Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 113.

United States Seeks To Break Deadlock Delaying Vital Conference On Laos

Parliament Os Congo Called Info Session COQHUILHATVILLE, Congo, (UPD—President Joseph Kasavubu said today the Congolese parliament will be reconvened soon to approve a new constitution expected to create a “United States of the, Congo.” The move thrust pro-Communist Oriental Province leader Antoine Ginzenga into a position of prominence in controlling the Congo because of the parliamentary votes he commands. He said the United Nations had been asked to help transport the deputies to Leopoldvile and to guarantee their safety and that of their families. The parliament wil be called upon to vote on the new constitution now being drafted by the Coqhuilhatville conference. This would set up the “United States of the Congo,” create a federal congress, premier and cabinet and a council of states over which Kasavubu would preside as federal president. The big question now was whether deputies from the Katanga, Oriental and Kivu provinces would heed the appeal and whether they would consider U.N. security guarantees sufficient. The parliamentary recall fits in with the U.N. appeals for normalization of Congo life. Gizenga also has been clamoring for such a move so parliament could vote on his claim to be the legal successor to Lumumba. Observers here said Gizenga appears to have enough votes to make a fight of it in parliament. Kasavubu named Joseph Ileo as

24 Hollywood Homes Burned

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (UPD—A massive fire, fanned by gusts of wind up to 40-miles-an-hour, exploded in the Hollywood hills Friday night, burning at least 24 homes and causing an estimated $1.5 million damage, firemen reported. The fire raged on a five-mile perimeter. No fatalities were reported. A total of about 300 men battled the blaze. Flames gutted the home of “Brave New World” author Aldous Huxley and raced to within spitting distance of the huge home occupied by actress Spring Byington. Huxley’s rambling two-story home overlooking the city was a charred ruin. At the height of the blaze firemen and workers from the Southern California Gas Co. braved flames to try to turn off. natural gas pipes leading into the home to prevent an explosion. Neibhbors reported Huxley fled the fire, but it has not been determined whether his manuscripts —on the second floor over the garage — were burned. Firemen said that by midnight the fire had been pretty well contained and official estimates on the number of expensive homes destroyed was 24. Burns 1,000 Acres The fire blackened more than I.obo acres in the picturesque area near famed Griffith Park Observatory. The observatory was not damaged by hungry flames which licked within yards of the structure. Observatory officials cancelled a show and some 300 persons >7 were evacuated from the planetarium. . . . \ The Griffith Park zoo and bird sanctuary were threatened fire-

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premier but the parliament has never approvzd him. Observers believed that Ileo might resign and that Kasavubu would appoint a new man in his place. Twenty-two members of parliament—ll from each house —have been killed or never appeared to take their seats. It was believed about half of the missing lawmakers had been killed in the past 10 months of chaos and struggle in the Congo. The non - Communist leaders meeting in Coqhuilhatville were reported to be considering a plan for a strongly-governed “United States of the Congo.” The plan envisions a centralized nation organized along somewhat the same lines as the United States instead of the loosely-knit federation favored by President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province, who has been jailed in Coquilhatville as a “traitor.” INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and mild tonight. Sunday partly cloudy and warm with scattered showers and thundershowers likely by afternoon. Low tonight 57 to 65. High Sunday lower 80s. Outlook for Monday: Partly cloudy and mild with scattered showers or thundershowers and turning a little cooler by night. Decntnr Trmperntnrr« T,ocal weather data for the 24 hour period ending at 11 a.ni. today. 12 noon 79 Midnight 64 1 p.m. 78 1 a.m 62 2 p.m. 78 2a m 61 3 p.m "8 3 a.m. 60 4 p.m. 78 4 a.m. 59 5 p.m 78 5 a.m ... 58 6 p.m77_ .6 a.m. .-. 58 7p m. 76 7 a.m. . : .64 8 p.m. 72 8 am. 68 9 p.m. ...' . 68 9 a.m. <4 10 p.m 66 10 a.m79 11 p.m 65 11 a.m. 82 Rain Total for 24 hour period ending at 7 am. today. 0 inches. The St- Maryas river was at 4.98 feet.

