Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 59, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1961 — Page 1

Vol. LIX No. 218.

More Nuclear Tests Planned

WASHINGTON (UPD—A puff of sand leaped into the air, some rocks tumbled down the barren hill and there was a rumble like distant thunder. The heat-baked Nevada desert returned to its stony silence, 'and the puff of sand, the rumble and the rolling rocks were the only visible evidence of .the first U.S. nuclear explosion faynearly three years. * Across the nation, in the White House, officials announced that the United States Friday began the first in a series of underground, fallout-free nuclear tests to perfect small battlefield weap- : ons. First Since 1958 It was the first U.S. atomic explosion since Oct. 30, 1958, and came exactly 14 days after Soviet Russia abruptly broke off a nuclear moratorium and resumed testing vastly larger, fallout-pco-ducing weapons in the atmosphere. The United States was expected to continue frequent tests at the underground tunnel and shot chamber complex in Nevada. But experts said all of the explosions in the current U.S. program would probably pot produce the violence of just one of the big weapons Russia is testing. Indications were that Friday’s explosion was equal in power to only a few hundred or thousand tons of TNT, whereas three of Russia’s 10 tests in the last two weeks have each produced the power of several million tons of TNT. President Kennedy said “the resumption of extensive Soviet testing has made this necessary to fulfill the responsibilities of the United States government to its own citizens and the security of other free nations.” Congress Lauds Testing Key congressmen echoed his statement and lauded the resumption of tests, placing the blame on Russia... Great Britain announced it fully supported the tests. But Kennedy again called on Russia to negotiate a new test ban agreement. Experts pointed out that scientists have had 34% months to develop new weapons that need testing. Thus, they said, it is reasonable to suppose the new test series could proceed at a rate of several explosions a week—if the underground complex can stand such a pace. It probably can for a while, they said. The tunnels are drilled in such away that they curve toward the end like a shepherd’s crook, and have many bays similarly curved at their extremities. Thus when an explosion is set off, it seals off its own shot chamber so that subsequent tests can be held back down the line without workers being endangered with radiation from the previous shot. Instruments Supply Information Instruments read at remote locations supply all the instantaneous information from the test. Later information about how much rock was crushed or melted and how much radioactivity sealed in must await exploratory drilling, which can be done later at leisure. Friday’s explosion, described by the White House as a *‘nucTeaf weapons development /test” came 10 days after the United States announced it would resume the tests. Kennedy said later tests will be used to improve methods of di-

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! — . . ■■ ——■ > recting naplear explosions "for i possible use” if the world ever agrees to a test ban. Information gleaned at the Ne- ; vada proving ground also would I be used to study methods of digging harbors and canals and extracting oil from underground deposits with nuclear explosions. Five County Girls In Bluffton Contest Five Adams county girls, including Miss Adams County, Pat Schisler of Geneva, are among the first eight entries for the Junior Miss Indiana beauty and talent pagent, to be held during the Bluffton street fair, which opens Tuesday night. Adams county girls entered are: Peggy Hill, 17, Decatur; Sharon Mattax, 17, Monroe; Arvilla Smith, 16, Monroe, Barbara Fuhrman, 16, route 1, Decatur, and Miss SchisJ ler, 17, of Geneva. William D. Seese of Bluffton is , the contest chairman, and he has . stated he has three more entry applications pending, and also has , answered several other inquires ’ from potential sponsors and con- ' testants. The other three entries include, k Carolyn Jo Park, Uniondale, route ' 1, Pam Crum, of Uniondale, and , Betsy Pearson, who attends Roll high school. First Appearance The entrants will be introduced to the public in two parades, and ' will model sports wear on the ' South Main street reviewing plat- , form prior to the coronation. Indiana’s Junior Miss and her court will be named Friday night, upon completion of the two days of ’ judging. , ’ The public will get its first ' glimpse of the contestants at 2 p. m. Thursday in the parade, and ! they will appear again at 8 o’clock that evening, modeling the sports--1 wear. The talent show will begin ■ about 11:30 a.m. Friday, and at 2 p.m., the girls will appear in formal evening gowns, while riding ■ in convertibles in a parade through the downtown midway of the fair. Miss Schisler is the daughter of ■ Mrs. George Schisler of Geneva, ■ and a senior at Geneva high school. She will enter as Miss Adams County, as she was crowned during the recent Monroe Days. Other Entries Miss Hill is a senior at Decatur , high school, the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles M. Hill, and is sponsored by the Decatur Jaycees. Miss Mattax is the daugh- ’ ter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mattax, is a senior at Adams Central, and ' is sponsored by the E. D. Schrock , Construction Co. . Miss Smith is also a student at Adams Central, and is the daughter of Harvey L. Smith. She is sponsored by Zurcher’s Mobil Service. Miss Fuhrman is a student at Monmouth high, is the daughter ; of Mr. and Mrs. Burl G. Fuhrman, and is sponsored by Cletus Mil- ' ler and C. Wayne Roahring. Miss Mattax was Miss Adams County of 1960. while the other three girls were entrants in the recent contest. INDIANA WEATHER Sunny and warmer today and Sunday. Clear and cool again tonight. Low tonight 45 to 54. High Sunday near 80. Outlook for Monday: Mostly fair and warmer.

