Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 96, Decatur, Adams County, 24 April 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 96.

De Gaulle Is Mobilizing Special Army Reserves To Halt Revolt Spread

Property Damage Heavy In State

By United Press International Tornado-like storms played hide-and-seek with residents of the northwestern quarter of Indiana late Sunday and early today, dipping into portions of three counties but causing no known injuries although property was heavily damaged. ~ ’ Such cities as Monticelo, Kokomo, Marion, Huntington, Rensselaer, Logansport, Rochester, South Bend, Plymouth and Winamac were in danger areas and residents were warned in Weather Bureau advisories to “be alert for possible tornadoes and take all necessary precautions.” The first warning was hoisted late in the afternoon and the last was pulled down around 5 a.m. CDT. After dawn today, the Weather Bureau at Indianapolis said “there is a lot of evidence that a tornado or tornadoes did hit in areas of Northwestern Indiana” but “we don’t kpow for a certainty” that tornadoes did not. Storm damage was reported in Newton, Jasper and Lake Counties. Trees and power poles were reported felled at Sumava and Lake Village in Newton County. A tool shed and barn were blown down, an apple orchard was leveled and livestock was killed at the Charles Clawson farm in Jasper County, and damage was caused at the Marvin DeWiess and Ella Daniels farms nearby. The storms came on the heels of one of the warmest days of the season, with the mercury advancing to 78 at Evansville. 77 at Louisville and 72 at Cincinnati and the upper 60s and low 70s elsewhere. Rainfall during the 24 hours ending at 7 a.m. today included 1.43 inches at Peru. 1.30 at Wabash, .67 at Logansport, .51 at South Bend, .35 at Louisville and .21 at Fort Wayne. Meanwhile, occasional showers and scattered thunderstorms were expected to continue today, and almost daily throughout the week. The five-day outlook called for one-half to one and one-half inches of rain during the week. The outlook also indicated that a cooloff due today would remain in effect the rest of the week, with temperatures averaging 3 to 8 degrees below normal highs of 61 to 70 and normal lows of 40 to 48.

Cease-Fire In Laos Agreed

LONDON (UPD — The British government announced today that an agreement has been reached with the Soviet Union for a ceasefire in Laos. The announcement was made in the House of Commons by J.B. Godber, undersecretary of state for foreign affairs. Godber said Foreign Secretary Lord Home had reached agreement with the Russians on preliminary arrangements for a cease-fire and a conference on the war-ruptured Asian kingdom. The agreement came after weeks of consultation between Britain and the Soviet Union, both acting in their capacities as cochairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference that settled the war in Indochina. Godber said the agreement included three “communications.” which will be published Tuesday. They are: —A call for a cease - fire in Laos. —A call to India to convene the three • power international supervisory commission. —A call for a 14-nation inter-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT

Mrs. Cora B. Lough Dies This Morning Mrs. Cora B. Lough, 76, of 622 North Seventh street, died of a cerebral stroke at 11 o’clock this morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been ill for the past six years. She was born in Churubusco March 15, 1885, a daughter of John and Emily White. Her husband, Frank Lough, preceded her in death. Surviving are seven sons, Kenneth, Everett and James Lough, all of Decatur, Frank of Sturgis, Mich., Frederick of St. Paul, Minn., Donald of Fort Wayne, and Eugene of Willshire, O.; five daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Krontz of Sturgis, Mich., Mrs. Alvina Currier of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mrs. Ruth Deßolt, Mrs. Idora Andrews and Mrs. Gretchen Foreman. all of Decatur; 46 grandchildren and 47 great-grandchil-dren. One son, three brothers and six sisters preceded her in death. ~ - Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Black funeral home, with the Rev J. O. Penrod officiating Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p. m. Tuesday until time of the services.