men reported. Control over the blaze — one of the worst in Hollywood history—was expected about dawn. Miss Byington, television’s “December Bride," appeared at her door in a nightgown and told United Press International that she had not left her home. “I’m afraid I’m a very undramatic person," Miss Byington said. "I was home studying my script at the time and came into my room and the entire outlook was fire and flame. “I knew if anything humanly possible could bz done, the fire department would do it. They are extraordinary." Grab Bare Necessities Hundreds of persons grabbed only the barest necessities such as clothes, bedding and cherished belongings along With personal papers and ashed to safety. Other homeowners braved smoke and flying sparks — not to mention walls of flame — to remain with their homes, sprinkling water on the rooftops with garden hoses. Julian Smith, owner of the Hollywood Riding Stable, saved his ranch’s 60 horses by battling his way through sheets of fire to lead them to safety. Among the animals saved were several race horses. Smith told firemen. A Girl Scout camp with 150 youngsters was not evacuated despite oa'the fact flames lapped at the doorstep. Firemen said they preferred putting a fire line around the structure to having the girls wandering around the hills. Fireman said the blaze was believed to have been caused by power lines knocked down by high winds.

GENEVA (UPD — Secretary of State Dean Rusk met today with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in a personal attempt to break the deadlock holding up the 14-nation peace conference on Laos. Rusk, negotiating here with the Russians for the first time since he became secretary of state, was trying to find away to prevent the conference from breaking down even before it started. The conference, which was to have opened in the Palace of Nations Friday, has been postponed pending a solution of the procedural wrangle. The Russians slowed preparations for the conference by demanding Friday night that Communist delegates from Laos be seated with the same “full rights” as all other members. A U.S. spokesman immediately denounced the demand as “utterly unacceptable.” The United States is willing to seat as “observers” both the royal government delegation, which the Western powers recognize, and the “neutralist” group considered “legal” by the Communists. But it flatly opposes seating the Pethet Lao rebels, pointing out they are recognized by no one as a government. Rusk was Said to be wiling to let one or two of the Pathet Lao be attached to the “neutralist” observers, but that was far as he would go. The Russian demand for seating the Pathet Lao rebels burst on the scene at a barroom news conference held late yesterday by Soviet spokesman Mikhail Kharmalov. It came shortly after a major obstacle to the opening of the conference was removed by receipt of a report from Laos that the cease-fire there was effective. The report from the Indian chairman o of the three-nation control commission said that a “general de cease fire exists." Balks at Demand Rusk said that was good enough to permit the conference to open but then balked when the Russians brought up their demand for full representation of Pathet Lao rebels. who have been supplied by the Soviets with war materials since the first of the year. Britain and Russia, as co-chair-men of the conference, were the ones who had to decide the Laotian representation question. The British and other Western powers were reported to be generally supporting the U.S. position in the dispute. Representatives from Cambodia, South Viet Nam, the royal Laotian government and Thailand were expected to arrive today, completing the conference roster of 14. Other countries attending are the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, France, Red China. India. Burma. Poland. Canada and Communist North Viet Nam. Mrs. Emma Linker Dies Last Evening Mrs. Emma Linker, 73, died at 7:55 p.m. Friday at her home. 4418 Oxford avenue. Fort Wayne. Her husband, Fred Linker, preceded her in death in 1944. Mrs. Linker was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran church and a lifelong resident of Fort Wayne. Surviving are six sons, Edgar and Robert Linker, of New Haven. Earl and Donald Linker of Fort Wayne, Vern and Leonard Linker, both of Adams county ; five daughters, Mrs. Elmer Lepper, Mrs. Mart Brueck, Mrs. Arthur Bearman, Mrs. Ray Lepper and Mrs. Gerald Rohrbach, all of Fort Wayne; one sister, Della Sheets of Fort Wayne; five brothers, Ernest Exner of Sun Valley. Calif., and Herman, Otto, Albert and Richard Exner, all of Fort Wayne; 38 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. Services will be held Monday at a time to be announced. Friends may call at the Klaehn funeral home in Fort Wayne after 10 a.m. Sunday.