Adenauer Is favorite To Win Election BONN, Germany (UPD — The rough-and-tumble West German election campaign rushed into its final hours today with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer’s Christian Democratic party considered one jump ahead of the SocialWhile Adenauer and his Socialist rival, West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt, ended their campaigns with televised speeches, two public opinion polls predicted election victory for the CDU—and moral victory for the Socialists. The two polls both said the CDU would get 46 per cent of the votes in Sunday’s fourth nationwide postwar election and the Socialists 38 per cent, with the rest going to splinter parties. Popular Support Narrows This would be a sharp narrowing in popular support between the two parties since the last parliamentary elections in 1957, when the CDU outpolled the Socialists, 50.1 to 31.8 per cent. One as yet unasseised factor was the announcement Friday that a Bavarian bomber tried to kill Adenauer by mailing him an infernal machine. The news broke in time to guarantee the 85-year-old Adenauer a better position in most newspapers this morning than that granted to Brandt. Discover Assassination Attempt The attempt to kill the chancellor by mailing the package from Munich to the Bonn chancellory was discovered during the routine police check of the first mail delivery Friday morning, the government reported. The assassination attempt was announced late Friday night at the same time Adenauer addressed an election rally of 2,500 at Bonn’s Beethoven Hall. This is Adenauer’s constituency and unlike some of the other meetings he has addressed, this was a friendly crowd. _ Brandt ended his campaign Friday night, too, with a speech to 30,000 persons in Frankfurt, traditionally a Socialist city. Studies New Plan For Disarmament WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy has indicated that the United States will propose a i new “comprehensive plan for general and complete disarmament” when the United Nations General Assembly convenes. Officials said the plan covers both nuclear and conventional arms. The disclosure was contained in a letter sent to representatives of neutral nations by the President and made public Friday. Kennedy, in the letter, suggested that the U.N. General Assembly sit as the U.N. disarmament commission — which includes all 99 assembly members — and order new East-West disarmament talks. Since the committee of the whole exists in the form of the disarmament commission “which can be convened at any time,” Kennedy said he thought the matter could be taken up after the assembly convenes Tuesday. Kennedy also said disarmament adviser John J. McCloy has suggested to Russian disarmament negotiator Valerian A. Zorin in New York that the negotiations include countries from the non-aligned-bloc. — McCloy also proposed that the negotiations be under U.N. auspices “if the Soviet Union will agree,” Kennedy said. Kennedy’s letter said a monthslong administration disarmament study has “resulted in the development of a comprehensive plan for general and complete disarmament which is in the final stage of preparations for public presentation. — Advertising Index Advertiser Tare Beavers Oil Service, Inc. 6 Bowers Hardware Co., Inc. 4 Burk Elevator Co. — 5 Citizens Telephone Co, 3 Chic Dry Cleaners & Laundry.. 6 Decatur Drive-In 3 Decatur Ready-Mix Corp. 4 Evans Sales & Service 5 First State Bank ...... 6 Allen Fleming -2 5 Gillig & Doan Funeral Home.. 3 H. & M. Builders, Inc. 4 Ned C. Johnson, auctioneer .- 5 L. Smith Insurance Agency .. 5 Smith Drug Co . 3 Teeple Truck Lines 5 Veterans of Foreign Wars .... 6 Walter Weigmann, auctioneer „ 5 Win-Rae Drive-In 3

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 16,1961.