Rites Held Today For Sapp Infant Graveside servics were held this morning at the Decatur cemetery for the infant daughter of Harold and Beverly Hakes-Sapp of 1128 West Elm street. The infant died at 9:30 p. m. Saturday at the Adams county memorial hospital, where she was born at 2:16 p.m. Services were conducted by the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. J. O. Penrod officiating. Surviving in addition to the parents are a brother, Terry, and a sister, Cheryl, both at home; and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harrison D. Hakes and Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Sapp of Decatur, land Mr. and Mrs. Jess Rupert of St. Mary's O.

national conference on May 12 in Geneva. Godber said that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko had “assured her majesty’s ambassador in Moscow (Sir Frank Roberts) of the desire of the Soviet government for an immediate cease - fire to precede the international conference.” He said the 14-nation meeting! would convene in Geneva May 12 “provided the Swiss government concurs.” Godber warned, however, that “much remains to be done” before the conference. “Arrangements for a cease-fire will have to be made between those fighting in Laos, and we are using our good offices to help He said arrangements also them do this,” he saidHe said arrangements also would have to be made for the International Control Commission —made up of India, Poland and Canada—to verify the cease-fire. “Any substantial violation of the cease - fire would put all those arrangements in jeopardy,” Godber said.

PARIS (UPl)—President Charles de Gaulle started mobilizing special army reserves today to stop a military revolt in Algeria from leaping across the Mediterranean into France itself. De Gaulle, invested with' dlctatorial powers, acted after the country had gone through a sixhour invasion alert. The alarm was canceled early this morning but France remained tense. An unidentified speaker over the rebel-controlled Algiers Radio denied this afternoon that insurgent French military forces in Algiers had given an order for an invasion of France. Before the denial, Gen. Maurice Halle, one of the insurgent leaders, broadcast over Algiers Radio that none of the group had any political or personal ambitions. He said their sole purpose was to save Algeria for France and keep it from the grip of the Moslem rebellion that has raged for more than seven years. / third Algiers Radio speaker said the French army “refuses to accept the shameful humiliation of surrendering a French province.” U.S. Messages Sapport Official sources disclosed President Kennedy had sent De Gaulle a message of support in the Algerian crisis. U.S. Ambassador James Gavin took it to Elysee Palace Sunday night. A brief cabinet communique at noon announced that certain army reserves would be called back into service and formed into “regularly organized reserve units.” Ihe government also put uniforms on 2,000 volunteers and said it would arm them tonight. Most of De Gaulle's crack fighting units are in Algeria and it was believed the reserves would be used as a home guard rather than for an attack on the insurgents in North Africa. French naval sources said the rebels stopped six warships from leaving Algiers harbor and another was being held in Phillipevile. However, the rebel radio in Algiers said soldiers ending their terms pf service in Algeria were being alowed to leave aboard the steamship El Mansour. To Isolate Insurgents

De Gaulle's main tactic at the moment appeared to be to isolate the insurgents. The Finance Ministry said all payments, rulings and transfer of funds between Algeria and other French territories had been suspended. Communications also were severed. Fifteen thousand troops, police and volunteers backed by light tanks guarded key points in Paris. In Algeria, the rebel generals who proclaimed their revolt last Saturday, appeared to be extending their power without bloodshed. They claimed complete qpntrol of Algiers, Constantine and Oran —the three key military centers in Algeria. UPI correspondent Alain Raymond reported . Algiers was calm this morning, that stores and cases opened normally and the population went to work as usual. 2 More Leaders Arrive Algiers Radio reported that two more insurgent leaders — Pierre Lagaillarde and Gen. Raoul Salan —had arrived in Algiers. It also claimed the support of 400,000 French troops in Algeria. The insurgent broadcasting station in Algiers, calling itself “Radio France,” branded De Gaulle a “traitor" for planning to negotiate a peace In the seven-year the airways, chlled the rebel De Gaulle, fighting back over the airwavzs, called the rebel generals “partisan, ambitious and fanatical” and appealed to his people: Hit-Run Driver Is Held After Accident INDIANAPOLIS (UPD—William Herschel Loy, 23, Indianapolis, was held today on hit-run driving charges in connection with the critical injury of Linda Marie Henry, 7, who was struck by a car while crossing a street near hei- home Saturday night. Police said they found Loy hiding under a bed in his home.

ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ADAMS COUNTY

Decatur, Indiana, Monday, April 24 r 1961.

Searching Review Os Tactic Errors

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The question of how the United States could be so misinformed about the military strength of Cuba, 90 miles from its shores, will be the subject of searching review. The Kennedy administration has begun a major reappraisal of the military tactics, intelligence operations, decision-making and diplomatic machinery involved in the Cuban debacle. This review will be made primarily within the scope of a major survey ordered Saturday by President Kennedy of methods to combat Communist subversion and guerrilla warfare around the world. There will be no attempt to turn the survey, headed by Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, into a court of inquiry into intelligence failures in Cuba, but the Cuban lesson emphasized the need for the sweeping study. Makes Big Mistakes Officials here said that U.S. intelligence made two major miscalculations in Cuba. They said it badly misjudged Premier Fidel Castro’s military power and the degree of his police-state control over the Cuban people. On the military side, these sources said, one of the big failures was in not knowing the number of planes Castro had in operation. There has been no verification of reports that he had Soviet Migs in operation, but he did have far more propeller-driven planes than U.S. intelligence estimated. ' One source said there had been intelligence information that Castro's entire air force consisted of only four planes. There were many more, although no figure was given by this source. The Central Intelligence Agency also was said to have reported that 13 to 15 Soviet ships were in Havana Harbor unloading supplies the week before the invasion attempt. Not Enough Time But, according to sources here,

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it was felt that even if there were tanks and planes on these ships, they could not be assembled quickly enough to go into action against the invaders. Sources said the Cuban rebel assault was planned originaly as a "quiet” operation in which small groups would slip into Cuba and one day proclaim a provisional government. They then could call for a general uprising. Only 1,000 to 1,200 men took part in last week’s assault. Just how the attack was allowed to be billed as a “major invasion’ and why the security wraps came off was another subject of major soul searching within the government. Despite the miscalculations in Cuba, sources said, Kennedy has no intention of trying to make scapegoats of top CIA officials. These sources said Kennedy continues to have confidence in , CIA Director Allen W. Dulles.

State Traffic Toll Heavy Over Weekend By United Press. International Indiana’s worst traffic accident in nine months, which killed six persons near Logansport Saturday, helped boost the weekend death toll to at least 10 and the 1961 toll to at least 272. The 272 fatalities compared with 2Tf a year ago. The six-death two-car collision on a rainswept highway near Logansport Saturday morning was the worst accident in the state since last July. Killed in the wreck were Benjamin F. Knight, 81, his wife, Nona, 56; Mrs. Knight’s sons, Jack Hodgson, 23, and Jeff Hodgsons, 21, and her daughter, Mary Eaton. 15, all of Indianapolis; and Benjamin C. McMillin, 48, South Bend. Verio Gibbs, 33, Corydon, was killed late Saturday when his car ran off Indiana 64 near Milltown and hit a pile of rocks. Paul Kiddy, 43, Birdseye, and his wife, Bano, 46, were injured. Darlene McKee, 27, route 3, Michigan City, was killed Saturday night when a car driven by Dale McKee, 25, identified by police as her brother-in-law, hit a bridge railing near Michigan City. Both were thrown from the car into a creek, and the woman drowned. McKee was hospitalized with fractures of both arms. — —- , Elmer John Franklin, 52, Linton, was killed Saturday near Elnora when a car driven by John F. Sanders, 42, Sandborn, struck him as Franklin lay in the middle of Indiana 58. The weekend’s first death early Saturday killed Ralph Samuel Hutton, 67, Indianapolis, at an Indianapolis intersection. Also during the weekend, the fourth victim died of sered in a two-car ’ collision neat’ Madison last Monday night. The latest to die was Russell C. Davis, 34, Madison. Davis died in a Louisville hospital Saturday, leaving only one survivor of the crash. At Indianapolis, Harold A. Hornaday, 35, Indianapolis, died from , injuries suffered Thursday when his car struck a bridge railing near ; Mooresville on Indiana 67, 1 \ ■ Two Escape Injury As Plane Crashes MOUNT VERNON, Ind. (UPD— James Moll, 32, . the pilot, and Francis Knowles, 47, a passenger, both of Mount Vernon, escaped injury Sunday when their small plane crashed while landing at the airport here. The plane nosed over and skidded about 75 feet when it touched the runway.