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Johnson Reassures v Jittery Filipinos

MANILA (UPD—Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson flew in from Saigon ß ' today to assure jittery Filipinos that the United States will not let the Communists take over southeast Asia. Despite pouring rain and steamy 90-degree heat, about 500,000 of Manila’s 2 million people turned out to cheer Johnson as he rode from the airport into the city. The vice president, who was soaked with perspiration even before the rain started to fall, beckoned cheering Filipinos at the airport to his cream-colored convertible so he could shake their Repeats Filipino Cry He quickly picked up and repeated the cry “mabuhay!” (long life) which was chorused at him by the Filipinos of all ages who crowded around the car. Johnson was welcomed at the airport by Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano, and rode into the city with him. Vice President Diosdado Macapagal who ordinaThree Persons Dead In Indiana Traffic By United Press InternationalThree persons were killed in Indiana traffic in the first few hours of the weekend, raising the 1961 death toll to at least 317. Mrs. Elma Lee Fizer, 33, Hammond, died about an hour after a car driven by her husband, Robert, 35. smashed into a bridge on the Tri State Highway at Hammond early this morning. Fizer was injured. He said another car swerved into his lane of traffic and caused him to lose control. William Eugene Deardorff. 20, Morocco, was killed today when his speeding car went out of control and smashed into an embankment on Indiana 114 about three miles west of Morocco. Mrs. Viola Gasser. 71, Evansville, died Friday night an hour after she was hit by a car while walking across a downtown Evansville street. Deardorff’s car ran off the road, swerved back across the highway and hurtled through the air before it tumbled end over end and struck the embankment, police said. Mrs. Gasser walked into the path of a car driven by Viola Eblen of Henderson, Ky. Two other persons were killed previously Friday in separate accident in Terre Haute and near Huntington. ”

April Upturn Aids Economy

WASHINGTON (UPD — The economy looked better today than it has in a year but it still was far from tip-top shape. White House economists said a snappy April upturn in industrial production had got the post-reces-sion recovery off to a good start. But they cautioned that it was a somewhat slower start than followed the 1958 business slump. That recession, however, was milder than the one which began last summer and ended in Feb-ruary-March. Putting an unusually rosy hue on the business picture was a report Friday by the Federal Reserve Board that factory, mine, mill and utility activity jumped 2% per cent in April. That was the first overall advance since the recession began—and it was a good gain for one month.

rily would have done the honors, was shunted into the background because he is an opposition leader and a foe of President Carlos P. Garcia. Serrano gave Johnson the most sobering appraisal he had had on his current tour of conditions in the Far East. Notes General Apprehension Me said there is . “general apprehension” about (Communist encroachment on southeast Asia, and a discouraged feeling that “our wil to resist might not measure up to the enemy’s will to conquer.” Johnson and Serrano drove straight from the airport to the Philippine “White House,” where President and Mrs. Garcia were waiting to welcome the U.S. vice president. The vice president lunched with Garcia, and was closeted with him again later in the day. He leaves Saturday for Taipei. In South Viet Nam, Johnson agreed with President Ngo Dinh Diem on a broad expansion of U.S. military aid to counter Communist aggression in that country. James B. Hovermale Found Dead At Home James B. Hovermale, 50, employed as a communications maintainer for the Erie railroad, was found dead Friday at his home in Bobo. He had been under treatment for a heart ailment for several months. His body was found by a neighbor who investigated after Mrs. Hovermale, who was on a visit in the east, had called her home and getting no answer, called the neighbor to investigate. He was believed to have died during the night, as lights were on in the house. Mr. Hovermale, who had lived at Bobo for two years, was a member of the Mt. Tabor Methodist church. He was born in Ridge, W. V., June 20. 1910, a son of Rumsey and Elsie La wye r-Ho verm ale, and was married to Julia Coder Jan. 16, 1961, Surviving in addition to his wife are two Mrs. Vernon Ambrose and Mrs. Harold Largent, both of Berkeley Springs, W. Va. Funeral services will be held at 2 o’clock this afterrioon at the Mt. Tabor Methodist church, the Rev. Roy Johnson officiating. The body will be sent from the Zwick funeral home to Berkeley Springs, W. burial in the Union Chapekreemetery.

Administration economists claimed that the strong industrial expansion in April confirmed their earlier predictions. However, they considered it significant that the April rise was smaller than the 3.3 per cent gain registered in June 1958, the comparable month of recovery from the 1958 recession. This, presidential advisers said, supports their view that the 1961 revival will not be so stronghas the lusty 1958 rebound arid will fail so haul unemployment below 6 per cent before the end of the year. Joblessness has been between 6,6 and 6.8 per cent for several months. In reporting widespread , April gains in industrial production the reserve board noted that output still was 4 per cent below the pre-recession level.

