg, Va., and stay ’ there with his family until Mon- ! day morning if the world situa- ■ tion permits. ' i

Asked if he believed the fact that three American automobile i companies sold 30 million automol biles was free enterprise, he • snapped back: “Those three auto t companies have 30 million stocks holders.” Says Wealth Distributed He said wealth was well-distrib- , uted in the United States, and . cited a case in which an elderly ' woman owning six shares of stock asked the president of a company L a question which led to his ouster. His answers obviously nettled I the panel until one said: “I would like to discuss these questions fur- ’ ther with you after your trial but I don’t think you’ll have much ’ time to discuss anything." Pilot-Controlled Speed Record Set ' EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (UPD—Maj. Robert White- ■ as cool under pressure as his rocket was hot-turned the Xls’s 1 half-a-million horsepower loose 1 for a pilot-controlled speed record of 3,140 miles an hour. Although his 50-mile-a-minute ride was beset by minor troubles, ■ the handsome, 36-year-oki Air Force flier read off his instruI ments in a calm voice while ' streaking over the Mojave Desert , Friday at 103,000 feet. He was just as calm on the , ground when he told: —The 57,000-pound thrust rocket engine failed to ignite when the \ craft was released from a 852 , bomber. The stubby plane de- . signed to fly to 4,000 mile an hour and 100 miles high dropped i 7,000 feet in 30 seconds before he got the,rocket started. ‘ —A small leak in the craft’s ‘ cabin caused* the pressure to drop ' slowly as he was flying at 90,000 feet. A space suit he wore auto- : matically inflated to protect him. —A 30-knot wjpd whipped up dust and caused the plane to slip and slide as it came in dead ’ stick—without power—for a landing oh Rogers Dry Lake.

V, I [ MRS. IMOGENE BULTEMEIER, of route 1, is pictured above with Miss Ruth Stonestreet, R. N., of Lutheran hospital, district one chairman for the drive to raise $1 million nationally for research funds in nursing. Mrs. Bultemeier has accepted the appointment as Adams county chairman for the drive. She is the wife of Gilbert Bultemeier, who is a Preble township farmer, and is also employed ' by R. A. Seiling Construction Co. in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Bultemeier and her committee of Adams county nurses, will raise the Adams county share in the nationwide drive. Approximately 100 nurses live in Adams county, and they, as well as other individuals, businesses, and industry, will be contacted, t • .

, Adams county nurses are organ- , izing this week to raise thenshare of $1 million, nationwide fund to improve nursing research, 1 Mrs. Gilbert Bultemeier, R.N., of ’ route one, said today. Mrs. Bultemeier has been named chairman of the program, which ■ is a part of the American nurses 1 foundation fund drive for research 1 in nursing. Committee Appointed Miss Marie Felber, Mrs. Edith Soliday, Mrs. Mary Gauck, and ' Mrs. Anna Townsend, all regis--1 tered nurses from Decatur, are ■ members of the committee. The committee will conduct its campaign during the next month, and hopes to complete its work ’ by May 10. Each registered nurse in the entire county will be con- ’ tacted. M Adams county, which is a part of district one of the Indiana state _ nurses association, is interested in helping improve the research for improving private duty nursing, career mobility, psychiatric nursing, care of the chronically ill, industrial nursing, nursing for the aged, and public health nursing, Mrs. Bultemeier explained. Gifts Deductible Gifts will go to American nursing foundation, the national research arm of the American nurses association. They are tax deductible. Each nurse is being asked to “give or get $5” for the campaign. The program is strictly voluntary, and no nurse is being assessed. Businesses, industry and individuals are also being requested to give to the program. Mrs. Bultemeier is a graduate of Lutheran hospital school of nursing, and formerly did private duty nursing at the Adams county memorial hospital. She was also employed for two years as a psychiatric staff nurse at Parkview memorial hospital. Cancer Crusade Is Above 1960 Totals Mrs. R obert Krueckeberg, chairman of the Adams county Cancer society, on behalf of the county society and the Indiana division, has requested that all of those who helped during the past Cancer crusade be informed of the sincere appreciation and importance of their recent efforts in conducting the educational and fund raising crusade of the organization in Adams county. Mrs. Krueckeberg announced Wednesday afternoon that already a total of $1,489.92 has been turned in by the volunteers to Justin Bleeke, treasurer. With more money yet to be turned in, the figure is already over last year’s total of $1,437.58. “The cancer problem is very complicated, extensive and a continuing one. It requires the maximum of integrated and comprehensive effort for satisfactory management and final solution. The American Cancer society, through its division and units like the Adams county unit, is the only national organization approaching this problem in a truly comprehensive way; bringing the efforts of literally millions of people to bear on this great problem. “In helping, as you have done recently in this great effort,” Mrs. Krueckeberg stated, “you have become a part of the great fight against cancer and can feel that your efforts and the money you have raised, have been used and directed in the most efficient way possible to accomplish their purpose.”