United Nations Rushing More Troops To Katanga As Casualties Increase

UAW Officials In Special Meetings

DETROIT (UPD — Top officials of the United Auto Workers were summoned to two special meetings tonight that could build a fire under local negotiators and bring an end to the union's sixday old strike against General Motors. Even before the meetings could begin there were signs of progress in the contract talks with 68 GM plants reporting agreements with the UAW on the local issues that triggered the strike last Monday. UAW President Walter P. Reuther late Friday called a meeting of the union’s international executive board for 8 p.m. today. He also summoned local unions leaders from 12 Chevrolet plants, 18 Fisher body plants and six Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plants to a second meeting at 9:30 p.m. to “review unresolved” local problems. National Council to Meet The executive board was expected to order the union’s national GM council into session early next week, probably Monday or Tuesday. The national council could quickly end the strike since its 280 members from all GM plants have authority to “wash out” any still unsettled local contract differences and order workers to return to their jobs. Kennedy To Meet Newspaper Editors WASHINGTON (UPD — President Kennedy will begin a series of lunch confereces Monday with groups of newspapers editors invited on a state and regional basis. Sixteen daily and weekly newspaper editors from Kentucky will be the first group of guests. Cool Weather Over Most Os U. S. Today 1 By United Press International Cool autumn weather covered most of the nation today, but some sections were striving to oversome the effects of springlike rains and flooding. Temperatures down in the 40’s and 50’s were the rule from the Rockies eastward — and a few northern Midwestern points saw the mercury drop almost to the freezing point. Marquette, Mich., reported a bone-chilling 36, and Bradford, Pa., and Watertown, N.Y., both had readings of 39 degrees. West of the Rockies the plateau states had temperatures in the 60’s and in many places on the Pacific Coast the thermometer showed mid-50 marks. As usual, however, the towns of Needles and Blythe, Calif., and Gila Bend, Ariz., were steaming. Early-morning temperatures at Needles and Blythe already were up to 87, and the thermometer registered 86 at Gila Bend. Hurricane-devasted Texas had a new problem — rain, rain, rain. , About 11 inches fell in 48 hours ■ at Brownsville in the lower Rio t Grande valley. The Brownsville ; airport closed after water covered [ its runways. Some 300 persons ■ evacuated the Brownsville area, I and other cities in the region reI ported minor flooding of streets. ; The weather bureau said it be- ; lieved the heavy rains had ended i in Texas. I Florida residents are keeping a I wary eye on reports of hurrii cane Esther, broiling about 560 i miles east-northeast of San Juan, I P.R. and pointing at the U.S. i mainland. Scientists plan an ati tempt to sap the strength of the big storm by seeding it with ice- ; producing chemicals.

However, it appeared extremely unlikely that GM could return to full production by Monday morning as requested by President Kennedy in an appeal this week to the union and company. The 68 local settlements already reached represented more than half of GM’s 130 plants. But workers at some of the 68 plants still had not returned to work and there were still about 238,000 men away from their jobs either because of the strike or strike-induced layoffs. Seek Sudden Break Bargainers on both sides were looking sot a sudden break that would bring a rush of local settlements. Company and union sources indicated many local unions were on the brink of settlement but were playing a waiting game — holding off to make sure they did not settle for less than another plant. Reuther said he was aware of the "urgency” of Kennedy’s ap- . peal for a speedy end to the strike before it seriously damages the nation’s economy. But he noted that GM has 130 plants and “it takes time to wrap them all up.” Among the latest plants reaching agreements were Chevrolet stamp and frame at Flint, Mich., and Chevrolet spring and bumper at Livonia, Mich. Douglas M. Haney Dies This Morning Douglas M. Haney, 65, former Decatur resident, died early this morning at a nursing home in South Whitley. He had been in ill health for a number of years, and had been a patient in the South Whitley home for the past six years. He was born at Andrews Sept. 3, 1896/ a son of Albion J. and Nellie Crowl-Haney. His wife preceded him in death several years ago. Mr. Haney, a veteran of World War I, operated a movie theater at Albion until ill health forced his retirement. Only near survivor is a brother, Maurice C. Haney of West Lafayette. A_sister. Miss Florence Haney, retired Decatur school teacher, died Aug. 19, 1960. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the D. O. McComb & Sons funeral home in Fort Wayne. The body will be brought to this city for burial in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 12 noon Sunday until time of the services. 'Gold Find'Merely A Vein Os Mica Adams county’s gold find turned out to be a vein of non-commer-cial mica, of the type which sometimes contains gold, but not this time, it was learned today. The contractor who had found the vein got some hydrochloric acid, and performed the test for iron pyrites, and was naturally quite excited when he dicovered it was not iron pyrite, and still might be gold. So he contacted a local chemist, who ran an assay for him, since it looked like it could be goldbearing ore. The assay, however, showed that it was 90% mica, or isinglass, but of a non-commercial variety, and had just enough other iron compounds in it to give it a gold color. ' “So, if you were planning to open a big hotel, or restaurant in a • gold rush town, you can forget it! And we still haven’t learned , the name of the contractor, or the location in Monroe townhip.' ’