Havana Radio Asks Network Os Informers MIAMI (UPD—Cuba called today for expansion of its “Big Brother” network of informers to defend Fidel Castro’s revolution. Havana, in broadcasts monitored here, renewed the official appeal to the people to volunteer for so-called Revolutionary Defense Committees. Earlier broadcasts said at least “half a million” informers were needed to safeguard the revolution against its “imperialist enemies.” A government statement blasted the oligarchy” of Uruguay which was said to be considering the recognition of a Cuban government-in-exile led by Jose Miro Cardona, head of the Revolutionary Council which sponsored last month’s invasion. “Recognition of this counterrevolutionary government is one of the Yankee plans to prepare direct aggression against Cuba with the backing of Latin American regimes,” the broadcast said. It said Uruguay would break relations with Cuba “as the first step in this plot.” Eight other Latin American nations have severed relations with the Castro regime. Cuba claimed that Bolivia, Ecuador and Brazil had previously rejected the American efforts to get them to recognize the Miro Cardona group. The “Revolutionary College of Architects” made public an open letter to President Kennedy challenging his recent remarks about the Cuban future. “You told a great truth when you said the history of Cuba has not ended,” the letter said. The most beautiful and glorious pages are still to be written. “The people of Cuba are disposed to build new cities dn their island and also, in their generosity, to aid in the construction of new cities in Washington and New York.” The oblique reference was to Soviet rocket-rattling threats made by Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev last year. Havana radio announced an important trade agreement” between Cuba and Communist Yugoslavia but gave no information on the scope or extent of the pact. It said that under the agreement Cuba wil import cable tubing, wiring, electrodes, cement, steam boilers, grain elevators and other Yugoslav products and export coffee, sugar, alcohol, liquors.manganese, chrome, molasses, fruit and other products. Mrs. L. E. Snyder Dies Friday High! Mrs. Bertha Rothaker Snyder, 76, who resided in Harrison township, Van Wert county, one mile north of Wren, 0., died at 11:30 p. m. Friday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She had been in failing health tor 15 years and seriously ill for the last week. She was born in Cincinnati, 0., May 27, 1885, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Rothaker, and was married to L. E. Snyder June 11, 1935. Mrs. Rothaker was a member of the Wren Garden club, the Harrison Research club and the Van Wert YWCA. Surviving in addition to her husband are three stepchildren and three sisters, Mrs. Alice Boub of Loveland, 0., Mrs. Rose Lampe of Los Angeles, Calif., and Miss Frieda Rothaker of Van Wert. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Zwick funeral home, the Rev. Robert Hawk and the Rev. O. B. Tuerner officiating. Burial will be in Woodland cemetery at Van Wert. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a. m. Sunday until time of the services. Advertising Index Advertiser Page Burk Elevator Co 5 Citizens Telephone Co 6 Chic Dry Cleaners & Laundry 5, 6 D. & T. Standard Service 5 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp 4 Drive In Theater ------ 3 Ellenberger Bros., Auctioneers - 4 Evans Sales & Service 5 First State Bank of Decatur 6 Fairway 3, 6 Allen Fleming — 5 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home — 3 Kent Realty & Auction Co 5 Pike Lumber Co 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency, Inc 5 Smith Drug Co 3 Teeple Truck Line-- 5 Win-Rae Drive In —3 Yost Gravel-Readymix, Inc 4 Church Page Sponsors - 2

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RUN OUT ON CASTRO — Defectors from Cuba’s Fidel Castro regime, Second Secretary Antonio Montane, right, and Consul Hilda Portela talk to newsmen after they quit Cuban embassy in Mexico City and sought asylum as political refugees. Both said they were opposed to suppression of religion and charged they had been forced to work as Communist agents.