■ Severe Storms Lash Midwest ’ During Night By United Press International ’ Severe thunderstorms crashed ' across the southern edge of the , Midwest through the night armed ’ with heavy hail showers and pos- ’ sible tornadoes. ’ Twisters scarred Kansas and : Missouri for the second straight ' day Friday. A half-foot of hail, . including some stones the size of 1 golf balls, halted traffic just south e of St. Louis. Lightning knocked out n power to Elkton, Ky., and plunged r the community into darkness. ’ Thunderstorms plodded slowly eastward today, spreading from ; the southern and central Great ! Plains into the Mississippi and ’ Ohio valleys. Showers brought a wet weekend to the rest of the eastern haft of the nation and to ' the Pacific coast. ' Twisters touched down here and there in east central Kansas and ’ west central Missouri Friday night. No injuries were reported, but houses were damaged and power lines downed at Selma and Kincaid, Kan. Funnel clouds were seen in several other areas, particularly around Harrisonville, Mo. The Weather Bureau reported ’ tornado damage at Forbes Air Force Base in Salina, Kan. Missouri highway crews brought out heavy snow - removal equipment to scrape six inches of hail off Missouri 21 south of St. Louis, but warm temperatures and heavy traffic beat them to it. However, traffic was halted by the hail in

Castro’s Strength W asUnderestimated

WASHINGTON (UPI)-Two crucial underestimates of Fidel Castro’s strength doomed the rebel invasion of Cuba, Kennedy administration sources said today. They said intelligence estimates miscalculated Castro’s military power, his ability to mobilize it and his troops’ loyalty. The other underestimate was the strength of Castro’s grip on the Cuban people, which prevented a general rebellion. They said U.S. officials had misgivings over the military venture, but Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and the Central Intelligence Agency agreed with President Kennedy not to prevent the invasion. Disagree On Blame There was disagreement among government agencies about where the blame lay for the intelligence underestimates. Some blamed the CIA, but one high source said the fault was shared “by the entire government.” Actually, such intelligence estimates are reached by a .board including all agencies concerned. Officials said it wasn’t known that Castro had Russian Mig fighters in flying condition. There were intelligence reports that Cuban pilots had been trained in Czechoslovakia to fly them, but it had been believed the only Migs

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some areas south of St. Louis. Winds that accompanied the hail storm overturned a house trailer and damaged several others, but no one was hurt. Olio Sheets Dies Friday Afternoon Otto Sheets, 85, retired farmer of Wren, 0., died at 3 o’dock Friday afternoon at the Castle rest home in Van Wert, 0., where be had been a patient since December. He had been in failing health for two years. He was born in Wilshire township, Van Wert county, Jan. 24, 1876, a son of Frederick and Nancy Ann Merica-Sheets, and was married to Gladys Poling in 1909. His wife, preceded him in death April 29, 1945. Mr. Sheets was a member of the Wren R. U. B. church. Surviving are one son, Robert D. Sheets of Wren; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Russell (Ctoe) Tope of Wren; two stepsons, William Sunderland of Fort Wayne, and Dr. F. V. Sunderland of Jackson Heights, Long Island, N. Y.; four grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren; nine step-great-grandchildren, and one sister, Mrs. Laura Perk of Wren. One daughter, two brothers and a half-sister are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 10:30 a. m. Sunday at the Wren R. U. B. church, the Rev. Robert Hawk officiating. Burial will be in Lakeview cemetery at Quincy, Mich. Friends may call at the Zwick funeral home after 7 p. m. today until time of the services.

. in Cuba were still in crates. Underestimated Equipment I “Castro turned out to have . more tanks, more airpower In general, more artillery, more i modern machine guns and more - Communist-bloc technicians than t anyone had thought,” one administration source said. -—— i Others, however, said the misi calculation was not so much in . the amount of the equipment, but in the training of men to use it [ and mobilize it effectively. They also said the extent of Ms i police control and his network of ; agents and informers wasn't real- . ized until thousands of persons were herded into makeshift prisons to ward off a civilian ingThe two miscalculations went hand in hand. Had Castro’s military power not dwarfed that of the rebels, a popular uprising would have been more likely. INDIANA WEATHER Parity cloudy with shower* and no important temperature changes tonight and Bunday. Low tonight 42 to SB north, 58 to « sooth. High Sunday in the Ms north, M to 72 sooth. Oatlook for Monday: Mostly cloudy with showers or rain. A Utile cooler north and mfld sooth-