LEOPOLDVILLE. The Congo (UPI) — The United Nations rushed planeloads of Indian, Malayan and Swedish troops to Katanga today to reinforce hardpressed U.N. forces trying to bring the province under central government control. Casualties mounted by the hour with the highest estimates ranging around the 1,000 mark for total dead and wounded. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold decided to fly back to New York on schedule today despite the bitter battle. He must be on hand for the opening of the General Assembly Tuesday which is sure to provide a forum for a heavy debate on the Katanga operation. Ireland, which appeared to be suffering the heaviest casualties among the U.N. forces, threatened to pull out of the Congo altogether. Sends Foreign Minister Irish Premier Sean Lemass sent his foreign minister, Frank Aiken, to the Congo Friday night after reports that Katangese soldiers had killed possibly as many as 57 of 155 rish soldiers they surrounded in Jadotville. Lemass said the 1,000 troops Ireland donated to the U.N. force Were sent “to preserve order” and not “to impose any particular solution on the Congo.** He said he would await an on 1 the spot report from Aiken be- : fore making any decision. An Irish diplomat, Dr. Conor Cruise | O’Brien, is in overall charge of the U.N. Katanga operation. The United Nations continued to issue optimistic reports but its casualty figures and reports by eyewitnesses to the fighting in Elisabethville indicated the battle was far from won. —“ Says Situation Stabilizing Friday night a U.N. broadcast from Elisabethville said Katanga President Moise Tshombe was on his way to confer with O’Brien. There was no confirmation from Tshombe’s side, n the past few days he has been issuing proclamations saying Katangese would fight for independence to the bitter end. . r Central government President Joseph Ileo said Friday that the situation in Elisabethville was “stabilizing” but that it would be at least two more days before the Katangese resistance crumbled. Report East Germans To Uproot Thousands WASHINGTON (UPI) — Communist East Germany plans to uproot thousands of its citizens from their homes near the Iron Curtain to make a no-man's land of the border, according to reports received here. A U.S. official, who called the reports “ominous*” told newsmen Russia was apparently backing the “arrests and mass deporta♦lnno ** _ ; - . —=• - The action, he said Friday, might be launched within a few days. He would not speculate on the reasons for the action. But one possibility was that the Communists wanted to clear the border area in East Germany and East Berlin for fortifications. * Another was that East Germany might be trying to turn off the last trickle of refugees fleeing to the West. Few, however, have escaped since the Communists erected their concrete and barbed wire wall along the Berlin border. If East Germany does force citizens out of the border area, the official said, Russia will be violating not only human rights but international, commitments. He said Russia would repudiate its responsibility as a great power to seek world peace and security. He would not say exactly how many persons would be forced from their homes, or how wide the best would be at the border. The foreign ministers of the West, he said, “are well aware of these reports and are considering every aspect.”