Flood Crests Move Slowly Downstream

By United Press International Slow moving flood crests slid downstream in Southern Illinois and Indiana today, turning fseihlyseeded farm fields into muddy lakes filled with robbing debris and dead livestock. In the flood zones, scores of families waited for the water to go down so they could begin the seemingly hopeless task of cleaning up. Downstream, local authorities aided by National Guardsmen and volunteers raced against steadily rising rivers to make levees and dikes higher and stronger before it would be too late. Scattered showers and thunderstorms billowed toward the flooded countryside from the Great Plains and Mississippi Valley, but weathermen saw in the possibility of rain no advantage for the flooded. Illinois Gov. Otto Kener ordered fresh National Guard troops into Southern Illinois Friday night. State Police Supt. William Morris flew typhoid serum into Carmi, ID., in a county where half the land was under water. United Press International correspondent Ray Serati flew to Carmi with the serum. “South of Carmi, the Little Wabash covered al of the farmland,” Serati said. “Cattle were huddled together on hilltops and chickens and dogs were on the tops of houses and barns. “The tops of large steel poles which carry the power lines into the Carmi area could barely be seen from the air,” he said. “In many places the entire poles were submerged.” At Mount Carmel, Ind., floodwaters surged up to the crossbars of goal posts at the high school footbal field. At Carmi, townspeople rode to and from dry ground on a big Edward Zeser Dies After Long Illness Edward C. Zeser, 74, lifelong resident of Decatur and member of a prominent local family, died at 8 o’clock Friday night at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne, following an illness of six months of complications. Born in Decatur March 30, 1887, he was a son of Peter and Elizabeth Lichtle-Zeser. and had never married. He aided in operating Sun Set park, southeast of Decatur, until retiring because of ill health. Mr. Zeser was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church, the Holy Name society, the Third Order of St. Francis and the Loyal Order of Moose; A veteran of World War I, he was a member of the American Legion and the Disabled American Veterans. Surviving are three brothers, Andrew, Daniel and William Zeser, all of Decatur, and one sister, Mrs. Margaret Engelking of Fort Wayne. Five brothers and two sisters are deceased. Funeral services will be conducted at 9:15 a. m. Tuesday at the 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 10 a. m. Sunday until time of the services. The Moose lodge will hold memorial services at 7 p. m. Monday, and the rosary will be recited at 7:30 p. m. Monday by the Third Order of St. Francis and at 8 o’clock by die Holy Name society.

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National Guard truck caled the “blue goose special.” An Army truck picked up Diane Traylor, who waited in a blue-green formal, and ferried her to nearby Crossville and a high school prom. Army engineers joined flood fighters at Hazleton, Ind., where the White River drove 30 families from their homes three days before the flood crest was due. The American Red Cross estimated between 21,000 and 21,000 persons were affected by the floods and the tornadoes which preceded them in the Midwest and Southwest. An estimated 4,200 persons were involved in floods in Southern Illinois alone. In half-submerged White County, \ damage was estimated at about , $lO million. I School Exhibits At Adams Central . Exhibits, including industrial arts, home economics, and art, were on display at the Adams Central high school open house held Friday night, and will remain on display for the Kirkland-Monroe alumni banquet to be held tonight. The exhibits filled the entire i school, including the gym, halls. , and rooms of the sixth grade on up. The open house held Friday night was in conjunction with the final P.T.A. meeting of the year. Ribbons Awarded All the displays were made, drawn, or constructed by students of the school, and ribbons were awarded for outstanding work in the industrial arts and art fields. In the junior and senior grades, a blue ribbon was awarded to Ned Mitchel, a red ribbon to Richard Beard, a white ribbon to Arlen Gerber, and a yellow ribbon to Ralph Parrish in the metal class division. In the sheet metal drawing division, also in the junior and senior classes, first place was ad- : judged to Richard Beard, second to Ned Mitchel, third to Arlen Gerber, and fourth Paul Sommers. ' These boys also received ribbons. In the sophomore advanced wood working class, ribbons for first to , fourth place went to Edward ■ Hirschy, Steve Schlickman, John • Ross, and Delbert Fuchs, respec- ; tively. In the same class, machine ■ drawing division, Mark Frauhiger [ took the blue ribbons, Denny Arnold the red. John Ross the white, and Stanley Hill the yellow ribbon. Frosh Wood Working Hie top four ribbons in the i freshman wood working were ad- , judged to Larry Johnson, Mike \ Leyse, Brian McCullough, and Dan Stucky, respectively, while the mechanical machine drawing ribbons were awarded to Mike Leyse, Bill Strait, Donald Weber, and Dan Stucky in’that order. Honors also went to eight boys in the eighth grade mechanical drawing. In order of their finish : were; Richard Welch, Arthur Ringger, Reginald Converse, Ronald Steury, Roger Sommer, Paul Ehrsam, Vernon Hedington, and Warren Macy. The industrial arts division was judged by county school superintendent Gail M. Grabill, while Miss Kathryn Kauffman, art instructor at Decatur high school, was judge for the art division. Winners in the art division will be announced Monday.