Entire Family Os Hine Dead In Home Fire NORTH BEACH PARK, Md. (UPI)—A nine-member family including six children perished in an early morning fire that apparently broke out as they slept today. The victims were tentatively identified by state police as William Bowden, 37; his wife, Marisa, 35; Mrs. Bowden’s mother, Mrs. Xenia Farr, 60; and the couple’s six children; Erica, l3, Barbara, 11, Cynthia,' 9, Martha, ,7, Roger, 5, and Christina, 1. Cause of the fire was not immediately determined but state police said a spark from a fireplace in the large waterfront home might have been responsible. Officers also said however that the bodies of some of the victims smelled of oil. They said this might indicate an explosion in an oil burner, but the emphasized that neighbors in nearby homes did not report hearing any blast. Police said two of the children apparently died of smoke inhalation. The raging fire was too far advanced in the two-story frame home when firemen from three counties arrived and the home was destroyed.

Si. Mary's River Above Flood Stage As heavy rains continued to pelt Decatur and Adams county, weatherman Louis Landrum reported the St. Mary’s river at a height of 16.38 feet this morning, more than three feet above the theoretical flood stage of 13 feet. This shows a jump of 4.47 feet in the river since last reported on Friday of last week. The river had risen to a height of 14.76 feet last Tuesday, dropped to 11.91 feet Friday, and now has risen to the 16.38 feet. More Hun Inch A total of 1.33 inches of rainfall during the past three days accounts for the height to which the river has swollen. Last Friday, .62 inches fell, with .21 inches falling Saturday and .51 falling Sunday night and early this morning. Tornado warnings were out for Adams county and the surrounding vicinity until 9:30 p.m. Sunday, but only rain and high winds developed. The showers fell in Decatur for about an hour, approximately 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Small “Lake” The 16.38 feet at which the St. Mary’s stood this morning is the highest peak the river has reached in some time. The water has completely left its banks in the area of the tiver bridge just west of the Youth and Community Center. The water has stretched into the vacant land across the highway from the Youth Center and has created a small-sized lake. The county road just east of the old covered bridge at Pleasant Mills is impassable as water has completely enveloped the road for about an eighth of a mile. So far, the water has not gotten out of control in Park View Drive, in the southeast section of the city, but as one of the residents, Robert Dedolph stated, “We couldn’t stand much more rainfall.” Dedolph explained that the water is higher there than it has been all spring. The Bellmont Road area, always a trouble spot during heavy rainfall, was dry this noon, although much water was standing in the field on the west side of the highway.

RISE AGAINST DE GAULLE—Three of the leaders in the revolt against French President De Gaulle are shown above. They oppose any settlement which hands Algeria to native control. They are, from left, General of the Army Andre-Marie Zeller, Gen. Maurice ChaMe and Gen. Edmond Jauhaud.

Fix Base Acreage Pay Under Program

Owners of Adams county’s 2,125 farms will receive their base acreage allotments, payment rates under the 20% diverted acres program, and payment rate for the second 20%, under a special mailing from the county ASC office today, Mrs. Mary Howard, office manager, said this morning. Farmer’s Program The county ASC committee, consisting of James Garboden, Herman Steele, and Oscar Fuelling, received the county average com yield of 61.4 bushels per acre from the state ASC committee, based on census and agricultural census research figures. This makes 61.4 acres the productivity index of 100 for this county. Each farmer was contacted and asked for the acreage of each crop. This was compared with the census acreage figures, and Adams county was one of the few counties in the state where no adjustment was necessary, farmers giving substantially the same answers to the census takers and to the ASC. The returns established a base of 55,550 acres of corn for Adams county. Townships Active Each township or community ASC committee then went to work and established the production index for each farm. Naturally, with 2,125 farms to figure, it is possible that mistakes may have been made, and farmers who think they have reason to believe an error was made in their figures' may appeal to the county