Communists Close Another Crossing

BERLIN (UPD—The Communists closed another of their battered Berlin border crossings today to plug the hole smashed in the "Chinese Wall” by fleeing East Germans. — In the past few days, several East Germans have smashed trucks through the hastily cemented wall or careened around a zigzag road-block course to freedom. A small truck successfully ran the latter route Friday at the Invaliden Strasse border crossing point. Today police stood guard at the crossing while a new barrier was built behind the old one. Ulbricht Sounds Warning The new pressure on the borders came shortly after East German Communist Leader Walter Ulbricht, in a one hour and 20 minute speech over East German radio and television, warned the Western Allies against trying to travel to West Berlin by land or air without East German permission after a peace treaty is signed. Two West German single-engine jet fighters which flew into West Berlin over East German territory Thursday remained at Tegel Airport in the French sector today. Allied authorities were still trying to decide how to get them back to West Germany. Pilots Lose Way The pilots, short on fuel and mistaken in their navigation, crossed the East itone without being challenged by Communist interceptors. Under four-power agreements. West German aircraft cannot fly through the air corridors. The Allies were hoping the Soviets would okay an exceptional flight out for the two FB4F thunderstreaks. The East Germans denounced the flight as a “massive provocation” and the Moscow newspaper “Izvestia” called it a “pirate flight.”

Allied Leaders Wind Up Talks

WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Western foreign ministers today were concluding their three-day Berlin crisis conference in firm agreement not to negotiate with Russia under the pressure of rocket-rattling threats. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, his aides said, will make this Allied position very clear to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko when he confers with the Russian official in New York next week. The foreign ministers, finishing up their business at a morning session, have discussed bargaining tactics to employ if Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev decided to ease the pressure and negotiate in terms of “mutual respect.” At the same time, they approved comprehensive plans for quick military action if incidents along the tense European front erupt in hostilities. Hear Disturbing Reports Their deliberations were disturbed by reports that Russia and the Communist East Germans may be preparing a massive program of arrests and evacuation to clear a no-man’s land along their side of the Iron Curtain. High American , officials said Rusk considers his meeting with Gromyko a “probing operation” and not a negotiating session. He hopes to test Russian intentions, determining whether the Kremlin is sincere in its professed desire for businesslike talks. This Rusk assurance apparently calmed the fears of French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville,

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Two Former Turkish Officials Are Hanged ISTANBUL, Turney (UPI) — The military government of Turkey today hanged two former top Officials Os Premier Adnan Menderes’ deposed regime — Foreign Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu and Finance Minister Hasan Polatkan. Menderes himself was spared from the gallows temporarily by a mysterious Illness which left him unconscious since early yesterday. A special high justice court yesterday sentenced the three men to death for trampling on constitutional ruling during a decade in power. Last night the National Unity Committee confirmed the sentences commuted to live im- ; prisonment by the NUC. These included former President Delal s Bayar. t The government statement dis- ■ closed the executions but did not I say at what hour or where they • were carried out. It was believed they took place ■ on Yassiada island where the three men were among 592 persons tried in an 11 month trial. A government spokesman said yesterday that Menderes’ condition was caused-either by an overdose of sleeping pills or a “nervous breakdown.” He was not present to hear his sentence yesterday and although still unconscious today his condition was improved. Zorlu and Polatkan were very close to Menderes. They, and the other defendants, were members of the Menderes regime which led Turkey through the 1950’5, from their election in 1950 to the bloodless revolution by 1 a military junta in May of 1960.

1 who earlier expressed concern about rushing into talks. He re- ’ fleeted President Charles de 1 Gaulle’s fear that Soviet Premier 1 Nikita Khrushchev would get the ■ impression the Western powers could be stampeded into horsetrading on Soviet terms. — Testing Point British Foreign Secretary Lord ' Home, who like Rusk and Gromyko will be at the United Nations next week, plans to hold his own talk with the Russian. But Moscow and Washington, tn public have pinpointed the Rusk-Gromyko confrontation as the testing point. West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano had little to say at this point because his country is bolding general elections Sunday. However, West Germany in general was following the British-American line that it was important to test Russian intentions at once. Deeatwr Tf»Kr«<"rr« Local weather data for the -4 hour period ending at 11 a.m. today. 12 noon 62 12 midnight 48 Ipm 81 1 a.m. — 47 2 p.m. 81 2 am. j,.-’.. ♦* 3 p.m. .... 6t 3 a.m. 45 . 4 p.m. 5 p.m 80 8 am. „ 43 6 p.tn. . 59 * a-m 43 7 p.m— 58 • a.m. 43 8 p.m 56 8 a.m- 44 9 p.m. 52 9 a.m. —- 53 10 p m 50 10 am. 80 11 p.m 49 11 am 84 Rain Total for the 24-Jjour period ending at 7 a.m. today, 0 inches. The St. Mary's river was at. .98 feet. ’ INOON EDITION I