Castro Blasts U. S. Leaders

MIAMI (UPD — Premier Fidel Castro, brushing aside the pleas of five Latin American presidents, was expected today to unleash the biggest firing-squad bloodbath yeti in “socialist” Cuba. The bearded Cuban also was I expected to build up his government’s defenses against what he caled probable new invasions staged by the United States. In a 4-hour-and-33-minute telethon Sunday, Castro said such attacks would sound the death knell of the United States. He sneered at U.S. leaders, calling Sen. Barry Goldwater R-Ariz., a “moron,” and saying President Kennedy reminded him of Adolf Hitler. He threatened blows at the “very heart of the Yankee empire” — presumably meaning retaliation by Russian rockets. Accuses CIA Chief Castro said Allen W. Dulles, whose Central Intelligence Agency has been denounced by the Castroite press and radio as the brains behind the attack, should have been fired and “shipped He also ridiculed President Kennedy’s “White Paper” on Cuba, and said reports in U.S. newspapers and magazines kept him up to date on rebel planning. “We are not afraid of the Marines,” Castro said. “We will give them a grand reception. If they destroy us, it will mean the destruction of the Yankee empire. “The day they invade hs will be the day the Yankee empire disappears from the face of the earth.” He said the entire U.S. Army would be needed to protect American ambassadors to Latin American nations if U.S. forces invaded Cuba. Denies Clemency Despite pleas for clemency from

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board, and even on to the state board, if necessary. The average county rate of payment will be $37.10 per acre for the first 20% taken out of com production, and $43.50 per acre the second 20%. Meaning To Farmer What does this mean to the average county 1 farmer? Well, the “average” farm includes 26 acres of corn. But suppose a farmer has 40 acres in corn. To get in the program, he must agree to “rest” 20%, or eight acres. For each acre of this first SO%, the average farmer will get $37.10, but those with a greater or less yield per acre will receive more or less accordingly. These figures will be mailed out today to each farmer. Now. what can be done with the eight acres? It can be summer fallowed for planting wheat next fall, or it can be sown in legumes or grasses. This can be used to get a good start on a hay field for next year. * The com raised also may be sealed under the storage program at $1.21 a bushel. Fanners may, if they desire, take half of their payment in negotiable certificates, redeemable in cash at the ASC office, at the time they sign up. Farmers have until June 1 to decide if they wish to sign up in the voluntary program, set up by congress this spring. The purpose of the program is to reduce the corn surplus, and at the same time increase the fertility of farm land.

1 the presidents of Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and I Venezuela, Castro indicated he would deal mercilessly with 700 I prisoners he said were taken in last week’s fighting. “Don’t ask for clemency, because we aren’t going to give it to them,” he said. “Ask them for clemency for the children killed in the bombings.” Castro also confirmed indirectly that there was a mass roundup of Cubans after the April 10 invasion, affecting perhaps as many as 50,000 persons. He said it was necessary to arrest “al suspicious persons,” but added that those proved innocent would be released. As Castro spoke, leaders of the Cuban underground were appealing to the United States and the rest of the free world for the aid which they said was necessary to keep Cuba from becoming a new > Hungary. “We believe that if we do not get U.S. help we will be doomed,” an underground statement said. “We may suffer the same fate as our parents who died in the struggle to free Cuba from Spain.” Blame l’.S. Navy Underground leaders also complained that the U.S. Navy was at least partly to blame for the defeat of the invasion. ~ They said U.S. naval vessels accompanied the invaders from Guatemala but that their commanders kept the attackers waiting too long offshore “giving Castro more time to muster his defenses and making the rebels weak with seasickness.” Castro’s firing squads have killed 63 persons this year, increasing the toll since he came to power to more than 600.